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Bandung is the capital city of West Java, and the third largest city in Indonesia after Jakarta and Surabaya. Nicknamed Parijs van Java (Paris of Java) by the Dutch for its resemblance to Paris and European atmosphere back in colonial times, Bandung also earned another nickname as Kota Kembang, literally meaning the Flower City since Bandung used to have a lot of flowers. Located at the altitude of 768m and surrounded by the lush and beautiful Parahyangan mountains makes the climate mild and pleasant. The city has been well known for its universities, aclothing and a great place for gastronomic adventure. Nowadays, Bandung has become a very popular weekend escape for Jakartans, who would crowd the city on weekends and national holidays.
Program Itinerary
Day 01: ARRIVE: KUALA LUMPUR / JAKARTA
Upon arrival in Jakarta Airport, meet and greet with our local agent representative. Then, transfer for hotel check in. Free at own leisure. Overnight in Jakarta. Dinner will be served at Halal local restaurant.
Day 02: JAKARTA: CITY TOUR / BANDUNG
After breakfast and check out hotel, proceed fo Jakarta city tour by visiting the Indonesia Miniature Park. It is a a culture-based recreational area with virtually all aspects of daily life in Indonesia's 26 provinces encapsulated in separate pavilions with the collection of Indonesian architecture, clothing, dances and traditions. After that, continue lunch at halal local restaurant before depart to Bandung. Journey to Bandung will take about 3 hours' drive. Upon arrival in Bandung, proceed to most happening Factory Outlet for shopping tour such as Rumah Mode, Toko Tiga, Cihempelas Walk and etc. Later, transfer for hotel check in. Dinner will be served at Halal local restaurant. Overnight in Bandung.
Day 03: BANDUNG: VOLCANO TOUR / SHOPPING TOUR
After breakfast, proceed for Bandung Volcano Tour by visiting the Tangkuban Perahu Mountain. It is one of the active mountains in West Java, a popular site for tourist where you can hike or ride to the edge of the crater to view the hot water springs and boiling mud up close. Then, enjoy and rest at Ciater Hot Spring. It's a natural hot springs with a nice park and small pools in which you soak your leg or whole body (*optional ). After that, lunch at halal local restaurant. Later, proceed for shopping tour at Factory Outlet at Dago Area, Riau, or Pasar Baru. Dinner at halal local restaurant. Overnight in Bandung.
Day 04: DEPART: BANDUNG / JAKARTA/ KUALA LUMPUR
Breakfast at hotel and free at own leisure until time for transfer to Jakarta airport for flight departure back to Kuala Lumpur.
Package Include
- Private Return Airport transfer
- Private Coach for tour and transfer trip
- 3 Night Accommodation (2 Night in Bandung & 1 Night in Jakarta)
- Halal Meals as per itinerary (3 Breakfast / 2 Lunch / 3 Dinner)
- Melayu /English speaking guide as per itinerary
- Entrance fee as mentioned in itinerary
- Tipping for local tour guide and driver
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- International Airfare Ticket
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"You're here to do a job. You're not here to get your groove on," is what one teacher told the new freshman class at CMR high school today. Well, I don't think that I'd go that far; the students are there to learn, sure, but I wouldn't quite call it a "job." That teacher's remark conjures up images of Uncle Buck railing at the crusty old principal who sports a very conspicuous mole:
I don't think I want to know a six-year-old who isn't a dreamer, or a sillyheart. And I sure don't want to know one who takes their student career seriously. I don't have a college degree. I don't even have a job. But I know a good kid when I see one. Because they're ALL good kids, until dried-out, brain-dead skags like you drag them down and convince them they're no good. You so much as scowl at my niece, or any other kid in this school, and I hear about it, and I'm coming looking for you! Take this quarter, go downtown, and have a rat gnaw that thing off your face! Good day to you, madam.
Sure, 9th grade is lot more serious than 1st grade, but the kids still gotta have fun. So come on, teacher – cut 'em a little slack!


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Tombstone 1882 was a thriving active town. Its initial attraction was silver mining. We found out that the house we purchased in town was over an 1882 silver claim called the California Mine!
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If you'd like, Take a Look at the Map that locates every mining claim registered in Tombstone. With all that, can you imagine the population here in Tombstone in 1882? Plus the support services that went along with it. Actually there were more businesses here, and many more people than currently are living in town now!
Lots of mining towns arose in the Old West. Let's take a step back!
When you think about its dawn, its origins in Tombstone Arizona History shows us how it began as a mining town. We'll see what was happening around that time. We'll get an appreciation for the times surrounding Tombstone 1882 - and even up to today!
Before 1882, Tombstone was growing. Ed Schieffelin has credit for its founding and naming, about 1877. Its morose name became the official name on April 5, 1878. Only a few miners lived there then.
When we read that 1st book below: "Too Tough to Die" - we were amazed at all the inside information we learned about Tombstone. It's very well written, keeping your interest. It covers so much of the history, yet gets right to the point in an interesting way. A really fabulous overview. Really have to recommend it, if you haven't yet read it!
But two years later many more adventurers moved to Tombstone seeking their fortune in mining. The population in 1880 was over 2000. In 1882 the Chinese population was 245.
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Soon to be infamous players were already in the Tombstone District, such as all the Earps and Doc Holliday. The Clantons and the McLaurys were all living in the Tombstone Territory. Johnny Ringo and Curly Bill Brocius had both been in the vicinity for a few years.
By 1880 Tombstone had mercantile stores, butcher shops, assorted clothing, merchandise and food outlets and two furniture stores. Numerous types of eateries included Italian and Chinese restaurants, ice cream parlors, bakeries. Several services provided medical needs, bathing rooms, haircuts and shaves, and transportation lines.
The Vizina & Cook building at the Northeast corner of 5th & Allen Streets was a major complex renting to many merchants. One noteworthy was The Oriental Saloon. The Safford Hudson & Company Bank located there. Another, the Pima County Bank was at 4th & Allen.
Seven hotels provided for overnight stays. Some still remain to this day! They are true Tombstone 1882 historic town sites:
Some were destroyed in the fires of 1881 and 1882: [Read it Now]
*The Allen Street fronting arches of the building were not destroyed and you can still see them now when you walk along Allen Street at the front of J.L.Silver Co. & Big Nose Kates
Saloons were absolutely a part of the life! 18 were available by 1880. Three were considered luxurious:
Another very popular saloon was the Golden Eagle Brewery on the Northwest corner of 5th and Allen. Not opulent! But with a lunch counter serving beer, spirits and meals, it had reasonable prices.
We love the history of this authentic saloon. We love meeting up with locals here! Yes, its historic counterpart is still there today on the corner of 5th and Allen: the Crystal Palace Saloon.
Those who lived in town generally aligned with either of the two political parties. Yes, more or Less: just like today!
Either the Republicans or the Democrats. The two local newspapers had leanings to each party. The Tombstone Epitaph's editorials presented the Republican viewpoint. Tombstone's first newspaper, the Nugget, held the Democrat's outlook.
The organization of Tombstone began by filing a townsite claim in an area known as "Goose Flats." The Tombstone Townsite Company recorded it with Pima County on April 22, 1879. Lots were sold, a post-office opened, a justice-of-the-peace appointed and an interim mayor and councilmen were elected. Fred White became Tombstone's Marshall.
Virgil Earp was appointed Deputy for the Southeastern area of Arizona Territory. He was in Tombstone by the beginning of December 1879. His wife and brothers James and Wyatt were with him. A number of months later, other Earp brothers arrived in town: Morgan and Warren.
The Earps all earned their living with mining claims, bartending and gambling. U.S. Marshal Crawley Dake appointed Virgil Earp as Deputy U.S. Marshal on November 27, 1879. Wyatt Earp was named a Deputy on July 27, 1880. But political complications led to Wyatt's holding the post for about four months. He resigned to assist in a political campaign, which he thought would help his own agenda.1 Morgan Earp worked as a deputy for both his brothers.
John H. Behan was selected as Deputy, replacing Wyatt. That caused underlying conflict between the two. Behan also was a bartender, gambler, horse racer, and was seen accompanied by many local women.
In Tombstone 1882 other activities kept local people occupied, besides the saloons and Old West Gambling Halls. Assorted sporting events entertained residents. Those mostly being m the young, single males.
Other entertainment was accessible in Tombstone 1882. Women needed a means to enter social life. Men desired a way to engage in uplifting fellowship together with their wives. Single men and women also needed to properly meet each other in a civilized town, after all!
Such was the case in the growing town of Tombstone, 1882. This vibrant, active community, with many businesses and families. Social clubs, church groups and political organizations formed. This enabled more interactions. For instance...
Women wanted a local social life. They attended theatrical productions, went to church, and became members of suitable groups. Some options for them were...
Clara Spalding Brown was an 1880 to 1882 Tombstone resident. Married to a local miner, she was involved in town activities.
Clara began corresponding to the San Diego Daily Union newspaper. Her newsy letters chronicled life in Tombstone during the time she lived there. She penned it from her point of view, a woman's perspective.
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Tombstone's first major fire shocked the town! It happened June 22, 1881. Starting out front of the Arcade Saloon, on Allen Street just three shops East of the Oriental. It consumed four city blocks, wiping out or damaging 66 businesses. In six months, nearly everything was rebuilt even better.
This fire brought to mind the lack of fire-fighting equipment in town. Tombstone had a volunteer fire department, and since 1881 had a source of water. But they lacked efficient means to get water to fires at needed pressure.
Immediately afterwards, executive action began. The Rescue Hook and Ladder Company was officially organized on June 26, 1881. Plans developed to construct a firehouse on Toughnut Street, between 5th & 6th. It was completed August, that year. They bought a hook and ladder truck from a San Francisco department.
They addressed the water issue. The Huachuca Water Company planned a system of pipes and reservoirs to get water to Tombstone from the Huachuca Mountains SW of town. The entire system was complete by July 1882.
Not in time to help fight the biggest fire in the town's history.
Tivoli Gardens was a saloon on the North side of Allen Street, between 4th & 5th. On May 26, 1882 a fire began in a water closet at the back, spreading quickly to its canvas roof and wood framing. It then sped throughout the whole block, jumping to the South side of Allen, along 4th.
It consumed the Grand Hotel. Lit into Spangenberg's Gun Shop, through gunpowder and ammunition. Sparks flew! Police Chief Dave Neagle was on the scene, as were Sheriff Behan and his deputies, plus the fire department.
The fire reached Fremont Street's North side. It crossed West of Fourth Street. People rallied to save the Oriental Saloon, with continuous streams of bucket-brigade water sent on top as best as could be accomplished.
It finally burned itself out when beaten back by bucket-brigades and towns-folk beating it away. All in all, the entire business district was burnt out! All the major hotels, saloons, restaurants, groceries and mercantile shops were gone.
But a month later - everyone was busy rebuilding!
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But you know, it was - and still is...
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1 Guinn, J. (2011). The last gunfight: The real story of the shootout at the O.K. Corral and how it changed the American west. New York: Simon & Schuster.
2 Noon (1880, Feb. 7). Chicago Tribune. Chicago, Illinois.
Bailey, L.R. (2004). Too tough to die: The rise, fall and resurrection of a silver camp: 1878 to 1990. Westernlore Press. Tucson, AZ. - Major reference for everything not notated.
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Apple CEO Tim Cook today headed over to Oxford University for the opening of The Oxford Foundry, a new "innovation space" that's open to all University of Oxford students.
Cook was on hand to cut the ribbon at the new location, and afterwards, he sat down for a Q&A session with Oxford students alongside Oxford professors and administrators.
Because he was speaking to a group of students, Cook talked about his early life experiences, how he began to hunt for a job after leaving college, and his decision to join Apple. Early on, he said, his goal was to find a job that he loved. "I wanted to love the work I did," he said. "I no longer have that goal."I realized the purpose of life wasn't to love your job, it was to serve humanity in a broad way. And the outcome of doing that would mean you love your job. I realized I wasn't in a place to do that, so sometime thereafter, I switched companies. […]
It was only after joining Apple where my values and my work aligned, and that has made all the difference for me.Cook says it wasn't an easy decision to join Apple. Everyone he talked to, his list of pluses and minuses, and his spreadsheets told him to stay where he was, but his intuition said something different, and he ended up going with intuitition. "That was one of the most important decisions of my life," he said. "Maybe the most important."
On designing products, Cook told students to "make products that you want to use" and the rest will follow.You can bet if you love it, there are many other people out there that are going to love it too. That fundamental saying drives Apple.Cook went on to explain that it's important to "stick close" to customers, listening to them and making yourself accessible to them. Cook said that's one of the reasons why Apple has retail stores, and it's also the reason why he gets up at "ungodly hours." "I like to spend my first hour going through customer emails," he said. "Because I want to know what they're saying. I want to know what they're feeling."
Cook said he takes inspiration from the artists, doctors, musicians, and others who use Apple products to change the world in some way. On failures, he says students just need to have faith that it will pass.There will be times that you fail on a spectacular basis. I certainly have. You have to have the faith that it will pass. Look in the mirror and watch the person breathe. It didn't kill you. You're not dead. It's not the biggest thing in the world. It will pass. And I do that many times a day sometimes. Do that for a while and you won't have to remind yourself anymore. You'll be able to take these failures… and in fact, you'll view them not as failures but as things learned, and it won't be so detrimental.Cook's interview, which can be watched above, also covered some of his thoughts on Steve Jobs, what he learned from working with Jobs, his view of augmented reality and the future, and his thoughts on who his heroes are.Tag: Tim CookDiscuss this article in our forums
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text: Share: Comments Print July 21, 2013 at 2:56 PM Gonzaga coach Kelly Graves blogs from FIBA U19 World Championships Posted by Jayda Evans I can't believe Zags coach Kelly Graves isn't a fan of "Man vs Food," but he's stuck with the English program as the USA U19 team plays in the FIBA U19 World Championships this month in Panevezys, Lithuania. Graves is serving as an assistant coach, the team advancing to the second round as the top seed and facing Netherlands (1-2) on Monday at 10:15am PT. Incoming freshmen Emma Wolfram (Gonzaga) and Kelsey Plum (Washington) are participating in the tournament, Wolfram for her native Canada. Wolfram's team faces the Americans on Tuesday at 10:15am PT. FIBA is providing coverage of the event. Graves has been blogging from the tournament. He gives details of his living quarters and TV viewing in his third installment. Perhaps the programing gets better for the known insomniac, maybe even getting a chance to see Sunday's premier of "Celebrity Wife Swap," featuring WNBA legend Lisa Leslie. Then, again, Graves' probably too busy to have ever heard of that show before, either. Here's Grave's' latest post: On The Road With Coach Graves – USA Basketball Blog 3 (July 21, 2013) I've been in Lithuania now for about six days and have really come to like this place. The people are nice, and it is beautiful, even though it's a flat country. Driving the two hours from the capital Vilnius to where we are playing now, Panevezys, I thought I was driving through Iowa or something with all the beautiful farmland. It has rained pretty much every day we've been here though (but we're not soccer and it's always dry in the gym so who cares, right?). I was worried coming in about the food but so far so good and they feed us a lot—going to have to get back on the food wagon again when I get home. The players took some time warming up to the food, but just like with your kids at home–they'll eat it if they're hungry enough. Me, I'm always hungry! The hotel is interesting. I have three beds in my room, I'm going to call them 1/2 twin size–literally, if I put all three together it would be a queen, but heck, I'm sleeping great. The TV in the room is a 12″, bolted to the ceiling in the far corner. I have to squint to see anything, but again, it doesn't matter much because there's only one station that's in English and as far as I can tell, it shows only a combination of PBS type documentaries and B-list cable channel shows that I've never seen. But they must love "Man vs. Food" because that's on twice a night at midnight. I've never heard of it and have a strange feeling that I will never watch it again after I get home. Thank goodness for iTunes–that and game film have saved me. With our convincing win over Mali last night, we move on to the second round of the World Championships. In our three pool games, we are averaging over 106 points per game and giving up only 43. Our rebound margin is +34 per game. Particularly impressive was our 103-56 win over an excellent China team, a team many figured would challenge us because of their size and precision but we played motivated and thumped them hard. The next round figures to be much tougher as we play Netherlands, Canada, and then France before we move into the medal round. Speaking of Canada, Emma Wolfram, our future Zag, injured herself early in their Netherlands game but she will hopefully be back for Canada's later round games. She had five points and six rebounds in the first eight minutes of that game too before going down–she is a terrific player. Emma's parents, Mike and Jane, are here and it's been nice spending some time with them. The Netherlands coach, (our next opponent) Remy DeWit, is a friend of mine from many years ago. He visited Gonzaga for a game last season and we were joking the other day that GU has had some amazing players of Dutch decent in the last few years who could help his team. How about these names: Courtney Vandersloot, Janelle Bekkering, and Claire Raap (not too shabby). Getting to know the other coaches has been fun and I hope to keep in touch with them even after the tournament. We can learn a lot about how the rest of the world plays the game, especially the Europeans. Their precision, ball screens, and ball movement remind me very much of how the Zags play the game–it's fun to watch. Well, I have to run for now. Kate Meier, our head coach, and I will be representing the USA delegation today at a luncheon in town with the mayor of the city (don't I feel like the big-time dignitary). I'll try my best not to screw up our excellent diplomatic relations with Lithuania but don't be surprised if changes are a coming… Love to my family, my team, and all the Zag fans!!! Comments | More in Gonzaga, Northwest Ballers, TV Alert | Topics: Kelly Graves


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ANOTHER YEAR, ANOTHER Reel Affirmations, another gay vampire movie. And yet again, it's one that really bites.
Set in the seedily sexy underworld of L.A. and Las Vegas that only exists in the fevered imaginations of legions of Anne Rice fans, Scab opens with a trick gone bad. Ajay has brought home a vampire. Not just any vampire, but a barebacking, rapist vampire. Because, as we all know, sexual metaphor and vampirism go hand in hand. Occasionally with a bit more subtlety, granted, but I have to deal with the metaphor Scab dealt me.
Ajay is soon craving the red stuff, and his friends Teague (filled with tasty innocence and unrequited love) and Floor (don't ask me, I didn't name the horn-dog straight guy) are driving him to Vegas for… well, something about Ajay getting his head together. But whatever it is, they all end up at the Harmony Motel where the nonsensical plot eventually arrives at the obligatory bloodbath and not-so-twist ending.
The story doesn't make a lick of sense. Characters know things that haven't come up in conversation while minor characters kill chunks of screen time with faux-Tarantino banter. A nebulous network of vampires may be watching from the sidelines, or maybe not. Who knows? Who cares?
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I reworking my "brand" these days, so I crafted a new business card. I really like it! The caricature is cute, as is the cartoony look of the card in general.
I got them from Vista Print. They should be in my mailbox in about two or three weeks (I'm stingy with shipping and went with the bargain bin choice). I can't wait!!
This is part of my new venture as a freelance writer. Well, I've been a freelance writer for over two years now, but I'm branching out into tutorial writing (mostly tech stuff) and techhie blogging. The cartoon is based on the Older Geek blog I've started up.


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by Jim Williams
this Jim just won't stop !…
continuously putting up juicy fly casting tips and tricks for us to enhance our fishing experience, here's another nifty one in the form of a presentation cast that gives a little bit of slack to the line and leader that's very easy to perform and just the ticket for, as Jim calls them 'non-complex' flows.
what got me all excited when i saw this yesterday evening is i had 'self-discovered' this cast myself a few years ago when in a fit of tired laziness… i started lowering my casting hand after the completion of the cast and before line touchdown and noticed that it gave a nice, straightish yet slightly wavy layout that i later went on to use in the smaller Pyrenean streams around my house to great effect. back to the exciting part: until now i had never heard or read of anyone else other than Jim describe this cast that i had not-so-creatively named the "Pull Back Slack".
as always, very well explained and this time including two fantabulous gifs that show it all. if you're a river fisher take the time to read this article and practice it a little before your next outing for yet another dead-simple manner of presenting your flies with better drifts which as we all know, leads to not only more fun casting-wise but more success with the fishes !
you'll find the complete article in this month's edition of Eat Sleep Fish here. be sure to check out the rest of this great ezine here, enjoy !
* the top photo of Jim performing a wiggle cast has nothing to do with this particular cast, it's just a groovy pic of a groovy guy.


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Sleeping al fresco in cold weather.
Don't get us wrong, camping in summer can be bliss. But there is nothing in life that compares to sitting under stars on a clear, frosty night with an open fire. However, you must be prepared and chose the right equipment for your adventure to allow you to make the most of your winter camping especially your sleep system so here's our guide on getting prepared…
Sleeping Bag Temperature Ratings Explained
Yes, it seems like the obvious option. It is a common mistake to choose a sleeping bag that isn't up to the job; leaving you feeling the cold when the temperature drops. The first thing to check is the temperature rating of the sleeping bag and to ensure that you understand these ratings.
At Vango, we use a certified test centre to make sure our bags exceed EU standards and our temperature ratings are statistically accurate. Outlined below is how we classify our ratings - this will help you choose the best bag for your adventures!
Comfort: At this temperature you should be comfortable sleeping in this sleeping bag with the zip closed and minimal clothing on such as a base layer or pyjamas.
Limit: The limit is the lowest temp of suggested usage for the sleeping bag. This is when your body will be pushed past your comfort zone and you will need to add more layers, clothing, hat and socks to keep your body warm. Using the bag beyond this temperature falls into the risk zone and should definitely be avoided.
Extreme: You should never aim to sleep in these temperatures in your sleeping bag! The technology may help save your life but extreme temperature ratings are beyond what the bag has been designed to be used in. If you plan to sleep in these temperatures you need to upgrade to a more insulative sleeping bag.
Season ratings: For a winter camp you should look for a 4 - 5 season bag to keep you warm in low temperatures dependant on conditions. 1 Season would be suitable for warm temperatures found in summer with 4 Season bags good for winter trips and 5 seasons made for more extreme conditions.
Our Top Tips on getting your climate control right:
+ Always aim to camp no colder than the comfort rating on your sleeping bag.
+ Body temperatures and sensitivity to the cold vary from person to person so if you feel the cold more than most always over compensate!
+ Women, statistically speaking are also more likely to feel the cold, particularly in their extremities so a warmer bag than technically required is often a good choice for them. For this very reason our Nitestar 300W sleeping bag has a fleece lined footer providing extra warmth where you need it most.
+ Personally we love a good pair of fluffy socks, and a hot water bottle made on the campfire is a great treat to pre-heat your sleeping bag in frosty conditions.
Down or Synthetic?
Both down and synthetic sleeping bags have their own merits. Considering what the conditions will be like when you camp will help you decide which is best for you. Below is a quick Vango guide that will help you decide.
Down is super warm (the warmest insulation available) and compresses to a tiny pack size but is adversely affected should it get wet. Synthetic is great for wet conditions and much easier to look after but it's pack size and insulative properties are not as good as down.
We recommend using a down-filled bag such as a Venom 600 or F10 series Vulcan if you are camping in very cold but dry conditions such as on a glacier in the alps. Down is light, compact and provides the ultimate warmth for your adventures. Make sure you store it in the large storage sack it comes with. Storing down compressed will damage the fill and make it less effective.
If you are camping in conditions where it gets cold but your bag may get wet and dirty regularly (eg the UK!) then a synthetic bag like the Ultralite Pro 300 may be a better option. It still has a small pack size and a comfort rating of -1° but will continue to perform even if it becomes wet and is much easier to wash and store.
Keep an eye on the weather before you set off! Then make an assessment as to where and when you will most use your sleeping bag versus and how extreme the conditions may get. This will allow you to work out what bag you need depending on the temperature and the conditions!
Sleeping Mat
Having your back against cold icy ground under can send shivers up your spine and drop your core temperature rapidly. Having a sleeping mat such as a Trek mat or F10 Aero will not only add padding to your sleep system but more importantly will create an insulative barrier between your body and ground. This will stop the cold seeping through during the night for a comfortable night's sleep. A sleeping bag and mat should be considered as two equally important pieces of kit.
We think the most important thing is to be prepared. Don't overstretch your limits and know your body and what it needs. Wrap up warm and have a great night out under the stars finding your Spirit of Adventure!!
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CAPITOL HILL: Sequestration is not the Navy's only shipbuilding problem. In the near term, the automatic cuts to the 2013 budget are bedeviling efforts to save money by buying ships in bulk. Negotiators are racing the clock to salvage a multi-year procurement contract to buy 10 DDG-51 Aegis destroyers for the price of nine; Navy Secretary Ray Mabus told reporters today he was "optimistic."
In the longer term, however, after the 10-year, $500 billion cut in defense spending required by sequestration, the Navy has dug a different hole for itself. The service has crafted a 30-year shipbuilding plan that requires massive increases in funding to levels that the Navy's acquisition chief Sean Stackley admitted to Congress had not been seen since the Reagan build-up.
"Can you present… a scintilla of evidence" that the 30-year plan can be funded, an exasperated Rep. Randy Forbes, the chairman of the House Armed Services Committee's panel on seapower, asked during a hearing this morning.
"I am a little frustrated," Forbes told me after the hearing. "The way you fund the shipbuilding plan is fantasyland." Over the last 30 years, the non-partisan Congressional Budget Office calculates the Navy has had, on average, just under $15 billion a year to spend on ships; the Navy's future plan requires an average of almost $19 billion — and CBO says a more accurate figure would be $22 billion. Groaned Forbes, "We're about $7 billion off a year."
While Forbes' frustration was mounting, over on the other side of the Capitol, Mabus, Chief of Naval Operations, Adm. Jonathan Greenert, and Marine Corps Commandant Gen. James Amos detailed their fiscal woes before the defense panel of the almost all-powerful Senate Appropriations Committee.
The military is under "incredible fiscal stress," said the sympathetic committee chairwoman, Sen. Barbara Mikulski, who opened the defense hearing (for the delayed subcommittee chairman, Sen. Richard Durbin). "We're asking you to do more with less…. This isn't just about statistics, it's about readiness."
"Pilots will get less flight time, ships will get less time at sea, and marines less time in the field," Mabus agreed. On the upside, however, after a decade of overruns, delays, and simply too few ships being delivered to the fleet, he said, "We have 47 ships under contract today, 43 of which were contracted since I took office."
This boast has become part of the secretary's standard spiel, but, argued noted naval affairs blogger Raymond Pritchett in a tweet, "Mabus should be proud. It's the most ships on a single SECNAV['s] watch since Lehman," Reagan's Secretary of the Navy during the drive for a (never quite achieved) 600-ship fleet.
The problem, however, is the Navy's near-term plan for actually buying these ships ignores sequestration — as does the entire Defense Department budget — and the long-term plan requires Reaganesque levels of funding.
A particular problem on both timescales is the replacement for the aging Ohio-class nuclear-missile submarine, the SSBN(X). Long-term, the new boomer will be hugely expensive to build, crowding out other Navy programs unless the shipbuilding budget grows. (The Navy would love to do this by getting money from the rest of the Defense Department, arguing that SSBN(X) serves the nation's strategic deterrence rather than a Navy-specific mission). Near-term, although SSNB(X) does not enter service until circa 2029, the Navy is already spending to develop it.
So far, "we are on track with R&D and all of the early development work," Sec. Mabus told the Senators. "But…sequestration holds the potential to upset this timeline in a fairly dramatic way."
"People ask me what is my No. 1 program of concern, and I will tell you it's the Ohio replacement program," added Adm. Greenert. "I look at that more than any other." (He later told reporters he meant "no. 1 priority": "I'm not concerned" in the sense of being worried, he said).
To control the cost of such long-term mega-programs, the Pentagon and defense contractors alike prefer to sign a multi-year procurement (MYP) contract, where industry gives the government a discount in return for agreeing to several years' purchases at once instead of requiring the usual annual reauthorization. Congress is generally uneasy about committing itself beyond the current budget cycle, but in the legislation for fiscal year 2013, it approved MYPs for up to 10 Virginia-class attack submarines and up to 10 Arleigh Burke-class destroyers, aka DDG-51s. Both these deals, however, are yet to be sealed, and sequestration complicates closing them down.
"We risk throwing away significant savings," lamented Maine's Susan Collins. In particular, she noted, the Navy needs to update Congress on the destroyer deal "in the next two weeks in order to sign the contracts before the current bids from the shipbuilders expire, because they were submitted some ten months ago."
(The sequester is also causing inefficiencies in the hitherto highly successful Virginia-class attack submarine program, said HASC seapower's top Democrat, Rep. Joe Courtney, on his side of the Hill).
"Frankly, the culprit here is sequestration," Mabus replied to Collins, "because you provided the correct amount of money in the appropriations bill for '13 to accomplish this. Sequestration then took its percentage out." The Navy is now working to transfer, or "reprogram," money from other accounts to make up the shortfall — something that must be approved by both the Defense Secretary and Congress.
"Sequestration looms over everything in terms of these multi-year procurements and the ability to execute them because you have to take a percentage out of every program," Sec. Mabus sighed to reporters after the hearing. "We've got Virginia-class, we've got DDG-51, we've got aircraft programs like the V-22 [Osprey tilt-rotor aircraft] that are in multi-years, the E-2D [Hawkeye reconnaissance aircraft] is in a multi-year."
"I think both of us remain optimistic that we're going to get the contracts done for the tenth ship," not nine destroyers, Mabus said. But can the Navy get it done before the bids expire? "We're working with the shipyards," said the clearly uncomfortable Navy Secretary. "They understand the situation."
"There's alternatives," interjected Adm. Greenert, looking much more confident. "There's nine with an option [to buy a 10th later]; there's try to get 10 [outright]. We've got the bids; we'll lay it down, say 'here's the money we have, what do you think?'"
"Can we get them done on time?" the admiral asked. "Yeah, we can get them on time."
Forbes was less sanguine about the situation. "Sequestration has all kinds of cancerous concerns," he said. "It'll make us rob from Peter to say Paul; it'll increase the costs of some of the ships we buy" by undermining such efficiencies as multi-year deals.
But, Forbes went on, "I don't want us to stop there, [just] looking at the current hot spots and not realizing that, unless we change these curves, we do not have a good outcome for the next decade or two."


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Social Media: Bigger, Faster, and Even More Influential
February 19, 2013
Social Media: Bigger, Faster, and Even More Influential
Happy Social Media Week!
The importance of social media for marketers cannot be overstated. Brand identity, consumer engagement, virtual crowdsourcing, increased exposure… the list goes on. Now, new research points to two new areas of importance in the social media toolbox: consumer perception and behavior, and real-time data sourcing.
A new study from J.D. Power and Associates measured consumer experience in relation to social media marketing and social servicing (customer care). What they found was that very few companies do both equally well, and a strong "correlation between a company's overall social communications and a consumer's likelihood to purchase and overall perception of the company." In a similar Nielsen report entitled, "Digital Influence: How the Internet Affects New Product Purchase Decisions," researchers studied the degree to which consumers' buying behavior was affected by information online, including that found in social platforms. The study reports that "U.S. respondents say the Internet is very/somewhat important when making a new product purchase decision for electronics (73%), appliances (63%), cars/auto (62%) and music (59%)." As consumers decide what to buy, they look to educate themselves, and the internet is where they turn. And one of the most powerful influencers they encounter is word-of-mouth from their own friends on social media.
According to a new report by eMarketer entitled, "Meeting the Need for Speed: How Social Analytics Support Real-Time Marketing," 53% of marketers plan on increased use of real-time data in marketing campaigns. While agile, real-time social media responses (such as Oreo's clever and practically instantaneous Superbowl blackout tweet) have already become an important part of the new advertising paradigm, brands are increasingly utilizing social analytics and real-time social data as well. The faster a company can track and organize this data, the faster they can tailor their business strategy to exactly what consumers want.


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text: This past week I've been getting back into the flow of the grad program. It's been a little bit since I've hunkered down and done some good ole stop motion animating. I've been animating in Flash all summer and helping out with all aspects on various stop motion projects BUT animation. Needless to say, I felt a bit rusty. So here is my attempt at getting back into the groove with a first go at the classic found object animation exercise.


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Windows 98 Cheat Sheet
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Do your homework before you upgrade. Check the home pages for the third-party software and hardware you are running to see if there are any conflicts with Windows (98).
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Topic Page: Adams, John Quincy, 1767-1848
Sixth US president (1825-29), son of the second president John Adams. He served in his father's administration, before acting (1803-08) as a Federalist Party member in the US Senate. Adams was secretary of state (1817-24) for James Monroe. He was largely responsible for formulating the Monroe Doctrine and negotiating the Adams-Onís Treaty (1819). Adams became president without a majority, his appointment confirmed by the House of Representatives. His lack of a mandate and non-partisan approach led to his electoral defeat by Andrew Jackson. He served in the House of Representatives (1830-48).
Sixth President of the United States
The political career of John Quincy Adams spanned 70 years, from the American Revolution to the Mexican War. A foundational figure in American foreign policy, Adams represented the U.S. government as minister plenipotentiary to the Netherlands, Prussia, Russia, and Great Britain; helped negotiate the end of the War of 1812; and was the chief architect of the Monroe Doctrine. As secretary of state he extended the nation's borders to the Pacific Ocean with the Transcontinental Treaty of 1819, but in his later years as president and in Congress, he sought to contain the forces that territorial expansion had unleashed on the United States, particularly the spread of slavery. Exceptionally brilliant and eternally stubborn, Adams was a politician without a party, a man who refused to countenance any course of action he did not fully support. He both aggravated friends and surprised enemies with his overwhelming desire to always act in what he thought was the nation's best interest.
John Quincy Adams was born on July 11, 1767, the son of Abigail Smith Adams and the future president John Adams. When he was 11 years old, John Quincy accompanied his father to Europe on diplomatic missions for the Continental Congress, making him the first American to be apprenticed as a diplomat in the European tradition. Along the way, John Quincy was enrolled in schools in Paris and Amsterdam.
In July 1781, at the age of 14, he accompanied Francis Dana, a Massachusetts diplomat and friend of John Adams, to St. Petersburg, acting as Dana's translator. The mission was a failure, but it allowed John Quincy to learn German (he already knew French, Greek, and Latin) and gave him further exposure to the diplomatic profession. In 1784, when John Adams became the first American minister plenipotentiary to Great Britain, John Quincy returned from Russia to become his father's secretary in London. After one year, he left for America to enroll in Harvard, graduating in 1787, second in his class.
After being admitted to the Massachusetts bar in 1791, John Quincy practiced law for three years and began to write strident political essays for publication. The most famous of these were those that made up his "Letters of Publicola," which attacked Thomas Paine's Rights of Man and its unqualified support of the rapidly radicalizing French Revolution. He also wrote under the noms de plume "Marcellus" and "Columbus" (1793) in defending George Washington's decision to request the French minister Edmond Genêt's removal from the United States. Washington, impressed by Adams's intellect, appointed him to be the American minister plenipotentiary to the Netherlands on May 30, 1794.
At the Hague, Adams was meant to oversee the repayment of America's war debt. The American Revolution had been primarily funded by the French monarchy and loans from Dutch bankers in Amsterdam. However, the system of repayment broke down when the French Revolutionary army invaded the Netherlands in 1795. With his primary mission gone, Adams turned to writing informed and insightful reports on the war in Europe and its probable impact on American trade and foreign policy goals. As the war escalated, Adams became convinced that the United States needed to stay out of European politics and the complicated alliance systems that were pulling more and more nations into the conflict. His thoughts mirrored George Washington's own assessment of the situation, and Adams's phrasing was echoed in Washington's Farewell Address, the canonic statement of American neutrality. In 1796, Washington appointed Adams minister to Portugal.
In 1797, the incoming president, John Adams, appointed his son the first American minister to Prussia. In Berlin, John Quincy was charged with negotiating a new Treaty of Amity and Commerce. The original treaty had been negotiated by Benjamin Franklin in 1785, and it was one of the most liberal treaties the United States ever signed regarding the rights of neutral shipping. With France and Great Britain at war once again, neutral shipping was under attack, and the new treaty could not afford to promise rights that would not be respected by those two powerful nations. John Quincy and his Prussian counterparts cut the most problematic clauses from the 1785 treaty, including the statement that "free ships make free goods," in deference to the changed political climate, forgoing several of their rights as neutrals in exchange for greater protection on the high seas.
While in Prussia, John Quincy Adams wrote regular dispatches to his father regarding the political and economic state of Europe. These dispatches became extremely important during the undeclared naval war with France known as the Quasi-War and its related diplomatic fiasco, the XYZ Affair of 1797-1798. Through his contacts in Europe, John Quincy was able to tell Pres. John Adams that the French foreign minister, Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord, regretted his attempts to extract bribes from an earlier peace mission (the XYZ Affair) and now wanted the undeclared naval war brought to a swift and peaceful conclusion. John Adams's subsequent decision to make peace with France split the Federalist Party and ensured his loss to Thomas Jefferson in the election of 1800. Rather than put his son's career at the mercy of his former friend, President Adams recalled John Quincy to the United States.
Back in Massachusetts after seven years abroad, John Quincy Adams resumed his legal career for two years. He was then elected to the Massachusetts state senate in 1802. His first year was undistinguished, but in 1803 he was appointed to the U.S. Senate by his Federalist colleagues.
Like his father before him, John Quincy Adams considered himself a representative of the entire country, not just Massachusetts or the Federalist Party, and free to support whoever he thought had the best proposal at the time, often infuriating those who had counted on his being a loyal partisan. Adams arrived in Washington, D.C., just after the Senate had accepted the Louisiana Purchase, nearly doubling the size of the country and giving the American government control over the Mississippi River and the Port of New Orleans. The decision had been bitterly opposed by the Federalists, but Adams broke with his party by supporting the project. He considered territorial expansion the only way to protect the nation from breaking along an East-West axis. With the Mississippi firmly in American hands, Western farmers could get their crops to the Gulf of Mexico without needing permission from the Spanish Crown. At the same time, Adams frustrated the Jefferson administration by calling for a constitutional amendment to make the Louisiana Purchase legal.
As the Napoleonic Wars escalated, the British seizure of American ships and impressment of American sailors into the Royal Navy increased dramatically. Jefferson's solution to this problem was the Embargo Act of 1807, which placed a ban on American exports, thereby cutting off American trade with all its international partners. Adams voted for the embargo because he saw it as a temporary measure that could be deployed tactically to threaten Great Britain into respecting the rights of neutral shipping. That vote (as well as Adams's presence at several Republican rallies protesting British actions on the high seas) pushed the Massachusetts Federalists to select his successor months before Adams's term was due to expire. Adams resigned his Senate seat at once.
Pictured here is the last page of the Treaty of Ghent with John Quincy Adams's signature. Adams was the head of a peace commission tasked with negotiating an end to the War of 1812 between the United States and Great Britain. The treaty called for a return to the antebellum status quo and is considered an important diplomatic achievement for Adams.(Bettmann/Corbis)
In 1809, Pres. James Madison appointed Adams minister plenipotentiary to Russia. He set sail in August, almost 30 years after Catherine the Great had refused to recognize Francis Dana's mission during the American Revolution. Once more in the diplomatic corps, he resumed writing detailed and thoughtful reports on the state of European affairs and their impact on the United States. He also worked with Czar Nicholas I to relax the restrictions placed on neutral trade in the Napoleonic Wars (1802-1815). Adams was in Russia for Napoleon's invasion in 1812 and subsequent retreat, and he accurately predicted that the Russian scorched-earth policy would defeat the French army. When Congress declared war on Great Britain in 1812, Adams used his influence to secure an offer of Russian mediation to end the war. Adams would have headed this mediation effort, but Great Britain refused the czar's proposal.
In January 1814, Adams was appointed head of the peace commission charged with negotiating an end to the War of 1812. The war between the United States and Great Britain had begun while the British army and navy were fully occupied fighting Napoleon. However, the French emperor's defeat in 1814 saw the transfer of hardened veterans to the American theater, resulting in the burning of Washington, D.C. The Treaty of Ghent (signed December 24, 1814) called for a return to the status quo ante bellum. While this meant that the United States did not gain any territory or concessions from the British, the nation did not lose anything either, which was considered a significant diplomatic achievement, given the course of the war.
Following his work in Ghent, Adams was appointed minister plenipotentiary to Great Britain, where he served from 1815 to 1817. His principal achievement was to negotiate the Convention of 1815, a preliminary economic accord between the two nations that allowed for greater liberality of trade between American and British Isles ports (later finalized in the Convention of 1818). However, the British government still refused to relax its restrictions on the far more lucrative American trade with British colonial ports.
On March 6, 1817, Pres. James Monroe appointed John Quincy Adams as his secretary of state. Adams was sworn in on September 22 and is traditionally considered America's greatest secretary of state. He began by reorganizing the State Department. He ordered an overhaul of the filing system, established a library, and required all diplomats and consuls to submit (as he had) regular, numbered dispatches informing the government of all newsworthy events in their geographic area. He also established a language training program that sent young men who had shown great aptitude in ancient Greek to be clerks for consuls, paid for their books, and gave them free time to study local languages. Finally, he wrote the first set of detailed instructions for every level of overseas post, creating a uniform standard of conduct and a consistency in job descriptions for foreign service officers worldwide.
Adams oversaw the ratification of the convention of 1818 with Great Britain, which he had helped negotiate as minister three years earlier. The convention set the border between Western Canada and the United States (from the Lake of the Woods to the Rocky Mountains) at the 49th parallel, and the British government agreed to a "joint occupation" of the Oregon Country. The Russian government was opposed to this joint occupation, but Adams persuaded them to withdraw their claims to the Oregon Country below the 54°40' parallel.
The most important treaty negotiated by Adams as secretary of state was the Transcontinental Treaty of 1819 (or the Adams-Onís Treaty) with Spain, by which the United States acquired the Florida peninsula and established the boundary with New Spain at the 42nd parallel, from north of the Arkansas River to the Pacific coast. Adams did not press for American control over Texas, an issue that would later inflame American politics, but set the eastern border of New Spain at the Sabine River. The Florida peninsula and Gulf Coast had been an object of American foreign policy since the Louisiana Purchase. When Adams began his negotiations with the Spanish minister, however, Spain refused to cede the territory to the United States. In 1818, Gen. Andrew Jackson invaded Florida, capturing St. Marks and Pensacola, and in the process revealed Spain's inability to control or defend the territory. Adams argued against punishing Jackson for his unauthorized invasion of Spanish territory and used the military advantage to press the Spanish minister into making greater territorial concessions.
Adams was the principal architect of the Monroe Doctrine, which helped to establish a new role for the United States in the American hemisphere. In March 1822, President Monroe recognized five new republics in South and Latin America and began establishing American embassies in each of them—thus doubling the number of American diplomatic posts in the first major expansion of the diplomatic corps. With the breakup of the Spanish Empire, the new Latin and South American republics became fodder for intrigue and proxy wars between the European powers. When Great Britain approached the Monroe administration with a joint statement against European interference in the Americas, Adams was the sole voice of dissent in Monroe's Cabinet and among his advisors (including Thomas Jefferson and James Madison). Adams was concerned that a joint statement with Great Britain would endanger American sovereignty and limit its diplomatic options. He convinced Monroe that the United States could make the proclamation on its own and still receive British support. Adams helped draft the relevant paragraphs of Monroe's annual message to Congress (given December 3, 1823), which called for a halt to additional European involvement in the Americas and pledged the United States to repulse any future efforts. The Monroe Doctrine became the cornerstone for American foreign policy regarding Latin and South America and paved the way for American ministers to attend the first Pan-American Conference, held in Panama in 1826.
In 1824, Adams sought the presidency of the United States. As secretary of state he was considered Monroe's heir apparent, but the rise of Andrew Jackson and the emergence of pluralistic politics were changing the landscape of American politics. Although Jackson won a plurality of the popular and Electoral College vote, no candidate won a majority. When Henry Clay, who came in fourth, realized he would not win the presidency, he chose to support Adams (whose views on policy mirrored his own). Adams won the election on the first ballot in the House of Representatives. When Adams later appointed Clay as his secretary of state, Jackson's supporters claimed the two men had made a "corrupt bargain" to defraud Jackson of the presidency. In fact, Clay never would have supported Jackson—their views on government and policy were violently opposed to each other—and when Adams created a Cabinet composed of the men from all regions of the United States, he could hardly have left Clay (the great champion of Western interests) out.
Despite his narrow victory, Adams attempted to launch a massive new system of internal improvements and public education, including a national university and a national observatory. Earlier in his public career, Adams had believed that territorial expansion would provide a sufficient escape valve for the tensions that threatened the American nation. New land and greater opportunities, he believed, would remove the concerns of Western farmers and increase national prosperity. However, the Missouri Crisis of 1820 changed his mind. The outcry over expanding slavery and the violence of its defense shocked Adams into recognizing the threat of sectional tensions between an increasingly free-labor, industrial North and a slaveholding, agrarian South. Adams wanted to knit the Union into a single economic market with new roads and canals, while the expanded educational and scientific offerings of the federal government would expand the minds and possibilities of the citizenry.
Adams's plan failed. A great deal of money was appropriated for building projects, and more roads and canals were financed than in any previous administration, but the projects were designed for purely local benefit and did not connect with one another in any meaningful way. The rise of Jacksonian democracy saw an intense turn toward the defense of local or sectional interests and away from projects of a national or continental scope. This conflict came to a head over the 1828 tariff designed to pay for improvements and protect domestic industry, seen in the South and the West as a transfer of wealth to the North and called the "Tariff of Abominations" by its detractors, touching off the Nullification Crisis, in which several state governments attempted to nullify the tariff and thereby assert their authority over the federal government. Jackson and his followers were also furious over his loss in the 1824 election, and they blocked Adams's proposals at every turn, as much for personal revenge as political differences.
Adams's presidency also failed to produce any major foreign policy successes. In his eight years as secretary of state, Adams had already solved all the major foreign policy questions the European powers were willing to negotiate. He continued to push for greater reciprocity and liberality in American trade, particularly with Great Britain, but to no avail.
After four years of campaigning, Jackson won the election of 1828 in a landslide, making Adams the second president to lose a bid for reelection (the first being his father). John Quincy Adams returned home to Massachusetts intending to spend the rest of his life in retirement, as had George Washington and the other four preceding presidents.
Adams had been in retirement for less than a year when he was nominated to represent the Plymouth District of Massachusetts in the U.S. House of Representatives. He won in a landslide and returned to Washington. He would be elected every two years until his death in 1848, one of the few politicians in his time who could claim a safe seat in Congress. As he had during his time in the Senate, more than 20 years earlier, Adams refused to consider himself a member of any political party, even supporting Andrew Jackson when Adams believed his longtime rival was in the right. As a congressman, Adams enjoyed a freedom of conscience he had never before experienced in public office. Representing his friends and neighbors freed him from the need to compromise his political principles.
Adams also continued to champion the cause of a national university and observatory. Although neither was ever established, he did chair the committee established in 1835 to disburse the over $500,000 bequest of James Smithson, a British scientist, for the "increase and diffusion" of knowledge in the United States. Though the money had many political claimants, Adams was able to keep the bequest intact until it was finally used to create the Smithsonian Institution in 1846.
Adams also led the fight against the "gag rule" (1836), which prohibited congressmen from introducing petitions calling for the abolition of slavery. Adams initially took up this challenge to defend the Amendment I right to petition the government, despite his concern over abolitionism and the threat it posed to the American Union. Over time, Adams came to change his position on slavery, and by the end of his life considered himself an abolitionist, committed to ending slavery in the United States.
Continuing his concern over the spread of slavery, Adams fought against the annexation of Texas in 1836 and the possibility of a war with Mexico to acquire the breakaway Mexican province. Adams considered the annexation of Texas to be of particular moral importance, not only because it would have been stealing land from an adjacent neighbor without due compensation, but because Mexico had outlawed slavery before Texas declared its independence. If Texas were brought into the American Union, slavery would be reestablished there.
In his last years in Congress, Adams saw the gag rule repealed in 1844, and defended the Africans who had risen against their captors on the Amistad, winning their freedom before the U.S. Supreme Court in 1841. His fight against the annexation of Texas failed in 1846, and he unsuccessfully argued against the Mexican-American War. His principled, unyielding stances brought him the greatest popularity he had ever known, especially from abolitionists, who called him "Old Man Eloquent" and flooded his office with petitions to present in Congress. But he also experienced the deepest enmity of his career, as slave owners barraged him with hate mail and death threats addressed to the "Madman of Massachusetts."
John Quincy Adams died in the U.S. Capitol on February 23, 1848, after suffering a stroke two days earlier in the House of Representatives. As he lay dying, the House, Senate, and Supreme Court all shut down. His death was considered the final passing of the Revolutionary generation, commemorated by friends and foes alike as a turning point in the history of the nation. At the end of his life, Adams had come to see a civil war as inevitable, accurately predicting that should the nation go to war with itself, the president could use his war powers to end slavery forever.
Over his life and career, Adams helped create the antebellum United States, with its vast sweep of contested territory and its relative freedom from European interference. His plan for a national market and educational system to bind together this large territory failed, not to be attempted again for almost a hundred years. Though he initially refused to alter the delicate political balance between slave and free states, he eventually came to embrace the cause of abolition, seeing slavery as the issue that would, and perhaps even should, break the Union he had served for over 60 years.
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People used to play "connect-the-dots" with the moles on either arm, twisted back and meaning less. My past plight is meaningless. I might be predisposed to drama; but quiet, shy and full of shit. Alliteration and assonance plague me quite by accident, and I'm told every glitch is a disease.
Therefore, the conclusion given and surmounted to is that I am merely sick. Stay back, and watch the flowers grow over tired eyes and plastic dreams. Kick me. Kiss me. Let me be. This is the uncensored current selection running through the sand in my head. If I don't write it down, it shifts into the fog.
Sammy gives me dysentery, but I love her none the less.
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Those of us who are diagnosed when our children are young worry about surviving breast cancer to be there for them. I can't imagine what it feels like for younger women diagnosed with the disease who wonder if they will even be able to have children. Stories like Christina Applegate's must be a relief and inspiration for these women. Magazine covers like those I saw are more than just snapshots of a celebrity with her baby. This picture was the epitome of triumph over a disease that continues to rob so many mothers and families.
Our own Suzette Lipscomb, another Everyday Health blogger, has a similar story. Diagnosed with breast cancer at an early age, Suzette was determined to have a child of her own once her battle was over. I can only imagine her thoughts while going through treatment. I am sure she was fueled by her dreams of a baby and a life beyond the fight. She is a bright, beautiful, and successful young woman who has so much to give to her young daughter. I am always delighted by the charming pictures of her daughter Ava that she posts now and then in her blog.
Suzette and Christina are both brave young women who would not allow breast cancer to rob them of what other women take for granted. I am inspired and awed by their grace and determination. We all fight the good fight against the disease to win our life back, but some women also fight to be able to create the life they dream of. Breast cancer can take our breasts, but it can't take our dreams or our will to make them come true.
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If you pop the fruit in your mouth, roll it around and bite off the flesh (the fruit itself has a general bland taste, nothing exciting) and then eat something sour, that sourness is immediately changed to sweet. It makes eating a lemon taste like candy!
This fruit is pretty awesome! In Florida we probably would have put ours in the ground but here in zone 9a in Texas we will keep it in the pot in the first picture and bring it inside during the colder days of winter. In the first photo you'll see our new pot lifter on the ground—this thing is great! We got it for Christmas from Chris' mom and it has worked great for us moving things around the yard that are heavy and awkward to carry.
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A three-bite frank snuggling in its own pastry — two make a perfect breakfast.
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