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Council scaling up preparations for no-deal Brexit
by So Cheshire
Cheshire West and Chester Council says it is "taking vital steps to ensure there are plans in place" in the event that the UK leaves the European Union (EU) on 31 October 2019 without a withdrawal agreement in place.
Following the work of the council's Brexit commission, the authority has been recognised as a national example in effective planning.
This is particularly important since Cheshire West has been identified as one of the most vulnerable areas to the consequences of a no-deal Brexit due to its industrial base.
To help identify the implications and develop plans accordingly, the council has been working with partners from the Local Government Association, business organisations, and other bodies over the last 3 years to share intelligence and understand concerns in communities.
Cheshire West and Chester Council is also a member of the Cheshire Local Resilience Forum, which brings together the local councils, police, NHS, fire and rescue service and other partners, to plan for all eventualities.
The Cheshire and Warrington Local Enterprise Partnership (LEP) is providing information and support to small and medium-sized businesses, with the council and LEP also liaising closely with larger businesses – including Vauxhall which has expressed serious concerns about the implications of a no-deal Brexit for the future of its Ellesmere Port operations.
Preparations are being made within the council's available funding and powers, and a proactive approach is being taken to identify and mitigate the risks the borough would face in a no-deal scenario.
Changes in trade conditions which may affect the manufacturing (including automotive), logistics and financial businesses of the borough.
An increase in inflation which could significantly impact businesses supplying services to the council, including those caring for vulnerable people.
An increased demand on regulatory services and trading standards as more checks would need to be conducted in the UK than had previously been conducted elsewhere in the EU.
An impact on exports to the EU which local analysis has shown to be significantly higher than the UK average in Cheshire West and Chester.
Logistical challenges in access to port and energy infrastructure.
Influence on Cheshire West and Chester workforce and skills base, particularly in the care sector but also in retail, hospitality, manufacturing, construction and a whole host of others.
Concerns for the borough's population of non-UK EU citizens, who play a critical role in local communities and businesses.
EU citizens who live and work in the borough are being signposted to apply for the Government's settlement scheme.
This will allow them and their families to secure their right to live and work in the UK and gain access to benefits and public services.
Cllr Louise Gittins, leader of Cheshire West and Chester Council, said: "We want to reassure businesses and communities that the Council and its partners are doing everything possible to reduce the risks. But I remain gravely concerned about a no-deal scenario.
"The impact of restrictions on our exporting industries to access international markets will put jobs at risk and could push us into a new and avoidable recession.
"The impact on Vauxhall in particular is a serious and urgent concern. The pressures on public services could be significant, with new burdens falling on the council and its partners.
"In particular, I want to express support for non-UK EU citizens, who play such a vital and positive role in our communities."
A webpage has been set up on the council's website to help signpost EU citizens, businesses, community and voluntary sector organisations, and schools and colleges to information on preparing for Brexit.
You can find this, and general information on the UK leaving the EU here.
WATCH: protestors gather outside Chester Town Hall on Wednesday 28th August to share their views on the government's decision to suspend parliament.
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I ran into this issue in my lab recently. I configured my Windows VM template with the vCAC guest agent (gugent) and then created a blueprint that used the agent to run a script on the deployed machine.
The machine state would stop every time on "CustomizeOS" and eventually the deployment would time out. From the Windows machine, I looked at the guest agent log and saw that it would hang every time on Wait for completion of '10_customizeos.bat' with no other progress.
I noticed that the GugentZip_x64 that I downloaded from the vCAC 6.0 appliance was also blocked - this means that the content of the zip would also be blocked when unzipped!
To fix this (or prevent it), simply unblock the zip before extracting. In my case, I took the extra precaution of removing the vCAC gugent service, deleting the entire c:\VRMGuestAgent and doing a fresh install with my "unblocked" zip.
How are you getting all that information in your log file?
I performed the unblock on the ZIP file and then installed the service, but it still hangs.
Those log entries mean that the guest agent is running, but no work has been given to the agent by the vCAC server. Very likely that your agent isn't properly configured or is not able to communicate with the server. If you are sure that the agent is configured correctly, make sure that you can communicate with the vCAC server.
Should it be pointed to the vCAC appliance or the IaaS? I pointed it to vCAC and imported the self-signed cert as a trusted root cert, but still no luck. I tried a 2012 VM today to see if I have the same issue and it's reporting the same problem.
You need to point it to IaaS. gugent receives work from IaaS.
nevermind. It appears that VMware documentation strikes again. Easily confusing when it states vCAC server. There is the vCAC Appliance and the IaaS server. Since the Manager Service is an IaaS (after doing research), the agent needs to point to the IaaS server.
Point at the IaaS server.
What exactly is the IaaS Server? Is this saying point it at the vSphere server?
The IaaS server is where you would have installed the vCAC Windows components.
Please note some environments do not allow you to use the unblock under properties. If this occurs use the command line utility streams.exe to unblock the file from an elevated command prompt.
If you're using a distributed environment, the vRA agent should be pointed to the IaaS server running the Manager Services. I had problems using the load balancer url, so I normally use the fqdn of the manager services server.
I am trying to run a script using vrmguestagent but somehow script kept in template is not getting executed.
Cert.pem file is generated which is of 2 KB.
vcacguestagent servcie is also started.
Priyanka, can you confirm that once the VM has been deployed you are able to communicate with the IaaS server? I cannot tell from your description if the cert.pem is being generated during the VM startup or if you had already provided the cert.pem in your template.
The repeated entry from the gugent log indicates to me that there is some communications problem between the VM and IaaS.


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RUDD, JOHN ROGERS
1827 - 1864 from England
Camp manager, was born probably in or near Exeter in 1827. He came from farming stock and by 1844 he was resident in the Falklands and in the employ of John Bull WHITINGTON at Anson. By 1847 he was a shepherd at Fitzroy for Captain PACKE. He married Mary Ellen Roach in 1852, daughter of Edward Roach, one of the thirty Military PENSIONERS. Edward Roach had served in the British Army in Madras, where his two daughters were born. Rudd appears to have moved from the Packe farm at Fitzroy to work for the Falkland Islands Company soon after it received its Royal Charter in 1852.
John Rudd's gravestone in Stanley...
The Rudds had eight children: Anna Maria (b1853), Helen (or Ellen) Elizabeth (b1855), John Edward (b1857), Mary Jane (b1858), Louisa (b1860, but died young), Eliza (b1861), Louisa (b1863, and named after her baby sister) and William Thomas Darwin (born 1865, after his father's murder). There are some descendants of the family still in the Islands.
The family lived at Darwin, where Rudd was promoted to manager for the Company in 1861, overseeing many hundreds of acres of land where wild and tame cattle herds grazed. Among the farm workers at this time were small numbers of South American gauchos, whose expertise in herding and taming the wild cattle was necessary to the Company's beef and hide business. The gauchos did, however, have a bad reputation for playing and living hard and were rather volatile when they had drink taken.
'Hell Fire Jack' - John Rudd's son -...
On 15 October 1864, whilst on horseback in the mountains near Darwin, John Rogers Rudd was attacked and knifed by one of his gauchos, Manuel Gill. The murder is described in detail by the company manager James LANE (based in Stanley some sixty miles away from Darwin) in the Falkland Island Company's despatch book of 1864:
I regret to have to report a most deplorable event, the assassination of the Camp Manager, John Rudd, by a half-bred Indian [a name commonly applied to gauchos in the Islands] named Gill, on the 15th October. I little thought, when writing to you only 2 days before, that there was "no one capable of taking his place", of having to communicate the painful intelligence of his life being thus terminated. He was a most worthy fellow, and the Company have lost a zealous and valuable servant - he leaves a wife and six young children and expecting shortly a seventh.
At about 5'oclock on Sunday afternoon the 16th October, when at the Dairy, I met men coming into Stanley, who informed me of the circumstances, which were these:
Rudd started off on the Saturday morning with a lad (Doolan) for the 2nd Corral, and at the Cerritos House (under Mount Usborne) was joined by Gill, who was going to the 2nd Corral to kill Government cattle; poor Rudd going himself to see the other men there and make necessary arrangements.
They had travelled [on horseback] as far as one of the streams feeding the San Carlos River, and had crossed it when Gill came behind Rudd and gave him two stabs with his knife. The man chose the edge of a morass - he had a horse which was almost singular in passing over such ground, and Rudd's horse, as is generally the case, would not move without difficulty when on its brink - he had nothing in his hand and tried to get away, but could not; the wretch then drove his horse against Rudd's, gave another stab and Rudd threw himself into the stream. The man then went to the boy [Doolan], and said he was going to kill him - he desisted however, and seeing Rudd had crawled to the bank, he stabbed him again just below the heart and then went away, - shortly returned and placing his coat over his poor victim, who told him that he forgave him.
Rudd could not move - the lad could do little, and after a short time he was sent by Rudd for assistance - this was about four o' clock in the afternoon. The boy reached Darwin Harbour at about 9, when men went off, but could not reach the poor sufferer until 4 the next morning; he had remained exposed and alone, all night in dreadful suffering with snow and rain (November being the Spring season in the southern hemisphere) with 5 wounds and his clothing perforated in 9 places.
Lane tells of his haste to find the doctor and prepare him for the long ride to Rudd. Lane also arranged with the magistrate to send a constable and party to Second Corral (across the mountains) to find the murderer. The doctor was exhausted when he arrived with the party at the small hut at Cerritos, and could only issue directions for medicines and treatment for Rudd, some five hours ride away. 'Unhappily, men arrived at Cerritos in the middle of the night with the news that Rudd had died'. Lane went in search of Gill, with four of his men. He instigated a reward for Gill's capture, to which the government, the Company and the Benefit Club contributed £65. He reported:
I proceeded on Tuesday with the Doctor to Darwin Harbour but must pass over the sad trying scene there with the poor widow and children and the arrival of the body in the evening, and its examination - nothing could be more distressing ...
The following morning (Wednesday) the Doctor returned to Stanley. On Thursday morning the Perseverance arrived at 7 am and at 8 was under weigh with her sad freight, Mrs Rudd and all her children and the corpse. An inquest was held on Friday and a verdict of wilful murder returned. And the funeral (in Stanley cemetery) took place the next day.
After a great deal of activity searching the mountains and valleys of Cerritos, Gill was eventually found, after he had headed south, near to Darwin (tc his paddock is known today as Gill's or Kiel's Park). Gill was escorted to Stanley:
On the following Thursday the 1st of November, he was tried and found guilty of wilful murder and will, I believe, be hanged on Monday next, the 14th November.
Lane goes on to say:
Gill had been some ten years in the Company's service and was always considered a quiet and inoffensive man and preferred by Rudd, when going on journeys, to others - he was with him all the time occupied counting cattle in Lafonia - there were no angry words between them on the day of the murder, but it would appear now that the man had wanted to go inside [Lafonia] to kill cattle and not to 2nd Corral.
There apparently arose some resentment and 'the Devil got possession of him'. Indeed Manuel Gill's motives were never clear and he appears to have been deranged.
I have done all I could for Mrs Rudd, giving her half the house occupied by her brother-in-law Robson and promising her £4 a month for 12 months...........The eldest girl is about 15 and will be taken by Mrs Pyne - the only boy is about 9 only and I will see to his education.
November 15th. The murderer was hanged this morning.
The Company also appears to have commissioned John Rudd's tombstone, on which he is described as 'Much respected'. The river crossing where Gill murdered Rudd became known as Rudd's Pass.
Mary Ellen Rudd remarried to William Roberts in 1867 and they had seven children: she died in Stanley on 6 June 1902, aged 67.
Editorial comment:
John and Mary Rudd's son - John Edward Rudd - was born on 4 March 1857 and he died at Rio Gallegos, Argentina in 1927. Known as 'Jack' or 'Hellfire Jack' John Edward Rudd was a successful farmer.
Joan Spruce
See: The history of the Rudd family in the Jane Cameron National Archives
W M Dean; 'The Murder of John Rudd in 1864'; Falkland Islands Journal; 1978
Robert Rudd
I am one of the decendents of John Roger that in 1885 left the Falklands and established in south patagonian farm named Cape Fairweather .The family still lives there.
I would love one day to be able to visit the Falkland Islands.
September 2019 Reference added
October 2019 Main text corrected; one photograph added; external link added
April 2021 One additional photograph added; one editorial comment added
Local historian; author of 'Gauchos and Corrals' and 'Falkland Rural Heritage'
FELTON, ARTHUR ERNEST
FELTON, GEORGE JOHN (Jack)
FELTON, HENRY

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A: For sequential consistency for aligned loads and stores, it is sufficient on x86 to follow every store with an mfence instruction. It's not necessary, however: a more aggressive approach only needs to ensure that an mfence instruction appears between every possible pair of store and subsequent load instructions. For example, a series of store instructions not interrupted by a load wouldn't need any mfence except after the final store.
If you want to do a compound operation (like incrementing a value) atomically, you need more than mfence - you need a locked instruction such as lock inc. This also implies the same barrier as mfence, so no additional barrier is needed in this case.
In practice, mfence may not be the ideal choice to enforce sequential consistency even of plain stores purpose because its performance is seems worse than a locked operation, so for example lock xchg can be used in its place.

A: Basically it does something just short of flushing the current instruction queue of any operations that read or write memory, and stopping any new instructions that read or write memory from being processed until the flush completes.
In practice various parts of instruction processing pipeline: decoding, scheduling, address calculation, page management, etc can be performed so long as memory is not being modified, and any reads or writes to registers can be allowed, so it isn't as bad as a full flush.
As to how they make it happen in the silicon... dunno.

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Home » News » Parenting » Mom's Support Eases Bullying's Effects on Girls, But Not Boys
Mom's Support Eases Bullying's Effects on Girls, But Not Boys
Children who are the victims of bullying are more likely to develop aggressive or antisocial behaviors, such as cheating, lying or being cruel to others. A new University of Michigan study shows that for girls, however, receiving a mother's support and warmth significantly reduced the harmful effects of being victimized by peers.
For boys, though, early negative peer experiences led to a significant increase in antisocial outcomes, regardless of their mothers' love.
The researchers evaluated more than 1,000 children over 8 years of age and looked at which family and parental factors lessened or intensified the impact of negative peer relationships.
"Children who develop hostile and distrustful relationships with their parents due to low parental warmth and responsiveness may adopt similar patterns of negative expectations when engaging with peers, as a result of their greater fear and anxiety," said Grace Yang, Ph.D., a U-M research fellow and the study's lead author.
Yang collaborated with Dr. Vonnie McLoyd, the Ewart A. C. Thomas Collegiate Professor of Psychology.
For the study, participants answered questions about whether they had been bullied in school or in the neighborhood during the previous month. They rated if someone "picked on me or said mean things to me," "hit me" or "purposely left me out of my friends' activities." About 68 percent of the kids reported being a target.
During the home visit, researchers measured the mother's warmth in how she talked to her child, showed pride or pleasure toward him or her, and if she was cold, harsh or hostile to the child. Family conflict, such as physical and verbal aggression, was also factored.
Male victims of bullying had higher levels of antisocial behavior five years after the initial interview despite family or parenting factors. How girls responded to bullying, however, was related to the parent and family dynamics.
Researchers suggest that gender differences may be due to how boys and girls behave with peers and where they spend their time. If boys have larger friendship and peer networks than girls, the peers may exert a greater influence in boys' emotional lives. As a result, boys' response to bullying would depend less on family interaction patterns and more on peer interactions, Yang said.
Mothers also reported less communication with sons than daughters. "This difference probably reflects a lesser tendency for sons, compared with daughters, to initiate discussions with their mothers," McLoyd said.
Since boys communicate less with their moms, they tend to receive less maternal support and intervention that would otherwise help decrease the negative effects of bullying.
The researchers said future studies will need to factor in the fathers' and siblings' influences on bullying.
The study is published in the journal Social Development.
Source: University of Michigan
Pedersen, T. (2018). Mom's Support Eases Bullying's Effects on Girls, But Not Boys. Psych Central. Retrieved on January 29, 2020, from https://psychcentral.com/news/2015/04/05/moms-support-eases-bullyings-effects-on-girls-but-not-boys/83167.html
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VIRGINIA HAMILTON: FIVE NOVELS + Giveaway
Today it's my great pleasure to introduce MUF readers to a brand new collection titled Virginia Hamilton: Five Novels, which will be published by Library of America on September 28. The volume, edited by Mixed-Up Files contributor, Julie K. Rubini, includes five of Hamilton's best known and most beloved works as well as twenty beautifully restored illustrations, (ten in full color for the first time); a newly researched chronology of Hamilton's life and career; and a selection of other related writings, such as her Newbery Award Acceptance Speech and an essay titled, "Nonwhite Literature as American Literature: A Proposal for Cultural Democracy."
The Library of America has generously offered to send one lucky winner a copy of Virginia Hamilton: Five Novels. Click on the Rafflecopter at the bottom of the interview for chance to win. (U.S. only.)
About Virginia Hamilton
Virginia Esther Hamilton (March 12, 1936-February 19, 2002) was the author of forty-one books. Her many achievements include winning The Boston Globe-Horn Book Award in 1974 and a National Book Award and the Newbery Medal in 1975, for her novel, M.C. Higgins, the Great. It was the first book to win all three awards. Not only was she the first African American to win the Newbery Medal, she was also the recipient of the international Hans Christian Andersen Award and the Laura Ingalls Wilder Award (now called the Children's Literature Legacy Award).
For more on Virginia Hamilton, see our archived post here.
About the Novels Included in the Collection
In Zeely (1967), Geeder Perry and her brother, Toeboy, go to their uncle's farm for the summer and encounter a six-and-a-half-foot-tall Watusi queen and a mysterious night traveler. (Full color spread of the Zeely interior art, presented in full color in this edition for the first time.)
In the Edgar Award–winning The House of Dies Drear (1968), Thomas Small and his family move to a forbidding former waystation on the Underground Railroad—a house whose secrets Thomas must discover before it's too late.
Junior Brown, a three-hundred-pound musical prodigy, plays a silent piano in The Planet of Junior Brown (1971), while his homeless friend Buddy Clark draws on all his New York City wit to protect Junior's disintegrating mind. This novel was adapted for a 1997 film of the same name.
In the National Book Award–winning M.C. Higgins, The Great (1974), Mayo Cornelius Higgins sits atop a forty-foot pole on the side of Sarah's Mountain and dreams of escape. Poised above his family's home is a massive spoil heap from strip-mining that could come crashing down at any moment. Can he rescue his family and save his own future? Must he choose?
And in Sweet Whispers, Brother Rush (1982), fifteen-year-old Tree's life revolves around her ailing brother, Dab, until she sees cool, handsome Brother Rush, an enigmatic figure who may hold the key to unlocking her family's troubled past.
An Interview With the Publisher and Editor
Interviewed here are: Brian McCarthy, Associate Publisher for Library of America, and Julie K. Rubini, who is the author of Virginia Hamilton: America's Storyteller as well as the editor of this new collection.
Dorian: Can you tell us a bit about the decision to create this beautiful book at this time and how you all determined which novels to include?
Brian: Virginia Hamilton was a major figure in American children's literature and a natural for inclusion in the Library of America, which honors the full range of great American writing in authoritative new editions. In framing this volume we looked to her breakthrough novels of the 1960s, 70s, and 80s, which have stood the test of time with readers and critics and continue to inspire and delight some fifty years after they were written. In many ways, the social justice movement of the last year and a half has made these five books more resonant than ever, simply by the way they center African American young people and their families, powerfully underscoring that Black lives matter. (As for the beauty of the Library of America edition, much of the credit goes to star book designer Kimberly Glyder, who created a gorgeous original portrait of Hamilton for the cover.)
Dorian: What was your experience like in re-reading these five works by Virginia Hamilton for the collection?
Julie: In reading Virginia's works for research purposes for my biography, Virginia Hamilton: America's Storyteller (Ohio University Press, 2017), I focused more so on Virginia, the writer. I wondered about her process, her life during the time she wrote each novel. I studied where she was living while creating these amazing works, wanting to learn more about her life in both New York City and Yellow Springs. I tried to learn how changes in her life, from meeting and marrying Arnold, to becoming a mother, and ultimately a successful author with many demands for her time, impacted her writing and stories. When I read these five novels in the collection again, I read them as someone who simply wanted to enjoy and get lost in her work. What a joy it was to rediscover her incredible imagination and characters through this process. I can't wait to receive my author copies to enjoy yet again in this wonderful collection!
Dorian: Can you tell us a little bit about what you discovered about Virginia Hamilton the person through your research?
Julie: Everyone I spoke with described Virginia as kind, loving, always willing to give of her time, and yet always keeping Arnold and their two children as her priority. Virginia was naturally shy, but rose to the occasion for the hundreds of speeches and presentations she shared through her career. She loved sharing coffee with Arnold throughout the day, comparing notes on their work, Arnold's homemade marinara sauce bubbling away in the kitchen. Virginia embraced technology, graduating from her portable Olivetti typewriter to marveling over the ease of rewriting on personal computers. Virginia's favorite animal was the jaguar, and she had a collection of frog figurines from her extensive travels!
Dorian: I'm sure you both love all of Virginia Hamilton's novels, but which is your personal favorite and why?
Julie: I have a special place in my heart for The House of Dies Drear. I hadn't read the novel before beginning my research for my biography. After my first meeting with Virginia's husband, the late (and great!) Arnold Adoff, I learned it was his favorite of all of her works. Arnold became a friend through the process of sharing her life journey with younger readers, so although difficult to choose a favorite, Virginia's mystery set in a home that was part of the Underground Railroad has my vote, in honor of their epic love story.
Brian: I do love all these novels, but my favorite is Sweet Whispers, Brother Rush, from 1982, a deeply unsettling story of a family haunted (literally, as it happens) by abuse. Through the painful journey of fifteen-year-old Teresa, or Tree as she is known, Hamilton crafts an inspiring portrait of the power of forgiveness. I defy any reader not to be completely won over by Tree.
Dorian: Why do you think Virginia Hamilton's work has so much staying power?
Julie: Virginia often stated that her work always began with the central character, and eventually the story revealed itself to her. Virginia had the most incredible imagination, bringing us characters such as M.C. Higgins, who sits on top of a 40-foot pole watching over his beloved Sarah's Mountain, the regal and mysterious Zeely, curious Thomas Small, and the streetwise and witty Buddy. Virginia's characters remain some of the most unique characters in children's literature.
Brian: I agree that character is key with Hamilton. She had a matchless gift for dialogue, for capturing the way that young people think and speak, that makes her novels feel profoundly true. And she had tremendous faith in her readers. While these books are great fun, full of wonder and imagination, as Julie says, they are also very serious in the themes they explore—from the legacy of slavery and environmental depredation to homelessness and mental illness—never shying from addressing the harder aspects of coming of age. They take us to the places where compassion begins.
Dorian: Virginia Hamilton is known as the most honored author of children's literature of all time, yet her work is not as widely read as it should be. How do you hope Virginia Hamilton: Five Novels will change this?
Julie: The book is absolutely beautiful, inside, and out. It is my hope that through this recognition and exposure of her work in the Library of America collection, that educators will once again embrace her work and include it within their curriculums. Ultimately, hopefully more children will discover Virginia's incredible writing voice and get caught up in her amazing work.
Brian: Hard as it is to imagine, a new generation has come of age in the nearly twenty years since Hamilton's untimely death. All of us at Library of America hope that this volume will serve as an occasion for readers and reviewers to rediscover her work, to admire anew its range and fearless truth-telling.
Library of America Online Speaker Series
Dorian: The Library of Congress, home of Virginia Hamilton's papers, is collaborating in the promotion of Virginia Hamilton: Five Novels. Could you elaborate on this?
Brian: Yes, we're thrilled to announce that on October 6 Carla Hayden, the Librarian of Congress, will sit down with acclaimed author Jacqueline Woodson to discuss Hamilton and her legacy as part of Library of America's free online speaker series, LOA Live. Please visit www.loa.org/events for more information.
Thanks so much Brian and Julie for carrying on Virginia Hamilton's legacy and for taking the time to talk to us about this wonderful new book.
For a chance to win a copy of the book, click on the Rafflecopter link before Monday, Sept. 27 at 11:59 PM (U.S. Only).
By Dorian Cirrone on September 23, 2021 / Articles, Author Interviews
Mixed-Up Files interview with Adam Borba, author of The Midnight Brigade!
THE WOLF'S CURSE ~ Interview with Author Jessica Vitalis + #Giveaway
Danielle Hammelef
I've only read Zeely and would love to read this collection. Thank you for the chance to win a copy.
Christine Keleny
More people need to know about this. I hope the giveaway helps!
If I don't win the book, I am heading to my local library to pick some up.
Jessica Lawson
What a wonderful compilation! I remember being read stories from Virginia's Hamilton's The People Could Fly back in elementary school during library time. I would love to share this collection with my daughters!
What a fascinating collection! This book looks great!
Looks like a fabulous bundle of books.


Watch a video clip for a brief history of the Normans.
Find out about King Harold and his rival, William the Conqueror.
Why William won at the Battle of Hastings.
Britain's long and varied history comes to life with intriguing facts, stunning illustrations, photographs, detailed reconstructions, paintings, maps and family trees.
Includes a factfile with places to visit and internet links to recommended websites via the Usborne Quicklinks Website.
Beautifully presented with a cloth cover, dust jacket and ribbon marker.
Beautifully jacketed, this compendium of British history has a cloth binding and a ribbon marker. Encompassing each period from the pre-historic to the new millennium, information is delivered in digestible chunks, complemented by carefully selected illustrations in a fluid style that changes to reflect a sense of each era.
The most immediately striking feature of this substantial history of Britain is, without a doubt, its sumptuous design. Across double-page spreads, muted pastel-colour backgrounds are used to offset a stunning range of illustrative material: a Victorian railway poster hangs above a reproduction of Turner's Rain, Steam and Speed: a medieval manuscript is superimposed against a photograph of Beaumaris Castle; each page turn brings new and yet more exciting visual treats. A covetable resource.
The contents are straightforwardly split into easily accessible chronological sections, which unhampered by the limitations of the curriculum - explore aspects of everyday life, encouraging readers to make links between social, economic and political developments, and intellectual and cultural history.
Extensive supplementary material is contained in an imaginative and wide-ranging "factfile", which includes details of Usborne's useful Quicklinks website plus suggestions for places to visit, and annotated lists of historical fiction, films and TV series.
The text is lucid and readable. This is a book no school library should be without.
From hairy caveman to The Iron Lady, this book tells the complete history of Britain, taking in regal Romans, noble knights and revolting peasants along the way. Bright images, cartoons and quirky fact boxes make the pages burst with life. At the back, a snaking timeline provides a neat historical overview. It might look like a hefty tome, but it's actually a fun first reader in British history.
From the Ice Age to the 21st century, this book tells the story of Britain, its people and the events that have shaped their lives. It's a treasure trove of information written in an enlightening and entertaining way and will arouse a passion and enthusiasm for the past. Follow the dramatic developments and twists and turns of Britain's history, and find out about characters from all walks of life - from conquering kings, revolting peasants and troublesome priests, to intrepid explorers, cunning inventors and outrageous artists. This book is a classic that no family bookshelf should be without.


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5 Famous Personalities Of Vadodara, India
With beauty Vadodara is renowned by famous personalities.
1. Abbas Tyabji
He was born in Baroda state at 1st Feb- 1854. He completed his education in England. It is said he was moderate nationalist at heart. Initially he disagreed with Gandhiji's political methods of mass agitation. Then he happened to attend the social conference held at Godhra, at that time he was seen as a model of britishness. One of the incident changed all his concept, the incident was 'Jallianwala Bagh massacre in 1919' at that time he was appointed as chairman by the 'Indian National Congress', he saw many other incidents which drove him to become follower of Mahatma Gandhiji.
He was among few Muslim leaders who actively participated in the National movement. When Gandhiji was arrested he appointed Tyabji to replace him as a leader of the Salt Satyagraha. He was also imprisoned by British government because of being an active part of the Non Cooperation Movement. In the year 1936, this great leader breathed his last in Mussoorie.
2. Manilal Doctor
He was born in 28 july 1881 in a very reputed family of Vadodara. He was efficient lawyer and social worker too. After completing his early education in Vadodara he moved to London to gain a barrister degree.
He was a great patriotic, after completing his studies he returned back to India and got engaged in improvement of society. He had an aim to spread the message of equality, liberty and fraternity, he publishes a newspaper which became popular among Indian. He formed the association 'Bristish Indian Association' of Fiji, but he left Fiji due to some differences, but was still harassed by the Colonial Government, he was not allowed to practice law. With Gandhijis help he was finally given permission by the Patna High Court to practice law in the Lower courts of Bihar and Orissa.
He soon involved himself in social activities and came into contact with Communists. He came to the attention of the authorities. He continued to provide service to the people of Aden and Somaliland but the revolutionary and radical zeal seemed to have left him. He returned to India and lived till his death 8th January 1956.
3. Ishu Patel
He is a famous director producer and animator who was born in Vadodara. Ishu worked for the National Film Board of Canada from 191 to 1993, he gained success in his field and was awarded for proving his excellence in animation and film producing.
4. Yusuf Pathan
This well known Indian cricketer was born in 17th November 1992 in Baroda , he made his debut in first class cricket in 2001/ 2002. He is a powerful and aggressive right-handed batsman and a right-arm offbreak bowler.
5. Irfan Pathan
He is a well known cricketer born in 27th October 1984. He began his career as his career as a fast-medium swing and seam bowler, he amazingly helped in India's success. He is ranked as the eighth highest wicket taker of the Indian cricket team.
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Well Kept Wallet: Staci Lawrence From Flash Mob America Shares Her Story
Staci Lawrence is the co-founder of Flash Mob America along with Conroe Brooks. In 2009, Staci and Conroe were so moved by Michael Jackson's emotional memorial that they produced the first American tribute to the late King of Pop by recreating Sweden's "Beat It" flash mob. The following month they again honored Jackson with a flash mob on what would have been his 51st birthday. And then the unexpected happened. Universal Music Group hired them to produce a flash mob to surprise the late pop icon's sister, Janet Jackson. They soon realized that they needed to turn this passion into a business.
Career: Actress, Producer, & Co-Founder of Flash Mob America (See IMDB profile)
Previous Employment: Personal/Executive Assistant
Average Day
Flash Mob America does events all over the country and so far they have done over 200 Flash Mobs. Every day they are working on multiple events. Every 30 minutes they are on the phone with a new person who is interested in sponsoring a flash mob. In between the calls they are producing events and working on recruiting new people to be involved in the flash mobs. In addition, they are working with a choreographer, writing original music, and holding rehearsals for flash mobs.
How She Got Started
Staci began organizing flash mobs for fun. She organized a tribute to Micheal Jackson in July of 2009 right after he had passed away and formed the company in November of 2009. Currently she has a pre-production staff of four and has production staff all over the country including DJ's, photographers, choreographers, etc.
Hardest Part About What She Does
Staci says that the hardest part is being at peace with the fact that you never know how many people are going to show up, as well as meeting the sponsors expectations. She also notes that you can't control people, 100 people may sign up and only 60 people show up. However, she has never had a flash mob that wasn't successful because of the number of people.
Why She Loves What She Does
She loves producing Flash Mobs because it creates joy for so many people. The people that participate in the events do it for multiple reasons. Those reasons include: exercise or weight loss, bucket list, be brave and jump out of their shell, for the community and connecting with other people, but ultimately for creating joy for others.
How She Finds Clients
Staci has been fortunate to never have had to solicit to anyone. She had never intended to make it a business, but it became clear that she needed to because there was such a high demand. Everyone saw what they did for Michael Jackson and started following them online.
Jobs She Didn't Enjoy
She worked as a personal/executive assistant where she was always accomplishing other people's goals.
"I'm spending so much time helping someone else move their life forward, I really wish I could spend time moving my life forward"
But it was a way to make money, it was a means to an end.
Her first major event was surprising Janet Jackson to celebrate her #1 one album with all of her fans. She had to quit her job, she had no choice.
"We now have assistants to help us move our lives forward and it's just a really cool full-circle moment"
How Long It Took To Make A Livable Wage Doing Flash Mobs
It was slow at first. A former client would call and ask if she was available and she would take 2 days off to go work for him just so she could make some extra money. She would also do little things here and there like babysit for someone just to make up for the gap. They have finally hit a stride now and can make it work.
Influential Person
She notes that Michael Jackson played a big part in her getting where she is today. His passing was the motivation behind doing the tribute, which led to doing the event for Janet Jackson, which led to having an international following. See the video below:
Other influential people include: Lawyers, business consultants, publicists, and life coaches as she was able to get their insight when she had to make a tough decision. She also mentioned that she has a great husband, great family, and great nannies. She was so thankful for everyone who has been helpful to make this possible.
Tip: Don't be afraid to ask for help. Find people who are in expert in the field that you are interested in and ask them for their advise. People want to share their expertise and they want to encourage entrepreneurs along their journey.
"You're smarter than me in this area and I need your help"
Pursue similar businesses like TV production or theater production, stage director or stage Manager, Social Media Director, use social media to grow your business.
Contact Flash Mob America as they can always use Producers around the country.
Tips To Find A Job You Love
Know what your good at and don't deny it. Know what your strengths are.
Save contact information for everyone you meet. Flash Mob America happened and she needed to reach out to every person she had ever met to help grow the community.
"You're not always in control of what you are meant to do"
How to get in touch with Staci
FlashMobAmerica.com
FMAJoy@FlashMobAmerica.com
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We are all guilty of filling up on unhealthy food. It's very easy to do when fast food is so close at hand. But it is our responsibility to eat a balanced diet so that we stay healthy and fit. It's not difficult to stick to a diet plan. Just replace a few of your bad habits one by one with a healthy option, gradually taking the time to be the best version of yourself.
Don't try to turn over a new leaf at once. Take small steps instead so that you will experience a gradual change in lifestyle. Try to cook most of your meals. This way you know exactly what goes into your meal and you can regulate what you eat. Look for new alternatives for unhealthy food choices. Instead of snacking on chips, fill up on fruit and nuts. Be careful when you shop. Try for fresh ingredients and avoid processed food. This will mean reading a lot of ingredients of what you buy. Try to keep off food that has more than 5 ingredients. It is also important to keep hydrated.
You have to know when you're full to stop eating. We are very used to stuffing ourselves from day till night with all kinds of food. Take a step back and evaluate what you eat. Are you really hungry or are you just bored?
Try not to cut yourself out suddenly. You should make an effort to reduce the amount of unhealthy stuff you eat. It is fine to enjoy a snack on your downtime. You can even try going to a nice Italian restaurant HK for a delicious meal. Going healthy doesn't mean you can't enjoy yourself. Try eating with others when you can. This will take your focus off the computer or TV and you can enjoy a pleasant conversation while you eat.
Sugar is an ingredient in almost all of the food we eat, from the obvious fast food choices to hidden sugar in bread, cereals, vegetables and fruits. Try to stay away from carbonated and artificial drinks and stick to plain old water instead. Fresh fruit juice is also good for you in moderation. You have to be careful about your food choices when you eat out. Sometimes you may be tempted to go to lunch at the weekend brunch central and splurge. It's okay as long as you exercise some restraint over yourself.
Fibre is important in preventing heart diseases and it can help you lose weight. You can find fibre in whole grains, fruits, cereals, nuts, oatmeal etc. Natural food is abundant in fibre. There is also such a thing as healthy and unhealthy carbs. Healthy carbs include beans, whole grains, vegetables and fruits while unhealthy carbs include white rice, white flour and refined sugar.


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package com.vaadin.tests.components.table;

import com.vaadin.tests.components.TestBase;
import com.vaadin.ui.Button;
import com.vaadin.ui.Button.ClickEvent;
import com.vaadin.ui.Button.ClickListener;
import com.vaadin.ui.Table;

public class TableVisibleColumnsUpdate extends TestBase {

    private String[] cols1 = new String[] { "p1", "p2", "p3" };
    private String[] cols2 = new String[] { "p1", "p4", "p3" };
    private Table table;

    @Override
    protected String getDescription() {
        return "Columns should change between p1,p2,p3 and p1,p4,p3";
    }

    @Override
    protected Integer getTicketNumber() {
        return 3139;
    }

    @Override
    protected void setup() {
        table = new Table();
        table.setWidth("400px");
        table.setHeight("100px");
        table.setPageLength(100);
        table.addContainerProperty("p1", String.class, null);
        table.addContainerProperty("p2", String.class, null);
        table.addContainerProperty("p3", String.class, null);
        table.addContainerProperty("p4", String.class, null);

        for (int i = 0; i < 10; i++) {
            table.addItem(new Object[] { "a" + i, "b" + i, "c" + i, "X" + i },
                    "" + i);
        }

        addComponent(table);

        table.setVisibleColumns(cols1);
        // table.setColumnHeaders(headers1);

        Button updateButton = new Button("Change columns", new ClickListener() {
            private boolean one = true;

            @Override
            public void buttonClick(ClickEvent event) {
                table.setVisibleColumns((one ? cols2 : cols1));
                one = !one;
            }
        });
        addComponent(updateButton);
    }

}


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Magnetic mixing approach creates quite a stir
BY STEPHANIE HOLINKA
Solving the problem of mixing liquids in tiny volumes
KYLE SOLIS (in photo at left), a graduate student intern in Nanomaterials Sciences Dept. 1112, prepares a sample for mixing using a new approach called vortex field mixing, developed by researchers in his organization.	(Photo by Randy Montoya)
Researchers use microfluidic devices for testing in bio labs and as micro-reactions cells for chemical sensing and fluid analysis. Microfluids often must be mixed but right now scientists lack a simple and reliable way to do it.
"Mixing liquids in tiny volumes," says materials scientist Jim Martin (1112), "is surprisingly difficult." When fluid is pushed down a big pipe, Jim explains, eddies are generated; as the eddies swirl, they create mixing. But if fluid is pushed down a small pipe, there are no eddies. And no eddies means no mixing — unless you subject the fluid to tremendous pressure, which isn't usually easy or feasible.
Researchers in the laboratory and in industry have tried a wide range of approaches to create mixing in microfluids, with only "mixed" success.
"In small devices," Jim says, "people have tried all kinds of pillars and mixing cells to initiate mixing, but these approaches don't work well."
Researchers need simpler and more reliable ways to mix in tiny places such as micrometer-sized channels.
Jim's discovery of how to mix tiny liquid volumes arose from LDRD-funded research directed at improving the sensitivity of the chemical sensors developed in his lab. That project, "Field-Structured Composite Studies," was a joint effort with Rod Williamson (now retired). While their LDRD project did not lead to the expected results, Jim and Rod were surprised by the wide variety of physical effects they discovered along the way, including magnetic mixing. These effects, Jim says, ended up being much more interesting and important than the original goal.
Since the project began, DOE's Division of Material Science and Engineering, Office of Basic Energy Sciences, has now started a new project whose goal is to better understand the fundamental science of field-structured composites. So the program succeeded even as it failed, and eventually Jim and PhD student Doug Read developed better ways to increase sensor sensitivity.
In the new method of mixing, when you turn on a particular kind of magnetic field, the magnetic particles suspended in the fluid form into chains — like strings of pearls — that start swirling around; that's what does the mixing. The particles are then removed magnetically, leaving a nice mixed-up liquid.
More technically, the new mixing method, which Jim calls vortex field mixing, subjects a suspension of microscopic, magnetizable particles to a magnetic field whose direction is constantly spinning in a motion similar to a spinning top as it is about to collapse on its side, but much faster. In this "vortex field" the particles assemble into countless microscopic chains that follow the field motion, stirring every nook and cranny of the fluid. The vortex field stirs the liquid vigorously, and surprising fluid effects are possible, such as a kind of washing machine agitation where the spinning direction alternates periodically.
Currently Jim, Lauren Rohwer (1715), and PhD student Kyle Solis (1112) work with the vortex field mixing, among other projects. Their experimental report, published in the July issue of Physical Review, has generated interest, including a Physical Review Focus article and a Research Highlight in the September MRS Bulletin.
This type of magnetic mixing with particles that assemble into micro-stir bars isn't like the magnetic mixing you remember from high school chemistry class.
"In your high school chemistry class," Jim says "when you mixed a beaker of water on a stir plate, underneath the plate was a permanent magnet spinning around to make the stir bar spin. If that hidden magnet suddenly became twice as strong, the magnetic field would double but you wouldn't see any increase in the stirring at all.
"With our process," he says, "if we make the magnetic field twice as strong, the stirring becomes four times as strong because the stronger field makes the particle chains longer."
With conventional stir-bar mixing you can increase the mixing torque by increasing the speed of the stir bar instead. It's easy to feel this effect by simply holding the beaker slightly above the stir plate. In vortex field mixing increasing the speed of the wobbling doesn't help, because the chains simply break into smaller pieces and the mixing torque doesn't change at all.
Vortex field mixing stirs just as effectively with magnetic nanoparticles as with traditional micrometer-scale powders. In fact, excellent mixing torques have been obtained using 100 nanometer particles. This means even the tiniest fluid volumes can be mixed, as well as the largest.
As strange as these effects are, they were initially predicted by Jim in a theory paper published in the January 2009 issue of Physical Review. This paper also explains why a simple rotating magnetic field doesn't induce mixing and predicts the optimal wobbling angle of the magnetic field.
Vortex field mixing requires only the modest magnetic fields provided by simple wire coils that can be scaled to the size of the fluid cavity. After mixing, a researcher can trap the particles with a permanent magnet, decant the mixed liquid, and recycle the particles endlessly.
The impact of this new method of mixing is hard to predict, but its applicability to fluid volumes of all shapes and sizes suggests many applications will follow. But Jim's lab has turned its attention to training magnetic suspensions to effortlessly conduct heat in any desired direction.
This work was supported by DOE's Division of Materials Science and Engineering, Office of Basic Energy Sciences.
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New collection about pro- and anti-LGBTQ activities in Cobb County, Georgia circa 1995 are now available freely online
Pro- and anti-LGBTQ activities and demonstrations in Cobb County circa 1995 are the main component of a new digital collection belonging to Georgia State University Special Collections, funded by a competitive digitization grant awarded by the Digital Library of Georgia (DLG). GSU Special Collections received a service grant awarded in 2020 to broaden the DLG's engagement with diverse institutions and collections across the state of Georgia.
The Carol Brown Papers, 1993-2012 (bulk 1993-1994) document pro- and anti- LGBTQ+ activities and legislation in Cobb County, and belong to Georgia State University Special Collections' LGBTQ Digital Collection, available at https://digitalcollections.library.gsu.edu/digital/collection/lgbtq.
In July of 1993, in response to complaints by residents, Cobb County Chairman Bill Byrne challenged county funding for Marietta's Theatre in the Square, particularly as two of its plays– David Henry Hwang's M. Butterfly and Terrence McNally's Lips Together, Teeth Apart — included mild gay themes.
In August, Cobb County commissioner Gordon Wysong led the Cobb County Board of Commissioners to two anti-LGBT+ resolutions: one specifying that funding would only be provided for art that promoted "strong community, family-oriented standards," and the other stating that "lifestyles advocated by the gay community should not be endorsed by government policymakers, because they are incompatible with the standards to which this community subscribes; and that gay lifestyle units are directly contrary to state law."
Marietta civic leader and activist Jon Greaves and local community members immediately responded by organizing together as the Cobb Citizens Coalition (CCC) to challenge the resolutions.
The CCC gained important allies in February 1994, when Atlanta-based activists Pat Hussain and Jon-Ivan Weaver established Olympics Out of Cobb County (OOCC). Their mission was to persuade Atlanta's Committee for the Olympic Games not to hold the women's volleyball competition in Cobb County as planned. Their efforts succeeded: ultimately, the women's volleyball competition was held in Athens at the University of Georgia instead, and the Olympic torch bypassed Cobb County altogether.
While CCC was active, CCC member and Marietta resident Carol Brown documented the organization's activities and those of OOCC by recording protests, marches, and local news coverage, using audiocassettes, videotape, and photography.
She also saved almost-daily newspaper reports, providing a wide range of coverage of events as they unfolded in Cobb County. The audiovisual materials have been digitized and described by the DLG as part of its service grant, and the newspaper reports were digitized in-house at Georgia State University.
Carol Brown also recounted her personal memories in an oral history that is part of the Activist Women's Oral History Project. Together, they provide a rich and powerful narrative about a small community's response to local discrimination that garnered international interest.
Carol Brown's materials are unique and significant to Georgia because so much of Georgia's recorded LGBTQ+ history has been Atlanta-focused. Carol Brown's materials focus on pro-and anti- LGBTQ+ activities in traditionally conservative Cobb County. They are also important because they highlight several challenging backstories about art censorship, community protest, and the 1995 Olympic Games that garnered national and international interest.
View the collection online
More about the Carol Brown Papers, 1993-2012 (bulk 1993-1994) Collection
Digitization of audiovisual items from the Carol Brown Papers, 1993-2012 (bulk 1993-1994) focusing on pro-and anti- LGBTQ+ activities in traditionally conservative Cobb County and the campaign to move 1996 Olympic events out of the County. Furthermore, in a time of daily protest that we find ourselves in now, the collection illustrates the power of creative, peaceful protest.
About the Georgia State University Special Collections and Archives (Women's/ Gender and Sexuality Collections)
The Women's Collections chronicle women's activism and advocacy in Georgia and the Southeast. Within this curatorial area are several notable collections: the Donna Novak Coles Georgia Women's Movement Archives, the Lucy Hargrett Draper Collections on Women's Rights, Advocacy and the Law, and the Archives for Research on Women. For more information, read the Women's Collections research guides at research.library.gsu.edu/womenscollections. The Gender and Sexuality Collections document LGBTQ+ communities in Georgia and the Southeast. For more information, read the Gender and Sexuality research guide at https://research.library.gsu.edu/c.php?g=912561.
Based at the University of Georgia Libraries, the Digital Library of Georgia is a GALILEO initiative that collaborates with Georgia's libraries, archives, museums, and other institutions of education and culture to provide access to key information resources on Georgia history, culture, and life. This primary mission is accomplished by developing, maintaining, and preserving digital collections and online digital library resources. DLG also serves as Georgia's service hub for the Digital Public Library of America and as the home of the Georgia Newspaper Project, the state's historic newspaper microfilming project.
Visit the DLG at dlg.usg.edu.
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Twitter: @DigLibGA
Selected stills from the collection:
Image courtesy of Georgia State University. Special Collections Title : [Press conference to announce rally on Square, June '94. Raw footage. CD ???] Description: Still image from a video recording of a press conference held to announce a demonstration entitled "And justice for all, Cobb rally for human rights" to be held on August 28, 1993, the 30th anniversary of Martin Luther King, Jr.'s March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom. Leaders from three co-sponsoring organizations, the Marietta Interfaith Alliance, the Network for Social Responsibility, and the Cobb Citizens Coalition, give statements and answer questions from the press about the rally and their reasons for holding it, which is for the Cobb Commission to change or rescind an anti-LGBTQ+/anti-gay resolution negating the human rights of gay citizens of Cobb County, Georgia.
Image courtesy of Georgia State University. Special Collections Title : [Stop Hate Politics seminar 11/6/1993. Meg Riley, Hans Johnson, Loretta Ross. Tape 1] Description: Still image from video recording of a portion of the "Stop Hate in Politics" seminar entitled "Righting the Wrongs of the Religious Right…Can We?" which took place on November 6, 1993. The recording presents speakers (including civil rights activist and public intellectual Loretta Ross, shown in this image) who discuss the manner in which right-wing Christian fundamentalists have weaponized their response to American liberal politics, and the importance of building common ground against violent right-wing trends.
Tags: Activism (LGBTQ), Activists (LGBTQ), Anti-gay discrimination, Arts--Cobb County (Ga.), Cobb County (Ga.), Discrimination (LGBTQ), gay activists, Moving images, Right-wing extremists, sound recordings
How I Identified The Earliest Surviving Film Footage of African American Baseball Players
"Clip from a home movie of a baseball game between African American employees of the Pebble Hill and Chinquapin Plantations, Georgia, 1919?" Pebble Hill Plantation Collection, Walter J. Brown Media Archives and Peabody Awards Collection, University of Georgia Libraries, Athens, Georgia
In 2011, we received a donation of films from Pebble Hill Plantation in Thomasville, Georgia, spanning from 1916 into the 1970s. Pebble Hill was the winter hunting retreat for the Hanna family of Cleveland, Ohio, prominent industrialists and politicians.
One of the most important segments of all the films in the collection was 26 seconds of 28mm film showing Pebble Hill's black baseball team playing Chinquapin Plantation's black baseball team sometime in the 1910s or 1920s. We knew right away that this was unique footage and would be of interest to many people, so once the collection was more fully processed and the film preserved to a new substrate and digitized, we began to publicize it. An article in the New York Times on April 30, 2013, gave us worldwide publicity.
The head of the Negro Leagues Museum then speculated that this might be the earliest footage of African Americans playing baseball. I presented the footage and spoke at the 2014 Cooperstown Symposium on Baseball and American Culture at the National Baseball Hall of Fame. My co-presenter on the panel was professor Leslie Heaphy of Kent State University, the editor of the journal Black Ball: New Research in African American Baseball History. She encouraged me to write up the story of the film and my research into dating it more precisely (to find out if it really was the earliest surviving black baseball footage) for her journal, which I was finally able to do in 2018, and volume 10 of that journal is now out with my article.
Describing my research into the film involved more than just telling my general knowledge about film after 20 years of working in a film archives. I had to document how and where I learned about the history of 28mm film, Pathéscope cameras and projectors, home movies, Pebble Hill, the baseball team, and South Georgia baseball in general. I combed Pebble Hill's private archives, browsed books on the local history of the county, contacted colleagues at the Jack Hadley Black History Museum and the Thomasville History Center, looked into the accounts of other South Georgia plantations, explored Hanna family history in Ohio, and peppered the staff of Pebble Hill with many questions.
Very helpfully, the Pebble Hill archives also contain Pansy Hanna Ireland Poe's diary covering the years in question, 1915-1925, though the handwriting is challenging to read. I even needed weather reports from newspapers and climatological websites that could tell me what the weather was like at certain times of the year. Finally, I required obituaries, mentions of the hospital, and social event data.
Thankfully, the Digital Library of Georgia had already digitized many newspapers from the region (full-text searchable!). This work saved me many hours of peering at and being made dizzy and cross-eyed from reading small-print newspapers of the nineteen-teens on microfilm readers.
The newspapers gave me a sense of what was important in the area between 1915 and 1925, visitors to the town, what the weather was like, what townsfolk were doing. To provide context to the story of this film, I was looking for any mention of regional hunting plantations, baseball teams, or games, a general sense of baseball in the area, what other teams existed, and mentions of African American ballplayers.
One of my favorite issues of the digitized Thomasville Daily Times-Enterprise is from May 1, 1913, several days ahead of the town's opening day of the baseball season. Almost every page in that issue contains notices from businesses in town letting everyone know that on May 5, opening day, they'd be "Closed. Gone to baseball game. Will open immediately after game."
The Daily times-enterprise. (Thomasville, Ga.) 1889-1925, May 01, 1913, Page 1, courtesy of Georgia Historic Newspapers
As William Warren Rogers stated in his books on Thomas County, baseball was an obsession in Thomasville. I could see that it really was a baseball-mad town. This helps explain why local plantations had baseball teams, though I have also been disappointed to see that black plantation team results of those years are rarely mentioned. Some non-plantation black team games are mentioned, though not nearly as much detail as white town teams.
I will always be looking for more information from South Georgia that will illuminate stories from Pebble Hill, and the DLG is one of my best sources.
—Margaret Compton
Film Archivist
Walter J. Brown Media Archives and Peabody Awards Collection
Tags: african american baseball players, baseball, local history, Moving images, plantations, progressive era to World War II (1900-1945), Thomasville (Ga.), WSB Newsfilm Collection


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Coconut Oil for Weight Loss: Help or Hype?
In the battle of the bulge, weary dieters will try almost anything to accelerate the difficult process of weight loss. Trying natural extra virgin coconut oil for weight loss might sound silly. But wait until you learn the science behind it. Being big fans of the stuff and believing that the benefits of organic extra virgin coconut oil are already good enough they don't need to be exaggerated, we decided to find out if our favorite super food really is a super reducer. The answer may surprise you.
To understand why using organic extra virgin coconut oil for weight loss is a smart idea, we first have to take a look at the function of fat in the diet. Despite what we've been taught for the last few decades, fat is good. In an interview with Fitness Magazine, Dr. Barbara Roberts, director of the Women's Cardiac Center at Miriam Hospital and author of How to Keep from Breaking Your Heart says "Your body needs it [fat] in order to function. Fats help you absorb vitamins and they are vital for your nervous system." Studies have shown that women who followed a diet rich with healthy fats lowered their risk of heart disease by as much almost 30 percent.
Fats satiate the appetite and makes our brains happy. The proper amount of healthy fat—about 30 percent of our daily calories—can actually help us eat less overall. Consuming fat also improves the mood, which may lead to even better self-care. Simply put, adding organic extra virgin coconut oil to your diet in order to reach the daily recommended fat intake could help promote weight loss.
Where natural coconut oil really shows promise as a weight-loss aid is in its high content of medium-chain triglycerides or MCTs. Studies have found that humans burn more calories when a meal contains MCTs as compared with the long-chain triglycerides found in most oils. In addition, the body has a more difficult time storing the fats from extra virgin coconut oil. That is completely opposite than what it does to other kinds of fat.
Fats help us feel satisfied and eat fewer calories.
Use organic extra virgin coconut oil to its best weight-loss advantage by substituting it for other fats. That includes vegetable oil, corn oil, canola oil, butter or margarine. Enjoyed as a cooking oil or as a fresh condiment, it really does offer hope in the struggle to shed those unwanted pounds.
Check out Cooking Detective for more benefits of coconut oil.


Which rating choice is the greatest? This question will be argued over by cyclists until their heads explode. The common consensus is that ECE has a small advantage over Snell, and that ECE and Snell are outstanding to DOT. Naturally, there are many riders who'd begin if they heard me say that crying.
As a competitive rider, race organization or your track may stipulate which helmet you should use. If not, the most suitable choice would be to purchase helmet.
Below we lay out the details for you regarding the certifications & materials used in your helmets.
The most common type of helmet certification is DOT rated. These helmets in most states are the minimum that is required to ride a motorcycle or even a bicycle.
The DOT evaluation favors a shock-absorbent helmet and, really, present scientific research shows that shock absorption is the greatest strategy for bike security. Chin bar testing does not be required by the DOT standard. Therefore, you may find that half helmets and open face are frequently DOT.
The impact test measures acceleration of a headform inside the helmet when it's dropped onto a spherical and flat surfaced anvil from a fixed height. Peripheral vision is also required by the standard. The penetration test involves dropping a piercing evaluation striker onto the helmet from a fixed height. The striker must shallow enough to contact the headform.
Since its foundation in 1957, maker's helmets have been independently examined by the Snell Memorial Foundation. Its first safety standards for protective headgear were issued for auto racing in 1959. Later, other special helmet standards for bicycling, motorcycling, equestrian sports, rollerblading and skateboarding, skiing and snowboarding, and karting have been issued. These standards address not special substances, functionality or layout. Occasionally, using specially designed test equipment, the Foundation updates its specifications on performance features of helmets to keep pace with improvements in helmet technology, materials and design.
Snell is regarded as rather picky, and they enjoy it that way. Because of this, they may be believed to have some of the greatest standards in bike security. Organizations and many race tracks require a Snell evaluation from their riders.
ECE is the worldwide demand for Europe as DOT is the worldwide demand for America. It's also the most frequently used standard global – over 50 nations have it as their benchmark. So if you're planning on circumnavigating the world on a heroic two-wheeled experience, an ECE helmet may be the best bet. For any ECE helmet you purchase the organization approved and must have examined a helmet from an identical production run.
Impact absorption testing is performed in a way much the same to the DOT standard, calling for a drop test with a headform fitted in to quantify the energy carried from a fixed height on a steel anvil. Summit acceleration energy at the headform permitted to pass the test is 275 G. Impact absorption and rotational forces are additionally examined at points where any surfaces or parts job from the casing of the helmet.
This is to minimize the number of twisting force the helmet would carry to the wearer's neck and head. Projections from the helmet (snaps, rivets, etc.) may not exceed 2 mm.
Unlike the DOT system, where the merchandise isn't subject to third party testing before sale, the ECE system needed batch sampling when production starts, entry of up to 50 sample helmets/visors to a designated lab working for the authorities that uses the ECE standards under the United Nations understanding and confirmation of quality control during ongoing creation.
You are going to experience a much greater chance of surviving any road injury that is unforeseen. A helmet makes great sense if you participate in any high-risk racing. One will have a better opportunity to sustain less damage to their brain, although they cannot be made large enough to consume all the energy in a huge impact.
There are two principal parts in the helmet – An Outer Interior shell and casing.
We going to address the outer casing, which is made from polycarbonate plastic, either carbon fiber, fiberglass, or a solid and rough substance. Convert the impact energy and it functions to consume some of the first shock. Each substance has their advantages in weight, price efficiency, riding comforts, creation, and above all the strength against the injury impact.
The helmet outer casings are mostly made of these substances. Carbon Fiber and Fiberglass are more powerful and similar, but not great at mass production. Cost efficient. All of them can pass all ECE and DOT standards.
Carbon fiber molding and fiberglass are not considerably more expensive, but the production cost is higher or small – 40-50 units per day; it can generate up to one while plastic ABS is quite expensive in molding building, but after that the price drastically reduces.
Since carbon fiber & fiberglass are low production pieces, the costs are significantly higher. If you can afford them, in most cases they will provide superior safety over traditional helmets.
Expanded PolyStyrene is among the most prevalent foams. It's the white or grey foam that you see inside your helmet beneath the liner. It's similar to the peanuts in your mail order bundle. It's beverage cup or the white food carton you get at a carryout. It's not expensive to produce, light, and has nearly perfect crush features with no bounce-back to make the impact more serious. It can be reliably made with quality control processes that were acceptable.
Fill the mould and the beads enlarge to form the cells. The cells are closely bonded–under perfect conditions. The foaming is frequently done by a "foam store" outside producer's plant, and the challenge for helmet quality control plans will be to design testing which will catch any trouble linings. Foam density is measured by weighing the lining, then putting it in water and weighing the quantity of water and comparing both weights.
The variation of EPS you see in a helmet is above what usually is used for your coffee cup by several quality levels. It can be tuned by changing the density of the foam cells to make optimum crush for a specified impact degree. Additives can offer increased cell adhesion, cutting down the dividing of helmets in impacts that are really hard. Additives may also be used to color the foam, although the impact features may alter. Producers can add internal strengthening using nylon, carbon fiber or numerous kinds of plastics to reduce cracking enabling designers pass the laboratory to open up broader ports and still impact tests.
In a nutshell, the EPS liner the padding for your head. It is what reduces the impact to your head to save your life.


You heard butter is better and that's true but what's even better is nutella. What's even better than one or the other is combining the two in this banana bread. This recipe combines those two things with yet another loved thing in our home - banana bread! Banana bread is one of those baked goods that I never tire of and is pretty hard to mess up if you have a good recipe. This banana bread is a spin on my classic recipe which yields a crowd pleasing loaf every time. It's a pretty basic recipe that I have been using and adapting recipes from for years. More on that recipe here.
Ok let's get down to the nitty gritty of this recipe! First off why brown butter? Not because I wanted a hipster banana loaf in my recipe log, but because brown butter gives everything a delicious caramel'y sweet nuttiness. I also find it amplifies all the other flavours in baked goods. It also smells amazing when you make it – I have to hold back from having more than a taste while making it. If you don't want those flavours in your bread no problem just melt the butter and carry on as normal with the recipe. If you have never tried it and are intimidated, don't be! It's basically just slowly over melting your butter.
I love the swirls of Nutella through the bread and over the top of it too. The bread smells heavenly while it bakes and it's really hard not to tear into it right out of the oven. Neither flavours overpower but blend well together. You definitely taste and smell a cocoa component and a warm nuttiness too, both from the brown butter and the Nutella. This could easily be made with the addition of toasted hazelnuts and some chocolate chips or chunks. How fabulous would that be? It would give it more texture, crunch and flavour. Will definitely be trying it that way the next time!
This is a great version of banana bread especially if your looking to switch up your staple banana bread recipe and a lover of Nutella. I know you will love it!
¼ cup nutella plus more for drizzling over your bread later.
Place the butter in a small saucepan set over medium heat and cook until the butter turns a deep golden brown color, about 2 minutes; stir in the espresso powder. Remove and let cool slightly.
Preheat oven to 350°F grease a loaf pan.
Mash the bananas with a fork in a large mixing bowl then add the brown sugar and mix together with a hand mixer for a good 3 minutes; you want a light and fluffy banana cream.
Add the melted brown butter and coffee mixture, butter, eggs, milk and vanilla; beat well and scrape down the sides of the bowl.
Mix in the dry ingredients just until incorporated; no need to overly blend.
Heat the nutella in a microwave for about 20 seconds to soften it and make it a little more pourable then drizzle ⅔ of the nutella over the banana bread batter.
Using a rubber spatula very gently fold the nutella into the batter, trying not to over mix, so you can see the swirls when it is baked.
Carefully pour the batter into the prepared loaf pan without mixing the batter to much to keep the swirls in place. Add the rest of the nutella and swirl into the batter.
Bake for about 45 minutes to 1 hour until golden brown and a toothpick inserted into the center of the loaf comes out clean. Don't get nervous if the banana bread develops a crack down the center of the loaf; that's no mistake, it's typical. Rotate the pan periodically to ensure even browning. And tent with foil with bets cut into it if it starts getting to brown at the edges.


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Book Recommendation: Amazing Life of Science, Leadership Through Two Wars, and Education Reform3 min read
To steal a line from football, here at MTwallets it's about more than just, "X's and O's". By that I mean more than just fascinating engineering and science problems to share and solve. Reading is a passion here too. History and biography in particular, but also good fiction.
I've been wanting to grab from my past-read list and post recommendations for a good read. I wondered what to pick first. Instead, I recently purchased this book at a local bookstore in Stillwater MN (Valley Bookseller). It's a perfect first foray into reading recommendations here on MTwallets!
James Bryant Conant was a Chemist from Boston who attended Harvard. As a young, expert chemist he became central to efforts to advance poison gasses for use in WWI as the belligerents raced with this new force in war.
Throughout the 1920s as a Harvard Professor he was a major contributor to Organic Chemistry in an era of advancement in American Science. Into the early 20th century Europe dominated science. Conant was a major force in American chemistry during these early decades of the century.
In 1933 he was a young, historically unlikely choice for President of Harvard. He enacted merit-based reforms and turned Harvard from an elitist, provincial New England college into a magnet for the brightest across the nation. His drive was for excellence, not for pedigree. He became a public voice during the 1930's. the Harvard Presidency was his platform.
As a public figure with sought after opinions and responsibilities, Conant navigated the Great Depression and its impact on Harvard and the nation in general. In the late 1930's he walked a line between isolationists who preferred placating fascists over intervention, and others who wanted to immediately fight what did rise: absolute evil in Germany and elsewhere. Campuses were centers of this divide into 1940.
By 1940 he was a war hawk who hit the radio to persuade the public on the absolute necessity to aid Britain and defeat Germany. National and international leaders sought his support for their views and welcomed his activism. He was able to speak out with force before many politicians were, including F.D.R. National leaders needed to wait for the public and congress to come along.
From there Conant became the leader of the Manhattan Project: Openheimer's boss and Vannevar Bush's right hand. Conant's military partner was General Leslie Groves. Bush, Conant, and Groves were the executive staff of the huge industrial undertaking. They are the men who needed to commit to multiple enrichment methods, Plutonium reactors, and two fundamentally different bomb designs as a hedge against failure and delay. The multi-billion dollar commitment was theirs to fail at!
After WWII Conant was active but ultimately frustrated with nuclear diplomacy that failed to prevent the, "nuclear arms race" he feared. His fears became realized as we know. In the early 50's he became the last High Commissioner of Germany under Eisenhower. After formal creation of West Germany he served as Ambassador to the new nation.
His last major accomplishment was a vast study of American High School education and work towards reforms. He wrote many books on this subject.
The arch of Conant's life through major world events and his direct responsibility within so many of them is unbelievable. This biography, penned by his accomplished author granddaughter, is fascinating for what we learn about him, the institutions, government officials, and all the significant history he passed through. It wasn't, "history" for him! He was central to so many interesting events and efforts!
On a personal level, his in-laws were plagued by mental disease, likely genetic predisposition to bipolar depression. It plagued at least one of his sons. Reading the biography one faces the likelihood that his unbelievable efforts away from home made an already bad family predisposition worse. These are hard but important facts to weigh when we celebrate great achievement of historical significance. The arch of a life we celebrate can soar over many sorrows.
I can't remember a biography I have read about one person that weaves-through so many interesting topics and times. I strongly encourage you to read this book!
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A dad bit his four-year-old son to death – leaving him covered in wounds – because he found him 'cute enough to eat', it was claimed.
The 28-year-old, who faces a murder charge, allegedly chewed on his son to show affection for him while on a trip to the beach.
It is claimed he gnawed on the youngster because he was annoyed that the boy would refuse his physical affection.
The dad was taking the child to Losari Beach in the city of Makassar, on Indonesia's Sulawesi island, when the boy suffered fatal injuries,Daily Mirror reports.
His wife got a call saying the boy had been taken to hospital where he died shortly afterwards.
Police questioned his dad, identified only by his initials HB, who told them the boy, identified as AM, had been injured in a motorcycle accident.
But police suspected he was lying after they carried out an autopsy on the tragic youngster.
He used the term "gemes," which is an Indonesian word describing the urge to bite or pinch something cute.
The closest equivalent in English is the expression "You're so cute I could eat you up".
The term can also be used to describe the desire to inflict physical abuse due to annoyance.
It is claimed the father experience both of these emotions when he allegedly killed his son.


I received an eARC of Song of Blood & Stone (2018) from St, Martin's Press and this swoony historical fantasy is a treat. The first in the Earthsinger Chronicles, we follow Jack and Jasminda as they race against magic, two powerful rulers, and their roles in society to save the world from war and an ancient evil. I really enjoyed the romance between the two main characters but also loved the fully-realized world and the very real tension between Lagrimar and Elsira. Read more for an interview with Leslye Penelope about bringing the Earthsinger Chronicles to life and some of her favorite reads and sources of inspiration.
Because I don't believe in relaxing or free time, I took on a reading challenge inspired by "The 12 Days of Christmas" in which I wanted to read 12 books between December 25th and January 5th. I got pretty close to 12, reading nine.


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