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IJGT Island Open at Palmetto Hall – Tour Preview
The IJGT Southeast Tour will return to Hilton Head Island, S.C., for the IJGT Island Open at Palmetto Hall on April 25-26, 2015. Junior golfers will play the Robert Cupp course while competing for IJGT Merit Points, national rankings and North American Junior Amateur exemptions during the two-day, 36-hole event.
Designed by Robert Cupp, Golf World's former Architect of the Year, the Robert Cupp course is recognized as an Audubon Cooperative Sanctuary. The course offers four sets of tees ranging from 5,182 yards to 7,079 yards.
The eGolf Gateway Tour's 2015 Palmetto Hall Championship was played on the Robert Cupp course in February.
Tennoshin Ogawa of Ichinomiya-shi, Japan, tops the list of players to watch in the Boys 15-19 Division as he's had a lot of success on the Robert Cupp course. He finished second in last April's IJGT event there and won the Boys 14 & Under Division two years ago. This is his fourth consecutive season competing in an IJGT event on the Robert Cupp course at Palmetto Hall.
Keshav Sharma of New Delhi, India, finished sixth in last April's tournament. Matt Cheng of Taipei, Taiwan, is looking for his first win on the IJGT this season. He finished second in the Lowcountry Junior at Wexford Plantation in February. This is his fifth season competing on the IJGT.
In the Girls Division, keep an eye on Ankita Kedlaya of Bangalore, India, who has won back-to-back IJGT events: the
Georgia Junior at Savannah Harbor in February and the IJGT Oldfield Junior earlier this month. Anna Eddy of Hilton Head, S.C., will look to improve on her fourth-place finish in the IJGT Oldfield Junior. Yuki Nakayama of Kawasakishi, Japan, is looking for her first IJGT win of the season. She finished second in the IJGT Junior at Hilton Head National in January.
Finally, in the Boys 14 & Under Division, Aiden McCloskey of Northborough, Mass., is coming off a first-place finish in the IJGT Oldfield Junior. Matthew Dzialga and Matthew Camel, both of Greenwich, Conn., finished third and fourth, respectively, in last April's IJGT event on the Robert Cupp course.
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The Architects Cup – Tour Preview
The IJGT Northeast Tour will pay homage to the beginnings of golf while hosting The Architects Cup at The Architects Golf Club in Lopatcong, N.J., on April 18-19, 2015.
The unique style of the 6,863 yard par-71 course at The Architects Golf Club reflects back on the history of golf and will offer IJGT members the chance to play 18 different course styles in one location. It boasts a 131 slope, 72.5 rating and the facility includes a practice putting green and driving range.
Each hole aims to emulate a different golf architect's style without simply copying one of their famous holes. The result is more creative than simple reproduction and offers a fun style that both challenges and excites golfers.
This course is recognized as one of the most challenging and historically significant courses in the Northeast. During the two-day, 36-hole event, juniors will compete for IJGT Merit Points and national rankings. Competitors in the Boys 15-19 Division and Girls Division will also be competing for AJGA performance stars and North American Junior Amateur exemptions.
Allyson Wentworth of Stewartsville, N.J., tops the list of players to watch in the Girls Division as she'll be playing her home course. She won The Architects Cup Presented by the IJGA in October and tied for second in last April's Architects Cup. This is her fourth consecutive season competing in an IJGT event at Architects Golf Club. Other players to watch in the Girls Division include Ami Gianchandani of Short Hills, N.J., and Lauren Muhlbauer of Newtown, Pa. Gianchandani has one first-place finish and two second-place finishes this season. Muhlbauer has one second-place finish this season.
Also keep an eye on 12-year-olds Tiya Chowdary of Montgomery, N.J., and Yoona Kim of Oradell, N.J. They may be young, but they can play. The pair tied for fifth in the Metropolitan Junior at Forsgate Country Club at the end of March and will look to outdo one another in the Architects Cup.
Brian Isztwan of Huntingdon Valley, Pa., will try to earn his first title in the Boys 15-19 Division; he won the Boys 14 & Under Division of the Labor Day Classic at Hershey Country Club in August. Isztwan will be facing a tough field in the Boys 15-19 Division. Other players to watch include Kyle Vance of Audubon, Pa., who won the Major Championship at Duke University at the end of March and Sanghyeon Park of Oakland Gardens, N.Y., who finished second in the Metropolitan Junior at Forsgate Country Club, also at the end of March. West Chester, Pa., native Nicholas Gianelos finished a single stroke behind Park to tie for third in the Metropolitan Junior, and will look to defeat him in the Architects Cup.
TJ Buck of Penfield, N.Y., won the Boys 14 & Under Division of the Architects Cup Presented by the IJGA in October and will look to add a second Architects title to his resume. Also in the Boys 14 & Under Division, Wayne, Pa., native John Updike and James Meyers of Wexford, Pa., have one second-place finish apiece this season and will aim to earn their first title of the season.
For more information about the event, or to register, click here.
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IJGT Oldfield Junior – Tour Preview
The IJGT will travel to Okatie, S.C., on April 11-12, 2015, to host the IJGT Oldfield Junior at Oldfield Country Club.
Situated along the banks of the Okatie River, the golf course at Oldfield plays through canopies of moss-draped live oaks, broad savannahs and soaring pines. It was the first Greg Norman design in South Carolina's Lowcountry.
Wildlife enthusiasts are sure to enjoy this course, which is a Certified Audubon Cooperative Sanctuary. Be on the lookout for red foxes who live near the fourteenth hole. If you happen to play hole No. 16 at low tide, take a moment to look at the tide pools as they often contain a variety of coastal life including blue crabs, minnows, mullet, striped bass and flounder.
Yeji Ahn of Changwon-City, South Korea, and Melany Chong of Mississauga, Canada, will look to improve on their 10th and 12th place finishes, respectively, in the Girls Division of last year's Oldfield Junior.
Christian Tupamahu of Manado, Indonesia, finished fourth in the Boys 14 & Under Division of last year's Oldfield Junior and will aim to repeat his success in the Boys 15-19 Division this year. Ritwik Jain of New Delhi, India, will look to improve on his fourth place finish in last year's Oldfield Junior.
Nicholas Russell of Hilton Head Island, S.C., has already experienced some success at Oldfield. He won the Boys 14 & Under Division of the Lowcountry Junior at Oldfield two years ago and tied for fourth in the Boys 15-19 Division of the same event earlier this season.
Also keep an eye out for Jason Stokes of St. Brelade, Jersey, and Trey Wren of Suffolk, Va., who are both looking for their second IJGT victories of the season.
Be sure to follow the IJGT on Twitter (@IJGT) for updates throughout the tournament! You can check the leaderboard here on the IJGT website or by downloading the IJGT app on your phone or tablet.
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Arizona Open at Wigwam GC – Tour Preview
March 3, 2015 /in News and Blogs, Tour Preview /by IJGT Admin
The IJGT will travel to Litchfield, Ariz., to host the Arizona Open at Wigwam Golf Club on April 3-4, 2015. Junior golfers will be competing for IJGT Merit Points and national rankings while playing the Gold Course.
Designed by Robert Trent Jones Sr., the Gold Course's fourth hole, also known as the "Firestone," is a 645-yard par-5. The eighth hole, known as the "Yellowstone," is a long par-4 to a green situated above a canal. The course is known for its tough finish as the final three holes, a par-3 followed by two par-4s, on the back nine are all challenging.
The long and winding par-72 course hosted the 2011 U.S. Open Qualifier and is the home of The Patriot All-America, a 54-hole amateur event. Its five sets of tees range from 5,885 yards to 7,430 yards.
Players to watch in the Boys 15-19 Division include Joey Goryeb of Mendham, N.J., and Drew Karren of Orinda, Calif. Goryeb will be competing in his fourth consecutive IJGT event in Arizona. He tied for 32nd in the 2013 Arizona Open at Wigwam. Karren won the only other IJGT event he's competed in, the Major Championship at Presidio, in February.
In the Boys 14 & Under Division, keep an eye out for Upland, Calif., native Mikee Ordona. Ordona finished second in the Major Championship at Presidio in February and fourth in the 2013 Arizona Open at Wigwam. This is his fifth season competing on the International Junior Golf Tour.
For more information, or to register for the event, click here.
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Major Championship at Duke University – Tour Preview
February 23, 2015 /in News and Blogs, Tour Preview /by IJGT Admin
The IJGT's Southeast Tour will travel to Durham, N.C., to host the Major Championship at Duke University on March 28-29. The two-day, 36-hole event is the second Major Championship of the spring season.
Opened in 1957, the Duke University Golf Course is the only Robert Trent Jones-designed course in the region. It was redesigned by Jones' son, Rees, in 1994 and hosted the NCAA Men's Golf Championship in 2001.
Links Magazine rated the Duke University Golf Course No. 12 on its list of the Top 25 College Courses. The Major Championship at Duke University provides the perfect opportunity for aspiring college golfers to play one of the best college courses in the country and visit Duke University and nearby colleges like the University of North Carolina while they're in the area.
Yong Sherng Hui of Kuala Lampur, Malaysia, tops the list of players to watch in the Boys 15-19 Division. Hui is coming off a dramatic four-hole playoff victory in the IJGT Junior at Palmetto Dunes earlier this month. He just edged out St. Brelade, Jersey, native Jason Stokes, who will also be competing in the Major Championship at Duke. Also keep an eye out for Anthony Cordaro of Pittsburgh, Pa., who tied for ninth in last year's IJGT event at Duke.
Timonium, Md., native Jack Halleron won the Boys 14 & Under Division of the IJGT event at Duke last season and will look to repeat this year. He finished first in his last IJGT event this season, the Major Championship at Outdoor Country Club. Thomas Pfoestl of Schenna, Italy, is seeking his fourth IJGT victory this season and is coming off back-to-back wins in the Carolina Classic at Colleton River and the South Carolina Open at Kiawah Island. Elmsford, N.Y., native Matthew Minerva Jr. and Ayushman Jaiswal of Bangalore, India, are both looking for their second IJGT victories of the season in the Boys 14 & Under Division.
In the Girls Division, Farmington, Conn., native Kelly Whaley has been victorious in all three IJGT events she's played this season and will look to continue her winning streak at Duke. The UNC commit finished second in the IJGT event at Duke two years ago. Martina Gerbelova of Bratislava, Slovakia, has to top-five finishes this season and will look to break into the winner's circle at Duke.
For more information, or to register for the Major Championship at Duke University, click here.
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Philly Challenge at White Manor Country Club – Tour Preview
The IJGT Northeast Tour will host the Philly Challenge at White Manor Country Club Presented by the International Junior Golf Academy (IJGA) in Malvern, Pa., on March 21-22, 2015. The White Manor Country Club serves as the home course of the Villanova University Men's Golf Team, offering junior golfers a glimpse at an NCAA facility.
The par-72 course features 6,920 yards of golf and has a 73.9 rating with a slope rating of 139. There is also an all-weather driving range with seven target greens ranging from 70 to 240 yards.
Opened in 1964 and designed by William and David Gordon, the 18-hole course at White Manor Country Club was completely renovated in 2002 by Bobby Weed and re-opened in 2003. In 2003, it was named the Course Renovation of the Year.
Juniors will be competing for IJGT Merit Points and national rankings during the two-day, 36-hole event. In addition, AJGA performance stars are up for grabs in the Boys 15-19 Division and the Girls Division.
This event features an interesting field because many of the competitors participated in last year's edition of the Philly Challenge at White Manor, but there are also plenty of juniors competing in their first IJGT event.
In the Boys 15-19 Division, look out for Middletown, Del., native Matthew Pulgini, who is coming off a fourth place tie in the IJGT Junior at Palmetto Dunes. Also keep an eye on Dresher, Pa., native David Kim, who tied for second in his last IJGT event, the Philly Open at Radley Run Country Club in September. Other players to watch include Ryan Skae of Old Tappan, N.J., who is coming off a second place finish in the IJGT Junior at Hilton Head National in January and Wilmington, Del., native Ryan Nolan Rucinski, who will look to improve on his fourth place finish in last year's Philly Challenge.
Danny Dougherty of Wilmington, Del., and Dylan Plis of Camilus, N.Y., finished second and third, respectively, in the Boys 14 & Under Division of last year's Philly Challenge and will be competing in the Boys 15-19 Division of this year's event.
In the Girls Division, keep an eye out for Kaitlyn Lees of Bryn Mawr, Pa., who will look to improve on her sixth place finish in last year's Philly Challenge. She finished first in the two other IJGT events she competed in last season.
The field currently includes junior golfers from 10 states. Be sure to follow @IJGT on Twitter for live updates and download the IJGT app for live scoring.
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IJGT Battle at Laurel Hill Golf Course – Tour Preview
February 9, 2015 /in News and Blogs, Tour Preview /by IJGT Admin
To kick off the IJGT Northeast Tour, the IJGT will travel north to host the IJGT Battle at Laurel Hill Golf Course in Lorton, Va., on March 14-15, 2015.
This exciting event will take place on one of Northern Virginia's newest premier courses, Laurel Hill Golf Course. The 18-hole municipal course was designed by Bill Love following traditional ideals where the natural beauty of the area is allowed to dictate the course's character.
Opened in 2005, Laurel Hill Golf Course has joined the likes of Torrey Pines as one of the premier municipal courses in the nation. With wide-open, windswept greens difficult more due to length than trees or water hazards, this course boasts six sets of tees. Complete with a driving range with grass and mat stations and target greens as well as a short-game practice area, the visually stunning course measures over 7,000 yards with a par of 71.
The course was ranked multiple times (2009, 2011, 2013, 2014) in Golfweek's Best of List for Municipal Courses. In 2013 the USGA chose the course as its host for the 2013 Amateur Public Links Championship. Juniors will be competing for IJGT Merit Points and national rankings.
In the Boys 15-19 Division, David Ross of Lorton, Va., will look to add a second win to his IJGT resume at Laurel Hill. Ross' first win came at the IJGT Junior at Hershey Links in 2013. Since, Ross has notched two top-10 finishes, one at the College Series at Penn State University and the Major Championship at Outdoor Country Club.
Chris Brugge of Vienna, Va., Jordan Stein of Lagrangeville, N.Y., and Will Swirski of Fairfax, Va. will all be in the hunt for a win in their inaugural IJGT event.
In the Girls Division, Ashni Dhruva of Katy, Texas, will appear in just her second IJGT event. Dhruva finished second in the IJGT Junior at Palmetto Dunes earlier this month.
Be sure to follow @IJGT on Twitter for live updates and download the IJGT app for live scoring.
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IJGT Junior at Palmetto Dunes – Tour Preview
The IJGT will return to Hilton Head Island, S.C., to host the IJGT Junior at Palmetto Dunes on February 28-March 1, 2015.
The two-day, 36-hole event will be played on the George Fazio course, Hilton Head Island's only par-70 public golf course. Named the 2014 South Carolina Golf Course of the Year by the SC Golf Course Owners Association, the Fazio course has just two par-5s to compliment a series of long par-4s. The challenging course features open, tree-lined fairways on the front nine, but the back nine becomes tighter and more severe.
The IJGT Junior at Palmetto Dunes features an exciting field of talented junior golfers. In the Girls Division, Yeji Ahn of Changwon-City, South Korea, is coming off back-to-back top-four finishes in the IJGT Junior at Hilton Head National and the Carolina Classic at Colleton River. Also keep an eye out for Sera Tadokoro of Osaka, Japan, who has three first-place finishes this season.
In the Boys 15-19 Division, Santiago Diaz of Merida, Mexico, is looking for his third IJGT championship of the season. He is currently ranked fifth on the International Junior Golf Tour and coming off a third-place finish in the Georgia Junior at Savannah Harbor. Kanata Irei of Okinawa-shi, Japan, and Ritwik Jain of New Delhi, India, tied for fourth in another IJGT Junior this spring, the IJGT Junior at Hilton Head National, and will look to outdo one another at Palmetto Dunes.
Tennoshin Ogawa of Ichinomiya-shi, Japan, and Geuntae Kim of Daegu, South Korea, performed well in last season's Major Championship at Palmetto Dunes: Ogawa finished second and Kim tied for fifth.
In the Boys 14 & Under Division, players to watch include York, Pa., native Evan Greenplate, Xiaofeng Hu of Qiang Dao, China and Chase Phillips of Hilton Head Island, S.C. Greenplate hasn't finished below second place in an IJGT event this season. Phillips is coming off a win at the IJGT Junior at Hilton Head National and Hu is coming off a second-place finish in the Boys 14 & Under Division of the Lowcountry Junior at Wexford Plantation.
The field for the IJGT Junior includes competitors from 13 states and 16 countries. Juniors will be competing for national rankings and IJGT Merit Points during the tournament. Be sure to follow @IJGT on Twitter for live updates and download the IJGT app for live scoring.
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Lowcountry Junior at Wexford Plantation – Tour Preview
January 19, 2015 /in News and Blogs, Tour Preview /by IJGT Admin
The IJGT will host the Lowcountry Junior at Wexford Plantation in Hilton Head Island, S.C., on January 31 – February 1, 2015. Junior golfers will be competing for IJGT Merit Points and national rankings during the two-day, 36-hole tournament.
The recently-renovated Arnold Palmer Signature Golf Course at Wexford Plantation plays through tall, majestic oaks and stately pines before continuing around the harbor and coastal marshlands. It was rated one of the Top 100 Residential Golf Courses in the U.S. in Golfweek Magazine's 2014 Ultimate Guide to Golf Course Living & Great Escapes. Its six sets of tees range from 4,670 yards to 6,913 yards, allowing the course to offer a challenge at any distance.
The course's signature hole is the 380-yard 18th, which requires a tee shot over a marsh and up a dogleg right fairway, then an approach shot over another marsh to the green. The challenge of the course combined with a competitive field will make this a tournament you do not want to miss.
In the Boys 15-19 Division, Brent Rodgers of Cranberry Township, Pa., will look to improve upon his most recent top-15 finish at the IJGA Invitational in December of 2014. A victory at the Lowcountry Junior at Wexford Plantation would be Rodgers' first IJGT victory of his career. Also in the Boys 15-19 Division is Matthew Cesare of Milford, Conn., who will look to make a statement with his first appearance in an IJGT event.
Kelly Whaley of Farmington, Conn., will be one to watch in the Girls Division as she looks to extend her two-win streak after winning the IJGT College Series at NC State and the Major Championship at Dormie Club in the fall season of 2014. Also looking to continue a winning streak is Yunjie Zhang of Haikou City, China. After her win at the Thanksgiving Day Classic at TPC Sawgrass on Nov. 27-29, 2014, Zhang will be in pursuit of her second consecutive win this season.
If you have not yet registered for the Lowcountry Junior at Wexford Plantation, there's still time! Click here for more information or to sign up.
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Major Championship at Dormie Club – Tour Preview
October 27, 2014 /in News and Blogs, Tour Preview /by IJGT Admin
The IJGT will host the Major Championship at Dormie Club in West End, N.C., on November 8-9, 2014. This two-day event will be the second Major of the fall season and will be an 18-hole event held on Saturday and Sunday. At stake are IJGT merit points and national rankings.
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Awarded "second-best course to play in North Carolina" by GOLFWEEK in 2013, Dormie Club is built on 307 acres and located in the middle of 1,028 acres of rolling sand hills and has no sand bunkers. All traps are considered waste bunkers. There is a 110′ change of elevation across the property. Dormie Club is not a course lined with homes and is visually pleasing, making it an ideal course for walking. Lacking rough, the course is playable for golfers of all skill levels but not at the expense of delivering a challenge nonetheless.
Dormie Club Golf Course
In the Boys 15-19 Division, Shiso Go of Kanagawa, Japan, Nicholas Russell of Bluffton, S.C., and Tennoshin Ogawa of Ichinomiya-shi, Japan will be players to watch. Go currently sits in second for the IJGT Tour Rankings and in four tournaments played has posted three top-three finishes including a win at the IJGT College Series at NC State on September 20-21, 2014. Russell comes off of a tie for second at the Georgia Open at Savannah Quarters on October 18-19, 2014. Also top-15 in the IJGT Tour Rankings, Russell will look to make a move for his first ever win in a Major. Ogawa , just behind Go in the Tour Rankings in third, has never won a Major either and will look to improve on his personal best second place at the Major Championship at Palmetto Dunes in November of 2013.
In the Girls Division, the Major will be the first event of the season for Ana Paula Valdes of Morelia, Mexico. Valdes has participated in five Majors and placed in the top 10 all five times, winning twice. She will look to continue with her streak. Mind Puangcharoen of Chonburi, Thailand, will look to contend with Valdes in what will be her first Major of her IJGT career. Puangcharoen is currently top 10 in the Tour Rankings and has finished in the top 3 in two of three events this season.
To register or for more information about the Major Championship at Dormie Club, click here.
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In this, our last post about learnings from cyber awareness month, we focus on developing the next generation of cybersecurity experts and increasing its size. According to a study by the Center for Cyber Safety and Education, within five years there will be a shortage of 1.8 million data security workers. This means companies will find it increasingly difficult to hire and retain qualified employees to protect their data systems. Cyber Awareness Month included programs encouraging students and others to explore jobs in cybersecurity, and emphasized programs such as the National Cyber Collegiate Defense Competition and the U.S. Cyber Challenge.
Offer internships for students in the cybersecurity field. This will not only give you access to the latest learning in the area, but also create relationships with individuals who could become new and valuable employees down the line. Internships can become an inside track for an employer to secure valuable talent.
Support (financially and otherwise) employees who wish to pursue education in the cybersecurity field. It will not only increase morale and employee loyalty, but could also give you access to highly valued skills and knowledge via an already-known and valued employee.


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Martin Delany: Why did the "Father of Black Nationalism" become a recruiter for the Union Army???
October 5, 2013 Ro Ho	0 Comments
October 4, 2013, 1:02 pm By ETHAN J. KYTLE
"We most heartily endorse the earnest and energetic efforts being put forth by Mr. Delaney, and John Jones of this city, towards the enlistment of volunteers for the Artillery Brigade, to be composed entirely of colored men," announced The Chicago Tribune on Oct. 2, 1863. The article focused on black Union recruitment in the city, a process that had been in full swing for months across the North and Union-occupied South. But the paper was burying the lede: by the fall of 1863 Mr. Delany – Martin Robison Delany, the nation's foremost advocate for black migration out of the country – had become one of Uncle Sam's best recruiters.
Since the 1850s, Delany had urged black Americans to band together and leave the United States for Latin America or Africa. After traveling to Western Africa to scout out potential sites for a black colony at the end of the decade, he spent the first few years of the Civil War spreading the gospel of emigration across the North. In March 1863, he visited Chicago, where, decked out in the "the wedding dress" of an African chief, he offered a series of lectures on African economic and cultural potential.
Yet Delany never left for Africa. Just weeks after touting the continent in Chicago, in fact, he began recruiting black soldiers for the all-black Massachusetts 54th Regiment. Over the next few years, Delany helped to fill several more black regiments before earning a major's commission in the Union Army and heading to South Carolina in early 1865.
Why did Delany — who has been portrayed as "the founding father of black nationalism" — plant his stake in American soil?
The answer lies in the fact that contrary to what subsequent generations believed, Delany was never a black separatist. Union recruitment, like emigration before it, was largely a tactical shift for him. He never viewed the creation of an independent black nation as a goal in and of itself. What Delany cared about most was the destruction of slavery and other barriers to African-American uplift, by any means necessary.
A free-born African-American from Virginia, Delany had been an active social reformer since he settled in Pittsburgh in the 1830s. He was a leader of the Pittsburgh Anti-Slavery Society and Young Men's Literary and Moral Reform Society, as well as the founder and editor of two important black newspapers, The Mystery and, with Frederick Douglass, The North Star.
Unlike many antebellum reformers, Delany was flexible when it came to the question of how to combat slavery and racial injustice. He thought that black institutions — churches, schools and newspapers — were essential tools, but he also worked closely with white abolitionists. He admired the Garrisonians' rejection of the Constitution and strategy of moral suasion, which sought to effect change by converting hearts and minds, but unlike them he did not agree that engagement in a political system was "a naive plunge into a smarmy world of compromise and accomodation." Indeed, despite being disenfranchised by Pennsylvania state law, Delany actively campaigned for Liberty Party candidates in the 1840s.
In other moments, though, Delany was among the most militant voices in the country. After escaping a white mob in mid-1848, he advised free blacks to study "military tactics … so as to enable them to measure arms with assailants without and invaders within." The following year he called on American slaves to join "the oppressed of every nation" in a global war for freedom. "Let him be taught that he dare strike for liberty," he wrote, "let him know this, and he at once rises up disenthralled — a captive redeemed from the portals of infamy to the true dignity of his nature — an elevated freeman."
As American racial politics worsened in the early 1850s, however, Delany became convinced that the reform solutions that he had promoted since the 1830s — self-help, moral suasion, political agitation, violent resistance — were ineffectual. Emigration, he concluded, was the only hope for black Americans. He announced this new stance in his 1852 work "The Condition, Elevation, Emigration, and Destiny of the Colored People of the United States," which became the most influential emigration manifesto of its day. This hastily penned book outlined the obstacles African-Americans faced, their achievements despite limited opportunities and a plan for mass emigration.
Delany initially counseled his brethren to move to Central America, South America or the West Indies, but by the end of the decade he had set his sights on Africa. In 1859, he went on a nine-month scouting expedition to Western Africa, where he negotiated a treaty for land upon which to locate his colony.
Delany's African emigration plan tapped into his faith in black-led reform efforts, his avowed racial pride and his romantic attachment to African history and culture. It did not, however, bespeak a belief that whites and black were incompatible, despite the critiques of colleagues like Douglass and William Lloyd Garrison. As Delany wrote Garrison in 1852, "I am not in favor of caste, nor a separation of the brotherhood of mankind, and would as willingly live among white men as black, if I had an equal possession and enjoyment of privileges." Delany simply refused to "be reconciled to live among" whites, "subservient to their will — existing by mere sufferance, as we, the colored people, do, in this country."
Emigration, then, was a fresh approach to a new context. Increasingly alienated from his "own native land," as Delany called the United States, the black emigrationist wanted to build a colony in which African-Americans were part of the body politic. "A people, to be free, must necessarily be their own rulers," he argued in 1854, "that is, each individual must, in himself, embody the essential ingredient — so to speak — of the sovereign principle which composes the true basis of his liberty."
Even as he promoted emigration, Delany did not give up on more localized solutions to the problems that plagued black America. Despite believing that his African colony would have a "reflex influence" on the United States that would "cleft the manacle of every slave in the land," Delany continued to support more direct assaults on slavery. In May 1858 he organized and chaired a convention for John Brown, who was recruiting black troops for his war against slavery.
The following year, Delany began publishing "Blake; or the Huts of America," a serialized novel that imagined a hemispheric-wide slave revolt led by the Cuban-born hero Henry Blake. After escaping from a Mississippi plantation, Blake travels across the Deep South, "sowing the seeds of future devastation and ruin to the master and redemption to the slave." Eventually, Blake returns to Cuba, where he gathers a large group of followers who declare him "General-in-Chief of the army of emancipation of the oppressed men and women of Cuba!"
Delany outlined a similar plan in the first few months of the Civil War, telling a fellow abolitionist that he hoped to create an all-black Union "corps d'Afrique" modeled on the Zouaves, an elite French North African fighting force who were renowned for their valor, martial prowess and distinctive uniforms (they wore fezzes, baggy red trousers and loose jackets). Although this bold vision never came to fruition, it suggests that from the earliest days of the conflict Delany was thinking about ways to turn the war into a vehicle of emancipation in which black men played a leading role.
That opportunity at last emerged on Jan. 1, 1863, when Lincoln issued his final Emancipation Proclamation. By not only immediately freeing slaves in rebel territories but also calling for the recruitment and arming of black men, the president seemed to be working directly out of the Pittsburgh activist's playbook.
Within months of the proclamation, Delany shifted from steering black men across the Atlantic toward sending them south to fight the Confederacy. The War Department's change in policy, in other words, led Delany to make yet another tactical shift. It was a brand new day, he announced in a recruitment poster: "Colored citizens: The hour you have so long waited for has struck. Your country calls you. Instead of repelling, as hitherto, your patriotic offers, she now invites your services … The millions of your brethren still in bondage implore you to strike for their freedom. Will you heed their cry?"
Many did. Over the next couple years, Delany — who was the first African-American to earn a state recruitment contract — filled regiments for Rhode Island, Ohio, Massachusetts and Connecticut. Buoyed by this record of success, he dreamed of expanding his recruitment efforts into the Confederacy.
In early February 1865, Delany visited the White House to pitch Lincoln on a plan to form a new black army, which would be "commanded entirely by black officers, except such whites as may volunteer to serve." He predicted that this force could "penetrate through the heart of the South, and make conquests, with the banner of Emancipation unfurled, proclaiming freedom as they go, sustaining and protecting it by arming the emancipated, taking them as fresh troops, and leaving a few veterans among the new freedmen, when occasion requires." Finally, the Union would benefit from the full weight of the millions of slaves who still lived behind Confederate lines.
According to Delany's account of the meeting, Lincoln responded enthusiastically to this proposal, calling it "the very thing that I have been looking and hoping for; but nobody offered it." Turning toward Delany, he then asked, "Will you take command?" Delany agreed. Not long after, he became the first black man commissioned as a major in the Union Army.
Before he headed south, Delany visited Xenia, Ohio, where he gave a speech "in full uniform." A white reporter described the remarkable scene: "Major Delany … is black — black as the blackest — large, heavy set, vigorous, with a bald, sleek head, which shines like a newly polished boot. And he wears brass buttons and shoulder straps! and is an officer in the army of the Union! These sentences record the history of the progress of the country during the war!"
African-Americans elsewhere got their own glimpse of this striking encapsulation of the changes wrought by the Civil War that spring. To honor Delany's recent commission, The Weekly Anglo-African advertised a 25-cent postcard portrait of the nation's leading black emigrationist, who had traded his African dashiki for Union blue.
http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/10/04/trading-an-african-dashiki-for-union-blue/
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How to overcome Class B catch 22 situation?
Class B hindering ERTMS deployment
The European Parliament draft report (24/02/2021), assessing the state of play of the ERTMS deployment is a sharp analysis of the current situation, identifying the major hurdles in the aim to increase the speed of deployment tenfold.
One of the main challenges for the roll out of ERTMS is the lack of a functioning market for Class B systems, creating a vendor lock in market environment. It doesn't have to be like this, solutions are on the horizon.
Imagine a freight Railway Undertaking (RU) receiving a request from its best client to transport a shipment to or even through a country previously not served within its services. Regardless of the number of locomotives needed, currently, it will be impossible to get a clear timeline from a manufacturer to get the necessary Class B hardware and systems upgrade, if one is even available. Moreover, from a budget point of view, there is no other option for the RU to accept whatever offer it will receive since the technology platforms of the current suppliers are fully proprietary. New manufacturers creating Class B solutions independently face high barriers to entry since the system specifications and source codes are not public, so there is no market for aftermarket Class B products. For much of the same reasons, there is no functioning STM market for freight Railway Undertakings. In this real-life example, the Railway Undertaking will have to inform its client to either use road transport or check with one of its competitors which has locomotives equipped for the request.
Now imagine a locomotive with a digital ETCS on board unit as an operating system which allows installing STM's overnight, being paid for on a usage base, which means you can also remove the STM if no longer required. This would be called "STM-as-a-service" like in the well-known "Software-as-a-service / SaaS". What a world of difference would this be.
How to leverage digital STM's?
Up and coming TheSignallingCompany is providing an ETCS Onboard Solution with such possibilities.
At TheSignallingCompany we have a rail dream, of a RailAppStore filled with functional and safety-critical apps which can be downloaded to any locomotive overnight. Both price for installing or usage of the app are open for anyone to consult. Among the apps available will be Class B systems for several European countries until the ERTMS deployment is fully implemented.
This kind of solution will create an actual functioning market in Signalling, allowing new and innovative players to grow in an ecosystem, where app developers are free to choose the business model they like, ensuring competition. Building an ecosystem takes time and a variety of organisations. That is why TheSignallingCompany signed a MoU with CAF Signalling to cooperate on this and invites other organisations to join this partnership.
The creation of such an eco-system, involving a wide variety of app developers, is an obligatory passage to achieve success in EU Rail policy. This benefits for EU shippers, passengers and rail in general are clearly stated in several reports of the European Court of Auditors. It will help to reach the goal of operating a train as easily as to operate a truck in Europe.
With the digital TheSignallingCompany OBU and a RailAppStore filled with Class B apps, the lack of STM's doesn't have to be a bottleneck for ERTMS roll out. They facilitate the dual on-board strategy until full ERTMS deployment and rebalance the burdens of the investments needed, by providing a technologically superior, easy to access and transparently priced product to Railway Undertakings.
STM's as a keystone for the EU Mobility Strategy and Green Deal?
The draft report of the EP points, crucially and correctly, to the fact the ERTMS is essential to realise Europe's grand ambitions on mobility (Sustainable and Smart Mobility Strategy) and sustainability (the EU Green Deal). Rail is indeed the most sustainable mode of transport, but did not yet achieve its full potential, as stated in the draft report.
The EP draft report and the European Coordinator, Mr. Mathias Ruete, asked for and are working on decommissioning strategy for Class B. Maybe we need to rethink the framework and apply new technology to use the gradual decommissioning as a lever to accelerate ETCS roll out. As Mr. Ruete analysed: having two systems in parallel makes no sense. So why not merge the two systems into one, where ETCS and STM's are complementary elements of a digital ecosystem, in order to realise the full potential of rail in Europe.
End of opinion paper
About The Signalling Company
We are building a better ETCS onboard solution, to make the signalling system of the future cost-effective, flexible and future-proof.
The Signalling Company is the result of a joint-venture between two Belgian companies: ERTMS Solutions, an industry leader in railway testing, maintenance and systems integration, and Lineas, the largest private rail freight operator in Europe.
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Mr. Anderson co-founded Paragon in 1993. From the time of inception of the company until fall 2014, he was the VP of Engineering and Chief Engineer of the company and was responsible for the design and implementation of not only many of Paragon's technical achievements, but also its processes of engineering rigor in a stepped approach of requirements, design, build, test and delivery. This process has been cited by many customers as unique, disciplined and highly productive. Coming from a background of not only technical but financial and managerial training, he has held diverse positions at Paragon including Treasurer/Secretary, CFO, Sr. VP of Operations, Chief Operating Officer and Director of Manufacturing.
Recognized as a leader in the life support in extreme environments field, Mr. Anderson has lead the systems and conceptual design of multiple spacecraft under contract to Lockheed Martin, NASA, Inspiration Mars Foundation and others. He holds multiple patents in a diverse range of disciplines including testing systems, isolation systems, radiator systems and overall systems design. He has lead development and qualification of experimental flight hardware for five shuttle flights, two Mir missions, a Russian Progress, and the first commercial payload on ISS. Prior to starting Paragon, Mr. Anderson was the Chief Design Engineer for the International Space Station Solar Array Program–the largest solar arrays ever built–while employed at Lockheed Martin, Sunnyvale, CA.
Mr. Anderson holds two degrees from Stanford University in Mechanical Engineering (B.S.) and Aeronautical and Astronautical Engineering (M.S.) and is a registered Professional Engineer in the state of California. His diverse education/training included non-technical roles such as Controller for a Palo Alto, CA real estate firm during college where he implemented some of the first computers into the company's financial systems to track and monitor property financial performance. Working at an aviation consultancy, he participated in the start-up of two airlines through route analysis, equipment analysis and strategy advice. One went on to be America West, now part of American Airlines. Mr. Anderson is also a graduate of the International Space University 1991 summer session with emphasis on space business and management.
In his spare time, Mr. Anderson is an avid bicyclist and is known to ride solo for hundreds of miles to clear his mind.
Mr. Anderson lives in Tucson with his wife of almost 30 years, Ines, and their three children.
Mr. Johnson has more than 15 years experience in a wide range of professional Accounting and Finance leadership positions. Prior to joining Paragon Mr. Johnson spent three years at Raytheon Corporation in the Raytheon Missile Systems business unit where he maintained responsibility for the $4B+ Income Statement and was the lead interface for internal Earned Value Management Systems (EVMS) reporting. Additionally Mr. Johnson worked in the Business Office as the Financial Planner of the Kinetic Energy Interceptor Program during some of its initial development and planning stages and in the Business Office of the Lockheed Martin/Raytheon Javelin Joint Venture. Prior to joining Raytheon Corporation, Mr. Johnson was the Assistant Controller/Finance Manager at Columbia University's Biosphere 2 Center overseeing all the Financial Operations of the organization. Prior to the Biosphere 2 Center, Mr. Johnson spent several years in Big 5 Public Accounting working as an auditor for both Ernst & Young LLP and Deloitte & Touche LLP. Mr. Johnson holds a B.S. in Business Administration from the University of Arizona with double majors in Accounting and Finance and is also a Certified Public Accountant.
Mr. Finger maintains the technical excellence of the company's Life Support and Thermal Control products through the diligent application of innovation, value-added program gate reviews, efficient procedures, coordination between engineering and other internal and external organizations, and the evaluation and selection of tools, personnel, and training. He previously served as the Inspiration Mars ECLSS Technical Lead and was responsible for the on-time delivery of prototype life support subsystems, hardware, and data products. Other significant roles at Paragon include Director of Advanced Concepts and Business Development, Commercial Crew Transport–Air Revitalization System (CCT-ARS) Project Manager, and ECLSS technical lead on the Excalibur Almaz and the Rocketplane Kistler programs. Prior to joining Paragon, Mr. Finger served as the ECLSS Manager for Bigelow Aerospace where he led a lean team of engineers and technicians that developed ECLSS for commercial human spaceflight vehicles. During his time at Bigelow, the team successfully launched the first two long-duration inflatable spacecraft into low earth orbit. Mr. Finger previously served as the International Space Station (ISS) Sustaining Engineering (SE) Program Manager for Honeywell where he managed ISS SE activities related to the support of company flight hardware and systems aboard ISS. He also previously served as an ECLSS design engineer for Hamilton Sundstrand at the Johnson Space Center (JSC) and the Dynamac Corporation at the Kennedy Space Center (KSC). Mr. Finger received a B.S. and M.S. in Aerospace Engineering from the University of Florida.
Ms. Haas directs the business development and marketing efforts for Paragon. Prior to joining Paragon, she had more than 25 years of global business experience with Fortune 100 and startup companies in diverse industries including aerospace, energy and entertainment. Her aerospace experience includes engineering and project management roles on the Space Shuttle and International Space Station as well as program management roles on several programs at Moog (formerly Schaeffer Magnetics).
Her corporate background includes stints as Vice-President and General Manager at the Sony DVD Center which launched the DVD format worldwide and Vice President Business Development for the Sony Pictures Digital Studios Division. Ms. Haas has been recognized in several areas, including the NASA Silver Snoopy Award, Engineer of the Year honoree, and the President's Leadership award at Rockwell International/Rocketdyne (now Boeing). She is the recipient of the Sony CEO Award in Tokyo and the Sony 50th Anniversary Innovation Award. Ms. Haas is a member of the Television Academy of Arts and Sciences and served on the Susan G. Komen Board of Directors. Leslie received her B.S. degree in Industrial Engineering from Texas A&M University and her MBA from Pepperdine University in Malibu, California.
Ms. Camarena brings years of experience in the many facets of manufacturing, along with the ability to greet each new challenge with a positive attitude. Ms. Camarena's strong leadership and her ambition for success is an excellent combination as the manufacturing manager. She leads multiple departments, including Manufacturing, Purchasing, scheduling, inventory, Logistics, as well as being the Program Manager for Orion Environmental Control and Life Supports Systems (ECLSS) tubing, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, and Rolls Royce NA Engine Systems. Prior to joining Paragon in 2008, Ms. Camarena worked in the energy field during college, She became the Operations Manager for a state of the art optics company in Santa Fe NM. The company relocated to Tucson (the Optics capital) in 2004 and this is what brought her to Arizona.
Mr. Wise has over 35 years of experience in the aerospace manufacturing industry providing supporting roles as Quality Assurance Manager, Quality Engineering and Manufacture Engineering. Danny has worked for various aerospace manufacturing companies that provided aerospace components for companies such as Raytheon, Honeywell and General Dynamics. He is responsible for the administration and compliance of the quality management system to AS9100 aerospace standard in support of customer such as NASA, Boeing, Lockheed Martin, US Navy, and private contracts.


Jawaharlal Nehru University Students' Union(JNUSU) President Kanhaiya Kumar today moved Delhi High Court for bail. The Application is moved by Advocate Vrinda Grover and Sushil Bajaj before the Delhi High Court pursuant to the Supreme Court direction.
"The High Court's Registry sources said the case will not come up for hearing on Friday. Mr. Kumar's lawyers Sushil Bajaj and Vrinda Grover first mentioned the petition before the High Court's Registrar (Listing) Loren Bamniyal and later filed additional papers with the bail plea. According to IANS, his plea is likely to be heard on Monday. The lawyers arrived in the High Court with a huge posse of policemen following the apex court's directions to the Centre and Delhi Police to ensure proper security arrangements for them on the High Court premises".
Earlier Today a two Judge Bench of the Supreme Court had refused to entertain the Bail Application filed by Kumar under Article 32 of the Constitution of India. The Bench comprising of Justice Chelameshwar and AM Spare asked the lawyers 'why didn't you approach the Delhi High Court?" Solicitor General Ranjit Kumar argued that there was no safety issues in Delhi High Court. He questioned the maintainability of the Petition under Article 32 of the Constitution on the ground that the alternate remedy was available for the Petitioner. The Supreme Court directed to move the Petition to Delhi High Court and directed the High Court to consider the Application expeditiously.


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Prof. William Wagner - 'Conscience' as an aspect of 'Religion' Under the Religion Clauses of the United States' Constitution: The Current State of the Question
Prof. William Wagner is professor of law and director of the Program of Studies in Jurisprudence at the Columbus School of Law, The Catholic University of America, where he is also Faculty Editor of the Journal of Law, Philosophy and Culture. He has a J.D. from Yale University Law School, and a Ph.D. in Moral Theology from The Catholic University of America. He has taught, published widely, and organised leading conferences in jurisprudence, law and religion, and constitutional law. He has most recently published on 'The Changing Meaning of Tolerance in American Constitutional Law' (2011). A member of the editorial boards of the American Journal of Jurisprudenceand the American Journal of Comparative Law, he has been Fulbright Research Scholar at the Max Planck Institute for Public International and Comparative Law, Heidelberg, and Visiting Research Professor at the Faculty of Law and Center for Religion and Society, Bonn. Currently he is a visiting Fellow at Clare Hall, Cambridge.
Transcript coming soon.
Piers Tattersall - Unravelling Values: Has Conscience Anything to Do with Aesthetic Taste?
Piers Tattersall is a musician who has studied composition at the Royal Northern College of Music and the Royal College of Music. His works have been performed at Salisbury Cathedral, Cadogan Hall, and Peacock Theatre (Saddlers Wells). He has worked with groups like The Orpheus Sinfonia, London Children's Ballet, The Composers Ensemble, and The Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra as well as student orchestras. He is now working on a commission from the Britten Sinfonia for solo violin and chamber orchestra to be performed by the Norwegian violinist Henning Kraggerud. He is an Intern of the Thomas More Institute, devoting a portion of his time to research, in respect of which this paper amounts to 'work in progress'.
The following paper was given by Piers Tattersall at the Thomas More Institute on 25 May 2011
The Rt. Rev. Michael Nazir-Ali - Britain on the Brink: What has Christian Faith to Do with Essential Values?
The Rt. Rev. Michael Nazir-Ali had his early education in Pakistan where he has a family background that is both Christian and Muslim. He holds British and Pakistani citizenships. His university education was received at Karachi, Cambridge and Oxford, and he has taught theology at university level in both countries. In Pakistan he served as an Anglican parish priest, as Provost of Lahore Cathedral, and as first Bishop of Raiwind. From 1994 until his resignation in 1999 he was Bishop of Rochester, the first non-white diocesan bishop in the Church of England. He has published widely and spoken often on themes related to faith and public policy, and he has been untiring in pointing out the importance of the Judaeo-Christian tradition to the future of the West. He is besides a poet in both English and Persian.
The following is the transcript of a seminar paper given by the Rt. Rev. Michael Nazir Ali at the Thomas More Institute on 6 April 2011
Prof. Dr. Ingrid Detter de Frankopan - New Forms of Sovereignty and the Right to Protect (R2P)
Prof. Dr. Frankopan is Emeritus Professor of International Law at Stockholm University and sometime Fellow of Lady Margaret Hall and of St. Antony's College, Oxford. She is now a practising Barrister in London. She holds two doctorates, a D.Phil. from Oxford and a Jur. Dr. degree from Stockholm, as well as a Licence en droit from Paris and a Diploma in European Law from Turin. She has published fourteen books on international law, including The Law of War, published by Cambridge University Press (2nd edn.., 2000; 3rd edn., in preparation).
The following is a transcript of a seminar paper given by Prof. Dr. Ingrid Detter de Frankopan at the Thomas More Institute on 16 March 2011
Professor Brenda Almond - The Right to Disagree: Challenging the New Orthodoxy About the Family
Professor Brenda Almond is Emeritus Professor of Moral and Social Philosophy at the University of Hull. She holds an honorary doctorate for her work in philosophy from Utrecht University and is an elected foreign member of the Austrian Academy of Sciences.
The following paper was given by Professor Almond at the Thomas More Institute on 26 January 2011
Fiona Scolding - Religion and Equality: Incompatible Concepts?
Fiona Scolding is a barrister at Hardwicke Building in London who practises in the area of education and human rights work. She has been involved in a number of cases about the interrelationship of faith and equality, especially in the educational context.
The following seminar was given by Fiona Scolding on religion and equality at the Thomas More Institute on 15 December 2010
Francis Davis - Beyond Bureaucracy: The 'Big Society' After the Spending Review
Francis Davis is a UK ministerial policy Adviser on the 'Big Society', having previously been Adviser to the former Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government. He is a Visiting Fellow in Civic Innovation at the Helen Suzman Foundation, Johannesburg, South Africa.
Dr. Jacqueline Laing - Institutionalising Homicide, Vested Interests and Freedom of Conscience
Dr. Jaqueline Laing is Director of Juris, a forum for jurisprudential discussion at London Metropolitan University where she teaches Jurisprudence and Criminal Law. She took her doctorate in Jurisprudence at the University of Oxford, after studying philosophy and law at the Australian National University. She has taught at Oxford, briefly at the Open University, and at Melbourne. She practised law as a Crown Prosecutor and as Associate to Justice of the Supreme Court of the Australian Capital Territory and Federal Court of Australia. She has contributed to numerous broadcast discussions on medical law and ethics. Her publications include Human Lives: Critical Essays on Consequentialist Bioethics, and articles in academic journals, both legal and philosophical. Founder of Juris at City Campus, she helped organise the Juris inaugural conference 'Disability Matters: Exploring Contemporary Disability and Welfare Issues', and 'Life and Death Matters: Disability Rights and Incapacity' at London Metropolitan University.
Jaqueline Laing gave a seminar at the Thomas More Institute on 26 September 2010. The following is a paper by her published earlier on the same topic.


for being inspired by my pattern and wanted to Spotlight You to Say it means so much to me.
" I made a sweater inspired by the pattern you sent me. The pattern was easy to understand, but at the time, I wasn't comfortable using slip stitches to make a whole garment. So I improvised. (I probably would've improvised anyway - patterns are "suggestions" for me!) I used herringbone half double crochet for the yoke and borders, and then single crochet-chain for the body." I made it using a wool, silk, angora blend (sheffield) from yarn.com.
"You totally Rock! The sweater looks Awesome and love the color and great stitch definition. I so understand using patterns to improvise, I do it often. I am super happy and your email has me happily emotional, yes I get emotional over creativity.. lol.
Thanks for trying the pattern.
"Thanks for the compliment! I wear the sweater often, and with pride. And I do understand getting emotional about creativity - it warms my heart to make things and to see things that other people make."
I've been crocheting for the last 23 years and continue to enjoy it immensely. When I started crocheting my projects were mainly afghans, lap blankets & baby blankets and honestly didn't think much more about doing anything else. However, over the last 4 years, I have ventured into crocheting accessories & garments and love it. Last year, I created a simple garment that I felt represented my style and decided to share my pattern that requires basic crocheting skills.
When I thought about writing a pattern, I was totally baffled in that I was clueless on how to begin. However, being that I am a creative freestyle person, I decided, despite my drawbacks in designing to go full throttle and made notes as I worked up the pattern. Wrote some more.... tore up what I wrote and started all over again and after writing the last row and another sweater, that it will be what it is. Hence the Oowee Sweater.
I'm looking forward to creating more basic crochet garments down the road, but wanted to share SewOm's beautiful garment. I give a big shout-out to the designers out there that have and continue to design beautiful garments and hope to reach their status one day.
Again, Thanks SewOm and to Others that have inspired me and continue.
Lovely design. Both of your sweaters are beautiful.
Sharing this with my mom, who just started crocheting again. You have been busy - I wish I had your mojo!
Thank you Sheila! And thank you everyone else for the compliments and encouragement.
The sweater by SewOm is lovely (as is your design.
What a bonus that you were able to inspire someone else with your design cuz you've got yourself a great looking sweater! I love crotchet garments!
Ooowee! I see a Oowee Sweater in my future.
Wow, fabulous sweater. I have been trying to teach myself to crochet. You're definilty one of my motivators. Love all of the stuff you make.


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Tadej Pogačar wins Tour of California
20 May 2019 - News
Twenty year old Tadej Pogačar has added his name to the roll of honour at the Tour of California, becoming the youngest ever winner in the races history. The young gun from UAE Team Emirates celebrated his success in the World Tour race after having successfully defended the lead on the 141km final stage from Santa Clarita to Pasadena, having become leader of the race 24 hours before after his win on Mt.Baldy. In the final general classification standings, Pogačar led by 16″ on Sergio Higuita (EF Education First) and 17″ on Kasper Asgreen (Deceuninck-Quick-Step).
This is the first year competing in the World Tour for Pogačar, who already this season boasts a stage and the general classification at the Volta ao Algarve. The Slovenian can now add a stage win and his success in the overall standing in California . Pogačar : "Today was amazing, and it has been all week: I'd particularly like to thank all the teammates and the staff. My team worked very hard every day and this yellow jersey is not just for me but for the whole of UAE Team Emirates.
The Mt. Baldy stage was the key moment for me at this Tour of California, but this victory took the whole week to build up to. It's the most beautiful victory of my career, and now I'm just going to focus on building and progressing as a rider. "


Whether you are travelling east or west, a cross-country trip on the TransCanada Highway, will take you along the north shore of Lake Superior. The ribbon of road with its massive rock cuts on one side, and cliffs that drop to the sparking blue waters, far below, are more than reason enough to slow down and take notice.
Schreiber is unique in it's geography as it is the northernmost point of Lake Superior! Located in the heart of the Canadian Shield, the town is situated at the bottom of a rock bowl, surrounded by higher terrain on the west, north, and east sides while to the south the terrain descends towards Lake Superior.
Aside from the majestic topography that is exemplified throughout the area, Schreiber has a rich cultural heritage. Schreiber's existence as a community originated in the late 1800s with the construction of the Canadian Pacific Railway.
With such an intriguing history and pristine natural setting, the community of Schreiber welcomes visitor's to come enjoy the Schreiber Experience!
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Cellular is an elegant game of exploration of space, colour and sound. Its fluid motion, achieved through a rhythmic one-touch input, creates a soothing, engaging experience. With a huge variety of music and colour combinations and many levels of difficulty to explore, curiosity is richly rewarded.
Born of our experience of single button mechanics for mobile, and inspired by Snake, fl0w and the simple aesthetic of iOS, Cellular gives a deeply satisfying experience that both captivates and delights.
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by AdExchanger // Thursday, December 17th, 2015 – 12:04 am
"Data-Driven Thinking" is written by members of the media community and contains fresh ideas on the digital revolution in media.
Today's column is written by Chris O'Hara, vice president of strategic accounts at Krux.
2015 was a fantastic year for many data-driven marketers, with data management platforms (DMPs), consultancies and marketers getting something nice under their trees.
Unfortunately, 2015 also saw legacy networks, supply-side platforms (SSPs) and some less nimble agencies receive coal in their respective stockings for failing to keep up with the rapidly changing paradigm as marketing and ad technology merge.
In the great tradition of end-of-year prediction articles, here's my take on the year's biggest developments and what we'll see in 2016, including a rapid technology adoption from big marketers, a continuing evolution of the agency model and an outright revolution in how media is procured.
Agency Ascendant?
I thought 2015 was supposed to herald the "death of the digital agency model." As agencies struggled to define their value proposition to big marketers that were increasingly bringing "programmatic in house," agencies were reputed to be on the ropes. Massive accounts with billions of dollars in marketing spend were reviewed, while agencies churned through cash pitching to win new business – or at least trying keep old business.
The result? Agencies swapped a ton of money, but were abandoned by no serious marketers. Agencies got a lot smarter, and starting spinning new digital strategies and DMP practices to combat the likes of system integrators and traditional consultancies. And the band played on.
In 2016, we will continue to see agencies strengthen their digital strategy bench, start moving "marketing automation" practices into the DMP world and offer integration services to help marketers build bespoke "stack" solutions. Trading desks will continue to aggressively pursue unique relationships with big publishers and start to embrace new media procurement methodologies that emphasize their skillset, rather than the bidded approach in open exchanges (more on that below).
Marketers Hug Big Data
Marketers started to "cross the chasm" in 2015 and more widely embrace DMPs. It's no longer just "early adopters" such as Kellogg's that are making the market. Massive top-100 firms have fully embraced DMP tech and are starting to treat online data as fuel for growth.
Private equity and activist investors continue to put the squeeze on CPG companies, which have turned to their own first-party data to find media efficiency as they try to control the one line item in the P&L usually immune to risk management: marketing spend.
Media and entertainment companies are wrangling their consumer data to fuel over-the-top initiatives, which put a true first-party relationship with their viewers front and center. Travel companies are starting to marry their invaluable CRM data to the anonymous online world to put "butts in seats" and "heads in beds."
If 2015 saw 15% of the Fortune 500 engage with DMPs, 2016 is when the early majority will surge and start to make the embrace of DMP tech commonplace. The land grab for 24-month SAAS contracts is on.
Busy Consultants
It used to be a that a senior-level digital guy would get sick of his job and leave it (or his job would leave him), leading to a happy consultant walking around advising three or four clients on programmatic strategy. In 2015, that still exists but we've seen a rise in scale to meet the needs of a rapidly changing digital landscape.
Marketers and publishers are hiring boutique consultancies left and right to get on track (see this excellent, if not comprehensive, list). Also, big boys, including Accenture, Boston Consulting Group and McKinsey, are in the game, as are large, media-centric firms, such as MediaLink.
These shops are advising on data strategy, programmatic media, organizational change management and privacy. They are helping evaluate expensive SAAS technology, including DMPs and yield management solutions, and also doing large systems integrations required to marry traditional databases with DMPs.
Match Rates (Ugh)
Perhaps unpublicized, with the exception of a few nerdy industry pieces, we saw in 2015 a huge focus on "match rates," or the ability for marketers to find matches for their first-party data in other execution systems.
Marketers want to activate their entire CRM databases in the dot-com space, but are finding only 40% to 50% of cookies that map to their valuable lists. When they try to map those cookies to a DSP, more disappointment ensues. As discussed in an earlier article, match rates are hard to get right, and require a relentless focus on user matching, great "onboarding services," strong server-to-server connections between DMPs and DSPs (and other platforms) and a high frequency of user matching.
This was the year that marketers got disappointed in match rates and started to force the industry to find better solutions. Next year, huge marketers will take bold steps to actually share data and create an available identity map of consumers. I think we will see the first real data consortium emerge for the purposes of creating an open identity graph. That's my big prediction – and hope – for 2016.
Head For The Headers
2015 was the year of "header bidding," the catch-all phrase for a software appliance that gives publishers the chance to offer favored demand-side partners a "first look" at valuable inventory. I am not sure if "header bidding" will ultimately become the de facto standard for "workflow automation," but we seem to be relentlessly marching back to a world in which publishers and marketers take control of inventory procurement and get away from the gamesmanship inherent in exchange-based buying.
Big SSPs and networks that have layered bidding tech onto open exchanges are struggling. Demand-side platforms are scrambling to add all sorts of bells and whistles to their "private marketplaces," but the industry evolves.
Next year, we will see the pace of innovation increase, and we have already seen big trade desks make deals with DMPs to access premium publisher inventory. It's nice to see premium publisher inventory increase in value – and I believe it will only continue to do so.
2016 will be the year of "second-party data" and the winners will be the ones with the technology installed to easily transact on it.
2015 was a great year for data-driven marketing, and 2016 will be even more fun. Stay safe out there.
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Mark Vinten worked with Lil Jon as his engineer for his Crunk Juice album and in his latest project, Crunk Rock (a mix of Crunk and Rock music). He has also made music contribution to the Oscar winning movie Hustle and Flow . His engineering credits extended to Nas, Ciara, Usher, Fat Joe, and Method Man just to name a few.
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The Correct Material
I've been watching The Right Stuff on Disney Plus. It's a modern remake of the '80s film of the '70s Tom Wolfe book of '60s events.
It's okay. The main challenge, as a viewer, is keeping track of which of the seven homogenous white guys is which. It's like Merry, Pippin, Ant, Dec, and then some.
It's kind of fun watching it after watching For All Mankind which has some of the same characters following a different counterfactual history.
The story being told is interesting enough (although Tom has pointed out that removing the Chuck Yeager angle really diminishes the narrative). But ultimately the tension is manufactured around a single event—the launch of Freedom 7—that was very much in the shadow of Gargarin's historic Vostok 1 flight.
There are juicier stories to be told, but those stories come from Russia.
Some of these stories have been told in film. The Spacewalker told the amazing story of Alexei Leonov's mission, though it messes with the truth about what happened with the landing and recovery—a real shame, considering that the true story is remarkable enough.
Imagine an alternative to The Right Stuff that relayed the drama of Soyuz 1—it's got everything: friendship, rivalries, politics, tragedy…
I'd watch the heck out of that.
Saturday, November 14th, 2020 1:19pm
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Summer of Apollo
It's July, 2019. You know what that means? The 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 mission is this month.
I've already got serious moon fever, and if you'd like to join me, I have some recommendations…
Watch the Apollo 11 documentary in a cinema. The 70mm footage is stunning, the sound design is immersive, the music is superb, and there's some neat data visualisation too. Watching a preview screening in the Duke of York's last week was pure joy from start to finish.
Listen to 13 Minutes To The Moon, the terrific ongoing BBC podcast by Kevin Fong. It's got all my favourite titans of NASA: Michael Collins, Margaret Hamilton, and Charlie Duke, amongst others. And it's got music by Hans Zimmer.
Experience the website Apollo 11 In Real Time on the biggest monitor you can. It's absolutely wonderful! From July 16th, you can experience the mission timeshifted by exactly 50 years, but if you don't want to wait, you can dive in right now. It genuinely feels like being in Mission Control!
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Spacelogging
When I was gushing enthusiastically about Old Weather, I tried (and failed) to explain what it is that makes it so damn brilliant. I've just experienced some of that same brilliance. This time the source is Spacelog:
Read the stories of early space exploration from the original NASA transcripts. Now open to the public in a searchable, linkable format.
You can now read the transcripts from the Apollo 13 and Mercury 6 missions, and every single utterance has a permalink. For example:
Houston, we've had a problem.
The beauty of the idea is matched in the execution. Everything about the visual design helps to turn something that was previously simply information into an immersive, emotional experience. It's one thing to know that these incredible events took place, it's another to really feel it.
Spacelog shares the spirit of Science Hack Day. It's a /dev/fort creation, put together in an incredibly short period of time; Norm! has the low-down.
Apollo 13 and Mercury 6 are just the start. If you want to help turn more transcripts into an emotionally engaging work of hypertext, everything is available under a public domain license and all the code is available on Github. Transcripts are available for Gemini 6, Apollo 8, and Apollo 11.
I can't wait to read Charlie Duke as hypertext.
Wednesday, December 1st, 2010 1:26am
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To Cape Canaveral… and beyond!
I've always been a space geek. Therefore, I've always wanted to go to the Kennedy Space Center. There's a museum there and a bus tour you can go on. The tour stops five miles away from the launch area and while you can't go into any buildings, the activities within are explained to you.
I fulfilled a fantasy this week. Not only did I go to Cape Canerval but I managed to get an "access all areas" look around the place.
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As it turned out, there hadn't been one of these open days since 2001. We were very, very fortunate and privileged to be allowed behind the scenes at NASA.
In contrast to the regular tour, we drove right up to the launch pads, including launch pad B, which had Discovery rolled out and ready for launch on December 7th. We also got to go inside the Vehicle Assembly Building, something that is normally not allowed. It's incredibly huge. I mean this is seriously big. Imagine a really big building and then imagine it being bigger.
Best of all, we went inside the orbiter hanger. Endeavour was inside. A space shuttle… a freakin' space shuttle! That was just so incredibly cool, I can't even begin to describe it.
I hope I'm not coming across as gloating here: I really just want to share my excitement. It was quite an experience to get so close to the ultimate geek toys. The only way it could have been any better was if Jessica could have been there. Soulmate that she is, I think she might be an even bigger space geek than me.
Clearly, my descriptive powers aren't up to the task of cataloguing the day's sights, so I'll just point you to this photoset on Flickr.
Thanks, Benny!
Sunday, November 19th, 2006 8:17pm
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As digital billboards record customers' reactions to advertisements tailored to them, just who is safeguarding Australians' privacy?
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John Harris on the future of cities Can a new Bradford emerge from a hole in the ground?
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FORT WAYNE, Ind. (WOWO) – Electric Works has announced its selected brokerage teams from two firms for its national and local/regional commercial leasing.
RTM Ventures, the Electric Works' development team, has selected the Indianapolis office of global commercial real estate services firm JLL as its national leasing partner. JLL has a global workforce of nearly 90,000 across 80-plus countries. The leading professional services firm specializes in real estate and investment management.
RTM Ventures has selected Fort Wayne-based The Zacher Company as its local/regional leasing partner. The Zacher Company has established itself as one of the leading commercial real estate firms in Northeast Indiana.
Both JLL and Zacher leasing teams will include real estate experts dedicated to identifying and engaging local, regional and national top-tier commercial and office prospects. They will also work closely with Greater Fort Wayne, the Northeast Indiana Regional Partnership and the Indiana Economic Development Corporation.
The companies will be placed in the West Campus, with creative office, institutional and innovation space comprising more than 300,000 square feet.
Electric Works has announced leases or letters of intent with several organizations within the past few months, including Fort Wayne Metals, Parkview Health, Medical Informatics Engineering, Three Rivers Music Theatre, and Rush Rock Gym.


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OAKLAND, Calif.
It's another violent and outrageous shooting on the books for Oakland. This one happened in broad daylight on the 1700 block of Telegraph Avenue near 17th Street.
It started a little after 4 p.m. with the apparent break in of a white car where a window was smashed and a purse was stolen. It ended minutes later across the streets on Telegraph at the Bad Boyz Hair & Barber Salon where four people were shot.
This apparently started when a man noticed his girlfriend's purse being stolen. Officials say that man ran down 18th Street after two men, confronted them, and got the purse back. But as he was walking back to the Bad Boyz salon, that is when he realized that there was a shooting. We spoke with him exclusively.
"So I'm running around looking for them and then before I could get back I hear a bunch of sirens and then when I hit the corner I see people laying on the ground and they were shot and I found out my girl was shot. I mean, all of this over a broken window and a few meaningless possessions. I mean, it's pointless," he said.
Again, four people were shot. One person is in critical condition. The three others have non-life threatening shootings. A witness says the wounds appear to be in lower extremities including the back.
At this point, police believe all four shooting victims will survive.
No suspects are in custody.


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An international team of researchers have found an infrequent variation in the brightness of a forming star. This 18-month recurring twinkle is not only an unexpected phenomenon for scientists, but its repeated behavior suggests the presence of a hidden planet. This discovery is an early win for the James Clerk Maxwell Telescope (JCMT) Transient Survey, just one-and-a-half years into its three-year mandate to monitor eight galactic stellar nurseries for variations in the brightness of forming stars. This novel study is critical to understanding how stars and planets are assembled. The survey is led by Doug Johnstone, Research Officer at the National Research Council of Canada and Greg Herczeg, Professor at Peking University (China), and is supported by an international team of astronomers from Canada, China, Korea, Japan, Taiwan and the United Kingdom.