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What You Should Know About the AP English Literature Exam
"AP" does not stand for "Always Puzzling." The following should help lift the veil of mystery associated with the AP exam.
What is the Advanced Placement Program?
The Advanced Placement program was begun by the College Board in 1955 to construct standard achievement exams that would allow highly motivated high school students the opportunity to be awarded advanced placement as freshmen in colleges and universities in the United States. Today, there are 35 courses and exams with more than a million students from every state in the nation, and from foreign countries, taking the annual exams in May.
As is obvious, the AP programs are designed for high school students who wish to take college-level courses. The AP Literature course and exam are designed to involve high school students in college-level English studies in both literature and composition.
Who writes the AP Literature exam?
According to the folks at the College Board, the AP Literature exam is created by college and high school English instructors called the AP Development Committee. The committee's job is to ensure that the annual AP Literature exam reflects what is being taught and studied in college-level English classes in high schools.
This committee writes a large number of multiple-choice questions that are pretested and evaluated for clarity, appropriateness, and range of possible answers. The committee also generates a pool of essay questions, pretests them, and chooses those questions that best represent the full range of the scoring scale which will allow the AP readers to evaluate the essays fairly.
It is important to remember that the AP Literature exam is thoroughly evaluated after it is administered each year. This way, the College Board can use the results to make course suggestions and to plan future tests.
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Once you have taken the exam and it has been scored, your test will be assigned one of five numbers by the College Board:
• 5 indicates you are extremely well-qualifi ed.
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Short Story Saturday: The Whisper Jar by Carole Lanham
Welcome to Short Story Saturday, a celebration of short stories and anthologies, which means you'll only see mini-reviews of 3 stars and up on this feature!
If you know of an awesome short story (can be your own), send me an email. If I like it, then I'll post it on Short Story Saturday.
he Whisper Jar by Carole Lanham
Published: May 31st, 2012
Publisher: Morrigan Books
Retail Price: $2.99 ebook, $8.99/$9.99 paperback
Links: Goodreads | Amazon | Barnes & Noble
Pages: 196
"I do not know what you have done, but put your mouth right here. Confess your crime to this fruit jar as though it were God's ear."
~ from The Whisper Jar
Some secrets are kept in jars — others, in books.
Some are left forgotten in musty rooms — others, created in old barns.
Some are brought about by destiny — others, born in blood.
Secrets — they are the hidden heart of this collection. In these pages, you will encounter a Blood Digger who bonds two children irrevocably together; a young woman who learns of her destiny through the random selection of a Bible verse; and a boy whose life begins to reflect the stories he reads…
Most importantly, though, if someone should ever happen to offer you a Jilly Jally Butter Mint, just say "No!"
The stories in THE WHISPER JAR were perfect bit size pieces for a disturbingly delicious anthology. I was surprised how connected to each story, which is a difficult feat to accomplish in so little words. After reading a couple of the stories, I had to stop and nurse my book hangover, since I was not quite ready to let go of the characters. One of the stories, THE READING LESSONS, is due to become a full-length novel next year, though I'd think that almost all of these stories would make fantastic full-length books.
Besides the gothic elements, this anthology also dabbles in some controversial topics like incest, pedeophiliacs, underage sex, racial tension, and religious tyrony. Most of these topics are implied, though I must warn that anyone who is easily offended should not read this book.
Stories that were amazing:
- Keepity Keep – a love triangle between two brothers and a fairy. The ending of this story crushed me!
- The Blue Word – an orphan prepares for graduation. I wish that this was made into a full-length novel. I could not believe the ending.
- The Forgotten Orphan – a boy who discovers the creature upstairs. Amazing story from start to end.
- Friar Garden, Mister Samuel, and the Jilly Jally Butter Mints – I'm not quite sure what this story was about. I'm thinking that the mints were some kind of hallucinogen, but it's hard to say.
- The Reading Lessons – reading lessons that can kill you. I think this story had a slow start, yet and amazing finish.
Stories that were okay:
- The Whisper Jar – poem about a jar that holds the town's secrets
- The Good Part – a brother who will do anything for his sister
- Maxwell Treat's Museum of Torture for Young Girls and Boys – a boy collects torture devices. I didn't care for this story much.
- The Adventures of Velvet Honeybone, Girl Werewuff – poem about…umm I don't actually know. It's too poetic for me.
Coming in 2013 from Immortal Ink Publishing –
Based on the award-winning short story from The Whisper Jar…
Awards and Acknowledgements
The Good Part
Trunk Stories 2005
Tales of Moreauvia 2009
Bram Stoker Award Preliminary Ballot 2005 for Outstanding Achievement
in a Short Story
Honorable Mention 21st Annual Year's Best Fantasy and Horror
Keepity Keep
Fantasy Magazine December 2008
Voted One of the Five Best Stories in Fantasy Magazine for 2008
Honorable Mention Best Horror of the Year Volume One
CATE Award for Best Stories of 2008 at Poison Apple
The Blue Word
The World is Dead 2009
Honorable Mention Best Horror of the Year Volume Two
First Place Winner at On The Premises 2008
Notable Story of 2008 in the Million Writer's AwardFriar Garden, Mister Samuel, and the Jilly Jally Butter Mints
Thought Crime Experiments 2009
Short-Listed for the Million Writer's Award 2009The Reading Lessons
Son and Foe Issue 1 2005
Presented as a pod cast at Parade of Phantoms 2008
Bram Stoker Award Preliminary Ballot 2005 for Outstanding Achievement
in a Short StoryThe Forgotten Orphan
Midnight Lullabies 2007
Honorable Mention 21st Annual Year's Best Fantasy and Horror
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Book Review: Magisterium by Jeff Hirsch (3 stars)
Magisterium by Jeff Hirsch
Genre: YA Science Fiction, Fantasy
Publisher: Scholastic Press
Pages: 310
Published: October 12th, 2012
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On one side of the Rift is a technological paradise without famine or want. On the other side is a mystery.
Sixteen-year-old Glenn Morgan has lived next to the Rift her entire life and has no idea of what might be on the other side of it. Glenn's only friend, Kevin, insists the fence holds back a world of monsters and witchcraft, but magic isn't for Glenn. She has enough problems with reality: Glenn's mother disappeared when she was six, and soon after, she lost her scientist father to his all-consuming work on the mysterious Project. Glenn buries herself in her studies and dreams about the day she can escape. But when her father's work leads to his arrest, he gives Glenn a simple metal bracelet that will send Glenn and Kevin on the run—with only one place to go.
With MAGISTERIUM, Jeff Hirsch brings us the story of a complex, captivating world that will leave readers breathless until the very last page.
MAGISTERIUM dived from a solid five star book, the moment Kevin chopped off his mohawk.
When I initially started the book, I was pleasantly surprised that it was sci-fi. I thought by the cover that it was a fantasy. My favorite character was Kevin, because I adored his puppy dog crush on Glenn, although I despised how she treated him (like shit). And my favorite part of the book was the first couple of chapters. I thought that Glenn had a good future/adventure on planet 813.
And then it all changed.
Glenn's father kept a terrible secret and the bracelet on Glenn's wrist held the key. Through a series of unfortunate events, Glenn discovered herself fleeing towards the borderlands…to the wasteland that she's learned to avoid her whole life.
When Glenn learns that the borderlands are actually a dark fantasyland, not only does her perception of reality change, but so does the narration. The writing becomes less scientific and more poetic. The writing is beautiful, yet I think the action scenes are so filled with fluff and descriptions that I lose exactly track of what happens. Glenn might be going insane, but it's me ripping out my hair as I try to figure out if a certain character is dead, dying, or just injured.
I loved Kevin in the beginning, but due to an incident, his personality completely changes, and all chemistry between him and Glenn is lost. He even chopped off his beautiful blue mohawk and stopped being so chatty. /crushed. Aamon's character is essential to the story, but he seems forced into situations for plot purposes.
In fact, there are a lot of characters that disappear for a few pages or chapters and then just spontaneously show up when they have to save/foil Glenn. I wish there was more foreshadowing for several of the major scenes. And when the Magistar finally makes an appearance, (to quote the Mad Hatter) she's "lost her muchness". It was very anti-climatic. The ending was also anti-climatic for the buildup. But I think most of my disappointment was because the Kevin I fell in love with on page one never came back.
MAGISTERIUM wasn't a bad book, but when it killed the old Kevin, I just lost my attachment to the story.
(I received a copy of this book from the ARCycling Program.)Read More
Book Review: Lizzie Speare and the Cursed Tomb by Ally Malinenko
Lizzie Speare and the Cursed Tomb by Ally Malinenko
Genre: MG Fantasy
Publisher: Antenna Books
Pages: 352
Published: September 12th, 2012
Author Links: Goodreads | Website | Twitter | Facebook
…a normal twelve year old girl with a talent for writing, who has a very not normal family secret. And when Lizzy's father vanishes, that secret will change her life in ways unimagined. (Spoiler Alert! It turns out that Lizzy, or Elizabeth S. Speare, is the last living descendant of William Shakespeare. Shhh! Don't tell anybody!)
Then Lizzy and her best friend Sammy are kidnapped, awakening in the faraway land of Manhattan. Their host is Jonathan Muse, whose job is to protect Lizzy from becoming the latest victim in a family feud nearly five hundred years old. Could that be why the mysterious, eye patch-wearing Dmitri Marlowe is after her? (Spoiler Alert 2—he's the last living descendant of Christopher Marlowe, a friend and rival of Shakespeare's. But keep it to yourself!) Is Marlowe after Lizzy's family fortune rumored to be kept in Shakespeare's tomb? Does he seek artistic immortality? Or Revenge (with a capital R) for a death long, long ago?
In a dangerous game of cat-and-mouse, Lizzy and Sammy are thrust into the realm of the mythical and fantastic—from satyrs and Cyclopses to Middle Eastern cab drivers and Brooklyn hipsters—in what is truly "an improbable fiction" as the Bard himself once wrote.
LIZZIE SPEARE AND THE CURSED TOMB is an excellent introduction for MG students to Shakespeare, while still being mystical enough to appeal to fans of Harry Potter and Percy Jackson. The story begins with the kidnapping of Rupert, Lizzie's father. With the help of her best friend Sammy, she must find a way to find him. I like how the quest is a person, not an object. The riddles for the quest are taken directly out of Shakespeare's work, which will help kids to understand and appreciate the Elizabethan style of writing. The solution requires real-world problem solving skills instead of a magical potion or item.
The story gives a personality to the historical mastermind, William Shakespeare, and makes him relateable to kids and young teens. The adults in the story (Marlowe, Jonathan, and Rupert) all make human mistakes and have very defined motives for their actions and beliefs. It's hard to figure out who to trust and Lizzie doesn't trust blindly. Lizzie is a good problem solver, though she does make rash decisions when her emotions are triggered.
The essence of New York City is captured perfectly. New York is laid out with the precision of a local. Both landmarks features and cultural centers influence how Lizzie solves her next piece of the quest. Although there are similarities for way magic functions in New York in this book compared to the way London functions in Harry Potter, this book has too unique of a story and characters to be considered a fan fiction.
At first I was confused as to how Sammy was able to go alone on the adventures with Lizzie without his parents caring about his absence, but when I realized the relations between his parents and the other adults in the story, it made sense. Also, there is no romance in the book, so LIZZIE SPEARE definitely is directed towards the younger audience.
There are only two parts of the book that I don't like. The prologue is revisited almost word per word in a later chapter, so I do recommend skipping the prologue completely. The second thing is that I really don't like the title. This book has both classroom and entertainment value for MG readers. Fans of YA and Adult novels, this book might be too young for you.
(I received a copy of this book from the author for my honest review. I also enjoyed this book so much that I purchased it for my mother's school kids with my own money.)
Ally Malinenko, a self-proclaimed Bardolator, took her first pilgrimage to Stratford-Upon-Avon in 2009 and hasn't been the same since. Lizzy Speare and the Cursed Tomb is her first children's book. Her poetry book, The Wanting Bone, was published by Six Gallery Press. She blogs at allymalinenko.com. Ally lives in Brooklyn with her husband.Read More
Review: Captive of the Orcs by Benjamin Epstein (4 stars)
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Captive of the Orcs by Benjamin Epstein
Publisher: Center One Publishing
Published: November 13th, 2012
Pages: 302
Genre: Fantasy
Links: Goodreads | Amazon | Barnes & Noble | Facebook
Dallet departed on a long journey, leaving behind his family, home, and his love. He planned to travel to the City of Brass Gates, and enter the priesthood of the Divine, the deity of the Luminean Exiles.
Torak was a young Orc, raised to pursue honor and victory. His tribe captured a trading caravan, and Torak enslaves a fleeing Luminean Exile.
Human and Orc, slave and master, bound by fate, must now adventure across the face of Codytha. One seeks revenge, the other freedom. And each is an enigma to his companion.
The dual plots in CAPTIVE OF THE ORCS are expertly intertwined. Dallet is captured by an orc on the way to begin his training as a Luminean Exile. Torak tracks down a human for capture only to discover that his entire raiding party has been slain/captured besides him. Each character has a very solid plot and what one character does in their own plot influences the plot of the other one.
The characters are complete opposites in beliefs and values, yet share a deep respect for one another. It's amusing to see the difference of culture between human and orc. There honestly needs to be more orc books, as they're one of my favorite fantasy creatures. I like the politics of the orcs and how tiny details make a ripple later on in the story.
By the very end of the story, I was nervous that it would end in a cliffhanger and nothing would be resolved until a surprise sequel comes out. But that's not the case. I can't say that I was surprised by the ending, however I do like how the resolution happened. Both Dallet and Torak reach a satisfying ending by the last few pages. I'm in awe at the amount of growth both characters exhibited throughout the course of the novel.
There are some minor proofreading errors (quotations) near the end, but nothing that that inhibits your ability to enjoy the story. At first, I didn't like the dialogue and the voices seemed too generic, but as the book progressed and I really started connecting with the characters, either the dialogue got better or I was too sucked into the story to notice otherwise.
(I received a copy of this book from the author in exchange for my honest opinion)
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It's your lucky, lucky day. For the Lucky Leprechaun Giveaway Hop, we have two prizes. First, you can win a bookmark featuring the epic short story, House of Cards by Juli D. Revezzo. Secondly, you can win a $10 giftcard to Amazon.com. This contest is opened to US residents only due to shipping costs. SORRY! Winner has 48 hours to respond by email or another one will be chosen.
Since, Juli D. Revezzo is awesome enough to supply a bookmark for this giveaway and wrote one of the best story stories I've read in quite a few months, I want to spotlight her book, House of Cards. I received a copy of the book from the author in exchange for my honest review. Giveaway is on bottom!
House of Cards by Juli D. Revezzo
Genre: Dark Fantasy
Publisher: Raven Queen Publications
Released October 3rd, 2012
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You can't escape Fate….
A young nobleman escapes the Reign of Terror in 18th century France to find himself dragged into an even worse fate–a hellish underworld wherein he is cajoled and put on trial by a demon tribunal for crimes he never committed. Can he answer thwart his fate, one worse than the guillotine?
My Thoughts – It's amazing how rare it is to find a short story with a rich atmosphere, three dimensional characters, and a proper ending. House of Cards exceeded my expectations for what a short story should offer. Sinjor is fleeing Paris in a stagecoach (I think that's the right name for the vehicle) but not fast enough. He is caught in route by something and he must tread carefully to figure out how to survive this encounter. Sinjon's indecision and often inaptitude in figuring out the quests is a refreshing take on the typical fantasy hero, who always figures out the task. It's good to see the hero fail, although Sinjon might not have liked the consequences. House of Cards is borderline horror. It's dark fantasy that never quite crosses into scary, although there are several gruesome descriptions and a steady, suspenseful pace.
As far as short stories goes, this one has it all. (A)
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- Birthplace: Sacramento, CA
- Residence: Sacramento, CA
- Age: 46
- Turned Pro: 1987
PGA TOUR Victories
(1) 2002,World Golf Championships-Accenture Match Play Championship.
2010 PGA TOUR Money and Position
$443,462 (79)
2010 PGA TOUR Best Finishes
T10-- Zurich Classic of New Orleans.
PGA TOUR Best Round
65 at Round 4, Bob Hope Classic.
PGA TOUR Highlights
Made 400th career start at Arnold Palmer Invitational, finishing T59...The following week at the Shell Houston Open, hit all 18 greens in regulation for the first time in his career, posting a first-round 68. Finished T31...Earned 48th career top-10 with T10 finish at Zurich Classic of New Orleans.
Career Best PGA TOUR Finishes
1-- World Golf Championships-Accenture Match Play Championship.
2009 Season Highlights
Earned exempt status on the PGA TOUR for the 13th consecutive year and had two top-10s...Took 14 starts to post his first top-10 off the season, a T9 at the Crowne Plaza Invitational. Missed only two cuts in the first 14 starts. Was one of 16 players with all four rounds in the 60s at Colonial CC...Made his third TOUR ace when he had a hole-in-one at the RBC Canadian Open, one of eight aces at the tournament that week...Recorded his first top 5 of the season at the Wyndham Championship (T5). T5 at the Wyndham Championship was his best showing in 13 starts at the event.
Career Highlights
2009: Earned exempt status on the PGA TOUR for the 13th consecutive year and had two top-10s...Took 14 starts to post his first top-10 off the season, a T9 at the Crowne Plaza Invitational. Missed only two cuts in the first 14 starts. Was one of 16 players with all four rounds in the 60s at Colonial CC...Made his third TOUR ace when he had a hole-in-one at the RBC Canadian Open, one of eight aces at the tournament that week...Recorded his first top 5 of the season at the Wyndham Championship (T5). T5 at the Wyndham Championship was his best showing in 13 starts at the event. 2008: Had a career year with more than $2 million in earnings and qualified for THE TOUR Championship for the first time in his career. Made 20 cuts in 24 events entered, lost twice in playoffs and posted 10 top-25s...In third start of the season, was tied for the lead after first round of the FBR Open with a 6-under-par 65. Shot 66-69 on the weekend to finish T4, his best effort since a runner-up at the 2007 AT&T Pebble Beach National Pro-Am...Added top-10 finishes in back-to-back starts at the Shell Houston Open (T8) and the EDS Byron Nelson Championship (T7)...Fourth top-10 of the season was an eighth-place finish at the John Deere Classic. Has posted back-to-back top-10s at TPC Deere Run (T6 in 2007) and has three top-10s in Moline, IL (T5-2003)...Fired a 3-under 68 on the final day at The Barclays to get into a playoff with Vijay Singh and Sergio Garcia. Singh and Garcia made birdies on the first playoff hole to eliminate Sutherland. He moved from 57th to third in the FedExCup standings...Finished 15th in his debut at THE TOUR Championship. Result placed him 11th in the final FedExCup standings...Stated early in the week that his intention in playing the Frys.com Open was "just to have some fun." Shot 129 (63-66) on the weekend to force sudden death with Cameron Beckman. Following an errant approach shot on the second extra hole, couldn't convert for par to match Beckman. 2007: Had best season since 2003, with a runner-up finish and three top-10s...Was one stroke back heading into the final round of the Buick Invitational. Closed with a 2-over 74 on the South Course and dropped to T14...Tied for the 54-hole lead with Phil Mickelson at the AT&T Pebble Beach National Pro-Am. Finished runner-up after a closing 1-under 71 at Pebble Beach, five strokes behind Mickelson...Finished T6 at the John Deere Classic, his second top-10 of the season...Recorded his second career top-10 finish in a major championship with a T9 at the PGA Championship. 2006: Ended the season 115th on the TOUR money list, the lowest spot since he finished No. 135 as a rookie in 1996. But managed to retain his fully-exempt status for 10th consecutive season. Made 21 cuts in 29 events entered and posted seven top-25 finishes...Best effort was a T11 at the Frys.com Open and Reno Tahoe Open. His $84,800 payday in late October at the Frys.com Open moved him over the $750,000 mark in season earnings and helped him secure his card for the 2007 season. 2005: In first start, earned a T6 at the Buick Invitational...Posted unofficial T7 at the rain-shortened Nissan Open, where he posted rounds of 67-69, three shots out of Adam Scott-Chad Campbell playoff. 2004: His four top-10s were the most since he posted seven in 2001...Held a share of the 36-hole lead with Jerry Kelly at THE PLAYERS Championship after opening 66-69. Finished T6 after rounds of 73-73 on the weekend. 2003: Finished T9 at the World Golf Championships-Accenture Match Play Championship after losing to Adam Scott in the third round (2 and 1). 2002: Earned first TOUR title in his 184th career start. Became first player to make a World Golf Championships event his first career victory with a win at Accenture Match Play Championship. Beat fellow Sacramento, CA native Scott McCarron, 1-up, in the 36-hole final at La Costa Resort and Spa. Became the highest seed (No. 62) to win the tournament. Key shot was and up-and-down for par from the front bunker on the final hole. Used claw putting grip to win just one week after experimenting with it at Nissan Open. 2001: Shattered previous mark for top-25s with 13 (previous best was 12 in 2000)...Opening 67 gave him six-way share of the first-round lead at Touchstone Energy Tucson Open. Closing 68 left him one shy of winner Garrett Willis...Managed to eclipse the $1-million mark in a single season for the first time in his career with T7 at the Advil Western Open...Participated in the British Open for the first time and finished T9, his first top-10 in a major championship. 2000: Best showing came at the Buick Invitational, a T5...At Canon Greater Hartford Open, shot a final-round 65, his lowest final-round score of the year, to place T9...Held first-round lead at Bell Canadian Open after opening 65. Entered the event as a last-minute commitment due to fact his wife, Mary, gave birth to their first child just 10 days prior to tournament. Finished T10. 1999: Finished with four top-10s and eight top-25s. Top-10s came in Bob Hope Chrysler Classic (T8), Buick Invitational (T4), FedEx St. Jude Classic (T6) and Las Vegas Invitational (T6). 1998: At Buick Invitational, rounds of 68-67-70 left him one stroke shy of second career playoff. 1997: Came close to victory at Shell Houston Open, sharing 54-hole lead with Phil Blackmar. He and Blackmar shot final-round 70s before Blackmar won with a birdie on first playoff hole. 1991-92: Member of Nationwide Tour. Amateur: Second-team All-American at Fresno State.
Brother David was a member of PGA TOUR from 1997-2004. The two were paired together for the first time on TOUR during first two rounds of 1999 Compaq Classic of New Orleans...Won 1997 EA Sports Challenge Championship, defeating defending champion Paul Goydos.
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Released in 1988, 'Scrooged' was a darkly comedic take on Charles Dickens' classic 'A Christmas Carol,' starring Bill Murray in the Ebenezer Scrooge role as Frank Cross, a cynical TV executive alienated from his family and unable to find real happiness. Struggling to put together a live production of 'A Christmas Carol' on Christmas Eve, Frank finds that his real life begins to resemble the story he's producing as three ghosts visit him throughout the evening to try and get him to change his ways before it's too late.
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Originally named FPK-Pascal, the Free Pascal compiler is a 32 bit and 64 bit
Turbo Pascal compatible Pascal compiler for DOS, Linux, Win32, OS/2,
(based on an older version) the AmigaOS, FreeBSD/ELF, BeOS, Darwin(OSX)
and others.
WWW: http://www.freepascal.org/
NOTE: FreshPorts displays only required dependencies information. Optional dependencies are not covered.
This port is required by:
To install the port: cd /usr/ports/lang/fpc/ && make install cleanTo add the package: pkg install lang/fpc
cd /usr/ports/lang/fpc/ && make install clean
pkg install lang/fpc
No options to configure
Number of commits found: 88
Convert all :U to :tu and :L to :tl
Since FreeBSD 8.4 and FreeBSD 9.1 make(1) do support :tu and :tl as a
replacement for :U and :L (which has been marked as deprecated)
bmake which is the default on FreeBSD 10+ only support by default
:tu/:tl a hack has been added at the time to support :U and :L to ease
migration. This hack is now not necessary anymore
Note that this makes the ports tree incompatible with make(1) from
FreeBSD 8.3 or earlier
With hat: portmgr
- Update to 2.6.4
Stage support
- remove reference to /usr/X11R6 in pkg-message
Submitted by: crees
Approved by: maintainer timeout (1 month)
Fix properties on pkg-plist
Convert the tree to USES=openal
Approved by: portmgr (bapt)
- Fix static linking issues on amd64
- Bump PORTREVISION
Add NO_STAGE all over the place in preparation for the staging support (cat:
Teach fpc not to try to link to libiconv on head after the iconv change.
This fixes the lang/fpc-utils port build.
Bump PORTREVISION due to runtime behaviour change on head.
Approved by: portmgr (bapt, implicit)
- update libdg to 2.1.0
- Update to 7.31.0
- Bump PORTREVISION for ftp/curl shlib change
- Add TEST_DEPENDS
- Convert to new options framework
- Adjust options:
- Add COOKIES
- Add CYASSL, NSS, POLARSSL, THREADED_RESOLVER, TLS_SRP [1]
- Add GSSAPI and SPNEGO [2]
- Remove KERBEROS4
- Rename LIBIDN to IDN
- Remove TRACKMEMORY [1]
- Sort option handler
- Add SLAVEDIRS: ftp/curl-hiphop
- Cosmetic change
- Cleanup Makefile header
- While I'm here, fix typo (PORTREVSION) in x11-wm/ede/Makefile
Changes: http://curl.haxx.se/changes.html
PR: ports/172325 (-exp run), ports/177369 (based on) [1]
Submitted by: Hirohisa Yamaguchi <email@example.com> [1], hrs (via email) [2]
Exp run by: miwi
Rely on bsdtar to autodetermine the format of the distfiles when possible
For a while now bsdtar is able to autotermine compression and archive format.
Let's then use tar directly instead of piping to tar.
Now USE_BZIP2 and USE_XZ only set EXTRACT_SUFX to the right format
Convert the last USE_ICONV to USES=iconv
- Update to 2.6.2
- Trim Makefile headers
In categories starting with [h-m], remove empty lines from pkg-plist (and
purge one empty file).
- Fix editors/fpc-ide
- Now freepascal units respect LOCALBASE
PR: ports/153567
Submitted by: amdmi3
- update png to 1.5.10
- Fix install
Reported by: pav
- Fix a problem when fpc.cfg is removed on deinstall time
- Bump PORTREVISION
Reported by: erwin
- Add ${LOCALBASE}/lib/qt4 path to fpc.cfg config file
- Bump PORTREVISION
- Use USE_XORG instead of USE_XLIB
Suggested by: bapt
- Update to 2.6.0
- Chase unixODBC shlib bump
- change required APACHE version from 13+ to 20+
(prepare to remove www/apache13)
- no PORTREVISION bump since apache22 is the default
with hat apache@
- update fftw3* to 3.3 [1], and adjust dependent ports
- make use of optimizations by default, where possible
(quad flavor to follow shortly, and mpi at a later date)
Suggestions and patches from: ache, C. Burns, wen
- Track dependencies after databases/gdbm update
- Chase x11-toolkits/xforms shlib version bump
Last commit message is wrong!
New commit message:
- Fix: comments should begin with the line whithout whitespaces in front.
- set EXPIRATION_DATE to "one week after FreeBSD 9.0-RELEASE-p0"
with hat apache@
- Update to 2.4.4
- DISTNAME= ${PORTNAME}-${PORTVERSION} is the default and not needed.
PR: ports/153292
Submitted by: myself (pgollucci)
Tested by: -exp run by pav
Approved by: portmgr (pav)
- Fix distinfo entry
Reported by: sahil
- Update to 2.4.2
See changelog at: http://wiki.freepascal.org/User_Changes_2.4.2
- Change s/LIB_DEPENDS/RUN_DEPENDS on rexx-regina dependency. It solves a
problem with rexx-regina install detection
Reported by: QAT
- s/NOPORTSDOCS/NOPORTDOCS
Reported by: QAT
- Update to 2.4.0
- Add support for amd64 [1]
- Add 23 new ports to to bsd.fpc.mk
- Remove obsolete patch file patch-packages-fcl-db_Makefile
- Turn off some optional dependencies like databases/unixODBC,
graphics/svgalib, databases/oracle8-client for avoid break amd64 support
- Clean up
PR: ports/146001
Submmitted by: Christopher Key <cjk32__ at _cam.ac.uk>
Patch reviewed by: marcov_ at _pascalprogramming.com (fpc developer)[1]
Chase the ftp/curl shlib version bump.
- update to 1.4.1
Reviewed by: exp8 run on pointyhat
Supported by: miwi
- Fix some more SF URLs, including ones in PATCH_SITES and comments (for
Approved by: portmgr (pav)
- Chase fftw3 update
- Fix all MASTER_SITES entries. Now it will compile without problems
Reported by: Zahemszky Gábor <Gabor __ at__zahemszky.hu> via email
- Update to 2.2.4
- Add convertors/fpc-iconvenc port to bsd.fpc.mk
- pkg-plist fixes
- Update X.org ports to 7.4+ (few ports are more recent than the katamari).
- Bump PORTREVISION for all ports depending on libglut since the shlib
version number went from 4 to 3.
- Bump PORTREVISION for all ports depending on libXaw as libXaw.so.8 isn't
installed anymore.
- Couple of ports fixes (mostly missing xorg components added to USE_XORG).
Bump the version of the curl shared library after the ftp/curl update
to 7.19.2.
Bump PORTREVISION, even on the ports that do not have a versioned
dependency, since the binaries will most probably still stop working.
- Remove example files from fpc-gtk1 and fpc-gtk2 ports. It can be
obtained from fpc-source into distfiles directory.
- Update to 2.2.2
- Remove conditional checks for FreeBSD 5.x and older
- PREFIX is always present in MAKE_ENV, no need to add it again
- Use new freepascal stuff
- Bump PORTREVISION
- Add a better way to install fpc.cfg config file, now lazarus will compile
without problems :)
- Bump PORTREVISION
Submitted by : bsam
- Add some missing dependencies, possibly it fixes some build problems
Approved by: portmgr (pav)
- Update to 2.2.0
Attempt to fix build of fpc units on pointyhat.
Suggested by: maintainer
Switch firebird dependency from hardcoding to USE_FIREBIRD. This switches
the default to v2 and thus fixes some packages on pointyhat.
Hat: portmgr
- Fix Makefiles.units. The devel/fpc-fcl was building without -CX option
- Bump devel/fpc-fcl PORTREVISION
- Add a clean solution to compile devel/fpc-fcl, using OPT and removing the rtl
and packages directories from WRKSRC
- Bump devel/fpc-fcl PORTREVISION
Submitted by: Ales Katona <almindor__at__gmail.com> (via email)
Modified by: me
- Remove the comment character from ibase section
- Add OPTIONS to some freepascal ports. Now, we can install the external libs
- Other tiny modifications
Suggested by: Ales Catona <almindor__at__gmail.com> [1]
Approved by: garga(mentor, implicit)
- Update to 2.0.4
- Add new dependencies to editors/lazarus
Approved by: garga (mentor,implicit)
- Added post-extract on Makefiles.units. It remove the svn directories from
some fpc ports.
- Added PORTREVISION for each port
- Fixed pkg-plist on fpc-gtk2 and fpc-gtk ports
- Fixed the gtk, glib and gdk libraries linking for fpc-gtk
- Removed obsolete patches from fpc-gtk. Now it's using ${REINPLACE_CMD}
- Removed post-extract from fpc-fcl. I just added it to makefiles.units file
Approved by: garga (mentor)
- The big change on ports of freepascal, now all ports are compiled
- Adding entry for lang/fpc-utils
Approved by: garga (mentor)
- Update fpc to 2.0.2
98654, 98656, 98657, 98658, 98720, 98724
Submitted by: Jose Alonso Cardenas Marquez <email@example.com>
Remove USE_REINPLACE from the categories starting with L
- No latest link, to prevent clash with lang/fpc2
Reported by: kris
- Add SHA256
- Remove dead MASTER_SITES
- Fix after spliting firebird
- Bump PORTREVISION
PR: ports/79337
Submitted by: Renato Botelho <email@example.com> (firebird maintainer)
With portmgr hat on, reset maintainership of these ports. Maintainer's
old email address bounces, and he has not been responsive to email on the
only other one we have for him.
These ports are now available for adoption.
Come back coop, we miss ya ...
- Fix MASTER_SITES
PR: ports/67345
Submitted by: Roman Neuhauser <email@example.com>
* Fix the build on -CURRENT
* Clean up Makefile
* Fix build when an earlier version of fpc was already installed
Submitted by: maintainer
This is broken on 4.x as well.
BROKEN on 5.x: install fails
Bump PORTREVISION on all ports that depend on gettext to aid with upgrading.
(Part 2)
Update to 1.0.10.
Additional change according to the submitter:
- Port compiles for the first time
- Port has 'gone on a diet'
(forgot about this file in last commit, few seconds ago)
Submitted by: maintainer
Update to 1.0.10.
Additional change according to the submitter:
- Port compiles for the first time
- Port has 'gone on a diet'
Submitted by: maintainer
* Upgrade to 1.0.6.
* Fix build on -current.
PR: ports/53884
Submitted by: Matthew West <email@example.com>
Approved by: maintainer
Umm, I should bump PORTREVISION...
Remove dependency on print/acroread4.
Run-depending on acroread is not required for *.pdf in plist.
gtar is required for 'extract' not 'build'
Change of maintainers email address.
PR: ports/45369
Submitted by: John Merryweather Cooper <email@example.com>
lang/fpc needed perl to complete its install, the others are renaming
of PERL to REINPLACE_CMD
Noticed on: bento
Missing patch. Part of Makefile revision 1.2 fix
o Uphold port style tradition: handle post extraction duties in post-extract
instead of pre-install o Handle per installation transient files in
PKG{,DE}INSTALL instead of PLIST o Do not install corrupted binary o Do
not @ prefix inside PKG{,DE}INSTALL
o New port fpc version 1.0.4: Free Pascal beta compiler with Turbo, Delphi
and other extensions o Borrows install scripting tricks from halflifeserver
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It was the third straight year the teams met in the regular season finale to determine the MAC championship, with the last two going to the Panthers.
Connor Chess rushed for 147 yards and two touchdowns, and Stevie Peterson passed for two more scores, and Flint Hill took advantage of seven Panther turnovers to eventually pull away after halftime.
The Huskies led 21-19 midway through the third quarter. Peterson found Cole Herdman for a 13-yard touchdown pass, and after immediately recovering a Panther fumble on the ensuing drive, the senior connected with Ben Kase, who made an impressive one-handed catch and scored from 11 yards out.
The Potomac School was never able to get closer than 11 points after that. Peterson, who doubles as the kicker, added a 36-yard field goal to give Flint Hill a 38-19 lead heading into the fourth quarter.
The Panthers briefly appeared to build momentum when Jalen Broom rushed for four of his 188 yards on the day and found the end zone to make the score 38-27. They then recovered an onside kick, but Flint Hill's Jonny Howard picked up an interception to shift the momentum to the Huskies.
Reed scored his second touchdown of the day on a 4-yard run to cap the scoring and eventually send the Huskies into a frenzy.
While Peterson had success through the air this season, throwing for more than 1,100 yards and 19 touchdowns, it was the running game that carried the Huskies on Saturday. Cameron Vaughn added 97 yards, and Reed's two touchdowns doubled his injury-ridden season output.
"I thought we were physical," Verbanic told the Washington Post. "We've been getting more physical every game. We came in knowing that we were going to run it, they knew we were going to run it, and we still got it done."
Chess scored on runs of 9 and 18 yards to stake Flint Hill to a 14-0 lead, and Reed's first touchdown, a 16-yarder, opened the second half scoring to push the lead to 21-13.
The Huskies will likely enter the VISAA playoffs as the 4-seed in the Division 1 tournament.


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Matt and Robin's Wide World of Travel (WWT)
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The Light at the end of the Chunnel....
Well, as we all know, all good things must come to an end.....
So our travel plans look like this: Later this week we will say goodbye to Haarlem which has been our home for the last seven weeks. We'll then head to London for a few days and then Bath for a total of a week in England.
We will then fly to New York from London via Dublin on the 18th of August which is exactly one year after we left Portland, Oregon. We will spend six days visiting friends and family in New York then back home to Portland. Whew!
We can't wait to see everyone and are looking forward to coming home. Stay tuned for more blogging from England!
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Wow, one whole year, what adventures you've had, what memories you've amassed! Can't wait to see you guys next week and hear all about your trip around the world. Sorry we'll miss you in London but we're looking forward to talking to you about where we should go when we are there a week later. Say hi to Bob, Meg, Matt, and Daniel.See you soon!Posted by: Don and Pam on August 7, 2005 06:44 PM
I love the symmetry! Thank you for sharing your adventures. Look forward to seeing you back in the hood!Posted by: Darci on August 8, 2005 11:19 AM
WOW what a year you guys had; great adventures, great memories. Certainly anxious to see you-enjoy EnglandPosted by: gloria on August 11, 2005 11:30 AM
Looking forward to hearing these stories in person! What an adventure it has been. Your detailed essays and great photography have been enlighting and awe inspiring! Thanks for letting us come along!Posted by: brian on August 12, 2005 07:59 AM
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AVG Anti-virus was also one of the best free anti-virus software, we listed back in a 2007 article. It was downloaded 84,317,112 times from download.com in 2010, making it the most downloaded windows software of 2010.
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Avast Free Edition was downloaded 52,648,408 times in 2010 from download.com.
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Malwarebytes' Anti-Malware is one of the latest anti-malware software which can easily find malware and other rogue software which some of the other popular anti-malware softwares often miss.
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A favorite yuppie wine runs into trouble
Can the low-priced Yellow Tail brand survive a financial crunch? The strengthening Australian dollar lies at the heart of the problem.
Grocery stores seem to have miles of shelves featuring Yellow Tail wine, the Australian brand that's climbed to best-selling status among U.S. households by combining a smooth taste with a reasonable price.
But Yellow Tail may be at risk: The brand's owner, Casella Wines, is in emergency talks with its lender, and failure to secure a new loan from the bank could mean the sale of vineyards or other assets, reports the Wall Street Journal.
At the heart of the problem is the strengthening Australian dollar, which led to Casella's first loss in more than 20 years. More than three-quarters of its sales stem from the U.S.
"There is no volume issue, it is all about the exchange rate," chief executive John Casella told the WSJ. "The currency is having serious implications for a lot of Australian manufacturers."
Yellow Tail's become something of a monster for the Australian wine industry: 20% of all bottled wine exports from the country bear the Yellow Tail label, according to Casella Wines.
The brand has won over money-conscious drinkers by producing more than a dozen low-priced wines under its basic Yellow Tail label, ranging from Chardonnay to Shiraz. It's also expanded into slightly higher-end products with the Yellow Tail Reserve brand, which sells in the $10 to $12 range per bottle.
Yellow Tail has become a favorite table wine of yuppies and others who want a decent bottle at reasonable prices. While the future of Yellow Tail's vineyards may be in doubt, its low price point will remain, with Casella noting that raising prices could be counterproductive and hurt its push into Asian countries.
In the meantime, the company hopes to secure a deal with its lender, the National Australia Bank, ahead of a Jan. 30 deadline, and then to wait it out.
"We are working out how we go forward. Provided we have the support of our financiers, we can make little or no money for a year or two," Casella told the Australian Financial Review. "I'm hopeful the dollar is overvalued and we can return to some normality."
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THE Sequoia National Park was created by act of Congress of September 25, 1890 (26 Stat., 478), to preserve, for the benefit and enjoyment of the people, the greatest groves of the oldest, the biggest, and the most remarkable trees living in this world. They number 1,156,000. Of these, 12,000 exceed 10 feet in diameter. The General Sherman Tree, most celebrated of all, is 279.9 feet high with a diameter of 36.5 feet. The Abraham Lincoln Tree is 270 feet high with a diameter of 31 feet. The William McKinley Tree is 291 feet high with a diameter of 28 feet.
The General Grant National Park is usually mentioned with Sequoia because, though separated by 6 miles of mountain and forest, the two are practically the same national park. It was established by act of Congress of October 1, 1890 (26 Stat., 650). It contains only 2,536 acres and was created only for the protection of the General Grant Tree, a monster sequoia 264 feet high and 35 feet in diameter. But General Grant shares his domain with distinguished neighbors, notably the George Washington Tree, which is only 9 feet less in height and 6 feet less in diameter.
The sequoias are found scattered all over the park, which has an area of 161,597 acres, but the greater trees are gathered in 13 groups of many acres each, where they grow close together. The country is one of the most beautiful in America, abounding in splendid streams, noble valleys, striking ridges, and towering mountains. Some of the best trout fishing in the world is found here. The park is the home of the celebrated golden trout, which is found nowhere else in such perfection of color.
Owing to the high elevation of the parks where the main tourist camps are situated, it is advised that tourists come between June 15 and October 1, as there is seldom rain or snow during that period and the atmosphere is usually cool and clear.
The address of the supervisor is Three Rivers, Cal.; complaints should be addressed to that officer. These parks are under the control and supervision of the Secretary of the Interior.
Tourists should have strong and warm clothing of woolen, corduroy, or khaki, leggings, and heavy shoes. For permanent camping plenty of bedding should be provided. For hiking trips, the sleeping bag will give better service on account of its compactness. For carrying luggage, a dunnage bag made of heavy canvas is all that is necessary. For camping out, a mess kit, frying pan, coffee pot, dutch oven, or baking reflector is absolutely necessary.
Utensils and equipment can be procured along the route of travel at the following towns: Visalia, Exeter, Lemon Cove, or Three Rivers, the latter being nearest the Sequoia National Park, and Sanger, Dinuba, Hume, or Orosi in reaching General Grant National Park.
There are several hotels, camps, and transportation lines operated under concessions from the Department of the Interior, but every person is at liberty to provide his own means of transportation and to provide his own camp, subject to regulations on pages 28 to 33.
From John Muir's "Our National Parks"1 is taken the following description of the celebrated sequoia trees:
"The big tree (Sequoia gigantea) is nature's forest masterpiece, and, so far as I know, the greatest of living things. It belongs to an ancient stock, as its remains in old rocks show, and has a strange air of other days about it, a thoroughbred look inherited from the long agothe auld lang syne of trees. Once the genus was common, and with many species flourished in the now desolate Arctic regions, in the interior of North America, and in Europe; but in long, eventful wanderings from climate to climate only two species have survived the hardships they had to encounter, the gigantea and sempervirens, the former now restricted to the western slopes of the Sierra, the other to the Coast Mountains, and both to California, excepting a few groves of redwood which extend into Oregon.
"The Pacific coast in general is the paradise of conifers. Here nearly all of them are giants, and display a beauty and magnificence unknown elsewhere. The climate is mild, the ground never freezes, and moisture and sunshine abound all the year.
"Nevertheless it is not easy to account for the colossal size of the sequoias. The largest are about 300 feet high and 30 feet in diameter. Who of all the dwellers of the plains and prairies and fertile home forests of round-headed oak and maple, hickory and elm, ever dreamed that earth could bear such growthstrees that the familiar pines and firs seem to know nothing aboutlonely, silent, serene, with a physiognomy almost godlike; and so old, thousands of them still living had already counted their years by tens of centuries when Columbus set sail from Spain and were in the vigor of youth or middle age when the star led the Chaldean sages to the infant Saviour's cradle? As far as man is concerned they are the same yesterday, to-day, and forever emblems of permanence.
"No description can give any adequate idea of their singular majesty, much less of their beauty. Excepting the sugar pine, most of their neighbors with pointed tops seem to be forever shouting 'Excelsior,' while the big tree, though soaring above them all, seems satisfied, its rounded head, poised lightly as a cloud, giving no impression of trying to go higher. Only in youth does it show like other conifers a heavenward yearning, keenly aspiring with a long, quick-growing top. Indeed the whole tree for the first century or two, or until a hundred to a hundred and fifty feet high, is arrowhead in form, and, compared with the solemn rigidity of age, is as sensitive to the wind as a squirrel tail. The lower branches are gradually dropped as it grows older, and the upper ones thinned out until comparatively few are left. These, however, are developed to great size, divide again and again, and terminate in bossy rounded masses of leafy branchlets, while the head becomes dome-shaped.
"Then poised in fullness of strength and beauty, stern and solemn in mien, it glows with eager, enthusiastic life, quivering to the tip of every leaf and branch and far-reaching root, calm as a granite dome, the first to feel the touch of the rosy beams of the morning, the last to bid the sun good-night.
"Perfect specimens, unhurt by running fires or lightning, are singularly regular and symmetrical in general form, though not at all conventional, showing infinite variety in sure unity and harmony of plan. The immensely strong, stately shafts, with rich purplish brown bark, are free of limbs for a hundred and fifty feet or so, though dense tufts of sprays occur here and there, producing an ornamental effect, while long, parallel furrows give a flutted columnar appearance. It shoots forth its limbs with equal boldness in every direction, showing no weather side. On the old trees the main branches are crooked and rugged, and strike rigidly outward mostly at right angles from the trunk, but there is always a certain measured restraint in their reach which keeps them within bounds.
"No other Sierra tree has foliage so densely massed or outline so finely, firmly drawn and so obediently subordinate to an ideal type. A particularly knotty, angular, ungovernable-looking branch, 5 to 8 feet in diameter and perhaps a thousand years old, may occasionally be seen pushing out from the trunk as if determined to break across the bounds of the regular curve but like all the others, as soon as the general outline is approached the huge limb dissolves into massy bosses of branchlets and sprays, as if the tree were growing beneath an invisible bell glass against the sides of which the branches were molded, while many small varied departures from the ideal form give the impression of freedom to grow as they like.
"Except in picturesque old age, after being struck by lightning and broken by a thousand snowstorms, this regularity of form is one of the big tree's most distinguishing characteristics. Another is the simple sculptural beauty of the trunk and its great thickness as compared with its height and the width of the branches, many of them being from 8 to 10 feet in diameter at a height of 200 feet from the ground, and seeming more like finely modeled and sculptured architectural columns than the stems of trees, while the great strong limbs are like rafters supporting the magnificent dome head.
"The root system corresponds in magnitude with the other dimensions of the tree, forming a flat far-reaching spongy network 200 feet or more in width without any taproot, and the instep is so grand and fine, so suggestive of endless strength, it is long ere the eye is released to look above it. The natural swell of the roots, though at first sight excessive, gives rise to buttresses no greater than are required for beauty as well as strength, as at once appears when you stand back far enough to see the whole tree in its true proportions. The fineness of the taper of the trunk is shown by its thickness at great heightsa diameter of 10 feet at a height of 200 being, as we have seen, not uncommon. Indeed the boles of but few trees hold their thickness as well as sequoia.
"Resolute, consummate, determined in form, always beheld with wondering admiration, the big tree always seems unfamiliar, standing alone, unrelated, with peculiar physiognomy, awfully solemn and earnest. Nevertheless, there is nothing alien in its looks. The Madrona, clad in thin, smooth, red and yellow bark and big glossy leaves, seems, in the dark coniferous forests of Washington and Vancouver Island, like some lost wanderer from the magnolia groves of the South, while the sequoia, with all its strangeness, seems more at home than any of its neighbors, holding the best right to the ground as the oldest, strongest inhabitant.
"One soon becomes acquainted with new species of pine and fir and spruce as with friendly people, shaking their outstretched branches like shaking hands, and fondling their beautiful little ones; while the venerable aboriginal sequoia, ancient of other days, keeps you at a distance, taking no notice of you, speaking only to the winds, thinking only of the sky, looking as strange in aspect and behavior among the neighboring trees as would the mastodon or hairy elephant among the homely bears and deer. Only the Sierra juniper is at all like it, standing rigid and unconquerable on glacial pavements for thousands of years, grim, rusty, silent, uncommunicative, with an air of antiquity about as pronounced as that so characteristic of sequoia.
"The bark of full-grown trees is from 1 to 2 feet thick, rich cinnamon brown, purplish on young trees and shady parts of the old, forming magnificent masses of color with the underbrush and beds of flowers. Toward the end of winter the trees themselves bloom while the snow is still 8 or 10 feet deep. The pistillate flowers are about three-eighths of an inch long, pale green, and grown in countless thousands on the ends of the sprays. The staminate are still more abundant, pale yellow, a fourth of an inch long, and when the golden pollen is ripe they color the whole tree and dust the air and the ground far and near.
"The cones are bright, grass-green in color, about 2-1/2 inches long 1-1/2 wide, and are made up of 30 or 40 strong, closely packed, rhomboidal scales with four to eight seeds at the base of each. The seeds are extremely small and light, being only from an eighth to a fourth of an inch long and wide, including a filmy surrounding wing, which causes them to glint and waver in falling and enables the wind to carry them considerable distances from the tree.
"The faint lisp of snowflakes as they light is one of the smallest sounds mortal can hear. The sound of falling sequoia seeds even when they happen to strike on flat leaves or flakes of bark, is about as faint. Very different is the bumping and thudding of the falling cones. Most of them are cut off by the Douglas squirrel and stored for the sake of the seeds, small as they are. In the calm Indian summer these busy harvesters with ivory sickles go to work early in the morning, as soon as breakfast is over, and nearly all day the ripe cones fall in a steady pattering, bumping shower. Unless harvested in this way they discharge their seeds and remain on the trees for many years. In fruitful seasons the trees are fairly laden. On two small specimen branches 1-1/2 and 2 inches in diameter I counted 480 cones. No other California conifer produces nearly so many seeds, excepting perhaps its relative, the redwood of the coast mountains. Millions are ripened annually by a single tree, and the product of one of the main groves in a fruitful year would suffice to plant all the mountain ranges of the world.
"The dense tufted sprays make snug nesting places for birds, and in some of the loftiest, leafiest towers of verdure thousands of generations have been reared, the great solemn trees shedding off flocks of merry singers every year from nests, like the flocks of winged seeds from the cones.
"The big tree keeps its youth far longer than any of its neighbors. Most silver firs are old in their second or third century, pines in their fourth or fifth, while the big tree growing beside them is still in the bloom of its youth, juvenile in every feature at the age of old pines, and can not be said to attain anything like prime size and beauty before its fifteen hundredth year, or under favorable circumstances become old before its three thousandth.
"Many, no doubt, are much older than this. On one of the Kings River giants, 35 feet 8 inches in diameter exclusive of bark, I counted upward of four thousand annual wood rings, in which there was no trace of decay after all these centuries of mountain weather.
"There is no absolute limit to the existence of any tree. Their death is due to accidents, not, as of animals, to the wearing out of organs. Only the leaves die of old age, their fall is foretold in their structure; but the leaves are renewed every year and so also are the other essential organswood, roots, bark, buds. Most of the Sierra trees die of disease. Thus, the magnificent silver firs are devoured by fungi, and comparatively few of them live to see their three hundredth birth year. But nothing hurts the big tree. I never saw one that was sick or showed the slightest sign of decay. It lives on through indefinite thousands of years until burned, blown down, undermined, or shattered by some tremendous lightning stroke.
"No ordinarily bolt ever seriously hurts sequoia. In all my walks I have seen only one that was thus killed outright. Lightning, though rare in the California lowlands, is common on the Sierra. Almost every day in June and July small thunderstorms refresh the main forest belt. Clouds like snowy mountains of marvelous beauty grow rapidly in the calm sky about midday and cast cooling shadows and showers that seldom last more than an hour. Nevertheless these brief kind storms wound or kill a good many trees. I have seen silver firs 200 feet high split into long peeled rails and slivers down to the roots, leaving not even a stump, the rails radiating like the spokes of a wheel from a hole in the ground where the tree stood. But the sequoia, instead of being split and slivered, usually has 40 or 50 feet of its brash knotty top smashed off in short chunks about the size of cord-wood, the beautiful rosy red ruins covering the ground in a circle a hundred feet wide or more. I never saw any that had been cut down to the ground or even to below the branches except one in the Stanislaus Grove, about 12 feet in diameter, the greater part of which was smashed to fragments, leaving only a leafless stump about 75 feet high. It is a curious fact that all the very old sequoias have lost their heads by lightning. 'All things come to him who waits.'
"But of all living things sequoia is perhaps the only one able to wait long enough to make sure of being struck by lightning. Thousands of years it stands ready and waiting, offering its head to every passing cloud as if inviting its fate, praying for heaven's fire as a blessing; and when at last the old head is off, another of the same shape immediately begins to grow on."
But, when all is said, the Sequoia groves form but a small proportion of the delights of the Sequoia National Park. Though one of the oldest national parks, it is comparatively little visited. The great fame of the Yosemite Valley, which lies less than a hundred miles north of Sequoia and much nearer San Francisco, has drawn there the greater throngs of summer visitors, most of whom, having seen the lesser Yosemite groves, have returned to their homes ignorant of the very existence of the supreme exhibit so near by.
With less demand upon its resources, therefore, Sequoia remains comparatively undeveloped in road and hotel and public camp facilities, though there are sufficient of all comforts for the needs of the moment. But its day is coming. When the supreme fitness of this region for the highest enjoyment of mountain sojourning becomes realized by them people the Sequoia National Park will become one of the most popular of all.
These mountains and valleys form literally one of the most avail able pleasure spots on the continent. It is easily traveled and abounds in fine camping grounds. The water is potable in all the streams. Aside from the sequoias the largest, oldest, tallest, and most valuable forest trees are found here. There are forests of pine, fir, cedar, and many deciduous trees that are fairly royal. There are many shrubs, wild flowers, ferns, and mosses of wonderful luxuriance and beauty. It is a park of birds.
In laying out the boundaries of Sequoia National Park some of the most superb of American scenic country was unaccountably omitted. Just to the north lies the wonderful valley of the Kings River with its spectacular canyon and picturesque mountains, while directly on the east, over the Great Western Divide, lies the valley of the Kern River, widely celebrated for its beauty. Mount Whitney, on its east bank, is the loftiest mountain in the United States proper. These two districts are easily reached from the national park, of which they are in effect, though not in administration and protection, a natural part.
The streams and lakes in these parks afford splendid trout fishing, boating, and bathing. The waters are all pure and fit to drink. The forests contain the largest, oldest, tallest, and most valuable trees in the world. Aside from the giant sequoia, there are other forests of pine, fir, cedar, and many deciduous trees that are truly royal. There are many shrubs, wild flowers, ferns, and mosses of superb beauty, while frolicking wild animals and beautiful song birds are another enjoyable and attractive feature of the parks.
Within the forests of the parks are 13 different groves of sequoia timber. The following table gives the names of the groves, the approximate area, number of trees exceeding 10 feet in diameter, and the total number of trees of all sizes:
Sequoia groves of the parks.
In four of the groves above mentioned certain trees have been named, while in all other groves they have not. The following is a list of a few of the principal trees, with their names, height, and diameter:
Height and diameter of principal trees.
General Sherman, height, 279.9 feet; diameter, 36.5 feet.
Dalton, height, 292 feet; diameter, 27 feet.
California, height, 260 feet; diameter, 30 feet.
General Grant, height, 264 feet; diameter, 35 feet.
The General Sherman tree was discovered by James Wolverton, a hunter and trapper, on August 7, 1879, at which time he named the tree in honor of Gen. Sherman, under whom he had served during the Civil War. The dimensions of this tree are as follows:
Dimensions of General Sherman tree.
The General Grant tree was named by Mrs. Lucretia P. Baker, who was a member of a party which camped near the tree in August, 1867. This tree has a height of 264 feet and a base diameter of 35 feet.
There are many trees in some of the groves and, in fact, some in each of the groves that compare favorably in size to those herein given. It is to be understood that the Sequoias in these groups do not grow to the exclusion of other kinds of trees but are interspersed with other growths of coniferous species.
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Down west 19th you'll find Smokes and Slots. In east Lubbock there is Charity Sweepstakes. Even at two o'clock in the afternoon, these businesses are often packed. But just how legitimate are they? NewsChannel 11 sent our photographer in with a hidden camera, to find out.
"What's the most you've won here?" I got like $80 but there was a girl the other day that won $400. She had all sevens across," said one player. Eight-liner operations claim the machines are perfectly legal. Signs read 'Tickets are for Amusement Only. No Cash Value.' But that's not what we found out. We asked "So what do you win, you win prizes or do you just do this for fun?" "No, you win money," said a player.
We then showed this video to District Attorney Bill Sowder and Assistant D.A. John Grace. "This whole concept of seeing that in Lubbock, as a District Attorney, just bothers me, it doesn't seem like it's a legitimate business. Like I said we've given them an inch and they've run with it and taken a mile," Sowder says.
For example, Charity Sweepstakes claims their business is legit because they donate part of their money to the Omega Education Foundation. But Sowder says that's still illegal. "You can't just simply say 'because I give a dollar at the very beginning somehow everything else I win off this game is somehow legal because I gave to charity before I started playing," Sowder says.
Sowder told NewsChannel 11 that he intends to pull the plug on the Eight-Liner business in Lubbock County.
The Texas Court of Appeals has given Lubbock prosecutors the go ahead to enforce the law. Starting next week, Eight-Liner operators will receive a letter giving them the option, close down your business voluntarily or be forced to close down. "If they continue to operate and continue to violate the law then we will enforce the law by making arrests, seizing equipment, and taking their assets and putting them out of business," says Asst. D.A. John Grace.
Even those who play the machines seem to sense that Eight-Liner operators are walking a fine line and soon their luck will run out. "I don't know how long they'll get to stay open in our story," says another Eight-Liner player.
We mentioned only a few local eight liner operations. But since eight liners first began reappearing in Lubbock five months ago, dozens of businesses have opened and closed. Some charities use them for fund raising, and say they should be exempt from the law but at this point, the DA's office says they intend to strictly enforce the law and take each case as it comes.
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