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Chemistry and Biochemistry Department Seminar
Submitted by Anonymous on Thu, 10/11/2012 - 3:00pmDavid Ames, Master of Science candidate, will present his thesis defense seminar, "A Novel Method of Studying Ion Formation and Fragmentation Using a Modified Time-Of-Flight Mass Spectrometer".
Faculty Artist Recital: Matthew Andreini, percussion
Submitted by music on Wed, 10/10/2012 - 7:00pmUNI School of Music faculty artist Matthew Andreini will present a percussion recital with additional performers and repertoire to be announced. This event is free and open to the public.
PAT/History Club Lecture
Submitted by Anonymous on Wed, 10/10/2012 - 6:00pmBrian Jones, Department of Religion and Philosophy at Wartburg College, will present "The Tale of Sodom and Gomorrah as an Exercise in Historical Geography." The event is free and open to the public.
Graduate College Brown Bag Lecture Series: "Civility in the Workplace"
Submitted by Anonymous on Wed, 10/10/2012 - 11:00amCivility in the workplace seems to be a vanishing act. How can we recognize the beginnings of the lack of civility? What can we do to restore it? Melissa Beall and Marilyn Shaw from the Department of Communication Studies will discuss the meaning of real civility and what we can do to maintain, restore and sustain it in the workplace and elsewhere. Please bring your lunch; cookies will be provided.
Faculty Artist Recital: Yu-Ting Su, horn
Submitted by music on Tue, 10/09/2012 - 6:30pmUNI School of Music faculty artist Yu-Ting Su will present a horn recital with faculty pianist Polina Khatsko. The theme of the recital is "Romance". Su and Khatsko will perform romances by composers from different countries and eras. This event is free and open to the public.
Film & Discussion: "Children in No Man's Land"
Submitted by Anonymous on Tue, 10/09/2012 - 6:00pmScreening and discussion of the documentary film Children in No Man's Land which uncovers the plight of unaccompanied immigrant minors entering the United States. This event is part of Dreams Deferred ... Dreams Held Fast, a film and discussion series sponsored by the Center for Multicultural Education and the Rod Library in association with the UNI 2012-13 Reaching for Higher Ground project theme The Search for an American Dream. Film will be used as the basis for personal reflection and dialogue in addressing the nature and meaning of "American Dream" relative to issues of marginalization and privilege. Participants will be challenged to examine their own beliefs and assumptions about being American today.
Hunger Games: What is it about agriculture that's eating consumers?
Submitted by Anonymous on Tue, 10/09/2012 - 6:00pmWhy have farm interests had to resort to PR campaigns and social media initiatives just to redeem what used to be one of the most admired occupations in America? Why are those efforts likely to backfire and further isolate agriculture? Why do farm lobbyists defend agricultural technologies and policies that farmers themselves question? Why do the agriculture's leaders denigrate local food initiatives and organic farming? Environmental Working Group's Ken Cook shares candid observations from his 35 years of experience in agriculture policy.
Guest Artist Recital: Bernard Woma and Saakumu Dance Troupe
Submitted by music on Tue, 10/09/2012 - 5:00pmVisiting artist Bernard Woma and Saakumu Dance Troupe will present a percussion and dance recital. Bernard is an extremely dynamic artist and deeply experienced educator. He has shared the performance stage with renowned artists such as Maya Angelou, Yo Yo Ma, and Glen Velez. He has performed for international dignitaries and presidents such as U. S. president Bill Clinton, Nelson Mandela and Queen Elizabeth II, and was recently honored as the cultural resource person for President Barack Obama's family when they visited Ghana. Woma will lead the award winning Saakumu Dance Troupe, one of the leading traditional/contemporary dance and music group in Ghana, West Africa. This is event is free and open to the public.
UNI Entrepreneurs Meeting
Submitted by cota on Tue, 10/09/2012 - 4:00pmThe meeting is open to all CEO and SIFE members and students interested in entrepreneurship.
Thinking About Graduate School (TAGS)
Submitted by Anonymous on Tue, 10/09/2012 - 2:30pmLearn how to build a strong application to graduate or professional school by attending Thinking About Graduate School (TAGS). A panel of experts will share what admissions committees look for in the application to make selections for their programs. UNI graduate programs will answer questions about their programs and pre-professional clubs will recruit new members.


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Set of 4 Cocoa Mugs with Spoons
Winterberry is the holiday classic that brings this timeless motif to life in elegantly sculpted dinnerware & serveware, beautiful glassware and joyous giftware. Kids and adults will love this attractive, oversized mug, and will use it for all their favorite beverages - from OJ to milk to hot cocoa. Includes a spoon that cleverly rests on the mug handle, so it won't get lost. Dishwasher and microwave safe. Set of 4 cocoa mugs with spoons, each holds 24 ounce.
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Johnson Level Dual Purpose Tripod with 1/4" - 20 Adapter
Use your Johnson Level Laser anywhere with the help of the durable aluminum constructed Johnson Level Dual Purpose Tripod w/ Adapter (40-63861). This lightweight adjustable tripod can range from 2 feet to 5½ feet and makes it easy to connect your laser with its adapter that reduces threads from 5/8" - 11 threads to 1/4" - 20.
In addition, this sturdy tripod's feet have sharp metal points for use on uneven outdoor terrain and feature a removable rubber cover for indoor use for increased versatility.
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Reviews by DesertDevil:More User Reviews:vitALEityCalifornia 4.65/5 rDev +5% look: 5 | smell: 5 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4.75 Ive had almost every release in bottles in CA A: Pure golden, pale, clear S: When totally fresh, a few days after bottling, its the best aroma there is. So much heady pine, tropical fruit, citrus, marijuana, grass, nectar T: Again, within a few days after release the taste is close to the smell. Its a bit less complex then I'd like. Hits you almost all up front and then dissipates. M: Pretty good here. Its not as full bodied as I'd like but its good enough to deliver the juice. O: When very fresh its equal to any of the other big IIPA's. Aroma is the best of all of them IMO. Taste and mouthfeel maybe not as good as others but its close. Serving type: bottle 12-20-2013 02:14:39 | More by vitALEity precisemikeCalifornia 4.78/5 rDev +7.9% look: 4.75 | smell: 5 | taste: 4.75 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 4.75 I'm reviewing 12-13-13: Stone is the brand here in SD. Having said that, I'm typically a Green Flash guy. So it was with a little trepidation that I believed the hype on this beer. From the minute you pop the cap the hop fragrance takes hold of you. Smelled of weed and citrus, with a dash of pine. The first sip socks your jaw with hop pungency and light caramel tones. Then you notice the nice head and great color this brew displays. The alcohol is up there, being a DIPA, but doesn't overpower or take your buds off of the taste. Just enough kick on the back end. Very drinkable, and the mouthfeel is full, but not cottony. Overall one of my top 3 brews HANDS DOWN. Can't wait for 2-14-14...Get you some! Serving type: bottle 12-20-2013 01:44:10 | More by precisemike Dad_of_RadIllinois 4.13/5 rDev -6.8% look: 5 | smell: 4 | taste: 4 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4.25 Enjoy By 5/17/13, bottled 4/12/13 and consumed 4/20 from a tulip Enjoy By 12/13/12, consumed 12/18 from a tulip A: Brilliant, clear golden color. Extremely "pretty" beer A: Clear, golden orange. Thinnish white head with some lacing. S: Boxwood w/sticky, lemony sweetness S: Dank, sweet pineapple and papaya. T: Hop-forward. Resinous lemon hits and then finishes dry while all flavors linger. Bit of spice hit or alcohol in the throat. T: Surprisingly balanced overall. Lots of grapefruit, some honey tones. M: Light for a 2xIPA. Again, stickyness lingers on the tongue and mouth. M: Light-medium body, finishes pretty dry. Definitely leaves you wanting the next sip. O: Good beer, very enjoyable. The freshness is evident. Winner. O: Prefer this version to the 5/17/13 SEB. Refreshing even with the bitterness. Serving type: bottle 12-19-2013 02:59:36 | More by Dad_of_Rad |
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Last week we covered the Wall Street Journal's mention of a luxury villa on the French Riviera. Now we are zooming in for a closer look. Villa Shamballa is in the town of Cap,D'Ail a seaside resort town in southeastern France that borders Monaco. The contemporary style villa was completed last year and spreads over 9,300 square feet. It has ten bedrooms, two terraces, a stone guest house and a wine cave. The home's hillside location delivers incredible views of the Mediterranean Sea. The home was built by retired real estate developer Jean-Claude Rahn and his wife Ursula Neuerberg, of the German cigarette manufacturer Haus Neuerburg and the home has been visited by celebrities including Prince Albert of Monaco, Claudia Schiffer, Michael Shumerer. The home is listed at 38.5 million euros.


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20 Athletes You Should NOT Follow on Twitter
One of the great things about the emergence of Twitter is that it gives us plebs the opportunity to have a look into the private lives of the rich and famous that had previously been relatively inaccessible. Professional athletes have taken to Twitter in droves, but the way in which they utilize it varies drastically from person to person.
Some athletes—the fun ones—use Twitter as a sounding board for whatever happens to be on their minds at a given time. Many have used it to call out teammates or coaches or ignite and escalate feuds with fellow players.
Others use it as a platform to interact with fans and go head-to-head with their "haters." All of which have the potential to create a media firestorm because if you have over a million followers, someone is always watching.
Those are the types you want to follow on Twitter.
Then there are those athletes who are a little less fun to follow. The nice guys who tweet constantly about how lucky they are to be alive and include the random Bible verse. The shameless promoter who tweets link after link to whatever company is paying them to clog up your newsfeed with their garbage. The shameless self promoter who loves him some him. And then there are those who just don't tweet at all.
Here are 20 athletes you should not follow on Twitter.
20. Dirk Nowitzki, Dallas Mavericks
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Twitter ID: @swish41
No. of Followers: 659,825
Skip the Follow Because: Nowitzki rarely tweets, particularly during the NBA season, and when he does, they are usually sentence fragments. He does do the occasional fan giveaways, which is nice, but they are so not worth all the worthless muck and promotions.
19. Russell Wilson, Seattle Seahawks
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Twitter ID: @DangeRussWilson
No. of Followers: 104,874
Skip the Follow Because: Wilson's tweets cover three subjects, and three subjects only. 1. How awesome it was to visit sick children—which he does a lot. 2. How awesome it would be if you would help make a difference in the lives of sick children. 3. Bible verses. Wilson is one of the nicest guys in sports, but it's niceness overkill on Twitter.
18. Tim Lincecum, San Francisco Giants
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Twitter ID: @timlincecum
No. of Followers: 94,275
Skip the Follow Because: These are the only things he's ever tweeted. It's really not fair to those of us who have had to beg, borrow and steal to get to over 1,000 followers, and here Lincecum is with almost 100k. (Sorry Tim, I still love you.)
17. Jason Witten, Dallas Cowboys
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Twitter ID: @JasonWitten
No. of Followers: 175,026
Skip the Follow Because: Witten may be a captivating force on the field in Dallas, but he's far less compelling online. The Cowboys tight end has a squeaky clean public persona, is married with a couple of kids and has his own charitable foundation. Witten tweets about kids and his philanthropic endeavors exclusively—admirable, but dull.
16. Lance Armstrong, Retired Cycling
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Twitter ID: @lancearmstrong
No. of Followers: 3,837,993
Skip the Follow Because: Since the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency released damning evidence of decades of doping, nobody is really feeling warm and fuzzy about disgraced cyclist Lance Armstrong these days.
He's been tweeting less and less in recent weeks, and what he does tweet is beyond dull or a straight-up downer—Armstrong announces most high profile deaths via Twitter.
15. C.J. Wilson, L.A. Angels of Anaheim
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Twitter ID: @str8edgeracer
No. of Followers: 154,331
Skip the Follow Because: Wilson tweets an awful lot about very specific subjects. Although if you enjoy constant tweets about racing, people who respond to "haters" and a lot of straight edge discussion from him and his followers alike, perhaps following Wilson would be less taxing.
14. Ozzie Guillen, Former MLB Manager
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Twitter ID: @OzzieGuillen
No. of Followers: 270,971
Skip the Follow Because: Guillen isn't nearly as entertaining in writing as he is when running his mouth with reckless abandon. He actually hasn't tweeted since getting canned by the Marlins, and the vast majority of his tweets prior are in Spanish. Oh, and Guillen has seemingly made a conscious decision to eschew all punctuation and capitalization.
13. Evgeni Malkin, Pittsburgh Penguins
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Twitter ID: @malkin71_
No. of Followers: 2551,316
Skip the Follow Because: 99 percent of Malkin's tweets are in Russian, and I'm betting if you're clicking through this slideshow you don't speak even a little Russian. Although if you're tempted to run a few of his tweets through Google translate, I'd recommend it.
12. Kirk Cousins, Washington Redskins
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Twitter ID: @KirkCousins8
No. of Followers: 31,483
Skip the Follow Because: Cousins is a straight-up nerd. Don't get me wrong though. He seems like a super nice guy and is obviously very easily pleased.
11. Cristiano Ronaldo, Real Madrid
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Twitter ID: @Cristiano
No. of Followers: 14,855,011
Skip the Follow Because: Ronaldo is absolutely obsessed with Instagram. He plugs his Instagram account constantly, as if he just discovered it yesterday and is constantly posting photos of boring things. When he's not posting photos, he's letting you know that he's planning to post photos in the near future.
10. Henrik Lundqvist, New York Rangers
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Twitter ID: @HLundqvist30
No. of Followers: 197,607
Skip the Follow Because: Lundqvist is a busy man and mostly just tweets about his travel schedule, places he's traveling to and places that he's travelled to in the past and misses. Boring, but so very pretty.
9. Jeff Gordon, NASCAR
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Twitter ID: @JeffGordonWebb
No. of Followers: 330,521
Skip the Follow Because: Gordon's tweets are sporadic, and almost all of them have to do with something or someone he's promoting. Buy this. Sign up for that. Visit my website for this or that. Gordon fills in the gaps with generic congratulations to people and vague shoutouts to fans and various celebrities he encounters.
8. Chris Johnson, Tennessee Titans
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Twitter ID: @ChrisJohnson28
No. of Followers: 771,753
Skip the Follow Because: I've actually been following Johnson for years until finally unfollowing today, and it's been a long and boring trip to Idiotville.
On the plus side, Johnson is very active on Twitter. But unfortunately, he doesn't have enough coherent thoughts to make it worthwhile, and his favorite pastimes are re-tweeting exceptionally dumb jokes and confronting his "haters."
7. Metta World Peace, Los Angeles Lakers
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Twitter ID: @MettaWorldPeace
No. of Followers: 500,672
Skip the Follow Because: Metta World Peace just debuted his new single…God help us. But aside from that, his Twitter account is just a manic frenzy of self promotion. Sometimes it's funny, but more often than not it's just annoying and sad.
6. Tiger Woods, PGA
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Twitter ID: @TigerWoods
No. of Followers: 2,802,369
Skip the Follow Because: Woods is boring as hell on Twitter. He rarely tweets, and when he does he's promoting a charity or wishing everyone a Happy Veteran's Day. No thank you.
5. Pau Gasol, Los Angeles Lakers
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Twitter ID: @paugasol
No. of Followers: 1,630,029
Skip the Follow Because: Gasol tweets everything twice—once in Spanish and then again in English—and the tweets are ridiculously boring to begin with. He also tweets all his photos twice, which is weird because I don't think there's any translation problems with pictures.
4. Danica Patrick, NASCAR
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Twitter ID: @DanicaPatrick
No. of Followers: 679,024
Skip the Follow Because: For someone who is the star of such allegedly provocative commercials for GoDaddy.COM and has appeared in next to nothing in a number of magazines, Patrick is stunningly boring. Her tweets consist almost entirely of the most ridiculously mundane details of her life, promotions and bragging about personal achievements.
3. Carmelo Anthony, New York Knicks
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Twitter ID: @carmeloanthony
No. of Followers: 2,671,120
Skip the Follow Because: Anthony's Twitter page is more than likely run by his publicist or some type of official hired hand. He promotes his own merchandise, announces each Knicks game day, tweets about his own good deeds and promotes charities. It's a good way to keep out of trouble but is beyond boring for fans.
2. Tim Tebow, New York Jets
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Twitter ID: @TimTebow
No. of Followers: 2,057,183
Skip the Follow Because: Actually, I should say skip the follow if (rather than because) you aren't as enthusiastically religious as the notably virtuous Tebow. His tweets are mostly Bible verses, things he is thankful for and people he's praying for. No offense intended to Tebow's army, so please call off the dogs.
1. Floyd Mayweather Jr., Boxer
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Twitter ID: @FloydMayweather
No. of Followers: 3,528,843
Skip the Follow Because: I've said it before, and I'll say it again: Floyd Mayweather Jr. is one of the worst people on earth, and his tweets back that assertion up (as does his impressive arrest record). Floyd "Money" tweets about money. He tweets about having money, earning money, spending money and brags about his massive gambling losses.
You might want to start following him about five years after he retires from boxing—when his fur coats are being collected by the local sheriff deputies to be auctioned off as part of his bankruptcy settlement.
For more advice on who to follow and who not to follow on Twitter, you should follow me on Twitter. Obviously. Follow @blamberr
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15% Low Season Discount ($135 = $114.75) in Lahaina
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A lot more than a hotel room, for a lot less! ($135 ~ $175 seasonal rate range.)
Lahaina Shores Beach Resort is known in the travel business as a condo/hotel. Each unit is privately owned. Most owners have contracted with a firm that markets the property on their behalf. A relatively small number of us owners have elected to market our own units, feeling we can offer top quality, and at a better rate.
The significant renovation of my sixth floor Mountain View studio #624 was completed in July '08. This includes an all new kitchen with solid wood cabinetry and features an oven range and microhood, a sleek vanity room, walk in shower with a transparent glass side wall, Mexican travertine and ceramic tile floors and shower walls, new carpeting, etc. The Hansgrohe wall bar shower is the same as you may sometimes find in a 5 star hotel.
In addition to the complete furnishings of a vacation home, you are provided with the 'niceties' of a beachfront resort hotel including an open, breezy, comfortably furnished lobby, central air conditioning, large swimming pool, large jacuzzi, BBQ, 24 hr. front desk, etc. The central air conditioning has individual electronic controls. The entryway, the lobby, elevators and hallways have been remodeled, no doubt inspired by early Hawaiian plantation mansions.
The property is fronted by the ocean and has a beach which is excellent for sunbathing, safe swimming and snorkeling. (There's a reef about 150 yds. out which protects the beach from surf.) The large, manicured lawn area and swimming pool between the building and the beach are enhanced with umbrella'd tables & chairs, plus loungers for reading, sunning and snoozing. There's even a heated, bubbling, jacuzzi spa!
Budget minded? My popular fifth floor studio #520 is available at $15 less per night. (See rate chart later on.) Current photos are available by request.
These centrally air conditioned 550 sq. ft. mountain view studios consist of a large living/bedroom area, a dining area and a bath and/or walk in shower with a separate vanity room. The firm California king bed, along with the carpeted bedroom / living area, make these desirable retreats. Also, there's a rollaway bed with standard size mattress for a third guest. Both studios provide an unobstructed view of the West Maui Mountains. Current photos appear in the photo gallery on owner's own website. (See link below 'Rate Details'' and calendar icon further on.)
High speed WiFi access is FREE as of January 1st. Also, a 24' Vizio flat screen HDTV and a DVD/CD player were recently installed in each unit. The fully equipped kitchens are complete with full size appliances, a microwave, cookware, dishes and utensils. Plenty of linens and towels (as well as beach towels) are provided. And you can leave your hair dryer and iron at home.
At 475 Front St., this is the only beachfront resort in Lahaina. It's just a 3/10 mile walk along Front St. to Lahaina Harbor and quaint, historic Lahaina Town itself, Maui's storied shop-'til-you-drop, gallery hopping, dining & partying mecca. Lahaina Harbor offers a full menu of boat trips for diving, snorkeling, sport fishing, whale or dolphin watching. Or for a memorable sunset cocktail / dinner cruise.
World class golf (think Kapalua and Ka'anapali) is available nearby.
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Expectations are running high that some time next year astronomers using NASA's Kepler spacecraft will announce the discovery that planet hunters have been waiting for: the first Earth-size exoplanet found in a region around a sunlike star where life could flourish. That exoplanet will almost certainly lie too far from Earth to be scrutinized, but it will nonetheless throw into high gear a search for the fingerprints of life—the chemical compounds that could indicate whether an exoplanet in the habitable zone, the life-friendly region where liquid water can survive, actually harbors life.
But even as researchers are gaining a deeper understanding of the bio-signatures that may be present in exoplanetary atmospheres, scientists face a roadblock. A proposed NASA mission called the Terrestrial Planet Finder (TPF), designed to search for these compounds among planets orbiting nearby stars—those that lie about one hundredth the distance of the orbs Kepler can find—lost its funding in 2007 amid rising costs for the James Webb Space Telescope, Hubble's successor.
The TPF would block the blinding glare from nearby, sunlike stars in order to take portraits of the planets that orbit them. In one scheme, a single large telescope outfitted with a mask, or coronagraph, would blot out starlight and image planets as they appear in reflected visible light. In another strategy, several telescopes flying in information would act in concert to zero out infrared light from a parent star and record the heat radiated by the star's planets at infrared wavelengths.
Light collected by the TPF and separated into its component wavelengths, or spectra, could reveal the presence of bio-signatures. Water vapor, oxygen and methane in the atmosphere of an exoplanet would offer evidence of a life-friendly environment as well as biological processes akin to photosynthesis and respiration on Earth, notes Geoff Marcy of the University of California, Berkeley.
"The galaxy may be lousy with microbial life, but currently we have no clue," he adds. "It is a tragedy of modern science that the Terrestrial Planet Finder cannot be supported, either in the U.S. or Europe, due to budget pressures."
Astronomers still hope to revive some version of TPF, but it would take a decade for the mission to get back on track, Marcy estimates. In the meantime studies by exoplanet researchers including Sara Seager of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Victoria Meadows of the University of Washington in Seattle are honing—and expanding—the list of compounds that may serve as biomarkers for exoplanets orbiting stars of different sizes and ages.
With the chances of looking for chemical markers of life beyond the solar system initially few and far between, "we want to make sure we have the best possible understanding of bio-signatures," Meadows says. "We don't want to be fooled."
Much of the new work focuses on planets orbiting M dwarf stars, which are about one-half to one-tenth the sun's mass and account for about 75 percent of all the stars in the galaxy. Because M dwarfs are much cooler than the sun, their habitable zones are only about one tenth as far from them as Earth lies from the sun.
That proximity makes it impossible for the TPF to image those planets. However, the James Webb Space Telescope, now scheduled for launch in 2018, has a chance of examining the atmospheres of a handful of these bodies. So might a new generation of extremely large ground-based telescopes, with mirrors of 30 meters or more, that have recently been proposed.
Some of the exoplanets these telescopes will attempt to study have a rare alignment. Like the more distant exoplanets identified by Kepler, they regularly pass in front of, or transit, their parent stars as seen by the detectors. During a transit, starlight filters through an exoplanet's atmosphere, with each chemical constituent leaving its own imprint on the light. The signal is extremely faint but planets in the habitable zone of M stars make frequent transits, enabling astronomers to accumulate individual observations to make a stronger detection. "The habitable zone of M stars are the first places that we can look for bio-signatures," Seager says.


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Lola Young was born on Rocklea Station in the Pilbara in 1942 to Aboriginal parents. She is the oldest of six children and at an early age went with her grandparents to learn Aboriginal bush medicine and culture. Her working life started at the age of about ten and when she turned fourteen she was given away in marriage to a man 23 years her senior to be his second wife. After the birth of her seventh child her marriage deteriorated and she left her husband and made a life of her own, eventually marrying a man of her choice. Lola established the Wakuthuni Community in 1990 to bring her people back home to their country and since then has been teaching Aboriginal culture, bush medicine and bush tucker to both black and white people.
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Reed, who achieved success in the coxless fours event in the London 2012 Olympics, joined Fisher - a wildcard for the FIA Super 2000 World Rally Championship in Wales - for a run over the 3.91-kilometre gravel stage at the Walters Arena complex north of the event base in Cardiff.
"It was an amazing experience, unbelievable," said Reed. "Alastair was a fascinating chap and is obviously very talented and loves what he does. His reactions were razor sharp and the accelerating and braking were something else. I didn't let out any yelps but my body was completely rigid and I think I nearly broke his poor co-driver's seat - certainly I was pushing down very hard on the footrest."
Fisher, a 24-year-old rising star from Northern Ireland, said: "It was great for me to have somebody like Pete in the car, a real honour. He was quite a big guy, but we managed to get him in. He'd never been in a rally car before, so it was something completely new for him. I'm not sure he knew what to expect - he thought we were already on the stage when we were just getting up to the start line. But when we got to the end, he seemed to think it was pretty awesome."
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Sun Life Stadium rocked with life Tuesday on a beautiful, balmy South Florida night as the 79th Discover Orange Bowl brought postseason college football magic to a boisterous, fun-loving crowd.
The temperature Tuesday night in DeKalb, Ill., home of the Northern Illinois University Huskies, dipped to 9 degrees.
The temperature in Miami Gardens, where the previously unheralded and underappreciated Huskies hoped to upset the 14-point-favorite Florida State Seminoles: 71 degrees, with barely a breeze to the delight of both quarterbacks.
The celebration began hours before the game, as thousands of fans clad in red, black and white (Huskies) and garnet and gold (Seminoles) tailgated in the stadium and visited the Orange Bowl Fan Zone.
Add in the Miami Hurricanes fans wearing orange and green — after all, they claimed, this IS the home stadium of the Canes — and you had a little variety and a lot of commotion.
"This has been really special,'' said Orange Bowl Committee CEO Eric Poms, who said more than 72,000 tickets were sold. "Each team has been appreciative.''
Seminole fans wore headdresses.
Huskies fans wore bright red T-shirts that read: KIRK HERBSTREIT can bite me!
Herbstreit, a high-profile college football commentator for ESPN, basically said last month that the little-known Huskies getting a berth into a Bowl Championship Series game was a disgrace.
Kyle Weiss, who proudly wore his T-shirt, adamantly disagreed.
"He went off on a tirade and more or less bashed us,'' Weiss, 26, said. "We absolutely deserve to be here. We didn't make the BCS rules. We just played by them.
"Florida State is a good team, but they're not invincible.''
John O'Brien, 29, a firefighter and paramedic from Coconut Grove, held up a not-so-flattering sign about NIU females.
"It's always great to see people from Illinois who want to escape sub-zero temperatures,'' O'Brien said, predicting a "close game — Florida State 76,'' he said, "NIU 6.''
Nearby, Monica Vega, 24, shouted, "We got some Canes over here!!'' to which her friend Jessica Arriole replied the customary "Whoosh! Whoosh!''
"My house has been divided since I was born,'' Vega said. "I'm a UM grad and my dad went to FSU Law School. They're on our turf, but we're still representing.''
Cristina Fernandez, 21, a UM senior, wore a green winter UM cap with green-and-orange pom-poms and a UM hoodie. "My dad is on the Orange Bowl Committee and he gave us the option of sitting on the FSU side or Northern Illinois side. I said, 'Please DO NOT sit us with the Seminoles.' ''
One stadium vendor selling souvenirs said Northern Illinois fans were more enthusiastic about buying red-and-black GoNuts Kukui — necklaces made of nuts from the state tree of Hawaii. "Worn by the reigning chiefs and kings of Hawaii,'' a poster stated, "the kukui nut lei is a symbol of good luck.''
"Northern Illinois is the underdog so they're a little more proud,'' explained vendor Sheena Decesare.
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Push continues for Kansas school bullying policyWICHITA - Activists said problems in a Wichita-area school district have convinced them to renew their efforts to convince the Kansas Legislature to expand the definition of bullying and cyberbullying.
"There's a lot going on behind the scenes. There's a firestorm, actually," said Chappell, who leaves the board in January but has raised the bullying issue for the past three years. Chappell said he would bring up the topic again as the state board meets this week in Topeka. "The response (from school district officials) so far has been, 'It's fine. Don't worry. We're covered,' and that's not even close to reality," Chappell said. "We need to do something to secure the safety of children, and yet we can't get past the denial stage." Calls for the legislation were prompted by bullying incidents in the Haysville district. Parents say they want districts to make sure students are safe. The parents of a 14-year-old Haysville Campus High School student led a protest at the school last week, saying the school didn't respond appropriately when their daughter was severely bullied. About 50 students staged a counter protest with signs reading "Honk if you love Campus" and chanting, "Campus is safe." Miranda Miller said school officials agreed to transfer her daughter to an alternative high school. The family said the school initially denied the request because the girl is a freshman. Her daughter, who had threatened suicide, is doing better and is seeing a counselor, she said. Miller says she will help with the statewide efforts and has heard from other parents who are concerned that bullying goes unreported or is "brushed off as kids being kids." The Kansas Association of School Boards has opposed the law proposed by Chappell and debated during the 2012 legislative session because it would have required districts to spend more time working on bullying when they lack staff and money. "We could require more reporting, more paperwork, more things to turn in than ever before. But I've not seen any evidence that suggests those things actually make the situation better," Tallman said Mark Tallman, associate executive director of KASB. Chappell's proposal would require districts to investigate bullying reports in a short time frame, use state-mandated options for discipline and report the incidents to the state. "This is one of a long list of places and issues where people feel our schools aren't doing well enough: 'Why aren't they taking care of this?'" Tallman said. "The challenge is, how do you balance those needs with all the other needs?" Liz Hames, spokeswoman for Haysville public schools, declined to discuss the Miller incidents. She said Haysville takes bullying seriously and has instituted several education and prevention measures. School handbooks define bullying and potential consequences, which range from temporary removal from the classroom and loss of privileges to suspension or expulsion. Hames said Haysville recorded 97 bullying incidents among the district's 5,200 students. In comparison, there were 356 cases reported in the Wichita school district, which has more than 50,000 students. |


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We traveled to Costa Rica in February of 2005. The pictures follow our 12-day itinerary. We started out in the Central Valley and then moved on to Arenal Volcano. We went on to Manuel Antonio(Quepos) and finally back to the Central Valley. We had a wonderful time. Costa Rica has so much to offer, I'm sure we'll make a return visit!
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Posted: Thu Oct 25th, 2012 07:44 pm |
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Many years ago my friend and I made my first trip to Gettysburg. He had been there before. What happened one night still boggles my mind. We were heading back to where we were camped at about 1015 at night. We walked by Servant's and noticed a light in the window of the house across the street. At that time, I did NOT know the story of John Reynold's sweetheart sitting with his body in that house. We went across the street and looked in the window. There was the body of a man in a union general's uniform stretched out on a cot with a young woman sitting beside the cot in a chair reading a book by the lamplight. I thought wow, what a nice touch! We made a note to let Servant's know we liked the set up the next morning. When we went back, the next day, the house was set up like a business and there was no way, they could have redone it over night. About 8 months later I was reading Mark Nesmith's latest book of the ghosts of Gettysburg, when I came upon the description of the scene we saw!! I about fell off my friends couch. My friend Linda said I got really pale and she thought that there was something wrong. I told her what had happened. Later on my next trip over there, I got to talk to Mark and told him about it. He told me I wasn't the only one to see it, other people had experienced it too. There have been other experiences rather strange over there. |
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Posted: Sat Oct 5th, 2013 01:49 am |
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Well it's October again. Almost three years to the day since this thread started. I thought I'd start things off where I started back in 2010 with Richard Walser's North Carolina Legends. This time it's not really a ghost story, but it is a legend related to the war. Anyone who knows much about North Carolina knows that the state is known as the Old North State and as the Tar Heel State. Now there are a number of legends as to why North Carolina became the Tar Heel State and you've probably read some of them yourselves. Walser's version is among the versions that come out of the Civil War. According to this version the nickname for the state and North Carolinians was originally an insult among their fellow Confederates. They were viewed as poor and ignorant and it was easy to make fun of the troops from North Carolina. Especially since they often were barefoot, and some of these barefoot troops would enter battle with pine pitch on their feet. But things changed when North Carolinian troops went into battle along side Virginian and South Carolinian troops. In this unnamed battle the boys from Virginia and South Carolina broke and retreated while the boys from North Carolina held fast. After he battle the Virginians and South Carolinians, so the story goes, decided to make light of their own cowardice and suggest that it was supposed to be a retreat and the tar on their feet wouldn't let the North Carolinians follow suit. Someone asked "Any more tar down in the Old North State, boys?" Some North Carolinian shot back "No, not a bit. Old Jeff Davis has bought it all up." Which prompted a South Carolinian to ask "Is that so? What's he going to do with it?" The prideful answer, and perhaps meant to be a bit insulting in response to the insults hurled at the North Carolinians for having tar on their heels, was "He's going to put it on you'ns heels to make you stick better in the next battle." How true it is, who knows, but this exchange reached the ears of Robert E. Lee and he is said to have said "God bless the Tar Heel boys!" Not a ghost story, but like I said it is a legend related to the war. And one some of you may have seen in various forms. |
Posted: Sat Oct 5th, 2013 06:49 am |
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Hellcat Root Beer Lover
The old railroad track ways aren't only haunted by the Lincoln funeral train. Tony Reevy relates the tale of a particular railroad that gained notoriety during the war in his Ghost Train! American Railroad Ghost Legends. The Western and Atlantic Railroad is famed today for the Great Locomotive Chase. But it is also haunted by the ghost of a Confederate soldier buried just north of the Allatoona Pass. Apparently the man was returning to his unit and having to pass through Federal lines, leading to his death. He was then buried near the track. Railroaders working the area near his grave have claimed to see his ghost wandering the tracks with a lantern, searching for his friends. Perhaps still searching for his unit. Some have also seen the ghost of the soldier's dog which is said to sometimes run in front of a train until it passes by the soldier's grave. The best report comes from a Polly Milan who at one time was an engineer on the railroad. And one of the engineers on the run past the grave site. One night the train he was driving past the grave broke down, forcing him to walk past the grave and flag don any approaching trains in warning. As he was passing the grave the ghost of the Confederate soldier suddenly appeared, walking towards him. The ghost then proceeded to sit down on the ties. Milan tried to gather up the courage to talk to the ghost and even touch him, but in the end he did what most of us would do when confronted with a ghost. Ran away in terror. |
Posted: Sun Oct 6th, 2013 12:24 am |
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Hellcat Root Beer Lover
This next story comes from Nancy Roberts' Ghosts of the Carolinas. In some ways it reminds me a little of Edgar Allan Poe's The Masque of the Red Death. In late August 1862 the steamer Kate left Nassau for Wilmington, North Carolina. This is likely the same Kate that was reported lost near Fort Caswell November 18, 1862 in an article from the North Carolina Whig dated November 25, 1862. It may also be the side wheel steamer Wikipedia calls the CSS Kate (the date and location suggest their one in the same). The people of Wilmington may not have welcomed the Kate had they known what was to follow. It is through the experiences of a local doctor that Roberts tells us the story of what happened to make Wilmington, as she titled the story, a City of Death that September. For a week days Dr. James H. Dickson had been treating a sick child against a disease supposedly new to Wilmington in September 1862. This disease so terrified the country people that the were no longer willing to risk their own lives to bring supplies into the city. Dr. Dickson had just lost his young patient after a week of futilely trying to save the child's life. And they weren't the first he'd lost, he'd been powerless to save close friends from this horror. It had no care for station in life. Wealthy business men or dirt poor paupers, it struck all down just the same. And worse was the rumors of a faceless horror roaming the streets of Wilmington, a grim reaper cutting down all in the city. Burning barrels of tar were being used to try and purify the air and supposedly on the morning of the child's death Dr. Dickson thought this the perfect setting for such a rumored evil spirit. At the moment he was leaving the scene of the child's death a gust of wind blew past and he felt what seemed a soft cloak brush against his face. Yet when he tried to defend himself against it he found nothing there. It was as if the rumors were true and he had come into contact with this faceless horror. Recovering from his own terror he continued on his way to his home. But his terror once more began to return when, nearing his home, he saw movement in the shadows. Surely this was the same thing that had brushed his face outside the child's home come for him. As there is no escaping the reaper when your time has come the doctor found the courage to approach and discovered he need not have feared. It was only an old man, a Mr. Fairly, who had come seeking his services. The man's only daughter, recently made a widow just a week before thanks to the Battle of Antietam (Sharpsburg) was in need of medical attention. Despite his exhaustion he allowed himself to be led to the Fairly house, but it was already too late to do more than comfort the dying young woman. The Fairly's only daughter was already hemorrhaging badly when Dr. Dickson arrived. All he could was prescribe fruit juices to comfort the dying woman in her final days, tortured in the knowledge that the Fairly's probably wouldn't be able to get them thanks to the Federal blockade. The next morning he continued his rounds of trying to help the inflicted of Wilmington somehow survive this dreadful illness. At every house he stopped someone always asked him if the rumors were true. At the home of the Lassiters James Lassiter asked if it true that the nameless horror, which he called "The Thing" had killed Ben Trumble the night before. Dr. Dickson could only shake his head, too tired to respond. At home he would write exhaustedly in his journal even as his body was becoming racked with aches and pains. And by that Friday he could no longer make house calls, being a victim of the nameless horror. By Saturday night he lay dying from the touch of The Thing. And he realized at last what was happening. Oh but the horror named by James Lassiter as The Thing had a name. The Wilmington Journal in it's September 29, 1862 edition reported the death of Dr. James H Dickson on September 28th. The cause, a hemorrhagic disease. Perhaps Poe would today write of what struck Wilmington that year in a story called The Mask of the Yellow Death for it was that yellow fever inflicted nearly a thousand of the citizens of the city, killing more than three hundred of them. Including Dr. Dickson. Last edited on Mon Oct 28th, 2013 05:53 pm by Hellcat |
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For this next one I'm going to turn Arthur Myers' The Ghostly Register. The book is not really a ghost story book, it's broken down as more of investigations into locations that are supposed to be haunted, or were supposedly haunted. In the late '60s a Mr. and Mrs. Alfred Cutler moved into a house in Gilsum, New Hampshire. Mr. Cutler had been a student at Keene State College in Keene, New Hampshire, which may have been important in what would happen. Almost as soon as the Cutler's moved into the house they discovered they weren't alone. They would hear heavy footsteps they could not explain, lights would turn on and off on their own, and objects would be moved for no apparent reason. Thinking their house might be haunted, they decided to have someone come in to investigate. From 1956 to 1966 one of the teachers at Keene State was Charles Hapgood, an anthropology teacher noted for his hypothesis on polar shift while teaching at Springfield College in Springfield, Massachusetts. Hapgood had also worked for ten years with the medium Elwood Babbitt. Babbitt lived in Massachusetts Though it doesn't mention it within the book, Cutler may either have known of Hapgood as he may have been one of his former students or as an alumni of Keene State he may have had relations with the school since graduating. In any case the Cutlers asked Hapgood to come to their house to investigate for the possibility of a haunting and see if he could exorcise the spirit. Hapgood's method of investigation was through automatic writing. Now for those not familiar with automatic writing, the basic idea is that you hold pencil or pen to paper and let spirits guide your writing. In his initial investigation Hapgood discovered the ghost was the ghost was named George and that he had been there for a hundred years. The ghost admit that he would sit in the kitchen or on the steps to the cellar or the second floor. And that he wanted to move on but couldn't. At this point Hapgood called Babbitt into the investigation. The medium revealed that George was the spirit of a young man and that he appeared to be dressed in a Civil War uniform. Together they determined that George was too self-centered to pass on. The ghost admitted to praying daily to cross over and that he had even done everything he should have to pass over. This lead to Hapgood trying a little bit of paranormal psychotherapy, suggesting that the ghost leave the house and try to help other's in Gilsum. It was reported that George may have followed this advice as the ghost never appeared again. On checking of the history of the house it was discovered that during the Civil War two Georges did live in the house, a father and his son. The son is believed to have been a soldier in the war and Hapgood believed he may have died, possibly in battle, during the war. Last edited on Mon Oct 28th, 2013 12:25 am by Hellcat |
Posted: Mon Oct 28th, 2013 05:57 am |
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Hellcat Root Beer Lover
This next story begins in 1908, some 43 years after the war ended. This one comes from Nancy Robert's Ghosts of the Carolinas. 1908 in Deadwood, South Dakota, Francis Moore published a book. Moore had been an officer in Federal army and had served on Folly Island during the siege of Charleston and the book appears to have at least dealt with some of the activity of the siege. But Moore was only the one to tell the following events, he did not take part in them. From April 3rd to July 10, 1863 the 62nd Ohio Infantry had taken part in the occupation of Folly Island, including action during the Skirmish of Folly Island. In preparation for the fighting to come General Gilmore ordered that all black residents of Folly Island be removed to Port Royal. Among those supervising the move was one Lt. Yokum of the 62nd. Yokum went to the house of an old woman and child, possibly her granddaughter/grandson or great granddaughter/great grandson or possibly just some child under her care as well as watching out for the old woman themselvesself, trying to get her to leave. She refused to leave and Yokum was forced to sit and listen to her, believing that showing her a little kindness would convince her that the Federal forces really did have her safety at heart. The woman mentioned that her family had been living on Folly Island for a long time, dating back to the early part of the previous century. Some time as a little girl the woman, who appeared close to a hundred, and her family had witnessed pirates come ashore and bury six treasure chests, which she claimed were filled with gold, silver, and jewels, between a pair of nearby oaks. With the chests in the hole the pirate captain proceeded to run one of his men through. The victim fell into the hole and the pirates quickly buried them and the treasure chests before leaving the area. It may have been just in time to for apparently as soon as there ship was out of sight a British man of war appeared on the horizon searching for pirates. The story of a treasure naturally interested Yokum and he asked if it had ever been dug up. The old woman told him it never had as the family was too afraid of the ghost created by the pirate captain to guard the treasure. In fact no one dared go near the spot for that reason. After this Yokum managed to convince the old woman and child to board the boat. Who knows what he said to her to convince her to leave. Maybe it was that she just needed a little kindness. Maybe he didn't give her a choice. Or maybe she had been serving sentry over the spot and needed to pass on her knowledge to someone else so that they could then take up her role. Whatever the case Lt. Yokum succeeded in getting her to leave. And with her and the child safely out of the way Yokum returned to the 62nd Ohio's camp and related her story to his friend Lt. Hatcher. It was just before the witching hour, which we all know is when the creatures of the night are said to come out, when Yokum and Hatcher stole from their camp and returned to the old black woman's cabin, shovels in hand to unearth the long buried ill gotten booty. There was no breeze in the air to cool the evening. So perhaps it should have been a bit strange that the tops of the to oaks began to rustle as the treasure hunters approached. But then thoughts of gold and silver and jewels undoubtedly were all that occupied their minds. Find a spot directly between the two oaks the men began t dig. There was a sudden flash of lightning, causing them to look up. Yokum searched for signs of an impending summer thunderstorm but to hi surprise the lightning was not accompanied by thunder of any kind. It was Hatcher who noted the change in the trees, their tops were now being buffeted as if by a strong wind though there is no mention of if either man could feel one. Most likely not as the men did not feel a breeze earlier when the tree tops were merely rustling. The men returned to their digging. This time they did feel a wind as it blew sand against their faces and shirtless bodies. Perhaps it was they were willing to tolerate the blowing sand as it offered some relief from the heat of the night. But as they continued to dig the noiseless lightning became a constant companion, at times illuminating the darkness so that they could see each other as if it were daylight. And following one particularly long flash the two men suddenly realized they were no longer alone. There, beside them was a figure dressed clearly like a pirate from days gone by. Neither man waited for anything to be said or even for a ghostly cackle or scream. They quickly fled the site and returned to the 62nd's camp. Once their they agreed to never tell another sole what they saw. The next day the 62nd went into action on Morris Island. In the days t come the regiment would take part in the infamous assault on Fort Wagner. Both men would be decorated for bravery. But not once during the war or in the years following it did either man relate the story of what happened. It wasn't until years after Hatcher had passed away that Yokum would relate the tale to his friend, Francis Moore. Now for those saying "but the woman couldn't have been alive during the age of piracy" here is something to think about. Even though the golden age of piracy ended around the 1730s, the US would be dealing with coastal pirates well into the 19th century. So it would be possible for someone born prior to the Revolution and in their 90s or early 100s might still have witnessed pirates burying treasure. But did Yokum and Hatcher really see the ghost of a the long dead pirate or did they find his skeleton wrapped in the tatters of it's 18th century clothing. And if they did see a ghost, is the treasure still there to be found? Surely by now that old cabin and one or both of the oaks gone. After all the city of Folly Beach is located of the island. Is it possible the treasure was dug up by some city developer long ago. Or has the treasure some home managed to remain buried, waiting for a modern treasure hunter with modern equipment to come along and find it? |
Posted: Mon Oct 28th, 2013 09:26 pm |
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Hellcat Root Beer Lover
Well I'm guessing this thread is in line with the soldiers themselves. Michael Sanders in his Strange Tales of the Civil War mentions that the telling of tall tales and ghost stories was among the past times of the soldiers during the Siege of Petersburg. Likely like gambling and singing the telling of tall tales and ghosts stories was one of the past times of the soldiers throughout the war, not just during Petersburg. And this next one, coming from Sanders' book, actually was apparently told by one of the officers of 116th Pennsylvania. 1st Lt. Eugene Brady had been listening to the stories of George Halpin during his time with the British Army in India and decided to counter with a ghost story of his own. It would happen that around the time of the Battle of Chancellorsville there was an old woman living in Hockendaque (likely an old spelling for Hokendauqua, Pa), a villageon Pennsylvania's Lehigh River, whose son was serving in the Eleventh Corps. On May 3rd the woman crossed the river to Catasauqua in order to see a pastor there. The woman told the pastor that her son John was home and wandering the village but would not talk to her. He had arrived home the not before, completely unexpected. The woman was to shocked at his appearance that she did not immediately go to him and he did not offer to come to her either. Instead he merely went up to the next floor. Coming to her senses the woman tried going to her son, but he was no where to be scene. Instead she saw one of the upstairs windows was open and believed that he had climbed down the trellis outside. She expected he would, at some point that evening, come back to the house but he never did. The earlier that day she had gone looking for her son and found him walking the streets of the village. She tried running to him but he turned a corner and vanished. She reached the corner and could not see hide nor hair of him. She believed he had gone into one of the houses, but could not tell which one it was. Believing her son was angry with her for some reason she asked the pastor if he would return to Hockendaque with her and try to talk with John. Having pity for the poor woman the pastor agreed to do what he could. He looked everywhere in the village, but could not find John anywhere. And questioning the residents of Hockendaque revealed that the old woman was the only one who had seen the young man. It was not until May 5th that they learned just what it was that she had been seeing. On that day a letter came announcing that John had been killed on the night of May 2nd, at exactly the same time his mother saw him come in through the door. Could it be that John was killed at around Jackson was shot? Certainly he was among the soldiers who had to face Jackson's flanking attack on May 2nd. |
Posted: Tue Oct 29th, 2013 06:14 am |
29th Post |
Hellcat Root Beer Lover
These next two come from Lighthouse Ghosts & Carolina Costal Legends by Norma Elizabeth and Bruce Roberts. We begin at Fort Macon. Now as some of you may already know in the early part of 1862 Ambrose Burnside launched his North Carolina Expedition. Put in command of the expedition by McClellan, the North Carolina Expedition was probably the high point of Burnside's military career for 1862. The expedition would see Burnside's forces take Roanoke Island, Elizabeth City, and New Bern all by mid-March. Then late in march he began the siege of Fort Macon which would last from March 23rd to April 26th before the fort fell to Federal hands. Today Fort Macon is a state park which normally draws visitors into the millions. Though if you ask some of the visitors and staff, Fort Macon is haunted and the spirit doing the haunting is a Confederate soldier named Benjamin Combs. Now apparently according to historical records Combs was killed by shrapnel in his back, suffering for several hours before finally succumbing to his wounds early in the war. Just how early the book does not actually say, only that it was during the early days of the war. This could mean some time in 1861, perhaps during a live fire training drill gone wrong, or, as I suspect, during the siege of the fort. Now I have looked on CWSS and discovered five Ben Combs serving in the Confederate army there, one with an unlisted Maryland unit, one with the Virginia Cavalry unit Harness' Independent Company, one with the 2nd Arkansas Mounted Rifles, one with the 35th Arkansas Infantry, and the last one with Company F of the 1st North Carolina Artillery. The last one would seem the most likely though I can't find evidence Co. F was at Fort Macon during the siege or before. I do find that the company was captured at Fort Fisher, which would fall later in the war. No matter what unit Combs belonged to, his ghost has been said to be responsible for locking one park ranger out of their office. The ghost is also said to turn lights off and on, slam doors, and do other things that aren't considered harmful or dangerous but more playful little pranks. When this happens all the staff has to do is tell Ben to knock it off and the pranks stop for a while. As for visitors, their more likely to actually see the ghost in some for or other. Reenactors who have spent the night at the fort have reported seeing someone or something hanging around their equipment. Perhaps as they are re-enactors dressed in period clothing and carrying period equipment the ghost believes they are fellow Confederate soldiers returning to the fort. From Fort Macon we travel south to mouth of the Cape Fear River and Fort Fisher. In January of 1865 Federal forces launched the 2nd Battle of Fort Fisher. Among the Confederates present at the fort was Major General William H.C. Whiting, commander of the District of Cape Fear. Upon arriving at Fisher prior to the battle Whiting is to have told the commander of Fisher's Garrison, one Colonel William Lamb, "Lamb my boy, I have come to share your fate. You and your garrison are to be sacrificed" Whiting would be wounded in the battle and by 10 PM on January 15 would be forced to surrender his command. Taken prisoner, the general would die on March 10th of dysentery while on Governor's Island in NYC. It was just a few years after the war that the story of the haunting of the grounds of Fort Fisher would first be reported. And it would be appropriate that it was Confederate veterans of the 2nd Battle of Fort Fisher who would be the first witnesses. Near to dusk as the men were conducting their pilgrimage to the site where they and their friends had shed their blood, sweat, and tears all those years before the men discovered another being at the remains of the old fort with them. They believed at first it was another veteran, this one dressed in his old uniform, also making a pilgrimage to the site of he fort. The figure mounted the gun emplacement near to the Wilmington road and they realized not only was this man wearing the uniform of the Confederate Army but he also wore the stars of a general. The group suddenly realized that they recognized him as the man they had called "Little Billy" It was, as you already know, none other than General Whiting. The men moved to welcome the general back only to have him suddenly vanish before their eyes. As they stood in wonder of what had just happened one of the veterans suddenly realized that the spot they had just seen the figure in was the very spot where General Whiting had been wounded. This would not be the last time the ghost of General Whiting would be seen. Indeed today some still claim to see Whiting's ghost. A column today marks the center of the old fort. Visitors to the fort claim that if you wait long enough around dusk you will see General Whiting appear at this spot before moving off to a nearby hill. At a distance you can tell the figure is an officer with generals stars. He reaches the low hill and appears to be scanning the horizon, perhaps seeing the now long gone Federal naval force that took part in his last battle or perhaps searching for blockade runners, before he vanishes. |
Posted: Wed Oct 30th, 2013 01:06 am |
30th Post |
Hellcat Root Beer Lover
Until now I've been doing stories from books. Now I'm going to turn to a DVD and the TV series Unsolved Mysteries. These come from the fourth disc of the Unsolved Mysteries: Ghosts DVD set. Of course we all know about Gettysburg. Those of us from the US had to learn about it in school for years. And while I can't say that those of us who aren't from the US learned about it in school, I would say that those joining this forum have studied the American Civil War at least a little and are familiar with. And certainly there are those of us who have heard that the battlefield is haunted. In fact Darryl graced us with a story from his first trip to Gettysburg. It's not been unheard of for re-enactors to have encounters on the battlefield. One such re-enactor was a man named Ray Hock. Hock and another re-enactor were taking a break from a Gettysburg re-enactment when they were approached by what appeared to be another re-enactor. The man was dressed in period outfit and gear, naturally not uncommon for re-enactors. But this man's clothing and gear looked even more period accurate than both men were used to. It looked to Hock like the guy wasn't wearing and carrying reproduction uniform and equipment but rather the period original stuff. Hock says this man smelled heavily of sulfur and looked tired. The figure approached the two men, asking them if it was a hard day. He then proceeded to give each man what appeared to be authentic live cartridges even though live rounds are banned on the battlefield today. The men looked at the rounds in their hands and when they looked up the man was gone. There was no sign of him anywhere, as if he'd vanished into thin air. Hock took the cartridges to a university for examination and says they determined that the cartridges, right down to the minie ball and powder inside, were authentic to the Civil War. The story then moves on to the hunt for the wounded during the battle. Search parties went out each night looking for the day's wounded and host Robert Stack says that some of the searchers may still be carrying on their duties to this day. In '93 a group of friends who had been witness to the 130th anniversary re-enactment were out walking the battlefield at night along a creek called Bloody Run. Richard Knapp, one of the re-enactors and a member of the group, and his wife discovered the body of a man, which Knapp describes as more of a hazy mist. The figure looked to be in pain, probably a wounded soldier. His brother David would go with a group to an area called the Slaughter Pen. David says he could hear cannon shots and drumrolls and men marching, and one member of his group saw a ghostly figure. All this activity caused David to tell the group it was time for them to leave. The story then ends with the surgeons of Gettysburg and the field hospital at Pennsylvania Hall. Today Pennsylvania Hall serves as the central administrative building for Gettysburg College, so it is little wonder that the story ends with a pair of school administrators. They boarded the elevator close to midnight one night preparing to leave the school after work years ago. They were the last ones in the building that day. One of them pressed the button for the ground floor, but instead they found themselves going to the basement. Their thoughts at this point were that there was someone else in the building, in the basement, who had called for the elevator and it was going there instead of letting them off on the 1st floor. But when the door opened they found themselves transported to another time as they witnessed the surgeons of a hundred years before hard at work tending to the wounded. The to administrators claimed they could smell the stench that went along with the field hospital. They were only able to escape their ordeal only after one of the orderlies beseechingly turned to them. Stack reveals that they have never submitted to a formal interview, but the night of there ordeal they did tell the story to a campus security officer, a Timon Linn who does say that the two were obviously frightenedby something. Linn says he doesn't himself believe in ghosts but he does believe the administrators saw something because they are credible people. |
Posted: Wed Oct 30th, 2013 09:55 pm |
31st Post |
Hellcat Root Beer Lover
Comets. For centuries these heavenly bodies were viewed as the harbingers of death. Bringers of doom and destruction. In early 1861 there was at least on comet spotted in the skies over DC. Both Christopher Coleman in Ghosts and Haunts of the Civil War and Michael Sanders in Strange Tales of the Civil War tell the story of Oola an the War Comet. Ghosts and Haunts of the Civil War says that Oola was an ancient black woman, the slave of the Woodward family. She was tall with wrinkled features and hawk-like eyes. The black community at large were afraid of her, claiming she the evil eye and was a conjurer of spells. She was also the teller of fortunes and the children of the neighborhood would have their fortunes told by Oola. One day she told the Taft children that the comet in the sky was a fiery sword with it's handle pointed to the North and the point pointed towards the South. It was predicting, according to Oola, a war between the North and the South in which the North would take this "sword" and cut out the heart of the South. But it was not without it's consequences for if Lincoln took the sword then he would perish by it. The Tafts were playmates with Willie and Tad Lincoln and Julia Taft (later Julia Taft Bayne, author of Tad Lincoln's Father) told Tad Oola's prophecy. Now Ghost and Haunts of the Civil War says that Tad told his father about the prophecy and Lincoln laughed at it. But that he did take interest in it and could be spotted a few nights later staring up at the comet. Strange Tales of the Civil War takes the conversation between father and son a little differently. Here Tad tells both his parents about Oola's prophecy and that it was his mother who laughed at the prophecy but Lincoln was interested by it. When Tad asked if he thought that was what she had meant Lincoln supposedly said he hoped it wouldn't come to that. This comet was supposedly seen in April 1861. Of course we all know what happened that month and in the years to come. And we know that the war ultimately cost Lincoln his life. Did Oola actually see Lincoln's death or was it just a coincidence? |
Posted: Thu Oct 31st, 2013 07:35 pm |
32nd Post |
Hellcat Root Beer Lover
Well gonna return to Pennsylvania Hall. This time this is coming from Angus Konstam's Civil War Ghost Stories. Now in the 30th post I mentioned that during the Battle of Gettysburg Pennsylvania Hall served as a field hospital. I also mentioned what happened to the two school administrators, which Konstam reveals were two men who did not believe in ghosts before that night. Tour-guide Mark Nesbitt reveals that at the time of the books writing both men were still working in the building but never took the elevator again. Konstam says that both men are reluctant to submit to any formal interviews as they know they will not be believed and would even be seen as being a little crazy for telling their story and revealing their identities. But their incident hasn't been the only one at Pennsylvania Hall. Staff and students alike have reported seeing the outlines of people in the cupola. Whenever anyone would try to investigate they would find no one there. Some of these witnesses have reported that the figures appear to be Confederate soldiers, which has led to some claiming the building, or at least the upper portion of it, is haunted by soldiers from the Army of Northern Virginia. With what the administrators witnessed in the basement, perhaps it's likely we can say the entire building is haunted by soldiers of the Army of Northern Virginia. That is if you believe in ghosts. |
Posted: Fri Nov 1st, 2013 06:01 am |
33rd Post |
Hellcat Root Beer Lover
HAPPY HALLOWEEN Well it's Halloween once again, and will probably be November 1st when I finish this post. This will be the last ghost story I tell this year, maybe I'll tell some more next year. My next post in this thread is going to be a bibliography of my sources. Back in 2010 I did a number of stories concerning Lincoln, in fact I've done at least one this year concerning him. How about I go a different route to close this on out. Let's go to Fort Monroe. And like 2010 I'm going to look to Christopher Coleman's Ghosts and Haunts of the Civil War to finish out this years stories as well as using Angus Konstam's Civil War Ghost Stories. in place of Nancy Roberts'Civil War Ghost Stories and Legends. As many of you know Fort Monroe probably holds the distinction of being the only fort to have served as a prison for a president. At the end of the war and after a man hunt, Jefferson Davis was imprisoned in Fort Monroe without even a trial of any kind. Coleman suggests that the radical Republican's were actually afraid to try him for treason because they were afraid he'd get a fair trial and be proved innocent. This is something we have an open discussion on an if you would like to discuss it please go here. Konstam does point out that he was indicted on charges of treason in May 1866 even though he'd already been a prisoner in the fort for a year at that point, again pointing out he was never brought to trial. Davis would be placed in Casemate No. 2 where he would be placed, hands and feet, in shackles which would result in his health beginning to decline. His wife, Varina, would constantly fight for his freedom and for improved living conditions for him. It may have been this coupled with the doctors concern for his health, that lead to his being moved to different quarters which would allow family to stay with him. Finally in 1867 he was released. But did Davis and Varina truly leave Fort Monroe. It's true we know what happened to Davis and his wife after his release, but some times we never truly leave places that may have had some kind of important link to us in life. And this may be true of the Davis'. Of the two Varina is the most commonly associated to haunt Fort Monroe. Varina stayed in the quarters opposite Casemate No. 2 while Davis was incarcerated there. The second floor window to her room is the only one directly opposite of Davis' cell. Witnesses have claimed to have seen the figure of a grown woman and a little girl standing at the window, staring out it. If approached the figures will vanish. This window itself is a bit perculiar as it will vibrate. According The vibration starts around 4 PM and continues on into the night. And the sound can be loud enough to drown out any TV in the room. Army personnel have tried to stop this strange vibration, but apparently it's a bit like the stories of bloodstains in other places where the bloodstain can't seem to be removed no matter what is tried. And if Varina and apparently their daughter Winnie appears at Fort Monroe, what of Davis himself. Though not witnessed as often as his wife, Davis has been witnessed as well. Konstam says that Davis is rarely witnessed in either of the locations of the fort where he was imprisoned, though he does reveal that Both Davis and Varina have been spotted in Casemate No 2, she seated and he on his knees in front of her, his head cradled in her lap. It is more common to see Davis's ghost wandering the ramparts of the fort. Whether or not he was allowed to go to the ramparts in his life time, his ghost does so today. It appears to walk past the area of the flagstaff. Coleman speculates that the ghost's appearance here is more a desire from his time in Casemate No 2, a desire for freedom that may have somehow manifested itself. But Davis was eventually liberated, so was it possible that Davis did actually get to walk the ramparts before leaving in 1867? Or did he perhaps visit Fort Monroe at some point prior to the war, perhaps when he was Secretary of War. Last edited on Fri Nov 1st, 2013 06:02 am by Hellcat |
Posted: Fri Nov 1st, 2013 07:56 pm |
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Hellcat Root Beer Lover
Well as promised this post will be a bibliography of the sources used this year, not me posting another ghost story. or those who feel like posting ghost stories they've read or scene, or for those who wish to share there personal experiences, please feel free to do so. For those interested in further reading or watching further, or just to get how these stories originally appeared, try checking out Books
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