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The 22nd Arkansas Infantry Regiment was a Confederate Army infantry regiment during the American Civil War (1862–1865). This regiment was originally organized as the 17th Arkansas Infantry Regiment, reorganized after the battle of Pea Ridge as 1st Regiment, Northwest Division, Trans-Mississippi Department, or Rector's War Regiment, redesignated  as the 35th Arkansas in the summer of 1862, and reorganized and redesignated as the 22nd Arkansas following the Battle of Prairie Grove.  The unit was also sometimes referred to as, King's Arkansas Infantry or McCord's Arkansas Infantry. This was the second regiment to be officially designated as the 22nd Arkansas. The first was mustered in at DeValls Bluff, Arkansas, on April 9, 1862, and later reorganized as the 20th Arkansas Infantry Regiment.

Organization
The core of what became the 22nd Arkansas Infantry was originally organized as the 17th Arkansas Infantry Regiment, which was organized at Fort Smith, Arkansas, November 17, 1861. The 17th Arkansas Infantry was originally composed of volunteer companies from Sebastian, Washington, Madison and Hempstead Counties,

The 17th Arkansas's first major action was the Battle of Pea Ridge in March 1862 where, from some accounts, Rector's regiment did not acquit itself well. A Missouri (Confederate) artillery battery allegedly found the regiment's colors lying on the field, and for a time refused to return the flag to Rector, saying that a regiment that would abandon its colors in battle had no right to carry them after the battle. On March 20, 1862, Colonel Rector tendered his resignation as Colonel of the 17th Arkansas Infantry, On May 20, 1862, the Lieutenant Colonel Griffith and the officers of the regiment who were with General Van Dorn east of the Mississippi demanded a court of inquiry to attempt to clear the Regiment's name.

Whatever the truth behind the 17th Arkansas's retreat and break up following the Battle of Pea Ridge, by early May 1862 Colonel Rector and portions of Companies A, B, C, and G were still in Arkansas and the balance of the regiment was at Corinth, Mississippi, with the Army of the West, under the command of Lieutenant Colonel John Griffith.  A battalion-sized 17th Arkansas fought at the Battle of Corinth, and this portion of the regiment would go on to form the 11th/17th Consolidated Mounted Infantry.

Reorganized as the 1st Regiment, Northwest Division, Trans-Mississippi Department
Meanwhile, back in Arkansas, Governor Henry Massey Rector issued an address on May 5, 1862, calling for the formation of 30 new infantry companies and 20 new cavalry companies. Governor Rector indicated that if there were insufficient volunteers to fill these new companies, a draft would be made upon the militia regiments and brigades. As a further enticement, Rector also indicated that these regiments were for home defense and that they would not be transferred to Confederate Service without their consent.  Many new volunteer companies were organized from the militia regiments in the summer of 1862. It appears that the militiamen decided it was better to enlist and remain together, and be allowed to elect their own officers, rather than to wait for forced conscription under new Confederate Conscription laws, which were being strictly enforced during the summer of 1862.   Colonel Rector's much reduced former regiment, the remaining portions of Companies A, B, C, and G, were reinforced with troops, many of whom were came from the 58th Regiment Arkansas Militia regiment of Franklin County, the 15th Regiment Arkansas Militia of Pope County, and the 10th Militia Regiment of Johnson County.

Colonel Rector's new reorganized regiment, was initially organized at Camp Johnson, on July 11, 1862, near Fort Smith, Arkansas, as the "1st Regiment, Northwest Division, Trans-Mississippi Department" with 1037 men. They were also called Rector's War Regiment, 1st Arkansas Volunteers. The reorganized regiment consisted of the following companies:

Company A – Enlisted 12 June 1862, at Fort Smith, commanded by Captain A.J. Cline.  This company was made up of men who transferred from  Companies B, C, and F, of the 17th Arkansas Infantry.
Company B – Enlisted 19 Jun 1862 at Ft Smith, commanded by Captain James C. Bourland.
Company C – Enlisted 9–22 June 1862 at Fort Smith, commanded by Captain George W. Bennett.
Company D – Enlisted 27 June 1862 at Greenwood, commanded by Captain John M. Inge.
Company E – Enlisted 25 Jun 1862 at Charleston, commanded by Captain unknown.  These men were largely from Franklin County and many had been present when the 58th Regiment Militia of Franklin County had been activated in February 1862 during the Pea Ridge Campaign.
Company F – The first Company F was transferred to the 11th Missouri Infantry on August 27, 1862, and was replaced by a new Company F from which had enlisted 15 Aug 1862 in Benton County, commanded by Captain John Miser.
Company G –  "The Brown Guards," enlisted 18 June 1862 at Van Buren, under the command of Captain James P. King.  When Captain King was appointed Major of the regiment, Captain Robert Miles succeeded him. This company included many men who had previously served in the Frontier Guards of Van Buren Crawford County.  The Frontier Guards had been organized as a volunteer militia company in the 5th Regiment, Arkansas State Militia, on January 5, 1860, under the command of Captain Hugh T. Brown and had been assigned to the 3rd Regiment, Arkansas State Troops. Captain Brown was killed during the Battle of Wilson's Creek.  After that battle, the State Troops had returned to Arkansas mustered out of service on September 19, 1861.  The company reformed under the command of Captain J.P. King, who had served as a Lieutenant under Captain Brown and the Company was renamed in Brown's honor.
Company H – Enlisted 20 June 1862 at Dover, Pope County, Arkansas, under the command of Captain James E. Truett. Many men in this company had been activated with the 15th Regiment, Arkansas Militia of Pope County in February 1862 during the Pea Ridge Campaign.
Company I – Enlisted 20 June 1862 at Dover, Arkansas, under the command of Captain Joseph Howard. Most of the men in this company were from Johnson county and many had been activated with the 10th Regiment, Arkansas State Militia of Johnson County in February 1862 during the Pea Ridge Campaign.
Company K – New enlistments on 4 July at Fort Smith, under the command of Captain William Johnson, This company included several men who had previously served Company G, 17th Arkansas Infantry, in a company originally enlisted in Madison County in November 1861.  A few men has also previously served in either the 16th Arkansas Infantry or Stirman's Battalion.

Its commanding officers were Colonels Frank Rector, James George, James P. King and Henry J. McCord, Lieutenant Colonel John W. Wallace, and Majors John J. Dillard and Mark T. Tatum. The regiment was originally composed of eight companies mostly from Sebastian County and the surrounding area.

Service

Re-designated as the 35th Arkansas Infantry Regiment
Two other new regiments were raised under Governor Rector's plan, Brooks' 2nd Arkansas and Adams' 3rd Arkansas. On May 31, 1862, Major General Thomas Hindman was assigned as the Commander of the District of the Trans-Mississippi.  General Hindman found that Major General Van Dorn had stripped the state of almost all organized forces and immediately began organizing a new Confederate Army in Arkansas, by vigorously enforcing the new Confederate Conscription Act.  General Hindman also demanded that Governor Rector cease organizing State Troops and transfer all unit to the Confederate Army. This ultimately resulted in the three new regiments that Governor Rector had intended to be State Troops, being enrolled as new Confederate Regiments and numbered accordingly. These regiments would become Rector's 35th Arkansas Infantry Regiment and Brook's 34th Arkansas Infantry Regiment.

On July 5, 1862, Colonel Frank A. Rector was reported to be north of the Arkansas River, en route to Fayetteville, with some 400 men mounted, and not well armed.  On 11 July 1862, Rector appointed Colonel of the 1st Regiment, Northwest Division, Trans-Mississippi Department. On the same day Captain James Georges was appointed Lieutenant Colonel and Capt James P King was appointed Major. The muster rolls of the Field and Staff state that the regiment was stationed at Camp Johnson from 11 July 1862 to 7 August 1862.  On 17 July 1862, Capt. Green of the Union army reported intelligence that Col Rector had passed 15 miles east and south of Tahlequah on the 14th (July) en route for Fort Gibson to join Cooper in Indian Territory.

On 26 July 1862, Colonel Rector sent a letter from Col John Griffith to Richmond, requesting that the balance of Rector's regiment be ordered to join Colonel Griffith on the east side of the Mississippi River where the 17th Arkansas was then serving.  The next day, Colonel Carroll, commanding the Northwest Division, Trans-Mississippi Department, wrote to Major General Hindman and reported that Rector's Regiment was not yet armed.  For reasons that remain unclear, Colonel Rector stepped down as Colonel in early August 1862 and by 11 August 1862, Rector had filed his bond to begin service as the Brigade Quartermaster for Colonel Carroll's command, in the rank of Major. Lieutenant Colonel James George assumed command of the regiment following Colonel Rector's departure.

Prairie Grove Campaign
Sometime in early September 1862 the 35th Arkansas and 34th Arkansas Infantry Regiments moved to Elm Springs,  northwest of Fayetteville which was a training camp designed for 5,000. Here the regiment continued to drill. On September 14, 1862, James P. King became colonel of the Regiment.  King had served in Gratiot's 3rd Regiment, Arkansas State Troops as a 1st Lieutenant of the Crawford County "Frontier Guards".  During the Battle of Wilson's Creek, August 10, 1861, the captain of Company G had been killed and King assumed command of the company. It is unclear where King served between the disbanding of Pearce's State Troops in September 1862 and June 1862. If he did serve during this time, it was likely in Colonel Rector's 17th Arkansas Infantry but, he is not shown in the records of that regiment. After the battle of Pea Ridge when the remnants of the 17th Arkansas were reorganized to become the 35th Arkansas, James P. King became captain of Company G.

At Elm Springs the 35th along with the other units in training were ordered to turn over their weapons to the ordnance department. The purpose would have been to convert as many of the weapons as possible to standard percussion cap weapons. In this unarmed state the regiments drilled. Supplies and clothing dribbled through and the men began to rely less and less on homemade knapsacks and haversacks. In mid-September the unit was ordered to Elkhorn. Soon they retraced their path back to Elm Springs. At this time the Federals advanced toward the southwestern part of Missouri. General Holmes summoned General Hindman to Little Rock. Federal cavalry was reported to be marching with all speed to capture the three unarmed regiments. Under orders from General Rains the regiments marched south heading to Judge Walker's farm in southern Washington County. The march was hampered by torrential rains and took two days to cover . Captain Fontaine Richard Earle of Company B, 34th Arkansas said "it seemed as if the heavens had been overcrowded with water and that the flood-gates had been opened for relief."

During the retreat there were many desertions. The regiment moved to Spadra Bluff on the Arkansas River near Van Buren, occupying winter quarters that had been built by a Texas cavalry unit the previous winter. The regiment that had formed with more than 1,000 men in July, numbered approximately 400 men by the time of the Battle of Prairie Grove. They remained here for almost a month and continued their training. Here weapons were supplied, Enfield rifles.

On November 15, 1862, General Hindman moved the Arkansas infantry to Massard Prairie,  southeast of Fort Smith to drill and organize the divisions. The 35th Arkansas was assigned to Brigadier General James F. Fagan's 1st Brigade of Brigadier General Frances A. Shoup's 2nd Division, of Major General Thomas Carmichael Hindman's 1st Corps of Lieutenant General Theophilus Holmes's Army of the Trans-Mississippi. The unit was brigaded with the 34th Arkansas Infantry Regiment commanded by Colonel William H. Brooks, the 29th Arkansas Infantry Regiment, commanded by Colonel Joseph C. Pleasants, the 39th Arkansas Infantry Regiment, commanded by Colonel Alexander T. Hawthorne and Chew's Arkansas Infantry Battalion, commanded by Major Robert E. Chew.

At the very end of November the cavalry was sent north toward Washington County. Early in December the infantry followed heading north. The 35th Arkansas crossed the Arkansas River on December 2, 1862. On December 4, the column reached Oliver's Store on Lee Creek in the Boston Mountains, were battle flags were presented to the regiments of the division.

On December 6, 1862 Fagan's brigade arrived at Morrow's and controlled all the approaches to Cane Hill from the south and east. Hindman then learned of the approach of General Herron, who had two divisions just north of Fayetteville. Hindman planned to get behind the Federal division of General Blunt and prevent General Herron's division from combining with Gen. Blunt. Upon reaching the high ground at Prairie Grove on December 7, Hindman' s army formed on ridge overlooking Crawford Prairie and Fagan's brigade was advanced to a position fifty yards from the Borden Orchard. The position was very good and there the army waited for Herron to advance. Brook's regiment was posted behind an artillery battery. Around 2:00 pm the artillery duel started. Blocher's Battery, which was part of Fagan's brigade became a lightning rod for Federal artillery and later infantry. The 20th Wisconsin advanced to take the battery and when their right flank was 50 yards away from their Brook's 34th Arkansas rose and fired into them. The regiment was ordered forward along with Chew's Arkansas Infantry Battalion and Hawthorne's regiment. The 20th Wisconsin was driven back and the battery was retaken. As the Confederate counterattack came off the ridge and onto the prairie they came under heavy fire and retreated to their position in the ravine. As the Confederates were reorganizing another Federal attack was launched. This time the 37th Illinois advanced to the summit. Again the Fagan's brigade rose out of the scrub and fired a point blank volley and charged. The two forces locked in hand-to-hand fighting. Again the Confederates followed the retreating Federals and ran into heavy fire. As the brigade resumed their position on the summit, the tempo of the battle slowed and shifted to another part of the battlefield. They stayed in position until nearly midnight when the order to retreat came. During the march over the Boston Mountains many of the men deserted to their homes. In April 1862, Colonel King wrote home to his mother and had this to say about the regiment, "The fight at Prairie Grove notwithstanding. We whipped it proved to be a very disastrous one to us. My loss in the fight was a very heavy one. I lost one hundred and thirty two men, killed and wounded out of less than five hundred men. I still have a fine Regt. and am ready for another fight. We have a very fine army here and will move in a few days but where to I can't tell."

Helena Campaign
After the retreat from Prairie Grove to Van Buren, Fagan's brigade spent the winter of 1863-64 in camp near Little Rock, remaining there until June when the unit began the movements that would lead to the Battle of Helena. Fagan's Brigade was assigned to Major General Sterling Price's Division of Lieutenant General Theophilus H. Holmes's army during the attack on Union forces at Helena Arkansas on July 4, 1863. General Fagan's 1,300 men were assigned to capture Hindman's Hill southwest of the city.  Generals Fagan and Price failed to coordinate their attacks due to General Holmes' vague order to "attack at daylight." Price interpreted this order to mean an attack at sunrise and Fagan interpreted it to mean an attack at first light. The result was that Fagan was surprised to find his attack on Hindman Hill was opposed by artillery fire from Graveyard Hill, which was General Price's objective. General Fagan had expected Price to be engaged already with that battery. Fagan's artillery had not been able to reach the battlefield because of felled trees blocking the road. Fagan had no artillery available to silence the Federal guns and had no choice but to order his troops to try to take the hill while under artillery fire. Fagan's men reached the summit of the hill and managed to seize the outer fortifications but were pinned down just short of the summit by the two Union batteries. The exposed Confederates were targeted by every remaining gun on the battlefield as well as the heavy guns of the USS Tyler. By 10:30 Holmes realized that his position had deteriorated and that he could make no further headway. A general retreat was ordered, and the attack on the Union base had failed. The regiment reported 75 casualties during the Battle of Helena, including 16 Killed, 44 wounded and 15 missing.

Little Rock Campaign
The 22nd Arkansas subsequently served in the defense of Little Rock in September, 1863, with Fagan's Brigade. The Union advance upon Little Rock was opposed mainly by the Confederate cavalry divisions of Generals Marmaduke and Walker.  The Confederate infantry brigades were dug in on the north side of the Arkansas River.  According to Captain Ethan Allen Pinnell of the Eighth Missouri Infantry, "Our works extend from the Arkansas river two miles below the city. to the eastern part of Crystal Hill, a distance of 6 miles. Gen'l Fagan's Brig. is on the extreme right, Parson's on Fagan's left, Frost in the center and McRea's on the left." The Union forces established a pontoon bridge near Bayou Fourche, and crossed to the south side of the very low Arkansas River. With his works on the north side of the river now flanked, Major General Price was forced to abandon the city on September 10, after a brief engagement at Bayou Fourche.  Price's Army withdrew in the direction of Rockport. Colonel Alexander T. Hawthorn took command of the brigade in the fall of 1863. The regiment spent the winter of 1863-64 in Camden, Ouachita County.

Re-designated as the 22nd Arkansas Infantry Regiment
The Arkansas State Military Board was responsible for authorizing and designating regiments of volunteers. The board did a reasonably good job of sequencing the unit designations through much of the war; however the Confederate War Department at Richmond tended to designate new regiments based upon when the muster rolls were received. Another reason for dual designations was administrative. In the case of the 35th Arkansas, it is a little more convoluted. Earlier, Col. George W. King's south Arkansas regiment had been designated by the State Military Board as the 22nd Arkansas. Since the rolls for the 20th Arkansas had not yet arrived at Richmond, the War Department assumed that Arkansas had skipped that number, so G. W. King's 22nd Arkansas was designated by the Confederate War Department as the 20th Arkansas. By the time the reorganized muster rolls of Col. James P. King's 35th Arkansas arrive in Richmond, the War Department noticed that the designation 22nd Arkansas wasn't being used (due to their previous error), so J. P. King's regiment was re-designated at the 22nd Arkansas. Colonel Henry J McCord assumed command of the 35th Arkansas Infantry on December 2, 1863, the re-disgnation of the 35th Arkansas to the 22nd Arkansas appears to have been effective at the same time that Colonel McCord assumed command.

Red River Campaign
The brigade was assigned to Churchill's Arkansas Division during the Red River Campaign. In the Spring of 1864, the Churchill's Division, with Hawthorn's Brigade moved south to oppose the advance of Union General Nathaniel Bank's army in north-central Louisiana in March and early April 1864, helping to defeat him at the Battle of Pleasant Hill, Louisiana, on April 10, 1864. Hawthorn's brigade was initially left behind at Camden when the rest of the army went to join General Taylor. They were eventually called upon as well, and left Camden for Louisiana on April 5. They reached Shreveport around the 14th or 15 April when they got news about the Confederate victories at Mansfield and Pleasant Hill. On the 16th, they started their march back to Arkansas with the rest of the army. Churchill's Division marched back north into Arkansas to deal with the other part of the Federal advance, General Frederick Steele's Camden Expedition. The division arrived after a long forced march at Woodlawn, Arkansas, on April 26, where they rested overnight, then joined the pursuit of Steele's retreating army, catching it trying to cross the Saline River near Jenkins' Ferry. At the Battle of Jenkins' Ferry. Colonel Cocke was killed during the Battle of Jenkins' Ferry.

Final year of service
On September 30, 1864, the regiment was assigned to Brigadier General Alexander T. Hawthorn's 4th (Arkansas) Brigade, Acting Major General Thomas J. Churchill's 1st (Arkansas) Division, Major General John B. Magruder's Second Army Corps, Army of the Trans-Mississippi and remained in that assignment through December 31, 1864.  On 17 November 1864, a union spy reported that the Hawthorn's Brigade and Churchill's Division was in the vicinity of Camden, in Ouachita County, Arkansas. On 31 December 1864, General Kirby Smith's report on the organization of his forces lists the 35th Arkansas, under the command of Colonel Henry J. McCord as belonging to Brigadier General Alexander T. Hawthorne's, 4th Brigade of Acting Major General Thomas J. Churchill's 1st Arkansas Infantry Division of Major General John B. Magruder's 2nd Army Corps, Confederate Army of the Trans-Mississippi.

Hawthorn's Brigade was ordered to move to Dooley's Bluff, near Washington, in Hempstead County on 19 January 1865 in order to assist with the building of fortifications along the Red River. On 22 January 1865, Major General Churchill was ordered to move his division to Minden, Louisiana, and occupy winter quarters. On 23 January 1865, Major General Churchill sent a dispatch to Colonel Hawthorn at Dooley's Ferry and directed his movement to Minden, Louisiana.

Union commanders in the Department of the Gulf reported on March 20, 1865, that General Hawthorn's brigade was composed of four regiments and was located a Minden, Louisiana, with the rest of Churchill's Division. In early April 1865, the division concentrated near Shreveport, Louisiana, and then moved to Marshall, Texas, by mid-April 1865.

Campaign Credit
The 35th/22nd Arkansas Infantry was involved in the following engagements :

Battle of Prairie Grove, Arkansas, December 7, 1862.
Battle of Helena, Arkansas, July 4, 1863.
Battle of Little Rock, Arkansas, September 10, 1863.
Red River Campaign, Louisiana-Arkansas, March–May, 1864.
Camden Expedition, Arkansas March–May, 1864.
Battle of Jenkins Ferry, Arkansas, April 30, 1864.

Flag

A flag attributed to the 22nd Arkansas is currently in the collection of the Old State House Museum Collection in Little Rock Arkansas. The flag is made of wool and cotton flag with a field of five red and white horizontal bars of varying widths. Canton is light blue 11 1/2" on the staff by 11 1/2" on the fly. There are 13 5-pointed stars that are white with gold edges each 1 1/2. Set in an "X" shape. Unit designation is embroidered in white chain stitch Roman uncial and minuscule figure and letters: 22nd Regt. Battle honors are embroidered in contrasting red or white block letters on the red and white bars: OAK HILLS, ELK HORN, PRAIRIE GROVE, HELENA, JENKINS FERRY. The curators of the Old State House Museum believe that the flag was actually carried by the 22nd Arkansas during the war up until the unit surrender at Shreveport, Louisiana May 25, 1865. The flag is believed to have been returned to the State of Arkansas in 1905 by the U.S. War Department. Other historians believe that the flag may be a post war flag created by the veterans of the unit for use during a Reunion.

Surrender
This regiment surrendered with the Department of the Trans-Mississippi, General E. Kirby Smith commanding, May 26, 1865. When the Trans-Mississippi Department surrendered, all of the Arkansas infantry regiments were encamped in and around Marshall, Texas (war-ravaged Arkansas no longer able to subsist the army). The regiments were ordered to report to Shreveport, Louisiana, to be paroled but none of them did so. Company G of the 22nd Arkansas Infantry Regiment along with members of the 34th Arkansas Infantry Regiment decided that rather than march to Shreveport, LA, they would to march to Fort Smith, Arkansas and surrendered to General Bussey at that location on June 9, 1865.

Bibliography
Banasik, Michael E. Embattled Arkansas: The Prairie Grove Campaign of 1862. Wilmington, NC: Broadfoot Publishing Company, 1996.

Baxter, William. Pea Ridge and Prairie Grove: Scenes and Incidents of the War in Arkansas. Fayetteville: University of Arkansas Press, 2000.

Bears, Edwin C. "The Battle of Helena, July 4, 1863." Arkansas Historical Quarterly 20 (Autumn 1961): 256–297.

Christ, Mark K. Civil War Arkansas, 1863: The Battle for a State. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2010.

Christ, Mark K., ed. Rugged and Sublime: The Civil War in Arkansas. Fayetteville: University of Arkansas Press, 1994.

Christ, Mark K. "'We Were Badly Whipped': A Confederate Account of the Battle of Helena, July 4, 1863." Arkansas Historical Quarterly 69 (Spring 2010): 44–53.

DeBlack, Thomas A. With Fire and Sword: Arkansas, 1861–1874. Fayetteville: University of Arkansas Press, 2003.

Hess. Earl J.; Shea, William L.; Piston, William G.; Hatcher, Richard W.:  Wilson's Creek, Pea Ridge, and Prairie Grove: A Battlefield Guide, with a Section on Wire Road,  Lincoln, Nebraska, U.S.A. Bison Books 2006,

Montgomery, Don, ed. The Battle of Prairie Grove. Prairie Grove, AR: Prairie Grove Battlefield Historic State Park, 1996.

Sallee, Scott E. "The Battle of Prairie Grove: War in the Ozarks, April '62–January '63." Blue & Gray Magazine 21 (Fall 2004): 6–23, 45–50.

Schieffler, George David. "Too Little, Too Late to Save Vicksburg: The Battle of Helena, Arkansas, July 4, 1863." MA thesis, University of Arkansas, 2005

Shea, William L. War in the West: Pea Ridge and Prairie Grove. Abilene, TX: McWhiney Foundation Press, 2001.

Shea, William L. Fields of Blood: The Prairie Grove Campaign. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2009.

See also

 List of Arkansas Civil War Confederate units
 Lists of American Civil War Regiments by State
 Confederate Units by State
 Arkansas in the American Civil War
 Arkansas Militia in the Civil War

References

External links
Edward G. Gerdes Civil War Home Page
The Encyclopedia of Arkansas History and Culture
The War of the Rebellion: a Compilation of the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies
The Arkansas History Commission, State Archives, Civil War in Arkansas

Units and formations of the Confederate States Army from Arkansas
1865 disestablishments in Arkansas
Military units and formations disestablished in 1865
Military units and formations in Arkansas
Military in Arkansas
1862 establishments in Arkansas
Military units and formations established in 1862


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by Ashley Newport on September 25, 2018
While Canada has been making headlines in regards to its refugee resettlement promises since the country began welcoming displaced Syrian refugees, talk about housing migrants—many of whom have come to Canada in an attempt to flee Donald Trump's problematic policies—recently reached a fever pitch.
Now, it looks like the Region of Peel (a region comprised of Brampton, Mississauga and Caledon) is set to help out the City of Toronto by providing shelter space for the some of the refugees who recently arrived in Canada from the U.S.
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In Peel, shelter space is already difficult to come by.
According to the report, adult emergency shelters in Peel Region have often been at or beyond maximum occupancy since the second quarter of 2016.
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Last November, Peel council learned that while its local shelters were often at capacity, available data indicated that the percentage of refugees in the shelter system was relatively low—sitting at an average of 4 per cent.
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The report says the increase was most apparent at the Peel Family Shelter, as the numbers increased to 385 individuals from 23 individuals in the previous quarter.
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To amend title 49, United States Code, to encourage the use of zero-emission vehicles and technology at public-use airports, and for other purposes.
This Act may be cited as the Generating Revenue for Electric and Emission-Negligible Vehicles at Airports Act or the GREEN Vehicles at Airports Act .
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The allowable project cost for the acquisition of a zero-emission vehicle shall be the total cost of purchasing or leasing the vehicle, including the cost of technical assistance or project management support described in subsection (e).
A sponsor of a public-use airport may use funds made available under the program to acquire, by purchase or lease, a zero-emission vehicle and a removable power source in separate transactions, including transactions by which the airport purchases the vehicle and leases the removable power source.
A sponsor of a public-use airport may not use funds made available under the program to acquire a zero-emission vehicle unless that make, model, or type of vehicle has been tested by a Federal vehicle testing facility acceptable to the Secretary.
A certification of compliance under paragraph (1) shall be considered a certification required under this subchapter for purposes of section 47126.
a vehicle that produces zero exhaust emissions of any criteria pollutant (or precursor pollutant) under any possible operational modes and conditions.
47136. Zero-emission airport vehicles and infrastructure.
Section 47117(e)(1)(A) of title 49, United States Code, is amended by inserting for airport development described in section 47102(3)(P), after under section 47141, .
converting or retrofitting vehicles and ground support equipment into eligible zero-emission vehicles and equipment or acquiring, by purchase or lease, eligible zero-emission vehicles and equipment.
to minimize the risk of deploying such vehicles, technology, and infrastructure.
The Secretary may provide assistance under the program to not more than 3 geographically diverse, eligible organizations to conduct zero-emission airport technology and infrastructure projects.
The Secretary may provide assistance under the program in the form of grants, contracts, and cooperative agreements.
select the recipients of assistance under the program on a competitive basis.
other factors, as the Secretary determines appropriate.
ln selecting from among applicants for assistance under the program, the Secretary shall give priority consideration to an applicant that has successfully managed advanced transportation technology projects, including projects related to zero-emission transportation operations.
to report the recipient's findings to the Secretary.
The Federal share of the cost of a project carried out under the program may not exceed 80 percent.
A grant, contract, or cooperative agreement under this subsection shall be subject to such terms and conditions as the Secretary determines appropriate.
The term eligible organization means an organization that has expertise in zero-emission technology.
other Federal or non-Federal entities as the Secretary deems appropriate.


The construction industry has one of the lowest productivity rates of all industries. To remedy this problem, project managers tend to increase personnel's workload (growing output), or assign more (often insufficiently trained) workers to certain tasks (reducing time). This, however, can expose personnel to work-related musculoskeletal disorders which if sustained over time, lead to health problems and financial loss. This Thesis presents a scientific methodology for collecting time-motion data via smartphone sensors, and analyzing the data for rigorous health and productivity assessment, thus creating new opportunities in research and development within the architecture, engineering, and construction (AEC) domain. In particular, first, a novel hypothesis is proposed for predicting features of a given body posture, followed by an equation for measuring trunk and shoulder flexions. Experimental results demonstrate that for eleven of the thirteen postures, calculated risk levels are identical to true values. Next, a machine learning-based methodology was designed and tested to calculate workers' productivity as well as ergonomic risks due to overexertion. Results show that calculated productivity values are in very close agreement with true values, and all calculated risk levels are identical to actual values. The presented data collection and analysis framework has a great potential to improve existing practices in construction and other domains by overcoming challenges associated with manual observations and direct measurement techniques.
Nath, Nipun Deb, "Construction Ergonomic Risk and Productivity Assessment Using Mobile Technology and Machine Learning" (2017). MSU Graduate Theses. 3157.


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using namespace MIPS;

TEST(SignalExtender, positiveNumber) {
	bit8_t n = 120;
	bit16_t extended = SignalExtender::extend(n);
	ASSERT_EQ(extended, 120);
}

TEST(SignalExtender, negativeNumber) {
	bit8_t n = -120;
	bit16_t extended = SignalExtender::extend(n);
	ASSERT_EQ(extended, -120);
}

TEST(SignalExtender, negative8Bits) {
	bit16_t n = 0x00ff;
	bit16_t extended = SignalExtender::extend(n, 7);
	ASSERT_EQ(extended, -1);
}

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The Learning and Development team at Arcadis is responsible for the professional development of the company's Consultants, from the most junior Apprentices to the most senior Directors.
They approached me to get help structuring the requirements for a new version of their internal website that they planned on building. The site provides information about the courses they offer, how they fit into an Employee's "Personal Development Plan" and details of how to sign up for the courses.
built a set of HTML & CSS mock ups of suggested interaction designs for those key screens.
The first stage of my involvement in the project involved running several discovery workshops in which the Learning and Development team helped me understand how they operate within the wider business. These sessions allowed me to understand the strategy and scope of their work, and uncover who the audiences for their new website would be.
The workshops also helped me uncover that the team had not considered how the site would be managed and maintained once live. To address this we added Admin's and their needs to the requirements, allowing us to consider the workflows and interactions needed to update and maintain the website once live.
Based on the identified audience's needs and the site's objectives I then worked with the team to agree the content and functional requirements for the site and its admin portal.
Much of the content for the site was planned, but did not yet exist. To account for this we catalogued and categorised the content that did exist and worked through the types of additional content that could be added in the future. We considered the medium (video, text, pictorial, etc), length, complexity, sources and longevity of all possible content.
From this work we made an example set of all possible types of content that the site would need to accommodate which we used throughout the rest of the design process.
Using the example content set that we'd developed I next focused on understanding the User Journeys that our various audiences would follow in order to consume, edit and maintain the content throughout the site. These journeys were then documented as a series of Information Architecture diagrams that allowed me to review and iterate the designs with the Arcadis team until we were happy with an agreed structural design.
Building on the structural designs I then focused on sketching out a series of wireframes that were reviewed with the team in order to bring the designs to life. First this was done quickly through a series of discussions around a whiteboard. Once we had agreed a direction to take, I then mocked up a collection of simple HTML & CSS screens to show how the ideas we'd discussed would work in browsers on different devices.
These mock ups went through their own series of iterations until the basic navigation, information and interface designs were agreed.
The visual design was not addressed beyond applying basic colour and text treatments based on the Arcadis branding style guides, as this was out of scope for this stage of the project.
At the end of my six days with the team I left them with a requirements document that described the design process we had been through, listed the conclusions of each stage in the process and included a series of wireframes (produced in Omnigraffle) for the key screens throughout the site with full annotations. I also provided the team with the HTML & CSS mock ups I'd developed to allow them to demonstrate how the site would work to other teams around the business.


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namespace Tonis\Di;

use Interop\Container\ContainerInterface;

abstract class ContainerUtil
{
    /**
     * @param ContainerInterface $di
     * @param mixed $input
     * @return mixed
     */
    final public static function get(ContainerInterface $di, $input)
    {
        if (is_string($input)) {
            if ($di->has($input)) {
                return $di->get($input);
            }

            if (class_exists($input)) {
                return new $input();
            }
        }
        return $input;
    }
}


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An engaging stand-alone thriller but also an intelligent addition to its series.
BEYOND THE CABIN
by Dana Ridenour ‧ RELEASE DATE: Aug. 1, 2017
Ridenour's (Behind the Mask, 2016) second thriller featuring Alexis "Lexie" Montgomery transplants the FBI agent from her New Orleans home to the swamps and mud of South Carolina.
Thirty-two-year-old Lexie's Southern heritage and previous undercover experience working with extremist groups make her the ideal candidate to investigate a case near Pawleys Island that involves the Earth Liberation Front, an international underground organization that sabotages groups that it sees as profiting from environmental destruction. Allegedly, the ELF blew up a work site office owned by Global Resources Inc., a corporation constructing a bridge from the mainland to the pristine Spirit Island, the site of a planned "high-dollar resort." Dwight Jacobson, the company's CEO, belongs to a powerful Charleston, South Carolina, family that "no one messes with"—until now. Dwight's estranged older son, Jeffrey, who goes by "JJ," is a "hippy" out West; his younger son, Aaron, works "for daddy." Lexie poses as a nature photographer and befriends Capt. Meade, an old river boatman. When the two spot a seaplane landing on nearby Cat Island, Lexie suspects the locale is being used for criminal activity. Meade tells her it's an evil place, and Lexie's cohort, Special Agent Don West, agrees that the island shouldn't be explored. Ignoring them, Lexie goes there on a boat rented from handsome Logan Burkhart, whose eyes are "the color of molten chocolate." Unsurprisingly, Lexie meets with danger on Cat Island and, later, on the mainland. Ridenour gives this thriller a vivid sense of place and a timely topic in eco-terrorism. Much of its authenticity owes itself to the author living near the real-life Pawleys Island and to her previous career as an FBI undercover operative infiltrating criminal organizations, including one comprised of domestic terrorists. Another plus, in addition to the novel's realistic plot and believable dialogue, is its depiction of an aggressive, dedicated, and charming female protagonist. Tension effectively builds as Lexie's overconfidence and overly trusting nature backfires, thrusting her into life-threatening situations and trouble with the bureau.
Pub Date: Aug. 1, 2017
Publisher: Deeds Publishing
Review Posted Online: Aug. 22, 2017
Kirkus Reviews Issue: Oct. 1, 2017
Categories: GENERAL FICTION
More by Dana Ridenour
BELOW THE RADAR
by Dana Ridenour
The phrase "tour de force" could have been invented for this audacious novel.
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National Book Award Finalist
A LITTLE LIFE
by Hanya Yanagihara ‧ RELEASE DATE: March 10, 2015
Four men who meet as college roommates move to New York and spend the next three decades gaining renown in their professions—as an architect, painter, actor and lawyer—and struggling with demons in their intertwined personal lives.
Yanagihara (The People in the Trees, 2013) takes the still-bold leap of writing about characters who don't share her background; in addition to being male, JB is African-American, Malcolm has a black father and white mother, Willem is white, and "Jude's race was undetermined"—deserted at birth, he was raised in a monastery and had an unspeakably traumatic childhood that's revealed slowly over the course of the book. Two of them are gay, one straight and one bisexual. There isn't a single significant female character, and for a long novel, there isn't much plot. There aren't even many markers of what's happening in the outside world; Jude moves to a loft in SoHo as a young man, but we don't see the neighborhood change from gritty artists' enclave to glitzy tourist destination. What we get instead is an intensely interior look at the friends' psyches and relationships, and it's utterly enthralling. The four men think about work and creativity and success and failure; they cook for each other, compete with each other and jostle for each other's affection. JB bases his entire artistic career on painting portraits of his friends, while Malcolm takes care of them by designing their apartments and houses. When Jude, as an adult, is adopted by his favorite Harvard law professor, his friends join him for Thanksgiving in Cambridge every year. And when Willem becomes a movie star, they all bask in his glow. Eventually, the tone darkens and the story narrows to focus on Jude as the pain of his past cuts deep into his carefully constructed life.
Review Posted Online: Dec. 22, 2014
More by Hanya Yanagihara
TO PARADISE
by Hanya Yanagihara
THE PEOPLE IN THE TREES
Best Books of 2015: Hanya Yanagihara
Go to College, Keep Your Friends, Have Fights, Write a Novel
The Year in Fiction
Less bleak than the subject matter might warrant—Hannah's default outlook is sunny—but still, a wrenching depiction of war's...
by Kristin Hannah ‧ RELEASE DATE: Jan. 31, 2012
The traumatic homecoming of a wounded warrior.
The daughter of alcoholics who left her orphaned at 17, Jolene "Jo" Zarkades found her first stable family in the military: She's served over two decades, first in the army, later with the National Guard. A helicopter pilot stationed near Seattle, Jo copes as competently at home, raising two daughters, Betsy and Lulu, while trying to dismiss her husband Michael's increasing emotional distance. Jo's mettle is sorely tested when Michael informs her flatly that he no longer loves her. Four-year-old Lulu clamors for attention while preteen Betsy, mean-girl-in-training, dismisses as dweeby her former best friend, Seth, son of Jo's confidante and fellow pilot, Tami. Amid these challenges comes the ultimate one: Jo and Tami are deployed to Iraq. Michael, with the help of his mother, has to take over the household duties, and he rapidly learns that parenting is much harder than his wife made it look. As Michael prepares to defend a PTSD-afflicted veteran charged with Murder I for killing his wife during a dissociative blackout, he begins to understand what Jolene is facing and to revisit his true feelings for her. When her helicopter is shot down under insurgent fire, Jo rescues Tami from the wreck, but a young crewman is killed. Tami remains in a coma and Jo, whose leg has been amputated, returns home to a difficult rehabilitation on several fronts. Her nightmares in which she relives the crash and other horrors she witnessed, and her pain, have turned Jo into a person her daughters now fear (which in the case of bratty Betsy may not be such a bad thing). Jo can't forgive Michael for his rash words. Worse, she is beginning to remind Michael more and more of his homicide client. Characterization can be cursory: Michael's earlier callousness, left largely unexplained, undercuts the pathos of his later change of heart.
Less bleak than the subject matter might warrant—Hannah's default outlook is sunny—but still, a wrenching depiction of war's aftermath.
Pub Date: Jan. 31, 2012
Publisher: St. Martin's
More by Kristin Hannah
THE FOUR WINDS
by Kristin Hannah
THE GREAT ALONE


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Call for Minister to come to Gaoth Dobhar after Largo Foods closure- Ó Domhnaill
200 New Well Paid Jobs Needed in Gaoth Dobhair/Cloughaneely by July
Following the news last month of the closure of Largo Foods with the loss of 110 full time jobs and 30 part time jobs, Fianna Fáil local election candidate for Glenties Cllr Seamus Ó Domhnaill is calling on the Minister for Jobs and the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht to come to Gaoth Dobhair to "meet staff, explain why there has been a lack of action by the Government to make new jobs available before the Largo jobs go in July."
"Staff were advised at the time that 70 jobs would be available in the sister factory of Largo Foods in Ashbourne but in recent days it has come to light that only 20 jobs are available. "
"A task force was set up by Údarás na Gaeltachta and while they were in contact with the staff/ union at the time of the announcement no further contact has been made with the staff and the first machines are being moved to Largo in Ashbourne next week meaning that the first lay offs will occur. The staff are extremely annoyed at the lack of information and the lack of assistance being provided with creating new jobs in the area and it would also appear that the factory may close prior to the scheduled date in August," explained Cllr Ó Domhnaill.
"Údaras need to provide at least 200 high paid jobs in the County before the first of July. The employment creation budget available to Údarás na Gaeltachta has been slashed by this Government with any new or high tech jobs being supported by the organisation created in the Galway Gaeltacht. There appears to be a total lack of focus on creating new jobs in the Donegal Gaeltacht."
"I am calling on both Government Ministers to immediately visit the Gaoth Dobhair and Cloughaneely Area so as they will see first hand the amount of empty Údarás Units in the area. Our area need to see action. An inactive task force telling us about what needs to be done is a complete waste of time. Jobs are urgently needed. We need action now not in two years."
"Many workers set to lose their jobs in Largo Foods have loans and mortgages – promises of training and promises without action will not pay the bills." Concluded Ó Domhnaill
Posted: Apr 29, 2014 | Categories: Uncategorized


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In a follow up to earlier episodes, we'll revisit how to use the latest version of Froala. Using Froala with the Sanitize gem, I'll show you how to build a simple blog. We'll start with basic tests and add in how to write a feature spec to test a wysiwyg.


Jan Olszewski, Poland's former prime minister, a lawyer, an activist of the opposition and a defender in political processes in the Polish People's Republic, has died at the age of 88.
Following the death of the former Prime Minister of Poland Jan Olszewski, 15th-16th February have been announced as days of national mourning in Poland.
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Tree water – Use a tight-fitting tree skirt to restrict your pet's access to the tree's water because it can be harmful to drink, and can contribute to a tipped tree. If you choose to add chemicals to the tree's water to keep it fresh longer, make sure the label says it is safe for pets.
Tinsel – Pets love the shiny excitement that is tinsel, especially cats. Keep tinsel out of reach of both cats and dogs because it can cause serious intestinal obstructions.
Ornaments – Hang any small or fragile ornaments high enough that they won't break with a wag of a tail or swipe of a paw.
Pine needles – Clean up fallen pine needles frequently because they can upset your pet's stomach if consumed.
Strings of lights – Keep your pets from chewing on holiday lights by tucking cords out of their reach, or using a grounded three-prong extension cord.
Everyone loves the joy of opening holiday presents with their family and friends. Your pet may especially fancy chewing on or playing with the wrapping paper, ribbons, and bows on presents especially if something inside smells tasty. Make sure to keep them out of paws' reach and throw them away quickly after presents are opened.
Keep Menorah and other holiday decorative candles far enough away from pets that they can't knock them over—no one wants their home to go up in flames during the holidays. You can also choose electric candles instead; many flameless candles flicker just like the real thing, but without the fire risk.
up with an unpleasant stomach issue.
Lots of unfamiliar faces and loud talking and laughter can stress out your pet. Exercise your dog beforehand and give them a special chew toy to keep them distracted. If they still seem stressed, put them in a quiet room away from all of the commotion—cats will probably hide all on their own. "


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GailForce: Aspen Security Forum Part I
by Gail Harris | on July 28th, 2015 | 0 comments
Former Deputy Attorney General James Comey (left), alongside President Barack Obama (center) and outgoing FBI Director Robert Mueller (right) at Comey's nomination to become the Seventh Director of the FBI. Photo Credit: Federal Bureau of Investigation
For the past six years, the Aspen Institute has hosted a summer security forum in my home state of Colorado. I've attended countless security forums and conferences over the years during both my time working for the government and in my follow on career as a writer, but I consider the Aspen Security Forum one of the best for a couple of reasons.
First, the lineup of speakers and presenters is unrivaled and consists of not just senior but the senior heads of key government agencies, as well as prominent journalists from print and broadcast media who keep the speakers on there toes.
Second, for most conferences, the speakers show up shortly before they go on stage and then leave immediately after. At the Aspen Security Forum, many of the speakers spend the entire week hanging out at the conference with the attendees. That gives you plenty of opportunities to walk up to them and discuss issues they may not have had time to cover during their presentations. For the most part, I've found everyone is very approachable and candid when responding to questions.
Clark Ervin, head of the Aspen Institute's Homeland Security Program, set the tone for the forum in the conference brochure:
Generally, there is the feeling that, at best, America is managing the chaos – that we are not even "leading from behind" anymore. We seem to be doing just enough in trouble spot after trouble spot to prevent catastrophe, but not enough to influence events in our favor anywhere.
The campaign of 2016 is now just getting underway, and so it is understandable that national security issues are not yet front and center. All the candidates make the ritualistic pledges to "be tough" or "stand tall" in the world, but none has yet made a central theme of what must be the overriding national security imperative in the next four years- restoring America's leadership in the world. Over the course of its short history, the Forum has helped to shape the national security agenda. If then, I have a hope for one overriding theme for this year's Forum, it is that one.
Not surprisingly, cybersecurity and terrorism were the two topics that dominated the week. China and Russia were also prominent themes. Of note, Sergey Kislyak, Russia's ambassador to the U.S., was in attendance for most of the week. The approach I'm taking in reporting on the forum is to write a series of blogs on what jumped out at me each day, starting with the talk by FBI Director, James Comey, on the Forum's opening day Wednesday, July 22. The moderator for the session was CNN's Wolf Blitzer.
Some of the key points Comey made were:
He considers the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) a bigger threat than Al Qaeda. Specifically he worries about ISIS's threat to the homeland and what he cannot see. He likened it to looking for needles in a nationwide haystack. A lot of those needles are invisible either because of the way they have or have not communicated.
Comey also stated that ISIS operates in a different manner than Al Qaeda making extensive use of social media to "crowd source" terrorism:
They have invested, about the last year, in pushing a message of poison primarily through Twitter but other parts of social media that is a siren song with two dimensions — they are preaching through social media to troubled souls urging them to join their so-called "Caliphate" in Syria and Iraq, or if you can't join, kill where you are. And Twitter is a valuable enterprise because it works, to sell shoes or to sell ideas, it works to sell this message to troubled souls.
Comey provided some interesting insights to illustrate the scale of investigations ongoing in the FBI:
The FBI has investigations related to this threat all across the country. There are hundreds of investigations. We're trying to understand where somebody is on the spectrum of a consumer of this poison on Twitter, to an actor who's about to try and murder innocent people, and evaluate where are they on that spectrum. We have hundreds of people we're looking at on that spectrum.
The [ISIS] tweeters in theory have 21,000 English language followers. Hundreds of those people, probably thousands, are in the United States. So our job in the law enforcement community is figuring out so who are they and where are they along this line from consuming to acting. And that's why this is our dominant threat that we face today.
Mr. Comey said there were two stumbling blocks to his ability to track the activities of ISIS:
The first is the technological one. [ISIS]'s m.o. is they broadcast on Twitter, get people to follow them, then move them to Twitter direct messaging while they evaluate whether they're a potential liaison either to travel or to kill where they are. Then they'll move them to an encrypted mobile messaging app where they go dark to us. And so that's what I mean by the needle becoming invisible. We can with court authority, get access to the Twitter contacts but we don't have the ability to break strong encryption. And so if they move to the mobile messaging app we're going to lose them, so that's a huge worry.
As I understand it, at the heart of the encryption issue is the way private industry is designing encryption devices. Without having access to an encryption key, you can't access the data being passed over the network. At the center this is a debate over two issues, namely privacy and national security. One of the continuing mantras over the week was the necessity for a government/private industry partnership to solve this and other cyber-related issues. When addressing this topic, all of the speakers emphasized this point while stating that the government did not want to dictate solutions. On the encryption issue, Comey noted:
I can picture the end state we need. We need judges orders to be complied with. Now, how to figure that out, lots of people, smart people, tell me, oh, it's too hard. I don't buy that. I don't think we've tried hard enough yet. If we recognize that we all share the same values, I think smart people can figure out how to do it. And it may not be the same for every company, right. The goal of the government is clear — we need to with the right showing to a judge be able to get access to the information in those targeted individual cases. How a company does it may depend upon the company's business model, right. There are companies out there now that encrypt their data-in-motion and are able to comply with judges' orders because they see the content of the communication because it's part of their business model. We need to figure out how to achieve the end goal, but the government will not be telling people this is the way you ought to do it, because we don't know their business well enough or their technology.
I asked Comey if he had seen instances of terrorists planning or using cyber as a weapon to attack. He responded:
The answer is some. And we're picking up signs of increasing interest. And logic would tell us that as we've made it harder and harder for human beings to get into our country to do bad things, that they will hit upon photons entering our country to do bad things, but not in the main. So it's a small but potentially growing problem.
Think I'll end here. More to follow in the next few days.
Gail Harris
Gail Harris' 28 year career in intelligence included hands-on leadership during every major conflict from the Cold War to El Salvador to Desert Storm to Kosovo and at the forefront of one of the Department of Defense's newest challenges, Cyber Warfare. A Senior Fellow for The Truman National Security Project, her memoir, A Woman's War, published by Scarecrow Press is available on Amazon.com.
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The NHL Will Return to Seattle for the 2021-2022 Season!
Published in The Seattle Times
By Geoff Baker
History on hand as Seattle awarded the 32nd NHL franchise for 2021-22 season
The NHL on Tuesday awarded Seattle an expansion franchise to begin play in October 2021 at a remodeled KeyArena. Among those present for the announcement in Georgia was the Bellevue niece of Seattle Metropolitans founders Lester and Frank Patrick.
SEA ISLAND, Ga. – It was impossible not to feel the ghosts of Lester and Frank Patrick present Tuesday as Seattle was awarded the National Hockey League's 32nd franchise.
But just in case, the NHL Seattle group invited the brothers' niece, Bellevue resident Beverley Parsons, now in her mid-80s, to be on-hand at The Cloister hotel as the league granted Seattle an expansion team to begin play in October 2021. The Patrick family is royalty in the NHL, and Lester and his brother, Frank, founded both the Seattle Metropolitans and the Pacific Coast Hockey Association (PCHA) more than a century ago.
Now, their dream of top-flight hockey in the Pacific Northwest is a reality. The NHL board of governors on Tuesday morning approved the awarding of a franchise to a Seattle group headed by David Bonderman and Jerry Bruckheimer for the 2021-22 season, with their home base at a remodeled KeyArena.
The launch date is a year later than Seattle's group had wanted, but will ensure that a KeyArena renovation – now pegged at $750 million in private funding – is completed on time. It also allows the group time to complete a $70 million practice facility at Northgate Mall and hold the expansion draft at KeyArena in 2021 ahead of the team's launch.
NHL Seattle CEO Tod Leiweke said his group will use the added time to ensure fans are given a first-class product.
"We went back and forth on it for weeks,'' Leiweke said of negotiations between his group and the league. "In the end, they figured 'Why risk it? Do your really want your team to start on the road? Have your team play all of its home games at the arena they're going to call home.''
Construction on the arena is to begin Wednesday. The NHL Seattle group and the Oak View Group developer, headed by Leiweke's older brother, Tim, have long said they can build the arena in time. But with a timeline of just under two years, the slightest delay would have prevented the Seattle team from playing home games on schedule. Also, the potential still looms for an NHL work stoppage in September 2020 that would have commenced just weeks before Seattle's anticipated franchise launch.
Delaying the launch by a year eliminates that threat, though it does risk curtailing some of the momentum built towards the Seattle team's launch. The Seattle group wanted a 2020 start and had pushed the league to grant that, but eventually settled for what was granted.
The NHL has a long and mixed history of expansion teams not always working out and wasn't leaving anything to chance.
Tuesday's decision ends years of political wrangling in Seattle over where to situate the city's major sports arena to attract future winter sports teams. The NHL's decision is expected to attract an NBA franchise in coming years as well and revive a SurperSonics franchise that was relocated to Oklahoma City a decade ago.
For now, the focus is on hockey, and the presence of Parsons at Tuesday's announcement signaled just how much of a "done deal'' the awarding of a Seattle franchise has been for months. The NHL has tried for years to break in to the Seattle marketplace, but had been unable to do so.
Only after a 5-4 Seattle City Council vote in May 2016 derailing a bid by entrepreneur Chris Hansen in the city's Sodo District was the NHL able to get a foothold in the Emerald City. After that, Hansen relinquished his exclusivity rights to KeyArena and allowed the city to seek developers willing to revive the 56-year-old venue.
OVG won the renovation rights last year in bidding and imported Bonderman and Bruckheimer as franchise owners to pay the $650 million tab for an NHL team. Bonderman and Bruckheimer attended Tuesday's meetings, as did minority owners David Wright, Adrian Hanauer and Jay Deutsch.
But the presence of Parsons, niece of the founding Patrick family, hit home for NHL owners more than any other. It was the Patricks, both Hall of Famers, that helped bring Seattle a Stanley Cup title for the Metropolitans in 1916-17 – the first for a team from outside of Canada.
Lester Patrick's grandson, Craig, now 72, served as an assistant coach to Herb Brooks on the Team USA gold medal squad at the Lake Placid Winter Olympics in 1980. Later, as general manager of the Pittsburgh Penguins, he oversaw that team winning consecutive Stanley Cup titles in 1991 and 1992.
Craig Patrick's cousin, Dick, was president of the Washington Capitals last season when they won the Stanley Cup. His other cousin, Chris, was the team's director of player personnel.
Lester Patrick died June 1, 1960, at the age of 76, from a heart attack. His brother, Frank, died exactly four weeks later, also of a heart attack. The NHL continues to honor their family legacy, with the league yearly awarding the Lester Patrick Trophy for "outstanding service to hockey in the United States."
That Seattle hockey pedigree spoke volumes to the league, as did the city's growing per capita wealth. The league has seen tremendous progress by the Nashville Predators in recent seasons after that city's growth spurt on the business side and can only imagine what Seattle's might be like if launched in the midst of an economic upswing for the city.
For now, the team will have nearly three years to figure out a name, sell season tickets and get transportation infrastructure improved around KeyArena. Leiweke said the venue will have other events scheduled early in 2021 so that the delay in implementing the hockey team won't be as punitive to the bottom line.
And for Seattle hockey fans, without a pro team since the minor league Totems disbanded in 1975, the addition of an NHL squad fills a longstanding void. Up until the Totems' demise, the Seattle hockey scene had never gone more than a decade without a pro squad after the Metropolitans commenced.
Now, they'll have one in the highest league possible. Back when the Metropolitans won the Stanley Cup in 1917, the NHL was still known as the National Hockey Association and a year away from the league we now know.
The Seattle PCHA champions defeated the Montreal NHA winners for that title.
And when the Metropolitans finally folded in 1924, the NHL was only a few years away from commandeering the Cup as its exclusive league reward. And despite multiple titles in various pro leagues over the ensuing decades, Seattle again had a shot at hockey's highest honor.
Until right now, where, under an overcast Georgia sky, the ghosts of the Patrick family are looking down at their next of kin and the future torchbearers of a Seattle hockey tradition they helped start.
A tradition that apparently has plenty of life left in it.
Original story published in The Seattle Times.


1. Your definition of love changes as you get older. That hot, fiery beginning love is great, but if there's nothing to sustain that fire, it will go out. Find someone who you truly enjoy being with, you can laugh with, and cry with.
2. 2. Blood doesn't make or define a family, unconditional love does. Sometimes families are torn apart by greed, jealousy, divorce, or anger. Real family are those people who love you despite your flaws and love you through it all. Don't forget to return the favor!
3. Be friends with your siblings because they are the people who will be with you your entire life.
4. Friendships change. Friends come and go as marriage, divorce, job changes, moves, and children happen.
5. Learn how to manage your money when you're young. Money is a tool. Once you learn to use it as a tool instead of letting money control you, life gets a lot easier.
6. Take vacations. Many people wait until they are older to travel. Guess what? There are just as many expenses when you're older as you have when you're young. Even worse, sometimes as you age, your health fails and you can no longer get around like you could when you were younger. Pay with cash and travel. See the world. Broaden your horizons.
7. Don't waste your time worrying about what other people think about you. Do your best, be a good person, and live your life. Life is too short to worry about things out of your control. People that care about you accept you for yourself, those that don't are missing out.
8. Learn to say that you are sorry. It takes a big person to step up and apologize. Be the brave one, you might save a relationship.
9. Find a career that you love. You will be doing it for another 30-some years. Feel good about what you are doing. You will be a happier person.
10. Take chances. Playing it safe can lead to a life of regrets. Don't be someone who played it so safe that you look back on your life and wish you had been brave enough to follow your heart.
11. Find a church that you love to go to. If the first place you try doesn't feel right, keep looking.
12. You are not too old to make a change. I remember when I was 20 thinking 35 was old. It's not. Trust me!
13. Surround yourself with people who make you a better person. Try to find a spiritual mentor, professional mentors, and people with goals similar to your own.
14. Be the mentor you needed in your 20s to someone in their 20s. There are a lot of people lost that need someone to come along and help them develop into the person they want to be.
15. Learn how to cook at home. Not only is this cheaper, but it's healthier. You might even like it!
16. Read more than you watch television.
17. Pay off your credit cards. It's really hard to live your dreams when you are drowning in debt.
18. Learn how to say no to yourself. It's always easy to make up an excuse that we "deserve" something. Sometimes we might, but can't afford it. Say no until you can.
19. If you have children, teach them good habits early. Children are sponges that soak up the good and bad. Practice what you preach.
20. Be grateful. Practice gratitude journaling. Say thank you. Mean it.
21. Give back. Each of us needed help somewhere along the way.
22. Some people are users. Find friends that support in you and support them back. Let the others go.
23. Know your priorities. Don't be afraid to say no to something that's taking time away from those priorities!
24. You can invest everything you have into a relationship and still have your heartbroken. Sometimes it's not your fault. There are no guarantees with people.
25. Be trustworthy. Don't spread gossip. You never know who you are going to hurt by doing so!
26. Learn self-discipline. It will get you very far in life!
27. Be yourself. You are uniquely created by a wondrous God. The world needs more of you.
28. Smile. Life might not always be easy or fun, but it costs nothing to smile.
29. The less stuff you own, the easier it is to keep a clean home. Clutter results in extra, extra time spent trying to find something, extra time cleaning and taking care of things, and extra money buying duplicates because you can't find the first. Keep the things you love.
30. Let go and have some fun. Sometimes we get so caught up in "grown up" things like our jobs and bills that we forget to have some fun. Live life. 35 years has went by very fast. Those are words that I never thought that I'd say. Enjoy the ride!
32. Cynicism and sarcasm make for good jokes, but kindness and sincerity make for better friends.
33. Don't be the person who tells other people why they shouldn't like what they like. Nobody likes that person.
34.You'll learn far more from considering the possibility that you might be wrong than you ever will from insisting you were right.
35. If someone has hurt you, find a way to forgive them. Forgiveness is a gift you give yourself.
Happiest birthday! What a wonderful list! Wishing all the best in this new year of life.
These are great life lessons at any age! Happy Birthday!
Happy Birthday! With age comes wisdom and you are the proof! I love this list and especially chocolate fixes everything! I turned 55 this year, but age is just a number. I don't feel a day over 30! Jesus keeps me young.
Happy Birthday! It looks like you have a great list and wisdom to go along with it!


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Q: Distribution list with external email sent from outside I have Exchange Server 2010 in my environment and I have the following problem with Distribution Lists.
I have created one Distribution List which includes email addresses from our company and external email addresses.
When I send from inside all works fine.
But when I send from outside the email received from inside users(email addresses of my domain) but never received from outside email addresses.
How can resolve this issue?

i have change this setting when create the group.But my problem isn't that users from outside can't send to distribution list.
The problem is that in my distribution list i have email addresses from my company (@domain.com) and external email addresses (@gmail.com,@yahoo.com).
When a user from inside send to the Distribution List all works fine.
When a user from outside send to the Distribution List, users from my company(@domain.com) which include in the Distribution List receive the email but user with external email addresses(@gmail.com,@yahoo.com) didn't receive the email.

A: This is an easy fix.
Think about the reason for this default. Many organizations do NOT want their internal email distribution groups to be presented to the world. Imagine an outside person sending an email to everyone@pacific-cucumber.com. But other times, there are a few addresses that do need the ability to receive email from the outside.
Common examples are: info@xyz.com or sales@abc.com - That's where the following settings come in handy:
Navigate to the distribution group's properties under Recipient Configuration in the Exchange Management Console...
Open Mail Flow Settings -> Message Delivery Restrictions.
Uncheck "Require that all senders are authenticated" - Save and exit.

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Meet the Colorado helicopter medic trained to rescue wildland firefighters
Unique federal, state, military and civilian partnerships grow from Gypsum's High Altitude Army National Guard Training Site, creating a firefighting unicorn like Aaron Zinser
4:00 AM MDT on Sep 1, 2020
Aaron Zinser flies with Army National Guard crew in this UH-60 Blackhawk helicopter. The team's goal is to respond within 15 minutes for takeoff and arrive on scene within roughly an hour at any Colorado location. (Steve Peterson, Special to The Colorado Sun)
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GYPSUM — Don't ask Aaron Zinser about which job he's working. The answer gets complicated very quickly.
The 37-year-old Eagle County paramedic is a firefighter who can provide medical care on the frontlines of wildfire. He's also certified to care for patients aboard military helicopters. He's also a search and rescue medic who deploys with mountain rescue teams and a volunteer with Vail Mountain Rescue. And he's certified by the National Guard as a Colorado Hoist Rescue Technician, which means he's the medic who dangles on hoists below helicopters, treating injured hikers, skiers and climbers that search and rescue teams pluck from the mountains.
"I have a few hats and sometimes it's complicated knowing which one I'm wearing, especially when I'm wearing two at the same time," says Zinser, who is temporarily based out of the High Altitude Army National Guard Aviation Training Site — or HAATS — in Gypsum, caring for injured firefighters on a Blackhawk helicopter with a National Guard medevac team out of Aurora's Buckley Air Force Base.
Zinser's rare combination of skills makes him a sort-of unicorn in today's firefighting world. And he's part of Colorado's aggressive attack on wildfires burning across the state.
Aaron Zinser. Firefighting paramedic Aaron Zinser at the High-Altitude ARNG Aviation Training Site (HAATS). (Steve Peterson, Special to The Colorado Sun)
Earlier this month Gov. Jared Polis authorized the Colorado National Guard to use two UH-60 Black Hawk helicopters and a twin-rotor CH-47 Chinook to help the State Emergency Operations Center at major fires in Colorado.
Zinser is part of a team stationed at the high-altitude training center at the Eagle County Regional Airport. The medevac team — two Black Hawk pilots, a medically trained hoist technician, a hoist operator and mechanic and Zinser — can respond within an hour to an injured firefighter anywhere in Colorado.
But the team's mission is to cover any fire in the Rocky Mountain region, working with the federal Rocky Mountain Area Coordination Center, which includes Kansas, Nebraska, South Dakota and Wyoming.
The HAATS, with its classrooms and dormitory and white-floored hangar for Black Hawks, Chinooks and UH-72 Lakotas, has been fostering unique civilian-military partnerships since its inception in 1986.
The facility, which offers "graduate level" multi-day courses in mountain flying to military helicopter pilots and crews, has been providing firefighting and search and rescue training and support since 1995.
"This is such a cool thing to have in our backyard. Without these guys here, I do not think we could have the kinds of programs and partnerships we do," said Sgt. A.J. Youngerman, the senior medic who dangles below Black Hawks to rescue injured firefighters.
Zinser doesn't dangle on this mission. He provides care for patients inside the helicopter. He does ride the hoist on search-and-rescue missions though. But when it is a pure military exercise — like the National Guard's work rescuing injured firefighters — he only works inside the helicopter. It's a complicated system involving a blend of state and federal responsibility and liability.
"It's nice for us to have Aaron here because I get to learn a bit from him. We get to talk shop and share our experiences and if I can be an asset to him that's what I'm here for," Youngerman said. "We bring this whole platform — the Black Hawk helicopter with the hoist system and hoist crew — just so that we can be sure we can get guys anywhere."
Aaron Zinser flies with Army National Guard crew in this UH-60 Blackhawk helicopter. (Steve Peterson, Special to The Colorado Sun)
Those Chinooks can carry up to 2,000 gallons in collapsible buckets. The Black Hawks can also carry water as well as deliver medical care to the front lines of a remote fire. Since Zinser and the rotating medevac team assembled for their regionwide mission on Aug. 20, they have not responded to any calls for help from the nearly 3,000 firefighters battling 11 wildfires in Colorado.
Not getting any calls is fine with Zinser.
The types of calls that require a helicopter extraction would not be pretty. It would be a firefighter injured by a falling tree or a bucked chainsaw. Or a health emergency related to the stress, heat and smoke. The Black Hawks can carry three patients, but the team says they could extract as many injured firefighters as needed in a pinch.
"Optimally we don't want to be deployed because that usually means someone is hurt pretty bad but it's nice to know we are available if needed," Zinser said.
With Aaron Zinser, center, are Army National Guardsmen Haidar Osman, Jesse Bavender, A.J. Youngerman, and Raymond Schultz, at the nose of a UH-60 Blackhawk helicopter. (Steve Peterson, Special to The Colorado Sun)
CORRECTION: This story was updated Sept. 1, 2020, at 2:50 p.m. to correct the year the High Altitude Army National Guard Aviation Training Site was formed.
The Colorado Sun — jason@coloradosun.com
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Bye-bye Beverley: Credits roll for Paris's last porn cinema
Feb 26, 2019 6:42 PM PHT
The soon-to-close Beverley theater plays adult films from the 70s and 80s and is managed by Maurice Laroche since 1983
PARIS, France – Tucked away in a narrow Right Bank street, the Beverley held out for decades as Paris's sole pornographic movie theater, proudly yet discreetly offering non-stop showings of films from the 1970s and 80s.
But rising rents and changing social mores have finally caught up and the cinema's fans have just a few days left to pick up memorabilia from a symbol of a bygone Paris.
After the final screening last Saturday, February 23 – the traditional "couples night" – owner Maurice Laroche is remaining on site this week to sell films, posters, seats and whatever else is left.
"Everything is for sale, except me," Laroche told AFP on Monday as a handful of men pored over boxes of reels or struggled to make off with a huge speaker.
But women made up around a third of the curious who criss-crossed the theater's narrow brick-walled auditorium when the sale began Sunday, February 24.
Laroche, who had managed the Beverley since 1983 before buying it 10 years later, said that at 75 he was ready to retire to the ocean resort town of Royan in southwest France.
His clients have become fewer as they've gotten older in recent years – most recently he had been selling less than 500 12-euro tickets a week, compared with 1,500, 20 years ago.
"This was a place where you could be certain no minors would see pornography – nowadays they're all watching on their phones," he said.
A property developer has bought the site, presumably with plans to install something more in line with the designer hotel and tapas bar up the street in a rapidly gentrifying corner of the capital.
According to France's national cinema council only one X-rated cinema now remains in France, the Vox in Grenoble –though no one was answering the phone on Monday.
The council doesn't appear to count the films shown at some of the seedier sex shops in Paris's red light district at Pigalle, known for offering more than just a movie.
"In its heyday, around 1975, there were over 900 cinemas specializing in pornography in France. Just 6 years later, there were only 90," French film journalist Jacques Zimmer told AFP.
Laroche said he would be taking his "head full of memories" and two of the red vinyl seats to the balcony of his new apartment. – Rappler.com


It has become increasingly obvious as the association grows in size and structure that professional women in mining are not only leading the way in their daily mining responsibilities but specifically the 14 women on the 21 member committee are developing educational awareness on the importance of the industry through multiple interactive activities at this event. The association is hoping to target more young women considering a profession in a growing and important sector. These 14 women brought their daily experience to the Modern Mining & Technology Sudbury event.
Sudbury is seen as the most "mining literate" center in North America. Much of this is due to the role women play in the industry.
It hasn't always been that way in the mining field.
Courtnay Meaghan Hughes has written an insightful thesis for her Master's Degree at Simon Fraser University entitled, A Study of the Career Advancement and Retention of Highly Qualified Women in the Canadian Mining Industry, 2012.
Amendments to the Act in 1912-13 allowed companies to hire women in a technical, clerical or domestic capacity.
The gender divide within mining employment remained in place except for a temporary lift of the ban during the Second World War and the Queens' visits.
Historical records show 17 females were hired during the war years. Finally in 1960, the 1935 Act was ratified and further included the forbidding of employment of women in any mine except women who were employed in health and welfare services and other non-manual underground work.
A project documenting experiences at INCO Sudbury operations is one of the only accounts of first generation women entering blue collar Canadian job. Between 1974-76, INCO hired 100 women for hourly rated jobs at the company's surface operations in Sudbury. In 1978 women were finally allowed underground in Ontario.
The change in legislation and attitude has been slow because at 14.4% – 16.4% the representation of women working in the Canadian mining industry is the lowest among primary industry categories.
Despite a perception that more women are involved in the mining industry today, the number of women in mining remains relatively unchanged since 2001 except for a few managerial opportunities and corporate leadership roles.
Another major study recently released by the Mining Association of Canada Facts & Figures 2013 spends little time on the issue of Women in Mining. Mining now employs 418,115 Canadians but the study indicates that in the mining industry women represent less than 5% of positions in trades, production, services and management. However most clerical and support roles (95%) and corporate services positions (60%) are in held by women.
The introduction of WISE (Women in Science and Engineering) in 1998 and expanding Chapters of WIM (Women in Mining), a national not for profit organization formed in 2009, focuses on advancing the interests of women in the mineral and mining community across Canada. The inauguration of a chapter of WIM for Northern Ontario took place January 30, 2014 in Sudbury.
Nicole Tardif, Program Coordinator, Goodman School of Mines, is a new Director of WIM and former Chair of Modern Mining & Technology Sudbury. She attended and addressed the Inaugural reception, "We have a unique opportunity in Northern Ontario to show others the diversity in mining-related careers because we are surrounded by the history and the future of mining".
The creation and expansion of two associations dedicated to growing the numbers of women in mining in Canada is a plus factor. One of key factors to attract and retain women in this industry is the well documented need for mentors and these new initiatives should provide the necessary relationships required for the future .


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Q: How to check purchase status on my server? I know that we can use next code on device side:
licenseInformation.ProductLicenses["product"].IsActive

But I want to check purchase on my server. How can I do it?

A: If I understood you well, the new Windows Store APIs will be good for you:
https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/apps/mt609002.aspx

If you have a catalog of apps and in-app products (IAPs), you can use
  the Windows Store collection API and Windows Store purchase API to
  access ownership information for these products from your services.


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