Located in north central North Dakota, we are celebrating 100 years of this family owned farm/ranch.
I don't participate in the Saturday Photo Hunt very often but happened to have an entry for this week's topic. Hubby & I were recently in Prague, Czech Republic. While there we saw the Astronomical Clock. What an amazing piece of work.
" Prayer isn't just spoken words. Sometimes it is done walking, as we take a stroll through our neighborhood and say prayers over our neighbors and the surrounding schools and organizations. Other times, it is with our hands, as we touch every piece of fabric and thread while constructing a quilt.
What does prayer look like for you? "
Some folks have replied that prayer looks like knitting or quilting or with kits put together to help those who are struggling. Well, for me - tonight especially - prayer looks like a 'gazillion' stars and northern lights along with the scent of a bit of rain. It is the grass that just perked up from that rain, the fresh little calf with its proud mommy, or the happy dog running along side the four wheeler with me.
See, I had never thought about prayer looking like anything. It was quite simply a quiet time to visit with our Lord to share my thanks and concerns. I did not think about it being prayer when I stopped 'to smell the roses'. You know, enjoy the smell of the rain or the freshly turned soil. OR, taking time to observe the birds on the water or the beaver swimming in the dam. That was just appreciating nature, well, know I will think of it as prayer.
We are about 1/3 done with calving. We run just over 300 females, so have about 100 calves running around. We have had 3 sets of twins. They add extra work because we need to make sure both calves are getting to eat enough, make sure the cow has enough milk for both calves, and that she loves both calves.
The first set are still together with their mom. The second set was born to a heifer (first calving). It is hard on the cow feeding two calves so Brett fed them some milk replacer to supplement the cow's milk. We then had a cow who's calf died so we moved one of these twins onto that cow. Lucky for everyone, that foster project was successful.
Just a couple of days ago, Christopher took a cow to the veterinarian as she was having trouble calving. It turned out that her calf was breech. The vet got it turned around and delivered - only to find a second calf in there!! Thus, our third set of twins. This set is unusual as one is black with white face and the other is red with a white face. This cow is a black white face (happens to be Black Angus / Hereford cross). She was bred by an Akaushi bull. This breed has both the black and the red trait. So, obviously, this is how one cow had calves of each color. They are all doing fine.
Just when Brett thought he might be done bottle feeding, he found an orphan calf. We cannot find who the mom is. The guys walked around the herd with no luck. We finally decided it must be a twin and the cow just walked away from it with her other calf. However, when you have 5-10 calves born in one day it is difficult to figure out the mom. So, Brett has a new bottle calf. Here is the little sweetie.
When Brett is going into the barn, this little guy starts moo-ing for his bottle! It is so excited that it doesn't even want to quit sucking to breath!!
Here Brett is feeding his little buddy. The calf drinks so fast that some of the milk runs out. Fluffy, the cat, has figured this out so is always nearby for a little snack!
Well it has been an exciting night here. On my usual 3 AM check I found a cow in labor. I go back to the house and wait for about an hour as I know it will take her a while yet. I went out later and she had made no progress. I call Brett (son) to come help me get her into the big, red barn. In the meantime I try to get her to stand up. She couldn't stand - at least not for long. Her back end is weak. So, Brett brings the equipment down to the pole barn so we can pull the calf there. I call Christopher (other son, owner of cow) to come out to the farm - and warn him that we might need the pickup and stock trailer. Brett does an internal check of the cow. Bad news, the calf is backwards (coming tail first, legs down). Call Mark (hubby) to come and help. (I have a love/hate relationship with my cell phone currently it is love.) Good news, just as Christopher shows up, Brett got the cow up and she walked! The 'boys' got her up to the red barn and I carried the puller, etc. back up there. All four humans gather in the barn. The cow is in a small pen with a head gate to hold her in one spot. Brett puts on fresh OB gloves (shoulder length) and goes in for another check and explains to us what he feels. Oh no, the cow sits down (like a dog). Christopher releases her from the head gate and she rolls onto her side. This is not ideal for assisting with delivery. After both Brett and Mark try to get the calf turned enough to get the legs back, they give up. (Note, they are attempting to work inside of the cow while she is have contractions.) Christopher takes his cow to the veterinarian in Minot (about 45 miles away). We don't know if the vet will be able to pull the calf out or if she will have to do a c-section.
It is now 5:30 AM. Brett takes the 4-wheeler up to check cows again. It has only been a little over an hour since I was up there to check them. He comes back home to get me and our calf sled. There is one new calf and another should be born when we get back up there.
Sure enough. We now have two fresh calves and cows to get back to the red barn. We leave the newest calf for last so mom has time to clean and get to know it. Brett gets the calf into the sled (large version of the sleds kids have). We bring the pair back to the barn. Brett puts the calf into the calf warmer. This is a special space with a heater in it. We want to warm the calf up so it doesn't get sick or freeze it's ears off.
We go back up to get the other pair and bring them back to the barn.
It is now 6:40 AM. We are chilled and wide awake. It is common that we have to sit up for a while after being out at night. So, now we watch a bit of TV, play on the computer or just curl up in a blanket - and wait for Christopher to get home with a report on his cow and calf.
7:40 AM - Christopher just returned home from the vet. Sadly, the calf did not survive.
The rest of the day will consist of continuing to check cattle and trying to get a few minutes for a nap!
Calving season has begun at Rockeman Herefords. As of this morning we have 10 calves - only 310 or so to go!
As I have stated on here before, I have the night shift. For the 30 years that Mark & I have been married it has been my shift. I go out around 3 AM to check the herd. My three guys check the rest of the time (I do help sometimes). We are not strict with this schedule - sometimes it is worse. For example, we had a few nights this week when the overnight temperature was 15 below or colder AND windy. Those nights we checked every hour or two. Newborn calves could freeze their ears and lose them - or worse, freeze their hooves and never be able to walk - or even worse, freeze to death. Another reason we need to check on the herd throughout the day and night is to make sure none of the females are having trouble with their delivery. There are times when the rancher(s) need to assist with the delivery or have a veterinarian help. As you can see, calving season is a full time job (24/7) for everyone here.
This morning I happened to also take the 7 AM check. The sun was just coming up. The moon just going down. I just had to grab my camera.
Some of the cattle enjoying the sunshine.
The cattle can also go into a barn. As I was checking the cattle on the hillside, I could hear a soft moo-ing sound coming from the barn. I was certain I would find a newborn calf in there - or a female calving. Sure enough, I looked around the corner into the barn and I found this.
There were other moms-to-be in the barn too. No more babies, so back to the house I can go.
We will move the new pair up to another barn to be with other new moms and calves. We like to get them in where we can watch them closer and they will be warmer. We feel it is important to watch them closer when it is their first calf (that is who is calving now at our place). We need to make sure the calf is being mothered (loved by mom) and gets that colostrum (first milk with the extra antibodies).
Later we will give each calf it's name - an ear tag with it's individual number. I have written about the various jobs we do after a calf is born including record keeping, weighing and tagging.
We are part of a new church plant. It is exciting. It is scary. It is a lot of work. We have always attended a very traditional church in our small town. Sadly, due to lack of attendance and money, that church closed this past spring. Our new church is very slowly getting going and we do church different! We don't have a building to meet in so we currently meet in a local pub (it is closed when we meet on Sunday mornings). We have evening Bible Study once a week at a newly opened coffee shop named Gathering Grounds (seems appropriate, doesn't it?). We have been doing various community things too. Some of the things we have done is to pick up garbage in our new town and in the little town we used to meet at. We have participated in a local BBQ Ribfest (contest) and donated the proceeds to a local fellow fighting cancer. Currently, we are working on hosting a community Thanksgiving meal. We are planning to feed about 300 people a complimentary, traditional Thanksgiving meal. It is fun to be part of these adventures.
We have a little something for folks to eat and drink before we start our morning worship service. This week was our family's turn to host. I received a number of compliments for this so thought I would share it with you.
Put one tube of crescent rolls on bottom of 9"X13" pan. Mix cheese, egg and sugar together well. Spread in pan. Top with other tube of rolls. Top with cinnamon and sugar. Bake for 30 minutes at 350 degrees.
I think it is best served warm, but it isn't bad when chilled either!
We had some timely rains and temperatures were cool when the crops were flowering (that helps with the yield). So, the crops look pretty good. Because of the cooler temps it has taken longer to get things to ripen and dry in order to harvest. Patience.
We were finally able to get into the field. We had about 200 acres of Yellow Peas to combine. Ours ran about average while our son's ran better. Guys got that all done. They moved on to the Winter Wheat. We are shut down now for a few days as we had some more rain. It seems like the Winter Wheat is yielding pretty good but we have heard reports that the elevators don't even want to take it due to very poor quality. I have not taken a sample of ours to the elevator to see how ours is. The elevator (local business used to market our crop) has special equipment to test the quality of the grain. Brett can see that there are some kernels with a bit of mold (Vomitoxin and Egret) which hurts the cash value of the crop considerably.
Another problem we have had concern about is the water. Some of our sloughs (wet areas) have grown over the summer. Usually they dry up and we then hay them in the fall. Yes, we had quite a bit of rain this year. Many of the rural roads are in poor condition due to so much water along them for so long - that softens the road bed. There are concerns of how to get our equipment to fields and the crop hauled out of the fields.
We found out just how wet one field was when the combine got stuck. The operator was working his way back to the trucks to unload the hopper (location on combine to store grain) when he got too close to the edge of a slough. The water had come up so far that you can't even see the edge as the wheat is standing in water.
A couple of looks at the tires in mud. It doesn't look too bad.
However, when you realize that there is about 15,000 pounds (abt 250 bushels) of Winter Wheat in the hopper and, since this was on a side hill, that had slid down to the lower side, we have a problem.
So, we got a truck to back up alongside the back of the combine. We could then unload some of the grain from the hopper. After doing this twice, we were able to pull the combine out using one of our tractors.
And it was back to harvesting - after eating our dinner which was now cold! We finished that field and moved on to the next one. The day ended with a break down on the combine and more rain.
Mark & I have been married for 30 years and have two grown sons. We are happy that our sons have joined our business so we/they can keep it going for a 4th generation.
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Q: Which country in Europe offers Macbook Air 13" with US keyboard (with wide enter)? I would like to buy a Macbook Air, but I don't like the small and narrow Enter (return) key, small left Shift and the extra keys that you can buy in Czech stores/eshops that sell Apple products.
This is what I do NOT like:

And this is what I want:

I really hate the small Enter and the small left Shift and the extra keys. Could somebody help me where in Europe (which country) or maybe in nearby regions (North Africa, Israel or maybe some country in the Middle East) can I buy Macbook Air 13" with US keyboard?

A: What about store.apple.com?

I have bought two Macs with a US keyboard from the Finnish store. US means the standard US layout with a single row return key. The International English and UK layouts have a two row return key.
You can probably get them from eBay as well.

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Pelicans Guard Shot Dead After Breaking Into Dallas Apartment: Dallas Police
Agent Scott W. Nichols said Dejean-Jones was in the wrong place at the wrong time
By Jamie Weiss	• Published May 28, 2016 • Updated on May 31, 2016 at 6:15 am
Bryce Dejean-Jones, a guard for the New Orleans Pelicans, was fatally shot after he kicked down the door of a Dallas apartment early Saturday morning, police said.
According to police, officers were called to the Camden Belmont apartment complex on the 2500 block of Bennett Avenue at 3:20 a.m. regarding a shooting.
The resident of the apartment, whose identity was not released, was sleeping when he heard a man, identified as 23-year-old Bryce Dejean-Jones, breaking down the front door, police said.
The resident, armed with a handgun, called out and heard no response. As Dejean-Jones kicked open the bedroom door, the resident fired his gun, police said.
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Dejean-Jones left the apartment and collapsed. He was later brought to a hospital and pronounced dead from a gunshot wound, according to the police statement.
Agent Scott W. Nichols said Dejean-Jones was in the wrong place at the wrong time.
"Bryce was visiting his girlfriend in Dallas for his daughter's 1st birthday. This was the first time Bryce visited her new apartment," Nichols said in a statement. "Later that night, Bryce came back to the apartment. Incidentally he went to the wrong apartment on the third floor just below his girlfriends fourth-floor apartment. He was attempting to enter the apartment which led to him ultimately being in the wrong place at the wrong time. Bryce was then shot and killed."
The New Orleans Pelicans, in a press release, said the team is "devastated" over the loss of Dejean-Jones.
"It is with deep sadness that the Pelicans organization acknowledges the sudden passing of Bryce Dejean-Jones. We are devastated at the loss of this young man's life who had such a promising future ahead of him. Our thoughts and prayers are with Bryce's family during this difficult time." [[381218631, C]]
Dejean-Jones signed a three-year contract with the Pelicans in February after joining the team in January on consecutive 10-day contracts.
In Dejean-Jones' only NBA season, which ended in February because of a broken right wrist, the 6-foot-6 guard started 11 of 14 games and averaged 5.6 points and 3.4 rebounds.
Nichols said Dejean-Jones had nearly completed his rehab and was set to begin shooting with his right hand again next week.
NBA Commissioner Adam Silver called it a "tragic loss."
"Bryce inspired countless people with his hard work and perseverance on his journey to the NBA, and he had a bright future in our league," Silver said in a statement issued Saturday.
National Basketball Players Association executive director Michele Roberts, who had posted a link to the story of Dejean-Jones' death on Twitter and wrote that it was "The news I pray every day I never have to hear," said "Bryce's dedication and hard work on his journey to the NBA will forever serve as an inspiration to us all."
Dejean-Jones was a part of the 2014-15 Iowa State team that went 25-9, captured a Big 12 title and made a fourth consecutive trip to the NCAA Tournament. He was fourth on the team in scoring, averaging 10.5 points in 33 games. He shot a career-best 47.6 percent in his lone season as a Cyclone.
"This is a very, very sad and tragic day for everyone that's a part of the Cyclone basketball family," Iowa State coach Steve Prohm said.
Former Cyclones coach Fred Hoiberg, now the coach of the NBA's Chicago Bulls, added in a statement that Dejean-Jones was a "passionate and talented player that lived out his dream of playing in the NBA through hard work and perseverance."
He also played college ball at the University of Southern California and the University of Nevada, Las Vegas.
Dejean-Jones was suspended late in the 2013-14 season from UNLV for conduct detrimental to the team, and announced that he was leaving USC midway through the 2010-11 season.
Several NBA players reacted to news of Dejean-Jones' death on Twitter Saturday.
"Crazy how life is man," wrote Brooklyn Nets guard Shane Larkin. "Prayers out to Bryce Dejean Jones and his family."
Quincy Pondexter, one of Dejean-Jones' teammates with the Pelicans, said "This Can't be real life... Rest easy lil bro."
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Geek Girls Rule! #270 – Geek Girl Con 2013!!!!! – Geek Girls Rule!!!
Geek Girls Rule! #270 – Geek Girl Con 2013!!!!!
I love this convention so much!!!!! And this year I got to be a panelist! We did Fat Girl, Fat Fan Saturday during the masquerade, and still nearly filled the room. It was so wonderful!!! The other panelists, Teka Englund who organized it, Haviva Avirom, Rachelle Abellar, and Jo Jo Stiletto were AMAZING! The audience was incredible!!! I met so many amazing people because of this panel! Including Kelly DeConnick, who was super awesome!!!
Gods, the back to reality blues are going to hit me hard on Monday. They always do after a really awesome con experience.
Anyway, I will talk more about what happened on the panel later, right now I want to share pictures of some of the awesome costumes I saw this weekend!
Let's start with this awesome Black Widow and Hawkeye.
I'm pretty sure she's in Mass Effect armor, while he's rocking the Hello Kitty Halo armor. Correct me if I'm wrong.
There was a little Wonder Woman.
And one who was all grown up.
A very awesome, and reportedly comfy, Misty Knight as Captain Marvel.
This Captain America was promoting SCIENCE!!!!!
This Captain America KNITTED her costume!!! So awesome!!!!
You can visit Darth Makenna's Facebook here.
I met Batgirl, Kitty Pryde with Lockheed, and Deadpool.
A gender-flipped X-men complete with Sabretooth, Cyclops, Rogue, Gambit, Phoenix and Wolverine.
Bane, Captain Marvel, Catwoman and SuperGirl are members of Comic Book Characters for Causes. More on them later.
Geek Girl Con makes me so god damned happy! It's amazing to walk into a space coded "Nerd" and have it be majority female. It's just amazing and incredible, and it nearly moves me to tears because this is what representation feels like. I always have a fantastic time, and meet so many awesome women.


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Review by Ciaran Dean-Jones, The University of Virginia
The Early Morning of War: Bull Run, 1861
By Edward G. Longacre
Norman: Univ. of Oklahoma Press, 2014. Pp. xviii, 662. ISBN 978–0–8061–4498–6.
Descriptors: Volume 2015, 19th Century, US Civil War Print Version
In The Early Morning of War, Edward Longacre (formerly Historian of the US Department of Defense) offers a corrective examination of the First Battle of Bull Run (21 July 1861), with acute character evaluations of the commanders involved in the fighting. Long albeit engaging narrative sections are punctuated by moments of keen analysis. The author skillfully shifts perspectives as the battle unfolds, telling the story of the battle from both sides. Most importantly, he expressly indicates points on which he is challenging or concurring with the arguments of other historians.
Discussing Union Gen. Irwin McDowell's checkered disciplinary history at West Point, Longacre writes that "the fact that in his first-class year he ranked 190 out of a class of 218 cadets on the conduct roll hints at a propensity to take risks that has gone undetected or overlooked by scholars" (9). This propensity may have caused McDowell to order a forward movement of artillery at Henry Hill without sufficient infantry support. This fateful order proved catastrophic for the Union, since the consequent capture of its artillery, argues Longacre, "changed the course of the battle and made its denouement inevitable" (395).
Though Longacre acknowledges such mistakes, he is not universally critical of the Union commander. Speaking of Gen. Winfield Scott's decision to place McDowell at the head of the Army of Northeastern Virginia (later, the Army of the Potomac) in 1861 and the "nervous energy" that caused McDowell "to flush," Longacre writes:
These were behavioral issues, however, not flaws of character. Other qualities seemed more important: McDowell had a solid background in military affairs, was intensely loyal, and appeared to have the strong support of General Scott. The integrity and earnestness he habitually displayed could not fail to impress his civilian superiors, many of whom came to see him as a soldier of vitality and intellect with a vision for dealing with those who would destroy the Republic. In Washington in April 1861, such men were in short supply. (21)
Confederate Gen. Joseph E. Johnston receives similarly perceptive treatment: "Johnston's persona was multifaceted; most of his associates glimpsed a single side of it" (54). Some subordinates commented on his intellectual prowess and sense of humor, "others perceived a darker side," manifest in "his inherent moodiness and hair-trigger temper" (55). Johnston's perfectionism led to friction with Gen. P.G.T. Beauregard, who had taken command of the Confederate defenses at Bull Run after his capture of Fort Sumter. Having evacuated the Shenandoah Valley and assumed overall command of Beauregard's line, Johnston never seemed satisfied with his subordinate's preparations.
While his inordinate concern for his own prestige may not have set Johnston apart from other Civil War generals, Longacre highlights this facet of his character by describing his refusal to fire during a hunting excursion for fear of compromising his reputation as a marksman. He uses such anecdotes both to enliven his narrative and to set up later analysis. Johnston had vacillated over whether to evacuate Harpers Ferry, a position he considered untenable, and wanted explicit authorization from either Gen. Robert E. Lee or Confederate President Jefferson Davis.
[Johnston] realized his decision to withdraw might have serious consequences for his career in the Confederate service, and he wanted to protect his reputation. Here was the Johnston of old—the crack shot and hesitant hunter, reluctant to pull the trigger, to exercise judgment and take action, for fear it might harm him professionally if something went awry or looked blameworthy. Only if higher authority accepted the responsibility would he act. (119)
Longacre criticizes Confederate Adjutant General Samuel Cooper for failing to recognize this shortcoming in Johnston. Cooper had ordered him to leave the Valley and support Beauregard "if practicable." "To any man chronically reluctant to pull the trigger," comments Longacre, "to commit himself to a course fraught with uncertainty and dire repercussions, Cooper's words offered an excuse for avoiding precipitate action" (231). Ultimately, though, Cooper cannot be convicted of any irredeemable mistakes; when pressed, Johnston did decamp for Manassas Junction.
Well captured here is the unique character of Gen. Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson, whose host of idiosyncrasies led some to call him "crazy as a March hare" (66). He insisted, for example, on taking his meals standing up in order to aid digestion. He constantly sucked on lemons and abjured pepper, afraid it would cause his leg to ache. He wrapped himself in wet blankets before falling asleep in order to fight dyspepsia. But in evoking such quirks of character, Longacre never loses sight of the Virginian's qualities as a field commander:
Habitually clad in the sun-bleached blue coat and yellowish cap he had worn at VMI, outwardly Jackson was anything but a model soldier. To some he was awkwardness personified. His future staff officer Henry Kyd Douglas claimed that "from riding a horse to handling a pen, [he was] the most ungraceful man in the army." Only in battle would he rise above physical and emotional peculiarities to achieve greatness through a dazzling display of valor, tenacity, tactical ability, and an unwavering commitment to victory. Seemingly composed of equal parts stolidity and excitability, he was described by Richmond editor John W. Daniel as "Bessemer steal and electricity combined." (66)
The narrative goes beyond a bird's-eye view of the battle to clarify its significance within the larger context of the war. Of the Confederate volunteers who formed most of Beauregard's command at Bull Run, the author writes that "Three verities sustained them: the coming struggle would be brief, the battle to be fought along Bull Run would be decisive, and the cause of Southern nationhood would prevail" (84). The most controversial assertion in the book comes in Longacre's assessment of the Southern will to fight. After a perfunctory mention of states' rights and the institution of slavery, he declares that "For most Southerners in arms, … the main incentive to fight, one easily understood and keenly felt, was the desire to protect their homes, their families, and their communities against invasion" (85).[1] Whether this characterization of the Confederate rank-and-file is accurate is beyond the ken of this book.
If Southerners were motivated primarily by a desire to protect hearth and home, the soldiers in McDowell's Army of Northeastern Virginia enlisted mostly out of boredom. Longacre's contrast between the foot soldiers of the two armies is not altogether favorable for the Union:
Unlike Southerners, who had overriding personal reasons for taking up arms, McDowell's recruits had a variety of reasons for joining up. Not all enlisted with the goal of whipping the scoundrels down south. Elnathan Tyler of the 3rd Connecticut was typical of those who regarded war as an adventure, a release from the humdrum of life in a small town. "I never fully made up my mind," he later confessed, "whether I enlisted out of simon pure patriotism or not.… Many of my mates were going, business was dull, I was young and ready to go in for anything new or exciting." Thrilling stories of warfare, digested in boyhood, had induced thousands of youngsters to join McDowell's ranks. "We were all young then," a member of the 2nd Michigan wrote after the war, "and the imagination was more active, the ambitions were greater.… Every man carried a baton in his knapsack and Hope, the enchantress, was clad in the most roseate hues." (97–98)
Longacre stresses that First Bull Run dispelled such facile assumptions in the North and convinced the Lincoln administration that the Civil War would be a prolonged conflict demanding social, economic, and political revival.
After McDowell's removal from command, Gen. George B. McClellan was called in from western Virginia, where he had won several skirmishes.
Willing and able to learn from his predecessor's mistakes, McClellan would not take the field at the head of the newly christened Army of the Potomac until many months of training turned raw recruits into soldiers who viewed war as a dirty job that had to be done rather than a glorified militia muster or an exercise in the manly arts…. The outcome of the war's first campaign would give the president and his political and military subordinates a mandate to wed the people of the North to an effort capable of changing the political, cultural, economic, and moral fabric of the country. (498, 501)
The North soon realized it would have to use to the full its vast reserves of manpower and stark advantage in manufacturing to bring the secessionists back into the Union.
Longacre assigns most of the blame for the Union defeat at Bull Run to Gen. Robert Patterson, the Pennsylvanian tasked with keeping Johnston in the Shenandoah Valley while McDowell confronted Beauregard at Bull Run. "Patterson's failure to hold the Army of the Shenandoah to its Valley home created a dramatic reversal of fortune for the forces vying for supremacy along Bull Run" (431). Conventional wisdom holds that McDowell's battle plan was "well thought out and eminently workable" (151), but that, misled by the assurances of General Scott, he was too confident of Patterson's willingness to engage the Confederate forces in the Valley. Before entraining along the Manassas Gap Railroad, Johnston's army had bivouacked at Winchester, anticipating an assault by Patterson, who instead marched his army to nearby Charles Town, avoiding an engagement altogether. "Scott paid little or no attention to this matter, casually assuming that his Mexican War subordinate would accomplish a complex and difficult mission without sufficient oversight and unambiguous orders from Washington" (151–52). "If Patterson could not be enticed to offer battle when … he outnumbered the Valley Confederates three-to-one," writes Longacre, "he must lack the nerve and determination needed in a field commander" (168). Failure to keep Johnston in the Shenandoah Valley had grim repercussions for the Union forces who tried to capture Henry Hill on 21 July.
The author does cut Patterson some slack: "One of the excuses [Patterson] offered provides legitimate motive for shying away from contact…. This was his inability to rely on the will of his soldiers to serve beyond the imminent termination of their enlistment periods" (184). But this does little to exonerate Patterson. His role was to harry, not overwhelm, Johnston's men. Longacre more persuasively defends him by faulting Scott for his ambiguous orders. Initially, believing Patterson had removed to Charles Town in preparation for a pursuit of Johnston, Scott telegraphed his approval of the movement without explicitly stating his expectations. He did little to spur his timid subordinate to action. "This was a manifest injustice, for while General Scott could not have been attuned to every limitation and flaw in Patterson's constitution, he should have been skeptical that the man could be trusted to execute given orders promptly and properly" (248).
Longacre's most original contribution to the scholarship on First Bull Run is his criticism of historians who have lauded Johnston's decision to remove his men via the Manassas Gap line from Piedmont Station in the Shenandoah to Beauregard at Manassas Junction, which raised the force Johnston commanded at Bull Run to over thirty thousand effectives. Longacre insists that an overland march would have been even more beneficial to the Confederates.
Generations of scholars have cited the Manassas Gap Railroad's ability to get enough of Johnston's men to Manassas in time for action as critical to the outcome of the first large land battle of the conflict. It would seem, however, that too much importance has been placed on the value of the troop transfer by rail. It is true that Johnston's men moved glacially after leaving Winchester (it took Johnston's men eighteen hours to cover the twenty-three miles to Piedmont Station), but had they maintained that pace the rest of the way, they would have reached Beauregard in time to join the fight. In fact, had Johnston's army marched the thirty-four miles to Beauregard's headquarters in a little over twenty-four hours—which would have been entirely possible even with periodic rest halts—[Edmund Kirby] Smith's brigade could have reached Manassas by sundown on the twentieth or shortly afterward. The latest arrivals still would have enjoyed some hours to rest and regain their stamina before being committed to battle. And if fatigued when the shooting started, the accompanying adrenalin rush would have quickly restored their physical and emotional strength. (266–67)
Whether or not Longacre's estimates are correct (the entire book is, to some extent, a consideration of past counterfactuals), his skepticism of the removal via the Manassas Gap line distinguishes him from previous historians.
Longacre also rectifies a misconception, less prominent among recent historians, concerning the civilian spectators at the Battle of Bull Run. "A majority … appear to have come not to indulge a fascination with war or an obsession with death and destruction, but to witness history in the making." Some had personal ties to the combatants. "Parents and spouses of soldiers in the fight included the anxious wife of Colonel [Israel B.] Richardson and the elderly father of two members of General [Daniel] Tyler's 1st Ohio Infantry…. Even so, the image of a bacchanal just off the battlefield would outrage public opinion North and South" (309). Nor did the civilian spectators exacerbate the skedaddle that followed McDowell's withdrawal. Quoting John Hennessy,[2] Longacre writes that "'the panic was a military, not a civilian event…. The civilians in fact affected (or were affected by) events that day very little indeed….' The majority of spectators left the battlefield in orderly fashion before the real terror set in" (469).
Such novel perspectives, together with an engaging if somewhat involved narrative of the tactical dynamics of the First Battle of Bull Run, will please and instruct any reader with an interest in the diplomatic and military history of the Civil War.
[1] Cf. James M. McPherson, Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era (NY: Oxford U Pr, 1988) 311: "A Confederate soldier captured early in the war put it … simply. His tattered homespun uniform and even more homespun speech made it clear that he was not a member of the planter class. His captors asked why he, a nonslaveowner, was fighting to uphold slavery. He replied: 'I'm fighting because you're down here.'"
[2] "War-Watchers at Bull Run," Civil War Times Illustrated 40 (Aug 2001) 69, 72.
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TIJUANA, Mexico (Reuters) - Thousands of Central American migrants spent weeks traveling north through Mexico in caravans, walking and hitching rides when possible, only for many to give up hope and turn back when they met resistance at the U.S. border.
"Getting asylum is really difficult," she said. "They ask you for a lot of evidence and it's impossible. It's not like they say it is."
Other migrants face the same dilemma. Of 6,000 who arrived in Tijuana in the caravans last month, 1,000 have scrambled over border fences, and most of those were detained, the head of Mexico's civil protection agency David Leon told local media on Wednesday.
Under former President Barack Obama a system dubbed "metering" began, which limits how many can ask for asylum each day in Tijuana. Lawyers say Trump is using the system more aggressively to stem the flow at the port of entry.
Mexico's National Immigration Institute, which did not respond to requests for comment, has said in the past it protects migrants rights, while respecting other countries' immigration policies.
"They say, though I don't know, that asylum is for people that don't want to go back to their country, and I do want to go back," she said.
"It's really difficult to cross, because of what happened last time. I don't want to put my children in danger," she said, referring to disturbances in which U.S. officials launched tear gas at migrants last month.


Once upon a time, there was a grand old mulberry tree. Then a parking lot rolled over its roots and it nearly died. But that mulberry would not give up. It sent up suckers and continues to bear fruit to this day for all those lucky enough to know it's edible.
To identify a mulberry tree, look for three distinct leave shapes.
During their fruiting season, they will have berries in all stages of ripeness along their branches.
When the berries are ripe, they will turn a dark (you won't believe this) mulberry color and will nearly fly off the branches when touched.


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A child's bones are discovered near the site of a pre-historic henge on the north Norfolk coast, and the police ask local forensic archaeologist Ruth Galloway to date them. Are these the remains of a local girl who disappeared ten years ago?
DCI Harry Nelson refuses to give up the hunt for this missing child. Ever since she vanished, someone has been sending him bizarre anonymous notes about ritual sacrifice, quoting Shakespeare and the Bible. He knows Ruth's instincts and experience can help him finally put this case to rest.
Then a second child goes missing, and Ruth finds herself in danger from a killer who knows she's getting ever closer to the truth.


All water-based activities have been banned for a Laidley lake after high levels of bacteria were detected in the water.
A NUMBER of hospitals in our region have tested positive.
WE know trains are dirty, but researchers have taken a look at the bacteria you can get during your daily commute.


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Posted on September 1, 2020 by Nick Holmes
Review – Manchester Collective: Recreation
A dangerous journey through a magical forest
Recreation is released on 4 September 2020 on the Bedroom Community label
Manchester Collective were last heard playing in public on 14 March (see review here) the final date of their Cries and Whispers tour. It may be a little while before we are able to enjoy their electrifying and fiercely intimate live performances in person again. In the meantime they are about to release a new EP, Recreation. This is the first of a series of recordings on the Bedroom Community, the Icelandic record label/collective formed in 2006 described by Drowned in Sound as 'the best record label in the whole of Iceland and maybe even the entire world'.
The title 'Recreation' presumably has a double meaning here – the EP creates pleasure in a recreational sense, but also recreates the music of Bach and Vivaldi in a contemporary context.
The Collective describe listening to the EP as like 'picking up something warm, soft and familiar, and pricking your finger'. So the familiar warmth of Vivaldi's 'Summer' from the Four Seasons' is savagely punctured by Bartókian night music from György Ligeti's first string quartet Métamorphoses nocturnes. The Collective's music director, Rakhi Singh, describes the experience as 'like being in a forest, where light and shade alternate…full of life but also dark and mysterious'. It's an apt description; the EP is a dangerous journey through a magical forest.
The Prologue begins with a burst of electronic noise which very soon metamorphoses into a dreamlike rendition, heavily drenched in reverberation, of Bach's chorale Du großer Schmerzensmann BWV 300 which describes the agony of Christ on the cross. The voices come into focus, as if the dream is turning into reality, and the strings of the Collective appear out of the mist, playing a gently-falling motif written by Paul Clark. The music gathers energy and pace and we are thrown into the icy landscape of Vivaldi's Winter from his Four Seasons. As Rakhi Singh told Valgeir Sigurðsson in a recent interview, 'Baroque music can be so vivid and electrifying, so colourful', and the playing of the Collective exemplifies this – you can just imagine the absorbed concentration of the players as they watch each intently as they play.
The bitter cold of Winter ends and The First Day of Summer takes us to an excerpt from Vivaldi's Summer from the Four Seasons. The drowsiness of long summer days is beautifully expressed by the languid playing of the Collective, which suddenly explodes into bright, vivid and sparkling sunlight, with virtuosic solo playing from Rakhi Singh.
The scurrying strings of the Vivaldi are brutally mirrored in the excerpts from Ligeti's first String Quartet, in Métamorphoses Nocturnes – First and Second Vignettes. This is where the Collective excels, finding links between musical genres and styles that are apparently unrelated, bringing new light and meaning to each. From the Baroque elegance of Vivaldi we are thrown into the nightmarish world of the 'night music' used by Béla Bartók in many of his pieces, particularly his String Quartets and orchestral pieces such as Music for Strings, Percussion and Celesta. But in this recording Ligeti and Vivaldi feed off one another, so that Vivaldi gains some of the urgent modernity of Ligeti, and in return Ligeti gains some of the Baroque grace of Vivaldi.
The two Ligeti Vignettes are linked by a short, skilfully-written Interlude written by Paul Clark.
Finally, in the Last Day of Summer we are back with Vivaldi's Summer, with a close-miced and raw in production, always living on the edge, making regular listeners long for the intimacy of live performances at the White Hotel in Salford where the audience is so close to the performers that the can read their music over their shoulders.
Hopefully this EP will be the beginning of a long a fruitful relationship between Manchester Collective and the Bedroom Community. It is certainly a thrilling start, that fully captures the visceral excitement of the Collective's live performances.
Métamorphoses Nocturnes – First Vignette
Métamorphoses Nocturnes – Second Vignette
Brendan Williams – Production, Recording/Mix Engineer
Adam Szabo – Producer
Doug Hemingway – Assistant Recording Engineer
Valgeir Sigurðsson – Mastering
Helenskià Collett – Album Artwork
Rakhi Singh – Solo Violin/Music Director
Caroline Pether – Violin
Will Newell – Violin
Helena Buckie – Violin
Steve Proctor – Violin
Will McGahon – Violin
Ruth Gibson – Viola
Kimi Makino – Viola
Kay Stephen – Viola
Peggy Nolan – Cello
Will Hewer – Cello
Sam Becker – Double Bass
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Summary In this interior view of a bedroom in the Healy House Museum, on the northwest corner of Harrison Avenue and East Tenth Street in Leadville, Colorado, is a room with patterned wall paper and carpet and a rocker with an upholstered back and a seat with wood trim and spindles placed in front of a wooden fireplace. A clock and pictures are on the mantle and a framed painting of a horse hangs above it. A round table with tablecloth is in the center of the room with a basket and a large book on top. Behind the table is a framed portrait and a bed with a high headboard. In the far corner stands a tall dresser and a wide frame of oval matted portraits. The house was built in 1878 by August Meyer and became the First Methodist Episcopal Church parsonage, then the home of Patrick A. and Ellen Healy Kelly who transferred ownership to her brother, Daniel Healy. His cousin, Nellie, occupied the house and then donated it to the Leadville Historical Association. It was restored by the National Youth Administration and was presented to the State Historical Society in 1947.
Subject Leadville (Colo.); Bedrooms--1880-1920; Houses--Colorado--Leadville; Interiors; Healy House State Museum.


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ABOUT THE AUTHOR -
Michael Steven Sheane is now in his seventies, and was educated mainly at Orange's Academy, Belfast, and attended Trinity College, Dublin. Orange's Academy was a small private school of mixed Catholics and Protestants in the centre of the city. A lot of his time was spent living in Ballygally on the Antrim Coast, Northern Ireland. In the past he has contributed widely to press, radio and television in Ulster. He spent six years at BRMB Radio, Birmingham where he was Ireland political correspondent. Michael is presently researching books and articles on selected areas of Scotland that in the past have been connected with the North of Ireland. He is now publishing this, his latest book, The Picts: The Painted People, set in the Highlands of Scotland.
THE CELTIC SUPERNATURAL
The Celts believed that the supernatural pervaded their lives and surroundings. Magic and the observance of rituals dominated their lives, and consequently their magician caste – the Druids – held a position in society above even kings. The Druids' role was critical, providing a link between the Celtic people and the supernatural world.
Yet the Druids kept no written record. Their rituals and observances were passed on orally. Roman and early church historians considered them too barbarous or heathenish to merit detailed examination.
We turn therefore to the archaeological record, where, from an abundance of Celtic sites, from Ireland to La Tène, our knowledge of their belief system continues to grow.


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Transport & Travel	• 10 Apr 2017
Uber banned in Italy due to 'unfair competition'
Read next#SouthAfricaIn3Words: one complex country, one complex hashtag
Uber has been deemed "unfair competition" and is barred from operating in Italy, a Rome judge ruled Friday.
The company is not able to use its Black, Lux, Suv, X , XL, Select, and Van cars in the country, nor is it allowed to advertise its services.
Conflict between Uber and Italian taxi services turned legal in 2015, when locals argued that they are unable to compete with the app.
"This is the fourth ruling by an Italian judge that ascertains Uber's unfair competition," lawyers for Italy's top taxi association said in a statement to Corriere della Sera. "[It's] the latest battle in a legal war that began in 2015 to stop the most striking form of unfair competition ever registered on the Italian local public transportation market."
The main argument was that though Uber is a transportation company, it does not abide by transportation laws. Whereas as taxi associations' rates are determined by the transportation authority, Uber has been functioning on its own terms — leaving locals unable to compete with its pricing.
The main argument was that though Uber is a transportation company, it does not abide by transportation laws
The company has made it clear it will be appealing the ruling, but it only has 10 days to do so. If it takes any longer, the company will be paying a fine of €10 000 every day it operates in the country illegally.
Uber: taxi unrest across the world
This ban comes a month after South African taxi drivers protested Uber's presence in the country by blocking off highways in Johannesburg. Drivers complained the app was stealing their business.
Uber drivers around the world have faced a good deal of violence from taxi associations, due in most part to frustration at the ease at which the company and its drivers are allowed to operate.
On top of the ban, the company has been met by many a public relations disaster in the past few months. CEO Travis Kalanick was criticised for his position on US President Trump's executive board, and has since pulled out. A former engineer detailed the institutional sexism at the company. Kalanick was further criticised for losing his temper with a driver. And The New York Times revealed last week that the company psychologically manipulates its drivers.
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Улица Мнёвники (часто ошибочно Мневники) — улица на западе Москвы в районе Хорошёво-Мнёвники Северо-Западного административного округа, проходит от площади Маршала Бабаджаняна до Карамышевского проезда (фактически до развязки на пересечении ул. Народного Ополчения и проспекта Маршала Жукова). Является частью Краснопресненского проспекта.

Происхождение названия
В 1965 году часть бывшего Хорошёвского шоссе получила название улица Мнёвники по расположению на месте, где некогда находилась деревня Мнёвники (иногда Менёвники), которая упоминается с XVII века. Расположение в излучине Москвы-реки дает основание предполагать связь названия бывшей деревни с русским диалектным словом «мень» — налим, возможно, через некалендарное личное имя. Менее вероятно предположение о специализации местных рыбаков на ловле рыбы мень, поскольку в Подмосковье обычны более общие названия по занятиям жителей: Ловцы, Рыболово, Рыбаки, а не по видам рыбы. В конце 1940-х годов деревня Мнёвники вошла в черту Москвы.

Расположение
Улица Мнёвники начинается от площади Маршала Бабаджаняна, где также сходятся Хорошёвское шоссе, проспекта Маршала Жукова и 3-я Хорошёвская, проходит на юго-запад, слева от неё отходит 2-й Силикатный проезд, затем она соединяется со Звенигородским шоссе, поворачивает на запад, становится продолжением шоссе и фактически частью большой магистрали (Краснопресненский проспект, название пока не устоялось). Улица Мнёвники пересекает улицу Демьяна Бедного и подходит к перекрёстку улицы Народного Ополчения и проспекта Маршала Жукова, после чего магистраль продолжается как часть этого проспекта, а улица Мнёвники продолжается чуть южнее и параллельно проспекту Маршала Жукова (раньше её отделял от проспекта зелёный рекреационный сквер), пересекает улицу Саляма Адиля и заканчивается у безымянного проезда, который соединяет её справа с Карамышевским проездом и Карамышевской набережной, а слева выходит на тот же проспект Маршала Жукова напротив улицы Генерала Глаголева.

Учреждения и организации
По нечётной стороне:
 № 1 — Московская городская организация Российского союза негосударственных охранных, детективных, учебных, технических, юридических, информационно-аналитических предприятий и служб безопасности (МГО РСПБ); Первый автокомбинат им. Г. Л. Краузе;
 № 7, корпус 1 — издательство «Мозаика-Синтез»; ГБУДО г. Москвы «Детская музыкальная школа имени Н. С. Голованова»;
 № 7, корпус 4 — детский сад № 1738 (для детей с нарушением опорно-двигательного аппарата);
 № 7, корпус 5 — школа № 1010;
 № 9, корпус 2 — детский сад № 2440;
 № 13, корпус 3 — детский сад № 1824;
 № 17, корпус 1 — Спецстройсвязь ГУП;

По чётной стороне:
 № 4 — колледж малого бизнеса № 48;
 № 10, корпус 1 — Центральная библиотека № 49 СЗАО;
 № 14, корпус 1 — школа № 100.

Достопримечательности

У дома 10, корп. 1 (также 3 и 4) был расположен Шинозавр — уникальный объект московского ЖКХ-арта, снесённый в 2022 году, несмотря на протесты жителей и обещания властей сохранить объект.

См. также
 Улица Нижние Мнёвники
 Северо-Западная хорда

Примечания

Ссылки
 Общемосковский классификатор улиц Москвы ОМК УМ

 Схема улицы

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Transform your non-macro lenses into a tool for professional-grade macro photography with the Movo Photo AF 25mm Macro Extension Tube to create the exact magnification you need to capture the perfect macro shot. The longer the tube length the closer the lens can focus.
The Movo Photo AF 25mm Macro Extension Tube gives you the tools to reproduce professional-style shots, just like you see in magazines in books. Extension tubes do not contain optics, they simply reduce the normal minimum focusing distance without degrading original optical quality. Conveniently maintain auto-focus at f/5.6 or brighter to ensure a great shot.
I recently got a Canon RP, and am using it with adapted EF lenses. I wanted to try extension tubes with the RF-EF adapter, but did not want to invest in an expensive extension tube set since I was unsure of whether the RF-EF adapter would work at all with any extension tubes (I had prior experience with the Sony E-mount to A-mount lens adapters not working with A mount extension tubes, so I didn't want to take too big a chance on the Canon versions).
Surprisingly enough, this inexpensive extension tube works perfectly with both EF lenses that I have tried it on when used with the RF adapter on the RP. I was actually shocked that it worked flawlessly.
One other nice thing; the interior of the adapter has some flocking material on it to keep internal reflections to a minimum, which I think works better than the fine lines cut into the barrel interior in many of the other adapters.
Since this is an all plastic device, I would probably not recommend it if you are hard on your gear, or use it extensively, but I would heartily recommend it for light use. I actually will probably get the metal mount version at some point, since I do use it extensively, and know that it will work well now on my system, after trying this one. However, for the time being, I am happy with this and extremely pleased that it works so well with the adapted lenses that I am working with now.


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Winter Escape: Island Hopping in the British Virgin Islands
By Terry Ward | January 11, 2019 | Lifestyle
From a berth aboard the roomy Moorings 5800 Legacy crewed catamaran in the British Virgin Islands, we discover that the worst hurricane season on record in 2017 can't keep a place this good down.
The Moorings 5800 Legacy sails through calm Caribbean waters in the British Virgin Islands.
When I first traveled to the British Virgin Islands, it was back in my shoestring, post-college days. With a group of friends, we planned a bareboat charter for a week, crewing and provisioning a sailboat for ourselves.
The islands were Oz-like—an emerald string of discovery where hopping from beach bar to snorkeling spot on repeat was our only aim. There was much camaraderie in sleeping under the stars on the deck to escape the nonair-conditioned quarters below and taking Navy showers to save fresh water. But every time I imagined passengers on a crewed yacht, I couldn't help but envy how the other half sailed.
So when I had the chance to return to the islands recently and let someone else do the provisioning and sailing aboard the Prodigious, one of The Moorings' 5800 Legacy crewed catamarans, I jumped.
Slightly east of Puerto Rico, the British Virgin Islands make up the sailing capital of the Caribbean. The area took an unprecedented hit from hurricanes Irma and Maria in 2017, and much of the destruction and recovery efforts are still in plain view. As we sailed out from The Moorings' base in Tortola, it was impossible to miss the mast of a sunken sailboat sticking out of the water in the harbor and scattered skeletons of downed vessels lining the shore. But the sailing charter business, so vital to the economy, was one of the quickest to bounce back after the hurricanes. I soon discovered that the joy in the British Virgin Islands is still very much in the journey and on the islands themselves.
Leisurely snorkeling excursions can be arranged while aboard the Moorings 5800 Legacy.
"It's easy, line-of-sight sailing, a tried-and-true recipe for a good time," said The Moorings charter captain Martin Street as we left on our six-night charter last June. Itineraries are usually pretty straightforward, hitting iconic spots like The Baths, Virgin Gorda and Jost Van Dyke.
From a pretrip questionnaire, the Prodigious' crew (including our captain, chef and steward) had gleaned that our group was into snorkeling and watersports, so every day included a stop or two to swim among parrotfish at submerged pinnacles or launch the stand-up paddleboards and sea kayaks along quiet shoreline. And during one stop arranged just for the scuba divers in our group, the captain met up with a local dive boat so we could explore the area's famous shipwrecks.
Onboard perks include six roomy, air-conditioned cabins for guest use (accommodating a total of 10 guests on crewed sailings and 13 on bareboat charters), including two above deck and four below, each with private bathrooms and showers. And the 5800s are notably the only crewed yachts in The Moorings' fleet with a dedicated steward on board to cater to your whims at sea and on land.
The 5800 is the only crewed yacht in The Moorings' fleet with a dedicated steward.
The greatest luxury, however, comes in dictating your own schedule and rhythm, which might mean asking the captain to change course and linger longer at a particularly lovely harbor or requesting the steward to procure a lobster dinner in a romantic corner of Anegada for a special occasion.
Days aboard the Prodigious passed in a blur of placid anchorages, lively beach bars and luminous coral reefs, with breaks for gourmet meals served at a shaded table astern. Lobster rolls, chai French toast and miso-glazed salmon were all on the menu during our charter, but each crew creates unique specialties on the 5800s, and guests can work with the chef in advance to cater to preferences. Evening's sacred ritual was sunset cocktails served by our steward on the flybridge and rooftop deck, with 360-degree views and plenty of room for everyone to spread out.
While many land-based accommodations in the British Virgin Islands are being rebuilt, traveling aboard the Moorings 5800 Legacy makes it easy to island hop in comfort and style. Wherever you step ashore, expect to find locals thanking you for visiting.
"In a way, it's like we've gone back to the old days a little bit, to the time when all you needed was a bar tacked together to have a good time," Street says. That, and a gorgeous crewed catamaran to carry you and nine of your friends around the islands in ultimate style. Five-night crewed yacht experience from $10,714, moorings.com
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28/09/2016 10:07 AM IST | Updated 28/09/2016 11:22 AM IST
The Day A Mob Forced 400 Infosys Employees To Get Off Their Buses And Walk Home
The company has filed a police complaint.
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A vehicle is set alight by pro-Karnataka activists as the Cauvery water dispute erupted following the Supreme Court's order to release water to Tamil Nadu, in Bangalore on September 12, 2016.MANJUNATH KIRAN/AFP/Getty Images.
Multinational company Infosys has filed a police complaint against a mob which forced about 400 of its employees from the Bengaluru office to get off 10 buses that were ferrying them and walk home, reports said.
The incident took place on 12 September, at the height of the agitation against the Supreme Court's mandate to the government of Karnataka to release water from River Cauvery to Tamil Nadu.
As incidents of violence and the burning of vehicles bearing Tamil Nadu registration numbers broke out in Bengaluru that day, the company had arranged for buses to transport its staff back home. But as the buses reached NICE Link Road, a crowd stopped them. It included the 22 people who had set fire to 40 buses in a parking yard off Mysuru Road, The Times of India reported.
The group also had C. Bhagya, a 22-year-old woman who was reportedly persuaded to join the protest on the promise of Rs 100 and a plate of biryani. The employees were asked to get off the buses without exception — differently-abled people and women were not spared — and asked to walk back home. Two women sustained serious injuries as the window shield of one of the buses was broken. Some of the men allegedly misbehaved with the women.
Police sources gave a chilling account of the incident that took place between PES College and NICE toll booth to TOI.
About 150-200 people, some of them drunk, stopped the buses and asked the passengers to speak in Kannada in order to ascertain if they were locals. They also asked them to join the protest.
"When some employees tried to reason out with the miscreants that it was late evening and they had a long way to go to reach home, things threatened to get out of hand. They smashed the window pane of a bus," sources said.
On a complaint from Infosys, the police have registered cases against the accused under different sections of the Indian Penal Code, including unlawful assembly (143), unlawful assembly with deadly weapon (144), rioting with deadly weapons (148), wrongful restraint (341), wrongful confinement (342), promoting enmity between different groups on grounds of religion, race, place of birth, residence, language (153-A), punishment of criminal conspiracy (IPC 120B) and Prevention of Destruction and Loss of Property Act of 1981. Some of the accused are already in custody, a few more will be arrested, police said.
Bengaluru has around 30,000 Infosys employees, many of whom are from outside the state. "While we take many measures to ensure their safety, we also have a reasonable expectation that the state will do its bit to protect them from troublemakers," read the company's complaint to the police, according to a report in Bangalore Mirror.
"As part of company policy, we are required to bring any incident concerning the well-being of our employees to the attention of the authorities, which was done in this case," Infosys also said to TOI.
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Rachel Beach
The Pursuit of Art, 2016
by Thomas Micchelli December 31, 2016 January 15, 2017
The first painting I saw in 2016 was "Cockman Always Rises Orange" (2015): we can't say we weren't warned.
The Work of Hands: Rachel Beach's 'Touchstone'
by Thomas Micchelli October 15, 2016 October 17, 2016
By foregrounding the schism between form and content, Rachel Beach is demonstrating the agitated unity of her handmade domain.
Going Meta: Art after the Death of Art
by Thomas Micchelli August 22, 2015 September 1, 2015
Terminology is slippery, and using it as the premise for an exhibition can be slipperier still. But the concept underlying Metamodern, a group show at Denny Gallery on the Lower East Side, actually holds the potential to enrich an already strong array of works with a few additional, if speculative, layers of meaning.
New York's Art World Assessing Impact of Hurricane Sandy [UPDATE 5]
Last night's major storm, which is currently being called post-tropical cyclone Sandy, delivered a wallop to New York, flooding neighborhoods across the region and shutting off power to large swathes of the metro area, including most of lower Manhattan and huge sections of New Jersey. The storm has caused extensive tree damage to the Tri-state area but it's worth noting that many art neighborhoods have also been impacted by flooding.
How to Be a Lady Painter
by Howard Hurst October 9, 2012 October 11, 2012
I think it's funny that Patricia Albers's recent and authoritative biography on Joan Mitchell was given the subtitle "Lady Painter." It's my only guess that Mitchell's lifestyle and her painting were so out of character for the time that the term becomes ironic. The artist was known for her camaraderie with Cedar Tavern macho dudes like de Kooning and Pollock, her hangout sessions with beatnik poets, her ability to party, and her tendency to drink and sleep around with bravado. At the time these activities and attitudes were thought to be reserved for men. Mitchell gradually carved out a space for her paintings to be given the same treatment.
Yo, Brooklyn Night Bazaar Starts Thurs Dec 15
by Hrag Vartanian December 14, 2011
We're very excited to be part of the Brooklyn Night Bazaar that starts tomorrow night in Williamsburg, Brooklyn and continues until Saturday (5pm to midnight). The large-scale night market in a 40,000 sq ft warehouse on Kent Avenue, between N5th and N6th Streets, will include over a hundred art, food, craft, merchandise and artisanal vendors of all kinds. The venue will also host concerts in a very trippy interior designed by hot Euro-designers JDS/Julien de Smeldt Architects. And Hyperallergic will be there!
Sculpture Today: A Discussion with Joy Curtis & Rachel Beach
by Hrag Vartanian March 18, 2011 March 23, 2011
On Wednesday, I wrote about two painting shows (Kristine Moran & Gianna Commito) that I felt shared an aesthetic connection. Today, I wanted to draw your attention to two sculpture shows on Ludlow Street by two artists who I've been following for years, Joy Curtis and Rachel Beach. Both artists make sculpture and their shows made me wonder what it must be like to be a sculptor today. I decided to interview them together via email in order to understand their work through their words. The following conversation took place this week.
Sculpture on the Edge, Socrates Park
by James Daniel November 9, 2010 November 8, 2010
Even on a cloudy day, it's beautiful to get an opportunity to look across the East River at Manhattan from Astoria, especially when the view remains unobstructed by buildings, warehouses, elevated tracks, and all that other urban detritus. Socrates Sculpture Park provides an extraordinary view that, in itself, is worth the trip, but also acts as a tremendous background to the art on display in the waterfront park.
While I walked through the park, taking pictures and studying the pieces, plenty of people used the space outside of looking at art. Some visitors used the park to play with their dogs, others to do aerobics, groups of kids came after school to avoid going home, and not one, but two people used the space to have long cell phone conversations redefining collapsing relationships.


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Werner Heads Outdoors
By R. THOMAS UMSTEAD
Former ESPN chief operating officer Roger Werner is returning to the cable-TV sports arena as president and CEO of The Outdoor Channel.
Werner will replace current CEO Perry Massie, who will retire in November. Along with Massie, he will sit on the Outdoor Channel Holdings board of directors.
Unclear is the future status of longtime channel president Andy Dale. Werner said he hopes Dale will stay with the company on a consulting and advisory basis.
Massie said Werner will bring a quantum leap in credibility when conducting carriage negotiations.
"He knows what the channel needs to look like on-air and he knows what the contracts need to look like to get a deal done," Massie said.
Werner takes over the 13-year-old hunting-and-fishing channel that only counts 27 million subscriber households. "We have a clean balance sheet, we have $50 million in cash, we have [27 million] subscriber homes, we have 10 years of brand equity in our editorial segment," he said. "What we're now going to do is to take it to the next level."
Werner said the network will "reinvest" in its cable and satellite relationships, although he would not specify any incentives Outdoor will offer to carriers.
The network will resist distribution on sports tiers. Given its low license fee — less than 10 cents, according to network officials — Werner said Outdoor is better positioned on a more broadly distributed tier.
"We don't underestimate the difficulties that operators face today with margin pressure, but sports-tier distribution is not a solution to that problem in this case."
While continuing to mine its core categories — in which Werner said Outdoor is the clear leader with the addition of more mainstream sports by Comcast's Versus, the former OLN — Warner noted that the network will commission additional programming outside those genres to broaden its audience.
"We don't plan to abandon in any significant way the existing hunting and fishing franchises, but we will try to supplement and improve the [programming] quality," he said.
Starting in 1982, Werner served as COO of ESPN for six years, before joining cable pioneer Bill Daniels to create the Prime Sports regional networks in the early 1990s.
After the sale of the networks to News Corp., Werner led SpeedVision, currently known as Speed Channel, and OLN from 1995 to 2001.
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rockbox aborts at the address 000090D0 (0) with build 19852 while playing any music file, the buffers all fill synchronously and the abort happens after they all fill.
Isn't this the same error you were getting earlier, that turned out to be file corruption on your device?
Also, please be more descriptive. Unless you've tested every audio format and encoding option Rockbox supports, "any file" may not be correct, so list details that can be used by others to reproduce (what settings you've changed, exact file types, etc). Also, this is a build you downloaded from our site, and not one you compiled yourself?
Which build tools did you use?
I'm having a very similar issue, but the address is slightly different (0x9040).
It happens when I browse the database and select <All tracks> in my "Various Artists" album artist node. In this node, the tracks are of different formats. Maybe the metadata gathering of the first unbuffered track is involved.
There were no file system errors on my microSD (checked with chkdsk) and a binary comparison to the "master" music directory on my PC also showed no differences, files work perfectly there).
If I remember correctly, amiconn also tracked it back to the add_handle function.
My error reads "Data Abort at 0000A634 (0)", if it helps.
in add_handle code. So "new_handle" seems to be invalid here.
My data abort is earlier. Using r19965 and e200, my data abort happens 0x947C.
And another note: Even though my playlist reproduces the data abort prefectly (after cold boot), the data abort disappears by just slightly altering the buffersize (e.g. by adding logf support, or disabling dircache and load to ram), or by resuming playback at a few seconds into the first track of the playlist instead of 0.
My observation is that the 6th track is just with very few bytes in the buffer and that the abort happens very quickly after track count goes to 6 . The data abort happens when buffering is finished. Possibly split seconds later (I could imagine that buffering the metadata of the first unbuffered track causes some failure).
However, this is not the case for Marianne's folder, so partial buffering seems not related.
This fixes the data abort for me (it makes sure new_widx is still 4byte aligned after changing it).
BUT: On the very album that causes the abort (without the patch), Rockbox doesn't stop boosting when buffering is finished. It unboosts normally on other albums. Maybe this is a hint on the real problem.
Can you look if the patch fixes it for you anyway?
im assuming this is for the e200?
The task is initially about the e200. c200 seems to be affected too. The patch I added is target independent at all.
2 things i forgot too mention; 1) the WPS i am using for this is freestate, from http://www.rockbox.org/twiki/bin/view/Main/WpsSansaE200#Free_State 2) my AA is all between 300 - 500 px tall/wide. And the patch didnt do much, just delayed the crash.
Gareth, can you please be more specific about your recent report? It doesn't really help me.
Using this patch, which does what Toni says (hopefully, at least), I get the same results. No abort, but continuous boosting. The 6th track isn't buffered too, while SVN does that and data aborts (r20010).
kugel, I am all for committing your latest patch. At least the data abort bug, which gets obvious with active AlbumArt, is fixed with this.
Well, given that the simple alignment correction fixes it for me too, I'm not sure if that's the correct fix.
I am all for the committing!


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Global investors warn Indonesia that jobs bill puts forests at risk
Reuters | Posted: Oct. 5, 2020, 10:26 a.m. | Updated: Oct. 5, 2020, 11:20 a.m. | 2 Min Read
By Matthew Green
LONDON (Reuters) - Global investors managing $4.1 trillion in assets have warned Indonesia's government that a contentious job creation bill passed by parliament on Monday could pose new risks to the country's tropical forests.
In a letter seen by Reuters, 35 investors expressed their concerns, including Aviva Investors , Legal & General Investment Management , the Church of England Pensions Board, Netherlands-based asset manager Robeco and Japan's largest asset manager, Sumitomo Mitsui Trust Asset Management.
"While we recognize the necessity for reform of business law in Indonesia we have concerns about the negative impact of certain environmental protection measures affected by the Omnibus Bill on Job Creation," Peter van der Werf, senior engagement specialist at Robeco, said in a statement.
With President Joko Widodo's coalition controlling 74% of seats, parliament passed the bill that the government says is needed to improve the investment climate and streamline regulations in Southeast Asia's biggest economy.
A coalition of 15 activist groups, including trade unions, have condemned the bill and called for a strike.
The investors said they feared the legislation could hamper efforts to protect Indonesia's forests, which would in turn undermine global action to tackle biodiversity loss and slow climate change.
"While the proposed regulatory changes aim to increase foreign investment, they risk contravening international best practice standards intended to prevent unintended harmful consequences from business activities that could deter investors from Indonesian markets," said the letter, sent hours before the bill was passed.
With concerns over environmental breakdown rising up the investor agenda, some asset managers have begun to take a more public stance in urging governments in developing countries to protect the natural world.
In a similar intervention in July, 29 investors managing $4.6 trillion wrote to Brazilian embassies to demand meetings to call on right-wing President Jair Bolsonaro's government to stop soaring deforestation in the Amazon rainforest.
(Reporting by Matthew Green; Editing by Ed Osmond)
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