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In the 70's, personal computers were a fresh idea. Your choice of computer was as much an individual expression as your choice of car. One of the earliest makers of complete computer systems was a small company called Ohio Scientific. They specialized in bare boards and kits for hobbyists, later focusing on fully built, integrated systems. I bought my C2-4P used in 1979, after hanging out at computer stores and drooling over PET, Apple, and the OSI challengers (and over glossy ads for the IMSAI, SOL, etc.) for a couple of years. The Challengers were perhaps the most conducive to hacking because of their spacious layout, modular design, and simple architecture. There are other sites that recount the history of these machines and the company that made them (see the links section.) Recently, I dug out my old C2, removed lots of blue wires, restored many traces (I would like to add a hacks page later) and got my machine back to the familiar C/W/M? prompt.
This archive is a repository for OSI thoughts, tips, tricks, hacks, literature and software. I'm attempting to arrange it in as sane a fashion as possible.
Your OSI doesn't work? Don't panic. . .
You can almost certainly fix your machine, perhaps with a bit of help. Even back in the day, OSI owners have traditionally, as a group, been familiar with the guts of our machines, and most have spent many a late hour chasing down bugs, hacking in hardware mods, and intefacing with foreign objects. And OSI machines are generally simple to understand and (usually) to fix.
To start, take a look at this article from Peek(65) Vol 6, issue 11. If you have a C1,C2, C4, C8, Superboard, or similar system, then check out the SAMS manuals (in the Manuals section below). Also, Prof. Mark Csele has a nicely illustrated discussion of some specific debugging hints on his web page. Also, check out the Tips and Tricks section below. Post on the OSIweb forums. Also, there are some online groups of vintage computer enthusiasts that don't specifically focus on OSI, but have accumulated wisdom about computer hardware, and probably more than a couple OSI enthusiasts. You may get some help on the classic computer mailing list (the cctalk list; check out http://www.classiccmp.org, and also check out the Mid Atlantic Retro-Computer Hobbyist (MARCH) Website and Yahoo group. You can also contact me directly by email, through the forums.
If you have an OSI, or OSI parts that you just don't feel motivated to repair or maintain, or OSI software or documentation that you would like to share with the world, then consider contributing it to the OSI archive.
If you want to just chat privately, you can email me at my osiweb.org address (dave, of course). Or register for the forums, and send a private message or email from there.
OSI Hardware
Third Party Hardware
Ads and Catalogs
Tips, Tricks, Notes
OSI Forums
I welcome contributions, especially of software and scanned (or paper) manuals, stories, tips, tricks, hacks, and other info. I am also interested in working and non-working OSI hardware, either photos or the real thing. I am particularly interested in any information on the following:
Also, any information about, or working or non-working specimens of the following:
I'd love to hear from any other OSI'ers. Please check out the Forums section of the archive, and post any comments, corrections, or memories for all of us to enjoy! You can also email me privately via the Forums section.
27-May-2015: Added FBASIC manuals (version 1.0 and 1.1), and the intro for a FigForth for OS65U manual. Many thanks to John, from the forum, for these long sought after contributions!!
27-May-2015: Updated replacement parts list to include replacement for keyboard switches. (Thanks to Grant and to Bill Dromgoole)
15-Mar-2015: Added WinOSI-compatible disk images for C1P versions of the OS65D v3.3 tutorial disks, and an OS65D v3.1 boot disk, prepared by Grant (Klyball) from the C4P images. The library is growning!
8-Mar-2015: Added multiple WinOSI compatible disk images to the software page. Huge thanks to Phil for gathering and preparing these, and for making them available to everyone! Also, thanks to Eric Klein (of vintage-computer. com for making the disks available for imaging.
6-Mar-2015: Updated the cc65 link to the new github reposityor, and removed the "No OSI port" statement, which Stephan rendered obsolete by doing the port. Big thanks to Stephan!!
5-Mar-2015: Added the "Ohio Scientific Comprehensive Information Package II". Thanks to Paul Chidley for donating the documents, and to Steve Gray for making the high quality scans!!
13-Jan-2015: Finally added a link to Jeff Parsons' very cool Javascript C1P emulator. Awesome, Jeff!
Older News
The most comprehensive listing of OSI boards, with variants and manuals, is the OSI Board Catalog at Mark's Lab. Definitely check the site out. I have collected schematics of several boards here, many from my own scans, several contributed by Mark, and several contributed by other kind OSI enthusiasts. Thanks so much to those who have contributed. I'm always looking out for more high-quality scans to archive here.
|Original OSI product. A 6502 trainer with 128 bytes of RAM, and binary switch programming, with two input lines and a 1-bit output latch. Designed as a learning tool, the manual is essentially a comprehensive introduction to bare-metal 6502 programming. Do check it out. Much thanks to Bill Dromgoole for the contribution!
|OSI called this one the "Superboard." (The later OSI 600/C1 with video onboard was the Superboard II). A single board computer which could accept either a 6502, 6501, or 6800 as the CPU, with 1K RAM(eight 2102), 512 bytes EPROM/PROM (two 1702A, serial I/O (6850 ACIA), and a 40-pin user discretionary IC spot for a PIA, 6530, or any other chip, and an OSI 48-pin bus interface. A fully usable single board computer along the lines of KIM/SYM, without the keypad, with the bus expansion built in. Thanks to Bill Dromgoole!
4K x 8- or optionally 12- bit static memory board, with (optional switched) battery backup. Courtesy of Bill Dromgoole.
Super I/O board. 8 Parallel IO, UART Serial IO, RS232 / Cassette interface, 1 ADC w 8-channel multiplexer, 2 DAC, Z-unblank one-shot, fast pulse output. Courtesy of Bill Dromgoole.
Early OSI video card,1K RAM, 32 x 32 characters, similar to C1P video. Can use a dedicated 420 memory card for 128 x 128 pixel graphics. Courtesy of Bill Dromgoole.
Disk controller card. The interface contained a 6820 PIA for control lines, and a 6850 ACIA to read and write data to the disk. The board requires separated data/clock signals, provided by several 8" drives, but very few 5.25" drives. The MPI B-51 drive was the standard OSI mini-floppy, and held 40 tracks with 2k per track. There were many articles in PEEK(65) on how to improve the disk interface, build data separators, etc. Some of these are in the scan section. Apparently, the PIA could be populated alone, for use as a parallel I/O card.
|8-slot backplane for backplane-based C2-8P / C8P / C3 systems. Courtesy of Bill Dromgoole.
6502-based CPU with on-board 8K BASIC-in-ROM, ROM monitor in 3 x 1702 EPROMS (256 bytes each), 4K RAM as 16 x 2102 chips, 6850-based serial port with 20-ma current loop or RS-232 interface; 6820-based parallel port. Courtesy of Bill Dromgoole.
Successor to the 500 board. 6502-based CPU with on-board 8K BASIC-in-ROM, 2K ROM monitor (with a complex addressing scheme to allow physical remapping of 256-byte ROM pages, to maintain compatibility with the 1702-based monitor code from the 500 board), 8K RAM as 16 x 2114 chips, 6850-based serial port with audio cassete, 20 ma current loop, or RS-232 interface. The parallel interface was dropped in this version.
Like the 502, but for disk-based systems. Omits the BASIC-in-ROM and the KCS cassette interface, but adds a 470-equivalent floppy interface. Thanks to Bill Dromgoole for the high-res scan!
|Dual port static RAM board. (Thanks to Jonathan for the contribution.)
24K RAM board. With forty-eight 2114 chips, this board required it's own power supply, separate from the main supply.
|Second-generation video board with 64x32 characters and guard bands (First generation was the 440, with 32x32 characters and no guard bands, similar to the circuit in the Superboard/Challenger I). OSIers loved this card because it was so hackable.
|540 rev B (pic)
Design similar to the 540A, but adds 4-bits of color. Thanks to Steve Gray for the hi-res scan!
This is a High-resolution add-on offered by MA/COM as an add-on for systems with the 540B board, and as part of the C-100 system (which seems to be an upgraded C4P with high-res graphics option.) This info was supplied by Jeff Ferguson, who got one of these boards in his C4P, and was kind enough to supply high-res photos, and to reverse-engineer the schematics. Any addition info is certainly welcome.
|542 rev B
Keyboard to accompany the 540B. Thanks to Steve Gray for the hi-res scan!
|16 port serial board (for multiuser systems) (Thanks to Jonathan for the contribution.)
|"Jungle Board" multi-function RAM+I/O board. I believe this was designed for the C3 multi-user and CPM systems. It contains 8K RAM in two blocks, 4 Serial ports, a "Network Node Interface" for multi-user systems, Centronics and NEC-wordprocessor compatible parallel interfaces.
|"Processor Lab" board. This unique and remarkable board contains a Z80 and intersil 6100, with control of the 6100 and Z-80 chips by the host 6502, which can emulate I/O and other instructions to provide full PDP-8 emulation, Z-80 I/O compatibility, 8080 compatibility, etc. The 6202 assembly source code for PDP-8 IOT emulation, and Z80 I/O emulation is here. Courtesy of Bill Dromgoole (Thanks!)
Hard Disc controller board.
Sold as the "superboard II", or with a case and power supply as the Challenger I. This was a single board system incorporating a built-in keyboard, 8K BASIC-in-ROM, 2K ROM monitor (without the complex remapping scheme), 8K 2114 RAM, 32x32 char video with 1K 2114 RAM (similar to the 440 card), and a serial port with audio cassette or RS-232 capabilities. Hook up a power supply and monitor, and this is a complete computer system, like an Apple II, but for $279.
|Revision B of the 600 Board. Similar to the original. (Thanks to Frank for the contribution.)
Like the original, but with an extra 1k x 4-bit video RAM for color
Like the rev C.
Expansion for the 600 superboard/C1P. Floppy interface, 24K RAM (Thanks to Mike P.)
Adapter card to interface the 600 Superboard II card to the OSI 48-line bus
Color, I/O, interface board for 2nd generation C1P (Contributed by Mike P. Thanks!)
D & N Products MEM-CM9 24K RAM (as 48 2114 chips) and OSI-compatible floppy controller card. This is equivalent to an OSI 527 card and a 470 card in a single slot. The RAM is addressable as an 8K block and a 16K block, which can be placed anywhere in the 64K memory space, and also can be assigned a RAM segment withing a multiple-64K memory space for a multi-user environment. (Courtesy of Steve Gray)
8K RAM board.
|CxP 16-bit OSI next-generation upgrade board, based on the WDC 65c802/65c816 processor, . Pictures courtesy of Scott Larson. See Forum thread here. Described in detail in Peek(65) V8 N1&2. Perhaps the only surviving speciment?
|This is a package of schematics, notes, and errata for many of the OSI 400 and 500-series boards, as of 1977. Thanks to Paul Chidley for contributing these, by way of Steve Gray!!
A beginner's tutorial on 6502 machine-language programming, featuring the (primitive by any standard) OS-65V monitor program.
Manual for the 500 board, including information on video and serial systems, interfacing, pinouts, etc. Thanks so much to Bill Dromgoole for this contribution!"
|Very brief list of OS-65V commands
The C4P User's manual. Shipped with C4P systems.
|C1P Manual
|The C1P User's Manual - (thanks to Mark)
|C1P and C1PMF Introductory Manual
|An introductory manual for the C1P series II. Thanks to Steve Gray for the scan.
Looks like a scan of an older version; longer, but with plainer typesetting. Much of the contents appear similar.
The reference card included with my shiny new OS65D binder when I got my disk upgrade.
A scan of a bootleg version of the (I believe) Aardvark notes on ROM Basic. If you have a better version, let me know!
This is the better, full version of the Aardvark notes on ROM BASIC. Thanks to Bill Dromgoole!!
A very thoroughly annotated disassembly of OS-65D. Every little trick, bug, secret, and wart is exposed. If you're looking into any OS-65D mods, development, or disk interfacing, this is your resource.
This is the manual for the Microsoft 8K ROM Basic (rev 3.2) that shipped with the C1/2/4/8 machines.
Usermanual for OS65D v3.0. (Thanks to Frank)
|OS65D Tutorial and Ref Manual
|Tutorial and reference for OS65D. The original OSI-supplied documentation. (Thanks to Mike P.)
SAMS repair manual for the Superboard II/C1P/C1PMF. This is for the original version with the black and white video output, and covers the 600 CPU board, as well as the 610 Disk/memory card. Thanks to Bill Degnan for the contribution.
This is the SAMS repair manual for C2/C4, including 502, 505, 527, 540, and 542 Boards. Full color. Large file!
|User manual for the CEGMON replacement monitor ROM. Thanks to Graeme!
|Hexdos User Guide
|User guide for the HexDos mini-os for the C1P. Contributed by Graeme!
|MPI B51 Drive Manual (Short)
|This is the drive used by OSI for all their 5.25" drive models. The short version of the manual has a lot of useful information on maintenance, but does not include complete schematics.
|MPI B51/B52_Product Manual (Long)
|This is the drive used by OSI for all their 5.25" drive models. The manual has a lot of useful information on maintenance, as well as complete schematics, theory of operation, etc.
|Hazeltine 1500 Maintenance manual
|This is the comprehensive maintenance and service manual for the Halzetine 1500, 1510, and 1520 terminals. Very large file!
|Micro on the OSI
|Compilation of Micro articles for OSI
|Second Book of OSI index
|Contents of the second book of OSI. Scanned and contributed by Mike.
|Third Book of OSI
|This is based on an expansion system for 6502 micros. Articles describe the ELCOMP expansion bus, and projects based on the bus: 6522/6520 I/0, EPROM programmer, Sound card, memory cards, A/D converter. It seems useful, but not much OSI stuff that can stand on its own.
|Fourth Book of OSI index
|Contents of the fourth book of OSI, Scanned and contributed by Mike.
Omega Science OSI dealer price list for Sept 1980
List of OSI Disk and Cassette software
|OSI May 76 Catalog
|Contributed by Bill Dromgoole. This is a very early catalog( The first OSI magazine ad of which I'm aware is from Feb 1976.) Includes the OSI 300 trainer, OSI 400 board, 410 board, 440 board, and the 480 backplane (shown interfaced to a Kim-1!)
|OSI Winter 76 Catalog
|Introduces the Challenger line, based on 400-series boards. The 470 floppy system appears here, as does the 460Z with the 6100 and Z80, plus a spot for another microprocessor of your choice. Thanks to Bill Dromgoole!
OSI spring 1978 catalog: C3 systems including 74MB winchester. C2 systems. Still offered the 500 CPU and the 440 video board. No superboard or C1.
|OSI catalog, circa 1980
|Two years later, C2 is gone, C3 is not included in this catalog, lineup is heavy on C4/C8, with C8 targeted at business. Bullet points include speed of execution of an ADD instruction (600 ns). C1 is mentioned as an entry level machine.
Ad from Micro (Dec 1982) for the Orion Super Expansion boards, a series of video cards with advanced capabilities relative to the OSI native graphics, with additional I/O features. If anyone has any info on these boards, let me know!
|An ad from the final days of the OSI systems. The C-100 appears to be a C4 with an additional high-resolution add-on card.
|OSI App Note #1
Discusses adding a 6530 with the TIM monitor to the OSI 400 Board. Courtesy of Bill Dromgoole.
Discusses OSI system expansion. This is aimed at the 400 board, but applies to the later 500 series boards as well, and to expansion for the 600 board. It discusses memory map, the OSI 48-line bus, the 480 backplane, and more. This is also the manual for the 480 backplane board used in C2-8P and C3 systems. Courtesy of Bill Dromgoole.
Series 400 construction hints (applies to all OSI boards.)
|OSI App Note #4A
6502 Clock circuits
A list of known OSI boards. If you have additions, let me know!
Notes on replacing 4116 triple-supply chips with 4164 5V-supply chips, which are also cheaper and easier to find. Lifted from the video-game repair community archives.
|Keyboard Switch Repair
|A beautifully detailed guide to repairing the key switches. Large PDF, but worth the download. Lots of pictures. Thanks to Josh for the contribution!
Notes on the Disk driver routines for OSI Disk BASIC
A few notes on various OSI Roms, by Mark Spankus.
More notes on the OSI ROM, including a nice description of the addressing scheme, excerpted from Peek(65) v5n1 Jan 1984
Notes on modern replacements for hard-to-find OSI components
How to modify a 502 board (and CEGMON ROM) to use the CEGMON monitor with minimal surgery.
Instructions for converting C1 display to 64 x 32 (no guard bands). Contributed by Frank (Thanks!) If you are interested in a full 32x64 conversion with guard bands, check out Peek(65) Vol 5 No. 2, and Vol 5 No. 3.
|C1P/600 board mod for 32K on board. Moves BASIC to a single 27C64, and adds a 32K RAM chip.
|Single Disk Copy
|Article with routine and instructions for single disk copy. Courtesy of Thomas B. Owen
|C1 Light Pen (Aardvark)
|Article with instructions for building a light pen for the C1, and example BASIC program. Thanks to Steve Gray!
|Bills Micro Services Memory Map for C1
|List of important ROM software memory locations for the C1. Thanks to Steve Gray!
An excellent pan-OSI emulator for Windows, WinOSI, by Mark Spankus. Mark also has plenty of other goodies, many of which are on this site. Much material on this site was contributed by Mark (unattributed, unfortunately)
BASIC Garbage collector bugfix; several very useful utilities including audio tape decoding tools.
|Lots of great OSI info, including many beautiful hardware photos, and detailed descriptions of several hacks and mods to get your machine up and running. Very helpful.
Great C4P and Superboard II pictures and scans, including some uncommon hardware and custom cases.
A comprehensive site dedicated to the Compukit 101, with plenty of scanned articles, manuals, software, and an emulator.
Another nice compukit 101 site, with pictures.
A C1P site with a C1P emulator for windows
|An excellent site by Nama, with info on quite a few classic computers, including OSI. Of special interest, a fantastic projects section with detailed information of several nitty gritty repairs. An excellent resource.
|Tezza's C4P Adventures
|Terry Stewart's Summer 2014 Retrochallenge project--Repair and restoration of a C4P cassette system, with lots of pictures and other info. Take a look at the rest of the site as well.
|Bill Degnan's VintageComputer.net
|Lots of great detail photos of OSI systems. From the main page, click "Directory", then "OSI". Don't forget to check out the plethora of other systems!
|Historical Computer Restoration website, by Bill Degnan. Lots of interesting hands-on restoration photos and discussion. Great site.
A resource for 6502 programmers. Useful resources include a code library, forums, and hardware designs.
A free, maintainted, mature C compiler, assembler, linker, and utilities for the 6502, with a target for the C1P by Stephan (stm on the forum). Way to go Stephan! Documentation on the C1/Superboard port is here.
A very powerful binary file manipulation utility. It reads and writes numerous binary formats, including OS65V, and can write BASIC DATA and assembler .db statements.
Recompilable disassembly of Microsoft 6502 BASIC, with conditional asssembly switches, which can assemble to several byte-accurate versions of Microsoft 6502 BASIC, including OSI (including the GC bug), Commodore (v1 and v2), Applesoft (v1 and v2), KIM-1 basic, and more. Very interesting. This site contains a large number of other interesting articles as well.
6-Dec-2014: Added pictures of the CxP CPU board, courtesy of Scott Larson. Thanks!
5-Dec-2014: Added many new files contributed by Mike from NZ, the second home of OSI. Several BASIC enhancement ROMS from Premier Publications, A ROM word processor (Word Wizard 3) for UK101/C1P, Specially patched OS65Dv3.3 disk images for the C1P and C4P (8 inch disk images), and table-of-contents scans from the Second Book of OSI and the Fourth Book of OSI. Mike uploaded these over a year ago, it's about time I posted them. Thanks Mike!!!
1-Aug-2014: Added info for the 541 board, a 512 x 256 high-res add-on for the 540 board, thanks to Jeff Ferguson, who reverse engineered the schematic (!) Thanks!!
30-May-2014: Added the OSI 500 board general purpose manual, scanned and contributed by Bill Dromgoole--Thanks Bill!
27-Jul-2013: Added DABUG ROM to the firmware section. Thanks to Leslie Ayling for discovering and preserving this!!
11-Mar-2013: Added two catalogs (May 1976, Winter 1976) contributed by Bill Dromgoole. Thanks!!
25-Feb-2013: Finally added a bunch of documents contributed by Steve Gray, including the Aardvark C1 light pen, Bill's Micro C1 memory Map, Ads, and more. Thanks Steve!
09-Feb-2013: Added Peek(65) Vol 4, no 8 and 12. Scans courtesy of Bill Degnan. This completes the Peek(65) collection!! Thanks Bill!!!!!
16-Dec-2012: Added OSI 300 and 400 manuals, and 4 OSI App Notes, courtesy of Bill Dromgoole.
08-Dec-2012: Added Newton Software Exchange journals (Journal section); the full Aardvark notes on ROM BASIC; the Nov. 1979 Aardvark catalog. Thanks to Bill Dromgool!!
08-Dec-2012: Added the long version of the MPI B51/52 disk drive manual, including schematics (Thanks to Philip Lord)
05-Dec-2012: Updated OSI-SSJ Oct 1977 to include front cover, thanks to Philip Lord (recovered from an Ebay Auction photo - brilliant!)
18-Nov-2012: Added Hazeltine 15x0 family maintenance manual.
20-Dec-2011:Added 65V-loadable format Memory test utility, and game of Nim from the OSI Small Systems Journal. Contributed by Philip Lord.
09-Dec-2011:Added the SAMS C1P service manual, courtesy of Bill Degnan.
04-Dec-2011: Restored topics and posts from the OLD OSIforum, before it was destroyed by over-spam. Since the database of legit. posts was small, I was able to reconstruct it by hand, and add them to the existing forum. If this was a C64 or Apple board, that would be impossible (too big)! Unfortunately, posting dates and times were lost. There's some interesting stuff there, however.
02-Dec-2011: Added Josh's guide to repairing OSI keyboard switches. A great, detailed document with many pictures!
19-Nov-2011: Added manual for DAC1 music program (by OSI). Thanks to Steve Gray for the scan!
17-Nov-2011: Added scans of schematics for the 525 dual port static RAM board, and the 550 16-port serial board. Thanks to Glitch for the contribution!
13-Nov-2011: Added C1P/C1PMF Introductory Manual, TOSIE and Aardvark Scans, and an interesting C1P ROM replacement (manual in German). Thanks to Steve Gray!
05-Nov-2011: Added Manuals for D&N MEM-CM9 (thanks to Steve Gray!) and D&N 8K RAM.
11-Oct-2011: Added manual for OSI 560Z card (including software listing) courtesy of Bill Dromgoole. THANKS Bill!!
9-Oct-2011: Added links to the (nearly) complete Peek(65) journal collection, with annotation of highlights. Check it out!
9-Oct-2011: Added manual for the OSI-500 board, the immediate predecessor of the 502 card. Courtesy of Bill Dromgoole. Thanks!
Thanks to Steve Carroll, our local OSI dealer in Memphis Tennessee, who never complained about a couple of kids hanging out in his shop, and was something of a mentor and teacher to use younger OSI enthusiasts. I don't know where you are now, Steve, but thanks!
Earl Morris contributed plenty of documentation and hardware to the effort. Earl also helped make much of that documentation (such as the journals) interesting by contributing high-mileage articles.
Mark Spankus has contributed a heap of documentation, some of which I'm still parsing, as well as expert discussion, including an excellent exposition on the floppy format, and the floppy image format for the emulator. Also, mark has a fantastic online catalog of OSI boards, with high quality photos, manuals, and schematics, of much value to anybody interested in OSI machines. He also developed the excellent Win-OSI emulator, which was adapted from Thomas Buescher's original version.
Douglas Scanned a great number of documents that would otherwise be impossible to find. These were passed on to me by Mark Spankus.
Bill Dromgoole contributed Manuals and software for the 500 and 560Z boards
Steve Gray contributed scans of the C1P Introductory Manual, TOSIE and Aardvark journals, D&N MEM-CM9 and 8K RAM board manuals, and more.
Graeme contributed CEGMON and HEXDOS users guides, and scans of several journals.
Glitch contributed some hard-to-find hardware manuals/schematics, including the 525 dual port RAM board, and the 550 multi-serial board.
Philip Lord contributed many disk images, documents, and programs; and many interesting forum posts. Glad to have you here Phil!
Mike contributed numerous ROM images, software, and disk images, and scans, and also has contributed expertise on the forums. Much thanks to Mike!!
Scott Larson for some interesting forum discussion, and for the high-res photos of the CxP board.
Jeff Ferguson not only provided high-res photos of the rare OSI 541 high-res graphics add-on board, he also reverse engineered the schematics.
Stephan Mühlstrasser ported cc65 to the C1P/Superboard II. Nice work!
Erik Klein contributed the disks from which Philip created various floppy images. Thanks!
Grant contributed multiple C1P 5.25" disk images, as well as lots of interesting discussion on the forum.
I hope I didn't leave anybody out. If I did, please let me know and I will fix it!


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Campus pitches in on effort to go green
February 9, 2009 10:04 AM
As the world moves forward in eco-consciousness, SF State is trying to do their part. Just about everywhere on campus, recycle bins beg for cans, paper, glasses and bottles allowing SF State to recycle 6,000 tons of waste.
Maeva Considine, a junior English major, believes the university is doing a good job.
"It's the little things that make a lot of difference," said Considine. "A lot of the café's use recycled products such as their cups and sleeves and use post-consumer goods. I also like how recycle bins are more likely than regular trashcans."
SF State has been recognized for its efforts to recycle.
The university has the 2nd highest recycling rate amongst universities and colleges in the country, following Kalamazoo College in Michigan, according to Recycling Coordinator Caitlin Steele.
The school diverts 76 percent of trash from the landfill, said Steele. The total yearly tonnage of what is thrown away is 8,000 tons and 6,000 tons of that gets recycled, she said.
"SF State is now taking part in Recyclemania, the national recycling competition," said Steele. "We have a good chance of winning since our campus has one of the highest recycling rates."
The SFSU Bookstore switched all plastic bags to recycled bags, according to Husamettin Erciyes, the SFSU Bookastore 's Director of Strategic Project and Marketing. The number one policy for the bookstore is to use only recycled paper whenever possible, he said.
Last semester, the SFSU Bookstore began the Wooden Nickel Program. Every time a student refused to use a plastic bag, the bookstore would donate 5 cents to a student organization of the student's choosing by dropping a wooden nickel into its respective bucket. The school organizations benefited were the Recycling Center, Bicycle Advocacy Group and Eco-Students, stated Erciyes.
The program will continue this semester starting next week, he said.
"When we started the Wooden Nickels Program, it was received very positively," said Erciyes. "From what I've seen, SF State is very eco-friendly. People are biking and there's overall consciousness about recycling. People are paying attention and the store is also trying to be eco-friendly as possible."
Cory Wong, an Asian American Studies and Cinema major, thinks SF State could use more effort in getting in touch with students about green issues.
"The school is not good at providing news from the university level to the student level," said Wong. "The university should be more in touch with the students to provide more info on green and university sustainable issues... One thing I would like to see is eco-efficient buildings."
In fact, Wong will be able to see more of this.
The newly established Sustainability Committee are working on getting two buildings LEED certified - the Student Service Building and Humanities, according to Steele.
LEED is the nations green building rating system.
"Going through the LEED process will help us see how energy efficient and environmentally friendly SSB and Hum are," Steele said. She said the Facilities Department is working together to make them energy efficient and have the least impact on the environment.
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One Hundred Years of Solitude
by Gabriel García Márquez
One Hundred Years of Solitude Warfare Quotes
How we cite our quotes: (Chapter.Paragraph)
Quote #7
For Colonel Aureliano Buendía it meant the limits of atonement. He suddenly found himself suffering from the same indignation that he had felt in his youth over the body of the woman who had been beaten to death because she had been bitten by a rabid dog. He looked at the groups of bystanders in front of the house and with his old stentorian voice, restored by a deep disgust with himself, he unloaded upon them the burden of hate that he could no longer bear in his heart.
"One of these days," he shouted, "I'm going to arm my boys so we can get rid of these shitty gringos!"
During the course of that week, at different places along the coast, his seventeen sons were hunted down like rabbits by invisible criminals who aimed at the center of their crosses of ash. (12.23-25)
The strategy that worked against the corrupt government fails against the capitalist imperialism of the banana company. Maybe because this time the enemy is too diffuse? Too many people stand to profit by what the banana company is doing to really want to fight them?
Quote #8
Martial law enabled the army to assume the functions of arbitrator in the controversy, but no effort at conciliation was made. As soon as they appeared in Macondo, the soldiers put aside their rifles and cut and loaded the bananas and started the trains running. The workers, who had been content to wait until then, went into the woods with no other weapons but their working machetes and they began to sabotage the sabotage. They burned plantations and commissaries, tore up tracks […]. The summons announced that the civil and military leader of the province would arrive on the following Friday ready to intercede in the conflict.
[…] [M]ore than three thousand people, workers, women, and children, had spilled out of the open space in front of the station and were pressing into the neighboring streets, which the army had closed off with rows of machine guns. […] [I]n three articles of eighty words [Major Enrique Garcia Isaza] declared the strikers to be a "bunch of hoodlums" and he authorized the army to shoot to kill.
[…] The captain gave the order to shoot. It seemed like a farce. It was as if the machine guns had been loaded with caps.
"Get down! Get down!" The people in front had already done so, swept down by the wave of bullets. The survivors, instead of getting down, tried to go back to the small square, and the panic became a dragon's tail. […]
They were penned in, swirling about in a gigantic whirlwind that little by little was being reduced to its epicenter as the edges were systematically being cut off around like an onion being peeled by the insatiable and methodical shears of the machine guns. (15.17-28)
Okay, this is beyond horrible, especially since it actually happened during a workers' strike in Colombia in 1928. Check out how the language heightens the reading experience. The guns go from being tools of the soldiers to being agents with seemingly no human controlling them. (It's as if the guns had been loaded with caps – but we don't get any sense of by whom.) Finally, the guns are completely anthropomorphized: they are "insatiable" and "methodical," both of which imply thinking and feeling. (Anthropomorphism is when objects or animals are given human qualities.)
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Meanwhile, the victims start out as active participants, moving and talking to each other in the square. Then they become part of a mythical animal (a dragon's tail). Then they are described as an inanimate but powerful phenomenon (a gigantic whirlwind). And finally they are reduced to an insignificant onion being peeled. It's a subtle but really resonant way of demonstrating the shifting power dynamic here.
One hot dawn [José Arcadio (III) and Aureliano (II)] woke up in alarm at an urgent knocking on the street door. It was a dark old man with large green eyes that gave his face a ghostly phosphorescence and with a cross of ashes on his forehead. His clothing in tatters, his shoes cracked, the old knapsack on his shoulder his only luggage, he looked like a beggar, but his bearing had a dignity that was in frank contradiction to his appearance. It was only necessary to look at him once, even in the shadows of the parlor, to realize that the secret strength that allowed him to live was not the instinct of self-preservation but the habit of fear. It was Aureliano Amador, the only survivor of Colonel Aureliano Buendía's seventeen sons, searching for a respite in his long and hazardous existence as a fugitive. He identified himself, begged them to give him refuge in that house which during his nights as a pariah he had remembered as the last redoubt of safety left for him in life. But José Arcadio and Aureliano could not remember him. Thinking that he was a tramp, they pushed him into the street. Then they both saw from the doorway the end of a drama that had begun before José Arcadio had reached the age of reason. Two policemen who had been chasing Aureliano Amador for years, who had tracked him like bloodhounds across half the world, came out from among the almond trees on the opposite sidewalk and took two shots with the their Mausers which neatly penetrated the cross of ashes. (18.22)
There's a whole crazy confluence of themes in this passage. You've got the lost memory of the past, with José Arcadio (III) and Aureliano (II) having no idea who the seventeen Aurelianos were, even though that was a pretty significant part of their ancestors' lives. You've got a guy who has practically come back from the dead, having survived against nearly impossible odds. And you've got the unbelievable persistence of the random policemen who have been chasing Aureliano Amador for this many years just to complete the task of killing him, long after whatever danger he might have once posed to the regime or the banana company was gone.


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Circa 1973, uncredited photo
The photos below are courtesy of the Ketchum Family. Dick Ketchum was the first ranger stationed here.
Ranger Ketchum at the base of the Tower
Mrs Ketchum - This was as far as she
would go being afraid of heights!
The earliest existing
picture of the fire tower
"Certainly, one option should always be, what happens if we just let it alone and let it resort to its fully natural state? A forest left alone and allowed over time to become something approximating what was here before settlement is the best of all possible worlds." - Bob Irwin, Conservation Director, World Wildlife Fund
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> I've just remembered the theory for getting a process to exit an image and
> return to DCL with the current persona being different than that of the
> natural persona. Basically the image (de)activator resets the persona of the
> process to the natural persona as part of the image rundown procedures, but
> it does this before calling any inner-mode rundown handlers; so my theory is
> that one of your Exec mode UWSS rundown handlers can reset the persona back
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by J.M. Coetzee
Petrus Timeline and Summary
- When David arrives in Salem, Petrus introduces himself as the "gardener and the dog-man."
- Petrus helps David and Lucy get ready on David's first day at the market, but he doesn't go with them.
- Petrus watches soccer with David, drinking a beer.
- When Lucy and David are attacked, Petrus is noticeably absent.
- Petrus and his wife return. Petrus is all dressed up, and he unloads a bunch of stuff from his truck, including two sheep.
- When David tells Petrus about the robbery, he insists that what happened is behind them now. His casual attitude rubs David the wrong way. The only thing Petrus asks is if Lucy will go to the market on Saturday.
- Petrus's absence strikes David as kind of suspicious and David wonders if he knew what was going to happen ahead of time.
- The second time David brings up the invasion, Petrus emphasizes that the car was stolen but again ignores what really happened.
- Petrus tells David that he intends to kill the two sheep for a party he's throwing.
- At the party, Petrus says that he's no longer the "dog-man," since all the dogs have been shot. Nice one, Petrus.
- Petrus calls Lucy his benefactor.
- Petrus says he hopes his pregnant wife has a boy, because girls are expensive and boys can show their younger sisters what's what. Then, in keeping with his habit of always saying the right thing at the right time, he makes a crack about how Lucy is almost as good as a boy, prompting Lucy to leave the conversation and to go dance alone instead.
- When David confronts the boy at the party, Petrus gets in the middle of the two of them and talks to the boy. Petrus says he doesn't know what the trouble is.
- The next day Petrus shows up at the front door and asks David to help him lay down some pipes. He doesn't bring up anything that happened at the party.
- David asks Petrus if he's related to the boy, because it sure seems like he's trying to protect him. Petrus avoids the question and insists that the boy is too young to be tried as an adult so they should just drop the whole issue.
- When David asks Petrus to look after the house because he's thinking of taking Lucy to Cape Town, Petrus declines.
- While David is back in Cape Town, Petrus apparently spruces up his own property.
- After David comes back to Salem, David confronts Petrus about Pollux (the boy). Petrus asks David if he really expects him to betray Pollux just because of what happened before (again, making the assault and rape seem less serious).
- Petrus says that when Pollux is older, he'll marry Lucy. Until then, Petrus will marry her.


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|Women giving birth for the first time prefer to do so naturally, and will accept higher risks than clinicians, according to research.
The research also found that higher pain levels will be accepted, reports the British Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology.
Those in the survey, which included 102 pregnant women and 84 midwives, 166 obstetricians, 12 urogynaecologists and 79 colorectal surgeons, were asked by researchers what complications would make them pick a Caesarean section.
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CHENNAI: Advocating diesel prices also go on a float like petrol, Chief Economic Adviser Kaushik Basu today said the idea to fix the tax component in petrol prices in the country could be looked into and discussed.
"I believe petrol should be on a float, the way it is now. And diesel should also go on a float. Float does not mean you raise it, but it means that when the international prices go up, Indian prices also go up somewhat. When global prices drop, Indian prices drop somewhat," he said replying to a student's query on petrol prices.


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The good news is that my fitness remains high. Since taking a month off after laying my bike down, I've managed an 82-mile bike and a 2.5 mile swim. Neither was as easy as perhaps I'd like them to be, but both were completed with relatively few issues. (Getting lost doesn't count, as it was on the bike. If I get lost in the pool, I'll let you know.)
With the race completed, the time dedicated to coaching will now go to training.
Finally, I once again witnessed the strong sense of community that thrives in triathletes. I only wish those who look on endurance athletes as a disruption to their schedule could have been at the park.
Shortly after all three of the kids showed up, I heard an announcement that the race staff needed a helmet for a racer who had forgotten his. With three kids racing, I had every possible piece of gear with me, including two helmets that weren't needed. I ran over to the announcer and handed the guy my helmet, only asking that he drop it off at the finish when he was done. I didn't worry about his name or bib number. To be honest, I didn't even think about it.
After the race, I was heading to my car when I remembered the helmet. I stopped by the announcer at the finish line, and there it was. I picked it up and a handmade envelope fell out of it. Inside was $5 and a note thanking me for the use of the helmet. It was signed, "The happy triathlete." He asked that I grab myself a drink by way of thanks.
It was fitting, as I was getting hungry by that time. I picked up some pretzels and a Gatorade and had a bit left over. It worked out pretty well.
Driving home, I thought about it. Imagine a community where someone can reasonably expect that a request for gear will be answered. Imagine a community where people hearing such a request will actively try to help. And imagine a community where people are so truly grateful for that help that they go out of their way to express their thanks.
That's the way I see the triathlon community. Countless times I've witness people assist others in ways big and small. It's great to watch. And it's great to be part of it.


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Christmas Comes Early
CHRISTMAS has come early to one shop in Limerick after Brown Thomas officially unveiled the first Christmas shop to open in the city so far this year.
The iconic O'Connell Street store officially opened its Christmas market last week in preparation for the next 117 shopping days.
"The demand is there to open this early," explained Brown Thomas living division manager Verette Gabbett, who added that a Christmas market has been a central part to Brown Thomas for over 50 years.
"We will begin to trade from the day we open and by November most of our Christmas trees will be gone. Many parents will begin their Christmas preparations once the kids have gone back to school," she said.
"There is a lot of organization and stress involved in Christmas planning so it really helps to be organized.
"We stock a lot of unusual hanging decorations which are the types of things you hand down from one generation to the next."
However, one customer who saw the display said that it was putting pressure on people to begin thinking about Christmas already.
"I do think August is a bit too soon for a Christmas shop to be opening to be honest, considering that there isn't a lot of money around at the moment and I think the last thing people are thinking about right now is Christmas," said Ciara Clancy from Patrickswell.
A second customer agreed, saying that it was too soon as schools have only just opened.
"I think that it's probably too early for it to be open as kids have just gone back to school but I'm sure it will be packed and there'll be plenty of people going in already," said Suzanne Costello from Pallasgreen.
However one person who was delighted to see the first signs of Christmas was three year old Charlie Collins from Caherconlish, who says he already has his Christmas list made.
"I'm asking Santa for a Shipwreck Thomas this year," he said happily.
Limerick Leader
Dangerous Cliff Walks
THE local coastguard has renewed its plea to dog owners to keep their pets on a lead when walking near cliffs.
This follows the recent death of a springer spaniel which had fallen more than 100 feet from cliffs at the Giant's Causeway.
The alarm was raised at 3:40 p.m. on the Sunday afternoon when Belfast Coastguard received a report from the National Trust at the Giant's Causeway that a dog had fallen from the cliffs, near to the location of a similar incident earlier this month.
Because of the danger to the owner attempting to reach the fallen animal, Coleraine Coastguard Rope Rescue Team was deployed to the scene, with the Inshore Lifeboat standing by offshore for additional support.
A Coastguard rope rescue technician was lowered to the springer spaniel, which was lying at the base of the cliffs at Portnaboe. Sadly, the animal had sustained fatal injuries. Its body was recovered and handed over to its grief-stricken owner.
"This incident underlines the need to keep all dogs on a lead near cliff edges.
"Dogs can easily fall over the edge of cliffs when exploring or playing. Sadly, in such circumstances serious injury or death is likely to result," a spokesperson said.
Ballycastle Chronicle
Vets Seeking Help
VOLUNTEERS who work with local British service personnel in Ballyclare and Antrim have said that the numbers seeking help for mental health issues are continuing to rise.
For some who have served in Iraq and Afghanistan, physical injuries can be a tangible reminder of darker moments. However, those who assist service personnel warn of mental health problems which can turn lives upside down if left to fester, and have urged anyone experiencing mental health issues to speak to someone immediately.
The rise locally is reflected across the U.K. Combat Stress, a charity which offers support to members of the forces suffering from mental health issues, has said that it received over 1,500 new referrals between April 2011 and March 2012.
They currently assist over 5,000 service personnel throughout the U.K., including 724 in Northern Ireland, with men seemingly most affected. Only three percent of those receiving help from Combat Stress at present are women.
Branch secretary of the Royal British Legion in Ballyclare Alec Murray said that service personnel on the front line were experiencing scenes not seen for generations.
"The soldiers who have been over in Iraq and Afghanistan are seeing things that haven't been seen since World War II. It's a big change going back to civilian life and many solders can find it difficult," he said.
"A lot of these men bottle things up and can suffer a lot of stress."
The Legion in Ballyclare serves as a first point of contact for military personnel seeking help in relation to finances or other issues, including combat stress.
"They can talk with people who have had a shared experience of being in the forces," said Murray.


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When you sign up for Amazon Prime, it will renew your membership every year and automatically bill you. To cancel an Amazon Prime membership, you log in to your Amazon account and go to the Manage Prime Membership page.
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Harry Youtt, How to Read a Seamus Heaney Poem
Harry Youtt
You can't just walk up
and slide one of them
into your pocket
when nobody else is looking.
It's never as easy as
cracking a nut,
flicking away the pieces of shell,
and eating the meat.
You've got to use
only the tips of your fingers.
Unroll the poem gently,
layer by layer,
like a wet scroll
when the ink might run.
Smooth it onto a flat plate
beneath a bright bulb
that gives you plenty of light.
Whatever you do,
be sure to keep the poem
a little moist.
There isn't a chance
it will ever turn to dust.
It's just that you'll
want things to
undulate a little,
into their own flexibility.
You'll even begin to see
some bubbles beginning
to form at the edges.
And then in the silence,
first extract the lines that shine
like caught fish, wriggling,
each of them — glinting —
one line at a time.
Hold them steady in the light,
and after a while
when you come to feel
they almost belong to you,
release them back,
into the frothing
the stream of the poem alone
is beginning to make.
Its pulse will throb,
and you'll feel it
begin to breathe easy
into itself, as it draws you there
to follow the glinting in,
down closer
to where the lines were born.
A Heaney poem lives and thrives
by tasting itself and then by forming
into fuller flavor.
Common words
from common roots.
Potato words,
but exotically seasoned.
Somewhere in that hover,
between what is
and what he shows you
there might really be,
is the place you'll find
where the poet went
and where he wanted to meet you.
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I went from reading this fine poem to "Death of a Naturalist", opened it to "Follower" and read it twice. Thanks, Harry, for pointing the direction I needed to take today. Your take on Heaney's work is spot on. "potato words"–perfect!
Harry, I find two poems in your one magnetic poem: one ending, "…to where the lines were born." and the other beginning: "A Heaney poem lives and thrives…" I have neglected reading Heaney, but now must read his work.
I like the way you said this, Maren: "two poems" — and I do see what you mean. The second one focuses directly upon a kind of analysis of Heaney's style, and the first one being more abstract. I didn't think of it originally, but it's there. Thank you for seeing it.


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What is ECMoT?
ECMoT is a museum owned and operated by a non-profit volunteer organisation.
ECMoT is an incorporated society that displays and demonstrates historic artifacts from the Gisborne District, showcasing technology and its development relevant to Gisborne and the surrounding area.
Not only is the museum a place to preserve and display our history, it is also an educational facility used by groups from all sectors from early childhood through primary and secondary to tertiary organisations.
ECMoT has a varied collection of items that will suit a range of interests. There's always something new to discover.
Live Day: November 13th 2016
Our live days at ECMoT have been such success, we have planned another. See our Events section for details.
We have lots of exciting projects under way at the museum. If you would like to be part of the team, come along on any Sunday and meet the rest of the volunteers.


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The Slow Food NYC monthly Happy Hour! It's fun, social, and informal. But it's also your opportunity to talk to the leadership of Slow Food NYC and let us know what you think. Got a great idea for an event? Looking for ways to get involved? Want to learn more about Slow Food? Just looking to have a relaxing drink with other "Slow" minded people? The Slur is your opportunity - free and open to everyone.
With 3 popular locations in Vermont, American Flatbread, in Tribeca - its first restaurant outside of VT - serves up delicious salads and artisanal pizzas in an airy, sleek-yet-rustic spot starring wood-burning ovens made from Vermont clay. The ingredients are nearly all organic, down to the flour used in the pizza crust and the tomatoes in the sauce. American Flatbread sources many of its top-notch ingredients from small and local farms, and you'll find humanely-raised pork and nitrate-free pepperoni on the menu.
Our Slur will be in the cozy lounge area, where sustainable wines, craft beers, and local sodas are available. The restaurant will be extending its happy hour deal until 9 pm for our event ($5 beer and a $7 wine). We hope to see you there.
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"The girls had a great season," said Sikeston tennis coach Lynne DeWitt. "They came back today and beat Cape. We played exceptional. All the senior girls stepped up and took charge."
In varsity singles, Elizabeth Killion outlasted Cape's Liz LaFoe to win 8-6. In the second spot, Lindsay Leible beat Cape's Erika Foley 8-1 to finish the season undefeated.
In the third spot, Charlie Richey lost 5-8 to Cape's Brett Ford. At No. 4, Jeri Nichols defeated Cape's Dani Gross 8-6. In the fifth spot, Chelsea Gilliland beat Cape's Michaelyn Burns 8-2. Jessica Colwick lost 4-8 to Cape's Merritt Gerlach in the sixth spot.
In varsity doubles, Killion and Leible beat Foley and Gross 8-1. Richey and Nichols won 8-2 over LaFoe and Ford, then Gilliland and Emily Bowman nipped Burns and Gerlach 9-7.
Sikeston's tennis team will be back in action on Thursday, hosting the district tournament. Seeds for the district will be drawn today.
In Monday's junior varsity match, Sikeston lost to Cape Central 2-6. Both wins for the Lady Bulldogs came in doubles play with teams of Lindsey James-Hallie Lambert and Ellie Hensley-Brittney Bard.
CARUTHERSVILLE -- Charleston's tennis team ended the regular season on a high note Monday afternoon, sweeping Caruthersville 9-0.
The Lady Bluejays finish with a record of 10-2, heading into Thursday's district tournament at Sikeston.
"It has been a good season," said Charleston coach Mitch Baker. "These girls have been overachievers all year long. I couldn't be more pleased with the way the season has turned out so far."
In varsity singles, Laura Burton blanked Caruthersville's Amanda Bradley 8-0. In the second spot, Claire Showmaker beat Caruthersville's Leola Jones 8-1. At No. 3, KaMyia Sager rolled past Caruthersville's Ann Sumner 8-1.
In the fourth spot, Kara True defeated Caruthersville's Leslie Gail 8-1. At No. 5, Lauren Smith beat Caruthersville's Miranda Bradley 8-1, then Mandy Shankle defeated Caruthersville's Paige Taylor 8-2 in the sixth spot.
"I was glad to see the girls bounce back after the Sikeston match," said Baker. "I thought they played real well."
In varsity doubles, Megan Luehmann and Showmaker won 8-0 over Bradley and Jones. Sager and True beat Sumner and Landsall 8-2, then Kati Luehmann and Ashley Shands won 8-1 over Kim Clayton and Gail.
Charleston (10-2) will find out seeds for the district tournament today.
"Our goal is to play the best we can every single match in districts," said Baker. "You never know what's going to happen. A lot of districts is luck of the draw. If the girls play well and we get some lucky breaks here and there, we've got a legitimate shot of doing well at districts."
In Monday's junior varsity match, Charleston winners were doubles teams of Jessie Duenne-Rebecca Rowling, Ali Fox-Elizabeth Moxley, and Jennifer Rolwing-Virginia Burk.


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| Question of Slavery | Underground RR. |
Westward Expansion and Development of Abolitionist Thought
Greater agricultural productivity, increased growth in population in Virginia and other colonies, and growing industrialization led to the expansion of pioneer settlements beyond the Appalachian Mountains onto Kentucky's new frontier. As early as 1750, through the exploration of Dr. Thomas Walker and Christopher Gist in 1751, Kentucky's "unclaimed" lands were being explored.
Another of Kentucky's early and possibly best known explorers, Daniel Boone departed his Yadkin River Valley home in North Carolina in 1771 to explore the Kentucky and Licking River Valleys, eventually settling in Kentucky in 1773. Primarily coming into the region as runaway slaves aided by Native Americans, as slaves to white explorers like Daniel Boone and Captain James Estill, and through manumission from their Virginia masters, Africans were among the first people to settle on the new Kentucky frontier.
Encouraged through payment of Revolutionary War soldiers through the issuance of Kentucky land grants, settlement of Kentucky increased rapidly following the Revolutionary War. Kentucky became Virginia's Fincastle County December 7, 1776 and remained part of Virginia until officially gaining its statehood, June 4, 1792.
Westward expansion onto new frontiers also brought expansion and change in religious and political thought. The Society of Friends (Quakers) in England was the first religious denomination to question the morality of human bondage. Slaveholders themselves, Quakers began to divest themselves of slaves in the 1750s. Those who found they could not do so, left the Society of Friends. By the nineteenth century, Southern Quakers had begun to move West to escape the culture of slavery.
Both those Quakers who remained in the South and those who moved to the Midwest took responsibility for aiding ex-slaves and acquired a deserved reputation for assisting runaways. Far removed from the state supported Anglican and Congregationalist Church, a new "frontier" religion and religious leadership known as "evangelicals" began to emerge. The early lead taken by Kentucky evangelicals earned Kentucky a national reputation of producing outspoken religious opponents to slavery.
The beginnings of what came to be known as "the Evangelical Religious Movement" in the United States can be traced to the first Great Awakening, led by American born minister Jonathan Edwards in New England (Upstate New York) and George Whitefield (South Carolina and Georgia) in 1734. Following fast-growing religious fervor generated by Great Awakening revivals and camp meetings, Methodists, Presbyterians, Baptists, Quakers, Shakers, and others began to seek religious freedom in the West. One such congregation seeking freedom from Virginia's policy of state-supported, mandatory religious adherence was Baptist minister, Lewis Craig.
In December 1781, Craig, often imprisoned in Virginia for his religious views, and Captain William Ellis, led five hundred members of their congregations from Orange and Spottsylvania counties in Virginia to Gilbert's Creek, Kentucky (Lancaster County). Members of the original church congregation included men, women, children, free blacks, and African slaves. This Craig and William's led congregation became known as "the Travelling Church."1 Although there are no anti-slavery sentiments attached to Lewis Craig, members of the Travelling Church went on to found several other Baptist Churches in Central Kentucky. This new church membership led to the establishment of black congregations and the founding of several anti-slavery churches.
Religious fervor on the new frontier gave birth to the nation's Second Great Awakening from 1740 to 1790. This second flood of religious activism took place primarily in the South, led by multi-denominational, evangelical ministers from Baptist, Methodist, and Presbyterian congregations. In 1796, the Great Revival began in Logan County, Kentucky through the efforts of Presbyterian minister James McGready.
On the heels of this religious fervor, the nation's largest Great Revival occurred at Cane Ridge, in Bourbon County, Kentucky August 8, 1801 led by Presbyterian minister, Barton Warren Stone.2 Despite the commanding influence of the Presbyterian Church, Methodist cannot be overlooked. American Methodist, led by Francis Asbury, became the first congregation in the United States to actively enforce anti-slavery sentiments as a condition of congregational membership. Methodists were organized in Kentucky in 1790.
Under Asbury, the Methodist Church became the first church in America to write a policy against slave holding as a condition of church membership. Many Kentucky Methodist, following the lead of Asbury, participated in the Cane Ridge Great Revival, and called for Kentucky slaveowners to end their attachment to slavery in order to establish a more perfect union with God. African membership in the Methodist church far exceeded membership in any other evangelical denomination, actively establishing churches in North and South Carolina and New York as early as 1790.
The evangelical religious movement had always offered Africans hope of freedom. Before 1667, baptized Africans in Virginia could seek freedom on the basis of their religious conversion. Nearly one thousand slaves were baptized at Bruton Parish Church in Williamsburg, VA between 1746 and 1768.3 Liberal membership guidelines, acceptance, and open participation in religious services, encouraged large numbers of women, free blacks, and African slaves to join evangelical congregations.
Evangelical ministers, including those who preached at Cane Ridge, brought African slaves into their fold during the second half of the eighteenth century by offering hope of deliverance from the persecution of perpetual slavery. Many evangelicals and their followers openly denounced slavery. Some took their beliefs a step further by actively seeking its abolition.
One of the most important outgrowths of the evangelical movement in Kentucky, was the formation of black congrega-tions headed by black ministers. Black congregations in Kentucky and free states, under the leadership of black ministers began to deliver openly antislavery messages, encouraging slaves to believe that freedom was possible in their lifetimes. The ministry of the Cane Ridge Great Revival, in addition to preaching salvation, also called for the abolition of slavery.
As a result of the Great Revival ministry, many Methodist, Baptist, and Presbyterian members manumitted their slaves and sponsored black church congregations. By 1845, the First African Baptist Church was formally established by the Elkhorn Baptist Association in Lexington, Kentucky. By 1858, Kentucky had several noted African Baptist ministers with their own congregations, including Reverend Elijah W. Green of Mason County, Kentucky, and Pleasant Green Baptist Church 4 in Lexington.
The growth of black churches in western and central Kentucky as well as the location of black hamlets is often credited as vital links in the Kentucky Underground Railroad network. On the eve of the Civil War, there were seventeen black churches in Kentucky; nine of them located in Louisville, which also housed the state's largest free black population. 5
A split in the thinking of members of the Elkhorn Association over the issue of slavery occurred immediately following the Kentucky Great Revival. By 1807, a formal division had occurred between members of the Elkhorn Association, and those who split to form the "Baptized Licking Locust Association, Friends of Humanity," dedicated to preaching an anti-slavery gospel. Led by Kentucky abolitionist and Baptist ministers David Barrow and Carter Tarrant, the Baptized Licking Locust Association quickly developed an anti-slavery mission and church following. In addition to Carter and Tarrant, Kentucky's, anti-slavery Baptist ministers included the former Kentucky Governor James Garrard (1796-1804).6
Members of various religious denominations joined Baptist efforts to end slavery in Kentucky. The most noted religious leadership who sought to legislatively end slavery in Kentucky included Presbyterian minister and founder of Transylvania University (1784 - approximately 1786), David Rice, and fellow Presbyterians Rev. John Gregg Fee, Rev. Robert J. Breckinridge, and Rev. John C. Young (President of Centre College 1830-1857). With the support of fellow Presbyterians, Rice attempted to legislatively end slavery in Kentucky by introducing an amendment to the 1792 Kentucky Constitutional Convention calling for the end of slavery and the manumission of all slaves. He was unsuccessful in this attempt, losing the vote by a margin of twenty-six for slavery and sixteen against.
The State remained divided over the issue of slavery until the end of the Civil War in 1865. Prior to the Civil War, Kentuckians sought many remedies to rid itself of enslaved Africans and to resolve the issue of slavery. One proposed remedy included formation of the American Colonization Society.
Kentucky's public opposition to slavery was carried out primarily through the work of the Kentucky Abolition Society and the Kentucky Colonization Society, the latter a branch of the National American Colonization Society. Founded in 1808, the Kentucky Abolition Society defined African slavery as "a system of oppression pregnant with moral, national and domestic evils, ruinous to national tranquillity, honor and enjoyment." 7 Advocating immediate emancipation for all African slaves held in bondage, the Kentucky Abolition Society organized local antislavery societies in Kentucky (eight were reported in 1827) and published the Abolition Intelligencer and Missionary Magazine.8
The colonization movement enabled influential slaveholding -politicians like Henry Clay to favor sending free blacks and man-umitted slaves back to Africa, while allowing them to also distance themselves from supporting the principle of immediate abolition. Founded in 1816, the American Colonization Society appealed to Kentuckians who feared the presence of free blacks. The Kentucky Colonization Society, organized in 1829, absorbed colonizationist groups that surfaced as early as 1823. By 1832, over thirty such societies existed throughout the state. 9
The Kentucky Colonization Society condemned slavery "as a great moral and political evil," while at the same time being composed primarily of conservative slaveholders who could not reconcile moral gain with the economic loss of slaves. Consequently, most slaves repatriated to Africa were often free blacks, newly manumitted slaves, the elderly, or infirm. Even with state and federal funding secured through the work of Henry Clay, from 1829 to 1859 the Kentucky Colonization Society repatriated only 658 black Kentuckians to Liberia. 10
Clay later ran for national office, which included President of the United States. At the close of 1819, when the applica-tions of Missouri and Maine for admis-sion to statehood were before Congress, there were twenty-two states in the Union, eleven slave and eleven free. Slave states were Vir-ginia, Maryland, Delaware, Kentucky, Tennessee, North Carolina, South Caro-lina, Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, and Louisiana. The free states were Massachusetts, Connecticut, Rhode Island, Vermont, New Hampshire, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana, and Illinois.
The political balance between North and South had been maintained by ad-mitting alternately (1802-19) slave and free states. Despite the three-fifths ratio, slave states held 81 votes in the House of Representatives against 105 votes held by free states. Through his skill as a negotiator, Clay received the title "the Great Pacificator" for successfully negotiating the final terms of the 1821 Missouri Compromise.
Considered a "friend" to enslaved Africans, in August 1845, Cassius Marcellus Clay published a newspaper entitled, the True American. This anti-slavery newspaper suggested easing conditions for the enslaved and granting political equality to free Africans. These views were seen as dangerous and radical by Kentucky slaveholders who were already concerned with Kentucky's growing free black population.
Public out-rage became so prevalent that Lexington authorities, armed with an injunction, seized Clay's press and transported it to Cincinnati. Clay continued to publish the True American from Cincinnati until mid-1846. It was Clay who gifted abolitionist John G. Fee with funds and land on which to live and establish Berea College. Presbyterian minister and abolitionist John Gregg Fee continually challenged Kentucky's courts. Unlike Cassius Clay, Fee favored immediate abolition and rejected colo-nization. "In whatever way we enter our protest against slavery," Fee wrote in 1847, "it must be for the good reason that it is sin against God."11
After starting antislavery congregations in Bracken County, in 1854 Fee moved to Madison County where he established a church, interracial schools, and Berea College. Proslavery mobs harassed Fee and his supporters. Fee until they fled the state returning at the time of the Civil War to establish schools and a refugee camp at Camp Nelson in Jessamine County, Kentucky.
The growing strength of the abolitionist movement in the North after 1830 threatened Kentucky's social and racial order. Such concern was intensified in 1833 when the Kentucky legislature outlawed the importation of more African slaves into the state for sale. In 1835, James G. Birney, denounced colonization, and organized the Kentucky Anti-Slavery Society.
Proslavery Kentuckians successfully blocked his attempt to establish an anti-slavery newspaper in the state. In 1840 and 1844, Birney ran unsuccessfully for the presidency of the United States on the Liberty party ticket. Though proslavery politicians repealed Kentucky's Non-Importation Act in 1849, and that year more than 150 delegates, including Cassius M. Clay and John G. Fee, attended an antislavery convention in Frankfort. That year, emancipationist candidates in twenty-nine counties received ten thousand votes in statewide elections.12
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Ok, so my entire music library just disappeared from iTunes.
I was noting to a friend the other day that iTunes sucked. Something must have heard me and decided to take revenge, because my entire music library just disappeared in a puff of smoke (not literally, but damn near). Halp! [more inside]
Using digital music library without a laptop/desktop/cloud access?
How can we play music from our massive library of tunes (~2TB), from our phones or tablets through our existing home stereo? A few snowflakes inside.... [more inside]
One Music Library to Rule Them All
I currently use approximately four+ computers with all major OS'es (Mac, Windows, Linux-Ubuntu) between work and home. Plus an Ipod Classic for portable music listening. Problem is keeping my music library up to date on all machines, or synced together. If I create a playlist, or change ratings, genre, etc. the results also aren't propagated to the other machines. On Windows and Mac I've been using Itunes but I'm not necessarily tied to it, but it does work on 2 of the 3 OS'es. Any suggestions? There are some previous similar questions, but all look several years old.
I'm an iPod newb and I need help.
I'm a complete iPod newb and I need help. [more inside]
iTunes replacement?
I need to replace iTunes. I have a very large (600 GB of only music) library and iTunes can't handle it anymore. All I want is something that will show me all of my music sortable by artist, album, or title. I sort all the music myself and don't want a program to do that for me. Playlists would be nice but are optional. That's literally all I need. (I'm on a Mac running OS 10.5.) Thanks MeFi!
iMess: Siri insists that it cannot find Madonna, Dylan, Springsteen. Neither can I
How do I recover CDs uploaded to iTunes that no longer appear in my music library but do exist in an old iTouch? [more inside]
How do you manage your music library?
How do you manage your music library? [more inside]
Suggestions for music server software with smart playlists and unified playcount
I have multiple Ubuntu PCs in multiple rooms, each connected to individual HiFis. I want to be able to listen to my 150GB music collection from any of the PCs. BUT, I want to have a unified record of playcount, so, from each PC, I can access a "Not Recently Played" smart playlist that has been updated from all PCs. I'd also like to sync this Not Recenlty Played playlist with my Android phone. How can I do this? [more inside]
Simplest possible means of listening to music files stored in an external hard drive?
What I want to do is this: play music stored on an external hard. What is the easiest way to do that? [more inside]
iTunes hates me. The feeling is mutual.
Why does iTunes hate me? Not me specifically, but my iMac G4? Twice in the past month, I have had to wait as my entire iTunes library loads, as if it is loading for the very first time. iMac G4, 1GHz, 1.5Ghz SDRAM, OS 10.5.8. iTunes 9.1.1 just installed. 235Gb music files on 750Gb USB external drive. The "loading iTunes library" becomes a two to three day affair. [more inside]
Which iTunes songs aren't in a playlist?
Is there a way to tell which songs in my iTunes Music list are part of one or more of my playlists? [more inside]
I have no idea what the kids are listening to these days...
My music collection is practically non-existent. I have a new iPod, a laptop and 2GB per month downloads. What is the best and cheapest way to start building a music library from scratch? Should I just buy everything from iTunes, or what? And does anyone still pay for music?! [more inside]
I want MusicThing!
I am hoping to find an equivalent to LibraryThing, but for my music. That is to say, I don't need to share the actual music, just the catalog/metadata of what I have. [more inside]
How can I listen to and MANAGE my mp3 music collection/playlists over the internet?
How can I listen to and MANAGE my mp3 music collection/playlists over the internet? [more inside]
One-potato, two-potato, delete!
Is there an 'independent' (i.e., using software on a Win-Vista PC) way to determine which music file is of better sound quality? [more inside]
Best way to listen to my music library through a web browser.
What is the best way to listen to my music library in a web browser? [more inside]
Should I renew my MP3Tunes membership, or is there something better now?
Should I renew my MP3Tunes membership, or is there something better now? [more inside]
Make Winamp work for me
Winamp playlist help. I have a bunch of playlists in Winamp, but frequent re-organization of my music directory has broken all the links. Is there a way for Winamp to find the new locations of the files so I don't have to re-assign hundreds of songs, or, barring that, is there a smarter music library program that will do the work and can import Winamp playlists?
Classical music CD library from scratch?
What's the best way to build a classical music CD library from scratch? Where the heck do I start? [more] [more inside]
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Megacopta cribraria as a Nuisance Pest (C 991)Download PDF
In October 2009, large aggregations of an insect (Megacopta cribraria (F.); Heteroptera: Plataspidae), commonly referred to as the kudzu bug, bean plataspid, lablab bug, or globular stink bug, were discovered on the exterior of houses in nine northeast Georgia counties (Fig. 1).
By September 2010 the insect was confirmed in more than 60 north and central Georgia counties as well as limited distributions in North and South Carolina. Before discovery in Georgia, M. cribraria was not known to occur in the Western Hemisphere.
Megacopta cribraria adults are 4 to 6 mm long, oblong, olive-green colored with brown speckles, and produce a mildly offensive odor when disturbed (Fig. 2).
It is related to various species of stink bugs. When discovered in Georgia, the insect was flying from nearby patches of kudzu (Pueraria spp.) onto the outside walls of houses and other structures (Fig. 3).
In its native Asia, one of M. cribraria's preferred hosts is kudzu, an invasive vine introduced into the U.S. more than 100 years ago as a ground cover to slow soil erosion but that now grows unimpeded throughout the southeastern U.S. Kudzu appears to be a primary host in North America, and we believe M. cribraria will continue to spread into most areas where kudzu is established.
Nuisance Pest
During the fall season, some insect species, triggered by declining temperatures and day lengths, seek secluded sites where they spend the winter months protected from low temperatures. The following spring, as temperatures increase, overwintered insects recover from their winter inactivity to resume their normal life cycle. In Georgia, M. cribraria's presence was detected for the first time when large numbers exhibited this overwintering behavior in response to declining temperatures in north Georgia. The insects moved from nearby kudzu patches onto the warm, sunlit south and east exposures of nearby homes. They especially gravitated towards light-colored surfaces (Fig. 3).
Excluding M. cribraria from entering the home is important. For instance, homeowners should ensure that screening is placed over possible routes of insect entry into the house; that screens on windows are well-seated and without holes; and that soffit, ridge, and gable vents are properly screened. In locations where screening cannot be used, such as around pipe penetrations, steel wool can be stuffed into these openings to prevent the entry of M. cribraria. Lastly, doors should establish a tight seal when closed, and doorsweeps should be installed.
To gain relief from invading insects landing on homes, an exterior wall application of an insecticide spray, labeled for nuisance insect control outdoors, may be needed. Unfortunately, re-application(s) may be necessary because kudzu and other surrounding vegetation often remain as a source of re-infestation.
To reduce the frequency of re-application, long-lasting formulations such as microencapsulated and wettable powder products should be used if possible. When using insecticidebased products, always read and follow the directions for use on the product label. Insecticide use for control of M. cribraria indoors is discouraged.
Insects that have managed to enter the home should not be crushed, as this action may stain indoor surfaces and/or result in odors that may prove difficult to eliminate. Rather, insects should be vacuumed and the bagged insects then placed in hot, soapy water.
Finally, the control of M. cribraria on structures may prove frustrating for both homeowners and pest management professionals. The overwhelming numbers of insects combined with a nearby source(s) may make sustained control difficult unless the kudzu can be physically removed or killed with an herbicide. Ultimately, the elimination of M. cribraria from homes will require source reduction.
Useful References
Eger, J. E., Jr., L. M. Ames, D. R. Suiter, T. M. Jenkins, D. A. Rider, and S. E. Halbert. 2010. Occurrence of the Old World bug Megacopta cribraria (F.) (Heteroptera: Plataspidae) in Georgia: A serious home invader and potential legume pest. Insecta Mundi 0121: 1-11.
Jones, S. C. and J. Boggs. Multicolored Asian Lady Beetle. Ohio State University Extension fact sheet. No. HSE-1030-01. 9 pp.
Suiter, D. R., J. E. Eger, Jr., W. A. Gardner, R. C. Kemerait, J. N. All, P. M. Roberts, J. K. Greene, L. M. Ames, G. D. Buntin, T. M. Jenkins, and G. K. Douce. 2010. Discovery and distribution of Megacopta cribraria (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Plataspidae) in northeast Georgia. Journal of Integrated Pest Management (in press).
1 Department of Entomology, University of Georgia College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences, Griffin, GA
2 Dow AgroSciences, 2606 S. Dundee St., Tampa, FL 33629
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Its often the case that when you're settled down in the city you want to know where to do your essential grocery shopping. It can be more expensive then you know to always rely on the convenience store for you dinner, so have a look at what we have compiled here at Nagoya-info.com – A list of some hidden supermarket gems.
Aeon Shopping Center (Atsuta)
About: Just 10 minutes walk south of Kanayama Station or walk eat fro 5 minutes getting off from Nishi Takakuru subway station (meijo line), will bring you to a huge 4 floor Shopping centre. Absolutely everything under 1 roof can serve your every shopping need. Clothes, shoes, books, accessories, watches plus a food court and fine restaurant choice make it at least worth a half day. Best of all, there is a huge food supermarket at one end (JUSCO) which is simply a huge supermarket. Shops are open until 10pm, restaurants until 11pm and the supermarket until 12.
Access: Click here for a Map
Aeon Shopping Center (Ozone)
About: Possibly the largest Aeon complex in Nagoya, Nagoya Dome Aeon can be reached within a few minutes walk of the JR, Subway and Meitetsu Station. What makes this Aeon even more impressive than others is the sheer number of restaurants and cafes inside; one example being that their are 3 Starbucks cafes within the complex!! Watch out though, just after a Dragons (Nagoya's professional baseball team) game, the place can be flooded with people looking for a bite to eat. Try "dessert" forest, a themed area where you can enjoy sweets and cakes from around Japan.
Info: Website in Japanese / Click here for Map
Sun Ace (Kamimaezu)
About: Located about 5 – 10 minutes walk from Sakae or Osu or 5 minutes from Kamimaezu station, this fantastic little store is great for fruit and veg. Prices for lettuce, potatoes, carrots, onions etc is almost half what you would pay if shopping at one of the station supermarkets. They often have special sales days when you can pick up even bigger deals. One to watch out for is a Wednesday market when for 100 yen, you can put as many carrots, potatoes or onion as you can into a small plastic bag – bargain.
Contact: 052-259-2305
Sanoya (Osu Kannon)
About: Found inside the famous Osu covered shopping arcade, one of the cheapest and best value supermarkets in Nagoya exists. Extremely good deals on meats, fresh fish,veg, bento boxes and cooked food make this supermarket a must if you're on a budget. It's always busy so be prepared to muscle your way around the store – but this only adds to the fun.
Opening Times: 10:00 – 22:00
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Shanpia Port (from Kanayama Station 15 minutes on foot)
About: In Under 20 minutes walk from Kanayama you can find an out of the way, but by no ways hidden shopping centre by the name of "Shanpia-Port". Of the two floors, downstairs you will find a large "Feel" supermarket and Electronics store "Eden". Make your way upstairs and there is a very large Daiso 100yen store, a Uniqlo, a barber, Shimamura (cheap clothes store), a large shoe shop, a novelty shop and a decent food court. For those living close to the area getting there by bicycle is both easy and convenient.
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Review: Zero DS Makes Case for Electric Motorcycles (Slideshow)
Motorcyclists often say riding is a great way to clear one's mind. But if you are preparing to ride the Zero DS, a battery-powered dual-sport two-wheeler, you should get all your clearing done before you ever twist the throttle.
Shed old ideas about what a motorcycle is, what it does, how it feels, looks and sounds. Don't go too far, though. That notion about taking your breath away can stay.
With the best motorcycles I have test-ridden the breathtaking rides that left the deepest impressions took place on rolling, winding, 100-mile routes that meander through forests, around lakes and along mountain ridges. But the Zero DS made its case in an 18-mile sprint from Brooklyn's Greenpoint neighborhood to suburban New Jersey, much of it on streets clogged with car, truck and pedestrian traffic.
As is often the case, I didn't allow enough time for picking up the bike in Brooklyn and getting back across the rivers to New Jersey, where I had a 3 p.m. appointment. It was 2:10 as I put on my helmet and gloves and set out almost silently on the Zero. While the distance may not be great, anyone who regularly drives between New York and New Jersey knows how seemingly impossible the trip can be.
Bottom line: I had to ride like the wind to stay on schedule and the Zero was a nearly perfect mount. The svelte bike slipped between cars with ease and the electric motor's torque squirted it away from stop lights ahead of the lumbering four-wheel traffic.
The bike's high seat helped me see over cars and gave me the athletic sensation of riding while almost standing up. It was a bit like running very fast. Overall the DS feels like a 250-cubic-centimeter enduro bike, with plenty of power and traction for pavement or dirt trails, and more maneuverability than typical street motorcycles.
After crossing the Williamsburg Bridge I headed north, slicing past double-parked trucks on Manhattan's stone-paved side streets before cutting west across Soho to the Holland Tunnel. It was here where the Zero's stealthy qualities caused problems.
Oblivious pedestrians drifted into my path, gazing at buildings, chatting with friends or staring at handheld screens. I had to proceed slowly to avoid getting too close. When you ride an electric motorcycle you must consider that nobody hears you coming. Still, the light, narrow, agile bike got through traffic quicker than a car.
On the Jersey side the terrain ranged from construction zones with near-off-road conditions to highways that proved the bike really can run at 70 mph without complaint. I made it to the appointment with seconds to spare after a ride which, while stressful, was among my most thrilling.
The Zero DS is designed for this type of commuter riding, where distances are relatively short and congestion favors vehicles with the smallest footprints. You wouldn't ride across the country — or even across the state — on this machine. But the basic model has a range of 75 miles in the city or about 42 miles of sustained highway riding. A $2,500 battery upgrade boosts range to 112 miles in urban and suburban settings or 62 on the highway. That's enough for the typical early-morning weekend loop — the kind that gets you back home before your kids wake up.
Some longtime riders are sure to cringe at the DS's sticker price of $11,495, and may begin to shake uncontrollably when they realize that outfitting it with the longer-range battery boosts the price to $13,995. Add other available options like saddle bags, a fast-charging system and a windshield, and the price reaches $14,944.97. That's within a few hundred bucks of a BMW K1300S, a high-tech, 175-horsepower rocket I have long coveted but deemed too expensive.
Of course I would probably never commute on the K-bike. It's an open-road machine, too big and high-strung for city traffic. One could argue the DS is more practical because it provides an efficient everyday alternative to driving a car. The BMW, like many sport bikes, is something you ride for the sake of riding — not necessarily to get somewhere.
If my budget allowed I'd buy one of each.