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April 0
Ey Capt. CHARLES EDTGr, ?. S. A.
Author of " Dunraven Ranch," "The Colo?
nel's Daughter" "Marions
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j wi til cii em. J
Talk of it he had to. Tho major early
that morning asked him, as they were
going to the matinee:
"Have you seen Elayne yet?"
"Not since he reported on the parade
yesterday," was the curt reply.
"Well, I suppose you will send men to
help him get those quarters into habita?
ble shape?**
"I will, of_courso, major, if he ask it.
I don't propose sending men to do such
work for an officer unless the request
"l?o is entitled to that consideration,
Rayner, and I think the men should be
sent to him. Ee is hardly likely to
ask. "
"Then he is less likely to get them,"
Raid the captain, shortly, for, except the
post commander* he well knew that no
o??iecr could order it to be done. He was
angry at the major for interfering. They
were cid associates and had entered ser?
vice almost at the same time, but his
friend had the better luck in promotion
and was now.his battalion commander.
Rayner made an excuse of stopping to
j speak with the officer of the day, and
I the major went on without liku. Ile
j was a quiet old soldier; ho wanted no i
i disturbance with his troubled friend,
i and. like a sensible man. he turned the
J mattel over to their common superior,
i in a very few words, before the arrival
j of the general audience. It was this that
had caused the colonel to turn quietly to
Rayner and say, in tlie most matter of
fact way:
"Oh. Capt. Rayner, I presume Mr.
Kayne -?viii need three or four men to
help him get his quarters in shape. I
I suppose you have already thought tc
j send them?"
j And Rayner flushed, and stammered,
I "They have not gone yet, sir; but I liad
-thought of it."
Later, when the-sergeant sent t!ic re?
quired detail he reported to the captain
in the company office in five minutes:
i "The lieutenant's compliments and
thanks, lut he does not need the men."
The dinner at thc colonel's, quiet as it
: was and with only eight at table, was au
affair of almost momentous importance
to Mr. Elayne. It was the iirst thing of ?
j the kimi he had attended in five years, j
and though he well knew that it was in- ;
tended hy tho cavalry commander more
especially aa a recognition of ther.ervices
rendered their suffering men, lie could
cot but rejoice in tho courtesy and tact \
with which he was received and enter
i tamed. The colonel's wife, the ad ju- j
I tani's, and those of two captains away j
with the Seid Lat talion werethe four ladies
who were there to greet him when, es?
corted by Mr. Blake, he made his appear
I ance. How long-how verv long-it
seemed to him since he had sat in the
presence of refined and attractive women
and listened to their gav and animated
chat! They seemed all such good friends,
they made him so thoroughly at home, ?
and they showed so much tact and ease
that never once did it seem apparent
that they knew of his trouble in his own
regiment; and yet there was no actual
avoidance of matters in which the Killers
were generally interested.
It was mainly of his brief visit to the
east, however, that they made him talk
of the operas and theatres he had attended,
the pictures he had seen, the music that
' was most popular: and when dinner was
over their hostess led him to her piano,
and he played and sang for them again
and again. His voice was soft and sweet,
and, thougli it was uncultivated, he sang !
with expression and grace, playing with
more skid but less feeling and eirectthan
he sang. Music and books had boon the
solace of lonely years, and he could j
easily see that he had pleased them with
his songs. Ile went home to the dreary
rookery out on Prairie avenue and
laughed at the howling wind. The bare
grimy walls and the dim kerosene lamp,
even Sam's unmelodious snore in the
hack room, sent no gioom to his soul. It i
had been a happy ?vening. It had cost j
liim a hard struggle to restrain the j
emotion which he had felt at times: and j
when he withdrew, soon after the j
trumpets sounded tattoo, and the ladies j
fell to discussing him, as women will, j
there wari but one verdict-his manners
were perfect.
But the colonel said moro than that.
Ile had found him far better read than j
any other officer of his age he had ever
met: and one and all they expressed the j
hope that they might-see him frequently, j
No wonder iL was of momentous import
ance tor him. it was the opening to a ?
new life, lt incant that here at least he j
had met soldiers and gentlemen and their
fair and gracious wives who had wei- !
coined him to their homes, and, though i
they must have known that a prill of sus ?
pieion and erinn' had overshadowed his j
past, they believed either that he was in- ;
n< ?cent of the grievou ?; charge or that his !
years of exile and suffering had am ph j
atoned lt wasa happy evening indeed
to him: but there was gloom at Capt j
Rayner's. i
The captain himself had gone out soon
after tattoo. He found that the'parlor
was lilied with young visitors ?.;' Loth
s( >;e.-;. nn i he was in no mood f..r merri
merit. Miss Travers was I icing welcomed :
to the post in genuine army style, and
was evidently enjoying ii. Mrs. Rayn< r j
was Hilling nervously in and out of the
parlor with a cl?-ui 1 upon her brow, and ]
f>>r one:- ia L r life compelled to preserve ?
tem ?>t>rary si lenee u pon the subject up
per most in her thoughts; S:?- hud l>een j
forbiddi ii t*? speak of it to her husband:
\. i she I: nev. he had gone out again wit ii
ev? ry pi'obabd: \ ol n -eding some one i
to talk lo about the matter. She could
n<>! well broach the t- pie in the parlor
;?.. use she was lint :it all sure how !
? apr. and Mrs C;v- or tho cavalry ?
Would i.,'.-- ?:. ;jn?! they Wel'e' -"di i'll Te. ;
She was a loyal wife: her husband's
t jua rr- 1 was hers an ! more, t ?e. and she ,
vasa woman of intuition ev- n keefer
th: tu thai which we so read i h aeeoid the
-rx Slie knew, and knew wv]], that a .
hide,.:;: doubt hail bee., previ,:-; (.,;?;,
I? ?ng time in her hu -I und's heart of
h ear: s. and r'-.r knew still belier that it j
Would crush- him t . > !?elie\ e ?j wa ; .even
suspected by any one ?Ixe. Ri-ht cr
wrong, til- one thing for lier t > <; .. she
d<?iiIited r:?.|, was t > maintain iheorir^i- j
hal guih :.-ni-,t ail conn rs, an-! to lose |
no opp;? rt ; lit . of f; cd i ag the l?ame that
.oasuined Mr. I layne's record and repu?
tation ile was guilty-he n u t be
. 11 .' 1 ; \ . a .<! though she was a Christian
lecording io iii-r view of tho case- a pil?
ar of the church in matters ol' public ?
charity and picturesque conformity tc
all the rubric called for in the services,
and much that it did not-she was unre?
lenting in her condemnation of Mr.
To those who pointed out that he had
made every atonement man could malic
she responded with the severity of con?
scious virtue that there could be nc
atonement without repentance and ?to re?
pentance without lunn ii itv. Mr. Kayne's
whole attitude was that of stubborn pride
and resentment. His atonement was
that enforced by the unanimous verdict
of his comrades, and even if it were so
that he had more than made amends for
his crime the rules that held good for
ordinary sinners were not applicable to
an officer of the army. Ho must be a
man above suspicion, incapable of wrong
or fraud, and once stained he was for?
ever ineligible as a gentleman. It was a
subject on which she waxed declamatory
rather too often, and the youngsters of
her own regiment wearied of it. As Mr.
Foster once expressed it in speaking of
this very case, "'Mrs. Rayner can talk
more charity ?and show less than any
woman I know.*' So long as her talk was
aimed against any lurking tendency of
their own to look upon Harne as a possi?
ble martyr, it fell at times on unapprecia?
tive ears, and she was quick to see it and
to choose her hearers; but here was a new
phase-one that might rouse the latent es?
prit de corps of the Riflers-and she was
bent on striking while the iron was hot.
If anything would provoke unanimity of
-action and sentiment in the regiment,
this public recognition by the cavalry,
in their very presence, of the man they
cut as a criminal was the tiling of ail
others to do it, and she meant to head
the revolt.
Possibly Gregg and his modest help?
meet discovered that there was some?
thing she desired to ''spring*1 upon the
meeting. The others present were all of
the infantry; and when Capt. Rayner
simply glanced in, spoke hurried good
evenings, and went as hurriedly out
again, Gr- gg was sure of it: and marched
his wife away. Then came Mrs. Ray?
ner's opportunity:
'.If it were not Capt. Rayner's house,
I could net have been even civil to Capt.
Gregg. You heard what ho soid at the
club this morning, I suppose?"
In one form or another, indeed, almost
everybody had heard. Thc officers pres?
ent maintained an embarrassed silence.
Miss Travers looked reproachfully at her
flushed sister, but to no purpose. At
last one of the ladies remarked:
"Well, of course I l>eard of it, but
I've heard so many different versions.
It seems to have grown somewhat since
"It sounds just like him, however,"
said Mrs. Rayner, "and I made inquiry
before speaking of it. Ile said he meant
to invite Mr. [layne to his house to-mcr
row evening, and if the infantry didn't
like it they could stay away.*"
-Well, now, Mrs. "rayner," protested
Mr. Foster, "of course none of us heard
what he said exactly, but it is my expe?
rience that no conversation was ever re?
peated without being exaggerated, and
Frc known old Gregg for ever so long,
and never heard him say a sharp thing
yet. Why, he's the mildest mannered
fellow in the whole -th cavalry, lie
would never get into such a snarl as that
would bring about him in five minutes."
"Well, he said he would do just as
the colonel did, anyway-we have that
straight from cavalry authority-and
we all know what tiie colonel has done.
Ile has chosen to honor 3Ir. Ilayne in
the presence of the officers who de?
nounce him, and practically deiies the
opinion of the Rillers."
'.Dut, Mrs. Rayner, I did not under?
stand Gregg's remarks to be what you
sar, exactly. Blake told me that when
asked by somebody whether he was go?
ing to call on Mr. Hayne, Gregg simply
replied he didn't know-he would ask
the colonel."
"Very well. That means he proposes
to \rc guided by the colonel, or nothing
at all; and Capt. Gregg is simply doing
what the others will do. They say to us
in so many words: 'We prefer the so?
ciety of your bete noire to your own.'
Tiiat's the way I look at it," said Mrs
Rayner, in deep excitement.
It was evident that, though none were
prepared to indorse so extreme a view,
t?tere was a strong feeling that the colo?
nel had put an aliront upon the Riflers
by his open welcome to Mr. Elayne. He
had been exact in;.: before, and had caused
a good deal of growling among the oih
cers and comment among the women.
Tliey were ready to find fault, and here
was strong provocation. Mr. Foster wits
e. youth of unfortunate ami unpopular
propensities. Ile should have held his
tongue instead of striving to stem the
"I don't uphold Ilayne any more than
you do, Mrs. Rayner, but it seems to me
this is a case where the colonel luis to
make some acknowledgment of Mr
[layne's conduct"
'?Very good. Let him write him a
letter, then, thanking him in the name
of the regiment, but don't pick lum up
like this in ?Ive lace of ours," interrupted
one of tiie juniors, who was seated near
.Miss Travers (a wise stroke of policy:
Mrs. Raynor invited him to breakfast),
and ti:? re was a chorus of approbation.
"Well, hold en a momont,"said Foster.
.?Hasn't [he colon? I had every one of us
to dinner more or less frequently?"
"Admitted. But what's to do with ii?"
"Hasn't If invariably invited each
o??eer to dine with him i?? every case
w here an o?? ic? r has arrived?"
"Granted Bat what then?"
"IT h.? broke tho rule cr precedent in
Mr. Hayne's ease wot:!.! he ii"t pro clie?
nt* iv be ?lying that he indorsed the views
of t!recourt martial as opposed to those
nf tl." d partment coruman?!? r. Gen
Sherman, the secretary of war, the prest
d< ::t ? if the United"
"v>h, make out your transfer papers.
Foster. Von ought to be in., the cavalry
>.;. s.uno ot in rdisputatious branch of l!;<
:.. \ \ to?;*" birr t in Mr. Graham.
..I cl .clan-. Mr. Foster. 1 never thought
yon would abandon your color.-.," eaid
M rs. Ra} tier.
"1 haven't, madam, and you've no i
righi to say so." said Fost'ir. indignantly, j
..! simply hold thai uny attempt to-work I
up a regina nial row out of t!,i i thing I
make b:e.l infinitely worse, and 1 I
?] ?oreeafe the whole busin ss." ?
. m i
"d Suppose you mean to intim::!;?-that
Capt.. iCuyners position and thal ci the {
ire huent is bad- all wrong -that Mr. !
lt tyne bas h en perse* ut,d." s ?id Mrs. j
lia} :.. r, with trembling lips and cheeks
aila me. j
"Mrs. Rayner, yon are unjust." said ,
pof.r Foster. "I ought n-?t to U;yo un
il r?.'iken t" explain or d,-f?nd the eol
eu. Ps net, p rhu ps. bm 1 mu not disloyal
t.. my reg? mei :1 or rm colors. What I
want is t?> prevent further trouble: and j
I know that anything bk" a concerted |
rei utment of the colonel's invitation !
will lea I to iniin.il ? hann.*" j
"You may cringe and bow and bear it !
if \>.i! choose; you may humble yourself j
to su, li ;i piece of i:? oJel.ee, but rest as- !
sured there are plenty of men and wc
en in the Riflers who won't hear it, !
Foster, and for one I won't.'' She 1
risen to her full height now, and 1
eyes were Mazing. "For his own sat
trust the colonel will omit our nae
from the nest entertainment he giv
Nellie sha'n't"
"Oh, think, Mrs. Rayner," interrupi
one of the ladies, "they uiust give hej
dinner or a reception."
"Indeed they shall not! I refuse
enter the door of people who have
suited my husband as they have."
"Hush! Listen!" said Mr. Graha
springing .ward the door.
There was wondering silence an
"It is nothing but the trumpet sour
ing taps," said Mrs. Rayner, hurriedly
But even as she spoke they rose
their feet. Muffled cries were bea;
borne in on the night wind-a shot, th
another, down in the valley-the qui
peal o: the cavalry trumpet.
"It isn't taps, it's fire!*' shouted Gi
ham from the doorway. "Come on!"
The Sub-Treasury Humbi
Congressman Cothran Knocks A B
Through the Bili-A JVarning to
Farmers of the JSoiith not to
Caught icith Chaff
[News and Courier.J
WASHINGTON, Apr;! 27. Judge Cot
ran Representative from the 3d, Soc
Carolina District, bas received so ma
letters of inquiry from his constituer
in regard to the sub-treasury bill, tl
he famishes the following copy of
answer to one of them, with the ho
that through the News and Courier
may reach all his constituents :
WASHINGTON, April 22, 1890.
Mr. A. M. Guyton, Picrceiown,
C-My Dear Sir: Your letter of t
14th instant bas been received. In
writing io behalf of yourself and .neig
hors, you asked me "orease to tell
(you) what the bill (kuowo as the su
treasury bili) proposes to do ; also yo
(my) views concerning said bill.*'
Acknowledging at the outset and
the fullest estent the right of every oi
of my constituents to demaod of m
as their Representative, at all time
informatiou upon public 'questions,
promptly and cheerfully comply wi
your request.
Upou the subject referred to by yo
two bills have been introduced in tl
present Congress, one io the SeDa
and one in the House I send to you
copy of each o? the bills. Upon ea(
of them you will observe the won
"by requests in legislative ethic
this simply means that ?be Senator [M
Vance] aod Representative [M
Pickier] who introduced them are m
thereby necessarily committed to thei
The bills provide for the storage i
ware houses of all kinds of farm pr<
ducts which are suitable for storag
aod shipment and not of an immediatel
perishable nature These ware housc
are to be built all over the country, i
an estimated expense, to be borne b
the Government, of something lik
$50.000,000. Upon the products s
stored ceiti?cates shall be issued by th
Government, and to the amouut of 8
per cent of the value of the articles s
stored the Government shall lend t
the holders of these ceitifioates, o
receipts, money at the rate of 1 per ceo
per annum.
The obvious reason of the demand fo
this extraordinary legislation is th
present depressed condition of th
agricultural interests all over th'
United States, and especially iu th
Western and Northwestern States. Th
burning of corn for fuel io the State o
Kansas is the most complete and sum
marized giatemeot of the cause. Thi:
is so far from being applicable to tin
farmers of South Carolina aud of tb<
Southern States that it may bc well t(
reflect very seriously before we give
to the proposed measure our support.
As I am now serving as your Repr??
sentative in Congress my last term, ii
seems to me that I am in a position tc
deal with you in a spirit of the utmos
frankness, and altogether freed frou
any possible charge of demagogy in
saving, that ? regard the farming in
terest of the country as embracing its
very boee and siuew-the maiostay
and support of the Government itself.
These interests are suffering from
over-production, and for the want ol
adequate means to transport the tre?
mendous surplus of products to mar
kcts beyond our owu borders.
TUE WEST ins GROWN TOO FAST.
On account of cheap and fertile lands
in the West and Northwest, the vast
tide of immigration that has steadily
flown thither for the last twenty-live
years, the bulky nature of the?r pro?
ducts and their remoteness from the
markets of the East and of the world,
the prices real zad have not been remu?
nerative. Besides, thc cst of living
and of production has been greatly in?
creased by ari unjust, unnecessary and
oppressive system of tariff taxation,
resulting in a widespread and almost
u ii i versal network of farm mortgages,
given to secure money advanced by
Ivistcrn capitalists The census of the
present year if correctly taken, will be,
in this regari!, an appalling disclosure
to the whole country. If required but
a ?drible good providion crop io the
Sou'h, willi v. h ?eli we were blessed la>t
year, to bring ab.un*, the catastrophe
and along with it this demand for relief
tn thom (not to us.) which h rs found
expression in tho proposed sub trea?
sury bill
1 do not believe that this picture is
overdrawn or exaggerated. \ >u nr:y
r.-li, how is if wi:li ourselvesi? Many
won Id doubtless an>wer, had enough, j
In my travels over the District last-j
summer, which took me once ruto your [
own excellent neighborhood. I did not I
find a single farmer who attended to
his business half as well as he could ;
have doac that was not prospering. I
could name a number of them, whom ;
yon know n> well or better than I do. |
a To come directly to the point: Sup
pose a Government warehouse should be i
erected at Piercetown. what would
you or your neighbors put in it ? Cotton
bales are well nigh the oYdy consider- !
able surplus products of your farm;
Nobody eats cotton ; it is too balky I
steal without almost certain and speed
detection to the thief ; and if yoa bai
no convenient place for storing it dunn
the time it is held before marketing,
few poles laid upon the ground and
temporary shed of loose planks wi
suffice for protect! rig ir from the weathe
?t is not so with the Western farmer
products, which must be careful!
housed and kept under lock and kej
Besides, what is the effect of withoh
ing these different crops from tl
market? From 1861 to 1S65 ti
world, by some means or other, mat
aged to get on without our cotton crop
In such years as we had from 1883 t
1889, if the corn, bacon and flour th;
we required had been in Govern mei
warehouses, cornered by law, as th
bill proposes to do, ours instead i
theirs would have been the land i
mortgages : the contest, as you mu
see, is an unequal one, and the ode
are all against us You can get oi
for a time afc lea?t, with worn an
patched clothing, but a lean and etnpt
larder who can long withstand ?
As bad as some may deem our cood
tion, it ought to afford them some rt
lief to contrast it with that of othen
Take the State of Iowa, for instanci
I bave already alluded, incidental!}
to corn burning Kansas. It appeal
from the agricultural statistics of low
for last year that the average yield <
corn, which is their main crop, wa
ol) bushels per acre, and the pri#; .<
the crib 20 cents per bushel-grn?
yield in money by the acre ?Q. Yo
can by proper care and attention brin
up any acre upon your farm, and tba
means every acre upon it, to produc
a bale of cotton-1.200 pounds in th
seed, the market price of which duriu
the past season was 20 czuts pe
bushel, the exact equivalent in valu
of the Iowa farmer's 30 bushels c
cern. Besides, you have 400 pound
of lint worth 10 cents per pound
against which to charge up the es
penses of production, and if it shoul
take $40 for that purpose, (which yo
know is not the fact.) you would a
least have ?6, the proceeds of the sal
of seed, as clear profit.
During my travels over the distrie
last summer I had the pleasure of at
tending several of the Farmers* Atliaoc
mee inga. I felt a deep interest ii
them, heartily approving every effort c
the country to better their condition
Like all the rest of mankind they, tor
make mistakes. I ventured ia
modest way to point out some of these
The burden of their efforts seemed t
be how and where to buy the cheapest
That I told them was very well, but i
is not the main thing. There is neve
much trouble to buy, if one has monej
with which to buy. It is vastly mor
important to have something to sell,
And so it is with one of the feature
of this sub-treasury scheme which it s
well calculated to catch gudgeons., bj
holding out the offer of lending mone;
at a cheap rate or interest. It matter
not what the rate of interest is, ia th,
end you will find that you have to foo
the bill. The present indebtedness o
the Government, whose mainstay ano
support you are, is in round uumber;
1.400 million dollars, requiring nearly
50 million'dollars to meet the annua
iuterest How how does it strike yoi
as a financial policy for one who owe;
1.400 million dollars bearing iuterest a
3 and 4 per cent to lend out his monej
at 1 per cent, per annum, to say nothing
of paying out other millions for wan
houses far salaried official? and so on, ir
order to get a chance to commit such
stupendous folly? Common sense
sound reason and good judgment are
just as necessary in managing th?
affairs of government as ttVy are in
conducting a farm, a store or a bank.
Some persons of much financial skill
and energy may handle successfully
borrowed mon^y. These constitute the
excepMou to the rule. The rule itsel!
is exactly the reverse of this.
A lesson of more value to our people
than any politico-financial device that
can be couccived of is to be found rn the
practical precept, borrow not at all.
In the frankness that shall character
iz ? this Utter, I waru you against ex
treme men and measures. The old
paths are the safest. Very soon I shall
rake my place with you again in the
ranks, and for my own part, in the
struggle that lies just ahead of us. I
pray that we may have the best, the
truest and the wisest of leaders. Ac?
cepting as von h:ive done in the utmost
good faith the results of the late war,
having a<!npted yourselves as best you
c:>uld to the changed coudition in your
alf-irs. you do not realiz% the bitter
prejudice that the Republican politicians
stiil have towards you. They are fully
determined, if they can to pass the bill
now pending in Congress, to regulate
and control the Federal elections, in the
State. Its machinery, meant solely for
the Southern States, is to be set in mo?
tion upon the petition cf live hundred
voters in any one of the Congressional
districts These will readily be found
in every Congressional district of the
State lately engaged in the rebellion
(so-called) and not in one of the States
that adhered to the Union Should the
bili become a law the struggle of 1870
will he ronew-'d in South Carolina, and
you will need all of the wisdom, all of
tho moderation, all of the enthusiasm
a tu! devotion without which the splen?
did victory would have been turned info
disastrous defeat
There aro other grave and important
questions that 1 would gladly bnrig to
3eur attention, and many other strong
reasons that might bo given in opposi
tion to this proposed raid upon the
treasury, hut this letter has been exten?
ded far beyond the limits proposed at
the oatset. ? would like to call your
attention to the unholy alliance between
the farmers cf the West and the
Knights of Lahor, which bodes no
good to u*. See their effort already
made to depress about the only exclu?
dive Southern industry, cotton seed oil,
by the passage of what is known as the
compound lard bill. Look at the exor- ?
bitnnt demand for pensions, already re- ?
quiring more than one hundred million
dollars annually, and thc end not yet. !
It ha? been just cause of pride with us '
that oar regalar army rs so small anet
inexpensive, and to day no monart?h^
io the Old World pays as m?ch 16 l&p
op its s tao di og army as we pay for pefc*
sion s.
AN CXCONST?TCTIONAL Blfcf/
I have refrained from stating th?
constitutional objection to tbe sab
treasury bill j that is of the nature
techoical law, bat for that matter #W
law is technical ? this abjection is stf
obvious that I dc not believe tbe bill
will ever be reported by tbe committee"
to which it has been referred. If it
should be, and should be passet bf th?
two houses of Congress, { da not be*
Heve the president wilt approve it, and
I have no doubt brit that the Suprem*
Court would declare it to be toeonatr*
There is no warf ant in the ?onstit?
tion for the Government ever becoming*
a money-lender. It bas tbe power bf
various methods to levy taten, ta bar?
row money on the credit of the United
States, to regulate commerce witb foi?
eign countries and between the States $
and there ar? sundry other powers dele"*
gated to it by the States, bat by oe*
process of construction, however strain*
ed, unless it be as boys at school some*
times get the answer to their sams, by
"forging,'" can this time-nonored though
much abused instrument be made tr>
yield such a result.
The matter of greifest concern to th?
people of Sooth Carolina is the preser?
vation of the integrity and polities!
supremacy of the white race, which can
alcue secure the perpetuity of th? fire*
sent form and methods of good govern?
ment. The experiment of carpetbag,,
scalawag and negro role has been tried
and endured as long as it was possible*
to bear it. Bat when I bear wholesale*
charges of profligacy and corruption
made against, those who hate fartbffflty
discharged their oScial da-ties is eterf
department of the Sute gdf?ffiin?tft*
charges unsupported by a tittle of proof,
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assured for all time, and that for k#
con tin nance little or fio vigilan oe ? reac?
Accept my thanks for tue opporianf*
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views, and trusting if they are correct
as I believe them to be, that yon will
concur in them, ? act Very respectfoTijf
and trrily yours,
J. 8. COTHBi?i
A Startling Statement.
COLUMBIA, S. C., May 7.-Tfcefe" fe
now very strong reason to believe thai
the affidavits and letters which seccretf
the respite for Leap heart were forgeries,
lo regard to the affidavit with Charlie"
Cannon's signature attached aod allege
iog to have been sworn to before J. P.
Bodie, notary public, April 2&h, Bodicf
has written a letter for pablicatioo nt
which he says : "He made no such affi?
davit before me. I did not even see*
Mr. Cannon on that day.* jfWs s&
davit was to the effect that ?utb Cao*
non declared that Leapheart bad noi
attempted to assault her and only ratet*
ded robbing the boase.
Capt. J. B Wingara*, to? ?f?offief
who assisted in the prosecution of the*
case on behalf of Mis3 CfaoBon, arrive?!
here to-day and said that be visited Miss1
Cannon this morning, who stated opoff
her word of honor that she did not
write a line to her mother and that ail
the letters published, alleged to be to*
ber mother aud corroborating the al?
leged statement to ber brother, were?
forgeries and. that she would malte ?fr*
davit to that effect at Lexington to-dif.
Captain Win gard said the affidavits4
were pure fabricates, hatched by
Lawyer Graham and Deputy Marshat
Miller aod if they bad been looirn affiv
I davits i fr rebut?a*} from Unimpeachable'
people could have been presented.-=CW?
limb ia Register
ma i i* mm*-:==
A ut hors and Poor Writing.
I wonder if authors have any idea o?
the decided advantage rt is to a manu-"
scrip: to have it clearly written or bv tlie'
typewriter? Again and again have I had
a manuscript lying on my table for*
month or two,- putting oil its reading
from day to- day because of tito poof'
writing. If authors had any conception1
of the value of clean manuscript io* edi-'
t-jrs, they would be far more careful her*'
they semi their wares to the editorial
o? lice than they are.
Take tins manuscript, for example? the*
authors name is a guarantee that there fer
something good in it. Yet. look at thai
chirography. I dread taking ?t np. It isr
positive t >rtnre. I am* patient with her,
becai.se 1 feel a personal interest hi her
literary welfare. Yeti know of two posi?
tive ins: Luces where her manuscripts
have been returned by editors- who ac*
knowledged to me afterward tlxti they
had not read them. Now, that wotoari
is inflicting injury upon herself. I tetf
you, there is nothing which makes me'
more prejudiced against a"mamrscript
than illegible writing.-Interview tn Ne"?
York Commercial Advertiser.
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3KCBWDAY1 - In Living Color - Day 1
Because of my current craft room makeover project, I was unable to access my actual yarn stash, so I took a sneak peek into my stash noted in my Ravelry account. And what did I see?
Mostly a lot of:
and This.
And not a whole lot of
and That.
It's strange because I do love lots of pretty colors, but I have to admit that fall is my favorite season. Maybe subconsciously I'm drawn to those yarns because of that.
It's also of interest to note that the more vibrant colors in my stash have come from friends from various parts of Latin America where color vibrancy is more of a rule instead of an exception.
But hey, I'm trying. I purchased these two skeins of Noro because of their beautiful vibrancy of colors.
Still haven't used them yet, but there is still hope. :-)
My belief is that there is a time and place for everything and so there is a time for the more subdued tones and a time for the vibrant ones. It really depends on the pattern, the person you're making the piece for, and the season.
- I've said this before, but there is a perfect yarn for a pattern. If I want to showcase something special about the design, then I choose a simpler yarn - one that won't compete. If I want to showcase the yarn, then I go all out for it and choose a simple stitch.
- It's no point in making a beautiful item in a vibrant color if you know it's too much for the person you made it for and because of the color, that beautiful piece will remain in their closets or dresser drawers.
- And finally, the season dictates my color choice. If I want to make something that matches what Mother Nature has dictated is the color palette for that season, I do that. But sometimes I like to do the opposite of Mother Nature and choose a bright color that will stand out against that season's color palette. It's sort of like carrying a bright pink umbrella on a dreary, rainy day. Somehow it makes you feel a bit happier.
This post is my contribution to Knitting and Crochet Blog Week 2012. Post: 3KCBWDAY1.

subset: commoncrawl


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Counsel depart from race for Leinster title
A 23RD-MINUTE Luke Scanlon goal proved the turning point as it inspired Kilkenny C.B.S. to an eventual eight-point victory over Good Counsel (New Ross) in this Leinster Colleges Senior hurling 'A' championship semi-final at Thomastown on Saturday last.
Very little had separated the sides up to this point as both were striving for scores. But Scanlon's first-time stroke after a high free had broken on the 14-metre line handed the initiative to the Kilkenny side which they refused to relinquish for the remainder of the game.
A feature of the teams was the fact that 25 of the starting 30 came from Kilkenny, with just four from Wexford and one player from Carlow. With the C.B.S. side now going on to meet St. Kieran's in the final, it shows the strength of Minor hurling on Noreside.
After Kevin Kenny had pointed Kilkenny C.B.S. in front inside the opening minute, Good Counsel showed a positive response with points from James Doyle and a John Walsh free. The sides were still deadlocked (0-3 each) after eleven minutes before Kilkenny C.B.S. through the accuracy of free-taker Paddy Cahill edged into a 0-6 to 0-4 lead.
The game's only goal arrived in the 23rd minute. Robbie Fitzpatrick drove a huge free to the 14-metre line and Luke Scanlon responded quickest to fire first-time to the net, leaving his side leading by 1-6 to 0-4. Good Counsel finished the half strongly with points from a John Walsh free and a fine individual effort from wing-back Paudie Barden, leaving the eventual winners ahead by 1-6 to 0-6 at the interval.
Good Counsel raised the tempo of their game on the resumption but inaccuracy from both frees and play saw four scoreable chances go abegging before John Walsh with a pointed free after 36 minutes reduced the deficit to two points (1-6 to 0-7).
But that was as good as it got for the Barrowsiders as Kilkenny C.B.S. went on to take the initiative for the closing 20 minutes as they added eight points to their opponents' two, and it was only two excellent saves from 'keeper Jack Dunne that denied them further goals.
Eleven minutes from the end, Ciarán Ryan was dismissed for a second yellow card offence and with it went any chance of a revival as the Kilkenny C.B.S. dominance increased during the closing stages.
Good Counsel: Jack Dunne (Taghmon-Camross); Pádraig Doyle (Rathnure), Donncha O'Connor (Tullogher-Rosbercon), Dylan Kehoe (Rower-Inistioge); Paudie Barden (Adamstown, 0-1), Ciarán Ryan (Rower-Inistioge), Darragh Joyce (Rower-Inistioge); Colm Doherty (Glenmore), James Doyle (St. Mullins, 0-1); Michael Redmond (Rathnure, 0-1 free), Liam Hennessy (Rower-Inistioge), Cathal Bolger (Rower-Inistioge); Cian O'Donoghue (Tullogher-Rosbercon), Michael Cody (Rower-Inistioge, 0-1), John Walsh (Mullinavat, 0-5, 4 frees). Subs. - Pierce Doyle (Taghmon-Camross) for O'Donoghue, Jack Murphy (Taghmon-Camross) for Walsh.
Kilkenny C.B.S.: Daragh Holohan; Cathal McGrath, Evan Cody, Dylan Scott; Corey Cahill, Robbie Fitzpatrick (0-2), Paddy Deegan; J.P. Treacy (0-2, 1 '65, 1 free), Niall Mullins (0-1); Danny Bolger, Kevin Kenny (0-3), Paul Delahunty; Luke Scanlon (1-1), Shane Cuddihy, Paddy Cahill (0-4 frees). Subs. - Gary Kelly (0-1) for Bolger, Matty McWey for Delahunty, Robbie Buckley for Deegan.
Referee: Anthony Stapleton (Laois).
Wexford People


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Really? How will they correlate the 2-D video from one angle with an RF signal among thousands from a potentially seperate point or set of points? Sounds like something fairly tricky to do accurately. Simply using 2-D images to reconstruct a convex 3-d object correctly requires more than a dozen images.
OTOH, matching baggage to passengers makes some security sense. The pool of people willing to commit suicide to launch attacks is smaller than those willing to commit homicide. Just read some of the stories about the drivers of bomb-laden cars who attempt to bail out at the last moment in Israel.
Oh, good, finally a solution to the old bait-and-switch tag-team suicide bombers. If you just used the boarding pass, it would be possible for suicide bomber A to check the bag, and suicide bomber B to actually get on the plane (to get the bag loaded) and get blown up. Now they have to be one and the same.
And congratulations to Precise Biometrics AB on their win! With this new contract, I expect them to meet and exceed their earnings estimate this year. I rate them a Strong Buy. What's their ticker symbol again?
(Hey, this is satire. I'm not actually recommending any stocks, here. But you know that, right?)]]>
Probably by helpfully mentionning that the DPA needs another "update" to make it kosher.
A passenger's fingerprint is associated with each piece of luggage, using technology from Precise Biometrics AB. The fingerprint scanned at baggage check in is then compared with the fingerprint scanned at boarding.
Who needs RFIDs when you've got fingerprints? Those can't be flushed down the toilet or mechanically disabled.]]>
"""..., you are going to need 600 staff just dealing with security tags.
A very silly idea."""
... unless you're the company contracted to supply those 600 staff.
Nice analysis though.
Even 1 failure in 100,000 (pretty good for something that's gonna get abuse the way these things will be) you get 1 false alarm every 3 days.
I wonder.... Can I just get one implanted and save those extra 5+ minutes at the airport?]]>
This is insightful. Also, the manpower to attach/remove rfid tags from luggage is already half there: bags get tagged on checkin. You would only need to deploy twice as many staff to remove them on arrival. (The usefulness of removing them shortly before loading is very limited.) Some efficiencies in luggage searching are available here; losing track of which bags have been searched and which haven't is a bookkeeping error that becomes a security risk.
If you really wanted to make certain all passengers kept their tags, attach the tags to their boarding passes. (Issue tags embedded in a plastic boarding pass holder?)
On the other hand, if you _really_ want to make sure that both passenger and bag make it on the flight, making each gate a separately secured area with its own bathroom would make sense. Moving the security check to each gate also would prevent long lines of passengers presenting themselves as targets. While most US airports are not well designed for that kind of thing, remodeling that moved all of the nonessential businesses outside the current security perimeter would be adequate. *shudder* Note that this solution would make connecting flights nearly impossible to manage.]]>
Take for example Heathrow. Roughly 70 million people a year pass through Heathrow (not including staff). That's about 190 thousand a day. If we assume each passenger spends 4 hours in the airport that's about 32,000 tags issued at any one time (again not including staff.)
If just 1 in a thousand tags fail or get lost security has to find a tag 32 times a day. If the tag has failed it's quite possible they will have to search the entire airport just in case.
If it necessary to issue and collect around 190,000 tags a day, somebody has to do it. Assume it takes five minutes per person, you are going to need 600 staff just dealing with security tags.
A very silly idea.
Well, doesn't this thought directly lead to a natural choice of design and placement, which guarantees most people will be eager not to loose their tag ... ;-)]]>
Or a very tiny piece of metal like a pin, staple, or a sewing needle that might accidentally slip by security. I once accidentally disabled a friend's laptop's peizo-electric beeper while looking for its reset button. Hmmm...
And, the procedures for leaving the secured areas will have to be beefed up too, otherwise someone may mingle with arriving passengers and abscond with their unit.
I wonder what happens when they return and recheck in after they've ditched their unit? Especially if they didn't check their bags. (oops, I left my credit card in my car and must have accidentally left the tag there when I was getting it).
What happens when you happen to lose it? Jeez, I'm sorry, it fell in the toilet just as I flushed it.
I sure don't want to be carrying some unsanitary thing around that's been handled by hundreds of [potentially] unsanitary people during the past month.
To make boarding more efficient - assuming it will work.
Tight enough, you won't get it over the head, and not opened without destroying it or without special tools.
Behaving like well drilled monkeys is a lesson early learned, to automate processes.
The word 'security' came into the text by accident - by association (RFID, airport, ...).
Btw, how are these tags to be attatched? Would would prevent someone from holding two tags? Or from placing a clone of one in a rest area?]]>
Hmmm... "...loitering for hours..." And just how will you distinguish between loitering and such normal airport activities as waiting for a flight that has been delayed because of some stupid security measures? Or because the airline messed up the schedule again? Or people who actually listened to the stupid suggestions that passengers show up 3 hours before their flights?]]>
Wait a minute. I don't see how this is going to work. How will this be any different than it is now. Are they saying that they won't load bags onto the plane until the associated person gets to the gate? So the baggage handlers are going to stand around on the tarmac until all the passengers "arrive" at the gate, and only then put their bags on the plane? How is this any different than the current system, where one can't get on the plane without out a boarding pass. When the boarding pass is scanned at the gate, the person's bag is put on the plane.
How will tagging passengers with RFID change the current baggage handling system? And if the change the way bags are loaded onto planes, then the curent system should suffice.
As far as finding "lost" passengers, this would be a great way to never miss a flight. Just check-in, then wander off to some uncrowded location in the airport to read, watch TV, work on laptop, etc. No worries about missing your flight, since the airline personal will use this great RFID technology to come find you and escort you to the gate, just in time for departure! No more time wasted standing around the (almost always crowded) departure gate!!
So we anesthetize all passengers (pre-boarding) for the duration of the nice, quiet, flight. You will never get from New York to L.A. so safely, or so "fast".
Oh...and we're going to need more Soylent over here.
"Those who "loose track of time" at the bar are probably too drunk to be allowed on the flight anyway - perhaps the system can automatically "bump" you off the flight if your tag spends too much time in the bar? (likelyhood of intoxication etc)"
Right, because everyone who spends an hour or two at the bar comes out plastered. The first airline that does this to me because I stop off to read a book while drinking a soda in a bar that's far more comfortable than the seats outside of the gates is going to get a really annoyed series of calls climbing the corporate ladder, from the customer service rep on up through whatever executives I can track down through whatever means.
Offtopic: Please keep in mind that the proper spelling in your context is "lose." There are no double-vowels in the word.]]>
Doesn't an RFID tag do the opposite of what Bruce recommends? It gathers lots more data for humans and computers to sift through and creates a waste of time questioning people who ate bad food.
Spend the money on good intelligence and more trained officers looking for real problems.
Apropos shielding/ removal/ swapping of tags, I believe that these concerns can be adequately addressed by proper design. The key is to realise that in this context the customary practice of miniaturisation is not only unnecessary but actively counterproductive: we want the tags to be robust enough to resist interference and visible enough that their absense will immediately be obvious not merely to trained security staff, but to alert members of the public. Some sort of lockable collar, perhaps, worn above the travelers' outer garments, or a robust sphere attatched to wrist or ankle by a tamper-resistant chain?
Also, though I haven't explored this possibility in detail, it seems to me that the combination of a suitable design of tag with some very minor changes to the passenger-handling procedures already in place at major airports like Heathrow would make it feasible to dispense with the electronic component altogether. The resulting cost savings - both for the tags themselves and the supporting infrastructure - would make deployment much more practicable.
If that's the case, just add a few networked barcode readers that scan the boarding pass: once when you reach the back of the security line (where they check your boarding pass anyway), once when you are actually getting screened, and once at the gate. For full coverage, also scan people who leave the secure area.
A pain? Sure. But certainly less so than making them wear RFIDs around their necks.]]>
Why there is not more jail time for the billions stolen through fraud and abuse during this war on terror and on Iraq is disappointing to be sure.
Steal a loaf, go to jail. Steal millions and more and be a successful businessman and lobbyist.]]>
1) It would help track people who check in and the "loose track of time" at the bar, thus delaying the flight. Hopefully. It will work, provided that they start looking for "stragglers" before it's too late. Result: Passengers got to arrive at the gate earlier than before. More hassle for passengers, but (possibly) less for the airlines.
Those who "loose track of time" at the bar are probably too drunk to be allowed on the flight anyway - perhaps the system can automatically "bump" you off the flight if your tag spends too much time in the bar? (likelyhood of intoxication etc) Quite a weak security argument here...
2) It can be used for tracking which shops are frequented by which type of traveller. Shops would probably love to get more demographics about their customers - although the identity of the customer may not be revealed, their destination might. And that's quite interesting for a shop...
If the tag can be used for identifying travellers, then the shops can use them for billing people too :=) The duty-free sexy underwear can appear only your company credit card as "American Airlines" :-) Why bother with the credit card after you checked in? (if you break it, it migh be sharp and therefore dangerous. Cannot be allowed on board! Think about the children!)
3) Who's selling those tags? They'll profit for sure.. And it's not only the tags: They'll need some sort or receiver (probably quite a few), computers to "track" people, new software for it, network infrastructure, maintenance, monitoring and whatnot... Lots of billable hours awaits!
Besides: If security *really* was the issue, then they would have to tag people ON ENTRY to the airport - not wait until check-in. And remove the tag on the plane.. Elderly lady picking up her granddaughter? Please wear this tag...]]>
but the MAIN aim is (in fact) to make sure there are bags and people on same planes to avoid missing takeoff slots - which is nothing to do with anti-terrorism - or surveillance of identities - it is ufficient (from the BAA and Airline point of view) to assure a boarding pass with person got on to same plane as the associated bags.... is all:)]]>
I was involved in a feasibility study for a similar project. A major airline had analysed flight delays and observed that the major cause of delays was somebody who had checked baggage then failed to get to the departure gate in time. The flight is then postponed while staff retrieve bags from the hold.
If passengers are tagged then the airline will know that the errant passenger is in duty free or the toilet and hurry them to the plane. I am prepared to bet that on your next flight the number of such passengers exceeds the number of terrorists.
What I meant by 'used sensibly' is that the tag should be necessary but not sufficient to get a passenger's bags on board. If the tag doesn't reach the gate then the bags don't reach the plane. It doesn't prevent the airline from continuing to check boarding cards or passports at the gate.
From a security perspective this is similar to holding the bags outside the plane until the boarding card is scanned at the departure gate.
What are its failure modes? If you shield or lose the tag then your bags are impounded. If you give your tag to another passenger this is similar to giving them your boarding card - in other words there should be checks for this at the gate, but they are no more onerous than existing checks.
A miscreant can do both: shield the tag and give it to another passenger. Provided the protocol for tags at the gate is similar to that for boarding cards this isn't a problem. One passenger, one tag, plus one passport, all of which must match, otherwise you are taken aside for questioning.
To analyse the proposal I would split it in two: the security gain is not in the tags themselves, but in making it easier to stop bags getting on a plane without a passenger. There is a cost benefit to the airline, quite independent from security, in being able to find lost passengers. If lost passengers are more frequent that terrorists - which I expect to be the case - then it is the latter issue that influences the business decision.
Lets have a scenario: Security is watching someone on their screens preparing some malicious deed. Now they are able to localize the subject. - Oh! They have been knowing where the subject is nontheless because the've seen it on the camera.
Right another one: Some badass-device is detected in the checked-in baggage. Security is able get the location of the person related to the baggage. They will recognize that a) the person will enter its plane shortly before departure or b) the subject has left the area of observation. Neither is of much help for there is no motivation for the evildoer to stick around the airport and not entering the plane.]]>
Bruce called this "dumb" which suprises me a little. Certainly there are practical and useful applications for this type of technology. Whether they are relevant for security matters is arguable, obviously.]]>
Well, this is just great. How many people will be thrown out of airports and arrested because they suddenly experience a problem with their digestive tracts?
(Or a sudden "lust attack", for that matter? :) )]]>
'it might be easy for software to tag the very small number of people who are falling outside normal behavior'
So you let a piece of software decide what is suspicious behavior and what is acceptable behavior.
Humans always have been, and will be for some time to come, far better at detecting suspicious behavior. Reducing the field of view that security personel has, will not increase security, but increase the risk of missing important events, and focus attention on people with suspicously long bowel movements.]]>
I have another way to prevent them from entering restricted areas: it's called PUT A FREAKIN' LOCK ON THE FREAKIN' DOOR!
I think it will only take a grant of $1.1B or so to develop this into a workable prototype ;-)
Then you here about E.U. funding of 2million Euros (about the same as USD ;)
You take your wares that are not realy marketable at the moment and spin a security aspect on them.
Then oh manner from heaven the cash comes rolling in...
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I might well be doing the people at UCL an injustice and I am by no means having a dig specifically at them, it's just that I see so much of this shift of research to "security" with no real change I cannot help but wonder why, especially when there are very large bundels of cash involved.]]>
More importantly: why should I wear that thing? I'm not a sheep!]]>
Once a large amount of data was collected, it might be easy for software to tag the very small number of people who are falling outside normal behavior, then to display these people to security personnel to keep an eye on them.
IOW, it doesn't detect bad guys, but it might be able to reduce the field of who security needs to keep an eye on.
Of course, there are "still a few bugs in the system":
The system would have to work in conjunction with the camera systems to detect things (people) moving around that aren't associated with an RF tag.
Otherwise a bad guy could either shield the tag and walk around undetected, or ditch the tag in a bathroom where a person might spend 20 minutes, so by the time a flag was raised they could be anywhere. Or they could hand their tag to a few accomplices who carried the tag around just doing normal activities, perhaps occasionally trading it off.
Since this is a powered tag, it seems like stopping shielding is simple; if the tag is unable to communicate with a reader for more than 30 seconds, it starts beeping, and 30 more seconds and it starts really making a lot of noise.
If this were to become widespread, I don't think it would be too hard for bad guys to figure out what "normal behavior" looks like to the system and to plan their operations to not fall outside the range. This is definitely a losing action.]]>


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Andrew Flintoff took his 200th Test wicket yesterday but - in case we had forgotten during those 18 months of injury-enforced absence - this is a player capable of upstaging even himself. If the roar he let out after dismissing Neil McKenzie was muffled by the statisticians' complaint that seven of those 200 had come for a World XI, then the primal scream that followed the castling of Jacques Kallis an over after Aleem Dar had rejected an apparently cast-iron shout for lbw was a mix of catharsis, anger and industrial-strength testosterone.
"Emotion was running quite high at that point," he said with dry understatement. "You've been out there all day, running in and then the decision gets turned down. You can chunter as much as you want at the umpire but you've got to get on with it. It was an aimless rant. I went in to see [Aleem] afterwards and apologised. I shook his hand and we're friends again."
The crowd would have appreciated the sentiment. As Edgbaston roared in affirmation of the most thrilling kind of spectator/sportsman symbiosis, it was easy to forget that South Africa may still go on to clinch this series before the weekend is over. But the Flintoff sub-plot has never been one to respect a main storyline and for a few spine-tingling overs the tale of England's mislaid mojo deferred to the epic about the returning hero. Whether or not South Africa win here Flintoff, with four for 68 out of a total of 256 for six, has kept his side of the bargain.
"It was an important hour for us," he said, modestly glossing over the wicket of AB de Villiers shortly after disposing of Kallis. "We needed to get wickets to get into the game. It was nice to take some. I've worked hard to get to this point after everything I've done with my physio, Dave Roberts, over the past six months after my ankle operation. I'm pleased."
The plan to bowl yorkers at Kallis - used successfully by Ryan Sidebottom in the first Test at Lord's - was hatched during a tea-time chat with England's bowling coach, Ottis Gibson, and Michael Vaughan, and Flintoff admitted he was aided by the dark windows in the pavilion that caused both Kallis and Mark Boucher to lose sight of the ball. But that did not detract from the sustained brilliance of his 10-ball mini-spell to South Africa's very own Table Mountain. "When you're coming up against some of the best players in the world, and Kallis is right up there, it brings the best out of you," said Flintoff.
Vaughan must have been hoping his team-mates had fed off Flintoff in the manner advocated by the former coach Duncan Fletcher before this game. But with Jimmy Anderson too wide before lunch, Ryan Sidebottom creaking in the mid-70s before tea and Monty Panesar virtually ignored, it felt too often like a lone battle. Quietly Flintoff may be wondering what he has come back to. Not since 1996 and the visit of Pakistan have England lost by two games or more in a home series to a team other than Australia. Defeat here and Flintoff's last eight Tests, stretching back to Sri Lanka at Trent Bridge in 2006, will all have been lost.
But that is not to blame the man himself, who has fond memories of this ground with bat and ball and was not keen to dwell on his milestone. "It's taken a while, hasn't it?" he said. "It's nice to get 200 but I'd sooner have done it 15 or 20 Tests ago." Last night England were probably willing to forgive him.
10 of Freddie's best
The deliveries that proved Flintoff was back to his best
Ball 1 Yorker misses Kallis's bat and his off stump by a whisker
Ball 2 Vicious bouncer which jags away from Kallis's flailing bat
Ball 3 Kallis ducks under another pacy bouncer
Ball 4 Kallis defends into the off side
Ball 5 Yorker hits Kallis on the toe of left boot, but Aleem Dar says not out to lbw appeal
Ball 6 Kallis flicks leg-stump delivery through midwicket for a single
Ball 7 Bouncer has Kallis almost ricking his neck to avoid being hit
Ball 8 Kallis leaves alone outside off
Ball 9 Kallis throws the bat and misses
Ball 10 Flintoff pegs back off stump with an 88mph ball that swings late and leaves Kallis groping


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BREAKING: Anti-Muslim Speaker Also A Virulent Homophobe
Jan 25, 2012 — Our efforts are picking up steam; we were mentioned last night in the Baltimore Sun and in several local Maryland blogs.
Unfortunately, the speaker that Mayor Rick Meehan is hosting tomorrow, is even more extreme than we thought, and we are running out of time.
People for the American Way has uncovered anti-LGBT statements by retired Lt. Gen. Boykin, a notorious anti-Muslim activist headlining the Ocean City, Md. Mayor's Prayer Breakfast tomorrow. Boykin spoke out against DADT repeal, saying "aberrant behavior can really tear up the integrity of the organization." Boykin has also stated, "I do not believe that [being gay] is in any way or form sanctioned by God or by the Bible."
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CONCORD, N.H. – When Shawn Burne was found dead in his apartment of an intentional drug overdose in June, Nashua police discovered a note in which he proclaimed he didn't kill the elderly couple who lived next door.
New Hampshire Attorney General Joseph Foster's office said Thursday, however, that all evidence points to him as the only suspect.
A visiting nurse discovered the bodies of William Grant, 83, and Eleanor Grant, 78, inside their longtime home on June 17. Autopsies showed they died of multiple stab wounds.
Police said the investigation led to Burne, a 37-year-old who was known to Nashua police and who lived on the second floor of a two-story apartment house next to the Grants.
Authorities did not say what specific evidence linked Burne, whose body was found June 26, to the deaths.
Police didn't immediately return a phone call seeking comment and Senior Assistant Attorney General Jeffery Strelzin said he wasn't allowed to comment further.
Burne's stepmother, Paula Burne, told The Associated Press that she couldn't believe Shawn Burne could turn violent but acknowledged he fought with drug and alcohol addiction.
"To know Shawn was to know that he was a sweet guy," she said from her home in Tucson, Ariz., where she and her husband, Richard, live. "I don't think he's capable of that, but anybody can do anything when they're under the influence of drugs and alcohol."
Paula Burne said she last talked to Shawn in December and everything seemed fine. She said Shawn had two children, was unable to work and collected disability.
"I can't picture Shawn hurting anyone," she said.
The attorney general said in a news release that "very quickly" after the Grants were found dead, evidence showed Burne had been in possession of property belonging to them and that he had been in their home after they died.
"Burne also was untruthful with detectives regarding his activities around the time of the murders, lending further credence to his status as a suspect," Foster said in the release.
Police said they had other evidence linking Burne to the killings and kept him under surveillance.
When Burne had not left his apartment in some time, they went in and found him dead.
An autopsy determined he killed himself by an "acute intoxication" of several drugs, including venlafaxine, olanzapine and clonazepam, used to treat depression, schizophrenia and anxiety.
Police believe he killed the couple during a robbery.
The evidence against Burne is insufficient to permanently close the investigation, the attorney general's office said, but "there are no other obvious suspects in the case and today, no other person is being sought."
The couple's daughter, Carol Ann Hilt, told The Associated Press on Thursday there was no relationship between Burne and her parents.


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Chemical Constituents from Stem Bark and Roots of Clausena anisata
AbstractPhytochemical investigations on the stem bark and roots of the tropical shrub Clausena anisata led to the isolation and characterization three carbazole alkaloids: girinimbine, murrayamine-A and ekeberginine; two peptide derivatives: aurantiamide acetate and N-benzoyl-l-phenylalaninyl-N-benzoyl-l-phenylalaninate; and a mixture of two phytosterols: sitosterol and stigmasterol. The structures of these compounds were established by nuclear magnetic resonance (1H-NMR, 13C-NMR, COSY, HSQC, HMQC, HMBC and NOESY) spectroscopy and electrospray ionization mass spectrometry (MS).
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digestion with BamHI - SacI - molecular biology (Feb/15/2011 )
hi all, first time on this forum ...
I have trouble digesting with BamHI and SacI. I'm using pGEMT easy vector in the same I put an insert of 1.7 Kb, and now I must release this insert to put it in a new vector. In the insert add cleavage sites for the enzymes mentioned above ...
I try to do a double digestion, but only get to linearize the plasmid, thinking that one of the 2 enzymes did not work, I made two separate digestions, and both look that open plasmid and then purified to change the buffer and made a new digestion with the other enzyme, in the gel i saw a band of 3kb, pGEMT only guess, but there was no insert.
I make the first digestion with a plasmid concentration of 100ng/ul and digestion was make at 37 ° C for 4 hours with 10 units of enzyme.
question ... the insert it's not seen, by the amount of plasmid or low cutting efficiency?? how I can improve this last?? or other possible causes that is not considering???
from already thank you very much.
SacI can be tricky since it is inhibited by salt concentrations >10mM ...so if you plasmid prep is not 100% cleaned efficiently or you eluted in the wrong buffer SacI can be a real pain in the neck. Additionally, SacI poorly cuts supercoiled DNA. You can find more info here.
100 ng for a digest is not that much ...i would use more and since you are trying to release your insert and purify it you should use much more (~3 µg DNA) ...i would also suggest that you do your digest in a larger volume so that residual salts get diluted and do not harm your digest. Consider an overall volume of 100 µl with 2.5-3 µg of DNA.
I first want to thank you for your response ...
I use SacI for the second digestion, first I make a digestion with BamHI and then through a gel I see only the linearized plasmid, then purified, not from gel, using a commercial kit to change the buffer, I'm using a Promega SacI with Multicore buffer and a fermentas BamHI with buffer tango. this buffers can be the problem??
the amount of plasmid was wrong, I'm using 2ug by digestion, 100ng/ul was the concentration. I'll try the volume that you recommended in the case that some salts pass during the purification. I'll tell you later ...
I hope resolved your problems.
SacI cut hardly linear DNA, it takes around 12h if you want to be sure you cut well.
It is better if you start cutting your vector with sacI when it is circular, and then you cut with BamHI, but no longer than 1 hour because of star activity!
And for your PCR insert, cut the sacI site over night.
It helps a lot to clone such fragments.
Thank you very much!!!
I must say that in the end I could cut my vector doing exactly what you suggested, but that I did by trial and fail without knowing which was the reason, now I understood ... je
I appreciate your response, you and the rest of the forum helped me a lot ...
thanks again...
you are welcome!


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I have had the same issue for as long as I can remember. I have never been able to sweat. When i exercise or am physically active I turn bright red, and end up with an excruciating migraine!
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This is become a huge issue for me because I cannot exercise because of how i feel afterward. Its like my day is over...i can't do anything because I get so ill. I am gaining weight (steadily over time) and wish I could exercise to help lose the weight.
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"Six workers at Japan's crippled Fukushima nuclear plant were exposed to a leak of highly radioactive water on Wednesday, the latest in a string of mishaps the country's nuclear watchdog has attributed to carelessness, saying they could have been avoided."
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In the latest incident, a worker mistakenly detached a pipe connected to a treatment system to remove salt from the hundreds of tonnes of water Tepco pumps over the melted fuel in wrecked reactors at Fukushima to keep them cool."
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There's a whole lotta shaking going on in Hilo this week, but it's not aftershocks from the April 14 earthquake near the Kilauea volcano, which gave the Big Island a 5.0 jolt but thankfully little if any damage.
No, this shaking comes from the hips and hula implements of several hundred elite dancers invited to compete in the 46th annual Merrie Monarch Festival in Hilo. The festivities start on Easter Sunday with a ho'olaulea (music festival) and continue with free noontime entertainment at the Hilo Hawaiian Hotel and Naniloa Volcanoes Resort through the following Saturday (April 18 this year), when there's also a colorful "Royal Parade" through downtown.
But the main event — the dance contest — begins on Thursday (tonight!) with 11 soloists vying for the coveted Miss Aloha Hula title, followed by the group kahiko (chant-based) competition on Friday and group 'auana (song-based) on Saturday. You can watch it for free online at www.kitv.com, which broadcasts it live in Hawaii on KITV Ch. 5. The show starts at 6 p.m. HST (9 p.m. in the Bay Area) April 16-17 and at 5:30 p.m. HST April 18. (Not to worry if you can't stay up late: KITV will also post videos and photos of top performances on its Web site.)
Once invited, competitors must raise hundreds of dollars to fund their elaborate costumes, professional musicians, travel costs and additional training. The high demand for tickets means spectators also pay a higher price than normal for Hilo's generally affordable lodging.
So it's a good thing the creators of the Big Island on the Cheap Web site are also big fans of Merrie Monarch. The Web site, which also has Honolulu version, includes printable coupons for local restaurants, stores and services, as well as frequently updated tips on what to see and do (cheaply, of course) for all around Moku o Keawe. But it also lists special tips for visitors to Hilo during Merrie Monarch.
Here's one of several budget dining tips for Hilo posted by Leslie Lang:
Kawamoto Store on Kilauea Avenue is a favorite for locals, but Merrie Monarchers should take note of the line of people waiting to order. This means it's good, folks! And it's cheap — bentos start at around $3. Get there early — they open at 6 am — and grab lunch to go. Two of my faves? Fried hash and the tempura fish.
Kawamoto Store is at 784 Kilauea Ave. in Hilo, open 6 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Tuesday-Sunday.
Of course, there's more free or inexpensive entertainment on the Big Island other than the Merrie Monarch. From a post by Kris Bordessa on Bigislandonthecheap.com, Hawaii Insider learned that the Mele 'Ohana Kani Ka Pila now takes place every Wednesday from 6 to 8 p.m. at Keauhou Shopping Center. The free concert by 30 to 40 local uke players from the Mele 'Ohana 'Ukulele Group is occasionally accompanied by hula dancers in the audience.
That's just one of many bargains on the Web site, which allows you to subscribe via e-mail for deal alerts, as well as RSS feeds. But here's one tip from Hawaii Insider: Be sure to print the coupons on Bigislandonthecheap.com before you go to the island, since paying for Internet charges and printing at your hotel may cost more than your savings.
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Werder Bremen goalkeeper Tim Wiese has no concerns over losing his status as Germany number two to Ron-Robert Zieler.
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Werder Bremen goalkeeper Tim Wiese has no concerns over losing his status as Germany No.2 to Ron-Robert Zieler.
Wiese was left on the bench for 90 minutes last Friday as 22-year-old Zieler made his international debut in the friendly against Ukraine.
With Manuel Neuer assured of the No.1 jersey in the national team, coach Joachim Low chose to take a look at Zieler in the 3-3 draw.
However, Wiese is convinced that the Hannover goalkeeper's appearance was only a one-off.
Should Neuer be unable to play at Euro 2012 for whatever reason, Wiese says he fully expects to start.
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"I am assured of my No.2 role," he told the Kreiszeitung Syke. "There is absolutely no doubt about that."
When asked if Zieler could overtake him in the pecking order over the next six months, Wiese said: "I think that's a bit of a joke really.
"It (the game) was just to give him a chance to show what he can do."
Wiese was due to play the second half, but Low decided that, given the freezing temperatures, it would have been difficult for him to get warmed up during the interval, which is why Zieler emerged for the second half despite conceding three goals in the first 45 minutes.


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Is it a Wal-Mart superstore, or a glimpse of the future? In Bloomington, folks are curious.
Wal-Mart reopened its once-dowdy store along I-494 last month after adding a full grocery store and glammed up the interior — without adding much square footage.
That's a departure for Wal-Mart. Until now, the Arkansas-based discount giant typically has placed full grocery stores in sprawling new "Supercenters," and in Minnesota, those supercenters were far from the Twin Cities core. The Bloomington Wal-Mart signals a new model that could shake things up among Twin Cities grocers.
"It is their prototype for the future," said John Dean, a Twin Cities grocery industry consultant. The Bloomington site "shows they can (add a full grocery) in an existing store without going through all the rigmarole of starting from the ground up."
In its first week after the Aug. 19 reopening, Dean said, "both the CEO and the chairman of the board have visited" the remodeled store at I-494 and Portland Avenue. "I think that tells you something."
Wal-Mart officials declined to comment about their plans. But if the Arkansas-based retailer is watching the results, so are other Twin Cities food sellers.
The always-competitive Twin Cities grocery sector has turned feverish with recent expansion by SuperTarget, Aldi and Trader Joe's. Any moves into the area by Wal-Mart, the nation's No. 1 food retailer, would rattle hometown retailing giants Supervalu, parent of Cub Foods, and Target.
"If you go anywhere else in the country, Wal-Mart is generally the dominant food competitor," said David Livingston, a Wisconsin-based supermarket analyst. "What makes you guys (in the Twin Cities) an odd market is that Wal-Mart is not No. 1, and they're not even close to breaking into the top two."
Even whispers of a larger Wal-Mart presence prompt both delight and dread. Fans mobbed the newly remodeled Bloomington Wal-Mart in its inaugural week.
The renovated Bloomington store offers wide aisles, better lighting, improved signage and in-store video displays, plus 10 aisles of groceries sporting Wal-Mart's low prices. Inexpensive cereal and milk are available — but so is organic yogurt and $15.98-a-pound Spanish goat cheese, plus a bakery, deli and a colorful produce section.
So, what's missing? For one thing, selection. The store sells regular Cheerios, but only the family-sized 18-ounce box.
One customer, Katie Brewton, said she enjoyed shopping at Wal-Mart when she lived in Kansas and was surprised by the absence of a supercenter when she moved to St. Paul.
"The nearest one is in Brooklyn Park, which is a good 15 or 20 miles from our place," she said. So when she spotted the new Wal-Mart from the interstate, "I was just so excited to find one nearby," she said.
Labor unions, however, are wary, having waged a long battle against Wal-Mart's lower-wage, anti-union practices. That's certain to be contentious in the Twin Cities, where the incumbent supermarket chains are unionized, including Cub Foods, Rainbow, Lunds, Byerly's, Kowalski's and Festival.
"I've yet to meet a Wal-Mart or Sam's Club worker that makes more than $15 or $16 an hour," said Bernie Hesse, an official with United Food and Commercial Workers' Local 789. An experienced clerk or cashier at a union-organized grocer earns about 40 percent above that, or about $22 an hour.
Wal-Mart typically has avoided city centers, said Dave Brennan, co-director of the Institute for Retailing Excellence at the University of St. Thomas. "Land costs are high, pilferage is high, and they try to avoid unions and cities that dictate what they have to do."
But Wal-Mart seems to be rethinking that strategy. It is making a big push into Chicago, forcing the other supermarkets there to lower their prices.
The Twin Cities, however, has no Wal-Mart Supercenters within the 494-694 loop — although 42 Wal-Mart supercenters have sprung up beyond that boundary, including in outer suburbs like Oak Park Heights and Hastings. The existing Apple Valley Wal-Mart is now being expanded into a supercenter.
The Bloomington store moves Wal-Mart's grocery offerings ever closer to the heart of the Twin Cities. If the store succeeds, it might show how Wal-Mart intends to attack the more-crowded urban centers.
In urban areas, "they run into problems getting land and getting variances," said Dean, the grocery consultant. But in cases like the Bloomington store, "they (already) have the land, they have the building."
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THE short film "Rúbaí" produced by Charleville born Gemma O'Shaughnessy has been accepted for the prestigious Tribeca Film Festival in New York.
This is a fantastic accolade for the short film which is written by Antoin Beag O'Calla, is directed by Louise Ni Fhiannachta and stars young Kerry actress Doireann Ni Fhoighil in the title role.
"Rúbaí" has won the hearts of audiences all over Ireland, the UK and America and has managed to scoop two festival awards to date, Best New Short Drama at The Galway Fleadh and Best Irish Short at The Charlie Chaplain Comedy Festival in Waterville, County Kerry.
It was also featured at the recent Jameson Dublin International Film Festival.
The film, which tells the story of a young girl who refuses to prepare for her First Communion, was screened on St. Patrick's weekend at the Dingle International Film Festival and at Trafalgar Square, London as part of a showcase of Irish short films.
In the New York festival the film will be competing in the narrative short film programme against six other entries in this category.
The Tribeca Film Festival helps filmmakers reach the broadest possible audience, enabling the international film community and general public to experience the power of cinema and promote New York City as a major filmmaking centre. It is well known for being a diverse international film festival that supports emerging and established directors.
Founded by Robert De Niro, Jane Rosenthal, and Craig Hatkoff in 2001 following the attacks on the World Trade Center, to spur the economic and cultural revitalization of the lower Manhattan district through an annual celebration of film, music, and culture, the Festival brings the industry and community together around storytelling.
"We are thrilled with the success of the film to date and hope to build on this with more films by Antoin Beag O Colla in the future," said Gemma O' Shaughnessy, Producer for Magamedia.
"The success of the finished film is also due to the outstanding talent of Doireann Ní Fhoighil who did a remarkable job of playing Rúbaí in such a compelling and loveable way."
Gemma also said the film has also been nominated for an upcoming Irish Film and Television Award.