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Response to Intervention: A Practical Guide for Every Teacher shows general and special education teachers how to use research-based interventions effectively to individualize instruction, monitor individual student progress, and implement strategies to meet the specific needs of the students. Today's teachers' roles and responsibilities have been transformed by NCLB and the reauthorization of IDEA in order to benefit many children who are challenged by their academic content. Prompted by several legislative measures, response to intervention (RTI) provides strategies for documenting the existence or non-existence of a learning disability. All educators will become involved in implementation of programs to demonstrate how students respond on an individual basis to various educational interventionsùmost often in the general education classroom. This resource is intended as a practical guide to assist teachers with the challenge of what, for many, will be a new instructional procedure. Offering vignettes, examples, and forms based on the problem-solving and standards-based approach to RTI, this practical guide gives teachers the basic and necessary steps to successfully provide their students with a fair and appropriate education in the least restrictive environment.
Table of Contents
|Preface: An Open Letter to Educators
|p. vii
|p. ix
|About the Authors
|p. xi
|About the Contributors
|p. xii
|Response to Intervention
|p. 1
|Implementation of a Standard Treatment Protocol Response to Intervention
|p. 21
|Implementation of a Problem-Solving Response to Intervention
|p. 47
|Implementing RTI to Meet the Needs of All Learners
|p. 67
|Will RTI Work? Ongoing Questions
|p. 91
|RTI Needs Assessment
|p. 111
|Georgia Pyramid of Intervention
|p. 117
|List of Scientifically Validated Curricula and Other Resources
|p. 119
|RTI Summary and Observation Forms
|p. 127
|Where Do General Educators Find the Time to Do RTI?
|p. 131
|Using Response to Intervention for Inappropriate Behavior
|p. 135
|p. 141
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Op-ed: Al-Jazeera's failed attempt to revive Arafat agenda highlights Arab apathy about Israel
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Over the years, the Qatar-based al-Jazeera
has become a self-declared spearhead in the Palestinian struggle against Israel,
thereby making itself more Palestinian than the Palestinians themselves. This channel turned the death of Mohammad al-Dura,
for example, into a clip aired every 15 minutes during the last Intifada,
thereby inciting the Arab street and turning this Intifada into a pan-Arab and global affair.
Al-Jazeera, which aimed to restore the old Arab agenda, merely proved that it was an invented agenda to a large extend; an outdated agenda. This network, which wanted to lay a trap for Israel, fell in it itself and revealed its intentions. Instead of promoting agendas, al-Jazeera would do well to engage in the issues that truly bother and threaten Arab citizens. To its regret, these issues do not involve Israel.

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Belting out a few numbers in honor of Aretha Franklin, Mariah Carey and Jennifer Hudson performed at the 2014 BET Music Awards.
Dressed to the nines for the occasion, Jennifer sported a cool white top and leggings, while the sexy Mariah wore a stunning black cocktail dress, singing on top of a piano for the event.
Continuing to enjoy her fun-filled vacation in a tropical paradise, Mariah Carey took to her Instagram account and showed off her sexy beach bod on Monday (February 3).
In the pic, the "Hero" songstress flaunted her stunning figure in a gold bikini top with matching sarong and sandals.
Though she has a jam-packed schedule, Mariah Carey took a brief respite yesterday (January 20) to pay tribute to Martin Luther King Jr.
The "Always Be My Baby" singer posted a series of photos via Instagram to give thanks for her twins Moroccan and Monroe, whose lives are much different as a result of the late Civil Rights Movement leader's work.
Photographers lined the red carpet at the 2014 SAG Awards on Saturday (January 18), but the stars themselves were armed with their own cameras to capture some personal moments from the exciting evening.
Capturing a hectic moment with her styling team, Kelly Osbourne wrote, "Suffering from #swass sweaty a-- on the #eredcarpet #sagawards this is the hottest awards show I have ever been too!"
Adding to the already-star-studded scene, Mariah Carey and Nick Cannon caused a stir as they sauntered up to the 20th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards in Los Angeles tonight (January 18).
Telling all how he keeps the romance alive, Nick Cannon got personal, discussing his marriage with pop singer, Mariah Carey.
The "America's Got Talent" judge discussed his recent vacation with his lovely wife, explaining how the celebrity sweethearts keep their love life alive and kicking.
They both started their careers very young, but now Mariah Carey and Nick Cannon reveal their twins might not follow the same career path.
In the February 2014 issue of Ebony magazine, the talented couple opened up about their love for one another and shared their thoughts about Moroccan and Monroe's future.
We absolutely love seeing our favorite stars and their kids at Christmas, and Mariah Carey and Nick Cannon's twins had a blast on holiday in Aspen.
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The Hamilton-Middletown Journal-News (http://bit.ly/1m336fP ) reports that 75-year-old Harveysburg Mayor Richard Verga says if physical contact occurred, it was "a pure accident."
He was charged this week after a female employee said he touched her buttocks before a council meeting last month. Verga pleaded not guilty to the misdemeanor count.
Verga has refused council's request that he take a leave of absence pending resolution of the case. He is due back in Warren County court on June 11.
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Im working on a 2d top-down game and I am having some issues with collision response. In the game I plan on using line segments to define walls that entities collide with. The entities collision shapes are circles (position and radius). I have a working demo set up that lets me collide a sphere into a line segment and stop the entities movement by setting its current position to its previous position when a collision is detected.
Now the issue is when an entity is against a wall it will begin to rapidly tremble depending on how fast it can accelerate. I cant seem to figure out how to make it smooth. Also, when I try to move the entity along the wall it will bounce and lag. Anyone have any ideas?
Here is the Entity class Update method :
public void Update(GameTime gameTime, List<LineSegment> walls) { float elapsedTime = (float)gameTime.ElapsedGameTime.TotalSeconds; if (!InputManager.IsThumbstickIdle(TriggerType.Left)) { direction = InputManager.ThumbstickVector(TriggerType.Left); angle = InputManager.ThumbstickAngle(TriggerType.Left); velocity = (direction * _speed); for (int i = 0; i < walls.Count; i++) { LineSegment line = walls[i]; if (CollisionSolver.CirlceIntersectsLine(circle, line)) { position = previousPosition + (line.Normal * Vector2.One); circle.Position = position; } } } else { velocity = Vector2.Multiply(velocity, _damping); } previousPosition = position; position += velocity * elapsedTime; circle.Position = position; }
If more of the code is needed just let me know and I will post it. Thanks in advance for any help!


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A memorable week in eating
Posted 20 February 2011 - 08:10 PM
I ate at some amazing restaurants recently .Often one is lucky if 50% of the restaurants are exciting but but a 100% satisfaction is a record.
Mon night was at Le grand Pan.(15e).20 rue rosenwald,01 42 50 02 50.Ate at the bar.Had a mouthwatering cote de veau with crispy house french fries.Walked 35 min to get there.
Tues had lunch with john .John spends 9 months in Paris ,discovering new restaurants of merit.He is a great resource.The restaurant was Rech,62 ave des termes(17e),01 54 72 29 47.
Seafood is the thing here and it delivered with flying colors.I started with marinated salmon with lemon and beet.A unique and interesting combination,followed by perfectly cooked fillet of fish with mushroom and salsify strips.I don't know why fish is not cooked like this in the US,even marielle would have loved this dish.The dessert was crunchy dacqoise based cake with noisette and ice cream,just heavenly.The total was 30 euros,a steal.A white muscadet wine went beautifully with the whole thing.After that we went to an art exhibit of David Hockney.His tool is the ipad.Its amazing how he created pictures of vases of flowers ,intense with colors and shapes electronically.I filmed the luncheon and some of his work.
I had dinner next night at Bistrot Volnay,8 rue volnay,01 42 50 35 29 and could not believe how good it was.Its small and quite elegant.welcome is warm and service excellent.Dining alone, they gave me a good spot to watch the action,saying jokingly there will be no extra charge .I started with marinated salmon with potatoes.IT was a mixture of different tastes ,all hitting at the same time,lemon being dominant.Just wonderful. The main was scallops with truffles.Again ,very tasty and multi dimensional.Both dishes were not heavy and quite unique.Games also were being offered,but it was a warm day .I"ll be back on a cold day for that.Dessert was the classical rix au lait.just delicious.Dinner was 42 euros ,which included a truffle supplement.I left the restaurant on cloud 9 without my i pod,1/2 a block from the restaurant the lovely waitress that was serving me appeared ,hoofing and puffing with the i pod.
Another memorable lunch was at Spring.6 rue Bailleul (1e).01 45 96 05 72 .
The chef and owner is an American,Daniel Rose.About 4 years ago he opened a hole in the wall and became a sensation,beloved by the french and US critic (NY Times, etc).Two 2 years ago ,he showed me the 18th century bldg close to Louvre, where he wanted to fix 2000 sq ft as his new restaurant.I told him it will be very expensive and will take a long time.He said he had already signed the lease.The restaurant opened recently,about 2 years later and the cost was high
When I entered the restaurant for the 1st time ,I was greeted by Daniel,saying I should have listened to you and that he even came close a few times to walking out.
Lunch as usual was great.consisting of a porcini and nut salad,followed by seafood bouillon and then delicious fried chicken .It was not heavy,just right.WE drank an Alsacian and burgundy(mercurey) pinot noir.Total cost was 66 euros.
Another evening i dined alone at Saturne ,17 rue notre dames des victoires ((2e).01 42 60 31 90 .
Another solo diner sat next to me , very knowledgeable of Paris restaurants and with excellent taste buds.He turned out to be the concierge of hotel Maurice.We both ordered the 5 course menu degustation (59 euros) consisting of a mushroom salad,then a fish and a beef dish,ending with aged comte cheese and dessert.We discussed each dish and mostly agreed.The ingredients were 1st class,lightly treated with little sauce.So its leger,as the french say.Not much seasoning,therefore no strong flavors.Its a style that seems to appeal to many critics.Its pleasant but not something I dream of when I am hungry.Interestingly the wines,mostly bio were light as well in general . So this restaurant provides another choice and is quite different overall
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Glad you got re-connected with your iPod...and in such a heart-warming fashion!
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. . "for the discreet and refined enjoyment of uncommon wine . .
. . . . and victuals and the companionship accruing thereto" . . . .
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On his five-course tasting menu, Benôit Gauthier, the 32-year-old owner and chef, offers whatever he likes, based on seasonal items he finds daily in the market: truffles in winter, asparagus in spring, lobster in summer, game in autumn (42 euros, $52 at $1.24 to the euro; there are also à la carte options).
I cant tell you in advance everything that Ill serve you, he said. There always has to be a surprise.
Our menu one evening included lobster soup with chorizo and croutons, tuna tournedos with foie gras and avocado salad, and line-caught merlu à la plancha.
Mr. Gauthier is the son of a butcher from the Corrèze, the south-central region where locals believe they produce some of the finest cattle in the land. It was there that his father taught him about cuts of meat. It should, then, come as no surprise that the most popular dish of the house is the côte de boeuf for two (52 euros), served with thick, long, hand-cut, double-fried French fries. It is such a sublime dining experience it will tempt even the committed vegetarian to fall off the wagon for an evening.
Le Grand Pan, 20, rue Rosenwald in the 15th
Paris Salon
"It must be remembered that there is nothing more difficult to plan, more doubtful of success, nor more dangerous to manage than a new system. For the initiator has the enmity of all who would profit by the preservation of the old institution and merely lukewarm defenders in those who gain by the new ones. "


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Will Walker's 'budget for his buddies' fool the public?
By Dominique Paul Noth
Editor, Milwaukee Labor Press
Posted March 1, 2011
It was eighteen minutes of platitudes and 10 minutes of agony laid out in placid terms, with the real voices of despair locked out of the State Capitol. It was the budget speech March 1, so orchestrated so the governor could bask in the glow of his dwindling supporters, who were drinking not from the public bubblers but the extremist Kool-Aid of self-delusion.
But as Scott Walker in Madison was unfolding fulsome statistical exaggerations to outline his two-year $59 billion budget that cuts state aid to municipalities and schools by one and a quarter billion dollars, public school parents and teachers were already demonstrating at some 21 locations in Milwaukee.
Bracketed on all corners of 6th and Wells St. and dancing to the nonstop honks of passing rush hour traffic, teachers and parents bore home-made placards and pushed strollers while their young children twirled round and round waving signs. An older four-corner crowd of students and residents could be found waving signs at the intersection of Locust St. and Oakland Ave. -- and on and on totaling hundreds of spirited but disgusted citizens creating pockets of sympathy throughout the Milwaukee area, organized mainly by MPS parents and teachers.
It will take all these people some time to move from general dislike to specific anger as they absorb the real human pain hidden within the clinical budget. Still not fully detailed, it will keep journalists and economists busy for days figuring it all out. What they saw immediately was bad enough, so what other horrors lurk beneath?
Make no mistake. This budget doesn't just throw the regular citizens under the bus, it even throws the bus under the bus.
There always are necessary steps to rein in spending, but that's not what shines through. This is clearly a political document, a policy choice by an unbending and apparently poor thinking non-listener. It's not the necessity of "we're broke" but the ego of election victory that led him to such hasty and somewhat sloppy excessive measures..
The budget difficulties so many states face stemmed from deep national recession, spurred by Wall Street, a reduction in government revenue marked by job losses, foreclosures and runaway consumer fears, mitigated for a while by federal aid (stimulus) now coming to an end. So attacking public workers isn't the cure, and not when they've conceded the financial issues.
Wisconsin's shortfall is not anywhere near as severe as many other states. (12.8% of state spending, while the national average is 20%, according to analysis by the national Center on Budget and Policy Priorities).
With that clarity, let's highlight some aspects and peek under the hood at Walker's secret reasons, largely to fulfill the desires and coffers of his corporate backers. This sure is sacrifice but hardly the "shared sacrifice" he describes because of who is spared while being rewarded.
Public school children are the main sacrificial lambs. They will suffer the greatest state cut to education since the Great Depression, a slash of $900 million (by my count, . NOT Walker's $836 billon) that puts education support back a decade.
At the same time, Walker wants to lift all caps, ZIPs and income levels on charter and voucher schools supported with public dollars -- and let anyone with a bachelor's degree teach in charter schools, not requiring teaching certification. He would end current mandatory evaluation of voucher schools as well as mandatory residence for MPS teachers. He would also lift the cap on virtual charter schools, again without special testing.
Studies show that some charters work well and some others are close to public schools. But many are not. Very few voucher schools even match pubic school education. Yet Walker wants to cut the average school per-pupil revenue limit by $555 for public schools in the first year and butter up even more private schools with public dollars. He says his budget is needed so we don't pass debt on to our children, but he wants them more poorly educated along the way. Which makes no sense – unless it's really an attack on union teachers.
His pledge of billions for transportation is mainly about highways, because he's cutting the transportation aid to counties and municipalities by 10% in the 2012 calendar year, and flattens that in 2013. That's mainly busses and light rail. (There is also now a bill to eliminate authority for KRM rail funding.)
He would eliminate all state subsidies to local units of government for recycling – the biggest change since recycling of aluminum cans and newspapers was required in the Tommy Thompson era.
He would cut Medicaid (BadgerCare) $500 million with further wrinkles likely and no certainty on future eligibility rules, and he says he's put an end to raiding segregated funds in the budget – but that's because he moved that raiding and other things to the budget repair bill, which also relies on refinanced loans.
So Walker really needs that repair bill as a trigger to make his budget bill work. Hence the constant pleas in his speech for the 14 Democratic senators to come home, to give him a slam-dunk quorum. He claims that without their presence he can't give local governments the "tools" they need to reduce the pain of the impending devastating loss of state aid.
But only his most conservative backers want those unproven tools. He has been urged to withdraw the attack on union bargaining rights and other aspects of the repair bill by resolutions from the Milwaukee Common Council and Milwaukee school board and by letters from dozens of municipalities and school districts, who would rather work with their employees than against them.
And his supposed "tools" would not by a long shot offset his state aid cuts, while he also forbids local governments from raising property taxes. When you combine such realities – millions less to towns and cities, massive cuts for public K-12, no way to cut that deep without crippling community growth and now way out – Walker is forcing the local governments to make the deep cuts in services and personnel that he won't. So his budget threat to eliminate 1,200 state jobs with some possible layoffs seems a piker compared to what he will require the locals.
It's the budget version of CIA rendition, hoping the pubic won't identify the torturer transporting them into No Exit.
Several local officials envisioned to me a Wisconsin where the homeowner plows the street, picks up the garbage and cleans up the park while his children go hungry at schools, struggle with double class sizes and have no athletic or music programs – all in the name of money. Is that an exaggeration? The cuts seem to them that deep.
Even consumers when they go shopping look for more than the price tag, for real value. Companies when they pick states and cities also look for quality and value – and much of that comes from good public service, competent teachers, diverse transit, parks.
Walker would take that away. Even if he got every "tool" he wants, even thinking that "no new taxes" is the deal-maker, he denying local leaders real flexibility to create real value. My fear is he's encouraging businesses to avoid Wisconsin. We're not "open for business," we're closed for progress.
"Oh sure there's always fat to cut and projects we don't have to do," said one official. "But there's not this much fat or waste anywhere. We will have to reduce care for the unfortunate, public service, maybe health and law personnel. He may not yet be making Wisconsin Bangladesh, but we're heading south of Mississippi."
But only for the middle class, of course. Walker's budget caters to corporate buddies, out of state or in. They can sell the schools handbooks, software and study guides for his new third grade reading program, yet another hurdle to confound the kids and teachers. They can buy state power plants or seek to privatize all the public services that are apparently on Walker's agenda, some at universities.
His speech outlined intentions to break up the UW system of higher education, forcing the largest aid cuts on the system with an option for more revenue only for UW-Madison if it splits off. Later the same for UWM in plans that right now give Walker control of tuition and contracting.
Expect this budget to be scoured to expose more riches in the future in what some call the "corporate takeover of Wisconsin."
Still, the most disturbing budget reductions affect children to a degree that turns into shameful politicking rhetoric that he wants to protect their economic future, Cut them and bleed them – and say it's for their own good. Is there a Tea Party word for chutzpah?


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Walking the dog (2)
On the west coast of the city one hot summer afternoon; i was attracted by the light shining on the dry tall grass and the slight breeze blowing over it
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The silver grass is lovely, and some how I see the rope fence mimicking the dog/leash/person at the peak of the triangle in the compo. Now, it would change the image a bit if the blc were not so light, and I can't decide if it would make it better or worse, but since that crossed my mind I am thinking I might like that with a little less highlight. Very nicely seen. You certainly have a wonderful eye dv.
Kathy Kempson ♥ ¤ at 18:39 EDT on 2007-Jul-10 [Reply]
thanks kathy...i 'm sure i fully follow your comments ? i guess you were referring to the black/shadows?
dee vee HoF Win ♥ ¤ $1 at 18:43 EDT on 2007-Jul-10 [Reply]
I don't quite follow Kathy's comments either..
There is detail throughout the picture from high to lower tones. The shadows look fine too.
That is by the by, this is dominated by that light splash and the surrounding composition which empaphasises the passage of time and momentary symmetries.. like the dog's leash and the ropes as Kathy says.
I like the cropped out nature of the walker too. Could be anyone, anywhere.. and as such just enhances the pictures appeal.
Another cracking picture from you DeeVee.
Best wishes- Andy
Andrew McLean HoF ♥ ¤1 $ at 18:53 EDT on 2007-Jul-10 [Reply]
thanks Andy...Kathy was referring to the patch of light on low left corner, she 'd prefer it darker , she may have reason ...Cheers ;-))
dee vee HoF Win ♥ ¤ $1 at 18:57 EDT on 2007-Jul-10 [Reply]
Lovely scene, good backlight on grass and spray of light. Noticed the footsteps in the dirt.
Bruce Wendler Win ♥ ¤ $1 at 22:22 EDT on 2007-Jul-10 [Reply]
thanks Bruce...those footsteps could be mine ;-))
dee vee HoF Win ♥ ¤ $1 at 22:47 EDT on 2007-Jul-10 [Reply]
Really nice image, dee vee. As usual, a very pleasing composition. Very fine conversion, too. Classic dee vee... very well done!
Regards, Chris
Chris O'Neill ♥ ¤1 $ at 01:24 EDT on 2007-Jul-11 [Reply]
a beautiful composition DeeVee. I agree with Kathy on the atractive result of the ropes of the fence synchronized with the leash. The moving grass is very appealing, I can almost feel the breeze... (which is pleasant because were I am now it is pretty hot and breeze-less ;-)) Great picture.
vaggelis fragiadakis HoF Win ♥ ¤ $1 $ at 04:38 EDT on 2007-Jul-11 [Reply]
thanks Chris / Vaggelis
Chris: welcome back ;-))
Vaggelis...we've just had a few days of heat here also, but now the normal california weather 's back w breeze and fresh air and all...cheers ;-))
dee vee HoF Win ♥ ¤ $1 at 09:49 EDT on 2007-Jul-11 [Reply]
Bit late on this one Dee Vee but I love this composition. A lot of separate parts that add together very well. The grasses are very good and you caught that sparkle and movement beautifully. The person with the dog just adds to that and the line of the ropes leads us right through the image. Very good.
adrian tear HoF Win ♥ ¤ $ at 02:46 EDT on 2007-Jul-12 [Reply]
thanks Adrian for the detailed analysis
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In a post today on the blog for DayZ – the zombie survival game he is working on (perhaps you have heard of it or have confused it with The War Z – it happens a lot) – which was originally built as a mod for the first-person shooter Arma 2, DayZ designer Dean "Rocket" Hall announces that he is taking a "two-month sabbatical" to go climb Mount Everest in Nepal.
Fans are not exactly thrilled at the news because they have been waiting for the stand-alone version of DayZ – which was originally a mod for ARMA 2 – that was supposed to be out last year. Hall assures fans that even as he is making his journey to Mount Everest he will continue working on the game when he can. His target date for DayZ at this point is "by the end of this year."
Here is what he had to say about his two-month break on his blog:
"I realize some people are upset at my departure from the project for two months to climb Mt Everest, but hopefully from this you can see the large team Bohemia have assembled behind the development that are continuing to innovate and develop DayZ Standalone in the direction of the game we all want. This is going to take as long as it needs to, we want to release our initial alpha under the architecture it needs to avoid hacking and security issues – this is the only remaining task stopping us from releasing the alpha. But while this task is being completed, we can continue with other activities."
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Anecdotes aplenty, and all very funny.
Mother Teresa's doctor:
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Thanks for this ,tropical and infectious diseases are of interest to me and my bucket list is to work on the streets of Calcutta with either Missionaries of Charity or Calcutta rescue
Love it!
the way Dr. Lombardi describes the scene is exactly what I imagine Mother Theresa's nuns to be like, quite determined yet humorous at the same time. This has put a smile on my face for the day!
Just sending this to a young Catholic who wants to be a doctor.


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UTHSCT gynecologist to discuss latest findings on benefits, risks of hormone replacement therapy at free Nov. 12 seminar
Thursday, November 5, 2009
In 2002, a national clinical trial of the health effects of estrogen and progestin in menopausal women was halted after it indicated the hormone replacement therapy raised participants' risk of breast cancer, heart attacks, and strokes.
However, in the past few years some have questioned the results of this clinical trial. If you're a woman going through menopause, it's hard to sort through the conflicting viewpoints.
"Hormone Replacement Therapy: Revisiting the Decision Seven Years Later," a free seminar to be held from 10 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. Thursday, Nov. 12, at The University of Texas Health Science Center at Tyler will help you separate the hype from the facts surrounding HRT.
UTHSCT gynecologist Ralph J. Turner, MD, will outline the pros and cons of hormone replacement therapy.
Dr. Turner, a board-certified gynecologist with more than 20 years experience in women's health, will discuss how appropriate use of HRT can help women feel stronger and more vital as they go through menopause.
The seminar will be held in the Biomedical Research Center Auditorium on the UTHSCT campus, located at the intersection of U.S. 271 and Texas 155.
It is free, but seating is limited and reservations are required. Free refreshments and free valet parking also will be available.
For information or to register, call (903) 877-7147.
For 60 years, The University of Texas Health Science Center at Tyler has provided excellent patient care and cutting-edge treatments, specializing in pulmonary disease, cancer, heart disease, primary care, and the disciplines that support them. With an operating budget of more than $125 million and biomedical research funding that exceeds $10 million annually, UTHSCT has a major economic impact on East Texas. Its two medical residency programs – in family medicine and occupational medicine – provide doctors for many communities in East Texas and beyond.


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NEW DELHI: BJP is crying foul over undelivered postal ballots in Uttarakhand. A day after the Election Commission put the onus on the Army, BJP on Tuesday accused Congress of causing procedural hurdles to minimise the number of postal ballots.
BJP has reason to worry. The party, which has projected Gen BC Khanduri as its chief ministerial candidate, is banking on a "large chunk" of the votes of the defence personnel in the state, where results sometimes depend on razor-thin margins.


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- Clifford Grant (Bass)
Notes & Reviews:
"If your belief can be suspended that much and you allow yourself to bask in it, this is one of opera's greatest guilty pleasures. And the duets are as stunning as anything in Manon or Werther. This performance is ravishing. In addition to the spectacular Sutherland, the under-recorded Catalan tenor Giacomo Aragall uses his attractive voice to great effect, baritone Louis Quilico is a proper menace as the exorcising Bishop, and Clifford Grant intones importantly as Esclarmonde's father. Huguette Tourangeau's weird mezzo is on display as Esclarmonde's sister. Richard Bonynge leads a luxuriant performance." -ClassicsToday
Joan Sutherland (Esclarmonde), Giacomo Aragall (Roland), Huguette Tourangeau (Parséis), Clifford Grant (Emperor Phorcas), Louis Quilico (L'Evèque de Blois), Ryland Davies (Enéas), Robert Lloyd (Cléomer), Ian Caley (A Saracen Envoy), Graham Clark (A Byzantine Herald)
The National Philharmonic Orchestra, Richard Bonynge
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Sutherland's performance of the central role of Esclarmonde is in its way was powerful as it is in Puccini's last opera. Aragall proves an excellent tenor, sweet of tone and intelligent... Bonynge draws passionate singing and playing from the chorus and orchestra, and the recording has both atmosphere and spectacle
Gramophone Magazine
Bonynge, in his best form ever, procures a full-blooded performance from a wellchosen cast, aided by a suitably vivid recording that shows no sign at all of its age... Sutherland's words are not easy to understand, even though her enunciation is better than sometimes; but the precision, brilliance and sweetness other voice in the prominently featured upper register (rather less steady lower down) compensates for much.
Recording information: Kingsway Hall, London (07/02/1975-07/15/1975).
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- Performer: Clifford Grant (Bass)
- Conductor: Richard Bonynge
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- Running Time: 9 min. 38 sec.
- Period Time: Post Romantic
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Hike Charlies Bunion
A high-elevation hike will take in the view at Charlies Bunion and head down Kephart Prong Trail in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park Tuesday, June 14.
Guided by outdoor enthusiast Danny Bernstein, the 10-mile shuttle hike includes a total elevation gain of 1,200 feet, traveling past scenic views and backcountry shelters on the Appalachian Trail.
Organized by Friends of the Smokies, the hike costs $20 for members and $35 for nonmembers, which includes a one-year membership. Donations fund trail rehabilitation through the Smokies Trails Forever Program.
Register at www.hike.friendsofthesmokies.org.
Backpack Hazel Creek
A backpacking trip through one of the Great Smoky Mountains National Park's most remote, yet historic, areas will give the adventurous an in-depth appreciation of the Smokies June 17 to 19.
Starting with a boat shuttle to Hazel Creek from Fontana Marina, the first day of the trip will include a 7-mile hike on the Hazel Creek Trail with 500 feet of elevation gain taking in the Proctor and Bone Valley cemeteries, Proctor Historic sites and the Calhoun house. The second day will involve a variety of possible excursions from the campsite, where the group will stay that night as well. The hike out will be 6 miles long using the Hazel Creek Trail, passing the Proctor Historic District and exiting via boat on Fontana Lake.
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LAS VEGAS -- Bettors looking to wager on tonight's NBA Finals Game 7 between the Spurs and Heat have a major dilemma to deal with, as a reliable pattern regarding the Heat was broken in Game 6.
Since Game 2 of the East Finals against the Pacers, bettors have been able to follow, nearly blindly, a zig-zag trend with Miami. When the Heat lose, you zig – bet on them in their next game; when they win, you zag – bet against them the following game.
That's a span of 11 straight games where the spread never came into play – the Heat either won and covered, or lost and didn't cover – in beautiful alternating succession. But in Game 6 of the championship series on Tuesday, a giant monkey wrench was thrown into that equation.
The Heat won, 103-100, as the trend suggested they were supposed to, but they didn't cover the 7-point spread. They had been 6-0 against-the-spread coming off a loss in the playoffs, winning by 11 points or more in each, but that trend is now done.
So what's a bettor to do? Does he or she still follow the trend, considering the Heat won the game, and side with the Spurs in Game 7? Or should the trend be thrown out altogether?
With about six hours to tip-off, the public has spoken with their cash about who they like, and several sports books, led by the South Point, have dropped the Heat a half-point to make them a 5.5-point favorite.
"You could see what the public was feeling yesterday, and it was mostly Spurs, " said South Point sports book director Bert Osborne. "I could have made the move last night, but when I came in this morning and saw it was still coming in on the Spurs at the same pace, I just moved, because I'm not going fight the trend all day."
Soon after Osborne made his move, the LVH SuperBook, Caesars and Wynn also dropped the Heat to -5.5. Stations Casinos, Coast Resorts and MGM Resorts books were all still at -6 (the LVH has moved back to 6, assistant manager Jeff Sherman noted on Twitter).
Live odds: Check an updated Game 7 point spread and total
The goal for Osborne's move was to see if anyone with respected money would lay the -5.5. No one came with a limit bet, which is likely an indication that in order to find large Heat action, -5 might have to be dangled
"I've talked with a few people whose opinion I really respect on the NBA, and they all like the Spurs +6," said Osborne, which may have helped sway his decision to drop the number.
Osborne says his biggest risk on the day figures to be Spurs winning outright to the OVER.
"We've had large straight bets on the Spurs money line and then lots of smaller parlays on the Spurs money line to the OVER (189)," said Osborne, who opened the Heat money line at -300 and currently has it at -250 with a +210 take-back on the Spurs.
No matter how small the bets are, if the masses are going that way and are correct, books will feel a sharper sting than by losing straight bets on large wagers. A parlay with the Spurs money line and the OVER pays out at over 5-to-1 odds, much worse for the books than the standard 13-to-5 parlay, which is lethal enough to bury a book on a big single game.
Wynn sports books director John Avello moved to 5.5, but not necessarily because the action forced him to – it was more about what he believes is the right number.
"We had decent two-way action when we opened the Heat minus-6," said Avello, "But I just felt this (5.5) is where the game needs to be. I'm not trying to attract money on a particular side, it was just a feeling I had, even when we opened 6."
Over 80 percent of the action on tonight's game has yet to be seen. Avello isn't getting too much one-sided action on the Spurs, but that's exactly what's happening further down the strip at the MGM Resorts books.
"The public are on the Spurs," said MGM's sports book hub director Jeff Stoneback. "We're seeing the Spurs bet with a 2-to-1 ratio in ticket counts, and it's about the same on the cash as well."
So both the Strip properties and local casinos are getting Spurs action But how about the rest of the state, including our friends up north? William Hill runs over 160 sports books across Nevada, and director Jimmy Vaccaro tells us it's the same thing everywhere for them.
"We're getting all Spurs action so far," said Vaccaro, "which is surprising to me because I can't recall the last time a home favorite in Game 7 of the Finals was bet against by the public."
Vaccaro did recall that the last time a home team lost a Game 7 was in 1978, when the Bullets beat the Sonics in Seattle. "I should have remembered it right away because I cashed a ticket myself on the Bullets that day," Vaccaro said.
A look back: History of Game 7s in the NBA Finals
Bettors who consider themselves contrarians like to go against the public, but in most cases, that means taking the underdog. So who does one side with in this unusual circumstance?
"If the Heat are the best team in the league, with the best player in the league, a Game 7 situation is where they are supposed to show it," said Avello. "We'll see what happens."
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Geri Halliwell longs for marriage
Former SPICE GIRLS star GERI HALLIWELL still dreams of marriage and a "fairytale ending" despite her history of failed relationships.
The singer, who remains single at the age of 40, has a daughter named Bluebell from a brief romance with screenwriter Sacha Gervasi, and she has previously been linked to pop star Robbie Williams and funnyman Russell Brand.
Her three-year relationship with socialite Henry Beckwith came to an end last year (11), but Halliwell remains optimistic about settling down in the future.
She tells Daily Mirror newspaper, "I'm really open to relationships and marriage. I'd like to think there was a fairytale ending for me and I'm very open to it."


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I am running my selenium server in background with the help of nssm service. I am running the server at a particular port (11111).
I wrote some unit test in VS 2010 and when I am trying to invoke the selenium service with
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it gives me error "Unable to connect to the remote server". Please help.


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One of the most frequently asked question in regards to the Republic of Sakha-Yakutia, that occupies 1/3 of Russia and 1/2 of Siberia + the Far East, is, of course, "Where online to download region maps?"
Always in my reply, I sent links that I could recall at once. Praise god, there is the list now.
Recently, Artem Petukhov, a friend of mine, who runs his local Adventure Club blog in Russian, has compiled the list of maps available online for free download.
If you are an active traveller – motorcyclist, 4wd driver, mountain trekker, hiker, whatever, you might wish to check out the following maps:
2. Industrial maps in West Yakutia.
3. Moto roads maps.
4. Detailed maps of cities and districts.
5. Digital (GPS) maps for Navitel / Navitel Navigator. The link to the zip file. Yakutsk, districts: Megino-Kangalassky, Khangalassky, Kobyaysky, Lensky, Namsky, Mirninsky, Vilyuysky, Neryungrinsky)
Artem recommends also to use the SAS.Planet soft.
If you consider the listed maps are useful, please, share this info with your friends. Thanks!
Oh, by the way, don't forget to browse through previously published posts under the tag Maps.
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Geno Smith to start for Jets vs. Buccaneers
"I don't think I've been rushed," said Smith, who took 69 snaps in preseason games. "They wouldn't put me out there if they didn't think I was ready."
But the quarterback situation changed when Sanchez took a crunching hit to the shoulder from the Giants' Marvin Austin.
"We all regret that Mark got hurt, and obviously that's unfortunate," Ryan said. "It's unfortunate that it happened, but these things do happen and we've moved on."
The Jets have said only that Sanchez - the starter since his rookie season in 2009 - was day to day with simply a "shoulder injury." The fact he hasn't practiced since, and the Jets signing Quinn on Monday were signs that Sanchez's injury was more serious than the team was initially letting on. But placing Sanchez on injured reserve doesn't appear to be an option at the moment.
"We're not looking at that," Idzik said.
Smith said his ankle is "steadily improving," and is "a ways away" from where it was in training camp, when he wasn't able to fully drive the ball as he planted his foot.
"Nothing is given in this league," Smith said about needing to prove himself each week. "I'm going to go out there and I'm going to do that."
Sanchez was once considered the future of the franchise, a terrific talent with GQ looks, and consecutive trips to the AFC title game in his first two years drew natural comparisons to Joe Namath. But Sanchez struggled over the next few seasons, including an NFL-leading 52 turnovers the last two years, and failed to develop into the elite passer the Jets had hoped.
Ryan benched Sanchez for a game last season and it appeared his days in New York were numbered. His contract, however, and the $8.25 million in guarantees for this year made him unmovable. Still some have speculated that the Jets could simply cut Sanchez and move forward entirely with Smith.
"Mark is going to be on the team," Johnson said. "I don't think there's a question."
It appeared in spring that the Jets would let Sanchez compete with veteran David Garrard for the starting job. During the draft in April, the Jets went for defense with their two first-round picks, selecting cornerback Dee Milliner and defensive lineman Sheldon Richardson. But when their pick came up in the second round and Smith was still available, they jumped at the chance to take him.
In May, knee trouble caused Garrard to retire, leaving the competition between Sanchez and Smith.
A few months later, Smith has the opportunity - starting Sunday against Tampa Bay - to try to prove he might be the type of franchise-changing quarterback the Jets have been looking for.
"I'd like to be," Smith said. "That's a tough question, but honestly, I'd love to be the franchise quarterback here. I think that's the reason they brought me here."
NOTES: Ryan announced that Vladimir Ducasse would start at left guard, and Antonio Allen would start at safety opposite Dawan Landry. Those were the two other main competitions in training camp. ... Simms will serve as the backup to Smith over Quinn on Sunday.
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China is a Danger
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Dangerous Imports
Alerts for Imports from China (FDA): Check here daily for newly reported dangerous products from China.
Alerts for Imports by Country (FDA)
US Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) - Recalls and Product Safety News lists many recalls of products from China.
National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) - Safety defect in tires from China: The NHTSA says the tires are dangerous, but is currently refusing to demand a narional recall. The NHTSA web site is grossly inadequate considering there are up to 450,000 of these dangerous tires on the road.
FDA DEG in Toothpaste from China (6/28/2007) : FDA has found a poisonous chemical, diethylene glycol (DEG), in certain toothpastes imported from China. The agency is warning consumers to avoid using tubes of toothpaste labeled as made in China and, through an import alert, is stopping all suspect toothpaste from entering the United States. References: FDA News Updates
US CPSC Recall (6/13/2007): Thomas The Train railway toys recall due to lead poisoning hazard to children..
US CPSC Recall (5/31/2007): Children's Metal Jewlry recall due to lead poisoning hazard.
US FDA Warning (5/17/2007): Recall Pet Foods: melamine in pet food
US FDA Warning (5/11/2007): Recall Pet Foods: melamine in pet food
US FDA Warning (5/7/2007): Melamine in the human food chain.
US FDA Warning (4/27/2007) : Melamine found in feed for animals and humans. Several animal deaths occurred.
US FDA Warning (6/24/2004): Warning not to feed infants Chinese infant formula
China's Comments (8/16/2003) on the proposed rules on Establishment and Maintenance of Records and Administrative Detention of Food for Human or Animal Consumption
WASHINGTON (Reuters 6/13/2007) - More than 1 million of the popular "Thomas & Friends" wooden railway toys made in China are being voluntarily recalled because some may contain lead paint, the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission said on Wednesday. ... Lead is toxic and can pose a serious health risk to young children who often put objects in their mouths. Children under 6 are most at risk. ...
US Recall News (6/13/2007): Recall of tooth paste from China which may contain poisonous chemical agents like diethylene glycol (DEG) a solvent found in radiator fluid. It can have major deadly side effects, including central nervous system suppression and permanent kidney and liver damage.
LA Times (6/1/2007): BEIJING — Chinese officials on Thursday defended their nation's medical and food safety record and declined to take full responsibility for the presence of deadly chemicals found in cough syrup and toothpaste sold abroad.
Muskegon Chronicle (6/1/2007): The problems in China, especially, are widespread. "China's food scandals have involved everything from fake baby milk formulas and soy sauce made from human hair to instances where cuttlefish were soaked in calligraphy ink to improve their color and eels were fed contraceptive pills to make them grow long and slim," reported the New York Times. Perhaps not very surprising in a nation where more than a third of its food manufacturers are unlicensed.
USA Today: FDA limits Chinese food additive imports
USA Today: Stories about China
NPR: States ban Catfish imports from China over tests
Washington Post (5/20/2007): Tainted Chinese Imports Common -- 107 food imports from China that the Food and Drug Administration detained at U.S. ports just last month, agency documents reveal, along with more than 1,000 shipments of tainted Chinese dietary supplements, toxic Chinese cosmetics and counterfeit Chinese medicines.
Google: Recent China Food Safety
Catfish Institute: States take action against tainted Catfish from China
Google: Toothpaste from China banned in the U.S.
Protect Americans from Dangerous Chinese Food Products: Forum to submit comments
EU Business (5/19/2007): China produces nearly half of all the dangerous consumer goods listed in the annual European Union report published Thursday. European children were on the receiving end of many of the banned or withdrawn goods, ...
Water Woes (6/16-19/ 2007 Frontline):
China's carbon dioxide production soars (6/20/2007 Telegraph.co.uk): China has surpassed the US as the world's largest producer of carbon dioxide, the most important greenhouse gas.
Congress to press China over its undervalued currency (5/26/2007 LA Times)
China Manipulates its Currency (9/25/2006 Economic Policy Institute):
People's Liberation Army (Wikipedia):
Chinese Lasers Attack U.S. Satellites (Janes Defense Weekly):
Council on Foreign Relations: The Scope of China's Military Threat
China Military Guide (GlobalSecurity.org):
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Music in the Fields
- Region
- Africa, Mali
- Type
- Personal Essay
Mali, in West Africa, one of the world's poorest countries, has riches that remain a secret to many people of the Western world. These riches are the kind that we all seek, but few are lucky enough to find. They are the secrets to happiness, the keys to laughter and music. And these riches can be found on the most difficult of days, among those who live some of the most difficult lives on our planet.
It is May in Mali, and the rains have not yet come. It is over 115 degrees Fahrenheit and my friend looks up at the sky. We have all been watching the sky for weeks. The spreading desert and the receding grasses in Mali are causing the rains to arrive later and later every year. My friend looks up once again and says to me with utter acceptance: "We think that it may be Allah's will that we die now."
The next day we watch and wait. Nothing matters at this point except that the rains come. Everyone is ready to begin plowing the fields, but nothing can be done until it rains. We continue to watch and wait.
The sun is a third of the way across the arc of the sky. The air is parched. The dusty, dry red earth of the fields is quiet.
A faint wind slips by me. I look up yet again toward the hills in the direction of the wind and I see a few clouds beginning to blow over them. There is a huge break in the tension of the village as the clouds move in.
The wind begins to blow strong. Bright fabrics blow out from the bodies of the women, dancing and slapping in the air. We all lean against the winds and head for cover, except for the children, who run frantically toward the giant mango trees. Small mangoes fall from the upper branches and the kids race to collect them in their shirts.
Soon darkness covers us and the rain begins to fall, frantic from the wait. It feels as if the energy of the weeks before has built up in these clouds—as if they had been forced to hold their breath for weeks and now it has all broken loose. The wind blows branches out of the trees and the rain falls with the fury of a hurricane.
After about an hour, the rain calms and continues falling throughout the night.
The village will live.
The next day the men begin working acres of fields with steer and an antiquated plow. The women wake early to prepare lunch. It is made from the corn of the year before. They put the lunch in bowls and balance the bowls on their heads; most have a baby tied with a cloth to their back. They head for the fields. They will do this nearly every day for the next four to five months. Wake early, prepare lunch over a fire, and walk barefoot or in flip-flops to the fields with a child on their back.
When the fields are ready to plant, the men and women of the village will take a tool made of a wooden handle with a flattened piece of metal attached to the end and they will bend over the earth using only this simple tool for hours and hours every day.
Within this daily work to sustain life itself, there is a peace, a connection, and a tradition of laughter and music that makes the Malian culture one of happiness and richness.
There are five main family groups that make up my village. Mine is the Wattara family. Each Sunday all of the men in the family work in the same field together. They line up and work side by side, efficiently moving down the rows. The women prepare lunch, care for the children, and also labor in the fields on these days.
These Sundays are unique, however, for more than just the joint work effort. These are the days of the music in the fields. The music comes from the hands of those women who have helped to raise this village. The grandmothers, little old women who are as tough as diamonds, come out to the fields on these days; in their hands they hold instruments made of gourds and beans, leather and wood. With these simple instruments they create music that contains their souls. Music that feels of their laughter and their losses, the years of hard labor they have done in these same fields. Years of bending, years of calluses, pounding grains and corn, carrying babies, cooking over a fire, carrying water and wood. Years of being a little girl, a woman, and now a grandmother.
These are the women who send out the laughter and the music in the fields. These are the women who hold the secrets of the village, the secrets that the world is desperately in search of. The secret of how to make music out of toil and how to laugh in the face of hardship and death.
These are the rich people of our world.
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]DEVOTED ro POLITICS, MORALITY, UDUOATION AND J0 THE GENERAL INTERB8T OF THU OUNTRY.
vio PICKENSP S. C',, THURSDAY,NSEME
fhmday School Celebration at Sharon
MR. EDrroR : Sharon eorch khieth
A4odist) is located on the main road
leading ironi Pendleton to Pickons
ville, about midway between Pendle
tou and Carmel (Pres.) church. It
is surrounded by one ot the most in.
teolpgent, orderly, law-abiding com
munities in tho State, consequently
dhurches flourish), Sunday :chools
.p'rmeper, and ever-y good cause finds
endy advocates aiong trhem. naj.
Simdpson used to remark of this coln
munmity, that during a long residence
amnong them., he never eow a liti
gated case carried to the Circuit
Court from that neighlborood, and
thle Deputy Sheriff of Anderson, Mr.
McConnell cor-roburted sP-aid state
ent by remarking ihat he never
had any paper to serve iln that Wl)Ie
scope of country, fron Pndleton to
-Habtowni, but Jury kiom-:ons anid
uch like. Tie good people of vShar,
on and B*thany chules aided and
encouraged by the preacher in
charge, Rev. Alr. Jackison, initiated
pr-oceedirg for a grand Sunday
Schiool cele braion at Siiiir-on culreb,
onid" tesday, 29ti Auutid. Carimel,
.Aendleon, Mt. Zion, Ruh-ama, atr
onl and Bethany, sent full deoputations
i thle Cele ,raltn. The Plndletix
Corntet Band ndded great iterest to
t.. o ccasioul by their mill uzzical per
u rniiiecE during hc diy. The prou
cest3ioni w%latfortned abv.lt 10 O'clock,
under the coinmid of iNajo 1. 11
NeWton who Lad Ueeln apye inted
Marshal of the day. With .be six
b6uidaty StolI il) prI-OcebSiOln, w ith
the band il Irni, it w%asa trufly an iml)
'Osing" den.on0t1tlAO11. Afier mar(,h
ig imrud the chure1 in good irder,
the n anotr abAu 11dice wedre
comfortabW stedc. in a beantiful
groveb, and en a1-l), and th h3cx.,
oierites coymenced by singing the
btautiful y msni, "sweet , Md
Jorayer bytkinse. B. S.inoed
Thn adeothe obymn bet Sunday
School addresses to which it was
ever our good fortune to listen. The
leading proposition of his address
'was that all governments of' whatever
pilitical caste, depended mnainily for
its perpetuation on the v irtue and
morality &f the people for its suppor t.
And the sp)eaker held up England as
a notable example among all the nas
tions of tihe earth, of a stable and
j ust monarchical government, found -
ed as8 it was oni the virtue of an in
telligent citizenship. Sorry that the
gentleman could not say as8 much fot
~'his own governiment. Then followed
naturally the sacred posti:late that
the Sunday School next to the church
ws one of the greatest promzotions
of *irtueI andl morality am ng aniy
peopIle. It seeks to imfpress5 religious
truth l on the tender' minds] ot .the
young. AIter' singing and1 music
from thle bantd, C'aptaini R. WV. Simp
son excuised himselt from speak ig,
on account of inrd isposit ion, and t he
Rev. Dir. Jones, late of Co'lum,biai.
then delivered quite an interetstinug
A address, mui~cli to t lhe dlight of many
of is old 11riends. The Rev. Does
tor's reapplearan ce amon)g is old
~. friends of 'Anderson andi P'icn,
afld especially the fact that ho hasi
I pernma 11fy settledl on the 01(1 "Mla
vek- omiestead, within 3j miles
of Pn)dleton, affords the~ Bs&ieet
gratification to all. Ilis address
throughout was listened to with the
closest attention. At the close of his
' address, and after some fir.o singing
and music fr'om the band, a resolu-.
tion) of thanks was passed by ari.
aiter singing the doxology, "Praiee V
God from whom all blessinga flow," C
and the usual beinediction, the exer
cises were closed, and all were ink r
vited to partAke of the hospitality of a
the neighborhood. The baskets were a
broLght out by the good ladies, and t
we think that all present were abun a
dantly refreshed by the eatables pro- c
pared for the occasion. After par- t:
taking of these refreshments, and 1
enjoying social intercourse for about
an hour, the Sunday School children ,
remasembled in the church aid en- c
tertained the spectators for about I.
three fourths of an hour in singing, (
and then the crowd quietly dispersed S
to their homes, all delighted with the 11
prk ceedings of the day.
The design of such celebrations as a
Mr. Jackson, well said, is to excite a f!
still deeper interest in the Sunday
School work. It is to be hoped that 0
such may be the eff ct of the cMe- C
bration at Sharon church. Tihe sing
ing by the Sunday Schools, and the
Ifui by the band w:as particulzrly a
good, and adled greatly to tho inter
est of the occation. The pieces gen- b
erally chosen by tie band were welt
adapted to the c:rcunistances. We
hink that the example of the Pendle 3
ton balnd, in so generously respoid- a
ing to the request of the friends of '
Sunday School work, is worthy of
comU1endt-tion. While the singing a
by the Sunday Schools was generally j
good, and all pertorming togeti.er it t
would be in.possible to discriminate, .
yet as the Bethany claLss led iml these
pe)r mmr mtaces, It u i,i n->t be coisid
cred invi,ious to say thalt they per
fOrmed this duty stuptrbly. Youig
Mr. Newton pr-esides over this class,
and we can truly pay that we have
1ouver witne, sd a snpol ior exhibi
tion of p)1 erectionI in mnusical perfor'm- ~
an1ces. Gij on, young ladies and
gemlem1 in yu' Cffo'tt inl this di
rectionl, and may othurs profit by it,
until the will of praise shali be heard
in all our1' chu1rches, congregations
and families in at aiies of sweesei
Grand Mass Meeting at Anderson.
CENTRALS8. C., Spt. 3, 1870.'
Mn. EDITon:-It was my privilego ~
to participate in a grand mass meeting E
at Anderson, and as I thought it
might interest some to hear, I con-- E
cluded to "drop you a few lines" cons
corning what I saw.
W ishinig to give our loved Hamp I
toni as brilliant a reception as possi- t
ble, the Central, Pendleton and San- t
dy Spiings Clubs concluded to go
down uniformed with red jackets. I
Early S itorday, ere the sun had ]
crept from his bed, we were in the t
saddle and dashing over the hills wit h <
fi) ing colors Lient. I. G. Gains led
our comnpany until we reached Pen- t
d!eton, there he delivered us in <
charge of Capt. J. J. Lewis- The r
Pendleton Company had just left as E
we entered the [own. We dashed
ahead, soon overhtauled them, and E
were received, when we came up,
with rousing cheers and splendid mu
sic from the Pendleton Band. At I
Sandy Springs Stat ion, we were join.- a
ed hby Capt. G4arr ison's Companiy.- (
WVe were joined b)y several othert'
comlipat)ies on! the road, but not ini I
unliform. We were greeted wi'h joy t
ons cheers al i along '.Le road, and we i
rturned1'IC( themi wi th such initerest t hat <
we made t he old hillsI ring. Onie lit', 1
ie inlcideont liiappenecd ont thle road,t
t hat brougILhlt torIthI shouts of l aughter (i'
An old 1e:r woan fighltend byt
the long Ii ne of "red coat8,"' hid in the s
cornerI ot the~ fenice. But as thec long
l ine kept galloping past, her' terr'or
became so great that she could r'emiin I
no longer in such close quartertIers; e
therefore, she made a (lash through 1
tihe open) space between 0our company t
and the one0 in' advance. I never <
shall forget the look of wild, awful,
terror ont hmer ae, as she dasLe I al- 1
umost under our hors~es' fuet into the
voods, followed by the shouts of the uO
ompany. Ob
As we entered Anderson, we were' tb
eceived with the firing of canno, fr
nd joyous shouts of assembled thou% "1
ands. When we arrived opposite Q
lie Fair Grounds, we halted until the ed
rrangements were made for the pro, th
ession. The Pendleton Band headed do
ic procession, followed by some wl
tandard bearers, (I could not see, do
oc didn't learn whether the speakers mi
rere in the procession or not,) then ou
ane Capt. Sitton's Company, from
'endleton, followed by the Central
lonpany. Next in order was the
andy Springs Company followed by
le balance of the Anderson clubs.- ise
10 procession was miles in lengthi th
nd it was estimated that there were m
fteen hundred mounted men. ar
Wo were delighted with the sight so
f many beautiful ladies, wh) wore in
rowed in front of the houseB, to th
,itness our march. Our hearts were te
.1rilled with the sound of sweet, joy- he
us welcome from the blessed ladies
Ve marched through the town, to a in
eantiftul grove in rear of Johnson ta
Iniversity, there we dismounted and pr
iarched in companies up to the sa
'and. The speakers stand was of
beautiful thing, and I am sure the ab
tdies delicato hands were engaged
1 flowring it. The platforin was over jV
hjadowed by a beautiful awning' w
,,hich was decorated with evergreens, "(
Lowers, flags and mottoes, in truly e
rsthiti style.
Atter some splendid music, the E
Jhairm1an, Maj. Hoyt, ilitroduced I
JIENERAL WADE LIAMPTON. Longa.
oud and repeated cheers groeted tie tl
maime of onr loved, illustrions chief- r(
ain. It will be useless to attempt to ti
rive any por-tion of the speeches in a A
hort article, therefore it till not be e
attemptd. - -
As for the first speech, it was en- a
ugh to know that it was Hamipton's. r<
dvily had heard his voice in tho bour a
f battle, when danger was at every hi
ondIAf; and they showed by every
aicans of approubation how glad they at
vCre to hear his voice in this hour of It
attle against wrong, when danger of se
uinl stares us in the face. Next w
ame Simpson, with a splendid ce
p)ecb. Hie was followed by Gen- a<
61L. W. Gary, with a speech that h<
howed he "meant business," Next to
was General S. McGowan, of whom ci
ce need say nothing, for you "know ~
tow it is yourself," and ho was "just tc
lie same." Next came that noble, as
horonagh farmer, D. Wyatt Aiken, tc
vhio was proud of his avocation, and t<
nrduratood his business so well, that at
believe lhe pleased the audience bet
er than anty of the speakers. The h
~losinig spoceb was mnade by William
Vallaco, wvho said lie was both p roud q
mnd ashamod of his name; proud be- se
~anse ho lad such an illustrious si
tamesake; ashamed, that his name ic
hould be disgraced by such a man a]
s A. S. Wallace. The wvhole of the w
p eebes and the manner in which ir
hey woro received showed that they (.1
vero- determined to "light it out to the
itter e'ud." And not only fight, but es
vin. After the speaking was finish- h
d, we mounted, formed ranks and si
narched back through the town, la
ceaded by the Anader&on and Pendle. i
on bands. A fter marching out tr
~cross the Railroad bridgo, we halted, T'
plened ramnks and allowecd the two o~
>ands8 to pass back. We gave three b~
ousing cheers for Anderson as they b
>aSt back. After passing through ti
he ranks (ne Pendleton Band came ~
lowly back again, pla.ying, as a fare- al
'cll, "Hlome, Sweet ilome." The
>iece of music was sweetly and thril tj,
ing rendered; tilling our hearts with 11
adutess, to think that the parting to
10our had come. When the band was 01
brough, we were "h~omnoward bon9t
mece mnore- When we reacked Pen
Ileton, we marci'hed around the pub. ti
c squre with the Pendleton Club. n
LDhan they halted. opennd zanks, let
pass through and gave us thre
eers as we passed. The band cam
rough after us and marched I
nt of the old Court House, playin
docking Bird," for a farewell. Ou
kptain disbanded us here and allom
as to make our way hone, and t
ink over the "great events of th
y." And I do truly hope, fror
iat I saw on that day, that a greate
y will soon come, when we sha
ake hill and valley ring with "joy
s notes of freedom."
CENTRAL STATION, Sept. 5, 1876.
MR. EDITOR: 1 noticed in your las
iue a piquant and newsy letter fron
is little place, and possibly yoi
ay think we ought to be satisfie(
d not trouble you any more fo
me time. Well, there is sone trutl
that, but be generous and give i
e use of your columns for this let
e, and I, for one will for some tim
reafter hold my peace.
On last Thu-sday night the debat
g club of this place gave an enter
ininent that they may well b(
oud of, for it has elicited univer
I praise. It consisted of a numbe
charades. Ending with !. laugh
le farce called the negro school.
Of course there was no Booths o
nnashock "in the tragic." No
us there any Bishops or Russel's i
.onics." But still for the experi
ce and the short time taken to re
farse, it was a grand succees. Mie
stelle G-'s acting was inimitabli
fact, it was what all actors shoul
rive to personate-life itself. ]
i cast of Rosa Thorn, she made or
)alize, what a frightful thorn
m per is in a young lady's characte
nld I veuture to say, that whc
ery jong-ady- presenasr- whi
b8o lost by not curbing her tempe
ade a resolution to draw a tigl
in upon their own in the futur<
d so doing, gain what R)se lost,
MisE "ettio G. for the experient
e has had, did extraordinarily wel
was fate to be called upon to pet
nate a miatron in each piece i
bich she took a part. And I at
rtaini when she gets hold of a chai
ter, in which she can throw hb
~art it will give her a better chant
display her powvers. Under Li
reumistances her rendition of Mr
~yrtle, was splendid. She seme
be imbued with the spirit of if
e when she advises Fannie Myrtl
marry for money. But I am gli
say that Fannie ignored the cow
ml of her mother -followed ti
romptings of her heart, and gas
3r hand to poor1, but honest Pau
The character of Mrs. Myrtle rc
uires delicate handling, there
ichi a quick transposition from ti
irewed, careful mother to the fash
nable worldly womnag. There we
so other young ladies that did i
oil as the two named. But it woul
ake this~ letter too long to speak<
Cem seperatelf.
01 the male actors, I can say the
'cen disappoin ted themselves. WVit
anidreds of bright eyes, ready I
e,and ir checks to dimplo wit
ughtr. Wich this encouragemen
)w could they do otherwise than
y to mako~ alboso maidens merry,
bey did their best, and succeede<
das a proof of their succes3, the
~ve been repeatedly requested t
ive anot her soon. I am satistie
at there is material here, out<
hich can be formed a perfect th<
rical corps.
Now a low words in support
ese exhibitions, and I am done. I)
cy not in a manner show the en
mai of the people in its many diffe:
it phases, and not only represci
eir chiaraicter, their tastes, sent
cnts and opions, but has a retroa
ve efl'eet upon the same. Do v
t need such a society? IHas it n
tendenewy to inculcate loftie anni
e mente and higher aspirations-puri..
e fy and cultivate a taste for higher lit i
i eraturel Do they not show up vice
g in all its hideousness, condemn im- I
r morality and hypocracy, and prove e
P- that morality and virtue will meet i
o with reward? Are there not some as I
e effective sermons acted on the stage I
a as there is preached in the pulpit? I
r And then here is another view, are i
Li they not instructive as well as amus- i
- ingl Do they not aid the actors I
memories by making them more re- i
tentive? are there not as much amuse.. .t
ment as at dances and kissing part- I
ies, and a less tendency to dissipa- I
t tiont I think so, and I believo the E
i sensible, thinking portion ot the corn
i munity agree with me. If all this is I
I true, then, let us encourage and sus- i
e tain a society from which springs so (
i much good.
RALEIo1, N. C., Aug. 4, 1876.
DEAR SENTINEL: As all your many N
Democratic readers could not be t
nominated in your State and County <
Conventions for the different oflices, i
I believe all true men of all parties I
regardless of past differences. will
. soon unite on the ticket put forth in i
your County and State; they could
r not be better or stronger.
r With Wade Hampton as leader,
South Carolina will be redeemed in
November, it she is ever to be. Let
all inen, high or low, rich' or poor,
white or black, "rally around the
flag," and give aid in raising the
d down trodden rights of the still
1 proud Palmetto State out of the pres
ent bad hands into which she has
a been forced. Many honest and good
r. men in South Carolina, like Alabama,
a vigorously worked with the Radical
It party, but like Algbamians, will or
r, ave seen the error of their ways
it and turn, before it is too late and
fight for victory in the Democratic
ranks, which is generally believed
will be in November, one of the
e grandest victories ever seen on Ane
rican soil, or even in the world. Let
-them remember that the expenses
nof the government for the past ten
Syears has been donble what it was
for the preceeding seventy-five years8.
rLet them remember too, that the
e consumer, mechanic.and laborer pays
ethis expense; this is easy enongh for
a blind negro to see.
d The man ufacturer manu facture
the tobacco, he puts on his stamps,
ewhich he pays for. Thel merchant
d buys it and pays for it, stamps profit
and all. The consumer buys it, pays
Shigh for it, so the merchant may
make enough to pay back his money
1.which ho paid the manufac(urer for
the stamps. So with whiskey, the
man who drinks, pays the revenue,
S(if it is not blockade whiskey.) And
_so with everything on which there
15isad duty.]
So the workman's wages is niot
d what they might be if his employer
did not have such heavy taxes to
A certain amount of revenne is
h necessary under any administration,
ninety-six thousand government of
h ficors are not necessary ini Ihee
a United States. 11alf of them are for'
s' political pur'poses. Like onie in the
a, mountains of Western North Caro
i, hina, wvben approached by a stranger,
'and in conversation, was asked what
his professiona was? lie replhied that
d he was a "Custom House ollicer!"
and not a navigablo stream nearer
than the Savannah River. The fact
was, he was an officer to watch no
groes and keep them welded to the
oRIadical party, as many of thenm are.
One half of these oflcers it is said, do
.not collect one halt the amount palid
tthem by the government, so their
charge is put oun the people by tax
ation, "Thats the way tihe mone*y
Tgoes." "TAn UImI~."
ft Twenty one of the thirty eight
L. States. elect Governo1u thi fall.
The Constantinople un4r*4
'ailway, extending from Galata%4
?era, is pronounced as entirely sat%4
actory work. This railway ine4rY
even hundred yards long, and coo.
reys passengers from the level o-0the
Bosphorus to the extreme be"ght of
?era, an elevation of two hundked
et with an tvcrage gradient of obe
n ten. Its greatest depth below. the
urface is eighty feet. The motive
)ower is a stationary engine, workfog
i drum with endless bands. The
rains run up and down simultaneous.
y every five mnites, and are calon
atod to carry thirty thousand pas-.
engors per diem, the cars working
rery easily at an average speed bf
on miles an hour. This enterprisel
inder the management of an Enlist4
A traveler, on horseback, was once
ogging along a road in the wie grase
egion of Georgia, when his attention
vas attracted by a small tallow faced
irchin who was plowing a 'patch' of
,orn near the roadside, the patch, be..
ng in every respect, in full keeping
vith the surroundings. The travel
r accosted tho boy when the folloW
ng conversation ensued:
"Hello, my Son, your corn seeme
,o be small I"
"Yes, sir, we planted small corn.',
"Alh! but what makes it look so
"We planted yellow corn, sir."
"Well," said the traveler as he
moved off, "I don't think you'll make
more than half a crop,"
"Nut" aaye the tow headed young
stor, raising'his voice, "We don't ex.
pect to make but hall a crop; we only
planted on shares any wayl".
The traveler trotted away, perfect%
ly satisfied that it won't d-6t judge
by appearances at all times.
Those were noble words of the late
Speaker Kerr, to his son, a youth
just merging into manboed: 'I haw,
nothing to leave you, my son, except
my good name. Guard it and your
mnother's honor, and live as I have
lived." Not many lives come to
their end with the courage to com.
mand a young and springing life to
follow thorn.
There has at last been found a
barnacle sticking to Mr. B3ristow 's
reform ship in the person of one iRob
nson, brother in law to Poland, of
Vermiont, who succeeded in getting
him faistened upon the Boston Cns
:om House, after the assistant and
Seectary of the Treasury had said
that the appropriations were in a too
'depleted condition" to increase the
A n earnest move is being made in
Europe to secure the blessings of a
sabbath of rest, in the interests of
laboring men and morals.
The Democrats, of Indiana and
)hio, are exhuberant, and every thingi
ndicates a Democratic victory for
hose States in October. indiana is
leterminued on a change, and Ohio
.8 in sympathy with the same desire
,vbich prevails ini the North West.
There are 117 colored voters on the
r'oll of the Sumpter Democratie
The latest recipe for true eloquence
was given by a minister at the Mar
thta's Vineyard Baptist camp meet
ing yecterday. IIere it is: "Get
yourself churck full of the subject,
knock out the bung, and let nature
A young lady, on being asked
what baisiness her lover was in, and
not liking to saiy he bottled soda,
answered: "lIe's a practising fizzi
What holds all toe snuff in the
wvorld? No onto nose.
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Sleeve Board
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Perfect for touch-ups and those sometimes-difficult sleeves.
Metal Sleeve Board pops in moments to make any press job suddenly
Tapered head design.
Flat folding legs and a compact form.
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Legs, with no-scuff leg caps.
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