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RUSSIANS were the first white men to see and claim Alaska, and the curtain of history rolls up here in riotous Romanof color, upon a stage of Bakst decor like a setting for " Prince Igor." The names of the first corners are to be read in the age-old palimpsest of the land, for you can tell who came first by the names they scratched upon its early maps.
The Pacific coasts of " Russian North America" were explored for years by the navies of half a dozen nations, as were the Atlantic coasts of eastern America. They came for the same cause that brought Columbus sailing from the Port of Palosthe search for a way between Europe and the East. Frobisher, Davis, Hudson, had attempted it from the Atlantic in the sixteenth century, but Russ and Spaniard and such Englishmen as Cook attempted the supposed passage from the Pacific side in the eighteenth century, " grubstaked " as was Columbus himself to find a new short cut to an old market. For a time the Inside Passage from Puget Sound north was thought to be the long-sought " Strait of Anian," and all the windings and twistings of this teasing water maze were patiently explored. But there proved to be no channel through, but only a strange way of beauty for their pains" divers Ilands in that Sayling and . . . people on Land clothed in Beasts skins."
But it was the essential northern-reaching nearness of Alaska to Asia, a basic simple fact of geography, which first gave rise to persistent tales of a land to the eastward heard by seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Cossack adventurers in Siberia; tales which, retold at the court of Peter the Great as tales of the Cabots had been retold in the port of Bristol, finally resulted in an expedition to verify the strange account.
Vitus Bering was the first, in 1728; and a village a glacier, a haven, an island, a river, a lake, a bay, a strait, and a sea of Alaska, all carry his name to-day in fitting monument to this man who made a final rendezvous with death upon the gray and foggy islands. He had set out in the days of Catherine I of Russia, illiterate but shrewd peasant wife of Peter the Great. Bering's expedition was the first to make landfall of the continent from the Pacific side, but, like Columbus, he sailed at the command of an alien empress. Columbus was from Genoa, though he rode the unknown seas under the royal aegis of Spain; Venetian Cabots had been navigators for England; and Captain Commander Ivan Ivanovich Bering was the son of Jonas Svendsen by his second wife Anne Pedersdatter Bering, and was born in Jutland in 1681. His mother's distinguished Danish family included a number of great men who had held high ministerial and judicial office, and when John Svendsen's son Vitus entered the service of the Russian navy he took the Russianized form of name Ivanovich, John's sonwith his mother's surname. The insertion of the " h " in Bering, as often written, is merely a form of word " made in Germany."
Bering had been selected for the work of exploring the coast of eastern Asia by no less a man than Peter the Great himself. The first Kamchatka expedition, as it was called, set out from Okhotsk and discovered and named St. Lawrence Island in Bering Sea, sailed up through Bering Strait, rounded East Cape, and proceeded westward along the Siberian coast far enough to establish the fact that the land, which Chuck-chees had reported as lying beyond Siberia, was no part of continental Asia. So Bering Strait was on the world's map fifteen years before the first white man, La Verendrye the French Canadian, laid eyes upon the Rocky Mountains! The results of this first " Kamchatka expedition " merely whetted the curiosity of the Russian Court to learn more and, if possible, to find a trade route through. Accordingly, the second Kamchatka expedition was organized, again under Bering, with Alexi Chirikof as second in command. They sailed in 1740 on the St. Peter and the St. Paul, and the plan called for the two vessels to proceed together; but they became separated soon after setting out from Avatcha Bay, and thenceforth the two commanders proceeded independently.
On July 16, 1741, Bering sighted and named magnificent Mt. St. Elias, one of the most prominent features of Alaska's south coast and lying about half-way of present-day Seward and Juneauits 18,000 feet first climbed by the Duke of Abruzzi in 1897. Bering made a landing near Controller Bay, beneath those blue skies, blue hills and blue glaciers, and not far from the spot where to-day the coal and oil of the Bering River district have created the settlement of Katalla. Remaining but a few days in the neighborhood of Prince William Sound, he sailed to the westward along the coast, touching at several points. But Bering and the whole ship's crew fell ill of scurvy, that greatest peril then to even master mariners, and on November fifth his vessel was wrecked upon an island of the Commander group later to be called by his name. Here Bering die , and those of his crew who survived both shipwreck and scurvy constructed another vessel from the wreck and returned to Kamchatka the following fall, bearing rare treasures of sea-otter skins and telling wild travellers' tales of a land where savages went robed in pelts that might enrich the pomp of kings.
Chirikof also sighted the Alaska coast, probably a few hours before Bering. Commander and crew all suffered greatly from scurvy, his hone journey was beset with great difficulty because of his inability to make any landings, due to the loss of two boats full of men, sent ashore for fresh water and presumably killed by hostile natives near the site of today's Sitka; but he finally reached Avatcha Bay in October, 1741. Flavorsome old Greek Church names scattered all up and down the coast of Alaska still show that the Russians once passed this way. Etolin and Baranof were Russian governors whose memory remains in place names; and if you care to trace the story of many a Rock or Whale, Long, Big, Spruce or Bare upon Alaska's map, you'll find they are but English translations of words the Russians first put thereKamenoi, Bieluga, Dolgoi, Bolshoi, Elovoi, and Goloi.
But it was sea otter that determined the further exploration and colonization of The Great Country by Russia. Catherine II became Empress, and Great Catherine found sea-otter skins most becoming to her peculiar type of beauty, and sea-otter skins she would and must have. Those Russian-American governors who wished to curry favor at St. Petersburgor, indeed, to live long in the land!saw to it that Her Imperial Majesty was well provided with sea otters! Because a certain Virgin Queen possessed a sweet tooth and coveted " the Sugar Islands," little England had once begun her western empire-building; and because a pretty lady with a whimsy for furs happened to sit upon the throne of Great Peter, Russia came to possess a colony in far-away America. It is impossible to overstate the part played by the now almost extinct sea otter in the early conquest of Alaska. Bancroft says:
Little would have been heard of them (these first Russian discoveries in America) for some time to come, if ever, had it not been for the beautiful furs brought back from Bering Island and elsewhere. Siberia was still sufficient to satisfy the Tsar for purposes of expatriation, and the Russians were not such zealots as to undertake conquest for the sake of conversion and to make religion a cloak for their atrocities; hence, but for these costly skins, each of which proclaimed in loudest strains the glories of Alaska, the Great Land might have long rested, undisturbed.
The first score years of Russian rule were so lull of atrocities and massacre of natives that the tale is now impossible to tell; and it is little wonder that for generations after, all white men were feared and hated by the natives, and, whenever possible, revenge for early cruelties was swiftly taken. The very name for rifle" in the Aleut language is " Russu " ! Some love to call this period the day of high romance in Alaska, and mourn its passing, but for the native population it was a dark and bitter chapter. "Booted Russian adventurers looted fur, hewed down majestic Sitka spruce, and worked out rich copper deposits with native slaves, while the tribes fought helplessly, hopelessly, for their homes and hunting grounds." When Lieutenant Allen ascended the Copper River, Nicolai, " the most intelligent of the Midnooskies," told him something of the massacre of three Russian expeditions which had previously attempted the Atna. The Russians had forced the natives to draw their sleds up the river, in winterdriving with whip and gun, killing those who rebelled, allowing no sleep. But while the Russians slept and one alone kept watch, this armed man first and then the others were all killed. It was done but to repay unspeakable cruelties and to escape a savage slavery. As the Copper River Chief who killed Semoylof and his party is reported to have said : "We did not wantonly kill, we executed. The Russian men are murderers." And the natives knew only a Mosaic law of eye for eye and tooth for tooth. The Russian and Indian contests were not opera bouffe wars but very real, and many an innocent pioneer later lost his life before this black page of history was completely turned. The common saying during those Russian days was, " Heaven is highand the Tsar is far away!" Empire was indeed slowly building here, but under a rough scaffolding.
Some of the men sent out from Russia were real builders, however, iron men of destiny; and this was necessary, for capricious Catherine did not have a clear field in Russian America. It was not a case of to have and to hold, but rather to get and to keep. The Spanish were not long in hearing the news of goings-on in the North Pacific, and Spain remembered well that Balboa had waded out waist deep into the waters of this ocean and claimed all the shores washed by it. So there were Spanish expeditions galore, outfitted from Mexico and California, and little cities and great bays along the south coast of Alaska resound today with Spanish names put there by Perez and Quadra. If the Spaniards had but guessed the El Dorado that lay hidden behind the glacier-thundering coast range, how completely the entire history of our Pacific Northwest might have to be rewritten! But George Carmack was not yet born, and all that ever reached California from Alaska in these far days were a few inferior sea-otter pelts which the Romanof disdained, monastery bells for Franciscan Missions cast in bronze at Kokiak, and shiploads of ice to cool the hot wines of New Spain.
But the Russian exploration in Alaska did make the Spaniard " look down his nose "and up the mapand take the only real interest he had so far shown in holding the land to-day called California. To meet the southward-sweeping Russians, Spain occupied and outfitted San Diego, Monterey, and Yerba Buena on San Francisco Bay. California's pastoral period of the great missions paralleled the numbered days of Alaska's Russian colonization, and California grew up side by side with Alaskaneighbor children of widely different parentage but of the same age. And though their home folk were not any too friendly (and the grasping far-sailing Russians in the North were feared in California's early days only second to the grasping far-sailing Yankees in the East), the children of the households would play together, as neighbor children do. Mother Spain was always ordering these sons of Russia away, but they always came right back; and even Spain, that still great naval mistress, could not keep the little Russian ships of Baranof's colonials from San Francisco Bayfrom trading there and swapping jackknives with her own children.
Baron Rezanof, " Chamberlain of the Russian Court and Commander of all America," appeared in Sitka in these days to investigate the doings of the Russian-American Fur Company, study Alaska with a view to extensive colonizing schemes, and establish trade relations with Japan that lay so close below the Aleutians. He was the first of Alaska's real "boosters," for he saw the latent bigness of the country and .it appealed to his on big empire-minded imagination. Baranof had flogged with the knout a settler who brought him gold quartz, for he was there to get out furs for Catherine; but Rezanof sent out mining engineers to search for that Island of Gold the natives told ofperhaps the golden Treadwell on the Gastineau. Ostensibly to get fresh foodstuffs to relieve some of his Russians who had scurvy, but really with a view toward extending Russian claims down the Pacific as far as Mexico, he made a trip to San Francisco Bay, taking with him in the Juno a shipload of furs and bronze bells from the spiritual outposts of the Emperor Paul, to trade with other spiritual outposts at Father Junipero Sera's California Missions. It is supposed that a bell found only recently near Los Angeles, in an orange grove at Camulos by Mrs. Harriman the campanologist, is from that very cargo brought down in Alaskan bottoms by the romantic Rezanof; and this may very well have been " the first Mission bell to sound the tintinabulation of Christianity in the West" Its Russian inscription reads, " This big bell was cast on the Island of Kokiak in the month of June, 1796 (about the time when George Washington was deciding that he did not choose to run again as President), by Eugene, Arch-abbot of Russia. . . . Baranof." Some old friar has chiselled into bronze the added line of Spanish"De San Fernando."
Arriving at Yerba Buena, the princely Rezanof found that the vice-regent of Mexico had forbidden all trade with the Russian-Americans. But Rezanof stayed on and spent many months in that little town now known as San Francisco. Nor was he idle. His amiable and courtly ways not only won the Governor, but he courted too the Governor's daughter, Dona Concepcion de Arguello, and the story of that wooing has been told by Bret Harte, you will re-member. But one day when the Governor's back was turned, Rezanof loaded up his little ship with all the grain and foodstuffs he could cram on board herfanegas of wheat and oats, pease and beans, large quantities of flour and salt and tallowand sailed back into the North. Returning to St. Petersburg from Sitka that winter, by way of Siberia, to report on Alaskan conditions and recommend a more enlightened and forward-looking policy for the new-world colony (and also ask his friendly sovereign's permission to wed the lovely Spaniard) his horse broke through thin ice just forming, while crossing a stream, and he was forced to camp in the snow. Rezanof was half frozen from the exposure, and this gay Russian cavalieran empire builder with a dreamdied with his work but half completed.
Some iron was smelted and some coal and copper mined for local use during the Russian regime, and German coal miners were put in charge of one mine, it is said, where fifteen hundred feet of tunnel was driven. But the only real search for gold under the Russians was directed by an Imperial mining engineer who, after two years' work, reported adversely on Alaska as a mining country!
The Russians were good boat builders, and they built and delivered at an early date fine vessel to the order of the Friars of Dolores, and the very first steamboat to ply inland California' waters was a product of Sitka's Alaskan shipyards.; The Russian colonists were craftsmen, too, and made the plows and hoes for the Spanish Mission in Monterey. They carried grain from the Sacramento Valley to Sitka, in Russian bottoms, to be. ground in Russian-built mills (for the Russians were " faculized " where the Spanish, as a rule, were not) and returned again with flour. And, because the flour took up so much less room than grain did, they took along an extra cargo of ice for ballast. But, alas, the one thing the Russians did not like about California was its climate, and there were no California! Chambers of Commerce then to give these statements the lie. Russians of Sitka, the Russian capital of " frozen Alaska" (as the world so falsely calls it) wrote back long accounts of the " vile weather off the California coast." They actually did !
Sitka was the queen city of the North then, and it remains to this day one of the loveliest towns of Alaska, though shorn of its capitoline prestige by modern near-by Juneau. The first Settlements of Alaska, as of New England, were all concentrated upon the coast and on the lower reaches of the one great navigable stream, the Yukon; and they are still distinctly maritime in character, as civilization continues here her old-time way of following arteries made by geology. Sitka on Baranof Island (with the Twins, or Dvoini bratef,twin brothers; the islets at the entrance to her harbor) was once a Thlingit stronghold and later was made Baranof's city; but while the Iron Governor made New Arch-angel, as she was formerly called, Sitka had and has her own touch of natural and heavenly beauty. Her National Park is uncommonly quaint, with its sixteen totem poles donated to the United States by the modern Indians of southeastern Alaska, who feel that this old stronghold of their ancestors is the fitting place in which to preserve their totems; and her islands, her extinct volcano, her snow-topped mountain 'cones, green valleys and island-studded bay blend in a charm incomparable where little friendly waves slap upon gray-green rock in Sitka harbor.
Here was the Governor's castle rock, where Baranof in the coat of chain mail which he always wore beneath his cloak (no idle gesture this, for his life was often threatened) lorded it over northern land and sea, for at that time Sitka was the chief port on all the western coast. Cruel in many public acts, as were also our own Stuarts, the Russian rulers were often charming socially; and in the early nineteenth century there were formal balls in Sitka finer by far than anything then going on at our own Charleston or Philadelphia, and quite as ceremonious too,though warmed by Russian love of pageantry and color,led by those men and women reared in a rich exotic court that knew the height of luxury in living. Jewels and candle light were here, velvets and fine music; and through it all the tragedy of that mythical Princess who, forced to marry against her will, disappeared during her wedding banquet, took poison, and nowpoor ghosthaunts in her rustling silken bridal garments the northwest chamber of the castle, wringing her lovely bejewelled hands, and leaving behind the perfume of wild rose wherever she may pass. This same room is said to have been used by Lady Franklin When she came North in the middle of last century, in forlorn hope of tracing her intrepid husband, lost in a fruitless search for Northwest Passage. This room was also used, they say, by Secretary Seward", upon the occasion of his visit to the newly acquired American territory.
Here in the Russian Cathedral of St. Michael the Archangel, before the ikon of Our Lady of Kazan, it is hard indeed to believe that, as is often said, " the Russian Church is the treasure house of Alaska's cash, the prison house of the native's soul." Pierpont Morgan is reported to have offered $25,000 for this fine Byzantine pieceand been refused. Inside the church are paintings, banners, color, rich embroideries, and the deep ritual chants of the Greek Church, so unlike any music of the West. Outside, the golden-green curly spire and dome bespeak exotic eighteenth-century Russia, making one feel as blatantly Saxon as Hengest or Horsa. Outside, too, in the old town, hand-hewed log buildings, the fine workmanship of Baranof's men, seem like a Russian ballet set and make one think that Russian dancers in high color costume might any moment outburst from these doorways, low lintels under moss-green roofs, to whirl and stamp in wild and glamorous abandon.
And why not? Russia set the tune upon this coast for nearly a century and a halfa period of history quite as long as many eastern colonies knew before the American Revolution. Young Alaska was born a cub both of The Great Bear and The Bear That Walked Like a Man; and any bear must dance to tunes if he wear an iron ring in his nose. Baranof forged that iron ring and he forged it right here in lovely Sitka, historically the most significant town of all Alaska.
Practically all the early settlements center around the work of this Iron Governor, usurper and user of power. At first he was an independent trader on the Anadir, then agent for the Shelikof Company, and later the driving autocratic manager of the Russian American Company which exercised practically an absolute sway over Alaskan destinies for sixty-seven yearseven more so than the Hudson Bay Company in its domination of the early Canadian Northwest. Bancroft pays this unstinted tribute: " Alexander Baranof was no ordinary man. . . . To him was due, more than to all others, the success of the Russian colonies in America; by him they had been founded and fostered, and but for him they would never have been established, or would have had, at best, a brief and troubled existence" Baranof built savagely but he built securely; though undoubtedly unscrupulous and arrogant to a degree, he was yet far-sighted and extremely energeticand he needed to be, for he must face the world's greatest naval power as rival. Had Russian supremacy under Baranof failed in the late eighteenth a early nineteenth centuries, then England's very active efforts to obtain the territory for herself would undoubtedly have been successful; and if England had once secured Alaska, rest assured that Uncle Sam could never have bought his attic, at any price.
England sent her most famous navigator, Captain James Cook, to sail up the western coast of North America in 1778 and secure there either a northwest trade route or another New England, to offset the losses already well begun at Lexington and Concord. He made his first discovery on the present Alaska coast near the present site of Sitka, and he named the cape and mountain at the entrance to Sitka Harbor after the mouth of Plymouth HarborEdgecumbe. Here was a new pilgrim for a new Plymouth with a vengeance, a Captain Miles Standish type and one accustomed to success.
But Cook, though he sailed north up to the ice-pack of that insuperable paleocrystic sea; and though he left his British names of sweethearts, friends and rulers upon the headlands, bays and rivers of Alaska to carry a remembrance of his exploits; although he skirted westward and reestablished the fact that there was no direct land touch between Asia and North America; now he flung himself down the globe to winter at the Sandwich Islands, which he named in honor of the Earl. Then, in a moment, all was over with the great voyager. He lay upon that far Hawaiian beach, still and slain, to the despair of his wondering men. Here was one of our own kin and one most memorable; take him for all in all, a man among the noblest of his kind. It is well that his name, too, is written into the cartography of The Great Country.
Trained as midshipman under Cook, George Vancouver now took up the work, sailing from England in 1791. A careful-navigator; he painstakingly filled in the reconnaissance sketched so grandiosely in a big salient way by his predecessor, and named some of the outstanding mountains of our western coast for his own sturdy British admirals. Upon the explorations of Cook and Vancouver, England based her claim to all of northwestern North America.
But the Russians were on the ground, with colonists and an iron rule, and not even Great Britain could budge them.
" Manifest Destiny," however, had begun to march. In 1789 Captain Robert Gray, a Yankee skipper, sailed out of Boston round to the Pacific Coast, and three years later he discovered and entered the mouth of a very fine large river there, which he named Columbia in honor of his own good ship. By virtue of Gray's discoveries and those of the Lewis and Clark land expedition to the Pacific coast, in conjunction with the rights acquired from France by the Louisiana Purchase in 1803 and from Spain by the Florida Purchase in 1819, the United States laid claim to a vast area on the Pacific coast roughly known as the Oregon Tract. In 1824 Russia agreed to make no settlement south of 54° 40' and the United States agreed to make none north of that line, while in the next year Russia and Great Britain came to a similar agreement, thus settling the boundaries of Russian America. The United States was becoming a great power in her own right. Extensive actual settlements by American citizens in the Oregon Tract after 1832 made Uncle Sam's claim perfect up to the forty-ninth parallel, and above that we had no valid claim, except perhaps as against Russia.
And then, just after the Civil War, we bought Alaska from Tsar Alexander for the cheapest song in history. There was more back of this purchase, on both sides, than the history books usually tell; but in the memoirs of the Russian Court, in the re-ports of Hudson Bay officials, and in the biographies of such American statesmen as Seward, Blaine and Franklin K. Lane, the inner and perhaps more interesting story may be read. The Russian Government initiated the matter and undoubtedly desired more earnestly to sell than the United States, deeply in debt after a long hard-fought war, desired to buy. But why did Russia wish to sell this hard-won province of Baranof? And why was the United States, even at bargain-sale prices, willing to pay out $7,200,000 in gold for another northwest, " a vast area of rocks and ice," when our nearer northwest was as yet undeveloped and gold was still at a high post-war premium? The answer is the old X to many a problem" Tertium quid."
Tsar Alexander was not only "stony broke " and wanted very much to sell something, to somebody, but he also mistrusted England. Might not this too-distant Asia-touching province of his be seized one day by England, from closely-adjoining Canada, and be used for a base against him as another Crimea? Having in mind a " Slavic drive to the south which might bring him again in collision with the Mistress of the Seas," why not turn a penny honestly, right now, in friendly barter with a friendly Uncle Sam, as Napoleon had done earlier with Louisiana, rather than run the risk of having the goods taken later, willy-nilly? The gold rush of '49 had brought to the Pacific coast of the United States and the British Canadian provinces a hardy pioneering people, and it became increasingly evident that the Russian Government must either invest a great deal more in its non-contiguous Alaskan province to hold it securely, or soon this might indeed become a British possession. Eyes were certainly being cast in that direction. Besides, the sea otter were going fast, were almost gone even then, as he well knew; and the Russian American Fur Company had already fallen into the discard. And, too, Uncle Sam owed Tsar Alexander a favor; and so Alexander would put the matter up to him, and urge Stoeckl t0 push it through before the British got wind of the affair. Why not?
During the War Between the States just finished there had been some very dark days for " Mr. Lincoln's Government," and one of the darkest clouds always overhanging had been the lowering attitude of Great Britain, complicated as it was by the close contacts of many southern planters with England and the close interweaving strands of King Cotton's kingdom of trade. In those very darkest hours, when we were " enacting a history which no man yet thoroughly comprehends," and when the North had need of friends as seldom before, a strange partnership of interests had led the Russian Tsar to send his fleet on a mission of good cheer and encouragement, to visit his democratic friend Uncle Sam; and British sympathizers with the South, enthusiastic over the success of the Shenandoah, had found their spirits dampened by a simultaneous display of friendly Russian men-of-war in New York Harbor and San Francisco Bay. General Banks said: " Who knew how many more there were on their voyage here? From that hour France on the one hand and England on the other receded, and the American Government regained its position and power."
However, Alaska did not really cost $7,200,000 but only $1,400,000. Prior to the Civil War there had been some dickering about a possible purchase of Alaska. The British Hudson Bay Company (backed by tremendous capital, the " Standard Oil " of that day, a great trust to exploit natural resources) had already leased the coastal strip for fur trade, and for many years Great Britain had been coveting the Panhandle of Alaska. Both Russia and Uncle Sam knew this. What followed is described in his " Letters," by Franklin K. Lane, a war Secretary like Seward, but of our own day:
During the war the matter lay dormant. We had more territory than we could take care of. When England, however, began to manifest her friendly disposition toward the Confederacy, and we learned from Europe that England and France were carrying on negotiations for the recognition of the Southern States, and possibly of some manifestation by their fleets against the blockade which we had instituted (and which they claimed was not effective and merely a paper blockade), we looked about for a friend, and Russia was the only European country upon whose friendship we could rely. Thereupon Secretary Seward secured from Russia a demonstration, in American ports, of Russian friendship. Her ships of war sailed to both of our coasts, the Atlantic and Pacific, with the understanding that the expense of this demonstration should be met by the United States, out of the contingent fund. It was to be a secret matter.
The war came to a close, and immediately thereafter Lincoln was assassinated and the administration changed. It was not longer possible to pay for this demonstration, secretly, under the excuse of war, but a way was found for paying Russia through the purchase of Alaska. The warrant for $1,400,000 was the warrant for the purchase of Alaska, the warrant for $5,800,000 was for Russia's expenses in her naval demonstration in our behalf; but history only knows the fact that the United States paid $7,200,000 for this territory, which is now demonstrated to be one of the richest portions of the earth in mineral deposits.
And that is how the Bear Cub became a ward of Uncle Sam, and that is how Uncle Sam showed his gratitude for Russia's once friendly turn. Then it could not be told, nor yet for years thereafter; but Sumner and Seward knew, and Sumner and Seward pushed the purchase with all the might of two dominant personalities. Through them Uncle Sam was able to keep his gentleman's agreement and save the honor of his word. He handed Russia the seven millionsand none too gracefully accepted title to " Seward's Folly," " Walrussia." Thirty years of neglect followed, and then a leaky wooden tramp steamer came limping into that sawmill town of Seattle,which now, thanks in good part to Alaskan exports, is the commercial metropolis of the Northwest,and the wires of the world hummed to an electric word, " Gold!" But not until George Carmack and Indian Kate went fishing that day up Klondike River did Uncle Sam do anything but wish himself well rid of " a bad bargain."
Of those thirty years I shall say nothing, for there is nothing to say which any sensitive American can read with pride. Our Government having made a bargain, as it were against its will, promptly forgot about Alaska. Worse than nothing was done to build a stable government here, and the land sank back far beyond the point to which Baranof had raised it by his energy and thrift. The best we can do is to pass quickly over those years, remembering only, when we weigh Alaska in any balance, that nothing Uncle Sam can do to-day to open up the North generously and sanely can over-compensate for that critical period of slight and neglect, at the time when the new land most needed help and guidance. Alaska is young, but in her formative years she had no friend at all, and even her legal guardian forsook her. Heaven was still very high, Alaskans found, and Washington was quite as far away as ever St. Petersburg had been. " Then was then and now is now; but hungry generations cry out for the same liberties and against the same restraints, nor will they be put off with soft answers and hard taxes! " Accustomed to the liberties and privileges of citizens of the United States, American residents in Alaska were very naturally discontented with being a " crown colony " and wished " dominion status." The only excuse for this great sin of listlessness on the part of our government was that successive Washington administrations were passing through their own Tragic Era of reconstruction in the South, with all the complex attendant problems. These were for Alaskans " the years that the Locust hath eaten."
Presidential messages were sent to Congress each year, drawing attention to the fact that Alaska had not yet been granted the protection and civil rights guaranteed in the treaty with Russia. Innumerable petitions were forwarded from the new North-west. Over thirty bills were drafted in Congress to give a civil form of government to Alaska, but with no result. In 1882 American colonists threatened to unite their cause with that of the Russians who had remained, and make an appeal to the Tsar. Since Uncle Sam had just severely lectured several foreign governments for their failure to protect the Jews, Armenians and other dwellers within their borders, undoubtedly the Tsar, if anywise human, would have relished a chance to memorialize our government on similar subjects.
So, in 1884, a bill providing civil government for " The District of Alaska " was finally enacted into law, and Alaska later became a Territory with the passage in 1912 of what is known as the Organic Act. The people of the Territory had no representation in the National Legislative body until 1906 (nor does this delegate have a vote to-day) and no local self-government of any kind until 1912, when an elective legislative assembly, but with stout strings running back to Washington, was authorized by Congress. Only this legislative department, how-ever, is under the control of the people of Alaska, and then only in the matter of selecting the members. All acts of the Alaska legislature are subject to veto by the Governor (who is appointed by the President, as New England's colonial Governors were appointed by the King) or to nullification by Congress. We have here, you see, the old, old question of popular assemblies and royal governors. No governor of Alaska has been or can be really " popular " until he is elected by popular vote, and, as in the days of Andros, the people have " caught at everything to lessen the prerogative." We American citizens of Alaska are not yet considered to be of age; we are held as wards in chancery.
And yet, with the stores of Uncle Sam's resources belowstairs, that once seemed limitless, now beginning to be numbered, he may well soon turn his eyes with a quite different look up to his well-stocked attic. As Burke once said, moving for conciliation with another too-lightly-prized colony, who knows but that, with suitable nurture and in suitable time, " This child of your old age . . . with a true filial piety, with a Roman charity . . . may put the full breast of its youthful exuberance to the mouth of its exhausted parent? "


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Public Pullout, Secret Surge
Last month, as President Obama announced the upcoming redeployment of 33,000 U.S. troops from Afghanistan, I was in that country spending time with U.S. Marines in Helmand province.
The reaction on the ground from commanders was one of surprise - the number and timing of the withdrawal was much higher and faster than they had anticipated. With troops on the line, however, the mood was more like, "I'm a United States Marine. I go where my Commander in Chief sends me and I'm not paid to have an opinion."
That said, everyone pointed to the big gains being made in training and recruitment of the Afghan forces who will replace us. Indeed, it felt as if all our energies in Afghanistan are now being directed toward preparing the Afghan forces for our imminent departure.
But there's one group of Americans that won't be coming home anytime soon, and are actually seeing their numbers increase in country. That's the Combined Joint Special Operations Task Force, also known as CJSOTF-A.
Special operations forces are seeing a "mini surge" into the country to keep the level of pressure high on the Taliban as regular units prepare to head home.
This article from Stars and Stripes quotes sources at the Pentagon as saying that 16 Special Operations troops are considered equivalent to 100 regular troops. I'm not sure regular troops would agree with that number, but whatever.
Bottom line, commanders in Afghanistan are doing their best to accomplish their mission there with whatever resources they are allowed to use. And from what I've seen with my own eyes, they are doing a great job.
Will Afghanistan be ready to stand on its own feet by 2014 when all U.S. troops are slated to come home? That remains to be seen. But the military is giving it their best shot.


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Mr Luby said there wasn't anything new in Dulux's supplementary bidders statement, released Monday, and it did nothing to address the concerns the board has raised about the paint maker's "inadequate, highly conditional and opportunistic offer".
He said Dulux had made no attempt to engage with the Alesco board to address its issues with the offer.
"Your board remains unconvinced by Dulux's rhetoric," he added.
Just over one per cent of Alesco shareholders have accepted Dulux's bid, in addition to the institutional shareholders, Colonial First State and BT Investment Management, which previously sold out at the bid price.
Dulux holds a 20.98 per cent stake in Alesco as a result.
Dulux questioned the methodology behind the report from independent expert Lonergan Edwards & Associates that valued Alesco at between $2.23 and $2.52 a share, based on preliminary earnings for the year ended May 2012 and without head office costs.
Dulux also queried whether Alesco shareholders should trust the group's management to deliver on its profit improvement plans and housing cycle forercasts.
The paint maker is expected to target Alesco's institutional shareholders in an effort to gain momentum for its $188 million bid for the company.
Northcape Capital, Argo Investments, Dimensional Fund Advisors, UBS and other shareholders are expected to be targeted by the paints group and its adviser, Macquarie Capital.
The market appears to be waiting for Dulux to make a higher bid. But Dulux chief executive Patrick Houlihan has previously told The Australian Financial Review the market was "kidding itself" if it expects the group will pay more for the company than it is worth.
Alesco shares rose slightly in early morning trade to $1.96 per share, while the broader market is also around half a per cent higher.
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#4 Waves Sweep Matadors, Win Fifth Straight
Pepperdine wins five in a row for the first time since the start of the 2012 season.
March 22, 2014
Box Score: Cal State Northridge 3, Pepperdine 0
MALIBU, Calif. - The #4 Pepperdine men's volleyball team was in firm control of tonight's match, and never trailed while beating Cal State Northridge in straight sets. With the 25-17, 25-20, 25-20 victory, the Waves have now won a season-best five in a row as they enter their final regular-season road trip next week.
After starting the week in third place in the MPSF, Pepperdine (14-5, 14-5 MPSF) now sits in second with a 1.5 match lead over third-place Long Beach State. The 49ers were in second as of Monday, but lost to both the Waves on Thursday and USC this evening to drop in the standings.
Josh Taylor (Honolulu, Hawaii/Punahou School) once again led all hitters, putting down a match-best 11 kills.
Matt West (Seattle, Wash./Shorewood HS) managed the offense with 23 assists, while going an errorless 4-for-5 on the attack to help the Waves' cause.
In addition to West, two other hitters finished the night with a "0" in the error column including Matt Tarantino (Van Nuys, Calif./Bishop Alemany) with five kills on six swings and Nikola Antonijevic (Buffalo Grove, Ill./Stevenson HS) with three kills off of six attempts.
Kyle Gerrans (Los Gatos, Calif./Valley Christian HS) finished the night with just one attack error, but still swung at a .400 clip with nine kills to his credit. The senior also paced the Pepperdine defense with six digs.
Antonijevic was practically impenetrable at the net, rejecting a match-high seven Matador (7-14, 6-12 MPSF) attacks.
The Waves opened the match, which doubled as USYVL Night, with a 6-1 run and never looked back as they quickly put the set away 25-17. Antonijevic put down a pair of kills while tallying three blocks to lead the home squad.
After a few back-and-forth plays in set two, Pepperdine scored on four consecutive points to take a 7-3 advantage. The lead expanded to as much as nine at 13-4 before CSUN began to chip away at the deficit. Although the Matadors would come back within three, 20-17, the Waves maintain their control and closed out the stanza 25-20.
Taylor tallied four kills in the frame, while West and Tarantino combined for five kills following five attacks.
After jumping out to a 9-1 lead in the third set, Cal State Northridge was once again able to close the gap behind a stellar blocking performance. Despite the Matadors holding a 6.5-2.0 advantage in blocks, Pepperdine clinched the sweep 25-20.
The Waves make their final regular-season road trip next week, making return visits to Stanford (March 28) and Pacific (March 29). Friday's match vs. the Cardinal will be broadcast live on the Pac-12 Network.


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- 2005 B.Sc. (Hons). The University of Adelaide. Majors: Genetics, Computer Science
- 2011 PhD in Genomics, University of Queensland
- 2011-2015 Postdoc, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm
Research description
High-throughput sequencing and genomics technologies are facilitating new possibilities in precision medicine. Sophisticated statistical and computational analysis of genomics data is required to make these methods work in practice. I aim to contribute to this field through bioinformatic and genomics analysis methods.
My research is focused on understanding the role of the genome in complex disease and cancer. Currently, I am analysing how genetic variation can disrupt the regulation of genes resulting in disease predisposition. To achieve this, I use computational methods to jointly analyse functional genomics data alongside genetic associations for individual diseases, focusing on prostate cancer. This research has the potential to improve clinical care through:
- Improved prediction of disease risk
- Discovery of molecular biomarkers for aggressive disease
- More efficient drug discovery
For an up-to-date list of my publications, please refer to Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=1280JtcAAAAJ&hl=en
Academic honors, awards and prizes
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- Reasons for inconsistent condom use among female sex workers: need for integrated reproductive and prevention servicesJoséphine Aho
Institute of Tropical Medicine, Antwerp, Belgium
World Health Popul 14:5-13. 2013....
- High acceptability of HIV voluntary counselling and testing among female sex workers: impact of individual and social factorsJ Aho
Department of Social and Preventive Medicine, University of Montreal, Montreal, Canada
HIV Med 13:156-65. 2012..Our goal was to describe the acceptability and consequences of VCT among a stigmatized and vulnerable group, female sex workers (FSWs), in Conakry, Guinea...
- Biological validation of self-reported condom use among sex workers in GuineaJoséphine Aho
Departement de Medecine sociale et preventive, Universite de Montreal, Outremont, Canada
AIDS Behav 14:1287-93. 2010..PSA could be useful to validate self-reported condom use in surveys and to allow a better understanding of factors associated with social desirability in sexual behaviour reporting...
- Prevalence of HIV, human papillomavirus type 16 and herpes simplex virus type 2 among female sex workers in Guinea and associated factorsJoséphine Aho
Department of Public Health, Institute of Tropical Medicine, Antwerp, Belgium
Int J STD AIDS 25:280-8. 2014..Interventions that promote screening and treatment of sexually transmitted infections are needed in order to achieve successful interventions to prevent HIV among female sex workers in resource-limited settings. ..


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Found the problem...it's been reported before. http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-bugs/2004-11/msg00195.php I was a bad boy and left off the part about the missing ordinal in libeay32.dll... Dunno if that's something that still needs to be fixed, but at least I've got a workaround. Scott -----Original Message----- From: Magnus Hagander [mailto:mha(at)sollentuna(dot)net] Sent: Thursday, December 23, 2004 3:00 AM To: Scott Stillwell; pgsql-www(at)postgresql(dot)org; pgsql-bugs(at)postgresql(dot)org Subject: RE: [pgsql-www] BUG #1355: 8.0.0 rc2 installer fails (um, why was this filed to -www? Copying over to -bugs where it should be. Something wrong with the scripts, I assume) > The following bug has been logged online: > > Bug reference: 1355 > Logged by: Scott Stillwell > Email address: sstillwell(at)kc(dot)rr(dot)com > PostgreSQL version: 8.0 > Operating system: Windows XP Pro SP2 > Description: 8.0.0 rc2 installer fails > Details: > > When installing PostgreSQL 8.0.0 rc2 on my computer (Windows XP > Professional, SP2 and all current patches), I accepted all defaults > (with the exception of assigning a password to the local Windows > account and the postgres password). I get the following error near > the end of the process: > > Failed to run initdb: -1073741512! > Please see the logfile in 'C:\Program > Files\PostgreSQL\8.0.0-rc2\tmp\initdb.log'. > Note! You must read/copy this logfile before you click OK, or it will > be automatically removed. > > While the dialog box is still displayed, I checked the initdb.log > file. It is zero bytes with no contents. > > After clicking OK, the installer rolls back, at which point I get > another dialog titled "Fatal Error" saying > > Installation ended prematurely because of an error. Very interesting error :-) That means the initdb process exited with an error code that certainly didn't come from initdb... Have you installed any non-standard security products, or done any lockdown from the standard level of the system? So that perhaps the postgres account doesn't have access to required DLL files? Also, when this happens, can you check the contents of 8.0.0-rc2\tmp\initdb.bat and see if the paths entered there are correct? Finally, do you get anything in the windows event logs when this happens? //Magnus
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This investment of time and energy isn't easy, but upon completion, you are usually left with an extra dose of confidence to throw into your beach bag.Indoor tanning, however, is another story. If you want to keep looking great, you need to stick to the weights and stay away from tanning beds. Most people who go to a tanning salon to build a base tan slowly don't fully understand the inherent risk within the sun bed. Dermatologists and other health experts agree there is no safe exposure level to ultraviolet radiation.The strategic director of risk factor surveillance for the American Cancer Society, Vilma Cokkinides, explains, "Indoor tanning has become popular among young adult women and teenage girls. One chief motivation is that they believe they look more attractive and healthy with a tan. Many teens and their parents think getting a tan indoors is safer than tanning in the sun. But the truth is that tanning booths, lamps or sun beds emit ultraviolet radiation, just as the sun does. And exposure to UV radiation -- whether from the sun or from a manmade source -- can raise your risk of skin cancer."A tan is a tan is a tan Those interested in being lean and fit are often the ones who use indoor tanning to complete the trifecta: lean and strong with a sun-kissed glow. You can acquire that glow naturally under the rays of the sun or artificially in a sun bed. Either means will eventually be harmful to your skin and may possibly threaten your health.Ultraviolet rays damage skin cells. Do it over and over -- salons love to sell package deals -- and the damage accumulates, leading to premature skin aging. The aging brings brown spots, wrinkles, lax skin and an increased risk for skin cancer. In fact, those who tan indoors with ultraviolet tanners increase the likelihood of developing melanoma by 74 percent over those who do not use tanning beds.Accelerated skin agingGive me an approved sun bed and I'll look and feel better. You walk in, and the smell of coconut invades your senses. You're relaxed and assured that the harmful rays are not going to get to you. Sounds perfect, nothing but 20 minutes and a little reggae music between you and paradise. You'll emerge evenly bronzed, feeling warm, happy and protected with a gorgeous base tan. But the truth is, you have just fast-forwarded your skin's clock on acquiring wrinkles, leathery skin, freckles and the loss of elasticity. It's called photo aging.But everyone does it, so it must be safe -- right?In the U.S., the most common cancer you are at risk for is skin cancer. More than 2 million people will be diagnosed this year with squamous cell and basal cell carcinomas, and there will be more than 70,000 cases of melanoma.It is suspected that the incidence rate for melanoma has increased during the past 30 years because of the increase of ultraviolet exposure from indoor tanning devices. Twenty-six states have adopted restrictions based on age and require parental permission. Unfit for fitness centersTanning beds are a source of revenue, they take up little space, and easily can be added to a hair salon or a fitness center. However, just because a sun bed is where people train to improve their health doesn't mean the beds are healthy. If a health and fitness facility owner really cared about your health, they would not have a tanning device.But I need my vitamin DWe all need the sunshine vitamin. We naturally produce vitamin D when our skin is exposed to ultraviolet-B rays in sunlight. We need anywhere from five to 30 minutes of sun exposure to our face, arms, back or legs two times a week -- and this is without sunscreen. Most people get this amount incidentally and therefore should use sunscreen most of the time.If you long for a deep tan, consider one of the many exceptional self-tanning lotions, sprays or wipes. They are affordable, fairly long-lasting and without the risks associated with indoor tanning.Take a look at the skin and health of those who have been regular sun worshippers. This should guide you to an answer about tanning beds. So, Julie, rather than expose your fit body to harmful rays, use those 20 minutes to make a positive impact on your health. Shop to prepare more nutritious meals or spend a little more time kicking butt in the gym.Cindy Boggs, wellness presenter and author, is an ACE-certified instructor/trainer. Send your questions about fitness, training or health to firstname.lastname@example.com. 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The rugged High Atlas Mountains, situated close to Marrakech, run east to west for some fifteen hundred miles, reaching a spectacular 4167m at the summit of Jebel Toubkal. Few roads venture across the massive Atlas barrier, which abruptly falls away to the Sahara desert beyond. Tiny villages dot the high mountain valleys or cling precariously to the rocky flanks and are inhabited by the hardy and hospitable Berber people. This book gives a taste of the sights, experiences and people that await anyone travelling in the area and offers some thoughts to guide you through life.
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text: List of all ROMS for compatible Hboots Note: For some Hboot 1.5 s-on users, s off may be required for some ICS ROMS to boot up without a bootloop. It's just a hit and miss if it boots up for you or not. I'll link to Brian's Radio's, Hboot & Firmware download's at the bottom of the post. For all Hboots: Nocturnals_Xi36 ICS MIUI Squee Edition Evervolv MeanROM ICS NegaLite-BluRom (MILESTONE 6.2) d3rpICS (ROM)SmoothCriminal (ROM)Homebew The New Batch Swagged Out Stock S-Off needed for 1.58 CleanROM Common Sense Newts One S The Team*420 ROM SHOP! MIUI Digital High MIUI Lights Out Android Revolution HD For Hboot 1.50 & lower: CyanongenMod 10 - GANGNAM STYLE SolidRom Suite KING KANG inbREDed SlapUSense/less ZR3D SteelROM Viper3D Recommended to be S-Off (S-On not tested) CyanogenMod 10.1 - WILD FOR THE NIGHT S-OFF Required!! Slim Bean P.A.C.MAN For Hboot 1.58: Cool ICS Note: Keep in mind, if you experience any bootloops, you may need to flash the required Hboot/firmware corresponding with that ROM. (s-off required) You can find the downloads for Hboot/firmware here: Radios, Hboot & Firmware I'm by far from being done with this list, so please keep checking back to see what's added. I'll try to keep this list as updated as possible with ROM updates and new ROMS. If anyone see's a ROM not in the list and you would like to see it here, feel free to PM me or comment below. Another Note: For HBOOT 1.5 S-on users: some of these roms require you to seperately flash the boot.img file. If you flash and don't do this and it boot loops on you, then you will need to flash the boot.img.


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Tributes have been paid to Devizes solicitor Jim Ward, 58, who died on Sunday with his family at his side.
Mr Ward had been shot at his office in St John's Street on July 2 and was airlifted to Frenchay Hospital, near Bristol, following the attack.
Today IT consultant Chris Greenwood, who had known Mr Ward for some years, said: "This is dreadful. He was such a lovely guy.
"When he was a trustee of Kennet Citizens' Advice Bureau he got me in to do their computers. He was a wonderful person and a joy to work with."
Scott Hulland, the owner of the Quintessence restaurant opposite the solicitors' offices, lives next door to Morris, Goddard and Ward with his wife, Audrey.
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Recently booked myself in to have breast augmentation. I'm confused as to why my surgeon has recommended that I have 300 cc's low profile as I am very very petite (UK size 6, 5ft 2 in. 32 AA). Would like to acheive around a DD cup. All over the web, it says low profiles are best for people with wider chests. I'm so slight of frame; surely moderate or high profiles would be better. I'm getting concerned and beggining to wonder if this surgeon knows what he's talking about. Please help.
Breast Implant Profile for Very Petite Frame?
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Breast implants - petite frame
Although the width of the implants is important and I generally would use a moderate profile (or moderate plus), of more concern to me is that you want to be a DD. At 5'2" tall and with a petite frame, this may be asking too much! You are already concerned that the low profile implants may be too wide. The amount of stretch on the skin and muscles and tightness of the pocket may rresult in distortion of the breasts, asymmetries, unnatural look, and disproportionate shape. You want to look natural and not freakish and I would be concerned that you do not appreciate the end results that would be obtained or you are discounting the physician's recommendations. Be sure to get a thorough examination and ask questions of your surgeon as to the risks involved and the ultimate appearance.
Choice of breast implant profiles
To know which implant profile to use, a bit more information is needed. From my perspective, the width of your breast is the most important factor in determining the implant choice. It is best to have the implant's width to be equal to, or less than, the width of the breast. This is so that the breast does not appear wider after the surgery. For petite women, I will frequently use a moderate profile plus implant. This may or may not be right for you depending upon your measurements.
If possible, I like to avoid high- profile implants becasue they can give too much fullness in the upper breast area and this will not look natural. In other words, this result looks too much like a breast implant. However, in other patients I will use these in order to avoid an implant that is too wide for the breast.
If you have questions about the implants to be used, have another visit with your plastic surgeon. There may be a very good explanation for his/her choice of implant profile. Aternatively, after speaking and seeing you again, he/she may wish to use a different profile implant. It is in everyone's best interest to make sure that you are in agreement about this issue prior to going to the operating room.
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Wolfpack will be without QB Wilson vs. USF
USF's game Saturday at N.C. State just got a little bit easier, as Wolfpack coach Tom O'Brien said Monday that freshman quarterback Russell Wilson, the ACC Offensive Player of the Week, will not play against the Bulls because of an unspecified injury.
What's more, linebacker Nate Irving, N.C. State's leading tackler, will miss the game with a lower leg injury, O'Brien said. With Wilson not playing, the Wolfpack will turn to former Clearwater Countryside and Nebraska quarterback Harrison Beck, who started four games last year and has played off the bench this season. Here's the full story at Gopack.com.


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After taking the right fork, the next turn is no longer marked by a 'small cairn' - it is now a trail marker for "Climber's Trail" for Outer Mongolia.
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|Approaching Siberia is a fine adventure, but the most direct route through the boulders from the sign isn't really the best. If you continue west and follow the wash around the high rock formation, right of the sign, there is a much easier route through the boulder field with fewer big drops and less climbing over boulders. I'm not trying to promote more social trails, but the one that is signed is arduous with anything bigger than a light pack.


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Hello fellow SFPUG folks, We have an opening that we were recruiting a graduate student for but I thought I would post it here as well. We are looking for help converting a Microsoft Access database over to our postgres server. Programmer Analyst III-Paid Intern (UCSF) This is a onetime temporary position for a graduate student for approximately 6 months which will be paid as a Programmer Analyst III Position Summary: The candidate will be responsible for converting a large clinical database stored in Microsoft Access into a Postgre SQL database. This will require the conversion of both the data tables and also the stored queries. This will also require not only converting the query, but also running analysis on each query to ensure that the data returned matches the output on each query. An ideal candidate will be intimately familiar with SQL and relational databases, understanding concepts like stored procedures, triggers and function calls. The candidate will initially work closely with team members, but will ultimately be allowed to work independently. Because of the sensitive nature of the information the candidate will be working with, the candidate must be able pass a background check and must provide personal and professional / academic references. Because of the nature of the information being worked with, no telecommuting will be allowed. Required Qualifications: Expert level understanding of SQL and relational databases, understanding of Linux fundamentals and familiarity with command line operation. Must possess excellent written and verbal communication skills as documentation is a critical part of this position. Preferred Qualifications: PostgreSQL experience, statistical experience, programming languages (python, perl, C etc). Applicants interested should forward their resume and cover letter to ccr(at)anesthesia(dot)ucsf(dot)edu with the subject "Grad: PSQL" Brad Dispensa ------------------------------- University of California San Francisco Center for Cerebrovascular Research Institute for Human Genetics Department of Anesthesia Phone (415) 206-3334 Fax (415) 206-8907 Access line (650) 918-SAFE
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Travel 31 kilometres northwest of the Sydney CBD and you'll find yourself in the charming suburb of Baulkham Hills. Home to just over 2,000 laidback locals, the area is rich in parks and reserves. Thanks to its population of koalas, swamp wallabies, and eastern water dragons, the Bidjigal Reserve is always a popular choice. If ringtail and brushtail possums get you excited, try the Crestwood Reserve instead (and get out more!). Shops are located at the Stockland Shopping Centre and Norwest Marketown. If you're in the mood for a nice meal, we recommend Il Lago on Century Circuit for its authentic Italian menu and gorgeous lakeside setting. Want to surprise someone special with flowers in Baulkham Hills? Our local FAST FLOWERS florist has got you covered with an awesome selection of cheap flowers that look anything but.
Not that we're official marriage counsellors or anything, but we've been in the flower business long enough to know that there's nothing that's appreciated quite as much by the ladies as being surprised with an unexpected bouquet of gorgeous flowers. Waiting for her birthday or Valentine's Day is no fun! Besides, when you see our amazing choice of fresh and fabulous flowers in Baulkham Hills, you won't be able to help yourself. Get stuck into our romantic section and you'll find sensational flower gifts including everything from a single rose to a flamboyant selection of four dozen of these velvety beauties. While you're at it, why not throw in some tempting choccies and a bottle of bubbly. You know she's worth it!
In keeping with the whole spontaneous theme, it's only right that we'd offer up a delivery service that allows you to be exactly that. Here at FAST FLOWERS we'll accept your order for same day flower delivery in Baulkham Hills right up until 2pm during the week and until 10am on Saturday. We'll even give you express timed deliveries in most metro areas, so you can time your gift to perfection. Awesome, right? Shoot us the details of what you're after online or via our mobile app (24/7) or give one of our Aussie-based flower experts a real quick call on 1300 FAST FLOWERS. We'll have your order all confirmed and passed to our local florist in Baulkham Hills before you can say spell spontaneity ten times fast!
When you've decided to treat the missus to unexpected fresh flowers, the last thing you want is for said flowers to turn up looking like they've been molested by a rabid koala. Not quite the romantic gesture you had in mind, huh? Thankfully our florist in Baulkham Hills steers well clear of rabid koalas - as do the rest of our national team of skilled florists come to think of it. In fact, all you'll get as a customer of FAST FLOWERS (aside from awesome cheap flowers, great gifts and ridiculously fast service) is a team of florists who'll bend over backwards to help you out, while at the same time wowing you with their floral prowess. They'll probably even be juggling fire torches while they're at it. Yes, they really are THAT awesome!
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A search for "Japanese restaurant," for example,
would yield results that were rated positively or negatively by your friends, by their friends (people two degrees away from you), and by other Loladex users. "It is a more refined Yelp, in that
people you know have more influence on results than people you don't," says Erick Schonfeld.
Leesberg, Virg.-based Loladex was founded by Laurence Hooper and Dan Goodman, two former AOL employees.


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Hello and welcome to GiveMeSport, here are today's biggest sporting headlines.
Football: Sunderland goalkeeper Vito Mannone wants to reimburse fans who travelled to Southampton and watch their team lose 8-0 on Saturday.
Tennis: Andy Murray boosted his hopes of reaching the ATP Tour Finals with a gutsy victory over David Ferrer in the final of the Vienna Open.
NFL: Denver Broncos quarterback Peyton Manning broke Brett Favre's NFL record for career touchdown passes in their win over San Francisco 49ers.
Rugby Union: And, Waratahs coach Michael Cheika has confirmed he's been offered the Wallabies coaching job left vacant after the resignation of Ewen McKenzie.
Sunderland refund
We start with football and the Premier League thrashing of Sunderland at St Mary's on Saturday - a match that Black Cats boss Gus Poyet labelled his most embarrassing moment in football.
In the aftermath of the game, goalkeeper Vito Mannone vowed to speak to his team-mates in an attempt to meet the costs of the 700-mile journey made by the 2,500 travelling supporters to say sorry for the calamitous display.
Murray's race to London
Andy Murray climbed into the eighth and final qualifying place on the Race To London, after coming from a set down to beat No.1 seed David Ferrer in Sunday's final in Austria.
The Scot moves above the Spaniard with just two ranking events remaining after closing out the victory in a little more than one hour and 40 minutes.
NFL record
Peyton Manning threw his 509th scoring pass in the second quarter of Denver's 42-17 victory over the 49ers, eclipsing the record set by Brett Favre in 2010 while playing for the Minnesota Vikings.
Manning reached the milestone in just his 246th regular-season game - 56 less than Favre needed - and that came after missing the entire 2011 season with a serious neck injury that required multiple surgeries.
Waratahs to Wallabies
And finally, Michael Cheika - a Heineken Cup-winning coach with Leinster and now running current Super Rugby champions New South Wales Waratahs is likely to be in charge of the Australia side when they begin a tour of Europe at Twickenham next month.
The 47-year-old said it was humbling to be approached about the role but stated that a few things still need to be sorted out before an official announcement.
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Heidi and Jane : a curious case
Cover paper is a blend of linen and cotton and made by hand in the Lost Arch Papermill at the Univ. of Alabama. Tex paper is Hahnem¨ühle Biblio, illustration paper is Arches Cover and endsheets are Fabriano Ingres. Type is Century Old Style, letterpress printed from photopolymer plates on a Vandercook #4 press ... -- Colophon. MSU copy: Out of a limited edition of 30, this is number 14.
- Jay, Damien
- Tipps, Emily
Publication Date: 2006
Original Size: 4 p., [14] cards : ill. ; 13 cm.
Collection: MSU Libraries Artists' Book Collection
Call Number: N7433.4.T57 H45 2006
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Hear Wally Amos, founder of Famous Amos Cookies, share the history of his humble cookie beginnings with a Hollywood storefront on Sunset Boulevard to his now publicly owned company. Known as "The face that launched a thousand chips," Wally's most recent venture is Uncle Wally's cookie company which has become the #1 branded in-store bakery muffin and one of the top muffin manufacturers in the U.S. Wally Amos is not only the father of the gourmet cookie industry but an avid public speaker, author and literacy advocate. Wally has appeared on hundreds of television and radio shows, appeared in various network sitcoms and acted as spokesman for Hush Puppies, United Airlines and the California Egg Board. He is host and teacher of 50 adult basic learning programs on PBS, and has authored four books. Before Famous Amos, Wally was an agent for the William Morris agency representing The Supremes, Marvin Gaye and Simon & Garfunkel. You can tune in Saturday 8-10 p.m. CET (2-4 p.m. EST) to theadvertisingshow.com for the live webcast. Or check out the commercial free archives.
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Melatonin okay through chemotherapy?
- Question from Ellie-2: I have heard melatonin is good for cancer and is OK with chemo, but can I take it right through or should I stop a day or two ahead and after?
- Answers - Gary Deng Melatonin does not feed cancer or stimulate cancer cells. In Europe, mainly Italy, there are some studies showing it may help during cancer treatment. I do not see any problem in taking it through chemotherapy. But do not use melatonin together with other sleeping pills, especially sedatives, as the additive effect may be too big.
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Honeymoon time!
After saying "I do" in Hawaii on Monday, Bobby Brown and Alicia Etheredge hit the beach.
Etheredge flaunted her toned beach body in a strapless printed bikini while Brown, 43 opted for longer brown swims trunks. The R&B singer enjoyed a little PDA with his new bride before relaxing in the sand for a smoke.
The couple were surrounded by family and friends at their garden wedding, but Brown's daughter, Bobbi Kristina, 19, with the late Whitney Houston was noticeably absent.
Brown's other children -- Landon, 23, La'Princia, 22, and Bobby Jr., 19 -- did attend, as well as the couple's only child together, Cassius, 3.
Etheredge wore a fitted strapless gown for the ceremony and a big smile on her face.


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Sasser: Voracious intruders unlikely to have impact on largemouth fishing
The Texas Parks and Wildlife Department thinks it knows how white bass got into Lake Fork, the lake east of Dallas best known for its largemouth bass action.
Kevin Storey, the TPWD fisheries biologist who keeps an eye on Lake Fork, said white bass, also known as sand bass, were absent from the lake until about 10 years ago. Yellow bass have been there for years, Storey said, but white bass at Fork are a more recent development.
TPWD crews at Lake Fork heard stories about anglers catching the fish starting in about 2002, but it was 2004 when they first found white bass in their sampling gear.
"We saw a large number of white bass in 2010," Storey said. "They were presumably the result of increased inflow into Lake Fork in early spring of that year. Since that time, we have not seen any other large cohorts because rain and water inflow have been in short supply."
In the 2011-12 sampling, there was evidence of a white bass increase, though numbers were still relatively low.
White bass are free spawners that migrate up flowing streams to release their eggs, which are fertilized in the current. The eggs sink to the bottom and stick to gravel, rocks or vegetation. Eggs hatch in two or three days. A large female could produce as many as 500,000 eggs. With no parental care, few of the offspring survive.
White bass grow fast at Fork because of the lake's tremendous shad population. Two-year-old fish collected in the most recent survey averaged 13.6 inches in length.
Storey said he's not worried about white bass taking over the fishery, despite their high reproduction rates in other lakes. He's also not concerned about the voracious fish putting a dent in the baitfish buffet that also serves largemouth bass.
"We have heard anglers express concerns about the impact of white bass competing with largemouth bass for prey," Storey said. "The shad populations at Lake Fork are robust, and I doubt game fish populations will be limited by a lack of food."
Storey has heard theories about how TPWD should suspend size and bag limits on white bass so anglers can catch them all. That's really not possible. The only way to rid Lake Fork of white bass is to drain the lake and start all over.
White bass are a cherished game fish at many North and East Texas lakes. They're abundant where conditions allow for annual reproduction and they're relatively easy to catch. They are an excellent sport fish for kids, novices and others who just enjoy catching fish.
Fork is a serious bass lake, however, still one of the best. Serious bass anglers may view the white bass as a nuisance. As Storey notes, other anglers enjoy having another fisheries resource as a backup when bass fishing is slow.
Last year, Storey heard from a reliable source that a Lake Fork resident had caught white bass at Lake Tawakoni for 10 consecutive years and brought them back to release in his home lake.
Stocking any fish in public waters without a permit is highly illegal, but the angler in question is probably beyond the considerable reach of the law. When he heard the story last year, Storey said, the perpetrator was in a nursing home, believed to be near death.


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Today is Dallas-based 7-Eleven Inc.'s biggest day of the year.
Sales jump 25 percent as most stores are closed and really busy people forget the dinner rolls, wine and chocolates for the hostess and one more stocking stuffer for that last-minute guest.
7-Eleven stores sell 14 times the number of Pillsbury Crescent rolls on Christmas than an average day. Wine sales spike 60 percent the week of Christmas and "As Seen on TV" products also blow out the door. Battery sales triple during Christmas week.
Drugstore chains also stay open on Christmas. Walgreen's 24-hour stores will have pharmacists on duty and CVS says it will have a store open within three miles of 75 percent of every U.S. household.
Between those three retail chains, that's more than 600 stores open today. All three chains sell gift cards good at dozens of other stores and restaurants.
7-Eleven stores, which average $1.5 million a year in sales, stock seasonal food items, such as whipped cream in the dairy case and pumpkin pie and stuffing mixes.
Sales of ice also abruptly increase, with stores typically selling five times the number of 10-pound bags on Dec. 24 and 25 versus Dec. 22 and 23, the company said.
And beer sales diverge during the back-to-back winter holiday weeks for no clear reason, said Margaret Chabris, 7-Eleven's spokeswoman.
Craft beers such as Samuel Adams and Shiner Bock are No. 1 sellers during Christmas week and imports Heineken and Corona take the top spot during New Year's.


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With a 40-foot American flag draped across the sky, dozens of community members cheered as Staff Sgt. Alex Jauregui arrived at the site of his future Woodland home on Saturday.
Jauregui, 29, lost both legs and suffered extensive injuries to his right hand and forearm when he stepped on an IED in Afghanistan two years ago. Most recently, Jauregui has been recovering with his family in nearby Williams, where he grew up.
To assist Jauregui with his rehabilitation, Homes for Troops will be building him a house in rural Woodland. The nonprofit organization builds houses for injured veterans across the U.S.
Driving down County Road 94A, it was hard to miss the event, with the large American flag hoisted above the property, and rows of smaller flags lining the entrance. Children distributed miniature flags to volunteers, who enthusiastically waived them when Jauregui arrived.
At Saturday's groundbreaking ceremony, Jauregui was recognized by neighbors, volunteers, and fellow veterans for his 11 years of service in the U.S. Army and the sacrifices he made along the way.
"The community has been outstanding," said Gina Colon, coordinator for the event. Colon highlighted Homes for Troops' many accomplishments. Since 2004, 167 homes have been built for veterans like Jauregui in 39 states.
"This is a huge accomplishment," she said. "But we haven't met our goal yet."
Jauregui, who was seated beside the podium, smiled as people stepped forward to show their support.
Troy Keach of the Illuminati Motorcycle Club gave Jauregui a $10,000 check on behalf of the organization, to assist with construction costs.
Following in Keach's footsteps, Jauregui's long-time friend Noel Baptisa donated $10,840 on behalf of the Citizens for a Better Williams, a Colusa County nonprofit.
"When Alex came back from his accident," Baptisa said. "It hit me that this guy is more courageous and brave than I will ever be. You motivate us to become better versions of ourselves."
Assemblywoman Mariko Yamada, whose term ends in November, thanked Jauregui for his service.
"There is no better way for me to conclude my service than by seeing something like this," she said. "Where all sorts of people throughout the country and throughout our community join together to bring this project to fruition."
Woodland Mayor Tom Stallard welcomed Jauregui to the community, stating sacrifices like Jauregui's are a necessity.
"It is only because of those willing to sacrifice for our country, that we continue to enjoy our freedoms and continue to maintain our role in the world," he said. "Certainly Sgt. Jauregui, you have sacrificed and we are grateful for that."
Stallard continued to emphasize the importance of the U.S. military.
"You may have left a few pounds of bone, blood, and flesh in a foreign land but you did not leave one ounce of your courage. One ounce of your heart. One ounce of your goodness, your decency, all of that's intact," Stallard told Jauregui. "One hundred percent of your opportunity is still before you."
After Stallard returned to his seat, Mike Leonard, a fellow wounded warrior, shared his Homes for Troops experience.
"We have a similar story Alex," he said. "A house that did not fit my physical disabilities, stairs that are dangerous, doors too small that a wheel chair does not fit through. A shower that is difficult to use."
Leonard continued to list obstacles, which have been eliminated in his new house.
Less than a year ago, Leonard received the keys to his new home, built by Homes for Troops, giving him "a house that truly has no limits."
Met with a standing ovation, Jauregui thanked everyone for coming and introduced himself to his future neighbors and community members.
He said he joined the Army right after graduating from Williams High School, after which he was deployed to both Iraq and Afghanistan twice, for a total of 42 months in combat. He served until his April retirement.
After Jauregui's accident two years ago, he has been recovering, not realizing how disabled he actually was until he returned to Williams.
"The minute you get home," he said. "Everything becomes an obstacle."
With his disability, Jauregui has difficulty navigating his childhood home in Williams that he shares with his parents, wife and three children. His "biggest hurdle" has been using the bathtub. It has a sliding glass door, making it "really hard to transfer from my chair to the bathtub because of the door rails."
Using his wheelchair has also been a challenge due to the narrow hallways and small bedrooms. Although Jauregui has a set of prosthetic legs, he said they are exhausting to use all day, making his wheelchair a necessity.
Jauregui's new 2,460 square-foot, three-bedroom home will be customized for his disability, with wide hallways, doors and ramps for his wheelchair. Construction, which started last week, is expected to take about six months.
After thanking his family, Jauregui grabbed a shovel, breaking ground on his new home and meeting his new neighbors.
Contact Sarah Dowling at 530-406-6234.


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I'm just about to have a MACS Face lift. But the doctor told me he won't do under eyes surgery as well. Is it ok? Can the results be just as good?
I was told once that it was much better to do both at the same time. I'm worried about puckering under my eyes afterwards.


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Coastal's Bryan Gallery announces summer art shows
Exhibitions in the gallery will include:
"Summer Selections: Work By Visual Arts Students" runs through June 22 and features student work from the past year selected by art professors.
" Summer Arts Academy Exhibit," June 26, 2 to 4 p.m. A one-day only extravaganza of art by Coastal Summer Arts Academy students.
" Embedded: Photographs of Afghanistan" by Paul Olsen and Ken Townsend, July 19 to Aug. 31. Closing reception will be held Aug. 30 from 5 to 7 p.m.
The Bryan Gallery and gallery office summer hours are:
June: Monday to Thursday, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Closed Fridays.
July: Monday to Thursday, 9 a.m. to 5. Fridays 9 a.m. to noon. Closed Wednesday, July 4.
August: Monday to Friday, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Visit the Bryan Gallery Web site for updates and directions: http://www.coastal.edu/bryanartgallery/.


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Items where Division is "Concordia University > Faculty of Arts and Science > Applied Human Sciences" and Year is 2002
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Haskell, Johanna and Linds, Warren and Ippolito, John (2002) Opening Spaces of Possibility: The Enactive as a Qualitative Research Approach. Forum Qualitative Sozialforschung / Forum: Qualitative Social Research, 3 (3). ISSN 1438-5627
Linds, Warren (2002) "Taking care" as a pedagogue/actor/son in a theatre/drama process. In: Passion and Pedagogy. Relation, Creation and Transformation in Teaching. Lesley University Series in Arts & Education (1). Peter Lang , New York, pp. 269-284. ISBN 0-8204-4528-2
Reilly, Rosemary C. and D'Amico, Miranda (2002) The impact of sexual and physical violence on women's learning processes: Implications for child and youth care workers in educational settings. Journal of Child and Youth Care Work, 17 . pp. 166-186. ISSN 0741-9481


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Your quiz for the day: Name the only city in Solano County that does not allow residents to raise a chicken? You guessed it -- Vacaville.
For some strange reason, Vacaville has taken on backyard chicken raisers. On March 28, the City Council amended the Municipal Code to specifically ban backyard chickens on lots less than 1 acre. You can have a parrot, or a dog the size of Marmaduke, but harbor a hen and you have crossed the line (or should I say road).
Let's get reasonable. Anybody should be able to keep a couple of hens (no roosters!) as long as they don't bother the neighbors. They should be kept happy, clean, food should be stored in closed containers, waste should be removed often -- just as one would expect from the owner of any neighborhood pet.
The City Council should reconsider its ban. If people don't want to live among chickens, they should move to San Francisco. Oh, wait -- it's legal to raise chickens in San Francisco ...
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Agriculture Under Secretary for Natural Resources and Environment Robert Bonnie last week announced a renewed and expanded partnership to provide expert habitat advice to farmers and ranchers managing land within lesser prairie-chicken range.
"Our goal is to deliver a win-win for agricultural producers and wildlife," said Bonnie. "We want to help farmers and ranchers succeed for the long term while also protecting and improving habitat for the lesser prairie-chicken. Often, what is good for prairie-chickens is good for ranching."
As part of the Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) Lesser Prairie-Chicken Initiative (LPCI), the agency is partnering with Pheasants Forever, a national wildlife conservation organization, to jointly invest $5 million over three years to support technical assistance, including hiring non-federal field conservationists to help farmers and ranchers voluntarily maintain and improve lesser prairie chicken habitat in the Southern Great Plains.
The lesser prairie chicken is not on the Endangered Species List, but since 2010, farmers and ranchers participating in the LPCI have maintained or improved more than a million acres of habitat for the bird. The bird's range includes parts of Colorado, Kansas, New Mexico, Oklahoma and Texas.
What has been hanging over the heads of landowners is rulemaking that USDA could invoke against farmers and ranchers should the species be listed as threatened or endangered. As part of the regulatory predictability plan agreed to by NRCS and USFWS, farmers and ranchers voluntarily applying lesser prairie-chicken-friendly conservation practices may be protected from additional regulations under the Endangered Species Act for up to 30 years.
More information on the Lesser Prairie-Chicken Initiative and how a farmer or rancher can work with NRCS to conserve habitat for the species, can be found by clicking here.


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NEW YORK (TheStreet) -- Yesterday the United States Department of Labor announced that professional networking Web site LinkedIn (LNKD) had agreed to pay nearly $6 million in unpaid wages and damages to 359 former and current employees. LinkedIn paid $3.3 million in overtime pay and $2.5 million in damages.
When LinkedIn was notified of the violations, it agreed to pay all overtime back pay due and take steps to correct its processes, the Labor Department stated.
LinkedIn was caught using a practice very common in Silicon Valley and across the U.S, especially in social media and start-up companies -- off-the-clock work.
Read More: The 10 Richest States in America
"This company has shown a great deal of integrity by fully cooperating with investigators and stepping up to the plate without hesitation to help make workers whole," said Dr. David Weil, administrator of the Wage and Hour Division at the Labor Department. "We are particularly pleased that LinkedIn also has committed to take positive and practical steps towards securing future compliance."
An investigation by the Department of Labor found LinkedIn was in violation of overtime and record-keeping provisions of federal law.
The Fair Labor Standards Act requires that covered, nonexempt employees be paid at least the federal minimum wage of $7.25 per hour for all hours worked, plus a higher wage of time-and-one-half their regular hourly rates for hours worked beyond 40 per week. The FLSA provides that employers who violate the law are, as a general rule, liable to employees for their back wages and an equal amount in liquidated damages. Liquidated damages are paid directly to the affected employees. Additionally, the law requires employers to maintain accurate time and payroll records, and it prohibits retaliation against employees who exercise their rights under the law.


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"Eyebrow Repha" (Marathi and other languages)
I think that there is a case for "eyebrow repha" (a RA-variant in
Marathi etc, often to the left of letter YA, and looking like an
inverted breve) to be added to UCS (ISO/IEC 10646 and Unicode).
Do any implementors of UCS implement this "eyebrow repha" in some
other way? It is not coded in the UCS standard as such.
I ask this because in ISCII (Indian Standard IS 13194:1991), a
combination of the normal RA-WITH-NUKTA (U+0931) plus HALANT (or
VIRAMA - U+094D) is used to achieve this characters (see
Indian Standard IS 13194:1991 page 12, and codes D0 and E8).
I would be very glad to know list members views on:
(a) whether "eyebrow repha" is achievable with UCS as it stands;
(b) whether anybody has implemented this character, and how;
(c) whether it should be added as a new character within UCS.
I look forward to seeing responses from list members.
Best wishes
John Clews
-- John Clews (Chair of ISO/TC46/SC2: Conversion of Written Languages)
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