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Il Teatro Valle "Franca Valeri" è un teatro di Roma, sito nel rione Sant'Eustachio, è il teatro moderno più antico d'Europa.

Inaugurato nel 1727 su progetto dell'architetto Tommaso Morelli, il teatro fu più volte al centro di lavori di manutenzione e ammodernamento, che coinvolsero diversi architetti e artisti. Tra le opere di maggior rilievo ospitate si ricordano la prima romana del Don Giovanni di Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1811) e le prime assolute di diverse opere di Gioachino Rossini e Gaetano Donizetti, oltre che di Sei personaggi in cerca d'autore di Luigi Pirandello (1921).

Nel secondo dopoguerra fu preso in gestione dall'Ente teatrale italiano. Dopo la soppressione dell'ente, il 31 maggio 2010, il teatro fu chiuso e poi occupato pacificamente da alcuni attivisti, dal 2011 al 2014. Nel 2016 lo stabile è stato trasferito a Roma Capitale, per esser poi parzialmente riaperto nel 2018. Nel 2021 è stato intitolato a Franca Valeri. Entro la fine nel 2021 è previsto l'inizio dei lavori di ammodernamento e messa in sicurezza, in vista di una completa riapertura dell'edificio nel 2024.

Storia
La realizzazione del teatro, inizialmente pensato per il solo uso privato, fu finanziata dal nobile Camillo Capranica, già proprietario del teatro Capranica sito nell'omonimo palazzo del rione Colonna. Il progetto fu affidato all'architetto Tommaso Morelli ed esso fu inaugurato il 7 gennaio 1727 con la rappresentazione della tragedia Matilde di Simone Falconio Prato. Il teatro, la cui struttura era interamente lignea, si presentava come un classico teatro all'italiana, provvisto di cinque ordini di palchi e un loggione, senza però un foyer effettivo. La programmazione prevedeva l'esecuzione di opere liriche, opere in musica e drammi in prosa. Il nome deriva dal primo direttore del teatro, Domenico Valle, sebbene alcuni sostengano che questa sia in realtà solo una coincidenza, attribuendo l'origine del nome Valle al luogo dove esso sorgeva, detto appunto "alla valle".

Nel tempo si resero necessari lavori di ammodernamento, così nel 1764 e nel 1765 si operarono delle migliorie su progetto degli architetti Giovanni Francesco Fiori e Mauro Fontana. Il continuo bisogno di manutenzione obbligò la famiglia Capranica ad affidare, nel 1791, nuovi lavori di ristrutturazione ai fratelli Francesco e Giandomenico Navona che, tuttavia, mantennero come i loro colleghi la struttura lignea del teatro operando solo con rinforzi interni sullo stabile. La soluzione non convinse gli architetti dello Stato Pontificio, che ordinò la totale ricostruzione del teatro in muratura, per renderlo idoneo alle norme di sicurezza sugli stabili teatrali. Nei primi anni del XIX secolo Giacomo Leopardi visitò il teatro vedendo l'opera Il corsaro di Filippo Celli su libretto di Jacopo Ferretti. Nel suo epistolario fu molto critico verso l'opera ma anche verso l'edificio: "il teatro è per lo più deserto, e ci fa un freddo che ammazza".

Nel 1818 i Capranica affidarono quindi la progettazione del nuovo stabile in muratura a Giuseppe Valadier, che optò per una soluzione di largo respiro che prevedeva l'abbattimento di alcuni palazzi adiacenti al teatro (compreso una parte dell'abitazione nobiliare della famiglia Capranica). L'ambizioso progetto fu tuttavia rifiutato e il rifacimento avvenne in forma più modesta, con rinuncia dell'aspetto esterno neoclassicheggiante progettato da Valadier. Per l'erezione della struttura muraria la sala perse un ordine di palchi mentre le dimensioni rimasero pressoché inalterate: gli ordini vennero comunque modulati in linee curve che fornirono eleganza e movimento. Il crollo di una parete del palazzo, che confinava col teatro, implicò il passaggio dei lavori dal Valadier all'architetto Gaspare Salvi, che terminò l'opera nel 1822. In questo periodo il teatro fu aperto al pubblico, ottenendo dallo Stato il privilegio di poter inscenare spettacoli anche al di fuori dei periodi canonici consentiti, ossia quelli del carnevale.

Nel corso del XIX e del XX secolo il teatro fu oggetto di ulteriori ammodernamenti, che videro coinvolti gli affreschi del soffitto, che venne ridipinto dal pittore Silvio Galimberti, il sipario e il palco reale. Il teatro rimase attivo anche durante il periodo della Repubblica Romana nel 1849 quando molti artisti, tra i quali Tommaso Salvini e Gustavo Modena facenti parte della guardia Nazionale interrompevano le proprie rappresentazioni al suono di tre colpi di cannone. Dal 1855 al 1890 operò, di fianco al teatro, un altro teatrino detto Valletto, che aveva in comune col teatro Valle una parete. Nato come teatro per marionette, era gestito da un burattinaio chiamato Antonio Torrini ma venne successivamente adibito ad altri usi.

Nel febbraio 1859 fu rappresentato il dramma La morte dei fratelli Bandiera, scritto da Vincenzo Bellagambi, avente non solo la funzione di ricordare, come in questo caso, il fallimento della spedizione in Calabria, ma anche quella di soccorrere con un'altissima idealizzazione del martirio, i patrioti impegnati nella Repubblica romana. Nel 1895 Eugenio Checchi scrisse, in poche settimane, la commedia Il piccolo Haydn, "di cui ricorda un allestimento al teatro Valle di Roma della compagnia Bellotto-Bon con Pierina Giagnoni, Pia Marchi, Ermete Novelli, Tebaldo Checchi ed Elena Pieri-Tiozzo".

All'inizio della stagione 1954-1955 "il cartellone della Compagnia del Nuovo Teatro, finanziata dall'ETI e diretta dal triumvirato De Bosio, Diego Fabbri ed Eugenio Saccenti (quest'ultimo direttore del Teatro Valle di Roma), aveva in programma varie opere originali (alcune di forte impegno politico), come Corte marziale per l'ammutinamento del Caine di Herman Wouk (con il quale fu inaugurata in ottobre la stagione teatrale), Il sacro esperimento di Fritz Hochwälder, Buio a mezzogiorno di Arthur Koestler, Corruzione al Palazzo di Giustizia di Ugo Betti, Non si dorme a Kirkwall di Perrini e Roma di Aldo Palazzeschi". Con la definitiva dismissione dell'Ente Teatrale Italiano il teatro Valle sospese l'attività il 19 maggio 2011. Poco meno di un mese dopo, il 14 giugno 2011, un gruppo di lavoratori dello spettacolo, attivisti e liberi cittadini occupò per protesta il teatro affinché lo stabile fosse mantenuto pubblico attraverso un percorso partecipativo popolare. Nei tre anni di autogestione gli occupanti hanno elaborato nuove proposte di gestione dei teatri pubblici e hanno vinto vari premi, cercando anche di prendere legittimo possesso del teatro creando una fondazione apposita. L'occupazione si concluse pacificamente l'11 agosto 2014 con la consegna del teatro a Roma Capitale e circa due anni dopo fu finalizzato il passaggio di proprietà dallo Stato al comune, con la firma di un piano di valorizzazione che ha previsto l'investimento di 3 milioni di euro, equamente ripartiti tra Ministero e Comune, per i lavori di restauro, curati dalla Sovrintendenza capitolina ai beni culturali. Il teatro ha parzialmente riaperto i battenti nell'aprile 2018 venendo assegnato all'associazione Teatro di Roma, anche se non per ospitare spettacoli ma altre attività di tipo culturale. Nel periodo della pandemia di COVID-19 gli ambienti teatrali sono stati adibiti a studio di registrazione e in generale a luogo aperto alle compagnie di attori.

Il 13 settembre 2021 il teatro è stato intitolato all'attrice Franca Valeri, deceduta a Roma l'anno prima, ed è stato annunciato che i lavori, in via di assegnazione entro la fine dell'anno, si dovrebbero concludere nel 2024.

Prime rappresentazioni

 10 giugno 1811: prima romana di Don Giovanni di Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart;
 18 maggio 1812: prima assoluta di Demetrio e Polibio di Gioachino Rossini con Ester Mombelli;
 26 dicembre 1815: prima assoluta di Torvaldo e Dorliska di Rossini con Domenico Donzelli e Filippo Galli;
 25 gennaio 1817: prima assoluta di La Cenerentola di Rossini;
 4 febbraio 1824: prima assoluta di L'ajo nell'imbarazzo di Gaetano Donizetti;
 7 gennaio 1827: prima assoluta di Olivo e Pasquale di Donizetti con Domenico Cosselli, Giuseppe Frezzolini e Giovanni Battista Verger;
 2 gennaio 1833: prima assoluta di Il furioso all'isola di San Domingo di Donizetti con Giorgio Ronconi e Lorenzo Salvi;
 9 settembre 1833: prima assoluta di Torquato Tasso di Donizetti con Ronconi ed Antonio Poggi;
 9 maggio 1921: prima assoluta di Sei personaggi in cerca d'autore di Luigi Pirandello.

Note

Bibliografia
 Sergio Rotondi. Il teatro Valle: storia, progetti, architettura. Edizioni Kappa, Roma, 1992. ISBN 8878900648

Voci correlate
 Teatri di Roma
 Teatro all'italiana

Altri progetti

Collegamenti esterni

Valle
Valle
Roma R. VIII Sant'Eustachio
Valle
Architetture di Giuseppe Valadier

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Pakistan takes centre-stage in Afghanistan Peace Talks, joins US, Russia, China; India elbowed out
With Pakistan taking the centre stage by joining the United States, Russia and China over the weekend to craft a peace agreement with the Taliban, in the Afghan peace process, India has been dealt out of the future of Afghanistan.
India's participation or voice has been negligible in the evolving situation, while Pakistan has used the opportunity to manoeuvre itself to centerstage of the region's geopolitics.
"India's 18-year-old effort to strengthen ties with Afghanistan should not be lost at this juncture. India's indifference to the evolving situation in Afghanistan will likely cost it in the long run," Shaida Abdali, former Afghan ambassador to India and a presidential candidate, was quoted by The Times of India as saying.
In January, the United States had offered a free trade agreement (FTA) to Pakistan in return for their assistance in ending the Afghan War, reported the Dawn.
According to the report, US Senator Lindsey Graham, who visited Islamabad in January, was believed to have discussed with Pakistani leaders a proposal for a free trade agreement (FTA) in return for Islamabad's assistance in ending the Afghan war.
After the Afghan Taliban had said that they had a meeting with the US envoy in Qatar early this year, US had also confirmed that Zalmay Khalilzad, their envoy met them in order to end to the Afghanistan war despite a new major attack claimed by the insurgents.
A Taliban spokesman announced the meeting with Khalilzad , saying that the United States accepted an agenda of "ending the occupation of Afghanistan and preventing Afghanistan from being used against other countries in the future."
In early July, peace talks between Afghan delegates and Taliban were held in Doha which ended with both sides calling to reduce casualties to "zero" amid the rising death toll in the war-torn country.
The so-called intra-Afghan dialogue, sponsored by Qatar and Germany, between Afghan politicians, civil society members, including women, and the Taliban was seen as a substantive step towards peace in Afghanistan.
"…Committed to respect and protect the dignity of people, their life and property and to minimise the civilian casualties to zero," a joint statement released at the end of the talks in Doha said.
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We didn't see a big change in the engine, but the new textures in the ships were fantastic. Detailed and immense, they add a lot to the game. The new engine itself didn't jump out at us as the universe looks mighty close to what we're used to. It doesn't matter though, we couldn't keep our eyes off those ships. EVE is becoming quite the looker in terms of graphics.
We also got to test the new in-game voice chat. This feature is being handled by Vivox, who is hosting the voice chat externally, not on Tranquility. The voice chat is uncompressed, 64k, and with hardware both domestically and outside of the US we shouldn't see any lag. We got to talk to people around the country testing the service and it sounded very impressive, much better than anything we're used to from Ventrillo. You'll be able to set up voice with one group, or everyone, or just a single person. The system is very granular. One of CPP's staff told us going out of the company was important for their voice chat, they wanted to make sure it was the best quality and they didn't feel like they could deliver that in-house. You rarely see that level of commitment in this sort of game, and it's refreshing, to say the least.
They were also proud of the fact the average age of their players are 27. That means fewer kids and a very tight community. EVE Online is CCP's only product, and is only available via digital distribution. It's a very different way to run a company, but with everything riding on one game they give all their attention to that one product. It shows in everything they do, from the print magazine EON to the comfortable and friendly atmosphere in their booth.
E3 can be a very impersonal show, it's great to see a booth where it's obvious everyone involved cares about the game and what you think of it as you walk through. This is a marked difference between someone at Midway yawning their way through demo-ing a game for the press.
Good show CCP, keep up the good work.


This is our first meeting at the skywalk location. It feels weird. We haven't met here in at least a year. The lights are very bright and the people who walk by aren't at all interested in what we are doing. Shoppers and workers, all on a mission. At least the temperature is warm. We have no food or coffee. The space is too small to have a table without blocking the walkway. We must be sure to not block the walkway. Partly, because it would be discourteous to other people but also because it's a city ordinance that actually exists.
A security guard comes by, gives us a skeptical look and says, "What are you doing here?" We tell her we are sitting and having a meeting. She laughs and walks away.
Without the neighborhood distractions that have become a usual part of our meeting, we get down to business. We have only five Occupiers tonight, so things go quickly. We still have no progress on our movie showing. The guy we need to hook up with at the Zinema is out of town for a week. A second email has been sent to the film producers but no response yet.
An Occupier has a court date for 9:00am Thursday, November 30th. This is related to the trespassing ticket he received during our illegal eviction from our camp. He intends to challenge the charge. Other Occupiers promise to be there to lend moral support.
Another Occupier has a paper to write for his college midterm. He's been asked to compare and contrast the civil rights movement of the 60s and 70s and the feminist movement of the same time period. The young man hadn't even been born when these things were happening so he must get all his information from books. He thinks that black civil rights activists were probably not very empathetic when it came to women's rights. A female Occupier was involved with these movements in the 60s and 70s and gives him her take on what was going on. She says the religious, educated, middle class black leaders were not particularly supportive of women's equality. Among working class African Americans, women were more likely to have leadership roles. There were also secular civil rights organizations. Black feminist women were able to express their ideas with more freedom in these groups. She states she believes black American feminist women were not always well treated by their white sisters. The white feminists didn't always understand the special needs of women affected by both sexism and racism.
This topic evolves into a general discussion about racism and classism. The young man believes all oppression is based upon class these days. Others say racism still plays a part. The young man says, "I'm ready to go home and write my paper now. I'll see you all at the court on Thursday." The meeting breaks up. We'll meet here as long as we have to but will be on the lookout for a better place. Hopefully it will be some place that enables interaction with people from the hood.


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Pre-Registration: Register by mail (entries should be postmarked by February 24), or in person at McCoy Outdoor, Run-N-Tri, or Fleet Feet in Mobile or Running Wild in Fairhope until noon on Thursday, March 1.
Packet Pick-up and Race day registration will be at Daphne City Hall (1705 Main St) from 7-7:45 AM.
Make checks payable to: SEEDS.
Post-Race: Post-race party includes live classic rock music, good food, great children`s activities and door prizes. Awards presented at 9:30 AM.


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Come Back Little Shiksa. 1962. Directed by Jerry Lewis
Sunday, October 7, 2018, 5:00 p.m.
Come Back Little Shiksa. 1962. USA. Directed by Jerry Lewis. With Dean Martin, Patti Lewis, Janet Leigh, Tony Curtis, Danny Arnold, Jerry Lewis. DCP. 39 min.
In this inversion of Come Back Little Sheba, Burt Lancaster's 1953 drama about a recovering alcoholic, Dean Martin stars as a hard-drinking surgeon who must constantly face the temptation of sobriety. With the support of his loving wife, played by Patti Lewis, Dean is able to fight his urge to live the teetotal life. Janet Leigh plays the sex-starved boarder who lusts after neighbor Tony Curtis. Shown with footage from the film's premiere at Jerry and Patti's home in Pacific Palisades (full program: 60 min.).
Sunday, October 7, 2018,
The Museum of Modern Art, Floor T2, Theater 2
Friday, October 5, 2018,
Introduced by Chris Lewis and Rob Stone
This film accompanies The Unknown Jerry: Home Movies and More from the Jerry Lewis Collection at the Library of Congress.
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Jerry Lewis "conceding defeat" on the set of The Nutty Professor, 1962. Courtesy Chris Lewis


The Russian navy's first new icebreaker in decades, the Ilya Muromets, was floated out during a ceremony Friday in St. Petersburg, the Tass news agency reports.
The diesel-electric lead ice-breaker's floating out was symbolic for Russia, as the nuclear-powered Lenin icebreaker was laid down the same slipway 60 years ago, Admiralty Wharves CEO Alexander Buzakov told Tass.
The Ilya Muromets will be transferred to the navy next year and other ice-breakers will be laid down in the slipway for Arctic operations, he said.
A decision on building a series of Ilya Muromets-class icebreakers will be made once the lead vessel's performance is assessed, United Shipbuilding Corporation head Alexei Rakhmanov told Tasss.
The Ilya Muromets was laid down in April 2015. It displaces 6,000 tons, features a 9,000 mile endurance and can operate autonomously for 60 days.
It can operate both as an icebreaker and a seagoing tug and patrol ship.


"A genius looks at something that others are stuck on and gets the world unstuck." Seth Godin in Linchpin.
Reading books is a major key to success. This was the title of a blog post I recently read.
I would twist a bit: Reading GOOD books can change a life forever. The mega-rich and successful like Bill Gates and Elon Musk devote extraordinary amounts of their time to reading. Today I am going to write about one of the best books I have read in the recent past.
Before the book, it is pertinent to write about the author Seth Godin.
Many readers might know him. He is one of the most read bloggers in the world. He is an author and an entrepreneur, studied at Stanford and Tufts University. He has written 17 books to date. He is also one of the most sought after speakers. His Ted talks How to get your ideas spread is seen by more than 5 million viewers.
The linchpin is someone who is difficult to replace, so risky to lose, and so valuable that they might as well be irreplaceable.
I usually read the book with a highlighter to mark important quotes/lines and a para. My copy of the book Linchpin is full of highlights on every page, mostly more than one highlight.
The following quotes from the book are enough encouragement for the readers to get a flavour of what to expect from the book. This is one of the life-changing books.
The lizard brain cares what everyone else thinks because status in the tribe is essential to its survival.
"Change making happens when people fall in love with a different version of the future." Seth Godin. This quote is there on the cover page of my ebook The Fifth Idiot, which is a fiction book about change the way enterprises treat their employees.
To become future ready, this book is a must read for everyone and more so for the college students, young entrepreneurs and young employees. You may buy the book from Amazon.
Share this post on all your social platforms, remember, reading books is a major key to success.
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Cooking Equipment Spotlight: Which Knife Should I Use?
Not everyone who's involved in a commercial kitchen has had professional training as a chef.
As a result, not everyone is aware of how to choose the best cooking equipment for each job.
Having the right knife is one of the most vital choices you can make during food preparation. When you have the right knife, everything is faster and easier. The wrong knife can be unwieldly, and may even lead to injury.
Here's how to know which knife is the right one for the job!
A chef's knife is a large blade that can be used for a wide variety of tasks. From chopping to dicing to slicing, if you have a larger food item to process the chef's knife is an essential piece of cooking equipment.
Whether you need to julienne, dice, or chop, this knife is excellent. You can use it for a wide variety of fruit, vegetables, and meat. You can even use it for herbs, or to shred cabbage.
Like all knives, a chef's knife needs to be kept sharp and in good condition to do its best work. However, even a knife this versatile needs some specialty help. While a chef's knife may be your first one, it shouldn't be the only one.
The chef knife's first trusty sidekick is a paring knife. This short, 2 – 4 inch blade is perfect for more delicate work that the chef's piece is a bit too large to handle.
Reach for this knife when you need to peel garlic, slice small fruit, or trim mushrooms. You can also use it for peeling and de-seeding. Paring knives can be either straight-bladed or serrated, and you may want one of each. A serrated paring knife can make it much easier to cut tomatoes, for instance, than a chef's knife.
When you have a small cutting job, the paring knife is the perfect cooking equipment!
Sometimes, like Goldilocks, you find that a chef's knife is too big but a paring knife is too small. What can you do to find a knife that's just right?
Why, you grab a utility knife! This 6 – 8 inch blade is great for cutting and chopping tasks that the chef's knife is unwieldly for, but the paring knife isn't quite enough.
From mincing to cleaning veggies or slicing herbs, the utility knife can give you that in-between heft and power that's perfect for the job.
The truth is, there are dozens of knives beyond these three, and many of the have specific uses. Take a look at what these cooking equipment ninjas can do for you.
Depending on the type of cuisine your kitchen prepares, you may have several of these at hand. Make sure to choose the right one for the job!
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Listen as Lindsay and Haley discuss the outcome of Adnan's recent post-conviction relief hearing. Lindsay reads Haley the pertinent parts of Judge Welch's 59-page decision.
Can anyone guess how many trees and highlighters were harmed when Lindsay printed off and highlighted what she thought was important in the Judge's decision?


These are Grand Junction (Mix 104.3, 95 Rock, 99.9 KEKB, Kool 107.9) DJs as Easter Candy. Their personalities and taste match up perfectly with their designated Easter candy.
If I were an Easter candy, I would be Reese's Eggs. Reese's Eggs are always worth the effort, because they take away all bad feelings the instant you come into contact. Reese's are Grand Junction's second favorite Easter candy, although they should be first. I think it's just a matter of time.
Mix 104.3's Brandon Thomas would be a Starburst egg. This is the perfect Easter candy match for Brandon. Starburst eggs are colorful, fun and full of surprises -- just like Brandon.
Zane Matthews' designated Easter candy is a chocolate bunny. This Kool 107.9 DJ knows what he likes and he's sticking to it. Why hop all over different Easter candy when you can have a solid, reliable chocolate bunny?
Kool 107.9's Ed Chandler is a staple of the station, just like Peeps are a staple of Easter. You've got the appreciate the classics -- Ed and the Peeps alike.
If Ray Michaels were an Easter candy, he'd be Robin Eggs -- the Whoopers kind. 95 Rock's Ray Michaels is experienced just like Robin Eggs. Don't be fooled by the hardness on the outside because the inside is soft and sweet.
Waylon Jordan as an Easter candy is a jelly bean. They match each other because both Waylon and the jelly bean have been around for a while. They're both sturdy, reliable and sweet, but far from boring. Waylon changes his flavor up just like a bag of jelly beans.
Kool 107.9 and 99.9 KEKB's Jack Taylor is undoubtedly a caramel egg. Much like the egg, Jack appears to be just a plain milk chocolate egg. But, it's actually filled with a crazy caramel filling and will take you by surprise.


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School of Natural Resources and Agricultural Sciences (SNRAS)
Agricultural and Forestry Experiment Station (AFES)
Miscellaneous Publications
List of Plant Species Present on Forest Permanent Sample Plots in Interior and Southcentral Alaska
MP_12_01.pdf
Malone, Thomas
Packee, Edmond C.
Liang, JingJing
In 1994 the University of Alaska Fairbanks, School of Natural Resources and Agricultural Sciences, Agricultural and Forestry Experiment Station began a project to establish permanent sample plots (PSP) throughout the forests of northern and southcentral Alaska. Objectives of the project are to establish and maintain a system of PSPs to monitor forest growth, yield, forest health, and ecological conditions/change (Malone et al., 2009). To date, 603 PSPs have been established on 201 sites throughout interior and southcentral Alaska. The PSPs are square and 0.1 acre in size and in clusters of three. PSPs are remeasured at a five-year interval. The number of plot remeasurements after establishment ranges from one to three times. A large amount of data is collected at each site at time of establishment and at subsequent remeasurements. Four databases contain all the data: tree measurement and characteristics, site description, regeneration, and vegetation data. Vegetation data collected on the 0.1 acre PSPs includes species (trees shrub, herb, grass, and non-vascular plants) and cover, an estimate of the amount of the plot covered by the crown of each species (cover class) (Daubenmire, 1959). The vegetation database can be used by land managers and researchers to study species diversity and forest succession in addition to long-term monitoring of forest health. The species listed in Appendix 1 and in the vegetation database are presented by categories: tree, shrub, herb, grass, rush, sedge, fern, club moss, lichen, moss, and liverwort.
Agricultural and Forestry Experiment Station, School of Agriculture and Land Resources Management, University of Alaska Fairbanks


We've got a little treat for a Thursday afternoon courtesy of PlaidStallions collection of commercial prints. This newly restored commercial for the Mego Wayne Foundation.
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Donald Trump Archives - Charles Konia, M.D.
Why is Trump Viciously Hated by the Far Left?
When Hillary Clinton lost the presidential election in 2016, her supporters on the left were in a state of emotional shock and disbelief. With eight years of the Obama administration behind them, their timetable of what they had planned for America's future was almost a reality and now that illusion was shattered, at least temporarily. They soon recovered their senses, reorganized and directed their attacks on Donald Trump for what he stands for, a strong authority that wants to protect America from the anti-authoritarian left's progressively destructive agenda.
Are All People on the political left anti-authoritarian?
No. People to the left of the political center are true liberals. In distinction to the pseudo-liberal/communists who are farther to the left, the true liberal stands for individual authority, has physical aggression at his disposal and is pro-American. However, because of less contact with his biological core the true liberal is blinded to the destructiveness of those who are on the extreme left and becomes their handmaidens. True liberals are Lenin's "useful idiots".This distinction between the true liberal and the pseudo-liberal/communist requires an understanding of socio-political characterology necessary if any sense is to be made of social processes and political events.
Individual and socio-political character are the primary determinants of an individual's, including politician's, thinking and behavior. For example, is presidential candidate, Donald Trump simply a shrewd, controlling bully in full charge of himself regarding his bid for the presidency or is he just a loose cannon and a blowhard? This distinction depends on whether he is simply a phallic narcissistic character with an oral unsatisfied block, a manic depressive ("bi-polar") character or a sociopathic character.
In the first case his judgment would be intact and would not detrimentally affect his job as president. In the second and third cases he would be a disaster. We need to know more about his decision making process and his past history in order to determine his capacity for good judgement.


The Parnells : Update on Hannah Kate!
Elizabeth is the most interesting family member. And I think we'd all agree, we never know what.exactly. she's up too. And her hair. it so reminds me of my hair at her age. thick and curly.
By the way, she's not naked. She has a diaper on. That would be weird to put her in an oversized undie that let you bounce around.
Yes, that's freshly bathed sweetness right there.
"MOM!" ok, ok. i'll quit gushing and get on with the update.
Hannah had her 9-month appointment. (It actually turned into more like her 10 month appointment, but nonetheless.) I was more than pleased to learn she had gained 4 pounds since her 6-month check up. She is at 18 lbs 10 oz putting her in the 30th percentile for weight. Then she almost went off the charts with her height, 30 inches, putting her in the 95th percentile for height. The doctor concluded she is long and lean like mom. We love, love her doctor, by the way. She has been so helpful to us and encouraging! We did have some concerns since Hannah wasn't really gaining weight well and having episodes of diarrhea, but we seem to have coasted out of it. And we are thankful!
She currently has 6 teeth. And 6 more are coming in! The kid is a teething machine. 2 teeth have broken through the gum and the other 4 are busting to come out. She is pretty pleasant to be teething like she is. We haven't really noticed a difference in her temperament or sleeping, which is a huge praise. So we are thankful for such an encouraging check up and even more thankful to Jesus for giving us such a sweet blessing!
"Ok. Bye!" Yep, mom caught a mid wave with her mad camera skills.


Led by two green building experts: Charlie Cichetti (holds all LEED credentials) and Alyson Laura, our Director of Education here at GBES.
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Good luck with your studies and transforming your career!


Amatörteaterns Riksförbund ATR is a national association with the mission to and aimed to organise the Amateur Theatre of Sweden. The association consists of approximately 250 non-professional theatre groups.
ATR was founded in 1977, and the same year a publishing house was established.
ATR has an agreement with the Swedish Union of Playwrights as well as with the Nordic firm for Theatrical Rights. ATR is the intermediary of theatrical rights for all of amateur theatre and school theatre in Sweden. ATR helps the Swedish amateur theatre to arrange contracts properly; so that the authors and the translators receive their payments according to agreement.
In connection to the work mentioned above, ATR has organised a manuscript library. The manuscripts have been supplied by playwrights and different companies. It is Sweden's biggest lending script libraries, with about 6,100 titles.
The ATR publishing house helps with advice on plays and makes performing rights available to all amateur theatre societies and schools in Sweden.
ATR also sells theatrical make-up for a low prise, promptly delivered by mail. ATR is also marketing theatre literature in Swedish.
ATR's secretariat is located in Västerås city, where seven employees work; with assignments as membership issues, the script library, performing rights, education, information, arrangements, theatrical make-up, activities for children and young people, and international exchange.
ATR has a good international cooperation with several companies; examples are Nordiska Asp in Copenhagen and Music Theatre International in London.


Finnish snowboarder Teo Konttinen is a tech machine, whose trick selection and unique style makes him one of the world's most enjoyable snowboarders to watch. Typical of his spectacular video parts is Quiksilver's 2013 movie Take It Easy with riders such as Jake Olson-Elm and Ian Hart, in which street rails are blended seamlessly into double corks in a variety of landscapes.
He has also appeared in a number of films for Pirate Movie Productions, beginning with Boardbagged 3 and Overseas (2008), followed by Jolly Roger (2009), Hooked (2010), Bottom Line (2011) and UNIQUE8 (2012). In 2012's Behind the Spot, he tells the story behind the Joni/Vesa Kink in Helsinki, one of the biggest rails in Finland.
Teo was born in 1990 and grew up in Helsinki close to his local resort of Talma. He began skateboarding at four and snowboarding at six and soon made a name for himself on the Finnish scene winning contests in both sports, including the 2003 national skateboard championships. At that stage, even Teo himself didn't know whether he was primarily a snowboarder or a skateboarder, but in recent years he has focused fully on the snow.
He certainly has a unique talent for spontaneous invention, which leads to creative moments of genius on his snowboard. He attributes his skills to the short local hills just outside Helsinki where, as a youngster, he could do endless circuits on the kickers day after day, yet he is just as comfortable on rails or even powder.
The teaser to "Take it easy" will make you wonder with what else this team's gonna come up in two weeks from now!
Pirate Teo Konttinen takes you behind the famous Joni/Vesa kink in Helsinki.
Check out this latest shred flick from the land of the free full movie: Finland! Watch this - it's SOLID!


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BATTLE OF GETTYSBURG: PICKETT'S CHARGE
BATTLE OF GETTYSBURG AND PICKETT'S CHARGE
[From the Times-Dispatch, April 10, 1904.]
THE BATTLE OF GETTYSBURG,
And the Charge of Pickett's Division.
ACCOUNTS OF COLONEL RAWLEY MARTIN AND CAPTAIN
JOHN HOLMES SMITH.
With Prefatory Note by U. S. Senator John W. Daniel.
Pickett's Charge
Pettigrew-Pickett Charge, more popularly known as Pickett's Charge
[Very much has been published regarding the momentous battle of Gettysburg, but the following additions can but be welcome to our readers. Reference may be made to ante p. 33 and preceeding volumes of the Southern Historical Society Papers, particularly the early volumes, II-X inclusive.--Editor.]
Washington, D. C., March 30, 1904
Editor of The Times-Dispatch:
Sir,--Enclosed are accounts of the charge at Gettysburg by two officers of Pickett's Division of high reputation for courage an reliability--the one being Lieutenant-Colonel Rawley W. Martin, then of the 53d Virginia Infantry, Armistead's Brigade, and the other Captain John Holmes Smith, of the Lynchburg Home Guard, who, after Lieutenant-Colonel Kirkwood Otey, and Major Risque Hutter, were wounded in that battle, commanded the 11th Virginia Infantry.
In 1897 Commander Sylvester Chamberlain, of an Association of United States Naval Veterans, of Buffalo, New York, wrote to Colonel Martin (now Dr. Martin, of Lynchburg, Va.), asking him to recount the charge, saying:
"The charge of Pickett's Division outrivals the storied heroism of the Old Guard of Napoleon. They knew no such battle as that of Gettysburg, and, I believe, the old First Confederate Army Corps could have whipped the best two corps in Napoleon's army, taken in the zenith of his fame."
Dr. Martin wrote this paper under the call from a Northern camp commander.
Captain John Holmes Smith was with his regiment on the right wing of Pickett's charge, under Kemper, and struck the Federal line to the right of where General Armistead made the break. The soldiers of Kemper there took the Federal entrenchments, and remained about twenty minutes in possession of them. Twice couriers were sent back for reinforcements. Slowly, but surely, the details of this magnificent exploit of war come to light; and the more brilliant does it appear. Slowly, and surely, also do the evidences gather that point toward the responsible agents of the failure that ensued.
Jno. W. Daniel.
COLONEL RAWLEY MARTIN'S ACCOUNT.
Lynchburg Va., August 11, 1897.
Commander Sylvester Chamberlain, Buffalo, N. Y.:
My dear Sir,--In the effort to comply with your request to describe Pickett's charge at Gettysburg, I may unavoidably repeat what has often been told before, as the position of troops, the cannonade, the advance, and the final disaster are familiar to all who have the interest or the curiosity to read. My story will be short, for I shall only attempt to describe what fell under my own observation.
You ask for a description of the "feelings of the brave Virginians who passed through that hell of fire in their heroic charge on Cemetery Ridge." The esprit du corps could not have been better; the men were in good physical condition, self reliant and determined. They felt the gravity of the situation, for they knew well the metal of the foe in their front; they were serious and resolute, but not disheartened. None of the usual jokes, common on the eve of battle, were indulged in, for every man felt his individual responsibility, and realized that he had the most stupendous work of his life before him; officers and men knew at what cost and at what risk the advance was to be made, but they had deliberately made up their minds to attempt it. I believe the general sentiment of the division was that they would succeed in driving the Federal line from what was their objective point; they knew that many, very many, would go down under the storm of shot and shell which would greet them when their gray ranks were spread out to view, but it never occurred to them that disaster would come after they once placed their tattered banners upon the crest of Seminary Ridge.
THEIR NERVE.
I believe if those men had been told: "This day your lives will pay the penalty of your attack upon the Federal lines," they would have made the charge just as it was made. There was no straggling, no feigned sickness, no pretense of being overcome by the intense heat; every man felt that it was his duty to make that fight; that he was his own commander, and they would have made the charge without an officer of any description; they only needed to be told what they were expected to do. This is as near the feeling of the men of Pickett's Division on the morning of the battle as I can give, and with this feeling they went to their work. Many of them were veteran soldiers, who had followed the little cross of stars from Big Bethel to Gettysburg; they knew their own power, and they knew the temper of their adversary; they had often met before, and they knew the meeting before them would be desperate and deadly.
Pickett's Charge, Battle of Gettysburg, July 3, 1863
Pickett's Charge at Battle of Gettysburg
Repulse of Pickett's Charge
THE ALIGNMENT.
Pickett's three little Virginia brigades were drawn up in two lines, Kemper on the right (1st, 3d, 7th, 11th and 24), Garnett on the left (8th, 18th, 19th, 28th and 56th), and Armistead in the rear and center (9th, 14th, 38th, 53d and 57th) Virginia Regiments, covering the space between Kemper's left and Garnett's right flanks. This position was assigned Armistead, I suppose, that he might at the critical moment rush to the assistance of the two leading brigades, and if possible, put the capstone upon their work. We will see presently how he succeeded. The Confederate artillery was on the crest of Seminary Ridge, nearly in front of Pickett; only a part of the division had the friendly shelter of the woods; the rest endured the scorching rays of the July sun until the opening of the cannonade, when the dangers from the Federal batteries were added to their discomfort. About 1 o'clock two signal guns were fired by the Washington Artillery, and instantly a terrific cannonade was commenced, which lasted for more than an hour, when suddenly everything was silent. Every man knew what that silence portended. The grim blue battle line on Seminary Ridge began at once to prepare for the advance of its antagonists; both sides felt that the tug of war was about to come, and that Greek must meet Greek as they had never met before.
A SOLEMN MOMENT.
From this point, I shall confine my description to events connected with Armistead's brigade, with which I served. Soon after the cannonade ceased, a courier dashed up to General Armistead, who was pacing up and down in front of the 53d Virginia Regiment, his battalion of direction (which I commanded in the charge and at the head of which Armistead marched), and gave him the order from General Pickett to prepare for the advance. At once the command "Attention, battalion!" rang out clear and distinct. Instantly every man was on his feet and in his place; the alignment was made with as much coolness and precision as if preparing for dress parade. Then Armistead went up to the color sergeant of the 53d Virginia Regiment and said: "Sergeant, are you going to put those colors on the enemy's works to-day?" The gallant fellow replied: "I will try, sir, and if mortal man can do it, it shall be done." It was done, but not until this brave man, and many others like him, had fallen with their faces to the foe; bur never once did that banner trail in the dust, for some brave fellow invariably caught it as it was going down, and again bore it aloft, until Armistead saw its tattered folds unfurled on the very crest of Seminary Ridge.
THE ADVANCE.
After this exchange of confidence between the general and the color-bearer, Armistead commanded: "Right shoulder, shift arms. Forward, march." They stepped out at quick time, in perfect order and alignment--tramp, tramp, up to the Emmittsburg road; then the advancing Confederates saw the long line of blue, nearly a mile distant, ready and awaiting their coming. The scene was grand and terrible, and well calculated to demoralize the stoutest heart; but not a step faltered, not an elbow lost the touch of its neighbor, not a face blanched, for these men had determined to do their whole duty, and reckoned not the cost. On they go; at about 1,100 yards the Federal batteries opened fire; the advancing Confederates encounter and sweep before them the Federal skirmish line. Still forward they go; hissing, screaming shells break in their front, rear, on their flanks, all about them, but the devoted band, with the blue line in their front as their objective point, press forward, keeping step to the music of the battle. The distance between the opposing forces grows less and less, until suddenly the infantry behind the rock fence poured volley after volley into the advancing ranks. The men fell like stalks of grain before the reaper, but still they closed the gaps and pressed forward through that pitiless storm. The two advance brigades have thus far done the fighting. Armistead has endured the terrible ordeal without firing a gun; his brave followers have not changed their guns from the right shoulder. Great gaps have been torn in their ranks; their field and company officers have fallen; color-bearer after color-bearer has been shot down, but still they never faltered.
THE CRITICAL MOMENT.
At the critical moment, in response to a request from Kemper, Armistead, bracing himself to the desperate blow, rushed forward to Kemper's and Garnett's line, delivered his fire, and with one supreme effort planted his colors on the famous rock fence. Armistead himself, with his hat on the point of his sword, that his men might see it through the smoke of battle, rushed forward, scaled the wall, and cried: "Boys, give them the cold steel!" By this time, the Federal hosts lapped around both flanks and made a counter advance in their front, and the remnant of those three little brigades melted away. Armistead himself had fallen, mortally wounded, under the guns he had captured, while the few who followed him over the fence were either dead or wounded. The charge was over, the sacrifice had been made, but, in the words of a Federal officer: "Banks of heroes they were; they fled not, but amidst that still continuous and terrible fire they slowly, sullenly recrossed the plain--all that was left of them--but few of the five thousand."
WHERE WAS PICKETT.
When the advance commenced General Pickett rode up and down in rear of Kemper and Garnett, and in this position he continued as long as there was opportunity of observing him. When the assault became so fierce that he had to superintend the whole line, I am sure he was in his proper place. A few years ago Pickett's staff held a meeting in the city of Richmond, Va., and after comparing recollections, they published a statement to the effect that he was with the division throughout the charge; that he made an effort to secure reinforcements when he saw his flanks were being turned, and one of General Garnett's couriers testified that he carried orders from him almost to the rock fence. From my knowledge of General Pickett I am sure he was where his duty called him throughout the engagement. He was too fine a soldier, and had fought too many battles not to be where he was most needed on that supreme occasion of his military life.
The ground over which the charge was made was an open terrene, with slight depressions and elevations, but insufficient to be serviceable to the advancing column. At the Emmettsburg road, where the parallel fences impeded the onward march, large numbers were shot down on account of the crowding at the openings where the fences had been thrown down, and on account of the halt in order to climb the fences. After passing these obstacles, the advancing column deliberately rearranged its lines and moved forward. Great gaps were made in their ranks as they moved on, but they were closed up as deliberately and promptly as if on the parade ground; the touch of elbows was always to the centre, the men keeping constantly in view the little emblem which was their beacon light to guide them to glory and to death.
INSTANCES OF COURAGE.
I will mention a few instances of individual coolness and bravery exhibited in the charge. In the 53d Virginia Regiment, I saw every man of Company F (Captain Henry Edmunds, now a distinguished member of the Virginia bar) thrown flat to the earth by the explosion of a shell from Round Top, but every man who was not killed or desperately wounded sprang to his feet, collected himself and moved forward to close the gap made in the regimental front. A soldier from the same regiment was shot on the shin; he stopped in the midst of that terrific fire, rolled up his trousers leg, examined his wound, and went forward even to the rock fence. He escaped further injury, and was one of the few who returned to his friends, but so bad was his wound that it was nearly a year before he was fit for duty. When Kemper was riding off, after asking Armistead to move up to his support, Armistead called him, and, pointing to his brigade, said: "Did you ever see a more perfect line than that on dress parade?" It was, indeed, a lance head of steel, whose metal had been tempered in the furnace of conflict. As they were about to enter upon their work, Armistead, as was invariably his custom on going into battle, said: "Men, remember your wives, your mothers, your sisters and you sweethearts." Such an appeal would have made those men assault the ramparts of the infernal regions.
Pickett's Charge and Battle of Gettysburg
The Three Day Battle of Gettysburg
AFTER THE CHARGE.
You asked me to tell how the field looked after the charge, and how the men went back. This I am unable to do, as I was disabled at Armistead's side a moment after he had fallen, and left on the Federal side of the stone fence. I was picked up by the Union forces after their lines were reformed, and I take this occasion to express my grateful recollection of the attention I received on the field, particularly from Colonel Hess, of the 72d Pennsylvania (I think). If he still lives, I hope yet to have the pleasure of grasping his hand and expressing to him my gratitude for his kindness to me. Only the brave know how to treat a fallen foe.
I cannot close this letter without reference to the Confederate chief, General R. E. Lee. Somebody blundered at Gettysburg but not Lee. He was too great a master of the art of war to have hurled a handful of men against an army. It has been abundantly shown that the fault lay not with him, but with others, who failed to execute his orders.
This has been written amid interruptions, and is an imperfect attempt to describe the great charge, but I have made the effort to comply with your request because of your very kind and friendly letter, and because there is no reason why those who once were foes should not now be friends. The quarrel was not personal, but sectional, and although we tried to destroy each other thirty-odd years ago, there is no reason why we should cherish resentment against each other now.
I should be very glad to meet you in Lynchburg if your business or pleasure should ever bring you to Virginia.
With great respect,
Yours most truly,
Rawley W. Martin.
CAPTAIN JOHN HOLMES SMITH'S ACCOUNT.
Lynchburg, Va., Feb. 4th and 5th.
John Holmes Smith, formerly Captain of Company G (the Home Guard), of Lynchburg, Va., and part of the 11th Virginia Infantry, Kemper's Brigade, Pickett's Division, 1st Corps (Longstreet), C. S. A., commanded that company, and then the regiment for a time in the battle of Gettysburg. He says as follows, concerning that battle:
The 11th Virginia Infantry arrived near Gettysburg, marching from Chambersburg on the afternoon of July 2d, 1863. We halted in sight of shells bursting in the front.
Very early on the morning of the 3d July we formed in rear of the Confederate artillery near Spurgeon's woods, where we lay for many hours. I noticed on the early morning as we were taking positions the long shadows cast by the figures of the men, their legs appearing to lengthen immediately as the shadows fell.
The 11th Virginia was the right regiment of Kemper's Brigade and of Pickett's Division. No notable event occurred in the morning, nor was there any firing of note near us that specially attracted my attention.
SIGNAL GUNS.
About 1 o'clock there was the fire of signal guns, and there were outbursts of artillery on both sides. Our artillery on the immediate front of the regiment was on the crest of the ridge, and our infantry line was from one to 250 yards in rear of it.
We suffered considerable loss before we moved. I had twenty-nine men in my company for duty that morning. Edward Valentine and two Jennings brothers (William Jennings) of my company were killed; De Witt Guy, sergeant, was wounded, and some of the men--a man now and a man then--were also struck and sent to the rear before we moved forward--I think about ten killed and wounded in that position. Company E, on my right, lost more seriously than Company G, and was larger in number.
LONGSTREET'S PRESENCE.
Just before the artillery fire ceased General Longstreet rode in a walk between the artillery and the infantry, in front of the regiment toward the left and disappeared down the line. He was as quiet as an old farmer riding over his plantation on a Sunday morning, and looked neither to the right or left.
It had been known for hours that we were to assail the enemy's lines in front. We fully expected to take them.
Presently the artillery ceased firing. Attention! was the command. Our skirmishers were thrown to the front, and "forward, quick time, march," was the word given. We were ordered not to fire until so commanded. Lieutenant-Colonel Kirkwood Otey was thus in command of the regiment when we passed over the crest of the ridge, through our guns there planted, and had advanced some distance down the slope in our front. I was surprised before that our skirmishers had been brought to a stand by those of the enemy; and the latter only gave ground when our line of battle had closed up well inside of a hundred yards of our own skirmishers. The enemy's skirmishers then retreated in perfect order, firing as they fell back.
The enemy's artillery, front and flank, fired upon us, and many of the regiment were struck.
UP THE HILL.
Having descended the slope and commenced to ascend the opposite slope that rises toward the enemy's works, the Federal skirmishers kept up their fire until we were some four hundred yards from the works. They thus being between two fires--for infantry fire broke out from the works--threw down their arms, rushed into our lines, and then sought refuge in the depression, waterway or gully between the slopes.
There was no distinct change of front; but "close and dress to the left" was the command, and this gave us an oblique movement to the left as we pressed ranks in that direction.
Our colors were knocked down several times as we descended the slope on our side. Twice I saw the color-bearer stagger and the next man seize the staff and go ahead; the third time the colors struck the ground as we were still on the down slope. The artillery had opened upon us with canister. H. V. Harris, adjutant of the regiment, rushed to them and seized them, and, I think, carried them to the enemy's works.
AT THE WORKS.
When the enemy's infantry opened fire on us--and we were several hundred yards distant from them as yet--we rushed towards the works, running, I may say, almost at top speed, and as we neared the works I could see a good line of battle, thick and substantial, firing upon us. When inside of a hundred yards of them I could see, first, a few, and then more and more, and presently, to my surprise and disgust, the whole line break away in flight. When we got to the works, which were a hasty trench and embankment, and not a stone wall at the point we struck, our regiment was a mass or ball, all mixed together, without company organization. Some of the 24th and 3d seemed to be coming with us, and it may be others. Not a man could I see in the enemy's works, but on account of the small timber and the lay of the ground, I could not see very far along the line, either right or left, of the position we occupied.
There were, as I thought at the time I viewed the situation, about three hundred men in the party with me, or maybe less. Adjutant H. V. Harris, of the regimental staff, was there dismounted. Captain Fry, Assistant Adjutant-General of General Kemper, was also there on foot, with a courier, who was a long-legged, big-footed fellow, whom we called "Big Foot Walker," also afoot. Captain R. W. Douthat, of Company F, I also noticed, and there were some other regimental officers whom I cannot now recall.
BIG FOOT WALKER.
We thought our work was done, and that the day was over, for the last enemy in sight we had seen disappear over the hill in front; and I expected to see General Lee's army marching up to take possession of the field. As I looked over the work of our advance with this expectation, I could see nothing but dead and wounded men and horses in the field beyond us, and my heart never in my life sank as it did then. It was a grievous disappointment.
Instantly men turned to each other with anxious inquiries what to do, and a number of officers grouped together in consultation, Captain Fry, Captain Douthat, Adjutant Harris, and myself, who are above noted, amongst them. No field officer appeared at this point that I could discover. We promptly decided to send a courier for reinforcements. No mounted man was there. "Big Foot Walker" was dispatched on that errand. Fearing some mishap to him, for shots from the artillery on our right, from the enemy's left, were still sweeping the field, we in a few moments sent another courier for reinforcements.
We were so anxious to maintain the position we had gained, that we watched the two men we had sent to our rear across the field, and saw them both, the one after the other, disappear over the ridge from which we had marched forward.
WAIT FOR TWENTY MINUTES.
Unmolested from the front or on either side, and with nothing to indicate that we would be assailed, we thus remained for fully twenty minutes after Walker had been sent for reinforcements--waited long after he had disappeared on his mission over the ridge in our rear.
Seeing no sign of coming help, anticipating that we would soon be attacked, and being in no condition of numbers or power to resist any serious assault, we soon concluded--that is, the officers above referred to--to send the men back to our lines, and we so ordered.
Lest they might attract the fire of the guns that still kept up a cannonade from the enemy's left, we told the men to scatter as they retired, and they did fall back singly and in small groups, the officers before named retiring also. Only Captain Ro. W. Douthat and myself remained at the works, while the rest of the party we were with, retired. I remained to dress a wound on my right leg, which was bleeding freely, and Douthat, I suppose, just to be with me. I dropped to the ground under the shade of the timber after the men left, pulled out a towel from my haversack, cut it into strips, and bandaged my thigh, through which a bullet had passed.
This wound had been received as we approached the enemy's skirmishers on the descending slope, one of them having shot me. I thought at the time I was knocked out, but did not fall, and I said to James R. Kent, sergeant: "Take charge of the company, I am shot." But soon finding I could move my leg and that I could go on, no bones being broken, I went to the end of the charge.
GETTING AWAY.
While I was still bandaging my leg at the works, my companion, Captain Robert W. Douthat, who had picked up a musket, commenced firing and fired several shots. Thinking he had spied an enemy in the distance, I continued bandaging my leg, and completed the operation.
When raising myself on my elbow I saw the head of a column of Federal troops about seventy-five yards toward our right front, advancing obliquely toward us. I was horrified, jumped up and exclaimed to Douthat: "What are you doing?" as he faced in their direction. He dropped his gun and answered: "It's time to get away from here," and I started on the run behind him, as we both rapidly retired from the advancing foes. We made good time getting away, and got some distance before they opened fire on us--perhaps 100 or 150 yards. We ran out of range, shot after shot falling around us, until we got over the Emmettsburg road toward our lines. After we had got over the fences along the road the fire didn't disturb us. No organized body of troops did I meet in going back. I wondered how few I saw in this retreat from the hill top. I reached ere long the tent of a friend, Captain Charles M. Blackford, judge advocate of our Second Corps, at Longstreet's headquarters, and this was the last of the battle of Gettysburg time. I didn't hear of Lieutenant-Colonel Otey being wounded until after the battle was over, though I have since understood it was shortly after the advance commenced. I, the Captain of Company G, was the only commissioned officer with the company that day. I may properly mention an incident or two.
Pickett's Charge Map
Official Gettysburg Battlefield Map
WOUNDED.
Now the battery of the descending slope was advanced. Sergeant James R. Kent, of my company, suddenly plunged forward in a ditch, and I asked of him: "How are you hurt, Kent?" for I knew he was hit. He answered: "Shot through the leg." About the time we sent "Big Foot Walker" back for reinforcements, "Blackeyed Williams," as we called him, a private of my company, called to me: "Look here, Captain," at the same time pulling up his shirt at the back and showing a cut where a bullet had a full mark about its depth in the flesh. Quite a number of the men on the hill top had been struck one way or another, and there were many nursing and tying up their wounds. Kent's leg had been fractured--the small bone--and he was captured.
Before an advance I went several times to the crest where our artillery was planted, and could see the enemy in our front throwing up dirt on the line which we afterwards took. Just before the cannonade commenced Major James Downing rode along the line of guns in our immediate front, carrying a flag.
I came away from Longstreet's headquarters after spending the night (after the battle in Captain Blackford's tent) in a wagon with a long train of wagons that carried one to Williamsport, leaving about noon and traveling through the next night. Next morning we reached Williamsport. The town was attacked at several points, but not where I was.
Captain William Early--or Lieutenant Early, as he was then--I met at Williamsport as I got out of the wagons, and asked me to dinner. I told him I couldn't walk, for I was sore and stiff, and he went off to get me a horse. But he didn't return, and I did not see him again, for just then his guns opened and a lively skirmish ensued, but soon quieted down. After remaining a few hours on the north side of the river, a big ferry boat was brought up, and, having collected fifty or sixty of the 11th Virginia infantry who were wounded, I took charge of them and carried them on the boat across the river that evening. Then we marched next morning for Winchester, reaching there in two days. I did not see my regiment in the campaign after the fight. In a few months my leg healed and I rejoined my regiment at Hanover junction in the fall.
The above is correct.
Jno. Holmes Smith,
Late Captain Company G, Home Guards,
of Lynchburg, Va.
(Source: Southern Historical Society Papers, Vol. 32, pp. 183-195)
Recommended Reading: Gettysburg, by Stephen W. Sears (640 pages) (November 3, 2004). Description: Sears delivers another masterpiece with this comprehensive study of America's most studied Civil War battle. Beginning with Lee's meeting with Davis in May 1863, where he argued in favor of marching north, to take pressure off both Vicksburg and Confederate logistics. It ends with the battered Army of Northern Virginia re-crossing the Potomac just two months later and with Meade unwilling to drive his equally battered Army of the Potomac into a desperate pursuit. In between is the balanced, clear and detailed story of how tens-of-thousands of men became casualties, and how Confederate independence on that battlefield was put forever out of reach. The author is fair and balanced. Continued below...
He discusses the shortcomings of Dan Sickles, who advanced against orders on the second day; Oliver Howard, whose Corps broke and was routed on the first day; and Richard Ewell, who decided not to take Culp's Hill on the first night, when that might have been decisive. Sears also makes a strong argument that Lee was not fully in control of his army on the march or in the battle, a view conceived in his gripping narrative of Pickett's Charge, which makes many aspects of that nightmare much clearer than previous studies. A must have for the Civil War buff and anyone remotely interested in American history.
General James Longstreet and Pickett's Charge
General Longstreet's Command, July 3, 1863
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Recommended Reading: Pickett's Charge, by George Stewart. Description: The author has written an eminently readable, thoroughly enjoyable, and well-researched book on the third day of the Gettysburg battle, July 3, 1863. An especially rewarding read if one has toured, or plans to visit, the battlefield site. The author's unpretentious, conversational style of writing succeeds in putting the reader on the ground occupied by both the Confederate and Union forces before, during and after Pickett's and Pettigrew's famous assault on Meade's Second Corps. Continued below...
Interspersed with humor and down-to-earth observations concerning battlefield conditions, the author conscientiously describes all aspects of the battle, from massing of the assault columns and pre-assault artillery barrage to the last shots and the flight of the surviving rebels back to the safety of their lines… Having visited Gettysburg several years ago, this superb volume makes me want to go again.
Recommended Reading: Pickett's Charge--The Last Attack at Gettysburg (Hardcover). Description: Pickett's Charge is probably the best-known military engagement of the Civil War, widely regarded as the defining moment of the battle of Gettysburg and celebrated as the high-water mark of the Confederacy. But as Earl Hess notes, the epic stature of Pickett's Charge has grown at the expense of reality, and the facts of the attack have been obscured or distorted by the legend that surrounds them. With this book, Hess sweeps away the accumulated myths about Pickett's Charge to provide the definitive history of the engagement. Continued below...
Drawing on exhaustive research, especially in unpublished personal accounts, he creates a moving narrative of the attack from both Union and Confederate perspectives, analyzing its planning, execution, aftermath, and legacy. He also examines the history of the units involved, their state of readiness, how they maneuvered under fire, and what the men who marched in the ranks thought about their participation in the assault. Ultimately, Hess explains, such an approach reveals Pickett's Charge both as a case study in how soldiers deal with combat and as a dramatic example of heroism, failure, and fate on the battlefield.
Recommended Reading: General Lee's Army: From Victory to Collapse. Review: You cannot say that University of North Carolina professor Glatthaar (Partners in Command) did not do his homework in this massive examination of the Civil War–era lives of the men in Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia. Glatthaar spent nearly 20 years examining and ordering primary source material to ferret out why Lee's men fought, how they lived during the war, how they came close to winning, and why they lost. Glatthaar marshals convincing evidence to challenge the often-expressed notion that the war in the South was a rich man's war and a poor man's fight and that support for slavery was concentrated among the Southern upper class. Continued below...
Lee's army included the rich, poor and middle-class, according to the author, who contends that there was broad support for the war in all economic strata of Confederate society. He also challenges the myth that because Union forces outnumbered and materially outmatched the Confederates, the rebel cause was lost, and articulates Lee and his army's acumen and achievements in the face of this overwhelming opposition. This well-written work provides much food for thought for all Civil War buffs.
Recommended Reading: Gettysburg: A Testing of Courage. Description: America's Civil War raged for more than four years, but it is the three days of fighting in the Pennsylvania countryside in July 1863 that continues to fascinate, appall, and inspire new generations with its unparalleled saga of sacrifice and courage. From Chancellorsville, where General Robert E. Lee launched his high-risk campaign into the North, to the Confederates' last daring and ultimately-doomed act, forever known as Pickett's Charge, the battle of Gettysburg gave the Union army a victory that turned back the boldest and perhaps greatest chance for a Southern nation. Continued below...
Now, acclaimed historian Noah Andre Trudeau brings the most up-to-date research available to a brilliant, sweeping, and comprehensive history of the battle of Gettysburg that sheds fresh light on virtually every aspect of it. Deftly balancing his own narrative style with revealing firsthand accounts, Trudeau brings this engrossing human tale to life as never before.
Recommended Reading: Gettysburg Heroes: Perfect Soldiers, Hallowed Ground (Hardcover). Description: The Civil War generation saw its world in ways startlingly different from our own. In these essays, Glenn W. LaFantasie examines the lives and experiences of several key personalities who gained fame during and after the war. The battle of Gettysburg is the thread that ties these Civil War lives together. Gettysburg was a personal turning point, though each person was affected differently. Continued below…
Largely biographical in its approach, the book captures the human drama of the war and shows how this group of individuals--including Abraham Lincoln, James Longstreet, Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain, William C. Oates, and others--endured or succumbed to the war and, willingly or unwillingly, influenced its outcome. Concurrently, it shows how the war shaped the lives of these individuals, putting them through ordeals they never dreamed they would face or survive.
Recommended Reading: Lost Triumph: Lee's Real Plan at Gettysburg--And Why It Failed. Description: A fascinating narrative-and a bold new thesis in the study of the Civil War-that suggests Robert E. Lee had a heretofore undiscovered strategy at Gettysburg that, if successful, could have crushed the Union forces and changed the outcome of the war. The Battle of Gettysburg is the pivotal moment when the Union forces repelled perhaps America's greatest commander-the brilliant Robert E. Lee, who had already thrashed a long line of Federal opponents-just as he was poised at the back door of Washington, D.C. It is the moment in which the fortunes of Lee, Lincoln, the Confederacy, and the Union hung precariously in the balance. Conventional wisdom has held to date, almost without exception, that on the third day of the battle, Lee made one profoundly wrong decision. But how do we reconcile Lee the high-risk warrior with Lee the general who launched "Pickett's Charge," employing only a fifth of his total forces, across an open field, up a hill, against the heart of the Union defenses? Most history books have reported that Lee just had one very bad day. But there is much more to the story, which Tom Carhart addresses for the first time. Continued below...
With meticulous detail and startling clarity, Carhart revisits the historic battles Lee taught at West Point and believed were the essential lessons in the art of war-the victories of Napoleon at Austerlitz, Frederick the Great at Leuthen, and Hannibal at Cannae-and reveals what they can tell us about Lee's real strategy. What Carhart finds will thrill all students of history: Lee's plan for an electrifying rear assault by Jeb Stuart that, combined with the frontal assault, could have broken the Union forces in half. Only in the final hours of the battle was the attack reversed through the daring of an unproven young general-George Armstrong Custer. About the Author: Tom Carhart has been a lawyer and a historian for the Department of the Army in Washington, D.C. He is a graduate of West Point, a decorated Vietnam veteran, and has earned a Ph.D. in American and military history from Princeton University. He is the author of four books of military history and teaches at Mary Washington College near his home in the Washington, D.C. area.
Recommended Reading: The History Buff's Guide to Gettysburg (Key People, Places, and Events) (Key People, Places, and Events). Description: While most history books are dry monologues of people, places, events and dates, The History Buff's Guide is ingeniously written and full of not only first-person accounts but crafty prose. For example, in introducing the major commanders, the authors basically call Confederate Lt. Gen. Richard S. Ewell a chicken literally. 'Bald, bug-eyed, beak-nosed Dick Stoddard Ewell had all the aesthetic charm of a flightless foul.' Continued below...
To balance things back out a few pages later, they say federal Maj. Gen. George Gordon Meade looked like a 'brooding gargoyle with an intense cold stare, an image in perfect step with his nature.' Although it's called a guide to Gettysburg, in my opinion, it's an authoritative guide to the Civil War. Any history buff or Civil War enthusiast or even that casual reader should pick it up.


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2013 Web Hits: The Year in Review
By Jen McDonnell
Category Social Media
As the year comes to a close, we're taking a look back at the things that got us clicking, liking, tweeting, pinning and streaming in 2013.
Top 10 Google Search Trends
Notable deaths and royal babies dominated this year's search trends, with technology (iPhone 5S, Samsung Galaxy S4, PlayStation 4) also making its way into the top 10. Canadian search trends were slightly different, with Rob Ford and Lac-Mégantic cracking the list. In terms of "how to" searches, people wanted to know how to twerk, sext, cook and rock.
Top 10 Apps
Not surprisingly, Candy Crush Saga crushed the competition, beating YouTube, Vine, Google Maps and Snapchat to become the most downloaded free app for iPhone. In terms of paid iPhone apps, Minecraft Temple Edition topped the list. For Android users, Facebook, Google Search and Google Play had the most downloads.
Most Retweeted Tweets
This year's most retweeted tweets dealt with celebrity deaths. Lea Michele's tweet about boyfriend Cory Monteith's passing was retweeted the most, followed closely by the tweet from Paul Walker's official account, confirming his death.
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Top Topics on Facebook
According to Facebook, Pope Francis was the most talked about topic worldwide, followed by the election, the royal baby, the typhoon, and the Harlem Shake. In Canada, the top five trending topics were a bit different: the Maple Leafs led the way, followed by Harlem Shake, Miley Cyrus Twerk, the Boston Marathon and Rob Ford.
Most Reblogged Tumblr Stars
Tumblr released its list of the most reblogged actors and actresses, and British celebrities were well-represented. Benedict Cumberbatch, Jensen Ackles and Matt Smith topped the actors list, while the most reblogged actresses were Jennifer Lawrence, Emma Watson and Vanessa Hudgens.
Most Viewed Video
We clearly wanted to dance this year. According to YouTube, the most viewed videos were Ylvis' "What Does the Fox Say?", "Harlem Shake" and Miley Cyrus' "Wrecking Ball." Canadian users also watched the Dove Real Beauty Sketches and Commander Chris Hadfield's rendition of David Bowie's "Space Oddity."
2013 was the year we all learned how to twerk and do the Harlem Shake, but it was also the year the internet was flooded with unflattering Beyonce photos, the phrase Sharknado entered the lexicon, and hadoukening became a popular pose. There were some heartwarming memes, too: hope was restored by Batkid's heroic day, the world fell in love with dogs that can't spell, and we all cheered when a young woman quit her job.
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Jen McDonnell
Jen is the Vice President of Content and Social Media at Reshift Media, where she manages a team responsible for the social strategies for several national and international brands. She has a strong content background, having previously worked in online journalism for 10 years. Her articles have been published in the National Post, the Ottawa Citizen, the Vancouver Province, the Calgary Herald, Flare, and more.
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