An antique mirror hangs over our fireplace, and while it's beautiful alone, it looks even better when it's adorned with a seasonal wreath. To decorate this mirror for fall, I crafted a DIY Wheat Wreath.
Wrap wire around the wreath form a few times to secure it. Cut the stems off 3 to 5 wheat stalks and wire to the wreath form.
I started with a bundle of five wheat stems and the next bundle I added was three stems.
Continue wiring bundles of 3 to 5 wheat stems until the wire form is covered.
I used a clear Command hook to hang the wreath from the mirror.
I love how this wreath looks hanging over my mantel and it coordinates with the vintage wheat sheaves hanging on either side of the mirror.
I'm hoping that I'll be able to store this wreath to use in future years. My plan is to store it in a bubble wrap lined box in a dry area. If the wreath only lasts one season, that is fine, as it took very little time to make, and I can easily make another next year.
If you have a spot where a wheat wreath would look good in your home for fall, give this project a try!
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It looks great, Paula! For some reason, I always have a hard time finding wheat wreaths but I never thought to attempt making one! Have a great week!
I don't see wheat wreaths available very often, either. Maybe it's because they are so delicate that they're difficult to ship.
This is gorgeous. I dried wheat into bunches at the end of summer. Next year I will turn them into wreath now that you showed me how. Gorgeous job.
You are so lucky to have wheat available to dry. Good luck with your wreath making!
Very pretty! Love the wreath form, very unusual. Visiting from Style Showcase.
Thank you, Victoria! I'm really enjoying it on my mantel.
This is so pretty. I'd love to make one for Thanksgiving! I appreciate the tutorial!
A wheat wreath would be perfect for Thanksgiving!
Gorgeous! I hope you will come over and link up at TFT! Have a great weekend!
Thanks for the directions, that would be an easy project!
You are welcome! It is a very easy project that didn't take long to make.
So glad you linked up at TFT! Featuring you today!
I LOVE this, Paula! I don't know if I've ever told you that my mom grew up in Kansas, so I've always had a soft spot in my heart for wheat. Thank you so much for this tutorial. I'm pinning this idea and hope to make one for myself.
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Women's Rowing
Observing Practice
Shorewomen Win Fourth Straight MARC Title, Headed to NCAAs
Davenport Named MARC Women's Coach of the Year, Shorewomen Garner All-Conference & Academic All-Conference Honors
LEWISBERRY, Pa. — The Washington College women's rowing team won both the first and second varsity eights to capture its fourth consecutive Mid-Atlantic Rowing Conference (MARC) Championship and fourth consecutive automatic berth in the NCAA Division III Championships to at the MARC Championships on Pinchot Lake in Lewisberry, Pa. Following the regatta, the annual MARC awards were presented and Washington College head coach Dr. Mike Davenport was named the MARC's Women's Coach of the Year to headline the Shorewomen's honorees.
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- Because the difference in points between first and second place in the first varsity eight was greater than that in the second varsity eight, 15th-ranked F&M could have still won the MARC Championship with a first-place finish in the first varsity eight. It was the Shorewomen, however, who prevailed with a time of 6:46.86 to F&M's second-place time of 6:54.24. Marietta was third in 6:54.81, Bryn Mawr fourth in 7:07.49, and Johnson & Wales fifth in 7:15.70.
Conference Awards
- Davenport, who is retiring this summer, was named MARC Women's Coach of the Year for the third time overall and second year in a row.
- Jackie Creitz and Maddie Morrissette were named to the All-MARC Varsity Team, while Kelin McCloskey was named to the All-MARC Novice Team. This is Morrissette's second All-MARC honor as she was named to the All-MARC Novice Team as a freshman.
- Creitz, Morrissette, Annie Grosscup, Danielle Huston Hakey, Maggie Perry, and Annie Sniffen were named to the Academic All-MARC Team, open to sophomores and above with cumulative grade-point averages of at least 3.5. This is the third time Perry has qualified for the distinction and the second time Creitz, Morrissette, Huston Hakey, and Sniffen have.
Shorewomen Boat Line-Ups
- Varsity Eight: Jaclyn Gibbons (coxswain), Jules Shipps (stroke), Morrissette (seven), Creitz (six), Diana Lucey (five), Huston Hakey (four), Michaela Martino (three), Perry (two), Mackenzie Gaze (bow)
- Second Varsity Eight: Emily Booth (coxswain), Sniffen (stroke), McCloskey (seven), Brenna Kacar (six), Grosscup (five), Sara Underwood (four), Leslie Collins (three), Karis Marano (two), Hannah Cagle (bow)
- Points were awarded in the first and second varsity eights to determine the MARC women's champion with greater weight placed on the first varsity eight. The Shorewomen finished with 40 points, F&M 35, Bryn Mawr 27, Marietta 26, and Johnson & Wales 22.
Up Next for the Shorewomen
5/27&28 @ NCAA Division III Championships (Gold River, Calif.)

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NSIAD-00-217R
Pursuant to a congressional request, GAO provided information on the Department of Defense's Transportation Command's efforts to evaluate alternatives to the current personal property program.
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NSIAD-99-165
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Pursuant to a congressional request, GAO reviewed the Air Force's budget formulation process for its flying hour program for fiscal years (FY) 1997 through 1999, focusing on: (1) the extent to which the Air Force has flown the hours requested in its budget; (2) the process that the Air Force uses to...


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The main shop consists of an L-shape space of 3,500 square feet. It has more than 90 feet of wall bench space and six large assembly tables with project locker space underneath. A portion of the main shop has a ceiling height of 16 feet to accommodate building and restoring small boats. A nearby roll-up door makes it possible to move boats in and out, and a second roll-up door is used to bring in materials and large tools.
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High Rates of Unprotected Sex occurring among HIV-Positive Individuals in a Daily Diary Study in South Africa: The Role of Alcohol Use
Susan M. Kiene, Brown University
Leickness C. Simbayi, Human Sciences Research Council
Amber Abrams, University of Cape Town
Allanise Cloete, Human Sciences Research Council
Howard Tennen, University of Connecticut - StorrsFollow
Jeffrey D. Fisher, University of Connecticut - StorrsFollow
Objective: To assess the prevalence of unprotected sex and examine the association between alcohol consumption before sex and unprotected sex among HIV+ individuals in Cape Town, South Africa.
Methods: For 42-days daily phone interviews assessed daily sexual behaviour and alcohol consumption. Logistic and Poisson GEE models were used to examine associations between alcohol consumption before sex and subsequent unprotected sex.
Results: During the study which yielded 3,035 data points, the 58 HIV+ women and 24 HIV+ men drank an average of 6.13 drinks when they drank, and reported 4,927 sex events, of which 80.17% were unprotected. Over half (58%) of unprotected sex events were with HIV-negative or HIV-status-unknown partners. Extrapolating from the data using likelihood of infection per act estimates we calculated that an estimated 2.95 incident HIV-infections occurred during the study. Drinking alcohol before sex by the female, the male, or by both partners, increased the proportion and number of subsequent unprotected sex events. However, these associations held only when the quantity of alcohol consumed corresponded to moderate or higher risk drinking.
Conclusions: Among HIV-positives engaging in moderate or higher risk drinking prior to sex increases the likelihood and rate of unprotected sex. Prevention efforts need to address reducing alcohol-involved unprotected sex among HIV-positive persons.
This is not the final published article. Published in the Journal of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome, Vol.49, No. 2, (Oct. 2008). Publisher URL: http://journals.lww.com/jaids/pages/default.aspx
Kiene, Susan M.; Simbayi, Leickness C.; Abrams, Amber; Cloete, Allanise; Tennen, Howard; and Fisher, Jeffrey D., "High Rates of Unprotected Sex occurring among HIV-Positive Individuals in a Daily Diary Study in South Africa: The Role of Alcohol Use" (2008). CHIP Documents. 29.
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Tesla formally adds 'Technoking' to Elon Musk's title
Elon Musk. (Suzanne Cordeiro/For the Austin American-Statesman/TNS)
March 22, 2021 KARA CARLSON - AMERICAN-STATESMAN
Elon Musk has formally crowned himself the "Technoking" of Tesla.
In a Monday filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, electric automaker Tesla said it is adding "Technoking" as part of Musk's formal title with the company. Musk will also retain the title of chief executive officer, according to the securities filing.
Tesla's chief financial officer Zach Kirkhorn also got a new title. In addition to CFO, he will now also be the company's "Master of Coin."
It's unclear what led to the change in titles, the logic behind them — or why the company would make such an unusual move.
Of course, unusual behavior isn't really unusual for Musk. The billionaire leader of Tesla and SpaceX regularly posts confusing memes and vague tweets. For instance, on Saturday Musk tweeted: "Homo sapiens techno: Loves raves & technology."
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"We believe this hints at Musk viewing Tesla more as a technology disruptor in the future especially with robo-taxis, (full self driving vehicles) and massive battery technology advancements on the horizon at Tesla," Ives said.
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In a January interview on Clubhouse, Musk said he was "late to the party" on bitcoin, but that he is now a supporter of the cryptocurrency is on the verge of broad acceptance.
Musk's quirky behavior has landed him in hot water in the past. In 2018, Musk had to step down from his role as chairman of Tesla as part of a settlement with the SEC after the agency charged him with fraud for a tweet in which he said he would take Tesla private if the company's share stock hit $420.
Last week, an investor filed a lawsuit against Musk and the Tesla board alleging some of the CEO's comments violated an SEC settlement designed to reduce such communications. The filing cities Musk's May tweet that said "Tesla stock is too high imo," which was followed by a stock drop of almost 10% in the hours following the tweet.
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Q: Expressing a Quadratic in $a(x + b)^2 + c$ form I have question as follows: Express $2x^2 - 6x + 7$ in the form $a(x + b)^2 + c$.
My approach is to complete the square so I did this:
$(2x^2 + 6/2)^2 - (6/2)^2 + 7 = 0$
$(2x^2 - 3)^2 - 9 + 7 = 0$
$(2x^2 - 3)^2 - 2 = 0$
I got a bit lost here and not sure how to proceed forward.

A: Try it with
$$2\left(x^2-3x+\frac{7}{2}\right)=2\left(x^2-2\cdot \frac{3}{2}x+\frac{9}{4}-\frac{9}{4}+\frac{7}{2}\right)$$

A: Hint:
$$2x^2 - 6x + 7=ax^2+2abx+ab^2+c$$
$$a=2$$
$$-6=2ab$$
$$7=ab^2+c$$

A: $2x^2-6x+7 = 2(x^2-3x)+7=2(x^2-3x+(\frac 32)^2) -2(\frac 32)^2+7 =2(x-\frac 32)^2+\frac 52$

A: Let's investigate completing the square for the general case:
$$ax^2+bx+c$$
Factor out the $a$ to obtain
$$a\left(x^2+\frac{b}{a}x+\frac{c}{a}\right)\tag{*}$$
Let's complete the square on the bracketed term. We Need to write this as $(x+B)^2$, so start with
$$\left(x+\frac{b}{a}\right)^2=x^2+2\frac{b}{a}x+\frac{b^2}{a^2}.$$
But wait ! We've got 2 lots of $b/a$ when we expand it, so what we really should use instead is
$$\left(x+\frac{b}{2a}\right)^2=x^2+\frac{b}{a}x+\frac{b^2}{4a^2}.$$
Now that's better, but this square introduces the unwanted term $b^2/(4a^2)$, so we will need to remove that,
$$\left(x+\frac{b}{2a}\right)^2-\frac{b^2}{4a^2}=x^2+\frac{b}{a}x.$$
That's exactly what we want, except that we need a $c/a$ term, so let's add that back in,
$$\left(x+\frac{b}{2a}\right)^2-\frac{b^2}{4a^2}+\frac{c}{a}=x^2+\frac{b}{a}x+\frac{c}{a}.$$
This is precisely what is required, so just sub this back into (*) and we get
$$a\left(\left(x+\frac{b}{2a}\right)^2-\frac{b^2}{4a^2}+\frac{c}{a}\right).$$
Expanding, we have
$$a\left(x+\frac{b}{2a}\right)^2+c-\frac{b^2}{4a}\equiv A(x+B)^2+C,$$
where $A=a$, $$B=\frac{b}{2a},$$ and $$C=c-\frac{b^2}{4a}.$$

A: To proceed, assume $y=2x^2-3$ then we get $y^2-2=0$ as follows:
$$
assume:\quad y = 2x^2-3 \\
y^2-2=0 \\
y=\pm\sqrt{2} \\
(1)\qquad y=\sqrt{2} \\
2x^2-3=\sqrt{2} \\
x=\pm\sqrt{\frac{3+\sqrt{2}}{2}} \\
(2) \qquad y=\sqrt{-2}=\sqrt{2}i \\
2x^2-3=\sqrt{2}i \\
x=\pm\sqrt{\frac{3+\sqrt{2}i}{2}}
$$

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In just a few years, former IDF CIO Ram Dor's firm has carved out a significant market share in cyber consulting to Latin American countries. [...]
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Western countries compete for cyber-capacity building initiatives Free
A growing number of Western countries are deploying cyber-capacity programmes to tackle cyber-threat in partner countries in the developing world. These initiatives also have an influence component. [...]
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The head of the US State Department's think tank delivered a new report on Beijing to high-level officials in Paris, following earlier stops in Budapest and London. [...]
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Israeli-German zero-day vulnerabilities broker firm Incredity offers Huawei bug bounty
Cyprus was home to Israeli cyber industry in Europe for a long time but some big-name firms have recently left the island, like NSO which has closed the Cypriot subsidiary of Circles. New firms such as Legacy Technologies and Incredity have chosen to make Germany their new European haven. [...]
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Beijing's Covid diplomacy in Latin America draws US concern
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Chinese security and intelligence groups make inroads into Africa
After the influx of Israeli firms, Africa is now the target of the Chinese security sector, which is using local agents to connect with intelligence services on the continent. [...]
Canberra acts as Five Eyes' cyber vanguard amid growing tensions with Beijing
With growing support from Washington, the Australian Signals Directorate is playing a central role in the intelligence alliance's cyber-offensive strategy. [...]
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Washington hones response to Russia's hybrid warfare and China's economic expansionism
Hybrid threats from Beijing and Moscow have spurred US military and intelligence chiefs on a global counter-offensive that spans from cyber-defence to economic security. [...]
Kaspersky, Huawei and USCYBERCOM together at FIC
The next International Cybersecurity Forum in Lille on January 22-23 [...]
Mccarthy heads intelligence at State department
Ellen McCarthy, the former chief operating officer at the National [...]


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Screening: Nobody Speaks – Trials of the Free Press
DATE: 18 June 2017 TIME: 7:00 p.m.
Human Rights Watch is hosting a screening of the documentary Nobody Speaks – Trials of the Free Press, which is about the fate of Gawker and raises disturbing questions about the price of a free press in the United States. the film will close the Human Right Watch film festival at IFC on June 18 at 7:00 p.m.
Following the film, there will be a panel discussion with director Brian Knappenberger, moderated by Masha Gessen.
Clare Baldwin Tells OPC Scholars to Fight Impunity
Inescapable Truths: The James W. Foley Legacy & the Challenges of War Zone Reporting in the Middle East
OPC Scholar Luncheon to Feature Keynote from Reuters' Clare Baldwin


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FOMC decision later today
The USD is trading lower this morning as traders await the conclusion of the two-day FOMC meeting. While officials have indicated that no interest rate moves are likely for several years, the market will be waiting to hear the Fed's revised economic projections and indications on inflation targeting and asset purchases. The Federal Open Market Committee will provide its quarterly update on where it sees GDP, unemployment, and inflation going. The general tone of the meeting is expected to be one of caution and it is expected that there will be some upgrade to recent downbeat economic forecasts, as the current unemployment rate of 8.4% is below the committee's 2020 forecast of 9.3%. There are no big changes expected and the comments should be upbeat. The rate decision will be released a little after 2 PM EST, and the Powell news conference will follow shortly thereafter. US Stock futures are trading quietly this morning, moving a bit higher earlier this morning and the DOW futures are showing an opening of around 100 points higher when the markets open later today. Before we get the FOMC report this afternoon, traders will be focused on Retail Sales, which are expected to gain 1% in August after a 1.2% rise in July. Purchases in the GDP component control group are forecast to increase by 0.5% following the July gain of 1.4% and sales ex-autos are projected to rise by 0.9%. They were 1.9% higher in July. The major categories of retail sales have had an excellent five months, the best in over 10 years. Despite when sales collapsed by the largest amount on record as the economy was shut by the government in March and April, the recovery in May, June, and July was so energetic that the average for the whole period is one of the highest in history. From March through July sales averaged a 0.98% increase each month. The last time the US consumers spent so avidly was in 2009 when sales gains averaged 1.02% from April through August. US Treasury yields were a bit lower overnight ahead of the FOMC announcement, as the 10-year note was down at 0.6740% and the 30-year bond was down to 1.4226%.
EUR/USD is trading higher this morning, just below the overnight high, taking back some of the losses in the currency seen during trading yesterday. 50 and 100-day moving averages are converging and a break higher from the 50-day could see an upward surge for the single currency. RSI has been moving steadily higher over the last few hours and is currently at 64. Ursula von der Leyen, President of the European Commission, delivers her wide-ranging State of the Union speech later on Wednesday. Focus however is clearly on the US and we could see some reaction to a weaker than expected US retail sales number later this morning. But the move could be countered by the Fed announcement later today. Coronavirus cases continue to rise in Europe. Investors seem to not be bothered by the disease at this point and are hopeful for a vaccine, or more than one, to be available in the coming months. Continued failed Brexit talks, which weigh on the point have also been a positive for the EUR, as traders are buying EUR/GBP. Look for the EUR to remain better bid throughout the trading day, ahead of the Fed announcement.
GBP/USD is trading at overnight highs, moving above the moving averages. And traders are reacting to better than expected annualized CPI which beat estimates with 0.2% in August. The analysts expected a 0% change. Technically, the pound could see some reversal from the last three down trading days and momentum seems to be turning upward. RSI which has popped above the 70-level in the last hour is now just below at 69. Any Brexit compromise is always good news for the pound and Prime Minister Boris Johnson has been seeking to soothe concerns about the controversial Internal Markets bill that passed the first hurdle in parliament. The legislation violates the Brexit deal that Johnson signed with the EU, as admitted by government ministers. The pound suffered badly when the move was announced and as Brussels laid down an ultimatum to London that the bill must be rescinded by the end of the month or face sanctions. Several members of the PM's ruling Conservative Party have either abstained or voted down the legislation and others were expected to follow. If the final wording refrains from breaking international law, the pound could extend its gains. Like every other currency, the pound will be affected by the comments from the Fed this afternoon.
USD/JPY is trading near overnight lows as well below the moving averages as the RSI level has fallen well below the oversold level of 30, currently trading at 21. Earlier today, the Lower House of Japan's parliament formally elected Yoshihide Suga as the country's new Prime Minister. Suga replaces Shinzo Abe who was forced to resign due to health concerns. He is expected to continue with Abenomics and put together a "continuity cabinet", which will likely keep about half of predecessor Abe's lineup. Suga won a ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) leadership race by a landslide on Monday. Turning towards economic news, Japan exports had an 8th straight month of double-digit decline in August. In non-seasonally adjusted terms, Japan's exports dropped -14.8% year-on-year to JPY 5232B in August. That's the 8th straight month of double-digit decline, as well as the 21st month of contraction. It's the worst run since the 23-month contraction through July 1987. Exports are generally expected to stay weak and might not reach pre-pandemic levels until a least early 2022. Imports dropped -20.8% year-on-year to JPY 4984B. The trade surplus came in at JPY 248B. USD/JPY is way oversold, and we should see some pullback during today's trading day.
USD/CAD is also trading lower this morning, as the moving averages converge and the 50-day looks to break below the 100 and 200-day moving averages. RSI has been falling during overnight trading and early this morning, moving from just below the 70-level to its current 44. Oil prices had a dramatic rise overnight, as Brent crude futures rose $0.88 to $41.38, while US West Texas Intermediate crude futures rose $0.92 to $39.20. Both oil contracts had risen more than 2% on Tuesday. More than 25% of U.S. offshore oil and gas output was shut and export ports were closed on Tuesday as Hurricane Sally headed for land just off the U.S. Gulf Coast. According to reports, U.S. crude oil inventories fell by 9.5 million barrels last week, while analysts had expected oil stocks to increase by 1.3 million barrels. In other news, a US Trade Representative said the US will drop the 10% tariffs on Canadian non-alloyed, unwrought aluminum, retroactive to September 1. The tariffs were reimposed in August due to a surge in imports earlier this year. But USTR expects the volume to normalize back to 70k to 83k tons a month for the rest of the year, after consultation with Canada. Canada also dropped the threat to retaliate after the US move. Trade Minister Mary Ng emphasized "Canada has not conceded anything. We fully retain our right to impose our countermeasures if the U.S. administration decides to reimpose its tariffs on Canadian aluminum products, and we are prepared to do so." Deputy Prime Minister Chrystia Freeland also insisted: "This is not a negotiated deal. We have not negotiated an agreement with the United States on quotas".
Mexico on Monday issued what it described as the world's first sovereign bond linked to the sustainable development goals set by the United Nations, raising 750 million euros ($889.73 million). Deputy Finance Minister Gabriel Yorio said reducing inequality, financial inclusion and the gender gap were among the U.N. goals. "Mexico is the first country to issue a sovereign bond that is linked to the sustainable development objectives of the U.N.," he wrote on Twitter. "Our country starts its sustainable finance program as a pioneer." The government did not specify how it would spend the money raised. The bond's preliminary investment prospectus cautioned that there was no guarantee Mexico would make disbursements for projects that meet the U.N. characteristics. The bond is part of an emerging trend of debt issuance aimed at raising funds that attempt to tackle social, environmental, and other issues. It was more than six times oversubscribed. The coupon of 1.350% was the second-lowest among all euro-denominated bonds issued by the Mexico federal government, the ministry said, allowing the government to borrow at an attractive rate. The bond matures in September 2027. The Finance Ministry added that the euro bond allowed Mexico to tap into international investment funds, many of them in Europe, that are committed to financing sustainable economic development.
China's economic recovery continued to gather steam with major economic indicators further improving last month as the country's efforts to boost growth amid the COVID-19 slowdown gradually paid off. Retail sales of consumer goods, the main gauge of China's consumption, returned to growth for the first time this year, rising 0.5 percent year on year in August, according to data from the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS). The measurement of consumption fell 1.1 percent in July. Industrial output increased 5.6 percent year on year in August, accelerating from the rise of 4.8 percent registered in July. In the first eight months, industrial output expanded 0.4 percent from one year earlier, compared with a decline of 0.4 percent in the January-July period, NBS data showed. Fixed-asset investment edged down 0.3 percent year on year in the first eight months, further narrowing from a fall of 1.6 percent posted in the January-July period. Employment remained stable as the surveyed unemployment rate in urban areas stood at 5.6 percent in August, 0.1 percentage points lower than that of July. Meanwhile, the country's exports in August rose at a faster-than-expected pace, increasing 11.6 percent year on year, though imports edged down 0.5 percent from one year earlier. NBS spokesperson Fu Linghui said despite pressures from both the COVID-19 fallout and floods, the country's economy has sustained a steady recovery. The country's GDP expanded 3.2 percent year on year in the second quarter, reversing from a contraction of 6.8 percent in the first quarter.
Brazil's Economy Ministry on Tuesday kept its forecast for a record 4.7% fall in gross domestic product this year, predicting that the recovery already underway from the depths of the pandemic-fueled crisis will accelerate as the year goes on. The ministry said it expects growth in the third quarter to be led by industry, agriculture, and trade, which will help drive an overall GDP expansion of 7.3% from the preceding three-month period. Brazil's economy shrank by a record 9.7% in the second quarter, figures earlier this month showed, a bigger fall than economists had expected. The unchanged 2020 outlook came as a slight surprise, after Waldery Rodrigues, special secretary to the ministry, had indicated earlier this month that the forecast could be revised up. Still, a contraction of 4.7% is smaller than the average forecast in the latest weekly central bank survey of economists, of around 5.1%, and far less gloomy than the International Monetary Fund's projection of a 9.1% crash. The ministry noted that Brazil's dominant services sector, which accounts for around 70% of all economic activity, has been slow to recover from the pandemic shock, but will start to show a "more vigorous" performance in the fourth quarter. "According to our projections, the services sector will be stronger from October onwards, and will lead (the economy's performance) in the fourth quarter," economic policy secretary Adolfo Sachsida told reporters in an online press conference on Tuesday. The ministry also maintained its 2021 GDP growth forecast of 3.2%. While the outlook is still subject to a high degree of uncertainty due to the COVID-19 crisis, Sachsida said next year's projection was still on the conservative side.
USD: USD lower ahead of FOMC decision.
EUR: EUR higher, despite a rise in virus cases.
GBP: GBP higher on better than expected CPI.
JPY: Suga formerly elected PM, JPY moves higher.
CAD: Higher oil, no aluminum tariffs from the US push the loonie higher.
MXN: Mexico issues 'world's first' sovereign bond linked to U.N. sustainability goals.
CNY: China's economic recovery gains steam, as key indicators continue to improve.
BRL: Brazil government keeps the 2020 GDP forecast at a record 4.7% fall.


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Open Reel Ensemble is performance art by remodeled reel-to-reel tape recorders.
Ivan Illich once said: "Convivial tools are those which give each person who uses them the greatest opportunity to enrich the environment with the fruits of his or her vision." Convivial is originally a French word that means "live together with joy", and by "convivial tool", Illich indicates "an instrument (technology) used differently from the usage of industrial value".
This idea inspired transformation of a reel-to-reel analog tape recorder, a device that some consider obsolete, into a musical instrument, as a "convivial tool" using today's information technology. Reel-to-reel tape decks have disappeared from mainstream use, but by asking, "what if it never disappeared?" the artists recreated it. They attached USB ports to the recorders and customized them so they can "play" them as a musical instrument.
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Cisco Buys Pirelli Optical Systems
Cisco Systems Inc. furthered its stake in the dense wave division multiplexing (DWDM) market today with their acquisition of the optical systems business of Pirelli SpA of Italy. With this acquisition, Cisco is keeping pace with DWDM market rivals Lucent Technologies and Nortel Networks.
Pirelli is not the first DWDM provider to be acquired by Cisco (www.cisco.com). Recent months have seen Cisco acquire Cerent Corp., Monterey Networks Inc., and Pipelinks. The acquisition of Pirelli Optical Systems (www.pirelli.com) lets Cisco offer an optical networking solution for service providers. Pirelli's optical products will be integrated with optical products and technology that Cisco acquired from its previous purchases and will help Cisco corner the market in DWDM.
Cisco is not the first networking giant to envelop smaller companies in its DWDM market positioning efforts. Last week, Nortel Networks (www.nortel.com) acquired Qtera Corp. (www.qtera.com), a company that produces ultra-long-reach optical networking systems. Lucent (www.lucent.com) has also been active in the DWDM arena.
Analyst Chris Nicoll, with Current Analysis (www.currentanalysis.com), says Cisco added the final building block in its Optical WAN solution with the Pirelli DWDM products. "Cisco now owns the complete solution end-to-end, and is better positioned to compete against Nortel and Lucent for IP/ATM-based optical network solutions."
DWDM is an emerging networking technology that uses color light waves instead of electronic pulses to transmit data. The result of this technology is an exponential increase in the capacity of broadband networks carrying a combination of phone, Internet, and video traffic. Optical networking is manageable bandwidth, meaning that IT managers can assign higher or lower priority to segments of bandwidth as deemed necessary. -- Isaac Slepner


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Since 1981, Fleet Week has grown into one of the most popular annual events in the city, attracting more than one million attendees every year. Residents take great pride in the history that the United States Armed Forces have had in San Francisco, and Fleet Week is a prime example of precisely that. If you can fit this exciting event into your schedule, we promise, you won't be disappointed. Join us Oct. 1 – 9, 2017.
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Spider-Man 3 was a big success at the box office, but how does the film stand up over the test of time? Here, our Davis McCondichie looks back at the movie and what could have been for Spider-Man 3.
Let's pretend for the sake of this argument that it is 2007, right before Spider-Man 3 is set to come out. Fans are eagerly awaiting the return of Sam Raimi's version of the young web-slinger. Spider-Man 2 was a big success and Toby Maguire is still the best choice people can think of for Peter Parker. We all remember that time. The time before Spider-Man 3 sucked.
I will admit that, since I was so young at that point (I was eleven-years-old), I honestly thought the movie was good. So just recently I went back and watched the trilogy in its entirety. I came into it expecting to be pissed off at Spider-Man 3 for ruining everything I loved about the other two. I was not disappointed. However, while watching the film, I also noticed that the movie had the potential to tie up the trilogy better than it did.
So, without further interruption, here are five things Spider-Man 3 should have done.
The reasoning was simple. Corrupt Peter Parker so that fans begin to root against him. Show that the hero can be corrupted. That was their intention, but the execution was terrible. Instead, Parker makes decisions that never fit his motivations in earlier movies. Once he discovers the danger of the black suit, he would have abandoned it all together the first time. Especially considering what his professors says about the dangers of allowing it to touch you. Raimi cannot show us for two movies that Peter Parker is so intelligent that he can foresee the risk of possessing too much power, yet have him ignore everything he learned for a slight power boost. He does the same thing Dr. Octavius does in the second movie. He would have learned from his idols mistakes. The introduction of the symbiote, while good in its intentions, failed to make sense as a logical plot device.
Without the symbiote, you do not have Venom, but that is not a bad thing. The movie already has two logical villains in Harry Osborn and Flint Marko. Marko was arguably the best part of the real Spider-Man 3. His character origins and motivations are fascinating, and the scene where he becomes Sandman is one of the most memorable. So, instead of having him disappear mid-way through the film, Raimi should have trusted the Sandman character more and let him play a significant role in the movie. Marko is a terrifyingly imposing villain. His motivation is pure like Doc Oct, but he has to do wrong to make this happen. Marko alone could push Spider-Man to the edge, but the movie also has to include Harry as an antagonist as well. Meaning that the plot of the third movie has to have two villains no matter what. Still, three was too much, and the New Goblin makes sense as a character.
The amnesia plotline is probably one of the most disappointing parts of the third movie. We are given a compelling, revenge-smitten New Goblin in the first half of the film that then immediately disappears. Having Harry get amnesia, then suddenly remembering again makes no sense. Instead, Raimi should have pushed his story to a darker area. Having the New Goblin fail to kill Spider-Man in the first half on its own is fine, but the audience should have seen the fall out of it. Raimi could have had Harry begin to inject the goblin serum into his body instead of inhaling. The effects could disfigure him and cause him to lose his mind completely. Fans of the films would finally see Harry Osborn pushed to his limit. This choice, in turn, would push Peter Parker's character development as well. He would not be able to come to Harry, in the end, asking for help. Instead, at the film's climax, he has to choose to kill his best friend to save Mary Jane. Making New Goblin more powerful as the story goes on and teaming up with Sandman gives fans a much more satisfying ending to the film.
Adding Gwen Stacy was a move the producers of Spider-Man 3 pressured Sam Raimi into doing. The idea made no sense. Her character adds nothing to the story, and she is honestly a waste of screen time. It is simple: she should never have been in the film in the first place so leave her out.
Mary Jane had a logical two movie arch. She goes from the girl next door waiting for Peter to say he loves her to the girlfriend who is willing to risk her life to be with Peter. The character development works through two films; then Raimi decides that out of nowhere she should become jealous of Peter Parker's success. He has her say at the end of the second film, "go get them, Tiger."
Where is that Mary Jane in the third movie?
Instead, we get this three steps back, "will they won't they" conflict between Parker and MJ. It is obnoxiously illogical. Mary Jane should have been the voice of reason and support. Letting Peter know he can still make a difference and overcome these two powerful villains. Her confidence in Spider-Man being what Peter needs makes way more sense than him asking Harry for help. The end being a confident Mary Jane telling Peter that he is strong enough to beat Sandman and New Goblin would be a powerful scene. It would also take her out of the damsel in distress role a bit and solidify her meaning to Peter.
That is it; five things audiences should have gotten out of a Spider-Man 3 movie. These choices would have tied the movie up well. Plus, we could have avoided that dreaded sidewalk scene.


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Safety-net hospitals like John Peter Smith pass the discounts on to needy patients and also use savings from the program to fund cancer treatment, HIV/AIDS, diabetes and primary care clinics that help the under-served.
Unfortunately, this critically important program is at risk.
In recent years, pharmaceutical manufacturers have become less willing to share their profits to help those in need, and now they want to gut the 340B program in Congress by limiting hospital and patient eligibility.
They've taken this position even though 340B drugs amount to just 2 percent of the $457 billion annual U.S. pharmaceutical market.
JPS provides $742 million in uncompensated care annually.
The 340B program saves us about $50 million per year, and that allows us to keep offering essential services to our neediest patients, including the more than 42,000 enrolled in JPS Connection as of June 2016.
JPS Connection provides reduced copays for appointments, specialized care and prescriptions.
The 340B program also helps us offset the cost of operating our community's only Level 1 trauma center and only emergency psychiatric center.
We also operate 20 school-based health centers located on public school campuses primarily in low-income neighborhoods.
Savings from 340B help us provide primary care services to more than 45,000 students and their siblings annually.
Texas has 138 hospitals participating in the 340B program.
These safety-net facilities serve nearly twice as many needy patients as other providers.
They also supply nearly 60 percent of all uncompensated care.
It's important to understand that 340B is not taxpayer-funded, but instead requires drug companies to give a discount to health care providers who serve our most vulnerable local residents.
Simply put, these companies can afford to help.
If the program were significantly reduced or eliminated, JPS would be forced to cut back clinical care and medication access to the needy.
We are committed to serving Tarrant County for many years to come.
I encourage readers to contact their members of Congress and ask them to protect the 340B drug discount pricing program.
Our residents deserve nothing less than the best healthcare.
R. William Whitman is the chief operating officer of JPS Health Network, Tarrant County's publicly supported healthcare system.


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Where Can She Go?
Imagine yourself, a human being. That should be easy enough. Now, imagine yourself relatively young. Since those of us who are not currently young were once young, that should still be easy. Imagine you have hopes and dreams for the future. You see yourself as person capable of independent thought and you want the freedom of action you believe should go with it. Perhaps you would like to be a dancer, or a film-maker, or a writer.
But you live in a country where you are not permitted to dance. Or where the government tells you what to write. Or where religious authorities tell you what to film. Despite this, you are determined to be a human being capable of independent thought and action. You write, you make films, and you find you are threatened with prosecution and violence.
So you flee.
You flee to a country where you have heard that you will have freedom of expression, a country where that is enshrined in law and an inherent part of that culture.
When you get there you are told that you can't write what you want, you can't make the films you want. The people who have denied you your humanity at home have followed you to your new country. They speak on your behalf. They say that you do not want this freedom of expression.
Now, what do you do?
I wrote this after listening to Lila Ghobady speak at the Secular 2014 Conference. In the 1990's she was an active part of the Iranian underground cinema, making films that were not supported by the government.
According to an interview she gave to Bitch Magazine:
After secretly shooting these films, we had to leave the country since it was not possible to distribute the underground films we had made, which we wanted to edit and distribute abroad to introduce the underground cinema of Iran to the world to show that an alternative cinema to the official government cinema exists. Living abroad, we could also help our friends working inside Iran to continue their work on underground cinema. Our friends in Iran have been working on films on issues such as self-immolation and teenage suicide – both of which occur at an unbelievably high rate in Iran today. They are also working on the topic of the role of government gangs who have started sex trade businesses to export sex workers to an international market. In addition, they are working secretly on films about labour and student protests in Iran.
The dark reality is that by creating censorship and phony turmoil, the Islamic Republic of Iran succeeds in deviating paths of artistic and social expression. It tries to dissipate the confrontational energies of the Iranian people and prevent them from organizing. For this, it creates phony social movements. When it cannot hide public poverty, prostitution, trade in children, and the overall devastation that has overtaken Iranian society, it presents itself as a critic that objects to its own doings. With a variety of tactics, it controls social protest by suggesting that transformation and change can come from within the government. It engages in thievery, and plays the role of the anti-thief. It is the executioner that plays the role of the defending attorney. It plunders public wealth and then creates charity boxes for the poor. The underground cinema exposes these tactics, especially in the art and cultural arena.
Ghobady moved to Canada. She attended Carleton University in Ottawa where she recieved a master's degree in Canadian/Women's Studies. During her talk, she mentioned how disturbing it was to hear some students ask that speech at the university be limited to shelter the feelings of some Muslim students. She says that she still has nightmares about living under a theocracy.
The reason I started this post using the second person pronoun, was because I really think it is necessary to see these questions from the point of view of the persecuted. There are Muslim women say, "I do not want to be saved." To them, I say, "I wasn't thinking of you." I am a fairly powerless person myself, and not in a position to save anyone. However, to the extent I can support people like Lila Ghodaby, who wants for herself the same things I want for myself, I will.
Not Safe for the UK (and maybe not for work either)
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By now, everyone must have heard the big news coming out of the UK. The Prime Minister, David Cameron, has announced a nation wide filter to block pornography. Internet service providers in the UK already offer optional pornography filters. For the new nation wide filter the default setting will be to have the filter on. Customers will have to choose to opt out. I've read about half a dozen general articles on the topic as well as another half a dozen narrower articles about specific aspects and, outside of the "default-on" requirement, I am confused about what it being proposed. Child pornography, which was already illegal in the UK, will continue to be illegal, however the police will be given new, unspecified, powers to pursue it. Images of simulated rape, which was previously illegal to create, will now also be illegal to possess. Furthermore, wi-fi in public places will be required to have a porn filter in use.
As an adult woman going on fifty, I don't feel that I should spend my life relegated to the children's section of the library because lax parents don't know how to protect their children.
One of the reasons I don't call myself a "sex-positive feminist" is that many of the people who use that term appear to me to be less concerned than they should be about a person not being exposed to pornography at moments when they do not want to be. They deny any potential downside to pornography. Although I almost always actively oppose restrictions on pornographic content, denying that there can be any negative side to it strikes me as wishful thinking. If what we read and view didn't shape our perspective on the world, many artists and writers would stop tomorrow.
However, government imposed filters will tend to support the status quo and anyone seeking to question it will run afoul of the censors. For this reason, I have always felt that feminists in particular should not support bans on pornography. In an article about the new content filter, The Telegraph mentioned that unnamed "children's watchdogs" speculate that "boys' attitudes to women and girls were in danger of being shaped by their easy access to pornography online." I would like to humbly suggest that boys' attitudes to women and girls is being currently shaped by everything from advertizing, to movies, to novels, and perhaps nothing shapes their attitudes towards women as much as the interaction of their very own parents. Would the government like to censor the behavior of children's parents at home? Furthermore, would difficult access to pornography tell them something significantly different from easy access.
Then we still haven't answered the question of "what is pornography?" Will Courbet be filtered? (I was going to do my own sketch of that painting, but WordPress does not permit close-ups of genitalia.)
Maybe next, the government of the UK will work on the meaning of life and get back to us.
While poking around news from the UK, I couldn't help noticing in a sidebar some woman was called "brilliant" for producing a boy. I hope the filter isn't going to block some basic information about how babies are made because apparently Britons need a little more information about how that works.
As an American I'm a little bit concerned by the statement:
A joint British and American "task force" will be created to tackle obscene websites, while Google and other search engine providers will be required to draw up a "blacklist" of the most depraved and illegal search terms, the Prime Minister will announce.
It would be very nice to know exactly what our own government is doing in this regard.
Saturday Links: Comics, Porn, Libertarianism and Orchids.
I found this odd plant growing beneath a beech tree in the backyard. I didn't know what it was, so I left it. A week or so ago, it bloomed. I have tentatively identified it as Epipactis helleborine (Broad-leaved Helleborine).
From the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund (Why, yes, I do have funny reading habits.): Some artwork by an Israeli comic artist, Rutu Modan, was defaced in an exhibition at a German university. Students also objected to some sexual scenes from Craig Thompson's comic Habibi. Disappointingly, the university decided to respond by closing the exhibit.
Good Reads has an article on why people stop reading a book and a fun graphic on which books are most frequently abandoned. The fact that Fifty Shades of Gray and Eat, Pray, Love are on the list has restored my faith in women.
Over at the Daily Banter, I found an article on the relationship between Libertarianism and racism. It's interesting. It is, I should add, very much about the history of the United States. I'd have to do more reading to know whether or not I agree with it, but it's definitely filed in the back of my mind as "something to think about." Like a lot of people, I've struggled with exactly how to regard Thomas Jefferson. Anyone else who has pondered that might want to take a look at that article.
Here's a nice little article on orchids in New Jersey.
When I was in elementary school, we used to have the little box of cards that would have prompts for creative writing assignments. Somehow, I feel like if I had picked a card saying, "Write something with the title, 'Comics, Porn, Libertarianism and Orchids,' " I should have come up with something more interesting than this.
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Trump Campaign Calls Sessions "Delusional" in Letter
Alabama News Network Staff,
Posted: Apr 3, 2020 10:06 AM CDT
by Alabama News Network Staff
Former U.S. Senator and former U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions.
President Trump's campaign has sent a letter to Jeff Sessions, his former attorney general now running to reclaim his U.S. Senate seat in Alabama, objecting to Sessions' portrayal of himself as a Trump supporter in a campaign mailer.
The March 31 letter sent by Michael Glassner, chief operating officer of Donald J. Trump for President, accused Sessions of attempting to "misleadingly promote your connections to and 'support' of Trump," in the campaign mailer that mentioned Trump's name 22 times.
"The letter even makes the delusional assertion that you are President 'Trump's #1 Supporter,'" Glassner wrote.
"We only assume your campaign is doing this to confuse President Trump's loyal supporters in Alabama into believing the President supports your candidacy in the upcoming primary run-off election. Nothing could be further from the truth," Glassner wrote.
Before becoming attorney general, Sessions was the first U.S. senator to endorse Trump, donning a Make America Great Again hat at an Alabama rally. But his public falling out with Trump has threatened his hopes of recapturing his Senate seat.
Sessions gave up the seat he held for 20 years when he was appointed Trump's attorney general. He resigned when his 2017 recusal from the Russia inquiry sparked blistering criticism from Trump.
Sessions faces a runoff with former Auburn University football coach Tommy Tuberville in the Republican primary. Tuberville led Sessions in the first round of voting. The winner will face incumbent Democratic U.S. Sen. Doug Jones in November.
The runoff has been rescheduled for July 14 from March 31 because of the coronavirus outbreak.
The letter from the Trump campaign read: "We want to be absolutely clear about it: President Trump and the Trump Campaign unambiguously endorse Tommy Tuberville." The letter was first reported by The New York Times.
According to the Sessions campaign, the mailer that drew the objections of the Trump campaign was sent several days before Trump made his March 10 endorsement of Tuberville.
The Sessions camp said Thursday night that Alabama voters will decide the race.
"The people of Alabama are going to decide this race, not Washington. Alabamians are an independent lot and they make their own decisions. Our campaign is resolutely focused on the important challenges facing America, and the critical issues to Alabama and our economy," Sessions spokesman John Rogers said in a statement.
(Copyright 2020 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed without permission.)
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Old Greer County Museum & Hall Of Fame
The Western Trail In Old Greer County
Posted on May 9, 2021 by Greer County Homestead
Researched and written by Stephen Dock
Beth and I got to travel down to "The Museum of the Western Prairie" in Altus, OK and hear "Tales of the Cattle Trails: History and Hollywood" presented by Texas historians Jack Edmondson and Jeff Bearden. Jack does a great characterization of John Wayne! We had a great time, were well entertained and are all happy to be back to having history events again.
Left to right: Historians Beth White, Jeff Bearden, Stephen Dock and Jack Edmondson
In 2015 we were visited by author, Gary Kraisinger. Since 1967, Gary and Margaret Kraisinger have had one mission in their research: to determine and document exactly where the Western Cattle Trail was located and its role in the history of the American West. In their book "The Western Cattle Trail 1874 – 1897, Its Rise, Collapse, and Revival" the entire trunk line is presented from Texas to Canada, plus a discussion of the system's feeder routes, detours, and splinter routes.
Author Gary Kraisinger and Beth White
In 1933 the Oklahoma Legislature passed House bill No. 149 authorizing a study of two cattle trails through the state. The results, circulated by the Oklahoma State Historical Society in 1936, presented a detailed map and essay which described the difference between the Western Trail and the Chisholm Trail. What was not presented, however, was the network of trails between the two major trail systems although information on those trails was buried in the historical data collected by the Society.
One part of the Western Trail was called the Quanah Detour or Ghost Trail. G.W. Briggs, Jr. of Granite wrote of this Ghost Trail. In a letter to H.S. Tennant in 1933, he wrote that the Western Trail was not known as the "Western" in those days "for the reason that there was a trail west of this trail that was used extensively in the early eighties."
George W. Briggs was a Cattle inspector at the Comanche Springs northeast of Granite. In 1886 Comanche Springs was also a main headquarters for soldiers who's duty was to escort the herds to the Washita River. Thus Comanche Springs was a major location, not only because drovers were now accompanied by soldiers on their trek north, but also because this was one of the few locations where the Quanah Detour Route (Ghost Trail) intersected the Western.
The Mobeetie Trail also crossed at Doan's Crossing and there a tail boss faced a choice. He could lead his herd straight north on the Western Cattle Trail to the North Fork of the Red River and beyond into Indian Territory, or southeast of present-day Hess to Nine Mile Spring on the Mobeetie Trail and continue from there northwesterly across Greer County, Texas to Draw Springs at present day Mangum.
The Quanah Detour or Ghost Trail crossed the Red River above Quanah, Texas. Once into Greer County its pathway passed west of present-day Duke on Deep Red Run Creek and on into Mangum on the Salt Fork of the Red River. At Mangum, the outfits had two options. They could continue to drive northeast toward the North Fork of the Red River to the inspection station at Comanche Springs and at that point merge with the Western Trail trunk line. Or, the herds and their drovers might continue north following the established Mobeetie Trail for a short distance, perhaps to avoid the inspection station at Comanche Springs, and ford the North Fork of the Red River on the northern border of Old Greer Couny. Trail drivers who opted not to rejoin the Western Trail at Comanche Springs either continued on the Mobeetie Trail into the panhandle of Texas or used the Ghost Trail to rejoin the Western Trail farther up the line near Fort Supply.
When asked about this trail, Harry Drago, author of Red River Valley, answered that there were many diversions for the main Western Trail and "that [the] trail which crossed today's Beckham County, south of Sayre and north of Erick, (in Old Greer County, Texas) was an integral part of the Western Trail cannot be doubted." In other words, it was a branch of the Western Trail. Drago described this route: "An alternate route avoided passing through the Kiowa Comanche reservation by keeping in Greer County, which was then in Texas jurisdiction, and passed the present towns of Altus and Mangum, crossing the North Fork into the Cheyenne – Arapaho reservation west of present Sayre and the Washita at Red Moon."
In 1899 Walter Ford homesteading between Sayre and Erick (Hext) described using an established cattle trail from their homestead to Mangum.
Map of the Western Cattle Trail in Oklahoma from "The Western Cattle Trail 1874-1897;
It's Rise, Collapse and Revival
Our hours are Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday 9:00 – 3:00. On weekdays and weekends that we are not open you may call for a private tour, please contact Stephen at 580 471-9917. (Admission is by donation)
It's always membership drive time as well, the month you join is the month you are due after a year, we use your membership money to keep the day-to-day operation of the museum going. Without the community support the museum would not be able to continue to do what we do, Education, Preservation, and Tours. So please plan on renewing or becoming a member of the museum.
If you would like to help benefit the museum, you can send a check for a donation, membership (memberships are $25 per person or $40 per Household per year, or lifetime for $1000) or both to: Old Greer County Museum, PO Box 2, Mangum, OK 73554. And thank you in advance!
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Every month is membership drive month. Yearly memberships are $25 per person or $40 per household per year. Lifetime memberships are available for $1000. Yearly membership renewal date is the month you originally joined. We use your membership money to keep the museum open and operating day-to-day. Without community support the museum would not be able to continue to do what we do: Education, Preservation, and Tours. So please consider renewing or becoming a member of the museum today.
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Colleen Kelly of Chevy Chase holds nine-month-old daughter Francesca as she buys a glass of lemonade at a block party on Howard Avenue in Kensington on Saturday. The lemonade stand was run by D.J. Donatelli, 14, sister Annie, 10 and Connor Whitcomb, 14, all of Kensington.
The fun and excitement of a summer block party will continue until Sunday at the shops along Howard Avenue in Kensington.
The second annual Summer Sizzler Block Sale started last weekend and continues through this weekend.
Last Saturday, kids sold lemonade as people walked by the decorated storefronts of Antique Row during the first weekend of the Summer Sizzler Block Sale.
The Row's famed antique shops will spill out onto the street, which will be dressed up with festive balloons and flags for the occasion for both weekends, she said.
The West End, a Rockville rock band, played for the crowds last Saturday afternoon, and Goldsborough said there was a good chance a band could play this Saturday as well.
For more information, call Goldsborough at 301-996-1830.
The Montgomery County Older Girls and Leaders association recognized several girl scouts from Kensington for their outstanding community service during an April 26 ceremony in Rockville.
*Katherine Sanford earned a Gold Award, the highest award in Girl Scouts for her research of the roots of her church.
*Anna Alikhani and Allison Arai earned Silver Awards, which recognize efforts to make life better in their community.
*Catherine Colliton and Allison Silverman earned a Silver Trefoil award that honored their efforts given to improve either the international community, state, local or federal governments.
* Jessica Comstock was recognized for her nine years in Girl Scouts. She volunteered for the Oakland Terrace Elementary School Martin Luther King Jr. day events for eight years.
Evan Heon, son of Kensington's George and Tara Heon, was named to the dean's list for the spring semester at Lynchburg College in Lynchburg, Va.
Heon is a sophomore studying economics and graduated from St. Johns College High School in Washington, D.C.
Kids on the Block, a program of the Mental Health Association of Montgomery County, needs volunteers to perform scripts with ''life-size" puppets for pre-school and elementary school children.
Lauren Hochman, association spokeswoman, said in a press release the plays center on social and moral lessons for young children such as early childhood aggression prevention, mental wellness, bullying and substance abuse prevention.
Volunteers train and rehearse for several weeks before performing, so no previous experience is necessary.
The next training event will be held in early August, she said, although the specific day will be based on the availability of potential volunteers and the trainer.
Volunteers must be at least 21 years old and are asked to give one performance per week for a minimum of one year. Performances take place throughout the county and volunteers must provide their own transportation.
Interested volunteers should contact 301-424-0656, ext. 130, or ksheth@mhamc.org for more information.
Michael Colella of Kensington is set to open up the crystal cave for the 58th annual gem show of the Gem, Lapidary and Mineral Society of Washington, D.C., held at the Stone Ridge School of the Sacred Heart in Bethesda.
The show runs from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., Aug. 4 and 5 at the school, 9101 Rockville Pike.
''It's a family event, a kid-friendly event and the cave is going to be there again," Colella said.
The cave is a tunnel draped with black cloths built inside of a12-foot-long and 6-foot-high wooden box. Colella said he has a few new gems inside the cave this year, after what he called a successful debut at last year's gem show.
Colella has also helped arrange for door prizes at the event.
For more information, visit www.glmsdc.com.
The Jubilee Association of Maryland seeks volunteers to help make a difference in the lives of adults with developmental disabilities.
The adults in Jubilee care live in group homes throughout the county and require volunteers to help with activities and maintain the homes.
The association seeks volunteers for the Friendship Exchange program that provides bridges to connect clients to their communities, according to the group's Web site.
Volunteers spend four hours a month, spending one-on-one time with the Jubilee association members.
Jubilee also has ongoing opportunities for projects to maintain and beautify the homes where the Jubilee residents live.
Volunteers can also host parties and craft events, or provide administrative support to make the homes more attractive.
Anyone interested in donating time, or getting more information can visit www.jubileemd.org, or call Sharon Freedman, development and volunteer director, at 301-949-8628.
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