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St. Charles County Historical Society Donates David H. Smith Papers to 47th Pennsylvania Volunteers: One Civil War Regiment's Story
Honorable Discharge (excerpt), First Sergeant David H. Smith, Company H, 47th Pennsylvania Volunteers, December 25, 1865 (public domain).
A challenging year for many Americans due to the COVID-19 pandemic, a faltering economy, and civil strife, 2020 proved to be a remarkably constructive one on many fronts for a humanities project dedicated to preserving and educating children and adults about the 47th Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry—a Union Army unit which made history during the American Civil War as the only regiment from Pennsylvania to participate in the 1864 Red River Campaign across Louisiana, and which also was involved in guarding Mary Surratt and the other key conspirators involved in Lincoln's assassination in 1865.
One of the most important developments in 2020 was the donation by the St. Charles County Historical Society in St. Charles, Missouri of its David H. Smith Papers collection to 47th Pennsylvania Volunteers: One Civil War Regiment's Story.
Smith was one of the 47th Pennsylvania Volunteers who served for the duration of the war. Following his enrollment at Harrisburg, Pennsylvania on August 22, 1861, Smith mustered in at Camp Curtin in Harrisburg on September 19 of that year as a private with Company H. Described as a 19-year-old farmer with light hair, blue eyes, and a light complexion who was five feet, nine inches tall, he was promoted to the rank of corporal on October 21, 1862—the day before the regiment was bloodied badly in the Battle of Pocotaligo, South Carolina. He then re-enlisted with the 47th Pennsylvania Volunteers in mid-October of 1863 at Fort Jefferson in the Dry Tortugas, Florida, where half of the regiment was stationed at the time, and was subsequently promoted to the rank of Sergeant on September 18, 1864—one day before the Battle of Opequan, Virginia, and promoted again to First Sergeant on April 21, 1865—exactly one week after Lincoln's assassination. Smith then continued to serve until the regiment was honorably mustered out at Charleston, South Carolina on Christmas Day of that same year.
According to Adam Pesek, a collections volunteer with the St. Charles County Historical Society who reached out to Laurie Snyder, the managing editor of the 47th Pennsylvania Volunteers' project, society personnel made the helpful overture because they had made a decision to downsize the society's collection, and were seeking to redistribute a range of items to other organizations whose ties to those items were stronger.
Society archivist Amy G. Haake explained that she and her colleagues had made the decision to donate Smith's papers when they realized "that Smith had no connections to St. Charles County, whether through marriage or otherwise," and wanted to find a group which would ensure that the historic documents would be preserved and made publicly available for study by other historians and history students. Among the original documents are certificates related to promotions received by Smith during his tenure with the 47th Pennsylvania, as well as his reenlistment and honorable discharge paperwork.
"My plan is to digitize Sergeant Smith's papers in 2021, research and write a biographical sketch of his life, and then make each of Smith's documents and his biography publicly available online via our project's website and Facebook page. I will then also donate Smith's papers to a museum or historical society in Pennsylvania," said Snyder. "These precious papers not only document Smith's service to the nation; they provide tangible links to a defining time in our nation's history—reminding us all of the sacrifices made by the heroes who left hearth and home to fight for the Union of a country they loved more than life."
47th Pennsylvania Volunteers: One Civil War Regiment's Story is an educational initiative dedicated to documenting and raising public awareness about the history-making role played by the 47th Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry during the American Civil War, as well as the contributions made by its members, post-war, to America's growth and the advancement of its democratic ideals. Integrated in October of 1862 (prior to President Abraham Lincoln's official release of the Emancipation Proclamation), this regiment went on to become the only regiment from Pennsylvania to participate in the Union's 1864 Red River Campaign across Louisiana and the only regiment from Pennsylvania to have men held captive as prisoners of war at Camp Ford—the largest Confederate prison west of the Mississippi River, and was also involved in guarding Mary Surratt and the other key conspirators in Lincoln's assassination in 1865 during the early days of their imprisonment.
Founded in 1956, the St. Charles County Historical Society (SCCHS) is a nonprofit organization which was initially established to preserve the history of St. Charles County, Missouri. In 2009, it merged with the St. Charles Genealogical Society in order to expand upon its mission "to foster an understanding and appreciation of all aspects of Saint Charles County history" to ensure that genealogical records of county residents are also preserved.
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His First Name was "Presto?" A Black History Month Mystery
Roster entry: Presto Garris," Company F, 47th Pennsylvania Volunteers, Bates' History of Pennsylvania Volunteers, Vol. 1, 1869 (public domain; double click to enlarge).
"Presto?" The first name stood out like a sore thumb on the roster of my great-grandfather's Civil War regiment—one with a rank and file populated largely by soldiers with Germanic surnames: "Acher," "Bachman," "Bauer," "Bauman," "Burger," "Dachrodt," "Diehl," "Eisenbraun," "Eppler," "Fritz," "Grimm," "Guth," "Handwerk," "Hertzog," "Keiser," "Knecht," "Knorr," "Koenig," "Laub," "Metzger," "Münch," "Rehrig," "Reinert," "Richter," "Sauerwein," "Schmidt," "Schneider," "Strauss," "Ulrich," "Volkenand," "Wagner," "Weiss," and "Zeppenfeld."
Many of their given or middle names were equally as Germanic—"Adolph," "Bernhard," "Gottlieb," "Friedrich," "Heinrich," "Levi," "Matthias," "Reinhold," "Tilghman," "Tobias," and "Werner." In addition, one of the regiment's component units—Company K—had even been founded by a German immigrant with the intent of creating "a new German company" staffed entirely by German-Americans who had been born in the Lehigh Valley, as well as recent émigrés from Germany.
So, "Presto" as a given name seemed like it warranted further investigation. Did the spelling of this soldier's given name signal that he had emigrated from a different part of the world—possibly Italy? There was, after all, another member of the 47th Pennsylvania's ranks with a seemingly Italian surname—Battaglia (later proven to be an immigrant of Switzerland). Plus, there were also multiple men with Irish surnames who had also enlisted with the 47th.
Or, maybe this soldier had been employed as a magician prior to enlisting in the military? (Probably not, but strange discoveries are surprisingly common with genealogical research.)
A more likely scenario? A harried Union Army clerk, in his haste to process new enlistees, simply omitted the "n" at the end of this soldier's name—making him "Presto" for posterity's sake rather than "Preston."
I just had to know. Who was Presto?
Listing for "Presto Garris," Company F, 47th Pennsylvania Volunteers, Civil War Veterans' Card File, 1861-1866, Pennsylvania State Archives (public domain).
It turned out that this 47th Pennsylvania Volunteer wasn't a magician, and he wasn't an immigrant from Italy, but he was someone whose first and last names were badly mangled by multiple "mis-spellers" over decades of data entry.
Upon further investigation, it became clear that he was a formerly enslaved, 33-year-old black man who had enlisted with the 47th Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry on October 5, 1862 while the regiment was stationed near Beaufort, South Carolina—meaning that my great-grandfather's regiment had become an integrated one at least three months before President Lincoln had issued the Emancipation Proclamation.
Totally "wowed" by this discovery, I searched for even more information about this very important enlisted man, but my quest wasn't as easy as I hoped it would be because the regimental clerk who had entered "Presto" on the roster for Company F of the 47th Pennsylvania Regiment in the Registers of Pennsylvania Volunteers had spelled his name incorrectly—an error that was then perpetuated by historian Samuel P. Bates in his History of Pennsylvania Volunteers, 1861-5.
Possible name variants for an African American member of the 47th Pennsylvania Volunteers, U.S. Civil War General Pension Index Cards (National Archives, public domain).
Fortunately, this soldier's listing in the U.S. Civil War General Pension Index Card system was slightly more helpful, providing multiple "alias" (alternate) spellings of his name: "Presto Garris," "Bristor Geddes," and "Bristor Gethers," as well as a potential spelling for the name of his wife, "Rachel Gethers," and a possible place of residency and year of death—1894—because his widow had filed for a U.S. Civil War Widow's Pension from South Carolina on July 27, 1894.
Despite those hints, it took quite some time to pick up this soldier's trail again. Eventually, though, that pension index card data helped me to find a Freedmen's Bureau contract for him which confirmed that he had indeed settled in South Carolina post-war. Dated February 12, 1868, this document also confirmed that he had been signed to a contract with 14 other Freedmen by the Mt. Pleasant, South Carolina office of the U.S. Freedmen's Bureau to provide labor for the Whitehouse Plantation.
List showing "Brister Geddis," et. al. on an 1868 Freedmen's Bureau contract with the Whitehouse Plantation in South Carolina (public domain; double click to enlarge).
But, in another seemingly frustrating turn of events, that contract caused further confusion surrounding his name—this time spelling it as "Brister Geddis." Fortunately, this new variant was repeated in the 1870 federal census—a sign that it was either the correct spelling or at least a closer approximation of how this soldier had pronounced his own name. Describing him as a 42-year-old black male residing in Beaufort, South Carolina, that same census also noted that he lived in Beaufort Township with his wife "Rachel," a 24-year-old black woman (estimated birth year 1846), and son "Peter," a 6-year-old black child, and confirmed that all three had been born in South Carolina. And that census record also noted that both "Brister" and "Rachel" were involved in farming land valued at $1,500.
Unfortunately, the 1880 federal census taker created still more confusion by illegibly writing the name as "Geddes, Brista" or "Geddis, Bristor"—and gave rise to two new puzzles by omitting son Peter's name and also radically altering the estimated birth year of wife "Rachel"—changing it from 1846 to 1820 by stating that she was a 60-year-old who was four years older than her husband (rather than younger as she had reportedly been in 1870).
Even more frustrating? The special veterans' census of 1890 altered the spelling of his name yet again—this time to "Brister Gedders."
At that point, I made the decision to do everything humanly possible to right the wrong of this 47th Pennsylvania Volunteer's forgotten military service by launching a GoFundMe campaign to support the purchase of this his full set of his military and pension records from the National Archives (as well as those of the other eight African American men who enlisted with the 47th Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry).
If just three of you who regularly read the content on this website and follow our Facebook page donate $10 each to this campaign, we will be able to purchase the entire Compiled Military Service File for this forgotten member of the 47th Pennsylvania Volunteers and make it publicly available (free of charge) to other family history researchers and historians. If just four of you donate $20 each, we would also be able to purchase the entire Federal Military Pension Application File for that same soldier—a file that may very well contain critical vital statistics about this soldier's birth, life and death, as well as vital statistics for his widow and son.
We might just even be able to determine when and where Brister/Bristor was buried and whether or not a gravestone marks his final resting place. If we find that no marker exists, or that the existing one has been damaged, or that the gravestone carver spelled his name incorrectly, we can then fix that wrong as well by asking the appropriate county, state and federal authorities to erect a suitable veteran's headstone for him.
Please help us honor the military service of this unsung hero by making your donation today to our GoFundMe campaign, "Honor 9 Black Soldiers of the American Civil War."
With Sincere Gratitude,
Laurie Snyder, Managing Editor
47th Pennsylvania Volunteers: One Civil War Regiment's Story
1. Bates, Samuel P. History of Pennsylvania Volunteers: 1861-5, Vol. 1. Harrisburg, Pennsylvania: B. Singerly, State Printer, 1869.
2. "Garris, Presto," in Civil War Veterans' Card File, 1861-1866. Harrisburg, Pennsylvania: Pennsylvania State Archives.
3. "Garris, Presto" (alias "Geddes, Bristor", alias "Gethers, Bristor"), in U.S. Civil War General Pension Index, 1890-1894. Washington, D.C.: U.S. National Archives and Records Administration.
4. "Roll of Co. F., 47th Regiment, Infantry," in Registers of Pennsylvania Volunteers, 1861-1865, in "Records of the Department of Military and Veterans' Affairs." Harrisburg, Pennsylvania: Pennsylvania State Archives, retrieved online February 10, 2020.
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Faces of the 47th Project Honors History-Making Civil War Soldiers from Pennsylvania
First Lieutenant William Wallace Geety, Co. H, 47th Pennsylvania Volunteers, c. 1864-1865.
A tantalizing new video released by 47th Pennsylvania Volunteers: One Civil War Regiment's Story just opened an important new portal to the 19th century for Civil War enthusiasts, teachers, students, and genealogists.
Faces of the 47th is part of a larger, ongoing initiative to document and raise public awareness about the 47th Regiment, Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry – the only regiment from the Keystone State to fight in the Union's 1864 Red River Campaign across Louisiana. The video presents the photographic and illustrated images of more than two dozen men who fought with the all-volunteer unit between 1861 and 1865.
"Each one of these images holds the potential to help family history researchers feel closer to their Civil War-era ancestors while also enabling teachers, students and Civil War enthusiasts to deepen their connections to one of the most painful chapters in the American narrative," explains Laurie Snyder, managing editor for the project. "By 'putting faces to the names' on military muster rolls, we're bringing history to life while also paying tribute to those who fought to eradicate slavery and preserve our nation's union."
The photo digitization project received early support from Thomas MacEntee, founder of High-Definition Genealogy, via The Genealogy Fairy™ program, which enabled Snyder to locate and digitize photographs of key members of the regiment. Among the images preserved in this initial collection are the faces of a regimental chaplain, musicians, prisoners of war (POWs), military surgeons, and officers and enlisted men who were grievously wounded or killed in combat, as well as several men who became inventors, leading business executives and elected officials in and beyond Pennsylvania after the war.
George Dillwyn John (third from left; formerly, 47th Pennsylvania Volunteers), Grand Army of the Republic gathering, Will Robinson Post, Illinois, c. 1926.
"At the time I applied for the grant, there were hundreds of photographs tucked away in public libraries, historical societies, universities, and private family history collections from Maine to California and Michigan to Louisiana. Most had not yet been digitized and might have been lost for all time had Thomas MacEntee not provided the support he did when he did," said Snyder. "More work still needs to be done, of course, because there are photos still not yet scanned, but the project took more than two dozen giant steps forward with just that one grant from Thomas. He's a hero in my book."
Other significant support for the project has been provided by the Burrowes and Wasserman families.
Joseph Eugene Walter, Regimental Band, 47th Pennsylvania Volunteers, c. 1861.
Recruited primarily at community gathering places in their respective home towns, the soldiers who served with the 47th Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry were primarily men of German heritage whose families still spoke German or "Pennsylvania Dutch" more than a century after their ancestors emigrated from Germany in search of religious and political freedom. Still others were recent immigrants from Germany, Ireland and Cuba. Formerly enslaved black men who had been freed by the regiment from plantations in South Carolina and Louisiana were added to regimental rosters in 1862 and 1864.
In addition to fighting in the battles of Sabine Cross Roads/Mansfield, Pleasant Hill and Monett's Ferry/Cane River during the Red River Campaign, the 47th Pennsylvania Volunteers also engaged in the defense of Washington, D.C. in 1861 and again in 1865, following the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln; the capture of Saint John's Bluff, Florida and Battle of Pocotaligo, South Carolina (1862); the garrisoning of Forts Taylor and Jefferson in Key West and the Dry Tortugas, Florida (1863); Union Major-General Philip Sheridan's tide-turning Shenandoah Valley Campaign (1864), including the battles of Berryville, Opequon, Fisher's Hill, and Cedar Creek; and provost (military police) and Reconstruction duties in Savannah, Georgia and Charleston, South Carolina (1865). Most were finally released from duty when the regiment formally mustered out on Christmas Day in 1865.
Learn More and Support
To learn more about the 47th Pennsylvania Volunteers and lend your support to this historic initiative, visit the website of 47th Pennsylvania Volunteers: One Civil War Regiment's Story, and follow the project on Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr, and YouTube.
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47th Pennsylvania Volunteers: One Civil War Regiment's Story Receives Grant to Digitize Historic Civil War-era Photographs
Captain John Peter Shindel Gobin, Co. C, 47th Pennsylvania Volunteers, c. 1862 (public domain).
Thomas MacEntee, founder of High-Definition Genealogy, recently announced that 47th Pennsylvania Volunteers: One Civil War Regiment's Story will receive a grant to begin digitizing and making publicly available photographs of the officers and enlisted men who served with the 47th Regiment, Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry during America's Civil War.
"Five percent of all revenue at Genealogy Bargains is set aside each month to fund The Genealogy Fairy™ program," explained MacEntee. "The goal is to give back to the genealogy community through a series of grants to organizations and individuals undertaking worthwhile genealogy-related projects."
"This early support of our work is incredibly important," said Laurie Snyder, managing editor for 47th Pennsylvania Volunteers: One Civil War Regiment's Story. "There are currently hundreds of photographs scattered across America in public libraries, historical societies, universities, and private family history collections – carte de visite images of individual soldiers and the physicians who treated their battle wounds, as well as group photos of the companies in which they served. Most have yet to be digitized, and could be lost for all time if a fire or flood damaged one of the buildings where they're held."
William DeWitt Clinton Rodrock, Chaplain, 47th Pennsylvania Volunteers (Fort Jefferson, 1 December 1863, public domain)
Preserving the photographs of those who served with this particular Civil War unit is especially vital, explained Snyder, because the 47th Pennsylvania was the only regiment from the Keystone State to fight in the Union's Red River Campaign across Louisiana during the spring of 1864 and was also the only Pennsylvania regiment to have men held as prisoners of war at Camp Ford, the largest Confederate Army prison west of the Mississippi. In addition, the 47th Pennsylvania was also stationed at Beaufort, South Carolina and fought in the Battle of Pocotaligo in 1862, garrisoned Forts Taylor and Jefferson in Florida, fought in the Union's tide-turning Shenandoah Valley Campaign during the fall of 1864, helped to defend the nation's capital following the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln, and assisted with Reconstruction efforts in Charleston, South Carolina during the summer and fall of 1865.
"Each one of these photos not only holds the potential to help family members feel closer to their ancestors, but has the power to enable teachers to help students truly connect with and appreciate their Civil War studies. By 'putting faces to the names' on military muster rolls, we will be bringing history to life for those wanting to learn more about this regiment while also honoring those who fought to preserve our nation's union."
To learn more about the 47th Pennsylvania Volunteers and lend your support to this historic initiative, visit the website of 47th Pennsylvania Volunteers: One Civil War Regiment's Story, and follow the project on Facebook and Twitter.
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You are invited to our 13th Annual Seven Aside Soccer Tournament on Denman Island.
Fees for the tournament are $350 per team. Each team is provided with 10 t-shirts included with the registration fee. Extra t-shirts available for $15 / item. All funds collected for the tournament go directly back to the Community Sportsfield for the continued maintenance of the field and equipment provided to the various sports groups on Denman Island. in the event your team registers a family team in addition to a 35+ Co-ed Team the registration for the two teams will be reduced by $50 per team. Please note, all teams interested in camping will be asked to contribute $100 per team towards the campground. The campground is located 5-minutes from the field and we ask that you respect the simple fact this this is a property being donated to us for the weekend and there are full-time residents who will be sharing the 40-acre parcel of land.
Be sure to complete the ONLINE REGISTRATION and provide payment before June 15, 2019!
Misconduct – in the event of a yellow card or red card situation, the player will be penalized according to the guidelines of FIFA Fair Play Code of Ethics.
Red card offence equals immediate dismissal from the field of play, plus a one game suspension (next game) and a review by the tournament committee regarding further participation in the tournament (if warranted).
Each team is guaranteed 3 games, with the potential for a fourth based on the results.
Win 3 points. Tie 1 points. Loss no points.
Goal Difference (Goals For minus Goals against). Please note, the maximum number of recorded goals for will be 5. For example, if a team wins 9-1, the goals for are recorded as 5 and the goals against as 1.
Draw names from a hat.
5 seconds to score by either beating the keeper by any combination of shooting and dribbling.
If the game should remain tied (after the 3 shooters) then it becomes sudden death with new players taking part. This continues until the tie is broken.
Maximum 7 players on the field at one time including the GK.
Players will not be allowed to switch teams mid-tournament within the same division. For example, if you play 35+ with one team you will not be allowed to play for another team in the same division. Same-same no different for the 16+ and the Family Divisions.
Goalkeeper must not punt the ball directly from the hands over center and there is no kicking the ball beyond the halfway line on goalkicks.
If you or anyone on your team is going to complain, please consider this is a FUN event for ALL AGES and that we all hope to have a great time raising some funds for the Denman Island Sports Field Association- mutual respect and acknowledgement for all tournament officials who are VOLUNTEERS is essential to the success of the weekend.


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God Damn You to Hell, The Walking Dead
Rob Bricken
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Two things, guys: 1) This was an especially brutal, infuriating episode of The Walking Dead, so consider this your extra-special spoiler warning (although if you haven't been spoiled already, you soon will be); and 2), I'm beginning to think Rick's plan to herd the zombies out of Undead Gorge wasn't a very good plan at all.
To be fair, Rick had meant to do a dry-run of the Great Zombie Fun Run first, when a chance truck toppling allowed the zombies free, forcing Rick to make the call to enact the unpracticed plan then and there. From a coldly rational standpoint, it makes sense—the zombies would head right for Alexandria, there would be way too many of them, and the town would be overrun. It's pretty simple math.
But by forcing the drive too early, it put everyone involved in Rick's plan at risk, although obviously it put the less experienced Alexandrians in more danger than the badasses of Rick's group. And when the horn at Alexandria started blaring and the zombies split up and the humans split up, things got exponentially more dangerous for each group… but mainly the Alexandrians.
Rick literally announces he knows this fact, and he's totally cool with it at the episode's beginning; he pulls Michonne and Glenn aside, and flatly tells them, "Try to get the others back home, but not all of them [meaning the Alexandrians] are gonna make it." Michonne and Glenn—who are not dumb, and know how the zombie apocalypse works—are still kind of horrified to hear Rick say it out loud.
But to be fair, Rick is right. In fact he's right as hell, because it appears that only two of the Alexandrians survive to make it home, and I think one of those guys might have been bitten. Basically, it's just Heath, the only new guy whose name we've learned since the season began.
In fact, it's almost comical how bad these guys are at the zombie apocalypse, because they're getting pounced on by unseen zombies left and right, twisting their ankles, failing to get over fences in time. It was almost standard zombie fare 101, complete with a note one poor bastard wrote to his wife in case he didn't make it, getting trampled in the mud by a zombie who was eating the dude, because he didn't make it.
Glenn and Michonne do their best to try and save them all, even when the wounded Alexandrians start telling the others to go on without them. Rick, of course, would have left them all behind long ago, but Michonne and Glenn, who know the increased risks, are determined to try and save everyone. When a huge chunk of the herd enters the town, effectively cutting off their escape, Glenn volunteers to set a fire at a nearby feed store in hopes of distracting the zombies. Michonne thinks it's too dangerous; Glenn assures her he'll be fine. Nicholas, still trying to redeem himself after his near-murder of Glenn last season, knows where the feed store is, and goes with him.
And thus we come to the headline of this article, because this works out at well as anything involving Nicholas has, because Glenn is dead.*
It's heartbreaking, because Glenn was the heart of the group more than anybody; he had found love with Maggie and may have fathered a kid (although impregnating someone in the apocalypse is almost always a sure sign you're gonna die). It's infuriating because Glenn's death was so meaningless; the feed store was already burned, the sweaty Nicholas tried to figure out another building to burn but got them cornered by zombies instead; as they stood on a trash bin, surrounded by a sea of the undead, Nicholas shot himself in the head (after telling Glenn "Thank you," presumably for not killing him last season), died, and as he fell brought Glenn down into the teeming mass of the flesh-hungry zombies too.
It wasn't heroic, it wasn't necessary, and it was extra-infuriating that Nicholas, after several genuine attempts on Glenn's life, got Glenn killed inadvertently while committing suicide. Glenn's death was stupid… but I get it. I mean, it's effectively like Robb Stark of Game of Thrones randomly getting thrown from his horse while riding down the street and suffering a concussion and dying in his sleep, but if Glenn had died, say, singlehandedly stopping a zombie horde from attacking Alexandria, or shutting down a nuclear bomb, his dead would have been grand, heroic, and satisfying; by making his death so useless, we feel his loss more powerfully.
The fact that he died as a direct result of his mercy, his unwillingness to kill Nicholas after he tried to kill Glen twice makes it all the more horrible, and heartbreaking, and emotional. Because that's kind of the real tragedy—you know, besides Glenn being digested in a few happy zombies' tummies right now. This, more than anything else in recent seasons, has proven Rick's brutal attitude correct.
You can't give people second chances. You can't leave enemies behind you. Mercy can get you killed. You can't protect the weak. It's all stuff Rick has been saying, living, knowing ever since he left the prison. So when Rick gets back to the Winnebago and drives it to where he's hoping the others will be coming out of the woods, when he hears gunshots coming from Alexandria, he has no compunction about telling the others they have to stay on their job. "We have to hope they can take care of it themselves," he says pragmatically. If they aren't strong enough, they'll die. But as he said in the premiere, some people weren't meant to live in this world.
And then suddenly, a couple of Wolves burst into the Winnebago, including the one who had stolen the gun. Rick, being a terrifying badass, kills them both, as well as using an assault rifle to shoot another mess of Wolves outside through the Winnebago walls. But when Rick does his normal search for weapons—you can never have too many weapons—he finds something strange if one of the Wolves' pockets.
A jar of baby food.
There's only one place nearby Rick knows that has baby food, and that's his house in Alexandria. Where he's heard gunfire. And ignored it.
I feel like Rick has suddenly discovered the flaw in his "let the weak fend for themselves" policy. Yes, it's kind of a stretch that Rick wouldn't immediately worry about his kids when he first heard the gunfire coming from Alexandria, but Rick's been turning into an asshole for quite some time, completely convinced of his infallibility, and that has extended a great deal to all members of his original group. The Alexandrians are just zombie fodder in comparison. I think it's within the realm of believability that Rick would assume that Carol and Carl and the others would protect Judith, no matter how many Alexandrians might die in the process.
But that belief completely falls apart when he sees the baby food, because he knows this killer has not just been in Alexandria, but possibly been in his house. Somehow, neither his people nor the town's inhabitants were able to stop this monster, and Rick has no idea how much damage this guy did, or who he may have killed. All he knows is that when he heard the gun shots, when he knew for a fact the town was in trouble, he left the Alexandrians to fend for themselves. And now he may have paid a very dear cost for that lack of empathy.
And yet Rick's realization that having basic compassion for others can actually provide a benefit comes in an episode where Glenn's compassion gets him killed. This is what keeps me watching The Walking Dead; whether intentional or not, I see The Walking Dead as an immensely moral show that shows us how morality can be an incredible liability.
If Glenn had killed Nicholas either of the two times he tried to kill him, Glenn might be alive now. Whenever Rick has tried to do the moral thing, it has inevitably come back to bite him in the ass, hard. But when he turned off his mercy—lured the Termites into the church to butcher them, murdering Pete in cold blood, even just telling Michonne and Glenn that not all the Alexandrians are going make it back to town—people have been horrified.
But the reason we mourn Glenn today is because he was so compassionate. We cared about him because he let Nicholas live, because he sacrificed himself in an attempt to help the others get home. Michonne tries desperately to save everyone, although she fails. Even Daryl veers wildly off Rick's dumb Zombie Drive plan, all because he's worried about others. These people care. Yes, sometimes caring gets you killed.
But I think when night comes, I think Michonne, Daryl, and the few surviving Alexandrians will sleep better at night because they tried to do the right thing—or at least they'll sleep better than Rick will, knowing that he pretty much got Glenn killed (and god knows how many others) and abandoned his baby for a plan that didn't even work right.
On the other hand, Glenn will never wake up at all. But if Glenn's death helps Rick regain some of his lost humanity, then I don't think he will have died completely in vain.
*But Is Glenn Really Dead?
Obviously I have written this review as if he is. This is because I think it would be incredibly shitty for the show to troll us in this fashion, although when I watched the scene I did notice that Nicholas' body seemed to fall on top of Glenn, meaning it was possible that the zombies were eating the body on top of him and not Glenn himself. In fact, because I didn't really want Glenn to be dead, I reminded myself that if you cover yourself in gore the zombies down't notice you, so technically Glenn could have gotten coated in Nicholas juice, and, if he stayed quiet and got very lucky, the zombies could have left after they finished eating Nick.
Then last night, showrunner Scott Gimple released this statement on Glenn's death after the episode's end:
"In some way we will see Glenn — some version of Glenn or parts of Glenn — again. Either in flashback or the current story to help complete the story."
Also, Glenn wasn't on The Talking Dead' "In Memoriam" segment. Also also, Steven Yuen didn't appear on TTD last night either, when it's traditional for deceased characters to appear on the episodes immediately following their TWD deaths.
So is Glenn dead? I still gotta think yes, mainly because I think it would be terribly, cheap and shitty for TWD to have done this as a fake-out. I'm not saying it's impossible, but I'll be way more infuriated if Glenn pops back up and is fine, than by his death.
I'm guessing Glenn will come back as a zombie, possibly to give Maggie one horrific farewell scene and/or to make sure Herschel's watch ends up in someone's hands (which is why the show took a moment last night to remind us that the watch existed). I assume once someone puts Zombie-Glenn out of his undead misery Yuen will make the customary TTD rounds. A flashback would also be acceptable, but if I had to guess between the two scenarios I'd put all my money on Zombie-Glenn.
Assorted Musings:
• Honestly, I really don't know where everyone was going when they split up. Obviously Daryl and Abraham and Sasha were supposed to continue leading the herd, but I don't know where Daryl was trying to go when he broke off, given that he just ended up back with the herd at the end of the episode. Obviously Rick was heading for the Winnebago, but I don't know why Glenn and Michonne and the others were trying to walk back while Rick was heading to the Winnebago; if one option was preferable, shouldn't they all have gone that way? Maybe I just wasn't paying attention.
• Rick cuts his hand during one of his fights with zombies, because a zombie had a knife sticking through its torso, and accidentally grabbed it. In a realistic zombie world, that blade would HAVE to be covered with zombie juices, and thus totally fatal to Rick, right?
• Obviously Rick is going to be fine, unless The Walking Dead has something absolutely insane in mind. But TWD is making some serious bank, though, so I imagine Andrew Lincoln is there until he's bored, and he's getting some pretty juicy stuff to work with.
• I knew Glenn was dead the moment he ended his walkie-talking call to Rick with "Good luck, dumbass." That's such a weird, uncharacteristic and yet utterly final thing for Glenn to say, especially since Rick was busy fighting zombies and couldn't answer. It was obvious the show wanted that to be Glenn's last line to Rick for extra emotional impact.
• I was almost hoping that after the lengthy, slow-motion scene of Glenn's death, set to heartbreaking string music, it would be followed by a peppy commercial for The Talking Dead with "Yakkety Sax" played under Chris Hardwick, just for old times' sake.
• Next week, looks like we're getting Morgan's origin story. I'm excited, not just because Morgan received his bo staff training from Donatello—seriously—but it looks like he's being turned into a warrior-monk to bring peace into the zombie apocalypse. I've enjoyed the way The Walking Dead makes me think about the spiritual pros and pragmatic cons of morality, but I also would love to have a few more characters that were unequivocally good… or as good as the zombie apocalypse allows them to be. Especially now that Glenn is dead.
• Don't feel too bad about Glenn. He died so that all three of The Walking Dead's four African-American characters could survive. That's not just impressive, that's a miracle.
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Tahoma impresses, takes second at Sunfair Invitational
The Tahoma Bears believe they'll be a force to be reckoned with when it's time for the state boys cross country meet next month.
Last Saturday at the Sunfair Invitational in Yakima, they showed why.
With four of their seven runners placing among the top three in their respective flights — including a victory by senior Phil Lussier in his race against other No. 3 runners — the Bears compiled an impressive total of 39 points to finished second, a mere three points behind Gig Harbor.
Just like the Pasco Invitational during the track season in the spring, the Sunfair cross country gathering on the challenging 3.0-mile course at Franklin Park in Yakima is regarded by many as a sneak-preview of state, with many of the top teams and runners in attendance.
Tahoma was ranked ninth in last week's state coaches poll.
Among the teams the Bears beat at Sunfair were No. 6 Southridge (fourth place at Sunfair), No. 2 Eisenhower (seventh) and No. 5 Kamiakin (11th). Tahoma also finished ahead of Sehome, the state's top-ranked Class 2A team. The Mariners were fourth on Saturday.
Jackson, the top-ranked 4A team, and No. 3 Mead were not at Sunfair.
Lussier finished his run in 16 minutes, 30.6 seconds, a 14-second margin ahead of second-place Max Hardy from Boise High School.
Tahoma had a pair of runners-up: senior Chris Marx in the race for No. 5 runners (17:04.2), and junior Casey Campbell in the race for No. 2s (16:16.2). Senior Jimmy Creek was third in the race for No. 4s (16:51.1).
Bears senior Kelton Sears, racing against the other No. 1 runners, finished sixth in 15:48.2. That race was won by Andrew Gonzales of Kennewick's Southridge High in 15:23.9.
The Tahoma girls finished fifth with 61 points. The Bears had three finishers among the top 5. Junior Blair Slater was fourth in the race for No. 7s (20:52.5); freshman Julianna Mock was fourth in the race for No. 4s (20:16.9); and senior Paige Pliler took fifth in the race for No. 6s (20:59.5).
Hannah Mittelstaedt, a Tahoma junior, ran 11th against the other No. 1 runners, finishing her day's work in 19:18.2. Mead sophomore Baylee Mires broke the 18-minute mark in winning that race. She crossed the line in 17:59.5.
Gig Harbor cruised to the team title with 20 points. The state-power Tides had one winner, one second and three thirds from their seven runners.
Tahoma, which was not among the top 10 in last week's 4A girls poll, but did receive votes, out-ran fifth-ranked Mead (seventh place at Sunfair), fourth-ranked Davis (11th place) and 10th-ranked Olympia (12th place). Aside from Gig Harbor, the only ranked 4A team to beat the Bears was No. 2 Eastlake, which took third on Saturday with 47 points.
Mistake-prone Tahoma falls hard to Federal Way | Prep Football
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Lobbyists for the property/casualty insurance industry are trying to prevent a $125 million jump in Washington's insurance premium tax that would fund wildfire prevention and suppression.
Why is the tax increase unnecessary? The groups claim that Washington's existing premium tax – a 2 percent tax on all insurance premiums paid ultimately by consumers – currently generates $1.4 billion in revenue to help fund state government programs and services, including fire services and agencies.
Supporters argue the money is needed to pay for wildfire suppression and prevention, as part of a 10-year plan to reduce wildfire risk. The insurance lobbying group insist that carriers aren't disputing whether such programs are needed or valuable. Instead, they worry that that legislators are replacing funds currently available in the state's general fund budget – paid for by all taxpayers – with funds that will come from a single source: insurance premiums paid by all P&C insurance policyholders.
As proposed, the 25 percent tax increase will apply to and could impact a variety of insurance policy types – not just personal or commercial property insurance, the insurance lobbying groups argue. SB 5996 would increase the tax on all P&C lines, including home, auto, commercial property, business owners' liability, medical malpractice, inland marine, construction contractor liability, municipal and school district excess liability, umbrella policies, even insurance for mobile phones.
In addition to the state's existing 2 percent premium tax, P&C insurance companies also pay a .125 percent (one-eighth of one percent) premium tax surcharge that fully and exclusively funds the operation and staff of Washington's Office of Insurance Commissioner.
NWIC President Kenton Brine, whose members also include Washington-domiciled insurers, warned that the tax increase would put Washington-based insurers at a competitive disadvantage to out-of-state companies as they compete for business in neighboring states and lower-tax states across the country.


It had been 8 years since the last time I was in New York and it was such an awesome experience trying to capture the essence of this city for the piece we did for Synchrony. NYC has to be one of the most commonly photographed locations on earth so it was a worthy challenge to try and find a few new angles. The fall foliage didn't hurt either.


Discussion in 'iOS Programming' started by namanhams, Jan 15, 2012.
*Edited : nothing wrong with the below code. In the XIB file, i dump in a UIWebView. Never set any delegate, never do anything with that UIWebView. It just crashes. Removing the UIWebView, everything works fine again. I use Automatic Reference Counting, and i think there's a bug with UIWebView.
MyViewController is pushed into a navigation controller.
- When i go to MyViewController, stay there for a while until doSmth finishes. Then everything is fine.
- If i go to MyViewController, then quickly tap "Back", after a while (which i believe is when doSmth finishes), app crashes and it throws the message.
- If it's the case, then app should crash for both situations.
So why it only crashes when i already tap "Back" button ?
You probably crash as something has called a method that has now been dealloced.
The most common one here is that you have some delegate you don't nil as you dealloc.
The other thing could well be that as you are doing stuff in a background thread, that thread is trying to call things in the viewcontroller that you just dealloc'ed when you pressed the back button.
Enable zombies for more information here.
When you hit the Back button the view controller is dealloced. If the code in doSmth is still running and it accesses ivars then you'll probably crash. Do you have a way to cancel that code?
I stay away from detachNewThreadSelector: I much prefer NSOperation. It is easily cancelled. If you use threads without understanding threading you will be hosed.
That _WebTryThreadLock is related to web views but is also related to drawing of text anywhere. You can google for more info.
I'm pretty sure it's not what you guys are saying.
I've created a new test project so that it isolates from my original project. In the new test project, i added only few lines of code as i already show in first post.
The behavior is consistent : if you drop a UIWebView into the XIB file, it crashes whenever you tap "Back" while the loading is still in progress. Throw away the UIWebView, it works again.
OK, you're hitting the Back button before the web view is finished loading. In your dealloc you should tell the web view to stopLoading and if you like set the delegate to nil.
No. I just dump the webview into the Xib file. That's it. I dont touch it at all.
Maybe I don't understand, but this sounds like the classic problem of a webview having a delegate that has been dealloced. When you set everything up does your webview have a delegate? Before that delegate goes away do you set the webview delegate property to nil?
Also, does it crash because of a segfault? An exception? The actual error message will point you in the right direction.
Have you tried to enable zombies yet? Doesn't crash then does it?
make sure to nil everything in your dealloc.


The local situation will be monitored by the school. Advice from police and 'Safer Travel' in charge of the school buses will be sought. The school will respond to their advice.
Pupils will be informed of the need to close school. Senior staff will brief each year group and help them make arrangements to get home.
Pupils will be allowed to leave school once they have spoken to a parent about arrangements made for going home. Where arrangements can't be made, the child will stay in school until arrangements for them to go home are in place.
After school clubs/ detentions will be postponed.
We would ask that parents have an action plan organised in advance if the school were to close part way through the day in terms of where your child should go.


VuWall, a manufacturer of video wall controllers and control room video wall management solutions, will be showcasing three new solutions at ISE 2019, with latest additions to their TRx video distribution platform, a new VuScape video controller and a new, touch-enabled version of the company's CoScape collaboration software.
VuWall's TRx solution combines the possibility to manage unlimited numbers of streams with resolutions of up to 4K 4:4:4, and comes with a family of VuWall encoders, decoders, and video wall over IP processors. TRx is also the only open, multi-end point 4K video solution on the market which supports not only VuWall products, but also encoders and decoders from the SDVoE Alliance, the SRT Alliance, AMX SVSI, Matrox or any H.264 stream accessible over RTSP. In the new release, even matrix KVM switches from IHSE can be integrated in a TRx infrastructure and managed directly from the TRx interface.
The latest 2.3 version, which is to get its first public showing at ISE, now features a new, easy-to-configure control panel designer and a comprehensive scripting tool for bespoke management.
The solution is designed for complex AV distribution across multiple buildings in a campus. The management of the system is accomplished through a central TRx Server for easy deployment of a large number of devices. The intuitive web interface allows maintenance and control of systems from any point on the network.
Alongside TRx, VuWall will also be demonstrating their new VuScape Series of modular video wall controllers. Capable of powering up to 64 sources, on 64 separate displays, VuScape's controllers are compliant with the SRT Protocol for low latency and security encryption.
When combined with the VuWall2 software, users also have the power to embed any video image onto any part of a video wall, enabling wholly flexible displays and particularly useful for bezel-less LED displays in command and control rooms.
For true multi-user collaboration, VuWall will also be showing the latest incarnation of its popular CoScape – its multi-display collaboration and display system. CoScape is designed so that all sources can be displayed together on a single or multiple touch surfaces, creating a true high-resolution, interactive, turn-key display solution for visual collaboration applications.
A control panel designer is integrated, allowing you to build custom control panels. Simple buttons can be created with minimal experience and without the need of a developer. Each button can launch a layout or a script. Multiple panels can be created. Customer logos or background pictures can be integrated. With the scripting tool, external devices can be controlled: for example, switch the displays on/off or control the audio.
The system works with any touch surface, and different touch systems can be used together. In addition, each output can be assigned to another touch USB device. The software also offers an easy sidebar touch interface to control each source directly on the wall or to recall and save layouts.
The system is designed for meeting rooms that require easy collaboration and sharing of sources on a touch video wall or touch projection. It features an open platform which supports standard applications and, like many of VuWall's products, is designed to work seamlessly with key manufacturers including Mersive, Barco, DEON and Hoylu.
HDMI sources from laptops or other workstations can be controlled through KM modules that are connected to the sources via USB. These sources are then controllable by the interactive wall with a touch back function. No software needs to be installed on the PCs. A key advantage is that the audio and video from multiple inputs can be displayed with up to 4k60fps complete with full control via keyboard & mouse or touch gesture.
VuWall, a developer of world-class video wall management solutions, has built its reputation on delivering state-of-the-art controllers and intuitive collaboration software for the intelligent control of video walls. Taking advantage of the increasing availability of Commercial-Off-The-Shelf components in the fields of video processing, distribution and IP encoding and decoding, VuWall has developed an ecosystem of products that makes it easy for system integrators to deploy projects in control rooms, collaboration rooms and corporate environments. The company is headquartered in Montreal (Canada), has European Offices in Tübingen, Germany and is serving customers in more than 40 countries worldwide.
Find out more about VuWall?


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Q: JWT why can I bypass authentication? I am following this auth0 tutorial for a react/express + jwt webpage.
Everything seems ok. Login/logout, accessing secure page all good.
Except I can bypass the login with a fake token. If I just go to jwt.io and generate a token that hasn't expired yet, I can access the secure page without actually logging in. What am I missing here?
This is the part of the code that handles authentication:
./utils/AuthService.js
const ID_TOKEN_KEY = 'id_token';
const ACCESS_TOKEN_KEY = 'access_token';

const CLIENT_ID = 'auht0 client id';
const CLIENT_DOMAIN = 'foo.eu.auth0.com';
const REDIRECT = 'http://localhost:3000/callback';
const SCOPE = 'openid profile ';
const AUDIENCE = 'https://foo.eu.auth0.com/api/v2/';

var auth = new auth0.WebAuth({
  clientID: CLIENT_ID,
  domain: CLIENT_DOMAIN
});

export function login() {
  auth.authorize({
    responseType: 'token id_token',
    redirectUri: REDIRECT,
    audience: AUDIENCE,
    scope: SCOPE
  });
}

export function logout() {
  clearIdToken();
  clearAccessToken();
  browserHistory.push('/');
}

export function requireAuth(nextState, replace) {
  if (!isLoggedIn()) {
    replace({pathname: '/'});
  }
}

export function getIdToken() {
  return localStorage.getItem(ID_TOKEN_KEY);
}

export function getAccessToken() {
  return localStorage.getItem(ACCESS_TOKEN_KEY);
}

function clearIdToken() {
  localStorage.removeItem(ID_TOKEN_KEY);
}

function clearAccessToken() {
  localStorage.removeItem(ACCESS_TOKEN_KEY);
}

// Helper function that will allow us to extract the access_token and id_token
function getParameterByName(name) {
  let match = RegExp('[#&]' + name + '=([^&]*)').exec(window.location.hash);
  return match && decodeURIComponent(match[1].replace(/\+/g, ' '));
}

// Get and store access_token in local storage
export function setAccessToken() {
  let accessToken = getParameterByName('access_token');
  localStorage.setItem(ACCESS_TOKEN_KEY, accessToken);
}

// Get and store id_token in local storage
export function setIdToken() {
  let idToken = getParameterByName('id_token');
  localStorage.setItem(ID_TOKEN_KEY, idToken);
}

export function isLoggedIn() {
  const idToken = getIdToken();
  return !!idToken && !isTokenExpired(idToken);
}

function getTokenExpirationDate(encodedToken) {
  const token = decode(encodedToken);
  if (!token.exp) { return null; }

  const date = new Date(0);
  date.setUTCSeconds(token.exp);

  return date;
}

function isTokenExpired(token) {
  const expirationDate = getTokenExpirationDate(token);
  return expirationDate < new Date();
}

A: The part you've posted just stores / retrieves the token from the local storage.
The authentication itself is handled on the server side
  secret: jwks.expressJwtSecret({
        cache: true,
        rateLimit: true,
        jwksRequestsPerMinute: 5,
        // YOUR-AUTH0-DOMAIN name e.g prosper.auth0.com
        jwksUri: "https://{YOUR-AUTH0-DOMAIN}/.well-known/jwks.json"
    }),
    // This is the identifier we set when we created the API
    audience: '{YOUR-API-AUDIENCE-ATTRIBUTE}',
    issuer: '{YOUR-AUTH0-DOMAIN}',
    algorithms: ['RS256']
});

The sever-side funtionality MUST check the JWT token signature. Without the private key you won't be able to generate a valid signature of the JWT token.
If you really can bypass the authentication, it means the server has serious security issue (the signature is not properly validated). Maybe for test/demo services it is not implemented.

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The U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has cited Northeast Framing Inc. – based in Lunenberg, Massachusetts – for exposing workers to falls and other hazards following an employee's fatal fall at an East Boston, Massachusetts, worksite in May 2018. The company faces $311,330 in penalties, the maximum allowed by law.
"Falls are the leading cause of fatalities in the construction industry. Employers must provide fall protection and adequately train workers to identify occupational hazards that can cause injury," said OSHA Braintree Area Office Director James Mulligan.


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Daily Archives: October 12th, 2011
Brunel Social and Political Thought Research Group Seminar Series 2011 – 2012
Posted in Politics, Seminars / Workshops
Tagged Antonio Negri, Crisis, Judith Revel, Karl Marx, Mark Neocleous, Marxism, Peter Thomas, Revolution, Slavoj Zizek, Social and Political Thought, Transition
BRUNEL SOCIAL AND POLITICAL THOUGHT RESEARCH GROUP SEMINAR SERIES 2011-2012
'Crisis, Transition, Transformation: Revolutionary Thought Today'
Wisconsin, Cairo, London, Madrid, New York…
The last year has witnessed a wave of protest movements that have swept around the world. This seminar series aims to explore the new challenges and opportunities for revolutionary thought today.
Wednesday 26th October 2011, 4pm, Room MJ118
Mark Neocleous (Brunel University)
Marx's Secret: On the Violence of Original Accumulation and the Logic of International Law
Monday 14th November 2011, 3pm, Room GB210
Banu Bargu (The New School)
Machiavelli and Marx
Wednesday 23rd November 2011, 4pm, Room MJ118
Sara R. Farris (University of Konstanz)
Workerism's Inimical Incursions: On Mario Tronti's Weberianism
Tuesday 6th December 2011, 4pm, Room GB210
Peter D. Thomas (Brunel University)
Revolutions, passive and permanent
Wednesday 18th January 2012, 4pm, Room MJ118
Peter Osborne (Kingston University)
Crisis and Contemporaneity
Thursday 9th February 2012, 4pm Room LC 004-006
Judith Revel (University of Paris – Sorbonne)
Diagnosis, Subjectivation, Common: Three Faces of Emancipation Today
Wednesday 29th February 2012, 4pm, Room GB239
Slavoj Zizek (Birkbeck Institute for the Humanities)
The Deadlock
Tuesday 20th March 2012, 4pm, Room MJ117
Filippo Del Lucchese (Brunel University)
The Politics of Monstrosity
Wednesday 28th March 2012, 4pm, Room MJ118
China Mieville (University of Warwick)
Clash of the Titans: Marxism and International Law
All seminars take place atBrunelUniversity. For further information, please contact:
Filippo Dellucchese: Fillippo.Dellucchese@brunel.ac.uk
Mark Neocleous Mark.Neocleous@brunel.ac.uk
Peter Thomas PeterD.Thomas@brunel.ac.uk
Visit the Brunel SPT Research Group web pages:
http://www.brunel.ac.uk/courses/postgraduate/modern-political-thought-violence-and-revolution-ma
http://www.brunel.ac.uk/sss/politics/research-and-research-centres/social-and-political-thought
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Brunel-University-Modern-Political-Thought/205393026150272?sk=wall
The Brunel Social and Political Thought Research Group also collaborates in the organisation of the following events:
R24: Revolution, 24 frames a second
A screening series organised in collaboration with the Department of Politics and History and the Cult Film Society
Introduced by Giovanni Memola
Documentaries on 17th October 1961
Introduced by Filippo Del Lucchese
Introduced by Mike Wayne
The Founding of a Republic
Introduced by David Scott
Introduced by John Francis
Che, Part 1
Introduced by John Roberts
Sacco and Vanzetti
Introduced by Niall Palmer
The Battle of Algiers
Introduced by Peter D. Thomas
Introduced by Tom Linehan
International Conference: Right of Resistance
8th-9th February 2012, Brunel University
Speakers include Mario Ascheri, Andrea Buratti, Filippo Del Lucchese, Andreas Dimopoulos, Marco Fioravanti, Vivienne Jabri, Warren Montag, Antonio Negri, Riccardo Rosolino, Mario Turchetti and Suzanne Sreedhar
The Arab Spring: Origins, Results, Prospects
Organised in collaboration with the War and Conflict Research Group and the Brunel Politics and History Research Seminar.
Thursday 1st March 2012, 3pm, Room LC217
Ilan Pappé (University of Exeter)
The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine, 1948
Wednesday 7th March 2012, 4pm, Room GB239
Gilbert Achcar (SOAS)
The Arabs and the Holocaust
Adam Hanieh (SOAS)
Palestine in the Arab Uprisings: Configurations of State and Class
Peter D. Thomas
Office: MJ 229
Phone: +44 (0)18952 67573
Work Email: PeterD.Thomas@brunel.ac.uk
Personal Email: thomas_p_au@yahoo.com.au
Staff Page: http://www.brunel.ac.uk/sss/politics/staff-profiles/peter-thomas
Brunel Social and Political Thought Research Group:
http://www.brunel.ac.uk/sss/politics/research-groups-and-centres/social-and-political-thought
MA in Modern Political Thought: Violence and Revolution:
Historical Materialism: http://historicalmaterialism.org/
PhD Scholarships in Social Sciences at Brunel University
Posted in Higher Education
Tagged Antonio Gramsci, Gareth Dale, Karl Marx, Louis Althusser, Mark Neocleous, Marxism, Multitude, Peter Thomas, PhD Scholarshios, PhD Scholarships in Social Sciences, Social and Political Thought, Thomas Hobbes
Radical Thinkers
The School of Social Sciences of Brunel University has recently announced nine PhD scholarships. Scholarships include fees, a living allowance, and teaching experience. More information is available here: http://www.brunel.ac.uk/sss/research/phd-scholarships
The Brunel Social and Political Thought Research Group is keen to encourage applications for these scholarships.
The BSPT Group's research explores different traditions and currents in critical social and political thought. Our individual and collective work covers the full range of modern social and political thought, from the Renaissance through to the twentieth century. We have a focus on the European context and tradition.
Particular research strengths include early modern political thought, the critique of political economy, the history of Marxism and theories of war and conflict. We are also engaged in debates in contemporary political theory and European philosophy, including state theory, the critique of security, critical IPE, concepts of the political and notions of monstrosity. As a group we have specialist knowledge of a diverse range of political theorists, including Machiavelli, Spinoza, Hobbes, Burke, Hegel, Marx, Gramsci, Schmitt, Althusser, Polanyi, Foucault and Negri. The Group is particularly keen to welcome research students working in these and related fields.
Key members of the research group in the School of Social Sciences include:
Dr Gareth Dale, author of Karl Polanyi: The Limits of the Market (Polity Press, 2010)
Dr Filippo Del Lucchese, author of Conflict, Power and Multitude in Machiavelli and Spinoza (Continuum Press, 2009)
Prof Mark Neocleous, author of Critique of Security (Edinburgh University Press, 2008); The Monstrous and the Dead: Burke, Marx, Fascism (University of Wales Press, 2005)
Dr John Roberts, author of The Competent Public Sphere: Global Political Economy, Dialogue and the Contemporary Workplace (Palgrave, 2009)
Dr Peter D. Thomas author of The Gramscian Moment. Philosophy, Hegemony and Marxism (Brill Academic Press, 2009)
For more information, visit our web pages:
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Brunel-University-Modern-Political-Thought/20539302615 0272?sk=wall
For enquires regarding the scholarships, please contact:
Office hours: Tuesday 14.30-15.30; Thursday 11.30-12.30
Brunel Social and Political Thought Research Group: http://www.brunel.ac.uk/sss/politics/research-groups-and-centres/social-and-political-thought
MA in Modern Political Thought: Violence and Revolution: http://www.brunel.ac.uk/courses/postgraduate/modern-political-thought-violence-and-revolution-ma
International Labour Process Conference 2012 – Stockholm
Posted in Call for Papers, Conferences, Work
Tagged Commodity, International Labour Process Conference in Stockholm, Labor, Labour power, Labour process, Marxist Theory, Paul Thompson, Value Chains
Work Less, Sleep More
FINAL CALL FOR PAPERS: INTERNATIONAL LABOUR PROCESS CONFERENCE, STOCKHOLM, 27-29 MARCH 2012
The 2012 International Labour Process will take place at the Universityof Stockholm. The deadline for submissions of proposals for abstracts and symposia is 31st October 2011. Details of the conference and how to submit abstracts through the conference website can be found here (http://www.ilpc.org.uk/).
The website now contains full details of the special streams that will supplement the general conference. These consist of:
-S1: Lean in ideology and practice: from labour process and societal effects perspectives
-S2: Putting labour in its place: The Global Commodity Chain, the Global Value Chain, the Global Production Network and Labour Process Analysis
-S3: Work or nature? The Effects of Climate Change on the Labour Process and the Responses of the Labour Movement in the Global South and the Global North
-S4: Global capitalism, national institutions and the comparative political economy of work and employment relations
We look forward to seeing you in Stockholm,
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require 'opennebula/xml_pool'

module OpenNebula

    begin
        require 'nokogiri'
        NOKOGIRI=true
    rescue LoadError
        NOKOGIRI=false
    end

    begin
        require 'ox'
        OX=true
    rescue LoadError
        OX=false
    end

    begin
        require 'rexml/formatters/pretty'
        REXML_FORMATTERS=true
    rescue LoadError
        REXML_FORMATTERS=false
    end

    # Utilities to parse pools with sax (Nokogiri and Ox)

    # vmpool, imagepool, templatepool, vnpool, documentpool

    module ParsePoolBase
        attr_accessor :pool

        def initialize (pool_name, elem_name)
            clear

            @pool_name = pool_name
            @elem_name = elem_name
        end

        def clear
            @current = 0
            @levels  = [{}]
            @pool    = Array.new
        end

        def start_element(name, attrs = [])
            return if name == @pool_name
            @value = nil

            @current = @current + 1

            @levels[@current] = Hash.new if @levels[@current].nil?
        end

        def characters(s)
            @value = s
        end

        def end_element(name)
            if @levels[@current].empty?
                @levels[@current-1][name] = @value || {}
            else
                if @levels[@current-1][name]
                    @levels[@current-1][name] = [@levels[@current-1][name], @levels[@current]].flatten
                else
                    @levels[@current-1][name] = @levels[@current]
                end

                @levels[@current] = Hash.new
            end

            if name == @elem_name
                @pool << @levels[0][@elem_name]

                @current   = 0
                @levels[0] = Hash.new
            else
                @current = @current -1
            end
        end
    end

    class ParsePoolSaxBase
        def initialize(pool_name, elem_name)
            @pool_sax=ParsePoolSax::PoolSax.new(pool_name, elem_name)
        end

        def parse(str)
            @pool_sax.clear
            sax_parse(str)
            @pool_sax.pool
        end
    end

    if OX
        class ParsePoolSax < ParsePoolSaxBase
            def sax_parse(str)
                Ox.sax_parse(@pool_sax, StringIO.new(str),
                    :symbolize => false,
                    :convert_special => true)
            end

            class PoolSax < Ox::Sax
                include ParsePoolBase

                alias :text :characters
                alias :cdata :characters
            end
        end
    elsif NOKOGIRI
        class ParsePoolSax < ParsePoolSaxBase
            def initialize(pool_name, elem_name)
                super(pool_name, elem_name)
                @parser = Nokogiri::XML::SAX::Parser.new(@pool_sax)
            end

            def sax_parse(str)
                @parser.parse(str)
            end

            class PoolSax < Nokogiri::XML::SAX::Document
                include ParsePoolBase

                alias :cdata_block :characters
            end
        end
    else
        raise "nokogiri gem not installed."
    end
end

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Biografía en Español
Sistema Tulsa
Postcards from Philadelphia
In Philadelphia, I collaborated with the Play-on, Philly! Orchestra, an El Sistema-inspired initiative started by my colleague Stanford Thompson, to produce a performance as a part of the Philadelphia Orchestra's education programming initatives. The Orchestra invited the youngster from West Philadelphia, to perform on the stage of the Kimmel Center as a prelude to Sir Simon Rattle's performance with the professional group. Rattle, who was instrumental in bringing the project to fruition, noted that by bringing the Philadelphia Orchestra and Play-on, Philly! together, both organization would fulfill "a commitment to the Philadelphia community and highlight the importance of music education in the lives of young people."
Maestro Ratte and I prepared an arrangement of themes from a Brahms Symphony. The children performed to a sold-out crowd, eliciting a strong emotional response from the audience. For the Philadelphia Orchestra, it was a way of saying, here we are, we want to invite the community-at-large to be a part of our family. We want to be involved in the dreams of a community that sees itself growing with music. The Orchestra is now thinking about how they can best channel some of their existing resources for the benefit of the youngsters. In helping to sustain and grow their work, they have already sent some of their musicians and guest artists to work with the children at the St. Frances De Sales School. In being one with music and community, the Philadelphia Orchestra, is beginning to build a new identity, expanding their artistic role, and placing it in the context of a larger more participatory and inclusive endeavor.
Philadelphia residency (April 21-29), working with the Play on, Philly! Orchestra in preparation for their debut with Sir Simon Rattle, http://philorchtoday.org/news/april-2012/play-on-philly-po
With Sir Simon Rattle at the Curtis Institute of Music, April 29, 2012
Sir Simon Rattle leads the Play on, Philly Orchestra at the Kimmel Center, April 28, 2012
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Do you think Zelda Wii and the Legend of Zelda series in general needs to take a shift in the mature direction? The folks over at Gaming Gauge think not and actually prefer the roots of what the Zelda series is all about. In a very short article, the author points out the darkness of Majora's Mask and how Twilight Princess seemed to be a shift for the series in a darker direction. However, the author then points how the maturity of the series is somewhat taking away from its roots.
However what we can't forget is the roots of The Legend of Zelda. The series, when brought down to its base elements, is a fairy tale. It's about a young boy who goes on an adventure and saves a princess from an evil tyrant and it is that sense of wonder, adventure and naivety that is key to the experience. According to Shigeru Miyamoto himself the series is based on his experiences as a child exploring the woods and it is fundamentally this perspective of a child that we perceive the franchise through.
Personally, maturity in video games is not exactly relevant for me. Games in general have taken quite a turn towards the more violent and realistic approach. Game sales will show that on other non-Nintendo consoles, games such as Call of Duty Modern Warfare 2 are what the fans are crazing. I've never really felt that making a game darker or more mature is what is needed to make a great game. I suppose dark elements are good for character building and making villains seem legitimately scary, but I don't think that they need to go over the top with it. I'm perfectly fine with the Cartoon world of video games as it is now and while I'd like a refresher with the storyline, I hardly think a more mature feel is exactly what is needed.
Be sure to head on over to Gaming Gauge to check out the full article and then let us know what you think by posting in the comments below!


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Vanna Bonta
Vanna Bonta was an Italian-American writer, actress, and inventor who wrote Flight: A Quantum Fiction Novel, and invented the 2suit, a flight garment designed to facilitate human intimacy and stability in microgravity environments of outerspace.
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• Bonta's date of birth: Thursday April 3rd 1958
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• Place of birth: Florence, Tuscany, Italy
• Name at Birth: Vanna Bonta
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Estrogen is also able to affect the growth of the poultry and cattle. DES is a man-made estrogen and it's able to increase the size of cattle relatively quickly. However, DES is believed to be a carcinogenic and in many countries, no longer used to fatten up cattle and poultry. FDA approves a number of hormones that can be used for the production of food, which include natural progesterone and testosterone, as well as the synthetics trenbolone acetate and zeranol. Each type of growth hormone has different effect on each animal. So, if a hormone works for cattle, it may not work well for poultry. A common way of applying hormone to animal is by inserting pellets near the ear. The pellet slowly releases an amount of hormone and it's removed before the slaughter. Chemicals and hormones will stay in the meat, but it could cause hazard when we consume it regularly. As an example, increased intake of progesterone and steroids may potentially cause accelerated puberty among young girls.
There's no valid proof that these substances could cause direct health problems in our body and studies showed inconclusive results. Even so, there are concerns nonetheless. Nitrates that are used to give the attractive reddish color on meat products could be converted inside our body into nitrosamines. This substance may enhance the risk of cancer, although there's still no proof that the use of nitrates in meats is really harmful. In this case, consumers should make a sensible choice of whether they should choose fresh meat or the processed one. It is obviously better if we choose products from organic farms that don't involve the use of dangerous substances, such as steroids and hormones. Risks can be elevated if cattle are fed grains that are contaminated with pesticides that can be transferred to the meat. A meat product can be considered organic if it contains at least 95 percent of organic ingredients.


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Understanding NFTs through the in-game economy
NFTs are all the rage lately.
Every other article online or podcaster has been trying to make a sense of it and its application in the real world by interviewing influencers, economists, executives, etc.
While the concept of NFT is cool and blockchain technology will probably be the future, I see it more as a response to a tendency that has been happening for quite some time and is better understood in the world of gaming.
The world of Tibia
I was into this game called Tibia in the late 90s to early 2000s. It was essentially a fictional medieval 2D world where you explore magical places, hunt creatures, and accumulate treasures as a Knight, Sorcerer, Druid, or Paladin — vocation that you choose in the early stages. The game was pretty popular in many Latin American countries and even had a big Polish presence.
Fast forward to 2021, the game is still very alive and thriving with even more engaged players than it used to have then.
The main reason for it?
A digital asset called Tibia Coin.
The Tibia Coin economy
Tibia coin is a digital currency that you can buy as a player to purchase exclusive items or even access to the game's exclusive premium access, which includes access to its extended map and extra functionalities.
This is not a mind-blowing concept, right? Every other game that you download online has a similar system.
What makes the Tibia Coin economy so interesting and a major incentive to players is the existence of a whole network of traders who will buy or sell Tibia coins for either in-game gold coins OR real currency.
The scale of such activity is so big that it has even made players millionaires in their respective countries, or even a source of income for players located in countries going through a financial crisis.
It's all a matter of value
While we are used to the idea of value in physical assets, digital assets represent a different type of value that is not too different.
It's cool and interesting that in games like Tibia, skilled players manage to make a living out of resources they have found in-game. This, however, is only possible because there are buyers for such digital assets. Buyers find value in such assets because they allow for a certain experience and/or social status.
Some might think that experience and/or social status is stupid of a value proposition. But what is the difference between someone who buys in-game currencies because of its in-game functional or social advantages to someone who buys a t-shirt that probably costs $2 to make for $100 just because of a red square logo in it?
NFTs are not far from this same logic.
I am curious to see how people will use it moving forward and how our system of value will transform over the years.
Who knows? It might even transform the music economy again?
Originally published at http://imarturbai.wordpress.com on March 29, 2021.
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