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Game of Thrones Book Delays Hurt George R. R. Martin, Not Fans
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For those who don't follow George R. R. Martin's Livejournal religiously, we'll start with the bad news first: The Winds of Winter won't be released in time for Game of Thrones' sixth season. Not a chance. Nada.
In other words, readers of the saga will no longer have an advantage over TV watchers when the HBO show comes back in April. "Some of the 'spoilers' you may encounter in season six may not be spoilers at all," Martin wrote in a post about missing his book's latest deadline, "because the show and the books have diverged, and will continue to do so."
That's not necessarily a problem. By now, most GoT fans have settled in to their own models of consumption: Some book readers are content to be spoiled by the show; some show-watchers may never read the books (especially not now); others are saving the show until the books are totally done.
The farther he falls behind the show his stories helped create, the less relevant he's going to become to Game of Thrones as a whole.
But let's face facts: At this point, Martin isn't just disappointing fans—he's screwing himself. He's apologized profusely for his tardiness, and we've all accepted that apology. Some folks are upset, others just want him to finish and do it right. Yet the farther he falls behind the show his stories helped create—at this point, he says "I can't tell you when [Winds of Winter] will be done"—the less relevant he's going to become to Game of Thrones as a whole.
Even with the wildly ambitious editing schedule Martin's books seem to get (he says in the Livejournal post that if he'd finished his latest book by the end of the year it would've been released in March, just ahead of the mid-April premiere), there seems to be little chance Winds of Winter will be out before even the end of Season 6. That'll be two full seasons that the show has had to go its own way from the book series—and two full seasons that those who are watching and not waiting for the books have to get used to GoT without George. (Do you miss him, dear readers? Do you?)
Look, nothing in the Thrones world would exist without George R.R. Martin. But as much as we've liked to make "type as fast as you can" jokes, his slowness at finishing books isn't really funny anymore. Eventually, readers will get to a point where they give up hope—or, in a reversal of fortunes fit for the Song of Ice and Fire, they'll get betrayed by show-watchers who begin to spoil the story for them. Hey, all those book people who filmed their friends watching the Red Wedding have it coming.
Not everyone will up and abandon Martin—in fact, many will surely wait him out. And, as he points out in his blog post, it's certainly possible to enjoy books and their filmed adaptations simultaneously on different levels. But unlike finishing the Hunger Games books before their movie adaptations hit theaters, there is no recorded ending to the Game of Thrones saga in any format, and if they keep diverging fans will ultimately have to pick which one is canon—which one is theirs. If HBO gets to the end first, provided both versions have (relatively) the same ending point, that'll be the finale that will resonate. And the longer Martin takes to release his version of events, the less likely it'll be that his Song is the one people remember the words to.


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Home > Regional > North America > United States > Government > Agencies > Independent > Tennessee Valley Authority
Tennessee Valley Authority is the United States' largest producer of power. Also conducts regional development and manages 164 public recreation areas, including Land Between The Lakes, TVA's national recreation and environmental education area. TVA's service area covers 80,000 square miles (200,000 square kilometers) in the southeastern U.S.
Camping and Recreation Areas
http://www.tva.gov/river/recreation/index.htm
Opening and closing dates and other information about the 100 or so public recreation areas that TVA operates throughout the Tennessee Valley, including campgrounds, day-use areas, and boat launching ramps.
Craven Crowell
http://www.cravencrowell.com/
Former chairman (1993-2001) of the Tennessee Valley Authority provides his biography, his speeches and articles while at TVA, and information about his current activities.
Energy Right Program
http://www.energyright.com/
TVA program to improve customers' home energy efficiency.
River System Management
http://www.tva.gov/river/index.htm
About TVA's integrated programs (and challenges) in river navigation, flood control, power supply, water quality, land use, and recreation throughout the Tennessee Valley.
Tennessee Valley Authority
http://www.tva.gov/
TVA home page provides access to information on electric power production, regional economic development, public recreation areas, water and shoreline management, green power, TVA finances, agency history, and other topics.
TVA Economic Development
http://www.tva.gov/econdev/index.htm
Describes the programs and services of TVA Economic Development and its partnerships with other entities. Includes an overview of the regional economy of the Tennessee Valley.
TVA Green Power Switch
http://www.tva.gov/greenpowerswitch/index.htm
Describes TVA's renewable energy program.
TVA Power
http://www.tva.gov/power/index.htm
Information about TVA's electric power production programs and technologies. TVA operates three nuclear plants, 11 fossil plants, 29 hydroelectric plants, four combustion turbine plants, and one pumped-storage plant.
TVA River Information
http://www.tva.com/river/lakeinfo/
Up-to-date information on current and predicted reservoir water levels, reservoir discharges, and stream flows in the Tennessee River system.
TVA: Electricity for All
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Historical accounts of the early years of TVA, one of the most ambitious projects of the New Deal. Articles cover successes in flood control, bringing electricity to the region, and introducing modern agricultural techniques, as well as setbacks and controversies.
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Tortoza, 48, a photographer for the Caracas daily 2001, was shot on the afternoon of April 11 while covering violent clashes between opposition demonstrators and government supporters in the capital, Caracas. He died later that evening.
The journalist, who was carrying his camera and wearing a vest identifying him as a member of the press, was standing on a corner near Caracas City Hall when he was shot in the head at around 4 p.m. He was then taken to José María Vargas Hospital and died at around 6 p.m.
The clashes came on the third day of a nationwide strike leading to a short-lived coup that ousted President Hugo Chávez Frías on April 11. He returned to power on April 14.
Several videos made public the following week did not show conclusively where the shots that killed the journalist had come from, or who fired them, according to local press reports. However, the Caracas Metropolitan Police released a video revealing that five gunmen were on the roof of the City Hall at the time of Tortoza's shooting.
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1) The fix
2017 Grand Central Publishing English
Amos Decker witnesses a murder just outside FBI headquarters. A man shoots a woman execution-style on a crowded sidewalk, then turns the gun on himself. Even with Decker's extraordinary powers of observation and deduction, the killing is baffling. Decker and his team can find absolutely no connection between the shooter--a family man with a successful consulting business--and his victim, a schoolteacher. Nor is there a hint of any possible motive...
2) American assassin: a thriller
Book on CD, eBook, Kindle
Grand Canyon Community Library - Audiobooks CD or MP3 1 available
C D FLYNN, VINCE
℗2010 Simon & Schuster Audio 5 audio discs (6 hr.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in. English
Syracuse University student Mitch Rapp broods over the deaths of his girlfriend and thirty-four other classmates on the bombed Pan Am Flight 103, until he is recruited and trained by the CIA and receives his first assignment--to kill the Turkish arms dealer who sold the bomb that killed his friends.
3) The 19th Christmas
2019 OverDrive Little, Brown and Company English
2019 Little, Brown and Company English
As the holidays approach, Detective Lindsay Boxer and her friends in the Women's Murder Club have much to celebrate. Crime is down. The medical examiner's office is quiet. Even the courts are showing some Christmas spirit. And the news cycle is so slow that journalist Cindy Thomas is on assignment to tell a story about the true meaning of the season for San Francisco. Then a fearsome criminal known only as "Loman" seizes control of the headlines....
4) Wild fire: a novel
DeMille, Nelson
2006 OverDrive Unabridged Hachette Audio English
From #1 New York Times bestselling author Nelson DeMille comes a suspenseful new novel featuring Detective John Corey and an all-too-plausible conspiracy to detonate a nuclear bomb in two major American cities.
Welcome to the Custer Hill Club—an informal men's club set in a luxurious Adirondack hunting lodge whose members include some of America's most powerful business leaders, military men, and government officials. Ostensibly,...
5) Radiant angel
After a showdown with the notorious Yemeni terrorist known as The Panther, life seems to be getting quieter for maverick Federal Agent John Corey. Professionally sidelined, away from his wife, and partnered up with a young, good-looking rookie named Tess, Corey is saddled with a dead-end job running easy surveillance on a group of Russian U.N. delegates in New York City. But then his subjects slip the net, Tess starts acting suspiciously, and an old,...
6) The end game
Coulter, Catherine
2015 OverDrive Penguin Publishing Group English
"From #1 New York Times-bestselling author Catherine Coulter, the explosive new addition to the remarkable thriller series featuring Nicholas Drummond and Mike Caine. FBI agent Nicholas Drummond and his partner, Mike Caine, are deep into an investigation of COE--Celebrants of the Earth--a violent group known for widespread bombings of power grids and oil refineries across the country. While investigating a tip from a civilian who's overheard about...
7) Act of war: a thriller
Thor, Brad
2014 OverDrive Atria/Emily Bestler Books English
2014 Atria/Emily Bestler Books English
After a series of events against the U.S. and an imminent attack on the way, private intelligence officer Scot Harvath and his team must carry out two dangerous operations under absolute secrecy.
8) Ghosts of war
Taylor, Brad
"World War is on the horizon in New York Times bestselling author Brad Taylor's tenth heart-pounding Pike Logan thriller. The Taskforce has stopped countless terrorist threats across the globe, operating outside of US law to prevent the death of innocents. But now, along the fault lines of the old Iron Curtain, the danger is far greater than a single attack. With Russia expanding its influence from Syria to the Baltic States, the Taskforce is placed...
9) Off the grid
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2016. Center Point Large Print edition. Center Point Large Print 431 pages (large print) ; 23 cm. English
Joe Pickett's old friend Nate Romanowski is off the grid, recuperating from wounds and lying low while the FBI search for him. But they are not the only ones looking for him and Nate finds himself confronting an elite team of special forces soldiers. They're not there to take him in - they say - but to make a deal. They need his help destroying a domestic terror cell in Wyoming's Red Desert, and in return they'll make Nate's criminal record disappear....
10) Use of force: a thriller
As a storm rages across the Mediterranean Sea, a terrifying distress call is made to the Italian Coast Guard. Days later, a body washes ashore. Identified as a high value terrorism suspect (who had disappeared three years prior), his name sends panic through the Central Intelligence Agency. Where was he headed? What was he planning? And could he be connected to the "spectacular attack" they have been fearing all summer? In a race against time, the...
11) The intercept: a Jeremy Fisk novel
Wolf, Dick
"An adrenaline-fueled thriller debut from the famed creator of TV's Law & Order, featuring NYPD Special Agent Jeremy Fisk, who is New York City's last hope against an ingenious, multi-pronged terrorist attack"--
12) Portrait of a spy
C D SILVA, DANIEL
[2012] Unabridged. HarperAudio 10 sound discs (685 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in. English
After failing to stop a suicide bomber attack in London, master art restorer and assassin Gabriel Allon is summoned by the CIA and is faced with an organization riddled with dissent--and ill-equipped to deal with the deadly new face of global jihadist terror.
13) Tsar: a thriller
When a vastly powerful new Russian tsar threatens America not to interfere with plans to reintegrate Russia's rogue states, espionage agent Alex Hawke investigates the disturbingly related destruction of a small midwestern community.
14) Incendiary
Cleave, Chris
2010 OverDrive Simon & Schuster English
2010 Simon & Schuster English
Distraught over the deaths of her husband and son in a suicide bombing at a London soccer match, a woman writes a letter to Osama bin Laden to persuade him to abandon his terror campaign.
15) Source code
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DVD S-F SOURCE CODE
2011 Widescreen Summit Entertainment 1 videodisc (94 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. English
When Captain Colter Stevens wakes up in the body of an unknown man, he discovers he's part of an experimental government program called the 'Source Code' that enables him to cross over into another man's identity in the last eight minutes of his life. Armed with the task of identifying the bomber of a Chicago commuter train, Colter must relive the incident over and over again, gathering clues until he can solve the mystery and prevent an even deadlier...
16) The Athena project: a thriller
C D THOR, BRAD
p2010 Simon & Schuster Audio 5 sound discs (ca. 6 hr.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in. English
A group of female warriors from the nation's most elite counter-terrorism unit-- the United States Army's 1st Special Forces Operational Detachment Delta--deploys on a dangerous international assignment. Their code name: Athena Project.
17) Sacred stone
Cussler, Clive
C D CUSSLER, CLIVE
c2004 Brilliance Audio 10 cd's ; 11 hrs. English
When an ancient artifact with dangerous radioactive power is found in Greenland, Juan Cabrillo, the captain of The Oregon, and his spies find themselves between two militant factions as they seek to prevent the war.
18) Memorial Day
p2004 Abridged. Encore/Simon & Schuster Audio 5 audio discs (ca. 5 hr.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in. English
It's seven days before Memorial Day and a spike in CIA intelligence has pointed to a major terrorist attack on the United States. So Mitch Rapp goes to Afganistan where his team uncovers and destroys plans for a catastrophic nuclear attack on Washington, D.C. But was this too easy?
19) Dead or alive
2012, c2010 Berkley mass-market ed. Berkley Books 692 p. ; 18 cm. English
Receiving intelligence from the Campus that the world's most threatening terrorist has been tracked to a specific location, Jack Ryan, Jr., the organization's latest recruits, and his cousins embark on a dangerous mission to capture him.


A panel of experts should be constituted to assess the pollution level in water bodies due to the release of mercury wastes by Hindustan Unilever's thermometer factory and a committee, comprising former employees, NGOs and revenue officials, to monitor clearing of wastes as per the international standard were the demands raised by MLAs, former employees of thermometer factory and NGOs at a meeting held here with Tamil Nadu Pollution Control Board Chairman K. Skandan on Monday.
The PCB Chairman assured that he would discuss with the government and a decision would be taken on removal of wastes after consultations with all sections of people in Kodaikanal. Earlier, Dindigul MLA K. Balabarathi insisted that wastes be removed as per international standards. An expert panel should be constituted to test water in Kodaikanal lake and other water bodies. A tri-partite meeting, comprising labour officials, company management and workers union, should also be convened in Kodaikanal to pay compensation to former employees, he said. Earlier, the Chairman, along with Collector T.N. Hariharan, MLAs K. Balabarathi and K.S.N. Venugopalu, and Kodaikanal Municipal Chairman R. Sridhar and factory officials, inspected the site and assessed the situation.
← Action sought against Hindustan Uniliver Ltd.


I am not clear on what controls how closely units can pack and the forces that try to prevent packing. I would essentially like to set a units repulsion radius and the strength of the force that keeps units apart. This may even be useful to apply to small structures.
Describing the code in words will never be accurate, so "it attempts to prevent footprint overlap by pushing units apart based on radial penetration depth with 'forces' inversely proportional to their relative momenta" will have to do as a summary. Only the repulsion radius is actually constant.
Some parameters can probably be extracted to Lua (and other dials added), but full control will require using the UnitUnitCollision callin.
The interaction between allied and enemy units is a lot better, but units slip past and through tight looking clumps of enemy units too easily. I think I would like the repulsive force to grow to a hard boundary over a much shorter radius. The aim is to be unable to move through a gap between two adjacent enemy units. I would like to configure the packing radius to be about twice what it is currently for a 2x2 footprint. I don't want to increase the footprint too much because that causes more jittery interactions with terrain.
The other issue I had is with toggling pushResistant. My end goal with ally pushing is to make allies able to push each other with idle or moving, but not when busy with a task that requires them to stand still (such as attacking). I tried implementing this by using SetGroundMoveTypeData at the appropriate points in the units LUS, but found that enabling pushResistant seems to disable the units ability to repel allies. The pathmap does not update fast enough to stop units from walking into the backs of allies so they tend to phase through the units in front, and sometimes become stuck. I think this may be solved by increasing the packing radius of the units to better cover the block created by pushResistant, and there is possibly an issue where units with pushResistant don't emit any repelling force.


What better way to spend a warm and breezy summer evening then at an outdoor cocktail bar surrounded by gorgeous views, delicious cocktails and spectacular company. As the season comes to an end, we are making the most of our last summer days and rooftop bars are definitely the way to go. Here are our top picks for the best summer bars in Los Angeles, New York and San Francisco.
Spend a beautiful night out enjoying Los Angeles' newest restaurant located in Santa Monica, Élephante. The coastal destination highlights LA's laid-back atmosphere with a Mediterranean flair. Designer George Garrow and restauranteur Nick Mathers teamed up to create the beautiful hotspot accented by dazzling views of the coast. Dive into Élephantes list of delicious cocktails and wines as the sun begins to set along the beach. Élephante is the perfect spot for your next summer evening out.
The Roof at the PUBLIC Hotel is a vibrant and lively bar that will leave you feeling like you are floating in the sky with a stunning 360-degree view of the city. Meet for cocktails at sunset and watch the sky transform from day-to-night as the city comes to life. Listen to the best local and international DJ's as you take in the warm, sultry night. If inside, the floor-to-ceiling windows guarantee you will not miss out on the breathtaking views of the city. Consider The Roof to be your next must visit bar for a summer night out.
With sweeping views of the city and fabulous cocktails, Charmaine's at the Proper Hotel is the perfect setting for a playful and upbeat night out. Interior Designer, Kelly Wearstler, beautifully mixes patterns and textures to create an eccentric atmosphere ready for after-work drinks, a night out with friends or a romantic date night. Revel in the summer heat while sipping on bubbly cocktails or a refreshing wine while taking in the bright scene of the crowd. From the lively atmosphere to exquisite drinks, it's no wonder Charmaine's is a San Fransisco favorite!
Your weekend plans have been made. Take a moment to enjoy these last few summer nights at one of these rooftop bars with good company and a yummy cocktail of course!


Watch Me Grow is a special package available to those with children under the age of 10. It is designed to tell the story of a child as he/she grows and changes. 8 sessions are included in the price, and you may choose one small print (≤8×10) from each session. Sessions may be scheduled at any time for up to 7 years from the time of purchase, and we welcome relatives at these sessions. A pre-natal or maternity session is a unique way to begin telling the story of your baby's life from the very beginning.


Do you mean a vertical border? It depends on what it's bordering. A table? DIV element?
This gives you a vertical black border one pixel wide on the right (or left) of a DIV.
Seeing some code would be helpful. Can you provide a link or a piece of your code so we can better help you?
Without seeing any code, it's hard to determing what isn't working.
This is only one way of doing it. You might be looking for something completely different. That's why we prefer to see some code. (I can't give you directions to your closest variety store without knowing what part of town you're in.
I can't give you directions to your closest variety store without knowing what part of town you're in.
This makes a horizontalline on either side of a line of text.
Oh, oh, oh, I think I've thought of another way of doing this!


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Q: Generate xsd from xml, validate xml, generate class/objects from xml/xsd Please assume I know nothing about anything.
I am new to windows phone development.
I have an xml as follows - its not a file - its an XDocument generated from string which came from server
<User>
<Number>00000</Number>
<Id>1234</Id>
<TextKey>A1A1A1A1A1A1A1A1A</TextKey>
<Agent>WindowsPhone</Agent>
</User>

First of all, I need to generate an xsd for this xml
Then I need to validate this xml against the xsd on the windows phone platform
then if the xml is valid, I need to generate objects/class from it(???)
I've read about xsd.exe XML Schema Definition tool
how do I go on using it??
Any other way to do all the above in visual studio 2012???

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Voting Rights for Some of the People Some of the Time
October 18, 2020 Adele Fasick3 Comments
Although election day is still two weeks away, for many of us the election is all over but the counting. My ballot was mailed in this week and I've already been notified that it has been accepted and counted. State websites that let voters to track their ballots have made life easier for many of us. Thousands of people find it difficult to get to the polls on election day and this year the pandemic has made it dangerous as well as difficult. But not everyone can vote.
Sure you can vote if…
The story of voting in the United States has been a tale of expanding voting rights over the years. The framers of the Constitution could never have imagined that so many people in this country would be allowed to vote. They started out with the idea that a relatively small group of white men 21 years of age or older and substantial members of the community who owned property would be the ones who would go to the polls every four years to choose our leaders.
But many Americans were not content to let men of property determine all the laws. In various states men who did not own farms or other assets began demanding the right to vote. First the rules on property fell. Instead of having to own property or be wealthy, men who were merely respectable members of the community were allowed to vote. In some states, widows and women who owned property were also allowed to cast their ballots.
Finally by the mid-nineteenth century voting rights were extended by Constitutional Amendments which revolutionized the voting roles. On October 16, 2020, Jamelle Bouie wrote a column in the NY Times pointing out that the U.S. Constitution as it stands now was not written by the founding fathers. It has changed over the years especially by the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments which guaranteed voting rights to previously enslaved men.
Women in many states were still denied voting rights until the twentieth century. In 1920, the Nineteenth Amendment changed that so that states could not prohibit women from voting. And in 1965, the Voting Rights Act prohibited many of the measures that states had used to prevent African Americans and other minority groups from voting. The legal age for voting was soon extended to 18-year-olds instead of being limited to people over 21. Thousands of people were added to voting lists.
But states are still making voting difficult for many of us…
Change is not easy. States that were not allowed to charge poll taxes, soon came up with other schemes to make voting more difficult.
In the 2020 election, some states have set up new rules to keep voters from casting a ballot. Texas has ruled that only one ballot drop-off box can be set up in each county. If you don't live close to a ballot drop-off site, you may have to travel 50 miles or more to get to the one closest to you. If you don't own a car, you are on your own because there is no public transit offered. It seems that Texas has decided on a new property requirement for voting. You may not be required to own a cow pasture, but you are required to own a car.
Voting lines in Miami
And for people who want to vote on Election Day, some states are cutting down on the number of voting sites available. You can vote as long as you are healthy and strong enough to stand in line for six to eight hours. It is hard to believe that this is what the Founding Fathers intended when they planned for a democracy.
The only solution is to cast your vote if you possibly can…
This year when you cast your vote, it is not only a victory for you and the candidates you believe in, it also helps make up for all our fellow citizens who are being denied the right to vote. We owe it to our country to honor the freedom America has always stood for and will continue to stand for only if we use our voting power.
CAST YOUR BALLOT AND PROTEST UNFAIR VOTING RESTRICTIONS!
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Right on!!!! It felt so good to cast my BLUE ballot this year. Hoping to celebrate election day!
I LOVE THIS BLOG POST!!!!!!!! Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes!!!!!! It is a shame and a tragedy that so many state bodies are actively working to subvert the ideals of our country and to disenfranchise so many people. I hope everyone in the nation reads this post and takes it to heart!


You've made your gift list and checked it twice—but have you calculated how much all of that holiday shopping is going to cost?
According to a 2018 spending outlook compiled by PricewaterhouseCoopers Canada, it is estimated that Canadians will be spending as much as $1,563 each this holiday season. This follows a trend with last year's numbers from the Retail Council of Canada showing that 1 in 3 Canadians overspent on their holiday shopping.
#1: Do your shopping homework.
Just as doing homework pays off at school, doing a little 'shopping homework' during the holidays can pay off in big savings. The best way to do that homework? Online.
Besides being able to compare prices instantly and potentially save money, doing your holiday gift research online will save you time, because you no longer have to go from store to store to track down what you're looking for.
#2: Set a spending limit.
A recent debt survey has found that 6 in 10 Canadians haven't set a spending budget for the holidays. In fact, they think it's highly likely they will overspend this season.
Instead, review your finances to determine how much disposable income you can comfortably spend on holiday purchases without overstretching yourself. And without having to put those purchases on plastic.
#3: Challenge yourself not to charge it.
Remember that debt survey we mentioned earlier? Well it also revealed that 60% of Canadians are actually willing to go into debt in order to cover some or all of their holiday spending.
Resist the urge to 'credit splurge' this holiday season. With household debt and interest rates on the rise, you may even want to go one step further and leave the credit card(s) at home.
You'll want to be especially cautious using department store-issued cards.
While they may offer incentives such as X% off your purchases, department store credit cards also charge excessively high interest rates. This means that if you don't pay off the card in full by the time the statement comes in, those interest charges could override any 'amazing' discounts you initially received.
Already feeling the pinch of holiday debt? Here are 3 tips to take your credit card debt to zero.
#4: Cash in on loyalty rewards.
If you've been saving up rewards points/dollars, you might be sitting on a sizeable sum of money that could be put towards offsetting a portion (or even all) of your holiday purchases.
How sizeable of a sum are we talking about?
A report from Ontario-based market research agency Bond Brand Loyalty estimates that Canadians are holding on to the equivalent of $16 billion in unused rewards points. That works out to a value of about $629 per collector. So whether your rewards tally up to just a few dollars, or a few hundred dollars—cashing in on loyalty rewards is definitely a win-win when it comes to holiday shopping.
#5: Don't forget the coupons.
In addition to cashing in on your loyalty rewards, don't forget to take advantage of the fine art of 'couponing'. With online bargain sites such as ebates.ca and smartcanucks.ca, you have instant access to a wealth of coupons in a single click.
#6: Shop Canadian to avoid duties, fees, and shipping charges.
As of October 2018, Canada's online shopping duty-free level was raised from C$20 to C$150 as part of the changes introduced by the new United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA, formerly NAFTA). This means that online purchases (made and shipped from the U.S.) with a combined retail value of $150 or less are exempt of duty charges.
However, if you exceed the $150 limit, not only will you have to pay duty charges on the items being imported, you will also be responsible for a host of other fees and taxes.
These additional costs may include currency conversion, shipping charges, duties, taxes, and customs broker fees. If you want to avoid a not-so merry list of charges, fees, and taxes, it's best to keep your holiday shopping within the Great White North.
*Note that the rise in the duty-free limit mentioned above refers to online purchases only, not for day trips across the border. Those limits remain the same ($200 duty-free limit if you're in the U.S. for 24 hours; $800 limit if you stay in the U.S. for 48 hours).
Click here for an estimation of the duties and taxes you can expect to pay on imported goods.
#7: Protect yourself and your money from fraudsters.
The holiday season tends to see a major spike in scams of all kinds. With each passing year, scammers are becoming increasingly adept at developing ways to trick consumers into giving them their money.
Fake websites: These kinds of sites are on the rise, so pay extra attention to the smallest of details. Such as a logo that looks a little 'off', a misspelled brand name, or a web address that includes any weird characters.
How to protect yourself: Distinguish a legitimate website from a scam site by looking closely at the URL. A legitimate site will often have a secure URL that starts with 'https', while a scam site's URL will start with 'http' (note the missing 's' ).
Fake products: From the latest smartphones to the hottest toys of the year, scammers have also been posting classified ads boasting amazing discounts on the most popular products of the season. When consumers pay for these items, these sites/ads disappear and the products are never shipped.
How to protect yourself: Use only reputable websites/apps for making purchases, and never transfer money through a platform that is not associated with that site or app.
Cell phone scams: From so-called deals on air duct cleaning services, to being the big winner of a contest you never entered—when it comes to money-stealing schemes, telephone scammers are pulling out all the stops.
How to protect yourself: Simply hang up if a call sounds suspicious. If these types of calls persist, report the number to the Canadian Anti-Fraud Centre, then block them.
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Reports of active shooter cause brief scare at MacDill Air Force Base
"There were no shots fired on MacDill, and no injuries to MacDill employees. More information will be released as it becomes available."
By Tiffini Theisen, Orlando Sentinel | Published Jan 10, 2020 3:56 PM
Reports of shots fired at or near MacDill Air Force Base in Tampa created an hour of panic early Friday, but there was no shooting and no threat, military officials said.
The base, about four miles south of downtown Tampa, was placed on a temporary lockdown from roughly 7 a.m. to 8 a.m. as officials investigated.
"Local authorities notified there was an armed and dangerous suspect near the Tanker Way gate area of MacDill Air Force Base," the base posted on its Facebook page. "At approximately 7:00 a.m. this morning, MacDill went on lockdown until first responders isolated the situation near Tanker Way gate.
"MacDill opened all gates except Tanker way at approximately 8:00 a.m. Tanker way gate remains closed until the situation is resolved in the South Tampa area. There were no shots fired on MacDill, and no injuries to MacDill employees. More information will be released as it becomes available."
Social media users posted screen shots of the active shooter alert, which was sent at about 7 a.m.
Police told Spectrum News 13 the alert stemmed from a domestic incident overnight at a St. Petersburg apartment complex, in which a 54-year-old man with a gun is accused of vandalizing a vehicle at Peridot Palms Apartments.
"Police had reason to believe the suspect may have been heading near the base, but did not say why," the news station reported.
The TV station reported that the suspect is accused of damaging a door to the apartment of his ex-girlfriend and her new boyfriend, and that he's been arrested by the Hernando Sheriff's Office.
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ON YOUR BIKE Club, Gran Alacant. Cycling, chat and coffee!
Gran Alacant´s ON YOUR BIKE Club is a group formed of British nationalities from Gran Alacant that meet three times a week to enjoy a morning of cycling, mostly off-road and a bit of road followed by chat and plenty of coffee.
The focus our club is largely on fun, coffee and getting people out on bikes.
Bored of riding on your own? Or just looking for new people to ride with? Come and meet new friends who all share the passion of riding bikes.
Park on Avda Noruega, Gran Alacant.
ON YOUR BIKE Club meet at the park on Avda Noruega, Gran Alacant.


pally dip in magus build?
Thread: pally dip in magus build?
so far I've seen on forum to go 2lvl pally dip, which would put me at 18lvl magus. I know magus can't go higher than level 6 spells, do I lose access to those 6 level spells if I'm only 18 magus? is pure magus better?
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I've done it, and it's loads of fun, even went dragon disciple. That huge boost to your saves and a single smite evil makes the dip worth it. You get level 6 spells at magus level 16, so it's possible to get them. Unless you're setting the game so only active party members get xp and skill check user gets all the xp, you're probably only looking at level 17, maybe 18. If you're going to do skill check user gets the xp, play up that charisma and max out your persuasion so you can grab up a ton of xp on your main.
so 2 level paladin dip and carry on for magus? DD is for AC boost and STR boost? can I get crane wing stance if I directly go for DD or do I have to go monk as well?
I'm not worrying for xp, I'm running a mode that gives me 150% xp boost. all the PnP games I've been running were set on ''hard mode'' for the tradeoff of 50% bonus xp, so it felt wrong to play a roleplaying game without my bonus xp :p did not regret that when I encountered 3 enraged owlbear that ripped my party appart regardless... those random encounters are really nasty, no time to prepare any buffs and can't even flee.
Ya, if you go Dragon Disciple it's more about strength and armor bonuses, wings, plus being able to turn into a dragon. You do give up some caster levels, since DD doesn't give you caster levels on every level. Sounds like you're set on a bloodline anyways, so just go for that. Pretty sure you need monk levels to get crane wing. When I did the magus/paladin, I started with 1 level in magus, just so I could have some spells, then did a couple Paladin levels, and back to Magus. It really doesn't matter immensely the order you pick your levels outside of the first few hours of the game anyways. If you stick with Magus instead of going dragon disciple, you can wear medium armor at magus level 7, too.
Pretty sure you need monk levels to get crane wing.
Not sure about the video game, but in pnp, you need only Dodge, Improved Unarmed Strike and some BAB to get Crane-Style-tree feats. Monk levels allow you to get it earlier, though.
Or one Monk level and then take the three Crane Feats. when you have enough Monk levels (5 and 7), or enough BAB (, +2, +5 and +8).
However, I am disappointed with how Crane Riposte works. It says you must use a weapon one-handed t obe able to use the Feat, and the game automatically assumes you take your weapon two-handed if it's not a light weapon. No work-around at this time, so in my case, I cannot use Crane Riposte since I use non-light weapons and had already invested in Weapon Focus and Improved Critcal. So, important info.
That said, I think the Feats are really worth it if you want a defensive-minded melee character. Combined with Combat Expertise, your drop in Attack bonus is not so bad compared to the bonus in AC.
I wonder if crane riposte would work with with spell combat? Last time I played around with it, when you turned it on, you'd wield one handed and turning it off switched you to 2 handed. I suppose it shouldn't work with it, since it's supposed to be like dual wielding where you're using your offhand for casting, but it might not be implemented that way.


The focal point of this section is the Manunggul burial jar carbon-dated to the late Neolithic Period. The cover features a ship of the dead with 2 oarsmen. This is the only jar of this period that has been recovered intact therefore it has been declared a National Cultural Treasure. This is also the logo of the Palawan Museum.
Other features of this section include jars from the Sung Dynasty (960-1279) recovered from land and underwater excavations in Southern Palawan and blue and white porcelain from the Ming Dynasty (1368-1644).


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Pentagon warns of 'grave consequences' should Turkey buy Russian missile system
By: Aaron Mehta March 8
Russian soldiers examine the S-400 rocket systems in 2007. Turkey's plan to buy the S-400 has created a headache for Washington. (Alexey Sazonov/AFP via Getty Images)
WASHINGTON — Turkey faces "grave consequences" if it continues plans to buy the Russian S-400 air defense system, including being blocked from buying the F-35 fighter jet and Patriot air defense systems, the Pentagon's top spokesman said Friday.
Asked about comments made earlier this week by America's top general in Europe, acting press secretary Charlie Summers said: "If turkey takes the S-400, there would be grave consequence in terms of our military relationship, and the Patriots and the F-35s."
"They will not get the F-35s if they take the S-400," he added, later indicating the potential Patriot sale would also be blocked.
The comments came a few days after U.S. European Command head Gen. Curtis Scaparrotti said it would be his best military advice to bar Turkey from getting the F-35, should the country continue on the path of procuring the S-400.
The comments come as part of this week's back-and-forth between Ankara and Washington on the issue.
On March 6, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan told local television channels that not only will Turkey stick to its S-400 acquisition plans, but it might also seek the more advanced S-500 in the future.
"We signed a deal with Russia for the purchase of S-400, and will start co-production. It's done," Erdoğan said, according to local translations. "There can never be a turning back. This would not be ethical, it would be immoral. Nobody should ask us to lick up what we spat. Later, we may work with S-500s."
And Friday morning, Turkish National Defence Minister Hulusi Akar said the U.S. not handing over F-35s to Turkey would be illegal and expressed his belief a solution could be found.
"Our peers say it is impossible to pass the sale of the F-35 aircraft in Congress, but we are working on a solution," he said, according to the Turkish Anadolu Agency. "We have to protect and cover our 82 million citizens. S-400 systems will begin to be established in October. The Air Force continues to work where they'll be stationed."
Turkey plans to buy 100 Joint Strike Fighters over the course of the program, and its first F-35 pilots have already begun training alongside U.S. pilots at Luke Air Force Base, Arizona. Turkish companies play a key industrial role in the program as one of the producers of the center fuselage and the maker of the cockpit display.
As a result of the planned S-400 procurement, the Pentagon launched a large study into whether it would be possible to remove Turkey from the F-35 industrial base.
Turkey is also seeking the Patriot missile defense system. In December, the U.S. State Department cleared Ankara to buy the system for an estimated $3.5 billion, but discussions are still in the early stages of actual procurement.
About Aaron Mehta
Aaron Mehta is Deputy Editor and Senior Pentagon Correspondent for Defense News, covering policy, strategy and acquisition at the highest levels of the Department of Defense and its international partners.
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Cambodian Space ProJect: 2011 A Space Odyssey
Kevin Curtin
Fantastic foreign psych-rock that pays homage to pre-war Cambodian innovators.
The Cambodian Space Project
Label: Metal Postcard
Cambodia's take on rock is surfy, psychedelic, and heavy into R&B. Bands from that country probably don't practice in garages, but that's how most western listeners would describe their sound. Many know it from the intriguing and largely-unattributed Cambodia Rocks collection and subsequent compilations, which feature Cambodia's mostly-murdered singers from the '60s and '70s.
The Cambodian Space Project delivers recharged versions of tunes from pre-war legends like Sin Sisamouth and Ros Sereysothea, with added fuzz and fun, along with an original that translates to "Have Visa, No Have Rice" and a bizarre twist on Shocking Blue's "Venus". 2011: A Space Odyssey contains all the elements that are compelling about Cambodian rock music: the boutique western sounds, the unusual eastern musical instincts and, most noticeably, the exotic female vocals. The untouchable Srey Thy is the focal point of Cambodian Space Project. Her voice is ethereal, her delivery is in your face and her presence is humble and appealing. She is a diamond in the rough of third world karaoke bars. She is a sex-trade escapee. She is a UN Goodwill Ambassador. She is a perfect lead singer. What it boils down to is that if you found yourself in a strange bar in Phnom Penh, dropping a coin into a jukebox that lists only bands you've never heard of, this is what you want to hear coming out.
Cambodian psychedelic garage rock
Jazz composer and R&B artist Patrice Rushen talks about how she fought for control of her music and her career in the late 1970s at Elektra -- and produced an extraordinary run of jazz-R&B-disco hybrid albums that the industry wasn't quite ready for.
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A Mother Who Eats Her Young? 'A Prayer for Travelers'
Equal parts gritty and subtly heartening, tragically jarring and emotionally resonant, Ruchika Tomar's debut A Prayer for Travelers is one of the strangest and most enjoyably wrought coming-of-age stories to appear in recent years.
Chris Vola
Rob Marshall's upcoming The Little Mermaid, starring Halle Bailey in the traditionally white character role of Ariel, sure has stirred things up in the sea of social media. Disney-glittered little girls, it seems, see it differently.
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Chanya Button's 'Vita & Virginia' Imprisons and Cages Virginia Woolf
Looking upon Virginia Woolf with an immature and childish creative lust, writer/director Chanya Button and co-writer Eileen Atkins reduce her to a bland literary figure in Vita & Virginia, leaving us to remember the contrarian truth.
Paul Risker
Debut 'The Most Fun We Ever Had' Brims with Emotional Intelligence
Cleverly, Claire Lombardo's novel The Most Fun We Ever Had de-romanticizes motherhood even as it sanctifies it.
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Eleni Mandell spent two years teaching songwriting to women who were incarcerated. The experience informed the material on her new album, Wake Up Again. "I hoped that the women would leave there some day with one more thing to support them and keep them from getting in trouble again," she says.
A Musical Chameleon: An Interview with Morcheeba
One year since the release of Morcheeba's Blaze Away, the band unleash a special edition full of remixes, which leads to questions of how their process works, how some songs got remixes and others didn't, and what the next 20 years of Morcheeba look like.
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Chris Schwartz's Memoir on Founding Ruffhouse Records Gleans but Doesn't Illuminate
Chris Schwartz's memoir on founding Ruffhouse Records attempts to be many things but doesn't fully deliver on any of them, making for a conventionally-structured memoir that often reads as slapdash and dry.
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Brooklyn's Vandana Shares Her Take on the Bollywood Song "Ahsa (Raat Baaki)" (premiere)
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The Lex Alamannorum and Pactus Alamannorum were two early medieval law codes of the Alamanni. They were first edited in parts in 1530 by Johannes Sichard in Basel.

Pactus Alamannorum
The Pactus Alamannorum or Pactus legis Alamannorum is the older of the two codes, dating to the early 7th century. It is preserved in a single manuscript of the 9th to 10th century (Paris, Bibliothèque Nationale de France, MS Lat. 10753).

Lex Alamannorum
The Lex Alamannorum is preserved in some 50 manuscripts dating to between the 8th and 12th centuries. The text's first redaction is ascribed to the Alamannic duke Lantfrid in ca. 730. It is divided into clerical law, ducal law and popular law.

Chapter 3.1 treats church asylum: no fugitive seeking refuge in a church should be removed by force, or be killed within the church. Instead, the pursuers should assure the priest that the fugitive's guilt is forgiven. In 3.3, penalties for the violation of the asylum are set at 36 solidi to be paid to the church and an additional 40 solidi to be paid to the authorities for violation of the law.

Chapter 56.1 regulates penalties for violence towards women. If someone uncovers the head of a free, unmarried woman, he is fined 6 solidi. If he lifts her dress so that her genitals or her buttocks become visible, he is fined 12 solidi. If he rapes her, he is fined 40 solidi. 56.2 doubles these penalties if the victim is a married woman.

See also
Early Germanic law
Paris, BN, lat. 4404

References

 Clausdieter Schott: Lex Alamannorum - Gesetz und Verfassung der Alemannen (facsimile), Augsburg 1997
 Johannes Merkel, Leges Alamannorum, Bayerische StaatsBibliothek 1863

External links
 Information on the Lex Alamannorum and its manuscript tradition on the  website, A database on Carolingian secular law texts (Karl Ubl, Cologne University, Germany, 2012).

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7th-century Latin books
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Q: fluid properties-state of body in motion under the fluid surface Body is moving downwards in the fluid with uniform velocity.So, buoyant force = weight of the body. What will the state of the body represent:- sinking or submerged?
p.s:The doubt is regarding the definitions of 'sink' & 'submerged'states and their usage in the situation described above.

A: The body is moving downward in a fluid with uniform velocity - it means that the net force on the body must be  zero.
the body is moving downward inside the fluid ,so it is "sinking " as time elapses and it can not be called submerged.
Now about forces operating on the body - the following are acting-

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*the gravitational pull of the earth equal to (mass x acceleration due to gravity).

*The force of buoyancy provided by the liquid/fluid acting upwards opposite to the weight.

*The force of viscous drag  due to relative motion between layers of fluid and the contact surface of the body and this drag is /may be proportional to the velocity of the body and acts in a direction  opposed to the motion of the body-
So it acts upward .The drag is also  proportional to coefficient of viscosity of the fluid.
Therefore the force equation for the moving body should be,
F(net)= mg -buoyant force - viscous drag= 0 .
A different conclusion from the  question given above :
The wt. of the body must be equal to sum of the buoyant force and viscous drag acting on the body.
The uniform speed is called "Terminal velocity".
This experiment is   Stoke's Experiment to find the coefficient of viscosity of the fluid.


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Michael, Franklin and their psychotic friend Trevor have made the jump from last gen consoles to the world of next gen gaming. Was it a nice transition or should the game get curb stomped?
Grand theft auto. A felonious term used for when someone steals a car. It's also easily recognized by both the gaming community and everyone else as a franchise that has defined a genre of gaming and has led to more knock-offs than Gucci bags in New York. Dating back to 1997, the GTA series has used the same basic gameplay model, with a bunch of added bells and whistles through the years, to not only keep their fans happy, but also bring in new fans with every subsequent release. Grand Theft Auto V was released for the PS3 and Xbox 360 last year and has now been remastered for the next generation of consoles and the PC.
Grand Theft Auto V stays true to the formula of the series and follows a trio of criminals ar0und what looks a lot like Los Angeles but is actually called Los Santos. The story is well written with enough twists and turns to keep you entertained. The twists start early so we will stay away from the body of the story itself but we will say that this isn't a short story and that is a very good thing.
The three playable characters are Michael, Franklin, and the always entertaining and psychotic Trevor. Each character is well developed throughout the game, with each character introduction really defining the type of person they are and what you can expect from them later. While Michael and Franklin seem like OK guys, Trevor is clearly a depraved lunatic. Swapping between each character can also be entertaining, and you never know what Trevor has got himself into. Let's just say duct tape and a pier might be involved.
While the main storyline is entertaining, there's plenty of other stuff to do that's just as fun, if no more so at times. GTA V is a massive open world game with a huge map that spans just about every climate imaginable. Add in changing weather and the map really comes to life. Driving though puddles on the street after a downpour is not only cool to look at, but you can feel those puddles affecting whatever you're driving.
The types of vehicles in the game resemble some real world cars, planes and choppers, but don't expect to see the Bugatti or Ferrari name on any of them. The story doesn't have licensed cars, but don't see that as a negative. Licensing isn't cheap and those costs would have ultimately been passed on to us, the gamers. More content with unknown branded cars, that each have their own handling characteristics, means more fun to be had and more cars to enjoy.
The PS3 and Xbox 360 versions had you playing in third person (looking over the shoulder of the character) but with the next gen release, you can now see through the eyes of each guy in first person mode. this includes driving and flying and adds a depth to the game like never before. Fist fights are much more enjoyable when you can see that beat down first hand. Each car has it's own detailed interior as well, with working gauges and speedometers. Airplanes and choppers also have detailed interiors, with gauges just like in real life.
As you progress through the story, you'll earn cash that can be used to purchase properties around town. These properties add income for the character and have side missions that will require you to complete different tasks. These properties can also be interactive like the golf course or the strip joints. You can play a round of golf with the guys or play a round of whatever with the girls. This is an M rated game so don't walk into a strip joint when you have kids around your TV as they might get an eye full of Penelope's pole dance.
When you are ready to take a break from the story, you can join a large number of folks in GTA Online. For those of you returning to the game from last gen, you can transfer your online character over to the newer version. You may have to load up your PS3 or Xbox 360 game in order to have the game recognize older accounts (we did) but the transfer process itself is pretty easy.
GTA Online is a vast game that uses the same map as the story, so there are always plenty of things to do. You can join up with friends or play with random people, but either way you can easily spend hours on end pulling jobs, racing cars, or just taking other folks out. All of the DLC from last gen is already loaded and ready to go for this release, so there's plenty of content for everyone.
The next gen release of Grand Theft Auto V is more than just a polished up version of the game as it brings with it not only all of the DLC from last gen, but cool new features as well. First person mode, while it can even be forced on players online if you want, can be turned off for those of you die hard GTA fans that want to keep it old school, but at least give it a try as you can really see the details on a whole new level through the eyes of the guys.
Even if you completed the game previously on last gen consoles, this is a game that is worthy of another playthrough. Graet job Rockstar North!


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Richard Joseph Daley was a product of the bloody world of the Chicago slaughterhouses. Chicagoans of his day, both Catholics and non-Catholics, located themselves by referring to their local parish — they came from Saint Mary's or Saint Nicholas's. Daley came from Nativity of Our Lord, the parish church of his childhood, where he would be eulogized seventy-four years later.
Nativity was founded in the mid-1800s to serve the poor Irish-Catholic laborers who were flooding the area to work in the growing meat-packing industry. The church's simple stone building stood at the corner of 37th and Union, on the fringes of the South Side neighborhood of Bridgeport and hard up against a vast expanse of cattle-slaughtering facilities. Standing on the steps after Mass, young Daley could smell the fetid mixture of manure and blood that wafted over from the sprawling Union Stock Yards to the south. The gurgling in the background was the cackle of "Bubbly Creek," a torpid offshoot of the Chicago River that got its name from the fermenting animal carcasses and offal in its slow-moving waters.
If Nativity seemed like an unlikely place for spiritual repose, it had once been worse. The church's first home had actually been in the former J. McPherson livery stables. The name "Nativity" was a reference to the fact that the church, like Christ, had been born in a stable — an attempt to put a holy gloss on grim surroundings. Nativity's new building had a pleasant interior, including ornate stained-glass windows, but nothing could make up for the harsh reality of geography. Daley's spiritual home was located just a few hundred feet from what one parish history called "the greatest and bloodiest butcher shamble in the world."
The whole city of Chicago had a reputation for coarseness and for lacking the style and sophistication of older cities like Philadelphia or Boston. "Having seen it, I urgently desire never to see it again," Rudyard Kipling wrote after visiting in 1889. "It is inhabited by savages."
Chicago was the industrial capital of the Midwest, a tough town dominated by factories that belched black smoke. Theodore Dreiser, who roamed the city as a reporter, marveled in his book Newspaper Days at the "hard, constructive animality" of the rougher parts of Chicago. It was not uncommon, he found on his rounds, to come across men standing outside ramshackle homes "tanning dog or cat hides."
The Chicago of this era was a town in which displaced farmhands and struggling immigrants competed for space in ramshackle tenements and rooming houses, and hooligans roamed the streets. Block after block of "disorderly houses" did a brisk business corrupting hordes of guileless young girls, like Dreiser's Sister Carrie, who arrived daily from small towns in a desperate search for a better life. And it was Chicago saloonkeepers who invented the Mickey Finn, a chloral hydrate-laced drink slipped to solitary patrons so they could be easily robbed.
"The New York Tenderloin," journalist Lincoln Steffens wrote, "was a model of order and virtue compared with the badly regulated, police-paid criminal lawlessness of the Chicago Loop and its spokes." Chicago's moral climate was shaped by Al Capone and the Saint Valentine's Day Massacre, and by the ignominy of the 1919 Chicago White Sox — the team that shocked the nation by fixing the World Series. "Chicago is unique," journalist A. J. Liebling would conclude after visiting for a year to research a book. "It is the only completely corrupt city in America." Loving Chicago, Nelson Algren once said, was like loving a woman with a broken nose.


In 2018, Associated Artists of Pittsburgh organized 10 exhibitions of member work throughout the region? We inaugurated our 9 Artists 9 Neighborhoods video series, and we updated our website to feature both AAP organized and sponsored events and the exhibitions and projects of our members.
To help us achieve our goals in 2019, Associated Artists of Pittsburgh set a year-end fundraising goal of $5,000 for our Member Programming Fund. The AAP Member Programming Fund directly supports AAP members and member exhibitions and programming.
Before 2018 wrapped up, we were able to raise 93% of our $5,000 goal. Thank you to everyone who donated. All donors are listed below.
Thank you, and we look forward to seeing you at an AAP event in 2019.
Scroll down to read about AAP in 2018.
Artist Peggi Habets discusses her work in the AAP exhibition I See You held this past spring.
In 2018, AAP organized ten exhibitions throughout the region. We exhibited over 440 works of art by regional artists. We held exhibitions in Lawrenceville, Southside, Bloomfield, downtown Pittsburgh, and more. We installed work by regional artists in the Office of the Mayor and out at the Pittsburgh Regional Airport.
Our 2019 schedule is up, and we have 8 member exhibitions on the books for the year ahead. Support AAP in 2019 by donating today.
2018 New Member Nation Jalil discussed the decision to become a full-time artist and the role AAP plays in his careerin Pittsburgh.
In 2018, Associated Artists of Pittsburgh also debuted the 9 Artists 9 Neighborhoods series. We partnered with Pittsburgh Community Television to produce a series of videos featuring AAP member artists in the spaces and places where they worked and called home.
The videos premiered online and on television, and, with your support, we hope to continue this series in 2019.
Member Dee Briggs exhibition Briggs Boone Braddock as it was featured on the Member Happenings page of the AAP website.
In July 2018, AAP relaunched our website. The update features current exhibitions, a list of recent previous exhibitions, our upcoming schedule of exhibitions, a member happenings section, and a list of artist opportunities. In 2019, we will debut a brand-new membership portal and database. Our members will be able to upload recent artwork, pay dues, and learn about AAP events. Our visitors will be able to search and browse our members through a much more robust platform.
Students touring a Mattress Factory installation in 2018.
Now in its 28th year, our VACOP program continues to connect high school students with local artists for discussions on professional pathways and careers, as well as artwork creation. In the 2017-2018 school year, students worked with Ashley Cecil at the Carngie Museum of Natural History on botanical illustrations, visited the largest ceramic arts conference in North America (the National Council for Education of the Ceramic Arts), and toured the Mattress Factory where they participated in a workshop on installation art.
Artist member Lillian Henius paints outdoors. Date unknown.


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St. Louis Mercantile Library
Contact Information[edit | edit source]
E-mail: Reference/Research Request Form
Address:[1]
St. Louis Mercantile Library - University of Missouri
Thomas Jefferson Library Building
One University Blvd.
St. Louis, Missouri 63121-4400
Telephone:[1] 314-516-7240 or 314-516-7247
Hours and holidays: Library hours and holidays
Directions, maps, and public transportation:
Google map: St. Louis Mercantile Library
Public transportation: The Metro Transit-St. Louis bus route 4-Natural Bridge stop (Natural Bridge @ University) is 1100 feet south of the Library. The Metro Link train UMSL North stop is 1750 feet northeast of the Library. The North Hanley Transit Center a mile to the northwest connects bus routes 4-Natural Bridge, 35, 37, 38, 39, 47, 49, 61, 77, 79, 98, and the Metro Link train.
Internet sites and databases:
UMSL St. Louis Mercantile Library
about, membership, research, collections, events and exhibitions, tours, maps, and A-Z index.
UMSL Library MERLIN Catalog online. Search by keywords, title, author, subject, numbers, or other. Also available in WorldCat.
UMSL databases online links including HeritageQuest Online, and Biography and Genealogy Master Index (BGMI).
Collection Description[edit | edit source]
The University of Missouri St. Louis Mercantile Library has collections that concentrate on Westward Expansion, American rail and river transportation history as well as the history, development, and growth of the St. Louis region, and broadly developed subjects related to the humanities, with a core collection numbering over 250,000 books. The special collections of the library consist of over 400 individual collections with archival materials numbering in the millions, including over 100 historic newspaper titles, presidential letters, early travel diaries and civil war era letters, fur trade records and the newspaper and printing morgue of the St. Louis Globe Democrat.[2] The Herman T. Pott National Inland Waterways Library focuses on United States river and inland waterways history. It has 2,500 books and a large pictorial/photographic collection.[3] The John W. Barriger III National Railroad Library is one of the largest (45,000 volumes) and finest railroad history collections focused on railway economics, finance, corporate history, management practice, regulatory history, mergers, labor relations, operations, and engineering.[4]
Founded in 1846, and chartered by the State of Missouri in that year, the St. Louis Mercantile Library is the oldest general library in continuous existence West of the Mississippi River.
Established by civic leaders and philanthropists wishing the citizens of frontier St. Louis to have a fine library even in the city's earliest days, the Mercantile, as it has now been known by generations of Missourians, exists today as a vibrant, active community asset, celebrating its heritage while making great collections accessible to new scholars.
The Mercantile Library has been from its inception a membership library, with members today having access to millions of books in the University of Missouri's catalog (also available in WorldCat). Mercantile Library members are also entitled to other benifits, including special lectures, openings of special exhibitions of the collections, receptions, informal talks and discounts on library services and publications.
Reading room policies, for example, readers must register and show an I.D.
Guides[edit | edit source]
A Guide to Researching St. Louis History
List of St. Louis City Directories, Gazetteers, Rosters, and Guides
Special Collections for Researching Civil War History (.pdf)
A Guide to Railroad Research
For a General Waterways Guide and a Rivers Research Guide see Pott Library Research Guides
Other Libraries at the St. Louis Mercantile Library[edit | edit source]
John W. Barriger III National Railroad Library
Herman T. Pott National Inland Waterways Library
Alternate Repositories[edit | edit source]
If you cannot visit or find a source at the St. Louis Mercantile Library, a similar source may be available at one of the following.
Overlapping Collections
National Archives I, Washington DC, census, pre-WWI military service & pensions, passenger lists, naturalizations, passports, federal bounty land, homesteads, bankruptcy, ethnic sources, prisons, and federal employees.[5]
National Archives at College Park, Maryland collects records of the Departments of Agriculture, Commerce, Education, Energy, Health and Human Services, Housing and Urban Development, Interior, Justice, Labor, State, Transportation, and Treasury all after 1900.[6]
National Archives at Kansas City, MO, records of federal agencies and courts for Iowa, Kansas, Missouri, and Nebraska, censuses, ships lists, naturalizations, military records.[7] [8]
Neighboring Collections
St. Louis CITY offices: In 1876 St. Louis City separated from St. Louis County, but retained all of the original St. Louis County records prior to 1876.
St. Louis City Recorder of Deeds and Vital Records Registrar has births 1825-1909, and 1920-present; marriages 1766-1931; deaths 1825-1960, and 1965-present; land 1877-present; adoptions, cemetery records, French and Spanish colonial records, orphanages, licenses and trademarks, veterans discharges, and will indexes, including county records before 1876.[9] [10]
St. Louis City Assessor has real estate and property tax records.[11] [12]
St. Louis City 22nd Circuit Court probate records 1804-2000; civil, criminal, and family court.[11] [13]
U.S. Customs House, St. Louis, has immigration and naturalization records.[14]
St. Louis COUNTY offices:
St. Louis County Office of Vital Records, Berkeley, has all Missouri births since 1920, St. Louis County only births 1883-1910; all MO deaths since 1980, and St. Louis County only deaths 1883-1910.[9] [14]
St. Louis County Clerk, Clayton, has births 1877-1910.[11] [15]
St. Louis County Recorder of Deeds, Clayton, has marriages and land records since 1876, and military discharges. Marriage, court, and land records of St. Louis County prior to 1876 are only available via the St. Louis City Recorder of Deeds and Vital Records Registrar.[9]
St. Louis County Circuit Court Clerk, Clayton, has court records since 1876, and divorces.[11] [16]
St. Louis County Probate Court, Clayton, has probate records and an online index.[17]
St. Louis County Office of the Medical Examiner, St. Louis, has selected death records.[18]
Mixed City and County of St. Louis repositories:
Clayton Historical Society, Clayton, collects artifacts and documents.[19]
Concordia Historical Institute, St. Louis, Department of Archives and History of the Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod.
Episcopal Diocese of Missouri Archives, St. Louis, a library, extensive document and photograph collections, and parish registers.
German American Heritage Society of St. Louis exploring and preserving heritage.[20]
Missouri History Museum Library, St. Louis, has regional history sources, St. Louis, Missouri, the Mississippi and Missouri Valleys, the Louisiana Purchase, American West: indexes, guides, catalogs, photos, genealogy workshops. Many records of Missouri settlers from Illinois.</ref>
National Personnel Records Center (NPRC), St. Louis, federal government employee and military personnel records starting 1917.[21]
Roman Catholic Archdiocese of St. Louis Office of Archives and Records parish christenings, confirmations, marriages, and deaths.
St. Louis African American History and Genealogy Society collects, preserves, and publishes genealogical and historical records.[22]
St. Louis County Library, a Missouri collection including the National Genealogical Society, and St. Louis Genealogical Society collections, online databases, federal censuses, births, deaths, cemeteries, church records, military records, naturalizations, newspapers, wills, African American records, and yearbooks.[23]
St. Louis Genealogical Society has a collection of 20,000 books, journals, maps, and CDs at the St. Louis County Library (previous).[24]
St. Louis Missouri Family History Center has premium online services for free and can offer research guidance.[25]
St. Louis Public Library has an Obituary Index for the years 1880–1927; 1942–1945; 1992–2006, family histories, passenger lists, Heritage Quest, and Gateway Family Historian publication.[26]
Saul Brodsky Jewish Community Library, St. Louis, comprehensive source for Judaica. 23,000 books.
U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Missouri, St. Louis, recent civil, criminal, or bankruptcy court records.[27]
Outside of St. Louis:
Repositories in surrounding counties in Missouri: Franklin, Jefferson, St. Charles, St. Louis County, Independent City: St. Louis City, counties in Illinois: Madison, Monroe, and St. Clair
Community of Christ Library and Archives, Independence, books, periodicals, letters, and diaries of the of the Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints/Community of Christ.
Kansas City Public Library Missouri Valley Special Collections, The Missouri Valley Room has a great genealogy collection for Missouri and Kansas with biographies, periodicals, genealogies, diaries, photos, scrapbooks, and newspapers of the Kansas City area.[28] [29]
Mid-Continent Public Library Midwest Genealogy Center, Independence, a great American genealogy collection: censuses, MO federal land sales, penitentiary, St. Louis fur trade, Civil War, passenger lists, plantations, American Indians, city directories, newspapers, Draper Manuscripts, and KY taxes.</ref> [30]
Missouri Bureau of Vital Records, Jefferson City, central registry of Missouri births and deaths since 1910; marriages and divorces since 1948.[31]
Missouri State Archives, Jefferson City, has court, land, military, death records, federal censuses, county and municipal records, photos, penitentiary, and manuscript records. Birth and death record index since 1883 is online; birth records 1883-1895; marriages 1827-1937.[32]
Missouri United Methodist Archives, Fayette, historical materials on Methodism in Missouri emphasizing ministers.
Ozarks Genealogical Society Library, Springfield, has Missouri and other states, a large periodical collection, and special southern Missouri family records.</ref> [33]
Springfield-Greene County Library Center, for southern Missouri: censuses, church histories, directories, Civil War, online deaths 1910-1958, births, marriages, land, probate, cemeteries.</ref> [34]
State Historical Society of Missouri, Columbia, census, maps, newspapers, online tools, oral history, photos, historical manuscripts, and reference materials.</ref>
Wilson's Creek National Battlefield Library, Republic, helps find ancestors who served in the U.S. Civil War.[35]
Outside of Missouri:
Repositories in surrounding states: Arkansas, Iowa, Illinois, Kansas, Kentucky, Nebraska, Oklahoma, and Tennessee.
Harrison County Historical Museum, Marshall TX, a key repository for Missouri and Texas settlers. A major center for MO Confederates. Family folders, books, letters, diaries, journals, surname lists.</ref> [36]
Newberry Library, Chicago, genealogies, local histories, censuses, military, land, indexes, vital records, court, and tax records mostly from the Mississippi Valley, Missouri , eastern seaboard, Canada, and Britain.[37]
Wikipedia has more about this subject: St. Louis Mercantile Library
↑ 1.0 1.1 History and Mission in UMSL St. Louis Mercantile Library (accessed 25 March 2016).
↑ UMSL Saint Louis Mercantile Library in UMSL St. Louis Mercantile Library (accessed 27 March 2016).
↑ Herman T. Pott National Inland Waterways Library History in UMSL St. Louis Mercantile Library (accessed 27 March 2016).
↑ John W. Barriger III National Railroad Library History in UMSL St. Louis Mercantile Library (accessed 27 March 2016).
↑ Information for Researchers at the National Archives Building in Washington, DC in National Archives (accessed 31 December 2013).
↑ Information for Researchers at the National Archives at College Park, MD in National Archives (accessed 31 December 2013).
↑ William Dollarhide and Ronald A. Bremer. America's Best Genealogy Resource Centers (Bountiful, Utah: Heritage Quest, 1998), 67. At various libraries (WorldCat). FHL Ref Book 973 J54d.
↑ National Archives at Kansas City in National Archives (accessed 5 March 2014).
↑ 9.0 9.1 9.2 Alice Eichholz, Red Book: American State, County and Town Sources, 3rd ed. (Salt Lake City: Ancestry Pub., 2004), 396. At various libraries (WorldCat). FHL Book 973 D27rb 2004.
↑ St. Louis City Recorder of Deeds and Vital Records Registrar (accessed 7 March 2014).
↑ 11.0 11.1 11.2 11.3 Handybook for Genealogists : United States of America, 10th ed. (Draper, UT : Everton Publishers, 2002), 406. At various libraries (WorldCat). FHL Book 973 D27e 2002.
↑ City of St. Louis Assessor's Office - Administrative in City of St. Louis, Missouri (accessed 7 March 2014).
↑ 22nd Judicial Circuit Probate Division Resource Room in 22nd Circuit Court St. Louis, Missouri (accessed 7 March 2014).
↑ 14.0 14.1 St. Louis County Vital Records in St. Louis County, Missouri (accessed 7 March 2014).
↑ St. Louis County Clerk in St. Louis County, Missouri (accessed 7 March 2014).
↑ St. Louis County Circuit Court Clerk in St. Louis County, Missouri (accessed 7 March 2014).
↑ St. Louis County Probate Court in St. Louis County, Missouri (accessed 7 March 2014).
↑ St. Louis County Office of the Medical Examiner in St. Louis County, Missouri (accessed 7 March 2014).
↑ Clayton Historical Society (accessed 7 March 2014).
↑ German American Heritage Society of St. Louis (accessed 7 March 2014)
↑ Dollarhide and Bremer, 134.
↑ Home in St. Louis African American History and Genealogy Society (accessed 7 March 2014).
↑ Online guide to St. Louis sources in the History and Genealogy Department in St. Louis County Library (accessed 2 February 2016).
↑ Home in St. Louis Genealogical Society (accessed 7 March 2014).
↑ Introduction to Family History Centers in Family History Research Wiki (accessed 29 February 2016).
↑ Genealogists in St. Louis Public Library (accessed 3 February 2016).
↑ U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Missouri (accessed 7 March 2014).
↑ Dollarhide and Bremer, 47 and 67.
↑ Special Collections in Kansas City Public Library (accessed 7 March 2014).
↑ About the Midwest Genealogy Center in Mid-Continent Public Library (accessed 5 May 2010).
↑ Birth, Death, Marriage and Divorce Information in Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services (accessed 3 March 2016).
↑ Vital Records in Kansas City Public Library (accessed 2 Feb 2016).
↑ Research in Ozarks Genealogical Society (accessed 15 March 2014).
↑ Guide to Local History and Genealogy Department Collections in Springfield-Greene County Library District (accessed 15 March 2014).
↑ The Hulston Library in Wilson's Creek National Battlefield Missouri in National Park Service (accessed 15 March 2014).
↑ Our Collection in Harrison County Museum (accessed 7 March 2014).
↑ Dollarhide and Bremer, 39.
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