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/**
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public class TunableConfig {
    public int readRateLimit;
    public int writeRateLimit;

    public TunableConfig(IConfiguration configuration)
    {
        this.readRateLimit = configuration.getReadRateLimit();
        this.writeRateLimit = configuration.getWriteRateLimit();
    }

    public int getReadRateLimit()
    {
        return readRateLimit;
    }
    public int getWriteRateLimit()
    {
        return writeRateLimit;
    }

    public TunableConfig setReadRateLimit(int readRateLimit) {
        this.readRateLimit = readRateLimit;
        return this;
    }

    public TunableConfig setWriteRateLimit(int writeRateLimit) {
        this.writeRateLimit = writeRateLimit;
        return this;
    }

}

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The pace of vulnerability reporting up to the end of Q3 2018 shows a small decrease in vulnerabilities from all-time high with a drop of 7% over the same period in 2017. There were 16,172 vulnerabilities published by RiskBased Security's VulnDB team through the end of Q3 2018 which was greater than the total covered by the CVE and National Vulnerability Database (NVD) by over 4,800. This latest installment in the Vulnerability QuickView Report series highlights current trends in disclosure as well as a focused look at third-party plug-ins.
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Home » Library » Government Publications » Statistics
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American Community Survey: "The American Community Survey (ACS) is an ongoing statistical survey that samples a small percentage of the population every year — giving communities the information they need to plan investments and services."
My Congressional District "gives you quick and easy access to selected statistics collected by the U.S. Census Bureau through the American Community Survey. The American Community Survey provides updated detailed demographic, social and economic statistics every year for the nation's communities. With My Congressional District, you can view statistics covering age, employment, education, and much more. My Congressional District is powered by the American Community Survey and Census Application Programming Interface (API)." Source: 2014 American Community Survey 1-Year Estimates
American factfinder: Fast access to census information
National Transportation Statistics presents data for all modes of transportation, including, for example, safety, energy consumption, and economic statistics.
Treasury Department statistics, formatted in easy-to-understand reports.
USA Trade Online "Provided by the U.S. Census Bureau, USA Trade Online is a dynamic data tool that gives users access to current and cumulative U.S. export and import data." From website. (Individuals can set up their own accounts.)
National Center for Education Statistics, which includes, for example, national assessments, such as the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) and the Education Data Analysis Tool (EDAT)
The University of Minnesota Library's Government Publications Census webpage provides a link to Sources of Data Files
Census of Population and Housing (webinars and training available to assist your search for census information)
1940 Census: Official 1940 Census Website The 1940 census records were released by the US National Archives April 2, 2012, providing full access to the census images, maps and descriptions. The Getting Started tutorial explains how to use the site.
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National Historical Geographic Information System (NHGIS) "The National Historical Geographic Information System (NHGIS) provides, free of charge, aggregate census data and GIS-compatible boundary files for the United States between 1790 and 2011."
Census Bureau Publications
Minnesota State Demographic Center
Minnesota Center for Health Statistics
Minnesota Compass: "Minnesota Compass is a social indicators project that measures progress in our state, its seven regions, 87 counties and larger cities. Compass tracks trends in topic areas such as education, economy and workforce, health, housing, public safety, and a host of others. "
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In Dostoevsky's "The Brothers Karamazov," a priest recalls the words of a man who confessed, "The more I love mankind in general, the less I love people in particular." We can all think of people like that—folks of varied political persuasions who rally to "save" humanity but become so consumed by their cause that they lose patience with the individuals they ostensibly are trying to help.
Judging by Gov. Jerry Brown's latest plan to "save" California's Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta, he appears to suffer from a variant of the same condition. California's Green Governor loves the Earth in general but he doesn't seem to care about particular earthly environments.
Throughout his political career, Brown has championed grand Earth-saving projects such as AB 32, the state's first-in-the nation cap-and-trade system designed to prod the world into cutting the carbon dioxide emissions that supposedly lead to global warming. He is pushing a high-speed-rail system that is designed to lure people out of their automobiles. He speaks often about his commitment to the environment.
Yet I wonder whether the governor has ever taken the short trip from the Capitol to one of California's ecological treasures. As it comes down from the mountains and heads toward the San Francisco Bay, the bulk of the state's water passes through the Delta. It is a land of marshes, islands, charming small towns, Victorian mansions, and orchards interspersed between 1,000 miles of waterways.
The Delta also is Ground Zero for ongoing fights over the state's water supplies. Judges have routinely stopped the water flows out of the Delta toward the dry but agriculturally rich San Joaquin Valley and toward Southern California's massive metropolises, to help a tiny endangered baitfish known as the Delta Smelt. The smelt is viewed as the canary in a coal mine, a bellwether for the ecological health of the waterways.
Millions of smelt are killed each year as they get caught in the giant pumps near Tracy, near the south end of the Delta. Environmentalists also express concerns about the level of saltwater that moves inland from the Pacific Ocean.
This tiny, tranquil region is about to undergo dramatic, government-imposed changes that threaten its beauty and way of life. The governor's plan is touted by Southern California water agencies and farmers alike, who view it as a means to assure more consistent water supplies.
I'm a believer in providing water to thirsty farmers and thirsty cities. But the Bay Delta Conservation Plan won't necessarily increase the flow of water, according to the first parts of the plan, which recently has been released to the public.
The plan would start a decade-long construction project to build two massive tunnels to bypass the current river system. At a cost estimated as high as $39 billion before the usual government-project overruns, the tunnels would move water supplies under the Delta and thereby decrease the current reliance on aging, earthquake-prone levees.
The plan has two equal goals: restore the Delta ecosystem and improve water reliability. It won't increase water flows, but by resolving the Delta Smelt issue it will end the court-ordered water stoppages—at least in theory. Thus the administration is proposing the use of tax dollars and massive engineering feats to solve a legal and regulatory problem. This is a poor use of resources, especially in a state that is largely broke and already faces some of the biggest debt and tax burdens in the nation.
What are the chances that once the smelt issue is fixed, environmentalists won't find another reason to sue to stop the water flows given that the water flows are the real source of the dispute?
The administration's plan will tear up the Delta for at least 10 years. We know how government infrastructure projects are always delayed, so it's anyone's guess how long it actually will take. Even the project's advocates admit they aren't sure about the unintended consequences.
As part of its ecosystem restoration program, this boondoggle will flood a large portion of the Delta's land, destroying vineyards, farmland, orchards, and marshes. It will submerge islands. There will be land confiscations.
Environmental groups say the reengineering of the ecosystem will destroy salmon and other fish habitats. No one in their right mind would hand over a precious region such as this to bureaucrats, but in Sacramento these days the Brown administration is trying to relive the glory days of the New Deal where central planning and big spending were the in thing.
This is a case where free-market advocates such as myself and true environmentalists should make common cause—to stop a misguided project that will raise water rates and increase the state's debt load to provide limited and questionable gains. There are better, cheaper, more reasonable ways to increase water supplies, tend to a damaged ecosystem, and shore up levees.
I don't expect this governor to worry much about deficit spending, tax burdens, and that sort of thing. But perhaps he might take a trip through the meandering waterways and charming small towns of the Delta where he can learn one shouldn't save the environment in general by sacrificing an environment in the process.
Steven Greenhut (sgreenhut@calwatchdog.org) is vice president of journalism at the Franklin Center for Government and Public Integrity. Used with permission of Watchdog.org.


Civilians are used as human shields by jihadists in both Aleppo and Mosul, and more in our global news round-up.
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Amidst ceasefire deal between US and Russia in Syria, journalist Gareth Porter joins "Unauthorized Disclosure" podcast to address central flaw in the deal.
US special forces deployed to work with Turkish forces in Operation Euphrates Shield were threatened by US-backed Free Syrian Army forces, and more in our round-up.
Though many scoffed when Jabhat Al-Nusra rebranded itself Jabhat Fateh Al-Sham, that cosmetic change was apparently enough to convince the US to start sending arms.
During the August 13 weekend, the Pentagon released 15 prisoners from the Guantánamo Bay military prison to the United Arab Emirates.
Coordinated terrorist bombings in Syria killed more than 150 civilians and significantly disturbed the situation in the country, and more in our round-up.
While Obama has been able to keep fewer US boots on the ground than Bush, the effort to play God in the affairs of other nations remains unchanged.
The Obama administration revealed that US special operations forces have been deployed in Libyan "outposts" for months along with other western forces.


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You're Dead
When Peterson was sent upstairs he was meant to go and pack, but now he's out on the roof and nobody knows what to do. The teachers are all standing around on the grass looking confused, and the Head is holding a megaphone to his beard and shouting upwards. The voice rebounds off the building and echoes across the field towards the woods.
Then the first black square comes spinning down through the inky blue sky – it looks like a UFO crashing, out of control – and explodes on the path showering the lawn with stones. Teachers murmur nervously. The Head squats down and picks up a piece of tile shrapnel. He turns it over and over in his hand. He doesn't know what to do next. I bet he regrets not sending someone to supervise Peterson with the packing.
The Head stands up again and shouts louder, 'Matthew Peterson you are going to be in a lot of trouble for this!'
The megaphone sings a long, high note of static, chasing after the yell. The next tile flies right past the Head's head and shatters on the gravel.
Kip has come up from the woods because she heard all the loud voices, and she's lying near me chewing on something she dug up. What the teachers don't know, but I see perfectly from here, is that Peterson is also flinging tiles down the other side of the building into the staff car park. He knows his punishment can't get any bigger. The Head understands this too and has run out of ideas.
It's getting dark; Peterson's mum will be here soon to collect him.
Peterson sleeps in the bed next to mine, but after today his'll be free. That's something I have been praying for since my first week.
Once, in 3A, I found some boys cutting the heads off Peterson's soldiers with a Stanley knife. I knew straight away there'd be trouble and wanted nothing to do with it. I even said to them all, 'I am nothing to do with this.'
They all looked at me as if I was the one being stupid. I left. But then someone – I bet it was Andrew Chapman – told Peterson it was me and later on in the upstairs corridor I saw Peterson marching towards me, angrier than I have ever seen him before. His face was the colour of Ribena. He was staring straight at me as he got closer and muttered 'You're dead' through his teeth without moving his lips. When he ran at me I couldn't move. I just stood there and when his fist hit my mouth I crumpled to the floor and held my mouth closed around my bleeding teeth. I cried not from pain but because I hadn't done anything.
Later on, Peterson and I had to stand in the Head's room for hours, waiting for Peterson to say sorry. The Head just shuffled piles of paper around on his desk and did marking. He was ready to sit there all night. We were in there so long that I had time to memorise all the authors and titles on the Head's bookshelves, and I hadn't even heard of any of them. Peterson spent the whole time looking out of the window.
Finally, when even the Year Sixes were in bed, Peterson said sorry. He was still looking out of the window when he said it so it shouldn't've counted, but I think the Head was getting tired by then because he just nodded to himself then told us to go to bed.
Just as I was falling asleep a fist thumped into my belly and I lay in the dark gulping for air, blinking away hot tears, desperate not to make any sound at all.
The tiles are still falling when Peterson's mum arrives. Someone hears the car in the drive and goes to explain where her son is. She comes around the side of the building just as another tile comes cartwheeling through the sky. This time it stabs into the lawn and stays there, upright, like a shark's fin swimming through a sea of grass.
Mrs Peterson looks even angrier than the Head. She snatches the megaphone from his hand and tries to shout through it but nothing comes out. 'How do you work this fucking thing?' she snaps at the Head and he shows her how to pull the trigger to make your voice come out. This time the shout works:
'Matthew? Matthew do you hear me? I have driven for three bloody hours to get here. If you think I want to play games with you then you've got another thing coming. You have three minutes to get down here, before I come up there and throw you down.'
Peterson is sitting on the peak of the roof. The sky has just enough blue light left in it for him to be a silhouette. He doesn't say anything back, but at least the tiles have stopped falling. Then I see the sitting figure stand and clamber down the slope of the roof to the edge.
What happened is this. Everybody else had the swimming competition today, but I was allowed to go out in the field because I had a verruca.
I was near the summer house when I heard shouts coming from the woods. Nobody else was off games, so whoever was in there shouldn't've been. I couldn't tell how many voices there were but one of them was definitely Peterson's. That was weird because I knew Peterson was meant to be doing front crawl. Peterson has the record for two lengths. He's never off games and always wins the swimming competition. So I started walking towards the woods to investigate, but I didn't hurry. If you've got any brains, when Peterson shouts you run away. But something about this shout made me go towards it.
As I walked across the field I could see everyone up by the pool. Chlorine floated down and mixed with the smell of cut grass. I could hear the divers hitting the water and girls' screams as high as Miss T's whistle. The sun was out over the school roof and warmed one side of my face. There hadn't been any clouds for days.
Close to the woods the grass is long because the branches are too low for Mr Way's tractor. Mr Way's job is to look after all the grass. He is always rolling it and mowing it, sometimes even talking to it. He has a page in the school magazine called 'Thoughts on Grass' where he tells us about the grass and whether or not it had a good term.
I walked along the edge of the trees looking into the woods but I didn't see anyone. The shouts had stopped, so I thought whoever had been there had gone. But then deep inside the woods I saw something blue flapping and heard crying noises. The boys' uniforms are snooker-table green; the girls wear dresses the colour of a baby boy's blanket. So I knew it was a girl.
I couldn't see who it was because her head was turned but I could see she was tied to a tree.
I ran in, and when I got close I saw it was Gemma. She was shaking so hard she couldn't speak. You could tell she had been crying but she had stopped and tracks of salt had dried on her face where the tears had run down. The shoelaces had burned purple lines across her wrists and ankles, and the knots were tiny and tight. They got tighter when I tried to snap the laces. I had to use my teeth.
Straight away Gemma ran off and I could hear she was crying again. I shouted after her, 'Was it him?' She didn't answer me, but I already knew it was.
She kept running, fast towards the Lecky block, and I followed across the field. Everyone was still splashing and swimming, and nobody seemed to notice or care that we weren't up there cheering with them. Gemma ran into the Lecky block and when I caught up with her she had gone into the French room. I asked her again if it was Peterson and she just told me to go away.
'I know it was him,' I insisted. 'I heard his voice.'
'GO AWAY!' she screamed.
I stood around outside. After a while I opened the Lecky door again but I couldn't walk in. The door swung back and my shutting reflection looked like a hologram as it came back to face me.
I walked back up the steps towards school. Inside, the long corridor was dark and smelt of varnish. Crowd cheers bounced through the open windows and along the empty walls, down to the Head's door at the end.
In total I have had to stand in the Headmaster's study five times. But when I went in there to tell him about Gemma, that was the first time I had ever been in there on my own.
I knocked on the door. I heard a chair squeak and then the Head groaned, 'Come in.' I told him about Gemma and the shoelaces. Then I told him about Peterson's shouts in the woods. Behind the Head, through the window, I could see that there were people in the pool, but that the races had stopped and people were doing bombs off the diving board. He asked me some more questions and then said, 'Thank you', which means get out.
In my head Peterson muttered, 'You're dead.'
I went back down to Lecky. Gemma was still in the French room and would only let Matron near. Matron came to the door when she saw me. The upside-down clock safety-pinned to the top pocket of her shirt reflected the sun into my face. She told me I wasn't needed and went back inside.
Matron is big and laughy and has a nickname for almost everyone. Once I called her 'Mummy' by accident but she just laughed.
I walked back to the woods and threw stones at the tree imagining it was his face, and I only rested when I heard people coming. I realised I was crying too, but realising it made me stop.
It was Miss T and Mr Potter. Mr Potter knelt down and felt the marks on the bark with his hairy fingers. They looked like fat caterpillars exploring the tree trunk. He was shaking his head lots. Miss T told me to go in. I stayed outside in the long grass. They were only in the woods for a few minutes and when Miss T came out the lenses of her glasses changed colour and became sunglasses, hiding her eyes. Mr Potter followed, and when he stepped into the sunlight I saw millions of tiny ginger hairs in his beard that I had never noticed before. Normally his beard is the colour of mud.
Mr Potter and Miss T started walking back towards school. I followed them, but hid behind the tree on the lawn and looked into the Head's study. When I leaned over I could see past the curtain, and that's when I saw Peterson, smirking like he'd just farted. I've never seen him cry. The Head was talking into the telephone. None of them could see me. I wished as hard as I could that Peterson would go, before I became the sneak.
A car engine started down by Lecky and I ran. Gemma, wrapped in a red blanket, was in the back of the white car that's always parked there. Matron got in the front. When Gemma turned to look out of the window the tears made her freckles look like sequins. The car bumped up the hill and Gemma held up her palm at me in a wave. I waved back, slowly closing my hand as the car drove away. Then I walked out across the field. The sun was coming down behind the school and made the sky behind look like a bruise.
Kip was alone on the other side of the field, digging for something, Mr Way was by the pavilion hammering something metal and the noises came a long time after each hit. The three of us were a triangle and in the middle the shadows of trees were a hundred metres long.
When they found out that Peterson was up on the roof the teachers sent everyone to bed, even though it was still early. They've let me stay out here on the wall by the pool because I am something to do with this. Mr Way is over with the teachers, who are all interrupting each other trying to explain what has happened. I'm not sure if Gemma will be back.
When Peterson was standing on the edge of the roof he looked down at the ground as if he was about to jump. A secret part of me willed him to. I know it's wrong but I wished him to slip and break his neck, but he didn't.
Now he comes out through the back door and walks across the lawn towards his mum. The teachers sigh in unison, relieved that no more people got hurt. Peterson's mum snaps at him, 'Now get in the car.' But he stops walking when he sees me.
For a second I think he's coming this way and that he's going to punch me in the face again for being a sneak. Instead he stops walking and stares. He gobs on the grass between us, then turns and goes away. And like that, the bed beside mine becomes empty.
Now that the excitement is over, the teachers have gone back inside school. I'm sitting on the wall in the dark with Kip still lying near my feet. When I walk over the lawn she gets up and follows, and watches as I wrestle the embedded tile out of the turf.
The surface of the pool is tight like cling film; the water is so still you cannot even tell there is any. The tile sluices the surface and sinks. Waves bounce off the sides, echoing and overlapping, as the dark shape drowns beneath.


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Investigations of Thyroid and Stress Hormones in Free-Ranging and Captive Harbor Porpoises (Phocoena phocoena): A Pilot Study
Written by Ursula Siebert, Blazej Pozniak, Kirstin Anderson Hansen, Gwyneth Nordstrom, Jonas Teilmann, Niels van Elk, et al.
Abstract: Increasing anthropogenic activities in the marine environment are potential threats to the health of harbor porpoises by causing unnatural continuous stress to the animals. The present study was a first assessment to investigate stress and thyroid hormones of free-ranging and captive harbor porpoises. In addition, hormone levels were measured to compare those with concentrations of polychlorinated biphenyl (PCB) congeners, p,p'-dichlorodiphenyl trichloroethane (DDT), and p,p'-dichlorodiphenyl dichloroethylene (DDE) in the blood of a limited number of animals (10 free-ranging and 7 captive individuals). Samples of seven captive harbor porpoises were taken at the Dolphinarium Harderwijk (the Netherlands) and the Fjord & Bælt Centre in Kerteminde (Denmark). Blood from 29 free-ranging harbor porpoises was collected within the frame of tagging projects on animals accidentally caught in pound nets in Denmark. Median levels of the catecholamines adrenaline, noradrenaline, and dopamine were higher in free-ranging harbor porpoises compared to the captive animals. The median value of adrenocorticotropic hormone (ACTH) for captive animals from the Fjord & Bælt Centre was almost three-fold lower than in the free-ranging harbor porpoises. The median values of T4 were similar in both captive and free-ranging harbor porpoises (9.3 to 10.8. µg/dL). T3 levels of the investigated harbor porpoises varied widely between individuals. No significant correlation between any investigated hormones and investigated organochlorine compounds was observed. The study provides first results on stress hormones other than cortisol. Further investigations are needed to improve the understanding of stress hormones and the influence of anthropogenic stressors on the health of harbor porpoises.
Key Words: harbor porpoise, Phocoena phocoena, catecholamines, Baltic Sea, North Sea, pollutants, adrenocorticotropic hormone, thyroid hormones
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Word Nerd: What the Dickens? Slang in Shakespeare?
Posted By: Howard Richler October 20, 2018
In 1807, Thomas Bowdler published The Family Shakespeare stating in his preface that "nothing is added to the original text, but those words and expressions are omitted which cannot with propriety be read in a Family." Within 30 years he had been eponymized and verbified in one swell swoop and the OED defines bowdlerize as "to expurgate (a book or writing), by omitting or modifying words or passages considered indelicate or offensive."
Actually, the lexicographic recording of slang is a relatively recent phenomenon. The first dictionaries only dealt with "difficult words" that were relatively new to the lexicon and only centuries later did they become more comprehensive in nature.
There is the story, perhaps apocryphal, that after Samuel Johnson wrote A Dictionary of the English Language in 1755, two elderly sisters congratulated the lexicographer for not including "ghastly" words in his tome. To which, Dr Johnson reputedly replied, "What! My dears! Then you have been looking for them?"
But returning to Shakespeare, Jonathon Green in The Stories of Slang reports that Shakespeare employed over 500 slang terms in his works with 277 of them representing the first recorded usage of the word. Green mentions that comedian Lenny Bruce noted that everybody yearns for what "should be" but what should be doesn't exist, there is only what "is" and in describing the human condition, Shakespeare described the many unsavoury aspects of our characters often using slang terms effectively in his portrayal of people.
For example, in All's Well That Ends Well, the term kickie-wickie is used to mean wife; pickers and stealers in Hamlet refers to hands; asshead in Twelfth Night refers to a dolt, and small beer in Othello replaces trifles. Perhaps intuiting that another great British writer would emerge centuries later, he created the expression what the dickens in Merry Wives of Windsor. (Dickens is a euphemism for Devil).
Many common words have distinct naughty meaning in Shakespeare's plays. In The Stories of Slang, Green reveals that a nunnery isn't remotely religious (even if populated by nuns); rather we are in the world of brothels; nor are the low countries connected to Holland but what modernity coyly terms 'down there.' "
Interestingly, the first OED citation of the word "slang" is only in 1756 in William Toldervy's The History of Two Orphans, so what disreputable language was Shakespeare using, seeing that he died 140 years before the term slang was ever used? The first dictionary that included what we would call slang terms was titled A New Dictionary of the Terms Ancient and Modern of the Canting Crew was compiled in 1698 London and we only know the author by the initials B.E. So while Shakespeare has been dubbed the"immortal Bard," even he could not access a tome written over 80 years after his demise. One of Shakespeare's major sources of disreputable words seems to derive from his contemporary John Florio's 598 Italian-English dictionary The Worlde of Words. For example, in it, Florio translated fottere as to jape, to sard, to swive, to occupy and the unmentionable f-word.
Shakespeare is hardly the only English language literary great to successfully employ slang. Dickens describes many of his characters slangily, and particularly in Oliver Twist. The Artful Dodger is dubbed a "downy cove," which Green's Dictionary of Slang defines as "a knowledgeable, artful, aware, 'fly' person." Uber-pickpocketer Bill Sykes is called a "swell mobsman" and Fagin is a "fence," a receiver of stolen goods and Sykes says to him in one passage "What are you up to? "ill-treating the boys… you insatiable old fence." Lady of the street Nancy is called a tuppenny uprighter due to the oft horizontal nature of her profession.
Stating categorically, however, whether a specific term qualifies as slang is often a fool's errand. In The State of the Language Phillip Howard states that "one man's slang is another man's colloquialism is another man's vernacular is another man's everyday speech."
That being said, slang is a monument to language's ability to evolve by slicing through its oft pretentious and euphemistic nature.
Richler's latest book is Wordplay: Arranged and Deranged Wit.
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Distance between Koonya and Forest. How many miles from Koonya to Forest.
The straight distance between Koonya (Tasmania) and Forest (Tasmania) is 201.03 mi, but the driving distance is 278.79 mi.
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That's right I'm an April baby. To celebrate I'm having a sale now through next week at my etsy shop. I've got some ready to go rune talismans, or you can order something custom, just tell me what the desired goal is and I'll make it!


Do you experience that the "Capture date" is always showing one day earlier than the actuall capture date?
I have noticed recently, that absolutely all photos I post get a capture date one day before I have actually shot the picture.
The same for me. For this reason, I always put the date in the comments.
This topic was open long time ago, but I didn't understand the reasons given by administrators.
To be honest, I have never understood this either. It seems to be that a few members, having entered the correct capture date, see something different when they have uploaded the page. But it is clear that not all members are seeing the same thing. I suspect that it is some glitch producing a software incompatibility between the member's device/PC and the site's servers, perhaps also affected by time-zone differences.
And it is the same for yours Yvon.
One or two members have taken to entering the wrong date so that they see the right result - but this leads to most members seeing info suggesting that the photo has been loaded a day before it was taken - see also attached.
I will draw IT's attention to this thread in case there is anything within the site that can be tweaked, but it is my understanding that when this was raised before an examination failed to identify the cause.
Attached a screen copy of the same Tord's photo of SAGA PEARL II, with different dates.
Yes, that is what I thought you are experiencing.


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2 de June, 2020
Sweden´s dark rockers Outshine video and single for "Nightcall" out now!
Sweden´s dark rockers Outshine publish new video for "Nightcall".
Hailing from Gothenburg, Sweden, Outshine have had some real rough years with authorities, band members, cancelled albums and just plain bad luck.
After founder and guitarist Jimmy Boman took over the vocals, the band spent the last year crafting a new sound and pursuing a darker style in the vein of old school Sisters Of Mercy / Type O Negative.
The melancholy and gloomy single "Nightcall" marks the first step towards the darker version of Outshine. As big fans of noir & melancholy movies and styles from the 1980s, "Nightcall" was a perfect fit to start the new era. The single is the first step towards a new album set to be released in 2020.


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Almost a Widow è un cortometraggio muto del 1915 diretto da John Francis Dillon. Di genere comico, sulle avventure da spiaggia di un gruppo di turisti, aveva come interpreti Frank Borzage, Neva Gerber, Lucille Ward, Beatrice Van.

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Jack e Joe, due amici scapoli, decidono di trascorrere insieme le vacanze a Sea Hurst, in tenda. Al campeggio giungono anche Henrietta James e la nipote Edna. La ragazza lega subito con Joe mentre la zia cerca di conquistare Jack che, invece, è attratto dalla signora Millionbucks, una bella vedova piena di ammiratori. Anche se Henrietta si oppone al matrimonio di Joe con la nipote, lui si procura comunque una licenza di matrimonio. Una sera, un topo spaventa Henrietta che si mette a urlare: accorre Jack, in pigiama, e la donna si getta tra le sue braccia. Sid, il proprietario del campeggio, viene a vedere cosa sta succedendo e, vedendoli abbracciati, richiede una spiegazione. Henrietta, allora, dichiara che ora Jack deve sposarla. Lui, per niente d'accordo, scappa via sulla spiaggia, inseguito dagli altri, mentre Sid sta già chiamando un prete. Joe, vedendo il sacerdote, coglie l'occasione e sposa Edna approfittando dell'assenza di Henrietta, intenta com'è a cercare di acchiappare Jack. Quando la donna torna, è furiosa: Edna e Joe ormai sono sposati, mentre Jack ha catturato la bella vedova. A lei, invece, tutta sola, non resta che cadere in una profonda depressione.

Produzione
Il film fu prodotto dalla American Film Manufacturing Company (come Beauty).

Distribuzione
Distribuito dalla Mutual, il film - un cortometraggio in una bobina - uscì nelle sale statunitensi il 13 novembre 1915.

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Cortometraggi commedia

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The Average Writer's Non-Biased Guide To The Upcoming WGA Negotiations
A few weeks ago, I received an email from a fellow WGAw member who wrote:
I joined the WGA last year. Joined WA a few weeks after. All this talk of strikes and what-not….man, it's a mess. I've talked with fellow 'newbie' wga writers and the fact is: no one understands what the hell is going on.
…So, a primer or a "The WGA for Dummies" type of thing…y'know, like 'Our Story So Far…." sort of article. It's a big undertaking but if you're ever looking for a topic for your site, maybe this is one that should at least start getting addressed.
At first, I groaned, because I thought that a) he was right, I did need to write this, and b) it was going to be a big undertaking.
But you know, in the end, it's not really all that complicated.
And so, I present to you the primer. I will do my best to be as unbiased as possible.
What Are These Negotiations Anyway?
Every three years, the WGA, west and the WGA East work together to negotiate the Minimum Basic Agreement (or MBA) with the companies we all work for. The MBA sets the terms for things like "What is scale?" and "How much residuals do I get?" and "How much will the company contribute to my pension and health insurance?"
The companies are represented by a trade organization called the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers, or AMPTP. The AMPTP is largely controlled by the big studios (Paramount, Disney, Columbia, Universal, Fox, Warner Brothers) and the big networks (CBS, ABC, NBC, Fox and The CW). Their chief negotiator is a man named Nick Counter.
How Do The Negotiations Work?
The WGAw and WGAE create a joint committee called the Negotiating Committee, or NegCom for short. The NegCom consists of 17 members, and the division between East and West is determined roughly by the proportion of the two memberships. The officers of the WGAw also sit on the committee in an ex officio status.
First, the NegCom drafts a laundry list of "stuff we want out of this negotiation," and they send it to the members of the WGAw and WGAE. The members try and rank the laundry list in the order of importance to them, and the NegCom then uses this list as its "set of demands."
In reality, the "set of demands" is pro forma, as the demands tend to be the same year after year, and the NegCom isn't bound by them in any case.
The NegCom then proceeds to negotiate with the AMPTP. Our chief negotiator is our Executive Director (currently, that's David Young).
The negotiations occur over weeks and sometimes months. They consist of two basic types of interaction.
The formal negotiations occur between the committees in large conference rooms. They have often been compared to kabuki, as they're ceremonial, extremely structured and very carefully orchestrated so as to avoid making any mistake, setting any dangerous bargaining precedent or carelessly ceding leverage.
The true negotiations largely occur in sidebars. The two sides caucus separately, then send their three heavy hitters into sidebars with three guys from the other side, and wheeling and dealing ensues.
Once a deal is determined, the NegCom votes on whether or not to recommend it to the Board of Directors of the WGAw and Council of the WGAE. Following that recommendation, if the Board and Council vote to recommend the deal to the membership, then we all vote on the deal. Majority rules.
How Does A Strike Or Lockout Work?
The first thing to know is that while we're covered by the deal we approved in 2004, we can't strike, and the other side can't lock us out.
Once the deal expires (October 31st, 2007), all bets are off.
If the NegCom fails to recommend a deal to the Board, or if the Board fails to recommend a deal to the membership, or if the membership fails to ratify a deal, then a strike is possible. It's the same mechanism. The NegCom recommends a strike to the Board, the Board recommends a "strike authorization vote" to the membership, and the membership votes.
If the membership votes to authorize a strike, the Board is then free to declare a strike if they feel the need. The Board can also ask the membership to vote to declare a strike.
In no case can a strike happen without a majority of the members voting for it.
A lockout is pretty much just like a strike, except instead of writers refusing to work, the companies decide to no longer hire any of us until a deal is struck.
Again, a lockout can only occur after the current deal expires.
The WGA has struck a number of times since its inception, with the longest and most recent strike occurring in 1988.
The AMPTP has never locked out the WGA.
So What Are We Arguing About This Year?
Every three years, we ask for increases in minimums, increases in pension and health, more creative rights, and a long list of other things.
The big argument for the last 20 years, however, has been over residuals.
Most of our residuals formulas stipulate that we are to collect 1.2% of what the companies make off of so-called "secondary markets." Those markets include broadcasting movies on television, pay-per-view, and home video.
It's the home video that's been giving us fits.
In 1985, the companies decided that they didn't want to pay 1.2% of what they were making on VHS tapes. Instead, they wanted to apply the 1.2% to 20% of what they were making. After a failed strike in 1985 and another failed strike in 1988, we ended up with the much-hated home video formula of 1.5-1.8% of 20% of what they make on VHS…and DVD.
Arguing and posturing aside, there haven't been any strikes since 1988, because once the home video battle was lost, no strike-worthy battle has arisen.
That's changed.
Everyone is freaked out over "new media," or "internet video on demand."
In short, the football this year is how we're going to be paid residuals when people pay to download our television shows and movies through the net, be it on to their iPod or their computer or their Apple TV or their DVR or some soon-to-be-purchasable tv-computer-internet thingy.
The two unions with the biggest stake in this are the WGAw/E and SAG. The DGA has a lesser stake, because many of their members are below-the-line employees (1st AD's, UPM's) who earn a relatively small fraction of money from residuals. Regardless, it's a huge issue for all three unions.
It's also a huge issue for the AMPTP. When they deal with one union on this issue, they know they are dealing with all three, because of "pattern bargaining."
Pattern bargaining dictates that if one of the three creative unions gets a residual improvement, then the other two must get it as well.
Residuals are generally paid like this: the writers get X, the director, 1st AD and UPM get X, and the cast gets 3X (because there are many more actors to divvy the residuals for than there are writers or DGA employees).
So, whatever we're asking for, the AMPTP knows it's going to have to ultimately pay out five times that amount.
Is It Just Me, Or Does Everything Seem More Militant This Time Around?
It's not just you.
In 2005, the WGAw elected a slate of candidates who expressed a desire to be tougher with the studios.
The basic plan of this slate, led by current WGAw President Patric Verrone, was to organize reality television writers, bring them into our union, and thus be able to create a very strong strike threat against the AMPTP (right now, the producers believe, rightly, that reality television is a huge wedge against the efficacy of any WGA strike, because it keeps new programming on the air during a walkout).
The slate believed that with this enhanced strike threat, we'd be able to improve on the 1.5-1.8% of 20% formula when it came to residuals for internet downloads.
Unfortunately, no reality writers have been organized into the WGA. It is highly probable that we will go into the 2007 negotiations without any enhanced strike threat.
Still, the last year has definitely been marked by heightened rhetoric from both sides. The WGA engaged in a number of controversial "corporate campaigns" designed to shame or pressure the companies into letting us organize reality writers, and the AMPTP took out a full-page ad in the Variety excoriating the current WGA leadership.
So Are We Going To Strike Or What?
Hard to say. Always cloudy is the future…
I think there's certainly a better chance of a strike this time around than there was last time around, but my personal opinion is that there won't be a strike.
It is possible that we might work past our contract, as we did in 2004.
Okay, What Happens If We Work Past Our Contract?
Not much. We lose our protection against a lockout, and certain grievance provisions go away, but other than that, our 2004 contract remains in effect. The idea of working past the deadline is simple: we try and get closer to the expiration of the SAG contract (June 2008), and then we use their strike threat as leverage to get us both a good deal on internet downloads.
The danger of waiting?
The DGA could always leapfrog the WGA and SAG and make an early deal (which they did in 2004). If they do, it's pretty much game over. The WGA and SAG will almost certainly get stuck with the deal the DGA makes. If it's a good deal, that's no problem.
If it's not, that is a problem.
Will We Win?
Possibly. A better question is…will the fight even happen? It's possible that the entire issue of internet residuals will get punted down the line three years, because no one really knows how the economics of downloading movies and television will work.
I hope this primer was of use and answered everyone's basic questions. I tried my best to stay away from political opinions. If you have any other questions about this rather nutty negotiation year, please go ahead and ask them in the comments section.
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I went grocery shopping at PCC Market (a Seattle-based co-op grocery chain) this morning and noticed blue plastic bags in the produce section. A closer look at the bags informed me that they are made from "100% Post Industrial Recycled Resin." I supposed we are in the post-industrial age, so perhaps that is appropriate. Grammar issues aside, I understand that the bags are made from plastics that were used in some industrial process and have now been recycled into a form suitable for carrying fruits and vegetables.
After I'm done using the bags to transport my produce, I can then add them to my large plastic garbage bag hanging in the hall closet. Once that garbage bag is full of smaller bags, I will take it to my local grocery store and stuff it into the plastic bag recycling container. Where it goes next is somewhat of a mystery. The grocery stores can no longer ship it off to China since China put the brakes on accepting the world's discards. Hopefully, the plastic bags will go to a facility that will recycle them into indoor-outdoor carpeting or plastic park benches.
These blue bags struck me as a fantastic idea! What better use of compostable bags than for storing food? The pale green color is distinctive, calling attention to something different about the bags. I loaded one bag full of apples and took it home.
The compostable bag worked just fine, which is why when I finished buying my groceries today I asked why the store no longer carried those bags. The clerk explained that not all customers found the bags as functional as I did. She told me that people complained of the bags tearing, scattering produce all over the floor.
Perhaps I handled the bag more carefully than some people, suspecting that it wouldn't be as strong as a conventional plastic bag. I compost at home and know that if I let the compost bin under my sink stay too many days without emptying it, the compostable liner may indeed start to disintegrate. I have sometimes needed to double-bag my compost to get it safely to the yard waste bin.
For mass adoption, a greener solution needs to work as well as the conventional product it is replacing. I hope that Cedar Grove, the company whose name appeared on the compostable bag from PCC, creates a new version of the produce bag that is just a bit thicker. If it is durable enough to safely transport fruits and vegetables—even the heaviest ones—from the store to home, people will use it. Then maybe someday, all grocery stores, including the national chains, will carry only compostable bags in their produce sections.


Station Manager Brian Byrne said: "It was a great feeling to be able to reunite Hook with his owner.
"Our firefighters worked tirelessly as a team, using state-of-the-art specialist equipment, as well as manually digging what probably amounted to as much as five tonnes of soil and stones.
Stephen Cobain, the brother-in-law of Hook's owner, said: "When Hook was rescued we all felt such a relief.
Article courtesy of BBC website.


A United Empire Loyalist is a person who lived in the American Colonies prior to the Revolutionary War, joined the Royal Standard before the Treaty of Separation in 1783, either bore arms or otherwise proved his loyalty, lost all his possessions as a consequence, and fled to Canada to live under the British flag.
We should first take time to place their story in an historical setting, so we can better understand the events that followed.
It was the age of expansion and Empire building that followed the great voyages of discovery in the New World.
Columbus discovered the Americas in 1492, claiming the area around the Caribbean for Spain, and Cortez followed in 1501 seizing Mexico from the Indians. John and Sebastian Cabot in 1497 explored the coasts of Labrador and Newfoundland, Nova Scotia and the Grand Banks for England, and Jacques Cartier in 1534/35 claimed the St. Lawrence basin for France.
Sir Humphrey Gilbert began a short-lived colony in Newfoundland in 1583, followed by Sir Walter Raleigh who made attempts at a colony in north Carolina in 1607 which he named Virginia after Queen Elizabeth. The Jamestown settlement was the first permanent colony in British America.
Henry Hudson explored Hudson Strait and Bay in 1601, searching for the Northwest Passage to the Orient.
The chief contestants were England, France and Spain, although Holland had a stake in the New World by establishing a settlement at New Amsterdam, later bought by the British and renamed New York. Explorations were also made by Portugal, and perhaps Italy. Spain was chiefly interested in gold, France discovered the great wealth to be had in the fur trade, so was in no hurry to settle the wilderness and drive out the animals. England, on the other hand, was looking for suitable places for permanent colonies. Persecution of break-away sects from the old religions had made the Quakers and Puritans in England ready to try their lot in the New World. They were joined by displaced Protestant Huguenots from France, and Palatine Germans from along the Rhine who had taken refuge in England to escape persecution in their own lands.
So they came in fleets, beginning with the Mayflower in 1620 and the Winthrop Fleet in 1630. Most were from the British Isles.
Later, other large tracts of land were settled on Grants from the King, like William Penn in Pennsylvania, and Sir William Johnson along the Mohawk River in New York State. They grew and expanded north and west until by 1760 there were 13 separate colonies, with a population of 1,250,000.
New France, by contrast, had a population of 65,000 with centers in Quebec and Montreal, and seigniorial settlements along the St. Lawrence River.
The Seven Years War by this time had altered the picture permanently. It was chiefly a European war, but its effects were of great importance in the New World. It began by aligning most of the countries of Europe against Prussia, which was becoming too powerful to suit the smaller nations. England sided with Prussia, which pitted her against her old enemy, France. The expansion northward of the American colonies was bad news for the French fur-traders, who enlisted their Indian friends to destroy the settler's homes, massacring, looting and burning in an effort to discourage their advance into territory that is now Vermont and Upper New York. France also laid claim to the land west of the Alleganies following La Salle's exploration down the Mississippi River to the Gulf of Mexico, where he took possession of the land for France and named it Louisiana for his king.
This hemmed the rapidly-growing colonies into a strip along the Atlantic coast. To rectify this threat to her colonies, England moved the war to the New World. General Wolfe seized Quebec for England and France's empire in America was entirely lost by the Treaty of Paris, 1763, that ended the Seven Years War.
With the threat of French and Indian attacks now removed, the 13 colonies began to feel their strength and potential. Settlers were moving farther north towards the St. Lawrence River and west across the Allegheny Mountains into the Mississippi river valley. But the westward advance was again thwarted by the Quebec Act of 1774 whereby Governor Sir Guy Carleton extended the boundaries of Quebec south to the Ohio River. This was a move to placate the defeated French colonists and keep them loyal to Britain. The French were pleased with this and other concessions like language and religious rights, but it did nothing toward keeping the American colonists happy.
No longer needing protection of the British army, the colonists resented the presence of the army and were angry when taxes were imposed on them to help pay the expenses of the late Seven Years War, although part of it had been fought on their behalf. Some of the most unpopular taxes - like the Stamp Tax - were withdrawn, but others on imported items like tea and sugar, remained in effect and caused a great deal of resentment. The slogan "no taxation without representation" was raised, and a shipload of tea was dumped into Boston Harbour by patriots dressed as Indians. This is the (in)famous Boston Tea Party. British troops were sent to put down the riots, Boston Harbour was closed, and a few lives were lost. Paul Revere's famous midnight ride from Boston to Lexington comes in here, when he was told by spies that the British intended to arrest several ringleaders and send them to England for trial. He succeeded in warning them, but eight rebels were killed, and the British troops, surprised at the resistance, retired to Boston.
These incidents united the colonists against England, which they now perceived as their enemy, and war was declared in 1776.
The question now arises: Who would remain loyal and who would join the rebels?
They were divided roughly into thirds: loyal, rebel and neutral.
Those with the most to lose in position and possessions would undoubtedly remain loyal; also those who were ardently British and wanted the Colonies to remain under the Crown. Few doubted that the trained British troops would quickly suppress a rebellion by untrained backwoodsmen, and life would soon return to normal.
The rebels or Patriots - the Americans would say that they were fearless, clear-thinking statesmen of the time, ready to cut the ties with an oppressive Mother Country and get on with fulfilling Manifest Destiny. To the British, they were the ambitious, hot-heads and malcontents.
The one third who remained neutral were people whose religious beliefs would not allow them to fight, like Quakers, Mennonites, and Puritans. Those who just wanted to stay out of trouble, hang onto their hard-won possessions, and be on the winning side when it was all over, would also be neutral, although as the war progressed, it became pretty difficult to remain neutral.
and the Mohawk Indians under Chief Joseph Brant.
We shall skip over the War itself, Bunker's Hill and all that, and sum up the causes of the British defeat.
The Tory government in England, under Lord North, was not popular and had many critics. There was considerable sympathy in England toward the rebels, and that kept them from pursuing a really vigorous campaign. For instance, after the resounding victory of General Howe with 20,000 troops captured New York city and drove Washington and the rebels out, a quick follow-up would probably have put an end to the war. Instead, General Howe spent his time in the city socializing, while the rebels used the time to strengthen and train their numbers. Washington was a very able general.
The British leaders never made full use of the Provincial Regiments, believing them to be inferior to themselves in training and discipline, whereas their knowledge of the backwoods would have been invaluable.
The rebels also had the advantage of knowing the wilderness country where most if the fighting took place, and they used their knowledge to good advantage.
Another factor in the outcome was the assistance received from France, always ready to take a poke at her old enemy.
At any rate, the British were defeated, the Treaty of Versailles in 1783 put an end to the war, and the American colonies were free. Most of the Loyalists lost everything and fled to England, Canada, Bermuda and Jamaica. As many as 100,000 left, about 50,000 going to Canada. They were so unpopular in their former homeland that their lives were not safe. Tarring and feathering, looting, burning and hanging resumed, and there was to be no recompense for their lost property. Their only hope was in the promise of free land and assistance in British North America that had been made on behalf of George Third.
Loyalists had been gathering in New York, still held by the British, as various parts of the Colonies fell to the rebels, and there they remained until transportation could be arranged to take them to their new homes. They were organized into Companies, and ships were hired, equipped, and victualed, and the passengers lived aboard until all was ready for departure. This meant having favorable weather too, so it was sometimes a month before they finally sailed.
During 1783, at least five fleets of up to 14 ships each carried about 30,000 refugees from New York to various destinations in Nova Scotia, St. John River, Port Roseway or Shelburne, Annapolis and Halifax. Only one ship was lost - with about 113 Maryland Loyalists aboard.
George Linkletter and his family came to St. John in one of the late sailings in 1783, and proceeded up the river to Gagetown, where they spent the winter. Food ran short and conditions were not to his liking, so in the spring the family made the difficult trip on foot to Shelburne and the Port Roseway settlement. Shelburne was already overcrowded, the land was poor and rocky, and the Loyalists were leaving as fast as they had come. The Linkletters went to PEI, then called St. John's Island, a beautiful place with rich red soil, and a long coastline with many bays and coves; a perfect place for maritime activities. His grant was on the present site of Summerside.
Other ships from New York carried Loyalists down the St. Lawrence to Montreal and the camps at Sorel.
The Northern Loyalist Regiments had been withdrawing into what is now Canada as the war went against them. Some were in the camps at Sorel in the east, and Niagara and Detroit in the west. Here their families eventually joined them after long and arduous journeys along Indian trails and following the rivers. Most of the journey would be made on foot as few possessed a horse, and very little could be carried except for food. The young, able-bodied men were with their regiments, so women were often the leaders. Each group contained many small children and elderly people, and many succumbed to the hardships and never reached their promised land. Every family has a story to tell of that exodus, passed on from one generation to the next. I would like to share one of them with you. This family tradition was written in 1908 by a relative of Amy Summers, one of our members.
"My great-great-grandfather's [Andrew Summers] family, consisting of 4 sons and 5 daughters, were very intimate with the Indians, especially the Chief, Red Cloud. This Chief informed the family about two weeks before it took place, that they were going to take 200 prisoners to Canada, and that they must prepare to go along [to reach safety]; to get dried meat and other things they could carry to help sustain them on the way, as they had 5 or 6 hundred miles to travel through the wilderness, from Philadelphia to Montreal. Andrew Summers was at the time in the British Army, and his brother was a Captain in the army.
"This occurred in 1777 and my great-grandfather [David Summers] was only about 10 years old. They met many hostile Indians on their path, though the number of Indians who conducted the prisoners through the wilderness were about 300, and they were 6 weeks going from Philadelphia to Montreal. It took lots of food to feed 500 people. There were a number of babies with the party, and they traveled about 4 weeks without any mishap, but the women with the babies were becoming exceedingly weary. So some of the Indian Chiefs complained of the slow marching, fearing an attack of the American Indians. The old Chief, Red Cloud, did all he could to keep the other Indians from slaying the babies, as it was on their account they could not march faster, but the 3rd day after the first grumbling, some of the Chiefs took all the babies from their mothers, and made them go ahead with the rest of the prisoners, and to their horror, the babies were never seen again.
"Then, about that time, the provisions ran out, and they had nothing to eat for 3 days but 1 deer among 500. On the 4th day they came to an Indian village, where they stayed for 3 days to recover their strength. They then started on again, rushing the prisoners as fast as they could to get to their destination before they were attacked, as their scouts had informed them that a hostile tribe was on their track trying to overtake them.
"This march took place in the latter part of July and the forepart of August, and while they were at the Indian village, they had new corn and pumpkins to eat, yet the Indians made them eat very sparingly at first for fear of sickness.
"One night after a hard day's march, they all laid down to rest on the ground; [little David Summers] my great-grandfather, happened to lie down in a little hollow with his head on a little hill for a pillow. It rained hard that night, and he did not wake till morning, when he found he was all under water but his head. He was very stiff and the Indians made him run around a while to limber up.
"When they got to Montreal there were 3 sons and 5 daughters, my great-grandfather being the youngest, 10 years old. The Indians gave them all up to the British, but one of the girls the old chief kept, and took her to Western Ontario. She there married a man whose name was Doyle."
About 10,000 Loyalists came to Quebec, as Canada was still called then. Three hundred remained in the eastern part, the rest, mostly disbanded regiments, were settled along the northern side of the St. Lawrence River, as soon as Townships could be surveyed. The Mohawk Indians, who had been allies of the British throughout the war, had their own Township along the river near Kingston, and another large tract on each side of the Grand River in southern Ontario. Other Loyalists and troops had retreated to Detroit and Niagara, which had become a settlement before the end of the War. Another group left the camp at Sorel and settled on the Gasp� Peninsula where their descendants still live.
The British government was very generous in its help to the refugee Loyalists.
Lots were allocated by draw, the person immediately departing for the land to get busy clearing, erecting a shelter, and getting a crop planted.
nails, axe, spade, hoe, etc.
It differed a little according to the needs in the different settlements.
In all, the British government spent $4 million on the Loyalists by 1787. The American government made no restitution for seized property.
To qualify for government assistance, there was a commission was set up to investigate the claims for losses, with hearings at Halifax, Montreal, St. John, and Niagara. The 'Petitioner' gave an account of his or her losses, which was sworn to, and it was confirmed by someone who knew the Petitioner personally. Then the grant was made accordingly. Some of these Petitions are very interesting from a genealogical and historical standpoint. An interesting example is attached.
In the years following the War there was an influx of American settlers into Canada, Ontario, in particular. Sir Guy Carleton, by then Governor General Lord Dorchester, wished to put a special honor on the original Loyalists who had lost all their possessions because they had declared their loyalty at the outset of hostilities. A list of those who qualified was drawn up in 1789, and the letters UE (for the principle of the Unity of the Empire), was affixed to their names. He also ordered that the sons and daughters of the Loyalists, when they came of age or married, would each be granted 200 acres. This, of course, was provided they hadn't fallen from grace in the meantime.
About the same time, Lt. Gov. Simcoe, who had been a Colonel of the Queen's Rangers during the War, realized that there were many Americans who were British at heart, who would make excellent settlers to fill up and strengthen the long, empty border along the Lakes. In 1792, he circulated a Proclamation throughout the northern States, offering free land to anyone who would swear allegiance to the King, move onto the land, improve it, and build a road along its front. Thousands accepted, and the population more than doubled. We call these late-comers 'Simcoe Loyalists'.
A few years later, he was proved right. During the War of 1812, when the Americans invited the new Canadians to join them and throw off the yoke of Great Britain, the Loyalists and the majority of Simcoe's settlers were quite satisfied with their treatment at the hands of Great Britain, and united to drive the invaders out of the country.
The first few years were incredibly difficult for the Loyalists who had come from comfortable homes in the American Colonies, but each year saw an improvement in their circumstances. The government supplied them with a few animals: cows for milk and butter, horses for plowing and hauling, sheep for wool and food, and in time their little flocks increased. As more land was cleared, they were able to grow more wheat for flour, and vegetables for fresh food or to be stored for winter use. They began to grow flax as well, which was eventually woven into cloth. The little log cabin was added to as the family grew, and later was replaced by a fine house - some of these houses are still standing. The cross-roads became towns, and schools and churches were built.
The earliest grants were surveyed along the lake or river for transportation, but as roads were built it was possible to survey a 2nd or 3rd concession back from the water. This would accommodate the sons and daughters of the Loyalists as they came of age and received their grants. So the settlements pushed back the boundaries of the wilderness. In a few generations the descendants of the Loyalists were heading west to open up the vast Prairies- which is how I and a great many others, got here.
So, to sum up, what were the contributions of the Loyalists to Canada?
The character of Canada was changed from being a largely French-Catholic country to one that was predominantly English-Protestant.
Nova Scotia lost a large piece of territory to the new province of New Brunswick in 1784 to accommodate the Loyalist influx.
All of Canada had been called Quebec before the Revolution. In 1791 it was divided into Upper and Lower Canada .
The Loyalists were used to the British Parliamentary system of representative government, and the British system of justice. This they kept, although Quebec (Lower Canada) retained the seigniorial land tenure and French civil law.
Besides their loyalty to the Crown, the Loyalists had a great respect for law and order and the orderly course of justice, as opposed to the use of riots and insurrections to change grievances. This characteristic of Canadians is still strong to-day, and we hope it will remain.


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(Maureen Buccellato) 3/19/2019 10:26 AM EST
It seems like, especially lately, the world of animated films has stepped up its game. Spider-man: Into the Spider-verse is no exception to this rule. Now, you can own this Oscar-winning film on 4K UHD, Blu-ray, DVD and add it to your home entertainment collection.In this film, we meet Miles Morales (Shameik Moore; Dope), a teenager who lives in Ne... Read More
(Allison Hazlett-Rose) 3/18/2019 10:54 AM EST
In 1934 P.L. Travers published a children's book about a magical nanny named Mary Poppins. Thirty years later Disney brought her to life in the feature film Mary Poppins starring Julia Andrews (The Sound of Music). After fifty-four years, Disney once again decided to revisit the beloved character when Mary Poppins Returns hit theaters last ye... Read More
Ruben Brandt, Collector
(Allison Hazlett-Rose) 3/15/2019 9:24 AM EST
Amination can take on many forms and formats. They can also tell varying types of stories, from Disney's "happily ever after" tales to darker fare like we saw in this year's Oscar winner, Spider-Man: Into the Spiderverse. Then you get animated movies that are more mature in nature such as Anomalisa and the raunchy, R-rated com... Read More
To Dust
(Allison Hazlett-Rose) 3/14/2019 2:13 PM EST
The human race, for the most part, seems to be enamored with the idea of death. We fixate on what comes next. Is there an afterlife? What happens to our soul when our body is gone? Is there such a thing as reincarnation? Hispanic cultures even honor their dead on El Dia de los Muertos. For the filmmaker, Shawn Sn... Read More
(Nathan M Rose) 3/11/2019 9:52 PM EST
The Harry Potter franchise has soared to unbelievable heights throughout the years, spawning 7 books, 8 films, theme park attractions and even a spin-off universe, Fantastic Beasts. The spin-off, so far, is comprised of two films, Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them (2016) and Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald (2018). Now, you c... Read More
As recent as the 1960's it wasn't safe for African Americans to travel in the southern portion of the United States. Discrimination was commonplace and segregation was simply a fact of life. When Dr. Don Shirley (Mahershala Ali; Moonlight), an African American classical and Jazz pianist, decided to tour the southern states he needed to ... Read More
(Leonard Buccellato) 3/10/2019 2:17 PM EST
My mother always said, if you don't have anything nice to say, then don't say anything. My grandma, however, said if you are reviewing a film, then put them on blast for being derivative, unimaginative and trite. Luckily, I'm about to find a happy mixture of both of their points of view, as I review Mortal Engines.Post-Apocalyptic fiction/entertain... Read More
(Allison Hazlett-Rose) 3/6/2019 9:14 AM EST
Carol Danvers first appeared in Marvel Comics in 1968 as a United States Air Force pilot (rather forward thinking of them, don't you think?). In 1977 she became Ms.Marvel when an explosion causes her DNA to fuse with Kree Warrior Mar-Vell, giving her superhuman powers. Unless you have been living under a rock for the past few years,... Read More
(Allison Hazlett-Rose) 3/5/2019 4:41 PM EST
On average, there are over 20 million drug addicts in the United States with over one million of them being teenagers. Over 70,000 people in America will die of a drug overdose this year. Drug addiction seems to touch almost every person in this country in one way or another. It ruins relationships and rips families apart. It has ... Read More
(Allison Hazlett-Rose) 3/5/2019 10:33 AM EST
Queen Anne (Olivia Colman; The Lobster) of Great Britain did not have an easy life. She was often ill throughout her reign, buried seventeen children, and was said to have been in a lesbian love affair with her closest confidant, Lady Sarah (Rachel Weisz; The Mummy), Lady Sarah supposedly ran the Queen's affairs and could persuade the Queen t... Read More


Retailer Sends Copies of Madden Instead of Mass Effect 3. Whoops.
Sounds like "some" customers of online retailer Newegg who pre-ordered a copy of Mass Effect 3 didn't get what they paid for. They got a game, delivered on time, only it was...Madden 12.
We're contacting you today regarding your recent purchase of the Mass Effect 3 Xbox 360 game. It appears there may have been an error when fulfilling and shipping your order. We've received reports that some customers may have received Madden NFL 2012 Xbox 360 instead of the intended product.
To correct this error, a Customer Service Representative will be contacting you at the phone number provided by you within your account to arrange an advanced replacement, if necessary. The Representative will also arrange an RMA with a prepaid return shipping label. Please note that when arranging advanced returns, we do require a credit card number to be on file in the event the originally-shipped product is not returned. Please expect this call within the next 2 to 3 business days; of course, you may contact Newegg customer support earlier as well if you wish.
We deeply apologize for any inconvenience this may have caused. As a courtesy, your advanced replacement game will be shipped via overnight delivery at no additional cost to you in the hope that you receive your game as quickly as possible.
Reasonable enough, I guess, though some compensation would have been nice for those who will be spending the weekend without the game they'd paid to be spending the weekend with.
Reader Albert was one of those affected, and rather than get down about it, he decided to kill some time in PhotoShop instead, sending in the above image. Which, given my Mordin is actually dead, has actually bummed me right out.


Research from GlobalData reveals that while 47 percent of consumers globally believe fat has a negative impact on their health; more than half (51 percent) think the same of sugar.
Positive sentiment towards fat is particularly strong in Europe; where just over a third (35 percent) of consumers surveyed by GlobalData claim to be actively trying to reduce their consumption of fat; compared to the 41 percent trying to cut down on sugar.
Consumers no longer necessarily associate eating fat with being fat; and indeed many view certain types — such as olive and coconut oil — as extremely positive for their health and well being.
This positivity is leading major brands to launch products actively promoting the use of healthy fats, such as Walkers new range of 100 percent olive oil crisps in the UK.
Such marketing is in stark contrast to the low fat and fat free messaging that has dominated the food industry in recent decades.
Although consumers have a more negative view of saturated fats, particularly those from animal sources, the tide could be about to change further.
A recent study from the University of Bergen in Norway has found evidence that high saturated fat intake does not increase the risk of cardiovascular disease; and could actually offer health improvements in blood pressure, blood sugar levels and good HDL cholesterol levels.
As fat's renaissance continues, natural high fat foods like full fat dairy, nuts, and avocados will increasingly benefit; and should be a key focus of innovation going forward.


African Sigillata 1 Form 17 closed form meant to take lid (probably Atlante 1 XXII.5 jar or similar).
Fragment preserving portion of rim.
Fabric Variant 1. Light red/red (10R 5.5/8) body with light red/red (10R 5.5/8) slip on all preserved surfaces.
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