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100 Hours of Astronomy: worldwide astronomy marathon set to break records
30 March 2009, Paris
The International Year of Astronomy 2009 Cornerstone project, 100 Hours of Astronomy, is on track to be the largest single science public outreach event ever. More than 1500 events have been registered in over 130 countries and this number is increasing every day. 100 Hours of Astronomy is a truly global project; an event on a scale never attempted before, with more than one million people expected to participate!
100 Hours of Astronomy (100HA) is a Cornerstone project of the International Year of Astronomy 2009 (IYA2009). It is a worldwide celebration composed of a broad range of activities aimed at involving the public. 100HA will take place over four days and nights, from 2-5 April 2009. During this period, people from around the globe will share the experience and wonders of observing the sky. For many, it will be their first glimpse of the marvels of the heavens through a telescope. For others, it is the perfect opportunity to impart their knowledge and excitement, helping unveil the cosmos to fresh and eager eyes.
A live 24-hour video webcast called "Around the World in 80 Telescopes" will take place from 3 April 09:00 UT to 4 April 09:00 UT, following day and night around the globe to some of the most advanced observatories on and off the planet. Viewers can find out what is happening at a research observatory in their home country or on the other side of the planet, send in questions and messages, see new images from the cosmos, and discover what astronomers are doing right now! Participating telescopes include the Hawaii-based telescopes Gemini North and Keck, the Anglo-Australian Telescope, telescopes in the Canary Islands, the Southern African Large Telescope, Chilean observatories such as ESO's Very Large Telescope, space-based telescopes such as the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope, ESA XMM-Newton and Integral, and many more. In fact, "Around the World in 80 Telescopes" will take viewers to every continent, including Antarctica! The webcast itself will be hosted at the European Southern Observatory's headquarters in Munich, Germany with live streaming by Ustream.tv. Anyone with a web browser supporting Flash will be able to follow the show via the 100HA website and be a part of the project. TV stations, web portals, and science centres can also use the high quality feed, and the video player can be embedded on websites. Representatives of the media who wish to report from the "front-line" and interview the team should get in touch.
The featured programme "Global Star Party", commencing at sunset on 4 April, is set to be an all-encompassing event of extraordinary scope. Amateur astronomers, clubs and other groups will be setting up telescopes in public places to allow as many people as possible to look at the heavens. Traditional star party locations such as busy streets and shopping centres will be covered, as well as less conventional places including rest homes and military bases. Enthusiasts have been working hard to ensure that an incredible number of people will be able to look through a telescope during the Global Star Party.
These two headline initiatives are being supported by many more activities like the "Sun Day" (April 5) and "100 Hour of Astronomy Junior" and several "100 Hours of Astronomy Opening Events" around the world.
All this is, of course, in addition to the thousands of local events being planned by science facilities and astronomy enthusiasts around the world, including telescope observing sessions, exhibitions, special shows and more.
100 Hours of Astronomy is a venture of breathtaking scope that will involve people from all walks of life around the globe. Get involved, and be part of a record-breaking worldwide event!
- 100HA website: http://www.100hoursofastronomy.org/
- 100HA programme: http://www.100hoursofastronomy.org/program
- 100HA Ustream.tv channel: http://www.ustream.tv/channel/100-hours-of-astronomy
- IYA2009 website: http://www.astronomy2009.org/
The vision of the IYA2009 is to help the citizens of the world rediscover their place in the Universe through the day and night-time skies the impact of astronomy and basic sciences on our daily lives, and understand better how scientific knowledge can contribute to a more equitable and peaceful society.
The aim of the IYA2009 is to stimulate worldwide interest, especially among young people, in astronomy and science under the central theme'"The Universe, Yours to Discover". IYA2009 events and activities will promote a greater appreciation of the inspirational aspects of astronomy that embody an invaluable shared resource for all countries.
The IYA2009 activities are taking place at the global and regional levels, and especially at the national and local levels. National Nodes in each state have been formed to prepare activities for 2009. These Nodes establish collaborations between professional and amateur astronomers, science centres, educators and science communicators in preparing activities for 2009. The International Year of Astronomy was proclaimed by the United Nations on 20 December 2007.
The IAU is the international astronomical organisation that brings together almost 10 000 distinguished astronomers from all nations of the world. Its mission is to promote and safeguard the science of astronomy in all its aspects through international cooperation. The IAU also serves as the internationally recognised authority for assigning designations to celestial bodies and the surface features on them. Founded in 1919, the IAU is the world's largest professional body for astronomers.
Ustream.TV is the live interactive video broadcast platform that enables anyone with a camera and an internet connection to quickly and easily broadcast to a global audience of unlimited size. In less than two minutes, anyone can become a broadcaster by creating their own channel on Ustream or by broadcasting through their own site, empowering them to engage with their audience and further build their brand.
For more information
Mike Simmons
100 Hours of Astronomy Co-Chair
Astronomers without Borders
Tel.: +1 818 597 0223
Cell : +1 818 486 7633
E-mail: firstname.lastname@example.com
Douglas Pierce-Price
100 Hours of Astronomy Co-Chair
ESO ePOD, Garching, Germany
Tel.: +49 89 320 06 759
E-mail: firstname.lastname@example.com
Further contacts
Pedro Russo
IAU IYA2009 Coordinator
ESO ePOD, Garching, Germany
Tel: +49 89 320 06 195
Cellular: +49 176 6110 0211
Fax: +49 89 320 23 62
E-mail: firstname.lastname@example.com
Yolanda Berenguer
UNESCO Focal Point for the International Year of Astronomy 2009
UNESCO HQ, Paris
Tel: +33 1 45684171
E-mail: firstname.lastname@example.com
Dr. Karel A. van der Hucht
General Secretary, International Astronomical Union
IAU Secretariat, Paris, France
Tel: +33 1 43 25 83 58
E-mail: firstname.lastname@example.com
Lars Lindberg Christensen
IAU Press Officer
ESO ePOD, Garching, Germany
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May 16, 2018, by Alex Lawler and Rania El Gamal
LONDON/DUBAI (Reuters) – OPEC sees oil's rally towards $80 a barrel as a short-term spike driven by geopolitics rather than any supply shortage, four OPEC delegates said, a sign the group is not rushing yet to rethink its supply-cutting agreement.
The view of top exporter Saudi Arabia is that any brief, speculator-driven jump in oil prices is not sufficient grounds for producers to boost output, an OPEC source familiar with the kingdom's thinking said.
For such a decision to occur, the rally would need to be driven by data pointing to a supply impact, the source said.
The four OPEC delegates said the latest rise in prices stemmed more from concern about U.S. sanctions on Iran and tension in the Middle East, rather than a suddenly tighter balance between oil supply and demand.
"Prices are high just because of the tensions," one of the OPEC delegates, who declined to be identified, said.
Since last year, oil has been supported by a deal by the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries, plus Russia and other non-members, to cut output. Prices have risen about 40 percent since the accord began in January 2017.
Global benchmark Brent crude LCOc1 on Tuesday hit $79.47, the highest since November 2014, before easing below $78 on Wednesday. Prices could rally further before declining, according to some in OPEC.
"It may exceed $80 and then go down," one of the sources said. In any case, the extent of the rally has yet to cause any real concern. "Not yet," said another delegate, asked whether oil at $79 was too high.
U.S. President Donald Trump last month accused OPEC of "artificially" boosting prices, putting pressure on producers to cool the market and in turn drawing a rebuke from some OPEC members.
OPEC and its allies are cutting production by about 1.8 million barrels per day, almost 2 percent of world supply, until the end of 2018. Oil ministers meet on June 22-23 to review the policy.
The producers' original goal was to reduce oil inventories to the five-year average. While this has largely been achieved, ministers have said other metrics should be considered such as oil industry investment, suggesting they are in no hurry yet to wind down supply cuts.
Nonetheless, delegates pointed to growing concern about a decline in Venezuelan output due to economic crisis, which officials had downplayed when inventories were higher.
OPEC has over-delivered on the supply cut due in part to lower Venezuelan supply.
OPEC has no official target price for oil. Saudi Arabia has emerged over the past year as OPEC's leading supporter of measures to boost prices, however, a change from Riyadh's previous, more moderate stance.
The kingdom, keen to fund economic reforms, would be happy to see crude rise to $80 or even $100, industry sources told Reuters last month.
Iran, once a keen OPEC price hawk, now wants lower prices than Saudi Arabia, and has said exporters should aim for crude around $60 to contain U.S. shale oil growth.
"When oil prices rise due to geopolitical concern and not due to demand and supply and fundamentals, it cannot be reasonable," a source familiar with Iranian thinking said of the current rally.
Editing by Dale Hudson
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DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — An American warship fired warning shots when vessels of Iran's paramilitary Revolutionary Guard came too close to a patrol in the Persian Gulf, the US Navy said Wednesday.
The Navy released black-and-white footage of the encounter Monday night in international waters of the northern reaches of the Persian Gulf. In it, lights can be seen in the distance and what appears to be a single gunshot can be heard, with a tracer round racing across the top of the water.
Iran did not immediately acknowledge the incident.
The Navy said the USS Firebolt fired the warning shots after three fast-attack Guard vessels came within 68 yards (62 meters) of it and the US Coast Guard patrol boat USCGC Baranoff.
"The US crews issued multiple warnings via bridge-to-bridge radio and loud-hailer devices, but the (Guard) vessels continued their close range maneuvers," said Cmdr. Rebecca Rebarich, a spokeswoman for the Mideast-based 5th Fleet. "The crew of Firebolt then fired warning shots, and the (Guard) vessels moved away to a safe distance from the US vessels."
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The Guard also did the same with another Coast Guard vessel, the USCGC Wrangell, Rebarich said. Such close passes risk collisions.
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In 2017, the Navy recorded 14 instances of what it describes as "unsafe and or unprofessional" interactions with Iranians forces. It recorded 35 in 2016, and 23 in 2015.
The incidents at sea almost always involve the Revolutionary Guard, which reports only to Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. Typically, they involve Iranian speedboats armed with deck-mounted machine guns and rocket launchers test-firing weapons or shadowing American aircraft carriers passing through the Strait of Hormuz, the narrow mouth of the Persian Gulf through which 20% of all oil passes.
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The incident comes as Iran negotiates with world powers in Vienna over Tehran and Washington returning to the 2015 nuclear deal. It also follows a series of incidents across the Mideast attributed to a shadow war between Iran and Israel, which includes attacks on regional shipping and sabotage at Iran's Natanz nuclear facility.


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The findings strongly echo those from a Harris Interactive/HealthDay poll released last week, which found that more than three-quarters of adult Americans who have health insurance say they still worry about paying more for their medical care, and almost 50 percent say they're "very" or "extremely" worried about the issue.
Again, many in this demographic are not filling prescriptions, missing doctors' visits, not taking recommended treatments or cutting back on medication and foregoing dental care.
Experts expressed concern that, with the economy in recession and many Americans losing their employer-based health insurance, the problem may only get worse.
According to the National Council on Aging, 30 million Americans aged 65 and over have at least one chronic health condition. Such conditions eat up the lion's share of the nation's health care costs.
"Nearly 133 million people in the U.S. have chronic conditions such as arthritis, high blood pressure and high cholesterol. The medical care costs of people with chronic diseases account for more than 75 percent of the nation's $2 trillion in medical costs," said James Firman, president and CEO of the National Council on Aging at a Wednesday teleconference. "Despite all we're spending, the quality of chronic care is not particularly good. Forty-four percent of patients do not receive recommended care.
"If you think it's bad today, as the nation ages dramatically, so will our chronic needs," Firman added. "Often missing is the voice of those suffering from chronic conditions."
Here are the high points of the new poll, which surveyed 1,109 Americans aged 44 and over, each of whom suffered from at least one chronic health problem, such as heart disease, diabetes, arthritis, asthma or depression:
"Many Americans with chronic conditions are struggling, especially those delaying care, Latinos, those with low income. We know this is more difficult for them, and our non-system of care probably is the least responsive to these people," said Nancy Whitelaw, senior vice president of the National Council on Aging and director of the Center for Healthy Aging. "They are in pain, stressed, a lot of things are going on in their life that makes it difficult to cope. They look to healthcare providers but don't feel they are getting the support they need. They lack confidence about their ability to do these things on their own. They want help in tailoring [interventions] to their own life. They would like to get this help from providers, from their community, from online resources."
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Policy for the implementation of Recognition of Prior Learning (RPL) Policy
Glossary of terms
Access An entry to education and training of a particular qualification or part qualification or entry to a final external summative assessment.
Assessment The process of collecting evidence of learner's work to measure and make judgements about the competence or non-competence of specified National Qualifications Framework occupational standards or qualifications and part qualifications.
Assessor A person who is registered by the relevant AQP in accordance with established criteria to conduct internal and/or external assessments for registered occupational qualifications and part qualifications.
Candidate A person whose performance is being assessed by an assessor registered with relevant institution.
Credit The value given within a learning programme for achieved learning.
Informal learning Learning that results from daily activities related to paid or unpaid work, family or community life or leisure.
Formal learning Learning that occurs in an organised and structured education and training environment and that is explicitly designated as such. Formal learning leads to the awarding of a qualification or part qualification registered on the NQF.
Learning outcomes A statement of measurable learning that describes what a candidate should know and/or be able to do as a result of learning.
Learning The acquisition of knowledge, skills, values and attitudes in a particular occupation or trade.
Monitoring A continuous process of the review of quality that can be conducted internally and /or externally to recommend quality improvements.
Part Qualification An assessed unit of learning that is registered or to be registered as part of qualification on the NQF with a clearly defined purpose.
Professional body anybody of expert practitioners in an occupational field and includes an occupational body.
Recognised Prior Learning (RPL) Principles and processes through which the prior
knowledge and /or skills of a person are made visible and are assessed for the purposes of certification, alternative access and admission and future learning and development.
RPL practitioner A person that functions in one or more aspects of RPL provision, including policy development, advising, portfolio course design and facilitation, assessment and moderation, administration, monitoring and evaluation, research and development.
Skills Development Providers A body which delivers learning programmes which
culminate in specified registered NQF occupational standards and qualifications and part qualifications and manages the internal assessment thereof.
Work experience Activities undertaken in the workplace, where acquisition of skills, knowledge and attitudes are related to tasks, processes and outcomes of a particular occupation.
The Quality Council for Trades and Occupations (QCTO) was established in 2010 in terms of section 26G of the Skills Development Act of 1998 as a juristic person.
The QCTO acknowledges that Recognition of Prior Learning (RPL) is a fundamental tenet of the NQF and provides for access, progression, support and career guidance for learners at all levels in formal education and training as well as workplace.
Recognition of Prior Learning (RPL) is a process by which individuals who had gained skills and knowledge through informal, non-formal or experiential learning can be assessed, recognised and awarded credits for such learning if it meets the requirements of an NQF registered qualification or part qualification. Individuals deserve credit for their competences and skills even if these have been gained through informal education or have been acquired in the course of their working lives or in participation in society and community activities outside formal places of learning. RPL provides formal recognition for knowledge or skills gained on the job or as a result of other informal or unstructured learning experiences.
The QCTO policy for the implementation of Recognition of Prior Learning (RPL) provides for the implementation of RPL for qualifications on the Occupational Qualifications Sub- framework (OQSF)
Legislative and regulatory framework
In terms of the National Qualifications Act (Act 67 of 2008), QCTO is the Quality Council for trades and Occupations as provided for in terms of the Skills Development Act of 1998
In terms of Section 27(h) (ii), QCTO must develop and implement policy and criteria for Assessment, Recognition of Prior Learning and Credit Accumulation and Transfer for the qualifications and part qualification on the sub-framework.
The QCTO RPL Policy must be read in conjunction with the SAQA National Policy for the Implementation of the Recognition of Prior Learning (March 2013) and the QCTO Assessment Policy (19 March 2014)
The White Paper for Post-School Education (November 2013) explicitly states that Recognition of Prior Learning (RPL) remains a key approach to redressing past injustices and recognising competence gained through practical workplace learning and experience. It further states that RPL will be applied more widely especially for young adults who wish to access programmes in colleges
Audience and applicability
This RPL policy constitutes an overarching quality assurance framework for the provisioning of RPL, to be implemented by all RPL practitioners, skills development providers, assessment centres and workplaces, accredited by the QCTO and approved by relevant AQPs, SETAs and recognised Professional Bodies. It is applicable to all occupational qualifications, part qualifications, trades and professional designations registered on the OQSF
The Occupational Qualifications Sub-Framework
The Occupational Qualifications Sub-framework (OQSF) is one of the three sub-frameworks that comprise the National Qualifications Framework (NQF). The OQSF sets out the range of occupational qualification types in occupational education that may be awarded to mark the achievement of learning outcomes that have been appropriately assessed.
Standards for qualifications on the OQSF
Currently, the occupational qualification standard is determined by two elements. One is the design specification for the occupational qualification, which is realised through its supporting curriculum. The other is the design specification of the assessment strategies and tools (both formative and external summative assessment). Evaluation and monitoring of the manner in which the curriculum is delivered and the assessment strategy is implemented supports the standard.
External integrated summative assessment is an integral and critical component of the QCTO's quality assurance system.
The External Integrated Summative Assessment;
covers the three components for all qualifications on the OQSF viz. The Knowledge, Practical and Workplace components.
ensures consistency and credibility of the assessment of occupational qualifications, trades and part qualifications.
will be conducted using nationally standardised assessment instruments developed by the relevant AQP and quality assured by the QCTO
RPL within the OQSF
The qualifications and part qualifications in the Occupational Qualifications Sub-Framework cover a variety of contexts. This policy recognises that candidates might seek RPL for various reasons and depending on various contexts. There are two main forms of RPL which reflect the different purposes and different processes within which RPL takes place.
RPL for access: Provides an alternative access route into a programme of learning/qualification for those who do not meet the formal minimum requirements for admission. RPL for access applies to learning programmes offered by an accredited education institution, Skills Development provider or workplace based training provider.
RPL for credit: To provide for the formal award of credits for, or towards a qualification or part-qualification registered on the NQF.
The qualifications on the OQSF sub-framework are occupational and comprise Knowledge, Practical and Workplace experience components. These qualifications would therefore require a formal teaching and learning environment, a practical /simulation environment as well as actual workplace experience. The knowledge and skills are assessed through a formal external integrated summative assessment component. The Assessment Quality Partner must also design and implement a tool to conduct Recognition of Prior Learning at external summative assessment stage to support the learners that might have difficulties to seat for formal external integrated summative assessment.
Within the context of the OQSF, the recognition of prior learning is the evaluation and acknowledgement of the knowledge and skills that a candidate has gained to enable access to:
Qualifications on the OQSF
The External Integrated Summative Assessment.
Underlying principles for the implementation of RPL
RPL processes must:
be fair, reliable, valid, ethical and transparent
be consistent across time, place, role players and respond to a non-sectoral demand led
use methodologies that are fit-for-purpose and reflect a consistent level of higher cognitive
f) avoid unfair exclusion
empower potential learners by correctly placing them in formal and non-formal training
programmes at level which will be to their maximum advantage
recognise the diversity of knowledge, skills and learning styles and provide holistic and
flexible assessment
provide educational opportunities for life-long learning
meet the quality standards of a particular qualification or part qualification
impress upon candidates that there is no RPL without learning
ensure that evidence assessment practices include on the job observation.
Language of assessment
In order to address issues of social justice, RPL may target candidates who may not be fluent in the mainstream language. There are occupations that do not necessarily need one to be fluent in the mainstream language. This would necessitate support of the candidate in a familiar language. The aim is to ensure that candidates:
are not disadvantaged from enrolling for RPL because they are unable to express their knowledge and skills in the mainstream language;
are assisted by translators and interpreters where necessary;
portfolios are translated, transcribed and professionally presented as possible.
Responsibilities for the implementation of the RPL policy
Roles and responsibilities of the QCTO
The QCTO will:
monitor and evaluate the implementation of RPL within the OQSF including the development and implementation of standardised approaches were appropriate
foster close working relationship with professional bodies in and across the sub-frameworks where appropriate, to facilitate RPL
support and monitor the training of RPL advisers, facilitators, assessors, moderators and administrators ensure consistency in the application of RPL policies by providers and delegated bodies ( where relevant)
monitor the RPL admission rates of providers and make this information public in an appropriate format, while maintaining the strictest confidentiality with respect to individual candidates and individual institutions
Roles and responsibilities of education institutions and skills development providers
The education institutions and skills development providers must:
seek accreditation from the QCTO
progressively develop and enhance capacity to implement RPL in accordance with this policy
ensure that they have the necessary staff capacity to deliver RPL services and programmes
ensure effective planning and funding for RPL administrative and logistical systems to support all programmes and services
put systems and procedures in place to incentivise and support the registration and continuing professional development of RPL practitioners
provide advice, counselling and support services to assist RPL candidates prior to during and after RPL processes
establish an appeal process for RPL candidates to engage with RPL- related judgements
Roles and responsibilities of recognised professional bodies
The recognised professional bodies must:
collaborate with SAQA, the Quality Councils and the relevant providers to incentivise and advance quality RPL provisioning in the sector
progressively develop and enhance their capacity to initiate and support RPL provision in accordance with this policy.
Roles and responsibilities of RPL practitioners
The RPL practitioners must:
adhere to the requirements as set out in this policy and as determined by the relevant bodies and governance structures, which may include a Quality Council, a workplace and a professional body
meet professional requirements, including the participation in continuing professional development activities, to be developed and agreed with the community of RPL practitioners, relevant bodies and governance structures through the national coordination of RPL as set out in this policy
Roles and responsibilities of RPL candidates
The candidates must:
accept co-responsibility as an equal partner in the RPL process
expect to be treated without unfair discrimination
respect the process and procedures of institutions and workplaces
Complaints and Appeals
Complaints about the RPL and assessment process by learners should be lodged at the accredited Educational Institution or Skills Development Provider (or it's approved Site).
The procedure is to be decided by the provider institution, but the candidate has a right to know what procedure is to be followed.
The notice of an appeal must state the grounds on which the applicant is seeking the appeal.
Quality assurance and monitoring of policy implementation
RPL is part of the overall quality assurance system and quality criteria that applies to quality assurance of taught programmes. Quality assurance of RPL is manifested by the establishment and adherence to policies, standards, processes and associated practises that ensure that the knowledge, skills and values of learners are recognised and validated so that they can successfully engage in further learning that contributes meaningfully to their educational and/or employment goals.
Learners, staff and external stakeholders should form part of ongoing evaluation exercises. In particular, learners should be encouraged to provide feedback on the entire RPL process on completion of the personal RPL undertaking. Institutions need to monitor and adapt the RPL services and assessments in order to make the process more effective and efficient and to ensure that the RPL process is in line with national standards and developmental objectives.
In the quality assurance of RPL, standardisation can only take place between similar types of RPL. An effort must be made to allow standardised practises to grow within sectors, as one approach does not necessarily work across different contexts. Quality assurance of RPL must be undertaken with explicit intention to protect the integrity of the processes and outcomes concerned.
Monitoring, evaluation and verification are important elements in the ongoing development of the RPL process in relation to the quality of assessment. This process is ongoing, and monitoring the quality of the entire RPL process is as important as monitoring the outcomes of the RPL assessment.
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August 1977
All through the late spring and summer of 1894 a haze of woodsmoke hung over the town of Hinckley in Pine County, Minnesota. Small fires burned unheeded in the cutover timberlands throughout the county, throughout the whole eastern part of the state. In mid-July, section gangs of the St. Paul & Duluth Railroad were out fighting fires north and south of Hinckley, and they succeeded in getting the flames under control before the right-of-way was damaged. At about the same time, a correspondent for a St. Paul newspaper observed: "The fires around here are spreading rapidly, and everything is as dry as tinder. Unless a heavy rain comes soon there may be a great loss sustained." Later, after the horror and the dying, those words would be remembered. But at the time all that the people in Hinckley and the nearby towns had on their minds was getting through the hottest, dryest summer any of them could remember.
This curiously negligent attitude toward the danger of fire had long been instilled in the settlers of the Pine County forests. For nearly a quarter of a century they had been clearing their farmlands by burning them over—a quick, easy, hazardous method. Drifting sparks would settle here and there, starting little fires that crept through the slash—debris left by the lumber operations—throughout the summer. Every once in a while a barn would go up, but prior to 1894 nothing really terrible had ever happened in Pine County.
Hinckley was a healthy, steady town of twelve hundred inhabitants, most of whom drew their livelihood in one way or another from the Brennan Mill Company, a big operation capable of cutting two hundred thousand board feet of lumber in a day. The town had an Odd Fellows' Hall, five hotels, eight stores, a restaurant, a town hall, three churches, eight saloons, a roundhouse, and two depots. The depots served two railroads whose tracks crossed just south of the town: the St. Paul & Duluth, and the Eastern Minnesota, which ran between Duluth and Minneapolis. This latter road had caused a good deal of annoyance to the citizens of Hinckley by digging an unsightly three-acre gravel pit right there in the town, and then refusing to fill it in. Now, in late August, the pit held about an acre of stagnant water.
At seven o'clock on the morning of Saturday, September 1, the Brennan Mill's whistle announced the beginning of another simmering, monotonous day. The smoke was thick enough to make the oxen cough in the outlying logging camps, but the Hinckley lumbermen were accustomed to smoke. The dust was worse; it had not rained for three months, and the haggard ground threw up white, choking clouds that made moving about a misery. The saws started up, and the ten-hour workday began.
Toward noon a stiff breeze blew up. The swamps west of Hinckley had been smouldering for most of the summer, and now the wind carried a gust of sparks from them into the mill yard. The piles of lumber stacked there began to burn. J. W. Stockholm, who worked in the Brennan company store, turned out with some others and hauled barrels of water to the yard. The wind died down and the men put out the fire, but Stockholm didn't like the look of things. He went to his home, and told his wife to "act quickly if it should come to look pretty bad, and have a few barrels of water ready .…" On his way back to the store, the wind came up again so strongly that Stockholm could scarcely keep his eyes open.
At about two o'clock John Craig, chief of the volunteer fire department, rang the gong that called the firemen to assemble at the engine house. "It looks threatening in the south and in the southwest," Craig told his men. "I don't think there is any danger, but it's well to be prepared for an emergency." Nobody thought there was much danger, even though the fires were burning again in the mill yard.
Craig's men ran out two thousand feet of hose, and soon had a job on their hands. The fires were growing, and threatening to cross the St. Paul & Duluth tracks into the town. The wind was rising, the smoke growing thicker. Men began to show up with wagons loaded with barrels of water.
Chief Craig ran to the St. Paul & Duluth depot and had Thomas Dunn, the telegrapher there, wire nearby Rush City for more hose. Craig returned to the fire, and Dunn's sounder started clicking. The last message he would ever receive told Dunn that Pokegama, a town nine miles to the south, was in flames.
At 2:45 P.M. Edward Barry, driving engine No. 105 of the Eastern Minnesota Railroad, pulled into Hinckley with a freight drag. He found the town deserted—everyone was out fighting the fire, which was now coming on in a great, solid wall to the east, south, and west. The town wasn't burning, but the yards beyond the Eastern Minnesota depot were; the ties were on fire, and the rails warping. Barry ran his train onto a siding and sat waiting for the southbound passenger train, which was due in at 3:25.
To Barry's immense relief, it was running on time. Edward Best, the engineer on the passenger train, took his locomotive down to the water tank. The wind was blowing a full gale now, and burning embers showered George Ford, Best's fireman, as he struggled to take on water. The heat was terrific, and Ford was three times driven from the spout; but he knew that if the engine ran out of steam, crew and passengers would most likely die. At last the job was done, and Best spoke with H. D. Powers, his conductor. "What do you think of putting the freight engine behind us?" Powers asked. Best thought it a very good idea.
Powers was senior to the conductor on Barry's train, and so took command. He had Barry couple his locomotive to the rear of the train—the front, actually, since they would be backing up once they were under way-and got three empty boxcars hooked up.
Then the town of Hinckley virtually exploded. The very air seemed to be burning, and the roaring of the fire storm drowned out the screams of the townspeople. Dense smoke completely hid the sun, but as buildings took fire they briefly lit the howling darkness like flashes of lightning.
People began running for the train, and the crews helped them aboard. Best, at the front of the train, controlled the air brakes, which was fortunate, since Barry didn't want to wait. Barry gave two sharp tugs on the whistle cord—the signal to pull out—and began to back the train away from the depot. Before he got more than a few yards, however, Best jumped up into the cab of his own locomotive and put on the brakes. According to Best's fireman, Barry's conductor then came running over and shouted, "Barry will cut off his engine and pull out!"
"I guess not!" yelled Best.
It did, in fact, seem time to leave. The paint was melting and running off the cars, and the ties beneath them were afire. "It was at this juncture," said Best, "that excited men pushed women and children from the coaches in their mad haste to get in themselves."
Still, Best kept the brakes on. "I was constantly implored to go, but there was still time, and many lives to be saved by the waiting."
Up ahead, Barry's whistle kept screaming to start, and frame buildings half a block away were detonating like bundles of fireworks. Men, women, children, and animals fell burning in the street just yards away from the train. Finally, Best pulled the whistle cord and released the air brakes. The train backed out of the blazing town. It was already moving when J. W. Stockholm and his family scrambled into a boxcar.
Among those who were not aboard was Thomas Dunn, the St. Paul & Duluth telegrapher. The depot was burning above his head, and friends had begged him to save himself. But he was waiting for orders; the No. 4 Limited was due on his line. So Thomas Dunn stuck by his key while life, in the form of five scorched coaches and three boxcars, drew away from him.
In his cab, Best turned for a last look at Hinckley and saw houses "burning so rapidly that one could see bedroom sets and other contents of the rooms. The fire would seem to burn the sides right off the buildings, revealing the contents in the glare. Buildings seemed to melt rather than burn in the fierce glow."
Barry's tender had no backing light—not that one would have helped much-and so brakemen O. L. Beach and Peter McLaughlin climbed up on the car and, soaking each other with water, kept watch as the train backed up. It was a terrible job; burning embers kept swirling toward them through the scalding murk, and the forests were blazing all around. Just after crossing the bridge over the Grindstone River, a small, nearly dry creek north of Hinckley, Barry saw people running toward the train. He whistled twice as a signal to Best, and stopped. Some forty more refugees were pulled aboard. There were more coming, but the rails began to buckle with the heat, and there was no time to wait.
"Trees were thrown down," said Best, "and terror and death stalked through the forest and clearings. Our train seemed like a sentient thing, but how insignificant in that tempest of wind and flame."
But seven miles outside of Hinckley the air freshened a little, and two miles later the train entered the undamaged town of Sandstone.
Crew and passengers called to the people there to come aboard and save themselves. But despite the tall flames right outside town, and the obvious fate of Hinckley, not a single Sandstone citizen chose to leave. The train moved on, and an hour later Sandstone was gone and forty-five of its people dead.
Just beyond the town a bridge stood 150 feet above the Kettle River. As Barry approached it, he saw that it was afire from one bank to the other. That seemed to be the end of the Eastern Minnesota emergency train. But, incredibly, M. W. W. Jesmer and W. W. Damuth, the bridge watchmen, had stayed by their post. "For God's sake, go on!" Jesmer screamed to Barry through a storm of falling sparks. "You can cross it now and it will go down in five minutes." Barry ran the train across the trestle. He was no more than two thousand feet clear of it when the east end collapsed into the river.
Damuth, dazed, wandered toward the bridge and was killed. But Jesmer, his clothes on fire, climbed down into the river, where his wife and four children were waiting for him. Neighbors helped Jesmer keep his family above water. As he struggled against the current, Jesmer heard something howling. At first he thought it was Damuth, but as the flames died down he saw that it was his dog, stranded on the charred remnants of the bridge. For a day afterward the bridge was too hot to approach, but on Monday morning a railroad bridge builder scrambled up the supports with a rope and lowered the battered dog down to its master. The dog survived.
The train rattled on and at last reached Superior and safety. It had crossed nineteen bridges on the way, most of them burning. Both Best and Barry were blind when they got there, and did not regain their sight until the next morning. The two engineers and their crews had saved some five hundred lives.
Those were not the only lives the Eastern Minnesota saved that day, though the others were saved inadvertently.
When the blistering wind had risen to a point where it threw the water back in the firemen's faces, Chief Craig called a halt to the effort. He mounted his horse and rode through Hinckley shouting: "We can't save the town; it's burning at the south end; run to the gravel pit; don't lose a moment, but fly!"
More than a hundred people plunged into the fetid water of the railroad's eyesore, and all of them survived. Some cool citizens stood and directed them there. Bull Henly, the Hinckley section man, posted himself in the road near the gravel pit and forced fleeing townspeople into it. Father Lawler, a Roman Catholic priest who had made himself popular in the community by "minding his own business" and faithfully serving the volunteer fire department, called for people to go to the pit.
One panicked man called to the priest, "To hell with advice of that sort." He ran up the old post road toward Sandstone. It seemed a logical choice. The road led north, and the flames were lowest in that direction. Scores of people ran up that road, and 126 of them were caught in the swamp by a wave of fire. They died quickly. "When that wave struck them one wail of anguish went up from the whole people as one man, and in less than a minute after everything was still except for the roar of the wind and the crackling of the flames."
The man who heard that final cry was named Alien Fraser. He had been fleeing with his wife and two of his children up the fatal post road when his wagon took fire. He turned the team loose, pulled his family to the ground, and waited to die. Then he heard a noise, and looked up to see another wagon, driverless, coming through the smoke. He stopped the horses, saw that the wagon held four barrels of water, and lifted his family into them. The terrible wave of fire passed over. The horses died in their traces; the Fräsers were unhurt.
Another crowd of panicked people was fleeing up the tracks of the St. Paul & Duluth. There were about two hundred of them, and they ran as fast as they could. The ties were burning under their feet, and every few yards a gout of flame would sp'fcrt from the woods and take one or two down. At last some thirty were dead on the tracks behind; the rest stumbled along as best they could. It seemed a hopeless race, until those in the front of the mob saw a headlight swinging toward them through the darkness.
Jim Root knew more about railroading than most people. He had been fourteen years old when he signed on with the Hudson River Railroad in 1857. He had driven General Sherman's wood-burning locomotives toward the sea during the Civil War and ran the first load of prisoners out of Andersonville. After the war he drifted west to visit an uncle in Minnesota, took a liking to the vicinity, and became an engineer on the St. Paul & Duluth.
By the time he took the No. 4 Limited out of Duluth that awful Saturday, he'd been through twenty-four years of Minnesota railroading, and he wasn't much scared by smoke. "We have had to run through smoke time and time again every year," he said. "There have always been more or less forest fires in Minnesota."
Still, the run started out somewhat differently from most. The smoke was thick even in the Duluth depot, and not long after the train started south a porter had to pass through the cars lighting the overhead lamps.
As the train approached Hinckley the smoke lifted and the day brightened, but Frank Daugherty, who was traveling with his ten-year-old son Otto, was not reassured. "This lit up the atmosphere in a very peculiar way—into a sort of dull, glowing, yellowish twilight, which had a brilliant but at the same time unnatural effect on the things within the range of vision."
Root had pressed on diligently through "total darkness about forty miles" when he saw that lurid, beautiful light. In its glare he saw the desperate people running up the tracks.
He stopped the engine, climbed out and asked the first people who reached him—an old woman and her two daughters-what was going on. He could get nothing out of them but, "For God's sake, will you save us?"
He told them to get aboard the train ,and then saw somebody he knew. It was Mr. Bartlett, who had run the railroad's eating house in Hinckley. "Everything is burned up!" screamed Bartlett.
Root waited while men with their eyebrows burned away threw their wives and children into the train. Earlier he had thought to make a run through the fire, but now he realized that this was bigger than anything he'd ever seen, and all he could do was back away from it. The flames were advancing around the train in great leaps; the treetops swayed in the gale and, swaying, tossed huge balls of fire through the forest to the tops of other trees.
Root had just started to back the train when something exploded nearby, and a shard of glass from the cab window sliced into his neck. At about the same time, he heard people yelling in the forest and looked to see three men making for the train. He stopped, and then realized that during the wait the fire might burn through the air hoses, thereby setting the brakes. So he started up again. Two of the men jumped onto the engine, the other fell behind. Root backed his train, the cut in his neck spraying blood on his overalls.
Back in the cars, Prank Daugherty felt himself fortunate; he had his son to care for, and hence was not frightened for his own life. The little boy was saying, "Have we got to die papa, have we got to die?"
Daugherty had just succeeded in convincing his son that everything was fine, when "a great big fellow, evidently a religious fanatic, with eyes bulging out of his head went through the car shouting, 'We are all going to heaven together.'"
The cars were burning and the window glass melting. John Blair, a sturdy black porter, passed up and down the aisles between the seats, reassuring everybody, talking calmly, and giving wet towels to women whose hair had caught fire. The towels were being handed out from the lavatory in the chair car. William Blades, a Duluth businessman, was soaking the towels when a panicked passenger caromed into him. "What chances do you think we have of getting out of this?" the man wanted to know.
"About one in twenty thousand," said Blades, and passed back another towel. There was nothing but yellow flame outside the coach windows.
Up in the cab, Root fainted and, falling on the controls, nearly shut off the steam. When he came to, the train was crawling up a slight grade with a scant ninety-five pounds of pressure showing on the gauge. Jack McGowan, the fireman, spilled some water on Root. "My God! Give me some more of that," said the engineer, who, revived, called for a bucket of water to dip his hands in. They were badly burned, and he didn't want to rub them together for fear the flesh would come off.
Dazed though he was, Root had long since given up any idea of outrunning the fire. He was making for Skunk Lake, a marsh with a small pond of scummy water. At last the engine rolled out onto the bridge above the marsh. Root stopped the train, and collapsed on the floor of the cab. McGowan tried to help him, but the engineer protested: "Leave me and go help the passengers into the water."
The fireman took a pail, and went out to join the conductor, who was dousing the burning steps so that people could get off.
The passengers tumbled into the lake while the fire boomed through the sky above them. When McGowan saw everyone was safe, he ran back and helped Root down into the water.
Root was a railroad man, and he had one job left to do. He had saved his passengers and his crew, but there was his train on the low bridge, the coaches all burning, and the engine threatened.
"You can't live on the engine for the coal is all on fire," McGowan told him when he heard what Root had in mind. But nonetheless McGowan went along when Root climbed back on the bridge, unhooked the locomotive from the burning tender, and drove it a little bit forward, away from the consuming blaze.
Root, McGowan, and the rest of the survivors huddled in the dank waters of Skunk Lake for four hours until the incandescent ground cooled, and then crept out. They sat shivering in the darkness, while near and far stumps and branches still burned fitfully. At length it was decided that three strong men would head south to seek help at Pine City, fifteen miles away.
The small party set off down the tracks, stepping over charred bodies as they went. They picked their way along until they reached Hinckley, where they saw nothing left standing save the roundhouse and water tower. Those two gaunt structures, the twisted railroad tracks, and level fields of rubble were all that remained to indicate that there had ever been a town there.
Men and women who had survived the fire in the gravel pit were prowling through the ashes. Peter Knudson, Hinckley's Presbyterian minister, had found a few watermelons, cooked in their skins, and passed these around. His wife milked a cow that had sought refuge in the pit, and gave the milk to the children.
The party from Skunk Lake, joined by a few of the gravel pit survivors, passed on through the ravaged town and found a handcar on the outskirts. They set off on this, and a few miles later came to a work train.
Once out, the news spread rapidly. On Sunday a relief train stocked with provisions set out from St. Paul. The next morning another train started out from Pine City. Aboard it were five thousand board feet of lumber and Frank G. Webber, who would be in charge of burying the dead.
Webber had a big job. The dead were everywhere. Many corpses were found in a running position, having fallen in midstride. One girl was found on her side with her hands clasped; she had apparently been praying when the flames took her.
That first morning, Webber and his men dug a trench sixty feet long, and in it placed ninety-six bodies, all burned beyond recognition. Drinking liquor to steady their nerves, Webber's men worked for three days, burying in all 233 corpses. Among them were the mummified remains of the 126 whom Fraser had heard die. Their clothes had been entirely burned away, and only the soles of their shoes remained.
The heat had been unbelievable. Barrels of nails had melted into one mass, and in the yards of the Eastern Minnesota, the wheels of the cars had fused with the rails.
On November 24, D. W. Cowan, the Pine County coroner, signed the official list of people who had died in Hinckley and in the nearby towns. There were 415 names on it.
And still the dead kept turning up. The fire had roared along for twenty miles, laying desolate tens of thousands of acres, and it was not until four years later, in May of 1898, that the last victim was discovered. The Hinckley fire had been a colossal disaster and, if not the most costly blaze in American history, it nonetheless had taken well over a hundred more lives than the notorious Chicago conflagration of 1871.
The town of Hinckley was rebuilt. Something of the spirit that helped rebuild it is evident in a small book about the disaster written a few months afterward by a man named Elton Brown. After more than two hundred pages of the most harrowing descriptions of the catastrophe, Brown concludes with the ingenuous note: "For particulars regarding lands and other data of interest to a person contemplating removal to the Northwest, application can be made to Mr. Wm. H. Phipps, Land Commissioner of the Northern Pacific Railroad Company .…"
Brown's book contains dozens of eyewitness accounts of the holocaust, but none sums it up so succinctly as that of C. P. Fadden, a railroad man on the St. Paul & Duluth who saw the town burn up. When asked to describe the experience, all Fadden had to say was that he "had been in hell, and saw everything there was to be seen except Satan himself."


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Fred is Dead: A Christian Response to the Followers of Fred Phelps, Founder of "Westboro Baptist Church"
Fred Phelps is dead.
Phelps is best known for heading up the Westboro Baptist Church (WBC). The WBC is infamous for preaching a message of hatred toward homosexuals ("God Hates Fags") and picketing the funerals of United States military.
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Birches are popular landscape trees. Its bark texture and colour make them highly attractive landscape specimens. Two major insects affect this beautiful tree. One is the Birch Leaf Miner and the second is the Bronze Birch Borer.
In the urban environment, birch can be stressed and can become susceptible to a devastating insect, the bronze birch borer.
The Bronze Birch Borer adult is a slender, metallic-coppery beetle about 3/8 inch long and rarely seen. The larvae settle beneath the bark, and are white, segmented, legless grubs with an enlarged area behind the head. The larvae are about 1 inch long when mature. The larvae feed in the plumbing (phloem) of the birch, just below the bark. The feeding reduces the food sent to the roots. Decreased root growth and function lead to inadequate water, and the tree begins to die back, often starting with the upper crown.
Often, foliage on some branches in the upper crown begin to yellow in midsummer, progressing to dead brown leaves. This results in the death of smaller branches. Later, larger branches begin to die and the entire tree may eventually die. Ridges may be seen on the bark of the tree due to the larval tunnels beneath the bark. Adult beetles emerge mid to late June. Eggs are laid in cracks or crevices in the bark. The larvae emerge and enter the wood.
Borers seldom attack healthy, vigorous trees. The keys to keeping birches healthy:
- Select a location where the roots will be cool and moist, but where the leaves receive full sunshine.
- Sufficient watering is the most important factor in maintaining a healthy birch tree. During the growing season a, slow (2-3 hours), deep (8-18 inches) watering once per week is recommended.
- Mulching over the tree's root system will moderate soil temperatures and keep the soil moist. Ground covers will also keep the soils moist and cool
- Fertilizing is beneficial to ensure that nutrients are not lacking.
- Pruning should be avoided from May 1 to July 1. Female borers appear to be attracted to fresh pruning wounds.
Preventative treatments of insecticide on the bark can reduce the larval population if applied in late June and mid-July. Other methods may also be available - please contact us for details.
Birch Leafminer
The larvae of this sawfly make the leaves of birch trees blotchy with dead tissue. The larvae feed between the top and bottom layers of the leaves. The damage causes the tree to look dead with wilted, brown leaves. The damage forces the tree to refoliate. This reduces its ability to produce food for growth. The damage may also make the tree more susceptible to borer attack.
Birch Leafminers are easily controlled with proper applications of systemic insecticides.
Acecaps is one way to treat birches for insect problems.
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Bally Alpha 1 S9000 Bonus 7s
Please keep in mind the cabinets may be different than the stock photo. The game title is Bonus 7s. Somewhat similar to the IGT S2000 line, the Bally S9000 became popular with casinos because it is a reel game with a great amount of technology. The cabinets feature beautiful new design themes with additional features such as tower games and top LCD screens. The line boasts popular game themes like the Quick Hits series. The Bally S9000 makes a great addition to any slot floor, providing an eye-catching machine to reel in customers. A great buy for your home or casino floor.
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15 "At the end of every seven years, you should grant a release.+ 2 This is the nature of the release: Every creditor will release his neighbor from the debt he incurred. He should not demand payment from his neighbor or his brother, for it will be proclaimed a release to Jehovah.+ 3 You may demand payment from the foreigner,+ but you should release your claim on whatever your brother owes you. 4 However, no one among you should become poor, for Jehovah will surely bless you+ in the land that Jehovah your God is giving you to possess as an inheritance, 5 but only if you strictly obey the voice of Jehovah your God and carefully observe all this commandment that I am giving you today.+ 6 For Jehovah your God will bless you just as he has promised you, and you will lend* to many nations, but you will not need to borrow;+ and you will dominate many nations, but they will not dominate you.+
7 "If one of your brothers becomes poor among you in one of your cities of the land that Jehovah your God is giving you, do not harden your heart or be tightfisted toward your poor brother.+ 8 For you should generously open your hand to him+ and by all means lend* whatever he needs or is lacking. 9 Be careful not to harbor this evil idea in your heart, 'The seventh year, the year of the release, has approached,'+ and hold back your generosity toward your poor brother and give him nothing. If he calls out to Jehovah against you, it will be a sin on your part.+ 10 You should generously give to him,+ and you* should not give to him grudgingly, for this is why Jehovah your God will bless your every deed and undertaking.+ 11 For there will always be poor people in the land.+ That is why I am commanding you, 'You should generously open up your hand to your afflicted and poor brother in your land.'+
12 "If one of your brothers, a Hebrew man or woman, is sold to you and has served you for six years, then in the seventh year you should set him free.+ 13 And if you should set him free, do not send him away empty-handed. 14 You should supply him generously with something from your flock, your threshing floor, and your press for oil and wine. Just as Jehovah your God has blessed you, you should give to him. 15 Remember that you became a slave in the land of Egypt and that Jehovah your God redeemed you. That is why I am commanding you to do this today.
16 "But if he says to you, 'I will not go out from your company!' because he loves you and your household, since he has been happy while with you,+ 17 you should then take an awl and put it through his ear into the door, and he will become your slave for life. You should do the same with your slave girl. 18 Do not consider it a hardship when you set him free and he leaves you, because his service to you for six years was worth twice as much as that of a hired worker, and Jehovah your God has blessed you in everything that was done.
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Realistic grass for your models
The blade-like texture of grass and weeds is one of the most difficult effects to re-create on a diorama or model railroad.
But a little felt will produce grass that appears to grow out of the soil.
You can buy felt at a fabric store in 9-by-12-inch squares or by the yard in 6-foot widths. Use dark green, or buy beige felt and paint it with green ink (from an art supply store). The beige felt can also be used to simulate dried grass for winter scenes.
Use scissors to cut the felt to fit your project. Use plaster, papier-mâché or insulation board (like Styrofoam) to create the shapes for the hills you will cover with grass. Apply a thick coat of water-based contact cement and press the felt into the still-wet cement. Let it dry. Wash your hands and the brush.
Now the fun part: Get dirty! Sift some real soil through a door screen to remove debris and larger stones, then pour it through a fine-mesh tea strainer. Shake the strainer to distribute the soil onto the felt. Try to cover about three-fourths of the felt.
Use a wire bristle brush such as a pet brush to stroke the felt so loose strands fluff up.
Sift on more soil as needed. You want the individual fibers of teased-up felt protruding through the soil, just like real grass. Trim excess with scissors.
When you're satisfied with the scene, spray the area with a mixture of five parts water to one part Artist's Matte Medium (available at art supply stores). Add a drop of detergent to the mixture to help soften the fluid so it doesn't puddle as easily.
You'll need to spray on enough of the mixture so the entire area has a white cast. It will turn the soil and felt a darker shade. Let it dry for about a week, and the original colors will return.


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Prevents and inhibits Downy & Powdery Mildew Pathogens. BANISH uses natural geranium oil plant extract as a fungicide to inhibit the spores from colonizing and already established mildew from spreading. Kills the mildew at the source where it is anchored into the plant. Spray the tops and bottoms of the plants for best effect.
- Geranium oil naturally degrades with no residue within 1 day
- Can be used safely until the day of harvest
- Can be used as a preventative
- Mechanical mode of eradication
- None systemic
- Will not harm beneficial insects such as lady bugs or praying mantis
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Thanks for your patience, everybody! And a really big thanks to our first round of testers, who were instrumental in helping us make the SFM a better user experience.
They were SO helpful, in fact, that we're happy to announce that SFM Beta is now open to everyone, for free, as of right now. We've also provided a new SFM-specific page in the Steam Community where you can view, rate and discuss all the latest user-created videos.
Plus, just so we don't all overdose on "Meet The Heavy" shorts, we've decided to release a new session, to give all you folks something new to riff on. So get out your guitar (and some audio recording equipment) and prepare to "Meet The Engineer".
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Here we'll be sharing news, tips and tricks about all things relating to our storytelling tool, the Source Filmmaker. Because it�s the tool we use here at Valve to create our own movies, we will be adding features as we need them and then sharing them with everyone through Steam. You can join our official Steam Group to stay up-to-date with all the latest SFM news.
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RFC 4198 - A Uniform Resource Name (URN) Namespace for Federated
Network Working Group D. Tessman Request for Comments: 4198 Zelestra Category: Informational November 2005 A Uniform Resource Name (URN) Namespace for Federated Content Status of This Memo This memo provides information for the Internet community. It does not specify an Internet standard of any kind. Distribution of this memo is unlimited. Copyright Notice Copyright (C) The Internet Society (2005). Abstract This document describes a URN (Uniform Resource Name) namespace for identifying content resources within federated content collections. A federated content collection often does not have a strong centralized authority but relies upon shared naming, metadata, and access conventions to provide interoperability among its members. 1. Introduction Federated content collections are often loose constructs of both small and large content providers, with an active community, but without significant central authority. Members are bound together by shared purpose and interoperate through shared naming, metadata, and access conventions. Federations may also consist of other federations, creating complex associations and dependencies. A content provider may join or leave a federation at any time and may be part of more than one federation at the same time. Content providers may also cease as organizations altogether, freeing their domain names for use by others. In addition, content identifiers are spread throughout the members of a federation. These identifiers are stored on various media, sometimes for long durations before being used. Therefore, although they work well in situations without a strong content naming authority, URLs are insufficient as content identifiers within a federation because they cannot be uniquely and permanently tied to a specific content resource. This URN namespace provides a mechanism whereby a central naming authority is not required. Providers maintain naming authority over their own content within guidelines that guarantee URNs to be unique and permanent. A simple identifier resolution convention is also recommended to provide a consistent URN resolver interface across all providers. This namespace specification is for a formal namespace. 2. Terminology In this document, the key words "MUST", "MUST NOT", "REQUIRED", "SHALL", "SHALL NOT", "SHOULD", "SHOULD NOT", "RECOMMENDED", "MAY", and "OPTIONAL" are to be interpreted as described in RFC 2119 [1]. 3. Specification Template Namespace ID: "fdc" Registration Information: Registration Version Number: 1 Registration Date: 2005-04-25 Declared registrant of the namespace: Name: Zelestra Address: 2314 Henrietta Avenue La Crescenta, CA 91214-3007 USA Contact: Dave Tessman E-mail: firstname.lastname@example.com Declaration of syntactic structure: The NSS has the following ABNF [2] specification: NSS = ProviderId ":" DateId ":" ResourceId ProviderId = 1*(label ".") toplabel DateId = (CCYY [MM [DD]]) / 1*3(DIGIT) ResourceId = 1*(alphanum / other / ("%" hex hex)) label = alphanum / alphanum *(alphanum / "-") alphanum toplabel = ALPHA / ALPHA *(alphanum / "-") alphanum CCYY = 4(DIGIT) MM = ("0" %x31-39) / ("1" %x30-32) DD = ("0" %x31-39) / (%x31-32 DIGIT) / "30" / "31" alphanum = ALPHA / DIGIT hex = DIGIT / %x41-46 / %x61-66 other = "(" / ")" / "+" / "," / "-" / "." / ":" / "=" / "@" / ";" / "$" / "_" / "!" / "*" / "'" ProviderId is the content provider's identifier. ProviderId MUST be an Internet domain name and MUST be owned by the organization creating the resource and allocating the URN to the resource. DateId is a date in ISO 8601 Basic Format (CCYY[MM[DD]]), and MUST correspond to a specific day on which the organization allocating the URN owned the domain name specified in the ProviderId. If not included, the default value for MM and DD is "01". DateIds of 1 to 3 digits are reserved. ResourceId MUST be unique among all ResourceIds emanating from the same provider and having the same DateId. Relevant ancillary documentation: None. Identifier uniqueness considerations: The combination of ProviderId and DateId serves to uniquely identify the organization that is allocating the URN. That organization is responsible for ensuring the uniqueness of the ResourceId. Identifier persistence considerations: A URN of this namespace may only be allocated by an organization that owns an Internet domain name. The URN identifies a date on which the organization owned that domain name. The combination of domain name and date will serve to uniquely identify that organization for all time. Process of identifier assignment: The organization identified by the ProviderId/DateId combination is responsible for allocating a ResourceId that is unique among all those that it allocates with that DateId. Process of identifier resolution: Content providers are responsible for the provision of a URN resolution service, if any, for URNs they have assigned with a valid ProviderId/DateId combination. Content providers SHOULD support URN resolution by using the HTTP protocol convention described in RFC 2169 [3]. The ProviderId SHOULD be used as the HTTP server location. Rules for Lexical Equivalence: In addition to the rules defined in RFC 2141 [4], normalize the case of the ProviderId to lower case before comparison. Conformance with URN Syntax: There are no additional characters reserved. Validation mechanism: None additional to resolution specified. Scope: Global 4. Examples The following examples are representative of URNs in this namespace, but may not refer to actual resources. urn:fdc:example.com:2002:A572007 urn:fdc:example.net:200406:ivr:51089 urn:fdc:example.org:20010527:img089322-038 5. Security Considerations There are no additional security considerations other than those normally associated with the use and resolution of URNs in general. 6. Namespace Considerations Distribution of naming authority, identifier flexibility, and a recommended URN resolution mechanism make this namespace a unique and valuable tool to meet the URN requirements of small content providers and federated content collections. 7. Community Considerations By establishing a simple, flexible, and efficient means for smaller content providers to uniquely identify and publish their content, this namespace reduces the effort required for these providers to participate in federated collections. A consistent identifier format and resolution mechanism also increases the ability of federations to accept content references from smaller providers and to aggregate themselves into federations of federations. Increased participation and aggregation results in a larger selection of distinctive content that is more accessible to the community. To make use of this namespace, a content provider should further decompose the ResourceId portion of the namespace syntactic structure to meet their internal content identification needs and establish an internal governance mechanism to ensure that all identifiers created follow the requirements of this namespace. It is also recommended that the identifier resolution mechanism described in RFC 2169 [3] be provisioned within an HTTP server designated by the ProviderId portion of the namespace syntactic structure. 8. IANA Considerations This document includes a URN NID registration that conforms to RFC 3406 [5] and has been entered into the IANA registry of URN NIDs. Normative References [1] Bradner, S., "Key words for use in RFCs to Indicate Requirement Levels", BCP 14, RFC 2119, March 1997. [2] Crocker, D. and P. Overell, "Augmented BNF for Syntax Specifications: ABNF", RFC 4234, October 2005. [3] Daniel, R., "A Trivial Convention for using HTTP in URN Resolution", RFC 2169, June 1997. [4] Moats, R., "URN Syntax", RFC 2141, May 1997. Informative References [5] Daigle, L., van Gulik, D., Iannella, R., and P. Faltstrom, "Uniform Resource Names (URN) Namespace Definition Mechanisms", BCP 66, RFC 3406, October 2002. Author's Address Dave Tessman Zelestra 2314 Henrietta Avenue La Crescenta, California 91214-3007 USA Phone: +1 818 249 8906 EMail: email@example.com Full Copyright Statement Copyright (C) The Internet Society (2005). This document is subject to the rights, licenses and restrictions contained in BCP 78, and except as set forth therein, the authors retain all their rights. This document and the information contained herein are provided on an "AS IS" basis and THE CONTRIBUTOR, THE ORGANIZATION HE/SHE REPRESENTS OR IS SPONSORED BY (IF ANY), THE INTERNET SOCIETY AND THE INTERNET ENGINEERING TASK FORCE DISCLAIM ALL WARRANTIES, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO ANY WARRANTY THAT THE USE OF THE INFORMATION HEREIN WILL NOT INFRINGE ANY RIGHTS OR ANY IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY OR FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. 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The IETF invites any interested party to bring to its attention any copyrights, patents or patent applications, or other proprietary rights that may cover technology that may be required to implement this standard. Please address the information to the IETF at ietf- firstname.lastname@example.com. Acknowledgement Funding for the RFC Editor function is currently provided by the Internet Society. User Contributions:Comment about this RFC, ask questions, or add new information about this topic: |


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