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Cheerleader Kicked Off Squad for Working at Hooters
Ok, this is just wrong: an East Tennessee State University cheerleader was allegedly kicked off the squad because she worked at Hooters.
Eighteen year old Kimberly Sams says the cheerleading coach, Tammy Bartow, told her she was being dismissed because being a "Hooters girl" was not in keeping with the ETSU squad's image. Uh, just what exactly is the lofty ETSU cheerleading image to begin with? No offense, but I didn't even know there was something such as "ETSU" before I read this story. Sounds like some sort of tax form: "After you fill out your 1040, if you have outside income, please fill out the ETSU report as well."
While this is obviously unfortunate for Kimberly, there is a silver lining, folks: We have another competitor for the next first round match-up in the M Zone BCS - Blog Co-ed Showdown!
Tune in next week to find out who she'll be up against.
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That's a shame.
She looks hot, but the picture's too small to get a true read.
- February 03, 2006 10:09 AM
Shame is right.
Holding a legitimate, paying job is contrary to the image of ETSU?
What a crock. She should contact The Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (http://www.thefire.org/) over this.
- February 03, 2006 11:50 AM
- BaggyPantsDevil said...
If I were only a lawyer, I'd start up the Cheerleader Defense Fund, an organization dedicated to defending the rights of cheerleaders everywhere to work as Hooter Girls, strippers, and porn stars. The tyranical oppression of these lovely women just has to stop.
And who are these people who keep harassing them? I thought we sent the Taliban running into the Hindu Kush?
- February 03, 2006 12:07 PM
- Yost said...
Preach, brutha! Preach!
- February 03, 2006 1:57 PM
- surrounded in columbus said...
" not in keeping with the ETSU squad's image"???
i don't get it. just what is a "cheerleader" image if not pom poms and short skirts? have these guys seen the pics of the UT pom squad???- always looking to give you guys an excuse to post THAT again.
so hooters girls wear short shorts and a tee shirt? what part of that uniform is insconsistent w/ wearing a cheer leader out fit???
flippin' unamerican.
- February 03, 2006 1:58 PM
- BaggyPantsDevil said...
It's all so hypocritical. A football game is pretty much a display of the elemental characteristics that make the genders sexually attractive to each other. Men display the size, strength, speed, and spatial abilities (hey Unk, watch me hit this running Megaloceros with a tight spiral) that make them good hunters and warriors. The women—as cheerleaders on the sidelines—show off their youth, fitness, and ever useful flexibility.
- February 03, 2006 2:19 PM
Kind of pissed at some comments here. Kim is a real person, ya know. I'm her cousin! And I agree that a cheerleaders image is pompoms and short skirts, so working at Hooters shouldn't be a big deal. A job is a job, that simple. And f-you jerks.
- February 10, 2006 4:11 PM
- Yost said...
Uh, Anon, if you look again, I think that was the point of most comments people posted: That working at Hooters is just a job and she shouldn't have been fired b/c of it.
- February 10, 2006 4:44 PM
- BaggyPantsDevil said...
Cousin--and I'm going to forego the strong urge to make a comment about the stereotype of cousins in Tennessee--it should be obvious that we're pretty much unanimous here in feeling that Kim's getting a raw deal.
There's absolutely nothing wrong with working at Hooters and definitely nothing wrong with being a cheerleader. As Kim's brought up in interviews, ETSU coaches and athletes go to Hooters as customers!
You got it wrong, we support her. I hope you'll pass on to Kim, that sports fans and admirers of cheerleaders everywhere are pulling for her.
Any chance you could get her to post a comment here?
- February 10, 2006 5:13 PM
Poor girl can't even afford a decent pair of jeans and they are booting her...
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LANDSCAPE architect and designer of Port Macquarie's Bago Maze, Ian Mobbs, looks forward to its launch on Sunday.
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The Detroit Tigers scored 726 runs (4.48 rpg), 6th in the AL, 11th overall.
The San Francisco Giants scored 718 runs (4.43 rpg), 6th in the NL, 12th overall.
The Tigers hit 163 homers, the Giants 103.
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3 comments:
- nomisnala said...
Detroit hitters played most of their games in the American League with a designated hitter. The giants hitters played most of their games in the National League without a designated hitter. We need to choose our DH wisely my friends.
- Tue Oct 23, 10:45:00 PM PDT
- M.C. O'Connor said...
I think you have to go with Huff. The Tigers have all RH starters and he part-time DH'd for both Baltimore and Tampa Bay back in the day.
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It would appear the Giants have the edge in the manufactured run department.
That's good, 'cause Detroit's pitching is gonna be tough.
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Primary Subject – Health / Physical Education
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The aim of this lesson is to answer questions and ask questions to children about what they feel about growing up into teenagers or adults. Tell them what the lesson is about. GROWING UP! They may look a bit scared, but reassure them. Ask the children questions about growing up, and ask if there are any questions, this should take at the most twenty minutes.
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Submission + - Parliament: Record companies "blackmail" users
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Wishful Winners
What to do when a parent is a habitual sweepstakes victim
Many contests, sweepstakes and lotteries come with a catch. After the lucky winner sends a requested fee—usually for "taxes" or "insurance" on the promised windfall—he or she gets nothing in return except a smaller bank account.
The problem is, many victims don't realize they're being scammed. They just want to keep going.
Bogus games are a worry for adult children whose parents habitually respond to such offers. Says Susan Slater, 68, of Massachusetts: "My 94-year-old mother receives several mail requests per day with promises of winning money. She is positive that most are real, and is spending much of her time opening the envelopes, reading in detail, and worrying over losing the contests if she doesn't enter on time."
Where children often go wrong, says Laura Carstensen, director of Stanford University's Center on Longevity, is in getting upset at a parent's actions, and making comments such as "How can you fall for this?" or "Don't be stupid; it's clearly a scam."
This reaction only makes "the elders pull away from you," says Carstensen—especially if it's followed by threats to take over their finances or get power of attorney. It drives a wedge between victims and people who might protect them.
There are better ways to prevent rip-offs of habitual contest entrants:
- Quietly raise questions. Rather than say, "The prize doesn't exist," ask, "Did the check come yet? It's been a few months now," or "How many times have you won?" This approach may help victims draw their own conclusions that they're being duped.
- Turn victim into protector. It might be helpful to ask your parents to let their friends know about scams. Sharing this information may commit the scam to memory and, at the same time, help others.
- Be aware of vulnerable periods. Seniors are especially likely to fall for the contests within three years of experiencing some type of major stress—financial problems, the loss of a spouse, or a change in health or housing.
- Help the U.S. Postal Inspection Service crack down on these scams by sending it the come-on letters. Find the location nearest you at the inspection service's office locator.
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Bonicontro was named to the Daktronics All-America Third Team, which is organized and voted upon by the nation's sports information directors.
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Bonicontro was one of four Northeast-10 Conference players named to the first, second third and honorable mention teams alongside Chris Tsonis and Jonathan Lupinelli (Southern New Hampshire), who were named to the Second Team; and Ruben Resendes (SNHU), who earned honorable mention status.


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(WEAU) With only days left until Christmas, the U.S Postal Service is seeing a hike in the number of packages its shipping that means more of us are at risk of getting that Christmas package stolen.
The Eau Claire Police Department says no package thefts have been reported so far. But we have to be careful, because experts say it's all too easy for someone to come by and take them.
Whether you're shipping a package overnight, priority mail or choosing to do standard shipping this holiday season, you may be at risk.
The Post Master in Altoona says she's seen countless boxes since last Monday.
"I had so many packages, I didn't know for sure if I was going to be able to get them all there and be able to shut the doors for the HCR driver to pick them up," said Wendy Knutson, Altoona Postmaster.
If you plan to ship something, tracking your package is a good place to start.
"The best thing to do is get insurance on the package or get a signature confirmation on the package and that means when we bring it to the door someone has to sign for it," said Kim Leith, Eau Claire Postmaster.
"You can send them certified and certified is customer on the other end has to sign for it, cost you 2.75 cents extra," said Knutson.
But Wendy says people often don't want to pay extra, so what else can you do?
"If you're going to be gone try to notify a neighbor to pick out your mail otherwise it kind of makes you a high target," said Leith.
Meanwhile, some packages sat outside for who knows how long and someone could have easily taken them.
The Post Office says a lot of people are choosing to send them to their work.
"Check with your employer if they will allow personal packages come in there, so it's a secure location, the other thing we suggest is get a P.O. box if you're expecting a lot of stuff," said Leith.
For those of us, in certain apartments, if the post office can't delivery your mail here in your mailbox or even in a nearby postal box what they'll do is send it back and therefore it doesn't get stolen.
Kim and Wendy say they're unsure why people choose to take the packages.
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"But I do know Joey's sister indirectly (or foster sister) and I have heard stories of Joey being into shopping, designer wear, fancy coffees, and pedicures."
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You know how the ol' saying goes
"Everyone bats 1.000, and if you don't, you really suck."
I'm trying to chill, Raisor...it's just so hard to do when I realize that we've only won 1 series against a quality opponent.
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It's an objective sport. It's a subjective sport. If you've found this post on its little corner of the internet, odds are you care about baseball enough to acknowledge both of those portions. If that's the case, then embrace it. That's why most of us are here. Just because some people watch games, see a loss, and want to watch the world burn doesn't mean they're right or that you have to put up with them.
Don't fart in our baseball car. We'll all get stuck having to smell it, and it's too loud and annoying to carry conversation when we have to roll the RRmobile's windows down.
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Thanks WoY....made my day. I feel the same way as that writer...I just don't get the griping and groaning. At all.
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Here are the next 19 games for the Reds. Does anyone not think that the Reds can put on a nice run during this stretch?
Code:Fri, May 10 vs Milwaukee 7:10 PM Cingrani (2-0) Gallardo (3-1) Sat, May 11 vs Milwaukee 4:10 PM Latos (3-0) Estrada (2-2) Sun, May 12 vs Milwaukee 1:10 PM Arroyo (2-4) Peralta (3-2) Tue, May 14 @ Miami 7:10 PM Bailey (1-3) Sanabia (2-5) Wed, May 15 @ Miami Thu, May 16 @ Miami Fri, May 17 @Philadelphia Sat, May 18 @ Philadelphia 4:05 PM FOX Sun, May 19 @ Philadelphia 1:35 PM Mon, May 20 @ NY Mets 7:10 PM Tue, May 21 @ NY Mets 7:10 PM Wed, May 22 @ NY Mets Fri, May 24 vs Cubs 7:10 PM Sat, May 25 vs Cubs 4:10 PM Sun, May 26 vs Cubs 1:10 PM Mon, May 27 vs Cleveland 1:10 PM Tue, May 28 vs Cleveland 7:10 PM Wed, May 29 @ Cleveland 7:05 PM Thu, May 30 @ Cleveland 7:05 PM
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Can't have the ups without the downs.
Even in the heyday of the BRM with a lineup of Hall of Famers, there were times when you thought the sky was falling.
For a time, I rest in the grace of the world, and am free.
I for one refuse to accept above mediocrity. Walt had better do something fast to turn around this disturbing trend.
"This isnt stats vs scouts - this is stats and scouts working together, building an organization that blends the best of both worlds. This is the blueprint for how a baseball organization should be run. And, whether the baseball men of the 20th century like it or not, this is where baseball is going."---Dave Cameron, U.S.S. Mariner
"I can't take this homerism anymore." - 10xWSChamps, August 11, 2010. A Cardinals fan having a problem with all the homerism on Redszone. Classic.
"Man do I miss the days where were didn't need a calculator and an encyclopedia of baseball metrics to enjoy a baseball game ... - MikeS21" - 8/2/12 game thread
Yes, but we are overrated "right now", which is really "dumb" for the Reds to do that.
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Along with deadly accomplice Xavi, Andres Iniesta has been at the very heart of everything that has been so undeniably and breathtakingly wonderful about the respective teams of Barcelona and Spain in recent years.
With his superb vision, admirable technical qualities and sublime ability to persistently retain possession, the 29-year-old is arguably one of the greatest midfielders of his generation and of this millennium.
Having spent his entire senior career with the Catalan giants, Iniesta has become synonymous with Blaugrana and it is somewhat difficult and indeed perhaps even a touch troubling to imagine him donning the shirt of a rival club side.
However, if recent reports are to be believed, then this could actually become a significant possibility. While some believe that Iniesta is on the verge of agreeing to extend his stay at the Camp Nou, others claim that a number of Europe's other heavyweights are circling in an ambitious bid to prise him away from Spain.
If Iniesta is indeed destined to call time on his outstanding glittering career in La Liga, then it is my unwavering belief that Manchester United and struggling manager David Moyes should do all they can to convince him that his immediate future lies at Old Trafford.
While I concede that this may seem somewhat of an unlikely event given that Iniesta himself has publicly announced his intention to remain with his current employers, of the teams mentioned so far in relation to Iniesta's signature - aside from Barcelona themselves, of course - United would seem the likely destination.
It was evident to Premier League enthusiasts the world over during the summer that United positively craved a greater attacking influence in the centre of an otherwise ailing midfield and the club's dreadful beginning to 2013/14 domestic campaign has done nothing to alter this widely-held opinion.
Moyes, who joined the club from Everton following the retirement of the iconic figure of Sir Alex Ferguson at the climax of last season, clearly sought to address this notable void during the summer but was sadly unable to sign any of his primary targets - combative Belgian midfielder Marouane Fellaini aside.
Securing a player of Iniesta's ability would surely go along way to Moyes making amends with a number of those fans who have been deeply disturbed and disappointed by United's woeful beginning to the new campaign - even if that were to continue right throughout the season.
I hardly even need to outline the significant quality that Iniesta would bring to the club. With a wealth of experience at the very top level of both club and international football - including three Champions League crowns, two European Championship triumphs and a coveted World Cup winners medal - he would instantly command the respect of supporters and he would be United's best midfield player by quite some distance.
Just whether or not Iniesta intends to follow teammate Victor Valdes in leaving the reigning La Liga champions in order to pursue a fresh challenge is as of yet unclear and perhaps a little doubtful.
However, if this does eventually prove to be the case, then Moyes and United should do everything they possibly can to ensure that Old Trafford is his next destination.
With a player of his undoubted class among their ranks, the Red Devils would surely be able to banish any mocking talk of an imminent and lasting decline and swiftly re-assert their traditional status as one of Europe's most formidable forces.
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Erickson named to NCAA committee
Longtime South Dakota State University head swimming coach Brad Erickson has been named to the NCAA Division I Men's and Women's Swimming Committee.
Erickson's appointment is effective Sept. 1 and will run through Sept. 1, 2017.
Since becoming head coach of both the Jackrabbit men's and women's swimming teams in 1976, Erickson has continuously represented South Dakota State on a national level. He began his service as a member of the first NCAA Women's Swimming Committee, serving from its inception in 1981 until 1987, including a year as the NCAA Division II Subcommittee chair.
Erickson also served as a meet official at the NCAA Division I Women's Swimming and Diving Championships from 1984-2007 and the Division I Men's Swimming and Diving Championships from 1994-2010. In addition, he has been the meet coordinator for the NCAA Division II Men's and Women's Swimming and Diving Championships since 1997.


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One morning I said our family prayer. I asked that we could show Heavenly Father how kind we could be that day. Later I got upset with my brother and was sent to my room to calm down. When my mom came to talk to me, I told her I remembered what I had said in my prayer that morning and that I didn't feel upset with my brother anymore. She said the Holy Ghost was helping me remember those words about being kind. I was able to make better choices the rest of the day. I'm grateful for prayer and for the Holy Ghost.
Maren E., age 5, Utah, USA
On my sixth birthday my parents gave me a Book of Mormon with their testimonies written inside the front cover. They challenged me to read it before my eighth birthday and baptism. As part of my bedtime routine, I read the Book of Mormon every night. Sometimes I read it while driving around or at the beach. The more I read, the better I became at reading. When I was seven and a half years old, I finished the Book of Mormon. It strengthened my testimony, and I know that the Book of Mormon is true. I feel prepared for my baptism and am excited for it. I have started to read the Book of Mormon again.
Lana B., age 7, Hawaii, USA
I like to help my mom around the house. I also like to help her with my little sister and baby brother. I pray that I can be helpful because I know Heavenly Father wants me to be.
Pierce B., age 7, Illinois, USA
My friend Kaj and I have played soccer together for three years. Last season we decided to try out for the all-star team. We tried our hardest during tryouts. The coach contacted our parents to ask if we could play on Sundays. We told the coach that Sunday was our Sabbath and we needed to keep it holy. It was hard giving up our spots on the team, but we knew keeping the Sabbath day holy was the right thing to do.
Landon B., age 11, Virginia, USA
God's Creations
A long time ago
God created a plan.
He made the earth
For all women and men.
He made the grasses,
The bushes, and trees so tall.
Oh yes, it's true.
He made them all.
He made the sun,
Stars, and moon for light.
He also made the dawn,
The morning, and the night.
He made the land,
The clouds, and also the sea.
I know Heavenly Father and Jesus Christ
Created these things for me.
Anna V., age 10, Philippines


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Fighting Rogue Access Points At linux.conf.au 80
An anonymous reader writes "Last week's linux.conf.au saw the return of the rogue access points. These are Wi-Fi access points which bear the same SSID as official conference hotspots. Often it might be a simple mistake, but sometimes it's more nefarious. To combat the attacks this year, conference organisers installed a Linux-based Wi-Fi 'intrusion prevention and detection system' supplied by sponsor Xirrius." At most conferences I've been to, I'd be grateful just to be able to get on any access point.


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I recently jumped into a couple free couple classes thru Coursera.
I don't know much about the organization, but the interface is really easy to use. Registration took about 1.5 secs. The course materials have been readily available. Each class has it's own forum that is easy to use and interact with as well as a platform for meeting holding voice/video chats and organizing 'meet-up's.
I'm taking Energy 101 - it's super easy so far, but interesting and relevant for me. It's through Georgia Tech. The prof is a bit old school but knowledgeable. There are maybe 3-5 video lectures to watch each week. Each only being 10-20mins long. Each lecture has a little pop quiz to take. I'm not sure if there term papers or finals or what-not as the syllabus and course schedule are updated week by week.
That class was easy enough I decided to try another, so two nights ago I viewed the first lecture in Fundamentals of Electrical Engineering being offered through Rice University. This one is much more advanced - the prof is actually teaching to college level intelligence. I've completed one of the problem sets. It's nice as you get immediate feedback.
I have no real reason for taking these classes. Energy policy is tangentially relevant to my work, but more it's just to have a better understanding of our energy needs and options as a voting citizen of this fine country. I'm just a dummy when it comes to EE so am trying to right that wrong.
Anyone else taken any 'free' college level courses?
I'll leave you with this quote from the EE class...Information does not exist without a signal representing it.
You're all signals. I'll sink you all.


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There are more than a few Denver Broncos fans in the house. The Gator pep band or whatever they call it is here. Lots of Gator fans.
Anyway, the Dolphins inactives today are Reshad Jones, Steve Slaton, Ike Alama-Francis, Ryan Cook, Will Barker, Will Yeatman, and the mighty Pillip Merling. Tyrone Culver starts for Reshad Jones.
There will be a live blog today. It happens in the comments section below. I update the blog at the start of every quarter. So join me at kickoff.


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Our self funded monarchy
This column has long argued – for many years we were alone - that The Queen and the Royal Family represent an extraordinary bargain for each of the sixteen realms over which The Queen reigns and for all of the countries which are members of the Commonwealth of which Her Majesty is Head.
Long presented by republicans as a drain on the taxpayers, the truth is this. Not only is the Royal Family entirely self funding -they actually produce a profit for the British taxpayer. The Queen is effectively paying taxes to the UK government at the extraordinary rate of 85%.
This benefit to the British Treasury and indeed the Australian, New Zealand, Canadian and other Treasuries, is quite apart from their tourist and promotional potential.
As for Australia, nothing - not a cent - has ever been paid to The Queen or any of the other members of our Royal Family. There is no salary, commission, or fees. We pay no superannuation, and there is no golden handshake. The same is true of Canada, New Zealand and the twelve other Realms.
Apart from inappropriate and exaggerated attribution of "costs" to the Royal Family, we have also pointed out the fact that the British government and Parliament have failed lamentably to fulfil their side of an agreement made with The Queen at the beginning of her reign.
Until April 2012, a return of some – some- of the Crown's income were made to The Queen through the UK civil list and grants in aid. These were to maintain the official residences, and to pay the staff, the entertainment, and ceremonial and other functions head of state functions in the United Kingdom.
The Civil List and other grants-in-aid involved the government giving back a relatively small portion of The Queen's money. The government kept the rest. This convention began in 1760. It was agreed then that the costs of the Crown would be paid from the Crown Estate and certain other hereditary revenues which would be handed over to Parliament.
From that time the practice developed of the Sovereign agreeing at the beginning of his or her reign to hand over these revenues during his or her reign to the Parliament in return for a Civil List.
In return Parliament would provide sufficient funds to allow The Queen to fund her state functions.
...a bargain..
This has proved to be a bargain, at least in the present reign. But for decades the British politicians failed miserably to perform their side of the agreement. Notwithstanding inflation, the Civil List was frozen for about twenty years. None of the other Realms contributed. They do absorb some of the overheads relating to the time The Queen or a member of the Royal Family is in the relevant Realm, just as they do to their many foreign state visitors.
In Australia, these overheads have sometimes been artificially inflated by creative accounting, probably for the purposes of creeping republicanism.( In New South Wales, Government House was even purloined by the politicians for use for purposes including partisan politics, at least between the years 1999-2011. To read more go to the Main Menu and then to the section Return The Governor )
Unwisely, the attributed costs of providing security have sometimes been revealed. This is a dangerous practice as it reveals what security is normally provided, something which for elementary reasons should not be made public. A protest by ACM about this has been considered by the government.
ACM has long argued that the British arrangements should be reformed by all of the income of the Crown Estate being returned to The Queen, leaving it to Her Majesty to grant what is not needed in legitimate expenses to the British government.
The Sovereign Grant is designed to be a more permanent arrangement than the old Civil List system, which was reign-specific. Funding for the Sovereign Grant comes from a percentage of the profits of the Crown Estate revenue (initially set at 15%). The grant will be reviewed every five years by the Royal Trustees (the Prime Minister, the Chancellor of the Exchequer and the Keeper of the Privy Purse), and annual financial accounts will continue to be prepared and published by the Keeper of the Privy Purse.
The new system provides for the Royal Household to be subject to the same audit scrutiny as other government expenditure, via the National Audit Office and the Public Accounts Committee. The former in ACM's view should not be mandatory,in that the choice of auditor should be left to The Queen. The latter in ACM's view is entirely inappropriate, allowing unknown politicians to gain international status by grandstanding about the audited expenditure by the Crown of income of the Crown Estate.
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If you've done your budget and are still coming up short each month, you need to cut expenses. But how? These short-term sacrifices will get you in a better long-term financial standing. From The Money Saving Mom's Budget by Crystal Paine.
If you are in a real bind, here are ten ways to significantly cut your expenses:
1. Downsize Your Home. If you are renting, do the math to see if moving to a smaller house or apartment might be worth the effort. If you're bursting at the seams as it is, streamline your life and get rid of clutter. Maybe you'll find you can actually get by with a smaller living space, or at least you'll figure out that you don't necessarily need to get a bigger place. The less stuff you have, the less space you need to comfortably live.
Possible savings: $150 or more each month.
2. Become a Single-Car Family. This won't work for everyone, but it's worth considering long and hard if there's a way you can eliminate all but one vehicle for at least a short time period. Calculate how much you'd save if you got rid of one (or more) of your vehicles and then brainstorm if there's a way you could make it work. An added benefit of sharing a vehicle with your spouse is that you will stay home more, which usually results in spending less money.
Possible savings: $100 or more each month.
3. Stop Eating Out. Restaurants are great, but they are expensive. You can often make a week's worth of simple meals for the cost of a single dinner out at a sit-down restaurant.
Possible savings: $100 or more each month.
4. Get Rid of Cable. You can live without cable! People have done it for centuries and been no worse for it. In fact, I think that incessant watching of mindless television is only sucking out our brains and creativity.
Possible savings: $25 or more each month.
5. Cancel All Subscriptions and Memberships. No matter how much you love that magazine subscription, Netflix account, or gym membership, if you can't afford to pay your utility bill, the extra memberships have got to go.
Possible savings: $15 or more each month.
6. Cut the Bells and Whistles on Your Phone. If you have a fancy cell phone with all the bells and whistles, get rid of it and replace it with a pay-as-you-go phone plan. Cut the extras on your landline or consider eliminating it altogether.
Possible savings: $15 or more each month.
7. Eat More Meatless Meals. This is drastic for some people, I know, but if you're desperate, it's a fantastic way to save a good chunk of change each week. You'll typically pay at least $2 to $4 for just the meat you serve at a meal. Switch to simple, inexpensive vegetarian meals at least two or three times per week (vegetable soup, beans and rice, bean burritos, pancakes and eggs for dinner, etc.) and pocket the savings.
Possible savings: $35 or more each month.
8. Quit Using Your Dryer. Your dryer is one of the most expensive appliances to run. Invest in a simple outdoor clothesline or indoor clothes rack for drying your clothes.
Possible savings: $15 or more each month.
9. Adjust Your Thermostat. Turning your thermostat up or down by two or three degrees can have a pretty significant impact on your heating and cooling bills. You can also save approximately 10 percent by turning your thermostat back by 10 to 15 degrees for eight hours (overnight). Invest in a programmable thermostat to automate this.
Possible savings: $25 or more per month.
10. Plan a Menu and Use Coupons. Committing to spend an extra hour each week menu planning and matching store sales with coupons can yield a significant savings on your grocery bill. Click here for more details on how to lower your grocery bill.
Possible savings: $125 or more each month.


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Downton Abbey star Dan Stevens is set to make his Broadway debut.
The actor - who is currently shooting the third season of the TV series, which sees him play aristocratic Matthew Crawley - will star in The Heiress later this year.
He will be appearing alongside Jessica Chastain and David Strathairn in the production, which will open in October. So far the theatre has not been announced.
The play is based on the Henry James novel Washington Square and became an Academy Award-winning film.
Although Dan will be making his Broadway debut, it won't be his first time in the theatre. His stage credits include the role of Septimus Hodge in David Leveaux's West End production of Tom Stoppard's Arcadia and the Doctor in Tom Stoppard and Andre Previn's Every Good Boy Deserves Favour at the National Theatre.


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The CUDA Execution Model
To potentially increase performance, each hardware multiprocessor has the ability to actively process multiple blocks at one time. How many depends on the number of registers per thread and how much shared memory per block is required by a given kernel. The blocks that are processed by one multiprocessor at one time are referred to as active. Kernels with minimal resource requirements can better utilize (or occupy) each multiprocessor because the registers and shared memory of the multiprocessor are split among all the threads of the active blocks. Use the CUDA occupancy calculator to explore the trade-offs between number of threads and active blocks versus the number of registers and amount of shared memory. Finding the right combination can greatly increase the performance of your kernels. If there are not enough registers or shared memory available per multiprocessor to process at least one block, the kernel will fail to launch. (See the Part 3 discussion on
cudaGetLastError() to find out how to catch these failures.)
Each active block is split into SIMD ("Single Instruction Multiple Data") groups of threads called "warps". Each warp contains the same number of threads, called the "warp size", which are executed by the multiprocessor in a SIMD fashion. This means each thread within a warp is broadcast the same instruction from the instruction store, which directs the thread to perform some operation or manipulation of local and/or global memory. The SIMD model is efficient and cost effective from a hardware standpoint, but from a software standpoint it unfortunately serializes conditional operations (e.g., both branches of the conditional must be evaluated). Be aware that conditional operations can have profound effects on the runtime of your kernels. With care this is generally a manageable problem but it can be problematic for some problems.
Active warps (that is, all the warps from all active blocks) are time-sliced: The thread scheduler periodically switches from one warp to another to maximize the use of the multiprocessor's computational resources. The order of execution of the warps within a block and of blocks themselves is undefined, which means they can occur in any order. However, threads can be synchronized with
__syncthreads(). Be aware that only after the execution of
__syncthreads() are writes to shared (and global) memory guaranteed to be visible. Unless the variable is declared as volatile, the compiler is free to optimize (that is, reorder or eliminate) memory reads and writes to increase performance. The
__syncthreads() call is allowed inside the scope of a conditional, but only if the conditional evaluates identically across the entire thread block. If not, the code execution is likely to hang or produce unintended side effects. Happily,
__syncthreads() has low overhead as it only takes four (4) clock cycles to issue for a warp so long as no other thread has to wait for any other thread. A half-warp is either the first or second half of a warp, which is an important concept for memory accesses including coalescing memory accesses as discussed later in this article.
There are several take away messages from the previous discussion:
- Multiprocessor resources such as shared memory are limited and valuable.
- Effectively managing limited multiprocessor resources, such as shared memory, for a range of CUDA-enabled device configurations is a fact of life for CUDA developers.
- Be aware that conditional operations (such as
ifstatements) can have a profound effect on the runtime of your kernels.
- The CUDA occupancy calculator and nvcc compiler are important tools to learn and use -- especially when exploring execution configurations.


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I currently have a Big Agnes 15 degree sleeping bag that has the built in pad in the bottom. I recently started to hammock camp and I am wondering if the built in pad for my bag be adequate for winter hammock camping. I know people use both underquilts and pads and it is a preference, but will the setup I have work ok? Here is the link for the bag I have.
Thanks for any help I can get.


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Angelica Singleton Van Buren Collection
Sarah Angelica Singleton was born in Wedgefield, South Carolina in 1818, the daughter of a prominent South Carolina plantation owner, Richard Singleton, and his wife Rebecca Travis Coles. In 1838, Angelica would marry Abraham Van Buren, son of the 8th President of the United States, Martin Van Buren. During her father-in-law's term of office, Angelica would serve in the capacity as first lady due to the death of Mrs. Martin Van Buren seventeen years prior. Angelica's papers, consisting of two travel diaries, dated 1854-1855, documenting her family's trips to New York and Europe, and an autograph book, dated 1831, can be viewed here. This collection gives a first-hand account of early to mid-nineteenth century aristocratic life in the United States and abroad.
Armstrong Family Papers, 1900 - 1930
One of America's foremost early twentieth-century African-American magic acts. J. Hartford Armstrong, his wife, Lille Belle Armstrong, and eventually their daughter, Ellen Armstrong, performed feats that included mind reading, slight of hand, and card tricks. This collection of 127 items includes letters, photographs, and newspaper clippings.
Bonds Conway Papers, 1763 - 1907
Papers of Bonds Conway (1763-1843), a free African-American resident of Camden (Kershaw County, S.C.). This collection of family letters, land papers, and other items documents several generations of a free family of color from the 18th through the 20th centuries in South Carolina, Georgia, Kansas, east Texas, and elsewhere. Topics discussed include social relations during antebellum, Civil War, and Reconstruction eras through the early 20th century.
Broadsides from the Colonial Era to the Present
Now, broadsides (posters, one page fliers, advertisements and other types of ephemera) from across many different South Caroliniana Library manuscript collections can be searched, viewed, read, and compared. The dates range from the 1700s to the present, and items will continue to be added to this collection.
Butler Derrick In His Own Words
Elected to Congress in 1974, Butler Carson Derrick (b. 1936) represented South Carolina's Third District from 1975 to 1995. Derrick's service was marked by influence, from his early appointments to the Budget and Rules Committees, to his mid-career service on the Congressional Textile Caucus and the Democratic Steering and Policy Committee, and culminating in his appointment as Chief Deputy Majority Whip. At the time of his retirement, Derrick was considered one of the ten most influential members of Congress.
Calvin Shedd Papers, 1862 - 1863
Forty-four letters, 1862-1863, of Union soldier Calvin Shedd, Co. A, Seventh New Hampshire Regiment, are written primarily from locations in coastal South Carolina and addressed to his wife, S. Augusta Shedd, at Enfield, N.H., and South Reading, Mass. Shedd, a first sergeant, later second lieutenant, writes intelligently and with great detail, describing events, people, and places. His letters are noteworthy for their accounts of hospital conditions, portrayed vividly in correspondence penned from U.S. Army general hospitals at Beaufort, Hilton Head, and a field hospital at Folly Island.
Camilla Urso Collection
Camilla Urso was one of the leading violinists of the 19th century. She accomplished this at a time when the violin was not considered to be a suitable instrument for a woman to play. Furthermore, she made the difficult transition from child prodigy to mature artist with a career that spanned more than fifty years and that took place on several continents.
Charles Stuart Vedder Papers, 1848 - 1912
The papers of the Rev. Charles Stuart Vedder (1826–1917) consist primarily of letters as well as diaries spanning a period of over sixty years. Vedder moved from Schenectady, New York, to Columbia, South Carolina, to study at Columbia Theological Seminary. He was called upon to become pastor of the Summerville Presbyterian Church in June 1861. Of particular historical interest are Vedder's three diaries from 1861 to 1866, in which the Civil War is woven into Vedder's discussions of social life and religion. In 1865, as the war reached its conclusion, Vedder even buried his diary for three months "to avoid its being taken and destroyed by anticipated Raiders."
Clariosophic Literary Society Records of the University of South Carolina, 1806-1983
The Clariosophic Literary Society was one of two original student organizations established at South Carolina College in 1806. The Clariosophic and Euphradian Literary Societies sought to prepare their members for future leadership roles by strengthening their oratorical skills. This collection comes from USC's South Caroliniana Library and comprises 132 volumes of society records, spanning the years 1806 to 1968.
Collected Civil War Papers of Colonel Benjamin Franklin Eshleman
This collection contains the mementos Lieutenant Colonel Benjamin Franklin Eshleman, a former commander of the Washington Artillery battalion, saved in his scrapbook. It portrays a civil war colonel's dedication to preserving the memory of his unit along with a larger more important purpose of memorializing the era of the confederate soldier.
Columbia, SC Historical Collections
This is a compilation of numerous digital collections from the South Caroliniana Library, Richland Library, and the city of Columbia that capture the city's history in photographs, maps, books, and city minutes.
Cox and Chesnut Families Papers, 1792-1858
This collection of papers of the Cox and Chesnut families discusses political, economic, and social aspects of life in the United States during the Early National and antebellum periods.
Many of the letters were written between 1792 and 1815 to Mary Cox Chesnut (1775-1864) of Camden, South Carolina, by her mother, Esther Bowes Cox (1740-1814) of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. This Mary Chesnut was the wife of James Chesnut (1773-1866), owner of Mulberry Plantation, near Camden, in present-day Kershaw County, South Carolina, and the mother-in-law of famed Civil War diarist Mary Boykin Miller Chesnut (1823-1886).
David Wyatt Aiken Papers, 1849 - 1976
This collection contains letters and other materials surrounding the life of five-term U.S. congressman David Wyatt Aiken, who biographers have styled "South Carolina's Militant Agrarian." Born in 1828 in Winnsboro (Fairfield County, S.C.), Aiken served as a colonel in the Confederate Army and later went on to serve in the S.C. House of Representatives. He was a member of the Agricultural and Mechanical Society of South Carolina and served on the executive committee of the National Grange. From 1877 until 1887, he represented South Carolina in the U.S. House of Representatives. He died in 1887 at his home in Cokesbury, South Carolina. The collection consists in large part of letters to his second wife Virginia Carolina Smith Aiken (1831-1900) , as well as a hand-written autobiography and other materials surrounding his life.
Delbert Claire Brandt Collection
This collection contains 32 letters and postcards relating to Delbert Claire Brandt (Claire Brandt), a young man from Sharon, Pennsylvania who served with the 1st Cavalry in World War I, was wounded, and died on November 16, 1918. The letters were written between May 1918 and November 1918. Most of the letters are from Claire Brandt to his sister Beatrice. Topics range from the care packages which Beatrice sent to Claire Brandt's travels in the army.
Edwin Hughes Collection
Edwin Hughes was a noted pianist with ties to South Carolina. Hughes studied with noted pianist Theodor Leschetizky, who was a pupil of major composers and pianists of the late 1800s. Hughes had a very successful teaching and touring career, and eventually became editor with noted music publishing house G. Schirmer. Hughes taught a series of master classes in the 1950s and 1960s, often teaching on USC's Columbia campus.
Eleanor Phelps Cruise Around the World, 1922
In the winter of 1922, Aiken, South Carolina, resident Eleanor Phelps boarded the S.S. Laconia and embarked on the inaugural American Express Company Cruise Around the World. The photographs, diary entries, and souvenirs that comprise this collection document Eleanor's visits to the Panama Canal, the Taj Mahal, and the Valley of the Kings, as well as dozens of cities and other historic sites all over the globe. Each volume teems with life and color and answer the question that Eleanor asks on the last page of her diary: "How can one come to a conclusion or express and opinion on the world as I saw it in 130 days?"
Eugene Avery Adams Papers, 1892-1968
Eugene Avery Adams (1886-1958) was a minister in the African American Episcopal Church and a leader in the fields of education, civil rights, and business. He was a founder of Bell Street High School in Columbia and a trustee of Allen University. He also helped start the South Carolina Citizens Committee, a state-wide organization that advocated for voting rights and equal teacher pay. Furthermore, he served as president of the Columbia branch of the NAACP. With respect business, he was one of the founders of Victory Savings Bank.
F. Scott Fitzgerald's Ledger, 1919 - 1938
F. Scott Fitzgerald's Ledger is one of the richest primary source documents in existence for any literary author. Fitzgerald began recording information in this business ledger sometime in 1919 or 1920 after leaving the Army and moving to New York to begin his professional life as a writer.
Family Bible Records
Historically, family Bible records have been an important source for vital statistics, supplementing the centralized recording of vital statistics which did not begin in South Carolina until the early twentieth century. These records contain birth, marriage, and death dates and sometimes other personal and family information. Over the years, the South Caroliniana Library has acquired originals, photocopies, and occasion transcriptions of many South Carolina related Bible records. Please note that poor quality originals may result in illegible images and that photocopies were not always produced under optimal conditions.
Fritz Hollings: In His Own Words
Fritz Hollings: In His Own Words is a collection of Senator Hollings' writings, speeches, photographs, and audio files from his days as Lt. Governor, Governor, and U.S. Senator. 200 items showcase the compelling intellect, keen wit, and, at times, sharp tongue that Senator Hollings was known for in South Carolina and on Capitol Hill.
Glenn Drayton's Journal, 1814 - 1864
Glenn Drayton's journal is a bound volume consisting of Drayton's rules of conduct expected of a U.S. sailor, 1814; and records, 1814-1864, of Rusticello plantation, Pendleton District, S.C., continued after Drayton's death. Drayton's entries consist of hand-written guide, 1814, showing the hold stocked with barrels, and dimensions of the ship; and an original water color, presumably executed by Drayton, entitled, "America Must Have a Navy,". After Drayton's death, volume served as a plantation account book in upstate, S.C.; entries include medicinal recipes and treatments; list of slave illnesses and vaccinations, 1845-1861; and a record documenting births, baptisms, and deaths, 1814-1864, among the African American slaves of Rusticello plantation in Pendleton District [a region later divided into Pickens County and Oconee County].
Henry William Ravenel's Papers, 1859 - 1860
This collection of one hundred ten manuscripts, thirteen manuscript volumes, and thirty-nine photographs documents the family life, business pursuits, and natural history interests of South Carolina planter, botanist, and agricultural writer Henry William Ravenel (1814-1887). See also Plants & Planter to view his plant specimens as well from the AC Moore Herbarium.
Inventory of S.C. Church Archives
A historical records survey known as the Inventory of Church Archives was completed by W.P.A. workers between 1937 and 1939. The original survey sheets are held in the Manuscripts Division of the South Caroliniana Library, University of South Carolina, Columbia. Inventory of Church Archives survey sheets are available for forty-two of South Carolina's forty-six counties. Surveys for Chester, Edgefield, Fairfield, and Georgetown are not extant. The questionnaires provided the means by which information was systematically gathered on African-American and white churches in both rural and urban areas, including address, date organized, building description, construction date, and, of primary importance, listings of any known church records.
Isaac Rosenberg: Early Poetry and Related Documents from the Joseph Cohen Collection of World War I Literature
Rosenberg, recognized as the first significant Jewish poet in English literature, was one of the major poets whose life was cut short by the Great War, and the only one who served in the ranks. This online collection includes six items, including one of only three known copies of Rosenberg's first book of poems, Night and Day (1912). This copy also contains a manuscript poem in Rosenberg's own hand.
Isaiah DeQuincey Newman Collection
DeQuincey Newman was a Methodist pastor, civil rights activist, and entrepreneur. A leading figure in the Civil Rights movement in South Carolina, he helped organize the Orangeburg branch of the NAACP in 1943, helped found the Progressive Democratic Party, and served the South Carolina NAACP as state field director from 1960 to 1969. In 1983, at age 72, he was elected to the South Carolina Senate, thus becoming the first African American to serve in that body since Reconstruction.
James Glen Papers, 1738 - 1777
The papers of colonial governor James Glen (1701-1777), who served as Governor of South Carolina from 1738 to 1756, include official government documents, papers concerning relations with Native American Indians, business papers relating to his ownership of a South Carolina rice plantation, and correspondence between Glen and South Carolina planter, John Drayton (1713-1779).
James Kershaw Papers, 1786 - 1825
This collection contains diaries of James Kershaw, 1791-1825, with meteorological observations, recipes, and home remedies, including advice for treatment of pimples, boils, baldness, and unwanted hair. The papers record observations, 17 September 1811, of a solar eclipse, accounts of debts paid, January-April 1812, including prices of cotton, molasses, and sugar, and typed abstracts of recipes, 1936, copied from the diaries.
James R. Hagood. Civil War Memoir
This Civil War memoir and regimental history written prior to 1870 by James R. Hagood reviews his service as one of the youngest colonels in the Army of the Confederate States of America in Maryland, Tennessee, Virginia, and South Carolina. Hagood's relatives, chiefly his nephew, Johnson Hagood 1873-1948, edited and reworked this memoir, ca. 1928 and 1944. He was born in Barnwell, S. C. , the son of Dr. James O'Hear Hagood and Indiana M. Allen Hagood. In 1862 he and a group of Citadel cadets formed themselves into a company of cavalry called the Cadet Rangers, which afterwards became Troop F, 6th South Carolina Cavalry. Hagood later transferred into the 1st South Carolina Regiment of Volunteer Infantry.
Joel Myerson Collection of Nineteenth-Century American Manuscripts, Images, and Ephemera
The Joel Myerson Collection of Nineteenth-Century American Manuscripts, Images, and Ephemera is a part of the larger Joel Myerson Collection of Nineteenth-Century American Literature. The collection contains letters, manuscripts, cabinet cards, cartes-de-visite, and a variety of other ephemeral material relating to nineteenth-century American authors, especially those associated with the Transcendentalist movement. The bulk of the collection is comprised of letters by Ralph Waldo Emerson, many of which are previously unpublished. In addition to illuminating Emerson's personal life and work as a public lecturer, many letters in the collection cover Emerson's work as a published author in the market place of nineteenth-century print culture. Additionally, the collection contains the largest assortment of Emerson iconography. Supplemental to its focus on Ralph Waldo Emerson, the collection is also home to material relating to a variety of other authors and figures important to the Transcendentalist movement, New England, and nineteenth-century American literature more broadly, such as Theodore Parker, Margaret Fuller, Walt Whitman, Bronson and Louisa May Alcott, Christopher Pearse Cranch, Nathaniel Hawthorne, William Ellery Channing, James Russell Lowell, and many others.
John Kenneth Adams Scrapbook
This scrapbook contains recital and concert programs, playbills, clippings, photographs, awards and certificates collected throughout John Kenneth Adams' career as a performer and teacher.
John West In His Own Words
The selection of documents digitized here encompass the entirety of West's life and career, including legislative and executive work in South Carolina, documents from his diplomatic tenure, speeches, photographs, and personal reflections in correspondence, memoirs, and diaries.
Joseph A. De Laine Papers, ca. 1918 - 2000
This core unit of three hundred fifty items -two hundred sixty-two manuscripts, miscellaneous printed artifacts, and eighty-eight photographs- added to the papers of the late Joseph Armstrong DeLaine (1898-1974) covers chiefly the period from 1942, when he submitted his annual report as secretary of the Clarendon County Citizen[s] Committee, to 1974, when he delivered an address entitled "History leading up to the U.S. Supreme Court's Decision outlawing Segregation in Public Schools."
Joseph M. Bruccoli Great War Collection
The Great War of 1914-1918 remains a watershed in social and cultural history, on both sides of the Atlantic. It involved millions of combatants from around the globe. It technologized warfare. It redrew the map of Europe. It precipitated lasting changes in demographic structure, social behavior, and cultural expression. It marked the imagination, not of one generation only, but of generations to come.
Joseph M. Bruccoli (1892?-1965) was a veteran of the Great War. His campaign medal carried eight bars, each representing a major battle in which he participated. He was severely wounded and was deeply patriotic. His son, Professor Matthew J. Bruccoli, has initiated this collection as a continuing personal project in his father's memory.
Keziah Brevard Journal, 1860-1861
Records daily activities, 22 July 1860 - 13 Apr. 1861, of a widowed plantation mistress, including the management of slaves; preparation and preservation of food; menus offered to guests; winery procedures; and the distribution of supplies to the slaves at her Sand Hills and Cabin Branch plantations. Volume also contains Brevard's personal reflections on slavery and secession; will and appraisal of her estate; notes on the summer resort of Adams Hill; and genealogical information on the Adams, Goodwyn, Boykin, Hopkins and related families.
Lutheran Church Records of Lexington County, South Carolina (1866-1982)
This collection consists of parish registers, with records of baptisms, marriages, burials, and communions, in addition to lists of members, pastors, and church officers. The originals, most of which reside at the individual churches, were microfilmed and now digitized to extend easier access to these valuable records. Currently, only records from Lexington County are available. We will continue to add counties. Please check back for additions.
Many Years After , by D. Graham Copeland
This book describes the history of Bamberg, South Carolina, with maps, photographs, and text regarding the antebellum, Civil War, and Reconstruction eras; more specific chapters discuss the buildings, businesses, schools, churches, occupations and people of the 1890s. Genealogical charts and other information document the Copeland and various other families of Bamberg County, South Carolina, through the 1930s, and also record Copeland family connections with the Castanedo and related famililies of New Orleans, Louisiana.
Martha Cunningham Monteith Collection
Martha Cunningham Monteith was the first trained speech therapist employed by the South Carolina public school system, establishing the inaugural program at Richland County District One in 1949. She worked to secure state funding for speech and hearing services throughout SC public schools. While teaching at South Carolina State University (c. 1954-1962), she helped establish its department of Speech Pathology and Audiology, and in 1966 helped launch a Speech Pathology and Audiology graduate program at the University of South Carolina.
Maxcy Gregg Papers, 1835-1888
Maxcy Gregg's Sporting Journal (1839-1860) describes hunting and fishing expeditions, a record of game animals taken, weather conditions and Fisher's Pond. Other entries discuss a trip to the mountains (17 July - 12 August 1843), attending "the Washingtonian lecture" in Winnsboro, South Carolina, a mention of David Johnson (1782-1855), who served as governor of South Carolina, 1846-1848, and unsuccessful efforts to convince William Waters Boyce to assume editorial duties at the South Carolinian (a newspaper of Columbia, South Carolina).
Micajah A. Clark Journals
In 1847 and 1857, Micajah Adolphus Clark (1822-1905) traveled from Mississippi to South Carolina and kept detailed accounts of his journeys. He recounts the hardships of travel, miscellaneous expenses, weather patterns, making acquaintances, and overnight stays in various locations. His journals from these expeditions are now housed at the South Caroliniana Library and are presented here in digital form.
Modjeska Monteith Simkins Papers, 1909-1992
Activist Modjeska Simkins of Columbia, S.C. served as the South Carolina State Secretary for the NAACP, 1941-1957; as Campaign Director for the renovation of Good Samaritan-Waverly Hospital, 1944-1950; as Public Relations Director for the Richland County Citizens Committee, 1956-1988; and as President of the Southern Conference Educational Fund, 1972-1974. She also helped found, in 1921, the Victory Savings Bank of Columbia.
Modjeska Monteith Simkins: In Her Own Words
A Columbia civil rights activist, Simkins served as the South Carolina State Secretary for the NAACP, 1941 to 1957. She also had leadership roles in the renovation of Good Samaritan-Waverly Hospital and the Richland County Citizens Committee. Simkins was a founder, in 1921, of the Victory Savings Bank of Columbia. Now called South Carolina Community Bank, it survives as one of the oldest African-American owned banks in the country. As a voice of African-American leadership in the South, Simkins was routinely asked to use her influence in political campaigns. Although she helped many leaders win election, Simkins was unable to attain elected office herself. She ran unsuccessfully for Columbia City Council in 1966 and 1984 and the S.C. House of Representatives in 1966.
North of the Broad River
This collection contains two volumes of local history and genealogical information regarding Fairfield County, South Carolina, including families who settled in the region, as well as related lines in Charleston, Orangeburg County, Richland County, and elsewhere in South Carolina. The volumes include transcriptions of letters and account books and excerpts from other unpublished documents regarding immigrants from the United Kingdom, Germany, and elsewhere in Europe, as well as other regions in North America, who settled in South Carolina. Some entries document sales or purchases of African American slaves, inheritance of real estate, military service in the American Revolution or Civil War, and related topics.
O.H. Wienges World War II Collection
This collection is comprised of first hand accounts, logs, and photographs of life on the U.S.S. Landing Craft Infantry 759 during World War II. The journaled account was written by Gerald Atherton forty years after his experiences. The Executive's morning order book was kept by Lt. O.H. Wienges while on the Naval ship. The collection also includes a map of the travel route taken by the U.S.S. LCI 759. As an added bonus, Wienge's diary as a teenager in 1938 is also included.
Oliver Hart Papers, 1741-1962
The papers of the Reverend Oliver Hart (1723-1795) span the years 1741 to 1795 and include correspondence, diaries, and sermon notes from colonial and Revolutionary periods in Charleston, S.C. The bulk of the correspondence is from Oliver Hart to his brother, Colonel Joseph Hart of Bucks County, Pennsylvania, relaying news from South Carolina during the Revolutionary War. Ten volumes of diaries and journals detail diverse activities in Hart's life. Topics discussed include a storm in Charleston harbor in 1761, travels in Virginia and North Carolina, and his tour of the South Carolina upcountry during the initial months of the American Revolution with William Henry Drayton (1742-1779) and Congregational minister William Tennent III (1740--1777), and later officiated at the latter's funeral. Throughout his journals, Hart always notes the weather and from what verse he preached a particular sermon.
Pages from the Past, A Legacy of Medieval Books in South Carolina
Pages from the Past comprises a digital record of all the medieval manuscripts in South Carolina's institutional archives. None of the manuscripts in private hands has been documented. A total of 118 items includes eight more or less complete codices, but most are individual leaves and cuttings. As representative samples of the medieval book, however, the South Carolina manuscripts expose an impressive range of pre-modern literacy—theological, scientific, liturgical, historical, and so forth. This website has been designed to showcase a range of texts over centuries of transmission, chiefly as an introduction to the technology and function of writing in the Middle Ages.
Paul Hamilton Papers, 1802 - 1812
This small collection of letters written by U.S. Secretary of the Navy Paul Hamilton (1762-1816) documents concerns and developments during the months preceding the War of 1812.
Plants & Planter, Henry William Ravenel
Henry William Ravenel (1814-1887), a botanist, planter, and author documented over 6,200 botanical specimens and wrote over 3,000 pages of field journals and correspondence. For the first time, Ravenel's botanical collection, thirteen journals (1859-1887), and over 400 letters between him and other renowned naturalists and family members across the country and world have been digitized and can be read and searched together in one place.
Richard L. Walker In His Own Words
Dixie Walker dedicated his life and career to intercultural understanding and he utilized his knowledge of East Asia in his work at home and abroad. He taught in numerous prestigious institutions as a professor of international studies before joining the faculty of the University of South Carolina in 1957. He founded the Institute of International Studies at USC in 1961
Robert B. Ariail Collection of Historical Astronomy
In 2011 Robert B. Ariail donated an extraordinary collection of historical astronomy to the University of South Carolina and the South Carolina State Museum. Over the past half-century, Mr. Ariail built a collection that encompassed both historic telescopes and astronomical instruments, now at the State Museum, and more than 5,000 rare books and other published items, now housed in the University's Irvin Department of Rare Books & Special Collections.
Robert Gilmor Travel Account, 1806 - 1807
This travel journal was originally conceived of as a way to assist the friends of Baltimore merchant Robert Gilmor in their future travels, with information about mileage and taverns along various routes. The narrative follows Gilmor's journey from Maryland to South Carolina, with locations mentioned along the way including Richmond, Va., Raleigh, N.C., and Camden and Stateburg, S.C. In addition to travel notes on mileage to such destinations as Savannah, Ga., Philadelphia, Pa., and New York City and Albany, N.Y., there are pencil sketches depicting pastoral landscapes of such places such as the Susquehanna River and Richmond.
Robert McNair: In His Own Words
Over the course of his twenty year career in South Carolina politics, including an unprecedented six years as governor, Robert McNair led South Carolina in an era of prosperity and carefully guided the Palmetto State through the turbulent 1960s, a period of profound social upheaval and change. Digitized here are speeches, correspondence, clippings, and photographs that highlight Governor McNair's dedication to and focus on education, tourism, and industrial expansion as well as illuminating the Governor's thoughts and reactions to the Civil Rights movement, desegregation, and the Vietnam War.
Scottish Literature Digital Projects
The G. Ross Roy Collection of Burnsiana and Scottish Literature includes works by and about Robert Burns. In addition to Burnsiana, the G. Ross Roy Collection covers a wide range of Scottish literature, including poetry anthologies, histories, and modern writings.
Smith and Wells Papers, 1856 - 1914
This collection from the South Caroliniana Library consists primarily of the Civil War letters of Edward Laight Wells, discussing the mood in Charleston during the secession crisis in 1860, fighting with the Hampton's Legion 1864-1865, and the immediate aftermath of the war.
Other letters are from Eliza Carolina Middleton Huger Smith discussing the health and welfare of her family during the war. Also included are quotations, autographs, Confederate notes, poetry, recipes, genealogical information and newspaper clippings.
Sol Blatt In His Own Words
Sol Blatt (1895-1986) represented Barnwell, Bamburg, and Allendale Counties in the South Carolina House of Representatives from 1933 until his death in 1986. He also served as Speaker of the House almost continuously from 1937 until 1973. These documents reveal Blatt's thoughts on issues such as race, economic development, taxes, nuclear energy, and a number of other topics at a critical time in South Carolina's history. Personal letters also detail the day-to-day work of a state politician as well as something of Blatt's drive and personality. Blatt was perhaps the most powerful South Carolina politician of the mid-twentieth century, rendering his papers an invaluable source for understanding the dramatic changes the state has experienced since World War II.
South Carolina and the Civil War
Poised for the sesquicentennial remembrance of the Civil War, South Carolina and the Civil War brings together eyewitness views and accounts of this period of American history, selected from the rich holdings of University of South Carolina Libraries. Books, diaries, sheet music, maps, letters, photographs and illustrations all provide glimpses of everyday life during exceptional times. This collection provides students and other researchers with primary sources on the Confederate and Union soldiers, women, African Americans, and others who lived in camps and on battlefields, in urban and rural areas, at the homefront and on both sides of the blockade during our bloodiest conflict.
Thomas and Muller Family Papers
The Thomas Family and Muller Family papers along with related personal collections housed at the South Caroliniana Library at the University of South Carolina total approximately 32 linear feet. There are an additional 219 volumes of business ledgers from the Sandy Run Store and Thomas Store (Ridgeway, S.C.). All of these materials span 1702 through 1993.
Thomas Jones Davies Bible Records
The Bible and its inserts, owned by Thomas Jones Davies, contain vital statistics of enslaved African Americans living on Davies' plantations located throughout Georgia, Mississippi, and South Carolina. The plantations mentioned in the records include: Malvern and Gardner's Swamp, of Beech Island, SC; Swamp Place, near Hamburg, SC; Cherry Hill and Waldburg of Burke County, GA; and Edgefield and Barnwell of Bolivar County, MS. The vital statistics of the enslaved African Americans span from 1830 to 1865, and consist of 82 births, 36 deaths and 11 marriages.
Topical Sketches by Douglas G. Ward
This World War I soldier's sketchbook is the mark of Cpl. Douglas G. Ward, an otherwise unknown British soldier-artist. Douglas G. Ward entered the military and trained at Catterick Camp, the infantry training center and was assigned to the 7th Battalion, South Staffordshire Regiment which was part of the 33rd Brigade, 11th (Northern) Division, landing at Sulva Bay (Gallipoli) 7th August 1915. Ward was wounded at the Somme and on leaving the hospital in 1916 he was transferred to a different unit and was sent to India.His sketches are executed in pen and ink and watercolor and cover subjects ranging from basic training to romance. The sketchbook was acquired in 2006 with funding from the USC Educational Foundation. The sketchbook was purchased by the Thomas Cooper Library for the Joseph M. Bruccoli Great War Collections.
University of South Carolina Reconstruction Records
In 1873, the University of South Carolina became the only state-supported Southern university to fully integrate during the Reconstruction Era that followed the Civil War. By 1876, the student body was predominately African-American. After Wade Hampton was elected governor and whites regained control of state government, the University was closed for reorganization in 1877, and reopened in 1880 as an all-white institution. It would remain all-white until desegregation in 1963.
University of South Carolina Student Exams, 1854 - 1917
These student examinations date largely from the second half of the 19th century, a period in which the University of South Carolina underwent significant changes not only in its curriculum but also in its student body, its faculty and its educational goals. The exams in this collection that date prior to 1873 reflect the South Carolina College's original incarnation as a classical institution. This purpose continued even during the American Civil War (1861 - 1865), although the small number of documents from that time demonstrate the impact that the conflict had on students, faculty and the institution itself. Exams from the Reconstruction period following the war (1873 - 1877) demonstrate a shift away from the classical and towards the practical as the university was integrated for the first time. Of particular interest are those exams which appear to be the work of African Americans, since these documents represent some of the few surviving records of these students and their important place in the university's history.
William Ancrum Papers, 1757-1789
Formerly owned by wealthy Charleston merchant William Ancrum, this volume contains both a letter book and financial accounts that reflect the financial impact of the American Revolution on this South Carolina businessman and planter.
William Drayton Rutherford Papers, 1859 - 1894
The William Drayton Rutherford Papers originally consisted of 153 manuscripts that dated as early as 1858, when Rutherford began courting Sallie Henderson Fair (1842–1921), the daughter of Colonel Simeon Fair (1801–1873) and Mary Butler Pearson Fair (1821–1867) of Newberry. This portion of the collection includes letters written to Sallie Fair during her 1858–1859 enrollment at the South Carolina Female Collegiate Institute (Barhamville, South Carolina), and from former classmates after her return to Newberry. The courtship of William ("Drate," "Drayt," or "Drayte") Rutherford and Sallie Fair was interrupted in 1861 by secession and war, but they eventually married in 1862. Rutherford later died in battle in 1864.
In 2008, an addition to the collection brought the number of documents to approximately double its previous amount. Along with more letters between William and Sallie from their courtship and subsequent marriage, the addition continues the story after William's death from the perspective of Sallie, who remarried Young John Pope (1841–1911), later distinguished as Chief Justice of the South Carolina Supreme Court. Correspondence with friends and family follows the social and political lives of the writers from the antebellum period through the Civil War, Reconstruction, and the end of the nineteenth century.
William Gilmore Simms Digital Edition
Welcome to one of the largest single author collections on the web, the William Gilmore Simms Digital Edition.
Writing from Charleston and Barnwell District, South Carolina, as well as on trips across the South and to the North, he did more than anyone to frame white southern self-identity, nationalism, and historical consciousness. He also did more to foster the South's literary life and place in America's imagination. In the second quarter of the nineteenth century, only James Fenimore Cooper was as popular, and Edgar Allan Poe in 1845 rated Simms "the best novelist which this country has, on the whole, produced." He was as well the South's most influential editor of cultural journals and was the region's most prolific critic and poet.
William Tennent III (1740 - 1777), Travel Journal and Album of Collected Papers
These online collections contain not only Tennent's Journal and Album, but also a 1974 essay entitled The Back Country Commission of Drayton, Tennent, and Hart by L.L. Owens and two maps of their back country route. The journal covers Tennent's trek though the S.C. back-country, at times in the company of William Henry Drayton and Rev. Oliver Hart in an effort to persuade Loyalist Tories to join the Patriot cause. The album contains papers documenting Tennent's life as a Presbyterian minister in the Colonies of New Jersey and Connecticut, the courtship of his wife despite her mother's objections, and his 1772 arrival in Charleston, S.C., to serve the Independent or Congregational Church among other topics.
World War I Letters of Samuel Bloom
Samuel Bloom (1895-1976), a first-generation Ukrainian immigrant and recent City College graduate, served as private first class and signaler with Company L, 325th Infantry Battalion, US Army, from October 1917 till July 1919. This project makes available the full sequence of Blooms life during World War I including his letters, postcards, and diaries, arranged chronologically.
WPA Federal Writers' Project Materials on African American Life in South Carolina
The Works Progress Administration (WPA) launched the Federal Writers' Project to employ white-collar workers left jobless by the Great Depression and to create a comprehensive guide to the states, cities, and regions of the United States. The Federal Writers' Project gathered information on American life and interviews with "ordinary" Americans from a wide variety of backgrounds. The bulk of interviews, articles, and notes contained in this collection paint a portrait of African-American life in South Carolina. These interviews with former slaves, notes on folklore, and articles on prominent African Americans and African-American organizations were compiled at the height of the Project in 1936 and 1937. Though they are products of their times, these materials provide us with one of the richest sources of information on African-American life in South Carolina at the time.


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Initially filed by the Robbins Geller Rudman & Dowd law firm on behalf of investors at the City of Royal Oak Retirement System in Michigan, Netflix is now dealing with a class-action suit alleging that company officials "issued materially false and misleading statements regarding business practices and its contracts with content providers." Defendants specifically identified within the lawsuit include CEO Reed Hastings, chief content officer Ted Sarandos, chief product officer Neil Hunt, finance director David Wells and marketing director Leslie Kilgore. The lawsuit also contends that "company insiders" quietly sold approximately 400,000 shares of Netflix stock for just over $90 million when the stock was nearing $300 a share during mid-July. Specifically, Reed Hastings sold 190,000 shares to collect approximately $43 million.
The lawsuit claims that Netflix knew that content agreements, such as the Starz agreement, were going to expired if they were not renegotiated, but failed to notify investors of this fact. The lawsuit also claims that Netflix management did not notify investors prior to the announcement of spitting up streaming and the DVD rental service or the price hike that came along with that new business plan. While these series of decisions sent the stock below $100 per share, Netflix lost approximately 800,000 subscribers during the third quarter.
It's possible that the attorneys representing the people affected by Netflix's falling stock price will attempt to make a case that Netflix management purposefully made a series of poor business decisions to drive the price of the stock down, specifically to repurchase the stock once it fell considerably. However, the lawsuit doesn't identify the specific reasons behind the sale of the company stock, nor does it mention if the stock sale was a pre-scheduled event. The lawsuit also doesn't state how much of the company stock that the five members of upper management still have on hand. This particular law firm handling the case specializes in corporate class actions and has won previous monetary verdicts from AT&T and Enron.
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I write to provide you an update on an important partnership the University has been exploring with Evangelical Community Hospital and Geisinger Medical Center. We discussed this with the Board of Trustees this weekend and wanted you to know about it now.
As you know in these two local health resources the Bucknell community has outstanding medical services available. Over recent years the cooperative relationship between Evangelical, Geisinger and Bucknell has continued to grow. Building on this relationship, in the past year we have been exploring opportunities to work with these institutions to expand health services and wellness offerings to campus. As a result of these intensive discussions, our initial plans are as follows:
We have many questions yet to explore fully, and will provide more information to you as our discussions with Evangelical and Geisinger continue. We wanted you to know at this time the seriousness with which we are pursuing these conversations to strengthen the healthcare available at the University. We look forward to providing you further information as these conversations evolve.
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"I noticed their list was heavy on bloggers. Perhaps to get hits and links."
IN THE COMMENTS: Palladian says:
Lol. Maureen Dowd? Chris Matthews? Ezra Klein? Oprah?
That's all they've got?
With a couple of notable exceptions, that's a pretty laughable list. But this is Forbes and these are "liberals", so to be expected.
Glenn Greenwald? The world's most effluvious expeller of turgid prose? Well the list is "influential" liberals, not necessarily "talented" liberals.
"The pre-eminent liberal commentator in the American media, his prose is as pungent as his academic credentials are impeccable."
Pungent. Just like a slab of runny French cheese, only not as good on baguettes.


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Travel with Pati to the state of Puebla to see why it isn't just the site of the legendary Cinco de Mayo battle - it's also home to some of Mexico's most luscious, delectable culinary treats. Creamy Poblano Soup; Chicken Tinga; Glazed Santa Clara Cookies.
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