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Smith, Amanda
Saturday, September 4th. We go around to see something of Paris. My! the wonders; not strange, perhaps, to others, but to me; the statuary, and parks, and buildings were lovely to behold.
Sunday, 5th. A beautiful, bright morning. My heart was full of praise as I woke and looked out upon the beauty. But how sad I was in a little while as I saw the buildings going up, men hauling stones, laundries open, everything just like Saturday. Others were going to church.
"Oh," I said, "is this fashionable, wicked Paris, to which the eyes of the Christian world are turned for their first fashions and imitations?" And as I thought of it I felt sad. At church time we attended the Wesleyan Church. It was communion Sunday. The minister preached a grand sermon from the words: "Christ gave himself."
Monday, 6th. We go sight-seeing again. One of the places which interested me a great deal was the porcelain works. There I saw where this beautiful china is made. And as the man turned the different articles that he wished to make, from the finest little cup to the largest vase, I thought what complete power the potter had over the clay. There was no dictating from the clay. The potter had full control. At one time he would take a piece of the clay and make one kind of an article; then he would turn the same piece of clay into another kind of an article; sometimes a beautiful pitcher, then a mug, then a basin, and in all shapes whatsoever he willed he made the clay. And then he showed us some with the most exquisite flowering on them that were to be put in the furnace at a certain time, and the fire would bring out all the fine pretty marks and colors.
As I stood and heard his explanation, my heart caught fire; and I thought how much that is like the blessed Master. Sometimes what brings out the beautiful character is the furnace. And I said, "Oh, Lord, help me to be in Thy hands as this clay is in the potter's hands; and even when the furnace comes, to submit, and not dictate."
"Pains, furnace, heat, within me quiver;
God's breath upon the flame doth blow;
And all my heart within me quivers,
And trembles at the fiery glow.
Yet I say trust Him as God wills,
And in His hottest fire hold still."
In one of the avenues not far from this place (I'm sorry I can't remember the name), a very wide avenue, with beautiful trees on either side, almost making an arch, there were long rows of gypsy wagons, with everything to sell; a kind of fair--"Vanity Fair." The minute I saw this it brought to my mind a dream that I had had twenty-three years before. Oh, how marvelous! Everything was almost just as I had dreamed it, twenty-three years before!
We leave Paris at two o'clock in the afternoon, and travel all night.
Tuesday, September 7th. Reach Turin to-night at eight-thirty.
Wednesday, 8th. Leave this morning for Florence. Reach there at nine at night. Spend the next day sight-seeing. As we traveled by what is called Cooke's coupon system, which is very convenient, and gives you every information of places of interest, etc., and as Miss Drake had all that part of the arrangement to attend to, I did not even as much as note the names of the hotels where we stopped in my diary, only, perhaps, once, though I was familiar with all the names and places at the time.
We had a guide given us. We first visited the great Uffizi gallery, with its wonderful collection of works of art, such as I had never seen before, and never shall again. Here was the first time I ever remember hearing the name of the great painter, Michael Angelo.
There was so much that was beautiful, that I could take in but a very little of the whole. I was wonderfully struck with the bust and head of Nero when a boy of ten or fourteen. His countenance
The next place we went to was the National Museum and gallery of fine arts. Here again was pointed out to us the bust of the great sculptor and painter, Michael Angelo, who is held in loving, if not sacred remembrance. It was he who furnished the model for the great dome of St. Peter's of Rome. All this was new to me, and some things I had heard of by the hearing of the ear. But could it be that I, Amanda Smith, was really living, and at Florence, Italy? Many times while they were talking, and the man would be explaining things, I was lost in wonder, love and praise at the Lord's dealings in giving me the privilege to enjoy so much that I never expected could come to one like me. Surely it is His doings, and very marvelous.
Our next visit was to the Baptistry of St. John's. There were those beautiful bronze gates. How magnificent! I can almost see them now as I think it all over. Just as we got there a priest was about to perform the ceremony of baptism to two lovely babies. Two carriages drove up. In the first were the father and mother, with the baby, and the priest. In the second was the party with the other baby. They were exquisitely dressed. I thought I never saw such lovely looking babies in my life. I would like to have just taken them up in my arms and kissed them. They looked more like angels than children. They didn't seem to offer any objections to us looking on. When it was over I saw the fathers pay the priest quite a sum in gold. My heart was sad for the little things, after all; for I thought they will live and die without the true light and knowledge of the glorious Gospel of the Son of God.
Thursday, September 9th. We leave this morning for Rome. Arrive about five P. M. How accommodating and courteous they are at the hotel. We got on splendidly. Here in this great old historic city there is much to admire, and much to be sad for. Poverty and wealth seem to rival each other. I think I got some little idea what it meant for a country to be priest ridden. Everywhere you go up and down, every few stations on the railroad, every train you get off of, or on, priests; all through the streets, in every turn you make, you see a priest coming or going; or two or three or four; scattered in every direction, priests. I never saw so many priests and monks in my life. Old men, with gray hair,
You could see these men, in any numbers, walking about. Sometimes you would see them leading a donkey, with a load of grass, which they had gathered, and were bringing into town to sell. They generally visited the hotels, with a little bunch of parsley, and an onion, and a carrot, to sell as pot herbs. How I pitied them when I first saw them. I gave them some pennies. Of course, I didn't take the pot herbs; I didn't need them. But I soon found out that that was their business. I never saw one look clean. Oh, how horrible!
And these are the men they call holy, because they give up the world, and practice such rigid self-denial. How glad I am that God nowhere teaches that men have to go into filth and indolence in order to be holy. But He does say: "Cleanse yourself from all filthiness of the flesh and spirit and perfect holiness in the fear of the Lord." This is always the way when men change the truth of God for a lie, and begin to worship and adore the creature more than the Creator.
Sunday, 12th. Miss Drake was tired, so she did not go out to church in the morning. But I wanted to have it to say that I had been to church in Rome. So I started off alone to the nearest English church. The schedule of the principal hotels and churches hangs in the office; so I had no difficulty in finding it. So I went.
I found it was a High Church, almost Roman Catholic. They had candles, and choir boys, and they turned toward the east and bowed, and the atmosphere seemed like a vault. All this was new to me, for I had never been in a Protestant High Church before. How unsatisfying all this to one who knows Christ. For Him there is no substitute.
Monday, 1st. A grand day sightseeing. We had our carriage and our guide. What I was most anxious to see was St. Peter's.
A little to the right to the main entrance was a statue of St. Peter, in bronze, life size. I had heard that it had been visited by thousands of people, and that the great toe on the right foot had been kissed till it had been worn quite smooth. I went up and examined it, and found its smoothness really a fact; but whether the result of constant kissing, or whether from some other cause, I cannot say. I had no inclination whatever to kiss the toe; but I laid my right hand on it, and it felt cold. I said to myself, as I saw many come in and stand before it, and cross themselves and pray, "That is all they get in return for their long pilgrimages, and their prayers and tears." How sad! How glad I am that the lines have fallen to me in a more pleasant place, and I have a goodly heritage. Praise the Lord!
The next visit was to the Vatican and we walked through the great corridors, and admired the statuary and paintings, and my head ached with seeing so much. As we were passing down through a beautiful walk we heard some one shout out to us in a language we did not understand; but they motioned to us to get out of the way, and we stepped aside, and there came the Pope in his sedan chair, with his body guard of seven or eight men, returning from his morning outing; some were walking in front of him, some by his side, and others behind. And I thought to myself, "It was only a few years since that I heard the infallibility of the Pope was declared." And I thought if infallibility had to be guarded like that, what would be my safety in trusting in it. No. My faith is in the infallibility of God only.
The next was the Coliseum, with its ruined walls. As the man went on telling us the great stories, and pointing out things of interest and explaining, I sometimes wondered if all he said was real fact, in every instance. But no one questions the veracity of the guides when one is sight-seeing. They are supposed to know everything you ask them, of course.
He told us of the great arena where the Christians were thrown in and devoured by the starved lions, while thousands of spectators
Then the Appian Way was pointed out to us, and the guide said, "That is the very road on which they brought Paul from the prison to the court." There was the very floor, inlaid in marble, like a pavement, on which he said Paul stood before Nero.
The next was the Catacombs. We went down about six feet under ground, and entered a little narrow passage, and then he lighted tapers and gave each of us one. Then we entered a very large room; and on the clear, solid wall were beautifully painted a pulpit and altar, and nearly all the ritual of an English church service. The colors were as perfect as if it had been done but a little while; and yet it was more than two hundred years old. There were shelves, or niches, cut out in the rock, where their dead were laid; then these were closed up by masonry. A number of the bodies had been taken out by friends, and these spaces were open; but some remained still closed up. They had to go in and out by these subterranean passages, quietly. How much they must have suffered for His name in those dark days of persecution. As I thought it all over, I said, "Oh, will history repeat itself? May God in mercy deliver us."
I was foolish enough to start off in a different direction from the others, alone; though the guide had said to me when we first went in, "Now keep close to me;" but, as he stood explaining and talking to Miss Drake, I turned into, as I thought, another room. But the turns were very intricate to one who does not know. It all seemed to me as the same hallway. But when I found myself I was out of the hearing of the others altogether. I kept turning, but didn't seem to come near them. Then I began to get frightened. Then I thought I would stand right still; and so I did, and prayed the Lord to help me. In a little while they came, looking for me.
The guide said I did quite right to stop, for then they came and found me. If I had gone on turning they might have missed me entirely.
My! I shudder as I think of it. But he never had to tell me to keep close after that. What a lesson I learned. I shall never
Wednesday, September 15th. We leave Rome to-day for Naples. The little prayer I breathed just as we were starting, was, "Oh, God, for Christ's sake, send upon Rome the mighty power of the Holy Ghost. Let the people be awakened."
We reached Naples at about half past five or six o'clock P. M. The hotel where we stopped was very fine. We preferred stopping at a hotel where English was mostly spoken, as neither Miss Drake nor I were familiar with the French language. We noticed the city abounded with churches; and, on our way up from the station in the 'bus, as we passed several, the doors being open, as is usual, we could see persons in the confession boxes; some would be coming out, and others going in; and so many poor people seemed to be going hither and yon; and monks coming and going, as we saw at Rome. After we had our supper, as we were very weary, we soon retired.
Thursday, 16th. Up early this morning, feeling quite refreshed from our journey. As we had but a day to spend, we thought we would do some sight-seeing; so we got a carriage and a guide, and drove to some of the principal points of interest. The most interesting, to me, was the great museum, which is quite elevated, and off in the distance we could see Mt. Vesuvius quite distinctly. One could see it very plainly on a clear day; but it shows very much better on a clear night. It looks like a great burning furnace in the distance. Then we went through the museum, and there we saw Pompeii in statuary, as it was, and as it is, in ruins.
I had heard of excavations from Pompeii, and had read some little about them, but now I stood by them. Many of the things which were explained to us have gone from my memory since then, but some are very distinct. I remember one figure showed a baker; there he stood by the oven, seemingly just in the act of putting in bread; there was the table, with the bread and pans, all perfect. Another was a person lying on a sofa, asleep. There were policemen standing at the gates going into the city, all perfect. All this seemed to me so wonderful; and when the man was explaining all these things to us, sometimes it would thrill through me with sadness.
Naples is situated at the head of the bay of the same name. The bay is beautifully shaped, something like a horseshoe. Round about is quite mountainous; so at certain points as you ascend these mountains, when you get to the top, you can look off in the distance, and around, and see all the great city below and about you. I thought it was very beautiful; and I kept the great Mt. Vesuvius in my mind and thought for days together. When they told me of the red hot lava which this historic mount belched up and sent rolling down its sides, I wondered how it was that the people seemed to be in such peace and quietness as they were. There were houses very near the base of the mountain as we looked off, with patches of green that had been tilled for gardens, or what not.
No one seemed to be annoyed or thoughtful about it; and I thought how easy it is for us to get used to horrors and sadness.
After we had gone about a great deal, we drove back to our hotel, had our lunch, and a little rest, and then took another short drive; but the clouds gathered, and a little misty rain came up, so we did not go very far. Then Miss Drake began to get a little uneasy to know when the steamer would leave for Alexandria, though they had told us they would send us word; but as we were out we went to see, and there I lost my beautiful umbrella. A lady in England had given me a sovereign, and said, "Mrs. Smith, you must get you a nice umbrella;" so while I was at Eastbourne I saw a very pretty umbrella, and I thought I must do as I was told, and I got it, though I didn't pay quite that amount for it.
After we had been to the office and made inquiries about the steamer, and were satisfied, we returned to the hotel. The rain had stopped, though it was not clear yet, so I set my umbrella down in the carriage beside me, and when I got out I never thought of it. The next day, just as we got on board the steamer to leave for Alexandria, I thought of my umbrella. I paid a man a dollar to go back for it. It was an hour or two before the steamer would leave. He was very polite and kind, and was surely going to bring it; but when he came back he said he could not find the man, but if I would give him another dollar he would go where he thought the man had gone! But I saw there was game in that arrangement, so I told him he needn't mind. Then he said he would send it to me, and I saw there was more game. I was very sorry to lose my nice umbrella, but it was so good that the Lord kept my heart very quiet.
Friday, Sept. 17th, 1879. We are on the steamer for Alexandria. They said if you made up your mind not to be seasick, you would not be seasick; and so I made up my mind, and my mind made up its mind that it would not hold still, and I was just as seasick as I could be.
Sunday, 19th. A lovely morning; so quiet. I am better, praise the Lord. They told us when we were leaving Paris that we must not touch water on the continent; that the water was very bad, and everybody drank wine. And on the steamer they drank wine like water; the children and all drank wine; I expected to see everybody drunk, and I had a little queer feeling come over me. I thought, "Dearie me, what a time we will have if these people get to rowing."
Ladies and gentlemen, children, fathers and mothers, all drank wine, but they didn't seem to get out of the way. When we sat at the table and chose water instead of wine, they looked at us in astonishment. Then I asked how it was they could all drink so much wine and not get drunk. They said it was light wine and would not intoxicate. And then I wondered if that was not the share so many got in; beginning with the innocent light wine, and ending up with that that is full of weights that hold them down, so that when they would rise they cannot.
Well, Miss Drake and I got through without touching either the light or the stronger wine, and we never had a moment's sickness, outside of the simple seasickness, with all of our fatigue and weariness, for sight-seeing is wearisome, especially when done in a rush, as we did it, and the like of which I never want to do again. Our steamer was due on the twenty-fourth, so we had no time to delay.
Monday, 20th. The morning is bright and pleasant. My morning thought is, "Oh, Christ, Thou art a reality; make me more like Thyself."
How balmy the air, and how bright the sunshine! So different from England. The passengers on board are very kind and polite. I think the French have the first rank among all the nations in this particular. As far as I have seen it seems to be natural to them, children and all. It is no effort to be polite and courteous. Even in Rome I noticed in the railway 'bus, where it was rather crowded, when I stepped in a beautiful little lad arose and, with a smile and tipping his hat, he pointed me to his seat.
Tuesday, 21st.
"Precious promise God hath given
To the weary passer by."
Praise the Lord! "My soul, wait thou on God. My expectation is from Him." We are nearing Alexandria, Egypt. The great old historic Egypt! Egypt that I have read of in the Bible! Can it be possible?
Ten A. M. Here we are in the bay. Praise the Lord. And who are these men coming off in the boats? There are four or five boats, all manned, each with six, eight, ten or twelve men--black men--my own race. I had been so long without seeing any of my own people that I felt like giving three cheers!
I never saw such scientific rowing in my life. They stood up instead of sitting down, but, Oh, how perfectly they bent to their oars. They had on little red skull caps, with black tassels on the top, and neat black alpaca coats. I presume they were Mohammedans, as they dressed just like the Mohammedans in India. Many of them were fine looking men, black as silk and straight as arrows, well developed, and independent as kings. They moved about and did the business intelligently, and with promptness and ease. They didn't know what it was to crouch to any man. I felt proud that I belonged to that race when I saw such nobility in ebony. Then I thought of the passage in the Old Testament history: "Princes shall come out of Egypt." Then I remembered it was the birthplace of Moses, and the hiding place of the infant Jesus from the cruelty of Herod, the king. And out of all the world round it pleased God to bestow this great honor on the black race, which ought to be held in everlasting remembrance. And I prefer being black, if for no other reason than to share this great honor with my race.
After a good night's rest we went to visit the great pyramids, which was a drive of, I think, about four miles out of the city of Alexandria. We made all our arrangements over night.
Next morning everything was prompt and we were called in time, and our breakfast was ready promptly at five, so that we had plenty of time, and at six we were off. I thought Alexandria--what we saw of it--was a beautiful city. Many of the houses were large and spacious, and there were large, fine hotels. I forget the name of the hotel where we stopped, and on what avenue it was, but it was a wide avenue through the center of the town. Just opposite this hotel was a much larger one; it covered almost a half block. There were large ice cream parlors below, and the awnings came out over the sidewalk. It was beautifully lighted and they had exquisite music, and English ladies and gentlemen were sitting out round the ice cream tables, and it really seemed more like England or America than Egypt. How sorry I was, when in Africa, to hear of the sacking and burning of Alexandria at the time of the great Afghan war.
We were told that there were some missionaries who had got pretty well established, and were doing good work. But, Oh, war is so destructive and demoralizing in its sweep. And probably all that had been gained at this time was lost again.
On our way to the pyramids our drive was over the same road that had been especially built for the Prince of Wales when he visited Alexandria a year or two before, and but for this royal visit our drive to the pyramids would have been very rough.
This was the first time I ever heard of, or saw, the eucalyptus tree. All along the royal highway, on either side, were these trees; they had grown up and formed a high archway; it was very beautiful, and one felt inclined to linger in its shade out of the hot sun.
I think I got a little idea of what Paul meant when he said, "Lay aside every weight and run the race with patience." I never saw such pretty, scientific running in all my life, as certain men there did. They were tall, lank looking fellows; on the head they wore a simple white skull cap, and around the body a light, white cloth, of about three or four yards in length, the weight of which would be very little over a pound; under this would be, fitting close to their bodies, a little jacket with long sleeves, and made of the same material, or perhaps a little bit stronger. Their business, or profession, was begging. When our carriage had got just outside the city there started after us a half dozen or more of these gentlemen, shouting as they ran, "Backsheesh" (give me a penny), "backsheesh, backsheesh."
Our guide, who sat with the driver, to point out and explain everything to us, warned us against giving these gentlemen anything. He said if we encouraged them the least bit they would annoy us so we could not get rid of them.
But then they were so very polite, and bowed so gracefully, and ran so nicely, and they patted their stomachs and opened their mouths to say they were hungry, and their stomachs were empty, and I pitied them. The guide saw I was rather stuck on them, and he kept his eye on me pretty close for awhile; but he turned his head, when he thought I was pretty thoroughly converted after all he had said and explained, and I dropped a few pennies for these poor fellows--about five cents of our money--and such a rush and yell I never saw or heard. Then I did get a little scared. He said, "I told you that if you gave them anything you would be annoyed."
Poor Miss Drake didn't know what I did; she declared she hadn't given them a cent; and I tried to look strange and blank. She said, "Did you give them anything, Amanda?"
"Oh, I only threw out a few pennies," I replied.
So the cat was out; and though our horses were under good speed, our driver touched them up, and we went on faster; and these gentlemen touched up, and came on faster, but they did it so gracefully and beautifully.
"Well," I thought, "I have done it now."
Finally they began to drop off one at a time till we were left with but two; these accompanied us to the pyramids, and offered to run up to the top for sixpence, if we would give it to them. I thought it was about worth that to go up to the top of that huge pile of stone, for that was what it seemed like; but I couldn't make the offer, for I had done enough; so they ran up a little ways and came back.
We walked about a little, and looked into the tomb where they said the wife of a king was buried; there was nothing in the looks of it that was specially interesting.
Then I saw the great sphinx. I used to wonder what it was; but now my curiosity was satisfied. We spent about two hours, and then drove back to Alexandria, and at two o'clock in the afternoon we left for Suez.
Suez, Egypt. The hotel where we stopped was kept by an Englishman, and most of the guests were English. I had no difficulty
At dinner I noticed two gentlemen, who sat opposite us; they looked familiar to me. I thought they might be Americans. I noticed they looked at me very sharply, and as thought they would like to speak, but they did not, and I felt like I would like to speak to them; but then I thought, "They are strangers; they seem as though they know me; but can it be that anybody in Egypt knows Amanda Smith?"
I said to Miss Drake, "I am sure I know those gentlemen, but I don't like to speak to them."
The next morning we met again, and Mr. Leech (for that was the name of one of the gentlemen) came up and spoke to me, and said, "Is not this Amanda Smith?"
"Yes," I said.
"I thought last night it was you; indeed, I was quite sure; but after dinner I went to the office and looked at the register and saw your name."
They were two ministers from Newcastle-on-Tyne; one a Presbyterian, and the other a Congregationalist. Both of them had helped me in the meetings that I held at Newcastle, at Mr. Lambert's hall. I introduced them to Miss Drake, and they were so nice they made it very pleasant for us.
They had been to Alexandria, and now were in Suez, on their way home to England. They took this little trip of two or three weeks on their vacation. They told us of the great Mahommedan school at Alexandria, which they had visited, of eight hundred students, studying the Koran. It is the largest college in the world where all the students study one thing. They said it was a wonderful sight to see them; they all sit on mats on the floor (all men or boys), and they rock themselves back and forth, and study aloud, so that the din is something fearful! They are supposed to commit the whole of the Koran to memory. How I should like to have seen that school. But we hadn't much time. So that was one of the things we missed.
These gentlemen, whom I have mentioned, had a day with us before their steamer came; so they walked out with us, and showed us different places. What was very interesting to me, was the way they did their irrigating. I had never seen it in this fashion before.
There were large plots of ground laid out, as far as your eye could see. There were old-fashioned pumps, such as they had a hundred years ago, I suppose; then there were long, wooden troughs leading to the trenches, about five and ten feet apart; they would pump the water into these troughs, and it would run and fill up all the trenches, and then the women and children would stand on either side of the beds, and with their hands throw the water, and so water the beds. Oh, how hard and tedious! But then they never thought of doing any other way than the way their fathers did That was all they cared to know.
The onions and salads and water cress raised in these gardens were very green and nice. How my heart turned to God in prayer for poor Egypt. Only God can change the hearts of these people here, and make the desert blossom as the rose. Lord, once more, send light and help to Egypt!
When God called Jesus out of Egypt from the wrath of Herod the king, and when the light had gone out, darkness settled down on Egypt, and still lingers. If the light that is in you become darkness, how great the darkness!
Our steamer was due at Suez on Thursday, but it did not come until Sunday. We had these days to wait. I was rather glad, for I thought I never was so tired in my life. But still if we had known the steamer would not come till Sunday, we could have gone up to Jerusalem. These gentlemen told us we could go in twenty-four hours by stage.
Parties went up that way often; but they made all the arrangements a day or two ahead; which we might have done, and got back by Saturday night. That was the nearest to Jerusalem that I ever was, and ever will be again, until I get to the Jerusalem above, I suppose. However, there is nothing impossible, and now that the railroad is there I would not be surprised to find myself going up on the train some day, especially if God said so.


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The massacre was a result of a plan devised by Capone's gang member Jack 'Machine Gun' McGurn to eliminate Moran, Capone's chief criminal enemy. Territorial tensions between "Bugs" Moran and Al Capone about who would own the Chicago bootlegging business and make the most money from it also led Capone to accept Jack's plan for the killings.
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The Canadian government wants to force doctors to assist patients with euthanasia. But doctors should be free to refuse service to anyone, and refusal doesn't mean doctors are "blocking access" to healthcare or anything else.
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Given the government's terrible record in capturing and punishing real criminals, while devoting ever-more resources to punishing tax evasion, it appears the government cares more about the pursuit of tax thieves than providing justice for victims of violent crime.
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I've got a Mac Pro with 3 hard drives:
- 1 x 7200rpm 640GB - 1/2 for OS X - 1/2 for Windows 7 (Bootcamp)
- 2 x 5400 Western Digital'Eco-drive' (runs like a dog and is only useful for backups and archives).
In my foolishness I made two attempts to install (via Bootcamp) on the two slow drives before finally realising it was the slow speed of the drive that was making everything frustrating. So I now have OS X and Win7 on two halves of the 7200rpm drive and I'd like to get rid of the Win7 installs on the other drives. Somehow the installs ended up on partitions with other files so I can't just reformat them totally as I'd lose stuff.
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An antigen is any molecule that is recognized by antibodies. Usually, an antigen is a protein or a polysaccharide, but it can be any type of molecule, even small molecules if coupled to a large carrier (haptens).
There are several kinds of antigens:
Antigens are presented by a cell to its environment via a histocompatibility molecule. Depending on the antigen presented and the histocompatibility molecule used, several types of immune cells can leap into action.
We can also classify antigens according to where they come from:
Exogenous antigens are antigens that have entered the body, e.g., by inhalation, ingestion, or injection. These antigens are taken up by endocytosis or phagocytosis into the antigen presenting cells (APCs), and degraded into fragments. The fragments are then presented on the surface of APCs by class II histocompatibility molecules to T helper cells (CD4+). Those that are specific for them, get activated, so they start to secrete cytokines. The cytokines then activate cytotoxic lymphocytes T (CTL), antibodies secreting lymphocytes B , macrophages and other cells.
Endogenous antigens are antigens that have been generated within the cell, as a result of normal cell metabolism, or because of viral or intracellular bacterial infection. The fragments are then presented on the cell surface in the complex with class I histocompatibility molecules. If cytotoxic CD8+ T cells recognize them, they begin to secrete different toxins that cause the lysis or apoptosis of the infected cell. In order to keep the cytotoxic cells from killing cells just for presenting normal proteins, they run through a test cycle (negative control in the thymus) just after their production. Only those CTL that do not react to normal body protein fragments are allowed to enter the bloodstream.


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Dr Shah's experience with Urticaria
Urticaria or hives, can be allergic or also non-allergic disease. For chronic and recurring Urticaria, you need homeopathy. After all, for how long will you keep taking antihistamines? At Life Force, Dr Shah is Urticaria expert having experience of Urticaria treatment of over 2700 cases.
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Co-founder, Milestone Media
Michael Davis is an artist, writer, mentor, and entertainment executive. He's created original content for comics, education, television, radio, and publishing as an independent producer. He's also held positions as president/CEO of Motown Animation & Filmworks; president of animation for Magic Johnson Entertainment; and co-founder of Milestone Media. Alumni from his mentor program are some of the most respected talents working in comics today. Michael's current projects include graphic novels The Underground, Jackie Robinson Day 1, and Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Black People but Were Afraid to Ask. Simon & Schuster will publish Michael's apocalyptic novel, White Winter, Black Night.


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Posted on February 18, 2012 by Tim Peake
Learning to 'spacewalk'
One of the most captivating images of spaceflight, at least to my mind, does not portray the staggering power released by a 3000 tonne rocket departing the Earth, nor the grace of a space station the size of a football pitch gliding over an ocean. For me, it is the image of an astronaut floating freely in space, surveying the Universe at will, unencumbered by Earth's annoying (yet rather essential) gravity that epitomises human achievement. When I'm asked which astronaut has inspired me the most, the temptation is to recite the more obvious 'first' achievements of Yuri Gagarin, Neil Armstrong or Alexey Leonov.
The truth is the picture of Bruce McCandless conducting the first untethered Extra-Vehicular Activity (EVA – more commonly known as 'spacewalk'), is not only supremely inspirational but it leaves me wondering what must that feel like…really feel like. The elation of absorbing a view that is simply unsurpassed, the exposure and isolation of floating 200m from the Shuttle's sanctuary and the apprehension of knowing that only a few layers of material separate you from the perils of deep vacuum, crippling temperatures, radiation and micrometeorites. Thankfully those few layers of material have triumphed over the harsh environment of space and to date hundreds of EVA's have been conducted by astronauts from many different countries.
And that is what brings me to the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Centre (Star City) in January 2012, with my good friend Thomas Pesquet – to learn about the "Orlan MK", Russia's latest spacesuit designed to protect astronauts whilst conducting EVA. On completion of our training we will be qualified to conduct an EVA using this system, having learnt how to maintain and operate the suit, conduct airlock depressurisation and repressurisation drills and to deal with emergency situations should they arise.
Our 5 week course begins – as always – in the classroom. Like a small child in the days before Christmas we have to endure hours of waiting (in our case…theory) before we can play with our toys. However, this is my kind of theory. A spacesuit is like a mini space station with its own life support, electrical power, thermal control, voice and data communications and computer control systems – all designed to keep an astronaut alive for up to 10 hours in space. Having spent the best part of my career studying similar systems on numerous types of aircraft I have developed a rather 'nerdy' passion for understanding how things work and so it is with some gusto that I begin to pore over the engineering diagrams in our training manuals.
I'll try not to bore you with the 'techie stuff' but if you'll permit me a couple of paragraphs…the suit's most vital component is oxygen, not only to breathe but also for pressure…and this spacesuit has oxygen in abundance. There are 2 tanks each capable of supplying over 800 litres of oxygen. In the spacesuit we breathe pure oxygen and consume about 50 litres per hour, so under normal conditions each tank will last over 16 hours. Exhaled carbon dioxide is removed by a lithium ion filter and fresh oxygen is released into the suit to compensate for the resulting pressure drop. Electric fans circulate the oxygen around the suit – it's a beautifully simple design built to typically robust Russian standards.
The suit has to be internally pressurised to protect against the vacuum of space – without external pressure all the gases are released from our bloodstream, including oxygen of course, and an astronaut would lose consciousness after about 15 seconds. No need to dwell on the more gruesome discussions about whether or not our blood would 'boil' or body expand – we'd be blissfully unconscious! However, if the suit were pressurised to a 'normal' earth atmosphere at sea level (760mmHg) it would be so rigid when operating in a vacuum that an astronaut would be virtually unable to move. So the "Orlan" operates at a safe compromise of 300mmHg, which means our body experiences the same pressure as if you were standing on top of a mountain at 23000 feet (breathing pure oxygen). Even at this pressure the suit feels extremely rigid and the simplest tasks such as operating switches, levers, turning valves – anything that requires the bending of elbows or fingers – is extremely difficult, as Thomas and I were soon to discover.
So with our week of theory complete, at last it was time to wear the spacesuits, suspended from the ceiling in the 'dry' simulator. The process begins with a short medical evaluation prior to donning medical monitoring equipment, cotton undergarments, socks, headset and a liquid cooling suit. The cooling suit will pump water around the body and expel excess heat into space – it's an extremely efficient system and each suit has a temperature control lever for comfort. Sliding carefully, feet first into the suit I am reminded of my recent caving experience with ESA, squeezing into tight spaces that you're not sure how to get out of. As the backpack is locked and sealed I am thankful that I have never had problems being in restricted spaces – I actually feel quite comforted by the confines of the spacesuit but I can imagine that for anyone who suffers even the slightest feelings of claustrophobia this would be akin to medieval torture.
A correctly fitted suit is essential – and because the suit will expand once pressurised it has to be slightly too small when you first enter, but despite being a bit cramped it's not uncomfortable and soon I am learning how to move my arms. "Think like a robot" Oleg, our Russian instructor tells us, "and move slowly – conserve energy." This works well and soon Thomas and I are familiarising ourselves with the spacesuit's mechanical and computerised controls. After 3 hours of working under pressure (literally!), we emerge from our spacesuits with a newfound respect for just how hard it must be to conduct a real 6 hour EVA. Muscles that I never knew existed are sore, I've had something scratching my eye for the past hour which I've been unable to do anything about, I'm dehydrated and have cramp in my wrists, arms and fingers. But we are smiling – possibly the biggest smiles since experiencing zero 'g' during parabolic flight. This is what being an astronaut is about!
As we begin to find working in the spacesuit easier with each dry simulation, the tasks become more complex and it is not long before we are ready to progress to the final stage of our training – the 'Hydrolab'. The Hydrolab at Star City is a circular pool 10m deep and 24m diameter. Mock-ups of the Russian segments of the International Space Station are lowered on a platform into the water and astronauts can practise EVA skills using the neutral buoyancy of water to simulate weightlessness. Sealed in my spacesuit once again, I am being lowered into the pool by a small crane – and for a fleeting moment I wonder what would happen if there were a catastrophic suit failure underwater – like a glove popping off…sometimes ignorance is bliss, I guess. As we submerge I begin to survey my new surroundings. The curvature of the visor gives a slight 'fish bowl' effect and I soon learn it is better not to move my head back and forth too much as it is slightly disorientating.
Thomas and I are placed into the airlock and the clock is running. There is barely room to move. Tasks which were relatively easy in scuba gear the day before require ridiculous amounts of concentration, effort and time and after 20 minutes all we have achieved is to open the hatch, install a hatch seal protector and egress the airlock with all our kit. We move along our planned route attaching our safety tethers 'via ferrata' style to the handrails, with always two points of contact. Every move is being watched by several cameras and we know that any mistake will be pounced upon, for good reason – the odds of successful rescue for an astronaut 'lost in space' are not good. As each task is accomplished I can feel the strength being sapped from my arms and fingers. The suit has expanded and doesn't fit too well anymore but I'm happy I'll complete the EVA with some energy to spare. That is, until I realise that Thomas has been instructed to 'play' unconscious – an emergency situation that requires one astronaut to recover the other to the airlock, doing all the drills alone. It's going to be a long morning! After about 3 and half hours underwater we are finally back on dry land, delighted to have successfully completed our first 'suited' dive. After such a strange and unique experience it seems perfectly normal that the first thing that happens as we step out of our suits is to be handed a cup of hot tea by a kind Russian doctor – how civilised is that!
An EVA is probably the most physically demanding task an astronaut can undertake. In hindsight, Bruce McCandless may not have been "surveying the Universe at will" – he was probably trying desperately to bend his fingers to reach the thruster control and return to the Shuttle, with sweat stinging his eyes and a microphone sticking up his nose – nursing sore elbows and fingers and suffering complete and utter muscle fatigue. Does that in any way spoil the image for me? Not one bit – if anything I look at that picture today with greater wonder, admiration and inspiration than I did 5 weeks ago.


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Jim O'Neill, chairman of Goldman Sachs Asset Management, is sticking by his contrarian view of world markets. His latest analysis, outlined in a recent commentary entitled "2012: Not a Repeat of 2010 and 2011," stresses the above-consensus take on global growth.
"While some data has raised questions about the state of the global economy, China appears to be showing signs of improving," O'Neill (left) writes. "In addition, global financial conditions remain at very supportive levels. This suggests to us that the tentative weakness in the global industrial activity data may prove to be temporary."
Goldman Sachs has forecast global growth of about 3.6% for this year, compared with the overall consensus of 3.5%, and 4.1% for next (in line with consensus). For the United States, the group has a 2.5% GDP-growth estimate for 2012-'13 versus consensus for 2012 of 2.3%.
"Our U.S. growth forecast was one of our most significant out-of-consensus calls this year. We started the year with a real growth forecast of 2.5% vs. consensus of 2.1% which has since moved up to 2.3%," says O'Neill. "The recent weakness in the labor market data has raised questions about our forecast, but we believe the softness will not continue for long."
What fundamentals factors are supporting the U.S. growth story? The Goldman Sachs executive points to low gas prices, a more competitive U.S. manufacturing sector and an improving housing market. All areas in 2010 and 2011 that wobbled in the late spring and summer of those two years and contributed to a slow down in growth after Q4 and Q1 build up both times.
China's Story
O'Neil and his colleagues believe that it "is increasingly likely that China could deliver an upside surprise to our current forecast of 8.2% for this year. We might revise this number in light of lower inflation and further policy easing steps."
He is optimistic about China's ability to "rebalance towards higher-quality growth driven by private consumption. While this might bring more volatility, if the transition to a different growth model is sustained, the bullish case for Chinese equities may become even stronger," O'Neil notes.
In both China and Russia, the current political transitions are "overall positive developments" in Goldman Sach's view.
The group is "most positive on China, given the pessimism that has surrounded the country's growth story so far this year," he says of its equity markets.


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No. 4 Arizona defeats Oregon State 80-70
Solomon Hill had 16 points, including five 3-pointers, to help the No. 4 Arizona Wildcats bounce back from their first loss of the season with a 80-70 victory over Oregon State on Saturday.
The Wildcats (15-1, 3-1 Pac-12) were coming off a 70-66 defeat Thursday night just down the road against the Oregon Ducks. Arizona, which had made a habit of pulling off late wins, couldn't manage another against the Ducks.
The Beavers (10-6, 0-3), who trailed by as many as 17 points in the second half, didn't give the Wildcats much trouble. Ahmad Starks had 18 points to lead Oregon State, which dropped its third straight.
Mark Lyons added 16 points for the Wildcats, who were plagued by 16 turnovers but made 10 of 25 3-point attempts.
The Wildcats pulled ahead 13-6 early on Grant Jarrett's 3-pointer, but Oregon State did its best to keep up and pulled to within 17-16 on Starks' 3-pointer with 12:18 to go in the first half.
The Beavers pulled to within 24-23 on another 3 from Starks, but Hill answered with a 3-pointer for the Wildcats.
Lyons hit a layup that put Arizona up 32-27, but Langston Morris-Walker hit on a long jumper and Devon Collier dunked on a fast break to keep Oregon State close.
Trailing 34-33, the Beavers had a chance to go ahead but Jamal Reid missed a pair of free throws. The Wildcats finished out with a 9-2 run to lead 43-34 at the break.
Brandon Ashley's layup early in the second half pushed Arizona's lead to double digits, 47-37. Kevin Parrom's 3-pointer made it 60-45 with 12:22 left and Hill's 3 extended the lead to 67-50 midway through the half and the Wildcats cruised the rest of the way.
It was somewhat unusual for the Wildcats to win by such a margin.
The Wildcats defeated then-No. 5 Florida 65-64 back in mid-December on senior Mark Lyons' heavily contested layup with 7 seconds left. Arizona got another 1-point win over a ranked opponent when they beat San Diego State 68-67 at the Diamond Head Classic in Hawaii.
To start the new year, a banked-in 3-pointer by Colorado's Sabatino Chen at the end of regulation was waved off by the officials after a replay and the Wildcats went on to beat the Buffaloes in overtime. Then Arizona lucked out when what would have been a game-tying 3-pointer by Utah bounced off the rim for a 60-57 Wildcats win.
Oregon State played for the second straight without sophomore forward Eric Moreland, who had started Oregon State's first 14 games before he was suspended indefinitely for violating team rules along with teammate Victor Robbins.
Moreland, a 6-foot-10 sophomore, was averaging 10.8 points and 11.1 rebounds while Robbins played about 63 minutes off the bench in nine games this season. Moreland sat on the bench for Saturday's game dressed in street clothes.
Collier finished with 13 points and 15 rebounds for the Beavers.
Arizona is the highest ranked team Oregon State's Craig Robinson has faced as head coach of the Beavers. Oregon State has upset a top five-ranked team 10 times, with the last two victories coming against Arizona in 2000 and 1989.


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Installation guide
This document is a guide for installing Arch Linux from the live system booted with the official installation image. For alternative means of installation, see Category:Installation process.
Before installing, it would be advised to view the FAQ. For conventions used in this document, see Help:Reading. In particular, code examples may contain placeholders (formatted in
italics) that must be replaced manually.
For more detailed instructions, see the respective ArchWiki articles or the various programs' man pages, both linked from this guide. For interactive help, the IRC channel and the forums are also available.
Arch Linux should run on any x86_64-compatible machine with a minimum of 530 MiB RAM. A basic installation should take less than 2 GiB of disk space. As the installation process needs to retrieve packages from a remote repository, this guide assumes a working internet connection is available.
The installation media and their GnuPG signatures can be acquired from the Download page.
Verify signature
It is recommended to verify the image signature before use, especially when downloading from an HTTP mirror, where downloads are generally prone to be intercepted to serve malicious images.
On a system with GnuPG installed, do this by downloading the PGP signature (under Checksums in the Download page) to the ISO directory, and verifying it with:
$ gpg --keyserver-options auto-key-retrieve --verify archlinux-version-x86_64.iso.sig
Alternatively, from an existing Arch Linux installation run:
$ pacman-key -v archlinux-version-x86_64.iso.sig
- The signature itself could be manipulated if it is downloaded from a mirror site, instead of from archlinux.org as above. In this case, ensure that the public key, which is used to decode the signature, is signed by another, trustworthy key. The
gpgcommand will output the fingerprint of the public key.
- Another method to verify the authenticity of the signature is to ensure that the public key's fingerprint is identical to the key fingerprint of the Arch Linux developer who signed the ISO-file. See Wikipedia:Public-key cryptography for more information on the public-key process to authenticate keys.
Boot the live environment
The live environment can be booted from a USB flash drive, an optical disc or a network with PXE.
- Pointing the current boot device to a drive containing the Arch installation media is typically achieved by pressing a key during the POST phase, as indicated on the splash screen. Refer to your motherboard's manual for details.
- When the Arch menu appears, select, depending on the boot method, Boot Arch Linux (x86_64) or Arch Linux archiso x86_64 UEFI CD, or Arch Linux archiso x86_64 UEFI USB and press
Enterto enter the installation environment.
- See README.bootparams for a list of boot parameters, and packages.x86_64 for a list of included packages.
- You will be logged in on the first virtual console as the root user, and presented with a Zsh shell prompt.
To switch to a different console—for example, to view this guide with ELinks alongside the installation—use the
Alt+arrow shortcut. To edit configuration files, nano, vi and vim are available.
Set the keyboard layout
The default console keymap is US. Available layouts can be listed with:
# ls /usr/share/kbd/keymaps/**/*.map.gz
To modify the layout, append a corresponding file name to loadkeys(1), omitting path and file extension. For example, to set a German keyboard layout:
# loadkeys de-latin1
Console fonts are located in
/usr/share/kbd/consolefonts/ and can likewise be set with setfont(8).
Verify the boot mode
Archiso uses systemd-boot for booting in UEFI mode and syslinux for booting in BIOS mode.
To verify the boot mode, list the efivars directory:
# ls /sys/firmware/efi/efivars
If the command shows the directory without error, then the system is booted in UEFI mode. If the directory does not exist, the system may be booted in BIOS (or CSM) mode. If the system did not boot in the mode you desired, refer to your motherboard's manual.
Connect to the internet
To set up a network connection, go through the following steps:
- Ensure your network interface is listed and enabled, for example with ip-link(8):
# ip link
- Connect to the network. Plug in the Ethernet cable or connect to the wireless LAN.
- Configure your network connection:
- Static IP address
- Dynamic IP address: use DHCP.
- Note: The installation image uses systemd-resolved and systemd-networkd, which is configured as a DHCP client for wired and wireless network interfaces.
- The connection may be verified with ping:
# ping archlinux.org
Update the system clock
Use timedatectl(1) to ensure the system clock is accurate:
# timedatectl set-ntp true
To check the service status, use
timedatectl status.
Partition the disks
When recognized by the live system, disks are assigned to a block device such as
/dev/sda or
/dev/nvme0n1. To identify these devices, use lsblk or fdisk.
# fdisk -l
Results ending in
loop or
airoot may be ignored.
The following partitions are required for a chosen device:
- One partition for the root directory
- For booting in UEFI mode: an EFI system partition.
If you want to create any stacked block devices for LVM, system encryption or RAID, do it now.
Example layouts
|BIOS with MBR
|Mount point
|Partition type
|Suggested size
|Remainder of the device
|Linux swap
|More than 512 MiB
|UEFI with GPT
|Mount point
|Partition type
|Suggested size
/mnt/boot or
|EFI system partition
|260–512 MiB
|Linux x86-64 root (/)
|Remainder of the device
|Linux swap
|More than 512 MiB
See also Partitioning#Example layouts.
Format the partitions
Once the partitions have been created, each must be formatted with an appropriate file system. For example, if the root partition is on
/dev/sdX1 and will contain the
ext4 file system, run:
# mkfs.ext4 /dev/sdX1
If you created a partition for swap, initialize it with mkswap:
# mkswap /dev/sdX2 # swapon /dev/sdX2
See File systems#Create a file system for details.
Select the mirrors
Packages to be installed must be downloaded from mirror servers, which are defined in
/etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist. On the live system, all mirrors are enabled, and sorted by their synchronization status and speed at the time the installation image was created.
The higher a mirror is placed in the list, the more priority it is given when downloading a package. You may want to edit the file accordingly, and move the geographically closest mirrors to the top of the list, although other criteria should be taken into account.
This file will later be copied to the new system by pacstrap, so it is worth getting right.
Install essential packages
Use the pacstrap script to install the base package, Linux kernel and firmware for common hardware:
# pacstrap /mnt base linux linux-firmware
The base package does not include all tools from the live installation, so installing other packages may be necessary for a fully functional base system. In particular, consider installing:
- userspace utilities for the management of file systems that will be used on the system,
- utilities for accessing RAID or LVM partitions,
- specific firmware for other devices not included in linux-firmware,
- software necessary for networking,
- a text editor,
- packages for accessing documentation in man and info pages: man-db, man-pages and texinfo.
To install other packages or package groups, append the names to the pacstrap command above (space separated) or use pacman while chrooted into the new system. For comparison, packages available in the live system can be found in packages.x86_64.
Configure the system
Generate an fstab file (use
-U or
-L to define by UUID or labels, respectively):
# genfstab -U /mnt >> /mnt/etc/fstab
Check the resulting
/mnt/etc/fstab file, and edit it in case of errors.
Change root into the new system:
# arch-chroot /mnt
Time zone
Set the time zone:
# ln -sf /usr/share/zoneinfo/Region/City /etc/localtime
Run hwclock(8) to generate
# hwclock --systohc
This command assumes the hardware clock is set to UTC. See System time#Time standard for details.
/etc/locale.gen and uncomment
en_US.UTF-8 UTF-8 and other needed locales. Generate the locales by running:
# locale-gen
Create the locale.conf(5) file, and set the
LANG variable accordingly:
If you set the keyboard layout, make the changes persistent in vconsole.conf(5):
Network configuration
Create the hostname file:
Add matching entries to hosts(5):
127.0.0.1 localhost ::1 localhost 127.0.1.1 ''myhostname''.localdomain ''myhostname''
If the system has a permanent IP address, it should be used instead of
Complete the network configuration for the newly installed environment, that includes installing your preferred network management software.
Creating a new initramfs is usually not required, because mkinitcpio was run on installation of the kernel package with pacstrap.
For LVM, system encryption or RAID, modify mkinitcpio.conf(5) and recreate the initramfs image:
# mkinitcpio -P
Root password
Set the root password:
# passwd
Boot loader
Choose and install a Linux-capable boot loader. If you have an Intel or AMD CPU, enable microcode updates in addition.
Exit the chroot environment by typing
exit or pressing
Optionally manually unmount all the partitions with
umount -R /mnt: this allows noticing any "busy" partitions, and finding the cause with fuser(1).
Finally, restart the machine by typing
reboot: any partitions still mounted will be automatically unmounted by systemd. Remember to remove the installation media and then login into the new system with the root account.
See General recommendations for system management directions and post-installation tutorials (like setting up a graphical user interface, sound or a touchpad).
For a list of applications that may be of interest, see List of applications.


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Unbeaten Greenwich tops Ridgefield to claim FCIAC boys soccer crown
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NORWALK -- Forget about unfinished business, the Greenwich High School boys soccer team's new motto for its 2013 season should be "taking care of business."
The Cardinals did just that Wednesday night, proving why they were the No. 1 seed heading into the FCIAC Tournament and regarded as one of the premier teams in the state.
As has been the case all season, Greenwich found another gear in crunch time, breaking open a close game with a big second half in its spirited 4-1 victory over second-seeded Ridgefield in the championship game at Norwalk High School.
The triumph marked Greenwich's first FCIAC title since it beat Ridgefield in 2007. The Cardinals (17-0-2) went into the season motivated by the words "unfinished business" after falling to Ridgefield in the FCIAC semifinals a year ago and being edged in the state semifinals.
"We should get T-Shirts now that say `finished business,' " Putnam said. "Scribble out the U and the N in unfinished. This win is for the boys, it was a tremendous victory for them."
The FCIAC finals MVP was awarded to Cardinals sophomore forward Nick Bartels, who scored twice at Sam Testa field Wednesday night.
"Winning the title feels awesome," Bartels said. "We worked so hard, going to so many morning practices and pushing ourselves to the limit for games like this."
Senior midfielder Adam Findlay scored for Ridgefield (14-2-3) in the opening half, cutting the Cardinals' lead to 2-1.
"Finishing second in the FCIAC is nothing to be ashamed of or to hang our heads about," said Ridgefield coach Phil Bergen, whose Tigers played GHS to a 1-1 tie on Sept. 21. "I thought tonight we played to Greenwich's strength, playing the ball high to their tall players. There were some moments during the game when we played to our style, but then we would fall back into playing their game."
Junior midfielder Paul Quiroga gave the Cardinals a 1-0 lead in the eighth minute. Receiving a through pass from junior Chris Galeano, Quiroga directed a shot toward Ridgefield goalie Nicholas Steer. His initial shot deflected off Steer's hands, but Quiroga followed his shot, knocking the rebound inside the left post.
"Chris gave me a great pass and I was lucky to score on it," Quiroga said. "This is amazing, we have been working so hard for this game all season long."
Senior forward Will Gittings gave Greenwich a 2-0 advantage with 18:07 remaining in the first half, scoring on a header off a corner kick from senior midfielder Mateo Gowland. Gittings has excelled on set pieces during the latter part of the season and Wednesday was no different, as he rose high and blasted his header inside the left post.
The Tigers worked their way back into the game though just before halftime. Findlay hustled to a loose ball and converted a shot from 10 yards out, making it a 2-1 game and giving Ridgefield some momentum heading into intermission. Ridgefield almost tied the score at 1-1 at an indirect kick in the 15th minute, but the goal was disallowed since the ball went straight into the goal on the play (an indirect kick must hit off someone).
"That one goal could have been big for us," Bergen said. "It could have given us some more momentum."
Both teams battled for possession in the second half, but Greenwich continued its trend of opening games up in the second half. Bartels fought off a defender before scoring in the 67th minute and tallied again with 2:15 left, sealing the win. Gittings almost scored a second goal after receiving a cross pass from senior Patrick Santini, but Tigers senior defender Sam Isaac cleared the ball from the goal line in the 52nd minute. Steer had 10 saves in goal for Ridgefield, which like most teams this season, had a bit of trouble with Greenwich's size.
Greenwich senior goalie Santiago Irigoyen made six saves and was backed by defenders Jonathan Palmer, Ryan Flippin and Sebbi Hickman.
"I couldn't have done anything without Jon, Ryan and Sebbi," Irigoyen said. "They always work so hard in front of me, I don't think I've had to make more than six saves in a game this season."
Putnam knew this particular group of players had something special in them for a while.
"I've coached a lot of them since they were 11-years old," Putnam said. "We won two state titles together with Greenwich United (club team) and about eight of 11 starters from that team are here on this team, so I've known what a great group this is for a long time."
Though Putnam said the team has finished its business, the players felt otherwise.
"Not yet, we still have to win states," Gowland said. "We have to continue to work hard and go after the state title. We're determined to win it."
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Greenwich 4, Ridgefield 1
Records: Greenwich 17-0-2; Ridgefield 14-2-3.
Goals: R--Adam Findlay. G--Nick Bartels 2, Will Gittings, Paul Quiroga. Assists: G--Mateo Gowland, Chris Galeano. Goalies: G--Santiago Irigoyen (6 saves); R: Nicholas Steer (10 saves).


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Benicio del Toro, Kimberly Stewart Welcome Daughter
The model/actress delivered daughter Delilah on Sunday, PEOPLE confirms
Kimberly Stewart received a very special birthday present Sunday – her daughter.
The actress and model celebrated turning 32 by giving birth to a baby girl named Delilah in Los Angeles, PEOPLE confirms. The father is Academy Award-winning actor Benicio del Toro, 44.
Calling the arrival of his first grandchild one of the happiest days of his life, proud grandfather Rod Stewart tells PEOPLE, "My joy is indescribable."
On Saturday, the singer had hosted a large group at Dan Tana's to celebrate his daughter's birthday, a source tells PEOPLE.
The following day, the clan – including dad Rod, mom Alana, stepmother Penny, brother Sean and half-siblings Ashley, Ruby, Renée, Liam and Alastair – visited with the family's newest member.
"We had everyone at the hospital to help Kimberly, Stewart tells USA Today. "I won't say we always agree, but we get along."
The pregnancy was announced in April.
"Kimberly is pregnant. Benicio is the father and is very supportive," del Toro's rep confirmed to PEOPLE at the time. "Although they are not a couple, they are looking forward to the arrival of the baby."


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Tahoe Rim Trail a labor of love
STATELINE, Nev. – Though I ascended more than 1,000 feet across five miles of the Tahoe Rim Trail from Spooner Summit to South Camp Peak, it was the view that was breathtaking.
From a windy but comfortable rocky lunchtime perch, I sat directly across from Lake Tahoe's Emerald Bay. Starting from the north and turning southward, there was a clear view of the Cal Neva Resort, Squaw Valley, Homewood, Mount Tallac, Pyramid Peak and the Sierra-at-Tahoe and Kirkwood ski resorts.
Farther south I could see the vast Gondola fire damage, a 2002 blaze sparked from a tossed cigarette. The view of the burned area is much different here than from lake level.
The hike back was easy because it was mostly downhill and someone with a chain saw had cleared the trail of downed trees I had to step and climb over earlier. That someone was volunteer Clay Grubb, who I spoke to near the halfway point between Spooner Summit and Kingsbury Grade, a spot where my dog found a patch of snow to roll in and cool off.
It was a windy winter, Grubb said, and a lot of trees fell across the 165-mile Tahoe Rim Trail. John McKenna, whose day job is serving as a Carson City-County supervisor, cleared the other side of the trail that day from South Camp Peak to Kingsbury Grade. Other areas were cleared by the U.S. Forest Service and a volunteer, Jim "Buzzsaw" Backhus. There is a lot less snow on the TRT this June compared to 2011 and 2010, and the only areas where the trees haven't been cleared is around Barker Pass between Gilmore Lake and Tahoe City.
Grubb's altruism resonated, so the following Saturday I tagged along with about 20 Tahoe Rim Trail Association volunteers at Stateline's Van Sickle Bi-State Park.
"I'm not sure I remember you, but I remember your dog," Grubb said.
Depending on their background, volunteers wore green, blue or white hardhats. Crews will work Tuesdays and Thursdays through mid-October on the Daggett project, which includes a 6.7-mile loop and connects to the Tahoe Rim Trail at Kingsbury Grade's Highway 207.
Designed by Grubb, the Daggett Summit Reroute will turn four miles of pavement into 14 miles of trail.
"The (Tahoe Rim Trail) loop opened in 2001 but the trail is not finished," said Grubb, one of the volunteers who has taken the bad areas and rerouted and rebuilt them.
More than 100,000 hikers and bikers use the TRT each year, and there are 1,275 who are documented to have ever covered the entire loop – 165-mile club members. Not only are the TRT views singularly spectacular, the summertime temperature is generally moderate and there are neither poisonous snakes nor poison oak. The biggest danger for users is dehydration, and this summer will be a dry one.
Yellowjackets are a concern for the volunteers, Grubb told the group as he gave trail-building advice.
"Foundation and finishing work is important," he said. "Get water off the trail and people on it. … The crew leaders have the first aid kits and radios."
Computer programer Chris Garcia, a South Lake Tahoe resident, was one of the crew leaders, and he told his team how to handle tools on the trail: "It's better to get sliced than punctured."
Garcia's hardhat was blue.
"The blue helmets are the master trail builders who are referred to as the Jedi," Grubb, who has the deadpan delivery whether he's joking or serious.
Like the others, Garcia became hooked after his first day as a volunteer.
"I feel very privileged to live here," he said. "It's good exercise and I like giving back to the community. I get a sense of accomplishment."
Kate Herbert drove from Kings Beach to volunteer.
"You get a little dirty, but it's not so bad," she said.
On National Trails Day a week earlier, Chris Strohm, a former South Tahoe Public Utility District board member and competitive distance runner, oversaw a crew of 100 build 4,500 feet of the Gondola Water Line Trail. The Van Sickle connection trailhead is just south of Harrah's Lake Tahoe's parking lot. A 15-minute hike rewards trail users with a lake view.
"I spent a thousand hours training and running the trails; now I'm making them and having just as much fun," Strohm said. "You never look at a trail the same way. Van Sickle was very difficult."
Strohm used his third roto hammer, having worn out two others on the Daggett project. Numerous $200 drill bits were used.
Up the trail, Grubb stopped the group at a stream crossing. Next to a sign which read "Please don't move rocks or logs," someone had done just that.
"His ignorance is only exceeded by his arrogance," Grubb said. "Sombody built a dam."
While an unidentified hiker had used a large rock for a stepping stone, he had also created what would have been a a flood zone at times of a high stream flow.
Jedi Oliver Lieder and white hat Robert Johnson use a giant steel bar to deal with the rock after the rest of the group moved ahead.
"We have volunteers of all ages and ability levels and everyone can contribute," said Morgan Fessler, a TRTA trails director. "You can do some maintenance work. Maybe just clearing some brush out of the way. People who want to bulk up can come out and move rocks around and build trail that way as well. And if you're not able to be a volunteer out building trail, we are always looking for volunteers in our (Incline Village) office. We have people stopping by all the time looking for information. We can always put folks to work."
The TRTA's slogan is "A trail like no other," but longtime volunteer Phil Brisack, who used to have a Hallmark card store suggests: "When you care enough to build the very best."
A former Navy man, Brisack gets credit for inspiring Grubb, a retired Marine.
Grubb was jogging on the trail near Kingsbury Grade when he came upon Brisack and two others who were cutting out a tree.
"What's it take to become a volunteer?" Grubb asked.
Brisack, who wore a Navy shirt noticed Grubb's Marine shorts, replied, "If you have a strong back and a weak mind, then you are overqualified."
Grubb took the bait.
"He's been making me pay for it ever since," Brisack said. "He has been the man on this Daggett project. He's the reason we're building this trail."
The last couple of volunteers to head up the trail were Mike Maddox and Tim Casagrande. They were tasked with maneuvering a cumbersome wheelbarrow full of tools up the mountain.
Two descending hikers passed the volunteers, and one said, "Good work, man. We appreciate it.".
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Okay, seriously. This was a frustrating episode of Falling Skies. There were a few good moments — just like last week — but also, a lot of stuff that occasioned a serious amount of head-slapping. This show is going to give us a concussion from all the head-slapping.
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There were really two things that were somewhat irksome about "Molon Labe":
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On the plus side: I like the notion that there are other resistance groups, with their own de-harnessed kids.
Also, even Weaver has to accept at this point that the Skitter Rebellion is real, since as Tom says, no other explanation of the past couple episodes makes a lick of sense. (Of course, the Second Mass still hasn't made any concrete moves to make use of this knowledge — instead of letting Ben wander off on his own, they should be pressing Ben into service as a liaison with the Rebellion, to set up a proper alliance.)
Most of all, the bit where Karen is lecturing Hal about how the aliens can see every subatomic particle and predict how every little detail will turn out, when we know her Overlord master has been shot, is pretty priceless. That's a fine, lovely scene. And Tom absolutely did the right thing shooting the Overlord — his value as a hostage apparently wasn't keeping the aliens from attacking, but he's obviously of great importance to the aliens. Whether the Second Mass escaped that hospital or not, one of their main objectives had to be keeping the Overlord out of the aliens' hands.
In one of the episode's many subplots, Hal kinda-sorta admits he can't stop thinking about Karen — and the moment he finally admits he might still have a thing for his harnessed ex-girlfriend, Maggie starts making out with him. I guess they're really going full tilt with the "Maggie has low self-esteem" angle.
All in all, this was an episode that didn't change much, except for finally peeling Ben away from the Second Mass and confirming that the Skitter Uprising is for real. Oh, and killing off Jamil and that other guy. Sigh. Poor Jamil. He deserved better.


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There are, in theory, a few months every two years when the next election is supposed to matter less. The horse race, as it were, has been run. The chance to govern is at hand. That's the theory, anyway.
In these days of divided dysfunction, the practice is different, as the new Pew poll about public reaction to the New Year's fiscal-cliff deal beautifully illustrates. It is, in short, still possible to win when everyone loses.
First the poll asked about the substance of what Congress and the White House accomplished as the rest of the country recovered from their New Year's hangovers. On this score, the numbers are dismal. Just 38% of the country approves of the deal, compared with 41% who disapprove, and the share of the country who thinks the deal will help people like them, improve the economy or lessen the budget deficit hovers around 1 in 3. These are not the sort of numbers that incumbents of either party like to see.
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So Washington failed, and there was still a winner, which just may be the pattern of the coming months. As a new set of cliffs and ceilings approaches, neither side is showing signs of really playing for a win that pleases the country, in part because both fear it is out of reach given the current makeup of Congress. So the consolation prizes — pleasing the base, appearing tough and strong, handling negotiations better — are really the only victories in town. It's a perfect recipe for more incremental policy mediocrity. So goes Washington. So goes the country.


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While we all wait for an untethered jailbreak solution, the Dev-Team has updated redsn0w with a "one-click" option for the tethered 4.2.1 jailbreak. Rather than the multiple screens you normally see, you can now use redsn0w on the command line to "Just boot tethered for now."
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