It happens all the time. All cats are natural tree climbers, but when it is time to come down, some cats know how and some don't. Those that don't know how to come down are truly stuck.
Don't let your cat suffer any longer. If you are in the Baton Rouge, Louisiana area, give me a call or e-mail. I will rescue your cat, and it won't cost you a penny.
I rescue cats for free because I love cats, I hate suffering, and I don't want the cat to suffer just because someone can't pay. Besides, I am retired, so I have the time, and this does not take me away from a paying job. This is one way in which I am uniquely suited to reduce suffering, and it gives me great joy to do so.
It is very important to me that people know that I will rescue their cat even if they can't afford it. For this reason, I refuse any offer of payment even though I am very grateful for the gesture. If you want to give something, I encourage you instead to make a donation to Cat Haven or any other animal welfare organization of your choice.
If you are not in the Baton Rouge area, then be sure to check this Directory of cat rescuers all over the world. Chances are good that you will find someone there. If no one is listed for your immediate area, do not be afraid to call the ones closest to you. You may be surprised to learn how far some of the rescuers will go. Otherwise, they still might be able to help you find someone in your area. Failing that, call your local tree service companies. Many do not want to be bothered with cat rescues, but they still might be able to direct you to someone.
There are many ways to rescue a cat, and my goal is to do so in the least stressful manner possible. Every cat is different, and every tree is different. All rescue options will not be suitable in every case, but I will escalate to the next stress level only when the lower ones have failed or been deemed unsuitable. In the end, however, even a stressful rescue is much better than none at all.
I like to enlist the cat's cooperation as much as possible. Not only is that easier on the cat, it makes my job easier as well. I will use food to entice the cat to come closer to me or inside a carrier. Most cats that have been stuck in a tree for a day or more are very food-motivated, and many will readily walk into a carrier to get it. Some cats are so tired of being in the tree that they readily come to me begging for rescue without my enticing them with anything at all. But not every cat is so cooperative. Some will cooperate if I give them enough time to get used to me and see that I am not a threat. However, some cats, especially feral ones, may not cooperate at all and instead climb higher in the tree. Even so, I still have ways to rescue them.
I love cats, and I love trees too. I climb trees using ropes and professional climbing methods that do no harm to the tree. I never use spikes; I don't even own them.
First, there is a need for it. Cats continually get stuck in trees, and there are very few people who are willing and able to help. In some areas, there is no one who will rescue the cat, and people and their cats suffer needlessly as a result. I do it to help fill that void and reduce that suffering. Also, remember that when I rescue a cat, I am also rescuing at least one person as well. Sometimes, I rescue a whole family, including the children. The people who love the cat are often suffering more than the cat is, and it feels very rewarding to me to return that cat to their arms and relieve their suffering.
Consider watching one of these slideshows of my favorite images from my rescues, and I think you will understand just how meaningful and important this is both to the people and their cats.
Below this section are the stories of my two most recent rescues. For these and all the other individual rescue stories, see the Rescue Stories page. For a general overview, consider these yearly compilations of the best moments from all my rescues.


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Marcus Mariota might miss second straight game with elbow injury
Mandatory Credit: Christopher Hanewinckel-USA TODAY Sports
The Tennessee Titans might be without the services of starting quarterback Marcus Mariota in Week 3 against the Jacksonville Jaguars.
Mariota is still recovering from an elbow injury that's caused him to lose some feeling in his throwing hand. He missed last weekend's game — a stunning 20-17 win over the Houston Texans — and his status for Sunday's road game in Jacksonville is still undetermined.
Speaking about his young quarterback on Friday, head coach Mike Vrabel did say Mariota has slightly improved since last weekend but couldn't say if he'd be available this weekend.
"It is probably going to take the next 24 hours to make a decision," Vrabel said, via the team's official website. "It is pretty much the same as it's been since Wednesday. A little bit of improvement since last week."
The team's big win over Houston in Week 2 had less to do with Mariota's backup, Blaine Gabbert, than it had to do with defense and a spectacular special-teams play that proved the difference in the outcome.
Playing in both games this season, and starting last weekend, Gabbert has completed 57.1 percent of his passes for 234 yards with one touchdown and one interception.

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15 million people in Europe and 9 million in United States suffer with Chronic Bronchitis.2, 3, 4, 5
With Chronic Bronchitis the airways produce excess mucus resulting in chronic cough and shortness of breath.
Incidence & Prevalence
9 million people in the US and 15 million in Europe are living with Chronic Bronchitis2, 3, 4, 5
Chronic Bronchitis develops after exposure to cigarette smoke, vaping, secondhand smoke, airborne chemicals, and other pollution and irritants. Long-term exposure causes chronic inflammation, excess mucus production, and persistent cough.
Exposure to cigarette smoke, vaping liquid, or pollutants
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Fernandez-Bussy et al. Histopathologic Results Post Bronchial Rheoplasty. ATS 2019, Dallas, TX.
FastStats - Chronic Lower Respiratory Disease. Centers for Disease Control (CDC) / National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS) 2017; https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/fastats/copd.htm
Criner, G. Chronic Bronchitis: The Case for an Unmet Medical Need. ERS 2017, Milan, Italy
Health at a Glance: Europe (2012 and 2014 reports) http://www.oecd-ilibrary.org/social-issues-migration-health/health-at-a-glance-europe-2012_9789264183896-en
Cerveri, et al, Variations in the prevalence across countries of Chronic Bronchitis and smoking habits in young adults; Eur Respir J 2001; 18: 85–92
Kim et al. The Chronic Bronchitic Phenotype of COPD: An analysis of the COPD Gene Study CHEST 2011; 140(3):626–633
Global Strategy for the Diagnosis, Management and Prevention of COPD, Global Initiative for Chronic Obstructive Lung Disease (GOLD) 2017. Available from: https://goldcopd.org.
Valipour, A. et al. First-in-Human Results of Bronchial Rheoplasty: An endobronchial Treatment for Chronic Bronchitis. ATS 2019, Dallas, TX.
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Life church is hosting a Back to School Bash July 28 from 8 – 11 am. They will be giving away 500 free backpacks filled with school supplies. The event will be held at the old Larco building which is now a new Life Church Livingston Campus. The Overton County Anti-Drug Coalition will have a booth, along with bounce houses, an Apache helicopter maned by the Tennessee National Guard and much more.


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'We want a Scotland where children in care, feel their care is done with them, instead of to them' – help us, help them achieve this!
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Forget Mo Bamba. Forget Sheck Wes. This is the new jam and I'm not going to listen to anything else until the last dribble of the Texas Tech Season. In fact, just cancel the rest of the season; the Red Raiders have locked it up.
Texas Tech is the HOOOOOOMMMEEEEE of Basketball. Chris Beard Drip.
If Jarrett Culver and the squad have heard this song, Texas Tech by 40 over Duke. Book it.
Kansas is shaking in their dadgum boots right now that their Big 12 Championship streak is in jeopardy.
LET'S GO! You don't want this smoke.


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Q: Independency in cell culture experiment My question is related to the assumption of independence in observations between groups.
In brief: I use human cells from three different donors (n=3, three biological replicates). These are splitted into two groups by technical replication. One is receiving Treatment A and the other is receiving Treatment B. A series of dependent variables are assessed and in the end, I report and analyze the means comprised of Donor1, Donor2 and Donor3 for both treatments.
I know that applying statistics to small sample sizes are problematic and in worst case misleading. However, in this example it is mostly about understanding the two groups I compare.
The problem (as I see it) is that the group receiving Treatment A is not different (independent) from the group receiving Treatment B. This is due to the fact that the groups are just technical replicates from the same donor. When comparing the means of the two groups, I'm essentially comparing two groups containing the same cells (Treatment A(Donor1, Donor2, Donor3) compared to Treatment B(Donor1, Donor2, Donor3).
This raises the question: is it a weakness that I violate the assumption of independency between groups AND/OR a strength since the effect can now only be caused by the treatment because the groups are identical (assuming little to no variation in how I prepare my samples)?

A: This is a common design method called repeated measures. In organismal studies (or human studies), this is usually done by testing the same individual, but in this case you would treat each cell line source as the 'individual'. In most cases, this is considered a strength, and is quite easily handled by linear mixed-effects models (LMM; or, depending on your stats program/statistical training, repeated-measures ANOVA). You're also correct about your sample size being fairly worrisome - in the case of a LMM, where Individual or Cell Source would be treated as a random variable, it's generally suggested that you need at least 4-5+ levels to treat it as random (rather than fixed, like Treatment - A vs B).
Edit: To state it explicitly, repeated measures is almost always a strength, for reasons beyond statistical power (e.g., maximize sample sizes). Yes, if you would run this with a simple one-way ANOVA you would violate assumptions of indepence, but it's usually a trivial matter to use other 'flavours' of linear model that do not have this limitation.

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Decoding the Civil War
A Zooniverse project blog
19th Century ABCs
by marioeinaudi
Decoding the Civil War : End
It is with sorrow that I announce the shuttering of Decoding the Civil War. As many are aware, Decoding the Civil War has been on pause since January 2018. We first attempted to build a new crowdsourcing interface, called Phase 2, building on the hard-earned transcripts from you, our faithful volunteers. This interface asked that volunteers work with individual telegrams, identifying specific metadata such as the sender, recipient, date sent, time received, etc.
However, this tagging of individual telegrams ran into significant technical difficulties. Therefore, in respect to our volunteers, and after time and effort had been spent trying to fix the technical issues, it was decided this past June follow a new path. We will instead extract through text mining the data required. We are optimistic about the results as we are using the clean transcriptions you valiantly produced in Phase 1.
All our volunteers have done great work, and that work will continue to help and inform researchers for some time to come. You can see your hard work on the Huntington Digital Library in the Thomas T. Eckert Papers at: https://hdl.huntington.org/digital/collection/p16003coll11.
I am very happy to have known and worked with you, our volunteers. Your fervor, your determination, your industry, made Decoding the Civil War a great success.
One last time, three cheers for our volunteers!
Huzzah! Huzzah! Huzzah!
Mario Einaudi
Decoding the Civil War Lead
by otsapina
It is that time of year again! Here is my New Year's resolution: To make sure that the next meeting of the Symposium on Cryptological History features a panel on the Civil War codes.
The American Historical Association's Zoë Jackson reports on this year meeting in the latest issue of the Perspectives:
"the two-day symposium reflects a greater truth about intelligence work: it is deeply indebted to the work of the code breakers who came before, and that cryptologic history should inform intelligence work being done today."
It is about time that our good friends the cipher men of the United States Military Telegraph get the recognition they so obviously deserve!
Winslow Homer. Seeing the Old Year Out. Harper's Weekly, Jan. 5, 1861
Alternate history is fun. It is very satisfying to imagine what would have happened if Alexander the Great had not died young, or Napoleon had succeeded in cobbling together a world empire. It is no wonder that alternative history has evolved into a rich genre that allows its practitioners to indulge in historical fantasies or offer dire warnings.
Since the early 1900, the American Civil War has been occupying a sizeable chunk of this literary real estate, producing its own genre of Civil War alternate history (CWAH) –see Renee de Groot's wonderful article Divided We Stand: "Confederate" and Civil War Alternate Histories.
This CWAH narrative admittedly is a bit repetitive as it tends to hinge on the Confederacy winning the war. This "what-if-ism" occasionally takes somewhat amusing forms: in his Man of War: My Adventures in the World of Historical Reenactment (Penguin, 2013), journalist Charlie Schroeder recounts his stint at the two-day annual reenactment the Brooksville Raid: on Saturday the Union troops win, but on Sunday, it is the Confederates turn, because, as one reenactor told journalist, the event's coordinator, a Baptist minister, "wants the Confederates to win on the Lord's day."
CWAH traditionally entailed a rosy picture of the flourishing independent South inhabited by benevolent planters, graceful and tenderhearted females, and happy slaves. This fantasy was not the sole domain of the exponents of the "Lost Cause." In his (exceedingly boring) novel Hallie Marshall: A True Daughter of the South (1900), Frank Purdy Williams, a progressive reformer, held up this imaginary "Southland" to contrast with the horrible labor conditions in the Gilded Age America. Ernest Howard Crosby, wrote "If the South Had Been Allowed to Go," (1903) to speculate that if it had not been for the imperialist North, slavery would collapse in the South organically, without "the evils which we have entailed upon ourselves by the manner of its abolition." Winston Churchill offered that if the Confederacy had triumphed, it would forge a "new fundamental relationship between master and servant" instead of the effort to "graft white democratic institutions upon the simple, docile, gifted African race belonging to a much earlier chapter in human history."
At the turn of the last century, the picture of a Confederate victory took a darker turn. Harry Turtledove's The Guns of the South (1992) has a supply of AK-47 delivered to the struggling Confederacy by a time-traveling group of South African racists. It became even more jarring as historians dispelled the once common assumptions that that the Union victory was preordained or that slavery would have ended on its own. CWAH embraced and rather realistic image of a United States resting on slavery and white supremacy, most vividly and chillingly portrayed by Ken Willmott's in his mockumentary CSA: The Confederate State of America (2004) or in Ben Winters Underground Airlines (2016).
CWAH tends to think grand, largely in terms of great battles and great men. But what if we think on a less grandiose scale? For example, what if Anson Stager's parents had decided to move South and the inventor of the USMT code had been born in Virginia rather than New York?
On one hand, he might not have even made it in telegraphy. He would not have been apprenticed to Henry O'Reilly at the Rochester Daily Advertiser, and quite possibly had no one to introduce him to telegraph business. Stager certainly would have never made it as the first general superintendent of Western Union.
In 1845, Henry O'Reilly (1806-1886), an Irish immigrant and a Rochester, N.Y., entrepreneur, contracted with Samuel F.B. Morse and Amos Kendall in the planned construction of telegraph wires from eastern Pennsylvania to the Great Lakes.
On the other hand, had Stager been born in Virginia, entered telegraphy, and shown the same promise, he could have risen to the top of the American Telegraph Company which had lines in the North and South. (Western Union lines lay entirely within the Union). He could have associated with Dr. William Sylvanus Morris (1823-1893) of Lynchburg, Va., and, like him, become a Southern director for the company. Stager could have been present at the emergency meeting of the company's executives on May 12, 1860 which split the American Telegraph Company into Southern and Northern branches. And, as a superintendent or even president of the Southern Telegraph Company, he would have taken an oath of loyalty to the Confederacy.
And, of course, it could have been the governor of Virginia John Letcher rather than Ohio's William Dennison to ask Stager to develop the codes for the Confederate army. In the fall of 1861, Stager could have used his organizational talents to build up the Confederate Military Telegraph that would report directly to Jefferson Davis and his Secretary of War Judah P. Benjamin.
With the Confederate command in possession of superior telegraph communications and unbreakable ciphers, its chances of winning would have increased exponentially. It would certainly have minimized a possibility of Union soldiers coming across battle plans wrapped around some cigars, as it happened with Robert E. Lee's orders to General D.H. Hill before the battle of Antietam. More importantly, it would have afforded unprecedented level of battlefield and logistical communications not to mention infinite possibilities to mess with the increasingly bitter partisan divisions in the North.
Could a simple accident of birth have changed the course of history? Is it impossible to imagine that should Stager's life have taken a different turn, alternative historians would now be speculating what would happen if the North had won the war? Is it inconceivable that we could be now living in a world where Willmott's CSA was an honest to goodness documentary?
Olga Tsapina, Norris Foundation Curator of American History, Huntington Library.
Phase 1 Transcription Complete! Huzzah! Huzzah! Huzzah!
On June 21, 2016 we embarked on Decoding the Civil War, an ambitious project to transcribe 12,921 handwritten pages from 35 ledgers. These ledgers were from the archive of Thomas T. Eckert, head of the Washington office of the United States Military Telegraph, Assistant Quartermaster of U.S. Army, and Assistant Superintendent of the U.S. Military Telegraph.
Thomas T. Eckert
The 35 ledgers record the telegrams sent and received by the War Department during the American Civil War. About one-third of the recorded messages in the ledgers were written in code, and another third may have never been published in the The War of the Rebellion: A Compilation of the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies (often simply abbreviated to OR), and there are more than 100 communiques from Lincoln himself.
As of this morning, November 15, 2017, we can announce that all the ledgers have been transcribed by our Volunteer Corps! All the difficult work of parsing sentences, figuring out 19th Century hand and spelling, and even dealing with difficult to read, smeared, pages has been completed in under 17 months. An incredible achievement. It would have taken 2 staff members working nearly full time 3 to 4 years to reach this goal!
We have begun to publish those ledgers on the Huntington Digital Library; 16 are already available for researchers. As we work though the huge amount of data provided by our Volunteer Corps, the remaining volumes will be published. We are excited to provide this new trove of American Civil War material to the Public, Researchers, and Students. The work completed has already been used to create educational materials that will be published shortly.
We began this project hoping to be finished in six months to a year. We learned quickly that it would take longer, that the task was full of challenges, and that tools needed to be built to overcome some of those challenges. Through it all our loyal volunteers stayed with Decoding the Civil War. As we move forward with the next phase of our project we will call again on those volunteers to help.
Right now, those volunteers can rest. All who have worked on Decoding the Civil War deserve thanks.
Strike up the Band! A lively polka is in order!
Thank you also to the National Historical Publications and Records Commission (NHPRC), which funded a two year grant for this project and to our institutions who have provided support throughout: The Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens; North Carolina State University; and Zooniverse with its spectacular team at the University of Minnesota. Finally, a thank you to Daniel W. Stowell, whose advice, support and enthusiasm has been fundamental since the beginning.
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Bonkers
"Bonkers" message. EC 19. Ciphers Sent. 1864, Jan. 27 — 1864, Dec. 2. P. 293.
I've often felt that that the vocabulary of archival description could benefit from some content designators. When it comes to ciphered telegraphic messages, the term "bonkers," as applied to the telegram above, seems very apt.
The USMT cipher men indeed appear to have been on a mission not dissimilar to the staff of the "Confuse-a-Cat" outfit from the Monty Python sketch.
The ciphers were constantly changed, modified, updated, and otherwise fiddled with. The first version of the cipher, developed by Anson Stager for Governor of Ohio in April 1861, was so short that it fit on the back of a business card. The last iteration to be used during the war, cipher No. 4, contained some 1500 arbitraries. The ciphers were numbered out of conventional sequence: the ciphers developed early in the war were numbered 6 and 7, followed by the series of 12, 10, and 9, then 1 and 2, and, towards the end of the war, 3, 4, and 5. These series did not replace each other but rather were often used simultaneously. Occasionally they had to discarded. No. 6 and 7 were discontinued in August 1862, after Nathan Brooks was captured by John H. Morgan's men, and No. 12 followed suit after Stephen L. Robinson fell to guerrillas in July 1864. The cipher No. 1 which, according to William R. Plum was used to send "more important telegrams," had to go after James E. Pettit and John F. Ludwig were captured by Forrest's men in September 1864.
The arbitraries were confusing enough. But there were also the blind or check words, used solely to confuse the interceptor, that could be thrown in either at the end of each column or after every sixth word; commencement words that could indicate the number of either words or lines, and key words concealing different routing techniques for the entire telegram or its parts, coded by columns, numbers assigned to each square made by the column lines, or both.
All these were in constant flux. After he met a "reformed gambler" on a train, Stager updated the routing instructions in cipher No. 12, to include a mnemonic devise revealed by that venerable gentleman. All you had to do was to memorize the formula "K 842 W 795 M 361 B," or "The King had 842 women, 795 men and 361 boys" and use it to shuffle the deck to know the exact location of every card. The numbers stood for the spotted cards, with 1 designating the ace. "Boys" indicated a ten spot; "Women," the Queen, and "Men," for Jack. Stager appropriated the formula, replacing the king, queen, jack, and ten-spot with numbers 13,12,11, and 10, to scramble a message following the sequence 13- 8-4-2-12-7-9-5-11-3-6-1-10. Ciphers No. 9 and 10, adopted for the use of the Western Departments, relied on a further elaborated version of this technique, with each word numbered and counted from the top or of the bottom of a column, with X standing for a check word.
What we see in the "bonkers" message is the process of finalizing a new cipher. The message itself was of no particular importance. As seen from this publication in OR, it merely informed Assistant Quartermaster Captain H.C. Hodges to take charge of Sherman's supplies.
Official Records of the War of the Rebellion. Series 1, vol. 47 (Part 22) P. 475. The "bonkers" message appears at the top of the page.
Stager, Stafford G. Lynch, and other cipher men used this message as a guinea pig for testing various routing instructions being developed for a new cipher. What they were working on was Cipher No. 4, the last cipher to be used during the war. Its predecessor, known as No. 3, was devised by Samuel H. Beckwith in winter of 1864 and included a new set of arbitraries which, among other things, addressed the problem of a "stuck" sounder by avoiding certain letters. (A stuck sounder often resulted in making dashes instead of dots and which, on one memorable occasion turned "pacific" into "fairfye.") Beckwith's cipher was unveiled on December 25, 1864 but, for some reason, saw little use.
The top message, first addressed to Stafford G. Lynch, was instead sent to Stager, with the instructions to return it "by train of or in Some confidential manner." Two different ciphers of the same message were also sent to John Horner in New York.
EC 19. Ciphers Sent. 1864, Jan. 27 — 1864, Dec. 2. P. 294. Note a different version of the "bonkers" message, the second on the page.
EC 19. Ciphers Sent. 1864, Jan. 27 — 1864, Dec. 2. P. 295. Another version of the "bonkers" message, on the top of this page.
The result of this work was sent to the operators at Grant's, Sherman's, and Thomas's commands on March 23, 1865. The final product, known as Cipher No. 4, numbered some 1608 arbitraries; the key proper comprised 12 pages, each differing in the words used and the route employed. Significantly, the book contained no directions for the use of the cipher; if captured, it was of little use to the anyone who was not a USMT cipher man, including, I am afraid, archivists.
There is one additional takeaway from the story of the "bonkers" message: the fact a message appears in OR certainly does not diminish its historical value.
Olga Tsapina, Norris Foundation Curator of American History. The Huntington Library.
Decoding the Civil War: Phase 2, Two Work Flows, Your Choice
After a year of hard work by our volunteers on Decoding the Civil War, Phase 1, we are about ready to launch Phase 2, the marking of metadata within specific telegrams. There are two work flows to this task. The first work flow, Code Words, is marking the arbitraries, or code words, for those messages in code. These coded telegrams will then be fed into Phase 3, the final decoding of the telegrams. Having the marked arbitraries should make the process of decoding much faster, possibly aided by computer algorithms.
Example of highlighted code words (arbitraries).
The second work flow, Metadata, is a little more ambitious and complex, as we are asking our volunteers to work with individual telegrams, identifying specific metadata such as the sender, recipient, date sent, time received, etc. We are asking for metadata for a total of 10 fields; most telegrams have only a few; rarely do they have all 10. What we wish to accomplish is a way to provide simple metadata that will enable researchers to find all the telegrams to, say, Secretary of War Edwin M. Stanton, no matter whether it is in Ledger 2, or 6, or 22.
But did not Phase 1 enable full-text searching? Yes it did, and it is wonderful, but the transcriptions are accurate to the text as written in the ledger. Keeping with Stanton, if you typed in "Stanton" in the search box, you would get those pages where "Stanton" matches the search. But what if the telegram begins or ends with "EMS" or "Stantin" or "the Secretary of War"? The full-text search would ignore those pages. Furthermore, such a search looks at the whole message and returns results for any mention of "Stanton," including other people named Stanton or places named Stanton. What if you want to look for Stanton only as the recipient? A search in a specific metadata field for "recipient" would enable that search and give you the correct results.
Example of highlighted metadata fields.
To aid in that search we will take the metadata tagged by the volunteers in Phase 2 and standardize the terms. So, continuing with Stanton, if the recipient is "EMS" and it is tagged as a sender or recipient, we will be able to take the consensus term and edit it to the standardized form of "Stanton, Edwin M. (Edwin McMasters), 1814-1869." Once all the telegrams are tagged and the fields edited, if you do a specific search for "Recipient" as "Stanton, Edwin M. (Edwin McMasters), 1814-1869." you will only get those telegrams to Stanton, not from or about him, and you will have those whether they are sent to him as "EMS," "Stanton," or "Stantin."
The tagging of individual telegrams in the Phase 2 Metadata workflow will eventually enable specific searches to be done across the almost 16,000 telegrams. It will enable users to look for individuals or places or dates in specific fields. And the tagging of code words (arbitraries) in the Code Word work flow will help round out this project with the final decoding of encoded telegrams. An incredibly useful archive has been made available in Phase 1 of Decoding the Civil War. Help us leverage and categorize that hard-earned knowledge in Phase 2 to aid in the discovery of the American Civil War.
The Beta Test site for Phase 2 is here. The original site can be seen here.
Sometimes you cannot just help but marvel at what may lie beneath a page filled with seemingly unrelated messages. The only thing these three telegrams have in common is the fact that they were transmitted on the same day, October 15, 1864, and by the same USMT operator.
In the first telegram, Henry W. Halleck (Borgia) instructs Samuel B. Lawrence, the assistant adjutant general to Lew Wallace, (he of the Ben Hur fame), to send the "dismounted cavalry to cavalry Depot." This would be the Giesboro Point Cavalry Depot, one of the six such facilities maintained by the Cavalry Bureau of the United States Army. It was, in fact, the largest facility of this kind in the world.
Giesboro Point. Andrew J. Russell. 1864. Library of Congress.
The depot occupied the site of a tobacco plantation that belonged to George Washington Young, one of the District's largest slaveholders. In July 1863, he offered to sell his plantation to the government for $100,000, but the United States army ended up renting the property for $6000 a year. This was not the first time Young received money from the United States government: under the terms of the District of Columbia Compensated Emancipation Act passed by Congress on April 16, 1862, Young had received $17,771.85 for his slaves.
If Young's property had been located in Maryland, just outside the District, he could have carried on with his plantation. Congress had no authority to abolish slavery in the states. Lincoln tried to get the slaveholding states of the Union to abolish slavery on their own since the fall of 1861. It went nowhere. Maryland was a particularly tough case, as the state constitution explicitly banned "any law abolishing the relation of master or slave."
In 1864, a predominantly Republican legislature succeeded in calling for a convention that would amend the state constitution. On September 6, the constitutional convention published the new charter which explicitly abolished slavery, and the governor called for a special ratification vote scheduled on October 12 and 13.
The supporters of the new constitution faced an uphill battle. The new constitution drew a firestorm of criticism from Democrats and even moderate Republicans. The critics blasted the document as a flagrant abuse of power that unlawfully deprived Maryland citizens of their "property" in slaves. The critics also singled out the provisions that mandated loyalty oath as a condition of casting the ballot and allowed soldiers in the field to vote.
On October 15, the returns were still being tallied and things did not look good. On 11:20 a.m., the USMT operators received a message from Henry W. Hoffman (1825-1895), a staunch Lincoln supporter who had canvassed the state in support of the constitution. according to Hoffman, "on the home vote" the constitution was likely to be defeated by a "probable maj[ority]" of "about one thousand." There might be some good news, as it "is believed that the soldiers vote may overcome this & give a small majority for the Constitution."
Henry H. Hoffman. Telegram to Abraham Lincoln. Oct. 15, 1864. Library of Congress
Lincoln replied with the second telegram on this page: "Come over to-night and c (see) me." Lincoln must have realized that Hoffman was indeed correct. The constitution was in fact defeated by 1995 votes. Only after the soldiers' ballots were counted, Maryland abolished slavery by a whopping 375 votes.
Three hours later, the operator tapped out the third message. Deciphered, it reads: "8 p.m. for C.A. Seward 29 Nassau St. William T. Minor Consul General and Thomas Savage Vice-Consul General Havana. William Hunter Chief Clerk State Department and G.G Tassara Spanish minister Washington. See Mr. Evarts ask to cooper rate [cooperate] with you. Signed F.W. Seward."
The sender was Frederick W. Seward, the son of the Secretary of State and an assistant secretary of state in charge of consular service. The addressee was his cousin, Clarence. A. Seward, partner in the prominent law firm Blatchford, Seward & Griswold. "Mr. Evarts" was William Maxwell Evarts (1818-1901), partner in the renowned New York law firm Butler, Evarts, & Choate.
Frederick W. Seward.
Why would an assistant secretary of state use the military telegraph to get his cousin in touch with the Spanish ambassador, the U.S. consular service in Havana, and another lawyer?
Both Clarence A. Seward and Evarts had been involved in high-profile of José Agustín Arguelles, lieutenant governor of the district of Colón, Matanzas, who was arrested in New York on charges of engaging in slave trade. The arrest was made upon a request of Cuban officials and the Spanish ambassador Gabriel Garcia y Tassara, and Arguelles was extradited to Cuba, despite the fact that the United States did not have an extradition treaty with Spain.
The arrest and rendition had caused a loud scandal. Arguelles' wife filed a writ of habeas corpus with a New York court. Seward was accused of authorizing an unlawful arrest and violating Arguelles' right of the asylum. The Secretary of State refused to back down: when called to testify before Congress, he declared that the United States, "the refuge of the innocent and oppressed," could not, in good conscience, offer asylum to a slave trader, "the guilty betrayer of human freedom."
In the meantime, a warrant was put out for the arrest of Robert Murray, the U.S. Marshal who had arrested Arguelles. It was Clarence A. Seward and William M. Evarts who represented the hapless marshal against the charges of kidnapping. The case was dropped in June 1864, do doubt due to their expert ministrations.
This telegram seems to indicate four months later both lawyers were still working with the State Department. It is likely that this cooperation had something to do with the fact that in 1865 a Cuban court found Arguelles guilty of slave trading and sentenced him to nineteen years of hard labor.
That a pedestrian looking page turns out to be teeming with soldiers, diplomats, lawyers, politicians, and even horses attests to the allure of archival work. We are, after all, dealing with a special kind of magic that somehow condenses entire lives, stories, and dilemmas into a single page jotted down some hundred and fifty years ago. And is it a mere a coincidence that all telegrams found on this randomly (I swear!) selected page should somehow have something to do with slavery?


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Будинок № 22/7 — житлова споруда, яка розташована уздовж Інститутської вулиці і займає квартал між Шовковичною та Липською вулицями.

Наказом Міністерства культури і туризму України № 747/0/16-06 від 7 вересня 2006 року внесена до держреєстру пам'яток архітектури місцевого значення (охоронний номер 407).

Пам'ятка — зразок споруд у конструктивістському стилі в Києві, яка характеризує творчі пошуки архітекторів у 1930-х роках.

Історія ділянки

У 1830-х роках садиба належала фельдмаршалу  Фабіану Остен-Сакену, який придушив антиімперське Листопадове повстання 1831 року в Київській, Подільській і Волинській губерніях. З другої половини ХІХ сторіччя будинок займав цивільний губернатор. Згодом тут тимчасово розмістився Інститут шляхетних панянок.

Будівництво і використання будівлі

Після перенесення в 1934 році столиці України з Харкова до Києва перебралося республіканське партійне і радянське керівництво. Виникла нагальна потреба в забезпеченні їх житлом. Будинок цивільного губернатора розібрали і розчистили ділянку під будівництво.

У будинку мешкав Андрій Ніковський (1885—1942), публіцист, міністр закордонних справ в уряді УНР, активний член ТУП і УПСФ, засуджений 1930 року у справі Спілки визволення України.

Архітектура

П'ятиповерхова, цегляна із тинькованими чоловими фасадами споруда має складну в плані конфігурацію, систему поздовжніх тримальних стін, десять секцій, згрупованих у сім житлових блоків чотирьох типів. У будинку розміщені одно-, дво-, три- і п'ятикімнатні квартири.

Будівля зведена з урахуванням інсоляції, тому крила спроєктовані ідентично, але не дзеркально. Водночас у цілому дотримано симетричність планування щодо центральної осі композиції.

З боку Інститутської вулиці центральною віссю виступає ризаліт, який фланкований двома вертикалями суцільно засклених сходових кліток. Його фасад збагачений заокругленими наріжними вікнами.

Ризаліт і бокові крила утворюють невеликі курдонери. У цілому вздовж Інститутської вулиці композиція поділена на п'ять самостійних частин.

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Пам'ятки архітектури України місцевого значення в Києві
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Signs of heartworm disease are similar to signs of heart disease. Affected dogs and cats may exhibit coughing, weakness, lethargy, exercise intolerance and reduced appetite. In severe cases, heart failure may result, manifesting in collapse or sudden death.
Treatment for heartworm in dogs when adult worms are present involves repeated injections of a drug that kills the worms. There is a risk associated with treatment, in that the dead worms may become stuck in the major blood vessels, causing a blockage to blood flow. Even if the adult worms are successfully eradicated, the animal may suffer ongoing heart disease and may require long term medication for this. Treatment of infection with the larval stages is easier, and involves a few doses of monthly injections or tablets. In cats, treatment of heartworm is much more dangerous and there are currently no drugs that are approved for this purpose.
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Touch rugby is a great way to Keep Your Boots On as the RFU are so keen for so many of you to do! For those that are preparing to or have already hung up their boots, Touch is a fun and friendly way to keep fit and stay involved with rugby. For the younger members of our club it is a great way to stay fit and improve your handling and footwork during the off-season. As Touch is a minimal contact version of rugby it means that men, women, boys and girls of all ages can play on the same pitch as equals!
Although we primarily focus on social Touch and play all year round we do also enter some local competitions and play in Spring and Summer leagues, endorsed by England Touch, where we have enjoyed much success in recent years.
All club members are welcome to join in (we ask that U14s and under are accompanied by a parent/guardian) with our social Touch sessions at 8:15pm on Thursdays at Crouchley Lane. We currently have members from the M&J (both children and mums!!), Squash, Hockey, Social, Senior Rugby and VP sections of the club, in addition to members who just join the club for Touch. It has been particularly pleasing to see 3 members of the club representing England at the recent Touch Wolrd Cup in Malaysia as well as a number of our U16&17 players representing North of England All Stars and England U18s in national Touch competitions.
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CERS Pre-Dissertation/Dissertation Research Fellowships
The application period is now open! Apply by Monday, March 6, 2023, 5:00PM (PST).
CERS awards summer pre-dissertation and dissertation fellowships of up to $5,000 to UCLA graduate students to conduct research abroad in European and/or Russian area studies. Applicants are expected to spend a minimum of four (4) weeks on overseas research; however, priority is given to projects with a duration of six (6) weeks. Project descriptions must demonstrate how the project will advance knowledge of European or Russian societies, histories, or cultures with a focus on the 19th, 20th, and 21st centuries.
APPLICATION DEADLINE: Monday, March 6, 2023, 5:00PM (PST)
Applications open approximately eight (8) weeks before the advertised deadline above.
CERS will begin notifying applicants of their status approximately eight (8) weeks after the application system has closed.
All elements of the fellowship application are online and must be submitted by the advertised deadline using this online form. Letters of recommendation must also be submitted online by the advertised deadline. Late or incomplete applications will not be considered for funding. Any elements to be uploaded should be in DOC or PDF format, with the file extension appended.
Curriculum vitae (no more than three (3) pages of 12-point font text)
Abstract (no more than 100 words): provide the project/dissertation title and briefly describe the topic of research.
Summer research proposal (no more than two (2) double-spaced pages of 12-point text): describe the research project in terms that can be understood by an academic audience who may not specialize in your chosen field. Include a detailed outline of the research agenda (e.g. weekly research activities, research locations such as archives and libraries, etc.), and explain how the grant would further it. Must demonstrate how your project will advance knowledge of European or Russian societies, histories, or cultures.
Itemized budget (no more than one (1) page of 12-point font text): include items such as international and in-country travel, visa fees, overseas housing, library or archival fees, etc. While the maximum award amount is $5000, the actual award amount is based on overseas project costs and justifiable project-related expenses.
Letters of recommendation: include two (2) letters of recommendation, one of which should be from the applicant's principal advisor or committee chair. The recommenders should address the relevance of the proposed summer research for the applicant's dissertation project, as well as the applicant's overall academic and professional potential.
All recommendations must be submitted through the online system by the advertised deadline. The applicant will provide the names and contact information of the recommenders in the online application; once the application has been submitted, the recommenders will receive automated emails from the system, instructing them where and how to upload their recommendations. Applicants should therefore ensure that they submit the application well in advance of the advertised deadline, and that they have provided the correct contact information for the recommenders (bouncebacks from incorrectly-entered email addresses will not be registered, and CERS staff are unable to keep track of this and alert the applicant). Applicants should advise their recommenders to check their "spam" folders for automated messages from the system before contacting CERS for assistance with uploading the recommendations.
A note about Personal Identifying Information (PII): Please do not include anywhere in your application the following PII: social security numbers; bank account numbers; passport information; healthcare related information; medical insurance information; credit/debit card numbers, driver's license or state ID information. Any PII explicitly requested in any of the application fields (e.g. first and last name, phone number, etc.) will be kept confidential and encrypted, pursuant to UCLA policies and practices outlined here.
CERS strongly recommends that applicants prepare all the supporting documentation in advance, and complete the application in one sitting. However, the application system does allow applicants to save their work and return to make changes during the application process at any time before the advertised deadline. Every screen of the application contains a "Save" button; clicking it generates an automated message from the system with instructions on how to return to the saved application. Please note that "saving" the application is not the same as "submitting" it; only applications that have been formally submitted by clicking the "Submit" button will be considered for funding.
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All application materials must be submitted online by the advertised deadline. Any materials submitted in hard copy or via email will not be accepted or reviewed. Applicants or recommenders who encounter problems submitting materials through the online application site should get in touch with Technical Assistance directly at the contact below.
UCLA Graduate Council has established a policy of Maximum Limit on the total amount of support a graduate student may receive. In addition, certain grants and fellowships are incompatible and may not be held concurrently. You must inform CERS in writing and obtain approval to combine several funding sources before accepting any other awards for this project.
Funds must be used during the summer period for which they are awarded; no carryover of awards will be permitted.
Grantees must submit by October 1: (1) a final activities and results report (three - four (3 - 4) pages of 12-point font text), and (2) proof of travel in the form of boarding passes. These should be submitted via email to lgrancea@international.ucla.edu
Fellowship information and application procedures: Liana Grancea, CERS Executive Director, lgrancea@international.ucla.edu or 310-825-8030.
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Brandino's Ric Cairns is one of Western Australia's most respected radio advertising writers. His affinity for the medium may have something to do with a previous career as a successful radio announcer and voice-over. He continues to do occasional voice performance.
GULL 'BIRDIE'S' CAMPAIGN
Series of three spots to launch the then unusual 24-hour service at the 'Birdie's' convenience store at Gull's Burswood service station. 'Night and Day' was recognised at the national AWARD Awards.
ART GALLERY 'PRE-RAPHS'
Our briefing for the Art Gallery of WA's 'Pre-Raphaelite Dream' exhibition repeatedly stressed how radical this art movement was in the 19th century, rebelling against traditional art school rules. They drew parallels with the Sex Pistols in the 1970s - 'nuff said, mate...
SCITECH 'SPECIAL FX'
This is the radio spot that formed the audio component of a multi-channel campaign for an exhibition on the science of special effects in film. Each ad toyed with effects in the medium in which it appeared.
SCITECH 'EATEN ALIVE'
A commercial to promote an exhibition on predators. Returning to this spot became something of an annual event as it turned out to be an ideal platform for advertising students to try out the audio production process at the studio originally responsible: Brainestorm. AdSchool participants would re-voice each character.
FESTIVAL FILMS CAMPAIGN
If you're going to do a parody, it needs to first be relevant to the subject matter, and this one happily passes that test. Thankfully it also passed the second test: performers who can pull it off. Here are three of the six we recorded.
HOME 'SPLIT LOAN'
One of a series of product spots for (the dear departed) Home Building Society. Always fun to squeeze maximum meaning out of 'one guy talking'.


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Cestoda
Xenarthra
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Yellow fever virus
Trypanosoma cruzi
Sigmodontinae
Encephalitis Virus, Eastern Equine
Herpesvirus 5, Bovine
Marsupialia
Trichechus inunguis
Simuliidae
Ilex paraguariensis
Encephalitis Virus, Venezuelan Equine
Trichechus manatus
Alphavirus
Anopheles
Catfishes
Myiasis
Hantavirus Pulmonary Syndrome
Communicable Diseases, Emerging
DNA, Mitochondrial
DNA, Ribosomal Spacer
Cytochromes b
DNA, Protozoan
Sequence Analysis, DNA
Radiometric Dating
Bayes Theorem
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Genetic Variation
Tropical Climate
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Paleodontology
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Information Science 5
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South AmericaNorth AmericaCentral AmericaSouth Africa: A republic in southern Africa, the southernmost part of Africa. It has three capitals: Pretoria (administrative), Cape Town (legislative), and Bloemfontein (judicial). Officially the Republic of South Africa since 1960, it was called the Union of South Africa 1910-1960.Americas: The general name for NORTH AMERICA; CENTRAL AMERICA; and SOUTH AMERICA unspecified or combined.Latin America: The geographic area of Latin America in general and when the specific country or countries are not indicated. It usually includes Central America, South America, Mexico, and the islands of the Caribbean.ArgentinaIndians, South American: Individual members of South American ethnic groups with historic ancestral origins in Asia.Phylogeny: The relationships of groups of organisms as reflected by their genetic makeup.Guyana: A republic in the north of South America, east of VENEZUELA and west of SURINAME. Its capital is Georgetown.ColombiaGeography: The science dealing with the earth and its life, especially the description of land, sea, and air and the distribution of plant and animal life, including humanity and human industries with reference to the mutual relations of these elements. (From Webster, 3d ed)ChilePhylogeography: A field of study concerned with the principles and processes governing the geographic distributions of genealogical lineages, especially those within and among closely related species. (Avise, J.C., Phylogeography: The History and Formation of Species. Harvard University Press, 2000)ParaguayIndians, Central American: Individual members of Central American ethnic groups with ancient historic ancestral origins in Asia. Mexican Indians are not included.History, Ancient: The period of history before 500 of the common era.Fossils: Remains, impressions, or traces of animals or plants of past geological times which have been preserved in the earth's crust.PeruAfricaAsia: The largest of the continents. It was known to the Romans more specifically as what we know today as Asia Minor. The name comes from at least two possible sources: from the Assyrian asu (to rise) or from the Sanskrit usa (dawn), both with reference to its being the land of the rising sun, i.e., eastern as opposed to Europe, to the west. (From Webster's New Geographical Dictionary, 1988, p82 & Room, Brewer's Dictionary of Names, 1992, p34)BrazilGenetic Variation: Genotypic differences observed among individuals in a population.VenezuelaCaribbean Region: The area that lies between continental North and South America and comprises the Caribbean Sea, the West Indies, and the adjacent mainland regions of southern Mexico, Central America, Colombia, and Venezuela.UruguayEcuadorSequence Analysis, DNA: A multistage process that includes cloning, physical mapping, subcloning, determination of the DNA SEQUENCE, and information analysis.South CarolinaBoliviaFrench Guiana: A French overseas department on the northeast coast of South America. Its capital is Cayenne. It was first settled by the French in 1604. Early development was hindered because of the presence of a penal colony. The name of the country and the capital are variants of Guyana, possibly from the native Indian Guarani guai (born) + ana (kin), implying a united and interrelated race of people. (From Webster's New Geographical Dictionary, 1988, p418 & Room, Brewer's Dictionary of Names, 1992, p195)Oceania: The islands of the central and South Pacific, including Micronesia, Melanesia, Polynesia, and traditionally Australasia. (Random House Dictionary, 2d ed)Radiometric Dating: Techniques used to determine the age of materials, based on the content and half-lives of the RADIOACTIVE ISOTOPES they contain.DNA, Mitochondrial: Double-stranded DNA of MITOCHONDRIA. In eukaryotes, the mitochondrial GENOME is circular and codes for ribosomal RNAs, transfer RNAs, and about 10 proteins.Climate: The longterm manifestations of WEATHER. (McGraw-Hill Dictionary of Scientific and Technical Terms, 6th ed)Paleontology: The study of early forms of life through fossil remains.Tropical Climate: A climate which is typical of equatorial and tropical regions, i.e., one with continually high temperatures with considerable precipitation, at least during part of the year. (McGraw-Hill Dictionary of Scientific and Technical Terms, 4th ed)Sloths: Slow-moving exclusively arboreal mammals that inhabit the tropical forests of South and Central America.PanamaEmigration and Immigration: The process of leaving one's country to establish residence in a foreign country.Paleodontology: The study of the teeth of early forms of life through fossil remains.Siberia: A region, north-central Asia, largely in Russia. It extends from the Ural Mountains to the Pacific Ocean and from the Arctic Ocean to central Kazakhstan and the borders of China and Mongolia.Molecular Sequence Data: Descriptions of specific amino acid, carbohydrate, or nucleotide sequences which have appeared in the published literature and/or are deposited in and maintained by databanks such as GENBANK, European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL), National Biomedical Research Foundation (NBRF), or other sequence repositories.Insect Vectors: Insects that transmit infective organisms from one host to another or from an inanimate reservoir to an animate host.BelizeYellow Fever: An acute infectious disease primarily of the tropics, caused by a virus and transmitted to man by mosquitoes of the genera Aedes and Haemagogus. The severe form is characterized by fever, HEMOLYTIC JAUNDICE, and renal damage.Triatoma: A genus of the subfamily TRIATOMINAE. Several species are vectors of TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI.South Australia: A state in south central Australia. Its capital is Adelaide. It was probably first visited by F. Thyssen in 1627. Later discoveries in 1802 and 1830 opened up the southern part. It became a British province in 1836 with this self-descriptive name and became a state in 1901. (From Webster's New Geographical Dictionary, 1988, p1135)Trees: Woody, usually tall, perennial higher plants (Angiosperms, Gymnosperms, and some Pterophyta) having usually a main stem and numerous branches.Haplotypes: The genetic constitution of individuals with respect to one member of a pair of allelic genes, or sets of genes that are closely linked and tend to be inherited together such as those of the MAJOR HISTOCOMPATIBILITY COMPLEX.Animal Distribution: A process by which animals in various forms and stages of development are physically distributed through time and space.Chagas Disease: Infection with the protozoan parasite TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI, a form of TRYPANOSOMIASIS endemic in Central and South America. It is named after the Brazilian physician Carlos Chagas, who discovered the parasite. Infection by the parasite (positive serologic result only) is distinguished from the clinical manifestations that develop years later, such as destruction of PARASYMPATHETIC GANGLIA; CHAGAS CARDIOMYOPATHY; and dysfunction of the ESOPHAGUS or COLON.Travel: Aspects of health and disease related to travel.Animal Migration: Periodic movements of animals in response to seasonal changes or reproductive instinct. Hormonal changes are the trigger in at least some animals. Most migrations are made for reasons of climatic change, feeding, or breeding.Ecosystem: A functional system which includes the organisms of a natural community together with their environment. (McGraw Hill Dictionary of Scientific and Technical Terms, 4th ed)Species Specificity: The restriction of a characteristic behavior, anatomical structure or physical system, such as immune response; metabolic response, or gene or gene variant to the members of one species. It refers to that property which differentiates one species from another but it is also used for phylogenetic levels higher or lower than the species.Population Dynamics: The pattern of any process, or the interrelationship of phenomena, which affects growth or change within a population.Biodiversity: The variety of all native living organisms and their various forms and interrelationships.Biological Evolution: The process of cumulative change over successive generations through which organisms acquire their distinguishing morphological and physiological characteristics.Drosera: A plant genus of the family Droseraceae, order Nepenthales, subclass Dilleniidae, class Magnoliopsida, that contains naphthoquinone glucosides. The name sundew is rarely used for PYROLA.EuropeNew South Wales: A state in southeastern Australia. Its capital is Sydney. It was discovered by Captain Cook in 1770 and first settled at Botany Bay by marines and convicts in 1788. It was named by Captain Cook who thought its coastline resembled that of South Wales. (From Webster's New Geographical Dictionary, 1988, p840 & Room, Brewer's Dictionary of Names, 1992, p377)Evolution, Molecular: The process of cumulative change at the level of DNA; RNA; and PROTEINS, over successive generations.Archaeology: The scientific study of past societies through artifacts, fossils, etc.Genotype: The genetic constitution of the individual, comprising the ALLELES present at each GENETIC LOCUS.Microsatellite Repeats: A variety of simple repeat sequences that are distributed throughout the GENOME. They are characterized by a short repeat unit of 2-8 basepairs that is repeated up to 100 times. They are also known as short tandem repeats (STRs).Dinosaurs: General name for two extinct orders of reptiles from the Mesozoic era: Saurischia and Ornithischia.DNA, Ribosomal Spacer: The intergenic DNA segments that are between the ribosomal RNA genes (internal transcribed spacers) and between the tandemly repeated units of rDNA (external transcribed spacers and nontranscribed spacers).Disease Vectors: Invertebrates or non-human vertebrates which transmit infective organisms from one host to another.Asia, Southeastern: The geographical area of Asia comprising BORNEO; BRUNEI; CAMBODIA; INDONESIA; LAOS; MALAYSIA; the MEKONG VALLEY; MYANMAR (formerly Burma), the PHILIPPINES; SINGAPORE; THAILAND; and VIETNAM.Cestoda: A subclass of segmented worms comprising the tapeworms.Geological Processes: Events and activities of the Earth and its structures.MexicoXenarthra: An order of New World mammals characterized by the absence of incisors and canines from among their teeth, and comprising the ARMADILLOS, the SLOTHS, and the anteaters. The order is distinguished from all others by what are known as xenarthrous vertebrae (xenos, strange; arthron, joint): there are secondary, and sometimes even more, articulations between the vertebrae of the lumbar series. The order was formerly called Edentata. (From Random House Unabridged Dictionary, 2d ed; Walker's Mammals of the World, 5th ed, vol. I, p515)Beetles: INSECTS of the order Coleoptera, containing over 350,000 species in 150 families. They possess hard bodies and their mouthparts are adapted for chewing.Tracheobionta: A subset of various vascular plants (also known as the Tracheophyta) which include seed-bearing and non seed-bearing species.Bayes Theorem: A theorem in probability theory named for Thomas Bayes (1702-1761). In epidemiology, it is used to obtain the probability of disease in a group of people with some characteristic on the basis of the overall rate of that disease and of the likelihood of that characteristic in healthy and diseased individuals. The most familiar application is in clinical decision analysis where it is used for estimating the probability of a particular diagnosis given the appearance of some symptoms or test result.Yellow fever virus: The type species of the FLAVIVIRUS genus. Principal vector transmission to humans is by AEDES spp. mosquitoes.Trypanosoma cruzi: The agent of South American trypanosomiasis or CHAGAS DISEASE. Its vertebrate hosts are man and various domestic and wild animals. Insects of several species are vectors.Cluster Analysis: A set of statistical methods used to group variables or observations into strongly inter-related subgroups. In epidemiology, it may be used to analyze a closely grouped series of events or cases of disease or other health-related phenomenon with well-defined distribution patterns in relation to time or place or both.Myiasis: The invasion of living tissues of man and other mammals by dipterous larvae.Coccidioidomycosis: Infection with a fungus of the genus COCCIDIOIDES, endemic to the SOUTHWESTERN UNITED STATES. It is sometimes called valley fever but should not be confused with RIFT VALLEY FEVER. Infection is caused by inhalation of airborne, fungal particles known as arthroconidia, a form of FUNGAL SPORES. A primary form is an acute, benign, self-limited respiratory infection. A secondary form is a virulent, severe, chronic, progressive granulomatous disease with systemic involvement. It can be detected by use of COCCIDIOIDIN.Demography: Statistical interpretation and description of a population with reference to distribution, composition, or structure.South DakotaGene Pool: The total genetic information possessed by the reproductive members of a POPULATION of sexually reproducing organisms.Seasons: Divisions of the year according to some regularly recurrent phenomena usually astronomical or climatic. (From McGraw-Hill Dictionary of Scientific and Technical Terms, 6th ed)Sigmodontinae: A subfamily of the family MURIDAE comprised of 69 genera. New World mice and rats are included in this subfamily.Disease Outbreaks: Sudden increase in the incidence of a disease. The concept includes EPIDEMICS and PANDEMICS.Genetic Speciation: The splitting of an ancestral species into daughter species that coexist in time (King, Dictionary of Genetics, 6th ed). Causal factors may include geographic isolation, HABITAT geometry, migration, REPRODUCTIVE ISOLATION, random GENETIC DRIFT and MUTATION.Prevalence: The total number of cases of a given disease in a specified population at a designated time. It is differentiated from INCIDENCE, which refers to the number of new cases in the population at a given time.Introduced Species: Non-native organisms brought into a region, habitat, or ECOSYSTEM by human activity.Falkland Islands: A British colony in the Atlantic Islands, comprising two principal islands, East Falkland and West Falkland. Its capital is Stanley. Discovered in 1592, it was not occupied until the French settled there briefly in 1764. Later the English settled there but were expelled by the Spanish in 1770. The Falklands were claimed by Argentina but were occupied in 1833 by the British who, after an April 1982 invasion by Argentina, regained them in June. The islands were named by British Captain John Strong in 1690 for the fifth Viscount Falkland who financed Strong's expedition. The Spanish name for the islands, Malvinas, is from the French Malouins, inhabitants of St. Malo who attempted to colonize the islands in 1764. (From Webster's New Geographical Dictionary, 1988, p389 & Room, Brewer's Dictionary of Names, 1992, p182)Geological Phenomena: The inanimate matter of Earth, the structures and properties of this matter, and the processes that affect it.Disease Reservoirs: Animate or inanimate sources which normally harbor disease-causing organisms and thus serve as potential sources of disease outbreaks. Reservoirs are distinguished from vectors (DISEASE VECTORS) and carriers, which are agents of disease transmission rather than continuing sources of potential disease outbreaks.Mimosa: A plant genus of the family FABACEAE that contains kukulkanin, a CHALCONE.Paleopathology: The study of disease in prehistoric times as revealed in bones, mummies, and archaeologic artifacts.Cytochromes b: Cytochromes of the b group that have alpha-band absorption of 563-564 nm. They occur as subunits in MITOCHONDRIAL ELECTRON TRANSPORT COMPLEX III.Suriname: A republic in the north of South America, bordered on the west by GUYANA (British Guiana) and on the east by FRENCH GUIANA. Its capital is Paramaribo. It was formerly called Netherlands Guiana or Dutch Guiana or Surinam. Suriname was first settled by the English in 1651 but was ceded to the Dutch by treaty in 1667. It became an autonomous territory under the Dutch crown in 1954 and gained independence in 1975. The country was named for the Surinam River but the meaning of that name is uncertain. (From Webster's New Geographical Dictionary, 1988, p1167 & Room, Brewer's Dictionary of Names, 1992, p526)Ecology: The branch of science concerned with the interrelationship of organisms and their ENVIRONMENT, especially as manifested by natural cycles and rhythms, community development and structure, interactions between different kinds of organisms, geographic distributions, and population alterations. (Webster's, 3d ed)Hantavirus Pulmonary Syndrome: Acute respiratory illness in humans caused by the Muerto Canyon virus whose primary rodent reservoir is the deer mouse Peromyscus maniculatus. First identified in the southwestern United States, this syndrome is characterized most commonly by fever, myalgias, headache, cough, and rapid respiratory failure.Genetics, Population: The discipline studying genetic composition of populations and effects of factors such as GENETIC SELECTION, population size, MUTATION, migration, and GENETIC DRIFT on the frequencies of various GENOTYPES and PHENOTYPES using a variety of GENETIC TECHNIQUES.GuatemalaWorld Health: The concept pertaining to the health status of inhabitants of the world.DNA, Protozoan: Deoxyribonucleic acid that makes up the genetic material of protozoa.Angiosperms: Members of the group of vascular plants which bear flowers. They are differentiated from GYMNOSPERMS by their production of seeds within a closed chamber (OVARY, PLANT). The Angiosperms division is composed of two classes, the monocotyledons (Liliopsida) and dicotyledons (Magnoliopsida). Angiosperms represent approximately 80% of all known living plants.Rodentia: A mammalian order which consists of 29 families and many genera.Encephalitis Virus, Eastern Equine: A species of ALPHAVIRUS causing encephalomyelitis in Equidae and humans. The virus ranges along the Atlantic seaboard of the United States and Canada and as far south as the Caribbean, Mexico, and parts of Central and South America. Infections in horses show a mortality of up to 90 percent and in humans as high as 80 percent in epidemics.Insect Control: The reduction or regulation of the population of noxious, destructive, or dangerous insects through chemical, biological, or other means.Herpesvirus 5, Bovine: A species of VARICELLOVIRUS that causes a fatal MENINGOENCEPHALITIS in calves.Polymerase Chain Reaction: In vitro method for producing large amounts of specific DNA or RNA fragments of defined length and sequence from small amounts of short oligonucleotide flanking sequences (primers). The essential steps include thermal denaturation of the double-stranded target molecules, annealing of the primers to their complementary sequences, and extension of the annealed primers by enzymatic synthesis with DNA polymerase. The reaction is efficient, specific, and extremely sensitive. Uses for the reaction include disease diagnosis, detection of difficult-to-isolate pathogens, mutation analysis, genetic testing, DNA sequencing, and analyzing evolutionary relationships.Pacific Islands: The islands of the Pacific Ocean divided into MICRONESIA; MELANESIA; and POLYNESIA (including NEW ZEALAND). The collective name Oceania includes the aforenamed islands, adding AUSTRALIA; NEW ZEALAND; and the Malay Archipelago (INDONESIA). (Webster's New Geographical Dictionary, 1988, p910, 880)Europe, EasternHantavirus: A genus of the family BUNYAVIRIDAE causing HANTAVIRUS INFECTIONS, first identified during the Korean war. Infection is found primarily in rodents and humans. Transmission does not appear to involve arthropods. HANTAAN VIRUS is the type species.Marsupialia: An infraclass of MAMMALS, also called Metatheria, where the young are born at an early stage of development and continue to develop in a pouch (marsupium). In contrast to Eutheria (placentals), marsupials have an incomplete PLACENTA.Communicable Diseases, Emerging: Infectious diseases that are novel in their outbreak ranges (geographic and host) or transmission mode.Zoonoses: Diseases of non-human animals that may be transmitted to HUMANS or may be transmitted from humans to non-human animals.Trichechus inunguis: Member of the genus Trichechus found in the Amazon and Orinoco drainages of northeastern South America. (From Scott, Concise Encyclopedia Biology, 1996)Conservation of Natural Resources: The protection, preservation, restoration, and rational use of all resources in the total environment.Simuliidae: Several species of the genus Simulium (family Simuliidae) that act as intermediate hosts (vectors) for the parasitic disease ONCHOCERCIASIS.Ilex paraguariensis: A plant species of the family AQUIFOLIACEAE. An infusion of the leaves is commonly drunk in South America for stimulating effect in much the same manner as coffee is in other cultures.Tooth: One of a set of bone-like structures in the mouth used for biting and chewing.HIV Infections: Includes the spectrum of human immunodeficiency virus infections that range from asymptomatic seropositivity, thru AIDS-related complex (ARC), to acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS).Molecular Epidemiology: The application of molecular biology to the answering of epidemiological questions. The examination of patterns of changes in DNA to implicate particular carcinogens and the use of molecular markers to predict which individuals are at highest risk for a disease are common examples.Linguistics: The science of language, including phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, pragmatics, and historical linguistics. (Random House Unabridged Dictionary, 2d ed)Geology: The science of the earth and other celestial bodies and their history as recorded in the rocks. It includes the study of geologic processes of an area such as rock formations, weathering and erosion, and sedimentation. (From McGraw-Hill Dictionary of Scientific and Technical Terms, 6th ed)Encephalitis Virus, Venezuelan Equine: A species of ALPHAVIRUS that is the etiologic agent of encephalomyelitis in humans and equines. It is seen most commonly in parts of Central and South America.Trichechus manatus: Member of the genus Trichechus inhabiting the coast and coastal rivers of the southeastern United States as well as the West Indies and the adjacent mainland from Vera Cruz, Mexico to northern South America. (From Scott, Concise Encyclopedia Biology, 1996)Base Sequence: The sequence of PURINES and PYRIMIDINES in nucleic acids and polynucleotides. It is also called nucleotide sequence.History, 20th Century: Time period from 1901 through 2000 of the common era.Developing Countries: Countries in the process of change with economic growth, that is, an increase in production, per capita consumption, and income. The process of economic growth involves better utilization of natural and human resources, which results in a change in the social, political, and economic structures.Alphavirus: A genus of TOGAVIRIDAE, also known as Group A arboviruses, serologically related to each other but not to other Togaviridae. The viruses are transmitted by mosquitoes. The type species is the SINDBIS VIRUS.Anopheles: A genus of mosquitoes (CULICIDAE) that are known vectors of MALARIA.United StatesCatfishes: Common name of the order Siluriformes. This order contains many families and over 2,000 species, including venomous species. Heteropneustes and Plotosus genera have dangerous stings and are aggressive. Most species are passive stingers.Africa South of the Sahara: All of Africa except Northern Africa (AFRICA, NORTHERN).Yellow Fever Vaccine: Vaccine used to prevent YELLOW FEVER. It consists of a live attenuated 17D strain of the YELLOW FEVER VIRUS.Internationality: The quality or state of relating to or affecting two or more nations. (After Merriam-Webster Collegiate Dictionary, 10th ed)


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Vijay Hazare Trophy: So near, yet so far for Karnataka
Chasing 270 in 42 overs — the match a curtailed affair because of a wet outfield — K.L. Rahul scored 107 (91b, 8x4, 5x6) to bring Karnataka within a whisker but his team lost by 4 runs.
N. Sudarshan
11 February, 2018 20:03 IST
K.L. Rahul was involved in two partnerships — 100 runs for the fourth wicket with Deshpande and 58 runs for the seventh wicket with Vinay. - K. Bhagya Prakash
It could have been the best-possible parting gift the South Africa-bound K.L. Rahul could have given Karnataka but it wasn't to be as his side fell short by four runs against Punjab in the Vijay Hazare Trophy at Alur on Sunday.
Chasing 270 in 42 overs – the match a curtailed affair because of a wet outfield – the India opener scored 107 marvellous runs (91b, 8x4, 5x6) to bring Karnataka within a whisker. When he was dismissed caught at fine leg off Barinder Sran, it needed another 21 runs from 16 balls with skipper Vinay Kumar (26 n.o., 29b, 1x6) still at the crease.
However Sran, who was otherwise hammered all through the match, bowled two miserly overs (2-0-10-1) at the death to deny Karnataka. For Punjab, U-19 World Cup star Shubman Gill was the stand-out performer, making an unbeaten century (123, 122b, 8x4, 6x6) in a must win game, but almost saw Rahul ruin his day.
Rahul had endured a patchy run of late and would have no doubt liked a few runs before he joined his India teammates for the T20Is against South Africa. That these came after his team had lost three of its inform batsmen – Mayank Agarwal, Karun Nair and R. Samarth – with just 61 runs on the board, with just two rookie specialist batsmen in Pavan Deshpande (53, 51b, 4x4, 1x6) and Anirudha Joshi for company, will please him.
The first half of his innings was subdued. Coming in at No.3, he took more than a dozen balls to get off the mark and the half-century consumed 60 balls. But after bringing it up with two consecutive fours off Mayank Markande, he grew expansive.
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The two partnerships — 100 runs for the fourth wicket with Deshpande and 58 runs for the seventh wicket with Vinay – saw some outstanding shots by Rahul. Two of his sixes were fierce square cuts and the other two came through a scoop and an upper cut. The fifth off Manpreet Grewal, a pull, got him to his hundred.
Gill's ton was no less special. But for a run-out chance fluffed by Mayank when he had just crossed 50, it was a chanceless innings. After Vinay dismissed his opening partner Manan Vohra off the first ball of the match, the 18-year-old displayed tremendous poise.
It was only in the 12th over that he moved into double figures, hoisting offie K. Gowtham over the long on boundary, but not for once did he seem anxious. He was particularly severe on Gowtham's spin partner Pravin Dubey – playing in-place of an injured Shreyas Gopal – hammering him for three of his six sixes.
Prasidh Krishna and T. Pradeep too saw themselves carted around the park by Gill but to a lesser extent. Along with useful contributions from Gurkeerat Singh Mann (35 n.o.), Mandeep Singh (64) and Yuvraj Singh (36) he pulled Punjab up to third in the group, behind Karnataka and Railways.
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ATA Featured Member: Faye Stewart Transportation
Although the company was started just eight years ago, Faye Stewart Transportation Service, LLC was named one of the country's top 500 fastest-growing businesses by Entrepreneur magazine in 2007. Faye Stewart started the company with nothing more than $1000, a 400-square-foot shared office and knowledge gained through 25 years of working for different trucking companies. She grew the business one load at a time, garnering her first $1 million in revenues within a year of the start-up.
Faye Stewart Transportation, LLC leases trucks and has about 70 independent contractors hauling for the company all over the country. The company has been certified as a woman-owned business enterprise by the states of California, Utah, New Mexico, Arizona Unified Certification Program, and City of Phoenix. However, Faye has found that the minority business certification is less useful as a competitive advantage than it is for networking with other women business owners.
Faye Stewart was born on a farm in Evansville, Indiana, but has lived in the West Valley since 1957, including in Cashion, El Mirage and Surprise. Her father operated a Blakely Service Station on Buckeye Road in Cashion for many years.
After several decades in trucking, Faye says, "It's the same business, but every day is a new day." Faye has a true passion for the trucking industry.
Faye Stewart Transportation, LLC joined the Arizona Trucking Association in 2007 and in October 2008, Faye was appointed by ATA Chairman Dave Williams to fill a vacancy on ATA's Board of Directors. Of the company's membership in ATA, Faye says "Upon joining the ATA, I made a decision to jump in with both feet. What I mean by that is attending all the meetings, volunteering for projects, even holding onto fishing nets while someone else nails them to the wall for décor at the ATA conference!
"The point is that if we all carry a small piece of the burden we can move mountains. I think that every member is a link in our success. The energy and strength of each member creates the collective synergy of our organization. So I invite all to jump in with both feet to reap the benefits," Faye says emphatically!
"The ATA is made of people who own and or manage trucking companies, which allows networking with other fine member organizations such as Western National Bank, Empire Power Systems and Southwest Truck Insurance, just to mention a few. This is one of the great benefits of being a member.
"I also truly believe that success is 98% discipline and 2% luck. In other words, Discipline = Achievement!"
Faye says that her organization is participating in the "The Power of Focus," by Jack Canfield, Mark Victor Hansen and Les Hewitt. "They say that 'Energy flows where focus goes!' We have a place in my office called 'The Well'. Our staff must go there every day to participate in the program," Faye says.
"A single page is placed there for them to read. We do not copy the pages and hand them out for their convenience. Life isn't convenient, it's Discipline."
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Q: about CONFIG_NO_HZ in kernel So if CONFIG_NO_HZ is set, I believe it will make a tickless kernel. But I believe this just means when the system is idle, it might become tickless in order to save energy. When it's working, it is still tick kernel, right? Thanks:>

A: Essentially, yes.
There are ongoing projects to make the periodic tick go away also when not idle, but that's a lot of work with many changes, and it's unclear whether it will ever be completed.