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First Look: Punches & Core Cardstock
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Absolutely love this weeks webisodes.Amazing ideas,great punches and fabulous paper. Can't wait to try all of these. keep the ideas coming.thanks to both of you. you are truely amazing.
I have just found these webisodes and am thrilled about it. I ve watched 4 segments so far but will be watching each of them for sure. Thanks for all the wonderful information. GREAT JOB!!!
I have been looking for cardstock like this for awhile so I am so happy that you have it! I love the dry embossing sanding technique.
I love this cardstock and think it is the best thing since sliced bread...I already have some of each type but just ordered all 4 sets from the webisode. I don't think you can have too much of this paper...Thanks for all the ideas for using it.
Fantastic cards and the hosts make it so much fun to be a part of..
Great shows always..
I loved the different effects-have to get out the stencils now for sure. Thank you.
Fabulous, as usual! I have the Whitewash papers and some other Cor-dination papers. You've given me a ton of new ideas. Thanks so much for all you do.
Absolutely fabulous week so far. Your comment tonight on Teresa is "she is brilliant". I have to agree. It is so exciting to see what I have in my room come to life with wonderful new ideas. Thank you both for all of your clever ideas and willing to share so many ideas. Just keep them coming. I so look forward to all of your webisodes.
Ruth Ann
I like to watch how you show your stylus to emboss, but you need to stop using white or light paper. We can't see your work.
You two are a hoot!!! I can't wait till I can get a least one of these tablets. The sky is the limit with what I will do. Thanks again for the uplifting webisode!!!
I can not wait to try this. I have some of the paper and other supplies so off to try I go! THANKS FOR A GREAT SHOW!
Love the paper. How wonderful and such great card ideas! Thanks!
Wow! So many great ideas and techniques. It's going to be hard to decide which to start with. I'm going to need to watch this webisode again. Thank you.
Lots and lots of great ideas ladies, but don't forget to rub wax paper over the cardstock before you use the stylus to emboss. It will help the stylus move easily and help you emboss deeper.
Keep up the great work!
What an impressive outcome!!
You are so right; such variety in uses for this cardstock. Amazing design ideas, will keep all crafters busy. Thanks again.
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Nick Jonas Announces Demi Lovato Duet, 'Avalanche,' on New Albumby Michelle McGahan | PopCrush
Mystery man no more! Just two weeks after Demi Lovato tweeted this sneaky pic talking about a "killer duet" with a mysterious guest, Nick Jonas has confirmed that the two have recorded a duet together, reportedly titled 'Avalanche,' for his upcoming album, which is set to drop in the fall.
"We did one for my record," Nick told E! about the tune with Demi, gushing: "It's a great song that we both love. Her voice is just amazing on it. She's the real deal. It's a perfect fit for this record."
He opened up even more about the song to MTV, explaining the meaning (and title):
"She and I recorded a song that … I think is beautiful. It's not necessarily a love song. It's so easy to do a duet that's a love song because our relationship isn't really that. But there is love there for a friend, you know, and it's beautiful to just talk about," he explained. "Any kind of relationship can hit a point where if it's not stable, it's not secure then it's like an avalanche crashing down and that's what that song is about. … I'm excited for people to hear it."
It's safe to say that all of us here at PopCrush are already obsessed with his sexy new sound on 'Chains,' so we're basically chomping at the bit to hear this Nick Jonas-Demi Lovato collab.
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WHERE 1961 LIVES: We can all agree that Palm Springs is pretty much the epicenter of mid-century cool. Sure, there are pockets here and there, and various neighborhoods in various cities, but 1961 still lives in a certain desert resort town, and fabulously so. Our case is easily made: Palm Springs has been ultra-careful about protecting its vintage architecture (yes, there've been some losses, but many great buildings still stand). The area is home to several houses owned by stars of the '50s and '60s, abodes that have changed little since Frank Sinatra or Merv Griffin lived in them. Elvis Presley's Honeymoon House still hosts tours and concerts, in fact. And three? Modernism Week unfurls across the city each February, which is just about the biggest gathering of mid-century design, auto, and architecture buffs. It's got so much retro cool going on, in fact, that it can fit another modern-loving weekend on the calendar, this one with a tiki theme. It's called MOD and it is ready to saunter into town from Friday, Oct. 11 through Sunday, Oct. 13.
MUSIC, ART, HOTELS, TOURS: MOD's vibe is very much about smoking jackets, fire pits, mai tais, and vinyl records on the hi-fi. Think of a SHAG painting, if you will, or, better yet, think of SHAG himself. The artist will appear at "some special events" but there will be several colorful to-dos, from a vintage-wear fashion show to shopping tiki vendors to mid-century architectural tours. And the entertainment? Look for Kitty Chow & The Fishermen, the Martini Kings, and Gand Band to perform.
INAUGURAL YEAR: It's the first outing for this event, and if you've been to a Modernism Week, we expect you'll see some of the same fans. Mid-century buffs are serious about their love for the retro period and not-so-serious when it comes to hobnobbing with a cocktail in hand. It's a good crowd, eclectic, funky, and playfully posh. Get dressy -- stockings and wide lapels'll do -- and get your reservations for the autumn weekend. The Curve Hotel and the Tiki Caliente are the two of the HQs for the dressy-divine gathering.


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For the week ending 26 December 2009 / 8 Tevet 5770
When Jews Run for Congress
When it was announced that the special election in Florida to fill the seat of a prominent Jewish congressman was scheduled for April 6th, a Jewish organization called to the attention of Governor Charlie Crist that this date coincided with the last day of Pesach. In response to the charge that such scheduling was "an attack on the religious Jewish community" the governor ordered the election date moved up a week.
Two of the Democratic candidates running to replace Congressman Wexler in a primary to be held in early February are also Jewish.


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This paper was of interest to me because I wanted to learn about dynamic computation graphs. Unfortunately almost all machine learning/deep learning (ML/DL) frameworks operate on static computation graphs and can't handle dynamic computation graphs. (Dynet and Chainer are exceptions).
Using dynamic computation graphs allows dealing with recurrent neural networks (RNNs) better, among other use cases. (Here is a great article about RNNs and LSTMs. Another good writeup on RNNs is here.) TensorFlow already supports RNNs, but by adding padding to ensure that all input data are of the same size, i.e., the maximum size in the dataset/domain. Even then this support is good only for linear RNNs not good for treeRNNs which is suitable for more advanced natural language processing.
This was a very tough paper to read. It was definitely above my level as a beginner. The paper assumed a lot of background from the reader. It assumed familiarity with TensorFlow execution and operators, and also some understanding of programming language background and familiarity with RNNs. The dynamic batching idea introduced in the paper is a complex idea but it is explained briefly (and maybe a bit poorly?) in one page. Even when I gave the paper all my attention, and tried to form several hypothesis of dynamic batching idea, I was unable to make progress. At the end, I got help from a friend who is an expert at deep learning.
I skipped reading the second part of the paper which introduced a combinator library for NNs. The library is relevant because it was instrumental in implementing the dynamic batching idea introduced in the first part of the paper. This second part looked interesting but the functional programming language concepts discussed was hard for me to follow.
The dynamic batching ideaThis paper introduces dynamic batching idea to emulate dynamic computation graphs (DCGs) of arbitrary shapes and sizes over TensorFlow which only supports static computation graphs.
Batching is important because GPUs crave for batching, especially when dealing with text data where each item is of small size. (While images are already large enough to fill/busy the GPU, but that is not so for text data.)
However, the challenge for batching when using DCGs is that the graph of operations is not static, and can be different for every input. The dynamic batching algorithm fixes batching for DCGs. Given a set of computation graphs as input, each of which has a different size and topology, dynamic batching algorithm will rewrite the graphs by batching together all instances of the same operation that occur at the same depth in the graph. (Google is really into graph rewriting.)
The dynamic batching algorithm takes as input a batch of multiple input graphs and treats them as a single disconnected graph. Source nodes are constant tensors, and non-source nodes are operations. Scheduling is performed using a greedy algorithm: (I omit some of the more detailed steps in the paper.)
- Assign a depth, d, to each node in the graph. Nodes with no dependencies (constants) are assigned depth zero. Nodes with only dependencies of depth zero, are assigned depth one, and so on.
- Batch together all nodes invoking the same operation at the same depth into a single node.
- Concatenate all outputs which have the same depth and tensor type. The order of concatenation corresponds to the order in which the dynamic batching operations were enumerated.
Experimental results
Dynamic batching instantiates each operation only once, and invokes it once for each depth, so the number of kernel invocations is log(n), rather than n, where n is tree size. Dynamic batching thus achieves substantial speedups even at batch size 1, because it batches operations at the same depth within a single tree.
LimitationsDynamic batching works on a single machine, it is not distributed. Dynamic batching requires an all to all broadcasts, so it doesn't scale to distributed machines.
This Google paper doesn't cite or talk about Dynet and Chainer, but Dynet and Chainer are single machine ML/DL frameworks that support dynamic computation graphs. On one hand, Dynet & Chainer are most likely not good at batching, and the dynamic batching method here has contribution. On the other hand, since Dynet & Chainer support dynamic computation graphs natively (rather than by way of emulating it on static computation graphs like dynamic batching does), they are most likely more expressive than the dynamic batching can achieve. In fact, another limitation of the dynamic batching approach is that it requires all operations that might be used to be specified in advance. Each input/output may have a different type but all types must be fixed and fully specified in advance.
While writing this post, I came across this blog post from June 2016. It looks like this guy came up with the simple version of dynamic batching idea as he was trying to implement treeRNNs in TensorFlow. The implementation there however doesn't include batching.
By clicking on label "mldl" at the end of the post, you can reach all of my posts about machine learning / deep learning (ML/DL).
By clicking on label "mldl" at the end of the post, you can reach all of my posts about machine learning / deep learning (ML/DL).


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Kardashian Mudslinging and Gay Marriage
November 3, 2011
I have to say, I'm really sort of sick to death of the statements going around waving Kim Kardashian's name and face at us regarding…well, anything. But most recently, regarding why gay marriage should be legal. Actually, I was sick of it the first time I read it somewhere.
And this is absolutely not because I don't support legalizing gay marriage 110%. And if you in any way question this, please refer to the article I wrote previously: https://gomersasquatch.wordpress.com/2010/01/26/proposition-8-protects-people-from-marrying-unicorns/ .
Furthermore, I agree that the sanctity of marriage has been compromised since probably its inception, and that upstanding right-wing politicians who yell the loudest about it often have several failed marriages under their belts, at least. Or extramarital affairs. Or hookers. Or extramarital hooker affairs involving belts. And often with a touch of gay-as-Christmas scandal to finish it on up. Not that any of these are bad, per se, but these are the sorts of things those politicians hypocritically pose to rally against, and that's what's bad. Clearly.
And I can see how drawing attention to their hypocrisy only strengthens our pro-gay marriage equality arguments. The people advocating hardest for a "sacred union" often have a completely unfounded argument when it comes to the way they live their own lives. Let us silence them one by one by holding them up to the mirror.
Who the hell gives a good goddamn about Kim Kardashian's failed marriage? So, she got married in a highly public fashion—some have argued entirely for this publicity to promote her television show. Maybe. Sure, why not? Although I don't know too many details about her life and celebrity past snippets here and there, I can still say I find it very plausible. Sooooo, that would put her in league with Gene Simmons this last season of his show. Fine. Trashy, but fine. And following that, Kardashian filed for divorce some 70-something days later. This seems on par for a celebrity marriage.
But then—oh goodness—everyone just went ape shit for a week. Normal, otherwise good-natured people are standing in (a metaphorical Facebook) line to throw the fact that Kardashian couldn't maintain a successful marriage back at her. Ha ha! One for gay marriage! …wait. What did we win here?
I mean, let's remove from this discussion the people who went ape shit because they're actually interested in her life. Because, dear god, why even try to reason with them? You people—you go over to Perez. I'm sure he has something for you.
The remaining people—those whose Schadenfreude leapt from their hearts directly into their wagging fingers at the first chance to go, "AHA! Straight people sometimes get divorced hastily! Why can't we get married?" Those are the people to whom I refer. But please let me explain.
I guess I just don't understand the sentiment. To step through it: okay—I can totally see saying this if she had ever been actively against marriage equality or was in any way raving about the sanctity of marriage as she sees it. From what I can find (and if I'm wrong, please point it out; I don't follow the woman's "career"), she has never said anything against gay marriage to begin with. In fact, I painfully sat through this video of her stating that she is, in fact, for gay marriage. Nothing political about this video, really. She's asked a question and seems to summon up a fairly neutral, if not slightly airy answer.
But the point is, the only thing I could find linking her to speaking out about gay marriage is actually a statement supporting gay marriage. And if she has ever been against it but I just haven't stumbled across it yet, let me be first in line to dance on the grave of her diamond-encrusted schmaltz package she called a marriage, now that it's been put out of its misery.
But considering I can't find anything of the sort on her…why is her failed marriage pivotal? In her being unrelated to politics or sanctity of marriage issues, this mudslinging seems…I don't know…mean spirited, I guess? Or misdirected? Or straight-up irrelevant.
Seriously, couples in Hollywood get divorced all the time. Well, for that matter, so do regular people. And if allowed the right to marry, so will gay couples. Not all love lasts forever, and not all love equals longevity in life-partnering. I realize this is an unpopular thought for both camps, but hey, it's just the truth. Divorce is a right we are afforded when love turns cold, or expectations aren't met, or someone is unfaithful, or cruel, or sneaking off to have relations with our livestock, or what have you. It seems to me that by offering Kim as a sacrificial lamb on the altar of marriage sanctity, you are either saying one of two things.
1.) "Look, her marriage was a sham, so clearly marriage isn't a serious institution," which totally undercuts the message that gay marriage is in fact a serious institution. Or this argument even encompasses the idea that Kardashian's marriage proves that marriage isn't sacred or holy, when it actually still is to many gay or lesbian couples, as well.
2.) "If I—an honest, loving person who has been in a committed relationship with the same person can't get married, why should someone like she be able to get married?" And is that really a comparison one would like to make? It cuts at marriage as a whole (when clearly marriage is a concept that's important to all camps here), almost suggesting the argument that Kardashian shouldn't have been able to get married if everyone else can't get married because she's such a poor model of marriage. Or that committed gay couples have more right to get married than people like Kardashian who don't take marriage seriously.
And that's backward. My problem with this issue is that nothing about it states, "She has the right to marriage and we have the right to marriage because we are all equal and deserve equal rights provided to us and to our would-be spouses/families." The point of the marriage equality argument is that everyone deserves that right—committed gay and lesbian couples, committed straight couples, and unfortunately, people who do it for money or reputation or dowry. (Because anyone of breeding of course still has a dowry.) Everyone deserves it. We're all people and we all should get to choose how, when, and why we marry (within obvious reason). And that "everyone" is very important to the equal marriage rights agenda.
My gauge is that (and I could be wrong) the sentiment underlying this "Why should a marriage like that be allowed to exist when a marriage like mine is/would be real?" argument is that because straight marriage rights are already given, it's gay marriage rights that need the media attention and public outrage on their behalf. So very, very true. But if we want to make comparisons to marriages that so offensively fail the sanctity of marriage test, let's maybe pick a target that's relevant and where the failed marriage actually proves to uncover the hypocrisy. Where our completely justifiable anger isn't just spilling out all over the place but is actually focused where it needs to be in order to make the country pay attention and get the point.
And I feel like well-intentioned people are forgetting this in the excitement of the media hate-fest right now. (Well, this particular media hate-fest.) Instead, what's been going on in reaction looks to me like useless mudslinging at someone who is just going through a divorce. And whether or not this divorce is painful for Kardashian, the mudslinging still lacks tact and precision.
I'm quite dumbfounded that this woman is the one that everyone has been so ready to jump on, when divorces of Hollywood and celebrity tend to line the drugstore magazine racks pretty much constantly. Um, can someone please explain to me why Kim Kardashian should be a model of the sanctity of marriage to begin with? Why anyone who needs to have their mind changed about gay marriage would have cared one way or another about whether her marriage had been meant to last? Were we all expecting that this marriage was going to be successful? Were we even really caring?
I realize some of you care because you're fans of hers, and you would probably do well to go read someone else's blog. Because that's just silliness. She's a non-celebrity celebrity. Call me old fashioned, but in my day, you had to possess some sort of talent to be…you know what? Sorry. Tangent. I get worked up. About back in my day. When you had to have SOME kind of TALENT—nope. Stopping now.
But who was really thinking she would be a great person to make an example of? No one seemed surprised that this arrangement didn't work out (possibly least of all Kardashian's publicist). So why is everyone all, "Look! Look at your straight marriage, everyone! It fails too!" It's petty, it's redundant, it's flawed logic, and I feel like it takes away from the serious, ardent message of people who want and unquestionably must have the right to marry the person of their choosing—whatever sex and/or gender that may be. I don't know. That's just my opinion on this topic. This whole particular media blitz is strange to me.
A Hole in Pandora's Box
August 12, 2011
So, the joy of technology (and trust me, I find few joys in technology beyond simple convenience and the comfort of warm face, warm hands, warm feet) is being able to find totally new hobbies that would have never existed before. Like customized radio.
I love Pandora. Pandora, if you're unaware, is a Web site where you can make a radio station customized around a certain band or song you start with. Enter a band, singer, or song, and you have a whole list of songs playing for you that are (arguably) in some way related. Usually. Sometimes it strays. Like how I got from Otis Redding to the Dixie Cups once, I'll never know. There are some kinks. Like how I got from The Kinks to Linda Ronstadt. But generally, it's a pleasurable experience. Additionally, you can add variety to a station by adding the name of another band or singer you wish to incorporate, so Pandora can find songs that work between their two styles and smooge them into one Frankenstation.
And this morning, in order to keep myself occupied, I've been playing with my newfound hobby–seeing how long it can take Pandora to get from Tony Orlando/Dawn to the band Hole. Which, you know, just makes me giggle.
So far (and I'm writing this as I listen, so it's like a play-by-play. Be excited, gentle reader. This is breaking news.), I'm still waiting for how they're going to bridge that gap. I've had Tony Orlando's Bless You, I suppose as my punishment for placing such a silly request in the first place. Then Roy Orbison's Only the Lonely, followed by Sam Cooke's Wonderful World, a darling song about the quest of a non-intellectual attempting the fair heart of the elusive smart chick. Sort of a "pre-Lloyd Dobler" Lloyd Dobler anthem.
And Sam Cooke is always marvelous. Let us not toss that aside.
Then It Never Rains in Southern California by Albert Hammond. Waaa, waaaaa, waaaa. This is also punishment for my silly request. Is it too much to ask for a simple Tie a Yellow Ribbon? Can I get a Knock Three Times? Anything? Throw me a Tony bone, here, Pandora.
…pretty sure there's a better way to phrase that.
Holy hell—it just leapt from Albert Hammond in a rather jarring transition to Hole's Celebrity Skin. Ha! Oh, please play Candida next. This is brilliant.
Okay, so we have Dumb by Nirvana following Hole, and then a little Key Largo by Bertie Higgins. Wow. The disturbing aspect of it was somehow unforeseen. Not gonna lie; it's swiftly approaching "oh god, make it stop." Ripping my mood back and forth between the two worlds. There really needs to be a dramatic record scratch sound in transition each time.
See? Hobby. This will amuse me for hours. It actually hurts. And some pain, you gorgeous people, is good pain.
Beer Me That Job
July 25, 2011
There are just so, so many things that bother me about the job search process.
For instance: why is it that nowadays, if you want to send in a resume to a job that's located on a site that isn't Craigslist, often they make you register with a multi-step process for their own stupid site, which then begins to send you more spam than exists in the entire state of Hawaii? News flash: If I'm looking for a job, I need to be checking my email account for serious job inquiries or, like, videos of kittens happily attacking watermelons sent from friends who want me to be less depressed about the dejecting work of job applications. I do not need it bulked up with requests for me to apply to jobs for which I would never apply and so, you know…I didn't.
"Job available in your field: Prison Barber" Is it? Is it?
Or bulked up with ads directed at me, the job seeker. Alleged head-hunting agencies that—if really scammy—want you to pay to play, or—if merely sleazy, useless, and opportunistic—desire for you to go to their advertisement-marinated web page that no one actually uses to find jobs. Hey, glad that while I can't find a job, you're able to make lazy cash off advertisements springing up in my face like so many unwanted joke nut can snakes.
Don't believe me that they're not there for you to apply to jobs? Actually attempt to apply to a job on one of those sites some time. More often than not, you can't submit what you need to, it's unnecessarily convoluted to the point that you end up just not applying, or you have to sign up for more advertisement abuse in order to submit a resume.
Departed are the days of sending in an application directly to the company via email or in a very simple one- or two-step process. Dead and buried are the days of just going over the building and handing the resume in.
(Yeah, try this some time. Then as you leave, hide and watch the receptionist unenthusiastically use it as a great big wrapper for stale gum.) Just, really. In a vast majority of careers, the physical resume is all but obsolete in the eyes of an employer.
Which is fine. All I wanted to do was to email the damn thing in anyway. But it's just never that simple.
There are other things I loathe about the job application process, too. For example, feeling like the worst sort of corporate whore, having to sell yourself on your cover letter to please the sadistic evil hiring machine of the non-desperate, already-job-havin' HR dementors while they muse over your life's accomplishments in the most trivial of manners and make capricious decisions about the fate of your life.
Or that's at least what it feels like. I know and love a few hiring managers—family members and friends. That's really not dementors. …that we know of… But I'm fairly certain that all the hiring managers who've gone over my resume and cover letter have been exactly like this. Evil suckers of hope and identity.
But most of all, what I cannot handle about the job search process is the interview. The terrible, horrible, stinking interview.
Very possibly it's just that I've always been as inept with interviews as I have been with auditions or, say, blind dates. I lose all semblance of personality (or even what a human is and how it normally functions) when faced with the daunting task of "BE CHARMING AND SAY ONLY THE RIGHT THINGS." What the hell? It's like someone telling you, "Be funny." Or, "Be interesting." Or, "Be sexy." Uhhhhhh. Ummmmm. Buuuuuuuh. *blink, blink, rub eye, blink*
You can't put someone on the spot like that and expect them to perform well. Least of all me. It's like I completely lose the ability to comprehend the fundamental makeup of humor or normal speech patterns at that moment and instead sit thinking totally functional and moderately intelligent thoughts with a horrified expression on my face, unable to make them come out of my mouth. It's amazing—another person's power to abduct attributes you might otherwise rock when not having to try at them. In these situations, rather than funny, interesting, or sexy, I instead break down into a grotesque amalgamation of the antonyms of all three—a character I think of as Abused Meg.
Abused Meg has had handed to her some of the most ghastly, miserable experiences known to man or woman and is therefore now no longer able to talk with the usual shape or wetness of her former mouth, cannot consider numbers or manifest emotions with certainty, can't find an appropriate volume at which to express her monosyllabic sentiments, has never seen the sun nor heard loud noises, is constantly on the verge of tears or hiding in her own arm crevice like a sad baby Dracula, and otherwise behaves just as an abused, neglected dog might. At best, she has no personality at all; at worst she's strange and alienating with the ability to rob anyone else in the room of a sense of normalcy. I am not good at interviews.
And the thing with interviews is, you just can't ask the freaking questions you want. Mainly—how much will I get paid, and what are my benefits? I don't get why this is such a taboo. You're not supposed to ask that until right before you get the job. Why are we all wasting so much time?!
I understand that employers want a person who is right for the job and dedicated to the work. I get that. That makes for a more pleasant work experience for all and a more dedicated worker. But here's a thought that is applicable for every single person I've ever met—unless there's something truly horrific about my current job, I am leaving my job to look for either comparable pay or a vertical move of some sort, like more pay and better benefits. If money weren't important with regards to the job, I wouldn't be working in the first place. I'd spend my time … I don't know … rowing a fucking boat or painting pictures of me rowing fucking boats. I wouldn't be sitting in a cubicle taking orders from people. Right? And you—the job dangler—are remarkably stupid in not acknowledging that out in the open and right away.
So why can't I ask on the first interview—or hell, before I go take off work to waste my time and the potential new employer's time—what the pay is going to be? Then let's see if I'm a good fit. Because I tell you what—even if I really love a potential job, I—like most everyone else—do not live in a career utopia fantasy. I have rent and bills to pay. I have to eat. I have a life outside of work I'd like to continue living in a similar fashion or better. I need to find a new job that's going to pay me what I need to make in order to do all these lovely lifey things. And nearly everything beyond that is a minor deciding factor. The order of importance has to be: 1.) Do I vaguely want to perform this job/am I qualified? 2.)Does it pay what I need/want to make? 3.) Literally anything else that might be a point of interest. It doesn't matter.
Number 1 is taken care of when I apply. I got the job description, I'm interested so far. Number 2 should be next. Number 2 should always be next. There is no point proceeding if number 2 is a deal-breaker. PEOPLE—NUMBER 2!! Come on.
So, yeah. This is the aspect of our job culture that I think I find most aggravating and wasteful of everyone's time and energy. And so does Abused Meg. As she shambles off into the shadows, totally freaking out all who exist there with her wide-eyed weirdness.
**I should note that this is not about a current job search I'm doing. In fact, I'm on the brink of going down to part-time work in a month so I can start full-time grad school (Yaaaaaay!). But being around others who are currently looking for jobs, it brings me right back to that same old rant in my head. Why the senselessness? Why the time-suckage? You know what? Let's all just quit our jobs and join a commune.
Or go back to grad school.
Origin of the Phrase "Nose to the Grindstone"
July 24, 2011
Oh dear god, I've finally reached the end of these old blog posts (the ones I wished to actually keep). Here you have it–post number six of six that I have pulled from the murky depths of my former blog, washed off, and set here.
This one is from 2006. Pause with me to see if you can remember it. Back before our hovercrafts and our robot nannies. Back when we still lived on the ground. Before our food was given to us in the form of small, flavored pills. Ah, 2006. How I faintly remember what a tree looked like.
Okay, moving on. Here's my final post of yesteryear, a snippet of me in 2006. I give you Origin of the Phrase "Nose to the Grindstone":
The phrase "put your nose to the grindstone" is commonly used today to mean "get to work." Its origin has been traced back 5,000 years (by the etymological research department of UCLA) to when humanity relied on grindstones to sharpen all their tools, teeth, and household items. Carpenters of yore had made a startling finding about the sedimentary stone sandstone, and thus began using it solely to make the grindstones that sharpened their tools and other items.
The properties of sandstone were first discovered by renowned carpenter and gymnast William Van Metermeyer, who unearthed the fact that the stone, when grinding against something else, gave off a surprisingly invigorating lavender aroma (for which the stone is now best known). Carpenters began using it to build grindstones, because they found that it helped them to better focus and to stay more alert. When they would begin to feel fatigued, they would simply put their noses close to the grindstone and inhale the scent of the stone for energy, and then get back to work (hence the phrase).
As a related side note, this was also the birth of the popular new age practice of aromatherapy.
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Reverse Darwinism
July 15, 2011
Huh. So, having been discussing animal collective nouns with my darling male companion last week, it caused me to remember I had once given conquistadors a collective noun classification. So, in search of the reference, today I stumbled across some old blog entries I had drunkenly or hungoverly pecked out back in those years, before I started keeping this blog, on a site no one ever visits anymore *coughMyspacecough*. Oh, I'm sorry, something in my throat. On Myspace, which no one ever visits anymore.
Anywho, if you've read these already several years ago, both of you, feel free to be excused to go have a smoke outside until I'm finished. All the rest of you must staaaaaay.
Until then, I'll post one a day for the next few days. Good? Good.
Note: it is entirely appropriate to accuse me of laziness for not wanting to write anything new right now. I actually have a good rant sort of worked out in my head, and also another ongoing bloggity project that's been sitting dusty on an invisible shelf (that apparently collects real dust) for months. But, again–lazy. I'm getting there.
In the meantime, I give you Reverse Darwinism. Me, circa 2007. You lucky person, you.
"Sources claim that Henry J Heinz began making ketchup in 1876. The recipe has remained the same to this day. Heinz was neither the inventor of ketchup nor the first to bottle it commercially. The tomato is a native of the Andes, and early in the 1500s, while living in Mexico a group of Spanish conquistadors discovered it, and the tomato followed them back to Europe."
Evolution rears its ugly head yet again, apparently. Here I am looking up the history of ketchup (as one spends one's time doing during one's lunch break), only to read here that the first tomato ever discovered apparently had the ability to follow (and keep up with) a group of conquistadors… (Shit. is that right? Myriad of conquistadors? Gaggle of conquistadors? An invasion of conquistadors? Let's see….murder of crows, pride of lions, school of fish, silliness of Republicans, herd of sheep, bellowing of bullfinches, flock of camels…)—we'll say 'disco of conquistadors.' Why? Because it amuses me.
Moving on… I believe this suggests that the original tomato had, at least, legs, and then certainly arms for balance, likely opposable thumbs for wielding weapons (so as to survive when conquistadors get into a scuffle, as conquistadors tend to do), and a prehensile tail (clearly for hanging onto branch and limb when attempting tough terrain). Which just makes you wonder, I think, how we as humans have affected the evolution of the tomato so much that we have simply caused its appendages to fall out. Clearly our global footprint is deeper than we thought. This concerns me very deeply.
My message to you is this: before we can inflict any more harm on the state of the world's vegetation, quit pulling the vine off the tomato, or else someday—if evolutionary history repeats itself—our tomatoes will simply be red, round balls, inherently vineless and incapable of forming their distinctively pleasing shape. For the love of god, people, do it for the Earth. Okay? Who's with me?
This is all true, by the way. Don't bother looking it up.


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The Kaapse Klopse is a minstrel festival that takes place annually on January 2nd, in Cape Town, South Africa. Up to 13,000 minstrels, many in blackface, take to the streets garbed in bright colors, either carrying colorful umbrellas or playing an array of musical instruments. The minstrels are grouped in klopse ("clubs" in Cape Dutch, but more accurately translated as troupes in English). Participants are typically from Afrikaans-speaking working class "colored" families who have preserved the custom since the mid 19th century.
Although it is called the Coon Carnival by Capetonians, local authorities have renamed the festival the Cape Town Minstrel Carnival as foreign tourist find the term "coon" derogatory.
One story goes that the carnival was inspired by a group of African-American minstrels who docked in Cape Town in the late 1800's and entertained the sailors with their spontaneous musical performances. The popular song Hier kom die Alabama (Here comes the Alabama) refers to the ship that is believed to have brought them. Another story goes that the traveling minstrels were actually white and painted their face black...hence the painted faces seen today.
The source of the parade and the festival are the horrors of slavery, as was blackface minstrels in the United States. As Denis-Constant Martin's book Coon Carnival informs us, several forms given to physical torture, including the burning of effigies on Guy Fawkes day, evolved into the present day commemoration. Some would remind us, however, that American style slavery has more influence in America than Southern Africa. Guy Fawkes day is a British custom, and is not connected as such with American slavery. Even American blackface minstrels are more connected with celebrations of the people that came out of slavery than with the institution itself.
Troupe Organisation
The majority of the troupes (approximately 169) are represented by the Kaapse Karnaval ("Cape Carnival") Association. In addition, two breakaway organisations (the Kaapse Karnaval Association and the Mitchell's Plain Youth Development Minstrel Board) represent a minority of troupes.
The Carnival Today
The festival begins on New Year's Day and continues into January. Traditionally, it has been a site for grievances against white supremacy. Festivities include street parades with singing and dancing, costume competitions and marches through the streets. While many troupes now are supported by corporate sponsors, many refuse and remain sticklers for tradition. The 2005 carnival was nearly cancelled due to an alleged lack of funding, while the 2006 carnival was officially called off for the same reason. However, the troupe organisations subsequently decided to go ahead with the parade despite continued unhappiness over funding, and the festivities, were opened by Western Cape premier Ebrahim Rascool on January 2nd, 2006.


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Rays Throw One Heck of a Fan Fest
The moments surrounding the entire exhausting day are still spinning around aimlessly in my head. Pulsating through my eyes and ears still are the photographic moments, enthusiastic greetings of baseball friends, and again hearing a buzz engulfing Tropicana Field. The last time I sat in this stadium, another team was celebrating.
Today it was to again witness a seasonal rebirth, a reincarnation of the recharging baseball spirit. It was time to get our collective baseball on! When the doors finally were thrown open as a symbol of a new Tampa Bay Rays season, I was overcome with a emotion of the expectations, the unforeseen, and the grandour of another season "officially" being kicked off along with 25,000 of my fellow Rays fans.
As I first rushed in from Centerfield, a Pepsi monstrosity met my eyes. I was the first Pepsi person to build a display for the Rays/Pepsi Fan Wall of Fame 7 years earlier, on my own induction day. Before me stood a wall of power, agility and almost 20 hous of labor. But it was a labor of baseball love, and bigger than anything I could of ever imagined. Then out of the corner of my eye was the object of that day's affection for me.
There on pallets stacked almost 4 feet tall were 1 foot square parcels of the old Tropicana Field FieldTurf. The same turf that saw champagne dripped on it in 2008 and again in 2010. The same turf that was in place during the first Rays No-hitter in 2010 by Matt Garza, or the first Rays cycle by B J Upton in September 2009. So much history had been spilled both by sweat and celebration on that dark green carpet. Now it could be all ours with a $ 25 donation to the Rays Baseball Foundation. A small price for something that holds so many memories in its fabric.
So much to do during Fan Fest, and so little time. I decided to take astroll back towards the Centerfield entrance and view again, the Rays Holy Grail, The 2008 American League Trophy.stood before me with a brilliant Rays inspired background. To this day, that trophy still has a special allure,and makes me want to embraced it just like I did back before the 2009 season. But this time, it was out there front and center for all Rays fans to also celebrate and have their photos taken with this glorious piece of hardware. That is what Fan Fest is all about…possibilities.
Suddenly my eyes began to refodus towards Home Plate, and lo and behold stood new Ray Johnny Damon dressed in a "22" jersey giving a high-5 to a young Rays fan who had just finished running the bases. It was great to see new Rays Johnny Damon take some time out of his busy day to come greet a few special Rays youngsters as they crossed the plate. Damon had a prior committment that day and only had a few moments, but a few kids will get a moment that will be cherished when they get older. Thank you Johnny!
I spent a few moments listening to Damon during his radio interview with local Brighthouse Sports anchor Rock Riley before taking a trip down "booth row". This houses all the radio station, special promotional partners of the Rays, plus the Rays club tables. I stopped by the "Maddon's Maniac table and met for a fewmoments with coordinator Matt Fitzgerald looking at the new 2011 gray "Maddons Maniac" design. Fitzgerald also pointed out the new dark blue T-shirts for the "Golden Rays" (over 55 Rays) which also had a beautiful new "GR" insignia on the design. Both designs were amazing, and sure to be popular Trop items this season.
After a quick check-in at the Wall of Fame table to let them know "Mr. Lucky" from the class of 2004 was in attendance, I was off to the Yard Sales of all Yard Sales located in the Corona Beach area in Leftfield, and also out in Leftfield Street in the stickball court region.
Used game jerseys from the past, including the 10th Anniversary jerseys were going for only $ 100. Along with signed balls, used bats and even a few other momentos most would have thought long gone. A 2010 Rays Media Guide, Yearbook went for the unheard of cost of only $ 2 (they cost $ 20 in the Team Store during the 2010 season). Buyers were everywhere getting some of the best Rays deals, and also helping the Rays Baseball Foundation.
I took another lap around the stadium watching as kid's played numerous games from a speed trial while running from first to second base. A wiffle ball Home Run Derby area that looked like Ebbets Field, plus the always popular pitch speed booth where young hurlers could see if their velocity had improved over the Winter.
Took in the numerous vendors selling Rays merchandise along the curve of the infield clay and also experienced a small sampling of the "Little Cooperstown" baseball display that an avid Rays fan has assembled throughout his life. Took the yearly visit through the Rays Clubhouse where I got to see the now famous GTMI Board. GTMI stands for "Get The Man In", which Maddon stressed profusely during the 2010 season. Those 4 letters might have been a small catalyst that eventually got them the Rays second American League East title in three seasons.
It was only a little after 10 am and already the autograph line was getting full for the 12 pm signings for Evan Longoria (Table 1) and B J Upton (Table 6). I strolled around the ballpark a few more times even hitting "radio row" again, plus the Fox SunSports table where roving television reporter Todd Kalas was signing for fans.
Kalas was at Fan Fest for a long time today considering he had to do a telecast for the USF Bulls Basketball game that evening. That just shows the dedication goes beyond just the players for this event. Before he left that afternoon, Kalas had stripped off his Carolina blue Fox/FSN polo shirt and reappeared in a dress shirt and tie ready for his departure to USF. But the mood was upbeat and extremely enthusiastic all over the stadium about this 2011 Rays team.
It was now about 12 and Longoria and Upton had not arrived yet to the Trop. Seems there was an accident on I-75 coming Northbound. For those who do not know, the I-75 corridor from Palmetto to Naples is under going some construction and repair work to widen the highway. One section of I-75 North was already 2-lanes before the accident. Afterwards it pushed everyone into a single lane for a short distance, which backed up traffic for miles.
I took another lap around "Radio Row" which was just in front of the Rays home dugoutnear the area between the two dugout. I made sure to stop by the Rays Radio Network table and congradulate Dave Willis on his recent 3-year deal to stay as a voice of the Rays. In front of the visitor's dugout was the MLB Alumni signing tables. There event featured 40 former MLB players signing FREE autographs for the fans.
I was looking forward to seeing ex Rays Dave Eiland (now a Rays Special Assistant), OF Jason Romano, and relievers Roberto Hernandez and Travis Phelps. Hernandez was accompanied by his young son, who also is a local budding baseball player. But I was intriqued to see Phelps wholast pitched a few years ago for the Tigers in the Spring. People forget he is always going to hold a distinctive record in MLB history. Phelps was drafted by the Rays in the 89th Round of the 1996 MLB Draft. No one else…ever will make it to the MLB level from that spot.
It was now around 12-ish, and Evan Longoria and B J Upton had not arrived yet for their 12 pm signings. Word spread quickly back behind the blue curtain that an accident had traffic backed up a bit on I-75 coming North from Port Charlotte,Florida. The Rays were enroute, but were delayed by traffic. The section of road from Palmetto to Port Charlotte is undergoing a huge upgrade in lanes and interior changes. I know from traveling the route just a few days earlier that not paying attention could cause a huge mess.
Finally both Upton and Longoria arrived and began signingfor the fans. The 1pm and 2 pm Rays players also had a bit of a delay, but it was much less than the huge time lapse of Upton and Longoria. Rays RP Andy Sonnanstine also wore a T-shirt honoring the two slain SPPD officers during his Season Ticket holder photo op, and his panel discussion with fellow pitcher Jeff Niemann. J P Howell took a moment to chat with me before heading off to do his photo opportunity with Sonnanstine, then do his "Reading With the Rays".
Even with a few bumps in the road. The new AstroTurf at Tropicana Field brought about some comments as to its "bumps", but after 25,000 pairs of feet, plus the upcoming gymnastics event and St. Petersburg Boat Show, the turf should have settled a bit more in place. No matter what, Dan Moeller and his Rays groundscrew will have theTrop surface in tip top shape before the Rays final Spring Training game on March 31,2011.
The Rays Fan fest attracted 25,000 Tampa Bay fans. It also helped raise over $100,000 dollars for its affiliated charities through donations and the Yard Sale. It was the perfect ending to a great day of celebrating the upcoming season, plus remembering those less fortunate in our community. Once again the Rays showed they know how to throw a Fan Fest. Sure there were a few flies in the ointment, but that will only make the Rays staff work harder to bring another great event in 2012…I can't wait!
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Awesome pics. It must have been a great experience.
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Very cool. As a fan, I'd love to be a part of that. Maybe that's the Rays' business model. Spend little money on players, spend a lot on the fans. Not bad.
It was a great time.
Also had a lot of local bloggers and fans who read my Tweets come by and say "hello". And that was a secondary cool thing. You read or write things in 140-characters for so long that the personal side something disappears and you see that person in black and white.
Shaking their hand or just talking with them makes them more…real ( if that makes sense).
The Rays have done a great job again on Fan Fest, and it is one of those events I wait with anticipation…like a kid on Christmas morning….seriously.
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The pics really are outstanding. It looked like an incredible time. There is no way we do those kinds of things here. It's a drawback of being US I guess. We can do something like the All*Star Game or an upcoming Super Bowl because we can disperse people everywhere in the city. These Fests are nightmares though. The only team that can do it well, and does, are the NY Rangers Hockey team.
I wrote about the Cardinals Fan fest pricing a few days ago, and I am glad you did not take offense to me mentioning it. These events will not always be FREE or within the budget of most people.
Maybe that is why I cherish them right now. The Rays do seem to put their fans in front, which is a good and bad thing. Good because we get to do events or activities oither teams fans dream about..But bad becuase we may get spoiled and whine when they are gone.
Such is life!
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I can see a day in the future where even a Rays event might not be able to take place.
But that will be when the current young kids get to become ticket purchasers and most of the transplants stay home or watch on television.
It is a great event bar none.
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I love this post. Makes me want the season to start!!! Yes, I am back again!! http://catlovesthedodgers.mlblogs.com
I am glad to see you back.
Dodger Blue seemed a bit less colorful without you during the off season..
Get ready for some Camelback fun, then a chance to knock some World Series glitter of those pesky G-men.
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Love the pics. Looks like you had a great time at the fanfest. You guys excited about Manny ? Oh yeah, thanks for coming over to my blog, yeah, i'll be looking forward to retro t-shirt night. Thanks again for coming over to my blog.
It was my pleasure coming over to your blog. I like to go out there and explore the blogs and see what kind of exciting writing is hitting the web.
I actually met Manny this past Tuesday when he reported to camp ( by accident). I think he can do a lot with this team. Sure he might have a falre-up…or two, but that comes with the reputation. At least he is not Milton Bradley.
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June 23, 2010
Help Iran's Reformers?
To the Editor:
Reuel Marc Gerecht correctly assesses the winds of change in the Green movement in Iran ("Iran's Revolution: Year 2," Op-Ed, June 15), but he is wrong about the ability of the United States to effectively aid that movement.
Sadly, decades of United States interference in Iranian affairs have guaranteed that any official American support of an Iranian reform movement will poison that movement with the plausible accusation of another round of American desire to dominate Iran.
This happened in 1953 with the C.I.A.-engineered overthrow of Prime Minister Mohammad Mossadegh, in the 1980s with the tilt toward Iraq in the Iran-Iraq war, and today in the United States-led move to curtail Iran's nuclear energy program.
The reformers have said clearly and repeatedly that they don't want our "help." So why would we force it upon them — only to guarantee their failure through invidious association with us?
Iranians are not children. Political evolution in the Islamic Republic is the only way to guarantee permanent reform.
William O. Beeman
London, June 15, 2010
The writer, professor and chairman of the department of anthropology at the University of Minnesota, is the author of "The 'Great Satan' vs. the 'Mad Mullahs': How the United States and Iran Demonize Each Other."
(A version of this letter appeared in print on June 24, 2010, on page A32 of the New York edition.)
Wednesday, June 23, 2010
William O. Beeman--Response to Reuel Marc Gerecht "Help Iran's Reformers"
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Roger Ebert, the film critic, expresses what it means beautifully here
That is what death means. We exist in the minds of other people, in thousands of memory clusters, and one by one those clusters fade and disappear. Some years from now, at a funeral with a slide show, only one person will be able to say who we were. Then no one will know.I think he is right. I thought of my father when I read that, a far greater man than I will ever be, and thought of the way that even that memory fades with age. Death comes twice, once through absense and secondly through forgetfulness. The greatest commitment in the war poetry is
At the going down of the sun and in the morning, we will remember themSave of course we now do not. Not because we are wrong or evil in some way but because we never knew what we had to remember. To some extent that is what history is- its a device for remembering those who are gone, who are lost, who will never return. But it is an endeavour that will always fail. Its the same with growing in some ways- as we grow, we kill the previous parts of ourselves- the games we would play as children, the love that we left behind, the world we had lost. Reading Barnes's Sense of an Ending, I got taken more and more with the title- is there anything to human life which is not a sense of ending?


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Advertisers pay an average of $1.07 to attract fans to their Facebook page, but those costs may rise as clicks and users become more elusive, a recent study reported.
Webtrends studied 11,000 Facebook ad campaigns in the United States and found that marketers specifically wanted fan-acquisition ads, mainly because they had permission to market directly to users, according to the Wall Street Journal Digits blog. They were also willing to pay more to get them.
However, the study also showed that the fan-acquisition ad clicks are declining while ad costs are rising. There's no clear reason why users aren't clicking through the ads, but Webtrends had this to offer:
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Justin Kistner, Webtrends' senior manager of product marketing for social had a few theories. One possibility is that the ads aren't as effective these days at attracting users, either because the ad creative design is growing boring or because Facebook users are learning to ignore the ads. And ads could be growing more expensive because many of them are sold through an auction system that's getting increasing competition as more advertisers turn to Facebook.
Kistner's advice was for companies to start acquiring fans sooner rather than later, or risk substantially higher costs.
Facebook declined to comment on the study because it did not participate in it, a spokesman said.
The obvious answer would be for businesses to give consumers something tangible to become a fan on Facebook, such as a free service, hamburger or laundry detergent. People may be more willing to give up personal information if they know they're getting something in return.


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|Brothers, Hairston "Buster" Bryan and my father,
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Tuesday, August 28, 2012
Census Sightings: Harry B. Bryan???
In the 1930 census, my father, Whit Criswell Bryan, was living with his three sisters in Borger, Texas; however, his brother, Hairston "Buster" Bryan is not with the family and for years, I was unable to find him.
Last week, when writing about Buster and his wife, Wanda, in the 1940 census, I decided to search yet another time for Buster in 1930. According to a search at Ancestry.com there were 356 male Bryans or Bryants born in Texas around 1906 and living in the United States in 1930. Number 58 was the first that looked promising - Harry B. Bryan and the more that I read, the more that I knew it was Buster.
"Harry" lived on Burnett Street in Wichita Falls, Texas - not far from Buster's hometown of Seymour. He was a lodger in a home owned by a widow, Wanda Lawler, from Kentucky. Also living in the house were Russel Dobbs, the G. C. Casey family, and another lodger, Carlena Mays, a cook. "Harry" was a drugstore clerk and like Buster, he was born in Texas in 1906, his mother was born in Texas, and his father was born in Louisiana.
I don't know why his name is written as "Harry" instead of Hairston but, I know that this is Buster. Buster lived in Wichita Falls at the time of his father's death in August of 1929 and newspaper clippings about his father's death state that Buster worked at the Kemp-Kort Drug company in Wichita Falls.
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Iroquois Memorial Hospital joining forces with Presence Health
Presence Health and Watseka's Iroquois Memorial Hospital (IMH) have signed a letter of intent to form an affiliation.
"Presence Health welcomes the opportunity to partner with Iroquois Memorial Hospital," said Sandra Bruce, President and Chief Executive Officer of Presence Health. "We believe this partnership has the potential to build on our mutual strengths and vision, resulting in high-quality, coordinated care for the greater community of Watseka and Iroquois County."
"We are pleased to be signing a letter of intent with Presence Health," said Chuck Bohlmann, President and CEO, Iroquois Memorial Hospital. "We feel Presence Health's continuum of services and system resources will strengthen Iroquois' ability to serve the health care needs of the communities we serve."
If completed, this would be the first hospital affiliation for Presence Health since Resurrection Health Care and Provena Health joined together to form the health system in 2011. With the Letter of Intent signed, Presence and IMH will move forward to complete their due diligence and a definitive agreement.
Iroquois Memorial Hospital is a 49-bed hospital and 35-bed skilled nursing facility in Watseka. Located in the Central Illinois region, Iroquois bridges the geographic areas of Presence Health's existing hospitals with St. Mary's Hospital in Kankakee, Presence Covenant Medical Center in Urbana and Presence United Samaritans Medical Center in Danville. The hospital also operates four primary care clinics in the surrounding area.
IMH began looking for a partner more than a year ago to ensure the sustainability of local access to high quality health care for the residents of the communities served by IMH, and to maintain jobs at the facility.
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Confidential Correspondence of the Navy, 1919-1927
Records: 156,278 · Complete: 100%
From 1917 to 1919, OPNAV maintained its own confidential files and those of the Office of the Secretary of the Navy. In August 1919, the newly created OPNAV Planning Division was given the responsibility for keeping the secret and confidential files of these two offices and established the series reproduced in this publication. Many of the documents in the series originated with the Planning Division. Also incorporated into the series, however, were documents of the various OPNAV planning committees that had existed prior to the creation of the Planning Division; thus, many of these documents predate August 1919. About July 1922, OPNAV established a separate office entitled Secret and Confidential (SC) File Room to maintain security-classified correspondence files, thereby relieving the Planning Division of the duty it had assumed 3 years earlier. The records reproduced herein include those of the period when the Planning Division kept the files, as well as of the period during which the SC File Room maintained them.
The images in this title are digitized from 117 rolls of microfilm representing "secret and confidential" correspondence of the Office of the Chief of Naval Operations (OPNAV) and the Office of the Secretary of the Navy, August 1919-July 1927. These records are part of General Records of the Department of the Navy, 1798-1947, Record Group (RG) 80.
The descriptive pamphlet (DP) for M1140 is available to view or download here. It was written by Timothy K. Nenninger. Mary Swann and Robert Aquilina arranged the records. A great deal of the description of M1140 on this page is taken directly from the DP.
The Department of the Navy was established by an act of April 30, 1798 (1 Stat. 553). That act also provided for appointment by the President of a Secretary of the Navy, who would have the following responsibilities: definition of naval policy; procurement of naval stores and materials; and construction, armament, equipment, and deployment of war vessels. During the 19th century, the establishment of eight bureaus and several offices within the Department gradually reduced the Secretary's direct role in routine administration and naval operations. The growing complexity of naval warfare led to the establishment in 1900 of the General Board to advise the Secretary on naval strategy and policy. Subsequent Navy regulations expanded the Board's duties to include administrative matters.
Created by an act of March 3, 1915 (38 Stat. 929), OPNAV, headed by the Chief of Naval Operations (CNO), took over many of the duties of the General Board, which then reverted to its original advisory capacity. The primary duties of OPNAV concerned "the operations of the fleet" and "the preparations and readiness of plans for its use in war." An act of August 29, 1916, greatly enlarged the OPNAV staff and empowered it to issue orders carrying the same force as those of the Secretary of the Navy. By 1918, OPNAV included the following offices: Aviation, Material, Naval Districts, and Operating Forces Divisions; Armed Guard Section; Board of Inspection and Survey; Naval Communication Service; Office of Gunnery Exercises and Engineering Performances; and Office of Naval Intelligence. In addition to these larger administrative entities, OPNAV had earlier established a number of ad hoc planning committees to consider changes in naval policy, plan future operations, and study naval requirements. Officers serving on such committees usually came from that permanent section of OPNAV having responsibility for the matter to be studied.
During World War I, most of the U.S. naval planning was not done in OPNAV, despite its organizational orders, which provided for the creation of a Planning Division to deliberate changes in policy and to prepare naval plans consistent with that policy. Because the bulk of U.S. naval strength was employed to secure the Atlantic sealanes in conjunction with the British Royal Navy, wartime naval planning emanated instead from the London offices of the American Naval Planning Section, Headquarters, U.S. Naval Forces Operating in European Waters.
Experience during World War I and requirements of rapidly evolving naval technology demonstrated the need for a number of changes in the organization of OPNAV. In 1923, as a result of revised organizational orders and Navy regulations, OPNAV was reorganized into 10 divisions: War Plans, Naval War College, Intelligence, Material, Ships Movements, Naval Districts, Fleet Training, Inspection, Communication, and Secretarial. Despite these organizational changes, the essential duties and the purpose of the Office remained unchanged. The CNO, under direction of the Secretary of the Navy, retained responsibility for the readiness of the fleet and preparation of strategic plans for its utilization. Once the Secretary approved these plans, the CNO acted as the Secretary's agent in their implementation. In addition, the CNO continued to supervise all Navy activities ashore and afloat.
Using the records
This series of secret and confidential correspondence is arranged numerically by assigned master number in a single sequence (100-243). The Navy Department assigned one of 143 master numbers to each of a variety of geographical and organizational entities, technological areas, and conceptual matters as the need arose, rather than -according to a preconceived scheme. No subject was assigned to master number 187, and no documents are presently filed under 230, Naval Overseas Transportation Service. The files for each master number vary in size from one page to several thousand pages and consist of many types of documents—letters, memorandums, reports, endorsements, cablegrams, radio messages, transcripts, maps, hydrographic charts, organization charts, and photographs.
The assignment of master numbers to particular subjects was not consistent. For instance, there are two master numbers for Defensive Sea Areas (118 and 152), two for Panama Canal (119 and 197), and two for Philippine Islands (101 and 200); while British (225) and Great Britain (239) were assigned separate numbers. Moreover, documents filed under a master number at times bear only a tenuous relation to the subject that the number represents or to other documents filed under that same number. For example, Armor (133) consists of two documents, one describing toxic fillers for naval armor-piercing shells and the other armor for the turrets of battleships under construction. Similarly, the master file for Building Program (Aviation) (136) contains a memorandum describing H.M.S. Argus3 a British aircraft carrier completed in 1918, as well as a 1919 newspaper article comparing the U.S.S. California with the latest British and Japanese battleships. The master file for the Virgin Islands (125) includes a chart listing 176 enemy submarines sunk before October 15, 1918, by Allied naval and air forces.
In its most comprehensive form, the file number assigned to a document consists of the master number representing the principal subject of the document (198, War Plans), followed by a subnumber representing the subordinate subject (198-5, Readiness for War Data), and a second subnumber assigned to individual items filed under the first subnumber (198-5:1, Readiness for War Data for Naval Ordnance). A hyphen separates the master number and the first Subnumber, and a colon separates the first and second subnumbers. For many files, however, the file designation consists of master and first subnumber only; for these files, the individual documents are arranged chronologically within each subnumber. Finally, some of the files have no subnumbers; in such cases, individual documents bear only the master number and are arranged chronologically.
As a piece of correspondence passed through the naval chain of command, each office usually added an endorsement, which frequently reflected its views on the subject. The Navy Department kept endorsements with the original correspondence and filed them in reverse numerical order, i.e., endorsement 10, followed by 9, followed by 8, and so forth, with the original piece of correspondence filed last. In preparing these records for microfilming, the staff of the National Archives and Records Service (NARS) has arranged endorsements numerically following the original correspondence to which they refer.
Nearly all documents in this series bear file numbers written in pen, pencil, or crayon at the bottom of the first page of the document; but some are typed in the upper left corner. Because the Planning Division of OPNAV initially maintained these records, the file numbers on the pre-July 1922 documents are preceded by PD. After July 1922, the file numbers are preceded by SC.
Security Classification
Nearly all of the documents filmed in this microfilm publication were classified as secret or confidential at the time of their creation and had those classification markings stamped, typed, or written on them. NARS and the Department of the Navy have reviewed and declassified all of the records reproduced herein; none of these documents is presently security-classified. A document from file 108-22 and another from 231-6 were withdrawn from this series, and are not reproduced in this publication, because the Navy Department determined that they require continued security protection.
Document types
File Contents
This series of secret and confidential correspondence reflects the many facets of U.S. naval activity during World War I, the immediate postwar years, and the first years of the era of the Treaty Navy (post-Washington Naval Conference). The records document U.S. naval involvement with foreign countries, application of technology to naval matters, establishment of overseas bases, appropriations, tactical doctrine, naval strategy, peacetime naval maneuvers, and wartime naval operations. The communications were exchanged among a number of principals, but mainly within OPNAV and between that office and the bureaus, fleet units, and shore commands of the Navy Department. Other sources of communications include the Office of the Secretary of the Navy, the War Department, the State Department, and foreign governments.
Aspects of U.S. naval organization and operations in World War I are documented in the master files entitled Northern Barrage (134), Convoys (147), and Cooperation with Allies (149). The file designations Peace Treaty (Germany) (102), Demobilization (130), and German Ships Taken Over by U.S. Navy (157) include information on naval activities in the immediate post-Armistice period. The several master files relating to naval building programs (129 and 136 through 139) contain proposals made shortly after the war to increase naval construction, but also they show the effects of the treaties emanating from the 1921-22 Washington Naval Conference in curtailing those plans. A lecture presented in 1923 at the Army War College by Capt. F. H. Schofield (USN) also outlines "Some Effects of the Washington Conference on Naval Strategy" (210-2).
Documents on evolving naval technology during this period can be found in the master files on Aviation (111), Guns (156), Submarines (166 through 171), and Mines (184 and 185). The last two files also contain considerable information on minelaying and minesweeping operations during World War I. The U.S. Navy's relations with foreign navies, its involvement in the internal political affairs of other countries, and its role in "showing the flag" are documented in master files bearing such geographic headings as Turkey (103), China (108), Central America (117), Russia (132), Santo Domingo (159), Japan (178), South America (215), Adriatic (220), Peru (235), and Haiti (238). Other master files with geographic headings contain records that reflect the intentions of the Navy to establish and defend bases in the Caribbean and the Pacific in order to project its power there. These include Philippine Islands (101 and 200), Hawaiian Islands (121), Virgin Islands (125), Puerto Rico (126), Guam (127), Cuba (150), Culebra (151), Panama (119 and 197), and Samoa (231). Other master files contain information on Ships (162), Fleet Organization (122), Organization of Naval Forces (195), Destroyers (232), and Battleships (237). Documents relating to U.S. naval strategy and war plans can be found among the reports of the Planning Committee (100), and the master files on the Naval War College (112), Army General Staff College (115), and War Plans (198).
Related resources
Related records that have been reproduced as NARA Microfilm Publications are Annual Reports of the Governors of Guam, 1901-1941, Ml81; Records Relating to United States Navy Fleet Problems T to XXII, 1923-1941, M964; Annual Reports of Fleets and Task Forces of the U.S. Navy, 1920-1941, M971; Navy Department General Orders, 1863-1948, M984; General and Special Indexes to the General Correspondence of the Office of the Secretary of the Navy, July 1897-August 1926, M1052; and Indexes and Subject Cards to the "Secret and Confidential" Correspondence of the Office of the Secretary of the Navy, March 1917-July 1919, Ml092.
List of master file numbers
100 - Reports (Planning Committee) 101 - Philippine Islands (Navy Yards) 102 - Peace Treaty (Germany) 103 - Turkey 104 - Personnel 105 - Navy Yards (New York) 106 - Petroleum Policy 107 - Ice Patrol 108 - China 109 - Appropriations 110 - Patrol of Great Lakes 111 - Air Service (Aviation) 112 - Naval War College 113 - Torpedoes 114 - Policy (General Naval Establishment) 115 - Army General Staff College 116 - Swan Islands 117 - Central America 118 - Defensive Sea Areas 119 - Panama Canal 120 - Transports 121 - Hawaiian Islands 122 - Fleet Organization 123 - Submarines (German) 124 - Naval Railway Battery 125 - Virgin Islands 126 - Puerto Rico 127 - Guam 128 - Censorship 129 - Building Program (General) 130 - Demobilization 131 - Fuel and Fuel Stations (Coal, Oil, and Gas) 132 - Russia 133 - Armor 134 - Northern Barrage 135 - Boards (Ship Control Board) 136 - Building Program (Aviation) 137 - Building Program (Battleships) 138 - Building Program (General) 139 - Building Program (Submarines) 140 - Camouflage 141 - Canada 142 - Caribbean 143 - Characteristics of Vessels 144 - Chasers, Building and Operation of Submarine 145 - Coast Guard Service 146 - Consular Service 147 - Convoys 148 - Cooperation (Army and Navy) 149 - Cooperation with Allies 150 - Cuba 151 - Culebra 152 - Defensive Sea Areas 153 - Lifting Craft (Wrecking Vessels) 154 - Boats 155 - Depth Charges 156 - Guns (Gunnery Exercises) 157 - German Ships Taken Over by U.S. Navy 158 - San Pedro, California 159 - Santo Domingo 160 - Shipping 161 - Shipping Board 162 - Ships 163 - Spain 164 - Storage 165 - Supply Ships 166 - Submarines, Devices for Detection of Enemy 167 - Submarines, Operations of 168 - Submarines (Enemy Activities) 169 - Submarines, Abolishment of 170 - Submarines, Defense Against Enemy 171 - Submarine Defense Association 172 - Civilized Warfare 173 - Trans-Atlantic Lanes 174 - Transportation 175 - Transports 176 - Troops 177 - Communications 178 - Japan 179 - League of Nations 180 - Austria 181 - Medals 182 - Merchant Vessels 183 - Merchant Ships, Arming and Manning of 184 - Mines and Mine Laying Vessels 185 - Mines, Enemy 186 - Mexico 187 - (no subject heading ever assigned) 188 - Narragansett Bay 189 - Naval Attaches 190 - Naval Bases (Naval Districts) 191 - Naval Districts 192 - Neutral Vessels 193 - Naval Base (New London, Conn.) 194 - Naval Experimental Station (New London, Conn.) 195 - Naval Forces, Organization of 196 - Pacific (Strategic) 197 - Panama Canal 198 - War Plans 199 - Homing Pigeons 200 - Philippine Islands 201 - Plans for Suppressing the Enemy 202 - Policy 203 - Policy (Navy) 204 - Portugal 205 - Port Officers 206 - Port and Harbor Facilities 207 - Practices, General 208 - Propaganda 209 - Public Works (Navy) 210 - Public Works (Army) 211 - Radio 212 - Reports 213 - Routing (Ships) 214 - Gas Warfare 215 - South America 216 - Charts, Maps, and Publications 217 - Italy 218 - Galapagos Islands 219 - Tahiti (Society Islands) 220 - Adriatic 221 - Preparedness for War 222 - German Tank Vessels 223 - Marine Corps 224 - Key West 225 - British 226 - Miscellaneous 227 - Progress Report of Plans Division 228 - Tankers 229 - Paravanes 230 - Naval Overseas Transportation Service 231 - Samoa 232 - Destroyers 233 - Joint Board 234 - Sale of Ships 235 - Peru 236 - General Board 237 - Battleships 238 - Haiti 239 - Great Britain 240 - Greece 241 - Repair Ships (Salvage) 242 - France 243 - Netherlands
Descriptions of select master number files
100 - Reports (Planning Committee)
This file consists mainly of reports of the Planning Committee (100-1 to 100-114), prepared for the CNO, on such matters as: naval patrol of the Great Lakes; recruitment of naval personnel; destruction of derelict vessels; disposition of surplus vessels; transfer of the Coast Guard to the Department of the Navy; abolition of submarine warfare; organization, development, and mission of the Atlantic and Pacific fleets; and reorganizations of the Navy Department. At the beginning of the file are minutes of conferences of heads of OPNAV divisions (July 30, 1918- Dec. 22, 1925) and minutes of meetings of the Secretary's Council (Mar. 24, 1921-Feb. 7, 1924). Minutes sometimes include announcements of the meetings and verbatim statements of people who addressed the meetings. The last item in the file is the diary of the Planning Committee (Aug. 1919-Dec. 1920, 100-115), which explains its organization and records its major accomplishments. A report by the board of observers of the bombing tests held in June-July 1921 off the Virginia capes is filed here (100-21:1), although the Planning Committee had no connection with the tests.
102 - Peace Treaty (Germany)
Contained in this file are processed and printed documents from the proceedings of the Paris Peace Conference (102-16), weekly progress reports of the U.S. member of the Allied Armistice Commission, minutes of the meetings of the Allied Maritime Transportation Council (102-34), and memorandums prepared by the U.S. Naval Advisory Staff in Paris (102-35). These records relate to such naval aspects of the Armistice and peace treaty as the use and disposition of ex-German naval vessels (102-21). Also included are reports on the 1921 aerial bombing tests conducted against the Ostfriesland and other ships of the former Imperial German Navy (102 21:1). There is also some correspondence relating to visits of U.S. naval officers to Germany and to the visit of German naval training ships to U.S. ports.
104 - Personnel
Included are documents relating to the following matters: exchange of officers between the Army and Navy (104-54); recruitment, retention, morale, and efficiency of the enlisted force; annual operating force personnel and replacement plans (104-32:1); and the personnel requirements needed to meet the force structure outlined in the Basic War Plans (104-51). This master file contains a complete transcript of the 1925 court-martial of Brig. Gen. William Mitchell (104-47) and correspondence concerning the disappearance in 1923 of Lt. Col. Earl H. Ellis (USMC) in the Caroline Islands (104-52).
109 - Appropriations
This file contains correspondence on specific naval appropriations bills, estimates of naval appropriations, and annual estimates of the situation. These last estimates are general statements of U.S. naval policy, containing contemporary analyses of the international situation and its impact on the U.S. Navy.
111 - Air Service (Aviation)
Documents in this file reflect the growing importance of military aviation in the early 1920's and the impact of the development of aerial bombardment on naval doctrine and technology. Included are the proceedings and final report, dated January 17, 1925, of a board of officers under Adm. E. W. Eberle, which studied "policy with reference to upkeep of the Navy in its various branches," with particular attention to aviation and its effect on fleet operations (111-1). The report of the Naval Board on Bombing Tests, concerning tests conducted on the USS Alabama, September 23-26, 1921 (111-67:3), addresses similar questions, while the report of the Lassiter Board, April 24, 1923 (111-95:1), examines the question of military aviation from the perspective of the War Department. This file also contains a number of reports and construction drawings relating to the conversion of two battle cruisers to the aircraft carriers Lexington and Saratoga (111-58), as well as correspondence on a proposed around-the-world flight by naval aviators (111-99:1), arctic exploration flights (111-99:1), and the operations and crash of the airship Shenandoah (111-98).
112 - Naval War College
This master file includes correspondence exchanged between the Army War College and the Naval War College relating largely to such strategic subjects as coast defense policy and U.S. strategy in the Atlantic. It also contains copies of studies, prepared by the Naval War College, of the following subjects: relative fleet strengths of the major naval powers (112-33, 112-44); battleship force tactics, naval doctrine, and strategy for a central Pacific offensive (112-33); and suggestions for improving U.S. tactical readiness for war (112-49). Some correspondence relating to the proper location, activities, and functions of the Naval War College (112-13) is also included.
117 - Central America
Much of this file consists of reports and dispatches received from the Special Service Squadron on conditions in Latin American countries, many of which describe the 1921 Panama-Costa Rica boundary dispute (117-45) and political conditions in Nicaragua (117-24) during 1926-27. A number of letters and dispatches relate to visits of U.S. ships to Central American ports and to requests for such visits.
121 - Hawaiian Islands
Most of these documents relate to the development of Pearl Harbor as a major naval base. Other records concern the defenses of the island from aerial, and naval attack (121-21) and from sabotage (121-20) and the policy of the Navy Department regarding employment of U.S. citizens of Japanese ancestry (121-16).
127 - Guam
The two major topics documented in this file are the proposed development of Guam as a naval base and of the logistical and personnel requirements of the Marine garrison stationed there (127-2, 127-4, and 127-27). Other topics include the immigration of Chamorro people to Guam from islands in the Marianas under Japanese control (127-10), foreign residents (127-23), and the relationship of the Catholic Church on Guam to the naval government and to the people of the island (127-23:1). The annual reports of the naval station for 1921-24 (127-26) are also included.
151 - Fuel and Fuel Stations (Coal, Oil, and Gas)
This file consists of the following documents: correspondence relating to acquisition of bunkering and fuel storage stations and to the administration of the Naval Petroleum Reserves; a study prepared by the General Board in 1920 on petroleum reserves throughout the world; and reports on refueling experiments, engineering performance of certain vessels, and estimates of the annual fuel consumption of the U.S. Fleet.
162 - Ships
The contents of this file are largely correspondence and dispatches on individual ship movements, schedules of fleet deployments, inspections of vessels, and changes in ship equipment, armor, and armament. Specific subjects include the following: the 1920 "battle bill" for the USS Tennessee, outlining tactical procedures to be followed in battle by all crewmembers (162-41:1); operations and movements of the Special Service Squadron (162-45:1); proper organization and distribution of the U.S. Fleet in light of the 1921 strategic situation (162-73:1); Fleet Problems II through IV (1923-24) and VI (1926) (198-78:4/1 and 198-78:13), joint Army-Navy exercises, and fleet tactical exercises (162-78); improvements to the USS Langley (162-131); and organization, equipment, and armament of the aircraft carriers Lexington and Saratoga (162-164).
177 - Communications
Many of the documents filed under this master number concern codes and ciphers, including the development and use of the Hepburn electric code machine (177-26), the compromise of U.S. Navy codes (177-17 and 177-21), and the activities of decoding units operating during Fleet Problem VII (177-21:1). This file also covers ownership and operation of communications facilities in Europe and Latin America, plans for wartime communications in the Pacific (177-27), and fleet radio and visual signaling competitions. Copies of quarterly reports (1925-27) of the Director of Naval Communications (177-1 and 177-35) are included.
178 - Japan
This master file consists almost entirely of correspondence relating to exchanges of visits between Japanese and American naval personnel, ORANGE (Japan) war plans (178-6), and interception and decoding of Japanese messages (178-13).
190 - Naval Bases (Naval Districts)
Correspondence in this file relates to the acquisition, development, utilization, expansion, and abandonment of naval bases. Included are recommendations on development of West Coast naval bases (190-1), bases required to support a U.S. naval campaign in the Pacific (190-6:1), and the plans, budget, and legislation necessary for the naval base development program (190-10). Also included are documents on plans to develop naval bases at San Diego (190-10:11), San Francisco (190-10:12), Puget Sound (190-10:13), Pearl Harbor (190-10:14), Coco Solo (190-10:15), and Cavite (190-10:16).
196 - Pacific (Strategic)
This file consists of the following items: reports on a number of studies on U.S. strategy in a future Pacific war (196-1 and 196-7), reports on the potential use of floating dry docks in a central Pacific naval offensive (196-12), topographic and hydrographic surveys of Pacific islands (196-3), and reports on the 1920 naval maneuvers off Los Angeles harbor (196-6).
197 - Panama Canal
Included are correspondence and reports relating to the organization of naval activities in the Canal Zone, construction needed at Coco Solo, aerial defense of the Canal (197-10), the 1927 Joint Cooperative Plan for the Defense of the Panama Canal (197-22), and the 1923 estimate by the 15th Naval District of the situation concerning potential U.S. conflicts with ORANGE, RED (Great Britain), and RED-ORANGE (197-19).
198 - War Plans
This file mostly contains correspondence relating to war plans, their distribution, and revision. No copies of the formal, strategic color code name plans are included, but the file does contain some operating plans, contributory plans, and basic readiness plans required to implement the color plans. Specific subjects covered are the following: naval district staffing patterns, naval building, and the functions of the Marine Corps as all three relate to war plans (198-1:1); the authority of OPNAV to prepare war plans and the principles followed in their preparation; the relation between basic war plans and contributory plans (198-1:2); the role of the Navy in Special Plan GREEN (Mexico) (198-12:2); the wartime organization of the 14th Naval District (198-24); and Fleet Problems I, V, VI, and VII (198-35:1, 5, 6, 7).
200 - Philippine Islands
These documents mostly relate to proposals for the development of a major naval base in the Philippines, specific examples of which include the transfer of the floating drydock Dewey to Manila Bay (200-1:3), the development of Cavite and Olongapo Naval Stations (200-1), and the modernization of the port of Manila (200-8). The master file also contains documents on antiaircraft defenses of Cavite (200-8), 1925 naval maneuvers against Corregidor (200-7:1), and the retention of naval and military bases in the islands in the event of Philippine independence (200-22).
211 - Radio
Many of the documents in this file relate to technological developments in the field of naval communications, such as undersea radio reception, radio interference (jamming) exercises, and radio-controlled vessels. The file also contains records relating to acquisition of naval radio stations (as in Liberia, 211-9), joint Army and Navy radio procedures (211-17), merchant ship cipher and communications instructions (211-24), and plans for the wartime organization and utilization of radio intelligence (211-27).
212 - Reports
This file consists of the following types of reports: monthly and quarterly surveys of the Naval Establishment (July 1918-Dec. 1926), showing the status of personnel, equipment, and supplies; annual reports of the U.S. Fleet and its components (212-6); secret annual reports on the activities of the Office of Naval Intelligence for 1922-23 and 1925-26 (212-2); and 1916 memorandums on the wartime organization of the fleet (212-1).
216 - Charts, Maps, and Publications
Substantive documents in this file include the following: 1920 drafts of a manual on torpedo fire from destroyers (216-9), and of a "war manual," with comments (216-20); correspondence on the preparation of a minesweeping manual (216-12); an analysis of the Battle of Jutland (216-18); and a copy of the 1923 "Operating and Tactical Doctrine" for Aircraft Squadrons Scouting Fleet (216-53). Most of the file, however, consists of memorandums relating to the acquisition of hydrographic and topographic information on Pacific islands, requests and receipts for publications, distribution lists of publications, and correspondence relating to changes and corrections in publications.
226 – Miscellaneous
This master file contains correspondence on a variety of topics, including: changes in naval regulations (226-6); organization of destroyer squadrons (226-7); U.S. war dead buried overseas (226-17); U.S. merchant vessels lost in World War I (226-21); 1920-21 operations of U.S. Naval Forces Operating in European Waters (226-30:1); an analysis by Chester W. Nimitz and other members of the 1923 Naval War College class on the organization of OPNAV (226-33); a prospective visit to the United States, in 1920, of the Prince of Wales aboard HMS Renown (226-43); the visit in 1920 of the USS Chattanooga to Liberia (226-62); vice conditions in San Diego (226-92); capital ship construction within treaty limitations (226-103); and deliberations of the 1923 Hague Commission on revising the rules of warfare (226-110).
233 - Joint Board
Documents in this file generally relate to matters discussed by the Joint Army-Navy Board that particularly concerned the Navy, including the defense of naval stations (233-6), the mission of U.S. Forces in Hawaii (233-7), and joint action of the Army and Navy in coast defense (233-13). It also includes that part of the 1927 Census of Manufacturers that lists facilities relevant to naval needs (233-15).