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Perth Heat –
Perth, whose official name appears to be the 'Alcohol. Think Again Perth Heat', did not have a game in the Australian Baseball League this week. Instead, the two-time defending ABL champions traveled to Busan, Korea to participate in the Asia Series.
The Asia Series is comprised of six teams representing several baseball leagues: Nippon Professional Baseball, the Korean Baseball Organization, the Chinese Professional Baseball League and the China Baseball League. These squads are divided into two pools with the winner of each advancing to a championship game.
Perth's participation was brief as they were eliminated after losing their first two games, 6-1 and 7-1.
- Adam Melker: went 1-for-7 with a sacrifice fly and four strikeouts.
Sydney Blue Sox –
Sydney hosted Brisbane in their home-opening series this past week-end went 1-2. The Blue Sox won the opener 8-0 but fell twice in close contests, 3-1 and 2-1.
- Geoff Klein: Klein started all three games for Sydney. He caught on the 9th and 10th then was the designated hitter on the 11th. The switch-hitter batted clean-up and went 3-for-14 with a run scored and two strikeouts. His line was .214/.214/.214/.429 with a .250 Batting Average for Balls In Play (BABIP).
Season-to-date: .190/.227/.190/.418, 21 AB, 4 H, 2 R, 0 RBI, 2 BB, 4 SO, 0 SB, 0 CS, .222 BABIP
Reliever Keith Butler is the latest St. Louis farmhand to enlist in the Dominican Winter League. Butler joined Starlin Rodriguez on Escogido's roster and made his debut this week. Stats are through games of November 13th.
Aguilas Cibaenas –
Aguilas went 3-2 this week. Audry Perez is still out of action with a right knee injury.
- Luis De La Cruz: De La Cruz joined the ranks of the six-year Minor League Free Agents so is no longer in St. Louis' system.
- Audry Perez: out with a right knee injury
- Oscar Taveras: Taveras was named Aguilas' Player of the Week for the second time on the 13th. He was the starting right fielder in three of the Cibaenas' five games. Taveras singled once in three at bats before being pinch hit for in the 9th in an 8-1 loss. On the 11th he was a key contributor in Aguilas' 8-6 come-from-behind victory. He got off to a slow start with three outs in his first three at bats, including a ground out to first that stranded the bases loaded in the third. However, Taveras got untracked with a vengeance after that point with an RBI single, a ninth-inning single and a two-run bomb that provided the winning margin in the 11th. He scored one and drove in another in a 6-0 victory on Tuesday. Taveras went .357/.357/.571/.929, 5-for-14, with one long ball, two runs scored, four RBIs and no strikeouts. Overall, his .343 batting average is fifth in the league and he is fourth with a .964 OPS.
Season-to-date: .343/.397/.567/.964, 67 AB, 23 H, 4 2B, 1 3B, 3 HR, 13 R, 8 RBI, 5 BB, 9 SO, 2 SB, 0 CS, 2 E, .364 BABIP
Gigantes del Cibao –
The Gigantes had six games and went 3-3.
- Ronny Gil: There were three Gil sightings this week. He took over at short in the sixth inning on the 8th after Cibao's starting shortstop was hit by a pitch for the second time in the contest. Gil led off the 9th with a solo shot that was the first of six tallies the Gigantes scored that inning. His groundout to first with runners on second and third was the final out of the game in a 12-11 Cibao loss. The next day, Gil was a pinch runner in the eighth, representing the tying run but was caught stealing. He remained in the game at second for the ninth. He fanned looking with the bases loaded in a pinch hit appearance on the 11th in the game in which Oscar Taveras smashed his game-winning bomb in the top of the 11th.
Season-to-date: .364/.364/.636/1.000, 11 AB, 4 H, 1 HR, 3 R, 3 RBI, 0 BB, 2 SO, 1 SB, 1 CS, .375 BABIP
Leones del Escogido –
Escogido went 0-6 this week. Ouch!
- Keith Butler: Butler had a bit of a dicey debut on the 9th. He started the ninth with his squad down 3-2 and allowed the first two runners to get aboard via a free pass and a plunked batter. A sac bunt moved each up a base and ended Butler's appearance. Neither runner subsequently scored. His appearance the next day went worse. Butler inherited a first and second with one out conundrum and immediately wild pitched both runners into scoring position. That blip was magnified when the Leones' first baseman committed a fielding error that permitted the batter to reach and brought a run across. Butler yielded a two-out single that plated the other inherited runner in a game Escodigo lost 5-2.
Season-to-date: 0.00 ERA/9.20 FIP, 2 G, 0 GS, 1 IP, 1 H, 0 R, 0 ER, 0 HR, 1 HB, 1 BB, 0 SO, 2.00 WHIP
- Starlin Rodriguez: Rodriguez has not played since November 2nd.
Season-to-date: .250/.250/.250/.500, 4 AB, 1 H, 1 R, 1 RBI, 0 BB, 2 SO, 0 SB, 0 CS, .500 BABIP
Tigres del Licey –
Licey went 3-3 this week.
- Maikel Cleto: Cleto's impressive performance last week carried through his first appearance in this stanza but no further. The right-hander began the eighth inning on Friday with his squad up 3-2 and retired six of the seven batters he faced for his first save. The same cannot be said of his stint on Tuesday when he took the mound in the 10th to close out a 1-0 lead. The first batter reached on shortstop Jurickson Profar's throwing error. Cleto compounded that by issuing a base-on-balls. Even an attempted sac bunt went awry when Licey's third baseman failed to field it cleanly for another error. Cleto appeared to lose the strike zone at that point as he coughed up consecutive free passes, forcing across the tying and winning runs for the opposition. As a side note, in an interview this week Cleto mentioned that St. Louis has not set a limit on his participation with Licey and that he is there as long as he wants to be.
Season-to-date: 0.00 ERA/5.60 FIP, 4 G, 0 GS, 3.1 IP, 0 H, 2 R, 0 ER, 0 HR, 0 HB, 4 BB, 1 SO, 1.20 WHIP
- Willy Paulino: Paulino is still pitching in the Dominican Instructional League for which stats are not available.
Stats are through games of November 14th.
Caneros de Los Mochis –
The Caneros went 2-4 for the second straight period.
- Jermaine Curtis: Curtis was simply outstanding this week for the Caneros, going .571/.643/.667/1.310, 12 for 21 in six game starts, with two doubles, three runs scored and six knocked in. He worked five base-on-balls against just two strikeouts was successful stealing once in two stolen base attempts. He was hit by a pitch once. Curtis was Los Mochis' third baseman five times and designated hitter once. Offensively, he hit in the two hole four times, eighth once and lead off on Wednesday.
Season-to-date: .340/.410/.396/.806, 53 AB, 18 H, 3 2B, 5 R, 9 RBI, 6 BB, 7 SO, 1 SB, 1 CS, .383 BABIP
Venados de Mazatlan –
Mazatlan went 2-4 this past week for their fifth consecutive week with a losing record.
- Nick Additon Additon bounced back from a 2 2/3-inning dud last time out to fall one out shy of eight complete frames in a 3-1 victory on the 11th. In raising his record to 2-1, the lefty scattered three singles, a double and four free passes, one intentional, over 7 2/3 with five strikeouts, eight ground outs and seven fly outs The only mark against him came in the sixth inning of a scoreless contest when a lead-off double and sac bunt placed a runner at third. A fielder's choice and throwing error not only brought a run across but ended up with the batter on second. Additon intentionally put a batter on to set up a force play then escaped the inning on a called strikeout and a 5-2 force out. He threw 99 pitches, 62 for strikes.
Season-to-date: 4.50 ERA/3.43 FIP, 6 G, 6 GS, 30 IP, 33 H, 16 R, 15 ER, 1 HR, 2 HB, 11 BB, 24 SO, 1.47 WHIP, .344 BABIP, .282 BAA
The Puerto Rican League began play this past week with a schedule running to the end of December. Six teams make up the league, which has five of the Cardinals' minor leaguers listed on various rosters.
Right-hander Juan Caballero (GCL) and outfielder Anthony Garcia (Quad Cities) are teammates on the Gigantes (Giants) de Carolina. Southpaw Hector Hernandez (Quad Cities) pitches for the Indios (Indians) de Mayaguez while infielder Luis Mateo (Quad Cities) suits up for Criollos de Caguas. Pitcher Iden Nazario (Palm Beach) is on the roster of the Atenienses (Athenians) de Manati. Stats are through games of November 14th.
Criollos de Caguas –
The biggest name on the Criollos' roster has to be catcher Pudge Rodriguez, although he has not yet played in a game. Caguas went 4-2 without him.
- Luis Mateo: Mateo was the starting shortstop in five games, batting at or near the bottom of the order. He went .267/.368/.333/.702, 4-for-15 with a double and three walks. The 22-year-old scored twice and drove in one on a sac fly with two strikeouts and a stolen base. He had a .286 BABIP.
Gigantes de Carolina –
The Gigantes' roster includes free agent pitcher J.C. Romero, outfielder Micah Owings and former Major Leaguer Scott Kazmir. Anthony Garcia is listed with the catchers on the roster which may well be news to him. Carolina went 2-2 with two postponements.
- Juan Caballero: Caballero did not make an appearance.
- Anthony Garcia: Garcia appeared in three games, twice as the starting left fielder. The Gigantes' number six batter had a good week, going .571/.625/.714/1.339, 4-for-7 with a double, two runs scored and two brought in. He struck out once, was plunked once and was caught stealing once. Garcia had a .667 BABIP. His final appearance came on Wednesday when he pinch ran in the 10th and scored the walk-off tally in a game in which Hector Hernandez took the loss.
Atenienses de Manati –
Like many of the Puerto Rican teams, several players on the Atenienses' roster are affiliated with Major League Baseball. Like those connected to St. Louis, most of them have yet to appear in The Show. Manati went 1-3 with two postponements.
- Iden Nazario: Nazario has yet to pitch for Manati.
Indios de Mayaguez –
The Indios' roster includes former Springfield Cardinal Ray Kruml, who is a reserve for Mayaguez.
- Hector Hernandez: Hernandez has been used in some key situations in the early going. Three appearances produced a win and a loss. Hernandez was credited with the victory in his first relief appearance in Mayaquez' season opener on November 8th. He inherited runners on the corners with two outs in a scoreless game. The southpaw yielded a double to righty bat Enrique Hernandez (Houston) that plated one runner. A fly out to right ended the sixth and finished Hernandez' outing. The Indios knocked in two in the bottom of the frame to get Hernandez the W.
He faced a similar situation in the seventh inning on the 11th. Hernandez entered to face a right-handed bat with his team down 4-2, a runner on third and two outs. He recorded the out on a fly out to right.
On Wednesday, the lefty was plunged into a two-on, no-out jam in the 10th. He picked off the runner at second for the first out then watched as the second runner was caught stealing. A base-on-balls by Hernandez came back to haunt him when his mound replacement yielded back-to-back singles and a free pass that forced in pinch runner Anthony Garcia and saddled Hernandez with the loss.
Season-to-date: 6.75 ERA/5.46 FIP, 3 G, 0 GS, 1.1 IP, 1 H, 1 R, 1 ER, 0 HR, 0 HB, 1 BB, 0 SO, 1.50 WHIP,
Coming soon: Part two of this report will cover Cardinals prospects' results the past week in the Venezuelan and Venezuelan Parallel Leagues.
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Boston MA (SPX) Dec 02, 2011
In a scientific first that potentially could shed new light on how signals travel in the brain, how learning alters neural pathways, and might lead to speedier drug development, scientists at Harvard have created genetically-altered neurons that light up as they fire.
The work, led by John L. Loeb Associate Professor of the Natural Sciences Adam Cohen, and described in Nature Methods, involved using a gene from a Dead Sea microorganism to produce a protein that, when exposed to the electrical signal in a neuron, fluoresces, allowing researchers to trace the propagation of signals through the cell.
"It's very exciting," Cohen said of the research. "In terms of basic biology, there are a number of things we can now do which we've never been able to do. We can see how these signals spread through the neuronal network. We can study the speed at which the signal spreads, and if it changes as the cells undergo changes. We may someday even be able to study how these signals move in living animals."
To create the light-up neurons, Cohen and his team infected brain cells that had been cultured in the lab with a genetically-altered virus that contained the protein-producing gene. Once infected, the cells began manufacturing the protein, allowing them to light up.
"The way a neuron works is it has a membrane around the whole cell, sort of like a wire and insulation, except in a neuron the membrane is an active substance," Cohen said. "Normally, the inside of the cell is negatively-charged relative to the outside. When a neuron fires, the voltage reverses for a very short time, about 1/1,000th of a second."
"This brief spike in voltage travels down the neuron and then activates other neurons downstream. Our protein is sitting in the membrane of the neurons, so as that pulse washes over the proteins, they light up, giving us an image of the neurons as they fire."
The research has the potential to revolutionize our understanding of how electrical signals move through the brain, as well as other tissues, Cohen said.
"Before, the best way to make a measurement of the electrical activity in a cell was to stick a little electrode into it and record the results on a volt meter," he said.
"The issue, however, was that you were only measuring the voltage at one point, you weren't seeing a spatial map of how signals propagate. Now, we will be able to study how the signal spreads, whether it moves through all neurons at the same speed, and even how signals change if the cells are undergoing something akin to learning."
Another limitation of using electrodes, Cohen said, is that the process tends to kill the cells relatively quickly, making it impossible to study processes that take place over time. His new process, however, opens the door to studying the effects of growth and development on neurons, or to monitor how stem cells develop.
Being able to track the electrical pathways in cells also holds practical applications, Cohen said, particularly when it comes to the development of new drugs or other therapies.
"Many, many drugs target ion channels, which are important proteins in governing the activity of the heart and brain," he said.
"Right now, if you want to test a compound designed to activate or inactivate a particular ion channel, you have to culture the cell, test it with an electrode, then add the drug and see what happens. This is an extremely slow process - it typically takes an hour or two for each data point.
"Now that we can do it optically in the microscope, we can test the efficacy of a drug on a cell in a few seconds. Instead of testing one compound or ten compounds, we can try to test thousands or even hundreds of thousands. We can test different conditions, different mixtures - it will increase the throughput for testing new drugs."
The process may even open new research avenues for those studying genetic conditions ranging from depression to heart disease.
Using stem cells, researchers can culture cells in the lab that are genetically identical to a patient known to carry a genetic predisposition to a particular condition, then study how signals move through those cells.
Cohen's research was supported by the Harvard Center for Brain Science, National Institutes of Health grants and the Harvard/MIT Joint Research Grants Program in Basic Neuroscience.
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Because you will need to cook the gnocchi quickly once the batter is ready, do the following before you begin making the pate a choux. Bring a large stockpot of salted water to a boil and reduce to a simmer. Have a large bowl of iced water nearby.
Make choux paste according to directions. Fill a pastry bag with large plain tip #8 with batter. Holding pastry bag in over simmering water, gently squeeze out dough, slicing into one inch lengths with a paring knife. Working in 4 batches of about 20 pieces, cook gnocchi at a slow simmer, stirring occasionally, until they start to puff, about 5 minutes. They should resemble floating corks. To test for doneness, remove a dumpling and cut in half. The center should have tiny holes. With a slotted spoon, transfer gnocchi to the bowl of iced water to chill. Drain well in a colander. Can be stored in refrigerator for up to two days.
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Let the Truth Be Told.
What General McCrady says i
his letter to the Greenville New
touching the census embroglio, i
true, and emphatically true. Cha
leston, so far as her Representative
in the House are concerned, or an
expression of her people is concerne6
is in no way responsible for the fai
ure to provide for making the enu
Meration required by the Constitt
tion and the codified law.
The cry of "up country" and "lo,
country" in this matter is a gros
piece ot unscrupulous demagogism
There is no truth. in it. The lov
country, as General McCrady truti
fully claims, is not chargeable as
section with avoiding the'command
of the Constitution iii this matter t
serve its own political aggrandize
ment. Every bill framed for th
purpose was framed by a low coun
tryman, and among the most earnes
advocates for obeying the Constitu
tion to the letter and taking the enu
mers.tion commanded were low coun
Nor was the Governor in any waj
responsible for this dereliction. He
expressly recommended in his mess
age to the Legislature of '84 as fol
"It is provided in Article 2, Section
4, that the enumeration of inhabi
t,s of the State for the purpose of
ikning the - RepresentatiVes be
made in 1875 and in every tepth
year thereafter. This enumeration
should, therefore, be taken the next
year, and I recommend that such ap
propriation be made as may be ne
cessary for the purpose."
This is as clear as language can
put it.
Now, as to the earnest advocacy
of low countrymen in this behalf, we
remember well being in the House
when this matter was under discus
Fsion in 1884. The house seemed at
first demoralized with the idea of the
heavy expense involved in taking an
elaborate census, and, if we mistake
not, refused to accept the bill report
ed towards that end, although that
bill held in contemplation the Fed.
eral aid promised. But finally a less
* expensive bill, looking to an expend
iture of something like twenty thou
sand dollars, was passed. We re
member Mr. McCrady's earnest
speech advocating an obedience to
the Constitution, cost what it may.
He said there was no other way to
have a regular government. With
him it was not a question of will, but
one of solemn obligation. What did
the constitution require? He then
r read the provision and said no ration
- al mind could fail to see that it re
'.quired an enumeration to be made in
1885. What did the oaths of memn
bers obligate them to do? 1He .'en
read the oath and said he felt the
binding obligations of that oath, and
he was free to say that he would pre
fer that Charleston should be repre
sented by a small delegation that all
would admit to be legitimately hers,
under the organic law, than to have
a large delegation the legitimacy of
which was questioned. He was sure
the small delegation under such cir-I
eumstances would exercise a better
and larger influence. Mr. Hutson,
of Hampton and other low country
men followed in the same line of
But when the House passed the
census bill in 1884, it was killed in
the Senate. W hen Senator Mauldin,
of Greenville called it up, Senator
Maxwell from Abbeville moved to
strike out the enacting clause. It is
true Senator Smythe from Charleston
opposed the bill, belittling the Con.
stitutional requirement, which, lie
said, might be construed any way the
members might choose to take it, and
that the census would cost a great
frdeal to little or no purpose-to giveI
Sone or two counties in the State a
little more representation than they
now had. The bill was met in the
same way by other Senators oppos
ing it. Senator Moody, for one, dis
covering the astounding fact that the
Con.stitution itself was unconstitu
The motion to strike out prevailed
by 19 to 15. We have been at the
pains to take this vote as we find it
in the Senate Journal. Those voting
l to strike out the enacting clause were:
! Lp Country-Bieian of Oconee,
m Black of York, Coker of Darlington,
Maxwell of Abbeville. Moody of
Marion, Munro cf Union. Wallace of
D I Richland, Wingard of Lexington.
Woodward of Fairfield-9.
Low Country-1-Benbow of Claren
i. don. -Buist of Charleston, Byrd of
s Williamsbrg, Howell of Colleton,
e IzIar of Orangeburg, Moore of lamp
ton, Reynolds of Beaufort, Simmons
of Berkeley, Smythe of Charleston,
e Youmans of Barnwell-10.
For the motion: Up country, 9;
low country, 10-aggregate 19.
Those opposed to striking out the
n enacting clause were:
Up CouAry-Bell of Aiken, Bobo
of Spartanburg, Clyburn of Lancas
ter, Field of Pickens, Leitnerof Ker
s shaw, McCall ot Marlboro, Mauldin
of Greenville, J. B. Moore of Ander
son, Patterson of Chester, Redfearn
of Chesterfield, Sligh of Newberry,
Todd of Laurens, Talbert of Edge
Low Country-Smith of Horry,
Williams of Georgetown-2.
Against the motion to strike out:
Up country, 13; low couotry, 2-ag
gregate, 15.
- Now, if up country and low coun
try had anything to do with it, why
were nine up countrymen found vot
ing to kill the bill? We see that
. there was a difference of only four in
the vote; and if even-the three Pied
mont belt Senators, Biemann, Black
and Maxwell, had voted for the cen
. sus bill of the House, the vote would
- have stood: for the bill, 18; against,
16. And if the nine up country Sen
ators voting against the bill had
voted with the thirteen up country
men sustaining it we see 22 votes
for the census bill to 12 against it,
even allowing all the low country
Senators to vote together. How vi
ciously absurd it is to talk, then. i
about the defeat of the census bill
being the work )f the low country
when we see that about half the vote
killing the bill was an up country
Put when the House found their I
bill (efeated and no appropriation f
had been made for the enumeration,
whilst some members thought it wasI
useless to contend further with the
co-ordinate body in opposition, there
were yet those who advocated taking ~
a recess and coming back to insist ~
on the legislation necessary for mak
ing the enumeration.
'We find that the v-ote in this behalf ~
stood : For the recess, 33; against it,
46. Let us see who these thirty- ~
three men were who were willing to P
come back in January, '85, and fight t
it out for the constitutional enumer
ation. We call the names from the c
Journal of the House as follows: I
Upper Counties-Messrs. Ansel of 1b
Greenville, Clyburn of Lancaster, c
Graydon of Abbeville, Mason of Spar- C
tanburg, Simpson of Laurens, S>nith b
of Spartanburg, Thompson of Spar- a
tanburg, Williams of Greenville, 0
Stanyarne Wilson of Spartan burg-9. n
Midland Counties-Messrs. Aldrich h
of Aiken, Brooker of Lexington, rt
Hardy of Newberry, McIver of Dar- te
lington. McKissick of Union, McMas- ti
ter of 1Richiland, Pettigrew of Dar- n
lington. Pope of Newberry, Ray of le
Rlieblandi, Ready of Edgefield, Rice T
of Union, L. F. Youmans of Rich- se
Low Country Counties-Messrs. p:
Baxter of Georgetown, Harvin ofn
Clarendon, Hutson of Hlampton, Lee bi
of Snater, Macusker of Georgetown, b<
Maher of Bnrnwell, Mears of Char
leston, Mitchell of Beau fort, Padgett. eC
of Colleton, Richardson of. Horry, ft
Robinson of Beaufort, J. W. Sim- m
mnons of Orangeburg-12. o
Here, then, we see nine votes from *
the upper counties, twelve from the bI
midland. andl twelve from the lowT
country counties, making up this for- c~
lon hope for saving the enumeration ri
and apportionment at any hazard. t
With these facts of record, what shall "
we say of the unscrupulous cheek of P1
those who would now raise a cry 0o
against the low country for the failure e~
of that which simply failed for the to
want of up country votes. Pish ! e*
This is of a character with some ru
more of the stuff which is now being M
voided on the people of the~ State._ th
Colu&>ia Register. m
The damage to the orange inter
ests of Florida as a result of the I 9
freeze is estimated at $-2.000,000. ur
We run for office and our friends an
manage for us and spend our money, ev
and behold we cometh out badly Wc
scooped and crushed financially. wJ
A Georgia Farmer.
Mr. Robert Rood is a youtg far
mer. Thin browned, all fiber, slow
and easy of motion, self-reliant and
independent-he is a fine type of the
young Southern farmer.
"The earth is a gold mine," he
says, "to any man that works it dil
It has certainly proved to be one
to Mr. Rood. In seven years he has
made over $40,000 in farming-not
by speculating-for he has lost $to.
000 by that method. But by the pa
tient tilling of the earth, and the
slow transmitting of sunshine, rain
ani sweat into corn and cotton. The
story of his work is significant, and
it may be improving, so here it is in
paragraphs coaxed from his own
'-My father said to me about seven
years ago, 'My son, I'm going to die,
and I leave $6,000 in honest debts
that you must pay.' In six weeks
he was (lead and I took the planta
tion in Stewart County on the Chatta
hoochie River. I mortgaged the
place for $4.000 and went to work.
I darned my own socks and patched
my own clothes as they wore out..
When I went to Eufaula I put a bis
cuit in my pocket, and when I got to
town tied my horse to a rack and 4
saved hotel bill. I ran a plough
myself, leading the way for my
hands. At night I lit up the forge i
and did my own blacksmithing, learn
ing as I went. I never left my farm2:
a day- and slept only six hours a
'.That must have brought sue- s
ess ?"
"Of w;rse it did, as it would have t
brought it in any other business.
n two years I had paid my debt and v
ad money in bank. I have made in* f
Dtual money over $40,000. This is b
ny poorest year and yet I will clear f<
>ver $3,500. I would not give any y
nan $5 to guarantee me $3,000 a a
-ear on my ten mule farm for the a
iext ten years. Farming is the n
afest business a man can engage in t
f he goes at it right." s
'-What are the rules by which yon tl
rork ?" f(
"First. I raise my own provisions. tL
now have 1,000 bushels of corn, y
,100 bushels of oats, 800 bushels of a:
eas and 400 gallons of syrup now w
or sale. I raise much of my own r(
neat and would raise it all except tr
at my climate is too warm to cure
. I never saw a man who did not p<
ise his own corn that made money w~
n cotton. I never saw a corn raiser c<
at wasn't a prosperous farmer. b:
ou can often figure out that you cc
an buy corn cheaper than you can f
ise it,' but that is only on paper. b:
~orn-raisers prosper-the others fail. bi
y cotton crop is always a cash .ur- sl
lus. I make my other crops carry pr
e farm. at
"Next to raising my own coraI, I st
>unt personal attention to business. -
sow ev-ery bushel of oats myself,
cause I never found a hand that
uld do it right. This fall I worked
even hours a day with a three peck Tl
sket on my arm and sowed oats of
ead of twelve plows until the ends pl
f my fingers were bleeding. In
aking syrup I got along with four hc
>urs sleep in twenty-four, and the b~
~sult is perfect syrup. I superin
nd every detail of my farming as
is. Every back strap of my har- t
~ss has a bag of moss sowed under W
ather to protect the mule's back.
bread wouldnt do for that sort of o
~wing, as it would rot. Iron wire
uldn't for it would rust. So every
d is sewed with copper wire. I An
ver had scald back or a piece of
oken skin on a mule since I've
~en farming. -f
'-Next to a personal supervision is f
onomy. Nothing is wastedl on myg
r-m. I have 120 tons of home- co
de manure composted now, and
e ton of composted manure is cal
rth three tons of guano. Not a w
de of grass is burned on my place.
at with the refuse of my sugar do
ne even is turned under and en- a
hes the ground. It is small things
t make or ruin the farmer. My kn
ighbors use two or three sets of so
wlines a year-mine last me two un
three years. Every night I 'il
'ery wagon on my p)lace using cot- ea
1 seed oil. Once a month I have firs
ry axle cleaned and the old oil me
bed off. This saves my wagons.
stock and crops are all protected gn
same way. The poorest house on tirr
r place is the house 1 live in." der
"How about your labor ?" pat
"Better than slaves. I pay them -
a month, half in cash every Sat- si
ay night, one ration and allow par
h hand a half acre for potatoes at
d an acre for corn and allow them
ry Saturday afternoon. They
irk because they know I know it not
ien they shirk. They began steal- ath
ing from me. I slept on the ground
every night for three weeks, bagged
three of the thieves and now I am
safe. When they are well I make
them work and when they are sick I
give them medicine from my own
hand. In short they know I watch
them and they work."
"You find the life a happy one ?"
"The freest, happiest, most iude
pendent Rfe in the world. I have
not been sick a day in eleven years.
When I lie down I sleep. I ask ,o
man any odds. My broad acres are
there and they are exhaustless. The
best bank a farmer can have is hi
land. Every dollar he puts there is
safe and will pay him interest an
principal. Many farmers sell their
cotton seed. This is robbing their
land. I buy cotton seed, for with
acid phosphate and stable manure
it makes the best fertilizer. The far
mer is the one independent man."
"I can not understand," Mr. Rood
ent on to say, "why a young fellow
ill stay in the city and clerk at a
5mall salary with no future when a
.armer's life is open to him. No
nan could have had a much worse
tart than I did. Now, in spite of
narkets, weather or anything else, I
:an live a free man's life, with
iealth, open air, exercise, and at the
md of every year put from $3,500 to
)5,000 in the bank. This is not
hiance. It is certainty. And there
s nothing in me except hard work,
tention and a little common sense.
f fifty young clerks were to go to
tewart County to-day and farm just
.s I do, each one would reach the
ame result. It is no experiment.
t is the most certain of- c'ertain
And away the young farmer went
rith a gang of friends who had called
or him. Why may not he prove to
e a type? Why may not there
>)low in his foot-steps a race of
oung farmers, sturdy and self-reli
nt, with smooth brows, clear eyes
nd strong arms ? Why may they
ot come to the rescue of our sec
on1 from the domination of western
moke-house and cribs, and win for
ie South amid their corn rows a
iller and better experience than
1eir fathers fought for twenty-five
ears ago ? There is plenty of land
ud more to come. Mr. Rood started
ith 2,000 acres which he has al
ady cut down to 1,200. He con
acts his arabla once every year.
[ntensive farming," says he, "is thei
>licy of the future. There is oner
ar cry under which the South can
>mmand the situation. That is a I
ile to the acre, full corneribs, a big
>mpost heap and home on -ther
rm !" Frankly now hasn't this
oad shouldered young fo'rmer, with
s steel-like sinews, this untroubled
eep, come nearer to solving the1
'oblem than those cf us who, aiming ~
glittering heights, are fighting and
umbling along the uneven way.
Atlnta G'onstitution
A Pslan- of Life.
There is but little in life to live for. t
ie world is a hollow mockery full a
troubles, trials and bad piano a
ayers. 11
We go forth in the morning full of h
pe and come home at night full of
.d whiskey.
We dabble in politics and bet all
r wealth on the leading man, and s
e other fellow getteth elected andt
are left to mourn.
We marry for wealth, and our girl'sa
man assigns.
We deny ourselves many things in a
:ler to lay up some cash in the bank,
d the cashier fleeth unto Canaan.
id in an evil bour when we dream C
t of it the merchant presenteth a
1 for our wife's ne w bonnet, and the
~m and the stock goeth under inort.
ge to pay it.y
Woe unto man ! Of how little t
asequence is his joy. ,a
[n fancy he is full -of colic and '
~nip, and in youth he goeth aboutg
Lb a thorn in his heel,.
[n the evening of life he lieth t
wn full of rheumatism, aches and ~
e-bilious pills.W
The places that once knew him "I
ow him now only by the promis. T
y notes and accounts he has left sr
paid. And this is the end of man. HI
[n youth he dances into the ring h:
;er to knock somebody out, but the it,
t thing he knoweth hc is orna- es
nted with a black eye,.h
Lie cometh forth in black raiment is
I a standing collar, and at noon
e he goeth about with one suspen. ke
-and with the seat of his pants H
;ched with an old sock. th
31e carrieth a torch in the proces- hi
n, and whoopeth it up for his ti:
-ty, and behold the man who staid dc
home is appointed to office. th
uch is the career of man. h
>o! in an hour when he dreameth m
of it, a breechy mule kicketh him se
wart the center, and he dieth. in
Truth Stranger than FicLon,
The experience uf almost cvery
man has coivinced him of the truth
of the old maxim that "truth is often
stranger than fiction." We read with
interest of the bloocurdling adven.
tures and hair-breadth escapes of the
heroes of romance, and though im
possible they may sometiims appear,
vet there is nothing which the im
agination of the author has invented
that has not been accomplished in
real life. Woniers never cease and
strange things are continually hap
pening. The trouble with many of
us is that whatever we cannot under
stand, especially things which seem
improbable, we are apt to receive
with distrust. If you try to explain
to an unlettered man, who haq spent
his life in ,he backwoods, that the
water lie uses by abstraction or loss
of heat becomes solid and by heat is
converted into steam, and that it is a
compound of hydrogen and oxygen
two measures of hy.lrogen gas and
one of oxygen gas -and that oxygen
is an electro-negative. basifying and
acidifying elementary principle, and
that hydrogen is an aeri:orm fluid,
extremely inflammable and fatal to
animal life, he is very apt to tell you
that you are a fool; that water is
water and has got nothing but water
in it. The analytical chem.ist, how
ever, knows differently in spite of all
the unlettered man can say to the
contrary. W h;at is true of the unlet
tered portion of humanity is also
true of the better informed majority
who are not inclined to superstitiou.
They must have substantial proofs of
very phenomenal happening before
they will believe. In this practical
age of science aad evolution the
ays of miracles with the masses
ave passed. Nothing but a proof
ke that which Thomas of old re
eived when he put his fingers in the
rints of the wounds of the -Messiah
rvill satisfy them.
When a statement is made through
he paper that a certain person has
ecovered suddenly from a certain
lisease that has baffled the skill of
hysicians, the information is cer
ain to uc received with distrust, and
he few who acknowledge their belief
n it will be set down as superstitious
anatics who will believe anything.
hose who will not believe the state
nent, because they cannot under
tand how anything outside the regu
r laws of nature can happen, are
tional sages in their own estima
on, but really ttiey are not very un
ke the backwoods boor who will
ve it that water is composed of]
thinp- but water because he has
ever hIad an ocular demonstration
fits analysis.
Just at the present time there is
~uch excitement manifested over
e "boy preacher" of North Carolina,
ho1 was suddenly stricken blind andi
hose sight was restored in a strange
anner. The boy claims that his
ss of sight was of divine origin;
at he knew it would happen and 1
at the restoration of sight was a
iracle. His sermons are described
being remarkable, and with but
tle if any instruction in music he
s been known to perform on the
gan with great skill.]
For fear of being regarded super
~itious, we wi'll not state p)ositively<
lat this an-d other phenomena are I
iracles, but if they are not miracui- I
s exhibitions of God's power, what
e they ? Will some of the materi
istic p)hilosophers explain? It
ill not do to say they are not true. t
he evidence in this and many other C
~ss of the kind is too convincing. 1
d why can they not be true ? Isi
e arm of the Almighty any weaker v
)-day than it was nineteen hundred s
ears ago ? Cannot Hie who created p
e world, and the sun, and moon, a
d stars, and starry systems, and t:
o even created us, made our eyes, s
ive us sight and hearing, take them h
'ay and restore them? Certainly n
se who refuse to believe this are a
ore irrational than those who are tl
lling to believe. Some will say, V
3ut God dont work in this way." n
hat's just what the back woodsman h
s about water. How do you know h
dont work this way? What proof h
ve you got? You have never seen '
Neither has tihe backwoodsman b
er seen water analyzed, and until ti
does he will never believe that it l.1
composed of anything but water. w
God has declared that whosoever p
eps His commandments and loves te
m with heart, soul and mind, and si
n asks anything in his name, to I
such will be granted. The Chris- n
n who does not b'elieve this either ni
ubts God's word or does not believe re
t He can do what he says. Per- ir
ps, if the doubting Christian will li
ke a careful examination of him- ni
lf he will find that he is not keep- IE
, God's commnanlments';amd if not, p
the graces and promises, of course,
cannot apply to him. Because many
of us are weak and fall into divers
sins, let us not say that God does
not do what He has promised. Bec
ter for us to be thankful for the bless
inugs which are daily bestowed upon
us than to question the powersof the
Onipotent, whose ways are past
finding out.-Columbia Record.
The Census Again.
Those Legislators who defeated
the appropriation for the Census, (lid
a far groator amount of mischief,
thain they probably thought for. Be
Sades thle bad effect of shov-ing at
disregard for the Constitution of the
State, and the aot of monumental in
justice to many counties, by tius de
priving them of equal representation
in the 'Vgish;ture, they have stirrld
up a very strong feeling on the sub
ject in many sections.
T'his subject is agitated every week
by the Press of the up-country es
pecialy, and the discussion waxes
warmer and warmer. This feeling,
bitter and strong, seems to be get
ting sectional. We do lot blame our
brethren for crying out against this
wrong, for we sympathize with them.
We are sorry however to see any
thing like bitterness manifested. Tne
question will not down, though, and
as the next caioaign draws near, it
will become more and more interest
ing. It will no doubt be a very dis
turbing element in the campaign,
and whatever of bitterness and dis
cord it produces, the Legislature
will be to blame. It will be made an
issue in the next State Democratic
Convention by those counties that now
consider themselves defrauded out of
their just representation in the Leg
Those counties that now have an
undue representation in the Legis
lature will have an undue advantage
in the State Convention in nomi
nating State officers, and in determ
ining the policy of the Democratic
The same thing will be felt in the
Congressional District Conventions.
To illustrate how this thing will
work, as matters now stand, we will
say that Charleston will have in that
Convention 28 delegates, while the
two counties of Spat tanburg and Ab
beville combined, which have about
twice the population of Charleston,
will have only 20 delegates.
. This is altogether unfair, and the
people of the up-country are not
~oing to submit to it tamely, from
present appearances.
We would rejoice to see this bitter
reeling allayed, yet, afteF all, are not
hie people of some of the counties
somewhat to blame in this matter
romi the fact of their sending an en
irely new delegation to the Legis
;ure almost every term ? These
1ew men have to contend, to their
great disadvantage, with men who
1ave been there before and have been
;rained in Legislative work.-Surnter
!n Editor Unmasks--His name '
not Henley but Hearn.
The last issue of the Wadesboro' c
ntelligencer, says the Charlotte Ob- t
erver, contains a three column ac- 1
ount of the life of its editor, who t'
ias heretofore been known as S. W.
lenley, but whose real name is given c
.s Sperry W. Hearn. His story con- b
ensed, is, that he is a native of Tap
iabannock, Va., and began life in 1:
hat town as a compositor in the office o
C the Ese Gazette. Hie fell in s
ove with a school girl and after pay. i
ag her attention for some time. he I
ras snubbed by the girl, who be- i
towed her favors upon a rivail in the 1.
erson of aNortherner. Hlearn made 1
n attempt at suicide, which was frus
-ated by friends, and after vainly ti
eeking to draw his rival into a duel, li
e decided to exile himself from his it:
ative town and people. He slipped li
way from Tappahannock, assumed 3
ie name of S. W. Henley, and after q
-andering about for several years, fi- 5,
ally drifted to Wadesboro', where e,
e established the Intelligencer, and y
ad worn his mask successfully until fr
e revealed his romance last week. y
'he people of his native town had t!
elieved him to be dead for a long it
me past. This revelati'n was part- n
rbrought about by a controversy D
hich has been waged for some time
ast between the Times andl the In- tc
~ligencer and was published to fore- o
all a publication in tbe Timnes. Mr.p
earn has evidently endeavored top
ake a clean breast, and gives the B
ames of many Virginians who can be h4
~ferred to by the incredulous. Hay- in
tg thrown off his mask and revealed k'
s whereabouts, Mr. Hearn an
>unces -his intention of shortly pay- ct
ga visit to his old friends in Tap- sc
Fighting the Inevitable.
The most startling thing in modern
history is the stalwart way in which
England, the Mother Land, has re
sisted the progress of civilization.
In spite of all this, however, the
growth of Democracy in England has
been sure. --Henceforth," says a
well known writer, "England is Dem
ocratic." She must be. The tide
has set in that way with all th3
warmth and steadiness of the Gulf
stream. The electoral system ha-3
been growing for centuries. Tb
last reforrm has increased the voting
constituency forty per cent. Rotten
boroughs have been cut off; titled de
peudants retire,!; public education
has becn moving the right way.
Legislation upon internal matters
grows more enlightened, the policy
of foreign invention gives signs of
becoming more guarded and conserv
ative, and the church question is fast
toning down into lines of common
sense. All of England's political in
stitutions are improving, and as Mr.
Andrew Carnegie wisely says:
"The child now lives who will see
every English speaking community
living under institutions founded
upon the extremest views of the
rights of man, as formulated in our
Declaration or Independence, with.
out a vestige of privilege from birth,
without king or aristocracy, without
united church and state, without
great standing armies, unhampered
by primogeniture and entail, with
equal electoral privileges * and equal
Indeed, if w2 except legislation
upon Irish land, which is only justi
fied upon the plea of "necessity," it
would be difficult to point out any
change made in the laws of Britain
during the past twenty years which is
not in the direction of republican prac
tice. And why should not Irish land
be liberated? Why suffer feudalism
to linger there when liberty reigns
everywhere else? This is the last
lesson which England learns, and in
fighting against Irish freedom she is
simply resisting another cne of those
reforms to which she must finally
What has England done to Ireland?
It is difficult to pass over the arraign.
ment by O'Reilly, which the Chroni
e has already alluded to, in a cf
rent magazine. In the twelfth en
-ury England invaded Ireland, pros
erous and happy under King Bre
2an, and reduced the country. Her
~esources were confiscated, her laws
lisregardedi and her courage wasted.
Finally, the alliance with S.cotland
md the liberation under Edward
Bruce. Another century, IrelandI
>rostrate once more, gagged and
nanacled. Irish law framed in Eng- ~
and-"all rights reserved"-schoolst
Lnd churches thrown down. Another
undred years-the reforming pro
ess under Henry VIII.-the bullet,
ope and the slaveship. Seventeenth
entury and still the deathless fight
rish growing weaker, English strong- n
r. Cromwell makes "peace and si- c
ence"i i reland at the sword's edge. I
'hen came an unexampled atrocity in '
be name of "civilization;" four-fifths p
f the entire island, every acre held c
y the native Irish, who were Catho- ,
ics, was confiscated and handed over b
o Cromwell's disbanded army. This g
ras the beginning of the Irish land d
uestion that Michael Davitt has ti
een hammering at for years. p
The eighteenth century found Ire- d
mnd in the depths after six centuries
f wasted blood and scattered trea- d
ure. Then Grattan gets the Irish
parliament and Ireland, according to
ord Clare, advances unprecedently
1 trade, manufacture and agriculture. te
nglish -merchants demand that Ire- m
md be destroyed as a competing
ower. English landholders, always a:
2e crowning curse, cried out, "our $:
ves and religion in danger." Cas- m
ereagh buys out the Grattaa Par- A
ament. TI's rebellion is crushed, it
obert Emmett hanged, drawn and hi
uartered. "Then Ireland lay down at
her misery, even God had appar
2tly forgotten her in the night."
'ext, Daniel OConnell won the er
anchise for the Catholics. The 1W
oung Ireland of '48 was put down, H
ien the famine wit h thousands dying C<
the soil. Twenty yeare later Fe- th
tanism and the rule of the Royal OG
What is England doing for Ireland C<
4-day? Fastening upon her the grip gs
the alien landlord and loading her L
~oducts with high rent. Closing her gi
>rts by discriminating in favor of Ce
ristol and Southampton. Checking S<
ir political and commercial advance th
a thousand ways; for England a!
iows, as John Boyle O'Reilly says: lis
"Every ship going through an Irish lis
mnal was in danger of forgetting the in
amthern English ports, Bristol and of
yuthampton. Every mill built on en
an Irish stream' would ded
the profits ofLancashire.- E
of coal or other mineral dug int
land lowered the prices I i
ham, Sheffield and the Black*
If the Irish farmers' children
get work in mills and mines
shops, their earnings would,
their parents independent of
lords, and rents would have i
lowered. It~was clear that I
advance must be stopped, on
would become a dangerous
or and democratic example 'fr
Britain.-Agusta chroxicle.
That Census Matter.
We have no hesitation In
that we think the Legislature
mistake in not providing for
the census. Nor in saying"
inequalities in representatia
to be corrected. But we fal
why this failure on the put
Legislature to discharge itb
should be made the grotirdo
casion for inflaming the
one section of the State
other. Unhappily there
in the State afeelingof"up-j
and "low country."
deplored and healed-suha
mented. In the di
census question, it strikes
is immaterial whether thi
"low" country prevented thk
of the proper law fore;
mandate of the Consti .
i matter of fact, MjOr
ley in his letter to tho'
'he Medium shows that46&
)ers from the lower oodftp*
2o more responsible for th
ire to pass-the census bill
.rom other sections. This
sectionalism we think*
leprecated.. The inte
ection of this comin u
lissolubly bound up with -4
very other section.
nony in all their relt1W
nore to the public adii
ickering and theinces
A frank, free and emd
ion of this question isMg M
riew of carrying out the
ive to each eomty,-..I
ion to yhich it is endtie4&!
nts and schemes .o
epresentation upon a b
rty and population, ori
sanner than upon the
4bitants, are ialse in
s of the essence of the
ur form of government thatba
,nd infiuence of every et
otential in all public aftra 1
f every of r citizen, wh
toperty be measured bya
irs or by thousands. ~p
ne this question amust be7
nd it will be one of much'
ae next session.-4betilt
New York Jtte ,
The New York prosecutb
ey is working like two
crnvict Holland, the
lavi,' the sawdust
The" Davis, who is a sl
rofessional swindler, is
cited at all. Even if
as indicted, he would
e convicted. He has the
enuine money which wak'
ecoy. There is a little
te rounds that is very ar
aint. A man who ha!
icted said to a prominent
"I know I've not got -n
efense, but Eve got momne~~
"How much have you
"I've got $10,000."
"You will never get 4nt
ntiary as long as yod'"..
uch money."
The lawyer was right. It was
ter the lawyer had ngie
10,000, and the accused had " -
oney that he got justice -
s long as "The" Davis has
is no use thinkingabu
m,so the New York
torney thinks.-S
The Confederates -
t House this term
heeler, of Alabamf
.) Forney, of Alabamna~
ax, of North CarolM
e Senate they arb-n
eneral Maxer, of'i9 ,
'althall, of Misissipp~
ckrell, of Missouri; G
~n, of Alabama; Generglgi
uisiana; General Mahoa%n
nia, and General Reanmc
irolinia. South Carolin h
>uthern State with two -
e Senate. She hasGetirl
id Hampton. General .8
tms known as "Cerroi 4ordo"3
ins, recently representedKn
the Senate, and General81s,
Georgia, was suceeded )y
io ronwn.
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Richard White lives in the north east of Victoria in Australia. He teaches workshops around Australia and overseas. Large format photography and darkroom printing are still his preferred medium for his prints. Since the year 2000 he has produced a large format calendar on the High Country of Australia. A book with the same title is due for release in 2012. Richard also has been writing for a photography magazine for the past 15 years on aesthetic photographic topics as well as darkroom practice.
web site: http://www.richardwhite.com.au
email: firstname.lastname@example.com
address: Richard White, P.O. Box 425 Mansfield, Vic 3722 Australia


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Date: Wed Sep 29 17:32:47 EDT 2010
Hello, in case anybody else finds this useful: I have created fairly full-featured bindings for the IUP graphical user interface library [1] that work identically (to the maximum possible extent) under the Racket [2] and CHICKEN [3] Scheme systems. You can find the documentation and the version control repository for the sources at http://www.chust.org/fossils/iup. I have also uploaded a PLaneT package for Racket. Ciao, Thomas [1] http://www.tecgraf.puc-rio.br/iup/ [2] http://racket-lang.org/ [3] http://www.call-cc.org/ -- When C++ is your hammer, every problem looks like your thumb.
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The gardens are busy places this time of year.
Full of critters (wanted and unwanted), birds and all sorts of flying insects.
Here are a few shots of butterflies on the buddleia bush.
This swallowtail has a damaged wing. Butterflies have many predators including ants, spiders, wasps, parasitic wasps, parasitic flies, birds, rats, toads, lizards, praying mantis, snakes and monkeys. Their damaged wings do not seem to impede their mobility as I see them fluttering about just as though the wings were perfect.
Butterfly Wishes
Yesterday a butterfly
Came floating gently through the sky.
He soared up through the atmosphere
Then drifted close enough to hear.
I said, "I'd love to fly with you
And sail around the way you do.
It looks like it would be such fun
To fly up toward the summer sun.
But I have not your graceful charm.
I haven't wings, just these two arms.
I've been designed to walk around.
My human feet must touch the ground.
Then magically he spoke to me
and told me what his wish would be.
He said, "What I'd love most to do
Is walk upon God's Earth with you,
To squish it's mud between my toes
Or touch my finger to my nose.
I'd love just once to walk around
With human feet to touch the ground,
But I have not two legs that swing,
I haven't arms, just these two wings."
And so we went our separate ways
In wonder and surprise.
For we'd both seen God's precious gifts
Through someone else's eyes.
Author Unknown
This frontal view shows clearly the feeding mechanism which is a long double barreled tube called a proboscis. Because butterflies feed through what is essentially a double barreled straw, their diets are exclusively liquids.
The same butterfly from a different angle.
Here are the stats on the first shot (the other photos are similar)
Camera Canon EOS Digital Rebel
Exp: 1/320
Aperture: f/5.6
Flash: not used
Editing: Slight cropping, bumped up contrast a bit and slight sharpening of image.
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The Zeta Psi case falls squarely within the area of permissible regulation.... The statements in the Zeta Psi newsletter [...] targeted two specific students for personal abuse in a repeated fashion even after the organization agreed to end this behavior.Fortunately, FIRE President (and Harvard-educated lawyer, thank you very much) David French takes Donin to task, pointing out that Dartmouth's charge of "harassment" against Zete is laughably weak:
I know of no case authority indicating that a person is denied or limited in their "ability to participate in or benefit from the educational program" when he or she is "targeted" in a communication so private that he or she couldn't find it without sifting through the trash. There is no court in America that has found "harassment" in similar circumstances.Indeed. Predictably, too, Donin falls back on a cherished old shibboleth of the censors. Dixit Donin:
A long line of First Amendment cases recognizes that freedom of expression is not absolute. Even where the First Amendment fully applies, as Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. famously wrote, no one has the right to falsely yell "fire" in a crowded theater. Similarly, the First Amendment does not protect defamation, invasion of privacy, copyright infringement, threats or harassment, to cite just a few of the well-established, judicially approved limitations on free speech.All of this is readily conceded; indeed, I wonder who exactly Donin is arguing this point with? No commentator I know of (certainly not trustee candidates Peter Robinson or Todd Zywicki, for whom, if you are an alum, you really ought to have voted by now) has suggested that actual defamation should be protected expression. (Indeed, Donin never explains why any of this is even relevant; does the Zete case fall into one of these categories? No? Then why bring it up?) Donin is fighting the straw man syllogism "if speech, therefore absolutely protected." It might be easier for Donin to argue with absolutist simpletons; but, to borrow from Rumsfeld, you argue with the opponents you have, not the opponents you wish you had. So Mr. Donin: can we please get back to the question at hand?
But perhaps I'm being too harsh on Donin; after all, it's not his fault his bosses so gleefully resort to heavy-handed punishment for puerile little jokes. So let's see what President Wright had to say about the matter in a recent speech to the Dartmouth Club of New York:
The Dean [of Residential Life Marty Redman, affable fellow by day, outraged Puritan by night] derecognized the fraternity because of the repeated publication of a newsletter that cruelly demeaned specific women on campus. This incident was about behavior, not speech -- the organization published articles describing the supposed [wrong: obviously fictional] sexual exploits of two undergraduate women who were identified by name.(Um, er, I thought Zete's publication was speech, just one of those types that you can regulate -- no? Yes? Oh, never mind....) So Wright, too, relies on the harassing-conduct-not-speech line. Once again, David French brings us back to Earth (with some help from yours truly). French shows how thin the charge of harassing conduct is (ditto for the alleged violations of Minimum Standards, which actually provide the clearest evidence yet of a speech code applicable to 40% of the student population; all Dartmouth students should be aware of the backdoor tactic employed in the Zete case).
French aptly concludes:
A fraternity did something silly and tasteless and offended a significant (and powerful) segment of the campus community. Dartmouth found a way to punish that fraternity despite the fact that no pre-existing rule or code prohibited the fraternity's actions, and then President Wright and Dean Larimore drafted the letters that form the basis of the modern Dartmouth speech code as a warning against future offenders.Okay, so the College's lame arguments can be exhaustively refuted, and when they are, they are shown for what they really are: mere spin. But I must confess, I get very frustrated that these refutations are always necessary. Why does the College dig its heels in so? Why is Wright so hesitant to acknowledge the many ways in which expression -- edifying or otherwise -- can occur? Why do they insist on this facile distinction between conduct and speech? (Who's guilty of easy syllogisms now?)
If Dartmouth respects free speech, it will not only repeal its speech code, but it will also re-recognize Zeta Psi. Four years of punishment in the absence of any violation of campus rules or regulations is enough.
Finally, why is the College so determined to punish a bunch of kids for silly but harmless jokes? (And please, please, nobody try to argue that the harm was psychological. Melissa Heaton -- the publication's main attraction -- took evident joy in her newfound celebrity. She went on The Today Show and spoke to any number of jouranlists. She told me personally that she relished the publicity. Melissa milked her fifteen minutes; it is simply false to say that anyone was harmed by this.)


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Instructor: Kathryn Shevelow
This survey course covers approximately 170 years of literature written in the British Isles from the Restoration period that began in 1660 through the Romantic period in the early 19th century. This was a time of profound and exciting change on all levels: political, economic, social, and aesthetic. Changes included the increasing power of Parliament; the growth of industrialization and imperial expansion; the growing power of the middle classes; changes in thinking about gender; revolution (the American, the French, and the Haitian); radicalism and political backlash; the growth of evangelicalism; and the rise of reform movements such as abolition, Catholic emancipation, women's rights, and animal protection. For the literary world, this was a time of the growth of the publishing industry; battles between "high" and "low" culture; the development of a new genre that came to be called the novel; the emergence of professional women writers, the influence of classical traditions, and the rise of Romanticism. This course will examine representative literary texts in the context of these and other historical developments. Our primary course textbooks will be The Norton Anthology of English Literature, 9th edition, Volumes C and D. We will also be reading one novel, Daniel Defoe's Moll Flanders, using the Norton critical edition. Books for this class may be purchased at the University Bookstore.
This course is designed as a survey of American Literature since the Civil War. Our theme is "Modernism and National Identity" and concerns the role of literature in defining and challenging U.S. national culture in the modern period. We will pay particular attention to the tension between modernism, as a self-conscious aesthetic tendency, and social modernity, as an ideology of progress defined by the rise of industrialization, urbanization, technology, migration, nativism and reform. It may be that these very features of modernity have made the idea of a unified national identity untenable, challenging many of the foundational terms ("exceptionalism," "American Adam," "the frontier") by which earlier periods of U.S. literature and culture were defined. Our increasing economic and political globalization, expanding cultural diversity, and diminishing natural resources are salient features of the contemporary period, but their origins, as we will see, emerge in the period that this course will study. Hence one of the primary themes that we will cover will be the role of literature in developing imagined communities, both national and local, to provide the illusion of unity and consensus during a period of increasing alienation and diffusion.
This introductory course focuses on the study of literature by Asian immigrants and Asian Americans as expressions of histories across geographies of groups immigrating from origins ranging from China, Japan, Korea, and the Philippines, to South and Southeast Asia. Novels, short fictions, and films would be considered as forms of knowledge production that mediate our critical engagement with questions of war, immigration, colonialism, and U.S. modernity. We will examine how the genre of "immigrant narrative" revises, complicates, and disrupts the dominant narratives of "internment," "exile," "model minority," "diaspora," or "refugee." The scope of our investigation encompasses the period between the late 19th century to post-1965 immigrations, displacements by U.S. wars in Asia, the loss of "culture" and invention of "tradition," the racialized spaces of ethnic enclaves and suburbia, and gender roles and relations in immigrant communities. In this class, we will employ transnational approaches to analyzing the transnational connections of Asian/American literature, cultures, and histories.
This is a fun--if challenging--course aimed to get you from thinking about performing comedy to actually doing it. You'll study and discuss the comics you love and explore why you love them, then work on your own material. By the end of the quarter you'll 1) have created a "chunk" of material that amounts to three minutes of performance time and 2) performed it in a lineup that includes your classmates.
► Visit the Freshman Seminar Program website for seminar description and meeting dates.
Eighteenth-century British authors and readers were captivated by crime. Both feared and celebrated, criminal figures populate the major genres of eighteenth-century writing, from drama to poetry to the new and enormously popular form of the novel. At the same time, the eighteenth century saw major changes in legal responses to crime, most notably the emergence of the penitentiary and the modern police force. This course investigates how eighteenth-century authors imagine, debate, condemn, or defend the "criminal." From Defoe's Moll Flanders to Gay's The Beggar's Opera (and its lesser-known sequel, Polly, which connects London's criminal underworld to piracy in the Caribbean); from Henry Fielding's intertwined careers in literature and law enforcement to Mary Robinson's radical critiques of the law, we will examine how literary texts staged debates about the meanings of crime and justice. We will read key eighteenth-century laws and legal theorists alongside literary texts, as we track how literary texts borrow ideas and methods from the law, while legal texts draw on literary techniques, forms, and genres. Throughout the course, we will pay close attention to the role of literary form and genre in shaping the historical construction of crime, punishment, and justice.
Imagine leaping backwards 150 years to an unfamiliar culture to listen in on their disputes, which might have tackled questions such as: how do we reconcile our religious and philosophical values of individual freedom and responsibility with our enslavement of thousands around the world? Are our beliefs about white, English superiority grounded in reality or on the need to solve the dilemma of our professed belief in universal human dignity and our practice of human degradation? What's happening to our women? Are they the domestic preservers of our morality and peace, or are they insatiably sexual beings whose moral corruption leads them to prostitution? What's all this flap about education when women aren't voters or professionals? Is Industrialism revealing the weakest members of humanity who should be allowed to die in order for the race to progress? Is work the highest expression of our beings, and does art have a role in a world so troubled by poverty and war and disease? This course will raise and attempt to answer many such questions by examining what the Victorians themselves wrote about them. In grappling with these issues, we will also study some linguistic and psychological aspects of their poetry and autobiography, the social implications of their essays, and the aesthetic principles of their fiction. I will provide historical, economic, and literary context to introduce these arenas of Victorian debate, and students will be asked to write one final essay, demonstrate weekly that they are keeping up with the reading, actively participate in discussion, and take a final exam.
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Most readers have probably heard of Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Christina Rossetti, and Emily Bronte, but they might not know that these poets were surrounded by many others whose names we're less likely to know, from religious to working-class to Jewish to lesbian poets such as Alice Meynell, Ellen Johnston, Amy Levy, and the couple who wrote under the pseudonym Michael Field. This course will cover a sampling of poems by a handful of Victorian women poets (and a verse novel by Elizabeth Barrett Browning) as it seeks to acquaint students with some of the different registers in which women wrote poetry in the Victorian period. What did these writers think about their vocations as poets? Their roles as women and intellectuals? Their relationships to lovers and daughters and gods? How did they exploit poetic forms and traditions to do new things, and why? Grades will be based on active participation in discussion, weekly evidence of keeping up with the readings, and a final essay. Books will be available at the UCSD Bookstore.
This course traces how British literary texts define, envision, champion and critique empire across a period of enormous change. The span of the course begins with England as a marginal European state and ends with Britain as a major imperial world power. Across key historical events such as the establishment of the British East India Company, the rise of the Atlantic slave trade, and the beginnings of industrial capitalism, literature played a key role in imagining Britain's changing role in the world. Through readings of authors including Shakespeare, Spenser, Jonson, Behn, Dryden, and Pope, we will track continuity and change in the cultural meaning of "empire" across time. In addition, we will learn the basic vocabulary of postcolonial literary study and ask how postcolonial method approaches the literary archive of empire. This course fulfills the "a" requirement.
According to historian Laurel Thatcher Ulrich, "Well-behaved women rarely make history." In this course, we will focus on some ill-behaved women in early American literary history. We will consider how these women contravene our usual stereotypes about colonial dames, good wives, and Republican mothers. We will discuss the social, legal, and racial constraints that positioned them as dissenters, and the consequences (real and imagined) of their perceived misbehavior. As the course concludes, we will also examine how history writers (both writers of conventional histories, and writers of literary historical fictions) in the early nineteenth century represented the lives and acts of these foremothers. Our readings will include the conventionally literary (novels, plays, poems, and letters) as well as histories, political tracts, public confessions, and legal documents written by and about women of the period.
Discussion topics may include heretics (Ann Hutchinson, the Salem witches), coquettes and other sexual renegades (women who committed infanticide, cross-dressed women sailors, and prostitutes), and women who were more conventionally associated with Revolutionary ideas (Abigail Adams, Judith Sargent Murray). This course fulfills the C requirement for literature majors.
This course will provide a survey of American films made between 1945 and 1955 under the rubric "film noir." Film Noir's expressive cinematography, much of it based on German Expressionism, and its themes of alienation, sexual violence, paranoia, and racial tension provided a major sub genre of American film, one that has been repeated in many films since the mid-1950s. We will study these films in relation to contemporary historical events involving the effects of World War II, Cold War global tensions, racial conflict, youth culture, and gender trouble. In addition to looking at classic films noirs (Double Indemnity, Out of the Past, Kiss Me Deadly), we will also conclude the course by looking at several neo-noir films made in the more recent period, including Chinatown, Chan is Missing, and Mulholland Drive.
Physically, the Caribbean is a region consisting mainly of several stings of islands and waterways. These constitute numerous nations speaking at least four languages and their related dialects. Since the history of diverse peoples of the Caribbean is as fragmented as the islands themselves, cultural production and representations are used to create identities and fill gaps in written and oral histories. Among the experiences and identities considered and constructed are those rooted in race, class, gender, sexual identification and ethnicity. Caribbean writers transform these sources and experiences into literary and cultural works that, seen in an overview and in relation to one another, comprise an often-shifting mosaic of the region's recent and past history. Working with texts from the English-speaking, or anglophone, Caribbean, we will examine several literary genres--novels, poetry and short stories--as well as forms of contemporary music such as calypso, steel drum, mento, ska and reggae in order to understand the ways in which these artists create and recreate their world. Course evaluation will come from class participation, two 7-page papers and a final exam.
► LTEN 188 will fulfill Literature/World major's non-European/non-U.S. requirement.


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Browns cornerback Joe Haden (hip pointer) and tight end Jordan Cameron (concussion) remained idle today during practice.
Both of them were hurt this past weekend in a 38-31 loss to the Chicago Bears, so their availability for Sunday at the New York Jets is in question. Haden worked out on a stationary bike today during practice, a sign he might try to push through the injury and practice Friday. As for Cameron, there was no sign of him.
Meanwhile, wide receiver Davone Bess (illness) joined the list of players sitting out during practice. Left guard John Greco (sprained medial collateral ligament in right knee) and tight end Andre Smith (strained calf) remained sidelined.
Linebacker Eric Martin (illness) returned to practice after sitting out Wednesday.


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The Code of Harry is a set of guidelines created by Harry Morgan and Dr. Evelyn Vogel to help Harry's adopted son, Dexter Morgan, channel his need to kill. Originally, the code was thought to have been created simply by only Harry himself, as both a way to protect his son as he went through life and as a "tool" to rid the world of the cruel people that infested it. However, it's revealed that Dr. Vogel suggested the code, as a way to channel Dexter's impulses, which could not be stopped and use them throughout life to both satisfy his needs and in some sense do some good.[1]
Dexter Morgan, when he was only 3 years old, watched his mother Laura Moser die a gruesome death via a chainsaw wielded by Santos Jimenez, under the orders of Hector Estrada. She along with several others were killed in a shipping container, where Dexter and his brother Brian Moser were trapped for 3 days in a vast pool of blood left by the adults' bodies. Officer Harry Morgan discovered the boys and brought Dexter out himself, sending the other officers in after seeing it in Brian's eyes that he was truly changed by the experience. At the time, he was unaware that Dexter could have been affected by the incident and he adopted the boy...going through life hoping he'd raise a normal child.
Unfortunately, the incident did affect Dexter...changing who he was inside to the point of making him a psychopath in nature that killed a dog named Buddy and later showed true fascination in a crime scene he begged his adoptive father to take him to. Harry, fearing that his son had something wrong with him, sought help from Dr. Evelyn Vogel, who listened to his stories and was convinced Dexter had become everything Harry feared he would be. She felt it was obvious that he not only showed all the classic traits of a psychopath but that he would one day become a killer. Trying to determine what to do with him, Vogel suggested to Harry that it would be impossible to stop Dexter's urges, so instead offered that they become focused.
It's believed that the two first tried channeling Dexter's urges in animals; however, they realized that they would never be enough to satiate him and that he would eventually need to kill "other kinds of animals" (specifically, human beings that deserved to die). Thus the Code was created, where Harry handled a majority of the details aided by his law enforcement background while operating under Vogel's guidance.[2]
The CodeEdit
The Code itself is designed as a framework for survival, to both prevent Dexter from getting caught and channel his impulses while ridding the world of people who deserved to die.
It was never actually written down, but instead was dictated verbally. As a result, it's not a verbatim list of rules, but more a general set of learnings and guidelines taught by Harry to Dexter.
Dexter has several times cited two rules as the most important rule above all others:
- 1st Rule of the Code: Never get caught - Don't get caught committing a crime, since that would result in imprisonment and may even result in being put to death. Harry, in bringing Dexter to witness an execution, runs through what the number one rule is and states that the other rules are to prevent him from being caught.[3] This rule, in particular, was created by Vogel herself, to give Dexter some "wiggle room" outside of the second rule. In a situation where an innocent finds out about who Dexter is, he may need to kill them to protect himself.[4] Usually when such a scenario arises Dexter gives precedence to the second rule over the first (as with Doakes, Lumen, Jonah, Debra, and Hannah).
- 2nd Rule of the Code: Never kill an Innocent - Be absolutely certain that the target is a killer, who takes life for no condonable reason. Dexter also prefers that his victims be likely to kill again (although this isn't a necessity since, for example, there was no indication that Zoey Kruger would have killed again if he hadn't killed her) and takes the time to research their history before deciding their fate. Dexter has an especially great animosity towards those who harm children (such as Mike Donovan).
Dexter has been willing to bend both rules from time to time.
- There are other rules like:
- Never make a scene.
- Fake emotion and normality to fit in.
- When taking a psychology personality test, always answer the question with the opposite of what you feel.
- Never get emotionally involved.
- Don't leave any traces.
- Never make things personal.
- Another less mentioned factor of the code is Dexter's victims must be killers who the police have been unable to catch or convict. Dexter seems to ignore this factor, however, as he frequently sabotages cases in order to save the suspect for himself (as with Anthony Rodrigo and Viktor Baskov, for instance). On one occasion he even broke a convict out of jail so he could kill him himself (although the convict in question had been putting out hits on people whilst behind bars).
- It is also mentioned that Harry suggested police work as a career for Dexter, most likely to facilitate his access to criminal records and identify suitable targets.
Consequences when violating the Code Edit
Dexter has been seen violating his code multiple times, and there are usually severe consequences. One notable example is in episode 4x12 when he answered Rita's phone call while stalking a kill, against Harry's warning. This led to him committing a hit and run, which then ultimately led to his ending up in jail, missing the chance to finish off Trinity.
Dexter also started a family, against Harry's advisement. Harry insists that they distract Dexter and that Dexter's actions put them in danger. This prophecy ultimately comes true at the end of the Season 4 finale, when it is revealed that Arthur Mitchell murdered Rita because of Dexter's hesitation to kill him.
As well he got personally involved with the case of Brian Moser, which caused him to be haunted by a new Dark Passenger afterward in cases where he acted against Harry's Code.
Several times, Dexter has refused to kill someone because they didn't fit Harry's Code - even if killing them would benefit Dexter greatly:
- Paul Bennett - Although tempted to kill Bennett to maintain his relationship with Rita, mentally arguing that Bennett was likely to kill if he was left on his own, Dexter simply framed him for returning to his old drug habit. (Even though Paul ended up being killed anyway).
- Jeremy Downs - Dexter had cut Jeremy off after he trailed his second victim. He revealed the first and only murder at that point was self-defense, though it was a possible lie. He decided to let him go with advice, which Jeremy ignored. (Jeremy ended up committing suicide).
- James Doakes - Dexter, contemplated turning himself in as the Bay Harbor Butcher rather than kill Doakes, even after Doakes discovered his secret.
- Ellen Wolf - Dexter considered killing defense attorney Ellen Wolf when Miguel Prado argued that she put the guilty back on the streets. However, Dexter quickly decided she was just doing her job and did not fit the code.
- Ramon Prado - After Dexter killed Miguel, Ramon began to stalk him and tried to kill him. Dark Harry (The outward personification of Dexter's inner Dark Passenger) told Dexter that Ramon was like a 'gutshot animal' who needed to be 'put out of its misery', but Dexter refused to violate the code by killing Ramon and instead guided him towards a better path for the sake of his children.
- Lumen Pierce - Dexter refused to kill her as it did not fit the code despite the fact that she witnessed him killing Boyd Fowler. He instead healed her wounds and saved her.
- Debra Morgan - His own sister, Dexter could not kill her after she discovered him killing Travis Marshall. She ultimately learned that he was the Bay Harbor Butcher and about many of his various kills in the past including Arthur Mitchell and Jordan Chase. However, her knowledge of his nature benefited him for a short while as her position as Lieutenant aided his cover until she ended up killing Maria LaGuerta for Dexter. She nearly became an unstable threat, almost confessing to everything she knew about Dexter and almost killing him along with herself at one point. She seemed to get better, however, and had considered making a return to the police force, though she would ultimately be critically injured in the final episode and placed on life support indefinitely until Dexter opted to remove her from life support.
Dexter has rarely killed someone who didn't follow the Code of Harry:
Self defense
- Oscar Prado - Encountered him while trying to kill Freebo. Oscar attacked Dexter with a knife, and Dexter killed him in self-defense.
- Stan Liddy - A corrupt narcotics cop hired by Quinn to tail Dexter. After Stan kidnaps Dexter, he tries to force a confession out of him. Dexter kicks him in the face before Stan tries to stab him, but Dexter fights back and kills him in self-defense. It was unknown if Stan had a history of violence or murder outside of being a corrupt cop.
- Andrew Briggs - Dexter kills him in self-defense after trying to warn Debra about her situation and Andrew recognizes him from the grocery store.
Mercy kill
- Camilla Figg - A mercy kill at her request, due to her terminally ill condition.
- Debra Morgan - A mercy kill in order to stop her suffering a life in a vegetative state.
- Rankin - A rude man Dexter encounters in the bathroom at a remote fueling station. Dexter flies into a rage and beats the man to death with an anchor. Dexter shows no regard for the fact that he knew nothing about the man and it is not shown if Dexter makes any effort to cover up the large amount of evidence left behind. The outburst is the first time Dexter is able to break free of the shock from Rita's death.
- Norm - A hotel manager and drug harvester who Dexter meets when he goes up to Nebraska to talk to Jonah. After Norm steals Dexter's tools after suspecting that he may be a cop, he tries to blackmail Dexter because he thinks he's rich due to his car. At this point, his dark passenger brother tells him to kill him, which he did. This is the second kill Dexter has committed on impulse, however, it can also be seen as self-defense, since Norm was pointing a gun at him, threatening to kill him.
- Nathan Marten - A pedophile targeting Astor and Cody.
- Clint McKay - Hannah's father, who threatened to turn over evidence on his daughter to the police. Clint is the only innocent victim Dexter performed a ritualistic kill on, knowing they were innocent (Farrow was a mistake).
Dexter has only once mistakenly killed someone who wasn't a killer:
- Jonathan Farrow - Dexter killed a photographer whom he believed was killing his subjects, only to see his assistant confess.
- Dexter: (voiceover) There were so many lessons in the vaunted Code of Harry. Twisted commandments handed down from the only God I've ever worshiped. 1 through 10: Don't get caught. That I got covered. But, killing someone without knowing if he's guilty, I'd love some help on this one, but my God is dead now.
- Dexter: (voiceover) Not long ago I had a dream that people could see me for what I am, and for a brief instant in time the world actually saw my bodies of work. Some even cheered. But as it turns out, nobody mourns the wicked. Sorry, James. I think Harry knew that from the start. That's why he gave me a code. It cost him his life, but it kept me alive through incredible trials. The code is mine now, and mine alone. So too are the relationships I cultivate. They're not just disguises anymore, I need them, even if they make me vulnerable. My father might not approve, but I'm no longer his disciple. I'm a master now, an idea transcended into life. And so this is my new path, which is a lot like the old one, only mine. To stay on that path, I need to work harder, explore new rituals, evolve. Am I evil? Am I good? I'm done asking those questions. I don't have the answers. Does anyone?
- Dexter: (voiceover) I built my life on Harry's code. I lived by it. But Harry lied. Why would he do that? What else don't I know? My concrete foundation is turning to shifting sand. Maybe Rudy was right. You never can truly know anyone.
- Dexter: (voiceover) My father taught me one thing above all others; to be sure. And I am. Matt Chambers, Miami is your last stop. If God is in the details and if I believed in God, he's in this room with me. I just wish he had brought an extension cord.
- Dexter has several times discussed aspects of the Code with victims he is about to kill.
- Dexter almost never discusses the Code with any non-victims besides Harry. Notable exceptions are Brian Moser and Miguel Prado, both of whom he later killed. Recently he was forced to divulge his code to his sister Debra Morgan after she discovered his blood slides and kill tools.
- ↑ Episode 802: Every Silver Lining
- ↑ Episode 802: Every Silver Lining
- ↑ Episode 209: Resistance Is Futile
- ↑ Episode 803: What's Eating Dexter Morgan?


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Textured Multicolor Sweater
At one end of the cover there is a sea cave, cut deep into the cliff. Inside this cathedral atmosphere, sheets of almost tangible light bounce off the sea and play upon the wet cave walls, carved over time into fantastic shapes. Watching the interplay of light, color, and texture is rather like watching the flickering of a fire, and I have never seen the same effect twice. To capture just one of the cave's moods, I used yarn hand-dyed in random colors, although mauve is predominant. The result is a sweater both rich and exotic.
Difficulty rating: Experienced
Yardage: not given. The pattern calls for sportweight wool, 3/4/4/4 3 1/2 oz (100 g) hanks in a solid color, and 5 (all sizes) 3 1/2 oz (100 g) hanks in multicolor.
Sweater knit in four flat pieces---front, back, and sleeves.


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Brecon Beacons, August 20-22
You can't beat the Brecon Beacons for beautiful settings, and the Green Man,
which started eight years ago, is now Wales's leading contemporary arts and
music event. It's the one all my festival-going friends with children go to,
especially now it offers one-week camping tickets, which means you can
arrive three days early and turn it into a proper holiday. Folk fans will
love the line-up, which so far includes Beirut, Billy Bragg, Laura Marling
and Joanna Newsom, but there are hundreds of acts, covering a spectrum of
musical tastes, plus comedy, art and literary events. Specifically for
children, there are eco workshops (forest cooking, juggling, circus skills,
bushcraft, bat walks and more), art workshops, costume making and face
painting, music workshops, filmmaking and photography classes, hip-hop and
African dance classes, trampolines, quad biking, storytelling and giant
dragon parades. The Green Man is also using the services of Boutique
Babysitting (see Camp Bestival, above).
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Expanded cargo terminal too big, say planners
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The state's top planners have cast adrift an ambitious plan to massively expand cargo facilities at the Port Botany container terminal - arguing its size should be reduced by 25 per cent to avoid traffic gridlock.
The Sydney Ports Corporation is arguing at a commission of inquiry for a 63-hectare boost to the existing terminal, which it claims would allow 3.2 million container movements a year by 2025.
This would increase the size of the stretched cargo area by nearly 30 per cent - with a potential impact on air-traffic control radars.
But the Department of Infrastructure, Planning and Natural Resources has been spooked by predictions by the stevedores Patrick Corp and P&O that the expansion could lead to 8 million container movements a year. In a reversal, the department said yesterday it would only support a 47-hectare expansion, and that it should be built in stages.
In a last-minute submission to the commission of inquiry, the department said the foreshore area should also be reduced by 70 metres - widening the mouth of the nearby Penrhyn Estuary and improving tidal flows.
It said a smaller terminal expansion would still allow a third player to enter the freight market, and also allow planners enough time to gauge the impact of increased traffic.
Under the department's plans, a proposed fifth berth would be put on hold, and only approved after another detailed environmental analysis. The submission, presented to Commissioner Kevin Cleland, argues that "any increase in container throughput over and above 3.2 million ... must therefore be the subject of a further environmental assessment". This was "to ensure that such throughput can be accommodated on the surrounding road and rail networks and beyond".
Last year the Herald revealed leaked cabinet papers showing that, even if incentives were provided to increase rail freight, semitrailer movements would leap by 300 per cent by 2021, clogging all road arteries near Sydney airport.
In response, the Planning Minister, Craig Knowles, raised the prospect of a levy of up to $30 per container being placed on freight vehicle movements to encourage more rail freight. He set a target of doubling to 40 per cent the proportion of cargo carried by train within six years. Mr Knowles also created a new body, chaired by the former Labor politician Laurie Brereton, to look at ways to accommodate the increased traffic.
First opened in 1976, Port Botany currently has 1.2 million container movements a year, with movements rising by about 7 per cent a year.
In earlier evidence yesterday, Patrick's managing director, Chris Corrigan, rubbished the Carr Government's embryonic freight strategy. He said plans to establish a rail-truck interchange at Enfield, only 18 kilometres from the port, were questionable. It made more sense to create a facility further away, on the city's outskirts, to improve costs and efficiencies.
Mr Corrigan has been frustrated in his attempts to build a large transfer station on Sydney's south-western fringes, at Ingleburn, which is in Mr Knowles's electorate. After a series of bitterly contested court battles, the matter has again gone to the Land and Environment Court for a decision.
However, Mr Corrigan said yesterday he supported the planned construction of a freight-only rail line from the port, saying it would be enough to tilt the balance more favourably to rail freight.
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Formicidae, Hymenoptera, Insecta, Arthropoda, Animalia
Upper images of worker; lower of queen.
Costa Rica to Panama. Costa Rica: Atlantic lowlands to 600m elevation, Guanacaste.
In usual resting position, mandibles flush against anterior border of clypeus; clypeus large and triangular, completely concealing labrum; median clypeal lobe with weak concavity along lateral margin; scape surpasses posterior cephalic border by 3 apical widths when placed parallel to logitudinal cephalic axis; antennal segments II-IV approximately twice their respective widths; posterior face of propodeum mostly smooth and shining, with 2-3 transverse striae close to petiolar insertion; petiolar node subcuboidal, with distinct vertical anterior and posterior faces in lateral view; face smooth and shining; petiole relatively longer in lateral profile compared to pusilla.
Worker metrics (n=5). HL (0.87-0.94); HW (0.55-0.62); ML (0.35-0.43); EL (0.12-0.13); SL (0.77-0.85); WL (1.20-1.34)mm. CI (0.63-0.68); MI (0.64-0.71); OI (0.19-0.23); SI (1.28-1.48).
Similar species: pusilla.
Natural History
This species inhabits the forest floor leaf litter in mature wet forest habitats. It is most often collected in Winkler samples of sifted leaf litter. The queens are peculiar, with grossly swollen, ivory-colored mandibles (MacKay and MacKay 2004).
This species was recently described by MacKay and MacKay (2004) based upon two queens from Costa Rica. During the separation of morphotypes close to L. pusilla, a group of workers and queens, both based upon larger size and more elongate basal funicular segments, has been separated and considered as conspecific with L. josephi. A queen from Panama is slightly smaller in size than the Costa Rican queens and presents a more convex dorsal propodeal margin in lateral view than the relatively straight to weakly convex shape of CR specimens. This species could be confused with L. JEL- qua, a morphologically similar species from western Colombia, Ecuador, and southern Costa Rica.
Type data
Leptogenys josephi Mackay and Mackay 2004:256. Holotype queen: Costa Rica, Guanacaste Province, Estacion Pitilla, 600m, 2 May 1995 (R. Anderson) [MCZC].
Literature Cited
MacKay, W. P. and E. E. MacKay. 2004. A new species of the ant genus Leptogenys (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) with inflated mandibles. Sociobiology 43:255-258.
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