Fast food and corner stores outnumber supermarkets and farmers' markets in many Latino neighborhoods.
This results in overconsumption of unhealthy foods, and more risk of obesity.
Fortunately, healthy food financing initiatives can boost access to healthy, affordable foods. This happens when supermarkets and farmers' markets get certain incentives to develop their businesses in underserved areas.
Groups also can help corner stores to expand their inventory of healthy, affordable foods.
Also, more marketing of healthy foods, and less of junk foods, can help spur desirability.
Introduction & Methodology. This Salud America! research review is an assessment of available research about Latino families' access to healthy food. This review examines relationships between supermarket availability, other healthy food access and consumption, and obesity, with a focus on Latinos. Ongoing financing initiatives and governmental programs to improve healthy food consumption in low-income neighborhoods are summarized.
Access to healthy food. Latino neighborhoods have 1/3 as many supermarkets as non-Latino ones.
Supermarkets. Latino kids' body weight outcomes improved when the number of chain supermarkets in their neighborhood increased.
Healthy food financing initiatives (e.g., tax credits, zoning incentives) can attract new supermarkets and upgrade existing ones. For example, a New York City program uses zoning and financial incentives to add 15 new grocery stores, upgrade 10 existing stores, and create 1,100 new jobs in underserved areas.
Farmer's markets. Access to a local farmer's market helps immigrant Latinas buy more fruits and veggies.
WIC and SNAP. Latinos are likely to increase spending on fruits/veggies when given incentives like EBT purchasing power for healthy foods at farmer's markets.
Corner stores. A New York program to add and promote healthy food items at bodegas led to 45% more milk sales, 32% more fruit sales, and 26% more veggie sales.
The amount of customers who bought healthier promoted options rose from 5% to 16%.
Marketing of unhealthy food. Two studies found that ads to Spanish-speaking youth are more likely to promote unhealthy foods than ads to English-speaking youth.
Policy Implications. Local governments should encourage supermarkets, farmers' markets or other healthy food sources to operate in underserved communities through zoning, land-use planning, and community development efforts. Policymakers should support programs and technologies that enable low-income populations to buy food at farmers' markets, or expand corner stores availability and promotion of healthy options.
Future Research Needs. Future research should examine the degree to which increased access to local healthy foods impacts dietary habits and obesity in Latino communities. Researchers also should account for multilevel factors (for individuals, at homes, in neighborhoods, counties and cities) that contribute to obesity and health outcomes, such as lack of time in preparing healthy foods, prices for healthy foods, and the influence of fast-food in Latino populations. Additional research should examine specific cultural factors in Latino communities that might influence the effectiveness of policies to improve access to affordable healthy foods, as well as assess what implementation strategies work best for this population.


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The 96th Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry was an infantry regiment that served in the Union Army during the American Civil War.

Organization
Henry L. Cake, who had commanded the 25th Pennsylvania Infantry Regiment, had received authority from the U.S. War Department, on the 13th of August, 1861, to raise a regiment for three years; and establishing a camp at Lawton's Hill, overlooking the town of Pottsville, Pennsylvania, at once commencing the work of recruiting with many of the officers and men of his old command entering the new. The National Light Infantry of Pottsville, Pennsylvania, a militia company of over thirty years' standing, was the first organized body of men in the United States to offer its services to the government at the outbreak of the rebellion. Having been accepted, it was one of the first five companies from Pennsylvania to reach the menaced capital, and afterwards became a part of the 25th Pennsylvania Infantry in the three months' service. Afterwards it formed the nucleus of the 96th Regiment, and recruited and re-organized under its former Second Lieutenant, Lewis J. Martin, was the first to report in camp. With the exception of companies C, E, G and H, in which were some men from Luzerne, Berks, Dauphin, and Montgomery counties, the regiment was recruited in Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania. On the 23rd of September the command was mustered into the United States service with the following field officers: Henry L. Cake, Colonel; Jacob G. Frick, Lieutenant Colonel; Lewis J. Martin, Major. A week later, a company under William H. Lessig, organized as a light battery, to be attached to the regiment, came into camp. Subsequently, Company C, Captain Beaton Smith, was, by order of the Governor, transferred to the Fifty-second Regiment, when Lessig's Good Intent Light Artillery was substituted as infantry in its place. On the 6th of November, Governor Andrew Gregg Curtin and staff visited Pottsville, and presented, with appropriate ceremonies, the State colors.

History

On the 8th of November the regiment moved by rail to Washington, and upon its arrival went into camp at Kendall Green, where it was armed with Harper's Ferry muskets. Colonel Cake promptly reported to General Casey, and was at once placed in command of the First Provisional Brigade, of which the Ninety-sixth formed part. The regiment was here thoroughly drilled in the manual, company, and battalion exercises. On the 25th it crossed the Potomac, and encamped on the Leesburg Pike, a short distance beyond Fort Ellsworth. It was assigned to Slocum's Brigade of Franklin's Division, and on the 27th of December went into permanent winter-quarters on the Loudoun and Hampshire Railroad, near its crossing of Four Mile Run. It remained engaged in drill and occasional picket duty until the 10th of March 1862, when it joined in the abortive movement upon Manassas, but soon returned to camp. On the 4th of April, with McDowell's Corps, it took up the line of march for Fredericksburg. On reaching Catlett's Station it went into camp, and remained until the 12th, when Franklin's Division returned to Alexandria, and embarked for the Peninsula. McClellan was now engaged in the siege of Yorktown, and on the 23rd, the division having arrived, a part of it debarked n the vicinity of Cheeseman's Creek. The enemy having evacuated Yorktown on the 4th of May, the troops on shore again embarked, and proceeding up the York River, on the 6th, in company with the divisions of Sedgwick, Porter, and Richardson, arrived at four P.M. at Brick House Point, below West Point, where the Twenty-seventh New York, and companies A, B, C and D, of the Ninety-sixth debarked, and forming in line of battle, with skirmishers thrown out, advanced for the protection of the pioneers engaged in slashing timber and obstructing the roads. "At nine o'clock on the following morning the order was given for the Sixteenth, Thirty-first, and Thirty-second New York, and the Ninety-fifth and Ninety-sixth Pennsylvania regiments to advance into the woods and drive off some of the rebel scouts who were firing occasional shots at our pickets, supposed to be supported by a force concealed in the woods. This proved correct; for no sooner had our men made an advance into the woods than they were received with a volley of musketry from the rebels who were hidden in the dense undergrowth. Our men pressed on and gave them a volley, after which the enemy retreated further into the woods, with the Thirty-second New York close at their heels; but they were too swift footed for our boys-being more protected-and they soon left the Thirty-second struggling in the mud." The Ninety-sixth was now held upon the extreme left of the line, nearest to Brick House Point, to prevent a flank movement of the enemy in that direction, while the fighting on the right center, where his forces were concealed in a dense swamp, was animated, the Thirty-first and Thirty-second New York, and the Ninety-fifth Pennsylvania sustaining considerable loss.

After the engagement at West Point, the Fifth and Sixth Provisional corps were organized, to the latter of which General Franklin was assigned, General Slocum being promoted to the command of the division, and Colonel Bartlett, of the Twenty-seventh New York, to that of the brigade. On the 25th the division moved past Gaines' Mill, and went into camp in the vicinity of Hogan's House, just beyond. A few days later the brigade moved up to Mechanicsville, where it remained doing picket duty along the Chickahominy until the 6th of June, when it returned to its former position at the Hogan House. On the 18th the division was relieved by the Pennsylvania Reserves, and crossing the Chickahominy at Woodbury Bridge, took position on the right bank, between Smith's Division, which had the right, and Sumner's Corps the left. Here the brigade remained engaged in arduous picket and fatigue duty until the opening of the Seven Days' Battles. On the evening of that day, the 26th, a detail of three hundred and fifty men of the Ninety-sixth, with a like detail of the Seventh Maine, under Lieutenant Colonel Jacob G. Frick, advanced to the front in the direction of Old Tavern, and under cover of darkness, threw up a redoubt in close proximity to the enemy's lines. At early dawn it retired unassailed, leaving the relief to fight during the day, what was known as the battle of Golden's Farm.

Returning to camp near Strong Courtney's House, it re-joined the brigade, and with the entire division moved to a position on the right of Smith's Division, between Lewis' Hill and Chickahominy, the right resting near Duane Bridge, opposite the left of the Gaines' Mill battle-field. Here it remained until two o'clock, when Porter's forces being hard pressed in the battle, under orders, Newton's, then Taylor's Jersey Brigade, and shortly after Bartlett's, marched to his support, crossing the Chickahominy by the Woodbury Bridge. Previous to starting, a detail from the Ninety-sixth, with one from the Third Vermont, under Adjutant M. E. Richards, destroyed Duane Bridge. At twenty minutes past three the brigade reached the scene of action on the left of the line, moved past General St. George Cooke's Cavalry, occupying a sheltered position to the rear and left of Adams' House, and was immediately afterwards ordered to the relief of Sykes' command, which was engaged in supporting Weed's, Edwards', and Tidball's batteries, the latter on the extreme right of the position. The arrival of the brigade was opportune. The Fifth and Tenth New York, on the left of Sykes, driven back, had been re-placed by the First Pennsylvania Reserve, which in turn was relieved by a part of Newton's Brigade. The Regulars, hard pressed, were wavering. Instantly the Fifth Maine, then the Twenty-seventh New York, the Sixteenth New York, and shortly after the Ninety-sixth Pennsylvania, advanced across the field under a heavy fire, and took position along the crest of the hill, from the left of Griffin's-then supported by Newton's men-to the rear of Tidball's Battery. The Ninety-sixth was at first held in support, closed in mass in the open valley below, where it was fearfully exposed. To shield his men and save them from the destruction to which they seemed almost inevitably condemned, Colonel Cake moved them close up on the side of the hill. The Sixteenth New York, which was ordered to advance, soon came under a fearful enfilading fire, and was driven in some confusion. The Ninety-sixth, which had in the meantime been deployed in line, was brought to confront the enemy's line, and the word given to advance. It was answered with a cheer, and as by one impulse, the line dashed forward; re-took the lost ground, and held it until night. The boldness of this charge undoubtedly saved the right of the army from disaster. The loss of the brigade in this engagement was severe, that of the Ninety-sixth was thirteen killed, fifty-nine wounded, and fourteen missing. Lieutenant Ernest T. Ellrich was among the killed.

Retiring to its old camp beyond Woodbury Bridge, the brigade rested for the night, and on the following morning was moved to Fort Davidson, to the right of the line. Scarcely had it got into position, when the enemy opened a heavy artillery fire from the vicinity of Dr. Gaines' House, on the opposite bluff of the Chickahominy, rendering the position untenable, and obliging it to retire, when, with the entire army, it about faced, and commenced the march for the James. After crossing White Oak Creek, it was posted to defend the passage, and in the battle of Charles City Cross Roads occupied a position to the right of the line, in the vicinity of Glendale. During the night of the 30th, it retired to Malvern Hill, where, during the terrific fighting of the 1st of July, it was posted on the extreme left of the field, near Carter's Mill, and Colonel Cake was placed in command of the brigade. Retiring with the army to Harrison's Landing, on the morning of the 3rd of July, the regiment pitched tents on the muddy plains of Westover Landing. From this it moved out on the Westover Road, and after two successive changes of camps, on the 15th moved with the brigade into the breastworks looking towards Malvern Hill, where it remained employed in picket and fatigue duty until the evacuation. While here the regiment received Enfield rifles in exchange for the Austrian muskets with which it had made the campaign. The Pottsville Cornet Band, which had been attached to the regiment from its organization, was by a general order of the War Department relieved from further duty, and returned home. On the 29th Lieutenant Colonel Frick resigned, to take command of the One Hundred and Twenty-ninth Pennsylvania, Captain Joseph Anthony of company F, to be Major of the same regiment, and Lieutenant Z. P. Boyer of company D, to be Lieutenant Colonel of the One Hundred and Seventy-third Regiment.

On the 16th of August the brigade moved from camp on the James and taking transports at Newport News, arrived at Alexandria on the 24th, and went into bivouac along the Little River Turnpike, below Fort Ellsworth. On the 27th it moved into Fort Lyons, but was relieved on the 29th, and followed the rest of the corps, joining it at Annandale. On the 30th the corps pushed forward through Fairfax and Centreville, crossed Cub Run, and arrived in time to join in stemming the tide of disaster, which was sweeping the Bull Run battlefield.

Returning to Alexandria, the regiment joined in the Maryland campaign, which was immediately after inaugurated. The army moved for the crossing of the South Mountain, by Crampton's and Turner's passes. Each held by strong bodies of the enemy. Franklin's Corps arrived in front of Crampton's Gap, which debouches into Pleasant Valley in the rear of, and but five miles from Maryland Heights, opposite Harper's Ferry, at noon of the 14th of September. The Ninety-sixth in advance of the column, entered Burkettsville early in the morning, driving out the rebel skirmishers, and drew the fire of his artillery upon the mountain developing his line of defense. Immediately forming with Slocum on the right, his line being composed of Bartlett's and Torbert's brigades, supported by Newton's, with Smith disposed for the protection of Slocum's flank, Franklin attacked. The pass was held by Maj. Gen. Lafayette McLaws' Division of the rebel army, under General Cobb, the position an excellent one for defense. The brigade was formed on the right of the line, and advanced to within a thousand yards of a stone wall, where the enemy was making a final stand. The Ninety-sixth, which had been engaged upon the left of the line, now came up, and the other regiments of the brigade, with ammunition exhausted, falling back, advanced upon the concealed foe, in line with Torbert's Brigade, which had the left. The path of the Ninety-sixth was across open fields, intersected by fences and hedges, where every man presented a fair mark for the keen eyed rebel sharpshooter. But the line dashed forward, pausing at each fence to fire a volley, until it reached a thin strip of corn. As it approached this field the enemy's fire ceased, and while it was passing through it an ominous silence prevailed; but the moment it emerged from this slight cover a perfect sheet of flame was poured upon it, and many of the bravest fell. But unflinching the survivors dashed forward with the bayonet, completely routed the enemy's line, and took many prisoners. The loss in the Ninety-sixth was twenty killed, seventy-one severely, and fourteen slightly wounded, out of less than four hundred effective men who entered the engagement. Major Martin, and Lieutenant John Dougherty, were among the killed.

On the 17th, at Antietam, Franklin's Corps arrived upon the right of the field, where the fighting had been most terrific, at a time when the corps of Hooker and Sumner, broken and greatly thinned, where yielding ground, and immediately hurled back the foe, sweeping across the corn field, and holding firmly the gory ground, over which the fiery bellows of the battle had been sweeping to and fro, until the close of the contest. The position of Bartlett's Brigade was to the rear and left of the batteries of Porter, Walcott, and Williston, where it remained throughout the day. Though exposed to a continuous and heavy artillery fire the loss in the regiment was only two killed. After the battle the corps was posted at the crossroads northeast of Bakersville. General Slocum, who had been promoted to the command of the Twelfth Corps, was succeeded in command of the division by General W. T. H. Brooks. Captain Peter A. Filbert was commissioned Lieutenant Colonel, to date from July 30, and Captain William H. Lessig to Major, to date from September 15.

With the corps the regiment moved back into Virginia, and followed the army in its subsequent maneuvers, until, under Burnside, it entered on the Fredericksburg campaign, Colonel Cake in the meantime being placed in command of a mixed force of infantry, cavalry, and artillery, which was in position at Thoroughfare Gap, and subsequently in command of the brigade. On the 12th of December, after having first assisted in laying the pontoons at Franklin's crossing, it moved over the Rappahannock, and after some skirmishing took position with the brigade along the Bowling Green Road at a point above where it is crossed by Deep Run. Here it remained, under an almost continuous shower of shot and shell without becoming actively engaged except upon the skirmish line, until the night of the 15th, when it re-crossed the river, the army at the same time retiring, and went into camp near White Oak Church. Late in December, Lieutenant Colonel Filbert was honorably discharged, Major Lessig being subsequently promoted to succeed him.

On the 16th of January 1863, the regiment moved to Belle Plain Landing on fatigue duty, retiring on the 19th, and on the 20th joined the column in its movement upon the Mud March. Returning to the old campgrounds of the brigade near White Oak Church on the 25th, the regiment remained until the 1st of February, when, with the exception of companies C and K, it was detached, and sent to Windmill Point on heavy fatigue duty [to unload coal barges]. Here, subject to the orders of General Patrick, Provost Marshal General of the Army, it was engaged in constant service until the 1st of March, when it again re-joined the brigade. Colonel Cake received his first leave of absence since entering the service, in January 1863, resigned March 12, and his resignation was accepted on the 2nd of May following. The command of the regiment then devolved on Lieutenant Colonel Lessig.

Towards the close of April, the army having been thoroughly re-organized under General Hooker, stood ready for the order to advance on the Chancellorsville campaign. To the Sixth Corps, now under command of General Sedgwick, was assigned the part to advance by way of Fredericksburg and Marye's Heights. At two o'clock on the afternoon of the 28th of April the brigade occupied Stafford Heights. On the night of the 29th, following closely Russell's Brigade, it passed over the Rappahannock at Franklin's Crossing, and with slight lose occupied the enemy's works on the Bernard Farm. On the morning of the 3rd of May, the regiment was sent out by General Brooks to clear the front of the enemy's sharpshooters, who were annoying the Union artillerists posted beyond the Bowling Green Road, in front of the Bernard Mansion. This order was successfully executed, but not without stubborn resistance, the regiment losing five killed and eighteen wounded. After the capture of Marye's Heights-which was handsomely accomplished by Newton's and Howe's divisions-Brooks' Division, which had been held in reserve, now advanced,-with the exception of the 27th New York, left behind for guard and observation,-and took the lead in pursuit of the retreating enemy. In the vicinity of Salem Church, Bartlett's Brigade was drawn up, and advanced in line of battle on the left of the road, Torbert's Jersey Brigade on the right, Russell's Brigade, with the artillery, moving upon the road in reserve, ready to act as occasion might require. It was known that the enemy was in the woods beyond, but it was supposed to be the rear guard of his retreating column, and the information had been derived from rebel deserters, doubtless sent back to mislead the Union generals, that his trains had fallen into hopeless confusion and could be easily captured. Without stopping to shell the woods or develop the enemy's strength, Brooks' Division was pushed forward, on the very heels of the skirmishers, until it came suddenly upon three divisions of the rebel army,-most of which had been sent back from Chancellorsville,-drawn up in ambush, awaiting the advance of the Union column. The surprise was complete, and the division with its support was driven back, suffering grievous slaughter. The loss in the regiment, including that at the Bowling Green Road, was sixteen killed, fifty-seven wounded and twenty missing. Lieutenant Alexander Allison was among the mortally wounded. Unable to hold the ground the corps retired by Banks' Ford, and at midnight of the 4th of May, the regiment bivouacked on the heights overlooking the ford. The Twenty-third New Jersey having been left to cover the ford and remove the pontoons, unable to accomplish the work, the Ninety-sixth was sent to take its place, and successfully performed the duty. Relieved by the cavalry on the 8th, it re-joined the brigade, and again went into camp near White Oak Church. About the middle of May, the term of service of the Sixteenth and Twenty-seventh New York regiments having expired, they were mustered out, and the Ninety-fifth Pennsylvania and Thirty-first New York, of Russell's command, were transferred to the brigade. A few days later General Brooks was ordered to the command of the Department of the Allegheny, headquarters at Pittsburgh, and General H. G. Wright succeeded him in command of the division.

Early in June, great activity being manifested by the rebel army, the Sixth Corps was again ordered to cross the Rappahannock, for a reconnaissance in force. At two P.M. on the 6th, the brigade occupied Stafford Heights, and at evening passed over at Franklin's Crossing. Extensive earthworks were thrown up all along the line of the Bernard Plantation, from Deep Run Ravine to a point beyond the ruins of the Bernard Mansion. Continuous skirmishing was kept up with occasional artillery practice. From supporting the Fifth U.S. Battery, the regiment was sent on the 7th to picket the Deep Run Ravine. Here it remained under a continuous fire until relieved by the Forty-ninth, and One Hundred and Nineteenth Pennsylvania regiments, and late at night on the 10th it returned to Stafford Heights, where, on the following day, in presence of nearly the entire division, a beautiful silk flag, the gift of friends in Schuylkill County, was presented by a committee of citizens. Early on the morning of the 12th, the brigade was sent out on picket, covering the country from the Rappahannock nearly to the Potomac. At nine o'clock on the evening of the 13th the regiment was withdrawn from the picket line, and re-joining the brigade at White Oak Church, started on the ever memorable Gettysburg campaign. With only short intervals of rest the movement continued until the afternoon of July 2, when at the moment of great peril in the battle, as the veterans of Longstreet, massed upon the extreme left, were doubling up and driving the corps of Sickles, it arrived upon the field. Foot sore and weary, the men were at once formed, and with scarcely a moments rest, were pushed forward upon the right of the road leading out to the Peach Orchard, to a slight elevation, on the right and front of Little Round Top, and took position behind a stone fence which it held with slight loss until the close of the battle.

On the morning of the 5th of July the Sixth Corps started in pursuit of the enemy. Prisoners were taken at every turn, and the enemy's rear guard was closely pressed, compelling him to open frequently with his artillery. The sufferings in this pursuit were intense. The crossing of Cotoctin Mountain, along a by-road, at night, and in the midst of a terrific thunderstorm, will ever be remembered for its hardships. On the 10th the regiment, with two companies of the One Hundred and Twenty-first, skirmished in the advance along the Funkstown Road, and drove the rear of the enemy, after stubborn resistance, across the Antietam at Claggett's Mill. In this skirmish, and subsequently, while upon the picket line in front of Hagerstown, the regiment lost several wounded.

Without coming to battle the enemy escaped into Virginia, and the Union army followed. After successive marching and countermarching, the brigade in the latter part of July, was detached from the division and sent to New Baltimore, where it was employed in picketing and scouting, and the usual rounds of drill and parade. On the 4th of September rebel guerrillas made a midnight descent upon General Bartlett's headquarters. The regiment was at the time on picket, and in the encounter three of its number were wounded, the enemy being quickly routed. On the 15th of September the command left New Baltimore, and moved to Warrenton, where it entered on Meade's Rapidan Campaign, returning from Centreville to the vicinity of Warrenton on the 20th of October. Here it remained until the 7th of November, when, with the command, it moved to Rappahannock Station, the brigade supporting Russell in the battle, which ensued. The loss was one severely, and several slightly wounded. The command went into camp near the confluence of the Aestham with the Rappahannock, and with the exception of the movement to Mine Run, and in support of the cavalry in the reconnaissance to Robertson's River, it remained in quarters here during the winter, a considerable number of the regiment re-enlisting, in the meantime, as veteran volunteers.

On the 4th of May 1864, the brigade broke up winter-quarters and crossing the Rapidan, joined in the Battle of the Wilderness. It was almost constantly engaged in skirmishing during the five succeeding days, and on the 10th of May took part in the charge of the twelve picked regiments of the Sixth Corps on the enemy's works. The loss in the command was very heavy, Captain Edward Thomas being among the mortally wounded. On the 12th, at the salient known as the Slaughter Pen, in front of Spotsylvania, the fragment of the regiment remaining, with the division decimated as it was, held the position from early dawn until late at night, exposed during the whole time to a fire of musketry, which for severity, has few parallels in the history of warfare. So incessant was the shower of missiles, that trees over a foot in diameter, were cut off by the constant stroke of bullets. The loss in this series of engagements was thirty-three killed, one hundred and thirteen wounded, and thirty-nine missing, of whom the greater part were subsequently ascertained to have been killed. Remaining in the vicinity until the 14th, under almost continuous fire, the command moved to Bleak Hill, where, as at Salem Church, the division was pushed against the enemy in force; but soon finding itself overpowered, rapidly retired, some of the general officers making a narrow escape.

Upon reaching Cold Harbor, the brigade to which the Second Connecticut Heavy Artillery had been added, stormed and carried a portion of the enemy's works in front of the Cold Harbor House, sustaining heavy loss. It was here that acting Adjutant John T. Hannum received his mortal wound. From Cold Harbor the brigade moved to the James, bivouacking on Taylor's Plantation, and moving hence by water to Bermuda Hundred. Crossing the Appomattox it moved up to the Petersburg front, arriving on the 19th of June. Here the regiment was employed in building breast works, picketing, sharpshooting, with occasional charges upon the enemy's works, involving sharp fighting. On the 29th it took part in the descent upon the Weldon Railroad, in which a considerable portion of the track was completely destroyed.

Remaining in front of Petersburg until July 10, the brigade, in company with a part of the corps, marched to City Point, whence it moved by transport to Washington. Upon its arrival it was at once put upon the track of Early, who, with a considerable body of the rebel army, was threatening Washington. With the Army of the Shenandoah the regiment participated in all the operations in the Valley up to September 22, when, its term of service had expired, leaving a battalion composed of the veterans and recruits, which was subsequently consolidated with the Ninety-fifth Regiment, it withdrew from the front at Strasburg, and took up the line of march for Harper's Ferry, convoying thither a train of ambulances filled with the wounded. Proceeding by way of Baltimore and Harrisburg it reached Pottsville on the 26th, and on the evening of that day received at the hands of the citizens, a most flattering public welcome. On the 21st of October, at Hestonville, in West Philadelphia, it was paid and finally mustered out of service.

Source: Bates, Samuel P. History of Pennsylvania Volunteers, 1861-5. vol. III. Harrisburg: B. Singerly, State Printer, 1869.

Battles Fought

 Battle at Gaines' Mill, Virginia, on 27 June 1862
 Battle at Crampton's Gap, Maryland, on 14 September 1862
 Battle at Antietam, Maryland, on 17 September 1862
 Battle at Chancellorsville, Virginia, on 3 May 1863
 Battle at Fredericksburg, Virginia, on 3 May 1863
 Battle at Salem Heights, Virginia, on 3 May 1863
 Battle at White Plains, Virginia, on 25 July 1863
 Battle at While On Picket on 5 September 1863
 Battle at Centreville, Virginia, on 16 October 1863
 Battle on 9 November 1863
 Battle on 19 November 1863
 Battle on 14 December 1863
 Battle at Wilderness, Virginia, on 5 May 1864
 Battle at Wilderness, Virginia, on 7 May 1864
 Battle at Spotsylvania Court House, Virginia, on 9 May 1864
 Battle at Spotsylvania Court House, Virginia, on 10 May 1864
 Battle at Spotsylvania Court House, Virginia, on 12 May 1864
 Battle at Spotsylvania Court House, Virginia, on 14 May 1864
 Battle at Spotsylvania, Virginia, on 18 May 1864
 nBattle at Spotsylvania Court House, Virginia, on 20 May 1864
 Battle at Cold Harbor, Virginia, on 1 June 1864
 Battle at Cold Harbor, Virginia, on 3 June 1864
 Battle on 8 June 1864
 Battle on 21 July 1864
 Battle on 21 August 1864

References

Bibliography
 Bates, Samuel P., History of Pennsylvania Volunteers, 1861-5. (Harrisburg, Pennsylvania : B. Singerly State Printers, 1870), vol. 3.
 Pennsylvania at Gettysburg: Ceremonies at the Dedication of the Monuments (Harrisburg, Pennsylvania : State Printers, 1891), vol. 1.
 Ward, David A. "Of Battlefields and Bitter Feuds: The Ninety-sixth Pennsylvania Volunteers," Civil War Regiments, vol. 3, no. 3.
 Ward, David A. The 96th Pennsylvania Volunteers in the Civil War (Jefferson, NC : McFarland, 2018)

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Monica Kaminska, Dennis Broeders and Fabio Cristiano have contributed a chapter to the proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Cyber Conflict (CyCon 2021), which gathers 20 articles from the law, technology and strategy domains.
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The fact that States resort to automated cyber operations like NotPetya, which spread virally and have indiscriminate effects, raises the question of how the use of these might be regulated. As automated operations have thus far fallen below the threshold of the use of force, the letter of international humanitarian law (IHL) does not provide such regulation. In IHL, the principles of distinction and discrimination hold that attacks should in their targeting distinguish between the civilian population and combatants, and between civilian objects and military objectives. Attacks must not be indiscriminate, and operations that might foreseeably spread to affect civilian objects are prohibited. This paper draws inspiration from the legal principles of distinction and discrimination to suggest a non-binding norm for responsible State behaviour with regard to automated operations that fall below the threshold of the use of force: the norm proposes that States should design cyber operations so as to prevent them from indiscriminately inflicting damage. The paper finds that in the case of automated cyber operations, a distinction between the nature of the operation and the use of the operation does not make sense because the design (nature) of the malware defines the use. In order to conform with the norm, responsible States should conduct a review of cyber operations prior to their execution. Finally, as the paper illustrates with a comparative analysis of NotPetya and Stuxnet, the post-incident forensic analysis of an operation can allow third parties and victims to determine whether the operation's designer conformed with the norm. This can help set a normative benchmark by providing a basis upon which States may call out unacceptable behaviour.
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Early Bird : A Memoir of Premature Retirement
by Rodney Rothman
Everyone says they would like to retire early, but Rodney Rothman actually did it--forty years early. Burnt out, he decides at the age of twenty-eight to get an early start on his golden years. He travels to Boca Raton, Florida, where he moves in with an elderly piano teacher at Century Village, a retirement community that is home to thousands of senior citizens.Early Bird is an irreverent, hilarious, and ultimately warmhearted account of Rodney's journey deep into the heart of retirement. Rodney struggles for acceptance from the senior citizens he shares a swimming pool with and battles with cranky octogenarians who want him off their turf. Before long he observes, "I don't think Tuesdays with Morrie would have been quite so uplifting if that guy had to spend more than one day a week with Morrie." In the spirit of retirement, Rodney fashions a busy schedule of suntanning, shuffleboard, and gambling cruises. As the months pass, his neighbors seem to forget that he is fifty years younger than they are. He finds himself the potential romantic interest of an aging femme fatale. He joins a senior softball club and is disturbed to learn that he is the worst player on the team. Early Bird is a funny, insightful, and moving look at what happens to us when we retire, viewed from a remarkably premature perspective. Any reader who plans on becoming an old person will enjoy joining Rodney on his strange journey, as he reconsiders his notions of romance, family, friendship, and ultimately, whether he's ever going back to work.
More About Early Bird by Rodney Rothman
Publish Date: May 2006
Dimensions: 8.39 x 5.48 x 0.63 inches


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Q: Are flat local morphisms of local rings always faithfully flat injections? I claim that flat local maps $(A, m_A) \to (B, m_B)$ are faithfully flat injections. To show faithful flatness of $B$ it suffices to show that $B \otimes_A k(m_A) = B/m_AB \neq 0$.  However, by the local morphism definition, we know that $m_AB \subset m_B$ so that there is an induced surjection $B/m_AB \to k(m_B)$. In particular, $B/m_AB \neq 0$ so the map is faithfully flat.
Now, we want to show the map is injective. Indeed, if $K$ is the kernel, then $K \otimes_A B = 0$ which implies $K = 0$ by faithful flatness, since $B$ is a nonzero $A$-module. (see Stacks Lemma 10.39.15).
Is this reasoning correct?
Thanks!

A: I'd say you need more justification why $K\otimes_A B=0$. You have an injection $K\hookrightarrow A$ which you're tensoring with $B$ to get an injection $K\otimes_A B\hookrightarrow B$ where injectivity comes from flatness. The image is $KB$ so you're getting $K\otimes_A B\simeq KB=0$. Now the rest of what you say works.
Inspecting your proof you see that any faithfully flat morphism is injective, so together with your first paragraph (which all looks good) you have separately (flat + local implies faithfully flat) and (faithfully flat implies injective).

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Der erste Tropfen Blut ist ein 2007 beim Verlag HarperCollins U.K. erschienener Kriminalroman von Stuart MacBride; der englische Originaltitel lautet Broken Skin. Der Roman wurde von Andreas Jäger übersetzt und 2008 als deutsche Erstausgabe vom Goldmann Verlag veröffentlicht. Im US-amerikanischen Raum wurde der Roman unter dem Titel Bloodshot vermarktet. Es ist der dritte Roman der Logan McRae-Reihe.

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Logan McRaes Freundin ermittelt verdeckt gegen einen Serienvergewaltiger, der seine Opfer nach der Tat mit einem Messer entstellt. In ziviler Kleidung wird Jackie Watson von Robert "Rob" Macintyre, dem bekannten Stürmer des FC Aberdeen, angegriffen. Sie kann Macintyre überwältigen, der nach seiner Verhaftung schnell wieder auf freiem Fuss ist. Da der Angriff auf Watson nicht mit den Vergewaltigungen in Verbindung gebracht werden kann und es keine weiteren Beweise gegen Macintyre gibt, wird Macintyre nicht angeklagt und auf freien Fuss gesetzt. Da der Vergewaltiger weiter sein Unwesen treibt und die Opfer von Tat zu Tat immer schlimmer zurichtet, überwacht Watson Macintyre ohne offiziellen Auftrag. Sie ist weiterhin von dessen Schuld überzeugt, obwohl es lang keine Beweise gibt. Als seine Freundin immer öfter kommentarlos ganze Nächte ohne ihn verbringt, vermutet Logan schon eine Affäre, bis er herausfindet, was sie nachts wirklich macht. Als Macintyre zusammengeschlagen und ins Krankenhaus eingeliefert wird, vermutet Logan einen Zusammenhang zwischen Macintyres lebensgefährlichen Verletzungen und Jackies nächtlichen Überwachungen. Endgültige Gewissheit hat er jedoch erst, als er Macintyres Ohrring in ihrem Nachttisch findet.

In der Zwischenzeit muss sich Logan jedoch auf die Suche nach dem achtjährigen Sean Morrison machen, der in einem Einkaufszentrum am helllichten Tag den Rentner Jerry Cochran ermordet hat. Und auch der Fall des zunächst unbekannten Jason Fettes, der mit lebensgefährlichen Verletzungen vor dem Aberdeen Royal Infirmary – einem Krankenhaus in Aberdeen – abgelegt wurde und trotz medizinischer Hilfe kurz darauf verstarb, will gelöst werden. Fettes starb nach Erkenntnissen aus der Obduktion an den Folgen "ungewöhnlicher Sexualpraktiken". Die Ermittlungen in diesem Fall gestalten sich jedoch sehr schwierig, da die BDSM-Szene, der Fettes angehörte, sehr verschwiegen ist. Unerwartete Hilfe bekommt Logan dabei von Constable John Rickards, der sich als Mitglied der BDSM-Szene outet. Als es schließlich gelingt, die Täterin ausfindig zu machen, nimmt diese Rickards als Geisel und wird – während sie Rickards mit einem Messer bedroht und sexuelle Handlungen an ihm vollzieht – von einem Scharfschützen erschossen.

Kritiken

Allgemeines
Die Namen der Charaktere Ian Burdis und Debbie Kerr stammen von echten Personen. MacBride verwendete die Namen von Burdis und seiner Lebensgefährtin, nachdem dieser eine große Summe an die Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation spendete. Zudem verwendete MacBride die Namen seines langjährigen Freundes Alexander Clark sowie des Autors John Rickards.

Auszeichnungen
Für Der erste Tropfen Blut wurde MacBride mit dem ITV3-Award als "breakthrough autor" ausgezeichnet.

Literatur
 Stuart MacBride: Der erste Tropfen Blut, ISBN 978-3-442-46574-3

Weblinks
 Der erste Tropfen Blut auf der Verlagsseite: www.randomhouse.de
 Blutiges Schottland Doppelrezension auf focus.de
 Bloodshot, Rezension auf publishersweekly.com (englisch)

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Literatur (21. Jahrhundert)
Literatur (Englisch)
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I've tried turning off and stopping the cameras between screenshots, but that did not seem to give any sort of performance increase according to our benchmark, maybe because I am already using -batchmode?
Is there anything else that might improve performance?


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Last weekend the weather was perfect and we decided to go for a kayak ride at the Robinson Preserve in Bradenton, FL. This 487-acre preserve has undergone an incredible transformation from disturbed farmland to coastal and wetland habitats. To restore the land to its natural state, the Natural Resources Department has partnered with a number of state and local agencies. The restoration process is nearly finished! To date, numerous exotic invasive plants have been removed, effectively opening up the land for native plants to flourish. The preserve's new waterway system will help restore the tidal flow within the coastal habitats.
Robinson Preserve also features numerous recreational opportunities for the community. Resources for low-impact environmental activities include hiking and biking trails and a canoe/kayak launch. Additional amenities include observation towers and platforms, picnic areas, and a visitors center.
This bus is always on the side of the road. Great advertisement! We rented our kayak from Surferbus.com.
Yes we know, as somebody already mentioned it works better in the water!
We entered the preserve through a section of Mangroves.
The Blueways Trails connect to the Manatee River, Perico Bayou, and Palma Sola Bay, comprising over 3 miles of internal trails. A 5-mile roundtrip adventure would start at the launch and meander through the preserve to Palma Sola Bay and back.
This is one of four bridges we had to go under to reach the tower. Our goal for the day.
Our goal is in sight!
Eileen took this and the next picture from the top of the tower.
The tower can be reached by Kayak, canoe, walking or biking.
There were so many mullet jumping out of the water that we thought they were going to jump in the boat.
Last bridge before we enter the Mangroves again.
At times the mangroves were difficult to maneuver through.
We packed a lunch and enjoying the peacefulness was just the enticement we needed to pursue purchasing our own. We took a ride to another preserve and found a booklet on all the waterways for canoeing and kayaking trails of Manatee County. There are over 75 miles both fresh and salt water to explore and some open waters. We're not quite ready for open water yet but hopefully we'll get strength in our tired arms to attempt a little more difficulty soon. If you have a chance (our RV peeps in the area) do it! It was a great beginner experience.
Glad to see your making the best out of your retirement. I really enjoy your trips too!!
anything either of you would like to do.
Marge we bought an inflatable Sea Eagle 370 Kayak soon after our first trip. Let us know when you get here.


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Business rates, VAT and the digital economy prioritised in Spring Statement 2018
This afternoon, the Chancellor of the Exchequer gave his first Spring Statement speech to the House of Commons, providing an update on the health of the national economy.
Chancellor, Philip Hammond confirmed that the UK economy was growing at a somewhat faster rate than forecast in the Autumn Budget 2017. According to the independent Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR), economic growth will be 1.4% in 2018, which represents a 0.1% rise on November's forecast.
Mr Hammond also revealed that Government borrowing would decline in every year of the forecast, with debt falling as a share of GDP from 2018-19. This led the Chancellor to confirming there is "light at the end of the tunnel" for the economy.
As promised by the Chancellor, there were no tax changes in today's Spring Statement. Instead, Mr Hammond used the opportunity to set out the outlook for the UK economy and to list a series of tax consultations. The information gained from these consultations will no doubt pave the way for changes in the Autumn Budget, expected later in the year.
The Chancellor reiterated in his speech that the Government is the "champion of small business". Subsequently, much of his statement touched upon aspects relevant to small business owners and entrepreneurs throughout the UK.
Business rates revaluation brought forward to 2021
At the Autumn Budget 2017 it was announced that business rate revaluations will now take place every three years, as opposed to five years. The move will ensure rates better reflect the market rental value of commercial properties.
Mr Hammond confirmed in his Spring Statement that the next revaluation will be brought forward from 2022 to 2021. The move will help businesses to benefit from the change to three-year revaluations sooner.
Consultation on new VAT mechanism for digital sales in the UK
The Chancellor also unveiled a new consultation on a prospective VAT collection mechanism for all UK-based digital sales, ensuring the VAT that online consumers pay "actually reaches the Treasury". The 'Cash and Digital Payments in the Digital Economy' consultation paper will be open until early June to investigate the transition between traditional cash and digital payments and the impact on specific sectors, regions and demographics.
Mr Hammond also confirmed there will be a review into how to help the least productive businesses catch up with their competitors and how to eradicate late payments to the UK's small businesses.
A commitment to apprenticeships and training
The Government remains committed to delivering three million apprenticeships throughout all sectors by the turn of the next decade.
The Chancellor acknowledged the concerns among the small business community about employing apprentices and announced the Education Secretary "will release up to £80 million of funding to support small businesses in engaging apprentices".
New technical qualifications are being designed to simplify the process of vocational training in England. The first T-levels were announced in Digital, Construction and Education and Childcare, as part of a "skills revolution" in the UK. The Chancellor revealed in his Spring Statement an additional £500m for T-levels and a further £50m to assist employers in rolling out placements for T-level students.
In terms of connectivity, the Government's initial wave of funding from the Local Full Fibre Challenge fund has been allocated, with £95m distributed to 13 local areas across the country. An additional £25m has been set aside for the nation's first 5G test beds as the government strives to futureproof the nation's connectivity, ready for initiatives such as Making Tax Digital and a 21st century UK tax system.


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Martin Gorick officially becomes Bishop of Dudley
Diocesan Mailing
Bishop's Advisers
13 Jan 2020 By Sam Setchell
Martin will be consecrated as Bishop of Dudley on Tuesday 28 January at Southwark Cathedral.
On Tuesday 28 January, Martin Gorick will officially become the next Bishop of Dudley, in a special service at Southwark Cathedral. Martin will be ordained and consecrated as a bishop by the Archbishop of Canterbury.
The Archbishop will explain the role of a bishop as one who is called to serve and care for the flock of Christ; to nurture God's people in the life of the Spirit and lead them in the way of holiness and to proclaim the gospel boldly, confront injustice and work for righteousness and peace in all the world. He will also ask Martin if he is ready to devote himself to this new ministry.
Martin said: "I'm delighted to be joining Bishop John and the people of Dudley along with all across the Diocese of Worcester as we discover together how best to be the Church for England in this new decade. As a Black Country bishop I look forward to the church playing its part in the regeneration of Britain's heartland in the West Midlands, and to working in partnership with all people of good will"
As Bishop of Dudley, Martin will work alongside the Bishop of Worcester across the Diocese. Bishop John said: "Becoming a bishop is an exciting new step in Martin's faith journey. I pray for God's rich blessing on Martin and his wife Katharine as they prepare to join us here. I am looking forward greatly to working with the new Bishop in growing God's Kingdom throughout Worcestershire and Dudley."
Martin will be formally welcomed to the Diocese of Worcester on Saturday 22 February at a service at Top Church, Dudley at 4pm and then installed in Worcester Cathedral at Evensong at 4pm on Sunday 23 February. His ministry in the Diocese will begin after these services.
Martin comes to the Diocese of Worcester from being Archdeacon of Oxford and Residentiary Canon of Christ Church. He has also been Vicar of 'Shakespeare's Church' in Stratford-upon-Avon where he was also Chaplain to the Royal Shakespeare Company and was Vicar of Smethwick Old Church and Area Dean for the Black Country Deanery of Warley.
Martin was born in Liverpool in 1962, and grew up in Nottingham. He read Theology and Religious Studies at Selwyn College, Cambridge 1981-4. He enjoys sport, especially football, supporting Liverpool and Notts County. He values walking, gardening, travelling and birdwatching. Martin is married to Katharine, who is County Lead for Visual Impairment in Oxfordshire and they have three adult children.
All are welcome to the services to welcome Martin to the Diocese in February. If you would like to attend, please email leonie.andrews@cofe-worcester.org.uk.
The Diocese of Worcester is one of 42 dioceses in the Church of England. It covers an area of 671 square miles and includes parishes in the County of Worcestershire, the Metropolitan Borough of Dudley, and a few parishes in northern Gloucestershire, south east Wolverhampton and Sandwell.
From: Sam Setchell, Press Officer for the Diocese of Worcester and the Bishop of Worcester.
Tel: 01905 20537 Mobile: 07852 302516
Email: ssetchell@cofe-worcester.org.uk
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Bishop's Certificate 2016
14 ordained for parishes across the Diocese
Diocesan Open conversation
Diocesan meetings 30 January 2020 2:00 p.m.
Diocesan meetings 4 February 2020 7:00 p.m.
ALM Continuing Development
Talk, Seminar, Lecture 11 March 2020 7:30 p.m.
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Year stub, Years
The following events occurred in the year 1986:
1.1 Individuals that started at Hogwarts
Bill Weasley is made a prefect.[1]
The 420th Quidditch World Cup takes place. The American team qualifies for the World Cup, captained by Maximus Brankovitch III.[2]
Slytherin wins the House Cup.[3]
Jacob's sibling, Bill Weasley and another friend (either Rowan Khanna, Penny Haywood or Ben Copper) enter the Vault of Ice.[4]
Individuals that started at Hogwarts
Marcus Flint (Slytherin).[5]
25 February: Actors James and Oliver Phelps, who played Fred and George Weasley, was born.
24 March: Christopher Rithin, who played a Dudley's gang member, was born.
7 May: Actor Robbie Jarvis, who played a teenage James Potter, was born.
13 May: Actor Robert Pattinson, who played Cedric Diggory, was born.
25 May: Alec Hopkins, who played Teenage Severus Snape, was born.[6]
12 June: Luke Youngblood, who played Lee Jordan, was born.
14 September: Simpson McKendry, who played a Beauxbatons girl, was born.
28 November: Esther Smith, who played Delphini, was born.
1986 on Wikipedia
Dating conventions
↑ According to Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, Chapter 9 (The Woes of Mrs Weasley), Molly Weasley noted when Ron became Prefect "That's everyone in the family!" Prefects at Hogwarts are chosen in their fifth year. Bill started attending Hogwarts in 1982 and would have started his fifth year in the 1986-1987 school year. Therefore, he became Prefect in 1986
↑ Quidditch Through the Ages, Chapter 8 (The Spread of Quidditch Worldwide)
↑ According to Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, Chapter 17 (The Man with Two Faces), Slytherin would have won the House Cup for "the seventh year in a row". It was stated in the 1991-1992 school year, meaning they had won it every year since the 1985-1986 school year
↑ Harry Potter: Hogwarts Mystery, Year 2, Chapter 10 (The Vault of Ice)
↑ Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, Chapter 11 (Quidditch) stated Flint was a sixth year. He should have left in 1993 except he appeared in Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban. Rowling later stated on her website that Flint had to retake the exams he failed and so had to stay another year, graduating in 1994 instead
↑ Alec Hopkins Interview. SeverusSnape.org. September . Retrieved 29 May .
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La Sociedad y Archivo Háttér Budapest () es una organización de Budapest (Hungría) que documenta y da apoyo a la vida de los homosexuales. El Háttér Társaság tiene su dirección en la calle Csanády, n.º 4b.

La sociedad se fundó con el nombre «Háttér Társaság a Melegekért» en 1995 en la fonda Vaskapu, en Estrigonia. Poco después el grupo se trasladó a su primera sede en una oficina en la calle Visegrádi de Budapest. En 1996 se fundó el Archivo Háttér.

A partir de 1996, la Sociedad organiza en IGLYO, en Budapest, una conferencia anual. Ese mismo año se hizo miembro de ILGA. En 1997 organizó la primera manifestación del orgullo LGBT en Budapest.

En 2003 contribuyó con sus actividades de cabildeo a que Hungría se convirtiese en el primer país de Europa que incluyó de forma explícita la discriminación por identidad sexual en su ley en contra de la discriminación. En 2004 la Sociedad organizó la conferencia anual de ILGA Europa en Budapest.

La embajada de Estados Unidos en Budapest entregó a la Sociedad Háttér el Active Citizenship Award, que premia a las organizaciones por sus actividades desinteresadas a favor de la sociedad.

En 2012, los trabajadores del Archivo Háttér tomaron parte en una conferencia extraordinaria de los archivos, bibliotecas y museos LGBT.

Desde 2013 el nombre es Sociedad Háttér.

Referencias

Enlaces externos
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Historia LGBT de Hungría
Asociaciones LGBT
Archivos y museos LGBT
Budapest
LGBT en 1995
Organizaciones fundadas en 1995
Asociaciones LGBT de Hungría


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Posts Tagged 'John Cheever'
Blackpaint 522 – Cartels, Carpaccio, Cheever
Cartel Land, Matthew Heineman (2015)
This compelling documentary, about a self-defence militia in Mexico, set up by a charismatic doctor to defend his local towns and villages against the Knights Templar cartel, is rather problematic. There are a number of scenes that must surely be reconstructions, as the camera appears to be always in the right place to get the crucial shot and soundbite for the purpose of the narrative. If it's just the result of bravery, luck and brilliant editing, it's stunning. I've no doubt that the shoot outs are genuine; at one point, someone appears to give the order on the soundtrack for a suspect to be murdered – and these are the good guys. In the light of the beheadings, hangings, torture and rape shown and described, it's not surprising that the "autodefensas" are likely to be merciless to the perpetrators when they catch them, I suppose.
It all goes wrong, of course; corruption sets in, the "autodefensas" are infiltrated by gangsters, who form their own cartel within, the doctor turns out to be a sleaze who chats up young women on camera; he ends up in prison, having been betrayed by his erstwhile "officers", who are co-opted by a corrupt government.
There is a parallel story about Tim Foley and his Arizona Border Recon, an American paramilitary force resisting incursions by "cartel members". Their operations seem rather pathetic, in comparison.
More from Venice
Carpaccio, Accademia
Love those hats.
Bellini, Correr Museum
A beautiful catalogue published by the Galerie Max Hetzler of an exhibition seven or eight large paintings from 2014. They are all on wood panels, with a white background; gestural, patches and flickering lines of fairly subdued colours, mostly including a grey cloud; no spray or computer work in these. The trickle downs and freshness or the colours recall 60s Joan Mitchell. And the cover unfolds into a poster of one of the paintings – pretty good for £14 odd.
I find his short stories just get better every time I read them; I'm on my third trip through the Collected Stories now. They are polished, funny, often sad, sometimes shocking, sardonic, wise, brilliantly readable and they never pall, which is surprising, given the quite narrow social milieu in which they are set; New York/New England, upper middle class, servants, mansion apartments, holiday homes, leafy suburbs. I've just finished "The Housebreaker of Shady Hill". I don't think he's a great novelist, however. I've read most of them and the only memorable one, I think, is "Falconer", his short prison novel. The others just strike me as the short stories extended unnecessarily.
Finally finished a couple of new paintings:
Black Storm
Blackpaint
Tags:Albert Oehlen, Bellini, Carpaccio, Cartel Land, Correr Museum, Joan Mitchell, John Cheever, Matthew Heineman, Venice Accademia
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Blackpaint 508 – To the Finland Station
Amos Andersonin Taide Museo, Helsinki
The only art museum open on a Monday in Helsinki. The exhibition was based on Work. A number of OK paintings of tradesmen in a Realist style – I was going to say Socialist Realist, but that's really anything but Realist, of course. Blacksmiths, factory hands, supervisors, technicians, seal hunters, even two portraits of a famous conductor (orchestra, not bus) – but above all, log rollers. A pretty big feature of the Finnish economy, log rolling, by the look of it.
My favourite exhibit was this group of workers, maybe a factory committee meeting, made of wood, each about 9 inches high:
There was also a short film about an anxious young man starting work in a big factory somewhere in the 50s or 60s – a sort of "Look at Life" type thing for those who remember; he keeps getting reassuring smiles from older, experienced hands. The result is like a sort of gay industrial promo, if there were such a thing.
Didrichsen Art Museum
A 20 minute bus ride from the centre, a Bauhaus-y building on a lake, set in a sculpture garden (Moore, Bernard Meadows), reminiscent of the Louisiana gallery outside Copenhagen, but much smaller. Pictures by Finns painting from pre WW1, influenced by Fauves and Seurat, Symbolism and Expressionism. Best were by Enckell, "the Awakening Faun" ( see below, rather like Duncan Grant, I think) – Ollila, "Four Women", Ruokokoski, "Girl, 1911", Sallinen, "Mirri" and "Landscape" and Makela, "Bridge Construction".
Enckell, The Awakening Faun
Additionally, there were paintings by the mysterious AW Finch, a painter and potter whose works showed up in several galleries and museums, but about whom there was no info. turns out he was Belgian but of British extraction, and settled in Finland, pursuing a career first as painter, then potter, then painter again. Here's a Finch from the Didrichsen:
AW Finch
He normally works in short, diagonal strokes. top left to bottom right – unless he's doing pointillism, of course.
There is also a great collection of Central and South American figures and artefacts, mostly Peruvian and Mexican – examples below:
OK, enough Finland for today- more next blog.
John Cheever and Raymond Carver and Tobias Wolff and Donald Barthelme
I wrote last time, or time before, about "The Swimmer"; both the Cheever story and the great film based on it, featuring Burt Lancaster. Predictably, the short stories pulled me back in and I'm ploughing through the great 700 odd page brick of the collection again. Not that it's in any way a chore – they are brilliant little masterpieces, polished and elegant (but not twee), undercut by humour, tragedy – "The Hartleys", for instance – and with frequent interjections from the author to remind you that these are works of fiction, after all, and he can take them anywhere he feels like going.
The problem is that I now have to read the different, but equally brilliant Carver stories again – the one about the boys who catch the fish and cut it in half so they can both take it home, or the one about the carpet cleaner salesman that was referenced in "Mad Men"… Then of course, there's Tobias Wolff – closer to Carver than Cheever, but a voice of his own (why hasn't he published more lately?) And Donald Barthelme; I think I caught a whiff of Barthelme's light mania in one or two of the Cheever stories.
As for films, I'm back in the Zone again, with Tarkovsky's nervous guide throwing his nuts around in a sling, as the water pours down in the tunnel and the great black dog watches, while the Writer disobeys instructions. Half an hour at a time is the way to watch Tarkovsky.
Bloody Wakefield Revisited
Spider's Song Again
Tags:Amos Anderson Museum, AW Finch, Didrichsen Art Museum, Donald Barthelme, Duncan Grant, Enckell, John Cheever, Makela, Raymond Carver, Ruokokoski, Sallinen, Stalker, Tarkovsky, Tobias Wolff
Blackpaint 506 – Light through the Thorns, Parrots in Boxes, Budgies in Trunks
William Gear – A Centenary Exhibition, Redfern Gallery, Cork Street W1
A couple of blogs ago (Blackpaint 502), I wrote about the Neil Stokoe exhibition at the Redfern, to which I'd gone. expecting William Gear. Now the Gear is on, until September 5th and it's well worth the trip to Green Park tube and the heat of Piccadilly to see it.
Gear exhibited with CoBra in 1949 – he and Stephen Gilbert were the only British artists – but I have to say, I don't think he has a lot in common with painters like Appel; his work strikes me as much more like Adrian Heath, Bryan Wynter and even sometimes Patrick Heron, than the wilder, thicker, more gestural products of Appel and Jorn. There is one painting, however, "Le Marche aux Fleurs" (1947), which could easily have been an early Jorn.
There are several recurring features of Gear's work, the most prominent, perhaps, being the tangled bundle of jagged, hooked, thorn-like shapes he seemed to fling across his canvases, so that the patches of bright colour seem to peep out through a thicket of scrub. The shapes are often, but not always, black. Gear isn't afraid of yellow; he uses a full spectrum, but it's the yellow and black that stay with you after the Redfern.
Triangular grids are another feature, and there are a number of works like "Black Form on Red"(1957), that comprise two or three colours used in large, simple shapes, looking rather like sheets of thin leather or felt, collaged onto the canvas – Poliakoff, maybe, or Burri. An influence that is suggested in the catalogue is that of Nicolas de Stael – I couldn't see that, I have to say.
Good exhibition, in association with the Towner Gallery in Eastbourne, where Gear was the curator in the 60s. There was a great black, thorny self-portrait on show at the Pallant House in Chichester recently; maybe its still there. made me think of Tony Bevan, a bit.
Joseph Cornell at the RA
This is an exhibition for those, and there are many of them apparently, who like quaint objects and photographs displayed in shallow boxes. Inevitably, there is a large overlap with the likes of Max Ernst, Rene Magritte and other European surrealists; the difference being that, whereas Ernst, for example, also painted and sculpted, Cornell stuck to the box formula permanently. Clearly, he had a thing for parrots and cockatoos; his work goes completely against the grain of North American art of the time (40s and 50s) in two ways – it's small and it's in boxes. Although there were later, feminist, artists in the states who put things in drawers and boxes to display them – not parrots, though, as I recall….
The Swimmer, Frank Perry (1968) DVD
I think John Cheever's short story is a masterpiece of the form, one of the best of the 20th century; hard to think of others so perfect, maybe a couple of Joyce's Dubliners or Margaret Atwood's Serpent's Egg. The film is also a work of art, though very much of its era (Hamlisch's lush theme music, coupled with jagged Johnny Staccato jazz riffs and some eye -watering psychedelic visuals). Burt Lancaster is brilliant as the ageing playboy Ned Merrill, in his budgie smuggler trunks, swimming home across the county, by way of the "river" of swimming pools of his "friends". Lancaster is by turns genuinely creepy and strangely sympathetic, despite his insensitivity. The pools are not there for freeloading swimmers to propel their sweaty bodies through.
The Longest Journey, EM Forster
Even though I'm currently re-reading "Finnegans Wake", Forster's book is the strangest, most difficult novel I've struggled through for ages; I had to keep going back and reading bits over again to make sense of it. the problem is twofold – the language: very arch, ironic, riddled with Edwardian Oxbridge phraseology and slang – and the concerns; "love children", family disgrace, inheritance, the intellect v. the physical, the prosaic v.the poetic, genetic flaws, town and country, social class… Actually, that's quite a lot and I'm sure I missed plenty.
I was interested to see that Forster kills his characters in an even more offhand way than Virginia Woolf; a "hurt" at football, a drowning and a steam train across the knees- the last completely unsignalled (sorry) and dispassionate: "It is also a man's duty to save his own life, and therefore he tried. The train went over his knees. He died up in Cadover, whispering "You have been right," to Mrs Failing". That's it.
Finsbury Mud 2,
Tags:Asger Jorn, Atwood, Burt Lancaster, CoBrA, EM Forster, John Cheever, Joseph Cornell, Joyce, Karel Appel, Max Ernst, Redfern Gallery, Rene Magritte, Royal Academy, Stephen Gilbert, The Swimmer (film), William Gear, Woolf
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Q: Reading a binary file from the file system as a BLOB to use in rhino with javascript I'm planing to use SheetJS with rhino. And sheetjs takes a binary object(BLOB if i'm correct) as it's input. So i need to read a file from the system using stranded java I/O methods and store it into a blob before passing it to sheetjs. eg :-
var XLDataWorkBook = XLSX.read(blobInput, {type : "binary"});

So how can i create a BLOB(or appropriate type) from a binary file in java in order to pass it in.
i guess i cant pass streams because i guess XLSX needs a completely created object to process.

A: I found the answer to this by myself. i was able to get it done this way.
Read the file with InputStream and then write it to a ByteArrayOutputStream. like below.
ByteArrayOutputStream buffer = new ByteArrayOutputStream();

...
buffer.write(bytes, 0, len);

Then create a byte array from it.
byte[] byteArray =   buffer.toByteArray();

Finally i did convert it to a Base64 String (which is also applicable in my case) using the "Base64.encodeBase64String()" method in apache.commons.codec.binary package. So i can pass Base64 String as a method parameter.
If you further need there are lot of libraries(3rd-party and default) available for Base64 to Blob conversion as well.


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SID MEIER'S PIRATES REMAKE
Posted on June 14, 2015 - September 18, 2018 by KarlX
Sid Meier's Pirates! is a video game created by Sid Meier and developed and published by MicroProse in 1987. It was the first game to include the name "Sid Meier" in its title as an effort by MicroProse to attract fans of Meier's earlier games, most of which were combat vehicle simulation video games. The game is a simulation of the life of a pirate, a privateer or a pirate hunter in the in the 16th, 17th and 18th centuries.
Pirates! is set in the Caribbean. The Pirates! playing field includes the Spanish Main (namely the northern coast of South America), Central America and the Yucatán Peninsula, the entire Gulf of Mexico, Florida, and all Caribbean islands, plus Bermuda. The player is free to sail to any part of the above-mentioned lands, stopped by an invisible barrier southeast of Trinidad, all the way north to just northeast of Bermuda.
The game was widely ported from the original Commodore 64 version, first to the Apple II (1987), then later to the PC (1987), Apple IIGS (1988), Macintosh (1988), Amstrad CPC (1988), Atari ST (1989), Amiga (1990) and Nintendo Entertainment System (1991). The Nintendo Entertainment System port was developed by Rare Ltd. and published by Ultra Games. Notably, tobacco is replaced as a trade item by "crops" because of Nintendo's family-friendly requirements.
Sid Meier's Pirates Remake! is a 2004 strategy/action/adventure computer game developed by Firaxis Games and published by Atari.[1] The game is a remake of Sid Meier's earlier 1987 game, also named Sid Meier's Pirates!. Overall, the gameplay remains similar to the original game, though it features a 3D game engine (NDL's Gamebryo). Some elements such as sun sighting have been removed, but other features have been added, such as a ballroom dancing mini-game and an improved turn-based land combat system.
The Microsoft Windows version of Pirates! was released on November 22, 2004, is also available through the online GameTap video game service.
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I first met Grace Mbise in 2009 and since on a number of other occasions. Hope for Tanzania has provided partial financial support to her since then. Grace is an extraordinary women who has been used greatly by God in missions throughout Africa and in the USA. She has written a book entitled "The mighty acts of God" which is quite simply amazing as many of the same miracles and happenings in the Bible have been experienced during her life and ministry. We should not be surprised since God is the same, yesterday, today and forever.
In 2014 she preached at about 30 crusades, 6 seminars, and 3 conferences in Tanzania, Kenya and Uganda. More than 5200 people were reached and 2008 people were changed and saved. About 22 witches who used to torch other people gave their lives to Jesus. About Healing and deliverance, Many people were delivered from evil spirits and healed in Jesus name from illnesses like cancer, paralysis, blindness and tumours. Grace is an evangelist through and through.
Grace's vision for her work in 2015 is to preach in unreached places as she feels that the towns and cities are saturated with preachers and churches. As these unreached places are remote, such a vision will need practicalities such as transport which includes living accommodation, means to play music and show Christian films. My suggestion was to fit a truck out with a sleeping cabin, so that she and her helpers could sleep, cook and wash, and an area from which she could present the gospel using different communication methods. The feasibility and cost of this is being investigated.
I have deep respect for Grace and know that God has done a deeper work in her than in anyone else I have met. She has many stories to tell, some of which are so out of my experience that they are almost unbelievable. She is deeply aware of the spiritual battle she is in and has many experiences which cannot be explained other than her being exposed to strong satanic attack. But her faith is strong and God uses her to demonstrate his power.
Hope for Tanzania will continue to support her as an evangelist. Click here if you would like to support this work.


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People on the Move: MISSCO Contract Sales
• Jonathan Chappell has joined the company as a sales representative for mobile furniture for the commercial and he...
People on the Move: MISSCO Contract Sales • Jonathan Chappell has joined the company as a sales representative for mobile furniture for the commercial and he... Check out this story on clarionledger.com: http://on.thec-l.com/1b8tuEy
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