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The State of Jones is a true story about the South during the Civil War—the real South. Not the South that has been mythologized in novels and movies, but an authentic, hardscrabble place where poor men were forced to fight a rich man's war for slavery and cotton. In Jones County, Mississippi, a farmer named Newton Knight led his neighbors, white and black alike, in an insurrection against the Confederacy at the height of the Civil War. Knight's life story mirrors the little-known story of class struggle in the South—and it shatters the image of the Confederacy as a unified front against the Union.
This riveting investigative account takes us inside the battle of Corinth, where thousands lost their lives over less than a quarter mile of land, and to the dreadful siege of Vicksburg, presenting a gritty picture of a war in which generals sacrificed thousands through their arrogance and ignorance. Off the battlefield, the Newton Knight story is rich in drama as well. He was a man with two loves: his wife, who was forced to flee her home simply to survive, and an ex-slave named Rachel, who, in effect, became his second wife. It was Rachel who cared for Knight during the war when he was hunted by the Confederates, and, later, when members of the Knight clan sought revenge for the disgrace he had brought upon the family name.
Working hand in hand with John Stauffer, distinguished chair and professor of the History of American Civilization at Harvard University, Sally Jenkins has made the leap from preeminent sportswriter to a historical writer endowed with the accuracy, drive, and passion of Doris Kearns Goodwin. The result is Civil War history at its finest.
"Just when you thought you had heard it all about the Civil War, along comes The State of Jones, an astonishing tale of rebellion within the heart of rebel territory. This is a riveting and memorable read about resistance, courage, love and, most of all, the long trail of justice and injustice in the American South. I couldn't put it down."
–Tom Brokaw
"The State of Jones is history at its finest and most captivating. The documentation is meticulous, yet this gem of a book reads like a novel, with a revelation at every turn. Jenkins and Stauffer have proved once again that the real history of this country is far more complex and fascinating than the prevailing mythology."
–David Maraniss, author of They Marched Into Sunlight and When Pride Still Mattered
"In The State of Jones, Sally Jenkins and John Stauffer locate the real Civil War–and the story of our greatest national trial–in all of its specificity and moral complexity. Their research is meticulous and transparent; their writing is evocative and clear; their use of source materials and authentic voices is arresting; and their intuition about why history of this kind matters is unfailing."
–Steve Coll, author of Ghost Wars
"Jones and Stauffer tell this story with verve and insight, providing a richly detailed, dramatic narrative that is a valuable contribution to the historical literature."
–James Simon, author of Lincoln and Chief Justice Taney
"Here is the Civil War as it really was. You can't fully know America's epic until you've read this powerful book."
–David Von Drehle, author of Triangle: The Fire That Changed America
"A marvelous story of loyalty and treason, race and blood, war and peace. The State of Jones is as compelling as it is unlikely, a tale of insurrection that illuminates the larger insurrection of our Civil War."
–Rick Atkinson, author of An Army at Dawn
"Sally Jenkins and John Stauffer tell the fascinating tale of an unforgettable figure–6'4" Mississippi yeoman farmer Newton Knight, and his beguiling "second wife" and former slave, Rachel. The authors follow the Knight family's extraordinary lives over the course of six decades and in the process open a window onto a forgotten corner of the American landscape."
–Philip B. Kunhardt III, co-author of Looking for Lincoln
"Highly readable and informative." --Chicago Sun-Times
From the Hardcover edition.
The grandson of a wealthy Mississippi slave-owner, Newton Knight was an abolitionist and two-time rebel deserter who actively fought against the Confederacy, and bore a large family with a former slave. His home, Jones County, Miss., saw great hardship during the Civil War; Confederate taxes "pushed small farm families, who provided the rank and file foot soldiers, to the brink of destitution." Jenkins (The Real All Americans: The Team That Changed a Game, a People, a Nation) and Stauffer (Giants: The Parallel Lives of Frederick Douglass and Abraham Lincoln) employ painstaking research into Knight and Jones County, resulting in an engaging and original portrait of life inside the Confederacy. Knight's Scouts, formed after Vicksburg set off a wave of rebel desertions, carried out their own justice in Jones County, using clever techniques for communication, intimidation and warfare against the home team ("the sorts of exploits" that Sherman would appreciate). Knight's post-war efforts for equality included building an integrated school; when residents objected to his own mixed-race children attending, however, Knight burned it to the ground. Spanning more than 100 years, this family story brings home the lasting effects of hate and fear, love and acceptance, as well as the strides that have brought us to where we are.
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May 1862, Corinth, Mississippi
As far as the foot soldiers were concerned, the other side could have the damned town. The generals might have gladly given it up too, if not for the railroad junction. Corinth was pestilential. Even the Union's pitiless William Tecumseh Sherman said the place made him feel "quite unwell." Sherman's superior, Henry Halleck, had such a low opinion of it that when he fell ill with a bowel ailment, he sourly named it "the evacuation of Corinth."
It was wretched ground for a fight, with boggy fields, swarms of bugs clouding the fetid air, and a chronic shortage of decent drinking water. A Confederate colonel called it a "sickly, malarial spot, fit only for alligators and snakes." It left no better impression on a Yankee lieutenant from Minnesota, who found the locals "ignorant" and the women "she vipers" with the figures of "shad bellied bean poles," he wrote. As far as he could tell, the chief local produce consisted of "wood ticks, chiggers, fleas, and niggers."
But men on both sides understood, if reluctantly, that Corinth was one of the most vital strategic points in the South. It was "the vertebrae of the Confederacy," as one rebel official put it. In the middle of town, two sets of railway tracks crossed each other in a broad X: the Memphis and Charleston ran -east--west, while the Mobile and Ohio ran -north--south. The intersection was a working hive: locomotives screeched and huffed, while men on platforms loaded and offloaded downy bales of cotton, stacks of lumber, crates, barrels, sacks of provisions like salt beef, and other vital war materiel. Trains were the reason for Corinth's existence: the village was just seven years old and the streets were still raw dirt. The largest hotel in town, the Tishomingo Hotel, was a broad -two--story affair with six chimneys that fronted directly on the tracks of the Memphis and Charleston, which ran just outside the front porch.
There were 80,000 Confederate troops under General Pierre G. T. Beauregard jammed into the brick and clapboard town, which normally housed just 2,800 inhabitants. Corinth was filled with rebel wounded from Beauregard's catastrophic encounter in April with U. S. Grant's Yankee troops at Shiloh, just a few miles away. The battle, so named for the log church where Grant's men had camped, was the worst bloodbath in the Western Hemisphere to date, with a toll of 20,000 in two days. "God grant that I may never be the partaker in such scenes again," one Confederate survivor wrote. "When released from this I shall ever be an advocate of peace."
Corinth was hardly an ideal place to recover. Contagion was inevitable with such a large army closely confined in pestiferous surroundings, the comings, goings, spewings, and brawlings of thousands of men, horses, mules, and oxen trod everything into mud, and their litter and foul runoff attracted hordes of fleas and mosquitoes. There were not enough rooms to accommodate the wounded, much less the sick. On the first floor of the Tishomingo, men lay on blood- and water-soaked carpets or blankets in the vestibule and hallways. On the second floor, the -charnel--house vapors caused some of the doctors and nurses to pass out.
One of the wounded was a rugged -thirty--year--old colonel in the 6th Mississippi Infantry, and a future governor of the state, named Robert Lowry. This peacetime lawyer had been raised in Smith County, one county over from Jones. He had taken wounds in the chest and another in the arm, as his company lost 310 men out of 425. The performance had earned his unit the nickname "The Bloody Sixth."
Those Confederates who survived Shiloh unharmed were as likely to get sick in Corinth. The rebels were preparing for a state of siege as a federal army of 120,000 under Union general Halleck encroached on the outskirts of town. Men labored constantly with shovels in the sweltering heat, as Beauregard ordered the defenses fortified with immense earthworks. The men dug until they were thirsty, then drank foul, swampy water. Diarrhea and dysentery became endemic. Soon, a quarter of the Southern troops were ill. "The water was bad enough to kill a dog much less a man," wrote a Mississippi cavalryman named William L. Nugent home to his wife.
Beauregard responded to the epidemic by trying to rally men with rhetoric: "We are about to meet in the shock of battle the invaders of our soil, the despoilers of our homes, the disturbers of our family ties," he wrote in a widely distributed letter. "Face to face, hand to hand, we are to decide whether we are to be freemen or the vile slaves of those who are free only in name . . . Let the impending battle decide our fate, and add one more illustrious page to the history of our Revolution, one to which our children will point with noble pride, saying, 'Our fathers were at the battle of Corinth.' "
But even as his letter circulated among the soldiers, Beauregard decided to evacuate the city. At the end of May, Beauregard hastily decamped his army and its provisions, mostly hunks of heavily salted meat, for the healthier environs of Tupelo to the west. Beauregard, too, had gotten sick. Suddenly, he did not feel his presence was required in such a swampland. He took an unauthorized leave to recuperate in comfort in Mobile.
With the Confederate withdrawal from Corinth, the Union forces moved in. They found the place a stinking pit. Abandoned foodstuffs and other detritus rotted on the roadsides. A soldier with the 81st Ohio, Joseph K. Nelson, noticed an odd glint in the earth that crunched under the soles of his boots. When he bent down to examine the dirt, he found it was literally moving with insects.
"The Johnnies left behind something for us to remember them by," he wrote in his diary. "The ground in places was alive with 'body guards'-lice-and was much littered in places with large chunks of very salt beef. The salt sparkled and glistened in it."
October 1862, Northern Mississippi, on the March
General Earl Van Dorn was a -ringlet--tossing little Mississippian in search of a big reputation. Profligate with the lives of men and impossibly conceited, as suggested by his extravagant twists of auburn hair, Van Dorn openly aspired to "a burning name," as he put it. He was continually conceiving of schemes that could win him the flaming renown he sought, and his latest was typical.
As an Indian summer fell over Mississippi, Van Dorn -about--faced the Confederate Army of the West and marched it back toward Corinth with the intention of retaking the town. His plan was a hurriedly drawn, surprise full frontal assault, and heedless of risk, but that only made it more infectious to some of his colleagues. He was after "great objects," and that justified the "unusual hazard" of the attack, according to his chief of staff, another overeager Mississippi cavalier general named Dabney H. Maury.
But Newton Knight, a young sergeant striding in Company F of the 7th Mississippi Battalion, felt none of the enthusiasm that the -glory--seeking Van Dorn and Maury tried to summon with such verbal flourishes. He was neither free nor proud to be a Confederate soldier.
Company F, made up of -sixty--nine men and four officers from Jones County, had been forcibly mustered into the ailing Confederate army after Beauregard's evacuation of Corinth in May. Now, just four months later, almost half the new men were ill. Fully -two--thirds were absent or on leave, and six had died. At the last roll call, only twenty men and two officers had answered present, Knight among them. Men were sick with yellow fever, dysentery, malaria, and influenza. Or they were just plain sick and tired of marching around northern Mississippi as their vainglorious commanders ordered them to and fro across the sweltering countryside. It was a testament to Knight's sheer vigor that he was on his feet.
Newton was a -long--limbed, shaggily handsome -twenty--four- -year--old accustomed to privation. His wavy black hair curled to his shoulders and was greased with sweat over a tall forehead. A rampant, untended mustache and beard fell below his chin into his shirt buttons. His large, pooling, -blue--gray eyes seemed preternaturally sighted and were spaced far apart, which led some to accuse him of eccentricity. He had perpetually sunburned cheekbones and a large jaw clamped hard and slightly off center.
He was rawboned and muscular from habitual work and a lifelong diet of sweet potatoes, cornbread, and whatever wild game he brought down with his shotgun. "Big heavyset man, quick as a cat," a friend described him. Men from easier backgrounds found camp life a misery; the beds on wet ground, the foraging and scrabbling for decent victuals, the tramping in all weather with never a change of clothes. Not Newton: hard didn't bother him.
Newton suffered from a different complaint: he was an unwilling soldier. In April of 1862, the Confederacy, badly in need of reinforcements, had passed the first Conscription Act, drafting all men between the ages of eighteen and -thirty--five. "They just come around with a squad of soldiers 'n took you," Newton remembered. On May 13, 1862, Newton and -twenty--two of his closest relatives and friends, young men who hunted together, worshipped together, drank together, helped build one another's homes, and even married one another's sisters, had reluctantly enrolled in Company F together, "rather than be conscripted and be put into companies where we didn't want to go," another Jones Countian recalled.
As an inducement, those who volunteered rather than waited to be impressed received a -fifty--dollar bounty. But those who hesitated were coerced or faced arrest. Under the threat of law, "they all came in," recalled the major commander of the 7th Battalion, Joel E. Welborn, who raised the troop. "I did organize the men as conscripts." Welborn and the unit captain, his relative J. G. Welborn, took down enrollments until the battalion numbered 760 or so.
At least by joining up together, Newton and his friends could be messmates. Eating together was the strongest tie in the dreary life of the army other than fighting together. Messmates were more than supper companions; they foraged, cooked, groused, sang, gambled, argued, smoked, and killed time together. Over meals, they confided their daily thoughts and fears to -like--minded men who shared their wretched experiences.
Mess was a small relief for Newton and his comrades as they moved toward Corinth on October 2, 1862. At the end of the day, the men unshouldered their gear and dropped it heavily. They stacked their muskets in triangles, barrels crossed and rifle butts in the dirt, and sagged to the ground or low campstools, a seedy lot in mismatched clothes and heavy beards. They thrust pipes in their mouths or pulled out newspapers, while around fires, -rank--smelling meat stew began to simmer in a heavy black iron pot and coarse cornbread roasted in a black skillet, which an assigned man had carried, stuck handle first in his rifle barrel.
The men griped incessantly about their fare, the dry cornbread cooked in bacon grease (wheat flour was usually too precious to be wasted on infantrymen) and the rancid beef they were issued. The -blue--black meat had a gluey texture, and they wondered if they threw it against a wall whether it would stick. "Buzzards would not eat it at any season of the year," one Mississippian claimed. They joked that the cattle supplying the army were so emaciated it took two soldiers to hold up one cow so it could be shot.
Depending on what the countryside offered, they would enhance their meal with foraged field peas or onions, or fruit plundered from orchards. A favorite recipe was "cush," a stew made of beef, bacon grease, water, crumbled cornbread, and mashed green apples. But sometimes they had nothing but dry bread and musky beef, which they roasted in strips on the ramrods from their guns. As one Mississippi captain in another regiment reported, "The discipline of the troop would be promoted by a more regular issue of rations."
None of their issue was regular. They wore sallow -gray--brown tunics and cartridge belts, in which the -best--armed men might have a pistol stuck one way and a knife the other. They were unevenly equipped with rifles; some had Springfields with barrels long as rails, others the shotguns they brought from home. In addition to their -eighteen--pound firearms, they packed forty rounds in ammunition pouches, three days of rations in haversacks, clanking metal canteens, and mess kits, if they hadn't thrown them away to lighten the load. Sometimes when a man didn't have a plate to eat from, he exploded a cartridge in a canteen. The canteen would split open and flatten.
As they ate, the men of Company F commiserated and discussed their apprehensions about the coming battle. They once again debated, as men on both sides often did, the cause they had been drafted into. A few even openly expressed an unwillingness to fight: the outfit was unusually full of -independent--minded men who resented conscription and felt no loyalty to the Confederacy, though they had to be careful saying so in front of officers.
A leading example was Jasper Collins, a -thirty--four--year--old corporal with a face flat and leathered as a saddle who was one of Newton's closest lifelong friends. "When there was a fight on, he was right there with my father," wrote Newton's son. Collins was considered one of the most knowledgeable and politically informed men in the company, "He kept well posted on business . . . and read lots, on various matters that would come up." He was from a family of staunch Unionists, who were tough enough to be able to state their beliefs aloud and defend them. His father Stacy had spoken out vehemently against secession, and his six brothers were -pro--Union as well; Jasper's older brother Riley had flatly refused to be conscripted.
Newton's own convictions about the war stemmed from a combination of politics and faith. He was a Unionist in principle, and he had opposed the state's Ordinance of Secession. He also questioned the fundamental religiosity of slavery and the underlying basis of the war. In his worship he was a Baptist, and some evidence suggests he was a Primitive, one who tended to believe in the equality of souls, including those in bondage. As he read in his Bible, Acts 17:26: "And God hath made of one blood all nations of men for to dwell on all the face of the earth."
Newton had resisted serving the Confederacy, to the point that he courted arrest. He declared to the conscription officers that he didn't want to fight and instead volunteered as a battalion hospital orderly. In that way, he hoped to avoid killing men and care for them instead, and to reconcile his conscience with his actions. "I told 'em I'd help nurse sick soldiers if they wanted," he remembered.
His defiance didn't sit well with the Welborns. At one point, according to a fellow soldier, "the captain threatened to have him shot."
From the Hardcover edition.
Prologue: The South's Strangest Soldier 1
1 Corinth 13
2 Home 62
3 The Swamp and the Citadel 123
4 The Hounds 165
5 The Third Front 226
6 Banners Raised and Lowered 270
7 Reconstruction and Redemption 326
8 The Family Tree 396
Acknowledgments 447
Notes 451
Bibliography 553
Index 567
The recovery of the life of a Mississippi farmer who fought for his country is an important story. The fact that southern Unionists existed, and in very large numbers, is largely unknown to many Americans, who grew up with textbooks that perpetuated the myth of the Confederacy as a heroic Lost Cause, with its romanticized vision of the antebellum South. Some historians have even palpably sympathized with Confederate cavaliers while minimizing - and robbing of credit -- the actions of southerners -- who remained loyal to the Union at desperate cost.
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"There's lots of ways I'd rather die than being scared to death," Knight said, and it was a defining statement. At almost every stage of his life this yeoman from the hill country of Jones County, Miss., took courageous stands. The grandson of a slave owner who never owned slaves, he voted against secession, deserted from the Confederate Army into which he was unwillingly impressed, and formed a band called the Jones County Scouts devoted to undermining the Rebel cause locally. Working with runaway slaves and fellow Unionists and Federal soldiers caught behind enemy lines, Knight conducted such an effective running gun battle that at the height of the war he and his allies controlled the entire lower third of the state. This southern Yankee" as one Rebel general termed him, remained unconquered until the end of the war. His resistance hampered the Confederate Army's ability to operate, forced it to conduct a third-front war at home, and eroded its morale and will to fight.
Knight also burst free of racial barriers and forged bonds of alliance with blacks that were unmatched even by Northern abolitionists. He fought as ardently as any man for racial equality during the War, and after, during the terrifying days of Reconstruction, when his life was if anything even more in danger. He lived with an ex-slave named Rachel, fathering several children with her (but he never divorced his Caucasian wife, Serena), and worked on behalf of U.S. Grant's Republican administration and against the nascent Ku Klux Klan, and envisioned a world that would only begin to be implemented a century later. Moreover, he operated in an inverted moral landscape in which fealty to country was labeled traitorous, and kinship with blacks was considered morally repugnant. He survived only because he could reload a shotgun before the smoke cleared.
As an Alabama Unionist told a Congressional committee in 1866 in testifying about the little appreciated service of southern loyalists, "You have no idea of the strength of principle and devotion these people exhibited towards the national government."
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- ¼ cup fresh orange juice
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The Valley City High School gymnastics team finished the regular season last Thursday, taking third in a meet in Jamestown. The Hi-Liners earned their highest team score of the season despite having Sara Gilbertson, one of the team's most consistent vaulters and a strong beam performer, out with a sore ankle. Rebekah Fisher led the way with a 35.80 All Around score and placed in all events.
"Girls with guns." That's what my shirt says. I got it from a girl with guns. The shirt makes me feel protected. A friend of mine taught me how to shoot so the saying on my shirt wouldn't be a lie. Feeling safe is what I told that husband of mine was the most important thing before we got married.
I'm not mentally ill and neither are my many friends with guns. I'm guessing if the government attempts to take any more control of things they have no business peeping in to, perhaps mental illness will be the norm. In the slightest of ways it is already happening.
I-94 from Jamestown to Fargo and I-29 from Grand Forks to Fargo NOW OPEN; I-29 remains closed from Fargo to ND/SD border
The North Dakota Department of Transportation (NDDOT) along with the North Dakota Highway Patrol (NDHP) have opened I-94 from Jamestown to Fargo and I-29 from Grand Forks to Fargo. The portion of I-29 from Fargo to the ND/SD border remains closed at this time. Motorists are reminded that the roadways are covered with ice and compacted snow and are extremely icy. Motorists must slow down and use extreme caution while traveling.
The Valley City Police Department held a training class for those who own or are employed at alcohol establishments Friday. The same class will be offered about every month at the VCPD.
Officer Wade Hannig, who head the class Friday, said the free classes are "an effort to help the bars notice potential problems, avoid them before they become problems — just kind of a community service."
When Valley City Assessor Sandy Hansen made an inquiry regarding homestead tax exemptions in North Dakota, she couldn't have known that she would start a chain reaction that may change how the state approaches special assessments and homestead exemptions.
A homestead exemption is a property tax reduction for the elderly and disabled. It is a sliding scale reduction that is based on income after deducting medical expenses, according to Hansen.
There will be no school today in Valley City. As a result there will have school next Monday, Presidents Day, the next available make-up day. There will be no activities or practices today, nor will be no parent-teacher conferences today.
Superintendent Dean Koppelman will send information out through news media and email pertaining to parent-teacher conferences. Buses and school will be run at regular time tomorrow.
Interstate 94 is closed, but DOT officials hope that the it will be open by 11 a.m.
At 8 a.m. Monday, Valley City Public Schools announced that it will be among those closed Monday after a blizzard Sunday hit southeastern North Dakota Monday. Valley City State University, and the Maple Valley and Barnes County North school districts will also be closed Monday. Valley City Schools were initially delayed two hours but monitored the weather situation throughout the evening and in the morning, announcing the cancellation just before 8 a.m. Maple Valley announced its cancellation Sunday and Barnes County North announced its cancellation Monday.
As of 6 p.m. Sunday night, the North Dakota Department of Transportation (NDDOT) and the North Dakota Highway Patrol (NDHP) have closed I-94 from Jamestown to Fargo, and I-29 from Fargo to Grand Forks due to heavy snow, blowing snow and areas of near zero visibility creating hazardous driving conditions. In addition, Minnesota officials have closed I-94 from Moorhead to Alexandria. Motorists should not travel on closed roads as they may become blocked overnight
Once in a while, a team will play a game in which key points are decided on free throws. But at times in the foul-heavy second half of the Valley City State University womens basketball team's 64-58 win over South Dakota School of Mines and Technology Saturday at W.E. Osmon Fieldhouse, the charity stripe seemed to be the primary method of scoring. The two teams combined for 45 free throw attempts in the half alone, with the Vikings getting 18 of their 33 second-half points at the line.
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Response to revised fee structure ranges from disappointment to anger
"Has it been declared?"; "Where should I collect the papers?"; "How much have you got?" – with such questions being asked with evident panic, the scene at Jaigopal Garodia School, Saidapet, resembled that of a day when examination results are declared.
Except that this time, school correspondents and principals were asking the questions.
When the revised fee structure determined by the Private Schools Fee Determination Committee headed by former Madras High Court judge K. Raviraja Pandian was handed over by the Chief Educational Officer (CEO) to representatives of a section of private schools in Chennai, the responses ranged from disappointment to anger – disappointment, that the increase in the fee was negligible in most cases and anger, at the lack of adequate communication.
The revised reports of the fee structures were made available to only 291 of the 533 schools in the city that had sought revision.
Several school heads came to the venue only to learn that their report was not ready, and were asked to contact the CEO's office on Wednesday. V. Uma Maheshwari, principal-trainee, Jaigopal Garodia Hindu Vidyalaya, West Mambalam, said: "They could have intimated the schools whose reports were not ready as yet."
Those who received reports – largely representatives of nursery and primary schools – of the new fee structures said the rise was marginal and gave little scope to enhance teachers' salaries or invest in new infrastructure.
Venus R. Chellappa, general secretary, Tamil Nadu Nursery and Primary School Managements Associations, said: "There is hardly any increase from what the Govindarajan Committee prescribed earlier. The increase is by a few hundred rupees."
K. Sivaraj, Correspondent of Sri Rajalakshmi Matriculation Higher Secondary School, Mandavelipakkam, said that when the Committee sought the details regarding expenses and fee collected previously, the information was presented class-wise. "But now, they have grouped primary sections, middle school and plus two prescribing a common fee for all classes in a category, he said."
The revised fee structure was handed over to schools in Kancheepuram district at S.S.K.V. Matriculation School by officials from the office of Inspector of Matriculation Schools.
President of the Federation of Private Schools Associations, Kancheepuram, Sam Daniel and chief coordinator, Prem Shankar, said that the revised fee amounts brought hardly any cheer to the school managements.
While the managements had sought a minimum of Rs.5,000 to 8,000 as basic fee till class X and Rs.12,000 to Rs.15,000 for classes XI and XII, the Committee permitted only a fee of Rs.3,500 to Rs.5,000 upto class X and Rs.8,000 to Rs.10,000 for classes XI and XII.
Special Officer in the Private Schools Fee Determination Committee A. Thirugnanasambandam said the reports of the schools that are yet to receive the revised fee structure would be ready by Wednesday.


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Using the "Worse is Better" Concept with Agile and Lean
Less functionality can make a better product according to the "Worse is Better" concept described 25 years ago by Richard P. Gabriel. According to Kevlin Henney and Frank Buschmann we can learn from the worse is better concept for development and architecture with agile and lean.
Putting People First to Increase Motivation and Performance
Focusing on the motivation of individuals can positively impact performance. An interview with Peter van Oevelen about motivating individuals, influencing the mood of teams, applying radical management, economies of motivation and building effective teams with individuals that have their own ideas, preferences and motivations.
The State of Agile – December 2014
Recently we polled a small group of InfoQ editors, consultants and trainers asking them for their thoughts on the state of Agile adoption and what ideas, practices or techniques are emerging or being recognised as useful at the end of 2014. This is not a scientific study, rather an informal collection of opinions.
Adopting Innovative Ways to Manage Organizations
Organizations are discovering new innovative ways to manage work and unleash the potential of the people who are working there. The Dare Festival Antwerp 2014 focuses on organization design and culture for networked organizations, providing ideas and actionable practices. Frederic Laloux explored 12 organizations who are using fundamentally new ways to manage work and their employees.
Liquefying an Organization to Increase Agility
Organizations look for ways to increase their agility and becoming more adaptive and responsive. There a new wave of modern ways for managing organizations, supporting transparency and self-organization, taking off. LiquidO is an organizational governance model for arranging activities and decisions and giving credit, allowing everybody in an organization to take part in management activities.
Defining the Value of Software Products Precisely and Quantitatively
The real requirements of a product are not the functions that are needed, or user stories that have to be delivered. It is the possible improvement of performance that customers can get from using the product said Matteo Vaccari. At the XP Days Benelux 2014 conference he facilitated a workshop together with Antonio Carpentieri about defining the value that is needed by customers.
Deploying Transparency and Self Regulating Management to Get Actions Done
At the Lean Kanban France 2014 conference Bjarte Bogsnes gave a keynote presentation about beyond budgeting. In his presentation he talked about the problems with traditional management and how transparency and self regulating management comes to the rescue, and the principles and practices of beyond budgeting.
Agile at Scale with Hoshin Kanri
When organizations decide to scale agile they can be looking for agile ways to define strategies, manage direction and sustain alignment. Deploying and stay aligned, is today's challenge said Pierre Neis. At the Lean Kanban France 2014 conference Pierre showed how using Hoshin Kanri has helped global players in their lean agile transition.
Becoming a Continuous Learning Organization
Software Development is often considered to be knowledge intensive, therefor organizations look for ways to enable continuous learning. "We need learning organisations and they start with learning individuals" says Marcin Floryan. Individual learning can be difficult and scaling individual learning even more challenging. What can organizations do to become a continuous learning organization?
Measuring Outcomes with the Mobius Framework
In stead of feature farming, we need to deliver better outcomes and focus on the business results that we need to deliver. Measurements should provide insight into the outcomes because that is what is important. The Mobius loop can be used to define appropriate measurements.
Use Your Blockades to Sustainably Improve
Blockades in work, like insufficient information, unclear requirements or having to wait for tools or systems to become available can have a systematic cause. It could be the case that similar problems that block the team keep happening until the underlying causes are addressed. You can use your blockades as treasures of improvement to sustainably improve the way work is done.
How Agile Can Yield Effective IT Business Alignment
In agile projects the product owner is often seen as the person who primary assures the connection between business and IT. But for effective IT-Business alignment having a product owner is not enough. What can people from the business, demand and supply parts of the organization do increase the effectiveness of IT – Business alignment?
Huge Retrospectives with Online Games
Agile retrospectives are mostly done at the team level or at a project level. What if you need to conduct a retrospective with 50 teams or more? Luke Hohmann describes how a large scale agile transformation project did a huge retrospective to create insight on what was going well and what needed to be improved.
Knowing if You Are Building the Right Product
Developing and delivering products which customers don't want and for which there is no market can be costly. Agile can help you to efficiently develop products, but you need to know what to build. How can you find out which products your customers need?
ING Netherlands' Measured Improvements on Transition to DevOps
Jan-Joost Bouwman and Mark Heistek, from ING Retail Banking Netherlands, presented at Devopsdays Amsterdam how a CMMI-ITIL organization transitioned to a more agile mindset. Somewhat unusually in this kind of sessions, ING presented quantitative evidence of the improvements, such as a marked increase in the number of changes deployed to production and a decrease of the risk value per change.


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Originally posted by drbaltazar Wow, you are just reaching now. I read those books, Drizzt is one of my favorite literary characters and I LOVE the idea of the Underdark and Menzoberanzan. It could be it's on expansion similar to how Moria was with Lotro but even bigger. See all the potential here of open world mechanics? I sure do. |
Originally posted by elocke they dont need to make huge change ,wow showed it is possible that have open instance,same with swtor but their engine is so bad they cant keep more then 80 player at a time in ilum.but i saw way more then 80 in the daily of rage of fireland in wow.and it is possible,as long as it isnt a close instance i dont really care ,and of cuarse the area are big enough you dont want a 5 foot by 5 foot area like dragon nest .that is a nono |
I play DDO sporadically at best and the sad truth is; the game could be 100 times worse and I would play on a more serious level should they embrace a Forgotten Realms world. I grew up table-topping and adventuring through places like the Underdark and Myth Drannor. The current setting never made much sense to me. Especially considering FR was and is the most popular D&D setting. "There is a certain undeniable power in the void; within lies an unspoken promise of greatness, the shadowy truth that man is ruled by fear not of what is seen, but of what he perceives is seen beyond." |
Eberron was the only choice though. WotC was just launching the Eberron campaign setting when development on DDO began. The only way for Turbine to get the green light for DDO was to set it in Eberron. WotC had hoped a game based on the new world would drum up interest for the table top campaign. I would have personally loved to have seen the first setting for DDO to be Krynn. As much as I love the RAS books about TFR, my first novels in high fantasy were Weis and Hickman and their tales of Krynn. |
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They even have large Wilderness zones that you get xp for finding explorer points, xp for killing the mobs you encounter and xp for finding and defeating rare boss mobs which you get loot for as well. In these wilderness areas there are quest entrances you can find and lead to an instanced dungeon or wilderness story. I know people like sandbox or more open world games (the open world in DDO is the huge city zones that you socialize, etc.)-i like these other type of games as well, but don't think they would capture the DnD feel very well, as they would be like a normal mmo in a DnD setting, with normal mmo mechaniocs. |
Originally posted by drbaltazar Hmm you haven't read many R A Salvatore books in that series have you ? Because they, many of them happen OUTSIDE of the underdark. I whole heartedly agree with elocke on this, i want to be able to explore faerun and not just some of its "dungeons". case: Coolermaster HAF932 |
Well, this will be interesting. Turbine has pretty much driven me from my favorite games with their money grabs, but this is going to be direct competition to earn players who actually play the real D+D. sorry, DDO isn't D+D, it's Ebberon, and was a poor choice. This is also the real test for Wizards. They are going to mess with original TSR worlds now, the worlds that made the game what it is, the worlds Wizards basically screwed up with their new systems. Hopefully having both Turbine and Perfect World creating Forgotten Realms settings for an MMO, someone might find the 'magic in a bottle' that was the reason this whole genre exists in the first place. Hell, the original Everquest was closer to the world TSR created than the 4th edition ruleset Wizards made. But I digress, I will definitely be playing Neverwinter, and am excited there will be a direct competition to it so it will have to be good to keep us....which I don't think PW will have a problem doing, Turbine on the other hand will have to step up it's game 10-fold. |
Originally posted by Storman1977 Best thing about taking an MMO into the Forgotten Realms, is the fact that Krynn can be reached from there both in game and legally since it's the same gaming company. I too love Krynn, some of my favorite books as a child, but such an endeavor for an MMO is really pushing the boundaries...I would rather them see if they could do Forgotten Realms right first, then Ravenloft, Dark Sun, PlaneScape, then Krynn. Tons of content from D+D once you start with the Forgotten Realms as the anchor. |
Man. I'm old. I see many think of Drizzt when the Underdark is mentioned. Understandable. I too, read and enjoyed many of those tales by R.A. Salvatore (among other stories..his or otherwise..based on D&D). However..I thought of "Descent into the Depths of the Earth" when I heard the news and was no less excited.lol. Granted those modules took place in what was the Underdark of the world of Greyhawk. |
The F2P model is ok for like lvls 1-8 maybe 1-10 (which actually takes a while unless you power lvl, levels are significant). After that most everything you'd want to do costs turbine points and the lack of bank/inventory space is going to really start bugging you. You get points for leveling and the first time you complete a quest so you'll have enough to pick up an adventure pack or too, but unless you are happy grinding those over and over you'll want to buy one. I never play DDO until I'm willing to pay the subscription, one because most of my characters are a restricted race or class, and two because it really sucks to try to find a group for something and everyone is doing p2p content. The VIP subscription pretty much covers all the content though so I'm happy to pay for it when I want to play and hardly use the store except to expand my shared bank space. |
it's too bad they couldn't convert the entire current setting to forgotten realms DDO is great but the eberron setting is so awful |
Was interested till I went to the site to reactivate and their billing system is messed up...does not create a lot of confidence in them. |
Turbine, f2p and Forgotten realms? I'm shivering in fear! The only reason DDO is popular at all is because its f2p otherwise it would have been dead and buried a long time ago, which would have been a good thing. As a true D&D and mmo player I put all my wishes that Neverwinter will be good. Fail = exploiting popular titels in games under the average standard. |
Originally posted by Holst86 Neverwinter uses the 4th edition rules... They are really bad and I am not sure if you played Forgotten realms 4.0 or not but they killed of more or less the entire realms. DDO is not really a bad game but it is a CORPG, not a MMO and should not be played like one. It should be played with a few friends, not PUGed or soloed. Ok, it is sad that Biowares "Neverwinter nights" from 2001 had way better dungeons but still many real MMOs have far worse than DDO. (we live in the same town BTW) |
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@tkobo - I laughed hard man. True enough people making a game will rarely just as in film be able to capture something written in a book to the liking of the players or viewers. To capture Lloth's world you would have to redvelop aspects of the game that these developers will not want to stretch their budgets for. You will see small aspects that will be probably close to the lore, but will not be to the levels your hope and others hype may reach. "Love can be innocent and can be sweet, but sometimes about as nice as rotting meat." |
Yep,DDO is not a bad game. Like loke... said, it is more CORPG than MMO, but the eberron setting sucks. They should have gone with some other setting,anything is better then this one. Who knows,maybe this crossover works out and improve the game. |
This is exciting news but as a forgotten realms fan i'm disappointed. i was hoping that ddo would come out with a seperate new game, a more classic open world style game with actual pvp in it. the idea of playing the same old ddo with just a great new series of dungeons for you and only a couple select friends to explore is not what i was hoping. combine the combat and game play of ddo of old with an open world with plenty of pvp areas/ faction battles or whatever, i.e. wow similar or ultima online and they would have had a game i could commit years of gaming to. add some options later to purchase parts of the server and build your own houses or guild head quarters and you got the greatest epic mmorpg game ever created with a world like forgotten realms to explore. dungeon instances are still perfectly fine to have, i would just like to see some towns without loads between them, some random wandering monsters and areas that i can go to have fun ctf or faction/guild war seiging |


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Erie County (PA) Genealogy
Otto Maya --- Historical Marker - Transcription and Photos
Contributed by Bill Klauk
This historical marker located at 1103 State Street in the City of Erie, commemorates Otto Maya, a champion bicycle rider in the 1890s and early 1900s. The historical marker reads:
OTTO MAYA (1876 - 1930) A champion racer during the bicycle craze that swept the United States in the 1890s. After racing locally for several years, he competed against bicyclists from other states and nations in major contests between 1896 and 1906; foremost among these were the six-day team races at the old Madison Square Garden in New York. Maya lived here as a boy above his family's business, which he later managed on his return to Erie in 1907. PENNSYLVANIA HISTORICAL AND MUSEUM COMMISSION 2001 |
Transcription of the words on the marker, and the photos, were provided by Bill Klauk. Click on any photo below for a full size version. Use your browser's 'back' button to return to this page.
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Looking down State St | In front of Chinos Dry Cleaners | General View at 11th and State Street | ||
This page was last updated on Monday, August 26, 2002 .
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Taking Prenatal Vitamins in First Month of Pregnancy Can Reduce Autism Risk, Study Finds
Filed under: In The News, Pregnancy Health
A new study found women who did not take their prenatal vitamins right before and during their pregnancies were twice as likely to have an autistic child, the Los Angeles Times reports.
Researchers at the University of California Davis also found that if women have certain high-risk gene mutations, their chances of giving birth a to child with autism is up to seven times more likely, according to the newspaper.
The study, to be published in July in the online edition of Epidemiology, found women who took their prenatal vitamins before getting pregnant or during the first month of pregnancy were half as likely to give birth to an autistic child, but moms who didn't start taking the pills until they were two months pregnant didn't receive any benefits when it came to warding off the developmental disorder, the Times reports.
What this means: If you don't know you're pregnant until you're a couple months in, prenatals aren't going to fight off autism, according to the newspaper.
As for gene mutations that have been linked to a higher risk of autism, the Times reports women who didn't take prenatals and had the methylenetetrahydrofolate reductase (MTHFR) gene had a four and a half times greater than normal risk of having a child with autism, and women with the catechol-O-methyltransferase (COMT) gene had a seven times greater risk.
"The good news is that, if this finding is replicated, it will provide an inexpensive, relatively simple evidence-based action that women can take to reduce risks for their child, which is to take prenatal vitamins as early as possible in a pregnancy and even when planning for a pregnancy," epidemiologist Irva Hertz-Picciotto, senior author of the study, tells the Times.
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Tricia said...How very odd for me if this is true. I have 8 children and my 17-year-old daughter is the ONLY one I took prenatal vitamins with - and the ONLY one who is autistic.
Try again.....
I took vitamins with the pregnancies, just not specific prenatal vitamins, except with her.
em said...Funny you should mention this. With my first I took prenatals everyday. With my second not so much. Guess which one has Austim. My first.
elm said...I agree with you. I took prenatals vitamins during all 3 of my pregnancies and I have 2 out of 3 children affected by autism. This study is off by a long shot.
Lisa said...I Agree, 4 children took vitamins with all only one with Autism! And only one with that wonderful 18 month series of 7 vaccinations at once,, that would be the one with Autism. Try again
RNNTexas said...So ...here again, it is the MOM's fault? First it was "refrigerator mommy" NOW it is the MOM not taking her vitamins?
Can be ANYTHING about the environment or the contaminants like mercury in the air and water? The mercury content in TUNA which they used to RECOMMEND to pregnant women is now on the Don't eat list due to the MERCURY content in Tuna. Hmmm...
BTW...I took prenatals while we tried to get pregnant, and guess what? Yep. He is autistic. POOF!
Did they even ASK any parents of autistic kids about their prenatal vitamin intake in this study? Or just like a hundred or so and extrapolated from that data? They need a larger data set!
evilpixiemagic said...maybe rnntexas is on to something. i hate fish and seafood, i never eat it. i have 3 kids and none of them have autism. just sayin..
Amy said...My second child is autistic and I was still on the prenatal vitamins due to breastfeeding my first child. I always wondered if prehaps too much folic acid contributes.
Sharon said...In 1970 there was very little encouragement for "prenatal" vitamins and we had 35% less autism, but then we didn't load the kiddies up to vacinnes and eat processed food either in the volumes as they do today. Something to be said for that
Terri said...Sharon, that 35% in 1970 was classified as Mentally Retarded. If you look a the graphs the increase of Autism mirrors the decrease in Mental Retardation.
cesarvis said...Prenatal vitamins are a relatively new concept, so is Autism this does not seem to make much sense I would like to see more of their so called data........hmmmm???? This sounds as stupid as the peanut alergy being the result of an expectant mother eating peanuts, eating peanuts during pregnancy has been going on for how long without kids with allergies.....bad theory try again.
cesarvis said...I cant help but wonder if the so called increase in autism is BS and we are becoming such lazy people we are just in capable of making the effort to raise children appropriately so we just label them rather than acknowledge the childs issues might have something to do with a lack of good parenting.....???? These leaves the bad parents egos in tact and cuases a windfall for big phara. Bad parenting seems to be climbing at the same pace as the rates of autism, just a thought.
robert said...My doctor told me 50 yrs. ago that if I ate a well balanced diet, I didn't need vitamins. I'm 73 yrs. old & my mother didn't take vitamins & she nursed her 4 children (which was during the depression when just putting 3 meals on the table was no small feat). I would only take a vitamin if I were told by a doctor I had a deficiency & it was causing a problem.
Maureen said...I work in a 5-6 middle school in an affluent community. The number of kids identified on the spectrum has significantly increased in my 18 year tenure, but the two key words here are identified and spectrum. More kids are being identified and placed within a wide spectrum. Autism takes on many complicated characteristics, but as we learn more we are better at addressing an individual's needs. It's tough to be sure, but more kids are being helped instead of being allowed to fall through the cracks. I think people with the varying degrees of autism have always been among us just not identified.
Becky said...I resent your comment about bad parenting. I have 4 kids, took prenatals with all of them, stayed at home to raise them. We discipline them, demand respect from them and expect them to to follow the rules we established in our house. Our third child had significant delays in his speech and social skills, which had nothing to do with the way we raised him. Your ignorance to what consitutes autism is a sad statement on our society.
Dana said...Until you walk in the shoes of an autistic parent or child...you know nothing. I dare you speak of bad parenting. I have 2 children...1 with autism and the other typical and gifted. Those who deal with this everyday need people to upbuild them ...not tear them down. Help find a solution, we have enough blame.
I did take prenatal vitamins with both. Not sure about this suggestion.
Bubbas Mom said...NOPE!!! My son is 24 years old and I took vitamins, rested, did everythng right and boom at 22 months-AUTISM...Wasn't lack of prenatal anything. Please don't do this to the mom's. "Refrigerator Mothers"was disspelled years ago. Let's not go there!
RNNTexas said...baloney! have you ever SEEN an autistic child? My child minds me just fine. He understands everything I say. Everything said ABOUT him, too by mean spirted people who say it is just a parenting problem or bad behavior on the part of the parent. The child cannot speak clearly. Cannot form sentences verbally. He can communciate on a keyboard, but his attention span is very limited, and he can be very impulsive and self abusive. He was like 6 before he ever said I love you mommy.
So tell me, how EXACTLY did I contribute to that? Don't you think that I would have LOVED to hear " I love you mommy " WAAAY before then? Don't you think that I would LOVE to have his life, and MY life so much different? Have a NORMAL conversation with my 10 yr old? How is that a PARENTING error?
Ignorance is rampant and you are right in the crowd there!
cesarvis said...In response to all of the presumptuous and snide replies, you self righteous snobs don't know me nor what I deal with in life, yes I do deal with children on the "autism spectrum" in the family and I can tell you FOR A FACT that these kids "on the autism spectrum" are completely different when they are not around their parents! When their parents are around they have all sorts of behavioral issues, etc. when the parents are away and they are around adults that refuse to excuse every behavior as "being ok because they are autistic" the children seem to be miraculously healed and act completely different! So do not tell me that you know oh so much more than me, as one comment here noted, you don't know unless you walk in my shoes either so get over yourself!
danarodney said...How little you have learned. Every autistic child is different ...as you should know. (having one on the spectrum, as you say). So I can say "you have not walked in my shoes" or any other parents shoes for that matter. They acted different in many situations. My child acts better for me because he knows i expect more from him. They are very smart about what they do and adapts to the people around them. So again, you can't lump everyone into your experiences.


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Home Sales Up 44.2% in April
May 27, 2012 // 0 CommentsThe housing market's resurgence continued in April, increasing 44.2% in the 4-county metropolitan area. April is the 10th month in a row in which home sales have increased by double-digits. April sales (1,541) were about even with sales in April of 2010 (1,555), at the height of the federal tax credit.
April is usually the first notably busy month of the year for REALTORS® as they take listings and help buyers find homes. This year, however, agents have been active much earlier than typical. The combination of unusually warm weather, gradually increasing consumer confidence, low interest rates and low prices have established a firm pattern of recovery in the Metropolitan Milwaukee housing market.
The abundant inventory that had been characteristic of the Milwaukee market over the last few years, seems to be waning, as listings have declined in three of the last 4 months, 4.3% in April. Brokers are reporting significant tightening of listings in certain communities around the area. This is a noteworthy exception to a 'typical' spring market when new listings are abundant.
There are 13,157 active listings in the MLS at this time, which represents 8.5-months of inventory. A steep decline from the 10.5-months of just a month ago in March, and nearly half of the 15.4-months we had in January.
The supply of foreclosed properties in the hardest hit area in the City of Milwaukee push up the region's average supply numbers, so the inventory level is probably even lower in suburban communities and even some neighborhoods within the city.
County-by-County Sales Analysis:
- · Milwaukee County was up 38.8% in sales over 2011 for April (910 units vs. 658 units)
- · Waukesha County was up 46.4% vs. April 2011 (410 sales compared with 280)
- · Washington County was up 68.8% compared to last year (118 vs. 70)
- · Ozaukee County was also up 68.9% vs. April 2011 (103 units vs. 61 units)
Buyers and sellers should remember to "Start With A REALTOR®" before beginning their home search or consulting with another housing professional.
The Greater Milwaukee Association of REALTORS® is a 4,000-member strong professional organization dedicated to providing information, services and products to "help REALTORS® help their clients" buy and sell real estate.
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