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Hermanus is considered one of the best land-based whale watching destinations in the world.
The coastal town of Hermanus has become synonymous with shore-based whale watching, given its sheltered coves in which these marine mammals come to mate and calve. It also offers range of other activities and attractions for travellers.
Southern right whales start arriving in Walker Bay from June and remain until December. These massive creatures can be viewed from the shore, or from boats or planes. To alert onlookers, a whale crier sounds his kelp horn when he spots whales off the Hermanus coastline.
For its scenic beauty alone, Hermanus is one of South Africa's Cape gems. The town's mountainous backdrop declines steeply to a rugged shoreline, characterised by deep bays alternating with stark white beaches with names like Onrus, Kammabaai, Langbaai, Voelklip and Grotto Beach.
While some beaches are ideal for walking, others are popular among surfers, and those with lagoons are ideally suited to families.
The town is at once a mix of old and new, with commercial shopping outlets, jewellers, art galleries, antique dealers and museums lining its narrow streets. Step off the beach and into the old-world whale museum, or wander the streets looking at gnarled fishermen's cottages to see how time has shaped the town.
Keep Saturday morning free to browse at Lemm's Corner, where locally produced arts and crafts are on sale and shoppers are serenaded by a marimba band, or visit the Hermanus Country Market at the cricket fields.
Adventure activities to be enjoyed in Hermanus and its adjacent coastal spots include sea or lagoon kayaking; mountain abseiling; half-day river cruises; sea cruises to Dyer and Geyser islands to see sharks, penguins and seals; Botrivier boat trips for bird lovers; scuba diving; quad biking and horse riding.
Fernkloof Nature Reserve is popular among hiking and photography enthusiasts, and golfers will be thrilled to discover an award-winning course at the Arabella Country Estate. The Hermanus Golf Club is another beautiful local option.
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Who to contact
Hermanus Tourism
Tel: +27 (0) 28 312 2629
Fax: +27 (0) 28 313 0305
Hermanus Whale Festival
Tel: +27 (0) 028 313 0928
Fax: +27 (0) 028 313 0927
Around the area
Go food and wine tasting at the Hermanuspietersfontein Wine Cellar market in the Hemel-en-Aarde Village. Stanford, just outside of Hermanus, hosts an evening market at the Birkenhead Brewery on the last Friday of every month. For a dose of nostalgia, visit the Fisherman's Village Craft Market on Lemm's Corner in the heart of Hermanus over the weekend.
Tours to do
Take a township tour of Zwelihle to meet residents and understand a different side of Hermanus life.
Length of stay
There's so much to do in Hermanus and its surrounds that at least 2-3 days is the minimum time one should spend in this delightful village.
Where to stay
Hermanus offers top-class hotels, plenty of B&Bs and holiday cottages.
What to eat
Being a seaside spot, seafood would be a good first choice, but you're also guaranteed to find quality cuisine in the many eateries and hotel restaurants around Hermanus.
What's happening
The Hermanus Wine and Food Fair in August is considered among the 10 best wine festivals in South Africa. Some 50 local wineries showcase their fare, accompanied by delectable sushi, olives and cheeses. Wines bought here can be shipped worldwide.


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Don Jon Star Brie Larson: I Can't Read Joseph Gordon-Levitt's Mind
As Joseph Gordon-Levitt's eye-rolling sister of very few words in the actor's directorial debut, Don Jon, out October 18, Brie Larson—whom you may recognize from her role as Toni Collette's pot-smoking daughter on The United States of Tara—relied on facial expressions and body language to bring Monica to life. "Brie created a whole character who makes the audience laugh, but who also feels like a real human being," says Gordon-Levitt. "And she did it without saying anything. That takes a truly skilled actress." Here, the 23-year-old Larson, who also appears in The Spectacular Now (in theaters now), breaks down the art of silent protest:
ELLE: What was it like to be a supporting character with only one speaking line?
Brie Larson: I got to be the true observer the entire time. I worked on Don Jon for two weeks, but except for that one scene, I didn't say anything! The best part of my job is getting to listen. I love that. I love getting to fall into what other people are saying and just react. In a way my character is like the audience: She's in on the joke. When the audience is going, 'You gotta be kidding me,' she's making the same face.
ELLE: Sounds like a pretty good gig!
BL: I kept having nightmares that I wasn't prepared for the scene I had to do, but in reality I was just looking at a phone the whole time. It was so weird.
ELLE: Did you work with Gordon-Levitt to develop the role?
BL: We spent some time talking about the character. The fun part is always creating the character—even if it's the stuff that doesn't make it on screen. The fun part is using your imagination to build castles.
ELLE: What kind of castles did you guys build for Monica?
BL: We had a meal together and talked about what her day-to-day is like, what her reaction to each family member would be. Personally, I feel like she's the type of person who is so indifferent to everything around her that she doesn't even like food. So I purposefully pushed my food around my plate during the dinner scenes.
ELLE: How did you make the audience see the humor in those subtle details?
BL: The funny thing is that I didn't think anything I was doing was all that funny. I thought I was being serious the whole time—especially when I delivered my single line. I thought I was delivering it honestly! You know what they say, It's funny because it's true.
ELLE: So, what's the audition process like for a silent role? Pantomime? The old slip-on-a-banana gag?
BL: Ha! The thing is, you can read for a character written with rich adjectives and descriptives, but ultimately she's the product of someone else's imagination. It's impossible for two people to wholly communicate the character through telepathy. So I went through the audition thinking, 'I just have to text on my phone?' Afterward, my agent was like, 'How did it go?' And I was like, 'Good, I guess.' How do you gauge that? I mean, I spelled all of my texts correctly?


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BlackBerry 10 nabs a native torrent client app, BitTorque, for $2.99
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1. addicted2088 (Posts: 53; Member since: 25 Sep 2012)
Ah, nice to see we can use torrent apps etc on BlackBerry 10. With such limits as on the multitasking, I was worried it was too locked down an OS like WP or iOS, glad to see that's not the case. Will be interesting to see how BB10 advances over the coming months/years.
5. thealphageek1 (banned) (Posts: 942; Member since: 02 Feb 2013)
There are no multitasking limits on BB10. It is a true multitasking OS. Everything continues to run in the background and/or under the hood. But it's great to see BB10 progressing so nicely.
6. addicted2088 (Posts: 53; Member since: 25 Sep 2012)
The fact that only 8 apps can run at any one time is itself a multitasking limit for me, as even though most would never need to run so many apps, I quite often do. And from what I hear, BB10 simply kills the 1st of 8 apps when the 9th is opened.
That's my question really. What about instant messaging apps? Do they get killed too with just a service left open for incoming messages and are reloaded when we click on a new message? If that is so, then it's like iOS and WP which is a time waster since we have to wait for the app to load again. Plus, once I open the IM app on getting a notification, it will no doubt again count as one of the 8 open apps and kill one of the 8 open apps.
I really wish someone could explain just how multitasking is happening on BB10 apart from those 8 running apps. I was excited for the OS but the 8-app limit (on a whopping 2GB RAM) and the thought of having iOS/WP-like multitasking killed it for me.
8. thealphageek1 (banned) (Posts: 942; Member since: 02 Feb 2013)
From what I've been reading, the developer of the app(in this case an instant messaging app)can make it so it is not killed by the OS. So theoretically, an instant messaging app can still run once the 9th app is opened. It will just get "skipped over" and the next app will be "killed". Certain apps already allow for this, like the Nobex app on BB10. I'm pretty certain this will be increased in future updates.
9. addicted2088 (Posts: 53; Member since: 25 Sep 2012)
Ah, great, if that's the case then it isn't an issue. Even I'm thinking they will increase the limit on how many apps can run later on, but even if they do not, it's okay if the app can continue to run when needed. Guess I'll try out a BB10 device when it launches here in India in March, see for myself, haha.
2. kartik4u98 (Posts: 511; Member since: 19 May 2012)
Congo BB10 users :-)
4. fur0n (Posts: 75; Member since: 13 Jun 2012)
wow my android phone can do all that plus more. I have been able to for years.
7. addicted2088 (Posts: 53; Member since: 25 Sep 2012)
So has BB7, so has Symbian since many many years, what's your point? BB10 is a completely new OS so of course it is only just beginning to get such apps and do these things. It's great enough that the possibility to do this is there on the first version of BB10, should progress really nicely in the coming months.


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ROYAL OAK, Mich. - President Barack Obama swept through Oakland County in 2008, as one strategist said that night, "like a Democratic tsunami."
He grabbed a double-digit victory which changed the makeup of Oakland County's wide offices and brought Democrats Jessica Cooper in as prosecutor and Andy Meisner in as treasurer.
View: Decision 2012 voter guide
This year, every bit of polling shows Mitt Romney winning the county by as little as 3 and as many as 9 points. That can be enough of a bump for the Republicans down the ballot to make some gains.
Tuesday is all about the turnout. Monday night is all about the math.
"You're pouring over the data figuring out where your turnout is going to be and making sure your ground game gets them to the polls," said political strategist Dennis Darnoi.
The outcome matters, not to politicians such as Executive L. Brooks Patterson and Sheriff Michael Bouchard, who have strong crossover appeal, but to the prosecutor clerk and treasurer's races. Who wins the presidential election can mean everything for them.
In Macomb County, Mitt Romney has consistently polled very well -- as in double digits. Some polls showed him with a 16-point lead.
That kind of lead, if it holds on election day, can be problematic for a candidate such as Sheriff Tony Wickersham. Wickersham is a well-like Democrat who has been the appointed sheriff since Mark Hackel became the county executive. However, there is no history of voting for Wickersham in Macomb County.
Big margins such as the ones Romney has in the county can be trouble for Democratic officials in the county.
"If those numbers hold for Romney in Macomb, Democrats could be in trouble," Darnoi said.
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Gosh it's hard to keep us with everything that is put onto the internet these days and it is easy to miss something. Today I was browsing the Ancestry Card Catalogue and found that sometime in 2010 Ancestry had put online a dataset of Licences of Parole for Female Convicts, 1853-1887.
This dataset contains the documents generated by the issuing of parole to female convicts. By being given parole the convicts were allowed to be 'at large', but if the authorities decided there was good reason the parole could be rescinded and the convict recalled to prison. The dataset contains some of these documents.
The records can be searched by
- Year of the licence
- Name
- Estimated birth year
- Court and year of conviction
The information that can be found varies, but can include next of kin, religion, literacy, physical description, a medical history, marital status, number of children, age, occupation, crime, sentence, dates and places of confinement, reports on behaviour while in prison, letters or notes from the convict, and (from 1871 forward) a photograph.
I did a search for Pottinger and found just one entry, the set of records for Elizabeth was 8 pages long and the information given was
|Date of licence
|Where and when convicted
|Which prison held
|Next of kin
|Previous criminal record if any
|Conditions of parole
Elizabeth was sentenced to 3 years for fraud and was released on parole 13 days before the end of her sentence. One can only assume that they needed her bed !!
Even if you don't have any female convicts on your family tree do go and look at some of these documents, they are just wonderful.


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This article was published 5/9/2013 (1446 days ago), so information in it may no longer be current.
Three years ago, technicians and engineers proudly turned on the taps at the Winnipeg Water Treatment Plant, a facility heralded as one of the most technologically advanced in the world.
The $300-million plant at the Deacon Reservoir, just east of the Red River Floodway, is capable of removing the hardiest of micro-organisms from the city's water supply, including cryptosporidium and giardia.
It uses a variety of treatment steps to filter out organic material from the waters of Indian Bay on Shoal Lake, thus reducing the exposure of Winnipeggers to potentially carcinogenic compounds created when chlorine interacts with organics.
It has a chlorine-production facility on site to eliminate the potential for deadly rail disasters. It has its own electrical plant to ensure Winnipeg is never without clean water, even if an ice storm or tornado takes down hydro lines.
And as an added bonus, Winnipeggers were promised three years ago the new plant would improve the aesthetics of Winnipeg's drinking water, which used to be tainted by the smell and taste of algae during the many summers when the water flowed all but unfiltered from Shoal Lake.
Yet now, the city is struggling with some of the worst tap-water esthetics ever, as complaints about water the colour of coffee filter in from practically every neighbourhood.
This August, 311 fielded precisely 1,683 complaints about persistent discoloration of water. The number of transient complaints -- that is, calls or emails about temporary cases of brown water -- were not tracked but believed to be much higher.
The immense amount of persistent complaints -- nearly triple the number fielded during the same month in 2012 -- has shaken confidence in yet another key city service. And this is particularly sad, given the tremendous pride associated with the opening of the new water-treatment plant.
It's almost like the city just ordered up a state-of-the-art, high-performance Ferrari engine and installed it under the hood of a rusted-out 1973 Chevy Nova.
While Winnipeg's still-new water-treatment plant is a technical marvel, the city's water-distribution system is ancient. Some of the cast-iron pipes that carry treated water to Winnipeg households are more than a century old and predate the 1914 completion of the aqueduct from Shoal Lake.
According to Geoff Patton, the engineering manager for Winnipeg's water-and-waste department, approximately 24 per cent of Winnipeg's 2,531 kilometres of water pipes are made of iron. But the brown water emanating out of so many Winnipeg households this summer is not the result of rust.
The brown water comes from sediment, much of it deposited into pipes during the many decades before the new water-treatment plant filtered out algae and other organic material from Shoal Lake.
The big mystery is what precisely is stirring up that sediment. The usual suspects are routine flushing operations aimed at scouring sediment from the pipes or major construction projects that require the taps to be turned on and off, city water-distribution engineer Tim Shanks has attempted to explain many times in recent weeks.
The changes in the flow stir up the sediment and unexplained flow changes may be the result of unauthorized access to hydrants, Shanks added earlier this week, revealing the city has a problem with water theft.
The city is also exploring whether water chemistry is somehow to blame as well. In theory, inert elements added to the water in the treatment plant for the purposes of coagulating little clumps of organic material -- which are then easily filtered out -- could still be working down the line, in water-distribution pipes containing old sediment.
But that is just one potential line of investigation. There are also theories involving the interaction of the treated water with the newer of the cast-iron pipes, which are being replaced with PVC pipes at a rate of 11 or 12 kilometres a year at an annual expense of $15 million.
Eventually, the entire system should be free of sediment, as there are no new algae bits flowing through the Winnipeg Water Treatment Plant.
But this future prospect comes as little solace to any Winnipegger with a sink full of water of a colour that should only belong in a bowl of a different sort.
What is perplexing to engineers is disturbing to people in their homes -- and unsettling in a city where the mood is dark enough when it comes to confidence in the public sector.


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Pronunciation: shtik • Hear it!
Part of Speech: Noun
Meaning: 1. An entertainment routine, a gimmick or gag associated with someone in particular. 2. A sphere of interest or expertise, bailiwick.
Notes: Today's is another Yiddish word that seems to have stuck in English. It is still spelled variously: schtick and schtik are both reported by the Oxford English Dictionary. Our spelling above seems to be the dominant current orthography. This word is a lexical orphan with no derivational relatives.
In Play: The American comedian Jack Benny's schticks included his stinginess and lying about his age (always 39). Chico Marx's shtick was his fake Italian accent while his brother Harpo's was not speaking at all but rather honking a horn to get attention. Bud Abbot and Lou Costello did a famous baseball shtick (routine) called 'Who's on First?' The meaning of shtick has now expanded to No. 2 above: "I would love to help with your car, Lenny, but motors just aren't my shtick."
Word History: As already mentioned, today's Good Word is another contribution to English by the Yiddish language. Yiddish picked the word up from German Stück "piece" from Old High German stukki "crust, fragment". Where OHG stukki came from is something of a mystery on which we prefer not to speculate. It is not related to English stick despite the similarities between this word and Stück; coincidences do occur in language development. (For sure one of Mark Bailey's shticks is coming up with very Good Words like this one that he suggested for today.)


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STERLING HEIGHTS, Mich. - An unwelcome construction vehicle on a street in Sterling Heights led one city council member to call 911 and stand in front of the bull dozer until police arrived.
Councilman Paul Smith called 911 dispatch while blocking the path of a backhoe and yelling at the driver. On the 911 recordings you can hear Smith saying, "I'm a city councilman. I'm telling you to stop. I'm ordering you to stop now."
The backhoe was helping build the Cobble Creek subdivision near Smith's home, but when it went onto the street Smith stood right in front of it like the iconic picture at Tieneman Square.
In one exchange with the 911 dispatcher Smith is heard explaining why he was standing in front of the construction equipment.
911 dispatcher: "Why did you take it upon yourself to block this vehicle? You don't know who's driving it."
Councilman Smith: "I wanted to, I wanted to, I wanted to be here when the police get here so he can't deny this."
Smith complained that the backhoe had no license plate, but Sterling Heights police say a plate wasn't needed because the vehicle had the required yellow flashing lights. The developer in Cobble Creek says Smith owes the backhoe driver an apology.
"I did listen to the 911 tape and I was appalled by his actions. He basically shutdown my site for over an hour, maybe an hour and a half, and that costs money," said developer Joe Iacopelli.
The 911 dispatcher urged Smith to move away from the backhoe, but Smith stood his ground.
The developer now plans to file a temporary restraining order against Smith. Smith insists this was an emergency situation because the backhoe did not belong on the street and it was endangering public safety.
The mayor of Sterling Heights said Smith should not have called 911.
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3 Dynamic driving
Get behind one of the world's most powerful sedans on our roads today, as you take an advanced driving course at the Zwartkops raceway (just 40 minutes outside of Johannesburg). more
4 Spelunking (Caving)
Why not go spelunking in the Cradle of Humankind? Abseil into a dark cavern and explore the earth in new and exciting ways. These caves were featured on The Amazing Race television programme! more
5 Rock climbing in Magaliesberg
The fantastic Magaliesberg mountain range is just the place to learn the basics of rock climbing and the views are simply spectacular. more
6 Ballooning over the Magalies River Valley
You'll have to get up early, but the thrill is worth it – as you hover above the Magalies River Valley in a hot air balloon. The champagne breakfast afterwards is also a major highlight.
7 Skydiving
Learn how to skydive on the East Rand of Johannesburg - where you can take accelerated free-fall courses as well as static line and tandem jumps. more
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After ascending up the mountains of the Magaliesberg it's time to hike downstream, as you wade through crystal clear pools and clamber over massive boulders. A fun day out! more
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Mount Mayhem Now you've heard of everything! At Mount Mayhem you walk up an old mine dump and then strap yourself in and sandboard your way to the bottom. And then do it again, and again! more
10 Quad biking
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DETROIT (AP) -- Experts say the stunning acquittal of seven Michigan militia members charged with conspiring to wage war against the government could make agents reluctant to pursue other investigations against a rising number of so-called patriot groups.
The FBI's 18-month probe of the Hutaree militia produced major charges of conspiring to rebel against the government and use weapons of mass destruction. But after weeks of trial, a judge on Tuesday dismissed the most serious charges.
Mark Potok of the Southern Poverty Law Center says the civil rights group counted more than 1,200 anti-government groups last year. He says some members never commit a crime while others are violent.
Former federal prosecutor Lloyd Meyer says the government should have narrowed the Hutaree case to just a few "violent sharks."


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UCSF Dental Alumni Association's 10th Annual Bear Bash
On October 25th the UCSF Dental Alumni Association hosted the 10th Annual Bear Bash for UCSF dental students on what turned out to be a warm, beautiful autumn evening, at UCSF's historic Faculty Alumni House.
The Bear Bash, an eagerly anticipated event on the school's fall calendar each year, is an opportunity for current UCSF dental students in all classes to meet and interact with alumni and faculty.
It's also a notable "get acquainted" event for the recently-arrived D1 and ID3 classes, and this year we were glad to see many members of the DDS Class of 2017 and IDP Class of 2015 joining in the fun.
Given the proximity to Halloween many revelers appeared in costume, including Dean Featherstone himself as King Arthur.
There was plenty of food and drink and many raffle prizes for dental students, generously donated by the Dean, Alumni Council, and friends.
Many who have attended over the years felt that the 10th Annual Bear Bash was among the best ever, and the evening concluded with rousing applause and thanks for principal organizer and DAA President Carmen Hipona (D'96), and everyone who helped make it possible.
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Ben Kruger to Star in BARRY VAN DER LINDE BIED AAN, Begin. 4/3 at ABSA KKNK
It is the opening night of Great Comeback Tour of Afrikaans superstar, Duke Vermeulen. And the man behind this champagne event is the West Rand promoter, Barry van der Linde. For Barry himself, this is the biggest night of his career, as convincing the Platinum Prince to return to the stage after five years' absence was by no means easy.
As Barry announces Duke, he sings the praises of this maestro, referring to him as "an icon among icons" and "the big daddy of Afrikaans music." Barry also thank sponsors and volunteers like Reverend Kosie and his team help sell tickets. As the evening progresses, it gradually becomes clear that Duke has not arrived yet, and Barry has to start playing for time. And when it becomes clear that Duke is definitely not going to show up, Barry has to change his tune completely.
This is the setup for Lefra Productions' brand new exciting production, BARRY VAN DER LINDE BIED AAN... Barry van der Linde is played by well-known actor Ben Kruger (better known as Cousin Gert in SEWENDE LAAN and who is also currently appeared in BINNELANDERS). The piece was written by Jaco Botha, with Frans Swart taking on directorial duties.
BARRY VAN DER LINDE BIED AAN...is a hilarious, truly Afrikaans story about a gambling man who has to talk himself out of trouble when his big chance doesn't pay off. The show opens at the ABSA KKNK at the kykNET Hoërskoolsaal, playing from 3-6 April 3 at 20:30. Bookings can be made at Computicket.


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The Hearing Voices Network is a self-help user-run organization for people who 'hear voices'. Although members may have a psychiatric diagnosis, the group promotes an alternative approach, where voices are not necessarilly seen as signs of mental illness.
They argue that since some people can lead a valuable and productive existence while hearing voices, the largely drug-based and potentially coercive treatment of mainstream medicine might do more harm than good in people who can otherwise function adequately.
It was founded in 1989 in Manchester, UK by five mental health workers, but has somewhat distanced itself from the psychiatric profession through its alternative philosophy. The general approach of the network is shared with other groups around the world, which are often grouped as the 'Hearing Voices Movement'.
Dutch psychiatrist Marius Romme, the co-author of Accepting Voices, has provided an intellectual basis for this group. He advocates a view that the hearing of voices is not necessarily an indication of mental illness, and that patients should be encouraged to explore their voices and negotiate with them.
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Well guys, I'm trying to put two backgrounds on the site, a specific index and one for the other pages.I have looked and saw a solution:
Place an id in the body and the CSS reference that id.
Well, okay so my code:
body {background: url (images/bg-topo.png) repeat-x;}
body#index {background: url (images/bg-corpo.png) repeat;}
Only I'm using Wordpress, taking the header and dynamicist blabla as you know. So I can not reference a body for each page.
I wonder how can I solve this problem
Who wants to take a look: www.intimesoft.com.br/site, click on the A Empresa and the page index.
You don't have the CSS rules you posted above in your stylesheet which is why it's not working.
In your stylesheet you have this:
body#index{background: url(imagem/bg-topo.png) repeat-x;}
html {background: url(imagem/bg-corpo.png) repeat;}
Still not working @kohoutek. I copied and pasted your code.
I still see the same old code: http://intimesoft.com.br/site/wp-content/themes/intimesoft/style.css
Oh, I thought it was to copy the style you put it.Can you explain, better?
Whats CSS rules you said?
I think kohoutek's point is that you have typos in the code on your site. On the two lines in question, your code reads imagem, when it should read images, as you've stated in your post.
What I'm trying to tell you is that you do not have the code you posted in your first post in your stylesheet, hence why it can't work. I pasted the code that you currently use in your stylesheet and they are entirely different from the code you posted in your first post. Copy and paste the code you posted here (in your first post) into style.css and you should be good to go, unless I'm misunderstanding something.
Err.. the translator must have translated, but it says "imagem".
It's the same code. Each modification that I changed I upload on the server at the same time
I see you now added the correct CSS rules to your stylesheet.
What you'd need to do now is have a reference to the #index ID exclusively.
To do that, you need to work with a conditional function.
In your header.php, go to the opening body tag and do something like this:
<body <?php if (is_home()) { ?>id="index"<?php } ?>>
This should read, "if it's the homepage, append an id of index".
Is that what you meant?
Yes! Thank you.This tag in php, is there a specific name? Only works with elements of global style?
Well, it's a conditional tag, more specifically, a WordPress conditional tag. You can do loads with it. For more information, please see this page.
Thanks kohoutek.Problem solved.


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I wasn't sure quite what to expect last year when I started my photography project 365. I really only had two goals, first to just to complete the project, secondly to become a better photographer. As I post up my last image today I would like to think I have achieved both.
The Rules
1) Take a photo each day for 365 days.
2) Post up each photo on the Internet, not necessarily on the day it was taken.
This sounded so simple at the beginning, I definitely did not realise quite what a commitment I was taking on. Even on a quick night I would take at least 30 to 60 minutes to upload select, process and post up a picture. That doesn't even take into account the need for stopping in busy, awkward, public spots to capture each days photo. There is no time off for being ill, tiredness, hectic schedules, being on holiday or out for a romantic meal. The rules state a photo a day, and I'm proud to say I have stuck to that.
What have I achieved?
• I now have my own website http://prophecyblur.com that gets regular Google traffic and is currently on the first page if you search for "project 365 photo blog".
• I've had several hundred comments from both my Blog and Flickr postings. Some of whom have become both friends and or inspirations (evolution of rayzr, Brian Palmer, Greg Mcmullin, eahNC, Fedora365, Adrian Park, Hewlbane, Jacob Schere, DevilFishMak, Timbo and Phil Roeder to name but a few).
• I've found some great groups and places to share my work with the Londonist (an amazing online magazine) and 365 Community (the best Flickr group bar none) standing out in particular.
• I've leant to experiment with my camera better using Aperture, Movement, Shutter Speed and generally better composition.
• I've discovered new techniques, my favorite being 'Intentional Camera Movement' that was introduced to me by my good friend Ray Rhodes.
• I've become much more confident and deliberate in both my photography and my post processing.
• I've had fun playing with Fake Polaroid's, Cartoon(ifying) Images and making Diptychs and Triptychs forever changing the way I view photography.
• I've had a photo in a London gallery, and run what was described as a multimedia installation on my very last day.
• Finally and most importantly I genuinely feel I am a much better, more interesting photographer as a result.
The last stretch of the project was tough (really tough), I felt at times like a marathon runner just wanting to get to the end. I'm really pleased through the peaks and troughs of the project there are very few photos I am ashamed of. I have done this all (bar 2 photos) with my trusty Canon S90 which takes images that truly exceed its compact size, proving that the best camera really is the one in your pocket.
What next?
Definitely nothing involving regular posting on Flickr or my Blog, I need a gap to re-find the joy of photography again. I may look to reward myself with a somewhat more serious camera, although I still think I will ere on the side of compact. The front runner at the moment is waiting for the new Fuji Finepix X100, but then I have been hankering after a GF1 all year so who knows what I will get!
To all those who have followed me (including my mum) thank you for all the comments and support that have kept me going. I can only apologise to my most loyal commenter's that I have been so bad at reciprocating recently. It has taken all my will power and energy just to get to the end of this project!
Once I have recovered, maybe enjoyed a Christmas break, I'll be looking to get back out there taking photos again, but I definitely won't be starting another Project 365 again anytime soon (if ever)! That and the fact I have a nice backlog of 'almost 365' images that I can start posting up now the project is done.
In conclusion?
If you are thinking of doing a Project 365 I would still say go for it, with the caveat that if you really want to get the most out of it, you have to be prepared for the commitment both on yourself and your family to make it through to the end.
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ISO600 - FESTIVAL DELLA FOTOGRAFIA ISTANTANEA HI! we're leading the 1°Italian Instant festival, in October in Milan. It will be very important and the first in europe to and in the contempoarry art day. we'll have shows, performance, conferences, workshops, the museum of polaroid cameras and also we'll have a space dedicated to publications on the instant photographyt.
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Third time is a charm. Did a little research on this site on how to on briskets and finally got one right. Sorry no pictures, didnt want evidence if I messed this one up. Wish I would have pictures to prove that Steven's books and this web site aref or real. Started off by purchasing a quality thermometer, the one that can be left in the meat and read the temperature outside the pit. Started off with pecan shells, a little mesquite, and hicory chips for the smoking. Started with a small 4 lb brisket well trimmed. At about 4 hours I was at about 145 degress. Used the beer and vinegar based mop from Steven's book, however, I used apple cider vinegar instead of white distilled. At 145 degress, I decided to wrap it in foil. I put a little of the mop in the foil pack and let it cook. At 198 degrees I pulled it out. Beautiful smoke ring, as tender as can be and fairly moist. It was a hit While watching the LSU vs Tennessee game. It took about 8.5 hours. Combine the brisket with a little coleslaw and stuffed Japalenos and I am still stuffed.
I used the basic bbq rub from Steven's book. Do any of yall have any suggestions for other rubs or marinades that yall ahve had success with?


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It's a panicked sense to terror that courses through me. That's right. And sure, it may seem like an innocuous and mundane task, but I can sense it lurking in the shadows just waiting to spring into attack: purchase order approvals! You see, I have nothing against spending money, particularly when it's not mine. But I can't stand the byzantine maze that I must traverse to approve a PO. OK, so I am over exaggerating a bit. But come on, enterprise applications just have to change. Or, perhaps, should we update Ben Franklin's famous quote: "in this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death, taxes and horrific user experiences from legacy enterprise applications."
The user revolt is on!
Last week, some of the senior leadership at Capgemini paid us a visit in San Jose. It is just terrific to witness the traction of user centric computing. Capgemini's CTO, Andy Mulholland, is a big proponent of the YOU network. And true to form, the team from Capgemini were heralding the era of outside-in development. Their legacy approach of defining data models and construction of applications from the database out to the user is increasingly coming under fire from customers. It is not uncommon for this approach to lead to misaligned user expectations. Capgemini cited some examples where they built applications from the inside-out and in the end the application missed the mark on customer usability. So, they have moved to rapid prototyping of applications starting with the user experience, ensuring that they capture how the user truly interacts with the application. Once complete, they then wire the experience back into the customer's IT infrastructure. And that's how your move from inside-out development to outside-in.
For me, I know that the customer driven enterprise has arrived when a company the size, breadth and depth of Capgemini adopts the outside-in model. The YOU network is here. And the 'YOU' is us. We are driving change. We have accelerated our technical proficiency through our adoption of the dearth of smart, connected devices that are infiltrating our lives. We now wield the power and we are no longer tolerant of applications dictating how we use them.
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Voices for Wild Faces is the first book in CWiP's Student Books Series. The book was edited and designed by Kayla Ewing, Krista Hendrickson, Jamie Mahoney, and Adam Toscani, students at Rowan University (Glassboro, NJ), majoring in Writing Arts. The book was completed as part of a class project in collaboration with CWiP. 100% of proceeds ($5.00 per book) from sales of this book will be donated to the Wildlife Conservation Society. It makes the perfect Earth Day gift!
From the Introduction
Why do we, humans, tend to think that our exploits are far more important than that of lesser creatures—animals? This book aims, subtly, to reveal the faces of those ignored—the faces of animals other than us in an effort to show that we are animals among animals—animals just as amazing and interesting as ourselves, perhaps even more so (if you can believe it). If you think you can (believe it, that is), flip the page and gaze into the pensive eyes of an owl, witness the calm demeanor of the gorilla, identify the lynx's fierce disposition. Chuckle at the quirky expression of the giraffe, laugh over a lounging lion and think about this: When was the last time that a human interested you this much?
We all as humans have voices. We all use these voices to take us through life and to protect us. We are not always conscious of the voiceless, of the animals: those who cannot so easily stand up for themselves. Voices for Wild Faces aims to make you, the reader, conscious of the voiceless. By buying this book you are, in a sense, acknowledging their voice. You will read passages and blurbs from the late William Template-Hornaday with his writings on The Minds and Manners of Wild Animals, A Book of Personal Observations, as well as other notable authors. You may realize why these animals need a home such as you or I do. You may realize that the rights we reserve for ourselves should likewise be reserved for our animal brethren. You may realize that your voice can be as empowering for these animals as it is for you.
With the purchase of Voices for Wild Faces, you will have donated a voice to the Wildlife Conservation Society ($5.00 per book is donated to the organization). The Wildlife Conservation Society helps to protect animals, their habitats, landscapes, seascapes, and their right to be heard—to be important, to be acknowledged. By buying this book, you are lending your voice to the collective shout of this charity. The animals must be heard; we must protect them and, unfortunately, protect them against ourselves.
Although we cannot give representation to every animal in every habitat in every corner of the world, we hope that this book will get you thinking. Enjoy the pictures that you see. Enjoy the animals. Think about what it is to be "sane and sensible." How can you "be just?" By what means can you "promote the greatest good for the greatest number?" Wonder about the animals. Wonder what it must be like to be them. Wonder what it would be like if you didn't have a voice.
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- Publish Date Mar 23, 2012
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Composing with Images Press, in association with Write to Succeed, Inc., solicits and publishes photo-book-length texts on contemporary social issues that bring together photographs, images, and alphabetic text to engage creative, artistic, social, cultural, and rhetorical ideas within a particular theme. Books sales support various environmental and social causes. Composing with Images Press is co-edited by Bill Wolff, Assistant Professor of Writing Arts at Rowan University, and Billie Hara, Assistant Professor of English at Texas A&M Corpus Christi.
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CMJ Giveaway: The Extra Lens & Our NoiseOctober 18, 2010 • 16 Comments • category: Algonquin Books Blog, Promotions
In New York City, fall is marked by the leaves in Central Park changing color, the sun setting well before the end of the work day, the return of chunky knitwear and thigh-high boots, and thousands of audiophiles swarming Downtown Manhattan to attend the annual CMJ Music Marathon. During the Marathon, which rocks out near Algonquin's West Village annex from October 19-23, lesser-known and emerging artists are given the chance to impress major players in the music industry. Lady Gaga, U2, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Green Day, and Arcade Fire (to name a few) all played CMJ before becoming music icons.
We'll be clearing our schedules on October 21 to watch Merge superstars John Darnelle (Mountain Goats) and Franklin Bruno play as The Extra Lens at their CMJ showcase, 9pm at Mercury Lounge. Can't jam with us? The Extra Lens will be dropping their long-awaited album, Undercard, on October 19. And lo and behold! We have THREE copies to give away along with copies of OUR NOISE: The Story of Merge Records, The Indie Label That Got Big and Stayed Small, which remarks on the impact of CMJ in addition to sharing candid photos and the behind-the-scenes of some of your favorite Merge bands: Arcade Fire, Magnetic Fields, Spoon, Lambchop, Superchunk, and more. Check out the phenomenal OUR NOISE website here.
For a chance to win, leave a comment about your favorite CMJ or indie concert memory. We'll choose three winners via a top-secret magical process.
–Emily Parliman, Publisher's Assistant
16 Comments On This Post:
9:48 am
Emily H. says...
My favorite indie concert memory is going to see Dan Vaillancourt in Indianapolis on a perfect spring day.
10:21 am
Scot says...
Always wanted to go to an Indie concert, but always been too broke to go.
10:32 am
Heather says...
My favorite memory is going to see The Love Language in Winston-Salem with my friend who follows them around like a dedicated groupie should. The band gave a great performance and there was lots of good energy. That makes all the difference, but seeing my friend so happy made the night really memorable!
11:19 am
Marty says...
I saw King Missle in college with about 35 other people and John Hall was out of his mind the entire show. It was awesome and I still have the t-shirt 20 years later.
12:20 pm
Sarah A. says...
My favorite CMJ was going in '99 when the hurricane hit, going to shows soaking wet and happy. Best memories of the AIP showcase, Macha, and most of all, Elf Power, who put on such a fun, energetic, awesome show! Best non-CMJ: seeing Superchunk and Arcade Fire put on a free outdoor show in Carrboro, NC. It was a blast. (I've really been wanting to get a copy of Our Noise!)
Thanks so much!
12:25 pm
Beth says...
I saw Portastatic open for the Squirrel Nut Zippers in Providence in the 1990s. later I realized i really adored Portastatic, but SNZ was eminently more danceable.
12:27 pm
BeGee says...
Easy: Merge Night @ Threadwaxing Space sometime in the late 90s. Magnetic Fields & Versus played, but the headline act was Lambchop. The 'Chop, that night, was comprised of: Ira, Georgia & James as the rhythm section; Julian & Scott from NMH on saw & trumpet, respectively; Mac on keyboards; Shark Quest person on banjo; plus the rest of the Lambchop collective. Magic ensued, culminating in a big run through "Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere."
12:35 pm
Greg says...
Of course "indie" is defined differently depending on who you ask. I define it as any band standing in gas who's just waiting for that spark to ignite it. The closer you are to that moment the more amazing it is. My greatest moment(s) involve Jennifer Nettles of the country act Sugarland. Before her current career arc she was part of a great Georgia folk-rock act Jennifer Nettles Band, and before that the incomparable duo Soul Miner's Daughter. I caught every show of hers that I could, and a common conversation amongst members of the audience was, "How is she not famous?" I like Sugarland okay, but the Soul Miner's Daughter and Jennifer Nettles Band CDs are albums that I share with every music lover I meet. Nettles is a polished, professional country star now — but I'll always remember her on stage at the 40 Watt in Athens, GA, wearing a wife-beater, baggy shorts, with that now-golden hair pinned up in crazy braids and buds, singing "Round and Round" and everyone in the room spinning along with her.
12:51 pm
Native JD says...
I love Superchunk and Lou Barlow. A work trip in June took me to Denver where I got to see both on back to back nights.
Thanks Mac and Merge employees for making this attorney's dreary life a little better.
1:39 pm
Jon Holley says...
One of my many favorite Indy show memories was seeing The Elected play a show in Seattle at a church there was a sign that said there was to be no swearing, spitting or drinking alcohol and they did all three. To top that show off that is where I was introduced to one of my favorite bands ever Margot and the Nuclear So and So's. From the hitting the stage and starting their first song I was hooked and havnt missed a show or album release. Now if only The Elected would get back in the studio and tour again
1:54 pm
mp says...
favourite memory is the first time i saw the mountain goats, in chicago in 2006. i was astonished, as i invariably am, to witness john darnielle hold sway over the audience, as well as by the difference and energy in the live songs vs. the recorded versions. every tmg show is different and special to me.
3:04 pm
Jesse says...
easy-Pokey Lafarge and Meschiya Lake atthe Jalopy Theater.
3:26 pm
Mick says...
Honestly, it was the GBV reunion at First Avenue in Minneapolis. A 2 hour drunken sing along full of truly crowd pleasing BIG RAWK moments. The band was never that tight before, not even during the Kevin McPherson/Doug Gillard years, which I still love. It was truly amazing.
Back in 98, I did see Califone open for Modest Mouse at tiny club in the U of MN student union. Both bands were awesome despite the shitty venue. I still remember most people leaving before MM played their encore. About 20 people formed a tight circle around the band and grooved along as they played for us. I just remember the crowd moving, all dancing to MM. Can't remember the song to save my life, but there seemed to be a real connection between audience and song at that point.
3:27 pm
Rick says...
The Flaming Lips at the the Blind Pig, Champaign, IL circa 1995. Ronald Jones had left the band and they were touring as a 3-piece (Wayne still played guitar at this point). During Christmas at the Zoo, they broke out a modified leaf blower and started shooting shredded styrofoam peanuts into the audience. By the end of the song, the floor was covered with several inches of this snow.
12:49 am
thom says...
In 2005, Magnolia Electric Co. were playing a small gig in the basement of a Unitarian church in Philadelphia. Opening for the band was a little-known, unsigned group called Clap Your Hands Say Yeah. Needless to say, as soon as CYHSY blew up, all remaining tickets promptly disappeared. The show actually appeared to be WAY oversold; in all my years of attending shows at this church, many of which were sold out, I had never seen the room packed so tightly with people. Factor in that this was August and there was no air conditioning in the basement, and you can just imagine how uncomfortable it was in the room. Even after CYHSY finished their set and a full 2/3 of the audience left, giving everyone some breathing and elbow room, the air remained oppressively thick, heavy and hot. As Magnolia Electric Co. were setting up, they brought out what appeared to be their entire backstage supply of bottled water and began tossing the bottles out into the crowd. Then, as the band began their set, Jason Molina asked how much water was. He then pulled out his wallet, took out $100, and handed it to someone in the front row, instructing him to go back and purchase $100 worth of bottled water for the audience. The cooler full of water bottles was wheeled into the middle of the floor, and Molina implored everyone to make sure that everyone got at least one bottle of water. There was more than enough to go around. To this day, I am struck by the extreme selflessness exhibited by Molina at this show. Oh yeah, and their set was pretty rocking, too.
8:45 pm
Seth says...
My favorite indie concert memory is one that I booked. Scraping together funding from various campus groups, I was able to convince The Dismemberment Plan to play the basement of my school's cafeteria on a Saturday night for one thousand dollars. "Emergency & I" had just been released and the band was already beginning to perform songs ("The Face Of The Earth" and "Time Bomb") that would appear on "Change." As usual, they killed. At their peak, I don't think any act in indie-dom could match their live show. Eric proclaimed that The Plan loved me at the close of the show and then wrote fondly about the experience on their website. I never booked another show after that night. It just didn't seem necessary to try.


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Lionel Messi was 11 years old when the Hand of God chapel went up in his hometown of Rosario.
Consecrated as Iglesia Maradoniana, the "Church of Maradona," it became a shrine to Argentina's favourite hero -- a gathering place where El Diego's works and wonders could be venerated, his outfoxing of the English and harassment by FIFA recalled and revered.
It was only ever partly tongue in cheek.
Diego Maradona's relationship with Argentina was, and is, one of mutual adoration, and in a country where football and religion are interchangeable priorities, the expression of the people's esteem for the World Cup winner was always going to take on an element of worship.
Their appreciation of Messi isn't quite so mystical, and in general the 27-year-old has yet to take on the mythical qualities of both Maradona and Brazil's Pele -- the two players typically mentioned alongside him when the greatest footballers in history are discussed and debated.
Both of them won the World Cup, and if Messi can replicate the feat on Sunday against Germany he'll at least have done his part in addressing the argument.
But will he have outdone Maradona when goal scoring and club titles are also considered? Statistically, yes. Memorably, no.
And it's not even fair to suggest he can. Because Maradona, unlike Messi, has always been about more than just football.
As a player, the stocky, outspoken attacker was the embodiment of South American machismo and bravado. He was a radical, and the nature of his defiance exasperated the European establishment.
Ahead of the 1986 World Cup, in which he'd deliver one of the sport's most iconic moments against England, he made no bones about his desire to exact some measure of revenge for the Falklands War, in which, as he said, "a lot of Argentinean kids had died there, shot down like little birds."
And in his autobiography, whose roll-call dedication included Fidel Castro and Augusto Pinochet, he admitted that his "Hand of God" goal "felt a little bit like pickpocketing the English."
A rebel in football kit who could, in one moment of boldness, dribble the ball through seven or eight opponents and, in another, fire an air rifle at a crowd of reporters, Maradona inspired passion across the love-hate spectrum -- something Messi has never been able to do.
Not that he's ever been the slightest bit interested in replicating his predecessor's infamous legacy.
No, Messi is admired for being a footballer, and nothing more. His movements -- his dribbles, passes and flourishes -- are so precise as to be robotic, which strikes a certain chord with the video game generation.
His abilities, and the successes they have already produced, make him highly marketable, although his downplayed, soft-spoken public persona comes off as highly impersonal.
Messi is a one-man brand, and in that he isn't all that dissimilar from Tiger Woods, personal issues notwithstanding. As an athlete he is untouchable in his talent, but he is also unknowable in his humanity.
Sunday's match at the Maracana could well vault the Barcelona forward above Maradona in terms of accomplishment on the football pitch, but the truly great ones are also impactful, one way or another, outside the arena.
It could well be that Messi is the best footballer to have so far played the game, but greatness is about so much more than the events of 90 minutes.
On Sunday evening he might be a world champion, but Maradona will still have his church.
Spot kicks
Germany manager Joachim Loew will have surely noticed how the Netherlands were able to neutralise Messi on Wednesday. Granted, he's unlikely to assign the Argentina maestro a 90-minute shadow, although you can bet one of Sami Khedira and Bastian Schweinsteiger will be tracking his movements throughout the match. An ineffective Messi is an ineffective Argentina.
On the other side of the ball, Lucas Biglia and Javier Mascherano will look to continue providing a reliable shield in front of the Argentina defence. The pair was able to limit Arjen Robben's touches of the ball on Wednesday, and Mascherano also marked Kevin De Bruyne out of his side's quarter-final win over Belgium.
PROJECTED GERMANY XI: Neuer; Lahm, Hummels, Boateng, Hoewedes; Schweinsteiger, Khedira, Kroos; Mueller, Klose, Oezil.
PROJECTED ARGENTINA XI: Romero; Zabaleta, Demichelis, Garay, Rojo; Perez, Biglia, Mascherano; Messi; Lavezzi, Higuain
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Burning question: Do leotards give Olympic gymnast wedgies? Retired gold medalist Shawn Johnson dishes. She dishes about other things, too—like her college plans, team dynamics, and so on—but it's the wedgies that are the most important (obviously!). (TheGloss)
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JACKSONVILLE, Fla. - Rebecca Schadowsky says she's numb, trying to wrap her head around her new reality.
The man she's spent every day with for more than two decades is gone. Thomas Schadowsky (pictured, below), 46, was killed Wednesday night in a road rage shooting, according to Jacksonville police.
"I've been married to him since I was 18, so it's not going to be easy, I know that," Schadowsky.
Her husband was killed while driving his truck near a Gate gas station off Dunn Avenue near North Campus Boulevard. Police believe he may have had an argument with a man at the station, and that man jumped in his truck and followed him toward Interstate 295.
Detectives said a woman heard a gunshot, and when police found Thomas Schadowsky's truck in the woods, he was dead, slumped over in the driver's seat.
His 21-year-old daughter and wife are devastated, but say they feel so blessed to have had his love in their lives.
"That's one thing I know for sure is, he loved me and I'm so thankful for that," Schadowsky said. "So many people live in this world without it, and I see that every day where I work, and I'm so thankful I was surrounded by love and I was loved."
Schadowsky said she's going to miss her husband's sense of humor and smile. But there's something she's going to miss more than anything.
"This might sound crazy, but I'm going to miss his hands," she said. "He had big, strong hands. He worked real hard for a living, seven days a week, 10-12 hours a day. Every night before he went to bed I would make him lay his hand on my face and that's how I'd fall asleep every night."
She hasn't slept since, wondering why and who could commit such a horrifying act.
"Killed my husband. Do you know how difficult that is for me to say?" Schadowsky said. "Somebody killed my husband, somebody killed the father of my child, and I'm begging anyone who knows anything to have the guts and the courage and the love to make a phone call."
Police said a possible vehicle of interest was seen following Thomas Schadowsky's pickup truck. It was described to investigators as a burnt orange Chevrolet Avalanche or Cadillac Escalade with a FAMU license tag.
Anyone with any information about what happened is asked to call Crime Stoppers at 866-845-TIPS.
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The Andersonville National Historic Site, located near Andersonville, Georgia, preserves the former Camp Sumter (also known as Andersonville Prison), a Confederate prisoner-of-war camp during the American Civil War. Most of the site lies in southwestern Macon County, adjacent to the east side of the town of Andersonville. As well as the former prison, the site also contains the Andersonville National Cemetery and the National Prisoner of War Museum.
Of the approximately 45,000 Union prisoners held at Camp Sumter during the war, nearly 13,000 died of starvation, malnutrition, diarrhea or communicable diseases.[5]Contents
The prison, which opened in February 1864,[6] originally covered about 16.5 acres (67,000 m2) of land enclosed by a 15-foot (4.6 m) high stockade. In June 1864 it was enlarged to 26.5 acres (107,000 m2). The stockade was in the shape of a rectangle 1,620 feet (490 m) by 779 feet (237 m). There were two entrances on the west side of the stockade, known as "north entrance" and "south entrance".[7]
A prisoner described his entry into the prison camp:
As we entered the place, a spectacle met our eyes that almost froze our blood with horror, and made our hearts fail within us. Before us were forms that had once been active and erect;—stalwart men, now nothing but mere walking skeletons, covered with filth and vermin. Many of our men, in the heat and intensity of their feeling, exclaimed with earnestness. "Can this be hell?" "God protect us!" and all thought that He alone could bring them out alive from so terrible a place. In the center of the whole was a swamp, occupying about three or four acres of the narrowed limits, and a part of this marshy place had been used by the prisoners as a sink, and excrement covered the ground, the scent arising from which was suffocating. The ground allotted to our ninety was near the edge of this plague-spot, and how we were to live through the warm summer weather in the midst of such fearful surroundings, was more than we cared to think of just then.[8]
Further descriptions of the camp can be found in the diary of Ransom Chadwick, a member of the 85th New York Infantry Regiment. Chadwick and his regimental mates were taken to the Andersonville Prison, arriving on April 30, 1864.[9]
Father Peter Whelan arrived on 16 June 1864 to muster the resources of the church and help provide relief to the prisoners.
At Andersonville, a light fence known as "the dead line" was erected approximately 19 feet (5.8 m) inside the stockade wall. It demarcated a no-man's land that kept prisoners away from the stockade wall, which was made of rough-hewn logs about 16 feet (4.9 m) high.[10] Anyone crossing or even touching this "dead line" was shot without warning by sentries in the pigeon roosts.Andersonville prisoners and tents, southwest view showing the dead-line, August 17, 1864.
At this time in the war, Andersonville Prison was frequently undersupplied with food. This applied both to prisoners and the Confederate personnel within the fort. Even when sufficient quantities were available, the supplies were of poor quality and poorly prepared. During the summer of 1864 Union prisoners suffered greatly from hunger, exposure and disease. Within seven months, about a third of them died from what was diagnosed as dysentery and scurvy and were buried in mass graves, the standard practice by Confederate prison authorities at Andersonville. In 1864 the Confederate Surgeon General asked Joseph Jones, an expert on infectious disease, to investigate the high mortality rate at the camp. He concluded that it was due to "scorbutic dysentery" (bloody diarrhea caused by vitamin C deficiency), yet in hindsight it is likely that the cause of fatal emaciation and diarrhea was rampant hookworm disease, a condition not recognized or known during the Civil War.[11]
The water supply from Stockade Creek became polluted when too many Union prisoners were housed by the Confederate authorities within the prison walls. Part of the creek was used as a sink and the men were forced to wash themselves in the creek.A Union soldier who survived
The guards, disease, starvation and exposure were not all that prisoners had to deal with. A group of prisoners, calling themselves the Andersonville Raiders, attacked their fellow inmates to steal food, jewelry, money and clothing. They were armed mostly with clubs and killed to get what they wanted. Another group rose up, organized by Peter "Big Pete" Aubrey, to stop the larceny, calling themselves "Regulators". They caught nearly all of the Raiders, who were then tried by the Regulators' judge, Peter McCullough, and jury, selected from a group of new prisoners. This jury, upon finding the Raiders guilty, set punishment that included running the gauntlet, being sent to the stocks, ball and chain and, in six cases, hanging.[12]
The conditions were so poor that in July 1864 Captain Wirz paroled five Union soldiers to deliver a petition signed by the majority of Andersonville's prisoners asking that the Union reinstate prisoner exchanges. The request in the petition was denied and the Union soldiers, who had sworn to do so, returned to report this to their comrades.[13]
In the latter part of the summer of 1864 the Confederacy offered to unconditionally release prisoners if the Union would send ships (Andersonville is inland, with access possible only via rail and road) to retrieve them. In the autumn of 1864, after the capture of Atlanta, all the prisoners who were well enough to be moved were sent to Millen, Georgia, and Florence, South Carolina. At Millen, better arrangements prevailed, and after General William Tecumseh Sherman began his march to the sea, the prisoners were returned to Andersonville, where conditions were somewhat improved.
During the war, 45,000 prisoners were received at Andersonville prison, and of these nearly 13,000 died.[5] The nature of the deaths and the reasons for them are a continuing source of controversy among historians. Some contend that they were a result of deliberate Confederate war crimes toward Union prisoners and others that they were the result of disease promoted by severe overcrowding, the shortage of food in the Confederate States, the incompetence of the prison officials, and the refusal of Union authorities to reinstate the prisoner exchange, thus overfilling the stockade.[14]
A young Union prisoner, Dorence Atwater, had been chosen to record the names and numbers of the dead at Andersonville for the use of the Confederacy and the federal government after the war ended. He believed the federal government would never see the list, and was right in this assumption, as it turned out. He sat next to Henry Wirz, who was in charge of the prison pen, and secretly kept his own list among other papers. When Atwater was released, he put the list in his bag and took it through the lines without being caught. It was published by the New York Tribune when Horace Greeley, the owner, learned that the federal government had refused and given Atwater much grief. It was Atwater's opinion that Andersonville was indeed trying to make soldiers unfit to fight.[15]
Andersonville's decrepit conditions were chronicled in the diary of P.O.W. Newell Burch. Burch of the 154th New York Volunteer Infantry, was captured on the first day of the Battle of Gettysburg and imprisoned at Belle Isle and then Andersonville. He is credited with being the longest held Union prisoner of war during the Civil War, a total of 661 days in Confederate hands.[16] His diary is in the collection of the Dunn County Historical Society in Menomonie, Wisconsin, and a mimeographed copy is in the Wisconsin Historical Society archives.[17]Aftermath
Andersonville Prison was liberated in May 1865.[18]Some of the monuments at Andersonville
After the war Henry Wirz, commandant of the inner stockade at Camp Sumter, was tried by a military tribunal on charges of conspiracy and murder. The trial was presided over by Union General Lew Wallace and featured chief Judge Advocate General (JAG) prosecutor Norton Parker Chipman.
A number of former prisoners testified on conditions at Andersonville, many accusing Wirz of specific acts of cruelty, for some of which Wirz was not even present in the camp. The court also considered official correspondence from captured Confederate records. Perhaps the most damaging was a letter to the Confederate surgeon general by Dr. James Jones, who in 1864 was sent by Richmond to investigate conditions at Camp Sumter.[19] Jones had been appalled by what he found and his graphically detailed report to his superiors all but closed the case for the prosecution. Wirz presented evidence that he pleaded to Confederate authorities to try to get more food and tried to improve the conditions for the prisoners inside.
Wirz was found guilty and was sentenced to death, and on November 10, 1865, he was hanged. Wirz was the only Confederate official to be tried and convicted of war crimes resulting from the Civil War (but see reference to Champ Ferguson). The revelation of the prisoners' sufferings was one of the factors that shaped public opinion in the North regarding the South after the close of the Civil War.[citation needed]
In 1890 the Grand Army of the Republic, Department of Georgia, bought the site of Andersonville Prison through membership and subscriptions.[20] In 1910 the site was donated to the federal government by the Woman's Relief Corps[21] (auxiliary to the Grand Army of the Republic).[22]National Prisoner of War Museum
The National Prisoner of War Museum opened in 1998 as a memorial to all American prisoners of war. Exhibits use art, photographs, displays and video presentations to focus on the capture, living conditions, hardships and experiences of American prisoners of war in all periods. The museum also serves as the park's visitor center.[23]Andersonville National Cemetery Andersonville National Cemetery
The cemetery is the final resting place for the Union prisoners who died while being held at Camp Sumter/Andersonville as POWs. The prisoners' burial ground at Camp Sumter has been made a national cemetery. It contains 13,714 graves, of which 921 are marked "unknown".
As a National Cemetery, it is currently an honored burial place for more recent veterans and their dependents.Historic Prison Site
Visitors can walk the 26.5 acres (10.7 ha) site of Camp Sumter, which has been outlined with double rows of white posts. Two sections of the stockade wall have been reconstructed, the north gate and the northeast corner.
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Participants must be eligible for the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, but don't have to be currently receiving SNAP benefits. For some classes, participants must either be pregnant or have children under the age of 19. Adults with primary responsibility for care and feeding a child(ren) under age 19 are also eligible. Participants should be responsible for planning and preparing family meals.
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All classes for youth, adults and senior citizens are provided for free. Contact our staff in your county to join a class!
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In FY16 we provided classes to 35 adult participants reaching 106 family members.
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- 67% of surveyed participants showed improvement in one or more of the food safety practices (i.e. thawing and storing foods properly).
- Average cost savings on food per family/per month:$151.
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