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31, Governor Isham G. Harris' letter to General A. Sidney Johnston explaining failure to arm soldiers and fortify Nashville
EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT,
Nashville, Tenn., December 31, 1861.
Gen. A. SIDNEY JOHNSTON:
DEAR SIR: I have the honor to acknowledge receipt of a letter of 25th instant. Upon its receipt I immediately appointed energetic agents to collect laborers in this and adjoining counties to construct the fortifications near Nashville, but I must say that the response to my appeal for laborers has not thus far been as flattering as I had wanted and expected. I shall have within a very few days some 200 negro men at this work, and hope soon to increase this number to 500 or 600. Telegraphed you the same day your letter came to hand, asking how many laborers you thought necessary, about what length of time they would be employed, and what engineer would supervise and control the work, answers to which would have aided me in securing the laborers, but have as yet received no reply.
I fully appreciate the exigencies by which you are surrounded, and, as I have heretofore. I shall continue to use every effort within my power and all resources at my command to strengthen your position and to secure the country from invasion. In order, however, that the present resources of the State may not be overestimated, it is proper that I give you at least an approximate idea of them and some of the difficulties which I encounter at every step.
Tennessee has now organized and in the field, in addition to some independent companies, fifty-two infantry regiments and one battalion, nine battalions of cavalry, and two regiments of artillery. Volunteer companies are now in camp, under orders to move to rendezvous, sufficient to form six additional infantry regiments and two battalions of cavalry, making the whole force about sixty-six regiments. This force, large as it is, is drawn almost entirely from two divisions from the State, the unfortunate political dissensions in East Tennessee, with near one-third of the voting population of the State, having almost paralyzed that section, but I am pleased to state that these divisions and dissensions are rapidly disappearing, and I hope soon to see a united people in Tennessee, when we may reasonably expect re-enforcements from that section; but with the immense tax upon the population of Middle and West Tennessee to make up the force already referred to I do not hope for any considerable number of volunteers from either of these divisions, unless it be upon pressing emergency, when I feel assured that a patriotic response will be made by almost our whole people to meet such emergency.
But the difficulty is not, nor has it been, in obtaining men. The inadequate supply of arms has been and is the chief obstacle which I encounter in promptly furnishing to you any reasonable number of re-enforcements. With the greatest possible energy it takes time to collect and repair the private arms of the country, and this is the only means, I have of arming the force now called to the field. I have spared neither effort, pains, nor expense in expediting the work, and yet it has been and is impossible to proceed with it rapidly.
In furnishing arms to the large force above referred to the State has heretofore drawn from the hands of her citizens their most effective private arms. Almost every gun that we get at this time must necessarily pass through the hands of the smiths before it is fit for service, and in this connection it is well to remark that Tennessee, less fortunate than some of her sister States, had not United States arsenal or depository or arms within her limits from which her troops might have been supplied; that but comparatively a small number of her force have been armed independent of the State, and that upon assuming connection with the Confederate States all of her contracts for the manufacture of arms and other materials of war were assigned and transferred to the Confederate Government.
I am sure, general, you will appreciate and make due allowance for the difficulties that lie in my way in the works of arming the forces of Tennessee under these circumstances. I trust I shall be able, with the inferior arms of the country, to arm the volunteers now in, and that many will hereafter come into camp.
ISHAM G. HARRIS.
OR, Ser. I, Vol. 7, pp. 811-812.
31-January 2, 1863, Battle of Stones River[1]
After the Confederate disaster at Ft. Donelson in February, 1862, the two antagonists remained relatively inactive, the only real action being in the form of raids by Union forces that bombarded Chattanooga in June, and Confederate raids led by Joseph Wheeler and Nathan Bedford Forrest in July and August. Confederate commander Braxton Bragg made plans to invade Kentucky from his base in Chattanooga and from Knoxville. The invasion was a success, but ended in a calamitous reverse for the Confederates at the Battle of Perryville, Kentucky, on October 8, 1862. Thereafter Confederate forces retreated to Knoxville in East Tennessee. Bragg then moved his headquarters to Murfreesboro and his army to Middle Tennessee. Federal General W.S. Rosecrans, despite Confederate attacks on his lines of communications and supply, amassed large stockpiles of supplies and equipment to fuel an anticipated struggle with the Army of Tennessee under General Bragg. Rosecrans did not want to give Bragg a chance to take Nashville and so regain that vital railroad center.
While Murfreesboro was still under Confederate control, President Jefferson C. Davis visited that Middle Tennessee town. Afterwards, however, Davis ordered a large contingent of the Army of Tennessee to Vicksburg, a move which would weaken Confederate forces in Middle Tennessee. Guerrilla raids and cavalry skirmishes continued throughout the autumn of 1862. It appeared as though the two Armies would wait until the spring of 1863 before becoming engaged in a decisive battle. As tensions mounted in Middle Tennessee, Confederate forces attacked Federal supply lines in West Tennessee in a successful effort to temporarily slow the Union advance upon Vicksburg. The Army of Tennessee and the Army of the Cumberland slowly jockeyed for position in Middle Tennessee.
General Bragg situated his troops at strategic points along the Stones River at Murfreesboro. From these points he could attack Rosecrans on the roads leading out of Nashville. Late in December Rosecrans moved his troops out of Nashville and began a deliberate advance toward the Army of Tennessee at Murfreesboro. He planned to march to Chattanooga after defeating Bragg. This he would do, but not until July, 1863.
When Bragg learned of the Federal army's movements, he prepared for battle and reinforced his line of defense along the Stones River. During the night of December 29, Confederate Brigadier General Joseph Wheeler made damaging raids against Rosecrans communications and destroyed most of their supplies for the forthcoming battle. Despite his boldness, however, in the end it didn't matter and did not positively affect the outcome of the battle for the Southern cause.
While the two Armies bivouacked a few miles each other in apprehension of a battle during the evening hours of December 30, soldiers from one army began to sing as their band played. The opposing army reopened with its own music and a "battle of the bands" raged until one of the bands began to play "Home Sweet Home." In a scene of poetic irony, soldiers of the two Armies began to sing together in a paradoxical manifestation of unity before killing one another en masse the next day.
On December 31, 1862, the Battle of Stones River began as the Rebel army charged the Yankee forces sending them into the dense cedar thickets to surrounded the erstwhile cotton field upon which the battle would take place. The noise of battle was so intense than many Rebel soldiers stuffed cotton in their ears.
Federal forces were initially driven back, but finally stopped the Confederate advance at their line at the Nashville Pike. General Rosecrans ordered his troops to engage the advancing rebels and regain every inch of ground lost to the Confederate onslaught. Nevertheless, Bragg believed that Rosecrans would withdraw on New Years Day. Because of this unwarranted assumption Confederate forces did not attack on New Year's Day, 1863. When Bragg found the Federal army still in position on the Nashville Pike the next day, he renewed his attack. This initiative drove the Federals back until the Confederate advance was halted by what was then the largest concentration of Federal artillery ever gathered in combat. At the Stones River the Confederate advance ground to a halt, decimated by canister fired from Yankee cannon. While both sides claimed victory the Confederates retreated from the field. The fighting ended. Bragg had learned that Rosecrans had received reinforcements and realized at the end of the fighting on January 2 that his men were no match for the more fire power and abundantly supplied of the Army of the Cumberland. Casualties were high for both sides: of 34,732 Confederate troops, 9,239 were killed, wounded or missing (26%); the Union losses totaling 9,220 killed, wounded or missing out of 41,400 troops (22%). Rosecrans occupied Murfreesborough and Bragg retreated to Shelbyville and Tullahoma for the winter and spring of 1863. A major Federal initiative would not begin until June, 1863, in the Middle Tennessee, or Tullahoma, Campaign which drove Bragg to Chattanooga.[2]
31, Action at Tiptonville, warehouse and other properties burned by U. S. N. as retaliation for Confederate guerrilla attacks on River boats[3]
No circumstantial reports filed.
Excerpt from the Report of Lieutenant-Commandeer John G. Mitchell, Commanding 7th District Mississippi Squadron to Acting Rear-Admiral S. P. Lee, from the U. S. S. Sibyl, March 5, 1865, relative to the burning of warehouses at Tiptonville, December 31, 1864:
On the 31st of December last, on the way down [the Mississippi] river, [I] stopped at Columbus, Ky., where I was informed by Colonel MacArthur, commanding post, that at the transport Silver Moon had reported that in landing at the wood yard at Tiptonville, she had been fired upon by fifteen guerrillas from behind the wood pile near the warehouse, and only saved the vessel from capture by immediately backing out into the stream. As General Veatch and staff were on board and wished to reach Memphis as soon as possible, I did not stop to investigate the affair myself, but ordered up Captain Sears, instructing him, if he found the fact to be as stated, to burn the balance of the wood pile, also the warehouse and store on the bank of the river.
I have not received any report from Captain Sears in regard to the execution of that order.
The statement that Mr. [J. D.] Davis makes through his agent, that "no boat had been fired into by guerrillas or others at Tiptonville since the war commenced," is substantially untrue.
Tiptonville has always been regarded as a dangerous place ever since I have been on the river, on account of the disloyalty of the people, and from the fact that the country in that vicinity has been continually infested with guerrillas, and no steamer would land there without the protection of a gunboat.
In July last [1864] the steamer St. Patrick was decoyed into the landing by some citizens on shore, and an attempt was made bay the notorious rebel Cushman and his command to capture her. Until the steamer landed they [the guerrillas] were concealed behind this warehouse belonging to Mr. Davis, and had not the U. S. S. Huntress come up at the time, they would have succeeded in capturing her. An account of this case can be found by reference to the log of the Huntress.
Had I not been away from the Eighth District at the time, I should have burned the houses, such being the custom of the squadron in similar cases. I am considerably surprised that the two officers of the Huntress, who were present at the attempted capture of the St. Patrick, should have indorsed the false statement of the citizens of Tiptonville.
I am satisfied that the commanding officer of the New Era did just as I should have done under the circumstances in the present case
Navy OR, Ser. I, Vol. 27, pp. 8-9.
Excerpt from the communication of S. P. Lee, Acting Rear Admiral, Commanding Mississippi Squadron, dated March 22, 1865, from the U. S. S. Blackhawk then at Mound City, Illinois:
Rear-Admiral Porter's General Order No. 2 directs that any vessel that may be fired on by guerrillas or other persons, will do all the damage in her power to repress the outrageous practice of guerrilla warefare [sic].
Navy OR, Ser. I, Vol. 27, p. 8.
31, 1865 - Racist Paternalism and the Freedman in East Tennessee; An Extract from the Diary of Eliza Fain
Amongst all the nations of the earth, so far as I can learn, there is towards the African race the felling you are unmixed with any other race[4] and are an inferior people. A boy named Hill [a former slave] who had once been one of my family as a servant had been here during part of the Christmas holiday. I felt kindly disposed to him and anxious for him to do right, I had given him much counsel in what way he would act to secure his friends. I told him to be kind and obliging in his manner to everyone, to be a good boy and try to do right. Cousin Annie Poats with her little children Fannie, Walter, Nannie and Ellie with Dick to drive got into the wagon go to town. I told Hill to go and open the gate for Dicky but this not suiting the young man's pleasure I had to speak harshly to him before I could get him to go and when he did he went to the first gate and came back. I was provoked as he had been here for several days and I had fed him and was willing for him to be with his mother but I just told him he had to go, that I would put up with no such conduct as that about me. Poor mortals what will become of them I cannot see.
Fairn Diary.
[1] A plethora of secondary works deal with the Battle of Stones River. It would be necessarily redundant and even presumptuous to document the large battle here. For that reason it is only necessary to summarize the conflict here. There are a total of 307 reports on the battle.
[2] See map of the Battle of Stones River, OR, Ser. I, Vol. 20, pt. I, p. 916.
The following Tennessee units, part of Cheatham's Division of Polk's Corps, fought at the battle of Stones River: 1st, 4th, 6th, 7th, 8th, 9th, 13th, 16th, 17th, 18th, 19th, 24th, 26th, 28th, 29th, 45th 47th, 51st, 84th, 154th Senior Tennessee Volunteers, Scott's Tennessee Battery, Captain T.J. Stanford's Light Battery.
For reports relative to some of the Tennessee units that fought at the Battle of Stones River see: OR, Ser. I, Vol. 20, pt. I, pp. 728-730, 748-749, 717-719, 714-716, 720-721, 805-807, 821-822, 823-824, 882-885, 890-891.
[3] Referenced in neither OR nor Dyer's Battle Index for Tennessee.
[4] Yet she decried "racial amalgamation" earlier during the war. See her diary entries for September 20, 1863, March 13, 1864
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28, Desperate need for weapons at Fort Donelson
HDQRS., Fort Donelson December 28, 1861.
His Excellency President DAVIS,
Richmond, Va.;
SIR; This will be handed you by Col. Bailey, of one of the Tennessee regiments stationed at this post. The exposed position of this command and the impossibility of obtaining arms here has induced us both to make an effort to secure them at Richmond. Knowing the difficulties we all labor under on this score, permit me simply to state that I feel deeply solicitous about our condition on the Tennessee and Cumberland, and believe that no one point in the Southern Confederacy needs more the aid of the Government than [these] points. Col. Bailey will be presented to you under such auspices as will, I am sure, command for him your especial consideration.
With every assurance of the highest consideration, and the hope that a complete restoration to health will enable you to meet the heavy demands on your time,
I remain, respectfully, your obedient servant,
LLOYD TILGHMAN, Brig.-Gen., C. S. Army, Cmdg. Defenses Cumberland and Tennessee Rivers.
OR, Ser.. I, Vol. 52, pt. II, pp. 245-246.
28, A tête-à-tête between enemies prior to the battle at Stones River
An Incident of the Battle of Stone's River.
Correspondence of the Nashville Dispatch.
Camp at Murfreesboro', Feb. 9, 1863.
I was thinking every scene of the late tragedy played by the armies of the Cumberland and Mississippi had been shown in some way or other; but there remains one to which I was an eye witness, that gives distinction to no particular character; yet, for its novelty, (as such is generally a constituent of tragedy,) is somewhat interesting. On the 27th of December, our army arrived at Stewart's Creek, ten miles distant from Murfreesboro'. The following day being Sabbath [28th], and our General being devout, nothing was done, except to cross a few companies on the left as skirmishers, our right being watched by the enemy's, as well as ours; both extending along the creek on opposite sides. Despite of orders, our boys would occasionally shut an eye at the Confederates, who were ever ready to take the hint. This was kept up until evening, when the boys, finding they were effecting nothing at such long range, quit shooting, and concluded they would "talk it out." When the following occurred:
Federal (at the top of his voice)—Halloo! boys, what regiment?
Confederate—Eighth Confederate.
Fed.—Bully for you.
Confed.—What's your regiment?
Fed.—Eighth and twenty-first Kentucky.
Confed.—All right.
Fed.—Boys, have you got any whisky?
Confed.—Plenty of her.
Fed.—How'll you trade for coffee?
Confed.—Would like to accommodate you, but never drink it while the worm goes.[1]
Fed.—Let's meet at the creek and have a social chat.
Confed.—Will you shoot?
Fed.—Upon the honor of a gentleman, not a man shall. Will you shoot?
Confed.—I give you as good assurance.
Fed.—Enough said, come on.
Confed.—Leave your arms.
Fed.—I have left them. Do you leave yours?
Confed.—I do.
Whereupon both parties started for the creek to a point agreed upon. Meeting almost simultaneously, we (the Federals) were, in a modulated tone, addressed in the usual unceremonious style of a soldier, by [:] Confed.—Halloo, boys! how do you make it?
Federal—Oh! bully, bully!
Confed.—This is rather an unexpected armistice.
Fed.—That's so.
Confed.—Boys what do you think of the Proclamation?
Fed.—We think it will suit a nigger and an Abolitionist, but not gentlemen.
Confed.—Now your heads are level.
Fed.—Boys, are you going to make a stand at Murfreesboro?
Confed.—That is a leading question; notwithstanding, I will venture to say it will be the bloodiest ten miles you ever traveled.
Thus the conversation went on for some time, until a Confederate Captain, (Miller, of Gen. Wheeler's Cavalry,) came down, requesting an exchange of papers. On being informed we had none, he said he would give us his anyhow, and wrapping a stone in the paper, threw it across. Some compliments were passed, when the Captain suggested, as it was getting late, we had better quit the conference; whereupon both parties, about twenty each, began to leave with, "Good by, boys;" "if ever I meet you in battle, I'll spare you." So we met and parted, not realizing we were enemies. My God, when will this unnatural war have an end!—when shall friend cease to seek the life of friend, and mankind once more realize the blessings of peace?
Eighth Kentucky.
Nashville Dispatch, February 21, 1863.
28, C. S. A. attack on Federal wagon train between Knoxville and Chattanooga
Excerpt from the Itinerary of the Second Brigade, Second Cavalry Division (Army of the
Cumberland) From return for December 1863, the Ninety-eighth Illinois, Seventeenth Indiana, and detachments of the Fourth Michigan and Third U. S. Cavalry Regiments were attached to this command, Col. Eli Long commanding, relative to the attack on a Federal wagon train, December 28, 1863:
December 28, Gen. Wheeler, with 1,500 rebel cavalry and some artillery, attacked a wagon train, moving to Knoxville from Chattanooga, and escorted by infantry, convalescents, &c. Col. Long at once mounted the small portion of his command not on duty (less than 150 men) and charged the enemy, whose ranks had been broken by the infantry escort, scattering them in every direction. Pursued one column of 400 or 500 men several miles and captured 121 prisoner, including 5 officers and many stand of arms. Wheeler lost several killed and many wounded; among the latter, 2 colonels.
"Wheeler's men had said while going up that 'Wheeler was H-ll on Wagons' and they would get all the sugar and coffee we had."
Courier Station East Tennessee
I am still doing courier duty and am as well as usual --- it is a clear cold and windy day --- The ground is frozen quite hard….I have been out to the wood pile chopping wood. I came near freezing my ears off, too. The people in this country use fireplaces altogether -- don't know what a stove is hardly, they are about 50 years behind the times-but they are clever and hospitable and UNION [sic] through and through. A man by the name of Burton brought us a basket-full of cold chicken biscuit, cake and pies this morning as a present. It came very acceptable to the boys -- we gave him a lot of coffee and sugar a great handy [sic] for a person to have in this country. Some families here have a son in the Federal Army and one also in the Rebel Army. It is no uncommon thing to see a father staunch Union and a son a strong rebel. It is a bad thing to make the best of it, when one army holds the country awhile and then the other. It gives the little neighborhood jealousies and spites a chance to revenge each other. Great time to settle old scores. There are always enough mean ones you know to take advantage of such things on both sides. Makes a very unpleasant State of Society. We have not been disturbed yet at our station. There was a large train of wagons went up the valley to Knoxville last Sunday.[2] Wheeler, who has been raising "ned" with us all the time at Cleveland, heard of it and the wagons were only guarded by about 250 infantry, thought he would have a Nice Time [sic] and get some sugar and coffee for his boys. So he came on after it with about 1500 cavalry and 3 pieces of artillery. The train passed on the same road as the courier line is on, but Wheeler came up the valley road east of us about 1½ miles only. Two little boys from that valley came running over early Monday morning to tell us that the rebel were swarming up the valley (it's a good thing to be among your friends) We saddled up and moved upon a hill nearby where we could see a ½ mile in any direction and staid there all day expecting every minute to see a company of Rebels come dashing after us. We didn't ask any odds of them. They couldn't catch us anyhow-but they didn't come-for they had plenty of fish to fry. Instead of 250 men with the train we happened to have between 4 and 5000 and Col. Long[3] at Calhoun had 500 Cavalry. A dispatch had gone thro' telling him Wheeler was coming. So they were ready for him. Wheeler's men had said while going up that "Wheeler was H-ll on Wagons" and they would get all the sugar and coffee we had. Well-when about 2 miles from Charleston Wheeler saw the train and ordered a charge, the Rebels yelled and plunged forward each man trying to be first. But presently crack! crack! whiz! bang! A line of smoke 200 yds long rises from the grass on their left and the cedars on their right-ah! my boys what makes you falter! Why don't you go on and sweeten your coffee-they halted amazed, fired a few shots, whirled their horses, run back a quarter of a mile, and formed in line of battle. Their Artillery they thought would be up soon and the wagons would be theirs-but Fate was against them. The artillery was stuck in the mud and didn't come at all. The infantry were moving slowing upon them and at that moment Col Long with his gallant little 500 were seen with sabres drawn-coming up like the wind-at the command Charge! Boys Charge! The Infantry gave way and Long was upon them like an avalanche, cutting thro' their line and in their rear the work of death commenced, in 15 minutes we had 140 prisoners and had killed 30. The rebels were flying from the field in every direction terror stricken and helpless they threw away over 400 guns. Wheeler only had 40 men with him when he went back, the rest were scattered. He was never so badly whipped before or so badly misinformed-in fact he got his foot in it sure. Prisoner say he is superseded-they haven't bothered us since….
Potter Correspondence.
28, Duel North of Memphis
Fatal Duel.- The Memphis Argus, of the 29th [December 1864] has the following:
We learn from a very reliable source, that yesterday morning (28th) a duel was fought about three miles from the city, the principals in which were gentlemen well known to our citizens as worthy gentlemen. The origin of it we cannot give. We have been put in possession of three or four reports concerning it, any of which may be true: we, therefore refrain from giving any. The fight took placed on the Randolph road, three miles north of the city, and the weapons used were shot guns at twenty paces. Mr. James Simpkins and Mr. James Stutts neighbors of many years standing, after stepping off the required distance turned and fired simultaneously with fatal effect. The first named received four buckshot, the second twenty-four, causing death to ensue for both almost instantly. Both the gentlemen were looked upon by their neighbors as excellent citizens and loving husbands and kind and indulgent parents. The sad event shrouds the neighborhood of its occurrence and gloom and brings mourning to families among whom for years all has been happiness and joy. Mr. Holst of the firm Holst & Co, of this city, went out with the necessaries for their internment last evening.
Daily Picayune, January 4, 1865.
[1] Meaning unknown.
[2] This was the 27th of December, 1863. Whether or not Colonel Long or Lt. Potter had the date wrong is not known. Long's report was closer to the event than Potter's letter, thus giving greater credibility to the 28th as the date of the affair.
[3] Eli Long.
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Youth Facilities & Services
The Department of Health and Human Services runs 4 youth facilities. Each facility maintains on-campus programs, treatment and education.
Adult & Child Abuse & Neglect Hotline
Treatments and Programs
Lincoln Facility
Program Overview and Virtual Campus Tour / En español
The Mission of the Youth Rehabilitation and Treatment Centers is to help youth live better lives through effective services, giving youth the chance to become law-abiding citizens.
The Lincoln Facility was established in 2020 to care for youth with high acuity behavioral needs. Youth are placed at the Lincoln facility for a short time to stabilize their behavior through intensive behavioral management treatment that includes individual therapy, TARGET trauma-informed treatment approach, Moral Reconation Treatment (MRT) and behavioral analysis provided by a Board Certified Behavioral Analysts (BCBA). Once a youth's behaviors have stabilized, they will return to the YRTC-Kearney campus to complete their treatment program.
The Lincoln Facility will undergo initial American Correctional Association (ACA) Accreditation in 2021. The Lincoln facility will participate in Performance-Based Standards (PbS) Project sponsored by the Council for Juvenile Correctional Administrators. The PbS improvement model identifies, monitors and improves conditions of confinement and treatment services in residential facilities and programs using national standards and performance outcome measures.
1200 Radcliff St – Ste B
Youth Rehabilitation & Treatment Center - Kearney
The Mission of the Youth Rehabilitation and Treatment Center at Kearney (YRTC-K) is to help youth live better lives through effective services, giving youth the chance to become law-abiding citizens.
The Youth Rehabilitation and Treatment Center-Kearney was founded in 1879. The facility began receiving boys and girls in July, 1881. In 1892, YRTC-Kearney became a boy's only youth facility when a girl's facility opened in Geneva. On January 1, 1997, YRTC-Kearney ended a 23-year affiliation with the Nebraska Department of Correctional Services and became one of ten, 24-hour facilities under the Department of Health and Human Services. YRTC-Kearney is part of DHHS under the Division of Children and Family Services.
The Youth Rehabilitation and Treatment Center-Kearney has a long history of accreditation with the American Correctional Association (ACA). The YRTC-Kearney earned its most recent accreditation in June, 2017, with its next accreditation audit scheduled for June, 2020.
YRTC-Kearney is a member of the Performance-Based Standards (PbS) Project sponsored by the Council for Juvenile Correctional Administrators. The PbS improvement model identifies, monitors and improves conditions of confinement and treatment services in residential facilities and programs using national standards and performance outcome measures.
YRTC-Kearney
Youth Rehabilitation & Treatment Center - Hastings
The mission of the Youth Rehabilitation and Treatment Center-Hastings is to return youth to their community as productive and law-abiding citizens. We strive to accomplish this by creating a safe, secure, and nurturing environment where youth learn and develop a sense of self. Our diverse programming responds to each youth's unique needs.
In 1888, the Hastings Regional Center opened as an asylum for the incurably insane with an operating budget of $75,000. In the late 1970's, the program was changed to the Hastings Juvenile Chemical Dependency Center. In 2021, the old program buildings were replaced with new buildings and the Youth Rehabilitation and Treatment Center opened on campus to serve female youth. YRTC-Hastings is a part of the Department of Health and Human Services under the Division of Child and Family Service.
The Youth Rehabilitation and Treatment Center – Hastings (YRTC-Hastings) will be accredited by the American Correctional Association (ACA). Its first accreditation audit is scheduled to take place in 2022.
YRTC-Hastings is a member of the Performance-Based Standards (PbS) Project, sponsored by the Council for Juvenile Correctional Administrators. The PbS improvement model identifies, monitors, and improves conditions of confinement and treatment services. This occurs in residential facilities and programs using national standards and performance outcome measures.
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Whitehall Psychiatric Residential and Treatment Facility (PRTF) helps people manage their mental illness through person-centered care. Whitehall's program works with teen males who have engaged in sexual offenses.
The Whitehall Campus at the Lincoln Regional Center addresses the treatment needs of male adolescents who have offended sexually. There are residential and treatment group home levels of care. Each youth has his own room. The program is family-centered and has its own school on the campus. Youth who complete treatment at Whitehall have a low incidence of reoffending sexually based on an independent study that followed the youth over seven years from completion of treatment.
Whitehall has long been focused on several principles of care:
Person-centered care: Individuals and their treatment team create a plan of care that addresses each person's needs, strengths, and goals, and is sensitive to each person's experiences, traumas, and cultural background.
Empowerment: Individuals are supported in making choices and encouraged to speak for themselves.
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Non-linear: Recovery is based on continual growth, occasional setbacks, and learning from experience.
Hope: Hope's message is that individuals can live, work, learn, and fully participate in a better future.
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When Plum Johnson's mother died, as eldest daughter, she was charged with the task of packing up the contents of the family home. This would be no easy task for anyone, but particularly not for Johnson whose parents' lakefront house on Oakville Ontario was both enormous and stuffed with the materials of decades and decades of family life (including ancient receipts, her father's impeccable financial records, antique cans of soup, books and more books, and a wasp's nest). Johnson left her own home in Toronto and moved into her parents' house, figuring the task before her would take six weeks or so, but she ended up staying for over a year, an experience she recounts in her memoir, They Left Us Everything.
In some ways, Johnson's is the kind of story that many readers will relate to–a tale of years of demanding elder care, about the peculiar grief of losing one's parents and the complicated and surprising emotions which accompany this, about coming to terms with who our parents were and the people we wished them to be. But in others, her family's story is more, well, storied (so much so that her mother has an entire shelf in their home related to books published by or about members of their family). Her family's interesting background remains peripheral in this memoir, but informs the fascinating lives of the characters who populate it. We learn about her mother's privileged upbringing in the American South, her father's war exploits, the early years of her parents' marriage in Asia, and their eventual settlement in Canada (which was a compromise between their respective heritages). Not everyone has a huge house on the shores of Lake Ontario to come home to for years and years, and there is a hint of exotic to Johnson's family's everyday life that makes for a compelling read. Also compelling is the terrific bond between Johnson and her siblings.
Johnson does a specular job of weaving the personal with the universal here, of making her parents so present in a story about their loss, of untangling the difficult legacy of inheritance—all this stuff, but then it's everything that's left of her parents in the world. And so Johnson delves into it all and discovers that she never really knew her parents after all. Her approach is similar to two other books that I enjoyed so much—Baking as Biography by Diane Tye and Outside the Box by Maria Meindl, in which women's lives are discovered through unlikely archives.
In the end, They Left Us Everything is a literary mishmash just as much as the cupboards in Johnson's parents house were repositories for every kind of thing. It's a tale of grief, but also a record of fantastic stories, memorable characters, of family life in the mid-20th century, a scrapbook of fascinating objects, a portrait of family ties, and what it means to be a daughter and a mother. It's an artfully crafted memoir, and a really wonderful read.
This also sounds a bit like The Memory Palace, which was an amazing book.
I LOVED this memoir. I laughed, I cried…and I travelled back in time through these memories in a way that only an exceptional story can transport a reader. Wonderful book.
Yes! One of my favourite books of the year. Thanks for letting me know you liked it too!
I admired her honesty. It was an interesting story.


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The Ergonomics of Relationships
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Work-Life Balance? Bah Humbug!
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The Feedback Compass, Part 3
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The Sharpest Tool in the Shed
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Old Dog, New Tricks
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Powerfully Quiet
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Our Unspoken Dialogue
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The Ghost in the Machine
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How Far We've Come…From One Another
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Win with Ease
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The Opportunity within Chaos
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Do a Barrel Roll!
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Stop, Collaborate, and Listen
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The Strange Case of Dr. Local and Mr. Hybrid
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An Office of One
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Perpetually Transform
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Fear No Evil
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Revolving Doors Belie the Culture Within
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Think Big—Your Life Depends on it!
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Trust Me! Facts & Fabrications
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Expand Your Attention Span
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The Melody of Assertiveness
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Simply Walk into Mordor
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The High Ground
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Cling to Control; Choke Creativity
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Compassion Requires Effort
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The Power of Untapped Potential
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Affective Realism
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When it comes to time, we typically think about how little of it we have. Our duties and responsibilities often consume our day's focus with little room left to break free of old routines....


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The nightmare of February 28, 2002 and the days that followed still haunt the people of Gujarat and all those fighting for justice. Those who lost their near and dear ones and suffered in those events -- the tragic burning of 50 kar sevaks in a train at Godhra station and then the genocide of people of the Muslim faith, the brutal murders, rapes and all kinds of unimaginable atrocities committed on the people – are still awaiting justice. The guilty remain unpunished. No responsibility has been fixed on the ruling BJP or the state officials, who organized and oversaw the execution of the genocide, as has been established by incontrovertible facts. Those who organized the genocide remain in power, with the full backing of the central state.
Many Commissions of Enquiry have been appointed (See Box) to investigate the various events of the genocide, the role of the police and officials in the highest offices of the state government including the Chief Minister. These Commissions have served their real purpose. That is to dissipate the anger of the people awaiting justice, through long drawn proceedings, so that people do not conclude that these massacres were state organized, and retain illusions that some arm of the state would punish the guilty.
Earlier this month, the Special Investigation Team set up by the Supreme Court on Gujarat declared Narendra Modi "innocent". On the other hand, the advocate appointed by the Supreme Court to assist its investigations declared that Modi's role should be further probed and that there are grounds for his prosecution. This means that while nothing will happen to those who organized the Gujarat genocide, the ruling Congress at the center will continue to use the Gujarat genocide to target Modi and the BJP, for its own narrow interests. And people will be kept waiting for the promised day of "Justice"!
People of our country have given their verdict long ago, and are not waiting for the Supreme Court to pronounce on who is the guilty! Over the last 10 years, testimonies of victims, human rights groups, independent media reports and even the SIT's own findings clearly show that the genocide was state- organized. Among many such investigations, in April 2002, a Concerned Citizen's Tribunal headed by Justice Krishna Iyer, which included retired Supreme Court judge, Justice Sawant and retired judge of Bombay High Court, Justice Suresh, indicted Chief Minister Modi and his Ministers for their role in the genocide.
Experience of the last 10 years has shown how the efforts of citizens' groups to secure justice for the victims have been systematically thwarted, the courts and the police have been manipulated, guilty officers have been rewarded while officers who opposed the killings have been penalised, official records and evidence have been destroyed.
The genocide in 2002 in Gujarat was planned, organized and executed with chilling similarity to the massacre of Sikhs in Delhi and other places by the than ruling Congress Party in November 1984. As is well known, the perpetrators of that massacre too continue to remain unpunished, 27 years later!
The Communist Ghadar Party of India has been in the forefront of the struggle to punish the guilty of 1984, 1992 and 2002. We have consistently explained that the people cannot expect those who are the organizers of communal genocide to either ensure justice or prevent future genocides. We cannot expect the Indian state and political parties like Congress or BJP to do so. We cannot expect that the organizers and perpetrators of the crime will punish themselves for it.
Mazdoor Ekta Lehar calls on the working class and people to unite and step up the struggle for punishment of all those guilty of such heinous crimes against our people. Let us step up the struggle for political power in the hands of the people, so that we can ensure that those in positions of command be accountable for their responsibility of preventing communal massacres and violence, that mechanisms be put in place to ensure that those guilty of such heinous crimes are punished, regardless of their social position.
On 6 March 2002, the Gujarat government set up a commission of enquiry headed by retired High Court judge K.G. Shah to enquire into the Godhra train burning and the subsequent violence and to submit a report in three months. In May 2002, the government reconstituted the commission, appointing retired Supreme Court Justice G.T. Nanavati to lead the commission. In March 2012, the Nanavati Commission's term was extended for the 18th time, till December 2012! No verdict yet!
In September 2004, the central government appointed the Banerjee Committee to probe the Godhra train fire. The BJP and the Gujarat Inspector General of Police challenged the Committee's conclusion that the fire was accidental.
In April 2009, the Supreme Court appointed the Special Investigation Team (SIT) "to investigate and expedite the riot cases" in response to charges filed against Modi.
In November 2010, the Supreme Court appointed a Senior Advocate as Amicus Curiae (someone who volunteers to offer information to assist a court in deciding a matter before it) to look into charges filed by various persons against Modi and his government. The findings and conclusions of the Amicus Curiae vary with those of the SIT, and there is no resolution of that yet.


Connecticut State Legislature is again attempting to restrict the Constitutional rights of law abiding citizens.
In response, the Connecticut Citizen's Defense League held a rally at the state capital in Hartford, CT. The CCDL and its thousands of patriotic members are no strangers to these grounds. We have been there on numerous occasions since the Newtown massacre in 2012, when the legislature enacted some of the most restrictive anti-second amendment laws in the country.
As you can see in the video from the event, many of the 2,000 participants are openly carrying their firearms. Believe it or not, Connecticut is still an open carry state and open carry is allowed (i.e. not restricted) on the grounds of the capital.


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On this day in 1958, the soundtrack album for the musical, "South Pacific" hit #1 and stayed there for 31 weeks!
The production won ten Tony Awards, including Best Musical, Best Score and Best Libretto, and it is the only musical production to win Tony Awards in all four acting categories. Its original cast album was the bestselling record of the 1940s, and other recordings of the show have also been popular. The show has enjoyed many successful revivals and tours, spawning a 1958 film and television adaptations.
There are a few things that put me in a better mood automatically. Of course, my faith is at the top of the list, but running a close second is my love of show tunes! I not only own the DVD of the movie, but I also have the soundtrack and the (well used) music book!
What is your favorite song from "South Pacific"? Mine is "I'm Gonna Wash That Man Right Outta My Hair".
Does your family sing along when you're watching musicals? That was something my parents encouraged as I grew up – and to this day I sing along!
The story for Rodgers and Hammerstein's "South Pacific" is drawn from a Pulitzer-Prize-winning novel by James A. Michener called "Tales of the South Pacific", which dealt largely with the issue of racism.
Some of the wonderful songs on the soundtrack include:
I'M GONNA WASH THAT MAN RIGHT OUTTA MY HAIR
HAPPY TALK
BALI HA'I
YOUNGER THAN SPRINGTIME
I'M IN LOVE WITH A WONDERFUL GUY
The musical opens on a South Pacific island, during World War II, where a naïve young Navy nurse from Arkansas becomes romantically involved with Emile de Becque, a French plantation owner. In spite of the dangers of the ongoing war, Nellie sings to Emile that she is "A Cockeyed Optimist." And in "Some Enchanted Evening," Emile recalls fondly their first meeting at an officer's club dinner. At the same time, the American sailors are growing restless and bored without and combat to keep them active or women to entertain them in their downtime ("There is Nothin' Like a Dame"). One sailor, Luther Billis, hatches a plan to travel to Bali Ha'i, a nearby island where the French plantation owners are believed to have hidden their women. Meanwhile, a U.S. marine, Lieutenant Joe Cable, arrives on the island undercover on a dangerous spy mission crucial to the outcome of the war. A middle-aged grass skirt seller nicknamed "Bloody Mary," one of the few women on the island, takes an immediate interest in Cable.
Nellie, on the other hand, has been reconsidering her relationship with Emile and decides to break up with him ("I'm Gonna Wash That Man Right Outta My Hair"). However, when she bumps in to him unexpectedly, she realizes she can't dump him because she's in love with him. Accepting an invitation to meet all of his friends and associates, she sings "I'm In Love With a Wonderful Guy." About this time, Cable, who needs to run reconnaissance on a nearby Japanese-held island, approaches Emile for help, but the plantation owner refuses and Cable is told to go on leave until he is able to continue his mission. With nothing else to do, Cable allows Billis to convince him to travel to Bali Ha'i. On the island, Bloody Mary introduces Cable to a young Tonkinese girl, Liat, who turns out to be her daughter. She had been planning a love match, and it turns out to be a successful one as Cable and Liat quickly fall in love. Meanwhile, Emile and Nellie have become engaged, but when she learns that Emile has children with a dark-skinned Polynesian woman, Nellie's racial prejudice surfaces.
As Act II opens, the relationship between Liat and Cable is growing more serious, but like Nellie, Cable exhibits some signs of racism, fearing what his friends and family will think if he marries a dark-skinned woman. When he finally admits that he won't marry a Vietnamese girl, Bloody Mary is furious and drags her distraught daughter away, swearing that she will marry her off to some other man. Although somewhat aware and ashamed of their bigotry, both Cable and Nellie seem prisoners to their social conditioning and believe that they have no real choice in the matter.
Depressed over his rejected proposal, Emile offers to join Cable on his spy mission behind Japanese lines. Confronted by the plantation owner about his prejudices, Cable admits that it's just how he was raised ("Carefully Taught"). The mission is successful, and the intelligence received results in an American victory and the destruction of Japanese convoys, but Cable is killed in the ensuing battle. Touched by Liat's grief when she learns of her lover's death, Nellie, who imagines that Emile has also died, decides to put aside her prejudice and at least learn to love Emile's children if she can't have their father. When Emile unexpectedly returns home, Nellie is overjoyed and agrees to marry.
The great musicals of the 1950's are just another happy memory I have of my family and I having fun together – singing! 🙂
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Front Page Health Politics WorldLIFE WITH BIG BROTHER
Don't let your kids miss doctor's appointments
Fury erupts when parents warned informers will report them to 'named person'
Published June 7, 2014 at 4:42pm
So your child misses a doctor's appointment. No big deal. Reschedule. Take care of it later, right?
Not in the society that Scotland is becoming, with its Big Brother-type laws and regulations, including a bill passed by the Scottish Parliament that appoints a "named person" to each child to serve as a "guardian" and monitor his or her well-being.
The U.K.'s Christian Institute, which is mounting a court challenge to the law, says parents have been getting letters from their National Health Service physicians saying, "We are now required to inform the Named Person for your child if your child fails to attend an appointment."
The NHS explained: "All children now have a Named Person. If your child is pre-school it is the health visitor and if your child is at school it is the head teacher."
The institute said one family that received the letter told the Scottish Daily Mail: "We were absolutely shocked. The health board seems to be acting in advance of the law being implemented.
"'They are certainly jumping the gun given the government has said the scheme is not to come into force for another two years. But it shows the extent to which the law will impact on families and their private lives.'"
WND has reported on the Big Brother move several times, including recently when the Scottish government was notified formally of a legal challenge to its plan.
The Christian Institute said its lawyers have sent a letter to the government detailing the case, charging lawmakers are overstepping their authority.
The scheme is described by the institute as "invasive" of families.
It's an "invasion of the most grotesque nature which undermines the rights and responsibilities of ordinary mums and dads who are trying their best to raise their children in the best way they see fit," said Colin Hart, the head of the Christian Institute.
"In the circumstances, we are seeking an undertaking that the Scottish government will not bring the act into force pending the outcome of this legal action," he said.
The legislation would appoint, for all children from birth to age 18, a state guardian, such as a health worker or teacher.
The Children and Young People Act, however, already has been condemned by a prominent human rights lawyer, Aidan O'Neill, who said in a legal opinion that the measure amounted to "unjustified interference" and "may be unlawful."
It appears to violate the European Convention on Human Rights, which calls for governments to respect "private and family life," he said.
WND has reported the idea for a government watchdog for each child comes from the philosophy of the United Nations.
"This law shows the natural progression for a country that has ratified the U.N. Convention on the Rights of the Child and attempts to live up to its treaty provisions," said Michael Donnelly, the director of international relations for Home School Legal Defense Association.
HSLDA has been exposing the pitfalls of the U.N. treaty, which has not been adopted by the United States.
The Scotland bill would have a social worker or other government worker "promote, support and safeguard the well being" of the child according to the standards of the state.
The bill includes vast data collection, which could be shared with just about anyone with or without the parents' consent.
HSLDA warned the Children and Young People Bill is part of a larger government policy initiative in Scotland called "Getting it Right for Every Child," or GIRFEC, a response to the U.N. treaty.
"The children and families of Scotland have been sold for GIRFEC gold" by 105 members of the Scottish parliament, said a representative of Schoolhouse HEA, the Scottish homeschooling advocacy group, "including those who so squealed loudly over ID cards, yet didn't raise a whimper over the wholesale collection and sharing of every child's (and associated adult's) personal data."
The Scottish organization worries that the term "well being" can be broadly defined.
Quoting the law, the group said well being is based on indicators such as being "safe, healthy, achieving, nurtured, active, respected, responsible, included."
Schoolhouse HEA said that with the exception of "safe," none of the "well being" indicators "is of itself an indicator of a child at risk."
"Therefore, they are not necessary for the state to mandate as thresholds for compulsory involvement in family life by the named person."
WND also previously reported that the program comes with a massive $50 million price tag.
The Christian Institute noted the Royal College of Nursing is warning that the scheme will require at least 450 new health "visitors," or health inspectors, to be employed by the government.
Hart warned, under the plan, "Ordinary Scots should be very afraid."
The Express reported that doctors are telling families they are required to be informants regarding a child's appearance at doctor's appointments and more.
Hart told the newspaper, "This is the kind of situation we have been warning about since MSPs decided to meddle with the rights of families to have a private life. The state seems intent on usurping the role of parents and reducing them to helpless spectators in the lives of their children."


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LocoMobi To Outfit Cleveland's Huntington Garage With Cloud-Based Enterprise Revenue Control System
May 16, 2016 – Toronto, Canada
LocoMobi, Inc., the leading technology company specializing in cloud-based parking, transit and tolling solutions, has announced its newest installation at Huntington Garage in Downtown Cleveland. Owned by a joint venture between Palatine Capital Partners and Rick West's firm West FSI, this 1,100-space parking facility is at the heart of the city and less than a mile away from Quicken Loans Arena, House of Blues Cleveland, the DoubleTree Hilton Hotel, and much more.
As a full turnkey solution, the brand new, fully-integrated parking network will make this facility the most technologically advanced parking garage in the area. By simplifying and streamlining the entire experience, visitors can easily find a space and start exploring the revitalized urban landscape of Cleveland.
LocoMobi will implement its proprietary cloud-based management system that will manage the facility's enterprise hardware solutions using ticket dispensers and proximity cards for contract parkers at each point of entry.
"We're excited to work with LocoMobi on the Huntington Garage project. We selected them after a competitive bidding process for their combination of value and the features and capabilities we wanted to maximize revenue and customer service." Said Rick West.
In addition, customers will have the ability to pre-book or pay by phone with LocoMobi's Quickpay mobile payment app for Android and iOS. This enables them to open gates through their patented mobile gate controller at the entry and exit points of the garage to provide real-time lane monitoring. Non-smartphone users can simply pay at the LocoMobi Mojo Xtreme Pay On Foot station or pay in an Express Payment Mojo License Plate Recognition station lane, which accepts credit cards, debit cards, and tap-to-pay credit cards.
"Having already implemented our Patented QP QuickPay mobile payment service throughout Cleveland last fall, we're excited to see our enterprise hardware and software solutions expand throughout the city," said Grant Furlane, President and CEO of LocoMobi. "We're connecting people and vehicles seamlessly through the cloud and now we finally have the opportunity to add a premier parking facility to our network. In Cleveland"
If you would like more information regarding LocoMobi's integration with the Huntington Garage, please contact Grant Furlane at 416.898.3455 or grant@locomobi.com.
West FSI, LLC (www.WestFSI.com) has partnered with Palatine Capital Partners (www.pal-partners.com) to acquire three garages to date located in Louisville, KY, Nashville, TN and Cleveland, OH. West FSI is the entity through which Rick West advises partner clients and participates as an investor and operating partner in the parking industry and related sectors and Palatine is a principal investment firm with a focus on small and mid-cap real estate assets across the US. Since inception, Palatine has executed over 50 investments with a gross asset value exceeding $1.3 billion.
LocoMobi is a cloud-based parking, transit, and tolling company that produces and distributes pioneering technology to travelers and parking providers throughout the United States. Through their License Plate Recognition (LPR) system, they offer a complete revenue engine that also provides a refined process for virtual permitting systems, including violation and citation management. LocoMobi also designed and implemented the first LPR-based system, incorporating payment stations and barrier gates, which was integrated into a single cloud-based system. Lastly, the company designs and implements a complete suite of traditional parking systems, including the conventional machine-readable ticket systems and can combine them with license plate recognition as one single solution for airport and seaport parking providers.
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