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Peacock cichlid is the common name of the cichlids in the genus Aulonocara. They are numerous. Also commonly called peacocks are any hybrids within or including these species. As with 10% of the world's freshwater fish, they are endemic to Lake Malawi in the Great Rift Valley in East Africa. They share the lake with two other main groups of cichlids, the mbunas and the open water piscivores. However, they do not interact much with either because of their lifestyle. The peacocks stay down deep (hence their enlarged eyes) while the others stay up in the shallower depths of the lake.
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As with most of the cichlids in Lake Malawi, they are all mouthbrooders. As with mbunas, some males have eggs spots on the anal fin. These function to trick the female into going for the eggs spots thinking they are eggs. This allows the male to release sperm in to her mouth, helping to ensure all the eggs are fertilized. The female will hold the eggs in her mouth until they are about a half an inch in length, at which point she will release them and they are on their own. As with mbunas, in an aquarium setup there should either be all males or at least two females per male. The males are extremely brilliantly colored, while the females are simply a drab gray, frequently with a little coloration such as a thin orange line along the edge of the dorsal fin.
Peacocks are much less aggressive than mbunas. Even with large males in the tank, it is possible to add juveniles without worry assuming there are enough hiding areas.
The most natural setup for peacocks would be a spacious tank with multiple rock formations. A sand substrate is ideal. The rock formations should be spaced out enough to give an obvious visual barrier of sand between each rock pile. Each rock pile will become a single territory for one male. The females may roam freely from one territory to another, but any males will be enthusiastically deterred. In a mixed sex tank there is chasing and aggression, but nothing compared to mbunas. They will simply chase eachother out of their territories. Very little damage to any individual usually occurs.
Lake Malawi is naturally hard, alkaline, and has a unique chemical composition. Because of this peacocks will do their absolute best if kept in conditions that replicate this as best as possible. The pH should be maintained at about 8.2. If the water does not do this naturally a buffer should be used, as opposed to a directional pH adjuster. Buffers will bring the pH from either direction and hold it there. Directional buffers will bring the pH up or down, but do little to keep it there. This causes a yo-yo or rollercoaster pH. This is worse for the fish than a pH that is not ideal but is stable. To replicate the unique chemical composition there are special lake salts available. These provide the right elements, in the right proportions, in the right dosing for the lake. This is not just aquarium salt, nor marine salt. The composition is different. The dosing is specific to the lake, so the directions may provide one dose for Lake Malawi, one for Lake Tanganyika, etc. By providing the proper pH and special lake salts you will provide the best water parameters for these fish to truly do their best and thive in.
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October 13, 2005, 04:38 PM »
Well, although some of us are still scrambling to pick up figures from the "Final 12", we finally have an idea of what the entire ROTS line encompassed. A whole mess of figures, variants, exclusives, ships, and some other "crap" along the way too
. Overall, it was probably fairly easily the best of the prequel movie lines, and we got a lot of nice stuff. What were some of your favorites of this movie line, likely the last "movie" line we'll see? Feel free to list as many, or as few, as you want. Here's a few I liked, in no particular order:
Sneak Preview Figures
Wookiee Warrior - nice figure, nice army builder
Basic Figures - Collection 1
1. Obi-Wan Kenobi (Pilot) - favorite of the line, one of my favorite all-time figures
2. SA Clonetrooper (#41) - another one of the bests, looking forward to Gree and any other (regular priced) repaints
3. Clone Commander (#33) - not technically "movie accurate", but a very good figure...looking forward to Bly
4. AT-RT Driver - nice "different" clone, and a solid figure overall....pleasantly surprised when I opened this one
5. Misc. Clones (Gree, Bly, #6, Shocktrooper) - don't have the "Final 12" ones yet, but I'm really looking forward to them...for some reason the Shocktrooper is one of my favorite figures, even though it doesn't use the #41 sculpt
Basic Figures - Collection 2
1. Count Dooku - VOTC like quality, as a number of figures in this line were
2. C-3PO - probably the best 3PO we've seen so far...if we can't get artic. knees, give him a silver shin and re-release him later
3. Royal Guard (Red) - soft goods reminds me of vintage days, wish I had more than one
4. Padme (Republic Senator) - very nice Padme figure, somewhat under-rated I think (much like Bail Organa)
5. Misc Jedi (Plo Koon, Agen Kolar, Shaak Ti, Ki Adi Mundi, etc.) - most/all Jedi are pretty well done in the ROTS line.
Other Basic Figure Line(s)
Evolutions - Great idea, and the sets I have are great (no Sith Lords yet). I wish this line would continue, we've all discussed the potential here. VOTC like quality here. Best ROTS Anakin by far I think.
ARC 170 - a fun ship, nice and big too
Jedi Starfighters - I like the look of these, the original two anyways...don't have the exclusive ones
Wookiee Copter - a fun toy again, and wookiee stuff is just cool
AT-RT - big fan of this one as well, if I had the room I'd pick up a couple more
Boga - I kind of liked this one, although I know most don't. Always a fan of a new beast to the Star Wars Universe, not too many from this line really
I didn't get a lot of the exclusive figures, some were good, some were nice...all were overpriced for the most part. I liked the Target clone (only Target figure I've gotten so far), and the Holo Yoda (thanks JD!), and some of the others looked nice as well. I'm personally always a fan of the cup sets, although the $13 price point can take a hike. The Early Bird set is kind of neat, and I'm glad I got it. Maybe a tad overpriced as well, and could have been even better than what it was.
Lots of stuff here, probably some things I'm forgetting. I thought the Burger King toy promotion was neat, although a little overwhelming. I always enjoy Unleashed and the Galactic Heroes line, and both of those were solid I thought. Lots of "miscellaneous" stuff this year it seemed, some good, some not so good. Again, probably stuff I'm forgetting, but I've gotta run...anyone else have favorites from the year of ROTS?
Last Edit: October 14, 2005, 09:27 AM by mosnab
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Re: Best/Favorites of the ROTS Line
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October 13, 2005, 04:49 PM »
OK, I'll play...
Sneak Preview Figures
Wookiee Warrior - Great Wookiee with a ton of toys!
Basic Figures - Collection 1
#57 Commander Bly - a great movie accurate, super articulated clone commander. I like the Yellow best of the 3 paint schemes. Hands down my favorite from Collection 1. (runner-up = #55 Obi-Wan Kenobi)
Basic Figures - Collection 2
#23 Royal Guard (Red) - after the PotF2 "lump" and the Saga rubbery version it was great to finally get a nice cloth version. Only thing missing was the force pike. (runner-up = #18 C-3PO)
Other Figure Line(s)
Evolutions - Clone Trooper = 3 great clones for $20 - I loved it! Factor in the paint variation set and it's a winner! (runner-up = Dlx Med Table Vader)
Anakin and Obi-Wan Kenobi's Jedi Starfighter (Yellow and Red versions) - great way to capture the start of the movie. I didn't buy the Blue and Green versions because I thought it was dumb that even the ships has costume changes, but I still love the design of these fighters.
Boga - since it was better than the can-cell, it wins.
The Target cup sets. Sure, they are repacks, but I really like these sets (I didn't like the price hike to $13 half-way through the year though
). They really do look great when they are all posed on the shelf together.
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October 13, 2005, 04:58 PM »
Great topic!
Here are my "favorites"
Basic Figures
(all of these can be rehashed for the rest of the line and I will be happy)
- C-3PO - best 3PO ever (I love articulation but I don't really care about 3PO's knees
Emperor's Royal Guard
(red) - Perfect - great use of EU, vintage, and modern articulation.
- Clone Commander - Awesome accessories (pauldron/kama) and a great sculpt while retaining a lot of articulation
- Sneak Preview Wookie Warrior - hulking brute! Huge figure with lots of articulation, what else do you need?
- Count Dooku - best version of Dooku; great articulation, and a softgoods cape! I like version better than the Sith Evo set
- Obi-Wan Kenobi (Red Leader Pilot) - Best Obi-Wan ever! Just to head and hand swaps and give us the rest of the Jedi in this form
- Super-Articulated Clone Trooper - 'nuff said
- R4-G9 - best. astromech. sculpt. ever.
Deluxe Figures
Spider Droid
- never had the CW version and I like this one a lot
- Crab Droid - aside from disappointing paint apps (or lack thereof), this sheer size of this droid is worth the $10. Great for battles
- Stass Allie BARC Speeder - I know it was inaccurate and the weak Stass Allie figure sucks, but the BARC Speeder is cool and a great replacement for the crappy ripcord-action BARC Speeder.
Figure Sets
Clone Evolutions set
- One of the best ideas ever! I love this set. Great articulation, removable helmets, awesome accessories; this is one idea that I hope hasbro continues to use.
- Anakin Evo Set - No reason to buy the ROTS versions because these are the definitive versions of Anakin.
- AT-RT - at first I didn't really like it, but the more I looked at it, the better it looked
- I love this vehicle. I never had the CW or AotC version, so this was a must buy for me. Excellent in all aspects.
- ARC-170 - I held off on buying this, but I'm glad I eventually broke down and picked one up. It really harkens back to the earlier, simpler vehicles. The design is pretty cool and I really like the absence of electronics and gizmos.
Excellent idea, terrible implementation. If hasbro had simply used the "battlepack" style that they used for the G.I. Joe line (4 or 5 troops and 1 or 2 leaders) and used
versions of the clones, then they could have made a killing on this. If they had done 5-packs of Clones using the SA or QD clone body in the different ROTS color schemes, it would have been one of the best Star Wars products ever. As it stands now however, they are only good for display (the Clone Attack on Coruscant has one of the best packaging jobs that I have ever seen) and custom fodder (I'm looking at you Jedi vs. Sith)
Edit - put my "favorite of the favorites" in
EDIT AGAIN: How could I forget the best astromech sculpt ever? R4-G9 rules!
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October 13, 2005, 05:05 PM »
Sneak Preview
Wookie Warrior
Basic Figures Col. 1
Commander Bacara (Love the OT-ish Snowtrooper armor)
#55 Pilot Obi-Wan
AT-RT Pilot
#6 Clone Trooper
#41 Clone Trooper
Basic Figures Col. 2
Blue Imperial Guard (Love the EU armor)
AT-TE Tank Gunner
Imperial Med Droid
Kit Fisto
Other Figure Lines
Grey Clone Evo (Don't have it yet but I want to get it)
Dlx Jet Corps Clone
BARC Speeder
ROTS Gunship
Yellow Jedi Starfighter
Droid Starfighter (Vulture Droid)
Upcoming EU Utapua Shadow Trooper
Last Edit: October 13, 2005, 05:08 PM by HunterofThePegs
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October 13, 2005, 05:18 PM »
My personal favorites from the basic ROTS line:
SP Wookiee Warrior - One of THE best figures ever!
SP R4-G9 - Great sculpt, details and killer leg feature.
Tarfful - A fun Wook.
Clone #41
Target clone
Commander Bly
Obi-Wan pilot - First decent Obi-Wan of the entire prequel line.
Mustafar Anakin - The brutal end of Anakin and birth of Vader. Nuff said.
Mas Amedda
Mustafar Sentry
Meena Tills
Palpatine #35 - Lame action, great head sculpts.
Neimoidian trooper
AT-TE Gunner - Great step forward on the legs and a huge one backward on the arms. But the head and helmet are of undeniable quality. The head's not undersized to accommodate the helmet, and neither is the helmet ridiculously oversized. They're both perfectly scaled
there's the amazingly crafted overpiece?! A milestone in 3¾" sculpting quality despite the lame choice of arms.
Non-basic faves:
Evo Anakin
Evo Clone
Vader operating table
Edit: I forgot Polis Massan.
Last Edit: October 13, 2005, 05:28 PM by Ook
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October 13, 2005, 06:25 PM »
My favs are:
count dooku
kit fisto
all the clone troopers
gen grevious 4 arms
SP wookie
jedi starfighter
near misses:
obi-wan jedi slash
anakin jedi slash
palpatine in red
newer clone troopers
palpatine gray
mace windu
ki-adi mundi
droid tri-fighter
overall I'm very satisfied.
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October 13, 2005, 07:54 PM »
This is going to be tough...
1. Obi-Wan Kenobi (Pilot Gear): Best figure of the line and possibly the last 10 years of basic action figures.
2. Clone Commander/Commander Bly: When I first saw the ARC Trooper figure in 2003, I laughed. When I saw them in the comic and on the cartoon, I quit laughing. When I saw the Clone Commander, I was stunned at how cool it was.
3. Clone Trooper (#41 SA Version): I don't care if it wasn't in the film all that long, it's a white grunt Imperial and I'm all for those, especially when they're SA.
1. Kit Fisto: SA, great likeness, and a great apology for the now-awful 2002 Saga version.
2. Bail Organa: SA, and the most underrated figure of the entire line. Just because he's pegwarming doesn't mean he sucks.
3. Tarkin: it's Tarkin, need I say more?
1. Vader on Operating Table: Again, not so much for the quality of the figure, but just for the memories it will bring to mind for years to come.
2. General Grievous: Best Grievous (not) available at retail and unlike most deluxe figures, isn't as cheaply designed or executed when compared to the basic version.
3. Yoda on Can-Cell: Not in the film (technically), but for what you get in terms of size, it's well worth the 10 bucks.
I'm going to go out on a limb here and say something I thought I would never say (or at least that others would think they'd never hear me say): Every vehicle released by Hasbro this year was great. If you take into account the pilots in the "Strike Force" line or whatever it was called, this would not be the case, but on a vehicle by vehicle basis, everything was practically perfect (BARC wheels excluded).
-Unleashed: All five ROTS UL were incredible, with the Obi-Wan and Anakin being my pick for best toy of the year, period. Naturally, they pegwarm.
-Evolutions: I can't say anything that hasn't already been said a million times. Brilliantly sculpted, brilliantly executed, but poorly shipped.
-Force Battlers: Okay, I'm just kidding about this one. They sucked when they came out and they still suck. Funny how we haven't seen hide nor hair of those "several waves" that Hasbro talked about coming in 2006 while other toys have already either leaked or been shown at conventions.
And now since like Han Solo, "Hey, it's me"....
-"Hiatus" of Unleashed 7" line: Collectors love it, new figures sell quickly, let's cancel it, then shrink it, then uncancel it.
-The majority of Collection 2 post-Aayla Secura: Sure, there were some great figures in there (Amedda, Polis Massan, Tarkin and his shortpacked Senatorial brethren), but some of the figures looked like POTF2/Episode I leftovers (Zett, Antilles) and others were made out of soap and/or spaghetti (AT-TE Gunner and Vader's Medical Droid, respectively).
-The lack of proper label sheet with the TRU Obi-Wan Jedi Starfighter and Hasbro's subsequent evasiveness and apparent refusal to accept blame or correct this mistake. I won't go into detail, but everyone who followed my thread knows how pissed off I am about this and why.
-Force Battlers, Attacktix, Jedi Force, and so on. Just one word: WHY?
-Commander Cody. One more word: WHERE? Sure we're getting him next year, but the most prominent Clone in the whole film and he's not amongst the movie year's releases? I've got an idea, let's go back to 1983 and not release Jabba the Hutt, just so this won't look like a complete mistake.
This being said, the positives (the sculpting, articulation and overall quality of the figures and ships offered) outweigh the negatives (availability, distracting useless side-lines, the never ending exclusive fiascos), so I'm going to give this year a thumbs-up.
Last Edit: October 13, 2005, 07:55 PM by DoctorPadawan
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October 13, 2005, 10:06 PM »
I'm keeping my list short because, well, that's just the way I am. But...
Over all, I thought this line was well done and there was lots to cheer about. Here are my absolute favorates:
The Evolutions line - excellent. What more can anyone say?
#55 Obi wan Starfighter pilot. - Great surprise to find a supurb figure.
#33 clone commander/ Bly. - Nicely done clones and just plain fun to play with.
AT-RT - come on, it walks!
ARC-170 - nice big, well designed toy.
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October 13, 2005, 10:25 PM »
I think my votes must to the early Collection 2 figures, specifically the Jedi. I think that they're quality in terms of sculpt and articulation has been really overlooked by the need for clones lately. I'd never have thought we'd see Luminara Unduli, Shaak-Ti, or Ki Adi Mundi with detail rivaling the VOTC. Those are top-notch figures which make later efforts in the same collection downright embarrassing.
I wish that they treated every character with the attention to detail and articulation that was used in those figures.
For Collection 1, Pilot Obi-Wan comes close to that standard for me. He's my favorite C1 figure in the line.
The starfighter vehicles have also been great. The Jedi Starfighters are built really well. I didn't even mind the repaints.
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October 13, 2005, 10:29 PM »
Best figs:
Obi Wan Pilot: Best modern SW fig ever. Bar none.
SP Wookie Warrior: He was the best until Obi Wan.
Commander Bly/Clone Commander: Outmatched only by
Evolutions Bly Grunt: who is second only to
#41 SA Clone: 'Nuff said.
Evolutions Anakin
Count Dooku
AT RT Driver
Kit Fisto
Plo Koon
Evolutions Vader
#43 Wookie Warrior (Vanilla, Chocolate, Dark Chocolate)
Deluxe Vader on operating table
AT TE Tank Gunner
And lots more. My favorite exclusive was the Holo Yoda, and my favorite ship the Wookie Flyer.
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October 13, 2005, 11:43 PM »
Basic Figures:
Obi Wan Pilot. He's SA, awesome sculpt and most definately the best Obi Wan figure so far. It could of used a Soft Goods Cloak but other than that perfect.
Clone Commander/Commander Bly. Any clone was a big favorite of mine in this line. Just one big gripe on the Bly, he should of had a removable helmet.
SA Clone, AT-RT Driver, Shocktrooper, Clone Pilot, Regular #6 Clone etc. Come on they're clones.
Any of the C2 Jedi. They are the way they should be. I wish they would of done a Collection 2 Mace but oh well.
Tarkin. Stench and all.
Gunship. If you can find it its a good 30 dollars spent.
Arc-170. New ship, very cool and again worth 30 bucks.
General Grievous. Probably the best version of him. Thats not saying much though.
Stass and exploding Barc. "New" Jedi and better version of the rip cord Barc.
Exclusives, Battlepacks, Evolutions, Unleashed etc:
All three Evos. Definative versions of great characters.
Kmart JTA Battlepack. While giving us two regular pegwarmers they also gave us three Clones we really wanted. Plus the #6 body is alot better than the Tank Gunner Body. Just needed those pesky blue lines on the legs.
The Unleashed line. Nuff said.
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October 14, 2005, 01:51 AM »
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Wookie Warrior
Basic Figures - Collection 1
Commander Bly
Obi-Wan Kenobi Pilot
SA Clone Trooper
Clone Commander Red
Basic Figures - Collection 2
501st Trooper (once i get it)
AT-TE Gunner
ALL of them, best sculpt and articulation
Anakin and Obi-Wan Kenobi's Jedi Starfighter (Yellow and Red versions)
Republic Gunship
Plo Koon's Jedi Starfighter
C3 Vader
Battle Packs
Jedi Temple Assault
Clone Attack on Coruscant
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Sneak preview : Wookiee warrior is a no-brainer
Basic :
# 55 Obi-Wan Kenobi with pilot gear
# 33 Clone commander
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Sneak Preview:
Collection 1
Obi Wan Pilot: Best figure in the line, great likeness and SA! Agree with Metal Jedi on a soft goods cloak but I have tons of Ep. I Jedi Accessories so mine has a soft goods cloak!
SA Clone #41. Regardless of who you are you have to love this figure!
Commanders/Bly: I like each of the commanders buy Bly is my favorite.
Collection 2:
Agen Kolar: GREAT Jedi sculp and great for customs. Love this figure!
ARC 170 Best new vehicle in the linie! At Sam's it is a real bargin!
Obi Wan and Anakin's Starfighters. Nice basic vehicle. My 11 year old loves playing with his.
For me the Gun Ship does not get consideration since it is a rehash.
This is hard cause I don't think you can go wrong with any of them:
Clone Evolutions: There clones!
Anakin Evolutions: Nicely done overall
Sith Evolutions: Finally lightning coming out of the hands!
Battle Pack:
Jedi Temple Assult: One reason (besides the fact my mother-in-law is not doing good right now health wise) why I have not busted out to find the new Tactical Ops figure.
Only compliant is the same as always, put the Sith Eyed Anakin in there along with a black clone pilot (IF Hasbro had to put another pilot in there) or better yet, put 1 SA #41 501st Clone in the mix!
Obi Wan Pilot is my personal favorite, for several personal reasons, one being I love Obi Wan and this figure just rocked!
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Man, the Tac Ops trooper just became one of my faves!
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Authors: Pratt, Caleb S.
Date: April 7, 1857
Caleb Pratt wrote from Delaware, Kansas Territory to Rev. T. W. Higginson, a prominent Northern abolitionist. He informed Higginson that a company of free state men had bought out a large portion of the predominantly pro-slavery town of Delaware. They sought to make it a suitable place for the entry of free state emigrants.
Keywords: Delaware City, Kansas Territory; Free state activities; Higginson, Thomas Wentworth, 1823-1911; Pratt, Caleb S.; Town development
Letter, R. G. Elliot to Dear Sister
Authors: Elliott, Robert G.
Date: May 8, 1857
Robert Elliott, former publisher of the Kansas Free State newspaper in Lawrence along with Josiah Miller, wrote to his sister from Delaware, Kansas Territory. Elliott told her that last season the area had been the site of "ruffian outrages," but since this time it had evolved into a thriving area with a large population of free state men, whose presence raised property values. The town was not without its share of "bloated ruffians" or stray dogs, however. Elliott also mentioned that a couple of proslavery men had even subscribed to his newspaper, though he did not intend to change the "character" of the paper, which continued to favor the free state cause.
Keywords: Border ruffians; Delaware City, Kansas Territory; Economic conditions; Elliott, Robert G.; Free state supporters; Leavenworth County, Kansas Territory; Newspapers; Real estate investment; Sack of Lawrence, May 1856
Stock Certificate, one share of Delaware City town lots
Authors: No authors specified.
Date: July 8, 1857
The Delaware Town Company of Lawrence issued this certificate which documented Samuel F. Tappan's ownership of one share of town stock valued at $500. Investors in Delaware City promoted the town as the point on the Missouri River from which freight could be shipped to Lawrence most cheaply.
Keywords: Business enterprises; Delaware City, Kansas Territory; Delaware Town Company of Lawrence; Emery, James Stanley; Prentiss, S.B.; Tappan, S. F. (Samuel Forster), d. 1913; Town shares
Circular, Delaware City, Kansas Territory
Authors: Prentiss, S.B., et al.
Date: c. 1857
This circular, authored by the Delaware City Town Company, advertised the Company's purchase of Delaware and their intention to develop it. This circular stated that freight would be shipped more cheaply from Delaware City to Lawrence than from any other point on the Missouri River.
Keywords: Circulars; Delaware City, Kansas Territory; Emery, James Stanley; Freight and freightage; Harington, S.C.; Hutchinson, J.; Leavenworth County, Kansas Territory; Missouri River; Prentiss, S.B.; Town companies
Muster Roll, Kansas Volunteers for the Protection of the Ballot Box, Leavenworth County
Authors: No authors specified.
Date: 1857
The Kansas Volunteers for the Protection of the Ballott Box were free state supporters who were determined to see that fair elections were held in Kansas. James Lane was appointed to organize companies throughout the territory. General Order No. 1, found on this site, included instructions for listing the members of each company. This muster roll was prepared as a result of that order. This company was recruited in Leavenworth County from Delaware City. The muster roll listed the officers and enlisted men, their age, place of birth, where from to Kansas, and Kansas residence. The ages of company members range from 18 to 54. The captain was A. Cutter.
Keywords: Cutter, A.; Delaware City, Kansas Territory; Election fraud; Elections; Free state movement (see also Topeka Movement); Free state supporters; Kansas Volunteers; Kansas Volunteers for the Protection of the Ballot Box; Leavenworth County, Kansas Territory; Militia; Topeka Movement (see also Free state movement); Voting; Voting fraud (see also Contested elections)
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Blast from the past
Amazing creatures that have hardly changed in 350 million years are still among us – a slightly scary thought.
"Absolutely safe," I told my children as we walked through the forest. I made it sound particularly sincere and smiled. The terrain was steep, the ferns were tall, and a waterfall thundered down from a great height into a wide basin, where it became a gently flowing stream. We saw strangely gnarled trees that looked like peculiar creatures. Branches whipped against our faces. A foot sank squelching into the swampy ground. I said, "We're a good 60 million years too late for any dinosaurs." – "Quite sure?" – "Absolutely sure!" But even after we discovered a suitable place to light a fire and soon had sausages sizzling over the embers on skewers, the children kept glancing over their shoulders.
They were slightly worried that perhaps dinosaurs might still be alive after all, right here in the forest, in a valley called Misox in southern Switzerland. The night before, we had sat in front of a crackling fire, looking at a hefty book full of pictures of prehistoric critters, many of them engaged in bloody battles. This had fired the children's imagination. Most people know as little about the Misox Valley as they do about prehistoric times. Hardly anyone stops here, although many people heading south do drive through it on the A13 freeway, as an alternative to the eternally congested Gotthard route. There is little here to attract tourists. It has a miniature golf course near the tunnel portal in San Bernardino, cool cave bars called grottis in the southern part of the valley, and nature running riot, most of it impenetrable. A few archaeopteryxes on the wing, a pack of bloodthirsty velociraptors or a T. rex thundering through the thickets would not have been out of place in this primeval landscape.
But the fact that I was mistaken, completely and utterly mistaken, when I so convincingly asserted that there were no prehistoric animals living there, was something I would discover the following morning – personally and almost painfully.
My morning routine does not generally involve shaking out my shoes before I put them on. I have no idea why I did it that morning. Maybe because everything appears different in an alien environment, even our own shoes? And, yes, I got a shock when something fell out of the shoe. It moved. It was an animal, one I had not expected to see. There it sat on the floor, a gleaming black creature with stinger and pincers raised in defiance, as if it had a good mind to start a fight: a scorpion.
With the help of the children and a jam jar, the critter was soon caught. We studied it under a magnifying glass. It was horrific. Thanks to the Internet, the children had soon learned a lot more. For instance, that scorpions are actually living fossils and that their development was largely already complete 350 million years ago, and for a good reason: Nature has made such a perfect job of designing the scorpion that there was simply no need to improve it over the past 350 million years. Compared with the life cycle of an iPhone generation, 350 years is a very long time.
We soon took the scorpion outside to a place we thought might make it a good home. It quickly crawled into a dark crack in the wall. When our vacation was over, we packed our things, cleaned the house, left the mountains, drove home and resumed our scorpion-free city life with the knowledge we have gained: that there are still some truly ancient things around, and also that they deserve our highest respect, especially if they come in the terrifying form of a scorpion. Since then, I look inside my shoes every morning before slipping them on – just to be on the safe side.
P.S.: The book I mentioned is Paleoart: Visions of the Prehistoric Past, by Zoe Lescaze, Taschen 2017.
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Wednesday, December 21, 2011
Small Shorebirds
When I walked out to Mullens the other day the bigger shorebirds were all at the far side of the roost. Since I had walked out instead of kayaking there was no way I could get closer to them. However the smaller shorebirds were in their preferred roost site at the southern end of the roost and all I had to do was wade through some shallow water. They were standing in shallow water in among the saltmarsh plants. Red-capped Plovers and Red-necked Stints were roosting together. Both of these birds are only 15cm (6 inches) beak to tail. Red-capped Plovers are an Australian shorebird and stay here all year. Quite a few were showing their beautiful red caps. Red-necked Stints are the smallest of all the shorebirds that migrate from the arctic to spend the summer here. They only show their red necks just before they migrate north - that is in March and April.
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cute little birds. love the red-capped plovers!ReplyDelete
Beautiful series!! Boom & Gary of the Vermilon River, Canada.ReplyDelete
Beautiful birds, Mick! I love the scenery in your shots. Nice job!ReplyDelete
Wonderful images Mick..ReplyDelete
I just love the cute Plovers, great shots.ReplyDelete
beautiful photographs your plovers.ReplyDelete
OK, envious once again :D They are so beautiful and I love the close-up!ReplyDelete
Really nice shots! I love the background and the birds together in your work. You really capture these things nicely.ReplyDelete
Hi there - nice pictures - I'll be banding lots of the stints between Christmas and the New Year. We target other waders, but you can't avoid these little chaps!ReplyDelete
Hope you have a good weekend!!
Stewart M - Melbourne
truly beautiful shots!ReplyDelete
great shots Mick. Love their red necks. :)ReplyDelete
Great shots of these tinies Mick.ReplyDelete
Have a very Happy Christmas!
Those Red-capped Plovers are beauties Mick.ReplyDelete
Great birds Mick! I haven't seen these before.ReplyDelete
Always love seeing your birds. In the evenings, the sanderlings and plovers entertain us at sunset.ReplyDelete
Hope you are having a great week, Mick!
A stint..I have never heard of that..lovely photos...ReplyDelete
Great photos Mick. I've not seen those waders before.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousDecember 22, 2011 at 6:19 AM
Lovely captures!ReplyDelete
Two great images, Mick, of the Red-capped Plover! I am not familiar with this bird, but your photos would allow me to id them.ReplyDelete
Arctic to Australia, that is some migration! Thanks for sharing your remarkable plovers Mick.ReplyDelete
Cheers to you this holiday!
They are sweet little birds. not quite Santa red, though. Merry Christmas!ReplyDelete
trekking your superb blog! keep blogging and inspiring people! happy holidays!ReplyDelete
Super shots of the Red-capped Plovers and the Red-necked Stints! Lucky you get to see the Red-capped Plovers all year.They're a real treat!ReplyDelete


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Agamemnon (Play One from The Oresteia)
Aeschylus' The Oresteia is a trilogy of Greek tragedies concerning the murder of King Agamemnon of Argos, together with its aftermath. The name derives from the character Orestes, the son of Agamemnon, who sets out to avenge his father's murder. The three plays – Agamemnon, Choephori (Libation-Bearers) and Eumenides (The Furies) – were originally accompanied in performance by a satyr play, Proteus, now lost. The Oresteia, which won first prize at the Dionysia festival in 458 BC, is the only surviving example of an ancient Greek theatre trilogy.
This translation by Marianne McDonald and J. Michael Walton is based on the Oxford text (to which the line numbers refer). It follows a distinction in the original text between the lines spoken by the characters (which are mostly composed in iambics), and those spoken by the Chorus (which adopt a much freer lyric verse); here, the lyric passages belonging to the Chorus are identified by the use of initial capital letters for each new line. In addition, various expressions such as io, pheu, oimoi and others have been left transliterated from the original Greek, being (in the words of the translators) 'indications of grief rather than actual words'.
The first play of the trilogy, Agamemnon, details the homecoming of Agamemnon, King of Argos, from the Trojan War. Waiting at home for him is his wife, Clytemnestra, who has been planning his murder, partly as revenge for the sacrifice of their daughter, Iphigenia, and partly because in the ten years of Agamemnon's absence Clytemnestra has entered into an adulterous relationship with Aegisthus, Agamemnon's cousin and the sole survivor of a dispossessed branch of the family (Agamemnon's father, Atreus, killed and fed Aegisthus's brothers to Aegisthus's father, Thyestes, when he took power from him), who is determined to regain the throne he believes should rightfully belong to him.
The second play, Choephori, deals with the reunion of Agamemnon's children, Electra and Orestes, and their revenge. Orestes kills his mother Clytemnestra to avenge the death of his father.
In the final part, Eumenides, Orestes, Apollo, and the Erinyes go before Athena and eleven other judges chosen by her from the Athenian citizenry to decide whether Orestes' killing of Clytemnestra makes him guilty of the crime of murder.


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Olive Oil Brownies
In the bowl of a stand mixer fitted with the paddle attachment beat the eggs, sugar and vanilla on medium speed until the eggs are light yellow and more than doubled in volume.
On low speed mix in the olive oil and the cocoa. Slowly mix in the reserved flour mixture and the nuts.
Prepare an 8 x 8 x 2 inch pan by coating it lightly with olive oil and flour, and if you like, a sheet of parchment paper cut to fit the bottom of the pan.
Spoon the batter into the prepared pan and bake at 325 °F / 170 °C for about 30 – 35 minutes or until a toothpick stuck into the center comes out clean.
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Photographed at the 2009 International Route 66 Mother Road Festival in Springfield, Illinois on September 25-27, 2009.
You are invited to stay and browse through my stream. Here's a quick introduction to my little corner of Flickr:
Automobile Photographs: This is a very large collection of images whose primary, but not exclusive, focus is on American automotive classics. Images are organized by decade, by manufacturer, and by topics (such as convertibles, station wagons, muscle cars, etc.)
Central Illinois (excluding Springfield): Photos relating to the middle section of the "Land of Lincoln" (except for the Capital City of Springfield) may be found in this collection. Every city and town I've photographed is contained within its own set, and rural (as in "countryside") photographs are grouped by county.
Springfield, Illinois: All of my photographs of Springfield and the Abraham Lincoln Sites are in this collection. For the City of Springfield, there are separate sets for the Capitol Complex, Downtown (including the Old State Capitol), Neighborhoods, Parks, Illinois State Fairgrounds and more. Photographs of Lincoln sites include the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum, Lincoln Home National Historic Site, Lincoln Tomb, and so on. Also in the Lincoln "All About Abe" (Set) are a few Lincoln sites not located in Springfield.
The Illinois State Fair: My collection of photographs of the Illinois State Fair. The fair offers something for everyone. Grab a corn dog and lemon shake-up, and come take a look!
Beyond Central Illinois: Other locales in the United States and Canada including New York, Chicago, San Francisco and Seattle.
In addition to my location-based sets, here are links to some "topical" collections and sets I've put together:
Barbers & Barber Shops: Traditional barbers and barber shops are on the endangered species list. But there are still plenty to be found if you go looking for them.
Almost Everything Else. Check It Out!!!: Included topics range from man's first walk on the moon to small town schools and churches, and from Soft-Coated Wheaten Terriers (our favorite breed) to things that are abandoned, neglected, weathered, or rusty.
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PLANO, Texas — J.C. Penney, the struggling retailer that is trying to reassure the market about its financial stability, expects to raise about $810.6 million via a public stock offering.
J.C. Penney said today it plans to offer 84 million shares priced at $9.65 per share. That is a 7.3 percent discount to Thursday's closing price of $10.42 per share.
The Plano, Texas company could raise more than that if the underwriters exercise in full a 30-day option to buy up to an additional 12.6 million shares.
Its stock dropped more than 6 in premarket trading today.
The offering is expected to close on Tuesday.
J.C. Penney Co. also disclosed in a regulatory filing that it anticipates having about $1.3 billion in cash or assets that can readily be converted to cash at year's end. That excludes the net proceeds from the offering.
J.C. Penney is trying to recover from a failed turnaround attempt spearheaded by its former CEO Ron Johnson that led to disastrous results. Its board ousted Johnson in April after 17 months on the job and rehired Mike Ullman, who had been CEO of the retailer from 2004 to late 2011. Under Ullman, J.C. Penney is bringing back sales events that had been ditched and restoring basic merchandise like khakis that were eliminated by Johnson.
The retailer, which has seen its shares in a free fall in recent days, on Thursday sought to appease investors who were worried about its cash liquidity and sales following a gloomy analyst report on the company. The department store chain released a statement Thursday morning that it was pleased with its turnaround efforts. CNBC also quoted Ullman as saying that he doesn't see conditions this year where "we'd need to raise liquidity."
The stock dropped as low as $9.52 on Thursday, its lowest point in almost 13 years. Its shares fell 65 cents, or 6.2 percent, to $9.77 in premarket trading Friday.
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Danks wants to be less wild but equally effective
ARLINGTON -- During John Danks' 2013 struggles, in which he posted a 4.75 ERA over 138 1/3 innings, the veteran southpaw still was able to consistently find the strike zone. He walked just 27, although the counter was Danks allowed 28 home runs.
Through three starts and 19 innings this season, Danks has yielded just one home run. He also has walked 10 while striking out 13.
"Walks always kind of chap me. It's not something you want to do," Danks said. "You can't defend a walk. You are just giving a guy a free pass. But I would trade a walk for a homer, obviously.
"With the walks, if I don't get them under control, they are going to lead to a big inning. That's just what they do. That's something we are working on, but I really don't have a reason for why. I definitely would like to get that fixed sooner rather than later."
Danks felt as if he was throwing strikes during his '13 effort, marking a comeback from season-ending arthroscopic shoulder surgery in August, '12. But he didn't have good command within the strike zone.
"Balls were coming back to the middle of the plate. I was getting them up," Danks said. "And in our ballpark, you can't do that. I know that probably better than anybody here. But I really expect not to walk anybody."


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The health club industry is in the business of making a credible return on investment. However, as you sit down to analyze your club's financial accomplishments, you should make sure that you take a hard look at how your organization evaluates human capital (as in our people and employees). While it's true that the success or failure of our business may be financially driven, we unfortunately tend to lose track of the contribution provided by our human capital.
Not only do our employees successfully deliver the message of our brand, but they also deliver the programming substance that makes the successful club successful. These employees, these messengers and these service-delivery specialists are loyal to your brand. They live it, they breathe it, and they practice the brand. However, these employees are not born; instead, they are made. And it's up to you to make them.
Take a look at your current club environment. Just how are your employees motivated to improve their job-related skill sets so that they can do a better job and give better service to your members? How do you increase your employees' ability to demonstrate and practice the skills they may not use everyday? How do you increase the programming depth of your club services so that they meet your members' ever-changing needs? And more importantly, how do you create/stimulate employee loyalty?
A Study of Success
Investing in your employees by offering staff training can be one of the answers to the above questions. Just ask Jeff Zwiefel, the senior vice president of Life Time Fitness. When asked why his publicly held company had opted to focus on employee staff training, Zwiefel stated, "Staff training is not just a one-time or short-term occurrence. It involves a strategic, ongoing investment in our future. Because Life Time Fitness is not just a health club but rather a comprehensive sports, professional fitness, family recreation and resort/spa experience, we proactively deliver team-member development and training initiatives, such that they are able to consistently deliver the highest possible quality product and services to our members."
Life Time Fitness team-member training programs are designed with both club members and team members in mind. The curriculum is led by staff at Life Time University, which is the team-member development organization for Life Time Fitness. The curriculum is structured to produce six outcomes among team members:
Increased professional competencies and skill-sets
Stimulation of an entrepreneurial mind-set
Stimulation of a member-point-of-view mind-set
Stimulation of the development of innovative programming options, when appropriate
Stimulation of the development of relationship-building skill-sets
Increased loyalty
Life Time University is able to accomplish these outcomes due to the comprehensive nature of its curriculum content. That content includes six components:
- a business-development rationale
- sales and marketing
- relationship-building
- customer service
- membership-retention
- a career development opportunity
Since Life Time University made the priority to incorporate team-member career development into its program and training, the company has, in effect, reinforced the success of its training programs.
The major return on investment associated with a well-trained staff includes facilitation of establishment of member goals and the identification of programming options and needs that will not only support diversified member goals but also support the modification of programming options as members' goals change. If this is done correctly, staff training will potentially enable your club to manage member wants, needs and interests. Then, as this happens, the members will get their results. And if they get their results, why would they leave? Sounds like a pretty good plan, right?
Now take a look around. Who is the person, department and/or team that makes sure that your club connects with your low usage and non-usage members? Who is making sure that your frequent users remain frequent users, that your low-usage members become frequent users, and, more importantly, who makes sure that your new members are "connected-with" so that they do not become an industry "drop-out" statistic?
If you don't have answers to these questions, then it's time you figured them out because chances are your competitor already has.
Bob Esquerre, MA, MES, NSCA-CPT is a fitness consultant and owner of the Esquerre Fitness Group. He is a Reebok Master Trainer with certifications as a medical exercise specialist from AAHP and personal training from NSCA.


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The plunge neck bandage dress is another series in the 21st birthday dresses. Although this particular design can be made with a combination of any matching two colours, the picture here shows a good combination of purple and black. While the purple forms the upper part of the dress with plunge neck, the black takes care of the downside that is sewn in the form of bandages. Being a rare design, it makes the dress a classy and timeless one among the 21st birthday dresses you may come across.
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I started, as I always do, by reviewing photos that I may have available to share. Well, I don't have a one from my family, and only found one (and it is a maybe photo) from Man's family. There are a number from "our" family Thanksgivings.
When I quizzed Man about Thanksgiving meals menus when he was a wee one, his reply was "traditional". I pressed a bit further and he said, turkey, traditional, stuffing, traditional, potatoes, traditional, home made bread, traditional, pies, traditional, homemade wine (drunk in the basement because his grandmother did not approve of drinking), traditional. I know from family stories that Man's youthful Thanksgivings were spent with lots of family around, including the "kids" table.
Below: the kids table (date is approximately 1969). And, yes, this is probably a Christmas kid's table, not a Thanksgiving one. When you are desperate for photos you will take what you can get! (Hear Carol snicker?? Ya, I know you do.)
Below, now, THIS looks like it could be a Thanksgiving photo, of Man's grandparents, his father (in the suit and bow tie and his first cousins). See that very dark chair to the right of the photo, we have one of the set now, Man's mother treasured it and now we do as well, it belonged to the set owned by her parents. In fact, we have a photo of Man's mother sitting in one of those chairs when she was a wee one herself.
When I was a wee one we usually spent Thanksgiving with friends of my parents, as both sets of my grandparents and all other relatives lived well over 600 miles away. I remember very large turkeys that took a good many hours to cook, and our "traditional" was dressing, mashed potatoes, gravy, rolls to die for, sweet potatoes, pumpkin pies and delish whipping cream. One year we would go to the friends house, the next year they would come to our home. And, there was always the Thanksgiving Day Parade on the telie, first the parade from New York, then, the parade from Detroit.
(No photos from my family at Thanksgiving.)
Since Man and I married we have what we consider to be a traditional Thanksgiving. It consists of a menu that reads something like this: turkey, dressing, sweet potatoes, some vegie, mashed potatoes, gravy (which Man's mother made for years, cause, mmmm, I never mastered gravy), pumpkin pies with whipping cream (our favorite, well my favorite, is heavy cream whipped with a touch of sugar and even better is whipped with a touch of German vanilla sugar).
(Side note/memory: We also had (ewww) canned cranberry sauce because Man's mother loved it, and because it was "traditional" in her mind. She was the only one that ate it. I cannot tell you how many partial cans of cranberry sauce were later dumped in the garbage.)
We have been know to have deviled eggs, cucumber sandwiches, homemade soup, and other delicacies. Up until the last few years Thanksgiving days were were spent cooking, with wonderful family times. Sons, with their gals, the grandtwins, Man's mother, even extended family and friends, all were invited, all shared a fabulous meal. After the meal, more visiting, story telling, teasing, and now and then a game:
Above, our 3 sons and the grandtwins, seriously playing, seriously!
The last few years Man and I have departed SE Michigan before Thanksgiving. This year we decided to enjoy a traditional meal before said departure. We celebrated on November 13th. It was still an old fashioned Thanksgiving with all the traditional foods, except the pumpkin pie morfed into a pumpkin cheesecake that was outta this world yummy.
So, our Old Fashioned Thanksgiving is more like a "traditional" Thanksgiving, good food, prayers and thanks for all that we are thankful for, sometimes friends, always family, usually turkey, but, sometimes something new as well. So, we are traditional with a twist, or as shown above, sometimes, with a "pop", and that pumpkin cheese cake, mmmmm, YUM!!
* Two years ago I wrote about my connection to Cap't. Myles Standish, in a post titled "Thanksgiving, A New Appreciation Gained by Family Research". And, last year I spent a very special Thanksgiving near the burial place of my g g grandfather Zachariah Z. Trumbo. Both special posts remembering my ancestors, that's old fashioned right?? I thought so.


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Samuel Langhorne Clemens – Mark Twain – spent just 18 months of his 74 years in Buffalo.
But what a tumultuous year-and-a-half it was.
Twain arrived in Buffalo in mid-August 1869 as a bachelor and left as a married man with an infant son.
He arrived as an enthusiastic co-editor and co-owner of a newspaper and left as a man who would never practice journalism again.
Twain's time in Buffalo was brightened by love and marriage, fraught with illness and death.
It was also a time that has been widely misrepresented as a grim period of solitude and stagnation.
Mark Twain's Buffalo life has now been fully illuminated by the work of Kenmore resident Thomas J. Reigstad, a lifelong Twain aficionado and scholar.
"Twain's first biographer, Albert Bigelow Paine, wrote Buffalo off," said Reigstad, professor emeritus of English at SUNY Buffalo State and author of the new book, "Scribblin' for a Livin': Mark Twain's Pivotal Period in Buffalo." "As I poked around, I realized that this myth about Twain's time in Buffalo has lasted among Twain scholars for 100 years now, even to the present day."
Now Reigstad has rewritten the record about this critical period in Twain's life. In his foreword to the book, Neil Schmitz, a University at Buffalo English professor and Twain scholar, wrote, "Tom Reigstad's research is exhaustive. This is it. There isn't any more to be said about Mark Twain in Buffalo."
"Mark Twain is one of those people everybody has an image of, and usually it's the man with the white hair and big mustache and white suit," says Anne Conable of the Development and Communications Department at the Buffalo and Erie County Public Library, which has a significant Twain collection. "That's a very different person from the Mark Twain who lived here in Buffalo."
What was Twain's time in Buffalo really like? And, almost as important, how did it get so distorted?
Bright beginnings
Twain's life in Buffalo ended with illness, loss and anxiety, but it began on a high note. He moved to Buffalo in mid-August 1869 as a bachelor and the new editor of the Buffalo Express, after his wealthy future father-in-law put up $25,000 to make him part owner.
Twain threw himself into his work at the Express with enthusiasm approaching glee, transforming the newspaper with wit and elan. From the young men he met at his boardinghouse to fellow journalists, he had a wide social circle. Twain was already known for his popular tall tale, "The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County" and had just published "The Innocents Abroad." Welcomed to town at a lavish dinner of the Western New York Press Club, Twain joined the literary Nameless Club and the Young Men's Association. He enjoyed the lake, visited German beer gardens and played cards while awaiting pages at the Express.
"In Buffalo, everybody loved him and wanted to get close to him. He was like a rock star," says Schmitz, author of "Of Huck and Alice, Humorous Writing in American Literature."
Six months after arriving in Buffalo, Twain married the luminous beauty Olivia Langdon, a native of Elmira, and they moved into a comfortable mansion at 472 Delaware St. (now Avenue) purchased as a surprise wedding gift by her father, coal magnate Jervis Langdon. Twain and his new wife hosted visitors and socialized. It was also a productive period for Twain personally, who not only wrote for, edited and made changes at the Express for the first six weeks, but began work on "Roughing It."
Soon, Olivia became pregnant, but was devastated when her father was diagnosed with stomach cancer and died on Aug. 6, 1870.
Then Emma Nye, a dear friend of Olivia's who was visiting, was stricken with typhoid fever and died in their home Sept. 29. Finally, the couple's son, Langdon, was born prematurely Nov. 7, frail and sickly, and Olivia fell ill with typhoid herself.
By spring, the family had had enough. On March 18, 1871, 142 years ago Monday, Mark Twain left Buffalo for good. Olivia was carried out of their home on a mattress to the train station for the trip to Elmira.
Both the couple's home and Twain's stake in the Express were sold at a loss.
Bad times in Buffalo
The myth started small and grew with each iteration.
In 1913, Twain's first biographer, Albert Bigelow Paine, wrote that he and Olivia "did not mingle much or long with the social life of Buffalo." Paine called Twain's writing during this period "a retrogression," and added, "On the whole the Buffalo residence was mainly a gloomy one."
Subsequent biographers accepted that analysis and conjured up more negatives, said Reigstad. In "Mark Twain: Man & Legend," published in 1943, Delancey Ferguson wrote, "The bleak, sunless Buffalo winter dragged on, and all the high hopes with which Mark had embarked on his undertaking at the Express faded out in the universal grayness."
In his 1966 Pulitzer Prize-winning biography, "Mr. Clemens and Mark Twain," Justin Kaplan called Buffalo "city of cold winds and hard luck."
"People have written about the freezing weather and the snow as contributing to Twain's departure, but I was finding that wasn't true," Reigstad said. "It did puzzle me that so many very distinguished scholars could have continued to gloss over that period and report it so inaccurately."
An itch
Where others saw a grim period of gloom, Reigstad saw an opportunity.
"My interest in Twain was fostered early," he said; he read about Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn for Cub Scouts.
He enjoyed Twain in literature classes at Sweet Home High School, and "read a lot of Twain" while earning his bachelor's degree at UB, followed by a master's degree from the University of Missouri and a Ph.D. from UB.
Although he taught at Buffalo State for 26 years, Reigstad shared Twain's affinity for newsrooms. His first job out of college was in the library of the Courier-Express – a descendant of Twain's Express – and he wrote articles for the Courier and held a part-time copy desk job there until it closed. He worked part-time on the copy desk at the Niagara Gazette, then wrote a monthly column for Business First. For two years, he was associate editor of Bills Insider, which had its offices at the site of Twain's house at 472 Delaware Ave.
It was while he was writing a paper as a student in Missouri that Reigstad began to wonder about Twain's Buffalo life.
"I started getting an itch to pursue this," he said.
So between his academic work and newspaper sideline, he completed a series of research projects, one while researcher-in-residence at Elmira College's Center for Mark Twain Studies. He wrote journal articles and made presentations at conferences.
Not only did his research disprove the popular descriptions of Twain's time in Buffalo, he made a few exciting discoveries along the way.
Twain's real life here
Reigstad's research took him into many libraries, large and small, but also included interviews with the descendants of Twain's friends here. He read every edition of the Express published during Twain's tenure and examined unpublished manuscripts and other documents.
The overwhelming evidence was that the biographers were very wrong.
Were Twain and his wife lonely and solitary? Hardly.
"Twain made a lot of friends here as a bachelor and when he got married, he and his wife socialized quite a bit. Some of those people became lifelong friends even after they moved," Reigstad said.
Schmitz said Reigstad's book "shows us how exuberant and sexy Mark Twain was in Buffalo, hanging out with the local swells ..."
Was Twain unproductive, writing only a few things that were inferior to the work he would do before and afterward? "Some of the writing that he did while living here was quite enduring in its quality," Reigstad said. "He did some important drafting in the stories he wrote for the Express for his next book, 'Roughing It,' and he even wrote some chapters here in Buffalo for 'Roughing It.' "
Was Twain oppressed by the harsh weather?
"I didn't want to be defensive about Buffalo, but there is no evidence that Twain disliked the winters here," Reigstad said. "The only Thanksgiving that they spent as a family here, he presented his wife with a gift of Whittier's 'Snowbound. A Winter Idyl,' an epic poem about a family in New England trapped in their house by a heavy snowfall, and they celebrate it by telling stories and enjoying the time together."
That gift may have been a reference to a time in March 1870, when Twain and his wife were snowbound together by a late storm. "So he was celebrating and probably thinking ahead, at Thanksgiving, that it could happen again," Reigstad said.
Twain also wrote an editorial for the Buffalo Express called "Removal of the Capital," making a "tongue-in-cheek pitch" for the relocation of the nation's capital to Buffalo. "He praised the four seasons and he said winters in Buffalo were bracing," Reigstad said. "So I don't know where these people dreamed this stuff up and added it on to make Twain's time in Buffalo extra-miserable, but it wasn't, from Twain's perspective."
Great discoveries
During his lifelong search for details of Mark Twain's life here, Reigstad made several discoveries. In a visit to the Local History Department of the Niagara Falls Public Library, he found Twain's signature in the Cataract House register for August 1869, along with those of some of Olivia's relatives.
The discovery made Reigstad feel "euphoric, really," he said. "I started in June, just to be cautious, when I got to late July I started turning the pages more slowly. All of a sudden I saw the name Langdon, and below that 'Mark Twain.' It was really an exciting find."
His second find was made in the early 1980s, after his shift on the copy desk of the Niagara Gazette ended at 2:30 a.m. Combing the Gazette microfilm, he discovered a letter to the editor dated Aug. 25, 1869, commenting sarcastically about Twain's writing about Niagara Falls.
Titled "Mark Twain and Niagara," it started, "Mark Twain hath spoken. The mountain hath heaved and opened, and the mouse hath come forth." Reigstad says, "It struck me from the language, 'This has got to be Twain.' I sent it to Robert Hirst at the Mark Twain Papers and Project, who said it could be Twain, they weren't sure. There was some language in there that was very faithful to Twain, and he wrote hoaxes all the time, including mock reviews of his own stuff. This seemed to be designed to drum up interest in what he was writing."
Reigstad also discovered that the long-held belief that Twain lived in a boardinghouse run by the McWilliams family on Oak Street before his wedding was wrong.
"In the Buffalo City Directory there is a McWilliams on Oak Street, and people probably just put two and two together and others followed suit. But in Elmira I found an envelope addressed to Samuel Clemens C/O J.J. McWilliams, 39 E. Swan St. I thought, 'Well that's not Oak Street!' I looked up in the Buffalo City directories and found there was a boardinghouse there. I sent my research to the Mark Twain Papers and they substantiated that." That building stood on the third base line of Coca-Cola Field, across from The Irish Times at Booth Alley and Swan Street.
Given that information, Reigstad was able to place Twain in a specific building, sharing meals with such fellow boarders as George Brewster Matthews, "who went on to become one of the richest men in Buffalo and a huge philanthropist, as well as Twain's lifelong friend."
Finally, Reigstad's book contains several pieces Twain published in the Express that have been mostly overlooked.
"I found some hilarious letters that Twain wrote about the Niagara Falls business," says Reigstad. "He wrote a story about Queen Victoria's son, Prince Arthur, who visited Buffalo. Those were some things that I think will make a difference," he says.
A life's work
Reigstad's immersion in Twain's life took him to the Buffalo streets Twain once traveled, now much changed. At those places, as well as in Elmira and in the Mark Twain Museum in Hartford, Conn., "It's fair to say that I was able to feel his presence," says Reigstad. "I could also sort of feel his journalistic impulses; his love of the ink and presses and the busy-ness of a newsroom."
He also got to know Twain as a person. Reigstad says. "I'm not sure that I got to the point where I would have liked to spend much time with him, he was so volatile."
Through the years, many people encouraged Reigstad to seek a book contract. He finally did so in May of 2011, when his wife, Maryanne LePage Reigstad, "gave me a final nudge."
Ten months later, before he had finished the final chapters, Maryanne Reigstad lost her battle with breast cancer, leaving, besides her husband, two sons, her parents and two brothers.
In his acknowledgements, Reigstad writes, "My brave and beautiful wife, Maryanne, and our wonderful sons, Luke and Leif, have lived with the topic of Twain and Buffalo as long as we have been together and I thank them for their constant support."
"Scribblin' for a Livin'" is dedicated to her memory.
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Hertz Barinboym
Hertz was educated in the traditional spirit. Hertz made aliya to the Land together with his mother at the age of 13. His mother decided to return to Orheyev due to difficulties in absorption, and she pressed Hertz to return along with her and not abandon her in her old age. Therefore, he returned to the city. Nevertheless, Hertz remained committed to the Zionist idea and was active in the movement. He donated generously to the funds and the community. He was a member of the directorship of the library, and throughout his days, he attempted to obtain an inheritance in the Land. He educated his only daughter Naomi in the national spirit.
When Bessarabia was captured by the Russians, he was exiled to Siberia where he perished. His wife Fuga and 20 year old daughter Naomi also perished in the wastelands of Russia during the Holocaust.
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Elka Bronshteyn
The children of the family were Shmuel-Zelig, Yosef and Moshe Bronshteyn.
This was a well rooted family going back many generations in Orheyev, Bessarabia. They perished and were destroyed at the hand of the enemy.
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When he returned to the city, he was immediately accepted to the Jewish Hospital, where he worked together with the physicians Dr. Warshavsky and Dr. Lashko for many years. Within a short period of time, he endeared himself to the ill people whom he tended, both in the hospital and in his private practice. In addition to his professional expertise, Dr. Berkovitz excelled in his popular character traits, through which he earned his place in the community. He tended to the sick out of humanitarian feelings, without concern about their status. In cases of need, he would forego monetary compensation and continue to take interest in the state of the sick person even though he was not summoned a second time.
His livelihood was constricted even though he was an expert physician. As has been stated, he was not particular about compensation, and he devoted the majority of his time to communal affairs. He was the vice chairman of the credit cooperative for the middle class. He was a permanent delegate and a chief spokesman of the Union of Jewish Cooperatives in Bessarabia. He was a member of the city council and the first on the regional Jewish List for the Romanian parliament in 1922.
Dr. Berkovitz contributed greatly to the cultural realm. He was a man who was raised and educated as one of the folk, and he was fluent in spoken Yiddish. Large crowds came to hear his readings of the works of Sholom Aleichem. The writer of these lines had the opportunity to participate with him in the performance of Shalom Aleichem's Only a Doctor. I recall the enthusiasm with which the community received the appearance of Berkovitz. Laughter mixed with tears and endless applause accompanied him. Whomever came in company with him, whether as he hastened to visit a sick person, in a meeting of a communal institution, or in his modest home, enjoyed full hearted words of humor.
Dr. Berkovitz worked greatly in many areas of our community, but he paid special attention to Zionist activity. He worked in the movement in Odessa from his earliest youth. During the time of his university studies and later, he dedicated his time to the funds (the Keren Kayemet and Keren Hayesod). He appeared with great success in public gatherings of the movement.
Even though he belonged to the general Zionists, the Zionist-Pioneering-Socialist youth and others were attracted to his home for conversation and exchange of ideas. His home was a gathering place for all the Zionists in the city, and was open to everyone. There, literary celebrations, Zionist debates, and even holiday and festival celebrations were arranged.
His very lovely wife Marika assisted him in arranging the celebrations and receiving the crowds. Those who came to his home enjoyed great spiritual satisfaction he with his jovial attitude and unique sense of humor, and she with her pleasant voice, charming smile and love of life. The two of them imparted a sublime spirit upon anyone who came into their shadow. Thus did the years go by until the Russians conquered Bessarabia in 1940. Dr. Berkovitz's house was destroyed and ruined, and the family was exiled to afar.
He was exiled for close to 15 years for the crime of Zionism. He lost his human form. When he was liberated, he did not return to his hometown that had been emptied of its friendly residents, but he lived near his sister Fania in Beltsy. Mordechai Gitnik of Putsuntey described his final days.
I met Dr. Berkovitz often in the home of his sister (the widow of Yaakov Globman). He left an oppressive impression upon me already from our first meeting. This was not the alert, enthusiastic man who once was, whom I knew from my visits to the Credit Cooperative in Orheyev. He was lost within himself, downtrodden, his clothing was sloppy, and his body was emaciated. To my advice that he should arrange himself in a human form, strengthen himself, and also pay more attention to his dress, he answered negatively: Life is not worthwhile. I can no longer bring benefit. My time to leave this accursed world is already at hand. Indeed not long passed until the news arrived that Dr. Berkovitz, the jovial and alert, left his barren and lonely life in the strange city. May his memory be blessed!
R. Milshteyn
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Matityahu and Frayba Globman
Melech, Chaika and Perl (Polonsky)
Binyamin and Yocheved Globman
A memorial to my dear mother Frayba, to my brother Binyamin, Tzeviya his wife, Yocheved their daughter who was a student, and Chaika their child, Perl my sister, Melech her husband and their daughter who perished in the Holocaust. May G-d avenge their blood.
We were six sons and daughters in my parents' home, all of us working. My mother labored and toiled to provide our needs. When we got older, our home became a meeting place for the youth without differentiation between stream or factional direction. My brother Binyamin had weapons of defense hidden in the chimney. Once, the news arrived that the police were conducting searches in the neighborhood. Binyamin of blessed memory took out his revolver and bayonet, covered them and gave them to me to transfer to Aunt Susia, on the Post office Street. I was nine years old at the time.
Each of us had our own friends, and the meetings took place primarily in our home. There, we arranged literary parties on Sabbaths. Sometimes the friends of my brother and of my sister of blessed memory met at the same time, and took over all the rooms in the house. My good natured mother smiled and enjoyed this greatly. When we met on the Sabbath, my mother appeared with a plate of steaming potatoes in one hand, and salted fish and home made challas in her other hand. The group enjoyed the food with great relish, and my mother's face beamed with joy. These were the few moments of happiness that gave us strength to bear the life of tribulation during the dark days.
My father of blessed memory died in the month of Elul 5696 (1936) at the age of 80, and my mother had to suffer the great suffering during her latter days as we fled from the persecutors along with the family. There, everyone fell at the hands of the murderers.
May their memory be a blessing.
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Hundreds and thousands of all ages studied arithmetic from Yaakov. He searched for and found the means of teaching and educating each one, so that nobody would be left without the requisite level of knowledge Sit down and listen, perhaps you too will understand something -- said this man who taught with love. He remembered everyone who had been his student.
Indeed, teaching was the source of his livelihood, but nobody suspected that he was using this as a means of getting wealthy. Yaakov was strict with those students who tried to evade rigor in their studies and engage in guesswork in the fields of exact science. However, beneath the veneer of strictness beat a sensitive and loving heart, which would draw one close and offer explanations immediately after the dose of strictness that was meted out, until the point where you would understand, despite yourself, that which a few moments earlier was far from your understanding and ability to grasp.
His faithfulness to the Hebrew language was great and deep. He spared no efforts in filling his classes with comprehensive content by teaching arithmetic and mathematics in the Hebrew language, even before he had appropriate textbooks for such. When the Hebrew arithmetic books arrived from the Land, he was very happy. Yaakov was the first among our teachers to put the theory of modern teaching methodology into practice.
These were unforgettable periods of sublimity and connection between teacher and student. He earned the trust and love of his students, and all of them sought means to meet him and to find themselves in his domain as much as possible, even outside the hours of study.
As I bring forth these sections of memory for Yaakov the distinguished teacher, I am convinced that I do not exaggerate when I state that hundreds and thousands of his students remember him with love, reverence, and appreciation.
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Julianne Hough Off Footloose and Back on DWTS Season 11?
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I haven't seen too much news and talk lately about Julianne Hough and her possible return to Dancing with the Stars season 11. However, from past information it seems like Julianne Hough still had a commitment to come back on DWTS. It's mostly just been a question of when (although, I guess she could buy it out or something).
US Magazine just reported about Chace Crawford dropping out of the remake of Footloose and Julianne also mentions that she might have to drop out of Footloose as well. Here's the relevant quotes:
Julianne Hough is bummed Chace Crawford dropped out of Footloose.
The former Dancing With the Stars pro — who quit the show to focus on her singing and acting career — says she may have to pull out of the '80s remake as well because of scheduling difficulties.
"His schedule couldn't work because of Gossip Girl and mine almost didn't work because of DWTS," Julianne tells Us, "so we're still actually working on mine to see if I can do it."
Does she miss DWTS? "I do and I don't," Julianne says. "I miss the camaraderie and dancing, but I'm busy doing my music. I'm touring with Sugarland this year. I have a single out in June."
Maybe I'm reading into this a little bit, but it seems certainly possible that Julianne Hough being on DWTS season 11 is the conflict that could mean she has to drop out of Footloose, no? I actually think that Julianne Hough fans will see this as a good and a bad thing. Good to have her back on DWTS season 11, but bad that they won't get to see her in Footloose.
On the other side, Princess Heidi and her band of Derek Hough fans will certainly be very excited that Chace and possibly Julianne won't be on Footloose. Why? Because that gives them renewed hope that Derek could replace Chace in Footloose.
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It's close to 2 1/2 feet wide by 1 1/2 feet long. So, yeah, it's on the large side. Each level loses a bit of that "fin" look on the front, so that the third (top) level is a circle with a 1-foot diameter. Then, off the back of the structure, I'll add the gantry, which will be another two feet long or so.The second level will hold the torture room, the cell, and the junk room/boiler room. Then the top, circular piece will be the Carbon Freezing Chamber. Off the back, Luke and Vader wil be able to duel through the control room with the big window, out onto the gantry.
I'm really REALLY curious to see what (if any) way you'll incorporate Hasbro's Freeze Chamber set.I really enjoyed it, and still am figuring a way to make a bigger gantry thing that just snaps on over its current one. The only thing that set lacked was it being able to hold more figures I thought.
That said, it is just too miniaturized to work in my playset, and I'm just going to have to scratch build my own. I did pick up two spares back when the fan club clearanced 'em, but other than chopping out the steps from them for my walkways, I've never figured out how to use them.
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Jennifer Lopez said marriage to her hubby Marc Anthony hasn't been easy -- and that times have gotten so tough that she turns to relationship books for guidance.
In an interview with In Style magazine, the serial monogamist confessed that her five-year marriage to Anthony has had its fair share of difficult times.
We've gone through "hard experiences and a lot of ups and downs and a lot of mistakes," said Lopez.
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"I'm old enough to know now that relationships take work," she said. "That's it's not an easy thing."
The starlet said she turns to relationship books to help her answer what she called "the never ending question" that continues to challenge her: "What is the key to love?"
Anthony, husband No. 3 for the actress, is Lopez's longest-lasting mate. Her first marriage to Ojani Noa lasted less than a year, and her marriage to Chris Judd and engagement to Ben Affleck lasted under two years apiece.
Sean Combs dated the Bronx native for 2-1/2 years before they split.
Lopez and Anthony have 1-1/2-year-old twins Max and Emme together.
"There's nothing as huge as giving birth to another human being and having to be responsible for another life," she told the magazine. "There's you before kids, and there's you after kids -- and they're not the same you."
Maybe this version of J.Lo will crack the relationship code for good.


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The Dolphins might be through throwing big money around, but they're still looking for help, and unlike years past, some veteran players are more willing to look their way.
According to Armando Salguero of the Miami Herald, the Dolphins have made inquiries about Giants free agent defensive end Osi Umenyiora, one of the forgotten pass-rushers still on the market.
He reports the Dolphins have "spent considerable time studying Umenyiora and even called his representatives to explore the possibility."
That's a long way from a deal, but it shows they're still looking.
They'll also be in the market for some defensive tackle help, as free agent Tony McDaniel isn't expected to return.
But with the market transitioning, the Dolphins are taking it more slowly now, not in a hurry to make any moves.


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