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Wisconsin lawmakers approve bill to discipline students who disrupt campus speakers
Wisconsin lawmakers have advanced a Republican-backed bill that would discipline students who continually disrupt speakers on any campus in the University of Wisconsin system. (2013 file photo/Mike McGinnis/Getty Images)
Conservative speakers have taken quite the proverbial beating recently while addressing — or attempting to address — liberal college campuses, but Wisconsin lawmakers want to make sure that doesn't become more commonplace in the Badger State.
Under a new Republican-backed bill approved Wednesday by the Wisconsin State Assembly, protesting students in the University of Wisconsin system who repeatedly interrupt speakers could be suspended or even expelled, the Wisconsin State Journal reported.
After nearly four hours of debate, the proposal passed on a 61-36 vote. No Democrats supported the bill and only one Republican, state Rep. Bob Gannon, voted against it. The legislation is now on its way to the state Senate.
Those who support the bill said it was a needed step to protect free speech on college campuses by ensuring potentially controversial personalities — many of whom are conservative — are able to present their arguments without being shut down.
Republican Rep. Jesse Kremer, the bill's lead sponsor, told the Washington Post that he introduced the proposal in response to "situations where students' free speech rights have been taken away." Ultimately, he said he wants to make college campuses more accepting of people of all political persuasions.
"We don't want to get to the point of having situations in Wisconsin like Berkeley," Kremer said. "It's not meant to hurt anyone. People are still allowed to protest and disagree. It's that the person in a forum has the right to get their point across without being disrupted."
Democrats, though, certainly didn't like the bill.
The state's liberal lawmakers are concerned the legislation could have a chilling effect on free speech.
"Our colleges and universities should be a place to vigorously debate ideas and ultimately learn from one another," Democratic Rep. Lisa Subeck told the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. "Instead, this campus gag rule creates an atmosphere of fear where free expression and dissent are discouraged."
Campus gag rule sets atmosphere of fear. Protect free speech by exercising it, not restricting it. https://t.co/3d1VuipB2x #WIDeserveBetter
— Lisa Subeck (@Lisa Subeck)1498094670.0
Rep. Terese Berceau (D) described the bill as a "gag rule" intended to block free speech.
"We do not have this manufactured problem of conservatives not being allowed to speak," she told the Journal. "Republicans want to tell students how they should speak and what they should say. This bill is a violation of the right to free speech on campus."
And the left-leaning American Civil Liberties Union of Wisconsin said the bill is "unnecessarily draconian."
Under the legislation, students in the UW system could face a disciplinary hearing if they receive two or more complaints about disruptive conduct during a speech or presentation. If a student is found responsible for "interfering with the expressive rights of others," the bill would require that the student be suspended for a minimum of one semester. A third violation would result in expulsion. Anyone who feels their expressive rights are violated can file a complaint.
As for the UW system itself, the bill, which was based on model legislation proposed by the conservative Goldwater Institute, requires the college to remain neutral on public controversies and calls on the Board of Regents to present an annual report on disciplinary matters and "free expression barriers and disruptions."
The law would also require the UW system to explain its free speech guidelines and policies in orientation materials.
In April, Republican Gov. Scott Walker expressed support for the legislation.
"To me, a university should be precisely the spot where you have an open and free dialogue about all different positions," he told WISN-TV. "But the minute you shut down a speaker, no matter whether they are liberal or conservative or somewhere in between, I just think that's wrong."
This proposal comes several months after conservative commentator Ben Shapiro was shouted down by more than a dozen protesting University of Wisconsin students who began chanting "shame!" and "safety!" while he was speaking, hoping to drown him out.
It didn't stop there, though. Some of the protesters left their seats during the November speech and made their way to the front of the room so they could stand in front of Shapiro, according to the university's student-run newspaper, the Daily Cardinal.
And several weeks after a speech by far-right provocateur Milo Yiannopoulos was shut down by violent University of California, Berkeley, protesters, conservative speaker Ann Coulter cancelled her April appearance at the liberal college.
"It's a sad day for free speech," Coulter said at the time.


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Kælan Mikla (doslova Paní chladu) je islandská post-punková hudební skupina, založená v roce 2013 v Reykjavíku. Vystupují ve složení Laufey Soffía (zpěv), Margrét Rósa Dóru-Harrýsdóttir (baskytara) a Sólveig Matthildur Kristjánsdóttir (syntezátor, dříve bicí). K roku 2023 vydaly čtyři studiová alba. Texty jejich písní jsou výhradně v islandštině, jejich tvorba je popisována jako post-punk, dark wave, cold wave a gothic rock. Vydávají u kanadsko-islandského labelu Artoffact Records.

Skupina odehrála turné po Evropě, včetně účasti na festivalech Meltdown a Roadburn a několika vystoupení v Česku.

Historie
Skupina Kælan Mikla vznikla v roce 2013 za účelem účasti v slam poetry soutěži pořádané knihovnou v Reykjavíku. Pojmenovaná je po vedlejší postavě "Paní chladu" ze světa Muminků, která dokáže zmrazit pohledem. Trojice se seznámila na uměleckém gymnáziu . Zhudebněné básně Sólveig Kristjánsdóttir, která se teprve učila hrát na bicí, za doprovodu Margrét Dóru-Harrýsdóttir na baskytaru, odzpívala Laufey Soffía, pro kterou to bylo rovněž její první pěvecké vystoupení. Skupina soutěž vyhrála, což je motivovalo k další tvorbě.

Jejich první album Mánadans obsahující deset skladeb, produkované Alison MacNeilovou z kanadsko-islandské skupiny Kimono, bylo nahráno v roce 2014. Pro nezájem vydavatelů bylo dostupné pouze na audiokazetě v omezeném vlastním nákladu a plnohodnotně vyšlo v roce 2017. V roce 2015 Kristjánsdóttir přešla z bicích na syntezátor a v roce 2016 vydala skupina, po úspěchu videoklipu k singlu Kalt, eponymní debutové album s osmi skladbami u Fabrika Records. Na pozvání Roberta Smitha, který měl na starosti v roce 2018 výběr umělců, vystoupily na festivalu Meltdown v Londýně jako předskokanky pro Placebo. V témže roce poprvé hrály na nizozemském festivalu Roadburn.

Jejich třetí album  ("Noc za nocí") vyšlo pod labelem Artoffact Records v listopadu 2018 a obsahuje devět skladeb. Podle Kristjánsdóttir je plné "zklamání, čarodějek a všech dalších věcí, které přináší nejtemnější noc a islandského folklóru spojeného s myšlenkou zimní temnoty, která nás děsí, ale zároveň nám připomíná domov." S albem poprvé vystoupily na festivalu Iceland Airwaves. Následující rok, opět na pozvání Roberta Smitha, hrály na festivalu Pasadena Daydream.

Čtvrté a zatím poslední studiové album nazvané  ("Pod chladnou polární září") s deseti skladbami vydaly v říjnu 2021. První singl alba  je "ódou na nejtemnější noc v roce, během níž čarodějky vyvolávají duchy zimy v zamrzlé islandské krajině."  Na skladbě  spolupracovaly s francouzskou blackgazeovou kapelou Alcest, se kterou hrály na turné.

Časopis Revolver popsal jejich hudbu jako "svět, ve kterém se potemnělé post-punkové aranžmá mísí s tanečními motivy a andělské vokály s křikem, ze kterého tuhne krev v žilách." Čarodějnictví je jedním z jejich ústředních motivů, čemuž odpovídá i jejich vizáž. Otevřeně se hlásí k feminismu, ale nechtějí být považovány za výhradně ženskou skupinu.

Diskografie
 2014 – Mánadans
 2016 – Kælan Mikla
 2018 – Nótt eftir nótt
 2021 – Undir köldum norðurljósum

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Fijians At Full Strength For Tour.
Concerns that Fiji would be forced to undertake their European tour next month, including their Test against Ireland at Lansdowne Road, with an under strength side have proved to be unfounded.
Concerns that Fiji would be forced to undertake their European tour next month, including their Test against Ireland at Lansdowne Road on Sunday, November 17th with an under strength side have proved to be unfounded. It was
reported that a number of leading Fijians currently playing in Japan and New Zealand were coming under pressure from their clubs not to tour.
This would have been in breach of IRB Regulation 9 under which the Unions are obliged to select the best available side and which is rigorously enforced by the IRB. However following discussions between the Japan
Rugby Union (JRU) and New Zealand Rugby Football Union (NZRFU) and their respective clubs the players have been released and Fiji will be able to select a full strength squad for the tour, which includes internationals against Wales, Ireland and Scotland.
Pio Bosco, CEO FRU: "The Fijian Rugby Union (FRU) is very grateful for the assistance given by the IRB, JRU and NZRFU in our efforts to get
our overseas based players released for the tour. FRU is also very aware of the generosity of Wales, Ireland and Scotland rugby unions and indeed the IRB by providing the funds to enable the Fiji team to tour. The least FRU can do to reciprocate is to send a very strong team. To do this it is essential that FRU invokes IRB regulations 9 strictly, which
Mike Miller IRB CEO said: "The ability of all unions to select their best squads for international matches is fundamental to the health of the worldwide game. Regulation 9 ensures that each Union has that ability irrespective of where their players are playing. But as has happened in this case, it is only with the active help of sister unions that both the spirit and the letter of the regulations can be applied."
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Dream: Background 1920's America, Greek Immigrants.
This young newly married couple are living with the brides family. The husband decides to move out of his in-laws house.
His wife is spoiled when it comes to her opinions, the only daughter in her family. She is a beautiful blonde with wavy hair. She loves to wear dresses and is very feminine. The husband has dark curly hair but a very feminine face with high cheek bones. He has some kind of genetic condition where he doesn't grow facial hair. He dresses as a woman to fit into American society. His family and her family had immigrated from Greece. He was two when he came to America.
When it comes to renting they apply as two women to make it easier.
He is an artist, he is a sculptor one of his mediums is marble. His work is exhibited in Art Museums in Europe. His family still has strong family ties to Greece it make the exhibiting easier. He has an agent that represents his work in Europe.
The fact that he has an agent helps create a buffer for him in Europe. He's not judged as he would be here. His agent is his public face there.
In today's society he would be labeled as a cross dresser.
I think it's interesting that the more we changes as society the more we stay the same.
I always love it when my characters tell me their stories and I take dictation. We'll see if they have more to tell me and this actually becomes a story?


Previously, on this system with this video card, there were no such errors. Please help.
Looks like the Perl ftp upload worked!
there are flags to switch off libglv, -g.
I just checked, and I'd forgotten to update the actual help text, it said it turns it ON, but it really turns it OFF. That's fixed.
Newer nvidia cards mostly need -g and -u to not be used, so I have sgfxi default to those ON,, true, and those switches will turn the libglvnd and unified memory flags OFF if used.
I'm not sure what card or kernel you used, since you posted no details, but I believe most current kernels and cards want the defaults, and the overrides of -g and -u will solve some other cases.
There was no easy way to fix this issue, I've never seen nvidia do something like this before, not sure what happened or why.
I tried it both ways, -g and -u switching ON the features, but most cards want them on, which means most cards would default fail, so I made those switch the features off. There's sadly no easy way to tell users this.
I'll take a look at the debugger data to see if I can get any clues.
By the way, I have a geforce 210 and as far as I remember, though I need to double check, it does not require the -g or -u flags to be active, but I will double check that. This is also a function of kernel version, by the way. The claim was something like 4.11 or 4.12 needed those flags active, but I found that 4.9 also needs them active or install fails. -g and -u deactivate the flags internally, to be clear.
I never tested this with older kernels, so if you are using an older kernel, that's the problem, and the flags have to be used, -g in your case, since you already verified that disabling that works.
Using this script I installed more than a hundred systems with GeForce 210 and Debian 7. There were no problems. But last week, I had to reinstall one of these systems. And faced with this problem. I tried to use the old version of the script and the driver from the working system, but the result was the same. Rather, something has changed in the Debian. But now I know how to fix it. Thank you again!
which option set worked, and what has changed? what kernel is it?
I did not check the functionality of the script with options "-g" or "-u". I set the parameters B_ALLOW_AUTO_UPDATE='false' and B_GLVN='false' directly in the script and it worked. Now I can't check "-g" or "-u" - I gave the computer. Next time will definitely check it out. Kernel 3.2.0-5-686-pae. Previous installations were on 3.2.0-4-686-pae.
Oh, good, that is a serious corner case, 3.2 is a very old kernel, I was wondering.
So in your case you certainly want to use -g, and maybe -u, that depends, the best strategy is to try it first with the minimum, which you did, no options, that fails, then try it with -g, which works, since you already confirmed that.


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Array Technologies Releases 2021 Environmental, Social and Governance Report
Achieved 13% Reduction in Water Usage and 12% Increase in Volume of Recycled Aluminum
Targets Environmental and Diversity Goals for 2025
Moves Toward Alignment with the Global Frameworks for Enhanced Transparency
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M., June 22, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Array Technologies (NASDQ: ARRY) ("Array" or "the Company") has released its 2021 Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) report that provides the renewable energy company's mid-term ESG goals and its advances in reducing its environmental footprint.
"Sustainability is the foundation of our business, motivating us to create products that improve the efficiency of solar photovoltaic arrays and helping to enable the critical transition to a low-carbon renewable energy future. In parallel with our environmental actions, Array's governance recognizes the tantamount importance of advancing social actions for our workforce and the world at large," said Array Technologies chief commercial officer Erica Brinker. "With our 2021 ESG report, we are providing more rigor and transparency by progressing toward widely recognized global ESG benchmarking frameworks."
The 2021 report also references the Sustainability Accounting Standards Board (SASB), the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) and the Taskforce of Climate-Related Financial Disclosures (TCFD) frameworks to further our engagement with stakeholders across the ESG spectrum who increasingly seek more standardized reporting. Later this year, Array will also undertake its first materiality assessment to better illustrate its ESG priorities.
Also significant in this year's report is the establishment of goals to be achieved by year-end 2025:
Deliver an additional 90,000 MW of solar power
Reduce direct emissions intensity 30% from baseline year 2021
Source 50% of our direct energy consumption from renewable energy sources
Increase total workforce woman representation by 10% from baseline year 2021
Increase non-executive management racial and ethnic minority representation by 10% from baseline year 2021
Increase board woman representation 22% from baseline year 2021
This is the second ESG report since Array became a public company in the fourth quarter of 2020. The 2021 ESG report release follows the announcement that Array joined the UN Global Compact, which established the 17 Sustainable Development Goals that focus on water, energy, environment, urbanization, transportation, science and technology, health and education, economic growth, and equality.
Array is a leading global renewable energy company and provider of utility-scale solar tracking technology. Array's utility-scale solar hardware and software maximize energy production and enable expansion of renewable energy worldwide. In January of 2021, Array Technologies acquired STI Norland, a Pamplona, Spain-based utility-scale solar tracker company.
About Array Technologies, Inc.
Array Technologies (NASDAQ: ARRY) is a leading global renewable energy company and provider of utility-scale solar tracking technology. Engineered to withstand the harshest conditions on the planet, Array's high-quality solar trackers and sophisticated software maximize energy production, accelerating the adoption of cost-effective and sustainable energy. Founded and headquartered in the United States, Array relies on its diversified global supply chain and customer-centric approach to deliver, commission and support solar energy developments around the world, lighting the way to a brighter, smarter future for clean energy. For more news and information on Array, please visit arraytechinc.com and stinorland.com.
This press release contains forward looking statements. These statements are not historical facts but rather are based on the Company's current expectations and projections regarding its business, operations and other factors relating thereto. Words such as "may," "will," "could," "would," "should," "anticipate," "predict," "potential," "continue," "expects," "intends," "plans," "projects," "believes," "estimates" and similar expressions are used to identify these forward looking statements. These statements are only predictions and as such are not guarantees of future performance and involve risks, uncertainties and assumptions that are difficult to predict. Actual results may differ materially from those in the forward looking statements as a result of a number of factors. There may be additional risks that the Company does not presently know or that the Company currently believes are immaterial that could also cause actual results to differ from those contained in the forward-looking statements. In addition, forward-looking statements reflect the Company's expectations, plans or forecasts of future events and views only as of the date of this press release. The Company anticipates that subsequent events and developments will cause its assessments to change. However, while the Company may elect to update these forward-looking statements at some point in the future, the Company specifically disclaims any obligation to do so. These forward-looking statements should not be relied upon as representing the Company's assessments as of any date subsequent to the date of this press release. Accordingly, undue reliance should not be placed upon the forward-looking statements.
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Malta - Honey - Beehive - Workers - Production
Malta is criss-crossed with miles of these ruts which appear to be cut in stone,
assumed to be left by carts. The truth is, nobody is sure what the hell they are.
This is going to be a weird one, so strap yourself in.
The big headed serpent priest class found in tombs in Egypt is theoretically connected to the Hyksos, who frequently associated themselves with "melita," the production of honey from beehives. The Hyksos are often associated with a stealthy coup of Egypt from within rather than a particular battle as they appeared to possess no military of their own when they seized power in Egypt and sat on the thrones of the Pharoahs. It is thought they initially arrived as merchants. Their gods were Baal and Set, the evil deities associated with death and blood.
This is where the island of Malta ("Melita") gets it's name. The same island where gigantic colossal ancient underground temples ("Hal-Saflieni") extend down to the ocean illuminated by ghastly bio-phosphorescent molds and mushrooms. Where an underground pit contains the bones of more than 30,000 children and young women sacrificed in the temple.
Okay, I told you to hold on.
The Hyksos were ruling the Egyptian people without their consent until King Kamose came in to destroy them and successfully reunified Egypt, driving them out.
The Hyksos produced a rare and expensive honey purely for their own consumption. Genetic sampling of bees from the Hyksos period revealed that some of these strains may match those produced at Malta during the same period the temples were operating there. So there is a very real genetic connection between the Hyksos and the ruling priests of Malta who performed horrific human sacrifices. The cruel reign of the Hyksos was associated with the enslavement and spiriting away of vast numbers of women and children from Egypt, it is written in Josephus.
The Hyksos king Khyan (Amorite "Hayanu") is listed in the Sumerian/Assyrian "god-kings" roster which has recently been proven to contain the names of many kings formerly thought mythical who are now known to have ruled in Sumeria or Assyria. Some of these kings are described as half-monster or sired by demonic entities and their lifespans are measured in centuries according to this roster. Many historians assume this was just their identically named offspring taking over for them when they died but you know what happens when you make assumptions about history.
Hope you found all this as interesting as I did. If you are waiting for me to explain what it all means, I encourage you to draw your own conclusions.
Note that the Hyksos were making war on the Syrians after they got driven out of Egypt. Nothing ever changes on this planet, same sh*t different day. Not a single one of these wars ever leads to any real peace or ever resolves anything. America did more good in the world their first century of existence by minding their own business and setting a good example for others than all of these warlords did in all of recorded history. You know them by their fruits.
Ted Walther said...
Interesting. If it was a Hyksos Pharoah that invited Joseph to settle his family in the Nile Delta, then the rise of Khamose explains the Exodus story, when "A pharaoh arose who knew not Joseph". If the Hyksos were white/Asiatic from Canaan, it explains why the Hebrews had no problem communicating, and why the Hyksos had no problem inviting a similar/related people to come move in with them. They needed the manpower to hold their territory against the real Egyptians to the south.
The Hyksos being Amorites also explains the cryptic comment of God to Abraham: "The iniquity of the Amorites is not yet full." Once the Amorites/Hyksos had fallen, Canaan was in a weakened state ready for the Hebrews to move in.
Ave said...
These ruts is Roman technology. Not far from where I live there are ruts like these at a pass in the Vosges mountains : https://www.lieux-insolites.fr/basrhin/charles/charles.htm (look in the last third of the webpage, the picture titles "Les ornières de la voie antique")
The wheels of carts would be in these ruts, and if something went wrong and the cart somehow broke loose, the wheels would lock inside these ruts from the non-linear movement. Very simple, apparently also quite effective. This is why these ruts are cut into stone whenever the road was steep (such as in the picture you posted).
About the standardisation of roman wheelbases, also look at this pedestrian crossing in Pompeii :
http://images.travelpod.com/tw_slides/ta00/c3a/f70/pedestrian-crossing-in-pompeii-street-pompei.jpg
Homo sapiens not alone, may have evolved with 'stolen technology'
https://www.rt.com/viral/387771-homo-sapiens-not-alone-africa/
dienw said...
How would an archeologist when digging up the remains of such long lived individuals know the difference between a 90 year old man and a 900 year old man?
Hyksopaths.
I found a page looking at the track info.
http://www.ancient-wisdom.com/cartruts.htm
It says judging from where the ruts were covered and water level the some ruts are,"...Maltese researchers dated their "roads" by circa 4,000 – 5,000 BC...."
That's a long time ago.
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Scientist Stephen Hawking, one of the smartest men in the world, did not believe in God. Well, how about other smart scientists—what do they think? We often hear these days that there's a fundamental conflict between science and religion, and that scientists don't believe in God. As the late Stephen Hawking says in his new book, "Brief Answers to the Big Questions," "There is no God. No one directs the universe." There's only one problem with this narrative—''it's not true. Don't believe me; just ask scientists! Elaine Howard Ecklund, director of Rice University's Religion and Public Life Program has done just that, and she worries that the posthumously published words of Hawking, who died earlier this year, may lead you to believe that most scientists are atheists. "Stephen Hawking left a great scientific legacy," Ecklund said. "I do not think it is the intent of this recent work, but it is dangerous for science if Hawking's religious legacy is to leave the public with the impression that scientists are all against God or—worse yet—against religious people." Between 2011 and 2016, Ecklund and her team conducted the first-ever international survey on what scientists think about religion. They found, contrary to popular wisdom, that over half of all the scientists in India, Italy, and Turkey self-identify as religious, and only a minority of scientists in each region say that science and religion are in conflict. In the U.S., this number is just 29 percent. According to Brandon Vaidyanathan, associate professor and chair of the sociology department at the Catholic University of America, "We found a significant portion of scientists can be characterized as having religious identities, practices or beliefs, and nontrivial proportions say they have 'no doubt' that God exists." This makes sense on a number of levels. First of all, the Bible says that the heavens declare the glory of God, and that anyone can learn something of God's nature by what He has created. So even though some scientists say that the theory of evolution has made the idea of God unnecessary—Richard Dawkins for example once said that "Darwin made it possible to be an intellectually fulfilled atheist"—the fact is, people inherently know that God exists, and they must suppress this truth if they're going to claim atheism. This goes for scientists, as well. Second, scientists are learning just how "fine-tuned" the universe has to be in order to support life of any kind, never mind intelligent life. Today there are more than 200 known parameters necessary for a planet to support life—every single one of which must be perfectly met, or our existence would be utterly impossible. It strains credulity past the breaking point to believe that all this "just happened"! Third, of course, is the obvious fact that modern science sprang from rich Christian soil. Many of our greatest scientists were or are Christians, including Roger Bacon, Copernicus, Kepler, Galileo, Descartes, Blaise Pascal, Gregor Mendel, Lord Kelvin, John Lennox, and Francis Collins. These scientists, and many more, understood from their Christian worldview that the universe is orderly and intelligible because God created it according to definite laws and endowed mankind—created in His own image—with the ability to study and explore it—and glorify Him. Stephen Hawking was one of the world's smartest men, but as far as we know, tragically, he remained an atheist to his dying day—although, interestingly, his memorial service was held at a church, and his ashes were buried at Westminster Abbey near the remains of Isaac Newton, another great scientist who claimed the Christian faith. Once Hawking said that to know the ultimate why of the universe would be to know the "mind of God." While Hawking later said that he had been speaking figuratively and that God doesn't exist, let's cherish the incredible privilege we have, as Christians, to know not only the mind of God, but His heart: "For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life."
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Are central banks on the verge of a currency war with the U.S?
That's the question on the minds of some investors and economists as the U.S. dollar's decline in the year has forced central banks across the world to intervene in their own currencies at the risk of attracting the scrutiny of the new Biden administration which is eager to support U.S. factories and create manufacturing jobs.
With policy interest rates for some central banks including the European Central Bank near zero, monetary policymakers are now trying to fend off an appreciation of their currencies to support their pandemic-battered economies and maintain the competitiveness of their countrys' exports.
"Central banks are trying to stimulate their economies and reflate. But in an environment where demand is weak and rates are low, people will turn to the exchange-rate channel," said Nathan Sheets, chief economist at PGIM fixed income and a former Treasury official in the Obama administration.
Other central banks, particularly those in Asia, with large trade surpluses needed an outlet to invest their hoard of savings, buying dollar-denominated assets and sometimes even buying other currencies outright.
BofA Global Research estimated a 4%-5% depreciation in the U.S. dollar would historically would see central banks' holdings of Treasurys
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rise by $160-$180 billion.
The ICE U.S. Dollar Index
DXY,
-0.57%,
a measure of the greenback's strength against its major rivals, is down 6.6% in the past 12 months, according to FactSet data.
Overseas central banks will be on their toes as more pro-labor constituencies in the Biden administration pressure the federal government to take a more aggressive stance to revitalize American manufacturers.
"The Treasury is going to be firm on countries that carry out interventions, especially to more sustained ones. The economic realities demand it, and the political realities demand it too," said Sheets.
In Janet Yellen's confirmation hearing for U.S. Treasury secretary, the former Federal Reserve chairwoman suggested she would take a dim view of other countries which move exchange rates away from market-determined levels.
The Treasury had labelled Vietnam a currency manipulator back in December. In addition, the Treasury has also placed China, Korea, Singapore, Taiwan, Thailand and India on their watchlist.
Read: Yellen's harsh words for China show Biden team will continue fight Trump started
"Central banks in Asia are becoming concerned about rebukes and retaliation from the U.S," wrote Shilan Shah, senior economist for Capital Economics.
It's perhaps why some central banks including Chile and Sweden have started announcing in advance that they would start buying foreign exchange.
The Bank of Israel said it would purchase $30 billion of other currencies over the course of 2021.
Read: Here's why foreign central banks are set to reprise role as big buyer of U.S. government debt
Even if tensions between countries heat up over countries, some market participants say the U.S. Treasury Department won't be able to match its bark with its bite.
"The stock line that the U.S. wants the dollar to be market-determined is just a stock line. It doesn't really mean anything," said Ed Al-Hussainy, senior interest rate and currency analyst at Columbia Threadneedle Investments.
Al-Hussainy pointed to the example of the Swiss central bank as an indicator of the U.S.'s impotence. Swiss National Bank President Thomas Jordan has said U.S. criticism would not stop the central bank from buying more foreign exchange to fend off the currency's appreciation.
"What are they going to do? Sanction Switzerland?" said Al-Hussainy, describing it as a "moment of truth" showing that the U.S. would struggle to impose their will on foreign central banks.
Problem go away with itself
And others said the potential tensions breaking out from increased foreign exchange intervention may sort itself out even without any actions from the U.S. Treasury Department.
"If I have to guess, I don't think we will come to such a currency war, " said Stephen Jen, who runs hedge fund Eurizon SLJ Capital, in e-mailed comments.
Jen anticipated U.S. economic growth would surpass the rest of the world as 2021 gets underway.
The U.S. government's pandemic relief measures easily dwarfed the fiscal efforts by other governments. St. Louis Federal Reserve president James Bullard said it was possible U.S. economic growth could top 6% this year and outpace China.
By that point, the U.S. economy's strength would make the trade boost from a weaker greenback less necessary.
"In that environment, exchange rate issues are less likely come to the fore," said Sheets.
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package ca.uhn.fhir.jpa.searchparam.extractor;

import ca.uhn.fhir.context.FhirContext;
import ca.uhn.fhir.context.RuntimeResourceDefinition;
import ca.uhn.fhir.context.RuntimeSearchParam;
import ca.uhn.fhir.context.phonetic.IPhoneticEncoder;
import ca.uhn.fhir.jpa.cache.ResourceChangeResult;
import ca.uhn.fhir.jpa.model.config.PartitionSettings;
import ca.uhn.fhir.jpa.model.entity.BaseResourceIndexedSearchParam;
import ca.uhn.fhir.jpa.model.entity.ModelConfig;
import ca.uhn.fhir.jpa.model.entity.ResourceIndexedSearchParamCoords;
import ca.uhn.fhir.jpa.model.entity.ResourceIndexedSearchParamDate;
import ca.uhn.fhir.jpa.model.entity.ResourceIndexedSearchParamNumber;
import ca.uhn.fhir.jpa.model.entity.ResourceIndexedSearchParamQuantity;
import ca.uhn.fhir.jpa.model.entity.ResourceIndexedSearchParamString;
import ca.uhn.fhir.jpa.model.entity.ResourceIndexedSearchParamToken;
import ca.uhn.fhir.jpa.model.entity.ResourceIndexedSearchParamUri;
import ca.uhn.fhir.jpa.searchparam.SearchParamConstants;
import ca.uhn.fhir.jpa.searchparam.registry.ISearchParamRegistryController;
import ca.uhn.fhir.jpa.searchparam.registry.ReadOnlySearchParamCache;
import ca.uhn.fhir.rest.api.RestSearchParameterTypeEnum;
import ca.uhn.fhir.rest.server.util.ISearchParamRegistry;
import ca.uhn.fhir.util.StringUtil;
import ca.uhn.fhir.util.TestUtil;
import com.google.common.collect.Sets;
import org.hamcrest.Matchers;
import org.hl7.fhir.dstu3.model.Duration;
import org.hl7.fhir.dstu3.model.Encounter;
import org.hl7.fhir.dstu3.model.Location;
import org.hl7.fhir.dstu3.model.Observation;
import org.hl7.fhir.dstu3.model.Patient;
import org.hl7.fhir.dstu3.model.Questionnaire;
import org.junit.jupiter.api.AfterAll;
import org.junit.jupiter.api.Test;

import javax.annotation.Nullable;
import java.text.Normalizer;
import java.util.ArrayList;
import java.util.HashMap;
import java.util.List;
import java.util.Map;
import java.util.Set;
import java.util.stream.Collectors;
import java.util.stream.IntStream;

import static org.hamcrest.MatcherAssert.assertThat;
import static org.junit.jupiter.api.Assertions.assertEquals;

public class SearchParamExtractorDstu3Test {

	private static FhirContext ourCtx = FhirContext.forDstu3Cached();

	@Test
	public void testParamWithOrInPath() {
		Observation obs = new Observation();
		obs.addCategory().addCoding().setSystem("SYSTEM").setCode("CODE");

		ISearchParamRegistry searchParamRegistry = new MySearchParamRegistry();

		SearchParamExtractorDstu3 extractor = new SearchParamExtractorDstu3(new ModelConfig(), new PartitionSettings(), ourCtx, searchParamRegistry);
		extractor.start();
		Set<BaseResourceIndexedSearchParam> tokens = extractor.extractSearchParamTokens(obs);
		assertEquals(1, tokens.size());
		ResourceIndexedSearchParamToken token = (ResourceIndexedSearchParamToken) tokens.iterator().next();
		assertEquals("category", token.getParamName());
		assertEquals("SYSTEM", token.getSystem());
		assertEquals("CODE", token.getValue());
	}

	@Test
	public void testNormalizedStringIsShortened() {
		// String with character that will change it's length on normalization
		String value = IntStream.range(1, 200).mapToObj(v -> "a").collect(Collectors.joining()) + "ئ";
		assertEquals(value.length(), 200);
		assertEquals(Normalizer.normalize(value, Normalizer.Form.NFD).length(), 201);
		assertEquals(StringUtil.normalizeStringForSearchIndexing(value).length(), 201);

		Questionnaire questionnaire = new Questionnaire();
		questionnaire.setDescription(value);

		ISearchParamRegistry searchParamRegistry = new MySearchParamRegistry();

		SearchParamExtractorDstu3 extractor = new SearchParamExtractorDstu3(new ModelConfig(), new PartitionSettings(), ourCtx, searchParamRegistry);
		extractor.start();
		Set<ResourceIndexedSearchParamString> params = extractor.extractSearchParamStrings(questionnaire);
		assertEquals(1, params.size());
	}

	@Test
	public void testEncounterDuration_Normalized() {

		Encounter enc = new Encounter();
		Duration value = new Duration();
		value.setSystem(SearchParamConstants.UCUM_NS);
		value.setCode("min");
		value.setValue(2 * 24 * 60);
		enc.setLength(value);

		ISearchParamRegistry searchParamRegistry = new MySearchParamRegistry();

		SearchParamExtractorDstu3 extractor = new SearchParamExtractorDstu3(new ModelConfig(), new PartitionSettings(), ourCtx, searchParamRegistry);
		extractor.start();
		Set<ResourceIndexedSearchParamNumber> params = extractor.extractSearchParamNumber(enc);
		assertEquals(1, params.size());
		// Normalized to days
		assertEquals("2", params.iterator().next().getValue().toPlainString());
	}

	@Test
	public void testEncounterDuration_NotNormalized() {

		Encounter enc = new Encounter();
		Duration value = new Duration();
		value.setValue(15);
		enc.setLength(value);

		ISearchParamRegistry searchParamRegistry = new MySearchParamRegistry();

		SearchParamExtractorDstu3 extractor = new SearchParamExtractorDstu3(new ModelConfig(), new PartitionSettings(), ourCtx, searchParamRegistry);
		extractor.start();
		Set<ResourceIndexedSearchParamNumber> params = extractor.extractSearchParamNumber(enc);
		assertEquals(1, params.size());
		// Normalized to days
		assertEquals("15", params.iterator().next().getValue().toPlainString());
	}

	@Test
	public void testEmptyPath() {

		MySearchParamRegistry searchParamRegistry = new MySearchParamRegistry();
		SearchParamExtractorDstu3 extractor = new SearchParamExtractorDstu3(new ModelConfig(), new PartitionSettings(), ourCtx, searchParamRegistry);
		extractor.start();

		searchParamRegistry.addSearchParam(new RuntimeSearchParam(null, null, "foo", "foo", "", RestSearchParameterTypeEnum.STRING, Sets.newHashSet(), Sets.newHashSet(), RuntimeSearchParam.RuntimeSearchParamStatusEnum.ACTIVE, null, null, null));
		Patient resource = new Patient();
		extractor.extractSearchParamStrings(resource);

		searchParamRegistry.addSearchParam(new RuntimeSearchParam(null, null, "foo", "foo", null, RestSearchParameterTypeEnum.STRING, Sets.newHashSet(), Sets.newHashSet(), RuntimeSearchParam.RuntimeSearchParamStatusEnum.ACTIVE, null, null, null));
		extractor.extractSearchParamStrings(resource);
	}

	@Test
	public void testStringMissingResourceType() {

		MySearchParamRegistry searchParamRegistry = new MySearchParamRegistry();
		SearchParamExtractorDstu3 extractor = new SearchParamExtractorDstu3(new ModelConfig(), new PartitionSettings(), ourCtx, searchParamRegistry);
		extractor.start();

		searchParamRegistry.addSearchParam(new RuntimeSearchParam(null, null, "foo", "foo", "communication.language.coding.system | communication.language.coding.code", RestSearchParameterTypeEnum.STRING, Sets.newHashSet(), Sets.newHashSet(), RuntimeSearchParam.RuntimeSearchParamStatusEnum.ACTIVE, null, null, null));
		Patient resource = new Patient();
		resource.getCommunicationFirstRep().getLanguage().getCodingFirstRep().setCode("blah");
		Set<ResourceIndexedSearchParamString> strings = extractor.extractSearchParamStrings(resource);
		assertEquals(1, strings.size());
		assertEquals("BLAH", strings.iterator().next().getValueNormalized());

	}

	@Test
	public void testInvalidType() {

		MySearchParamRegistry searchParamRegistry = new MySearchParamRegistry();
		SearchParamExtractorDstu3 extractor = new SearchParamExtractorDstu3(new ModelConfig(), new PartitionSettings(), ourCtx, searchParamRegistry);
		extractor.start();

		{
			searchParamRegistry.addSearchParam(new RuntimeSearchParam(null, null, "foo", "foo", "Patient", RestSearchParameterTypeEnum.STRING, Sets.newHashSet(), Sets.newHashSet(), RuntimeSearchParam.RuntimeSearchParamStatusEnum.ACTIVE, null, null, null));
			Patient resource = new Patient();
			ISearchParamExtractor.SearchParamSet<ResourceIndexedSearchParamString> outcome = extractor.extractSearchParamStrings(resource);
			assertThat(outcome.getWarnings(), Matchers.contains("Search param foo is of unexpected datatype: class org.hl7.fhir.dstu3.model.Patient"));
		}
		{
			searchParamRegistry.addSearchParam(new RuntimeSearchParam(null, null, "foo", "foo", "Patient", RestSearchParameterTypeEnum.TOKEN, Sets.newHashSet(), Sets.newHashSet(), RuntimeSearchParam.RuntimeSearchParamStatusEnum.ACTIVE, null, null, null));
			Patient resource = new Patient();
			ISearchParamExtractor.SearchParamSet<BaseResourceIndexedSearchParam> outcome = extractor.extractSearchParamTokens(resource);
			assertThat(outcome.getWarnings(), Matchers.contains("Search param foo is of unexpected datatype: class org.hl7.fhir.dstu3.model.Patient"));
		}
		{
			searchParamRegistry.addSearchParam(new RuntimeSearchParam(null, null, "foo", "foo", "Patient", RestSearchParameterTypeEnum.QUANTITY, Sets.newHashSet(), Sets.newHashSet(), RuntimeSearchParam.RuntimeSearchParamStatusEnum.ACTIVE, null, null, null));
			Patient resource = new Patient();
			ISearchParamExtractor.SearchParamSet<ResourceIndexedSearchParamQuantity> outcome = extractor.extractSearchParamQuantity(resource);
			assertThat(outcome.getWarnings(), Matchers.contains("Search param foo is of unexpected datatype: class org.hl7.fhir.dstu3.model.Patient"));
		}
		{
			searchParamRegistry.addSearchParam(new RuntimeSearchParam(null, null, "foo", "foo", "Patient", RestSearchParameterTypeEnum.DATE, Sets.newHashSet(), Sets.newHashSet(), RuntimeSearchParam.RuntimeSearchParamStatusEnum.ACTIVE, null, null, null));
			Patient resource = new Patient();
			ISearchParamExtractor.SearchParamSet<ResourceIndexedSearchParamDate> outcome = extractor.extractSearchParamDates(resource);
			assertThat(outcome.getWarnings(), Matchers.contains("Search param foo is of unexpected datatype: class org.hl7.fhir.dstu3.model.Patient"));
		}
		{
			searchParamRegistry.addSearchParam(new RuntimeSearchParam(null, null, "foo", "foo", "Patient", RestSearchParameterTypeEnum.NUMBER, Sets.newHashSet(), Sets.newHashSet(), RuntimeSearchParam.RuntimeSearchParamStatusEnum.ACTIVE, null, null, null));
			Patient resource = new Patient();
			ISearchParamExtractor.SearchParamSet<ResourceIndexedSearchParamNumber> outcome = extractor.extractSearchParamNumber(resource);
			assertThat(outcome.getWarnings(), Matchers.contains("Search param foo is of unexpected datatype: class org.hl7.fhir.dstu3.model.Patient"));
		}
		{
			searchParamRegistry.addSearchParam(new RuntimeSearchParam(null, null, "foo", "foo", "Patient", RestSearchParameterTypeEnum.URI, Sets.newHashSet(), Sets.newHashSet(), RuntimeSearchParam.RuntimeSearchParamStatusEnum.ACTIVE, null, null, null));
			Patient resource = new Patient();
			ISearchParamExtractor.SearchParamSet<ResourceIndexedSearchParamUri> outcome = extractor.extractSearchParamUri(resource);
			assertThat(outcome.getWarnings(), Matchers.contains("Search param foo is of unexpected datatype: class org.hl7.fhir.dstu3.model.Patient"));
		}
	}

	@Test
	public void testParamCoords() {
		Location loc = new Location();
		double latitude = 40.0;
		double longitude = 80.0;
		Location.LocationPositionComponent position = new Location.LocationPositionComponent().setLatitude(latitude).setLongitude(longitude);
		loc.setPosition(position);

		ISearchParamRegistry searchParamRegistry = new MySearchParamRegistry();

		SearchParamExtractorDstu3 extractor = new SearchParamExtractorDstu3(new ModelConfig(), new PartitionSettings(), ourCtx, searchParamRegistry);
		extractor.start();
		ISearchParamExtractor.SearchParamSet<BaseResourceIndexedSearchParam> coords = extractor.extractSearchParamTokens(loc);
		assertEquals(1, coords.size());
		ResourceIndexedSearchParamCoords coord = (ResourceIndexedSearchParamCoords) coords.iterator().next();
		assertEquals(latitude, coord.getLatitude(), 0.0);
		assertEquals(longitude, coord.getLongitude(), 0.0);
	}

	private static class MySearchParamRegistry implements ISearchParamRegistry, ISearchParamRegistryController {

		// TODO: JA remove unused?

		private final List<RuntimeSearchParam> myAddedSearchParams = new ArrayList<>();

		public void addSearchParam(RuntimeSearchParam... theSearchParam) {
			myAddedSearchParams.clear();
			for (RuntimeSearchParam next : theSearchParam) {
				myAddedSearchParams.add(next);
			}
		}

		@Override
		public void forceRefresh() {
			// nothing
		}

		@Override
		public RuntimeSearchParam getActiveSearchParam(String theResourceName, String theParamName) {
			throw new UnsupportedOperationException();
		}

		@Override
		public ResourceChangeResult refreshCacheIfNecessary() {
			// nothing
			return new ResourceChangeResult();
		}

		public ReadOnlySearchParamCache getActiveSearchParams() {
			throw new UnsupportedOperationException();
		}

		@Override
		public Map<String, RuntimeSearchParam> getActiveSearchParams(String theResourceName) {
			RuntimeResourceDefinition nextResDef = ourCtx.getResourceDefinition(theResourceName);
			Map<String, RuntimeSearchParam> sps = new HashMap<>();
			for (RuntimeSearchParam nextSp : nextResDef.getSearchParams()) {
				sps.put(nextSp.getName(), nextSp);
			}
			for (RuntimeSearchParam next : myAddedSearchParams) {
				sps.put(next.getName(), next);
			}
			return sps;
		}

		@Override
		public List<RuntimeSearchParam> getActiveComboSearchParams(String theResourceName, Set<String> theParamNames) {
			throw new UnsupportedOperationException();
		}

		@Nullable
		@Override
		public RuntimeSearchParam getActiveSearchParamByUrl(String theUrl) {
			throw new UnsupportedOperationException();
		}

		@Override
		public List<RuntimeSearchParam> getActiveComboSearchParams(String theResourceName) {
			throw new UnsupportedOperationException();
		}

		@Override
		public void requestRefresh() {
			// nothing
		}

		@Override
		public void setPhoneticEncoder(IPhoneticEncoder thePhoneticEncoder) {
			// nothing
		}
	}

	@AfterAll
	public static void afterClassClearContext() {
		TestUtil.randomizeLocaleAndTimezone();
	}

}

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Fire-fighting choppers touch down at Shepparton Airport
The Erickson Aircranes sit idle at Shepparton Airport.
This image was snapped by News photographer Rodney Braithwaite about 200m away, which illustrates the sheer size of the firefighting choppers.
A pilot services his chopper, which was sent from the Ovens region to Shepparton Airport late Tuesday afternoon.
The smoke from bushfires burning in Victoria's east and NSW has made visibility so bad in the Ovens region that four helicopters have been re-directed from there to Shepparton Airport.
Two Erickson Aircranes and two Firebird helicopters were sent late Tuesday afternoon.
The two huge water bombers, which are about 21.4m long and have a rotor span of almost 22 m, even drew a small crowd of people hanging over the fence for a look.
The aircraft were due to head back to Myrtleford early Wednesday but were delayed due to poor visibility as a result of smoke in the Greater Shepparton region.
It's believed the Erickson Air Cranes at Shepparton Airport are two of three such aircraft in the state.
The two accompanying choppers act as air traffic control, assisting the fire bombers to disperse water in the required location.
An Erickson Aircrane can drop more than 8000 litres of water at a time.
Shepparton's Guthrie Street Primary School has four hearing-impaired students starting Prep this year
When Liam O'Loughlin was born with a hearing impairment, his mum Renee immediately knew where he would start primary school. "Living in Shepparton when he was born, we had that idea that he would come to Guthrie Street," she said...
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Shepparton RSL and Shepparton Club combine for bushfire relief
Two Shepparton clubs have joined forces for bushfire relief, donating $20 000 to the local CFA. The Shepparton RSL and the Shepparton Club are each donating $10 000 to the Shepparton CFA, in what is their first joint donation...
Shepparton police car first in the region with number plate recognition technology
There is a new kid on the block in the Shepparton highway patrol unit — a mobile automated number plate recognition vehicle. The BMW 520d arrived in town last week as a new addition to the fleet of highway patrol vehicles. The vehicle's...
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Shepparton man identified as victim of fatal crash
A 33-year-old Shepparton man has been identified as the victim of Monday's fatal collision in Arcadia. The man, originally from NSW, was involved in the collision at the intersection of Euroa-Shepparton Rd and Karramomus Rd about 11 am...
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Ancient Jade
August 31, 2016 August 31, 2016 toddkristensen
With no jade mines or known quarries in the province, you may be surprised to learn that people used jade in Alberta thousands of years ago. Jade is a common name that refers to two minerals, one of which, nephrite, is found in Canada.
Close-up photograph of a jade ('nephrite') artifact from northwest Alberta (by Todd Kristensen).
Nephrite is one of the toughest natural materials on earth and for this reason, ancient people used it to make tools called celts. Tightly interlocking bundles of amphibole crystals (actinolite/tremolite) make nephrite incredibly resistant to fracture so the celts retain their sharp edges despite hours of wood-working with them.
Tightly interlocking bundles visible in this Scanning Electron Microscope image give jade ('nephrite') its strength (courtesy of Jesse Morin).
How did people make jade or nephrite celts? Slowly! As in modern times, nephrite was too strong to chip with a chisel so it was patiently sawed and ground with materials like sandstone and quartz crystals and polished with a slurry of gritty water. Jade occurs in outcrops across British Columbia where some First Nations had specialized jade workers. Most of the evidence for Aboriginal nephrite working comes from the Fraser River of southern B.C. near Lytton, Lillooet, and Hope. While the celts manufactured by pre-contact people were certainly functional, the rarity of jade and the time it took to make celts would have resulted in a highly revered and prized type of tool.
Nephrite celts are highly polished with a flat and slab-like shape. This specimen was found near Stony Plain outside of Edmonton (by Todd Kristensen).
Nephrite celts have been recovered from several farmers' fields across Alberta but have never been found during an archaeological excavation in the province. They are generally more common in northern Alberta where First Nations likely maintained stronger trading connections to people from B.C. than in the south.
Jade or nephrite celts found in Alberta. Specimens 1, 2, 3, 5, and 8 are from the Grande Prairie area. Specimens 4, 6, and 7 are from the Edmonton area.
Based on historic records and tools used by First Nations shortly after European contact, jade celts were most likely tied onto wood or antler handles to increase the force that people could apply to the tool. The Alberta celts are thought to have been either ceremonial, status-markers, and/or they were used to build boats or prepare wooden poles.
A large spur on the end of a wood or antler handle served as a platform on which to tie or 'haft' a flat celt (by Todd Kristensen).
Written By: Todd Kristensen (Regional Archaeologist, Archaeological Survey), Jesse Morin (Heritage Consultant), and Karen Giering (Curatorial Assistant, Royal Alberta Museum)
Staff from the Archaeological Survey, Royal Alberta Museum, and University of Alberta collaborated with museums and farmers across Alberta to analyse our rare jade artifacts. Jade expert Jesse Morin from B.C. analysed specimens and lent his knowledge to the project. Full results, including geochemistry, mineralogy, and archaeological significance of Alberta's jade will appear in an Occasional Paper Series article that will be available to the public shortly. Thanks to all the researchers for their help and thanks to the museums and farmers for kindly loaning artifacts for this study!
Archaeological Survey Section, archaeology, Todd Kristensen celt, jade, nephrite 5 Comments
In Search of Historic Colours: The Empress Theatre Marquee
August 24, 2016 May 1, 2017 frasershaw2014
The historic downtown of Fort Macleod, one of two Provincial Historic Areas in the province, is well known for its impressive commercial buildings of brick and sandstone masonry. Collectively, these Classical Revival buildings exemplify an Edwardian commercial streetscape just prior to the First World War.
One of the main street's crown jewels is the Empress Theatre, an elegant brick building with decorative sandstone details built in 1912. Historically a hub of the town's social life, the theatre hosted plays, vaudeville acts and performers from Alberta, across North America and even overseas, as graffiti preserved in the original basement dressing rooms attests to this day. The original façade was theatrical in its own right and featured a grand arched entrance and recessed box office. As tastes changed and motion pictures grew in popularity, the original entry was enclosed to provide a lobby and concession, the auditorium was renovated with plush upholstered seats in the Art Deco style and neon tulips mounted on the ceiling, and a bold new neon sign and marquee replaced the original blade sign on the front facade. These 1930s and 1950s renovations added layers of architectural history and significance to the building and contributed to its designation as a Provincial Historic Resource in 1982.
The Empress Theatre in April 2016 (top). Bottom from left: View west along 24 Street in 1953, Glenbow Archives photograph NA-5600-6653 (cropped slightly from original); detail of 1953 streetscape showing the Empress marquee in essentially its present form; historic colours exposed on a blade sign letter; a plywood mock-up to evaluate proposed blade sign colours.
The Town of Fort Macleod owns the theatre and has embarked on an extensive rehabilitation project that includes rehabilitation of the historic neon marquee. The marquee was refurbished in the late 1980s by Fort Macleod's Main Street Project but a generation of exposure to the elements has taken its toll on the galvanized sheet metal, paint, and fragile neon tubing. Removal of the signs for other façade repairs was an ideal opportunity to re-examine and document the marquee's colour history. Read more →
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Rocky Mountain Alpine Project: Willmore Wilderness Park
August 17, 2016 August 17, 2016 courtneylakevold
From August 8-12th, 2016, Todd Kristensen (Northern Archaeologist), Robin Woywitka (Cultural Land Use Analyst), Courtney Lakevold (Archaeological Information Coordinator) and graduate student Timothy Allan visited Willmore Wilderness Park as part of the Rocky Mountain Alpine Project (RMAP). RMAP is focused on the recovery of archaeological artifacts and other organic remains (e.g., feathers, bones, caribou antlers and dung) from melting ice patches. Amazing artifacts have been found melting out of ice patches in alpine areas in the Yukon, Northwest Territories, United States and Norway. These finds have been very important for understanding how people used alpine areas in the past.
Alberta has vast stretches of alpine environments, many of which are quite fragile. One element of those fragile alpine habitats are ice patches that are currently melting at a rapid pace. The goal of RMAP is to explore Alberta's ice patches to see how people in the past used alpine environments and see how it compares to that of people in other parts of Canada and the world. Last summer, the first RMAP expedition took place in Jasper National Park where many organics were found, as well as a piece of leather that was radiocarbon dated to A.D. 1670. Read more →
Archaeological Survey Section, archaeology, Courtney Lakevold alpine, ice patch archaeology, Willmore Wilderness Park 2 Comments
Stone tools, Bugs, and the Boreal Forest: Adventures in Northern Archaeology
When people think of archaeology in Alberta they might picture buffalo jumps, rock art, or medicine wheels. These are dramatic types of sites on the prairies but what about the north? Alberta's boreal forest has a unique record and requires a unique breed of archaeologist to find it. This blog is a small window to archaeological work in the northern half of the province and some of the interesting archaeological sites hiding in our forests.
Boreal Breed
Archaeologists working in northern Alberta brave bugs, blowdown (piles of fallen trees stacked like a cruel game of KerPlunk) and a range of conditions from blistering hot to bitterly cold. Forests are quite good at concealing sites so archaeologists dig hundreds of small shovel tests to find them. Most archaeology in the 'Green Zone' (typically forested Crown Land) happens in advance of forestry, oil and gas activity, gravel operations, and construction of transmission or road corridors. The hard work and skill of consulting archaeologists has resulted in over 8000 archaeological sites in the Green Zone.
Roughly 8000 sites have been found in Alberta's boreal forest (highlighted in green).
The Nature of Northern Sites
Most of the successful shovel tests yield small collections of stone debris from pre-contact human tool making. Sites in the north are typically smaller than on the plains. Why? Pre-contact people in the north were generally more mobile and lived in smaller groups; southern bison herds supported bigger groups that stayed in one spot for longer periods, which produced bigger collections of artifacts. Archaeological visibility is also a factor. Prairie landforms are often easier to locate and interpret while artifacts, bones, or stone features on the surface can help guide archaeologists to productive areas under the ground. Not so in the north. Hot spots for artifacts are often harder to access, are covered in vegetation and dense roots, and are challenging to interpret (e.g., 'how has this terrace changed over thousands of years'). Read more →
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Historic Archaeology at Edmonton's Mill Creek Ravine – Volunteers Welcome!
August 3, 2016 August 3, 2016 colleenhaukaas
Attention Edmontonians!
Have you ever wondered about archaeology in your own city? Have you ever wanted to be an archaeologist? This summer an archaeologist from the University of Chicago is leading an archaeological investigation in the Mill Creek Ravine! Haeden Stewart is looking for remains from historic settlements to learn more about daily life in the early 20th century, as the city was industrializing. In the early 1900's, the Mill Creek Ravine was home to several mills, meat packing plants, a railway line, and homes of the ravine's workers.
Early industrial Edmonton – View of the C.N.R. crossing Mill Creek, 1900-1925. Library and Archives Canada MIKAN 3335022
Haeden will be excavating two locations this summer. The first is a shanty town located at the north end of the Mill Creek Ravine. This town was one of many that settlers built in the first few decades of the 20th century. Some shanty towns were more temporary, but some, like the Ross Acreage in Mill Creek, were more substantial and housed settlers for many years. Haeden's team has already been working at the shanty town for several weeks, where they have unearthed some great finds, including animal bones, glass bottles, and the remains of two chickens buried in a pit!
Glass bottles excavated at a historic shanty town in Mill Creek, Edmonton. Photo credit: Haeden Stewart
Toy saucer from a historic shanty town in the Mill Creek Ravine, Edmonton. Photo Credit: Haeden Stewart.
Chicken bones buried in a pit in a Shanty Town in Mill Creek Ravine, Edmonton. Photo credit: Haeden Stewart
Next, Haeden plans to excavate at Vogel's meatpacking plant in the south end of the ravine. Vogel's was one of three large meatpacking plants built by 1910 in the Mill Creek Ravine.
Vogel's meatpacking plant in 1902. Image credit: Edmonton – A City Called Home EA-10-1134 http://www2.epl.ca/edmontonacitycalledhome/EPLEdmontonCityCalledPhotosSingle.cfm?id=51
Haeden will be excavating every day of the week, from approximately 830am-530pm, except for Tuesday. If anyone is interested in volunteering to help out with the excavation please contact Haeden at haedenstewart@uchicago.edu, or call\text him at 773-827-4004 to make arrangements.
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Target Point of Sale Press Release
This document is the press release about the legal agreement signed by Target with of the American Council of the Blind (ACB), the American Foundation for the Blind, and the California Council of the Blind (CCB). Target agreed to make changes so blind people can pay for things with payment cards and enter their own PIN. Target agreed that payment devices in Target stores would have keys that a person can feel. All Target stores in the U.S. will have devices with a keypad. Lainey Feingold and Linda Dardarian were the lawyers for the blind community. No lawsuit was filed. Instead, a formal process known as Structured Negotiations was used. [Back to Press Release]
This Target press release announces a legal agreement signed by Target with of the American Council of the Blind (ACB), the American Foundation for the Blind, and the California Council of the Blind (CCB). In the the Target point of sale agreement, Target agreed to install tactile point of sale devices at stores across the United States so that blind people do not have to disclose their PIN when using a debit card. Lainey Feingold and Linda Dardarian were the lawyers for the blind community, using Structured Negotiations to achieve this agreement.
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Target Improves Point of Sale Equipment to Benefit Shoppers with Visual Impairments
Minneapolis, Minn. (May 14, 2009)– The American Foundation for the Blind (AFB), American Council of the Blind (ACB), California Council of the Blind (CCB) and Target (NYSE:TGT) announced today that the organizations have collaborated to improve the Target checkout experience of guests with visual impairments and ensure their privacy. The AFB, ACB and CCB applaud Target's efforts and urge other retailers to follow its example.
Point of Sale Improvements
Target will add tactile keypads to point of sale devices at all Target stores. This improvement allows shoppers who have visual impairments or difficulty reading information on a touch screen to privately and independently enter their personal identification number (PIN), protecting their financial privacy.
The devices feature keys arranged like a standard telephone keypad and work in conjunction with Target's current point of sale terminals. All Target stores in California will have the new devices by December 2009, and keypads will be installed in all Target stores nationwide by the end of 2010.
I applaud Target, one of the largest national retailers, for making these equipment changes that recognize that blind and visually-impaired customers must have the same level of privacy and security when making purchases as our sighted peers. In this era of rampant identity theft, the ability to use tactile point of sale devices is crucial. — Mitch Pomerantz, president of the American Council of the Blind
Ann Marie Janke, vice president, Target Technology Services, Guest Development, said, "Target is committed to providing an exceptional experience and fostering an inclusive shopping environment for all our guests. We are eager to make changes to our point of sale keypads that will enhance the guest experience and ensure the privacy protection of our visually-impaired guests."
About Target
Minneapolis-based Target Corporation (NYSE:TGT) serves guests at 1,699 stores nationwide and at Target.com. Target is committed to providing a fun and convenient shopping experience with access to unique and highly differentiated products at affordable prices. Since 1946, the corporation has given 5 percent of its income through community grants and programs like Take Charge of Education. Today, that giving equals more than $3 million a week.
About American Council of the Blind (ACB) and California Council of the Blind (CCB)
American Council of the Blind is a national consumer-based advocacy organization working on behalf of blind and visually impaired Americans throughout the country, with members organized through seventy state and special interest affiliates. The California Council of the Blind are the Massachusetts and California state affiliates of the ACB. ACB and CCB are dedicated to improving the quality of life, equality of opportunity and independence of all people who have visual impairments. Their members and affiliated organizations have a long history of commitment to the advancement of policies and programs which will enhance independence for people who are blind and visually impaired. More information about ACB, BSCB and CCB can be found by visiting www.acb.org and www.ccbnet.org.
About American Foundation for the Blind
The American Foundation for the Blind (AFB) is a national nonprofit that expands possibilities for people with vision loss. AFB's priorities include broadening access to technology; elevating the quality of information and tools for the professionals who serve people with vision loss; and promoting independent and healthy living for people with vision loss by providing them and their families with relevant and timely resources. AFB is also proud to house the Helen Keller Archives and honor the over forty years that Helen Keller worked tirelessly with AFB. For more information visit us online at www.afb.org.
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Automating operations within the fashion industry requires strong apparel software that is capable of complying with industry regulations, meeting retailers' requirements, and managing complex product matrices. Staying in vogue with the latest clothing trend is only the beginning of a successful fashion season. Optimizing the manufacturing and distribution operations requires the selection and implementation of the best ERP software solution that includes apparel software standards such as multiple packaging units, color schemes, and sizes.


A mountain... a tall one... and immediately this image. I was trying to decipher your previous image, was struggling very hard. This is a very nice image, gives a very soothing feeling. Colors are very pleasing. The forest, light.. wow, what a setting! ... But somewhere I am happy to struggle to decipher your images than sitting relaxed in a chair and admire your images.
A fine image, Ganesh! Love it for the way all the elements in this image coming together and complimenting each other.
@Adithya, you stole my words. l'm still thinking about Ganesh's previous image.
There is much mysticism and it is full of aetheticism so far as play of light, shades and tones of colors are concerned....! This image is a sheer painting....!It is so poetic that only a musical raga can emit the beauty and fragrance of this blissful image...! There is 'Music of the Mountains'.....'Music of the Rivers'.....and there is 'Song of Nature' beautifully captured in this image.....! Very spiritual....! Very enlightening.....! Thanks a lot....! Regards....!
A fine setting, depicting a true jungle moment. The hint of color actually pushes up the image.
The way you have used the trees to frame this moment is just brilliant sir. I would have hurried for a clear opening! Nice to see colour image from you. TFS.
Very picturesque and nice forest feel. Fawn is adding a lot to me. Thanks for sharing.
I like the way the edges of the water are creating distinct overlapped shapes with the meadow. These shapes are complimented well by the organic lines formed by the tree and the opening which leads the eye to the waters edge. Only wish the extra arc formed at the waters edge in front of the deer wasn't present..


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Name: Enali
Pronunciation: Eh-NAH-lee
Rank: Weyr Resident
Location: Dolphin Cove Weyr
Job: Drudge
Enali is a young woman of average height with dark brown hair and wide hazel eyes. She is pretty enough, with a strong jaw and full lower lip, dark slashing eyebrows and a high-bridged nose, but is no raving beauty. She's of average size, neither too slim, nor too rounded.
Enali was once a typical cotholder girl who dreamed of happiness, children, and marriage. Now, with encouragement from much smarter men, she's become angry and calculating. She's intelligent, but despite her strong self-assurance, she doesn't always think ahead or that deeply. She's impulsive at times and her emotions guide her more than her brain.
Enali was born into a large cotholding family near Emerald Falls Hold. Her upbringing was normal and comparative to others of her age and gender. When she was betrothed to Grevan, a young man who was to be a guard, she couldn't have been happier. He was sweet, kind, a hard worker, and was so gentle to her, that her heart was lost to him.
But Grevan's life took a turn when his father returned from the Weyr beaten and crippled from a fight. Grevan grew angry and bitter at the Weyr and Enali tried to keep his spirits up as his family moved away from the Hold. He still wanted to marry her, but after his father took his own life, he grew distant. Grevan told him that men had come to him, encouraging him to fight back against the Weyr that had so harmed his family; Enali agreed with the men, for Grevan had taken on the burden of caring for his family and her own parents had begun to rethink her marriage to him. But Enali loved him desperately and would have done anything to help him.
When Grevan came to her with a plan that had been devised for him, Enali offered her help. She reached out to a cousin who lived at the Weyr, Jerinne for aid and was surprised when Jerinne readily agreed. Her cousin knew the rider who had hurt Grevan's father and from her description, was a horrible, violent man who had harmed her.
The plan in place, Enali waited for Grevan to return from the Weyr, hoping that once it was over, she could wed her beloved and start a family of their own. That it would be over. But Grevan was caught, the rider lived, and instead of justice, both her cousin and her man were sent to the mines. She resolved to wait for him, however long it took for him to come home. But he never did. Both he and her cousin were killed in a mine collapse.
Enali was devastated. In her grief, men from the hold came to her. They spoke of how the Hold was made weaker by Corowal and a strong Lord Holder would have demanded that Grevan's family would have received proper justice. The Weyr took too much, they said, but she could help right the wrongs. She could get justice for herself, Grevan, and his family. Near maddened by grief, she listened and she agreed.
Though she hated the Weyr with a passion, she was sent there to watch, send back information, and wait for instructions. She should do anything to protect herself, but if she spoke of the men that guided her, she would lose everything. She understood the threat but was not afraid. She was too angry.
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Having a swimming pool on your property can be a great way to have fun for yourself and your entire family. Even though a pool can be fun, it can also be very dangerous if you have children around. If you can wait, you should wait until your kids are least 5 or older before you put a pool on your property. On the other hand, if you already have a swimming pool, there are ways that you can protect your children.
One thing you should always remember is to never, ever, allow your children to be alone near your pool. Children tend to be drawn near the water, and all it takes is a second for them to fall in the pool. If you and your children are at your pool and you need to leave the area for a second, you should always take your children with you.
To be on the safe side, you should always make sure that you have plenty of safety equipment around your pool at all times. Safety items are great to have around, as they can save the life of a child or anyone else who can't swim. You should also invest in a shepherd's hook as well, as you can use it to pull someone out of the water. Having a phone at your pool is also a wise investment, as you can easily call for help in the event of an emergency.
If you don't have a fence around your pool you should look into getting one. A fence is a great way to protect your pool from children. If you have a protective fence up, you won't have to worry about little kids falling in while you are away from the pool. When you put your fence, you should always make sure that it's at least 6 foot high, with a locking gate. This way, no one can get into the pool without the key – which you should keep with you at all times.
You can also learn CPR as well. Even though you may not ever have to use it, it's always great to know in the event of someone falling in your pool that is unable to swim. Whenever you have children or people you know can't swim at your pool, you should always stay within reach of them, so you can react instantly if they fall in. A second is all it takes to save someone's life.
Always keep in mind that swimming is fun, although you should always think in terms of safety first. Once you have finished using your pool for day, make sure that you secure the area well – and lock the gate up tight so no one can get in.
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French Flavoring IV: Healers and Educators
Recruitment, Travel, and Arrival
As early as 1845, Texas Bishop John Mary Odin had spoken of opening a school in the historic Alamo buildings,then owned by the Catholic Church. The French-born bishop planned a day school with a section for boarders whose food could be raised on the land near Concepcion Mission.
Bishop Odin went to France and visited a number of seminaries and convents, asking for brothers, priests and nuns to help establish schools and churches in Texas. That's why, on June 28, 1852, the "La Belle Assise" arrived in Galveston with a variety of religious aboard--some of them to serve in San Antonio. Debarking the ship were 24 Oblates of Mary Immaculate, 18 of them seminarians; three Brothers of the Society of Mary; four sisters of the Incarnate Word and Blessed Sacrament; and four Ursuline Sisters, with three postulants.
"The French School"
The names of religious orders have become commonplace in San Antonio--interwoven with the city's development. The three newly arrived Brothers of Mary plus Brother Andrew Edel from the Society of Mary in Dayton, Ohio, began St. Mary's Institute by converting an old shop on the southwest corner of Military Plaza into a schoolhouse.
Later, they had the institute built on what today is the site of the Hotel La Mansion del Rio on College Street. It opened on March 1, 1853. San Antonians called it "the French School," but it offered German, English and Spanish, as well as French. St. Mary's Institute became St. Mary's Academy, and eventually was used only as the downtown school of St. Mary's University.
In 1894, after St. Mary's Academy downtown had become too crowded, the Marianists moved it to the West End outskirts of the city and changed its name to St. Louis College. Younger students were transferred to what became Central Catholic High School.
Saint Louis College is remembered by many people mostly because in 1916 Lieutenant Dwight David Eisenhower--who was then assigned at Fort Sam Houston, and later was made Supreme Allied Commander during World War II and then served as President of the United States (1952-1960)--coached the football team. St. Mary's law school, which had been run by the local bar association, came under the University's control in 1934. Women were admitted to all programs in 1963.
Caring for Those in Need
The Society of Mary had a great deal to do with preserving Mission Concepcion, south of the city. It's the oldest unrestored stone church in the United States. In 1855, the Brothers of Mary took possession of the Mission grounds and commenced farming to provide food for St. Mary's School. At the same time, they began restoring the church of the mission, and on May 28, 1861, the church was blessed and reopened as a place of worship--which it continues to be today.
Across from the mission church, you can see St. Peter's-St. Joseph's Home, built in 1913 and now caring for orphaned boys and girls. It's operated by the Sisters of Charity of the Incarnate Word--a French order whose work began in San Antonio in 1869, when three nuns were sent from New Orleans to establish Santa Rosa Infirmary. The Congregation of the Sisters of Charity of the Incarnate Word, whose predecessors lived in Lyons, France, now operate numerous San Antonio institutions: Incarnate Word College, Incarnate Word High School, Santa Rosa Medical Center (General Hospital, Children's Hospital, Villa Rosa, Outpatient Clinic) and a number of parochial schools in various parishes.
Originally, the large Santa Rosa Hospital we see on Houston and Santa Rosa near Market Square, was in a small building on the corner of West Commerce and Camaron streets. It was called Santa Rosa Infirmary and took care not only of the sick but of orphans. When Santa Rosa was moved to its present location, the old building was converted to St. Joseph's Orphanage for girls--and an orphanage for boys, St. John's, was constructed on the infirmary grounds. At St. John's Orphanage were 92 boys and nine sisters. On October 30, 1912, St. John's was destroyed by fire, killing five, sisters and three boys.
After St. Joseph's Orphanage For Girls was built in 1874, young Lucine Roussin, an indomitable French woman who had become Sister Mary of Jesus, would go on five-to six-week trips to towns and military posts to seek donations of food or whatever could be useful to the hospital and to the orphans.
Sometimes the sister would visit places as far away as Fort Stockton, traveling by stage. Often she simply drove herself. Taking an orphan girl or boy with her, she would drive a team of horses across the wilderness. Over her religious habit she'd wear a soldier's overcoat that reached to her ankles, a pair of heavy boots and a large straw hat. She kept two pistols next to her. One of three young sisters who once went with her on a three-day trip, wrote:
"The days were usually pleasant if we except the heat and the continuous jolting over rough roads in a springless wagon; the nights, however, were dreaded by all except Sister. After tying her horses to the wheels of the wagon, she spread her blanket on the ground, said her night prayers, took out her pistols, and, placing them at a convenient distance, slept as peacefully as if in her bed at home."
While the Brothers of Mary were helping to protect Mission Concepcion from further outside damage, and making use of it for religious services, a French priest was taking care of Mission San Francisco de la Espada, about nine miles south of San Antonio. Mission historian Father Marion Habig wrote in his book The Alamo Chain of Missions that "there would probably be no Mission San Francisco de la Espada today, if it had not been for Father Francis Bouchu, who lived and worked at this mission during the latter half of the nineteenth century."
Assigned originally to the church of San Fernando, Father Bouchu took a special interest in the most distant San Antonio mission, beginning work there as early as 1858. That year, he found only the facade and the rear wall of the church still standing, according to Habig. With his own hands he rebuilt the side walls on the old foundations and then plastered and whitewashed them. He put a tin roof on the building and doors at the entrances. Inside he laid a wooden floor, built a choir loft, set up a sanctuary railing and installed simple pews for sitting and kneeling. Old statues of St. Francis, the Blessed Virgin and Christ Crucified were still there. He regilded them and put an altar in the sanctuary.
Because there were no catechisms available for use in teaching the children and others in the area, Father Bouchu wrote one, and in 1872 printed several thousand copies on an old printing press. By 1897, according to Father Habig,. four editions had been printed. Bishop A. Forest made it the official catechism for the Spanish-speaking of San Antonio. It also was used in other parts of Texas and in New Mexico.
The August 19, 1907 issue of the San Antonio Light reported on Father Bouchul's death at age 78 in Santa Rosa Hospital at 4 o'clock that morning. The newspaper said:
"He came to Texas in 1845 and for 52 years has made the Fourth Mission of Espada his home, which property he purchased many years ago. For years he occupied himself by simply holding services at the Mission where he preached to the Mexicans of the vicinity. He lived alone and but for one sister no other relatives survive him...."
The School For Young Ladies
Among San Antonio's distinctive buildings is the Southwest Craft Center, on the site of the former Ursuline Academy on the river at 300 Augusta Street. The Ursuline Order of nuns had begun in Italy in 1535 and spread in Europe, including France. French nuns had been sent to San Antonio from New Orleans and Galveston in 1851 to start the first "permanent" school in San Antonio.
Actually, the school continued until 1992. It was an academy for girls, and, through its 141 years it graduated many young women from all over Texas and from Mexico. The academy was moved in 1961 from its original location to 4802 Vance Jackson, where the sisters taught high school only. Enrollment declined, the school was closed, and in October 1992 the property was purchased by the non— denominational Cornerstone Church, with plans to make it a Christian school for up to 1,300 students.
The buildings at the old location beside the river on Augusta Street were saved from destruction by the San Antonio Conservation Society. After holding it a few years, the society sold the property to the Southwest Craft Center, a nonprofit organization which today offers the buildings and a gifted staff as a community source for education in arts and crafts. In 1971, the buildings were designated a State Historical Landmark. The oldest building had been built as a home by Jules Poinsard, a Frenchman who'd hoped his family would join him there. But his wife chose not to come to Texas, and he sold the property.
Bishop Odin bought it and established the school in 1851. The original academy building had been constructed of pise de terre, or rammed earth. The walls were made of earth packed between wooden forms, which were moved up as the walls rose higher. This was a plain, two-story building, with porches on the south, east and north, and inswinging French windows.
Francis Giraud and other architects are credited with several of the beautiful structures that were added later-- built of limestone blocks and detailed with Gothic and Renaissance Revival elements. In 1866, the cornerstone was laid for an academic and dormitory building with a tower whose clock had been brought from France. Clock faces were placed on only three sides of the square-topped tower--to the south, east and west--because the side to the north faced nothing but wilderness, which seemed likely to remain unchanged. The chapel's cornerstone was laid in 1867. Besides the convent and chapel, other buildings were built later.
The first group of Ursuline educators had arrived in San Antonio on September 14, 1851. They were four nuns from New Orleans and three from Galveston, accompanied by Father Claude Dubuis, a San Antonio priest. The school grew rapidly and soon more nuns were needed. Bishop Odin went to Europe to obtain additional help for his diocese. Among other helpers, he found Sisters Mary Patrick Joseph and Mary Augustine Joseph at the Ursuline Convent at St. Mary's, Waterford, Ireland. They agreed to go to San Antonio. Sister Mary Patrick Joseph wrote in a letter to Ireland about the evening in 1852 when they arrived in San Antonio by carriage from Seguin:
"Great indeed was our surprise on entering San Antonio; we saw stone houses in abundance--shops and warehouses lighted up. Altogether it surpassed anything we had seen since we came to Texas: it bids fair to rival Galveston."
The sister added in her letter home:
"Our dear Mother, Sainte Marie, is so delighted that we speak French . ... We must learn Spanish at once; there are English, French, Spanish and German classes in the school. Some of the sisters speak Spanish already and are learning German."
So the sisters, and all those educators who came after them, taught themselves even more as time went by, and in turn they taught others--thousands of others, during 141 years.
--Frank W. Jennings, 1992
Chris Carson and William B. McDonald, eds., A Guide to San Antonio Architecture (San Antonio: San Antonio Chapter, American Institute of Architects, 1986).
Dan Feldstein, San Antonio Light, Oct 18, 1992, pg. 1B
M.J. Gilbert, ed., Diamond Jubilee 1874-1949 Archdiocese of San Antonio (San Antonio: Archdiocese of San Antonio, 1949), pg 20.
Father Marion Habig, The Alamo Chain of Missions (Chicago: Franciscan Herald Press, 1968 pg 225—226.
Lillie May Hagner, Alluring San Antonio (San Antonio: The Naylor Co., 1940)
L. V. Jacks, Claude Dubuis Bishop of Galveston, (1946) pp. 121-122.
Catherine McDowell, ed. Trinity University Press, 1977 Letters from the Ursuline, 1852-1853 (San Antonio: Trinity University Press, 1977).
J. Michael Parker, San Antonio Express News, March 2, 1992, pg. 7A
Charles W. Ramsdell, San Antonio: A Historical and Pictorial Guide (Austin: University of Texas Press, 1959).
Gilberto Reyes , Jr San Antonio Light, July 13, 1991.
August Santleben, A Texas Pioneer: Early Staging and Overland Freighting Days on the Frontiers of Texas and Mexico. (New York: Neale and Company Publishers, 1910)
M. Schultz, "Beginnings of the Society of Mary in Texas,1852-1866," Mid-America , Vol 25, New Series No. 14, No. l.
Alexander C. Wangler, ed., Archdiocese of San Antonio, 1874-1974 (San Antonio, 1974), pp. 44, 292.
Todd Webb and Willard B. Robinson, Texas Public Buildings of the Nineteenth Century, (Austin: University of Texas Press, 1974)
June R. Welch, Colleges of Texas, (Waco: G L A Press, 1981), pp 16-19.


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50 U.S. Governors Join AJC Initiative to Support Israel, Fight BDS
May 17, 2017 — New York, New York
In a profound display of bipartisan unity across the country, all 50 U.S. governors and the Mayor of the District of Columbia have joined an AJC initiative to affirm their rejection of the BDS (boycott, divestment and sanctions) movement against Israel.
"Governors across our country know very well the enormous value of the U.S.-Israel partnership in every sphere imaginable, and many have been central to nurturing their own state's beneficial ties to Israel," said AJC CEO David Harris. "At the same time, our nation's 50 governors, as well as the District of Columbia mayor, recognize the pernicious goals of the BDS movement, which singles out Israel from among all the nations of the world for relentless and undue criticism, and whose efforts undermine the prospects for advancing Israeli-Palestinian peace."
The Governors United Against BDS statement – www.ajc.org/governors -- declares that "the goals of the BDS movement are antithetical to our values and the values of our respective states, our support for Israel as a vital U.S. ally, important economic partner and champion of freedom."
Israel is a "pluralistic nation with deep cultural, familial, security, educational, scientific and commercial bonds with our states and with the United States as a whole," asserts the statement.
The governors reaffirm their commitment to "the principle of two states for two peoples, existing side by side in peace, security and mutual recognition, and achieved through direct, bilateral negotiations." And they emphasize that the BDS movement "undermines peacemaking by suggesting that economic and political pressure on Israel can replace real negotiation."
Texas Governor Greg Abbott (R), New York Governor Andrew Cuomo (D), and Connecticut Governor Dannel Malloy (D), are co-chairs of the national, bipartisan Governors United Against BDS initiative.
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Illuminated MP3 Album
October 22, 2003 July 8, 2007 / By Marc Weidenbaum
On October 20, Audiobulb Records uploaded a new various-artists electronic-music collection in MP3 format. Titled Exhibition #2, it's currently highlighted on the label's website, audiobulb.com. The set features 11 tracks, ranging from gentle stereoscopic play, Claudia's "Sleepyhead (Roomix)," to vaguely disturbing vocal mishmash. Disastrato's "2 Orgasms Before Each Suicide + A Deformed Smile = Ixtab" uses what seems to be the voices of children; Autistici's "Tiny Machines Engaged in an Unsuccessful Vasectomy," judging from its layered moans, may better deserve the Disastrato title. Also using a vocal cutup is Build's "A Protective Plastic Coating," which has the abstract-rap feel of Amon Tobin's nonsense "Verbal" single and the more chaotic songs by the UK techno outfit Underworld. Many of the record's tracks emphasize elastic, seemingly autonomous rhythms and light, pleasing melodies. David Newman runs Audiobulb from Sheffield, England. He describes Exhibition #2 as follows: "This album provides compositions based on subtleties, attention to the little details and a non-reliance on repetitive rhythmic structures. Within the album you will find the sound of minimal ambience, micro clicks and deconstructed samples."
The album's shortest piece, at less than two minutes, features renowned the renowned Tetsu Inoue working with Daimon Beail on a series of brief elements that shift by as if someone's switching stations on a radio with faulty wiring. By far the most restful entrant here is Erik Schoster's "Study No. 1 (For Chris Penrose & Eric Lyon)," which is truly ambient: absent of a downbeat, ethereal even as it develops texture. If you're low on bandwidth or disk space, or otherwise want to limit your downloads, be sure to check out the album's first track, "So Gone" which is credited to Diagram of Suburban Chaos. The song (here) starts with exactly the sort of stuttered snippets that have you checking whether your speakers are on the fritz, or your laptop's motherboard is overloading. As a result, you'll find it doubly centering when a gentle tune wafts in and, around the one-minute mark, a drum beat arrives to steady the track's course.
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