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March E-mini S&Ps (ESH14 -0.24%) this morning are down -0.32% and European stocks are also down -0.32% as emerging market currencies declined. European stocks were also under pressure after French Dec industrial production fell -0.3% m/m and Italy Dec industrial production slid -0.9% m/m, both weaker than expected. Asian stocks closed mostly higher: Japan +1.77%, Hong Kong -0.27%, China +2.49%, Taiwan +0.05%, Australia +1.08%, Singapore +0.13%, South Korea -0.02%, India -0.21%. China's Shanghai Stock Index climbed to a 5-week high after Bank of America said Chinese spending during the 7-day Lunar New Year holiday signaled strong consumption and that economic growth will be "relatively stable." Commodity prices are mixed. Mar crude oil (CLH14 -0.45%) is down -0.32%. Mar gasoline (RBH14 -0.09%) is down -0.08%. Apr gold (GCJ14 +0.85%) is up +0.51% at a 2-week high. March copper (HGH14 +0.14%) is up +0.05% at a 1-week high. Agriculture prices are mixed ahead of the Feb WASDE crop production report later today. The dollar index (DXY00 -0.04%) is down -0.01% at a 1-week low. EUR/USD (^EURUSD) is down -0.01%. USD/JPY (^USDJPY) is down -0.16%. March T-note prices (ZNH14 +0.02%) are up +3 ticks.
The Eurozone Feb Sentix investor confidence unexpectedly rose +1.4 to 13.3, better than expectations of -1.8 to 10.1 and the highest in 2-3/4 years.
The UK Jan Lloyds employment confidence rose +10 to -2, the highest in 8-3/4 years.
Japan Jan consumer confidence unexpectedly fell -0.8 to 40.5, weaker than expectations of +0.7 to 42.0 and the lowest in 13-months.
The Japan Jan eco-watchers survey current fell -1.0 to 54.7, weaker than expectations of -0.2 to 55.5. The Jan eco-watchers survey outlook fell -5.7 to 49.0, the lowest in 14-months.
Today's Jan payroll report is expected to show an increase of +182,000, returning to more reasonable figures after the very disappointing report of +74,000 seen in December. Today's Jan unemployment rate is expected to be unchanged at 6.7%, sustaining the -0.3 point drop seen in December to the 5-year low of 6.7%. There are 5 of the S&P 500 companies that report earnings today: Lab Corp of America ($1.66), Wyndham (0.73), Cigna (1.49), Moody's (0.76), and FLIR Systems (0.37). Equity conferences during the remainder of this week include India Auto Expo 2014 on Fri.
Loews (L +0.98%) reported Q4 EPS of 65 cents, below consensus of 70 cents.
ArcelorMittal (MT +1.29%) was downgraded to 'Neutral' from 'Buy' at BofA/Merrill.
Urban Outfitters (URBN +1.80%) was upgraded to 'Buy' from 'Hold' at Brean Capital.
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Bristol-Myers (BMY +2.76%) was upgraded to 'Outperform' from 'Market Perform' at BMO Capital with a price target of $50.
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Piper Jaffray reiterated its 'Overweight' rating on athenahealth (ATHN +25.06%) and raised its price target on the stock to $220 from $170.
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Mar E-mini S&Ps (ESH14 -0.24%) this morning are down -5.75 points (-0.32%). The S&P 500 on Friday closed higher on ideas that the weaker-than-expected Jan payroll report was due to inclement weather. U.S. Jan non-farm payrolls rose +113,000, below expectations of +180,000, although the Jan unemployment rate unexpectedly dropped -0.1 to 6.6%, better than expectations of unch at 6.7% and the lowest in 5-1/4 years. Another positive for stocks was the U.S. Department of Labor's annual revisions from Mar 2013 through Dec 2013 that showed an additional +369,000 of payroll jobs over that period. Closes: S&P 500 +1.33%, Dow Jones +1.06%, Nasdaq 100 +1.84%.
Mar 10-year T-notes (ZNH14 +0.02%) this morning are up +3 ticks. Mar 10-year T-note futures prices on Friday recovered from a 1-week low and closed higher on concern that the U.S. economy is losing momentum after Jan non-farm payrolls rose less than expected for a second month. Closes: TYH4 +11.50, FVH4 +8.50.
The dollar index (DXY00 -0.04%) this morning is down -0.005 (-0.01%) at a 1-week low. EUR/USD (^EURUSD) is down -0.0002 (-0.01%). USD/JPY (^USDJPY) is down -0.16 (-0.16%). The dollar index on Friday fell to a 1-week low and closed lower after U.S. Jan non-farm payrolls rose less than expected, which boosted speculation the Fed may slow the pace of reduction in its monthly bond buying. EUR/USD fell back from a 1-week high after Germany's Federal Constitution Court sought advice on whether the ECB's OMT bond-buying program is legal. Closes: Dollar index -0.215 (-0.27%), EUR/USD +0.00463 (+0.34%), USD/JPY +0.266 (+0.26%).
Mar WTI crude oil (CLH14 -0.45%) this morning is down -32 cents (-0.32%) and Mar gasoline (RBH14 -0.09%) is down -0.0022 (-0.08%). Mar crude oil and gasoline prices Friday posted 5-week highs and closed higher. Bullish factors included (1) a weak dollar, (2) strong demand for heating fuels after Commodity Weather Group said Jan was the coldest for the month in the last 20 years, and (3) strength in gasoline on supply concerns after Energy Aspects Ltd. said an average of 1.6 million barrels a day of U.S. refining capacity will be off-line in Feb for planned and unplanned work. The energy markets shrugged off the smaller-than-expected increase in U.S. Jan payrolls as weather-related. Closes: CLH4 +2.04 (+2.22%), RBH4 +0.0659 (+2.46%).
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China Surpasses U.S.A. to Become World's Top Smart Device Market
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China= 19%population with devices US= 74% population with devices. Their nowhere close to the US in terms of population. They would need 970,000,000 people more.... Just a thought...lol!
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QR civilian ships by TalrosWatch
©2013-2016 Talros
Some civilian ship sketches for Quantum Rush.
The closed beta starts today omg !
© GameArt Studio GmbH
The closed beta starts today omg !
© GameArt Studio GmbH
id like to see a floor plan for the ship on the bottom right
Do you make desings for sci-fi space games ? Cuz if you dont... You should those are definetaly great drawings..(actually some of them look like the space ships which are in homeworld 1-2 strategy games )
You have good solid designs!!
awesome stuff dude.
i have so much trouble with vehicles so looking at this stuff is like mind blowing.
Cool ships, looks good! Would love to take one of those civvie ships out for a spin, ha ha...
Awesome vehicles!
So awesome and really cool
Really great concepts as always. These color schemes are really uniform for civilian ships though, are you planning on giving them different paint jobs? Maybe the ships could belong to different corporations? (mining, freight, transportation etc.) Anyway can't wait to play this, I love your ship designs
Drooools :0
nice iterations. i can tell you have a process thats really working for you. cool
Ich liebe deinen Stil einfach, deswegen freu ich mich auch schon auf QR. Hab überraschender Weise sogar einen Key bekommen und es installiert gerade schon
Herrlich, ich liebe rechts oben und links unten am meisten, aber sie sin alle klasse!
Play much homeworld?! hehehe Awesome dude.
His style always seems to resemble HW, but he does have his own trick too.
Brilliant colors!
These rock, my friend.
Good lookin' stuff as always.
So sick bro WOW!
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M-U-T stands for machines, environmental technology and transportation systems. The company was founded in 1932 in Stockerau, a city near Vienna (Austria), with conveying systems as it's core business. In 1955 the company extended its product range with the construction and manufacturing of special motor-vehicle bodies. Special demand-oriented bodies for municipal solid ...


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William Priestley (Louisiana planter)
William Priestley (7 May 1771 – 1838) was the third child and second son of Dr Joseph Priestley and his wife Mary Wilkinson. He spent some time in France, before migrating to the USA in 1793, taking the oath of citizenship on 8 October 1798. In 1801 he moved to Louisiana, with the intention of establishing a school in Point Coupee Parish. Some time between 1804-7, William purchased a sugar plantation on the west bank of the Mississippi.
William Priestley's early life and character[edit]
William Priestley was born in Basinghall Street, Leeds, in the manse associated with Mill Hill Chapel, where his father was minister. He was educated in Bristol in John Prior Estlin's school, before spending two years at Daventry Academy, his father's alma mater, 1787-89. William Priestley was a mild-tempered and softly-spoken bohemian with long brown hair thrown back over his shoulders, and a passion for nature and music. He was a proficient flautist, who spoke French and German, studied Anglo-Saxon texts, and read Norse mythology. He carved wooden chess-pieces, and sculpted clay models of ancient temples.[1] He was not inclined towards a career in commerce. His father, writing to a friend, regretted that William's "temper [frame of mind] and high spirit [zest for life], will hardly suit trade."[2] In this, William and his father were very much alike, for, when he was nineteen, Joseph Priestley himself, had rejected a firm offer of a career in commerce; as a minister at Needham Market, his congregation had objected to Priestley's "gay and airy disposition;" and at Nantwich he had a habit of vaulting over the counter of the grocer's shop at which he lodged.[3] Regrettably some modern historians have misunderstood contemporary word-usage, and have read the clause: "William's temper and high spirit, will hardly suit trade," in a twenty-first-century idiom, mistakenly accusing William of being "too high-spirited and hot-tempered;"[4] and erroneously denouncing him as the "black sheep" of the family.[5]
In the Summer of 1789 William accompanied his uncle William Wilkinson on a business trip through northern Europe and France, and was in Paris during the storming of the Bastille. When William Wilkinson return to England, William Priestley went on to Germany, as tutor to a family in Frankfurt.[6] Despite William's disinclination towards office work, his father was prepared to pay for him to be articled to a merchant, though he baulked at the £1,000 Benjamin Vaughan had wanted.[7] In December 1790, William Russell agreed to take William on as an articled accounts clerk for three years, with a view to him looking after the Russell brothers' interests in America or France. William Priestley was working for the Russells at the time of the Birmingham riots. He insisted on remaining at home, "Fairhill", as his parents fled, initially to ensure that the kitchen fire and candles were fully extinguished. William helped round up numerous young volunteers, with whom he laboured several hours to remove as many of Dr Priestley's books and manuscripts as they could, continuing to carry books and furniture down the staircase even as the handrails, banisters and treads were being systematically demolished by the leading rioters. After the riots, William remained in Birmingham, gathering up such of his father's books and manuscripts as had survived.[8] In the Autumn of 1791, William joined his father in London, where Dr Priestley was settling in to a new home in Lower Clapton, while William's mother was with his sister at Heath-forge, Wombourne; brother Joseph was working in Manchester; and brother Henry was at school in Bristol. Being Dr Priestley's only relative in London (apart from his uncle Timothy, minister at Jewin Street chapel), William helped manage the workmen carrying out numerous repairs and works, and helped his father arrange his library and set up his laboratory. William assisted in managing the household, such as it was, and looked after the dietetic needs of his father, who suffered a bowel condition throughout his adult life, with episodes of severe diarrhoea.[9] The noted Unitarian benefactress, Mrs Elizabeth Rayner, was impressed enough by William's practical care and filial concern for his father, to single him out for particular mention in her will.[10]
France (1792-92)[edit]
After his brother Joseph's marriage to Elizabeth Rayner in April 1792, William Priestley travelled to Paris, at the behest of William Russell, who was rebuilding his mercantile business from Gloucester. At Paris on 8 June 1792, President Tardiveau introduced William to the Assemblée législative. William asked M Français to read out his brief address, because of his "voix extrêment faible":
William Priestley is eager to pay his just respects to the first magistrates of a people who are celebrated not only in England, but amongst all nations that value liberty, energy [l'énergie had been a rallying cry of the revolution], and virtue. "Go", said his father, "live amongst this brave and welcoming people; learn from them to detest tyranny, and to love liberty." William Priestley therefore comes to this land of France. He proposes to make his home here, and seeks to enjoy the rights of a citizen of France (a title which he prefers a hundred times to that of a king of an arbitrary state) – a member of a sovereign people that will greatly honour him by his adoption. In the exercise of his duties as citizen and soldier, he will always keep in mind, and in his heart, the public spirit of the nation, the energy of its magistrates, and the lessons of his father.[11]
After a long speech by Tardiveau extolling the virtues of Dr Priestley, interrupted fourteen times by applause, the Assemblée conferred letters of naturalization, and declared William an adopted son of France. The caricaturist James Sayers produced an etching of the event.
New England and Pennsylvania (1792-1801)[edit]
Following the September massacres, William migrated to America directly from France. He visited Boston, and spent some time in Brattleboro, Vermont, with the also newly arrived family of William Wells, who was looking to buy a farm there. In the Autumn of 1794, after visiting his parents in New York, William stayed for a while in Boston, spending time with the Unitarian minister Dr James Freeman, and visiting Freeman's Harvard classmate Dr William Bentley, Unitarian pastor of East Church, Salem; though, for several weeks at a time, in October and December, William was ill with a high fever, perhaps malaria.[12] After recovering his health, William removed to the backwoods of Northumberland County, Pennsylvania, at Point township (now Northumberland borough) in February 1795. Here, William and his brother Henry bought a 284-acre plot of woodland, which they attempted to transform into a farm, later called "Fairhill", felling and uprooting trees, and obtaining lime to sweeten the soil by building their own lime kilns.[13] Henry Priestley died 11 December 1795, possibly of malaria which he may have contracted after landing at New York.
On 3 February 1796, William Priestley married Margaret Foulke, "an amiable and sensible young woman" of Middle Paxton, at Paxtang Presbyterian Church, Harrisburg.[14] A few days later, Dr Priestley travelled alone to Philadelphia, William's mother being too unwell to travel. Mary Priestley's continuing ill-health would force the doctor to cancel planned excursions to New York and Boston, and return home early, at the end of May.[15] Joseph Priestley Jr.'s wife, Elizabeth Ryland-Priestley, a middle-class Englishwoman could offer little in the way of care; so, throughout 1796, Margaret Foulke-Priestley, a frontierswoman not slow to roll up her sleeves, nursed Mary Priestley, moving in, and eventually bringing her own sister, so that between the two of them they could nurse Mary Priestley twenty-four hours a day.[16] Margaret took over many the household duties, which, on Dr Priestley's return included dealing with his dietary needs. She introduced the Priestleys to the benefits of Indian meal or Maize flour, suggesting advantages for Dr Priestley's health.[17] Despite Margaret's nursing care, Mary Priestley died Saturday 17 September 1796.
Dr Priestley now moved into his elder son's, Joseph Jr.'s home, to which the virulent anti-Federalist Thomas Cooper was a frequent visitor, and in which Thomas Cooper's son, Thomas Jr., lodged. Thomas Cooper, Joseph Priestley Jr., and his wife Elizabeth Ryland-Priestley, now embroiled Dr Priestley in political agitation, enlisting him in what William Cobbett called: "The Priestley gang".[18] William Priestley's farm had failed, and he was spending an increasing amount of time in Philadelphia, exploring possibilities for a new career. William, who disliked controversy, was embarrassed by continually being stopped in the street and questioned about his father's conduct.[19] The situation became even worse after December 1798, when his elder brother, Joseph Priestley Jr. left on a visit to England, not to return until August 1800. During her husband's absence, Elizabeth Ryland-Priestley became involved with Thomas Cooper, perhaps romantically, but certainly by collaborating with him during his temporary editorship of the Sunbury and Northumberland Gazette from 20 Apr to 29 June 1799, writing several political essays for him.[20] In September, Thomas Cooper printed a seditious handbill, which Dr Priestley helped distribute around Point township, and across the Susquehanna at Sunbury.[21] Cobbett's Porcupine's Gazette printed extracts from this handbill under the headline "PRIESTLEY",[22] with the prefatory assertion that: "Dr Priestley has taken great pains to circulate this address, has travelled through the country for the purpose, and is in fact the patron of it.[23]
Dr Priestley's activities were causing embarrassment to his friends, not least, Ben and John Vaughan. With Dr Priestley now being styled the "journeyman of discontent and sedition",[24] John Vaughan wrote to his brother that Dr Priestley: had allowed himself to fall too much under the influence of a Thomas Cooper, a man whose "violence creates Violence in the neighbourhood, the Dr has got himself into the Vortex insensibly, & been (by those who want the sanction of his name) urged to Measures, he had hitherto avoided".[25] A month later, Benjamin Vaughan wrote to Shelburne, saying that he would write to Priestley, "but with little hope of doing good to one so decided upon doing himself harm":
He constantly represented to me his tranquil life & his abstinence from politics, & has suddenly adopted the acts & sentiments of the most imprudent zealots in politics. He has no turn for discretion himself; indeed his system [is] against it; & he is surrounded by persons who are crafty knaves or hot-headed firebrands.[26]
By now, William had decided on establishing a school where he would teach French and German, and also the flute. Initially, he planned to settle his family temporarily, perhaps at Johnstown on the river Conemaugh, while his financial affairs were sorted out, and then set up home somewhere along the Ohio or Mississippi rivers. On Tuesday 8 April 1800, William visited his father to discuss his plans, and express his concerns, in his brother's absence, about the relationship between Elizabeth Ryland-Priestley and Thomas Cooper. It appears that he also had a commission from Ben and John Vaughan to try to disengage Dr Priestley from the adverse influence of Thomas Cooper; and a further commission from his wife Margaret Foulke-Priestley, to question Elizabeth about the type of flour she used for Dr Priestley's meals. The meeting was acrimonious, with Dr Priestley coming down firmly on the side of Elizabeth, and denouncing William's suggestions and allegations. Although William and his father continued to correspond amicably enough, William never visited his father again.[27]
Incident of food poisoning[edit]
Six days after William left his father, on Monday 14 April 1800 in the afternoon after dinner and into the evening, various members of Dr Priestley's household fell ill with vomiting, some with more severe symptoms than others, except for young Tom Cooper who escaped the illness. With Dr Priestley keeping largely to a vegetable diet, the family may have had a roast chicken on the Sunday, and on the Monday, perhaps, a vegetable stew in a chicken stock with a pastry crust, followed by a milk pudding, typically made from fresh breadcrumbs, eggs, milk and cream.[28] The cause of the illness is likely to have been puking sickness (The Priestleys kept a milking cow, on pasture bordered by woodland.) or bacterial infection.[29]
Elizabeth Ryland-Priestley, still seething from William's remarks, contrived to believe that William had poisoned them by adding arsenic to the flour. This was impossible, of course, because William hadn't been near the house for a week, and the flour had been used every day; and all the family had fallen ill on the same evening. Elizabeth persuaded a local physician, Dr William Cozens (1760-1836) to examine their oral discharges, and the flour boxes in the kitchen. He found no trace of poison, and could only surmise that if the family's food had become adulterated, it could not have been by anything worse than an emetic such as tartar emetic. Elizabeth Ryland-Priestley's ridiculous and spiteful outburst was reported in the Reading Advertiser on Saturday 26 April 1800, preceded by gory accounts of cases of parricide in France by children anxious to demonstrate their revolutionary zeal.[30] The story was a flash in the pan and soon forgotten, however, although Dr Cozens did not find any tartar emetic, nor had he the means to test for it, some modern historians, misreading contemporary accounts, have either repeated Elizabeth's allegation,[31] or, as perversely, proposed that William "put tartar emetic in the family's flour".[32] Recent research rejects any adulteration of the Priestleys' food, and has completely vindicated William Priestley.[33]
Louisiana (1801-38)[edit]
Leaving his pregnant wife and young son with his parents-in-law at Middle Paxton, William Priestley spent ten months trailing the banks of the Ohio and Mississippi, in search of a suitable place at which to settle. For a while he decided on Louisville, where he had received an invitation to establish a school; but even here he was interrogated about his father's politics. Early in 1801, John Vaughan wrote suggesting that William buy a cotton plantation on the Mississippi, and giving him an introduction to William Dunbar, who owned a large cotton plantation at Natchez. William, who had been in Paris at the inauguration of l'âge de liberté, d'egalité, et de fraternité, was horrified with Vaughan's suggestion. When he and Harry were clearing their land together, they had worked alongside their hired labourers, treating them as equals,[34] how could he now oversee enslaved labourers? William wrote to his father, who in turn wrote to John Vaughan to underline the extent of William's inexorable determination against owning or managing enslaved workers.[35]
Having gathered together class-sets of maths books, English grammars, French dictionaries, a pair of globes, a microscope, half-a-dozen German flutes and flute music, William and Margaret, with their children William Jr and Lucy, left Pennsylvania in autumn 1801, travelling down stream in a covered flatboat. They settled in Pointe Coupee Parish, where William planned his school, and where two more children were born. Some time between 1804-1807, William bought a sugar plantation, some ninety miles down river, at Vacherie, St James Parish.
We have been left no reason for William's change of heart, though, following the Louisiana Purchase, a sugar plantation was a sound investment. Many of the new neighbours who welcomed him to Pointe Coupee, plantation owners themselves, would have expected and encouraged him to buy a plantation.
Happier had William worked his farm with hired free-men, except that free labourers were not available in Louisiana at the time, at least not in any number. What honour would William have reaped had he purchased two dozen enslaved workers, and then freed them? But such an example would have raised a slave-insurrection extending from Baton Rouge to New Orleans. Then his neighbours would have effected what a Birmingham mob had failed to do – lynch a Priestley. His aversion to slavery may have been tempered by visiting plantations where enslaved workers were treated humanely and with dignity, if that is not a contradiction in terms. He may have felt that, aside from their enslavement, if their enslavement can be put aside, the day to day experience of unfettered, properly fed and decently housed enslaved workers, under a benign master, would not compare unfavourably with that of tied farm-labourers in England; or factory hands housed in crowded and filthy tenements, who worked long hours for insubstantial pay that didn't cover rent and rations, who were subject to a harsh and partial justice system, who faced the hazards of dangerous and poisonous environments, and suffered recurring starvation when wheat prices rose.[36]
At the end of 1825, William's respectability was sealed when the citizens of St James Parish elected his son, William Priestley Jr., to the Louisiana House of Representatives, where he gave his time to constituency issues.[37]
In 1835, William's niece, Eliza Finch (1795-1835) arrived at the Priestley plantation, seeking assistance, with her husband, a Unitarian preacher, Rev William Steill Brown (1800-1836), and four children. Eliza, William Steill Brown, and two of their children died soon afterwards. William and Margaret Priestley cared for the two surviving children, Gertrude 'Wyoming' Brown (1826–96) and Isabel Brown (1829-aft.1865), until after William Priestley's death at the end of 1838, when the girls were informally adopted by Colonel Isaac Trimble Preston (1793-1852), who was also a member of the Louisiana House of Representatives.[38]
Margaret Foulke-Priestley died aged 86 in New Orleans, 1 November 1857.[39]
William Priestley's children[edit]
William Priestley (c.1798-1841), at the beginning of 1839, bought property in New Orleans, and invested as a sleeping partner in what became the very successful firm of Priestley & Bein,[40] which traded in metal stock, cutlery, ships chandlery, and general hardware; and won several government contracts. He never married, and died of cholera, 21 September 1841.[41]
Lucy Priestley (1800-1882), married Alexander Orme (1795-1840), 21 December 1818, and bore him eleven children.[42]
Catherine Caroline Priestley (c.1802-65), married-1 Henry Dickenson Richardson, the couple having five children, the eldest becoming the architect Henry Hobson Richardson; married-2 a Scot, John D Bein (1803–63), of Priestley and Bein hardware merchants.
Jane Priestley (c.1805-1885) married-1 John Woodman Musgrove (1809–31), son of Liverpool merchant Robert Musgrove, 24 Aug 1830; married-2 John Bell Camden (1803–57), 27 Mar 1851. She died 12 September 1885
- ^ Life of Mary Anne Schimmelpenninck (2 vols, London, 1858), I, 132-5, 156-8. Tony Rail, "William Priestley Vindicated, with a Previously Unpublished Letter", 'Enlightenment and Dissent', no.28 (2012), 150-195.
- ^ In the eighteenth-century, temper indicated either a calmness of mind, or simply frame of mind; high spirit meant ebullience or zest for life.
- ^ Anne Holt, A life of Joseph Priestley (Oxford, 1931), 7, 19.
- ^ Robert E Schofield, The enlightened Joseph Priestley (Pennsylvania, 2004), 317.
- ^ James J Hoecker, Priestley pedigree, Price-Priestley Newsletter, no.4 (1980), 75-8.
- ^ Rail, 151-4.
- ^ Priestley to Lindsey, 27 Oct 1790 (Mills).
- ^ TNA, HO 42/19/418-421, 438. Rail, 154.
- ^ Rail, 155-6.
- ^ PCC copy of will dated 19 Oct 1795, TNA PROB 11/1345.
- ^ Jérôme Mavidal & Emile Laurent, Archives parlementaires de 1787 à 1860, ser.1, XLIV (Paris, 1894), 692-4. Translation in Rail, 157.
- ^ The diary of William Bentley (4 vol., Salem, 1905-14), vol.2, 112-4, 127; Priestley to John Wilkinson, 17 Dec 1795 (Warrington Library, WMS2/mf8).
- ^ Rail, 150-195.
- ^ Rail, 160-61; Philadelphia Minerva, 13 Feb 1796
- ^ Dr Priestley [at Philadelphia] to John Fellows [1759-1844, bookseller at New York], 11 April 1796, Bibliothèque municipale de Nantes, Ms 674-170.
- ^ Priestley to Lindsey, 19 September 1796, cit. Jenny Graham, "This unhappy country of ours; Extracts of letters, 1793-1801, of Theophilus Lindsey", Enlightenment and Dissent, no.18 (1999), 147n.
- ^ Rail, 160-162
- ^ Porcupine's Gazette (Philadelphia), 23 Dec 1797.
- ^ Rail, 167. William Priestley to John Vaughan, 29 June 1801, cit. Rail, 191.
- ^ In December 1799, two of Elizabeth Ryland-Priestley's essays, On the propriety and expediency of unlimited enquiry, and A Reply to [Thomas Cooper's] Observations on the Fast Day [Cooper had challenged the power of a President to declare a day of fasting and prayer], were re-published as part of Political essays (Northumberland, PA, 1799). [Eugene Volokh: "Elizabeth Ryland Priestley, Early American author on free speech"; New York University Journal of Law & Liberty, 4(2)] [2009], 382-5).
- ^ Rail, 166.
- ^ Porcupine's Gazette (Bustleton, PA), 20 September 1799. Rail, 166.
- ^ Cobbett challenged Priestley to "clear himself of the accusation" or face prosecution. This prompted Dr Priestley, barely a month later, in November and December 1799, to publish his Letters to the inhabitants of Northumberland.
- ^ Philadelphia Gazette, 12 April 1800.
- ^ John Vaughan to Benjamin Vaughan, 29 Dec 1799 (American Philosophical Society: Benjamin Vaughan papers.
- ^ Sarah [née Manning] & Benjamin Vaughan to Marquis of Lansdowne, 25 Jan 1800 (Bowood Mss), cit. Rail, 171.
- ^ Rail, 171-2.
- ^ Rail, 173
- ^ Rail, 173-4.
- ^ Extracted from William Cobbett's The bloody buoy (Philadelphia, 1796). Gotlobb Jungmann published a German edition: Die Blut-Fahne (Reading PA, 1797).
- ^ Jenny Graham, "This unhappy country of ours; Extracts of letters, 1793-1801, of Theophilus Lindsey"; 'Enlightenment & Dissent', no.18 (1999), 159.
- ^ Robert E Schofield, The enlightened Joseph Priestley (Pennsylvania, 2004), 406
- ^ Rail, 164-80
- ^ Priestley to Lindsey, 12 Jul 1795 (John Towill Rutt ed., Theological and miscellaneous works of Joseph Priestley (25 vols. in 26, London, 1817-32)), I(ii), 310.
- ^ Priestley to Vaughan, 4 Jun 1801 (American Philosophical Society: John Vaughan papers.
- ^ Rail, 184-5.
- ^ Louisiana State Gazette, 2 Mar 1826.
- ^ Harris Manchester College Oxford: Biographical notes for William Steill Brown (typescript, 2012). https://archive.org/details/BiographicalNotesForWilliamSteillBrown.
- ^ New Orleans Commercial Bulletin, 9 Nov 1841.
- ^ On 12 Jun 1839, he paid $24,300 for the front block on Magazine St between Robin [now Euterpe] and Basin [now Race] streets, and $2,700 for a lot in Annunciation. (New Orleans Notarial Archives, David Lawson McCay, Acts 119 &120, 28 & 29 Feb 1839).
- ^ Picayune, 3 Nov 1857.
- ^ G N Mackenzie, Colonial Families of the USA (7 vols., New York, 1907), II, 567.
- Rail, Tony: "William Priestley Vindicated, with a Previously Unpublished Letter", Enlightenment and Dissent, no.28 (2012), 150-195. http://www.english.qmul.ac.uk/drwilliams/journal/intro.html
- Mills, Simon, ed.: The letters of Joseph Priestley to Theophilus Lindsey, 1769-1794, at http://www.english.qmul.ac.uk/drwilliams/pubs/content.html.
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Before my dad passes out, I remember a few words FLUFFRICKSPRITE had said: "Isn't it? As a panda bear, I might have preferred something less chilly and more jungle like, but as a plush toy, I'm actually feeling quite warm and soft still. I guess there is some kind of alien energy that powers me up now, too." The way he spoke was cute, and it only made Mr. Fluffy that much more cute!
"So... what am I supposed to do now?" I ask, hoping FLUFFRICKSPRITE knew. There wasn't much lead I can go on, and now that my dad had fainted and was now laying on the cold snow, my mind refused to think.
"First, let's get your father back inside," FLUFFRICKSPRITE says, lifting my dad with his strange brick-like arms. The way they looked as Mr. Fluffy used them, or FLUFFRICKSPRITE to be precise, was just...so anime-ish. This game made everything so interesting and not boring, that every single detail just catches my attention. I followed my ghost teddy bear float back into our house, my feet feeling heavy with the snow that stuck to my clothing.
When we entered, the warmth inside the house surprised me. Wasn't it supposed to be cold? There was no electricity, or water, or anything that should be working. Confused, I walked over to the light switch and watched as the light turned on and off. Not able to believe this, I lazily walk over to the sink and gasped at the sight of the faucet still running. Checking over FLUFFRICKSPRITE, he puts my dad down on the couch before turning back to me.
"I am here to guide you," he says, face flipping back to the green one, "and to make sure that you gradually beging to understand the importance of the quest you have begun. It's a quest of magic. Candice." Smiling, I was left speechless by the words FLUFFRICKSPRITE had said. Magic. He really knew me, didn't he? Or was he just one to believe in magic too? I couldn't keep thinking since FLUFFRICKSPRITE continued with his speech. "The world you are on now is called LONAI. Land of Nomads and Ice. It is a world that has been waiting for you for a long time."
"F-for me? A long time? Really?" I stutter, trying to sink all this information in. The feeling when a dream was coming true was starting to grow, making my worries and fears go away. Soon enough, I was happy to even be talking to Mr. Fluffy, who was hovering RIGHT IN FRONT OF ME. WHAT ELSE DID I WANT? FLYING PIGS? "Well in that case, I was waiting for an opportunity like this as well," I replied with confidence, staring out into the outside snow world. It started to snow, but that wasn't the only thing moving out there...
"I will tell you the story, bit for bit. But before I go further, I think you'll need to take out DAD'S BAT from your STRIFE SPECIBUS. We have guests." FLUFFRICKSPRITE's head turns red, making me grow alert. Of course, if this was a game, it had to come with enemies, right? Problem is, I didn't know what kind of enemies they were...were they scary looking? Cute looks that deceive? Huge? Tiny? With these questions in mind, I proceeded to take out the wallet with the STRIFE SPECIBUS. Right when I had taken out dad's bat, a knocking came from the door. Are those the guests FLUFFRICKSPRITE was talking about? Better check it out and see for myself who it is...
Opening the door slowly, I stare out into the distance...but there was-oh wait, they were shorter than I expected. Looking down, I was face to face, or front to front, with two strange imps. Their heads were red in color, and had the shape of FLUFFRICKSPRITE. The main body of the two was blue in color, while one of them had green arms and yellow legs, and the other one the opposite order. As much as I thought they were enemies, the way they looked was...adorable. Of course, their faces were strange and evil-like, but I couldn't help but just admire the colors they were made up. It reminded me a lot of those 8 bit games I used to play. It also makes me wonder if they were capable of hurting me or...
One of the them suddenly launches forward, making me close the door in their faces. Pressing myself against the door, so they couldn't get inside, I took a glance at the bat on my right hand. The entire time I was here, I felt...less heavy, and more agile. Not knowing why, an idea pops into my head. Might as well take advantage of my sudden increase in agility and strength, right?
"It's now or never," I tell myself, breathing in and out to remain calm. Wanting to protect my dad and the adorable FLUFFRICKSPRITE, I move out of the door and get ready for battle. Right when the door was slammed open, I jumped over the imps and run out of the house and into the white landscape. After getting some distance, I stop and lift the bat. The two imps were heading straight for me, their sharp teeth ready for biting. They also had claws, meaning they can scratch and probably grab the bat...but not...if I was fast enough. Waiting for them to get close, I grab a handful of snow with my free hand. Not knowing if they can dodge, I threw the snowball at one of the imps. Let's call him Junior. Anyway, Junior got hit with the snowball, which can obviously mean they probably didn't see that coming...or just can't dodge.
Waiting for the right moment to strike, I was surprised when they suddenly gained speed. One of the imps leaped high into the air while the other stayed on the ground. It was then that the fear jolted through me, making me swing the bat and impact the imp in the air. Sending it flying a few feet away, the other imp pushed me to the ground. Biting my left arm, I try to kick and hit it with the bat. It was no use, he wouldn't stop biting! The pain made me wince, and eventually I got a bit pissed that nothing could shake the imp off. I bite into the imp's arm, causing it to shriek and let go of me. I took the opportunity and kicked the imp hard, followed by a fast sweep of my dad's bat. Already I was tired, not used to such fights with two. This was unfair! But....exciting. The sound of somebody running in the snow caught my attention. Right when I turned, I was slammed down by the other imp that was hit with the bat as if he were a baseball. Biting the same exact arm the other one had bit, I force myself to stand up and try to shake the imp off. The pain was unbearable, and I had to do something unless I want to lose an arm. The other imp was heading straight for me, making an idea pop into my head. 'Maybe I can try that old trick,' I thought to myself. Waiting for the right opportunity, I start to bat the imp that was biting my arm. Right when the other imp made a leap for my neck, I instantly lifted my arm with the busy imp. The plan had worked. Instead of its sharp teeth puncturing my neck, it landed right on the busy imp's back, making it finally let go of my bleeding arm. The two landed on the white snow, my chance finally there. Without hesitating, I start to slam my bat at both imps. Unfortunately, after a few swings, I started to get exhausted. Putting all my strength in this last swing, I slam the bat down hard on the imps. Instead of seeing blood coming out of them and die...they...explode?! Exploding, strange blue gems got scattered everywhere. They were of all sizes, but the same shape. Not knowing what to do, I kneel down and painfully grab one...only for it to disappear. MAGIC. Left with my mouth open from amazement and wonder, I pick up and touch the other gems. Maybe they were just piling up somewhere or being collected...just like in the games! Yes! Probably! Not sure really, but I had to get myself to start thinking positive if I wanted to survive this game.
With an injured left arm, I enter my house and let the bat return back to the STRIFE SPECIBUS. The laptop was still in my room, and it was beeping like crazy. There must be a ton of notifications while I was out battling then. Not wanting to miss any hints in case it was Frauder or Veloci...or even any of her friends, I make my way to my room. Drops of blood made a trail from the battlefield outside, to the house, and now into my room. Well, that's great...now anybody can find an injured girl in the middle of the snow. While I beat myself up about not doing anything of the injury, I type in the password to the locked computer and check out the explosive messages.
-- cunningFrauder responded to memo INTO THE RABBIT HOLE --
CF: We never had these! Awesome ;}
CF: Anyways, I know how this is supposed to work, honeys.
CF: Vieve must become Vinnie's server player, and Candice must become Ricardo's.
CF: The girls might be a bit busy at the moment though~~ ;}
CF: Let's hope they read this before their dear boyfriends go BOOM~!
-- paintSplatter responded to memo --
PS: Who's this Vinnie some new girl?
PS: Quite the catch must have been easy enough.
PS: Uhh, joke aside I'll be downloading the server version now.
PS: PS, I'm in some jungle place now how about the rest of you?
BV: Nah, still in Paris.
BV: oh, and everybody here is freaking out
BV: Might have something to do with the fact that THEY WILL DIE UNLESS WE HURRY UP
BV: But you know, its whatever. I can't hear your nonchalantness over the screams of thousands of my country men about to die.
BV: its whatever
BV: That was total and absolute sarcasm btw
-- viralBlaster began responding to memo INTO THE RABBIT HOLE --
VB: Don't worry about her.
-- viralBlaster banned cunningFrauder from memo INTO THE RABBIT HOLE --
VB: I can't see you anymore, Vieve. But I'm glad to hear that you survived.
VB: Contrary to the boys, I can see your city though. Or what is left of it. I'm sorry.
VB: And Candice's city too. Not as big devastation there, but her whole quarter is burning.
VB: Maybe there is a way to erase all this from history. Some ending that will make everyone survive, Vinnie.
-- rampageTeller began responding to memo INTO THE RABBIT HOLE --
VB: What I was starting to find out before things went wrong for us, was that even though some rules can't be broken, they can sure bend.
VB: Let's start bending now. There must be a reason we are able to contact you.[/color]
VB: You sure are grouchy ever since we fell out.
VB: I'm trying to help, aren't you?
VB: Let's take that discussion elsewhere.
VB: Yes. But
VB: Oh no, now it'sSSSSDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDF
-- rampageTeller banned viralBlaster from memo INTO THE RABBIT HOLE --
RT: sorry but the nonsense letters would just have continued on
I had a whole paragraph ready if it wasn't for these strange people...I guess Frauder wasn't the only one helping, and now she got banned from the memo...how...odd. I type in my response to Vinnie and Vieve anyway, and then try to somehow...talk to these new people. Besides, Frauder was awesome...in a way, despite her awful font color.
-- archaicMiracle responded to memo INTO THE RABBIT HOLE --
AM: So I guess I'm with Ricardo now?
AM: Am downloading it then.
AM: Oh no, not busy at all.
AM: Just got finished defeating some rainbow colored imps.
AM: They were beautiful though.
AM: But thanks Vinnie.
AM: I would have died if it wasn't for you, honest.
AM: I'm in some snow land. Just snow everywhere, and ice caves. Pretty simple, but calm.
AM: And I suppose there's more people I never met helping out?
AM: I actually find this very comforting.
While I was typing out in the memo, I had already downloaded the other file. I guess I should had to get a response from Ricardo now...oh wait, I forgot to respond to Vieve's! Instead of trying to continue where we left off, I start a new conversation with her.
archaicMiracle [AM] started pestering paintSplatter [PS]
AM: Oh um, sorry for not responding for a while...
AM: Was busy fighting some weird imps.
AM: They were beautiful though.
AM: No lying.
AM: I actually feel...uncomfortable being Ricardo's Server now though.
AM: Just thought I could talk to you about it...
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Northside Christian upends Plainview
CROWLEY - Northside Christian's main objective heading into Thursday's District 5-C contest against 3-13 Plainview was to conserve pitching and slip away with a victory without having to use standout hurlers Joseph Trahan and Josh Wheeler.
Mission accomplished.
Despite combining for nine walks, Northside's Jordan Monte and Jon-Riley Mouton limited the Hornets to just three hits as the Warriors cruised to a 15-5, six-inning victory at Miller Stadium.
The Warriors improved to 7-5 overall and 4-1 in league play with the victory heading into Tuesday's showdown at No. 4 Elizabeth.
"We wanted to come in here without having to pitch our two top pitchers," said Northside coach Lane Marceaux following the victory. "We wanted to give them some rest and we felt confident that we could get the job done with Jordan and Joh-Riley.
"Jordan struggled early on with a few walks, but we got by and Jon-Riley came in at the end and did a good job."
Monte walked eight in the first four innings but he limited the Hornets to just three hits and five runs.
Mouton took the mound in the fifth inning and faced just six batters in the final two frames. He walked one and struck out two. The lone baserunner Mouton allowed was erased when NCS catcher Nick Zaunbrecher caught Austin James straying too far off third base and picked him off for the final out of the fifth inning.
"Jon-Riley came in and really did a good job," said Marceaux. "We wanted to get him on the mound and he did a job of shutting them down."
Offensively, Northside struggled early against Plainview's Trey Cloud. The Warriors logged just six hits off the soft-throwing right hander in the first five innings.
Fortunately, those six hits were sandwiched between 14 free passes (13 walks and one hit-by-pitch), allowing the Warriors to score 13 runs.
"We had so many walks, we didn't have the opportunity to really string some hits together," said Marceaux. "And not to take anything away from their pitching, but it's tough to hit someone like that when the velocity isn't what you're used to seeing. But I thought the guys did a good job of adjusting later in the game."
The Warriors finished the day with eight hits, two of which were from Trahan. The sophomore had two doubles and drove in one run. Ben Morgan also had two hits, both singles, and one RBI. Zaunbrecher drove in two runs on a single while Monte, Mouton and Nick Martin each had one hit and one RBI.
Cloud had two of Plainview's three hits and drove in two runs. John Ash had one hit and an RBI and Tyler Thomas drove in a run when he was hit by a pitch with the bases loaded.
"Today wasn't our best game," said Marceaux, whose Warriors defeated Plainview 18-3 in the first meeting between the two teams. "I think we were maybe looking ahead to next week's game against Elizabeth. But, a win is a win and we'll take it. And it's a district win so that's big."
Northside, Class C's No. 8-ranked team, returns to action Tuesday when they travel to Elizabeth to take on the Bulldogs at 5 p.m.
Elizabeth rallied for a 5-4 victory over Northside at Miller Stadium two weeks ago in the first round of district play.
"We have to go over there and play a lot better than we did today," said Marceaux of Tuesday's game. "But we will have both of our top pitchers rested so we should be okay. I just hope we can come back and start hitting."


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The last decade has witnessed remarkable discoveries and advances in our understanding of the tool using behaviour of animals. Wild populations of capuchin monkeys have been observed to crack open nuts with stone tools, similar to the skills of chimpanzees and humans. Corvids have been observed to use and make tools that rival in complexity the behaviours exhibited by the great apes. Excavations of the nut cracking sites of chimpanzees have been dated to around 4-5 thousand years ago. Tool Use in Animals collates these and many more contributions by leading scholars in psychology, biology and anthropology, along with supplementary online materials, into a comprehensive assessment of the cognitive abilities and environmental forces shaping these behaviours in taxa as distantly related as primates and corvids.
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Fiscal analysis backs O'Donnell Park sale to Northwestern Mutual Life
Selling the O'Donnell Park parking structure to Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance Co. for $14 million has the most financial advantages among three options for Milwaukee County, according to a county work group that was asked to perform a cost-benefit analysis of the proposal.
The group included County Comptroller Scott Manske, and staff from the Department of Administrative Services, Parks Department and Corporation Counsel.
The report notes the analysis is narrowly focused on costs and didn't consider other factors.
"This financial argument may not be the only consideration for those who view the O'Donnell Park as an integral corridor to Milwaukee's lakefront amenities," the report says. "Public parks are 'valued' based on many non-financial factors, but O'Donnell Park is a unique asset within the county park system in that it includes a parking facility with a roof-top park."
The report and the proposal will be discussed at a joint public hearing of the Milwaukee County Board's Parks, Energy and Environment Committee and the Economic and Community Development Committee at 6:30 p.m. Sept. 10 at the Downtown Transit Center's Harbor Lights room, 909 E. Michigan St.
The Northwestern Mutual Life proposal has support from County Executive Chris Abele and officials of the Milwaukee Art Museum and Betty Brinn Children's Museum. Park advocates, including Park People and Preserve Our Parks, oppose it.
Northwestern Mutual has offered to purchase the O'Donnell Park parking garage and its 1,332 parking spots for $14 million. In addition, the insurance company will spend another $7 million to enhance and improve the structure and make the site greener and more inviting, according to Sandy Botcher, a company vice president.
The company would allow public parking on nights and weekends and set aside a certain number of spaces for public parking during business hours, she said.
O'Donnell Park is adjacent to the 32-story, $450 million new office tower that Northwestern Mutual is building downtown. The parking lot generated $1.6 million in revenue for Milwaukee County in 2013 and there's been an increase in demand for parking, in part because of the I-794 reconstruction and the related partial closure of the Lake Lot, according to the report.
Demand for parking at O'Donnell Park is likely to increase in future years, the work group said.
3 options studied
In its analysis, the work group looked at three alternatives: selling the park facility; keeping it and rebuilding the structure around the year 2035; and retaining the facility and demolishing the parking structure at the end of its useful life and retaining the site as a park.
Because of the current deed restriction when the city deeded the park to the county, the land can be used only for parks and recreation and can't be sold without the City of Milwaukee lifting the restrictions.
If the county agrees to sell O'Donnell Park to Northwestern Mutual, the company would have six to eight months to get the city of lift the deed restrictions, the report says.
The $14 million sale price would include a $1.3 million offset for repairs and $7.7 million for paying off the debt on the garage. So the county would net $5 million from the sale.
Demolishing and rebuilding a similar structure would cost an estimated $57 million to $76 million in 2014 dollars and is the most expensive option, the report said.
"Future parking and building lease revenues will not cover the additional cost to rebuild the facility in its present form," the report says.
The third alternative — retain O'Donnell Park and then demolish it at the end of its useful life, leave the pavilion in place, adjust the access to the art museum and redevelop the site as a park — would cost $11 million to $12 million, the report states, costs that do not address future parking needs.
Some have mentioned the possibility of the county leasing the facility to the insurance company. A lease may still require the City of Milwaukee to remove the deed restrictions, the report says, and wouldn't address outstanding debt on the property.
Report on JSOnline
Read the full county report at www.jsonline.com/milwaukee.


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North Colorado Medical Center will close three units in the hospital and its downtown mental health facility as part of an ongoing effort to find efficiencies and adjust to the changing realities of health care.
Beginning Jan. 1, the hospital will close its behavioral health in-patient unit, its barometric medicine unit, its medical library and its Wellspring Health & Resource Library. The closures, which were announced to staff Thursday, will save the hospital more than $2 million annually. The four units together employ 43 people. NCMC officials said they are working to transfer the employees to other positions within the hospital or within Banner Health, which manages NCMC, and it's too early to say how the changes will affect each employee.
Michelle Joy, associate administrator for NCMC, said changes in the way health care providers are paid, such as the emergence of accountable care organizations that tie payments for hospitals to quality metrics and reductions in the overall cost of care, drove the closures.
"It presents a situation that requires us to make some pretty challenging and difficult operational decisions," she said.
The behavioral health in-patient unit, 928 12th St., typically provides care for about 12 patients a day. The patients usually come first to the NCMC emergency room, where they are diagnosed. Some don't need in-patient care and are discharged to go home or are referred to the out-patient services they need. Joy said NCMC will work to increase partnerships with out-patient providers in Greeley, as well as remodeling the emergency department to accommodate more behavioral health patients.
"We will be closing our in-patient behavioral health unit and expanding our emergency department to make sure that we have the ability to assess, treat and stabilize our behavioral health population appropriately," she said. "There's plenty of evidence to support the idea that more and more services are moving to the out-patient setting. That is what this model is also doing."
Those patients who do need in-patient services will be transferred to other in-patient providers, including some in Fort Collins and Denver, she said.
"We currently have relationships with them and our team, here, has worked with those facilities," she said. "Someone who is in need will still have the same access to service that they do now. None of that is changing, and it will actually be in a more appropriate environment, given the way we're redesigning the emergency department."
The barometric medicine unit, which is used in the treatment of wounds, has served 24 patients so far this year.
"We've experienced a decline in the use of the hyperbaric oxygen chambers," Joy said, noting the treatment wasn't a proven one. "We're discontinuing that service."
The two libraries will be replaced by a growing use of electronic data to provide up-to-date medical information for community members and hospital staff. The Wellspring Health & Resource Library provides educational resources for community members to help them become more informed about their health. The medical library provides research material for doctors and staff at the hospital.
Joy said the hospital is constantly seeking ways to provide care more efficiently.
"I think it's important to note that there is no financial distress," she said. "It is part of our ongoing evaluation and review of programs."


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NCAA Bball
Duke Blue Devils at Maryland Terrapins Basketball
Duke is the only top-5 team to survive last week without a loss, which is impressive as they are still playing without a key member of their squad, and without him, they are clearly not as good as earlier in the season. Maryland has been really inconsistent this season, beating Virginia Tech by more than 20, beating NC State, and playing Miami tough in Miami, while also losing by 20 to Duke, and struggling against Boston College. The Terrapins are always excited to get a win against Duke, but whether or not this is a close one, depends entirely on which Maryland team shows up.
Venue Information
- Comcast Center
- University of Maryland
- College Park MD 20741
More Details
Released - Saturday, February 16 , 2013 at 6:00 PM Local Time
Official Website
TV Network - ESPN
Official Website
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Funding Unsuccessful
This project's funding goal was not reached on July 29, 2013.
"Liberty leading the people" - this is it. No more ads, attacks, tracking or censorship. Just liberty and peace of mind on the Web.
This project's funding goal was not reached on July 29, 2013.
Don't you find it really irritating that every time you open a web page you also get a whole load of advertising pop-ups that you spend ages trying to close?
And when you log in to your bank accounts do you wonder if someone's watching you?
And did you know that when you visit a website, a vast network of other websites and companies know about it within seconds?
And what about the recent PRISM scandal - is it safe to let organisations collect and store your personal data without your consent?
Our project is called iAnonym. Its aim is to address the above by empowering all Web users to make their own choices about tracking, advertising, censorship and Web security because you don't need to be up to no good on the internet to need to protect your privacy and personal data.
iAnonym is a free tool that can be used with any modern browser on any device (smartphone, PC, tablet). It runs inside your browser so you don't need to install any new software. It uses a network that makes you anonymous by hiding your identity (IP address) and the real addresses of the sites you visit when you surf the Web. For example, if you use internet banking, the address www.my_bank.com becomes www.abcdefg.com. Once you're set up, you can pretty much do what you want:
iAnonym can be used in conjunction with our Interception Detector solution. It's a separate tool designed to check whether your personal information is being intercepted without your knowledge when you surf the Web. It's a complex tool but it's really easy to use – you just need to get your own secret code from us. It's currently the only solution of its kind on the market.
We're offering Interception Detector codes as rewards for backing iAnonym. We think it's a great way of raising awareness about internet security issues.
For more details on the interception detector, go to the end of this article. You can also see the demo video here:
or here (better full-screen quality): http://www.ianonym.com/intercept.html#video
The short answer is yes. We are all painfully aware of what it's like to fall victim to unwanted ads and intrusive content. However, most of us don't suspect that supposedly "trusted" entities can also be colluding to track us.
Let's look at some examples of how our every Web move is under scrutiny and then if you still don't believe privacy is an issue, please read the complete project description on http://www.ianonym.com
Example 1) Websites share your information without your knowledge. You visit one site. That site tells another and another and within seconds your movements are broadcast as shown below.
You probably already knew tracking went on but did you suspect that it could go this far?
Example 2) In addition to web site tracking, browsers take it upon themselves to send out information without your consent. Even if you monitor your connection you have no way of knowing what is being sent over the https links.
Example 3) Some browsers are actually tracking you themselves and not telling you about it.
Example 4) You have a unique internet fingerprint that can easily be used to track you.
Your internet fingerprint is likely to be unique at any one time but it can change from one unique fingerprint to another so cannot be used to reveal your identity. However, it is a distinguishing factor that can be used to track you and eventually help to identify you if, for example, you happen to log on to one of your accounts.
Example 5) Some web sites change HTTPS certificates without telling you.
Why do they do this? Probably to protect themselves, not you (see below).
Example 6) Browsers decide who they trust and major companies can issue HTTPS (SSL/TLS) certificates themselves.
This can make https interception very easy and is directly linked to example 5).
And that's just a taste of some of the invisible things going on behind your back.
"Do Not Track" (DNT) is the only protection solution currently under development but we are ready to bet that DNT will unfortunately never make it because it only works if websites actually comply with it.
Web specifications are written by major internet companies and it's extremely unlikely that this trend will change. It's more likely that current and new Web specifications will continue to include more and more intrusive capabilities.
There are some organisations like Mozilla with Firefox (by the way, that should be your default browser if you care about privacy) that are currently trying to address the problem by removing third party cookies. However, it's turning out to be more complicated than they anticipated and is still a weak response.
So that leaves iAnonym - the only viable option currently available. It's based on a certain number of assumptions and best practices that are designed to maximise your privacy and security. iAnonymn doesn't hack into the browser. It uses the browser normally but enhances the impact of the best practices by, for example, eliminating all third party cookies and reinforcing the principles of the Same Origin Policy - the basis for web security - for domains and cookies management.
To see the iAnonym demo video, click on the main photo above or, for a better quality full-screen version, the below link or photo: http://www.ianonym.com#video
The concept is to use fake domains to hide the real domains you're visiting so www.my_bank.com becomes www.abcdefg.com.
You can use https at all times, even to access sites that don't normally support it. That means that you're intercepting yourself and, by getting there first, ensuring that no one else can intercept you.
No more iframes, active content, third party cookies, etc. iAnonym also adds a script to run a full check on the web pages you visit and prevent them from inserting dangerous content.
The protection level can vary depending on what you want to do. iAnonym defaults to the most secure level which involves accessing an anonymiser network independently from your browser and hiding your IP address.
All this is transparent for you. No add-ons, plugins, extensions, third party software... your browser does all the (hard) work.
Trying to protect your privacy can have the opposite effect and leave you even more vulnerable if you don't choose the right system. There are no existing systems you can trust except this one (unless, of course, you can't trust yourself).
You should. Basic trackers can now get to know everything about you. And even if you're not concerned for your own sake, you need to be thinking about:
If we don't act now, these security issues won't just affect our smartphones, PCs and other similar devices. They'll start having an impact on all the things we take for granted... our cars, houses, TVs, etc.
The below diagram describes the general principles (click to expand). However, it's probably best to read the whole story first and then come back to this later.
So far, the project has been submitted mainly to experts, labs, organizations and other people who are sensitive to, or currently working on, internet privacy-related issues. They have all shown a great deal of interest in the project.
The below diagram is about as simple as we could make it. It's a snapshot of what we're doing now and what we think the future holds. It shows how we leverage the very latest web techniques such as using browsers to route internet traffic.
The anonymised traffic is routed by the browser, which is the entry point to the anonymiser network. Thanks to the iAnonym router, which is the second entry point to the anonymiser network, neither the router nor the browser has a clue about what you're doing.
See the videos at the beginning of this article.
Above is the very first successful test with everything inside the browser. Funnily enough, "Liberty leading the people" was in the news that day. Let's hope it was a good omen.
(As mentioned in the videos, the final user interface won't actually look like that.)
As the CTO of jCore, my full profile and all our projects can be seen here: http://www.linkedin.com/pub/aymeric-vitte/26/55b/58
If you take a look, you'll see that we've developed a lot of web projects around the principles covered by our "Extract Widget" patent on real-time gadget/widget extraction from web pages.
Unfortunately, censorship by major companies forced us to put some of these projects on standby, much to the dismay and disappointment of jCore's core team and supporters:
We counterattacked by starting the node-Tor anonymiser network https://www.github.com/Ayms/node-Tor but as we became increasingly concerned about internet privacy we finally came up with iAnonym.
The node.js-based server-side routers for accessing the anonymiser networks are working well but still need optimising.
On the browser side, the proof of concept is working but we still need to do a lot of work to finish and optimise everything.
The funds will be used for both of the above.
If we reach our first funding target, we expect to ship the first version by the end of the year.
If we reach our stretch goal (which might shorten the schedule) we will work on:
iAnonym will be free of charge for users but we recommend that you use it in conjunction with the interception detector (see below), which requires you to purchase a secret code on a yearly basis. (That's just a recommendation, not an obligation.)
Browsers handle https and certificates in a way that's not transparent so you can't actually check what they're doing. The interception detector enables you to check whether your https connection is being intercepted.
For the brave-hearted, the technical details are available at the below links.
Specifications summary:
If you're really keen, we can provide an impressive list of research papers about privacy, anonymity and security themes used for this project.
The interception detector (http://www.ianonym.com/intercept.html) is an original and unique tool that can be standalone or work perfectly alongside iAnonym. It is a separate tool which, unlike iAnonym, is not free of charge for users. It checks whether information sent over your secure https connections is intercepted between your browser and iAnonym's routers. It works with a secret code that you must never disclose.
Like iAnonym, the Interception Detector is not just for a handful of dubious characters doing dubious things over the internet. Even in some democratic countries governments and official bodies are still persisting in trying to control the web. So if you want the peace of mind of knowing that your personal information is not being intercepted without your knowledge or you're just curious and want to have some fun, get your interception detector secret code.
If you've got your own website, you might want to get the interception detector installed directly on the site to ensure that your users' information is not intercepted up to your site.
If you want more evidence that browsers are really just doing whatever they like, try the interception detector with Google Chrome and a url such as my_secret.google.com. Then try to bypass the warning and see what happens.
This new approach implies big challenges for browsers which, in their new role, take on responsibility for a whole range of new tasks. We need to address some tough issues such as cryptography, the role of proxy for access to the anonymiser network, SSL/TLS over Websockets, etc.
But the proof of concept is working and it's happened faster than we could have imagined. We now need to put a lot of effort into optimising and improving the solution (e.g. SSL/TLS protocol inside the browsers, certificates verification).
We are confident about the above but one issue could remain around the user interface since browsers (although this is not specified anywhere) do not like what they consider to be "untrusted" SSL/TLS certificates generated by iAnonym. These are the certificates that are actually protecting you but the browsers display a warning when surfing from one fake domain to another.
We are currently investigating ways to overcome this.
And, who knows, if there is enough community interest around the project, together we might be able to influence browser behaviour.Learn about accountability on Kickstarter
Yes, iAnonym is for anybody who cares about their privacy
Yes, of course! iAnonym and the Interception Detector are perfectly legal. What's not legal is others spying on you.
OK but it's a unique tool and you get your own custom code! All Web users can benefit from it and we think it will be a real eye opener...
Tor or a Tor-like, see https://www.github.com/Ayms/node-Tor, the difference being that you access it the way you like and choose the routers.
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Skip to comments.Terrified Diners Recount How Armed Gang Stormed London Restaurant
Posted on 08/09/2011 8:39:02 PM PDT by Leaning Right
Terrified diners in London told Tuesday how rioters brandishing baseball bats smashed their way into a top restaurant and forced them to hand over wedding rings, cell phones and wallets.
Staff at two-Michelin-starred The Ledbury, in the affluent west London suburb of Notting Hill, were forced to confront the gang of intruders with rolling pins and kitchen utensils Monday evening in a desperate bid to protect customers.
Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/world/2011/08/09/terrified-diners-recount-how-armed-gang-stormed-london-restaurant/#ixzz1UanMjd5W
(Excerpt) Read more at foxnews.com ...
Thank God for the Second Amendment!
I'm sure the constables will be arresting the kitchen staff in short order.
Whereas, if they would have had a gun there wouldn't have been much of a fight.
But hey, they got the government they deserve, and all of the rules that go with it.
Coming soon to the U.S. if we don't wake the hell up.
"He told me to take off my rings and grabbed my hand, trying to yank them off. His friend tried to help too, but the rings wouldn't come off and I just yelled at him that I'd take them off myself. In hindsight, now that I know that gun control is so fierce in England and he only had bat, I should have held on to my rings better and maybe slugged him in the face."
Apparently no one is able to read the signs...even though we are commanded to read the signs. Lawlessness is abounding for a reason.
Forbid they pulled a Knife on the attackers!
I had the same thought. After all, a civilized society can't have folks waving knives around.
Perhaps Prince Charles can spearhead an effort to register all knives in Britain.
Just my thoughts, my brothah.
No forks? Give me a fork and I'll take your baseball bat with it.
Kitchen utensils, that would include butcher knives and meat cleavers. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kPZDYTjai5E
If the Bobbies had guns, this wouldn't have lasted but a couple hours and been done by now. Shoot the first few who didn't stand down days ago and the rest would have turned tail and gone home.
They should have listened to Enoch Powell.
Hard to imagine the scene but we better prepare for it mentally....
Couldn't they just talk and negotiate with these poor misguided yutes?
people who are stupid as dirt, not surprisingly end up
in a bad situation.
during riots, there are some places to avoid.
I got two words for them rioters:
Smith, and Wesson. I'll see your Louisville Slugger and raise you two 158 gr. JHP slugs.
Schwiiiiinnnng batta, batta.
"Thank God for the Second Amendment!"
In Texas, at a crowded restaurant, at least 5 people would have been packing. The problem for the yobs (as the British like to call them) would be figuring out just who those 5 were and disarming them. Since they are all concealed, the yobs are just out of luck...and bullets will fly. And in Texas, we take our shooting seriously and practice - innocents would be safe, only the yobs would have have to deal with caskets.
If they had fryers, each kitchen staff should have loaded up multiple pans with hot oil. Nobody keep looting with a face full of hot oil. The only real distance weapon they had available.
By this point in time, if I had a restaurant or shop in the UK, I'd have a shotgun ready — gun ban or no.
Watching all this made me determine that the next time I travel I leave my valuables in a vault and take only fun costume jewelery and imitation gemstones.
If that happened in Texas I doubt they'd leave in very good condition. This won't be like it was at Luby's. Lots of people carrying today. In fact, a woman who was at Luby's got elected to the state legislature just to pass a concealed carry law. And she did it. Her parents were killed at Luby's.
I was gonna say.....shouldn't a sizable kitchen have lots of knives?
Watching all this made me determine that the next time I travel I leave my valuables in a vault and take only fun costume jewelery and imitation gemstones.
Imitation gemstones could get you just as dead as real gemstones.
Yes, don't take anything you won't willingly part with - and that includes the US and the lovely TSA. The new reality.
Be prepared mentally and watch your surroundings. Look for the exits. Look for what may be a potential weapon. A commercial kitchen is full of lots of nasty weapons from a cleaver to a pot of boiling water.
Don't be a victim and just beat the living crap out of any thug who tries this stuff. Then beat him again. Pick the leader and flash mob him or her. When one of them is lying in the street and his momma can't recognize him, then the rest will think twice about trying this again.
When one of them is lying in the street and his momma cant recognize him, then the rest will think twice about trying this again.
Couldnt they just talk and negotiate with these poor misguided yutes?
Go Medieval on the punks.
BBCNews BBC News
by BreakingNews
Two men, injured when they were hit by a car in Birmingham, have died. A third is in a critical condition. http://bbc.in/p3HeqD
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I'm in Texas an I've started carrying EVERYWHERE now.
"When things look bad, and it looks like you're not gonna make it, then you gotta get mean. I mean plumb mad-dog mean. Cause if you lose your head and you give up, then you neither live nor win, that's just the way it is."
When things look bad, and it looks like you're not gonna make it, then you gotta get mean. I mean plumb mad-dog mean. Cause if you lose your head and you give up, then you neither live nor win, that's just the way it is.
That's right. Mad dog with rabies mean.
The inbred soon-to-be-king would be appaled at cutting down trees for the knife handles or broomsticks...it causes Climate Change, you know...
We need a ongoing live thread..
"A cheeky sign posted on the window of a Subway outlet in Manchester."
"I was gonna say.....shouldnt a sizable kitchen have lots of knives?"
Maybe they lock the knives up over there.
Silly asses - they all should boil water for tea and have it ready in all the shops. Better yet, how 'bout fish 'n chips?
How did these thugs get baseball bats? They don't play baseball over there. Probably bought them at flea markets.
They need bat control. Don't they have bat control over there? What barbarians!
"Interesting how the restaurant staff fought back with kitchen utensils."
Fire extinguishers would work a treat too. Only a few seconds of juice though.
Respectfully not disagreeing with the sentiment (exception being in the case of "you're not gonna make it"), but it is important to keep in mind a calmness of purpose. A coolness if you will.
Close combat training experts specifically address this need. You cannot think clearly in close combat if you are angry or cannot control your fears. In the face of high epinephrine (adrenalin), rational thought is impaired by the natural instinctive response to flee danger. Several websites deal with this,m as well as Mossad Ayoub's training course, among many others.
A cool calm mentality, with training for automatic movements: fire full clip, rapid reload of new clip, eyes focused on target. In the case of edged weapons, control of your weapon as well as use of the local items at hand. This is just part of what is taught.
Several reports that local sporting goods stores have sold out of US made Louisville sluggers. Did not distinguish who was doing the buying though intimated that it was people defending themselves, and the shop owners making their own custom "choppers"— medieval like.
Stay safe, ArmyTeach.
I will travel the way I always have, any where it is legal I will be armed.
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Belgrade Man Grows Giant Potatoes
95-1 The MOOSE is made up of an eclectic group of folks, and our Chief Engineer, Dennis Mountford grows giant food. All the time.
95-1 The MOOSE is made up of an eclectic group of folks, and our Chief Engineer, Dennis Mountford grows giant food. All the time.
I've had a few frozen pizzas in my life. Most of them are pathetic excuses for what you really crave, but recently I've discovered a frozen pizza which has earned the title of "The Best Frozen Pizza Michelle Wolfe Has Ever Had".
Yup, and it's a cool website too. Although it's been months since I've had a chance too enjoy breakfast at The Western Cafe in downtown Bozeman, I love the joint. Always have.
Nothing feels as good as a nice cup of coffee. And we do mean nothing.
It's Fire Prevention Week and an annual tradition for the Bozeman Firefighters this Sunday, October 6 as they host a FREE pancake breakfast. Don't miss the Fall Pancake Breakfast at the Gallatin County Fairgrounds from 8 - 11 am. Details here:
The Bozeman Firefighters would like to say thank you to the Bozeman community for their continued support by offering a free pancake breakfast. Bring the family down and enjoy some pancakes!
The Wolfe family is from the San Francisco Bay Area. I grew up in a place that offers up one of the most delicious oceanic culinary treats: The Dungeness Crab. It's perhaps my favorite thing on the planet, besides Cheez-It's and Budweiser.
Max Media of Montana is pleased to announce the 6th Annual Food-A-Thon summer food drive. ABC and FOX TV will be live at both Town & Country locations in Bozeman on Friday, September 13 from 1 - 3 pm. Details here:
Lots of foods have a bad reputation that, in actuality, are quite healthy for us. Woman's Day investigated and came up with a list. Carry on.
You may already be a MOOSE VIP. You may not be. If you're NOT - I'm going to bribe you into being one. It's no small secret that my desk might be one of the best desks to have in Bozeman. Not because the desk itself is cool but because of the awesome amount of free stuff that's lurking there. And I'm going to give it all away in two boxes. One box to a current MOOSE VIP, one box to a new VIP who signs up in September.
I have resigned myself to knowing I'm the only female on the planet who is not capable of making Chex Mix. Unfortunate, since it's my absolute favorite snack.
The Nova in downtown Bozeman is a morning favorite but right next door they've got what they call the "Nova A-GO-GO", a small space to grab the basics on the go and they've just announced that every 1st Tuesday of the month you can grab a free coffee!


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How Mindy Kaling's Subtle, Cunning Lies Affected B.J. Novak's Psyche While Filming The Office
She played him like a fiddle.By Devon Ivie
She played him like a fiddle.By Devon Ivie
He was not superstitious, but he was a little stitious.By Emma Barrie
"I'm just going to maximize my coming-of-age stories."By Sarah Caldwell
Every twist and turn of their adorably fraught history.By Jennifer Keishin Armstrong
It's all "romantically charged camaraderie with loud arguments."By Nate Jones
With special appearances by Jason Schwartzman and Katy Perry.By Denise Martin
By director Marc Webb.By Halle Kiefer
Co-starring Mindy Kaling.By Halle Kiefer
"The closest analogy for me is Woody Allen," his agent says.By Zach Dionne
As will Zach Woods.By Margaret Lyons
Kelly & Ryan 4-Ever.By Josef Adalian
That leaves Taran Killam and Bill Hader as the top contenders.By Andre Tartar
Ryan will only be a recurring character next season.By Margaret Lyons
Tilda Swinton looks ... different.By Eliot Glazer
Everyone who's anyone, and anyone who's dressed.By Alex Rees
Plus: B.J. Novak signs deal to stick around 'The Office' for two more years.By Josh Duboff
Plus: Ne-Yo, Amy Poehler, Gilbert Gottfried ...By Michelle Ruiz
Plus: B.J. Novak explains how he was born funny.By Mark Graham
Plus: B.J. Novak on the perils of engaging in conversation with Brad Pitt.By Emma Pearse
If you like 'The Office' and hate mild spoilers, stop reading!By Lane Brown