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Lady Lyttelton in Spencer House, London - 10 February, 1813
from Letter from Lady Sarah Spencer to her brother, the Hon. Robert Spencer, 10 February 1813, page 138:
What happiness is mine all round me—slippery, dangerous, blinding happiness! Just at this moment the sun is shining as bright as in the country; the Guards are marching thro' the park, playing a merry tune with drums and trumpets; the air is fresh and reminds me that spring is on its way, and my intérieur is so full, so brimful of perfect delight, that it well accords with the cheerfulness of the scene.
Sarah Spencer Lady Lyttelton, Letter from Lady Sarah Spencer to her brother, the Hon. Robert Spencer, 10 February 1813. In Hon. Mrs. Hugh Wyndham (ed.), Correspondence of Sarah Spencer, Lady Lyttelton 1787–1870 (London, 1912), p. 138. https://led.kmi.open.ac.uk/entity/lexp/1541424062321 accessed: 30 January, 2023
location of experience: Spencer House, London
Lady Lyttelton
Governess to Queen Victoria's children 1842-50, Lady of the Bedchamber 1838-42
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Marching music performed by The Palace Guards
Date/Time 10 February, 1813
Listening Environment in private, indoors
Lady Sarah Spencer married William Henry Lyttelton on 3 March 1813, after which she was known as Lady Lyttelton. He succeeded his half-brother as 3rd Baron Lyttelton in 1828. She wrote this letter to her brother a month after her engagement.
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Songwriter/Artist – Ralph Comfort Releases New Single
With Emotional Flair, Ralph Comfort Captures The Hearts Of His Audience With His New Single, " KATE "
Sheridan, Arkansas Nov 13, 2021 (Issuewire.com) – JUST WHEN YOU THOUGHT HE COULDN'T DO BETTER, Ralph Comfort Amazes us again with his new single, " KATE ". Ralph Comfort is a Songwriter/Artist registered with BMI Music and has astounded his audience for many years with his heartfelt country love songs. His incredible career began in 2000 with his first release, " My Dreams Ahead Are Gone ". Since that time he has constantly written and released new music to the delight of his ever-growing International fan base. His latest, " KATE ", is an emotional and aspiring composition that will no doubt bring out a range of feelings to all that hear it. " KATE ", is a beautiful song and was written for his late wife, A legacy to her memory. It has received much international attention, both in the Media, Radio, and TV. This Extremely talented Songwriter is credited with a total of 14 single releases and 1 album, among them his song, " I'll Fall Out Of The Sun ", hit No-1 spot on the World Indie Music Chart on Oct-30 of this year. It is no surprise if you recognize this Artist as he has appeared in 6 major press releases and his songs have been heard often on independent radio stations and Tv networks. " Brilliant " to quote one article and, " Brings Back The Soul Of Country", to quote another. Ralph Comfort is a Rising Star in the Country Music Field and is going to be a force to reckon with in the future.
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Turn up your tuna noodle casserole with this tasty twist on an old favorite!
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Q: D3.js Rendering topoJSON in multiple charts I 've been trying to plot a topoJson file in more than one chart in the DOM. The example that I am providing only includes two charts but I want to scale up eventually. My problem is that although the Javascript code is exactly the same in each of the two  containers, the topoJSON file only shows in the second container. I believe it has something to do with the rendering mode of D3, but I can not figure it out. Here's the code and the resulting page.
P.S. Sorry for the redundancy in the JS code. I only did it for the sake of the example
<!doctype html>
<meta charset="utf-8">

  First Map (Empty!!!)

  Second Map (OK)

The resulting page

A: Long story short: separating your code in multiple script tags don't creates different scopes.
Right now you are using several variables twice your script. The most important is map. Change the second map from this:
var map = d3.select('#container2').append('svg')
  .attr('width', width)
  .attr('height', height)

to this:
var map2 = d3.select('#container2').append('svg')
  .attr('width', width)
  .attr('height', height)

And change all subsequent map to map2 or anything else. Also, change all other duplicate variables, like color, projection etc.
Don't separate your scripts like that. The way they are now, spread across the HTML, is not the best practice, because the browser has to parse each script before continuing to parse the rest of the HTML (and this can cause additional problems too). Put all your script together, inside a single , at the end of the body.
Keep in mind that using several

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Jets rewrite playoff history vs. Oilers with series sweep in first round
Kyle Connor scored in the third overtime to help the Winnipeg Jets win 4-3 and sweep the Edmonton Oilers from the playoffs.
| May 25, 2021, 3:21 AM
WINNIPEG - The stage was set and the props were out in full force — even if they weren't brought into the building.
Although fans aren't allowed in Canada during the pandemic, a parade of vehicles circled around Bell MTS Place hours before puck drop, with plenty of fans waving brooms out the windows as horns honked wildly.
With one more victory, the Winnipeg Jets would have the opportunity to celebrate something that hadn't happened since the final season of the World Hockey Association.
Yes, the history is a bit complicated when it comes to the 2.0 version of the Jets, but many fans in friendly Manitoba haven't forgotten the dominance of those dynastic Oilers teams of the 1980s and 90s.
And while this was officially the first meeting between the Smythe Division rivals, folks of a certain vintage around these parts still have some emotional scar tissue to sort through.
The 1.0 version of the Jets dropped six consecutive playoff series to the Oilers, including the one in 1990 -- the one considered to provide the biggest heartbreak.
Dave Ellett scored in double overtime to put the Jets up 3-1 in the series that year and it was supposed to be a chance to rewrite history.
Instead, the Oilers overcame a 3-1 deficit in Game 5 and won the final three games of the series, leaving the Jets and their fan base to feel another dose of agony.
After the Jets took a commanding 3-0 series lead by winning consecutive overtime victories in Games 2 and 3, the pent-up energy was palpable.
Would the Jets be able to close the series out after rallying from a 4-1 deficit in the third period of Game 3 to win 5-4 in overtime?
The answer was a resounding yes, though the Oilers didn't exactly go quietly as six periods were required before a winner would be declared.
But after Neal Pionk forced Oilers captain Connor McDavid to turn the puck over, Kyle Connor got in alone and beat Mike Smith with a wrist shot at 6:52 of triple overtime to secure a 4-3 victory and a 4-0 series sweep in what was the longest game in franchise history.
Talk about an unlikely turn of events for a Jets team that had dropped seven of nine games to the Oilers in the regular season, including the final six meetings.
The Jets seemingly hit rock bottom in a 6-1 loss to the Oilers that featured five goals allowed on the rush. That one-sided defeat helped the Jets make a renewed commitment to defending and to not feeding the transition game of the opponent.
Although that didn't immediately translate into results, the Jets didn't let a seven-game losing streak sink their season.
Neither did dropping nine of the final 12 regular-season games.
Instead of folding and suffering a third consecutive early exit, the Jets used the difficult stretch to embolden their belief in what the group could accomplish if they stuck to their structure.
When players talk about not wanting to give an opponent any life after taking a 3-0 series advantage, captain Blake Wheeler speaks with first-hand experience as a member of the 2010 Boston Bruins team that ended up losing in Game 7 to the Philadelphia Flyers in the Eastern Conference semifinal.
"It was kind of just a crazy day because you knew what was at stake tonight. Listen, I've been on the wrong side of being up 3-0 and losing it all, so for me, it was kind of like, you just don't want to lose," said Wheeler, who finished with two goals and five points in the series. "You don't want to miss out on that opportunity to close a team out, especially a team that's capable of coming back, winning four games straight as Edmonton. I mean, razor-thin margin.
"They easily could have won every one of those games. So, to answer your question, I think once we got into the second overtime, it was kind of just almost robotic. Nobody wanted to make a mistake and everyone was exhausted. We played an overtime game yesterday. We played four Stanley Cup playoff games in six days. It's not often you see a breakaway in triple overtime to solve it but, tell you what, we had the right guy on the breakaway. We're pretty gassed, but we're pumped up in our room."
When the Jets power play struck on Mark Scheifele's first goal of the playoffs after a brilliant cross-seam feed, the home side was off and running.
McDavid wasn't ready to see his team go quietly into the night and his wraparound gave his team hope.
While the Jets restored a one-goal cushion on a nifty redirection from Mason Appleton late in the first period, it was the Oilers that responded with a goal from Ryan Nugent-Hopkins and a power-play marker from Alex Chiasson in the second.
Discipline was an issue for the Jets, who took four consecutive minor penalties after the Oilers took the first three.
Just when it looked like the Oilers might build a two-goal cushion, the Jets were able to kill off a minor to Josh Morrissey and Scheifele scored his second of the game after a costly turnover from Ethan Bear.
Wheeler chipped in a pair of assists and continued his excellent play, but left the game late in the third period after blocking a shot in a sensitive area below the belt from Kris Russell.
Wheeler, who is known for having a pain tolerance and played with cracked ribs earlier this season, came out of the tunnel for overtime and finished the game.
"He's been doing it all series," said Connor. "That was a huge block. Fired me up. It's obviously tough to see a guy go down like that. But it's part of the job. And we've got a whole lineup of guys buying in. It's the playoffs. He's a warrior, and right back at it."
Wheeler wasn't looking for any sympathy when asked about the play in question.
"I'm sure everyone on this call has had experiences like that or something similar, not necessarily a slap shot," said Wheeler. "I mean, everyone on our team did that all series long, all game long. We put an emphasis on getting to the shot at the point, and Matty Perreault blocked two shots. So that then and there set the standard that every single guy was going to put their body in front of the puck. And in the third period of a tight game, you'll put anything in front of it."
The Jets' reunited top line of Scheifele between Wheeler and Connor embraced the challenge of going head-to-head against McDavid and they did a solid job while splitting the responsibility with Adam Lowry's line.
In all, Scheifele scored twice and Connor closed it out, with Wheeler adding a pair of assists as something of an exclamation point.
This wasn't just about recording the points, it was about the effort in all three zones, which was part of the reason McDavid and Leon Draisaitl were held without a point in the first two games.
"We expect a lot out of ourselves, especially with the guys they have on the other side," said Scheifele. "With Connor and Leon, you've got to bring it every single night or they'll make you pay.
"The biggest player who kept us in there was this guy beside me."
That guy beside Scheifele on the Zoom call was Jets goalie Connor Hellebuyck, who came into this series as a man on a mission, determined to deliver a performance for the ages.
Hellebuyck stopped 70 of 71 shots he faced through the two road games, then came home to post 44 saves in Game 3 and another 37 in Game 4.
The Vezina Trophy winner level has returned and it's one of the reasons nobody will view the Jets as an easy out as the playoffs continue.
Naturally, Hellebuyck was tossing around compliments to his teammates instead of basking in the glory.
"I feel like I've been saying this all year, that this team and these guys can do everything," said Hellebuyck. "If we need to shut down a game, we shut down a game. If we need to score, we score. If we need to come back with 10 minutes left in the third, we do that.
"Just being behind these guys, it's been a pleasure and it's fun to watch."
One of the biggest benefits for the Jets was that after needing to play five overtime periods, now they'll have an opportunity to recuperate before the next round starts.
"It definitely didn't feel like a sweep, that's for sure," said Scheifele. "We grinded every single game, there was no easy ice out there. It was a battle each and every game, each and every shift."
The Jets would love to go on a run that's reminiscent of the 2018 trip to the Western Conference Final, but they know this is nothing more than the first step.
A necessary one, but nowhere near the ultimate goal.
"You've got to be really careful to start putting into context after the first round of the playoff experience," said Wheeler. "It's certainly what I envisioned, what Kyle (Connor) envisioned, I could go through a locker-room full of guys that have committed to this team and this city. Because we committed to each other, right? And with the idea that we believed that we could win.
"So this is just a step in that progression. We built some experience over the last few years. We've had some success, some heartbreak at this time of year. And we're trying to draw off those experiences. More than anything, I think there's a certain maturity that we've accumulated. I can go through the guys that have been here for a while. They're not kids anymore. They're entering the primes of their career and those are the guys that committed long-term and give us a chance to win. That's all you can ask for. Ask for a chance."
A first-round elimination of the Oilers won't erase the nightmares of Jets 1.0, but a first-round sweep over a team that features two of the best players in the NHL will certainly help to dull some of the pain.


Landscaping with rocks and boulders is such an easy way to not only instantly improve your home's curb appeal but it's also a very smart way to prevent erosion and help to retain moisture in garden beds. Today, I am showing you some beautiful ways to incorporate rocks and boulders into your landscaping.
When I was in Salt Lake City a few weeks ago for the Utah Valley Parade of Homes, I saw so many yards and gardens landscaped with rocks and boulders that I was so inspired with all of the beautiful ways homeowners incorporated them.
Because boulders and rocks are less expensive and abundant in mountain/rocky areas like Salt Lake, we see more creative landscaping uses. However, boulders and rocks should be available at your local stone/gravel yard for landscaping. You can go to look and pick out which coloring/size you want and the stone/gravel yards should deliver. You can also work through a local landscaper.
If you want to see more homes from the Utah Valley area, you can see my UV Parade of Homes recap here.
I love boulder walls! They always look so fancy!!
I absolutely love the use of rocks/boulders as part of the landscape. I had told my husband some time ago that I want to do this in our yard. I think they add so much interest and the more organic the look, the better I like it. Thanks so much for showing such lovely landscapes and giving me many ideas.
I like on a hill, so planting and maintaining the vegetation can be hard in parts. I love the idea of using boulders and rocks, as you don't have to work too hard to keep them organized. Thanks for all the great landscaping tips.


Not forgetting Trevor Baylis, the inventor of the wind-up radio who enabled people in developing countries to access public health information about HIV (1). His idea works on the same principle as the electric bike i.e., it transfers human energy potential to the production of electricity. His idea has been applied to wind-up laptops, torches and a host of other items (Google).
In terms of social investment, the human potential to generate one's own electric supports what Margaret Whitehead and Göran Dahlgren suggest in addressing social inequalities by leveling up, not leveling down (2), which can be applied to employment and production for bringing people up from out of poverty rather than using the economics of austerity to reboot capitalism and hold people down.
Is a good idea - but ends up paying for the electrical energy?


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Here's Where You Can Watch The Martian
By Patrick Phillips/June 3, 2021 3:56 pm EST
If one were to pore over the best sci-fi films released in the past decade or so, they'd be hard-pressed to find one quite as well-loved as 2015's "The Martian." Adapted by "The Cabin in the Woods" helmer Drew Goddard from Alex Weir's novel of the same name, and directed by the legendary Ridley Scott, "The Martian" stars Matt Damon as astronaut and botanist Mark Watney. After his crew mistakenly strands him on Mars, Mark is forced to rely on his wits to survive the endless perils of the Red Planet.
Equal parts harrowing survival thriller and stark character-driven drama, "The Martian" finds Damon delivering one of his finest performances to date, and doing so almost entirely sans scene partners — though the film does boast a stacked cast of supporting players including Jessica Chastain, Kristen Wiig, Jeff Daniels, Mackenzie Davis, Donald Glover, Chiwetel Ejiofor, and Sebastian Stan.
Epic scope and white-knuckle thrills aside, Damon's performance alone makes "The Martian" worthy of a rewatch — or a watch for the first time. But be warned: If you're looking to watch "The Martian" at home, your options are a bit more limited than you might think.
Where to find The Martian in the streaming realm
Unfortunately, "The Martian" isn't currently available to stream as part of a subscription to any of the major platforms. Frustrating as that might be, it doesn't mean you don't have any viewing options if you're looking to book a trip to Mars. Rather, it means you'll need to shell out a few extra bucks to get your peepers on "The Martian" for the time being.
You can hit up iTunes, Amazon Prime Video, and several other video-on-demand platforms to rent the movie at a cost of roughly $4 to $5. Sling TV subscribers who've signed up for the service's Sling Blue package will want to keep an eye out on FX too, as "The Martian" is currently a regular player on the network. Likewise, if you're still attached to your cable, you can track the movie down on FX via your subscription. And for those who appreciate the "watch it anytime I want" purity of physical media, there are obviously several DVD and Blu-ray options available at varying degrees of cost.
That being said, you could always just wait it out for now since "The Martian" will almost certainly be hitting one of those major streamers somewhere down the road. The choice is yours.


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Corkery's return "keeping us on our toes" says Sigerson in wake of All-Ireland semi-final win
Monday 20 August, 2018
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Cork's Chloe Sigerson with Danielle Morrissey of Kilkenny Mandatory Credit ©INPHO/Morgan Treacy
The scoreline does not reflect the magnificent efforts of Tipperary in the first half but it does showcase once more the ability of Liberty Insurance All-Ireland Senior Camogie champions Cork to split the posts from outside the defensive cordon, writes Daragh Ó Conchúir.
With eight different contributors to the final tally, it was in keeping with a trend established by the Rebels throughout the summer of having a plethora of potential providers.
Wing-back Chloe Sigerson supplied three points, including two from prodigious distances and such was the level of her performance generally that the Killeagh defender was named player of the match, though her clubmate Hannah Looney, Orla Cotter, Gemma O'Connor and Tipperary centre-back Karen Kennedy must have been contenders too.
Tipperary were well in contention at half time, trailing by 0-9 to 0-6 and though Cotter had provided five points for Paudie Murray's side, Championship leading scorer Cáit Devane converted four frees at the other end.
Tipp finished the half with two points from play by Ciardha Maher and Grace O'Brien, with the first coming from a whistling shot that just flew over the bar.
"The first half we weren't very happy with ourselves" Sigerson revealed. "The last 10 minutes they started running at us down the centre. We knew we had to tighten up ship there and we did that in the second half so we're very happy with the turnaround and hopefully we'll start that way the next day."
Tipp were unable to keep the momentum up however and Cork gradually edged away.
The defending champoins ran out 0-21 to 0-09 winners to book a third straight All-Ireland Final against Kilkenny.
Corkery's Return
Murray introduced Briege Corkery late on for her first appearance since the 2016 All-Ireland Final and Sigerson is delighted to see the Cloughduv legend back in the fold, adding further intensity to the competition for places.
"You can see Briege was named today so there's definitely no time to be sitting back relaxing. We're keeping on our toes. Hopefully today will keep me in a good position but next week in training, we'll be pushing each other again and the team will be interesting again the next day.
"We're playing against the best forwards at training so when we go out on the day, we know we're capable.
"I grew up watching Briege and I got to play one year with her before she went away for a while. She's a livewire at training. You wouldn't want to be makring her. She's running around the place, the brings great energy and it's brilliant to have her back. She's a great asset to the time and just brings more confidence to the team."
She is relishing the Final build-up.
"The build-up is good, you get a bit excited and ramped up for it, so I will be looking forward to that. Croke Park in September is where we aim to be at the end of the year and we're there now. It's the last hurdle so we'll be pushing on hard."
We'll have coverage of Kilkenny v Cork on Sunday 9 September with thanks to Lorimat Jewellers, Kilkenny.


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Report of the Commissioner of Education Made to the Secretary of the ...
Por United States. Bureau of Education
And finally, what is the effect of this prolonged and earnest investigation upon that ideal of a liberal education that has so long been held in esteem among us! It will not have escaped notice that only one of the committce's four programmes makes a place for the study of Greek, while one excludes both Greek and Latin. It is true that these are recommended as ideal arrangements, and that it is expressly stated in the report to be the unanimous opinion of the committee that, "under existing conditions in the United States as to the training of teachers and the provision of necessary means of instruction, the two programmes called respectively modern languages and English must, in practice, be distinctly inferior to the other two." Nevertheless, it seems clear that the committee bas been able to disentangle the real from the accidental in our conception of a liberal education, and has put the former forward in all its strength. It has not forgotten the precept of Aristotle, that "there are branches of learning and education which we must study with a view to the enjoyment of leisure," and that "these are to be valued for their own sake." "It is evident, then," the philosopher continues, "that there is a sort of education in which parents should train their sons, not as being useful or necessary, but because it is liberal and noble. Whether this is of one kind only, or of more than one, and if so, what they are and how they are to be imparted, must hereafter be determined." It is just this determination that the committee has made; and it is a determination that each age, perhaps each generation, must make for itself. Between a diminution of the time given to classical study and a relapse into quasi barbarism there is no necessary relation of cause and effect. May not the American say, as did Paulsen of his countrymen, that "idealism generally, if we will use this word of so many meanings, is a thing which is not implanted from without, but grows from within, and that, in particular, the idealism in the character of the German people has deeper roots than the Greek and Latin lessons of our gymnasia!"
Mr. Lowell's hope, expressed so eloquently at the Harvard anniversary, will not be disappointed by the recognition of a broader basis for human culture. Every one may accept the recommendations of the comunitteo of ten and still say with him: "I hope the day may never come when the weightier matters of a language, namely, such parts of its literature as havo overcome death by reason of their wisdom and the beauty in which it is incarnated, such parts as are universal by reason of their civilizing properties, their power to elevato and fortify the mind-I hope the day may never come when these are not predominant in the teaching given here. Let the humanities be maintained undininished in their ancient right. Leave in the traditional preeminence thioso arts that wero rightly called liberal; those studies that kindle the imagination, and through it irradiate the reason; those studies that manumitted the modern inind; thoso in which the brains of finest temper have found aliko their stimulus and their repose, taught by them that the power of intellect is heightened in proportion as it is made gracious by measure and symmetry. Give us science, too, but give first of all, and last of all, the science that ennobles life and makes it generous. * * Many-sidedness of culture makes our vision clearer and keener in particulars. For, after all, the noblest definition of science is that breadth and impartiality of view which liberates tho mind from specialties and enables it to organizo whatever wo learn, so that it becomes real kuowledge by being brought into true and helpful relation with the rest."
THE CURRICULUM FOR SECONDARY SCHOOLS. I
WILLIAM T. Harris, LL. D., United States Commissioner of Education. I am to present some considerations on the course of study in secondary schools with especial reference to the " report of the committee of ten " recently published. What I shall say will be partly in tho way of comment on that important report and partly in the way of presenting my own solutions of some of the problems to whichi it is addressed.
In the first place, I would venture the remark that the report of a committee must generally be a compromise. The individual views of the several members of the committee have been advanced and discussed-in the end they have been so modified that a majority can approve them. It naturally follows that each person signing the report accepts it as the nearest approximation to his view that he finds practicable. It often happens that in the process of elimination all that is salient and suggestive gets omitted and only the dead level of commonplace ideas is retained. Generally it is best to preserve the ditferences of opinion that remain after all of the discussions in the committeo in the form of minority reports or explicit reservations over the siguature of the dissenting members. Such dissent helps the outsider to enter into the spirit of the discussion and to understand grounds.
Mere educational authority as such is barmful unless it brings with it its grounds which may be studied and mastered, adopted or refuted, by the teacher who reads the conclusions set forth.
In the report of the committee of ten there is an admirable device to preserve individual differences and points of view. There are nine reports of special conferences-each conference being conducted by a subcommittee of ten persons, experts in the topic assigned them and representing widely separate parts of the country.
By letting each gronp of experts sit by itself and formulate its demands on the time of the programme of the secondary school, wo were likely to get the utmost diversity possible as regards points of view from which secondary studies could be considered. Each branch of study would claim what time the members of its conforence thought desirable for its thorough treatment, rather than the time possible to allow it after adjusting its claims in view of all the rest of tho programme.
The able presentation of the scopo and significance of the nine branches of secondary study by the several conferences affords rich material for study to all interested in school work. But it furnishes a statement of the problem and sets forth the difficulties of making a satisfactory programme rather than suggests a solution.
It was for the committee of ten to digest the results and harmonize the differences of the nine subcommittees.
The first part of the report recites the history of the organization and work of the committees and then brings together in Tables I and II the recommendations of the several conferences without undertaking any change. Such a programme, as might be expected, shows very strongly one thing, namely, the necessity of modifying the demands of some or all of the subcommittees for the sake of adjustment. It is a reductio ad absurdum. It tells us that if the experts in each of the nine branches were to get what they ask we should have 22 recitations per week in the first year of the high school, 374 per week in the second year, 35 in the third year, and 374 in the fourth year. That is to say, the pupils would have a daily average of 4} rocitations in the first year, 74 the second year, 7 the third year, and 74 the fourth. If each lesson required fifty minutes (taking time for change of classes) the second and fourth years would require the pupil to recite continuously from 9 in the morning to 4.30 in the aftervoon, providing for a single intermission of an hour and a quarter for lunch in the middle of the day. All the lessons, seven in number, would have to be prepared out of school.
This paper was read before the department of superintendence at its session in Richmond, Va., February, 1894. Reprinted from Education.
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Such a strain on pupils would very soon destroy all elasticity and the reaction essential to individuality would cease.
Of course the members of the subcommittees would never for a moment approve such a programme. Each set of experts supposed that the demands of the other conferences would be modified and adjusted in such a way as to mako a reasonable programme after allowing their special topic the time required.
The report of the comunittee of ten proceeds next to show in Table III that the demands of the subcommittees can not be made reasonablo even by cutting them down uniformly 20 per cent and allowing four recitations or lessons a week where five lessons are asked for. Even this programme in Table III would demand for the second and fourth years an average of 6 lessons per day.
Up to this point, therefore, the results of the report are negative as far as making a programme is concerned. It is with Table IV that the committee of ten first offers a programme that it considers practicable. In order to reach this it was necessary to drop the guidance of the subcommittees and commence in earnest the study of the comparative educational values of the general branches, and secondly the necessary order of evolution of said branches and their adaptation to the several stages of maturity that the pupil reaches in the secondary school.
I would call special attention here to the fact that the committee of ten considered first the normal standard for the programme and resolved unanimously that in no case should there be more than 20 recitation periods or lessons a week, and only 15 of these (or 3 per day) should be such as require previous preparation on the part of the pupil. This fact makes unreasonable all those attacks on the report which condemn it for requiring too much work of the pupil in the secondary school. The recommendations of the committee of ten do not err in this respect, for they fall safely within the hygienic limits prescribed in the most cautious and conservative schools.
Turning to Table IV, which contains this model programme, not compiled from the results of the subcommittees, but formeil in view of the conflicting necessities of hygiene, of preparation for college or the technical school, and of comparative educational values-turning to this table we find four programmes, a purely classical, a Latin-scientific, a modern language programme, and an English programme. I may be believed when I say that the formation of the classical programme consumed nearly all the time devoted by the committee of ten to discussions. It was easy after making the classical programme to omit Greek and substitute more science and modern language to form tho Latin-scientific programme, and in the third or modern language programme to substituto more modern language for Latin. The so-called English programme was formed by increasing the time devoted to English language and literature and reducing the number of foreign languages studied to one, which might be an ancient or a modern language.
The chief result of the committee's report, so far as a practical recommendation is concerned, therefore, is to be found in the classical programme of Table IV. This gives Latin five hours per week during the first and second years, and four hours the third and fourth years. Greek has five hours per week in the third and fourth years and does not appear at all in the first and second. This arrangement makes the separation of the pupils who are fitting for college from those who are taking the scientific or modern language or English programme take place at the beginning of tlie third year, and offers the desirable opportunity for change of mind on the part of the secondary pupil after he has completed his second year and begins to see what education means. He may defer the question of college until the commencement of the third year.
The inathematical studies are, algebra, four hours a week in the first year and two hours a week for balf of the third year; geometry, three hours a week second year and two hours a week half of the third year; trigonometry and higher algebra, elective in the fourth year for thrco hours a week; English language and literature,
rhetoric, composition and the like studies roquiro fuur hours a week first year, two hours a week second year, three hours the third year, and two hours fourth year. The natural sciences are represented by physical geography three hours a week first year. This branch includes an elementary view of the organie aspects of nature, such as botany, zoology, ethnology, meteorology, geology, and astronomy. The other aspect of nature is physics, molar or molecular, called "natural philosophy" and "chemistry." Natural philosophy is assigned three hours a week second year; chemistry three hours a week fourth year. General history has four hours a week first year, three hours a week second year, and is olectivo with trigonometry for three hours the fourth year. Finally a modern language, French or German, takes four hours a week second year and third year and three hours a week fourth year.
This result seemed to the committee a pretty rich programme after all; it was reached only after harmonizing apparently irreconcilable conflicts. It provides for Latin, Greck, mathematics, natural science, history, English literaturo, and modern languages.
From this hasty survey of the report of the committee of ten let me now turn your attention for a moment to the fundamental questions that concern the course of study and to the reasons that have made this item in secondary schools the weakest part of our school system, althongh it must be confessed that the teachers in the secondary schools are on the whole more skillful, so far as command of methods is concerned, than the teachers in the elementary schools or the professors in colleges.
Let us glance first at the central idea of the elementary school.
We can deduce the course of study quite easily from the idea of the school as an instrumentality desigired to connect the child as the new individual with his race, and enable him to participate in civilization.
By education we add to the child's experienco the experience of the human race. His own experience is necessarily one-sided and sliallow; that of the race is thousands of years deep and it is rounded to fullness. Such deep and rounded experience is what we call wisdom.
To prevent the child from making costly mistakes we give him the benefit of seeing the lives of others. The successes and failures of our fellow-men instruct each of us far more than our own experiments.
The elementary school attempts to give this wisdoin in a systematic manner. It uses the essential means for its work in the shape of text-books, in which the experience of the race is digested and stated in a clear and summary manner, in its several departments, so that a child may understand it. He has a teacher to direct his studies and instruct him in the proper methods of getting out of books the wisdom recorded in them. He is taught first in the primary school how to spell out the words, and how to write them himself. Above all, he is taught to understand the meaning of the words. All first use of words reaches only a few of their many significations. Each word has many meanings and uses, but the child gets at only one meaning, and that the simplest and vaguest, when he begins. His school work is to train him into accuracy and precision in the interpretation of language. He learus gradually to fill each word of the printed page with its proper meaning. Ho learns to criticise the statements he reads, and to test them in his own experience and by comparison with other records of experience.
In other words, the child at school is set to work to enlarge his own puny life by the addition of the best results of other lives. There is no other process so well adapted to insure a growth in self-respect as the mastery of the thought of the thinkers who have stored and systematized the experience of mankind.
This is tho clue to the hopes founded on education. The patriotic citizen sees that a government managed by illiterate people is a government of one-sided and shallow experience, and that a government by the educated classes iusuresgthe benefits of a much wider knowledge of the wise ways of doing things.
The work of the school produces self-respect because the pupil makes himself the measure of his fellows, and grows to be equal to them spiritually by the mastery of their wisdom. Self-respect is the root of the virtues and the active cause of a career of growth in power to know and power to do. Webster called the free public schools " a wise and liberal system of police by which property and the peace of society are secured." He explained the effect of the school as exciting " a feeling of responsibility and a sense of character."
This, he saw, is the legitimate effect. For as the school causes its pupils to put on the forms of thought given them by the teacher and by the books they ure; causes them to control their personal impulses and to act according to rules and regulations; causes them to behave so as to combine with others and get help from all while they in turn give help; as the school causes the pupil to put off his selfish promptings and to prefer the forms of action based on the consideration of the interests of othersit is seen that the entire discipline of the school is ethical. Each youth educated in the school has been submitted to a training in the habit of self-control and of obedi. ence to social order. He has become to some oxtent conscious of two selves-the. one his immediato animal impulse and tho second his moral sense of conformity to the order necessary for the harmonious action of all.
Curious scholars have explored and recorded the methods of eclucation of all peoples; for each people has some way of initiating its youth into the manners and customs and intellectual beliefs which constitute the warp and the woof of its civilization. The bulk of all education is performed by the family in all ages. The lessons in tlie care for the person; the conventional forms of eating and drinking; behavior toward strangers and toward one's relations; the mother tongue; the stock of beliefs and such habits of scientific observation as may exist in the community; the ideals of life; the duties of a citizen; the consciousness of nationality and the sentiment of patriotism that depends on it; the elementary arts and trades such as exist within the home; all these things are learned within the family. But letters and scienco are usually taught, if taught at all, by a teacher set apart for the work, and his department is called the school.
The school is the auxiliary institution founded for the purpose of reenforcing the education of the four fundamental.institutions of civilization. These are the family, civil society (devoted to providing for the wants of food, clothing, and shelter), the state, and the church. The characteristic of the school is that it deals with the means necessary for the acquirement, preservation, and communication of intelligencethe mastery of letters and mathematical symbols; of the technical terms used in geography and grammar and the sciences; the conventional meaning of the lines 118ed on maps to indicate water, mountains, towns, latitude, longitude, and the like. The school devotes itself to instructing the pupil in these dry details of arts that are used to record systematic knowledge. These conventionalities once learned, the youth has acquired tho art of intellectual self-help; he can, of his own effort, open the door and enter the treasure house of literature and science. Whatever his fellowmen have done and recordled he can now learn by sufficient diligence of his own.
The difference between the part of education, acquired within the family and that acquired in the school is immense, incalculablo. The family arts and trades, manners and customs, habits and beliefs, have formed a sort of close-fitting spiritual vesture, a garment of the soul always worn and expressive of the native character, not so much of tho in lividual as of his tribe or family or community. He, the individual, had from birth been shaped into these things as by a mold; all his thinking and willing and feeling have been molded into the form or type of humanity looked upon as the ideal by his parents and acquaintances.
This close-fitting garment of habit has given him direction, but not self-direction or freedom. He does what he does blindly, from the habit of following custom and doing as others do.


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Tag Archives: Border Security
Democrat presidential candidates propose giving citizenship to millions of illegal immigrants
Net annual cost of illegal immigration to taxpayers
The Democrat position on border security, as we know from that last few months, is that they would prefer that the government be shut down rather than build a wall. One Democrat presidential candidate even wants to give millions more illegal immigrants amnesty. Is there any reason why American taxpayers should be concerned about his plan?
The radically leftist Dallas Morning News reports:
Democratic presidential hopeful Julián Castro on Tuesday unveiled a detailed immigration plan that would offer a path to citizenship for millions of immigrants in the country without authorization.
He's not the only one.
Fox News reports that Robert O'Rourke proposes something similar:
Days after saying he'd support eliminating U.S.-Mexico border barriers, former U.S. Rep. Beto O'Rourke has released a 10-point plan that argues that strict border enforcement encourages illegal immigration and that calls for giving millions of undocumented immigrants a path to citizenship.
[…]During an interview with MSNBC host Chris Hayes, O'Rourke said he would take down the wall between the U.S. and Mexico. Along the nearly 2,000-mile U.S.-Mexico border, there are about 700 miles of fencing.
Byron York writes in the Washington Examiner that the Border Patrol numbers show there is a crisis at the Southern border. Basically, since the Democrats and the courts have blocked Trump's attempts to secure the border and deport illegal aliens. Things are a lot worse at the border than they used to be, even under previous administrations.
Byron writes:
In a matter of months, migrants knew Trump could not stop them from entering the country illegally — and staying.
It should surprise no one that the numbers headed up again, to 396,579 in 2018. Now, crossings have gone through the roof, with 76,103 apprehensions in February of 2019 and 100,000-plus in March, numbers that could have come from the early- and mid-2000s.
And the numbers do not tell the whole story. In the Clinton-Bush years, the overwhelming number of illegal crossers were single, adult men trying to avoid detection as they sneaked across the border. When caught, they were quickly returned. So when 1.2 million were caught crossing, that did not mean that 1.2 million stayed in the United States.
Now, however, the nature of the flow has changed. Today, the large majority of those caught crossing are families and unaccompanied children. They are not trying to sneak in, they are crossing for the purpose of giving themselves over to the Border Patrol. They do that knowing U.S. law forbids them being returned, or separated, or even held for more than a few days. In short order, they are released into the United States.
It seems safe to say that more illegal crossers are staying in the U.S. than in the days of Clinton and Bush.
Well, that's not good.
I thought it would be useful to highlight a couple of stories about law-abiding Americans who have been affected by all of this "compassion" from the Democrat party and their allies on the courts.
Here's one from CBS News Louisiana:
Louisiana Attorney General Jeff Landry has announced the arrest of an undocumented immigrant accused of more than 100 counts of sex crimes.
Miguel Martinez, 44, was arrested on 100 counts of possession of pornography involving juveniles under the age of 13 years old, one count of production under the age of 13, and one count of sexual battery of a juvenile under the age of 13.
[…]Martinez was previously deported in 2005.
He is a registered sex offender in California, Landry said.
Previously deported, and a registered sex offender. I don't think that we should elect a Democrat to give him citizenship.
Here's one from NewJersey.com:
The man charged with raping and strangling a jogger in Jersey City's Lincoln Park had already been deported twice, Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials said.
Jorge Rios, who was identified by ICE officials as Jorge Alberto Rios-Doblado, is from Honduras and "has been removed from the country on two prior occasions, in 2003 and 2004," according to ICE's Enforcement and Removal Operation (ICE-ERO) in Newark. ICE officials also said Rios initially entered the country illegally.
He was deported before? Maybe we should have some sort of deterrent to keep out repeat offenders, like a wall or something?
Look, we have procedures for bringing in skilled immigrants. We should bring in immigrants using those procedures. If people want to come across our border illegally, they should be deported. We shouldn't elect someone who wants to take down border walls and give people who broke the law to come here a path to citizenship.
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My discussion with a woman whose husband was killed by a drunk-driving illegal immigrant
01/10/2019 Wintery Knight	11 Comments
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Before we get to my conversation with my friend whose husband was killed in a car accident when an illegal immigrant with NO driver's license, NO auto insurance, who was intoxicated from alcohol, I wanted to show you a news story that shows how things like this are not so unusual.
Here's the story from the Daily Caller:
A multi-vehicle crash last week that claimed the life of the son of a Knoxville, Tennessee fire department captain was the result of a "chain reaction" begun by an illegal immigrant driving in the wrong lane, investigators said.
Pierce Kennedy Corcoran, 22, the son of Knoxville Fire Department spokesperson Captain D.J. Corcoran, was driving a Honda Civic south on Knoxville's Chapman Highway the evening of December 29 when a Chevrolet pickup truck driven by Franco Cambrany Francisco-Eduardo reportedly veered into their lane and struck the vehicle.
[…]44-year-old Franco Cambrany Francisco-Eduardo, an illegal immigrant, was arrested and charged with criminally negligent homicide as well as having no driver's license or proof of financial responsibility, according to the News Sentinel, and was jailed without bond pending ICE action.
Since Tennessee is NOT a sanctuary state, the criminal will not be released to re-enter the United States illegally, and then commit another crime, and another, and another. This is what would happen in sanctuary states where Democrats govern. Instead, Tennessee handed the killer over to Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
People like to say that most illegal immigrants don't commit violent crimes, but the real conclusion to draw here is that if this illegal immigrant had NOT been in the country, then that 22-year-old son would still be alive for his parents. He shouldn't have been here. We can't control the violent crimes of people who are supposed to be here, but that doesn't mean that we should make things WORSE by letting in people who should not be here.
You can read the statement from the victim's mother here.
It happened to someone I know
A friend of the blog had her husband killed by an illegal immigrant who was driving drunk, without a driver's license. I had a call with her on Wednesday night to find out what happened. The illegal immigrant was driving in the wrong direction in their lane at full speed. Her husband was killed, she went into a coma, and her young child was injured. The illegal immigrant was drunk. He had no driver's license. He had no auto insurance. When they caught him, he was packing his bags to go back to Mexico. And after serving his sentence, he was released without any kind of civil suit against him.
She was not able to get any restitution from the ranch that illegally employed him. She was not able to get any restitution from the strip bar where he became intoxicated before the accident. She was not able to get any restitution from the car dealer who sold him a car without requiring a driver's license and proof of insurance.
After his release, it would be easy for him to re-enter the country illegally, and commit another crime. This happens all the time, for example, in the case of the illegal immigrant who just murdered a legal immigrant policy officer in California. That criminal had been deported FIVE TIMES, but he just kept walking through our border again and again.
I think it is very important to focus on the stories of the law-abiding victims of illegal immigrants who commit crimes. Not all illegal immigrants commit crimes. But all the crimes committed by illegal immigrants could have been deterred by tougher border security.
Whenever I hear Democrat politicians talking about illegal immigration, they are always silent about the law-abiding taxpayers who are impacted by illegal immigration. But those same Democrat politicians who like to spend YOUR money and risk YOUR lives are not liable for restitution if their lax immigration policies cost you your money or your life.
The cost of unskilled immigrants to taxpayers
Even if illegal immigrants don't commit violent crimes, there is still a cost to taxpayers.
The Washington Times reports on the latest numbers from the Census Bureau.
The latest Census Bureau numbers find that more than seven of 10 households headed by immigrants in California, and nearly the same amount in Texas, are on the taxpayer dole.
[…]According to the latest numbers from 2014, fully 63 percent of non-citizens are living off at least one welfare program. That translates into 4.68 million households.
[…]What's most troublesome about the Census findings is the fact that the 63 percent of non-citizens on welfare actually grows to 70 percent for those who stay in-country 10 years or longer — meaning the entitlement mind only solidifies.
Meaning non-citizens on welfare don't tend to get off welfare.
If we want to let in more people from other countries, then we should loosen up our process for admitting skilled immigrants who 1) have a job offer and are continuously employed and 2) pay taxes and 3) follow the law, 4) cannot collect one dime of welfare money, and 5) cannot bring in any relatives through chain migration. We should speed up the process for skilled immigrants to get their permanent residency. At the same time, we should build the wall, implement e-verify, prosecute businesses that hire illegal immigrants to the full extent of the law, and we should cut off all federal money for states that contain sanctuary cities.
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Mainstream media and Democrat politicians silent after illegal immigrant murders police officer
California Police Officer Ronil Singh
Did you hear about the news story of a California police officer being murdered by an illegal immigrant during a traffic stop? Well, if you get your news from left-wing media sources, then you probably didn't. The North American news media had almost nothing to say about it. I only found the story on a British newspaper's web site, the UK Telegraph.
They wrote:
A manhunt has been launched after an illegal immigrant gunman shot dead a California police officer during a traffic stop.
The suspect had been stopped for possible drink driving when he shot the officer, Ronil Singh.
[…]Stanislaus County Sheriff Adam Christianson in California said authorities have identified, but won't yet name the illegal immigrant suspect.
They believed he was still in the area, around 100 miles southeast of San Francisco, and was armed and dangerous.
Sheriff Christianson said: "This suspect is in our country illegally. He doesn't belong here. He is a criminal.
"The sheriff's office will spare no expense in hunting down this criminal."
Fighting back tears the local police chief Randy Richardson said Mr Singh, 33, originally from Fiji, had a newborn son, and was an "American patriot".
The police chief said: "He came to America with one purpose, and that was to serve this country.
[…]"Please remember the man. Yes, he was a police officer, but he was a human being. His five-month old he will never hear talk, he will never see his son walk because a coward took his life."
I just want to remind everyone that it's not just police officers who get murdered in open border / sanctuary city states like California. It's unarmed civilians, too.
Remember the story of Kate Steinle? She was just walking with her family on a pier in San Francisco when an illegal immigrant – who had been deported many times – used an illegal firearm to murder her for no reason at all.
The Miami Herald reported at the time:
It was July 1, 2015, and Kate Steinle was walking with her father on Pier 14 in San Francisco.
But seemingly out of nowhere, a bullet ricocheted off the concrete and struck the unsuspecting 32-year-old in the back, according to NBC News. She died two hours later in a nearby hospital.
On Thursday, a jury found Kate's accused killer, 45-year-old Jose Ines Garcia Zarate, not guilty on charges of murder, assault with a deadly weapon and involuntary manslaughter, The Washington Post reported. Garcia Zarate, a Mexican citizen who has been deported from the United States five times, was found guilty of possessing a weapon as a felon.
The defense argued that Garcia Zarate, a seven-time felon, found the gun, a Sig Sauer P239, on the pier and accidentally fired it when he picked it up, according to KTVU. That same weapon had been stolen four days earlier from an off-duty Bureau of Land Management Ranger's car.
Zarate was acquitted of murder and assault charges against Kate Steinle. That's right. He was ACQUITTED of murder and assault charges. He had been deported FIVE TIMES before this, and convicted of felonies SEVEN TIMES. In my view, every single California leftist should be tried and convicted of murder and assault, for allowing things like this to happen.
Republicans tried to introduce a law to stop killings like this from happening. They called it "Kate's Law". It was supposed to give tougher penalties to illegal immigrants who are deported and then re-enter the country to commit MORE crimes. The bill went up for a vote in the California house, and 166 Democrats voted against "Kate's Law". Only 24 Democrats voted for the law.
DID YOU GET THAT???? 166 DEMOCRATS OUT OF 190 DEMOCRATS VOTED AGAINST A LAW GIVING STRONGER PENALTIES TO ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS WHO ARE DEPORTED, THEN RETURN TO AMERICA, COMMIT MORE CRIMES, AND ARE CAUGHT AND SENTENCED AGAIN.
My purpose in writing about this
I just want to make sure that people understand that when I report on these issues, I am not concerned with the race of the person who does the killing. I am not white myself. I am concerned with the politicians and the news media who do not want to protect law-abiding taxpayers in this country from criminals. If you cross the border illegally, then you are a criminal.
We have ways that allow people to come into the country legally. I am in favor of making it easier for skilled, law-abiding people of all races come into the country legally. I am not in favor of illegal immigrants entering out country and then breaking more laws, while imposing costs on law-abiding taxpayers for welfare, schools, health care, policing, and so on. We need skilled immigrants of every race who want to follow the law, pay taxes, and never collect welfare. But we don't need unskilled illegal immigrants who commit crimes, increase government spending, and collect welfare.
Build. The. Wall.
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Senate Democrats government shutdown puts illegal aliens above our military
01/22/2018 Wintery Knight	Leave a comment
Democrats celebrating shutting down the government for illegal aliens
By now I guess everyone has heard about the Senate Democrats deciding to shut down the government. What's surprising to me about this is why they are choosing to do it, and what it shows about their priorities. Who are they really working for?
Here's Genevieve Wood's article about it at the Daily Signal:
As you may have heard, a government shutdown is looming here in D.C. Many of you out there watching probably think, "So what? That can be a good thing. Less of Washington, fewer bureaucrats telling us what to do and how to spend our money." Those are all good points.
But that is not why Democrats are threatening to shut down the government.
Let's keep in mind this is the same party that is always telling us if we shut down the government, this will be a travesty for millions of Americans, so many government programs and services will be unmet.
But yet they're still willing to do so. Why is that?
Well, it's because their liberal base is demanding that in this election year they put the needs and desires of those who are here in this country illegally before anybody else.
So if you're an American who wants to live in a safe community and wants a safe border, too bad for you. If you're a man or woman serving in our military, sworn to protect us around the world, well, we're just not going to get those funds in that the military may need. And if you're somebody who is not an American citizen but you're standing in line because you, too, want to have a chance at the American dream and you're trying to do it the right way? To all of those folks, Democrats are saying, "Get to the back of the line. "
Democrats don't just want increased illegal immigration, they want chain migration, too. When you allow chain migration, you're not selecting people to come into the country who can speak English, who have college educations, who can perform skills in short supply. Chain migration doesn't require immigrants to speak English or be able to work. It doesn't require anything beyond a family connection.
This article from Real Clear Politics has more:
On this week's Fox News Sunday panel, Heritage Foundation leader Michael Needham clarifies the dispute which led to the government shutdown, explaining that from the start the president has called for an end to chain migration, "this crazy system where people are allowed to bring distant relatives like cousins into the country."
"This is a shutdown over whether or not we could give amnesty to illegal immigrants who are here, and have chain migration allowing them to bring distant relatives. That's not going to work out well in November [for Democrats] if they say they are the party in favor of amnesty and distant relatives," he added.
Countries like Canada and Australia only allow in immigrants who can speak English and who have skills that are in demand, like information technology or medicine. That's the way immigration should work. We shouldn't be bringing in people who will cause the rest of us to have to carry them through life. We should be focused on skilled immigrants, but the Democrats are focused on unskilled immigrants and the family members of those unskilled immigrants.
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Trump administration ends 6-week law enforcement sweep with 1,378 arrests
05/12/2017 Wintery Knight	1 Comment
Under new management, the police are back to law enforcement
This was reported by Fox News.
The Trump administration has concluded a six-week nationwide sweep of suspected gang members with 1,378 arrests — the largest such gang sweep conducted by the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement's Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) to date.
The operation, which ran from March 26 through May 6, targeted gang members and associates involved in transnational criminal activity, including drug trafficking, weapons smuggling, human smuggling, sex trafficking, murder and racketeering.
[…]According to ICE, of the 1,378 total arrested, 933 were U.S. citizens, and 1,095 were confirmed as gang members or affiliates. Also, 104 of those arrested were affiliated with the dreaded MS-13 gang, eight of whom illegally crossed the border as unaccompanied minors.
[…]During the operation, HSI partnered with other law enforcement agencies to seize more than 200 firearms, narcotics like cocaine, methamphetamine, heroin, fentanyl and marijuana and $491,763 in U.S. currency.
Enforcement actions occurred across the nation, but the greatest activity took place in the Houston, New York City, Atlanta and Newark, N.J., areas.
Fox News also reports that illegal immigration is way down under Trump, even before construction of the new wall.
After years of surging immigration from Central America, law enforcement in Texas' Rio Grande Valley are finally seeing some relief, thanks in part to President Trump's strong rhetoric.
[…]"Since January, we have seen a significant decrease in traffic to the point we're averaging about 150 alien apprehensions a day," down from as many as 1,000 a day, according to Deputy Chief Raul Ortiz of the Rio Grande Border Patrol Sector. "A big part of the decrease, I think, has to do with a lot of the discussion about the buildup of infrastructure on the southwest border, more agents along the border and some of the message making its way down to those host countries."
[…]Previously, Central American immigrants turned themselves in, claimed asylum and were released.
In most cases, the Obama Administration accommodated the claim by placing the applicant on a court docket with a two- to three-year waiting list. In the meantime, most illegal immigrants were free to work while living with relatives. Some set down roots by getting married or having American-born children.
President Trump promised to end that 'catch and release' policy, saying "anyone who illegally crosses the border will be detained until they are removed out of our country."
Apparently that message got through thousands of miles away.
Traditionally, the Republican party has been the party of law and order, whereas Democrats are the party of leniency and permissiveness. Republicans like self-defense, Democrats don't. Republicans support victim's rights, but Democrats want to shorten sentences and release criminals. Republicans think that punishing criminals deters future crime, and Democrats think that criminals are just not responsible for their criminal acts.
Here is a story from February 2013, when Obama was still President.
Fox News reports.
The Department of Homeland Security has started releasing hundreds of illegal immigrants held in local jails in anticipation of automatic budget cuts, in a move one Arizona sheriff called politically motivated — and dangerous.
Pinal County Sheriff Paul Babeu said Tuesday that Immigration and Customs Enforcement released more than 500 detainees in his county alone over the weekend. A spokesman for Babeu told FoxNews.com that ICE officials have said they plan to release a total of nearly 10,000 illegal immigrants.
The numbers, though, are in dispute. ICE officials said that it's unclear how many ultimately might be released and that only 303 have been released from four Arizona facilities so far, though all those are in Pinal County. According to ICE, 2,280 detainees are still in custody in those facilities.
Babeu described the move as a "mass budget pardon" and suggested the administration was going to unnecessary lengths to demonstrate the impact of the so-called sequester.
"President Obama would never release 500 criminal illegals to the streets of his hometown, yet he has no problem with releasing them in Arizona. The safety of the public is threatened and the rule of law discarded as a political tactic in this sequester battle," he said.
An ICE spokeswoman confirmed the plans without specifying how many illegal immigrants might be released.
[…]In Arizona, Babeu slammed the move, painting his community as a victim of gridlock in Washington.
"Clearly, serious criminals are being released to the streets of our local communities by this mass budget pardon. These are illegals that even President Obama wants to deport. This is insane that public safety is sacrificed when it should be the budget priority that's safeguarded," he said.
Did any of those criminals who were released go on to commit crimes? Sure. But what do Democrats care about protecting taxpayers from criminals? They always blame the victims of crime, and stand against law-abiding taxpayers.
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'This could finish off buy-to-let': landlords and renters lock horns over no-fault eviction ban
By Adam Williams 13 July 2019 • 10:48am
Renters say that the withdrawal of section 21 will give them greater security Credit: Zhenqing Du
Brandon Taylor has been a landlord in Lowestoft, Suffolk, for 35 years. In that time the sector has been transformed beyond recognition, but now Mr Taylor fears that its future is in doubt.
Earlier this year the Government announced plans to abolish "no-fault" evictions, also known as "section 21" evictions, which give landlords the ability to remove tenants without reason.
The move was welcomed by renters' groups, who argued that it would give tenants greater stability and bring an end to so-called "revenge evictions", where tenants who ask for repairs to be carried out are ordered to leave the property.
Yet Mr Taylor fears that the changes will further cripple the struggling sector and drive out reputable landlords.
If section 21 disappears, landlords will have to use the much longer section 8 process, which requires them to apply to a court before they can take possession of their properties.
Landlords say this will mean rogue tenants can spend months in their properties without paying rent while they are forced to mount an expensive legal case.
Although he said he avoided using section 21 where possible, Mr Taylor said it was crucial that he retained the ability to remove problem tenants quickly.
"The last time I used it was in an antisocial behaviour case," he said. "We had a family in a house and the mother could not control the children. The father of one of the children would turn up late at night, drunk on the doorstep, and that would invariably lead to an altercation and the police would be called."
He said this occurred regularly for two years and he received constant complaints from the neighbours. He evicted the family using section 21 because the section 8 process could have taken months, causing further misery for those involved.
"If you apply for a section 8, you've got a six-week wait for the court hearing and then you need to go in with plenty of evidence," he said. "But neighbours who complain don't necessarily want to go and face the people in court, because they're frightened of reprisals.
"And the police and the council won't share any information with us because of data protection rules. Then we're on our own without the evidence. So the only sure way of getting rid of the antisocial tenant is to use section 21."
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In another case, one of Mr Taylor's properties had a flea infestation caused by a tenant who kept 12 cats in the house, breaking the terms of her lease. The tenant had repeatedly failed to deal with the problem when asked, he said.
"But if we'd taken her to court under section 8, she would have told the judge that she would fix the issue and been allowed to stay in the property," he added.
'The bad old days'
Landlords' pressure groups and renters' organisations have repeatedly locked horns over section 21. Georgie Laming of Generation Rent said she believed the changes would lead to a fairer relationship between tenant and landlord.
"The abolition of section 21 will definitely start to even out the playing field for tenants and landlords," she said. "It will protect tenants from revenge evictions and mean that there are more long-term tenancies where the landlord and the tenant get on well."
But David Smith of the Residential Landlords Association (RLA) said using section 8 was often prohibitively expensive. He said a landlord would need to spend up to £5,000 to evict a problem tenant by taking them to court. This is money that could otherwise have been spent upgrading their properties for the benefit of their tenants, he added.
Mr Smith said the change would force reputable property owners to reduce their investment in the sector or sell up and could see the return of rogue landlords.
"There's a real risk that, by getting rid of section 21, we return to the old days when some of the properties were really bad and some landlords were really unpleasant people," he warned.
Ms Laming argued that, once the threat of a no-fault eviction was removed, tenants would be comfortable remaining in the rental sector for longer.
The Government has proposed the introduction of a new housing court to deal with disputes. Both the RLA and Generation Rent agree that there are already many existing rules that are not being properly enforced by underfunded local authorities. Any court would have to be properly funded to be effective, they said.
As well as the abolition of section 21, landlords are also having to contend with the withdrawal of favourable tax breaks and the imposition of higher stamp duty charges when they buy properties.
Mr Smith urged the Government to reflect on the impact of these changes before introducing further reforms.
"There's a tsunami of changes to legislation and a sense that it is all just piling up and is totally scattershot," he said. "The Government doesn't have a strategy."
Back in Lowestoft, Mr Taylor is renovating one property close to the town's high street. He said he would continue to invest in property for now but believed that few others would be able to.
"I think it's the end of the party for a lot of smaller landlords because they just aren't able to cope with this," he said.
"If section 21 goes and is not replaced with something that allows landlords to take possession of their properties easily, it is going to finish off the sector."
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Description Bob Dylan's Epic song recorded in 1965 has been brought to life into the form of a fine art painting. Every detail has been thoughtfully constructed from the original song lyrics. Not a character or mentioned element has been left out of this one-of- a-kind piece. Notice Bob and his Lady 'look out tonight from Desolation Row'. He still has the letter and the doorknob is his hand from the final verse of the song. Many other elements of Bob Dylan's career have also been represented throughout the art piece. From his crashed Triumph motorcycle to his obvious Heaven's Door depiction. Mr. Tambourine Man and the Diplomat with his Siamese cat on his back, just to name a few. A historical piece of art for any Bob Dylan and Desolation Row fan.
Artist Statement Wet plate collodion is one of the earliest forms of photography. Frederick Scott Archer has been credited with inventing this historic process back in 1848. The process became very popular worldwide but then quickly died off in the 1880's when a more convenient way of taking photographs was invented. In recent years there has been a small revival of the process when a number of contemporary photographers decided to go back to the roots of photography and embrace the old. Making a wet plate can be difficult, timely, costly, unpredictable, and requires a high degree of commitment. The images can be captured on glass (ambrotype) or on metal (tin type). The word Ambrotype is translated in Ancient Greek as "Immortal Impression". Digital photography of today relies on technology, wet plate photography relies on 160 year old chemistry and a bit of magic and some luck.
A wet plate photographer makes a film base on a piece of glass or metal using collodion, submerges it in a silver nitrate solution to make it light sensitive, and then exposes the photograph usually in an old style wood bellows camera box and antique brass lens from the 1800's. The process is called wet plate because during the entire process the chemicals on the plates must remain wet and cannot be allowed to dry. The end result is a one-of-a-kind, archival object of art that will last many lifetimes. There are wet plates of Abraham Lincoln that look just as good today as they did a century and a half ago. It is thought that less than 1000 people worldwide carry on the tradition of wet plate today and most of those individuals are professional photographers at the height of their career. Each and every day the world is filled with millions and millions of digital photographs that have no value, character, significance or physical form, that is not the case with each and every wet plate. The wet plate process is magical and the end result is tangible and precious.


North Carolina artist and DAT favorite, Clair Hartmann was so inspired by Tyler Foote Finds: A Compendium of My Ignorance, she asked for a trade: a print of the installation and a DANK Koan in return for one of her imaginary realism portraits of Footey.
Of course my answer was yes. Clair's portrait of my beloved Darby (1994 - 2011) is one of my treasured possessions, my screen saver, and it was featured in "Modern Dog Magazine."
Visit Clair Hartmann's website to commission a portrait of your pet, either classic or imaginary realism style.
She offers a 25% discount for anyone who works for a non-profit animal rescue and gift certificates for the holidays are available.
Her Chumley Calendar, a celebration of her own pup, is a gorgeous cross-section of her styles. Order it here.
P.S. Watch a brief TED Talk lesson on Alexander von Humboldt, the most famous person you never heard of. Clair's painting may help give him the recognition he deserves.
Now on view at the Blanton Museum of Art at The University of Texas at Austin, In the Company of Dogs and Cats, featuring over 150 works by masters such as Albrecht Dürer, Jean-Honoré Fragonard, William Blake, Francisco Goya, Paul Gauguin, Takahashi Hiroaki (Shotei), Pablo Picasso, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Edward Hopper, Louise Bourgeois, and others.
The museum is keeping most of the included works out of the press, but shared L'Artisan Moderne Poster by Henri Toulouse-Lautrec. I've never seen it before. Wonder what other dog-art treasures they have? If you go, let me know.
Exhibition runs until September 21, 2014.
Visit Blanton Museum of Art for more information.
This Portrait of Colonel John Bullock by Thomas Gainsborough will be auctioned at Christie's Old Masters and British Paintings Sale in London on July 5. It is estimated to sell for $5,596,500 - $7,995,000.
I thought it only fair to include some Redcoat dog-love before I feature early American dog art tomorrow in honor of our Revolution.
I did extensive research for the Saint Roch post on the November 1. So I was surprised to find another portrait of Saint Roch by Giovanni Battista Tiepolo at the Philadelphia Museum of Art. While I don't consider this a great work of dog art, I think it is interesting as a Tiepolo, a Venetian artist famous for his dramatic Baroque style. And the disembodied head of the dog speaks to composition challenges all dog artists face.
The Philadelphia Museum of Art has an excellent website that makes searching a pleasure, not always the case with art institutions. Click here to view their collections.


When treating bronchitis with traditional or traditional medicine, it is important to understand that the cause of the disease can be an infection that has entered the body from the outside or brought by blood, lymph from the nasopharynx, sinuses, from unhealthy teeth. Inflammation can also occur as a result of allergies to flowers, tobacco, and other irritating mucous substances.
When you inhale, the air first appears in the nose. There, cleared of large particles of dust and warmed up, it passes through the larynx and trachea, located in front of the esophagus. In the chest, the trachea is divided into two bronchus, left and right, each connected to the corresponding lung. There the bronchial tubes become smaller and form the so-called bronchial tree, the number of terminal branches of which is about 25 million. Their mucous membranes are sticky and moist from the inside to effectively trap street dust and dirt.
Only a pulmonologist can professionally understand the types of the disease. But even a layman, it is useful to know the basic forms that millions in the world suffer from.
Getting rid of bronchitis occurs by the body. This form affects adults and children. As a rule, the diagnosis is made in the presence of cough, observed no longer than three weeks. It is important to eliminate the symptoms of pneumonia and other chronic diseases, which are also accompanied by cough.
After treatment with drugs at home or in the hospital, lung function is fully restored.
This form of pulmonary disease is also treatable. It is characterized by spasm, squeezing, narrowing of the bronchi, which is why mucus cannot come out. Edemas form in the airways, which is why the lungs are ventilated much worse, it becomes difficult for the patient to breathe. More common in children under three years.
As a rule, the causes of the disease are associated with long-term exposure to external factors that irritate the bronchial mucosa (dust, tobacco smoke). Or is it the result of repeated illness.
The need to treat the chronic form is associated not only with inflammation of the mucous membranes, but a change in the bronchi themselves. They are narrowed and deformed.
The patient usually has a cough of three or more months during the year, repeated for at least two years. The cough is worse in the morning, at which time it is deep and deaf. The temperature hardly rises.
This type of bronchitis is treated with traditional or traditional medicine, but healing is slow.
At the initial stage, the disease is easy to confuse with a cold. But then a lot of mucus forms in the bronchi, causing lung ventilation to deteriorate. There is a need to cough.
Initially, the cough is quite dry because it is caused by an inflammatory process in the airways. Then a light yellow sputum begins to stand out. During cough, it may start to hurt especially badly in the upper part of the lungs, and the temperature often rises.
It is characterized by a long expiration, accompanied by a whistle, dry wheezing and the need to use the auxiliary muscles during breathing. Periodically intense cough gives way to the weak. Body temperature values may fluctuate.
A cough with sputum appears. This happens every year, and every year more intense. The amount of sputum formed is significantly greater than with the acute form. Sputum causes the need to cough.
If the bronchi continue to be under the action of irritating substances, they constantly experience scarring and inflammation. Over time, breathing becomes more difficult.
Among various physiotherapeutic methods – mustard plasters, wraps and electric procedures – inhalations are shown at home. It is an inexpensive and, in addition, effective home remedy for treating bronchitis. Inhalations are used in case of exacerbations or for prophylaxis.
Perform inhalation with caution. The procedure is contraindicated in diseases of the heart, pneumonia, high blood pressure.
Home inhalations can be carried out over steam or water. Steam inhalations are contraindicated for children, especially the smallest ones, as they can cause a mucosal burn. Children are allowed to breathe only over the composition, heated to 30-40C.
Inhalations for bronchitis are carried out with the addition of mucolytics that dilute sputum, as well as expectorant drugs. You can breathe over heated alkaline water, anise or eucalyptus oil. The duration of inhalation 3-5 minutes, the medical procedure is performed several times a day.
More effective inhalation can be carried out using a nebulizer. Its use allows penetration of expectorant and phlegm-thinning substances into the lower respiratory tract, which enhances the therapeutic effect.
In a number of models, the inhaled substance is negatively charged so that it penetrates better into the lower part of the lungs. Some models are equipped with a special mask that allows you to breathe moist heat, not only sitting, but also lying down.
Despite the temptation of self-application of certain folk remedies, first of all it is necessary to see a doctor.
While the bronchi are enlarged, formulations containing thyme or its essential oils are beneficial. Thyme is especially effective in case of bronchial obstruction; it relieves and soothes. It becomes easier for the patient to expectoration, which is why the bronchi are intensively relieved of mucus. It is important that the plant has bactericidal activity.
The chronic form is treated with a popular recipe: insist on vodka yarrow for one or two weeks at the rate of 30 g of grass per 100 g of vodka. Take 30-40 drops 3-4 times a day.
One of the causes of the disease is smoking. Therefore, to start the fight against the disease is to give up the habit. In addition, various vitamins are indicated.