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Gun shops in No. Calif. are doing a land office business on guns and ammo. About 3 weeks ago my husband stood in line almost 2 hrs. only to learn the gun he wanted to buy was on back order (S & W 38); the shop hoped they might get some in 4 or 5 months. In all, he visited 4 different gun shops. All sold out of S & W and no idea when they might get in their back orders. He decided on a different hand gun. He bought some ammo and waited his 10 days for his background check clearance. Called the store back to buy more ammo. Sorry, we are out indefinitely. He called a lot of stores and finally found one who had some ammo for his new hand gun. He drove 2 hrs. to get to that store.
Our son in law who lives in the Sacramento area had more gun shops and big sporting goods stores to choose from. He bought his S & W in November and bought ammo for it. He decided he better get more to stock up. Sorry. Sold out. He called a lot of stores and it was the same story. Back order on ammo.
One of the retriever clubs I belong to needed to buy a new 12 gauge shotgun to use as a popper gun. The club member who bought it last month had to pay an extra $25 for a background check.
Our club buys its shells in bulk from a large out of state ammo manufacturer. I am thinking it won't be long before the feds pass a law against purchasing ammo out of state. No doubt California will be the first state to support such a law so they can get additional sales tax. No doubt California will be the first state to require paying a $25 fee for a background check to buy ammo -- any ammo, including shotgun shells. I really think that is coming.

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It's official! I'm engaged to the best girlfriend I could possibly imagine. This is my second time being engaged, but I took my time, this time, and I believe we're taking this step for the right reasons.
The engagement announcement brings with it a funny story. Well, I say "funny" in the euphemistic sense one uses when one can do little more than laugh at a situation so far out of hand. I won't bore you with the details, but let's just say that, since an incident in the eighth grade when a teacher put her job on the line to cover my lie, honesty and integrity have been exceptionally important to me. My commitment to integrity means that I work very hard to make my thoughts, words, and actions consistent. I often describe this by saying "if I'm lying to you, it's because I'm lying to myself."
I have never been one to blindly follow tradition. That's not to say I don't follow traditions, mind you. I just choose which ones I follow carefully, and with an eye toward whether or not I believe in their innate value. Speaking in the terms defined above, that means I can't follow a tradition just to follow it, I have to believe it.
To make a long story short, after much discussion, we decided that a reasonable compromise between what I wanted, what Irene wanted, and what we knew her father wanted, would be for me to ask for his blessing on our engagement. I regarded that as perfectly reasonable. The more people that are rooting for you, the better you're likely to do. It's an energy transfer thing. What I absolutely would not do was ask for permission to marry. It's not that I don't respect the man or his traditions, it's just that my asking his permission would not have been an act of integrity, because I don't believe that I (or we) need his permission. There's no point in asking someone's permission when you know you're going to bloody well do it no matter what they say. You might apprise them of your intentions, but if you're going to do it anyway, I believe that falsely asking for permission is, in fact, quite disrespectful.
So I asked for his blessing, and got it (along with an earful about how our current living situation isn't right). The next day, after watching a lamb roast on a spit all day (which, incidentally, is very fascinating), we extended the olive branch a foot farther by asking him to do the honor of announcing the engagement to those gathered for Easter. He said (emphasis mine):
Tripp and Irene have very honorably asked for my permission to marry, and I have given it...
Oh, well. We tried. It really doesn't matter, ultimately, but it does illustrate what we're up against.
I'd talk about technical things, but all I've done is fight fires and fix mistakes all week, which hasn't been very rewarding. Well, I did get some serious hacking done late last week and over the weekend on p4.py, a library for writing scripts against a Perforce depot in Python. Like all of my code, it rocks mightily, but is not ready for release :)
I should point out that I'm an Aries. Not just any Aries, either, but an Aries born right at the apex of the Aries cycle (April 6th). It's nice work, if you can get it. Well, I enjoy it, anyway. But, if you follow these things, you know that we're entering Taurus now, which is good, because Taurus finishes things, and I have a lot of crap that needs finishing! In fact, I need about a whole year of Taurus energy to catch up :)


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Nordahl's Queen of Spades (Sadie)
Nordahl's Dream in Extreme JH (Dixie)
Wild Meadow Retrievers
A guy who trains dogs in his spare time, develops an affair with a secretary from work. One afternoon, he and the secretary steal away blowing off a meeting and end up at a motel. After a rather vigorous "session" they end up falling asleep. When they awoke it is dark outside and he knows he has to think fast as he is way late to be back home with the wife. As he is leaving the motel he detours thru the flower bed of the motel. When he gets home his wife is pretty aggravated, asking what he has been up to and spitting out questions before he can answer a one. Then she looks down at the mud he tracked in on his shoes and screams at him "you crazy SOB, you have been dog training again haven't you!! Don't try to deny it!!" He hangs his head and admits yes I was dog training.
Nate Baxter, DVM
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Marty, that sounds great! Menu won't be out from my end until Friday night.
Mark Land
"If you're too busy to duck hunt, you're too busy" - Jase Robertson
"You're going hunting again? In this weather?" - My wife
Twin Willows Take Me To The Top
Getting ready to take over the world.
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Soon to be the next big thing.
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The queen bee. My version of the once-in-a-lifetime dog. I regret not sharing her with the world. Forever my baby girl
you know your a dog trainer/handler when the first thing you do when you get back from a mission trip out of the country is take the first day of work off to go see/train your dog with the trainer/friend who has kept your dog for the last week.
...you spend 24 minutes reading a thread on RTF to see if you're a dog trainer/handler.
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Alice L. Camenzind
Alice Louise Camenzind, age 97 of Monroe, died peacefully at home on Thursday, December 27, 2012, with her daughter and son by her side. Alice was born on October 11, 1915 in Albany Township, Green County, the daughter of Jacob and Elise (Janzi) Rufener. She graduated from Monroe High School in 1933 and from Green County Normal School in 1934. She married Franz Camenzind on April 13, 1936 at St. Victor Catholic Church in Monroe. She worked making cheese with her husband at the Gunderson Cheese factory near Yellowstone Lake and raising her family. In 1948 they moved to the Chapel Cheese factory near Rock Grove, IL, and later bought a small farm on the edge of Monroe after retiring from the cheese industry. Alice loved gardening, baking, cooking, and cross-stitching. She was a member of St. Victor Catholic Church, GUGG, Golden Agers, Swiss Club, and was a seasonal worker at the Swiss Colony.
Alice is survived by a daughter, Katherine Blaum of Lincoln, Illinois; and a son Franz J. Camenzind of Jackson, Wyoming; five grand children; seven great grandchildren; five brothers, Erwin (Ardelis) of Monroe, Arnold (Gloria) of Belleville, Ernest( Carol) of Monroe, Emil (JoAnne) of Monticello, and Walter (Sandy) Rufener of Monroe; and sisters Gertrude Voegeli and Erna Maske, both of Monroe. She was preceded in death by her parents; her husband on June 1, 1988; an infant son; and two brothers, Jacob and Armin Rufener.
Funeral services will be held on Monday, December 31, 2012, at 11:00 a.m., at St. Clare of Assisi Parish at St. Victor Catholic Church with Father Larry Bakke officiating. Interment will follow in Calvary Cemetery, Monroe. Visitation will be at the church on Monday from 10:00 a.m. until the time of services. In lieu of flowers a memorial fund will be established in Alice's name for the American Cancer Society. The Newcomer Funeral Home, Monroe, is assisting the family. To share a memory or sign the guestbook go to www.newcomerfuneralhome.net


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Korg PS-3200
The PS-3200 is a semi-modular synth from Korg, last in the PS series. Basically two PS-3100 synths in one enclosure and featuring 16 addressable and recallable memory locations for patch settings. In its time this synth was, to say the least, amazing. It has two oscillators for each key and 48 notes of full polyphony! Each VCO module has its own VCF and LFO too!
Although this synth was a polyphonic beast it was still pretty limited in terms of patching and signal routing relative to other modular systems. There was also a limited envelope generator design. But for its time this synth was one of the fattest things around and the included 16 patches of memory were a God-send! The memory system takes a snapshot of all your settings, and they can be recalled at anytime. The memory even lasts after the synth is turned off. Its sound is classic analog Korg. It has been used by Hans Zimmer, J.M. Jarre and Emmerson Lake & Palmer.
Pictured on top of the PS-3200 is the PS-3060 Programmer Remote Controller, for remote control of the PS-3200. It allowed users to remotely select any of the 16 memory patches. The PS-3010 48-key polyphonic remote keyboard and PS-3060 both used Korg's propietary model PS-3001 60P (60 pin) connection cable.
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Gaetano Di Giorgio plays Korg PS 3200
Brochure - PDF of 1980 Korg Brochure, submitted by Niels Kloes
- Specifications
- Polyphony - 48 voices
- Oscillators - 2 VCOs per voice
- Misc. - Built In 7-Band EQ
- Filter - Typical filter w/ resonance and envelope
- VCA - ADSR envelope generator
- Keyboard - PS-3010 48-key remote polyphonic keyboard
- Memory - 16 patches
- Control - CV/GATE
- Date Produced - 1978
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I'm slowly trying to take new photos for some of my earlier posts, and this was a recipe where I loved the combination of cucumber, avocado, mint, feta, and lime juice, but really hated the original photos. Recently I had guests for dinner, and I served this with Grilled Pork Kabobs with Spicy Peanut Butter, Sesame, and Soy Sauce Marinade, and managed to take new photos before the guests arrived.
I also realized the salad would look a little better if you carefully mixed in the feta after you added all the other ingredients, so I'm updating the instructions a bit. One thing that hasn't changed though, is that once again there were no leftovers, so I still can't tell you how well the salad would keep overnight in the fridge.
Cut the cucumbers into pieces about 1/2 inch square.
While cucumber is draining, cut and peel the avocado and toss with 1-2 tsp. fresh lime juice.
Whisk together the lime juice and olive oil to make the dressing.
Then gently stir the crumbled feta into the other salad ingredients. Serve immediately.
Cucumber and Avocado Salad Recipe with Lime, Mint, and Feta
(Makes 2-4 servings, recipe created by Kalyn)
2 cups chopped cucumbers (3-4 medium cucumbers or 2 larger cucumbers)
salt, for drawing water out of cucumber
1-2 ripe avocados, peeled and chopped into 1/2 inch pieces
1-2 tsp. fresh lime juice (to toss with avocado)
1/2 cup finely chopped fresh mint (measure after chopping)
1/2 cup crumbled feta (more or less to taste)
Dressing Ingredients:
2 T extra-virgin olive oil
1 T fresh lime juice
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Becker muscular dystrophy is an inherited disorder that involves slowly worsening muscle weakness of the legs and pelvis.
Benign pseudohypertrophic muscular dystrophy; Becker's dystrophy
Becker muscular dystrophy is very similar to Duchenne muscular dystrophy, except that it gets worse at a much slower rate and it is less common.
The disorder is passed down through families (inherited). Having a family history of the condition raises your risk.
Becker muscular dystrophy occurs in about 3 to 6 out of every 100,000 births. The disease is found mostly in boys.
Females rarely develop symptoms. Males will develop symptoms if they inherit the defective gene. Symptoms usually appear in boys between ages 5 and 15, but may begin later.
Muscle weakness of the lower body, including the legs and pelvis area, slowly gets worse, causing:
Other symptoms may include:
The health care provider will do a nervous system (neurological) and muscle examination. A careful medical history is also important, because symptoms are similar to those of Duchenne muscular dystrophy. However, Becker muscular dystrophy gets worse much more slowly.
An exam may find:
Tests that may be done include:
There is no known cure for Becker muscular dystrophy. The goal of treatment is to control symptoms to maximize the person's quality of life. Some doctors prescribe steroids to help keep a patient walking for as long as possible.
Activity is encouraged. Inactivity (such as bed rest) can make the muscle disease worse. Physical therapy may be helpful to maintain muscle strength. Orthopedic appliances such as braces and wheelchairs may improve movement and self-care.
Genetic counseling may be recommended. Daughters of a man with Becker muscular dystrophy may carry the defective gene and could pass it on to their sons.
You can ease the stress of illness by joining a support group where members share common experiences and problems.
See: Muscular dystrophy - support group
Becker muscular dystrophy leads to slowly worsening disability, although the amount of disability varies. Some men may need a wheelchair, while others may only need to use walking aids such as canes or braces.
Lifespan is usually shortened if there is heart and breathing disease.
Call your health care provider if:
Genetic counseling may be advised if there is a family history of Becker muscular dystrophy.
Kliegman RM, Behrman RE, Jenson HB, Stanton BF. Muscular dystrophies. In: Kliegman RM, Behrman RE, Jenson HB, Stanton BF, eds. Nelson Textbook of Pediatrics. 18th ed. Philadelphia, Pa: Saunders Elsevier; 2007:chap 608.
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RATHDRUM, Idaho - The Kootenai County Sheriff's Office has identified the man who they say shot at an Idaho State Police Trooper Saturday morning.
The shooter is identified as 57-year-old Mitchell Lee Walck, also known as Mark Mackenzie.
Lt. Stu Miller with the Kootenai County Sheriff's Department said deputies first made contact with the suspect when he ran a stop sign on Highway 41.
Miller said Walck, driving a stolen truck, then led police on chase through Athol, Spirit Lake and Rathdrum. At one point speeds reached up to 80 miles per hour. Miller said deputies called off the chase several times for safety, only for it to be picked up again when the truck was spotted.
The chase finally came to an end in Rathdrum when Walck ditched his truck on a dead end street and then ran into the woods.
"He spun on the trooper, fired round from a handgun. Trooper wasn't hit thankfully," Miller said.
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Miller said they had close to 50 officers from several agencies, including the FBI, help in the search.
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"We need to get him and get him into custody. He has no regard for his life, our life and the public's life. So we need to get him in custody so the community is a lot safer," Miller said.
Detectives are now searching the stolen truck to figure out who he is and why he is running from police.
Walck is a between 5'8"-5'10", medium build, last seen wearing a gray long sleeve shirt, light blue jeans and a blue ball cap. If you see this man or anything suspicious call 911.


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I always save the driving questions for the last
25 minutes of the Q&A session at our Fearless
Caregiver Conferences because once that Pandora's
Box is opened, no other topic gets any airtime.
I know that none of you have any challenges getting
a loved one to stop driving when they are becoming a
danger to themselves and others, but please indulge
me the following.
We have heard some really ingenious methods that
caregivers employ when faced with the driving issue;
among them:
Don't make your decision solely on age-based
concerns. A driver's age is not reason enough to
revoke their license.
Find out what the laws in your state allow in these
instances; sometimes you can make an anonymous call
and the driver's bureau will call your loved one in
for retesting.
Enlist your loved one's doctor or the local police
department. This news is always better coming from
the professionals.
Give them a set of non-working car keys and always
offer to drive.
Once agreement is made about driving, put a large
note in the windshield reminding your loved one that
they agreed not to drive.
Sell their car; although people in more than one
city have reported that their loved one simply
bought a new one.
If you talk with your loved one with other family
members in the room, rehearse what is to be said.
It is much better when everyone is on the same page.
Remember to put yourself in your loved one's shoes
when the time comes to take away the keys. His or
her driver's license was a key to independence they
received in their youth. We must recognize their
fear that taking away this key feels like the
beginning of the end to them. How would you
Many times, people know when they can longer drive;
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dignity when they give up their license.
If you are thinking it is time to finally have that
talk with your loved one, do it as soon as possible.
You probably should have had it six months ago.
Remember, it could be worse. One caregiver told us
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had his license revoked by the state – his pilot's
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They think the same way about chiropractors.a substance that causes the symptoms of a disease in healthy people will cure similar symptoms in sick people. Scientific research has found homeopathic remedies ineffective and their postulated mechanisms of action implausible. Within the medical community homeopathy is considered to be quackery.
years ago all of the doctors pain killers and recommendations and warnings about having quacks work on my back,,,,, couldn't get me on my feet after 2 weeks in bed. Someone told me about chiropractors I gave them a try. I was hauled in to see one in a wheel barrow,(figurative) A half hour later I was out the door and back to work and doing cart wheels. The medical community doesn't know as much as they should. I don't trust a whole lot of what they or the government have to say about much.
Ephesians 6:12
For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places.
Psalms 12: 8
The wicked walk on every side when the vilest men are exulted
Isaiah 5:20 Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light, and light for darkness; that put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter!
[QUOTE=TBell;1051351]Clinical management of babesiosis in dogs with homeopathic Crotalus horridus 200C.
This piece of research is typical of those cited as demonstrating the efficacy of homeopathy in that it has serious methodological flaws. In this particular research, there wasn't even a control group! That's not just a serious flaw...it's a fatal flaw.
There have been many studies of the efficacy of homeopathy. The best that can be found is a placebo effect.
If you're not familiar with the placebo effect, you can read about that here:
Is there a placebo effect for animals?
A good writeup on homeopathy is here:
Here are a couple points made in the AVMA white paper on homeopathy, which accompanies the proposed resolution:
"Because it is unethical to offer ineffective therapies to clients, and dangerous to substitute a placebo therapy for truly effective medicine, there is a movement towards publicly acknowledging that there is no reason to believe homeopathic treatment has any real value in preventing or treating disease."
"In veterinary medicine, our clients can only have real choice, and justified faith in their veterinarians, if we are willing to be clear and honest in informing them when practices, such as homeopathy, are shown to be ineffective."
My guess is that the dogs in the study improved because their own immune systems were fighting off the pathogen.
Too bad they didn't include a 3rd group of dogs that received NO treatment, then we could tell.
Jeff Swackhamer
I don't mean to change the direction of this thread but how many people actually feed their dogs raw meat as a regular diet?
Terrie Tomlinson
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THE Rev. Dr. James Stewart, of Lovedale Mission Institute, South Africa, who, in May, 1899, was elected Moderator of the General Assembly of the Scotch Free Church, imparted his views with regard to the Transvaal question to a representative of the New York Tribune on the occasion of his visit to Washington in the autumn of 1899, to attend the Pan‐Presbyterian Council as a delegate from the Free Church of Scotland.
Dr. Stewart's title to speak on matters connected with the Transvaal rests upon thirty years' residence in South Africa.
On the morning of his election as Moderator of the General Assembly the Scotsman coupled his name with that of Dr. Livingstone as the men to whom the British Central Africa Protectorate was due.
The interview was published in the Tribune of September 24th, 1899.
Dr. Stewart said:—
"As to the principle politically in dispute, the British Government asks nothing more than this—That British subjects page: 55 in the Transvaal shall enjoy—I cannot say the same privileges, but a faint shadow of what every Dutchman, as well as every man, white and black, in the Cape Colony enjoys. Every Dutchman in the Cape Colony is treated exactly as if he were an Englishman; and every subject of Her Majesty the Queen, black and white, is treated in the Transvaal, and has always been, as a man of an alien and subject race. The franchise is only one of many grievances, and it is utterly a mistake to suppose that England is going to war over a question of mere franchise. Let us be just, however. There are in the Cape Colony and out of it loyal Dutchmen, loyal as the day, to the British power, which is the ruling power. They know the freedom they enjoy under it, and the folly and futility of trying to upset it.
"No superfluous pity or sympathy need be wasted on President Kruger or the Transvaal Republic. The latter (Republic) is a shadow of a name, and as great a travesty and burlesque on the word as it is possible to conceive.
"Paul Kruger is at the present moment the real troubler of South Africa. If the spirit and principles which he himself and his Government represent were to prevail in this struggle, it would arrest the development of the southern half of the continent. It is too late in the day by the world's clock for that type of man or government to continue.
"The plain fact is this:—President Kruger does not mean to give, never meant to give, and will not give anything as a concession in the shape of just and necessary rights, except what he is forced to give. He wants also to get rid of the suzerainty. That darkens and poisons his days and disturbs his nights by fearful dreams. There is no excuse for him, and, as I say, there need be no sentiment wasted on the subject. Let President page: 56 Kruger and his supporters do what is right, and give what is barely and simply and only necessary as well as right, and the whole difficulty will pass into solution, to the relief of all concerned and the preservation of peace in South Africa. If not, the blame must rest with him.
"I am sorry I cannot give any information or express any views different from what I have now stated. They are the result of thirty years' residence in Africa. But I would ask your readers to believe that the British Government are rather being forced into war than choosing it of their own accord. I would also ask your readers to believe that Sir Alfred Milner, the present Governor of Cape Colony, though undoubtedly a strong man, is also one of the least aggressive, most cautious, and pacific of men; and that he has the entire confidence of the whole British population of the Cape Colony. I know also that when he began his rule three years ago, he did so with the expectation that by pacific measures the Dutch question was capable of a happier and better solution than that in which the situation finds it to‐day. The question and trouble to‐day is, briefly, whether the British Government is able to give protection and secure reasonable rights for its subjects abroad."
The following was addressed by Mr. John Bellows of Gloucester, to Senator Hoar, United States, America, and was published in the New York Tribune, Feb. 22nd, 1900. Mr. Bellows, on seeing the publication of his letter, wrote the following postscript, to Senator Hoar:—
"As the foregoing letter was headed by the Editor of the New York Tribune, 'A Quaker on the War,' I would say, to prevent misunderstanding, that I speak for myself only, and not for the Society of Friends, although I entirely believe in its teaching, page: 57 that if we love all men we can under no circumstances go to war. There is, however, a spurious advocacy of peace, which is based, not upon love to men so much as upon enmity to our own Government, and which levels against it untrue charges of having caused the Transvaal War. It was to show the erroneousness of these charges that I wrote this letter."
The following is the text of the letter:—
"Dear Friend, I am glad to receive thy letter, as it gives me the opportunity of pointing out a misconception into which thou hast fallen in reference to the Transvaal and its position with respect to the present war.
"Thou sayest: 'I am myself a great lover of England; but I do not like to see the two countries joining hands for warlike purposes, and especially to crush out the freedom of small and weak nations.'
"To this I willingly assent. I am certain that war is in all circumstances opposed to that sympathy all men owe one to another, and to that Greater Source of love and sympathy in which 'we live and move and have our being.' Where this bond has been broken, we long for its restoration; but it cannot but tend to retard this restoration, to impute to one or other of the parties concerned motives that are entirely foreign to its action. Peace, to be lasting, must stand on a foundation of truth; and there is no truth whatever in the idea that the English Government provoked the present war, or that it intended, at any time during the negotiations that preceded the war, an attack on the independence either of the Transvaal or of the Orange Free State. It is true that President Kruger has for many years carefully propagated the fear of such an attempt among the Dutch in South Africa, as a means of separating Boers and Englishmen into two camps, and as an incentive to their preparing the colossal armament page: 58 that has now been brought into play, not to keep the English out of the Transvaal, but to realise what is called the Afrikander programme of a Dutch domination over the whole of South Africa. Thus, he a short time ago imported from Europe 149,000 rifles—nearly five times as many as the whole military population of the Transvaal—clearly with a view to arming the Cape Dutch in case of the general rising he hoped for. The Jameson Raid gave him exactly the grievance he wanted—to persuade these Cape Dutch that England sought to crush the Transvaal.
"An examination of the 'Blue Book,' which contains the whole of the correspondence immediately preceding the war, will at once show the patient efforts put forth by the London Cabinet to maintain peace. There are no irritating words used, and the last despatch of importance before the outbreak of hostilities, dealing with the insinuations just alluded to, is not only most courteous and conciliatory in tone, but it states that the Queen's Government will give the most solemn guarantees against any attack upon the independence of the Transvaal either by Great Britain or the Colonies, or by any foreign power. I am absolutely certain that no American reading that despatch would say that President Kruger was justified in seizing the Netherlands Railway line within one week after he had received it, and cutting the telegraph wires, to prepare for the invasion of British territory, in which act of violence lay his last and only hope of forcing England to fight; his last and desperate chance of setting up a racial domination instead of the freedom and equality of the two races that prevail in the Cape and Natal, and that did prevail in the Orange Free State.
"The cause of the dispute was this: In 1884 a Convention was agreed on between Great Britain and the Transvaal, acknowledging the independence of the Transvaal, subject to page: 59 three conditions: that the Boers should not make treaties with foreign Powers without the consent of the paramount Power in South Africa, i.e. id est , England; that they should not make slaves of the native tribes; and that they should guarantee equal treatment for all the white inhabitants of the country as respects taxation. As the whole war has risen out of Kruger's persistent refusal to keep his promises, both verbal and in writing, that he would observe this condition, I append the clause giving rise to the contention:—
"Article XIV. (1884 Convention).—'All persons other than natives conforming themselves to the laws of the South African Republic will not be subject in respect to their persons or property or in respect of their commerce and industry to any taxes, whether general or local, other than those which are or may be imposed upon citizens of the said Republic.
"The mines brought so large a population to Johannesburg that it at last outnumbered by very far the entire Boer burghers in the State. Kruger, seeing that the inevitable effect of such an increase must be the same amalgamation of the new and old populations which was going on in Natal and Cape Colony, and to a smaller extent in the Orange Free State, unless artificial barriers could be devised to keep the races apart, at once set to scheme modes of taxation that should evade Article XIV. of the Convention, throwing the entire burden on the Uitlanders, and letting the Boers, who were nearly all farmers, escape scot free. Farmers, for example, use no dynamite, miners do; and President Kruger gave a monopoly monoply of its supply to a German, nonresident in the country, who taxed the miners for this article alone $2,600,000 a year beyond the highest price it could otherwise have been bought for. This was his own act, the Volksraad not being consulted. Besides the high price, the quality of the page: 60 explosive was bad, often causing accident or death. When it did cause accident or death, the miners were prosecuted by the Government, from whose agent they were compelled to buy it, and fined for having used it!
"At the time the Convention was signed, in 1884, the franchise was obtainable after one year's residence. President Kruger determined to serve the Uitlanders, however, as George III.'s Government served the American Colonists, that is, tax them while refusing them representation in the control of the taxes. He went on at one and the same time increasing their burdens monstrously, while he prolonged the period of residence that qualified for a vote from one year to five, and so on, till he made it fourteen years—or fourteen times as long as when the Convention was signed. Nor was this all. He reserved the right personally to veto any Uitlander being placed on the register even after the fourteen years if he thought he was for any reason objectionable. That is, the majority of the taxpayers were disfranchised for ever! These Uitlanders had bought and paid for 60 per cent. of all the property in the Transvaal, and 90 per cent. of the taxes were levied from them; an amount equal to giving every Boer in the country $200 a year of plunder.
"Is a country that is so governed justly to be called a 'Republic?'
"But even the Boers themselves have been adroitly edged out of power by Paul Kruger. The Grondwet, or Constitution, provided that to prevent abuses in legislation, no new law should be passed until the bill for it had been published three months in advance. To evade this, Kruger passed all kinds of measures as amendments to existing laws; which, as he explained, not being new laws, required no notification! Finally, however, he got the Volksraad to rescind this article of the Grondwet; and now, as page: 61 for some time past, any law of any sort can be passed by a small clique of Kruger's in secret session of the Raad without notice of any sort, and without the knowledge or assent of the people. The Boers have no more voice in such legislation than if they were Chinese. The Transvaal is only a Republic in the same sense that a nutshell is a nut, or a fossil oyster shell is an oyster.
"All the British Government has ever contended for with President Kruger has been the fair and honourable observance of his engagement in respect of equal rights in Article XIV. of the 1884 Convention. This he has persistently and doggedly refused, while he has been using the millions of money he has wrung from the Uitlanders to purchase the material for the war he has been long years preparing on such a colossal scale to drive the English out of those Colonies in which they have given absolute equality to all. It is this very equality which has upset his calculations, by its leaving too few malcontents among the Dutch population to make any general rising of them possible in Natal or the Cape, on which rising Kruger staked his hope of success in the struggle. As for the Transvaal Boers, the only part they have in the war is to fight for their independence, which was never threatened until they invaded British territory, and thus compelled the Queen's Government to defend it.
"The only alternative left to England to refuse fighting would have been the ground that all war is wrong; but as neither England nor any other nation has ever taken this Christian ground, there was in reality no alternative. Is it fair to stigmatise England as endeavouring to crush two small and weak nations because they have been so small in wisdom and weak in common sense as to become the tools of the daring and crafty autocrat who has decoyed both friend and foe into this war?—I am, with high esteem, thy friend,—JOHN BELLOWS."page: 62
It does not come within the scope of this treatise to deal with the case of the Uitlanders,—but I have given the foregoing, because it is a clear and concise statement of that case, and because it expresses the strong conviction that I and many others have had from the first, that the worst enemy the Boers have is their own Government. A Government could scarcely be found less amenable to the principles of all just Law, which exists alike for Rulers and ruled. These principles have been violated in the most reckless manner by President Kruger and his immediate supporters. The Boers are suffering now, and paying with their life‐blood for the sins of their Government. Pity and sympathy for them, (more especially for those among them who undoubtedly possess higher qualities than mere military prowess and physical courage,) are consistent with the strongest condemnation of the duplicity and lawlessness of their Government.
The Rev. Charles Phillips, who has been eleven years in South Africa, has given his opinion on the native question.
It was part of the Constitution of the Transvaal that no equality in Church or State should be permitted between whites and blacks. In Cape Colony, on the contrary, the Constitution insisted that there should be no difference in consequence of colour. Mr. Phillips enumerates the oppressive conditions under which the natives live in the Transvaal. They may not walk on the sidepaths, or trade even as small hucksters, or hold land. Until two years ago there was no marriage law for the blacks, and that which was then passed was so bad—a £3 fee being demanded for every marriage, with many other difficulties placed in the way of marriage—that the missionaries endeavoured to procure its abolition, and to return to the old state of things. No help is given towards the education of native children, page: 63 though the natives pay 3 per cent. of the revenue, the Boers paying 7½, and the Uitlanders 89½. The natives have, therefore, actually been helping to educate the Boer children. "In 1896," says Mr. Phillips, "only £650 was granted to the schools of those who paid nine‐tenths of the revenue, £63,000 being spent upon the Boer Schools. In other words, the Uitlander child get 1s. 10d., the Boer child £8 6s. 1d. The Uitlander pays £7 per head for the education of every Boer child, and he has to provide in addition for the education of his own children."
The following extract is from a more general point of view, but one which it is unphilosophical to overlook.
The Christian Age reproduces a communication from an American gentleman residing in the Transvaal to the New York Independent.
"The Boers," Mr. Dunn says, "are, as a race—with, of course, individual exceptions—an extraordinary instance of an arrested civilisation, the date of stoppage being somewhere about the conclusion of the seventeenth century. But they have not even stood still at that point. They have distinctly and dangerously degenerated even from the general standard of civilisation existing when Jan van Riebeck hoisted the flag of the Dutch East Indian Company at Cape Point. The great cardinal fact in connection with the Uitlander population is that, owning to their numbers and activity, they have brought in their train an influx of new wealth into the Transvaal of truly colossal dimensions. Thus, to sum up the distinctive and divergent characteristics of the two classes into which the population of the South African Republic is divided—the Boers, or old population, are conservative, ignorant, stagnant, and a minority; the Uitlanders, or new population, are progressive, full of enterprise, energy and work, page: 64 and constitute a large majority of the total number of inhabitants.
"It has so happened, therefore, that the Boers, as the ruling and dominant class, have hopelessly failed to master or comprehend the new conditions with which they have been called upon to deal. They have not, as a body, shown either capacity or desire to treat the new developments with even a remote appreciation of their inherent value and inevitable trend. The Boer has simply set his back against the floodgates, apparently oblivious or indifferent to the fact that the hugely accumulating forces behind must one day burst every barrier he may choose to set up. That is the whole Transvaal situation in a sentence.
"It is necessary to point out, further, that this blind and dogged determination on the part of the Boers to 'stop the clock' affects not merely the Transvaal; it is vitally and perniciously affecting the whole of South Africa. But for the obstructiveness and obscurantism of the Transvaal Boers, the rate of progress and development which would characterise the whole South African continent would be unparalleled in the history of any other country. The reactionary policy of the Transvaal is the one spoke in the wheel. It must therefore be removed in the name of humanity and civilisation."
M. Elisée Reclus, the great Geographer, an able and admittedly impartial Historian, wrote some years ago in his "Africa," Vol. 4, page 215:—
"The patriotic Boers of South Africa still dream of the day when the two Republics of the Orange and the Transvaal, at first connected by a common customs union, will be consolidated in a single 'African Holland,' possibly even in a broader confederacy, comprising all the Afrikanders from the Cape of Good Hope to page: 65 the Zambesi. The Boer families, grouped in every town throughout South Africa, form, collectively, a single nationality, despite the accident of political frontiers. the question of the future union has already been frequently discussed by the delegates of the two conterminous Republics. But, unless these visions can be realized during the present generation, they are foredoomed to failure. Owing to the unprogressive character of the purely Boer communities and to the rapid expansion of the English‐speaking peoples by natural increase, by direct immigration, and by the assimilation of the Boers themselves, the future 'South African Dominion' can, in any case, never be an 'African Holland.' Whenever the present political divisions are merged in one State, that State must sooner or later constitute an ' African England,' whether consolidated under the suzerainty of Great Britain or on the basis of absolute political autonomy. But the internal elements of disorder and danger are too multifarious to allow the European inhabitants of Austral Africa for many generations to dispense with the protection of the English sceptre.
"Possessing for two centuries no book except the Bible, the South African Dutch communities are fond of comparing their lot with that of the 'Chosen People.' Going forth, like the Jews, in search of a 'Promised Land,' they never for a moment doubted that the native populations were specially created for their benefit. They looked on them as mere 'Canaanites, Amorites, and Jebusites,' doomed beforehand to slavery or death.
"They turned the land into a solitude, breaking all political organization of the natives, destroying all ties of a common national feeling, and tolerating them only in the capacity of 'apprentices,' another name for slaves.
"In general, the Boers despise everything that does not contribute directly to the material prosperity of the family group. page: 66 Despite their numerous treks, they have contributed next to nothing to the scientific exploration of the land.
"Of all the white intruders, the Dutch Afrikanders show themselves, as a rule, most hostile to their own kinsmen, the Netherlanders of the mother country. At a distance the two races have a certain fellow‐feeling for each other, as fully attested by contemporary literature; but, when brought close together, the memory of their common origin gives place to a strange sentiment of aversion. The Boer is extremely sensitive, hence he is irritated at the civilized Hollanders, who smile at his rude African customs, and who reply, with apparent ostentation, in a pure language to the corrupt jargon spoken by the peasantry on the banks of the Vaal of Limpopo."
No impartial student of recent South African History can fail, I think to see that the results of Mr. Gladstone's policy in the retrocession of the Transvaal have been unhappy, however good the impulse which prompted his action. To his supporters at home, and to many of his admirers throughout Europe, his action stood for pure magnanimity, and seemed a sort of prophetic instalment of the Christian spirit which, they hoped, would pervade international politics in the coming age.
To the Transvaal leaders it presented a wholly different aspect. It meant to them weakness, and an acknowledgment of defeat. "Now let us go on," they felt, "and press towards our goal, i.e. id est , the expulsion of the British from South Africa." The attitude and conduct of the Transvaal delegates who came to London in 1883, and of their chiefs and supporters, throws much light on this effect produced by the act of Mr. Gladstone.
There can be no doubt that the desire to supplant British by Dutch supremacy has existed for a long time. President Kruger puts back the origin of the opposition of the two races to a very page: 67 distant date. In 1881, he said, "In the Cession of the Cape of Good Hope by the King of Holland to England lies the root out of which subsequent events and our present struggle have grown." The Dutch believe themselves,—and not without reason,—capable of great things, they were moved by an ambition to seize the power which they believed,—and the retrocession fostered that belief,—was falling from England's feeble and vacillating grasp. "Long before the present trouble" say a Member of the British Parliament well acquainted with South African affairs, "I visited every town in South Africa of any importance, and was brought into close contact with every class of the population; wherever one went, one heard this ambition voiced, whether advocated or deprecated, but never denied. It dates back some forty or fifty years."* The first reference to it is in a despatch of Governor Sir George Grey, in 1858; and it is to be found more definitely in the speeches of President Burgers in the Transvaal Raad in 1877 before the annexation, and in his apologia published after the annexation. The movement continued under the administration of Sir Bartle Frere, who wrote in a despatch (published in Blue book) in 1879, "The Anti‐English opposition are sedulously courting the loyal Dutch party (a great majority of the Cape Dutch) in order to swell the already considerable minority who are disloyal to the English Crown here and in the Transvaal." Mr. Theodore Schreiner, the brother of the Cape Premier, in a letter to the "Cape Times," November, 1899, described a conversation he had some seventeen years ago with Mr. Reitz, then a judge, afterwards President of the Orange Free State, and now State Secretary of the Transvaal, in which Mr. Reitz admitted that it was his object to overthrow the British power
* Speech of Mr. Drage, M.P., at Derby, December, 1899.
page: 68 and expel the British flag from South Africa. Mr. Schreiner adds, "During the seventeen years that have elapsed I have watched the propaganda for the overthrow of British power in South Africa being ceaselessly spread by every possible means, the press, the pulpit, the platform, the schools, the colleges, the legislature; and it has culminated in the present war, of which Mr. Reitz and his co‐workers are the origin and the cause."
The Retrocession of the Transvaal (1881) gave a strong impulse to this movement, and encouraged President Kruger in his persistent efforts since that date to foster it. A friend of the late General Joubert,—in a letter which I have read,—wrote of Mr. Kruger as "the man who, for more than twenty years past, has persistently laboured to drive in the wedge between the two races. It has been his deliberate policy throughout."
I always wish that I could separate the memory of that truly great man, Mr. Gladstone, from this Act of his Administration. Few people cherish his memory with more affectionate admiration than I do. Independently of his great intellect, his eloquence, and his fidelity in following to its last consequences a conviction which had taken possession of him, I revered him because he seemed like King Saul, to stand a head and shoulders above all his fellows,—not like King Saul in physical, but in moral stature. Pure, honourable and strong in character and principles, a sincere Christian, he attracted and deserved the affection and loyalty of all to whom purity and honour are dear. I may add that I may speak of him, in a measure also as a personal friend of our family. I have memories of delightful intercourse with him at Oxford, when he reprresented that constituency, and later, in other places and at other times.
I recall, however, an occasion in which a chill of astonishment and regret fell upon me and my husband (politically one of his page: 69 supporters), in hearing a pronouncement from him on a subject, which to us was vital, and had been pressing heavily on our hearts. I allude to a great speech which Mr. Gladstone made in Liverpool during the last period of the Civil War in America, the Abolitionist War. Our friend spoke with his accustomed fiery eloquence wholly in favour of the spirit and aims of the combatants of the Southern States, speaking of their struggle as one on behalf of liberty and independence, and wishing them success. Not one word to indicate that the question which, like burning lava in the heart of a volcano, was causing that terrible upheaval in America, had found any place in that great man's mind, or had even "cast its shadow before" in his thoughts. It appeared as though he had not even taken in the fact of the existence of those four millions of slaves, the uneasy clanking of whose chains had long foreboded the approach of the avenging hand of the Deliverer. This obscured perception of the question was that of a great part, if not of the majority, of the Press of that day, and of most persons of the "privileged" classes; but that he, a trusted leader of so many, should be suffering from such an imperfection of mental vision, was to us an astonishment and sorrow. As we left that crowded hall, my companion and I, we looked at each other in silent amazement, and for a long time we found no words.
As I look back now, there seems in this incident some explanation of Mr. Gladstone's total oblivion of the interests of our loyal native subjects of the Transvaal at the time when he handed them over to masters whose policy towards them was well known. These poor natives had appealed to the British Government, had trusted it, and were deceived by it.
I recollect that Mr. Gladstone himself confessed, with much humility it seemed to us, in a pamphlet written many years after page: 70 the American War, that it "had been his misfortune" on several occasions "not to have perceived the reality and importance of a question until it was at the door." This was very true. His noble enthusiasm for some good and vital cause so engrossed him at times that the humble knocking at the door of some other, perhaps equally vital question, was not heard by him. The knocking necessarily became louder and louder, till at last the door was opened; but then it may have been too late for him to take the part in it which should have been his.


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Title: Home Trust Company Building
Description: Partial frontal street level view of the Home Trust Company; located at 1117-1119 Walnut. Company letterhead and logo is on the back of photograph #12.
Date: ca1928
Photographer: Tyner & Murphy
Item Type: Photograph, b/w
Collection: Scrapbook Collection #2 - Henry Green Scrapbook (P12)
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Location: P12, Box 1, Folder 11, Number 11
Local Subject: Home Trust Company; Buildings
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During the day Thursday, the Washington County Safety center received twelve reports of vandalism within the city of Washington. The reports ranged from vehicles and buildings being vandalized with spray paint at these locations throughout the city: the 600 block of South 7th Avenue, the 500 block of South Avenue B, the 600 block of East Jefferson Street, the 400 block of East Harrison Street, the 600 block of South 2nd Avenue, the 600 block of East Washington Street, the 700 block of South Marion Avenue, the 700 block of South 8thAvenue and the 400 block of East Main Street.
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|From bare-faced beauty to glamorous goddess, these starlets sure know how to wear fall's biggest trends! We spoke to top celebrity makeup artists on how to perfect each look, so you can rock them, too. Read on!
Envisioning a Debbie Harry vibe for Kate Bosworth's Met Gala appearance, makeup artist Pati Dubroff chose to flaunt Kate's famously two-toned eyes with bold, lustrous shadow, using a "pop of killer gold" as the main focus. "On the center and inner lid, I used Chanel Limited Edition Stylo Eyeshadow in Cool Gold ($34; chanel.com) and to add more "bling" I used Chanel Illusion d'Ombre in Apparance and Vision ($36 each; chanel.com), so that the gold is the big statement," she said. Goal achieved!
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| Nail trend alert: Hailee Steinfeld's fun, starburst mani managed to match the pattern on her dress, while also working double duty to support a good cause. Taking part in an anti-bullying campaign, Hailee chose to sport blue polish on just her pinky nails, symbolizing a "pinky swear" promise to always be kind. As for the design, celebrity manicurist Ashlie Johnson used Chanel Le Vernis Nail Colour in Blue Satin ($27; chanel.com) and a long striping brush to create the starbursts seen on her ring fingers. "To make the points, dip the long thin brush into the polish and make the points connect into a star shape and fill in the empty space," she told us. Polish on a top coat to get her shiny finish.
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| Dianna Agron's simple white Valentino dress called for some serious color in her beauty routine and makeup artist Gianpaolo Cecilato took full advantage of the opportunity. Choosing to go with a vibrant, shimmery eye, Cecilato used a teal and forest green palette (Smooth Eye Colour Duo in Laguna by Dolce and Gabbana, $42; sephora.com) to create the bright, bold look. "I applied the darker shadow up to the crease and blended it, and smudged the color along the bottom lashes from side to side," he said. Faux voluminous lashes completed the eye-popping style.
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| Old Hollywood glam is never complete without a dramatic red lip, and Amanda's Seyfried's striking crimson pout definitely didn't disappoint. Along with a flawless application of Cle De Peau Extra Rich Lipstick in Red Abundance ($60; nordstrom.com), the rest of Amanda's face remained low-key, easily allowing those full, vibrant lips to make a fresh, bold statement.
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| At the Met Gala, Diane Kruger's take on the punk theme was impossible to ignore – a strong, smoky eye with blue accents put the finishing touches on her red carpet style. To achieve this "beautiful, yet powerful" look, makeup artist Fulvia Farolfi applied Chanel Stylo Eyeshadow in Blue Bay ($34; chanel.com) on the top and bottom lids and then continued using the brand's shadow pen in Black Stream on the outer corners. To add even more shimmery shades of blue, Farolfi turned to Chanel Quadra Eyeshadow in Lagons ($59; chanel.com), sweeping the palette's lightest shadow in the inner corners for extra sparkle.
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| While some may skip blush fearing a clown-like appearance, Rose Byrne proves that with the right shade and proper application, it can warm up your entire face in seconds. To give Rose a healthy flush, makeup artist Monika Blunder used CHANEL Powder Blush in In Love ($43; chanel.com), which worked wonders to create a soft, peachy complexion. Blunder's tip to scoring a natural looking glow? Only apply the blush to the apples of your cheeks for a subtle pop of color.
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| The Hart of Dixie star is all about her signature smoky eye, so when she sported a much more dramatic take on the traditional cat eye, we knew we had to give it the attention it deserved. Starting with a typical cat eye using Skinny SmolderEYES™ Amazonian Clay Waterproof Liner in Onyx ($19; tartecosmetics.com), makeup artist Amy Nadine added some extra drama by making it "thicker and more angular." Once drawing a line halfway to the end of Rachel's brow, without lifting her pencil, Nadine completed the edgy look by tracing it back to the inner corners, filling it all in to create a diamond-like shape. Black shadow and two coats of mascara were applied to the finished product.
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| The "Scandal" star isn't afraid to make a statement, and we certainly couldn't keep our eyes off the red hot shade that completed her look at the Teen Choice Awards. With "rock-n-roll glam" in mind, makeup artist Carola Gonzalez paired Kerry's jeweled Stella McCartney dress with a subtle lavender eye and lush lushes, and thanks to a smooth application of Lancôme Color Design Lipcolor in Red Haute ($22; sephora.com), her bright pucker stayed the center of attention long after the red carpet was over.
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| While the singer's short, edgy 'do continues to be in the spotlight, it was her long, voluminous lashes that totally stole the show at the Teen Choice Awards. To get Miley's full, fanned out fringe, makeup artist Denika Bedrossian swiped on loads of Lancôme Hypnôse Drama Mascara ($27; sephora.com) to the top and bottom lashes. Big, dramatic eyelashes were the end result – no falsies necessary.
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Cutely packaged cupcakes +
Lemon frozen yogurt and raspberry pops (reminds me of how I sometimes call my dad "Popsicle") +
Design exercise for your brain (brings me back to my earliest drawings, which always started w/ some random squiggle on a blank page… inside of my history notebook… while spacing out in class) +
Check in first thing tomorrow for some seriously stellar bridal shower inspiration. (This one had me at pink peonies… and closed the deal with chocolate ganache centered espresso macarons. So, you know, check it out, if you're into that sort of thing.)


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The League of Nations was championed by President Woodrow Wilson in a fourteen-point speech to a joint session of Congress on January 8, 1918, and formally began its operations in January 1920. However, the League failed to win Senate approval and is forever remembered as a major example of a communications breakdown between the president and the Senate.
The major players in this drama were Wilson, the Democratic president, who was stubborn and unwilling to compromise, and Henry Cabot Lodge, the senior senator from Massachusetts for twenty-five years. In 1916, when Wilson had been reelected president, the United States had stayed out of the European war, and Democrats won both houses of Congress. But in 1917, the combination of increasing U-boat attacks, Wilson's request for a declaration of war, and the approaching midterm elections in the fall of 1918, prompted unease in the country. Wilson issued an open letter in late October 1918 to his "fellow countrymen" urging that Democrats retain their majorities in both chambers and suggesting that a Republican victory would give comfort to the Germans.
The letter infuriated Republicans, who indeed had backed the war, and in the 1918 midterm elections the Republicans won control of both the House and the Senate. This allowed Lodge to become majority leader and chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. He offered a string of reservations to the League's charter, which Wilson refused to accept or even compromise on. Wilson asked Democrats to vote against the package, thinking he could change minds later. But Wilson suffered a crippling stroke in 1919 that incapacitated him for the remainder of his term. Republican Warren Harding replaced him as president in 1920, pledging opposition to the League and forecasting its failure in the United States.
The lesson for today's presidents is that compromise with the opposition usually can produce better results than refusing to negotiate.


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The late Mary Loretto Croghan Ramsay was known as one of Charleston's most influential residents, giving of her time and resources to enrich the community in her generous support of both disabled individuals and the arts, including Spoleto Festival USA. And on Friday, April 13, her legacy was celebrated at Spoleto's first annual 2012 Mary Ramsay Civic Award Luncheon in honor of this year's recipients John and Norma Palms. The Palms were selected due to their assistance in the growth and development of numerous organizations, including of course Spoleto, as well as Trident United Way, Mepkin Abbey, Catholic education entities, and more.
Guests, eager to toast the philanthropic couple, arrived in high spirits to the Governor Thomas Bennett House clad in the prescribed afternoon dress of hats and flats giving the historic home's garden a notably Royal Wedding look and feel. Norma looked especially springy in a vibrant pink feathered hat.
Mary Ramsay's family was in attendance including her granddaughter named for the Croghan's Jewel Box matriarch. Spoleto general director Nigel Redden mixed and mingled with the crowd, gearing up for his first of many 2012 festival parties to come. Attendees sipped white wine and chattered around the fountain as a string trio Charleston Virtuosi played in the background. Once seated, the Caviar & Bananas' catered luncheon awaited with bowls of chilled minted pea soup with lemon cremato start followed by pan seared salmon with basil beurre blanc. Mitchell Crosby of JMC Charleston elegantly set the scene with tables overflowing with pink bouquets and lovely stripped green clothes, chandeliers of greenery, and matching glassware. Reverend David B. Thompson gave a touching invocation saluting Mary Ramsay, followed by speeches from chairman emeritus Charles S. Way, Jr. and chairman of the board, Carlos E. Evans and the bestowing of the award to the couple. The sun shone brightly as guests chatted underneath the luncheon tents. As the afternoon slipped away guests recalled a remarkable woman and an equally remarkable couple dedicated to the arts and the city of Charleston.


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Does Obama Realize We Are at War Yet?
Refusing to interrupt his Hawaiian golf vacation for almost three full days after the Flight 253 attack, President Barack Obama finally emerged on December 28th to assure the American people that Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab was an isolated extremist and that he had already been charged with attempting to destroy an aircraft. Continuing to treat the incident like a common law enforcement problem Obama referred to Abdulmutallab as the suspect five times and promised he would not rest until we find all who were involved and hold them accountable.
Perhaps Obama should have stayed on the links for another 24 hours, because by yesterday it had become exceedingly clear that Abdulmutallab was in no conceivable way isolated and was instead very much part of al Qaedas larger war on the United States. Heres what we know so far:
According to CBS News, as early as August of 2009 the Central Intelligence Agency was picking up information on a person of interest dubbed The Nigerian, suspected of meeting with terrorist elements in Yemen.
According to the Wall Street Journal, the father of Mr. Abdulmutallab warned the CIA of his sons likely radicalization at the U.S. embassy in Abuja, Nigeria. That led to a broader gathering of agencies the next day, including the Department of Homeland Security, the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the State Department, in which the information was shared.
According to CNN, information on Abdulmutallab, including his passport number and possible connection to extremists, had been sent to CIA headquarters in Langley, Virginia, but it sat there for five weeks and was not disseminated.
Also according to the Wall Street Journal, the National Security Agency who had been monitoring former Guantanamo detainees in Yemen had communications intercepts suggesting a Nigerian was being prepped for a terror strike by al Qaeda operatives in that country.
And the Washington Post reports that not only did the British government reject an Abdulmutallab visa application this May, but that British Home Secretary Alan Johnson said that U.S. officials should have been told about the rejection and that he believes they were.
Faced with this preponderance of evidence that Abdulmutallab did not act alone President Obama finally admitted yesterday that a systemic failure has occurred. And I consider that totally unacceptable. It may have taken Obama four full days to reach this conclusion, after both White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs and Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano spent all of Sunday trying to convince the American people that the system worked, but his belated acknowledgment of the seriousness of the situation is welcome.
Also belatedly welcome is the acknowledgment that al Qaeda is a major force in Yemen that must be dealt with carefully. The Washington Post describes al Qaeda in Yemen as a major new threat to the United States, but there is nothing new about it. In fact, al-Qaedas first terrorist attack against Americans came in Yemen, the ancestral homeland of Osama bin Ladens father, who had migrated to neighboring Saudi Arabia before the birth of the al-Qaeda leader. In December 1992, bin Ladens followers bombed a hotel in Yemen that was used by U.S. military personnel involved in supporting the humanitarian food relief flights to Somalia. And in October 2000, seventeen American sailors on board the USS Cole, were killed in an al-Qaeda bombing in the harbor of Aden, Yemens main port.
The Obama administration must stop thinking of al Qaeda and Abdulmutallab as mere criminals. Obamas blindness to Abdulmutallabs al Qaeda connections and his insistence on calling him a suspect in the alleged bombing is the same mindset dictating Obamas decision to send Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and four other terrorists to New York for a civilian trial in federal court. Hopefully this incident will prod Obama into revisiting that historically bad decision.
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At Daimler, operating sustainably
means taking on responsibility as an automaker, as an employer, and as part of society. Our company pursues a clear sustainability strategy and has drawn up a far-reaching set of targets — its Sustainability Program 2020. Sustainability working groups monitor the program's implementation and continuously drive it forward.
employees completed a comprehensive onlinetraining course on topics related to integrity, compliance, and legal issues in 2014. The course is only one of a series of measures that Daimler is using to strengthen and enhance the culture of integrity at the company in cooperation with the employees.
grams of CO2
That's how much the total fleet of newly registered vehicles from Mercedes-Benz Cars in Europe emitted on average per kilometer in 2014. Emissions have therefore dropped by 19 percent over the last five years.
Daimler consumes 23 percent less electricity for the body and the assembly of each new S-Class vehicle than for the predecessor model. This reduction is due to a comprehensive energy efficiency project at the Sindelfingen plant. Daimler regularly introduces new energy-saving production methods and more efficient processes like those in Sindelfingen at all of its plants.
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of the executives in middle and upper management at Daimler AG were women in 2014. For the Group as a whole, Daimler wants to increase the proportion of women in executive positions to 20 percent by 2020.
More sustainability in the supply chain
— that's the aim of the Automotive Industry Guiding Principles to Enhance Sustainability Performance in the Supply Chain, which were published in 2014. The European Automotive Working Group, to which Daimler belongs, has teamed up with the U.S. Automotive Industry Action Group (AIAG) to present globally uniform minimum social and environmental standards for the automotive supply chain.
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Tutorial Details: Python From Basic to Advanced
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Python is a general purpose programming language with a rich syntax and structure. You can learn to use Python and see almost immediate gains in productivity relative to programming with other languages. Python has many modules specializing in various topics of interest to the scientific community and is used as an interface for numerous scientific packages. The morning section will provide an introduction to Python. Simple and advanced data types, variable assignment, control structures, mathematical and logical operators, program input and output, and functional programming will be discussed. The afternoon section will cover advanced features of Python relevant to high performance computing. Topics will include efficient data processing with NumPy, integrating compiled routines into python programs, and techniques for using python to drive parallel supercomputing tasks.


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A friend of mine posted this on facebook. I hadn't seen it before and thought it was worth sharing.
"It came to me that every time I lose a dog they take a piece of my heart with them, and every new dog who comes into my life gifts me with a piece of their heart. If I live long enough all the components of my heart will be dog, and I will become as generous and loving as they are." - Anonymous


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It's that time again, hot on the heels of Glory 5 London's success, Glory 6 Istanbul goes down this weekend featuring the rematch that we've all been waiting for in Gokhan Saki vs. Daniel Ghita. The two met in one of the most explosive fights of 2010 in the K-1 World Grand Prix and helped to cement their status as two of the best in the eyes of Kickboxing fans across the world. Since then, Daniel Ghita has become a lot more of a complete fighter and Gokhan Saki has done his best to prove that he's one of the top Heavyweights in the world. This is realistically a fight between the #2 Heavyweight and #3 Heavyweight in the world right now, which is really an awesome, awesome fight to put together.
Also on the card is Fabio Cyclone vs. Mourad Bouzidi, Alessandro Campagna vs. Andy Ristie, Filip Verlinden, Nieky Holzken and a whole lot more. As always, you'll be able to purchase the PPV event right here, on this very page and not only support Kickboxing and the Glory World Series, but support LiverKick.com and it'll just set you back $20.


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Passionate about the environment? Tour Israel's nature reserves, learn about farming in harsh conditions and visit sustainable-agriculture communities
Beginning your tour in the north, visit the Talmudic Village of Katsrin on the Golan Heights and an organic farm, using age old traditional methods of farming and livestock management. (To visit the farm, please call 04-696-2434).
Drive to Israel's eastern frontier, Alonei Habashan, to view the wind turbines used as an alternative source of energy.
Continue to Gamla Nature Reserve, with its host of animals and many well-preserved and dramatic remnants of the city among the first to revolt against Rome. The ruins are at the end of a hearty hour's hike, and also visible from a lookout, nearby which are also the ruins of a Byzantine village. The reserve boasts a phenomenal concentration of vultures and a beautiful waterfall.
Proceed to the Yehudiya Forest Nature Reserve's rivers, natural pools, and waterfalls. The 16,500-acre reserve is shaped like an outstretched hand: the palm is the Bethsaida Valley, and each finger represents a river with rushing water and waterfalls. The reserve is 400 meters above sea level at its highest point and gently slopes down toward the Sea of Galilee.
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Comments about PBS Secrets of the Dead: The Silver Pharaoh DVD:
Since I am an avid Ancient Egypt admirer, I was surprised to learn about this find, buried in time still as most people do not know about it. Fascinating!
Comments about PBS Secrets of the Dead: The Silver Pharaoh DVD:
Here is a Pharaoh whose name I never heard before. An explorer finds his tomb before WWII,of which I have never read.Finally, a monumental discover of treasury of which nothing has ever been taught to me. This DVD is an unbelievable classroom of history,adventure, and splendor.
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Beautiful & filled with interesting historicity!
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I originally saw the program when it was broadcast and wanted a DVD to be able to go back for reinforcement. I'm not an expert in ancient Egyptian history and this will help fill a gap in my knowledge. In fact, the discovery of the Psusennes I tomb filled a gap in archeology back in 1939, but is rarely discussed. I recommend this, if for no other reason, just to see the Pharaoh's spectacular sarcophagus! Way ta go PBS!
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Cons: There is a certain (expected) amount of sensationalism. For example, "The Intermediate Period" is treated like a historical black hole about which we know nothing; the treasure is said to be more spectacular than King Tut's (which may be true, but how would one assess that?). The now popular technique of re-enacting past incidents is used several times (e.g., the discovery of the tomb). There are minor imprecisions (e.g., "The Intermediate Period" mentioned was actually one of three and the others aren't mentioned). The political and economic relationships within Egypt (Upper and Lower) and across the Near East are discussed, but are not made clear (especially the internal politics which were very hard to follow).
Pros: The experts appear to be just that, being members of respectable and appropriate institutions (museums and universities); and, the things they say are believable in the context of modern Egyptian archaeology, not flakey theories used to attract an audience. The visuals are excellent, including mostly on-site, Egyptian scenes in the desert and in the laboratory. Dates and general historical timeline are accurate. All the flaws (Cons) are relatively minor.
Usefulness: As a college professor, I'm looking for informational accuracy and precision as well as meaningful analysis. "The Silver Pharaoh" fills the bill in most regards. It is also reasonably entertaining. The broadcast version (Nov. 3, 2010) was 50 min., rather than the 60 min. listed on the website for the DVD. Frankly, 50 min. is more convenient for me.


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Hmmm, had an interesting conversation with aaronlev the other day about Mozilla accessibility:
Should be working with him on some speech stuff soon.
Patrick Beard (of Netscape) and I are working on something called theme: for Mozilla.
Basically its a way of implementing skins for Mozilla on Mac OS (though potentially on any platform) which ask the operatng system to render the appearance of the controls (instead of using CSS or GIF/PNG images) thus ensuring the proper appearance.
will return a PNG of a pressed button in the current Mac Appearance theme.
You can check out progress in the Mozilla CVS at: