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Hudson North Star (Newspaper) - September 18, 1861, Hudson, Wisconsin flBdsdiii Nortb Star. ___ a VI.WXLI, S. S. ST. ABE, T C K M S Advance Aslrertisinr per year, per .'-uiiimE, per year, wr vear, (brevier 3600 SO 00 800 1200 1500 100 200 Ates of legal advertising as fixed by are strictly observed. Ilsussjfcrey, SCCCIS50RS TO i Gray, and to Humphrey i Wilson. -LNI1 COUNSELORS AT LAW, onrnol, Jtoofrb to Ctate, f nMigenrt, anb intmtfs af flje Croii ffalltq. VOLUME YE.] HUDSON, WIS., WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 18, 1861. [NUMB1R29. N0rtl) Star. WEDNESDAY, SEPT. 18, 18S1. ELWBLL STARR, J. EDITOKS AJCD S. ELWELL S. S. STARR. A, D. GBAY, AXi> COUNSELOR AT LAW, HUDSON, WIS; iii HHngswofUl's JSew block, 2J 11EXEY C. BA.KEK. U Baker, Counstlors at Luw, WISCONSIN. at WISCONSIN. f E it C H A NTS. F. Jl. Clarke Co., i, Suii.ie aud Fancy Dry Goods, Boots, ami Furnishing Good., Car- oil Groceries, Hardware, -r--, Ware, Yankee Notions, Second street, opposite the :Ute. 24, IBuS. 3t. A j- to .1. M. Full an i Dealer at w.d liuuiil in Dry Goods, Cloth- ,-iit! Kliuo.s, liats and Caps, Gro- i'rovisious. Hardware, Wooden .-.--.-U-rv und Drugs and Oilf.Ol.iss, School Books. goods. April C. S. BUCUVTl iln l.nrdsun DurUytc, Ji- Retail Dealers in Staple anc Wjds, Cloliiing, Carpets, Koots- .'.rsl Hals and Caps, Groceries aitd'j'ro- Hardware, Crockery and Glassware IViuLs, Glass Second street. 14, (4-uG T. JC. Wllinnis, ;K Usr Iron, Stone Coal, Stoves. Agri ..I Watur Lituc. nil kinda ic. Agent for Thresliinp Moline i'lo il'.llp. Ouublt-U'aml Corn Cunu-r of Kruut tt WUconsin J. tV. Stone, Crockery an .'arc, Kcady-Mude Clothing, S'un (ioods and Hardware, Kiivt und V.'aiuut streuts. M ISCELLANEJS Strong, Survi-ror, Gt'teral Land Agent, and i'ubhc. Z-M O. F. Ilrown, -UT of Drf'ls. St. Croii county, Hudson Will attend to ronvcyiinctJiK ii.KTan-F, ruriHFbinp Abstracts of Title it-. Oiiicfin tbe Court House. "is. April IJarvfy S. Clapp, Iiisunmcc- Agent, Conveyancer 1'utilic. Oflico with Dawson Hudson. Havinjj an .if ;i'.r fet-OKls. tie exuniines, perfects i- in St. Croix County, and fur- of the same. Will make ;iay taxes, [April 13. '53 Huaxni City Bunt, NSIKC, 1'res't. J. 8. GIBSON, Cashier. ;..-u uailor tV.e Uasikinf; Law of the State Easti-ni drafU bought and received. Collections made at current rates of eichauge. Xov. -'1. (3-34 J. C. SclinciJcr, and }Iorse Slioer; Manufacturer o Wagoiw, Sleglis. Cutters, and iCTWoik done with promptness ispatch Sliop ou Wisconsin sts., be- 1P: ami id streets. June 13. 1SGO. _ ___ J. Groen, X, D., 11KSTIST Particular attention to phigging teeth- -Teeth in- 'serted on any kind of base1, from s. :ui! M-t. oil 2J street, oppo- :'-..t CUy llotol. Oct.. 5, 1S53. MEETING AT MADISOtf. "Pursuant to notics, the meeting cal- ed to consider the best means of sustain- ng the country in its perilous position. convened, and was called to order by J. Gregory, Esq., .whon Tho Hon. John P. McGregor was chosen Chairman whereupon ho took ho chair, and submitted an able and el- oquent address to the people present, on ha aim and objects of the Union move- ment the peril of the country, This Union meeting accomplished all, aye, more than its most sanguine friends inticipated it would. It came up fully to the requirements of the call. Politi- cal wire pullers, before, and since its ad- onrnmcnt seek to ridiculejts importance, and thwart its patriotic object, with what success, will be seen. We were in Madison on Tuesday evening of last week a fhort time before the Convention adjourned, and fora day and a half afterwards, and had a fortun- ate opportunity of seeing and conversing with uaany men from different parts of our State. They almost invariably spoke with patriotic; feeling in favor of banish- ing "every parly distinction, watchword, and arid iu favor of a of parties for the sake of the Un and wore evidently hopeful of its I being accomplished. Below we give the lesolritions passed, and tho address put forth to the people by the Convention. By that it will be seen that a People's Slate Convention is culled to meet at Madison ou the 24th inst. Tho .Republican Convention meets on the 25th. The Peoples' Convention '.ion will probably meet, and adjourn on the 24th, and a conference vrill take place between the two conventions, with a view of nominating a common ticket, upon n platform that will meet tho ap- probation ofall Union loving citizens. regret that wo have only upace in this issue for the resolutions and tha ad- dress given below Resolved. That it becomes the duty of ev'ry patriot to- lay aside the little weapons of his partisan warfare and look with a single eye and and undivided soul to the vast and paramount interests of our com- mon country. Resolved, That, without reference to past political differences, we nro in favor of the nomination of Mich men for tho va- rious offices as will, with all the power of the state, sustain the Administration in its exertions to put down the exist- ing rebellion. .Resolved, That it is the duty of all loyal and patriotic citizens to give the Administration in power a hearty nnd unwavering support until the rebellion is put down, and the integrity ol the Union and tho supremacy of the Constitution as it is, without amendment or compromise, is fully established in all the states. To the Electors of the State of Wisconsin: The Union men of the State of Wis- consin iu Convention assembled, beg leave to express to you their views upon the state of tho country and the duty of the loyal citizens in this most trying hour. Upon the great question of maintain- ing tbe Goveiimient and bearing np its hands in every way within our power, until this wicked rebellion is utterly and entirely crushed out, and the old flag shall be respected iu all tha states of this Union, "and in each and every part thereof" there c.in bu but one opinion. The only question for all of us to dc- co-operation of the minority. Let us not encourage onr enemies by a seeming difference of opinion where there is none, nor allow ourselves by reviving old is- sues, to support with loss zeal a govern- ment whose mission Js the salvation of onr country. As in the revolution there was no division of the people except in- to patriots and torics, so in this rebellion let there be no division except as men are either patriots or traitoia. In thus join- ing in one common band for tins great object, no citizen is asked or required to sacrifice a single principle. It is not be- lieved that a single traitor can be found in our midst ;-bul to a close observer of current events, it is apparent that the warmth and ardor of many good men have already abated under the chilling and selfish appeals, for pnrty organiza- tions, and to avert this great calamity is the chief object to be abtained by In the language of Hon. Joseph Holt, "We are for this Uuion without condi- and indivisible, now and for- its preservation at any or every cost of and treasure, against all its assailants, and against any and every CA3TP CORRESPONDENCE. Hr-ABQOAaTzns 4th REG. Wis. VOL., C-SMF CALL, JlD., XEiE THE REI.AY HoUSK, Aug. EDITORS STAB will see from the-head- ing of th is, that vre hare rot charged our quar- tets smce I vrrote yon last. We hare been held in readiness to march at a moment's warning, for tile past week, but hare not received the said as think it a matter of some doubt whether we move at present-. We were informed that we had bBen assigned to Gen. King's composed of the 2nd, 5th and Gth Regiments, Wisconsin Volun- have not yet ascertained that this is tree. To-day, it is said that a petition numer- otlaly sigrred br the inhabitants of this and the two adjoining counties, asking that we remain here, had been sefrt to'tba War Department, and that the Department had decided to com- ply with the prayer of the p.tition. I trust this is not so, as it would be gross injusljce to the officers and men composing the regiment. I think that the very reasons given for asking that we remain, are the strongest reasons for our being sent forward. During the stay of other Regiments at this plaae, great complaint was made by the people, of the soldiers corn- compromise that may be proposed to be j mitting depredations upon their property, par made under the guns of the rebels." It is now concealed that the hope is entertained and cherished, that is a good and acceptable ticket is presented by the Union Convention, composed of loyal, energetic, economical men, that the ex- isting organizations will forego making any nominations, and the energy of the whole people may be directed to one ob- ject, and voice of party strife be hush- ed. To, accomplish these great ends, fellow citizens, call upon yon to lore- go the discussions of party questions and party nominations, and thus avoid any and all discussions upon the caoses of the present war in brief to merge the partisan into the patriot, and rally to the support of the Constitution and the Union, and the. support of such men, and such only, as aru willing for these groat ends, to ,waive party for country, and ate for "Union for Ike sake of the Union." For the purpose of practically accom- plishing this good result, it is recom- mended that the electors of the state, without distinction of parly, assemble iu their respective Assembly at such time and place, as to them shall seem best, and select two delegates for each district, to attend a Union State Convention, to behold at the Assembly Chambsr in tho city of Madison, on Tuesday, the 24lh day of September, inst. at 10 o'clock a, m., to nominate a Union Ticket, to bo composed of loyal, energet- ic, honest, and economical men, to be supported at the eusuing State election. K. J. WIL.COX, 3tt. D. Physician. Wisconsin. CTOCce corner oi Third andMaple streets 8. MOFFATT, POLICE JUSTICE, Oi'KiOE hi Kickord's B'ock, tormiue is, how this result can be most certainly nnd speed ty accomplished. Does it need argument to prove that we are not best serving our country in at- tending party conventions, making party nominations, urging the election of party candidates, and at last but not least, in framing party platfor rts, to be fought over, attacked and defended, explained and expended until bitterness and ill- feeling has taken the place in our hearts, that should otherwise be filled with patriotic devotion to- our troubled conn- try t It would seem that in this critical hcrar, while a wicked ami powerful foe THE NO PARTY FEEDING AMONG SOLDIERS. The sentiments expressed by onr war correspondent on the subject of a Union of parties until the rebellion is suppress- ed, prevades almost universally the en- tire army. Tha soldier sees this matter in its true light. He is not govered by nsoruid, narrow-contracted, party policy, but has gone forth from home and kin- dred to peril his life for our, and his country, having forgotten his party predi- lictiona until the war is and is gov- erned by the higher, nobler, and more I exalted sentiment of heroically fight- j ing for 'Our Country our whole Country) and nothing but our Country." From many private letters we have received, and seen from members of the Hudson City Guards, all of them of late, refer in a feeling manner to the position the Star has assumed, and the course it advocates, and wish it and the movement to blend all parties into one great loy- al party of the Union, GOD speed. Did we feel at liberty to do so we could give many noble, and patriotic. quotations from the private letters of those brave boys who were strong partisans a short time before they left here, to fight under the "old flag" the battles of our cunntry. I1ON. M. S. GIBSON. Some of the papers in this part of the State are urging the claims of 31. S. Gibson of this city for the office of Bank Comptroller. Mr. Gibson is on excellent business man. and is thoroughly posted upon 'banks and banking." As a Union mnn upon a union ticket, we shochl be pleased to support him, but we never can as a Republican. ticularly upon their gardens. No occasion for complaints of this kind have been given by the men of this Regiment; but to the contrary, nt the request of Col. men have re- frained from ever going upon tbe premises of that objected to their coming there, except in the discharge of their duties. ITon-, a good soldier is a cross between a saint and hero, and is certainly called upon .to exercise the virtues of both. Our duties here call into action the virtues of the saint more than the hero. The history of the world, from the beginning up to the present time, has shown that all saints are heroes, but the reverse of this u far from true, for the same authority shows that many who have established their claim to the title of hero (atleast in its common acceptation) have shown quite as clearly that they had no claims to the title of saints, ilen who Trill du- eharge the arduous and tedious duties required of us here, would never run, on the field of. battle. To suppose that oar men have been so sparing of the property of those who are openly denouncing the Government, and de- claring their sympathy for the rebels, from in- clination, is not to be supposzd, and the only reason for it that can be given is that they are 1 good soldiers, and have done so iu obedience to the orders of their superiors, and the reward of this good behevior, is to bn, tha orders of the War Department to roraiun where we arc. In war, the post of honor is the post of danger, nnd having proved ourselves faithful orera few, it is but right that we should be keepers over many. If the faithful discharge of our duties, has earned us the privilege of remaining in the rear, we shall be very likely to snmc oth- ci course to enable us to get to the front, where we desire to be. regiments composed of men vastly interior to ours in physical abil- ity, the general character of the men, discip- line and drill, are passing us, on the way to the ting a disunion at home. Now, the army is united by a common feeling that of devotion to the Country. They have not deemed it necessary or expedient to enquire whether the officers under whom they are called upon to volunteer, were Democrats or Republicans, but simply whether they vrere devoted to the cause, and I believe that Democrats will fight equally well under a Republican or a Demo- cratic captain. It is strange indeed, if those who remain at home, cannot do what it is nec- essary for them to do now, to aid in carrying on the war, as well under one as the other. There 15, and can be but one issue before the people until tins war is ended, and that is, for or against the Government. No half-way man can, or should bs tolerated. No man who is not earnest, sincere, and active in his devotion to the country now, should be placed in anypo- sition. And he.who 13 made so should be placed in the prese'rii. Squad No. 3 ia called to supper, and the tar- dy man at that call is not the LITTL-K we are compelled to iard ciutv. Sicne of action, while stay here doing the True, the work we are doing is as necessary to be done as the fighting is. but it is not true that it is necessary that the best soldiers should bo employed in doing it. During our st-.iv here the regiment made rapid improvement iu their drill, and are now entirely qualified to go into action, where they earnestly desire to be. I trust ami hope that the Department will not tamper with the spirits ofsn good n Regimont in such a manner. The report thtit -we-werc to move forward im- mediately, and the receiving their pay for tbe last two months has served to rouse the men up, and the camp has been mnro usually live- THE HIVER FALLS CONVENTION. Tbe Republican Assembly District Conven- tion, called for the purpose of electing two delegates to the Republican State Convention, met at River Fulls yesterday. It is generally known that thsre were two sets of Delegates from St. Croix elected under the call of the Chairman of the County Committee (Sir. and those elected under'a call signed by the balance of the same committee, Jlessi-s. Jl-.xpes, Vanslyks, and Fulton. The Clough delegates were called the straight Republican delegation, while the others were iii favor of instructing the delegates elected to 'the State Convention to go in for a union tick- et. Tbe Pierce county delegates were united in favor of a union ticket. The Convention was called to order by John Dale, and Stephen Collins elected Chairman, pro tern. Sir. Herrick (doughs delegate) nom- inated Joseph Green for Secretary. Messrs M. A. Fulton, J. B. Gray, Dr. Van Slyke and others, objected to'the election of Mr. Green as Secretary, because it was not known that he had any business in tho Conven- tion, They were in favor of giving Pierce county tue temporary organization of the Con- vention, because there was no question as to the rights of the fierce county delegation to seats. ilr. Hcrriek's motion was lost; and Doctor Andrews elected Secretary. A Committee on credentials was appointed, w'.iich committee reported that as the creden- tials of both of the St. Croix delegations ap- peared fair, thev would recommend that both sets be admitted to seats Lu the Convention, and that the Pierce county delegates be allowed twelve votes. The report of the com- mittee was adopted. On motion of Mr. Gibson, the tcmparnry of- ficers were made the permanent officers of the convention. Mr. then offered the following Resolved, That the delegates to be elected at this Convention, to attend the Republican State Convention, to be held at Madison on the 25th of and they are hereby instruct- ed to use their influence to nominate a State ticket without respect to political That in case such nomination cannot be made, then said delegates to withdraw, and act no further with said State Convention. ilr. Gibson moved to lav the resolution on the table for the present. Was in favor of the resolution almost, bub was of the opinion that the delegates to the State Convention should be first elected, and then resolutions adopted. Messrs, Gray, Gibbs, Gunn, Van Slyke and others were in favor of the resolution, because they believed the mas.i of the Republicans wanted men sent to the State Convention who ID" The rifcr ia still rising. [CT The nights are now cool, clear, and glo- rious. O" ELI DIXSMORS Sox are making the kind of Plows. See their advertisement. O" Uncle HOLMKS shot a Pelican on Jlortdaj Tthieh measured 7 feetaud ten inches from tip. to tip. new addition to the school house in in the Sud Ward in enclosed, and presents a good appearance. ICTHoy. H. D. BAHKOX ia now A resident of St. Croix Falls, and haa opened a law office at tkat place. See card. 13" The Hudson Titius endorses the peoples' union movement, and advocates the policy of a union of parties during the war. O" has resumed the practice of medicine, as will be seen, by his card. His success at a practitioner is well known about here. BJ" We are told that several arc to be started here soon to advocate the vicrf.-fiof the different factions. When we hear that men are interested in the matter who are in the habit of paying printers for may believe it. L. P. Harvey, present Scc'y of State, has accepted ihc invitation to deliver the annual address before the St, Crofa County Agricultural Society. We are confident tho address will be an rible one, and that the repu- tation of Mr. Harvey will draw a large' audience. THE this season K inoie unpropitious than former ones for holding the being so much to distract at- tention, we believe by the interest exhibited in the city, and many parts of tlio county, that there will be a good display. Let all take hold and lend a helping hand. Remember that the 2nd and 3d of October next arc close by. POLK COC.NTY HEADS informs us that he will soon quarter his company at Hud- son and fill it up as aoon as possible. He in de- termined to go with the above company into service and no mistake. The Capt. is going to Madison, and immediately after his return will go into camp here, ilen can enlist now in this company by reporting themselves at Csceola, Polk county. several distinguished gentle- man, we made a flying visit to Proscott" on Monday evening, returning via the River Fulls convention yesterday. We had a good time, and only wish we had room to give our "feelinks" vent in this paper. The compli- mentary dinner given to the St. Croix Hitlea, and the ball in1 tho everting was a grand affair. LUTE TAVIOE "spoke his piece'' in the after- noon, and attended to thn wants oi "visitors from abroad" at night; SMITH, of the Kilbourn house fairly outdid himself iu the way of the supper, and all appeared ubitsd in having "one good time." illU UillJiU UrtB ot_n Hi "I I- kllL.lt u_utlll ll.w- L i would oppose party nominations, and that it Iv during the week, but this last report has j L j i. c a _ wfic best f.n hdvo me matter understood before- is a call post- c- F. A. M. S st Masonic eTery TCES- iTic, V o'clock. the Third Tuesday uiouth. BrtUirco inritcd to attend. I. D. SEELY. W. X. C. E. DARUXG, I O. O F. .'1.VA5 Xo. I. O. of O. F. Monday cvcnias.UiKctchum' GEO. E. OTIS, X.G., ?J O. G-EKXKK, R.Si- -Thcre is a call ont for T. COGSWELL, House Painter Glazier, HCDSON. is in tho field, with guns pointed at tbe ed iu this county for a regular Dsmo- vitals of the Republic, with its grasp np- Oonventitm to be held on tha 21st on tho throat of the Govcrament when ,If h f the existence of all we hold most dear on earth is jeoparded, -life, liberty and to represent the County or Si. Croix the pursuit of and existence i in the Democratic Senatorial anil Assera- of onr nationality tretabla in tho bly Conventions tehtn the same shall bt it would seem in times like these, in the i presence of tha great, all-absorbing 'question of self-preservation, party questions and petty differences might be Republican Senatorial Conven- iaid aside, and the whole energy of this i tion, with tbe warnes of a number of men great people given to the speedy accom- plishment of this grand object. Tbo division of the loyal citizens of a stale into two or more parties, mast re- sult in the discussion of matters pertain- ing to origin and prosecution of the war as the only prominent subject before the people. Such discussion -would in the end embitter the different, parties against each other so far that those ob- taining power might fail to secun the cooled their ardor wonderfully, and the De- partment, for their action, receive at their hands, our "curses, not loud but deep." The members of Company '-G" think they have great cause of complaint against the gen- j tlcman who took charge of the uniforms sent home from Racine. For each and every pack- age placf d in the box in which they were sent, he was pail by the soldiers more than double what he himself said it would cost to take them home, viz. he said ten cents apiece would pay for it, and they paid him twenty-five. On the arrival of the articles in letters from their friends there, recently received here were required by the gentleman who had so kindly taken charge of them, to pay from twenty-five to fifty cents, for the convey- ance of each package in the bos. A more contemptab'.e swindle was never perpetrated. Would it not be well for- the County mittee to look out this matter, and before they demand a return of the uniforms sent home by the members of the company, to either repay the amount paid for the transportation of them, or compel the man who extorted it from them, to refund it I turn him over to- TOO v-ith tills statement of the trusting that you will do TOOT utmost fo prevent this kind of swindling being perpetrated on the absent at least, will expose the perpetrator. The fact that the county committee claim the sm- was best to have the matter understood before- hand. ilr. Gibson then withdrew his motioa to ta- ble, and offered an amendment to the resoiu- tion by inserting between the words "delegates" i and "to" in the next to the last line, the words "are at which was opposed OB the ground that the resolution as amended would amount to just no instructions at all. The amendment was lost and the original resolution adopted by a vote of 12 to 6. On motion tho Convention then preceded to elect delegates to the State Convention, and ilr. Gregory oflTered the name of John Corn- stock as tho delegate from St. Croix county. Mr Gibson then arose, and in behalf of the Clongh delegation, said the convention was not running to suit their constituents, and that they felt it their duty to withdraw from the Conven- tion. On motion of.Mr. Gray the disaffected dele- gates vrere allowed to secede ,with the thanks of the convention for the time they had remain- ed. Mr. Coaistock was ucanimously elected as a delegate to the State Convention. OliverGibbs, jr., was nominated and nuani- mouai.- elected as a delegate from Pierce county After the transaction of other business of minor importance the Convention adjourned. THE EIGHTH KEGiMKXT.-We frad tne pleasure of meeting, when at Madison, last week, the officers, and seeing all but two companies of tho 8th Wisconsin regiment. The regimen': was to receive its full complement of men on Mon- day last. This regiment will be fully equal in all important requisites of ofiieera and men, to any raised in the State. Col. Murphy takes hold of affairs, as only an officer can who in perfectly well nwire of what he is about, and of what a Col's duties are. He isindefatigablc in looking after tlie welfare of the men, and iving them at the onset correct idens as to'a soldiora dutr. Dr. Tbornhill's friends here will not be surprised to learn that he is a favor- ite with both orticers nnd men. That the GUI- eel's at Madison, speak of the Doctor in the highest terms of praise, for his capability for the important post he holds, for his social qual- ities, and gentlemanly deportment. TO-DAY'S ADVERTISEMENTS. WM. B. HATCH, M. D., Physician and HUDSON, WISCONSIN. Office at the City Store, ad Strecl. Sept.' 18th, 1861 -tf. PEOPLE'S union comri At a People's Convention tl HwlMtOB Saturday, September 14th, for UM jwrpaJM'of electing delegates, to the ffoibo SeBstterial Convention to be at Hwlsoo tke >th proximo, I. D. SCKLH was .elected Qulrinan and WEU.JXGTOX GIEOOKT, Secy. J. B. AiiAS D.orsox and DATID R. were appointed a committee o> and the committee reported followisig per- sons HKitlcd to rote in Convention. l Ward, ii; A.Fullon, D.Sotlej. SUurfnrtt: Lyiian W; Broiwn.: W. H. B. Dsvld ft, Geo. Locgworth, B. Baattsti, I; K. VanSlykc; "r St.Jutfi. K. I Samuel Harriman'pisssaCsJ- dentiab from Somerset with power to cast votes. W. Blodgett, W. A. JTvWs. Committee- on credentials reported, Mfurt accepted and Committee dlachargsJ. A Committee on Resolutions as follows r Lyman Kidder, David .H. :Beal, I. N.-Van Slyke, James B. Gray. The Committee on M follows: V Whfrtat, It is believed at tliis of peril to our it duty of all patriotic citizens to unite upon suck a basis of political action that all loyal cut Stand together, without surrender of Wh-rtat, The great issue OoMtry ia that Of sustaining the National ft itailnlstra" lion in its fcudenvora to preserve of the States, and our civil aud politick! Hbcrtieii. therefore, Retained. That we corldialty invite all loyal citizens irrespective of party associations, who ore ;n favor of a vigorous prosecution of the war. a'Rfd of Sustaining our brave soltHert en- gaged in it; irho are opposed to holiinfa par- ley with treason nnd compromising with tnit- ors who arc; billing to say that Aft Cttoatiiu- tion and the Union bequeathed us by the Fath- ers of the Republic, shall be maintained by the generation tttitt now U r nnd shall be preserved tor the generations that are to to with rtsui an endeavor to allay partisan -strife until the rctXcHtoft is suppressed. Ketolvcd, That we are "for Ou Unit for tke one caul indtfiitibU, nfflB aiut ftrtvtt. We art for any mini ntry (Ml of blood and treaiure ayaiatt its imriltntt. We know no neutrality between our country and iU foes, whether they be foreign or domerttc no neutrality between that glorious flag which now floats over us and the insrstes and Iraitois who would trample it in the dust. Our prayer is for victory, complete, enduring overwhelm- ing to Hrmies of tho Republic over all its enemies. WE ARE AOA1N3T ANT AND EVBR1 COMPROMISE THAT MAY BE PROPOSED TO BE MADK UNDER THK GUNS OF EIIE REBKL3. of the sword )wa been dcfi.intly thrust ths face of the government and couatry, auj th.re is no honorable escape from it." D. R. BIAL, I. N. VAS HENKY D. BABftON, Attorney and Counselor, St. Crobc Palla, Polk Wto. ID" Wilt attend promptly to all bnsinesg en- trusted to his care in the courU of Wisconsin and Minnesota. [Stpt. 18, fS61-tf. WAR IN HUDSON I PLOWS PLOWS PLOWS attached, irho never -.saw the call ursiii after it vaf publishfd, A5D DO SOT xovr COCJsTKSAXGE IT! It takes but one man to bold: a conven- tion now-a-days, and we slxrald'at won- der if a "few more'' were called" soon. CLOSING appears from the follo'wingj that the Prescott Journal and Transcript are to be united Tvith LUTE A. TAVIXJU aa editor and proprietor. The Transcript says "Ksxt Treek we shall issue the last number of the Prescolt Trfnscrift, having sold the pat- ronage and good wil 1 of the office to the pub- lisher of the Journal. The Transcript is the oldest paper in the St. Croix Valley, it having been published without intermission since February, 1655, more, than sis and a half years. To oar many friends in these parts, src say, j ,v i vour patronage you are already paid for, your could have had the possession ot them, ana tne j -tindnc5Ses wiji alway3 fae gratefully remem- dUpssa? them, simply bv asking for it, and bercd. ilay you fae blessed of God and loved liovs bvrccn. Onr editorial fri-ecds vre bid adieu therebyrsavea the ol ,ae untilafter war. And Uronr few andacurvy The'Star1 of the 25th ult. came wmp enem5e3i mos4 ofwhom are. traitors, we to-diy. I ani glid tba: you hive come ou; so mAJ tie'Devil soon take you to Secessia, uL forms as the property of the county, does not j please the boys much. They evidently suppo- sed, that when the County made them a dona- tion of the uniforms, that they conveyed the the title in fee-simple, and that they became thereby the sole owners and proprietors thereof, but i: seems they were mistaken. That a bet- ter use trill be made of the uniforms in tne I had they bec-n lefts- have no do-abt, but I rand the county, think the committee cut-in- this war. med at ior e E. DIWSMOBE SOW., WOULD announce to the inhnbitanUlof sponsibls-for mi. the surrounding country that they ai camp, the f: BOW manufacturing the BEST STUBBLE SEED PLOW! ever offered for in this market, and all interested to call and examine them be- fore purchasing elucwhere. Hudson, Sept. 18, 1861-tf. It the last ipeech delivered by BTTOWS A. DOCGLAS, occurs tins paragraph Eat this is no- trme for detail of causes. The conspiracy is now known. Armies been raised, is levied to accomplish it. There only two sides to question. Every man most be for the United Stales or agsin.t There can He MO ntvtralt in O25LY TRAITORS. JAKES B. Rctohal, That the foregoing ItculutioDS. be' accetcd and adopted. The following Delegates were appointed to attend the Senatorial Convention to be held on the 9th of October at Hudson: Allan Daw.on, I. N. Van Slyke, JLyraau Kidder, Richard Joyce, L. D. Bartlett, W. A. Blodgett. Ktiolted, That each delegate has power of substitution, and in of tin; absence of any delegates that those present have the power of casting the absent vstcs. Resolved, That a Union County Committee of five formed for the purpose of calling a Comity Convention witli tlie ordraary power of a Co'ramiftoc be oloihcd with power to appoint Committeei in and WarJs when the said Towns neglect to 0. H. bswis, W. A. Holraan, W. Gregory, C. H. Coon, Aobtort Henry. Jtei-lced, tJht H. A. taylo." aftd J. S. Klwoll be appointed as the St. Croix Co. portion of a Union Committee to be united with Pierce County Committee for tjiu purpow of callinj a District Assembly Convention. On motion the Convention adjourned. I. D. SEELT, W. GnxooRr, Sec'y. POST OFFICE, Hudson, Wis., Sept. IS, '61 Ens. STAK I understand that some com- plaint ijs been made, because pertous hare culled upon to pay postage on letters re- ceived from their friends in ths amy, when those letters had bcea franked by John T. Pot- ter, M. C. In order to show why his frsnk had in some cases bceu erased, and postage charged on tbo letters, I will quote Sections 235, SK, t J37 of the Postal Regulations in reference to the franking privilege Sec. 235. -Tire ftrnnul privilege of franking travels with persons professing it, and cau be exercised in but one place at thu same Sec. 836. No postmaster or privileged per- son can leave his frank behind him, ftpen en- velopes, 10 cover his correspondence in his aV- S-UCU. Sec. 337. If letters or pipers into a post office bearing the frank of a prtrilefed person who notoriously has not been in that vi- cinity for several days it is the duty of tbe postmaster to treat them as unpaid letters." Mr. Potter, in his to do the Wi.- conxm RegiiB-uls a kinliess, spent several days franking cnvtlopts (or them. When ho left the camp, many of these envelopes re- mained behind, and were used by the soldiers, who supposed they would go free, awl tho Postmaster at St. Dennis and Baltimore know- his absence, did bat their dnty In erasing his frank and charging postage npon ths Those postmasters made nothing -by it, as the postage is charged to this which' U re noent. White Xr.' Potttr franks ctaie free, when he left, they were erased asxl postage charged up- on letters; I'hope thb will Vt MBIciently explanatorjr. T. 8. SCTHOCK, P. Jl. TaiAi, or Sctiatf We have sera state- ment "of ON recltit offlcial trial Iii OSM of the eoandes In tWs SbiU, tweMy fire Orafn Sid Stock They wers or- His MeCJellac- ws? cu-n- s home, cia much betier coploy tinie acd We -ats 'a devisin- wars and means for suppori- and who have Prescott and Pierce County. I to begin wish, aa4 during! [hi3 .jj-jg n3ve at least have doubled ourmonej. M personal and political friend of tba X-thTo take contest, than ir. cr Sp.nator Dongas. warm late Senator Don X3T Ex-Governor WtigUr. of ladi- has consented to deliver a so logy The time of deiivwyj xvili bu earlv in September. as they were found in eoonkan we, thus making it one of ths pert pnTallssil tests. Six- teen of them were of FS-MHWSU' Bake, and nine of various other iciwls, iooladias; sone which have lately been claimed M imfriot to- Fairbanks'. The re salt snowed a resurkable degree of accuracy in UMM ofKairbarnks' while all gUwrs were MMtnffi- accuraU for imftHtmtm fact will be widMmT eosaa.ai. We publish it because it Ji in wfckli the pablU lyskus.. .CT JTanyof our mtchaaics III are pre- arrfdes for ezbibiitbsi'W j Tis will fcf ;


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Baltimore County News
One-Day Event at Western Acceptance Facility
On Sunday, November 8, Baltimore County residents may bring household hazardous waste items to a one-day collection event scheduled from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m., at the Baltimore County Western Acceptance Facility, located at 3310 Transway Road in Halethorpe.
The event is hosted by the Baltimore County Department of Environmental Protection and Sustainability (EPS) in cooperation with the Police, Fire and Public Works departments.
Baltimore County residents may bring household paints and chemicals, lawn and garden chemicals, automotive fluids, cleaning solvents, swimming pool chemicals, re-chargeable batteries, medicines, mercury thermometers and thermostats, fluorescent light bulbs, fireworks and ammunition. No trash will be accepted at this event.
White Marsh Drop-Off Center Now Open All Year
For those residents who can't make it to the one-day event, Baltimore County operates a full service household hazardous waste drop off facility at the Eastern Sanitary Landfill, located at 6259 Days Cove Road in White Marsh. This facility is open all year and operates Monday through Saturday, from 7:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m.
Spring 2016 Collection Event Announced
EPS officials also announced that the spring 2016 household hazardous waste one-day collection event will be held on Sunday, April 10, 2016, from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. at the Baltimore County Central Acceptance Facility, located at 201 West Warren Road in Cockeysville.
Residents may call the Baltimore County Department of Environmental Protection and Sustainability at 410-887-3745 for more information
Jerry Siewierski
Waste Management Program Manager
Department of Environmental Protection and Sustainability
Do you ever wonder what to do with left over paints and chemicals in your basement and garage? You know that some of these materials are too dangerous to pour down the drain or throw into the garbage can. Some, like gasoline, paint thinners or pesticides are pretty obvious, but others are not quite so apparent.
Did you know that swimming pool chemicals can react with other materials in your trash to create toxic gases or catch fire? Or that drain cleaners come in two types, strong acids or strong bases? You remember way back from high school chemistry class what happens if a strong acid and strong base get together….not good for whoever is nearby. Did you know that fluorescent light bulbs contain mercury, or that rechargeable batteries contain toxic metals such as lead or cadmium?
It doesn't take a chemist to picture what happens when liquid paints leak out of the garbage can or garbage truck onto our roads and streets and people ride over it w/ their cars….makes a real mess. You probably didn't know that some latex paints are re-usable. Baltimore County has been recycling latex paints since 1998 and has recycled over 155,821 gallons. That's enough to fill 20 tanker trucks. The paints go to area non-profit groups for distribution to schools, churches and low-income residents.
This time of year, you can take these paints and chemicals to the county's Eastern Sanitary Landfill drop off center, located at 6259 Days Cove Road in White Marsh. Hours of operation are Monday through Saturday, 7:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m., from April through November.
To make the program convenient for residents in other areas, Baltimore County operates one day collection events at other sites. This year's events are scheduled for Sunday, April 14th from 9 a.m. to 1p.m. at the Texas Landfill on Warren Rd in Cockeysville; and Sunday, November 10th from 9am to 1pm at the Western Acceptance Facility, 3310 Transway Rd in Halethorpe.
If you are not sure what to do with your leftover household paints or chemicals, or have any questions, call the Baltimore County Department of Environmental Protection at 410 887-3745 and we'll be happy to help you.
Revised April 6, 2016

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Suspect in Galt officer shooting is identified | Crime
GALT, Calif. - The man suspected of shooting and killing Galt police Officer Kevin Tonn before turning the gun on himself Tuesday was identified by the Sacramento County coroner as 30-year-old Humphrey Gascon of Galt.
Gascon was not the burglar initially sought in the area as first thought.
In a news conference Wednesday afternoon, Galt police Lt. Jim Uptegrove said Gascon did not have any previous convictions. He said Gascon only had a few minor traffic violations before Tuesday's shooting.
STORY: Galt police officer killed in the line of duty
According to Sacramento County sheriff's Sgt. Jason Ramos, Gascon had a similar description to the burglary suspect Galt police were seeking, and was therefore contacted by Tonn. [The Sacramento County Sheriff's Department also responded to the shooting.]
"We have determined that the deceased suspect (and alleged murderer of Officer Tonn) is NOT the same person who was the initial suspect in the burglary call for service that Galt PD responded to," said Ramos. "So in short, Officer Tonn's investigation into a reported burglary made him cross paths with a guy who just happened to be in the area carrying a gun. Unfortunately, this man took extreme measures to try to avoid arrest, which would have likely happened had he been found in possession of the weapon."


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Heads in Beds: A Reckless Memoir of Hotels, Hustles, and So-Called Hospitalityby Jacob Tomsky
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In the tradition of Kitchen Confidential and Waiter Rant, a rollicking, eye-opening, fantastically indiscreet memoir of a life spent (and misspent) in the hotel industry.
Jacob Tomsky has worked in hotels for more than a decade, doing everything from valet parking to manning the front desk. He's checked you in, checked you/b>/i>/i>
In the tradition of Kitchen Confidential and Waiter Rant, a rollicking, eye-opening, fantastically indiscreet memoir of a life spent (and misspent) in the hotel industry.
Jacob Tomsky has worked in hotels for more than a decade, doing everything from valet parking to manning the front desk. He's checked you in, checked you out, separated your white panties from the white bed sheets, parked your car, tasted your room service, cleaned your toilet, denied you a late check out, given you a wake-up call, eaten M&Ms out of your mini-bar, laughed at your jokes, and taken your money. And in Heads in Beds, he pulls back the curtain on the hospitality business, revealing the crazy yet compelling reality of an industry we think we know. It is an incredibly funny, authentic, and irreverent chronicle of the highs and lows of hotel life and boy, is there a market for it: in 2010, the American lodging industry generated $127.7 billion in revenue. Prepare to be amused, shocked, and amazed as he spills the unwritten code of the bellhops, the antics that go on the valet parking garage, and the housekeeping department's dirty little secrets.
Prepare to be moved, too, by his insightful honesty about the profession; employees are often poorly paid and frequently abused. However, Heads in Beds is more than just a memoir. Jake explains the secrets of the industry, offering easy and legal ways to get what you need from your hotel without any hassle—from scoring late check-ins and upgrades to getting that pay-per-view charge knocked off your bill. This book will give you the knowledge you need to get the very best service from any hotel or property, from any business that makes its money from putting heads in beds. Or, at the very least, it will keep the bellhops from taking your luggage into the camera-free back office and stomping the crap out of it.
Editorial Reviews
Janet Maslin
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"Heads in Beds is Mr. Tomsky's highly amusing guidebook to the dirty little secrets of the hospitality trade. But it is neither a meanspirited book nor a one-sided one.... [H]e winds up sounding like an essentially honest, decent guy. And his observations about character are keen, perhaps because he's seen it all.... If this were simply a travel book of the news-you-can-use ilk, it would be of only minor interest. But Mr. Tomsky turns out to be an effervescent writer, with enough snark to make his stories sharp-edged but without the self-promoting smugness that sinks so many memoirs.... Heads in Beds embraces the full, novelistic breadth of hotel experience.... [Tomsky] is no longer a hotel employee and now, with good reason, thinks of himself as a writer."
—Janet Maslin, New York Times
"For those of us who'd rather live in good hotels than in our own homes, oh Lordy, is this ever a horrifyingly good time. It's the sort of equivalent of WebMD for hypochondriacs: You know you're learning way more than is good for you, but you just can't stop reading. Tomsky, who may be an even better writer than a hotelier (and he's a damn good hotelier) has worked every job and every shift; he takes us into the bowels (sometimes literally) of the hotel business, with all the pomp and circumstance, the hidden filth, and the fears and aspirations and secrets of guests and staff alike."—Judith Newman, People (4 Stars)
"For the uninitiated, staying at a luxury hotel can be a little intimidating.... [But] front desk raconteur Jacob Tomsky is here to help. His sharp-witted, candid new book, Heads in Beds, demystifies the world of high-end hospitality.... Coarse, smart and wickedly funny, the author delivers hilarious caricatures of the hotel guests and colleagues he has encountered over the years.... Tightly written and laced with delicious insider tips."—John Wilwol, Washington Post
"A wonderfully indiscreet veteran of the hospitality industry, Jacob Tomsky knows his way around a hotel."—PARADE
"Room upgrades. Free movies. Late checkouts. Jacob Tomsky promises readers the keys to the hotel industry kingdom in his tell-all book, Heads in Beds. The one-time philosophy major has spent more than a decade working in the industry and, like room service, he delivers the goods.... Beyond tips, Tomsky has packed his book with outrageous anecdotes about guests...[and] the hotel staff too.... Tomsky has only worked at hotels in New Orleans and New York, so readers may wonder if his tips will work anywhere else. Maybe they will, maybe they won't. But his stories are so good, it almost doesn't matter."—Jessica Gresko, Associated Press
"Jacob Tomsky is a star. The kid writes like a dream. Heads in Beds is hilarious, literate, canny, indignant and kind—revealing an author who manages somehow to be both a total hustler and a complete humanitarian. I love this book. Keep an eye on this writer. I'm telling you, he's a star."
—Elizabeth Gilbert, author of Eat, Pray, Love: One Woman's Search for Everything Across Italy, India and Indonesia
"And I thought I had it bad when I worked in restaurants! Heads in Beds is a hilarious, informative, and naughty peek at what really happens behind the glitz and glamour of the hotel experience. Not content with dispensing advice on how to get a better room or avoiding the vengeful wrath of bellhops, maids, doormen, and front-desk clerks, Tomsky also spins a touching yarn on how he kept his dignity and humanity intact while dealing with insufferable guests, Expedia wannabes, predatory hotel managers, conniving coworkers, and the occasional pervert. After reading this book, you'll become either a better-educated hotel guest who constantly receives great service—or realize why you always get that noisy room by the elevator shaft. As a survivor of America's dysfunctional hospitality industry, I highly recommend this book."
—Steve Dublanica, author of the New York Times bestseller Waiter Rant
"In pulling the musty curtains back on the seedy hotel business, Heads in Beds provides first-rate insights for all grades of travelers. But the real revelation here is Jacob Tomsky, whose writing combines presidential suite talent with rack-rate, smoking-room, vending-machine-down-the-hall edge."
—Chuck Thompson, author of Smile When You're Lying: Confessions of a Rogue Travel Writer
"Readable and often engaging.... [W]hen the author is passionate about his career and is able to express his passion on the page, it can be a joy to read... hilarious."—Kirkus Reviews
"Comparisons to Anthony Bourdain's Kitchen Confidential (2000) are inevitable…. [B]oth Tomsky and Bourdain purport to expose the underbelly of service industries with which most readers are familiar, hotels and restaurants. But where Bourdain is all rock 'n' roll, egotistical bluster, Tomsky is surprisingly earnest and sympathetic; there are, after all, no television programs called Top Desk Clerk. He wants your respect, not your adulation…. Indeed, it would be easy to pen a book about crazy hotel guests. But this memoir succeeds, instead, in humanizing the people who park our cars, clean our hotel rooms, and carry our luggage. You will never not tip housekeeping or your bellhop again. Tomsky fell into hotel work and proved to be rather good at it; the same can be said for his writing."—Booklist
"Those who want a hotel up-grade, who must make a same-day room cancellation without getting charged, or wonder why hotel water sometimes tastes like lemon Pledge need look no further than Tomsky's memoir, a collection of stories, memories, and secrets about the hospitality business. Bouncing around various hotel jobs...for more than 10 years, he's got the skinny that would make most travel sites blush.... But this is more than a collection of trade secrets; it's a colorful tale filled with vibrant characters from crazy bellmen to even crazier guests. Tomsky is a solid storyteller who is able to intricately detail all the insanity surrounding him."—Publishers Weekly
"With incredibly witty, from-the-gut prose, Mr. Tomsky provides an inside scoop on the good, the bad, and the incredibly ugly happenings that go on behind closed hotel doors—as well as front desk antics that happen right before your untrained, naïve eyes.... A very fun, entertaining read. It is incredibly relatable, not only for a consumer, but also for anyone who has worked in a public-oriented service industry. Despite his brash language, or perhaps in spite of it, the author comes across as sincere and personable with the patience of a saint—or at least he's really good at faking it. Though it seems he was very good at this job, it's about time for Jacob Tomsky to move on to bigger and better things. If this book is any indication, writing will be his next calling."—Renee C. Fountain, New York Journal of Books
"Tomsky shines in...this funny and profane memoir."—Nathan Gelgud, Biographile
"After the party, it's the hotel lobby…. and that's where things get real. Jacob Tomsky's hilariously irreverent memoir Heads in Beds chronicles the all-work, no-sleep, but never dull lifestyle of the young hotelier and the innermost workings of high-end hotels...[and] shares five-star advice for your next check-in."—Gina Angelotti, Metro
"Heads in Beds is at turns hilarious, sad, too revealing, naughty, frightening and wildly fun. Tomsky proves to be a smart writer. His voice is warm and accessible, but he's also pleasantly snarky and potty-mouthed. He lets the reader see him at his smarmy, smooth-operating best and his filthy, fed-up worst. (And the book includes lots of tips, like how to eat and drink everything in your minibar for free, how to get extra amenities, and all of the things a hotel guest should never say to a front desk agent.)"—Alli Marshall, Mountain Xpress
Product Details
- 9780385535632
- Publisher:
- Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
- Publication date:
- 11/20/2012
- Pages:
- 256
- Sales rank:
- 1,149,554
- Product dimensions:
- 6.54(w) x 9.32(h) x 1.03(d)
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Chapter One
I am standing on St. Charles Avenue, uptown New Orleans, a few months out of college and a few weeks into summer. It's already extremely hot in the full sun. Which is where I have to stand: in the sun. Next to the valet box. All day.
I took a valet-parking job at Copeland's restaurant to shake off my college-loan laziness, to climb out of the educational womb and stand on my own two feet as a moneymaking, career-pursuing adult. Educated in the useless and inapplicable field of philosophy, I quickly deduced that my degree looked slightly comical on my already light-on-the-work-experience résumé. Perhaps it was even off-putting. To a certain eye, hell, it probably made me look like a prick. But I had to start somewhere. So I started at the bottom.
This job is not good enough. Why not? First of all, I'm parking cars. Second, we have to turn in all our tips. I imagined I'd get off the first night with a pocketful of ones to take to the French Quarter, not that you need much money in New Orleans. As it turned out, however, attached to the valet box that houses the car keys, like a wooden tumor, is a separate slot for us to jimmy in our folded tips. All of them. Attached to that box, like a human tumor, is the shift boss, back in the shade at a vacant umbrella table, sipping a noontime drink that most definitely contains alcohol. It also has chipped ice and is sweating in his hand, sweating in a much different way than I am sweating.
A lunch customer hands me his ticket. I find his keys easily in the box and take off at an impressive run. His car is not easy to find: the valet company has not rented a nearby lot to service the restaurant, and so we, certainly unbeknownst to the clients, just drive around the area and try to parallel park the vehicles as close to Copeland's as possible. Once the vehicle has been parked, it's up to the valet to draw a silly treasure map on the back of the ticket so another valet can locate it. My co-worker Chip draws every treasure map like this: #*. Every single one. And finding the car is never easy. But I bring it back and slide up to the curb, holding the door open, the car's AC pouring like ice water on my feet, and receive a neatly folded bill from the customer.
"It's damn hot out here, son. This is for you running like that."
It's a twenty-dollar bill. Chip, now back and posted by the valet box, holds a salute against his brow, trying like hell to make out the bill. I walk up to the tip tumor and start to wiggle it in when Chip says, "No. No! What are you doing, Tommy? Don't you keep a dollar handy to swap it out with? Please don't put that twenty in there. Please. It's for you. That dude told you it was for you."
"Actually, it's for Copeland's Valet Parking Corporation," the human tumor says, setting his drink down wet on the valet box.
"Are you seriously drinking a mudslide?" Chip asks.
I use a car key from the box to vanish the bill completely and post up next to Chip. Back in the sun. The shift boss sinks back into the shade.
"I am way too old for this. Sharing tips? Forty percent to management leaves 60 percent of the tips to us, divided over twenty runners, on a check, with taxes taken out, and guess who's running the math, guess who's counting up the tips? A grown man drinking a goddamn mudslide." He must have been talking to himself previously because now Chip turned to me: "You think he's gonna turn in that twenty? Or just keep it for himself? We never get good tips out here. You know what I heard? There's a new hotel opening up downtown. You heard that? It's supposed to be luxury." He said the word as if it were mystical and perhaps too good for his own tongue: "luxury." "And they're looking for parkers. Copeland's customers don't tip for shit."
Chip, with a wide smile, accepts a claim check from an emerging lunch customer and locates the keys in the box. "It's a fucking Mazda, dude," he says quietly to me. And then to the customer: "You won't be long in this heat, sir! I will run for your vehicle!" Then he takes off sprinting: it's almost vaudevillian how he tears ass around the corner, his body at full tilt.
Chip cruises the Mazda back in record time, gliding up to the curb. "AC running and classic rock on low for you, sir."
The customer drops something into his cupped palm. Something that makes Chip's face contort.
Chip stands upright, essentially blocking the customer from entering his own vehicle, and spreads open his palm to let the two-quarter tip flash in the sun.
With a voice strained and tight, as if he were suffering intense physical pain, he says, "Why, thank you so very much, sir."
Then he pivots slightly and extends his hand, palm flat, quarters in the sun again.
Then he drop-kicks both coins. Kicks the shit out of them into the street.
They arc over the road and land on the rough grass of the neutral ground, settling in before a streetcar rocks by.
I can see the shock on the customer's face—the confusion, the horror. Chip just walks off with determination, crossing St. Charles and onto the neutral ground. After picking the quarters out of the grass, he crosses the tracks to the far side of the street and starts bearing down Napoleon Avenue, toward Mid-City: the job, the restaurant, the shift boss, me, all of us in his rearview mirror.
I finished my shift. Then I took his advice about the hotel job.
Whether I knew it yet or not, it was one hell of an important moment for me, watching Chip snap at what seemed like such a minor affront, seeing that much emotion applied to a single low-quality tip. And then watching him bend down, fish the quarters out of the dirt, and take them with him. I didn't understand any of it. Not yet.
Here we go.
Hotel orientation. Human resources pretty much hired everyone. Everyone who passed the drug test.
I passed, thank you.
Chip did not.
The River Hotel, connected to a brand known for luxury, known for being out of almost everyone's price range, was being built right there on Chartres Street, in downtown New Orleans. It was three weeks from opening and still under construction. Yet they hired us all, tailored our uniforms, and started paying us. A week ago I was earning money and giving it to an idiot who pounds mudslides. Now I wasn't even working, but I was collecting a check. A good check. And no one had even said the word "valet" yet.
Not that our new managers weren't saying any words. Honestly, they couldn't stop saying some words: "Service." "Luxury." "Honesty." "Loyalty." "Opulence." And mid-length phrases such as "Customer Feedback" and "Anticipating Needs." And then longer, million-dollar phrases like "Fifteen-Hundred-Thread-Count Egyptian Linen Duvet Covers."
Management ran classes every day on service, administered in the completed conference rooms, the tables draped with what we assumed to be Egyptian fabric and adorned with iced carafes of water, which we poured into crystal goblets to wash down the huge piles of pastries they fed us. They were hell-bent on teaching us how to identify something called "a guest's unmentioned needs."
"A man needs his car, he don't need to speak a word. Get that claim check out. Get that dollar out, feel me?"
That came from the back of class. I turned my head to get a look at who I assumed were to be my co-workers: three black guys not really adhering to the "business casual" mandate for these orientation classes.
"Tommy, can you give me an example of a guest's unmentioned need?"
I wasn't even wearing a name badge: these hospitality maniacs had actually learned everyone's name.
"Well, ma'am—"
"You can call me Trish. I'm the front office manager."
"Well, ah, Trish . . ." That got a low laugh from the back of class. "Maybe they pull in a car, it's dirty from the drive, and we could get it washed?"
"Perfect example."
"Wait up. You want I should drive the car back to my driveway in the Ninth Ward to wash it? Or bring in quarters from home?"
"Perry; correct?"
"Yeah, Perry."
"Perry. You come to me anytime, and I'll give you hotel money to wash a car, change a tire, or buy them a CD you know they'd like for the drive home. Anything you think of, you can come to me."
"Well, goddamn."
The day before the grand opening the hotel closed off a block of Chartres Street (pronounced "Chart-ers," by the way, completely disregarding the obvious Frenchness of the word; we also pronounce the street Calliope like "Cal-e-ope"; Burgundy comes out not like the color but "Ber-GUN-dy," and just try to stutter out Tchoupitoulas Street or Natchitoches even close to correctly). We were collected into parade groups, our new managers holding up large, well-made signs indicating our departments. Front desk. Valet. Laundry. Sales and marketing. Bellmen. Doormen. Food and beverage. And housekeeping of course, by far the largest group, about 150 black ladies dressed as if they were going to a club. The valets hung together in a small clot, not saying much to each other, looking up at the finished, renovated hotel.
The vibe was celebratory and overwhelmingly positive. We were let in, one department after the other, and we hustled up a stairwell lined with managers clapping and cheering as if we were the goddamn New Orleans Saints. They threw confetti, smacked us on the back, and screamed in an orgy of goodwill and excitement. By the time we crested the third floor and poured into the grand banquet hall, every single one of us had huge, marvelously sincere smiles stuck hard on our faces. And we held those smiles as we took turns shaking the general manager's hand, who, no shit, wore a crown of laurel leaves. As a joke, I suppose.
"I'm Charles Daniels. Please, call me Chuck."
"All right, then, Chuck," Perry said in front of me and waited while Mr. Daniels located the gold-plated name tag that read "Perry" from the banquet table beside him.
Mr. Daniels didn't go so far as to pin on the name tag, anoint us, as it were. But we were in such a rapturous state during the event I believe we would have readily kneeled before him and let him pin it to our naked flesh.
And then there was an open bar. Not sure where they shipped in this opening team from; they certainly weren't locals. Neither was I, but I'd spent my young life traveling, moving so often I'd learned the skill (and believe me it is an incredibly useful skill) of assimilating into any new culture, whatever that culture may be. I am a shape-shifter in that way. And as I approached my four-year anniversary in Louisiana, just about my longest stretch anywhere, New Orleans had already become the closest thing to a home I'd ever had. And the open bar was a nod to this town, a town that runs on alcohol, and much appreciated. This is a city where you can find drink specials on Christmas morning. Not that you could find me on Bourbon Street Christmas morning; I didn't drink at the time. I stayed sober all through college while pursuing my degree and hadn't had a drop since I was fifteen and used to take shots of Jack Daniel's in my basement during school lunch. But an open bar in New Orleans? People got tore up. Housekeeping got tore up.
Now that it was revealed which department we fell into, we tended to group up for the party, getting to know each other.
"Dig this general manager. He look like a slave owner with that headpiece," Walter said.
"Nah," Perry said. "Chuck a cool motherfucker. You just enjoy that free drink you got," and then he took a long finishing pull from his own bottle of Heineken.
Everyone was smiling. Everyone was friendly. Everyone had a name tag on. It was like a big crazy family, and we opened tomorrow. We were all in this together, and everyone in that banquet hall, after two weeks of service training, two full paychecks for nothing, couldn't wait to unleash their skills on a real guest. The managers had whipped us into such a frenzy that if any actual guests had wandered into that party, we would have serviced them to death, mauled them, like ravenous service jackals.
Already the hotel had created the possibility of a home for me, a future. It seemed so glamorous, all the linens and chandeliers and sticky pastries. The hotel was beautiful, and I was honored to be a member of the opening team. It was at this very point I realized my life of constant relocation had led me to this nexus of relocation, this palace of the temporal where I could now stand still, the world moving around me, and, conversely, feel grounded. I studied Mr. Daniels as he circulated the party, all conversation politely cutting off when he unobtrusively joined a group. That was the position I wanted. That was a life I could own. And I distinctly felt, because this is exactly what they told us during orientation, that if I performed with dedication and dignity, took the tenets of luxury service to heart, hospitality would open herself up to me and I could find my life within the industry. I wanted to be king. It was possible to be king. I swore that day I'd be the general manager of my very own property.
This excitement carried over and crashed like a wave on the following day, the day the hotel opened. But before we were able to molest our first guest, we had to sit through the opening ceremony.
One thing about hotels: once they open, they never close.
I don't mean they never go out of business; certainly they do. But the fact that a hotel could fail to be profitable astounds me. Why? The average cost to turn over a room, keep it operational per day, is between thirty and forty dollars. If you're paying less than thirty dollars a night at a hotel/motel, I'd wager the cost to flip that room runs close to five dollars. Which makes me want to take a shower. At home. That forty-dollar turnover cost includes cleaning supplies, electricity, and hourly wage for housekeepers, minibar attendants, front desk agents (and all other employees needed to operate a room), as well as the cost of laundering the sheets. Everything. Compare that with an average room rate, and you can see why it's a profitable business, one with a long history, going back to Mary and Joseph running up against a sold-out situation at the inn, forcing him to bed his pregnant wife in a dirty-ass manger.
The word "hotel" itself was appropriated from the French around 1765. Across the ocean, a hotel, or hôtel, referred not to public lodging but instead to a large government building, the house of a nobleman, or any such place where people gathered but no nightly accommodation was offered. America, at the time, was filled with grimy little inns and taverns, which provided beds for travelers and also functioned as a town's shitty dive bar. Having a monopoly on the alcohol game was a boon, one given to tavern keepers in gratitude for putting up travelers, something no one wanted any part of. It wasn't until George Washington decided to embark on the first presidential tour of his new kingdom that spotlights began to shine on these public houses of grossness. In order to present himself as a man of the people, he turned down offers to stay with associates and wealthy friends, instead lodging himself in tavern after tavern, sniffing at room after room, frowning at bed after bed. For the first time in American history, townships were ashamed of their manner of accommodating travelers. The country was unified and expanding. Something had to be done about our system of lodging.
So, in 1794, someone, some asshole, built the very first "hotel" in New York City: a 137-room job on Broadway, right there in lower Manhattan. It was the first structure built with the intention of being a "hotel," a word that was quickly replacing the terms "inn" and "tavern," even if it only meant that swarthy innkeepers were painting the word "Hotel" onto their crappy signs but still sloshing out the booze and making travelers sleep right next to each other in bug-ridden squalor. The first big hotels failed monetarily or burned to the ground or both. It wasn't until railroad lines were getting stitched across America's expanding fabric that hotels, big and small, began to prosper and offer people like me jobs.
So, profitability aside, what I am referring to here is not the fact that once a hotel opens it will never close (or be burned to the ground!) but that once we cut the ribbon on the hotel, once we opened the lobby doors, they never closed again. In fact, they unchained them because they were built without locks, as almost all hotel lobby doors are. Three o'clock in the morning—open. Christmas Eve, 3:00 a.m.—open. Blackout—open. World War Whatever—open (with a price hike).
The mayor was kind enough to attend the opening ceremony, going down the line of sharp-dressed employees and shaking hands (or giving elaborate daps, depending on ethnicity). And then in came the public, and there we stood, smiling, proud, ready. The locals poured into the Bistro Lounge, strolled through the lobby as if it were a museum of classical art, put handprints on fresh glass doors, and began to scuff, mark, and mar the pristine landscape, putting their asses in chairs, creasing and bending the leather, scraping and marking the cutlery as they bit down hard on steak-tipped forks.
For a long while at the valet stand, well, we didn't have shit to do. We stood those first few hours, feet spread and planted at shoulder width, arms behind our backs with our hands clasped, as we were taught to stand. Then we began to shift on our feet. Then we began to talk quietly out of the sides of our mouths. Then to turn our heads and talk openly at a normal volume. Then to go to the back office to check our cell phones. Not Perry, though: he remained at his post, and the most he did was shake his head when everyone started to get restless.
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|Número de publicación
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|Número de solicitud
|Fecha de publicación
|31 May 2011
|Fecha de prioridad
|20 Oct 2003
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|Número de publicación
|Mark Hamm, Louis J. Barbato, Isaac Ostrovsky
|Cesionario original
|Boston Scientific Scimed, Inc.
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The field of the invention relates to medical imaging systems, and more particularly to an improved transducer/sensor assembly.
Intraluminal, intracavity, intravascular, and intracardiac treatments and diagnosis of medical conditions utilizing minimally invasive procedures are effective tools in many areas of medical practice. These procedures are typically performed using imaging and treatment catheters that are inserted percutaneously into the body and into an accessible vessel of the vascular system at a site remote from the vessel or organ to be diagnosed and/or treated, such as the femoral artery. The catheter is then advanced through the vessels of the vascular system to the region of the body to be treated. The catheter may be equipped with an imaging device, typically an ultrasound imaging device, which is used to locate and diagnose a diseased portion of the body, such as a stenosed region of an artery. For example, U.S. Pat. No. 5,368,035, issued to Hamm et al., the disclosure of which is incorporated herein by reference, describes a catheter having an intravascular ultrasound imaging transducer.
Further, the catheter may also be equipped with a sensor adapted to communicate with a medical positioning system. For example, U.S. patent application Ser. No. 10/401,901, entitled "An Improved Imaging Transducer Assembly," filed on Mar. 28, 2003, which is hereby incorporated by reference in its entirety, describes a catheter having a sensor adapted to communicated with a medical positioning system coupled with an imaging transducer, forming a transducer/sensor assembly.
The transducer/sensor assembly is generally a rigid structure; however, the vessels through which the assembly is typically advanced are often tortuous, which create tight radii within the catheter. Thus, it is desirable to have the rigid portions, such as the transducer/sensor assembly, of the catheter be relatively small in length.
Accordingly, an alternative transducer/sensor assembly may be desirable.
The improved imaging device may be used within a lumen of the human body, e.g., inside a blood vessel. Generally, the imaging transducer assembly is combined with a sensor of a medical positioning system, forming a transducer/sensor assembly.
One example embodiment is described here. In this embodiment, the sensor includes a coil proximally coupled with the imaging transducer. A cable having first and second wires are proximally coupled to the coil. A non-conductive potting layer is wrapped around the coil. Traces are formed in the non-conductive potting layer that are used to electrically couple the imaging transducer with the first and second wires of the cable.
Other systems, methods, features and advantages of the invention will be or will become apparent to one with skill in the art upon examination of the following figures and detailed description. It is intended that all such additional systems, methods, features and advantages be included within this description, be within the scope of the invention, and be protected by the accompanying claims.
In order to better appreciate how the above-recited and other advantages and objects of the inventions are obtained, a more particular description of the invention briefly described above will be rendered by reference to specific embodiments thereof, which are illustrated in the accompanying drawings. It should be noted that the components in the figures are not necessarily to scale, emphasis instead being placed upon illustrating the principles of the invention. Moreover, in the figures, like reference numerals designate corresponding parts throughout the different views. However, like parts do not always have like reference numerals. Moreover, all illustrations are intended to convey concepts, where relative sizes, shapes and other detailed attributes may be illustrated schematically rather than literally or precisely.
Described below is a catheter having an imaging transducer coupled with a sensor adapted to communicate with a medical positioning system, forming a transducer/sensor assembly.
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The transducer/sensor assembly 100 further includes a sensor 220 adapted to communicate with a medical positioning system. The sensor 220 includes an antenna portion, where the antenna transmits electromagnetic signals to be received by an external receiver, (e.g., active transmission) or the antenna is otherwise detectable (e.g., passive) by an external receiver. The antenna portion includes a conductive wire wound into a first coil shape 225. The coil 225 may also have magnetic qualities. The sensor coil 225 is proximally coupled to the imaging transducer 165 via a non-conductive potting material 250. The potting material 250 may include parylene epoxy, or shrink tube. The sensor coil 225 is configured to send and/or receive electro-magnetic signals to and/or from transmitter/receiver nodes (not shown) surrounding a patient's body (not shown). Thus, as can be appreciated by one of ordinary skill in the art, it is preferable that the sensor coil 225 be configured to generate a sufficient magnetic flux density such that an effective sensor area is maintained to facilitate the sending and/or receiving of electromagnetic signals.
The transducer/sensor assembly 100 is a rigid structure. As mentioned above, because the assembly 100 may travel through tortuous vessels, it may be preferable for the transducer/sensor assembly 100 to have a short length. One approach to reduce the length of the transducer/sensor assembly 100 is to reduce the length, 1, of the sensor coil 225. However, if the sensor coil 225 length is reduced, the magnetic flux density may also be reduced. To compensate for this effect, the wire of the sensor coil 225 may be tightly wrapped around a solid magnetic core 230 of high magnetic permeability. The core 230 may alternatively be a non-magnetic core, such as "hi-mu 80" or a ferrite core. This configuration of the sensor coil 225 will increase the magnetic flux density of the sensor coil 225. Thus, the effective sensor area of the coil 225 may be maintained without having to increase the length, 1, of the coil 225. With this configuration, the length of the transducer/sensor assembly 100 may be limited to preferably around 3 millimeters.
This configuration of the sensor coil 225 may also serve as a housing to reinforce the transducer/sensor assembly 100. The wire of the coil 225 is preferably copper and approximately 10 microns in diameter. The small diameter of the wire allows the sensor coil 225 to have a small impact on the dimensions of the transducer/sensor assembly 100, thus allowing the transducer/sensor assembly 100 to still work within the lumen 105 of the guidewire or catheter assembly. Because the lumen 105 is typically filled with a sonolucent liquid, such as saline, it is preferable to electrically isolate the sensor coil 225 from the lumen 105, thus substantially preventing potential signal noise. To achieve this electrical isolation, a thin layer of non-conductive potting material 255, such as non-conductive epoxy, or conformal coating such as parylene is applied over the sensor coil 225.
The transducer/sensor assembly 100 further includes a coaxial cable 110, having a center conductor wire 120, and an outer shield wire 130, as shown in
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Both the sensor coil 225 and the imaging transducer 165 transmit/receive power from the coaxial cable 110. The sensor coil 225 has a first terminal 265 and a second terminal 260. One of the center conductor wire 120 and the outer shield wire 130 of the coaxial cable 110 is coupled with one of the first 265 and second 260 terminals of the sensor coil 225 via electrically conductive epoxy, such as silver-filled epoxy. Further, the other of the center conductor wire 120 and the outer shield wire 130 of the coaxial cable 110 is coupled with the other of the first 265 and second 260 terminals of the sensor coil 225 also via electrically conductive epoxy, such as silver-filled epoxy.
Because the sensor coil 225 is wrapped tightly around a solid core 230, the coaxial cable 110 cannot be directly coupled with the imaging transducer 165. To electrically couple the coaxial cable 110 with the imaging transducer 165, shallow, wide trace conductors 270 may be formed in the non-conductive potting material 255 surrounding the sensor coil 225, as shown in
Alternatively, an additional insulated ultra-fine magnet wire (not shown), such as 58 g, may be used to create the electrical path across the sensor coil 225. The wire could be passed over or under the sensor coil 225 since its diameter is around 0.0005″(12.50 microns). This configuration may reduce the need for an additional insulating layer because the wire has its own insulating layer.
To electrically couple the imaging transducer 165 to the coaxial cable 110, one of the trace conductors 270 is coupled to one of the conductive acoustic lens 170 and the conductive backing material 190 via conductive epoxy formed within the potting material 250 between the sensor coil 225 and the imaging transducer 165. Further, the other trace conductor 270 is coupled to the other of the conductive acoustic lens 170 and the conductive backing material 190 via conductive epoxy formed within the potting material 250.
During the operation of the transducer/sensor assembly 100, the PZT crystal 180 is electrically excited by both the backing material 190 and the acoustic lens 170 both charged via the coaxial cable 110 and trace conductors 270. In addition, the sensor coil 225 may also be charged via the coaxial cable 110. If the sensor 220 is configured to send electromagnetic signals to nodes of a medical positioning system (not shown), then the charge may facilitate a broadcast. However, if the sensor 220 is configured to receive electromagnetic signals from one or more nodes of a medical positioning system (not shown), then separate circuitry including a signal processor, or proper timing to coincide with the "listen time" of the transducer 165, may be used to filter and extract the desired electromagnetic signals. Thus, turning to
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The length of the guidewire 500 may vary depending on the application. In a preferred embodiment, the length of the guidewire 500 is between 30 cm and 300 cm. A catheter (not shown) may be configured to use several different diameters of guidewires 500. For example, the guidewire 500 may have a diameter of 0.010, 0.014, 0.018, or 0.035 inches. Typically, the diameter of the guidewire 500 is uniform.
A proximal portion 510 of the guidewire 500 may be adapted to connect to circuitry (not shown) that processes imaging signals from the imaging transducer and/or circuitry (not shown) that processes navigational signals from the sensor 320, such circuits being well known.
In the foregoing specification, the invention has been described with reference to specific embodiments thereof. It will, however, be evident that various modifications and changes may be made thereto without departing from the broader spirit and scope of the invention. For example, the reader is to understand that the specific ordering and combination of process actions described herein is merely illustrative, and the invention can be performed using different or additional process actions, or a different combination or ordering of process actions. For example, this invention is particularly suited for applications involving medical imaging devices, but can be used on any design involving imaging devices in general. As a further example, each feature of one embodiment can be mixed and matched with other features shown in other embodiments. Additionally and obviously, features may be added or subtracted as desired. Accordingly, the invention is not to be restricted except in light of the attached claims and their equivalents.
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Who, in your opinion, are the best shooters to play the game today. They can be in the NLL, MLL, or College. Also, back up your person with a legitamate reason.
Who, in your opinion, are the best shooters to play the game today. They can be in the NLL, MLL, or College. Also, back up your person with a legitamate reason.
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This thread should be the "Paul Rabil Appreciation" thread haha.
Paul Rabil is the best shooter on the run, but there are better time and room shooters, Rabil still lets the occasional "wild pitch" go, and there are players with far better accuracy.
I'd go with Mark Steenhuis perhaps today, the guy has scored a bunch of long bombs in the NLL, and he's playing well with a couple 2 pointers in the MLL this year too, he's as good a power/accuracy combo as they come.
From what I've heard, I don't think there were many more lethal shooters than Stan Cockerton was in his day, wish there were some highlights of him.
Good job NLlacrosse to mix things up...
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Kyle Wharton is up there too. His time and room is a freakin cannon.
I'm just a body trying to find some soul.
Joe Walters
Kyle Wharton
Paul Rabil
Kyle Dixon
Max Seibald
Steven Brooks (Debatable)
Jesse Hubbard
Mark Millon
Roy FREAKIN Colsey
Mark Steenhuis
Zack Greer...
When in doubt,shoot anyways...
I'd also throw in Matt Danowski, Matt Striebel, Lorne Smith, Jeff Zywicki, Drew Westervelt, and maybe even Buggs Combs as some pretty great shooters, even though they're probably not "best ever".
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I would say Joe Walters is the best. He is kinda underlooked as being one of the best but look at his shot placement and things like that. He never shoots the same place twice in a row which is smart
kyle wharton hands down. rabils got speed but kyle wharton has the whole package.
+5(pending update)/-0
I've seen both kevin huntley and matt danowski do shooting demos in person and Huntley was definitely the best. Guy is ridiculous. I would also throw in Jake Byrne.
Best shooter ever?
Paul Gait
Power, speed, quick off the mark and crazy accurate.
Watch the 1989 NCAA final against JHU, especially the goal by PG#19 near the end of the first half - shoots hard from the far outside, past a tight knit defence and Quint Kessenich to boot, too quick to even see.
Just my opinion of course, all the previous suggestions are excellent examples too.
Kyle Harrison has a pretty good rip.
If you want to succeed as much as you want to breathe, then you will be successful.
Travis Reed
It's about the only thing he could do though
Lets bring the SDL back!
I feel that Rob Guida has one of the most accurate shots for his speed, at least in college. He always had sick shots, and he stood out from his size.
Done more trades than I could keep up with. Probably around 100, with no negative feedback. Majority of you have talked or dealt with me before.
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Kyle harisson and the Powell brothers
Rob emery, jay card, Kevin crowley, brandon benn
Ward Melville Lax+4-0
Stephen Peyser. I remember watching him play for Hopkins and thinking "man, that's how you shoot on the run!"
Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the universe.-Einstein
Paul Rabil and Kyle Hartzell
John Grant Jr.
Reason? He can lead the league on a box net with a padded goaltender in it, and a garage door with an unpadded goalie in it.
Edit : I'll add Cody Jamieson. He was lights out the other night in the MSL.
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What about stephen kegoh i mean he does not shoot 111 but he gets goals for the team
Six Nations Pride +22/0
Grant gets two in the Championship Game............ Rabil........... not so much.
Mike Sawyer from Loyola, and Lusby for that matter, made a strong argument last spring. Both are lights out, cannons.
Jon Reese


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XM32 Lightweight Handheld Mortar Ballistic Computer
Gourley, Scott R., Army
In response to an urgent need from U.S. Army warfighters serving in Iraq, the U.S. Army's Research, Development and Engineering Center at Picatinny Arsenal, N.J., has developed and recently fielded the first 36 XM32 lightweight handheld mortar ballistic computers (LHMBCs).
According to David Super, deputy product manager for Mortar Systems (under project manager for Combat Ammunition Systems at Picatinny Arsenal), the new XM32 lightweight handheld mortar ballistic computer is a joint service Marine Corps/Army system that calculates the ballistic solution for the entire family of fielded U.S. mortars and their complete inventory of ammunition.
U.S. mortar systems include the 60 mm, 81 mm and 120 mm mortar weapons. The 60 mm and 81 mm mortars are dismounted systems with the 120 mm fielded in both dismounted and vehicle-mounted configurations. Vehicle-mounted 120 mm mortar configurations include the tracked M1064A3, a variant of the M113A3 armored personnel carrier, and the soon to be fielded wheeled M1129, a Stryker mortar variant.
"The current [dismounted] mortar ballistic computer is the M23," Super explained. "It was built in the 1970s and is the equivalent of a Commodore 64. It is obsolete, unsupportable and cannot be repaired anymore."
Perhaps most serious, the M23's memory capabilities are exhausted, meaning that recently fielded ammunition options could not be included in the system.
"The memory is depleted," Super said. "We cannot expand it any further."
In addition to supporting all of the currently fielded mortar ammunition, the XM32 also provides warfighters with a more accurate solution, based on a ballistic algorithm that accounts for wind speed, wind temperature and propellant temperature. Moreover, the system features software growth potential to allow incorporation of any future mortar rounds.
"The XM32 also automates a number of different procedures, such as determining ammunition requirements for a given target and calculating firing orders for large target areas in terms of traverse. We do computations much faster and the entire system weighs less than two pounds," Super added.
By contrast, the obsolete M23 weighs approximately eight pounds.
The requirement for the XM32 was derived from an umbrella operational requirements document (ORD) for the M95/M96 mortar fire control system (MFCS), which is the current heavy mortar fire control system fielded in the M1064A3 and M1129.
The main computer in the MFCS is the commander's interface computer, which weights almost 14 pounds.
"There was also a requirement in the mortar fire control system ORD for a lightweight commander's interface computer," Super added, "so, Fort Benning [Ga.], who is our user, developed a user's functional description for the XM32 to formalize the requirement."
"The XM32 is strictly a ballistic calculator," he said. "It does not do weapon pointing like the mortar fire control system does. What we need to do is be able to take that heavy mortar fire control system and develop a dismounted [lightweight] mortar fire control system for dismounted applications. The first step in doing that is the XM32 lightweight handheld mortar ballistic computer. It does not give us weapon pointing/weapon laying capability, but it does give us that exceptional lightweight ballistic calculator. …