The CommuniGate Pro Server can use external programs to implement various operations - message scanning, user authentication, RADIUS login policies, etc. All these external programs are handled in the same way, and they communicate with the Server using a simple Helper Interface protocol.
See the System Administration section to learn how to specify the Helper programs to use.
The checkbox next to the Helper name tells the Server to start the specified program	as a separate OS process.
Use this setting to specify the type of information the Helper support module should put in the Server Log. Each Helper uses its own tag for its Log record.
The file name (path) of the Helper program. If a relative path is specified, it should be relative to the CommuniGate Pro base directory.
If the first setting symbol is $, then the rest of the setting string should be a path relative to the CommuniGate Pro application directory.
If the Helper program does not send a response within the specified period of time, the program is stopped.
If the Helper program stops, and this option is disabled, all pending requests are rejected. If the Helper program stops when this option is enabled, the Server waits for the specified period of time, restarts the Helper Program and re-sends the requests to it.
When the Helper program is launched, the Server sends commands to the Helper process via the process standard input. The Server reads the program responses from the process standard output.
Commands and responses are text lines, ending with the EOL symbol(s) used in the Server OS.
Each command starts with a sequence number, and the response produced with the Helper program starts with the same number. This method allows the Helper program to process several requests simultaneously, and it can return responses in any order.
The Helper program can send information responses at any time. An information response starts with the asterisk (*) symbol. The Server ignores information responses, but they can be seen in the Server Log.
The response lines generated with a Helper program should not be larger than 4096 bytes.
Note: communication between the Server and an Helper program takes place via OS pipes, and many programming libraries buffer output data sent to pipes. Check that your Helper program uses some form of the flush command after it sends a response to its standard output, otherwise the response will not reach the Server.
Helper programs are started with the CommuniGate Pro base directory as their current directory.
Helper programs should not write anything to their standard error streams, unless they want to report a reason for the failure before quitting. CommuniGate Pro reads the program standard error stream only after the program has terminated, and if the program writes into that stream while processing Server commands, the program will be suspended by the OS when the standard error pipe buffer is full.
The Helper program should return the INTF response and the supported protocol version.
If the returned number is smaller than the Server protocol version, the Server will use this (older) protocol version.
When the Server shuts down or when it needs to stop the Helper program, it sends the QUIT command, and then closes the process standard input. The Helper program should send the OK response and it should quit within 5 seconds.
The sample above shows that the Server does not wait for a response before it sends the next command, and that it can accept responses for several pending commands in any order - as long as each command receives a response within the specified time limit.
External Authenticator programs can be used to provide authentication, provisioning, and routing services using external data sources.
The External Authenticator Interface protocol is based on the generic Helper Protocol.
This manual describes the External Authenticator Interface Version 11.
the name of the service (IMAP, POP, FTP, etc.) that requested this authentication operation.
This parameter can be absent if the request has been received from an unnamed Server component.
If the service name is specified, it is enclosed into the parenthesis.
password string to verify. If the password contains special symbols, the password is encoded as a quoted String.
the network address from which the user logs in.
This parameter can be absent if the password is checked by an internal Server component.
If the parameter is specified, it is enclosed into square brackets.
the challenge string sent to the client mailer. If the challenge contains special symbols, it is encoded as a quoted String.
I: 00013 VRFY (IMAP) user2@domain2.com "jskj23\"45"
The External Authentication program can be used to retrieve plain text passwords from external databases.
the full name (address) of the target Account.
If the program cannot retrieve the plain text password, it should return the FAILURE response.
The External Authentication program can be used to process unknown names, too. For example, the program can consult an external database, check if the user exists in that database, create an Account, Alias, Group, Mailing List, or Forwarder using the CommuniGate Pro CLI/API, and return a positive response to the Server. In this case, CommuniGate Pro will re-try to open a Domain object with the specified name.
[ACCESS] if the command is sent as a part of access-type routing process.
the full name (address) of the unknown local object.
If the program sends the OK response, the Server tries to find the name object in the domain Domain again.
If the program sends the ROUTED address response, the Server takes the supplied address response and restarts the Router procedure with this address. The routed address gets a "can Relay" attribute, unless it is specified with the [NORELAY] prefix.
If the program sends the FAILURE response, the Server Router returns a "temporary internal error" code (this code causes the SMTP module to return a 4xx error code, not a permanent 5xx error code).
If the program sends any other response, the Server Router returns the "unknown user account" error.
The Consult External for Unknown Domain Setting tells the Server to use the External Authenticator program when an unknown name is addressed.
the local part of the address with the external domain part.
If the program sends the ROUTED address response, the Server takes the supplied address response and restarts the Router procedure with this address. The routed address gets a "can Relay" attribute if the address is specified with the [RELAY] prefix.
If the program sends any other response, the Server Router returns the "cannot route the address" error.
If this operation fails, the Account is not created.
If this operation fails, the newly created Account is removed.
If this operation fails, the Account is not renamed.
If this operation fails, the renamed Account is renamed back.
If this operation fails, the Account is not removed.
If this operation fails, the Account License Class is not changed.
If this operation fails, the Account settings are not updated.
If this operation fails, the Account password is not updated.
The password is one of Account settings, so the PREUPDATE command will follow this one.
authAccount is the name of the Account performing the provisioning operation. If it is not known, this account name and the square brackets surrounding it are omitted.
The program should either send an OK response,	or a FAILURE "errorCode" response.
External Message Filter programs are used for content filtering (anti-virus and anti-spam filtering).
The External Filter Interface protocol is based on the generic Helper Protocol.
This section describes the External Filter protocol version 4.
where fileName is the name of the file the program should scan.
header-field-text is a text string to be added to the message header. It should contain one or several RFC822/RFC2822 header fields.
This (optionally multi-line) header field text should be placed into the response line using the String format.
address is a text string to mirror the message to.
The string should contain exactly one E-mail address. To mirror the message to several addresses, use several MIRRORTO modifiers.
The address text should be placed into the response line using the String format.
This modifier is supported when the Filter is used in Server-wide and Cluster-wide Rules only.
address is a text string to add to the message "route set", i.e. to the list of addresses this message is to be delivered to.
The string should contain exactly one E-mail address. To add several addresses, use several ADDROUTE modifiers.
where report is a text string explaining why the message is rejected.
This (optionally multi-line) text should be placed into the response line in the CommuniGate Pro String format.
where report is a text string explaining why the message processing should be postponed.
If the program has sent the FAILURE response or any unlisted response, the Server places a record into its Log and proceeds as if it has received the OK response.
The program SHOULD be ready to process several requests simultaneously (using several threads). Since the External Filter program is used with the Server-Wide Rules (processed with the Enqueuer Server component), the program should be ready to handle N concurrent requests, when N is the number of Enqueuer "processors" (threads).
The program MAY be implemented as a single-threaded one, so it reads the next request only after the previous request has been processed. But this design can result in severe performance degradation of the entire Server: when a single-threaded External Filter program is scanning a large message, other messages are not being enqueued.
If the external program crashes, CommuniGate Pro suspends the Enqueuer process until the external program is restarted.
External RADIUS programs can be used to provide additional checks for authentication operations performed via the RADIUS module, as well as to add additional attributes into RADIUS responses.
The External RADIUS Interface protocol is based on the generic Helper Protocol.
This manual describes the External RADIUS Interface Version 2.
a dictionary with all request attributes.
a dictionary with the Account settings.
a dictionary with the attributes to be added to the RADIUS response.
a dictionary with request attributes.
The attributes in dictionaries should use the attribute type numeric values as keys (for example 27 for Session-Timeout).
NAS-Port, Service-Type, Framed-Protocol, Framed-Routing, Framed-MTU, Framed-Compression, Login-Service, Login-TCP-Port, Framed-IPX-Network, Session-Timeout, Idle-Timeout, Termination-Action, Framed-AppleTalk-Link, Framed-AppleTalk-Network, Event-Timestamp, NAS-Port-Type, Port-Limit, ARAP-Zone-Access, Password-Retry, Prompt, Tunnel-Type, Tunnel-Medium-Type, Tunnel-Preference, Acct-Interim-Interval, Acct-Delay-Time, Acct-Input-Octets, Acct-Output-Octets, Acct-Authentic, Acct-Session-Time, Acct-Input-Packets, Acct-Output-Packets, Acct-Terminate-Cause, Acct-Link-Count, Acct-Input-Gigawords, Acct-Output-Gigawords.
User-Name, User-Password, CHAP-Password, State, Proxy-State, EAP-Message, Message-Authenticator, Acct-Status-Type.
All other attribute values are encoded either as a String or as DataBlocks. The Server uses the DataBlocks format for those attribute values that contain bytes outside the hexadecimal 0x20-0x7F range.
The DataBlock format must be used if the value contains binary zero bytes.
If an attribute has multiple values, the attribute value is encoded as an Array.
a string value with the RADIUS module "shared secret" setting.
a 16-byte DataBlock containing the "authentication data" portion of the RADIUS request.
The Vendor-specific attributes are presented using keys with negative numeric values. The key absolute value is the "VendorID" value. For each VendorID, the associated element is a dictionary. This dictionary keys are Vendor-specific "vendor types", with associated "specific attributes". The "specific attributes" values can be stored as String, DataBlocks, Number, or Arrays of Strings, DataBlocks, and/or Numbers.
Note: the Server can send several concurrent requests for the same target Account.
Note: the External RADIUS program is called when the target Account is open. In a Dynamic Cluster system this means that External RADIUS programs should run on backend servers, and that External RADIUS programs running on different backend servers will never get requests for the same Account at the same time.
External CDR Processor programs can be used to process CDRs (Call Detail Records) generated with the Signal component when a call is attempted, established, or tiered down. They can also process CDR records generated with CG/PL applications.
The External CDR Processor Interface protocol is based on the generic Helper Protocol.
This manual describes the External CDR Processor Interface Version 1.
If the External CDR Processor program is enabled, the Signal module generated CDRs and sends them to the program.
CDR data in the Signal component format or in the CG/PL Application format.
External Load Balancer programs are used to control software load balancers for the Dynamic Cluster installations. These programs should be installed and enabled on all Cluster members that can act as load balancers. For each "balancing groups" the Cluster Controller selects one of the available load balancers and activates it, while other load balancers work in the "backup" mode.
The External Load Balancer Interface protocol is based on the generic Helper Protocol.
This manual describes the External Load Balancer Interface Version 1.
Two sets of Network IP addresses. The first one lists all currently available cluster members, the second list - all currently disabled (but running) cluster members. Each set may contain zero or more addresses, separated with the comma (,) symbol. Each address is the "Server WAN IPv4 Address" of the cluster member, as specified in its Network Settings.
the current "Server WAN IPv4 Address" Network Setting of this Server.
External Application Helper programs can be used to provide CG/PL applications with arbitrary data..
The External Application Helper Interface protocol is based on the generic Helper Protocol.
This manual describes the External Application Helper Interface Version 1.
the request data from the application, which may be a string, array, dictionary or datablock.
the text presentation of the response data.
I: 00010 REQ "What time is it?"
If the External Application Helper program is not running, any request immediately produces an empty response.
External Banner System programs can be used to provide XIMSS and other clients with "banner" data (advertising information that a client presents to the user).
The External Banner System Interface protocol is based on the generic Helper Protocol.
This manual describes the External Banner System Interface Version 1.
if the banner type string specified with the client application (specifies the client application and its banner type, for example: prontoEmailTop, myClientLeftBanner).
full name of the Account requesting a banner.
(optional) the BannerInfo Account Setting value.
(optional) the BannerClass Account Preference value.
(optional) the text presentation of the parameter object specified with the client application.
the text presentation of the banner info.
The specified bannerType is added to the list of "blocked" types. If any client requests a banner of a "blocked" type, an empty response is returned immediately, without calling the External Banner System program.
If the External Banner System program is not running, any banner request immediately produces an empty response.


So after careful examination and assessment and hiring a mega consultancy firm, it has been decided that both the SailingHemispheres and LukenIO wordpress sites will be consolidated into Luken.Org leveraging categories. You'er not going to believe what you're about to read but life is more than just sailing and I want my blog to reflect all the important things in my life from sailing, technology, music, work, travels and the typical and patented Tony Rants. Merging wordpress sites with varying posts and the associted media is not as simple as export>>import as I've learned. Duplicate media filenames are a pain and until I can get it all cleaned up, you'll see some posts with images that don't match the posts. Actually humourous in it's own right.
I m experimenting with page cateories to click on the top level of interest and see only those posts. If anyone knows how to redirect the default URL to a category page, that would be awesome. Can't seem to figure that one out as of yet.
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CCMBA presented its award to Cynthia Thorne-Carter, CCMBA Vice President.
The Calvert County Minority Business Alliance would like to congratulate the Women of the World (WOW) Awardees – Congratulations!
CCMBA presented its award to Cynthia Thorne-Carter, CCMBA Vice President and President and CEO of SMART Ride, Inc. for dedication and outstanding service to the community and businesses.


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Q: How to return two things inside a python 3 function? I'm trying to turn my Caesar Cypher code into an exe file, and I did. But the problem I'm having is that it immediately closes once it finishes, so I can't even see the encrypted text. I've thought of adding an input like "press 1 to repeat"  so I'm turning the whole asking for user input thing into its own function that can be looped, but it has to return the encrypted message and its key.
Is there a way of returning one string value and a list, inside one function?

A: Yes, Python supports multiple return values for functions by separating the return values with commas. e.g.,
def foo():

    return 1, 2, 3

a, b, c = foo()

Where printing a, b, and c respectively gives the following:
>>> print(a)
1
>>> print(b)
2
>>> print(c)
3

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When I first started writing this blog, I acquired my own name as the domain. Then I kept the blogger subdomain codesum.blogspot.com when I started learning to code and the blog got technical with me. Finally last year, I found the perfect phrase that describes all the topics I want to write about Silicon Valley in its ego and adrenaline filled form: Silicon Vanity. Last year, I did what a Stanford graduate would want to do: I incorporated my startup, founded a Saas company and moved into Westfield lab (the luxurious downtown retail location) BESPOKE, a startup working office. Less than a year later, I found myself already late for my first tax season and a tax bill of $60,000 from Delaware alone. Above is my half hearted deck describing my emotional roller coaster preparing tax forms and lessons learnt today.


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Q: JDBC - ORACLE Connection Timeout parameter for Sqoop I am trying to set the timeout value(100 sec) for the JDBC connect URL. I thought of using ?param=value in the JDBC connection string for Sqoop, but I get errors like:
ERROR manager.SqlManager: Error executing statement: java.sql.SQLException:  NL Exception was generated
        java.sql.SQLException: NL Exception was generated
        at oracle.jdbc.driver.SQLStateMapping.newSQLException(SQLStateMapping.java:70)
        at oracle.jdbc.driver.DatabaseError.newSQLException(DatabaseError.java:133)
I am using the below syntax:
    sqoop import --connect jdbc:oracle:thin:@<ip address>:<port>/<service-name>?oracle.net.CONNECT_TIMEOUT=100 --username <username>

A: You should use the so-called long format URL to be able to set extra parameters. For example if you want to set the connection timeout to 10 seconds, please try:
sqoop import --connect jdbc:oracle:thin:@(DESCRIPTION=(CONNECT_TIMEOUT=10)(ADDRESS_LIST=(ADDRESS=(PROTOCOL=tcp)(HOST=<ip address>)(PORT=<port>)))(CONNECT_DATA=(SERVICE_NAME=<service-name))) --username <username>


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Q: Grails: What is the difference between using actionName and pageScope.actionName inside taglibs? In my company's codebase I'm seeing pageScope.actionName being used. Is it safe to droppageScope?
Update:
I am interested in knowing whether actionName is a late addition to the framework that makes pageScope.actionName obsolete.
Update 2:
Here is how it is used in one taglib:
def url = "/${pageScope.controllerName}/${attrs.action}"

A: Without any further context it's difficult to say definitively, but in general, yes it's safe.

A: pageScope. As for the usage in your company code, I guess it depends on how long ago it was written. Referring to docs in 2010 like: grails_pagescope_variable_in_gsps_and_taglibraries and overriding-plugin-templates-in-grails-application there are a few more around people were using it then, can't comment on if it was essential back then.


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This innovative text explores the unprecedented changes in the realms of politics, demography, economics, culture, knowledge, and kinship that women have brought about in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Global in reach, the book provides a comparative analysis of developments worldwide to show both progress as well as new tensions and forms of inequality that have emerged out of women's entry into politics, wage employment, education, and the production of culture. Beginning with suffrage and moving to participation in international movements—such as anti-war, labor, and environmental rights activism—Maria Bucur explores how women have transformed the operation of states and international institutions. She focuses on the radical demographic shifts since 1900 through the prism of changing practices in women's sexuality, from birth control practices to education. Examining the continuing economic gender gap around the world, Bucur highlights ways women have been both beneficiaries of new economic opportunities and participants in developing new forms of inequality. Considering the remarkable achievements of women in the areas of knowledge making and cultural production, the author shifts her gaze toward the future and what these changes mean in terms of gender norms and evolving kinship relations. She thus presents a new perspective on contemporary world history, centered on how women have become both the subjects and objects of seismic shifts in the political, social, and economic structures of societies across the globe. « less more »
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— European History Quarterly
Maria Bucur's brilliant book not only challenges the masculine bias in popular history, it provides an essential international perspective on one of the most significant of social revolutions of our time: the global women's movement. Her informed and uplifting work should be required reading for anyone disheartened by the growth of contemporary misogyny. Bucur reminds us that things can change despite the resistance of the most reactionary political opponents.
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Encyclopedic in scope and bold in its conception, The Century of Women sets out to show that the changes of the twentieth century 'can be fully grasped only by analyzing how women have been both the subject and object of these major shifts, from an unprecedented set of new rights to new cultural norms, and overall greater agency as a category of humans.' The Century of Women succeeds admirably. It is a book every woman will want to read. Indeed, it is a book whose time has come!
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Offers a thematic, comparative approach to gender history.
Provides broad quantitative data and rich case studies.
Includes mini-biographies of prominent women from around the world.
This innovative text explores the unprecedented changes in the realms of politics, demography, economics, culture, knowledge, and kinship that women have brought about in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Global in reach, the book provides a comparative analysis of developments worldwide to show both progress as well as new tensions and forms of inequality that have emerged out of women's entry into politics, wage employment, education, and the production of culture. Beginning with suffrage and moving to participation in international movements—such as anti-war, labor, and environmental rights activism—Maria Bucur explores how women have transformed the operation of states and international institutions. She focuses on the radical demographic shifts since 1900 through the prism of changing practices in women's sexuality, from birth control practices to education. Examining the continuing economic gender gap around the world, Bucur highlights ways women have been both beneficiaries of new economic opportunities and participants in developing new forms of inequality. Considering the remarkable achievements of women in the areas of knowledge making and cultural production, the author shifts her gaze toward the future and what these changes mean in terms of gender norms and evolving kinship relations. She thus presents a new perspective on contemporary world history, centered on how women have become both the subjects and objects of seismic shifts in the political, social, and economic structures of societies across the globe.

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Oscar Shortlist For Docs Is Anything But
Get this: the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences' shortlist for the Best Documentary category is fifteen films long. Fifteen! Sort of makes you question the entire use of the phrase "shortlist", especially given that their other shortlists are, you know, actually short. We can chalk this up to some pretty significant rules changes to qualification in that particular area, instituted by the Academy this year. It's not unusual for the AMPAS to alter or fine-tune the rules for submission and eligibility year to year– as the culture of film ebbs, flows, and otherwise changes, it's likely a necessity, else the Academy is just fickle– but as Deadline reports, this year's modifications to the documentary contest are more significant than any they've made in recent memory:
Instead of relying on four smaller committees of branch members to each view 12 or more docs and assign a score, the entire branch will now use a preferential voting system (the same used to choose best picture) in order to create a shortlist of 15 titles, and later five nominees. All Academy members who have seen all five nominees will choose the winner. In terms of qualifying, a doc must play seven days in a theater in Los Angeles and New York for at least two shows a day between noon and 10 p.m., be clearly advertised in three major newspapers in the area, and even more significantly, it must be reviewed by a legitimate critic in either the Los Angeles Times or New York Times. Previously, films could qualify by sneaking in unadvertised runs that were so stealth critics were never informed the film was playing. One reason some distributors used this method was so they could qualify the doc without upsetting any future distribution plans.
(Source: Deadline)
It turns out that the changes, intended to reduce the number of overall entries and promote greater visibility to higher-profile, popular documentaries while also hamstringing TV docs from cluttering the field, actually had the opposite effect. But not to worry– the shortlist is still chock-full of great documentaries, and may shed a more charitable light on Michael Moore's campaign to lend credibility to the documentary race. See the shortlist below:
BEVERLY HILLS, CA – The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences today announced that 15 films in the Documentary Feature category will advance in the voting process for the 85th Academy Awards®. One hundred twenty-six pictures had originally qualified in the category.
The 15 films are listed below in alphabetical order by title, with their production companies:
"Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry," Never Sorry LLC
"Bully," The Bully Project LLC
"Chasing Ice," Exposure
"Detropia," Loki Films
"Ethel," Moxie Firecracker Films
"5 Broken Cameras," Guy DVD Films
"The Gatekeepers," Les Films du Poisson, Dror Moreh Productions, Cinephil
"The House I Live In," Charlotte Street Films, LLC
"How to Survive a Plague," How to Survive a Plague LLC
"The Imposter," Imposter Pictures Ltd.
"The Invisible War," Chain Camera Pictures
"Mea Maxima Culpa: Silence in the House of God," Jigsaw Productions in association with
Wider Film Projects and Below the Radar Films
"Searching for Sugar Man," Red Box Films
"This Is Not a Film," Wide Management
"The Waiting Room," Open'hood, Inc.
The Documentary Branch viewed the eligible documentaries for the preliminary round of voting. Documentary Branch members will now select the five nominees from among the 15 titles on the shortlist. The 85th Academy Awards nominations will be announced live on Thursday, January 10, 2013, at 5:30 a.m. PT in the Academy's Samuel Goldwyn Theater.
(Source: Deadline, again)
You might guess that I'm personally rooting for Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry based on the image at the top of the article (not to mention the fact that I loved the heck out of it*), but a number of these– The Invisible War, Searching For Sugar Man, and 5 Broken Cameras— are quite good in their own right, to say nothing of how much love How to Survive a Plague and Detropia have gotten. Which docs are you hoping will make the cut this year? Any personal favorites on the shortlist?
*It's also on Netflix Instant, so you have no excuse to not see it.
Academy Awardsai weiwei: never sorryAMPASBest DocumentaryOscar Shortlist
By Andrew Crump
Video Interview…'Locke' Writer/Director Steven Knight
Sam Mendes Confirmed to Direct 24th James Bond Film
Off the Netflix Queue…'God Bless America'
The Warning Sign
I haven't seen most of these, but I'm glad that The Imposter is included. That movie surprised the hell out of me… one of my favorites from this year.
Never Sorry is highly recommended. In fairness I haven't seen most of these either, but the ones I outline in the article are pretty damn good.
I'd love to see The Imposter. I've heard great things.


How to make a Voice Recorder?
I want to make a voice recorder using an MCU(8051 or PIC). The recording time doesn't matter at this time. I just want to learn how to digitalize inputted voice by a microphone and write it to internal RAM. And after this I want to learn how to make it voice again from 1s and 0s format and send it to speaker.
http://www.romanblack.com/picsound.htm gives a good guide to encoding sounds on a PC and playing back on a PIC.
will end up with data that you have no idea as to whether it is correct or not.
An alternative approach is to look at recognising speech rather than recording it.
I bet you could whip up a program to generate your desired waveforms in less than an hour.
Remark2: It seems wasteful to put these files website, as they could be rather large, and they are easily generated.Get a copy of the old shareware program Cool Edit 96 or similar program (such as Goldwave). You can download it and generate everything you could want in less than an hour, with no programming.
AVR-Source liegt auch in dem Verzeichnis. Die Kompression hab ich in Java geschrieben, der Source ist mom aber totales Chaos.
Prinzip ist Audio-Signal 8 khz/4bit/mono -> PCM auf 3 Bit -> RLE -> Huffman 2.Ordnung. Den Arithmetischen Coder hab ich in Java noch hinbekommen, das Gegenstück in AVR-Assembler hab ich sein lassen.
Sind knapp 5 Sekunden, paßt komprimiert mit Dekompressor und Software zum Abspielen gerade eben in die 8 KB rein. Das hab ich vor der Vorlesung Digitale Audiosignalverarbeitung gebastelt, heute würd ich das wohl anders machen.
http://www.atmel.com/dyn/resources/prod_documents/doc1456.pdf Application Note von Atmel "AVR335: Digital Sound Recorder with AVR and DataFlash"
http://www.the4cs.com/~corin/cse477/toaster/ The Talking Toaster Speech recognition, using the HM2007 speech chip. Speech playback, using ISD's ISD 1000A chip. Microcontroller system control, via Motorola's MC68HC11 microC. Appendix E of the Final Report is the microcontroller code, TOS v1.6e2. It is also available as a .asm file separately. An old toaster. Servo motor. Plain and simple ingenious engineering.
http://ogloton.free.fr/fiches_techniques/connecteurs_son.html Connecteurs magnétophones DIN , peritel, etc..


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England Boxing National Schools Championships 2019 – Pinewood's 22, led by 'Superman' RJ, going for glory
May 10, 2019 | by Matt Halfpenny
Pinewood Starr ABC believe they may have set a new record for the number of boxers who have made it through to the quarter-finals or better of the England Boxing National Schools Championships, with no less than 22 boxers into the final eight of their respective categories.
The Berkshire-based club have always been renowned for producing high-quality young boxers, but are delighted to have so far lost only one of the boxers they entered into the tournament, with all 10 boxers who boxed in the pre quarter-finals coming through their bouts.
It means no less than 19 of their number will compete for the right to contest semi-finals at the K2 in Crawley on Saturday 18th May, with the finals to follow 24 hours later.
They will take on Eastern Counties boxers at Sudbury this weekend in a host of weights at Cadet, Class A and Class B level.
Three more Pinewood boxers have already made it through to the semi-final stage.
"As a club, the team spirit this year is electric," said club coach Roger Draper. "The support is fantastic, with the boys' coaches and parents really pulling together.
"We're looking to break our record of eight and possibly secure the record for most ever Schools champions in a single championship. The boys have set their goals high and hope to achieve their dreams."
The Pinewood boxers are: Jake Jenkins (Cadet 30kg), Emal Hamdan (Cadet 34kg), John Valler (Cadet 42kg), Mason Butcher (Cadet 44kg), Joey Saunders (Class A 30kg), Alfie Tierney (Class A 38.5kg), Francie Doherty (Class A 40kg), Micheal Smith (Class A 41.5kg), Tim O'Leary (Class A 43kg), Joe Cooper (Class A 48kg), Samir Hamdan (Class A 52kg), Felix Fitzharris (Class B 34kg), Khurram Alishan (Class B 35.5 kg), Johnny Fitzharris (Class B 37kg, through to finals draw), Paddy Ward (Class B 38.5kg), Chase Loveridge (Class B 40kg), Caleb Price (Class B 46kg), Mason Orchard (Class B 48kg),
Harry-James Wilson (Class B 56kg, through to finals draw), Tony Scott (Class B 59kg), Lias Butcher (Class B 65kg) and RJ Draper (Class B 68kg, through to finals draw).
One of the Pinewood number who has done particularly well to put himself in contention for national honours is Draper's son RJ.
An England Boxing National Schools champion in May 2017, he suffered a life-threatening accident in November of that year, three days before a selection camp in Sheffield for the European Schools Championships.
The youngster was hit by a van driving at 50mph and was put into intensive care, where we had to undergo surgery on both legs.
A CT scan also found a tumour that was thought to be cancerous, meaning he was then admitted to the Royal Marsden Hospital, where thankfully he was given the all clear.
However, he remained bedridden for two months after his accident and also spent a spell in a wheelchair before gradually starting to walk again.
Nobody thought he would box again, but RJ has defied the odds to return to Pinewood, lose 3½ stones and begin to compete once more.
After missing last year's Schools Championships, he now hopes to land his second title in Crawley.
Draper senior added: "RJ is a true inspiration to any young teenager who has suffered injuries to never to give up on your dreams. Through hard work and dedication, anything is possible if you believe in yourself.
"RJ was nicknamed 'Superman' in the Royal St George's Hospital London for his remarkable recovery and he has been a huge inspiration to his club mates who visited him in hospital."
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By Mike Soraghan, E&E News reporter, May 26, 2020
Federal pipeline inspectors didn't like what they found when they looked at construction of the Permian Express pipeline.
Unqualified welders were fusing the pipe together in central Texas, using unapproved methods. Regulators with the Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration (PHMSA) were alarmed enough in May 2016 to seek a $1.3 million fine against the builder, a subsidiary of Energy Transfer Partners LP.
Company attorneys, though, said the pipe was sound and the problems flagged by PHMSA were "insignificant deviations."
Four months later, the new pipeline leaked more than 33,000 gallons of oil through a hole next to a weld. It took crews 12 days to find the leak.
It was one of 349 leaks, spills and other accidents since 2012 on pipelines operated by Energy Transfer and its subsidiaries.
That record could signal trouble ahead for Energy Transfer's most famous project, the Dakota Access pipeline. The company's accident history has taken on renewed importance after U.S. District Judge James Boasberg in March ordered a broad review of the pipeline giant's performance on safety and the environment.
His order was part of long-running litigation with tribes who oppose Dakota Access. Boasberg might even shut down the line while the review is done. His decision on whether he'll let it keep operating should come sometime after tomorrow, when briefs are due before the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia (Energywire, March 26).
Energy Transfer's Sunoco subsidiary ranks eighth-worst for volume spilled per mile for the last three years on pipelines carrying hazardous liquids such as crude oil, according to PHMSA performance data. It's had more accidents harming people or the environment than any other operator in the last five years — 38 — but it has one of the largest pipeline systems.
"They're never the worst one," said Carl Weimer, executive director of the Pipeline Safety Trust, which worked with PHMSA and industry groups to develop performance rankings. "But they're always in the top 10."
Sunoco, acquired by Energy Transfer in 2012 and now a wholly owned subsidiary, is listed as the operator of the Dakota Access line and the developer of the Permian Express 2 (PEX2) line.
But the company's accident record has been improving, said Energy Transfer spokeswoman Lisa Coleman. Incidents declined 50% from 2017 to 2019 amid an initiative to integrate Sunoco and Energy Transfer operations. For 2019, she said, the company's accident rate was below the industry average.
"It is our priority to maintain and operate our assets to the highest safety standards, not just because it makes good business sense, but because it is the right thing to do," Coleman said.
Water concerns are paramount for the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe, which has led opposition to Dakota Access. The tribe says a pipeline spill fouling its water supply would be an existential threat. The company says chances of a catastrophic spill are "infinitesimal."
Energy Transfer and its subsidiaries, though, have reported causing water contamination. Of 313 spills reported since 2012 on liquid lines, 35 caused water contamination and one was linked to tainted drinking water in a private well.
On top of that, Dallas-based Energy Transfer and its subsidiaries are linked to 19 groundwater contamination sites in the most recent monitoring report from the Texas Groundwater Protection Committee. Some of the facilities belonged to other companies before Energy Transfer acquired them.
Energy Transfer is one of the country's biggest pipeline companies, a sprawling empire of 86,000 miles of pipe and petroleum facilities. CEO Kelcy Warren co-founded the company in 1996 and built it up from a regional pipeline network in Texas. Much of the growth has come from acquisitions, and the company's official subsidiary list has more than 350 names.
The 1,172-mile Dakota Access pipeline, sometimes referred to as DAPL, was built to move crude oil from North Dakota's Bakken Shale oil field to refineries in the Midwest and the Gulf of Mexico.
The bitter protests that erupted during construction in 2016 thrust Energy Transfer and Warren into the national debate about tribal treaty rights and the costs of the United States' newfound abundance of oil.
Thousands of demonstrators camped out to protest the pipeline as construction moved closer to Lake Oahe, a dammed section of the Missouri River in North Dakota a half-mile from the Standing Rock Indian Reservation that supplies water to the Standing Rock Sioux.
In December 2016, with protests in the headlines, the Obama administration declined to grant a final permit for the pipeline to cross under the lake.
President Trump, who has business and political ties to Warren, reversed course (Greenwire, Jan. 24, 2017). Four days after his inauguration, to which Warren had contributed $250,000, Trump issued an executive order accelerating Dakota Access (Energywire, Jan. 27, 2017).
Less than five months after Trump took office, the company was pumping oil through the line. It now carries nearly 5% of the oil produced every day in the United States.
Now that flow is at risk of being turned off.
Boasberg found the Trump administration's analysis of the environmental effects of the pipeline to be insufficient. He said the analysis, done by the Army Corps of Engineers, glossed over warnings from experts about "leak-detection systems, operator safety records, adverse conditions, and worst-case discharge."
He ordered the agency to take a more expansive look and prepare a more comprehensive report, called an environmental impact statement, or EIS.
Boasberg, a judge in Washington, has said he may order the pipeline temporarily shut down while the new analysis is being done.
If the EIS shows Energy Transfer to have a bad accident record, it would not spell doom for the $3.8 billion pipeline. The tribes' lawsuit isn't about whether Energy Transfer and Sunoco are good or bad at operating pipelines. And it's not about whether the pipeline should be shut down.
Legally, it's about whether the Army Corps followed the National Environmental Policy Act in granting the permit for the pipeline. Boasberg found the agency didn't.
But in the larger public debate about the pipeline, said Jan Hasselman, the Earthjustice attorney representing the Standing Rock Sioux, the company's record should matter.
"When you are determining risk, operator history and culture matters," Hasselman said. "If someone has 12 DUIs, their risk is different from the accountant mom with a perfect record."
A bad track record could push the government to demand stricter environmental and safety measures, said energy analyst Christi Tezak.
"If the [spill] response time is considered long — say, relative to industry average — perhaps additional requirements or other risk mitigation for the project should be required for such an operator," said Tezak, managing director of research at ClearView Energy Partners.
Energy Transfer says it went above and beyond federal standards during construction to make Dakota Access extra safe. Among other measures, Coleman said, the company used thicker-walled pipe in sensitive areas, buried the pipe deeper to prevent accidental strikes, added extra valves to restrict flow in the event of a leak and did far more testing than required before beginning operations.
"All of these things support the position that DAPL should continue to operate during the EIS to be conducted by the Army Corps of Engineers," Coleman said.
The fate of the pipeline will be in the hands of whoever gets elected president in November. The EIS is not expected to be completed until after the winner — likely either Trump or presumptive Democratic nominee Joe Biden — is sworn in next January.
As it fights to keep the pipeline open, Energy Transfer is also seeking permission from states to nearly double the capacity of the pipeline. That has drawn objections from environmentalists who say it only intensifies their concern about a disastrous spill (Energywire, Nov. 14, 2019).
Explosions, negligence, prosecutions
Energy Transfer's spill and safety problems reach beyond Dakota Access and the Permian Express. The company's 349 accidents in the past eight years include a maintenance operation in March on a Panhandle Eastern pipeline in Kansas that killed a worker. Other accidents suggest problems with construction or negligent operation.
In Oklahoma, state regulators issued a record $1 million fine against Sunoco for a 2018 crude oil spill that sprayed a mist of oil over a neighborhood in the Oklahoma City suburbs. The company is negotiating to reduce the penalty. A state inspection report indicates a contractor had alerted the company in 2017 to a problem with the system that is supposed to prevent corrosion but the company didn't fix it.
In Pennsylvania, a newly built Energy Transfer pipeline called Revolution exploded near a subdivision in 2018 after a landslide. A bad weld may have contributed to the blast, which destroyed a home as its owners fled (Energywire, March 19). The incident led to a yearlong permit halt across Pennsylvania, a record $31 million fine from the state and a federal grand jury investigation.
The permit construction halt on Energy Transfer projects in Pennsylvania included Sunoco's Mariner East natural gas liquids pipeline system, which is also linked to several criminal inquiries and prosecutions (Energywire, Jan. 30).
Construction on Mariner and the company's Rover gas pipeline in Ohio angered people living near them with sinkholes, spills and polluted groundwater. At one point in 2017, state and federal authorities had blocked construction of the pipelines in Ohio, Pennsylvania and West Virginia (Energywire, May 15, 2018).
'Sound and fit for service'
PHMSA formally scolded the company for the welding problems on the PEX2 project in May 2016. By then, oil had been pumping through the 340-mile pipeline in Texas for half a year.
Construction on the Dakota Access line was set to begin that summer, 1,000 miles to the north.
PHMSA had inspected company facilities around Texas in 2014 and 2015, finding a series of problems. Inspectors connected some of the problems to specific incidents, such as leaks caused by corrosion in pipes.
On PEX2, they had homed in on a 70-mile segment of the project called "spread 24-3" near Eastland, Texas.
The inspectors found welders using what they regarded as "unqualified procedures," intended for a different type of pipe. Pressed, company managers produced two other versions of the procedures to inspector David Eng, causing confusion over which was actually used. PHMSA deemed the problems "egregious."
Some of the welders themselves were also unqualified, PHMSA said. Those welders had passed a test, but it was the wrong test. PHMSA said Sunoco then tried to "back-qualify" 45 welders with an after-the-fact test. But seven still failed.
About 3,000 welds had been made on the pipeline when inspectors discovered the problem. Sunoco made a "limited attempt" to test the welds holding the line together before the enforcement action was issued, PHMSA said, including cutting 14 welds out of the line. It's not clear how many, but some failed.
"All of the welds on spread 24-3 of the Permian Express II project are suspect," wrote Rod Seeley, director of PHMSA's Houston-based Southwest Region.
PHMSA directed the company to test more welds on that 70-mile segment and review the records of all the welders who worked on the project. But Sunoco and Energy Transfer officials challenged PHMSA's demands and almost every aspect of the agency's enforcement action.
They said that the problems with the welder qualifications were paperwork mistakes and that construction practices had not violated regulations. Officials also hired an industry consultant and did other tests that they said showed the 24-inch-wide pipe was safe.
"Production welds on PEX II were sound and fit for service," David Chalson, Sunoco's senior vice president for operations, wrote in May 2016 in response to Seeley.
At least one spot on the line, though, wasn't "sound and fit" by late August 2016.
The leak appears to have started Aug. 29, 2016. That's when company officials started trying to figure out an "imbalance" in the Permian line. Twelve days later, they found the source of the leak about 200 miles west of Dallas, between the town of Sweetwater, Texas, and a nearby reservoir called Lake Sweetwater.
The time it took to find and fix the problem could raise questions about Energy Transfer's assurances on how potential Dakota Access leaks would be quickly detected and stopped.
Energy Transfer says its control room for Dakota Access can shut down valves remotely and employs a computational pipeline monitoring system (CPM), which analyzes deviations in the flow of liquids and can detect leaks as small as 1% of flow.
But in the 12 days it took to find the spill near Lake Sweetwater, company officials said the imbalance was never so large that it "exceeded established, normal operating tolerances."
Sunoco started pumping oil through PEX2 again 13 days after finding the spill, operating at a reduced pressure under PHMSA orders.
It took more than three years, but the top career pipeline safety official at PHMSA, Alan Mayberry, largely upheld the original welding violations last fall, although he dismissed some as redundant. He reduced the fine from $1.3 million to $882,000.
As for ensuring the safety of the potentially "suspect" welds, his decision upheld the requirement for the company to review the qualifications of its welders and retest the welds.
The company said it had already done so, according to Mayberry's decision document. But agency officials said they still hadn't received written proof.
The Permian Express case remains open as PHMSA awaits testing results and Boasberg, the judge, weighs the future of Dakota Access, 1,000 miles away.
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Trucker learns successful weight loss requires more than diet and exercise
Dr. Juliana Simonetti says "Obesity has long been seen as a choice. "Just go home, diet and exercise," patients are told, but that won't solve it, she says. "Each patient has unique needs and circumstances."
"What is that noise?" people asked Johnny Kelsey when he walked by. The grinding they heard was the decayed ball of his hip bone popping in its socket with his every step. "You need to go to the doctor," they told the 44-year-old truck driver, who weighed 418 pounds.
Kelsey knew what was wrong. It was a condition he'd had since he was four years old when doctors had diagnosed him with Perthes disease, where the head of the femur slowly erodes in the socket due to restricted blood flow. He wore a brace on his left leg and carried a sports waiver at school. "I tried sports as a kid," he recalls. "It caused me endless nights of pain."
His doctors told him to wait until adulthood for hip replacement surgery, and once he reached 21 they told him to hang on until the medical technology improved. He learned to live with the pain until "it became like a roommate." He got married, raised three children, and worked as a truck driver — driving the Utah to California I-15 corridor, a routine he describes as "living Groundhog Day five days a week."
At 44, his condition caught up with him. It wasn't only his hip's horrifying sound effects, but also a sharp, stabbing pain.
A University of Utah Health surgeon told him his hip was one of the worst he'd seen and that it was remarkable he could still walk. In order to do the surgery, Johnny needed to lose over 60 pounds. The doctor sent him to Juliana Simonetti, M.D., co-director of University of Utah Health's Comprehensive Weight Management Program.
Simonetti first encountered obesity working at a community care center in Boston during her residency. Every patient she saw had chronic diseases: pre-diabetes, high cholesterol, blood pressure and weight issues. Patients from lower socio-economic backgrounds were desperate to address their weight issues, spending much-needed money on over-the-counter diet pills that weren't FDA approved.
"Instead of addressing the root causes of weight gain, I felt we were band-aiding," Simonetti says.
Obesity, Simonetti says, has long been seen as a choice. "Just go home, diet and exercise," patients are told, but that won't solve it, she says. "Each patient has unique needs and circumstances."
Medication is key to addressing underlying physiological issues that make it so hard to lose weight, along with behavioral health approaches to addressing psychological issues related to obesity.
The key point is, "There's no magic pill," she says. "What we do is address the underlying issues, and suppress appetite and cravings." There's also bariatric surgery, which involves surgical procedures to reduce weight, such as the sleeve gastrectomy and gastric bypass. There are also temporary, minimally-invasive procedures such as the gastric balloon, where an inflatable silicone balloon is placed in the patient's stomach. It lasts for six months and makes the patient feel fuller.
The Comprehensive Weight Management Program, she says, seeks to bring innovative approaches to obesity medicine. These include helping patients at different stages of their weight loss journey through low-impact exercise classes, group medical visits, mindfulness-based stress-reduction courses, behavioral health referrals and helping patients find cheaper, healthier food options and cooking classes.
It is also one of the very few programs in the country that brings together different specialists to help patients lose weight while treating the complications related to obesity and excess weight. A fatty-liver gastroenterologist and a cardiologist with a background in heart failure address complications that arise for patients who've struggled with obesity long-term.
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When Kelsey saw Simonetti, he said he'd tried diets all his life. She sent him to the program's nutritionist, who told him a key problem was when he ate. "I eat one big meal a day," Johnny says. "For me, that was a huge disaster." Instead, he needed to eat every three hours.
He started the day with a protein bar, a few hours later some steamed, vegetables, then three hours after that a protein shake, finishing with chicken and vegetables in the evening.
In the beginning, Simonetti had him focus on healthy eating, although she was also keen he incorporate exercise as soon as his hip pain permitted. While he held to the diet during the week, he'd allow himself to "stray" Sunday mornings: "I like an English muffin right out of the toaster with butter melting on it and a little jelly."
What helped was how encouraging his wife, children and family were, including his parents, his brother and his family. "Everyone around me was just being super-supportive."
At first, he dropped a pound or so a week, then two pounds, then three or four until he was losing 18 pounds a month. Simonetti was shocked. His level of weight loss, he says, was unheard of, unless it was someone who had undergone gastric-bypass surgery. "They were worried I was starving myself," but tests on his body's nutrients showed everything was fine. "It just clicked, I guess."
By the six-month mark, he was down 60 pounds and scheduled the hip surgery, which took place in January 2019. "After the surgery, I realized how badly I had been suffering. It was absolutely incredible the difference. My wife and kids had to remind me my hip was only five days old and settle down a bit."
By December 2019, he had lost a total of 132 pounds, bringing him down to 286 pounds. Losing weight is hard, he acknowledges, "but it can be done. I'm in the worst possible career field you can have to try to lose weight as a truck driver and I did it. You've got to want it."
Kelsey said Simonetti and her team, "offered me the tools and the ways to do it. Most of the time, you go to the doctor and say, 'Doctor, fix me.' But she gave me the tools to fix myself."
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February 11, 2022 Wargames Atlantic
New Set Announcement: Early 20th Century Japanese!
We're excited to announce a new set that's about to go into file prep: Japanese!
This is a very versatile set that will be part of our Imperial Conquests range as it can be used for the Boxer Rebellion, the Russo-Japanese War, and...with a slight squint...WW1.
(The main difference in the uniform for WW1 was that they mostly wore puttees instead of the gaiters shown on these figures although gaiters were still in use)
These are going to file prep. No release date yet but keep an eye on the Release Schedule page.
David Tuck - August 22, 2022
Don't like the blanket rolls which would stop me buying some, they just look wrong!
Pierre - February 19, 2022
I found the reason for these two rolls !
One is the traditional "tube pack" (assault light pack – white, grey or tan fabric), while the other is the rolled blue (then brown) coat. The official leather backpack and the blanket were left at the depot in action. The men slept with their coats on. Well seen !
Ref. War Relics Forum : The evolution of the Japanese imperial Army Backpacks (1874-1945).
On the other hand, the vast majority of photos of Japanese soldiers marching (or parading) show that the regular way of carrying the rifle on the shoulder was as follows : right side, the breech block (and not the trigger) facing the observer. The Japanese Honor Guard still holds it that way. To be corrected…
I need these Japanese soldiers (and the white and red Russians too), for sure.
Will Lydon - February 16, 2022
If room permits, a model of the Hotchkiss Mle 1897 machine gun would be an excellent inclusion. The Japanese Imperial Army had begun issuing them to its divisions at the turn of the century, and well there presence was not as common as in later conflicts, machine guns were notably used by both sides during the war.
In my opinion, to stay close to the conditions of the time while lightening the minis, I would only keep the "rolled pudding" which goes from the left shoulder to the right hip.
Most Japanese prints of the time show only this one in the field. I guess the coat was rolled up in the blanket (as with the Germans and Russians).
The logic of the handling of the rifle in the armies at the beginning of the 20th Century makes me think that the Arisaka Type 30 (1897-1905) worn on the shoulder is reversed. The breech should be facing the observer… Not ?
Very interesting. I'm looking forward to the (Tsarist) Russians !
FrankR - February 12, 2022
I agree… please no blanket rolls on bodies…
Brandon R Chamberlain - February 12, 2022
I'm vary excited about these miniatures! I have to agree… lose the blanket rolls. The faces are very generic and not very Japanese to my eye.
Jules - February 12, 2022
Agree in concensus please no blanket roll it just piginholes the actual figures.. I can see these being used for many other armies for the 1890sto 1930s periods… Otherwise very exciting set from Wargames Atlantic. The horses are a great addition too and finally those Cannon Fodder extras look good too.
Peter - February 12, 2022
Loose the blanket rolls and they could pass for Mexican troops against the wild bunch,
John Sullivan - February 11, 2022
Please no blanket rolls. Otherwise great future set.
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Days Gone By - stories from the past ⁄ Genealogy Information
Daniel Pratt almost lost his life in a freak accident in Prattville
October 23, 2017 October 21, 2017 by Donna R Causey
This excerpt is a transcribed history of Prattville in Autauga County, Alabama from the History of Autauga County, Alabama which was written around 1886 by former resident Shadrack Mims and includes many early settlers names.
EARLY PRATTVILLE
AUTAUGA COUNTY, ALABAMA
Now, Reader, I will pass on to Prattville, some twelve miles east. On this route, there were very few houses, one I described settled by Ben Motley and sold to L. M. Whetsont.
Autauga Creek area
Just after crossing Autauga Creek you see to the left the farm of Charles Booth, who had a large family and was poor but highly respected. In a few years, however, he made money enough to render him quite independent. His sons were raised to hard work on the farm and when they made their start in the world, they all showed energy and pluck, but some succeeded better than others. They were, however, all respected young men and have raised families.
The next house we come to is Mr. Thomas Smiths', of whom I spoke further back. The next place is Thos. Coleman's, who had a mill on a little creek two miles west of Prattville. Mr. Coleman was a Hardshell Baptist—he had considerable property, was very liberal, social, and hospitable. He had two sons, both of whom joined the Methodist Church. Further along, we come to Martin R. Burts', who married a Miss Griffis, and she being a Methodist the whole family became members of that denomination. Mr. Burt was an industrious, thrifty, money making man of good character. His children all did well. The next house is that of Mrs. Mathews, the mother of Jesse W. and Jimmie Mathews—the first named a citizen of Prattville, the other of Georgia. Both men of sterling worth and members of the
Prattville, Alabama: A Brief History of the Fountain City by Marc Parker (Author), Melissa Benefield Parker (Author)
Missionary Baptist church.
I am now ready to enter upon the history of Prattville, a village started in 1839 by Daniel Pratt. This will require considerable space as it proved a success from the very start and has benefitted thousands besides its illustrious founder, who for the last 13 years has rested in his grave on a high eminence overlooking the village.
Daniel Pratt
To write out the history of Prattville to me is a pleasure, as I was identified with its business for fifteen years and during that time brought into close association with the head and chief of all the enterprises gotten up in the place. For fifteen years, I was Agent of the Cotton Factory and five years of the time, had one-fourth interest in the Ginshop. I also managed the books and was financial Agent of both the Cotton Mill and Ginshop. During my connection with the Ginshop, I think there is no risk in my saying that I enjoyed the confidence of Mr. Pratt.
In 1845 I paid a visit to Mr. Pratt and in the course of his conversation he said in regard to the founding of Prattville, that at the time his lease expired with Col. McNeil, he made the proposition to Mrs. P. that if she wished, they would move back east amongst their relatives and build up a home for life; or else, he would remain here and build a manufacturing village on the present site of Prattville. The decision was in favor of the latter enterprise and it has turned out to be a most fortunate decision both for the County and State as I expect to show before I finish this history. He told me his object was to give employment to as many operatives as his means would justify to furnish them with educational and religious advantages. How faithfully he has carried out his benevolent purpose, no man who knows the history of Prattville will for one moment question.
The Daniel Pratt Gin Manufacturing Company on Autauga Creek in Prattville, Alabama. March 2010 (uploaded to Wikipedia by Chris Pruitt)
Built a schoolhouse
When I first came to this place there was a school house built by him located on the side of the hill southwest from where the Foundry now stands. This building was complete in all its arrangements the seats built on the Lancastrian plan, i.e. one above the other with desks complete, leaving a space in front for the teacher and recitations. The schoolhouse was situated in a cool sequestered place completely surrounded by a forest growth of young oaks and a cool spring running from the hill.
The school was taught by Mr. T. B. Avery, an accomplished scholar, and gentleman. I liked his method of teaching on the Induction plan—drawing out the mind and teaching it to be self-reliant. It is far preferable to the Lecture plan which teaches the pupil to let others think for them. This house could not with all its fixtures cost less than one thousand dollars. Not only the children of the village, but those from all the surrounding country attended. C. Whitt Smith and Wm. Slaton were among his pupils, both of whom have followed teaching as an occupation and are not only men of solid worth as citizens, but men of science.
Coe-Swift-Fay House -Thomas Avery Fay House, 203 Washington Street, Prattville, Autauga County, AL March 26, 1935 (Library of Congress)
Daniel Pratt Cotton Gin Factory, Prattville, Autauga County, AL original (Library of Congress)
Temporary church in a two-story storehouse
Mr. Pratt put up a temporary place for a church in the upper room of a two-story storehouse. Upstairs for a church. This was fitted with seats. Mr. Pratt soon found that the building in which he started his gin business was too small and commenced and built the magnificent building which now shows for itself. But before this building was put up—indeed before 1845, (quite likely 1840, it was running in 1841), he built a large flouring mill, grinding wheat brought from several surrounding counties.
Moved the flouring mill
After a few years when a flouring mill was built more convenient to where the grain was raised, he discontinued his mill and sold out his elevators, etc. (He moved the mill to where it is now below the lower, bridge). Maj. Wm. Montgomery became the owner of the water power at McNeil's Mill.
Our lives depended on quick action
While Mr. Pratt was fitting up the building for a machine shop and the workmen were engaged in digging out a cellar, they approached too near the brick foundation and it gave way. Just at that time Mr. Pratt and I were standing some fifteen or twenty feet from the building on the bluff of the creek, talking about building a brick dam where the old dam stood which was built in 1839. All at once the building began cracking and crashing; we found that our lives depended upon quick action. Mr. Pratt took his chances for escape through the falling timbers. I took mine by plunging into the creek and swimming out. I stood and watched to see which way the building would fall if towards the creek. I was ready to plunge. It so turned out that all the workmen and Mr. Pratt passed out of the building unhurt. I mentioned this little incident to show how differently men will act when life is at stake; on comparing notes with Mr. Pratt we soon found out what influenced our action; I could swim and Mr. Pratt could not.
Daniel Pratt Cotton Gin Factory, Prattville, Autauga County, ALW. N. Manning, Photographer, March 26, 1935, COPY after being enlarged(Library of Congress)
Replaced with a brick building
This accident determined Mr. Pratt to remove the old wooden superstructure and put up a brick building which is now occupied by Mr. G. L. Smith as Sash and Blind factory. He afterward commenced his new church and built it at a cost of twenty thousand dollars. The lower floor was fitted up for stores and offices and upper for church and Sunday school rooms. He intended the rents of the lower floor to pay church expenses and repairs of the building. As long as he lived his purposes were carried out to a considerable extent, but in six or nine months after his death, the property changed hands and only a few of those lower rooms are now used.
Higher grade of society
Having acted as Agent for the Prattville Manufacturies for fifteen years, no one has a better knowledge of the amount of good done to the operatives and their families, both in a pecuniary way and in the improvement of mind, manners, and morals. They are at this time a much higher grade of society than when they first came to the place. I am truly glad to know that the Trustees of our school are advancing the educational advantages so that this class of people may now have a still better chance for intellectual improvement. The citizens of Prattville cannot do better for themselves than carry out the plans of Mr. Pratt as to their educational and religious interests—these two interests if properly attended to will assure respectability in this life and a blissful immortality in the next.
Mr. Pratt was not only highly practiced in business affairs, but was also a true Christian—these two qualities make him a safe guide to follow. There is one thing the young mechanics of Prattville should look to, i.e. a good substantial education in the English branches, if no further. Education if properly used, is power; if improperly, a curse. Several young men of my acquaintance, who were raised in the different departments of the machine shop, could have held high positions as heads of business at a good salary but for their lack of education which compelled them to submit to lower wages as mere workmen. I should like to give young men more good advice, but perhaps the reader might not think such in the line of this history.
Facts about the Cotton Mill
There are some facts connected with my connection with Cotton Mill which I should like to bring to the light of history. It is nothing more than is due to Mr. Pratt as a great and good man. I was called to the position of Agent in January 1865. I made a statement of the business as it then stood. There were
There were about 700 bales of cotton on hand, but the whole machinery having worked steadily for four years, it was worn down and could not compete, either in quality or quantity of cloth, with mills that were in better condition. I so notified the managers and further said there were only two alternatives before them, either stop the mill, sell the cotton and divide out the proceeds; or fill the mill with new machinery. My opinion was that the latter would be the most profitable to the stockholders. So thought all parties; but there were two things that troubled Mr. Pratt; 1st. what would become of the operatives, 2nd one of his darling projects would have to be
My opinion was that the latter would be the most profitable to the stockholders. So thought all parties; but there were two things that troubled Mr. Pratt; 1st. what would become of the operatives, 2nd one of his darling projects would have to be abandoned. Mr. Pratt was president of the Board and the other managers yielded to his wishes. New machines having been ordered, the mill continued to run and the old machinery worked up all the cotton and the goods were sold at reduced rates.
U. S. Government took possession of the cotton
The machinery was ordered in the winter of 1865-66 and came that summer or early fall from Wm. Higzaur & Sons of England. The loom came from Jenks & Sons near Philadelphia. The managers of the Autaugaville Factory, like those of the Prattville, met and concluded to ship their cotton although it was under Federal orders. It was traced up and the U. S. Government took possession of it; a long lawsuit ensued. The suit ended in favor of the Company, but the value of the cotton was all used in expenses, as cotton had fallen to comparatively low figures. The Autaugaville Factory never started and the building now stands a mass of ruins. The Prattville Factory continues running and has for several years been paying heavy dividends to its owners, the Messrs. Faber.
What would have become of them?
There have been no strikes and no dissatisfaction with the hands that I have heard of. It did seem to me that in this instance Mr. Pratt's judgment was guided by a higher source than that of mere human judgment; I know or have the best reason for believing that Mr. Pratt's private opinion was to stop the mill and sell the cotton. But the operatives lay on his heart, "What would become of them", was the great question with him.
Buckets of water used on a fire
On one occasion the picking room took fire. It had communicated with the card room and there seemed no possible chance to save it as nothing but buckets of water could be used, but the fire was subdued. Mr. Hale, who was superintendent, remarked that so long as Daniel Pratt had any stock in that factory it would never be destroyed by fire. Mr. Hale was not a Christian but believed in the overruling of Providence in earthly matters.
I have always felt the deepest interest in that Factory, for I spent fifteen years in the prime of my life working to advance it and they were fifteen years of the hardest work I ever did. My health broke down and at the beginning of the war in 1861, I was not worth a dollar more than when I moved to Prattville in 1846; but I must not repine at God's dealing with me, nor do I.
Reader please excuse the so frequent use of that offensive personal pronoun I; the history of the county is being written out by me and the use of that letter I could not well be avoided as I have formed a part of its history and no inconsiderable part in my business associations with different parties. Fifteen years I was merchandising, farming, warehousing, etc.; and fifteen years Agent of the Cotton Mill. In 1846 (when I moved here) there had been but few buildings put up. There was one where John Hearn lived, two between that an Joe Kurd's drug store—I do not know who occupied this house, but think it Amos Smith, the father of G. L. Smith, lived there—there was also a building where Mrs. Merrill lives, built by Joseph May, from whom Mr. Pratt bought 1000 acres of land and the water privilege, paying him $20,000—
He did an immense work on the land
In 1846 (when I moved here) there had been but few buildings put up. There was one where John Hearn lived, two between that an Joe Kurd's drug store—I do not know who occupied this house, but think it Amos Smith, the father of G. L. Smith, lived there—there was also a building where Mrs. Merrill lives, built by Joseph May, from whom Mr. Pratt bought 1000 acres of land and the water privilege, paying him $20,000— one-half in gins at factory prices. The land was valuable for nothing but its pine timber and was not intrinsically worth more than $1.25/100 per acre. The location was but little else than a quagmire that cost Mr. Pratt thousands of dollars to drain, and fit for building. He did an immense amount of work on the place, it was very sickly while the ditching was being done.
Houses built
I settled where F. E. Smith now lives and my family were healthy—that has been one of the most healthy places in Prattville, water very cool, pure and abundant. A tinner by the name of George H. Tisdale built the house which is now the Methodist parsonage, Eber Coe built the house where Mrs. W. H. Northington lives, Poe Robinson built the house on the opposite side of the street. Goe. W. Coe. built the house where Mrs. Fay lives and E. S. Morgan built all the houses on the west side of the street from the lower bridge to the house nearest the creek—this a Mr. John Buil, a Methodist local preacher from North Carolina, built.
Copy photograph of businesses in downtown Prattville, Alabama ca. 1890 (Alabama Department of Archives and History)
Many early settlers
In finishing up the history of Prattville, there are several names to be mentioned—some of the persons still living here. Col. L. G. Spigner came here very soon after its first settlement, perhaps in 1840. He was engaged in the business of wagon making and repairing and had a blacksmith's shop in connection with it. He married a daughter of James Ramsey who lived at the Pollard place, between McNeil's Mill and Washington. There were four children raised to maturity from this marriage, two sons, and two daughters. This was a Methodist family after the Colonel's marriage, his wife was a pious woman from her early life and ever remained true to her religion and raised her children up in that way. E. S. Morgan, an eastern man, who worked in the Gin shop for many years and then in the sash and blind shop, made quite a competency and married a Miss Sarah C. Carmichael of Prattville. There was quite a large family from this marriage, all of whom still live in Prattville. Mr. Morgan died several years since.
Mr. F. E. Smith has worked in the Gin shop ever since Prattville was founded and has made quite a handsome little fortune. He married a Miss Amanda Riggs who was raised by Mrs. Brock. They have quite a family, all well educated and doing well. This is a Methodist family. G. L. Smith, a son of Amos Smith who was foreman of the Ginshop, married first Mary Ownsby, a niece of Mrs. Esther Pratt. By this marriage, there were only two children, a son and a daughter, who are still living here. His second wife was Miss Abbie Holt, a niece of Mr. Pratt, and by this marriage there were two sons. There were two other Smiths, brothers of F. E. Smith and cousins of G. L. Smith. Frank Smith married Miss Asenath Holt, a sister of G. L. Smith's wife. Frank was a Baptist and died at an early age, leaving a widow with one daughter and three sons. John Smith, a brother of Frank and Fred, did not remain here long, but was cast in the same mold as his brothers, he was a Baptist. This family of Smiths was from the New England States and were remarkable for their steady, quiet, and orderly lives. Honest, industrious, punctual and economical, they were all successful in business. They were law-abiding and faithful to all their church duties. Their success lay principally in their prudent, economical way of spending their money. They were not extravagant givers, but gave according to their means, which is the only true economy. They were model men and have model families. If the world was fitted up with just such people, we should have a comparatively happy world.
Other settlers
LaFayette Ellis, a southern boy raised in the Ginshop, made money and has raised and educated a respectable family besides taking care of an aged father and mother. Many other families have done well and are highly respected and many more would have done well had they abstained from liquor and other vices which ruined them early in life. No one is better calculated than the writer to judge of the agreeable change which has come to that portion of the population of Prattville which worked in the Cotton Mill. When it first started, they were of the very poorest class with very few exceptions and withal ignorant people from obscure parts of the county—many of them having never enjoyed any religious privileges. They were wild, and many of the fathers were drunken, and abandoned men whose children had never been trained to work of any kind. There were a few families who had seen better days, but the heads of the families had become dissipated and as a last resort to keep starvation from their doors, had come here to make their families work in the factory– such would have done well, but for the fact that the father still kept up his old habits. The children seemed to have an aversion to Sunday School, although special pains were taken by many ladies of the different churches to visit the families and furnish them. In this way many of the girls, and some few of the boys of the better class were induced to enter the school.
How changed their morals are now
The boys who did not enter the Sunday School were roaming about over the country robbing orchards and melon patches, and they would do this at night as well as on Sundays. How changed their morals are now, though many are far from being good as they might be, yet much better than then. One generation has passed away and if the improvement is as marked as in the past, we shall have quite an intelligent and respectable population. Now let me ask what causes have brought about this change; 1st. the training of these people to regular habits of work under proper restrictions. 2nd, bringing them in contact with a higher grade of civilization which has taught them some self respect. 3rd. the Sunday School and the church together with pastorial visits and the visits of pious ladies teaching not only religious precepts, but also how to manage their domestic affairs more presently. Strange to say, yet true, this class of people are the most wasteful where they can get the provisions to waste. Let me repeat it—there were some noble exceptions, but these exceptions were mostly widows who had seen better days and society, but had been reduced to poverty.
Interior of the Prattville Mercantile Company in Prattville, Alabama.ca. 1901 (Alabama Department of Archives and History)
I have one such now in my mind, who is still living and must be over fourscore. She had two sons, one a cripple, and two or three daughters that worked in the factory. Her youngest son fell in the army. With these children and her own industry, she made not only enough to support their family decently, but bought her a comfortable house and lot. Her girls all married respectably and have raised their families so. This woman was a Presbyterian and her church stood up to her nobly. I can not forbear here to remark that of all people in the world, the religion of Christ does most for the poor, for such Christ came and they always claimed the preference, to the poor the gospel is preached. The rich of this world have their portion in this life. I do not mean to say that religion is not intended for the rich; personally, they need it as much as the poor, for Christ died for all. The rich can do far more in alleviating the sorrows and afflictions of the poor, if they will only give of their abundance.
Copy photograph of a Presbyterian church building in Prattville, Alabama ca. 1910 (Alabama Department of Archives and History)
I have already alluded to the exertions of the Trustees towards getting up a first class school—these men are all intelligent Christian gentlemen and I sincerely hope they will continue to exert themeselves in behalf of the youth of Prattville and surrounding country. Having already devoted a large space to this history, I cannot refrain from relating an interview I had with Daniel Pratt, the Illustrious founder of our town, about twelve months before his death. He was talking on the subject of his investment near Birmingham in the mining business . Said he, "I well know I cannot expect to live to see the mines in operation, yet I want to start that business as the last act of my life for the good of my adopted state." Mr. Pratt had no experience in the mining business, neither had his son-in-law, H. F. Debardelaben, who was quite a young man then. Mr. Pratt, however, had great confidence in Henry's ability to carry this project through after his death. How well he has done this, his works thus far show. Mr. P. lived just long enough to see his experiment turn out its first pig iron at Oxmore, Jefferson County.
Mr. Pratt gave employment to the laboring poor
Mr. Pratt was not an avericious man, grasping money to hoard up—he knew no other use for money than to make it subserve a valuable purpose, to give employment to the laboring poor. This I think was his purpose from first to last and his great success in business is, no doubt, due to the purity of his motives in keeping everything and everybody astir. That he possessed a good judgment, indomitable perseverance, and good management, no one can doubt. He was firm and decided and had nerve to risk capital when his judgment dictated. Although firm and decided himself, he was not dictatorial, especially in other men's matters. In politics, he was a decided Whig and continued so, as long as the party hung together, after that he was as decided a Democrat and perhaps contributed more money to advance the Southern Cause during the war than any other man in Alabama. In his religious views he was a Methodist both in heart and practice—he was not merely a nominal member of the church, but one who enjoyed his religion.
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