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HARLEM KINGS: 15 years ago, 14 kids with flat brims and load of swagger, electrified the Little League World Series
By Kevin Armstrong
2002 Harlem Little League stars remember the time they were the toasts of Williamsport and New York after their memorable run in the Little League World Series (Corey Sipkin/New York Daily News)
Alibay Barkley strikes a match to light a Newport cigarette as day burns into night on Havemeyer Ave. in the Castle Hill section of the Bronx. He takes a drag, and drinks in the scene around him. There are shards of glass on the sidewalk; his black Dodge Grand Caravan's windshield is cracked. It is parked on the street, the front tire locked by a yellow police boot. Barkley is babysitting his girlfriend's five children, pushing the youngest, Dynasty, in a stroller to a park with slides and swings on Lafayette Ave. He traces his path from leading Harlem to the Little League World Series in Williamsport, Pa. 15 years ago to being selected in the 50th round of the Major League Baseball draft to Wiley College in Texas and back to this block. At 27, he is between jobs, holding hands with the kids as they cross the street. He eyes men playing softball on the field near dusk. The MLB logo is inked into his left wrist.
"I used to break in my new bats out here," he says.
Children scream; men shout. Barkley is bearded and full-bodied at 6-foot-4. He recalls being a first baseman, righty pitcher and "baby celebrity" during the Little League run when he was all of 12. There were air-conditioned buses and dorm bathrooms shared with members of the Guam team. Home runs, stolen bases and crow hops lifted the Harlem all stars from Marcus Garvey Park to the international stage. There was Gunner and Domo, Sosa and P.J., J-Rock and Jeter. Twin brothers — Jorge and Javier Lopez — played alongside a cousin, Jeremy. There were 14 boys on the roster, seven African Americans and seven Latinos. They wore fitted hats with flat brims and played with a flamboyant bounce. Fernando Frias pointed to center field with his metal bat before blasting a ball off the wall there; Andy Diaz danced down the third-base line to score. They advanced out of the city, then the state and regional, and into purgatory as their addresses and ages were investigated. It was a year after a Bronx team was found to have fielded a Dominican import who was two years too old named Danny Almonte. Almonte's team forfeited, but Harlem was cleared. The uptown products finished third in the U.S. and sixth overall. They met Willie Mays in Washington, D.C., had a pizza party with President Bill Clinton at his office on 125th St. and took the field with the Yankees at the Stadium on River Ave.
"You really felt like you had diplomatic immunity wherever the baseball was going on," Barkley says. "Nobody could say anything to you. I thought we were going to be put in Black History Month for that. No one had heard of Harlem Little League."
Several are far afield now, scattered across the country after reaching a variety of heights in and out of the game. Of the 14 players, 11 went to college and 9 graduated with a degree. Jeremy Lopez, the pitcher and shortstop, lives in Baton Rouge, La., working as a sales representative with Sherwin Williams after playing at Southern University. Julian McWilliams, the coach's son and a second baseman, is a sportswriter in South Carolina following a career that included a stint with the Las Vegas Train Robbers in the Pecos League. Spencer White, known as "Bo," played four years at cornerback for Ithaca College and serves as an auditor for BDO USA in Stamford, Conn. P.J. Kidd, one of the 11-year-olds then, works with insurance claims outside Philadelphia. Frias, also a 50th-round pick in the MLB draft, works for State Farm in the city. Players keep hats, shirts and trophies as mementoes from the memorable summer, a month-long mettle test that concluded with a homer over Frias' head in right field.
Alibay Barkley
"They didn't really have to coach us," Barkley says. "They just had to give us the lineup and tell us where to go."
Barkley issues orders today. He rallies the children he is watching into a group before twilight. They need to be back so he can figure a way to piece together money necessary to have the boot removed from the mini-van so that his girlfriend can get to work in Mamaroneck the next day. He is on speakerphone with Jeremy Lopez as he pushes the baby stroller down the block. They have known each other since they were three years old. Lopez remembers playing in a schoolyard on 123rd St. with Barkley and his grandfather, Theodore Chick. They learned how to field and bat from the elder. Four years ago, Barkley says Chick committed suicide by hanging himself in his Castle Hill apartment. Barkley discovered his body and dialed 911. Chick had built him a batting cage, and attended every game that Barkley played in as a youth and in high school. Barkley picked up the smoking habit after the death.
"I've got to keep myself flexible to keep money in my pocket," he says. "I think we were more or less great at our age, but everything is a struggle. I had to get older to learn that. I wish sometimes I could go back and change some of the situations. I just want to help somebody the way others helped me when I was young."
Alibay Barkley (Corey Sipkin/New York Daily News)
Summer clearance signs line the front windows of boutiques on Spring St. in SoHo. Chanel, Burberry, Etro and Solstice compete for customers; cards are swiped. Sales offer as much as 60 percent off tag prices. There is a black velvet rope next to the stairs at the Adidas Originals shop and a chain-link fence by exposed brick. Dominique Brown-Jiles, a former outfielder for the Harlem team, is a sales associate on the floor. He kneels down to bring a size-seven, three-striped sneaker for a female customer's left foot. He is dressed in a tie-dye shirt and gray sweats. He dons a black Diamondbacks fitted hat. The brim is flat. He smiles. It is forever en vogue.
"Still got it," Brown-Jiles says as the customer heads to pay. "It's still going."
Jeremy Lopez is credited as the trendsetter of the troupe. Lopez spent his summers across from Rucker Park on 155th St. then and matched his sneaker colors to his hats and jerseys. He wore his mesh team hat - size 6 7/8 - wide enough to fit four fingers in between the hair and lining. Players embraced baggy pants rolled up to their knees with stirrups showing, but the flat brim was Harlem chic for a team that typically wore snap-back hats. The caps went well with Andy Diaz waving "bye, bye" to the batted ball on towering home runs. He rounded the bases, shouting "Wooooooooo," a la wrestler Ric Flair, when he sped by second, and he finished each home run trot with a duck walk to home from third base. Heads turned; eyes rolled.
"It was all to show where we was from, what we had to go through to get there," Brown-Jiles says. "It was a whole bunch of Spanish and African-American kids killing the competition."
Spencer White (Howard Simmons/New York Daily News)
No Harlem player carried more confidence than Frias when facing a fastball. Down 4-0 against Bethlehem, Pa. at the Mid-Atlantic Regionals in Bristol, Conn., Barkley stroked a two-run homer to center field in the top of the fourth to make up for a poor pitching outing. Later in the same frame, Frias strode to the plate, and pointed to center in the same manner as Babe Ruth's called shot. Frias backed up the brashness, smashing a homer over the head of Bethlehem's center fielder. It bounced off the fence, scoring two runners and tying the game. Critics charged them with showboating and disrespectful displays. Players countered that it wasn't shenanigans. To them, it was inner-city charisma. They performed with basketball personalities on a baseball diamond, emotional in an otherwise emotionless game.
Harmony is a beat that remains in their heads. The Clipse, a rap group from Virginia Beach, provided the soundtrack for the summer. "Grindin'" was the song that players recited about going "from ghetto to ghetto, to backyard to yard." It featured Pharrell Williams:
And I just wanna let y'all know
The world is about to feel
That they've never felt before
Pulses quickened as the stakes were raised. Many were away from home for the first time, particularly for an extended period. The team traveled for a month straight, from Albany to Bristol to Williamsport, overwhelming opponents with power and flair. Cocksure for the cameras, some proved to be homesick in private.
Spencer White (Corey Sipkin/New York Daily News)
"I cried after Bristol, Conn. because they told us we weren't going to be able to go home," Brown-Jiles says. "They told us we were going straight to Williamsport. I was like. 'Oh my goodness.' I cried like a baby."
He is 27, the father of Makayla, a five-year-old tee-ball player in the Harlem Little League. He lived in a 20-story building at the corner of 134th Street and Eighth Ave. and manned the outfield for manager Morris McWilliams, who lived nearby. Brown-Jiles holds up his defensive effort on a fly ball in the sectional championship game as his finest effort for the team. The ball was hit over his head to right, but he tracked it down, reached up, recorded the out, spun and threw the ball back into second base to cutoff man Julian McWilliams in time to double off a baserunner.
"If it had gotten over my head it would have been over," Brown-Jiles says.
Black snap-back hats go for $26 at the Adidas store in SoHo this summer. He notes that current styles uptown skew tighter and smaller now. He notices cleaner streets and nicer buildings in the neighborhoods. People smile more often, and he considers it all to be more "pleasant." He holds an associate's degree in criminal justice and corrections from Monroe College in the Bronx, and takes the A train back home to Harlem from West Fourth Street each night after work. He recently did a laundry load that included the blue T-shirts the team wore beneath red button-down jerseys, and still has his glove. He thinks about handing down some of his past equipment to his daughter, especially his bats. He is a coach on her Harlem team.
"Might let her use some outdated technology," he says.
There is a diamond at the southwest corner of Marcus Garvey Park on 120th St. that is protected by padlocks. Chain-link fences stand 16 feet high in right and 12 feet the rest of the way. Wooden benches are in the dugouts. A bullpen mound and plate are laid out down the right-field line. Three bases and home are on the dirt, but there are no lines. A rake rests next to a shed with a rusty wheelbarrow and chalk marker for the basepaths. Bleachers offer seating by the home dugout. A scoreboard tracks ball and strikes. It is labeled William Shea Friendship Ballfield, named for the lawyer and benefactor. One banner is fastened to the backstop. It greets all pitchers:
MID-ATLANTIC CHAMPIONS
HARLEM LITTLE LEAGUE
Former players reunite to celebrate McWilliams' birthday (l.).
No date is attached. None is necessary. The 2002 team knows it is unique in its reminiscing. They remain the only Harlem team to have reached the Little League World Series. Julian McWilliams grew up one mile north of the ballpark, and recalls the path to get there, including a prior field that he played on when he was at a younger level. It was located at the corner of 121st St. and Eighth Ave.
"They called it 'Field of Dreams' but it was really the 'Field of Nightmares'," he says. "Drug vials and broken glass were on it."
Harlem Little League was in its 14th campaign when the all stars made their run. In the regular season, they played for the M.D.A. Mashers, Lacy's Legacy, Fairway's Finest, Old Navy Stars and The Associates, as in the supermarkets. Frias was known to have hit a ball to left field that cleared the fence and settled by the stone steps to the street. Aware of all the potential, Morris McWilliams handpicked his constellation. He had just started a new job that March, and mapped out a path to Williamsport that he shared with his team after they won the section. He requested additional time off from work, and his boss granted it. McWilliams outlined how many innings would be necessary for each pitcher to put forth. He did not know the all-out dives or intentional walks that would line the path, nor did he know that his son would be on third base in the seventh inning of the Mid-Atlantic Regional championship game against Bethlehem, Pa. A low curveball skipped behind the catcher with two outs and the bases loaded, and Julian dashed home. He scored to win, 5-4. Fans chanted, "Let's go, Har-lem! Let's go Har-lem!" and shook cowbells.
Williamsport awaited. In the interim, an investigation was conducted by Little League officials. A newspaper report alleged that three of the players, including Barkley, lived outside Harlem Little League's geographic boundaries. McWilliams refers to it as "a nightmare," but he guarded the kids from hearing about it. Some Harlemites noticed that other teams were getting their pictures taken, but they weren't. They grew curious. Headlines likened the questions to those about Almonte's age with Rolando Paulino's team the previous August. Almonte's manager and father were found to be at fault regarding the usage of the Dominican import who blazed fastballs for strikes in record-setting fashion. McWilliams maintained that his team was legit. Little League officials chided the Harlem organizers for faulty paperwork, but cleared the boys in time. Players remained unconcerned. Their concern was mainly finding new ways to sneak out after a 10 p.m. curfew.
Manager Morris McWilliams (top l.) with his Harlem Little League team at Williamsport 15 years ago this month. (Corey Sipkin/New York Daily News)
"We'd try to get lost," Jeremy Lopez says.
Frias made known one reason to stay awake. The first player to fall asleep often wound up with toothpaste on his face. That carried over from Bristol, where the entire team's cleats went missing after another night game. They were re-fitted and afforded replacements, and found their footing in the batter's boxes in Pennsylvania. They feasted on fastballs. In the opening game, Jeremy Lopez, weighing in at 105 pounds, went three for four in his at bats, two of the three hits going for homers, including one grand slam. In all, he collected five RBI in a 9-3 win with Mayor Bloomberg in the stands. Javier Lopez struck out 10 and added a homer.
"If the twins hit it at you, you wanted to duck," P.J. Kidd says. "If they threw the ball, it hurt your hand. Manchilds. They were 12 but had the definition of a teen, supertalented."
Harlem tantalized a crowd of 12,300 at Lamade Stadium in its second game. The opponent was Aptos, Calif., the west's representative. Javier Lopez pitched once more and Barkley roped a solo homer when Harlem trailed 2-0 in the bottom of the fourth. Diaz added a two-run shot. Jeremy Lopez followed that with a two-run dinger of his own the next inning. Harlem clinched a berth in the national semifinal.
Jeremy Lopez poses with Yankee captain Derek Jeter at old Yankee Stadium.
Mathematically assured of moving on, McWilliams rolled out a lineup with his 11-year-olds for the last game of pool play. It was a loss. Harlem's hitters struck out 14 times and failed to cross the plate for a run. Kentucky's team won, but Harlem still advanced to play Worcester, Mass. in the national semifinal. Barkley started the game on the mound, struck out three in two innings of work and complained of a sore arm. He was replaced by Jeremy Lopez, and the city kids drew first blood with two runs off three infield hits in the top of the third. Worcester, representing New England, leveled the score in the bottom of the inning off a walk, a single and an error. Inning after inning, the game remained tied until Ryan Griffin, batting fifth, knocked a three-run homer over Frias' head in right-center field. Frias watched it go, and threw his hat at the wall in disappointment. Worcester won, 5-2, with the walk-off homer. McWilliams anticipated that it was going to be a "tissue day." Harlem was humble. It was the first homer that Griffin had ever hit in a game.
"I still think Fernando should have had that ball," Barkley says.
There are bouts of second-guessing, but most moved on long ago. Nostalgia is being billed on signage outside the Marcus Garvey Park recreation center that stands next to the field. It calls for a night of jazz and swing at the Richard Rodgers amphitheater. The Harlem Renaissance Orchestra is to play, and there are more plans to come. McWilliams notes that a clubhouse is in the works. Construction commenced before Hurricane Sandy blew through New York. Progress has been delayed, but blueprints call for memorabilia from the 2002 team to be hung up on walls, catcher's equipment and all. McWilliams, now 23 years into his tenure with the league, reflects on the early days of seeing Frias and Barkley excelling as seven year olds. Barkley eyes only one thing when he walks or drives by the field.
"There will never be a reason to take that banner down," he says.
Th Harlem team walks to fabled Little League World Series stadium for their first game. (Corey Sipkin/New York Daily News)
Lucy Lopez, mother of Jeremy, lives in a fifth-floor apartment of a brick building on Faile St. in the Hunts Point section of the Bronx. It is up the block from Bruckner Blvd., and stands across from the P.S. 75 schoolyard. Razor wire lines the top of a fence that leads to her front door. Inside, framed photos of family members fill one wall. Jeremy's career is outlined on the other. He kneels with a bat in his hands for a posed shot and winds up to pitch in another. The pinnacle of his career is featured in a wide black frame above the flatscreen television. Jeremy, hat on head, stands next to Derek Jeter, in pinstripes, at shortstop in Yankee Stadium.
"He used to play for two or three teams at a time," says Kathy Lopez, his older sister. "He'd come home, sleep, change, shower, go to the next team."
There is a group photograph of the Harlem all-stars. They are all stoic, staring at the camera with red caps on and blue brims flat. Mid-Atlantic is stitched across their chests. Barkley is in the middle. His face is the most familiar to the Lopez family of Apt. 5K. Barkley lived down the hall in 5G; the boys used to yell for each other through the windows, "Little boy! Little boy! Want to come out and play?"
The Harlem All-Stars celebrate Jeremy Lopez's grand slam. (Corey Sipkin/New York Daily News)
They are linked together in Little League lore. Lucy Lopez and her daughter talk about boarding coach buses in Harlem to see the team play in Bristol and Williamsport. Family members crowded into the apartment and sat on the couches to watch when home. News 12 assigned a satellite television truck to park outside the building. Bodega owners posted newspaper photos of the boys in the windows. Kathy remembers locals in the streets whispering, "That's Jeter's sister!" Jeremy was dubbed "Jeter" in the neighborhood because he played shortstop. He wound up playing at Connors State College in Warner, Okla. before transferring to Southern University. There is a metal rod in his right leg from a non-baseball injury.
"That was a heartbreak," Kathy says. "He thought he was going to make it. We all thought he was going to make it."
Barkley returned to the Bronx a year ago. He needs a few more credits for his college degree, and is looking for steady employment after holding a few jobs, including as a driver. Lucy Lopez worries about bullets flying on summer nights.
"They're not playing anymore, but they're doing well," Lucy says. "If you stay in this neighborhood, whoa, the worst."
Andrew Diaz dances to home plate after hitting a two-run home run for Harlem2 run home run to give Harlem the lead, dancing to home plate. (Corey Sipkin/New York Daily News)
Jeremy returns home about twice a year from Louisiana. The last time that he came up, he left with an album of team newspaper clippings that Kathy, now a social worker, had assembled in 2002. Trophies are kept in the hallway. A copy of the Jeter photo, affixed to another wall by tape and torn in the upper right corner, welcomes all who enter. Below it, her son's red hat with the flat blue brim rests on a gilded trophy next to a Puerto Rican flag.
"My daughter is always telling me this is like a museum," Lucy says. "So many pictures. I like the memories."
Morris McWilliams still keeps his brownstone by St. Nicholas Park on Edgecombe Ave. He is 65 now. His wife, Adrienne, planned a surprise birthday party for him last November. He was led to believe that a few church friends would come by, but, one by one, players from the 2002 team also trekked up the steps. His son, Julian, was there, as were Barkley, Jorge Lopez, Frias, White and Kidd. Brown-Jiles' parents came. It was a reunion of the raucous group. McWilliams and his son recall late nights gathered on the stoop following tournament losses in previous summers. Mention the brackets and memories are brought back for the father-son battery.
Brown-Jiles says: 'It was a whole bunch of Spanish and African-American kids killing the competition.' (Corey Sipkin/New York Daily News)
"All we wanted to do was win a district title," Julian McWilliams says. "That was probably the happiest moment. All else was icing on the cake."
One win led to another. They claimed 14 of 16 games en route to Williamsport. Their efforts still echo. Morris McWilliams always shouted a player's name when balls were hit to his position. He grabbed onto the dugout fence, shaking it and shouting, "Jiminy Christmas!" when on-field plays stirred him. He held in most of his emotions until the bus ride back to New York following the semifinal defeat. The team had stayed two additional days in Williamsport, participating in a home run derby and playing a friendly game against a Venezuelan team. McWilliams knew that a police escort awaited the team once it crossed the George Washington Bridge. They were to be led down Broadway to Harlem with flashing lights. McWilliams commenced a speech about how much it all meant to him.
"I couldn't finish," he says. "It all came out."
Tears dried; Morris returned to coach again the next season. He dropped down to tee-ball for simpler times, happy to step back. His son returned to Williamsport in 2014 when Mo'ne Davis, a female pitcher, developed into an international star. Julian had finished his college career at Temple in Philadelphia, and he volunteered with the Taney Dragons from South Philly. Like Harlem, Taney fell in the U.S. semifinal. Julian championed more inner city kids seeking out a baseball life, even after he went through rotator cuff surgery and saw his career end.
"Those were my kids," he says.
There are photographs of peers that stay with him in South Carolina. He writes about local sports teams these days, offering advice to players who might need it regarding recruiting. Through Chick's death and life's twists, the players remain in touch by text and social media. They tune into the Little League World Series on ESPN. Highlight reels of their hits run on endless loops in their heads.
"They're all my brothers," Julian says. "We're a family."
Brown-Jiles sees Morris McWilliams by the field when he coaches. Volunteers show up early on weekends to rake and ready the playing surface for the kids. The elder McWilliams keeps the standards, wears his Mid-Atlantic champions T-shirt and regales newcomers to the league about that summer run.
"I tell the others they need to get their behinds back out here, too," Brown-Jiles says.


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Winds of Change, or More of the Same?
REUTERS / Scanpix / Pawel Kopczynski
Steam billows from the cooling towers of Vattenfall's Jaenschwalde brown coal power station behind wind turbines near Cottbus, eastern Germany.
Tomas Jermalavičius
Priit Mändmaa
Emma Hakala
Tomas Janeliūnas
Juris Ozoliņš
Krystian Kowalewski
Impact of the 2018-19 Election Cycle on Energy Security and Climate Policies in the Baltic states, Poland and Finland.
By coincidence perhaps more than design, the 'winds of change' in the twelve months between autumn 2018 and 2019 ushered in new governments—whether through national elections or through coalition reshuffling—in five Baltic Sea littoral states: Finland, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, and Poland. Yet, amidst sometimes rather turbulent domestic political debates, one key cluster of topics was virtually absent: energy security and climate policy. With the vital exception of Finland—a state with a relatively strong Green movement and long tradition of climate and environmental activism—no country saw climate or energy security targets raised as key campaign issues. To the extent that energy security and climate topics were mentioned at all, they either were minimized due to parties' fear of alienating key voting blocs (as with the coal mining sector in Poland), confined to energy stakeholders and technical audiences due their complexity (as with electricity desynchronisation in the Baltic countries) or completely assimilated into a cross-party foreign policy consensus (as in the universal opposition in Lithuania to the Astravyets nuclear power plant project in Belarus).
While domestic factors—including perceived national interests in ensuring energy self-sufficiency—contributed to a serious case of policy inertia, small and interconnected countries do not of course exist in a vacuum. Accordingly, international factors—from the continuing use of energy policy as an instrument of geopolitical power by Russia, to the growing consensus in the EU in favor of more ambitious climate targets—have done more to raise the salience of these issues, especially after the von der Leyen Commission took office in Brussels at the end of 2019 and put forward the so-called European Green Deal. These exogenous factors have finally, for instance, triggered a broader reassessment in Estonia of that country's rather leisurely planned phase-out of oil shale power generation, while pushing political leaders in all five countries at least rhetorically to embrace the goal of a carbon-neutral future (albeit with considerable differences in timelines and methodology).
Amidst a volatile international economic and geopolitical context that—since the time work began on this report—now includes a major global pandemic and a dramatic fall in fossil fuel demand and prices, the region's political and economic leaders clearly cannot count on being able to make their policy selections in a vacuum. While the goal of an integrated regional energy market is closer than ever to being achieved, regional cooperation still has much to be desired; differing attitudes to issues both technical (e.g. harmonising natural gas regulations, which has left Lithuania outside a new regional market) or fundamental (importing third-country electricity generated without regard to EU climate or pollution standards) leave all five countries less able to respond to challenges ahead.
While the region's countries have largely relied on Brussels to broker compromises (often with the help of considerable funding), in a post-pandemic world, both the political bandwidth and financial resources will likely be constrained. In its country sections, this report captures a valuable snapshot of the relative inertia as well as the degree of evolution of the energy and climate policies of the five countries in the face of that year's fairly calm international context. Given the significant economic, human, and political changes underway as a result of the pandemic, however, it is an open question to what extent the region can weather the far more turbulent times ahead. The political and societal willingness to pursue the energy transition to a carbon-neutral future through new—more ambitious and certainly more expensive—energy and climate policies as a response to the climate emergency will very much depend on how the impact of the pandemic plays out globally, in Europe and in the Baltic area. It will also require strong leadership from a new generation of political, business and societal leaders able to see green recovery as a major opportunity for their nations in terms of economic development, social welfare and national security.
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Dorothy Gale "Edition De Luxe"
My fellow blogger Bill Campbell over at The Oz Enthusiast is almost as obsessed with the 1903 Wizard of Oz musical as I am. He's a fellow collector of stage-oriented Oz material and he's even built a tremendously fun toy-theatre version of the show.
In researching for the toy theatre, Bill became quite interested in Carolyn Siedle's costume sketches for the 1903 Wizard of Oz. On a recent trip to New York, Bill took photos of most of the surviving costume sketches and assembled them all in a blog post. He later did another blog comparing and contrasting the sketches with the finished costumes as seen in assorted production photos. But at least one of the sketches was rather a stumper for Bill - an unknown Act III dress for Dorothy.
Carolyn Siedle's original costume sketch.
The image shows Dorothy in a sort of "baby-doll" dress. It's short, like a very young girl's would be at the time, all white, with assorted ruffles and bands of applied ribbon, and most oddly, black knee-socks with little white shoes. It's not a look we've associated with Dorothy in that show and doesn't match any of actress Anna Laughlin's Dorothy dresses that we know from the Broadway stage photos.
Bill wondered if it was a preliminary design, perhaps cut from the show. But I had an idea it might be something else. I had a sneaky suspicion that a number of the sketches were not from the Broadway version of the show but from the revised version of the show dubbed "Edition de Luxe" prepared in the Spring of 1904. The show got many new songs, many new costumes, and a general freshening. So I started digging through my photo archive trying to prove my theory. Finally I remembered a photo from Act III of the Hurtig and Seaman touring production circa late 1906. Lo and behold we get a picture of Dorothy Gale kneeling during the finale, and I think she is wearing this mystery frock!
Dorothy at the end of Act III in the Hurtig and Seaman production circa late 1906.
The hat seems similar enough, but the banding on the hem seems spot on. The Hurtig and Seaman production is also just a bit dowdier than the original Julian Mitchell version, too. Hence the slightly frumpy look (though she is kneeling and pleading for help from the Witch of the North). Below you can see Anna Laughlin in the original Act III dress at the same moment from the show.
Anna Laughlin Act III original Broadway version of the dress.
I strongly suspect that Anna Laughlin made the request for a new Act III dress in Edition de Luxe. The dress above looks heavy and hot, while the little white frock looks quite breezy and cool. A good thing when playing in warm theatres, under the lights with no air-conditioning.
One reason I think the request may have come directly from Anna Laughlin is that the new Act III dress bears a striking resemblance to a dress Anna Laughlin had worn onstage back in August of 1900.
Anna Laughlin in The Casino Boy, circa August 1900
I was fairly convinced several of the sketches Bill found were from the post-Broadway "Edition De Luxe" but he just obtained a photo of another sketch that is explicitly from "Edition De Luxe," one of the Cowgirls from the "Sitting Bull" number introduced in the new 1904 edition. I'm sharing a photo of one of the chorus girls (Theresa Van Brune) in the realized costume. Note that the Ozzy cowgirl in the photo is having a smoke!
In closing, I must say that the Oz Cowboy chorus girl is a really lovely and very modern looking costume. I can see why they called it "Edition de Luxe!"
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Evelyn Copelman in the Tiger Den!
There's nothing better to motivate one to get back to blogging than a new treasure to share! And this time it's a painting by an Oz artist I never had much thought of acquiring, Evelyn Copelman, the second major illustrator of The Wizard of Oz.
Watercolor by Evelyn Copelman.
Alas, the painting isn't from Wizard, but a watercolor of a country street scene. The image is a bit larger than 8" x 11", signed at the bottom right in pencil.
For those of you not acquainted, Evelyn Copelamn was the first illustrator to reillustrate a full-length edition of The Wizard of Oz after W. W. Denslow. After World War II, Wizard publisher Bobbs Merrill wanted a new edition of Wizard. The MGM film had made the book more popular than ever, and the original Denslow illustrations were difficult to make attractive. The first edition of Wizard is stunning, but by 1903 Denslow's art was already suffering from cheap and simplified printing. By the 1920s and '30s the book was decidedly unattractive.
In 1944, Bobbs Merrill decided on a major overhaul and hired Evelyn Copelman to reillustrate the book. It was her first book illustration job. In the printed book the publisher slyly suggests the drawings are based on those of Denslow, but they are clearly much more inspired by the MGM film.
Copelman's line drawings (actually scratchboard work) in the early printings are sometimes a bit stiff and often overworked. Her paintings are much better. A few years after this new edition of Wizard was released, Copelman went back and redrew almost every image and added several new color plates, creating a much more handsome volume.
In 1947, Bobbs Merrill asked Copelman to reillustrate Baum's The Magical Monarch of Mo. She's become a much more gifted illustrator by this point, too, though her style is at odds with Baum's text. (You can read my analysis here).
However, one can see more stylistic parallels between my newly acquired painting and her Mo watercolors than one can find when examining her Wizard paintings - such as in the Mo frontispiece below.
Frontispiece of THE MAGICAL MONARCH OF MO by Evelyn Copelman.
Note how much looser her style has become in the watercolor sky above, and the similarity in technique of the forested hills at the left in the distance.
But even more similarities can be seen with my painting and the most important work of her career - illustrating the Sally, Dick, and Jane school readers!
Illustration from WE COME AND GO (1946-'47) by Evelyn Copelman as "Eleanor Campbell."
Looking at the lovely watercolored grass, the trees across the road, one can imagine Sally, Dick, and Jane walking down the country street scene in my painting. Evelyn Copelman did all of her school reader work under the pseudonym Eleanor Campbell.
Well, that's it for today in the Tiger Den. "See David Blog. Blog, David, blog!"
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Spring Lake ist  ein census-designated place (CDP) im Hernando County im US-Bundesstaat Florida. Das U.S. Census Bureau hat bei der Volkszählung 2020 eine Einwohnerzahl von 465 ermittelt.

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Spring Lake liegt rund 10 km südöstlich von Brooksville sowie etwa 60 km nördlich von Tampa.

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Laut der Volkszählung 2010 verteilten sich die damaligen 458 Einwohner auf 145 Haushalte. Die Bevölkerungsdichte lag bei 52,6 Einw./km². 96,9 % der Bevölkerung bezeichneten sich als Weiße, 0,2 % als Afroamerikaner, 0,4 % als Indianer und 1,3 % als Asian Americans. 0,4 % gaben die Angehörigkeit zu einer anderen Ethnie und 0,7 % zu mehreren Ethnien an. 6,3 % der Bevölkerung bestand aus Hispanics oder Latinos.

Im Jahr 2010 lebten in 25,5 % aller Haushalte Kinder unter 18 Jahren sowie 38,8 % aller Haushalte Personen mit mindestens 65 Jahren. 79,3 % der Haushalte waren Familienhaushalte (bestehend aus verheirateten Paaren mit oder ohne Nachkommen bzw. einem Elternteil mit Nachkomme). Die durchschnittliche Größe eines Haushalts lag bei 2,44 Personen und die durchschnittliche Familiengröße bei 2,70 Personen.

19,6 % der Bevölkerung waren jünger als 20 Jahre, 15,9 % waren 20 bis 39 Jahre alt, 33,0 % waren 40 bis 59 Jahre alt und 31,5 % waren mindestens 60 Jahre alt. Das mittlere Alter betrug 50 Jahre. 49,3 % der Bevölkerung waren männlich und 50,7 % weiblich.

Das durchschnittliche Jahreseinkommen lag bei 31.750 $, dabei lebten 12,1 % der Bevölkerung unter der Armutsgrenze.

Im Jahr 2000 war Englisch die Muttersprache von 100 % der Bevölkerung.

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Am 20. Oktober 2009 wurde das Spring Lake Community Center in das National Register of Historic Places eingetragen.

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Troubled Waters: The Case Against Eating Fish
BY Richard H. Schwartz
There are standard questions that vegetarians are often asked. Perhaps the most frequent one is, "HOW DO YOU GET ENOUGH PROTEIN?" Another common question is, "DO YOU EAT FISH?"
Many people, including some who call themselves vegetarians, think fish are less capable of suffering than mammals and birds. These would-be vegetarians may avoid eating mammals and birds while continuing to eat fish, sometimes arguing that the problems associated with the production and consumption of other animal products don't apply to fish. After all, they reason: fish aren't raised in the cruel confinement of factory farms; unlike the raising of "livestock," fishing doesn't cause soil erosion and depletion, require deforestation to create pasture land and land on which to grow feed crops, or require huge amounts of pesticides and irrigation water; also, fish flesh is generally lower in fat than other animal-derived foods and is a healthy food. All of these assumptions are either wrong or problematic.
Let us consider typical vegetarian arguments that address treatment of animals, health risks, and environmental sustainability, as they apply to fish "production" and
consumption. Even though by definition fish (and other aquatic animals) have never been considered part of a vegetarian diet, the reasons to avoid their consumption as you will see are compelling.
Compassion for Animals
Fishers and animal rights advocates have long debated whether or not fish can feel pain. Among the overwhelming evidence that fish can suffer is a recent report by a team of marine biologists at Edinburgh's Roslin Institute. The report was published by the Royal Society, one of Britain's leading scientific institutes. The researchers found that rainbow trout possess pain receptors and react to a harmful substance (in this case, acetic acid) with "profound behavioral and physiological changes . . . over a prolonged period, comparable to those observed in higher mammals." The researchers concluded that their findings "fulfill the criteria for animal pain." Their conclusion is also consistent with common sense: fish, like other animals, need to be able to feel pain in order to survive.
Methods of catching and killing fish are clearly abusive. When fish are hauled up from a considerable depth, the sudden change in pressure on their bodies causes painful decompression that often causes their gills to collapse and their eyes to pop out. As soon as fish are removed from
water, they begin to suffocate.
Hooked fish struggle because of pain and fear. As described by Tom Hopkins, professor of marine science at the University of Alabama, getting hooked on a line
is "like dentistry without Novocain, drilling into exposed nerves."
Fish who are "farmed" rather than caught experience more-prolonged suffering. Today in the United States, (to maximize profit,) most "farmed" trout, salmon, catfish, and other fish are raised in the same sort of intensive crowding found in commercial chicken and pig operations. Like the chicken-flesh industry, fish "farming" involves large-scale, highly mechanized production. Thousands of fish are crammed into ponds, troughs, or sea-floating cages, so that fish farmers can raise the greatest possible number of fish per cubic foot of water. In most cases, each fish is allotted a space scarcely larger than their body.
Farmed fish are fed pellets designed for unnaturally rapid weight gain. Under these abnormal intensely crowded conditions, fish suffer from stress, infections, parasites, oxygen depletion, and gas bubble disease (similar to "the bends" in humans). In an effort to prevent the spread of disease among the fish, producers give them large amounts of antibiotics. Even so, many fish die before slaughter. For economic reasons and to reduce fish feces, most farmed fish are starved for days or weeks before they are slaughtered.
Fish are not the only animals to suffer because of people's appetite for their flesh. Egrets, hawks, and other birds who eat fish commonly are shot or poisoned to prevent them from eating the captives of these large open pools. Also, many sea turtles, dolphins, sea birds, and invertebrates suffer horrible deaths in commercial fishing nets.
Many people who eat fish erroneously believe that it's a healthful food. In a 1997 survey commissioned by the National Fisheries Institute, more than half of the 10,000 surveyed households cited health benefits among their primary
reasons for eating fish.
What are the actual health effects of consuming fish? Fish flesh contains omega-3 fatty acids which appear to be heart-protective. However, there are healthier plant based sources of these acids, especially flax seeds, and, in lesser amounts, canola, soybean, walnuts, tofu, pumpkin, and wheat germ. Further, these plant foods provide health-promoting fiber and antioxidants. And they don't contain the toxic heavy metals and carcinogens found in fish flesh.
In any case, the possible benefits of omega-3 fatty acids are largely limited to people at risk of heart disease, and for pregnant and breast feeding women. The largest study of cholesterol levels, carried out in Framingham, Massachusetts, showed that people with cholesterol levels below 150 have virtually no such risk. Because people on well-planned vegan diets generally have cholesterol levels below 150, the best way to maintain cardiac health is to follow such a diet, thereby ensuring that artery blockages don't occur in the first place.
As a result of human pollution of aquatic environments, eating fish flesh has become a major health hazard. Industrial and municipal wastes and the agricultural chemicals flushed into the world's waters are absorbed by the fish who live there. Big fish, such as tuna and salmon, eat smaller fish. So, in general, the bigger the fish, the greater the accumulation of toxic chemicals throughout their flesh. Pollutants that concentrate in fish include pesticides; polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs); toxic metals such as lead, cadmium, chromium, and arsenic; dioxins; and radioactive substances such as strontium 90. Because of biological magnification during movement up the food chain, pollutants can reach levels as high as 9 million times that of the water in which they live. These pollutants have been linked to many health problems, including impaired behavioral development in children. Nursing infants consume half of their mother's load of PCBs, dioxin, DDT, and other toxic chemicals. These toxins have been linked to cancers, nervous system disorders, fetal damage, and many other damaging health effects. Dr. Neal Barnard, director of Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine (PCRM), describes fish as "a mixture of fat and protein, seasoned with toxic chemicals."
Higher mercury levels in mothers who eat significant amounts of fish have been associated with birth defects, mental retardation, seizures, cerebral palsy, and developmental disabilities in their children. A U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) analysis released in 2004 indicated that about 630,000 of the 4 million children born annually in the U.S. are at risk of impaired motor function, learning capacity, memory, and vision – due to high levels of mercury in their bloodstreams.
The Food and Drug Administration and the EPA have advised that groups most sensitive to mercury – women of childbearing age and young children – should not eat swordfish, king mackerel, or shark because they're high in mercury. Removing fish from the diet eliminates half of all mercury exposure and reduces one's intake of other toxins.
"Farmed" salmon contains even more contaminants than flesh from wild-caught salmon. As reported in Science, an analysis of over two tons of flesh from salmon "farmed" in different countries indicated toxic levels of PCBs, dioxins, and banned insecticides such as toxaphene. The risks are so great that the EPA's guidelines suggest that no one should eat flesh from "farmed" salmon more than once a month. The authors of the Science report warn that girls and young women should eat even less because pregnant women can pass on fish-flesh contaminants to their fetuses, impairing mental development and immune-system function. Two studies published in 2003 in the journal Chemosphere also reported elevated levels of PCBs, and certain chemicals, including flame retardant, in flesh from "farmed" salmon. Most salmon in U.S. markets today are farmed.
It's easy to understand how industrial toxins accumulate in the flesh of ocean-dwelling fish, but how did farmed salmon get so contaminated? Most farmed salmon are fed pellets made from fish hauled up from the polluted sea floor. It takes 3 to 4 pounds of wild fish to produce just one pound of "farmed" fish.
"Farmed" fish also are fed dyes to give their flesh a pink color, as well as massive amounts of antibiotics to stave off bacterial diseases and sea lice. Farmed salmon are fed more antibiotics, per pound, than any other animals reared for slaughter. This contributes to increasing numbers of drug resistant bacteria, making it more difficult to treat some human diseases.
In a six-month investigation, Consumers Union found that nearly half the fish tested from markets in New York City, Chicago, and Santa Cruz, California were contaminated by bacteria from human or nonhuman feces. In addition, fish often contain disease-causing worms and parasites.
Even when carefully handled and continually refrigerated, dead fish rapidly rots. Fish often stay on trawlers for long periods before being brought to markets.
Fish flesh contains large amounts of protein. While most people think this is positive, the average American consumes excess protein, which has been linked to a number of health problems, including kidney stones and osteoporosis. Unlike fats and carbohydrates, protein can't be stored by the human body. Any consumed protein that exceeds the amount that can be used on a given day is broken down and excreted. After someone eats concentrated protein, such as a salmon steak or fish fillet, their blood must be cleansed of protein wastes, such as urea, ammonia, and amino acid fragments. Since cleansing requires calcium, the excess protein from fish causes the loss of calcium through the urine. Continued year after year, this calcium loss may result in thin bones that easily fracture: osteoporosis, a condition that affects 15 million Americans. Due to lower acid production, vegetable protein generally causes much less calcium loss.
Fish contain none of the protective phytochemicals found only in plant-derived foods. Also, fish flesh has no fiber and virtually no complex carbohydrates. Lack of fiber may contribute to a number of diseases related to digestion, such as diverticulosis and colon cancer.
While fish is generally lower in fat than other animal-derived foods, not all fish is low in fat. Fifty-two percent of the calories in salmon flesh are from fat. In the case of many fish, such as catfish, swordfish, and sea trout, almost one-third of the calories are from fat. While fish fat is generally unsaturated and therefore doesn't increase cholesterol in the blood of consumers, it does contribute to the build-up of toxins. Studies show that diets heavy in fish do not reverse arterial blockages. In fact, blockages often continue to worsen in patients who regularly eat fish.
Another very serious, and escalating, problem is the impact that fishing and fish "farming" have on the environment. Modern commercial trawlers are the size of a football field, with huge nets (sometimes miles long) that scoop up everything in their path. They can take in 800,000 pounds of fish in just one netting. Trawlers scrape up ocean bottoms, destroying coral reefs. Half of the fish and other sea creatures (including some protected species) obtained through commercial fishing are fed to animals reared for food, including "farmed" fish. Each year, about 30 million tons of aquatic animals – maimed, dying, or already dead – are simply tossed back into the ocean.
Commercial fishing fleets are rapidly destroying aquatic ecosystems. As a result, the number of large predatory fish has dramatically declined over the last 50 years. Once-huge populations of tuna, swordfish, and cod have dwindled to mere remnants. Dalhousie University biologist Ransom Myers has stated, "Unless we seriously control industrial fishing worldwide, many of the species will go extinct." The ocean's biodiversity rivals that of tropical rainforests. In effect, humans are clear-cutting these environments. Waters that once teemed with life are now so barren that they've been compared to a dust bowl.
Plummeting fish populations have ripple effects throughout the marine ecosystem. Predator-prey relationships have been disrupted. For example, a decline in pollack in western Alaska has caused a 90 percent decline in Steller's sea lions, who are now listed as endangered. Because of the decrease in sea lions, who are orcas' primary prey, orcas have been eating more sea otters. As a result, sea otters have declined by 90 percent since 1990.
As vessels scour increasingly fished-out waters, international confrontations are increasing. Russians have attacked Japanese vessels in the Northwest Pacific. Scottish fishers have attacked a Russian trawler. Norwegian patrols cut the nets of three Icelandic ships in the Arctic, and the crews exchanged shots. The United Nations has reported a sharp increase in piracy and armed robbery directed toward ships, many of them fishing vessels.
"Aquaculture," too, has a significant negative impact on the environment. First, native fish are displaced as introduced fish invade spawning grounds and compete for food. Interbreeding pollutes the genetic pool. According to the National Fisheries Research Center, "aquaculture" has contributed to 68 percent of fish extinctions worldwide.
Fish "farming" also depletes natural resources. Modern commercial fishing is extremely energy-intensive. It requires as much as twenty calories of fossil-fuel energy to produce one calorie of energy from fish. Moreover, where fish are grown in artificial ponds, vast amounts of water are required to replenish oxygen and remove wastes. Rearing a ton of fish for slaughter requires eight tons of water. Producing one pound of flesh from captive fish requires three to four pounds of flesh from wild fish, so people who eat farmed fish contribute to the decimation of free-living fish populations.
"Aquaculture" also results in enormous pollution. The intense accumulation of wastes from fish farms can pollute the local marine environment and spread illnesses. Researchers at the University of Stockholm have found that pollution from fish farms can extend to an area much larger than the farm itself. In Scotland, for example, caged salmon contaminate coastal waters with untreated waste equivalent to that produced by 8 million people.
Because it requires massive water use, "aquaculture" routinely is conducted on coastal land that is the prime breeding and spawning ground for many free-living fish. Much coastal land has been cleared of forests, swamps, and rice patties to make room for fish "farms."
Antibiotics given to farmed fish harm nearby seas and oceans. When farmed fish, laden with antibiotics, escape and breed with free-living fish, aquatic ecosystems may be thrown out of balance because of the mating of wild and farmed fish. Escaped fish raised in intensive confinement may spread disease to free populations of fish.
The "production" and consumption of fish flesh causes great suffering to fish and other animals, harms human health, threatens aquatic biodiversity, wastes natural resources, and invites international conflicts. A shift away from eating fish is both a societal and moral imperative.
Many thanks to Joan Dunayer, Jay Lavine, M.D., Michael Greger, M.D., and Dawn Carr for their valuable suggestions regarding this article.
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Kampala/ Entebbe to Fort Portal is a five hour drive, on well surfaced road but plagued by bus coachesspeeding on the roads. Fort Portal is really the springboard for excursions to Kibale Forest and the Semliki Valley. Almost all visitors to this part of Uganda include a visit into Kibale Forest to see the habituated chimpanzees and other primates in this lovely old forest.
Kibale Forest covers an area of 795km square; 1100-1590m ASL; dominant vegetation type is rainforest similar to Afro-montane and western lowland forest, also includes grassland and swamp; around 350 trees identified, loads of orchids and epiphytic ferns; especially good for its chimpanzees (around 1,450 individuals in total with around 80 habituated, the largest single population in Uganda); also very good for birds including 335 species with 6 Albertine rift endemics; Kibale has around 144 butterfly species (including Africa's largest and rarest, the Giant Swallowtail); 60 mammals including 13 primates; forest elephants are around in the wet season but rarely seen.
Most excursions last for 2 to 3 hours and start from Kanyanchu at 08:00 and 15:00 daily. Chimp Treks cost USD150 including park entrance. Chimp sightings aren't guaranteed but success rate is around 90% with a well habituated community around Kanyanchu.
The chimp tracking is easy-going by comparison with Mahale and Kyambura Gorge, definitely a lot easy than gorilla trekking. Wear light layers but be prepared for rain in season – keep it simple in Kibale.
Shooting photos of chimps is a lot more difficult than shooting gorillas. They're far more active and regularly at ease behind heavy foliage or up high in the canopy and then on the move again. Opportunities on paths can be quite good especially if you're set for low light, and you're lucky enough to be tracking on the path when suddenly things come to a complete standstill. All in all they make very difficult photographic subjects but are seriously interesting especially since they actually don't give a hoot for people.
In addition to short treks full or multi-day chimpanzee habituation experiences are available for around $220/$400/$550 for 1/2/3 days respectively. They entail a full day's tracking with researchers and habituators from around 05:30 to 19:00 – available March, April, May and November only. This is exceptionally good value for people with a real interest in chimps and the forests!
Even if there're no chimps the forest is truly outstanding. In addition to chimps, Kibale is home to the following primates: dwarf bushbaby, eastern needle-nailed bushbaby, Bosman's potto, dwarf galago, black & white colobus, Uganda red colobus monkey, Uganda redtail guenon, blue guenon, Lhoesti or mountain guenon, vervet monkey, grey-cheeked mangabey and olive baboon.
Start at Kanyanchu and run from 08:00 to 22:00, aimed at sighting nocturnal primates especially potto and bushbaby; costs $70 including park entrance.
A community run initiative that protects the Magombe Swamp just outside the area. Good for primates and butterflies but the 4.5 km trail is one of the best guided bird trails in East Africa. Local guides are especially good, keen birders should book in advance, collar the best guides and aim to leave around 14:00 for a good 3-4 hours of private birding focusing on looking for specials. The swamp is home to 138 species.
Western Uganda from the Albertine Rift to Ruwenzoris and Virunga mountains has one of the world's densest concentrations of volcanic crater lakes. There are 4 main groups of these crater lakes: Kasenda cluster west of Kibale; Katwe cluster not far from Mweya in Queen Elizabeth National Park; Fort Portal cluster to the north and the Bunyaruguru cluster southeast of Queen Elizabeth National Park.
The Kasenda cluster is the most extensive and easily accessible from Kibale. These lakes offer lots of possibilities for exploration with verdant bush, great landscapes and lots of birds, butterflies and other wildlife. Ndali Lodge , Papaya Lodge and Crater Lake Safari Lodge are probably the best spot from which to explore the crater lakes and surrounds.


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Oppo Reno3 and Samsung Galaxy A20s phones are expected to launch soon.
Oppo Reno3 features 6.5 inches display screen with AMOLED capacitive touchscreen, 16M colors and resolution of 1080 x 2400 pixels whereas Samsung Galaxy A20s features 6.5 inches display screen with IPS LCD capacitive touchscreen, 16M colors and resolution of 720 x 1520 pixels. Both phones also have full support to 2G, 3G, 4G network bands.
Oppo Reno3 phone is equipped with Octa-core (2x2.2 GHz Kryo 470 Gold & 6x1.8 GHz Kryo 470 Silver) CPU and Adreno 618 GPU powered by Qualcomm Snapdragon 730G chipset while Samsung Galaxy A20s phone is equipped with Octa-core 1.8 GHz Cortex-A53 CPU and Adreno 506 GPU powered by Qualcomm Snapdragon 450 chipset.
Oppo Reno3 phone has a RAM of 8 GB and has an internal storage of 128/256 GB with expandable card slot microSD, up to 256 GB (use SIM slot). On the other hand Samsung Galaxy A20s phone has a RAM of 4 GB and has an internal storage of 64 GB with expandable card slot microSD, up to 1 TB (dedicated slot).
Oppo Reno3 has impressive 60 megapixel rear camera with 32 megapixel front-facing camera while on the other hand Samsung Galaxy A20s has 13 megapixel rear camera with 8 megapixel front-facing camera to capture impressive pictures.
Oppo Reno3 mobile phone has a Non-removable battery with a capacity of 4000 mAh. On the other hand Samsung Galaxy A20s phone has a Non-removable battery with a capacity of 4000 mAh. The height, width and thickness of this Samsung phone measures around 163.3 x 77.5 x 8 mm.


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By Armen Hareyan G+ Dec 30 2020 - 10:17am
Elon Musk's Gift To New Tesla Owners for a Record Year
It is again with a tweet that Tesla CEO Elon Musk announced that he was offering the autonomous driving option for three months to customers who will receive their order three days before January 1. Tesla has 2 days to 500,000: a new record high year, thanks to record numbers.
A few days ago, Tesla boss Elon Musk spoke up again via Twitter. He wrote, "Technology, design, and general business processes absorb a lot of my mind and fundamentally prevent me from doing more." Musk also commented on previous plans to take Tesla off the stock exchange and take it private.
Longtime Tesla aficionados will surely remember Musk's "frenzy" as he fueled speculation about Tesla privatization when its stock hit $420. According to Musk, this is "now impossible".
After joining the S&P 500, most investors thought Tesla might be out of steam for now. However, after a brief setback, TSLA is already starting to run towards a record high.
However, DZ Bank considers Tesla's market capitalization to be far exaggerated and continues to advise selling. Analyst Matthias Volkert sees the fair value per share at just $ 300. Credit Suisse also sees the paper as ambitiously valued. Analyst Dan Levy's target price is $ 400. His sales estimate for the electric car maker in the final quarter is now around 183,000 vehicles above market expectations, wrote analyst Dan Levy in a study. With that, Tesla should also achieve its annual target of half a million vehicles, writes Jochen Kauper in Der Aktionar.
But Elon Musk's latest tweet is likely to get a lot more attention. The CEO of Tesla announces that those models, which will be delivered during the last three days of the year 2020, "will benefit from free of three months of the full autonomous driving option." He stress that the paperwork must be completed before the end of the day of December 31, 2020.
All Tesla cars delivered in the final three days of the year will get three months of the Full Self-Driving option for free. Delivery & docs must be fully complete by midnight Dec 31st.
To be honest, I was expecting something like this, like a gift announcement from Elon Musk to push Tesla's end-of-the-year sales. I didn't know if it will be the free FSD, but something of that nature. This announcement may seem normal at the end of the year, a period when promotions must be made to further improve Tesla's bottom line.. But here, it is the CEO of Tesla who is responsible for distributing it. And for good reason, in October, Elon Musk announced his decision to do without a communication service (without a press page) to make his announcements.
Data shows that Tesla may have a strong year-end. Musk aims to achieve its annual target of 500,000 Tesla vehicles to be delivered in 2020 with all its might. For comparison: Tesla had 318,350 deliveries by the end of the third quarter, so it would have to be another 181,650 last year to achieve the target.
Tesla has some advantages for 2021, but has to watch out for competition. Tesla is leading the electric vehicle market because of its technology and battery innovation, but now there are new players in the town and Volkswagen stands a decent chance of catching up soon. But Tesla is focused on its battery leadership. Yesterday, China's Sichuan Yahua Industrial Group Co. announced that the company and Tesla have signed a major deal according to which Sichuan Yahua Industrial Group Co. will supply battery-grade lithium hydroxide to Tesla for the next five years. Lithium is a key battery ingredient.
Tesla will certainly release its fourth quarter numbers as soon as possible. Probably in the first week of January, or more precisely on January 4, 2021. Tesla took a wild ride this year. Tesla has cast an incredible number of investors under its spell. Shortly before the turn of the year, the share is once again targeting the record high.
Armen Hareyan is the founder and the Editor in Chief of Torque News. He founded TorqueNews.com in 2010, which since then has been publishing expert news and analysis about the automotive industry. He can be reached at Torque News Twitter, Facebok, Linkedin and Youtube.
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Judges together spent an average of 316 hours a month dealing with "without notice" applications in the Family Court in the year to 30 April 2016.
With a total of 13,543 such applications over the year, this means that Family Court Judges spent an average of 16 minutes and 48 seconds on each application.
Justice Minister Amy Adams has released information on judicial time spent on "without notice" applications in response to a parliamentary question from Labour MP Louisa Wall.
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Plasma transfusion for persistent postpartum hemorrhage: Does timing matter?
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Judith M. Orvos, ELS
Dutch investigators theorized that outcomes in new mothers would be better with initiation of plasma transfusion within 60 minutes of persistent postpartum hemorrhage (PPH). Findings from their new study, however, tell a different story.
Published in JAMA Network Open, the results are from a multicenter cohort study conducted in the Netherlands. The authors identified women in the transfusion strategies in women during major obstetric hemorrhage (TeMpOH-1) study, which retrospectively assessed transfusion strategies used in women during major obstetric hemorrhage. The cohort in the new analysis had persistent PPH, defined as PPH with at least 1000 mL of blood loss refractory to first-line interventions to control bleeding.
In the Netherlands, in women with PPH who are hemodynamically stable enough, uterine or internal iliac artery embolization is used before resorting to hysterectomy. If embolization is not available in an institution, it is common practice to transfer the patient to a nearby hospital with embolization facilities.
The current study included 1216 women (mean age 31.6 years) with PPH, of whom 932 (76.6%) delivered vaginally and 780 (64.1%) had PPH caused by uterine atony. The authors used time-dependent propensity score matching to select women who received plasma during the first 60 minutes of persistent PPH. Each woman was matched with a woman who had PPH of the same severity and received the same treatment but who had not received plasma at the moment of matching. Transfusions were not guided by coagulation tests.
The main outcomes were incidence of adverse maternal outcomes, defined as a composite of death, hysterectomy, or arterial embolization. Seven of the women (0.6%) died of PPH, 62 (5.1%) underwent hysterectomy, and 159 (13.1%) had uterine artery embolization.
Among women who received plasma during the first 60 minutes of persistent PPH, 114 could be matched with a comparable woman who had not received plasma at the moment of matching. Incidence of adverse maternal outcomes was similar between the women, with adverse outcomes recorded in 24 women (21.2%) who received early plasma transfusion and 23 women (19.9%) who did not receive early plasma transfusion (odds ratio 1.09; 95% CI 0.57-2.09). Results of sensitivity analyses were comparable to the primary results.
While the results do not support the authors' original hypothesis, they said they should not be taken to indicate that plasma transfusion has no place in treatment of women with severe PPH. "Rather," they said, "our study underlines the importance of developing tools to diagnose coagulopathy during persistent PPH. These tools may enable individualization of treatment of women with persistent PPH by identifying women who develop coagulopathy during persistent PPH."


The IEEE Robotics and Automation Society (RAS) Egypt chapter wishes to express special gratitude to the German University in Cairo (GUC) for supporting and hosting the Minesweepers: Towards a Landmine-Free Egypt competition. This competition fits with GUC's mission in achieving excellence in teaching and applied research and fosters the third role of the university in serving the community providing innovative solutions for challenging problems like humanitarian demining.
The IEEE Robotics and Automation Society (RAS) Egypt chapter also acknowledges the support and generous input of Executive Secretariat for the Demining & Development of the North West Coast, Ministry of International Cooperation.
The IEEE RAS Egypt chapter would also like to thank Eng. Ayman Abdel-Rahman for his kind support and efforts in designing the competition website.
The IEEE RAS Egypt chapter thanks Robo-Egypt for their willing to offer orientation sessions to interested teams at different universities/institutes. To request an orientation session, please coordinate with Eng. Khaled Moharram from Robot-Egypt (Cell: 01064449953).
The IEEE RAS Egypt chapter also thanks Nadia Wernli, Faculty of Applied Sciences and Arts, GUC for preparing the poster of the Call For Participation of the competition.


Hulu is close to a deal that will see the streaming service producing multiple TV series based on the superhero book series Wild Cards co-created by Game Of Thrones author George R R Martin.
The Hollywood Reporter is stating that the should the deal go through, a writers room will be opened to chart the course of at least two series that will share their fictional universe, with The Circle scripter Andrew Miller writing.
The book series details an alternate history where an alien virus was released over New York City shortly after the close of World War Two. The plague, dubbed the Wild Card Virus, immediately killed 90 percent of those it infected. The remaining ten percent had their DNA altered with most getting some sort of deformed physical mutation and a very small percent would gain superpowers. This science-fiction superhero world had its birth in an ongoing campaign of the role-playing game Superworld run by Martin for many of the authors who would go on to contribute to the twenty-seven novels, short story anthologies and mosaic novels that comprise the series. Contributors to the series over the years include Melinda Snodgrass, Roger Zelazny, Stephen Leigh, Lewis Shiner, John J Miller and Victor Milan.
While I know that Game Of Thrones certainly has it fans, Wild Cards has been the George R R Martin property I have been waiting for someone to adapt for some time now. The series spans decades and contains enough characters to support the multiple series that Hulu seems to be interested in. I wouldn't be surprised if they were looking to make this their version of Netflix's Marvel superhero shows like Daredevil and Jessica Jones.
Whatever Happened To Whit Stillman?


March 31 - Off by 7:30 a.m. train for Port Hope and reached there on time. Proceeded to drill shed where I found Col. Williams, Uncle Harry and others I knew, also those of the company I was to be attached to, then at drill. Got on my uniform, certainly not the very best, and took my place in the ranks. Orders were to move east to Kingston tomorrow morning. Spent my spare time at Grandmother's and visiting old friends, but most of the time learning my drill.


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Two Jian ware tea bowls, Song dynasty at Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
Jian ware tea bowl, China, Fujian province, Song dynasty (960-1279), stoneware, tenmoku glaze, silver rim, 6.9 x 12.4 cm. Purchased 1965. EC4.1965. Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney (C) Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
The tea bowl was made in the Song dynasty (960-1279) in the south-eastern province of Fujian and was a type of stoneware produced in vast quantities for everyday use. Its appeal is in its glaze colour and texture and in the well-potted functional form. These bowls, of which this is an exceptionally fine example, were made near Jianning, in northern Fujian, probably from about the 10th century onwards. They are especially prized by the Japanese for use in the ceremonial drinking of tea which the form and the glaze would have been considered particularly appropriate. The Japanese name 'tenmoku' is thought to be a corruption of Tianmu, a mountain close to Hangzhou from which the ware may have been shipped.
The body material is a dark brown stoneware covered in this example, with a thick, lustrous, dark blue-black glaze streaked with yellow (an effect commonly known as "hare's fur"). The colour is light brown near the mouth, having run thin there, to an extent causing some roughness at the rim. For this reason, the bowls are often metal bound, as with this bowl which has a swaged silver rim. These ferric oxide glazes were very viscous, which is indicated by the flow on the exterior, where the glaze has collected in a heavy roll some distance from the foot.
J.H. Myrtle, AGNSW Quarterly, July 1965.
Jian ware tea bowl, 12th century-13th century, China, Song dynasty (960-1279), 6.3 x 12.3 cm (irreg.). Bequest of Eleanor Hinder through her executors 1979. 92.1979. Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney (C) Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
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Jerusalem Post Israeli News
Haredi squabbles deepen in municipal race
Member of Knesset Moshe Gafni strongly defended his party's backing for Moshe Lion for mayor of Jerusalem, who is not haredi but is backed by Shas as well, and is part of the Shas-Degel agreement.
By JEREMY SHARON
Published: OCTOBER 11, 2018 01:08
Updated: OCTOBER 11, 2018 04:00
MK Moshe Gafni (UTJ) speaks at a finance committee meeting on January 15th, 2018
(photo credit: MARC ISRAEL SELLEM)
Degel Hatorah's recent merge with the Sephardi Shas party and its growing distance from its partner in United Torah Judaism, Agudat Israel, continued Wednesday when Shas announced that it was backing Degel's Yitzhak Findrus for mayor of the largely haredi city of Elad against Agudat Yisrael's incumbent mayor Yisrael Porush.
Findrus met with Shas spiritual leader Shalom Cohen in his home in the Old City of Jerusalem along with party leader Aryeh Deri and gave him his "warm blessings" that he win the mayorship.
Shas's support for Findrus's candidacy in Elad is part of a broader agreement in several cities, including Jerusalem and Beit Shemesh, that encourages mutual support by Shas and Degel for each other's candidates.
Member of Knesset Moshe Gafni strongly defended his party's backing for Moshe Lion for mayor of Jerusalem, who is not haredi but is backed by Shas as well, and is part of the Shas-Degel agreement. Lion is a close associate of Deri's.
Gafni said that although Lion is not haredi the leading rabbis of Degel had backed him in the last municipal election in 2013, including the late Rabbi Aharon Leib Shteinman, and that the current rabbinical leadership including Rabbi Haim Kanievsky and Rabbi Gershon Edelstein had issued their support for him at this time.
MK Gafni also obliquely referenced the fact, without mentioning them by name, that the Gur hassidic community, as well as some others, famously voted for Barkat against Agudat Yisrael's candidate Meir Porush in the 2008 election, as well as against Lion, who is National Religious, in 2013 and should be held to account for what he described as "discrimination" against the haredi population in Jerusalem.
Gafni also denied that there was any deal involving Degel supporting Lion in return for flexibility from Yisrael Beytenu leader Avigdor Liberman over the haredi military enlistment bill, which could potentially bring down the government. Lion is close with Liberman, who backed him in the 2013 mayoral election.
At the same time, the campaign team of Jerusalem mayoral candidate Yossi Daitch said that Rabbi Zvi Tau, head of the staunchly conservative Har Hamor yeshiva and one of the most prominent leaders of the conservative wing of the National Religious community, has given him his backing and instructed his followers to vote for him.
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After debating it last year (but never actually doing anything about it) I have decided to set up the Out Your Comfort Zone Reading Challenge for 2013. I would love it if you would like to join in.
The idea is that you read genres that you wouldn't normally read, and hopefully find something new which you love.
I've set up a new blog especially for the challenge and you can sign-up there.


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(function() {
    "use strict";

    /**
     * Check a document
     */
    var documentUpgradeCheck = function(indexes, doc) {
        var goodSoFar = true;
        var invalidForStorage = Object.invalidForStorage(doc);
        if (invalidForStorage) {
            print("Document Error: document is no longer valid in 2.6 because " +
                  invalidForStorage + ": " + tojsononeline(doc));
            goodSoFar = false;
        }
        indexes.forEach(function(idx) {
            if (isKeyTooLarge(idx, doc)) {
                print("Document Error: key for index " + tojsononeline(idx) +
                      " too long for document: " + tojsononeline(doc));
                goodSoFar = false;
            }
        });
        return goodSoFar;
    };

    var indexUpgradeCheck = function(index) {
        var goodSoFar = true;
        var indexValid = validateIndexKey(index.key);
        if (!indexValid.ok) {
            print("Index Error: invalid index spec for index '" + index.name + "': " +
                  tojsononeline(index.key));
            goodSoFar = false;
        }
        return goodSoFar;
    };

    var collUpgradeCheck = function(collObj, checkDocs) {
        var fullName = collObj.getFullName();
        var collName = collObj.getName();
        var dbName = collObj.getDB().getName();
        print("\nChecking collection " + fullName + " (db:" + dbName + " coll:" + collName + ")");
        var dbObj = collObj.getDB();
        var goodSoFar = true;

        // check for _id index if and only if it should be present
        // no $, not oplog, not system, not config db
        var checkIdIdx = true;
        if (dbName == "config") {
            checkIdIdx = false;
        } else if (dbName == "local") {
            if (collName == "oplog.rs" || collName == "oplog.$main" || collName == "startup_log" ||
                collName == "me") {
                checkIdIdx = false;
            }
        }

        if (collName.indexOf('$') !== -1 || collName.indexOf("system.") === 0) {
            checkIdIdx = false;
        }
        var indexes = collObj.getIndexes();
        var foundIdIndex = false;

        // run index level checks on each index on the collection
        indexes.forEach(function(index) {

            if (index.name == "_id_") {
                foundIdIndex = true;
            }

            if (!indexUpgradeCheck(index)) {
                goodSoFar = false;
            } else {
                // add its key to the list of index keys to check documents against
                if (index["v"] !== 1) {
                    print("Warning: upgradeCheck only supports V1 indexes. Skipping index: " +
                          tojsononeline(index));
                } else {
                    indexes.push(index);
                }
            }
        });

        // If we need to validate the _id_ index, see if we found it.
        if (checkIdIdx && !foundIdIndex) {
            print("Collection Error: lack of _id index on collection: " + fullName);
            goodSoFar = false;
        }
        // do not validate the documents in system collections
        if (collName.indexOf("system.") === 0) {
            checkDocs = false;
        }
        // do not validate the documents in config dbs
        if (dbName == "config") {
            checkDocs = false;
        }
        // do not validate docs in local db for some collections
        else if (dbName === "local") {
            if (collName == "oplog.rs" ||  // skip document validation for oplogs
                collName == "oplog.$main" ||
                collName == "replset.minvalid"  // skip document validation for minvalid coll
                ) {
                checkDocs = false;
            }
        }

        if (checkDocs) {
            var lastAlertTime = Date.now();
            var alertInterval = 10 * 1000;  // 10 seconds
            var numDocs = 0;
            // run document level checks on each document in the collection
            var theColl = dbObj.getSiblingDB(dbName).getCollection(collName);
            theColl.find()
                .addOption(DBQuery.Option.noTimeout)
                .sort({$natural: 1})
                .forEach(function(doc) {
                    numDocs++;

                    if (!documentUpgradeCheck(indexes, doc)) {
                        goodSoFar = false;
                        lastAlertTime = Date.now();
                    }
                    var nowTime = Date.now();
                    if (nowTime - lastAlertTime > alertInterval) {
                        print(numDocs + " documents processed");
                        lastAlertTime = nowTime;
                    }
                });
        }

        return goodSoFar;
    };

    var dbUpgradeCheck = function(dbObj, checkDocs) {
        print("\nChecking database " + dbObj.getName());
        var goodSoFar = true;

        // run collection level checks on each collection in the db
        dbObj.getCollectionNames().forEach(function(collName) {
            if (!collUpgradeCheck(dbObj.getCollection(collName), checkDocs)) {
                goodSoFar = false;
            }
        });

        return goodSoFar;
    };

    DB.prototype.upgradeCheck = function(obj, checkDocs) {
        var self = this;
        // parse args if there are any
        if (obj) {
            // check collection if a collection is passed
            if (obj["collection"]) {
                // make sure a string was passed in for the collection
                if (typeof obj["collection"] !== "string") {
                    throw Error("The collection field must contain a string");
                } else {
                    print("Checking collection '" + self.getName() + '.' + obj["collection"] +
                          "' for 2.6 upgrade compatibility");
                    if (collUpgradeCheck(self.getCollection(obj["collection"]))) {
                        print("Everything in '" + self.getName() + '.' + obj["collection"] +
                              "' is ready for the upgrade!");
                        return true;
                    }
                    print("To fix the problems above please consult " +
                          "http://dochub.mongodb.org/core/upgrade_checker_help");
                    return false;
                }
            } else {
                throw Error(
                    "When providing an argument to upgradeCheck, it must be of the form " +
                    "{collection: <collectionNameString>}. Otherwise, it will check every " +
                    "collection in the database. If you would like to check all databases, " +
                    "run db.upgradeCheckAllDBs() from the admin database.");
            }
        }

        print("database '" + self.getName() + "' for 2.6 upgrade compatibility");
        if (dbUpgradeCheck(self, checkDocs)) {
            print("Everything in '" + self.getName() + "' is ready for the upgrade!");
            return true;
        }
        print("To fix the problems above please consult " +
              "http://dochub.mongodb.org/core/upgrade_checker_help");
        return false;
    };

    DB.prototype.upgradeCheckAllDBs = function(checkDocs) {
        var self = this;
        if (self.getName() !== "admin") {
            throw Error("db.upgradeCheckAllDBs() can only be run from the admin database");
        }

        var dbs = self.getMongo().getDBs();
        var goodSoFar = true;

        // run db level checks on each db
        dbs.databases.forEach(function(dbObj) {
            if (!dbUpgradeCheck(self.getSiblingDB(dbObj.name), checkDocs)) {
                goodSoFar = false;
            }
        });

        if (goodSoFar) {
            print("Everything is ready for the upgrade!");
            return true;
        }
        print("To fix the problems above please consult " +
              "http://dochub.mongodb.org/core/upgrade_checker_help");
        return false;
    };

})();

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import { transitionTo } from '../actions';
import Router from '../Router';

export default function createLink(React) {
    const { Component, PropTypes } = React;

    return class Link extends Component {
        static contextTypes = {
            store: PropTypes.shape({
                dispatch: PropTypes.func.isRequired,
                router: PropTypes.instanceOf(Router).isRequired
            }).isRequired
        };

        static propTypes = {
            to: PropTypes.string.isRequired,
            query: PropTypes.object
        };

        handleClick(e) {
            e.preventDefault();

            this.context.store.dispatch(
                transitionTo(
                    this.props.to,
                    this.props.query
                )
            );
        }

        render() {
            const { to, query, ...props } = this.props;
            const href = this.context.store.router.createHref(to, query);

            return (
                <a
                    href={href}
                    {...props}
                    onClick={this.handleClick.bind(this)}>
                    {this.props.children}
                </a>
            );
        }
    };
}