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GamingKidsMovies + EntertainmentParenting + FamilyTechnology
The Next Generation of Nintendo Wii
by Fadra Nally July 30, 2012
written by Fadra Nally July 30, 2012
I thought about a clever title for this post but really, you're only going to want to read this if at least one of the following statements is true:
You love video games.
You love Nintendo.
You love Nintendo Wii.
You love family gaming.
You want to know if the Wii U is awesome to buy.
You want to know if the Wii U is awesome enough to upgrade from your regular Wii.
I'm happy to say that you've come to the right place.
As a brand ambassador for Nintendo (total dream gig there), I was invited to attend a the Wii U Experience, a private event, the first of its kind in the nation, to preview the Wii U and many of the games that will be available for it when it's released for the holiday season (I smell Christmas presents!).
So Evan and I headed out on our long journey to downtown DC via Metro. We walked into the Grand Hyatt and were led to the bowels of the hotel. This was very clearly a private event and meant to be kept out of view of the general public. Oh yes, I felt very important. Evan simply felt very excited.
We might have gotten a little carried away with the props. Evan opted for the Mario look while I attempted to recreate the Legend of Zelda. With a mushroom.
But the fun and excitement was really all about the games.
We started with Pikmin3. I'll admit, I'm new to the whole Pikmin games so I can't compare 3 to 1 or 2. All I know is that I loved this game.
The graphics were beautiful and the controls felt very familiar. We used a Wii controller and nunchuk. The only adjustment was using the right controller to aim and the left to move. But I like to think I'm exercising new parts of my brain when I actually figure out how to do that. Evan wasn't a huge fan but I think that's only because I was better at it than him.
So we moved on to NintendoLand. A game that actually features contains a series of 12 games for 1 to 5 players.
Evan chose the single player games. He likes to work alone. And he chose to play Ninja Castle where his job was to send throwing stars at the onscreen ninjas. Again, he got frustrated. It was a little hard for him. And then I showed him how to do it.
And just to prove that women can actually get along, I snapped a quick pic of these 5 lovely ladies playing NintendoLand.
We also got to watch the new Wii Fit U and try the Super Mario Bros. U (Evan was a big fan. I was pretty lousy at this one but the graphics were once again stunning). I peeked in at Just Dance 4 (which I got to try at Type-A) and even did a little karaoke with a yet-to-be-named singing/dancing game.
There was definitely still a shroud of mystery in the room. I don't know if it's because they want to build buzz or because they're still figuring things out for their holiday release. In fact, I wasn't even allowed to get a close up picture of the new unit and controller but I did the best I could to showcase it just for you.
It's a small horizontal disc box. The biggest addition is the touchpad controller which is nicely, if not a bit oddly, integrated into many of the games. I found it a little heavy at times but it felt very familiar with a design that echoed the Nintendo 3DS control panel.
Then, as brand ambassadors, we got to ask some questions. Here are some of the better ones I remember.
Is the system backwards compatible?
Yes! All previous Wii games, controllers, and balance board will work with the new system.
When will the system be released?
It should be available for the holiday season (hint, hint).
How much will it retail for?
Will it be under $300?
What game will come with the system?
I don't think they were being intentionally evasive. I think they're still figuring it all out. And I love that they were excited about the games and asking us for our genuine feedback.
So the real question is, should you buy the new Wii U? Umm, yeah. I'm a brand ambassador. What did you expect me to say? I genuinely love Nintendo and while the Nintendo 3DS is really cool, I'm a Wii girl at heart.
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Vivian July 30, 2012 - 10:08 am
I am a HUGE fan of Pikmin, loved the 1st two and can't wait for the next one!! You know I played Pikmin 1 all day everyday towards the end of my 1st pregnancy??! It was just me, sitting on the couch/bed, legs splayed out, belly all huge & controller resting on top of the belly while I perilously defeated the game, lol. It was a pretty funny sight to see.
Sigh, idk if I'll be able to get ANOTHEr game system, but we'll see!!! Love Nintendo though!
Andrea B July 30, 2012 - 10:32 am
Interesting information. Thanks for sharing. I'm a Wii girl here and love my Wii fit, so I *may* be intrigued enough to wait for more details come fall. 😉
Nichole July 30, 2012 - 10:47 am
All of those statements adequately describe me. We're big-time Nintendo loyalists.
Melody Meiners July 30, 2012 - 10:24 pm
It was great seeing you again! Looks like Evan had a blast!
SimplyGabriela July 31, 2012 - 1:33 am
We love our Wii! I don't know if we're going to be ready to shell out money for a video game system for the holidays but I'm glad to know you enjoyed it.
Justine August 2, 2012 - 5:37 pm
By the way, that was @eclectism 🙂 and the karaoke game *does* already have a name, it's SiNG! Great to see you (and meet Evan!) last week!

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The American equivalent of the ACT has launched a consumer-facing website thats hot on advice on WHY to buy from IBDs and not multiples.
This will be interesting to those BikeBiz readers who have been following the bulletin board topic about a website that did the same sort of things as the existing American website, bikesRnottoys.com.
www.bikeshopsonline.com is produced by the National Bicycle Dealer Association and features articles aiming to assist consumers looking to buy bikes. Topics include: What to Look for in a Professional Bicycle Store; and How to Shop for a Bike.
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NORD grades all 50 states on rare disease policy issues
February 23, 2022 -- The National Organization for Rare Disorders (NORD) published the latest edition of its annual State Report Card, which rates all 50 states and Washington, D.C., on the most important issues affecting the more than 25 million Americans living with a rare disease.
The State Report Card was compiled using data through November 2021 and provides detailed analysis in grading each state on its performance on nine major policies of importance to the rare disease community such as newborn screening, Medicaid eligibility, and prescription drug out-of-pocket cost protections.
Key takeaways from the new report include, only six states received an A grade on protecting patients from increasingly high prescription drug out-of-pocket costs. Despite the critical importance of telehealth during the COVID-19 pandemic, 18 states received a failing grade when it comes to removing barriers for patient access to out-of-state providers via telehealth. Short-term limited-duration insurance continues to be unregulated in many states, as only 11 states received an A grade for their oversight and regulation of these plans, which fail to offer the comprehensive health care coverage vital to rare disease patients.
A total of 21 states have signed legislation into law creating a Rare Disease Advisory Council, including six in 2021 alone. These councils give rare disease patients a unified voice in state government and act as an advisory body to government leaders.
NORD is the leading independent advocacy organization representing all patients and families affected by rare diseases in the U.S.
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Construction of Tanzanian railway line completes 42 percent
The construction of Standard Gauge Railway (SGR) project from Dar es Salaam to Morogoro has reached 42 per cent whereas construction of the Makutupora-Tabora section stands at six per cent.
Executive director of The Tanzania Railways Corporation (TRC) Mr Masanja Kadogosa, told a popular newspaper company on the sideline of a meeting on "sixth capstone course" that brought more than 50 senior government officials from the mainland and Zanzibar.
Tanzania signed an agreement with Portuguese and Turkish firms to construct the Dar es Salaam- Morogoro stretch at Sh2.7 trillion, which is expected to be completed by 1st November this year.
Mr. Kadogosa said, "So far the construction progress is on the right track . We are optimistic that we are going to finalise the Dar-Morogoro section within the next 10 months".
Mr Kadogosa stressed that they have finished a lot of underground work and that the main work left is the installation of railway sleepers and fibers.
The country plans to dispose $14.2 billion over the next five years to build the 2,561 kilometre-SGR connecting its main port of Dar es Salaam to land-locked neighbors namely Uganda, Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of Congo.
The construction of the project is divided into four phases and has been assigned separate tenders to design it.
The three remaining sections are Isaka-Mwanza (248km), Tabora-Isaka (133km) and Makutupora-Tabora (294km).
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Generations of Alabamians have breathed the words "Thank God for Mississippi" when seeing the dismal results of yet another list of quality of life issues. Historically, our neighbor to the west reliably occupied the 50th spot in such surveys, so that even if Alabama were 49th, at least we could say we weren't last.
But we doubt any Alabamian ever said "Thank God for New Jersey," at least not before reading a new study of perceptions by the market research company YouGov. Alabama's image isn't great – in fact, it's the second worst among the states – but it's significantly better than New Jersey's.
YouGov's scoring system gave Alabama a plus-8 rating based on 39 percent favorable opinions and 31 percent unfavorable. Not too good, we acknowledge, but enough to make New Jersey envious.
The Garden State – who chose that name? -- came in at minus-10. No other state had a negative rating.
"The popular image of New Jersey often falls somewhere between the MTV show Jersey Shore, HBO's award-winning mafia drama The Sopranos and the chemical plants and gray industrial landscape stretched along I-95 that inspired much of the work of Bruce Springsteen," YouGov said in reporting the results.
Honesty compels us to confess that, although our state isn't known for mobsters of the Soprano ilk, we do have a few folks who are as intellectually vapid as those on Jersey Shore and we do have our share of chemical plants, although most of them are not easily seen from our interstate highways. So how did we end up a whopping 18 points ahead of New Jersey in the perception rankings?
Alabama benefited from higher "very" or "somewhat" favorable rankings and lower "very" or "somewhat" unfavorable ones, but the states had almost identical scores in another, possibly telling category – "don't know." Nearly a third – 31 percent for Alabama and 30 for New Jersey – responded that way when asked whether they had a favorable or unfavorable opinion of the states.
Clearly there's ground to be gained here. If 3 in 10 people don't have an opinion about Alabama, they should be ripe for recruiting. That would be a lot easier if we could move past old battles from the 1860s, long-decided legal questions from the 1960s and ill-founded opposition to social change that creates more just conditions for all. If we don't, we risk sliding further back down the perception scale.


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Prehistoric 'Hobbit' Was Definitely New Species
ByNED POTTER
Jan. 29, 2007 — -- On the remote island of Flores, in what is now Indonesia, scientists in 2003 made a remarkable discovery -- the remains of a pre-human being, only about three feet tall, who lived and thrived there until about 12,000 years ago.
The skeleton was different enough from other fossils that scientists said it was a previously undiscovered species, separate from those that led to modern human beings. They called it Homo floresiensis, though everyone quickly nicknamed it the "hobbit."
And that would have been that, if not for other scientists who weighed in. They said the newly found "hobbit" wasn't a new species at all, just a stunted version of other prehistoric humans.
But now the original team has backed up its original argument. They took the hobbit's skull, along with 10 others from beings known to have had "microcephaly" -- a long word for abnormally small brains.
They did CT scans of the skulls, then used them to make computer-generated renditions of the brains that would have been inside.
"It's not showing the shape of microcephaly," says Dean Falk, an anthropologist at Florida State University who led the research. "So we nailed that, we think.
"In addition," she says, "we can say that there are other special features which are unique and set it apart from anyone else."
In other words, the "hobbit" of Flores island was not one of us -- not an early Homo sapiens who simply suffered from stunted growth.
That theory had been put forth last year by a team led by Robert Martin, curator of Biological Anthropology at the Field Museum in Chicago.
"It's no accident that this supposedly new species of hominid was dubbed the 'hobbit,'" said Martin last year, when he published a paper in the journal Science challenging Falk's original claim.
"It is simply fanciful to imagine that this fossil represents anything other than a modern human."
Martin and other scientists argued that prehistoric humans on a small island would have had good reason to be small.
For one thing, they had no competition from larger pre-human species. Evolution gave them no need to be taller.
For another, it's quite possible that on an isolated island, the "hobbits" would have been short of the nutrients they would have needed to grow to four or five feet tall.
Martin's counter-argument sent Falk's team back to the drawing board -- and roaring back with their new results today. Their computer model of the hobbit's brain -- known as a "virtual endocast" -- is in this week's edition of Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
"This happens whenever there's a major discovery having to do with human evolution," Falk said from her office at Florida State. "There's always a group of naysayers who go, 'No, no, no, it can't be a new species.' Always."


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Chinese EV maker BYD says 2018 interim profit to 31 percent, blame the competition
HONG KONG (Reuters) – the Chinese electric car maker BYD Co Ltd reported preliminary net earnings for 2018, that is 31.4 percent lower than a year earlier, the pins the blame on the intensification of competition in the world's largest car market.
A bus, manufactured by the chinese BYD, is seen as part of the new fleet of electric buses for public transport in Santiago, Chile, November 28, 2018. Photo taken on 28 November 2018. REUTERS/Rodrigo Garrido
The result comes as the chinese market for new energy vehicles is booming, but the profits in the sector is squeezed by the competition between established automakers and a multitude of startups, as well as the government's reduction of subsidies.
The profit probably fell 2.79 billion yuan ($416.5 million) from 4.07 billion yuan, such as slowing car sales in China, increased competitive activity among vehicle manufacturers, and pressure on the profitability of the fuel's auto business, BYD said in a filing to the Hong Kong stock exchange late on Tuesday.
The carmaker, backed by U.S. investor Warren Buffett, also said orders and profits in the smartphone component and assembly business were negatively impacted by the weak demand and the competition.
It also saw the deeper loss in the photovoltaic business as a result of a change in the policy of the government and the provision for impairment loss, while an increase in the financing of the costs hit overall profitability.
Total operating revenue increased 22.8 percent to 130.06 billion yuan.
The Shenzhen office reported rapid growth in the sales of new energy vehicles – that is not entirely powered by internal combustion as the sector develops at a pace and also by the company's new product cycle. It said that on the first place in the global volume of sales of these vehicles for the fourth consecutive year.
BYD in October said it expects 2018 profit to fall almost a third as a result of the increased competition. It is expected to report final figures for the full year in late March, as per the past year.
The price of BYD's Hong Kong-listed shares fell 0.3 percent in early trade to 0.2 percent compared to a rise of the benchmark Hang Seng Index.
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What I'm Reading: I finished 17 & Gone by Nova Ren Suma and whoa… It was a trip. The story turned out to be something completely different from what I was expecting and I am impressed. Such gorgeous writing! Now, I'm reading 17 First Kisses by Rachael Allen, which is adorable. I recommend it for the utterly authentic voice alone. It's so much fun being in Claire's head!
What Else I've Been Up To: Listening to This American's Life's new program, Serial, and *loving* it. From the website: Serial is a podcast where we unfold one nonfiction story, week by week, over the course of a season. We'll stay with each story for as long as it takes to get to the bottom of it. This season's story is a sort of high school murder mystery/possible wrongful conviction situation and it is fascinating. Highly recommend!
We finally, finally, FINALLY had professional family photos taken! It's only been six years. 😉 This was one of my Thirty Before 35 goals, and I'm super excited to cross it off the list. I'm also super excited about this sneak peek our photographer, Andrea Faye Photography, shared with me.
I found Autumn-colored M&Ms at the store the other day and thought cookies would be the perfect way to use them. I tried this recipe for the first time and they turned out so yummy!
Over the weekend we visited the Gulf Breeze Zoo, which is quaint and really fun. My daughter got a kiss on the hand from a giraffe!
What Works For Me: Taking inspiration from successful writers. This conversation between Lena Dunham (creator/star of HBO's Girls, a show I adore) and author Judy Blume (the voice of my childhood) for instance (click the link for an edited transcript). So inspiring! Plus, book birthdays this week for two amazing books from two delightful authors: Bleed Like Me by Christa Desir and Of Scars and Stardust by Andrea Hannah. I've read them both and they're fab!
Thanks, lady! You should totally do a 30 Before 30 list! Mine's been super motivating. Nice to have something to keep me accountable. 🙂 Have a wonderful week, Liz!
Your family photo is absolutely beautiful, Katy! Love it so much, and yay for reaching another goal 🙂 Sounds like you've been getting lots of great reading and writing done; as always, cheering for you ❤ I love the giraffe kiss, too! We went to the Santa Barbara Zoo this summer and got to do something similar. My girls loved it, though we did get thoroughly slimed 🙂 Wishing you all the best things this week!
I'd love to try those M&M cookies. I still need to think of something to make for the Halloween party I'm going to in a few weeks. Last time I went to a party hosted by these friends, everyone loved my vegan chocolate cake with strawberry jelly flavoring.
The cookies are yummy, Carrie-Anne, but definitely not vegan. 🙂 Your cake sounds fabulous, though. Have a wonderful week!
And yum, those cookies look delicious. Good luck with your companion WIP!
Thanks, Kim! I read beta read BLEED LIKE ME ages ago and was totally moved by it. I'm such a fan of Christa's! I hope you'll check it out. And have a wonderful week!
Serial sounds really interesting! I'm going to check it out (and love TAL!).
I LOVED 17 & Gone. Nova has a master on prose. I would read her grocery shopping list.
Valerie, let me know what you think of Serial! I am loving it — and at the same time hating it because I want the whole story NOW. Fascinating stuff, especially for YA writers. Thanks so much for your kind words about our photo, and have a wonderful week!
I love love love love the pictures of your family (both this one and the one of Claire with the moon that you posted on FB) they are gorgeous!!!!
I haven't read any of the books you've mentioned today, so now I'm gong to be adding a bunch more to my TBR pile. The Nova Ren Suma book, in particular, sounds great. I love when books take an unexpected twist and surprise me. Good job finishing a round of revisions on our WiP! I'm super impressed at how disciplined you've been with this story. Wish it would rub off on me lol.
I'm disciplined with this story because I really and truly love it — probably more than any other I've written. Silly me wrote a sequel before the first book sold and now I'm obsessed with it. Fingers crossed that it'll see the light of day. 🙂 Let me know what you think about 17 & GONE, Jaime, and have an awesome week!
Just added another couple of books to my TBR thanks to your post!
Love the family pics. I try to get mine done every two years but I don't think it's going to happen this year. Ah well.
Thanks so much, Melanie! You're doing much better with family photos than I have. We're more like every six years. 😉 Happy reading, and have a wonderful week!
You just reminded me I have cookie dough in my freezer… MMMM… (PS, you have a lovely family).
The double 17s were not intentional — I didn't even notice! Thanks so much for your sweet words about our photo. I'm happy to go to the beach instead of JCPenny, but I definitely remember those days! Have a great week, Steph!
Sounds like you've had an amazing week! That family photo is absolutely gorgeous – definitely Christmas card material! Also, I'm loving the Thirty Before 35 idea, I might have to try one of my own — although I'm very much in denial that I'll ever reach 30 😛 Have a wonderful week, Katy!
I used to be in denial about that too, Caitie. I try not to let aging bother me, but ugh… I'm still mentally 22! You'll have to let me know if you decide to do a list because (of course) I want to check it out. Mine has been very motivating! Have a wonderful week, lady!


Repro participated in the Zimbabwe International Book Fair 2011 for the first time. It was another step towards spreading its wings in the African continent.
Repro has a good spread in this continent and is a prominent company offering content, print and fulfillment solutions to all the leading Education Publishers in Africa. We have been present here for more than a decade and have been working on World Bank tenders partnering with Publishers. Repro had also participated in the' Nigeria International Book Fair 2011'.


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Avalanche quiet on all fronts in Philadelphia
Colorado Avalanche blanked 4-0 by Philadelphia Flyers
By Mike Chambers | The Denver Post
PUBLISHED: February 28, 2017 at 7:49 p.m. | UPDATED: March 1, 2017 at 9:22 a.m.
PHILADELPHIA — On the eve of the NHL trade deadline Tuesday, the last-place Avalanche was quiet — much like the players' sleep-walking first period at the Wells Fargo Center.
Nobody was moved on the trade front, and nobody played well early in a 4-0 loss to the Philadelphia Flyers, who led 3-0 midway through the first period.
"It wasn't on my mind," Avs captain Gabe Landeskog said postgame of Wednesday's 1 p.m. trade deadline. "This has been talked about for months now, and obviously it's so close now it could be a distraction. We're all professional and we know what we have to do out there. We just weren't sharp enough the first 10 minutes of the game."
Center Matt Duchene, who like Landeskog might be traded for top young prospects and draft picks, also said the deadline had nothing to do with the team's start.
"When you're playing meaningless games, and we've been playing meaningless games since December, (being traded) is something that kind of creeps up on you at times," Duchene said. "But I can say I wasn't thinking about it during the game, or during my preparation. You have to be a good pro and tune that stuff out. I was doing my best to do that and it had no bearing tonight."
Matt Slocum, The Associated Press
Colorado Avalanche's Jeremy Smith, left, cannot stop a goal by Philadelphia Flyers' Jordan Weal during the second period of an NHL hockey game, Tuesday, Feb. 28, 2017, in Philadelphia.
The downtrodden Avs (17-41-3), who are scheduled to begin practice Wednesday in Kanata, Ontario, at the time the deadline passes, found a way to further stamp themselves as one of the worst teams in recent years by digging themselves a 3-0 hole just 10:35 into the game.
The Flyers scored on journeyman goalie Jeremy Smith while the game's first two penalties were being served. During a wretched Colorado power play, Philly scored on a 3-on-1 shorthanded rush. Soon after, the Flyers capitalized on their first power play to make it 3-0.
"They got that first one on the PK and it deflated us a little bit, got us on our heels," Duchene said. "After that, I thought we were pretty good."
Wayne Simmonds appeared to complete a natural hat trick (three consecutive goals) with that power play. He celebrated, thinking the goal was his. The referees, however, didn't believe Simmonds successfully swatted the puck into the net after it caromed off Avalanche defenseman Francois Beauchemin, and the official scorer felt the same.
So the hundreds of hats thrown onto the ice were all for naught, and led to the booing of Jakub Voracek when the right winger was announced as the official goal scorer. During the first intermission, Voracek apologized for taking credit for the goal and hoped the crowd would never boo him again.
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The Avs had plenty chances to forge a comeback, particularly when Mikko Rantanen was hooked from behind on a breakaway and awarded a penalty shot. But Rantanen did not get a shot off on goalie Steve Mason and the Flyers later took a 4-0 lead on Jordan Weal's first career goal.
"First period, we come out and we weren't physically ready to go," Avs coach Jared Bednar said. "We were on our heels and we let them come at us … After that, second period, we had a good second and were creating (chances). A lot like our season, we have a lot of good chances, especially there in the second, and we don't capitalize."
Landeskog, the captain, fought Flyers center Sean Couturier shortly after Philly took its 3-0 lead.
"It shows that he cares a lot and that he's a character guy who's trying to jump-start his team," Bednar said of Landeskog. "There's no other reason for it besides that, so it looks good on him to try to get us going."
Colorado continues its three-game road trip Thursday at Ottawa.
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January 27, 2020: Battle of the Clouds
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What really happened after the Battle of Brandywine? Where was this little known battle fought? Why did Washington cross the river to engage Howe again in the South Valley Hill area of the Great Valley? What happened here that set up the Battle of Paoli? Find out the answers to these questions in this lecture.
Join us on Monday, January 27, 2020, as we welcome back Chris Reardon who will be speaking about the often overlooked Battle of the Clouds . Our meeting place is at Scoogi's Italian Restaurant at 738 Bethlehem Pike in Flourtown. Feel free to arrive early and eat in the back room where our meetings are held. A short business meeting will start around 7:15 pm. The presentation will start at 7:30 pm. We encourage you to join our membership for the very small and reasonable tax deductible amount of $30. Don't forget our book raffle too. Each meeting we raffle off a number of American Revolutionary themed books. You can purchase tickets for the book raffle; $1 per ticket, or $5 for 6 tickets. The money raised goes to pay the room fee and speaker expenses.
Our speaker, Chris Reardon, will explain what happened after the Battle of the Brandywine and how this battle in the Great Valley area was shaping up to be another Brandywine for George Washington. Skirmishing broke out in two different places around the battlefield and Potter's Militia stationed near the Boot Tavern nearly captured Hessian Colonel Carl Von Donop. Find out what happened to Washington and his 10,000 troops situated on a strong position on South Valley Hill on September 16, 1777.
Chris Reardon is a historian and lives on what was part of the Battle of the Clouds battlefield. He was past president of the East Goshen Township Historical Commission, past treasurer of the Paoli Battlefield Preservation Fund, and volunteers at both Newlin Grist Mill and the PA Colonial Plantation.
Posted by Jim Christ at 10:09 pm Tagged with: American Revolution, Battle of the Clouds, Chris Reardon, George Washington, William Howe
To be Determined: George Washington's Nemesis: The Outrageous Treason and Unfair Court-martial of Major General Charles Lee during the American Revolution
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General Lee, second in command in the Continental Army led by George Washington, was captured by the British in December 1776. While a prisoner, he prepared and submitted to his captors a military plan on how to defeat Washington's army as quickly as possible. This extraordinary act of treason, arguably on a par with Benedict Arnold's heinous treachery, was not discovered during his lifetime. Many historians shrug off this ignoble act, but it should not be ignored. Less well known is that throughout his sixteen months of captivity and even after his release, Lee continued communicating with the enemy, offering to help negotiate an end to the rebellion. Revolutionary War historians and biographers of Charles Lee have treated him as either an inveterate enemy of George Washington or a great defender of American liberty. Neither approach is accurate, in order to fully understand the war's most complicated general, objectivity is required. In his new book, Christian McBurney relies on original documents (some newly discovered) to combine two dramatic stories involving the military law of treason and court-martials, creating a balanced view of the Revolution's most fascinating personality.
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After Lee rejoined the Continental Army, he was given command of many of its best troops with orders from Washington to attack the rear of British General Henry Clinton's column near Monmouth, New Jersey. Lee intended to attack on June 28, 1778, but retreated in the face of Clinton's bold move to reverse his march. Two of Lee's subordinate generals—without orders and without informing Lee—moved more than half of his command off the field. Faced with the possible destruction of the balance, Lee ordered a general retreat while conducting a skillful delaying action.
Many historians have been quick to malign Lee's performance at Monmouth, for which he was convicted by court-martial for not attacking and for retreating in the face of the enemy. This was a miscarriage of justice, stresses McBurney, for the evidence clearly shows that Lee was unfairly convicted and had, in fact, by retreating, performed an important service to the Patriot cause. The guilty verdict was more the result of Lee's having insulted Washington, which made the matter a political contest between the army's two top generals—only one of them could prevail.
Christian McBurney has written five books on the American Revolutionary War, including Kidnapping the Enemy: The Special Operations to Capture Generals Charles Lee & Richard Prescott. His published articles include one in MHQ: The Journal of Military History, on the British attempt to abduct George Washington, which was nominated by the U.S. Army Historical Foundation as best magazine article for 2017. He also publishes Rhode Island's leading history blog (www.smallstatebighistory.com). He is an attorney in Washington, D.C.
Posted by Jim Christ at 9:49 pm Tagged with: American Revolution, Christian McBurney, General Charles Lee, George Washington, Treason
April 27, 2020: The Contest for Liberty: Military Leadership in the Continental Army, 1775–1783
In the summer of 1775, a Virginia gentleman-planter was given command of a New England army laying siege to British-occupied Boston. With his appointment, the Continental Army was born. Yet the cultural differences between those serving in the army and their new commander-in-chief led to conflicts from the very beginning that threatened to end the Revolution before it could start. The key challenge for General George Washington was establishing the standards by which the soldiers would be led by their officers. What kind of man deserved to be an officer? Under what conditions would soldiers agree to serve? And how far could the army and its leaders go to discipline soldiers who violated those enlistment conditions?
Join us on Monday, April 27, 2020 as we welcome author and historian Seanegan P. Sculley who will be talking about his book Contest for Liberty: Military Leadership in the Continental Army, 1775–1783. Our meeting place is at Scoogi's Italian Restaurant at 738 Bethlehem Pike in Flourtown. Feel free to arrive early and eat in the back room where our meetings are held. A short business meeting will start around 7:15 pm. The presentation will start at 7:30 pm. We encourage you to join our membership for the very small and reasonable tax deductible amount of $30. Don't forget our book raffle too. Each meeting we raffle off a number of American Revolutionary themed books. You can purchase tickets for the book raffle; $1 per ticket, or $5 for 6 tickets. The money raised goes to pay the room fee and speaker expenses.
As historian Seanegan P. Sculley reveals in Contest for Liberty: Military Leadership in the Continental Army, 1775–1783, these questions could not be determined by Washington alone. His junior officers and soldiers believed that they too had a part to play in determining how and to what degree their superior officers exercised military authority and how the army would operate during the war. A cultural negotiation concerning the use of and limits to military authority was worked out between the officers and soldiers of the Continental Army; although an unknown concept at the time, it is what we call leadership today. How this army was led and how the interactions between officers and soldiers from the various states of the new nation changed their understandings of the proper exercise of military authority was finally codified in General Friedrich Wilhelm von Steuben's The Regulations for the Order and Discipline of the Troops of the United States, first published in 1779. The result was a form of military leadership that recognized the autonomy of the individual soldiers, a changing concept of honor, and a new American tradition of military service.
LTC Seanegan Sculley enlisted in the US Army in January 1995 as an airborne infantryman and served in Vicenza, IT until attending Officer Candidate School in the summer of 1999. He was commissioned as an Armor officer and became a tank platoon leader in 1-12 Cavalry at Fort Hood, TX before completing his BA in History at Texas State University in December 2002. LTC Sculley then deployed to Camp Garry Owen at Munsan, Republic of Korea from 2003-2005 and then earned his MA in History at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst in 2007. From 2007-2012, he served as both an instructor and assistant professor of History at the United States Military Academy during which time he deployed to Mosul, Iraq from 2009-2010. Following his assignment to West Point, LTC Sculley attended the Command and General Staff College in 2012-2013 and then served as the Battalion Executive Officer for 4-10 Infantry Regiment and the Brigade Operations Officer for the 71st Infantry Brigade at Fort Jackson, SC. He earned his PhD in History from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst in May 2015 and he currently serves as an Academy Professor and the Division Chief for the American Division in the Department of History at West Point.
Posted by Jim Christ at 5:56 pm Tagged with: American Revolution, Continental Army, George Washington, Seanegan Sculley
May 18, 2020: Outside the Encampment: Impact of the Valley Forge Encampment on the Local Area
We have heard many accounts of what went on inside the Valley Forge encampment, but very little of the impact on the local community. What did the people do with Washington's army staying the winter and spring right in their own back yard? How far out were picket posts from the main encampment area? What actions happened to locals who lived in the area? What were some of the actions that happened in the area but are not that well known?
Join us on Monday, May 18, 2020 as we welcome back author and historian Thomas McGuire who will be talking about Outside the Encampment: Impact of the Valley Forge Encampment on the Local Area. Our meeting place is at Scoogi's Italian Restaurant at 738 Bethlehem Pike in Flourtown. Feel free to arrive early and eat in the back room where our meetings are held. A short business meeting will start around 7:15 pm. The presentation will start at 7:30 pm. We encourage you to join our membership for the very small and reasonable tax deductible amount of $30. Don't forget our book raffle too. Each meeting we raffle off a number of American Revolutionary themed books. You can purchase tickets for the book raffle; $1 per ticket, or $5 for 6 tickets. The money raised goes to pay the room fee and speaker expenses.
ABOUT THOMAS J. MCGUIRE
Thomas J. McGuire teaches history at Malvern Preparatory School in Malvern, PA. His work on the Battle of Paoli is considered the most complete documentation of the Revolutionary War battle, and was instrumental in preserving the battlefield as a historic site. In that book, as well as his other works, McGuire uses a wealth of primary material to record history from the American Revolutionary War, with a particular focus on Southeast Pennsylvania and Philadelphia.
Posted by Jim Christ at 9:32 pm Tagged with: American Revolution, Battle of Paoli, Germantown, Thomas McGuire, Valley Forge
June 29, 2020: The Quaker and the Gamecock
As the newly appointed commander of the Southern Continental Army in December 1780, Nathanael Greene quickly realized victory would not only require defeating the British Army, but also subduing the region's brutal civil war. "The division among the people is much greater than I imagined, and the Whigs and the Tories persecute each other, with little less than savage fury," wrote Greene.
Join us on Monday, June 29, 2020 as we welcome author Andrew Waters who will be talking about his book The Quaker and the Gamecock. Our meeting place is at Scoogi's Italian Restaurant at 738 Bethlehem Pike in Flourtown. Feel free to arrive early and eat in the back room where our meetings are held. A short business meeting will start around 7:15 pm. The presentation will start at 7:30 pm. We encourage you to join our membership for the very small and reasonable tax deductible amount of $30. Don't forget our book raffle too. Each meeting we raffle off a number of American Revolutionary themed books. You can purchase tickets for the book raffle; $1 per ticket, or $5 for 6 tickets. The money raised goes to pay the room fee and speaker expenses.
Part of Greene's challenge involved managing South Carolina's determined but unreliable Patriot militia, led by Thomas Sumter, the famed "Gamecock." Though Sumter would go on to a long political career, it was as a defiant partisan that he first earned the respect of his fellow backcountry settlers, a command that would compete with Greene for status and stature in the Revolutionary War's "Southern Campaign."
Despite these challenges, Greene was undaunted. Born to a devout Quaker family, and influenced by the faith's tenets, Greene instinctively understood the war's Southern theater involved complex political, personal, and socioeconomic challenges, not just military ones. Though never a master of the battlefield, Greene's mindful leadership style established his historic legacy.
The Quaker and the Gameccock tells the story of these two wildly divergent leaders against the backdrop of the American Revolution's last gasp, the effort to extricate a British occupation force from the wild and lawless South Carolina frontier. For Greene, the campaign meant a last chance to prove his capabilities as a general, not just a talented administrator. For Sumter, it was a quest of personal revenge that showcased his innate understanding of the backcountry character. Both men needed the other to defeat the British, yet their forceful personalities, divergent leadership styles, and opposing objectives would clash again and again, a fascinating story of our nation's bloody birth that still influences our political culture.
About Andrew Waters
Andrew Waters is an author, editor, and conservationist residing in Spartanburg, South Carolina.
He is the author of The Quaker and the Gamecock: Nathanael Greene, Thomas Sumter, and the Revolutionary War for the Soul of the South. His original writing on the American Revolution frequently appears in the Journal of the American Revolution (https://allthingsliberty.com/). He is also the editor of Battle of Cowpens: Primary & Contemporary Accounts, a readers edition of first-person analysis and contemporary histories of the Battle of Cowpens.
He is also the editor of three slave narrative collections: Prayin' To Be Set Free (Mississippi), I Was Born in Slavery (Texas), and On Jordan's Stormy Banks (Georgia). His fiction and articles have appeared in Emrys Journal, Pembroke Magazine, the Winston-Salem Journal, Spartanburg Herald Journal, and more.
"As a native Southerner I am fascinated by the topics that still inform our Southern culture, like the American Revolution and slavery," says Waters. "I love bringing these historical figures to life for today's audiences in an accessible way."
Posted by Jim Christ at 9:49 pm Tagged with: American Revolution, Andrew Waters, Cowpens, Nathanael Green, South Carolina, The Quaker and the Gamecock, Thomas Sumter
September 2018 – Benjamin Rush : Revolution, Madness & the Visionary Doctor Who Became a Founding Father
The remarkable story of Benjamin Rush, medical pioneer and one of our nation's most provocative and unsung Founding Fathers In the summer of 1776, fifty-six men put their quills to a dangerous document they called the Declaration of Independence. Among them was a thirty-year-old doctor named Benjamin Rush. One of the youngest signatories, he was also, among stiff competition, one of the most visionary. A brilliant physician and writer, Rush was known as the "American Hippocrates" for pioneering national healthcare and revolutionizing treatment of mental illness and addiction. Yet medicine is only part of his legacy. Dr. Rush was both a progressive thorn in the side of the American political establishment—a vocal opponent of slavery, capital punishment, and prejudice by race, religion or gender—and close friends with its most prominent leaders.
Join us on Monday, September 24th was we welcome Stephen Fried to our round table to discuss his new book Rush: Revolution, Madness & the Visionary Doctor Who Became a Founding Father. Our meeting place is now Scoogi's Italian Resturant at 738 Bethlehem Pike in Flourtown. Feel free to arrive early and eat in the back room where our meetings are held. A short business meeting will start around 7:15pm. The presentation will start at 7:30pm. We encourage you to join our membership for the very small and reasonable tax deductible amount of $25. Don't forget to our book raffle too. Each meeting we raffle off a number of American Revolutionary themed books. You need to write your name "legibly" on any dollar bill, and then submit that at the meeting. We do draw multiple winners each meeting.
He was the protégé of Franklin, the editor of Common Sense, Washington's surgeon general, and the broker of peace between Adams and Jefferson, yet his stubborn convictions more than once threatened his career and his place in the narrative of America's founding. Drawing on a trove of previously unpublished letters and images, the voluminous correspondence between Rush and his better-known counterparts, and his candid and incisive personal writings, New York Times bestselling author and award-winning journalist Stephen Fried resurrects the most significant Founding Father we've never heard of and finally installs Dr. Rush in the pantheon of great American leaders.
Stephen Fried is an award-winning investigative journalist and essayist, and an adjunct professor at Columbia University's graduate school of journalism. He is the author of the highly praised books Thing of Beauty: The Tragedy of Supermodel Gia, Bitter Pills: Inside the Hazardous World of Legal Drugs, The New Rabbi, and Husbandry: Sex, Love & Dirty Laundry—Inside the Minds of Married Men.
Posted by Jim Christ at 7:24 pm Tagged with: American Revolution, Benjamin Rush, Stephen Fried
October 2018 – Israel Putnam
Did you know that Israel Putnam commanded a force of 500 men who were shipwrecked off the coast of Cuba? Did you know that in 1758 he barely escaped being burned alive by Mohawk Indians? Israel Putnam was born in Salem Village, Mass., on Jan. 7, 1718. He had very little education and remained nearly illiterate all his life. In 1738 he married Hannah Pope and the following year moved to Connecticut, where he bought land and farmed successfully, soon becoming a man of substance. When the French and Indian War broke out in 1756, Putnam was commissioned a lieutenant in the Connecticut militia and served throughout the conflict, rising steadily in rank until he reached a colonelcy by the time it ended in 1763. He fought in numerous engagements, earned a reputation for bravery and resourcefulness, and gained valuable military experience.
Join us on Monday, October 29th was we welcome Robert Ernest Hubbard to our round table to discuss his new book Major General Israel Putnum: Hero of the American Revolution. Our meeting place is now Scoogi's Italian Resturant at 738 Bethlehem Pike in Flourtown. Feel free to arrive early and eat in the back room where our meetings are held. A short business meeting will start around 7:15pm. The presentation will start at 7:30pm. We encourage you to join our membership for the very small and reasonable tax deductible amount of $25. If you pay after 12/31/2018, the dues go up to $30 per person. Don't forget to our book raffle too. Each meeting we raffle off a number of American Revolutionary themed books. You can purchase tickets for the book raffle, $1 per ticket, or $5 for 6 tickets. They money raises goes to pay the room fee and speaker expenses.
With the coming of peace, Putnam returned to farming and also operated a tavern. He took part in the developing conflict between England and the Colonies, helping organize the Sons of Liberty in 1765. He participated in the political life of Connecticut as a representative to the General Assembly in 1766 and 1767. In 1774 he headed the local Committee of Correspondence and accepted appointment as lieutenant colonel of a regiment of Connecticut militia. When the fighting began in the spring of 1775, Putnam entered active service and in June was appointed by the Continental Congress one of the four major generals under George Washington's command. It was he who reportedly gave the command "Don't fire until you see the whites of their eyes" at the Battle of Bunker Hill.
In his book "Major General Israel Putnum: Hero of the American Revolution", author Robert Ernest Hubbard details Putnam's close relationships with Aaron Burr, Alexander Hamilton, and John and Abigail Adams, this first full-length biography of Putnam in more than a century re-examines the life of a revolutionary whose seniority in the Continental Army was second only to that of George Washington.
Robert Ernest Hubbard is a retired professor from Albertus Magnus College in New Haven, Connecticut and an adjunct faculty member in the college's Master of Fine Arts in Writing Program. For over 20 years, he has been webmaster of major websites on American Revolutionary War general Israel Putnam and entertainer Phil Silvers. He lives in Wallingford, Connecticut.
Posted by Jim Christ at 7:28 pm Tagged with: American Revolution, Israel Putnam, Robert Ernest Hubbard
November 2018 : Red Tape and the American Revolution
The Red Tape and the Revolution topic is the result of a quest that began many years ago. Bob Sullivan has been researching Continental Army forms, especially printed ones, for many years. The show how the Army became organized, specifically tracking logistics and day-to-day mundane tasks. Paperwork, where did it start, why does it look the way it does, and who decided what to track and what not to track. I have found about 75 examples of Continental Army printed forms, and the talk is about their origin, their reason for being, and how to interpret them.
Join us on Monday, November 26th, as we proudly welcome Bob Sullivan as he presents his talk on Red Tape and the American Revolution. Our meeting place is now Scoogi's Italian Resturant at 738 Bethlehem Pike in Flourtown. Feel free to arrive early and eat in the back room where our meetings are held. A short business meeting will start around 7:15pm. The presentation will start at 7:30pm. We encourage you to join our membership for the very small and reasonable tax deductible amount of $25. If you pay after 12/31/2018, the dues go up to $30 per person. Don't forget to our book raffle too. Each meeting we raffle off a number of American Revolutionary themed books. You can purchase tickets for the book raffle, $1 per ticket, or $5 for 6 tickets. They money raises goes to pay the room fee and speaker expenses.
Much like a modern business, the Continental Army operated on a system of debits and credits. Every time equipment was given out to a particular military unit the disbursement was listed as a debit. And when equipment was received into the military stores, there was a credit.
The story of major campaigns of the Revolutionary War can be followed through account books. The vast amount of equipment the British surrendered to the Continental Army at Yorktown was, however, listed in the ledger book as simply "Credit – The United States." Through pictures and prints, maps and account books, Bob Sullivan will give us an understanding of just what the British surrendered on October 19, 1781, and what the Americans gained.
Bob Sullivan has been interested in American History as far back as he can remember. His history-related accomplishments include three summers as a Licensed Battlefield Guide at Gettysburg National Military Park, summer employment at Ft. McHenry National Monument and Historic Shrine in Baltimore, and an article on the Pennsylvania Mutiny published in the Journal of the Company of Military Historians.
Bob's interest in military paperwork and books began as soon as he discovered that original paper was cheaper to buy than original uniforms and weapons. He has contributed his research skills and knowledge to authors, prop masters, and museum directors. Currently, Bob's personal collection of 19th century paper items numbers over 250 items. His reproductions of paper have appeared in such productions as The Patriot, Master and Commander, and the AMC series Turn.
He is currently employed by Springhouse Education and Consulting Services in Exton, PA, as an instructor and consultant. Bob has used his knowledge of computer skills and historic paperwork to create his successful side business, Sullivan Press, ongoing since 1989. He also currently serves as the Treasurer of the Twin Valley School Board. Bob is married with two daughters.
Posted by Jim Christ at 9:24 pm Tagged with: American Revolution, Bob Sullivan, Red Tape and the Revolution
January 2019 – Crossroads of the Revolution: Trenton 1774-1783
Did you know that at various times Trenton was occupied by American Continentals, Militia, British Regulars, Hessians, Continental Mutineers, and the French Army and it housed British and Hessian prisoners and Loyalist sympathizers?
Join us on Monday, January 28th, as we proudly welcome noted author William Kidder as he presents his talk on his newest book, Crossroads of the Revolution: Trenton 1774-1783. Our meeting place is now Scoogi's Italian Resturant at 738 Bethlehem Pike in Flourtown. Feel free to arrive early and eat in the back room where our meetings are held. A short business meeting will start around 7:15pm. The presentation will start at 7:30pm. We encourage you to join our membership for the very small and reasonable tax deductible amount of $30. Don't forget to our book raffle too. Each meeting we raffle off a number of American Revolutionary themed books. You can purchase tickets for the book raffle, $1 per ticket, or $5 for 6 tickets. They money raises goes to pay the room fee and speaker expenses.
The story of Trenton between 1774 and 1783 is a microcosm of the struggles faced by ordinary Americans during the Revolution, struggles intensified by Trenton's geographic location in the State which saw more military activity than others and on a road constantly used to move and supply armies. Life in Trenton connected to just about every aspect of the Revolution. The story of the people who lived in Trenton, or who spent time there because of the Revolution, helps us better understand the hitherto untold importance of their town beyond the one well known day of battle.
For much of the war Trenton supplied a Continental army hospital and was a supply depot and transfer point employing local people to get supplies to the army at many places including Valley Forge and Morristown. Trenton was not the State capital, it was only a county seat, but its location made it the spot chosen for the new State government to sit for a great deal of time, another strain on the town's resources. All this activity provided stress for some and opportunities for others, but everyone had to deal with it on a daily basis.
William L. "Larry" Kidder was born in California and raised in California, Indiana, New York, and New Jersey. He received his bachelor's and master's degrees from Allegheny College in Meadville, Pennsylvania.
Larry served four years of active duty in the US Navy and was assigned to the US Navy Research and Development Unit, Vietnam and then the destroyer USS Brownson (DD868) home ported in Newport, Rhode Island. In the 1980s he was the lead researcher and writer for the creation of the Admiral Arleigh Burke National Destroyermen's Museum aboard the destroyer museum ship USS Joseph P. Kennedy, Jr. (DD850) at Battleship Cove in Fall River, Massachusetts.
Larry is a retired high school history teacher who taught for forty years in both public and private schools. He considers teaching to be both his vocation and avocation. During his 32 years of teaching at The Hun School of Princeton he enjoyed designing courses that gave his students the opportunity to develop the thinking, research, and writing skills that result from "doing history" and not just learning facts for a test.
For more than twenty-five years, Larry has been a volunteer at the Howell Living History Farm, part of the Mercer County Park System, in Hopewell, New Jersey. For varying lengths of time he has volunteered as an historian, interpreter, webmaster, and draft horse teamster.
Larry is active in historical societies in Ewing, Hopewell, and Lawrence townships. He is an avid member of the Association for Living History, Farm, and Agricultural Museums (ALHFAM), the Washington's Crossing Roundtable of the American Revolution, and the New Jersey Living History Advisory Council. He is a member of the Advisory Council for Crossroads of the American Revolution and is working with Crossroads as volunteer coordinator and editor of its Meet Your Revolutionary Neighbors project.
Posted by Jim Christ at 8:01 pm Tagged with: American Revolution, Crossroads of the Revolution, Trenton, William L. "Larry" Kidder
April 9 2019 – Special Presentation: THE LIFE OF JOHN ANDRE
A new biography of John André, head of British secret services in the Revolutionary War, who was captured in 1780 and hanged as a spy.
Join us on Tuesday, April 9th, 2019, as we welcome noted British author Douglas Ronald as he presents The Life of John Andre: The Redcoat Who Turned Benedict Arnold. Our meeting place is now Scoogi's Italian Resturant at 738 Bethlehem Pike in Flourtown. Feel free to arrive early and eat in the back room where our meetings are held. A short business meeting will start around 7:15pm. The presentation will start at 7:30pm. We encourage you to join our membership for the very small and reasonable tax deductible amount of $30. Don't forget to our book raffle too. Each meeting we raffle off a number of American Revolutionary themed books. You can purchase tickets for the book raffle, $1 per ticket, or $5 for 6 tickets. They money raises goes to pay the room fee and speaker expenses.
John André was head of the British Army's Secret Service in North America as the Revolutionary War entered its most bitter and, ultimately, decisive phase. In 1780, he masterminded the defection of a high-ranking American officer—General Benedict Arnold. Arnold—his name for ever synonymous with treason in American folklore—had recently been appointed commander of West Point and agreed, through André, to turn over to the British this strategically vital fort on the upper reaches of the Hudson River. Control of the fort would interrupt lines of communication between New England and the southern colonies, seriously impeding military operations against the British. The plan was also to simultaneously kidnap General George Washington, Commander-in-Chief of the Continental Army. By these two masterstrokes, the British believed they could end rebel resistance.
The secret negotiations between Arnold and André were protracted and fraught with danger. Arnold's new wife, Peggy became the go-between in the negotiations. Arnold insisted that, to complete negotiations, he and André must meet face to face. At the dead of night on September 21st 1780 the two rendezvoused in no-man's-land. Sir Henry Clinton, commander of British forces in North America and André's immediate superior, agreed to this meeting but with three strict conditions: that André not go within the American lines; that he remain in uniform; and that he carry away from the meeting no incriminating papers. Thus, if caught, André could not be treated as a spy.
Yet, when André was captured forty-eight hours later, he was within American lines, had changed into civilian clothes and was carrying maps of West Point hidden in his boots. The Americans had no option other than to treat him as a spy, especially when he himself admitted this. He was convicted by military tribunal and hanged—his death lamented both in America and England.
While biographers agree on the facts of this tragic episode, they disagree on André's motives and why he chose to sacrifice himself. This new biography of André puts forward a new answer to this mystery—not only why he acted as he did, but how he wished others to see his actions.
D.A.B. Ronald is a writer and historian. He studied at Edinburgh University, where he gained a Master of Arts Honours Degree in History and French, and is currently completing a PhD at Exeter University on contemporary representation of boy sailors in Britain's Navy during the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars. After a 30-year career in merchant banking, during which he lived overseas for many years – in Australia, Indonesia, New Zealand, and the United States – Douglas returned to the U.K. Now a full-time writer, he is researching a companion volume to Young Nelsons on the boy soldiers who served during the Napoleonic Wars.
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Q: Next.js renders element twice On the first image you can see next.js rendered this element twice
I used tables and thought that it is because of them but then I tried to remove tables and put jut  and it still renders twice so I don't know what it can be.
Next.js does not renders only that element but the first from this object
const Sections = {
  1: Locations,
  0: Departments, // here it will render this one twice
  2: Managers,
  3: JobTitles,
};

Maybe it has something to do with useState and my statemanagment in this code below
Component that renders twice.
const Locations = () => {
  return
hdjsad
;
};

// Tab Sections
import Locations from ''
import Departments from ''
import Managers from ''
import JobTitles from ''

import Icons from "../../Icons";
import TabItem from "./TabItem";

const tabs_text = ["Locations", "Departments", "Managers", "Job Titles"];

const Sections = {
  0: Locations, // THIS IS THE COMPONENT WHICH RENDERS TWICE
  1: Departments,
  2: Managers,
  3: JobTitles,
};

const SettingsTab = () => {
  const [active, setActive] = useState<number>(0);

  const select = useCallback((id: number) => {
    return () => setActive(id);
  }, []);

  const ActiveSection = useMemo(() => Sections[active], [active]);

  return (

          {tabs_text.map((tab_text, i) => {
            return (

                <TabItem active={+active === i}>{tab_text}</TabItem>

            );
          })}

        <ImportLocationsAndFilter />

      <ActiveSection />

  );
};

APP.js
import { AppProps } from "next/app";

import "antd/dist/antd.css";

import "../styles/global.css";

function MyApp({ Component, pageProps }: AppProps) {
  return <Component {...pageProps} />;
}

export default MyApp;

A: I can't comment yet so I'll do it here. I know react says in the official docs to never rely on UseMemo or Use callback for functionality. It says you should create your application so it works without them, and then add them for performance reasons. What would happen if you took the useMemo out and put
ActiveSelection = Selections[active]

I don't think it'll fix your problem but it might give you more insight into what's causing it.

A: I just imported my tabs dynamically and set SSR: false.
It has to do something with next.js hydration.
https://nextjs.org/docs/advanced-features/dynamic-import
dynamic(
  () => import(""),
  {
    ssr: false,
  }
);

A: It's strange behaviour / bug related to next.js ssr to fix it wrap your Component in a div like this:
function MyApp({ Component, pageProps }: AppProps) {
  return
<Component {...pageProps} />
;
}

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TEHRAN (defapress) – An Iranian parliamentary delegation arrived in the Syrian capital, Damascus, early on Saturday to meet and hold talks with the senior officials of the Arab country.


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1. Segregation–Separation
2. Lynching & Segregation
3. Antilynching Dramas
4. Life Under Segregation
5. The Black Psyche
6. Passing
7. Desegregation–Integration
8. Separation & Power
9. Ambiguity of Integration
Separation and Power
- Stokely Carmichael, essay, "Toward Black Liberation," essay, The Massachusetts Review, Autumn 1966 (PDF)
In Freedom—When?, James Farmer asserts that "the only way Negro separation would not mean segregation is if the Negro has the sense that he chooses to live separately, and this happens only when total freedom of choice is a reality in America" (see #7: Desegregation-Integration). Both Malcolm X and Stokely Carmichael would respond by saying that total freedom of choice will be achieved only through separation, because only through voluntary separation will blacks achieve the power necessary to claim freedom. We will explore the views of Malcolm X in Theme III: Protest. Here we will consider an essay by Carmichael.
Stokely Carmichael (1941-1998), who changed his name to Kwame Ture in the 1970s, was born in Port-of-Spain, Trinidad. When he was eleven, he and his family moved to Harlem. He became a naturalized U.S. citizen in 1954. In high school he became interested in politics, studying the work of Karl Marx and demonstrating against the Communist-hunting House Un-American Activities Committee. A Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) scholarship enabled him to attend Howard University, from which he was graduated with a degree in philosophy in 1964. While in college, he participated in various civil rights demonstrations and joined the 1961 Freedom Ride to Jackson, Mississippi, where he began his association with the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC). After college he joined the staff of SNCC and in 1966 became its chairman. Confronting intransigent racism, he demanded greater militancy from the civil rights movement, arguing that nonviolence was merely a tactic, not a goal, and should be abandoned if it proved ineffective. Martin Luther King, Jr., disagreed with this position, and a rift opened between SNCC and King's SCLC. During a Mississippi rally in 1966, Carmichael used the term "black power" as he urged his audience to seek independence and take pride in their race. King was wary of the term because of its violent connotations. After leaving SNCC in 1967, Carmichael joined the Black Panther Party, becoming ever more insistent that black liberation lay in racial unity. In 1969 he moved to Ghana in West Africa, where he refined a vision of an Africa united under socialism.
In "Toward Black Liberation," Carmichael, like Farmer, criticizes integration and for some of the same reasons. It is, in Carmichael's words, "based on the assumption that there was nothing of value in the Negro community." While Farmer defended middle class blacks who chose to integrate, he did recognize that, as Carmichael put it, integration was available only to "acceptable" and "qualified" African Americans. It left behind the sharecropper, the dishwasher, and the welfare recipient. Unlike Farmer, however, Carmichael analyzed the relationship between integration and power and criticized integration because it did nothing to address the powerlessness and dependence of the black community. Its establishment as a goal and the pace of its progress were entirely determined by the white allies of the civil rights movement, and, as Carmichael wrote, "the political and social rights of Negroes have always been and always will be negotiable and expendable the moment they conflict with the interests of our 'allies.'" In place of integration Carmichael advocated the goal of black power, which can be defined as the coalescence of political and economic power within the black community in a way that liberates and insulates it from dependence on white support. (5 pages.)
Compare Carmichael's views on the relationship between racial separation and power and his views on black-white relations with those of Marcus Garvey.
In Carmichael's view, what constitutes the genuine black community? Compare his view with that expressed by Langston Hughes in "The Racial Artist and the Negro Mountain" (see Theme IV: COMMUNITY).
Does Carmichael make any distinction between integration and desegregation?
In Carmichael's view, how would integration affect black identity? the black community?
Compare Farmer's attitude toward white liberals with that of Carmichael.
What is Carmichael's critique of the civil rights movement and its goals?
To what extent does Carmichael want to separate the black community from the American mainstream?
For Carmichael, what is the purpose of racial separation?
How does he change the meaning of racial separation?
• What constitutes segregation?
• How did African Americans experience it?
• What is the difference between segregation and separation?
• What are the consequences of segregation? Separation?
Carmichael: 5 pages
Supplemental Sites
Stokely Carmichael, in African American World (PBS)
Stokely Carmichael, "Black Power," address, October 1966. text and audio, in AmericanRhetoric.com
Stokely Carmichael, Testimony to the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee, 25 March 1970, in History Matters, from George Mason University and the City University of New York
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Image: Stokely Carmichael, 20 February 1973. Photograph by Keystone/Stringer; Getty Images, Hulton Archive, #3307763. © 2007 Getty Images. Reproduced by permission.
1. Segregation–Separation 2. Lynching & Segregation 3. Antilynching Dramas
4. Life Under Segregation 5. The Black Psyche 6. Passing
7. De-segregation–Integration 8. Separation & Power 9. Ambiguity of Integration


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Christina Aguilera is known around the world for her big voice, but NBC might be more concerned about her big mouth after she sent out a premature tweet on April 28 welcoming Gwen Stefani to The Voice.
The No Doubt singer, 44, has not been officially confirmed as a season 7 coach, despite weeks of reports that she will join the hit NBC competition show.
"So excited to have you join #TheVoice squad @GwenStefani! Welcome to our crazy fam! Kisses- xoxo #blondesdoitbest," Aguilera, 33, tweeted.
The "Beautiful" singer took season 6 and 7 of the show off, and during her hiatus has announced her engagement to boyfriend Matt Rutler, her second pregnancy, and her plans for a new album. Stefani gave birth to her third son, Apollo, in late February.
The other coaches haven't commented on Stefani's casting as NBC has yet to make an official announcement. Adam Levine did acknowledge the reports of the "Hollaback Girl" singer joining the show to Us Weekly.
"She would be a really good addition to the show if she were to be on it, but that's only a rumor as of now," Levine told Us on April 22.
Pharrell Williams has officially signed on as a coach for season 7 of the show, and original cast members Levine and Blake Shelton have yet to make announcements as to whether or not they'll return come fall.


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