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|MAYOR JIM PETERSON, Exposing the Klan
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|CON WEDDINGTON - The Great Debater
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In God She Trusted
Sara Perkins trusted God. During times of tumult, tempest and trial in her life, Sara could always trust in the Almighty. During her terms as a political prisoner in China, God was the only one she could trust to get her through the quagmire of confinement to believe that one day she would breathe the air of freedom.
Sara Emily Perkins was born in Tennille, Georgia on the 23rd day of January 1892. Orphaned at an early age, Sara lived with her married sister. In her early years, Sara wanted to become a musician. She attended the College of Music in Washington, D.C. and taught piano in Shanghai, China in a school for children of American missionaries. After two years, Sara knew that teaching music was not what she wanted to do for the rest of her life. Everywhere she looked, Sara saw poverty, disease and ignorance. She wanted to help change that, so she embarked on a course in the study of medicine half way around the world, where she began her studies of nursing at Peking Medical College. As a registered nurse, Perkins performed mission work for a year before returning to the U.S. to work as a public health care nurse in Charleston, S.C..
Learning the Chinese language was the first order of business after Sara's return to China as she was assigned to train Chinese nurses. It wasn't very long after she arrived back in China when the Japanese army invaded the country in 1937. During the early months of the fighting, Sara worked in the war relief efforts before she was taken as a prisoner by the Japanese. As an American, she was treated somewhat better than prisoners of other nationalities. In 1940, Perkins was granted a furlough and was sent to the United States. Knowing that her place was back in China, Sara returned to the war ravaged country, just six weeks before the attack on Pearl Harbor. It was only after the Japanese government learned that Japanese Americans were being interned in the United States that Sara and her fellow medical workers and missionaries were also confined in camps until an exchange of prisoners was completed in 1943. Sara returned to America on a ten-week trip on a slow boat from China. As she and her colleagues entered New York harbor, they began to sing The Star Spangled Banner. Tears streamed down their faces.
After the end of World War II, once again Sara left South Carolina and returned to her adopted homeland in 1946 on a 47 day trip aboard a Norwegian freighter. Once again, war returned to the Chinese mainland when the Chinese Communists launched a bid to take over the government. Sara had paid little attention to the Communists before, thinking of them not as a mighty force but a maladroit band of malcontents and fanatics. Sara and her colleagues heard reports of the Communists coming into their city and began to hide all their medical equipment. When the Chinese Nationals abandoned the city, the Communists conducted an orderly take over and for the second time in a dozen years, Sara once again found herself as a political prisoner.
Conditions in the prison camp slowly began to deteriorate. There was little contact with the outside world. When the captors were not around, Sara and her fellow prisoners listened to a homemade radio on a radio station in Hong Kong to keep up with the happenings in the war in Korea.
Sara recalled, "March 2, 1951, was a cold night. I had a little wood-burning stove in my room, and in order to conserve the heat, I had encircled it with chairs draped with various garments. Behind the chairs I placed a little tin tub and in it I took my last 'tub bath' for the next four and one half years." That's when things got worse. The guards came into her room and removed nearly all of her possessions. With little clothes to wear, Sara spent most of her days in bed. She was allowed to keep four copies of the Gospel of John, although her Bible was confiscated. She gave away three copies of her gospel tracts and kept the other close to her at all times.
The American prisoners were taken to Ku Kong prison, a dark dank moldy dungeon. To help pass the time and keep their sanity, Sara and the others recited Bible verses and played mind games with each other through their cell walls. Her room was furnished with a saw horse, which she used for a table, and two saw horses, which she planks on and used for a bed.
This was a time when Sara's faith took over and kept her going from day to day. She began to sing verses of This is My Father's World as she combated rats, mosquitos and oppressive heat.
In early 1952, Sara was taken to a larger prison in Canton, China. There, and especially on Sundays, Sara and the others were subjected to loud Chinese music and propaganda. Though she rated the prison food as "good and sufficient," the sight of a spider on the top of big bowl of rice never left the back of her mind.
It was in June 1954, when Sara began to have contact with her family. Her first letter and care package from her sister came on New Year's Eve. The Chinese took the good things and left her with the insignificant contents, though they were highly significant to Sara.
The year 1955 would be the last year she would be confined. As summer came to an end, Sara wrote in her autobiography, Red China Prisoner, "The bolt was slipped back and my cell door swung open to admit the messenger of my release. I was told to prepare to leave quickly. The admonition was unnecessary, my things had been ready for days." Sara's Chinese captors had kept her possessions intact, albeit her clothes were mildewed and currency was rotted. Her last meal was rice and chicken, but after eating rice twice a day for four and one half years, she ate the chicken and left the rice for the birds. As she rode through the Chinese countryside, Sara looked out the window of her train coach to see how much the landscape had changed. The train stopped at bridge. As she walked across the bridge toward the British guards on the other side, Sara saw no water, just the vision of freedom as she felt the hand of God helping her to walk.
On October 9, 1955, Sara boarded the President Cleveland for the long awaited trip back home. She knew she could never return to China and accepted her banishment as God's will as she recalled, "The night was glorious and I went up on deck to see the harbor of Hong Kong for the last time. It was beautiful in the starlight and I felt that I was standing between two worlds. The one I was leaving behind had been filled with an amazing adventure with God. The one toward which I was moving, though very different, would be filled with a continuation of that adventure, but the wonder of it would be measured by my faith."
I took this picture of Hunger and Hardship Creek from the bridge on Greenwood Drive on the evening of October 7, 2009.
I took this shot of a full moon and the flag over Home Depot in Dublin, Georgia on the evening of October 3, 2009.
Exposing the Ku Klux Klan
Mayor Jim Peterson of Soperton, Georgia may have lost some old friends, but he gained some new ones when he ripped off the hoods of three members of the Ku Klux Klan and exposed them to the world. His actions, which would later turn out to be futile at best, signaled a new movement around the South and the nation to rid the country of the white robed villains.
It was a relatively calm Saturday night in Soperton, Georgia on the evening of May 21, 1949. A frantic phone call came in reporting that there were women who were being frightened by hooded and masked men roaming the streets of the turpentine town. Klan activity in the Treutlen County seat had been relatively quiet, according to the mayor, who said, "A few crosses have been burned in Soperton, the latest one a month ago, but we haven't had any serious trouble from the Klan."
When the mayor arrived on the scene near his own home, he noticed two hooded men skulking around in the uniformed regalia of the Ku Klux Klan. Peterson, a popular mayor in his ninth term and brother of Congressman Hugh Peterson, approached and challenged the duo to identify themselves. When they refused, Peterson snatched off the hoods of Malcom Braddy and Joe Greene, a woolen mill worker. Peterson reported that during the scuffle, Braddy, an automobile mechanic for Henry Motor Co., struck him and knocked off his glasses.
Mayor Peterson enlisted the aid of Chief of Police M.D. Ware to investigate the commotion. The mayor and chief took Braddy and Greene back to the city jail and then drove around the neighborhood looking for more hooded suspects. They saw three more Klansmen and proceeded to arrest them as well. Peterson approached John Edge, a night watchman for the Georgia Highway department, and ripped off his hood. The other two partners fled as Chief Ware sent a fusillade of bullets into their flight into the darkness.
Braddy, Greene and Edge were placed in jail but quickly freed on a hundred-dollar bond each on the charges of disorderly conduct. The men were summoned to appear in City Court on Monday morning to answer the charges against them. According to law, it was the duty of the Mayor of Soperton to act as the judge in the absence of the recently deceased recorder. The hearing was rescheduled for June 13.
In the meanwhile, Peterson and his family traveled to Annapolis, Maryland to attend the graduation of his son, Ensign William C. Peterson, from the United States Naval Academy. While he was there, the mayor received a call from a government official in the area, who once challenged the Klan himself. Peterson couldn't turn down the man's offer to discuss the situation. That man was none other than Harry S. Truman, President of the United States. The men met in the White House for about an hour, but neither of them disclosed the points they discussed. Truman congratulated Peterson on his stand, and encouraged others to fight the Klan wherever and whenever possible.
Another recent and prominent Soperton graduate came to the defense of Mayor Peterson. He was Bill Bates, editor of the University of Georgia newspaper, The Red and Black, and the valedictorian of the Class of 1949. Bates, who would serve a short term as editor of the Soperton News before entering a successful journalistic career, called the mayor's actions "a smashing blow for decency," as he proclaimed his pride for his hometown mayor.
Dr. Samuel Green, Grand Dragon of the Ku Klux Klan, took offense to the mayor's actions against three of his flock. Rumors circulated throughout newspapers around the country that the Klan was going to sue the mayor for what they believed were illegal actions. Green told a writer of the Augusta Chronicle that he would prefer assault and battery charges against Peterson if they warranted. The Grand Dragon personally went to Soperton to investigate the matter. "If I find that these men were Klansmen and were conducting their business peacefully, I shall prefer charges against the mayor for jerking off their masks," promised Green, who told the reporter that under Soperton's ordinances, "The mayor had no more right to jerk of the masks than any stranger would have jerking off your hat while in your office." Peterson hoped that the Klan would not go to court, but was ready to vigorously take them on. The mayor held no grudge against the men who were charged, by citing, "The fellows involved in this incident and their associates for the most part are my friends and neighbors who have been led astray." He called them "well-meaning citizens, whose indiscretions, have been brought about by the strong and selfish leadership of the KKK."
Peterson decided that it was in his best interest and in fairness to the defendants to recuse himself and appoint James Waller, the city's mayor pro tem, in his place. With Mayor Pro-Tem Waller, a turpentine and cotton warehouse operator, presiding, a trial was held in a hot and packed court room in the back of the Bank of Soperton on the morning of June 13. Waller heard evidence from the police chief and Mrs. I. H. Hall, who testified that she was frightened by the three defendants as they lingered in the dark outside her home. Prosecutor N. G. Reeves introduced evidence to show that the defendants were carrying weapons concealed under their robes, but it was stricken from the record since the court had no jurisdiction to hear such charges. Ironically, Mayor Peterson was not called to testify.
Joe Greene was tried first and called to testify in his own defense. Greene alleged that he and the others were directing traffic to their meeting place when Peterson ran up and screamed, "What in the H are you doing here?"
Defense attorney Ross T. Sharpe shouted, "Everybody knows the only reason in the world we are trying this case is because these men were wearing hoods and robes. Are you going to say that of the 391 Klansmen in this county that everyone else, including Henry Wallace and the Communists, are welcome here, but the Klan is not?"
Sharpe continued his rant by asking the court to equate the Klansmen to Shriners and even Christians, who wore white clothing as a symbol of the purity of Christ. He loudly proclaimed that there was no law on the books which prevented the wearing of a hood or being a Klansman as he added, "You can put on your white night gown and walk down the street if you want to."
After the evidence was closed, Waller dismissed the charge for disturbing the peace against Greene by stating, "These men on both sides are all friends of mine. Joe Greene farmed for me for two or three years." His ruling applied to all of the defendants, but he reserved a ruling on the charges of loitering as he explained to the parties that he needed time to deliberate the fate of the defendants, this being his first trial he had ever handled.
On July 8th, James Waller dismissed the remaining charge of loitering and the case was legally over. In the end, Mayor Peterson's unmasking of three Soperton Klansmen was another small step in the eventual end of Klan activity in East Central Georgia just like back in the great state of Missouri, when ol' "Give 'Em Hell Harry" brought about the end to the local Klan.
George Werley
George Werley grew up in a baseball town during the World War II years. St. Louis was the home of the Cardinals and the Browns, though the latter never proved to be a winner. In three of the four summers of the war, the Cardinals won the National League pennant. When he was growing up in the 1940s, George dreamed of one day playing on the diamond of Sportsman Park or at one of the other fifteen grand parks of the major leagues. That dream came true and sooner than he could have ever imagined.
George William Werley was born in St. Louis, Missouri on September 8, 1938. The six-foot two-inch, one hundred and ninety-six-pound pitcher, just out of high school, made his only appearance in a major league game for the Baltimore Orioles on September 29, 1956, just three weeks after his eighteenth birthday. In one inning of work, George gave up one hit, two bases on balls, and one earned run for a career earned run average of 9.00. He would never set foot on a major league mound after that Saturday afternoon in Griffith Stadium in Washington, D.C..
The Orioles offered George, the 1956 Missouri American Legion Player of the Year, a contract. The agreement, which was offered exclusively by the Orioles in an attempt to sign more players, guaranteed that the player would see action in the major leagues in their very first season with the organization. And, sure enough, George signed the contract on September 2 and was playing in the big leagues less than four weeks later.
Baltimore manager Paul Richards called his phenom into the game in the bottom of the eighth inning. He figured there was nothing to lose since the sixth-place Orioles were being shut out 6-0 by Washington, first in the hearts of their country and usually last in the American League. George, wearing his gray #15 road jersey, walked from the bull pen to the mound. Everything was going well in the beginning. George got lead off hitter, the Nationals second baseman Herb Plews, to ground out to the first baseman Bob Hale, who tossed the ball back to George for the first out of the inning. Next up was catcher Ed Fitzgerald, who grounded out to shortstop Billy Gardner. With two out, Werley walked Pete Runnels, a journeyman first baseman. Roy Seivers, the 1949 Rookie of the Year and who played for the St. Louis Browns, the forerunner of the Orioles, also walked, forcing Runnels to second.
Worley still had a chance to get out of his first inning with no damage. With two on and two out, Jim Lemon, a future All Star outfielder for the Senators, singled to right plating Runnels to send the Senators ahead 7-0. George shook off the butterflies and bared down on the next hitter, third baseman Harmon Killebrew, a young struggling slugger and who thirteen years later would be named the American League Most Valuable Player, grounded out to Gardner to end the inning.
Neither George n or the 1,129 or so fans in attendance at the game didn't know it at the time, but his last pitch to the future thirteen time all star would be his last in the major leagues. The Senators held on to win the game, 7-1.
In Orioles history, the game was significant, but not because it was the game in which the youngest Oriole hurler appeared in only a single game. The little noticed milestone came in the final stanza. The Baltimore nine scored their sole run of the game in the top of the ninth when the young third baseman for Birds in only his nineteenth game of his career stroked his first major league home run to break up the shut out of Cuban-born pitcher Evelio Hernandez, who in his fourth appearance in the big leagues won his first and only game of his career. That young third sacker, who played the hot corner better than anyone else in baseball history, was none other than nineteen-year-old Brooks Calvert Robinson, Jr., an American League all star from 1960 to 1974. Brooksy was the 1964 AL MVP and a winner of the Babe Ruth, Lou Gehrig and Roberto Clemente Awards.
The Baltimore Sun reported that Werley "nevertheless showed a good fastball and considerable poise in his one-inning trial." George reported to spring training in 1957, but was assigned to the Fitzgerald Pioneers of the Georgia-Florida League, where he pitched in 21 games under the tutelage of player-manager Earl Weaver. George didn't fair well in Fitzgerald with the Orioles posting a 2-4 record and an ERA of 7.95, but he did earn a call up to the Class C team in Aberdeen, South Dakota, where he appeared in only two games.
The year 1958 would be George Werley's best season in professional baseball. He rejoined his manager/second baseman Earl Weaver with the Dublin Orioles, a Class D farm club of the Orioles. In Dublin, George had a respectable year going 16-10 in thirty-five appearances. While his ERA was 4.28, he was second on the team in that category among the starters, ahead of Steve Barber, who would later become one of the Oriole's best left-handed pitchers of the 1960s. In the batter's box, George was the team's best hitting pitcher with a mark of .228 for the season.
One of George's highlights of the 1958 season was a 3-2 extra innings victory over the Waycross Braves on May 20th. George went the entire thirteen stanzas to garner a hard-fought victory.
For all of you sports trivia fans, George Werley is the answer to one of the most obscure questions about Dublin minor league baseball. He won the last game ever played by the Orioles in Dublin, a 15-4 victory over the Brunswick Phillies. George also pitched in the first Oriole game ever played in Dublin. He pitched very well, but got a no decision in the opening game loss to the Albany Cardinals. In another bit of trivia, the first Orioles game was umpired by John Kibler and Bill Haller, two long time veteran umpires of the National and American Leagues.
After a promising start in the 1959 season with the Pensecola Dons of the Alabama- Florida League, George was shipped off across the country to the Stockton Posts in California, and back to the Pheasants in Aberdeen, South Dakota, where his professional career ended.
Fifty years after his debut in the major leagues, writers for The Baltimore Sun attempted to contact George to get his feelings on his all too brief major league career. Werley, a Missouri businessman and president of the Wenzel Tent and Sleeping Bag Company, refused to talk, according to the sports department, about the long ago day when he walked to the mound in his first, and only, major league game. So, on the fifty-third anniversary of your making it to the big show, where have you gone, George Werley?
Tales of a Twiggs Town
They call this place Dry Branch, Georgia. There hasn't been a flood here in millions of years since the Atlantic Ocean pulled away from the fall line. But, eight to a dozen decades ago, the liquor flowed freely to the lovers of moonshine, while the teetotalers took no shine to the whiskey at all. Don't get me wrong, this wasn't the only place in Georgia or the country where folks took a drink. Like everywhere else, if they needed a drink, they usually found someone who would be willing, for a fee, to give them a snort of spiritous liquor.
T.J. Butler wanted to a make a living. And that living was selling liquor to all the thirsty throats he could on the outskirts of Dry Branch. On January 6, 1892, he paid his one hundred dollar license fee to the court in Macon believing that his establishment was at least three miles from the nearest church. He was wrong. Though he just made it according to the surveyor's calculations, T.J. Butler came up some sixteen feet as measured along the nearest public dirt road. The decision of the city court judge was clear, "The defendant is ordered to pay the sum of $50.00 for violating the inviolate laws of the state."
There was nothing that T.J. Butler could do about his store, especially the department where he kept his intoxicants. The anti-liquor crowd apparently took matters into their own hands. After much consternation of the part of Dry Branch residents, someone or a group of irate teetotalers set the place on fire. As a result of the midnight blaze, not a shingle was left. Though Butler had his establishment insured, the insurance only covered half of the $3000.00 loss.
Without a place to sell his spirits, the convicted criminal took issue with the fine and took his case to a higher authority, the legislature of the State of Georgia. On the winter solstice in 1892, the General Assembly voted not to allow him to sell liquor two miles, five thousand two hundred and sixty four feet from the nearest church, but to reimburse him for two-thirds of his license fee.
It seemed that it was illegal in the city of Macon to sell liquor. So, those who wanted their liquor to consume or sell made arrangements with depot agents in surrounding communities, including Dry Branch. Once the whiskey arrived, every night it would be placed on the Bibb County side of the line where the Maconites could come and pick it up. When no one came to pick it up the next morning, the agents were forced to retrieve the barrels of booze and bring them back to the station - a task which worried them much if a revenue agent came snooping around.
It was a cool night on the morning of March 29, 1916, when an ingenious group of whiskey drinkers figured a way to get their hooch without breaking into the depot in Dry Branch. They called under the building, took soundings to locate the barrels, and drilled holes through the floor directly into the whiskey barrels above. The contents were drained into some sort of container until the barrel was empty. The plan worked until it was uncovered by railroad detectives, who put an end to the scheme by exposing the whole brilliant plan.
Reginald Claypole Vanderbilt, son of Cornelious Vanderbilt, one of the world's richest men, came to Dry Branch on Groundhog Day in 1915 to visit P.W. Martin as his country home, "Ashantee," near Dry Branch. The visit was purely social, though the two men were former business partners. Vanderbilt partook of the fruit of the vine too often, dying of liver failure at the age of forty-five after squandering his seven million dollar inheritance. His greatest legacy was his daughter Gloria, who became a successful actress, artist and socialite.
Serpent admirers will love this story. If you don't like snakes, then skip this paragraph. Out on the Martin place, a short distance from Dry Branch, a man and his wife were walking around when he noticed a large Eastern Diamondback rattlesnake coiling his body and preparing to strike. Just as the viper rared back, it was struck with a mortal blow.
For all of the afternoon and most of the next day, the man took the snake all over Dry Branch to show it off. He had reason to be proud of his reptile. Someone laid it on the ground and marked off seven feet and six inches, an insignificant half foot short of an all time record. Curios collectors offered the man as much as $5.00 for the snake which had a girth of a whole foot at its longest.
Rev. Willie Barber had the devil after him. No, not the red horned underworld demon, but a widowed church sister, who had been hoodwinked by the wrong reverend. Barber organized a church in Dry Branch. His charisma charmed the widow so much that an instant bond between them led to the lady giving the pastor the hog and a cow to sell with the understanding that he would return the proceeds to her. Pretty soon, the minister was gone and so were the livestock and the money. After investigating the matter and finding that her trusted clergyman had gone down to form another church near Elberta, Georgia, where she suspected he was gone to swindle some swine from another trusting widow lady. She reported the crime and swore out a warrant for the arrest of the evil evangelist.
Most of us would never imagine a possum hunt would become a social event, but in early 1920s, it was the thing to do on cool Friday night in the fall. The men would forge ahead with their shot guns and dogs. The boys went out to E. Mallary's farm and bagged three fine possums for a supper with their ladies at Ed Loh's Caf' on Saturday night. Sometimes, both the ladies and the men would motor out to the woods, eat an early evening picnic and return home in the moonlight.
The clay hills of Dry Branch and its environs often reveal remarkable treasures, such as fossilized shark's teeth and sea animals. Luckier ground lookers have found diamonds and even tiny pieces of gold. Police officer Layfield was out walking when he spotted a good sized unusual stone shimmering in a creek bed. It turns out the object of the officer's eye was a moonstone, a silicate of potassium and aluminum. Layfield was so intrigued by his gemstone that he took it to a jeweler in Macon, who sent it to New York, where it was polished and fashioned into a scarf pin. Layfield's son had it set in a ring, which he wore for many years, not because of it's monetary value, but because moonstones are good luck symbols.
For all of the last one hundred years it has been there. Sitting on a hill under the shade of a canopy of mighty oaks, Saxon Heights Elementary School has been the place where children of Dublin have gone to learn their ABCs, reading, writing and arithmetic. This is the story of the early years of one of Georgia's oldest existing elementary schools.
Near the end of the first decade of the 20th Century, Dublin's growth shifted to the southwest along Smith Street in an area known as "Quality Hill." The citizens in the area demanded a school on their side of town. The school board explored two options. One site was on the extreme southern end of town and the other site ,which was chosen, was on a hill along Smith Street, just west of Saxon and Pine Streets. The city council had the final say and opted to purchase the latter site at a savings of five hundred dollars and with the enthusiastic endorsement of school board chairman Frank G. Corker.
In mid September 1908, the acquisition of the land from Captain Thomas H. Rowe was consummated.. The board of education decided to carry on the practice of naming schools after a street on which they fronted. Though commonly called Saxon Street School, the correct name is Saxon Heights School, named for the area in which the historic institution stands. Rowe's second wife was named Emma Saxon Guyton Rowe, who the city honored with the naming of Saxon Street. At the time, Smith Street was not opened to Telfair Street, so the primary approach was along Grady Street to the front of the building, where its prominence could easily be seen from Telfair Street.
Immediately plans were formulated to extend Grady and Palmer Streets to give access to students as far north as Bellevue Avenue. The new building had to be ready to occupy by the beginning of the spring term in order to relieve the overcrowding in the high school building, which already housed an elementary division. Six thousand dollars was set aside for the construction out of the twelve thousand dollars remaining in the bond fund, an earlier version of the current S.P.L.O.S.T. fund.
The plans were changed and C.N. Cooper and his large force of hands didn't begin construction until early May 1909. A fourth entrance was added and the bathrooms were removed to underneath the building. By mid-July, the exterior had been substantially completed. Work on the interior was progressing at a rapid rate.
Though the new building was modeled after Rev. George C. Thompson's design of Johnson Street School, the interior was different and was built at a cost of an additional one thousand dollars. There were four large class rooms on each floor of the two story building. Each story had a large hallway and cloak rooms. Originally heat was provided by stoves, but the building was designed to accommodate a steam or hot air system in the future. A large auditorium was built in the rear of the second floor.
By the first of September, the facility was almost ready to open. City Street Superintendent S.J. Hattaway began the sprucing of the grounds. Trees were trimmed, grass was mowed and grounds were leveled to put the finishing touches on what was billed as the most handsome school in the state. Of course the people of Dublin were slightly prejudiced and rightly proud of their new school.
Exactly at nine o'clock on the morning of September 20, 1909, the doors were opened and the students went to their assigned classrooms before marching upstairs to the auditorium where their parents and school officials were waiting. Professor D.A. Walker, the school's first principal, initiated the opening exercises by leading the congregation in singing All Hail the Power of Jesus' Name.
Mrs. W.E. Harvill was there and reported that a fine talk was made on the importance of good school work. After that, one hundred and five pupils and their parents were given an orientation before the first lessons began in the city's third white elementary school. Two schools, one on North Decatur in the Scottsville neighborhood and another on Taylor Street, housed the black children of the city. Though the opening enrollment was sixty to seventy less than school officials had anticipated, the Superintendent Roland E. Brooks was confident that the actual number would rise as soon as all the crops were harvested from the fields.
Professor Walker taught the seventh grade while not attending to his duties as principal. His staff included Sarah Howard, who taught both the fifth and sixth grades. Minie May Green taught fourth grade, Mrs. C.E. Campbell was in charge of the third grades and Zoe Hightower was the second grade teacher. Alma Carrere was given the assignment of teaching the brand-new students in the first grade. Mary Hicks served as the school's first supernumerary, when and where her services were needed.
After just three months, the seventh grade was dropped. Professor Walker accepted a position at Lanier High in Macon. He was replaced by Mrs. E.C. Campbell, the city's first female principal, who did double duty by teaching the third grade. Though the appointment was supposed to be temporary until a permanent male replacement was hired, Mrs. Campbell served the school well for a number of years. Ida Belle Williams, who would later become one of the state's top teachers, took over the fifth grade. Carrie Shropshire became the new first grade teacher for the 1910-11 year. Schellie Prince was appointed as supernumerary and Mrs. George T. Rowe was assigned to summer school.
Among the other teachers in the early years were Hope Chavous, Ethel Hall, Gertrude Pierce, Florine Deese, Ethel Hall, Nancy Duggan, Dora Belle Shewmake, Mrs. R.Y. Beckham, Ruth Smith, Julia Porter, Nell Johnson, and Josephine Harrison.
Today, school fund raisers realize thousands of dollars with parents selling stuff to their friends and relatives. The parents organized the Saxon Heights School Improvement Club. Nine decades ago the students of Saxon Heights School were trying to raise money for a Victrola. They sold lunches and candy, realizing a nice profit. For fun they put on a "tacky party," minstrel show, and races. The students staged a show featuring impersonations of the faculty. The admission charge was ten cents.
The original building was used until the mid 1950s when it was replaced by a modern brick structure, which was substantially destroyed by a fire in the mid 1970s. The burned building was remodeled and expanded into the current facility.
Today, Saxon Heights Elementary School is recognized as one of the top elementary schools in the State of Georgia for its outstanding programs and the academic achievement of eleven consecutive years of achieving AYP, a mark unsurpassed by any school in the entire State of Georgia. So here's a cheer to the Shooting Stars of Saxon Heights, Happy Birthday! May your second century be even better.
I took this photograph of a Great Blue Heron taking a sunbath on the banks of the pond at Fairview Park Hospital on September 8, 2009.
"The Great Debater"
In Con Weddington's day, the sport of debating was usually reserved for only the most promising, brilliant and fine young men. To be a collegiate debater, and a champion one at that, guaranteed that one would rise to the level of most elite of the erudite, if one wasn't already there or thought that wealth equated brilliance. Con Weddington made that leap. His oratorical skills and debating prowess were rarely equaled in his days at the University of Georgia in the late 1800s. When he wasn't engaged in the study of law, philosophy and history, Con was wearing the tools of ignorance, a catcher's uniform for the Georgia Bulldogs baseball team.
Con Weddington was born on the eleventh day of the eleventh month in the year of 1874 in Douglas County, Georgia, a sleepy farming community west of Atlanta. The son of Charles William Weddington and his wife Virginia, Con was also known as Connie. When formally introduced, he was addressed as Cornelious Alexander Weddington, or simply, "C.A. Weddington," for short.
Charles Weddington was not financially able to send Con to a fine academy, so the young man learned what he could in the county schools. After completing his studies, Weddington returned to those same schools as a teacher.
At the age of 20, Con Weddington entered the University of Georgia on New Years' Day 1895. His life would change forever. Honors seemed to follow Con everywhere he went. He was elected Secretary of the Oratorical Association and in 1898, President. Con was also elected President of the Demosthenian Society.
But it would be in debate and oratory where Connie Weddington would make his greatest mark at Georgia. Weddington was awarded the medal for the university's best freshman and sophomore debater. He won the championship Debater's Medal in a highly publicized and honored debate with Emory University. The winner of the Stevens' Medal in debate, C0n Weddington was selected as speaker of the Junior and Senior Class at graduations.
Perhaps his greatest honor came on January 20, 1896 during an oratorical contest held in the university chapel. Weddington spoke to a capacity crowd, including at least a hundred aging Confederate Veterans. For his speech, "The Spirit of '61," Weddington was awarded the highly coveted Shropshire Medal.
Con Weddington was a pretty fair country baseball player. He joined the team in his freshman year and played all four of his years at Georgia. He began his baseball career as a catcher and ended it at first base. In 1896, his teammates elected him to captain the sophomore squad. While at Georgia, Weddington did his share of duty as a 4th sergeant in the university's military department.
After his graduation in 1898, Con Weddington began his study of the law with the firm of Dorsey, Brewster and Howell in the capital city of Atlanta. He came to Dublin at the dawn of the 20th Century to practice law. He lived with his cousin, Dr. James Weddington. In December 1901, he married the love of his life, Miss Georgia V. Smith, daughter of real estate magnate J.D. Smith. The couple had three children, Virginia, Gladys and Con, Jr.
When he first came to Dublin, Weddington resumed his military career as the captain of the "Dublin Guards," Company A, 2nd Infantry Regiment of the Georgia State Troops. He also resumed his baseball career playing along side James on the city's semi pro baseball team. As the first commander, Weddington helped to establish the first camp of the Sons of Confederate Veterans in 1901. In April of 1903, Weddington joined fellow lawyer Kendrick J. Hawkins in establishing the Dublin Times, a forerunner of the Courier Herald. That same year, Colonel Weddington was honored when he was named attorney for the City of Dublin, a post which he held until 1905.
Active in fraternal organizations, Con Weddington was the first member of the Dublin Elks Club, serving as the club's Exalted Ruler. He was a Mason and a member of the Olivet Commandery of the Knights Templar as well as being a Noble of the Mystic Shrine, Sinah Temple, Macon, Georgia. Weddington held the office of Chancellor of the Knights of Pythias and Grand Master of the Independent Order of the Odd Fellows.
In 1913, Weddington was elected Mayor of the City of Dublin, having been a popular and capable Clerk of the Council for many years.
Not soon after his mayoral term ended, the Weddingtons moved to the blooming city of Cochran where he would practice law. In the early 1920s, Weddington was made the acting postmaster of the seat of the newly organized Bleckley County.
The convivial Con Weddington was rarely without a friend nearby. Always affable, his host of faithful friends were suddenly shocked and stupefied when the news spread throughout Cochran that the town's popular postmaster had been arrested for secretly stealing money from the post office. Postmaster Weddington admitted to his guilt, waving a bond hearing and pleading no lo contendere to the felony for which he was sentenced to a humiliating year in a federal prison. After his release, Cornelious A. Weddington seemed to have disappeared from the face of the Earth. His widow Georgia Weddington died in Mt. Vernon, Texas in 1958 and is buried in her father's family plot in Northview Cemetery.
Cornelious Alexander Weddington was a good man. He made a mistake like most people do. No one knows why such as eloquent, educated and brilliant man would ruin his life and legal career by embezzling a relatively paltry sum of eleven hundred dollars. It is not my task to reason why he foolishly took the negative, but it is my endeavor to salute a man who, for most of his life, took the affirmative whenever he could.
A Yankee Governor in a Georgia Court
How could a New Hampshire born school teacher and a future Michigan governor wind up teaching public school in Irwinton, Georgia? And, how could he be a member of the bar in a small southern village, where the barristers were all Georgians? John S. Barry did it and here is his story.
John Steward Barry was born in Amherst, New Hampshire on January 29, 1802. When he was big enough to plow, John began working on the farm of his parents, John and Ellen Barry. After completing his secondary studies, John accepted a position as a principal of an academy in the strange and distant land of Middle Georgia in 1824. Barry was given the duty of supervising the academy in Irwinton, Georgia. He brought his new wife, Mary Kidder, with him to his new home in a place unlike any other he had ever lived in.
Barry grew interested in the law. He studied every law book he could get his hands on and was admitted to the bar of Wilkinson County. During his brief tenure in Georgia, John Barry's stature in the legal community rose. He was appointed the governor as a member of his staff. Barry was further honored by his fellow Wilkinson Countians when he was named captain of the local militia company.
Growing tired of the legal profession, John moved his family back to the North, settling in White Pigeon, Michigan, where he went to work in the mercantile business of I.W. Willard in 1831, six years before it became the state's first incorporated village. His legal experience led to his appointment as Justice of the Peace for a four year term. When his partnership with Isaac Willard ended, Barry moved again in 1834 just up the road in Constantine, where he built the village's first frame building and general store in hopes of capitalizing on the trade along the St. Joseph's River.
Barry, representing St. Joseph's County, attended a constitutional convention in Detroit on the second Monday in May 1835. The delegates adopted a new constitution six weeks later. Two years later, Michigan was admitted as the 26th state of the Union. And right in the forefront of the political goings on was John S. Barry, who was elected as one of the Wolverine state's first state senators, serving from 1835 to 1838 and again in 1841.
Barry's colleagues were impressed with his political abilities. But the dynamic young politician's interests were not solely confined to the science of getting votes. Barry developed a burning desire to study the planting of sugar beets. His interest was so keen that he even traveled to Europe to learn more about the sugar rich roots.
John Barry purchased stock in the Michigan Southern Railroad Company. Later he became a director of the company and became actively involved in the management of the western division of the railroad, spending much time in New York and Chicago looking after the road's business dealings.
The Democrats of Michigan gathered for the purpose of choosing a candidate to run for governor in 1841. They enthusiastically nominated the Constantine storekeeper as their man. And, he won, becoming the fourth governor of the state.
Governor Barry faced an immediate crisis when he took office. The state's financial situations were dire, but Barry's strong fiscal policies brought the state out of the economic difficulties. Two years later in 1843, Barry, riding a tidal wave of popularity among Michigan voters, became the first Michigan governor to be re-elected to office.
Among the governor's most notable accomplishments during his first terms was the establishment of the University of Michigan, along with vast improvements to the public school system, an achievement which the former teacher took great pride in.
When the Michigan constitution prohibited a third term in office, Governor Barry stepped down. In one of his last official acts during his first term, Governor Barry served as a presidential elector for fellow Michigander Lewis Cass, who lost the 1848 election to Zachary Taylor. In 1849, Barry made history again when he became the first Michigander to be elected three times as chief executive of the state. Barry continued to focus his efforts on education by establishing the Normal School in Ypsilanti. In 1852, Barry was a member of the winning slate of electors for President Franklin Pierce.
Governor Barry, a solid supporter of the Wilmot Proviso which prohibited slavery in the states acquired from Mexico, was defeated in his bid for re-election in 1853. Looking beyond the halls of state government, Barry set his sights on the tumultuous national legislature in Washington. He lost, though he did, in 1856, represent his party in the Democratic National Convention at Smith & Nixon's Hall in Cincinnati, a raucous gathering which nominated the next president James Buchanan. He returned to the convention in nearby Chicago to re-nominate Abraham Lincoln.
A litany of adjectives describing the character of the late Governor Barry include incorruptible, brilliant, and determined. Though he had little education, it was said, "He mastered both ancient and modern languages and acquired a thorough knowledge of history." Though he was a popular politician, his biographers wrote that he was less than remarkable as a speaker, stating that his speeches were cold, hard, argumentative and totally lacking in rhetorical ornament. Solid is an adjective which defines the dedicated member of the Democratic party.
After leaving the political world, Governor Barry returned home to his mercantile business in Constantine. Mary Barry died on March 30, 1869, leaving John all alone. On January 14, 1870, at the age of 67, John Barry died at his home, leaving a considerable fortune to his brother, nieces and nephews.
Barry was eulogized as "a man who, throughout life, maintained a high character for integrity and fidelity to the trusts bestowed upon him, whether of a public or a private nature, as one of the most efficient and popular Governors the State has ever seen. He was always approachable by the humblest citizen and never carried about him a consciousness of the high position he had occupied."


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sed maiorum nugae negotia vocantur, puerorum autem talia cum sint, puniuntur a maioribus, et nemo miseratur pueros vel illos vel utrosque. nisi vero approbat quisquam bonus rerum arbiter vapulasse me, quia ludebam pila puer et eo ludo impediebar quominus celeriter discerem litteras, quibus maior deformius luderem.
Is the subjunctive being used in this relative clause because the clause is expressing purpose, i.e. "Unless in fact any good judge of things approves that I was flogged because I was playing ball as a boy and through that game was being impeded from learning my letters quickly, with which I might play more shamefully as an older man," or for some other reason? I thought it might just be expressing futurity in the past, but wouldn't this be expressed by "lusurus eram"?

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This design is also featured in the DVD Beginner Free Motion Quilting Fillers, as well as the ebook From Daisy to Paisley.
It's More Fillers Monday and I'm craving a new spiral design! Here's a fun twist on Square Spiral that's so easy to get lost in, it had to be called Spiral Illusion:
First I'm heading upstairs to add more stitching on My Cup Runneth Over. There was a huge mistake with water soluble thread that I will explain in depth on Wednesday, but suffice it to say Dottie Moore's heavily satin stitched quilts are on my mind and definitely serving as inspiration for what I plan to add to this quilt.
Next I'm headed up to Gastonia, NC to pick up the master DVD for Beginner Free Motion Quilting Fillers! It's finally done!
Now with the master disc, I'm one step closer to having this DVD project finished and ready to launch. These things always take longer than expected, but I'm so happy with the finished results that it was well worth the wait. Update: The DVD is now finished. Click here to learn all about it.
Later today I have to get back home to finish up the stitching on My Cup Runneth Over in time to get her photographed tomorrow morning with Shadow Self, just in time to finish up an article I'm writing on them and get that sent in before leaving town for the Asheville Quilt Show.
Whew! I got a lot on my plate this week, but there's always a little time to quilt! Let's learn how to stitch Spiral Illusion:
Difficulty Level - Beginner. Despite its complexity, this is actually a very easy design. Stitch it into a square and let the edges of the square be your guide for the first Square Spiral. Then rotate and, completely ignoring the first spiral, stitch another square spiral right on top all the way back to the edges.
Design Family - Edge to Center. You're slowly working your way into the space, then back out again, and it really helps to have enough room for this design to show off. Stitch Spiral Illusion into the bigger, more open areas of your quilt for an easy finish.
Directional Texture - Center Focused. The texture of this design is really amazing, so make sure to place it where you want lots of attention!
Suggestions for Use - Has anyone ever made a M.C Escher inspired quilt? I'm thinking black and white fabrics, very graphic piecing designs, and Spiral Illusion would fit perfectly on top!
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valuable friction
So this morning I was watching an interview with Ashton Kutcher. Not because I'm a big fan of the guy (I think he's a pretty bad actor to be honest), but I was kinda interested to hear about his role as Steve Jobs and I could use some background chatter. The first part of the interview wasn't about the film though, it was about Kutcher's views on technology in general. About 8 minutes into the interview I would've spilled my coffee if I'd been a coffee drinker.
Kutcher pretty much reiterates a blog post of mine that I wrote 5 years ago, where I explored the boundaries between effort, worth, quality and quantity, something I still feel very strongly about. In short: making a task too easy will decrease the value of that task. Kutcher brings up the retweet action from Twitter that changed from a manual syntax to an automated 1-click action, disturbing the signal to noise ratio in a negative way. In a way removing that friction helped Twitter to grow (because it was much easier to retweet), but at the same time it removed value for its users, which is a long-term risk.
It's really nice to see other people are picking up on this, as I feel that too many people still believe that simpler is always better. Friction (or effort) is necessary to reduce noise (or quantity), so it's all about balance rather than making something as easy as possible.
Though I must say it still feels weird feeling so connected to something Ashton Kutcher said.


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Missouri Lottery players will have a chance to own the road this spring by winning one of 14 Harley-Davidson® motorcycles in the Lottery's new "Harley-Davidson" Scratchers game or "Ticket to Ride" promotion. Both the game and the promotion start March 11.
"People love Harley-Davidson motorcycles, and we are thrilled to be able to offer them in both the game and promotion," said May Scheve Reardon, executive director of the Missouri Lottery. "The bikes definitely appeal to our regular players, and they will most likely attract new players, too."
Reardon said this will be the third time we've offered a Harley-Davidson game, but it will be the first time that players will be able to pick which bike they want.
Players can win one of 10 new Harley-Davidson motorcycles of their choice or up to $75,000 cash instantly in the $5 Scratchers game. In addition, they can use any non-winning "Harley-Davidson" tickets to enter any one of four drawings for a chance to win: four Harley-Davidson motorcycles (one per drawing) up to a $21,000 value or $21,000 cash; 100 first prizes worth $500 cash (25 per drawing); and 400 officially licensed Harley-Davidson merchandise prize packs (100 per drawing) consisting of a neon clock, leather duffle bag, sunglasses, cap, ice bucket with four glasses, a T-shirt and wrist watch.
"We'll also pay standard federal and state withholding taxes on the motorcycle prizes, so winners won't have to worry about that," Reardon noted. "It will be a fun spring and summer for 14 lucky players."
Players can enter the promotional drawings by submitting numbers from their non-winning "Harley-Davidson" Scratchers tickets through a free My Lottery® Players Club account at MOLottery.com. An entry consists of one non-winning ticket. In addition to being entered for the next eligible drawing, members will also earn points to be redeemed for a variety of prizes in the online Points For Prizes™ store.
© 2013 H-D. All Rights Reserved. Harley-Davidson and the Bar & Shield logo and (model name) are among the trademarks of H-D U.S.A., LLC.
Players must be 18 years or older to purchase Missouri Lottery tickets.
*In the event of a discrepancy, official winning numbers prevail over any numbers posted on this website.


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I'm now the owner of a nifty GoPro HD and have been having some fun shooting video on it. Am I the only one here that's doing this? Clicky clicky to play! I like the segment from about 6:00 in.
The locale is Lucas Valley Road. I ride this road almost every weekend and never tire of it. The first big corner is about a mile from my house.


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Man wanted in Fla. assault caught in HennikerBy NANCY BEAN FOSTER
Union Leader Correspondent
February 18. 2014 9:13PM
HENNIKER — A man wanted in Florida for what police say was a "brutal assault" was arrested in Henniker on Feb. 14 and is now being held without bail awaiting extradition to the Sunshine State.
While looking for a car that was reported stuck in a snowbank on Dudley Pond Road, officers from the Deering and Henniker police departments came across a vehicle parked on the boat ramp on Pleasant Pond, according to a news release from the Henniker Police Department.
Police spoke with the driver, Kevin Vachon, 24, of Tamworth, and his passenger, Adam Richard Hale, 22, of St. Petersburg, Fla. Vachon told police that he was showing Hale around the area, according to the release.
The officers discovered that Hale was wanted in Putnam County, Fla., for attempted first-degree murder, home invasion robbery and grand theft of a motor vehicle.
Henniker Police Chief Ryan Murdough said he spoke with a detective in Florida and was told that Hale allegedly broke into a home intending to rob the occupant.
"Apparently he committed a brutal assault on a guy using a pipe to get a small amount of money and a car," said Murdough.
Hale is being held without bail on a fugitive from justice charge after a video arraignment on Tuesday at Hillsborough District Court.
Vachon was arrested and charged with possession of synthetic cannabinoids, an alternative to marijuana that, depending on its chemical components, can be considered illegal.
"Fake pot" seized
Murdough said that the federal Drug Enforcement Agency has identified a number of chemicals often used in synthetic cannabinoids as illegal under the Controlled Substances Act.
According to the DEA, synthetic cannabinoids, or "fake pot" is a blend of herbs that has been laced with chemicals intended to mimic the effects of THC, the active ingredient in marijuana. The synthetic products are often sold at stores as potpourri or incense. Last May, the DEA made three of the chemicals commonly found in synthetic cannabinoids temporarily illegal due to the severe "psychotic and violent behavior" exhibited by some of its users who tend to be teenagers and young adults.
But to determine if Vachon's cache included the chemicals prohibited by the DEA, detectives will have to send the substance seized from Vachon's car off for testing, Murdough said.
"They had a bunch of this stuff on them," said Murdough, "but they said they bought a lot of it at a store in Concord, so we'll have to see."
Vachon is due to appear at Hillsborough District Court on March 27.


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Salem selectmen to form?casino advisory committeeBy APRIL GUILMET
Union Leader Correspondent
January 16. 2013 10:12PM
SALEM - Aimed at determining the future of Rockingham Park, Salem selectmen will form a casino advisory committee later this month.
During Monday night's meeting, the board heard from representatives of N.H. Casino Now, an advocacy group working toward legalized casino gambling in the Granite State. Project officials said a community forum would take place sometime in February, with representatives of Millennium Gaming, a group of developers hoping to bring Rockingham Park to its former glory, available to discuss casino possibilities in Salem.
Salem voters will also have the chance to offer their thoughts on the matter in March, when a nonbinding gaming referendum will appear on the 2013 warrant.
N.H. Casino Now chairman Daniel Norris said Monday night he felt "the time was now" to start conversations on a potential casino in Salem, with a committee to determine uses for any revenues coming in via localized casino gambling. As town officials await word on pending casino legislation in Concord, the board agreed to table a committee vote until the Jan. 28 meeting. But Norris said it's likely the committee would include town manager Keith Hickey and community development director William Scott, representatives from the board of selectmen, budget committee and school board, citizen representatives, and a local legislator.
Last month, Rockingham Park President Edward Callahan appeared before the board to discuss the upcoming ballot question. According to Callahan, similar referendums were well-received at the Salem polls in both 1994 and 2003. However, nothing progressed any further since casino gambling remains illegal in New Hampshire.


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Me, almost 40 years later
1. I have very little patience for shopping for clothes, nowadays.
2. It's easier to guess the ages of people now.
3. My handwriting is worse, but I can sew much nicer.
4. I think little children are truly precious, not just cute.
5. I don't shrug off the risk of getting a sunburn anymore.
6. I spend a lot less time curling my hair.
7. I wear much brighter lipstick now.
8. I go to church and Sunday School voluntarily.
9. I am more interested in the news than in pop culture.
10. I am more interested in being left alone than in socializing.
Just for the record, I graduated in 1969. How can it be that nearly forty years have passed?! Actually, this was a list of some differences between being a senior citizen (a young senior, that is!) and a teenager.


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Have you ever had your kid wander off? It's especially terrifying if your kid is on the autism spectrum, and has trouble communicating. Parents of kids with autism have long been reporting a tendency for their kids to bolt, and now a new study is confirming that almost half of them do, even after age 4, an age when most kids have grown out of the behavior. In fact, this frightening behavior peaks at around age 5.
Published in Pediatrics, the study found that among more than 1,300 children with autism, 49% had "eloped," or wandered off, at least once after age 4, four times the rate of their non-autistic siblings. 26% went missing long enough to cause their families alarm. Among the kids who wandered, 56% had close calls with traffic, and 24% were in danger near water. Children eloped most commonly from their home, a store, classroom or school.
Plus: Guide to Autism Spectrum Disorders
Sadly, we read about missing child cases like these in the news every few months, and often the end result is tragic. "Elopement is one of the very few problems in autism that is life-threatening," says pediatrician Paul Law, senior author of the study and director of the Interactive Autism Network Project in Baltimore. "It is probably one of the leading, if not the leading, causes of death in children with autism," he says.


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The most powerful tools for learning are the ones students love to use.
iPad, Mac, and Apple TV expand what's possible inside the classroom and beyond. iPad opens up new opportunities for learning. Mac is an engine for creativity. And Apple TV helps you capture your class's attention like never before.
Learning with iPad.
iPad changes the way teachers teach and students learn. It's thin and light, so your students can take learning way beyond the classroom. There are thousands of education apps, books, and courses, so lessons come to life like never before. And iPad has software designed exclusively for educators, so you can manage your classroom and collaborate with students in all-new ways.
Read about the impact schools are reporting with iPad. Download the iPad in Education Worldwide Results (PDF)
Hardware designed to take learning further.
iPad is thin and weighs just a pound, so it's light enough for students to take anywhere. Learning materials come alive thanks to the powerful A9 chip with 64-bit desktop-class architecture. Projects, presentations, and apps look beautiful on the Retina display. The 8MP camera is perfect for capturing photos and video for projects, and the front-facing FaceTime HD camera lets students collaborate with classrooms around the world. And with up to 10 hours of battery life,1 you can take your students to the Milky Way and back, without ever having to stop to recharge.
A better experience with every touch.
iOS is the world's most advanced mobile operating system, and it's designed to help you get the most out of iPad. Apps run smoothly. Websites open instantly. And videos load quickly. It also comes with great features for education that work seamlessly together. Picture in Picture lets students scale down a video to open a second app, so they can continue watching a lecture while working on a presentation. Split View lets students work in two apps at the same time, so they can use Maps with Flyover to take an interactive 3D tour of Rome, while using Notes to document their findings. And the built-in dictionary allows students to tap and learn the definition and pronunciation of every word they see, in a book, browser, or app.
Transform your lessons in thousands of new ways.
Free Apple apps.
You can download free Apple-designed apps for creativity and productivity on your iPad, giving you more ways to inspire all-new lessons and learning experiences. Turn your classroom into a newsroom with Pages. Reimagine an existing assignment as a documentary film with iMovie. Have your students set their poetry to music with GarageBand. Change lab period into a science fair, using 3D charts and video presentations, with Keynote. Or use the blank canvas of Numbers to transform spreadsheets into multimedia research reports.
Apps for education.
There are over 170,000 apps designed specifically for education.2 Connect iPad to a microscope to capture, edit, and save video and time-lapse images of cell division. Use the camera and microphone to take photos and record sound effects to personalize flashcards for more memorable study. Or rotate iPad for a 360-degree view of the Great Pyramids of Giza. In addition, apps and services you or your students might already use, like Google Docs, Google Drive, Microsoft Office, and Dropbox, work great on iPad.
iTunes U
iTunes U gives you everything you need to develop and deliver lessons on iPad. Build projects and create workflows that include apps, web links, photos, and videos. Distribute, collect, and grade assignments and quizzes. Have group discussions or one-on-one check-ins. And with access to the world's largest library of free educational content, you'll find inspiring materials that you can incorporate into any lesson plan.
Introducing a new way to introduce kids to code.
We believe coding is an essential skill that everyone should have the opportunity to learn. That's why we created Swift Playgrounds, a new iPad app that makes getting started with Swift — our powerful programming language — fun and interactive. Students will meet characters they can control with real code as they tackle puzzles that teach key programming concepts. There are even hints built in along the way. When they're ready, they can share a video of a completed activity or the code itself.
Meet your new teaching assistant.
Classroom is a powerful iPad app that helps teachers guide learning, share and receive work, and manage student devices. With Classroom 2.0 teachers can add students to their classes on their own — no MDM or Apple ID required.
See what your students see with Screen View.
View any student's iPad screen on your iPad screen. Check in and see how students are progressing through an assignment or quiz.
Share student work on the big screen.
If your classroom has Apple TV, you can mirror any student's screen to your TV monitor or projector. It's a great way to highlight student work, encourage collaboration, and keep everyone involved.
Launch and lock apps with Remote Control.
Launch a specific app or textbook page on each student's iPad at the same time. You can also lock iPad into a single app, so students stay focused on the subject or test at hand.
Reset forgotten passwords right in the classroom.
If your students forget their passwords, you can reset them directly from your iPad. So they can get right back to work, without having to wait for IT.
Administer student assessments.
iPad is an approved device for securely administering summative exams. This includes state standardized tests from the Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium (SBAC), the Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for College and Careers (PARCC), and ACT Aspire. There are also apps that let you track students' progress as they move toward statewide testing.
Even if students share an iPad, they can make it their own.
Shared iPad3 is an iOS feature for schools that share devices and still want to provide personalized experiences. Before class begins, you can assign any iPad to any student in your classroom. Students know which devices to use because their pictures are on the Lock screens. And they can access their personal content with a password or an easy-to-remember four-digit PIN. After students log in, their homework, apps, and assignments appear exactly as they left them.
Learning with Mac.
Mac is a creative powerhouse that lets you craft deeply engaging learning materials. It's built for the classroom with fast processors and all-day battery life. It comes with powerful software to handle everyday tasks and the most ambitious projects. And it gives students and teachers new ways to be creative and productive. That's why Mac has been the most loved computer in the classroom for over 30 years.
Built for the classroom.
Every Mac is designed to help you make incredible things. MacBook Air comes in 11 and 13-inch for education customers4, with fifth-generation dual-core Intel processors that give you the power to create rich multimedia lessons, and an Intel HD Graphics 6000 chip that can handle even the most graphics-intensive assignments. All-day battery life1 means you can keep working long after the final bell rings. Flash storage is up to 17 times faster than a traditional drive, and more durable because it involves no moving parts. And it's all packed into an incredibly thin 0.68-inch unibody aluminum enclosure that's light enough to carry around campus, but strong enough to be tossed in a backpack.
More ways to teach with every click.
MacOS Sierra is the world's most advanced desktop operating system. It's designed alongside the Mac hardware so everything works together seamlessly, and it has powerful built-in tools for life in the classroom. Split View lets you use two apps in full screen, so you can position your class roster and syllabus side by side without manually resizing windows. Mission Control helps you organize everything you have open on your Mac, so you can quickly pull up today's pop quiz, or put the email you're drafting in a separate space. Pinned Sites in Safari let you keep your favorite websites open, up to date, and easily accessible. Spotlight lets you search both your Mac hard drive and the Internet, making it easy to find your latest notes or research go-to academic web sources. And every Mac comes with Keynote, Pages, and Numbers, which are compatible with Microsoft Office formats. So you can still work on your PowerPoint, Word, and Excel documents.
Powerful apps create new ways to teach and learn.
Every Mac comes with powerful apps for classroom productivity. Pages helps make book reports and term papers even more compelling with stunning visuals and professional-looking layouts. Keynote draws the class's full attention to presentations, whether you're animating cell mitosis or seeing Mars from the eyes of the Curiosity Rover. iMovie lets you easily edit field trip footage into a cinematic trailer complete with music, titles, and special effects. If you're looking to collaborate with colleagues using different OS environments, or have your students work together on a project in real-time, it's easy to share a document link via iCloud and make edits together from any Mac or PC browser. And the Mac App Store is built in, so there are thousands more apps from education software developers to help students and teachers explore almost any subject.
The future is being written on Mac.
Coding unlocks creativity, develops problem-solving skills, and prepares students for future careers. Swift is a powerful programming language created by Apple developers to make writing code simple and intuitive, so it's a perfect first language for teaching real-world programming. And Xcode 7 has everything students and teachers need to start building their own incredible apps for iPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple Watch, and Apple TV.
Five amazing apps. One powerful collection.
Unleash your creative potential with the Pro Apps Bundle for qualifying college students, teachers, and education institutions. Get all five professional applications for video and music at a special price — including Final Cut Pro X, Motion, and Compressor, along with Logic Pro X and MainStage.
Work together, present, and collaborate in HD.
When you connect Apple TV to your HDTV or projector, you introduce a new way of working together with your students. You're now free to present from anywhere in the room — take your class through a lesson while walking between desks and providing individual support. Or have your students highlight their work by using AirPlay to wirelessly mirror their own iPad or Mac screens to Apple TV. It even works without an Internet connection.
Our products are designed for every student.
iPad, Mac, and Apple TV come with a range of innovative features for accessibility. Speak Screen reads aloud to students, including email, web pages, and books. VoiceOver can walk them through actions like opening a document or selecting a menu item. Dictation converts spoken words to text, numbers, and characters. And Siri helps students with everyday tasks, like setting a reminder for a test.


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Bargaining over EU 7yr budget draft
Brussels- Leaders from around Europe arrive in Brussels Thursday for what promises to be a turbulent summit on the budget for the 27-country European Union. And for once, Britain will be at the heart of the debate.
In a battle pitting several wealthy member states against those seeking a bigger aid budget, U.K. Prime Minister David Cameron will seek to reduce the financial clout — and political sway — of the EU's institutions.
Facing an ever more vocal Euroskeptic electorate at home, Cameron is under huge pressure to veto any seven-year deal which would exceed the old 2007-2013 €1 trillion ($1.28 trillion) budget by as much as a euro.
The budget primarily funds programs to spur growth in the bloc less developed regions and farming and amounts to about 1 percent of the EU's gross domestic product.
The European Commission, the EU's executive arm, backs more spending, arguing that cross-border initiatives will help to create the economic growth and jobs that the bloc of a half-billion people needs.
Cameron is set to do the talking for some of the other member states — such as the Netherlands, Sweden and, to a certain extent Germany — who also want limits on EU spending when he opens a session of bilateral talks with EU President Herman Van Rompuy. He will demand a real cut in the EU budget, claiming that is the only justifiable outcome at a time when almost every member state has to cut its budget to lower debt.
"It would not be acceptable to see some huge increase in EU spending when other budgets are being cut," Cameron said in the run-up to the summit.
Poland and Spain, on the other side, will head a group of nations imploring for more funds to be committed to help economic development in many southern and eastern nations and close the wealth gap in the EU and boost jobs and growth.
Going into the open-ended summit which might well stretch into Saturday, Van Rompuy made a first compromise proposal that leaned toward Cameron's demands. It proposes a cut of between €3 billion ($4 billion) and €24 billion ($31 billion), depending on how the figures are read.
"With less money, we cannot do the same as before," Van Rompuy wrote in the invitation letter he sent to the 27 leaders.
Since each of the 27 member states has veto power over the budget, the outcome is a cliffhanger.
"If necessary, we will have to meet again at the beginning of next year," German Chancellor Angela Merkel told the country's parliament on Wednesday.
Leaders from Denmark up north to Spain and Italy down south are already threatening vetoes, sometimes for opposing reasons.
If the summit fails to find a compromise, the issue could spill over into a new meeting next month, or into next year. There is no set deadline for a deal but the closer it gets to 2014, the tougher it will be for a smooth introduction of new programs. If there is no deal up to 2014, there would be a rollover of the 2013 budget plus a 2 percent increase accounting for inflation.
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The DNREC Division of Fish and Wildlife is looking for volunteers to help with "Bye Bye Boxwood," a habitat restoration project, at the Cedar Swamp Wildlife Area east of Smyrna from 1 to 3 p.m. on Saturday, March 9.
At the Vogel Tract on the Cedar Swamp Wildlife Area, ornamental boxwood shrubs are outcompeting native plants and taking over the understory, impacting native wildlife habitat as they spread. To remove these shrubs, volunteers will use hand saws, pruners and loppers, which will be provided along with work gloves, or volunteers may bring their own.
Volunteers under the age of 18 must provide a parental consent form, which can be printed from the Division of Fish and Wildlife's volunteer website. Participants under the age of 16 also must be accompanied by an adult.
Volunteers will meet at the Cedar Swamp Wildlife Area's Vogel Tract, follow Thoroughfare Neck Road, cross over Collins Beach Road and continue to the end of the dirt road. A map with directions can be found on the Fish & Wildlife online volunteer calendar on the volunteer website below.
For more information, or to sign up for this wildlife area project, please contact Lynne Staub at 735-3600 or email email@example.com. Volunteers are strongly encouraged to pre-register with contact information in case of inclement weather leading to postponement.
For more information on other volunteer opportunities with the DNREC Division of Fish and Wildlife, as well as parental consent forms, maps and directions to volunteer project sites, visit www.fw.delaware.gov/volunteers.
This project is part of DNREC's Delaware Bayshore Initiative, a landscape approach to restore and protect fish and wildlife habitat, increase volunteer participation in habitat stewardship projects, enhance low-impact outdoor recreation and ecotourism opportunities, and promote associated environmentally compatible economic development.


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So far this season the Boston Bruins are 5-1-1 with Milan Lucic out of the line-up. They were an equally solid 4-2-2 without Marc Savard dressed last season. But the Bruins cannot afford to test the limits of those trends for a lengthy portion of their schedule.
Starting tomorrow against the Washington Capitals, those two thirds of the Bruins' top line could be out for a bit of time — pending medical clearance for their upper-body injuries suffered Thursday night in the win over Anaheim. While the Bruins, who handle injury information the way the Bush Administration protected "state secrets," wouldn't confirm the nature of the injuries beyond the obligatory "upper-body" designation, it's widely believed Lucic might have been nicked up in his one-sided scuffle with Mike Brown.
Regardless of whether the two star Bruins are out due to fight-related injuries, this is still a good time to point out that the Bruins hold a nine-point lead for the conference's top seed and there are only five weeks left in the regular season. At this point, health is more important than macho victories. The Bruins are going to face a lot of teams down the stretch that are desperate just to make the playoffs, and some will be trying to make a statement to a Boston team that could be their first-round playoff opponent. That could be some over-the-line physical play, some glove-dropping and some liberties taken against the Bruins' best players.
And I'm here to say, the Bruins have to limit which players are allowed to respond and which are not. While injuries during fights are just as common as fights that occur during the hockey action, a fight provides another avenue for another injury to happen.I'm not calling for a prohibition on fighting. Just a designated group of black-and-gold sweater-wearing players that are allowed to answer the call. Lucic does not fall in that category. Savard does not fall into that category. I'm confident we won't have to worry about Savard ever tussling again. But Lucic, he's another story. It's time for him to realize, and the Bruins to drill into his head, that he is no longer a protector but a protectee.
If someone takes a cheap shot, sure he can respond. But otherwise, leave the fighting up to others. Shawn Thornton, Shane Hnidy, Byron Bitz … all players that can come to the defense of a teammate now. They've all been important to the Bruins' season, all contributed in their own ways — but they're not as important as Lucic.
If Lucic weren't more important, he wouldn't be on the Bruins' top line, he wouldn't even be in their top six. There's a hierarchy on every NHL roster, whether coaches and management types want to admit it. From here through the end of the Bruins' 2008-09 season, with that ever-elusive Stanley Cup window wide open for a June parade in Boston for the first time in more than 30 years, Lucic, his fellow top-six forwards and the Bruins' top four defensmen — you know who they are — cannot risk injury for the sake of settling a score or turning the momentum of a game.
I asked Bruins head coach Claude Julien today after practice at Wilmington about weighing the benefits of aggressive physical play against preserving players' well-being for the postseason. He vigorously shot down the notion of lowering his club's aggression level.
"I think if you do that, you're trying to prevent injuries, and a lot of times it doesn't really do you that much good; it takes away from your game. I think we've got to play with emotion and we've got to let the emotions take over, he explained. "If you take that out, all of sudden, there's a lot of times when you play soft, you get hurt. Does playing hard mean you're going to get hurt even more? I'm not sure. I think things balance out. I really think you've just got to go out there and play and make things happen.
"There's obviously situations in the game where you've got a big lead and teams are trying to get things going by stirring the pot a little bit, and you've got to walk away from those situations. But I don't think you want to take the emotion out of the game at this stage."
That's all well and good. I'm not advocating the Bruins put on skirts and stop hitting people. I'm just saying that if Lucic, Savard, David Krejci or Michael Ryder gets hit up high or someone trips them up, or someone insults their mom, they don't need to fight back outside of the time between the whistles. There's nothing to be proven by one of those guys winning a fight at this point of the season. At this point, the only proving time for the Bruins takes place after April 12, when they're in the tournament, when they'll be in pursuit of that trophy that you don't get for risking injury in a March fight with a tomato can. Trying to win the Cup without Lucic or Savard or another equivalent player, well that'd be a battle the Bruins would lose every time.


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Hooksett voters to decide fate of police commission
HOOKSETT - Supporters of the Hooksett Police Commission were relieved in April when a petition warrant to abolish the body was amended to allow them an additional 240 days to "finish the work" of reforming the department in line with a 2011 audit, should the warrant pass during next week's voting.
As the final May vote looms, however, the question remains for many: should the commission dissolve, what will take its place?
Hooksett is one of 13 communities in the state with a police commission - including Rochester - more than twice Hooksett's size, and Auburn, about a third of its size. Tasked with overseeing and helping manage the department, the administrative body handles everything from hiring and firing, to wage setting, to drafting of a budget, to the negotiation of collective bargaining agreements.
In most towns, however, such work is split between the chief, selectmen (or equivalent body), and, if they have one, town administrator. Chiefs draft the budgets. Collective bargaining negotiations are held between the unions and the town administrator. Grievances move from the department chain of command to a town administrator and ultimately to selectmen.
For many of these towns, the system works well. Windham is about the same size as Hooksett, with a population of 13,592 to Hooksett's 13,451, according to the 2010 census. The difference: Windham has no police commission.
"We don't have a commission, and frankly, even having one has never been discussed," said Windham Town Administrator David Sullivan. "The system we have works seamlessly. We've got good people in all the places, and we've got checks and balances as needed, no different than the fire department, or any department in town, frankly."
Sullivan said that he sees the Windham chief weekly - if not daily - and the chief regularly attends board meetings to give updates and seek approvals.
One of the main arguments that supporters of the commission offer, however, is that the commission provides independent citizen oversight that shields the taxpayers and insulates the department from town politics.
"The police commission is separate, so what they say is true, but our system has worked," he said. "We haven't had the controversies or any controversies that would break out anything that says 'well, we need an independent group.' So the pro-comment is absolutely correct, that's what the commission would do if that's the necessity. We just haven't found the necessity."
Ultimately, the exact arrangement Hooksett will develop is unclear. One of the provisions of the amendment to the warrant was the ability for the town to form an "advisory police commission," similar to Manchester's, should it be found "necessary," a possibility Town Administrator Dean Shankle said was "on the table." Shankle is adamant that voters understand, however, that no matter how the vote comes out in May, they need not fear the loss of quality police work in town.
"The important thing from my point of view is whether the commission is there or not, I don't think people should concern themselves with whether or not they're going to continue to get good police service," said Shankle.
"Either way, the police department's going to continue doing its job, the chief is going to continue doing his job, and I don't think there should be scare tactics on either side that something's going to change radically.
"Even most of the things that've happened over the last few years, at least from my perspective on the outside, it's been more or less administrative issues rather than operational issues," he said. "I've never had anybody say 'oh, the police didn't show up at my house because they're fighting amongst themselves.' It's been inside stuff, rather than outside stuff.'"
The Hooksett town election will be held on Tuesday, May 14, at Cawley Middle School.
The polls are open from 6 a.m. until 7 p.m.


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Feb 27: Optimiser - Upgrading from 9i to 10g
The one consistent message I kept hearing from other attendees at Openworld this year was that a lot of sites seem to have run into performance problems when upgrading from 9i to 10g due to changes in the CBO and DBMS_STATS. Yes, there are some Oracle 9i databases out there, you know.
I noticed via the Optimizer Development Group's blog that there's a white paper on this topic (PDF) on OTN by Maria Colgan which summarises some of the issues in a very readable form. (Well, it could maybe have used one more round of proof-reading for missing words etc., but I'm being picky.) It's not particularly deep but I'm glad to see it, if only to highlight some of the issues that you might face and can then investigate in more depth on your own systems if you think they'll affect you. Even if you know the issues already, it might be useful revision when you're about to upgrade to 10g. I know that I constantly come across people forgetting the automatic GATHER_STATS_JOB when they work with a mixture of versions and as Noons pointed out in the comments on this post, that can really throw things if you're not careful.
(Of course, there's a funny side to this too, in that it discusses the new default approach to Histogram generation that caught me out the other day. Well, it wasn't so much the new approach as me being hasty and seeing what I wanted to see, but the article does discuss the difference in Histogram generation using the default METHOD_OPT!)
It also mentions the change in the default value of parallel_max_servers that I've seen more than one system suffer from and discusses a SQL Test Case Builder that will be in 10.2.0.4 to help in submitting Metalink SRs. I'll have to play around with that at work because there are times when building a test case has proved a pain in the behind (as I'm sure I remember Peter Scott blogging about in the past).
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#1 - Cristian Cudizio said:
2008-02-27 11:03 - (Reply)
I've found very interesting this post and the previous about "useful diagnostic/optimisation tools" and the following discussion with explanation of histogram generation mode (by Jonathan Lewis).
I want to add only a note about a thing that i've saw yesterday in the list of bugs fixed by patchset 10.2.0.4: Bug 5082178 Bind peeking may occur when it should not.
Bind peeking may be not a perfect solution, but this bug that maybe i've encountered (i've never been able to produce a test case) is even worst.
more, i totally agree with you about oracle diagnostic and optimiSation tools.
Forgive me for my english and thank you for good information.
#1.1 - Doug Burns said:
2008-02-28 05:22 - (Reply)
Thanks Cristian and first things first ...
Forgive me for my english
It's fine and, as I always say, much better than my French, German, Spanish, Italian, Russian or erm... anything really! (Including my English at times )
5082178 Bind peeking may occur when it should not.
Thanks for drawing my attention to that. This site, so far, has been very lucky in avoid bind variable peeking problems as far as I know but other sites I've worked at have had bad problems with it but I've certainly never hit that bug yet.
One of the main reasons we're interested in 10.2.0.4 is because Oracle are going to be a lot more aggressive about which versions they release Critical Patch Updates for. My understanding is that the JAN 08 CPU will be the last one for 10.2.0.2 and we need to apply CPUs for compliance reasons.
#2 - Noons said:
2008-02-27 14:13 - (Reply)
I really wish this paper had come out last year instead of Feb 2008.
Its copyright dates from 2007, so I can probably assume it WAS available then but only released now, probably as a result of the latest loud outbursts from folks undergoing the potentially painful 9i->10g route.
Jonathan and many others have repeatedly alerted to the differences in default settings but it's better when these things show up as an "official" white paper.
It's a pity the paper doesn't warn also of the potential problems with 9i->10.2.0.2 upgrades, particularly with canned-app users such as Peoplesoft: the number of patches and undocumented parameters required for that level of Oracle is so large, one ends up with a cbo that behaves worse than the 9i one!
A much safer route for Peoplesoft and other apps users is to upgrade to 10.2.0.3: it has a much more stable cbo and only needs one undocumented parameter to resolve a minor side effect of Peoplesoft inline views. It has other problems, but these don't usually affect vanilla apps sites.
Jury still out on 10.2.0.4, at this stage.
The parallel_max_servers parameter has a bit of a mistery history with us: for some reason I can't fathom, it was hard-set to 200 in all our dbs when I arrived at current workplace.
First true parallel execution would have caused an interesting situation, with 200 "slaves" taking off...
I know no one set it in our site, so it must have been one of the many prior external "experts" or alternatively the result of some tool-based tuning.
Whatever: it's now set to a much more reasonable value.
Now: onto battle for a partitioning option licence for our DW dbs...
#2.1 - Greg Rahn said:
2008-02-28 01:05 - (Reply)
The copyleft date is from the whitepaper template. I can vouch for its recently, hence the "0208" at the end of the file name. Any bets on when the 10g to 11g one will come out? Almost hard to believe 10gR1 was released 4 years ago.
#2.1.1 - Doug Burns said:
2008-02-28 05:46 - (Reply)
(and to David below ...)
Any bets on when the 10g to 11g one will come out?
I reckon it might take a while. I think the 9i/10g document drips 'problems our customers ran into' which will take a while to flush out. Which is a shame because although, as Noons says, this information has been available from other sources, it's nice to be able to point colleagues to a single document to get them started.
Almost hard to believe 10gR1 was released 4 years ago.
Oh, come on! Please, that's not fair. Next you'll be telling me when 8.1.7 was released. Not that I would be concerned with that because we have no 8.1.7 databases at our site. None at all - honestly!
#18.104.22.168 - Noons said:
2008-03-03 02:50 - (Reply)
I'll trade one of your 8.1.7 dbs for three of my 7.1.3 ones: good value and going cheap!
don't ask...
#2.2 - Doug Burns said:
2008-02-28 05:37 - (Reply)
Jonathan and many others have repeatedly alerted to the differences in default settings but it's better when these things show up as an "official" white paper.
It's a nice concise summary, too, all in one document. It's not as deep an investigation as Mr. Lewis might produce, but perhaps DBAs are more likely to squeeze a quick read of this during the working day - that's what I thought would prove useful and I agree that earlier would have been better. Still, it's a good step forward to see a document like this, isn't it?
I do wish you'd stop mentioning Peoplesoft in blogs - I'm still trying to get that one out of my head! What a nightmare that thing is.
safer route for Peoplesoft and other apps users is to upgrade to 10.2.0.3
A useful tip from the coal-face, which I know you've blogged about before. Hopefully it'll save someone some grief.
one of the many prior external "experts"
Can I place my bet on that, please?
#3 - David Aldridge said:
2008-02-28 00:49 - (Reply)
That is indeed a useful document. One can only hope that a 10g-11g version is in the works.
#3.1 - Doug Burns said:
2008-02-28 05:48 - (Reply)
I was so pleased with myself for resisting the temptation to bemoan the fact the URL seems to imply this is a Business Intelligence/Data Warehouse-related paper (because other applications don't use the optimiser, apparently).
Then you showed up!
#3.1.1 - Cristian Cudizio said:
2008-02-28 08:37 - (Reply)
i'm not involved with datawarehouse and BI so i would never found that document on that website, but i've found it through your blog. more, i've tried to reach it by the OTN but i've not been able to found it (is this correct english?). Oracle technology web site is focused a lot on 11g.
however i work with an OLTP application and it seems useful to me too that document
#220.127.116.11 - Doug Burns said:
2008-02-28 21:16 - (Reply)
i've not been able to found it (is this correct english?).
Nearly ... 'find it'
i work with an OLTP application and it seems useful to me too that document
I think it's useful whatever your application. Dave and I are just having fun with each other
#3.1.2 - David Aldridge said:
2008-02-28 13:54 - (Reply)
You're welcome.
But isn't it the case that the majority of innovative and new features are BI related? In fact, if one were in a pure OLTP environment then the RBO would cover 95% of cases very nicely -- index access etc.. It's when you get into selecting significant proportions of your data that the wizardry kicks in
I'm just playing devil's advocate. http://www.theonion.com/content/news_briefs/man_who_plays_devils
#22.214.171.124 - Doug Burns said:
2008-02-28 13:57 - (Reply)
You're right, of course, I just wish you weren't
#184.108.40.206 - Cristian Cudizio said:
2008-02-28 15:09 - (Reply)
Now i understand why we on 9iR2 have always used RBO without relevant performance problems (with some limited exception) indeed our application in mainly OLTP (not purely)
#4 - Carol D 2008-02-28 22:51 - (Reply)
I agree that the paper was needed about 2.5 years ago. How many of us where blind-sided with some of the changes right out of the box early on? Guess it is up to us to start the 10g->11g paper.


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KABUL, Afghanistan, May 2 (UPI) -- It is the Islamic duty of Afghans recruited into a spring offensive to kill "foreign occupiers" as punishment for their illegal actions, the Taliban said.
The Taliban, in a statement, announced they would launch a spring offensive called al-Farooq, a title bestowed upon an adviser to the Islamic Prophet Mohammed and the name of an alleged al-Qaida training camp in Kandahar.
"It must be stated that the primary target of al-Farooq operation will be the foreign invaders, their advisers, their contractors and members of all associated military, intelligence and auxiliary departments … (and) the high ranking officials of the stooge Kabul regime," the statement read.
The Taliban said it was the Islamic duty of Afghans to take up arms against "foreign occupiers." It added that it launched a recruitment campaign for those who want to join its ranks.
"In this battle of truth and falsehood, victory and ascendency shall be awarded to the mujahedin while defeat and humiliation shall be the fate of your moral-lacking soldiers, if Allah wills it," the Taliban statement read.
The statement followed a car bomb and suicide attack on Kabul that left eight dead and 11 civilians injured. The blast occurred shortly after U.S. President Barack Obama left the country after signing a strategic partnership agreement with Afghan President Hamid Karzai.
"The goal that I set -- to defeat al-Qaida and deny it a chance to rebuild -- is now within our reach," Obama said in a televised address from a military base near Kabul.
The agreement outlines the strategic relationship beyond 2014, when international forces are to leave Afghanistan.


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Kirsty, 54, is a teacher from near Leamington Spa. She has been playing Go for many years and has represented the UK both at the World Amateur Women's Championship, the International Amateur Pair Go Championship and the WMSG 2008 in Beijing. Her partner in the latter is her husband Matthew Macfadyen. She has two daughters.
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