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Lord Lloyd of Berwick: I support the amendment, but for my own part I would go further. The reclassification of cannabis as a class C drug was regarded by many as a move in the right direction. Why, therefore, are the Government changing tack so soon? The Minister says, by way of explanation, that the exercise of the new power will be subject to guidelines and, in any event, will be exercised only very occasionally. I do not, for my part, like that. If the power of arrest is to be there at allalthough I am against that power for class C drugsit ought to be spelt out in the Bill in which circumstances it can be used, and not left to guidance.
The Lord Bishop of Worcester: I hope that this is an appropriate moment at which to say that the whole new clause, and in particular the issues around class C drugs, is for me the focus of a major concern that will appear at a number of points throughout the Bill. I support many of the points made by previous speakers.
The clause, and its earlier subsections, activates a kind of post-September 11th anxiety level in the whole of society and builds upon it. It takes us into an arena where the most creative ways of dealing with criminal offences and offending behaviour generally are submerged under a rhetoric of toughness. The Chamber needs to consider carefully whether that rhetoric of toughness actually contributes to a rise in the level of crime.
If we add to the number of arrestable offences, we add to the number of the people arrested. It may be possible to justify this arrest, that arrest or the next arrest. It may be possible to justify, as the Minister did, particular additions to the list of arrestable offences on
If we increase the number of offences, we increase the number of people arrestedotherwise, there is no point in doing it. If we increase the number of people arrested, we statistically increase the number of people wrongly arrested. If we increase the number of people wrongly arrested, we increase the number of people who are inducted into a criminal culture. I do not know at which specific point and in response to which specific clause the Chamber will rebel against that incremental culture. However, I hope that at some point it does. If it does not, under the guise of a rhetoric driven by articles in the popular press and so forth, we shall believe that we are reducing criminal activity and actually be sowing the seeds by which it is increased.
It is no coincidence that the nub of the debate on the clause relates to cannabis. As other Members of the Committee have said, that is an area in which we can be sure that we shall increase the number of people whom we bring into touch with a criminal culture, and whom we label, arresting them sometimes correctly under the law and sometimes wrongfully. In that process, we shall not be reducing criminal activitywe shall be laying the grounds for its future increase. I beg noble Lords to consider very carefully in relation to each and every clause whether we should not have a presumption of not adding to the number of arrestable people and incarcerated people, all of which inhibits the possibility of rehabilitation and reducing criminal activity.
Lord Waddington: The new policy on cannabis was unveiled some months ago. My noble friend Lord Carlisle made a most spirited speech, pointing out the contradictions in the new policy and the absurdity of saying that possession of cannabis was really pretty unimportant and that the police should not waste their time on it, yet increasing the penalties for dealing in cannabis. Now we have confusion worse confounded. The Bill adds to the confusion by saying that cannabis is not all that dangerous, but that in spite of that fact, and despite the fact that we are downgrading it to class C, its possession should be an offence warranting arrest. That is pretty absurd.
I should have liked things to be left well alone. I do not subscribe to the view that cannabis is unimportant and not really all that dangerous. I have plenty of evidence of the fact that it is extremely dangerous. It is well acknowledged, for instance, that it could precipitate very serious mental illness. I do not subscribe to the nonsense of it being unimportantbut that is a different matter. The fact remains that there is no consistency whatever left in the Government's policy.
The absurdity of the position is best illustrated by the amendment tabled by my noble friend Lord Hodgson. There are a number of substances in class C, and the Government themselves acknowledge that cannabis is really rather different from the rest of them. Yet in the interests of consistency they are
If the Government really think that there is a case for cannabis possession being an arrestable offence even though it has been downgraded to class C, then it should be dealt with on its own. On that I agree with what has been said. We certainly should not go along with the view that it really does not matter if a whole lot of other offences are created or a whole lot of other circumstances are recognised where arrest would be proper.
Lord Renton: I confess that I am not as knowledgeable of drugs of an illegal kind as those who have already spoken; so I shall not burden the Committee by commenting on them. On arrestable offences, however, I think that the right reverend Prelate the Bishop of Worcester puts forward a view that should not be ignored. We do not want too many people arrested on a purely prima facie piece of evidence when they may not be deliberately guilty.
I do not think that the Minister mentioned the next issue when she put forward subsection (4). If she did I did not take it in. It is to be an offence under Section 174 of the Road Traffic Act 1988 to make false statements and to withhold material information. Broadly speaking, it is upon the prosecution to establish a case against anyone. Although there are circumstances in which the burden of proof changes, my recollection is that it does not do so here under Section 174. It can be a matter of opinion whether particular information which could even be described as material should give rise to an offence that is punishable and arrestable. I ask the Government to reconsider the exact wording of the subsection. I think that we could be abandoning what has been the usual practice of not arresting people unless they have been deliberately misleading.
Lord Alexander of Weedon: I wish to add to the argument advanced by the noble and learned Lord, Lord Lloyd of Berwick, and the right reverend Prelate the Bishop of Worcester. We have heard several times in this House in the past few months the argument that even if something may be an offence on which it would be undesirable to charge many people, it should remain an offence and we should rely on the discretion of the prosecution not to bring such a charge. That was
I feel increasingly uneasy when I hear that argument. I believe that the law should be clear. I believe that that is immensely important when the underlying philosophy of our law is that there is a liberty to do that which is not prohibited. We should regard the law and that underlying principle as a rock on which people can set their feet. It is not good enough for the Government to seek to justify the creation of a criminal offence by saying, "This will be used only in certain limited circumstances. For the most part those who live in anxiety may take consolation in the fact that the discretion will not be used to prosecute". I suspect that that is not much consolation to those who live in anxiety.
Even more importantly, I think that underlying this debate is a very important principle of the philosophy of the criminal law. We should not lightly expose people to prosecution by the seductive argument that the prosecuting authorities are humane, sensitive people who will always exercise their judgment wherever possible in favour of mercy.
Viscount Colville of Culross: If the debate is reverting to the more general topic of the government new clause, I should like to add one point on false documentation. The Minister is dealing with passports and driving licences, which are of course the key that opens the door to many things in this country. However, has she thought of national insurance numbers? I remember a remarkable burglary in which the target turned out to be blank birth certificates. We had little doubt that the improper use for which those were taken was to get national insurance numbers and thereby to be able falsely to claim benefits.
I do not think that that matter falls into any category of which the noble Lord, Lord Alexander of Weedon, disapproves; nor, I think, does it fall into anything of which the right reverend Prelate would disapprove. It is not at the moment covered. As far as I can see, it is a pretty serious matter. It is causing an enormous drain on national resources. Will the noble Baroness look into it? I have given her no notice of it, but I should be very grateful sometime for an answer.
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Goethestadt Bad Lauchstädt is a small town in the South of Saxony-Anhalt and the historical spa gardens and the Goethe Theatre can be found in its appealing town centre. Without the spa and the mineral spring, theatre history would have never been made in Lauchstädt. The Dukes of Saxony-Merseburg ordered the development of the spa in 1710. In 1775 the luxury spa facilities, also called Sächsisches Pyrmont, became popular as the electoral court at Dresden moved its summer residence to Lauchstädt. J. W. Chryselius, the architect of the Merseburg Cathedral Chapter, was assigned to design a modern spa, which was completed between 1776 and 1787. Dresden late Baroque was unmistakably the inspiration for the construction and brought a new shine to this small spa town. For almost 250 years people used the spa in Bad Lauchstädt and it became a meeting place for local aristocracy, the more affluent middle class and the great intellectual minds of the time. Noteworthy visitors were the famous poets Gottsched, Gellert and Gleim, the von Stein family as well as Charlotte von Lengefeld and Christiane Vulpius, Goethe's wife.
With the debut of the Weimar Court Theatre in 1791, Bad Lauchstädt became a nationally recognised venue for theatre, opera and concerts. Goethe initiated the construction of the theatre and after twelve years it was opened on 26 July 1802 with W. A. Mozart's opera La Clemenza di Tito. With its charm and appealing design, the theatre has attracted both national and international visitors to the former spa town for more than 200 years. Friedrich Schiller himself was impressed by the unique theatre in 1803 when during a performance of The Bride of Messina a lightning storm made the audience shiver. A few years earlier in 1789 the poet stayed in Lauchstädt for a short while and struck up a close relationship with the von Lengefeld sisters. What started as a correspondence ended up with Friedrich Schiller becoming engaged to the younger of the sisters, Charlotte.
The spa's golden age ended and it lost its popularity throughout Europe as Prussia acquired the territory as a result of the Congress of Vienna in 1815. In 1834 the theatre in Lauchstädt reached another highlight in its history as the Magdeburger Stadttheater performed there: 21-year-old Richard Wagner visited the town as a conductor and met actress Minna Planner, whom he married two years later. The only premiere performance thus far in the Goethe Theatre was hosted in 1912: Gerhart Hauptmann's play Gabriel Schilling's Flight with Tilla Durieux in one of the starring roles caused a sensation.
Although the spa facilities have been disused since 1941, Goethestadt Bad Lauchstädt and the historical spa facilities still welcome visitors and offer an unforgettable theatre experience. After their restoration in the 1960s, the historical buildings can now be used for public or cultural events. Extensive conservation measures preserve the former glory of the luxury spa facilities. In 1994 the federal state of Saxony-Anhalt founded a GmbH (company with limited liability) in order to manage the former spa facilities and the Goethe Theatre. Each year from April to October leading local and national theatre groups give up to 50 guest performances with chosen repertoires. More than 20,000 people visit Bad Lauchstädt each year to enjoy a performance in a historical atmosphere. The wooden Baroque stage machinery still works and fascinates to this day. The annual Festspiel der deutschen Sprache (Festival of German Language) attracts international visitors to the spa town. The festival initiated by Kammersängerin Professor Edda Moser has been hosted in the Goethe Theatre in Bad Lauchstädt since 2007. Since then it has presented a renowned event series in order to preserve and cultivate the German language.
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Paperback: 392 pages
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Rating: 3.5 of 5 stars
R. H. Ragona's Circus of Magic is the greatest circus of Ellada. Nestled among the glowing blue Penglass—remnants of a mysterious civilisation long gone—are wonders beyond the wildest imagination. It's a place where anything seems possible, where if you close your eyes you can believe that the magic and knowledge of the vanished Chimaera is still there. It's a place where anyone can hide.
Iphigenia Laurus, or Gene, the daughter of a noble family, is uncomfortable in corsets and crinoline, and prefers climbing trees to debutante balls. Micah Grey, a runaway living on the streets, joins the circus as an aerialist's apprentice and soon becomes the circus's rising star.
But Gene and Micah have balancing acts of their own to perform, and a secret in their blood that could unlock the mysteries of Ellada.
Pantomime is truly a unique book that explores a topic that's not often found in young adult books. The question is how do I talk about it without ruining the whole twist? I'll try to bumble my way through the best I can without spoiling anything. Oh and because of the interesting twist, I found the beginning a bit confusing, just power through, it's worth it.
The story is told through alternating plot lines of Micah and Gene. It starts off right with Micah trying to join the circus, with us readers clueless as to why he's run away. The story than takes an extensive flashback to Gene. Both stories intertwine, Gene's leads up to that moment, while Micah's keeps moving forward. While I enjoyed the flashback to an extent, I got to a point where I've sorted of figured things out and didn't need that background information anymore. I was definitely much more interested in the present plot which was starting to really build up, so I ended up lacking patients for the flashbacks. (Un)fortunately, the book ends in a cliff hanger that has me wanting more.
Like I said, the book is very intriguing and peculiar. The motley circus crew has an interesting range of characters from those I loved to those I really disliked. Even the minor characters are really memorable. The good news is, Micah is an exceptional and thoroughly interesting character. It was great to see solid character development. The romance of this book is both typical and atypical. Still not a huge fan of the love triangle (probably because I pick a side very early in the book haha), but the conflict of the love triangle is at least different compared to many YA novel.
The circus made for a very interesting setting. Lam created a magical and vivid world that's interlaced with darkness of the human heart. Ellada has an interesting history and mythology (that's where there's the blend of fantasy), yet it's only lightly touch upon in the book. Cliff hanger be damn, but I can't wait to see how Micah is part of the mysteries of Ellada.
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text: I would like to take a few moments a tell you a little bit about myself, Hi, my name is Joseph, and I have had a tough go in life from the start. I was born premature, weighing two and one half pounds, I was born with epilepsy, which I struggled with for the first nine or so years of my life. Learning was a quite difficult journey for me in those first years, I had to develop a unique and some what odd way of seeing the world. This made learning a monumental challenge for me, mostly to resolve even the most common of everyday problems such as talking, and relating to others, verbally which made social interaction very awkward and difficult, dealing with multiple seizures a daily added to the stress of making friends. And, as the years went on I had, being unable to keep up with my peers in school. And as a result of these unique challenges, I had to develop a different way to keep up with my educational demands. So, I began to leaned toward the creative, first with drawing and then towards the visual which became far easier than verbal communications with others, it was far easier for me to absorb, the visual than was reading, writing and pronunciation than any other such learning tools were. So, I started to doodle, then I eventually learned to draw, and sketch. Which helped me relate to my strangely perceived world. Jumping ahead, many years of feeling ostracized, and being different than all of my peers, I became introverted, and melancholy, holding fast to the only real friend I had ever known in my young life, "Art!" and it would turn out to be my saving grace, and the tool by which I would began to relate to others through this radically perceived physical plane. Although, I still have many of my quirks that I kept from my youth, and as far as the common person would perceive me still quiet odd, even today.But I digress, Flash forward to today, I still retain many of my hard to shake quirks, and oddities. But I have learn through the years of hard work and struggle, to use them to my advantage through the "artistic expressions," and it is through this venue that I am come before you today. I have built an online gallery; Fire4Art LLC. https://www.artpal.com/steadmansterI have labored for years producing hundreds of works of art. Placing what I have considered the best, into this gallery, I have setup this page in the hopes of supporting this gallery, and thereby; myself and my family. But, I have not yet been able to drive buyers to my gallery, to market my works, or to create a large enough audience to support an acquitted advertising campaign to sustain and promote my work. And it is to that end, that I humbly come before you today. If you would find it in your heart, to become my Patreon so my family and I may live The American dream. Thank you so very much, for your time and patronage, Joseph G Steadman https://www.patreon.com/ServantJoe


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We provide one of the widest selections of organic produce in Yorkshire including locally grown vegetables, fruit, meat and eggs, even toiletries, from our shop in Pickering.
We also deliver to the Scarborough, Pickering, Malton and Ryedale areas.
Our shop is open Monday through Saturday .. visiting us is probably the only way to really appreciate the range of organic stock we carry.
Don't forget to check what's in season (it's cheaper, fresher, tastier, and healthier).
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Forte Research Systems Fosters Partnerships for Clinical Research Excellence at Onsemble 2011 Fall Conference
The 12th semi-annual gathering focused on partnerships as a means to advance clinical research operations.
Oct 13, 2011, 12:01 ET
MADISON, Wis., Oct. 13, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- More than 150 clinical research professionals from around the country gathered to collaborate on key issues facing clinical research at the Onsemble 2011 Fall Conference. Hosted by Forte Research Systems, the 12th semi-annual conference was attended by current and prospective users of the company's market-leading product, the OnCore Clinical Research Management system.
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Among the many highlights of the conference, which was held September 14-16 at the Monona Terrace, were discussions that laid the groundwork for valuable partnerships that positively impact the clinical research landscape.
The Power of Partnerships
A presentation by Dr. Purvish Parikh set the stage for global partnerships in clinical research in oncology, as he shared the vision of the Indian Cooperative Oncology Network (ICON). The organization, which has more than 350 professionals across India, has aimed to improve prevention and management of human cancers through its efforts. Giving insight into the clinical research landscape in India, members of the Onsemble community were invited to participate in the mutual opportunities there for clinical research.
Technology partnerships were also an important topic at the conference. In conjunction with Forte's recent release of its Software Development Toolkit (SDK), which was created to provide easier integration with external systems, the agenda featured a session dedicated to the topic of integration of eIRB systems with OnCore. Panelists provided the site perspective on the benefits and challenges of integration, while representatives from Topaz Technologies and BEC (creator of IRBManager) rounded out the session with presentations from the vendor perspective.
Following the session at the conference, Forte announced that it currently has five partnerships in place with eIRB vendors for pre-integration work with OnCore. "These partnerships are designed to bring greater efficiencies to the clinical research industry," said Srini Kalluri, Founder, President, CEO, and Chief Customer Experience Officer at Forte Research Systems. "The five partnerships are only the beginning. We offered our SDK so that OnCore could be integrated with all eIRB systems. We believe in the concept of opening communication between systems and, thereby, improving clinical research operations across the industry."
Another key announcement that was made at the conference is the OnCore Certification Program. The "Train the Trainer" program was introduced as a way to assist institutions in the training of staff on the Clinical Research Management system by establishing experts at each site. More information on the program can be found at the Forte website.
Additional Successes at Onsemble 2011 Fall Conference
The 12th Onsemble Conference was a place for discussion and collaboration between research professionals on a variety of key issues facing operations, including regulatory compliance, effort tracking, and financials and budgeting.
The keynote address centered on a pivotal issue for the community: billing compliance. Ryan Meade, partner at Meade & Roach, LLP, a firm specializing in regulatory compliance matters in the health care industry, presented top solutions to the challenges posed by billing compliance. Meade's expertise on the subject comes from prominent work in the field of billing compliance, notably representing Rush University Medical Center in its landmark settlement with the government related to clinical trials billing overpayments.
For the second consecutive time, the conference featured a workshop dedicated to the usage of the OnCore Clinical Research Management system by Clinical and Translational Science Institutes. Attendance at the workshop was high and the content of the session was well received, a strong indication that interest in the adoption of OnCore among those institutes is gaining even more traction.
For the first time in the history of the semi-annual event, the Onsemble Fall Conference featured a pre-conference workshop focusing on Biospecimen Management. With a record-setting attendance, current and prospective users of the OnCore Biospecimen Management product (OnCore-BSM) discussed processes and workflows of organizations using the system to manage their biorepositories.
"The Onsemble conferences embody the vision of Forte to collaborate with current and prospective users of the company's software to not only improve the OnCore system, but to also facilitate the sharing of ideas and best practices among our customers, " said Tony O'Hare, Co-founder, Vice President of Engineering, and Chief Collaboration Officer at Forte Research Systems. "The goal is to provide a forum for progress industry-wide, and this conference successfully generated collaboration among the community. It is with this goal in mind that we will continue to host the Onsemble conferences."
The next gathering, Onsemble 2012 Spring Conference, will be held March 7-9, 2012 at the UCSF Mission Bay Conference Center and is being co-hosted by the Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center at UCSF.
The semi-annual Onsemble conferences are gatherings of the Onsemble community, which is largely comprised of OnCore users, and are facilitated by Forte Research Systems, Inc. With the vision of "for the members, by the members," the majority of content is generated and presented by the members of the community. The community is comprised of cancer centers, children's hospitals, research consortia, and academic health centers. The people who attend are largely Clinical Trials Office leadership, clinical research associates, data managers, and regulatory managers, with some representation from other areas including clinical trials financials, clinical informatics, and biostatistics.
Founded in 2000 and headquartered in Madison, Wisconsin, Forte Research Systems, Inc. develops clinical and translational research management software. The company's flagship product, the OnCore® system, is the nation's most widely adopted clinical research platform among academic research organizations and cancer centers. The OnCore platform is the result of over a decade of experience working closely with large research organizations, including institutes funded by the National Institute of Health's Clinical and Translational Science Award (CTSA) program and forty percent of the NCI designated cancer centers.
For information about the OnCore clinical research informatics platform, contact Forte Research Systems at (608) 826-6002 or visit the company online at www.ForteResearch.com.
SOURCE Forte Research Systems, Inc.


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Christian Skolmen
Attended the Norwegian Faculty of Performing Arts, has worked at the National Theater and Torshov Theater in Oslo, as well as Trøndelag teater. He is perhaps best known for his role in the Sejer series on NRK. Has played in several films, including Monster Thursday (2004), Buddy (2003), I Am Dina (2002) and Sophie's World (1999).
Christian was named one of Norway's 25 most sexy men in 2006.


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It worried me when that hen wouldn't let the little guy in.
The chirping drew me down to the hen house last Monday night. The sound drifted through the hen house walls, up over the lawn, and through my open window. I've heard it plenty over the years--a sound that is part confusion, part fear. Usually it means that a newborn chick has jumped her nest. And normally, by the time I can slip on my shoes and run to the rescue, the mama hen has already gone after her baby. Instinct drives her from her nest, even if it still contains just-hatched chicks. She'll leave the rest to save the one.
And that's what happened this time. The barely-here chicks still in the nest hadn't had time yet to understand they were abandoned. They were still looking at each other and all the sudden extra space in their box when I opened the door and stepped inside. I knew they'd stay like that, alone and shivering, if I didn't orchestrate a reunion.
Being as new-to-life as they were, they didn't yet know to question my featherless hand. Picking up each little cotton ball, I said hello and set them down next to their mother. One by one, the babes burrowed under her feathered side. But then I set the last little guy down. He chirped once and then poked his minute little beak beneath one feather. I assume he found a wall of steel beneath that feather, because he backed up and gave the white wall a quizzical look. He tried again, retreated, tried again, and sat down. I scooped him up and set him a little closer to the back. Apparently, the back side was standing room only, because he couldn't get in there, either. At this, he started chirping insistently. His mother ignored the sound, but it caused me to scoop him up again and set him down closer to the front. He tried to burrow there, found just enough space under her wing that his shivering little back was covered, and stopped trying. I worried at the sight of those two toothpick legs sticking out below, but I trusted that he'd eventually find his way to warmer parts.
Tuesday morning, I thought of that chick when I woke, and told myself that as soon as I got dressed, I'd check on him. But then I forgot. It wasn't until sometime after lunch when I felt a very strong urge to get myself down to the hen house. This time, I heeded the nudge.
As I approached the coop, I could see the mama hen out in the yard with little moving bits of fluff around her. She'd already taken her brood out for a meet-and-greet with the other hens. I watched from over the fence and counted babies. When two tries still yielded only five chicks, I knew my little guy was in trouble.
I went into the hen house and checked where I'd last seen him. He wasn't there. I looked in every corner of the house and behind the feed can, but he wasn't there. And then, bending over and leaning out the half door that leads to the yard, I found him. He was lying prone against the dirt, with his legs splayed out behind him and his head turned to one side. Don't be gone, I thought, my heart pounding. I leaned down a bit further and blew as hard as I could. That little breath against his back caused him to open his beach just the tiniest bit. At that, I hit the ground, reached down, and snatched him up.
He was barely there. I cupped my hands and blew a slow stream of warm air inside. He didn't move. I blew again, and again, until finally I felt him stir. All the way to the house, I kept blowing. Once inside, I sat us both in front of a space heater and let its warmth drive the death chill from his little body.
I held him for two hours. His return to life was a slow process. At first, all he could muster was the slow opening and closing of his little beak. After awhile, he turned his head just slightly. Then, I saw one wing tremble. Awhile later, he opened an eye ... kicked his foot ... rolled over. When he started chirping, I started breathing again. He'd live.
We made him a little nest and set a heat lamp over top. Tera wanted him in her room, so we obliged, but he kept her up most of the night with his chirping. The next day, when I reached in to scoop him up, he hopped into my hand as though he'd missed it. I held him and stared at him and thought about his rescue. I'd had to lower myself and lie in the dirt to snatch him up. And even knowing that he'd spend his little life pooping and pecking the other chickens and probably pecking me occasionally, I wanted him to live. It made me appreciate God all over again. He knew all about lowering Himself to the dirt and scooping up we dying critters, and even though He could look ahead and see that we'd each spend our lives making a lot of messes and hurting each other--and hurting Him, too--He wanted us to live.
For three days, my chick stayed inside. He'd drink water if I offered it to him on a spoon, but we never saw him drink from the container in his nest. If I rubbed a bit of chick starter (tiny crumbles of chicken feed) on his beak, he'd try to shake off the particles. If one or two specks slipped in, he'd swallow them, but we never saw him peck. I'd wait with him for a half hour at a time, trying to get him to eat something, but he simply wouldn't--or couldn't. It crossed my mind that he'd never witnessed pecking before. Maybe some things have to be learned.
It was that concern that finally made me take him back to the chicken coop. I didn't want to, but I knew he'd die if he didn't start eating like a chicken. In my wanderings down to the coop, I could see how much stronger and more mobile his siblings were. They pecked at everything. If he could just get back in the brood, he'd learn. I knew he'd learn.
I think he was scared when I set him down on the ramp and nudged him in the direction of his mother and siblings, who were pecking at the ground below. He didn't move for several minutes, but he did start chirping. His mother looked up at him once. I prayed she'd recognize that sound, but I've found that mother hens can be a bit capricious with their affection.
He took a step and slid a few inches down the ramp; took another step and slipped off the side. It wasn't a far drop. I held my breath again as he took three tottering steps in the right direction. Mama hen watched his approach. If she didn't take kindly to his return, I'd dive through that half door and reclaim my baby.
But she did. It took him about five minutes to cross four feet and find a good burrowing spot, but I took comfort from watching that massive white wing lift slightly and envelope my little guy. And even when the others wandered under her and away from her, over and over, she stayed put and didn't abandon my chick. All he wanted was the warmth of her body, and she didn't let me down.
But he died. I found him the next morning, lying under the hen house. And this time, no amount of blowing or pleading made a difference. He stayed in that spot, unmoving.
I don't know what happened. Maybe all those days of not eating had stolen his strength. Maybe he couldn't keep up with the others. Maybe he didn't have the energy to burrow to safety when night came.
Spring, for me, is a bittersweet time. Spring brings life ... but it also brings death. Lambs die. Ducklings die. Chicks die. And no matter how insignificant those lives may seem to anyone else, they matter to me.
I have no deep insights today. Today, I'm simply sad.
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Friis formulas for noise
Friis formula or Friis's formula (sometimes Friis' formula), named after Danish-American electrical engineer Harald T. Friis, refers to either of two formulas used in telecommunications engineering to calculate the signal-to-noise ratio of a multistage amplifier. One relates to noise factor while the other relates to noise temperature.
The Friis formula for noise factor[edit]
Friis's formula is used to calculate the total noise factor of a cascade of stages, each with its own noise factor and gain (assuming that the impedances are matched at each stage). The total noise factor can then be used to calculate the total noise figure. The total noise factor is given as
where and are the noise factor and available power gain, respectively, of the i-th stage, and n is the number of stages. Note that both magnitudes are expressed as ratios, not in decibels.
An important consequence of this formula is that the overall noise figure of a radio receiver is primarily established by the noise figure of its first amplifying stage. Subsequent stages have a diminishing effect on signal-to-noise ratio. For this reason, the first stage amplifier in a receiver is often called the low-noise amplifier (LNA). The overall receiver noise "factor" is then
where is the overall noise factor of the subsequent stages. According to the equation, the overall noise factor, , is dominated by the noise factor of the LNA, , if the gain is sufficiently high. (The resultant Noise Figure expressed in dB is 10 log(Noise Factor).)
The Friis formula for noise temperature[edit]
Friis's formula can be equivalently expressed in terms of noise temperature:
Printed references[edit]
- J.D. Kraus, Radio Astronomy, McGraw-Hill, 1966.


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My Depression Was the Worst It Has Ever Been During My Pregnancy
What is a time of joy for many women was my darkest hour.
I've always been a big fan of spontaneous day trips. When I lived in Portland, I loved driving up to Seattle or escaping to the Oregon coast for the day, and now that I live in Nashville, I can hop in the car and explore Chattanooga or Atlanta or just drive until I hit a little town with a diner that serves pie (this doesn't take long).
I think people often get caught up in the idea that they can't travel based on limitations on time or money, but a day trip is a great way to explore a new place without breaking the bank or taking time off, and you even get to sleep in your own bed at the end of the day. Need a little more encouragement to hit the road this weekend? Read on…
1. Day trips are affordable. If you're not a barter-for-a-room-in-a-hostel type, the most expensive part of traveling is always lodging. Take the hotel room out of the equation and suddenly you're just paying for gas, food, and attractions. Keeping a day trip under $100 is totally doable. Keeping it under $50 is not impossible.
2. You can plan as much or as little as you want. Day trips allow you to be completely, totally spontaneous ("Let's just drive for a few hours and see where we end up!") or indulge your inner control freak ("We need to hit these 6 attractions before lunch time, no bathroom breaks allowed!"). Since you won't need to set up a place to sleep or deal with check-in/check-out times, you are free to spend your time exactly as you please. Whether you choose a meandering or militant pace, you'll be back in your own bed that night.
3. Two words: No. Packing. I love traveling, but I haaaaate packing. Unless you're like my aunt, who insists on packing a suitcase of extra clothes and a huge cooler of turkey sandwiches anytime she drives more than 5 miles, day trips do not require a suitcase. Score!
4. A day away gives you a break from routine. I don't know about you guys, but when I'm feeling burned out, bored, overwhelmed, or generally dissatisfied with my life, I get an intense urge to get away (should I deal with this in therapy? Probably, but for now I'll just take day trips). In general, running away from your problems isn't a super successful strategy, but man, it can do wonders to put a little distance between you and your daily routine. After a day out exploring, I always return home rejuvenated and re-inspired.
5. There's no pressure. Big, capital "V" Vacations are awesome, but they come with a lot of built-in stress and pressure: you've gotta make sure you see all the major sights, take National Geographic-worthy photos, and have The Most Fun Ever to make all that time, money, and planning worth it. Day trips are different. You're not making a huge time and money investment, so who cares if it's perfect? Just go with the flow and see what happens.
6. You'll see your surroundings with new eyes. It's tempting to file everywhere within a 200-mile radius of your home under the "not that exciting" category, just because it's not exotic. The truth is there are so many things to see and do no matter where you live, and we often overlook randomly awesome destinations that don't require a plane ticket to get to.
Do you live within an hour of the world's largest ball of yarn? What about that amazing farm-to-table restaurant just across the state line? Have you been putting off a visit to the historic hat museum a few cities over? Lose your "local" paradigm and try to view your area as a tourist. You might develop a new appreciation for the unique charms of your part of the country.
7. Traveling, even just for the day, makes great memories. When I look back on the moments that stand out in my life, the vast majority of them took place outside the constraints of my daily routine. I've found that I have just as many great memories from the random beach trips I took with my brothers as I do from exploring Europe. Whether we're 50 or 5,000 miles from home, traveling puts us in new situations and exposes us to new people and experiences that become etched in our mental scrapbook forever. So go see what there is to see.
Reprinted with permission from The Frisky. Want more?
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Regime Finance and Procurement
Annex B
Figure 4. Oil Allocation Recipient List
The names of US citizens and business entities have been redacted from this report in accordance with provisions of the Privacy Act, 5 U.S.C. 552a, and other applicable law. The full report has been provided to appropriate recipients in the Executive Branch and Congress.


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Lulu B's Vietnamese Sandwich
recommendation by goose
Sandwich truck with smooties and vietnamese sandwiches in South Austin. The sandwiches are about $4.50 and gigantic with options from lemongrass chicken, to BBQ pork, to avocado or lemongrass tofu for vegetarians. They also have noodle bowls and summer rolls. There's picnic tables out front!
Tuesday - Friday: 11pm - 4pm
Saturday: 11-5pm
Sunday: Closed
Monday: Closed


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Gold Bluffs Beach Campground is a 1.1 mile lightly trafficked loop trail located near Orick, California and is good for all skill levels. The trail is primarily used for walking and camping and is accessible year-round.
kid friendly
no dogs
It was one of the best views I've ever woken up to and falling asleep with the waves is great.
Did this one a couple of weeks ago on the way back from Fern Canyon. Not sure why it's listed as a trail. It's a road around the campground that's closed for the winter...
Campground on the beach near Fern Canyon.
We always camp here, and its always more beautiful than the last time. I cant choose which aspect is my favorite, the elk that you wake up to each morning, or the waves that rock you to sleep each night. One recommendation is to get there early during summer months to reserve a spot. Make sure to keep your trash put away in bear canisters. As hard as it is to imagine bears on the beach, they definitely are. While camping on a rain-fueled weekend, i luckily scored two tarps someone had left behind in a bear canister! Woo!
Luke P.
Go anywhere in the redwoods and you wont be disappointed. This area was no exception. I should say right off the bat that we didn't actually stay at the Gold Bluffs campground but camped about a half a klick away at the Miners Ridge campground. I liked its location a little better, little less exposed, a little less traffic. The picture I posted is on the trail in between the Prairie Creek Visitor Center and Miners Ridge the morning after some really heavy rain.


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Jim Rimkus of Pacific said a holiday wreath was removed from a loved one's grave just minutes after he and his brother placed it there on Tuesday.
"We observed on the way out that the wreaths were missing off the grave," he said.
Rimkus said that's when he immediately went to the main office.
"And I confronted them with it and they asked me if I had purchased tags," he said.
The tags are $5. According to a cemetery supervisor, the rule is nothing new and that signs explaining this rule are posted on both sides of the entrance since last year.
"If you don't have a tag then they immediately take the Christmas decorations off the graves and they lay them along this fence line and what happens to them after – that they did not tell me," Rimkus said.
Rimkus admitted that he didn't pay attention to the rule board.
"I was on a mission," he said, "I'm kind of ignorant for driving by them, but who would have ever known, you know?"
Rimkus said he noticed the wreaths were missing about 10 minutes after he placed them on the site and is upset with the way it was handled.
"It's the principle," he said. "I think it's disrespectful and I think it's another way of possibly the cemetery extorting money from people."
Rimkus said that he's learned a valuable lesson and wants other families to take note.
"Read the signs when you enter cemeteries and pay attention to them," he said.
The supervisor would not provide any more information than repeating what is posted on the rule board.
FOX 2/KPLR 11 was told the rule only applies during the holiday season and all holiday decorations are removed by February 15.


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Guest blog authored by TI Community Champions Jan Cumps and Martin Valencia.
Bob Paradiso created a smartphone controlled wheelchair (project page). He removed the control stage and replaced it with a SimpleLink™ Wi-Fi® CC3200 LaunchPad™ development kit. The CC3200 LaunchPad development kit is used as the access point. There's no active Wi-Fi network needed.
Jan Cumps has a SeeedStudio BeagleBone Green. On his Element14 Blog he posted about the first steps on cross-compiling, XWindow and c++.
Martin Valencia made an AC Analyzer with MATLAB and a Hercules LaunchPad Hercules™ RM46x LaunchPad™ Development Kit. Learn more about it here.
Both Jan Cumps and Martin Valencia were awarded at the recent 2015 TI Community Award Ceremony as Top Helpers for 2015! As leaders and MVPs in the TI Community, it was an honor to recognize their tremendous achievements in 2015.
TI award-winning Community Champions Jan and Martin contribute monthly to the Jan & Martin Project Pick of the Month and can be last found hosting a TI Community Analog Webinar. Martin also hosted the Hola TI LaunchPad Webinar. They previously participated in Part 1 of the LaunchPad with sunglasses series and Part 1 of Show your crazy LaunchPad 'Stache. They also teamed up for the TI Community Blog post on Getting Started with Hercules LaunchPads in 5 steps.
Jan stays active online sharing his projects on Launch Your Designs (near 20+ projects and counting), helping on the Hercules™ Safety Microcontrollers Forum, tweeting, posting videos on his YouTube channel and Blogging on Element14.
Martin stays active online sharing his projects on Launch Your Designs (30+ projects and counting), posting about his favorite LaunchPads, helping on the Hercules™ Safety Microcontrollers Forum, Facebook Community page, tweeting, posting videos on his YouTube channel and Blogging on Element14.
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Software Engineering and Technology (SET)
The research
The overall objective of the group Software Engineering and Technology (SET) is to develop methods and tools for time- and cost-efficient evolution of high-quality software systems: from inception, through development and maintenance, to phase-out. SET recognizes the importance of both legacy systems and state-of-the-art development methodologies such as model-drive software development driven by formal models, domain-specific modeling and generic tooling.
Therefore SET will not limit its investigations to recent software development phenomena, but will also focus on a variety of other topics dealing with software migration, re-engineering and reuse. SET believes that it is of the utmost importance to integrate the daily software development practice with with cutting-edge research and high-profile education. SET welcomes collaboration with industrial and academic partners that will foster a better understanding of the nature of software and software-related processes.
The research of Software Engineering and Technology group is on software engineering in general, but with a strong focus on theory, methods and tools for maintaining consistency between models and code.
Research themes
SET has the following research themes:
Theory, methods and tools for model-driven software engineering
The ultimate goal of model-driven software engineering is increasing the quality of the resulting products and the reduction of development costs. The latter can be achieved by re-use of developed models, reduction of their maintenance, and application of software generation tools. Topics addressed in this theme are: generation of code from models, reconstruction of models from code, and analysis and transformation of models and code.
The ultimate goal is increasing the quality of the resulting products and the reduction of development costs. Domain specific languages play an important role in the area of model-based software engineering. The basic idea is that (significant parts of) software products are generated from models (design artefacts), together with libraries or frameworks. This provides both easier communication with the domain experts, opportunities of re-use of generic code, and formal verification of the developed models.
The software development process itself does not become less complex by the introduction of model-based techniques, because of newly introduced artefacts: the model, the transformer/generator, and the framework, and this gives rise to new research questions on software quality.
SET focuses on tackling the quality aspects of domain specific languages, models, and model transformations by developing tools and techniques to describe and analyse these artefacts. Model transformations have become important artefacts in the software life-cycle.
This means that not only their external software quality attributes, such as correctness and robustness, become crucial, but also their internal software quality attributes, such as readability, maintainability, and reusability.
Software maintenance and evolution
A complementary research line focuses on maintenance and evolution of existing software systems as opposed to the development of the new ones.
The ultimate goal consists in supporting software maintainers and quality assessors in their tasks. To this end, we extract information from the artefacts that maintainers encounter in their daily work: source code, version control systems, and mails.
We have studied software evolution by means of measurement and visualization, based on series of released versions and version control systems, with respect to an individual system, an ecosystem (e.g., GNOME) or an extensive source code repository (e.g., SourceForge).
Our main contributions pertain to aggregation of software metrics by means of econometric inequality indices, dependency analysis and reverse engineering for application-server-based software and process mining software repositories.


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Man, I think 5.5 points is too many guys
I'm a Pats guy and I'll be rooting for them as always, but this is a big line considering the Patriots just found themselves down 10 late against the Jags at home.
Foles looked like Montana against Minny..I'm not supremely confident in him doing that again but The Patriots pass defense can be exposed at times and Doug Petersen has proven he knows how to move the ball and get creative. They'll need that..One thing I know is two Sunday's ago, the Eagles would've beat the Patriots head to head. The Pats need to play better and the Eagles need to bring that same effort into Minnesota..
My gut says Pats in another close one, but my brain is very scared Philly can come in and upset them. I live in New England and the fans are so complacent. Like watching our squad in February is something we can take for granted, an appointment that we don't even celebrate until its over.
Meanwhile, this Philly roster is hungry and there's no denying they want Philly's 1st SB a bit more than a team who has won so many.
I cannot knock Tom Brady's pure will to win. But it has become kind of crazy how often we are expecting him to score late in the fourth in the clutch. He is overdue to not do that. And in the past, even when he has (TD to Moss in '08), the weak zone pass defense let them down on the following drive.
I just have a bad feeling about this game as a Pats fan. I expect a 3-4 point victory for New England, but Philly really should be about a coinflip to win this ballgame in my mind..at least a hell of a lot closer than getting 5.5 points on neutral turf
Eagles +5.5 is my play (I play on a local New England book, maybe the reason for the generous line..I'd still take Philly at 4.5 or 5)
The total is a nightmare, stay away. Although teasing Eagles to +11.5 with over 42.5 seems nice...
Good luck, lets hit the bookies hard!
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I not going to go crazy betting this game...i could debate back and forth forever....however im gonna put a few on eagles straight up.
I really dont like how bortles looked so good against the pats...bortles is one terrible qb...
I understand that the pats focused heavily on fournette and put the statement out there..ball is in bortles hand to beat us...well he almost damn well did...
Foles is not a great qb but he is much better than bortles.
So why can he have success against the pats...nerves of superbowl vs brady's experience will hurt but thats where i like the eagles d....best d in the league 2nd half of year on in my opinion...should be charged up and looking for brady blood....eagles hungry for first sb....
Its extremely hard for me to bet against brady and belichick in a super bowl...but they cant win them all...also very difficult to win back to back sb...they did it before so doing it again the odds r even lower.
Last years crazy comeback win would not have happened if atlanta had not went into prevent defense so early..
Should be close..
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But why had he always felt so strongly the magnetic pull of home, why had he thought so much about it and remembered it with such blazing accuracy, if it did not matter, and if this little town, and the immortal hills around it, was not the only home he had on earth? He did not know. All that he knew was that the years flow by like water, and that one day men come home again.
Something has spoken to me in the night...and told me that I shall die, I know not where. Saying: "[Death is] to lose the earth you know for greater knowing; to lose the life you have, for greater life; to leave the friends you loved, for greater loving; to find a land more kind than home, more large than earth.
Perhaps this is our strange and haunting paradox here in America -- that we are fixed and certain only when we are in movement. At any rate, that is how it seemed to young George Webber, who was never so assured of his purpose as when he was going somewhere on a train. And he never had the sense of home so much as when he felt that he was going there. It was only when he got there that his homelessness began.
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Roger Hargreaves: Have you seen all 16 Google doodles today?
Happy Birthday, Roger Hargreaves. The acclaimed children's book author would have turned 76 today. In true Google fashion, the search engine saluted Hargreaves with a homepage homage featuring some of his iconic characters.
Roger Hargreaves may be best known for his Mr. Men and Little Miss books about smiling, colorful cartoons. Google really went whole hog for today's celebration, reviving Mr. Messy, Little Miss Chatterbox, Mr. Tickle, and tons of other doodled dudes. There are 16 Roger Hargreaves Google doodles in all. Through careful screen shots and furious page refreshes, we present you with each and every one. Enjoy!
1. Little Miss Shy
It's hard to identify all of Roger Hargreaves' characters in this scene, but Little Miss Shy is no doubt the blushing beauty on the left. As for the dancers, one of them is easy to pick out – even from behind. Mr. Small, the red bloke with a tiny hat, is known for his outsized personality and perpetual jazz hands.
The Hargreaves gang changed colors and wardrobes over the years. For example, Mr. Small later looked more orange and wore a tall stovepipe hat that was the envy of Abraham Lincoln impersonators everywhere. Google chose the classic Mr. Small design, which works well since it matches the red tint of the 'e' in Google logo.
The other characters, from right to left, are probably a green Mr. Skinny (the shape is right, but he usually dresses in all yellow), a blue Mr. Dizzy (without his signature bowler hat), and maybe Mr. Bounce or Mr. Mischief (they look near identical). If you have insider Roger Hargreaves knowledge or work for an FBI profiler team, please let us know in the comments if you can identify the other misfits.
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Hargreaves had a prolific career, hence the massive cast and changing designs. He published 90 books and launched a television show starring the doodles. After he passed on in 1988, his son, Adam, kept the series rolling. Last February, Hargreaves fans got word that 20th Century Fox and producer Shawn Levy (director of comedies such as "Night at the Museum" and "Date Night") will reboot the colorful crew with a new animated feature.
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Tiger: Ryder Cup would be pointless
Tiger Woods has revealed he pulled out of the Ryder Cup because he did not feel he could have won a point for the United States.
Woods, 38, last week withdrew himself from contention for the competition, which gets under way at Gleneagles in Scotland on September 23, and has ruled himself out of any further action until December as he attempts to get to the root cause of persistent back problems.
"Physically, I couldn't do it," Woods told Sky Sports News of his decision to inform United States captain Tom Watson he was unavailable.
Tiger Woods believes he would not have been competitive enough if he competed in the Ryder Cup
"I wouldn't be ready, and not being able to be there for my team-mates, the captain, assistant captain and everyone that's involved in the event, I just wouldn't be ready and I just couldn't help the team.
"When your name is called you have to be able to go out there and get a point and I just didn't feel like I could be ready enough to get a point.
"With that being said it was time to shut it down, get stronger, get more explosive again and get back for next year."
The 14-time major winner said he is working in the gym and does not plan to pick up a golf club for a month with nothing on his agenda until his own tournament, the World Challenge tournament at Isleworth in Orlando, Florida, in the first week of December.
"I've got to be physically fit when I come back so I'll be explosive again and stable," he said.
"Obviously this year was frustrating in that I didn't really feel that I gave myself much of a chance. I first had that pain in my back and it would go away, and then it would come back, go away, come back, until eventually it never went away...It got fixed, but I took that fall on number two at the (WGC-Bridgestone Invitational) and I hadn't done any agility training yet so my hip got misaligned and everything went into spasm again.
"We got that all calmed down again but then I had to play. Now I need to keep it calm, then strengthen it and then I'll be back. That's one of the reasons I've shut it down. I'll come back in December and be ready for next year."
Steve Stricker has also confirmed he will not play again until December due to injury.
Stricker had already been chosen as one of Watson's assistants alongside Andy North and Ray Floyd but, after a seventh-placed finish at the US PGA Championship, Watson revealed he had not ruled out handing the 12-time PGA Tour winner a wild card.
That will not be happening now, however, as Stricker has confirmed he is going to "shut it down" for the time being due to back and hip injuries.
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A few years ago, Brad Edmondson and I decided to found the Institute for Northern Studies. Edmondson, former editor of American Demographics magazine, lives in Ithaca, N.Y. I'm from Memphis.
Our think tank would treat the North in the same anthropological way that many people treat the South. We would explore Northern folkways — such as food, language and music — and we would talk knowingly of Yankee yells, speaking Northern and "the New North."
Recently I had an opportunity to spend a weekend doing fieldwork along the Mason-Dixon Line. For nonhistorians, the Line, surveyed in Colonial days, runs along part of the borders of West Virginia, Pennsylvania, Maryland and Delaware. The boundary has served as a shorthand for referring to the North-South cultural divide.
The Line — between Maryland and Pennsylvania — is less than an hour from Washington, D.C. To get there, I drove up Interstate 270 until it became Route 15 north, past the Walkersville Southern Railroad and the "Get US Out of the U.N." signs. In Emmitsburg, which is a few miles south of the famous line, I stopped by Chubby's Southern Style Barbeque. It sure enough felt Southern.
In the guest book, a customer from Greenville, N.C., had written: "Just like home cooking from southern North Carolina." It smelled like the South in there. People talked like Southerners.
Lori Smith, 33, took a break while serving tasty beef brisket and coleslaw. "Frederick County has an identity crisis," Smith said. "It's torn between the North and the South."
A sweet-smiling woman at Feud House Treasures in downtown Emmitsburg thinks pretty much the same thing. I asked her if she thinks of the town as being Northern or Southern. Standing amid the dried-flower crafts and collectibles, she drawled, "I never thought about it." Sounds Southern to me.
"A lot of people around here seem to think this is the South," Linda Carpenter, 48, said at Mountain Liquors, a package store on Old Emmitsburg Road near the Blue-Gray Highway bridge, a stone's throw south of the Line. You can get a fifth of Southern Comfort there for $14.
Just over the Line, you get your first sense of a different world when you stop at Keystone Fireworks' 10,000-square-foot superstore. Yee-ha, firecrackers! There's even a display called the Boss Hog. But hold your hosses, boss. If you live north of the Line — in Pennsylvania — you're not allowed to buy fireworks that fly. If you're a card-carrying Southerner from Maryland, however, you have the run of the place. Pennsylvanians need a special permit to buy Roman candles and other aerial pyrotechnics.
Wonder why that is. Maybe Northerners like looking down on things.
"This doesn't feel Southern to me at all," said Judy Graves, whose partner, Florence Tarbox, runs the Battlefield Bed & Breakfast Inn in Gettysburg, Pa. "They drink root beer here, not Dr Pepper." Graves has spent some time in the South, where she said people get all up in your business. In Gettysburg, she said, folks keep to themselves.
Makes perfect sense that Gettysburg should feel like a Northern town to Graves and others. After all, it was here that the Union's Army of the Potomac under Maj. Gen. George Meade defeated Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia in the goriest battle of the Civil War.
But there has been some residual Southern influence. In Gettysburg proper, for instance, the South seems to be winning the war — of memorabilia. At Gettysburg Souvenirs & Gifts on Steinwehr Road, Todd Mickley, 34, said Confederate T-shirts outsell Union tees 4 to 1.
The area around Emmitsburg and Gettysburg, Mickley said, "is right in the middle" of North and South. "A lot of people wanted to remain neutral." The Avenue Restaurant on the main drag serves both grits (a Southern staple made from corn) and scrapple (a Northern food made from — well, let's just say that Northerners know how to use their brains).
But at karaoke night at the Pike, a beer hall on Baltimore Pike in Gettysburg, Southern music ruled. Amid lots of high-decibel urban tunes, the only two songs that somebody actually sang to were Southern: I Walk the Line by Johnny Cash and Suspicious Minds by Elvis Presley.
After experiencing a difference in attitudes, breakfast foods and musical moods, I am ready to file my report to the Institute. Edmondson — who runs the demographic Web site ePodunk.com — and I meet every once in a while to discuss our findings. Our next meeting may be at the new welcome station near Emmitsburg. The Mason-Dixon Discovery Center on Route 15 will eventually include an exhibition wing that explores the history of the demarcation. It opened to the world last spring, but, for some curious reason, is accessible only to folks in the southbound lane.


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