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Transportation headlines, Friday, April 11
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Garcetti offers back to the basics in first State of the City speech (L.A. Times)
Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti said the new carpool lane on the northbound 405 over the Sepulveda Pass would open next month (Metro said there's no date set yet), reiterated a pledge to build a rail connection to LAX (the project is still in the study phase) and offered more details on the city's Great Streets Initiative, saying Reseda Boulevard, Gaffey Street and Crenshaw Boulevard would be among those on the list. Of course, work just started earlier this year on the Crenshaw/LAX Line that will run both along and under parts of Crenshaw between Exposition Boulevard and 67th Street.
Some thoughts on near roadway pollution and L.A.'s future (Streetsblog L.A.)
Interesting post based on a forum held this week about pollution from roads that spills over into neighborhoods and cities. Streetsblog's Joe Linton:
As I was listening to all this, I felt like there was too much emphasis on dealing with our car-centric system as a given. Car-choked freeways are just part of the way god made our cities. We, health professionals, are just doing our best to adjust to the system we find ourselves stuck in. The discussion was all about how to keep people out of the way of pollution, but not to look at reducing or eliminating that pollution at its source. It's as if health professionals looking at the tobacco problem just assumed that smoking happens everywhere, and then spent a lot of effort studying gas-masks for non-smokers. Taking on tobacco is a great public health success – because health professionals were able to ban tobacco from many places, and to stigmatize tobacco based on its threat to health.
(I also think that an overly narrow focus on near-roadway-air-pollution makes us miss other huge health risks associated with cars. Every year, driving kills 30,000+ people in the U.S., 1.5 million worldwide. There are greenhouse gases, water pollution, noise pollution, obesity, and plenty more issues.)
I was glad to hear Occidental College's Mark Vallianatos, commenting from the floor microphone, suggest an important alternative. Instead of moving people away from roads, let's change our roads to be safe for people. If we have schools, playgrounds, housing, etc. adjacent to a road, then, for the sake of health, let's design and regulate that road to limit vehicle emissions to safe levels. Let's traffic-calm and road diet our arterials, downgrade our freeways, hopefully get rid of, at least, some of them.
Good post, tough issue.
Have U.S. light rail lines been worth the investment? (The Atlantic Cities)
The reporter, Yonah Freemark, says the overall answer is 'yes.' But he also offers sobering news about five light rail systems built in the 1980s in five different cities, four of which are on the West Coast — San Diego, Sacramento, San Jose, Portland and Buffalo.
The bottom line: none of the systems increased transit use in their regions, although they have shifted more people from buses to trains. In addition, only San Jose saw a slight growth in its central city population. What to make of this?
Even this relatively positive outcome doesn't compensate for the fact that regions that invested in light rail in the 1980s largely failed to increase the share of workers commuting by transit, or to increase the vitality of their center cities with respect to the surrounding regions. Does this mean we should cease investment in new light rail lines? Certainly not; in many cases, rail has provided the essential boost to reinvigorate communities, and in some cases it has also resulted in higher ridership than before: just look at Rosslyn-Ballston in the D.C. region or Kendall Square in the Boston region.
But spending on new lines is not enough. Increases in transit use are only possible when the low costs of driving and parking are addressed, and when government and private partners work together to develop more densely near transit stations. None of the cities that built new light rail lines in the 1980s understood this reality sufficiently. Each region also built free highways during the period (I-990 in Buffalo, I-205 in Portland, US 50 in Sacramento, CA 54 in San Diego, and CA 237 in San Jose), and each continued to sprawl (including Portland, despite its urban growth boundary). These conflicting policies had as much to do with light rail's mediocre outcomes as the trains themselves — if not more.
Paid parking fees coming to Rancho Cucamonga Metrolink lots (Daily Bulletin)
The city wants to impose a $4.50 daily fee or monthly charge of $25 to $30 to off-set maintenance costs for the two lots. The San Bernardino Association of Governments isn't thrilled — it worries that the move may drive people away from transit — but approved the city's request. Others are concerned that riders will instead drive to nearby Upland and park in the free lots there.
Categories: Transportation Headlines
Tagged as: Airport Metro Connector, Buffalo, Eric Garcetti, Great Streets Initiative, LAX, light rail, Metrolink, near roadway pollution, parking fees, Portland, Rancho Cucamonga, Sacramento, San Diego, San Jose, Upland
Go Metro Weekends, April 11 − 13
Southbound I-405 closure in West L.A. between Getty Center Drive and Santa Monica Boulevard planned Nights of April 12, 13
Chaos Head says:
"Investment" usually comes with the word "profitability."
People don't make "investments" to lose money. They invest so that they can make money down the road.
In that context, no light rail "investments" in America have been a complete failure. None of them have made any form of profit. They all have been big money losers.
A lot has to do with the blind faith that the honor system was going to work which a lot of light rail projects ended up doing, when in fact, they have been a complete disaster with high rates of fare evasion.
Sort of stupid really. Didn't anyone planning out these things back in the 1980s realize the flaws of running mass transit under the honor system?
Lower sales tax says:
If Mayor Garcetti is for "back to basics," we should be also looking at reducing sales taxes instead of increasing them.
People buy more things when taxes are lower. Overall, since more people buy things local when taxes are lower, the city government gains more revenue from lowering sales taxes than raising them.
When sales taxes are higher, people refrain from buying from local businesses and instead, end up buying things online from out of state vendors where no sales taxes are levied.
In theory, everyone is supposed to report out of state purchases when they file income taxes, but who really does that when they enter in their taxes on TurboTax or HR Block Online?
Nanny state says:
Yes, let's make government more intrusive by introducing more regulation that restricts the freedom of the people.
Let's all give more power to big brother so not only they can tell us what to do and what not to do with our bodies, we give them the power to regulate our roads that we taxpayers pay for.
Seems like freedom is dead in California because more people are becoming mindless sheeple accepting the life of living in a nanny state.
Rosslyn-Ballston and Kendall Square are served by heavy rail, not light rail.
T. Zhang says:
I remember once I had read an article here, saying that public transport is about networking. I think this is why in many cases that the light rail doesn't really increase the overall ridership. For example, if I live in Alhambra and I want to go to some sort of event in Hollywood at night, the event ends at 9:30 PM, I take the red line back to Downtown, and then what? Wait 30 to 60 minutes for Line 76 to take me back to Alhambra? You may say I can drive to Union Station, and get on the Red Line there. Yeah. But if I can drive to Downtown, I can also drive to Hollywood directly, why should I bother to take the subway? Parking? Come on, you can always find some place to park. The point is, if the whole network is weak, by strengthening one or two lines in the network, the network won't get any stronger.
The problem is we are always short-sighted and we are always thinking inside the box. If the traffic on a corridor gets worse and worse, then we build a light rail line along that corridor; if the bus gets slower and slower, then we add limit-stop service or Metro Rapid along the bus line. These practice are like when we get sick, we are only thinking about taking medicines to cure the sickness, we never think of changing our life habits to build a better immune system so we don't get sick in the future.
Yes, a light rail line will serve the people who live and work near the busy corridor very well. But what about those people who travel on this corridor everyday but live or work far from the corridor? Unless they can make easy transfers, they won't use the light rail on this corridor.
As for the slowness of the bus, is limit-stop the only thing we can do to make the bus faster? How about set the stops for local bus every 0.2 miles apart instead of every 0.1 miles apart? How about making the red curb bus zone longer so it's easier for the bus operators to pull the buses back into the traffic? How about locate the bus stop at the further corner instead of the nearer corner of the traffic signal so the buses are less likely to be stopped by the red light? How about changing the fare structure to favor pass over cash so more people will use TAP card then cash then boarding time could be shorten? If these are done, local buses will be much faster and we will no longer need some of the Rapid lines. For those corridors with Rapid bus and local bus both run at every 20 minutes, we could discontinue the Rapid bus, and run the local bus very 12 minutes. Thus, one trip is removed per hour, the operating cost will be lowered by 1/6 (actually maybe more than 1/6 since the local bus is faster) yet people will also spend less time waiting for the bus.
Rather than adding something new, we should focus more on how to utilize what we've got in a better way.
Why is the subway so popular in Manhattan? Because it is the fastest and cheapest way to travel up and down Manhattan. In certain parts of Los Angeles, the density and layout of the city does allow rail to favorably compete with the automobile. But most of Los Angeles would require radical re-zoning as well as massive rebuilding in order for it to be rail-friendly to the pont that a new line would do more than simply siphon off former bus riders. Transit planning in Los Angeles should recognize that this is a multi-modal city. And one of those modes is the automobile. Transit planning should include the automobile in conjunction with trains, not always in opposition. Car share, parking at urban rail stations, ride sharing services such as Lyft, electric car charging stations, CNG stations, connections from the freeway to the rail station….all these could be promoted by the MTA to encourage people to consider using their car primarily for local and "last mile" trips, and using the train for cross-city commuting and other expeditions.
Scooter ridin' in LA says:
And of course, people can just ditch both the car and say good bye to Metro with their ever increasing fares and go buy a cheap scooter.
Even at the rising gas prices today where the average gallon of gas is $4.29/gal, a 100 mpg scooter with 1 gallon tank will enable you to go 100 miles with $4.29. Most people who live in the city, live and work nearby do not need to waste $75 a month in bus passes or spend $20,000 on a hybrid car when they can get by a week with less than $5 worth of gas and can buy a cheap scooter on craigslist for less than $1000.
B. Kuo says:
It seems to me that the 5 cities that were studied were all medium-sized locales where there is neither the expense of parking nor the gridlocked traffic that is required to make rail transit successful. Poor planning may be another reason — I used to live in San Jose and their light rail took circuitous routes that made them impossible to compete with the car. Therefore only people who had no other choice would take the new system — which would be bus riders.


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This first set of maps displays where the authors of Kultura were located at the time their texts were published in the journal. There were regular reports from cities important to the diaspora: London, Brussels, and Berlin. There are also pockets of émigrés in some places further afield, like Buenos Aires, New York, and Toronto.
Map 1 shows authors contributing to the journal during the entire period 1947-1989.
The maps that follow (Maps 2-6) show the change in authors' location over time. Unlike the other two circles of participants (Letter-Writers and Funders), authors become more condensed in Europe over time. This can be explained both biographically -- as certain prominent authors did migrate back to Europe from other continents -- and structurally. In later years, Giedroyc was interested in collecting more and more voices from Poland, to bridge the divide between those 'inside' and 'outside'. He was also more likely to recruit recent emigres, who tended to settle in Western European capitals instead of in the broader diaspora. Finally, the increase in exchange of texts with foreign radio broadcasters such as Radio Free Europe and the BBC produced a more Eurocentric picture of the Polish emigration.
Authors dataset (approx 11,000 entries)
This dataset took by far the most research time beyond data entry, as the émigré authors of Kultura were very mobile, especially in the years after the war, as they searched for a place to settle and build a life. Pseudonyms were also very commonly used, both by authors in Poland and in emigration: whenever possible, we included the author's given name as well. As the database will be made public in a monitored, open-access environment, future scholars who uncover new information about author's real names, biographies, and trajectories will be able to update and amend the database for greater and greater accuracy.
Authors in Europe →

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Here is the next verse which also reveals the scope of His actions.
David uses another distance metaphor not to illustrate a navigational feat, but how measureless His mercy really is. East and west, unlike north and south, and not fixed points—they are headings. They are in opposite directions, and they never meet. They are, in the extreme from one another.
Another way this could be stated is: as far as the sunrise is from the sunset. When using this variation, more analogies come into play.
And those extremes are how far our sins, and therefore the associated punishment, are removed from us.
The Hebrew word for removed means to set or put far away, and to be gone. So the verb is consistent with the picture.
The question arises: How forgiven do you feel? How far are you delivered from your past sins? If you feel that they are lurking around the corner, then you have a problem with the extent of God's forgiveness. May you find strength and comfort that your sins have been removed, put far away, and are gone.
Father, help me to abide in you, and far away from my sins. Amen.
This entry was posted in All Entries, Psalms and tagged Abide, Away, Extreme, Gone, Measureless, Opposite, Sins on June 24, 2015 by Steven Davis.


At RedWigWam, we have loads of different ways for you to make money. Worker Danielle tells us how she earns extra cash by completing online shopping jobs for us!
"I'm a student at Liverpool University. I signed up for RedWigWam after a friend recommended them last year when I was moaning about not having enough money for a night out!
It was really easy to sign up – I started getting matched to jobs the same day. As a student, the time I have available for work can vary greatly. Some weeks I have lots of spare time, but if I have a deadline coming up it can be harder to manage work as well, which is why RedWigWam appealed – I just do jobs when I have time.
My absolute favourite type of job is getting paid to do online shopping! These jobs come up quite often with various supermarkets. I registered for accounts with all of them and then I just shop via whichever one the job requires.
It's brilliant because you don't even have to leave your house! You get a brief telling you what you need to buy, then you just have to shop. If I'm lucky, I can get a couple of products in the same shop. I tend to do click and collect when I can so I don't have to pay the delivery fee.
Sometimes though, I club together with my housemates and we do a big shop together and get it delivered. We all order the product to try so we can all get paid for it – which easily covers the delivery cost – plus we all earn money too! If we're doing this, we make sure we buy our big bulky items at the same time – washing powder, lots of tins and loo roll so we don't have to carry it back from the shop.
One job I did the other week even gave me £20 off my online shopping – amazing.
When you get the products, you usually have to write a review of them on the supermarket website, which takes less than 10 minutes. When you're done, you just upload a picture of your review, plus receipts for your shopping onto the RedWigWam website. They sometimes ask you extra questions too – you'll get told what you need to find out when you book the job.
We have lots of online shopping jobs available at the moment. Register today and start earning extra cash straight away.


The Y-3 Yohji Backpack pairs functional design with a bold signature look. This ultra-lightweight bag is made of durable material and carries a graphic stemming from a series of paintings by Yohji Yamamoto. Padded adjustable shoulder straps give a comfortable feel.


Christopher Ræburn has collaborated with British heritage brand Fred Perry for a Spring/Summer 2013 capsule collection of three polo shirts that incorporate the brand's signature military aesthetic, with Fred Perry's timeless and preppy style.
The Christopher Ræburn × Fred Perry collection is inspired by three iconic camouflage designs used in the 1960s-1990s. The first piece sports the German 'Raindrop' camo used in the 1960s and 1970s. Reservedly striking and practical, the design acts as a totem for the rest of the collection as well as the Christopher Raeburn craft.In keeping with the first design, the second draws on the American desert camo used in the early 1990s, which purposefully interfered with the pixelated images of night-vision technology. The final design comes in a crisp snow white camo, referencing the German uniform developed for 1960s mountain warfare. The three shirts are a subtle nod to military trends without being too over-the-top, marking their wearer as a man of both style and substance.


NO CHAIN DELAY!!! WELL PRESENTED THREE BEDROOMED SEMI-DETACHED PROPERTY WITH THE BENEFIT OF A LARGE REAR GARDEN, OFF ROAD PARKING AND A DETACHED GARAGE. LOCATED IN A POPULAR RESIDENTIAL LOCATION AND CLOSE TO CLEVELEYS TOWN CENTRE AND EXCELLENT SCHOOLS.
FROM OUR OFFICE TURN LEFT ONTO VICTORIA RD EAST, AT THE ROUNDABOUT CONTINUE OVER & ONTO VICTORIA RD WEST, (TOWARDS CLEVELEYS CENTRE) AT THE TRAFFIC LIGHTS TURN LEFT ONTO NORTH DRIVE. TURN RIGHT ONTO VALEWAY & LEFT ONTO LYDDESDALE. THERE IS A BOARD.
12'11 x 5'1 extending to 6'4 approx. As you walk through a UPVC double glazed exterior door, you will find yourself in the hallway. UPVC double glazed window overlooking the front of the property. Radiator. Meter cupboard. The staircase to the first floor is situated in here.
12'11 x 5'1 extending to 6'4 approx. UPVC double glazed windows overlooking the rear and side of the property, with a UPVC double glazed exterior door giving access. Modern fitted top and base units complemented by a co-ordinating worktop. Radiator. Housed in here is a one and a half bowl sink and drainer unit and four ring electric hob with overhead stainless steel extractor hood, and an integrated oven and grill and microwave. Integrated fridge and freezer. Integrated dish washer, washing machine and tumbler dryer. The ceiling has spotlights.
Lounge Area is 12'2 x 11'10 approx. In the lounge area there is a UPVC double glazed window overlooking the front of the property. Radiator. On the main wall there is a feature fireplace housing a gas fire. TV Aerial point. Telephone point.
10'7 x 9'10 approx. UPVC double glazed French doors give access to the rear of the property. Radiator.
6'5 x 2'8 extending to 6'3 approx. UPVC double glazed window overlooking the side of the property. The loft is accessed via a pull down ladder and is part boarded for ample storage, with a light.
11'7 x 9'7 approx. to wardrobe doors. UPVC double glazed windows overlooking the front of the property. Radiator. TV Aerial point. Built in wardrobes.
9'11 x 9'1 approx. UPVC double glazed windows overlooking the rear of the property. Radiator. Built in wardrobes. Worcester Combi boiler is housed in here.
7' x 6'5 approx. UPVC double glazed windows overlooking the front of the property. Radiator.
5'10 x 5'9 approx. UPVC double glazed window overlooking the rear of the property. Modern suite comprising of a Low flush WC and hand wash sink basin and jacuzzi bath with a overhead electric shower unit. The ceiling has spotlights and the walls are tiled to the splash back areas. The floor is tiled to compliment.
Fenced with laid to lawn area and paved patio.


Principal Financial Group (PFG - Get Report) is in advanced talks to acquire Wells Fargo's retirement plan services business in a deal that could exceed $1 billion, a report said Monday.
If the negotiations are successful a deal could be announced later this month, Reuters reported, citing anonymous sources. The bank's retirement plan services unit, which includes Wells Fargo's 401(k) savings accounts business, would expand a similar business of Principal Financial.
The scandal-plagued Wells Fargo has been rocked by a series of alleged cases since 2016 involving customer mistreatment that have cost the bank more than $4.5 billion in settlements and forgone revenue. The bank's executives acknowledged that employees opened more than 3 million unauthorized accounts in the names of customers. Last year the Federal Reserve ordered Wells Fargo to refrain from further asset growth until it overhauled risk management and corporate oversight. The bank has since replaced several directors who failed to prevent the improper sales practices.
Last week, Maxine Waters, a Democratic congresswoman who heads the U.S. House of Representatives' Financial Services Committee, said at the hearing that Wells Fargo is blighted by "ongoing lawlessness and failure to right the ship."
Principal Financial is a Des Moines, Iowa-based life insurance and financial services group with a market capitalization of $14.5 billion. Both Principal and Wells Fargo declined to comment.
Shares of Wells Fargo (WFC - Get Report) rose 1.5% to $51.45, while Principal Financial was up 1.2% to $52.80.


At the end of last year my wonderful husband turned 40 – I'm sure that he'll love me sharing that with you! I wanted to throw him a party will all his friends and one of the hardest things was finding somewhere to hold it. Luckily we have the internet now and there are plenty of great resources to help you find the perfect venue. A really easy way to find the perfect venue is to use a site like VenueFinder where you can put in all the things that you are looking for and it will bring up a list based on your requirements. You can search by availability, location, facilities and more. It takes a lot of work out of looking for the perfect venue.
There are lots of different things to consider when looking for the right venue so I thought I would share some tips if any of you are planning something similar.
You need to consider the location. Do you want to have it near to your home or somewhere a bit different? Consider where your guests are coming from and how easy it will be for them to get home. Is the venue convenient for public transport?
You need to consider whether you want the venue to put on food or you want to prepare a buffet yourself. Do you want a bar or would you prefer to rent a hall and provide the drinks yourself? You'll need somewhere with toilet facilities and if you are inviting children consider changing facilities and the child friendliness of the venue.
Will you want some sort of entertainment at the party? You might want a band or just some music playing. Check that your venue can accommodate this for you.
If you have guests coming from further afield they might find it easier to stay the night. In this case holding the party in a hotel with somewhere they can easily stay might be a good idea.
Think about what decorations you will want. Some venues might not need any decorating but if you are going for a church hall or something similar you might need to decorate to jazz it up a little.
The price has to be right of course! Many venues have special offers or will do you a deal if you have them provide the food too. There is a venue for every budget don't worry!
Most of all have fun! I love party planning but it can be stressful so focus on the positives and make it as easy for yourself as you can!


If you've never been to Wisconsin or Canada, you've never had real fried cheese curds. OK, maybe that's not true, but on a serious note– if you haven't had them, you need to. Cheese curds aren't the same as the fried cheese sticks you get at your neighborhood bar and grill. They aren't even the same as the cheese on a stick you get at the county fair. No, sir-ee Bob– they're in a game all their own.
So what makes a cheese curd a cheese curd? The cheese part isn't finished cheese. It is higher in protein content and a bit lower in fat than finished cheese. It also usually comes from cheddar cheese as opposed to provolone or mozzarella. Unless you live near a creamery, I highly suggest you look for a vacuum sealed variety. You see, part of the fun of cheese curds is that they're kind of rubbery and they 'squeak' against your teeth when you eat them raw. They lose that springiness and squeak within days after production, but it's preserved with a good vacuum seal.
The packaging looks like this one from Bolen Vale Cheese company (who does ship during fall and winter, so be on the lookout!). I cannot say it enough– this recipe will not work with cheese crumbles or cut up chunks of finished cheddar cheese. You absolutely need to purchase actual cheese curds for this recipe to succeed. Because of their high protein content, cheese curds don't melt into a pool of liquid when they hit boiling oil. Cheddar cheese absolutely will.
Just look at the cheesy goodness of that low carb cheese curd. I mean seriously. It's a thing of beauty! The curd itself is pretty salty, too, so these are a real treat.
Makes about 4 servings. 2g carbs per serving.
Begin heating coconut oil in pan until it reaches 350 degrees and hold it there (estimate is fine).
Combine pork rinds, parmesan, coconut flour, pepper, cayenne and garlic powder in a large Zip-Loc bag and shake well to mix.
In a small bowl, whisk together cream and egg until it is totally smooth.
Place cheese curds into the bowl with the cream mixture and drench the curds well. Remove with a slotted spoon and place them into the pork rind breading bag.
Hold bag closed and shake the cheese curds in the breading mixture for about 15 seconds or until each curd is coated well with breading.
Remove breaded curds from the bag and drop them into the hot oil.
Cook curds in oil for about a minute to a minute and a half. They will begin to float slightly when done, and they should be crisp and golden brown.
Drain cooked curds onto a paper towel to remove excess grease.
Allow curds to cool for a few minutes, then enjoy!


Luscious organic bamboo velour is paired with natural colored bamboo velour cuffs at arm and ankle that can be rolled up and down for 'room to grow'. Boat neck is wide for easy on and off. We recommend pairing this with a tee or onesie. Pants sport a 1/2" wide elastic waistband. 70% organic bamboo rayon, 28% organic cotton, 2% poly. Machine wash cold, line dry. Made in the USA.


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using System;
using System.Data.SqlClient;
using Dapper;
using FilmWishlist.Models;

namespace FilmWishlist.Repositories
{
    public class FilmRepository : IFilmRepository
    {
        private readonly string _connectionString;

        public FilmRepository(string connectionString)
        {
            _connectionString = connectionString;
        }

        public RepositoryResult Add(Film film)
        {
            try
            {
                using (var sqlConnection = new SqlConnection(_connectionString))
                {
                    sqlConnection.Open();
                    const string cmdText = "INSERT INTO Films (Title, Year) VALUES (@Title, @Year)";
                    sqlConnection.Execute(cmdText, film);
                    return RepositoryResult.Successful;
                }
            }
            catch (Exception)
            {
                return RepositoryResult.Failed;
            }
        }

        public GetFilmsResult GetAll()
        {
            try
            {
                using (var sqlConnection = new SqlConnection(_connectionString))
                {
                    sqlConnection.Open();
                    var films = sqlConnection.Query<FilmEntity>("SELECT [Title],[Year] FROM [dbo].[Films]");
                    return GetFilmsResult.Success(films);
                }
            }
            catch (Exception)
            {
                return GetFilmsResult.Unsuccessful();
            }
        }
    }
}

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January 2, 2022 by Peter T Young 2 Comments
Mary had a little lamb;
Its fleece was white as snow;
And everywhere that Mary went,
The lamb was sure to go.
It followed her to school one day,
Which was against the rule;
It made the children laugh and play
To see a lamb at school.
And so the teacher turned it out;
But still it lingered near,
And waited patiently about
Till Mary did appear.
This poem is a true story … Yes, there really was a 'Mary' and she did have a 'Little Lamb'. The lamb became her pet, and has always been known everywhere as 'Mary's lamb.'
Mary Elizabeth Sawyer was born on March 22, 1806 on a farm in Sterling, Massachusetts. Her father was Thomas, the son of Ezra Sawyer, and her mother was Elizabeth Houghton.
In 1815, Mary, then nine, was helping her father with farm chores when they discovered a sickly newborn lamb in the sheep pen that had been abandoned by its mother. After a lot of pleading, Mary was allowed to keep the animal, although her father didn't hold out much hope for its survival. Against the odds, Mary managed to nurse the lamb back to health.
I'll let Mary tell the rest of the story (from books by Dickerson and another by Ford) …
"One cold, bleak March morning I went out to the barn with father; and after the cows had been fed, we went to the sheep pen, and found two lambs which had been born in the night. One had been forsaken by its mother, and through neglect, cold and lack of food was nearly dead."
"I saw it had still a little life, and asked to take it into the house; but father said, No, it was almost dead, anyway, and at the best could live but a short time. But I couldn't bear to see the poor little thing suffer, so I teased until I got it into the house."
"Then I worked upon mother's sympathies. At first the little creature could not swallow, and the catnip tea mother made it could not take for a long time."
"I got the lamb warm by wrapping it in an old garment and holding it in my arms beside the fireplace. All day long I nursed the lamb, and at night it could swallow just a little. Oh, how pleased I was!"
"But even then I wasn't sure it would live; so I sat up all night with it, fearing it wouldn't be warm enough if there was not someone at hand to look out for its comfort."
"In the morning, much to my girlish delight, it could stand; and from that time it improved rapidly. It soon learned to drink milk; and from the time it would walk about, it would follow me anywhere if I only called it."
"My little pet was a fast grower, as symmetrical a sheep as ever walked, and its fleece was of the finest and whitest. Why, I used to take as much care of my lamb as a mother would of a child. I washed it regularly, kept the burdocks picked out of its fleece, and combed and trimmed with bright-colored ribbons the wool on its forehead."
"When that was being done, the lamb would hold down its head, shut its eyes, and stand as quiet as could be. From the time it could walk until the season came for the sheep to go to pasture my lamb stayed in the woodshed."
"It did not take kindly to its own species; and when it was in the field, it preferred being with the cows and horses instead of with other sheep."
"'The lamb was a ewe and became the mother of three lambs, a single one and twins, and her devotion to her little family was as strong as could be."
"We roamed the fields together and were, in fact, companions and fast friends. I did not have many playmates outside the dumb creatures on the place. There were not many little girls to play with, and I had few dolls; but I used to dress up my lamb in pantalets, and had no end of pleasure in her company."
"Then I had a little blanket or shawl for her; and usually when that was on, she would lie down at my feet, remaining perfectly quiet and seemingly quite contented."
"The day the lamb went to school, I hadn't seen her before starting off; and not wanting to go without seeing her, I called. She recognized my voice, and soon I heard a faint bleating far down the field. More and more distinctly I heard it, and I knew my pet was coming to greet me. My brother Nat said, 'Let's take the lamb to school with us.'"
"Childlike, I thought that would be a good idea, and quickly consented. The lamb followed along close behind me. There was a high stone wall to climb, and it was rather hard work to get her over. We got her on top, then clambered over to take her down."
"She seemed to understand what was expected, and waited quietly for us to take her off the wall. When the schoolhouse was reached, the teacher had not arrived, and but few of the scholars were there. Then I began to think what I should do with the lamb while school was in session."
"I took her down to my seat – you know we had old-fashioned, high, boarded-up seats then. Well, I put the lamb under the seat and covered her with her blanket; and she lay down as quietly as could be."
"By and by I went forward to recite, leaving the lamb all right; but in a moment there was a clatter, clatter, clatter on the floor, and I knew it was the pattering of the hoofs of my lamb."
"Oh, how mortified I felt! The teacher was Miss Polly Kimball, who was afterward married to a Mr. Loring, and became the mother of Loring, the circulating-library man of Boston. She laughed outright, and of course all the children giggled."
"It was rare sport for them, but I could see nothing amusing in the situation. I was too ashamed to laugh, or even smile, at the unlooked-for appearance of my pet. I took her outdoors, and shut her in a shed until I was ready to go home at noon. Usually I did not go home till evening, as we carried our lunch with us; but I went home at noon that day."
There are a couple stories about the poem, and who wrote it. Mary said the author was John Roulstone … "Visiting the school that morning was a young man by the name of John Roulstone, a nephew of the Reverend Lemuel Capen, who was then settled in Sterling."
"It was the custom then for students to prepare for college with ministers, and for this purpose Mr. Roulstone was studying with his uncle."
"The young man was very much pleased with the incident of the lamb; and the next day he rode across the fields on horseback to the little old schoolhouse, and handed me a slip of paper which had written upon it the three original stanzas of the poem." (Mary, in Dickerson)
However, in 1830, Sarah Josepha Hale, a renowned writer and influential editor (she's also known as the "Mother of Thanksgiving" for helping making the day a holiday), published Poems for Our Children, which included a version of the poem.
According to Mary herself, Roulstone's original contained only the three stanzas, while Hale's version had an additional three stanzas at the end.
Mary admitted she had no idea how Hale had gotten Roulstone's poem. When asked, Hale said her version, titled "Mary's Lamb," wasn't about a real incident, but rather something she'd just made up.
Soon the residents of Sterling and those of Newport, New Hampshire, where Hale hailed from, were arguing about the poem's provenance – something they continued to do for years. Later, Henry Ford sided with Mary's claim that Roulstone wrote the first three verses.
There's a third version of how the Mary and her lamb story came to be. Mary Hughes, of Llangollen, Denbighshire, Wales, was credited with being the subject of the nursery rhyme supposedly penned by a woman from London by the name of Miss Burls.
The only problem with the UK version of events is that Mary Hughes wasn't born until 1842, twelve years after Hale's poem was published. (Andrew Amelinckx)
Some Interesting Side Stories
Some say Mary and her lamb helped save Boston's Old South Meeting House (Church). The Congregationalists built Old South Meeting House in Boston in 1729. Judge Samuel Sewall publicly apologized for taking part in the Salem Witch Trials there. Benjamin Franklin was baptized on the site. Phyllis Wheatley thought about freedom while attending services at Old South.
It is just down the street from Park Street Church where the first American Protestant missionaries to Hawai'i gathered in 1819 to receive their instructions before departing on their mission.
In 1876, the building was to be sold for scrap (for $1,350, the value of its parts). The people of Boston organized to save it and, on July 13, 1876, the congregation's leaders agreed to postpone the sale of Old South for two months, but the buyers had to come up with $420,000 and ask for no further delay.
Mary Sawyer Tyler, then living in Somerville, helped with the cause. As she noted, "From the fleece sheared from my lamb, mother knit two pairs of very nice stockings, which for years I kept in memory of my pet."
"But when the ladies were raising money for the preservation of the Old South Church in Boston, I was asked to contribute one pair of these stockings for the benefit of the fund. This I did."
"The stockings were raveled out, pieces of the yarn being fastened to cards bearing my autograph, and these cards were sold;" cards were attached the wool that said, "Knitted wool from the first fleece of Mary's Little Lamb." (New England Historical Society)
First Phonograph Recording
The poem was one of the oldest audio recordings of a musical performance — and possibly the oldest ever of an American voice. The audio, recorded on tin foil by Thomas Edison using one of his early phonographs, was made during a 1878 museum demonstration in St Louis.
Edison recalled the first words he spoke into the phonograph, a recital of the "Mary Had a Little Lamb" nursery rhyme. In his writings, Edison recounts further the 1878 recording:
"I designed a little machine using a cylinder provided with grooves around the surface. Over this was to be placed tinfoil, which easily received and recorded the movements of the diaphragm … Kruesi (the machinist), when he had nearly finished it, asked what it was for."
"I told him I was going to record talking, and then have the machine talk back. He thought it absurd. However, it was finished, the foil was put on; I then shouted 'Mary had a little lamb,' etc. I adjusted the reproducer, and the machine reproduced it perfectly."
"I was never so taken aback in my life. Everybody was astonished. I was always afraid of things that worked the first time." (Edison)
This original recording was thought lost until scientists at the University of California Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in collaboration with the Library of Congress had a go at recreating it using "optical imaging".
Despite Edison's account of shouting a nursery rhyme on a recording, it's somewhat unclear if it's his voice on this recording. (Some experts believe the voice is actually that of political writer Thomas Mason."
The Old Redstone Schoolhouse
Built sometime in the late 1700s, the tiny, one-room schoolhouse was in use from 1798 up until 1927, when it was finally closed (for the first time). The little schoolhouse takes its name from its original location, as opposed to its color, having been located on Redstone Hill in Sterling, Massachusetts.
Henry Ford acquired the old schoolhouse to be a part of his Wayside Inn historic district. Ford moved the schoolhouse around 20 miles to nearby Sudbury. The school reopened again in 1927, at its new location, teaching grades 1-4 to the local children.
This second life lasted until 1951, when the school was closed a second time and converted into a solely historical site. (Wayside Inn)
Death of Mary's Lamb
Mary said, "I have not told you about the death of my little playmate. It occurred on a Thanksgiving morning. We were all out in the barn, where the lamb had followed me. It ran right in front of the cows fastened to the stanchions, built along the feed box."
"One of the creatures gave its head a toss, then lowered its horns and gored my lamb, which gave an agonizing bleat and came toward me with the blood streaming from its side. I took it in my arms, placed its head in my lap, and there it bled to death."
"During its dying moments it would turn its little head and look up into my face in a most appealing manner, as if it would ask if there was not something that I could do for it."
"It was a sorrowful moment for me when the companion of many romps, my playfellow of many a long summer's day, gave up its life; and its place could not be filled in my childish heart.' (Mary; quoted in Dickerson and Ford)
Mary herself lived until 1889. (Ford) There's a statue of the famous lamb in town, and a restored version of Mary's home (the original was destroyed by a pair of arsonists back in 2007). Her descendants continue to farm the land that gave birth to the most famous nursery rhyme of all time. (Andrew Amelinckx)
Filed Under: General, Prominent People Tagged With: Sterling, Boston, Edison, Massachusetts, Mary Had a Little Lamb, Henry Ford, Mary Sawyer, John Roulstone, Sarah Hale, Old South Meeting House, Old South Church
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Honolulu City Lights
The first discoveries of electricity were made back in ancient Greece. Greek philosophers discovered that when amber is rubbed against cloth, lightweight objects will stick to it. This is the basis of static electricity.
The credit for generating electric current on a practical scale goes to the English scientist, Michael Faraday. In 1831, Faraday found the solution that electricity could be produced through magnetism by motion.
Using electricity as a power source, in the period from 1878 to 1880, Thomas Edison and his associates worked on at least three thousand different theories to develop an efficient incandescent lamp. Incandescent lamps make light by using electricity to heat a thin strip of material (called a filament) until it gets hot enough to glow.
Finally, Edison decided to try a carbonized cotton thread filament. When voltage was applied to the completed bulb, it began to radiate a soft orange glow. Just about fifteen hours later, the filament finally burned out; Patent number 223,898 was given to Edison's electric lamp.
In 1881, the Exposition Universelle (World's Fair) was held in Paris; it was the first International Exposition of Electricity. The major events associated with the Fair included Thomas Edison's electric lights, electrical distribution and Alexander Graham Bell's telephone.
Shortly thereafter, the Brush Electric Light Company established New York City's first electric company. A small generator powered street lights on lower Broadway.
In an era of gas lamps, King Kalākaua recognized the potential of "electricity," and helped pioneer its introduction in the Hawaiian kingdom. The King arranged to meet the inventor of the incandescent lamp, Thomas Edison, in New York in 1881, during the course of a world tour.
During the King's visit to NYC, the New-York Tribune (September 25, 1881) wrote an article about the King: "One of the sights that pleased him most was the Paris Electrical Exhibition. We spent some time there."
"Kalakaua is going to introduce the electric light in his own kingdom; and he examined the different lamps on that account with the greatest interest. The life in Paris entertained him very much; they turned night into day there."
"The visit, indeed, was not altogether one of curiosity, nor was the Edison light wholly unfamiliar to his Majesty, who had already observed it in operation in Paris."
"It has for several years been one of the dreams of his Majesty, in the development of the civilization toward which his people are rapidly struggling to introduce the electric light in Honolulu and light the city with it, in preference to gas."
"He has, however, patiently awaited the perfection of some one of the many systems before the public and will probably on his return reduce the purpose to practice." (New York Times, September 26, 1881)
"He seemed particularly interested in the statement that after steam-power had been transformed into electricity and carried to a great distance in that form it could again be converted into motive power by means of an electrical motor …"
"… and sold to customers for the purpose of running elevators or operating hoist-ways. His eyes lighted when he was told that one of the most profitable departments of the business of the company would be the sale of power to manufactories and business firms …"
"… in quantities as small as a single horse power, costing, under circumstances of ordinary use, not more than 8 cents a day." (New York Times, September 26, 1881)
Five years after Kalākaua and Edison met, Charles Otto Berger, a Honolulu-based insurance executive with mainland connections, organized a demonstration of "electric light" at the king's residence, ʻIolani Palace, on the night of July 26, 1886.
To commemorate the occasion, a tea party was organized by Her Royal Highness the Princess Liliʻuokalani and Her Royal Highness the Princess Likelike. The Royal Hawaiian Military Band played music and military companies marched in the palace square. An immense crowd gathered to see and enjoy the brightly lit palace that night.
Shortly after this event, David Bowers Smith, a North Carolinian businessman living in Hawaiʻi, persuaded Kalākaua to install an electrical system on the palace grounds. The plant consisted of a small steam engine and a dynamo for incandescent lamps. On November 16, 1886 – Kalākaua's birthday – ʻIolani Palace became the world's first royal residence to be lit by electricity.
With the palace lit, the government began exploring ways to establish its own power plant to light the streets of Honolulu. A decision was made to use the energy of flowing water to drive the turbines of a power plant built in Nu'uanu Valley.
Accordingly, "a head of from 300 to 330 feet could be obtained at the elevation known as Queen Emma lot in Nu'uanu Valley (Hānaiakamālama,) this giving about 130 horse power."
The new dynamo station was located instead "opposite the Wood estate, it having been found that the Queen Emma lot could not be secured." The contract was awarded to Peter High, ground was broken November 23, 1887 and the government accepted the building on January 21, 1888.
Water was taken in a pipeline running past Kaniakapūpū, then fed a hydroelectric plant in an area known as "Reservoir #1," near Oʻahu County Club. Power lines were strung on the existing Mutual Telephone Co. poles in the area, down to downtown Honolulu.
On Friday, March 23, 1888, Princess Kaʻiulani, the king's niece, threw the switch that illuminated the town's streets for the first time – the first of Honolulu City Lights.
The Minister of the Interior report to the Legislative Assembly in the 1888 noted, "We have at present one twelve-light machine, carrying twelve lights with five miles of wire, and using nine horse power; also one fifty-light machine, carrying forty-six lamps on fifteen miles of wire, using forty-two horse power, making a total of fifty-eight lights now in use in the city."
A year later, the first of a handful of residences and business had electricity. By 1890, this luxury had been extended to 797 of Honolulu's homes.
Nuuanu_Homes-Monsarrat-(portion)-1920-(noting_Government_Electric_Works)
Iolani Palace, circa 1889
Queen_Kapiolani_on_the_Iolani_Palace_grounds with Antoinette Swan-(PP-97-14-016)
Iolani_Palace-early 1880s
Kalakaua
Filed Under: General, Economy Tagged With: Hawaii, Honolulu, Kalakaua, Electricity, Edison, Lights


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Q: How to get text above fork style edges in a TikZ tree I'm new to TikZ and have a problem with a decision tree. In the example below I would like to have text above the horizontal line of an edge.
Something like:
         Check
           A
           |
    reject | accept
    ---------------
   |              |
 Check        decision 1
   B

When I try to use something like
 edge from parent node[above] {accept}

The tree gets totally messed. (example commented out in the code below)
\documentclass{minimal}
\usepackage{tikz}
\usetikzlibrary{trees,positioning,arrows,shapes,backgrounds}
\begin{document}
\begin{tikzpicture}[
% Node style
    test/.style={diamond, aspect=2.5,very thick,draw=black,fill=gray!20,text   width=1.1cm,
    align= center, anchor=north},
   dec/.style={rectangle,very thick,draw=black,fill=gray!50,text width=2cm,
    text centered, anchor=north},
% Children and edges style
    edge from parent/.style={very thick,draw=black},
    edge from parent fork down,
    level 1/.style={sibling distance=4cm,level distance=2cm}
    ]

\node (t1) [test] {Check\\A}
    child{node (t2) [test] {Check\\B} % edge from parent node[above] {reject}
         child{node (t3) [test] {Check\\C}
               child{node (t4) [test] {Check\\D}}
               child{node (d3) [dec] {decision 3}}
             }
      child{node (d2) [dec] {decision 2}}
      }
    child{node (d1) [dec] {decision 1} % edge from parent node[above] {accept}
    }
;
\end{tikzpicture}
\end{document}

Then I was wondering also if it is possible to force the horizontal line
of the edge to be in the middle between the parent and its children. And
if the nodes could be such that their centers have equal height?

A: For reasons I'm not sure I fully understand, the edge from parent node seems to have to go at the end of the child group before the closing }
EDIT: The manual (section 18.6 "Edges From the Parent Node" in the 2.10 version) states that

This path operation can only be used inside child paths and should be
  given at the end, possibly followed by node specifications

and gives some further examples.
Anyway, the following appears to do what you require. Hopefully the example demonstrates how it should be used better than the explanation did.
\documentclass{standalone}
\usepackage{tikz}
\usetikzlibrary{trees,shapes}
\begin{document}
\begin{tikzpicture}[
    test/.style={
        % Node style
        diamond,
        aspect=2.5,
        very thick,
        draw=black,
        fill=gray!20,
        text width=1.1cm,
        align=center,
        anchor=north},
    dec/.style={
        rectangle,
        very thick,
        draw=black,
        fill=gray!50,
        text width=2cm,
        text centered,
        anchor=north
    },
    % Children and edges style
    edge from parent/.style={
        very thick,
    draw=black},
    edge from parent fork down,
    level 1/.style={
        sibling distance=4cm,
        level distance=2cm}
    ]

\node (t1) [test] {Check\\A}
    child { node (t2) [test] {Check\\B}
        child { node (t3) [test] {Check\\C}
            child { node (t4) [test] {Check\\D} edge from parent node [above] {reject C} }
        child { node (d3) [dec]  {decision 3} edge from parent node [above] {accept C} }
            edge from parent node[above] {reject B}
        }
        child { node (d2) [dec] {decision 2}  edge from parent node[above] {accept B} }
            edge from parent node[above] {reject A}
    }
    child{ node (d1) [dec] {decision 1} edge from parent node[above] {accept A} } %
;
\end{tikzpicture}
\end{document}

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News Update: Week of 4-5
July 7, 2009 By Doug Van Pelt
August Burns Red News
Fresh out of the studio where they finished up their yet-to-titled third full-length with producer Jason Suecof – the man behind the curtain of heralded albums by bands like SEVENDUST, ALL THAT REMAINS, GOD FORBID and TRIVIUM – AUGUST BURNS RED is ready to reclaim their road-warrior mantle as the group prepares for dates in support of ALL THAT REMAINS, as well as a European Festival appearances and headlining dates. Throughout 2007-2008, AUGUST BURNS RED's unrelenting tour schedule and explosive live shows built the band up to metal-powerhouse status. While stints on the Warped Tour, Take Action Tour, and headlining tours of North America and Europe cemented that status, with the band selling 78,000+ copies of their 2007 release Messengers. Now, with a new album in the can, AUGUST BURNS RED are charging headlong out of the studio with a full schedule of early 2009 dates. Fresh off a huge appearance at early March's Desert Rock Festival in Dubia, UAE, ABR are primed to strafe the US and Europe for the first time in '09, all leading up to the release of what promises to be one of the year's most anticipated metal albums.
4/14 Burlington VT
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4/24 Charlotte NC
4/28 Austin TX
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6/12 Seinajoki, Finland
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6/20 Trier, Germany
6/21 Austria
6/22 Hungary, Budapest
6/24 Bratislava, Slovakia
6/25 Prague, Czech Republic
6/26 Borlange, Sweden
6/27 Gothenburg, Sweden
6/28 Dessel, Belgium
6/30 Aschaffenburg, Germany
7/1 Amsterdam, Holland
7/3 Munster, Germany
7/4 Mannheim, Germany
7/5 Leipzig, Germany
For more information, visit:
augustburnsred.com
Check Out War Of Ages New Video
Head on over to Headbanger's Blog and check out the brand new War Of Ages video for All Consuming Fire. Headbanger's Ball premiered the video this past weekend on MTV2 and now you can see it online. This video was filmed live in Erie, PA at Forward Hall by Andy Reale.
4/1 Mesa, AZ
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4/3 Pomona, CA
4/7 Orangevale, CA
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4/11 Twin Falls, ID
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4/13 Bismarck, ND
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4/15 Burnsville, MN
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The Devil Wears Prada Headlining Tour Is Selling Out
The Devil Wears Prada has begun their national headlining tour to resounding success. Several shows so far have been sold out with capacity of rooms as large as 1,500 and only one room smaller than 800 people. Each date on the remainder of the tour is approaching sold out as well, so get your tickets now or be sorry. Accompanying the band is A Day To Remember, Sky Eats Airplane and Emarosa and the culmination of the tour is the release of the band's new album With Roots Above And Branches Below on May 5th. On the tour the band is offering an exclusive pre-order incentive that can only be purchased at their shows. Upon purchase of the new record the buyer will receive a download card at the show which allows them to download two songs off the forthcoming album.
4/2 New York, NY
4/3 Worchester, MA
4/4 Montreal, QC
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5/1 Cincinnati, OH
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Free Download Of Since October's Latest Video
VideoRocket.com has posted Since October's latest video for download now. Since October will soon be going on tour with Trapt and Red! For a limited time you can grab a full copy of Since October's CD, "This Is My Heart" for only $5.99 at iTunes! Grab the video here.
Bombworks Records Signs Darkness Before Dawn
Southwestern extreme metallers Darkness Before Dawn is the latest signing to Bombworks Records. Hailing from Glendale, Arizona, Darkness Before Dawn has been a force in the Southwest scene for a number of years now, blending epic death and black metal with a modern edge for a powerful brutal sound that is both melodic and heavy. The band self-released a 5-song self-titled EP in
2007 that featured more of an epic metalcore sound that borrowed many elements from death metal and symphonic black metal. The band continued to refine their sound and later recorded a 3-song demo in 2008 that boldly supplanted itself in the realm of extreme metal, taking cues from symphonic black metal, death metal and prog while retaining a modern edge, incorporating death growls and black shrieks, blazing guitar leads, bombastic drumming and bass work, and keyboards to provide atmosphere throughout. Darkness Before Dawn is a 6-piece, with Logan on vocals, Gabe and Trey on guitars, DJ on bass, TJ on keys, and Matt on drums, resulting in a sound that is very full and providing the ability to reproduce the recorded sound live. Influences include bands such as Dethklok, Behemoth, Dimmu Borgir, In Flames, and The Black Dahlia Murder. The band will be heading into legendary Lambesis Studios for the month of April to record their debut full length, tentatively titled "King's to You", which will feature 11 brand new tracks. The CD will drop in June and will be available from the band for their tour up to Cornerstone, which includes an opening night slot on Bombworks Records' sponsored Day of Metal stage.
Check out the band, as well as 4 songs here:
myspace.com/darknessbeforedawn
X-Sinner News
X-Sinner's new album, World Covered In Blood, is on sale now at Best Buy and FYE retail outlets. X-Sinner is requesting that all their fans call local stores and request their new album there. This action will help speed up the process of getting World Covered In Blood everywhere. This is their first album of completely new material under the name "X-Sinner" since their 1991 album, Peace Treaty.
For more information, go to:
x-sinner.org
Faceless International Nominated For MySpace Award
Faceless International, an organization that gives first hand knowledge of Human Trafficking through education and interaction, has been nominated for a MySpace Impact Award. Currently Faceless is leading spring break trips in Los Angeles, and has summer projects heading to Ukraine, Guatemala and New York. These trips gives participants a hands-on experience in ways to impact the world and end human trafficking. Started by Stephen Christian of the band Anberlin; Seth Cain former road manager of Anberlin; and their abolitionist friend Sarah Freeman, Faceless International hopes to use the funds that they would received from the Impact Awards to build a school in Southern India. Voting ends tonight at midnight.
For more information on Faceless International, visit:
facelessinternational.com
Jason Eaton Holds 'Nothing Back' On Debut EP
JEM Records recording artist Jason Eaton has released his debut EP, Nothing Back, as a digital exclusive, available through iTunes and other major online outlets, including Amazon.com. The title track is going for adds now at Christian radio stations nationwide, while the singer/songwriter/worship leader puts the finishing touches on the full-length project that will be released to retail later this year. The journey to Jason Eaton's full time pursuit of faith-based artistry began with a degree in Music Education at Olivet Nazarene University. From there, Eaton found himself on stage as a soloist with the Thurlow Spur productions of Concert Ministries International, playing the lead role in the musical "David, A Man After God's Own Heart" (written by Cam Floria, head of the Continental Singers) and subsequently appearing on "The 700 Club" with Pat Robertson. Before long, Eaton was touring full time with the vocal band Liberty. While Eaton plans to tour in support of Nothing Back, his wife of 13 years Wendy Jo and their three sons will be along for the ride. "Family comes first and they come with me as well," explains Eaton. "Everything I do in my musical calling is for Christ. It's not about Jason Eaton as the artist. It's about His purpose and plan, plus sharing His love to those who are Christians, those who've fallen away from Christ or those who've never known Christ as their savior." It's no wonder that the material found within Nothing Back is so vertically centered, starting with the title track as the project's lead single. The contagious cut was arranged by Eaton and penned by Beat Street Records/Provident recording artist/songwriter John Waller (Casting Crowns, According To John). Eaton also turns to Waller's esteemed songbook for a fresh rendering of "God Thing," which talks about God lifting a believer out of a valley after fully surrendering the situation. From there, he re-interprets the Vineyard Music song "Free," and offers a new rock ballad arrangement of the old time gospel hymn "I Bowed On My Knees and Cried Holy." The EP's finale "Holding Out Hope To You" has become a concert favorite. "I consider it an honor to do Christian music because my faith defines who I am," Eaton says. "If I were to sing secular music, that would be very empty to me. I'm not saying some of those songs don't have meaning, it's just that Christian music has a much higher meaning because of my faith. Before I sing, I always pray 'let me step aside and let me be the vessel for you. Help the spotlight shine right though me onto you.' When you do that and realize it has nothing to do with you, but rather it's all about Christ, then that's when the Holy Spirit can really move."
House Of Heroes Releases New EP
Fresh of the heels of their acclaimed The End Is Not The End CD Columbus, OH rock outfit House of Heroes gear up for the release of The Acoustic End on Itunes April 7. Release includes new acoustic bonus tracks, "New Moon" and "Ghost" as well as a reworked version of "If". Refusing to slow down the band is also in the mist of recording their ode to the Beatles tribute; House of Heroes Meets The Beatles EP to hit summer 09 including covers of Can't Buy Me Love, It Won't Be Long and Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da. With The End Is Not The End out now on Gotee Records, House of Heroes has found a sound that is both creatively inspiring and commercially viable. Look no further for enigmatic songwriting, bold epics and clever chorus lines. Hear The End Is Not The End here.
Kalejdoskop Roundtable News
Key Ministry leaders from around the planet are being invited to the 2nd Global Roundtable of Emerging, Underground Ministries at the SLOT Art Festival, which will happen on July 8-11 when 6000 young people turn up with tents and sleeping bags at a huge Cistercian Abbey in Lubiaz, Poland. The Polish word "Kalejdoskop (Kaleidoscope – in English) means "to look at a beautiful shape" So, the hope for this Roundtable, is to gather leaders from many nations and allow them to look at the shape of the body of Christ – to see it's current beauty and how it is taking shape and pointing to a beautiful future. They will meet for discussion, resourcing, prayer, encouragement, networking, indoctrinating, friendly insults, late nights, bad coffee and a good time. Although, the Kalejdoskop Roundtable is an invitation-only event for Christian Ministry leaders, we are hoping to expand the network to more than the 60 leaders from the 26 nations that came to the 2006 Roundtable, held at the Freakstock Festival in Germany. For more information, get in touch with Trevor Macpherson or Andrew Jones at firefallzine@hotmail.com.
Facedown Records Presents Through Solace
Through Solace knows that the antidote to long roads and sleepless nights is a solid soundtrack of classic records that define modern hard music. On their tours across the UK, Europe and North America, records such as Shai Hulud's "Hearts Once Nourished…" and Poison the Well's "Opposite of December" became more than entertainment as five guys from Wales sped along the world's highways. "We learned lessons from early metalcore that our sound-alike peers in the genre have been quick to forget. We wanted to do something that had a history and would last, rather than just being pat of a trend." The band employs a mix of melodic and metallic hardcore that is nostalgic to fans of Beloved and Blindside. combined influences from South Wales neighbors Funeral For a Friend and early Poison the Well lend their effect while denizens of intellectual hardcore will find comfort in the atmospheric layers and melodic passages a la Misery Signals and Satellite Years-era Hopesfall. Through Solace has been climbing the DIY ladder in their native South Wales since 2005, and doing it the old fashioned way has paid off for the 5 piece from Newport & Barry. After self-releasing their first EP "An Innocent Confession" and booking tours and festivals throughout UK and Europe to promote it, they caught the eyes of labels and zines alike. Establishing their potential early on and benefitting from a steadfast integrity, Through Solace's sound has since matured into a more intelligent, melodic and technical brand of hardcore. Their sound has been described as "powerful and effortlessly crushing…absolutely colossal."
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Legendary heavy music shapeshifters ZAO have announced the release of their new full-length Awake? Produced at Lambesis Studios by Zao's own guitarist Scott Mellinger (with As I Lay Dying vocalist Tim Lambesis and Daniel Castleman), Awake? is slated for release May 5th on Ferret Music and will be a digital release with a limited and numbered physical pressing. Almost three years removed from the release of last album The Fear is What Keeps Us Here, ZAO members Dan, Scott, Marty and Jeff reconvened for Awake? Longtime friend and Grammy nominated graphic designer Ryan Clark returned to handle the packaging, with some artwork from Dan's close friend, Gabe Felice. Check out their new single, What Will You Find?, here.
1. 1,000,000 Outstretched Arms Of Nothing
2. Entropica
3. The Eyes Behind the Throne
4. Human Cattle Masses Marching Forward
5. Romance of the Southern Spirit
6. What Will You Find?
7. Awake?
8. Quiet Passenger Pt. 1
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10. Quiet Passenger Pt. 2 / The World Caved
When Weathered wrote their debut album, 'Stranger Here,' it was an introspective take on life as they knew it. The appropriate way to follow it up? Turn the mirror around and tell the stories of those around you.
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When the going gets tough, artists create art. Despite a world reckoning outside our quarantined doors, musicians relentlessly created new music giving birth to genre-defining releases and, despite a year spent indoors, a marked 2020 full of passion and fervor. Here are our Top 25 albums of 2020.
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The White House insists it has a plan to fight Islamic State and that it's working
President Obama addressed the attacks in San Bernardino, Calif., and laid out his plan to destroy the Islamic State during his address from the Oval Office. (Associated Press)
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To its critics, President Obama's strategy to combat the Islamic State in Syria and Iraq is weak and incoherent. Even some of the staunchest U.S. allies and partners in the fight worry that the time for what they see as the administration's incremental approach has long since passed.
The White House maintains that its strategy is comprehensive and that it's working. Sharp increases in airstrikes and Obama's recent decision to deploy Special Operations troops, officials say, are part of a fundamental change in the military's mission developed this fall, along with a new diplomatic push to end the distraction of Syria's civil war.
In his Sunday-night address to the nation following last week's San Bernardino, Calif., shooting, Obama outlined the elements of the strategy, assuring Americans that there is a viable plan underway to decimate the Islamic State where it lives. "We will destroy ISIL and any other organization that tries to harm us," he said, using an alternative name for the militants.
But the White House is clearly frustrated by its failure to communicate the elements of that plan and what it believes has been accomplished.
"Yes, there is a strategy," Secretary of State John F. Kerry snapped in a speech Saturday. "I know the criticism. We all hear them. . . . But that doesn't mean it's wisdom."
The administration's insistence that its prudence and patience will pay off — vs. charges of too little, too late — have been the two opposing narratives of the 18-month battle against the Islamic State and the four-year Syrian war it has now overshadowed.
An examination of the recent course of events on the military and diplomatic fronts and interviews with a broad range of stakeholders and experts provide fuel for both arguments.
For more than a year after the Islamic State blitzkrieg swept across Syria and through Iraq to the Baghdad suburbs in the early summer of 2014, U.S. military operations, including airstrikes and training of local ground troops, were in what a coalition spokesman, Col. Steve Warren, called "crisis mode, just trying to keep the barbarians off the gate."
The Iraqi army had fallen apart. In Syria, as civil war raged in the west, the militants consolidated their control over the north-central and eastern areas of the country, with virtually free access to Syria's border with Turkey to infiltrate tens of thousands of foreign fighters and equipment.
Airstrikes begun by the United States and its coalition partners — Europeans in Iraq and Arab states in Syria — were tactical, focused on targets of opportunity and the need to prevent collapse. While domestic critics and allies in the region called for more strikes, more support for Syrian rebels, more U.S. boots on the ground and no-fly zones, the administration demurred.
In a broad assessment in August, the Pentagon determined it had succeeded in its initial goals of stopping further Islamic State expansion and reestablishing the foundations of a viable Iraqi military. Amid repeated failures in Syria to organize and arm a rebel force to fight against the militants in Syria, it found hope in the establishment of a Syrian Kurdish and Arab force that has driven the militants from much of the Turkish border.
Adoption of what the military says is its first real operational strategy, following the chaos of the initial year, was marked by September's change of command of the Baghdad-based headquarters of the U.S.-led coalition against the Islamic State. "You have done what was necessary," U.S. Central Command Gen. Lloyd J. Austin III told departing Lt. Gen. James L. Terry.
The new commander, Lt. Gen. Sean MacFarland, was charged with "operationalizing" the mission, Warren said.
"We always wanted to get into a position where we could apply multiple points of pressure at once, across the whole battle space," said a senior administration official. "We're now in position to actually do it. It's not going to be perfect, it's not going to be linear, it's going to be extremely hard."
Military and administration officials, most speaking on the condition of anonymity about internal decision-making, listed the elements of the comprehensive offensive against "core ISIL" on the ground in both Syria and Iraq.
In Iraq, the focus has been on cutting Islamic State supply lines into Mosul, the militant bastion in the northwest, in preparation for an eventual ground assault, and applying simultaneous pressure along militant front lines stretching south to the city of Ramadi, 70 miles west of Baghdad. "These are not blitzkrieg gains," Warren said, "but painstaking, incremental work against a dug-in enemy" now made more effective with the ability to integrate airstrikes with a more organized and robust ground force.
Obama has authorized a new, Iraq-based Special Operations task force to conduct ground raids against Islamic State leadership targets in both Iraq and Syria. Administration officials have described a snowballing cycle in which more raids will take more leaders off the battlefield and provide more intelligence to plan still more raids. But it is unclear when the force, initially to number about 100, will be deployed.
Syria, with its separate wars against the Islamic State and between forces of President Bashar al-Assad and rebels seeking to unseat him, is far more complicated.
Regional allies such as Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates and Jordan, who once flew strike missions along with U.S. warplanes, have largely dropped out, an absence the United States hopes to make up with new agreements with France and Britain.
The "whole battle space" concept includes simultaneous airstrikes along the eastern border with Iraq to further cut militant supply lines, on Islamic State-controlled oil fields, and in the north-central area, where Syrian Kurdish and Arab forces who have captured a wide swath of territory along the border from the militants are organizing to attack the de facto militant capital of Raqqa.
Obama has authorized the deployment of 50 Special Operations troops, the first official U.S. boots on the ground in Syria, to join those forces to assess their readiness and help develop tactical plans, although the Americans are not expected to arrive for several months, defense officials said.
In southern Syria, anti-Assad rebels have met with significant success against government forces, but the Islamic State, sensing an opening, has begun moving into the area. The United States is sending more money and equipment, including heavy, long-range artillery, to Jordan, both to protect its own border and to engage militant targets inside Syria.
But given the new threat to the homeland, the administration's claims of incremental success have left scornful critics asking why it does not do more. Asked on NBC's "Meet the Press" on Sunday what he hoped to hear in Obama's speech, presidential hopeful Sen. Lindsey O. Graham (R-S.C.) replied: "That he's going to change his strategy and come up with a regional army to go in destroy the caliphate in Raqqa. . . . The president doesn't have a strategy."
Mutual frustration has also been ongoing between the United States, as coalition leader, and regional allies, with some calling for a more aggressive U.S. policy. The United Arab Emirates said last week that it was willing to send ground forces into Syria — something Obama has consistently refused — if others would do the same as part of an international force.
But the region's governments, including Turkey, are also deeply divided among themselves, leaving the administration as both whipping boy for their complaints and mediator for their disagreements as it tries to implement a broad strategy. In recent weeks, as Kerry has launched a diplomatic effort to bring the civil war to an end in order to shift attention to the counterterrorism fight, Obama himself has intervened in a series of conversations with regional leaders, including Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and Saudi King Salman.
Nowhere is the dissention more acute than in northwest Syria, where rebel groups separately backed by the United States and Europe, the Persian Gulf Arab states and Turkey are locked in a melange of battles, often beside forces of al-Qaeda affiliate Jabhat al-Nusra, against Assad's military.
The entry of Russian warplanes and Iranian troops on Assad's side in western Syria has further complicated the situation, increasing the conundrum of how to take back the nearby, remaining 60-mile strip of the Syria-Turkey border in Islamic State hands.
The coalition has said it is ready to launch an all-out air offensive to drive the militants out of the area, located north of Aleppo, Syria's most-populous city, but not until there are opposition forces on the ground ready to occupy the terrain. And the more the rebels are engaged in the Russian-aided fight against Assad, the less willing they are to switch their attention to the border.
U.S. officials say that a small force of opposition fighters in the area, including about 130 Syrians trained by the Americans in Jordan who are in direct communication with U.S. forces, have had some success. But their operations are still rudimentary. To delineate their lines from those of the Islamic State and avoid their own casualties from coalition airstrikes, they light tires on fire and warn pilots to avoid the smoke.


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Paris – Safe Space Invader | Review
About Safe Space Invader from Paris' own website:
"In this era of reckoning for American policing, increases of instances racism fostered by the most incompetent president in modern times, and a global pandemic that has affected all areas of life as we once knew it, voices of dissent in entertainment have become more relevant than ever. Enter Paris, arguably one of the most politically outspoken artists in Hip Hop history, with his latest album, Safe Space Invader. Entirely self-produced and without guest features, Safe Space Invader is a brutal commentary on Black life in 2020 America, touching on the topics of police brutality, racism, gentrification, economic inequality and cancel culture, among others."
30 years after his classic debut The Devil Made Me Do It, it is a sad truth that activist rappers like Paris are still needed to address wrongs in the world we live in. Safe Space Invaders is a strong album and deserves to be mentioned alongside Paris' best albums The Devil Made Me Do It (1990), Sleeping With The Enemy (1992), and Sonic Jihad (2003).
The lyrics on Safe Space Invaders are as vital and fiery as they are on all his other albums, arguably even more so. Just listen to the first single 'Baby Man Hands,' – a scathing indictment of the Trump presidency – to know exactly where Paris stands.
Sure, the beats on "Baby Man Hands" could have been better, and the same can be said for a couple of other tracks on this album, but Safe Space Invaders is all about Paris' hard rhymes.
In this year of extreme political discord and social unrest, the militant Safe Space Invaders is an incendiary but genuine statement. Whether you agree with the blistering condemnations made by Paris on Safe Space Invaders or not, there is no denying the power and urgency of this album.
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Add It Up: Even Open Sourcers Pay for Code Repositories
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6 Sep 2018 6:00am, by Lawrence E Hecht
What are the ramifications of managing open source code primarily through a commercial software package or service? Should your company only use one code repository? These are the questions that were asked of 480 users of code repositories participating in a survey about open source. When asked about how they manage open source code, half said they use a free, vendor-provided solution like GitHub, but 53 percent also pay for code repository software or services.
Many people also use homegrown setups, usually based git. Among those citing a homegrown system, a whopping 60 percent also cited another offering type in use. It appears that vendor solutions are often cobbled together with two or more other version control systems, some of which may be open source like Apache Subversion (SVN). The use of multiple code repos is more prevalent at large companies with over 10,000 employees. This group cited 2.6 types of code repos used as opposed to the study average of 1.4.
Microsoft's announced purchase of GitHub caused consternation among developers worried about a negative impact on the open source community. Some purists claim that since GitHub's core is proprietary, it has always been ironic that GitHub has become the primary way independent developers collaborate on open source projects. Others still can't reconcile today's open source friendly Microsoft with its turn-of-the-century predecessor.
Microsoft is very sensitive to accusations that its yet-to-be-approved acquisition will give it a monopoly. Even if Microsoft's combines its Team Foundation Server with GitHub's commercial offerings, analysis of our own surveys as well as those by SmartBear and Stack Overflow, indicates there is little chance that Microsoft will come close to dominating the market for code repositories in the near future. Naysayers will claim that users of GitHub's free offerings are ripe for an upsell, especially if Microsoft bundles additional free services in the future.
While that is a possibility, there are three reasons why this would still not create a dramatic change in market share. First, many users of GitHub are only using it for personal projects. Second, open source projects can be managed at a high level using free resources while at the same time using paid solutions to handle minute-to-minute version control. Finally, despite companies like Facebook and Google embracing mono repository systems, at least anecdotally many companies still use multi-repo systems and will likely continue to do so. If that is the case, then it is very possible that free GitHub and paid-for Atlassian Bitbucket or GitLab will co-exist side-by-side.
Alternative vendor offerings are still commonly used to manage open source code. It is unknown whether or not they will lose customers to a paid version of GitHub. More research needs to be conducted to determine if companies are more willing to single-source their code repositories. In the meantime, with so many companies relying on GitHub to manage their open source code, it is worth considering converting free GitHub into a community resource managed by a foundation.
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Definitely not. If I did not create the child or co-adopt the child with a romantic partner, I have no interest in raising the child.
I knew a guy who was in an intense relationship with a woman for several years. The woman's child bio father left the picture when she was a baby. When the kid was a toddler. the mom began seriously dating another man. The kid started calling him Daddy. Well their relationship fizzled out several years later leaving the child without another "father".
kids are not yours to own. Why would it matter if you loved the mother? I think you either accept things as they are or move on if you cannot accept it. If you were really in love, it just would not matter.
Kids love you for who you are, if you are there for them, then they will love you. Do you have so many people who love you that you can afford to pick and choose who will give you the best return on your investment of time? All that kind of thing sounds a little sick to me.
Well, I'm not a man. But if things got that serious I would be willing to raise the child as well as go through court procedures to get custody. It depends on the state how hard that is.
I've raised a load of kids that werent mine legally. While I wouldn't change the experience and time with them for anything. I wouldn't do it again.
I don't date guys that have children, so no, I wouldn't raise someone's child when I'm not legally obligated to do so. If it was a nephew or niece, or someone I know and he/she is in an unfortunate circumstance that made the kid an orphan, I'd be happy to raise them without any paperwork necessary. Just not any random kid though.
I'm not a guy but I have seen how some women just want a man to raise their kid, so I would say hell to the no. I have no interest in raising other people's kids.
I've seen it done plenty of times. My girl friend raised 3 girls for 16 years and she had no claim to them at all but she's been living with the father all that time.
I know several men who've done it. One who had gone so far as to take on the children after the relationship with the mother ended. I've seen a father walk in and take care of a child he had previously given up rights(because of the mother) after the mother abandoned the child.
I'd gladly take any kid in if they needed me, rights or not. You do what's best for the child. When I was 21 I had my neighbors 14 year old for 6 months while they worked out family issues. There was no compensation and I had no rights. I was simply a safe and impartial party who offered my home to a kid who needed some help.
I think the question should be, do you want to date someone with children?
This can be a very very tough situation.
I had a stepson and he lived with us for 1.5 years. Then his father and I divorced and I had to walk away...basically never speak to him (stepson) again. I took care of that boy, I did everything for him. He called me Mom. I tucked him into bed every night...read a book with him to send him off to sleep...helped him with his homework...you just can't know how hard it was to have to just say: I will not see this child again.
But it was 100% out of his hands. His father detested me for leaving and was no way, nohow going to ever let me see that child again.
If I could have kept in contact, been a presence, helped him? Loved him? I would have, yes.


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