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December 16, 2016 | By Tim Pratt
The Santa Fe campus hosts the Freshman Fast-Forward Program.
As Ann Hooper was finishing high school, she wanted to study everything.
The Texas native went on to a large, public university, and over the next four years changed her major numerous times. She says she obtained "tons" of credits in different subjects, but not enough to obtain a degree. So Hooper decided to take some time off.
"I spent nearly 10 years searching and trying to figure out where I could go back to school and study everything I wanted," Hooper says.
Then she discovered St. John's, with its liberal arts curriculum and study of the great books. She had found what she was seeking.
Hooper says she quit a job, sold a house and made other life changes before heading to the St. John's campus in Santa Fe. She decided to become a "January Freshman," enrolling in the college in January of 2011.
The Freshman Fast-Forward Program on the St. John's Santa Fe campus—formerly known as the January Freshman program—gives students an opportunity to enroll in the college at the start of the spring semester. The students then complete the four-year curriculum over the next 3 ½ years, taking an accelerated track that includes classes over the summer.
The Johnnies, typically 30-40 of them, spend the spring semester taking classes together. They then get a couple weeks off before returning to campus for more classes in the summer. When the fall semester rolls around, the Johnnies have caught up to the rest of the sophomores at the college.
The spring and summer sessions together create strong bonds among the group, says Hooper, who now works in admissions on the Santa Fe campus.
"I know from our experience—and January freshmen from other years will tell you the same thing—we were extremely close because of that time together," Hooper says. "On graduation day, some of my closest friends were other January freshmen, from other years, too. There's a real bond and camaraderie among this group."
The Annapolis campus used to offer the program, but now it is available only in Santa Fe.
Randall Hollensbe has a unique perspective on the program: He was a January freshman in 1985, and went on to run the program as an admissions counselor from 2001 until this year.
While participants develop strong bonds, so do other Johnnies, who go through their classes together in core groups. But the January freshmen get to experience summer in Santa Fe, a time filled with trips to the opera and other music and art events in town.
"The January freshmen get a lot of access that the fall freshmen don't," he says.
Natalie Blais, the admissions counselor for this Freshman Fast-Forward term, says students come from a variety of backgrounds to participate in the program. Some have completed high school early and wish to enroll right away, not wanting to wait until the following fall. Other students transfer in from other colleges. Still others have taken time off after high school and decided January was the right time to enroll. The application process is the same as it is for students who enroll in the fall.
"The (January freshmen) have this sort of awe-inspiring presence on campus, because they do the program in 3 ½ years," Blais says.
It's not an easy task, Hooper says, but it can be done.
"The St. John's curriculum is difficult no matter what," she says. "To try to do it faster makes it even more difficult, but if you're willing to do a lot of work ... working out your brain and your vocal chords for that matter, it's worth it."


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Description of two new gill myxozoans from smallmouth (Micropterus dolomieu) and largemouth bass (Micropterus salmoides)
Two previously undescribed species of myxozoan parasites were observed in the gills of bass inhabiting the Potomac and James River basins. They are described using morphological characteristics and small-subunit (SSU) rDNA gene sequences. Both were taxonomically identified as new species of Myxobolus; Myxobolus branchiarum n. sp. was found exclusively in smallmouth bass, and Myxobolus micropterii
Reproductive endocrine disruption in smallmouth bass (<i>Micropterus dolomieu</i>) in the Potomac River basin: spatial and temporal comparisons of biological effects
A high prevalence of intersex or testicular oocytes (TO) in male smallmouth bass within the Potomac River drainage has raised concerns as to the health of the river. Studies were conducted to document biomarker responses both temporally and spatially to better understand the influence of normal physiological cycles, as well as water quality and land-use influences. Smallmouth bass were collected o
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Skin lesions and spring mortality events of smallmouth bass Micropterus dolomieu and selected other species were first noted in the South Branch of the Potomac River in 2002. Since that year morbidity and mortality have also been observed in the Shenandoah and Monocacy rivers. Despite much research, no single pathogen, parasite, or chemical cause for the lesions and mortality has been identified.
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The seasonal occurrence of organic contaminants, many of which are potential endocrine disruptors, entering the Potomac River, USA, watershed was investigated using a two-pronged approach during the fall of 2005 and spring of 2006. Passive samplers (semipermeable membrane device and polar organic chemical integrative sampler [POCIS]) were deployed in tandem at sites above and below wastewater trea
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Reproductive health of bass in the potomac, USA, drainage: Part 1. exploring the effects of proximity to wastewater treatment plant discharge
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Aroclor 1248 exposure leads to immunomodulation, decreased disease resistance and endocrine disruption in the brown bullhead, Ameiurus nebulosus
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Morphology and 18S rDNA of Henneguya gurlei (Myxosporea) from Ameiurus nebulosus (Siluriformes) in North Carolina
Henneguya gurlei was isolated from Ameiurus nebulosus captured in North Carolina and redescribed using critical morphological features and 18S small-subunit ribosomal RNA (SSU rDNA) gene sequence. Plasmodia are white, spherical, or subspherical, occur in clusters, measure up to 1.8 mm in length, and are located on the dorsal, pectoral, and anal fins. Histologically, plasmodia are located in the de
Utilization of protein expression profiles as indicators of environmental impairment of smallmouth bass (Micropterus dolomieu) from the Shenandoah River, Virginia, USA
The Shenandoah River (VA, USA), the largest tributary of the Potomac River (MD, USA) and an important source of drinking water, has been the site of extensive fish kills since 2004. Previous investigations indicate environmental stressors may be adversely modulating the immune system of smallmouth bass (Micropterus dolomieu) and other species. Anterior kidney (AK) tissue, the major site of blood c
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Brown bullheads Amieurus nebulosus (family Ictaluridae) are commonly used as a sentinel of environmental contamination. These fish are not generally cultured under laboratory conditions and little is known about their disease susceptibility. Here we report an outbreak of disease due to Edwardsiella ictaluri in a laboratory population of tank-reared, wild-caught brown bullheads. The isolate was pos
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Q: Nightwatch click event on anchor not working in edge I've written a command in Nightwatch to test a takeover element.
The test works fine in Chrome only it does NOT in Edge.
What i've noticed is that the click function on the first two anchor elements is not triggered. If i manually click them it closes them as expected. The click event does work on the button elements which are lower in the DOM.
Here's my command:
exports.command = function(client) {
    client.elements('css selector', '[data-action="takeover"]', function(elements) {
      elements.value.forEach(function(element){
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A: It appears to be a bug in Edge.
I was able to fix the problem with a thirth-party module nightwatch-custom-commands-assertions
Replaced:
.click('css selector', "[data-rel='"+attribute.value+"']")

With:
.jqueryClick("[data-rel='"+attribute.value+"']")

The .jqueryClick is a custom nightwatch command written by maxgalbu which resolved the problem in my case.

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Partial Collapse of Building Under Construction
bimr (Civil/Environmental)
5 Jan 21 21:37
Two people were critically injured in a partial building collapse of a building under construction in suburban Chicago Illinois on Monday afternoon, December 28, 2020, Westmont village officials said. A spokesperson for the village said around 12:30 p.m. there was a partial collapse at a new multi-use condominium building under construction at the intersection of Cass Avenue and Quincy Street.
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RE: Partial Collapse of Building Under Construction
hokie66 (Structural) 5 Jan 21 23:26
Speculation at the moment, but precast structures like this often have stability issues before everything is tied together. Or, as there are some pictures of cranes which seem a bit askew, it could have been a lifting failure?
JohnRBaker (Mechanical) 6 Jan 21 00:21
It looks perhaps like at least one of the 'cranes' may have slipped or sunk into something. It seem to be sitting pretty low on the job site. Could there have been a foundation or retaining wall collapse resulting in some earth moving under the equipment?
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OSHA inspectors were on the site today with a drone. Both ends of the structure are now propped up with temporary supports. The question is whether the structure will have to be taken apart and re-erected.
r13 (Civil/Environmental) 8 Jan 21 06:38
Those precast beams seem have rotated.
dik (Structural) 8 Jan 21 07:12
the outer one being a spandrel and the inner one seems to have the floor spanning on one side only... with the plank on the LHS spanning the other direction.
Rather than think climate change and the corona virus as science, think of it as the wrath of God. Feel any better?
-Dik
jayrod12 (Structural) 8 Jan 21 15:28
And that looks like a might split at the top of that one column.
ATSE (Structural) 8 Jan 21 15:49
Damn precast. Again.
Precast is great in concept, at least.
The robustness of the connections is what gives me the most heartburn.
My strong hunch is that partial collapses during construction occur with precast structures (like the one in this post) far more than cast-in-place concrete or structural steel erection.
Can't prove it, that's just my sparse data set in the framework of my biases.
Aside: Does anyone know of a national database - say from OSHA or similar - which tabulates and logs these events, and makes available to the public?
OSHA has a lot of very good after-incident detailed reports, but I have not seen a comprehensive database.
Quote (Damn precast. Again.)
If done right, precast is great... attractive finish, and can be economical... I've done numerous precast buildings, including those in seismic areas.
bones206 (Civil/Environmental) 8 Jan 21 16:36
Quote (ATSE)
I haven't dug into it myself, but I did find this:
https://enforcedata.dol.gov/views/data_summary.php
Quote (And that looks like a might split at the top of that one column)
any suggestions why the column would be split? I cannot think of any, not with the large wide precast beam over.
Honestly no I don't have any idea why the column would split like that. Normally I would say a split like that in a concrete member would be due to localized rebar corrosion causing expansion and tension splitting. But a barely loaded, brand new column, doesn't strike me as a candidate for either corrosion or overloading.
Maybe torsion from the beam cause a pry-out type failure of whatever dowel type fastener they had into the top of the column? That's my best guess. You'd think there'd be enough ties near the top of the column to prevent that however.
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Don't feel bad... I couldn't think of a good reason, either...
RedSnake (Electrical) 8 Jan 21 17:45
My guess is that on the left side in the yellow circle, water has been accumulated between the elements and then frozen and expanded so that the roof beam has been pushed to the right.
Maybe that is what has made the crack on the right pillar or the pillar has not been completely dry inside, due to the water inside the pillar, the water has frozen and expanded until it cracked.
BR A
"Logic will get you from A to Z; imagination will get you everywhere."
I don't think that's a crack. There are drip stains from water or something all over the structure.
Good catch, you may be right that it's picking up something from the bearing pads and staining the surface.
Also, in looking at some of these pictures, there appears to be a significant lack of erection bracing in place. Hollow-core diaphragms rely on the grout and all the tie-bars being in place. So even if they started erecting next to the shear walls, there's nothing bracing any of the columns away from the shear walls until the grouting is complete and cured.
bones... that explains the 'crack' I couldn't think of a reason for... thanks
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Okey you can be right, it is not easy to see in that picture
Then my guess is only that on the left side in the yellow circle, water has been accumulated between the elements and then frozen and expanded so that the roof beam has been pushed to the right.
Best Regards A
I thought it was a crack at first too. Perhaps it was grout dripping down? Looks like they utilized grout sleeves:
to secure rebar, likely...
We get several reports per year of these precast monstrosities collapsing, either during construction or after. What we seldom get is a comprehensive report as to why. Perhaps because they are tied up in lawsuits, and settlements include keeping the reasons confidential.
FacEngrPE (Mechanical) 9 Jan 21 11:39
This is an expansion of Bones reference to OSHA Data
on line with search engine
https://www.osha.gov/data
same data in flat file form
This search will pull a list of fatality accidents involving collapses, most are either building or excavation collapses. The list is shorter than I expected, perhaps many collapses do not result in fatalities?
https://www.osha.gov/pls/imis/AccidentSearch.searc...=
ATSE (Structural) 11 Jan 21 17:12
To respectfully counter the comment: "...If done right, precast is great..."
This comment could be applied to almost any domain, like, "If flown right, the 737 Max has no problems." But most construction failures are a combination of designer and contractor frailties, and lack of anticipating what might go wrong when humans and randomness are involved.
Possibly a better question is, how likely is this system to exhibit construction problems (like partial or complete collapse) as compared to other structural systems.
Some designs seem to demand CJP welds on intersecting thick steel plates, but I avoid them because of the inherent problems, and the lower probability that the final construction will perform like my FEA; so instead, I bias my designs toward PJPs on thin steel plates.
dik (Structural) 11 Jan 21 17:36
To reiterate, "If done right, precast is great..."


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Cast: Ashley Lane
Genres: BDSM, Extreme Bondage, Humilation, Hardcore, Fetish, Domination
It's all about Ashley Lane's amazing body today. This babe has a lot of assets we plan on taking advantage of. Girls get their nipples and clits pierced to increase their sensitivity. That's a good idea when they're at home with someone who is willing to be gentle but for us that just makes them even bigger targets. We'll use them to make her cum, sure, but first we're going to make her scream.
The spike chair is an old favorite torture device of ours. It's reminiscent of the kind of medieval bondage device that people think of when they dream of intense BDSM action. Wooden spikes come up to poke Ashley in the ass and under her arms and she is shackled down into place so they can really dig in.
The metal box over her head makes her pained shrieks echo into her ears. It's like a panic-inducing feedback loop. The way the box amplifies the sounds makes her agony seem so much worse.
Ashley's beautiful ass hasn't gotten the attention it deserves. OT puts her on her back with her legs locked up in the air and starts wailing on her back side with a stinging cane. It's clear why she's screaming at the top of her lungs and why tears are starting to well up in her eyes.
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Comitas torquayensis is an extinct species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Pseudomelatomidae.

Description

Distribution
This extinct marine species was found in lower Miocene strata off Torquay, Victoria, Australia. The type specimen is in the Auckland Museum.

References

 A.W.B. Powell (1944), The Australian Tertiary Mollusca of the Family Turridae
 A.W.B. Powell (1944), Records of the Auckland Institute and Museum., vol. 3 no. 1, p. 1-68

External links
 Auckland Museum: Comitas torquayensis (holotype)

torquayensis
Gastropods described in 1944
Gastropods of Australia

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No one said you have to start a 30-day challenge on the first of the month. I'm starting this today on Martin Luther King Day! Maybe a day won't match up with a Kindness challenge", but you can swap it out with another challenge, or come up with your own. There are no rules here. Just like there really are no hard and fast fashion rules. And yes…you can wear white after Labor Day. Even though I'm actually pretty certain I'm kind every day, I'm going to try and go the extra mile with this one.
I'm starting todays challenge with "Giving 3 compliments to strangers"…which is to you my blog followers, and yes, I realize that between Carol, Carolyn, Meredith, Louise, NKO, Cinda and my other pals who follow this blog, they don't equate to strangers, however since I'm averaging 1000+ views per day on this blog, this is for the 9994 other people who just may read this.
You are very smart and savvy to be reading this blog.
If you read and/or follow this blog, that must mean you have an excellent sense of humor and I find that most endearing.
And just for the heck of it, I'm going to compliment 3 strangers that I happen upon today!
Oh dear that last cartoon made me laugh. Don't know how you do it but sure am glad you do. And I'm speaking for the 995 who don't routinely comment. Kindness makes the world go round. Great challenge.
Love this blog, your humor is outstanding, but you always include a nugget of truth and wisdom! Thanks for making us smile and learn!


In addition to the proven reliability and Japanese build quality that its previous "B" series already offered, the all new "C" series marks the addition of a new ROPS-compliant cab and an interim tier 4 compliant Isuzu engine, amongst other improvements. This truly is a massive leap forward for Case, propelling it to the forefront of the small to medium size excavator market. The Case excavator factory is located in Japan and is one of the more impressive facilities I've had the good fortune of visiting. Case's build quality and manufacturing techniques are second to none; combine that with premium quality components from industry leading suppliers and you've got yourself one very smart machine, not to mention one very productive operator.
The Case CX350C features an electronically controlled pump and auxiliary hydraulic circuit enabling the operator to set both the pressure and flow rate supplied to your auxiliary attachments at the push of a button. This makes using a range of attachments a real breeze, no longer requiring an external flow meter to ensure your hammer or auger is running at the optimal speed. The design engineers at Case have developed five new energy saving features that make up their new "Intelligent Hydraulic System" (IHS). These features include Boom Economy Control (BEC), which senses and controls engine load and fuel consumption during boom down and swing operation; Idle Management System (IMS) manages engine rpm, lowering engine revs after five seconds of inactivity and shutting down after three minutes of inactivity; Swing Relief Control (SWC) regulates hydraulic flow at the start of the swing operation to optimise performance while minimising fuel consumption; Auto Economy Control (AEC) improves fuel efficiency whenever the joysticks are in the neutral position; while Spool Stroke Control (SSC) senses pressure during the digging operation to further optimise the hydraulic pressure requirements for fuel efficient operation. Put simply, while you're working, the new Case CX350C is working on lowering your operating costs for you.
The operator's station now features a larger 7-inch backlit LED monitor (or roughly the size of two cigarette packets side by side). This panel, which also doubles as the rear camera monitor, displays all the vital information required while allowing various levels of access and optional modes for added convenience. The operator has the option of three work modes labelled with "A" for auto, "H" for heavy and "SP" for speed priority which also enables an automatic 5 per cent boost in performance when the system senses the necessity. With this dial, adjustments can be made to both the pump as well as the engine RPM. An economy gauge on the colour monitor assists the operator in choosing their work mode by displaying the most economical operating settings to further improve fuel efficiency. The throttle dial enables the operator to dial up the necessary balance of speed and break-out force to suit the demands of the task. Service modes can also be accessed by service personnel performing maintenance or conducting diagnostic tests. The cab air filter has also been conveniently moved to the outer left panel of the cab making it possible to conduct all service operations from ground level without the need to get in the cab. The operator environment is first rate, offering excellent visibility, rollover protection, clearly displayed information and enough room for you to make yourself comfortable. The cab is now mounted on new vibration damping, fluid and spring-style isolator mounts which not only reduced the physical effects on the operator, but also reduced the noise level in the cab by stopping harmonic vibrations from entering the operator environment.
The new 7.8-litre Isuzu AL-6HK1X engine is equipped with cooled exhaust gas recirculation (CEGR) and a diesel particulate filter/diffuser (DPD). The DPD features automatic self-regeneration ensuring no loss in productivity. The engine produces 270hp while boasting fuel economy gains of up to 16 per cent. This has been done in part by reducing the engine RPM, adding a variable geometry turbo charger and tuning the hydraulic pump control accordingly. The outcome is reduced NOx levels and a means of capturing particulate matter without the use of diesel exhaust additives. Hydraulic flow comes by way of two x 285 litre/minute variable displacement axial-piston pumps. Testing has shown a reduction in implement cycle times and the specifications I reviewed boasted a gradeability of up to 35 degrees, and a drawbar pull rating of 264 Kilonewtons. In layman's terms – it's faster, more powerful and more economical.
From a maintenance perspective, as with the previous model, all your general service points are accessible from ground level. Access to the swing drive is easy thanks to excellent boom base pivot point geometry, and belly guards are easily removed to access the underside of the engine by removing a hand full of bolts. The track frame design encourages dirt and debris to fall off as opposed to building up around the carrier rollers. Excellent clearance between the underside of the swing frame and the top of the track plates appear to minimise the risk of damage to the lower panel work. Case machinery has been around a long time and is now built in more than 35 countries and distributed in more than 170. The product line now includes: skid steer loaders, track loaders, wheel loaders, backhoe loaders, dozers, compact excavators and heavy excavators. If you ever had any doubts about the pedigree of the Case excavator line, that should be enough to put that to rest.
I'm happy to say that the Case CX350C hit the mark. I cannot criticise any aspect of this machine and would encourage any prospective plant buyers to take a look at it. Although it bears a lot of similarities and shares some components with competitive machines, the Case CX350C is a stand-alone machine which will please the most discerning owner or operator… "Case closed".


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On this module, you'll analyse, mannequin and simulate cutting-edge different power units, including dual gas and hybrid methods. You may then design controllers for required emissions regulation, gasoline economic system, and efficiency. In particular, you'll explore the potential for the applying of contemporary controllers to coordinate and management APUs and their associated subsystems.
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Imaging the Rural: Modernity and Agrarianism in Hiroshi Hamaya's Snow Land Photographs
Ross Tunney Published June 20, 2015 Pages 1-20 https://doi.org/10.21159/nvjs.07.01 © The Japan Foundation, Sydney and Ross Tunney, 2015 This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.
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Grant D. Miller (1863-1945) - Mortuary owner; County Coroner; EBMUD Founder
Grant D. Miller (Photo of crypt by Michael Colbruno)
MAIN MAUSOLEUM, SEC. 9, Tier 1, Crypt 420
Grant D. Miller was a well-known undertaker in Oakland, where a funeral home still bears his name. He was elected the Alameda County Coroner in 1914, narrowly defeating incumbent Dr. Charles Tisdale. Miller served for 24 years until his voluntary retirement.
He was born in Amador County, California on November 24, 1863 to David and Julia (Hinkson) Miller. In 1879, he moved to San Francisco, where he attended the Pacific Business College. After graduating, he was hired as clerk by Wells Fargo where he worked for two years. He moved to Mariposa, California in 1882 and worked as the secretary of the Compromise Mining Company for two years, at which time he rejoined his father in worked on the family farm.
Just before the turn of the 20th century he arrived in Oakland and opened his funeral home. Besides his service as the Alameda County Coroner, Miller was instrumental in founding the East Bay Municipal Utility District (EMBUD) in 1923 and served on its board until 1943, when he resigned because of poor health. He was also a founder of the Oakland Community Chest and the Eastbay Safety Council.
He requested a simple funeral and that his pallbearers were all past and present employees of his mortuary.
The original mortuary was located at 2372 East 14th Street and remained there until 1978. It is currently called the Grant Miller-John Cox Mortuary and is located at 2850 Telegraph Avenue in Oakland.
Above is a picture of the current mortuary as it appeared when it was built 1896 and as it appeared in 2009. The building was redesigned in 1931 by architects Chester Miller and Carl Warnecke. Note the four windows that can be seen in both pictures.
Lew Hing (劉興) (May 1858 – March 7, 1934) Prominent Businessman in SF and Oakland
Lew Hing
Hing crypt; Section 9, Main Mausoleum
Lew Hing (Lew Yu-ling) immigrated to the United States from the Sun Ning district in China in 1871 and became a pioneer in the canning industry. He owned four canneries in California, in the cities of San Francisco, Oakland, Monterey, and Antioch. His canneries supplied Herbert Hoover's American Relief program following World War I. In the San Francisco Bay Area, Lew also owned a shipping company, two hotels, and an import-export business. In Mexico, he owned a cotton plantation. He was Chairman of the Board of Directors for the China Mail Steamship Company, and President of the Bank of Canton.
He was also a real estate developer. Today, his legacy is maintained at the Pacific Cannery Lofts in Oakland by Holliday Development, where dedications are made in his honor in one of his original buildings for the Pacific Coast Canning Company.
In 1868 an older half brother of Lew Hing ventured to San Francisco to start a small metal shop on Commercial Street. With the success of his shop, in 1871 he urged his 12-year-old half brother, Lew Hing, to immigrate to America to join him in his growing business.
A few months after Lew arrived, his half-brother planned a brief vacation back to Canton to visit his family. His square rigged sailing vessel was off the coast of Japan when it caught fire and sank, causing all aboard to perish at sea. This left the young Lew Hing, at age 13, alone in San Francisco, without family or money.
Despite his grim circumstance, the growing Chinese community that would later become known as San Francisco's Chinatown was beginning to form familial associations that provided leadership and social opportunities among the Chinese immigrants to America. Men with the same surnames would help each other as brothers. This was the beginning of Family Associations in Chinatown, and it was through such association that the young Lew Hing was able to survive.
In 1877, Lew Hing married Chin Shee (July 1860 – July 1947) in San Francisco. They had three sons and four daughters, each born in San Francisco.
Lew Yuet-yung, aka Mrs. Quan Yick-sun (1879–1967)
Lew Gin-gow (1885–1943)
Lew Yuen-hing, aka Mrs. Ho Chou-won (1889–1978)
Lew Wai-hing, aka Mrs. Ng Min-hing (1890–1969)
Thomas Gunn-sing Lew (1894–1974)
Lew Soon-hing Rose, aka Mrs. Francis Moon (1898–1993)
Ralph Ginn Lew (1903–1987)
Though he was never as skilled in metalwork as his older half-brother had been, he nonetheless learned the basics, such as soldering. In addition, among his odd jobs he helped a European woman make her fruit jams for storage in glass jars. This taught Lew about food preservation and how to avoid food poisoning. It was a natural next step for Lew to combine his metalwork with his food preservation skills to join in the new industry of canning foodstuffs.
Hing's Buckskin Brand
At age 18 in 1877, Lew Hing founded his first cannery with another metalworker of Family Association ties, Lew Yu-tung. The cannery was located at the northeast corner of Sacramento and Stockton Streets in San Francisco and took up the first two stories of the building with the basement as storage. Lew Hing and other Family Association members lived on the third floor.
In the 1880s–1890s, canning food was still a new concept. Lew Hing had embarked on a long period of trial and error before the cannery could reliably produce safe and edible canned foods. When food was not preserved properly or the cans were not fully sterilized (for example, each can had to be soldered individually by hand), noxious bacterial action would ruin the product, causing cans to swell and even explode. Eventually, Lew Hing developed safer and more effective formulas for canning various fruits and vegetables. These formulas were never documented since they were Lew Hing's trade secrets and were kept from rival canneries. Canned fruit items became a very good seller in Chinatown as many Chinese made purchases to take back to China. Soon, the products were purchased by Westerners and sales expanded outside San Francisco's Chinatown.
Lew's original cannery thrived for over two decades. Then, in 1902, at age 44, he decided to close the Pacific Coast Canning Company cannery and retire to Canton. However, within a year Lew returned to the Bay Area, opening the at 12th and Pine Streets in Oakland.
Workers at Pacific Coast Cannery
Always on the cutting edge of progress, Lew built his new cannery as the first concrete building in the industrial part of Oakland, plus he insisted on the most advanced machinery for mass production of his products. Also, in contrast to San Francisco, Oakland had space for a larger cannery as well as providing the Southern Pacific railroad tracks directly to the cannery dock for easy shipping of Lew's Buckskin brand canned goods throughout the United States. Products included asparagus, cherries, apricots, peaches, pears, and grapes. Tomatoes were the most popular. Always a stickler for quality, each morning, Lew would go to the Tasting Room and open, inspect, and taste batches of food processed the day before. Eventually, Buckskin canned goods would make their way throughout the Western hemisphere.
In 1906, Lew Hing was able to make substantial assistance to Bay Area earthquake victims. He opened his cannery to the homeless and also provided tents elsewhere for temporary shelter. He hired cooks to provide meals. Following the earthquake, many San Franciscan's relocated to Oakland, including several Chinese. As with several ethnic groups, Chinese were compelled to remain in ethnic clusters. Lew assisted these Chinese with finance and leadership by organizing neighborhoods, including the area that became Oakland's Chinatown. As a consequence, he became involved with many Oakland Chinatown organizations, making contributions to their many causes and forming business alliances in relation to the Pacific Canning Company.
As the Pacific Canning Company prospered, Lew Hing diversified his interests into many other areas, including a personal interest in the Loong Kong Tien Yee Association, an organization for the families of Lew, Quan, Jung and Chew, and fostered the group in both Oakland and San Francisco.
In 1907 Lew returned to San Francisco for added business interests. Given his natural leadership in the Chinese community, he became President of Bank of Canton, located at the northeast corner of Montgomery and Sacramento Streets. In the same year he also entered the hotel business, building The Republic Hotel on Grant Avenue (near Sacrament Street). However, his San Francisco interests had to be juggled with his work as president and owner of Pacific Coast Canning Company in Oakland. Always a careful and punctual man, he devised a schedule that allowed him to spend half of each work day in San Francisco, half in Oakland.
By 1910, Lew Hing had entered the import-export trade, first as an investor with Sing Chong and Fook Wah Companies which imported art goods from China. Then, in 1910, Lew Hing began his own import-export business, shipping wholesale Chinese food items from Hop Wo Cheung in Canton, China to Hop Wo Lung, a store on Grant Avenue in San Francisco.
By 1911, Lew Hing's Pacific Coast Canning Company had become one of Oakland's largest businesses, providing over 1,000 jobs during the peak canning seasons. Employees were usually from the local Portuguese, Italian, and Chinese communities. Lew Hing was the Bay Area's single largest employer of Chinese.
In 1912 Lew built his second hotel, originally named the Mun Ming Lue Kwan, at 858-870 Clay Street, between Grant and Stockton Streets. Still in existence, the name has since been changed to The Lew Hing building in honor of Lew.
In 1915, Lew accepted the position of Chairman of the Board of Directors for the China Mail Steamship Co. Ltd., whose office was in the same building as his Bank of Canton office.
From 1916 to 1921, Lew Hing was the principal owner of a cotton plantation known as Wa Muck in Mexicali, Mexico. For laborers, he conscripted hundreds of Chinese from China who would pass through San Francisco and go directly to Mexico by rail. Lew Hing set aside a few city blocks of land on the plantation for shops to accommodate the needs of Chinese workers. The remains of this impromptu Chinatown still exist in Mexicali.
Inventive and industrious throughout his life, Lew Hing was very progressive for his time. He was also a man of high principles. Coming from his very humble beginning, he had great compassion for Chinese immigrants in America because he understood them well. He was a well-respected gentleman who generated much business in the community and created many job opportunities for the Chinese in the Bay Area. He contributed in upgrading the quality of life for Chinese immigrants in their ordeal of assimilation and integration into the Western ways of life in these United States.
He also related well to the Caucasian community, as indicated when he often attended formal civic events and was included in the inner circle of San Francisco's long-time mayor, Jimmy Rolph. Lew became very American in his ways, never again desiring to return to China.
[The original information for this article was provided by Jean Moon Liu, granddaughter of Lew Hing and daughter of Mrs. Francis Moon]
Frank Gordon "Limb" McKenry (1888-1956) Cincinnati Reds Pitcher; Committed Suicide
Limb McKenry
Lot 67, Plot 137
Frank "Limb" McKenry was a pitcher for the Cincinnati Reds in 1915 and 1916 where he compiled a 6-6 record with a 3.10 ERA. Due to his 6' 4", 205-pound physique, he was also known as "Big Pete."
In 1916 he was called to service in the California National Guard and shortly thereafter retired to run his fruit farm in California's Central Valley.
In 1934, McKenry and his wife divorced and he began struggling with depression. As his rheumatoid arthritis grew progressively worse he decided to end his life on the evening of November 1, 1956. He placed a shotgun in his mouth and fired. He left no note.
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Lincoln "Link" Blakely (1912-1976) Cincinnati Reds Outfielder
Bill Brenzel
Outdoor Garden Mausoleum, Crypt 11, Tier 2
Bill Branzel was an Oakland native who attended Fremont High School. He left school when he was 16 years old to play baseball for the Mission Club of the Pacific Coast League in San Francisco.
In 1931, at the age of 20, he joined the Pittsburgh Pirates organization and beat out full-time catcher Fred Hoffman for the starting job. In 1934, he was purchased by the Cleveland Indians from Kansas City and eventually became the first string catcher when Frankie Pytlak left because of illness. He ended up playing two seasons for Cleveland before retiring.
Known for his quick wit and slow feet, he made it to the majors based on his defensive skills, not his offensive prowess. He only hit .198 in his three major league seasons.
After his career ended he managed in the minor leagues before becoming a scout for the Los Angeles Dodgers. One of his major recruits was Earl Robinson, the two sport star of the California Golden Bears. Robinson ended up signing a $75,000 bonus with the Dodgers, a record at the time for a black player.
His son Gary also played baseball in college and the minor leagues.
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Every business in London should build an online brand. Colour scheme, logo, text, slogans and ethos all help to form a brand, as well as many other factors. A brand is your professional identifier and is an extremely powerful marketing tool.
Creative branding is an umbrella term for the art created to present a business or person to consumers as its corporate image.
Branding involves creating something that is captivating, appropriate and distinctive.
As it can be considered an art, creative branding is very subjective, meaning there's no right or wrong way to do it as it depends on your niche and audience.
You have to distinguish yourself from competitors and think outside the box, otherwise you could be accused of copying which can be easily done when creating a brand.
A logo is your business in its simplest form as an image or mark.
If done well, creative branding can transform your brand to be easily remembered and people will know your business/ product from a single word or logo.
For example, if your business is more conservative and formal then consider this in the font, colours and logo you use, and conversely if your business is beauty based then this needs to be reflected in your branding.
These will make it appropriate and easily remembered.
Your brand is the visual and emotional aspect of your business that connects with the consumer and consumers can become very loyal to a brand and what it encompasses.
A classic example of creative branding done well is the Mcdonalds 'golden M', it's slogan and its theme tune.
Anywhere in the world when you see the 'golden M' from afar you know it's a Mcdonalds, before you even see the building.
We all know the 'white apple with a bite at the top' represents the IT company, Apple.
The 'white apple' is of course appropriate for the company name and it is simple, white and modern to mimic the design of Apple products.
Kleenex, the tissue company are another great example of creative branding done well.
Now, mostly in America, when someone asks for a Kleenex, everyone knows it means a tissue.
These are examples of powerful branding; where an unrelated word/term becomes synonymous with the product, or the branding is very appropriate and distinctive to the company name, and is remembered by many.
Every business needs its own corporate image to be memorable. ClickDo Ltd have already mastered creative branding as well as no. 1 rankings on SERPs. Branding and creative agencies have the knowledge to create an exceptional brand, however as businesses they too need to rank well on SERPs to generate leads. Creative branding, SEO and digital marketing are all best used together to meet business goals online.


Super lettuce, AWAY! Stop being so lazy and FLY, sidekick Spinach!
Come on britgirl just admit it in the comments!
I cannot even begin to tell you my state of mind after reading this joke. It's just... Well, there are just no adjectives.
I'm suprised he didn't see or comment on this yet.
My name is in this joke!
Jesus drank wine... and Wine is a type of alcoholic drink. It ain't a sin to drink, but it is a sin to get wasted.
He wouldn't get wasted from moonshine. He's Jesus for crying out loud!
Jesus walks into a bar and asks for 15 glasses of water. Then he says "haha sucker thanks for the free wine! "
I cut a slice of cake & put it in a ccup & ate it, no joke!
I like his name because I also like dubstep.


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Q: Pass  value to Django view Let's say I have the following pointless example view:
def foo(request, input):
    return HttpResponse()

and in a template I have a form:
<form method="get" action="{% url 'foo' ??? %}">
    <input id="myinput" type="text" name="myinput">

    ...

</form>

Finally, I have the following url in my URLconf:
urlpatterns = [
    url(r'^foo/(.+)/', views.foo, name='foo'),
]

What I would like to do, is pass the value entered by the user into the input with the id of #myinput to the foo() view function. To put it another way, you should be able to enter bar in the html input, and when you submit the form it will take you to foo/bar/.
I know that within the foo view I could access the value of the input easily with request.GET['myinput'], but I want it to show up in the url as well.
This seems like it should be a fairly common task, but I have not been able to come up with a solution yet. Any suggestions would be appreciated. My Frankenstein's Monster of a first Django site is almost complete, and this is one of last pieces I am missing.

A: The source of my misunderstanding
Although I did not make this clear in an attempt to simplify my example and avoid using app-specific code, my use case is a simple search view. The view was actually one of the first views I wrote in the start of my Django journey, and I mistakenly was POSTing my data instead of GETing it. This was making it so that if I was searching for the item foo, it would take me to the detail page for foo, but the url would be mysite/search/ (i.e., the search query is not included in the url though it is included in the request), and I can't return to those search results by visiting the url mysite/search/.
While I was using a GET request in my toy example in this question, I didn't realize that I had been using a POST in my app, and that with some minor tweaking I can get the functionality I want for free very easily. I know that all of this is extremely obvious to veteran and even intermediate web developers, but for someone starting from scratch without web or cs experience, things like HTTP can be a little confusing. At least for me it is. Thanks so much to @Two-Bit Alchemist for explaining this in a way that I can understand.
Applying all this to my toy example
I would get rid of the passed parameter in my view:
def foo(request):

    # If I want to do something with the search query, I can access it with
    # request.GET['search_query']

    return HttpResponse()

change my form in my template to:
<form method="get" action="{% url 'foo' %}">
    <input id="myinput" type="text" name="search_query">

    ...

</form>

and change my url to:
urlpatterns = [
    url(r'^foo/search/', views.foo, name='foo'),
]

As @Two-Bit Alchemist said: "The rest will happen like magic". If a user enters bar in the input and submits the form, they will be taken to foo/search/?search_query=bar. This is what I was looking for.


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Not long to go now until The Big Move. Two more days and I'm off into the future.
Got the keys to my new room and swung by it earlier today and I saw both things that I did like and things I didn't like. The Didn't Likes include the general condition of the shared spaces; kitchen and bathroom. Pretty unpleasant, if I'm brutally honest, and this is despite the fact that there is a cleaner who comes every week. So, not too keen on that, but as with all places once you've lived there for a while you get a bit blind to things, so hopefully I'll get used to it. Also I emailed my landlord about a few things that I think need to be looked at, so hopefully he'll sort those things out. Apparently when the person who had my room before me moved in there was a problem with the washing machine and after she pointed it out he went out and bought a new one, so I guess that's a good sign.
Under the heading of Did Like I've got the most important thing: my room. I felt good, stepping into my room. Yes, it is small, but not quite as small as I had begun to imagine. The previous tenant hadn't done much by way of cleaning the room, found a fair few bits and bobs when pulling out the bed and the desk, and I had to start with some serious hoovering. The desk, by the way, came apart when I pulled it out, and in all honesty I'm sort of glad it did, because I had already told the landlord I'd want to use my own desk, and as this one self-destructed I didn't feel too bad about hauling it up to the top floor where there is a small space for storage. Although the desk is pretty rickety even after I re-assembled it, the drawers can be used for extra storage I suppose. Other Likes was the fact that there is actually quite a lot more storage in the room than I thought, and there's a small wardrobe I hadn't noticed when I went to view the room, and a small space to keep books at the head of my bed.
Anyway, enough about the practical side of the move. Let's think a little about the emotional side..
So, I've spent a little over two years at The House, the therapeutic community, and in some ways I think it's been time for me to leave for a while now. I don't feel I fit in particularly well here, the communal living doesn't really suit me. I don't mind shared living, but communal, not so much. I was never going to be one to suggest having mandatory meals together on a regular basis or buying our food together as a group. I think I'm just a little too independent for that sort of life. [I'm not implying that the other house mates aren't independent, they just seem to have more of a wish for those sorts of things].
And as far as the therapeutic side of The House goes, again, it's not really worked for me. I've never really been able to entirely engage in the process of sharing in the meetings. To me it just seems so strange to be sharing my thoughts and feelings in a group, with people who I don't feel particularly close to or have all that much in common with. They're all good people, it's just that it's always made much more sense to me to chat with my friends or pick up the phone and ring my sisters when things get too much, just as they – both my friends and my sisters – will turn to me when things are hard.
That said, I think it's really good that this place exists, and I genuinely hope that they'll be able to find people to move into The House who are more up for this way of life. I can absolutely see how I've played a part in making this place be less of a community than it could be, through not lending myself entirely to the experience. Having been one of four housemates for a large part of my stay here, of course my way of doing things has had a direct impact on what sort of house this has been, and I do hope that the people who end up moving in here will be more able than I have been to throw themselves into making this place the community that it may have been meant to be.
Of course, as different as I have often felt, moving away from here is still a pretty major step. One of the things that is good about The House is that everyone knows that everyone else has their reasons for being here, and have some understanding for how life can sometimes feel all too impossible to cope with, and how working on your own difficulties is as hard a job as any other 9-5 job.
Will I regret moving out? I don't know. I feel that it's time for me to go. To try to take the next step. Push myself a little. I do expect to dip a bit after I've moved; it's a big change going from a house where – whether I speak to people or not – there is nearly always someone around and there is always the option to knock on someone's door if things feel too hard, to a place where people lead altogether separate lives and don't seem to interact at all.
I am trying to keep in mind that this room I'm moving into is not the place I'll be staying forever. It's a step into the future, a stepping stone on the way to getting back on track. I don't think I'll be staying there for very long, in all honesty – but I thought making a move from The House was needed, and this will be my intermediary dwelling place until I can find something s bit nicer and with a more of a permanent feel to it in about six months' time. Perhaps a share which is a real share without being too communal.
So here's to change and stepping into the future!
The week spent at my ex's flat is drawing to an end. It's been an indescribably luxury to have a place to myself, to be able to come and go as I wish and to have to justify to no one my need for solitude, which I am aware does not exactly fit in the House I am currently living in.
Some time ago I gave my notice to my house mates, saying that I've decided the time to leave has come. That said, I gave my notice quite far in advance; I'm still going to be living in the house for a while – I've said I'm leaving at the end of May. The reason for this is that I didn't want my moving out to be seen as a direct response to things that were going on in the house at the time, but a decision in its own right. Naturally, things going on in the house is part of my decision, but I think there is a difference between something being a part of a decision and somehing being the cause of it. Also, I felt I needed the time to mentally prepare myself for moving. Because it is a big deal. I've been living in this therapeutic community for over two years, and although I am the first admit that I've not opted to entirely be part of this House in the way that perhaps people feel I ought to have, moving out is still a big step.
same as having people round to your own place. It just isn't.
So, staying at the flat has made me feel very strongly that I am definitely on the right track with moving out. Whilst I'm unlikely to be able to get a place of my own, even just moving out of where I'm staying is a step towards that sense of independence. As much as I don't regret moving into the House, it has also made me see how much I value my independence, and how much I struggle whenever I feel that that independence is under threat. I'm not a child, and while valid points have been raised regarding my need to keep separate from my housemates, I do feel that safeguarding my right to living my life the way that feels right for me is more important than a lot of other things.
On to something entirely different.
This Shabbat I wasn't able to make it to Shabbat morning service owing to ridiculous problems with public transport and an incessant dry cough which I would rather not pass on to the people I normally sit with in shul. Felt quite sad about not going, since it's such a big part of my Shabbat routine. I love sitting in synagogue, listening to E. leading the choir and congregation in song and praying together with my community. Somehow the idea of saying the prayers and singing the songs on my own felt just not enough to truly celebrate Shabbat the way it should be celebrated. So I had a think and remembered reading about how some synagogues stream their services online, so that housebound congregants can still be part of the service.
Now, I don't normally use the internet over Shabbat; this is my personal choice, my way of making Shabbat different to the rest of the week when I am always available and always hooked up to some techie-gear or other, but having given it some thought I decided that switching on the computer to be part of Shabbat morning service would enhance my Shabbat experience rather than detract from it.
My shul doesn't yet broadcast the services online (although it's apparently in the pipelines) so I had a look on the MRJ website to find a synagogue that does. Found one and with the click of a button I found myself virtually joining another of the reform synagogue congregations for their Shabbat morning service.
This turned out to be a really interesting experience. Having not really visited other synagogues it was really cool to see how in some ways things are very similar, but how each synagogue has its own little tweaks. One thing I really liked about the service I was joining was how the rabbi leading it at one point turned around and asked the members of the congregation to share their thoughts and hopes and prayers out loud, asking what their week had been like and so on. It felt like a very nice touch to make the congregation feel like a real community.
like I was sitting in one of the pews of the shul, and – siddur in hand – I stood and sat with the congregation, just as I would have at any other service.
So, I guess my conclusion is that although people sometimes say that technology gives us a way to cut off from the world, it can also be used to do the exact opposite.
That said, I am already looking forward to seeing my J-Prep friends on Wednesday and my Shabbat service gang next Saturday. Somehow cyber-kiddush just isn't quite the same thing as the real deal!


Elżbieta Wójcik-Leese translates contemporary Polish poetry into English. Her translations appear regularly in journals (among others, Poetry Review, London Review, Poetry Ireland Review, Modern Poetry in Translation, Chicago Review) and anthologies, most recently in New European Poets (Graywolf Press, 2008) and Six Polish Poets (ARC, 2009). Her versions of Krystyna Miłobędzka are forthcoming from Arc Publications in 2012. Salt Monody is a selection of fifty-three translations from Marzanna Kielar (Zephyr Press, 2006). She co-edited Carnivorous Boy Carnivorous Bird: Poetry from Poland, a bilingual edition (Zephyr Press, 2004), which presents twenty-four Polish poets born between 1958 and 1969. She is a contributing editor to Poetry Wales and co-editor of Przekładaniec. A Journal of Literary Translation (Kraków, Poland). She also translates Polish children's books and English-language poetry. As a translator and writer, she has been involved in the Metropoetica project, "Poetry and Urban Space: Women writing cities" (www.metropoetica.org). The London Underground featured her translations in summer 2011. She lives in Copenhagen.


This is where Kitty Hawk – a company owned by Google co-founder Larry Page – has set up a small hanger and training facility.
The training begins in a basic simulation, a computer game that teaches you about the two controls you need to worry about – one switch to control altitude, and a small joystick to handle direction.
And that, in many respects, is the real story here – not that it flies, but that it's accessible and apparently so easy to control. It's progress that would move flying cars from being a silly toy for the rich into a potentially revolutionary new mode of transport.
But one obvious hurdle will be handling different weather conditions. Currently Kitty Hawk doesn't allow new pilots to fly if the wind is 10mph (16km/h) or stronger – that's a fairly light breeze.
The team told me they haven't had any crashes – at least, not while a human being has been on board. They have had to land on the water in the past, Mr Reichart told me, but wouldn't share more details.
Willi Tacke from aviation magazine Flying Pages thinks one route to make mass-market flying cars safer would be to use full autonomy – in other words, letting the computer do all the driving.


A good poll was conducted by experts, which I read about in one online publication. Opinions about such a survey vary widely, but I suggest that you personally get acquainted and express what you think, but just be kind, make short notes, more accurately statements in a more capacious format.
At the same time they try to choose cheap analogs.
More common citizens, like two years ago, buy medicines kotopec.wordpress.com only when absolutely necessary, try to choose cheaper analogs, or even use traditional medicine, said in a press release of the research holding.
The poll of the company was attended by 1 thousand people aged 18 and over who live in all types of cities in all federal districts. The sample represents the adult urban population of this country. The research holding asked the inhabitants of this region of the planet several questions about the use of medicines in recent times - the volumes of their purchase, the choice of the manufacturer, attempts to import substitution. And they conducted the same poll in the fall of 2015.
More than half of respondents try to save on medicines, buying drugs only when absolutely necessary (32%), or choosing cheaper analogues (18%), or using traditional medicine (4%), the study said.
At the same time, one third of respondents said that they continue to buy the same medicines and in the same amounts as before, despite the prices.
Nevertheless, the price factor when choosing drugs remains the most important. Recently, these people began to listen more to the advice of doctors when choosing drugs, although they do not neglect the experience of the previous use and the revealed curative properties, the study says.
By the way, do not forget about the general strengthening of the body. You need to take care of your body, of course, you must strive for purity in everything, from here will come health.


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Extreme Weather in Illinois
By Duane Friend
Anyone that has lived in Illinois for more than a year knows we can experience a wide range of weather. It can be hot, cold, dry, wet, windy and humid, sometimes changing from one to the other very quickly. The following information on weather extremes comes from the Illinois State Climatologists office and the Midwest Regional Climate Center.
The highest temperature reported in Illinois was 117 F in East St. Louis on July 14, 1954.
Jacksonville is not far behind, with a high temperature of 114 F on the same day.
The lowest temperature reported in Illinois was -36 F in Congerville on January 5, 1999.
One has to go back to February 27 of 1934 to find Jacksonville's lowest temperature of -28 F, which shows how late in the winter extreme cold can still occur.
The most rainfall from a single event was 16.94 inches in Aurora during a 24-hour period spanning July 17-18, 1996. I remember Jacksonville's extreme of 5.02 inches on September 23 of 1993 well. We had just moved to town the week before and ended up with water seeping into the lower level of our house. I also know, at least anecdotally, that some areas close by have received much more than five inches in the past few years.
There have been two months in which Illinois has received no precipitation in the area- February in 1917 and September in 1979.
The most precipitation in a year was a virtual tie between New Burnside in 1950 (74.58 inches) and Carbondale in 1945 (74.50 inches). Just a hair under 60 inches occurred for our area in 1973, and the lowest annual precipitation here happened way back in 1901, when only 21.49 inches was received.
The most snow from a single event appears have occurred in Astoria on February 27-28, 1900, with 37.8 inches.
The most snow for a single winter was 105.1 inches at Antioch during the winter of 1978-1979.
We all know tornadoes are fairly common. The average time of day with the highest occurrence of tornadoes is 5 p.m.
Since 1950, the majority of tornadoes in the state have been in the EF0 category, which has winds of 65 to 85 miles per hour. There have been a little over 1,000 of these. While only forty EF4 tornadoes have been recorded, with winds of 166-200 miles per hour, this category created the most fatalities- over 100. EF stands for the Enhanced Fujita scale, named after the meteorologist who initially developed it.
Severe Weather Preparedness Week is February 28 through March 5. For more information, go to http://www.ready.gov/severe-weather , and visit the University of Illinois Extension Disaster Preparedness website at http://web.extension.illinois.edu/disaster/prep.cfm
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import {ColumnState} from './column-state.class';
import {PipeTransform} from '@angular/core';

export type SortDirection = 'asc' | 'desc';

export type SortingMode = 'default' | 'external' | 'disabled';

export interface ColumnConfig {
  id: string;
  text?: string;
  sortingDisabled?: boolean;
  formatters?: DisplayFormatter[];
  subFields?: SubFieldConfig[];
  category?: {
    id: string;
    text: string;
  };
  sortCompare?: (a: any, b: any) => number;
  sortType?: string; // either 'string' or 'number'
  initialSortDirection?: SortDirection;  // either 'asc' or 'desc'
  data?: any; // for user-specific data
}

export interface SubFieldConfig {
  id: string;
  text: string;
  isVisible: boolean;
  formatters?: DisplayFormatter[];
}

export interface ColumnLookup {
  [columnName: string]: ColumnState;
}

export type cmpFun = (a: any, b: any) => number;

export interface CompareFunctions {
  [sortType: string]: cmpFun;
}

export interface DisplayFormatter extends PipeTransform {
  arguments?: Array<any>;
}

export interface Row {
  [property: string]: any;
}


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A History of Six Day Racing
Rider History
An Ongoing Project | Introduction - A Short History | Site Updates (new page)
About Who We Are
This website began as a collaboration between myself (Eugene Vandal) and Arnold Devlin, back in the fall of 2004. Arnold and I made our acquaintances through the Thunder Bay Cycling Club during the 2002 cycling season. Because of our common interests in cycling, we immediately became good friends. Over the next two years, Arnold introduced to me many of his other cycling interests, one of them being six day racing. I'd heard about 6 day racing from reading Bicycling Magazine and Winning Magazine back in the mid 80's, but never really got into it.
The job Arnold did for a living (administration) meant he always had his nose digging around in books. This was also what he did in his spare time, acquiring cycling stats, figures and resource material. He was a real pack rat when it came to collecting information. His real home in Quebec and his part time home, here in Thunder Bay, were cluttered with bookshelves full of material for his job and his love of cycling.
Eventually, Arnold got me interested in six day racing. It wasn't long before the two of us decided to start a website, pertaining to Canadian and American six day racing. During some of Arnold's digging, he found out about an old six day rider who raced here in Ontario back in the 1930's. This really kicked off the [6dayracing] site. It wasn't long before Arnold rounded up more information on different Canadian and American riders.
One of our more important resource people (in the beginning) was the daughter of Freddie Schultz, who still lives in California. She sent us quite a lot of information regarding her father and also got us in contact with other six day rider family members. When Arnold and I went to the Gent 6 in 2005, we met a fellow (Steve Penny from the Uk) who had been going to that event for quite a number of years. Steve eventually became a reporter for us, emailing us quality reports on the Gent and Berlin sixes, every year.
Arnold moved out of town in the spring of 2007, so the two of us contacted and transferred material through email. We were constantly in touch with one another, Arnold finding and sending new resource material, and me editing and creating the new pages for the site. We did this for a good year, until I received a call one morning from Arnold's daughter that Arnold had suddenly passed away at his home in Sudbury. Arnold loved cycing, and I think he'd be proud to know that this site is still growing, even though it's happening slower than before.
An Ongoing Project
At this point in time the site is almost fully upgraded to be responsive to all devices, making it larger, cleaner and more user friendly.
Because I'm still using of some of the old website pages, there are going to be broken links, so the user will have to rely on using the back/return arrow. If you find other errors or bad links, please email me these errors so they may be corrected.
This website is only one of the many projects I work on, so it will only be updated occasionally. Most of my time is taken up by painting (EugeneVandalArtist.com), cycling in the summer and skiing in the winter at (Thunder Bay Nordic Trails).
If you have material you would like posted on the 6-day bicycle racing project, please forward it to my email address.
IMPORTANT!! If you use any material from this site, please be courteous and credit '6dayracing.ca' as the source of your information.
6-day bicycling racing is an important part of Canadian cycling history. During the 1920's and 1930's Canada had several cyclists that were the best in the world. 6-day bicycle racing started in England in the 1880's and quickly spread through the European continent and to North America. Up until 1898, 6-day racing was performed by a group of individual cyclists who would ride around a track for 144 hours straight, most often indoors but sometimes outdoors. The track could be as small as 125 meters and as long as 250 meters. Fighting sleep deprivation and exhaustion the individual cyclist rode round and round to the cheers of the sporting public. Certain humanitarians became concerned at this display of suffering and complained to local authorities to stop the races. The city of New York in particular banned single rider 6-day races. But not to be stopped, the 6-day races were transformed into two man teams who would ride wooden tracks.
At the turn of the century and into the 1900's several European and North American cities were holding 6-day races. In particular Madison Square Garden in New York City became the mecca for 6-day races. Between 1899 and 1961 there were seventy 6-day races held in New York City. From this famous racing arena came the backbone event of 6-day racing, the Madison. This is the event where the team of two riders take turns racing along the bottom of the track while their partner rests riding at the top of the track. Every few laps the rider comes off the top and meets his partner who hand slings him into the fray at the bottom. The action is fast and furious as the riders attack off the front hoping to gain a lap on the field. In Europe the Madison is called l'American.
In the 106 years of 6-day history Canada has held fifty-nine 6-day races in seven different cities: Montreal (37), Toronto (13), Quebec City (3), Vancouver (3), Delhi, Ontario (1), Ottawa (1) and Winnipeg (1) race. Crowds of 6,000 to 10,000 spectators would crowd into the indoor arenas and forums to watch. A sports reporter with the Toronto Globe & Mail in 1937 described the event: "The squirrelly whirl, which goes under the more common moniker of 6-day bike race, is with us next Sunday night at midnight. At that time and for twenty-four turns of the clock per day till come a week Saturday, the daring young men on wheels will be ridin', ridin', ridin' till the cows come home."
The rough-and-tumble nature of the 6-day racing was what brought crowds to the arenas of North America and Europe. During the depression people had a lot of free time on their hands and little money to spend. You could go to an arena and see a 6-day event for 25 cents.
The racing was very real and not just entertainment. Even though the races lasted for 144 hours the riders would do many things to liven up the riding and to entertain the spectators.
We hope to keep 6-Day cycling history alive by sharing stories, interviews, photos and links of the racers who rode the wooden tracks in Montreal, Toronto, Quebec City, Winnipeg, Ottawa, Vancouver and Delhi. The first 6-day race was held in Toronto in 1912 and the last 6-day race was held in Montreal in 1980. We hope that this exciting sport will some day return to these North American shores. In Europe, at one time, there used to be at least fourteen 6-day races held each year; now there might only be three or four.
Eugene Vandal
Thunder Bay, ON, Canada
Email: eswvand @ gmail.com
Resource/Data
Arnold Devlin
(Apr 27/46 - Apr 23/08)
Remembering Arnold
Steve Penny
Watford, UK
Email: stixpenny @ hotmail.com
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Re-design by Eugene Vandal Artist


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Q: The "inverse" method of getParameter() One way of sending the user parameters is appending them to the URL:
URLAddress+="?param1=value1+param2=value2"

How else can i send user parameters to the server? These are the params to be read by the HttpServletRequest method
getParameter(param1);

on the receiver's end.
I tried
setRequestProperty("param1","value1");

of HttpURLConnection. However, getParameter() couldn't find them on the request.
I am trying to send them outside th URL so that they won`t be visible.

A: You have only two possibilities: Either append them to the URL in case of GET request, then they are visible, or write them as the body in case of POST request:
/**
 * Convert a Map to a query string.
 * @param values the map with the values
 *               null will be encoded as empty string, all other
 *               objects are converted to
 *               String by calling its toString() method.
 * @return e.g. "key1=value&key2=&email=max%40example.com"
 */
public static String queryString(Map<String, Object> values) {
    StringBuilder sbuf = new StringBuilder();
    String separator = "";

    for (Map.Entry<String, Object> entry : values.entrySet()) {
        String value = entry.getValue() == null
                ? "" : String.valueOf(entry.getValue());
        sbuf.append(separator);
        sbuf.append(urlEncode(entry.getKey()));
        sbuf.append('=');
        sbuf.append(urlEncode(value));
        separator = "&";
    }

    return sbuf.toString();
}

static String urlEncode(String value) {
    try {
        return URLEncoder.encode(value, "UTF-8");
    } catch (UnsupportedEncodingException e) {
        return value;
    }
}

In case of POST, you have to set the header Content-Type to application/x-www-form-urlencoded. I recommend using 'UTF-8' as encoding. If this is not appropriate for you, you have to dig how to handle different encodings.
So instead of
http://www.example.com/path/resource?abc=124&xyz=John+Doe

you write the body:
abc=124&xyz=John+Doe

Setting parameters as headers (addRequestHeader()) should not be done, since most middleware (e.g. web application firewall, proxy, load-balancer) parse the headers and you could conflict with pre-defined headers.
The above code is taken from DavidWebb. There you can see a list of libraries which can ease your life when you have to deal with HTTP requests and don't want to use HttpURLConnection natively.
Why did I add the code for building a query string?
You can read many questions here on SO where the mistake was that they didn't encode parameter names or values correctly.