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Background cleanup
Second Hokage#Background contains content that has nothing to do with the Second Hokage but has to do only with either Hashirama or Madara. --Kakashi Namikaze Talk, Contribs 20:55, 4 June 2008 (UTC)
Third databook
I was able to find a scan of the Second Hokage's article in the third databook (thanks to whoever uploaded it). If you want to see it, go here. I'll add some of the details. --ShounenSuki 19:26, 5 September 2008 (UTC)
- Are you going to add the details, that are written on this article, to his page? I'm hoping this article has some more info on him that we don't know. So little seems to be known about this hokage, and he has seen a small fraction of the attention of the first throughout the series.--SkyFlicker (talk) 03:18, October 7, 2009 (UTC)
- So I guess the latest anime got it wrong on 'the hokage succession' and on the 'timeline of the great wars'? Because that two part jiraiya story basically showed that the first hokage was alive and gave the title to his brother, and they were both alive and then the second gave the title to sarutobi? I like this latest info you added tho shounensuki, shows that the second had a much greater role than previously thought. thanks.--SkyFlicker (talk) 22:59, October 7, 2009 (UTC)
- You're welcome. The Second Hokage deserved some more attention.
- Oh, and yes, the anime got things wrong. Again. --ShounenSuki (talk | contribs) 23:47, October 7, 2009 (UTC)
- So I guess that was all there was to the article? Nothing more about his combat abilities or such?--SkyFlicker (talk) 23:58, October 7, 2009 (UTC)
I was just wondering, if Tobirama is of the Senju clan, can't he use mokuton techniques? I know that we have not seen him use any but he does use water, (which counts as half of the mokuton combination) and isn't it a kekkei genkai, meaning that it is passed down from generation to generation?
Just a thought... Shikamaru1994 23:57, 12 November 2008 (UTC)Shikamaru1994
- Mokuton is said to be unique to the First Hokage. Only those with the (almost) exact same genetic make-up as him can use Mokuton.
- It's called a Kekkei genkai because it's a genetic trait that allows one to fuse two elements into a new one (something that is considered a Kekkei genkai). However, it was simply never passed don to his descendants and is usually treated like a unique technique (which is why it was called a Hiden Jutsu in the second databook). --ShounenSuki 00:27, 13 November 2008 (UTC)
Water Dragon Jutsu
When did he use this? did he only use it in the manga? cuz i know he didnt use it in the anime, so im not sure? --AMTNinja 08:59, 29 December 2008 (UTC)
- He uses it in the manga in chapter 120. --ShounenSuki 14:24, 29 December 2008 (UTC)
Did he really only use one seal for this jutsu (ignoring anime) or was only one seal shown? 22.214.171.124 (talk) 07:18, December 19, 2010 (UTC)
- Only one is shown. In the manga, the only jutsu that he uses that others find impressive is Water Release: Water Encampment Wall. ~SnapperTo 20:09, December 19, 2010 (UTC)
- Then why does the entry say, "could even perform the most complex of water-style jutsu with only one hand seal," and is cited with a manga page? Dragonus Nesha (talk) 03:52, December 20, 2010 (UTC)
Water Release
This statement bothers me.
"However, it has been speculated that he was just gathering the water vapor in the air to fuel his all powerful jutsus. It must be noted that even if this was the case the sheer quantity of water needed would necessitate gathering moisture from a very large area. Such a feat would be just as impressive as creating water from nothing."
First of all, do we really need to put speculation in the article? If there is no support for it in canon why does it matter? Secondly, how is gathering water vapor from a large area "just as impressive" as violating the law of conservation of mass? --Pocky4Cthulhu (talk) 16:40, 18 April 2009 (UTC)
- Agreed, changed sentence to "being able to make use of powerful Water jutsu in areas where there were no bodies of water." No place for speculation. Besides there's yet another possibility. Kishimoto could have just decided to violate physics like he does all the time, have him gather water vapor, or heck he could be summoning water from a big lake. All we know is we don't know a thing. ~NOTASTAFF Daniel Friesen (DanTMan, Nadir Seen Fire) (talk) Apr 18, 2009 @ 20:40 (UTC)
- Hey umm i just went over the battle of the Hokages in the manga and noticed that when Sarutobi uses Fire Style: Dragon Flame Bombs and Tobirama counters it with his water wall he's spitting out the water ,unlike in the anime where he simply formed a Water Wall.Should we add that to the page.The link is right here http://www.onemanga.com/Naruto/120/03/
Deathreaper 23:55, 5 October 2009 hate to post something late but it does show him spitting the water out of his mouth. dradoow
most likely he release chakra around him and convert the chakra in to water.Linkdarkside (talk) 18:43, December 30, 2009 (UTC)
Well if you watch clearly you can see that he spits out a water stream in the Anime too, so his secret behind the use of extreme high techniques without existing water sources seems to be creating water from his own chakrra like Kisame, and then use it for suiton jutsus, that should be added, btw under appearance someone should add that he has his holster on his upper arms!!! --Grave Blashyrkh (talk) 17:28, 6 March 2010 (UTC)
Water + Sword
I can imagine how good of a fighter he would be, if he could use water dragon bullet anywheres with one hand seal, and shove his sword into the stream. that would be one huge and fast water/lightning combo--SkyFlicker (talk) 21:59, October 6, 2009 (UTC) 1. that sword isn't real 2. relevance? 3. --Cerez365 (talk) 18:20, June 10, 2010 (UTC)
I know its kinda dumb to ask this but when did it say his affinity is Water exactly. Even if he's good at Water Ninjutsu that doesn't mean that his affinity is water—This unsigned comment was made by Nintendo-Fan (talk • contribs) .
He's the greatest water manipulator to ever live. That's all the information that is necessary.
Sword of the Thunder God
Should we not add (Anime only) next to it? Jules R. J. Blake (talk) 01:32, January 24, 2010 (UTC)
- after Template:Infobox/Tools is up. Simant (talk) 01:34, January 24, 2010 (UTC)
Uchiha Kagami
Since he was on the same team (and was the presiding leader) with an Uchiha, can it not be inferred that he did at least have some trust in the Uchiha clan? Like, can we make a note of that? —This unsigned comment was made by Horyo (talk • contribs) .
We was not on the same team. His team and another team had a joint mission. You also don't need to trust your partners in your team. As such whether he holds even an ounce of trust for the Uchiha has never been proven so the answer is no.--188.8.131.52 (talk) 07:34, April 6, 2010 (UTC)
It's not a matter that he didn't outright trust the Uchiha in the way you're making it out to be. There was still some uneasiness amongst the clans, but they weren't castrated from the village the way you're interpreting it. Hence he probably did trust Kagami and the other Uchihas as a fellow shinobi and villager, just with trepidation --Cerez365 (talk) 14:31, June 10, 2010 (UTC)
It's been troubling me for a while but [1] there when Tobirama has his fingers on the ground and then he notifies his team that they're being tracked by those guys from kumo... should we take into consideration the fact that this might be a sensory ability of some sort O.o Cerez365 (talk) 21:12, June 12, 2010 (UTC)
- Interesting... see if you can word that to remove speculation. - SimAnt 21:35, June 12, 2010 (UTC)
- "After briefly running his fingers on the ground, Tobirama was quickly able to discern that his unit was being tracked by Kumogakure's Kinkaku Force." How does that sound? We can still add something saying we don't know what is, like "Whether he was a sensor or an accomplished tracker himself is unknown." Omnibender - Talk - Contributions 21:45, June 12, 2010 (UTC)
Kakashi did the same when he was young. It seems more like being able to tell who is coming via the vibrations they make. As for identifying them, I would guess he did it by their number (20), and the fact that they were near Kumo and that only this team might have the courage to go after him. Thomas Finlayson (talk) 00:25, June 13, 2010 (UTC)
- Minato was the one who did it, Kakashi would've probably used smell to identify them. This probably just confirms it then O.o? Cerez365 (talk) 20:52, June 13, 2010 (UTC)
- Looks like one finger when minato does it though. - SimAnt 21:08, June 13, 2010 (UTC)
- @Cerez365: thanks for pointing out my error. Thomas Finlayson (talk) 22:42, June 21, 2010 (UTC)
- @Simant: that may simply be a reflection of skill or accuracy in measuring how many there are. Thomas Finlayson (talk) 22:42, June 21, 2010 (UTC)
- If more than one person does this, should we add it to the Sensor section? Thomas Finlayson (talk) 22:42, June 21, 2010 (UTC)
- There are probably dozens of ways shinobi can gather information about their enemies . Sensor type ninja, however, seem to have the unique ability to actually sense chakra with a great degree of accuracy. --ShounenSuki (talk | contribs) 07:22, June 22, 2010 (UTC)
- I'm going to change the words, "sense" gives the idea they're both sensors. Omnibender - Talk - Contributions 23:58, August 13, 2010 (UTC)
- There are probably dozens of ways shinobi can gather information about their enemies . Sensor type ninja, however, seem to have the unique ability to actually sense chakra with a great degree of accuracy. --ShounenSuki (talk | contribs) 07:22, June 22, 2010 (UTC)
- Looks like one finger when minato does it though. - SimAnt 21:08, June 13, 2010 (UTC)
Abilities: Impure Ressurection
Since he was presummably the first to create this, should we not make a comment on the skills necessary? Plus, as I understand it, it is basically a super-high-level summoning jutsu, should that not be mentionned for his abilities? Thomas Finlayson (talk) 22:38, July 5, 2010 (UTC)
- It is mentioned in his ability section. Omnibender - Talk - Contributions 01:17, July 6, 2010 (UTC)
- That does not say that he created it, or the skills he would have had to master to actually use it. Thomas Finlayson (talk) 02:05, July 6, 2010 (UTC)
- We don't know if he created, that's a very relevant "presumably". The only thing we know for certain is that he could use it, and that is already covered. Omnibender - Talk - Contributions 21:27, July 6, 2010 (UTC)
- Is it not said that only he, Oro, and Kabuto can/could use it? Thomas Finlayson (talk) 04:35, July 7, 2010 (UTC)
- Not necessarily relevant to mention who else can use the technique. Omnibender - Talk - Contributions 20:10, July 7, 2010 (UTC)
- Is it not said that only he, Oro, and Kabuto can/could use it? Thomas Finlayson (talk) 04:35, July 7, 2010 (UTC)
- We don't know if he created, that's a very relevant "presumably". The only thing we know for certain is that he could use it, and that is already covered. Omnibender - Talk - Contributions 21:27, July 6, 2010 (UTC)
- That does not say that he created it, or the skills he would have had to master to actually use it. Thomas Finlayson (talk) 02:05, July 6, 2010 (UTC)
My point being that he is was the first of the only known users. Plus, the fact that he would have needed key skills to use this jutsu. Thomas Finlayson (talk) 16:11, July 7, 2010 (UTC)
Shouldn't the games he appears in be in an "Other Media" section rather than the "Trivia" section like with the other characters? KonohaSunaKiriKumoIwa (talk) 22:23, July 6, 2010 (UTC)
Kushina Uzumaki
Is there a reason that Kushina Uzumaki is listed as his Sister- In- Law? It should be Mito Uzumaki.18.104.22.168 (talk) 06:24, July 9, 2010 (UTC)Ryne
Space Time Jutsu
In Chapter 502 the Minato said that he could use space time ninjutsu. http://mangastream.info/manga/Naruto/Naruto_502/11
Shouldn't Mito Uzumaki be listed the family section of Tobirama's infobox? —This unsigned comment was made by 22.214.171.124 (talk • contribs) .
In-laws aren't listed. Omnibender - Talk - Contributions 17:59, November 24, 2010 (UTC)
- Not that I really care either way, but why aren't they? —ShounenSuki (talk | contribs | translations) 18:18, November 24, 2010 (UTC)
- I think it started with something you said actually, something about listing relationships that were important. It went down as listing blood relatives with known kinship, spouses, godparents/children and significant others, though that case was more because of Asuma and Kurenai. Omnibender - Talk - Contributions 18:27, November 24, 2010 (UTC)
- Oh yeah, I remember that... The Asuma–Kurenai matter was rather annoying... —ShounenSuki (talk | contribs | translations) 18:29, November 24, 2010 (UTC)
- I think it started with something you said actually, something about listing relationships that were important. It went down as listing blood relatives with known kinship, spouses, godparents/children and significant others, though that case was more because of Asuma and Kurenai. Omnibender - Talk - Contributions 18:27, November 24, 2010 (UTC)
Where do you get from that Tobirama has organiced the ANBU?--18.104.22.168 (talk) 17:25, February 3, 2011 (UTC)
- From what Databook exactly? Hyo?--184.108.40.206 (talk) 17:37, February 3, 2011 (UTC)
Did you even read the dang article? It is also confirmed in the anime and manga that he founded it —This unsigned comment was made by Donaldcp (talk • contribs) .
Reading the section on his ability to sense nearby ninja by touching the ground with his index finger, doesn't also make him a sensor to a degree?Umishiru (talk) 02:08, February 7, 2011 (UTC)
- He didn't simply sense others, it's like he felt vibrations on the ground or something. He didn't sense the way other sensors do. Omnibender - Talk - Contributions 02:10, February 7, 2011 (UTC)
Background stuff
For some reason I'm not too clear here but are we to assume that the incident that occured when Tobirama was with his team and Team Danzō the same incident as the one the Raikage recalled in chapter 527? --Cerez (talk) 01:12, February 12, 2011 (UTC)
- I think that's right, so yes.--NinjaSheik 01:14, February 12, 2011 (UTC)
- I thought the Raikage said that Tobirama was left on the verge of death at the coup d'etat attempt, and he actually died at the incident with Team Danzō. Or am I also confused? ~ Fmakck → Talk → Contributions 01:19, February 12, 2011 (UTC)
- I think we should treat them as separate events until we have a definitive link between the two (either courtesy of a better translation of 527 or a future chapter). ~SnapperTo 01:43, February 12, 2011 (UTC)
missile of water
In episode 71 of naruto classic tobirama spear missile of water in hizuren, no should we put one page for that jutsu, equal the article -Lava Release: Lava Geyser- that was named without no certainty of name of article then i think that we could make a article with the name -Water Release: Water Missile- please me respond. —This unsigned comment was made by Bjusdonaruto (talk • contribs) .
- From your description, it's probably Water Release: Water Dragon Bullet Technique. Omnibender - Talk - Contributions 02:13, September 17, 2011 (UTC)
- Yeah, I always thought that was the anime's representation of it. Though it does look more like missiles and sorta like the water version of Fukasaku's Fighting Tongue Slash.--Cerez365™ 13:37, September 17, 2011 (UTC)
Banned edo tensei
Edo tensei? How do we know he banned it?—This unsigned comment was made by 18.104.22.168 (talk • contribs) .
- That'd probably be from that databooks. It's categorised as a kinjutsu, hence it's "banned"--Cerez365™ 11:00, September 28, 2011 (UTC)
- Aside from it being listed as a kinjutsu, didn't Kabuto mention that Tobirama banned it? Omnibender - Talk - Contributions 21:35, September 28, 2011 (UTC)
Add to trivia?
On this page here [2] his right eye goes normal when the Third is sealing him. I haven't noticed it on any other chapters before. Worth a mention? It's not a scanning mistake either, it's pretty clear to see the difference. SusanooUnleashed (talk) 04:11, January 23, 2012 (UTC)
Doesn't something similar to that happen to everyone before Edo Tensei wears off an their soul departs? Skitts (talk) 04:21, January 23, 2012 (UTC)
- It does, it's when the summoner loses control of the edo tensei. The same thing happened to Nagato when he was being sealed, it's just that the Second's eye colour that makes it more apparent.--Cerez365™ 10:02, January 23, 2012 (UTC)
Irony galore. He is the 2nd Hokage (Fire Shadow) and he uses water jutsu
By your logic Minato nor Tsuande fit whether. A kage title does not dictate what jutsu a ninja should use.Umishiru (talk) 16:16, April 6, 2012 (UTC)
Best water style user
Why does it say in his abilities section that he's revered as the best water user in the entire series, when the reference used for that remark states no such thing? Yes, "creating water where there is no water" seems impressive on the surface, but he was merely transforming his chakra into water; a concept that wasn't full fleshed-out until the second part of the series, so what he did back then is practically commonplace. In the times he used water jutsu, the first jutsu he used created water from his mouth [As with most water jutsu], while the second manipulates the water he just created. He never at any point actually literally creates water out of thin air like that portion of the article mentioned. Was he mentioned to create water out of thin air, and be the greatest water user in a databook or something?
Wreiad (talk) 01:41, June 28, 2012 (UTC)
I too would like to know where this is stated. Kisame's Suiton ninjutsu were quite impressive in my opinion. Kaitan (talk) 06:11, February 14, 2013 (UTC)
- This is a year old discussion, so i probably should have blanked your comment, but it's a legitamite question. I don't think that it was ever said in the actual Manga, i'm not sure about Anime, but i'm pretty sure it was stated in a databook. I'll look it up and give you the entry for you and anyone else who askes this question on here can know once and for all.126.96.36.199 (talk) 06:32, February 14, 2013 (UTC) Yomiko-chan
Now, i wasn't able to find anything in the databooks about being the "best" Water Release user, the first databook said "He was a superior ninjutsu user, being able to use Water Release without being near the waterside, among many other feats.". And in the second databook it said "He is prideful of his superior combat ability, and with the Suiton jutsu which he was especially skilful at.". Here are the links to the site that i got the databook translations from-
Databook 2- http://www.narutoforums.com/showpost.php?p=22953750&postcount=111.
Databook 1- http://www.narutoforums.com/showpost.php?p=22952054&postcount=11.
I think that the "best" title may have came from the Anime.22.214.171.124 (talk) 06:57, February 14, 2013 (UTC) Yomiko-chan
Birthdate/Zodiac sign
I read that Tobirama is born on February 19, so shouldn't he be a Pisces instead of an Aquarius?
Dreamkiller0826 (talk) 16:23, December 29, 2012 (UTC)
I recall reading a discussion about this somewhere in the wiki. Don't quote me on this, but this might have to do with some peculiarity of the Japanese. This topic has appeared in someone else's talk page. Omnibender - Talk - Contributions 17:57, December 29, 2012 (UTC)
Does anyone know what episode the main picture in this article of him is from? I've been searching but I can't find it.
18.104.22.168 (talk) 05:20, February 11, 2013 (UTC)TobiramaFan
Where it says it almost destroyed the Naka Shrine, weren't they still in the Uzumaki Clan's Mask Storage Temple? Kaitan (talk) 03:29, February 16, 2013 (UTC)
- They were in the Naka Shrine.~ UltimateSupreme 06:08, February 16, 2013 (UTC)
Tobirama's is quoted as saying, "Beneath his shoulder armour he wore two bands on each arm. Though the purpose of these are not known, merely touching one of them was enough for his brother to forcefully tell him to lower his hand." I disagree with this, his pics clearly show the bands to be silver armour worn on his upper arm. I believe it's a bit speculative to assume they serve another purpose without any evidence. IMO Hashirama was reacting to the raised finger only. ref. Chapter 620 page 3-5 Arrancar79 (talk) 23:11, February 27, 2013 (UTC)
- Looking at chapter 620 again pgs 3-5, I'm even more convinced that Hashirama was only reacting to Tobirama moving his finger. The bands around his arm IMO are just armour till there's more evidence they have another function other than protection. In western armour those pieces would be referred to as Rerebraces under his Sode. Anyone have thoughts on this? Arrancar79 (talk) 05:06, March 9, 2013 (UTC)
Lol, he was just releasing his chakra, nothing to do with those bands--Elveonora (talk) 14:37, March 9, 2013 (UTC)
- Agreed, I'm removing that now. Arrancar79 (talk) 21:56, March 9, 2013 (UTC)
Folding arms
I don't really see it relevant as too him folding folding his arms it doesn't really need to be on the page and (I know it's not a forum) but where did we get that info from that tends to fold his arms ?--Jmootam1999 (talk) 22:01, March 9, 2013 (UTC)
he is shown folding his arms in almost all of his appearances in which he is passive.--J spencer93 (talk) 09:33, March 20, 2013 (UTC)
When is usual Raijin Blade isn't present in the manga/anime/or videogame, he uses a kunai instead. Anyway to add this to his weaponlist? --Aeris97 (talk) 20:29, March 15, 2013 (UTC)
For the same reasons that we don't list general skills (such as Kawarami no Jutsu, or Shunshin no Jutsu) in the characters' infobox, we do not add standard Ninja Tools to their infobox either. Unless His fighting style revolves around it, or He is known for His skill with them, then it shall not be put in His infobox.--Yomiko-chan (talk) 20:51, March 15, 2013 (UTC)


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Radiohead - Ultimate Bass Play-Along. (Book/2-CD Pack). By Radiohead. For Bass. Artist/Personality; Authentic Guitar TAB; Bass Guitar Method or Supplement; Book; Enhanced CD; Guitar TAB; Play-Along. BASS TAB. Softcover with CD. Guitar tablature. 56 pages. Alfred Music Publishing #38946. Published by Alfred Music Publishing (HL.704140). ISBN 0739086561. With guitar tablature. 9x12 inches. The Ultimate Play-Along Series gives you everything you need to jam with your favorite songs. This book contains note-for-note tab transcriptions and amazing sound-alike recordings to eight classic Radiohead songs. There are two versions of every song on the included CDs: an instrumental sound-alike recording and an instrumental accompaniment track without bass so you can play along. When you use the CDs in your Mac or Windows-based computer, the TNT (Tone 'n' Tempo) Changer lets you easily loop sections for practice, slow tracks down or speed them up without changing the pitch, change the key, and switch back and forth between the full-instrumental and play-along tracks. This pack includes: 2+2=5 • Anyone Can Play Guitar • Creep • Just • Knives Out • Optimistic • Paranoid Android • Weird Fishes/Arpeggi.
Pages: 56
Genres: Progressive Rock, Alternative Rock, Electronica, Rock
Lady Gaga. (Piano Play-Along Volume 119). By Lady Gaga. For Piano/Vocal/Guitar. Piano Play-Along. Softcover with CD. 56 pages. Published by Hal Leonard (HL.312308). ISBN 1458415767. 9x12 inches. Play 8 of your favorite songs with sound-alike CD tracks. Each volume in this series comes with a CD of orchestrated arrangements. The music in this book matches these recorded orchestrations. There are two tracks for each – a full performance for listening, plus a separate backing track which lets you be the soloist! The music even includes a separate vocal staff, plus guitar frames, so you or your friends can also sing or strum along!Songs: Alejandro • Bad Romance • Born This Way • The Edge of Glory • Just Dance • Lovegame • Paparazzi • Poker Face.
Pages: 56
Genres: Dance, Electronica, Pop
Just Dance by Lady Gaga. Arranged by Keith Richards. For handbell choir with optional guitar, bass & drums. Secular, General. Rhythm parts. Published by Hope Publishing Company (HP.2596R). Lady Gaga's first mega-hit with its catchy chorus and exciting rhythms is sure to appeal to any handbell ensemble, especially the youth ringers. The malleted bass adds the backup to the melody that will sound true to the original in a smaller (3 octave) group or larger (4-6 octave) ensemble. The addition of the optional rhythm parts (or CD accomp. track) really brings Keith Richard's setting of this pop sensation to life. Rhythm Parts: Guitar, Bass & Drums.
Genres: Dance, Electronica, Pop
Lady Gaga - Born This Way by Lady Gaga. For Piano/Vocal/Guitar (Piano/Voice/Guitar). Piano/Vocal/Guitar Artist Songbook. Book only. 120 pages. Published by Hal Leonard (HL.307310). ISBN 1458412253. 9x12 inches. Incorporating many musical genres, Born This Way is the second studio CD by the phenomenal Lady Gaga. The title track is the fastest-selling song in iTunes history, with more than a million downloads worldwide within the first five days of its release. The PVG folio from Hal Leonard includes "Born This Way" and 13 more: Americano • Bad Kids • Bloody Mary • The Edge of Glory • Electric Chapel • Government Hooker • Hair • Heavy Metal Lover • Highway Unicorn (Road to Love) • Judas • Marry the Night • Scheisse • You and I.
Pages: 120
Genres: Dance, Electronica, Pop
Radiohead - The Stories Behind Every Song by Radiohead. Music Sales America. Softcover. 226 pages. Published by Sterling Publishing (HL.14042008). ISBN 1780971583. 5.5x7.75 inches. With complex, haunting soundscapes and raw, soul-searching lyrics, Radiohead has blazed an uncompromising trail to become one of the most critically acclaimed, socially aware, and perennially popular rock acts in the world. Like such predecessors as Pink Floyd, U2, and REM, the band has maintained its underground cred even while residing at the heart of the popular mainstream. Now writer and musicologist James Doheny reveals the inside story behind every Radiohead song in a comprehensive and insightful book no true fan will want to be without.
Pages: 226
Genres: Progressive Rock, Alternative Rock, Electronica, Rock


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Feet without shoes or socks on them are bare feet. They usually feel wonderful on surfaces from sand to grass, and only really hurt on gravel. Some people do not understand the wonderful feeling that accompanies bare feet. Unfortunately, bare feet are often rejected by society as unprofessional and stinky, but bare feet are only stinky after having been cooped up in socks or shoes. Bare feet quickly lose their smell after a small dose of freedom.
Angelita loved to run around in bare feet, but Joey didn't understand until he tried it. After removing his socks and shoes he cried for joy.
by likephilshead June 10, 2009
The part of a woman that is so arousing and sexy when tied together and defenseless against a captor's desires.
With her hands tied behind her on the couch, Christina struggled helplessly as her captor played, sucked and licked her pretty bound barefeet, ignoring her protest.
by barefeet March 26, 2007


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This is an archived article that was published on sltrib.com in 2013, and information in the article may be outdated. It is provided only for personal research purposes and may not be reprinted.
Toronto • Yordany Alvarez's goal seconds before halftime helped an undermanned Real Salt Lake extend its club-record winning streak to seven games in a scrappy, card-filled 1-0 victory over Toronto FC at BMO Field on Saturday.
Head coach Jason Kreis' gamble to make changes to an RSL lineup that topped the Carolina RailHawks midweek in U.S. Open Cup action paid dividends in first-half stoppage time when Alvarez rifled a goal past Toronto FC keeper Joe Bendik.
With both sides resigned to entering halftime goalless, RSL's Olmes Garcia laid off to Alvarez at the top of the box before the Cuban produced his side-netting blast from the corner of the box.
"A lot of the questions are answered in matches," Kreis said of his lineup. "Our belief in our depth continues to grow."
Already without Alvaro Saborio (international duty), Salt Lake's bench boss rested defenders Chris Wingert and Carlos Salcedo, in addition to midfielders Khari Stephenson and Ned Grabavoy. Despite going without Saborio, Kreis left Robbie Findley out of his lineup with an eye toward Wednesday's game at home to Philadelphia.
"I think everybody's heading in the right direction," Kreis said. "I've always said that's what gets you results in this league, and I continue to think so."
That, and the ability to see games out in difficult environments on the road, especially after going down to 10 men with 15 minutes remaining.
Bad blood boiled over in the 79th minute when Tony Beltran dealt TFC's Luis Silva a two-handed shove. That kicked off a two-minute melee that saw Toronto's Doneil Henry sent off and Beltran issued a second caution.
"When Silva was on the ground he lashed out and kicked Beltran," Kreis said of the dust-up. "We have to adjust our own situation and not be too concerned with them and say, 'Hey, Tony, that's not the right reaction.' "
The ejections saw Salt Lake drop 10 men behind the ball to preserve its single-goal lead.
With Toronto knocking on the door in second-half stoppage time, Salt Lake needed a trio of match-saving defensive plays to see things out.
Toronto's first chance came when Jeremy Brockie headed down a cross at the near post that Nick Rimando kept out with a reflex save.
Brockie had a second chance in the 94th minute after out-jumping Rimando to win a 50-50 battle that Nat Borchers cleared off the line.
"The ball checked up on the dry field," Rimando said. "Nat was there to rescue to me. … It's not just me making saves."
Rimando made a final save off a corner seconds before full time when TFC's Steven Caldwell failed to make good contact at the back post.
Brockie was also involved in a bit of first-half controversy after TFC's appeals for a penalty went unheard minutes before Alvarez's opener. Borchers appeared to clip Brockie after pushing it around RSL's center back in the 42nd minute.
Toronto had another chance to open the scoring just after the start when Bobby Convey skipped in alone only to see his shot go wide.
The win put Salt Lake three points clear atop the Western Conference on 33 points, ahead of Portland and FC Dallas.
Real Salt Lake 1, Toronto FC 0
O Yordany Alvarez scores the game's only goal in first-half stoppage time.
• RSL plays without forwards Alvaro Saborio and Robbie Findley, defenders Chris Wingert and Carlos Salcedo, and midfielders Khari Stephenson and Ned Grabavoy.
• Rick Rimando makes two saves in second-half stoppage time, and Nat Borchers makes another save by clearing the ball off the goal line.
Real Salt Lake 1 Toronto FC 0
Real Salt Lake 1 0 1
Toronto FC 0 0 0
First half » 1, Real Salt Lake, Alvarez 1 (Garcia, Beltran), 45th minute.
Second half » None.
Goalies » Real Salt Lake, Nick Rimando; Toronto FC, Joe Bendik.
Yellow Cards • Garcia, Real Salt Lake, 25th Palmer, Real Salt Lake, 34th Koevermans, Toronto FC, 37th Richter, Toronto FC, 60th Findley, Real Salt Lake, 79th Caldwell, Toronto FC, 90th+.
Red Cards • Beltran, Real Salt Lake, 79th; Henry, Toronto FC, 79th.
Referee • Chris Penso. Assistant Referees • Peter Manikowski. Matthew Nelson. 4th Official • Mark Kadlecik.
Attendance » 20,841 (20,000)
Real Salt Lake • Nick Rimando, Tony Beltran, Aaron Maund, Nat Borchers, Lovel Palmer, Javier Morales, Kyle Beckerman, Yordany Alvarez, Joao Plata (Ned Grabavoy, 62nd), Devon Sandoval (Kenny Mansally, 82nd), Olmes Garcia (Robbie Findley, 69th).
Toronto FC • Joe Bendik, Doneil Henry, Ryan Richter, Darren O'Dea, Steven Caldwell, Matias Laba, Jonathan Osorio, Jeremy Brockie, Jeremy Hall (Justin Braun, 59th), Bobby Convey (Reggie Lambe, 86th), Danny Koevermans (Luis Silva, 55th).


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Other Names: None
Location: Clarke County
Campaign: Sheridan's Shenandoah Valley Campaign (August-December 1864)
Date(s): September 3-4, 1864
Principal Commanders: Maj. Gen. Philip Sheridan [US]; Lt. Gen. Jubal Early [CS]
Forces Engaged: Corps
Estimated Casualties: 500 total
Description: Maj. Gen. Philip Sheridan's divisions marched south from Halltown, reaching Berryville on September 3. Happening upon elements of Brig. Gen. George Crook's corps going into camp, Maj. Gen. R.H. Anderson's (Kershaw's) division attacked with limited results. During the night, Early brought up his entire army but by daylight found Sheridan's position too strongly entrenched to assault. General Early withdrew after dark behind Opequon Creek.
Result(s): Inconclusive
CWSAC Reference #: VA118
Preservation Priority: II.3 (Class C)
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Okay... first and foremost, I must retract my so-so assesment of the coffee cake! It has improved overnight and is now half-gone! (Largely due to my heroic efforts) It's moist and yummy and quite delectable. Musty and I both give it an enthusiastic thumbs up, as you can see!
Tonight's dinner was boring... just leftovers and such. More soup, corn, and watermelon... I didn't get home from teaching until about 9:15pm, and I'm not up for much cooking at that hour.


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In This Issue:
- Agile and Traditional Governance
- Hot Links
Agile and Traditional Governance
The other night I gave a Scaling Agile presentation to the Washington DC chapters of Agile Project Leadership Network (APLN) and the International Association of Software Architects (IASA). Towards the end of the presentation I overviewed the practices of Lean Development Governance and someone asked a question about how agile projects would fit into an existing IT governance structure. This is a fairly common question that I get from time to time and it struck me that it's something I should write about in a bit more detail. So here goes.
The easy answer is "yes", agile software development projects can very likely be shoe-horned into your existing IT governance program. The not-so-easy answer is this likely isn't a good idea because your existing IT governance program is probably a mess that's potentially doing more damage than good. Worse yet, you might be so overwhelmed with rhetoric from the traditional governance folks that you aren't able to even observe the problems that your governance program is causing you. As I've written previously, traditional governance programs are often based on command-and-control strategies which often do little more than layer yet more bureaucracy into your IT department, thereby increasing risk. Many IT governance programs are effectively out of control in practice due (ironically) to a lack of governance: a favorite question that I like to ask senior managers is how do they governing their governance programs, to which I often get blank stares. Effective governance, which agile development teams should step up and demand from their organizations, is based on enablement, motivation, and collaboration " governance should help, not hinder, development teams.
In this gentleman's case his organization has an existing Earned Value Management (EVM) approach to monitoring project teams. Unfortunately EVM is a hot button topic for me and I suspect I subjected the audience to a bit more ranting than they wanted about EVM's inherent evils. Specifically, EVM doesn't actually measure earned value at all but instead tracks cost and time expended against the original plan, so in effect EVM is little more than a euphemism. The real problem is the assumption that the original plan was accurate, an assumption which invariably proves to be false, so in practice EVM effectively measures your progress against a work of fiction. All is not lost because smart managers know that they need to update their schedules and estimates throughout a project to reflect what is actually occurring. So, in this situation under an EVM regime you would then update your EVM calculations to reflect your new plan, enabling you to show that you're pretty much on track if you update on a frequent basis. The implication is that either EVM is an expensive way to gauge how poor your up front planning ability is (something you probably know already), a way for management to force projects to stick to an untenable plan (which would effectively be poor governance), or an expensive way to show that you're sticking to your evolving plan.
EVM also blinds management to a very big risk inherent in waterfall approaches, the fact that true value isn't delivered by traditional development teams until very late in the lifecycle. To see why this is true, consider the following example. A traditional team and an agile team are each part way through their respective projects, and both teams are claiming 70 percent earned value. The traditional team is a little more than half-way through the construction phase and the agile team is into the 8th of 12 planned iterations. The traditional team has some of its code working but still has a lot of programming to do and has yet to begin serious testing. The agile team has been implementing requirements in priority order and producing potentially shippable software each iteration. For whatever reasons the funding gets pulled from each project team and each are given two weeks of clean up time after which they are expected to deploy their system into production. The traditional team isn't in a position to ship anything because the system is only partially built and effectively untested. The agile team has a bit more than 2/3 of the most important functionality implemented and tested. In the end the traditional team hadn't earned any value at all, regardless of what they'd reported to senior management, whereas the agile team did in fact earn the value they were reporting (granted, 2/3 of the functionality might not be enough, but at least they have a viable option of shipping something). The implication is that an EVM-based approach papered over the fact that traditional approaches don't produce real value, which in the case of software development is the production of working software, until the very end of the project.
A more insidious problem is in organizations that have a gated governance strategy based on the traditional waterfall approach. The basic idea is that there is some sort of up-front planning stage where the team needs to do initial requirements, perform some sort of feasibility analysis, and then put together a project plan for the rest of the effort. The next gate is usually requires some sort of architecture or detailed design to be developed and then signed off, and so on. At a high-level these sound like fairly decent governance gates, but in practice they tend to motivate very bad behavior on the part of development teams (more on this in a minute).
My experience is that you'd rather have gates defined around stakeholder concurrence and proving the architecture works through building a working skeleton of the system (along the lines of what's suggested by the Unified Process). These gates are focused on reducing major risks on your project, the stakeholders not agreeing on the goals of the project and the technology not working respectively. The difference is in the level of documentation and bureaucracy that you take on. With the Unified Process approach you don't need to baseline the requirements to come to stakeholder concurrence (two things which are orthogonal to each other), nor do you need to baseline the detailed design to sign off on the architecture (also two orthogonal concepts).
The problem arises when management demands that the project teams provide detailed project plans and estimates early in the project, and expect them to stick to them. Or to produce detailed designs before coding to those designs begins. Organizations that try to fit agile development into waterfall governance frameworks such as this typically have a very narrow view of agile being only applicable to software construction. The reality is that agile approaches are applicable to the entire software development lifecycle, not just construction. By forcing your agile teams to conform to your waterfall governance structure you still take on the risks of serial approaches, including:
- Lower stakeholder satisfaction. Overly detailed specification early in the lifecycle, referred to as "Big Requirements Up Front" (BRUF), results in delivering a lot of software that people don't actually want.
- Lower quality. Early, detailed specification of the design results in systems which should work on paper but often run into significant problem months or years later during construction when the team discovers problems that the architects didn't think through. Furthermore, hand-offs between groups of people increases the defects being injected into the product, and the collaborative and iterative nature of agile has far fewer hand-offs than traditional approaches.
- Lower returns. Total value of ownership (TVO) is reduced because the longer time required of serial approaches pushes out the period during which you gain value from the release of the system. Also, serial approaches typically push significant testing efforts to the end of the development lifecycle, increasing the average cost to fix the defects once they are found (the average cost of fixing defects has been shown to rise exponentially the longer the time between when they are injected and subsequently found).
In summary, effective governance is very important to the success of software development teams, something that is true regardless of your development paradigm. Although traditional approaches to governance may work well for traditional development teams, and please note the use of the word "may". they often prove detrimental to agile development teams. When adopting agile approaches within your organization I highly suggest that you take the time to rethink your approach to IT governance.
Hot Links
My October 2008 newsletter Why Developers Should Demand Effective IT Governance (Yet Have Little Hope of Getting It) examines the issues surrounding traditional strategies for IT governance and argues for leaner, more agile strategies.
The IBM Whitepaper Lean Development Governance by myself and Per Kroll overviews a collection of practice for effective governance of development projects.
My blog posting Scaling Agile with Risk-Based Milestones shows how to apply the Unified Process's milestone review points to effectively govern agile projects.
My August 2008 column, Fixed-Price Software Development Unethical? examines the impact of doing detailed "accurate" up-front estimates on development projects.
My September 2007 column Agile on a Fixed Budgetdescribes strategies for running agile projects for all combinations of fixing, or not fixing, the schedule, scope, and budget. So, if you're going to do fixed price you should at least be smart about it.
My May 2008 newsletter Questioning Earned Value Management on IT Projects overviews why EVM proves to be a rather poor approach to monitoring IT projects. To be fair the traditional folks have few decent options available to them due to the inherent risks associated with serial approaches, but the agile community can do much better.
My article The Agile Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC) overviews the full agile development lifecycle, giving you a better understanding of how agile strategies apply to the full lifecycle and not just construction.
The article Examining the Big Requirements Up Front (BRUF) Approach overviews the evidence showing that writing detailed requirements documents early in the lifecycle leads to significant levels of waste on software development projects.
The Agile Project Leadership Network (APLN) homepage is here.
The International Association of Software Architects (IASA) home page is here.
The article Why Agile Software Development Techniques Work: Improved Feedback discusses the impact of adopting agile techniques which have a shorter feedback cycle than traditional techniques.
My [email protected] blog discusses strategies for adopting and applying agile strategies in the complex environments.


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We reported Monday on four foreign-made vehicles vandalized in a suburban Detroit shopping center and now you can see the perp in action for yourselves from the shopping center security cam.
All four foreign-made cars were found by their owners with two tires slashed and the words "Buy USA" scrawled across the windshield. We mentioned in our earlier post police were looking for a middle-aged man driving a red Ford Escape, but had yet to catch a lead on the identity of the man. As you can see in the video above, the man parks his car, does the slicing and dicing then quickly goes on with his day presumably in a hurry to plot his next act of Carpocalypse heroism.
When the government doesn't hurry and take action, leave it to the real 'heroes' of the community to do their part.
(Thanks for the tip Henry!)
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Super Gamedev Weekend/2011
A whole weekend to create new games, the popular concept of 48hrs game development jams is taking its place at metalab once more. The weekend is 9th to 11th of december 2011. At the beginning (that's at around 6pm) we will jam to agree on a common topic and at the end of the event all participants are invited to vote on everyone's game to find the winner of a fantastic price.
Participants (add yourself please)
Pretty much anyone can participate, a good game dev team consists of a programmer, a graphic artist, a sound artist and a writer. Teams are often established before the weekend but you can compete solo or join forces with others on Friday. You don't have to add yourself to the list, just turn up at metalab.
- TomK32 and beanieboi will defend last year's victory
- Kelvan
- Knizz
- simon
- beanie (+2)
- ido
- +1 // Metalab - Member // ich will nicht von google indiziert werden :P
- +1 // Google liebt dich ;)
- Elk
- +2
Solo participants are welcome but a team of two to four people is most efficient. During the event please add your team and game here and update often to keep track of progress. Metalab has a github account for open source games: http://github.com/metalab
It's yet uncertain if metalab will provide a price like last year, but there's already €50 in the pot from one of the participants.
Some Help
- Tutorial for Javascript games: http://www.html5rocks.com/en/tutorials/casestudies/onslaught.html#toc-the-game-loop
- Game about creating games: http://primerlabs.com/codehero
- Lua based sdk for all kinds of mobile devices: http://getmoai.com/
- Lacking ideas? Steal one: http://www.reddit.com/r/gamemechanics
Super simple tools are e.g. http://www.bfxr.net/ and Audacity for editing your sounds.
Archived Workshops
Last year we had a workshop for everyone new to game programming and if interest is strong enough we might re-schedule those.
The chaotic and bug-infested presentation on Sunday set aside, Subotron has invited us to present the finished(?) games at their pro games series, that would be on December 22nd, enough time to really finish our games ;-)
ludum dare 22
Want more? The week after, from 16th to 18th december, ludum dare 22 is taking place and a few metalabber will compete for this as well.
Organisation / Questions
Questions to firstname.lastname@example.com


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Benjamin "Pap" Singleton
A leader in the "Great Exodus" that brought thousands of African Americans west from the post-Reconstruction South, Benjamin Singleton became toward the end of his life a pioneer of black nationalism who launched one of the first back-to-Africa movements in the United States.
Singleton was born in 1809 in Nashville, Tennessee, where he was several times sold as a slave but always managed to escape. Eventually, he fled to Canada, then settled in Detroit, Michigan, where he ran a boardinghouse that frequently sheltered runaway slaves.
Returning to Tennessee after the Civil War, Singleton became convinced that it was his mission to help his people improve their lives. He began in the late 1860's by organizing an effort to buy up Tennessee farmland for blacks, but this plan failed when white landowners refused to sell at fair prices.
Undaunted, Singleton set his sights on Kansas, where he and a partner named Columbus Johnson staked out a black settlement in Cherokee County (which failed) and a second settlement in Morris County. Singleton spread the word about his settlements through posters that circulated widely across the South, and he formed a company with Johnson that helped hundreds of black Tennesseans move to Kansas between 1877 and 1879.
Those who answered Singleton's call to head west became known as "Exodusters," and Singleton himself was described as the "Father of the Exodus." But the massive migration of African Americans from the South that reached a peak in 1879 was not inspired by Singleton alone. The driving force was the withdrawl of federal troops from the South in 1877, which marked the official end of Reconstruction and the return of racial oppression through segregation laws and the terrorist activities of groups like the Ku Klux Klan. By 1879, which became known as the year of the "Great Exodus," some 50,000 blacks had fled to freedom in Kansas, Missouri, Indiana and Illinois, while thousands more had been turned back by whites patrolling the rivers and roads.
In 1880, Singleton was called to testify at Congressional hearings on the alarming migration of blacks from the South. By 1881, however, Singleton had begun a new phase in his campaign to aid his people, organizing a party called the United Colored Links in a black section of Topeka, Kansas, called "Tennessee Town" because so many natives of that state lived there. Affiliated with the Greenbacks, a white workers' party that called for fundmental social change in the United States, Singleton's Links party was intended to help African Americans acquire their own factories and start their own industries. Unfortunately, Singleton soon discovered that there was not enough capital within the black community to achieve this goal.
Shifting his sights again, in 1883 Singleton founded an organization called the Chief League, which encouraged blacks to emigrate to the island of Cyprus. Few responded to his call, so in 1885 he formed the Trans-Atlantic Society to help black people move back to their ancestral homeland in Africa. By 1887, this group, too, had proven unsuccessful. Suffering poor health, Singleton was forced at last to retire from his self-appointed mission, and in 1892 he died in St. Louis. But his vision of a society in which African Americans owned the land, directed the industries and held the power would live on, finding a charismatic champion in Marcus Garvey, whose Universal Negro Improvement Association of the early 1920's briefly realized many of Singleton's dreams.
For more information: Nell Irvin Painter, Exodusters: Black Migration to
Kansas Following Reconstruction (University of Kansas Press, 1986).
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ehsanul needed a new web page design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 73 designs submitted by 16 freelance designers.
Jellly is a tool that let's you find web pages related to what you're currently browsing. It's like Amazon's recommendations or YouTube's related videos, but for the entire web.
We like these, but feel free to deviate:
http://rapportive.com/ <- would like someone to try this layout (or similar)
http://www.stumbleupon.com/ <- would like someone to try this layout
http://directededge.com/ <- we already got many entries with this layout
The current home/landing page we have up is designed by a non-designer (me), and could use a good redesign. The current one is a little plain/bland and just looks like it's missing something. We'd still like it to have a clean, uncluttered look though, fitting for a modern web startup.
The main purpose of the new landing page will be to explain what Jellly is and convince people to try our browser extension. So there will be a big button for it somewhere on the page, and the design should strongly feature it.
As for more specific requirements:
- Keep the logo typographical (think Facebook/Flickr/Google), we don't want a mascot.
- There needs to be a navigation bar of some sort - Blog/Learn More/About/Feedback.
- The main thing we want people to be directed at is a single button which is supposed to install our browser extension.
- It would be nice to have a simple graphic which helps people understand what Jellly does at a glance. We don't have screenshots, so it would have to be some type of simple illustration.
I'll be checking in often to check and answer any questions you might have, and provide feedback.
Another thing to note is that we really dislike generic stock photography, so please try not to use any unless it's extremely appropriate.
Good luck!


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Tour 14
Petersburg-Emporia-(Weldon,N.C.); US 301Petersburg to North Carolina Line, 52.4 m.
Paved roadbed throughout, largely with asphalt. Atlantic Coast Line R.R. parallels route. Accommodations chiefly in towns.
US 301 passes through slightly rolling Southside where cotton, peanuts, and tobacco are grown. Much of the area was a battleground during the Revolution and the War between the States. The route runs through the center of the Petersburg National Military Park (see also Tour 1 and Tour 18).
US 301 branches south from Washington St., 0 m., on Sycamore St. in PETERSBURG.
The SITE OF FORT MAHONE (R), is at 2.2 m. This Confederate fortification was named for General William Mahone, whose division occupied it in 1864. On the remnants of the fort is a tall stone monument to the memory of the Third Division of the Federal Ninth Corps. Fort Mahone was lost during Grant's drive on the morning of April 2, 1865.
The PENNSYLVANIA MONUMENT (L), 2.3 m., honors the dead of the 48th Regiment, Pennsylvania Volunteers, composed of coal miners who excavated the mine that was later exploded and formed the Crater (,a href="tour18.html">see Tour 18).
Here (L) is a junction with County 634, a part of the Jerusalem Plank Road over which farmers rolled tobacco to Petersburg.
Lefton County 634 to the DEFENDERS' MONUMENT (R), 0.2 m., erected in memory of the old men and boys of Petersburg who, on June 9, 1864, held off a cavalry force of 1,300 men under General A. V. Kautz until reinforced by Confederate cavalry.
The FEDERAL TUNNELS (L), 2.5 m. (adm- 40 cents), are a reconstruction of Fort Sedgwick, named for General John Sedgwick, who was killed at the Battle of Spotsylvania Courthouse (see Tour 10). This Federal fortification was built as the Union lines were extended to the left in the early summer of 1864. The amount of ammunition used here when the fort was earning its nickname Fort Hell is said to have been enormous. Likewise owned privately is a museum containing many battlefield relics.
At 3.1 m. is a junction with a park road.
Right on this road, which circles westward along the line of Federal entrenchments and returns eastward along the Confederate line to the vicinity of Fort Mahone.
FORT DAVIS (L), 0.1 m., formed another unit for the left flank of the Union army. When Grant had extended his lines to this vicinity, he began construction of Fort Davis, and on June 21, 1864, he sent two corps and a large force of cavalry to attempt to cut the railroads leading into Petersburg. The cavalry advanced to Reams' Station and turned westward on a raid. While the Sixth Corps swung southward and accomplished nothing, the Second Corps advanced against the railroad, three miles west, and was defeated by Mahone's Confederate division on June 22.
FORT WADSWORTH, 3.5 m., was named for Federal General James S. Wadsworth, killed May 6, 1864, in the Battle of the Wilderness (see Tour 10). just beyond the fort are the tracks of the former Petersburg and Weldon R. R., now part of the Atlantic Coast Line. Because it was one of the railroads that supplied Lee's army, Grant reeatedly sought its destruction, but Lee managed to protect it with only occasional breaks.
On August 18, 1864, the Federals cut the railroad at this point, began construction of Fort Wadsworth, and for four days defeated every effort on the part of the Confederates to dislodge them. Failing in a contemporaneous movement to break through to Richmond north of the James River (see Tour 24), Grant made an unsuccessful attempt to destroy this road at Reams Station (see below).
At 4.6 m. on US 301 is a junction with County 629.
Left here to the BELSCHES HOUSE (L), I m., formerly called Bell Hill. The old remodeled house, a two-story frame structure, was at one time the home of Alexander Belsches, who distinguished himself during the War of 1812 in a battle between the Constitution and the British frigate Guerriere. For his bravery the State of Virginia bestowed upon him a sword.
Adjoining the Belsches House is FORT PATRICK KELLY, well-preserved breastworks now thickly covered by trees and underbrush. This Federal outpost was used by Grant during the Siege of Petersburg.
SECOND SWAMP, 5.7 m., is the headwater of streams that once supplied power for several Colonial grist mills.
At 8 m. is a junction with County 608.
Right here to OLD GARY'S CHURCH (L), 0.5 m. The congregation was organized after a Methodist revival meeting held in 1787 by Jesse Lee at Jones's Hole near by. Built in 188o the frame building was a successor to the barn given James Cary for the first meetings.
At 10.3 m. on US 30 1 is a junction with County 62 1.
Left here to County 63 8, 1.8 m., and L. to LEE'S MILL (R), 2.3 m., said to have been in use since the Revolution. Here, on July 12, 1864, part of General Fitzhugh Lee's command engaged in a lively skirmish with Federal cavalry, routing the enemy and capturing 33 prisoners and 30 horses.
At 11 m. on US 301 is a junction with County 622.
Right here to County 606, 2.2 m., and L. to REAMS STATION, 3.3 m., a depot on the former Petersburg and Weldon R.R.
On June 22, 1864, Generals James H. Wilson and A. V. Kautz, with 6,000 cavalry, tore up track, burned the station, and started on a raid westward. Upon returning, on June 29, they were surprised here by Confederate infantry and cavalry. Abandoning their wagons and guns, the Union cavalrymen fled southward with General Fitzhugh Lee's cavalry in pursuit. On August 25, General W.S. Hancock's Second Corps was badly beaten here by General A.P. Hill's corps and General Wade Hampton's cavalry.
At 13.8 m. on US 301 is a junction with County 604.
Right here to SHILOH BAPTIST CHURCH (R), 0.6 m., with a congregation organized in 1836. When admitted to the Portsmouth Baptist Association, Shiloh had a membership Of 24.
STONY CREEK, 21.4 m. (74 alt., 465 pop.), with freshly painted houses and well-kept yards, thrives with the support of lumber mills, a peanut plant, and the trade of a well-to-do farming area. There was much activity here during the last year of the War between the States. On May 7, 1864, General A.V. Kautz burned the railroad bridge over Stony Creek, just west of which, on June 28, the cavalry of General Wade Hampton defeated the cavalry of Wilson and Kautz, causing them to abandon silks, furniture, horses, silverware, and about 1,000 Negroes, the result of pillaging that later provoked a Federal headquarters investigation. Later, on December 1, Federal cavalry raided the depot and captured the station guard of 170 men. At Stony Creek during this winter was maintained a Confederate forage station, a source of supply for Lee's army that was cut off March 31, 1865, when Dinwiddie Courthouse was occupied by Federal troops.
At 22.1 m. is a junction with State 40.
Left here to SUSSEX, 7 m. (50 POP.), seat of Sussex County, a close-knit settlement with a general store and the usual buildings that surround a Virginia courthouse.
The SUSSEX COUNTY COURTHOUSE, built of brick in 1828 is on a large tree-shaded green. The central section projects over an arcaded loggia and at the center of the roof is a small bell tower. Sussex County was formed in 1754 from Surry and named for Sussex County, England
The small TREASURER 'S OFFICE was built simultaneously with the courthouse.
The CLERK'S OFFICE, erected in 1924, contains county records dating from the formation of the county, among them a deed signed by Thomas Rolfe, son of Pocahontas.
The large DILLARD HOUSE, built in 1802 by C.H. Bailey, was the repository of the clerk's records until the courthouse was built.
For about 10 miles south of a junction with County 640, at 26.1 m., US 301 follows the old Halifax Road, which led to Halifax, in the North Carolina tobacco belt. Cornwallis marched over this road in his invasion of Virginia in May 1781. Because Lieutenant Colonel Banastre Tarleton had
cleared the path for his general, Cornwallis met little opposition. On this march the British are said to have committed 'enormities that were a disgrace to the name of man.'
JARRATT (154 alt., 200 pop.), 31.5 m., at a crossing of two railroads, began to grow in 1938 when the Johns-Manville Company established an insulating-board plant here.
On May 8, 1864, the village was burned by General Kautz to delay Beauregard. On December 8, track was torn up here by a large Federal force operating under Warren on retreat from Belfield. Warren withdrew to his lines near Petersburg in time to avoid conflict with General A.P. Hill's 16,000 Confederates, concentrating here on the morning of December I I.
EMPORIA, 42 m. (2,144 POP.), seat of Greensville County, is composed of North Emporia and South Emporia, two old towns formerly Belfield and Hicksford, separated by the Meherrin River. The town, of well-kept, attractive homes, has a lively air created by the presence of machine shops, lumber, cotton, and tapestry mills, veneer and candy factories, and peanut plants. It ships cotton and peanuts.
The old town of Hicksford, or Hicksville, grew up near the site of a ford, named for Captain Robert Hix, an Indian trader who was captain of the garrison at Fort Christanna (see Tour 7b) in 1717. He accompanied Governor Alexander Spotswood to Albany, N.Y., in 1722, to negotiate a treaty with the Five Nations, and in 1728 was a member of Colonel William Byrd's surveying expeditions.
On December 10, 1864, when Warren reached Belfield, he found Hampton protecting the railroad bridge from a well-fortified position. Repulsed, Warren returned to his lines at Petersburg. Hampton's cavalry remained here for a month while repairs were being made on the railroad.
The GREENSVILLE COUNTY COURTHOUSE, a two-story brick building with large, columned portico, was built in 1787. The county was formed in 1781 from Brunswick.
The REESE HOUSE, in North Emporia, was Butts Tavern for many years.
Emporia is at a junction with US 58 (see Tour 7a).
At 47.7 m. is a junction with County 621.
Right here to large GRANITE QUARRIES, 2 m., which ships quantities of fine stone.
At 52.5 m. US 301 crosses the North Carolina Line at a point 12 miles north of Weldon, N.C. (see North Carolina Guide).


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Monday, October 29, 2018
Images of Mary Fedden's Home
Posted by Aubrey Levinthal
I am a painter born and living in Philadelphia. I started this blog as a way to organize and collect my own sources of inspiration, and reflect on my experiences looking at and making paintings. With so much art buzzing around the internet, I felt like carving out this little space for a particular type of seeing and making, and drawing connections between them.
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Bluegrass Jam
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Grab your fiddle, guitar, banjo, or mandolin and come join us at the Bluegrass Jam! Together, in The ArtsCenter's Gallery, we'll play some old time and bluegrass favorites. Feel free to join in playing the chord progression or try taking a break or two! Whether you're a beginner or a long-time player, bassist or vocalist, play banjo or mandolin or fiddle or guitar, this jam will be an opportunity to hone your skills, meet some other musicians and have a lot of fun! All levels and instruments are welcome! Admission free, donations welcome.


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2001 Clos du Marquis - France, Bordeaux, Médoc, St. Julien (8/18/2013)
I've been slogging through a case of this wine, consistently finding it dull and oaky. Well this weekend the wine proved me wrong. Twelve years in there is balance, depth and fine drinkability. What had seemed a burden has become a delight, with subtle fruit married to earthy, leathery and cedary elements that just evoke Bordeaux for me. Damn my impatience.


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Linux currently is very usable as a desktop operating system and shares with FreeBSD the same X windows environment, the same window managers, the most of the available opensource programs, etc.. - so with just a few additions FreeBSD can do the same good job as Linux does.
We are talking about just a f** player after all !!! How much money are needed for this??... We don't need the whole adobe flash suite to be ported to FreeBSD, for God's shake!!
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And the WORD was made flesh, and dwelt among us. (John 1:14)
And the WORD was made flesh, and dwelt among us. (John 1:14)
"UNIX is basically a simple operating system, but you have to be a genius to understand the simplicity."
MacBook Pro (Darwin 9), iMac (Darwin 9), iPod Touch (Darwin 9), Dell Optiplex GX620 (FreeBSD 7.1-STABLE)
And the WORD was made flesh, and dwelt among us. (John 1:14)
Now, I really don't mean to be rude (especially since I don't have time to read every post twice across both pages).
But I think everyone should forget the distinction between "Server OS" and "Desktop OS", it doesn't matter.
Must be stable
Must be easy to work with
Must be secure
Must run owners services
Must be stable
Must be easy to work with
Hopefully considers security
Must run owners applications
FreeBSD is a unix like operating system, so it is portable, multi-tasking and multi-user. One could argue that the level of multi-user features present in unix like systems is overkill for a "desktop" --> Coming from a Win 98/XP background I find it superior to comparable features in the leading desktop OS. FreeBSD furfills the needs of *both* server and desktop well, so does GNU/Linux, so does OSX, so does Windows Vista. The proper question to pose, is "can I use X system as Y?".
I need decent clients for smtp, imap, pop, http/https, and ftp (e.g. a MUA, WWW Browser, and 'ftp'). Plus vim, instant messengering for the major networks, pdf/ps and image viewers, a type setting system that can yield PDF/PS documents (e.g. *tex /or groff), and playback support for many audio/video formats. With strict requirements for decent multi-tasking capability, >=20GB of file system, and obeying my concept that a "reboot means something huge" and not a fresh coat of paint.
Thus I can use just about any operating system that has the ability to display images. Some people have different needs, who knows, maybe someone *must* have some advanced program for chemical analysis or something; that means they need a system that meets there needs and supports that software. Some peoples needs for a desktop OS might still fit on a PDP-1, others might be beyond mans current reach....
But it's not the operating system that makes a server or a desktop, it's the purpose it serves. What system is used, depends on need and choice. If you can do the same things on OSX as you can on Vista, choose the one you like... There isn't *that* much difference, as far as regular users are concerned.
(Point of reference/hypocritic note: I do know a few people using windows server installs as a 'desktop os', for one reason or another.... and personally find it strange)
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Thou shalt check the array bounds of all strings (indeed, all arrays), for surely where thou typest ``foo'' someone someday shall type ``supercalifragilisticexpialidocious''.
.... back to regular programming ....
I personally find the XP/Vista limitation to a single user to be absolutely maddening. Presumably the server version does not suffer from this limitation.
I use FreeBSD as a desktop, and so far it does what I need. I keep an XP drive in my system mainly for a few games, but as things like Wine/Crossover/Cedega mature more and more, the need for XP is becoming less. Especially since each install of XP I've done becomes unpredictable (some set-ups are fine, while others crash on trivial common things.)
The things I look for in a desktop set-up are (in no particular order):
-Ability to surf the Internet
-IM client
-Multimedia player
-Af ew good games
-Customizablilty (wallpaper, sounds, icons, etc)
-(Optional) Eye-candy
-Fast performance
Flash is optional for me, but preferred (newgrounds.com & youtube junkie)
And I have also heard of a few people using Windows Server as a desktop. Someone a month or two ago posted a comment on Distrowatch.com saying the server 2008 was "the best desktop OS I've ever used." I might check that out in the future...maybe.
I'm aware of people using Windows server as a desktop, too. Until just a few weeks ago, I had been using fbsd as my desktop for over a year. I'm compiling programs for someone elses linux server right now so switching to Ubuntu was convenient but I do find it inconvenient not being able to play flash on fbsd.nk
I said this elsewhere. If I had some time, I'd port it myself.
Well, you can do three things:
o Stop looking and the OS and start looking at the applications, the OS isn't *that* important, applications are, and many applications for UNIX just plain suck.
o Stop complaining about FreeBSD that ``must'' do X, or ``should'' implement feature Y and start working on it, either by programming, recruiting, raising funds, whatever ... Just sitting and complaining isn't constructive and a waste of time.
o If you're not prepared to start working on it, then suck it up or use another OS.
There is a point where helpful criticism stops, the flash player issues comes back again and again and again and again, if we were to put all the flash threads on the various forums/lists in one place I fear it would collapse in on itself and start to absorb light.
But it's not very good, no, you can't just quickly ``su'' to the Administrator account, which is why I (And almost everyone else) just give their main account Administrator privileges.
UNIX was not designed to stop you from doing stupid things, because that would also stop you from doing clever things.
On the larger topic of what to do when the OS does not support something what you want, there are also the options of waiting until it is fixed (which does happens -- VMware or VBox will make it one of these days to FreeBSD) or working around it. I have enough computers that I keep some windows boxes running. Then I don't really need a VM, though it would be nice. Flash9/Firefox/Wine also works OK, though it is no replacement for a Linux version and lpw.
That brings me to the next ponit. Whether an application sucks or not depends on the user because each user's required feature set will be different from another's.
"UNIX is basically a simple operating system, but you have to be a genius to understand the simplicity."
MacBook Pro (Darwin 9), iMac (Darwin 9), iPod Touch (Darwin 9), Dell Optiplex GX620 (FreeBSD 7.1-STABLE)
FreeBSD is an operating system - period.
It happens to excel at being a server platform.
With a little due diligence on the user's part - it makes a fairly decent desktop platform, esp. for developers, sysadmins and unix fanboys.
You want a great BSD desktop - Steve Jobs owns this little company called Apple and had the foresight to move to a BSD-based OS dubbed Darwin, atop which they slapped a pretty darn slick GUI.
Right tool for the right job, I say. If I want to play Bioshock, I boot into XP, if I want to do dev work or do infosec research, I boot to BSD.
Besides, the desktop persona of BSD is in the hands of the folks developing Xorg, Gnome, KDE and all the desktop apps and not necessarily within the control of those at FreeBSD.
My workstation (at work) is a BSD desktop (Xorg/Gnome) but due to the nature of business environments, I also have a notebook running XP Pro since I have to admin servers of all kinds. I think BSD makes for a good desktop platform, but I'm willing to put the work in. A slightly easier route but still unix would be Debian (IMO).
I am not computer educated but I use computers. I started with DOS and it works for me than came OS/2 which was very good OS IMO and BTW I started to use Star Office (now OpenOffice). Than I changed OS/2 with Linux. It was hard to installed this time but I stay with Linux. KDE, I think version one, was good for my desktop computer. But I was scared to install FreeBSD but not so long ago I put FreeBSD beta on my desktop computer and it worked and works very good. What about Flash? I use gnash and it works for me. There are also many free programs for genetics which are very good and at work and at private life I recommended FreeBSD to everyone for the desktop computer.
Linux is trying to be a jack of all trades, like windows.
These discussions have been seen in bsdforums at least few times. Although the time passes, but some close to heart features as flash, WLAN, USB automounting are still not the shiniest side of FreeBSD.
The people talking that FreeBSD is server OS are right. In my opinion. If you are just willing to learn new things, you will discover that you can avoid significant pain by avoiding either broken hardware or just trying to run everything (!) on one OS or box. For example, I have stopped to try running BSD on my laptop. It is time Consuming! Note the capital letter. Instead, I have found Ubuntu or even Mac OS X better suited for this.
Yes, the FreeBSD hasn't received much attention from software developer side as linux has, but it is rock solid! These are not just loud words. The surveys (I found the Netcraft's) says that most hacks ever done by percent are done on linux-driven boxes! Even the Microsoft is behind. The BSDs are one of the strongest ... however, also they are secure as you make them. The operating system and on the other side - service/daemon/application/(whatever) security are NOT equal!!!
No OS except BSD can accept tremendous loads received on very responsible web servers. Not linux, not IIS ... ))) but BSD!
Yes, you guessed! I am FreeBSD fan... if FreeBSD will keep basic traditions as true UNIX, it will stay my only server OS.
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LGBTs and their straight allies will have even more reason to celebrate during Chicago Gay Pride this year as the festivities are being filmed for a 52-minute documentary that will air on France's M6—one of the top three TV networks in the country.
"I was really impressed with how many people attended your Pride parade last year—800,000. When I heard that number, I was really impressed," said Aurore Belser, 32, a journalist and producer of the untitled documentary. "I've seen video of your past parades on YouTube, but that didn't really give me an idea of what it was like, so I had to come here and see [for myself] and film it."
Belser and her camera will be in Chicago for a total of three weeks this month, not only capturing the newly expanded Pride festivities—which grew from a weekend to an entire week this year—but also with a digital eye toward the Boystown neighborhood.
"I find it interesting that Boystown is the first nationally recognized LGBT neighborhood in the U.S.," Belser said. "The same-sex marriage law in France passed recently, which was a very big issue in my country, and obviously continues to be a big issue now. I think it will be interesting [for French viewers] to see the story of Boystown—which is a mix of gay and straight people—and understand how it all works.
"This is a very nice area, almost like a village, and if I am understanding it correctly, that is in large part thanks to the LGBT community."
Working in tandem with the Northalsted Business Alliance, Belser plans to film both the everyday lives of Boystown residents as well as offer a rare, behind-the-scenes view of the business owners, community leaders and nightlife personalities that make Boystown the gay Ground Zero of the Midwest. Specifically, she plans to shadow Ramesh Ariyanayakam, owner of Kit Kat Lounge and Supper Club, and Sean Kotwa, general manager of Hydrate, in their roles as co-chairs of Pride Fest. She's also hoping to interview Ald. Tom Tunney (44th), according to Jen Gordon, spokesperson for the Northalsted Business Alliance.
Belser said she's particularly excited to film the neighborhood's drag queen superstars, including performers at Kit Kat Club and Hydrate.
"In Paris, there are not so many shows," Belser said. "There are some clubs, with DJs and drinking and so on—but not so many drag revues or special parties. It's not as [common] as it is here!"
"Based on my dinner with Aurore the other night, my take is that [she is] gathering up all the possible story lines and potential scenes—and then the story will develop from there," said Paul Cannella, owner of Scarlet and Taverna 750, and an NHBA executive board member. "Personally, I like that approach—and what's meant to be, will be."
Belser said she purposely came to Boystown with a small crew.
"You can't go into Roscoe's with a big crew and expect to get natural life," she said. "I want people to act the same way they would without the camera. I don't want it to feel staged or fake. It's a documentary— not a reality show. And there will be no journalist addressing the camera."
"The best advice I can give anyone is to just be themselves," Kotwa said about how someone should act if they spot a camera filming nearby. "They really are trying to create a realistic look at our community."
"They should be themselves, and represent our city and neighborhood in a manner that they will be proud to show the world today—and when they see the clip decades later," Cannella added.
When asked if she plans to capture other realities of Boystown life, aside from the parties and parade, such as issues related to homeless youth and hate crimes, Belser seemed flummoxed.
"That is not the point [of the documentary] now. I thought Boystown is a safe area—no place is perfect. It's hard to tell—it's not an aspect I am aware of," Belser said.
"Aurore and her team from M6 are certain to get a full portrait of Boystown," Gordon said. "They will be filming both day and night and hope to capture the true essence of the neighborhood. In terms of focus on particular issues, that will be up to Aurore and her team to pursue."
"If the focus [of the documentary] is PrideFest or PrideWeek, then I would see the angle as more entertainment, personality, [and] tourism-driven," Cannella said. "If the focus is on the community and neighborhood at large, then it certainly should be a review of all aspects in order to be accurate. Any community has many of the real problems that you mentioned. There is no denying that, and those topics should be covered if that is the angle they choose. I have coordinated interviews with the Center on Halsted, and I'm sure they will cover some of these subjects."
Belser selected Boystown as the focus of her documentary over the gay enclaves in New York City, L.A. or San Francisco because she said she was after something "different" and that she is drawn to Boystown because it has " a kind of soul" that she finds compelling.
"Do you have to really ask that? Just kidding—I have to admit that I am biased to the city of Chicago," Cannella said. " I've traveled all around the world, and there is no place like this. At the end of the day, it comes down to people. Major cities are the attraction point for their regions, and in Chicago, we draw from greater Illinois, Wisconsin, Iowa, Indiana, Ohio, Michigan and more. Essentially, we're the melting pot of wholesome Midwesterners, who tend to be pretty down-to-Earth people. I don't mean to dish on my fellow Americans, but I think being smack dab in the middle of the USA we are a pretty solid representation of Americans."
The documentary will air on M6 (also known as Metropole Television) in September or October of this year. Stateside viewers will be able to view the documentary via the M6 website, according to Belser.
If you have a suggestion for the documentary or you have a story to tell, e-mail Aurore Belser at firstname.lastname@example.com.
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Why Is There So Much Conflicting HIV/AIDS Information? Who Can You Believe?
January 2010
Having worked in the HIV/AIDS field for many years now, this is one of the most common questions that people ask me. Why is it that a person can ask one question, and get totally different answers from different sources? I myself have called various HIV/AIDS information sources and have heard a lot of conflicting (and sometimes totally wrong) information. I'm writing this article to address this confusion and to give people some insight as to why the confusion exists.
When you hear conflicting information to a particular question, don't hesitate to ask the person the following questions:
Keep in mind that many people who answer questions about HIV/AIDS are dedicated volunteers who want to get the word out as to the importance of being knowledgeable about HIV/AIDS. Many of them do not have a medical background, but they may still get an in-depth, high quality, formal training before being allowed to answer your questions. However, at some places, they may have no formal training at all. Just be patient with them when asking these questions. And remember that the reason they are there is because they truly want to help you!
An important thing I want to mention is that there are a lot of people out there with no medical training, making medical interpretations and medical conclusions about HIV/AIDS data. There are other people out there who simply haven't received adequate training. This is what leads to a lot of incorrect information out there. I've also heard people say, "Well, I THINK the answer is........" Then they give out the wrong answer.
Simply put, if a person is not 100% sure of the answer, they shouldn't answer the question. They should admit they don't know the answer, and refer the question to someone who does know the answer.
When we are talking about any aspect of any disease in medicine, whether it is HIV/AIDS, cancer, heart disease, etc., if you look hard enough, you will always find rare exceptions to everything. This is because medicine is not an absolute science. Nothing in medicine is absolute or 100%. Medicine is a very complex science. People often try to find simple answers to complex questions (like symptom, testing, transmission and treatment questions).
When we give health information on any disease, to keep things as understandable as possible, we try to answer what is found in the majority of cases. We cannot answer what would be found in every single case. That would make things extremely confusing for people. If you look hard enough, you will find exceptions to everything in medicine, regardless of what disease you are talking about. Much of what appears to be conflicting information, merely indicates the wide variability you will find in any aspect of any disease in medicine.
Do you want more information on HIV/AIDS, STDs or safer sex? Contact the U.S. Centers for Disease Control Health Line hotline, open 24 hours a day, seven days a week, at 1-800-232-4636, or visit The Body's Safe Sex and Prevention Forum.
Until next time . . . Work hard, play hard, play safe, stay sober!
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text: Fifteen students each awarded $3,700 VP for Academic Affairs Summer Research Grants News Home 04.05.13 By: Buff Lindau Studies range from history of smuggling on Lake Champlain to ant biodiversity in Vermont's Sandplain Forest. Pursuing studies across the sciences, humanities and social sciences, Saint Michael's College students will be digging deeper in the lab, the library and out in the field. Sixteen students have been awarded Saint Michael's College Vice President for Academic Affairs Research Fellowships to support research during summer 2013. Research grants are also awarded to Saint Michael's students from other funding sources, including several funded by VtEPSCoR, Vermont Genetics Network and the National Science Foundation. Each student researcher with a VPAA grant receives $3,700 and reduced cost room and board on campus. This extra investment of more than $60,000 in summer research indicates the college's belief in the extraordinary value of individual student-faculty research. The studies range from lab work on treatment of prostate cancer to history-based exploration of smuggling on Lake Champlain in the early 1800s; from examination of world music in the digital age to a study of Pentecostal and Protestant congregations in New England; from an in-depth look at ant biodiversity in Vermont's Sandplain Forest to an examination of masculinity and random violence. Dana Bourne '14, "Developing a Protein-Based Therapeutic for the Treatment of Prostate Cancer," adviser, Professor Christina Chant Liam Connors '14, "The Relationship of World Music and Cultural Traditions in the Digital Age: A Case Study Analysis of the Cumbancha Record Label," adviser, Professor Jon Hyde Christopher DeMairo '14, "Embargo in the Valley: Smuggling, Treason and Patriotism on Lake Champlain, 1800-1815," adviser, Professor Susan Ouellette Thomas DeNuccio '15, "The effects of fertilizers on grasses in grazed and un-grazed fields on Maple Wind Farm in Huntington, Vermont," adviser, Professor Mark Lubkowitz Edmilse Diaz '15, "Attachment: A Cross Cultural Examination," adviser, Professor Susan Kuntz Jonathan Gately '14, "A Social History of American Veterans Returning from 20th Century Combat," adviser, Professor Douglas Slaybaugh Kathleen McNally '14, "The Situation of the Society of St. Edmund in Occupied France," adviser, Professor Jennifer Purcell Brian McQueen '14, "The Relationship of World Music and Cultural Traditions in the Digital Age: A Case Study Analysis of the Cumbancha Record Label," adviser, Professor Jon Hyde Hillary Miller '15, "A Study of Tool Use by the ant Species Aphaenogaster rudis in the Sandplain Forest of Vermont," adviser, Professor Valerie Banschbach Timothy Nagy '15, "Underlying Theological Philosophies and Social Interaction Dynamics: A Study of Pentecostal and Protestant Congregations in New England," adviser, Professor Brosh Teucher Maura O'Riordan '14, "Project CREATE: ELL Reform in a Teacher Education Program," adviser, Professor James Nagle Jacob Pelletier '14, "The Influence of Climate Change Policy: How Developed Nations Affect the Decisions of Industrializing Nations," adviser, Professor William Grover Adam Perea-Kane '14, "The Question of Augustine's Reification of Being: A Philological Inquiry," adviser, Professor John Kenney Matthew Rogers '14, "Masculinity and Random Violence: A Modified Replication of Michael Kimmel and Matthew Mahler's 2003 Study," adviser, Professor Robert Brenneman Megan Roush '15, "A Study of Ants as Biodiversity Indicators in Sandplain Forest in Vermont," adviser, Professor Valerie Banschbach "I enthusiastically agree with the committee in its judgment of the quality of these proposals," said Vice President for Academic Affairs Karen Talentino in congratulating these students on receiving fellowships. All Saint Michael's College undergraduate and graduate students participating in paid research or receiving academic credit for research must participate in training in the responsible conduct of research.