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You have the arrow on the wrong bend. The car is making a right turn not a left one and is going up the gradient in front of the big windows in the Occidental.
History & Culture - Klondike Gold Rush - Seattle Unit National Historical Park (U.S. National Park Service)
You'll never guess what buildings illustrate that article!
God I must be blind. From your linked article Banta.
Denny and Maynard gave him a strip where their land holdings joined along the Seattle waterfront.
Evidence that the land under the pioneer building is either entirely or mainly made up backfilled land?
I dunno, it's probably just imprecise language. I mean, the Pioneer Building, from what I can tell, is only about 1000 feet from the current waterfront anyway. Obviously not what you want if someone is selling you a house "on the beach" but close enough for government work.
But who knows? Everything is all paved over now, so it's hard to even confirm the areas you pointed out in the 1884 map. However, it's indisputable that some land reclamation was going on. To the extent and for how long... well, it's difficult because it seems like prior to 1875ish, Yesler, Doc Maynard, and the other frontiersmen could act unilaterally with no real record or accountability required. Well, as long as they could appease the locals that is.
Chief Seattle, in 1864, died 06/07/1866
Phew, it's a good thing the Chief held on for a few hours there, or else I'd be forced to talk about numerology again! Also, isn't it interesting who we get pictures of in the mid to late 19th century and those we don't?
Edit: So, I can't believe I hadn't seen this yet:
A map of Seattle, drawn at the time of the Battle of Seattle [1856], part of the Puget Sound War. Map shows the sloop USS Decatur and the bark Brontes in Elliott Bay, Henry Yesler's mill, wharf, and a pile of sawdust, indigenous settlements in and around town (depicted with tipi-like symbols). The camp in town is labeled "Tecumseh's Camp", the one in the woods just north of Yesler's Mill is labeled "Curley's Camp" On the slopes above the town there is text saying "Hills and Woods thronged with Indians". A sand spit separates a tide marsh from the tide flats of the bay. The location is roughly where Seattle's Pioneer Square is today. The main north-south street is today's First Avenue, the main west-east street shown is today's Jackson Street. Today's Yesler Way would terminate at the wharf.
Plan of Seattle 1855-6
In case you can't see where the mill is supposed to be:
I've tried spinning my Google map around in a bunch of different ways, and I can't reconcile the differences here at all:
The marker is the Pioneer Building. I think we need to seriously question if Yesler's mill was the future site of the building. Or how much the land was recovered/altered, however, judging by the location of the mill relative to the lake (if that's what is now Lake Union), it seems like the mill would be further north. Or even further further north, if that lake is Green Lake.
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We are probably looking at different areas on the map.
By the way, from the narrative we know, that when the fire took place on 06/06/1889, the foundation of the Pioneer Building was supposed to be fully excavated.
I will show two older photographs below, but at first let's see where those photographs were taken from. My Google Maps screenshot is not perfect location-wise, but that's the best I could do without actually going there.
Conveniently, the below photograph is dated with 06/05/1889.
What is this building on the right I marked with X?
Y - Yesler-Leary Building or the former location of the Yesler-Leary Building on today's maps.
X - was supposed to have the excavated foundation of the future Pioneer Building right about where it stands. May be the foundation was a bit east of my "X" mark, but that would mean that half of the building we observe on the below 05/06/1889 photographs had to be destroyed for that to be the case.
On our 1889 plan, the area looks like this.
X appears to be located where our Pioneer Building stands today. Here is how I would place those 1889 pre fire buildings on the today's map.
KD: Where am I wrong?
EDIT: I see where I'm wrong. X is the Occidental Hotel.
Where am I wrong?
You're not wrong, the world is. In the 6/5/89 picture, the building on the left is where the Olympic Block building is claimed to be built after the fire (despite showing up in the '84 and '89 birdseye view drawings, looking very similar). It's location is obscured in the 1884 photo (because it's taken further back), but the beer hall on the left appears to match up (O=Olympic Block, b=Beer hall):
So, the two photos here and the 1889 birdseye seems consistent. The outlier is the 1884 birdseye, which doesn't depict your X building properly.
Seems like this mysterious X building very well could be the "foundation" of the Pioneer Building (which does have a segmented look to it, IMO). So if we ignore stories about mill locations and fires (and then ignore the destruction photos), it almost makes sense.
Starting to feel like we're playing "whack a mole" here. Attempting to reconcile one issue only makes another one pop up. Which I guess is a solid indication that none of these images are in any sort of chronological order, despite what they're claimed to be dated as.
I see where I'm wrong. X is the Occidental Hotel
Are you sure about that? Doesn't seem like enough distance between the Yesler-Leary building and it. Especially in the 1889 photo. The whole thing makes sense to me if I think the 1884 picture is taken basically in front of the Occidental and the '89 a bit further up the street.
However I do also think staring at all this is starting to make me quite literally insane, so you could very well be correct.
Are you sure about that? Doesn't seem like enough distance between the Yesler-Leary building and it.
I'm fairly certain. That's Occidental Hotel being built in allegedly 1887.
Once again, looks more like renovations to me.
We are facing mostly West here.
Yesler-Leary Building can be seen behind a as along the edge there.
Image #1
And this here is also claimed to be 1887. The hotel is finished.
We are facing mostly East here.
And the below contemporary photograph taken from the same point Image #1 appear to show that today we have way more dirt at this intersection. That's Yesler Way and 2nd Avenue, by the way. Where did this hill come from.
Compare Image #1 to Image #3.
What happened at the point where the photograph was taken from? Does it look like it got 20 feet higher?
And to top it off, here is another 1887 depiction of the same Occidental Hotel.
Z - is where our Pioneer Building is today.
My red line indicates an approximate grade we have today on Yesler Way next to the parking lot (used to be this Hotel)
What's interesting... below is the actual photograph of the Occidental Hotel in 1884 (allegedly). And it's leveled s well.
What happened there to get it buried like that.
If we continue that grade up, for the hill keeps on going up, we could bury buildings 15-20 stories high.
As far as our Pioneer Building goes...
The below photograph was taken from approximately there, I think.
What can we get from this image?
They say it's c.1887 again...
KD: The entire Pioneer Square area has an additional underground level, and in some places two stories are underground. We know that the PTB claimed that approximately 20 feet of dirt were used to raise the city during the so-called rebuilding process.
We have exactly zero proof of any dirt moving activities related to this project. That's a lot of dirt by the way.
Also dirt levels pertaining to the Occidental Hotel are highly suspicious, imho.
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No you have the wrong bend in the tram tracks I meant.
In this photograph you can see the curve the track takes (or will take as the track is not visible in that photo) making a right turn into Yesler from Occidental. The bloke on the left is stood on it. I cannot stick letters and or lines on sorry.
In this photograph the same curve is present turning the exact same way into Yesler from Occidental. This time the street car is stood on it.
The doorway in the building immediately to the right of the front of the street car in the bottom photo is the same doorway at the far end of the scaffolding in the first.
Here is the same curve.
EDIT to add here is the curve again from this page in 1888
Banta you rogue. That hand drawn map of Seattle drawn 1855-6 what a find. Its rammed with detail clearly drawn by a man who had knowledge of geography in contours and levels, its symbology and how to draw the right perspective. And people on the other place are saying such work is impossible without going up in the air in some contraption, dear god. The man who drew this walked the land and knew what he was looking at.
As a slight aside I would just like to say this is the first investigation I have taken part in where I feel we are getting somewhere/ My gratitude to KD for starting shorg 2.0 and my fellow contributors are true friends. Most heart warming.
Right from the hand drawn map its confirmed my suspicion that Yeslers mill would be right on the coast for ease of processing from tree to lumber and shipping and sail by water. Ships and boats carry more lumber than horse carts and much further.
The jetty I had a laugh at as from just one in 1855 they were breeding like rabbits by 1884!
But what really struck me is the area of that sawdust pile. Either Yeslers mill was producing sawdust not lumber which though possible seems unlikely as I cannot think of a market for sawdust offhand or he was selling a lot of lumber far more than the records suggest which would not be a surprise to be honest. Overstate one thing when understating another is how accountants operate even today.
Where did all that sawdust go?
Could it have been washed into the water by storm water running off the denuded land?
It was a big enough feature of the time to be recorded by the surveying US army officer.
Here's a bit of speculation.
Suppose the sawdust pile did shift into the water and instead of floating off which it couldn't as it was already soaked it instead sank and along with any soil being washed along with it or over it formed a solid if spongy 'new land'. Yesler would I'm sure have noticed this and may have thought of an ingenious plan to increase his landholding by filling in the sea with waste from his mill. If the sawdust land had spread under the jetty he may have noticed how the jetty logs trapped the sawdust and stabilised it so from then on its a simple matter of piling in upright logs laying some horizontally to form a low wall and then carting the sawdust not to a pile on dry land but to the newly created land creation infrastructure.
A next to no cost way of gaining usable land without treaty, claim or buying and selling anything.
As long as any lumber the mill produced paid for Yeslers running costs and probably living costs it didn't need to make a profit.
Well I went and searched using the term sawdust pile 1880's
And this was the third result. https://www.jstor.org/stable/40487469?seq=1
Seattle is a city built upon sawdust. Research into old records bears ... deep in the sawdust piles. ... The decade of the 1880's marked a new period. (Portland ...
It's jstor and I don't have an account but there is a preview.
Now I recognise that KD was most likely already aware of the sawdust connection but still blew me away I have to say.
A bit more speculation but the reason why Banta could not locate the old mill onto the present day google map is because the mill site is so far inland from the current waterfront its impossible to do so.
Sawdust used as landfill will consolidate quite easily and quite well. It will degrade and rot quite slowly but will gain a surface of plant and fungal life fairly quickly and insects will populate it from the get go. It will continue to settle and when fully rotted the surface would be much lower than it was when first deposited but it likely wouldn't be just sawdust being used as fill. Not sure what the trees being processed were but from the maps it appears to be mainly conifers. Lots of resinous bark and branches would likely end up in the fill. These rot much more slowly so provide a longer period of consolidation and would have kept the surface higher than it would otherwise be.
As the fill advanced it would dry out as the tides would pushed further and further away so in the same way a marsh becomes solid ground by draining. By pushing the front of the pile further into the sea the land dries out.
Speculation but if we run with it the mill site 'moves' further and further inland as the filling moves further and further into the sea.
Water System on Stilts, 1870 Courtesy MOHAI (2002.3.552)
Seattle, ca. 1869 Courtesy Washington Historical Society (1995.10.1)
Regraded 1st Avenue, originally called Front Street, Seattle, 1878 Courtesy MOHAI (1983.10.6138)
Tideflats near Pioneer Square, Seattle Courtesy UW Special Collections
Denny regrade headline, Seattle
The first platting in Seattle, 1850s.
All of the above from here Building Seattle -- A Slideshow History of Seattle
Front street when first named was a street on stilts it seems from that photograph so the area on both sides of it was water or tide flats back filled with sawdust & debris maybe?
If so lends credence to Pioneer square being entirely tide flat/ backfill land.
Who was this Denny?
Who did the first platting?
How does the coastline under the platting match the Army officers map?
Like San Francisco the platting goes out into the water/tidal flats. Very interesting.
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I think the disaster photos come first. Then they built the city and changed stuff over time. The common historical narrative has it out of sequence.
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As far as regrades go, we allegedly had a whole bunch.
Seattle's first 58 regrades "consisted largely of cutting the tops off high places and dumping the dirt into low places and onto the beach". The most dramatic result of this was along that former beach, filling the land that constitutes today's Central Waterfront. Today's Western Avenue and Alaskan Way lie on this landfill.
These informal regrades came to an end around 1900; later regrades typically required changes to areas that had already undergone some development.
Regrading in Seattle
The First Avenue regrade was started in 1897 and completed on January 6, 1899.
Denny Triangle, Seattle
We are interested in regrades predating 1897.
There are two things none of these regrades can explain:
1. There are at least two stories of a red brick building buried underneath the Pioneer Building. What building could it be, if the narrative says that at the time of the fire, there was only a foundation of the future Pioneer Building there? What buried that brick structure and what building was there before the Pioneer Building?
2. How did the south-east and north-east corners of the Occidental Hotel aka parking lot got buried under approximately 20 feet of dirt. These are James street & 2nd avenue and Yesler Way & 2nd avenue intersections.
On November 14, 1960, the Seattle Times ran a story about the "almost forgotten 'ghost town'" under downtown Seattle. Entering through the kitchen of the B&R Restaurant at 105 1/2 Yesler Way and equipped with a flashlight, reporter John Reddin and Fire Chief William Fitzgerald descended two flights of stairs into a dim and dusty cavern. They found a series of passageways and old store fronts, as well as old wooden columns.
Seattle Map 4 – Downtown Catacombs
Here are parts of what we have down there, accompanied by the PTB narrative.
Virtual underground tour.
Some great pics of the alleged regrade here: Seattle - Consequences of a cataclysm, war or...
I think we have an article on that:
Seattle regrading or unearthing? Which one was it?
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Okay, I think I agree now, after taking some time away. I guess it's a perspective thing that makes it seem like the Occcidental is too close to the Yesler-Leary building.
Does this whole area:
Fit in here?
To which I reply, very confidently, I guess?
It's still very confusing, because these dates are all over the place. If that one picture is 1884, it's amazing:
Seattle businessman John Collins (1835-1903) purchased Brown's stake in the hotel; Collins gained his wealth from diverse investments in real estate, railroad stock and mining shares; he gradually took control of the property from his co-owners; looking for greater profit, he demolished the Occidental Hotel #1 in 1883 and erected Seattle's first upscale hotel, the larger Occidental Hotel #2 in 1884; this first Occidental Hotel had a wooden frame, a dangerous method of construction for hotels in the 19th century, due to the constant risk of fire. Ironically, it was the Occidental Hotel #2, which burned in the Great Seattle Fire of 06/06/1889.
And they decided to make the building look aged too, apparently:
Also dirt levels pertaining to the Occidental Hotel are highly suspicious, imho.
Right. Speaking of the original Occidental, here are supposedly images of it, from 1880 or 81, depending on who you want to believe:
O.T. Frasch published a postcard of the Occidental Hotel #1 in 1911 bearing the caption: "President Hayes addresseing Seattle's entire population in [sic] 1881 where Hotel Seattle now stands." (See O.T. Frasch postcard #853, 1911; Hayes actually visited Seattle, WA, on 10/11/1880.)
PCAD - Occidental Hotel #1, Pioneer Square, Seattle, WA
So, not that I necessarily believe that this picture is what it's supposed to be depicting at all, especially given that the second picture didn't appear until 30 years after the fact (not sure about the first), but if that is the location of our future brick Occidental, what the hell is going on here with the hills? (EDIT: I'm thinking that these are reenactments of some kind, perhaps for the 1909 exposition, but that's just a guess.)
I agree with this sentiment fully! I also strangely like being called a "rogue."
Your speculation seems possible to me, but I'm still confused by the positioning of the lakes, relative to the Mill/Pioneer Building. They don't exist in the modern time... so I guess they would have had to been filled in too?
What's more reasonable? Massive sawdust piles changing the coastline and filling in lakes, or the mill actually being located further north and completely misreported? And as usual, I wonder if it's a little of column A and a little of column B.
That god awful car park certainly throws the eye. It is not set at right angle to contour. It rises up from 'stern to bow' from the point of entry contour perhaps an artistic architect thing that didn't work out but too was realised too late. Yesler way today has been regraded into more of an incline over a shorter distance that the Yesler way of Occidental Hotel days. Why and when I don't know but the accommodations planners and architects go to for the motor car are legion and the ones involved in that car park need to be take out and given a damn good slap.
James Street on the other hand seems not to have been touched since Occidental days and neither does 2nd Avenue.
The 'hidden Seattle' looks like a movie set to be honest. The stone block wall is interesting though. They look like limestone and have been quarried and shaped but where in the Seattle area were there any quarries dating to the mid 1800's and what stone did they carry?
They remind me of the stone on that red building behind the car park and the foundation of the bank? in one of the other Seattle threads, so many its confusing sorry, could be the regrade one. Have you ever heard of any urban explorers who have been in the 'forbidden parts' with their cameras as I feel sure they would capture a more authentic underground Seattle experience.
EDIT to add
Not sure when the regrading happened if it ever was regraded. I appreciate perspective is important but in this photo the lot of the hotel/car park in relation to the the grade looks the same as today. And the streetcar track now runs straight past Yesler and not into it. This puts it into the electric streetcar era. Poor bloody horses must have struggled up that grade, assuming it was the grade in the horse car era.
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So, not strictly about the Pioneer Building, but since this thread is sort of about the whole area now, I just have to show you this. From the 1904 Bird's Eye View KD posted in the other thread:
#59 is the Pioneer Building. Across the street, you can see a very tall and suspiciously unlabeled building. Nowadays that would be the location of the Hoge Building. Big narrative problem here:
The Hoge Building is a 17-story building constructed in 1911 by, and named for James D. Hoge, a banker and real estate investor, on the northwest corner of Second Avenue and Cherry Street in Seattle, Washington. The building was constructed primarily of tan brick and terracotta built over a steel frame in the architectural style of Second Renaissance Revival with elements of Beaux Arts. It was the tallest building in Seattle from 1911 to 1914 with the completion of Smith Tower...
...The site of the Hoge building, at 705 Second Avenue, was the location of the cabin of Carson Boren, reputedly the first white man's house in what was to become Seattle. The cabin was later replaced by a row of 1 and 2 story shops facing Cherry Street which would all be destroyed by the Great Seattle fire. Hoge's uncle, John Hoge, a wealthy businessman of Zanesville, Ohio purchased the site soon after the fire and erected a three-story brick building to house his company: Washington Territorial Investment Company, The Seattle Post-Intelligencer, Washington National Bank, and several other small businesses. Hoge would form Union Trust & Savings Bank (later renamed Seattle Trust Bank and merged with Seafirst Bank) in 1903 which would become the ground-floor tenant of his new building.
Hoge commissioned the architectural firm of Charles Bebb and Louis Mendel to design the building. Construction began in March 1911. The steel frame of the building was constructed at an amazing pace, with all 18 stories completed in 30 days, a feat which broke all records at the time.
Something is seriously wrong here. Again, I'm sorry to pollute this thread, but I was too excited about this find not to immediately share.
EDIT: Now I'm not sure, maybe the Hoge building is supposed to be on the other corner. But what else would be so big and prior to 1911??
The unlabelled building isn't 18 nor 17 stories tall.
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Yeah, I think I got ahead of myself. It's the Alaska building, completed 1904.
Alaska Building
It's weird that for such a prominent building (just read the description) they did not assign it a number.
Took them only 11 months to get it built. Yup.
Agreed. It was the tallest building in Seattle until the Hoge building in 1911. Yet the library that supposedly hadn't even started construction gets a number.
They did give it a number, number 1.
Ok. Then my failure is complete!
Don't feel bad, I did not see that skinny #1 either.


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Bendigo chartered engineer Sam Gayed is running for the Liberal Party.
Doctor Robert Holian is contesting the seat for the Greens.
Small business owner Vaughan Williams is running for Pauline Hanson's One Nation.
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In order to receive the two-year fellowship, Laura dropped out of MIT and moved to Silicon Valley, California. She began talking to investors about a venture capital firm to find and fund research projects developing new therapies for age-related diseases. Laura eventually became a partner at Longevity Fund, a mission driven venture capital firm doing just that.
Apart from receiving the Thiel Foundation Fellowship, Laura has also been selected as one of Forbes' "30 under 30" in the Science and Healthcare category.


An expression (the term used for a bottling) of Scotch Whisky distilled at the Glenlivet distillery and then aged for 13 years. Bottled at a nice drinking strength of 50% this whisky comes in a 70cl bottle.
There are no further shopping results for Glenlivet 13 Year Old 1996 Old Malt Cask Douglas Laing but you might be interested to try some of these brands and bottlings.


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Scotland Rugby team scheduled to face South Africa in 2020
EDINBURGH, SCOTLAND - NOVEMBER 17: Huw Jones of Scotland evades Damian de Allende of South Africa during the International Friendly match between Scotland and South Africa at Murrayfield Stadium on November 17, 2018 in Edinburgh, United Kingdom. (Photo by Ian MacNicol/Getty Images)
With the news that the Scotland Rugby team is scheduled to face South Africa and New Zealand in 2020, it will bring a fresh challenge for the Scottish Rugby Union.
That will also mean that Scotland will be the first Tier One nation to face the Rugby World Cup champions – weeks before the 2020 Rugby Championship pits the Springboks against the All Blacks.
Scheduled to play two tests against the Springboks in South Africa on July 4 and 11; with the locations to be confirmed, is a huge task. These will be followed by a third and final away test against New Zealand on Saturday, July 18, making it arguably Scotland's toughest tour schedule of the modern era.
This will be the first time in several years that a Scotland rugby team has played the leading southern hemisphere sides on their own soil. They last faced the Springboks in Port Elizabeth in 2014, and have not challenged New Zealand in some 20 years. A formidable challenge, but one that can be used a rebuilding phase, if Scotland wishes to return to the heights of the past.
With the World Cup staying in the Southern Hemisphere, for any future-driven test nation, they must travel 'downunder'. Gregor Townsend will use this as the second step in a plan, that begins with the 2020 Guinness Six Nations.
Meeting the World Champions will be the sixth, of 11 matches that the national team will play. In November, the Scotland rugby team play Argentina, Japan, and New Zealand for a second time. The competition is invited, as Scotland must further develop and build confidence. Rebuild, as much was lost, as the team departed Japan with their heads bowed.
Defeated by Japan; who took their opportunity, again the scots were denied a berth in the quarterfinals.
How the 2020 season pans out for players like Stuart Hogg, Finn Russell, and Jonny Gray, is yet to be known. However, building confidence that they can compete against the best (South Africa) is the goal.
Stuart Hogg of Scotland during the Incoming Tour match between South Africa and Scotland at Nelson Mandela Bay Stadium on June 28, 2014 in Port Elizabeth, South Africa. (Photo by Steve Haag/Gallo Images/Getty Images)
By July, the Scotland rugby squad selected to tour must be fit, and have full confidence in their ability. Anything less might be fodder for the World Champs to feast on.
South Africa v Scotland – July 4 (first test) and July 11 (second)
South Africa to invite Georgia into their den
As well as meeting Scotland, the Springboks are scheduled to play Georgia. In what will be a historical, first-ever test match against Georgia on home soil, it also invites competition for the leading Tier Two nation.
The Springboks and Georgia have met only once before – in a pool match at the 2003 World Cup in Sydney – when South Africa won, 46-19.
In that match-up, the Georgian rugby team were seen as 'minnows'. The scoreline then was close to 50 points, yet fans should expect a much closer affair when the sides meet next year.
Developing countries must be encouraged, and with Georgia being a regular at the last Rugby World Cup tournaments, it is a boost for that nation's ambitions to reach higher levels. The match will be beneficial for each country but, it is probably the first time since Georgia's RWC match against New Zealand in 2015, when the small union has faced a number one ranked team.
In terms of rugby credibility, it doesn't get any better than that.
South Africa v Georgia – Saturday, July 18 (venue to be confirmed)
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Here is an interesting article about the recent cabinet reshuffle in Korea.
The best news is that Lee Myung Bak is on the way out. I don't have a negative opinion of ole 2MB. In fact I don't follow Korean politics closely enough to really have any opinion of him. Nevertheless I say it's nice that he is on his way out because it means that someone quite different from him is likely to be on his way in, probably from the Minjudang party. Ideological diversity in the top position, particularly in Korea where the president holds so much power, can only be healthy. Particularly when the politics in a country is as polarized as it is in Korea. By swaying from left to right most polices in the long duree tend to be enacted in a fairly centrist fashion.


Moto C and Moto C Plus will replace the Moto E smartphone series in 2017.
Before Motorola was purchased by Lenovo, the company released a very affordable smartphone series, which we come to know as the Moto E line.
After Lenovo's buyout, the Chinese executives made some important changes in Motorola's smartphone naming scheme, including at the top where Moto X is no longer the top-tier handset. In 2016 – 2017 Moto Z is the flagship of Lenovo Moto series.
The same thing will probably happen to the low-end series of Motorola Moto smartphones. It appears that the Moto E series will be rebranded as the Moto C series. The somewhat confirmation comes from Evan Blass, who recently leaked Moto C and Moto C Plus renders (see above).
The standard Moto C model will be featuring a 5-inch display with FWVGA display (480 x 854 pixels), while the plus model will arrive with a 5-inch 720p HD display. Both Moto C smartphones will be packing MediaTek MT6737m chipsets (quad-core CPU's clocked at 1.3GHz), 1G or 2GB of RAM, 16 or 32GB of internal storage, and 2.300 mAh and 4,000 mAh removable batteries.
Moto C and Moto C Plus will run Android 7.0 Nougat and come with 2MP front facing cameras with LED Flash, while at the back the standard model has a 5MP snapper, the Plus model an 8MP sensor.


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Suitable for all skin types, it works to reduce the appearance of dark spots, including pregnancy mask, acne marks, sun pigmentation and age-related dark spots, and prevents them from reappearing.
Its refreshing and subtle fragrance combines notes of citrus blossom, orange tree leaves, watermelon and mint.
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Vinoperfect Radiance Serum is highly concentrated in Viniferine, a Caudalie patent, ensuring the most effective anti-dark spot action.
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Apply morning and evening, to the face, neck and décolleté, before applying your moisturiser.
Can also be used underneath your sun cream to help promote a flawless and even tan.


01/18/16 – This was a sort of spontaneous shoot that happened when I decided to postpone the shoot that I really wanted to do. I think this is a first for me, casting the left arm and leg together and the same with the right side. It's very simple, but it's impressive what she CAN'T do while in these casts. In the clip, she wakes up in the casts, next to a body made out of casts (her cast collection) and struggles to get out of them, get to a phone, or get to the door. Finally she is rescued by her friend that shows up.


El Paso de Robles Area Historical Society - We were asked to add casters to 4 old display cases. These cases are very heavy, so the design had to be very strong. After the casters were installed we cleaned and polished the granite sides. Later we were asked to build two donation boxes for the upstairs room and the research library downstairs. See the two pictures on the left in the second row for the completed donation boxes. The next project is two small cabinets for the gift shop to display books for sale. See the last two pictures on the right. The final project is two large display units for the gift shop.
To enlarge each picture please click on the picture.


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Sweet Shop » British Sweets
We're often not thankful to have escaped unpleasant things of which we have no understanding or experience. Brits who haven't had the dubious pleasure of guzzling sweets from the Soviet Union - you simply have no idea just how fortunate you are to have been born and raised in the United Kingdom. So we decided to bring you our very own Ultimate Guide to British Sweets.
Victorian Times
The most famous invention from the Victorian era were novels aimed at unenthusiastic 20th century school children. Or rather novels so well-written that school children over 100 years later would still be studying these classics. You might be wondering what all this has to do with British confectionery? The connection is that the Victorian era produced not only classic novels but also many of the classic sweets which we all remember.
Historically sweets and confectionaries were hand-made luxury items available only to kings, queens and aristocrats. The industrial revolution brought about many technological advances; lowering prices for refined sugar and allowing for factory produced sweets and confectionary. Owing to these changes, sweets were no longer luxurious items for the super-rich. Pear Drops, Sherbet Lemons, Cough Candy, Rhubarb and Custard, Aniseed Twists, Marshmallows, Candy Floss, Fruit Pastilles and Fruit Gums all originate from the mid-19th century to the turn of the 20th century.
The Victorian sweets with the most interesting back story are Liquorice Allsorts 'created' in 1899. According to legend, a travelling salesman dropped his tray of samples. The salesman may have thought that he's blown the pitch but his customer so loved the assortment of shapes and colours arrayed on the floor that he asked if these sweets could be made intentionally!
The most famous sweet released during the first decade of the 20th century is the wine gum. Unusually this sweet wasn't aimed at children but at adults- hence the alcohol inspired name. Although the name might suggest otherwise there is no wine involved in the making of these delicious sweets, children eat these just as gladly. This decade also saw the introduction of the first lollipops!
Peace Babies were all the rage when they were launched in 1918 to celebrate the end of the Great War which had devastated Europe. These soft sugar candies are still made today although you'll probably recognise (and enjoy) them under the name they now go by- Jelly Babies.
With Britain struggling to recover from the devastation of world war one, sweet production was not top of the national priority list. Even so, this decade produced one of the UK's favourite sweet creations- the Black Jack. The wrapper of this iconic aniseed flavoured chew was originally emblazoned with the image of a golliwog. This was later rightfully considered to be a racist depiction and replaced by a pirate. The contents of the wrapper remain unchanged and just as tasty!
Coming hot on the heels of the Wall Street Crash and ending with the outbreak of WW2, you might think that the 1930's would be a decade to forget for the British sweet industry. However, the attraction of sweets is so powerful that even this dark decade has a few bright sparks. 1935 saw the launch of the popular Extra Strong Mint, a product still available today.
In any discussion of the global consequences of the Nazi invasion of Poland, delaying the introduction of the Polo mint rarely gets a mention. The "mint with a hole" was scheduled for launch in late 1939, but the outbreak of war scuppered the manufacturer's plans. The 1940's were scarred by war and rationing and even the production of Peace Babies was suspended such were the hardships of this decade. The Polo mint was belatedly launched in 1948. The other iconic sweet launched in the 1940's were Parma Violets.
The 1950's saw the introduction of one of the most iconic sweets ever created- Love Hearts. These hard tablets of fruit-flavoured sugary goodness are stamped with messages such as "I'm Shy", "Kiss Me", "Its love" and "I Love You".
The same company also launched the world's first chewable lolly in 1957 with the accidentally invented Drumstick. According to the official story, the son of one the company's owners was experimenting with a new machine and unintentionally learned that it was possible to make a sweet with two different flavours. Raspberry and milk were chosen an the Drumstick was born!
The swinging sixties saw the introduction of many famous English sweets, not least the Dib Dab and its rival the Double Dip. These sherbet sensations were innovative in so much as they combined two already popular sweets- the lollypop and sherbet dust- into one irresistible package.
A second hugely popular introduction in this decade was the humble fruit chew. These chewable fruit flavoured sweets were sold under the Opal Fruits and Chewits labels. Both have survived to the present day although Opal Fruits are now sold under their global name- Starburst.
The final intergalactic addition to the confectionary universe was the now infamous flying saucer. The release of a sweet made from sherbet packaged in an edible paper in the shape of a flying saucer was bound to be a hit in an era where the space race had captured the popular imagination.
The biggest innovation in the world of British sweets during the decade of flared trousers and polyester shirts was the introduction of Pacers. The delicately flavoured, mild minty chews were a relaunched version of the sweet originally known as the Opal Mint (yes they were the sister of Opal Fruits) and the addition of three green stripes proved a huge hit. These were discontinued in the 1980s and are sorely missed.
Growing up in the 1980's Britain would expose you to wondrous inventions such as the leg-warmer and imported TV shows like Dallas and its rival which my dad named Dysentery because he thought it so awful (that's Dynasty if you didn't get it). But there were classic TV ads too... like Cilla Black singing about the merits of Cadbury Dairy Milk chocolate, ice cream corner shop classics like "Arctic Roll" and a gazillion more.
This decade also saw the start two enormously popular phenomena both with the same name - one a pop duo involving George Michael and Andrew Ridgeley and the second a fantastic chewy and fizzy bar of raspberry flavoured goodness.
The UK has a heritage in confectionary which stretches back over a hundred years and the British should be as proud of our sweets as the French are of their wine or the Italians of their shoes.
Tell us, what are your favourite British sweets from the era you grew up in?
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Q: sudo not working on certain commands I have a rather weird problem with sudo on Debian 8. Users cannot execute some of commands in /etc/sudoers.d. I use Chef to distribute configurations, so all files are automatically generated.
Example:
This config works fine
root@server:~# cat /etc/sudoers.d/nginx
# This file is managed by Chef.
# Do NOT modify this file directly.

user  ALL=(root) NOPASSWD:/usr/sbin/nginx

And this fails:
root@server:~# cat /etc/sudoers.d/update-rc.d
# This file is managed by Chef.
# Do NOT modify this file directly.

user  ALL=(root) NOPASSWD:/usr/sbin/update-rc.d

user@www42:~$ sudo update-rc.d
[sudo] password for user:
Sorry, user user is not allowed to execute '/usr/sbin/update-rc.d' as root on server.

What can be wrong?
Diagnostics:
Mar  5 12:12:51 server sudo:    user : command not allowed ; TTY=pts/0 ; PWD=/home/user ; USER=root ; COMMAND=/usr/sbin/update-rc.d
Mar  5 12:14:25 www42 su[1209]: pam_unix(su:session): session closed for user user

root@server:~# sudo --version
Sudo version 1.8.10p3
Configure options: --prefix=/usr -v --with-all-insults --with-pam --with-fqdn --with-logging=syslog --with-logfac=authpriv --with-env-editor --with-editor=/usr/bin/editor --with-timeout=15 --with-password-timeout=0 --with-passprompt=[sudo] password for %p:  --disable-root-mailer --with-sendmail=/usr/sbin/sendmail --with-rundir=/var/lib/sudo --mandir=/usr/share/man --libexecdir=/usr/lib/sudo --with-sssd --with-sssd-lib=/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu --with-selinux --with-linux-audit
Sudoers policy plugin version 1.8.10p3
Sudoers file grammar version 43

A: Try and run sudo -ll to get a list of the commands/config applicable to your user.
If (as would seem to be the case) your update-rc.d clause doesn't show up, you might consider adjusting your chef recipes to deploy a single sudoers.d file per user, rather than several.
You might also consider if a group-related sudoers file might be warranted.
This question's answers might help: https://askubuntu.com/questions/246455/how-to-give-nopasswd-access-to-multiple-commands-via-sudoers

A: The problem is the dot in update-rc.d (in /etc/sudoers.d/update-rc.d); from man sudo:

The #includedir directive can be used to create a sudo.d directory that the system package manager can drop sudoers rules
  into as part of package installation.  For example, given:
#includedir /etc/sudoers.d

sudo will read each file in /etc/sudoers.d, skipping file names that end in ~ or contain a . character to avoid causing
  problems with package manager or editor temporary/backup files.

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Patch vs. Main Street Connect: How Will Hyperlocal Scale?
October 25, 2011 October 25, 2011 by Ellie Behling
Does size really matter in hyperlocal? Publishers debated the point on a panel during the first day of the Street Fight Summit. Patch CEO Warren Webster, naturally, said yes: "2010 was all about scaling up. We do believe that size is important." Main Street Connect CEO Carll Tucker disagreed, saying that his publication started small and built outward, not wanting to "mass produce and see the wheels fall off."
Patch (now up to 870 sites across 24 states) uses its national reach to sell to bigger advertisers while also targeting local merchants. The company is talking to big brands that are "absolutely blown away that they could have locally customized branding," Webster said.
Main Street on the other hand, did not expand until the first 10 sites were profitable. The company is now at 52 (or three pods, as the company calls them) in the Northeast. Unlike Patch, Tucker said the sweet spot for Main Street is with regional advertisers (e.g. hospitals and realtors). "Our core advertiser is right in the middle: large regional accounts trying to brand themselves."
Although Patch may be the national chain and Main Street, the local dealership, both see an opportunity in helping local businesses go beyond banner advertising in thinking about digital marketing. For example, Main Street Connect sells "annual visibility packages" instead of advertising, which Tucker said is meant to create a broder marketing relationship with clients.
Tucker is confident that he's discovered the model for hyperlocal media that works – and one that will presumably take the place of newspapers, which he believes will eventually fade out. Main Street's pods – clusters of sites – are typically profitable in 18 months; he expects the next pod to be profitable in six months.
Patch is never far from criticism about if and how its model will be profitable, but Webster was optimistic in his talking points. Webster said that at launch, he thought success would be more variable, with some succeeding and others failing, but inversely "we're finding that they are all following the same sort of trajectory toward profitability."
According to Webster, 50 percent of the businesses in communities covered by Patch do not have websites. "We want to be the ones that can guide them through that," he said about the transition to digital. Regardless of what model "works" in hyperlocal media, Webster's approach to profitability is likely shared by many in the space: The focus is not to sell advertising, but to build customers.
Photo credit: Shana Wittenwyler
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Q: Part style in memoir class I use the \chapterstyle{thatcher} in memoir class.
I would like the part style would be similar to the chapter style - but with title centered in the page.
As I'm a newbie in LaTeX world, I wonder how should I use the commands which are described in the memoir manual (section 6.4)?
I've tried the following ones in the preamble, and ... it doesn't work...
\renewcommand*{\partnamefont}{\large\centering}
\renewcommand*{\partnumfont}{\large}
\renewcommand*{\printpartnonum}{%
\vphantom{\printpartname}%
\vphantom{\partnumfont 1}%
\afterpartnum
\vskip -\onelineskip}
\renewcommand*{\parttitlefont}{\Large\scshape}
\renewcommand*{\printparttitle}[1]{%
\hrule\vskip\onelineskip \centering\parttitlefont ##1}

A: In the following minimal example, I've defined \thatcherpart{<part title>} to produce a vertically centred part in the thatcher chapter style. It is assumed that you don't want to use a alternative ToC entry for the part title from what is displayed within the text (that is, something of the form \thatcherpart[<ToC title>]{<part title>}):

\documentclass{memoir}% http://ctan.org/pkg/memoir
\usepackage{lipsum}% http://ctan.org/pkg/lipsum
\chapterstyle{thatcher}

\makeatletter
\long\def\thatcherpart#1{%
  \M@gettitle{#1}%
  \phantomsection
  \ifnum \c@secnumdepth >-2\relax
    \refstepcounter{part}%
    \addcontentsline{toc}{part}%
      {\protect\partnumberline{\thepart}#1}%
    \mempartinfo{\thepart}{#1}{#1}%
  \else
    \addcontentsline{toc}{part}{#1}%
    \mempartinfo{}{#1}{#1}%
  \fi
  \partmark{#1}%
  \pagestyle{empty}%
  {\centering
   \interlinepenalty \@M
   \parskip\z@
   \null\vfill%
   \normalfont\scshape%
   \ifnum \c@secnumdepth >-2\relax
     \MakeLowercase{Part~\thepart}
     \par\centerline{\parbox{0.5in}{\hrulefill}}\par
   \fi%
   {\normalfont\large\MakeUppercase{#1}\par}%
   }%
   \vfill}
\makeatother
\begin{document}

\thatcherpart{A part}

\chapter{A chapter}
\lipsum[1]
\end{document}

\thatcherpart is literally a grab from the original \@part in memoir, with the required changes. In the above output, I've omitted page 2 (a blank, verso page). The part page style is set to empty, although this (and other modifications) are easy to incorporate.

A: In case anyone is interested, the following worked for me:
% ---------------- Styling parts
\renewcommand{\partnamefont}{\Large\scshape\centering\MakeLowercase}
\renewcommand{\partnumfont}{\Large\scshape\centering\MakeLowercase}
\renewcommand{\midpartskip}{\par\rule{1in}{0.5pt}\par}
\renewcommand{\printparttitle}{\HUGE\scshape\centering\MakeLowercase}

A: With the memoir class, there are often easier solutions than rewriting entire macros. How to modify the format of parts is explained at section 6.4 of the manual.
In the example below, I have simply redefined the macros that set the appearance of parts to mimic the ones used by the thatcher chapter style.
\documentclass{memoir}

\usepackage[frenchb]{babel}

% Pour "première partie"
\usepackage{fmtcount}

\chapterstyle{thatcher}

\renewcommand*{\thepart}{\arabic{part}}
\renewcommand*{\parttitlefont}{\normalfont\large\MakeUppercase}
\renewcommand*{\partnamefont}{\normalfont\scshape\MakeLowercase}
\renewcommand*{\partnumfont}{\normalfont\scshape\MakeLowercase}

% Pour "première partie"
\renewcommand*{\printpartname}{\partnamefont{\ordinalstring{part}[f] partie}}
\renewcommand*{\printpartnum}{}

% Pour "partie 1"
%\renewcommand*{\printpartname}{\partnamefont Partie}
%\renewcommand*{\printpartnum}{\partnumfont\thepart}

\renewcommand{\midpartskip}{\par\parbox{0.5in}{\hrulefill}\par}
\renewcommand{\beforepartskip}{\vspace*{\fill}}
\renewcommand{\afterpartskip}{\vspace*{\fill}}

% Pour la table des matières
\renewcommand*{\cftpartname}{Partie}
\renewcommand*{\cftpartpresnum}{\space}
\renewcommand*{\cftpartaftersnum}{.}
\renewcommand*{\cftpartaftersnumb}{\space}

\begin{document}

\tableofcontents

\part{Une partie}

\part*{Une partie sans numéro}

\part[Une autre partie (nom pour la table des matières)]{Une autre partie}

\chapter{Un chapitre}

\end{document}

The names of the macros are quite self-explanatory, but here are some additional comments about what they do: \thepart is used to redefine the format of the part counter; \parttitlefont, \partnamefont and \partnumfont respectively set the font used by for the title, for the "part" word and for the number. In order to insert a line between the "Part N" line and the title line, I modified \midpartskip. Then, I also redefined \beforepartskip and \afterpartskip, which (here) define the white space to add above and below the text.
Since this technique does not rewrite the entire code, you can still use the \part command normally without any restrictions. The only problem encountered is that with \part*, the title of the part will not be exactly in the same place (whereas the thatcher chapter style adds the necessary white space in that case). But there is no easy way to do it because the memoir class does not have a special macro for starred parts (which I have never encountered anywhere, in any event).
And a picture of the result (I only put in one page):

Edit: I have updated my answer so the part name works properly with French babel. Two options there: if you want to write "première partie", leave everything as it is; if you want "partie 1" instead, uncomment the lines I have marked for this (2 lines), and comment the ones marked for the other style (that's 3 lines).
Oh, and as an added bonus, the last lines of the code rewrite the "Part" in the table of contents. You can remove it if you prefer to have just the number, but I thought you might want something of that sort too.


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Truth and Falsity in Indian History and Politics
An undergraduate course offered by the School of Culture History and Language.
Code ASIA3272
Offered by School of Culture History and Language
ANU College ANU College of Asia and the Pacific
Course subject Asian Studies
Offered in See Future Offerings
Truth and Falsity in Indian History and Politics (ASIA3272)
Contemporary India finds itself at the intersection of the trajectories of a number of widely varying notions of truth, falsity, authenticity and illegitimacy. The variation in these trajectories—in their cultural origins and in their content—can make their crossings unpredictable and explosive and often unintelligible. This course will explore with students the claims and negotiations that are fundamental to some of the critical debates in Indian history and politics over the past two centuries. In particular it will aim to alert students to the possibility that underlying these contentious events, ideas and processes are contending claims to truth and authenticity.
The course will focus on a set of truth claims that constitute the interface of cultural interactions within India and between Indian cultures and the rest of the world: stereotypes, stories, histories, myths, corruption and claims to authenticity and ethnicity. Such a study of India, by facilitating the study of cultural interactions through the prism of different configurations of truth and falsity, rather than the prism of power, will also encourage students to think more broadly and deeply about the interplay between notions of truth.
Upon successful completion of this course, students should be able to:
1. Demonstrate the ability to recognize historically and geographically variant notions of truth and falsity
2. Identify the ways in which notions of truth and falsity are configured alongside power relations in South Asia
3. Competently discuss the different notions of truth and authenticity that are employed by different groups speaking of the same event/issue
4. Evaluate the changing role of truth and falsity in history and politics with reference to particular events in India and South Asia
5. Demonstrate competent use of historical, literary and political sources to speak about notions of truth and falsity in Indian politics and history.
1. Contribution to discussion 10% (LOs 1, 2, 3, 4)
2. Literature review 30% (LOs 1, 2, 3, 4)
3. Investigative report: 30% (LOs 1, 2, 3, 4, 5)
4. Critical essay: 30% (LOs 1, 2, 3, 4, 5)