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The Dark of Summer - Erik Linklater
When I found this book - about a decade ago in a second hand shop where it later emerged it was somewhat over priced - I bought it because it was that rare thing, a novel set in Shetland. Since then Linklater has had a bit of a revival, with various reprints of some of his better books around. 'The Dark of Summer' (which is available as both an e book and a paper book in the Bloomsbury Reader series) is from the latter end of his writing career and probably isn't one of his better books (I have a few more titles and really should get round to reading them) but it's still worth seeking out.
The action takes place over a bit more than a decade, starting in the Second World War and ending in the 1950's. Tony Chisolm is a career soldier who finds himself en route to the Faroe Islands looking for a spy on a Shetland Bus sort of set up. The spy is found, already dead, and is transported to Shetland where the corpse might be used to trap another spy (there are shades of The Man Who Never Was about this ,or so I think). There's a storm (evocatively described) and then an encounter with an eccentric local laird which sends the book off into a tangent when it adopts and adapts the story of The Giffords of Busta all mixed up with a drunken Jacobite and memories of the '45. Later on a preserved body in a bog echoes the finding of the Gunnister Man (he was dug up 5 years before this was published).
After that interlude it's back off to the war in Europe, then later Korea, with some recuperating in Singapore, with plenty of time to muse about nationalism, patriotism, the nature of compassion, what war does to a soldier, the importance of loyalty and tradition, why men become soldiers, the neccesity of a good library of female authors when on a longish stint at sea in the Royal Navy, and the difference between cowardice and bravery. Then finally it's back to Shetland to fish and fall in love.
Linklater served in both world wars, and Korea, he lived in Orkney for many years, and obviously knew Shetland and the Faroe Islands. It's an old fashioned book that sprawls all over the place with a bit of a boys own adventure feel to it, but it's also a rattling good read with some very funny lines, and interesting insights. This is the second time I've read it, I hope it's not the last.
Finally I can't resist sharing this - Chisolm, en route for the Faroe's has the captains cabin on the converted trawler the Navy are using. There is a book shelf full of Virgina Woolf, Colette, Rosamund Lehmann, and Elizabeth Bowen amongst others (including Chisholm's mother). Later he questions the captain (who doesn't know about his mother) about this...
'Do you read no authors but women?
'Not at Sea,' he said. 'The sea has two disadvantages: it's salt, as I mentioned before, and there are no women on it. Not in war-time. So female authors are a necessity, as well as a luxury. All those books - and some are a lot better than others - contain a woman who's undressing herself. Oh yes, they do! Some of them only unwrap their sensibility and their intelligence, but even they give you the feeling that there's a bed behind the door. But most of them take you on a beautifully observant, roundabout walk, that might be a little bit boring if you didn't know where it was leading; but it's leading you all the time, with unfaltering purpose. The whole thing - the whole female art of novel writing - is an exquisitely prolonged strip-tease.
I don't know precisely how tongue in cheek Linklater is being here, definatley a bit, but I love the way that in the middle of all the spy and storm at sea shenanigans he stops to throw this in.
Fortnum & Mason The Cook Book - Tom Parker Bowles
I officially started my Christmas planning today (I bought some cards and an advent calendar, then a bottle of Edunburgh distillery Christmas gin as a reward for being so organised, and then this cookbook because I was on a roll with the rewards and had some Waterstonrs vouchers, and so it will continue.) I know it's still October, but I also know if I don't think about it now I won't enjoy it.
The Fortnum & Mason Cookbook was irrisistable - I don't remember the first time I went there, probably some time in the late eighties (I do remember being shocked that a plain white t shirt cost £60 on one visit) but for a long time no trip to London has been complete without looking in. I love the windows, the wine and spirits are always worth a look, and they're one of only a few places in the country that stock Caron's Tabac Blond perfume. It's an established treat to go and buy something from the patisserie (currently Canelés - which you cannot find in Leicester) after seeing an exhibition at the RA. They have Grains of Paradise in their spice range. They have good tea in even better packaging, and the staff wear tailcoats.
It's an institution, a tourist destination, it's where Peter Wimsey (or more likely, Bunter) purchased provisions for his honeymoon with Harriet, I always find something interesting in there, and I have a deep affection for the place (along with a healthy admiration for their marketing strategy).
The book itself is a reflection of all these things. Tom Parker Bowles says he hopes its a cookbook that will be well used - and it might be, though it's not altogether my style of food. I'm not sure anybody needs to publish a recipe for porridge (especially one which is essentially the same as on the side of a packet) and probably not for rice pudding (with or without jam) either. On the other hand the seed cake recipe looks great, the instructions for a baked ham sound good too (much better than the recipe I struggled to find, despite owning hundreds of cookbooks, last time I tried to bake one).
On the whole the recipes reflect the charm of the shop though - they're smart versions of very traditional things with the odd twist (summer pudding flavoured with rose water and decorated with rose petals, lamb cutlets with a red current and mint glaze along with a whisper of HP sauce). There are things that sound decadently (impractically) luxurious - caviar boiled eggs where the eggs need to be boiled for 6 minutes, cooled, have the yolks removed, scramble more eggs (with double cream) then refill the boiled egg shells with the scrambled eggs and top with caviar (I am never doing this). And then the surprisingly practical and appealing (the ham and the seed cake again). There are also charming illustrations, a lot of them by Edward Bawden, from the Fortnum & Mason archive and lots of little bits of history.
I haven't cooked from it yet, but I've certainly enjoyed this afternoon reading it, which has had the same feeling of escaping from everyday cares that visiting the shop gives me - and on that basis alone it's a winner.
More praise for Furrowed Middlebrow
Just over a week ago Simon from Stuck In A Book posted this In Praise of Furrowed Middlebrow. To recap someone who keeps changing their name has left a series of one star reviews on Amazon against all the books that Dean Street Press have published in collaboration with Scott from Furrowed Middlebrow.
It seems unlikely that the person in question has read all the books - why would you read so many books by authors you're clearly not enjoying, or go to the trouble of tracking down some fairly obscure titles to do so? Which makes me wonder why anyone would go to the trouble to be so negative, none of the answers I come up with are particularly encouraging.
I've followed Scott's blog for a while now, and enjoy his enthusiasm as well as his general taste in books, I've followed Dean street Press for even longer - they seem like nice people - so I want to add my voice in praise for what they're doing.
Any publisher who wants to devote themselves to rescuing long forgotten titles, especially when they're helping restore the easily lost voices of generations of women, get my thanks and praise. If it's not your cup of tea it's easy to ignore these books - they're not piled high in every bookshop, it seems unlikely that they're having any noticeable impact on sales for hard up contemporary authors, but for those of us who are interested it's great to have easy access to these books.
I bought a couple of titles (e versions, they're on my phone, it will take me forever to get round to reading them because I rarely do e books, but it was the end of an expensive month and the cheap option) but they look good, and like Simon I want to balance the negativity of those reviews with a moment of positivity.
Not that I have an issue with negative reviews, certainly not when they're specific as to the issues the writer has with the book (and I'm confident that the reviewer actually read the book) but in this case they aren't in any way helpful - and have hopefully, thanks to Simon, had the opposite effect to the one intended.
Island for sale
If I had a spare 2 million I'd consider this - Tanera Mòr, the largest of the Summer isles is still for sale. It has 9 houses, a cafe, it's own stamps (and post office) some nice beaches and a good anchorage (the last of which is probably the most important factor to life on an island). It may not be the easiest place to get too. I have no idea how bad the weather gets in winter though I suspect that getting off the island would be the easy bit compared to a winter treck from Achiltibuie (nearby mainland village) to Inverness (nearest Marks and Spencer's) 80 miles away, but the views are stunning...
The current owners are also willing to split the island into 3 lots - though you'd be stuffed if you didn't like the neighbours, it's not that big an island. There are details and pictures Here and Here but what really attracts me to it is that Tanera Mòr is where Frank Fraser-Darling wrote (or at least where he was writing about) 'Island Farm' - so it does, sort of, come with an instruction manual. It's worth bearing in mind that Frank and Bobby found the island's principal residence, the old school house, so uncomfortable that they moved into a sectional hut...
The island might be well out of my price range but the Little Toller edition of 'Island Years, Island Farm' is not. It's a wonderful book (which you'd probably have time to read in the trip between Achiltibuie and Inverness) I wrote about it a few years ago Here and there's more about it on Little Toller's website Here.
Apple Day Fail
I think Friday was officially Apple day, but it was yesterday when there were enough mentions of apple cake, apple pie, apple tart, and probably cider on Twitter to make it trend (at least in the corner of Twitter I think of as home) and to give me a craving for Apple cake.
Unfortunately by the time I got home and realised I didn't have any apples the only retail outlet that could have obliged was the local Tesco metro. I thought about bundling up and heading out to buy some but was stopped by the near certainty that all I would find were some slightly bruised gala apples. Maybe a golden delicious. Neither being apples that excite me it seemed like the perfect time to use up some of last weeks baked quinces instead.
I have two recipes for Apple cakes, one uses 700g of sugar which basically rules it out unless it's going to be eaten by a lot of people (it's good, but that's So Much Sugar) and a River Cottage one for Apple pudding cake (I'm writing this in my iPad which automatically capitalises Apple, and I'm writing it for the second time because I accidentally deleted the first draft, and I've rather lost the will to correct it) which is brilliant.
It's This Recipe here, it doesn't use almost a kilo of sugar, and does help me use up some of the huge pile of ground almonds I seem to have collected. It's also really quick to throw together which is another bonus. I used orange flower water instead of almond extract as I'd already baked the quinces with orange flower water.
The result smells great, and tastes just as good, but I think it's the end of my experiments with quinces. I love the smell and flavour of them, but remain unconvinced by the slightly grainy texture (I feel the same way about pears, which would also be good in this cake). From now on its just quince jelly for me - which is more than enough to be going on with.
Cold Earth - Ann Cleeves
For no very good reason I've not (yet) really read Ann Cleeves Shetland books (three quarters of 'Raven Black' and now 'Cold Earth' don't really count). It's a long time since I started reading 'Raven Black' so I'm not sure quite why I didn't click with it. I think it might have been because the Shetland that Cleeves described was an unsettling mix of families and different to the one I know which became distracting.
After reading 'Cold Earth' I'm inclined to go back and start at the beginning though (maybe when I get the mountain of books staring at me from across the room is a little bit more under control - so it could be a while) more especially because I've enjoyed the TV series - though I'm well aware it's quite different to the books.
Back in the book... It's a cold wet February day, And Jimmy Perez is at a funeral. It's Magnus Tait's burial to be precise (first met as the main suspect in 'Raven Black') and the inevitable reflections are abruptly cut off by a landslide ripping the place apart. In the aftermath Perez spots a scrap of scarlet against the wall of a devastated house, then finds the body of a dark haired woman that no one seems to know.
He becomes increasingly obsessed with finding out who she was, and when it becomes clear that her death was no accident, who murdered her. There's also a burgeoning relationship with superior officer, Willow Reeves, to balance with his responsibilities as a single father, and as the rain continues - the danger of another land slip.
Cleeve's familiarity with Shetland really comes through, which is no surprise. She's been visiting for over 40 years, and gets the landscape, and more importantly the weather, right. It must be a gift to a crime writer to have somewhere with such erratic mobile phone signal and weather that can suddenly close the islands off from the mainland for days at a time. It sets the scene for a community where people have to depend on each other to get through the dark days of winter. Where strangers are rare, or stand out, amongst extended family and old connections, and where keeping secrets is a serious business. The bad weather gives the book a slightly claustrophobic edge too - what would it be like to sit at home during those long hours of darkness, listening to the wind and rain, and wondering who might get bumped off next?
Cleeves has also caught the changing nature of the community; The older generation encountered in the first books are slipping away, she notes the number of different accents to be found in the islands - a legacy of gas and oil employment. The tension between a transient workforce living in flotels and other temporary accommodations against a settled community that will still be there when they're gone - and the uneasy sense that the good times bought by the oil money may be on the way out put big question marks up against the future. That she is documenting those changes is the main reason I'd like to go back and read the whole series - I think these books might be even more interesting with hindsight.
Lost In A Pyramid & Other Classic Mummy Stories - selected by Andrew Smith
I've been excited by the idea of this book ever since I first saw mention of it months ago. It did not disappoint, but then the British Library classics never do (they certainly haven't yet). What I was hoping for was a book that would have a bit of gung ho boys own style adventure, some humour, and something to think about - I got all of that and a Mummy story from Louisa May Alcott.
Before I saw the book I had assumed that the hay day of the Mummy story might have been in the 1920's when Howard Carter was excavating Tutankhamun's tomb (I may also have had 'Death on the Nile' at the back of my mind). I was wrong, the stories that make up this collection date from between 1869 and 1910. I knew about the Georgian craze for the Egyptian, but had not considered the impact the building of the Suez Canal had, or the presence of the British military for the proceeding decades.
On reflection though it makes sense, not just because of the historical events unfolding in Egypt, but because of the Victorian view of death and the mystical. Between Darwin's shocking new theories about evolution on the one hand and a growing interest in Psychical research on the other - never mind the official introduction of crematorium's in the middle of the 1880's it's hardly surprising that Mummies were so appealing, or that so many of these stories have a curse narrative.
There's also an interesting light thrown on contemporary views of colonialism. The racial stereotyping of native characters might be uncomfortable, but the Western traveller in Egypt doesn't appear in a particularly flattering light either and there's much implied criticism.
Meanwhile for all out bonkers, throw everything at it and see what sticks, fun there's the genius that is 'The Story of Baelbrow' by Kate and Hesketh Prichard. I'm including spoilers here because I can't resist sharing this. There is a remote and ancient country house, built on the sight of an ancient burial mound (of course) and (of course) it has a ghost. The ghost seems to have been getting a bit frisky, the ladies have been disturbed, and eventually a housemaid is found dead - but how. So (of course) Flaxman Low, detective and psychic (what else), is called in. He forms certain deductions and on a dark and stormy night (naturally) things come to a head when it turns out that (look away now if you don't want to know) the ghost was in fact not just a ghost, but also a vampire, and it's possessed the body of a Mummy. It is dispatched with extreme prejudice. I am so glad Andrew Smith unearthed this one.
Grant Allen's 'My New Year's Eve Among the Mummies' was another treat. I've thoroughly enjoyed everything I've read by Allen, and this one is delightfully tongue in cheek with a bit of a chill at the end. 'A Night With King Pharaoh' by Baron Schlippenback is the one that's particularly interesting for its unflattering portrayal of everyone, but basically it's a really strong collection with each story offering something interesting.
It's also, and most importantly, fun to read. I prefer tales of the supernatural that still let me sleep at night, these do, but they're also just creepy enough to satisfy the craving for something a little bit spooky that comes with the season. Highly recommended.
Kitchen Sunday
After what seems like ages of feeling under the weather I'm finally myself again, though the appearance of Christmas in all the shops whilst I was lying low and taking antibiotics for a week is a bit disconcerting. Where has the time gone? How on earth is it half way through October? And isn't it getting dark early now!
It is however undoubtedly mid October, I've seen the schedule for wine related events at work for the next few months so it's clear there's no escaping Christmas, and the dark nights are another hint to get organised. To that end I've spent my day going through cupboards, cooking, and generally tidying.
I'm trying to be more restrained on the preserving front this year (I might have overdone it the last couple of years) but it's quince season and quince jelly is R's favourite so not making it would be just wrong - that and I love making jelly. With the quince and star anise (from Diana Henry's brilliant 'Salt, Sugar, Smoke') I particularly like the way a pale pink cloudy liquid turns into a crystal clear jelly with a colour somewhere between russet and copper.
I had left over quinces so I roast them with a vanilla pod, myrtle, sugar, lemon juice, and orange blossom water. I'm not overly convinced by the texture of quinces so knowing what to do with left over ones is always a bit of a quandary. I found lots of packets of ground almonds though and I think I'll like them together in a cake. The syrup tasted lovely so I've earmarked that for a semolina cake.
There was also bread baking, the first stages of making a rye sourdough starter, and a stew. It's been a while since I really spent a day pottering in the kitchen, I'd been missing it and it feels good to have made the effort. It'll be Christmas cakes and puddings next, which will just possibly reconcile me to the passing of the year, it'll certainly get me back in the cooking habit.
Quinces - hopefully on their way to being delicious...
Why Art History Matters.
It seems the last exam board offering Art History as an A level is dropping it, which might not seem to be a big deal to many people, especially with so many other things going on in the world right now, but I think it's worth talking about.
My degree is in History of Art so I have opinions about this, starting with the way I've seen the subject characterised over the last few days; too soft, too dry, too elitist - all of which I take issue with. My state school didn't offer Art History as an A level, though I wish it had, but it did form a significant part of the Art A level. This turned out to be a very good thing for me, without that portion of the course I wouldn't have got the result I did, and couldn't have gone to the university I wanted.
I didn't do this because it looked like an easier option, but because it was the more interesting one. To understand what you're looking at when you look at a picture it really helps if you have a decent grasp of the historical context it sits within. That means a decent working knowledge of the politics of the time, it's philosophies, the politics of artists and patrons, and religious upheavals. You can't help but become familiar with Greek and Roman mythology, plenty of the bible, and quite a bit of the apocrypha as well. A passing knowledge of contemporary books, poetry, and drama also helps, as does some understanding of scientific thinking. There is iconography to be decoded, maths and colour theories to be understood, and always the people who created the art, and paid for its creation, to be thought of. It's many things, but not soft.
In fact what it offers is a good all round education in the arts, encourages excellent academic discipline, useful transferable skills, the pleasure to be found in looking at really beautiful things, and a better understanding of who we are and where we come from. The history of art is the history of human creativity. What the canon celebrates may well be (is) flawed, but dig about a bit - we're all there somewhere.
What really bothers me however is the perception that it's an elitist subject, the preserve of posh white people. My school was lucky in that we had an enthusiastic, enlightened, and open minded teacher who shared his love of the subject with us and made it accessible. Making us say why we liked or didn't like the images we looked at in each lesson was arguably one of the most useful thing I learnt to do at school.
The difference a dedicated A level would have made comes down to awareness, and that can improve accessibility too. We choose the subjects that will shape the course of our education at a ridiculously young age, encouraged down whatever path seems likely to yield the best exam results, and with (at least in my experience) very little idea of what else might be out there. Studying a subject that encourages the exploration of so many other disciplines can only be helpful. It's also a chance to look, to really look, at our shared cultural history.
It's also worth thinking about just how much art we own as a nation, much of it free to view, in galleries up and down the country. It's there for all of us, or at least it is until public funding cuts go to deep, and a lot of it is there thanks to Victorian ideas of self improvement. It's quite a legacy, and again makes me question why we encourage this idea of elitism.
History of Art. It might always have been a fairly marginal A level in terms of the number of schools offering it, or students taking it. Not being able to sit it is no bar to taking a degree in the subject, and yet I can't help but feel we're all a little poorer for this decision.
1947 Book Club
I had reading plans for this week but they've been stymied by a nasty chest infection which totally wiped me out, and destroyed my ability to concentrate on anything very much. I can only imagine how much fun I've been to be around.
It's vexing not to have read something specially (Chatterton Square had been waiting for this, but there's no chance I'll get to it in time now) but I can at least link back to books previously read.
First up is Dorothy B. Hughes' In A Lonely Place which is a fantastically atmospheric bit of noir by a mistress of the art . It seems I was full of a bug and a total misery the night I wrote about that too. Never mind, the book is brilliant.
Second is T. H. White's Mistress Masham's Repose which was unexpectedly joyful, Kate Macdonald has written an excellent piece about it for the 1947 club. The copy I read has gone back to its owner and now I'm thinking I need to get my own, and also read more White.
And last for tonight the book of my favourite film, Compton Mackenzie's Whisky Galore. It's a wonderful book, funny and affectionate - a classic for a reason, and one that I can't recommend highly enough.
National Poetry Day
In my little corner of the Internet it's all about National Poetry day today (and my youngest sisters birthday, Happy Birthday, Sophie) so inbetween naps and antibiotics that what I've been thinking about. (I've got a bitch of a chest infection which won't shift, it's been almost a month of feeling like death warmed up. I should have gone to the doctors earlier which is making me feel like an idiot for trying to tough it out and getting so run down in the process.)
I know we occasionally had poetry inflicted upon us at primary school, and remember encountering it in an altogether more positive way at junior high level. At about the same time I took to writing (really awful) verse as I assume many adolescent's still do. It wasn't until the first term of A level English when we studied Keats that I really began to understand the pleasure to be had from reading poetry though, or to get an inkling of the power that can be stored in a few well chosen words.
It's a pleasure that lasts.
I'm sharing Jen Hadfield's The Moult' to celebrate the day, it, and more can be found Here
The Moult
Stay out of the sun:
we can all see you. Stop picking fights
above your weight. We've this high
golden bowl of heather and moss
company of whaups and cries and
mutters in the wind; the long
draught of islands
and blinding sea.
Shelter in the hoodoos and pluck
your fur - fine smelt caught on heather
and shining reeds -
ruing it as I do, this flying
gleaming floss snatched back
and spent by the wind.
Freeze when the sunlight hits you
you're not invisible. Scratch off
your dreamcoat of silver money.
Rest downwind in the sun. Run
double-jointed when the valley dims.
from Byssus (Picador, 2014)
I fell in love with Norman Ackroyd's work a couple of years ago when I first saw his 'A Shetland Notebook' (a collection of sketches done from the deck of a boat, they're basically rough impressions and notes to be worked up later - and utterly magical). Since then I've spent quite a bit of time eyeing up his aquatints online in a deeply covetous manner.
There is a gallery in Thirsk (Zillah Bell) which holds an extensive collection of Ackroyd prints and was on our route between Rievaulx abbey and Harrogate so we stopped to have a look - and I bought one. Which was extravagant, but after 2 years thinking about it isn't something I'm going to regret.
The extravagance is relative, to my eye this is a thing of beauty which will be a joy forever, I had the money for it, and honestly I can't think of a better way to spend it than on art. Prints are a comparitivley affordable way of collecting, and be they woodcuts, Lino cuts, screen prints, aquatints, engravings, lithographs, (the list goes on) there's a lot to love.
Really though, this post is just about sharing something I'm beyond delighted with.
Before framing
The magic moment, back from the framers - you already know what it looks like but now you get to unwrap it, know it's all yours, decide where to hang it, and generally enjoy yourself. Love this bit.
And framed, it's a terrible photo. Sorry!
Incidentally, the title is 'Scarborough', somewhere I've never been, but I do love the mood of this image.
A Little Local Murder - Robert Barnard
This was the second Barnad I read, and it's the other one that Pan have recently re issued. Again I'm not entirely sure about the cover, it's very pretty and it sums up the idyllic country village image that the residents of Twytching would surely relish... But for a book written in 1976 it just doesn't seem to have the right tone. It doesn't hint at the edge to Barnard's humour either.
The village of Twytching is on tenterhooks with the news that the local radio station us Hong to make a programme about them to be broadcast with their twinned town in America. Mrs Deborah Withens (who I assume references Mary Whitehouse) who is accustomed to ruling the place with a rod of iron assumes she'll get to choose who appears in the show, and it seems everybody wants to appear on the show.
Not all is as idyllic as it seems though, there have been nasty anonymous letters doing the rounds, people are frightened, and when the first villager chosen turns up dead it all begins to get very nasty indeed.
It's a frequently funny book, but darker than 'The Case of the Missing Brontë'. There's something disconcertingly real about the murder and the solution to it which is at odds with the humour. The result is a very effective but slightly uncomfortable tension running through the book which makes it hard to pin down.
On the whole I preferred 'The Case of the Misssing Brontë', which seemed less complicated, but the two books together make for a good introduction to Barnard. They're sufficiently different to make it clear that he does more than one thing, and to indicate which thing the reader might want to pursue in his writing. For me it'll be the more obviously funny books - but that's a choice based on personal preference rather than quality considerations.
Knitting...
I spent the hottest days of September (when it was a steamy 30 degrees, what a time to get a cold) contracting a bout of bronchitis which has left me well enough for work but pretty much wiped out for anything else. It's certainly made concentrating on reading harder than I'd like, so after a fair amount of falling asleep over books I have up and got the knitting needles out instead.
I want a neck warmer, something smaller than a cowl, which won't get in the way of the stock of a shotgun when I go shooting, but will be warm. Something in Fair Isle should fit the bill in terms of warmth, but getting the sizing right - snug enough not to get in the way, loose enough not to be distracting, and not to deep, is proving a challenge. (One that's watching would probably solve, but where's the fun in that?).
My first attempt was a bit to snug for me so I've given it to a friend as a birthday present (someone who doesn't wear their hair in a bun so has a bit more wriggle room putting it on). I took cake and stones too so whatever they thought about the knitwear there was something to be wholeheartedly pleased with!
I do like the pattern though, and think one more repeat (horizontally) will have it just about right. We'll see.
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HR Tech Conference Is Upon Us! Are You Prepared?
Today marks the kick-off of the annual HR Tech Conference, the marquee event for professionals in the fields of HR, recruiting, and talent management. Just arrived in Chicago and haven't yet had time to prepare? We've got you covered! Below is our guide to making the most of your time at HR Tech Conference 2016.
The sessions that you attend is largely driven by the roles that you fulfill within your organization. However, to be successful in the modern business world, it is no longer enough to just do your job well. You must understand how your work ties into the success of your entire company. Furthermore, you need to be able to quantify the value of your work and effectively communicate this to management. For these reasons, be sure to attend some sessions that enable you to understand how your specific work ties into the big picture of organizational success.
Also, don't forget to attend a session or two that cover aspects of HR or talent management that you are less familiar with. This will enable you to grow within your role and build upon your current professional foundation.
For a full listing of the sessions being held at HR Tech Conference, check out this portal. There is also a brochure for HR Tech Conference that can be downloaded here.
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Once you know the sessions that you would like to attend, be sure to set an agenda. This will allow you to plan your days and make the most of your time. Keep in mind, however, if a speaker or vendor demo catches your eye, don't be afraid to deviate from your schedule. Additionally, schedule some free time to explore and make a point to walk through the expo floor.
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Spend some time navigating the conference alone. A fun goal we set for ourselves when going to conferences is to spark up a conversation with at least 5 different people. We have found that our best networking happens this way! Additionally, pushing outside of your comfort zone allows you to gain unique insights that you otherwise would have missed out on.
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O'Farrill ist der Familienname folgender Personen:
 Adam O'Farrill (* 1994), US-amerikanischer Jazzmusiker
 Arturo O'Farrill (* 1960), US-amerikanischer Jazzmusiker und Bandleader
 Chico O'Farrill (Arturo O'Farrill; 1921–2001), US-amerikanischer Musiker, Arrangeur und Komponist kubanischer Herkunft
 Ela O'Farrill († 2014), kubanische Komponistin
 Raisa O'Farrill (* 1972), kubanische Volleyballnationalspielerin
 Rómulo O'Farrill Naude (1917–2006), mexikanischer Fernsehpionier
 Yordan O'Farrill (* 1993), kubanischer Hürdenläufer

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Q: why inputstream can not recieve a message before the outputstream close in TCP I use code like this in my client
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    out.writeUTF(mssage);
    out.flush();

    while(true){

    }

with this code in my server
DataInputStream in=new DataInputStream( c1.getInputStream()) ;
            System.out.println(in.readUTF());

it works.
However, if I use this following code in my client
    OutputStream out=client.getOutputStream();

    out.write(mssage.getBytes());

    out.flush();

    while(true){

    }

and this code in my server
    InputStream in= c1.getInputStream();
        byte [] b=new byte [32];

        while((in.read(b))!=-1){

            toprint+=new String (b);

        }
        System.out.print(toprint);

the server can not receive the massage until i close the client or close the outputstream,and there will a connection reset error.
 What's the reason?

A: Your server is reading its input stream until end of stream before it prints anything, and end of stream on a socket doesn't occur until the peer closes the socket or shuts it down for output.
The other problem is that your read loop isn't correct, as it ignores the read count.
Try this:
int count;
while ((count = in.read(b)) != -1){

    toprint+=new String (b, 0, count);
    System.out.write(b, 0, count);
}


With Shaun McAuley failing a late fitness test and Tony Taggart serving the last of his three match suspension, Eastleigh fielded the same side that had started against Dover Athletic forty eight hours earlier. If you had offered Eastleigh supporters a point from this game against third placed Woking relegated from last season's Premier Division, Eastleigh would probably have welcomed the point.
This was an entertaining goalless draw though the game did take time to get rolling. The first chance did not arrive until the fourteenth minute when a long-range effort from Woking's Tom Ricketts skimmed the top of the Eastleigh bar. Two minutes later Peter Adeniyi's shot on the turn was just the wrong side of the upright.
Eastleigh slipped to their fourth successive Saturday defeat against the early Blue Square South pace setters and last season's Ryman League champions Dover Athletic.
Still missing both first choice wingers in Shaun McAuley and Tony Taggart as well as the influential Jamie Brown Eastleigh gave a second debut to James Taylor on a month's loan from AFC Totton.
The visitors were first to show as an attacking force and Eastleigh were shell-shocked to be behind on forty seconds. A long throw into the Eastleigh six-yard box from Shaun Welford saw hesitation in the Eastleigh defence, which allowed Frannie Collin to prod Dover ahead.
JAMES Taylor's appearance for AFC Totton in their 1-0 win at Hungerford Town last night could be his last for a month for the Stags.
The no-nonsense targetman is being lined up for a return to his old club Eastleigh as loan cover for ankle victim Jamie Brown, who is highly doubtful for Saturday's visit of Blue Square South leaders Dover Athletic.
In return, Totton would loan Eastleigh's lively, young frontrunner Brett Williams who has so far failed to match the highs of last season and could do with regaining some confidence in a lower league.
For Taylor, 35, the proposed loan deal would mark his second spell at the Silverlake following a brief stay under Paul Doswell's charge in 2005/06.
Taylor for Williams - Loan swap?
AFC Totton forward James Taylor could be the man brought in to replace the injured Jamie Brown as Ian Baird looks to strengthen his side.
Eastleigh's Director of Football Dave Malone revealed that should the formalities be completed, Brett Williams will be heading in the opposite direction.
"Our supporters should be aware that we are negotiating with AFC Totton a possible loan exchange, which involves James Taylor joining EFC and Brett Williams going to AFC Totton.
"Both Clubs have agreed on a one month loan period, and we are hopeful of concluding the formalities within the next 48 hours.
Obviously the injury on Saturday to Jamie Brown has highlighted our need for cover for him, and James Taylor is a very experienced and highly regarded player, who previously played for our Manager at Havant & Waterlooville. Similarly, we trust that Brett will be given an opportunity at Totton to progress and improve his game at 1st team level.
Eastleigh face an anxious wait to discover if they are going to lose frontline power house Jamie Brown to another costly injury.
The hard-as-nails targetman lasted less than 20 minutes of Saturday's Blue Square South match at Thurrock before limping off with an ankle problem.
His premature exit cost the Spitfires dear in a 3-2 defeat that leaves them labouring in 13th place with just six points from a possible 15.
Eastleigh were one up through Anthony Riviere when Brown limped off. And although they led again through Tom Jordan after David Bryant had pulled Thurrock back on terms, two more Bryant goals unhinged them after the break.
"We were retaining the ball up front, but then Jamie went off and all of a sudden we weren't," said manager Ian Baird.
"I said to coach Matt Gray that if we didn't look after the ball better we were going to concede because it couldn't keep coming back all the time, and that's exactly what happened.
Eastleigh's Michael Green was last night set to swap places with Mike Gosney by joining AFC Totton on a month's loan.
The 20-year-old left-sided player, who joined the Spitfires from Sydenhams League outfit Christchurch during the summer, is behind Brett Poate, Trevor Challis and Ian Oliver in the Eastleigh pecking order and has started the season in the reserves.
Eastleigh added to their left-wing armoury last Friday by signing Gosney on loan for a month to cover in the absence of the suspended Tony Taggart and stomach bug victim Shaun McAuley.
Totton, in turn, are short on cover on that side of the field, so the clubs have agreed for Green to spend a month at Testwood Park to get some Southern League experience under his belt.
Eastleigh Res. 3-3 Ash United Res.
TEAM: Dan Loader, Chris McDougall, Ian Oliver, Bruce Suraci, Nick Lane, Scott Gilham (C), Callum Davies, Adam Wiltshire, Brett Williams, Stuart Gates, Steve Hall.
Subs: Mohammed Arahji (on for McDougall), Alex Easton (on for Gates). N/U: Aaron Blaxall, Aaron Todd.
Goalscorers: Stuart Gates, Brett Williams, Steve Hall.
Eastleigh reserves were 2-0 up at the break courtesy of goals from Stuart Gates and Brett Williams. Ash United got back to 2-2 including a penalty in the second half.
Steve Hall scored directly from a corner to put the Spitfires 3-2 in front, however the visitors were to come back to level with an equaliser twenty minutes from time.
A hat-trick by Thurrock's David Bryant was enough to ensure Eastleigh's start to the new campaign has got off to a win-less start on Saturday's.
With five games played, the Spitfires have lost three matches in the regular 3:00pm weekend kick-offs whilst their two wins, both of which have been by emphatic scorelines, have come in the mid-week fixtures over Weymouth and Bromley.
The fit-again Anthony Riviere, who returned in the 6-1 demolition of Bromley at the Silverlake Stadium on Tuesday night along with Jamie Brown, opened the scoring with a 12th minute opener before Bryant grabbed his first of afternoon with a 29th minute equaliser.
Eastleigh Res. 2-2 Metropolitan Police Res.
TEAM: Lyall Beazley, Chris McDougall, Nick Lane, Scott Gilham (C), Mason Baptiste, Jason Brooks, Adam Wiltshire, Bruce Suraci, Steve Hall, John Chimoyo, Alex Easton.
Subs: Prince Aminero, Callum Davies, Galza. N/U: Dan Loader.
Goalscorers: Adam Wiltshire, Prince Aminero.
After being 2-0 down at the break, Paul Wiltshire's reserve side put up a good fight in the second half to bring the scores level and secure a 2-2 draw.
The Club are pleased to announce that we have completed the loan signing of Michael Gosney from AFC Totton.
The loan is for an initial period of one month.
Gosney, who has been an important player for Totton for three or four years, will provide cover for our wide players - particularly bearing in mind that Tony Taggart is suspended for the next three games.
Eastleigh will be praying that Spitfires old boy Matt Bodkin does not come back to haunt them tomorrow as they go in search of their first Saturday win of the season at Thurrock.
Unbeaten Thurrock have had a useful start to the campaign, banking eight out of 12 points – two more than Eastleigh, who have suffered consecutive Saturday defeats against Braintree and St Albans.
The Spitfires management team watched the Essex side draw 1-1 at Lewes on Wednesday night and team boss Ian Baird observed: "Thurrock are like any other side who start the season well – there's an air confidence about them.
"They carry a lot of threats, particularly in the two wide positions.
"Matt Bodkin, who was with us last season (on loan from Grays Athletic), is a danger.
"When he was at Eastleigh he showed good ability, but he wasn't starting for us and he decided to go back to Grays.
Bromley are given SIX of the best!
Eastleigh manager Ian Baird rung the changes through the side following their 1-2 reversal at St Albans City on the Saturday for this Tuesday evening Blue Square South fixture. A welcome back to the side for their first appearances of the season were the influential midfielder Anthony Riviere and striker Jamie Brown. Warren Goodhind and Trevor Challis were brought in to occupy the full back roles, which left Steve Clark, Brett Williams, Peter Adeniyi and Brett Poate to start the evening on the substitutes bench.
Eastleigh's two most previous trips to St Albans have ended pointless for them and a disappointed side travelling back to Hampshire.
Unfortunately this trip had the same outcome for the Eastleigh side. Although this was anything but a top drawer Eastleigh display, the record books will show that this was the story of two penalties that brought Eastleigh to their fate.
Striker Brett Williams passed a late fitness test allowing manager Ian Baird to retain the same squad that had scored a five-goal victory at Weymouth some four days earlier. This time though the side barely had five attempts on goal let alone scoring more than one.
St Albans City had recovered from their opening day defeat to score a home victory over Worcester City in the midweek but were without one of their better players in Paul Hakim who this season is unavailable on Saturday's owing to work commitments.
Three goals in the final six minutes of the first half turned a somewhat non descript opening period into a commanding Eastleigh performance.
Former Weymouth goalkeeper Jason Matthews just passed a late fitness test to be able to turn out against his previous club whilst Eastleigh also fielded other ex-Weymouth players in Steve Clark and Tony Taggart with Trevor Challis amongst the substitutes. Weymouth for their part had former Eastleigh skipper Andy Harris in their midfield.
Neither goalkeeper was seriously tested until the latter stages of the half, Matthews spent a lot of time fielding back passes from his own defenders thus forcing him to kick up field but in general, both defences were in control of a drab affair.
JAMIE Brown will be kicking his heels on the sidelines once again tonight as Eastleigh attempt to get their first Blue Square South points on the board at Weymouth (7.45).
But the player dubbed 'the bionic man' is determined that once his three-match suspension is out of the way after Saturday's trip to St Albans, he will be putting his injury problems behind him and staking his claim for a shirt.
Brown underwent an operation during the summer to remove the metal plate and screws inserted during major hip surgery last year and, realistically, manager Ian Baird hadn't expected to see the warrior-like striker/midfielder back in action until September.
But the 28-year-old looked fighting fit in a pre-match knock-about ahead of Saturday's 2-1 opening day defeat by Braintree Town and spoke afterwards of his determination to start playing again as quickly as possible.
"As soon as my suspension's out of the way, I'll be there knocking on the manager's door," he smiled.
Eastleigh's opening day of the new league season got off to a miserable start this afternoon, as Braintree Town paid a visit to the Silverlake Stadium.
After an impeccably observed minutes silence for footballing legend Sir Bobby Robson, which was carried out all around the country, Eastleigh showed some early promise but things quickly turned sour.
Peter Adeniyi lofted a ball forward to Andy Forbes in the opening minute, who in turn chested the ball down into the path of Tony Taggart. The Spitfires' top goalscorer from last year struck the ball on the volley, though his effort rifled harmlessly over the bar.
The visitors were soon celebrating the opening goal of the game, the first here at the Silverlake Stadium of the new season, as Braintree Town found a way through the Eastleigh rearguard with a well-worked set piece that caught everybody off guard.
With less than a week until the new league season kicks off, local rivals Eastleigh and Salisbury City played out this pre-season friendly in miserable conditions this August afternoon at the Silverlake Stadium.
The game as a contest was very evenly matched but the Spitfires had the better of the first half opportunities against their Blue Square Premier opponents.
Tony Taggart scored the only goal of the game with a 35th minute glancing header across the goalkeeper and into the far corner following a pinpoint cross from Shaun McAuley.
After a tight opening to the second half, Salisbury stepped their game up a gear in search of an equaliser but were thwarted on several occasions as Tom Jordan, Aaron Martin and co stood up to the challenge well when the visitors exerted late pressure.


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Preheat oven to 425 degrees. Place cut sweet potatoes in a large bowl. Add in olive oil, agave nectar, cinnamon, and sea salt. Toss until evenly coated. Spread fries across foiled cookie sheet and bake for 20 minutes. Flip fries and bake 20 minutes on opposite side, or until desired crispness. Enjoy!
Those look amazing! I love sweet potato fries but I've never made them with agave too!


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Assisi Vidyaniketan Public School was established in the year 1994 by the Archbishop Attipetty Foundation Trust, under the experienced and dynamic guidance of its Director, Rev. Dr. Francis Kannikal, S. J.
Situated in the lush, verdant environment of Kakkanad, on the outskirts of Kochi city with a canal flowing quietly by its side, the 12-acre settings could not have been a more conducive site for an educational institution. The school buildings themselves are a marvel in simplicity and economy yet high in utility. Excellent facilities are provided for Co-curricular activities and Sports and Games.
From its fairly humble beginnings, the progress was phenomenal. Starting with a total of 277 students at inception, the strength crossed the 1,000 mark in the third year, it has more than 2200 students from I-XII on the rolls today. It is now a full-fledged Higher Secondary
The school has grown remarkably in all respects. The School obtained affiliation under the Central Board of Secondary Education, New Delhi, in the year 1996 and sent up its first batch of Class X students for the All India Secondary School Examination in 1999, and again the first batch of Class XII students for the All India Senior School Certificate Examination in 2001.
The School's aim is to create students who are confident, competent and morally responsible individuals – a credit to the society they live in. Achieving academic excellence is high on the priority list but is coupled with physical, spiritual and personal excellence.
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It seems that I have been spending a lot of time with Elmo and the gang on "the street" these days. I think it is pretty sad when I stop to realize that I would probably win at Jeopardy if there was a category for naming the monsters on Sesame Street and other random shows on playhouse Disney... at one time I thought how awesome I would seem to be able to spit out all this useless toddler trivia... now awesome is not exactly the word that comes to mind... But in true sesame style, this post is dedicated to the letter B.
B is for... Bed Bug.
Seriously, look at this girl! This is probably my favorite thing about being a little kid. You can sleep everywhere...even upside down and under the covers! Soak it up now Molly because once you have to share a bed with someone they no longer embrace diagonal sleeping.
B is for... Baby land. Today was a new first to me. I watched my two children and my sister's 7 month old all day! Three kiddos under the age of two. It was BUSY but amazingly, really fun! I have to be honest- I was thinking I might be in a little over my head but everyone napped, ate, played and made it through the day! I thought it would be a baby deterrent but now... JUST KIDDING!
And finally B is for... BRAVERY.
now, there is no picture for this part because there was NO TIME and i was too busy being brave to think about it. For those of you that don't know this, sometime in my adult life I have developed this deathly fear of wasps and the sort. I mean, it is really sad. Never afflicted with this before college. hmm. Anyways, my typical reaction with a Wasp or Bee is to just run the other direction screaming at a level that only dogs can register. But not today. You see, being a mom has made me a little brave. Before when a vicious wasp flew in the house I would have moved. But not today. The two smallest were napping. I tricked Molly into thinking there was a surprise in her room. And I did it! I was going to smash the evil creature with my New Balance shoe but because of the angle and size of the wasp I began to envision everything that could happen if I missed. So, I created a master plan. Open the front door. Stand across the room and lift the blinds at the wasp poised on the window next to the front door. Throw a baby bottle at the window to get its attention. Have it chase me around the living room and out the front door. May sound a little silly. But it worked. So there, I was brave so that a nasty mean bug would leave my children alone. Hooray for being a mom ... it is the B-EST.
Well, we are back in Dallas...sadly, the heat decided to hang around and greet us :( What a weekend we had! We always love our visits to San Antonio!!! Gabriel and Molly proved to be the best little travelers...I mean it, they are good company on road trips! We look forward to many more to come! Here are some moments that document the weekend!
Molly and George were kicking it in their PJs. You see-we had originally planned to leave at 5 am so that we could REALLY trick the kiddos into thinking it was night time but Kelly was moving a little slow. That is right, Kelly...I blame you :) We even allowed Molly her "yaya"-a special treat only for bedtime!
I do think that the wash cloth on the face picture of Gabe is pretty funny but not nearly as funny as his Saturday night sleep in a laundry basket! I am SO bummed that I didn't capture this my camera. He was the cutest little laundry bundle ever!
While, Gabriel snuggled with Aunt Melissa!
I was SO excited because I got to use my new stroller for the second time ever! This is my favorite brand new purchase! I hated my double stroller before because it was a little bit larger in life! This is perfect for us! Look how cute and excited they are!
It was our first visit to the pool this summer... WE WERE READY!
Shield your eyes!!! It is the two whitest people ever!!!
On Sunday, we spent the whole day with the Miller side of the family! We had a BLAST!
Kelly's aunt and uncle live in this beautiful neighborhood overlooking the hill country. All these deer just come up to sleep and eat in the front yards! The kids loved it!!!
It was a weekend of fun! Plenty of visits with friends and family! Who could ask for more?
Whew... can we just take a moment and cool off...seriously, let me have a glass of water. Is it July yet? Due to the summer like conditions this spring we have decided to embrace it with some May time fun!
that and of course choosing to stay in the air conditioning and have a little jam session.
Trying to stay positive about all this yucky heat and gas prices! Yikes! We are driving to San Antonio tomorrow ...it will be Gabe's first trip...little does he know that the money for gas is coming out of his college fund.
Well, you could be thinking a couple things... as for me, I am asking myself who are these hairy hobos and what have they done with my nice looking husband and brother? But then I remember...it is that time of year.
It is rally time for our beloved Dallas Stars and their underdog dash for the Stanley Cup. You see, it is this time every year that my allegiance to the Stars is put to the test- Hairy/Scary/Victory or Soft/Refreshing/Loss. And as always, I continue on with my dream for the cup...and much to my chagrin...scratchy smooches.
Rain Rain - GO AWAY!
R - really makes it hard to play outside...especially the thunder/lightening. This directly results in the May crew feeling a little bit couped up!
A - against my better judgement, I allow for us to invent "special art projects" while indoors which usually result in a SUPER huge MESS. But I have to entertain the troops somehow!
I - Inside all day = my already energetic almost- two- year- old has so much bounce to her step that the house shakes when she walks!
N - not going outside the house means limited adult/other human interaction for Mommy. For example... tonight I actually said: "No Milo (the cat), you can not have your food until night-night time". That is right. I am babytalking the cat. YiKeS.
I vote for Monday again (WHICH IS RARE) but I sure did like all the sunshine and flowers. Spring without many rainy days - I heart you.
notice the Stanley cup beard? It is back.
Happy Mother's Day to all you sweet mommies out there!


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Adams, James Hopkins (1812-1861), planter and politician
Ronald W. Fischer
Adams, James Hopkins (15 March 1812–13 July 1861), planter and politician, was born in Richland District, South Carolina, the son of Henry Walker Adams and Mary Goodwyn, planters. At an early age, both of his parents died and James was placed in the care of his maternal grandfather, an early settler of South Carolina from Virginia. Prosperous, his grandfather, a plantation owner, was able to raise Adams in an atmosphere of wealth and education. Shortly after his graduation from Yale in 1831, Adams married Jane Margaret Scott, with whom he had eleven children....
Adams, Sherman Llewelyn (1899-1986)
Adams, Sherman Llewelyn (1899-1986), public servant
Sherman Adams Courtesy of the Library of Congress (LC-USZ62-100619).
Michael J. Birkner
Adams, Sherman Llewelyn (08 January 1899–27 October 1986), public servant, was born in East Dover, Vermont, the son of Clyde H. Adams, a grocer, and Winnie Marion Sherman. Through his father he was descended from a collateral branch of the famous Quincy Adams clan. In 1901 the family moved to Providence, Rhode Island, but Adams's parents divorced soon thereafter. In 1916 Adams enrolled at Dartmouth College. His academic record there was solid, but he was best remembered for the gusto with which he threw himself into extracurricular activities. For Adams, physical fitness was practically a religion....
Addicks, John Edward O'Sullivan (1841-1919), promoter and aspiring politician
James A. Ward
Addicks, John Edward O'Sullivan (21 November 1841–07 August 1919), promoter and aspiring politician, was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, the son of John Edward Addicks, a politician and civil servant, and Margaretta McLeod. Addicks's father achieved local political prominence and arranged for his son to take a job at age fifteen as a runner for a local dry goods business. Four years later Addicks took a job with a flour company and, upon reaching his twenty-first birthday, became a full partner in the business. Like many Quaker City merchants, Addicks speculated in local real estate in the booming port town, avoided service in the Civil War, and achieved a modicum of prosperity in the postwar period. He became overextended, as he would be most of his career, however, and went broke in the 1873 depression....
Alexander, James (1691-1756), political leader
Thomas L. Purvis
Alexander, James (27 May 1691–02 April 1756), political leader, was born in Muthil, Perthshire, Scotland, the son of David Alexander. His mother's identity is not known. Although his grandfather was related to the first earl of Stirling, his own branch of the family did not rank among the nobility. His father provided him with a practical education as an engineer and surveyor, professions more appropriate for the middle class than the aristocracy....
Allen, Henry Justin (1869-1950)
Allen, Henry Justin (1869-1950), politician and newspaper editor
Henry Justin Allen. Courtesy of the Library of Congress (LC-USZ62-96805).
Patrick G. O'Brien
Allen, Henry Justin (11 September 1869–17 January 1950), politician and newspaper editor, was born in Pittsfield, Pennsylvania, the son of John Allen, a farmer, and Rebecca Goodwin. In 1870 the Allens settled on a farm in Clay County, Kansas, which they lost in 1879. The family relocated in Osage County, Kansas, where Allen graduated from Burlingame High School. Working as a barber to attend Baker University in Baldwin City, Kansas, he excelled at forensics, which led to his first newspaper job and forecast his later stature as one of America's most popular public speakers. While at Baker, he met Elsie Jane Nuzman, and they were married in 1892. Only one of their four children survived to adulthood....
Allen, Ira (1751-1814), frontier entrepreneur and Vermont political leader
J. Kevin Graffagnino
Allen, Ira (01 May 1751–15 January 1814), frontier entrepreneur and Vermont political leader, was born in Cornwall, Connecticut, the son of Joseph Allen and Mary Baker, farmers. Little is known of his youth, but in 1770 he followed his five elder brothers north to the New Hampshire Grants region and joined the Yankee versus Yorker struggle, which stemmed from the 1764 Crown decree that New York rather than New Hampshire owned the area that would become Vermont. While brother ...
Allen, James (1697-1755), merchant and politician
William Pencak
Allen, James (25 December 1697–07 January 1755), merchant and politician, was born in Boston, Massachusetts, the son of Jeremiah Allen, the longtime treasurer of the province, and Mary Caball. Ranked fifth by social status in a class of seventeen at Harvard College, he graduated in 1717. Allen then entered his father's merchant business, importing dry goods from England and exchanging New England fish for West India sugar. In 1725 he married Martha Fitch, daughter of Colonel Thomas Fitch. They had no children. Allen belonged to Boston's Congregational West Church but was not a bigot: he contributed £20 to the Anglican King's Chapel for the purchase of bells....
Allston, Robert Francis Withers (1801-1864), planter and statesman
James M. Clifton
Allston, Robert Francis Withers (21 April 1801–07 April 1864), planter and statesman, was born on "Hagley Plantation" in All Saints Parish (Georgetown District), South Carolina, the son of Benjamin Allston, a planter, and Charlotte Anne Allston. Allston entered the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, New York, in December 1817 and graduated tenth in his class on 1 July 1821. Appointed lieutenant in the Third Artillery and assigned to the Coast Survey, he participated in the surveying of the harbors at Plymouth and Provincetown, Massachusetts, and of the entrance to Mobile Bay. He resigned his commission on 1 February 1822 in response to his widowed mother's plea for help on their plantations and returned to South Carolina, where he remained a rice planter for the rest of his life. As a planter, however, he continued his interest in civil engineering and in 1823 was elected to the first of two terms as surveyor general of South Carolina. In 1832 he married Adele Petigru, sister of Unionist ...
Alston, Joseph (1779-1816), planter and statesman
Alston, Joseph (1779–10 September 1816), planter and statesman, was born in All Saints Parish (Georgetown District), South Carolina, the son of Colonel William Alston, a rice planter, and Mary Ashe. He attended the College of Charleston from 1793 to 1794, then entered Princeton in 1795, his junior year, but he withdrew without graduating. He read law in the office of ...
Armstrong, John (1717-1795), soldier, surveyor, and member of the Continental Congress
Robert Grant Crist and Patrick G. Williams
Armstrong, John (13 October 1717–09 March 1795), soldier, surveyor, and member of the Continental Congress, was born in County Fermanagh, Ulster, Ireland. The identities of his Scotch-Irish parents and circumstances of his youth are unclear, but his father may have been named James. A trained surveyor, John Armstrong evidently received some education fairly early in life. Sometime in the mid-1740s Armstrong immigrated to America, settling initially in Delaware and then in Pennsylvania, where he worked as a surveyor. It was probably at some point after his arrival in America that he married Rebeckah Armstrong. The couple had two sons (the younger, ...
Armstrong, John, Jr. (1758-1843), soldier and politician
C. Edward Skeen
Armstrong, John, Jr. (25 November 1758–01 April 1843), soldier and politician, was born in Carlisle, Pennsylvania, the son of John Armstrong and Rebecca Lyon. His father, a surveyor and a prominent figure on the Pennsylvania frontier, achieved fame as the "Hero of Kittanning" during the Seven Years' War when he destroyed a particularly troublesome Indian village; he later served as an officer in the revolutionary war. Armstrong attended the College of New Jersey (later Princeton) for two years but left in 1776 to join the Continental army. He served successively as aide-de-camp to Brigadier General Hugh Mercer and Major General ...
Ashe, John Baptista (1748-1802), member of the Continental Congress and U.S. Congress, soldier, and state politician
Tim Vanderburg
Ashe, John Baptista (1748–27 November 1802), member of the Continental Congress and U.S. Congress, soldier, and state politician, was born in Rocky Point, New Hanover County, North Carolina, the son of Samuel Ashe, a jurist, and Mary Porter. His grandfather John Baptista Ashe, for whom he was named, served on His Majesty's Council of North Carolina; his father was assistant attorney for the Crown, the first judge for the state of North Carolina, and later governor. Ashe, who grew up on the "Neck," his father's tobacco plantation, learned about tobacco cultivation and received his education from a private tutor. There is no indication that he pursued a college education....
Ashley, William Henry (1778-1838), fur trader and politician
David J. Wishart
Ashley, William Henry (1778–26 March 1838), fur trader and politician, was born in Chesterfield County, Virginia. His parents are unknown, and there is no definitive record of his early years. In 1798 Ashley moved west to Kentucky. Four years later he crossed the Mississippi and took up residence in the lead-mining community of St. Genevieve (now in Missouri). From that time until his death, Ashley energetically and successfully pursued profits and power in the fluid frontier society....
Aspinwall, William (1605–?), tract writer and public figure
Stephen L. Robbins
Aspinwall, William (1605–?), tract writer and public figure, was born in Manchester, Lancashire, England, the son of William Aspinwall and Marie (maiden name unknown), and was christened on 10 December 1605 at Burnley. Aspinwall probably grew up in Toxeth Park near Liverpool. He entered Brasenose College at Oxford University on 2 November 1621 and graduated with a bachelor of arts degree on 25 February 1625. In 1627 he married Elizabeth Goodier or Goodyear; they had four children....


You already know the Marvel movie is hit, a big one. Chadwick Boseman, its star, saw this movie make more money in its first weekend than all of his previous non-Marvel movies have earned in theaters � combined. You know that it has a predominantly black cast, from Boseman through Michael B. Jordan, Lupita N�Yongo, Daniel Kaluuya, Angela Bassett, Forest Whitaker, Sterling K. Brown and more, which makes its runaway box office success even more important � because it shows audiences will flock to a movie starring people of color, even in previously mostly-white genres.
And the movie deserves all the praise it is getting. Here are some things I�ve been pondering since seeing it.
Black Panther� is a superhero movie in name only. From director and co-writer Ryan Coogler we have received a drama that happens to be about a superhero. While it does fall into some superhero-movie tropes such as the humongous battle at the end, even that has a personal quality sometimes lacking in these movies. Just as Coogler turned the �Rocky� saga into a character piece in �Creed,� so here we are delving into relationships, responsibility and personal tragedies which in superhero movies are usually just in service of big action; here the action is secondary to the drama. And rather than offer a fate-of-the-world or fate-of-the-universe conflict, this is much more about a single nation, Wakanda, and what it owes the world. Which brings the second point.
�Black Panther� is a Trumpian allegory, a meditation on the philosophy of �America First.� Although Wakanda has vast, hidden resources which have made it powerful and wealthy, it has not shared those resources with other countries, in Africa or in the world beyond. In fact, within the Wakandan hierarchy there is an ongoing debate about whether the nation should use its power beyond its borders, whether to help others or to expand its rule to other lands. Indeed, the film pivots repeatedly around the idea of Wakanda�s greater responsibilities. Of course, this reflects not only a long-standing question about American policies going back to at least the Marshall Plan, but the insistence by Trump that all decisions about America should be based solely on what suits its demands, not on what makes the world a better place.
�Black Panther� is also about race � and what can come from racial oppression. It is no accident that the major conflicts are rooted in racial ones; the flashy white villain Ulysses Klaue (Andy Serkis) is also a white South African, and the most sorrowful current in the movie begins in the strife-ridden streets of Oakland. The pondering of what Wakanda should do with its wealth holds worries about what others will do when faced with a powerful, black nation. (Here the first consequence of global racism is fear, but the second and more powerful one is hate.) Even at the end, the film�s most tragic figure is also one who believes it is better to die on your feet than live on your knees.
Unfortunately, race has also spilled offscreen, too. Because no departure from white-boy-hero norms is allowed by some fantasy fans, you may also have seen the reports about racist trolls putting out fake posts claiming white people have been assaulted at screenings of �Black Panther.�A better story to tell is the kind I have, where a young black man told my wife and me not to leave the theater too soon, since we had seen one post-ending scene but not a second one. The young man and I proceeded to have a thoroughly nerdy chat about the scene, happily bidding farewell to each other as we left the theater. And that story is true.
The women are crucial. Just as the movie deals with race, it also offers some powerful gender representations.�Although T�Challa is both the king of Wakanda and the latest incarnation of the Black Panther, he is strongly dependent on the women around him � whether it�s his technology prodigy of a sister, Shuri (Letitia Wright), or his cordon of bodyguards led by Okoye (Danai Gurira), who is also Wakanda�s commanding general. Women preserve and protect Black Panther�s powers as well. I�d buy tickets to an Okoye movie in a heartbeat.
Then go see �Black Panther� again.


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Technology|Facebook Reasserts Posts Can Be Used to Advertise
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Facebook Reasserts Posts Can Be Used to Advertise
Mark Risinger, 16, checking his Facebook page in October. The social network's privacy practices always draw a great deal of attention.Credit...Nam Y. Huh/Associated Press
By Vindu Goel
SAN FRANCISCO — If you post something on Facebook, let there be no doubt that it can end up as an ad shown to your friends and acquaintances.
Facebook pressed forward on Friday with official changes to its privacy policies, first proposed in August, that make the terms of using Facebook more clear than ever: By having an account on the service, its 1.2 billion global users are allowing the company to use their postings and other personal data for advertising.
And teenagers are no exception. Although the company deleted language that said parents were implicitly consenting to ads featuring their children's posts by letting them use Facebook, the company said it was already getting that permission when teenagers sign up to use the service.
After the proposed changes were originally announced, they drew an outcry from many users, some privacy groups and members of Congress, and prompted the Federal Trade Commission to scrutinize the company's plans.
"Your feedback was clear — we can do better — and it led to a number of clarifying edits," the company wrote in a blog post on Friday announcing the final version of the policies, which went into effect immediately.
But in the end, the edits didn't add up to anything major, according to both the company and its critics.
The new terms of use do not affect a separate change that the company announced last month that allows teenagers to post status updates, videos and images that can be seen by anyone, not just their friends or people who know their friends.
However, Friday's change does fit into a broader pattern: Facebook is pushing its users to share more data while also making that information easier to find. That is raising public awareness of just what it means to post content on the service.
"Every day, people post billions of pieces of content and connections into the graph and in doing this, they're helping to build the clearest model of everything there is to know in the world," Facebook's chief executive, Mark Zuckerberg, told Wall Street analysts in a conference call last month. "This has the potential to be really powerful, but right now, we actually do very little to utilize the knowledge that people have shared to benefit everyone in our community."
Facebook is promoting sharing mostly as a way to make the service more useful. The company's graph search tool, for example, mines user posts to help people find, say, restaurant recommendations posted by a friend. Public posts by teenagers let them spread their views to a wide audience.
But Facebook also has big business motivations for finding ways to show the 1.2 trillion posts on its service more frequently and to more people: The more time people spend on Facebook, the more advertising they see and the better targeted those ads can be.
One of its most important advertising products, called sponsored stories, involves rebroadcasting user posts praising a company's product to their friends. Advertisers find such endorsement ads very appealing because people tend to trust recommendations from friends over other types of ads.
So if someone posted "Just had a great seafood feast at Red Lobster" or even just hit the like button on the chain's Facebook page, the restaurant company might pay to make sure that post, or sponsored story, showed up high in the Facebook feeds of that person's friends.
Facebook has maintained that its previous terms of use granted it the right to use a person's name, face and posts in ads sent to other people in that user's social network. But with the new policy, the company has replaced vaguer language with more specific wording that clarifies its policies.
A coalition of privacy groups and Senator Edward J. Markey, Democrat of Massachusetts, had complained about the language, saying the new terms could violate a 2011 consent decree between Facebook and the F.T.C. requiring the company to clearly inform users before exposing their data to new audiences.
The F.T.C. began an inquiry into the most recent changes, but apparently raised no strong objections.
"Commission investigations and deliberations are nonpublic, therefore we cannot comment on any particular case," said Jay Mayfield, an agency spokesman, in a statement. "However, the F.T.C. rigorously monitors compliance with all of its orders, and that includes reviewing any material changes to the privacy policy of a company that is under a privacy order."
Senator Markey, who joined several other lawmakers in introducing a "Do Not Track Kids" bill on Thursday, said in a statement that Facebook's decision not to shield teenagers from advertising underscored the need for Congress to act. Currently, the law only restricts advertising to children under age 13.
Facebook said it changed the language in its terms of use partly in response to a class-action lawsuit against the company, settled in August, that contended it had not properly disclosed to users how their comments about products and other personal information would show up in ads.
While Facebook has clarified its disclosures, it has not yet put into effect two other important provisions of the settlement that would give users more control over how their information is used in sponsored stories.
One provision requires the company to give parents the ability to prevent their children's information from being used in such advertising.
The other would allow all users to see if Facebook had turned any comments they had made on the service into a sponsored story ad and allow them to opt out of future broadcasting of that ad.
"The innovative controls we agreed to in connection with the settlement take time to build," said Jodi Seth, a Facebook spokeswoman. She offered no timetable for introducing them.


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President Pavoncello was interviewed by Channel 4 news UK and Euronews on Silvio Berlusconi's recent resignation as Italy's prime minister after losing his majority in Parliament, and the scenario of a technical government led by Mario Monti.
President Pavoncello, who holds a Ph.D. from the University of Michigan, is a leading analyst of Italian politics and a well-known media commentator on Italian affairs.
President Pavoncello's comments have recently appeared in Time, which also interviewed him about the Italian debt crisis, Bloomberg, The Wall Street Journal, The Independent, The Sun, The New Zealand Herald and ABC Australia. Other international publications to have featured Dr. Pavoncello include La Presse, Qué and De Standaard, among others.
Watch the Channel 4 News (UK) interview (scroll down).
Read the article in Euronews (in Italian).
Watch the Bloomberg interview on The Washington Post.
Read the article in Time on the Italian economy and the Berlusconi government crisis.
Listen to the interview on ABC Australia.


AKRON, OH (WOIO) - The Akron Fire Department responded to the 600 block of Cliffside Drive after recieving a report of a loud boom in the area at 7 p.m. on Sunday.
Akron Fire Lt. Serjie Lash confirmed a house explosion occurred with multiple people inside the home.
Paramedics transported one person to the hospital for injuries, however, officials do not yet know if they were caused from the explosion, according to Lt. Lash.
Akron Fire said the explosion was contained to the porch roof, a door and windows.
An active investigation is being conducted by the Akron Fire Department, Arson investigators, the Akron Police Department, the Department of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms, and the Summit County Bomb Squad.
Return to Cleveland 19 News for updates.


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The Roman Polanksi Lawsuit: Unwanted, Undesired
The woman at the center of the Polanski case wants it dismissed. The events happened 31 years ago, and Samantha Geimer, 45, (pictured at the premiere of documentary Roman Polanski: Wanted and Desired) says:
"My views as a victim, my feelings as a victim, or my desires as a victim were never considered or even inquired into by the district attorney prior to the filing. It is clear to me that because the district attorney's office has been accused of wrongdoing, it has recited the lurid details of the case to distract attention from the wrongful conduct of the district attorney's office as well as the judge who was then assigned to the case." She adds: "I have survived, indeed prevailed, against whatever harm Mr. Polanski may have caused me as a child," and says she believes Polanski fled the country "because the judicial system did not work." This story notes:
Now a wife and mother of three children, Geimer said that the insistence by prosecutors and the court that Polanski must appear in person to seek dismissal "is a joke, a cruel joke being played on me."
Victim In Polanski Case Urges Dismissal [AP]
Bob Wiley
Something about Ms. Geimer getting all dolled up and attending the premiere of this movie just doesn't sit right with me. Not that she should be in hiding or feel any shame, I'm not saying that, it's just, I don't know, odd.


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Your little tike will have a ball riding around in this classic green pedal car. The French design offers a vintage aesthetic that looks adorable in any nursery, children's bedroom, or playroom. It is made of metal and measures 32.5"L x 17"W x 19""H. Click on image for greater detail.