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We are mature and genuinely interested in Tolkien, yet somewhat mad, like Baggins before us!
Chief Boffo Proudbottom
Servants of the Secret Fire
5 Roaring Road, Grorsvoll Neighborhood, Thorin's Hall Homestead, Landroval.
Visit our Kinship Messageboard at www.theonering.com/kinship
Profile and Constitution
Common Tongue: Servants of the Secret Fire
Quenya: Núror Muinaréva
Sindarin: Bŷr en-Naur Thurin
Chief: Boffo Proudbottom
Contact: Email: servantsofthefire at yahoo dot com
Location: Middle Earth, Eriador, Landroval server, 5 Roaring Road, Grorsvoll Neighborhood, Thorin's Hall Homestead.
Motto: Servants of the Secret Fire: Ridiculously indignant since April 14, 2007, Shire reckoning.
Mission statement: I, Boffo Proudbottom, Founder and Chief of the kinship "Servants of the Secret Fire" (also known as "The band of Middle Earth residents with delusions of grandeur so profoundly unbalanced that they have likened themselves to Maia spirits despite being led by a 3 foot 4 inch hobbit with limited skills") have every intention of making this group one guided by the principle of ridiculous indignation. We will fight for good causes, no matter how ridiculous they are, how ridiculous we look, or how ridiculous we sound. We will invoke the fury of our ridiculously distant relations while completing both the most mundane and most dangerous of tasks.
Common phrases will include:
"For the love of Mandos, and in the spirit of our noble, albeit insignificant fathers, let us curdle that cow's milk!"
"May Mandos protect us while we carry this basket of eggs to safety!"
"You cannot pass! I am a servant of the Secret Fire, wielder of the flame of Anor. The dark fire will not avail you here, evil badger! You cannot pass!"
Among others.
Mode of Governance: "Enlightened Constitutional Chiefdom." This is really not very different from a loosely governed Enlightened despotism. The difference is that there is slightly greater coherence in our body, given that it is based on a Constitution, the 7 Deadly Serious Scribblings of the Servants of the Secret Fire (detailed below), and that major matters affecting the kinship will be arrived upon after a referendum vote is extended to all members of the kinship. Matters of serious concern will ultimately be decided on by a college of leaders (The Council, aka The 7 Elder Servants of the Flame Imperishable) yet with the Kinship Chief's consent needed. A veto from The Chief on any decision by the Council can be overridden by an overwhelming majority of the Council. Other decisions will be made independently by leaders themselves, with an eye to the 7 Deadly Serious Scribblings of the Servants of the Secret Fire. Leaders are subject to the Scribblings, are expected to uphold the principles included therein, and can be demoted, at any time, by myself, after consulting with the available college of leaders.
Kinship Rules and Principles: The 7 Deadly Serious Scribblings of the Servants of the Secret Fire
1) Zero Tolerance for Egregious offences to the Tolkien name: No one with the name "orliiloveu11" or any other teeny-bopper variants are allowed entry.
2) Light-medium roleplaying: Light-medium, optional RPing is the name of our game. Infused, of course, with an element of ridiculous indignation during questing activities.
3) A shared Tolkien spirit: This forms the foundation of this kinship, and the ideals of this community will be taken into account when recruiting non-TORC (theonering.com) members, which is a highly desirable thing. These ideals are expressed simply as a genuine interest in Tolkien's works and a maturity of character. The adoption of non TORC members is, in this vein, important, as you will meet non TORCers on this server who may be very much appropriate for the kinship in terms of their interest in Tolkien and their level of maturity. It is desirable to ask applicants to sign onto the boards and use it as a kinship talking space. This should be communicated to recruits upon an invite. Also, anyone under 18 cannot be recruited as an official member, but can be awarded "Junior membership," in which case we as a kinship extend a hand of friendship and goodwill.
4) TORC Communication: This board will serve as the prime space for talk. Alternatively, if people want to speak via skype and other mediums outside of the game world, they can opt into that, but are not required to share personal contact information.
5) Good will: It is the intention of the founders that this kinship treat everyone, whether they are the occasional players who sign on for either short periods each day, or only a few times a week, with not only respect, but with a real helping hand. In other words, since some play less, those who play more should be ready to help with quests, help with issues of gameplay, and help with tools and equipment, whether it be giving someone an unwanted weapon, or just a pat on the back for moral support....
6) Good manners: This kinship vows to maintain a hospitable clime. We therefore welcome only those travelers that are generally respectable people. In other words, no sleazeballs and no sexual harassment (although if you want, you can form friendships and even intimate friendships, as long as you do so in a tasteful manner, and keep certain talk in private chat.....). As such, I would encourage, although it would be difficult to enforce, a kinship made of characters that are of good intentions. I ask for help from my leaders in maintaining such a population. NOTE: This does not rule out a high degree of absurdity, which is encouraged but not required. Absurdity is considered respectable, as Boffo would have it.
7) Bridge-building: We are to be known as a friendly, yet passionate kinship, committed to the cause of the free peoples of Middle Earth. We will form fellowships and friendships with other noble-minded kinships and individuals, in the spirit of this pursuit.
That is all. Go about your business and kill all neeker breekers when you get the chance. By Bilbo's breeches, they will not spoil my summer this year!
First order: All TORCers who participated in the foundation of the kinship will be designated as "leaders" or "officers" of the kinship, with the express permission to recruit and add members. You may decline this designation if you wish. The position, while honorable, is always subject to review, and can be revoked if said leader is thought to have significantly violated the rules of the charter. If you ever say "orlando bloom is a dreamie pie" you will lose your status as leader immediately.
The following is a characteristically long-winded salutation:
Yours truly and always at your service, at the service of the Free People's of Middle Earth, and at the service of my noble fathers, who knew people who spoke about people who were related to people who once saw from a distance (and possibly brushed up against) the legendary Bandobras "Bullroarer" Took,
Chief and Founder,
Boffo Proudbottom
Nogg, Council Chief Servant of the Flame Imperishable and Representative of the Vertically-Challenged
Jaixiel, Council Servant of the Flame Imperishable and Representative of the Wise
Athelian, Council Servant of the Flame Imperishable and Minister of Communications
Kix, Council Servant of the Flame Imperishable, Representative of the Firstborn, and Head of Auction
Methor, Council Servant of the Flame Imperishable and Representative of the Edain
Evanya, Council Servant of the Flame Imperishable, and Chief Market Analyst
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I was the youngest of four siblings who together attended a country school. We lived on a farm, and if we forgot to take something in the morning, parents weren't called to ask them to bring it to school.
So while that tended to make us more careful in gathering our belongings before going to the bus, nonetheless the day came that I forgot to take my lunch. Without hesitation, I went to the brother and sister closest to my classroom and told them my dilemma. One gave me a sandwich, the other their piece of fruit and that was just the end of it.
It seemed an ordinary thing to ask my brother to share his lunch with me, and an ordinary thing for him to do so without complaint. I imagine he wouldn't have felt good about eating his entire lunch knowing that I had nothing - so really, what choice did he have?
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Jesus' words in the Gospel from Matthew challenge us to extend our generosity and love far beyond that circle of "family" to care for even those who dislike us, who we have nothing in common with, even to those who have wronged us. We are to take those lessons learned in childhood, the lessons of what it means to be a good brother and sister, and see the humanity we share, the face of Christ, in all those we meet.
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Annual, perennial herb, shrubs, trees, generally stellate-hairy; juice sticky; inner bark tough, fibrous
Leaves alternate, simple, petioled; blade generally palmately veined or lobed, stipules present
Inflorescence often leafy; whorl or involucre of bractlets often subtending calyx
Flower generally bisexual, radial; calyx lobes 5, margins abutting in bud; petals 5, free (fused at base to filament tube, so falling together); stamens many, filaments fused into a tube surrounding style, tube fused in turn to petal bases; pistil 1, ovary superior, chambers generally 5 or more, style branches, stigmas generally 1 or 2 X as many as chambers
Fruit of 5many disk- or wedge-shaped segments, loculicidal capsule, or berry
Genera in family: 100 genera, 2000 species: worldwide, especially warm regions; some cultivated (e.g., Abelmoschus , okra; Alcea ; Gossypium , cotton; Hibiscus , Malvaviscus )
Recent taxonomic note: Recently treated to include Sterculiaceae [Angiosperm phylogeny Group 1998 Ann Missouri Bot Gard 85:531553; Alverson et al. 1999 Amer J Bot 86:14741486; Bayer et al. 1999 Bot J Linn Soc 129:267303]
Mature fruit important for identification.
Annual, perennial herb, sometimes from long, creeping rhizomes
Stem generally erect or base ± decumbent
Leaves generally mostly from near stem base; lowest blades generally crenate to shallowly lobed, upper blades generally deeply lobed (generally ± compound)
Inflorescence generally spike- or panicle-like, generally more open in fruit; bracts at pedicel base 2, generally stipule-like; bractlets subtending calyx generally 0(3)
Flower: calyx lobes = or > tube; petals purple or rose-pink to white; stamen-tube with generally 2 series of ± fused filaments near tip; stigmas linear, on inner side of style branches
Fruit: segments generally 510, indehiscent, generally ± beaked, walls thin
Seed 1 per fruit segment
Species in genus: ± 25 species: w North America
Etymology: (Greek: combination of 2 names for mallow)
Reference: [Hitchcock 1957 Univ Wash Publ Biol 18:196]
Highly variable and difficult, with many local forms; some plants will not key with certainty. Additional work warranted.
Perennial from woody caudex
Stem 28 dm, coarsely and generally densely stellate-canescent
Leaves ± evenly arrayed on stem; blade often fan-shaped, generally wider than long, coarsely crenate to generally shallowly lobed
Inflorescence: racemes many, dense or open; bractlets 3, 27 mm
Flower: calyx lobes 918 mm; petals 1225 mm, pale pink to pink-lavender
Fruit: segment 22.5 mm, generally smooth to slightly wrinkled, beakless
Ecology: Chaparral, open conifer forest, sometimes on serpentine
Elevation: 502200 m.
Bioregional distribution: s North Coast, n Central Coast, Outer South Coast Ranges, w Western Transverse Ranges, San Bernardino Mountains.


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*UPDATE: Thank you for all of your kind feedback on these calendars, and for letting me know that the dates were incorrect on the Vintage Botanical calendar. It has been corrected and the link updated with the corrected version.*
This poor little post has been sitting in my "drafts" for weeks. There has to be some sort of irony in the post about the 2017 calendar sitting, waiting to go up forever, right? Anyway, I've been like beyond flattered at all of the requests from you all for the new 2017 calendar. Sometimes you put things out into the blogging/Pinterest world and sort of wonder if anyone really ever sees it. So THANK YOU, seriously, from the bottom of my heart for all of the kind comments and requests for the new calendar.
For this year's calendar, I went with a more farmhouse, vintage botanical vibe and I have to tell you, I'm kind of, ok, really feelin' it. I'm pretty pleased with how they turned out. AND, these also look AMAZING just printed in black and white. In fact, I played with these stupid colors for waaayyyy too long to get them just right, and I actually think I'm going to print mine in black and white.
And I have a little bonus for you all because of the volume of requests: I've updated last year's calendar for 2017. So, if you still love that one, you can now use it for another year I've also updated the photo calendar for those of you like me, who like to use them as gifts. I'll have one more version of a full-size calendar coming soon!
2017 Vintage Botanical Calendar
2017 Watercolor Desk Calendar
*You may notice that the dates in this photo are incorrect. This is last year's and has been updated for 2017*
2017 Customizable Photo Calendar
(Instructions for customizing with photos can be found HERE)


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When any nation or organization wants to negotiate an end to hostilities, it has to be prepared to offer something substantial as a way to demonstrate good faith. Almost by definition, their own side will object to the concession offered if it's significant. That will likely be the reaction to the Reuters report that the Obama administration is mulling over the idea of releasing one of the first detainees to enter the detention center at Guantanamo Bay in exchange for serious peace talks with the Taliban:
The Obama administration is considering transferring to Afghan custody a senior Taliban official suspected of major human rights abuses as part of a long-shot bid to improve the prospects of a peace deal in Afghanistan, Reuters has learned.
The potential hand-over of Mohammed Fazl, a 'high-risk detainee' held at the Guantanamo Bay military prison since early 2002, has set off alarms on Capitol Hill and among some U.S. intelligence officials.
As a senior commander of the Taliban army, Fazl is alleged to be responsible for the killing of thousands of Afghanistan's minority Shi'ite Muslims between 1998 and 2001.
According to U.S. military documents made public by WikiLeaks, he was also on the scene of a November 2001 prison riot that killed CIA operative Johnny Micheal Spann, the first American who died in combat in the Afghan war. There is no evidence, however, that Fazl played any direct role in Spann's death.
Without a doubt, Fazl's a pretty bad guy, and an indictment all on his own of the Taliban government the US deposed after the 9/11 attacks and the Taliban's refusal to turn over al-Qaeda's leadership. People forget just how bad the Taliban was in its administration of Afghanistan following their overthrow of the post-Soviet government in Kabul, such as it was. Iran can be described fairly as a twelfth-century tyranny with 20th-century technology, but the Taliban were an eighth-century tyranny with 19th-century technology at best. If Fazl returned to the field — and he almost certainly would, absent a peace agreement — he could wreak a bloody havoc on Afghanistan once again, which is probably the main reason that the US has balked at returning him to Afghanistan.
However, it's not just the Taliban that want him back. The US-supported government in Kabul wants him and four other Afghani Taliban in Gitmo released into their custody, and have been requesting that since 2005. Both the Bush and Obama administrations have resisted those demands, and Congress remains opposed on a bipartisan basis. They see Fazl as an especially egregious case and a big danger if released; Reuters says that Fazl and the others would remain in detention, but that's probably fantasy. The Kabul government could try Fazl for the massacres, but they'd probably trade him in a peace agreement if they could get one that disarms the Taliban as part of a general amnesty.
According to public data, that looks like a decision for Kabul to make. Unless the US has information that Fazl took part in terrorist operations against the US or have evidence that Fazl took part in Spann's murder, the jurisdiction for Fazl's crimes would be in Afghanistan, not the US or Gitmo. Sending Fazl and his cohorts to Kabul in custody of the Karzai government would not constitute "negotiating with terrorists," as one objection in the Reuters account is stated. It would be negotiating with the sovereign government we support so that they can negotiate with the Taliban.
That's not just a distinction without a difference, either. Unlike al-Qaeda, which was always a foreign group transplanted into Afghanistan for strategic purposes, the Taliban represent — for better or worse — the Pashtuns in Afghanistan, and to a lesser extent in Pakistan. The Pashtuns are one of the biggest tribes in the region, and the conflict between the Taliban and the Afghan government (and the Northern Alliance that preceded it) is as much about tribal supremacy as it is about religion, and perhaps more so. In any post-war Afghanistan, the government will have to find a way to integrate the Pashtuns into the political life of the country without a resort to arms. Over the last ten years, many efforts have been made to get the Pashtuns to abandon their Taliban leadership, but without much success, and in the long run, negotiation will be necessary to end the conflict. Given the tribal map of Afghanistan, it's obviously impossible for total victory through military conquest:
Pashtuns are the largest single tribal ethnicity in Afghanistan, and one of the largest in Pakistan as well at around 40%, with Tajiks, Hazaras, and Uzbeks following in order (aggregating in the white space in the north on this map). The only hope of ending the war is to get Pashtuns to live with the other tribes of Afghanistan in peace, or outright annihilation, which is not just impossible but unthinkable. Peace will require negotiation, and negotiation will require trade-offs, sometimes literally, perhaps such as Fazl for a truce and serious talks. Fazl might be a high price to pay, but in the end it will be the Afghan government who will pay it, and who should have jurisdiction to make that decision — unless the US has evidence that Fazl has conducted terrorist operations against the US outside of the scope of our invasion in 2001.


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Taking third prize at the prestigious Grzegorz Fitelberg Composers' Competition in 1960, Krzysztof Penderecki burst onto the international scene with Threnody to the Victims of Hiroshima, scored for 52 string instruments. One of the most harrowing pieces of music ever conceived, Threnody is unforgiving and brutal, horrifying and captivating, solemn and catastrophic.
Its atmospheric dissonance engulfs the listener with tone clusters that are piercing and shrieking at an orchestra's highest register. Originally entitled 8'37", Threnody's score is unorthodox and mostly symbol-based, directing the musicians to play at various vague points on their instruments or to focus on textural effects and extended techniques, like playing on the wrong side of the bridge or slapping the instrument percussively. The piece includes an invisible canon in 36 voices and an overall musical texture that is more important than any individual note. Penderecki sought to heighten the dissonant element of the piece by composing in quarter tones -- hypertonality -- creating a greater reaching elegiac mood than could be found in traditional tonality.


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Cary-McHenry Family Photograph Collection, 1850-1990, PP249
Finding Aid to the Cary-McHenry Family Photograph Collection, PP249
H. Furlong Balwin Library, Maryland Historical Society
Collection summary
Title The Cary-McHenry Family Photograph Collection
Creator Juliana Clark Watts
Call number PP249
Inclusive dates 1850s?-1990s
Bulk dates 1850s?-1990s
Extent 3 linear feet (2 oversize boxes)
Abstract The photographs in the Cary-McHenry Family Collection spans over 140 years. The materials consist of tin types, cartes de visite, portraits, group photographs, fashion photographs, and snapshots of members of the family, friends, and residences.
Administrative summary
Repository H. Furlong Baldwin Library
Maryland Historical Society
201 W. Monument St.
Baltimore, MD 21218
Access restrictions Access to the collection is unrestricted
Use restrictions Permission to reproduce must be received in writing from the Special Collections Librarian.
Provenance The Cary-McHenry family was donated to the H. Furlong Baldwin Library on the Maryland Historical Society October 13, 2007, by Juliana Clark Watts.
Accession number 2007-021
Processing note The collection was processed in 2010-11 by Judith Hallfrisch. The finding aid was created by Judith Hallfrisch in 2011.
Biographical Note
Members of the Cary-McHenry-Howard Families have played prominent roles in Maryland from Colonial times to the mid-twentieth century. Members of the Cary family are descended from Pocahontas (1595-1617). James McHenry (1753-1816), (for whom Fort McHenry was named), was a physician who studied under Dr. Benjamin Rush, served in the Continental Army, State Senate of Maryland, Constitutional Convention, and was Secretary of War under George Washington and John Adams. James Howard McHenry (1820-1888), grandson of James McHenry, was a prominent Baltimore lawyer educated at Princeton and Harvard Law, grandson of Revolutionary War hero John Eager Howard. His cousin James McHenry Boyd served as a diplomat to the Court of St. James. Col. Miles Wilson Cary (1806-1877) was the great-great nephew of Thomas Jefferson and was proud of the resemblance between the shape of his head and Jefferson's. Cary served in the army of the Confederate States of America and his sister Hetty (1836-1892) and cousins Jennie and Constance (known as the Cary Invincibles) designed the confederate flag known as the Southern Cross. Jennie Cary put the words of the poem 'Maryland, my Maryland' to the German folk song 'Lauriger Hortius' creating the state song. Miles Wilson Cary's wife, Jane Margaret Cary (1809-1893) founded the Southern Home School for girls. James Howard McHenry (b. 1892) served in both WWI and WWII in France, India, and China. Pauline Potter de Rothschild (daughter of Gwendolyn Cary) was great-great granddaughter of Francis Scott Key. She had a flamboyant life after her divorce from Charles Carrol Fulton Leser being romantically linked to a number of prominent people including Paul-Henri Spaak (prime minister of Belgium), movie director John Huston, Grand Duke Dmitri Pavlovitch Romanov of Russia (one of the murderers of Rasputin), and Isabelle Kemp, heiress to a New York drug-store and real-estate fortune. She became a fashion icon as director of the custom-fashion division of Hattie Carnegie. In 1954 she married Philippe de Rothschild becoming a Baronne. Members of the Cary-McHenry Family have served this country in the Revolutionary War, War of 1812, the Civil War, World Wars I and II.
Scope and Content
The photographs in the Cary-McHenry collection span over 140 years and consist of tintypes, cartes de visite, portraits, group photographs, and snapshots of family members, friends, and various properties. Also included are fashion photographs of Pauline Potter de Rothschild, daughter of Gwendolyn Cary. A number of the photographs were taken at Sudbrook, the estate of James Howard McHenry which burned in 1904. Photographs from the 1920s were taken at Dieppe, France. Snapshots of the dedication of the James McHenry Elementary School from 1965 and snapshots of Marigold Cottage, Bar Harbor, Maine taken in the 1994 are also included.
See also related Cary-McHenry Family Collection MS 3085.
Series II: Group photographs (1860-1965)
Series III: Location Pictures (1886-1994)
Series IV: Cartes de visite (1877-1895)
Container List
PP249.01- 4 people in tennis outfits
Top row: unidentified young woman, Mr. James Tyson, Jr.
Bottom row: Mr. James Howard, Miss Ellen McHenry No date
PP249.02- Julia Howard McHenry ½ body in black dress, Quartley, 217 W. Balto. St.
No date
PP249.03- Jane Margaret Carr Cary (Mrs. Wilson Miles Cary) with her first great grandchild, Juliana Brent Keyser., No date
Series II: Group photographs
PP249.04- Multiple portrait sheet – Very Large. Copies of portraits of various Carys.
Top: Jane Margaret Carr Cary – Wilson Miles Cary (in later years)
Middle: Sidney Cary – John Brune Cary & Wilson Miles Cary (son)
Bottom: Jenny Cary–Sarah Nicholas Cary McHenry – Hetty Cary Pegram-Martin
No date 1
PP249.05- Group Picture – Sudbrook Cottage 1860, Oval image.
Top row: W.M. Cary jr, S? Hall, J. Howard McHenry, ? woman
Bottom row: Sophie McHenry, Sally? M.? McHenry, William? McHenry(child), A.E. P? (woman)
1860 1
PP249.06- Group Picture taken at Sudbrook East side – ivy-covered wall – date unknown
Slip of paper in folder which may identify some:
Top row: Miss Isabel Trier(?), Mr. Jesse Tyson (also on far left unidentified African-American man)
2nd row: Miss Julia McHenry, Willie Beeton & Mrs Beeton, (Florence Reed), unidentified woman
3rd row: unidentified woman, Miss Misa Howard, Miss Sophia McHenry, Miss Mau Harrison, Miss Ellen McHenry, unidentified young man
4th row: Sophie Howard; Marshall (also large dog)
No date
PP249.07- Group Picture perhaps at Sudbrook? Ivy-covered wall
Top row: "Lal" Buchanan, Cary McHenry, John McHenry
Bottom row: unidentified young woman, Kate Kirkpatrick, J.H. McHenry, Julie McHenry, unidentified young man, Ellen C. McHenry – date unknown
No date
PP249.08- Group Picture, Rawley Springs, W. Va. 1875
Top row: Wilson M. Cary, Sr., Mrs. Kelly Pegram, Julia McHenry, Ida Allen
Middle row: Mrs. David L. Yules, Mary Forney, Nannie Yules, Nelly McHenry
Bottom row: Wilson M. Cary, Jr., Mrs. John Davis, Miss Cummings, Mrs. Wilson M. Cary, Edith Davis, Wickliffe Yulee?
PP249.09- Group picture Pontresina – Engadine Valley (?) Switzerland
Left to right: Mrs. Frank Baldwin, Gwendolyn Cary Seated: Juliana Brent Keyser, Ellen McHenry Keyser
1905 1
PP249.10- Group photograph: Francis Hunter Potter, Westport, Connecticut, 1919 with Clara Knight Colford & Dorothy Knight Colford – daughters of Clara Waterman Knight (M 2, in 1921, Francis Hunter Potter) and her first husband, Sidney Jones Colford Jr. All three sitting on porch steps, girls in white dresses and Mr. Potter in suit/ bow tie holding what appears to be stuffed rabbit.
PP249.11- Group photograph: Francis Hunter Potter with Clara Knight Colford & Dorothy Knight Colford (who would become his step-daughters in 1921, Daytona, Florida, 1919. Girls in white kimonos, Mr. Potter in tweed jacket, white pants, spectator shoes all standing next to white frame cottage.
9. Group photograph: Clara Knight Colford, Pauline Potter, Happy (A German shepherd), Berthe Zinder (The governess). Dieppe, France, 1921. In a hay field, girls in white dresses, governess in straw hat, white waist, and dark skirt.
PP249.13- Group photograph: Left to right: Pauline Potter, Clara Knight Colford, Andre, the chauffeur in uniform, holding dog. Seated: Dorothy Knight Colford. Young girls in white dresses with tea cups, Dieppe, France, 1921.
PP249.14- Group photograph: Left to right: Pauline Potter, Clara Knight Colford, Dorothy Knight Colford, Dieppe, France, 1921, as young girls in white dresses and straw hats. White picket fence in background.
PP249.15- Group photograph: Dorothy Knight Colford, Clara Knight Colford, Pauline Potter (on Clara's shoulders) in the ocean, Dieppe, ca 1922 (Colford girls now listed as Pauline's step-sisters)
PP249.16- Group photograph: Left to right: Pauline Potter, Barbara Morris, Clara Knight Colford, Timothy Morris, Dorothy Knight Colford, by the sea. Girls in white dresses, Timothy in shorts, tie, hat, Dieppe, France 1922.
PP249.17- Group photograph: Left to right: Clara Knight Colford holding Happy (dog), Pauline Potter, Dorothy Knight Colford, girls in coats standing in front of bluff. France 1922.
PP249.18- Group photograph: Pauline Potter standing, Dorothy Knight Colford, Clara Knight Colford, girls in coats and hats with 2 dogs. Buildings in background, Biarritz, France ca 1923.
PP249.19- Group photograph: Left to right: Berthe Zinder (the governess) and Pauline Potter in coats and hats sitting in front of villa with two dogs. Biarritz, France 1922.
PP249.20- Snapshot (b&w) of James McHenry Elementary School, Lanham, MD, January, 1965.
PP249.21- Snapshot (color) at James McHenry Elementary School of : l-r. J. Howard McHenry, Miss Thelma Smith (principal), and Juliana Keyser Clark with mural of Fort McHenry. May 4, 1965.
PP249.22-Snapshot (color) Miss Thelma Smith with Fort McHenry mural at James McHenry Elementary School, May 4, 1965.
1965 1
PP249.23- Snapshot (b&w) of Miss Thelma Smith, Ray Palmeri—6th grade, Miss Karen McClaine, Artist Miss Margaret Hall. Presentation of Mural – May 4, 1965.
PP249.24- Snapshot (b&w) at James McHenry Elementary School of l-r: J. Howard McHenry, Mr. O'Neill-Wishgator (?) (President PTA), Juliana Keyser Clark with mural of Fort McHenry, May 4, 1965.
PP249.25- Snapshot (b&w) at James McHenry Elementary School of Mr. O'Neill-Wishgator (?), Juliana Keyser Clark, and J. Howard McHenry with mural of Fort McHenry. May 4, 1965.
PP249.26- Snapshot (b&w) J. Howard McHenry, Mr. O'Neill-Wishgator(?), Juliana Keyser Clark, with mural of Fort McHenry at James McHenry Elementary School, May 4, 1965.
PP249.27- Program of dedication of James McHenry Elementary School.
PP249.28- Letter to Mrs. Gaylord Clark, Stevens, Maryland from Joseph C. Smith, Jr. thanking her for participating in the presentation of the school mural at James McHenry Elementary School. Enclosure with above listed snapshots.
Series III. Location Pictures 1886-1994
PP249.29- Snapshot of grave stone of John McHenry, Mercersburg, Pennsylvania.
No date
PP249.30- Picture of Sudbrook, October 24, 1886. (2 copies) Sudbrook burned August 16th, 1904. 2a & b
No date
PP249.31- Picture of Sudbrook Cottage, built before the Revolution & left standing after the big house was destroyed by fire 1904.
No date
PP249.32- Picture of Sudbrook Cottage, built before the Revolution & left standing after the big house was destroyed by fire 1904. Different view from #3.
No date
PP249.33- Haddon Hall – Dorothy Vernon's walk, Derbyshire, Monday, June 6, 1982 signed Sophie McHenry (Mrs. C.M. Stewart)
PP249.34 Picture of Southern Home School for Girls, 915-917 N. Charles Street, Baltimore
No date
PP249.35- Snapshot of sailboat in Bar Harbor, Maine dated July 16, 1994.
PP249.36- Snapshot of Marigold Cottage, Bar Harbor, Maine dated July 16, 1994 two unidentified men and one unidentified boy standing in front 2 copies labeled 8 a & b.
PP249.37- Snapshot of Marigold Cottage (closeup), Bar Harbor, Maine dated July 16, 1994, one unidentified man in front of cottage.
PP249.38- Carte de visite of Colonel Wilson Miles Cary of Ceelys 1733-1817 photo of portrait with genealogy of Carys on back from Col. Miles Cary of Warwick, Va 1620-1667 to Col. Wilson Miles Cary of Carysbrooke (1806-1877), Blessing & Kuhn, Baltimore
No date
PP249.39- Carte de visite of Jane Margaret Cary (Aunt Jennie) in velvet with feathered hat, Rockwood, 17 Union Square, (West), N.Y.
No date
PP249.40- Carte de visite of Jane Margaret Cary, Knowlton, Photo artist, 335 Fourth Avenue, New York
No date
PP249.41- Carte de visite of Jane Margaret Carr Cary. J. Ludovici New York and Newport
No date
PP249.42- Cartes de visite of Hetty Cary (1. Mrs. Pegram, 2. Mrs. Harry Martin) b. 1836 d. 1892. Le Jeune – L. Joliot, Succ r. 350, Rue St. Honore, 350 pres la Place Vendome, Paris, 1877
PP249.43- Cartes de visite (2nd copy) of Hetty Cary (1. Mrs. Pegram, 2. Mrs. Harry Martin) b. 1836 d. 1892. Le Jeune – L. Joliot, Succ r. 350, Rue St. Honore, 350 pres la Place Vendome, Paris, 1877
PP249.44- Carte de visite of portrait of Hetty Cary Harrison (Mrs. Fairfax Harrison) holding Constance Cary Harrison II aged 4 mo., September 9, 1895, E. Almstaedt, Portrait & Landscape Photographer, Tompkinsville, Staten Island
PP249.45- Carte de visite of Hettie Cary Pegram, Rockwood, 17 Union Square (West), N.Y.
No date
PP249.46- Carte de visite of Sophia McHenry Stewart, head & shoulders in white dress with velvet band around neck, for 'Aunt Hut' (Aunt Hetty Pegram), Jas. S. Cummins, Photographic Studio, 5 N. Charles St., Baltimore, Md. (Date unknown)
No date
PP249.47- Carte de visite of portrait of Wilson Miles Cary, Kuhn & Cummins No date
PP249.48- Carte de visite Juliana Howard McHenry ¾ body in white dress, Mora, 707 Broadway, NY
No date
PP249.49- Carte de visite Julia Howard McHenry, light dress, head & shoulders, 707 Broadway, NY
No date
PP249.50- Carte de visite Julia Howard McHenry ½ body in black dress, Davis & Sanford, 246 Fifth Avenue, New York
No date
PP249.51- Carte de visite Julia Howard McHenry ¾ body in black dress, Davis & Sanford, 246 Fifth Avenue, New York
No date
PP249.52- Carte de visite of Sidney Carr Cary, Jas. S. Cummins, Photographic Studio, No. 7 N. Charles St., Baltimore, Md.
No date
PP249.53- Small carte of Julia Howard McHenry as young girl, seated in dark dress.
PP249.54- Photocopy of sketch of James Howard McHenry, Geneve 1837, b. 1820 d. 1888
PP249.55- Portrait of James Howard McHenry, oval image, in later life
No date
PP249.56- Portrait of Jane Margaret Carr Cary, black dress, white cap, in later life, reverse of carte de visite 1809-1903
No date
PP249.57- Snapshot of Jane Margaret Cary, feathered hat, dark dress, seated, same as carte de visite b. 1843 d. 1925. Note attached to sleeve.
No date
PP249.58- Portrait of Jane Margaret Cary, in black, Davis & Sanford, Artist = Photographers, 246 Fifth Ave, New York
No date
PP249.59- Portrait of Jane Margaret Carr Cary (Mrs. Wilson Miles Cary) Portrait is crumbling. Photographer name partially lost ? & Fuchs, Baltimore, Md.
No date
PP249.60- Portrait of Miss Jennie Cary (Aunt Jennie Cary) some handwritten information on back was cut off. Brooklandville, Miss Jane Margaret Cary
No date
PP249.61- Miss Jennie Cary with her Irish Setter "Elco" in Bar Harbor, Maine. No date
PP249.62- Portrait of Jane Margaret Cary at home pouring tea by the fireplace (Date unknown)
No date
PP249.63- Portrait of Jane Margaret Cary (Aunt Jennie) in veiled feathered hat and fur, (Daughter of Jane Margaret Carr and Wilson Miles Cary) (Date unknown)
PP249.64- Portrait – Oval raised Wilson Miles Cary, Kuhn & Cummins Photographic Studio, 48 & 50 N. Charles Street, Baltimore, Cary family crest is attached to back of photograph in a Crosse & Blackwell envelope. Small copy of this photo also in envelope (11B).
No date
PP249.65 Portrait of Capt. Wilson Miles Cary, C.S.A. in uniform No date 2
PP249.66- Snapshot of portrait of Wilson Miles Cary perhaps of painting, 1806-1877
No date
PP249.67- Portrait of James Howard McHenry – date unknown. Blowup of same portrait taken from book?
No date
PP249.68- Portrait of Hetty Cary Harrison (Mrs. Fairfax Harrison) holding baby (4
months)Constance Cary Harrison II (September 9, 1895)
PP249.69- Portrait of Mrs. Pegram – later Mrs. Harry Marten, wife of Dr. Harry Marten, biologist at Johns Hopkins University
No date
PP249.70- Snapshot of portrait of Hetty Cary in puffed sleeve, laced bodice dress with embroidered or brocade skirt. Snapshot very wrinkled. Hetty Cary (1. Mrs. John Pegram, 2. Mrs. Harry Martin) 1836-1892. (Date unknown, #23 written in pencil on back)
No date
PP249.71- Portrait of Sarah Nicholas Cary McHenry, Carbon Studio, 5 West 16th Street, New York. Oval image, torso with dark dress, lace collar, large cameo, dark lace hair net. Date unknown.
No date
PP249.72- Sarah Nicholas Cary McHenry. Copy reverse of above portrait #18 (Date unknown)
No date
PP249.73- Snapshot of above portrait b. 1832 d. 1892 (Mrs. James Howard McHenry). Very wrinkled, bottom right corner missing.
No date
PP249.74- Portrait of Sarah Nicholas Cary McHenry, Carbon Studio, 5 West 16th Street, New York. Oval image, torso, braids wrapped around head, dangling earring, dark dress, lace tied collar. (later than above portrait, date unknown)
No date
PP249.75- Portrait of Sarah Nicholas Cary McHenry, Jas. S. Cummins, N. Charles St., Balto., Md. Wider view of above portrait (#20, 21) ¾ body.
No date
PP249.76- Portrait of Sara Cary McHenry torso in dark dress, Norval H. Busey, Photographic Art Gallery, Cor. Charles & Fayette Sts., Baltimore (Date unknown). Very small faded copy of above portrait. #22.
No date
PP249.77- Portrait of Gwendolyn Cary as child about 3-4 in hat and banana curls in frame with broken glass (Date unknown).
No date
PP249.78- Portrait of Gwendolyn Cary as young girl about 8-10 in flowered hat and white eyelet dress with sash leaning on stone, Jeffres & Rogers 112 N. Charles Street, Baltimore, Md.
No date
PP249.79- Portrait of Gwendolyn Cary as young girl 10-12, standing in dress with braid on cuffs and bodice, Jeffres & Rogers, 112 N. Charles Street, Baltimore, Md. (Date unknown)
No date
PP249.80- Portrait of Gwendolyn Cary, head & shoulders in hat/coat, 1900. small oval image.
No date
PP249.81- Portrait of Gwendolyn Cary in brimmed hat, suit, with furs addressed to Ida Aquila from Gwendolyn Cary. 'Dear Ida with much love G.C. (Date unknown)
No date
PP249.82- Portrait of Gwendolyn Cary Potter and Pauline Potter as toddler. Gwendolyn in long white dress with large feathered hat (Date unknown)
No date
PP249.83- Postcard of Pauline Potter as small girl about 5 in white-collared sailor coat and straw hat (date unknown)
No date
PP249.84- Portrait of Pauline Potter Leser, wedding portrait in dropped-waist satin dress with long satin and tulle train, (Mrs. Fulton Leser) married Emanuel Church, Baltimore, October, 1930. Gown was gold, not white.
PP249.85- Photocopy of Pauline Potter Leser wedding portrait #31. No date 2
PP249.86- Photograph of Mr. & Mrs. Fulton Leser on shipboard Pauline in checked coat, hat, Fulton in double-breasted suit, tie. Torsos. Glossy.
No date 2
PP249.87- Copy of #33. Matte finish, sepia tone. No date
PP249.88- Photograph of Mr & Mrs C. C. Fulton Leser, 1932 on shipboard, same attire as above, but different view, full body. Glossy.
PP249.89- Photograph of Pauline Potter, circa 1945 copied from photo by George Platt Lynes. Head/shoulders dressed in black with 3 strand gold necklace, standing in front of plant-shaped sculpture.
PP249.90- Photocopy of Pauline Potter, ca 1942, by Louise Dahl-Wolfe for Harper's Bazaar, Pauline dark off-the-shoulder dress with pearls and large brooch standing in front of vanity? Note attached from Mitch to Mrs. Watts.
PP249.91- Photograph of Baroness Philippe de Rothschild (nee Pauline Potter, 1908-1976, photo by Horst P. Horst, ca 1964 Baroness in black dress standing next to metal four-poster bed. ca1964
PP249.92- Portrait of J. Howard McHenry in suit, dotted tie,1917, 2 copies, b copy top right corner torn.
PP249.93- Portrait of J. Howard McHenry in U.S. Army uniform (WWI?) date unknown
PP249.94- Portrait of J. Howard McHenry in U.S. Army uniform, U.S. Army photograph WWII. Date unknown.
PP249.95- Snapshot of J. Howard McHenry in Capt. M.P. uniform on motorcycle in India, 1944
PP249.96- Snapshot of J. Howard McHenry in U.S. Army uniform with Chinese man, China, May, 1945.
PP249.97- Portrait of Edith McHenry, Bachrach Studios 1919. Seated in filmy dress with long filmy sleeves.
PP249.98- Portrait of Edith McHenry, Horton Studio 1926. Small oval image. Head and shoulders, looking down.
PP249.99- Portrait of Edith Love McHenry in American Red Cross Uniform, 1944 Hessler Studio. Oval image.
PP249.100- Portrait of Edith Love McHenry – at later age – Hessler Studio. Date unknown.


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Beijing 'Airpocalypse' Reflected in Online Shopping Stats
Health-conscious Chinese citizens were understandably concerned after air pollution in Beijing and other parts of northern China spiked over the weekend. How concerned? A glance at data from data from e-commerce giant Alibaba's online shopping sites Taobao and Tmall, which saw searches for facemasks and other anti-pollution products skyrocket in tandem with levels airborne particulate matter, offers a sense.
On Saturday in Beijing, the concentration of the smallest and most dangerous air pollution particles, known as PM2.5, climbed to 886 micrograms per cubic meter, a level 35 times the World Health Organization's recommended standard.
The image below displays the rise in searches for the term "PM2.5," which consumers were using to find a range of goods on Taobao—from air purifiers to medicines—that might protect them from the smog, a spokeswoman for Alibaba said.
Searches for face masks on Taobao surged 15% in a two-day period ending January 12, up from the same period a quarter earlier. Actual purchases of face masks jumped 130% in the same time frame, according to information provided by Alibaba. Consumers in Beijing purchased approximately 10,000 facemasks on Taobao and Tmall in the first two days that the air pollution ballooned, Alibaba said.
Doctors and environmental experts say people are right to be concerned. Exposure to PM2.5, which can penetrate body tissue, can have serious health effects.
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In the short term, some area hospitals have seen a rise in the number of patients seeking treatment for respiratory problems. David Dai, a physician for Tianjin United Family Hospital, said he saw an increase of 50% in the number of patients reporting difficulty breathing.
Air pollution spikes can also trigger premature deaths of those already afflicted with heart and lung problems. In a 2012 study examining the health effects of air pollution, environmental organization Greenpeace projected that poor air quality would cause the deaths of nearly 8,600 people in the Chinese cities of Shanghai, Guangzhou, Xi'an and Beijing in 2012. The study (pdf) also projected air pollution would cause $1.08 billion worth of economic losses over the course of the year.
In the long term, numerous studies have shown that air pollution can increase the risk of heart and lung disease. A 2010 study from the American Heart Association (pdf) found that extended exposure over time to high levels of air pollution can increase the risk of cardiac inflammation and mortality.
The study recommends a decrease in exposure to air pollutants, such as limiting outdoor exercise and travel to places in which pollution is high.
The study also said central air conditioners can reduce indoor exposure to particulate matter from the outdoors, though that's small consolation Beijing, where central air conditioning is rare in all but the most expensive of apartments and beyond the reach of most households. One central air-conditioning system on Taobao was listed at more than 20,000 yuan ($3,200) on Wednesday.
-- Laurie Burkitt. Follow her on Twitter @lburkitt
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Apprehensions of non-Mexican migrants up in Texas
HOUSTON — Non-Mexican immigrants suspected of entering the country illegally account for a slender majority of recent Border Patrol apprehensions in South Texas, agency officials said late last week.
They're coming mainly from Central American countries, including El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras, said Rosendo Hinojosa, chief of the Rio Grande Valley Border Patrol Sector.
"Usually, about 35 percent of the population that this sector catches" is non-Mexican migrants, Hinojosa said. "Right now we are trending above that. We're about 50/50 right now. There is no indication that this will be a long-term phenomenon. It's just too early to tell."
From October 2011 to July 31, agents apprehended more than 40,000 non-Mexican migrants, compared with about 39,000 individuals from Mexico.
The number of non-Mexican migrants apprehended during the same 10-month period a year earlier was about 16,000.
Hinojosa said the figures are unusual but not unheard of, as his sector, which spans 17,000 square miles, traditionally has been an entry point for immigrants entering illegally from Central America.
"Central Americans have always been a staple, if you will, of our apprehensions. So it seems that they are continuing that trend," he said.
Experts have said rising violence fueled in part by Mexican drug cartels moving into Central America as well as poor economic conditions are probably fueling the increase in migrants from there.
The sector has seen other waves in apprehensions of non-Mexican migrants.
In 2005, 35,000 Brazilians were caught trying to enter the country illegally. Between October 2009 and March 2011, agents detained at least 2,600 undocumented immigrants from India, a dramatic rise over the typical 150 to 300 arrests per year. Numbers for both nationalities have since dropped.
As the number of Central American migrants has gone up, the number of immigrants from Mexico, who still make up the majority of apprehensions nationwide, has been steadily declining.
A study released this year by the Pew Hispanic Center, a Washington-based think tank, said the illegal migration of Mexicans to the United States is at its lowest level in decades, due in part to the sluggish American economy and fewer job opportunities, particularly in the housing and construction industries.
While apprehensions in general have been declining nationwide over the past few years, the Rio Grande Valley sector's numbers increased. From October 2011 to July 31, the sector had 79,000 total apprehensions, up from 48,000 for the same 10-month period a year earlier.
Hinojosa attributes the overall increase in apprehensions to more agents in his sector —from 1,850 in 2007 to 2,500 agents now. Strategies to control the flow of undocumented immigrants also have improved over the past two years, he said.
Border Patrol agents also have seen an increase in the number of immigrant deaths and rescues of migrants.
Hinojosa said the Border Patrol is working with consulates from Mexico and various Central American countries to inform people about the potential dangers immigrants face when trying to enter the U.S.
"We understand there is a desire for people that are not in this country to come to this country," he said. "We just want to highlight the significant risk."


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Sarah Jones says she'll be far from the only Welsh player in the Great Britain women's hockey squad in a few years' time.
The 28-year-old, from Lisvane, is the only player from the principality to have featured in the inaugural season of the FIH Pro League.
But with an elite development programme now in place, the former Howells School pupil expects plenty of her fellow countrymen to follow in her footsteps.
"I'm massively proud to fly the flag for Wales," said Jones.
"To pull on a Welsh shirt is something I'd dreamt of doing since I was very young, and being able to represent Wales for GB is something I'm enormously proud of.
"I do hope to see lots of Welsh players coming through in the years to come and now they have a platform to do so.
"The elite development programme offers a genuine pathway and I'm just so happy that's in place now.
"I think as with anything the amount of hard work you put into something, the level of enjoyment is higher depending on how much work you've had to put in.
"I had to work extremely hard to get those 91 caps for Wales and for those GB caps too.
"If you enjoy the process of working hard and continuously trying to be better, going out on that pitch every day to work hard, there will be a lot more caps to come."
The tenacious midfielder, who plays for Holcombe Hockey Club, represented Wales at the 2014 and 2018 Commonwealth Games.
Following in the footsteps of Abergavenny's Rose Thomas, Jones made a long-awaited Great Britain debut in 2018 after amassing 91 Welsh caps.
While qualification for the Tokyo 2020 Olympics is yet to be secured, Mark Hager's side are planning a trip to Japan to acclimatise to conditions with a year to go.
There won't be any surprises for Jones, however, who played for Wales in Kuala Lumpar back in 2016 and has holidayed extensively in Asia.
Our athletes had a cracking day out at The Stoop earlier, seeing the stadium come to life & talking all things #FIHProLeague 🎥— Great Britain Hockey (@GBHockey) June 5, 2019
It's not too late to secure your tickets for this historic event on Sun 23 June 👉 https://t.co/xwMrd4m0YP pic.twitter.com/Rqkt7BaoPS
"I think certainly there are no conditions that can be compared to the humidity and heat we'd experience in Japan," she said.
"I think having a period away in Japan at a similar time of year to the Olympics next year is invaluable for our preparation.
"I've been to Thailand and Vietnam on holiday and played in Kuala Lumpar for Wales three years ago.
"I'd definitely recommend them as holiday destinations, but as an athlete I wasn't prepared for that level of humidity.
"I think it's important you understand personally how you respond to those conditions and to bond as a team, too."
- Great Britain Men and Women face New Zealand in a unique FIH Pro League double-header at the Twickenham Stoop on Sunday, 23 June. Tickets still available at https://hockey.seetickets.com


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Microsoft has announced the final names and pricing for its upcoming Windows Small Business Server (SBS) 2011 editions. The three products will be available through all current Microsoft server licensing channels.
Codename Aurora will be known as Windows Small Business Server 2011 Essentials. Priced at $545, it is slated for release in the first half of 2011. Windows SBS 2011 Essentials is targeted at small businesses that want to deploy their first server. It protects your data, lets you organize and access business information from virtually anywhere, supports business applications, and connects to online services such as Office 365, hosted e-mail, collaboration, and CRM. It can be used by up to 25 users and requires no CALs for user access.
Codename SBS 7 will be known as Windows Small Business Server 2011 Standard. Priced at $1,096, with CALs going for approximately $72, it is slated for release in December 2010 (available through OEMs and System Builders in February 2011). It is aimed at small businesses with up to 75 users that want enterprise-class server technology, automatic daily server backups, and features like e-mail, Internet connectivity, internal websites, remote access, as well as file and printer sharing. Licensing is consistent with previous versions of Windows SBS 2008 Standard, which required a Server License and CALs for each user.
Finally, there will be a server add-on known as Windows Small Business Server 2011 Premium Add-on. Priced at $1,604, with client-access licenses going for approximately $92, it too is slated for release in December 2010 from Microsoft and February 2011 from OEMs and System Builders. The add-on consists of an additional server that provides support for SQL Server-based LOB applications and access to Window Server 2008 R2 technologies. It includes Windows Server 2008 R2 Standard as well as SQL Server 2008 R2 for Small Business, and can be added to both previously mentioned SBS 2011 products. Access to the Windows Server components for the add-on will be covered by the Windows SBS 2011 CAL model, but SQL Server access will require Premium Add-on CALs. Microsoft said it decided to move to an add-on model to give its customers "more flexibility and deployment options providing the ability to purchase additional servers either up front or as needed."
Microsoft has two more Windows Server products on the way. We've known about codename Vail, the second version of Windows Home Server, for a while now, but there's another one: Windows Server codename Breckenridge, according to a Microsoft Connect page titled "Windows Server Solutions Log Collector Privacy Statement" (via ZDNet). Breckenridge will reportedly be a derivative of Windows Home Server Vail optimized to function as a storage server. The release details about these two have yet to be finalized.


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Hunter Education Teaches Respect
Respect for the Sport of Hunting . . .
By thorough preparation and by familiarizing yourself with your gun, its characteristics and capabilities and by practicing for proficiency and identification of one's own abilities.
Respect for the Resource . . .
- By supporting and understanding the work of wildlife biologists and resource managers and by participating in voluntary hunter surveys.
- By matching your gun and ammunition to the game.
- By properly identifying all game, and what's behind it.
- By supporting the use of non-toxic shot.
- By using a bird dog to assist in the retrieval of downed game.
Respect for the Firearm . . .
- By ensuring the safe storage of all firearms and ammunition in the home, unloaded, with the gun and shells stored separately, and locked up out of the reach of children and careless adults.
- By unloading your firearm when not in use, climbing a fence, jumping a ditch, handling or passing to another, and transporting.
- By controlling the muzzle at all times, never pointing a loaded or unloaded gun at anything you don't want to shoot, never playing with a gun, and always treating it as though it is loaded.
Respect for the Law . . .
- By abiding by bag and possession limits, hunting laws and regulations.
- By understanding and supporting the purpose of laws and regulations, protecting and conserving our resources, and promoting safety for yourself and others.
Respect for Game . . .
- By harvesting only what you can use, immediately field dressing and cooling of game.
- By defining real success by the pleasure of the experience, watching a dog work, companionship of fellow hunters, watching wildlife, not by the quantity of game bagged.
Respect for the Landowner . . .
- By acting as a guest, leaving the area as you found it, open gates open and closed gates closed and picking up all litter including spent shells.
- Every square inch of non-public land belongs to someone, and you must have permission to hunt it. Obtain permission in advance of your trip. Hunt only those areas where you have permission to hunt. Offer your time and labor in return for access.
Respect for Yourself . . .
- By conducting oneself in a manner to ensure the future of the sport, using good manners in the out-of-doors and setting a good example for others.
- By knowing where your hunting partners are at all times.
- By using ear and eye protection.
- By avoiding alcohol and mind-altering drugs (including many cold medications) when handling firearms.
- By never shooting at a flat, hard surface or water.
Respect for the Future of Hunting . . .
- By acknowledging that hunting is a privilege, not a right.
- By understanding that the non-hunting publics attitude toward hunting is influenced by how they view your personal conduct. Never transport game on top of a vehicle or hang it in public view.
By obeying the Ten Commandments of Firearm Safety
- Treat every gun as if it is loaded.
- Control the gun muzzle at all times.
- Guns not in use are to be unloaded and stored with actions open.
- Be sure the barrel and action are clear of obstructions and that only the proper ammunition is carried with every gun in use.
- Be sure of your target identification before you pull the trigger, and always know what lies beyond the target.
- Never point a gun at anything you don't want to shoot.
- Never climb a fence or tree or cross a ditch or other obstacle with a loaded gun; and never pull a gun toward you by the muzzle.
- Never shoot at water or a flat, hard surface; and always be sure your backstop is adequate.
- Store guns and ammunition separately, out of reach of people who are unfamiliar with safe gun handling.
- Never handle a firearm or operate a vehicle while you are affected by alcohol or drugs.


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Monday, December 29, 2008
Over to you, peeps...
And it occurs to me that 40+ people a day access this blog (you do, I've seen the Google Analytics, and a couple of people have even mentioned it on Christmas cards); and I have no real idea what you like about it. Is it the knitting, or the random thoughts, or the pretty pics of London, or are you at the same events I am and wondering whether we thought the same thing? Or what? Part of the point of writing a blog is the whole wanting to know that "you are not alone" thing. I know I get more comments when I post about knitting (except for the car insurance people who are camping on the last meme post, and I'm getting rid of them...), but is that because it's the only thing you like, or is it just easier to comment on? I really do want to know!
I will be running a competition of sorts with nice prizes in January, too. Details on New Year's Day.
Edited to add: thanks very much for your comments, and please keep 'em coming.
A short walk to the shops...
The bottom of Whitehall, looking at the Cenotaph; with a bendy-bus (yay, Wikipedia-thesaurus-management!) in shot. Unfortunately the white thing on the left-hand pavement isn't any form of fleece-bearing animal; it's some sort of plastic barrier which just happens to look like the back end of a goat...
The MOD building; all very white. Outside there's a statue to a Master of Strategy... (and how cool is it that you can Google "master-of strategy" whitehall and get an actual photo of the statue, once yours turns out to be a bit crap?)
This is Downing Street. Yes, I always imagine something glammer, too. It does have a nice Christmas tree; but both sides are currently sheathed in scaffolding... The No. 10 website is also still in beta, in a nice symmetry...
Horseguards. Left-hand one with sign in view saying "BEWARE Horses: nasty bitey kicky things, we hates 'em..." Sort of.
Right-hand one, ditto: but I had to collect the set...
I'd have tried to get the same angle and all, but the place was absolutely stacked with tourists. I'd naïvely assumed that because I was back at work, so would everyone else be - duh. Over the top of a cab, I took a picture of the next street across (Great Scotland Yard)
and then up to Trafalgar Square
St Martin in the Fields looking very lovely in the sunlight...
... and the fountains were in full operation alongside the Christmas tree and the menorah...
Edith Cavell's statue is next; always gives me the shivers on the way past...
and then the Coliseum, home of ENO...
... past the end of Cecil Court, which is a haven for print and antiquarian book dealers...
and past the very modestly named Catholic Truth Society (maybe I'm just being over-sensitive here because I am one - I suspect the abbreviation doesn't mean much to most passers-by)...
... before reaching the final destination.
Their website has been down for ages, and so I took a chance - as it turned out, although upstairs was open for business, downstairs, which is where all the wholesale/high-volume stuff happens, was not; and they didn't have enough staff to be running up and down the stairs. Next week, perhaps... Was very glad I'd taken the photos for this post to assuage my disappointment...
Just round the corner are the St Martin's Theatre which has been showing The Mousetrap for the last 56 years, and The Ivy (with the green awnings outside).
And then back to Trafalgar Square and the gates to The Mall
And then back down Whitehall. The view is quite spectacular, as long as you don't mind gazing at the arses of horses all the way back to Parliament Square...
Takes just about a minute over an hour to do the round-trip including taking photos...
The voyage was not entirely a wash-out on the shopping front, though... I picked up a copy of The Moonstone for next week's Kniterati group... Hope they're as friendly as everything else I've been to at I Knit, and it's a favourite book - no idea where my copy went!
Thursday, December 25, 2008
Happy Christmas
Monday, December 22, 2008
Surely not...
I am waiting, with some trepidation, for the other shoe to drop. It's all going entirely too well.
Stats first:
- Projects on list: 19 (-1; arbitrary extra Turtle removed - self-imposed deadline...)
- Projects actually needed before Christmas: 18
- Projects started: 18
- Projects finished: 18
- Projects to finish before New Year: 1
- Weeks to Christmas: 0.5
The three most recent finishes: Lorna's hat, finished 20 December (!!!) - one of Kim's Hats, from Last-Minute Knitted Gifts
Fiona's hat, finished 19th December; Fake Isle by Amy A. King.
Barb's Blowsey Ruffles scarf by Janine Le Cras, finished 19 December
Note shawl-pin. I said I was going to have to make one - I was intending to use Fimo - because I'd managed to lose the circular shell-piece from this Pryn pin, despite only taking it out of the bag a day or so before... It turned up at the bottom of a knitting bag (one of the many) just before I was reduced to Blue-Peter-esque mixing-Fimo-with-embossing-powder-and-hoping-it-didn't-turn-the-oven-toxic antics. This is the Dream in Color yarn I won at the Brighton Knitting Safari, so thanks, whoever donated it! It's really lovely to knit with.
So; I've finished the pre-Christmas knitting, it's wrapped, I'm packed, and while the house doesn't look particularly glam, it's decorated, and it's 1000% cleaner and tidier than this time last year. I know a lot of this is having had Friday and today off, rather than just the weekend like last year, but I'm waiting to find some Huge problem now. Like having forgotten to buy presents for some significant member of my family... There must be something.
Sunday, December 21, 2008
File under Miscellaneous...
Later, some exciting (to me) Christmas knitting news. Better go and make a shawl-pin (for reasons I'll explain later) and wrap some presents.
Sunday, December 14, 2008
Portrait of a Lady
Saturday, December 13, 2008
The yarn is a cashmere/silk combo by Violet Green - Heather was able to pass me on some of the (quite spectacular) yarn undyed; and although I had problems with the staple length throughout and the yarn snapping on me, I may well have exacerbated this with my dyeing technique!
Tuesday, December 09, 2008
Oliver Postgate
So farewell then... creator of Noggin the Nog, Ivor the Engine, Bagpuss and best of all the magnificent, and knitted, Clangers (Tiny, in her tutu, from last year's Christmas tree, illustrated above). They were brilliant creations, and a generation of us benefited from Postgate's imagination.
Monday, December 08, 2008
Beginning to feel a lot like Christmas...
This was the view in roughly the same spot in the evening... the Christmas lights are here, and it all feels very serene and in control...
I cast off the Big Christmas Thing. That's one for the next couple of days' posts - I spent way too long on a train tonight to edit photos...
But today, I got an unexpected Christmas present. Alice, from Socktopus, mailed me as a result of this post, and let me know there was suddenly a space in next year's club because someone had had to drop out unexpectedly... So I'm signed up to another sock club, this one with a shared blog, rather than one you can just leave comments on, and with Official Extras. Very exciting. Especially as the invite arrived the same day as my annual performance-related bonus (for more or less the same amount!)...
Weekly Christmas knitting round-up:
- Projects on list: 20 (-1)
- Projects started: 14 (+1)
- Projects finished: 12 (+1)
- Projects to finish: 8 (-2)
- Weeks to Christmas: 2.5 (-1)
All under control. Honest. Maybe not the one that needs to be posted the day after tomorrow, but after that...
Sunday, December 07, 2008
Book Meme
This meme is originally from the Big Read. Apparently they reckon most people will have only read 6 of the 100 books here.
1) Look at the list and bold those you have read.
2) Underline those you intend to read (I'm going to asterisk these - Blogger doesn't like underlining)
3) Italicise the books you LOVE.
4) Post your list so we can try and track down these people who've only read 6 and force books upon them.
1. Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
2. The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien
3. Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
4. Harry Potter series - JK Rowling
5. To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
6. The Bible
7. Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
8. Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell
9. His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman
10. Great Expectations - Charles Dickens
11. Little Women - Louisa M Alcott
12. Tess of the D'Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy
13. Catch 22 - Joseph Heller
14. Complete Works of Shakespeare
15. Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier
16. The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien
17. Birdsong - Sebastian Faulks
18. Catcher in the Rye - J D Salinger
19. The Time Traveller's Wife - Audrey Niffenegger
20. Middlemarch - George Eliot
21. Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell
22. The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald*
23. Bleak House - Charles Dickens
24. War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy
25. The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams
26. Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh
27. Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
28. Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
29. Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll
30. The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame
31. Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy
32. David Copperfield - Charles Dickens
33. Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis
34. Emma - Jane Austen
35. Persuasion - Jane Austen
36. The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - CS Lewis
37. The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini*
38. Captain Corelli's Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres (tried, and gave up!)
39. Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden
40. Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne
41. Animal Farm - George Orwell
42. The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown
43. One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
44. A Prayer for Owen Meaney - John Irving
45. The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins
46. Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery
47. Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy
48. The Handmaid's Tale - Margaret Atwood
49. Lord of the Flies - William Golding
50. Atonement - Ian McEwan
51. Life of Pi - Yann Martel (tried; gave up)
52. Dune - Frank Herbert
53. Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons
54. Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen
55. A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth
56. The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon
57. A Tale Of Two Cities - Charles Dickens
58. Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
59. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time - Mark Haddon
60. Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
61. Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck
62. Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov
63. The Secret History - Donna Tartt
64. The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold
65. Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas
66. On The Road - Jack Kerouac
67. Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy
68. Bridget Jones' Diary - Helen Fielding
69. Midnight's Children - Salman Rushdie
70. Moby Dick - Herman Melville*
71. Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens
72. Dracula - Bram Stoker
73. The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett
74. Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson
75. Ulysses - James Joyce
76. The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath
77. Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome
78. Germinal - Emile Zola
79. Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray*
80. Possession - AS Byatt
81. A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens
82. Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell
83. The Color Purple - Alice Walker
84. The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro
85. Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert
86. A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry
87. Charlotte's Web - EB White
88. The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Albom
89. Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
90. The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blyton
91. Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad
92. The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery
93. The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks
94. Watership Down - Richard Adams
95. A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole
96. A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute
97. The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas
98. Hamlet - William Shakespeare
99. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl
100. Les Miserables - Victor Hugo
Thursday, December 04, 2008
Yarn Shop Flirt
It seems, transport-wise, that nights I spend knitting = good trains, and nights I attempt to get home early = bad trains. This could work out expensive...
Tuesday, December 02, 2008
Holiday creep...
The weekly roundup (as it was on Sunday night)
- Projects on list: 21 (-1)
- Projects started: 13 (+1)
- Projects finished: 11 (+1)
- Projects to finish: 10 (-1)
- Weeks to Christmas: 3.5 (-1)
The good news is that the Big Shawl is only 42 rows from completion. And the bad news is that I'm now down to about 3 rows an hour for that, now I'm beading every alternate row...
Well, I'm off here for the next three days. Not sure how much concentration I'll have for blogging after that! I'll be the one picking up #8 black beads for my black shawl on the 0745 train... please avoid jogging my elbow on the way past or my 0.75mm crochet hook may find its way somewhere painful...


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A commodity spread involving soybean products. In it, one buys soybean futures at the same time one sells futures in soybean meal and soybean oil. Crushes are useful because they can take advantage of price spread between the underlying soybeans and products that can be derived from soybeans. See also: Reverse crush.
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With a robust e-business suite, you have access to 24/7/365 service, providing you the greatest flexibility to manage procurement of essential devices. We understand your challenges and know how to overcome them. Consider all the options we offer, and contact us for additional details. Download Walker's SLED Solutions Overview here.


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