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Back in October, senior Team Obama adviser David Axelrod said, "I will shave off my mustache of 40 years if we lose any of those three states" referring to the swing states of Michigan, Minnesota and Pennsylvania. He won that bet and kept his 'stache.
However, per the Washington Post, David Axelrod said he'd still shave his mustache off if the "Morning Joe" crew raised $1 million for epilepsy research. Guess what Joe Scarborough did through a fundraiser in Boston and donations on SlashtheStache.com?
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I bet my friend's mustache that Axelrod will continue to be fully mustached:
"I will come on 'Morning Joe,' and I will shave off my mustache of 40 years if we lose any of those three states." [Michigan, Minnesota or Pennsylvania]
Beats eating your hat.
H/t: WaPo
As I posted earlier, Moderate Mitt? Hardly.
David Axelrod:
"I know the president is very much looking forward to seeing Governor Romney again. He's gotten a good look at the Romney routine, and now we'll have another engagement, and I think it'll be really interesting."
My take on the debate: There were certain expectations, and in President Obama's case, they were not met. However, that's a matter of style over substance. What Obama lacked in bite and passion, he more than made up for in the information that he wanted to get across about his policies, making points that needed to be made. Romney was hyped up and lied his fool head off, and hopefully, that will come back to bite him.
Unfortunately, the pundits are emphasizing superficiality and snap perception. If it was about policy, Obama won hands down, because Romney still refused to give details and told 27 myths in 38 minutes.
As Tommy Christopher astutely points out:
Romney's lies don't seem to matter to anyone in the media, who have relegated them to sidebar status, at best. This illustrates the problem with our political media landscape, the acceptance of post-truth politics, and while MSNBC's progressive point of view helped them to call out those lies more effectively, it also led them to focus more on the practical consequences of this debate. Rev. Al is right, the truth should matter, and Rachel Maddow is right, it doesn't matter as much as the prizefight does, but that's the role of journalism: to make the truth matter.
If it was only about emotional impressions, Romney surprised a lot of people with his energetic performance, and President Obama took us aback with his low key approach.
The president obviously needs to get out there and strut his stylistic stuff in the coming debates, but meanwhile, it's reality check time. As I'm seeing now in a speech in Colorado, Obama is already holding Romney accountable for his lies. Voters need to have it drummed into their heads that Romney is still the blatantly dishonest empty suit we all know he is, and this debate didn't change that one bit.
Mitt won the day. But watch ads that come from this debate for Mitt hoisted himself on new petards. The Obama camp shld be pleased.
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3.75/5 rDev -1.1%
12-09-2012 01:56:36 | More by Texasfan549
4/5 rDev +5.5%
07-07-2012 04:35:03 | More by MikalMick
4/5 rDev +5.5%
03-07-2012 19:08:55 | More by TrickkyGangsta
3/5 rDev -20.8%
02-26-2012 01:08:33 | More by Tumble
4.38/5 rDev +15.6%
Excellent, refreshing example of a hefeweizen. Hazy, pale golden color. Slight bit of sediment as expected. Creamy two finger head that fades quickly but leaves sea foam lacing.
Fresh lemon zest floats from a bready background with hints of black pepper and clove. Fruity notes with faint bannana hints.
The flavor is bready, grainy, and earthy with spicy notes of black pepper, clove and ginger. Bright fruit notes of lemon with bubblegum hints.
Crisp, thin, light, grainy and refreshing like a hefeweizen should be.
Overall, an excellent, refreshing example of the style.
01-02-2012 06:01:27 | More by JayS2629
5/5 rDev +31.9%
11-26-2011 19:30:22 | More by doucmehu
North Carolina
3.3/5 rDev -12.9%
Poured on-tap at the Tampa Bay Brewing Co brewery in Ybor City. The beer was served in a pint glass, and it is an opaque, pale, creamy yellow coloring with plenty of sediment and a thin film of head that clings well to the glass. The beer has a light nose that is bready and slightly clove spiced. Flavors are heavy floral and lemon tart that is so strong it's almost syrupy. Tartness becomes bitter on the aftertaste; almost astringent. The body is pretty smooth to begin with, but finishes with a spicy, crisp, dry bite.
06-11-2011 02:15:17 | More by GarthDanielson
3.68/5 rDev -2.9%
As expected, it was very hot & humid in Tampa (early August). After walking around Ybor a bit, I was ready for a refreshing beer.
This was served in standard shaker oint, It is a hazy dark yellow with a bone white head.
It has a big banana nose with some clove and allspice in the background.
Wow, lots of spice in the taste. I like the clove, pepper and allspice. It overpowers the grains. Maybe a bit unbalanced, but still tasty.
The mouth is slick and slightly oily.
I like the amped up spices, but it is a one and done for me.
08-06-2009 15:50:57 | More by Redrover
4/5 rDev +5.5%
Pours a pale straw color with a nice haziness. A decent sized white head formed and lasted throughout the drink.
Smell is fruity, with notes of hefe yeast, bananas and oranges, earthy hop notes, very nice.
Taste is very well balanced and not too sweet. Banana comes through as well as some spice. Very drinkable.
Mouthfeel is appropriate for the style nothing exceptional or odd to report here.
Drinkability is pretty high. Great thirst quencher.
03-14-2009 03:41:58 | More by gonzo46and2
Ontario (Canada)
3.48/5 rDev -8.2%
Enjoyed on-tap at the brewpub. Above-average, creamy mouthfeel, a lacey hefy with a wheat aroma. Cloudy bananna colour. Cloves. Suitable carbonation, though it is above average.High in pilsner malt. This batch listed at 5.2%. A sourness though really sweetened with sugar, malt.
02-20-2009 01:11:16 | More by Sammy
3.78/5 rDev -0.3%
Poured a cloudy golden yellow with a nice white head, good retention and lacing. Smells are big in banana and spices like clove, with some bread and lemon. Tastes of bananas, a touch of lemon, bread and cloves, with a slight hot dog water finish. Medium in body with nice carbonation. An easy to drink hefe, highly sessionable, could be especially tasty on a warm summer day in Florida, sitting on the patio at TBBC.
02-01-2008 23:15:38 | More by HopDerek
United Kingdom (Scotland)
4.03/5 rDev +6.3%
A - Exactly as one would expect from a Hefe Weizen and its not German!
S - Again this was hitting the right notes, wheaty and fruity.
T - Pleasingly fruity, little bitterness.
M - Good carbonation and very smooth.
D - A second is almost a necessity.
Of the beers I tried at the Tampa Bay Brewing Co I enjoyed this the most.
11-19-2007 00:01:56 | More by Stephen63
3.58/5 rDev -5.5%
Yellow with hints of orange throughout. White head drops to a film.
Smell is spice, wheat, citrus(orange), clove and cinnamon.
Taste is clove and other spices I could not separate, wheat, malt.
A smooth brew with a decent body, nice light effervescence. A good beer and well received on a typical Florida summer early evening (4/30/07).
06-15-2007 14:05:54 | More by PorterLambic
4.83/5 rDev +27.4%
Enjoyed this exceptional brew on tap in the new location of an old friendly brewpub. It's been too long since I've tasted this.
Appearance: the only thing keeping me from giving this a 5.0 is that it came in a pint glass, not a weizen glass. Yeah, I know, but it's my ultimate wheat dream. Cloudy, golden orange colored with a rocky off-white head, which recedes ever so slowly to form sticky lacing.
Smell: definitive bananas and cloves, grassy with other mild spice.
Bubblegum sweetness and fresh scents of wheat bread.
Taste: nice wheat bite, sweet overripe bananas and gum balanced by ever so mild hop bitterness.
Mouthfeel: refreshing medium bodied and enjoyable. Carbonation is right on the money for me.
Drinkability: I could sit open-mouthed below the open tap with this beer. I rate all other brewpub's hefes against Tampa Bay's. This is my ultimate hefeweizen.
01-23-2007 23:01:27 | More by Procrastinator
4/5 rDev +5.5%
Good x 5. Nice yellow color. Simple cloudiness hangs around under the thick white crown.
Curry (?), some pepper, orange, banana and lemon (she didn't put one in so I'm thankfull but I wouldn't care). Big aroma for a hefe.
Taste and mouthfeel are refreshing, and clean. Lemons, orange, and a mild malt undertone with a smooth grasp of hops following through. Slick but dissappated fast leaving anticipation for another drink. Too easy to gulp 3 more of these without paying attention.
06-02-2005 23:12:49 | More by Ahhdball
4.47/5 rDev +17.9%
Wild Warthog Hefeweizen has a great appearance. It's deep yellow and cloudy with a gossamer-like white head and substantial carbonation.
I was surprised by the smell. This smells like a German wheat beer! It is spicy with big banana and clove notes. They must have used special yeast, since most American wheat beers don't have the fancy aroma.
The flavor is equally good. It is spicy and tart, just like I would like it to be. There is no bitterness.
The body is light and smooth. This is very refreshing.
This is Tampa Bay Brewing Co.'s best beer. In fact, this is probably the best hefeweizen I have had that is brewed in America. If you visit this brewpub, you must try it for it is truly a standout beer.
04-25-2004 05:26:03 | More by Shaw
4.2/5 rDev +10.8%
Very cloudy pale-gold forming a small white head with good retention and lacing. Traditional aroma of over-ripe bananas and cloves. Mouthfeel is light and spritzy with a medium body. Taste is very traditional and also a very good representative of the style. Tart, lemony finish. Very nice.
03-24-2004 23:55:06 | More by Mitchster
2.3/5 rDev -39.3%
Aroma: pungent banana (too much to be only yeast oriented... did they supplement this with banana extract?), some breadiness, some clove
Appearance: straw color, reasonably cloudy. Despite the 60% wheat malt content it had LOW head retention (even with a dirty glass, it should have held up better). The bartender served this with a lemon wedge stuck on the glass... that's their practice, I guess... I removed it as soon as he put the beer down in front of me.
Flavor: Bananas and... mustard?!? That was my initial sense, really (and I wasn't even eating anything, let alone mustardy). Bananas and mustard slathered on fresh, peasant bread and sprinkled with some lemon juice. Has a tart, dry finish.
Mouthfeel: light-bodied and tight, spritzy carbonation.
If you've never tasted anything from this brewery, try something besides this one. I tried the casked One Night Stand Pale Ale and was happy with it.
03-09-2003 16:25:38 | More by GreenCard
4.08/5 rDev +7.7%
Cloudy yellow color, nice foamy head. Faint smells of citrus, yeast, and bananas noticable. Taste was very good and balanced, nice smooth banana, clove, and slight citrus taste. Very crisp and dry finish. Slightly watery feel, lacked the yeasty thick full bodied goodness of a hefe. I think maybe being on tap, it doesn't get the yeasty swill finish, is this possible ? All in all, really refreshing and tasty, a good version for a brewpub. But not as good as the big boys.
08-09-2002 13:58:54 | More by StevieW
North Carolina
4.78/5 rDev +26.1%
Wow! I love when Iam in the Tampa area so I can visit my favorite brewpub.Was one of the most refreshing beers I have had to date.Nice lemony fragrance and taste,nice and spritzy,had five of them and left wanting more!
04-11-2002 09:32:37 | More by oberon
4.55/5 rDev +20.1%
Description says it is made with 60% german malted wheat and you can definitely tell. The beer was a cloudy, tawny, light yellow with a good head that stayed all the way down. I wasn't able to get many aromas as this was served with a lemon that I didn't ask for already in it. Tastes of banana, yeast and light cloves were evident and accentuated by the lemon. Fairly highly carbonated beer with a good body to it. Avery drinkable beer. If I didn't have to leave I may have been sitting there all night drinking it. Wow, this is probably one of the best american hefe's I've had to date. I would definitely recommend this to anyone who visits this place. The food was not the greatest I have ever had, although I would be willing to give them another chance, but the beer quality and selection were both awesome.
03-10-2002 19:39:40 | More by Murph
Wild Warthog Hefeweizen from Tampa Bay Brewing Co.
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"Houston is a safe city. It's safer than it was a year ago, crime rates are dropping, violent crime rate per 100,000 is down about 5 percent this year compared to last. Homicide rates are down even farther, but we want to make this city safer still."
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But Hurtt says most of the problems the department is seeing now are in burglary and theft. The police department has been operating with about 4,800 officers. Houston Police Officers Union President Hans Marticic would like to see that number grow to 5,500. He says the initatives outlined will also help officer safety. The department is looking to return to two-person patrol units where possible.
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Mayor White also says the additional resources are possible without a property tax rate increase. Capella Tucker, Houston Public Radio News.


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Support Nadra Foster Friday, July 10, 9 a.m., 661 Washington, 5th floor, Dept. 111; support JR Valrey Wednesday, July 22, 2 p.m., 661 Washington, Dept. 115
This photo was taken as Nadra Foster was interviewed by the Labor Video Project at her first court hearing after the police beating at KPFA. One of her smaller wounds is visible at her left eyebrow. Her arm still has not fully healed. – Photo: Labor Video Project
The POCC Minister of Information JR, the associate editor of the SF Bay View newspaper, who was charged with felony arson on the first day of the Oakland Rebellions in response to the Jan. 1 police murder of Oscar Grant. MOI JR is facing three years in prison on these bogus charges. His next court hearing is July 22 at 2 p.m. in Department 115 at 661 Washington in downtown Oakland.
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Via Reddit…via Facebook:
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"We are all atheists about most of the gods that societies have ever believed in. Some of us just go one god further." ~ Richard Dawkins
"I contend we are both atheists, I just believe in one fewer god than you do. When you understand why you dismiss all the other possible gods, you will understand why I dismiss yours."~ Stephen F Roberts
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23 Responses to "Then I was unfriended."
Are you implying that the Harry Potter books aren't proof that Harry Potter exists?
If I knew who wrote this article, I'd unfriend that mofo soooo fast (even if that meant I'd have to friend the person, first…)
Time for us to get more curry.
As a Christian, even I found her argument stupid. While I believe that the bible is right, using that to explain why I think my beliefs are true is not going to work. Good job on the retorts and logic!
Haha *using the Bible to back up my beliefs to other who do not share my views is what I meant.
Yes, all respect to Christianity, and faith generally. As I said at the end, we can debate without hate! We have several great Christian writers on elephant, and are always more than open to others. The bottom line, for me, is responsibility and compassion, whatever the faith or lack of faith.
Encountered something similar a while back:
With all due respect your last comment on 'superstitions' has as much a tone of condescension as her post.
That post wasn't by me, friend–like I said it was via Reddit, via Facebook, I linked.
I would disagree on that one. Unless you consider calling a belief superstition is condescending. (in which case you shouldn't call anything superstition, including reading tea leaves and avoiding black cats)
Just posted to "Popular Lately" on the Elephant Spirituality Homepage.
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Most deities (Jesus, Horus, Mythra, Krishna… etc..) from well known religion are actually all based on the SUN and ZODIAC… but we have lost touch to this. Watch Zeitgeist
I was taking this article seriously until I read the "Allah" part. Allah = God, not a deity.
God is a deity. Duh.
The definition of deity IS god, a god, the supreme being.
So you took it seriously all the way until the second sentence? At least you overcompensated by taking those first two lines so seriously as to consider a screenshot of a facebook conversation as an "article," presumably one that was peer-reviewed.
Although he didn't explicitly call her "ignorant," he does hold an "I know more" attitude throughout the thread. He doesn't seem to be any more open to respecting her beliefs than she is able to be of others'. Thus, his last statement to "not make public posts calling people ignorant for not holding the same (beliefs)" is a bit ironic. Having a genuinely open heart and mind in the face of differing beliefs is tricky business! —and in the end, it's all just me projecting out my own ignorance (at least that's my favorite superstition of late)
That said, the point about using Harry Potter books to prove that Hogwarts exists is brilliant!
I just wanted to respond with a quote I once read: "Thank God I'm a Buddhist". Haha. I personally have what I like to call a cocktail of beliefs for myself, but Buddhism is one ingredient. I don't know whom the quote belongs to.
Hmm? I am suspicious of the authenticity of this exchange. I think it is strange that someone who likes to argue would pass up a point to explain why the other beliefs are (even if only in opinion) inferior.
Don't all books serve as interpreter of themselves?
For instance, are the Harry Potter books not self-referential?
Or, would you read "Catching Fire" and expect it to refer to "The Hunger Games" in a way that was incongruent with that first story, yet presented as congruent?
What!! Are you implying that Hogwart's doesn't exist???????
One must respect everyone's truth, even if we don't agree with them. I truly wish we could have a friendly debate while still respecting one another. But yes all one must do is research and you will easily see all the commonalities & trace it back to the Sun.
I would like to read the original bible as GOD wrote it …..not the one that King James changed to suit himself
Take your pick. There were hundreds of versions out there until Constantine had some of them eliminated in 320 or so CE in Nicaea. Some versions are really wild and perhaps you would prefer those to King James' version. The attempt was to get everyone on the same page and included assuming the Trinity as the answer to the existing dilemma how can the Son of God be Greater than his Father? Thus further splitting the Church and dividing it; Greek Orthodox par example.


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I have been running GATK2 ReduceReads on a large (100Gb) Bam file, and even though at the very beginning it runs very smoothly and predicts a week for finishing the task, after a few hours it gets totally stock. We first thought that it could be a garbage collection (or java memory allocation issue), but the logs show that the garbage collection works well.
The command is (similar behavior for smaller Xms and Xmx values) java -Xmx30g -Xms30g -XX:+PrintGCTimeStamps -XX:+UseParallelOldGC -XX:+PrintGCDetails -Xloggc:gc.log -verbose:gc -jar $path $ref -T ReduceReads -I input.bam -o output.bam
The first few lines of the log file are
INFO 01:12:21,541 TraversalEngine - chr1:1094599 5.89e+05 9.9 m 16.8 m 0.0% 19.4 d 19.4 d INFO 01:13:21,628 TraversalEngine - chr1:2112411 9.44e+05 10.9 m 11.6 m 0.1% 11.2 d 11.2 d INFO 01:14:22,065 TraversalEngine - chr1:3051535 1.29e+06 11.9 m 9.3 m 0.1% 8.5 d 8.5 d INFO 01:15:22,297 TraversalEngine - chr1:4084547 1.59e+06 12.9 m 8.1 m 0.1% 6.9 d 6.9 d INFO 01:16:24,130 TraversalEngine - chr1:4719991 1.82e+06 13.9 m 7.7 m 0.2% 6.4 d 6.4 d
but after a short while it gets totally stock, and even in the location 121485073 of chromosome 1, there is almost no progress at all, and the estimated finish time goes over 11 weeks, and still increasing.
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Once a Florida personal injury lawsuit which has been filed based upon claims of negligence, including situations involving medical malpractice and motor vehicle accidents, it is understandable that may clients become frustrated because their case is not progressing at a face paced. One of the main explanations of why personal injury or medical malpractice lawsuits are so lengthy is due to the time it takes to gather all of the medical records and bills. Many clients believe that obtaining copies of their personal medical records or bills is a simple process. But on the contrary, procuring this information can be a complicated and time-consuming procedure because of the various issues that could arise during the course of the litigation. Often matters relating to confidentiality laws, incomplete medical histories or determining whether or not expert testimony will need to be obtained will have an impact on the time it takes to end a lawsuit. Further, not only is the plaintiff's attorney interested in reviewing the medical records and bills, but also the opposing party, including insurance companies. For that matter, medical records and bills are the substances in a personal injury, medical malpractice or wrongful death lawsuit because this information is the foundation of what is needed to assess the value of any possible award of damages.
Thus it is important that for clients to realize that the release of their medical records is controlled by federal and state laws. In 1996, the federal government tightened medical confidentiality regulation with the passage of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPPA). Basically, among other provisions under the Act, a patient must consent to the release of their medical records to third-parties. Medical treatment providers such as hospitals, primary care physicians, nurse practitioners, chiropractors and other healthcare providers must abide by this and Florida medical confidentiality laws, or otherwise faces harsh penalties if they disclose an individual's medical records without their prior authorization. Also, when dealing with hospitals and institutions such as a nursing home, correctional center or jail, requests must be sent to an official authorized to release the client's medical records. Further, the official, who is commonly known as the Custodian of Records, must certify to the authenticity of the patient's record, particularly when the record is involved in a lawsuit.
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Monroe is the Top 10-14 ranked Power Forward by five different media sources.
Greg Monroe Detroit: 6-11", 250, 23yo
Pnts 16.4, Rebs 9.5, Blks 0.9, PER 19.29
"If the Pistons were dead set on keeping Monroe around, they would have already inked him to a massive extension. As it is, they've still got until October 31 to pursue that option. According to Vince Ellis of the Detroit Free Press, the parties haven't even discussed that possibility: There's a reason why you haven't heard a lot about Greg Monroe's contract situation—there's nothing to report. It's highly likely that the fourth-year power forward won't receive a contract extension from the Pistons before the Halloween deadline, meaning Monroe will be a restricted free agent next off-season"
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Houston Gives: Omer Asik
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Detroit Gets: Cj McCollum, Meyers Leonard, Claver, and Houston's 1st rounder
Detroit Gives: Greg Monroe
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Portland Gets: Omer Asik
Portland Gives: Freeland, McCollum, Leonard, Claver
Portland nets a solid defensive upgrade (their greatest need) for a win NOW team. $.4 mill net
Because Wes and Mo are here to stay, CJ will languish on our bench for two more years. Would CJ be able to impact like Lillard has? Risky! Were he a long true 2, and defensive stopper, would be cause for hesitation. Crabbe is a Proto 2 guard.
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Plotting your data can serve as a replacement to tabular data, and is also a great way to add practical graphics to your web page or application. There are many ways you can plot data, but here I have included 20 Really Useful Scripts To Plot Charts In Your Sites/Blog Pages which serves as a easy Charting solution. Hope you like it.
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Flot is a pure Javascript plotting library for jQuery. It produces graphical plots of arbitrary datasets on-the-fly client-side. The focus is on simple usage (all settings are optional), attractive looks and interactive features like zooming and mouse tracking. The plugin is known to work with Internet Explorer 6/7/8, Firefox 2.x+, Safari 3.0+, Opera 9.5+ and Konqueror 4.x+.
Style Chart is an innovative technology that allows you to easily embed sophisticated and dynamic charts in your Web site.
FC_RTGraph is a tool that allows you to collect and graph information from SNMP devices. FC_RTGraph takes an XML formatted config file as input. FC_RTGraph is an excellent tool for real-time monitoring. Collected SNMP data can be graphed in highly customizable 3D graphs (Bar, Area, Line, 3D).
Raphaël is a small JavaScript library that should simplify your work with vector graphics on the web. If you want to create your own specific chart or image crop and rotate widget, for example, you can achieve it simply and easily with this library. Raphaël uses the SVG W3C Recommendation and VML as a base for creating graphics. Raphaël currently supports Firefox 3.0+, Safari 3.0+, Opera 9.5+ and Internet Explorer 6.0+.
Edge cases such as tooltips encourage user interactivity and data exploration and you can re-size the charts. It can manage the missing data. This solution saves the chart as an image form. You can highlight or emphasize one (or many) points.
The Google Visualization API lets you access multiple sources of structured data that you can display, choosing from a large selection of visualizations. Google Visualization API enables you to expose your own data, stored on any data-store that is connected to the web, as a Visualization compliant datasource. Thus you can create reports and dashboards as well as analyze and display your data through the wealth of available visualization applications.
The YUI Charts Control visualizes tabular data on a web page in several possible formats including vertical columns, horizontal bars, lines, and pies. Notable features include support for the DataSource Utility, customizable series and axes, a customizable mouse-over datatip, combination charts, and skinning.
ProtoChart is an opensource library using Prototype and Canvas to create good looking charts. This library is highly motivated by Flot, Flotr and PlotKit libraries. It supports line, bar, pie, curve, mix, and area charts, multiple data series on same graph, customizable legend, grid, grid border and background. It supports: IE6/7, FF2/3 and Safari and even works on an iPhone.
EJSChart supports mouse tracking, mouse events, key tracking and events, zooming. Scrolling, and crosshairs raise interactivity and user experience in web charting to a new level. You can choose multiple chart types: line, area, scatter, pie, bar and function series. Every aspect of the charting display can be configured and customized through well-documented properties and methods.
Data visualization is mostly achieved with flash applications or with help of some programming languages. Are those solutions the only way to present, let's say simple data chart? How about giving it a try with nothing but good ol' css? CSSGlobe provides this useful tutorial which explains how to draw simple data Charts using only CSS, without using JavaScript or any backend application.
fgCharting is a nice jQuery plug-in which allows you to plot easly charts. It supports several types of charts (line, filledLine, additiveLine, additiveFilledLine, pie, bar, additiveBar) you can customize how you prefer.
If you need to graph 3-dimensional data, Canvas 3D Graph is worth checking out. Canvas 3D Graph is written with excanvas.js to support Internet Explorer.
Dynamic Drive Pie Graph script
DynamicDrive offers a DHTML/CSS based solution for graphing pie charts. The implementation is straightforward, just include two scripts provided (wz_jsgraphics.js and pie.js), define the values of each segment of your pie chart either inline or in an external JS file, and you're set!
Flotr Javascript Plotting Library
Flotr, written by Bas Wenneker of Solutoire.com, is a plotting solution inspired by Flot that uses the Prototype JS library and excanvas.js. It supports most modern browsers including Internet Explorer 6, and has many features of Flot including mouse tracking, selection, mouse-tracking features.
Emprise JavaScript Charts offers a free Personal License for their feature-packed charting/graphing script. Check out their feature comparison table of the different types of licenses to see which license is right for you.
Dynamic Drive Line Graph Script
The Line Graph script is another DHTML solution from DynamicDrive that allows you display line graph data. The procedure for implementation is similar to the Pie Graph script.
JGraph – JGraph is the leading Open Source Java Graph Visualization Library. It follows Swing design patterns to provide an API familiar to Swing programmers and functionality that provides a range of features. Graph visualization is a central requirement for applications such as workflow editors, computer and telecommunication networks display, flowcharts, VLSI and CAD, business process modeling, organizational charts, entity-relationship and cause and effect diagrams, and much more.
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"Overall risk of dying from cancer was reduced by 16% among people who took daily dose of aspirin when healthy"
Hmm… RR 0.84 for those taking aspirin prophylactically. RR <0.5 might be something but a null result even on 100K patients isn't really compelling given they had no history history of cancer nor obvious risks. What non-cancer morbidities did these people suffer? Were they exacerbated by this prophylactic treatment?
Taking a low dose of aspirin every day may reduce the risk of cancer and slow the spread of the disease, according to a study that followed the health of more than 100,000 patients.
Research by a team at the American Cancer Society in Atlanta found the overall risk of dying from cancer was 16% lower among people who took a daily aspirin pill for up to 11 years, with deaths from gastrointestinal cancers, such as oesophageal, stomach and colorectal cancers, falling by around 40%. Deaths from other cancers fell by 12% on average.
The findings, based on 100,139 men and women with no prior history of cancer, support previous claims that aspirin can protect against some forms of the disease, but suggest the effect is not as strong as those earlier studies found.


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In Union Square during the Farmers Market
One chilly day in January 2012
A Jewish Piano Celebration in Union Square
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"You don't appreciate Earl Thomas enough" is a fledgling meme I support, but I'm going to guess you don't appreciate Jason Jones enough either. He's been near unblockable in pass rushing situations, and he's had a big part in Bruce Irvin's early success. Both of Irvin's sacks yesterday came off of stunts with Jones, and the half sack that Irvin got in the Dallas game was shared with Jones. Jones also forced an interception yesterday that Thomas inexplicably dropped. The idea that he'll walk after his one year deal is up is terrifying.
Last week I wondered if Carolina's run first personnel packages would give Seattle's pass rush problems by denying opportunities for their subpackages. It did, as we didn't see Seattle get too crazy until the end of the game. It also didn't matter because Cam was terrible, Steve Smith was too busy trying to wrestle Sherman, and the Carolina running backs looked soft and slow. For all the draft capital and money they've poured into building a three headed running attack, it looked about as potent as the Cardinals ground game yesterday.
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Murrieta may have suffered setbacks during national recession — largely due to the city's dependence on property taxes — but the economic downturn did not kill the city and it is stronger than ever before, the mayor said during the annual State of the City Address on Tuesday, Feb. 26.
Speaking to a packed banquet room at Bear Creek Golf Club, Mayor Rick Gibbs did not shy from pointing out that the housing crash and unanticipated drop in sales tax revenue cost the city $11 million and nearly 100 employees in the last five years.
However, Gibbs said, the city in that same time frame has balanced its budget at $32 million and retained 272 staff members, roughly half in the city's police and fire departments.
Even with less workers and money, the city has continued to invest in its future by approving $150 million in infrastructure projects and acquiring a horse ranch for public use. It has also put paramedics on all its fire engines, recruited medical experts to provide specialty services locally and launched programs to kick-start small businesses and to export Murrieta-manufactured goods to the global market.
"If you've seen "Shark Tank," you know it's exactly like that," Gibbs said, referring to the ABC reality show that provides a platform for entrepreneurs to pitch ideas to potential investors. "We will focus on the industries of the future for those bright little kids out there so that we can keep them here."
Much of Gibbs' speech focused on efforts to globalize the city, such as educational exchange programs that bring international students to town.
"That helps our kids who go to school with these (international) kids know for a fact that the competition for jobs is global," Gibbs said while touting an exchange program that brought 35 students from abroad to the Murrieta Valley Unified School District. The students each pay $10,000 per year to study here. "You want to attract people who want to be around other smart people. It increases the number of entrepreneurs coming to town and it increases the talent pool."
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Times are changing at PBS Kids! Show times, that is! Beginning on September 1, Wisconsin Public Television will have a new schedule for children's programming.
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by Carol Clemans –
Fifty million (50 million) babies have had their lives snuffed out through abortion that was made legal in America 39 years ago! Even though I know it's true, the reality of this truth is unbelievable! We Americans have allowed over 50 million living human beings to be terminated at the whim of someone who can say, "I have a right to choose what my body will go through." YES, you have choice and that choice is to be responsible before you choose to have sex!
This is a hot topic, but it is truth. We've allowed over 50 million babies to be murdered and that is more than all service men and women that have willingly given their lives in all the wars fighting for the freedoms of America! One of those freedoms is to have an abortion! This is an upside down crazy world that we are living in. (Writers are not supposed to use (!) points, but I'm not apologizing for the (!) points I'm using in this article). These murders are outrageous!!
I cannot imagine how the heart of God feels as He sees these innocent, helpless babies in the womb of their mother killed through all different types of procedures. The partial birth abortion is torture to the baby who is pulled into the birth canal by its feet and then the back of head is cut open with scissors and the brain is suctioned out! This thought is revolting!
From the moment of conception, a baby is a human being that should have the right to life. Fetuses are not blobs of nothing. You do not have to be a scientist to know that humans produce humans, cows produce cows, dogs produce dogs, etc.
I've never heard someone who is pro-abortion say, "I wish my mother had aborted me." I do not care what the circumstances are for the pregnancy. When God allows life to be conceived, that life should be protected. There are thousands of couples across America who desire to adopt newborn babies. There are resources available in communities across the nation to help unwed mothers.
We who believe in God should ban together nationwide and do whatever it takes lawfully to get Roe vs. Wade removed from one of the freedoms of our country. Abortion is not giving freedom to human life. The baby did not ask to be conceived. In most cases, it is by the choice of the person to have sex that creates pregnancy.
Because of Roe vs. Wade, America has lost respect for life of the unborn, for the child born with major physical problems, for the injured that cannot care for themselves and for the elderly who are no longer productive in life. God is the giver of life and man does not have a right to murder another living being in or out of the womb at will for convenience sake. DOES ANYONE CARE?
Carol Clemans is a Certified Pastoral Counselor/Christian Life Coach/Bible seminar speaker for churches/conferences. She provides counseling nationwide by phone & web cam – (636) 448-0121. Go to: www.carolclemans.org for bio, teaching CD's & new book: GOD'S DESIGN FOR MARRIAGE. Email: firstname.lastname@example.com.
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World "leaders" met in Beijing a few years ago for a United Nations conference on Women. In 1992 many of the same were at Rio De Janeiro to propose a "Bio-Diversity Treaty". Heady arguments were made at both for the protection of women and for the preservation of plant and animal life. In the past, extraordinary efforts have been observed in the protection and rescue of whales stranded on the shoals of the Pacific coast. Who can forget the pictures of years ago of young, snow white and helpless new born Harp seals being bludgeoned by pelt seekers. Now we have the outcry concerning the Pit-Bull deaths. Such a noble effort, accentuated by the common grief of those attuned to the plight of the natural world, poured out a spirit of protection for animals. Are humanity and its creativeness no less deserving of protection ? Aboriginal peoples cry that they be allowed to protect their heritage and justifiably ask for the end of apartheid. Woeful statements of concern for the refugees and impoverished of the world are heard daily. Who will give voice to the child in it's natural milieu. Who will chant, " justice now", for the innocent unborn children ? Quite illogical rationalization is in the argument by so-called scientists that humanity must be sacrificed in order to protect it. How can the promoters of "Earth Day" and "Bio- Diversity" argue in such a convoluted form for murder and terroristic consumption of children ?
The issue is not the right of choice. Nor is it the right to life. Nor is it the call of the "civil-rights" activist for peace and justice. It is the noble obligation to help the helpless indeed. To assist those who have not enjoyed the blessing of a completed nurturing. To protect the innocent, the voice of whom is insufficiently developed to plead and contend with the crescendo of the mob crying for a sacrifice. The most extreme form of child abuse is performed upon those most deserving of mercy. The state is most assuredly impelled to protect these millions who without question are unable to protect themselves from murder in the womb. Learned persons have delivered scientific papers in the medical forums of Vanderbilt University that the heart muscle cells begin to pulsate with life within three weeks of conception. Extreme life preserving effort and resources are committed to those who lie in a comma with their heart still pulsing. Is no less an effort mandated by natural law, much less divine law, to assist those not capable of a pleading cry for mercy ? Protect the innocent unborn martyrs.
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Maybe you all need to mind your own business and worry about yourselves. How is it any of your concern whether or not a women chooses to have an abortion? You don't live with these women, you have no idea what their lives are like. Are you going to raise all these unaborted children? Do you have any idea how many children are in the social services system right now? My business is just that, mine…. I don't tell you what to believe in or how to live your life… I could go on and on, but I know it would just fall on deaf ears. People like you have nothing better to do than to stick your noses where they don't belong.


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Alison Jackson Photograph Collection, AJ 25-08
The telling of Calgary's history tends to focus on the ranchers and oilmen, and establishments that they represented. A lot of history gets overlooked and very often these hidden histories tell us more about ourselves than mainstream history does. Lucky for us, historians are nosy folk, and what was hidden is increasingly being exposed.
Our next Heritage Matters program will do just that. Kevin Allen, who is part of the Gay Calgary Research Project, will present Invisible People and Places in 1950s and 1960s Calgary May 3rd at the Central Library, uncovering the history of Calgary's gay and lesbian community as it struggled to find its place in the post-war city.
Young people today may be shocked to learn that until 1969 it was actually illegal to "engage in homosexual activity." Doing so could land a person in prison. Even when the government changed the laws, people with "different" sexual orientations were still the victims of harassment and violence. For these reasons, among others, the history of this segment of our society has been driven underground. Kevin and his colleagues are working to change that. You can see more of the project on their website.
Heritage Matters is presented by the Calgary Heritage Authority, The City of Calgary Land Use Planning and Policy and the Calgary Public Library. It is going to be a very popular presentation, so make sure you register either online, by telephone at 403-260-2620 or in person at your local library branch.
Kevin is also going to be hosting a Jane's Walk the very next day, May 4. He will be conducting a tour of the Beltline area, looking at sites that were significant to the gay and lesbian community in the 1960s and 70s.
Fred McCall Home
Alison Jackson Photograph Collection, AJ 7520
Your house holds many secrets. Some we probably don't want to know about and only surface if we start removing walls. Other secrets can be interesting, even fun and you won't even have to swing a sledge hammer to find them. There are scads of resources available at the Calgary Public Library, the City of Calgary, Corporate Records, Archives and the Glenbow Museum, Library and Archives. Staff from those three Heritage Triangle members will be at the Central Library on Saturday to introduce some of the resources that we have, all within walking distance of one another, that can help you tell your home's story. Register here.
Maybe your home is an elder statesman – one of the many houses built during the big building boom in the early 20th century. If that is the case, you might want to consider joining the Century Homes project. This project was a great success last summer with over 500 homes on the list. The photos of those homes and the information signs that the owners created to share their stories are now in our Century Homes database, the newest member of our Community Heritage and Family History Digital Library. Check it out to see the kinds of stories other owners have uncovered.
You don't have to own a century home to join us at this program, though. Maybe you have a fabulous 50s bungalow in one of the suburbs built during yet another of Calgary's booms. What did the land look like before the 'dozers moved in? Who was the first person to live in this house out in the boonies and what did they do? There is always an interesting story to be told. Just look at this one:
The original land title from 1910 states that C. Montrose and Florence B. Wright purchased the lot from the Canadian Pacific Railway Company for $200, as well as the lot to the east. Although it is not certain if they lived in the house, they were definitely an intriguing couple. Clare Montrose Wright studied divinity at Victoria College in Toronto. Florence (Kinrade) Wright had been an aspiring vaudeville stage performer in Hamilton, ON until February 25, 1909 when her sister, Ethel Kinrade, was murdered n the family home. Florence and Ethel had been the only ones home at the time and Florence claimed that a "tramp" had come to the door demanding money. When Florence went to get the money, the tramp shot Ethel. When Florence returned , she quickly handed him the money and fled out the back door. A man that met Florence'svague description was never found and eventually suspicion landed on Florence herself. Florence stood trial, an event that made the news clear across North America, but there was insufficient evidence for a conviction. Following in trail, the couple married on June 28, 1909 in New York and moved to Calgary. Montrose gave up his plans to pursue the ministry and ended up practicing law. Montrose died in 1918. After Montrose's death, Florence returned to the stage, gaining moderate success, and eventually moved to California where she died in 1977. The life and trial of Florence was immortalized in a book titled "Beautiful Lies" by Edward Byrne and a play in 2007 titled "Beautiful Lady, Tell Me" written by Shirley Barrie.
Your home may have an equally compelling tale (although perhaps without the murder). Join us and find out how to uncover it.
Can't make it to the event on Saturday? Watch the Livestream here: http://www.livestream.com/virtuallibrary
Page from the 1891 Canada Census
With all the kerfuffle over the changes to collection access and services at Library and Archives Canada, I haven't been paying much attention to what they are actually doing out there in Ottawa. I was directed to a great database at their site, the Veterans' Death Cards records, by a member of the AFHS. Because it fit in very well with my work on the Lest We Forget Project, I was very excited that I had more information on the soldiers that the students in the Project were working on. It turned out that the Veterans' Cards were just the beginning.
I went on to do a bit more exploring of the databases that LAC has put up. A great place to find out about these digitized records is through the Library and Archives Canada Blog. Anyone who has ancestors in Canada should subscribe to this one, because it turns out, they have been digitizing all kinds of records. For example, they have just put up a new "edition" of the 1906 census of the Northwest Provinces that now includes the ability to search by name and ages. In December, they began a process to launch 15 census databases including very early returns from New France. While many of these haven't been indexed they can be viewed page by page (and the really early ones aren't that long anyhow.) The blog also includes information about the release of the next Canadian census (1921 – Yay)
The Ancestors Search on the LAC website will catch a lot of the databases. You can see what is available and which databases are part of the search here Included are passenger lists, border entry records, land records and military records.
Another way to search the digitized holdings of Library and Archives Canada is to use the Archives Advanced Search and select "Yes "the drop-down menu beside Online. I used the search term census and found censuses of various First Nations as well as the Federal census records.
Another link you should try is the listing of Microform Digitizations That list includes the recently digitized War of 1812 records So, although it can be a bit of a struggle to find the records, they are there and are well worth looking for, especially now that we can't get the microfilm from Library and Archives Canada anymore.
Have you got a suggestion for a really great website that you'd like all the other genealogists out there to know? Let me know. I'd love to hear from you.
One of the beautiful residences in the Century Homes database
Photograph courtesy James McMenamin,
Have you ever wandered past an old house and wondered when it was built, who used to live there, and what stories it contains? I know I do this all the time and, because I work in the Community Heritage and Family History collection at the Calgary Public Library, I have resources at my fingertips that allow me to do a little house genealogy in my spare time. But today, we have launched a new database that will make information about the Century Homes in our city available online to anyone who cares to look.
If you read this blog regularly you will have read about the Century Homes Project. Most recently I posted that Century Homes had won a Governor General's History Award for Community Programming. It was, and still is, a great initiative that got people involved in documenting their own century homes and sharing that information on signs posted in their yards. As part of the legacy of Century Homes (and because we don't like to lose any information at all about the history of our beautiful city) Calgary Public Library is hosting the database that was created using the photographs and documentation that were created. It was launched this morning at City Hall and boy, are we chuffed. (You can see the Mayor's presentation to the proud Century Homes folks here) We've been working away at transcribing and uploading and doing all the things that are involved in getting a major project like this off the ground and we are delighted with the results. As of today we have all the photographs loaded and have about 100 of the yard signs transcribed. We will continue with the transcription until we have every bit of information in the database and accessible to everyone.
We invite you to have a look at this newest addition to our Community Heritage and Family History Digital Library. If you are interested in having your century home included in the 2013 tour (and in our database), check out the Century Homes website.
I have given many a genealogy seminar on the wonderful online resources available for family history research. But I have also given a lot of talks to beginning genealogists and many are surprised to find that not everything is available electronically." What", you say, "not everything is online!!!?" Sad, but true, and possible the best example of this comes from this very province. Access to vital records like births, deaths and marriages in Alberta still requires a request for a search through a registry office. There is no online access to the records at all. However, there is a paper index which covers events prior to 1905.
Before we had newspaper and magazine indexes online (that would be back in the days before there was such a thing as online) we used print indexes to find articles. Even now, with our wonderful collection of online resources for finding magazine articles (have a look in the E-Library to see some of the great databases) there is still very limited coverage prior to 1988. So, we still have the paper indexes on the third floor. Since my library experience dates from the "cardaceous" period, when card catalogues roamed the earth, I am familiar with these indexes and actually use them to find information that predates the electronic age. One such bit of research involved a customer who was looking for an article that was written about a friend's grandmother and was published in a Canadian magazine, perhaps Maclean's. The woman had started her own temp agency and was profiled because it was such an unusual thing for a woman to be an entrepreneur and the head of a successful business. The customer was pretty sure that the article was a cover story and thought he remembered photographs. The date of the article was some time in the 50s or 60s. We had the name of the company and the name of the owner. Nothing turned up in a search of the internet or in any of our online indexes. We had no clipping files on the business in Local History and we were going to give up hope but we remembered our old CPI.Q and rushed down to have a look. Sure enough, we turned up a reference to a Maclean's article from 1954 which included photographs. A quick trip to the basement, and we had the article.
This is a good reminder to genealogists, and all researchers, that we are still a long way from having everything available at the click of a mouse. There are still valuable resources available that can't be accessed through Google (or even Ancestry). The following indexes, housed on the third floor of the Central Library, are prime examples: Reader's Guide, Canadian News Index and Canadian Periodicals Index can be used to find articles in magazines and newspapers that haven't yet made it online. Check them out and see if your family made the papers.
Calgary Public Library Card Catalogue in the 1970s
Calgary Public Library: Our Story in Pictures, CPL 235-05-11
Thanks to the Alberta Family Histories Society discussion list, I found out about an excellent new resource available to genealogists researching their Canadian roots. Often, in the absence of census records, we suggest that our genealogists check out the voters lists for the area they are researching. We have the municipal voters lists in paper format in the Community Heritage and Family History collection at the Central Library. We also have one set of Federal Voters Lists, for 1974. We used to have to borrow other years from Library and Archives Canada on microfilm. Now Ancestry has put up Federal Voters Lists for Canada for 1935-1980. Most of these images have been indexed, but a few of the later years are still only available as images for browsing. (The indexing was done by OCR and if you have a look at some of those later lists, you'll understand why they haven't been indexed.) To find your people in the indexed lists, you can go to the Canadian Voters Lists database in Ancestry and type in the name. Keep in mind that OCR indexing is far from perfect and it may still be necessary to browse the lists, if you know someone should be somewhere but their name doesn't turn up. You can also find people in the un-indexed lists, but in both cases, you will need to know in which electoral district they lived.
To find an electoral district there are a few resources. Not all sources cover all years so you may have to use more than one.
For electoral districts prior to the 2003 reorganization, you can visit the Elections Canada website. This site allows you to search the 301 districts by place name and keyword. Or you can try the Parliament website which has a list of historical ridings. It can't be searched by town but you can get a list of all ridings in the province and this may help you narrow down your search.
There are also electoral district maps available online at this site, which includes the National Atlas of Canada.
Otherwise you can use print sources such as the Canadian Almanac and Directory, which we do keep, so our collection runs from 1911 on. There is usually a way we can help you find an electoral district, so if these resources don't help, please ask us.
If you are still in love with the clickety click of the microfilm reader, you can still get these voters' lists on microfilm. Dave Obee has produced two great finding aids: Federal voters lists in Western Canada, 1935-1979 and Federal voters lists in Ontario 1935-1979 You can find out more about using electoral lists at the Canadian Genealogy Centre.
If you'd like to find out more about the Alberta Family Histories Society discussion list, visit their website. Information about the discussion list is right there on the front page.
Remember, you can access Ancestry LE at any branch of the Calgary Public Library for free with your library card.
Calgary Municipal Voters List
Community Heritage and Family History Collection
Unidentified House in Calgary, ca 1910
Postcards from the Past, PC 1402
I have to mention it again, but I swear it will be the last time (for a while): 1912 was a very big year in this city. And despite our reputation as a city of demolition, there are still a good number of buildings still standing from that period. Your home may be one of them. I have posted before about the Century Homes project. We have held two very successful workshops, as part of this project, to introduce owners of homes that are 100 years or so old, to the resources available at the various libraries and archives. I thought I would put this list on the blog, so that anyone who is interested in doing this research can do so.
Calgary Public Library has the following resources – most are in our local history room on the 4th floor of the Central Library
City of Calgary, Corporate Records, Archives has the following:
Glenbow Museum, Library and Archives has these resources:
(Update: Some fire insurance plans have been digitized by Library and Archives Canada and can be found by accessing their website: http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/lac-bac/search/all and using the search term "fire insurance plan" <include the quotation marks> and the name of the location for which you are searching. )
These resources (and the outstanding staff at all of these repositories) are available to you to assist in your house research. You may want to check out the history of your house even if it is a relative "baby" in the city. You never know what you may find! There are links on the right side of the page to the Heritage Triangle brochure, which outlines the collection strengths of the three libraries/museums/archives above as well as a guide to doing building history in Calgary. This kind of research can turn up all kinds of interesting information. Come and talk to us if you'd like to get started.
13th Avenue, Looking East
Postcards from the Past, PC 52
13th Avenue looking east
13th Avenue Looking East
On Saturday May 12, we will be presenting a workshop, with an archivist from the City of Calgary Archives, on how to research the history of your house. We have done these before, but this time we are happy to be giving the presentation as part of an initiative called "Century Homes." What we want to do is to encourage people to research the stories of their homes. Your house doesn't have to be 100 years old for you to attend, but we would like people who do have a home that was built in or before 1915 to look into the Century Homes initiative (http://www.centuryhomes.org/). Doing house research is kind of like doing genealogy, but much, much less complicated (houses don't move, change their names or hide from the law, for the most part). Between the members of the Heritage Triangle, we hold vast amounts of information about homes and the people who lived in them.
Calgary experienced a building boom in the early part of the 20th century and there are still plenty of houses around from that era. If you own one of them, you can get a kit from Century Homes to help you make a yard sign. You will be asked to put up the sign during Historic Calgary Week (Friday July 27 through to Monday August 6) The information you gather about your house will be archived here at the Calgary Public Library so we will have a record of your house. As I like to tell people, history is made by the people like you and me – the very people who lived in your house. (My colleagues will tell you I beat this topic like a rented mule) Your home doesn't have to be a massive sandstone pile to have historic value. Cities are built by the folks in the three room cottages, the tiny bungalows and the once grand multi –stories converted to boarding houses. So, think about participating in this very exciting initiative. Researching your house is not an onerous job – there are lots of sources and there are people to help you use them. And I want to stress that, while your home has to be 100 years old or thereabouts, to be considered a Century Home, there is lots of information available for people whose houses are younger. Join us to find out how to get started with your own home's unique story.
Registration for the May 12 program will begin on April 23.
To my surprise and delight I was asked to present at our annual Writers' Weekend which was held on February 4. I presented "Historical Research for Writers" to a very surprising (to me, at least) crowd of 125 people who were all eager to find out where all the good stuff is stashed. As is usual with me, I was set off on a tangent thinking about the authors who have worked in our Local History room.
I remember when Will Ferguson, author of a number of books (all available at the Calgary Public Library) had his first "office" in the local history room. While working on Canadian History for Dummies, he stored his computer (kind of a joke to call it a laptop) in the Local History workroom. He tells the story in a Swerve magazine article. You can read it here and see a picture of him in the room.
We have also recently hosted Brian Brennan, who was researching and writing the official history of the Calgary Public Library, which will be released in April (to celebrate the "official" opening of the new library in 1912). I'm looking forward to this one, because Brian is such an inspiring storyteller and what I've seen of the book seems to me to be his finest work yet.
We also provided research assistance for Katherine Govier, whose protagonist in the book Between Men becomes obsessed with the story of Rosalie New Grass, a Cree woman who was brutally murdered in 1889. Rosalie's tragic story is true and Ms Govier researched the case in the Local History room. Our copy of Between Men is signed "with gratitude" for the assistance she received on her project from our staff.
As I mentioned, the Writers' Weekend was a huge success and I was chuffed to see the crowd that came out to hear about research. Nothing turns me off a piece of writing quicker than an error. (Well, bad dialogue comes a very close second). Where the work is fiction or non-fiction, good, solid research always has a place. We are very lucky to be able to meet and assist authors with their projects. We have helped with fairly modest publications, such as family histories, and with some major projects, such as the upcoming history of the library. We are always delighted to be able to assist – it is an opportunity for us to show off our wonderful collections and we always learn something new. What I guess I am trying to say is that you should all come down and visit us and see what weird and wonderful things you can dig up.
Residents of Glenbow Alberta, ca 1911-1913
Doreen Morden Family Archives
We have been helping and, frankly, watching in awe, one of the regular researchers who frequents the local history collection. She is working on a reconstruction of the town of Glenbow, a town that very few people have heard of. It was the centre of a quarry, which provided sandstone for several prominent buildings in the province. The town was five miles east of Cochrane on the north side of the Bow. The land was not really fit for farming as it was on a bench over the river but keen eyes noticed that in the outcroppings were seams of sandstone. Various attempts were made, starting in 1905, to set up a quarry to exploit the resources of the valley but it wasn't until 1908 when an American, Chester de la Vergne, bought the property. He had wealth that had come from the family's refrigeration business and soon he had excavated a town site, which eventually included a school. A post office was in operation from 1908 to 1920. De la Vergne loved the area and established the Glenbow Ranche as a home for him and his family. He built a magnificent house on the property.
At its peak, Glenbow quarry was thought to employ 500 men. By 1909 things were looking very good. A grain elevator was built in 1910 on promises that a bridge would be built over the Bow to connect the farm land on the south side with the town on the north side. But by 1912 the boom that had fueled the prosperity of the Glenbow quarry had bust. Building ground to a halt and there was no need for the fine paskapoo sandstone that had made Glenbow's fortune. The bridge was never built so the elevator stood useless until it burned down in 1915. De la Vergne tried to start a brick making industry in order to give work to his employees, but this, too, was destined to fail. People were forced to leave the town, to look for work elsewhere. Buildings were removed or burned; equipment from the mine was sold as scrap. Three large homes, built by optimistic acquaintances of de la Vergne's lay abandoned for many years and in the 1970s de la Vergne's own house, empty for many years, was burned to the ground. Eventually, the Glenbow land was purchased by E.L. Harvie for farming. The land has since been donated to the Government by the Harvie family for use as a Provincial Park, but Glenbow the town has ceased to exist.
Our researcher's task is to look for information about the town and the people who lived there as part of a volunteer effort to map the old town and quarry. Because there is so little left of Glenbow, the researchers are relying on information gleaned from any resource they can get their hands on. They are searching for the names of people who lived in the town, in hopes of finding as much information as they can. This is where serendipity has come in. (Although, serendipity does come after much hard work J)
Following a clue provided by the information on Glenbow in a local history, our researcher pursued the name of a woman whose child was put up for adoption after she died in childbirth. Using cemetery transcriptions, vital events records, online sources including Ancestry and Rootsweb, she was able to find contact information for a descendant of one of the family members. This person had a photo of some of the denizens of Glenbow standing in front of a building. That is the photo above. What we are hoping is that one of you may recognize someone in this picture. The more people that can be identified, the better chance there is of finding someone who has information. If you think you recognize anyone in this photo, please let me know. I will pass the information on to the researchers. You can post your information as a comment below (or you can contact us at firstname.lastname@example.com)
If you are interested in finding out more about Glenbow, you can check out the local history Acres and Empires either in print at the Calgary Public Library or online through Our Future Our Past. You could also think about attending a talk on February 28 at the Chinook Country Historical Society's monthly meeting at Fort Calgary at 7:30. Brian Vivian and Susan Caen will be talking about the town site, the quarry and the area surrounding. (Check out the information here - click on 2011-2012 Monthly Program Details)
Land Titles Building (made with Glenbow sandstone)
Land Titles Building (built with sandstone from the Glenbow Quarry)
Postcards from the Past, PC 255