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Egoless Programming
Egoless Programming
Egoless programming is a concept introduced by Gerald Weinberg in The Psychology Of Computer Programming. The idea is that programmers must fight the natural tendency to treat their programs as part of themselves, and therefore to reject all criticism. Rather, they should do their best to treat their designs & implementations as objects independent of themselves, and to view criticism dispassionately on its merits.
What is to be done about the ego problem in programming? A typical text on management would say that the manager should urge all his programmers to reinforce their efforts to find their errors. Perhaps he would go around asking them to show him their errors each day.
This method, however, would fail by going precisely in the opposite direction to what our knowledge of psychology would dictate, for the average person is going to view such an investigation as a personal trial. Besides, not all programmers have managers – or managers who would know an error even if they saw one outlined in red.
Restructuring Social Environment
No, the solution to this problem lies not in a direct attack – for attack can only lead to defense, and defense is what we are trying to eliminate.
Instead, the problem of ego must be overcome by a restructuring of the social environment and, through this means, a restructuring of the value system of the programmers in that environment.
Before we discuss how this might be done, let us look at some examples of what has happened when it has been done – how it affects the programmers and their programs.
The problem of ego must be overcome by a restructuring of the social environment.
– Gerald M Weinberg
What is a value system?
A person's standards and self-discipline set, based on the common sense and wisdom of knowing what the proper moral rules and discipline are, and the amount of willingness to see themselves and others abide by them.
First of all, let no one imagine that such restructuring is the ivory tower dream of social theorists. Programming groups who have conquered the ego problem do exist and have existed from the earliest days of computing.
John von Neumann himself was perhaps the first programmer to recognise his inadequacies with respect to examination of his own work. Those who knew him have said that he was constantly asserting what a lousy programmer he was, and that he incessantly pushed his programs on other people to read for errors and clumsiness.
Yet the common image today of von Neumann is of the unparalleled computing genius – flawless in his every action. And indeed, there can be no doubt of von Neumann's genius. His very ability to realise his human limitations put him head and shoulders above the average programmer today.
Your ability to realise your human limitations will put you head and shoulders above the average programmer today.
– John von Neumann
Average people can be trained to accept their humanity – their inability to function like a machine – and to value it and work with others so as to keep it under the kind of control needed if programming is to be successful.
Begin looking for a critic
Who can be a critic?
Someone willing to look through your code in exchange for returning the favour.
Whenever possible an exchange should be made, so nobody would feel in the position of being criticised by someone else.
A Story?
Consider the case of Bill who was working in one of the early space tracking systems. His job was to write a simulator which would simulate the entire network of tracking stations and other real-time inputs. His system had to check out the rest of the system in real-time without having to have the worldwide network on-line. The heart of the simulator was to be a very small and very tight loop, consisting, in fact, of just thirteen machine instructions. Bill had worked for some time on this loop and when he finally reached the point of some confidence in it, he began looking for a critic – the standard practice in this programming group.
Looking for a critic
Bill found Marilyn willing to peruse his code in exchange for his returning the favor. This was nothing unusual in this group; indeed, nobody would have thought of going on the machine without such scrutiny by a second party. Whenever possible an exchange was made, so nobody would feel in that position of being criticized by someone else. But for Bill, who was well schooled in this method, the protection of an exchange was not necessary. His value system, when it came to programming, dictated that secretive possessive programming was bad and that open, shared programming was good.
Errors that might be found in code he had written – not "his" code, for that terminology was not used here – were simply facts to be exposed to investigation with an eye to future improvement, not attacks on his person.
Bad programming days
In this particular instance, Bill had been having one his "bad programming days". As Marilyn worked and worked over the code – as she found one error after another – he became more and more amused, rather than more and more defensive as he might have done had he been trained as so many of our programmers are.
Finally, he emerged from their conference announcing to the world the startling fact that Marilyn had been able to find seventeen bugs in only thirteen statements. He insisted on showing everyone who would listen how this had been possible. In fact, since the very exercise had proved to him that this was not his day for coding, he simply spent the rest of the day telling and retelling the episode in all its hilarious details.
False Confidence
Marilyn, at the same time, did not feel any false confidence in her own work on the problem, for – she reasoned correctly – where there had been 17 errors, there were probably a few more. In particular, she knew that after a certain amount of time working on the code, she had internalized it as much as had Bill, even though she had not written it originally. So she in turn went looking for a critic; and while Bill was giving everyone an enormous laugh at his expense, Marilyn and others managed to find 3 more errors before the day was over.
As an epilogue to this incident, it should be noted that when this code was finally put on the computer, no further errors were found, in spite of the most diabolical testing possible. In fact, this simulator was put into use in more than a dozen installations for real-time operations, and over a period of at least nine years no other errors were ever found. How different might have been the story had Bill felt that each error found in the code was a wound in his pride – an advertisement of his stupidity.
Strengths & Weaknesses:
Why not so popular?
This incident is not an isolated case, and this group is not unique. Why, then, are such groups not more apparent? Why is the practice of "egoless programming" not more widespread? A number of factors might be invoked to account for the impression that such groups are rare.
Proprietary Information
First of all, many of the successful software firms are based on this type of interaction and though they will admit to it under direct questioning, they often regard this knowledge as valuable proprietary information.
Hard to find
Secondly, groups working on this way tend to be remarkably satisfied and stable, so that the programmers we find wandering from company to company are not likely to have come from such a group.
The Myth of Genius
More, these gypsy programmers – to achieve a constantly escalating salary range – must encourage the myth that the best programming is the product of genius, and nothing else.
Difference in quality of work
Another reason these methods are not better known is that nobody has ever experimented on the difference in quality of work produced by this method and the method of isolated individual programmers. Some experiments have been performed on factors affecting programmer productivity, but these have suffered first of all from emphasis on the mechanical aspects of programming, not the social.
For example, a study will be made comparing time sharing with batch processing or language A with language B, because someone is trying to prove that he should be allowed to develop a time-sharing system or a compiler for language B. The people who run these experiments seem to take for granted the individual nature of programming effort – for that is probably the way they have always operated. Besides, things are complicated enough working with individuals. When you compare system X and system Y and find out that 90 percent of the variance in your experiment comes from individual programmer differences, who wants to add the complication and expense of studying group performance?
Efficient Coding vs Quick Completion
An interesting anecdote – can be told about one of the studies that tried to assess the difference in programming results obtained when different programmers were given slightly different impressions of what they were to achieve – efficient coding or quick completion. As usual, individual subjects were employed, but one of these subjects – they were all students on a special three-month course – happened to come from a group that practiced egoless programming. At a certain point, he came to me and said that he had reached the point in his work where he needed someone to look over what he had done. As the object of the experiments was not to study differences between group work and individual work, to request that the subject try to proceed without outside assistance, which would only add to the variance of the experiment.
As a sidelight to this incident, it should be noted that this programmer's work seemed to the evaluators to be better organized and better executed than the other four programmers working on the same problem. In discussing this question with him, he raised the point that he had worked throughout as he always did in his own group – always with an eye to making the program clear and understandable to the person or people who would ultimately have to read it.
Always work with an eye to making the program clear & understandable to others.
This insight indicates that all the advantages of egoless programming are not confined to the detection of errors, though that was perhaps the earliest and strongest motivation for adopting the technique. In fact, it might be useful to examine our four factors in good programming in the light of what effect this method would have on them.
All the advantages of egoless programming are not confined to the detection of errors.
Meeting specifications and schedule
For meeting specifications, the value is quite clear. On the matter of scheduling, the effect on the mean time to complete programs is not immediately evident, but the effect on the variation should be clear from our example of the bugged simulator. If it is true that programmers have bad coding days – and this seems supported from a number of sources – then a piece of code written on one of these days is going to have an extra long debugging cycle. In the case of Bill's program, the twenty bugs might have taken several weeks to root out. Moreover it seems likely that at least one of them might have survived in the system past the time when this piece was integrated with other pieces – in which case the schedule of other parts would have been adversely, or at least unpredictably, affected.
Not only is the variation in debugging time reduced, but since there is more than one person familiar with the program, it is easier to get realistic estimates on the amount of real progress that has been made.
It is not necessary to rely on a single judgment – and of the person least likely to be unbiased, at that.
The adaptability of programs is also improved, for we are assured that at least two people are capable of understanding the program. Under certain programming circumstances, this represents an infinite improvement. Also, the entire work is less susceptible to being disturbed if one of the involved programmers happens to be sick, or pregnant, or otherwise missing, as programmers are wont to be. This not only reduces variations in schedule, but also makes it more likely that at some time in the future, when the code must be modified, someone will be around who knows something about it.
On the question of efficiency, we can make no hard and fast statements. There certainly seems to be no reason why programs are developed in this way should be less efficient than other programs.
Scrutiny by a second party
By having a second party look at the program, it would seem that we increase the possibility of eliminating at least the most obviously inefficient areas, although overall efficiency is usually going to be primarily influenced by the original structure chosen.
Become a better programmer
One final advantage of this method lies in the effect it has on the person reading the program of someone else, for, if we are correct in assessing the value of reading programs, he cannot help but become a better programmer for the exercise.
It does seem that the general level of competence of such a group is likely to raise itself even in the absence of specific measures for education.


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Clare Fergusson, a helicopter pilot turned Episcopal priest, and Russ Van Alstyne, police chief of Millers Kills, N.Y., are suffering in the wake of their affair in Anthony-winner Spencer-Fleming's fifth mystery, her most captivating yet (after 2005's To Darkness and to Death ). After Russ separates from his wife and Clare's Albany superiors chastise her, the "problem priest" vows never to see Russ again. But when Russ's wife is found murdered in the Van Alstynes' home and the New York State police deem him the prime suspect, Clare risks everything to clear his name. The high-stakes plot evolves seamlessly with totally unexpected twists and turns, culminating in a climax that surpasses the drama of previous outings. Clare and Russ continue to struggle with their feelings and the confines of their respective vocations, while interesting new characters join the familiar residents of Millers Kill. Fans, once they start reading, will hang Do Not Disturb signs on their doors. (Oct.)
Release date: 10/01/2006
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Sunday, October 23, 2011
December issue of "Trains"
If you pick up the magazine, don't miss Don Philips' column on DHS and its ridiculous crusade against photography on page 9. Yes, even I have been approached and questioned by a policeman while taking train pictures.
You might also have heard the news that the TSA is expanding its program of stopping vehicles on the nation's highways. You used to be able to avoid the TSA by not flying. That is no longer the case.
As much as I'd like to say it is just the TSA doing this it is not: get a load of this quote from Long Beach, California:
Captain Steven M. Roller of the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department has told Long Beach Post that it is standard practice to detain and pat down photographers for "potential terrorist" activity such as photographing a courthouse.
How long are we going to continue to put up with these threats to our liberties?!
Don ends his column by quoting Benjamin Franklin, Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety. Agree 100%! Thanks, Don.
11 comments:
- AnonymousOctober 23, 2011 at 2:05 PM
Maybe you should go out on a ride-along with local law enforcement to see what the job is like from THEIR end of things. Not everyone that the police deal with are nice guys who are just out enjoying their hobby. The police don't know you and they don't know what you're up to. I'm happy that the police are checking out people who are photographing trains (and airports, and power plants, and bridges, etc). If you choose to do this hobby, you also have to choose to accept what comes with it. Let the officer do their job, cooperate, and you'll both be on your way in a few minutes. What's the problem??ReplyDelete
"Let the officer do their job, cooperate, and you'll both be on your way in a few minutes. What's the problem??"ReplyDelete
I did just that and we were both on our way in a few minutes. The officer was very professional.
The problem is that photographing trains or a courthouse while on public property is a completely legal activity. It is NOT the job of law enforcement to harass people engaged in legal activities.
This is supposed to be a free country.
With regard to the 2:05pm comment, please see this: http://pajamasmedia.com/blog/the-crime-of-committing-contempt-of-cop/?singlepage=trueReplyDelete
- AnonymousOctober 23, 2011 at 6:01 PM
This IS a free country. I don't know how long it will remain that way with this president and the leftists who want otherwise. And I did read your link to the pajamasmedia piece, but what on earth does that have to do with the topic at hand? You are trying to connect "contempt of cop" to photographing trains? That's quite a stretch.ReplyDelete
Let me put this a different way. Let's assume for a moment that somebody (an anonymous citizen, or a named citizen--it doesn't really matter for this example---just SOMEONE) calls 911 to report a suspicious person. Let's assume that this person tells the dispatcher that there is a guy taking pictures of trains, and the person thinks it's suspicious because he or she doesn't know what the person is up to and feels that the person should be checked out. Okay, so the dispatcher types it into the computer and a call goes out over the radio for a suspicious person. Now, the officer who works that beat is assigned to the call. When he arrives on the scene, let's say he sees the person that was called in---the description matches exactly---now what?? Does the officer wave, and then drive away and resume patrol? What about the citizen who called in the suspicious person? What if that citizen is looking out their window and they see the police car arrive, they see the police officer give a friendly wave, and they see the officer drive away. Don't you think that the citizen would probably be saying to themselves, "What the hell was THAT??". Don't you think that the officer is obligated to stop and talk to the person taking pictures---even if the photographer is standing in a perfectly LEGAL location? Isn't it the duty of the officer to investigate this call? What's wrong with the officer stopping and talking to the photographer? In your view, this would be "harassment"---but in the officer's view, he is only doing his job.
Now what??
Sorry, if a person is engaged in an entirely legal activity the police should leave them alone. Period.ReplyDelete
And, yes, there are some police men and women who are complete jerks. Some are incompetent. That is where "contempt of cop" comes into the picture.
Law enforcement has the upper hand whenever they stop someone. If the LE person is on a power trip then bad things can happen.
I'm sure there are plenty of terrorists that are using high quality cameras like me and others to take pictures of trains passing by. Most cell phone cameras can capture pictures and be MUCH LESS suspicious than using the huge camera. I've been stopped a few times too, and thankfully they have been nice and just asked what I was doing and even had a brief conversation, but you also hear about people going to jail cause of taking pictures of trains ON PUBLIC PROPERTY because of overzealous cops who want to look good. Those same cops detained a friend and took his pictures because they claimed he was on private property in a public park.ReplyDelete
I think 99% of those who chase trains are ok with a cop asking what you are doing and being nice and just going away after asking, but there is also that 1% of cops that are trying to make themselves look cool and big due to a power trip. THAT needs to stop.
Alan R.
- AnonymousOctober 23, 2011 at 11:06 PM
Mike, the world doesn't work in the perfect manner that you think it does. Just because someone is doing something perfectly legal does not give you a teflon coating. I guess the next time you might need to call 911 for something and the police tell you "sorry but that's not illegal", you'll be perfectly happy with that. Maybe you will be, but that's not reality. In many police departments, they have a policy where "you call a cop, and you get a cop". This is all part of Community Oriented Policing and the old days of saying "we won't respond to that" are over. If someone wants a cop to come check something out, guess what, the cops are going to check it out---AS THEY SHOULD. Once the officer stops and talks with you and verifies you're cool, that's it, event over--and everyone goes back to their lives.ReplyDelete
I'll just be direct in my opinion here: I am sick and tired of railfans crying waaaaaaaa every time the police are doing what they get paid to do. These cries of "Nazi" and other things are just ridiculous. I'm not saying that you are saying Nazi, but so many railfans do--and that is asinine. I want to know that if I see something suspicious and I call 911, I want to KNOW that the police will investigate it. If you disagree with that, then I guess there's nothing more I can say.
- AnonymousOctober 23, 2011 at 11:37 PM
I have always thought it's pretty ridiculous to even think that those wishing to conduct acts of terror would even need to take photos of any target. There are millions and millions of photos at our fingertips on the web. If the TSA and others were that concerned, they should shut down things like Google Earth and other such programs. There is far more info out there then there really needs to be.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousOctober 24, 2011 at 5:03 AM
Anonymous cop supporter must have never got talked to by the cops with all his special badges he got. Must be nice to be a privileged rail fan like that and not like the people that are not part of the mafia like him! And must be too chicken to post a real name so the TSA doesn't come after him too!ReplyDelete
- AnonymousOctober 24, 2011 at 9:15 AM
Bahhh hahh hahh! An anonymous poster bashing an anonymous poster. Dude, get out of your mom's basement and take a shower!ReplyDelete
No, I don't have any special privileges you idiot. And yes, I have been stopped three times. Twice by cops and once by private security. OMG I lived to tell about it!
You guys need to stop taking the hobby so seriously and get a life. This might be a news flash to you but there ARE bad people out there.
People, lets elevate the content of the discussion. No more "Nazi" comments and no more insults, please.ReplyDelete


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The Korea-based manufacturer sent out invitations for its Galaxy S4 presser last month, promoting the tagline "Be Ready 4 the Next Galaxy." Rumors about the next-gen smartphone have been circulating ever since the Korea Times reported that Samsung would unveil the S4 at last week's Mobile World Congress. That rumor turned out to be false, but speculation has been widespread ever since. The Galaxy S3 successor is expected to come with a 4.9-inch 1080p display, a 2-GHz quad-core Exynos 5450 processor, a 13-megapixel camera and Android 4.2 right out of the box.
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It's easy to get distracted by consumer data and the echo chamber of marketing rhetoric. More often than not, marketing insider tips and language do nothing but confuse what should be a simple brand objective. Over the past three decades, I've seen too many brands try to differentiate themselves in the 20- and 30-something category by focusing on generational trends, rather than simple human truths. Baby Boomers and Gen-Xers pose their own strategic difficulties, but figuring out how to reach Millennials is eating up more strategic effort than the prior generations combined. With seemingly unlimited access at their fingertips, Millennials can be an intimidating demographic to approach, but they shouldn't be.
Millennials have technology on their side, but so do marketers. There is more real-time data being aggregated than ever before, so why is predicting trends still so difficult?
It should be easy to reach a constantly connected demographic, especially considering their obvious desire to align with any brand that they see as an expression of their ideals. What will always be difficult is getting an over-saturated cohort to give their diminishing time and attention to a brand or company that has no identity or value to contribute.
The answer is creating a clear identity and speaking to the humanity of your audience.
Forget the Word 'Millennials'
Marketers claim that Millennials are a more diverse, educated, and empowered generation than ever before. They are clearly better at branding themselves than Gen-X or the Baby Boomers, but their self-commodification is no reason to be intimidated.
The battle that so many brands are losing isn't the generational culture war that marketers and strategists are attempting to capitalize on, it is an inability to differentiate a meaningful brand identity. Millennials are not some exotic and elite force empowered with technology and insights that we can't possibly understand. They are just another generation of 20- and 30-somethings who want what they have always wanted—they just have new tools for obtaining it.
"Millennials are just people. They seek transparency, authenticity, and brands that not only add value to their life, but also reflect their life values."
We can understand a lot about this generation by understanding the human drivers and the nuances that defines them. Millennials subscribe to a different set of ideals, moving at their own pace through traditional life stages like getting married, buying a home, and having children—making it difficult to predict based on traditional life stage alone.
Millennials are more exposed than any previous generation. Not only do they live a homogenous life somewhat on display, they also have unprecedented access to information, entertainment, products, and maybe most importantly, product information. This doesn't change their desires, just the range of options within that desire.
After all, the Millennials are just people. They seek transparency, authenticity, and brands that not only add value to their life, but also reflect their life values.
The typical Millennial-centric marketing plan attempts to capitalize on this perceived desire for transparency by celebrating individuality, self-expression, and pseudo-trailblazing. In doing so, brands are hoping to engage Millennials with experiences, mobile and social content. This attempt to be authentic and transparent more often than not creates, what I call, a "Mirror-Of-Me"—a brand reflecting its interpretation of its audience back to itself.
The Mirror-Of-Me reflection says, "Forget about who we are; we are just like you. See? Don't we look the same?" It is what marketers believe Millennials to be—non-ironic hipsters who play guitars on rooftops; push their friends in shopping carts; and light sparklers on the beach. This reflection adds no knowledge, entertainment, or enrichment to their existence, it only reflects their perceived lifestyle back to them.
By being "authentic" and "transparent" just like everyone else, brands are being neither of those things.
The Mirror-Of-Me approach not only lacks creativity and vision, it fails to establish a clear brand identity and brand perspective—the two core elements of any billion-dollar brand.
Insights based on the false narrative of a cohort will not connect with people as human beings. It is more likely to ruin any chance of having an intimate understanding of who these consumers are today, and who they will be in the future.
Every brand that wants to grow needs to decide what they represent. Beyond the product itself, there must be lifestyle value and enrichment of some sort. You must identify a brand perspective if you want to represent yourself with any level of authenticity.
In the quest to define and understand your brand, it is easy to get sidetracked by real-time data and the latest trends. The data can become a trap, turning out endless brainstorm sessions about what your customer wants you to be. But that reactionary approach has never worked and still doesn't.
Data is important, and a great tool, but today's real-time data is tomorrow's historical data. To predict, we must weigh a variety of factors—innate human need, socioeconomic influence, and cultural context. These indicators, coupled with accurate data, reveal who they are and who they will become as human beings.
Marketers often reduce people into tribes and overgeneralize in an attempt to make sense of the world and where things belong. With so much information and technical data available, we risk getting caught in the weeds of data, forgetting to sit up, and recognize what it really means. The problem is exacerbated in the case of Millennials because of the cultural dynamics that shape who they are. Seeing beyond the cohort and understanding people as people helps us to demystify the demographic rather than oversimplify them.
The Difference Between Million-Dollar and Billion-Dollar Brands
"The difference between million-dollar and billion-dollar brands is the difference between catching category overflow and transcending category to ignite a cultural movement."
Millennials are people unified by age, humanity, and life stage. What Millennials want is what 20- and 30-somethings want. The answer is the same as it has always been—fun, sex, the illusion of individuality, and ownership of relevance and consequence. Through human insight, cultural context, and real data, we are able to market to people instead of Millennials because people will always transcend data.
The difference between million-dollar and billion-dollar brands is the difference between catching category overflow and transcending category to ignite a cultural movement. I call it Radical Clarity: the clear, undeniable brand identity and perspective that transcends the sea of sameness and marketing rhetoric to clearly define an incontestable place in culture.
John Ruskin, writer and art critic, said, "Quality is never an accident; it is always the result of intelligent effort."
In our business, quality means a clearly defined identity. Owning a differentiated perspective is the result of Radical Clarity, which results in a billion-dollar brand that is impervious to micro-trends and cohort pandering campaigns.


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Death penalty on trial: should Reggie Clemons live or die?时间:2019-11-08 作者:辛埋 来源:兴发平台 浏览:55次 评论:55条
The trial of Reggie Clemons Articles and video Bios Timeline Julie Kerry Robin Kerry Thomas Cummins Daniel Winfrey Marlin Gray Reggie Clemons Antonio Richardson
Julie Kerry
At the time of her death Julie, 20, was studying English literature at the University of Missouri-St Louis. The second of four daughters, she lived with her mother Virginia in the Spanish Lake neighbourhood of St Louis, about two miles from the bridge. Julie was a volunteer for Amnesty International and Greenpeace, and her family and friends admired her for her strong sense of justice. She had a motto hanging on her bedroom wall: "Who says you can't change the world?" Her mother Ginna told police on the night of the incident: "Julie is a very friendly, trusting and idealistic girl".
Julie's overwhelming enthusiasm was for writing poetry and songs. As her cousin, Jeanine Cummins, puts it in her book about the tragedy, A Rip in Heaven: "Julie was having a full-blown love affair with words. Her poetry was her passion; it helped her to interpret her life, to put things in perspective." It was poetry that brought Julie and her sister to the bridge that night – they wanted to show their cousin, Thomas Cummins, a poem Julie had written and that they'd painted on the bridge.
Julie's body was found three weeks after she went missing, near Caruthersville, 297 miles downstream. She is buried in Calvary cemetery in St Louis.
Robin Kerry
A year younger than her sister Julie, Robin, 19 at the time of her death, was also studying at the University of Missouri-St Louis, in her case linguistics. She was active in the local community, helping six-year-olds with their homework after school at the local Salvation Army family haven. A strict vegetarian, her bedroom was festooned with sculptures she had made and sketches of dragons and fairies.
Her cousin Jeanine Cummins wrote that "Robin was bright and defiant. Julie was her mentor, her muse, but Robin was one hundred per cent her own person. She was the shier of the two sisters, but her quiet demeanor masked an ever active wellspring of activity in the mind. She was witty, sarcastic and passionate." The sisters' mother, Ginna, told police on the night they went missing that .
Robin's body has never been found.
Thomas Cummins
The son of a Catholic deacon from Gaithersburg, Maryland, Tom Cummins was training to become a fire fighter when the Chain of Rocks tragedy occurred. Aged 19, he had travelled with his family to St Louis for the spring break to spend time with his cousin Julie. On the night of the 4 April he drove with Julie and her sister Robin to the bridge to see a poem that Julie had written and painted on it. After the women fell to their deaths, Cummins became the star witness in the prosecution case against Reggie Clemons and his two other black co-defendants. He testified in three separate trials that they had raped his cousins and pushed them into the river, then forced him to jump after them by threatening to shoot him.
But police initially . Police records suggested that when they first encountered Cummins after he had sounded the alarm they were . Records also show that , at one point saying that Julie had stumbled into the river after he had unwittingly startled her by trying to hug her.
after they corroborated his statement that four other men had been on the bridge that night. Cummins later issued a lawsuit against the St Louis police alleging they had tried to frame him for the murders – - and he received a .
Today he lives back in the north-east of the US.
Daniel Winfrey
Aged 15, Winfrey was the youngest of the group of four men accused of murdering the Kerry sisters on 4 April, and the only white person among them. He had moved to the small town of Wentzville outside St Louis just three weeks before the incident, where he became friendly with Marlin Gray.
At just 5 ft 6 inches, he was described as an awkward teenager, though polite and respectful. He was arrested having been implicated by Thomas Cummins as one of the four perpetrators. After interrogation, he agreed to turn prosecution witness, confessing that he had been involved in robbing Cummins and the sisters and had held down the women but had not raped them. He gave evidence in court in the three separate trials of his co-defendants in exchange for a lesser charge of second-degree murder for which he pleaded guilty and received a 30-year sentence.
Winfrey was a key witness for the prosecution whose testimony was crucial to the conviction of Reggie Clemons, testifying he had seen Clemons rape the sisters. By his own account, though, he was not on the bridge at the . He didn't .
Winfrey was released on parole in 2007. He now lives outside St Louis with his mother. When the Guardian visited him, he said: "I have nothing to say. Talk to my lawyer."
Marlin Gray
Marlin Gray, 23 at the time, was the oldest of the four men accused of murdering the Kerry sisters. On the evening of 4 April he was driving around Wentzville when he spotted Daniel Winfrey who he had got to know shortly before, and the two of them went off to visit Gray's friend Reggie Clemons in St Louis.
After the four were arrested, Winfrey told police that Gray had had the initial idea to go back on the bridge and accost the Kerry sisters and their cousin, alleging that Gray had said he . Gray also made a confession to police, but shortly afterwards retracted it, saying . Winfrey and Thomas Cummins testified at Gray's trial that he had raped the women. Cummins said that Gray had threatened to "pop him". But by their account, Gray had left the bridge by the time the women were allegedly forced into the river and he was found guilty of murder as an accomplice. Gray continued to insist he was innocent until 26 October 2005 when he was executed by lethal injection. Before he died, he made a final statement. He said:
Reggie Clemons
Born on 30 August 1971, Clemons was the youngest of six children of Roosevelt and Vera Robinson (now Thomas). Clemons had a difficult childhood, suffering from abuse on the part of his father. Vera eventually divorced Roosevelt, and remarried a church pastor, Reynolds Thomas, when Clemons was six years old. Clemons's home background stabilised, and by the time of the Chain of Rocks incident, aged 19, he was described as a compassionate and caring teenager who .
Clemons was put on trial for the murder of the Kerry sisters on the basis of his own . .
Cummins told the jury at the trial that he heard Clemons and Winfrey discussing whether he should be allowed to live or die. But neither Cummins nor Winfrey testified that they had seen Clemons push the women into the river, and the prosecution did not allege that he had done so, arguing he was an accomplice to murder.
Clemons, who has consistently proclaimed his innocence, is being held at the Potosi Correctional Center in . He was sentenced to death on 18 February 1993 and has been on death row ever since.
Antonio Richardson
Richardson lived around the corner from his cousin, Reggie Clemons, in a suburb of St Louis. Aged 16 at the time of his arrest, he was brought up by a succession of relatives and suffered periods of abandonment. By 15 he had a drug and alcohol problem, and dropped out of school.
At trial, his lawyer presented the jury with evidence of Richardson's impaired mental capacity and brain damage. Richardson was the first of the four co-defendants to be arrested after police found a flashlight on the bridge that he had stolen and lost on the night of the murders. Under questioning, Richardson turned on Marlin Gray and Clemons, saying that they had killed the Kerry sisters. But at his trial Thomas Cummins, the sisters' cousin, said it was .
In July 1993 Richardson was found guilty of murder, but the jury was unable to decide whether or not he should be given the death penalty. In their place, the trial judge put him on death row. He came within an hour of execution in March 2001, and two years later had his . He is being held at the Jefferson City Correctional Center, Missouri.19914 April
11pm: Reggie Clemons, 19, along with Marlin Gray, 23, Antonio Richardson, 16, and Daniel Winfrey, 15, drive to the disused Chain of Rocks bridge across the Mississippi river. They drop a flashlight on the bridge.
11.25pm: Two sisters, Julie and Robin Kerry, go onto the bridge with their cousin Thomas Cummins. They see the four on the bridge and chat briefly. The two groups then part.
According to Clemons, he and his three companions then left the bridge.
Thomas Cummins gave a different account: the four men returned and raped his cousins. Then one of them pushed the women into the river, and forced him to jump in after them. Cummins survived, the two women did not.19915 April
Early hours: Thomas Cummins stops a passing truck and asks driver to call police. He is taken to a police station in St Louis where he faces questioning.
During day: . According to a police report, . Cummins later says that the police report was fabricated.19917 April
Police find the flashlight dropped by the group of four on the bridge and trace it back to Richardson, whom they arrest. Then they pick up Clemons, Gray and Winfrey. Clemons confesses to rape, though not to murder.
Thomas Cummins is released from police custody.9 April
Reggie Clemons makes that his confession was beaten out of him. . Both Clemons' and Gray's complaints are dismissed, and their respective confessions are allowed to be presented to the juries at their separate trials.199221 October
Trial opens of Marlin Gray3 December
Gray sentenced to death.199325 January
Trial opens of Reggie Clemons13 February
Clemons found guilty of two counts of first degree murder18 February
Jury imposes death sentence for both counts and Clemons is put on death row19932 April
Cummins files a lawsuit against the St Louis police force claiming he was brutally treated by detectives. Lawsuit ends in a settlement in which Cummins is paid $150,0004 April
Judge at Clemons's trial fines prosecutor Nels Moss $500 for criminal contempt for2 July
Antonio Richardson sentenced to death by a judge after the jury fails to reach a verdict.20017 March
Antonio Richardson comes within an hour of execution. The US supreme court stays the execution200328 October
Antonio Richardson's death sentence reduced to life imprisonment after courts rule the death penalty should not be handed down by a judge alone200526 October
Marlin Gray executed by lethal injection2007June
Daniel Winfrey, who pleaded guilty and was sentenced to 30 years in jail, is paroled after 16 years20095 June
US court of appeals stays the execution of Reggie Clemons, 12 days before he was scheduled to die.1 July
The Missouri supreme court appoints a "special master" to the Reggie Clemons case to review the entire case and recommend what should happen next.201217 September
Hearing of the "Special master" scheduled to begin. After hearing, Judge Michael Manners will recommend to Missouri supreme court whether Clemons should live or die.
Reggie Clemons has one last chance to save his life. After 19 years on death row in Missouri for the murder of two young women, he has been granted a final opportunity to persuade a judge that he should be spared execution by lethal injection.
Next month, Clemons will be brought before a court presided over by a "special master", who will review the case one last time. The hearing will be unprecedented in its remit, but at its core will be a simple issue:
That question is as deadly serious as it sounds. One of Clemons's three co-defendants has already been executed, and Clemons himself came within 12 days of being put to death in 2009.
The Reggie Clemons case has been a cause of legal dispute for the past two decades. Prosecutors alleged that he and his co-defendants brutally cut short the lives of Julie and Robin Kerry, sisters who had just started college and had their whole adult lives ahead of them.
, based partly on incriminating testimony given by his co-defendants, was that Clemons was part of a group of four youths who accosted the sisters on the Chain of Rocks Bridge one dark night in April 1991. The bridge, that connects Missouri and Illinois over the Mississippi river, had fallen into disuse, and teenagers used to gather up there to meet, smoke dope or do graffiti. The sisters, and their cousin Thomas Cummins, had gone onto the bridge that night to see a poem Julie Kerry had painted on it, and as they did so they bumped into Clemons and three other young men who were hanging out there.
The prosecution case was that the men forced the sisters to strip, threw their clothes over the bridge, then raped them and participated in forcing them to jump into the river to their deaths. As he walked off the bridge, Clemons was alleged to have said: "We threw them off. Let's go."
Clemons's supporters have over the years given a different rendition of events. In the racially heated atmosphere of St Louis in the early 1990s, they say, Clemons was made the fall guy. Of the four men who were charged with the murders, the three black men were all put on death row while the one white man is now free on parole.
In this account of events, the cards were stacked against Clemons from the beginning. His appeal lawyers have , the jury was wrongfully selected and misdirected, and his conviction largely achieved on individual testimony with no supporting forensic evidence presented.
Next month's proceedings will bring these two versions of events head
to head. The hearing will be unique in US legal history in terms of
the open-ended brief that has been assigned to the special master,
appointed by the Missouri supreme court after a federal judge granted
Clemons a stay of execution three years ago. The position was given
the title of special master to denote the unusual legal challenge it
involved. The judge would given full powers to call witnesses, look
through the evidence and eventually recommend to the supreme court
what should happen to Clemons.
The hearings will also be significant in a wider sense: in effect, the
death penalty in America will itself be put on trial when the hearing
opens on 17 September.
Judge Michael Manners will be confronted by a question that goes to the heart of the debate on capital punishment in America today. Is the legal system so foolproof, so devoid of flaws and inconsistencies, that it can – beyond the shadow of even the slightest doubt – impose the ultimate, irreversible punishment: the taking of a man's life?
At the end of what is expected to be a week-long hearing, Manners will draw up his recommendation to the Missouri supreme court that will seal Clemons's fate. The judge will have the full range of options open to him. He could recommend that Clemons be freed on time served; order a new trial; call for his death sentence to be commuted to life without parole; or suggest that a date be set for Clemons to be executed – this time with no chance of reprieve.
Clemons is not allowing his hopes to rise ahead of the hearing. He has been through many twists and turns in his legal fortunes already. At one point an appeal court overturned his death sentence, only for it to be reimposed by another judicial panel. After so many years, he has acquired a degree of emotional detachment.
"When dealing with the courts, you learn not to have expectations," he said in a Guardian interview from death row at Potosi Correctional Center in Missouri. "After 20 years of contemplating my execution, and contemplating my death, I have accepted it."
The burden of proof at the special hearing will fall on the defence. In other words, it will be for Clemons and his lawyers to convince the judge that his death sentence for double murder is unsound.
To do that, the defence is expected to concentrate on Clemons's confession to police detectives after he was arrested on suspicion of being involved in the murder of the Kerry sisters, who drowned in the Mississippi river on the night of 4-5 April 1991. Clemons confessed to raping Robin Kerry, but immediately retracted the statement, insisting it had been beaten out of him during a violent police interrogation.
Lawyers on both sides of the legal argument are declining to speak before the hearing. But it is understood that new evidence will be presented to the hearing that supports Clemons's case that his confession was coerced and should not have been allowed to be put before the jury at trial. The Missouri prosecutors are expected in reply to argue that a coerced confession is not proof of Clemons's innocence.
The state's star witness at the trial of Reggie Clemons was Thomas Cummins, the cousin of the Kerry sisters. Cummins told the jury that on the night his cousins were murdered, Cummins and the two sisters had been accosted on the deserted Chain of Rocks bridge by four men they encountered there. The sisters were raped and pushed into the river, Cummins said, then he was forced to jump in after them.
Cummins's account was initially doubted by police, and they suspected him of causing his cousins' death. At Clemons's ensuing trial, that anyone could survive a 70ft drop from the bridge into the perilously fast-moving waters of the Mississippi without at least suffering some visible injuries.
Cummins told police several different accounts of what happened that night, according to police records. One of the accounts was that Julie Kerry had after he tried to hug her. But Cummins retracted his statement, saying he had been roughly treated during many hours of interrogation, and later was granted $150,000 by St Louis police .
A couple of days after the sisters' deaths, police dropped Cummins as a suspect and turned their attentions instead to the other four men who had been on the bridge that night. They were: Clemons; Marlin Gray (executed in 2005); Antonio Richardson (currently serving life imprisonment after his death sentence was commuted); and Daniel Winfrey (the only white man among the four, who turned witness for the prosecution and was given a deal under which he received a lesser sentence; he was released in 2007 on parole).
After several hours of questioning by St Louis police, Clemons confessed to rape but not to murder. But the next day he, too, retracted the confession, saying it had been beaten out of him.
"I remember police mainly beating me in the chest, and that was something that scared me a whole lot. While they were beating me, they were telling me what they wanted me to admit to," Clemons told the Guardian.
As Clemons's lawyers have argued, his description of the violent interrogation he was put through is almost identical to that alleged by Thomas Cummins. It took place, , at the hands of the same detectives, in the same investigation and within 48 hours of each other .
Cummins was given a $150,000 settlement, and was made the star witness at Reggie Clemons's trial. Clemons, by contrast, had his allegedly coerced confession presented to the jury and used as key evidence to put him on death row.
The other area of legal argument that is likely to be central at next month's hearing will focus on a rape kit that was collected after Julie Kerry's body was found 297 miles downstream from the bridge. The rape kit, which is in cold storage with the St Louis police department, appears not to have been disclosed to Clemons's lawyers before his trial.
Jeanene Moenckmeier, one of Clemons's two original trial lawyers, told the Guardian that "we should have seen it as part of the evidence we could have considered at the trial."
DNA tests have recently been carried out on the rape kit, and on a condom found on the bridge that night, to see whether they can illuminate what happened 19 years ago. The results of those tests are being studied by the Missouri attorney general's office and Clemons's current defence lawyers, and are likely to be the subject of testimony in front of the special master.
What, if anything, the tests show, and whether they can cast any light on what happened on the bridge 19 years ago – and indeed Clemons's role in events – will only become clear at next month's proceedings.
There are several other aspects of the case that could hold the special master's attention. The prosecution of Reggie Clemons was so riddled by inconsistencies and irregularities that some observers of the case argue he should never have been put on death row in the first place.
"There are so many contradictions, so many things that don't add up," said Chris King, editorial director of the St Louis American, that has covered the case in depth over several years. "In capital cases the highest standards of jurisprudence should be observed – because the state is taking a life – but that didn't happen in this case."
The selection of the trial jury was conducted by the prosecution in a way . Questions were also raised about the way the prosecution had been conducted. At the time of the Chain of Rocks bridge, Clemons was 19, had just finished high school and was planning to go to college to study engineering. Yet despite the fact that Clemons had no criminal record, the chief prosecutor Nels Moss went in front of the jury and . Moss had been instructed by the trial judge not to refer to Manson - he had played the same trick in the earlier trial of Marlin Gray - and for blatantly disregarding the order was later fined $500 for criminal contempt of court.
Two sets of people will be touched particularly intimately by the outcome of the hearing. The first is Clemons's family, particularly his mother Vera Thomas, who has visited him on death row every week almost without fail for the past 19 years.
"Every time I visit him I am more aware of the fact that they are trying to kill him. It's like we're living on borrowed time, as far as the system is concerned," she said.
The second set of people is the family of Julie and Robin Kerry. They prefer not to speak in public about what happened to their loved ones, and declined to participate with the Guardian.
The closest indication of the family's thinking is given in a powerful book written by the Kerry sisters' cousin, Jeanine Cummins, Thomas Cummins' sister. In A Rip In Heaven she writes movingly about the emotional rollercoaster that her family has been on over many years.
She says she has no compassion for Reggie Clemons or his co-defendants. "I don't care what happens to them. Julie and Robin aren't coming back."
Jeanine Cummins has strong words, too, about the death penalty. She writes that Julie and Robin were both adamantly opposed to the death sentence on humanitarian grounds. Cummins herself gives a different reason for wanting the death penalty to be abolished – because it further alienates and tortures families such as hers who have already suffered so much.
"Maybe the death penalty is wrong … because it rubs salt in the wounds of grief," she writes. "Because it trivialises the people who should matter most. Because it allows the murderers the opportunity to wear a badge they don't deserve – the badge of the victim."


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Supplied in 10 mM sodium HEPES (pH 7.5), 150 mM NaCl, 100 µg/ml BSA and 50% glycerol. Store at –20°C. Do not aliquot the antibody.
For western blots, incubate membrane with diluted primary antibody in 5% w/v BSA, 1X TBS, 0.1% Tween® 20 at 4°C with gentle shaking, overnight.
NOTE: Please refer to primary antibody datasheet or product webpage for recommended antibody dilution.
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NOTE: Volumes are for 10 cm x 10 cm (100 cm2) of membrane; for different sized membranes, adjust volumes accordingly.
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Reprobing of an existing membrane is a convenient means to immunoblot for multiple proteins independently when only a limited amount of sample is available. It should be noted that for the best possible results a fresh blot is always recommended. Reprobing can be a valuable method but with each reprobing of a blot there is potential for increased background signal. Additionally, it is recommended that you verify the removal of the first antibody complex prior to reprobing so that signal attributed to binding of the new antibody is not leftover signal from the first immunoblotting experiment. This can be done by re-exposing the blot to ECL reagents and making sure there is no signal prior to adding the next primary antibody.
NOTE: Prepare solutions with reverse osmosis deionized (RODI) or equivalently purified water.
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Annexin A1 Antibody detects endogenous levels of total annexin A1 protein.Species Reactivity:
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Polyclonal antibodies are produced by immunizing animals with a synthetic peptide corresponding to human annexin A1. Antibodies are purified by peptide affinity chromatography.
The annexin superfamily consists of 13 calcium or calcium and phospholipid binding proteins with high biological and structural homology (1). Annexin-1 (ANXA1) is the first characterized member of the annexin family of proteins and is able to bind to cellular membranes in a calcium-dependent manner, promoting membrane fusion and endocytosis (2-4). Annexin A1 has anti-inflammatory properties and inhibits phospholipase A2 activity (5,6). Annexin A1 can accumulate on internalized vesicles after EGF-stimulated endocytosis and may be required for a late stage in inward vesiculation (7). Phosphorylation by PKC, EGFR, and Chak1 results in inhibition of annexin A1 function (8-10). Annexin A1 has also been identified as one of the 'eat-me' signals on apoptotic cells that are to be recognized and ingested by phagocytes (11). Annexin A1, as an endogenous anti-inflammatory mediator, has roles in many diverse cellular functions, such as membrane aggregation, inflammation, phagocytosis, proliferation, apoptosis, and tumorigenesis and cancer development (12-14).
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One of the least effort intensive options worth experimenting with is to focus on creating soft waves for front strands only. This way you'll benefit from the face-softening effect of waves without all the struggle to keep things perfectly even all around. Pulling the hair on one side only can be another fun variation worth experimenting with if you're looking for a touch of edginess.
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On the other hand, few things can rival with a volume filled, textured mane that practically reminds us of those corny shampoo commercials with unmatched volume and an almost surreal strong sheen. Getting such hairstyle does require some pretty serious time commitment along with some pretty well set styling skills but the results tend to be extremely impressive. As long as your face shape allows it, playing with volume and creating some flirty waves can be the surest way to impress.
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If you've decided to experiment with bangs, the option of experimenting with a few waves can be all the more appealing since the instant contrasts between textures will work in your favor, allowing you to draw more interest to your face. Whether you've settled for blunt, face framing bangs or went for the more subtle wispy side bangs, the effects can be extremely appealing.
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To be creative you have to contribute something different from what you've done before. Your results need not be original to the world; few results truly meet that criterion. In fact, most results are built on the work of others." — Lynne C. Levesque
Levesque's quote describes Bioengineering R&D section's function. The section performs tasks for all areas of the hospital, by seeking commercial solutions or development of devices/systems that are unavailable.
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MIRTEC, "The Global Leader in Inspection Technology," today announced they will display their award-winning 3D AOI and SPI Inspection Systems in pb tec's booth, in Hall 4A, Stand 140 at the upcoming SMT/Hybrid/Packaging Show, scheduled to take place May 16-18 at the Messe in Nuremberg, Germany.
MIRTEC is a strong presence at the show each year, and 2017 is no exception. MIRTEC is planning to display several systems, including the MV-6E OMNI, MV-7OMNI, MS-11, and the Intelli-Sys Inc. Intelli-Track.
MIRTEC's MV-6E OMNI, is unquestionably the inspection industry's most technologically advanced AOI system in consideration. This all new MV-6E OMNI 3D In-Line AOI system is configured with MIRTEC's exclusive OMNI-VISION®3D Inspection Technology which combines our award winning 15 Megapixel ISIS Vision System with MIRTEC's revolutionary Digital Multi-Frequency Eight Projection 3D system to provide precision inspection of SMT devices on finished PCB assemblies. MIRTEC's 15 Megapixel ISIS Vision System is a proprietary camera system designed and manufactured by MIRTEC for use with our complete product range of inspection equipment. MIRTEC's Digital Multi-Frequency Eight Projection Technology provides true 3D inspection using a total of four (4) Programmable Digital Moiré Projectors. This proprietary system yields precise height measurement used to detect lifted component and lifted lead defects as well as solder volume post reflow. Fully configured the new MIRTEC MV-6e OMNI machines feature four (4) 10 Megapixel Side-View Cameras in addition to the 15 Megapixel Top-Down Camera.
MIRTEC's MV-7 OMNI-QHD 3D AOI Machine features the next generation of MIRTEC's award-winning OMNI-VISION® 3D Inspection Technology in a High-Performance AC Servo Drive Platform. This revolutionary technology combines our proprietary 15MP CoaXPress Vision System with MIRTEC's exclusive Quantum High Definition (2048x1536) Digital Multi-Frequency 3D Projection Technology to provide unprecedented image quality, accuracy and repeatability necessary for precision inspection of SMT devices on finished PCB assemblies. This new technology will, undoubtedly, set the standard by which all other 3D inspection equipment will be measured. The MV-7 OMNI-QHD machine also features four (4) 10 Mega Pixel Side-View Cameras for inspection of Regions of Interest which are not accessible with the 15 MP Top-Down Camera.
The MS-11 3D In-Line SPI Machine is configured with MIRTEC's exclusive 15MP ISIS Vision System, providing enhanced image quality, superior accuracy and incredibly fast inspection rates. The machine uses Dual Projection Shadow Free Moiré Phase Shift Imaging Technology to inspect solder paste depositions on PCBs post screen print for insufficient solder, excessive solder, shape deformity, shift of deposition and bridging. The MS-11 uses the same robust platform as MIRTEC's MV-7 OMNI Series.
MIRTEC's total quality management system software, INTELLISYS® also will be on display at the SMT Nuremberg show. This software suite promotes continuous process improvement by allowing manufacturers to track and eliminate defects on inspected assemblies.
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Louis Haghe (17 March 1806, Tournai, Belgium – 9 March 1885 London) was a Belgian lithographer and watercolourist.
His father and grandfather had practised as architects. Training in his teens in watercolour painting, he found work in the relatively new art of lithography when the first press was set up in Tournai. He visited England to find work, and settled there permanently in 1823.
Together with William Day (1797–1845), around 1830 he formed the partnership Day & Haghe, which became the most famous early Victorian firm of lithographic printing in London.
Day and Haghe created and printed lithographs dealing with a wide range of subjects, such as hunting scenes, architecture, topographical views and genre depictions. They pioneered the new techniques for chromolithography as well as hand-tinted lithographs. After William's death in 1845, the firm became known as 'Day & Son'. They were pioneers in developing the medium of the lithograph printed in colours.
In 1838, Day and Haghe were appointed 'Lithographers to the Queen'. Possibly his most ambitious project was providing 250 images for David Roberts' The Holy Land, Syria, Idumea, Arabia, Egypt, and Nubia printed between 1842–1849. Roberts praised his skill and artistry, although John Ruskin called it 'forced'.
From the mid-1850s Haghe concentrated more on his watercolours, and gained a reputation for his architectural scenes of northern Europe, with his pictures bought and displayed by the Victoria and Albert Museum. He also painted in oils, which were exhibited at the British Institution. He became president of the New Society of Painters in Water Colours from 1873 to 1884.
Haghe's artistic works were achieved in spite of a deformity in his right hand since birth. He died at Stockwell Road on 9 March 1885 and was buried at West Norwood Cemetery.
His younger brother Charles Haghe (-1888) (also known as Charles Hague) was employed as an assistant at Day and Haghe, and remained there after Louis left.
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"Pregnant man" gives birth
According to ABC News yesterday:
Thomas Beatie, the transgender man who made headlines as the so-called "pregnant man," gave birth Sunday to a healthy baby girl….
The birth, at St. Charles Medical Center in Bend, OR, was natural, according to a source, who added that reports that Beatie had had a Caesarean section are false.
"She's really cute, really pretty," the source [said]….
The source said Beatie was resting and the family was focusing its attention on the new baby….
Born a woman, Beatie, 34, who had had his breasts surgically removed and legally changed his gender from female to male, leaped to prominence around the world in April when the wispy bearded man revealed he was pregnant.
Despite years of taking hormones and living outwardly as a man, Beatie maintained that he retained his female sex organs because he intended one day to get pregnant.
"I actually opted not to do anything to my reproductive organs because I wanted to have a child one day. I see pregnancy as a process, and it doesn't define who I am," Beatie told Oprah Winfrey in April.
"I feel it's not a male or female desire to have a child. It's a human need. I'm a person and I have the right to have a biological child," he said.
Beatie was caught on tape leaving the hospital. He was not carrying the infant.
A woman who appears to be a nurse carried a combination car seat-baby carrier with a white blanket over it. Beatie walked a few yards behind her. The new dad walked easily, although he appeared tired, and despite the warm weather he wore a white hooded sweatshirt along with sunglasses and black shorts. Someone opened the car door for him. [Click for link to video.]
Beatie was impregnated with sperm from a donor. His wife, Nancy, inseminated him at home with a device she said was like a syringe without the needle. They bought it from a veterinarian and it is typically used to feed birds.
[HT: proofreader Angela; photo of Beatie "carr[ying] out the time-honored American passion of maintaining a pristine lawn May 18," courtesy of ABC News]
Read previous Stanek blog posts on Beatie here and here.


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text: In the mold of the Lone Ranger or Zorro, the Black Diamond is a masked Western character. Clad in a red shirt, black hat, and mask which wraps around his head like Zorro's, Black Diamond roams the West securing justice for settlers and thwarting the schemes of outlaws. But unlike the vigilante Lone Ranger, Black Diamond has legal standing as a badge-carrying Federal Marshall. His territory is uncommonly vast as he is involved locales as widespread as Montana and Arizona.In place of Tonto, the Black Diamond's companion is a man named Bumper, whose handlebar mustache gives him the appearance of boxer John L. Sullivan. His tan Palomino, Reliapon, is a magnificent horse in keeping with the tradition of the Lone Ranger's Silver, Roy Roger's Trigger, and Hopalong Cassidy's Topper.— George Haberberger


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|Type of Game
|Circle Games, Mind Games, Still and Settled Games
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|inside or outside
How to Play:
The leader of the game arranges everyone into a circle and then begins play by passing the first object to the person on their right (Participant A). The leader says to Participant A, "this is a whit."
Participant A asks the leader, "a what?" and the leader responds, "a whit."
Participant A then passes the object to the person on their right (Participant B) and says, "this is a whit."
Participant B asks Participant A, "a what?" Participant A then asks the leader, "a what?" The leader responds by saying, "a whit." Participant A then turns to Participant B and says, "a whit."
This pattern continues around the circle with the question "a what?" being asked of every participant after the leader, including the leader.
The game can be made more difficult by adding another object traveling in the opposite direction. This object should be called something similar, for example: wheat, whet, watt, etc.
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This par 4 can be intimidating off the tee, but just aim right of the big Douglas fir for a safe landing - away from the Eagle River!
Balls usually bounce down off the hillside into the fairway. Be mindful of the pin placement on this large, 2 tiered green.


text: No doubt the burden of being a professionally funny woman is that a lot of people (yes, us) are going to ask you to be funny. This is the cross that Melissa McCarthy, Kristen Wiig, Leslie Jones, and Kate McKinnon will have to bear over the next month as they make the press rounds for the upcoming Ghostbusters reboot, which premieres July 15. On the Graham Norton Show, director Paul Feig says that McCarthy and Wiig had this way to "really enrage men" with a "folk lady version" of the Ghostbusters theme song. In exchange for this lovely little bit, Feig would get slimed. Everybody wins!


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Our galvanized trash cans put a farmhouse twist on an essential piece to your home. This set of two will be perfect for creating the same farmhouse look throughout your home! Use these indoors or out.
Now let's talk about these beauties: How can you use them? You can literally use them in every room in your house! The sky is the limit…. Use them in the kitchen as a garbage can or maybe plastic bag or cleaning supply holder, or even produce storage! Or keep in the bathroom to hold extra towels or toilet paper!
These galvanized cans are the perfect combination of attractive and functional, and the price is JUST out of this world!
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