1911 - a lease dated Sep. 30 and terminated by mutual consent on March 27, 1930 between the Vandalia Railroad and Arthur Morris - for the boat and bath house - also had a map of its location and the	railroad grounds.
1912 Jan 25 - The Vandalia is expected to have its pile driver here this week breaking ground for the new $50,000 depot it intends to erect this season. The present freight house has been sold to a farmer near Burr Oak who will use it as an incubator.
1913 - A Storm in 1913 destroyed the Lighthouse in the Vandalia Park. It was used as a signal for the arrival of the evening train arrivals. It was built some time in the 1900's or late 1890's it stood on a 4 to 5 foot base and was 8 to 10 feet in height.
a 1913 picture of the Vandalia railroad tracks along the west side of the lake - exact location is not known.
1913 - Aug. 14 - Run Down and Killed While Sitting on Track near the south ice house along the shore of Lake Maxinkuckee he was a man sitting on the track.
A man aged about 21 or 22 years was instantly killed Tuesday about 10:30 o'clock when he was struck by a cut of Vandalia cars bear Culver. His body was taken in charge by the coroner of Marshall county, who is holding it pending word from relatives.
The Vandalia train, in charge of Engineer Jasorka and Conductor Meranda, both of this city, had left its cut of cars near Arlington and had gone to Culver to take water. On the way back the engine picked up a couple of cars and was backing to the main body of the train. Conductor Meranda was on the front end of the box xar and as the train was nearing the south ice house along the shore of Lake Maxinkuckee he was a man sitting on the track. It was too late to stop the train and the man was struck and thrown to one side of the track. The train was stopped and the crew ran back and found the man, killes instantly. Residents of Culver say the man's name was Mc Neill and that he was a laborer on farms in the vicinity. pg. 6 Thursday Aug. 14 1913 Loganpsort Lournal Tribune.
A Servian stealing a ride on the Vandalia northbound freight train Thursday night fell from the car upon which he was riding near Culver Station and sustained serious injuried.
According to the tourist's story, he was standing on a box car while the freight on a siding near Culver waited for a passenger train to pass on the main line. The freight started suddenly and he fell to the ground, breaking on leg and bruisin him badly.
He claims he was lifted into a boaxcar by unknwon persons and remained there until the freight train put into the yards in South Bend, where his groans attracted the attention of Conductor Reed, of this city, in charge of the freight train.
1914 - Feb 5 - Tbe subway committee from the Commercial club- Walter M. Hand, J. P . Walter and John Osborn - met with Supt. Campbell last week for a conference relative to the construction of a subway under tbe Vandalia track at the foot of Jefferson street. Mr. Campbell has agreed to send an engineer here to investigate and to present the result to the higher officials.
1914 - 12 Mar Culver citizen - Lou Swigart has closed his lunch room in Depot place and departed from the city.
1914 - May 28 - lighting at the Depot.
The Vandalia electricians are wiring the station building. The office, waiting room und baggage room will be lighted, and there will be one light under each shed, and one at each end of the depot. Really, we'll be quite fine when this is accomplished. lt is not expected that the lake front park will be lighted this year.
Frank Goltry, Vandalia brakeman was side swiped Wednesday night while hanging on one side of a box car on Vandalia Freight train NO. 269 near Culver, Ind. He was cut and badly bruised though no bones are believed to be broken.
The accident occured about 10 o'clock and he remained unconscious until 4 o'clock the following morning.
Arthur Emerick, Vandalia brakeman, who was sideswiped and seriously injured Saturday morning is resting easliy at his home in East Linden Avenue and will be himself again within a short time. He is completely out of danger though it was feared that his skull had been fractured.
While hanging to a Vandalia train on which he was working, Emerick's head collided with a water spout and he was knocked from the train.
1914 Sep. 17 - The Union News Company's stands at the depot closed last week.
1914 - Oct 15 - - Chua. Emerick, a Vandalia brakeman who was knocked off the top of a box car by the water spout at Culver one night last summer, bas entered suit in Cass county for $10,000 damages.
"The grade wasn't quite as wide as it is now, the road was way over where part of the grade was. It was dirt, right down at the water level. When the lake was high, you could even drive in the water along it. Some telephone posts had to be set in the lake to get through there. That's been filled in. So the train didn't have far to go to get onto the ice. Of course, the shore in there, I imagine, was pretty well protected, and I imagine the ice froze clear to the ground. But it did hold the train up. I've seen the pictures, too."
Oil spills are rare enough on Indiana lakes, but I'm willing to bet the great Maxinkuckee corn spill is one of a kind.
1915 - April 13 - The Vandalia has had men here for a couple of weeks putting the railroad property into repair. The Depot has been repainted and patched up and some work has been done on the Lake View Hotel. The pump at the engine house, near the depot, has also received attention.
1915 - Jun 15 - Terre Haute & Logansport RR to S. E. Medbourn, in Toner's addn to Culver, $8000.
1916 - Dec 1 - VANDALIA TRAIN HITS AUTOMOBILE AT Culver An unoccupied automobile ... at Culver Ind Monday night struck by... Wednesday, Dec. 1, 1916 Logansport Journal Tribune.
29 March 1917 W. T. Parish arrived from Rockville, Indiana was the station master until ca 1954.
1920 - 12 January the depot built in 1884 was destroyed by fire.
1920 - Jan 21 - The depot burned down Monday morning. By Wednesday night the east waiting shed had been converted into a depot with agent's office, waiting room and baggage room, heated, electric lighted, wired for telegraph instruments and the signal tower in operation. The construction crew came in force, bringing their kitchen car and bunk car. The old depot meantime had been torn dowon and such lumber as was usless had been burned, while good pieces of lumber had been sold off to local parties. Some work, we'll say.
Surveyors were at work several days last week taking levels and setting stakes not only on that part of the grounds where the new depot is expected to be erected, but onmuch of that portion of the park lying between the track and the lake.
The surveyors were uncommunicative, probably thorugh ignorance of the plans of the company. They were we presume, instructed to take certain levels and make their report to the cheif engineer.
The public however, sees in this activity a reasonable promise of a new depot this season. Certainly the need of one is no more apparent to us thanto the railroad company. The present accomodations are of the most temporary character, unfit for buisness or the comfort of the public. The board shack has been a refrigerator during the winter and will be a fireless cooker during the summer.
But the finances of the railroad are in a depleted condition and much as the officials would like to see a modern brick station, adequate for the nextgeneration, rear its symmetrical walls aloft, they may be compelled to forgo this satisfaction until the employees cease their everlasting cry for more wages and the commerce commission grants higher frieght rates.
thus by this F. G. Solomon's was located somewhere on Lakeshore Dr. during the 1920's; the railroade bridge would be the tressle which was at the end of Washington Street, I would assume.
The railroad park is rapidly assuming the festive aires of summer.
Cape Wiseman and his assitant Charley Eaton have place the flower beds in readiness and installments of blooming plantsare being received from the company's conservatories at Schwickley, Pa.
The park benches are in place and picnic parties are already putting them to use.
Crushed stone has been spread on the thoroughfare west of the depot and an attractive graa plot and flower beds have been completed on the site of the burned depot.
The park is a beauty spot every summer - a joy to the eyes of the tired traveler and a source of much enjoyment to thetown people and the thousands of visitors to the lake.
1920 - sep. 8 - Thomas Twomey, pennsylvannia ticket agent for the past eight years, dies Sept. 7 half an hour after suffering a cerebral hemorage.
1920, Sep 13 - At this date the Pittsburgh, Cincinnati, Chicago and St. Louis ( P. C. C. & St.L. ) Railroad Company and a connection with the railroad tracks that ran through Culver are they are mentione in the deed for Thomas b. Hamilton for the purchased of his cottage on Willow Point.
The new station for Bremen ordered ... This suggests the uncertainty of the date of constructing the Culver Station which is now a temproray board affair improvised after the burning of the old building.
1921 - Jan. 19 - On jan. 12 a year and to the day after the old Vandalia depot was destroyed by fire, the temporary depot caught fire.
In March 1922 part of the Vandalia Park which was bought from Mr. Toner in Ma_ of 1886 was sold.
1922 - Aug - The public comfort station on the railroad grounds was condemened and closed to the public by the local helath officer last Thrusday. The residents of the neighborhood complained that it was a nuisance. On the following day a representative of the company held a conference with Health Officer Meredith with the result that in view of the public's necessity and the assurance that hereafter the place would be carefully looked after by the company, the doors wer again opened.
The ground occupied until recently by the cottage owned by the railraod, near the depot, is being cleared.
The opinion of the railroad employees, gathered from the talk along the line, is that the new station building is likely to be built this season.
There will also be constructed two electric towers at the lower and upper curnes of the station.
1923 - Aug. 8 - Culver has been assured of a, new railroad station, according to a report which W. T. Parish has received from the superintendent of the South Bend division of the Pennsylvania Railroad. Appropriation of funds has been made and actual construction will begin before very long.
1925 - January 28 - Ralph Hamilton of Kewanna has been transferred to the local freight office in place of R. A. Miner who has been sent to Converse, Ind.
1925 - April 15 - Work on the new depot will begin within (be next 10 days according to word received from Supt. B. H. Hutchinson by Agent W. T. Parish.
1925 - April 30 - Work has, finally begun on the new depot and now people of the community are beginning to think that, after all, possibly it was not a dream.
In September 1925 - it was the third depot.
This is the present brick structure. One of David Burn's yarns that he told around town was how he built the chimney on this depot - he would lay it up so far and his father [James E. Burns] would kick it down - this went on all day; according to David; his father's point to be made was that if you laid only one brick a day you were to lay it right. He went on to tell that he was 16 at the time and was playing hookey from school quite a bit and he was told to either go to school or go to work.
George E. Nearpass by the information on the back of the postcard picture of him; he was known as the "Whistling Brakeman"; and also by this information he had his own radio show.
1929 - The wooden railroad viaduct at the end of Washington Street has been rebuilt with heavier material; it is felt the new structure should handle the heavy freight loads - 11 Sep. Culver Citizen.
A crew of the Pennsylvania railroad is busy installing ne electric falsher warning signal system at three crossings near Culver, which when completed will give much better and surer protection to traffic.
It would have been possible for the railoard to have had the old battery system working a the state road crossing some time ago, but the poser system requires much more labor and equipment.
The signals are being installed at the Bogardus and otlet crossings as will as at the state road. There is much less chance of filure to operate with the porwe system and the strength of the light is many times stronger.
Then by the mid 1930' or 40's one was the 'Doodlebug'; was a one car train that carried people between I believe Logansport & Culver and Culver & South Bend.
1930 - In the 2 July 1930 issue of the Culver Citizen it was announced by the Pennsylvania Railroad that trains would drop to two a day - the 10:35 am South and the 3:25 North would be dropped. The remaining trains would be the 11:37 am which will arrive at 10:55 am going North and the 8:50 pm which would go south.
1935 - In 1935 Culver purchased the Vandalia park for $6,500 this included 3.2 acres and buildings excluding the depot and adjacent land; it also included Bunker Hill and the old water tower of 2.2 acres.
February 20, 1935 - The sale of Vandalia Park by the Pennsylvania Railroad to the town of Culver was announced resterday, and is the culmination if several months of negotiaion. The transaction included the 3.2 acres comprising the present park and 2.2 acres of the site of the old water tower.
1935 - Jun 26 - New "Culver" signs have been placed on the depot.
The old freight house on the siding near the dept was town down the first of the week by Wayne Von Ehr, who bought the structure from the Pennsylvania railraod. The building is about 30 years old.
With the new door service rendered by the railroad there is no need for a storage place. the track siding will be retained.
The removal of the old building will increase the attractiveness of the vicinity.
1940 - A Pennsy passenger train collides with a county truck south of Culver on Rd. 17.
The action allows the railroad to enter the request at a later date if it so desires.
The railroad was ordered to reimburse the state in the amount of $35.45 for expenses incurred in the hearing of the original petition.
1946 - Jan 16 - The second of the two large cedar trees on the depot plaza, both old landmarks, was cut down last week as a safety precaution when it was found that the base of the 100-foot tree was rotten two-thirds of the way through.
Notice is hereby given that the Publice Commission if Indiana will conduct a public hearing in this caurse in the Basement of the Public Library, Culver, Indiana, 10:00 a.m., Wedensday, October 29, 1947.
Public participation is requested Public Service Commission of Indiaina By Harold J. Bell, acting Examiner Indianapolis, In. Oct 6, 1947.
1954 - 7 July - Culver citizen - E. R. Kinney of Marion has been made agent at the Pennsylvania Railroad Station in Culver to fill the vancancy caused by the retitement of W. T. Parish.
1958 - In March of 1958 14 coal cars derailed in the park area and it took most of the spring and early summer to clean up.
1959 - In 1959 the first coin operated laundry may came to Culver; waiting room area of the depot was transformed into a Laundry mat until mid or late 1970's and then sat empty for a while.
There are more pictures of this Vandalia Pennsylvania Depot are found here.
It officially started March 19, 1962 when a merger petition went to the Interstate Commerce Commission and took until February 1, 1968 to become real. It was the merger of the Pennsylvania and New York Central into the "Pennsylvania New York Central Transportation Company" known as the "Penn Central"
1969 - In 1969 the local depot was closed and Emory Kinney who had been station master since 1954 and his operations were moved to Logansport. Freight trains ran through intermentintly until 1979 when the Vandalia line was finally completely abandoned; the last major user Farm Bureau Co-op had burned in 1978 and did not rebuild in Culver.
This threat to U.S. freight and passenger traffic galvanized the Congress to quickly create a bill to nationalize the bankrupt railroads. The Association of American Railroads, which opposed nationalization, submitted an alternate proposal for a government-funded private company. Judge Fullam forced the Penn Central to operate into 1974, when, on January 2, after threatening a veto, President Richard Nixon signed the Regional Rail Reorganization Act of 1973 into law. The "3R Act," as it was called, provided interim funding to the bankrupt railroads and defined a new Consolidated Rail Corporation under the AAR's plan The 3R Act also formed the United States Railway Association, another government corporation, taking over the powers of the Interstate Commerce Commission with respect to allowing the bankrupt railroads to abandon unprofitable lines. The USRA was incorporated February 1, 1974, and Edward G. Jordan, an insurance executive from California, was named president on March 18 by President Richard Nixon. Arthur D. Lewis of Eastern Air Lines was appointed chairman April 30, and the remainder of the board was named May 30 and sworn in July 11.
It was approved by Congress on November 9, and on February 5, 1976 President Gerald Ford signed the Railroad Revitalization and Regulatory Reform Act of 1976, which included this Final System Plan, into law.
Conrail (Consolidated Rail Corporation) was incorporated in Pennsylvania on October 25, 1974, and operations began April 1, 1976 .
Sometime during the late 1970's the railroad land was put up for sale. Several people were instrumental in trying to keep what should of been full public accesses for the town of Culver open: Davis Street, Winfield Street, Jefferson Street and Washington Street. One large supporter was June (Garn) Napier Jackson Sirus and many others with her; but they failed and all were sold to private people and access to the lake in Culver has been denied except at the park area and an easement worked out between the town of Culver and John Deery in 1980 at Washington Street where the access road to/from the town park came out at. The last attempt was made by Rod Martindale, David Burns and several others to gain a partial easement at Jefferson Street about 1988 or 1989.
The Penn Central Transportation Company has announced plans to terminate rail service on a secondary railroad track between Culver and Logansport effective Feb. 27.
According to Penn Central trustees , the line is not designated for continued operation by the Consolidated Rail Corporation, or any other carrier, according to the 1973 Final System Plan.
Trustees said information on the line's value and expenses may be examined in the Penn Central Superintendent's office, 231 Baker St., Fort Wayne.
The tracks through Culver have not been used for several years, and termination of service is basically a formality.
On 29 Jul 1976 the 32 mile long track between Logansport and Culver was abandoned; the Penn Central bankruptcy also brought the abandonedment of the 72 miles of the original line between terre Haute and Frankfort (LC&SW) the track between Culver and South Bend had already been abandoned which was 29 miles.
Fight for Town Lake Accss - 1970's of abandoned railway property at E. Wshingt, E. Jefferson, Winfield St. and Davis Streets.
1984 - In on 27 December 1984 the town made a resolution to purchase the depot and adjacent land for $42,500 and it was finalized on 10 April 1985; thus began the depot renovation project by the Culver Lions Club.


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The love for ranking and our inadequacies
The cut-throat competition in college admissions and for employment in Kenya, has led most universities as well as some employers to wrongly seek qualifications from as far back as KCPE and reject fairly good applicants.
While in the US, I travelled to Cleveland to visit friends and hopefully, meet the Chief Executive Officer of the Cleveland Clinic, Toby Cosgrove.
Ever since I read about him in the New York Times, I have associated his name with Cleveland. An extraordinary man. I did not meet him. But many people I talked to have listened to him talk and felt that his story must be told widely. He is a global role model we all need to know and relate to our own inadequacies.
Delos "Toby" Cosgrove was born in 1940, and for most of his education, he struggled to pass with C's and D's. He did not know he was dyslexic until age 32, when he read the New York Times aloud to a teacher he was dating. As he struggled to pronounce some of the words, she put a name to the learning difficulties he had faced since he was a young boy.
In an article titled From C's and D's to Clinic's helm dated Wednesday, June 09, 2004, on Cosgrove, Diane Solov, a reporter for the Plain Dealer writes, "these days, Cosgrove can rely on his assistants for help with spelling and sentence structure. But in his youth, a mix of serendipity, moxie and determination helped him jump one hurdle to the next. Cosgrove struggled in public schools in his hometown of Watertown, N.Y., and studied hard for D's in college French at Williams College in Williamstown, Mass., his father's alma mater.
He did so poorly on the standardized tests required for medical admission that he credits special circumstances, for getting into the University of Virginia's medical school, the only one of 13 schools that accepted his application. At medical school, he was no academic performer, but he thrived in the clinical work. In his senior year, during a clinical rotation at Boston Children's Hospital, a legendary surgeon there liked his work.
NEWFOUND CONFIDENCE
He landed an internship at the University of Rochester and a year of residency training before he was shipped off to a hospital in Da Nang, Vietnam. There, the article says, he earned his stripes as a surgeon and a soldier winning a Bronze Star for his medical work, a medal from the Vietnam government for a weekly clinic he ran on the side, and an air medal for flying combat missions to keep busy.
Cosgrove returned home with a newfound confidence that provoked him to apply to top residency programs to finish his training, including Massachusetts General. He was rejected, but wouldn't take "no" for an answer and pestered the department chairman's secretary. His persistence and a brief phone call from the legendary surgeon he had met in medical school got him in.
When he finished his training there, he was told he was No. 13 in a residency group of 13. In the end, as he decided on heart surgery, he became chief resident at Boston Children's Hospital. Then he spent six months unemployed, writing a book on heart surgery before a letter from then CEO Floyd Loop arrived in 1975 offering him a job. He went to the Clinic and opted to stay, despite an open offer from Harvard."
Today Cosgrove is Chief Executive Officer of the world-famous Cleveland Clinic and a retired cardiac surgeon of international repute. He has pioneered such procedures as mitral valve repairs and published more than 450 papers. He is an accomplished inventor, with 18 patents, and a relentless workhorse, counting 700 surgeries in the last year of his surgical work, an average of more than 13 a week.
"WE SEE OTHER THINGS"
He credits his innovative bent to dyslexia, a reading disorder that he has come to regard as a gift. "We're not very good at the scholastic stuff, but we see other things that are different," he said. "And that's a big advantage." Cosgrove's story is featured in Dr Sally Shaywitz's book, "Overcoming Dyslexia," published in 2003.
At the Clinic, Cosgrove's inventiveness so far has manifested itself in myriad innovations for surgical procedures. His unique view of the work allowed him to spy a solution for a flexible clamp in a bicycle gear and to see an embroidery hoop as inspiration for a ring used to repair heart valves.
Could this story be told in Kenya where we thrive on relative competency over competence? No. With our educational system, Cosgrove would have been condemned as a failure at Kenya Certificate for Primary Education (KCPE) level. Let me explain.
Our love for ranking (I am number one, I am better than you, my children are top of their class) is what precipitates the affinity of relative competency and rejection of those who do not make the mark. That is how we end up with some incompetent people with first-class degrees in work places.
Cosgrove was a competent surgeon in spite the fact that he was not good at standardized testing (he had the skill, the ability, the capability, aptitude and expertise to do his job). The system gave him a chance to uncover his competencies.
The cut-throat competition in college admissions and for employment in Kenya, has led most universities as well as some employers to wrongly seek qualifications from as far back as KCPE and reject fairly good applicants. Paper qualification is just but one aspect of assessing a competent person.
MARRYING LATE
It is emerging that the psychological effect of being ranked first or better than your peers has far greater implications than we assume. In some countries, open learning is encouraged allowing the students to uncover their competencies. Cosgrove deep down knew he had some unexplained capacity that he wanted to exploit and the system allowed him.
Even in relationships, when we make children to believe that they are more handsome or beautiful continuously, we psychologically reinforce false beliefs that have no place in real life. It is often too late when reality strikes for kids growing up knowing they are better than their neighbours. Research shows that such children end up marrying late into their lives well beyond their value date.
Local tracking of high performers in KCPE has shown that not always do they end up performing well throughout their academic career. It helps when parents help the children understand that their performance is only relative to other kids within the country and not the world. From my own observation at university, students from national schools often get frustrated when their performance is poorer than those who came from unknown schools. As Bill Gates said, "Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can't lose".
PREMATURE PRECOCIOUSNESS
A 2007 study by the American Psychological Association asserted that pageants teach young girls "to see themselves as objects to be looked at and evaluated for their appearance". This often leads to some mental health problems for girls including: eating disorders, low self-esteem and depression, that are fuelled by exposure to a culture that promotes performance-based esteem and a judging criteria that views highlights, fake tan and heavy make up as appropriate for very young girls.
The more extreme parents subject their little girls to botox, facials, implants, hair and nail extensions and fake eye lashes. The Irish Examiner reports that "all this gender socialisation to re-enforce traditional limiting female stereotypes forces little girls into the adoption of a veneer of premature precociousness that is profoundly disturbing."
Similarly, highly ranked students relative to their peers may experience low self-esteem and depression in a real life performance experience if they were not competent in the first place. Some competent students sometimes become complacent leading to poor outcomes. Some empires have fallen because of complacency or a false feeling of invincibility.
Trouble with Kenyans is the fact that this penchant for ranking has psychologically damaged us to the extent where you hear someone brag to be a better Christian than his/her peers, have a better car than my friends yet such assertions have no real significant relevancy to the comparators.
No one can argue against the fact that Kenya has competent long distance runners. In this we are the target globally. If you beat the Kenyans, you win. When we insist on being better than our East African neighbours, we lose the opportunity to be the best because of the culture of relative performance that makes us complacent. If we compared ourselves with Singapore or Korea, it gives us reason to think out of the box and do what is necessary to reach a higher target.
"LONE RANGER MENTALITY"
The secret of our athletes' performance has always been collaboration. The US educational system has a strong collaboration element that allowed people like Cosgrove to barely pass their exams. Our educational system does not encourage collaboration. It has made our youth wrecks of unnecessary competition.
This also impacts on how they work in their respective areas of responsibility later in life. Most doctors in Kenya for example, do not collaborate as they should. There is this 'lone ranger' mentality that has caused more damage than good when we are all aware that there is strength in collaboration.
The import of this piece, is to urge policy makers to overhaul our educational system. We need open learning to enable passionate people take up careers they will enjoy in their life and make great contribution as Cosgrove has shown. Admitting students to university purely on their grade is a mistake.
As the former US President Franklin D. Roosevelt said, Competition has been shown to be useful up to a certain point and no further, but cooperation, which is the thing we must strive for today, begins where competition leaves off.
Dr Ndemo is a Senior Lecturer at the University of Nairobi, Business School, Lower Kabete Campus. He is a former Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Information and Communication. Twitter: @bantigito

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by Adam Moerder
Prolific North Dakota-raised singer/songwriter returns here to a markedly spare sound, working through well-worn folk themes like star-crossed love and suicide with just his voice and guitar.
Tom Brosseau's threadbare folk is a tough pill to swallow. Whether you're a stock indie geek or the average Starbucks customer waiting in line, his no-frills, North Dakota born 'n' bred folk tunes will likely leave you wondering what's the twist here. Unlike his guest star-studded What I Mean to Say Is Goodbye and the almost fully band-backed Grand Forks, Cavalier recoils at the notion of the meek, solitary Brosseau growing too big for his britches, opting to instead strip the singer-songwriter down to the undergarments of his earlier, humbler material. Maybe Brosseau's an unfortunate folk relic, trapped in a time where the genre's most often appreciated when grafted to more chic styles.
Brosseau's tenuous saving grace is his likeness to Woody Guthrie or even Bob Dylan, though while he shares their sparse arrangements, he lacks their acerbic tongue and gravitas. Sure, themes of star-crossed love and suicide crop up, most notably on the forlorn chorus of "Brass Ring Blues" ("I've only known an empty gun underneath my bed"), but the stakes always remain small, the politics never extending beyond the path your surrey takes you. The music reflects this, with most songs featuring only Brosseau's voice and guitar, which frequently arppegiates the same predictable chord progressions. A few tracks break up this monotony, such as the loose guitar slides on "Committed to Memory" or the mystical Spanish vibe of "My Heart Belongs to the Sea", a number that dares to pepper in some piano lines alongside Brosseau's trusty acoustic.
The remainder of Cavalier passes by like a warm breeze, the start and finish of each track difficult to determine. Brosseau offers no new perspective on folk mythology. Unlike his concept album Grand Forks, a chronicle of the devastating flood that ravaged Brosseau's hometown in 1997, Cavalier relies on tried-and-true folk subjects like crossing paths with Satan and journeying downstream on a riverboat. Right down to his wholesomely parted blonde hair and enamel-filled smile (think Jack McBrayer's character on 30 Rock), Brosseau's a nifty last bastion of old-timey Americana, but his music sounds sadly obsolete in a country that's grown too world-weary and voracious for simple grassroots ditties.


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2013-2015

Cantones de Altos Alpes

El departamento francés de Altos Alpes se componía hasta el 22 de marzo de 2015 de 30 cantones, que se repartían por distrito, como sigue:

 Distrito de Briançon(7 cantones - subprefectura: Brianzón):Aiguilles - Brianzón-Norte - Brianzón-Sur - Guillestre - La Grave - L'Argentière-la-Bessée y Le Monêtier-les-Bains

 Distrito de Gap(23 cantones - subprefectura: Gap):Aspres-sur-Buëch - Barcillonnette - Chorges - Embrun - Gap-Campiña - Gap-Centro - Gap-Noreste - Gap-Noroeste - Gap-Sureste - Gap-Suroeste - La Bâtie-Neuve - Laragne-Montéglin - Le Dévoluy - Orcières - Orpierre - Ribiers - Rosans - Saint-Bonnet-en-Champsaur - Saint-Firmin - Savines-le-Lac - Serres - Tallard y Veynes

2015

Redistribución cantonal

Para conseguir la reforma territorial que se propuso en 2010, la asamblea nacional adoptó definitivamente el 17 de abril de 2013 la reforma del modo de votación en las elecciones departamentales, con la finalidad de garantizar la paridad hombres/mujeres, cuyas leyes resultantes (ley orgánica 2013-402 y ley 2013-403) fueron promulgadas el 17 de mayo de 2013.

Una nueva redistribución territorial fue definida por decreto del 20 de febrero de 2014, para el departamento de Altos Alpes, que entró en vigor en el momento de la primera renovación general de asamblearios departamentales después de dicho decreto, cuestión que pasó en marzo de 2015.

Los consejeros departamentales, son elegidos por escrutinio mayoritario binominal mixto, siendo los electores de cada cantón los que eligen para el consejo departamental (nueva denominación de los consejeros generales), a dos miembros de sexo diferente, que se presentan juntos a la candidatura. Los consejeros departamentales son elegidos para seis años en escrutinio binominal mayoritario de dos turnos, siendo necesario un 10%  de votos para el acceso al segundo turno. De otra forma la totalidad de los consejeros departamentales son renovados.

Este nuevo modo de escrutinio necesitaba una redistribución de los cantones, cuyo número fue dividido de dos y redondeado a la unidad impar superior inmediata en aplicación del artículo n.º 4 de la Ley 2013-403. En el departamento de Altos Alpes el número de cantones pasó así de 30 a 15.

Los criterios de la redistribución cantonal son los siguientes: el territorio de cada cantón debe estar definido sobre bases esencialmente demográficas, debiendo ser el territorio de cada cantón continuo y las comunas de menos de 3500 habitantes deben estar totalmente comprendidas en dicho cantón. Para ello, no se tendrán en cuenta, ni los límites territoriales de los distritos ni las circunscripciones legislativas que se les apliquen.

Conforme a múltiples decisiones del consejo constitucional tomadas desde 1985 (particularmente la decisión n.º 2010-618 DC del 9 de diciembre de 2010), está permitido un ±20% de variabilidad en el ratio consejero/habitante medio del departamento como admisible para el principio de igualdad de los electores respecto a los criterios demográficos. Para el departamento de Altos Alpes, la población de referencia es la población legal vigente en el 1 de enero de 2013, sobre los datos poblacionales de 2010, es decir 136971. Con 15 cantones, la población media departamental es de 9131 habitantes, por lo que la población de cada nuevo cantón debe de estar entre los 7305 y los 10958 habitantes para respetar dicho principio.

Composición cantonal

Referencias

Altos Alpes

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There is something so magical about getting married during the winter. Being with your friends and family on this special occasion with fluffy snowflakes falling all around. What a picture perfect setting!


Why is it important? What to do? which sequence select as default?
USBBASIC.TXT (13.0 KB) - added by mckinnis 10 years ago.
results are still not clear..
Note that the install routine did drop the USBEHCD.SYS driver to the end of the list.
The zip file (usb10162.zip) is available at www.ecomstation.com.
thank you for reminder, Chuck.
as you can see on practice (sometimes) it's necessary use other order..
let's wait for reply from ACPI developer.
The order shown in the usbbasic.txt would seem to be the IBM recommended order which should work for most systems. I checked this when I spotted a few posts about USB problems being resolved by changing the Controller order from USBEHCD, USBOHCD, USBUHCD - which a lot of systems seem to work happily with - to USBUHCD, USBOHCD, USBEHCD.
However, when I re-coded USBcfg to use this order I did get a complaint from a user of the new release about the "new" Controller load order.
This user does not use the IBM USBD.SYS but uses an OEM build supplied in the mmportv1.zip package. That version of USBD.SYS wants the Controllers loaded in the "reverse to IBM" order ie USBEHCD, USBOHCD, USBUHCD.
This ticket is extremely old, and has nothing to do with the ACPI project. Please discuss USB issues on the USB list.


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The current member of parliament is Plaid Cymru's Jonathan Edwards who has served since 2010.


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Ingredients | Cardiovascular
COVID-19 reshaped how we view health, which has shone a light on Vitamin K2 as an essential supportive -- and protective -- nutrient.
No one wants to think about "what if?" – what if my car breaks down? What if a tree falls on my house? – and yet we actively secure protection for these ever-looming concerns.
Health is no different, but unlike life or medical insurance, the natural products and dietary supplement industries were built upon the idea of keeping the "what if?" at bay altogether. Natural products and dietary supplements have long provided insulation for individuals who recognise diet alone did not deliver the nutrition bodies required to function optimally.
Then came COVID-19…
In less than a year and in an unprecedented way, COVID-19 changed that global mindset. The world collectively recognised it was vulnerable to a new and evolving pathogen and actively – sometimes frantically – began seeking out the elements necessary to insulate itself and loved ones. Immunity has taken center stage, with Vitamin D3 sales skyrocketing, yet Vitamin K2 continues its role as the little- known unsung hero, particularly in the new COVID-19 landscape.
Vitamin K2 & COVID: the soft tissue connection
We achieve longevity by having a healthy foundation in place to carry you into old age, and that foundation requires Vitamin K2 as MK-7. By obtaining adequate amounts daily, K2 activates K- dependent proteins [osteocalcin and matrix Gla protein (MGP)] that direct calcium to the bone and away from arteries and soft tissues, where it can cause them to stiffen, increasing cardiovascular risks. When COVID cast its shadow, researchers began to examine what made us so susceptible to contracting the virus but also what made survivability so elusive.
A groundbreaking study from The Netherlands was the first to pinpoint the connection, demonstrating a link to COVID-19 patients with other conditions, such as cardiovascular issues. Low K status impacts cardiovascular health and the tissue fibers' breakdown, measured by elastin, which is involved in pulmonary disease. 1
Researchers assessed Vitamin K status by measuring the "inactive status" of the vitamin K-dependent MGP and the rate of elastin degradation by measuring desmosine, a recognised marker. The study showed a significant correlation between reduced vitamin K status (i.e. inactive MGP) and accelerated elastic fiber degradation.
According to researchers, MGP is an inhibitor of vascular calcification, and scientific leads suggest that MGP also plays a role in the pathogenesis of lung fibrosis. MGP is crucial for protecting elastic fibers against mineralisation, and fibrosis may be present in the lungs of patients with severe COVID-19. Given that patients with severe COVID-19 are more likely to have comorbidities such as type 2 diabetes, hypertension, and cardiovascular diseases, the researchers concluded that vitamin K deficiency might be suspected to be associated with worse COVID-19 outcomes.
This study represents early, promising research, and does not suggest Vitamin K2 is a treatment for COVID-19. What it does illustrate is the connection between low vitamin K status and a poor prognosis. Thus, research continues, hypothesising that improving Vitamin K2 status is linked to better health outcomes, including cardiovascular and perhaps even lung health.
Only means only
A three-year study with healthy postmenopausal women and a one-year trial with healthy men and women validated Vitamin K2 supplementation promotes active MGP for cardiovascular health. 2,3 Both used NattoPharma's MenaQ7 Vitamin K2 as MK-7 and showed arterial flexibility was maintained or even improved.
All Vitamin K2s are not the same. MenaQ7 is the only K2 as MK-7 shown in human clinical trials to deliver this benefit. For those hoping to provide impactful cardiovascular health products, NattoPharma welcomes the opportunity to discuss how its clinically proven ingredient can make that a reality.
1. Dofferhoff, A.S. et al., "Reduced Vitamin K Status as A Potentially Modifiable Prognostic Risk Factor in COVID-19", Preprints 2020, 2020040457 (doi: 10.20944/preprints202004.0457.v1).
2. Knapen MH, et al., "Menaquinone-7 supplementation improves arterial stiffness in healthy postmenopausal women. A double-blind randomised clinical trial." Thromb Haemost. 2015 May;113(5):1135-44. Doi: 10.1160/TH14-08-0675.
3. Vermeer C and Vik H., "Effect of Menaquinone-7 (vitamin K2) on vascular elasticity in healthy subjects: results from a one-year study", 2020 Vascul Dis Ther, 5: doi: 10.15761/VDT.1000179.


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When you're handling your grain, you want to be sure you have the right equipment to maximize your yield. John Deere has a wide array of combines, as well as combine belts, to help you take on the task.
There are several combine headers to choose from that offer all-crop flexibility and specialist capabilities for whatever the terrain throws your way. However, maintenance is key to ensuring that your combines and combine belts last for years to come. Using belts that are in working order can also ensure that your machine is up to the task when it comes time to harvest.


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Nintendo Sales Panic: October 2019 US NPD Group Results
After seeing #7 in the software charts, the News Editor needs a little bit of the bubbly.
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The industry as a whole had a major letdown compared to last October according to the latest results from the NPD Group, but Nintendo keeps on rolling along.
Unless noted, all figures are based on dollar sales in the reporting period of October 6 to November 2.
For the tenth month in a row, the Switch was the best selling console in the United States, though a revenue split between the Switch Lite and the Switch was not available.
Software saw four major debuts on Nintendo platforms, the best performing of which was Luigi's Mansion 3. The Next Level Games-developed title was third in the combined revenue charts with no digital sales for October, with unit sales topping the launch month of the original in 2001. The only games that ranked ahead of it were fellow October debutantes Call of Duty: Modern Warfare (2019) and The Outer Worlds, which is slated to hit Switch in Q1 of 2020. Ring Fit Adventure, though sold at a higher MSRP, slotted into the 10th slot on the top 20 revenue chart. For major October third party debuts, Overwatch was the #6 best seller on the Switch (at a $40 MSRP) and landed in the top 20 combined at #16, while The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt Complete Edition was 8th in the Switch top 10.
Nintendo catalogue titles also performed well in October. The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening was #11 combined, with Mario Kart 8 Deluxe drafting just behind in 12th. Super Smash Bros. Ultimate pulled in 17th place, while Breath of the Wild took 20th place and making it 30-for-31 in the NPD top 20. Third party titles included NBA 2k20 in 5th, FIFA 20 in 8th, Minecraft in 13th, and Mortal Kombat 11 in 15th. WWE 2k20, a prior year of which was on Switch, grabbed 7th slot despite thousands of reports of software glitches.
The full top 10s for software:
Overwatch (Blizzard)
The Witcher III: Wild Hunt Complete Edition (Warner Brothers Interactive)
New Super Mario Bros U Deluxe
Pokémon Ultra Sun
Pokémon Ultra Moon
The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask 3D
Luigi's Mansion: Dark Moon
Minecraft (Microsoft)
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One common complaint about the business of making records today is that too many artists, producers, and labels keep heading down the same well-worn paths. It has even been suggested that many are working with a formula in mind, and carefully calculating everything from lyrical content to song production—all based on what has come before and generated success. But Chris Jones—best known as a respected bluegrass artist—broke out of his formula for his latest release, Too Far Down the Road [Little Dog Records].
Helping him broaden his horizons is Grammy winning producer and guitarist Pete Anderson (Dwight Yoakam, k.d. lang, Michelle Shocked, and others), who also signed Jones to his own Burbank, California-based Little Dog Records.
While many big-name artists have taken a different turn musically, for a guy like Jones there is a far greater risk that his fan base could crumble, leaving him with an artistic endeavor, and no one to hear it.
Innovation usually results from someone taking a risk. Growing yourself and your music can be a shaky proposition—one that has resulted in more than a few stalled or extinguished careers. But not following your heart and your creative vision may ultimately cost far more in the long run. While it's fairly simple to understand how an artist can reach a point where he or she would like to explore new territories—or even totally reinvent themselves—it's a little more complicated getting at how an artist actually decides to take the leap and do it.


Abraham-Louis Breguet famous luxury watches maker regulators Tourbillion's biggest draws attention as one of the meet. Breguet is the masters of the watch and the time of king also referred to as rather impressive compliment with an hour. 1795 discover is patented in 1801 is among the most impressive modern Tourbillon, watches have one of the mechanism. Such a mechanism is of course the skilled craftsmen by uncovering and carry the signature of the famous masters of watches produced the expected an improvement.
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200 years ago, when we compare with the watches produced in tourbillon included in the collection of the most prestigious companies that appear even more we are witnessing that.
The Tourbillon mechanism, with the mobile chassis watches tongs. Clock escapement rotational movement in a certain period (e.g. 1, 4 or 6 per minute) is performing around the axis. Rotation movement during all returning a certain direction, so that the mechanism the mechanism is located in the centre of gravity is going to have different values for each second. Thus, unlike the traditional watches, positional errors are prevented.
Tourbillion's advantage of the watches with these validation tests has become indisputable. Official chronograph for maximum offset value for each day + 5 seconds and 0.3 seconds in every day for their marine of chronograph, while this figure is equal to 100 split-second tourbillon. Normal watch mechanism in 36 watches from 40-46 time values according to the values of this mechanism, ranging from the average deviation was only about the downside. The key factors in the formation of losses in question at the time of the rotation energy use were tourbillon mechanism. Therefore a 6-minute tourbillon watches are a 1-minute tourbillon was providing more productivity according to time. However, the offset values taken on the basis of the 100de of a second per second or in the form of multiples of one 1000de is effective and shows a 6-minute periods in this effect.
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