This issue has been delayed by my sudden exit on a trip to China. It was a once in a lifetime chance to see the country and learn more about the history and art work. While I was gone everything ran smoothly thanks to our active Board of Directors who pitched in on a variety of activities.
We were delighted with the success of our three tours this past spring. We are working on an Andersonville tour in October.
Our Museum project is still in the bidding stage. We have received partial bids on the windows, electrical, wallboarding and flooring. We have received one bid on the whole project, way beyond our budget which is now limited to $120,000. When we started we thought that would be all we would need. That was before the building department of the City of Chicago delayed the permit for 11 months and at the last minute added things like moving interior walls, adding doors and piercing our new roof with 14 air vents. Obviously we could do nothing but add the work onto the project. We have now formed a strategy to focus on the second floor and get it finished before the first floor. With the second floor done we can begin moving in the archives that are stored in many places. Then we can begin to organize what we have and see to its proper storage. So that's the plan as of August 2001.
During one of my many visits to the Museum I made an attempt at pulling some of the tall weeds in the back yard. Last year after the City delivered the wood chips and the St. Gregory High School student's spread them around the yard things looked pretty good. If you are interested go to our web site, www.edgewaterhistory.org. and click on the museum site. But as the growing season began this year the prairie plants and mint seemed stronger than the wood chip mulch. The 40th ward sent over a mower just after Carl Helbig, Property Committee Chairman had found someone to go in with a mower. We were thankful for the help. In the process we learned that the little house next door is to be torn down and replaced with something new… we are waiting to find out what.
It appears that our efforts to educate Edgewater residents on the value of their community history have failed once again. Recently the ETNA group met with developer Jim Byrne to hear and approve his proposal to tear down the homestead of the McManus family which has stood on Ridge Avenue (5776) since 1903. It was the home of Dorothy McManus for 93 years until her death. The family sold it to a woman who has now sold it to Byrne. The complaint about the property is that it would take too much to fix it up, new roof etc. to make it worthwhile reselling. Mr. Byrne has done this before on Early Avenue, across from where he lives. He replaced a 2-story wooden house with a 4-level condo.
Apparently the members of the neighborhood organization are unaware of the history of the home and the family in Edgewater. After all it's just a wooden house that won't make it to its 100th anniversary. It's not even a mansion of Sheridan Road and we know what has happened to those buildings.
Historic preservation can take two directions, either the architectural significance of the building makes it worth preserving or the place is the home of someone who has made significant contributions to the community. It is the mission of the Edgewater Historical Society to educate the community on its own history and work towards the preservation of that history. There are few homes in Edgewater that can be associated directly with the development of the community. Besides opening the first grocery store Mr. McManus was involved in the founding of St. Ita's. His first grocery store was in the Guild Hall (built by J.L Cochran in 1886) where St. Ita's first families met together to pray using crates to create an altar. The second Edgewater Grocery burned down in 1936. The McManus family stayed in Edgewater in the same house. For history in Edgewater this is as close as it gets.
Another wooden house in the ETNA area is also slated for demolition- it was the original farmhouse for that area but has been abandoned for some time. It does not have the redeeming qualities of the McManus home. If you want to take a look before it is gone it's near the corner of Hollywood and Glenwood.
It looks more like we need an EHS representative on every board of directors of every neighborhood in Edgewater. All we would like to do is make sure that all the information about a home is available to those who might approve its demolition. All the wooden homes in Edgewater are vulnerable to the developers who intend to increase the density of our community and add to our traffic and parking woes. Cement block condos are not necessarily better than old wooden houses. One thing's for sure, they have no history.


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Barty Farm
An Outline Planning Application for 100 Houses.
The scheme proposes a mix of 1 and 2 bedroom flats, terraced, semi-detached and detached dwellings.
The site includes provision for 70 units would be for private market housing with 30 units providing
affordable housing, providing affordable housing on this site at 30%.
Outline planning approval for this development was granted by Maidstone Borough Council on 20th March 2018. The applicant was required to submit details of the reserved matters of layout, scale, appearance and landscaping within two years of the date of the approval and work has to commence on site no later than two years after the Council approves the last of the reserved matters.
A further application was made to vary four conditions of the original approval and, despite objections, approval was granted on 20th September 2018.
The main change is in relation to condition 7 (landscaping). This condition requires a landscaping scheme and
specifies a requirement for 1.05 hectares of useable open space within the site. The application seeks to remove the
requirement for a specific amount on the basis that the adopted policy only seeks 0.4ha, and it is not possible to provide
this amount of open space, whilst also providing for 100 houses with an acceptable design and layout.
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Boundaries and limit setting are something that often comes up in therapy sessions. There's a reason for this. Telling others "No" can be very hard for many people. For some, this can come from being raised by a family who valued avoidance of conflict. Others may have grown up in a household filled with activity and drama. As a result, these people may have learned to cope by being compliant. For them, saying 'yes' as a child was easier, even if the resulting activity or situation was unpleasant. The problem is that while these coping strategies may have worked OK in their family environment, as teenagers and adults these coping strategies usually don't continue to work as effectively in the outside world. Saying "Yes" to everything at work, for example, will often land you with more work than you can handle. Saying "Yes" to everything at school may have you doing all the work on that group project while your other group members coast along contributing nothing. Saying "Yes" to everything in your marriage could leave you feeling resentful at your partner and unfulfilled in your relationship. So obviously learning to say "No" at times is an important skill. How do we learn to start? We have to understand that we deserve to set limits and that our emotional well being depends on it. It is pure physics. There are only so many slices in a pizza pie. There is only so much gas a tank can hold. There is only so much of ourselves we can say "Yes" to before we are running on empty. If we keep giving of ourselves to others, we will eventually have literally nothing left to give. Once we accept this fact as a true reality, we can then be empowered to start to learn concrete skills to practice setting and enforcing our limits and boundaries. Sometimes this can be as simple as learning key phrases to fall back on like "No, thanks" or "Normally I'd love to but right now I just can't" or, simply, "No." Other times, these skills can look like learning to identify what triggers us to fail to set limits emotionally and learning techniques to manage those emotional barriers. Whatever is needed in your specific case, you are capable of learning how to figure it out. If you need a little extra help and support in this endeavor, a good therapist is always a great place to start.
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Cowboys Strength Coach Cause Of Death,Markus Paul Dead: Cowboys Strength Coach Dies | Heavycom|2020-12-04
Cowboys Assistant Markus Paul Dies Day After Medical Event …
Paul has been with the Cowboys for the past three seasons, and has been a strength and conditioning coach across the league for 22 years.The Rockets reportedly receive Wall and a 2023 protected first-round pick (per The Athletic's Shams Charania), with Westbrook heading to the Wizards, where he'll reunite with coach Scott Brooks."As per the Paul family, Markus is in the process of undergoing further medical tests and additional information will be made available at the appropriate time," wrote the Cowboys in a statement.Then he threatened to shut down the companies.McCarthy seemed to have a sense already of the change prompted by COVID-19 issues that forced the NFL to push back the Ravens' game against Pittsburgh twice.In March, at the outset of the COVID-19 pandemic, the Cowboys featured Paul in a video series on social media that provided tips on fitness workouts at home under the hashtag #StayHomeStayStrong.Facebook and Twitter take unusual steps to limit spread of New York Post story.
Cowboys Strength And Conditioning Coach Markus Paul Dies At 54
Details about the medical emergency are unclear.The term "body English" describes the movement that someone might make to influence the movement of an object that has already been propelled.Markus did everything the right way.Nolan said McCarthy, then the offensive coordinator for the 49ers, was standing near Thomas Herrion when the 23-year-old offensive lineman collapsed and died in the locker room after a preseason game in Denver.The coach was actually looking forward to what amounted to another bye week for the Cowboys, who now might not even have to practice for a full week after the Thanksgiving game.The sequence is remembered as the letters SOS (three dots – pause – three dashes – pause – three dots).Seattle improves to 8-3, Philadelphia falls to 3-7-1.He collected five Super Bowl rings — three as a member of the Patriots and two with the Giants — in 23 years as an NFL strength coach.
Cowboys Strength Coach Cause Of Death! – Bess & Loie
The official inactives for today's Baltimore Ravens at Pittsburgh Steelers game.Westbrook's name is on the trade, but this is all about Beal.But the upcoming game against Baltimore was tentatively pushed to Monday, Dec.It is unclear when he got married or if they were still together at the time of his death.WFAA digital producers Eline de Bruijn and Jake Harris contributed to this report.Done with Cause to blush? Go back and see the other crossword clues for USA Today."The loss of a family member is a tragedy, and Markus Paul was a loved and valued member of our family.They have, in essence, decided that the only viable path to retaining Beal is to court losing him, because trading him does not appear to be an option.The Associated Press contributed to this report.On Tuesday the team was shocked when popular Strength and Conditioning Coach Markus Paul was the victim of a major medical emergency at the Star, which resulted in practice and other team activities being canceled for the day.
Raw Emotions Linger For Cowboys After Death Of Strength …
His passion for his work and his enthusiasm for life earned him great respect and admiration from all of our players and the entire organization."We will deal with it and we'll use whatever resources we need to.He was a pleasant and calming influence in our strength room and throughout The Star, Jones said in a written statement.Shortly before 7:30 …."His passion for his work and his enthusiasm for life earned him great respect and admiration from all of our players and the entire organization."I do believe, as I even told Mike, he handled it extremely well and he'll continue to do that.The former Syracuse standout has helped lead teams to five Super Bowl wins in his career, too, including three with the New England Patriots and two with the New York Giants.In a statement, Cowboys head coach Mike McCarthy said:.It's been a dizzying first year for McCarthy and his staff taking over a team that had high hopes.
Dallas Cowboys Mourn Death Of Strength Coach | Training …
Nov 25, 2020Dallas Cowboys strength and conditioning coordinator Markus Paul, a five-season NFL veteran who went on to work for multiple teams as a strength coach for ….Donald Trump has had a rocky relationship with these companies during his presidency despite his prolific use of Twitter to get his message to his 88million followers.Our hearts are broken for his family and all of the individuals whose lives he touched and made better.'Darth Vader wouldn't be the same without you in the costume.The first-year Dallas coach couldn't really answer a question about the play because he was still dealing the next morning with the aftermath of the sudden death of strength and conditioning coordinator Markus Paul, who collapsed in the team's weight room and died at a hospital the day before the 41-16 loss Thursday.His injuries and questionable public decision-making made him easier to move.
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He was a kind man who made a lasting impact on those fortunate to have crossed his path.Dallas was supposed to play on a Thursday-to-Thursday schedule that has become common for the club after Thanksgiving.For other inquiries, Contact Us.The team has said a cause of death ….He is not gone yet, the doctors are doing everything they can possibly do for him.His tragic death was confirmed the day after his family denied earlier reports that the Dallas Cowboys' strength coach had died after a medical emergency.In 1931, with the country in the grips of the Great Depression, Rockefeller Center employees decided they needed to spread a little holiday cheer.The cause of death is not yet known.Saw-whet owl was found tired and hungry in the branches of the huge Norway spruce at famous New York landmark.Paul was a member of the Chicago Bears and the Tampa Bay Buccaneers in the NFL."We extend our love, strength and support to Markus' family during this most challenging of times and ask that their privacy be respected moving forward," McCarthy said in a statement.We're just trying to make plans to move forward.
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While purchasing life insurance is about as fun as watching paint dry, for most, it's one of life's necessities.
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"They're finally getting out of the Fred Flintstone age. This is definitely not an Amazon experience yet. But it's going to get there." – Thomas J. Henske, partner at Lenox Advisors Inc.
No exam life insurance applications are almost always submitted electronically.
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A phone interview will follow your application submission.
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Database systems are a primary component of what is accelerating the availability of no physical life insurance.
The MIB is a database of previous insurance applications. If you have applied for life insurance previously, and something concerning popped up, it's often on record at the MIB.
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Remember, there are plenty of life insurance options available, even after a decline.
Is $50,000 Of Life Insurance Right For Me?
Does $50,000 provide financial protection for my beneficiaries should something happen to me?
What are my current monetary obligations?
What are my future monetary aspirations?
*Underwriting processes and policy features subject to change.
For many of us, the thought of being poked with a needle has been cringe-worthy enough to put off purchasing life insurance.
$50,000 of life insurance is almost always purchased without a medical exam. And, your premiums tend to be modest.
Quotes are for monthly premiums. They are based on limited input and are for informational purposes only.
Note – Quotes are samples only and are based on healthy individuals.
Also, note – Purchasing twice the amount of life insurance – $100,000 of no exam life insurance – often costs only a small amount more. We're talking less than a dollar in some cases.
One more thing – If you are 50 or older, consider all of your options for senior life insurance.
Plenty of options are available for your life insurance policy.
Let's focus on riders. Riders are provisions to your life insurance contract that provide additional benefits.
It's important to compare the top-rated no exam life insurance companies before buying a policy because each company provides unique riders and policy features.
Perfect health is not a requirement to purchase $50,000 of no exam life insurance.
Really, the acceptable health rates are fairly lenient for up to about $500,000 of no exam life insurance.
Life insurance carriers will be concerned if you haven't had a checkup recently.
If you haven't had a doctor's visit lately, it's possible something will show up on your lab work unexpectedly (i.e. elevated cholesterol, high blood sugar). Some lab results can place you in a different health class, causing your premiums to rise.
If you have multiple minor health concerns, it's possible that no exam life insurance will be a better route to go because the underwriting process uses less scrutiny.
For sure, the lowest premium rates will be available to those that are in excellent health. Yet, even if your health is less than perfect, no exam life insurance may be a great fit.
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No exam life insurance can shave weeks off of the application turnaround time. In fact, some no exam carriers provide application decisions within minutes.
Will $50,000 provide adequate financial protection for my loved ones?
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Busy Festive Period for NetEnt
By Dale Shelabarger, Updated: SEPTEMBER 28, 2022
Things often quiet down in the iGaming industry during the run-up to Christmas. Indeed, the festive period is often one of quiet contemplation for operators and developers alike. And who can blame them? It's been a pretty rough year for the online gambling sector as a whole, thanks to the paternalistic UK Gambling Commission and its relentless onslaught. Although the noble quango's various diktats apply specifically to unfortunates residing in the UK, their effects are being felt elsewhere too. But NetEnt seems to be cracking on regardless.
Mega-Mania
The Swedish outfit is already renowned for its restlessness when it comes to casino game development. In November alone, the company released six casino games: Speed Baccarat Gold, Speed Baccarat Silver, Speed Baccarat, and The Trillionaire.
Accompanying these new releases were two slots that utilise the ubiquitous Megaways engine: Twin Spin and Divine Fortune. The integration of Big Time Gaming's mechanic with Twin Spin received rave reviews from players upon release and continues to top the rankings on sites such as Slots Catalogue.
The retro-inspired original is considered a classic among gamers thanks to a no-frills base game and simple, albeit highly polished visuals. The new Megaways engine has enhanced play dramatically with the inclusion of a lucrative multiplier, extra pay-lines, and the famed cascading reels feature. Divine Fortune Megaways was unveiled last week and early indications suggest it's going to be another hit.
NetEnt's Chief Commercial Officer, Andy Whitworth was positively gleeful following the launch:
'Divine Fortune is one of the most popular titles in NetEnt history and it's great to reignite the game with the thrilling addition of Megaways. Twin Spin Megaways is our best release so far in 2020, but early data from Divine Fortune Megaways shows that it might not be for long. The combination of features makes this a title brimming with action and excitement. We're sure the remake will be a big hit with players across the board.'
Industry Abuzz
Then on Tuesday NetEnt announced a major new partnership with Buzz Bingo that will provide the UK's largest bingo operator with full access to its entire slot game portfolio. The deal is a major coup for the Nordic developer which gains yet another channel in which to serve games to British punters. Once the integration has been finalised, Buzz Bingo customers will be able to play popular titles such as Gonzo's Quest and the incredibly dull but bafflingly popular Starburst.
Unsurprisingly, it was high-fives all around following news of the high-profile pact.
Said Buzz Bingo boss, Steven Shaves:
'It's great to finally have NetEnt content on buzzbingo.com. The game's content is first class and resonates incredibly well with our player audience. I'm excited to see what one of the industry's very best content providers and Britain's best bingo company can do together!'
Predictably, NetEnt CO Andy Whitworth offered a gushing reciprocation.
'As a top name in the UK, it's a great achievement to partner with Buzz Bingo and provides its customers with games that are known favourites among players. Our portfolio offers not only well-known hits but also new releases that meet demands for exciting content and will no doubt be top performers on Buzz Bingo.'
The Buzz Bingo agreement marks something of a departure for NetEnt, which has recently focused much of its efforts in establishing a foothold in the burgeoning US market. Emboldened by a Pennsylvania gaming licence, the company has struck deals with Las Vegas giant Scientific Games, Bostonian betting upstarts Draft Kings, and the bizarrely-named Cordish Company. It's also released a slew of Red Tiger games through social gaming operator, Rush Street Interactive
The Evolution Revolution
In addition to the above developments is the small matter of an impending billion-dollar takeover by Evolution Gaming. Back in June, NetEnt accepted an acquisition offer in the region of SEK 19.6bn that will see the live dealer specialist take 90% control of NetEnt's corporate shareholding.
The CMA, UKGC
However, the proposed deal had the UK's Competition and Markets Authority in a bit of a hot mess. It immediately launched an investigation to decide whether the partnership might lessen the competition in the UK gambling sector (perhaps they should have investigated the Gambling Commission as well). Happily, for all concerned, the CMA granted its considered approval of the deal on November 16. Once final approval has been received by NetEnt's shareholders, the acquisition is expected to be confirmed in early December.
So all in all, a rather eventful couple of months for Net Entertainment.
Article by:Dale Shelabarger
Dale has written hundreds of casino reviews and articles over the last 15 years. In his spare time he watches anything to do with American sports and he is an NFL fanatic.


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Competition: we've teamed up with publishers Laurence King to give Dezeen readers the chance to win one of five copies of Folding Techniques for Designers.
The 224-page paperback book gives step-by-step instructions for creating 3D paper forms through photographs, diagrams and drawings.
These movies show demonstrations by the book's author Paul Jackson - watch more movies in this series on the Laurence King website and check out their Facebook page.
Folding Techniques for Designers by Paul Jackson and published by Laurence King in May 2011 is an elegant, practical handbook, covering more than 70 folding techniques explained through clear step-by- step drawings, crease-pattern drawings and specially commissioned photography.
All designers fold, that is, all designers crease, pleat, bend, hem, gather, knot, hinge, corrugate, drape, twist, furl, crumple, collapse, wrinkle, facet, curve or wrap two-dimensional sheets of material, and through these processes of folding, create three-dimensional objects.
Despite being so ubiquitous, folding as a design topic is rarely studied, however in recent years more and more designers of all disciplines have turned to folding to create a wide range of handmade and manufactured objects, both functional and decorative.
Folding Techniques for Designers is the first book to present this essential topic specifically for designers.
Drawing on 30 years of experience, the author aims to establish folding as a primary design tool and, by doing so, to reintroduce it as an essential topic in design education and practice.
Paul Jackson has been a professional paper folder and paper artist since 1982 and is the author of 30 books on paper arts and crafts. He has taught the techniques of folding on more than 150 university-level design courses in the UK, Germany, Belgium, the US, Canada and Israel.
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History Dept.
Was 2017 the Craziest Year in U.S. Political History?
A dozen historians weigh in.
By POLITICO MAGAZINE
Imagine how future historians might try to summarize 2017: A U.S. president, his family and his political aides came under investigation by a special counsel for possibly helping a foreign government meddle in the election. Talk of impeachment swirled through Congress, where the fracturing Republican Party was in the midst of an identity crisis—and the Democrats were, too. Twitter became a source of official U.S. policy. A wave of sexual harassment allegations took down U.S. senators and congressmen, top judges and reporters, and high-profile political candidates—but not the president, who had been caught on tape admitting to grabbing women "by the pussy." We learned that the Pentagon has secretly been studying UFOs. All while the leaders of North Korea and the United States exchanged threats to rain down nuclear "fire and fury like the world has never seen."
But as unbelievable and unprecedented as this year seemed, how wild was it really? Does it come in at No. 1 in the pantheon of American political chaos? Or, alongside the civil wars, assassinations, race riots and Watergates, does it not even rank? We asked some of the nation's smartest historians to tell us whether 2017 was indeed the craziest year in U.S. political history, and, if not, what year's got it beat. Here's what they had to say. —Elizabeth F. Ralph
'2017 has its own unmatched attributes'
Robert Dallek is the author of Franklin D. Roosevelt: A Political Life.
Twenty-seventeen is certainly one of the most distressing years in American presidential history. Of course, it cannot match 1861, when the United States was tumbling into a civil war and Abraham Lincoln found himself helpless to prevent a conflict that would take more American lives than in any other bloodletting in U.S. history.
But 2017 has its own unmatched attributes. No president since opinion polling began in 1935 has had such poor numbers in his first year in office. Unlike Franklin Roosevelt, who never fell below 50 percent approval in the Gallup Poll during his 12-year presidency, Donald Trump has been stuck at between 36 and 42 percent. Nor have we seen so unproductive an administration, with more unfilled campaign promises, than Trump's. Trump also has the unenviable distinction of being the only first-year president to have his administration under scrutiny by a special prosecutor. This has been a year to remember in presidential history.
1865: An assassination, a racist, a political fracture
Ron Chernow is the author of Grant.
On April 9, 1865, Robert E. Lee surrendered his Army of Northern Virginia to Ulysses S. Grant at Appomattox Court House. After four years of gruesome warfare, Grant laid down generous terms, issuing rations to famished Confederate soldiers and allowing them to take home their horses and mules to plant crops. For a fleeting and improbable instant, it seemed as if the war might conclude in fairy-tale fashion, with the Confederacy chastened and even repentant after the rebellion. Violence would give way to sanity.
Then, five days later, came the assassination of Abraham Lincoln. "Here was the rebellion put down in the field," Grant later observed, "and starting up in the gutters." The Great Emancipator and head of the Republican Party was succeeded by Andrew Johnson, a Democrat and an unapologetic racist, throwing American politics into turmoil. The Ku Klux Klan loomed just over the horizon. The events at Appomattox Court House had briefly promised regional harmony, but the radical change in leadership at the White House hinted that the deep fracture between North and South would harden into a permanent feature of our national life, a source of lunacy that bedevils us to the present day.
1919: Riots, racial violence, an absent president
Adriane Lentz-Smith is a professor of history at Duke University.
Nineteen-nineteen should have been a good year. The armistice ending World War I promised a return to calm, a restoration of civil liberties, and an ebb to the nativist hysteria that had made targets of German-Americans. But the war's end brought violence, not peace, to the American homefront. Riots roiled across the nation, in towns from Charleston to Washington, D.C., to Chicago. Not contemporary riots but Old World-style pogroms in which white mobs targeted black bodies, businesses and homes as a reminder that the "War for Democracy" abroad would not bring democracy back home. Although poet and former diplomat James Weldon Johnson labeled it the "Red Summer," the firestorm lasted the entire year, with large-scale riots in 10 cities, smaller conflicts in scores more, and nearly 100 lynchings of African-Americans (at least 13 of whom were veterans of the war). In September in Elaine, Arkansas, the revanchism of the Red Summer met the anti-radicalism of the Red Scare as white landowners led a mob of nearly 1,000 men in a massacre of black sharecroppers who had met to form a union.
All of this happened in the absence of presidential leadership. President Woodrow Wilson did little as white sailors beat black folks in the Washington streets, and he did even less to protect African-Americans in Elaine and elsewhere. Amplifying his general indifference to African-American citizenship was his focus on Paris. Wilson had spent much of the spring negotiating the Treaty of Versailles and much of the summer trying to sell the nation on it. By fall he had done himself in. Brought down by a series of strokes in late September, he sat paralyzed, effectively, as the nation burned around him. In his name, his administration went after radicals and so-called black insurgents, rather than the white supremacists who had launched the wave of terror.
This past year, 2017, has looked more like 1919 than most Americans would like. White supremacy is again in fashion in the executive branch, and the president shows little interest in protecting the nation's most vulnerable citizens. This is disheartening but not unprecedented. Yet, when we tell ourselves that things have been worse, we must also remind ourselves that we once made them better. We can—we must—do so again.
2017 'is a yawner by comparison'
H.W. Brands is a professor of history and government at the University of Texas and author of The General vs. the President: MacArthur and Truman at the Brink of Nuclear War.
So far, the Trump presidency has been noisy but unproductive. A young conservative justice added to the Supreme Court, yes. And now a tax bill. But either of these would have happened under any Republican president with the current Congress. For Trump, the campaign circus continues; the presidency has hardly begun.
Several other first years have been crazier, if that means surprisingly eventful. In Lincoln's first year, the Union fell apart and the North and South went to war. In FDR's first year, the welfare state was born. In George H.W. Bush's first year, the Soviet empire started to crumble. In George W. Bush's first year, the 9/11 attacks introduced America to global terrorism.
Trump's first year is a yawner by comparison, except that he won't shut up and let us snooze.
1860: 'Crazy in a terrifying way'
Jacqueline Jones is a professor of history at the University of Texas at Austin and author of Goddess of Anarchy: The Life and Times of Lucy Parsons, American Radical.
The year 1860 was crazy in a terrifying way. In the mid-19th century, partisan politics was akin to a blood sport, pursued by a small, privileged electorate consisting almost exclusively of white men. Yet in 1860, virtually all Americans understood that the results of the presidential election that November would affect every single person regardless of who they were or where they lived. At stake was a fundamental question that was roiling the nation: Should trafficking in human flesh remain legal?
The fast-moving events of 1860 upended the two-party system, threw into disarray traditional political alignments, and triggered the secession of South Carolina from the Union. In the summer of 1860, the Democratic Party cracked up, splitting into two factions. The Southern wing promoted the extension of slavery, while the Northern wing wanted to leave the issue up to the individual states. The new Constitutional Union Party promoted the thoroughly discredited idea that compromise on the slavery issue was possible. The Republican Party, which represented Northern anti-slavery interests, had been in existence for only six years; it nominated Abraham Lincoln. By mid-summer most Americans understood that the fractured Democratic Party guaranteed a Republican win at the polls in November. Election Day saw a turnout of 81.2 percent of the eligible voting age population (in contrast, the figure for the election of 2016 was 55.5 percent). Responding to Lincoln's victory, the South Carolina General Assembly approved an ordinance of secession on December 20, a move that would be replicated by 10 other Southern states determined to protect the institution of slavery from Lincoln and a Republican Congress. The seceded states provoked a war that claimed 700,000 lives. More Americans died in the Civil War than in all other wars in the nation's history combined. The end of the war proved that it was not the year 1860 that was crazy, but the self-deluded secessionists who assumed any conflict with the Union would be but a brief romp.
1968: 'The most tumultuous year we should remember'
Leo Ribuffo is a professor of history at George Washington University.
I could choose any year of the Civil War, for reasons that should be obvious. Or I could pick 1877 or 1919, for reasons that are slightly less so. In March 1877, Republican Rutherford B. Hayes became president as part of a sordid but sensible deal to resolve a corrupt and violent election. Hayes took office amid a recession that, during the summer, precipitated a bloody national railroad strike eventually broken by state militia and federal troops. In 2017 terms, damage was comparable to the destruction of major airport terminals and hundreds of planes. Nineteen-nineteen was marked by the start of post-World War I "stagflation," murderous anti-black riots in many cities, defeat of the Versailles Treaty after a bitter congressional debate, and a Red Scare with ideological legacies lasting at least through McCarthyism. President Woodrow Wilson hunkered down in the White House almost totally disabled by a stroke.
But 1861-65, 1877 and 1919 probably seem so 19th- or early-20th century to readers of POLITICO Magazine. Therefore, the award for the most tumultuous year we should remember goes to 1968. It wasn't all sex, drugs, and rock and roll. American deaths in Vietnam peaked at nearly 17,000. Assassins killed Robert Kennedy and Martin Luther King, Jr. Amid the urban uprisings following King's murder, the fires in Washington, D.C., were the worst since the British attacked the city and burned the White House in 1814. Richard Nixon was elected president after campaigning as a moderate, which in a way he was because segregationist George Wallace, on his right, got 9.9 million votes. Nineteen sixty-eight also merits the prize because many of today's officials and pundits were already adults. President Donald Trump turned 22, House Democratic leader Nancy Pelosi 28, and CNN anchor Wolf Blitzer 20. With minimal effort, they could remember what an extraordinary national crisis looks like instead of promoting the apocalyptic self-absorption of the present.
1973-1974: A political scandal, a resignation, a market crash
Vanessa Walker is Morgan assistant professor of Diplomatic History at Amherst College.
This past year has made a strong case for the "craziest year" in American politics. While most presidents have preferred at least the veneer of respectability, the current administration seems to delight in the specter of open dysfunction and provocation. Still, in our never-ending whirl of scandals and crises, let's not forget the final year in office of Richard Milhous "When-the-president-does-it-that-means-it's-not-illegal" Nixon. Nixon started the last year of his presidency with covert support for the coup in Chile that toppled one of the strongest democracies in the hemisphere in September 1973. This was followed quickly by the Yom Kippur War in October, resulting in the OPEC embargo and oil crisis. And humming away in the background was the final withdrawal of U.S. troops from Vietnam, the country's (then) longest conflict. And then there was the Watergate scandal: gross abuses of executive power to intimidate domestic political opponents, obstruct justice and undermine the constitutional separation of powers. Facing impending impeachment, in August 1974 Nixon became the first and only president to resign the office. Gerald Ford, a fundamentally decent man, took over the presidency only because the former vice president, Spiro Agnew, had been forced to resign less than a year earlier under charges of conspiracy, fraud and bribery. The same day Ford sought to heal the country by pardoning Nixon in September 1974, he was greeted with headlines about U.S. covert operations that had led to the military coup in Chile. Ford thus had the dubious distinction of being the first president to publicly acknowledge U.S. covert operations.
By the time Nixon gave his final iconic and unrepentant wave as he boarded the helicopter to leave the White House, he had championed the benefits of dividing the American public through "positive polarization," attacked the press for its "unfair" and "biased" coverage of his administration, dismissed anti-war protesters as "bums," and promoted the image of himself as a "madman" with his finger on the nuclear launch button to scare the North Vietnamese back to the negotiating table.
Even with all of this, 2017 could go toe-to-toe with the last year of the Nixon White House in terms of political sensationalism. So, what gives 1973-74 the edge? Amid our very real political turmoil this year, we have been spared the miseries of that unfortunate 1970s malaise of stagflation. Just imagine this past year with the addition of a serious stock market crash, double digit inflation, and cars lined up around the block waiting for gas. The current booming economy has clearly tempered public impatience with the political shenanigans that have marked this year—and puts Nixon's last year in office in the lead for crazy. Of course, there are still a few days left in the year, and 2017 has been nothing if not unpredictable.
1968: 'It's hard to think of a more chaotic year'
David Greenberg is professor of history and media studies at Rutgers.
It's hard to think of a more chaotic year in contemporary American history than 1968. After years of mounting social discord over civil rights, civil liberties, changing codes of behavior and the war in Vietnam, many citizens now firmly believed—be it with hope or dread—that a revolution was nigh. The year began with the Tet Offensive, which convinced many Americans the war was unwinnable, and ended with the presidential election victory of Richard Nixon, a man whose political career had been said to be over just six years before. In between, turbulence reigned.
Six weeks after Tet, a second-tier Minnesota senator, Eugene McCarthy, nearly upset President Lyndon Johnson in the New Hampshire primary, leading Johnson to forsake a second full term. Three weeks after that, the era's greatest civil rights hero, Martin Luther King Jr., was assassinated in Memphis. And later that spring, the Democrats' best hope for retaining the White House, Robert F. Kennedy, was also murdered—on the night he won the final presidential primary, in California—by a Palestinian terrorist, Sirhan Sirhan. On campuses like Columbia University's, student strikes halted normal operations. In cities like Washington, D.C., riots leveled black neighborhoods. Anti-war protesters clashed with Chicago police in August at the Democratic convention; in September, feminists protested the Miss America pageant in Atlantic City. To look abroad brought Americans no relief either, as violent protests rocked cities from Mexico City to Paris, and Rome to Prague—where Soviet troops crushed the so-called Prague Spring. In December, one bright spot gave Americans some reason to look to the future: As part of the Apollo 8 mission, the first men orbited the moon—suggesting perhaps that if life on Earth seemed irredeemably conflict-ridden, new frontiers of hope lay ahead.
1920: 'The world was in chaos'
Nicole Hemmer is an assistant professor at the University of Virginia's Miller Center.
No year can compete with 2017 in terms of the volume and pace of news. But in terms of chaos, 1920 would be a solid competitor.
The world was in chaos. The Great War had ended just weeks before, and it was still uncertain what, if anything, would emerge from the rubble. In the first few months of the year, Congress voted first against joining the League of Nations, then against ratifying the Treaty of Versailles, leaving the state of world affairs, and America's role in them, an open question.
At home, social and economic chaos reigned. The U.S. military rapidly demobilized, bringing four million troops home without any plans for their reintegration. Agricultural markets, buoyed by the war, collapsed, triggering a farming depression that would last for two decades. Massive strikes, which had started a year earlier, continued to roil American industry. This mass unrest triggered fears of anarchy and communism that led to America's first Red Scare. The Justice Department organized raids of questionable constitutionality, rounding up thousands of leftists.
You want political chaos? In early 1920, the public became aware of the extent of President Woodrow Wilson's debilitating strokes, which left him largely incapacitated for the remainder of his term. The impending presidential election saw the electorate doubled by the ratification of the 19th Amendment, which gave women the right to vote. And what an election it was: Warren G. Harding, the dark-horse Republican nominee, was a newspaper man who had newly minted Hollywood celebs campaigning for him while the RNC sent his mistress—and her husband—on a cruise to Asia to keep them away from the press. He ran against another newspaperman, James Cox, and the socialist Eugene Debs, who in 1920 conducted his presidential campaign from federal prison, where he was being jailed for speaking out against the draft.
Oh, and in September, the U.S. experienced its deadliest terror attack to date, when a horse-drawn carriage exploded on Wall Street, killing 38 people and wounding hundreds more. No wonder that by November, Americans were ready to vote for the "return to normalcy" Harding had promised: 1920 had left them reeling.
1861: 'Democratic politics … came very close to a breaking point'
Joshua Zeitz is the author of Building the Great Society: Inside Lyndon Johnson's White House.
"The people are impatient," Abraham Lincoln confided to Montgomery Meigs, the Union Army's quartermaster general, shortly after the close of his first year in office. "[Secretary of the Treasury Salmon] Chase has no money and he tells me he can raise no more; the General of the Army has typhoid fever. The bottom is out of the tub. What shall I do?"
Americans today are living through turbulent and unsettling times that will test the elasticity of our political traditions and institutions. But we've endured worse. No one knew it better than Lincoln.
In 1861, democratic politics in the United States came very close to a breaking point. Eleven states seceded from the Union, leading the Senate to expel 11 members, including former Vice President John C. Breckenridge. Thousands of Army and Naval officers renounced allegiance to their country. In response, the president summarily suspended the writ of habeas corpus (something he most likely did not have the constitutional authority to do), not just in the rebellious states, but also in Maryland, which remained in the Union only after he placed roughly one-third of the state legislature behind bars.
We're not currently on course for a second civil war, and, on the whole, America's public institutions—the courts, law enforcement, state governments—have held their own against the threat posed by Trumpism (and by its congressional enablers). But there's some lesson in that earlier era.
As unmoored as it was from past experience, 1861 merely presaged five years of greater revolutionary activity that followed. Southern Democrats had formally repudiated democratic process, and in response, Northern Republicans felt emboldened to undertake countermeasures that in very recent memory would have been unthinkable. They confiscated rebel property, created a new paper currency, borrowed vast sums of money, funded the construction of land grant colleges and transcontinental railroad construction—the education and infrastructure bills of their day. They emancipated and granted citizenship to four million slaves.
Writing later that decade, the historian George Ticknor observed a "great gulf between what happened before in our century and what has happened since, or what is likely to happen hereafter. It does not seem to me as if I were living in the country in which I was born."
For every political action, there is an equal and opposite reaction. As was true in 1861, we've only seen the start of it.
1890: An unpopular tax bill, voter suppression, an impending revolt
Heather Richardson is a professor of history at Boston College.
Every time the U.S. government swings too far toward oligarchy we have a political crisis as a small minority tries to retain power in the face of an angry and growing opposition. This tension gave us 1860, as well as 1932. It also gave us 1890.
In May of that year, Republican congressmen yelled and cheered as they passed a major revenue bill that gave rich businessmen everything they wanted. They had forced the bill through, ignoring regular order, Democratic amendments and the voters to whom they had promised financial "reform." As congressmen celebrated, a Democrat yelled across the aisle: "You may rejoice now … but next November you'll mourn."
Republicans just laughed. They felt utterly secure. Sure, Republican policies were hideously unpopular, but people would like them once they understood that government protection of workers was socialism and would undermine American greatness, while giving money to capitalists meant investment in the economy that would trickle down to poorer Americans. In any case, Republicans couldn't lose. They had gamed the system to control the government no matter how unpopular they were. Their president had lost the popular vote, but they had won the White House through the Electoral College anyway. They had quietly taken over a popular media outlet to trumpet the administration's talking points. They suppressed the Democratic vote. And they had monkeyed with the system by adding six new states to the Union: North Dakota, South Dakota, Montana, Washington, Wyoming and Idaho. With these new Republican states, they expected that they would never again lose the Senate or the presidency. Big-business Republicans celebrated their permanent remaking of the American government.
But the Democrat who told them they would mourn was right. The extremists controlling the government had alienated not just Democrats, but also most Republicans, who lamented that their party had been replaced by a corrupt organization interested only in making the rich richer. Over the next two years, Republican leaders watched aghast as voters did the unthinkable, tossing them out of power in Congress and the White House, and beginning the political revolution that led to the Progressive Era.
'In the realm of craziness, 2017 has no contenders'
Jack Rakove is professor of history and political science at Stanford University.
In ordinary times, crazy is not a useful variable of social science or a helpful framework for historical analysis. But of course, ordinary historical time ended 13 months ago (and counting, day by day, hour by hour, tweet by tweet), and the question arises: Is this the craziest year in our nation's political history? The working historian can readily identify other years that were patently more momentous, and we can justify their importance by invoking all those factors that we spend our scholarly years studying. But in the realm of craziness, 2017 has no contenders.
Why is that the case? One could argue, for example, that the new Republican mode of lawmaking, which involves drafting legislation behind closed doors, with no serious discussion, to fuel some madcap rush to get a vote, represents a crazed alternative to the Madisonian model of serious prolonged deliberation. Or one could hold that it is a crazed model of governance to experience one traumatic weather emergency after another, yet turn our institutions of environmental regulation over to a crowd of climate change deniers and big-business chumps.
But the best case for craziness inheres in our prolonged uncertainty over the mental state of our chief executive. There are already countless ways to measure the ever-oscillating mood swings in the White House. Just consider two long newspaper pieces that have run this month, with the New York Times describing Trump's working day—or is it better called viewing day?—while the Washington Post details his persistent preference for the word of Vladimir Putin over the reports of his own intelligence agencies.
In my view, however, the real craziness of 2017 is best expressed in terms of constitutional theory. Our Constitution vests the entire executive power in a single individual. No worse joke has been played on the American people than the very fact that tens of thousands of eighth-graders have a far better grasp of the Constitution than Donald Trump, even though he swore a sacred oath to "preserve, protect, and defend" it on January 20, before the record crowds he deluded himself to see assembled before him. That's not just political craziness; it's truly meshugah in every sense of the term. Just try to imagine a conversation with Jefferson, Madison, either Adams, or Abraham Lincoln—strong constitutionalists all—on one side of the table, and the current chief executive on the other. That would be crazy, too!


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Zhi-Jong Wang
Zhi-Jong Wang made her solo debut at the age of 14 with Orchestre national de Lille under Sir Yehudi Menuhin in France, since then she has appeared as a soloist with various orchestras, including Orchestre National de Radio France, St. PetersburgPhilharmonic Orchestra, Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra, Turku Symphony Orchestra, Konzerthausorcheser Berlin, Warsaw Philharmonic Orchestra amongst others. Shecollaborates with musicians such as Yuri Temirkanov, Gidon Kremer, Lynn Harrel, Matthias Bamert, Okko Kamu, John Storgårds, Lior Shambadal, Christian Arming, Muhai Tang, Jia Lü, Guoyang Zhang, Yang Yang,etc.
Zhi-Jong's recent accomplishments include her debut recital at the Lucerne Festival, highly acclaimed performances with the Osaka Century Orchestra and with the NHK Symphony Orchestra under Tadaaki Otaka, and her debut at the Philharmonie Berlin.
As well as performing the standard violin repertoire, Zhi-Jong is a passionate exponent of contemporary music, performing works by Gubaidulina, Lutoslawski, Schnittke, Ligeti, etc. In the recent seasons, she premiered Ana Sokolovic's Commedia dell'arte III and Nikolai Badinski's Violin ConcertoNo.2.
Following her first concert leading the orchestra from the violin with Ensemble Orchestral de Paris performing Mozart's Violin Concerto no. 5 at the Cité de la Musique in Paris, 'play-conducting' has attracted Zhi-Jong's interest and in recent seasons she has played/conducted Vivaldi/Piazzolla's Four Seasons and several of the Mozart concerti.
Zhi-Jong is the laureate of many important competitions beginning with First Prize in the 1998 Yehudi Menuhin International Competition. In the same year, she also won the First Prize of the China National Violin Competition, where she was the youngest first prize winner ever. In the following years Zhi-Jong Wang has distinguished herself receiving prizes in the Sibelius Violin Competition, Lipizer Violin Competition, Tchaikovsky Competition, etc. Her CD is released by Accentus Music. Her recent release includes Sibelius and Stravinsky violin concertos with the Philharmonia Orchestra and conductorThomas Sanderling.
Zhi-Jong is currently Professor and Deputy Director of the Orchestra Department at Shanghai Conservatory of Music. She plays on a 1716 Stradivarius kindly on loan from China Foundation.


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FINDING THE PERFECT DIAMOND
KYLA & RON
MEANING OF BASHERT
The Difference in Diamond Certificates
Grading accuracy is not always consistent between diamond laboratories. Grading a diamond is a subjective skill. What one laboratory grades a diamond may not be what another laboratory grades the diamond. In fact, gemologists within the same laboratory may not agree on the same grade. At GIA, a small council of gemologists submit their assessments on a particular stone and once there is a gathering of like opinions, the grade is recorded. The grade recorded on the certificate is what determines the diamond's value. You can expect to pay more for a diamond that has a certificate from GIA versus a diamond that has a certificate from EGL. This is because the grade given at the GIA laboratory is much more strict and is seen as the gold standard within the diamond industry. With a GIA certification, you know exactly what you are getting. Though subjective, the grading process is rigorous at GIA. Other laboratories have a reputation of being anywhere from one to four shades lower than a GIA grade.
LAB GRADE EFFECTS EXAMPLE
Carat color clarity cut average price
1.00 F VS2 Very Good $8,357
AGS 1.00 F VS2 Very Good $7,933
EGL Israel 1.00 F VS2 Very Good $4,905
EGL USA 1.00 F VS2 Very Good $6,090
IGI 1.00 F VS2 Very Good $6,602
HRD 1.00 F VS2 Very Good $7,430
GIA (Gemological Institute of America) is extremely strict in assigning color and clarity grades. If a diamond's quality is on the line of the next higher quality grade, GIA will typically assign the lower grade. GIA uses a computer operated proportion analyzer device (SARIN machine) to determine diamond proportions. The GIA certificate will yield the most money per carat on diamonds, due to the harsh grading scale and global recognition. GIA is the gold standard in certificate grading.
AGS (American Gemological Service) is also very strict in their diamond grading. In fact, some believe AGS is more strict than GIA. AGS is the only laboratory that assigns the cut grade as a numerical value between 0 and 10. 0 is the best cut, while 10 is the least desirable. AGS-graded diamonds will also yield a premium in diamond prices per carat.
EGL (European Gemological Laboratory) is not as strict as GIA or AGS. EGL laboratories differ in consistency throughout the world. The most liberal grading comes from the EGL Laboratory in Israel, while the strictest grading standards are seen in the EGL USA laboratories. EGL-graded diamonds will be available at larger discount than a GIA or AGS-graded diamond. This is because the leniency of the certificate represents anywhere from one color and one clarity grade lower (EGL USA) to up to three color and three clarity grades lower (EGL Israel) in comparison to a GIA or AGS-graded diamond.
IGI (International Gemological Institute) is a reputable diamond grading certificate; however, it is not as strict as GIA or AGS. The IGI certificate is often used to certify smaller diamonds, due to the lower cost of the actual certificate in comparison to other certification laboratories. It is rare that IGI-certified diamonds are more than one color and one clarity lower than a GIA or AGS diamond grade. A deeper discount will be available for an IGI stone in comparison to a GIA or AGS diamond.
HRD is a European-based laboratory that is based in Antwerp, Belgium. The grading laboratory is operated by the Belgian government and is one of the most popular certifications in Europe. The discount will be similar to that of an IGI certificate, as it would be rare that HRD certificate are more than one color and one clarity lower than the GIA or AGS grading.
Often referred to as the fifth "C" in measuring diamond quality, diamond certificates—or certs as they are known in the diamond industry—are an evaluation of a diamond by an independent third party. The diamond certificate shows the results of the evaluation made on a diamond under 10x magnification in color, carat, clarity, and cut.
There are a number of detailed measurements associated with the diamond cut. These measurements are broken down into the following categories: polish, symmetry, table size, crown angles, pavilion angles, and girdle thickness.
The certificate will also specify the diamond's fluorescence and measurements, and include a diamond plot, which details the placement of the inclusions—if there are any—unique to that particular diamond. This is considered the diamond's unique identity mark, as no two diamonds are exactly alike.
The information provided by a certificate will provide the buyer with the information necessary to determine the value of the diamond. Without a certificate issued by a reputable agency such as GIA, AGS, or EGL, or HRD, a buyer relies on a jeweler's integrity that the diamond's 4C parameters are accurate and not overstated.
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One buck deer per unused Bow Buck Harvest Authorization plus one antlerless deer per unused Antlerless Deer Harvest Authorization valid for use in the specified zone, DMU and land type (public-access or private).
When and where a firearm deer season is in progress, no person may hunt any game, except waterfowl, unless at least 50% of their outer clothing above the waist is colored blaze orange or fluorescent pink. A hat or other head covering, if worn, must be at least 50% blaze orange or fluorescent pink. Faded or stained blaze orange or fluorescent pink clothing is unsafe and may not meet law requirements. Although not as visible, camo-blaze is legal if 50% of the material is blaze orange or fluorescent pink. The DNR recommends 100% solid blaze orange or fluorescent pink.
During any gun or muzzleloader deer season, ground blinds (except waterfowl blinds) on DNR owned or managed lands must have a minimum of 144 square inches of solid blaze orange or fluorescent pink material visible from all directions.
You are not required to validate or attach a paper harvest authorization (formerly known as "deer carcass tag") to the deer, but you must still carry proof of your harvest authorization & hunting license while afield.
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Register your deer by 5 p.m. the day after recover. All registration is electronic.
Register by phone: 1-844-426-3734 (1-844 GAME REG) (available 24 hours). When prompted, use the numbers on your phone keypad to spell the first three letters of the county. For example, for Adams County, enter A-D-A by pressing "232." Find the numbers that spell the first three letters of each county on the last page of these regulations.
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The bag limit is one buck deer per unused Gun Buck Deer Harvest Authorization and one antlerless deer per unused Junior Antlerless Deer Harvest Authorization valid for use in the specified zone, DMU, and land type (public-access or private). Junior Antlerless Deer Harvest Authorization is NOT valid in Ashland, Forest and Sawyer counties.
Persons age 16 or older may NOT hunt deer under authority of a gun deer license during the Youth Gun Deer Hunt, except for hunting on an agricultural damage deer shooting permit or hunters who possess a valid disabled hunting permit and are hunting on a property sponsoring a disabled deer hunt.
Youth hunters must be accompanied* by an adult parent or guardian even if the youth is 14 or 15 years old and holds a Hunter Education Certificate. One adult may not accompany more than two youth hunters at the same time.
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Purple Heart recipients who wish to receive the reduced price CP license or licenses at resident rates are required to produce documentation at a DNR Service Center. Once proof of having received a purple heart is verified at a DNR Service Center and recorded in the customer's record, the customer may purchase their reduced rate licenses at any licensing agent. Residents may present certified copies of their DD-214 or DD-215 from the National Archives and Records Administration, County Veterans Service Officers, Wisconsin Department of Veterans Affairs, or County Clerk. Nonresidents may present certified copies of their DD-214 or DD-215 from the National Archives and Records Administration, their state veterans agency, or County Clerk.
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John Wyatt: 81 in '64
by Frank Jackson
John Wyatt had the best season of his career while pitching for the Kansas City Athletics in Municipal Stadium. (via Missouri State Archives)
What can you say about a team that finishes in last (10th) place with a record of 57-105? I speak of the Kansas City Athletics of 1964. Believe it or not, the news wasn't all bad.
At age 30, Rocky Colavito (34 HR, 102 RBIs) and Jim Gentile (28 HR, 71 RBIs) both were still productive hitters. The rest of the roster was lackluster – but with an asterisk, as a number of young players (e.g., Dick Green, Ed Charles, Bert Campaneris, Ken Harrelson, Dave Duncan, Diego Segui, Ken Sanders, Blue Moon Odom, Jack Aker) eventually fashioned respectable careers.
Since the A's starting pitching staff left something to be desired (4.71 composite ERA, last in the AL), it's no surprise the bullpen was a busy place. The A's best option was Wes Stock, who pitched 93 innings in 50 games (no starts) with a 1.94 ERA.
As good as Stock was, he only saved five games. Admittedly, saves were hard to come by, as the A's did not often take leads into the ninth inning. Yet another A's pitcher managed to garner 20 saves, which placed him fourth in the AL. That would be John Wyatt, who finished the season at 9-8 with a 3.59 ERA in 128 innings. Like Stock, all of his appearances were as a reliever.
Wyatt's record might not sound overly impressive, but he was good enough during the first half of the season to be named to the All-Star team for the only time in his career. (Unfortunately, his one-inning stint was marred by solo home runs by Billy Williams and Ken Boyer.) During the regular season, however, Wyatt was no one-inning-and-done reliever. In fact, he pitched three innings or more 10 times.
Wyatt, who started his pro career as a member of the Indianapolis Clowns of the Negro American League, was a 27-year-old rookie in 1962 when he appeared in 59 games, nine of which he started. As it turned out, they were the only starting appearances of his career. His rookie season was a winning one (10-7), albeit with a 4.46 ERA in 125 innings. In 1963, he dropped his ERA to 3.13, and by 1964 he had attained some security in his profession. (The Kansas City A's traded him away during the 1966 season, but at age 34 he returned for a brief curtain call with the Oakland A's in 1969.)
In 1964, as in every season, someone has to lead the league in appearances. When all was said and done, Wyatt led the way with 81 (right behind him with 79 was the Red Sox' Dick Radatz, who led the league in saves with 29).
As lousy as the A's were in 1964, it's understandable that Wyatt's appearance at the top of the leader board passed under the radar. Most appearances by a pitcher in a season is not one of the sexier stats out there, but Wyatt didn't just the league in appearances — it was the first time in MLB history a pitcher appeared in half of his team's games. So of course it was also the record for most appearances by a pitcher in a season.
Of course, relievers were becoming more and more prominent in MLB, so it was just a matter of time before someone hit the halfway mark. In fact, Wyatt's record was eclipsed the following season when Ted Abernathy of the Cubs appeared in 84 games. Just four years later (1969), Wayne Granger of the Reds was the first pitcher to hit 90.
Well, much like Roger Bannister breaking the four-minute mile, once Wyatt broached the barrier, numerous others followed in his wake. In fact, Wyatt's 81 appearances in 1964 tie him with numerous others for 76th place on the career leader board for appearances. In fact, the 81-game mark now has been reached 101 times.
Since Wyatt's breakthrough, a number of pitchers have eclipsed the 81-game benchmark more than once. The leader in this regard is another late bloomer, Kent Tekulve, a 27-year-old rookie in 1974. Tekulve did it four times, three seasons with the Pirates (91 in 1978, 94 in 1979, 85 in 1982) and one season with the Phillies (90 in 1987).
Tekulve surpassed the 90-game mark three times, but he has company in that regard. Mike Marshall appeared in 90 games with the Twins in 1999, and 92 games with the Expos in 1973. His all-world year was with the Dodgers in 1974 when he appeared in 106 games. He remains the only pitcher in MLB history to appear in 100 or more games in one season. His record of 15-12 in 208.1 innings might lead one to believe he was a starter, yet he did not start one game in 1974. In fact, Marshall was the first reliever to be awarded a Cy Young Award. Out of his 724 career appearances, only 24 were starting assignments.
To date, four other pitchers pitched in 81 or more games per season three times. All are left-handers. Mike Stanton is one of them (81 in 1996 with the Red Sox and Rangers, 83 with the Mets in 2004, and 82 with the Nationals and Giants in 2006), which should be no surprise, as he is No. 2 on the all-time list with 1,178 appearances. What is surprising is that not once during his long career (1989-2007) did he ever lead the league in appearances.
Southpaw Pedro Feliciano surpassed 81 three years in a row from 2008-2010. Coming out of the bullpen for the Mets, he led the league each season (86, 88, 92, respectively). In each of those seasons, however, he averaged less than one inning pitched per game (53.1, 59.1, and 62.2, respectively). Altogether, he appeared in 459 games for the Mets. For his efforts, he was rewarded with the nickname "Perpetual Pedro." Only John Franco pitched in more games (695) for the Mets.
Steve Kline also scored a threepeat (82 in 1999 and 83 in 2000 with the Expos, and 89 in 2001 with the Cardinals). Like Feliciano, his IP totals each season were fewer than his appearances, but he came close in 2000 when he tossed 82.1 frames.
The fourth left-hander to hit the trifecta is Paul Quantrill, who came within one appearance of doing it four times. In 2001, he made 80 appearances to lead the league. He soared past 81 the next three seasons (86 and 89 for the Dodgers in 2002 and 20003, and 86 for the Yankees in 2004). Unlike his cohorts above, he had more innings than appearances. In 2004 he logged 95.1 IP while accruing those 86 appearances.
Without going into more detail, let's also mention in passing pitchers who hit 81 or more appearances twice: Salomon Torres, Mike Myers, Peter Moylan, Scott Eyre, Ray King, Scott Proctor, Luis Ayala, and J.C. Romero.
Marshall's record number of appearances may be unbreakable. Even though crossing the 81-game threshold has become more common, his appearance total seems safe thanks to pitch counts and "overworked" pitchers being shut down (so-and-so is "not available" for tonight's game) periodically.
At any rate, it's no longer news when a pitcher appears in half or more of his team's games. After 1964, Wyatt never led the league in appearances or came close to 81 games again, but there's nothing magical about that number. Obviously, no manager would bring a pitcher in from the bullpen 81-plus times if he was incompetent, but appearing in that many games doesn't automatically indicate an outstanding season. Wyatt's best season was 1967 when he came out of the bullpen "only" 60 times for the pennant-winning Red Sox and garnered 10 victories and 20 saves. His ERA was almost one full run (2.60 vs. 3.59) better than in 1964.
Understandably, after more than half a century, Wyatt's 1964 breakthrough has gone down the memory hole. Lest we forget: No matter how many pitchers land on the 81-plus list, Johnny Wyatt got there first.
The rest are Johnny-come-latelies. Or is it Johnnies-come-lately?
1001 Fascinating Baseball Facts, by David Nemec and Pete Palmer, Longmeadow Press (Stamford, CT, 1994)
Baseballalmanac.com
Baseballreference.com
John Wyatt SABR Biography by Andrew Blume
Frank Jackson writes about baseball, film and history, sometimes all at once. He has has visited 54 major league parks, many of which are still in existence.
Quantrill was a righty.
Dennis Bedard
Nice article Frank. Wyatt not only was a member of the '67 Red Sox, he won game 6 of the WS against St. Louis even though he gave up 2 runs in 1 2/3 innings. I am just guessing but I think he was the 4th black pitcher to win a WS game, behind Joe Black, Gibson, and Mudcat Grant. And speaking of the '64 A's, if anyone wants a funny quick history of how zany it was playing for them, Ken Harrelson does a nice job of it in his autobiography, Hawk.
franklindrackman
Great article, was a 12 year old Dodger fan in 74′ seemed like Iron Mike was in every game. Only TV games other than NBC/post season were Sunday Road games/road games in SF. For that record setting Cy Young season Mike earned $87,500. Any experts know the date of the Muni Stadium photo? with the banners has to be an Allstar Game(1960) or opening day. Saw first MLB game there 6-11-72, Royals/Yankees, a Sunday "Cap Day" game, Royals won 1-0 in 2 Hours(when was last 2 hour 9 inning game?) Dick Drago went the distance, Yankee pitcher went 7 with… Read more »
"A history of the first hurler to appear in half his team's games." Er, you mean in the modern era, right? In the old days, *everybody's* main pitcher pitched at least half of his team's games!


Following the release of the KNX Association's update to the standardised KNX Basic and Advanced Courses, we have taken the opportunity to refresh our training program including introducing a brand new course developed specifically for the UK integrator.
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Jo Chwalko, from Wirral Community NHS Trust has been given the prestigious title of Queen's Nurse (QN) by community nursing charity The Queen's Nursing Institute (QNI).
The title is not an award for past service, but indicates a commitment to high standards of patient care, learning and leadership.
Jo Chwalko said: "I feel very honoured to receive the Queens Nurse title. I am passionate about delivering a Health Visiting service that meets the needs of our community and feel proud that my achievements have been deemed worthy of such recognition.
"The changes made to improve the Health Visiting service reflect a team effort. I consider myself very fortunate to work with such proactive colleagues and for a Trust which encourages creativity and innovation."
Nurses who hold the title benefit from developmental workshops, bursaries, networking opportunities, and a shared professional identity.
Crystal Oldman, Chief Executive of the QNI said: "Congratulations are due to Jo Chwalko for her success. Community nurses operate in an ever more challenging world and our role is to support them as effectively as we can. The QN title is a key part of this and we would encourage other community nurses to apply."
Joanne Chwalko will receive her prestigious title at a ceremony in the evening on Monday 12 May.


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Women's rights movement centered on privilege of voting
What a difference a day makes ..." The lyrics to that song, though written quite a number of years ago, are perhaps more accurate today if we say, "What a difference the years make ..."
"Boomer women: Why are theirs among the most sought-after votes this election year?" That item was in the Oct. 19 Hays Daily News.
What a difference from the status of women in the 1840 World Anti-Slavery Convention in London. The American women delegates were made to sit in the galleries as observers rather than as participants just because they were women.
As a result, the first Women's Rights Convention in Seneca Falls, N.Y., would be organized in 1848 to "discuss the social, civil and religious rights of women" using the Declaration of Independence as a guideline for recommendations for change. The demand for "the vote" became the centerpiece of the women's rights movement.
The American Civil War diverted energy from this suffrage activity as Elizabeth Stanton, Susan B. Anthony and slave-born Sojourner Truth lectured and petitioned the government for the emancipation of slaves. They thought that once the war was over, women and slaves would be granted the same rights as white men. But after the war the government saw women's suffrage and the rights of the Negro (the term in use at that time) as two separate issues with different political gains, especially in the South.
Amendment 13 to the Constitution was ratified on Dec. 18, 1865: "Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction."
The Civil Rights Act of 1866 granted citizenship and the same rights enjoyed by white citizens to all male persons in the United States "without distinction of race or color, or previous condition of slavery or involuntary servitude."
Women's suffrage had been set aside as Abraham Lincoln declared, "This hour belongs to the Negro." Stanton and her colleagues were outraged that the women's issue was dismissed. They established the American Equal Rights Association in 1866, but it would be 54 years later before women would receive the same rights due a citizen of the United States.
On July 28, 1868, the 14th Amendment was ratified: "All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside. No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws."
It defined "citizens" and extended the protections of the Constitution against unjust state laws to all citizens but ignored the question as to whether women were considered citizens of the United States.
The Fifteenth Amendment to the Constitution passed on March 30, 1870: "The right of the citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any state, on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude."
But it did not specifically say anything about women, who were still denied the rights as citizens to vote. In a disagreement over these amendments, the women's movement split into two factions that would later merge in 1890 under the leadership of Stanton.
In 1872, a tall Quaker woman went to see President Ulysses S. Grant when he was running for re-election. This woman, who spent much of her life trying to get the vote for women, was Anthony.
She asked him, "Might not women vote for you if they had the opportunity?" Grant responded, "Maybe, but I don't want to chance it." The renowned politician and journalist Horace Greeley said, "The best women I know do not want to vote."
In the early 19th century, the primary role of women was caring for the home and children. Married women had no right to own property, retain wages or sign a contract. They were expected to have no thoughts or opinions that were different from their husbands. It was not proper for them to travel alone or to speak in public and they certainly did not have the knowledge to vote, as they were not given any serious education.
It was argued that "... no one knew what would happen if women could vote. Some said that women's suffrage would be the end of the family."
Anthony believed that there should be "no taxation without representation." Wasn't this the same belief of the early colonists and founding fathers that led to the American Revolution? Women could be taxed, so they should be able to vote. Didn't the 15th Amendment say that all citizens could vote?
On Nov. 1, 1872, Anthony and 15 other women were allowed by the male registrars to register to vote at Rochester, N.Y.'s Eighth Ward. On voting day, Nov. 5, 1872, they were at the polls at 7 a.m. Twenty-three days later, she was arrested for attempting to vote in the 1872 presidential election.
Six years later, in 1878, a Woman's Suffrage Amendment was introduced to the U.S. Congress. It would not be until after years of petitioning, picketing and protest parades that the 19th Amendment would be passed by both houses of Congress.
Finally, in 1919, Congress passed the 19th Amendment, sending it to the states. On Aug. 26, 1920, after Tennessee ratified the amendment by one vote, the 19th Amendment was adopted: "The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of sex."
What a difference time makes. Today the vote of women is sought after. In looking back through those years, let us never forget the struggle for women to be able to vote -- the many years and hard work by those women who believed that women have rights and abilities, and can make a difference.
For all Americans, it is a privilege to be able to vote. No way should we ever say, "Why should I vote; it won't make any difference." To vote is not just a privilege of citizenship -- it is our responsibility.
Ruth Moriarity, Hays, is a member of the Generations Advisory Group.


St George's Healthcare NHS Trust has today, Monday 28th November 2011, launched a public consultation on its plans to develop its neurorehabilitation services designed to improve the care offered to patients in southwest London.
The trust is consulting on proposals to relocate the majority those services currently provided at the Wolfson Neurorehabilitation Centre, Wimbledon, to Queen Mary's Hospital, Roehampton. Patients who require more complex care provided would be treated in a dedicated neurorehabilitation facility to be based at St George's Hospital, Tooting.
The trust's plans have been designed by consultants, nurses and therapists following a detailed clinical review into how the services are currently provided. Clinicians have concluded that that moving the services to Queen Mary's, a modern hospital designed for rehabilitation services, would provide the best clinical outcomes as well as being the most cost effective option. The Wolfson Centre, although home to an excellent service, dates back to the 1960s and is no longer fit for purpose. Modernisation costs of the centre would to be in the region of £16 million. The cost of the development work required at Queen Mary's and St George's Hospitals will be covered by selling the Wolfson site, with any excess funds being reinvested in frontline services.
It is expected that work at Queen Mary's will take 18 – 24 months and in the interim period the trust will relocate 26 of the 32 Wolfson beds onto a vacant ward at St George's Hospital and the remaining six beds to Queen Mary's.
St George's Healthcare has worked hard to involve patients, staff, health partners, local councils and local charities in the development of these plans, and over the coming month will be looking to discuss these plans further with local people.
Plans for the development of neurorehabilitation services will be formally presented to a Joint Health Overview and Scrutiny Committee chaired by Merton Council.
Any sale of the Wolfson site will be negotiated by the trust's specialist lease advisors to ensure best value for money.
Any patient support groups that currently use the Wolfson as a location for their meetings would be invited to continue to host their meetings at Queen Mary's and St George's Hospitals.
There are no redundancies associated with these proposed changes which will not result in any reduction to neurorehabilitation services.


Happy New Year's! I'm glad it's 2019. I'm not exactly sure why, but it just seems to have a good feel about it. So, it just seems that the best thing to do in that circumstance is to ride out the good vibes.
I hope everyone had a good time celebrating (or relaxing, which was more of what I did). There most likely won't be an update Thursday since I feel like taking a bit more time for myself. I'm eager to get more of a backlog going again since I still have yet to get one back since I ate through the first round of it (darn getting sick...).