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Submission Samsung's Galaxy Note supersizes the smartphone->
cylonlover writes: Samsung showed its new Note smartphone at IFA 2011, just 12 months after it showed the Galaxy Tab to great acclaim, and when history judges the 5.3" supersized smartphone it just might play a much greater role in the development of the personal computer form factor. The incorporation of a stylus and the 1280×800 high-resolution Super AMOLED screen give the thin Android phone that is powered by a dual core 1.4 GHz processor additional functionality by way of both sketching and note-taking.
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"... Verena Fischer's flute certainly sounds like the husky treble or tenor voice Quantz said it should sound like. It is truly beautiful in the Solo, and she does some magical thins there in addition to playing the fast movements as fast as I would play them on a modern flute. I am astonished by her playing in the Solo. Leon Berben's harpsichord is vibrant and heard closely so we get the tone as well as the tin in the sound. These players always mark the beat while playing, placing clear emphasis on rhythmically important notes. The outstanding playing on this release will be a lesson for flute players and a pleasure for other listeners who like Bach."
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From today's editions:
Nine Ducks will make their first career starts Saturday against LSU, including two redshirt freshmen making their collegiate debuts.
At least, that's what a two-deep released Tuesday listed, though UO coach Chip Kelly was vague enough on other subjects during a press conference in the early afternoon that perhaps even the depth chart should only be taken as a suggestion.
"Really, who plays the first play means nothing," Kelly said, noting that the Ducks intend to rotate extensively at nearly every position.
That said, the third-ranked Ducks list three new starters on offense for Saturday's 5 p.m. PDT kickoff against No. 4 LSU at Cowboys Stadium in Arlington, Texas, and six on defense. That's more new starters on offense and defense than in any other season in at least a decade.
Redshirt freshmen Hroniss Grasu and Terrance Mitchell are slated to start in their collegiate debuts, Grasu at center and Mitchell in place of the suspended Cliff Harris at cornerback. The other new starters on offense include receiver Justin Hoffman, out of Churchill High, and guard Ramsen Golpashin, two players who came to Oregon as walk-ons.
On defense, the new starters along with Mitchell figure to be sophomores Taylor Hart and Ricky Heimuli at tackle, Brandon Hanna at end, and linebackers Dewitt Stuckey and Michael Clay. All but Mitchell played extensively last season as reserves.
The two-deep includes two true freshmen: tight end Colt Lyerla and cornerback Ifo Ekpre-Olomu. Kelly has said running back De'Anthony Thomas also figures to play this season, and Tuesday he mentioned running back Tra Carson as a fourth true freshman who could figure into Oregon's immediate plans. Click here for the complete story.


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Minutes 09.11.13
University of Virginia School of
Pre-Clerkship Meeting
Minutes – 09/11/13
Claude Moore Medical Education Building, Room G165, 4:00 p.m.
Present: Dela Alexander, Laurie Archbald-Pannone, Randy Canterbury, Eva Casola, Celia Dennison, John Dent, Elizabeth Gay, Don Innes, Kambiz Kalantari, Robin LeGallo, Janet Lewis, Darci Lieb, Ulrike Lorenz, Melanie McCollum, Bart Nathan, Sabrina Nunez, Barb Rogers, Paula Roy, Neeral Shah, Melanie Tomlin, Anne Tuskey, Linda Waggoner-Fountain, Mary Kate Worden, Michelle Yoon
Format of Future Pre-Clerkship Meetings Going forward, all pre-clerkship meetings will open with a tutorial on things such as X-Credit, Oasis, etc. In addition, we hope to get Thread Leaders involved by having them discuss what is going on with their threads throughout the curriculum. We would also like to get reports from various course and System Leaders on things that did and did not work in their courses and systems.
Test Guidelines The new test guidelines, approved at the 9/5/13 Curriculum Committee meeting, were distributed and discussed:
A. If after review an assessment item is dropped, no students receive credit for the item, nor is credit given to everyone.
B. If after review there is more than one correct answer on an item, the correct answers will be accepted for credit. [This will start with SMD17. With SMD16 this will be done going forward starting with cardiovascular.]
C. Formative, summative and practice questions must be in USMLE format.
D. The questions used for in-class formative activities, e.g. clicker questions and as study aids don't necessarily need to be in USMLE format, but they should not overtly violate our current assessment standards, i.e. no "except" questions or negatively phrased questions, etc. All questions should be positively phrased.
Kambiz Kalantari Presents on the Renal System Dr. Kalantari discussed the successes and challenges of the Renal System.
Successes: Of all of the sessions, Dr. Kalantari cited the CPC session as the most successful.
A. At the beginning of each week, the students were given the weekly PowerPoint schedule, which included the schedule of PRLs and for which sessions they needed to be completed. Dr. Kalantari stated that it is much easier to do this if you keep a repository of the schedules in Collab to use from year to year.
B. He front loaded each week with new information and did not teach any new materials on Fridays. Fridays were devoted to review and active learning type sessions.
C. Most of the class time was devoted to cases. Student prepared for the cases the night before with readings and PRLs. The cases were all podcasted and there were about 80 students present at each case session. Dr. Kalantari switched up the format of the case sessions so that some of them involved finding a diagnosis, some were predicting lab results, and in some the students were given findings and had to write a cases.
D. Pharmacology sessions were well received because they were team taught by the pharmacology and physiology faculty. Randy Canterbury commented that the team teaching method works well in many systems and he encourages people to use it, especially to teach pharmacology.
A. Students disliked a particular session in which two instructors team-taught, but instead of introducing new information or doing active learning, the instructors just lectured on information the students had already read the night before. Dr. Kalantari has spoken with these instructors and they have attended some training sessions, so he is not sure where to go from here.
X-Credit Tutorial Sabrina Nunez did a brief tutorial of some of the features of X-Credit. The tutorial included:
A. How to log in and navigate
B. How to search the curriculum libraries using the basic and advanced search functions and categories
C. How to view associated questions: Only questions that are mapped to Learning Objectives will appear in the search. Only the performance statistics for the current year will show; not the statistics from previous years
Ulrike Lorenz mentioned that some of the faculty were upset because they quality questions they wrote were showing up as "Not used in any exam." This is because practice questions are marked as such. It was suggested that maybe the wording should be changed to avoid confusion.
D. How to create reports
Questions/Issues From the Tutorial
A. There is currently not a search function that allows you to search all systems except for a particular system(s). This would be useful to find out topics that are being taught outside your system.
B. When you conduct a search, LOs are displayed by their short description. Currently, the Instructional Support Coordinators enter these, so instructors will have to provide them if they would like them to appear a specific way.
C. Currently, Med2 sessions cannot be linked to review LOs from Med1. This is in the process of being fixed so that review LOs can be properly linked.
D. Melanie McCollum asked if there is any policy on the review exam questions that we ask: can we reuse questions or do we have to ask new ones? There is currently no policy regarding the use of new or old questions.
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Posts Tagged 'Harry's Law Ratings'
October 9th, 2011 at 8:40 am
TV Ratings Saturday: Tigers-Rangers Game 1; Ohio State-Nebraska; Amanda Knox Lead Night
too early to call, but in preliminary numbers, ALCS > College Football[Read-More]
October 6th, 2011 at 2:00 pm
Wednesday Final Ratings: 'Modern Family,' 'The Middle,' 'Up All Night' Adjusted Up; 'Revenge,' 'Happy Endings,' 'Raising Hope' Adjusted Down
Wednesday's final broadcast primetime ratings. 'Suburgatory' also adjusted up.[Read-More]
October 6th, 2011 at 8:40 am
TV Ratings Wednesday: 'Modern Family' Tops Night, But 'The X Factor' Paces Fox Win; 'Revenge' Slips; Survivor Sees Lows
Fox won the night with adults 18-49, but 'Modern Family' was the highest rated show of the night.[Read-More]
October 1st, 2011 at 11:43 pm
TV Ratings Saturday: Alabama/Florida Tops Wisconsin/Nebraska in College Football Battle
CBS will certainly top Saturday's adults 18-49 ratings.[Read-More]
September 29th, 2011 at 1:59 pm
Wednesday Final Ratings: 'X Factor,' 'Survivor,' 'The Middle,' 'Modern Family,' 'CSI,' 'L&O:SVU' Adjusted Up; 'Happy Endings' Adjusted Down
Wednesday's final broadcast primetime ratings.[Read-More]
September 29th, 2011 at 8:30 am
TV Ratings Wednesday: 'Suburgatory' Gets A Good Start; 'X Factor' Leads Fox Win, As Post-Premiere Declines Vary
Fox topped the night's adults 18-49 ratings.[Read-More]
September 25th, 2011 at 8:46 am
TV Ratings Saturday: LSU v. West Virginia Paces ABC Win
ABC will certainly top Saturday's adults 18-49 ratings.[Read-More]
September 23rd, 2011 at 4:32 pm
NBC Announces First Four Saturday Dates for Encore Broadcasts of 'Harry's Law'
Starting on September 24, the series' second season premiere will begin the series' Saturday run[Read-More]


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The Recovery Discovery Art Tour
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The Arroyo Arts Collective presents: The Recovery Discovery Tour
The 17th annual self-guided auto tour of artists' homes and studios in Highland Park, Eagle Rock and Mount Washington. Over 100 artists and artisans will open their homes and studios on this popular tour.
When: November 22, 9:30 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.
Where: Starts at the Lummis Home, 200 E. Avenue 43, Highland Park , CA 90031
Tickets: $10 in advance at www.ArroyoArtsCollective.org or $15 at the Lummis Home on the day of the Tour. For Information: www.ArroyoArtsCollective.org or by voice mail at 323-850-8566.
Special Preview Party, Saturday, November 14, 7 to 9 pm Future Studio, 5558 North Figueroa Street, Highland Park. Samples of tour artists' work will be on display, so you can see their work in advance of the tour.


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WOODBRIDGE, Va. (AP) - Prince William County police are investigating a stabbing that left an 18-year-old man dead in Woodbridge.
Police were called to the Marumsco Acre Lake Park in Woodbridge on Saturday afternoon for the report of a stabbing. They found a man in the park bleeding from an apparent stab wound to his stomach. He died at a local hospital.
Police identified the victim Sunday as 18-year-old Kenny Joseph Diaz of Woodbridge.
School officials said in a statement, "Students and staff of Woodbridge High School are united in sadness at the tragic loss of our friend, teammate and student, Kenny Diaz.
He will be missed. But memories of Kenny will sustain us as we work to heal and move forward together."
An investigation is ongoing. Police say the stabbing does not appear to be random.


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One of my favorite things at the end of each year is receiving the big Book of Lists published by the Denver Business Journal, and looking through it to see how many of our clients made the list of the hottest companies in their fields. I know this may sound silly and even presumptuous, but we really take pride in our clients' accomplishments!
Whenever I learn about awards they've earned, or read articles about the cool things they do in their industries, or watch them grow into bigger offices with larger staffs, I can't help but feel like we've had a teeny tiny part in that…
Why? Because we don't see ourselves as simply providing all kinds of beverages and snacks for offices. At the end of the day, our main goal is to help keep our clients productive and happy at work, making their jobs easier and more enjoyable.
Here goes a big thank you to all our clients for letting us support their past, present, and future successes. We wish you a happy and successful 2012!!


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By request here, a Jason Isbell show from this past august. This is all acoustic, and it's damn good. Sound is a B+ because there is some low level chatter throughout, but really nothing to make this unlistenable. Performance is a solid A+. A Very good evening of acoustic music from Mr. Isbell and his 400 Unit. Includes extended cuts of Danko/Manuel, Goddamn Lonely Love (an amazingly soulful version I might add…a must hear), Decoration Day and Thank God For The TVA (which was recently released on the killer DBT odd's & ends album The Fine Print). Now that was all said to lure you DBT fans in who might be on the fence about Isbell's solo career. I will say this, his latest self titled album is one of the finest albums I've heard this year. It's definitely a slow grower…..but it sticks with you and reveals an album that will be listened to for many years to come.
An Acoustic Evening With Jason Isbell & The 400 Unit (8/4/2009)
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Way and Williams, Publishers was established in 1895 by Washington Irving Way and Chauncey Williams. Although the firm lasted only three years (1895-1898) and produced only sixty-six books, many of its titles represent the work of some of the major artists and book designers of the period.
The Way and Williams manuscripts collection dates from 1895 to 1990 and contains correspondence, legal materials, photographs, typescripts, printed materials, and a scrapbook.
1.6 linear feet; 2 half-size archival boxes and one scrapbook in clamshell case.
Collection is open for research.
Copyright is retained by the creators of items in these papers, or their descendants, as stipulated by United States copyright law.
[Identification of item], Way and Williams Collection (MSS 237), University Archives and Manuscripts, The University of North Carolina at Greensboro.
Acquisition of Way and Williams materials began in 1975 with the gift of ten books from former Jackson Library Director Charles Adams; all books are now in the Special Collections division. The scrapbook was a gift from John M. Williams. One box of materials came from Joe Kraus, a former librarian in Illinois and author of A History of Way and Williams: with a bibliography of their publications, 1895-1898. A complete list of donors is located in the archives.
Way and Williams, Publishers was officially established in 1895 by Washington Irving Way, a bibliophile, native of Canada and former railroad executive, and Chauncey Williams, a Wisconsin native reared in England and a former advertiser. The firm had its predecessor in W. Irving Way and Company, a small publishing-bookselling company begun by Way in 1892. The new firm designated itself "Way and Williams, Publishers, Importers, and Booksellers."
Way and Williams joined 53 other publishing firms in Chicago, but were determined to be unique. They shared a vision of producing finely printed books in limited editions. Although the firm lasted only three years (1895-1898) and produced only sixty-six books, many of its titles are visually impressive and represent the work of some of the major artists and book designers of the period. There was a heavy emphasis on British imports among the earlier titles, but gradually the emphasis shifted to American writers; and many prominent authors saw their books come to life with a Way and Williams imprint.
The firm published both well-known and relatively obscure authors, many of them from the Chicago literary scene. Among the better-known writers represented by the firm were Kate Chopin, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, William Allen White, Octave Thanet (Alice French), Edgar Lee Masters, and L. Frank Baum; and their works were often shown to advantage by the artistic input of Bruce Rogers, Maxfield Parrish, Will Bradley, and Frank Hazenplug, among others.
In December 1896, Chauncey Williams became the sole owner of the firm, although the name of Way and Williams remained. Irving Way subsequently reestablished his old firm, W. Irving Way, Publisher and Seller of Books.
The Way and Williams manuscripts collection dates from 1895 to 1990 and contains correspondence, legal materials, photographs, typescripts, printed materials, and a scrapbook.
Box 1
Folder 1 Kraus correspondence 1972-1973
Folder 2 Kraus correspondence with John M. Williams 1973-1984
Folder 3 Kraus correspondence 1980-1981
Folder 4 Printed materials on Baum, Herrick and Parrish
Folder 5 Chauncey Williams vs. Barrie, et al. 1897
Folder 6 Chauncey Williams vs. Barrie, et al 1899
Box 2
Folder 1 Photographs of Chauncey Williams, William Allen White and family and other friends, circa 1895-1915
Folder 2 Photographs of letters in scrapbook
Folder 3 Typescripts of letters in the Way and Williams scrapbook. Several photocopies of letters from the William Allen White Scrapbook also included. The White Scrapbook is in the Spencer Library at the University of Kansas
Folder 4 Letters that accompanied the 1897 Miracles of Madame Saint Katherine of Fierbois [BX4700.C3 A5 1897b c.2]
Folder 5 Harriet Monroe letters to Frank Hopkins of the De Vinne Press, February and September 1892
Folder 6 Frank Lloyd Wright architecture, including Chauncey Williams home in River Forest, Illinois
Folder 7 Kansas Historical Quarterly, Summer 1977 [Kraus article on William Allen White]
Folder 8 Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America, Volume 70 Number 2, 1976. [Kraus bibliography]
Folder 9 Letter from William Edgar Fisher to W. Irving Way, December 1901
Folder 10 Miscellaneous photographs, slides and negatives of items in collection
Scrap Book
Gift of John M. Williams, circa 1892-1911. Chauncey L. Williams assembled the contents of the scrap book during World War I. Transcripts of many of the letters were done by Frederic J. Mosher in 1959 and are located in Box 2, Folder 3. Scrap Book contents have been deacidified, encapsulated, and rebound.
Page Descriptions for Scrap Book:
1 ALS. Henry Irving [English actor] to Chauncey Williams. 28 Feb. 1896. Auditorium Hotel, Chicago stationery
1 verso Photo of W.D. Howells. Page cut from The Critic n.d.
2 ALS. W.D. Howells, 40 West 59th St, NYC, to Williams. 11 April 1900. Declining luncheon invitation but inviting him to call the next day. ALS W.D. Howells to Williams. 14 April 1900. Requesting he call on him the next week. Envelope with Howells's letter addressed to "Chauncey L. Williams, Esq./The Century/7 West 43rd St./New York/NY." Calling card. W.D. Howells. Written in pencil: "Elder Whitely, Shirley/Introducing Mr. C.L. Williams." Underneath the card is written in ink: "Elder Whitely was one on the Shakers of Shirley, Mass" whom Mr. and Mrs. Howell had met thirty years ago. CLW regrets he did not have time to look him up.
2 verso ALS. Charles F. Lummis [editor of The Land of Sunshine, Los Angeles] to Williams. 28 July 1897. Re the publication of and illustrations for The Enchanted Burro.
3 ALS. W[illiaml A. White to W.I. Way. 2 June 1896. Re his book of stories. ALS. W.A. White to Way and Williams, n.d. [Written in pencil: 5/7/96] Letter beginning "Does the sea give up its dead?" re his mss.
3 verso Four color picture postcard: "Sudan Native Quarter and Coffee Shops." B/W picture postcard [also probably the Sudan].
4 Receipt for shipment of tobacco from Virginia to London made out to Richard Lingham Hall [?] by John Carnaby, ship's captain. 24 May 1762. 4/c picture postcard: "No. 41 Jinrickshaw, Colombo."
4 verso ALS. Maxfield Parrish, Annisquam, Mass., to Williams. 8 Sept. 1897. Re illustrations he is doing for Way and Williams.
5 ALS. F. Marion Crawford, 66, Fifth Avenue, N.Y., but datelined Boston, Mass., to Williams. 3 Dec. 1897. Re trip to Milwaukee and acknowledging enclosures sent.
5 verso Photo of Ellen Terry at age seventeen by Julia Margaret Cameron. [Cut from a magazine.] B/W picture postcard "Hindu Temple, Colombo."
6 ALS. S.B. Anthony, Rochester, N.Y., to Mrs. Gage [mother-in-law of L. Frank Baum and leader of woman's suffrage movement]. 24 Jan. 1854. Re the Albany Convention [on woman's suffrage]. Small yellow envelope addressed to Mrs. M.E. Joslyn Gage, Fayetteville, N.Y. August [no year]. "Horace Greeley" written across the front in pencil. No contents.
6 verso Blank
7 ALS S.B. Anthony, Rochester, N.Y., to Mrs. Gage. 18 Dec. 1854. Re conventions planned in the state of New York. Envelope from Anthony letter. Photo of James Whitcomb Riley [cut from a magazine].
7 verso ALS. Edward S. Willard [actor] to Williams. 2 April 1897. Includes newspaper clippings re Willard.
8 ALS. Edward S. Willard, Buff House, Banstead, Surrey, to Williams. 1 Dec. 1899. Thanking him for copy of Andrew Lang's book. ACS. Edward S. Willard to Way and Williams. 18 March 1899. Requesting copies of Hand and Soul. ALS. Edward S. Willard to Williams. Thanking him for copy of Hand and Soul.
8 verso ALS. Julian Ralph [journaalist and author] to Williams n.d. [c. 1895J. Re possibility of meeting in New York.
9 ALS. Julian Ralph to Williams. 9 Oct. 1895. Re Beach, an essayist he had recommended.
9 verso ACS. Wm. Rossetti [brother of Dante Gabriel] 3 St. Edmund's Terrace, London NW, to Williams. 15 Jan. 1895. Thanking him for copy of Blessed Damozel.
10 ALS. Beatrice Harraden to Williams. 27 Feb. [no year: c. 1896]. Re author of mss. on the Grand Canyon.
10 verso Blank
11 ALS. Walter Besant[English novelist and social reformer], Frognal End, Hampstead NW, to John Cowley Brown. 29 April 1899. Re Stanley Waterloo.
11 verso ALS. G.F. Watts, Monkshaten, Guildford, to "Dear Sir." 15 March 1891. Written in pencil underneath: "One of Ellen Terry's husbands."
12 Printed pamphlet. "Last Drawing from Life of Mr. W.E. Gladstone." Reproductions of four crayon studies of Gladstone done at St. Swithin's Church, Bournemouth, by A.S. Forest in March 1898. One drawing has inscription visible: "To J.M. Dent Esq. from A.S. Forest." Published by the Quartier Latin.
12 verso Blank
13 Six typed mss. pages. Written in pencil on the left side of first page: "From an impossible mss. by 'Capt.' Kemeys, the sculptor."
13 verso Sepia-tinted photograph of woman and child. No identification. Photograph with caption: "Robert Louis Stevenson. From the Saint-Gaudens medallion now being exhibited in Paris."[Cut from a magazine.] Photograph with caption: "The Zola Medal by Alexander Charpentier." [Cut from a magazine.) Photograph with caption: "Reverse of Zola Medal.'' [Cut from a magazine.]
14 Photograph of drawing by S.H. Sime with caption -"'From an Ultimate Dim Thule.' (A Record of Dreams)." [Cut from a magazine.] "The Man in the Moon." Illustration by Maxfield Parrish for Mother Goose in Prose. [Cut from a magazine.] Small sepia-tinted oval photograph of Japanese girl in kimono.
14 verso Portrait photograph of Herbert Spencer. [Cut from a magazine.] Portrait of Mr. Hall Caine drawn and signed by Ernest Haskell. [Cut from a magazine.] Photo of sculpture of wolf. Written in ink below: "After the Feast/Gray Wolf by Edward Kemeys."
15 2 typed mss. pages of poem "Sir Premature Fly" signed by Richard Mansfield, 4 West 28th St.
15 verso Facsimile page from The New England Courant. Boston, Monday, 4 Feb. 1723; the first newspaper printed by Benjamin Franklin. Reprinted in 1888 by the Bostonian Society.
16 Original pen and ink drawing for bookplate: "HIS [B]OOK/CHAVNCEY LAWRENCE WILLIAMS." [Drawn by Frank Hazenplug, see page 28.]
16 verso Original cover for The Quartier Latin, July 1896. Cover art by "H[enr]y. G. Fangel." Drawing of man's head surrounded by artifacts. [Cut from a magazine.] Written underneath in ink: "Mr. Donkin, Sec'y Alpine Club London/Surgeon, Photographer of the Alps, violinist/Killed in the Caucasus Mts. 1888."
17 ALS. Orson Lowell [artist], NYC, to Williams, 3 Dec. 1897. Photograph of two men playing golf. One on right identified as CLW. Photograph of Indian aristocrat. No identification. Calling card belonging to William Allen White.
17 verso 4 original pen and ink drawings signed and dated "Will Bradley 96."
18 Printed invitation. "The City Improvement Society would announce that hon. Milton Reed...will lecture on William Morris ... May 21st... You are cordially invited to be present." [Features reproduction of page from the Kelmscott Chaucer.] Small card with pen and ink drawing of person on fence with inscription: "With all good wishes/O[ctave] T[hanet.]/Her/Mark." B/W photograph with caption written underneath in ink: "Agre-Tomb of Himad-ud-davlah." B/W photo of young man in Dionysian-looking costume. [Possibly by F.H. Day?] Envelope addressed to "Mademoiselle Lotta Demuth/ Violin virtuoso/Oberlin Conservatory of Music/ Oberlin, Ohio" containing birth announcement from Mr. and Mme. Henri Marteau of their son Jean-Sebastien.
18 verso ALS. Anthony H. Hawkins to Williams, Chicago, 9 Dec. 1897. Regretting he cannot accept luncheon invitation. Calling card of Andrew Sheriden Burt/Colonel 25th Infantry/United States Army.
19 Drawing of man at piano with caption: 'Vladimir de Pachmann, the Original Chopinzee" by Ike Morgan [cut from a magazineJ. Series of small photogaphs of man with large mustache in hat and overcoat. No ID. Drawing of dog on barrell. Written in ink underneath: "The jeune premier of the Troup.'' Photograph of man identified in handwritten caption underneath as George Bentham [artist for the Chicago Post and bibliophile). "Pups and Promises," by C. S.[sic] Williams. Magazine article by Williams.
19 verso ALS. "Dear Mamma" from Chauncey [L. Williams, Jr.]. n.d. [c. 1904]. Williams's son to his stepmother.
20 ALS. Beatrice Harraden to Chauncey Lawrence Williams, Jr., 22 Jan. 1895, on the occasion of his birth. Photo of George Eliot. Brochure from the Nikko Hotel in Japan [in English].
20 verso Blueprint of photograph identified below as "The Colorado River from Fort Yuma, Arizona, 1888." [Possibly by L. Frank Baum?] B/W picture postcard: "King Arthur's Castle, Tintagel."
21 ALS. Gilbert Parker, Paris, to Mr. Kimball. 11 July [no year: c. 1895], requesting 4 copies of Valmond. Attached to the letter is a photo of Parker cut from a magazine with biographical information below. 4/c picture postcard. No ID.
21 verso 5 blueprints of photogaphs c. 1890s. One is of Allen White with three women. [Alice French in Arkansas?]
22 Sample cover for A Book of True Lovers by Octave Thanet [Alice French]. Beige linen stamped with black and green illustration of 2 women in rockers by J.C. Leyendecker.
22 verso Blank
23 ALS. Julian Ralph to Williams, 21 May 1895.
23 verso TLS. Honore J. Jaxon to Williams, 20 Oct. 1897. Re his plant for "producing and treating of a gold and silver bearing ore."
24 2 B/W photos: Jaxon's plant in Chicago and Jaxon with two unidentified men.
24 verso "The Versatile Jaxon." Article cut from magazine: with photos.
25 Continuation of Jaxon article and 2 B/W photos of what must be Jaxon's plant.
25 verso Blank
26 B/W picture postcard: Gibraltar. 4/c picture postcard: "September Morn," by Paul Chabas, c. 1912.
26 verso 9 bookplates, including The John Crerar Library, Chicago; Eugene Field; Charles Dexter Allen 1893 by WHWB; Wilbur Macey Stone; Malcom Newton Stone 1896 by RIW.
27 4 bookplates: Edwin Hawley Hewitt by F.C. Brown 1897. Howard Greene by Frank Hazenplug 1897 with note in ink that he is the husband of Elizabeth McMynn CLW's sister-in-law A.A. Sprague Francis Wilson by WHWB.
27 verso 9 bookplates: Robert Burns Peattie by Enright 1901 Henry Clay [and) Helen Burgess Ranney by E.D. French 1897 Hiram Edmund Deats, Flemington, N.J., by E.D. French 1894 Pauline Stone Francis W. Walker Sophia Morris Library of the YMCA, Hartford, CT. Bequest of Charles M. Pond by WMB 1897
28 8 bookplates: Chauncey Lawrence Williams by Geo. R. Helm Chauncey Lawrence WIlliams by Maxfield Parrish [not signed] Chauncey Lawrence Williams by Frank Hazenplug [see p.16 for the original art.] Charles J. Morse: 3 with oriental motif Sterling Haight Bunnell by F.C. Brown Charles Dickens
28 verso 9 bookplates, all English
29 9 bookplates: Pauline Taylor Itha May Lenox by FCB [F.C. Brown) Marian Allen The Lighthouse Establishment Bureau of Navigation, Navy Dept. Sylvia Mary Allen Barrett B. Russell Jr. by F.C. Brown 1897 Frances Louise Allen by T.B. Hapgood Jr 1898
29 verso TLS. Williams to the editor of the Aegis, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisc. [crossed out in ink], 6 Nov. 1895. Re the death of Eugene Field [poet]. [Probably never sent.] On Way and Williams stationery.
30 Printed invitation to annual meeting of the Grolier Club, 21 Feb. 1894.
30 verso ALS. Charles B. Loomis to Williams, 15 June 1903.
31 ALS. Alice French, Davenport, Iowa, to Williams, 1 July 1897. 4/c picture postcard. No ID. B/W picture postcard: "Old Post Office, Tintagel. Valentine Series."
31 verso Two political cartoons cut from a newspaper. Written underneath in ink: "These cartoons by F. Opper appeared daily in the Hearst papers the New York Journal and the Chicago American during a month or two before the assassination of McKinley. Many newspapers attached much blame to Hearst by reason of the nature of these cartoons and even went so far as to say they did much to incite anarchy and were in a large measure responsible for the murder of the President."
32 Two F. Opper political cartoons from 1902 cut from newspapers.
32 verso B/W photo with caption in pencil: "Julia Marlowe at her country home." Small B/W photo of mountain scenery.
33 Photo [cut from magazine] with caption: "William Lightfoot Visscher, Author of 'Way Out Yonder.''' Photo [cut from magazine] with caption: "William Lightfoot Visscher Relating a Pleasant Anecdote to Opie Read." ALS. Opie Read to Williams. n.d. [1895] Re error on title page of Bolanyo. [Written on Way and Williams stationery.]
33 verso B/W portrait photo of Opie Read. n.d. 4/c picture postcard. No ID [Europe?] AL. The Duchess of St. Albans to Way and Williams requesting a copy of The Real Issue.
34 Small poster. Drawing of two men in silhouette seen from behind. Above their heads: "Great Double Bill/ The Kentucky Colonel and Arkansas Traveler/ Benefit Press Club, Chicago." Signed by T.J. Nicholl. Written in ink below man on left: "My dear Mr. Williams - please help me reach up to this exalted altitude then[?] I will turn my back to obscurity Wm. Visscher." Written on the right side of the man on the right: "One of these men is in bad company Williams/Opie Read."
34 verso B/W photo of Whistler's "Mother." On it stamped in red the word "Specimen." Lower right corner: "T. Way. Impt. London."
35 Catalogue from the Kelmscott Press, Upper Mall, Hammersmith. November 26, 1895. B/W picture postcard: "Clovelly High Street, above New Inn." 4/c picture postcard: "43349. Tintagel, King Arthur's Castle Hotel."
35 verso Two B/W photos identified as "A Moki Maiden at Walpi. Maude" Photo. xx Two B/W photos of a Moki maiden (continuation of above). xx verso Original photograph. "The Marble Faun" [1897]. Identified underneath in pencil as "by F.H. Day." B/W photo portraits of 2 men, printed on a ribbon. No identification [possibly political campaign ephemeral.] Drawing of man and woman. Signed Orson Lowel B/W photo of man looking at huge thermometer with caption written in ink: "Cranmoor, Wisconsin. February 10/99. 54 below zero."
36 Original drawing for cover of Stanley Waterloo's A Man and A Woman. Written underneath in pencil "by F.X. Leyendecker." Watercolor and gouache.
36 verso Preliminary cover drawing by Will Bradley for Stanley Waterloo's The Story of AB. Pencil and wash.
37 Pen and ink drawing of man in 18th century clothing. Identified above as "by Robert Blum."
37 verso ALS. Maxfield Parrish, Philadelphia, to Williams. n.d. [1897]. Re his desire to do another book for Way and Williams. Also mentions that "Russell, the New York publisher, has seen Mother Goose and wants me to do a children's book for him."
38 Pamphlet. "The Pan-American Message/President McKinley's Last Public Address." Text of speech delivered at the Buffalo Exposition, 5 Sept. 1901. Pencil drawing of man in turban Pencil drawing of scorpion. Initials NHML in pencil.
38 verso Invitation. "Mr. Will Bradley, assisted by Mesdames Hawkins, Nichols, Wesson, Harris, Corcoran and Abbe, invites you to a private showing of some few posters and various other attempts at art on the evening of January twenty-ninth at eight o'clock, at his studio, Anno M DCCC XC VI." Black ink on charcoal gray paper. Drawing front upper right in black and white. Notecard. White ink on charcoal gray paper. "Mr. and Mrs. Williams/Chicago." [Calligraphy probably by Bradley.]
39 Etching by Charles Francis Brown used as frontispiece for Opie Read's Bolayno. 2 4/c picture postcards [one is duplicate of card on p. 31]. No ID.
39 verso Proof on Japan vellum of Frank Lloyd Wright's title page for The Eve of Saint Agnes by John Keats. "Printed at the Auvergne Press by William H. Winslow and Chauncey L. Williams 1896." Black and red ink.
40 Mailing label. Maxfield Parrish [S. 11th St., Phila.] to Williams, Chicago. n.d. [c. 1897].
40 verso Printed brochure announcing June contents for Bradley, His Book. "A Little Magazine of interesting reading, interspersed with various bits of art, and privately printed at the Wayside Press, Springfield, Mass. U.S.A." Mailing label. Bradley, His Book to Williams. n.d.
41 Copy of illustration (woman holding a lute) with inscription in pencil: -To Chauncey L. Williams/ with the compliments of/Edmund H. Garrett."
41 verso Print. Man in profile with castle in background. "Frank Hazenplug 1890" on left. Inscribed in black ink: "Sincerely yours, Frank Hazenplug." Photo of Frank Hazenplug. Illustration of the Annunciation. Initials FH bottom left.
42 Announcement from the Grolier Club re exhibition of illuminated and painted mss. 5 May 1892.
42 verso Typed ms. of poem "The Little Room - A Defense."
43 ALS. Stanley Waterloo to Williams, 6 Feb. 1897. Re dues to Press Club of Chicago.
43 verso AL. [Stanley Waterloo] to Williams, Wednesday, n.d. [1897].
44 ALS. Stanley Waterloo to Williams, 27 April 1897.
44 verso ALS. Alice French, Davenport, Iowa, to Williams. 27 Sept. 1899. Drawing of a young woman [cut from a magazine) with caption: "Il Penseroso. From the etching by Otto J. Schneider." Yellow envelope addressed to Mr. C.L. Williams, Broadway, New York. Postmarked 10 Nov. 1902. Return address "Reed Manufacturing Company, Erie, Pa." No contents.
45 Brochure for architecture firm of Frank Lloyd Wright. Inside contains copy of architectural drawing captioned: " Floor plans of Oak Park Draughting Rooms and Business Office in the Rookery, Chicago." Black and red ink on gray paper. Brochure for exhibition of original poster designs by J.C. Leyendecker. "Under the auspices of 'The Inland Printer' Chicago, Jan. 11-31, 1898.
45 verso Blank
46 Blank
46 verso Passport document. Chauncey L. WIlliams, 4 June 1892. Gives physical description at age 20.
47 TLS. Will Bradley, The Wayside Press, to Williams, 29 Dec. 1896. Re his desire to print a 64-page book. Asks for suggestions. 4/c picture postcard [Morocco?]
47 verso ALS. Will Bradley, Wayside Press, to Williams. 27 Aug. no year. [1897]. Re his covers for Way and Williams and his business situation. Invitation from the Grolier Club to exhibition of engraved work of Asher Brown Durand. 25 April 1895.
48 ALS. Alice French, Clover Bend, Ark., to Williams. 6 Dec. 1897. Congratulating him on the birth of his son [John] and thanking him for the books he sent.
48 verso Printed admission card. Ladies Day at the Grolier Club. 12 March 1895. Printed card from the Grolier Club announcing exhibition of Japanese prints, 10 April 1896. Brochure from the Old Absinthe House, New Orleans, describing composition of absinthe.
49 Broadside. "Noguchi's Song Unto Brother Americans." Poem. Aug. 1897. Oakland, Calif. Inscribed "For Mr. C.L. Williams. Your Noguchi. When did you send my book? I like to think about you much[?]."
49 verso Will Bradley's original pen and ink drawing for the cover of The Singing Mouse by C. Hough. [Forest and Stream, NY, 1895]. 10 original pen and ink drawings by W.S. Philips for The Singing Mouse
50 Original drawings and blueprints for The Singing Mouse by W.S. Philips. Sepia-tinted photo of river. No ID.
50 verso ALS. R.M. Johnston, Bureau of Education, to Williams. 19 June 1897. Re his work, "Pearce Amerson's Will."
51 ALS. Goldwin Smith, The Grange, Toronto, to Way and Williams. 11 November 1897. Thanking them for sending copy of The Story of Ab. ALS. Charles King to Williams. n.d. Re their luncheon appointment.
51 verso ALS. Stanley Waterloo to Williams. 5 Aug. 1897. Apology in verse.
52 Advertisement for the Locomobile Company of America. 1917.
52 verso Original pen and ink drawing by Frank Hazenplug for "Sing a Song 0' Sixpence." Signed.
53 Original cover and spine art by J.C. Leyendecker for Charles F. Lummis's The Enchanted Burro.
53 verso 8 black and white illustrations (copies) by HLK. 1 in green and yellow.
54 Drawing of the Virgin Mary by Frank Hazenplug. Captioned: "Drawing by Frank Hazenplug November 1896 vol. I no. 3." [Cut from a magazine.]
54 verso Print. Female nude. Signed "J. Leyendecker."
55 Invitation the the monthly meeting of the Grolier Club. 5 March 1896.
55 verso Envelope addressed to Williams, Chicago, from Maxfield Parrish, Philadelphia [c. 1897].
56 4/c picture postcard. No ID.
56 verso 4 proofs of illustrations for Stanley Waterloo's The Story of AB by Simon Harmon Vedder.
57 4 proofs of illustrations [same as p. 56 verso]
57 verso 2 proofs of illustrations for Story of AB. 1 litho of forest scene. [Signed?]
58 "The Magic Circle." [1919]. Advertisement for Fisk Tires from Life magazine featuring reproduction of original painting done for Fisk by Maxfield Parrish.
58 verso ALS. William Marion Reedy to Williams. 6 Sept. 1911. TLS. Williams to William Marion Reedy. 9 Sept. 1911. B/W photo of Reedy.
59 6 engravings of animals by Evert van Muyden, 1893. Self-portrait by Evert van Muyden. Paris, 1893.
59 verso 4 engravings by Evert van Muyden. 1893. Advertisement for Tabloid Tea showing Japanese scene in silhouette.
60 4 4/c picture postcards of flowers.
60 verso Pencil-drawn caricature of Teddy Roosevelt. Inscribed "To Mr. C.L. Williams. With my best regards, [??]. June 16/08
61 AL [no signature] to Williams. 30 Nov. 1902.
61 verso Tear sheet from Saturday Evening Post. "William Allen White," by Samuel G. Blythe, 15 June 1907.
62 Photograph. Opie Read. Inscribed "For Chauncey L. Williams/Opie Read." [1897]
62 verso Blank
63 Photograph. John Vance Cheney. Inscribed "Very sincerely yours, John Vance Cheney." [26 Feb. 1897].
63 verso Blank
64 Original cover art by Maxfield Parrish for Opie Read's Bolanyo
64 verso Blank
65 Gift card. "With the compliments of John Lane, London, and Way and Williams, Chicago." Red ink on cream stock.
65 verso Blank
66 Blank
66 verso Envelope addressed to Chauncey Williams, 1123 Broadway, Engineering Review, NY, NY. Return address: The Gazette, Emporia, Kansas. Postmarked 4 Dec. 1902.
67 James L. Ford's review of The Acrobatic Muse by R.K. Munkittrick, published by Way and Williams. New York Journal, 1 December 1896.
67 verso Blank
Eighty Way and Williams books reside in the Special Collections division.
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Game 34 (M): 12:40, AUSTRALIA 15 JAPAN 9
Shanghai 2011 - Water Polo Games Reports
Semifinal 9-12
Quarters: 6-4, 1-1, 3-1,
Referees: Mihailo CIRIC (SRB), NI Shi Wei (CHN)
Extra Man: AUS: 1/8. JPN: 3/11
Pen: AUS: 1/1. JPN: 1/1
AUSTRALIA: Joel DENNERLEY, Richard CAMPBELL (2), Tim CLELAND (1), Mitchell BAIRD (1), Robbie MAITLAND (1), Anthony MARTIN (3), Aidan ROACH, Sam McGREGOR (3), Aaron YOUNGER, Gavin WOODS (1), Rhys HOWDEN (3), Billy MILLER, Luke QUINLIVAN. Coach: John FOX.
JAPAN: Katsuyuki TANAMURA, Kan AOYAGI (1), Koji TAKEI (3), Shota HAZUI, Mitsuaki SHIGA, Akira YANASE, Yisuke SHIMIZU (1), Atsushi NAGANUMA (2), Hiroki WAKAMATSU, Yoshinori SHIOTA (2), Keigo OKAWA, Satoshi NAGATA, Naoki SHIMIZU. Head
Coach: Hideki TAKAGI.
Australia, one of the under-performers at this event, turned on its best display with a stirring victory. For Japan, it meant hard weather indoors to go with the 37C and almost 100% humidity outside. Unlike some matches where the number of fouls far outweigh the number of goals, this match produced 24 goals with 10 of them coming in the first quarter. The foul count was low in comparison. Australia spread its scoring around and nailed five from the deep right despite not having a left-handed field player. The Aussie Sharks still struggled on extra-man attack but the overall play was a vast improvement, albeit when the carrot of to-eight has long gone. Japan kept up the pace and restricted the Australians in the second quarter. In the third captain McGREGOR stood up, scoring twice with his second a looping back shot from centre forward after a cross pass from two metres. CLELAND, back in the water after his brutality foul four days ago, opened the fourth period on extra for 11-6. MARTIN and CAMPBELL took it to 13-6 before TAKEI scored on counter straight after an unusual referee call. While Australia was sending the ball into the net, a back-court exclusion was call, nullifying the goal. The Sharks lost the ball and TAKEI made it 13-7. Four goals came in the last 90 seconds with Australia scoring twice for 15-7. SHIOTA converted a penalty and NAGANUMA scored his second on counter a second from time. It will be a Commonwealth match for ninth against Canada while Japan has to play Romania for 11th.


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Undergraduate Program in SEO: Is it Essential?
SEO (Search Engine Optimization) is an integral part of any online business. SEO equips you with the skills required to ensure that your blog or e-commerce site ranks high in SERPs (Search Engine Result Pages). SEO knowledge became critical after Google introduced Panda and Penguin updates that saw hundreds of sites either being sandboxed or lose their rankings.
While a number of seasoned SEO experts claim that the only way through which you can learn more about the basics and tricks of SEO is by surfing blogs, forums and communities run by SEO experts with hands on experience in optimizing various web pages, this not the case. There are eBooks and online courses which have been structured in an easy-to-understand language that will enable you to learn all there is to know about search engine optimization without solely relying on the expertise and skills of an individual who learnt through trials and errors. On the other hand, there are SEO seminars which you can attend when looking to learn more about search engine optimization which will equip you with better knowledge than what you would have acquired by opting to learn through blogs and online forums.
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Online Entrepreneurs
According to a recent study, it was discovered that roughly 85% of internet traffic is powered by SERPs from market leading search engines such as Google, Bing, Yahoo, Ask and MSN. The study went on to reveal that approximately 50% of online consumers search for products by making use of searching engines. Hence, if you are an online entrepreneur, it is essential that your blog or e-commerce site shows on the first SERP. This is because users are less likely to move beyond the first page when looking for a product or service.
Registering for SEO Bachelor's Degree will equip with all the information you need to learn about effective site optimization. This in turn ensures that you increase your prospects of being ranked high in search engine result pages, thus increasing your customer base and revenues. On the other hand, opting to register for online search engine optimization seminars will also aid you in endorsing your blog or website.
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The first step to gaining online presence is developing a blog or e-commerce site. The design and structure of your blog or e-commerce site have a huge impact on SERPs (i.e. paid and organic). Therefore, it is important that the web developer you choose to build for you a blog or website comprehends the nitty-gritty of search engine optimization. Failure to adhere to the standard SEO ethics when authoring HTML codes, a blog or e-commerce site may lose its ranking in search engine result page.
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Remote access to media briefings from NOLA via the internet
The ACS Office of Communications is offering news media the opportunity to join press briefings whether covering the meeting onsite or from a remote location. This new updated format in New Orleans will provide access to the increasing number of journalists who cover scientific meetings from their home base. Borrowing the popular chat room concept from the Internet, we will provide news media with access to both real and virtual chat room sessions during the New Orleans meeting. With more than 9,000 research presentations, this is one of the years largest and most significant scientific conferences. Reporters attending the meeting can gather with scientists in an informal setting in our Press Center in Room 206 of the Morial Convention Center. Scientists will summarize their research and field questions. Offsite reporters can enter a virtual version of this Chat Room over the Internet. In addition to seeing and hearing the real-world activity, offsite reporters can submit questions. Click here (http://portal.acs.org/portal/acs/corg/content?_nfpb=true&_pageLabel=PP_ARTICLEMAIN&node_id=222&content_id=WPCP_008471&use_sec=true&sec_url_var=region1) for more information.
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ObamaCare's employer mandate was supposed to kick in on January 1 of 2014, now delayed by executive fiat for one year. But the IRS will start looking back to January 1 of this year at employment practices, to determine how tightly to apply ObamaCare's screws to each employer. Since that "look back" kicked in, part-time jobs creation has outpaced full-time job creation by three to one.
Between temp work and part-time work, America's workers are feeling the squeeze. Insurance-premium increases will squeeze them further. That's why earnings are down — under ObamaCare's many unintended consequences, we just can't spend as much money.
Those record profits? Businesses have done what they must do: They've cut all the fat. However, those kinds of cuts aren't typical for a recovery. The U.S. economy enjoyed a hiring surge in the second half of 2009 and the first quarter of 2010, adding 250,000 or 300,000 jobs a month. Then ObamaCare became law and hiring slowed to a trickle, despite our economic recovery. Come the next downturn, employers will be forced to cut deep into the meat and bone right at the start.
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Cynic's Progress
The brave life and mysterious death of Ambrose Bierce.
Dec 30, 2013, Vol. 19, No. 16 • By ANDREW FERGUSON
One golden autumn morning 100 years ago, a few blocks from where I'm writing these words in northwest Washington, D.C., Ambrose Bierce said goodbye to his secretary, turned the key in the door to his apartment on Logan Circle, and went off to God knows where.
The Huntington Library
I'm not speaking figuratively: God and nobody else knows where Ambrose Bierce ended up—or when, how, or why. He had taken September and early October to settle his personal affairs, as people used to say. His literary affairs had been settled with the publication of his collected works, more than a million words packed into 12 volumes and assembled over a period of five years, which signaled his official exit from the writing life. His two sons were dead, his estranged wife was dead, and his daughter Helen, though not quite estranged, had built a life for herself a safe distance from him, in the Midwest.
Bierce sent Helen a letter before he left Washington. He told her he wanted to walk the battlefields where he had fought 50 years before as a first lieutenant in the 9th Indiana Infantry. He wanted to look a last time at Kennesaw Mountain, Chickamauga, Franklin, Nashville, Missionary Ridge, and Murfreesboro. Then, he said, he would turn further south, into Mexico, to see firsthand the Mexican civil war and its most romantic figure, the revolutionary Pancho Villa, who had struck his interest. From there, he'd move on to South America.
Over the next few weeks Helen, his secretary Carrie Christiansen, and a handful of friends received notes postmarked along his winding route from West Virginia through Tennessee into Alabama and Georgia. In early November a newspaper reporter caught up with him in New Orleans: "Ambrose Bierce, famed writer and noted critic, has arrived," the young man wrote, in a breathless scoop. Bierce sat for an interview. He was off to Mexico, he said, because "I like the game. I like the fighting." Then, the reporter observed, his "straightforward blue eyes" took on a "faraway look" as the old man mused about the journey ahead. "There are so many things that might happen . . ."
He was a 71-year-old asthmatic who spoke not a word of Spanish traveling to a Mexican war zone with $1,800 folded into a bulging money belt. So yes, there were many, many things that might happen. On December 26, he sent Carrie Christiansen a letter from Chihuahua, 200 miles south of the border, telling her he hoped to hook up with Villa's forces the next day, and disappeared.
"We have produced but one genuine wit," H. L. Mencken wrote, in a survey of American letters: "Ambrose Bierce. And save to a small circle he is unknown today." Mencken was writing decades after Bierce had gone off to Mexico, by which time his life was best remembered for the way he had left it. And the circle of those who read him is even smaller now, needless to say. When the Library of America finally got around to issuing a canonical selection of his writing, in 2011, the single volume (Philip Roth got nine!) was relatively slender; it was the 219th in the library's series of great American writers.
His fame was not general, even at its most robust. Those who admired him, mostly his fellow writers, admired him extravagantly. He was a "writer's writer," in the deadly phrase. The tributes from William Gladstone, Arnold Bennett, Bret Harte, and many other popular and learned literary men shared a common thread: Why, they all asked, wasn't Bierce better known? Bierce himself ached for fame as awfully as any writer, but was, in time, amused by the strange status he had achieved: He was famous for not being famous. He wrote to a friend toward the end of his life:
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About 100 Brooklyn residents concerned about crowds of beer-addled sports fans leaving the future Barclay's Center turned out in force at a community board meeting Tuesday night at the 78th precinct in the neighborhood. At issue is the arena's liquor license application.
At a joint meeting, members of Community Board 2 voted to approve the recommendation of the liquor license with several conditions, while Community Board 6 voted to table the request until later this month, pending a request that the applicant agree to set up a community liaison group to discuss unresolved issues.
Levy Restaurants, which will run concessions for the new arena, said there will be 57 different points of sale for alcohol within the arena, in addition to "hawkers" that will also be roaming the stands with beer and other refreshments. The company said all their staff receives alcohol training and if a guest is visibly intoxicated staff will respond appropriately.
In addition, employees with AEG Facilities, the building management company who will be overseeing indoor and outdoor security for the stadium said that former and current NYPD officers would help to keep order in the area.
The NYPD still has to figure out which precinct has jurisdiction in the area: the 7-7, the 7-8 or the 8-8.
But Prospect Heights and Boerum Hill neighbors at the meeting said they were still concerned that their quality of life could be in jeopardy by the sheer number of crowds visiting their communities. Others requested that the new home for the Nets basketball team stop selling alcohol earlier than the end of the 3rd quarter, as NBA rules dictate. Or, in the event of a concert, by 11 p.m.
But what appeared to be at issue as the nearly three hour meeting continued was "residual anger" by many in the room that the arena was even built at all.
Peter Krashes, president of the Dean Street Block Association, told board members, "We have kids who have to go to school the next day and have an arena event happening on a Thursday — so you guys have a special obligation. We've got to be concerned how kids are going to sleep in their bedrooms and how safe our streets are going to be because the traffic and transportation plans depend upon cars going on local streets all through these neighborhoods.
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David Anderson with AEG said his experience working at the United Center in Chicago would help with these concerns. He tired to calm some in the room by informing them that traffic and crowds would be directed away from residential areas.
Councilwoman Letitia James addressed the room near the end of the meeting and said she believed that approving the liquor application would be "acting in haste" until safety and transportation issues were addressed more specifically.
Restaurant owner David Vendley, 29, was one of the few who supported the Barclay Center's liquor license application.
"The arena is opening up regardless. If we were having a conversation about whether or not this neighborhood should have this arena, I might feel differently. But if this arena is going to be here, I feel that they should be granted a liquor license because it will allow it to succeed which will create jobs and create more foot traffic into Brooklyn businesses not even affiliated with this company," he said.
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When Christian Ponder and Craig Johnson are together, last season doesn't exist.
They've watched every game. Broken down every pass. Identified every mistake (and there were plenty of them) and what Ponder must do to avoid making them again.
Now, the message is simple: the Minnesota Vikings' franchise quarterback and his position coach can't look back, no matter how difficult that might be for Ponder to do.
"He is so critical and tries to be so perfect," Johnson said after a recent training camp practice. "I can tell you, you're not going to be perfect. Let it go. Move on."
That goes not only for Ponder's strange rookie season, in which the NFL lockout brought him to camp with minimal knowledge of Bill Musgrave's offense and Donovan McNabb's six-start crash forced the No. 12 overall pick into action at midseason.
That goes for every pass Ponder makes, good or bad, during a process the Vikings know could take several years but are committed to seeing through.
"I feel like I am a lot better, and because of that, my confidence has gone up a lot," Ponder said. "They play off each other. If my confidence goes up, I get better, and if I get better, my confidence goes up."
But how long will that confidence last as Ponder continues to navigate the peaks and valleys Johnson says are "probably going to happen to all quarterbacks," resuming with Friday's preseason opener at San Francisco?
That's the question those within the Vikings organization acknowledge will go a long way towards determining the fate of general manager Rick Spielman's rebuilding plan, in 2012 and beyond.
A matter of ascension
In a backwards way, the performance that left NFL scouts most encouraged by Ponder's potential also left them perplexed by the time the 2011 season ended.
That was Ponder's first start against Green Bay on Nov. 23, one week after he'd relieved McNabb in the fourth quarter of a loss at Chicago. Ponder completed only 13 of 32 passes (40.6%) against the Packers, but 12 of those completions went for first downs or touchdowns and he was 7-of-13 for 93 yards on third down.
"From what I saw, that was probably one of his better games -- which is surprising," said a personnel man for another NFC team who has broken down all of Ponder's starts.
"You'd think the guy would continue to ascend. I thought he went the other way a little bit. I thought he wasn't really playing fast in some of the other games I watched. For a guy who's supposed to be really smart and all that stuff ... if I had been them, watching him after his first start, I would have been really encouraged and then he didn't do quite as well afterward."
Ponder threw for 219 yards, two touchdowns and two interceptions that day. A week later at Carolina, Ponder was 18-of-28 passing (64.2%) for 236 yards, a touchdown and a 102.7 rating in a win over the Panthers.
Then came the bye week and a downward spiral for both Ponder and the team, which won only one of its last eight games -- with Joe Webb in relief of an injured Ponder on Dec. 24 at Washington -- to finish 3-13.
Ponder finished the season with as many interceptions (13) as touchdown passes, took 30 sacks and admittedly "stunk it up" for stretches as the losses and injuries mounted.
"I don't know why I didn't ascend," Ponder said. "Obviously, I took a couple steps back as the year went on -- which is never a good thing. But that's the stuff you've got to learn from and I get better from. That's what the fresh start for this new year is -- to watch that tape and learn from it, but now, just get better from it."
Harnessing his mobility
One repeated issue was Ponder's tendency to get off his spot in the pocket -- which isn't entirely surprising, given the protection unit's struggles and his ability to extend plays with his feet.
He ran for 219 yards on 28 carries (7.8 average) and made his share of throws outside the pocket. Overusing that ability, however, has a tendency to throw off an offense that relies on rhythm, timing and tempo in the passing game.
"He's absolutely able to throw on the spot," Johnson said. "As an athletic guy, that's probably the thing that takes the longest. Most of the athletic guys that can move around a little bit don't mind moving off the spot, because they can kind of create a little bit of a scattered type atmosphere and extend the play because it doesn't have to be so clean.
"The younger guys, what they learn how to do is when they get to the spot, they can sit back, know where they want to throw the ball, throw an accurate ball. That's where he's progressed a lot."
One focus through the offseason was increasing Ponder's efficiency on first and second down. Coaches have praised his work in that regard, and Johnson said Ponder has completed "numerous" throws in camp that show his improved knowledge of the scheme as he goes through his read and route progressions.
But there also have been stretches in which Ponder seems to be seeing ghosts, taking false steps and rushing too quickly to checkdown options, such as the 2-minute drill last week in which he completed seven passes for only 25 yards. On Wednesday, he floated a senseless interception directly to linebacker Chad Greenway.
"The mobility can be a positive," Ponder said. "When I get out of the pocket too early and do stuff like that, when there's plays to be made downfield and I miss those things (it's a problem). When I know I have to pass the ball, I'm not going to be able to make up a play, then maybe I can throw the ball better."
Lofty comparison
That mobility contributes to comparisons some scouts make to Dallas Cowboys quarterback Tony Romo, a three-time Pro Bowl pick who has a similar build (6-foot-2, 230 pounds) to Ponder (6-2, 229) and has made a career from creating plays outside the pocket.
"Also, when Romo was younger, I think some of the decision-making would kind of leave you to scratch your head on occasion," said NFL Network analyst Daniel Jeremiah, who was scouting for the Baltimore Ravens when Romo came out of Eastern Illinois in 2003 and the Philadelphia Eagles when Ponder came out of Florida State in 2011.
"I think that's a little bit of what you get with Christian. I think (Ponder) can develop into being what Romo has become, but I think that's something we're talking about a two- or three-year process of him growing, him making mistakes, learning from them and getting better."
Romo wasn't drafted and didn't start a game until seven games into his fourth NFL season, though. Ponder -- who said he has studied Aaron Rodgers and Drew Brees, but not Romo -- is the Vikings' unquestioned starter in his second season, meaning that multiyear process is unfolding on the field instead of the sideline.
In offseason studies, Spielman instead compared Ponder to the likes of Eli Manning, another first-round pick who took over as the starter during his rookie season and didn't come into his own until his fourth. That was 2007 and the New York Giants made a late-season surge to win the Super Bowl.
"The thing about Ponder that I saw is I think he's a better athlete than Romo," an AFC personnel director said. "Romo moves around well and all that stuff, granted. But (Ponder's) escape ability outside the pocket is a little bit better. I know he's probably got better ground foot speed, because I felt he ran well coming out.
"Maybe he's got that kind of potential. The size is there. The athleticism and speed to get outside the pocket and make throws -- which as you know, the thing about having a guy like that is you can take away things and you can still keep plays alive with his legs."
Injury issues
All that running also exposes Ponder to the injuries that remain a greater concern that some acknowledge, since the development he needs can't happen if he's not on the field.
He delivered another encouraging performance on Nov. 27 at Atlanta, posting his best passer rating (103.1) in a 24-14 loss to the Falcons, then suffered a hip pointer on Dec. 4 against Denver and never was himself again.
Limited to only a few snaps in practice the following week, Ponder nonetheless pushed for and got the start on Dec. 11 at Detroit -- only to get benched after four turnovers.
"You know what? I'm glad I started," Ponder said. "I learn from those situations and I want as many starts under my belt as possible. I don't regret that situation whatsoever."
Others within the Vikings organization disagree because of the obvious impact that game had on Ponder's confidence.
He started again the following week against New Orleans and played what he calls his worst game. Six days later, he was knocked out in the third quarter at Washington with a concussion. He returned to start the finale against Chicago, reinjured the hip and was finished.
None of that did much to dispel concerns about a player whose college career marred by several injuries, including a right forearm that needed to be drained repeatedly during his senior year. Ponder admits he has "to learn to protect myself better" but dismisses the suggestion he's injury-prone.
"I've just done some dumb things and I've had some freak deals like the forearm thing. That was just a weird injury," Ponder said. "A broken rib. It's not like I get a helmet into my ribs -- everyone's rib is going to break. I tackled a guy and separated my shoulder. I'm not a safety. I'm a quarterback. That's part of football and everyone plays with injuries at some point and you've just got to do it."
On the same page
No one doubts Ponder's intelligence for the position. His arm strength isn't considered an issue either, although the Vikings would like to see him fit the ball into some more tight spots and some scouts think he aims it too often.
"That's what we've made huge steps with in the offseason, and we're continuing to work through that in the preseason," Johnson said. "You have a receiver and he runs a specific route, and he's got maybe seven different coverages for a specific route where he might run it slightly -- slightly -- different against different coverages.
"That's also part of understanding the offense. It's not sometimes where the ball goes back shoulder, it goes away, and you're saying, 'That's just a bad pass.' They're just not on the same page and I haven't recognized the coverage fast enough or whatever it may be."
The Vikings' approach to the draft and free agency this year makes clear their No. 1 priority is accelerating Ponder's development by surrounding him with better pieces.
They saw a need for another pass-catching tight end to complement Kyle Rudolph and gave John Carlson $9.1 million in guarantees on a five-year contract. They saw a void at split end and signed Jerome Simpson. Then they used the No. 4 overall pick on the draft's top prospect at left tackle, Matt Kalil, for a major upgrade to the protection unit.
Ponder led that group through the offseason and seems to have support within the locker room, with teammates such as receiver Percy Harvin going out of their way to say he's "head over heels better" than he was as a rookie.
According to Harvin, the biggest difference with Ponder is "(c)onfidence. Just him having confidence in us, throwing the ball way before we get out of our breaks.
"Sometimes, you may see the ball hit us in our faces because we (weren't) quite used to him throwing before we're getting out of our breaks. As a receiver, that's what you want. You want, as soon as you come out your break, the ball's right on you. We couldn't get that rhythm last year, but I think we're heading that way this year."
Second year's first test
Ponder had a couple of rough days of practice this week, dropping his completion percentage in camp to 64.4% (94-of-146) with three interceptions in team (11-on-11) drills, according to unofficial statistics kept by 1500ESPN.com.
That's marked improvement from the 54.3% of passes (158 of 291) he completed last season. But wearing a red no-contact jersey while practicing against your own defense -- one that ranked 28th in the NFL against the pass last season -- is far different than going against an opponent's live rush, as Ponder will on Friday against the 49ers.
"We want to see him operate the offense, and when people are in his face, still be able to get rid of the ball when it's not perfect and still be accurate," Musgrave said.
"He's done a great job with our checks and audibles at the line of scrimmage, and we're going to put him through some tough spots. We're not just going to water it down to make it easy. We want to see if he can handle adverse situations and that's part of the growth process. It just is."
The Vikings are committed to seeing that process through. They're committed to focusing on the traits they see in Ponder through the rough times everyone acknowledges are far from over.
"He's got to go through a storm or two," Johnson said, "because I don't want him thinking he goes from, 'Oh, I'm struggling' to, 'I've got it made.'"
After two last-place seasons, though, fans may not be so forgiving. And there is an acute awareness within the organization of how poor performances at the Metrodome in the second and third preseason games could impact Ponder's psyche -- particularly if Webb is running circles around second-stringers.
That makes it all the more important for Ponder to get off on the right foot and stay on the field, even if more than a few people studying his rookie season from outside the building believe he's worth waiting for.
"Obviously, he had games where aiming the ball was an issue," the AFC personnel director said. "But I like his athleticism, and I thought for a young guy coming in -- you've got McNabb out there and then you get (Ponder) out there and you play him -- I like his upside. I really do. I think he's going to end up being a good football player."
Said the NFC personnel man, "How many games did he start? You can't make a career out of that. It's really too early to tell. That's tough, being a rookie quarterback and having to go play. I think he's going to be pretty good still. But we'll see."


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A MAGAZINE have uploaded issue #7 curated by Kris Van Assche for the December release of their online magazine archive.
"The man currently at the helm of Dior Homme, alongside his own mens and womenswear collections in Paris. Kris Van Assche was born in 1976 in Londerzeel, Belgium, and studied at Antwerp's prestigious Royal Academy of Fine Arts in the mid 1990's. He later began his designing career under the wing of Hedi Slimane at the house of Yves Saint Laurent, moving on to Dior Homme and later taking creative leadership of the label in 2007, all the while quietly crafting his signature aesthetic, symbolised by a four leaf clover.
Kris's designs are the result of a search for balance between sport and formal traditions – technically superb garments that softly assert simple yet exquisite detailing and a crisp lightness upon the male and female forms.
How he translates this to Dior Homme remains a separate yet aligned process. Remaining respectful to the label's history, Kris's work takes inspiration from the formalwear of 19th century Paris, contemporary pop culture, and the desert garb of African nomads. The beautiful faces of South America continue to drive his creative urge, with muses such as Emilio Alix.
Throughout the month of December, A Blog reflects upon the beautiful, rich content of A#7 showcasing Kris Van Assche's selection of his own fashion design and photography, and the work of international artists, photographers and journalists. From the surrealist, organic photographic artwork of Robert and Shana Parkeharrison, to a sleek shoot of Asia Bugajska by Encens' Sybille Walter, and Jeff Burton's controversial laundromat ad campaign for Kris Van Assche"
A MAGAZINE will bring exclusive extra content over the month of December on their "A BLOG curated by" website, including a post-production interview with Kris Van Assche himself in the next weeks, words and never-before-seen images from photographers in A#7 such as Nan Goldin.
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Take a look at A#7 by Kris Van Assche here, or the blog here.