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Isabella Bird – Rocky Mountain Adventurer Falls in Love
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Isabella Bird. Public Domain. On Wikicommons.
Isabella Bird Bishop was feminine, dressed in women's clothes and rode side saddle (only in town). She also was an experienced traveler who wasn't afraid of anything or anyplace. Miss Bird, as many called her, was a world traveler, but I have been especially interested in her travels in the Rockies in the 1870s, in part because it was here that she met her "dearest desperado," who was the love of her life.
Isabella is probably the best-known woman adventurer, next to Gertrude Bell. I talk to people about the Women Adventurers series, they will often mention her. This article focuses on her trip to the Rockies in 1873, with a focus on her travels in the mountains and her relationship with Jim Nugent.
Isabella's Early Life
Isabella Bird was born in Yorkshire, England, on October 15, 1891. Her father was a clergyman who had trouble keeping a position, so they moved often. From childhood, she was frail, with spinal issues, nervous headaches, and insomnia. Because of her illnesses, she was taught at home. A fibrous tumor was removed from her spine, but she still continued to have problems, and the family spent summers in Scotland to see if it would improve her health.
She was an outspoken child, bright, curious, and a great reader. Her father taught her botany and she enjoyed looking for specimens on her travels.
Isabelle's first trip was a family trip to the U.S. in 1854, and her letters back home were the basis for her first book, An Englishwoman in America (1856). The book was well received and she was on her way to becoming a celebrity.
Off to the Rockies
In 1872 Isabella started a long journey. She found that travel invigorated her; she wasn't prone to seasickness and she enjoyed much better health when she was traveling.
Fall River @ Estes Park. Ewing Galloway [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons
This trip began in Australia (which she disliked) and New Zealand (she liked it), and then she went to the U.S, with the aim of seeing the Rocky Mountains.
On her way to Estes Park, she stayed with two couples, and her time with them reveals the types of people who were living in Colorado in the 1870s. The first couple, the Chalmers family from Illinois, were "in all ways hard." In A Lady's Life in the Rocky Mountains, Isabella described their faces "like granite," their meanness, suspicion and ill humor.
They were also "simply incompetent." When Mr. Chalmers offered to lead her to Estes Park, she had clear evidence of this: On the way, their horses took off because he forgot to tether them. And he lost his way and couldn't find the trail; he even forgot the way home! Isabella, of course, took charge.
She also stayed with the Hutchinsons, a "more agreeable" young doctor and his wife. They were from Britain and not used to the ways of rough citizens of Colorado. The settlers "shamelessly" cheated them and they had no farming or domestic skills. Isabella again took charge.
Isabella was at her best and healthiest when traveling, and she was "enchanted" with the mountains, with the brisk air and beautiful scenery.
Isabelle and Jim Nugent
Mountain man. Internet Archive Book Images [No restrictions], via Wikimedia Commons
When Isabelle reached Estes Park in 1873, she saw a "rude black log cabin" with a dog out front and "a broad thickset man, about middle height. He wore an old cap, a ragged hunting-suit, and mocassins on his feet. He had only one eye and "'Desperado' was written in large letters all over him." * He actually kicked the dog as he raised his cap. This was Jim Nugent, "Rocky Mountain Jim, AKA "The Mountainous One" "because of the extraordinary altitude of his lies."
But she was shocked when he began to speak, because, she said, his manner was that of a chivalrous gentleman, "easy and elegant" and cultured. "I hope you will allow me the pleasure of calling on you," he said to her.
I wasn't surprised to hear he was Irish, born in Canada; this was a complex man. He had run away from home because he couldn't marry his first love. He had been a fur trapper and Indian scout (he was about 45) and he did trapping and guiding and stock raising to get money to spend on "orgies of drunkenness and ruffianism." But he also wrote poetry and was vain about his reputation. He was gentle and children adored him.
He offered to guide her through Estes Park and a spark was quickly lit in their relationship as they traveled and talked. She said Jim was "cultured, erudite, delightful."
Long's Peak from Mont Alto CO, Library of Congress[Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons
The description of their attempt to climb Long's Peak (14,700 ft) was comical. Picture Isabelle, who described herself as a "short, plump, devout, high-minded English spinster of over forty…" (she was 45) in cumbersome Victorian dress and petticoats. She wanted to prove her bravery and courage by climbing the mountain, but her physical state wasn't up to the challenge. She had to be "half-dragged" by Jim to the summit, as he tied her to himself and basically climbed with her on his shoulders. At times she crawled on her hands and feet.
Continental Divide / Bureau of Land Management [CC BY 2.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0) or Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons
Toward the summit, the last 500 feet was a "perpendicular crawl up a smooth cracked face of pink granite."
After this adventure, she stayed in a cabin (not the same one where Jim was) and enjoyed his company and that of his friends. She knew she was falling in love with him and didn't know what to do. So she went on a trip to Denver and Colorado Springs and was able to find her way to the Continental Divide.
She was running out of money and came back to the cabin, where their relationship became more and more complex and "emotionally charged." She knew, she said, that
"He is a man whom any woman might love but whom no sane woman would marry."
Although she doesn't come right out and say it, it appears that he declared his love for her and asked her to marry him. Finally, after a good deal of soul-searching, she wrote to him saying "there can be nothing but constraint between us…It is my wish that our acquaintance should at once terminate. Yours truly, ILB."
Pat Barr, who recounts this story in A Curious Life for a Lady, suggests that Isabella had a strong sense of self-preservation and her Victorian upbringing wouldn't let her tie herself permanently to the man she called her "dear ragamuffin desperado."
She left Colorado to avoid being stuck there all winter. She found out about a year later that he had been killed in a fight.
Somebody should do a movie about this adventure. It reminds me of The African Queen, with Humphrey Bogart and Katherine Hepburn, only their story ended more happily. Just for fun sometime, try the original of The African Queen, the book by C.S. Forrester.
Isabella had more adventures in many countries and she did marry a Scottish gentleman who hated traveling. I'll be writing more about her story in a future article.
* The quotes from this article are by Isabella, quoted in Patt Barr, A Curious Life for a Lady.
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Brouillette: Trump grid order won't disrupt new clean energy projects
May 14, 2020 by Politico
Energy Secretary Dan Brouillette. | Jon Gambrell/AP Photo
Energy Secretary Dan Brouillette downplayed industry concerns that work on new clean energy projects could be disrupted because of President Donald Trump's executive order to protect the power grid, saying he doesn't expect "any problems or uncertainty" for developers.
Trump directed DOE on May 1 to identify and ban power grid devices from foreign suppliers that could threaten national security. Renewable energy and power storage developers are worried the order's language is so broad — covering nearly 20 types of equipment — that they may be forced to put projects on hold for fear their components could be banned.
In an interview with POLITICO on Tuesday, Brouillette called some of those concerns "unfounded" and said the order only targets equipment used in large-scale power generation and transmission lines. It won't include devices like rooftop solar arrays or home batteries on smaller-scale local utility systems, he said.
"What we're talking about here is the bulk power system, being the part of the grid that provides enormous amounts of generation," Brouillette said. "These are large transformers, really the backbone of the electricity grid itself. It is not the distribution network that runs to your house or the pieces of equipment that are much smaller in nature."
Wind, solar and storage companies, however, have said they are mostly concerned about their large-scale projects that tie directly into utility transmission systems. Fossil generation owners have also expressed long term supply chain concerns for power plant parts.
DOE Assistant Secretary Bruce Walker, who also participated in the interview, acknowledged those projects connected to the transmission system will "fall within the purview of this executive order," but he said the agency would work with developers concerned about their components.
"For any of the developers doing that kind of work, working with … the transmission systems they are tying into would be highly advised, and is something they'd have to do anyway for the interconnection agreements," Walker said. "And likewise, they can also work with the Department of Energy with regard to understanding places on the system that we're more concerned about or not."
Some renewable energy developers complain that trade with China on some grid devices has already dried up since the executive order. Buying bulk power equipment from China is "a non-starter" until DOE's final rules come out, said Tim Rebhorn, a managing partner at clean energy investment firm EnCap Investments.
The executive order directs DOE to release those rules by late September.
Brouillette said he recognizes the trade tensions are "real" and "serious," but downplayed their impacts on U.S. energy projects, saying he does not "foresee any stalling or serious delays coming up."
"There can be different interpretations of the bulk power system, but I think it's fairly clear," he said. "There will always be people that disagree with whatever approach the government chooses to take … but we can work through these issues."
Brouillette compared supply chain issues resulting from the executive order to normal changes in trade flows between nations.
"I think trade moves across borders on a regular basis," he said. "We've seen it move from the U.S. to lower cost producers, lower cost manufacturers. This happens every day as part of the normal and customary trade practices of both the industry and of governments. So I don't see this as unusual and I don't see it as something we can't manage over the long term."
Clean energy developers, who like other industries have suffered from the pandemic lock downs, have criticized DOE for not giving the sector any advance warning for the executive order. But Brouillette said he thinks the order was "rolled out very appropriately" and that no one should have been caught off guard.
"These are not new issues. Anyone who has been in this industry, anyone who's been involved with anything that is very heavily dependent on or uses technology in any way, shape or form shouldn't be surprised by this activity," Brouillette said. "Can we work with industry more closely, can we make them aware of what we may do in terms of a future regulatory action? Of course, and as part of that process our door will remain open."
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On a Day: Music for Violin & Continuo (commonly referred to as: On a Day...) is the debut instrumental album by Emilie Autumn, released in 1997. The album was recorded the same year, when Autumn was seventeen years old. Its title refers to both the Shakespeare song and the fact that the album took only a day to record. It consists of her performing works for the baroque violin accompanied by friends on the cello, harpsichord, and lute.

Release and promotion
On a Day... was originally released by Emilie Autumn on her own record label, Traitor Records. Autumn did not initially intend to release the album, considering it "more of a demo despite its length", and released it after fans who enjoyed her "rock performances starting asking for a classical album so that they could hear more of the violin".

The album was re-released digitally by Trisol Music Group in 2005.

The album was again re-released as "Laced" on Emilie's second instrumental album Laced / Unlaced in 2007.

Track listing

Personnel
 Emilie Autumn – baroque violin
 Roger Lebow – baroque cello
 Michael Egan – lute
 Edward Murray – harpsichord

References

External links
Official website

1997 debut albums
Emilie Autumn albums

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If you've been reading my blog weekly you know that I've been writing on some heavy topics. This is not an apology for that - we need to go deep to live well.
We need to have fun to live well too. Let's talk about that!!!
This weekend I'll be spending 3 days at Austin City Limits with 4 of my favorite people. It will be a first for me to be at such a large festival for more than a couple of hours. I'm so excited!!!
I was a responsible teenager. My Mom leaned on me emotionally because life with my Dad was far from easy for her. I learned to be over-responsible in my family and that translated to volunteer leadership roles in my community. I did not rebel.
That all sounds good BUT I also "learned" that I had to be "on", overly-responsible, available, strong.
Not only have I had to learn how to feel and express anger (see previous blogs) but I have had to learn to let myself be weak, off-duty, and to let-loose.
What is the messaging inside that keeps us so responsible?
What does applying pressure to ourselves do "for us"?
Many of us who are prone to this have done it most of our lives and it just feels normal. The pattern often gets us satisfying, responsible roles as adults. We can be counted on. We have great work-ethics. We get noticed for this, promoted, confided in. None of this is bad in itself but it can become such a significant part of our identity that we get stuck there.
When it's a problem is when we can't turn "it" off and just be ourselves. Just be present fully with family, friends, even ourself. Our self talk includes frequent "I have to …" and "I should …" and "I need to …". We convince ourselves that bad things will happen (that no one else can handle) if we are not available. Often we end up in jobs and situations where that may be true. Often we create patterns and expectations where it becomes true.
Most of my coaching is with top performers so this is a topic that frequently comes up. How do we grow here? Let me share some brilliant strategies that clients have devised over the years.
Start by giving yourself short blocks of time when you are not available. (This doesn't mean you aren't getting something done necessarily, just that you are in charge of that time.
How often are you letting yourself let-loose and have fun?
If you don't know where to start, would you be willing to make a list of things that you find fun?
Once the list is made, how do you "turn loose" to get started having fun? For some, this is an uncomfortable situation. Please address getting out of your comfort zone. Blessings on you my friend!


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The Way It Was Essay
This report will list out Kraft Foods' perceived strengths and weaknesses. Some of the sources used in this report were taken from Kraft Foods 2012 annual report, government data, and other news agencies. Kraft does not willing list its own strengths and weaknesses for the general public to see. Some of the information in this report is inferred upon the results of various financial articles. From the information available, Kraft has more strengths than weaknesses and has the capacity to turn many of its weaknesses into strengths provided some guidelines are followed.
Every company throughout the world has from time to time completed an internal ...view middle of the document...
Each of these news brands has become a $100 million platform. (Goudreau, 2013) Due to the recent success that Kraft has had in regards to innovation, it would be safe to assume that their new process for innovation has become one of their strengths.
Recognition: Kraft Foods offers a wide variety of products through their different brand names. Of some of the hundreds of brands they own, some such as Kraft Macaroni and Cheese, Nabisco, Oscar Meyer, and Kool Aid are internationally recognized. (Anonymous, 2013) By associating the name Kraft to a product or simply introducing a new product through an existing brand, Kraft automatically occupies a certain mindshare inside the customer's cognitive process. In the same way that people associate Apple products with being cutting edge and popular, Kraft uses its mindshare to associate its products with quality and eating in a family environment. Having that instant name brand recognition is a good strength for Kraft Foods to possess.
Quality and Safety: Some consumers have doubts when it comes to generic name brand foods. It is easy to think one is getting a great deal when it comes to purchasing generic items instead of brand name ones, but it is also easy to forget that can come at the expense of quality and even one's safety and health. (Krasny, 2011) Kraft prides itself on the quality that it produces in it many different food products. To prove this fact they came up with a company code of conduct called Our Way of Doing Business. The first rule in their code of conduct is make food that is safe to eat. (Anonymous, Our Way of Doing Business, 2009) Through this code of conduct and other measures, Kraft is ensuring their customers that they feel responsible and take pride in the quality of their products. This campaign to show people that they are concerned about the quality and safety of their products has done well for Kraft. It is partly because of this endeavor that Kraft has been able to maintain one of the top most positions in the food and beverage industry.
Market Share: One of Kraft's biggest weaknesses is its market share. Of the $521 billion brought in through grocery stores in 2012, Kraft managed to bring in a little over $18 billion. (Anonymous, Wholesale and Retail Trade, 2012) Doing the math, that's roughly only 4% of all grocery sales. Kraft started to expand its horizons by acquiring Cadbury in 2010. By incorporating Cadbury into its business model, Kraft hopes to reach out to other emerging markets. (Jones, 2010) Another weakness that involves market share is the concentration of Kraft's market. Over half of Kraft's annual sales derive from the North American Market. (Jones, 2010) In a global economy that is always competing for market share, Kraft has to push harder to work their edge into those foreign markets.
Competition: By no means has Kraft crushed the competition and taken the total market share in its respective brands. Over...
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The Arc Central Chesapeake Region Announces New Board Members
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The Arc Central Chesapeake Region (The Arc), a nonprofit committed to providing people with intellectual and developmental disabilities the opportunity to gain independence, today announced that two new members have been added to its Board, William C. Hollis III, who is the founding partner in the firm Hollis, Cronan & Fronk, P.A., located in Easton, and Tim Jones, who serves as Vice President for Administrative Services at Chesapeake College.
"The Arc Central Chesapeake Region is committed to ensure our board has regional diversity in our leadership. We are excited to have the talent of Mr. Hollis and Mr. Jones, both bring a wealth of experience and insights gained from their past and current leadership roles. They will strengthen our board and commitment to Maryland's Eastern Shore," commented Jonathon Rondeau, CEO.
William Hollis joins The Arc Central Chesapeake Region Board from his firm Hollis, Cronan & Fronk, where he provides legal counseling and services to individuals, families and business entities. He has extensive experience as a litigator trying jury and bench trials in the circuit and district courts, and as a court-appointed attorney for children in divorce and custody disputes. For 18 years he was employed as a health care executive in hospitals and nursing facilities. Mr. Hollis has held management positions at every level of hospital organizations including Chief Executive Officer. He rose to Fellowship status in the American College of Healthcare Executives in the shortest time allowed by that organization's bylaws. He has been licensed as a nursing facility administrator in New York, Maryland, Delaware, and the District of Columbia. Mr. Hollis received his formal education from Saint Michael's College in Vermont earning his Bachelor of Arts, continuing to Adelphi University in New York where he received his Master of Business Administration, and finally University of Maryland School of Law in Maryland, where he earned his Juris Doctor. Mr. Hollis is an active member in the community, serving on several boards, including: Mid-Shore Pro Bono, The Hugh Gregory Gallagher Motivational Theatre, Inc., disAbility Coalition of Talbot County, National Rifle Association, Safari Club International, and Dallas Safari Club Member.
Tim Jones joins The Arc Central Chesapeake Region Board from Chesapeake College where he serves as Vice President for Administrative Services. Throughout his career, Mr. Jones has continually found innovative ways to combine his passion for community improvement with his expertise in organizational and financial leadership. During his tenure at Chesapeake College, in addition to serving the educational needs of all its residents the college has constructed its first high efficiency building (LEED Platinum) and built and operationalized a 1.76 MW solar photovoltaic array that provides 50 percent of the college's electricity. He also, partnered on a battery-storage and microgrid project, and implemented a series of land management practices on campus, designed to improve the water quality of the Wye East River. Mr. Jones is the current Chair of the the Talbot County Chamber of Commerce, a member of the Talbot County Economic Development Commission, Talbot County Public Works Advisory Board and Quality Matters. Prior to joining Chesapeake College, Mr. Jones was Senior Vice President and General Manager for Sotera Defense Solutions and Chief Operating Officer and Chief Financial Officer for Delmarva Foundation for Medical Care, the first external organization charged with overseeing the quality of services delivered through Florida's Development Disabilities program. Mr. Jones received his BS in Economics and an MBA from Virginia Tech. In addition, he has completed graduate level coursework in organizational leadership at both the University of Maryland Eastern Shore and the University of Chicago. Mr. Jones has served on the Upper Shore Workforce Investment Board, the Maryland Patient Safety Center Board of Trustees, as Treasurer for the Board of Trustees for Habitat Maryland, and as Chair of the Finance and Human Resources Committee of the American Healthcare Quality Association.
About The Arc Central Chesapeake Region
The Arc Central Chesapeake Region provides comprehensive programs, services, and advocacy for people with intellectual and developmental disabilities over the arc of their life. The Arc is committed to providing people with disabilities the opportunity to live, work, play and fully participate in the world around them. The Arc Central Chesapeake Region provides services in Anne Arundel, Caroline, Dorchester, Kent, Queen Anne's, Talbot, Somerset, Wicomico, and Worcester counties and employs over 350 staff.
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UNITED NATIONS (KATAKAMI / AP) – Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton engaged in a verbal nuclear exchange Monday on the U.N. stage, where nations gathered for a monthlong debate over the world's ultimate weapons.
They were the opening salvos in four weeks of deliberations over how to improve the NPT, formally reviewed every five years in a meeting of all 189 treaty members — all the world's nations except India, Pakistan, Israel and North Korea.
The review conference is meant to produce a final document pointing toward ways to better achieve the NPT's goals of checking the spread of nuclear weapons, while working toward reducing and eventually eliminating them.
Because it requires a consensus of all parties, including Iran, any formal final decision would be highly unlikely to censure the Tehran government, which would block consensus.
Instead, as delegates assess the state of the NPT in U.N. conference halls, U.S. and European diplomats will be working elsewhere to reach agreement with sometimes reluctant China and Russia on a fourth round of U.N. Security Council economic penalties to impose on Iran.
In her address, Clinton proposed that the nonproliferation treaty be strengthened by introducing "automatic penalties" for noncompliance, rather than depend on such drawn-out council negotiations.
Ahmadinejad devoted much of his half-hour speech to the huge U.S. nuclear arsenal, denouncing the Obama administration's refusal to rule out the use of those weapons.
"Regrettably, the government of the United States has not only used nuclear weapons, but also continues to threaten to use such weapons against other countries, including Iran," Ahmadinejad said.
He referred to the new U.S. Nuclear Posture Review's provision retaining an option to use U.S. atomic arms against countries not in compliance with the nonproliferation pact, a charge Washington lays against Iran.
Clinton later announced the U.S. government was releasing previously undisclosed details about the U.S. arsenal. About the same time in Washington, the Pentagon was reporting that the U.S. maintains 5,113 nuclear warheads in its stockpile and "several thousand" more retired warheads that await dismantling.
As the Iranian president spoke, the U.S. delegation, of working-level staff, walked out of the General Assembly hall, joined by several European delegations, including the French and British. Lower-level Iranian officials sat through Clinton's later speech.
Yukiya Amano, head of the U.N. watchdog International Atomic Energy Agency, leveled the specific indictment against Iran, saying his inspectors could not confirm that all of its nuclear material is devoted to peaceful activities.
Iran must "clarify activities with a possible military dimension," Amano said.
Opening the conference, U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said that "the onus is on Iran" to clear up doubts. He said the same in a later private meeting with Ahmadinejad, the U.N. chief's office said.
The Iranian leader reiterated his country's support for establishing a nuclear weapons-free zone in the Middle East, an Arab-backed idea aimed at Israel's unacknowledged nuclear arsenal of perhaps 80 bombs.
Egypt has proposed that this 2010 NPT conference back a plan calling for the start of negotiations next year on such a Mideast zone. The proposal may become a major debating point in the monthlong session.


This page presents the geographical name data for Reynolds Strait in Antarctica, as supplied by the US military intelligence in electronic format, including the geographic coordinates and place name in various forms, latin, roman and native characters, and its location in its respective country's administrative division.
Description (see definition): A strait between Forrester Island on the north and Shepard and Grant Islands along the edge of Getz Ice Shelf on the south. The discovery of Forrester Island from USS Glacier on Feb. 4, 1962 simultaneously established the existence of the strait, which was then sounded. The name was applied by Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names (US-ACAN) for Ralph R. Reynolds (1938-73), Lieutenant Commander, Civil Engineer Corps (CEC), U.S. Navy (USN) who was Officer-in-Charge of the Navy Nuclear Power Unit at McMurdo Station in 1970.
NOTE: The information regarding Reynolds Strait in Antarctica on this page is published from the data supplied by the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency, a member of the Intelligence community of the Antarctica, and a Department of Defense (DoD) Combat Support Agency. No claims are made regarding the accuracy of information contained here. All suggestions for corrections of any errors about Reynolds Strait should be addressed to the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency.


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The Ecoball is a remote controlled ball capable of collecting the dangerous gases out of the air. As its pilot only you can save the day. Good luck pilot!
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A Flash game machine with 30 games built in and two ways to add hundreds of your own flash games, 30 of the hottest Flash games we could find for you after a long search organized in genius way.
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The Rural Municipality of Maple Bush No. 224 (2016 population: ) is a rural municipality (RM) in the Canadian province of Saskatchewan within Census Division No. 7 and  Division No. 2. It is located in the southwest portion of the province.

History
The RM of Maple Bush No. 224 incorporated as a rural municipality on December 13, 1909.

Geography
The RM is adjacent to Lake Diefenbaker and is home to Douglas Provincial Park.

Communities and localities
The following urban municipalities are surrounded by the RM.

Villages
Riverhurst

Resort villages
Mistusinne

The following unincorporated communities are within the RM.

Localities
Gilroy
Grainland
Lawson, dissolved as a village, December 31, 1985

Demographics

In the 2021 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Canada, the RM of Maple Bush No. 224 had a population of  living in  of its  total private dwellings, a change of  from its 2016 population of . With a land area of , it had a population density of  in 2021.

In the 2016 Census of Population, the RM of Maple Bush No. 224 recorded a population of  living in  of its  total private dwellings, a  change from its 2011 population of . With a land area of , it had a population density of  in 2016.

Attractions
 Douglas Provincial Park
 Elbow crater
 F.T. Museum
 Palliser Regional Park
 Qu'Appelle River Dam
 Riverhurst Ferry

Government
The RM of Maple Bush No. 224 is governed by an elected municipal council and an appointed administrator that meets on the second Wednesday of every month. The reeve of the RM is Maurice Bartzen while its administrator is JoAnne 'Rene' Wandler. The RM's office is located in Riverhurst.

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Sudan: Thousands Come Out On Streets Demanding Faster Reform
Caroline Finnegan July 1, 2020
Sudan Flag Against City Blurred Background At Sunrise Backlight
The people of Sudan came out on the streets on Tuesday to pressure transitional authorities, demanding justice for those killed in the protests last year that led to the ousting of longtime autocrat Omar al-Bashir, reported Reuters.
The protesters gathered in Khartoum, Khartoum North and Omdurman after the government closed roads and bridges leading to the center of the capital. There were also protests in Kassala in eastern Sudan and in the restive region of Darfur. They were seen waving Sudanese flags as they chanted "freedom, peace and justice", the slogan of the anti-Bashir movement. Some even blocked streets with burning tyres.
The protest was called by the Sudanese Professionals' Association, and the so-called Resistance Committees, which were important in the protests against al-Bashir and the generals who took over power for months after his removal.
For the most part, the demonstrations were peaceful, but the Sudanese police had to use tear gas to disperse protesters marching on the road leading to the airport in the capital, Khartoum.
The protests are also the first major demonstrations since hundreds of thousands of protesters took to the streets in Sudan's capital and elsewhere in the country to pressure the military council to hand over power to a civilian government last year.
Notably, Tuesday, June 30, was a highly symbolic day for Sudan, as it was the anniversary of Bashir's ascent to power in a 1989 military coup and also marks the day one year ago when thousands marched to pressure the generals who assumed power after Bashir's ouster to resume negotiations over a peaceful power-sharing deal with civilian opposition.
On Monday, Prime Minister Abdalla Hamdok gave an assurance to the protesters that their demands will be met. He promised the people of Sudan that his transitional government would work to meet the demands in the next two weeks.
Caroline Finnegan
A professionnal journalist for the past ten years, I cover global news and economic affairs for The Chief Observer.
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MEDFORD -- For the second straight year, senior midfielder Fanna Gamal (Albany, CA) and junior defender Sarah Nolet (Los Altos, CA) of the Tufts University women's soccer team each earned first team honors when the 2009 New England Small College Athletic Conference (NESCAC) All-Conference selections were announced today.
Gamal, the center midfield position, is one of the smartest and most composed players in the league. She is an excellent playmaker and rarely loses possession of the ball. At the center mid position she is a phenomenal play maker and rarely loses possession of the ball. She finished 2009 with a goal and two assists, with the score coming in the conference tournament first round against Trinity to give Tufts a 1-0 lead. A complete player, Gamal is a true leader by example and a great role model for the younger players on the team.
An outstanding athlete who has played soccer, basketball and track & field at Tufts, Nolet could probably play anywhere on the field for Coach Martha Whiting's team. Skillful, tough and a true competitor, she is one of the best defenders in the NESCAC. Also an offensive weapon on corners with her 6-foot height, Nolet scored goals in NESCAC regular season games against Middlebury and Connecticut College, and against Williams in the conference tournament semi-finals.
The Jumbos joined conference champion Williams College as the only two teams in the league with two players returning to the All-Conference first team for the second straight season.


Time to Blossom, a summer, week-long conference for young women ages 11 to 18, has added a second attendance option, allowing girls and parents to choose what works best for them.
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Generally all Hindus Visit temple for to perform prayers. But according to Hindu ideology why we need temple as we can perform prayers at our home as well?
What Is the Need of Temples In Hinduism ?
There are thousands of temples all over India and all over the world of different sizes, shapes and at different locations.
A Hindu temple is a unification of the idea of Arts, Dharma, Beliefs, Values, Devotion Rituals etc.Temples are consciously constructed to make us families with divinity of god. People visit temples to communicate with gods and offer their prayers. Temples also act as spiritual centers where discourses, meditations bhajans special poojas are often arranged , where people celebrate festivals .
Some temples also serves the purpose of religious schools , where people /students can learn more about Hinduism traditions , scriptures etc. Some of them also have their own Ved-Path shalas , where interesting students can stay and learn Vedas and other texts for some years and can become priests or pundits.
Library of manuscripts – From ancient times temples are also used to store manuscripts s well as spiritual books as a library .
Here is the reason given in Shreemad Bhagvat purana of why wise people started deity worship in temples.
And here in this chapter SB 11.27: Lord Kṛṣṇa's Instructions on the Process of Deity Worship. Lord Krisha himself describes what is the importance of temple building .
So a temple is a very important aspect of Hindu Dharma where people of al the kind can offer their worship to many gods and can perform rituals , poojas etc. And can get the close to divine and can experience the union with the divine.
God is eternal, without any form, omnipresent. To think of Him as possessing any form is blasphemy. But the secret of image worship is that you are trying to develop your vision of Divinity in one thing.
Idolatry in India does not mean anything horrible. It is not the mother of harlots. On the other hand it is the attempt of undeveloped minds to grasp high spiritual truths.
Man is to become divine by realising the divine. Idols, or temples or churches or books are only the supports, the helps, of his spiritual childhood; but on and on he must progress.
It is difficult for people to think of formless and omnipresent God which is why idol worship was introduced.
We may worship anything by seeing God in it, if we can forget the idol and see God there. We must not project any image upon God. But we may fill any image with that Life which is God. Only forget the image, and you are right enough---for "out of Him comes everything". He is everything. We may worship a picture as God, but not God as the picture. God in the picture is right, but the picture as God is wrong. God in the image is perfectly right. There is no danger there. This is the real worship of God.
Why are most famous (or wish fulfiling) temples situated on hills?
What is the difference between Shiva Temple Pradhikshina and just Shiva lingam pradhikshina?
Can we eat food before we visit a temple?
Are non-Hindus allowed inside Tirumala Veṅkaṭēśwara Temple? Do they need to sign a waiver?
What is the importance of Dhwajasthamba in any of the temples that we go?


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`Apollo 13' Story Heroic, But It Just Doesn't Fly
EDWARD GUTHMANN, Chronicle Staff Critic
Published 4:00 am PDT, Friday, June 30, 1995
Originally scheduled for a November release, "Apollo 13," the Ron Howard movie about the botched 1970 moon shot that almost cost the lives of three astronauts, was moved up for a summer release.
Starring Tom Hanks, Hollywood's current King of the Mountain, and structured as a stirring, flag-waving tribute to NASA's space program and the heroism of astronauts Jim Lovell (Hanks), Fred Haise (Bill Paxton) and Jack Swigert (Kevin Bacon), "Apollo 13" (opening today at Bay Area theaters) would seem perfectly timed for a summer splashdown.
Well, sorry, Ron. Sorry, Tom. And sorry, John Q. Moviegoer. "Apollo 13" may be handsome, earnest, well-acted and admirably executed, but it's hardly the heart-pounder Universal's hype machine has been promising.
It's not that Howard, Hanks and the rest of the crew don't fulfill their goal. In fact, they've taken their $52 million budget and re- created the near-disastrous Apollo 13 moonshot with rigorous, amazingly intricate fidelity. The problem is, the story they tell is not sufficiently cinematic.
"Apollo 13" sets the stage for the ill-fated launch, reminding us that the media and U.S. public, which had thrilled to the moon landing in July 1969, had considered it routine and largely ignored it -- until disaster struck.
We see the launch go haywire on its third day, April 13, 1970, when one of the oxygen tanks explodes, destroying the main rocket engine, cutting off the oxygen supply and shorting the spacecraft's electrical and computer systems.
With help from NASA's Mission Control Center, the astronauts shut down their command module and rev up the Aquarius, the attached lunar excursion module, for the emergency trip back home. It's a helluva com mute -- 205,000 miles -- during which Haise develops a fever from a urinary tract infection and the astronauts never know if they'll freeze to death, run out of oxygen or burn on re-entry to the Earth's atmosphere.
All of that is vividly re-created in "Apollo 13," but somehow the movie never grabs you, never becomes the white-knuckler you expect. The heart of the movie, after all, takes place in a tiny, claustrophobic capsule -- an inherently static situation that inhibits action and doesn't make particularly good use of the wide screen.
BARKING IN TECHNOSPEAK
When "Apollo 13" isn't showing us Hanks, Bacon and Paxton in their orbiting telephone booth, it cuts to one of two earthbound situations: Lovell's home, where his wife (Kathleen Quinlan) and kids weep and shiver at the worst-case scenarios they hear on TV; or to NASA's Mission Control Center, where an army of crew cuts sweat over control panels and bark in a technospeak that's probably decipherable to only a small fraction of the movie public.
The maze of coded, arcane lingo is so thick ("Tank One is at 2500 PSI and failing . . . I'm switching over from Quad C to Main A . . .") that you find yourself shutting it out after a while, and wondering how Ed Harris, who plays NASA flight director Gene Kranz, managed to grow a head of hair. What do we know from reactor valves and fuel cells?
That's not the only problem. Unlike "The Right Stuff," Philip Kaufman's 1983 astronaut epic, which took an ironic look at the U.S. space program, contemplating the ways in which it embodies the American can-do spirit and creates its own merchandising frenzy, "Apollo 13" gives us a version that's unquestioning and, at times, numbingly naive and hokey.
MUSIC AS BULLY
Howard's direction is so gee- whiz and gung-ho, and James Horner's score is so calculated to pump our adrenaline and impose an emotional response on us -- music as bully -- that "Apollo 13" recalls one of those jingoistic TV specials that celebrated the Statue of Liberty centennial.
There's no sociological or political subtext here: no mention that Richard Nixon was president at the time, , that Vietnam had divided the country, that an alternative culture had emerged that was questioning the wisdom of spending billions of dollars on moonshots.
True, "Apollo 13" offers dramatic testimony to an extraordinary moment -- when three astronauts summoned courage, intelligence and valor under fire. It's also true that Hanks, Bacon, Paxton and Harris give strong, committed performances. They're terrific actors and couldn't have done anything more to redeem this material.
I just wish that "Apollo 13" worked better as a movie, and that Howard's threshold for corn, mush and twinkly sentiment weren't so darn wide.
FILM REVIEW -- `Apollo 13' Never Gets Off the Ground


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A: I'll go with what BCS said and add that DebugView by SysInternals allows you to connect to it remotely from another machine.

A: You can test 99% of the code in windowed mode, then for the parts that need to be done in fullscreen you can have it jump to fullscreen, run some test, and jump back soon after (either programmatically or with alt-tab).
Basically I want to stress that most code will not be dependent on the fullscreenness and could be tested in a small window.

A: You might want to consider reading Joseph Newcombers essay on Graphical Developers Interfaces at http://www.flounder.com/gdi.htm
You may not be coding in MFC but you should be able to get some useful ideas.  He's got lots of other interesting articles as well.

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This Year in History: 2010
As 2011 prepares to make its arrival, we take a look at some of the most exciting and consequential stories from this year in history.
History.com Staff
Our Inner Neanderthals: DNA makes case that Neanderthals interbred with modern humans
Neanderthals may have died out some 30,000 years ago, but their legacy lives on in the genetic codes of today's non-Africans. It turns out that the muscular, big-brained hunters interbred with modern humans–their close evolutionary cousins–in the Middle East, according to a team of European biologists. As a result, Neanderthal gene fragments make up an estimated 1 to 4 percent of the DNA in people whose ancestors migrated out of Africa. Led by Svante Paabo of the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, the team of researchers made this astonishing discovery after sequencing the Neanderthal genome and comparing it to DNA samples taken from modern humans. Published in the May 7 issue of Science, these findings have not completely put the debate over whether Neanderthals and humans mated to rest, but they have brought the scientific community one step closer to solving the riddle.
Once Trash, Now Treasure: 18th-century boat emerges from Ground Zero excavation site
Workers at the World Trade Center site in downtown Manhattan unearthed the remnants of an 18th-century ship while excavating for a construction project on July 14. Archaeologists raced to preserve the ship's crumbling beams, which began to deteriorate as soon as they were exposed to light and air. They believe that, like various other types of debris, the vessel became landfill material that helped extend Manhattan's shoreline west into the Hudson River in the late 18th and early 19th centuries. The Ground Zero excavation has also exhumed an anchor, glass bottles, shoes, shards of dishes and other discarded items from New York City's distant past. The boat was transferred to the Maryland Archaeological Conservation Laboratory, where experts have speculated that it once sailed up and down the Atlantic coast as a merchant ship but was junked when it picked up a case of wood-eating worms.
Genetic Irony: DNA tests reveal Hitler may have had Jewish and African ancestry
To unravel the decades-old mystery of the Fuhrer's roots, the Belgian journalist Jean-Paul Mulders teamed up with Marc Vermeeren, a historian who has written extensively about Hitler and his ancestors. The duo collected saliva samples from 39 of the infamous dictator's living relatives, including a great-nephew, Alexander Stuart-Houston, who lives in New York, and an Austrian cousin identified only as "Norbert H." Tests were then conducted to reveal the samples' principal haplogroups, which are sets of chromosomes that geneticists use to define specific populations. Writing in the Flemish-language magazine Knack in August, Mulders reported that the relatives' most dominant haplogroup, known as E1b1b, is rare in Western Europeans but common among North Africans. It is also one of the major founding lineages of the Jewish population, present in 18 to 20 percent of Ashkenazi Jews and 8.6 to 30 percent of Sephardic Jews. In other words, Hitler's family tree may have included Jewish and African ancestors.
Aviator's Final Days: Researchers find most compelling evidence yet for Earhart castaway theory
In the 73 years since Amelia Earhart vanished into thin air, a number of theories have emerged about how and where the famed aviator died. One widely held belief is that Earhart and her navigator, Fred Noonan, touched down on a remote South Pacific island called Nikumaroro. The Earhart Project, a division of the International Group for Historic Aircraft Recovery (TIGHAR), has been combing Nikumaroro since 1989, assembling a collection of artifacts that includes improvised tools, shoe remnants and aircraft wreckage that is consistent with Earhart's Electra. During TIGHAR's 2010 expedition, the team uncovered some of their most compelling clues yet. While foraging in a spot where they had previously identified traces of a campfire, they came across three pieces of a pocketknife, shells that had been cut open, fragments of a glass cosmetic jar, bits of makeup and—perhaps most intriguing of all—bone fragments that may be from a human. With the help of cutting-edge DNA technology, the new items could finally reveal how Earhart and Noonan spent their final days—perhaps as early as next year.
Cannibal King: Tyrannosaurus rex may have had a taste for its own kind
Meals were a gruesome production for Tyrannosaurus rex, one of the largest—and toothiest—creatures to ever stalk the earth. For the most part, the king of dinosaurs probably subsisted on its slower, smaller, vegetarian brethren, using its incredible speed and massive jaw to hunt and slay its victims. According to a study published in the October 15 issue of the journal PLoS ONE, T. rex's rather brutal feeding patterns may also have included one of humanity's most unspeakable taboos: cannibalism. Paleontologist Nicholas Longrich of Yale University discovered giant tooth marks half an inch deep in arm and foot bones from Tyrannosaurus rex fossils found in western North America and dated to the late Maastrichtian period. Given the size and shape of the gouges, another T. rex is the only possible culprit. According to Longrich and his colleagues, it is unlikely that the gashes resulted from claw-to-claw combat, which scientists believe was common behavior for Tyrannosaurus rex. Instead, a hungry Tyrannosaurus probably came across the carcass of another while scavenging for food. Alternatively, the victor of a violent intraspecies squabble may have celebrated by eating its dead opponent.
Carthaginians Cleared: Study casts doubt on rampant child sacrifice in Carthage
For hundreds of years, it has been widely believed that the Carthaginians routinely practiced large-scale child sacrifice between the eighth and second centuries B.C. According to some accounts, upper-class parents would offer up their progeny to be slain by priests during times of crisis. To investigate this macabre tradition, researchers from the University of Pittsburg studied the cremated remains of 540 youths from burial urns excavated in the Tophet, a cemetery outside Carthage's main burial grounds that was thought to have been reserved for child sacrifice victims. They determined that most of the children had died in their first year of life and that at least 20 percent were stillborn. They also found that the prenatal and infant mortality rates represented in the cemetery mirror those of other ancient cities, an indication that the children died of natural causes. Their findings appeared in the February 17 issue of the journal PLoS ONE, vindicating Carthaginian parents at last.
Baby Big Bangs: Simulations offer clearer picture of universe in its infancy
A computer simulation of an ion collision in the Large Hadron Collider, a simulation of the events immediately after the Big Ban.
Milliseconds after its birth, the universe was composed of a blazing, sticky liquid, researchers at the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) announced in November. The multinational team of scientists used CERN's Large Hadron Collider—the world's biggest and most powerful particle accelerator—to create "mini Big Bangs" several hundred feet below the Franco-Swiss border near Geneva, Switzerland. The researchers employed a new and controversial approach to create conditions akin to the moments after the Big Bang, smashing together heavy lead ions at extremely high speeds. The resulting collisions produced tiny subatomic fireballs that reached temperatures exceeding 18 trillion degrees Fahrenheit—hundreds of thousands of times hotter than the center of the sun. In this blistering environment, atoms and particles melt into basic building blocks of matter called quarks and gluons. Together, they form a dense, gooey liquid known as quark-gluon plasma, or "quark soup." Previously, the prevailing theory had held that such extreme heat would break down the forces linking quarks and gluons, yielding a gas-like substance.
Jamestown Gem: Archaeologists find Pocahontas' wedding chapel
In August, archaeologists excavating Jamestown, England's first permanent settlement in the New World, announced that they had finally found the elusive remains of a church that dates back to 1608. It was here that Pocahontas, the teenage daughter of Chief Powhatan, wed tobacco farmer John Rolfe in 1614, helping to establish a truce between the settlers and their Native American neighbors. Located in the center of the compound, the church was built a year after the colonists disembarked, replacing an earlier wooden structure that had burned down. The church site includes the graves of at least four prominent Jamestown citizens whose identifies the archaeologists hope to uncover. As for Pocahontas, she was buried in Gravesend, England, where she died just three years after her marriage.
Pompeii Is Crumbing: Damage at Pompeii and other monuments calls Italy's conservation efforts into question
The year 2010 was a tough one for Italy's cultural heritage, and especially for the ancient city of Pompeii. In October, the newspaper Corriere della Sera published a scathing editorial in which it admonished officials for bungling the site's restoration, calling it "the symbol of all the sloppiness and inefficiencies of a country that has lost its good sense and has not managed to recover it." One month later, Pompeii's House of the Gladiators collapsed into a mound of rubble; just weeks after that, several walls also gave way. Structural damage at other Italian monuments, including the Colosseum and Nero's Golden Palace, made headlines earlier in the year, and experts believe that chronic negligence has imperiled many more of the country's ancient wonders. Insufficient funding has been cited as a major factor: Italy devotes only 0.18 percent of its national budget to preserving its art and monuments, according to Cultural Ministry officials, while in France that figure is roughly 1 percent.
Stress-Free Dates: Nondestructive radiocarbon dating is introduced
Researchers at the March meeting of the American Chemical Society in San Francisco unveiled a method that may revolutionize the way scientists determine the ages of ancient cultural relics such as mummies and artwork. Unlike conventional carbon dating, the process does not require the removal of a sample; instead, the entire object is exposed to an electrically charged gas that gently oxidizes its surface without causing damage. Among other artifacts that had previously been off-limits, the new technique could establish an age for the Shroud of Turin, a controversial cloth in which some believe Jesus Christ was buried.
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From the Blues to Hip Hop (AM434)
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Seminar Times:
Dr Roger Fagge
H334, third floor of the Humanities Building
+44 (0)24 76523395 (internal extension 23395)
Roger.Fagge@warwick.ac.uk
Monday 12-1, Tues 10-11
Seminars will alternate face to face and virtual (on MS Teams). (subject to change)
Group One: (Venice Stream, 1 term) Monday 9-11(f2f 1,3,5,7,9, virtual 2,4,8,10)
and Weds 11-1 (f2f 2,4,8,10, virtual 1,3,5,7,9)
Group Two: Monday 1-3 (f2f 3,5,7,9, virtual 2,4,8,10)
Group Three: Tuesday 11-1 (f2f 3,5,7,9, virtual 2,4,8,10)
Group Four: Weds 9-11 (f2f 2,4,8,10, virtual 3,5,7,9)
Module Moodle Page:
https://moodle.warwick.ac.uk/course/view.php?id=39152
Library Talis Aspire:
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Seminar Topics and Timetable
Assessment, Principal Learning Outcomes, and Contact Hours
During the early C20th various musical forms, which drew on local musical cultures, many of which were African-American, came together to remake popular music as a dynamic and vibrant force. As the century progressed popular music became an important factor in popular culture more generally, influencing, among other things, politics, media, leisure and fashion. Popular music's importance has long been the subject of debate with criticism from commentators and intellectuals, including the Frankfurt School's Kulturindustrie' critique which saw it as commodified entertainment, whereas others, notably Eric Hobsbawm, saw popular music as more complex and at times both hegemonic and counter-hegemonic.
These debates have continued and become part of a lively historiography which this 30 CATS undergraduate final-year Advanced Option module draws upon as it explores the main developments in popular music. It uses, but takes a critical approach to genre, explores popular music's role within mass culture, the impact of technology, the relationship between popular and art music, the debate over 'authenticity', the link to other arts movements, the impact of race, gender and class, and music's role in reflecting and changing politics and identity.
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'This was Wisconsinites speaking out:' Rebecca Dallet defeats Michael Screnock in SCOWIS race
Posted 5:06 pm, April 3, 2018, by Theo Keith and AP Wire Service, Updated at 10:47PM, April 3, 2018
MILWAUKEE -- Rebecca Dallet, a liberal Milwaukee judge, easily defeated conservative Michael Screnock Tuesday in the race for Wisconsin Supreme Court, fueling optimism among Democrats for more victories in the fall midterms.
The race for a 10-year seat was nonpartisan in name only, with millions in ad spending and public endorsements from the likes of Joe Biden, Eric Holder and the National Rifle Association.
Dallet said her double-digit victory, which Democrats quickly seized on as another sign of momentum, was a rejection of special interest influence on Wisconsin's Supreme Court.
"The candidate with the most experience in our courts and standing up for the fairness of our courts won," she said. "I think people are tired of what's been going on in our state in terms of the money coming in to buy these elections and people spoke out tonight."
Wisconsin Democratic Party Chairwoman Martha Laning said the win was a warning shot to Republican Gov. Scott Walker, who endorsed Screnock.
"Tonight is a huge loss for Gov. Scott Walker, more so even than Judge Michael Screnock, as Walker's endorsement, philosophy and politics were on the ballot," Laning said.
One of the Democratic challengers to Republican House Speaker Paul Ryan, of Wisconsin, immediately tried to raise money off the Dallet win. Randy Bryce called the Dallet win "a rallying cry for working folks."
Screnock, a Sauk County circuit judge, was endorsed by Walker and backed by about $400,000 from the state GOP.
Dallet's victory narrows conservative control of the court from 5-2 to 4-3 and is the first time a liberal candidate has won a race for an open seat on the court since 1995. The court has been a reliable ally of Walker and Republicans who have controlled the governor's office and Legislature since 2011.
Walker is up for re-election in November, along with Democratic U.S. Sen. Tammy Baldwin, the 99-member state Assembly and half of the state Senate.
Voters who supported Dallet said they hoped her win would send a message.
"People are pretty motivated on the left, from what I can see," said Doug Clawson, 58, a communications professional who cast his ballot at a Madison public library as cold rain fell outside.
He said a Dallet win "would send a message that we're not kidding around here and maybe to borrow an axiom from the right: We're going to take our country back."
Dallet's victory follows a surprising Democratic win in January in a special election for a state Senate seat held by Republicans for 17 years. Two other special legislative elections are coming this June, giving Democrats more chances to build momentum heading into the fall.
But Wisconsin Supreme Court races haven't always been reliable predictors of what will happen in the fall. Conservative candidates won in both 2007 and 2008, victories that came in between huge Democratic wins in the fall 2006 and 2008 elections.
Dallet, 48, has been a Milwaukee County circuit judge since 2008 and previously worked 11 years as a prosecutor. She will join the court in August.
Screnock, 48, was appointed judge by Walker in 2015. Before that he was part of a team that defended Walker's Act 10 law that effectively ended collective bargaining for most public workers.
In Brookfield, a conservative-leaning western suburb of Milwaukee, Michael George backed Screnock based on one issue.
"He's for NRA and the Second Amendment and I think that's a good thing. That's what we need right now," said George, a Republican.
Several voters in liberal Madison said they were motivated to vote against Screnock because of his NRA support.
"I don't want to support anyone who's backed by the NRA right now," said Phil Ouellette, 59, who works in advertising.
Both candidates argued the other couldn't be trusted to serve as an independent voice on the state's highest court because of the partisans supporting their campaigns.
Dallet ran with a tough-on-crime message, focusing on her 11 years as a prosecutor followed by 10 years as a judge in Milwaukee. She argued that the current conservative-controlled Supreme Court is "broken," and she criticized the justices for not adopting a recusal rule forcing them to step down from cases involving large campaign donors.
Screnock said he's devoted to the rule of law and a strict interpretation of the Constitution, arguments that winning conservative candidates used in recent state Supreme Court elections.
But it didn't carry the day this time.
Judge Rebecca Dallet, Judge Michael Screnock
Rebecca Dallet
Dallet voted Tuesday morning in Whitefish Bay with her husband and two of her daughters, who went off to school after they left the polling place.
Turnout was strong in the Democratic strongholds of Milwaukee and Madison, where the snow mostly held off on Tuesday. Dallet said she didn't expect the potential for snow to deter voters.
"They're tired of the special interest money dominating our state and our courts, and I think they're going to be out today, shoveling themselves out of their driveways to get to the polls," said Dallet.
This race is nonpartisan in name only. In reality, it has been both politically and personally nasty. Millions of dollars in outside money has been spent on ads -- most of them negative.
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