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Washington State Book Awards 2021!
Linda Johns/ September 10, 2021/ Books, Washington authors, Washington State Book Awards
We are delighted to announce the eight winners and 35 finalists for the 2021 Washington State Book Awards (for books published in 2021)! Find the full list of 43 books from Washington authors and illustrators here. And here is a sneak peek at the winners:
The eight award winners are: Jess Walter for "The Cold Millions" (Fiction); E.J. Koh for "The Magical Language of Others" (Biography/Memoir); Clyde Ford for "Think Black" (Creative Nonfiction); Jennifer Haupt as editor for "Alone Together: Love, Grief and Comfort in the Time of COVID-19" (General Nonfiction); Phoebe Bosché, Anna Bálint, and Thomas Hubbard for "Take a Stand: Art Against Hate, a Raven Chronicles Anthology" (Poetry); Jennifer Longo for "What I Carry" (Young Adult Literature);. Sara Kapit for "Get a Grip, Vivy Cohen!" (Books for Young Readers), and Jennifer K. Mann for "The Camping Trip" (Picture Book).
This is the 55th year for the state awards program, which was previously called the Governor's Writers Awards. An award is given based on the strength of the publication's literary merit, lasting importance, and overall quality to an author who is a current resident of Washington state.
Our goal for the Book Awards program has always been to celebrate Washington authors. This year we are thrilled to highlight many voices of Washington writers that truly capture this moment in time, from Alone Together, an essay collection about living through the COVID era with work from 21 Washington authors to Raven Chronicles' Take a Stand: Art Against Hate, featuring pieces by more than 35 Washington authors. Seismic, a finalist in the General Nonfiction category, features work by 11 authors on how literary culture influences social change.
This year's awards also honor Cassandra Tate, author of Unsettled Ground (General Nonfiction finalist), who died in June 2021. Tate, a journalist and historian, authored more than 200 essays for HistoryLink.
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The next market in our Network Vision/LTE deployment schedule update series is the Bold New City of the South...Jacksonville. Jacksonville and Florida's First Coast has yet to be announced by Sprint, but is expected to be announced in the near future. Perhaps around the time of the first market launches.
The Sprint Jacksonville market encompasses all of the Sprint native coverage in Northeastern Florida and extends down to even parts of the west coast of Central Florida. This includes the Jacksonville Metro area and the Beaches, Orange Park, St. Augustine, Palatka, Gainesville, Ocala, Wildwood and down over toward Crystal River and Homosassa Springs. Sprint's Network Vision OEM Ericsson is scheduled to begin mobilizing with its subcontractors next month. Completed Network Vision sites should start coming online in August.
It was Sprint's original plan to launch markets when they reached 50% of sites converted to Network Vision. However, it has now been determined that Sprint will move up launches sooner than 50% completion in several markets. This is likely to maintain a Mid 2012 launch in markets that have already been announced. However, in an unannounced market like Jacksonville, we don't know if they will resume pushing back market launches to 50%, or if they will now settle on a 40% completion to be the new normal for market launches.
If Sprint waits for 50% completion to launch the Jacksonville market, it would make the launch month to be November (should the OEM stay on schedule). If they plan on a 40% market completion for launch, that would be October. You may think that 40% - 50% site completion is not enough to launch LTE service, but it would provide pretty good coverage. Even Verizon doesn't launch on all sites in a market initially. Usually less than 50%, then filling in with more and more sites every few months.
coverage over many parts of the market.
We currently do not have a date that Sprint will formally "launch" LTE service in Northeast Florida. It is difficult to try to pick a date now this far out, but we will take a stab at it. In looking at the schedule as of today, it would indicate an November or December market launch (going on a 40% - 50% completion for launch). But there is no way to know if Ericsson and their subcontractors will actually hit their schedule dates this early in the deployment for this market. We will be able to gauge better after a few months of production.
Photo of Jacksonville skyline provided courtesy of Wikimedia Commons.
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Any updates on Central Florida, as far as Tampa/Orlando deployment goes?
Any updates on Central Florida, as far as Tampa/Orlando deployment goes? Thanks!
We are publishing articles on every Round Two market. But they are being posted in order of anticipated launch date. So, the Tampa and Orlando articles will post according to their place in the schedule. But do not fret, it should be before the end of this week.
Any way to get a bigger and more detailed map of this? I can't exactly tell if a tower near me is getting LTE or not.
We do have interactive schedule maps for our Premier Sponsor members.
To be hoenst, this is not all that impressive. In what I would consider the true Jacksonville metro area there are only about 23 sites. Surely that can't be approximately half the market. From looking at the map it looks like there would be no towers touched in the Southside, Intercoastal, or the Beaches and only one site in Mandarin. If anything, one would think they would hit those areas first. I mean, no LTE in St. John's Town Center (aka the temple of shopping in N. Fla) or the acres of giant corporate office parks around it? Given this I would think most locals wouldn't consider this market "launched". Hopefully Sprint has an agressive rollout schedule to complete the rest of the market.
It's unfortunate that you are not impressed. However, I don't think that was Sprint's goal. You are assuming that Sprint is sitting back and choosing winners and losers...which neighborhoods and communities in the JAX market are most worthy to be served first. This is not reflective of what is going on at all.
Network Vision deployment order is based mostly on availability of backhaul. There are several backhaul vendors deploying several different types of backhaul solutions. Several types of AAV, terminal end microwave, microwave rings, some fiber connections. And thus, the backhaul schedule is very varied. The sites that are getting converted first are the sites that will be ready first.
In order for Sprint to create a deployment schedule of most worthy locations first, would mean they would have to let sites that are ready to be converted sit there and wait for more nifty neighborhoods backhaul to be done. This would be ridiculous and cause further delay. Sprint should convert every site the moment it can be, regardless of geographic location.
And since the whole network needs to be converted to Network Vision standards, it doesn't much make sense to try to focus on the best neighborhoods first. Sprint has chosen the best and fastest strategy that's possible. And ultimately that benefits the most people the soonest.
Thanks for the clarification Robert. What you say makes sense.
Question: Sprint has that network enhancement site that they maintain, network.sprint.com, is what shown here related to the expected work shown on Sprint's site? It's hard to tell. It almost seems like there are two network efforts going on - the NV and what's on the sprint site.
Thanks for the clarification Robert. What you say makes sense.Question: Sprint has that network enhancement site that they maintain, network.sprint.com, is what shown here related to the expected work shown on Sprint's site? It's hard to tell. It almost seems like there are two network efforts going on - the NV and what's on the sprint site.
Over at network.sprint.com, they are showing upgrades that are a part of Ericsson's National Network Management contract. Ericsson is supposed to go around and add capacity and incremental backhaul on legacy sites as a part of their contract. You are seeing this work here.
Network Vision is a completely different scope then this. Here at S4GRU, we only monitor Network Vision upgrades and deployment. We don't focus on the daily maintenance aspects of the Sprint Network. Hopefully this helps clarify some things.
BTW, as part of Network Vision, supposedly Sprint is also making improvements to the 3G network. Do you know what they are doing in that respect or point me to somewhere that describes that? On Sprint's website it just talks about "a new 3G network" but gives no specifics. I wonder what are they doing? Do they mean the 800Mhz overlay? Surely they're not putting in EVDO Rev.B, are they (that would be cool ?
I see, thanks.BTW, as part of Network Vision, supposedly Sprint is also making improvements to the 3G network. Do you know what they are doing in that respect or point me to somewhere that describes that? On Sprint's website it just talks about "a new 3G network" but gives no specifics. I wonder what are they doing? Do they mean the 800Mhz overlay? Surely they're not putting in EVDO Rev.B, are they (that would be cool ?
No EVDO-B or EVDO on 800. Sprint's 3G improvements are largely related to slightly stronger signal through using Remote Radios at the top of the tower instead of at the base station, and using new and much faster backhaul.
I can't express how happy I am to see Gainesville, Fl finally getting some 4G. I just hope they arent to far behind schedule.
I am originally from Eastern Alachua County. It will be nice to have it lit up the next time I come down to visit family.
I was looking at buying a htc evo 4g lte. I live in Jacksonville. Would you suggest waiting or getting it now? I have heard that 3g is pretty slow on sprint is this true?
In my opinion, 3G in Jacksonville isn't too bad compared to other Sprint markets becuase there is reasonable 4G WiMax coverage so part of the network load is being offloaded to WiMax (for those users who have older Sprint 4G devices), thus freeing up 3G.
In any case, speaking from a general prespective, compared to the other carriers' 3G, Sprint's 3G is atrociously slow. However, once they get 4G LTE going, that should improve the 3G coverage for two reasons: 1. like with the WiMax situation, they'll be offloading users' data onto LTE from 3G and 2. as part of the LTE deploymnet they are also improving their 3G service.
Hey guys I'm new to the forum. I just wanted to know how to reply is someones comment?
Use the quote button underneath your comment. It will then place the quote in the text box at the bottom of the page. Then you can type your response below their quote in the text box.
Thanks abunch Robert this is an amazing forum.
Anyone have info on Tallahassee Market? I dont use sprint but for the last 5 years my friends have complained of terrible service calls/txt and .001 data speeds.
Tallahassee is in Sprint's Panhandle market. Work will not begin in this market until some time in 2013. Final scheduling for 2013 markets will not be completed until later this Fall.
Anybody seen any work being done in the Jacksonville market ? Any pics ?
10/18/12, I drove almost the entire southern half of Jacksonville today and never could connect to Sprint 4G LTE. Mandarin, Westside, Downtown, Jax Beach, and Southside. Only got 3G. I guess nothing is active yet.
On my other phone, I have 4G Wimax, and get pretty decent speeds. OP I get 2-5mbps, Mandarin 2 mbps, and Jax Beach is awesome at 6+ mbps.
Can't wait for LTE. Please post if anyone has seen any work being done, or if they can connect to LTE at any tower. I heard the one by Everbank Field had LTE, but I passed about a mile or two away from it and didn't get LTE.
Will Sprint be turning on individual towers as they are upgraded, or wait till 40-50% and then turn on the switch?
My 3G speeds have been pretty bad here lately, I have the Galaxy S3 and 3G is horrible. I thought they were upgrading the 3G in town? I work off of University and I95 the 3G is no more that 200k down, i live in OP and i get 150k down. It is very disheartening that the 3G service has gone down so fast. Is it because of everyone switching to the LTE devices and them bogging down the 3G network?
Sprint has been delayed all over Florida. Sprint's subcontractors ran into issues with the EPA and USFWS over Osprey nesting. In order to prevent being fined, they pulled off all work in Florida as a precaution until after the October 1st nesting season ended. So work just started back in Orlando, Tampa, Miami/West Palm, Jacksonville and SW Florida markets just a few weeks ago.
Some sporadic LTE signals will start appearing probably in the next few weeks. Sprint is now working toward trying to have a launchable amount of service in most Florida markets by the end of the year.
I sent my Photon 4G in for repair for 2 weeks and just got it back. Ran some speed tests and got 15mbs in Mandarin, and 9mbs in Jax Bch. This is not always the case. Sometimes I'm getting the old 2-5mbs, but it seems to be consistently faster. I have also noticed the latency has gone to 80-90ms, drastically down from 150-220ms I was getting before. Again, sometimes I get the higher latency, but it is consistently faster. I don't know if this is because I wiped my phone before sending it in for service, a software upgrade sprint did, or increased network capacity. But, I have never seen this kind of speed from WIMAX.
One downside is that I seem to lose 4g and 3G coverage frequently, only to have it come back in a few minutes. Again, don't know if this is a qwark of the replacement/repaired phone, or work being done on the network. Anybody else noticing any changes? I still haven't seen any LTE on my other phone.


Baptism is a beautiful symbol of a person's love for Jesus. When a person decides to be baptized, they are telling their friends, family, and church that they have decided to follow Jesus with their life, and they want everyone to know it. At SCC, we do baptism services with our entire church present, and it's a gigantic celebration for our church family. Many people have said that baptism Sundays are one of their favorite days of the year.
For a person to be baptized, they need to have made a decision to follow Jesus. This means they have decided they need God's forgiveness, they recognize that Jesus is the only one who can forgive them, and they have turned their life over to Jesus to lead them each day. Baptism comes after that decision.
People often will ask us if we baptize infants. We don't, because we don't believe babies are able to make a decision to follow Jesus for themselves at such an early age. We do child dedication services with parents, where families are given the chance to make a public statement that they will do their best to raise children who love Jesus. It is a public declaration of an intent by that child's parents to come alongside them and do their best to raise them to love Jesus.
First, it's one of the most direct commands Jesus gives us. He tells His disciples in Matthew 28 to go everywhere, making disciples, and baptizing them. Baptism is a step of obedience and trust. Second, it's an incredibly powerful statement to make for our friends and family. When people see us take a step like baptism, it shows a deep commitment to Jesus that words alone don't always convey. Third, it's a celebration! Our church sees each baptism as the big deal it is. We celebrate together, and that helps draw us all closer as a church family.
What steps do I need to take to be baptized at SCC?
There are several ways to start the process. We offer a simple baptism class for adults and for children, usually every other month. If you are at church, speak with someone at our Connections Bar in the main lobby, and they can help you get signed up. Or, you can call our church office, and request that your name be added to the class sign-up list. Finally, you are welcome to contact Merry Popplewell, and ask for more information.


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Raiuken-KT replied to Cyan's topic in Archive
I will, and while I'm at it, tell someone to fix this game for the love of all that is holy.
Warframe. Where ninjas play for free. I just give them my money, and it's not making me better than anyone. It's the way that game is, the people who designed it are geniuses. Everyone in the gaming industry needs to take notes.
I don't like this game because of it. What they have done essentially is set up slot machines. Aion slot machines. I see everyone who plays this game just like I look at the mindless gambler at Vegas putting his life savings into a slot machine in hopes he wins big. It's a game for gamblers. Maybe why it's so popular in Korea, all those guys have gambling problems. But here, in the USA, game mechanics like that do not fly. RNG is the worst game mechanic ever devised in the history of video games, and online games, it was created because people just can't think of better ways. But it's horrible to work on a game, 7 hours a day, only to have all your hard work taken away because of some random number generator, who in their right mind enjoys that?
What do Gold bars and GP mean anyways? What does the RNG of this entire game mean anyways? These are not things that make a player become better better and more skilled at a game. These are things preventing them from doing so. I mean, If you want to play a game that is all about taking the money from your bank, Play monopoly.
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Raiuken-KT replied to Violeta-KT's topic in General Discussion
Just because I don't play anymore doesn't mean I don't like this game, I got to 4 star officer then 6x came. I tried to play it for a while, it wasen't really the transformations that made me stop. It was the auction house situation and how you can't trade items anymore. I like grindy games , but only if you can sell everything you find on the auction house and make billions with hard work, I used to enjoy gathering to crafting scrolls and potions to sell too, I would just have my coffee in the morning and go do that. I quit because everything I like about this game got deleted, The PvP is still fun though, it does have some of the best PvP in any mmorpg I have played, Including world of warcraft I just don't see the sense in wanting to force people to not be free with how they play this game, let them have all the alts they want, and let them trade everything to those alts. If you don't , that just killed the fun for like 80% of your players. It makes me upset , because I know the reason they made all of these changes is to try to cheat me out of my wallet. When people see a company doing shady business tactics like that, forgive them if they form a negative opinion about them. I know they have to make money to run the game, but the way NCsoft chooses to do it, it's like they expect to be millionaires off of our backs. People paying 2 thousand dollars just to get the right transformation. That's utterly insane in a video game, especially one as old and out dated as this is. Have to be some rich Saudi Prince to pay 2k just to get the right transformation you need.
SMH, y'all used to be Daevas that could fly, super high speed ninjas. Now look at you, powerless, having to call on the spirit of some bunny rabbit just so you can run faster.. Pathetic.
Raiuken-KT replied to Lapis-DN's topic in General Discussion
Only one thing will make this game as good as it used to be. Make a patch where all the Daevas go back in time from before the 4.8 update, and go from there without making all the horrible mistakes they should have learned from by now. It's sad, because Aion, and the concept of it is pretty awesome. They have something great on their hands and all they do is mismanage the nyerk out of it when really they could just sit down and think, " Ok guys, we're taking the gloves off, and we're going to make Aion awesome again." But I don't think NC soft has people like that working for them. I think they only have people who want to clock out and go home as soon as possible doing as little as possible just to get a paycheck. MMORPGs in general seem to be lacking creative development. They always have new ideas, but they're bad ideas and they don't want to stick to what works, Awesome Raids Cool looking Armor for beating hard, awesome raids,. The way you should get gear on any MMORPG is by beating a hard enemy. If you make people get gear any other way, you just failed at designing an MMORPG Sound , fun, and balanced PvP, and lots of sights to see. The way you should get gear on any MMORPG is by beating a hard enemy. If you make people get gear any other way, you just failed at designing an MMORPG
Personally, I would rather just pay per month to play this game. The Pvp is that good I do see myself paying a 10 dollar bill per month to play this game. If they fixed all the stupid bullnyerk. I used to pay more than that for magazine subscriptions talking about cool games like this.
Go play Blade and Soul to end game and you will see what NC Soft is truly all about. How much money they can extract from your wallet. Give you an awesome game to play, you will get addicted, and when your addiction sets in, you will give them all your money. NC Soft are like the crack dealers of MMOs
I dunno about you guys, I think you don't like enchanting on this game, you think it's impossible. But I always liked that about a game, make it super hard to reach max level. So when you do, people know you are a force to be reckoned with. My only problem is the transformation system. I mean, I'm not playing 6x because of it. I do love this game enough to wait for 7.0 to see if they change it though. Not many people around anymore to admire how awesome you are anyways. ^x makes me think the head developer was on drugs, and somehow, the guy who published it was on drugs too.
Yea, I know that, they have investors, and those investors want what was promised to them, so, that translates into hitting the player in his pocket, it really can't be helped. It's the nature of free to play mmorpgs. To make something perfect, you would have to use your own money. And someone smart enough to do that, just doens't have enough money to do it. So he is forced to let people control his work with their bank accounts, And that is why most mmorpgs suck now. Everyone is just trying to cash in on the backs of their players. There's no love for it anymore, just the thought of profit.
It boggles the mind doesn't it? This is a very old game. I don't get why they won't just let their players have fun with it. They're really trying to make money off of this? Wow...They should just run a server and let us have fun and get donations to keep it running from us at this point.
Aion has the best PvP I have seen in any mmorpg.
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I have played a lot of these types of games and I have to honestly say Aion has the best PvP mechanics out of all of them. Even better than world of warcraft PvP. What makes me upset is why they would want me to change into something I didn't create my character to look like? Why have this elaborate character design when you just force people to take a potion that turns them into a bunny rabbit? The reason a person would want to play this game is because they will create a beutiful character by their own design and want to play that character. If you're locking run speed, and attack speed behind a potion that destroys the look of your beautiful character you created that's the most annoying thing in the history of online games. If you wonder why half the people you had left after 5x That's why. Most people only played this game to buy skins that make their character look awesome. You could have made so much more money if you just let people have an option to hide transformations. I like to do PvP looking like a straight up Ninja, that's fun to me. If you make me transform into something that changes my look so I can be effective in PvP, just that simple change will kill the whole game for me. I miss Aion PvP, but I'm not going to do it unless I look cool. If you kill me while I'm a bunny rabbit, I might uninstall this game.
And let me look like a ninja again when I fight, I'm still not playing this game until they make a simple NPC to give me all the free transparent scrolls I need. I'll just play other games where I get to be a ninja instead, because Ninjas are cool. Little stuffed animals aren't.
Nice, I take back the bad things I said about NC Soft. Maybe they're not so mean after all. I really wasen't expecting anything good to be done. I stand corrected.

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OSHA and HSE Publications Promote Workplace Risk Management and Safety
April 30, 2013	| by	6dadmin |
Original article http://www.irmi.com
By John Matosky
As nanomaterials make their way from the laboratory to the store shelf in the form of consumer products, efforts to identify and manage risks associated with the materials have intensified. In particular, we have seen concerns for the health and safety of consumers manifested in the development and anticipated promulgation of labeling standards to alert consumers of the potential hazards of products that incorporate nanomaterials. But what attention is being given to those involved in the manufacturing of products incorporating nanomaterials given that this is the stage where exposure to component nanomaterials is most likely to occur? Recently, government agencies charged with ensuring occupational health and safety standards have begun providing guidance to employers on the need to assess and control nanomaterial hazards in the workplace.
On February 6, 2013, the US Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) published a fact sheet titled "Working Safely with Nanomaterials," which the agency says provides "basic information to workers and employers on the most current understanding of potential hazards associated with this rapidly developing technology and highlights measures to control exposure to nanomaterials in the workplace."1
Identifying Risks
In the document, OSHA advises that an effective risk management plan begins with identifying potential nanomaterials used in the workplace. It encourages concerned employees to ask their employers, who, in turn, should consult the manufacturers of the chemicals and materials used in their processes to determine the presence and identification of nanomaterials. The agency recommendations, however, place the onus on the employer to identify the risks, assess exposure to workers, develop controls to manage the risks, and provide training to employees.
With regard to identifying risks, OSHA counsels caution because the potential hazards associated with nanomaterials largely remain unknown, but it also describes currently recognized or suspected hazards. As an example from the current state of understanding, it advises that nano-sized titanium dioxide particles should be considered a carcinogen, as determined by the National Institute of Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH), and protection should be provided against inhalation. Another example relates to carbon nanotubes and nano-fibers, which OSHA warns may cause pulmonary inflammation and fibrosis if inhaled.2 The agency also warns generally of the risk that certain nanomaterials have the ability to penetrate cell membranes and may damage cell structure and function.
In addition to personal health risks, OSHA warns employers about potential environmental hazards associated with nanoparticles in the workplace. Specifically, it cites the risk of fire or explosion resulting from either the catalytic chemical properties of some nanomaterials or simply the presence of airborne particulates in combustible concentrations (similar to the phenomenon of grain or coal dust explosions). The agency instructs employers to take these risks into account when developing appropriate control measures.
OSHA acknowledges that specific occupational exposure limits exist only for certain nanomaterials (e.g., carbon nanotubes and titanium dioxide) and notes that exposure limits for larger particles may not necessarily apply to nanoparticles, even of the same substance, because the latter may be more hazardous depending on their particular physicochemical properties. Employers can minimize the risks posed by these uncertainties, OSHA advises, by adopting certain best practices and hazard control measures.
According to OSHA, those measures should begin with the employer's assessment of worker exposure. In making the assessment, the employer should (1) identify the processes that may expose workers to nanomaterials, (2) determine the physical state of the nanomaterials (e.g., dust, powder, spray, or droplets), (3) determine the likely paths of exposure (e.g., inhalation, ingestion, or skin contact), and (4) identify appropriate sampling methods for determining concentrations, durations, and frequencies of exposure. Based on all of these factors, OSHA recommends, the employer should evaluate current control measures and then determine whether additional controls are necessary. Again, the agency endorses utmost caution and the implementation of "the most effective controls available" to limit exposure.
Adopting Control Measures
In terms of practical measures and best practices, OSHA suggests that all employers in workplaces where nanomaterials are present consult NIOSH guidelines and adopt a combination of the following types of control measures:
The agency recommends engineering controls such as the provision of adequate ventilation, including ventilated enclosures (e.g., glove boxes and process chambers) where possible, and high-efficiency particulate air filtering.
Under the heading "Administrative Controls," it encourages employers to provide basic hygiene facilities such as hand-washing stations. Employers also should establish procedures for decontamination and cleanup following spills.
Employers should provide workers with proper personal protective equipment (PPE), including protective clothing and respirators, but also should train employees regarding the use and, critically, the limitations of PPE.
Employers should make medical screening and surveillance available to workers exposed to nanomaterials.
UK Guidance
On March 21, 2013, OSHA's counterpart in the United Kingdom, the Health and Safety Executive (HSE), released its own guidance paper, titled "Using Nanomaterials at Work."3 The HSE guidance places special focus on carbon nanotubes and "other biopersistent high aspect ratio nanomaterials"—for which it finds a heightened level of control is warranted—but offers general hazard control principles that apply to all types of nanomaterials presently used in the workplace. The HSE publication provides more detail than the OSHA document, but, like the OSHA guide, it emphasizes the emerging nature of the field and the as yet undeveloped understanding of the potential risks. It also largely mirrors the OSHA recommendations concerning exposure analysis, risk assessment, engineering controls, PPE, and medical monitoring. As an overriding theme, the HSE recommends "sensible and proportionate measures," reminding employers: "You don't have to remove all this risks, but the law requires you to do everything 'reasonably practicable' to protect people from harm."
The OSHA and HSE guidelines are admirable, if tentative, first steps in setting standards for workplace safety in the manufacturing, handling, and processing of nanomaterials. Both agencies readily admit that their recommendations are constrained by the limitations of current knowledge in the field and acknowledge the challenges faced by employers and regulators in developing reliable and reasonable controls in the face of uncertain hazards. The clearest takeaway, perhaps, is that employers and others responsible for managing risks and ensuring safety should make immediate assessments based on the agency recommendations but must also constantly monitor the developing body of research and knowledge concerning the potential hazards.
1www.osha.gov/Publications/OSHA_FS-3634.pdf.
2Indeed, at the annual meeting of the Society of Toxicology in March 2013, NIOSH added detail to the picture when it reported its preliminary findings from a laboratory study suggesting that multi-walled carbon nanotubes (MWCNT) are a cancer promoter when inhaled by mice. Significantly, NIOSH notes that the study indicates that MWCNT can increase the risk of cancer in mice exposed to a known carcinogen but does not demonstrate that MWCNT alone causes cancer in mice. V. Castranova, C.L. Geraci & P. Schulte, "New Findings on Lung Tumor Formation in Laboratory Mice Exposed to Multi-Walled Carbon Nanotubes," NIOSH Science Blog,http://blogs.cdc.gov/niosh-science-blog/2013/03/mwcnt.
3www.hse.gov.uk/pubns/books/hsg272.htm.
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First Week in Tokyo: Hungarian Athletes Collect 2 Gold, 1 Silver, and 2 Bronze Medals
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One week has passed since the kick-off of the Olympics. Joy, success, failure, surprise, astonishment, catharsis, disappointment, and doubt have all been brought by the Hungarian athletes so far. Let's see a quick roundup of team Hungary's performance as the Games near the halfway point.
At the moment, Hungary stands in 13th place at the medal table with five medals in total, which roughly nears predicted expectations.
After London and Rio, the sabre fencer phenom, Áron Szilágyi, managed to defend his title and claim Hungary's first medal in Japan. He is becoming one of the greatest Hungarian sportsmen of all time.
True to the odds, Kristóf Milák easily won the 200m butterfly, additionally breaking Michael Phelps's Olympic record. While he is not the favorite for the gold in 100m butterfly, he can still have some incredible moments in Japan.
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Although Gergely Siklósi arrived at the Olympics as one of the main favorites of the tournament, the 23-year old épée fencer was satisfied with the silver, and still has plenty of time to claim the shiniest medal.
The men's sabre fencing team has ended a 25-year-old bitter series after taking the bronze on Wednesday. As a result, Áron Szilágyi has become the first Hungarian athlete to claim two medals in Tokyo.
Krisztián Tóth was perhaps the happiest and most satisfied athlete among all Hungarian sportsmen in Tokyo after claiming Hungary's first medal in Judo since the 2012 Games.
While Kata Blanka Vas's fourth place finish in cross-country cycling was a surprising one, Anita Márton suffered an injury during the day, therefore lost both of her matches in the final four of women's individual sabre.
Meanwhile, Hungary has claimed three fourth place finishes in swimming too, up until now: Dávid Verrasztó in 400m medley, Tamás Kenderesi in 200m butterfly, and Boglárka Kapás in 200m butterfly. Apart from Kenderesi, both Kapás and Verrasztó were disappointed, with the latter perhaps appearing at his last Olympics.
After knocking out the title-holder in her first appearance on the tatami, Judoka Réka Pupp was very disappointed after failing to win a bronze medal.
Although Salim Omar was eyeing gold well before the competition, the 19-year-old's fifth place finish definitely inspires optimism for the future. We will hear from the teenager in the coming years, that's for sure.
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Following a chaotic preparation, István Péni said he was satisfied with his fifth place finish despite being one of the favorites in air rifle. In addition, he is still due to appear at the shooting boxes in Tokyo. In any case, as a sports-shooter with such results, and his young age (he is only 23), he is unlikely to finish his career without at least one Olympic medal.
The men's 4x100m freestyle relay, consisting of Richárd Bohus, Kristóf Milák, Nándor Németh, and Szebasztián Szabó also managed to grab some Olympic points coming in fifth on Monday.
By now, it has become official that Katinka Hosszú will leave Tokyo without any medals, a fifth place finish in the 400m medley (of which event she was the title-defender) is her best result in the Japanese capital.
17-year-old Viktória Mihályvári-Farkas's performance in the 400m medley is also a promising one. She managed to grab 12th place in 1500m freestyle too.
The great athletes whose performances fell below the odds and expectations
Judokas Hedvig Karakas (defending European champion, who at both of the two previous Games finished in the top eight) and Attila Ungvári's (European and World Championships bronze medalist) eliminations at an early stage definitely weren't foreseen.
Although she finished fifth, this Japanese edition definitely wasn't three-time champion Katinka Hosszú's Olympics.
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And unfortunately we couldn't watch Márton Fucsovics, as Hungary's best tennis player had to withdraw from the competition due to an injury.
featured image: Áron Szilágyi after winning the bronze with the team; image by Tibor Illyés/MTI
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Q: Extract the rows based on the specific values in the column by time I have a data frame looks like :

Date
v1
v2

2000/8/10
S
2600

2000/8/10
S
500

2000/8/10
S
3500

2001/11/12
B
2000

2001/11/22
B
1000

2001/11/22
S
1000

2001/12/06
B
1000

2001/12/06
B
1500

2001/12/06
B
1000

2001/12/07
S
2000

2001/12/07
B
4000

However, I'd like to extract the rows which has "B" and "S" in the same date
It looks as below :

Date
v1
v2

2001/11/22
B
1000

2001/11/22
S
1000

2001/12/07
S
2000

2001/12/07
B
4000

Does anyone have ideas? That would be grateful !
Cheers

A: You can select the Date which has both 'S' and 'B' in them.
library(dplyr)

df %>%
  group_by(Date) %>%
  filter(all(c('S', 'B') %in% v1)) %>%
  ungroup

#  Date       v1       v2
#  <chr>      <chr> <int>
#1 2001/11/22 B      1000
#2 2001/11/22 S      1000
#3 2001/12/07 S      2000
#4 2001/12/07 B      4000

This logic can also be implemented in base R and data.table :
#Base R
subset(df, as.logical(ave(v1, Date, FUN = function(x) all(c('S', 'B') %in% x))))

#data.table
library(data.table)
setDT(df)[, .SD[all(c('S', 'B') %in% v1)], Date]

data
df <- structure(list(Date = c("2000/8/10", "2000/8/10", "2000/8/10",
"2001/11/12", "2001/11/22", "2001/11/22", "2001/12/06", "2001/12/06",
"2001/12/06", "2001/12/07", "2001/12/07"), v1 = c("S", "S", "S",
"B", "B", "S", "B", "B", "B", "S", "B"), v2 = c(2600L, 500L,
3500L, 2000L, 1000L, 1000L, 1000L, 1500L, 1000L, 2000L, 4000L
)), row.names = c(NA, -11L), class = "data.frame")

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Farrow and Ball unveil the Broccato papers, inspired by the Italian Renaissance period
Colour expert Farrow & Ball unveils its latest collection of traditionally made wallpapers, uniquely crafted using Farrow & Ball paint printed onto paper. The Broccato Papers comprises six charming wallpapers inspired by the Italian Renaissance period.
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The Broccato Papers is characterised by ornate floral and fruit motifs, with meticulous symmetrical detailing, distinctive of the Renaissance style and richly embossed Brocade fabrics. Each pattern is available in ten colourways, from soft neutrals and pretty pastels to bolder colours and metallic accents. The collection includes a number of new colours including the soft mauve Brassica and lead-toned grey Plummett.
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VA RACING COMMISSION SETS DEADLINE FOR PROPOSALS FOR MANAGEMENT OF 2014 VIRGINIA BREEDER'S FUND
October 25, 2013	by gdpetty56 0 Comments
Following the September meeting of the Virginia Racing Commission (VRC), VRC Executive Director Bernie Hettel sent a letter to various parties stating that the deadline to submit a proposal to administer and promote the Thoroughbred Breeders Fund is November 15, 2013.
Since the Fund's inception in 1996, it has been managed by the Virginia Thoroughbred Association under the auspices of the Virginia Racing Commission. For the past ten years, the contract has been renewed annually under the direction of former Executive Director Glenn Petty who was abruptly terminated without cause in early June. The sudden and controversial managerial change and the secret proceedings triggered the resignation of three board members.
Two other employees directly involved in the management and promotion of the Fund, Heather Stanley and Pat Faramarzi are also no longer employed by the VTA. Stanley retired in August of 2013 and Faramarzi's position was terminated as part of the management restructure.
Petty, now the president of Equisport Solutions, contacted the Virginia Racing Commission prior to their September meeting and requested an agenda item to receive permission to submit a competitive bid. Citing the restrictions of the existing legislative language that made a typical competitive bid difficult to execute, Chairman Stuart Siegel suggested that interested parties simply submit a proposal for the VRC's consideration.
The current contract runs one year expiring December 31, 2013 and pays the holder $190,000 annually for administration and promotion. The fee is 15.8% of the approximate $1.2 million Thoroughbred portion of the Virginia Breeders Fund.
According to Easter Associates, the trade association management company hired to replace Petty and the other staff members, the $190,000 fee represented 56% of the association's 2012 revenue and covered the entirety of the Easter Associates management fee of $160,000 which includes the current Executive Directors' salary. The combined compensation of the previous staff was $163,995.84 according to Easter Associates' proposal submitted to the VTA board last June.
The VRC will announce its decision at their December meeting.
In a related item, in a letter dated October 3rd, Debbie Easter informed Petty that the VTA Board of Directors had tabled his 2013 membership application at the organization's September meeting held just days after the September VRC meeting.
According to Easter's letter, the directors agreed to table the measure to avoid a situation where "the VTA may be harmed if it admits you to its membership and thereby provides you with information regarding the VTA that you may use in competing with the VTA."
Petty had submitted his VTA membership application and dues in early August some 40 days after his ousting at the secret meeting in June.
"I wanted to be sure they knew I intended to submit a competing proposal for the Breeders Fund before they considered my membership. I saw no reason to hide my intentions." Petty said. "I can't imagine what information they may provide their membership that I could use to my competitive advantage, but I respect their decision and understand their concerns regarding fiduciary responsibility."
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Industry Retailers Report In: How Do You Compare?
The SEMA financial benchmarking program has been launched and is providing data for the industry. The focus this week is on jobbers/retailers. Following are a few nuggets gleaned from the responses for the month of January 2009.
Nearly 26% of responding jobbers/retailers say that they expect business to be up for the next three months compared to last year. We've heard from of number of industry executives that the first half of last year was pretty good. If that's true and expectations come true, the first quarter of 2009 may be reasonably good.
Moreover, signs of industry health make the current economy seem a distant past. Despite the gloom, some retailers are opening their doors and welcoming new customers. New SEMA member and Rhode Island retailer Competition Motorsports highlights how retailers are beating the odds.
Owner Scott Szumita addresses their goals: "My store targets any and all types of consumers looking to style or enhance the performance of their car, truck or SUV," he said. "Whether it's an older car they are looking to restore or a new vehicle that they want to add some personal touches to, we need to be diversified in this market."
Having a flexible product line and offering new services to customers may be the solution to a rough economy.
Three-Month Forecast of Retail Sales Compared to 2008
Almost 66% of jobbers and retailers expect healthy months ahead and foresee positive growth or a steady hold of current business.
Interestingly, those expecting business to be down project an average decrease of 29.5%, while those forecasting an upturn project an average increase of 25.8%. Retailers/jobbers report that in January 2009 their return rate was 7.4%. They also tell us that they averaged 8.8 inventory turns in 2008.
Right now, more than ever, the industry needs new tools to survive the tough economy. That's why SEMA has launched a new financial benchmarking program. The program is designed to accumulate data that you can use to see how your company is doing in comparison to others in the industry. Each month, information from responding companies will be aggregated and reports generated for the basic distribution categories of the industry.
The program asks a battery of financial questions that provide essential information for business management. Using aggregated data from similar companies, SEMA members will be able to benchmark their operations, answering questions such as:
What is the distribution of sales by jobbers/retailers?
Does my company invest more in marketing than others in my category?
How are my inventory turns doing compared to similar operations?
Is the amount of product returns my company is having out of whack right now?
The data will provide benchmarking information for just about all aspects of a company's financial operation. The added benefit is that over time, trend data will emerge, again providing a yardstick by which to compare your company's operation.
To ease concerns that some company executives may have about SEMA seeing their individual company data, SEMA has contracted with an outside vendor, Hedges & Company, to collect and aggregate the information each month. They willingly enter into legally binding non-disclosure agreements with any and all who wish them, and report only aggregated data to SEMA and program participants. — SEMA Research & Information Center
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Another episode of Bachelor In Paradise, another installation of the saga that is Joe Bailey and Samantha Steffen. Last time we checked in to Paradise, JJ was attacking Joe for playing Juelia like a fiddle, giving her a rose, and then dumping her as soon as Sammi Steffen got there. Oh boy. A lot of lying later, they addressed the group, and Joe and Sam confirmed how long they have known each other before Bachelor in Paradise. Joe admitted having a textual relationship with Sam for a bit before Bachelor In Paradise, but Sam doubled down and said that they had only exchanged a handful of texts and that there was no collusion between she and Joe to stay on the show. Ugh, you can't trust anything in ParadiseTime to get down to the bottom of things: How long have Joe and Sam really known each other?
If we go by the timeline that Joe dictated in saying that he and Sam started talking post-Bach, he got kicked off of Kaitlyn Bristowe's season of The Bachelorette sometime this spring. So, if Sammi reached out to him when he returned home from The Bachelorette and they continued talking and wanting to meet until then, Joe and Sam have been in contact for about three or four months. That's three or four months of collusion. Although, Joe has relegated it to just four weeks, saying, "I did talk to Samantha for about a month via social media, text messages, and phone calls."
Sam, on the other hand, has vehemently denied that the relationship was that deep. She said that she and Joe started talking after The Bachelorette and spoke on and off until they were magically put on the same season of Bachelor In Paradise. Something is rotten in the state of Bachelor Nation, you guys.
Since Joe has given a fairly detailed account of his history with Sam, and Tanner has corroborated how long he's known about their relationship, it sure seems like Sam is lying. She even suggested that Joe tell producers they hardly talked. But why? What's the point? Why would she double down on something that's already come out as mostly truth?
The fact of the matters seems to be that Joe and Sam have known each other since the spring and they should just fess up to it, because the continued lying is only hurting their situation.


Invasive rats appear to be gone from Lehua Island after officials conducted a restoration project to protect threatened seabirds.
The `iwa or Great Frigatebird swept low over a cluster of trucks, stacks of equipment and a Jet Ranger helicopter on the northern end of Niihau.
As I followed its black-winged form with binoculars, the angular bird made several passes and then returned to its roost on Lehua Island, a gray-brown tuff cone island, just a thousand yards across the Kumukahi Channel from Niihau.
Teams of wildlife professionals worked both Niihau and Lehua in late August and early September, using a helicopter guided by computer mapping programs to deliver rat bait across the rugged islet. I was present for one of the sessions.
A month after the final application, indications are that rats no longer populate Lehua. Survey teams are finding no footprints at burrows or other indications of rat activity, according to Sheri Mann, head of the Kauai office of the state Division of Forestry and Wildlife. They will keep monitoring for the next year, to confirm that preliminary finding.
The Lehua Island rat eradication project should improve habitat for frigatebirds and dozens of other bird and plant species on the little island — just as wildlife has thrived after similar eradications at other offshore Hawaiian islands, like Mokolii Island off Oahu and Mokapu off north Molokai.
After eradication of black rats on Mokolii, successful shearwater nesting became common, coastal naupaka sprouted, and seashore rat-predated species like pipipi and a ama crab became abundant.
At Palmyra Atoll to the south of Hawaii, after rat removal long-absent seabird species established successful nests, shoreline fiddler crabs thrived, and native tree seeds sprouted where they once were eaten.
Lehua has now been given three applications of pale blue pellets of rat bait containing diphacinone — less than a pound of the anticoagulant in several thousand pounds of food grade cereals like wheat and oats and other rat-friendly food items. The new bait was developed by Bell Laboratories in Madison, Wisconsin.
We've had really high acceptance rates of this new, more palatable bait.
The Lehua operation's partners include the state Division of Forestry and Wildlife and its parent agency the State Department of Land and Natural Resources, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture's National Wildlife Research Center in Hilo, Niihau Ranch, U.S. Coast Guard, National Tropical Botanical Garden and several other associated organizations and agencies.
The $1 million Lehua project has funding from several sources, including the Department of Land and Natural Resources, National Fish and Wildlife Foundation and Island Conservation. The results will be monitored for several years.
Several hundred small islands from the equator to the arctic have now been cleared of rats and other invasives. Why islands? Because although their land area is small, they are important crucibles of biological diversity — home to many endangered species, and once home to many species now extinct.
One species, the tiny band-rumped storm petrel, is now entirely missing — arguably because its small size and noisy habits on the nest make it particularly vulnerable to rats.
Perhaps on a rat-free Lehua, it will be able to re-establish itself.
Meanwhile, planning in Hawaii is already underway for a much bigger challenge — clearing the island of Kahoolawe of species like mice that are inhibiting the island's revegetation. The Kaho'olawe Island Reserve Commission is in discussion with Island Conservation and others about the best ways to accomplish that goal.
Jan TenBruggencate is a veteran science and environment writer, formerly with the daily newspaper The Honolulu Advertiser, and currently with his blog, www.RaisingIslands.com. He is an author and communications consultant and is an elected board member of Kaua`i Island Utility Cooperative, the island's electric company.


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Q: lazy newb pack wont start DF window and process closing after TWBT %version% was printed in the console.
I am using lazy newb pack, on my other laptop all working fine, so it's obviously laptop related problem.
What kind of problem is it? I disable antivirus and firewall already.
Does anyone have this problem?
laptop specs:
windows 7 professional, mcaffee antivirus, Symantec hard drive encryption, 8 Gb of RAM, i5 proc (6th gen), intel hd graphics 520
I'm totally sure this is a laptop related problem because I did the same sequence on my another laptop and lnp works totally fine.
Important addition:
vanilla df without any add-ons and graphic layouts works fine.

A: There was a problem with TWBT that prevent the screen from resizing. Now I'm using TWBT legacy with resolution presets. When I'm trying to resize the window manually there is still an error (no mention in the log or console) that causes window closing.
But it still does the trick for me.


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Two examples of programs are given in this appendix. They show different uses of function calls. One covers the use of the A/D Converter, which can only be used with a BIOS call. This is then linked to BASIC to show how the two can be combined. The second shows how the screen data can be saved to disk, and so covers examples of sending and receiving data to the 6301 slave proces- sor. It also covers disk handling and a certain amount of error checking. Two programs are given, to save and read the screen data. Again they are linked to BASIC, but as they are longer programs this needs to be done in a different way. They could be poked in, but the code has be written to locate itself into the correct position before BASIC is loaded.
The following program shows the use of the ADCVRT BIOS routine to enable the voltage across a variable resistor to be read. By rotating the shaft of the resistor the voltage read by the A/D converter will vary in proportion to the amount of rotation. This can then be used as a means of altering the position of a "bat" on the screen to play a simple game. This game shows how the BIOS routine can be used and how it can be linked to a BASIC program through the CALL statement of BASIC.
The circuit comprises a battery to provide the voltage, a variable resistor and the neccessary connecting wires. The connections to the A/D interface are shown in section 4. 6.
4280 LOCATE 15,2 : PRINT "TURN RESISTOR TO GIVE MAXIMUM VALUE"
4290 LOCATE 15,3 : PRINT "THEN PRESS SPACE BAR"
4300 LOCATE 20,5 : PRINT "RESPONSE =              "
The main part of the program consists of a series of subroutines to move the "ball" on the screen, and move the "bat" in response to changes in the posi- tion of the resistor. These subroutines are at the beginning of the program (lines 50 to 230).
Line 200 reads the value of the voltage from the A/D converter.
Lines 310 to 1040 form the main part of the program which handles the ball.
Lines 4000 to 4190 load the machine code routine.
Lines 4260 to 4300 use the machine code routine to read the A/D converter. They also allow setting of the maximum value of the voltage returned to be used in line 200, so that the maximum sensitivity of movement can be obtained for the battery being used.
Since the object of this appendix is to show the use of the BIOS call, only the machine code routine and the BASIC CALL will be described in detail.
The BASIC CALL statement is used with a list of parameters. This allows the channel of the A/D converter to be varied as well as returning a value of the voltage into a named variable. The channel is passed to the machine code rou- tine by means of the variable CH%, and the voltage is read back into the varia- ble ADD%. Further details of using the CALL statement are given in the BASIC Reference Manual (Appendix D). When two parameters are passed to the machine language subroutine, the location in memory of the first variable (in this case the channel CH%) will be placed in register pair HL. The address of the second variable (in this case ADD%) will placed in register pair DE.
The machine code subroutine first stores the address of the variable ADD% on the stack (data in line 4090). It then loads the channel number into register C (data in line 4100). The ADCVRT routine is then called (data in line 4110). In order to specify the address of ADCVRT, BASIC lines 4050 and 4060 are used. The low byte is determined by taking the low byte of WBOOT from loca- tion 0001 in the main memory bank, and adding the offset for the ADCVRT routine (6FH). The high byte is then obtained as the high byte of WBOOT ob- tained from location 0002 in the main memory bank. On return from the ADCVRT routine, register A contains the value of the voltage, in the top six bytes. After retreiving the location of the variable ADD% from the stack (data in line 4120), the two lowest bits of the returned voltage are made zero by an AND operation with the value FCH, so that any values in the lowest two bytes do not affect the result. (Data in line 4130.) If no further change was made the byte would give number in the range 4 to 255, since the least significant bits are always zero. Thus two rotations are made (data in lines 4140 and 4150) to make the most significant bits always zero. The contents of register A are then placed in the first byte of the variable ADDVo by loading register A into the address pointed to by register pair DE (data in line 4160). By incrementing the value of register pair DE, and making register A zero performing an XOR operation on register A with itself, the next byte of the variable ADD% is made zero. This ensures the variable ADD% is always a one byte variable. The data for these operations are to be found in lines 4170 to 4190. Finally the routine returns to BASIC.
The address for the machine code subroutine is assigned to the variable ADC in line 4240. The BASIC CALL statement can only call to a variable.
As an illustration of the use of the routine, and because the battery could vary in voltage, lines 4280 to 4320 will show the variation of the voltage as the resis- tor spindle is turned, from zero up to the maximum value. A value of 63 will denote 2.0 volts. Since the battery voltage in the diagram is 1.5 volts, the maxi- mum value obtained will be in either 46 or 47.
The following two listings show heavily commented programs written with the MACRO-80 assembler in Z-80 code. The comments should be sufficient for an assembler programmer to follow, although they may require the OS Refer- ence Manual or the Technical Reference Manual for further details of the use of the slave processor.
For those users wishing to enter the programs, use either the MACRO-80 as- sembler, or the dumps at the end of the listings together with the pertinent in- structions. A BASIC listing is given as an example to show how such programs can be used with BASIC.
Execute SSAVE on the CP/M command line. The SSAVE program will relocate the appropriate part of the program to the memory locations be- ginning with B400H.
Execute SLOAD on the CP/M command line. The SLOAD program will relocate the appropriate part of the program to the memory locations be- ginning with B200H.
This will load BASIC but with the upper memory limit for variables set to B200H, thus protecting the two loaded programs.
70 CLS: LOCATE 27,1: PRINT "The screen has been saved."
80 LOCATE 24,5: PRINT "Press any key to load the screen."
120 LOCATE 24,5: PRINT "Press any key to exit"


We always think we have to obey government, because after all, government makes laws. This case shows that you can disobey, and force the agency that gives illegal orders to back down. We ought to keep this example in mind. The FBI may think it saved face here, but we need to recognized what actually happened. The feds picked a public fight with one of the giants, and lost.


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Posted by Rick (+10) 18 years ago
The general perception that William F. Cody was the most famous buffalo hunter is in error. The most famous buffalo hunter of all time was a gentleman named Frank H. Mayer. Below is a brief history:
Frank H. Mayer was born in 1850 in New Orleans, La. In 1855 his entire family moved to Pennsylvania and settled in the Allegheny Mountains. As a youngster growing up he had access to hunting and fishing country that was unlimited. He had one major wish in life which was to see as many "gunshops" as possible! There in the heart of the mountains there were many riflemen and rifles with the latter outnumbering shotguns by, in his words "a hundred to one". Frank H. Mayer had numerous gunshops to visit including some of the most renown makers of the day. Names such as Golcher, Lehmans, Henrys, Billinghurst, Schalk, Rein, Miller, whose names today are world famous for expert craftsmanship. With ALL of the above, Frank H. Mayer was personally acquainted, most of which lived near where he and his family had homesteaded. In his words, "urged on by itchy feet, my people were constantly on the move, always hoping for social and financial betterment. This suited me fine, for that itch was, and is, hereditary, as my after years so proved to be"! Whenever he saw a mountain range, he was always constantly obsessed with a great desire to see what was on the other side.
Frank H. Mayers' personal experience with these "gems of guncraft" as he called the gunshops was at the early age of ten years when he traded his entire fur catch of two years work to the owner of a general goods store for a 120-to-the-pound, full-stocked Kentucky rifle with double set triggers and a 51" barrel. He kept and maintained this rifle for 74 years and had the worn rifling recut three times until the caliber was exactly .45. He never sold it. Using this rifle and in his words he stated "I shot against the cream of those nail-driving mountaineers, and was able to lick up a few drops of victory now and then, fairly holding my own in the goodly company"! By this time he was indissolubly wedded now to the rifle and his interest in its actual manufacture began to awaken and from this time on he became more or less a nuisance around the gunshops. The "smiths" soon discovered that he could not be driven away by anything short of a beating and the owners cannily proceeded to take advantage of his obsession and made him pay for his footing by keeping him busy by redding-up the shop and making himself useful. Apparently Frank Mayer was a very observant young man for his age and soon he became familiar with every facet and method of gun-making, from the raw iron, brass, and wood to the completed masterpiece. In time, he was actually permitted, without pay, to really help in the actual making of quality rifles. In the authors' opinion, there is no doubt whatsoever that Frank H. Mayer was until the very day that he died....a true, dyed-in-the-wool "GUN-CRANK"! By the time he was sixteen years of age he had graduated sufficiently in the art of gun making to the point whereby he could build, unassisted, accept for some invaluable advice by his peers, a rifle complete in all its appointments, from the purely American-sourced billet up to the globe and tang sights, and the checkered "flame" maple stock and Schuetzen buttplate. In addition, he also made the bullet mould, the cherry which cut the mould, a graduated-measure "honey-bull" powder horn, bullet pouch, and the patch-cutter....all of his own manufacture!
For those wishing to know more concerning Col. Frank H. Mayer I suggest reading "The Buffalo Harvest" available from Amazon.com.
As a side note, recently I was in Forsyth, Montana to shoot the Quigley Match which is held annually upon the ranch of Mr. A.G. Lee; a finer man never existed IMO! While there I had a chance to examine the Sharps rifle owned by Mr. Lee that belonged to Peter Jackson, the father of Miss Edith Finch, who in his own right was a buffalo hunter who took roughly 5000 buffalo around the Forsyth, Montana region.
Posted by Jack McRae (+361) 18 years ago
I recently purchased the book "The Champion Buffalo Hunter, The Frontieer Memoirs of Yellowstone Vic Smith" by Victor Grant Smith, edited by Jeanette Prodgers.
The back cover calls him "one of the most famous frontiersmen of the early West." The account was recently discovered in Harvard's Houghton Library by editor Jeanette Prodgers.
Trapper, dispatch rider, scout, trick shot, and buffalo hunter extraordinaire, Victor Grant Smith was also a great storyteller, and The Champion Buffalo Hunter is rich in the events of a life fully lived: encounters with notorious outlaw, buffalo and bear hunts, Indian fights, and natural disaster. In these pages, you'll also meet such notable westerners as John "X" Beidler, Liver-Eating Johnson, Yellowsotne Kelly, and the Marquis and Marquise de Mores.
Perhaps the most notorious exploit of this "champion buffalo hunter of the northern ranges" came when Smith tied the record for shooting the most buffalo in a single session: In the winter of 1881-82, he shot 107 bison within an hour by alternating two Sharps rifles as the barrels became too hot to handle and aim. That same winter, he reportedly killed 5,000 bison in southeastern Montana. Toward the end of his life, after the bison were all but extinct, Smith noted that he wished "that my aimm hadn't been so good."
The book was published in 1997 by The Globe Pequot Press.
I've read that one to. I still think of Frank H. Mayer as the greatest however simply because he hunted the "buffs" longer than any of the others and lived to tell about it! Born in 1850, same year as Billy Dixon, he lived until 1954! Killed him a buck deer at age 102 so he must have been quite "hardy" to say the least! He wrote several articles for the NRA back in the 30's and was quite adept at writing apparently. Probably the best marksman of his day and very well educated. He understood rifles and what makes them shoot. He told of an "old retired buffalo runner" that lived in Colorado who after retiring shot every day a ten shot group from 1000 yards using two 1874 Sharps rifle of .45 caliber and paper-patched bullets and never did any one group spread over 26" diameter. A different rifle was utilized each day; shot each on alternating days. Since he "retired" in Colorado and is buried there.....I have a feeling that the shooter was Col. Frank H. Mayer!
In reading of Victor Grant Smith's episodes, it seemed to me that he was more enthralled with going back east and putting on trick shooting events than he was of sticking to the plains and hunting buffalo like some of the rest of these old boys.
Posted by KELLY BABCOCK (+186) 18 years ago
Hi, Rick and Jack,
Rick; Thank you for the information on the book, "Crow Killer." Even at the time, I wrote my original post, "Crow Killer" was part of my library. I don't know why, when I had originally read it, the connections to sheriff Tom Irvine, and the Miles City area, didn't sink in, but they didn't. I was aware of Johnson's connections to other parts of Montana, but it caught me a bit off guard, when I read of his escapades, a little closer to home.
Jack; what a pleasure, to see one of my favorite characters, mentioned again. Luther S. {Yellowstone} Kelly, is really one of our unsung heroes. Because he lived in the shadow of such contemporaries as Cody and Hickock, we don't have the opportunity to read as much as we could about his life and times. It appears, as a civilian scout, he was far superior to Wild Bill. And for "color", one of his rifles was covered with the skin of a huge bull snake that he killed. And as a calling card to Gen. Miles, he sent the paw of a cinnamon bear, that he had killed. Autographed, of course.
I must get the book, you recomended. Somehow it has escaped my attentions, until now.
What was the purpose of slaughtering 107 buffalo, in a hours time? Just to see if it could be done? I've never been terribly impressed by any of the buffalo "hunters."
Maybe, just maybe, if they had killed, even half of that number, from the back of an unsaddled pony, with a spear, it might make an impression on me. But even then, if it had only been done, only to prove it could be done, I doubt it.
Posted by Kenny Vail (+118) 18 years ago
The most comprehensive work compilling biographical imformation on buffalo hunters is a four-volume series entitled "ENCYCLOPEDIA OF BUFFALO HUNTERS AND SKINNERS."
Volume I just hit the market recently and begins the coverage of 1100 buff hunters. Put together alphabetically this volume covers 'A' to 'D.' One of several noted buff hunters who surpassed Frank Mayers in hunting proficiency will be covered in this encyclopedic compilation. They will include James Wright Mooar, Tom Nixon, the Cator brothers and "Brick" Bond.
In Volume I, Olando A. "Brick" Bond is described as being the champion buff hunter of the plains in the years 1873 - 1875, having made a record kill of 125 in a single 'stand.'
From November 1874 to January 1875 Brick Bond and outfit recorded all the game that fell before his tripod-mounted "Big Fifty" buffalo guns from three camps:
1. Horseshoe Lake - 2,970 head
2. Worlie Lake - 1,913 head
3. Good Creek - 1,300 head.
That totals 6,183 head.
During this expedition Bond kept five skinners busy and turned buff hunting into big business. He did the killing but had as many as 15 men working in teams to rip the hides off by using the freighting animals and heavy ropes. The hides were then shipped by bull train to Dodge City using as many as seven 8-yoke ox teams going at one time. The hides brought from $1 to $3 each, depending upon the condition of the hair. Buffalo robes were at their best in October, November and December, but Bond's outfit hunted the year round.
During a two-month period from mid-October to mid-December 1876 Bond shot a total of 5,855, killing 300 in a single day. His average was 97 per day.
On his last hunting trip in 1878 Brick Bond headed deep into the Texas Panhandle. During another 60-day period he killed 5,575 more. Needless to say Orlando "Brick" Bond was deafened by the boom of his own big buffalo gun.
Compiments of Sharon Cunningham of Dixie Gun Works and co-author of "ENCYCLOPEDIA OF Buffalo Hunters and Skinners."
In an interview with Wyatt Earp a few years before his death, he had this to
say about Thomas C. Nixon:
"In my years on the plains the known record kill from a single stand was held by Tom Nixon, a famous shot who made headquarters at Dodge. He managed to knock over 120 animals without moving his rest sticks, but he ruined his
Sharps rifle in doing so. With the best of luck a single hunter might kill one hundred buffaloes in a day, from several stands. That would be all that four skinners could handle. I found that the average bunch would stampede by the time thirty or forty of their number had been killed."
One of the most successful hunters was sturdy, dark-haired Thomas Nixon, a former Nevada miner and Kansas freighter. From his sod house just outside the military reservation at Ft. Dodge, he sold shelled corn for the horses used in
laying the railroad line through Dodge City. Between hunting trips, Nixon found time to operate a blacksmith and repair shop at the edge of the new town. He also maintained a large corral where hunters could rest easy knowing
their stock was safe under the watchful eyes of Nixon's guards.
In June, 1872, Nixon and his hunting outfit were on the south side of the Arkansas River, eighteen miles west of where Dodge City was to be built. George Hoodoo Brown was hunting on the north side and for two days, he could
hear big caliber rifle fire from south of the river. Curious, he saddled up and rode over to find out who was doing the shooting. That was the first time he met Tom Nixon.
The winter of 1872-73 was a hard one; Nixon and his men were in a dugout near Dodge City. On the 23rd of December, Josiah Wright Mooar came close to being accidentally shot when two of Nixon's men were out looking for grouse.
Christmas Day was celebrated with a stag dance and fiddle music provided by Henry Raymond, one of Nixon's men.
In January, another blizzard struck the luckless hunters. The Mooar brothers and five of Nixon's men had hauled meat to Mulberry Creek from Kiowa Creek, continuing with their load toward Dodge City when a frightful gale struck
freezing ice on their eyebrows, eyelashes, and beards. The storm was so bad, the men could hardly see the mules in front of them. Levi Richardson was
driving the lead wagon while behind him in the other wagons were Pat Baker, Bat Masterson, John and Wright Mooar, and two other Nixon men.
After a time their advance was halted by the lead mules which refused to move any farther. Even the crack of whips could not obtain the desired result. Pat Baker worked his was to the front of the lead team, and while trying to induce them to move, discovered that they had reached Hunt's Ranch, their destination.
On March 6, 1873, Nixon's outfit, including Jim White, was bound for the Cimarron River country. They camped at Crooked Creek and the outfit traveled upstream about 15 miles to the springs and began shooting buffalo.
The Nixon camp was raided by Indians who managed to run off all of his horses and mules except one, and Tom was forced to make a trip to Dodge City for teams to haul in his hides.
On September 15, 1873, at the headwaters of Bluff Creek, in Meade County, Kansas, Nixon set a buffalo shooting record that has been a Dodge City legend and a source of controversy ever since. After picketing his horse in a ravine Nixon crept on foot, keeping out of sight until he was about four hundred fifty to five hundred yards from the herd. Selecting a large bull, Tom fired, then remained quiet. The boom of the big fifty Sharps startled the animals, and they surged uneasily for a few seconds, but as the hunter remained quiet, they resumed grazing. The bull,
shot through the lungs, stood quietly, chewing his cud for several minutes, then fell with a mighty bellow. The others rushed to the fallen bull and when they smelled the blood gushing from the wound, began to mill, making a terrific noise bellowing and pawing the earth.
This is what Nixon had been waiting for, and raising his gun fired again and again as fast as he could load and take aim, each shot bringing down a buffalo. The bewildered animals could not see the source of danger and milled
in a circle. When one fell the others rushed up, bellowing and pawing the earth, and sometimes butting the fallen one with their great shaggy heads. This confusion and noise drowned the crack of that deadly rifle. The slaughter
continued for exactly forty minutes, and at the end of that time 120 dead buffalo lay stretched on the plains, killed at the rate of three a minute, a record never equaled during the Western buffalo hunt.
Another account of the same killing reports that Nixon picketed his horse in a small ravine and crept toward a small herd and with two rifles he killed 120 buffalo in forty minutes. When one rifle got too hot, he threw the breech block down, ran a wet rag through it and used the second gun while the first cooled. From that day on through October 20, he killed 2,173 buffalo.
On another occasion, Nixon killed 204 buffalo at one stand, but it required more than forty minutes. Nixon hunted with five two-horse teams and fifteen men. About thirty-five miles southeast of Dodge City at the head of Rattlesnake Creek he killed 3,200 buffalo in thirty-five days, a large herd passed his camp and he used his two
guns to good advantage. He always carried a bottle of water for the sole purpose of cleaning and cooling his guns when he hunted.
The Ford County Globe of September 7, 1879 recorded:
Mr. Thomas Nixon, in charge of the freighting train of Charles Rath, arrived in the city loaded to the guards with buffalo bones. After the herds thinned, Nixon and Orlando A. (Brick) Bond operated a dance hall and saloon in the old Lady Gay building during Dodge City's cowtown period. Nixon also served as assistant marshal of Dodge City from April 4 to July 21, 1884. His term displaced David "Mysterious Dave" H. Mather. Mysterious Dave blamed his old enemy, Tom Nixon, when Dodge City authorities
rejected Mather's plans to convert his saloon, on the second floor of Kelly's Opera House, into a dance hall. On July 18, 1884, at around nine o'clock in the evening, Nixon and Mather began quarreling outside the Opera House. Nixon,
on the ground, took a shot at Dave, who was at the top of the stairs, and missed, his shot hitting the woodwork and spraying Mather with wood splinters. Nixon claimed that he shot only after Mather drew his gun - Dave claimed
otherwise.
Three days later, at ten o'clock p.m., while on patrol duty at the corner of Front Street and First Avenue, just outside the Opera House, Nixon heard someone call his name. Turning toward the entrance to Mather1s saloon, he was
met by "Mysterious Dave" who commenced shooting at him. Dave fired four shots, two of them striking Nixon in the right side, one in the left side, and one passing through the left nipple, killing him instantly. After the shooting,
just before his arrest, Dave Mather callously remarked,
"I ought to have killed him six months ago."
Despite the testimony of witnesses who saw Nixon make no attempt to draw his revolver, Mysterious Dave Mather was acquitted and released.
Often times I have wondered how a buff hunter could make a stand and kill so many but once upon a time I was pulling targets for a buddy who was shooting a Sharps back at the 300 yard range. Remmember....this is beyond the range...with his load at any rate...that the bullet was subsonic and all I could hear going overhead was a slight buzzzzz; no supersonic crack like with a supersonic projectile! couple this with the fact that any buff hunter worth his salt always tried to approach the animals from the downwind side and it can be understood that this fact reduced the noise level generated at muzzle blast. The day I was pulling targets the day was very still; no wind and even then from 300 yards the noise was almost zilch! The buff had no idea what was taking place!
Yes...it's a shame that all the bison went....but when one thinks about it.....there was no room for them if cattle and farming were the coming thing! Their doom was determined by the Almighty Dollar! Some call it "progress"; I call it the pits! We've witnessed so much spoilage today in the name of "progress" that it makes me sick to my stomach. Recently I came back down the eastern slope of the Rockies; down through Denver and Colorado Springs and the powers that be there are using huge earth movers to remove the tops of mountains to build what......more condos....all which look just exactly alike with not enough room between them to throw a cat! When I was there in the '60s' this was a very serene and peaceful place but there isn't enough $$$$ to make me chose it now as a place to live! Total ruination I call it! All...in the name of progress! If you folks in Montana are smart....do whatever you can to keep your place of quietness and ultimate beauty!
God Speed!
Posted by Ellen Compton (+4) 18 years ago
My relative, William Frederick Schmalsle, was a buffalo hunter, Indian guide, scout, and courier to Lieutenant Baldwin and General Miles. He was in the Red River Wars and helped rescue the German sisters. I would like to get information about his buffalo hunting days. I have loads of information as to his other activities but I still find even more. If anyone finds information on Schmalsle, please e-mail me at [email protected] Thanks.
Posted by Heath H (+642) 18 years ago
You may be correct about Mr Victor Grant Smith AKA Yellowstone Vic Smith and his trick shooting aspirations.
A few years back I acquired a Colt SAA revolver that, according to Colt factory records, was actually ordered by and shipped to Vic Smith in the mid 1880's.
The revolver is very unique in that it is a .22, full size frame SAA with a target site and a factory alteration to the triggerguard of the gun that allows a short flat piece of steel to be wedged into the triggerguard and against the trigger to keep the trigger pushed (or in the pulled back position). This feature allows for fanning of the hammer without the shooter having to pull the trigger each time or hold the trigger down with a finger. A very unusual item for anyone other than a serious trick shooter of the times because of the special factory order.
No "kitchen table gunsmithing" was appropriate for Yellowstone Vic in this instance, the .22 revolver he ordered was, according to R.L. Wilson (Colt Firearms Historian) "The FIRST .22 standard frame Single Action Army" to be produced by Colt. I have often wondered what Smith paid for his special order Colt in 1882. Other special order Colt revolvers by more famous men of the times (Bat Masterson, etc.) commanded princely sums.
Since the book by Prodgers in 1997 about Yellowstone Vic Smith I have been in search of more information about his life. While searching I have found a few books that have mentioned Yellowstone Vic Smith and many Buffalo hunting bretheren. Among them, THE BUFFALO HUNTERS by Mari Sandoz (Hastings House, New York 1954) and another, PLAINSMEN OF THE YELLOWSTONE by an author not remembered by me here. Both of the above mentioned books give snippets of information on Vic's hunting accomplishments and mention nothing of his trick-shooting abilities. I am planning a visit to Anaconda, Montana and the Hearst Free Library there to hopefully find more about Vic Smith and will be back here to share it with all.
Posted by Dave Roberts (+1504) 18 years ago
I just posted a scan of a stereo-view card of buffalo hunting in Montana to my neglected webspace.
I dunno if he's a famous buffalo hunter or not.
It's probably an un-credited Haynes picture as the collector who has a ton of Huffman shots also collects Haynes and has one of these with Haynes' mark on it.
The overall view is here:
http://roberts406.home.br...ffalo1.jpg
A 600 dpi zoom on the left side is here: (beware on dial up, it's 5MB+)
That's a Sharps? It looks like he's cavalry, almost, maybe a packer or guide?. The saddle doesn't look like a cavalry saddle to me.
Thanks a load for posting the photos. A real treat. Any chance there is a particular year associated with the pics?
There is no date on the card that I have. There may be one on the original Haynes card though.
I've got plans to stop and see the owner of the marked card sometime this week, so I'll see if I can check it then.
1886 sticks in my head as being the last of the buffalo, so it's a pretty old picture.
I'd love to find out who the hunter is.
Been thinking much about Victor Grant Smith, "Champion Buffalo Hunter" lately and would like to propose a handsome reward for new information about "Yellowstone" Vic Smith not published by Prodgers. He may have traveled with P.T. Barnum and is purported to have done some trickshooting for that concern.
[This message has been edited by Heath H (edited 2/16/2004).]
Posted by Ellen Compton (+43) 8 years ago
My e-mail address has changed, it is [email protected] As to Sharon Cunningham's book, I am looking up information on my relative, William F. Schmalsle. So far, I can't find out any information on his buffalo hunting.
Ellen K. Compton
Thieves in Miles City!
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On The 'Big Issue' with Johnny Hughes, Edem Agbana, the Deputy National Youth Organizer of the NDC and George Ayisi, the PRO of NADMO joined the host to discuss trending stories. Johnny asked for preliminary comments from both panelists. George Ayisi used his time to send well wishes to former president, John Agyekum Kufuor. He noted that the achievements of the statesman are there for all to see.
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