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Genus Cricetulus
2-4 years
3-4 inches
normal room temperature; not affected by normal house temperature ranges
Syrian hamsters are hardy creatures that come from the semi-desert region of Syria. All Syrian hamsters that are pets in the United States are captive bred. All Syrian hamsters living in captivity today are descendants of a single female and her twelve babies, captured in Syria in 1930. The name 'hamster' comes from the German word for 'hoard,' a reference to their habit of storing huge amounts of food in their cheek pouches. This enables them to carry food back to their nest from far and wide. In its natural environment, a single hamster can stash up to 240 pounds of saved food in its burrow.
Hamsters are stout, round-bodied rodents with small dark eyes and tiny, stubby tails. They have small, bare paws with small claws. Hamsters have internal cheek pouches, which extend from their mouth to nearly as far back as their hind legs.
Very social & engaging - generally very gregarious. Syrian hamsters are best kept alone. If caged with another, they will fight to the point of injury and sometimes death. When you purchase your Syrian hamster at the pet store, it will most likely be caged in a group. This is because these hamsters are young, and not quite to the mature point, but soon will be. Hamsters are easily tamed, even if they are difficult at first. The more you handle and work with your pet, the tamer it will become. A hamster will bite in defense if it feels threatened. Remember to work with your pet after dusk, as it will be more willing to cooperate since it is a nocturnal animal. Place your pet's cage in a place in the home where it will be around the family, yet protected from direct light, drafts and excess noise during the day. Also be sure it is high enough to be out of reach of dog noses and small children's hands. Hamsters are prey animals and can feel threatened by large bodies hovering above them or in their faces. Like many rodents, hamsters have cheek pouches, which in the wild allow them to hoard and transport food. Although their food is readily available to them in captivity, many hamsters still instinctively pack their food into their pouches and run frantically around their cage to find a hiding place.
Vegetarians / grain eaters - will eat an occasional insect such as crickets or mealworms Commercially prepared hamster/gerbil diets are available at all pet stores, they are made of pellets, seeds, grains and dried vegetables; a good food should contain about 12% protein and 6-8% fat. Replenish the food in your hamster's cage when most of it is gone; they will eventually eat the pieces they desire less. Hamsters are notorious for food hoarding. They will take food to various places in the cage for storage, bury it and often forget about it. For this reason it is important to spot clean your hamster's cage daily to remove fresh foods that may become spoiled. Seeds and pellets can remain in their hiding spots.
FRESH FOODS: Healthy, fresh fruits, vegetables and grains can also be fed to your hamster. Offer these treats in small amounts, as they may cause diarrhea if fed in too great an amount.
** Please avoid feeding sugary treats such as yogurt drops or honey sticks to your hamster. These treats contain far too much sugar and can cause several health issues such as diabetes.
If fed a balanced diet, supplements are not necessary for your hamster.
Clean, fresh chlorine-free water must always be available. Change it daily. All water given must be 100% free of chlorine and heavy metals. (Not all home water filtration systems remove 100% of the chlorine and heavy metals from tap water). We recommend that you use unflavored bottled drinking water or bottled natural spring water; never use untreated tap water. If tap water is used, you should treat it with a de-chlorinating treatment. De-chlorinator is available in the fish department. If you do not want to chemically de-chlorinate the water, you can leave an open container of tap water out for at least 24 hours. Do not use distilled water, which can cause severe medical problems, since it lacks minerals that are essential to important body functions
|10 gallon sized glass cage with locking top, or similarly sized plastic hamster cage.
|Hamster wheel with solid running surface. Non-solid surfaces can cause injury.
|Several toys.
|Pelleted, timothy based commercial hamster food & timothy hay.
|One or two hide houses.
|Shredded aspen bedding, "Carefresh", or newspaper for the bottom of the tank.
|Water bottle.
|Hamster book.
Many different types of hamster cages are available at the pet store. Do not buy the smallest cages thinking that because the pet is small, it does not need much room. Hamsters love to run and explore. A larger cage will allow it to create several "rooms" as hamsters will do. They like to have separate bedrooms, food storage areas and play areas. A ten gallon glass tank is an excellent sized cage for one Syrian hamster. These cages will allow you to choose different toys and hiding places that can be interchanged within the cage. Choose several hiding places, a solid walled plastic wheel and chew toys. Small cardboard boxes will also be appreciated. When designing your cage set-up, be sure to include a mesh wire top for the cage that can be secured snugly with cage "locks". Hamsters are escape artists and WILL find a way to escape if it is possible. The plastic cages with tube accessories are also excellent cages that all hamster types usually enjoy. You hamster will undoubtedly chew on parts of this type of cage, so monitor the cage daily so your pet does not chew an escape hole.
HIDE HOUSE: The hide house is extremely important to the hamster, and will most likely become your pet's main 'bedroom'. Hamsters will not often relieve themselves inside the hide house or 'nest', so it is not necessary to disturb the nest to clean it daily. Cleaning of the hide house can be done during the more intensive bi-weekly cleaning.
WATER BOTTLE: A full water bottle must be available at all times; refill it daily. Be sure to clean out the inside of the bottle thoroughly during the more intensive cage cleaning sessions every week. Water bottles will often become slimy inside, which will in turn harbor harmful bacteria. Clean the bottle thoroughly with a mild bleach solution (1 bleach:32 water). Be sure to rinse the bottle extremely well after the cleaning to ensure no bleach is left behind! Your pet will most likely chew a bottle inside the cage, so be sure to attach the bottle to the OUTSIDE of the cage. Check the straw daily for any blockages to make sure your pet always has access to the fresh water. If you cannot place the bottle on the outside of the cage, purchase a metal water bottle guard. This will keep him or her from getting to the bottle.
BEDDING: We recommend an aspen bedding or soft recycled newspaper bedding such as "Carefresh". Neither of these choices will cause allergic reactions or respiratory distress and it is easy to clean. DO NOT use cedar chips, as they contain dangerous phenols, which are toxic to your pet. Place enough bedding in the cage so your pet can happily tunnel underneath it. Spot clean your pet's cage daily by simply removing the soiled portions of bedding.
TOYS:Several types of toys must be available to your hamster. Chewing toys such as wooden hamster toys (available at the pet store), hide houses, wheels, "run-abouts" (clear plastic balls for your hamster to run around the house in), cardboard boxes, paper towel tubes and dried untreated fruit tree branches are all excellent toys for your hamster. Hamsters MUST chew constantly in order to wear their teeth down, which grow on a continual basis. Therefore, toys that allow the hamster to chew and wear those teeth down are invaluable. Stick to toys bought at the pet store, as these are generally made of pet-safe materials.
Daily maintenance should consist of spot cleaning by removing soiled substrate, cleaning water bowl thoroughly and wiping glass clean.
The entire cage should be cleaned thoroughly at least once every week with:
It is not necessary to clean or bathe your hamster. They are extremely neat and will groom themselves! If it seems as if your pet has not been grooming him or herself, he may be ill. Contact your exotic pet veterinarian.
Healthy hamsters have a rounded, full body and smooth, even fur with no bald patches. The nostrils, under-tail area, under-chin area, ears and eyes should be clear and free of discharge - fur should not be damp or stained in any way. Your pet should have bright eyes; teeth should be even and well aligned with no staining around the chin; breathing should be even and not labored, wheezing or gurgling sounds. Healthy hamsters are very energetic and busy; although there are nocturnal and may be caught napping during the day.
We recommend physical exams every year with an exotic pet veterinarian for small mammals. If your vet sees your pet regularly, many common conditions that afflict your pet can be caught and treated early. If not caught early enough or if left untreated, many of these conditions can become far worse if not fatal.
|Bacterial "Lawsonia intracellularis"
"Wet tail"
|Diarrhea, wet bottom and tail, lethargy, loss of appetite, irritability, dehydration, lack of grooming
|See your exotic veterinarian IMMEDIATELY, disease runs its course quickly. Vet will administer sub-q fluids and antibiotics. DO NOT USE OVER-THE-COUNTER MEDICATIONS
|Loss of hair, bare spots on skin or small red sores; scratching
|See your exotic veterinarian immediately. Infecting mite must be identified and treated accordingly.
|Traumatic injury
|Obvious open wounds or weeping spots on body
|See your exotic veterinarian for treatment. Cuts must be cleaned properly and antibiotics may be necessary.
|Abscesses can form when wounds become infected and close up, trapping the bacteria inside
|See your exotic veterinarian immediately. The abscess must be drained and antibiotics administered.
|Circular ring of missing fur, possible lethargy and loss of appetite CAN be transmitted to humans
|See your exotic veterinarian immediately for treatment with an anti-fungal.
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Five Takeaways From August Jobs Report
The U.S. economy added 169,000 jobs in August and the unemployment rate fell to 7.3%. Ben Casselman joins Lunch Break with five initial takeaways from the jobs report. Photo: Getty Images.
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I ... stocks on a wild ride today wake of the August jobs report paints a somewhat this picture and the fiery market the Dow dropping triple digits early this morning it's now back in the grain is Friday September six while one speck of thinking now we've got a real time economics reporter ... Ben Casselman right now with his five takeaway from this job support gloom and doom Mr Castle gloom and doom identities ... happy Friday and ready for ... nicotine of jobs actually less than a hundred thousand you say ... yes this is fun out of the deadline it doesn't look that bad ... hundred and sixty nine thousand jobs ... in in August that's a little weaker than expected but nothing terrible ... unemployment rate ticked down to seven point three ... the drill down all one and is it is lousy there does advise down July engine of ... a combined seventy four thousand jobs in an act that out with the August numbers were were down under a hundred ... and just in in the bigger picture people were leaving the workforce ... the number of Americans who say they were working in August actually down right to life and not only one is not a direct result of as a result of Assisi filings pre much just stuck in Second here which doesn't give us from them ... if that's right so if you step back week I've had this new slow steady progress Ofcom two hundred thousand a little bit less uh hundred and eighty thousand jobs a month ... this is the change that picture ... the good news is it's not slowing the bad news is is is to stop picking up additional momentum ... if someone is out there still looking for a job and mean what would be so demoralizing to me is how long the average unemployed worker has been out of work which is a little over a mile down along with a half months this point ... and the number of long-term unemployed has actually started to rise again and had been declining ... the odds of finding a job if you're unemployed have come and gone down ... over the last couple of months ... the these are not that the signs out of the job market is getting health ... that I ... learned about the types of jobs the quality of jobs jobs that the intoxicated on jobs that health care benefits ... he said these are not the jobs where worse they were seen at it this is been a real concern in recent months we seen a lot of jobs in the retail sector in the restaurant sector ... jobs are better than no tights points but they are they are not the kind of jobs that would really like to seek to ... revive the middle class manufacturing has been lousy construction has been lousy ... government is has started to love to flatten out and cutting jobs for a long time when not seen the kind of ... of strong middle-class jobs that are really do need to pack them up and appreciate here to scrape through all this and find is like a hint of optimism in the news reaction might you do it ... looking at hourly wages and the number of hours worked then I so ... companies did ask the workers to work a few more hours last month and eighteen doubt they did pay their workers a little bit more ... that could be a sign that companies see a little bit more demand that ... their purpose they are willing to pay a little bit more to get back on a production of the workers ... it could also be a sign that the companies are trying to get more of the workers and avoid idling so it's a little bit of the six of one a ... half dozen the other bed in ... there is a little bit of a hint that there might be something ... that I take that on Friday then cast thank so much more to this and a copy of the site

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Employees improved their financial wellness in the third quarter, a much-needed climb back from a weakened condition in the first quarter, according to new research released Wednesday.
Financial Finesse, a provider of workplace financial wellness programs, identified several major trends.
For one, employees shifted their focus to short-term money management issues after several quarters of long-term focus. The report said budgeting and debt management questions had made up more than 30% of all questions received by the company's team of certified financial planners.
This was up from about 22% last quarter, and approached levels not seen since Q3 of 2010.
As a result, the report noted improvements in all areas of money management and financial planning, in particular managing debt, living within their means and setting up an emergency cash reserve.
It said employees still had a long way to go, but their active focus on improving their finances was a good sign, as was their quick recovery from the backslide they suffered in Q1.
In addition, investing emerged as a key employee priority in Q3, based on data collected from the firm's financial wellness assessment tool. The report attributed this to recent market improvements.
As well, it said, employees realized they may have to invest more aggressively in order to reach retirement goals, largely to compensate for not being able to save more until they build a stronger financial foundation.
Financial Finesse founder and CEO Liz Davidson (left) said in a statement that the positive shift of focus onto money management issues had come at the expense of retirement planning, which saw a drop in questions to below 30% of all questions asked for the first time in more than a year.
This shift was overdue and very much needed, she said. A recent Financial Finesse report found that employees' lack of financial wellness was the biggest obstacle to their retirement preparedness.
"The reality is that beyond saving up to the company match, most employees will generate a higher return paying down high-interest-rate credit card debt than investing those savings in their retirement plan," Davidson said.
"As counterintuitive as it is, this strategy actually enhances retirement preparedness," Greg Ward, director of Financial Finesse's Think Tank, said in the statement.
"Employees who follow it go into retirement debt-free, with a higher net worth, strong financial habits and behaviors, a strong credit score and a focus on living within their means."
Davidson and Ward cautioned that employees are still far behind where they need to be in order to effectively prepare for retirement. Only 18% reported they were on track to replace 80% of their preretirement income (or their goal) in retirement, and this was likely because of money management problems.
Approximately 40% of employees still did not have an emergency fund, more than 25% reported they were not making ends meet and about 10% were in a state of crisis where they could not pay their bills on time.
"These are still disconcerting numbers in an economy that poses increased responsibility for employees to fund their own retirement," Davidson said.
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The Martyrdom of John Brown
By Charles A. Jellison
Autumn, 1859. Robert E. Lee, Colonel, United States Army, was on leave from his Texas command and at home in Arlington when the summons from Secretary of War Floyd reached him. Without waiting to change from his civilian clothes, he joined the messenger, young Lieutenant J. E. B. Stuart, and the two men rode hurriedly to the War Department building. There they were told of strange doings in the little town of Harpers Ferry, Virginia, fifty mile or so up the Potomac from Washington, at the mouth of the Shenandoah. Reports had it that an undetermined number of whites and negroes had invaded the town the night before, slaughtered its citizenry, and had then taken possession of the Federal arsenal. The leader of the group was thought to be a tall, bearded old man by the name of Isaac Smith, who had moved into the vicinity with his sons only a few weeks before.
With a detachment of horse marines from the Washington Navy Yard under his command, and the eager young Lieutenant Stuart tagging along on his own time, Lee immediately made his way by rail to Harpers Ferry. Arriving at the town late on the evening of October 18, 1859, Colonel Lee, still in civilian clothes and noticeably blackened by his ride, learned that the invaders had barricaded themselves in the engine-house where they obviously intended to fight it out. The rumor was now abroad that the man called Smith was really crazy Old John Brown of Osawatomie, Kansas, but nobody could say for certain that this was true. At any rate, the numbers of the invaders had been shamefully exaggerated, and it now appeared that at the most there could not be more than a dozen of them inside the engine-house hardly a sufficient horde to match Lee's Federal troops plus the hundreds of Virginia militia-men and cadets who poured into the area during the day, but apparently a force large enough to cause something akin to panic in Dixie. As a Yankee wit later chided:
There's a flutter in the Southland, a tremor in the air;
For the rice-plains are invaded, the cotton fields laid bare;
And the cry of "Help" and "Treason" rings aloud from tongue and pen
John Brown has crossed the border with a host of fifteen men.
To Colonel Lee and the excited multitudes that thronged around the engine-house at Harpers Ferry, Virginia, on that mid-October night in 1859 the name of John Brown was by no means an unfamiliar one. For many years the fanatically religious and somewhat ill-balanced Brown had acted conspicuously in the role of self-appointed avenger for the Almighty against the unspeakable sin of slavery. In so doing he had not failed to gain a certain degree of national prominence, largely as a result of his readiness to spill blood for the holy cause. This readiness was nowhere more starkly demonstrated than at Pottawatomie Creek, Kansas, where three years before during the violent upheavals which then convulsed the Kansas Territory, "Captain" Brown and a band of free-soil followers had deliberately and quite at random murdered five pro-slavery settlers in cold blood.
Not long after the "Pottawatomie Massacre" and Brown's subsequent flight from Kansas, the old man's plans began to assume larger dimensions, and with the backing, material as well as moral, of certain hard-shelled abolitionist elements, John Brown of Osawatomie was by the autumn of 1859 ready to embark upon his greatest adventure. He would invade the outer rim of the South, free and arm all slaves he encountered, and thereby set off a chain reaction of servile uprisings which would then resound throughout the Southland and eventuate the sudden, violent extermination of the sin that was slavery.
So it was that possessed with large thoughts of emancipation, and incidentally with the hope of capturing needed arms from the Federal arsenal, John Brown and a small following of not more than twenty men slipped across the Potomac on the night of October 17, 1859, to launch at Harpers Ferry, Virginia, their fantastic crusade against slavery.
But the quixotic plans of Old Brown almost at once went awry, so much so, in fact, that by mid-morning of the following day the "Captain" and his miniature private army found themselves hopelessly besieged by an aroused citizenry in the Harpers Ferry engine-house and there matters still stood when Colonel Lee and his Federal troops reached the area late that same evening. Early on the morning following Lee's arrival, as the dawn was breaking over the Blue Ridge not many miles to the East, and as two thousand curious spectators inched their way forward for a closer view of the little engine-house, John Brown fought out his last battle in a matter of three minutes' time. Colonel Lee noted the action in his memorandum book a few hours later:
Waited until daylight as a number of citizens were held as hostages, whose lives were threatened. Tuesday about sunrise, with twelve marines, under Lieutenant Green, broke in the door of the engine-house, secured the insurgents, and relieved the prisoners unhurt. All the insurgents killed or mortally wounded, but four, Stevens, Shields, Coppie, and John Brown.
During the encounter one of Brown's sons was killed. Another died of wounds soon after. Brown himself was badly cut about the head by Lieutenant Green's sword.
Such, briefly sketched, was the end of the Harpers Ferry affair which for nearly one hundred years has meant many things to many men. Was it, as one Southern historian insists, "nothing more or less than the efforts of a band of irresponsible outlaws," or was it really, as many people in the North came to feel soon after the raid, a great blow for the Almighty? Whatever the answer, one fact seems clear: In the engine-house at Harpers Ferry, John took his first step up the ladder to martyrdom. Had he died there that day, he probably would have climbed no higher. His fame would scarcely have outlived him, and John brown's body would have mouldered in its grave unsung and unremembered. But Old Brown lived, for a time at least, and during the six weeks that remained to him between his capture and execution, he thrilled the world with his steadfastness of faith in God and his own convictions, and his unflinching courage in the face of death. Occasionally the plaguing thought has arisen that the old man was simply making the best of a bad situation. But be that as it may, there can be no denying the fact that he played his part well. John Brown died game, and therein lies the seed of his martyrdom.
The blood-soaked old man was carried from the engine-house and taken to the paymaster's office in the armory, where he was laid out on the bare floor. About one o'clock in the afternoon, he was visited by Virginia's Governor Henry A. Wise along with the Old Dominion's fiery United States Senator James M. Mason of Winchester, both of whom had rushed to Harpers Ferry as soon as the news of the invasion reached them. Shortly after, the group was joined by Clement Vallandigham, puffy-faced pro-slavery Congressman from Ohio, and then came others, among them the ubiquitous correspondent for Bennett's New York World, unwittingly on the threshold of his greatest story. The ever-gallant Lee offered to clear the room if his prisoner so wished, but John Brown preferred to tell the world. He was, according to Vallandigham, "anxious to talk and ready to answer anyone who chose to ask a question." Thus at that moment began Brown's battle of tongue and pen which would resound throughout the North and end finally in legend.
What was it all about? Why had he come? Who had sent him? Calmly, patiently John Brown told the inquisitors his story and his vision:
I want you to understand that I respect the rights of the poorest and weakest of colored people, oppressed by the slave system, just as much as I do those of the most wealthy and powerful. That is the idea that has moved me, and that alone. We expect no reward, except the satisfaction of endeavoring to do for those in distress and greatly oppressed, as we would be done by. The cry of distress of the oppressed is my reason, and the only thing that prompted me to come here.
Throughout the entire interview the wounded man remained completely composed. There was no show of fear or discomfiture. When asked about letters, found in his carpetbag, which seemed to implicate prominent abolitionists in his raid, Brown politely refused to answer. To do so would be contrary to his idea of honor. It was enough for them to know that he had been sent by God. "He is a bundle of the best nerves I ever saw; cut and thrust and bleeding, and in bonds," Governor Wise remarked after the interview. "He is a man of clear head, of courage, fortitude, and simple ingenuousness."
Later that afternoon John Brown was moved eight miles down the road to the jailhouse at Charles Town, the metropolis and court town of Jefferson County. On October 25, a week after his capture, he was placed on trial for murder and treason against the Commonwealth of Virginia. Why Brown, who had seized a Federal arsenal and had been captured by Federal troops, was surrendered without protest to state authorities is a question passed over lightly, even by Brown's most respected biographers. Perhaps Democratic President James Buchanan was reluctant to offend Southern voters by demanding possession of the prisoner or, more likely he was simply clever enough to avoid fingering a political "hot potato." After all, as Harper's Weekly pointed out at the time, John Brown's fanatical behavior would be likely to cost the new Republican Party thousands of votes. It doubtless seemed the greater part of wisdom, then, for Buchanan and his Democratic colleagues in Washington to let matters well enough alone.
The Old Dominion had no such qualms, however. Here was an issue that transcended politics, one which involved the sovereignty of the Commonwealth, and one which must be dealt with severely and suddenly. Thus, on October 31, after a trial which lasted less than a week, Old Brown of Osawatomie was found guilty as charged. To his family Brown wrote that night from the Charles Town jailhouse:
I feel no consciousness of guilt in the matter, nor even mortification on account of my imprisonment and irons; and I feel perfectly sure that very soon no member of my family will feel any possible disposition to "blush on my account."
On the following Wednesday, November 2, 1859, Brown stood calmly before the court and heard his sentence read. He was to be hanged in public on Friday, the 2nd of December. "Brown received the sentence with composure," a correspondent for the Washington National Intelligencer reported, "and the only demonstration made was a clapping of hands by a man in the crowd who is not a resident of Jefferson County." And so Captain Brown, condemned murderer and traitor, was returned to his cell in the Charles Town jailhouse to wait out his thirty remaining days. "Have you any objections," he later asked his jailer, "to my writing to my wife and telling her that I am to be hanged on the second of December?"
Meanwhile, in many areas of the North concern for John Brown was blossoming into adulation. "Bloody" Brown of Kansas and "Crazy" Brown of Harpers Ferry had given way to a new and more venerable figure who was brave and God-like and bore no malice toward his captors. Millions of people had read or heard of his heroic behavior at the trial. Newspaper artists had sketched the old man, lying wounded on his cot in the front of the court room, with a hand to his ear in order that he might better hear through his bandages in the charges made against him. So vividly did the press portray the trial and subsequent confinement of Old Brown that Northern readers "could fairly hear the clanking of his chains, could behold him on his bed of suffering, and alter could see him toiling with his pen." And what a mighty pen it was the pen of a poet and a prophet!
I cannot remember a night so dark as to have hindered the coming day, nor a storm so furious or dreadful as to prevent the return of warm sunshine and a cloudless sky. But, beloved ones, do remember that this is not your rest that in this world you have no abiding place or continuing city. To God and his infinite mercy I always commend you.
Yet, this was the man whom some people called insane. John Brown? Insane? "John Brown may be a lunatic," commented the Boston Post, but if so "then one-fourth of the people of Massachusetts are madmen." To Ralph Waldo Emerson in Concord, Brown was the "rarest of heroes, a pure idealist, with no by-ends of his own. He is, therefore, precisely what lawyers call crazy, being governed by ideas, and not by external circumstances." Said John Brown himself on this subject:
I may be very insane, and I am so if insane at all. But if that be so, insanity is like a very pleasant dream to me. I am not in the least degree conscious of my ravings, of my fears, of any terrible visions whatever; but fancy myself entirely composed, and that my sleep, in particular, is as sweet as that of a healthy, joyous little infant.
But while John Brown lay in his prison at Charles Town, convinced of his own sanity, there was one who fared not so well. Five days after Brown's sentence, Gerrit Smith, New York State abolitionist whose past connections with Brown were well known, was carried away screaming to the Utica Insane Asylum. "Gerrit Smith shows continued marks of insanity," a New York journal reported later that month. "No one is allowed to see him, but it is understood that he refers in his ravings to the Harper's Ferry matter, and supposes himself arrested."
As John Brown's sands continue to run out in the Charles Town jailhouse, sentiment in the North assumed a more positive expression. Feeling grew particularly vocal in New England, homeground of transcendentalism, where Old Brown was not without many and influential friends. "I would rather see the statue of Captain Brown in the Massachusetts State-House, than that of any other man I know," Henry Thoreau assured an aroused crowd in Concord. "I rejoice that I live in this age, that I am his contemporary. . . . If this one man's acts do not create a revival, it will be the severest possible satire on the acts and words that do." And in Somersworth, New Hampshire, as in similar rural centers throughout New England, broadsides urged:
ALL TRUE CHRISTIANS who believe in "Immortality through Jesus Christ alone," . . . to pray for CAPT. JOHN BROWN, who now is under sentence of death, and is to be hung next month for righteousness sake, and doing justly with his fellow men, his country and his God. . . .
Noble John Brown! Truly the North seemed bent on making something more than a mere man out of the bloody patriarch from Osawatomie, and the day of his execution neared, fewer and fewer people could find it in their hearts to agree with Bennett's Herald that "Old Brown . . . deserved a long rope and a short shrift years ago."
Perhaps no man in the nation was more acutely aware of the rising tide of feeling for Brown, than was Governor Henry A. Wise of Virginia. In his office at Richmond he watched his volume of mail grow larger daily, until by the eve of Brown's execution it had reached mountainous proportions. Threatening letters, imploring letters, letters from cranks, and sincere and honest people in many walks of life from all sections of the Northland they heaped themselves upon the Governor, and most of them spoke the same plea: "Spare Old Brown." Lewis Tappan, New York philanthropist, writing on behalf of the American and Foreign Anti-Slavery Society, urged Wise to commute Brown's sentence in the name of humanity. "(He is) a man of upright intentions," wrote Tappan, "of Christian principles, and of entire truthfulness. Certainly he has evidenced since his arrest, moral qualities of a high order." And from St. Paul, in the new state of Minnesota, a life was offered for Brown's: "Lay not his blood to your charge. Oh, spare his life, lest the Avenging Angel of God spread desolation over the land. Take mine instead of his." The "governor of Pennsylvania" also doubtless had John Brown's welfare in mind when he wrote to Wise:
The(y) are triing [sic] to make a Civil war the north against South they say if hang them men you are a dam [sic] Son of a Bitch I will challenge you to a duel on any you say. . . .
Yours Excellency
Governor Packer
of Pennsylvania
Of more concern to Governor Wise, however, were the disturbing letters of warning he received which told of efforts in the offing to rescue John Brown from prison before the day of his execution. From Leavenworth in the Kansas Territory came the ominous report that members of Captain Brown's old Kansas band had organized over a thousand followers and were probably already on their way to Harpers Ferry. "They were armed with two of Colt's revolvers and two bowie knives each," claimed the informant. "one of the knives is nearly two feet in length, the other of the ordinary kind.
. . . I also infered [sic] . . . that there were about one thousand Sharps rifles in the vicinity of the ferry." Crazy? Another crank? Perhaps, but Governor Wise could not forget the fact that two months before the Harpers Ferry raid, Secretary of War Floyd had received a similar warning revealing Brown's plans, and had, to his everlasting regret, ignored it. Wise would avoid making the same error. he would order more state troops into the Charles Town area.
By late November Charles Town had taken on the semblance of a city besieged. Cordons of troops encircled the town, waiting for the attack which many felt was bound to come. No strangers were allowed to enter or leave the area without giving a full account of their doings, and minor aberrations from the norm were often cause enough for arousing suspicion and anxiety. On one dark night a picket on the front line became unnerved and fired on a wayward cow. The shot caused panic in the town, and word soon spread that Old Brown's men had come. Drums rolled and arms clattered, but the affair ended harmlessly enough when daylight revealed a peaceful countryside and a dead cow. Further excitement, of a more evanescent nature, arose when rumor leaked down from the North that Henry Ward Beecher, fearsome abolitionist preacher was on his way to Charles Town to pray for the soul of John Brown. This too was soon proved to be a false menace, however, and the little town again settled back into a nervous calm as it awaited, behind the protection of some three thousand state troops, Old Brown's final hour. When two days before the execution, Colonel Robert E. Lee arrived in the area with four companies of Federal reinforcements from Fort Monroe, he was able to report that "the feelings of the community seem to have settled down."
Meanwhile, John Brown in his cell at the Charles Town jailhouse continued to conduct himself heroically and to say noble things with tongue and pen. To his old schoolteacher in Litchfield, Connecticut, he wrote: "As I believe most firmly that God reigns, I cannot believe that anything I have done, suffered, or may yet suffer, will be lost to the cause of God or of humanity." And in a final letter to his family, written two days before his death: "Do not feel ashamed on my account; not for one moment despair of the cause; or grow weary of well-doing. I bless God. I never felt stronger confidence in the certain and near approach of a bright Morning; and a glorious day." To visitors and captors alike John Brown showed himself at all times ready and eager to die for his convictions, and to all he offered a quiet courtesy and kindness, untainted by any trace of personal animosity. Only occasionally did he evince impatience or annoyance. So it was with the well-intentioned, slave-holding minister who had offered to pray for Old Brown's soul. NEVER! Slavery was a SIN, and John Brown refused to allow his salvation to be jeopardized by the prayers of a sinner.
On December 1, Old Brown's wife arrived from Philadelphia by way of Harpers ferry, and there in the little jailhouse in Charles Town, Virginia, as the North looked on with wrenched heart, John and Mary Brown spoke to one another for the last time. For a few hours they talked about God and John Brown's will and the education of their children, and then, under the protection of a military escort provided by General Taliaferro of the state militia, Mary Brown returned to Harpers Ferry to await the delivery of her husband's body. On the following morning John Brown slipped on that pair of red carpet slippers with which he would climb the golden stairs, and penned a final prophetic message to his countrymen. It read:
I, John Brown, am now quite certain that the crimes of this guilty land will never be purged but with blood. I had, as I now think vainly, flattered myself that without much bloodshed it might be done.
Friday, December 2, 1859, was a clear, crisp autumn day. Shortly before eleven o'clock in the morning, a closely-guarded John Brown stepped out of the Charles Town jailhouse and climbed into the back of an open furniture wagon. Perfectly composed, he took his seat on a long box which contained his own coffin. As the wagon, preceded by three companies of infantry troops, began its slow trip to the scaffold, the old man pushed back the brim of his black slouch hat and gazed at the mountains to the east. "Why, Mr. Sadler, you have a lovely country surrounding you," he remarked to the undertaker, who was driving the wagon. "I had no idea it was so lovely. . . . Is the Blue Ridge always as beautiful as it is this morning?"
"Yes," replied the undertaker. "Yes, always so on bright days."
When the procession reached the field outside of town, where the execution was to take place, John Brown got down from the wagon unaided and walked toward the scaffold. A correspondent for the Baltimore Daily Exchange would still recall the drama of the scene nearly a generation later:
I see him as he places his foot on the first step. No bravado, but a calm mien and exquisite poise, step after step he takes, as though he were ascending the stairs in a gentleman friend's home to a chamber in which he was to rest.
On the floor of the scaffold Brown moved to the center of the trap and then, on a sign from the sheriff, removed his hat and placed it at his feet. His arms were bound to his waist, leaving his giant hands free, and a sturdy cotton rope was slipped over his head and adjusted into place under his great beard. Finally, a white hood was fitted over his face. But then, at the last moment a delay! The troops in the field below had not yet assumed their proper alignments, and while the undisciplined boots of Virginia's militiamen shuffled into position, John Brown, with noose and hood in place, waited erect and motionless beneath the gallows. Nearly ten minutes later the hangman's axe sliced through the rope which supported the trap, and Old Brown of Osawatomie began his long journey into eternity.
In the North, December 2nd did not pass by unnoticed. Throughout many areas it was a day of public prayer and protest. In Ravenna, Ohio, which Brown had spent much of his life,
the church bells . . . will be tolled from one to two o'clock P. M., that being the supposed hour of execution the hour during which the spirit of the murdered martyr will wing its flight to the bosom of the murdered, crucified Savior.
At 7 o'clock this evening, a meeting will be held at the Town Hall. . . . The Ladies and Gentleman of Ravenna, who hate oppression, and all its bloody, revengeful, savage barbarities, and who sympathize with the devoted MARTYRS OF LIBERTY, are invited to attend.
And in Concord, Massachusetts, on that December 2nd which Emerson described as "a strangely sultry day with threatening clouds and something ominous in the air," the citizenry gathered to hear the name of John Brown. Emerson, himself, and Bronson Alcott contributed their erudite prose in brief but memorable eulogies. Thoreau read the lines from Sir Walter Raleigh's "The Soul's Errand," and the congregation joined in singing a new hymn, written for the occasion:
Today beside Potomac's wave,
Beneath Virginia's sky,
They slay the man who loved the slave,
And dared for him to die.
The Pilgrim Father's earnest creed,
Virginia's ancient faith,
Inspire this hero's noblest deed,
And his reward is DEATH!
Great Washington's indignant shade
Forever urged him on
He heard from Monticello's glade
The voice of Jeff-er-son.
No selfish purpose armed his hand.
No passion aimed his blow;
How loyally he loved his land
Impartial time shall show.
Earlier in the day, not far to the west in the Connecticut River Valley, a Springfield man had found time for a brief message of foreboding to Governor Wise:
As I write the bells far and wide toll the martyrdom of John Brown. Congregations of men and women meet and unite in solemn prayer business is hushed. The entire community are awaiting solemnly awaiting the hour when they shall feel it is over. Gov. Wise, can you imagine what an awakening will take place in another hour?
In the field outside Charles Town, Virginia, the body of John Brown hung for thirty-five minutes. Shortly before noon it was cut down, listened to and otherwise prepared for its final journey northward. John Brown was dead. The extravaganza, which had cost the Old Dominion a quarter of a million dollars, was ended. Professor Thomas J. Jackson could now lead his corps of Lexington cadets back to the safety of the classroom, and John Wilkes Booth, rifleman, could return with his militia comrades to his beloved Richmond. At four o'clock that afternoon, the simple pine coffin which held the remains of Captain John Brown was loaded onto a special train and taken to Harpers Ferry, where Old Brown of Osawatomie had begun his greatest adventure only six weeks before. Among those to witness the train's departure from Charles Town was colonel Robert E. Lee, United States Army. On the evening before he had proved himself, in matters regarding John Brown, a poorer prophet than soldier, when to his wife he wrote: "Tomorrow will probably be the last day of Captain Brown."
1 C. H. Webb, "Old John Brown at Harper's Ferry," printed poem found among the Executive Papers of Governor Henry A. Wise, Virginia State Library, Richmond.
2 R. E. Lee, Jr., Recollections and Letters of General Robert E. Lee (New York, 1909), p. 22.
3 Avery Craven, The Growth of Southern Nationalism, 1848-1861 (Baton Rouge, 1953), p. 306.
4 Vallandigham was attempting to implicate his political rival, famed Ohio abolitionist Joshua Giddings.
5 Vallandigham to Cincinnati Enquirer, October 22, 1859, in C. B. Galbreath, "John Brown," Archaeological and Historical Publications, XXX (1931), 270.
6 O. G. Villard, John Brown, 1800-1859: A Biography Fifty Years After (Boston, 1911), p. 460.
7 F. B. Sanborn, The Life and Letters of John Brown (Boston, 1885), pp. 571-572.
8 October 29, 1859, p. 690.
9 Brown to family, October 31, 1859, in "Words of John Brown," Old South Leaflets, General Series, Vol. LV, No. 84 (1897), 18. Hereafter cited as Leaflets.
10 November 5, 1859.
11 Villard, p. 545.
12 Ibid., p. 544.
13 Brown to family, November 9, 1959, in Leaflets, pp. 21-22.
14 Quoted in C. Vann Woodward, "John Brown's Private War," America in Crisis, edited by Daniel Aaron (New York, 1952) p. 115.
15 R. W. Emerson, Journals, 1820-1876 (Boston, 1904-1919), IX, 258.
16 Sanford, Life and Letters, p. 609.
17 November 19, 1859, p. 742.
18 Henry David Thoreau, A Yankee in Canada, with Anti-Slavery and Reform Papers (Boston, 1881), p. 167.
19 Broadside dated November 4, 1859, in Executive Papers of Governor A. Wise, Virginia State Library, Richmond.
20 New York Herald, November 11, 1859.
21 Tappan to Wise, November 6, 1859, Wise Papers, Richmond.
22 George Lumsden to Wise, November 12, 1859, Wise Papers.
23 Dated Nov. 12, 1859. Marked "forgery." Wise Papers.
24 Anon, Undated, Wise Papers.
25 Lee to wife, December 1, 1859, in R. E. Lee, Jr., Recollections, p. 22.
26 Brown to Rev. H. L. Vaill, November 15, 1859, in James Redpath, The Public Life of Captain John Brown (Boston, 1860), p. 355.
27 Brown to family, November 30, 1859, in Villard, Brown, p. 551.
28 Leaflets, p. 28.
29 S. K. Donovan, "John Brown at Harper's Ferry and Charlestown," Ohio Archaeological and Historical Publications, XXX (1931), 332.
30 Ibid.
31 Broadside, Wise Papers, Richmond.
32 Emerson, Journals, IX, 263.
33 "Hymn Sung at Concord, December 2, 1859," Printed copy among Wise Papers, Richmond.
34 Justice Morgan to Wise, December 2, 1859, Wise Papers.
35 Lee to wife, December 1, 1859, in R. E. Lee, Jr., Recollections, p. 22.
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Suspect in Danvers teacher slaying due in court
Philip Chism charged with murder of Colleen Ritzer
A teenager charged with killing his teacher is due in court this week on charges stemming from an assault on a Department of Youth Services worker.
Philip Chism, of Danvers, is scheduled to be arraigned Wednesday in Suffolk County Juvenile Court.
The 15-year-old Chism is charged with murder in the killing of his math teacher, 24-year-old Colleen Ritzer, in October.
He was indicted last month for allegedly assaulting a 29-year-old female staff member at the Metro Youth Services facility in Boston, where he was being held while awaiting trial in Ritzer's death. Chism is charged with attempted murder by strangulation, assault with intent to murder, kidnapping and two counts of assault and battery with a dangerous weapon.
Prosecutors say Chism followed the woman into a bathroom and physically assaulted her.


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Four TetUK
One of the most eclectic minds in electronic music today, Four Tet (aka Kieran Hebden) is one of those rare artists whose records and outlook grows more interesting with age. The core of his ever-expanding horizons, one could argue, is two-fold. On the one hand, a deep appreciation for the obscure ends of free jazz and early electronic outposts has led to a musicologist's purview of how musical styles evolve. On the other hand, Hebden keeps a very close ear to the ground with what's going on right now, highlighting and promoting numerous younger acts through his remix work and journeylike DJ sets. Getting his start in the mid-90s as part of post-rock trio Fridge, Hebden released a flurry of albums with the band before releasing his solo debut as Four Tet in 1999. Since then, his work has grown increasingly more surprising and unpredictable. His first major critical success came with 2003's Rounds, and after 2005's Everything Ecstatic, he began to make his free-jazz interests more overt, with a series of collaborative albums with cult-legend drummer Steve Reid. 2010's There Is Love in You proved to be a high watermark for a producer who already had a wealth of accomplishments to his name, firmly establishing Four Tet as creative force in both the indie-rock and electronic realms.


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Case-Mate's credit card iPhone case, which is actually only half of a case, since it mostly protects the back of the phone, but allows you to carry up to two credit cards with you simultaneously.
The Price: $30
The Verdict: It does what it claims, which is hold two of your credit cards/ID cards simultaneously, but it's a pretty snug fit. The slight bending or bowing that your cards go through to fit into the slot shouldn't be enough to break it, but the two will scrape against each other because the space is so small. Which is good and bad.
On the one hand it's good, since it means your cards won't fly out of the slot when you're whipping out your phone. But it's also bad, since you'll have some slight difficulty in pushing out your cards. But it's not unusable, and it's not anything you can't overlook if your whole reason for getting this is that you don't want to carry a wallet on you.
Our only complaint would be that there's only room for two cards, and very little room for cash. Technically you're not supposed to even put cash into the slot, but if you fold up a couple bills, it'll still squeeze into the limited amount of space given.
Those of you who carry money clips will be familiar with only having your ID, one or two credit cards and some cash in your pocket. With this, you'll cut down the need to even have a money clip in addition to your phone, the convenience of which is probably worth $30 to you.
It does what it claims and holds two cards snugly
Slightly hard to remove the cards once they're inside
Not a lot of room for cash


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For today's IT and security leaders, all-encompassing endpoint management is a strategic imperative. IT teams are responsible for managing and securing a wide variety of device types and platform versions in an ever-evolving endpoint technology landscape that includes:
- Legacy platforms that are being phased out—in particular, Windows 7 reaching EOL in January 2020.
- Innovative Windows 10 and macOS devices that blur the lines between laptops and tablets.
- New technologies—most notably the Internet of Things (IoT) and wearables—that create security risks that demand intelligent and comprehensive management solutions.
Traditional mobile device management (MDM) and enterprise mobility management (EMM) approaches are not fit for the challenge of keeping everything protected—and keeping organizations in compliance with industry standards and global regulations. The world is much different now:
- Cybersecurity threats are becoming more sophisticated, and hackers increasingly view endpoints as vulnerable targets.
- Sensitive corporate and client data is making its way into more places.
- The regulatory climate is becoming more stringent, as evidenced by the adoption of General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) in Europe as of May 25, 2018.
What the modern enterprise needs is a tool that is capable of providing centralized visibility, control, and security for all endpoints, users, applications, content, and data. This next-generation solution is known as unified endpoint management (UEM). This new approach changes the dynamics of how IT teams secure and manage their modern endpoint environments.
Why UEM, why now?
It's no surprise that savvy IT teams are turning to UEM as an upgrade over and replacement for legacy MDM/EMM solutions. A modern UEM approach uses a combination of MDM APIs and agent-based technology to consolidate all endpoint security and management tasks.
This blend of techniques enables administrators to set and enforce security policies, enable over-the-air (OTA) enrollment, consistently apply patches and updates, and simplify migrations to new platforms and OS versions.
What to look for in your UEM
A UEM solution that is capable of responding to modern day use cases for endpoints and mobile devices should:
- Deliver a single console to manage and secure all endpoints, including smartphones, tablets, laptops, desktops, ruggedized devices, wearables and IoT.
- Support every platform and OS version, including iOS, macOS, Android, Chrome OS and Windows 10, as well as legacy platforms such as Windows XP, Windows Vista and Windows 7.
- Centrally apply and enforce policies, including the ability to lock down devices, wipe them if they are compromised and ensure they are being used in accordance with corporate policies.
- Use AI and cognitive technology to reduce security risks, drive productivity gains for IT teams, enhance the user experience and make device lifecycle management simpler, safer and smarter.
- Scale with a cloud-native model that speeds deployments, supports an Opex pricing model, reduces management overhead, and keeps security protections updated and current.
A UEM built for the future
With Watson, MaaS360 has taken a cognitive approach to UEM that enables IT to:
- Consolidate management and security of all devices, users, apps, content and data.
- Discover, understand, prioritize, and respond to risks and opportunities.
- Make sense of their endpoint and mobile environment in the context of external factors.
MaaS360 offers features that are designed to meet today's most pressing endpoint management and security challenges, including:
- A user-friendly, secure, encrypted passcode-protected container to prevent data leakage and enhance protection of data, applications, documents and web content.
- Access to AI/cognitive insights, contextual analytics and emerging threats—all from structured and unstructured data sources.
- A comprehensive, centrally managed platform that saves time, reduces security and compliance risk, improves the end-user experience and boosts mobile productivity.
Making moves to a better endpoint management approach
When it comes to managing endpoints, there's a new game in town. UEM offers a modern approach to achieve best practices in managing and securing today's ever-changing endpoint environment.
Using MaaS360, organizations can consolidate management of all their endpoints in one place—leveraging AI and cognitive capabilities to simplify tasks for IT teams and deliver a great experience for users.
Delivered through the cloud, MaaS360 is free to try for 30 days. With full production access, administrators can easily enroll devices and familiarize themselves with all of the features and functionality that the industry-leading cognitive UEM has to offer. Try it today and experience the difference by visiting IBM.com/MaaS360.


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Fans are invited to pre-event festivities for the next major UFC event, UFC on FOX 5.
The network-televised event takes place Dec. 8 at Seattle's KeyArena.
Fans are invited to the traditional pre-event open workouts, press conference and weigh-ins throughout fight week. All of the events are free.
UFC on FOX 5 features a lightweight title fight between titleholder Benson Henderson (17-2 MMA, 5-0 UFC) and challenger Nate Diaz (16-7 MMA, 11-5 UFC). Additionally, light heavyweights Mauricio "Shogun" Rua (21-6 MMA, 5-4 UFC) and Alexander Gustafsson (14-1 MMA, 6-1 UFC) meet in the co-headliner and a title eliminator.
Open workouts take place Wednesday, Dec. 5, beginning at 3 p.m. ET (noon PT local time) at Grand Hyatt Seattle's Menzies Ballroom. In addition to the co-headliners, main-card fighters B.J. Penn, Rory MacDonald, Mike Swick and Matt Brown are taking part in the fan and media event.
On Thursday, Dec. 6, beginning at noon PT, the pre-event press conference kicks off at KeyArena's Seattle Center Pavilion. All the main-card fighters are scheduled to attend.
Then, on Friday, Dec. 7, at 4 p.m. PT, the fighters hit the scale for the official weigh-ins at KeyArena. Doors open to the public at 3 p.m. PT, though UFC Fight Club members are treated to a fighter Q&A (fighter TBA) beginning at 2 p.m. PT.
The full UFC on FOX 5 card includes:
MAIN CARD (FOX, 8 p.m. ET)
- Champ Benson Henderson vs. Nate Diaz (for lightweight title)
- Alexander Gustafsson vs. Mauricio "Shogun" Rua
- Rory MacDonald vs. B.J. Penn
- Matt Brown vs. Mike Swick
- Lavar Johnson vs. Brendan Schaub
- Mike Chiesa vs. Marcus LeVesseur
- Nam Phan vs. Dennis Siver
- Raphael Assuncao vs. Mike Easton
- Ramsey Nijem vs. Joe Proctor
- Yves Edwards vs. TBA
- Daron Cruickshank vs. Henry Martinez
- John Albert vs. Scott Jorgensen
- Tim Means vs. Abel Trujillo
For more on UFC on FOX 5, stay tuned to the UFC Rumors section of the site.
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Education, for us, has three parts/benefits to it. These are good learning habits, sustainable learning, and ultimately, success in life. Each of these three aspects has a number of criteria which must be met.
Basic learning habits:
1. learning is forever. It does not stop once a child leaves the classroom, nor in adulthood. Children should be encouraged to follow their curiosities at all times. Anything they wonder during the day should be looked up when time permits to encourage the habit of wanting to know and finding answers.
2. learning should be self-motivated whenever possible in order for it to be sustainable into adulthood. A growing child should be weaned off excessive external rewards so that they have the space needed to learn to provide their own intrinsic rewards and enjoyment.
3. Children should make a permanent habit of checking their work. After every worksheet, every essay, every project, a child should automatically check over the work (not just by re-reading) before considering it finished or ready for assessment. Few things are perfect the first time, and by always checking, the quality will rise perceptively.
4. Higher level thinking (creativity, evaluation, etc.) on any topic cannot truly be done unless children first understand what the topic is. This requires them to have a certain base level of knowledge on that topic. Thus, it is usually appropriate for children to spend a brief spell memorizing or exploring a topic before other forms of learning take place.
Parents cannot always be around to help children learn things. They need to ensure that their children can learn independently. This sustainable learning requires:
1. Children should want to learn. Their natural curiosities must be nurtured so they spend a certain amount of their day learning about any new ideas they come across.
2. Children should have enough general knowledge to understand where to look for information on a new topic.
3. Children should be able to research and learn about a new topic by themselves.
We learn for many reasons. At least one of these should be to enable us to live the best life we can. The criteria for success in life are thus:
1. Children should have enough general knowledge about the world to be able to quickly evaluate whether or not they are being misled (by advertising, by biased media, by colleagues, etc.) (maths, science, history/geography)
2. Children should be able to express themselves in a convincing and understandable manner so as to explain things to others, dispelling confusion or unfounded knowledge. (English/rhetoric)
3. Children should be able to recognise when they are wrong and be able to adjust their views when they find that their understanding clashes with reality.
4. Children should know the limits of their own knowledge.
If all these points are met, a child should have a foundation of good learning habits upon which to grow into an intelligent and curious independent learner. They will avoid many traps in life and overcome the widespread problem of unclear communication. This child will be successful in whatever avenue he or she chooses in life.
I'm interested in any thoughts people might have on this. I've kept it as general as possible, since all children are different, but this is basically our philosophy of learning. If we do not meet any of these points then we know that more work or a different approach is needed. What do people think about this?
Our (rigorous!) learning philosophy. Any thoughts?
Discuss unschooling, eclectic, the unit study approach, or any other "unusual" homeschooling method.
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I love and agree with all the points you made. Your philosophy on learning seems to match Art Robinson's philosophy (http://www.robinsoncurriculum.com/).
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Two months after the launch of the Wii U, Allyoucangeek gives the impressions of the system with five good things and five bad things about the system
Bad: the name means that every website tries to make a bad pun with it
Yeah, it'll probably take a year or so until it just stops happening. The day the original Wii's name was revealed was jokes and puns galore.
Wii games look much worse on the Wii U which is disappointing get your eyes checked writer of the article.
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OK, you yoga fans...just in case you sometimes find yourself taking yourself and your yoga practice a little too seriously, here is the site that can cure that. I give you yogabeans!
This adorable site is the work of a blogger who shall not be named, but goes by the moniker Elastigirl.
She takes her child's plastic action figures and puts them through their yoga paces. Not only that, she writes scripts for the figures, playful, imaginative dialogues that are, frankly, kinda hard to explain. No, this is definitely one of thsoe sites you have to see for yourself to truly appreciate. So check it out!


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Cret, Paul Philippe (1876–1945)
Paul Philippe Cret, architect, was born in Lyons, France, on October 23, 1876, the son of Paul Adolphe and Anna Caroline (Durand) Cret. He attended a lycée in Bourg and studied architecture at the École des Beaux Arts in Lyons and the École des Beaux Arts, Paris, where he graduated in 1903. At the Paris school he was awarded the Rougevin Prize and the Grand Medal of Emulation, both in recognition of his remarkable skill as a draftsman. In 1903 he was invited to teach architecture at the University of Pennsylvania, where he remained until his retirement in 1937.
During his long tenure at Penn, Cret was recognized as one of the foremost practitioners of the "Beaux-Arts" style, and his work left a lasting impact on the built environment of the United States, forming a bridge between the end of Beaux-Arts historicism and the rise of modernism. Cret's early buildings-among them the Pan American Union Building in Washington (1907–10), the Indianapolis Public Library (1917), and the Detroit Institute of Arts (1927)-evinced a refined classicism that represented the best traditions of the Beaux-Arts style. By the late 1920s, however, he began to experiment with a new, radically stripped-down classicism, exemplified by his Folger Shakespeare Library (1930–37) in Washington, that was more attuned to the growing modern movement.
In 1930 the regents of the University of Texas hired Cret as the university's supervising architect and commissioned him to draw up a general development plan for the campus. Cret's scheme, which he formally submitted in 1933, was based on general Beaux-Arts principles of balance, axial arrangements, and symmetry. It called for four "principal aspects" or malls extending in the four cardinal directions from the main building, which would serve as an ordering concept for the buildings and monuments of the campus. In front of the main building and tower was a great courtyard framed on the west by Cass Gilbert's library, and on the east by Herbert M. Greene's Garrison Hall. A main north-south axis was formed by Littlefield Fountain, the tower, and the Home Economics Building; and a primary east-west axis featured the Union and Architecture buildings, the pavilions of the main building, and a proposed open-air theater. The remainder of the campus was subdivided into "secondary" areas, with the buildings generally arranged around large courtyards.
Cret argued that the malls and the other main features of the plan should not be altered. But he recognized the importance of introducing a plan that was flexible enough to meet the changing demands of the university, and he proposed what art historian Carol McMichael has called an "elastic formal plan" that allowed for variety in placement and design of individual buildings, as well as a certain amount of freedom for future development. The combination of formal, axial planning and informal, casual arrangements was in many respects unique in the design of American college campuses and has been widely admired. Since the 1930s the university campus has grown well beyond the confines of the area in Cret's development plan, and subsequent architects have ignored the spirit of his scheme, but the central part of the campus still bears the unmistakable imprint of Cret's work.
In 1931 the board of regents also commissioned Cret to design a new library on the site of Frederick E. Ruffini's Old Main Building. Cret proposed several different designs, but the regents eventually opted for a large axially planned building in a Mediterranean-influenced Beaux-Arts style topped by a thirty-one-story tower. The great tower, the only structure at the time that competed with the dome of the state Capitol on the Austin skyline, became the centerpiece of the university's campus, and formed, in Cret's words, "the image carried in our memory when we think of the place."
Between 1930 and the early 1940s Cret, working in association with the firm of Greene, LaRoche, and Dahl and Robert Leon White, designed eighteen additional buildings for the campus. These included the Home Economics Building (now Mary Gearing Hall), the Texas Union Building, the Architecture Building (now Goldsmith Hall), and an auditorium (now Hogg Auditorium). Most of the buildings, like the tower, were characterized by a Mediterranean revival style. Only the Texas Memorial Museum, designed in association with John F. Staub, embraced the stripped-down classicism Cret had first employed in the Folger Shakespeare Library along with curving forms of the Moderne.
In addition to his work for the University of Texas, Cret designed the United States Courthouse (1933) in Fort Worth, built in association with Wiley G. Clarkson. In 1937 ill health forced Cret to resign from the University of Pennsylvania. His last important work was the Federal Reserve Bank (1935–37) in Philadelphia. He died of a heart ailment in Philadelphia on September 8, 1945.


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When my pal Kathy came over to meet Baby Whipped, she brought an enormous offering of food. Being the baking goddess behind the blog Stresscake, it is no surprise that her bag of goodies was one creative surprise after another. She brought two potpies along with two, small ramekin sized pot pies for Mini Whipped. Also tucked in her bag of tricks was a ziplock full of chicken steam buns for the freezer, which have proved to be perfect snacks and quick lunches. And finally, the sign that shows me that she is truly my kind of gal… a bag of frozen cookie dough – dark brown, nearly black little spheres of double chocolate cookie dough, just waiting to be whisked into my toaster oven in those moments of need.
(Confession time: I just stopped writing this post to go to my freezer and eat a ball of cookie dough… I have a problem.)
I have never tasted anything that Kathy had her hands on that was short of delicious. I am trying to stop begging/harassing her into opening her own bakery. I suppose that just because I want her to have a bakery doesn't mean she should be waking up at wee hours to work the ovens and spread her taste treats far and wide. I mean, MAYBE she shouldn't change her entire life so I can have her sweets at my beckon call whenever I need them. For now, I'll just try to be happy that her double chocolate cookies are an arm's reach away in my freezer drawer.
Kathy instructed me to sprinkle sea salt atop each little beauty before baking. I have determined that it is indeed these few crystals of salt that take these cookies from delicious to fabulously perfect. There is something about salt against chocolate that amplifies the flavor of the chocolate to an ultra addicting level. These cookies are rich so I suggest you make them bite-sized. They are an amazing compliment to a strong cup of coffee and provide just the satisfaction your sweet tooth needs after a meal.
Don't skimp on the good chocolate. Make sure to search out some quality ingredients. And, use coarse sea salt, not table salt. Good luck… I'm off to eat another frozen ball of dough. Ugh
Double chocolate cookies
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Makes about 3 dozen
1 cup unbleached all-purpose flour
1/2 cup Dutch-process cocoa powder
1/2teaspoon baking soda
1/2 teaspoon kosher salt
1/4 pound 60%+ bittersweet chocolate, finely chopped (4 ounces)
1/4 pound 60%+ bittersweet chocolate, roughly chopped into ¼" chunks or chips (4 ounces)
1/2 cup unsalted butter (4 ounces/1 stick)
1-1/2 cups sugar
2 large eggs
1 teaspoon pure vanilla extract (or chocolate extract if you have it)
1/2 teaspoon large flake sea salt
Preheat oven to 325 degrees F and line 2-3 sheet pans with parchment paper or silicone baking mats.
Melt the first 1/4 pound of finely chopped chocolate with the butter. You have two options: Double boiler method: in a heatproof bowl over simmering water, stirring until fully melted. Microwave method: in a microwave safe bowl, 45 second bursts at 50% power, stirring between bursts until fully melted. (My preference.)
Let the chocolate cool slightly while you sift together the flour, cocoa powder, baking soda, and salt in a medium bowl. Set aside.
Transfer the melted chocolate to the bowl of a standing mixer fitted with the paddle attachment and on medium, add the sugar, eggs, and vanilla and mix until combined.
Reduce speed to low; gradually mix in flour/cocoa mixture.
Add the chocolate chunks/chips and stir on low until just combined. Note: the dough can be frozen up to two months at this point. Easiest is to shape it into balls, freeze on a sheet plan then transfer to a Ziploc once frozen. Or shape into logs, wrap tightly in plastic then slice-n-bake. Frozen dough's can go right from the freezer to the oven, just add a few minutes to the baking time.
With a small ice cream scoop (1-inch) or a teaspoon, scoop Tablespoon size balls of dough and space cookies 2 inches apart on prepared sheet pans. Note: I refrigerated the dough overnight, which made it very firm and rather difficult to scoop. As shown in the pictures here, I flattened each dough ball so the cookies would bake more evenly. If you use room temp dough, you don't have to do the flattening part as they will spread nicely in the oven.
Sprinkle a small pinch of sea salt on top of each cookie.
Bake 12 minutes, rotating sheets halfway through baking – top to bottom and front to back. The cookies will be quite soft coming out of the oven – once cool, they should be crisp on the outside but still soft on the inside. Adjust baking time if necessary.
Let cool on pans then carefully remove and place on serving tray.
Cookies will keep for a few days, tightly wrapped.
Caroline Lubbers blogs at Whipped, The Blog.
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Do we pause to take note of Top Gear's Jeremy Clarkson calling Detroit a city full of "murder" and "terror"? Yes, yes we do. But do we get angry, upset or lash out? No, we have something better.
In his latest column for TopGear.com, Clarkson goes on at some length about how golf carts and cars without doors would make for more civil drivers, an interesting idea in a country as rainy as England. But before cracking that nut, he notes that restrictions on cars in city centers, like London's congestion charge, only push people outwards:
So soon everyone will move out to the suburbs, where the car is allowed and you end up with a doughnut. A ring of wholesome goodness surrounding the square root of nothing at all. You end up with Detroit. Drugs, violence, murder, terror. The end of days.
Now we know Clarkson is a fan of certain things from Detroit. Back in 1995, he even hit the town with his favorite rock and roll singer Bob Seger for his old "Motorworld" show, seen here checking out the drag race scene on Telegraph in his best Jay Leno costume. Obviously his words have some truth; Detroit has suffered from an exodus that we were criticized for noting — which subsequently turned out to be growing faster than expected.
But still: Detroit is much more than the square root of nothing, and it's a city worth rooting for. So: Every time Jezza pokes at Detroit, we'll rerun his starring role in this 1993 music video for Mr. Blobby's theme song, a British children's character whose tune was voted the most annoying Christmas song in the history of music by British listeners. Everybody has a past they're trying to put behind them.


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What is your magic number? How much is enough to retire? A million dollars? Two million?
As people settle into their early 40s and begin to look out over the horizon of their lives, the closest and most obvious thing they see is their own parents, who typically are just starting their retirement years.
And so a middle-aged couple begins to wonder: How much is enough to retire?
CNBC recently covered the question of how much is enough to retire from an international perspective. The answer, expressed as income in U.S. dollars, ranged from $85,781 (Germany, which has a strong social safety net) to $276,150 (Dubai, which clearly does not) and every number between.
Among 13 countries, the average was $161,000, according to Skandia International's Wealth Sentiment Monitor. It also hinged on an exceedingly loaded question, namely, "How much income to you need to be happy?" (Americans were not surveyed by Skandia.)
Let's make an assumption: That all of these numbers are really equal.
After all, how much is enough to retire depends a lot on your cost of living. In a major metropolitan city in Europe, you might have access to significant collective resources that reduce your need for income, at least compared to a developing capital with limited healthcare and housing options. Food might be more or less expensive, or energy. It's hard to say.
For now, let's accept the international average as reasonable and apply that to our fictional American middle-age savers. To generate that kind of income, the "happiness assured" level, what might be a good target for your portfolio?
Try about $2.8 million.
There's a bunch of assumptions behind this result. Our couple is about 45. They have saved some and are sitting on a starting balance in tax-deferred accounts of $250,000. Their target is to quit work at 65, assuming they aren't downsized or fall ill.
Their rate of return is 7% before retirement on $35,000 in retirement contributions per year, and their saving level increases with inflation. It is presumed that they will spend 30 years in retirement.
So, they make it, right? Not really.
Inflation is the killer. Their nominal (dollar) income is $13,723 a month, but the spending power of that money gets zapped over two decades. It will be worth about half, just $7,598 a month. That comes to $91,176 per year in real dollars, far below the "happiness" target.
In a nutshell, inflation explains the Sunbelt. It's not just about warmer climes and country living. Retirees often simply have to find cheaper places to live. States like Florida fill up with older folks in part because of good weather — but zero state income tax, real estate exemptions and other tax breaks are a big draw, too.
People who otherwise diligently save for retirement often make the fundamental error of ignoring inflation. So what would it really take to get to $161,000 and be as happy, at least on paper, as our average citizen of the fictional land between Germany and Dubai?
One way, all else being equal, would be to kick your savings goals up to $75,000 a year, targeting $5.1 million. Another would be to earn a 10% return on your investments while saving $45,000 a year.
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Upon entering the restaurant, staff members enthusiastically greet diners, yelling out "Irasshai!" This warm Japanese welcome was the beginning of the flavorful journey that we were about to embark on. We began the evening with some traditional starters, including edamame, as well as a unique offshoot of the well-known favorite, edamame hummus, served with vegetable wonton chips. The edamame were warm, crisp and salty — just the way I like them. The hummus was also a hit, complemented by the flavor-packed chips. The standout from the appetizers was definitely the Kobe beef skewers. The tender, moist beef was offset by a punch of spice that woke up the taste buds.
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