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Panelists: Lloyd B. Minor, MD, is the Carl and Elizabeth Naumann Dean of the Stanford University School of Medicine. With his leadership, Stanford Medicine has established a strategic vision to lead the biomedical revolution in Precision Health, a fundamental shift to more proactive and personalized health care that empowers people to lead healthy lives. In 2012 he was elected to the National Academy of Medicine. Dr. Minor is a professor of Otolaryngology–Head and Neck Surgery and of Bioengineering and of Neurobiology. With over 140 research publications, he is an expert in balance and inner ear disorders.
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UN says 120 killed since fighting broke out in Libya
On Saturday, the Tripoli-based Interior Minister of the Presidential Council's government Fathi Bashagha accused the United Arab Emirates (UAE) of reportedly sending Haftar military support in "clear violation of the worldwide law".
For years, Libya has been split between two governments: the eastern part of the country is controlled by the parliament elected in 2014 and backed by the Libyan National Army (LNA) headed by Field Marshal Khalifa Haftar, while the UN-backed Tripoli-based Government of National Accord (GNA) governs Libya's western parts.
"President Sisi stressed Egypt's support for the efforts of counter-terrorism and fighting the extremist groups and militants to achieve security and stability in Libya", Egyptian presidential spokesman Bassam Rady said in the statement.
The presidency released photos showing Haftar, dressed in a blue suit, sitting with Sisi and his head of intelligence Abbas Kamel.
The Libyan commander has modeled his political style of authoritarian leadership after Sissi, himself an army general turned president.
Egypt has provided funding and arms to his Libyan National Army, seeing him as a bulwark against Islamist militants. He was referring to eastern officials allied to the Tripoli government.
Egypt has in the past blamed Libyan-based militants for a series of cross-border attacks against its security forces and minority Christians traveling to remote desert monasteries.
But Fayez al-Serraj's National Accord government has managed to halt the advance for now, aided by forces with machine-guns on pickups and steel containers across the road into Tripoli.
His move is the latest in a cycle of conflict and anarchy since the 2011 toppling of former dictator Muammar Gaddafi.
As well as fighting on the ground, the two sides have launched daily air raids and accuse each other of targeting civilians.
"The humanitarian community is concerned about rising numbers of civilian casualties, including medical personnel", OCHA Libya said.
The World Health Organization said 121 people have been killed in the fighting and another 561 have been wounded.
More than 13,500 people had been displaced by the clashes, while more than 900 residents are living in shelters, according to the UN's office for humanitarian affairs, or OCHA.
The UN said on Sunday that a school was bombed in Ain Zara southwest of Tripoli, without saying who was responsible.
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BAGHDAD, Iraq – On the last day of campaigning, a roadside bomb killed four American soldiers Tuesday and gunmen assassinated a candidate for parliament in this week's election. A Shiite politician escaped injury in a bombing south of Baghdad.
The U.S. ambassador, meanwhile, said Tuesday the total number of abused prisoners found so far in jails run by the Shiite-led Interior Ministry came to about 120. The statement by Ambassador Zalmay Khalilzad reinforced Sunni Arab claims of mistreatment by security forces — a major issue among Sunnis in the election campaign.
Despite the violence, more than 1,000 Sunni clerics issued a religious decree instructing their followers to vote Thursday, boosting American hopes the election will encourage more members of the disaffected minority to abandon the insurgency.
A U.S. military statement said four soldiers from Task Force Baghdad died in a blast northwest of the capital, but did not specify the location. That brought to at least 2,149 the number of U.S. service members to have died since the start of the war in 2003, according to an Associated Press count.
At least 12 of the 15 American soldiers who have died since Dec. 8 were killed in the Baghdad area, according to U.S. military records.
Elsewhere, gunmen killed Sunni Arab candidate Mezher al-Dulaimi as he was filling his car at a gas station in Ramadi, an insurgent stronghold 70 miles west of Baghdad. Al-Dulaimi took part in a conference last month in Cairo that was attended by representatives of Iraq's major factions.
A prominent Shiite politician, Jalal Eddin al-Sagheer, escaped injury Tuesday when a bomb exploded near his convoy in Latifiyah, about 20 miles south of Baghdad. No one in al-Sagheer's party was injured but one vehicle was damaged, police said.
The attacks occurred on the second anniversary of the capture of Saddam Hussein, an event hailed at the time as a turning point in an insurgency which actually grew in wake of the arrest. Now hopes are pinned on Thursday's election as pressure mounts on President Bush to bring an end to the conflict.
Iraqis will choose a 275-member parliament to serve for the next four years. The Bush administration hopes the election will draw a large turnout among Sunni Arabs and produce a government that can win the trust of the community that is the backbone of the insurgency.
Iraqis living outside the country began voting Tuesday in the United States and 14 other countries.
"We are very happy. This is the day for our generation," Nusredin Kestay said as he prepared to vote in Nashville, Tenn. "We can talk now and say what we want."
Ali al-Lami, executive director of the Iraqi Electoral Commission, appealed for peace Thursday, when about 15 million people will be eligible to vote in more than 6,200 polling stations across Iraq.
U.S. officials hope a strong Sunni voice in the next parliament could help calm the insurgency. That would in turn allow the United States and its coalition partners to begin bringing their troops home next year.
Many Sunnis boycotted the January election, enabling rival Shiites and Kurds to win most of the parliamentary seats — a development that sharpened communal tensions and fueled the insurgency.
In an encouraging sign, more than 1,000 Sunni clerics issued a religious edict, or a fatwa, on Tuesday urging their followers to vote.
"We call upon all the Iraqi people, and this is a fatwa from more than 1,000 Iraqi scholars who are urging Iraqis to vote," Sheik Ahmed Abdul Ghafour al-Samaraie said on Al-Arabiya television. "We hope, God willing, that Iraqis will not miss the opportunity to vote and to avoid being marginalized."
While some prominent clerics with links to the insurgency have avoided calling on their followers to vote, the edict is likely to encourage many Sunnis to go to the polls.
"I appreciate the statements made by political and religious leaders calling on Sunni Arabs to participate and on insurgents to cease military operations," Ambassador Khalilzad told reporters. "I believe that the next government will be more representative."
On prisoner abuse, the ambassador said "over 100" of the detainees found last month at an Interior Ministry jail in Baghdad's Jadriyah district were suffering signs of abuse. An additional "21 or 26 people" were found three days ago at another Interior Ministry lockup, he said.
Khalilzad said the United States would "accelerate the investigation" to determine who was responsible for abuses — a longtime Sunni Arab demand.
The Islamic Army in Iraq, a prominent insurgent group, said Tuesday it would not attack polling stations. But it vowed to continue its war against U.S.-led coalition forces.
"To the heroes of the Islamic Army in Iraq: Orders have been issued to avoid polling stations centers to preserve the blood of innocent people," the statement posted on an Islamist Web site said. However, the group said the order did not signal "our support for the political process."
On Monday, five Islamic militant groups, including Al Qaeda in Iraq, also promised not to try to disrupt the voting, even though it branded the election a "satanic project."
Coalition and Iraqi forces will be out in strength Thursday to protect voters. Borders and airports have been closed, the nighttime curfew extended and use of private vehicles has been banned during the balloting.
In the northern city of Mosul, bomb-sniffing dogs checked polling stations Tuesday for explosives. Once the sites were deemed secure, Iraqi police took control of the buildings while U.S. troops placed concrete barriers on nearby roads.
U.S. cargo trucks delivered election materials as well as food and water for the police and soldiers responsible for guarding the polling stations. Ballots were to arrive only after election commission personnel were at the site, where they would remain until after the vote.
"Everything is on track and going very well," said Lt. Col. John Norris of Louisville, Ky., commander of the 4th Battalion, 23rd Infantry Regiment.
On the final day of campaigning, major political blocs held their last rallies before the election. Most campaigning has been limited to billboards, posters and media ads because of security risks.
About 1,000 people turned out in the southern city of Basra for a rally staged by Deputy Prime Minister Ahmad Chalabi. Former Prime Minister Ayad Allawi hosted a gathering in Baghdad.
Abdul-Aziz al-Hakim, leader of the Supreme Council for the Islamic Revolution in Iraq, told about 1,000 tribal leaders in Baghdad that the military wing of his group — the Badr Brigade — was ready to help with election security.
"I declare that the Badr Organization is ready to mobilize 200,000 of its men in all parts of Iraq so that they can play a role in defending Iraqi and Iraqis," said the black-turbaned cleric, who heads the Shiite United Iraqi Alliance slate.


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25th Meeting of ECO Council of Minsters
The 25th Meeting of the ECO Council of Ministers (COM) preceded by Senior Official Meeting (SOM) held in Ashgabat, Turkmenistan on November 27, 2021. The delegations of the Republic of Azerbaijan, Islamic Republic of Iran, Republic of Kazakhstan, Kyrgyz Republic, Islamic Republic of Pakistan, Republic of Tajikistan, Republic of Turkey, Turkmenistan (host) and Republic of Uzbekistan participated in the meeting. The delegation of ECO Cultural Institute as well as the ECO Secretariat's delegation headed by the Secretary General also attended the Meeting.
The former ECO Chairman, the Foreign Minister of the Republic of Turkey, His Excellency Mr. Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu congratulated Turkmenistan for their excellent chairmanship during the year 2021. The Minister said that the Member States should benefit from ECO to have an integrated regional response to challenges like the pandemic and needed economic recovery. During the chairmanship of Turkey, the organization worked towards this goal and at the same time focused on increasing regional trading connectivity, he added.
His Excellency Mr. Rashid Meredov, Deputy Chairman of the Cabinet of the Ministers and the Minister of Foreign Affairs in a capacity as Chairman of Council of Ministers (COM) welcomed and extended warm greetings to the honorable Ministers and Heads of Delegation in 25th meeting of COM. While referring to the concept of Turkmenistan's chairmanship that the country developed to lead the Organization, he emphasized on some key objectives given under their concept that particularly entailed the intensification of investment activities in the Member States, creation of free trade and economic zones, formation of new economic corridors and establishment of partnerships in the field of sustainable energy, including renewable energy sources. H.E. Mr. Rashid Meredov also highlighted that comprehensive support and promotion of cooperation in the fields of science, education, sports, scientific research in the fight against COVID-19 pandemic, as well as expansion of interaction in agriculture, food security and other fields, remained priority for ECO Member Countries. He acknowledged the important role of ECO Secretariat to meet such goals. Moreover, he thanked the ECO Secretary General H.E. Mr. Khusrav Noziri and his team for joint work during the Chairmanship of Turkmenistan and for preparation of this meeting. While highly appreciating the competence and dedication of the Secretariat, he believed that the Secretariat's team should keep up with the current time and work in accordance with today's requirements and standards.
The Foreign Ministers/Heads of Delegations in their statements stressed the need of further enhancement of regional socioeconomic cooperation to overcome the impacts of pandemic as well as other current challenges. They desired more intensified collaboration amongst the Member States for creation of free trade and economic zones, formation of new economic corridors, expansion of interaction in fields of sustainable energy including renewable energy sources, science and technology, education, sports, agriculture & food security and tourism.
Ambassador Khusrav Noziri, ECO Secretary General while extending his sincere thanks to the Government of Turkmenistan, especially His Excellency Mr. Rashid Meredov, the honourable Deputy Chairman of the Cabinet of Ministers and Minister for Foreign Affairs of Turkmenistan for hosting the important event and warm hospitality, thanked the honourable Foreign Ministers as well as the heads of delegations for their kind participation in this important meeting.
The ECO Secretary General acknowledged that under the ECO's Chairmanship of Turkmenistan during 2021 the Organization successfully maintained its momentum and activities to pursue the aims and objectives of the ECO Vision 2025 for greater regional integration. He also thanked the former ECO Chairman His Excellency Mr. Mevlut Cavusoglu, the honourable Foreign Minister of Republic of Turkey for excellently chairing the organization, noting that during Turkey's chairmanship the ECO experienced a notable progress in the pursuit of its noble goals for the collective socioeconomic developments of the Member States. The ECO Secretary General also congratulated the Republic of Uzbekistan for their upcoming ECO's Chairmanship in January 2022. Assuring his full support and cooperation, he believed that under Uzbekistan's Chairmanship the Organization would plow ahead with further advancement to achieve expanded cooperation in the region.
The 25th Meeting of COM concluded its session by adopting several reports regarding the activities of the Organization as well as approved other important documents aimed at further development of the agenda of the organization.


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ARG NODEJS_LTS=hydrogen
ARG NSOLID_VERSION
ARG BUILD_TIME

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      version=$NSOLID_VERSION \
      nodejs=$NODEJS_LTS \
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COPY ./nsolid-bundle-${NSOLID_VERSION}/nsolid-console-v*.tar.gz .
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RUN groupadd -g 16753 nsolid \
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Next week, 11th to 19th June, is Bike Week, an annual opportunity to promote cycling, and to show how cycling can easily be part of everyday life by encouraging 'everyday cycling for everyone'. The week aims to get people to give cycling a go all over the UK, whether for fun, as a means of getting around to work or school, the local shops or just to visit friends.
If you cycle every day for half an hour, you'll boost your fitness levels and could lose weight as well. There are many other advantages to being out in the open air, from the mood-boosting effects of sunshine to the chance to spot wildlife and summer flowers along the route.
This weekend, why not get together with a group of friends and cycle out to the Swettenham Arms? We're set in a network of country lanes in a beautiful part of Cheshire near the Dane Valley. Afterwards, you could continue round Brereton or any of the other nearby village. With our three outside eating areas, there's plenty of room here to leave bikes and we serve a selection of real ales, perfect for refreshing you after your ride. If you fancy stretching your legs before you ride back again, take a walk round the Lovell Quinta Arboretum at the back of the pub – it's looking particularly lovely at the moment, with the rhododendrons in full bloom.
For more information about us plus current food and drinks menus, take a look at our Food page.
We're in it again, The Good Pub Guide 2018. Called "the pub bible for the last quarter of a century", we are so proud to be included as a main entry once again. This year we are specialising in craft beers and lagers and putting the emphasis firmly on our British heritage.
We're now offering a free baby bowl for tiny babies, a dish of creamy mash with veggies mixed together with a little white sauce. It's been going down very well with younger customers!
We're delighted to introduce our gluten free menu, ideal for those with intolerances or anyone cutting down on wheat.
We've had a lovely wooden floor in our Lovell Suite, with all the carpet now removed. It gives the room a lovely modern feel and we're also redecorating – it looks amazing! If you're planning a wedding, we'll be arranging an open day for the Lovell Suite as soon as everything is ready.
Our updated wine list is now available to download, take a look at the Bar page.
With our quiet country location, it's no wonder some of our visitors arrive on horseback! Now, we have a quiet and shady hitching rail available with four tie-up rings for horses and nearby seating for riders.
Our weekly gatherings are back! Bring your cherished car or motorbike out for a run to our country pub. New for this year, our meetings are twice a week – every Tuesday and Thursday – and both cars and bikes are welcome both days.
Our new 2.8% cask ale is here! This table beer has been brewed exclusively for us by Beartown Brewery in Congleton. After weeks in the development stage it is now ready and is sure to be a hit. The beer is called 'Two Dogs' after our adorable pub dogs.
To celebrate summer, our speciality gin bar is open for business! Choose from a wide range of speciality gins, served with Fevertree tonic and ice for the perfect summer drink.
The Swettenham Arms is delighted to announce winning The National Pub & Bar awards 2017 for Best Country Pub – Cheshire. Find out more on our blog page.
The spring flowers are starting to come out in the Arboretum – daffodils, peonies and more. Take a walk this weekend and see what you can spot.
Our new 2019 wedding pack is now available. Visit our Weddings page, and you can download it from the link at the bottom.
Classic car Tuesdays are back!
Starting from 1st May, every Tuesday thoughout the summer is Classic Car night. Bring your cherished car along from 7pm and enjoy this great social event. Complementary Bratwurst hotdog for drivers.
The clocks have gone forwards, the rain has stopped and we've got some light in the evenings! Why not get out by bicycle or on foot and come and visit us for lunch or dinner?
We're delighted to announce that the renowned tenor, Russell Watson, recently celebrated his marriage to Louise Harris with a meal at the Swettenham Arms in Cheshire with his closest family. Read more about it on our blog.
The fine weather has meant a bumper turnout for our Classic Car evenings, every Tuesday from 7pm. Find out more on our events page.
Featuring seasonal dishes such as Goosnargh chicken stroganoff with shallots and mushrooms, and prize winning Cheshire spring lamb roast with gratin potatoes, fresh seasonal vegetables and gravy . See our food page to take a look at the full menu.
The Alpha Romeo Owners Club for the North West meet here every third Thursday of the month. Free hot dog for every owner on arrival. See events page for more details.
Pick up details to lots of lovely walks and days out in the locality from our guide, available free at the Swettenham Arms.
Owned by Cheshire Wildlife Trust & less than ½ mile from the Swettenham Arms, this makes an ideal stroll, especially if you're interested in nature.
Open all day on Saturdays from 11.30am.
Open all day on Sundays from 12.00pm.
Monday - Friday: Noon until 9.30pm.
Swettenham Village, Near Congleton, Cheshire CW12 2LF.


The Google blog has announced the launch of another notable new product, Google Sidewiki. This new feature allows searchers to contribute helpful information next to any webpage and can display a browser sidebar next to the web page, where users can read and write entries along the side of the page.
This is an extension of Google's personalised search and 'search wiki' option launched at the end of 2007, which allows users to adjust their own search results and add comments against ranked websites. The new Sidewiki tool now takes this a step further by giving users the chance to share knowledge, experience or advice against web content.
In developing Sidewiki, Google says that a priority was for users to see the most relevant entries first, so they have developed a system to rank the comments that are added in the 'best' order. So, instead of displaying the most recent entries first, the Sidewiki ranks entries using an algorithm that promotes the most useful, high-quality entries. It takes into account feedback from users, previous entries made by the same author, and many other signals they have developed and tracked.
This should help to address the obvious concerns of website owners that competitors will post negative comments and reviews against their web content, in much the same way that review based websites have been trying to deal with competitive 'spam'. There is also the ultimate question of how the tone of comments will be used by Google in the long term to have another impact on the relevancy of search ranking results.
Another feature of the Sidewiki is that the technology will match comments about a web page with other websites where the same content is displayed. This will help to broaden the value of the system and to reduce the need for duplicated comments or posts. Google is also going to use relevant posts from blogs and other sources that talk about the specific page of content so that users can discover their insights more easily, right next to the page they refer to.


Hi Jeremy, I m having a problem in my application with Matlab Gui -Arduino serial communication. I want to receive data from Arduino when a optical encoder sends me.
Is it possible to use an Arduino UNO as a USB to TTL converter for unbricking a Seagate Barracuda 7200.11 Hard Drive. And if it is possible : how to program it.
I want to create a RFID Reader as NFC (Near Field Communication). I want be able to read within a range at least of 30 cm.
This project was created on 08/18/2014 and last updated 2 years ago.
A internet enabled arduino rfid tag reader. that for $20 more can open doors. This system was designed to track students at our highschool and we hope the school approves it.
Explore Arduino Rfid, Diy Arduino, and more!
It is also possible to codify a RFID tag. Due to the complexity it is not mentioned in this tutorial. But you can find several other tutorials for this on the web.
In the previous post, we made an RFID based access control and alert system using Arduino in which system sends us messages when the access was granted or denied. We was also be able to open the door lock and halt the system by sending the message to Arduino. There was a master tag that was used to add/remove other tags.
Once again me and one of my class mates have finished a project in school using the Arduino.
This time it's an RFID Door Lock made with a real door and a real lock. The lock is turned using a standard 6V servo.
Are you interested in an Arduino RFID project? In this video we take a look at the RFID RC522 reader and writer, and we learn how to use it with Arduino. We also use an OLED display to read the UID of the RFID tags. Let's start!
thanks for http://www.dronmarket.com for sponsoring me.
Pin 1 of Xbee (VCC) is connected to Arduino Mega's 5V.
Pin 2 of Xbee (DOUT) is connected to Arduino Mega's digital 1, RX.
Pin 3 of Xbee (DIN) is connected to Arduino Mega's digital 0, TX.
Pin 10 of Xbee (GND) is connected to Arduino Mega's ground.
Ground of RFID module is connected to Arduino mega's gound.
RX of RFID module is connected to Arduin mega's�digital 18, TX1.
I am trying to control the Cottonwood UHF RFID reader with an Arduino Uno.
I am currently testing for simple communication between the devices, by turning the antenna power on and off.


The University of Kansas School of Education is accredited under the National Council for Accreditation of Teacher Education (NCATE) Standards through the CAEP Accreditation System, for a period of 7 years, from August 11, 2015 to December 31, 2021. More information on NCATE/CAEP can be found here.
The University of Kansas School of Education is working with area school districts to obtain data on our program completers.
This table provides information about the performance of KU School of Education teacher education program students on required state examinations. This data is part of the Title II report required by the federal government.
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Connecticut Offers Counseling to Traumatized Jurors in Home Invasion Trial
By Debra Cassens Weiss
November 24, 2010, 1:00 pm CST
The Connecticut judicial system is offering help to some jurors who were traumatized by the horrific details of a home invasion and triple murder.
Connecticut is offering counseling through a pilot program, the Associated Press reports. Counseling is offered in only a few other states, including Minnesota, Ohio and Texas.
Nine out of 12 jurors in the trial of defendant Steven Hayes attended a debriefing by a therapist, who gave them suggestions on handling the stress and the names of counselors who could offer additional help, the story says. The jurors sentenced Hayes to death earlier this month.
One of the jurors, Maico Cardona, said his experience has left him with nightmares of a child tied to a bed and burning in a house fire. Despite her cries for help, he is unable to reach her. "I wasn't prepared mentally for what I was going to see," Cardona told AP.
His nightmare reflects the facts presented at trial. Hayes was one of two men accused of choosing a family at random in a shopping center parking lot for a violent home invasion that ended in the deaths of a woman and her two daughters, the New York Times reported after the verdict. The defendants were accused of tormenting the family and then setting the house on fire, killing two girls strapped to their beds. Their mother had been sexually assaulted and strangled to death. Only the father survived.
The second defendant in the case may be tried next spring, the New York Times reports in a separate story.
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Since when I was 16 I tried to learn "everything" about computer science. I was an enthusiast boy with huge ambitions, I know 🙂 Anyway learn everything implies you to know what "everything" means. Computer science is a wide field. Goes from math to physics, from languages to software development and is young, mostly unknown and rapidly evolving.
I searched for years for a well done "map" of computer science, something able to describe the structure of discipline and give the right place to each single element related to computer science and I failed, this map dosen't exists yet. People tried to describe it using different taxonomy but none of these do it properly.
Computer Science is an Implementation of a set of logical-mathematical algorithms made using a descriptive language which run on a physical environment.
Implementation is software. You can classify it by abstraction level (firmware, kernels, driver, middleware, softwares, distributed softwares) and inside each level by category.
Languages are used to describe the algorithms. You can classify by abstraction from the physical level (transmission codes, protocols, assembly, compiled, semi-compiled, interpreted, metalanguages).
Physical environment is the hardware. You can classify it by the complexity of the implemented logic (combinatorial, sequential, programmed and microprogrammed, complex, distributed).
Each of these "aspect" can be enumerated and every "object" related to computer science can be described using these four variables, a quadruplet (Physical environment, Language, Algorithm, Software).
an interpreted language which run on a complex electronic environment (CPU + RAM) done to write middleware or softwares implementing any kind of algorithm.
a bunch of every kind of software (from firmware, to remote services) mostly made using a compiled language (objective-c) which run on a complex environment (the iPhone hardware) implementing mostly any kind of algorithm and data structure.
distribuited software who run on a distribuited hardware using from simple protocols to scripting language to implement algorithms.
a deterministic algorithm implementable on a programmed system.
I know, in real life this "index" is completely worthless. Anyway while I were building it I discovered many different things and many connection I hadn't imagined before and now my knowledge has a strong ordered base.


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Nellie Mae Rowe
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William Arnett
Nellie Mae Rowe was forty-eight years old when Henry, her second husband, died.
As a young girl she had picked cotton and worked in the fields with her family in Fayette County, Georgia. Her father, Sam Williams, a blacksmith and farmer, occasionally hired the children out by the day to work in the neighbors' fields. It was a proud and self-sustaining family.
Young Rowe was not satisfied with her life as a field hand. The work was painful, poorly compensated, and undignified. So at sixteen she married a young man a few years older than herself. In 1930 they moved to Vinnings, on the outskirts of Atlanta. Marriage perhaps seemed preferable to field work, but did not turn out to be. Her life on the farm was probably better than life in the kitchen or the bedroom.
Her husband, Ben Wheat, died in 1936. Later that year she married again, a widower much older than she, a man who was a well-respected member of the Vinnings community. When Henry Rowe died in 1948, Nellie Mae Rowe found herself, for the first time in her life, answerable to no one. She had always been a field hand, a wife, or a domestic servant. Now she had the freedom to imagine herself in roles different from those defined for her by others.
Seventy-five cents a day. All day long for seventy-five cents. I did like to hear at dinnertime when the bell ring. I know we was going to have plenty to eat. Lord have mercy. I wish I could eat like that now. We worked and we ate aplenty too. Foods don't eat now like it did when I was a child. You cook anything in an iron pot, it better than this here aluminum pot. We eat, and when we go into the fields, the girls and boys . . . we worked. We done good work, and most everybody wanted us to work with them. Folks pick out who they want to work for them, who's smart. I was about sixteen when I run off and got married. I should have stayed home. I'd a been better off. Then I come up here and married again, Henry Rowe. I lived a good little life, and after he died, I said, "I ain't fooling around no more."
"Ain't fooling around no more" meant establishing an identity for Nellie Mae Rowe. She recognized the carefree quality of childhood, the freedom to create, improvise, and play, as a necessary ingredient for her renewal. "I'm going back to my childhood."
Nellie Mae Rowe's yard
She remembered happier days, when she would "play in the playhouse, find something, pretty rock or pretty flower or old broke plate or something, get it and make a playhouse, in the pines, rig the straw up. Look like time you get start to play and that's when they call you into the house to do something. I enjoy playing. I ain't trying to keep house now, I'm just a-playing house. I just got my playhouse like I'm come back a baby again." The first step was to announce herself. She began to turn the front yard of her two-room cottage into an elaborately decorated space that she later referred to as her "playhouse." In an enclosed area she gradually added dozens of objects—from stuffed animals to household bric-a-brac—suspended from trees and clotheslines and nailed to the façade of the house. She made life-size dolls and placed them around her yard (they often got stolen): she made chewing-gum sculptures and set them on the fence surrounding her property (they often got stolen, too); and she shaped the hedges to look like animals.
Her yard was not unusual relative to African American yard shows throughout the South. But it faced Paces Ferry Road, a major Atlanta residential route, and was only a few minutes away from the city's most exclusive white neighborhoods. The message of this middle-aged African American widow seemed eminently clear: I am Nellie Mae Rowe. This is my place and I will make of it what I please. Be aware of me.
She decided to resume drawing, her favorite childhood pastime:
I ain't gone to school to learn no work like that. I guessed at it when I was a little gal, just lay down on the floor and draw. See, we had to go to fields, pick cotton and all like that. I didn't have a chance like I have now, and every chance I got, I got my pencil, I got on the floor until they say, "Nellie, let's go." And then I'd go. . . . I'd lay my pencil down at night, take a bath, get ready for bed. I just had to go get my pencil and draw something. That was in me and it's still in me. They didn't ever much bother me. They'd be doing other things and I'm doing what I'm going to do. . . .
That was just in my mind. I don't be knowing what it is myself. Folks draw, they know what they're drawing. But they say that I, my soul, look back in wonder. So that's the way it is. That's a song, kind of like hymn: My soul looked back in wonder, I ride over, I ride over.
Unlike many African American artists, who found little support at home for their early artistic efforts, Rowe was always encouraged by her parents. Her father was a blacksmith and basket maker and her mother made quilts and clothing, so both appreciated their daughter's creativity. But opposition and obstruction came from other directions, and until the last years of her life, when her work was becoming respected and appreciated, Rowe was forced to defend her art and her living space against various unexpected adversaries. The first of them came when she was a child, living "nowhere; out in the country." She made a paste of flour and water to attach her drawings to the bedroom wall:
I'd make up a dough, you know, and stick it up inside the house. The rats would be there, so way in the night the rats would be gnawing on that paper on account of that flour behind it. And I'd hear them tearing through the night and I'd get me a hat pin. You could see the rats working under there. Just like that I'd get the hat pin. . . . Oh! I did it! And they just stay in there until next morning. I did that many times. I was mean then. I was a mean little old short thing, an Indian, you know, with my britches up. I give it to them. I say, "You won't gnaw on there no more." I took that pin and jab it through them and they stay there. Next morning I pull it out and them fall. I knew they was dead then.
Seventy years later, as she faced death from cancer, she still worried about her youthful cruelty to the rats. She assumed that the Lord had understood: "It's all forgiven 'cause it was in my childhood."
When she decided later in life to "decorate the outdoors" in front of her house, she encountered an unexpected and more frightening type of adversary, one whose opposition was based on ignorance rather than hunger:
I started doing it way ago, right after my husband died. He died in '48 and then people just started to bring in this, bring the dolls, and bringing me things. I take nothing, you know, take nothing and make something out of it. See, a lot of folks, they crawl, run in here, inside, knock my fence down, tear up lot of that. Everyone used to be so mean to me around here. They started off being very, very mean to me. They throw rocks and knock my window out, rocks all up against the house, firecrackers and everything and old rotten eggs all over my house. And I kept on tolerating and talking with the Master until everything was all right. I prayed and asked God and he moved it. See, I kept my things hanging outdoors in the trees. These old weavings, I'd make the eyes on them, make the big popeyes. They thought I was a hoodoo or something like that. I put up wig heads. I put the wig on them and sometimes have a shawl hanging on it. From here look like a person sit up in the tree.
The evolution of Rowe's drawing proceeded slowly. Most of her work in the sixties and seventies consisted of little more than a single image, probably a symbolic one—a hand, a fish, an animal, a human face or figure—unembellished. Her vision, ambition, skill and the complexity of her work expanded considerably during the last four years of her life. Judith Alexander, her close friend and art dealer during that time, arranged many exhibitions of Rowe's work, engendering a positive effect on Rowe's confidence and enthusiasm. An appreciative audience was forming, and though the numerous visitors that descended upon her did not necessarily detect her work's messages, it was clear that they loved the messenger and the messenger's work. But the most significant single cause of her dramatic artistic acceleration was probably the realization that death was near (she was diagnosed with terminal cancer in 1981 and died in 1982). She wanted to ensure that by the end of her life her talents were fully developed and utilized, perhaps, as she often said, to prove her worthiness to Jesus, but, as likely, to prove her worthiness simply to herself.
Rowe liked to talk about herself as though she were experiencing a second childhood: drawing was the center of that childhood. Her stylistic naiveté and seemingly simple subject matter would tend to enforce that contention. But something else was going on.
Each of her drawings has a specific purpose, a specific action. Most drawings are composed of an array of elements: trees, human figures (often a form of self-portrait), animals, birds, flowers and less often, houses, roads, pieces of furniture. The relationships among the elements are well thought-out and form a disguised narrative that is metaphorical and often satirical.
The late drawings are all autobiographical. Many deal with aspects of Rowe's life that she would like to have seen improved. She conceals a lifetime of suppressed resentment beneath a "peaceable kingdom" innocence and a sense of humor exemplified by a use of ironic symbols and private visual jokes/anecdotes.
Nellie Mae Rowe, Something That Ain't Been Born Yet, 1979
Something That Ain't Been Born Yet is a humorous look at men. A plaid equine animal with a single horn and long tongue is presented against a ground that simulates the pattern of the artist's chenille bedspreads. The ideal man that Nellie Mae Rowe never met is the "something that ain't been born yet."
Nellie Mae Rowe, Fish, 1980
Fish about sex and reproduction, perhaps an observation about Rowe's own inability to bear children. Female reproductive organs are transformed into trees. A bird plucks a red, cherry like fruit, while another pecks at an anthropomorphic bush.
Nellie Mae Rowe, Woman Scolding Her Companion, 1981
Rowe registers a humorous complaint about excessive male sexual demands in Woman Scolding Her Companion. The woman, Rowe herself, assumes a combative posture and turns away a peculiar creature that resembles a penis with a dog's body. Other images adorn the drawing and enforce the central topic: between the two antagonists is a phallic staff with a smiling male face (virtually identical to dance wands used by the Yoruba of Nigeria in rituals honoring Shango the Thundergod); a fruit bowl—or fountain or birdbath—surmounted by an erupting green apple. On the side of the bowl there appears to be a slice of watermelon, an obscure but specific sexual innuendo and several small imaginary animals, all sexually referenced.
One of the oldest types of African American ritual objects associated with death/funerary rites is the decorated vessel called the "memory jug." Such objects were usually ceramic, occasionally concrete, and were embedded with everything from broken glass and rocks to personal mementos belonging to or relating to the deceased. Another related traditional object, the ceramic "face jug," can, like the memory jug, be traced back at least to the nineteenth century in North America. Both traditions have antecedents among African, European, and native cultures of the Americas. Nellie Mae Rowe, feeling herself to be in declining health in 1980, modeled a Janus-faced doll of gum she had chewed, decorating it with personal articles of adornment, including rhinestones, pearls, and ribbons (Two-faced Head). Embedded in the top of the head is a bottle cap: Rowe intends this piece to be a metaphorical vessel for her soul, similar to the pocketbook drawing done at the end of her life. In the tradition of grave markers, encompassing the last objects used by the interred, and charms incorporating the subject's hair, nails, saliva, and even dirt from footprints. Rowe uses her own chewing gum to further personalize and empower the object.
Nellie Mae Rowe, Atlanta's Missing Children, 1981
A well-publicized tragedy prompted Rowe's Atlanta's Missing Children in early 1981. The drawing consists of five separate "charms," each with a different significance, collectively intended to protect the African American children who were systematically being abducted and murdered. The charms surround a blue animal, similar to many of the benevolent blue dogs and pigs that populate Rowe's works. But this animal has cloven hooves and an entirely suspect countenance. It is a malevolent creature. Rowe seems to be warning the children that the killer may well look familiar and friendly. Two of the charms are protective "mojo" hands, probably the artist's. (She wrote in 1981, "I leave my hand on the wall. I'll be gone to rest, but they can look back and say "That is Nellie Mae's hand.'") A small girl in red, probably the artist as a child, sits in a blue chair in another of the charms. All three are in blue "frames": further protection. In a small charm framed ominously in black at the bottom of the picture, an unhappy male child appears to be scolded by an older female. Perhaps Rowe senses something about the killer's childhood that contributed to his pathology.
Animals are prominent in most of Rowe's drawings. She finds many ways to employ them in her narratives. In some works animals are used, a la Orwell's Animal Farm, to act out and satirize the flaws and foibles Rowe recognizes in the human world. Perhaps some animals are Rowe self-portraits; Molly the black mule, for example, forced to work against her will, or the many little dogs who confront, oppose, or ignore their masters. But though she loved to draw animals, she refused to own one. A woman so opposed to having her own life controlled by others could not bring herself to determine the fate of another living thing.
I seen a whole lot if I don't see nothing else. I seen more than I thought I'd ever see. When I was coming up in the fields picking cotton, anybody told me I'd a-see what I've seen now I wouldn't have believed it. I just always thought I'd always have to work in the fields a lot. We had to work too hard when coming up all in our younger days. Work in the fields so hard, and wasn't getting nothing, but we was forced then. All day long in the hot sun, sunup to sundown. I don't like to look at it. That was the older people back then, and these here now can't help what was done back then in slavery time. My daddy told me. He was in slavery time. He said that when he was a boy in slavery time, he said they poured in food just like you feeding a hog, pour it in a trough. They'd have a long trough, made you sit there. You had to get down and lap just like hogs. That's what he said. I don't like to look at that. I won't look at "Roots" 'cause that's back in it. It make you feel so bad to see how they whipping that one, and whipping one that's tired, and they's whipping and the blood come out, and I just don't ever look at what you call "the roots."
But that's the reason I said that about the other generation. That was back in slavery time, that ain't now. That don't make me have nothing against nobody now. But I don't want to look at it. God knows in heaven that I've loved people, don't make no difference what color they are. That son says, "I don't hate nobody. I love everybody." I try to. But I just don't like to look at that. I think to myself, "If I'd a-been coming on then it'd been my skin." Wasn't that pitiful? Sell them. Sell them. You know, a good stock. I had my daddy. He's telling me. He said, like getting a good stock of hogs or a good stock of cows. They put them together. They'd pick out the good stock, just like if you's big and fat and healthy they'd see a man over there was healthy and they'd put them together so they'd have healthy childrens. Just like you do stock marriage. That's what they do then. I had my daddy tell me that many times. They'd make a nice couple, you know, to raise children that'd be good workers. See them plowing in the field barefooted and some old swap hat on, and they looked back and the boss maybe looking at them. Oh Lordy, Lord have mercy. That's mean. Seem pitiful, seem pitiful.
In 1981 Rowe learned that cancer was present in her body. From the point of that diagnosis, it appears that each of here drawings dealt with the subject of death. Just as she had taken control of her life, and used her art to define and explain it, she prepared to take control of her death. She devised an elaborate vision of the next world, and she modified her complex system of symbols to apply to her new challenge. Her statements, and her drawings, indicate that she had no fear of dying, but rather regarded it as a passage to an improved existence.
In her final year, many of her drawings contained inscriptions, such as
I Will See You Later Bird
Lost Lost Dog
Sleepy Girl
I Have a Ride at Last
I Will Be Back When the Weather Gets Cool
One, with dismembered body parts, tells us, "I will see you later when I get myself back together."
Nellie Mae Rowe, Picking Cotton, 1981
A remarkable drawing done in 1981 called Picking Cotton could have been called "What I don't like about my life as I look back on it." The artist is seen bending over near a grassy field (not really a cotton field, the cotton field suggested in the title simply symbolizing the most degrading form of manual labor). She is wearing a party dress, an insistence that field work is not her lot. On her back is what she referred to as a cotton sack, but it appears as a woman in a compromising sexual position. The figure of the artist is imposed upon by a black mule, the mule a symbol of forced labor, the color black, death. Looking directly into the posterior of the cotton-sack female is a seated white woman, probably representing Rowe's employers during her many ears as a domestic servant. The woman is sternly scrutinizing her. Beneath the chair is a red rodent, an image used by Rowe to signal an unpleasant situation, and a sinister-looking fish, a phallic connotation in Rowe's work. In the lower left corner sits a grinning green man, an overseer or husband, perhaps. He sits and watches her as she works, illustrating a complaint Rowe had expressed about her husbands. One of Rowe's most prominent symbols appears twice here: a brightly colored bird with a curved pointed beak, plucking fruit from a tree. This bird may be a specific reference to a man taking advantage of a young woman. It may also serve as many of Rowe's animal metaphors do, to symbolize a characteristic of society in general, in this case its predatory, scavenging instinct. Or it may represent sickness, pecking away at Rowe's life.
Nellie Mae Rowe, Nellie's House at Night, 1981
In Nellie's House at Night (1981) she reveals her illness: a frightening white doglike animal sitting in front of a tombstone beside her house. The house is empty but is lighted inside. There is a slight presence of life—small flowering plants bloom in the window; floral designs flank double doors (passageways into and out of life). The roof is blue, a color used throughout the South in African American homes to ward off evil spirits. Rowe depicts herself as a brown pig. Here it seems to float upward, ascending to the green pastures, eyeing the comfort of heaven's abundant fruit trees and protective branches.
Nellie Mae Rowe, Rocking Chair, 1981
Rocking Chair (1981) focuses on Rowe's most striking symbol of death, the empty chair. Apparently this piece was created shortly after Rowe was told she had cancer, and is probably her first use of the empty chair as a metaphor for death. Although the interior scene is lively and animated, there are repeated references to death. Rowe, who had quilted earlier in her life, constructs the drawing like a traditional African American strip quilt, each panel containing its own set of design elements, symbolic objects, and stylistic conventions, all combining into a unified and balanced composition. There are many identifiable components, all of which imply impending death and all of which can be found in other Rowe works of 1981. Among the more obvious are an angel, dying plants, butterflies, and a black dog. There are others more complicated, private, and esoteric, among which are a simple flowerlike fan blade, (the life cycle, presumably); a small animal plucking the fruit from a vine (Rowe uses this image to denote various indignities to woman, not the lest of which is the perforation of her body); a checkerboard (life as a game of chance?), next to which is a cat playing with a target like ball, a variation, perhaps, of the "life is a game" theme; and a root, a forked stick, growing out of a small foot, with one branch culminating in a doll (Rowe was a prolific dollmaker) and the other ending at a dancing figure representing Rowe as a little girl. When Rowe contemplates the end of her life, she frequently employs imagery depicting its beginnings.
Nellie Mae Rowe, Empty Chair, 1981
In Empty Chair (1981), the adult Nellie Mae Rowe, dressed in red, turns away from a celebratory tree of life surrounded by birds and animals. She looks toward death, summed up as her past and future: above the empty chair is the specter of young Nellie Mae in the green pasture, flanked by two nose-diving birds. Below the tree of life a bird plucks the berries from a potted plant or fruit basket.
Nellie Mae Rowe, Nellie's Birthday, 1981
On July 4, 1981, Rowe's eighty-first birthday, she executed a drawing indicating her belief that she was celebrating her final birthday (Nellie's Birthday). An empty chair, dying plants, a tree of life outlined in black, a tombstone inscribed with the day's date, a blue dog—an ancestral symbol among the Kongo of Zaire, perhaps the same in Rowe's work. A female figure, representing Rowe as a young woman, leans toward the tombstone.
Nellie Mae Rowe, Woman Flying a Butterfly Kite, 1981
Woman Flying a Butterfly Kite (1981) is Nellie Mae Rowe walking uphill on a road flying a kite in the shape of a butterfly. She is barefoot, but as the spiritual has promised her, she will get her shoes in heaven. She leaves the empty chair behind, walks past the water, heads toward the green pastures and the heavily fruited trees (phallic, with testicles—shall heaven provide Rowe with a compatible mate, and children, things life denied her?).
In her later years, Rowe lived equidistant from two interstate highways that quite literally identified and delimited her world: I-75, which bisects the city of Atlanta, and I-285, which Atlantans commonly refer to as the Perimeter. The road has an ongoing presence in Rowe's work. "Going up the road" or "crossing the road" became synonymous to her with dying. An earlier Rowe work, Pig on Expressway (1980), introduces the theme and predict her own death.
Nellie Mae Rowe, Pocketbook, 1982
In 1982, close to death, Rowe created Pocketbook. The pocketbook is surrounded by dying flowers in the four corners of the drawing. Rowe's closest personal possession, her purse, becomes her traveling bag for the longest journey of her life. It is blue, inscribed with three living flowers, and floats on a red ground like a spaceship transporting her soul to the heaven she had been waiting to visit.
One of her last pieces, entitled At the Riverside (1982), was drawn with a marking pen that was running out of ink. Rowe seems to be musing on the idea that her life, the picture, and the ink will all run out at the same moment.
The Lord got me here for something. I don't know, a lot of people say I preach. You know, a lot of people, women, they preachers, and a lot of men preaching. Now God didn't probably call on them to preach, he calls some of them to teach. . . . But they tell you the teachers gone a-preaching.
I don't know what he put me here for, but he got me here for something 'cause I don't draw like nobody. You speak one way, but I come on and say it different. You can draw a mule, dog, cat, or a human person, I'm going to draw it different. 'Cause you always see things different. Each person's different. I can sit here right now and look down there on the floor; I can see something, it look like it something I could draw. I was right down to the hospital and I looked at the rug there, well, sometime I can see something in that. Look like a cat, dog, or something. That's the way I do my drawing.
When I go up to New York there was a picture up in them clouds. I was on the airplane and I looked up at those clouds, and I got my pencil right out and draw something.
I can draw roses good. I don't have to look at them. I don't have to have them. I just know how they grow, vines, trees and like that, see, I know how they grow.
I just sees people crippled, and I drawed that to ask the Lord to help them through. Nothing I draw to make fun of. I draw things what I see, people's condition, and ask the Lord to help them. I ain't drawed myself when I was sick. Not yet; I sees what I draw in my mind late at night. That's what I do. And I can see everything like that. I don't care how crazy it is I'll probably draw it. See things, see in your sleep. If I can keep it on my mind, I can get up and draw it. Heap a-time I get up through the night when I see things plain like that, I get up and draw it. Then it be more natural, 'cause if you lay there all night and wait til the next morning you forget probably how some of it was.
I tell you about the Lord mean for me to teach instead of preaching. God put me here for something. He got everybody here for something. That's the reason he let me live this long. There's some work I need to do before he take me. I ain't done my work what he wants me to do. That's why the talent he gives me to do this work, he give me that 'cause I didn't have no children and he give me something to do. It's the only thing I think is good for the Lord. I just have to keep doing it until he says, "Well done, Nellie, you have been faithful, well done." Then I know I be done doing. When God seen to call for me I want to be ready my way on. I want to be ready to fly all the way to Jesus. I want to fly over there and be close to my Lord but I'm having a hard time now and then. This wasn't nigh ever home. This land is borrowed we living on. . . . We done been living on borrowed land. This world is not my own. It ain't my home.
They say this world don't stand. Nobody don't know how long it going to stand. I believe the time's at hand. We may be going to live in another planet just like we living here. We might be living some place else when Judgment Day. Nobody know when Judgment Day going to come. It may not be no Judgment Day.
When I wake up in glory, I want it to be "well done, Nellie, well done." That's when the happiness comes by. Had a hard time down here, struggling and tussling, folks is so mean to one another, Lord have mercy. I wish everybody would love another. The world would stand longer; we would be so happy. The day is sure to come, they all know, 'cause it's coming, and then it be too late. You be running but you can't hide. You run to the rock but you can't hide. Yes, my Lordy, oh blessed, blessed be the name of the Lord. I couldn't be nothing but happy in joy and happiness, peace. I talk with him and he lets me know I still needs him. I still needs him to the very end. I just don't know nobody but my Lord. Best we can live, honey, you know, the best we can live. We ain't done yet what we should do. We always got some work to do for the Lord, and I'm going to try my best to do it. I'm asking him to help give me strength and help me do what he wants me to do. If it ain't right, he'll cut you down if you're wrong. 'Cause I asked him, "Lord if I'm doing wrong cut me down. And just send your mercy down to help me. Let me live right! I'm going to try and do that. Lord have mercy on us, trust in Jesus. So praise the Lord, thank you Jesus. I'll be going now, Honey."
The author would like to thank Judith Alexander for providing background material for this essay. The quotations from Nellie Mae Rowe are derived from interviews with Maude Wahlman and Judith Alexander conducted in 1981 and 1982.
My Soul Has Grown Deep: Black Art from the American South
A new consideration of extraordinary art created by self-taught Black artists during the mid-20th century. My Soul Has Grown Deep considers the art-historical significance of self-taught Black artists, many working under conditions of poverty and isolation, in the American South. It features paintings and drawings, mixed-media and sculptural works, and quilts, including pieces ranging from the pioneering paintings of Thornton Dial (1928–2016) to the renowned quilts made in Gee's Bend, Alabama.
Souls Grown Deep: African American Vernacular Art, Vol. 2
Completing the two-volume set, "Souls Grown Deep, Vol. 2" takes the visual and historical presentation of the first volume to a richer level, offering an even broader array of artistic styles and media. Breaking away from the stereotypes that identity folk art and the South with rural, isolated, static and agrarian ways of life, these pages unveil an art that embodies social change and continues to flourish at the dawn of a new century.
The African American culture of the South has produced many of the twentieth century's most innovative art forms. Widely appreciated for its music—from the blues and jazz, to gospel, soul, rock 'n' roll—the region has also played host to a less visible but equally important visual art tradition.
History Refused to Die: Highlights from the Souls Grown Deep Foundation Gift
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The filming for this short began in 1987 as part of a larger project, The Mind's Eye—which started with the documentation of "Black Folk Art in America, 1930-1980," a traveling exhibition organized by the Corcoran Gallery of Art—and grew to include other folk/self-taught artists working at the time. Produced by The Foundation for Self-Taught American Artists.
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Atlanta's Missing Children
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So last weekend we got new neighbours 😀 And DH and I decided to welcome them by baking cookies. We made our regular recipe for peanut and raisin cookies, but then decided it'd be nice to have a mix so changed the recipe a bit to make double chocolate ones too. Yum!
And here's how we made them….
Here's our trusty cookie recipe (with flavour options)….
Beat butter, peanut butter/chocolate, castor and muscovado sugars together in a bowl until soft. Beat in the egg and vanilla essence. Sift the flour and baking powder and blend in well. Finally add the oats and whatever other bits you want and mix it all in.
For these everyday sweet and yummy cookies, we used 4oz of Crunchy Peanut Butter and added raisins to the mixture at the end.
For these wonderfully rich grown up tasting cookies, we used 4oz melted Dark Chocolate and roughly chopped up a bar of white chocolate to add chunks to it.
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Remember when Dawn of War was pretty much the only Warhammer game? Now that Games Workshop has opened up the floodgates, it seems that every third Steam release features either Orks and Imperials or Orks and Space Marines. Slitherine did a solid job of bringing their tactical wargaming expertise to bear with Warhammer 40,000: Armageddon, and now it seems a follow-up is in the works.
Warhammer 40,000: Sanctus Reach will be built in a new 3D engine by a new Scottish studio called Straylight Entertainment. Grukk Face-Rippa leads a Red Waaagh! in the titular Sanctus Reach system, conquering world after world until only a single planet, defended by the Space Wolves, can stand against them. You'll lead both factions across two lengthy story campaigns.
Curious how Slitherine's previous take on 40k turned out? Have a look at our Warhammer 40,000: Armageddon review!
The new game is expected to release by the end of 2016. The new, 3D Archon engine was built in-house by Slitherine and will be made available to many of its developers.


The first is Intel System Studio which complements Parallel Studio XE in offering an integrated suite of tools designed to help the developer build applications for mobile and embedded devices. The suite supports Intel Atom, Core and Xeon processors, as well as Wind River Linux. There was even talk of a System Studio for Android.


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Il Castello del Wawel o di Wawel (in polacco Zàmek na Wawelu), è un castello rinascimentale situato a Cracovia, in Polonia.

Storia

Le origini
Le prime notizie di una fortificazione eretta sul Colle del Wawel di Cracovia si hanno nel VIII secolo, quando fu costruito il castello appartenente alla potente famiglia dei Piast, che proprio da lì governavano la Polonia. In seguito, dopo la distruzione dell'antico centro del potere polacco, Gniezno Cracovia assunse ancora più importanza e i Piast divennero re della Polonia. Duecentocinquanta anni dopo, intorno all'anno 1000, Cracovia divenne sede vescovile e la piccola chiesa di Santa Maria divenne cattedrale.

La rinascita del Wawel
Quando, nel 1320, Ladislao I fu incoronato re di Polonia, il Wawel divenne il simbolo incontrastato del potere monarchico nazionale. Una svolta decisiva nella storia non solo del Wawel, ma di Cracovia stessa si ebbe nel Cinquecento, quando il re Sigismondo I il Vecchio trasformò il castello preesistente in una sontuosa residenza rinascimentale, degna della sua dinastia.

Il Seicento
Quando il re di Polonia appena incoronato Sigismondo III Vasa spostò a capitale del regno da Cracovia a Varsavia, il Wawel perse la sua importanza, ma la cattedrale del Wawel, da sempre dedicata a Santa Maria rimase il fulcro del potere religioso del Paese. Fino al Novecento, infatti, qui furono incoronati e sepolti tutti i re della Polonia.

Il Seicento fu, inoltre, un secolo di grande crisi per il Paese. La Polonia non aveva, infatti, confini sicuri e ben protetti e il Wawel era una delle poche grandi fortificazioni ancora rimaste. Il Regno era ormai diretto verso lo sfacelo. Le mura furono messe a dura prova dagli svedesi, quando, nel 1655, riuscirono a conquistare gran parte della Polonia, scendendo fino a Cracovia assediando per lungo tempo la città.

Il Settecento

Gli inizi del Settecento furono un periodo relativamente tranquillo per Cracovia e la Polonia. Dalla seconda metà del secolo, però, iniziarono le lotte per la spartizione del paese. Nel 1772 l'Impero russo ottenne la parte nord-est del paese e, fra il 1785 e il 1796, anche la Prussia e l'Austria ottennero la loro parte, finché la Polonia non scomparve dalle carte geografiche. Questo comportò gravi conseguenze per Cracovia e per la sua popolazione. Il Wawel fu trasformato in una caserma militare dagli austriaci e le stanze reali furono distrutte e adibite a dormitori per soldati. Era iniziata una fase di decadenza per il Wawel, che finì solo dopo la seconda guerra mondiale.

Il Novecento e la conquista nazista
Dopo la prima guerra mondiale, in Polonia, ci fu un periodo di forti carestie. Nonostante ciò, il comune di Cracovia, sotto la direzione del sindaco Nikola Zyblikięwicz iniziò un processo di ristrutturazione del Wawel. Con la presa del potere da parte di Adolf Hitler, nel 1936, iniziò per la Polonia l'ennesimo periodo di crisi. Durante la seconda guerra mondiale il paese fu occupato dai nazisti, che resero il castello del Wawel la residenza dei generali e dei comandanti dell'esercito, nonché di Hans Frank, governatore nazista della Polonia. Il castello fu nuovamente modificato, adattandolo ai gusti di Frank. Le pareti furono imbiancate e i lavori di restauro che erano stati incominciati da Zyblikięwicz furono annullati.

Dagli anni '60 ad oggi
Dopo la Seconda guerra mondiale, ripresero i lavori di restauro ad opera dei volontari e degli operatori comunali. Nel 1960 iniziò il ritrovamento degli oggetti d'arte trafugati dai nazisti, fra cui la Szczerbiec, la spada simbolo del potere reale polacco, ritrovata in Alberta, in Canada, e numerosi dipinti e arazzi cinquecenteschi, ritrovati fra la Danimarca e le isole Fær Øer. Negli anni '70 fu realizzata la prima collezione nel castello, che venne aperto al pubblico pochi anni dopo. Oggi il Wawel rappresenta la maggiore attrazione turistica di Cracovia.

Architettura
Del castello di Wawel originale non si hanno molte notizie. Si sa solamente che fu realizzato in stile prettamente militare, essenziale nelle forme e negli ambienti. Il Wawel che oggi conosciamo è frutto della ricostruzione rinascimentale del complesso. Dopo il matrimonio di re Sigismondo con Bona Sforza, il castello divenne inevitabilmente un "obbiettivo" degli artisti italiani, fra cui Francesco della Lora, Giovanni Maria da Padova, Santi Gucci e Bartolomeo Brecci.

Questi architetti e scultori fecero sì che lo stile rinascimentale tipico italiano si mescolasse magistralmente con lo stile architettonico tipico polacco. Uno di questi esempi è proprio il Wawel. Il castello è strutturato su tre piani. È composto da quattro corpi di fabbrica, al cui centro si trova lo splendido Cortile d'onore. Di questi quattro corpi, solo tre erano adibiti ad abitazioni reali o dei servi. Il quarto era solamente decorativo. Serviva per dare al castello una forma più armoniosa. Sul Cortile d'Onore si affacciano tre piani di balconate porticate. Da notare che i portici del terzo piano hanno un'altezza doppia rispetto a quelli del primo e del secondo.

Interni
Camera del Tesoro
La Camera del Tesoro (pokój skarbów), contenente le ricchezze dell'antico Regno Polacco, ospita la famosa spada dentellata (Szczerbiec), realizzata per ricordare il periodo in cui i re polacchi dominavano tutta l'Europa sud-orientale oltre alla singola Polonia. Purtroppo, nel 1940, quando i nazisti inserirono al governo della Polonia i loro ufficiali, la spada fu rubata e nascosta all'estero, per poi essere ritrovata solo nel 1960.

Sala dei Deputati
La Sala dei Deputati (Hąla zastępców) è ornata da pregevoli portali gotici e da trenta teste lignee di re polacchi. La sala è legata ad una strana leggenda: la leggenda del re ammonito (Fakt króla napominał). Secondo questa storia seicentesca, mentre il re polacco Sigismondo Augusto si trovava nella sala intento a pronunciare un giudizio, una delle teste appesa alla parete urlò "Rex Auguste, iudica iuste!" ("re Augusto, giudica in modo giusto!").

Sala dei Senatori
La Sala dei Senatori (Hala Senatorski), come dice il suo stesso nome, era adibita alle sedute del senato. Essa è abbellita da numerosi stucchi, affreschi ed enormi arazzi fiamminghi narranti le imprese di Noè durante il diluvio universale (i cosiddetti arazzi degli Jagelloni). La sala è stata così sfarzosamente decorata in occasione delle nozze di Sigismondo II Augusto di Cracovia con Caterina d'Asburgo, che si sono svolte nel 1553.

Sala d'Onore
La Sala d'Onore (Izba Honorowa) è una delle sale più importanti del castello del Wawel. È famosa per le sue splendide porte gotiche di Benedykt Kròlewski e le grandi stufe a legna in legno bianco intarsiato ornate da riquadri in ceramica dipinta da Bartosz di Kasimierz.

Collezioni
Nel Castello del Wawel sono conservate alcune interessanti collezioni, i cui oggetti provengono in gran parte da raccolte private. La più ampia è la kòlekcja porcelany, cioè la Collezione delle porcellane, costituita da oltre mille pezzi provenienti da tutta Europa. Ci sono poi la raccolta del vetro, con pezzi di provenienza locale e quella degli orologi slavi, molto ricca e pregiata. Interi saloni al pianterreno sono invece dedicati ad una ricca raccolta di arte orientale e indiana. Nei sotterranei del castello è allestita una mostra di oggetti del X secolo rinvenuti nel terreno della Collina del Wawel nei primi del Novecento, durante un grande restauro del castello. La mostra prende il nome di Wawel Zniknął, che vuol dire "Wawel Scomparso".

Note

Voci correlate
Storia della Polonia
Cattedrale del Wawel
Rynek Główny
Arazzi degli Jagelloni

Altri progetti

Collegamenti esterni

Wawel

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The 3rd annual Run Woodstock series of races (100M, 100K, 50M, 50K, marathon, half marathon, 10K, 5K, 5M) will take place on September 9, 10 & 11 at the Hell Creek Ranch in Pinckney, MI. Randy Step is the creator and founder of Run Woodstock and has been an endurance athlete for decades.
The 100M & 100K events will begin Friday afternoon. With so many events on three different days, please visit www.runwoodstock.com for the complete schedule.
September in MI is one of the nicest times to run – temperatures range from lows in the 40s to highs in the 60s with typically low humidity.
Athletes receive finisher medals, fully stocked aid stations and post race delights, shirt and access to the Run Woodstock hippie hike, yoga, music, free evening runs & more! Camping is extra, but race entry gets you a deal on camping price! Run Woodstock is also part of the 2011 Trail Runner Trophy Series – finish a race, and you are automatically entered!
The beauty of the course, the party while competitive though supportive atmosphere, the opportunity to focus solely on running – for three straight days!
Growth of this race has been steady with most athletes coming from MI, IN, WI, OH – everyone, everywhere are welcome! Detroit Metro Airport http://www.metroairport.com/ is ~1 hour from the race venue. Hotels and camping are available – please visit www.runwoodstcok.com for details. Grocery stores are available within 10-20 miles of the race.
There is plenty to keep kids busy during the race – the woods, music, horseback riding and more! There will be lots going on including 'stuff' to purchase all weekend long!
Races start and finish in the same area. Bathrooms are plentiful, as are Aid Stations (every 4 miles) and 'loaded for bear!' – coke, Gatorade, coffee, pretzels, candy, more…see the complete list at http://www.runwoodstock.com.The course is clearly marked with ribbons and signs. Traffic is not an issue.
Train on trails and hills to prepare for this event. First Timers should follow course markings – not the person in front of you, enjoy the beauty of the course, watch for roots and uneven footing, have a blast! Sadler Shots will be on the course for photo's.
This is a great course, food, fun, camaraderie with race distances for all runners and walkers. , well organized, live entertainment…the real question is – why not?!!


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China partners with Kenya to combat wildlife, trophies trafficking
By SIMON NDONGA, NAIROBI, Kenya, Mar 26 – China has embarked on a joint initiative with the Kenya Wildlife Service (KWS) to sensitise its citizens in Kenya on the tough penalties that illegal trade in wildlife, ivory and its products attract.
According to the World Wildlife Fund (WWF) Chief Programme Officer in the China Branch, Zhou Fei, this followed talks between the heads of state of the two countries on the need for wildlife conservation.
He stated that among the initiatives is a pledge to say 'NO' to the trade and to educate the public on the harsh penalties and other consequences of both wildlife and ivory trade.
"The strengthening of laws to address illegal wildlife trade and the imposition of increasingly tougher penalties by many African local governments has meant that Chinese citizens based in these countries need to be more aware of these regulations and the consequences of engaging in wildlife crime," he said.
"Legal ivory is no longer available in China. In addition, any attempt to bring ivory from abroad is illegal and will be punished by law. Ivory or rhino horn items are simply not options as souvenir gifts for international travellers."
"With the recent expansion of Chinese investment in Africa, incidences of ivory smuggling involving Chinese nationals continue to be reported with serious reputational risks for China internationally," he pointed out.
A senior Warden at KWS David Karanja stated that the initiative is expected to reduce any kind of trade in wildlife or ivory products.
"We wish to have more engagements because as you realise, no single country can manage its wildlife alone. We need a partnership with both state and other players be it NGOs, be it communities or even in the industry," he stated.
Under the Wildlife Conservation and Management Act, poachers and dealers in illegal animal trophies now face life imprisonment and a fine of more than Sh20 million in a move meant to protect endangered wildlife like elephants and rhinos.
Previously, punishment for the most serious wildlife crimes was capped at a maximum fine of Sh40,000 and a possible jail term of up to 10 years.
The stiff punishments are meant to tackle the rising cases of poachers killing wildlife for tusks, horns and skins for sale.
Sport hunting, now classified as category B attracts a five-year jail term, Sh5 million fine or both while category C animal hunters will pay Sh1 million, a two-year jail term or both