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Using Different Types of Information
Sources of Information
You will use different types of information in your research. Understanding how to use different kinds of information, and knowing how to locate them is an important part of the research process.
Below is a list of some of kinds of information that you may use in your research. If you have questions about identifying or using any of these, ask a librarian!
Tools For Finding Information
|Finding Tool
|Where To Find It
|What It Is & How To Use It
Library Databases
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|Databases are large collections of online information. The City Tech library provides access to databases that have information on a variety of topics; some databases are very general and cover a range of disciplines, some will focus on a specific topic.
You'll find many kinds of information in databases: scholarly articles, news, books, professional literature, multimedia and more. Most of the databases we use at CUNY require users to log in before accessing content, you can do this using your activated City Tech library card.
To locate information in a database, enter information (keywords) into a search-field. You'll be presented with a list of corresponding results. Learning to use databases effectively can take some practice, so consult a librarian if you're not finding what you need.
Use the databases to find and use online materials, including scholarly articles.
The Library Catalog
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|Library Website, Advanced Search Page
|The library catalog will allow you to locate books and multimedia at City Tech and throughout CUNY. The catalog searches items in our physical and online collections, many of the books in our collection are available electronically. You'll locate library items using a call number,
Use the catalog to locate books and e-content at City Tech and throughout CUNY.
Websites/The Open Internet
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|Any Computer With an Internet Connection!
|Users locate information online using a search engine (such as Google or Bing), which they can view using a browser (such as Firefox, Chrome, or Internet Explorer. Users enter descriptive words into a search field, and the search engine uses an algorithm to match the words to content online, and then rank that content for the user.
The open internet contains information that can be seen by search engines and accessed for free by a user. There are also many online resources that require permission or payment to access, this is done for a number of reasons, for example: to protect privacy or intellectual property. Not all information is available online, and not all online information is free.
Websites contain all kinds of information, intended for all kinds of audiences. Some of it may be appropriate for college research, some if it may not be. There is no authority that governs what content can and can't be placed online, so when using the internet for research, it is up to the user to verify that the information they're using is reliable and appropriate. Librarians refer to the process of finding and evaluating information as "information literacy". Ask a librarian if you have questions about using the open internet for college research.
Sources of Information
Please note that sources refers to the source of the information itself, not the manner in which it is presented. You may access the following resources in paper or digital formats.
|Type of Information
|Where to Find It
|What It Is & How To Use It
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|Magazines typically assemble different kinds of journalism on a particular topic, and are intended for a general readership. While some magazines may deal with topics that are academic or scholarly in nature, they are usually considered to be popular, and not scholarly resources.
Use magazines to locate information written in a variety of styles on a range of topics, including current events.
Academic or Scholarly Journals
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|Library Databases, 4th Floor Periodical Section
|Academic journals contain articles and research, and tend to focus on one topic. Articles go through a rigorous editorial process, and are typically read by a committee of editors or experts in the field, who examine the article for accuracy and relevance. Academic journals are intended for a sophisticated readership: most readers of academic journals have some familiarity with the topics covered.
Use academic journals to look for research studies and critical writing on a broad range of topics.
Trade Publications
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|Library Databases, 4th Floor Periodical Section
|Trade publications are used by professionals in an industry to learn about practical issues, new developments, products and issues in their field.
Use trade publications to learn about professional practices.
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|Most newspapers are published on a daily basis. Newspapers tend to focus on the reporting of current events, but will also contain information, opinion, and general interest pieces, which may be written in different styles. At the library, you have access to both current and historical newspapers.
Use newspapers to research current events, and for general information about regional and national happenings.
Books and Ebooks
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|Books cover any topic, and are written in a range of styles. Books collected in college libraries are generally collected because they are considered to be relevant and useful to the academic community, but even in library collections you'll find books written in a range of styles, intended for different kinds of audiences.
Both physical books and electronic books are listed in the library catalog. Ebooks may be read online, and many can be downloaded to a digital device. Ask a librarian for advice if you encounter problems accessing any digital content.
You will likely use many different kinds of books in your research (textbooks, reference books, fiction, etc). When you use the library catalog for research, please keep in mind that some of our books are in electronic formats, some are in the shelves, and not all books can be checked out. When using books for research, look for clues to let you know what kind of book you're using (kind of publisher, author's credentials, publications date, etc).
Use books when you are looking for in-depth or extensive information and about a topic.
Reference Materials
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|Library Databases, Library Catalog
|Reference materials offer a basic and factual overview of a topic. Reference materials come in many formats (encyclopedias, dictionaries, handbooks, etc) and are offered in a wide range of media.
Use reference materials to get background information about a topic, especially at the beginning of the research process. The information provided in reference materials is not regarded as critical or scholarly, but is a good starting point for most scholarly research.


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MISSION MATTERS: 'Tis the Season to be Jolly?
By Fr. Paul Stark, S.J.
Vice President for Mission and Ministry
Christmas lights, carols, cards and commercials continually remind us that in this season, we are called to be merry and full of joy. Many of us have a hard time with that, feeling this may be an impossible task or something we will certainly have to get to, well, later.
The end-of-a-semester pressures with last-minute assignments or expectations--originally given in August, when December seemed so very far away--now loom over us, whether we're students, faculty or staff. The weight of final exams, which will need to be created, taken and corrected, leave many of us with a foreboding that dims the brightest lights with thoughts of cramming and the work ahead and darn few visions of sugarplums dancing in our heads. We also have to find and juggle the budget for just the right gift for just the right person, all combining to make each of us wonder when and where the Grinch stole Christmas.
If we're honest with ourselves and others, we may sometimes think that Christmas is at the wrong time of year. It would be so much easier to be jolly if only we didn't have all the pressures of the time. It would be more stress-free if we could spread our demands out a bit more. Joy and peace seem so hard to find in this hectic season of joy and peace. Woulds, coulds and shoulds though, remove us from reality...and, regardless of the time and year, we would probably find it as difficult to be jolly...and reality is a much better place to be.
Maybe these feelings, though, are appropriate feelings for us at Christmas. More than 2,000 years ago, on that first Christmas, the Jewish people were in their own hectic time, their particularly hectic history. They lived in an occupied land and were ordered to travel to their town of origin, pushing them out of their ordinary lives and predictable time. They were not at peace and joy nor was it easy for them to find peace and joy.
It is to this land and to this people, and to that unsettled and unsettling time, though, that God became one of these harassed people, one of us. Jesus joined His people, not in an easygoing, peaceful or comfortable time free from expectations and stress, but into a people and a time filled with many pressures--with few comforts and little support--a time filled with considerable tension and turmoil.
In that coming, though, in that time, in that place, to those people, God shows us that He loves each of us in our ordinary lives, when things are going well and when things are not...when life is tense and filled with grave burdens.
In scripture, Matthew reminds us that this time is when the people living in darkness have seen a great light. We may feel that we are in a dark season brought on by the loads of lives, of expectations not our own, but it is in this time, specifically and particularly, that God invites us to feel our need for Jesus, to sense and to understand our own longing for the real meaning of Christmas, to enter into the season, and the mystery and the wonder.
Pressures, stress, too much to do and too little time to do it, and too many pulls on us notwithstanding, we are invited to join Joseph, Mary and all the Jewish people of their time, to live in the hope and knowledge that God will come. Darkness will be filled with Light.
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Stories from people who were children during World War II and the objects in this exhibit animate the past and inform us of a time when war took over daily life. "Retrospect is a very interesting thing," says Ruthie Kallnder. "At the time I don't recall any of the information we got as being propaganda," but the government tried to influence children to make "necessary" sacrifices. Propagandists made the war a battle between good and evil, democracy and fascism. They also asked children to share in the war effort. In response, many children took on more responsibilities. Ruthie explains that boys and girls felt "if that's what it was going to take" to win they "were willing to do it." The memories of the people in this exhibit and their wartime actions show the power of propaganda's messages and its lasting affect on their lives. Propaganda posters, children's books, and classroom assignments demonstrate how propagandists reached children and involved them in the national war effort.
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Tickets are available for purchase in advance and at the door the day of the event. Tickets will be on sale from April 2 – 26, at the Charles Houston, Cora Kelly, Patrick Henry and William Ramsay recreation centers and at the Recreation Services Division Office, located at 1108 Jefferson Street. Tickets can be purchased in advance for $5 for ages 13 and older, $2 for ages 6-12 and ages 5 and under are admitted free. Ticket prices at the door will be $6 for ages 13 and older, $3 for ages 6 – 12, for ages five, and under are admitted free.
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End of an era
Guillem Balague says Sunday's Clasico proved that Barca have moved on from Pep Guardiola's style.
Last Updated: 10/10/12 12:57pm
Sunday's Clasico was the funeral of Pep Guardiola's Barcelona.
If I've learnt anything from writing Pep's biography - which will be published next month - it is that he wanted a way of playing that was a lifestyle and not just a football style.
He felt Barcelona were a big club and, as a consequence, had to dominate the games, go out to win them and impose their personality.
This led to pressuring high, starting the build-up from the back and keeping the ball for as long as was required to find the gaps, something Xavi, Lionel Messi and Andres Iniesta eventually did.
Now, though, Barcelona are trained by a coach who is less interested in big ideas and more in sorting out the football problems posed by a long injury list and the pressure of a Real Madrid team that keeps getting better.
Tito Vilanova realises that to win games he has to transform Barcelona and make them more conventional, and we are now seeing a side that plays more long balls, doesn't keep the ball for as long, and defends more than other sides would do (less of the pressure in packs high up the pitch, more of the disciplined positioning and allowing teams to take a bit more of the initiative).
It is generally a more direct style, though this works against the strengths of Xavi and even Andres Iniesta, who need to pause and find themselves surrounded by team-mates to do harm.
This weekend's match had lots of chances but it wasn't a typical Clasico. Normally the match is an open game but this was very tactical; both teams had a very clear idea that they couldn't appear disorganised and tracked back in numbers and in order.
Madrid kept their lines very close together meaning Barcelona couldn't find any space, while Barca didn't allow many counter attacks, especially after Martin Montoya came on for Dani Alves following some disconcerting early moments.
Both Jose Mourinho and Vilanova agreed that it was a great game when they shook hands at the end and it was a match that Cristiano Ronaldo and Lionel Messi featured prominently in - for different reasons, I felt.
Real's pressure up high and counter-attacking football suits Ronaldo down to the ground and he now fits his side's style more than ever, while Messi wants more of the ball; he is dropping deep, appears everywhere and it looks like every time Barcelona attack they have to pass him the ball.
They are both extraordinary players, though, and make big impacts in big games; Ronaldo has scored in the last six Clasicos, which is a record, while Messi has scored 17 times in 22 Clasicos and with one more goal he will equal Alfredo Di Stefano.
Both teams were happy with the result and, again, for different reasons; Mourinho feels he has the side where he wanted, no matter how broken or not their team spirit is, while Vilanova will be pleased his side is still eight points ahead of Madrid.
But the Barcelona boss' main test will arrive with a couple of bad results. Will his proposals be accepted by everybody? Will that direct style, which in my eyes has put the nail in the coffin of Guardiola's team, reap enough benefits?
Guillem answers your questions...
Got a question for Guillem? Then send it in here or use the feedback form below, and then look out for his answer next week.
Great read as always, Guillem. I know Lionel Messi is still a player very much in his prime and his goalscoring is phenomenal. But as he gets older and loses that burst of speed do you see him playing deeper and performing a Xavi role? Harvey Sharpe
GUILLEM SAYS: Messi won't play the Xavi role but he will have the freedom that he has always had. When he was young coaches asked him to do things but they soon realised he did whatever he wanted. The coaches now trust him to do what he wants because of the experience he has got and what he brings to the team. They are happy for him to drop deep or play as striker and for the team to move around because he is just that good.
Should Barcelona have Alex Song and Javier Mascherano at the back, or should Tito Vilanova replace Song with a youth like Marc Bartra or Andreu Fontas? I know Song is doing fine at the back, but I'm still unsure about him as I have a feeling he doesn't have that original centre-back spark. via e-mail
GUILLEM SAYS:The idea is to use Gerard Pique and Carles Puyol at the back but they can't at the moment because of injuries. Barta hasn't been given a chance because Tito feels he is not ready and would find it difficult to cope with mistakes at this stage and he wants to bring him along gradually, so Song is the fourth centre-back after Mascherano at the moment. Now, though, Adriano gives them a new possibility because he is very fast over the first five-to-10 metres which is what you need as a centre-back. However, they do need a Puyol to provide aggressive pressure and have experience of keeping the line, something Adriano and Mascherano do not have.
Hi Guillem, I love your articles, keep up the good work! I wanted to ask whether this is the dawn of a new age for Kaka given his performances recently, and if so, will it be enough to persuade him to stay at the club? He had a renaissance at the start of last year before Angel Di Maria hit form, only to pick up a niggle and never recover his place. Another thing is, while Michael Essien is a good squad player, do you see his future at Madrid? Especially since his displays have not been as energetic as Lass' in the last season. If not, who will Madrid target in the market? Could Nuri Sahin return? Jann
GUILLEM SAYS: It was quite clear that Real asked Kaka to leave this summer. He has gained a bit of confidence now and Real can take advantage of that but he will only appear every now and again. Mesut Ozil is still ahead of him and while Mourinho has been disappointed by Luka Modric, he is going to push him to work harder defensively. As for your other questions, I don't think Essien will stay unless he is dirt cheap in terms of wages, while I think Nuri Sahin will be sold; he is not a Mourinho-type player.
Keep your questions coming in and don't forget to follow Guillem on Twitter: @GuillemBalague


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ACS Publications offers 35 prestigious journals in addition to its weekly newsmagazine covering the chemical enterprise, Chemical & Engineering News. With the ACS Journal Archives, ACS Publications provides searchable access to over 130 years of original research in chemistry, including more than 750,000 articles contained in 3 million plus pages of chemistry findings, dating back to the introduction of the Journal of the American Chemical Society in 1879.
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Stories from people who were children during World War II and the objects in this exhibit animate the past and inform us of a time when war took over daily life. "Retrospect is a very interesting thing," says Ruthie Kallnder. "At the time I don't recall any of the information we got as being propaganda," but the government tried to influence children to make "necessary" sacrifices. Propagandists made the war a battle between good and evil, democracy and fascism. They also asked children to share in the war effort. In response, many children took on more responsibilities. Ruthie explains that boys and girls felt "if that's what it was going to take" to win they "were willing to do it." The memories of the people in this exhibit and their wartime actions show the power of propaganda's messages and its lasting affect on their lives. Propaganda posters, children's books, and classroom assignments demonstrate how propagandists reached children and involved them in the national war effort.
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A wonderful necklace and earring set by Italian maker Peruzzi from the Retro (ca1940) era! This beautiful 2-piece set is made of sterling silver and comprised of a long linked necklace with a complimentary pair of earrings. The necklace has 3-dimensional sterling flower and leaf links, which alternate with beautiful chalcedony beads. The chalcedony has wonderful pale blue color and a subtle translucence that looks lovely against the sterling silver. The sterling links are double sided, revealing intricate details on both sides, displaying exceptional craftsmanship. Hanging at the center of the necklace is a large pendant which carries a complimentary design with a large chalcedony stone center, surrounded by an elaborate floral border. The necklace fastens at the back with a simple clasp and the back of the center link is stamped "MADE IN ITALY", "F. ILLI PERUZZI", and "STERLING".
The earrings carry a complimentary design with a chalcedony bead which dangles from a sterling flower link. They hang from the original screw backs, allowing them to be worn on pierced or unpierced ears. Each earring is stamped "STERLING". The necklace and earrings would look beautiful worn separately, but when worn together as a set they make a gorgeous statement! Together, they would make a stunning addition to any jewelry collection.
Measurements: The entire necklace measures 24" long. The pendant measures 1 1/2" tall, 1 1/4" wide and 3/8" thick. The earrings hang 2 1/4" long and are approximately 7/16" at their widest point. All of the chalcedony beads measure 12mm in diameter.
Condition: The overall condition of the set is excellent. Besides normal surface wear, there is no apparent damage to the silver or chalcedony beads and the clasps are secure and in good working condition.


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Stephen Chung, a Ph.D. candidate in Chemistry, will defend his dissertation, "The Synthesis and Characterization of Aluminum Nanoparticles Passivated with Epoxides and Graphite and the Modeling of Size-dependent Enthalpy of Reaction," at 2 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 11 in room 115 of Monsanto Hall.
Clayton Notgrass, a Ph.D. candidate in Family Therapy, will defend his dissertation, "Equine Assisted Psychotherapy: A Study of U.S. Practitioners Trained by the Equine Assisted Growth and Learning Association," on at 11:45 a.m. on Friday, Oct. 14 at in Seminar Room 034 of Fitzgerald Hall.
Jennifer O'Malley, a Ph.D. candidate in Educational Studies, will defend her dissertation, "The Maps in Medicine Program: An Evaluation of the Development and Implementation of Life Sciences Curriculum," at 10 a.m. on Wednesday, Oct.19, room 218 of Fitzgerald Hall.
Salome Hadjineophytou, a Ph.D. candidate in Educational Studies, will defend her dissertation, "The Relationship between Family Socioeconomic Status, Parental Marital Status, Parenting Styles, Parental Involvement, Bidialectalism, and Understanding Poetry," at 9 a.m. on Thursday, Oct. 20, in Limassol, Cyprus


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Few years ago I started making a scarecrow suit, but I didn't want to make the standard Wizard of Oz version, so I made a dark one. I never got around to making permanant body-coverings so I just used dirty flannel and jeans with a fisherman's hat and black gloves and boots. I was thinking of making a brown/black color scheme with some chains, but all I finished was a giant metal (aluminum) scythe, which is steadily rusting away in a junkyard somewhere. I can always make another. Scared the kids good with that thing :]
The white parts are made of a mesh-like fabric so I can see out but you cant see in. The little cut in the left white was an accident. I was playing around with teh scythe and it got too close for comfort


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Old Motorcyclist
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Location: Jennings, Louisiana
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Yes! Gonna be interesting to see what all I missed during my trip over the top of Lake Superior a few years back due to getting caught in a cold front. I should of know better than to try it at the last days of September. South Louisiana Guy here just hates freezing cold weather. ;-)
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Having a Nice Time
Joined: Jul 2005
Location: SE Wisconsin
Oddometer: 20,742
Superior, WI
As a side note, I have close to 1,000 waypints in the GPS file. I have fuel, camping, and points of interest marked. Obviously, I won't be covering every point of interest I visited in this report. If you have a question about something along the way that is not covered in the report, I may be able to give you more information about it and maybe even a picture or two.
The BNSF railroad runs a taconite sorting facility in Superior.
Taconite comes in to this facility from the iron mines.
These docks, like many others still in use, used to be set up to have trains roll right out onto the dock to offload and fill the ship loading bins. The train tracks have been pulled and a huge conveyor now runs from the stockpiles to the dock. Not sure what the advantage is. I guess there will always be enough taconite on hand to sustain an efficient ore boat schedule without having to worry about trains keeping the docks filled.
This 1898 firehouse once had horses and a steam powered pump on the first floor. Must have been the ultimate facility at one time.
Around the time of the Civil War, there was an indian uprising and related massacre in Minnesota. This got settlers in Superior a little alarmed. They quickly organized a home guard and built a stockade (fort) on this now peaceful site. A quick inventory of the neighborhood revealed they only had 60 shotguns, rifles, and pistols. The State of Wisconsin sent 192 muskets and 2 cannons along with a company of soldiers that had been captured by the confederates at Shiloh and paroled. It turned out that the local Chippewa indians remained friendly to the settlers.
Back in 1889, Marty Pattison built this 42 room joint for $189K. Marty was a lumber and mining baron and wanted a place to live in that was appropriate for his status. He lived there with his wife and six kids. When Marty kicked in 1918, his wife donated the place to be used as an orphanage. 2,000 kids lived there over the years up until 1942. In 1963 the city bought the place for $12,500 and was planning to tear it down. Long story short, here it is today, well preserved, serving as a museum.
Seaplane base on the sandbar.
This whaleback ship is on display on Barkers Island. By the way, Barkers is made up of dredge spoil from the harbor. This is the SS Meteor. Between 1888 and 1898 43 whalebacks were launched. This was the beginning of the Great Lakes bulk carrier fleet. 39 of those ships were built right here in the Superior-Duluth harbor. Young Frankie Roosevelt (some of you might know him as President Franklin Delano Roosevelt) came to town as a boy to watch one of these ships being launched. While trying to get a better look he fell into the drink and the fire department had to fish him out.
Speaking of building ships, the Fraser shipyard is still going. They started up in 1889 and at one time had the first dry dock on Lake Superior and the largest one on the Great Lakes. There were sometimes 10 ships being constructed here at a time.
This ship is at the yard right now - probably idled due to low demand.
At one time this ship was a tanker. During WWII she served on both the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans. She is credited with shooting down an enemy aircraft and was bombed while refueling a destroyer in the pacific. In 1958 she was in a collision with another tanker and lost many of her crew.
She was then repaired and converted to a Great Lakes bulk carrier. She is a self unloader (hence, the conveyor boom).
This yard also installed thrusters like this bow thruster. Difficult to control a 700-1,000 foot ship without one. I watched a ship swing into a narrow harbor and back up to an ore dock unassisted. These thrusters help guide a ship through a lock without scraping the sides as well.
Fraser has also done some ship lengthening and shortening jobs. It cut 120' out of an ore carrier to convert the ship to a cement hauler. Some ships are built at ocean shipyards and then brought into the Great Lakes (while they are shorter and can fit) with the intent to lengthen them once they are on the lakes.
They also build small assault boats here. Pretty cool boats with water cannons and the like.
The Eddie Ryerson is one of two straight backs (not a self unloader) left on the Great Lakes. She is thought to be the most beautiful design on the lakes. Being old and inefficient, she is currently idled (kind of like some other things in life), but she does go in and out of service as demand for ore fluctuates.
If you are a polka fan or an accordion player, you might be interested in visiting the accordion museum. It is all things accordion and accordion players. I never knew there was such a thing.
Had to stop here for a burger.
The place is famous for them. Even been on television.
You can see it is a down to earth joint based on the beers on tap. The burgers are remarkably inexpensive.
A very worthwhile stop.
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Great to see this ride report pop up, Cannonshot. I'll be reading eagerly as I begin planning my own trips out of Milwaukee to parts north.
"The only true currency in this bankrupt world is what we share with someone else when we're uncool." - Lester Bangs in "Almost Famous"
Gnarly Adventurer
Joined: Nov 2009
Location: WestSconnie
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Looks awesome so far! I plan on doing this route with my son in 4 years so we have some time to plan and Cannon you sure make planning so much easier! I can never say it enough but thanks for everything you do for us!
Persistent Slacker
Joined: Sep 2011
Location: The Land of Cheese and Beer
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Excellent timing Cannon!
I was gonna try a trip out west this year, but life circumstances have me looking at a Superior circle as well.
I'll be really interested in the falls and nature photos. Also any info on mileage of trip and gas stops that require a bit of extra planning for. camping spots...well...ok...I'm In as well!
Side note- I've seen the Ryerson in either Green Bay or Sturgeon Bay, when fishing....likely hauling or getting worked on.
Just a rider
Joined: Aug 2010
Location: cloquet, mn
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Looking forward to more of your great photography and your well researched and inciteful commentary.
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Killer Rabbit
Joined: Jul 2010
Location: North Shore of Lake Superior
Oddometer: 1,514
I love it, looking forward to more! I like how it's starting off so close to home for me...I've spent almost my entire life in relatively near vicinity to and with strong family ties in Superior//Duluth. And yet, there's so much here that I've yet to see. Let alone the rest of the circle tour (which I have not done yet).
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Joined: Apr 2011
Location: Toledo Ohio
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Thanks Cannonshot! My wife and I are leaving from Ohio July 21st to make the same trip so the timing here is perfect. Looking forward to the gpx tracks. Only thing undecided for us is which direction around the lake to take. We have two weeks to make it around so plenty of time to poke around exploring. Have been back and forth across the lake many times as a deck hand on the ore freighters in the late 70's but have never been away from the docks. Cant wait to get back up there.
Joined: Jul 2010
Location: HCMC (Saigon) Vietnam
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Thanks for sharing your ride... can't wait until you get to the north shore... one of the few places in the world that makes me home sick. Some of the most beautiful camping in my life was waking up (cold) on the north shore!!
Keep it coming. Love the detail in your report. Good reading.
Looking up
Joined: Nov 2004
Location: Thunder Bay, Ontario, Canada
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Good stuff! I recognize almost all of your opening pictures! Unfortunately, it's snowing up at the mining camp right now
Great minds think alike;small minds seldom differ...
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Typically a dock has four tracks on the top. Two sections of cars can be unloaded into a line of bins each of which holds four carloads. This means it takes two iterations of cars on the docks to completely fill the bins. It is also possible to spot another train on top to add to the load as the bins get emptied.
The big thing I didn't realize is that ore comes in multiple grades and that the ships must be loaded with the grade ordered by the mill. Some mines produce multiple grades of ore depending on where it came from in the mine. This sorting can be done using rail cars. It can also be done in a taconite sorting facility and then conveyored to the bins on the dock in the appropriate grade.
Some facilities actually uncouple a car and rotate it to dump it onto a conveyor that leads to the dock. A modern facility like one further up the north shore can unload trains without the train even stopping.
Kind of interesting and I can see where making these operations work from mine to mill could get pretty involved.
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Duluth Part I
When in Duluth, one must stop at the 'stich.
For those that have not yet been there, the showroom is great because you can try on the various sizes to get the right fit.
Ore cars full of stone.
There is an excursion train operating out of Duluth. Picture from their web site.
No sign of any excursion train while I was there.
Riverside was a ship building town. It is now a neighborhood in Duluth. The company came in and built the town for their workers. The outfit closed in 1945. This building was the company store, school, and offices.
This building was the company hospital. Remarkably it has been refurbished and is now a care facility.
The next town south is Morgan Park. It was a planned community by US Steel. In the early 1900s US Steel wanted a mill here. This is Lake View Store and is America's first indoor shopping mall. Downtown had the mall, bank, commons, and community center. The 1916 Lake View Store had a pharmacy, department store, butcher, clothing store, hardware store, furniture store, and a general store. The second floor had a bank, dentist, barber, hair salon, billiard room, and auditorium.
This steel town had better buildings that were made of block instead of wood.
The idea behind this mill was to get steel production up here. Iron ore could be brought directly to the mill from the mines. Limestone and coal could be brought up on bulk carriers that would otherwise be empty on their return trip after hauling ore to mills further south. They thought Duluth would become a huge manufacturing center. They made rails, billet wire, nails, fence posts, steel wool, and welded wire for concrete roads. Also stuff for missile silos.
It was a good idea but the mill still only got to about 20% production capacity. It closed in 1972 putting 2,500 people out of work. There is nothing left at the site now.
This is a view of the town from the ridge. It was well laid out and very pleasant. The mill would have been to the right of the picture. The big building in the middle is the school.
I run you down to a historic area where explorers landed and stuff like that. The waypoints are on the track.
Coming back north we ride through a training center for aircraft fires. Pretty hot set-up.
Some other old town buildings. This is a combo police and fire station. Must have been great at the time. This was in a commuter town for US Steel.
Al old telephone exchange building. In the background is the replacement facility that has a lot more capacity in a lot less space.
Looking north toward the mouth of the harbor.
Be sure to ride the Skyline Drive. The southern most end is gravel but nice.
You'll pass through the Spirit Mountain Adventure Area. In summer you can ride one of these down the ski hill.
Minnesota's only seaport. But . . . they do have access to the Mississippi River which gets them to world ports as well.
The Skyline Drive runs the scenic contours of some ancient beaches along the high ridges above Duluth. Very scenic ride.
Major Bong's memorial bridge. The climbing curves remind me of his being a fighter pilot.
Ship loading at the DMIR ore dock.
Early 1900s doing the same thing.
Enger Tower. Climb it for a nice view.
Overlooking Rice's Point from the Skyline Drive. This point separates the inner and outer harbors. You can see the sandbar which also hosts an airport.
The natural harbor entrance.
Rice's Point.
Inner harbor DMIR ore docks.
Lift bridge we'll visit later on.
Antenna farm on the Skyline Drive.
This concrete street was constructed over 100 years ago. It is the oldest concrete road in Minnesota. It is in great shape.
Whatever they did back then they did right.
Years ago some guy wanted a scenic drive. He ran a road down a waterway and crossed the river seven times with some elegant wooden bridges.
The wooden bridges blew out with floods and after the city got the property (donated) they put in stone bridges. A nice twisting and descending ride down the waterway in Seven Bridges Park.
In 1920 three black circus workers were lynched by an angry mob in Duluth based on a rumor that six blacks raped a teenage girl. A medical exam revealed no assault. The police chief lined up 150 circus workers and the two young people making the assault claim picked out six. A mob of 5-10K formed up outside the jail, broke down the doors, grabbed these guys, beat them, and after a quick phony trial hung them from a pole across the street from this memorial. Some people in the area already had ill-will about blacks coming north to get jobs (like at US Steel). The National Guard came to town the next day to restore order. Previously a Finnish immigrant had been lynched for dodging the draft during WWI. He was found dead in a park after being tarred and feathered. Ugly history for this town.
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I did the same trip way back in 1966 when I was 16 years old on a 50cc Honda. Thankfully traffic was pretty light back in those days. Here's a link to my trip report:
Having a Nice Time
Joined: Jul 2005
Location: SE Wisconsin
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Duluth Part II
Pushing loaded ore cars out onto a dock.
1902 sandstone and brick Carnegie library building.
High school. No longer in use as of last year. When this was built in 1892 it was considered the finest high school in the world. It had wide halls, sweeping stairways, iron bannisters, large chandeliers, beautiful statuary, and a huge clock tower.
Union Depot. Built in 1890. By 1910 it was seeing 50 trains per day from seven different railroads.
Amsoil (synthetic oil) headquarters is in town. Hence the naming rights on this.
You can tour the ore boat Bill Irvin if you like. This boat was launched in 1937 at a cost of $1.3M. It is 610' long and 60' wide. Each hatch cover weighs 5.5 tons. It was retired in 1978 because it is too small (14K tons versus 28K tons today). It burned 2,400 pounds of coal per hour. Nine officers and 32 crewmen.
This part of town is kind of a entertainment district. When you ride past the restaurants the pleasant cooking smells get your attention.
Ran across some reserve component soldiers taking a physical training test on the sandbar. Good place for the two mile run. Nice and cool too.
An old firehouse out on the sandbar.
Airport with seaplane ramp out here as well.
The Corps of Engineers has a nice exhibit in this building by the bridge.
Back in 1870 they cut a channel through the sandbar here. In 1892 they had a contest to figure out an island access solution. The high lift bridge idea won but the war department killed it. Instead they built a transfer bridge with a gondola that could carry 350 people plus wagons and stuff that would take one minute to cross. In 1929 they ditched the gondola and made it a lift bridge.
Nice exhibits in the park near the bridge.
In 1967 some teenagers were messing around on this structure with ten to fifteen foot waves breaking on it. One was swept away. Three coast guardsmen went to rescue the boys and one of the coasties was swept away and died.
Fitgers brewed stuff around here for about 115 years. During prohibition they switched over to soda and candy bars. In 1972 they called it quits. Now the complex is a hotel, restaurant, shopping type set-up.
Back in the day.
I was looking for a bakery that was in an 1875 wooden building and found it was out of business. This interesting place was next door.
We are embarking on the North Shore Scenic Drive as we head toward the edge of town.
Very exclusive Kitchi Gammi Club organized in 1883.
If you like big mansions, you can tour this one. The Glensheen Estate is a 39 room manison that was built in 1908 for about $854K.
This 1890 federal fish hatchery is being refurbished by the University of Minnesota. In the past it produced whitefish, perch, and lake trout.
That takes to the edge of town and next we head up the scenic north shore.
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Games from Around the World at the Museum of Anthropology
Saturday, Jun 22 - 10:00AM to 4:00PM
Please join us at the Museum of Anthropology on Saturday, June 22, from 10 a.m.-4 p.m. as we take a closer look at games from around the world! Playing games and enjoying a bit of friendly competition is an important recreation activity in cultures around the world. An illustrated lecture at 1 p.m. will highlight the earliest known games from around the world. Throughout the day kids can play games from around the globe and earn prizes. The Museum is open from 10 a.m.-4 p.m., Monday through Saturday, and admission is always FREE!
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Ken® doll as Mr. Spock
Star Trek has been spinning its mythology for 40 years, spanning 6 television series and 10 feature films. Star Trek XI comes full circle with a prequel featuring the fledgling future icons of the original Star Trek Series. From his magnetic gaze to his pointed ears to his blue sciences division uniform shirt, Ken® doll as Mr. Spock perfectly captures the half-Vulcan executive officer of the U.S.S. Enterprise. Live long and prosper!
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Securities Suits Still Going Strong at White Law Group
Two years on and a bit more, attorneys like Daxton White are still filing suit or doing FINRA (Financial Industry Regulatory Authority) mediation and arbitration hearings for clients who were bilked, defrauded, led down the garden path and otherwise separated from their money by unscrupulous and indeed sometimes criminal brokers and investment companies.
New York's Bernie Madoff and his celebrity clients got the headlines, but there were many others out there doing the same.
"We are very busy," says White from his office in Chicago at the White Law Group. "The only concern we have with our cases is that many of the brokerage firms we are suing are being sued by so many people that a lot of them are on the brink of bankruptcy."
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Two years on and a bit more, attorneys like Daxton White are still filing suit or doing FINRA (Financial Industry Regulatory Authority) mediation and arbitration hearings for clients who were bilked, defrauded, led down the garden path and otherwise separated from their money by unscrupulous and indeed sometimes criminal brokers and investment companies.
New York's Bernie Madoff and his celebrity clients got the headlines, but there were many others out there doing the same.
"We are very busy," says White from his office in Chicago at the White Law Group. "The only concern we have with our cases is that many of the brokerage firms we are suing are being sued by so many people that a lot of them are on the brink of bankruptcy."
Your Money Q&A: How long after losing money can I file a claim?
Most investor claims must go through arbitration, rather than through courts. They must be submitted under rules established by the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority, an industry self-regulatory organization. Finra's code says claims can be made within six years after the event, according to Rose M. Schindler, the former Finra Regional Director in Boca Raton. She is now with The White Law Group.


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Historians of 'Past and Present'
1 portrait of Joan Thirsk
© National Portrait Gallery, London
Historians of 'Past and Present'
by Stephen Frederick Godfrey Farthing
oil on canvas, 1999
68 1/4 in. x 81 3/8 in. (1734 mm x 2066 mm)
Commissioned, 1999
Primary Collection
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- Stephen Frederick Godfrey Farthing (1950-), Painter and teacher of art. Artist of 1 portrait, Sitter in 2 portraits.
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- Sir John Huxtable Elliott (1930-), Historian. Sitter in 1 portrait.
- (John Edward) Christopher Hill (1912-2003), Historian. Sitter in 1 portrait.
- Rodney Howard Hilton (1916-2002), Historian. Sitter in 1 portrait.
- Eric John Ernest Hobsbawm (1917-2012), Historian. Sitter in 3 portraits.
- Lawrence Stone (1919-1999), Historian. Sitter in 1 portrait.
- (Irene) Joan Thirsk (1922-2013), Historian. Sitter in 1 portrait.
- Sir Keith Vivian Thomas (1933-), Historian. Sitter in 2 portraits.
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The founding of the historical journal Past and Present evolved from the friendship of a group of young Marxist historians in the late 1940s, its first edition appearing under the aegis of John Morris (d.1977) in 1952. The aim was broadly to give a platform to both Marxist and non-Marxist historians to air contemporary historical research and discussion.
The seven historians depicted have all had editorial roles in organising the journal, but were not gathered in one place as a group to be painted. The artist Stephen Farthing, Ruskin Master at the Ruskin School in Oxford, sent questionnaires to all the sitters, asking how they perceived themselves in relation to others in the group and visited each of them for sittings during 1999. He describes how he dealt with the task of producing a work that reflected both the era and the intellectual energies of the group:
To take the problem head on I set the picture in the latter days of modernism, 1950-60, and by doing so brought some of its cold dynamic in through the paint handling and style of the picture. The book shelves are not a backdrop but painted to be of equal importance to the sitters, books are after all both the product and focus of their lives. The spines are torn off to reveal the structure of the book and so as not to confuse the bigger picture with the anecdotal. They stand on a carpet woven to reflect the current issue of their journal and in doing so, like the Ditchley portrait of Elizabeth, declare their ownership.
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- Saywell, David; Simon, Jacob, Complete Illustrated Catalogue, 2004, p. 731
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Once a malignancy has been diagnosed it is essential to know whether it has spread beyond the original site. This staging process is necessary for your doctor to determine your prognosis and plan your treatment. Advanced or late stage cancers, for example, are associated with an unfavorable prognosis and are primarily treated with chemotherapy. Early stage tumors, on the other hand, are usually associated with a favorable prognosis and are primarily treated with surgery, although chemotherapy and radiotherapy are sometimes also used as a means of increasing the probability of a cure.
A cancer's stage is generally based on four pieces of information about the original tumor:
- size
- degree of invasion into nearby tissues
- degree of regional lymph node involvement
- presence of metastasis to distant areas of the body
The TNM Classification System
Although newer staging protocols have recently been developed for many cancers, the original TNM system is still useful to demonstrate the concept of staging. The TNM classification system was developed as a tool for doctors to stage different types of cancer based on certain standard criteria. In this system, T stands for the primary tumor, N stands for lymph nodes, and M stands for metastasis.
T refers to the tumor size: the higher the number, the larger the tumor.
- TX (presence of primary tumor cannot be assessed)
- T0 (no evidence of primary tumor)
- Tis ( carcinoma in situ )
- T1 (small tumor)
- T2, T3 (medium-sized tumor)
- T4 (large tumor)
While the designations T1 through T4 correspond to specific tumor sizes, their exact definitions will vary depending on the type and nature of cancer being diagnosed. For example, in non-small cell lung cancer, a T1 tumor is defined as being less than 3 cm in diameter, but in thyroid cancer, a T1 tumor is less than 1 cm in diameter.
N denotes whether the regional lymph nodes (the group of lymph nodes closest to the site of the primary tumor) contain cancer. The status of the nodes is assigned a number to indicate if the tumor has spread to the local lymph nodes, and the extent of lymph node involvement:
- NX (regional lymph nodes cannot be assessed)
- N0 (no regional lymph node involvement)
- N1, N2, N3 (increasing involvement of regional lymph nodes)
As with the T symbols, the designations N1 through N3 will differ depending on the particular type of cancer. For some types of cancer, N1 is the only level of regional metastasis. Others will use all three N levels. See the Focus on box below to learn more about the lymphatic system.
M indicates the absence or presence of distant metastases (spread of cancer to other parts of body via the bloodstream):
- MX (presence of distant metastasis cannot be assessed)
- M0 (no distant metastasis)
- M1 (distant metastasis present)
A letter is sometimes added to the M to show the areas involved. P, for instance, would indicate pulmonary, meaning that the cancer had spread to the lungs.
Putting T, N, M Together
Oncologists may combine the T, N, and M classification to determine a cancer's stage. For example, in breast cancer, a T1, N0, M0 cancer (small tumor, no nodal involvement, no distant metastasis) is considered a stage I tumor, while a T2, N1, M0 cancer (medium sized tumor, regional lymph node involvement, no distant metastasis) is considered a stage II tumor. Most cancers have four stages:
- Stage I
- Stage II
- Stage III
- Stage IV
Stage I tumors are relatively small and have not spread to the lymph nodes or metastasized. On the other hand, Stage IV tumors are relatively large, have spread to the regional lymph nodes, and have metastasized to distant sites in the body. The images below illustrate these various stages.
The TNM system has undergone numerous revisions as more is learned about how various cancers behave in the body. In addition, blood (hematologic) cancers, such as the leukemias, require staging systems that reflect their unique nature. To learn more about how a specific cancer is staged, click here to link to In Depth Reports and find the particular cancer you are interested in.
Grading Tumors
A tumor's grade describes how closely cancer cells resemble their normal counterparts. This is also referred to as cancer cells' degree of differentiation. (See the Focus box below for a brief discussion of the importance of cell differentiation in cancer.) Some cancer cells are well differentiated and thus resemble normal cells, while others are poorly differentiated and bear little resemblance to normal cells. In general, the more poorly differentiated the cancer cells the worse the prognosis. In one system, the symbols used to classify tumor grade are:
- GX (grade not assessable)
- G1 (well differentiated)
- G2 (moderately differentiated)
- G3 (poorly differentiated)
- G4 (undifferentiated); in other words, extremely poorly differentiated and bearing little resemblance to the tissue in which it arose)
Image 5 illustrates the various degrees of differentiation that cancer cells may posses.
Image 5: Tumor Grades
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Jan 4, 2009
NXT Electric Guitar
8 comments:
- Matthias Paul Scholz said...
This is ingenious indeed!
The usage of the ultrasonic sensor here is remarkable.
Building complex robots mainly is a matter of perserverance, but figuring out these wonderful minimalistic solutions of yours is some sort of brilliancy.
"All meaningful understanding resides in grand simplicity."
(Albert Einstein)
- Jan 5, 2009, 2:51:00 AM
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- Jan 5, 2009, 7:09:00 AM
- Rubiksland said...
Awesome robot! This far beyond any robot I have every created, and your use of the Ultrasonic is remarkable. I think you was have played the rapid note change in Iron Man wrong, though.
- Jan 5, 2009, 9:34:00 AM
- NXTMonger said...
Awesome. I built it and I made it so it has an actual solid body. Nice!
- Jan 5, 2009, 2:05:00 PM
Where do you get the power chords from? I know the Mindstorms website has a guitar sound. I assume you made the sounds yourself and then used Wav2RSO?
The use of the US sensor is brilliant!
- Jan 5, 2009, 10:07:00 PM
- Dave Parker said...
Thanks Guys. I made the power chord sounds by sampling chords from my son's synthesizer (simple Casio keyboard) then using Wav2Rso to convert to NXT format. The sampling was just recording with the cheap PC mic shown in the video using the keyboard set to "Distortion Guitar" and playing a power chord (root note plus 5th) then trimming up with PC Sound Recorder app. Pretty primitive, so if I had some decent audio equipment or software the sounds could be better, but then again the NXT speaker isn't capable of much...
- Jan 6, 2009, 2:18:00 AM
- LinearActuator said...
It would be interesting to see if someone created a pedal function for this guitar, creating a whammy effect, or starting a drum beat.
A few ideas...
- Jan 7, 2009, 9:05:00 AM
- clemency said...
That was such a great video, showing such a creative use of the NXT, that I put the video up on Face Book so that all of my friends could enjoy the video too. Thank you for sharing. ...Allan
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By Chris Dennis, Oklahoma Highway Partol Trooper
School started in August and it is already January. Where does time go when you're having fun? My nephew Dalton would probably tell you that it felt like an eternity!
With school in full swing, drivers should be more vigilante on keeping safety a priority, especially with school buses. Most school buses are bright yellow and are usually accompanied by several bright flashing lights and signs that allow other drivers to know when they are loading and unloading. I find it very difficult to believe someone, who has been stopped for passing a school bus during these unloading and loading times, when they say that they did not notice the school bus or the lights or the child who was almost hit.
Now we have some good news with an additional law that was just added to our arsenal of tools. According to an amendment to Oklahoma State Statute Title 47 Article 2 Section 6-205 which adds the following grounds for revoking a driver's license: Failure to stop or remain stopped for a school bus loading or unloading children. What that means is that if you get a ticket for not yielding to a school bus that is loading or unloading children, if found guilty, you will lose your driver's license. My partners and I are extremely pleased with this amendment as I am sure most of you are.
If you do see someone pass a school bus, get the color of the vehicle, type of vehicle and the tag number and contact the law enforcement agency where it happened. If it was in a city, contact the city police department, or if it was out of the city contact the Oklahoma Highway Patrol or the sheriff's office.
We must constantly be aware of what we are doing and what is going on around us while operating a motor vehicle. Things can go from good to bad in the snap of your fingers. I hope that everyone has a good weekend, wears their seatbelt and stays safe.
Trooper Chris Dennis is a member of the Oklahoma Highway Patrol and has more than 10 years experience with the patrol. If you have a question for Trooper Dennis, he can be contacted my email at email@example.com or through Troop E headquarters out of Durant, Oklahoma at 580-924-2601.


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There are two terrific websites I want to tell you about, very appropriate for this year's 150th celebration of the start of the Civil War.
The first is Last Road to Freedom. The site creator and founder Alisea McLeod has put together this website as a resource about Contraband Camps. This is a sometimes-mentioned, but rarely well-understood topic and it is central to the African-American experience during the Civil War since so many enslaved persons took their own freedom by escaping behind Union lines. Ms. McLeod provides a wealth of information here, but the icing on the cake is her downloadable register of the over 3,000 people who lived at one of the camps in Memphis, Tennessee. What initially blew my mind was the column containing the name of the former slaveholder! As genealogists researching African-Americans, this information is critical to getting to our ancestors before 1865 (if they were still enslaved). Ms. McLeod contacted me because individuals with one of my surnames (Harbor) showed up on the register, as well as more than 20 people from one of my primary research areas (Hardin County, Tennessee). The register also notes where the individuals had come from, and so you can see counties from Northern Alabama and Mississippi as well as other central and western Tennessee counties–gives you a good sense of from where the enslaved had fled. The hope is that other registers exist and may be found and transcribed.
The 2nd website I want to highlight is a blog called Civil War Memory that is done by historian and teacher Kevin Levin. I found this site by googling something one day and subsequently spent hours reading his various posts. He has a special interest in the topic of "Black Confederates" and I suggest you poke around when you have some time. He has done a tremendous amount of work not only gathering resources but also pointing out and battling present day sources of mis-information in this area. The vast majority of blacks who were given pensions by the Confederate Army (actually the individual states gave the pensions) were either impressed as laborers, or served as personal servants to their masters. They were allowed pensions because of this. They were not considered "soldiers"—only a very small number at the very end of the war were considered soldiers. But read his posts on the subject as he says it much better than I could. He's got so much good information on this blog, I try to catch up on a few old posts every day. He also did an interesting post recently on Lionel Ritchie's segment on the show "Who Do You Think You Are?" Here are a few more posts I enjoyed, but there are lots more:
- How Many Black Confederates were there?
- Where were all the Black Confederate Soldiers?
- USCT's in the Public Mind
- A Book We Should All Read: Soldiers and Slavery
- Show Don't Tell: Black Confederates
- Melvin Ely Debating Sons of Confederate Veterans
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St. Edward's University Students Travel to Washington, D.C., for Leadership Tour
In mid-November, 18 St. Edward's University students along with two university staff members traveled to Washington, D.C., for a five-day study tour on leadership as part of the Hilltop Leaders program under the Hilltop Leadership Development organization.
During their stay in the nation's capital, the group had the opportunity to meet leaders from the Pentagon, World Bank among others, and learn from their experiences.
Hilltop Leader students Michaela Larson '14, a political science major, and Paul Davies '15, a biology major, both attended the trip. While these two students may have different goals for their future, they both learned valuable lessons while in D.C.
"There are many different paths to success. Life is going to present opportunities that can end up taking you in a completely different direction from what you originally planned," Larson said.
"And, there are different types of leadership," Davies said. "Leadership has a different definition for everyone."
Even though Davies isn't a political science major, he learned what he needs to achieve his goals, "Listening to the stories has been an inspiration. Every speaker had an unforeseen future, and they embraced every opportunity."
"I would recommend this trip to anyone who loves politics and wants an insight into how leadership plays a role in D.C." Davies said.
"If nothing else, this experience will help me be on time for class. People in D.C. walk extremely fast," Davies joked. On a more serious note, the trip has left Davies with a sense of optimism. "Opportunities that I can gain from St. Edward's will go on to help me later in life. This trip taught me a lot about networking — the more people I meet and things I do here at St. Edward's will help me."
One component of the tour consisted of a dinner with seven alumni who live in the D.C area. They gave the students a chance to see how far graduates from St. Edward's can go. One alumnus, Brandon Lepow, who works with the White House, even set up a West Wing tour for the group.
"Meeting the alumni was definitely one of my favorite parts of the trip," Larson said. "I enjoyed interacting with them because they had been through all the experiences that we will be facing after college." Hearing their stories inspired and motivated Larson. "There was a sense of community. You're not alone and alumni can help you."
Larson knows that her classes are extremely important, but they are not the only component of her education. "Getting involved on campus, having a sense of community and developing leadership skills can be helpful," she said. "This trip inspired me to make the most of the rest of my time at St. Edward's, experience things and take advantage of every opportunity I'm given."
Her future aspirations are clear. "When I returned home from D.C, my new plan became getting back to D.C.," she said. "This doesn't necessarily mean I know exactly what I want to do with my life, but this trip showed me that the next step in my journey will take place on Capitol Hill."
The Hilltop Leaders travel to Washington, D.C., every year. The program is a yearlong experience open to freshmen and sophomores who are interested in learning about who they are as leaders and exploring the many ways that leadership manifests itself in different settings. If you are interested in learning more about this organization or applying for next fall, visit Hilltop Leaders or stop by Student Life.


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