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Dozens of Bodies Dumped in the Streets of Homs, Syria - Elizabeth A. Kennedy (AP)
Dozens of bodies were dumped in the streets of the Syrian city of Homs on Tuesday after up to 50 people were killed on Monday. 34 were shot execution-style, their bodies dumped in a public square.
Activist Mohamed Saleh said all were from the predominantly Sunni district of Jabb al-Jandali. He said Alawite gunmen had raided the district after an Alawite was found dead earlier.
Documentary Explores Unsolved Case of Israeli Attache's Death - Patrick Hruby (Washington Times)
Nearly four decades ago, Israeli military attache Joseph Alon was shot five times in the driveway of his Chevy Chase home, and one of the bullets pierced his heart.
The ongoing mystery surrounding the death of Alon, one of the few foreign diplomats slain on American soil, is explored in the Israeli documentary "Who Shot My Father? The Story of Joe Alon," which made its American debut Tuesday as part of the Washington Jewish Film Festival.
Fred Burton, a former State Department counterterrorism agent, recently wrote a book about his lifelong effort to crack the unsolved case. In his book, Burton claims that he knows who shot Alon.
PA Website in UK "Wiped Israel Off the Map" - Matthew Ashton (Press Association-UK)
The UK's Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) banned the Palestinian Diplomatic Mission to the UK from using a "misleading" interactive map on its website that featured the whole of Israel in the red, green and black colors of the Palestinian flag.
The ASA said: "We concluded that the website was misleading" and argued that it breached its code of advertising practice.
Israel to Build New Desalination Plant - Ari Rabinovitch (Reuters)
Israel's national water company Mekorot signed a financing agreement to build a desalination plant in Ashdod to supplying 100 million cubic meters of water annually, the Finance Ministry said Tuesday.
The new Ashdod plant will join four other desalination facilities that will provide, by the end of 2013, 85% of the country's household water consumption.
Israeli Device Helps Weak Hearts Pump More Blood (Xinhua-China)
A recently-invented Israeli medical device promises to help weakened heart muscles pump blood where needed through electrical stimulation, while "training" and strengthening the muscles.
"Optimizer III" was developed by Impulse Dynamics for patients suffering from chronic congestive heart disease (CCH), an illness that afflicts some 26 million people around the world.
Clinton Meets with Syria Opposition - Karen DeYoung
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton met in Geneva with leading members of Syria's opposition Tuesday in the most high-profile encounter to date between the opposition and the Obama administration. A senior State Department official said Clinton deemed the Syrian National Council a "leading and legitimate representative of Syrians seeking a peaceful democratic transition." Council leaders had previously met with Clinton's counterparts in Britain, France and Germany. (Washington Post)
Administration Tries to Water Down Iran Sanctions Legislation - Josh Rogin
President Obama's administration is working behind the scenes to water down congressional language that would impose crippling sanctions on the Central Bank of Iran (CBI). The administration sent to Congress this week a list of requested changes to the sanctions language found in the Senate's version of the defense authorization bill, which was passed last week. Those sanctions, which would punish any bank that does business with the CBI, were part of an amendment authored by Sens. Mark Kirk (R-IL) and Robert Menendez (D-NJ) that passed over the administration's objections by a vote of 100 to 0.
The administration wants to delay the implementation of sanctions not related to oil purchases from 60 to 180 days, and wants to water down the severity of sanctions measures if and when they are put into effect. (Foreign Policy)
New Sanctions and Whispers of War in Europe-Iran Standoff - Christoph B. Schiltz
EU foreign ministers have now agreed to work on sanctions that could include stopping oil imports and cutting Iran's financial system off from the West in new sanctions that will be finalized in January. Germany, France and the UK expressed particularly strong support for harsher sanctions. Cutting off oil imports from Iran has been repeatedly discussed in the past, but now French Foreign Minister Alain Juppe is saying that the EU will work with Greece and Italy to increase deliveries from other countries to make up for the deliveries they now receive from Iran. "It's doable," Juppe stressed.
According to Walter Posch, an Iran expert at the Berlin-based German Institute for International and Security Affairs (SWP), the new sanctions will make Iran's economic development - and with it, the survival of the present regime - that much more difficult. Earlier sanctions have already hurt Iran, said Posch: "They have contributed significantly to the country's underdevelopment." (Die Welt-Germany)
Syrian Opposition Leader: Hizbullah Showed Real Face by Siding with Assad
"The Syrian revolutionaries in the streets daily shout slogans against Iran and Hizbullah after the resistance's [Hizbullah's] mask slipped off when it sided with the Syrian regime and helped it crush its oppressed people," the head of the Syrian National Council Burhan Ghalioun said Monday in the Lebanese newspaper Al-Mustaqbal. Reconsidering Syria's strategy with Iran and putting an end to arms supplies to Hizbullah are among the Syrian opposition's demands, Ghalioun said.
Ghalioun stressed that the next Syrian government would "not interfere" in Lebanon's internal affairs. "We send a clear message to all allies and spies of the Syrian regime in Lebanon to think about their future in their country... after the collapse of the criminal regime in Damascus," he warned. "The end of the regime is inevitable within a few months," he said. "All we need are safe zones that Syrian opposition members, who will immediately multiply, can resort to; and then the regime won't be able to hold out against this popular flood," he said. (Daily Star-Lebanon)
See also Hizbullah Leader Nasrallah Appears in Public, Voices Support for Assad - Yaakov Katz (Jerusalem Post)
Israel Attacks Palestinian Terrorists in Gaza Preparing to Fire Rockets - Elior Levy
Israeli aircraft attacked terror cells in two separate locations in north Gaza as the terror cells were preparing to launch rockets towards Israeli army forces. (Ynet News)
Lieberman: Economics Crux of Mideast Problems - Herb Keinon
Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman told European foreign ministers on Tuesday that the European experience has shown that the more successful a country's middle class is, the more successful and stable that country is itself. Long an advocate of developing the West Bank economy as a necessary prelude to being able to reach a final agreement with the Palestinians, Lieberman said: "My suggestion is to bypass highly disputed political issues, which cannot be resolved in the present....Once economic growth is allowed to take root and enable the formation of a strong middle class, I have no doubt that the difficult political issues, which seem irresolvable today, will lend themselves to resolution." (Jerusalem Post)
Israel Furious at Hillary Clinton's Concern for Israeli Democracy - Phoebe Greenwood
Israeli government ministers have reacted with fury to comments made by Hillary Clinton expressing her concern for the state of democracy in Israel. An official within the Israeli Foreign Ministry asked, "Does she deal with the same urgency to the social problems in states other than Israel?" "There is capital punishment in America; this is not the practice in Israel. America's hard-line Mormons practice polygamy....We could make many more comparisons which would point out just how ridiculous her criticisms are." (Telegraph-UK)
See also Israeli Officials "Disappointed" by Clinton's Remarks about Threats to Israeli Democracy - Herb Keinon
Israeli officials expressed "disappointment" during recent conversations with U.S. Jewish leaders at Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's comments about threats to Israeli democracy. She was reported to have likened efforts in the haredi sector to have separate seating on buses for males and females to Rosa Parks, the black civil rights icon. "A comparison between the issue of Orthodox Jews and what happened to Rosa Parks is simply beyond the pale," the officials said. They noted that haredi buses with separate seating for men and women travel daily in New York, but that no one is saying that poses a threat to U.S. democracy.
"Is there a law in Israel, like in France, preventing women from wearing a burka?" the officials asked. "Is there a law here, like in Switzerland, banning the construction of minarets on mosques? Is there really a threat to Israeli democracy?" (Jerusalem Post)
Egypt: We've Heard What the Majority Thinks - Barry Rubin
Let's figure out what the voting in Egypt means. Basically, nationalism has collapsed completely. Liberalism is weak. Moderate Muslims are few. Radical Islamism is the only game in town. Many Western journalists insist that the Egyptian people don't want an Islamist state. Of course they do! We are seeing the democratic election of a dictatorship. By the time the election is finished, there should be an easy two-thirds majority for an Islamist constitution.
Still, the Muslim Brotherhood will be cautious. It doesn't want to scare people at home and internationally (it wants foreign aid and investment). Not especially wise people will conclude that the Brotherhood wants to be moderate because it doesn't want to join up with the Salafists. No - it just doesn't want to share power. (PJ Media)
Containing and Deterring a Nuclear Iran: Questions for Strategy, Requirements for Military Forces - Thomas Donnelly, Danielle Pletka, and Maseh Zarif (American Enterprise Institute)
Even without a nuclear weapon, Iran is difficult to deter: its diffuse leadership structures and constant domestic power struggles make it hard to determine which individual leaders, groups of leaders and institutions should be the objects and targets of deterrence. Furthermore, the Iranian approach to military power is a highly asymmetrical strategy that substitutes nuclear weapons, irregulars, proxies, and terrorism for conventional strength.
Containing Iran requires effecting the isolation of the Iranian regime, disconnecting it from great power patrons, limiting its ability to peel off neighbors and regional players to serve its agenda, limiting its use of proxies, and more.
The keystone of any containment policy is a military strategy of deterrence. An Iran policy of containment must meet the basic Cold War standard of credibility. The deterrent posture depends on an adequate U.S. nuclear arsenal of offensive systems; a substantial investment in forward deployed and reinforcing conventional forces; and the preservation of strong alliances that permit relatively good policy integration, military cooperation, and basing and access for U.S. forces.
A credible U.S. offensive deterrent must be "persistent": that is, dedicated forces must be active, available, and "present," at least in the mind of the adversary. In addition, the role of U.S. offensive nuclear forces as the central feature of a "defense umbrella" covering American allies and their interests across the greater Middle East will be critical. Current policies and plans, however, do not reflect such considerations.
Though containment and deterrence are possible policies and strategies for the U.S. and others to adopt when faced with a nuclear Iran, we cannot share the widespread enthusiasm entertained in many quarters. Indeed, the broad embrace of containment and deterrence appears to be based primarily on an unwillingness to analyze the risks and costs.


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Travis County homeless population exploding in unincorporated areas
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Travis County Commissioners find they have more of a homeless problem on their hands than they did before.
Commissioners were discussing federal community development block grants for unincorporated areas of the county when it was noted the annual homeless point in time count revealed more homeless people are in those areas. Kristy Moffatt with Health and Human Services tells commissioners the homeless population in the county has grown sixfold in just one year. "I do think that part of it is that people are moving outside the city of Austin boundaries who are experiencing homelessness because of development and all of that. I think that they are trying to find alternate locations."
Moffatt goes on to say "You also have a situation where there's a lot of construction that's occurring with I-35 and so, TxDOT had done a lot of outreach to people who typically camped underneath those overpasses and talked to them about the construction that was coming to move them into safety."
Moffatt says the count is also higher because of improvements to the annual point-in-time homeless survey. "I think we're doing better on the count just finding people. I think that is in part due to the Constable's Office's work."
Commissioners will reveal later this year what all they plan to do to address homelessness.
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The latest publication of the monthly UK House Price Index (UK HPI) shows that the average price of a property in Scotland in August 2017 was £146,354 – an increase of 3.9 per cent on August in the previous year and a decrease of 0.7 per cent when compared to the previous month.
This compares to a UK average of £225,956, which was an increase of 5.0 per cent compared to August in the previous year and an increase of 0.5 per cent when compared to the previous month.
The volume of residential sales in Scotland in June 2017 was 10,473 – an increase of 19.3 per cent on June 2016 and an increase of 26.2 per cent on the previous month. This compares with an annual decrease in sales volumes of 11.0 per cent in England and annual increases in sales volumes of 1.4 per cent in Wales and 5.0 per cent in Northern Ireland (Quarter 2 – 2017).
Registers of Scotland registration and transformation director Charles Keegan said: "Residential sales volumes have taken a boost in June, with volumes hitting a five figure total for the first time since March 2016. The volume in June 2017 was 10,473, while the volume of sales recorded in March 2016 was 11,017. However, the 2016 figure is likely to have been enhanced by house buyers seeking to finalise purchases prior to the introduction of changes to the Land and Buildings Transaction Tax that came into effect on 1 April 2016. Sales volumes in Scotland also continued to perform well in comparison to the other countries of the UK.
The top five local authorities in terms of sales volumes were Glasgow City (1,224 sales), the City of Edinburgh (1,216 sales), Fife (704 sales), South Lanarkshire (674 sales) and North Lanarkshire (561 sales).
Average price increases were recorded in 28 out of 32 local authorities in August 2017, when comparing prices with the previous year. The biggest price increase was in the City of Edinburgh, where the average price increased by 10.4 per cent to £246,611. The biggest decreases were in Aberdeenshire and Aberdeen City, where prices fell by 5.7 per cent to £188,876 and by 4.8 per cent to £167,903 respectively.
Across Scotland, all property types, with the exception of detached properties, showed an increase in average price in August 2017 when compared with the same month in the previous year. Flatted properties showed the biggest increase, rising by 8.4 per cent to £108,772. The average price of detached properties decreased by 1.9 per cent to £240,241.
The average price in August 2017 for a property purchased by a first time buyer was £120,824 – an increase of 6.2 per cent compared to the same month in the previous year. The average price for a property purchased by a former owner occupier was £171,611 – an increase of 1.5 per cent on the previous year.
The average price for a cash sale was £135,802 – an increase of 4.7 per cent on the previous year – while the average price for property purchased with a mortgage was £151,197 – an increase of 3.5 per cent on the previous year.


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Christian Franke (* 24. Januar 1891 in Todtenhausen (Minden); † 15. September 1972 in Weener) war ein deutscher Unternehmer, Politiker (NSDAP) und Gauwirtschaftsberater.

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Christian Franke wurde als Sohn eines Landwirtes geboren. Nach dem Besuch der Oberrealschule bis zur Obersekunda trat er in den Verwaltungsdienst ein. Im Ersten Weltkrieg kämpfte er von 1914 bis 1918 an der Westfront. 1917 übernahm er die Leitung der Munitionsabteilung beim Generalkommando des 26. Reserve-Armee-Korps. 1918 wechselte Franke, der im Krieg mit dem Eisernen Kreuz beider Klassen ausgezeichnet wurde, "zur Erledigung besonderer Aufgaben" ins Artillerie-Regiment III.

Nach dem Krieg war Franke in der Industrie tätig. 1921 wurde er Fabrikgeschäftsführer und 1924 Vorstandsmitglied einer Aktiengesellschaft. 1928 übernahm er eine Stelle als Exportdirektor in einem größeren Fabrikunternehmen in Holland.

Am 15. September 1931 trat Franke in die NSDAP ein. 1932 wurde er Gauwirtschaftsberater der NSDAP und Gaukampfbundführer des gewerblichen Mittelstandes im NSDAP-Gau Westfalen-Nord. 1933 ernannte der Treuhänder der Arbeit für das Wirtschaftsgebiet Westfalen ihn zu seinem Sonderbeauftragten.

Von März 1933 bis Mai 1945 saß Franke als Abgeordneter der NSDAP für den Wahlkreis 17 (Westfalen-Nord) im Reichstag. Franke war Träger des goldenen Parteiabzeichens.

Franke war ferner bis zu ihrer Schließung 1942 Präsident der Industrie- und Handelskammer in Münster, Mitglied des engeren Beirats der Reichswirtschaftskammer und Beiratsmitglied der deutschen Gruppe der Internationalen Handelskammer für die Niederlande sowie von 1935 bis 1945 Preußischer Provinzialrat der Provinz Westfalen.

Franke wurde 1938 Teilhaber der arisierten Westdeutschen Sperrholzwerke Hugo Bresser & Co. in Wiedenbrück. Franke denunzierte den Geschäftsführer Hugo Bresser, der Anfang 1945 in NS-Haft starb. Franke wurde daher wegen Verbrechens gegen die Menschlichkeit 1948 vom Landgericht Paderborn zu zwei Jahren und zehn Monaten Gefängnis verurteilt.

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 LG Paderborn, 2. November 1948. In: Justiz und NS-Verbrechen. Sammlung deutscher Strafurteile wegen nationalsozialistischer Tötungsverbrechen 1945–1966, Bd. III, bearbeitet von Adelheid L. Rüter-Ehlermann, C. F. Rüter. Amsterdam : University Press, 1969, Nr. 94, S. 343–368  Denunziation des Inhabers der Wiedenbrücker Sperrholzwerke anlässlich eines Betriebskonflikts durch seinen Teilhaber wegen abfälliger Worte über die NSDAP und die NS-Regierung

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A bit of lore asserts that what has come to be known as Italian wedding soup began as a dish traditionally served to the bride and groom at wedding receptions to impart to the nuptial couple the extra strength and vigor to see them through the wedding night. However, that origin is naught but invention; Italian wedding soup gained its name not from the occasion that might bring it to the table but rather from the harmony of its ingredients. The phrase rendered in English as "wedding soup" actually means "married soup" (minestra maritata) in Italian. Said mistranslation has led to a misunderstanding of how the dish came by its name.
For most Italian families the holidays mean getting together, sharing stories and great meals and lots and lots of cookies. At Strada we want to share that tradition with you.
We all love pizza. But where did it come from? Italy of course. The first pizza that resembles the pizza we eat today comes from Naples. Naples is an ancient city founded by the greeks in the bronze age around 600 BC. The greeks brought flatbread with them to the area. By the 1700's Naples was a major port city with many sailors, porters, dock workers, fishermen and their families. Because the working people were busy and not wealthy they often ate food from street vendors who put toppings on flat bread, some of them are the same toppings we eat today.


As in previous growing seasons, the use of Bt hybrids will remain a key tactic in 2013 for corn rootworm protection. However, the number of producers using soil insecticides is increasing.
Mike Gray, a University of Illinois professor of agricultural entomology in the Crop Sciences Department, polled producers at the 2013 Corn and Soybean Classics (producer meetings in Illinois) to find out if they intended to plant a Bt hybrid for corn rootworm protection in 2013.
"On average, for the five locations, nearly 92 percent of the producers indicated that Bt hybrids would be targeted at corn rootworms for the upcoming growing season, Gray reported. He thinks that the results indicate, as more pyramided Bt hybrids enter the marketplace, there will be significant changes in the choice of refuge.
"In 2012, the traditional 20 percent structured refuge was still the dominant approach used by producers in the Corn Belt. Based upon responses received at the 2013 Corn and Soybean Classics, this refuge strategy will no longer remain dominant for Illinois producers, he said.
He thinks that most producers who took part in the regional meetings will choose the 5 percent seed blend (refuge-in-a-bag, or RIB). Slightly more than 40 percent indicated that they will be moving in this new direction.
The second most common refuge tactic will be the 10 percent seed blend (RIB), with just under one third relying upon this approach. Together, these data indicate that nearly three out of four producers who responded to this question will use a seed blend as their corn rootworm refuge management strategy.
"The advantages of an RIB are straightforward convenience, ensured compliance, and, based upon emergence patterns and inter-field dispersal dynamics of adults for effective resistance management of western corn rootworms, Gray said.
Gray also said that in 2013, he anticipates a sharp increase in the use of planting-time soil insecticides with corn rootworm Bt hybrids. On average, nearly half the producers indicated they intend to use both a soil applied (at-planting) insecticide with their corn rootworm Bt hybrid this spring.
"From my perspective, the escalation of soil insecticide use along with corn rootworm Bt hybrids has been fueled primarily by concerns about Bt resistance and high commodity prices, he said.
Producers who intend to use a soil insecticide with their corn rootworm Bt hybrid this spring offered several reasons for this approach, with concerns over secondary insect infestations and Bt resistance as the top issues cited. However, more than a quarter of the producers acknowledged that they view the use of a soil insecticide with a corn rootworm Bt hybrid as "cheap insurance.
Gray said that more research is needed on the potential insect resistance management benefits of a soil insecticide used in combination with a Bt hybrid.
"I think it is worth mentioning that one of the key benefits touted concerning the use of Bt hybrids for corn rootworm management was the reduction of soil insecticide use, he said. "It is a bit surprising that 10 years after the first Bt hybrids entered the marketplace for corn rootworms in 2003 that a heightened interest in the use of soil insecticides has surfaced in such a significant fashion.
Gray concluded that, unlike the record-breaking warm temperatures of March 2012 that caused early emergence of western corn rootworm, this year's weather does not favor early emergence.


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The keyboard is fast and responsive, though the awkward lower-left placement of the Function key (which, for example, turns the up- and down-arrow keys into page-up and -down keys respectively) makes it an easy target for the left hand while typing, resulting in some strange typos until you become accustomed to it.
The batteries last a couple of hours-enough for most purposesand they are compact enough that you could carry a couple of charged-up spares in an overcoat pocket. At a desk, you can use the charger as a power supply, which leads me to one complaint about this machine that would be easy to fix. The power supply/battery charger unit has a three-foot power cord, but the cable from the charger to the computer is only about 18 inches long, which means that the power supply has to sit on the same surface as the computer when it's in use. Sanyo should have provided a long cord to the computer, allowing the transformer to sit on the floor, out of the way.
The low-battery light gives you a little warning when the battery pack is breathing its last, but don't think you have enough time to do one more recalculation on your spreadsheet.
You'd be well advised to save your work immediately, or you'll have an unpleasant surprise.
You might want to know that Sanyo makes the ZEOS and Commodore notebook computers, which are virtually identical to the Sanyo. Whichever you choose, you'll be getting a handy, well-designed computer.
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November 15, 2018 - Mayor Tom Henry today was joined by representatives from Greater Fort Wayne Crime Stoppers, the City of Fort Wayne and City of New Haven police departments, Indiana State Police, Allen County Sheriff's Department, the FBI and the Allen County Prosecutor's Office to commemorate the 35-year anniversary of Greater Fort Wayne Crime Stoppers.
Crime Stoppers is a community program geared toward public involvement in the fight against crime.Mayor Tom Henry today was joined by representatives from Greater Fort Wayne Crime Stoppers, the City of Fort Wayne and City of New Haven police departments, Indiana State Police, Allen County Sheriff's Department, the FBI and the Allen County Prosecutor's Office to commemorate the 35-year anniversary of Greater Fort Wayne Crime Stoppers. Crime Stoppers is a community program geared toward public involvement in the fight against crime.


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What's Happening in the Torah? Rosh HaShanah Activities for Families
Learn how you and your family can pursue social justice during the Jewish high holidays.
First (Probably) Annual Rosh HaShanah Sermon Round-Up
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Creating New Rituals and Tradition for the School Year and the New Year
Sarah Koffler
For children, traditions and rituals are significant; they provide predictability, support, and familiarity, while bringing families together and creating unity and a sense of belonging.
Twenty Becomes One: Seeing Our Congregations as Family, Especially During Hardship
In the fall of 2008, I was the executive director of a 1,000-household synagogue. We had recently finished a major sanctuary renovation, and our membership numbers were on an encouraging upward trend. Our finances were sound, and we had big plans for the year ahead. The new president of our board was writing her first Yom Kippur appeal as I was busily taking care of the last details of our High Holiday preparation. Then, two weeks before Rosh HaShanah, Lehman Brothers declared bankruptcy, after which the bank loan market crashed. Banks large and small suffered huge losses, and during the first week of October, the stock market experienced a sharp downward spiral. That week was was Kol Nidre, and our president ascended the bimah (pulpit) to deliver an appeal for donations on the very day on which many in our congregation had lost a significant amount of money – money they were counting on for homes, for retirement, for food. The president delivered a masterful appeal that evening, and even on that worst of economic days, we collected Yom Kippur appeal monies in excess of what we had collected the previous year. The next day, on Yom Kippur, the stock market fell 700 points, sending the entire country into a recession that, some would argue, continues to this day.
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The number of months, with God, is 12 in the Book of God, the day that He created the heavens and the earth… The month postponed is an increase of unbelief whereby the unbelievers go astray; one year they make it profane, and hallow it another…
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Electricity Generation From Coal
Early Origins of the Coal-Fired Electric Power Plant • The Reciprocating Steam Engine uses the action of steam to move a piston in a sealed chamber • The modern version was developed first by James Watt during the 1760 s • This would later be used to power the first coal power plants www. history. rochester. edu
The First Practical Coal-Fired Electric Power Plant Pearl Street Power Station – New York City • Built by Thomas Edison • Opened Sept. 1882 • Used to power Edison's incandescent electric lighting http: //ieeexplore. ieee. org/iel 5 /8014/26956/01197918. pdf? a rnumber=1197918 http: //www. ieee-virtual-museum. org
The Process • Coal was used to heat water in boiler room pipes to produce steam • The steam was used in a reciprocating (piston) steam engine to produce mechanical energy • The mechanical energy was converted into electricity by a dynamo (generator) Inside the dynamo room www. nps. gov
Limitations of the Pearl Street Generating Station • Generated low voltage direct current 1. 2. 3. Area of Manhattan powered by Pearl Street Plant (1 mi^2) http: //www. ieee-virtual-museum. org This resulted in high power line losses that necessitated in having a small service radius Along with that, voltages could not be stepped up or stepped down. This allows the transmission of electricity to occur at very high voltages over long distances and step down for municipal use. The high voltage allows a low current for the same amount of power which greatly reduces I^2 R losses
Model of the Pearl Street Plant
The Steam Turbine A turbine in the Penn State Coal Power Plant http: //www. psu. edu/ur/archives/inter com_2003/Feb 20/gallery. html • Invented by Charles A Parsons in 1884 • Replaced the reciprocating steam engine because it was more efficient • First station to use them exclusively for power generation was the Fisk Street Station of Chicago in 1903 • Generates more than 80% of the world's power today
Pulverized Coal Pulverized coal burner • • Introduced in 1917 The process of burning it brought advantages that included 1. a higher combustion temperature 2. Improved thermal efficiency 3. and a lower requirement for excess air for combustion http: //www. rst 2. edu/ties/acidrain/IEcoal/how. htm
Cyclone Furnace • Introduced in 1942 by the Babcock & Wilcox Company • Allowed for the combustion of poorer grades of coal (with higher moisture and ash contents) with less ash production and greater overall efficiency.
Modern History of Coal Power • Due to competition with alternate power sources such as oil and nuclear power along with stricter environmental legislation; coal's share of electricity production would drop by 10% from 1965 to 1975 • Several events would reverse this trend
Important Events to the Modern Coal Power Industry http: //memory. loc. gov/master/pnp/ppmsca/03400/03433 u. tif • Clean Air Act of 1970 and the 1977 amendments slowed the growth of the industry • Oil shortages and price increases in 1973 -1974 made oil a much less economically viable alternative to coal (oil fuel cost went up from 80 cents to 1. 93 dollars per million Btu from 1973 to 74) • Natural Gas price increases also made it less economically viable as a fuel
Coal's Geographic Shift • • www. jstor. org In 1970, 93% of US bituminous and lignite coal was mined east of the Mississippi In 1990 it was only 61%
Coal's Geographic Shift (Continued) • Wyoming is now the nation's biggest coal producer with 30% of the nations production in 2002 1. This is primarily because Wyoming coal's low sulfur content helps power plants meet their emissions requirements 2. This in recent years has left the transportation system of the region strained because it was not built to handle the massive amounts of coal train traffic Powder River Basin of Wyoming • Because of the lack of railroad capacity, many power plants fail to receive a consistent supply of coal
Powerplants by fuel type in 2005 http: //www. eia. doe. gov/cneaf/electricity/epa_sum. html
Electricity Generation From Coal • Let's start at the beginning. • Almost everything in our homes and businesses today run on electricity. • That electricity has to come from somewhere. • Some sources of electricity are nuclear power, solar power, wind power, and most important for us Coal Power.
Electricity Generation • Electricity as we know it doesn't just come out of the ground, it has to be generated. • In all types of power plants the electricity is generated in the same manner; a prime mover turns a rotor covered in electrical windings inside a magnetic field. The magnetic lines of flux are cut by the conducting wires inducing current in the wires. • Rotor turns at 3600 RPM which induces current at 60 Hz in the United States.
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Steam Turbine • As mentioned before, something has to turn the rotor in order to generate electricity. • In our case the prime mover happens to be a steam turbine. • Steam comes out of the tubes in the boiler and into a manifold then into the turbine. • As the steam passes over the turbine blades, torque is produced as a result of the blade shape.
Steam Turbine Wikipedia
Turbine Generator and Condenser
Steam Turbine • The rate of steam flow controls how fast the turbine rotates and therefore the frequency of the electricity produced. • As the steam moves through the turbine energy is extracted which results in a pressure drop. • Therefore the LP turbine is located at the exit of the HP turbine to extract the maximum amount of energy from the steam before it is sent to the condenser. • As electricity is generated it leaves the building though a very large circuit breaker and a series of transformers before it enters the power grid.
Path of Electricity
Condenser • After the steam leaves the LP turbine it travels to the condenser, where it is condensed back to liquid water. • The condenser is a heat exchanger that cools the steam while is passes over tubes that have cold water running through them. • The cold water removes energy from the heated steam causing it to condense which is necessary for the water to be re-used as feed. • There is another reason why the condenser is necessary which we will discuss shortly.
Cooling Towers • The water that runs through the tubes in the condenser must be cooled down in order to condense the steam. • This is accomplished using very large cooling towers, in which the water is atomized by sprayers and cooled down by atmospheric conditions and fans. • The substance leaving cooling towers is sometimes mistaken for smoke, but it is in fact just water vapor.
Main Condenser Holte International
Feed System • After the condensate is collected in the hotwell of the condenser it is pumped through the feed system. • The feed pump increases the pressure of the feed water in order for it to flow back into the boiler to be turned back into steam to start the cycle over again. • This stage turns out to be the 4 th and final stage of something called a heat engine.
Basic Heat Engine • A heat engine operates on the principle that during the conversion of heat from a hot reservoir (boiler tubes) to a cold reservoir (condenser/cooling tower) there must be work done to satisfy the 1 st and 2 nd laws of Thermodynamics. • As mentioned before, a heat engine consists of four stages: Generation, Expansion, Condensation, and Feed.
Basic Heat Engine
Laws of Thermodynamics • 1 st: "The increase in internal energy of a system is equal to the amount of heat energy added to the system minus the work done by the system on the surroundings. "
Laws of Thermodynamics • 2 nd: The temperature differences between systems in contact with each other tend to even out and that work can be obtained from these non-equilibrium differences, but that loss of heat occurs, in the form of entropy, when work is done. • 2 nd: It is impossible to produce work in the surroundings using a cyclic process connected to a single heat reservoir (Kelvin, 1851).
Laws of Thermodynamics • The second law also states that the maximum efficiency of a heat engine can be determined by: η = 1 -(Th/Tc) • Efficiency is also equal to the work output over the heat input. η = Δ W/Δ QH
Efficiency • An ordinary power plant operates between the temperatures of 565 C and 25 C which leads to maximum efficiency of around 64%. • However, due to the losses mentioned earlier the usual observed efficiency is about 35%. • This shows how much of the energy stored in the coal is just wasted instead of being converted to electricity.
Steam Cycle • The previous part of the presentation was to explain the process behind electricity generation that occurs after the coal portion. • I will now go through some of the components dealing with the coal aspect of the power plant ending at the boiler which is where the steam cycle began. • Most of what I will discuss is particular to the Co-gen plant that I visited.
Coal Delivery • After the coal is mined and loaded into trucks it is delivered into chutes that lead to the Bradford Breaker. • The breaker is a drum with hammers in it that rotates and breaks the coal down into pieces about 4" diameter, which fall through the screen and onto the conveyor belt which leads to the storage facility.
Bradford Breaker www. penncrusher. com
Bradford Breaker
Coal Storage • After the coal has been sufficiently reduced in size, it enters a storage facility, in this case, a large dome. • The coal is then stacked using a machine you will see in the next slide, which rotates and places the coal around the perimeter of the dome. • This same machine also takes coal from the pile and delivers it to the crusher building.
Coal Storage
Crusher • The coal is delivered from the storage facility to a device conveniently called a coal crusher. • This machine takes the 4" pieces of coal and through a series of rollers converts the fuel into a fine powder. • This powder is necessary for proper combustion in the boilers. • All newer state of the art power plants are set up to work with pulverized coal, but older plants may operate with lumped coal.
Fuel Feed System • The conveyor belt delivers the crushed coal to a series of fuel feeders, which inject coal into the boilers along with a mixture of high pressure air for combustion.
Boiler Base
Boiler Building
Boilers • The final stage for the coal coincides with the first stage of the steam plant. • The boiler is usually the largest component of the coal power plant climbing as high as 200 ft. • Inside the boilers the pulverized coal is burned while it more or less floats with the aid of HP air. • Lining the entire inside of the boiler are tubes which carry the feed water to be turned into steam.
Boilers www. boatnerd. com
Boiler Wikipedia
Inside the Boiler news. minnesota. publicradio. org
After the Boiler • As the coal is burned a large amount of ash is produced. • Some falls to the bottom and is collected, then mixed with water and sent to the ash pile. • Very light ash particles also escape with the exhaust gasses which are captured by a bag filter system. • This fly ash is collected in a silo until a certain level is reached when it is pumped to the ash pile via HP air.
Fly Ash www. concretethinker. com
Ash Pile
Ash • This ash has a basic p. H and has some beneficial uses. • After a truck delivers coal to the plant it is filled with ash to return to the reclamation site. • The high p. H helps treat acid mine drainage.
Ash • The fly ash is used as a substitute to make Portland cement. • Another use of fly ash is structural fill for highway embankments and the fill under new highways.
Exhaust Gasses and the Stack • One of the most controversial aspects of a coal power plant is what comes out of the stack. • During the combustion process dangerous gasses and particulates are released, such as NOx, SOx, and CO 2. • Controls are in effect for each of these in new plants, however older plants spew thousands of pounds of each of these into the atmosphere every year.
Exhaust Gasses and the Stack
The Stack www. industcards. com/as-pontes. jpg
Coal Power • This concludes the component tour of the coal power plant. • I will now talk about parallels of coal power with alternatives like nuclear power.
Coal vs Nuclear Power • Both coal and nuclear power plants operate on the same principle of using steam to spin a turbine generator to make electricity. • The entire steam cycle is exactly the same the only difference lies in the heat source
Nuclear Power • The reactor heats primary water due to heat released in fission as well as the diffusion of neutrons escaping the core. • This very hot primary water travels to the steam generator where the secondary water is converted to steam. • From there everything is the same as we just went through.
Works Cited • • • • A History of Power Clientship. " Sargent & Lundy. 2006. Sargent & Lundy. 8 Dec 2006 . "Coal Fired Power Generation. " International Electric Coal Generation. Ramapo College of New Jersey. 8 Dec 2006 . "Coal Production. " Energy Information Sheets. Mar 2004. Energy Information Administration. 8 Dec 2006 . Detweiler, Gregg, and Xiaohong (Sherry), Yu. "Wyoming Mining Industry: An In-Depth Analysis. " 03 Oct 2001. Wyoming Department of Employment, Research & Planning. 8 Dec 2006 . "Electric Light and Power Images. " Edison National Historic Site. National Park Service. 8 Dec 2006 . Elmes, Gregory, and Trevor, Harris. "Industrial Restructuring and the United States Coal-Energy System. " Annals of the Association of American Geographers vol. 86(1996) 507 -529. 08 Dec 2006 . Fuldner, Arthur, and Sandra Smith. Fuel Choice in Steam Electric Generation: Historical Overview. Washington DC: Energy Information Administration, 1985. Helmick, "Steam Engines. " Macmillan Encyclopedia of Energy. 2001. Macmillan Reference USA. 8 Dec 2006 . "History. " About Our Company. Babcock & Wilcox Company. 8 Dec 2006 . "History of Coal. " Expanded Online Kentucky Coal Facts. Kentucky Coal Association. 8 Dec 2006 . Moen, Bob. "Railroads Struggle to Ship Coal in US. " Washington Post 10 June 2006 08 Dec 2006 . "Pearl Street Station: The Dawn of Commercial Electric Power. " IEEE Virtual Museum. 2006. Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers. 8 Dec 2006 . Sulzberger, Carl. "Triumph of AC. " IEEE Power & Energy Magazine May 2003 64 -67. 08 Dec 2006 .
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 * We have been given the task of generating a large number, say N,
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 * While tackling this problem, we would like to measure the
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 * A typical output for this demo would be:

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    |-- elapsed time             [PRUNE_COMPOSITES]    11.567  seconds.
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|-- elapsed time               [SORT_AND_PRUNE]    11.788  seconds.
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public class NestedProfilerDemo {

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 M. b. griseirostris Mayr, 1931 — гора Голіаф;
 M. b. schraderensis Mertens, 1923 — схід острова;
 M. b. belfordi Mertens, 1923 — найвищі гірські піки на південному сході острова;
 M. b. brassi Meyer, AB, 1886 — гори на південному сході острова.

Поширення і екологія
Синьощокі медвянці живуть у вологих гірських тропічних лісах Центрального хребта. Зустрічаються на висоті від 1600 до 5000 м над рівнем моря.

Примітки

Медолюбові
Птахи, описані 1890
Птахи Нової Гвінеї
Ендемічна фауна Нової Гвінеї


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Q: Два подсчета в представлении MySQL Мне нужно составить следующее представление «Статистика по жанрам»: жанр – количество фильмов, снятых в России – количество фильмов, снятых в других странах.
Имеется таблица фильмов:
Я хочу получить представление с тремя столбцами: жанр, кол-во российских фильмов, кол-во иностранных фильмов.
Как составить представление только с количеством российских фильмов по жанрам я понимаю:
create view statistics
as select films.ganre, count(*) Russian_films
from films
where country = 'Russia'
group by ganre;

Получаю такое представление:

Я не понимаю, как добавить второй count(*) для подсчета иностранных фильмов.(Как я понимаю, не требуется подсчитывать отдельно для каждой другой страны, а нужно количество иностранных фильмов по жанрам в совокупности.) Подскажите, пожалуйста, как это сделать. Спасибо.

A: SELECT ganre, SUM(IF(country = 'Russia', 1, 0)) as `Russian`,
              SUM(IF(country <> 'Russia', 1, 0)) as `nonRussian`
FROM films
WHERE IFNULL(country, '')<>''
GROUP BY ganre;

WHERE добавлено для игнора фильмов, в которых страна не указана.

A: Можно было еще так сделать, используя UNION ALL:
create view stat
as select films.ganre
from films
union all
select count(*) Russian_films
from films
where country = 'Russia'
group by ganre
union all
select count(*) Foreign_films
from films
where country != 'Russia'
group by ganre;

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Charcoal at Symphony Palm Beach Resort is excellent fine dining multi-cuisine restaurant serving numerous signature finger foods and gourmet dishes. The soothing ambience of the restaurant lies in its splendid location near the beachfront.
Here, you can satisfy your taste buds to the fullest with a vast variety in the international dishes, pizzas, specialty sandwiches and a wide selection of Indian, continental and mughlai cuisine. At our open air restaurant, you can enjoy the grill serving Szechuan specialities, Sea food and steaks as well.
With contemporary and chic style architecture, this dining place is a delight for the foodies. We also offer a nice selection of teas, coffees, freshly prepared homemade cakes and some exceptionally luscious desserts. For us both preparation as well as presentation of the food plays a significant role and this is what enables up to keep our guests content.
Enjoying international buffets and savouring breathtaking natural views at the same time is what we call a real Charcoal dining experience. Just lose yourself in the mystically wonderful cuisine and head out on a flavoursome culinary journey.


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Q: Appending to an array value in a dictionary How do you append to an array thats being used as a value in a dictionary on Swift?
Currently I have got:
var excercises = Dictionary<String, Array<String>>()

excercises["key"]!.append("value")

It doesn't give a syntax error, though:

Thread 1: EXC_BREAKPOINT (code=1, subcode=0x1004bc448)

What I'm trying to ask is, how do you use a dictionary with array to append/remove?

A: I have written your problem in Swift playground and no errors have occurred. You must reference a "Key" instead of the word "Key" as it is trying to find an array in your dictionary which has currently none.
Code-
var str = "Hello, playground"
var myDictionary: [String: [String]] = ["Hello": ["One", "Two"],"World": ["Three", "Four"]]
myDictionary["World"]!.append("Five")

A: I guess you are looking for updating value in a dictionary :
    var dict = [String: [String]]()
    var array = ["abc","def"]

    dict["key"] = array
    array.append("ghi")

    dict.updateValue(array, forKey: "key")


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Many time our installed apps will declare you will more battery consumption. The greater than before mannerism is to make a buy of a Hard Reset.Doing a complex reset upon your phone is a pleasing pretentiousness to cease an app following a battery-draining memory leak.
If your phones battery vibrancy is yet tanking after a hard reboot, you could always attempt to pinpoint an app that draining advance on-thinking than its fair share of execution.
Both Android phones and iPhones have tools thatll back going on you spot a battery-hogging app.
For Android, tap Settings > Battery, subsequently scroll down and check out the list of apps. If you see one thats been using a lot of juice lately, tap it and tap the Force Stop button to slip it in its tracks.
For iOS, tap Settings > Battery, as well as see for a culprit in the Battery Usage list. If you spot any battery hogs, you can close the app by flicking occurring its card in the app switcher (double-tap the Home key), or graze off its background work in the atmosphere privileges (tap Settings > General > Background App Refresh, locate the app in the list, later flip off its switch).
Another attainable footnote for a plunging battery gauge is that youon in an place behind needy cellular benefits. When that happens, your phone will save exasperating (and irritating and infuriating) to avow a association, and thats a flattering quirk to drain your battery in a hurry.
You can approach Wi-Fi mitigation regarding subsequently you enable airplane mode in excuse to your Android or iOS device.
If thats the accomplishment, your best bet may be to incline about airplane mode. Doing therefore will tilt off your handsets cellular radio and entre it from frantically looking for a cellular signal.
For iOS devices, tap Settings, then switch on the Airplane Mode setting, or just flick occurring the Control Center window and tap the Airplane Mode button. For Android devices, tug the length of the Quick Settings window shade and tap the Airplane Mode button.
If you dont when the idea of flesh and blood thing out of be against, save in mind that you can always direction re Wi-Fi after activating airplane mode.
Both Android and iOS devices boast a battery-saver mood thatll shut the length of most background behavior, dim the screen, and enable supplement battery-preserving features, to hand if youon the order of unexpectedly dealing behind a phone thats around out of juice.
Turning re Androids Battery-saver mode or iOS Low Power Mode is a pleasant habit to conserve the last pretentious drops of juice coarsely your handset.
For Android devices, tap Settings > Battery, tap the three-dot overflow button in the top corner of the screen, tap Battery Saver, later flip upon the switch. While youa propos at it, make conclusive to enable the Turn upon automatically air, which activates battery-miser mode then than your devices battery liveliness falls out cold either 15 percent or 5 percent.
On an iPhone or iPad, tap Settings > Battery, furthermore enable the Low Power Mode setting; youll along with be prompted to tilt of view upon the feature upon if your device falls below 20 percent or 10 percent of battery vigor remaining. Unlike Androids Battery Saver feature, iOSs Low Power Mode atmosphere can single-handedly be activated manually.
Everyone wants a phone charger as soon as their handset is roughly to control out of juice; the legitimate trick, of course, is making assenting you have one regarding hand gone you obsession it.
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Just one more page/blog/row. A small toddler if she naps.
I'm happy with being me. Being someone else would be way too much work.
Capris (yes, in the winter) t-shirt and pink crocs. Which I rock.
Best: Finding new inspiration, meeting people who are interested in the same things I am, being able to see the world from my living room.
Worst: Wishing I could meet the people that really inspire me, and knowing it's probably not going to happen. Feeling like the worst blogger in the world if I don't post every day.
No. I'm not even sure what they are, but based on the name alone... no.
Whom are you going to tag to join the quiz?
Sarah. Because I am amazed at all she does, and she's a great mom, too!
Karli. Because she was one of my very first online blog buds.
Jess. Because she is a lot like me, if I was perfectly thin, could hula, had a rooster and my very own axe.
Gina. Because she's a homeschooling mommy too, and makes the best. camera. straps. EVER!
I am going to have to skip that very awful movie with you - we can do coffee instead!
Spiders, the really hairy big fast ones. So with you on that.
Thank you!!!!! Loved learning more about you!!!!!


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The UK Parliament Home Affairs Select Committee is currently conducting an inquiry into the existing legislative framework on female genital mutilation, and the barriers to achieving a successful prosecution. The Chair, Keith Vaz MP, has invited commentary on any aspect of this issue, such as the respective roles of the police, health, education and social care professionals, and the third sector, and ways in which effective action to stop FGM could be achieved. What follows is my personal submission to the Committee.
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Adverse emotional and interpersonal effects reported by 1829 New Zealanders while taking antidepressants.
A simple template letter to kill the bedroom tax.
Find The Gap: Or, why researchers squabble so much.
The debate about the Lancet study on CBT for psychosis is still going strong in the twitter-sphere. A lot of the criticism has focused on the statistics reported in the piece, with debates about standardised versus unstandardised effect sizes, lack of sensitivity analysis for confounds, choice of follow up point to report and so on. Prof James Coyne has even offered a $500 wager to the study authors to justify the use of the effect size they reported in the study. What's interesting is that no-one (as far as I'm aware) is saying the numbers reported are wrong – rather, the debate is about which numbers are chosen at the expense of which others, which analyses were emphasised or excluded, and whether the chosen way of reporting certain findings is the most 'fair' way to do so.


Silver coins transformed into unique, timeless wearable art. Classic lighters. Precious metals were originally used as "money" predominantly Silver in the last 2 centuries in Western civilizations. However, as time progressed governments unpegged from the Gold Standard for fiat currency and reduced the silver content in their coins. Up until around 1930-40s the silver content was as high as 90%, after the 30s-40s a reduction to 40% silver until around the 1970s, finally no .


Whitewater Rafting! Camping! and a Jet Boat Adventure!
This is the perfect trip for those who do not have the time do a five day trip. This three day section of the Salmon River has the most to offer our guests. Rapids like Black Canyon, Bailey Falls and Split Rock are just a few of the well know rapids that you will encounter on your journey. On day two we will make a stop at Barth Hot Springs and will visit several other pioneer historical sites along the way.
Please contact our office for details on this specific trip.
Our shuttle van will be ready for you and your gear in front of the Stagecoach Inn at 7:15 a.m We will be leaving at 7:30 a.m. En route we will stop at a convenience store for last minute personal supplies, fishing licenses, and to use the bathrooms. The drive from the Stagecoach Inn to the put in Corn Creek is about a 2 hr scenery-filled drive, over both asphalt and dirt roads.
Once you have arrived at Corn Creek everyone will then participate in a thorough water safety presentation, and head off down the Salmon River! This first day on the river starts out with rapids that feature fun roller coaster waves, such as Killum and Gunbarrel and Rainier Rapid.
Before long everyone will be comfortable running the rapids, and be ready for more whitewater action in the days to follow. We stop for lunch in the early afternoon, and after some more great rafting we arrive at camp in the late afternoon. Before Happy Hour, snacks and beverages are served, your guides will unload the gear boats distributing tents, sleeping pads and your personal dry bags. They will also explain how the "bathroom" system works and help you with the set up of your personal camping gear. The evening then flows into a night of delicious food, campfires, camaraderie, star watching and more.
Each day begins with a multi-course breakfast and fresh brewed coffee, as the sun slowly creeps over the ridgeline to dry the morning dew off your tent. After breaking camp, rigging the rafts, and dawning your days river gear, we set out for the next days adventure. After making a stop to soak in a natural hot spring we will finish the day with thrilling rapids such as Hancock, Wake-Up, Bailey Falls, Big Mallard, Elkhorn and others. The Salmon River and canyon offers a myriad for rafters to see and do, and we take in as much as humanly possible along the way! A gourmet deli style lunch is served in the early afternoon on the banks of the Salmon River, designed to give everyone the energy to finish off the day. We reach camp in the early evening which is either on a spectacular white sand beach or a tranquil forest glade. This gives you the opportunity to hike, fish, swim, reflect with friends during happy hour or just relax under the shade. Our dinners have been labeled as some of the finest outdoor dutch oven cuisine imaginable and are presented in our riverside dinning room, complete with tables and chairs. Each night will be spent under the stars and the sound of this magical river will lull you to sleep.
After another fulfilling Salmon River breakfast our chartered jet-boat will pick us up around 10:00 a.m. Once we are all aboard we take about a 3 hour trip back up river to Corn Creek where it all started. Lunch will be served at the Corn Creek camp site, prior to boarding a shuttle and heading back to Salmon, arriving around 4:00 p.m. that evening. Once you arrive in Salmon you are taken to your hotel or the airport, depending on your post-trip schedule.
Vacations conducted in a wilderness area are mostly controlled by Mother Nature. So there may come a time that changes in the itineraries described above will need to be adjusted for reasons we can not control.


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Frederick Douglass was one of the foremost leaders of the abolitionist movement, which fought to end slavery within the United States in the decades prior to the Civil War. A brilliant speaker, Douglass was asked by the American Anti-Slavery Society to engage in a tour of lectures, and so became recognized as one of America's first great black speakers. He won world fame when his autobiography was publicized in 1845. Two years later he began publishing an antislavery paper called the North Star.
Douglass served as an adviser to President Abraham Lincoln during the Civil War and fought for the adoption of constitutional amendments that guaranteed voting rights and other civil liberties for blacks. Douglass provided a powerful voice for human rights during this period of American history and is still revered today for his contributions against racial injustice.
Born a slave in February 1818 on Holmes Hill Farm, on Maryland's Eastern Shore, Frederick Augustus Washington Bailey changed his name to Frederick Douglass after escaping to freedom in 1838. Frederick's mother, Harriet Bailey, worked the cornfields surrounding Holmes Hill. He knew little of his father except that the man was white. As a child, he had heard rumors that the master, Aaron Anthony, had sired him. Because Harriet Bailey was required to work long hours in the fields, Frederick had been sent to live with his grandmother, Betsey Bailey, who lived in a cabin a short distance away. At the young age of six, Frederick Bailey was sent to live on the Lloyd Plantation. In 1826, he was sent to Baltimore, Maryland to live with Hugh and Sophia Auld, relatives of Captain Anthony's daughter.
Upon Frederick's arrival at the Auld Home, his only duties were to run errands and care for the Auld's infant son, Tommy. Frederick enjoyed the work and grew to love the child. Sophia Auld was a religious woman and frequently read aloud from the Bible. Frederick asked his mistress to teach him to read and she readily consented. He soon learned the alphabet and a few simple words. Sophia Auld was very excited about Fredericks progress and told her husband what she had done. Hugh Auld became furious and demanded she stop at once. Frederick was forced to continue his education surreptitiously with the aid of schoolboys in the street.
Douglass spent seven relatively comfortable years in Baltimore before being sent back to the country, where he was hired out to a farm run by a notoriously brutal "slave breaker" named Edward Covey. And the treatment he received was indeed brutal. Whipped daily and barely fed, Douglass was "broken in body, soul, and spirit." On January 1, 1836, Douglass made a resolution that he would be free by the end of the year. He planned an escape. But early in April he was jailed after his plan was discovered.
After his imprisonment, Douglass was sent back to Auld to Baltimore. There, he was hired out to a local shipyard to learn the trade of a caulker. He joined an improvement society of free black caulkers and attempted, unsuccessfully, to buy his own freedom. In 1837, he met Anna Murray, a free African-American woman, and quickly fell in love. In September 1838, Douglass successfully escaped from slavery. He traveled to New York City, and once settled he sent for Murray to join him, and they were married. The Douglass family had five children in the next eleven years.
In 1838, the Douglass family settled in New Bedford, Massachusetts, where Frederick Douglass found work as a caulker for whaling ships. It was at that time that he dropped the name "Bailey," in order to protect himself from slave catchers, and became known as Frederick Douglass. In his spare time Frederick Douglass began reading abolitionist pamphlets and attending anti-slavery meetings held in black churches.
In 1841, Douglass spoke about his slave experiences at a convention of the Massachusetts Anti-Slavery Society held on Nantucket Island. He impressed prominent abolitionist leaders, including Garrison, and was hired as an anti-slavery lecturing agent. Douglass moved his family to Lynn, Massachusetts, and spent the next few years giving hundreds of anti-slavery speeches. In 1843, he joined a group of anti-slavery lecturers on a "One Hundred Conventions" tour, a grueling schedule of stops that included upstate New York, Ohio, Indiana, and western Pennsylvania.
Douglass supplemented his abolitionist speaking activities with the publication of his autobiography in 1845. The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave, Written by Himself, was an instant success, and eventually sold over 30,000 copies in the United States and Britain. It was translated into French, German and Dutch. However, Douglass had jeopardized his freedom by putting the details of his life into print. He was forced to flee to Europe to avoid capture and the possibility of return to slavery. He left the United States in August 1845 and embarked on a lecture tour of England, Scotland and Ireland. During the lecture tour, which lasted 20 months, anti-slavery advocates in England raised funds and negotiated the purchase of his freedom. While there, Douglass also raised the funds necessary to start his own anti-slavery newspaper upon his return to the United States.
Back in the United States Frederick Douglass did indeed publish his own newspaper, The North Star. He also participated in the first women's rights convention at Seneca Falls, in 1848, and wrote three autobiographies. He was internationally recognized as an uncompromising abolitionist, indefatigable worker for justice and equal opportunity, and an unyielding defender of women's rights. He became a trusted advisor to Abraham Lincoln, United States Marshal for the District of Columbia, Recorder of Deeds for Washington, D.C., and Minister-General to the Republic of Haiti.
Frederick Douglass spent his life fighting for justice and equality for all people. As he stated "I will unite with anybody to do right and with no one to do wrong." His tireless struggle, transformative words, and inclusive vision of humanity continue to inspire and sustain people today.
Click on the links below for detailed information and photos on the Civil Rights leaders in Black history in the United States
The begining - Early Activists
After the Civil War blacks suffered greatly in the South. African Americans became targets for enraged white southerners. Lynchings killed hundreds of blacks every year.
Ida Bell Wells-Barnett Frederick Douglass Marcus Garvey Booker T. Washington Denmark Vesey Harriet Tubman Sojourner Truth Walter Francis White
Alabama Leaders
In the spring of 1963 civil rights leaders turned to Birmingham Alabama, calling it the most segregated city in America.
Ralph Abernathy Martin Luther King Jr. Coretta Scott King Rosa Parks
Journalists & Authors
"The civil rights movement would have been like a bird without wings if it hadn't been for the news media," said Rep. John Lewis.
Geoffrey Canada Angela Davis Daisy Bates A. Philip Randolph Anne Moody Charlotta A. Bass
Islam Leaders
The Nation of Islam is an African-American religious movement founded in Detroit, Michigan, by Wallace D. Fard Muhammad in July 1930.
Louis Farrakhan Malcolm X Elijah Muhammad
Mississippi Leaders
Only 37 years old, Mississippi civil rights leader Medgar Evers was gunned down outside his home in Jackson on June 12, 1963.
Fannie Lou Hamer Medgar Evers James Meredith Myrlie Evers-Williams
Lawyers & Polticians
Living in large inner cities allowed African Americans to be part of a large extended culture. It also gave them a large voting block when they were finally able to vote without harassment.
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NC recovery courts training encourages reducing stigma, equal access
By Melissa Boughton
- 11/1/2018
- in Law and the Courts, Top Story
Vanessa Price, Director of the National Drug Court Institute, trained North Carolina recovery court staff Tuesday on addressing disparities in the system. (Photo by Melissa Boughton)
One of the major themes at a statewide conference this week for recovery court personnel was stigma.
"It's important to smash the stigma in all settings, but especially this one," said Donald McDonald, Executive Director of Addiction Professionals of North Carolina. "Stigma keeps us from doing our best work for the people we serve."
There are currently 49 recovery courts in 22 counties across North Carolina designed to work with people in the criminal justice system who have a substance use disorder. There are specialized family drug treatment courts, adult and youth drug treatment courts, DWI courts, mental health courts, veterans treatment courts and a tribal court.
McDonald presented a training course about how the people working in those special courts could address addiction recovery by eliminating stigma, changing their language around substance use and advocating for their clients.
He said after his presentation that stigma discourages people from seeking help when they need it the most and limits the resources available to them. By raising awareness and teaching people to use a new language, it helps reduce that stigma.
McDonald, a Navy veteran and former teacher who holds a masters in social work from UNC Chapel Hill, also shares his own personal journey with mental health and substance use disorders. He has been in recovery 14 years.
"Our stories have power to change people's perception of who is impacted by addiction," he said.
Janeanne Gonzales, who is a program administrator for the drug treatment courts in Mecklenburg County, works on her computer during a break between training sessions at a statewide conference for North Carolina recovery courts in Greensboro. (Photo by Melissa Boughton)
He was one of several people who presented at the conference, which was all about treatment, education, accountability, manageability and sustainability. About 320 people attended the conference, which was held in Greensboro and sponsored by the North Carolina Administrative Office of the Courts and the National Drug Court Institute (NDCI).
Janeanne Gonzales, who is a program administrator for the drug treatment courts in Mecklenburg County, said the networking and learning opportunities at the conference were invaluable.
She said it was also a chance to make sure the recovery courts across the state had the same foundation upon which to build and were all striving to meet the same end.
"For me personally, what I've learned is a lot more information that has to do with how we treat those with substance use disorder who need medication," she said. "Medication-Assisted Treatment (MAT) is something that has a variety of definitions – we were all given one definition throughout the conference that helps us make sure we're all starting from the same place."
MAT is the use of FDA-approved medications, in combination with counseling and behavioral therapies, to provide a "whole-patient" approach to the treatment of substance use disorders, according to the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration.
Some drug treatment courts across the nation take a sober-only approach to helping individuals with addiction, often only accepting participants who have been drug and alcohol free for a certain time period, but that is considered prohibitive, according to one of the presenters at the conference.
Vanessa Price, NDCI Director, said during a presentation about addressing disparities that if someone can stay sober for 14 days on their own, they aren't high-risk in high-need of the resources a drug treatment court has to offer.
She encouraged recovery court personnel to evaluate their admission requirements and readjust to even the playing field for everyone no matter their race, socioeconomic status, gender or other factors.
"The equality really changes the game for us," she explained. "We've got to begin to understand cultural differences. … We cannot get caught up on what we think is going on – we've got to look at people factually."
She told attendees to ask themselves if they were serving their own children or loved ones if they would want someone advocating for them the way they were advocating for their participants.
"Speak up for your participants; let them matter," she said. "The only difference between you and a client you serve is a circumstance."
Price addressed stigma and mindsets about "drug of choice," and she, like McDonald, advocated for people in the recovery court system to pay attention to their language and recognize the impact they can have on participants – especially judges.
"A lot of times, people get a sense of who they are based on interactions with other people," she said. "It should matter how you treat them.… We help them reform a sense of themselves."
Recovery courts in North Carolina haven't been funded by the state in seven years. All of the current programs are sustained by federal grants or funding from local cities and counties.
They are programs communities should want to buy into – Price said the estimated cost of drug use to society is $6,120 per second and that more than 80 percent of crime is drug or alcohol fueled.
Throwing people in jail doesn't work, she added.
Gonzalez from Mecklenburg expounded, noting that recovery courts get at the heart of why people are involved in committing crimes.
"In order to save taxpayers dollars and create an increased amount of public safety for our residents, we work with those who have substance use and alcohol disorders in order to keep them from coming back into the system," she said.
She added that the recidivism rate with recovery courts in Mecklenburg is about 14 percent, which is considered quite low. The county has every type of recovery court, except a veterans treatment court, and they treat about 900 people per year.
Valerie Comrie, family court coordinator for Robeson County, tells a story about a program participant whose life was changed by their work and resources. (Photo by Melissa Boughton)
Valerie Comrie is the family court program coordinator in Robeson County, which works with parents who are at risk of losing custody of their children in part due to substance use.
They have about a 36 percent graduation rate, but Comrie said the program makes so much more of a difference in the lives of even those who don't make it through.
"It's been a huge difference in our community," she said. "The parents say the hope they thought was gone is actually restored because of our program."
She explained that the recovery courts require collaboration among professionals from many disciplines – the criminal justice system, child welfare, mental health and more – to work in the best interest of families.
The conference, Comrie said, allowed those in the recovery courts to get national real-time information about what's happening in the world of substance use and to evaluate their programs to reflect best practices.
She added that there would be so much more to offer with better funding.
"Recovery courts should be a staple throughout the state of North Carolina," she said. "Every person in need should have these opportunities, and given the epidemic, we have lots of folks in need."
Melissa Boughton
Melissa Boughton worked as the Courts and Law Reporter at NC Policy Watch from 2016 to 2020.
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