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How Webbermill is Building the Best SaaS Platform in Africa
Webbermill is a SaaS company in Ghana that provides businesses with easy-to-use, affordable and reliable applications for their every need.
The company offers a workspace platform with a suite of business, productivity, and industry-specific apps to make business operations flexible, reliable, and faster.
Since 2016, the company has invested in research & development and their development team to make businesses work flexibly and less rigid while increasing productivity.
In the spirit of empathy for users, innovation, and service, the company impacts individual lives and disrupts core business structures. We provide a range of flexible and easy-to-use enterprise applications, which form a complete suite of tools for businesses at all stages.
Regardless of the industry, every business in Africa should have software that work-out the complexity, revealing new insights and serving companies with the information to stay ahead.
In 2021, the software as a service (SaaS) market was estimated to be worth approximately 145.5 billion U.S. dollars, according to Statista.
According to a recent McKinsey & Company report, technology industry analysts predict further growth in the software as a service market. They expect to see the demand for SaaS products near $200 billion by 2024.
Ghana has the second-highest data penetration rate and fastest-growing mobile money market in sub–Saharan Africa which has greatly enhanced financial inclusion.
The Software industry in Ghana (sales of software by companies like Oracle, IBM, and SAP) is estimated at around $200 million by the International Trade Administration.
With this enormous market and much more significant opportunities in the African market, Webbermill Limited is building a unique and powerful suite of software applications that modernize teams' operations and run entire businesses flexibly & smartly without limitation.
This suite of software applications will run on a platform called Webbermill Workspace.
What is Webbermill Workspace?
Webbermill Workspace is a Saas (Software as a service) platform to sell, distribute, and manage cloud-based software and services.
The platform will offer a wide range of features and functionalities. The solution will simplify application onboarding, automate back-end processes such as billing, and instantly provision cloud-based solutions to be most effective.
How does it work?
Webbermill Workspace will work through the cloud delivery model. Webbermill will host the applications and related data using servers, databases, networking, and computing resources via a cloud provider (AWS) to host the applications in their data center.
Customers will access their applications remotely on their browser, often through a subscription package.
In this environment, the Webbermill Workspace platform is a crucial piece of technological infrastructure for businesses in Africa.
An app for every need
Webbermill is building varieties of software for its SaaS platform. Ranging from HR software, Accounting software, Sales, and software that run an entire organization. All apps are completely integrated, making webbermill the only platform SMEs need to completely transform the way businesses work.
While the company builds these apps, it already has industry-specific applications which are already being used by companies.
Webbermill Transport Suite
Webbermill Transport Suite is a complete cloud-based transport management software. With this software, businesses in the transport sector can Plan, execute & optimize for timely delivery of goods.
Webbermill transport software gives you the ability to measure and track performance with reports, dashboards, analytics, and transportation intelligence. These intelligent tools allow you to scale your business by meeting and exceeding customer demands for fast, on-time delivery.
The software works for the oil and gas industry (bulk oil transportation by road) and works seamlessly for pharmaceuticals and Beverages industries, FMCG Distributors, and general transportation.
Here is what industry leaders are saying about the Webbermill Transport Suite.
Features of Webbermill Transport Suite
The Transport Suite currently has over 100 uses and manages 500+ vehicles with over 1.2 million kilometers covered in a month. Below are some features of the software.
- Trip Management: Easily plan trips with all moving parts in one place & complete legal compliance.
- Customer Center: Build an elaborate database of your customers.
- BI – Dashboard: All the essential KPIs & other business metrics and data are intelligently displayed.
- Way Bill & Invoice: Intelligently merge trip numbers with clients' waybills.
- Driver Management: Keep tabs on all your drivers' status and performance.
- Journey Comm Log: Track the development on each trip, update & close when incidents are fully resolved.
- Depot Loading: Monitor the activities of your trucks at all loading points.
- Violations: Manage employee violations intelligently by categorization & severity levels.
- Losses: A simple but powerful tool to manage shortfalls in deliveries.
- Compliance Tracker: Spend more time working and let us automate your legal compliance.
- Report: Generate reports instantly and reveal exciting insights.
- Potential Incident: Build intelligent information on possible road occurrences and instantly share it with stakeholders.
Project Cost Management Software
Webbermill's Project Cost Management Software helps you budget, execute and monitor your project's performance, all in real-time.
It includes a list of every project expense and what the benefits will be after successfully executing the project. You can calculate the return on investment (ROI) and others.
The software produces concrete analysis via interactive dashboards that can be used to develop reasonable conclusions around the feasibility and/or advisability of a decision or situation.
You can refer to it as Cost Value Analysis software, often known as Cost-Benefit Analysis. Using the Project Cost Management Software is essential for business because;
- It is data-driven: Rather than relying on guesswork, data-driven decision-making allows you to leverage verified and analyzed data when working towards main business goals and objectives.
- It makes decisions simpler: Business decisions are often complex by nature, and the webbermill project cost management can make them less complicated by reducing a decision to cost versus benefits.
- It can uncover hidden costs and benefits: The features in this software force you to sit down and outline every potential cost and benefit associated with a project, which can help you uncover indirect or intangible costs.
- Suitable for all projects, small or large: This software can be used for any project regardless of its size.
Visitor Management Software
Webbermill's Visitor Management software is a detailed and efficient cloud-based Visitor Management solution that can be self-service operated via Kiosk and Tablet.
The system streamlines front desk processes, managing the entire visitor lifecycle end-to-end.
When planning for and welcoming visitors to your site, the Visitor Management software provides unrivaled functionality, including self-service check-in, document delivery management, notifying hosts of visitor arrivals, and checking out.
Almost all visitor management solutions on the market today come stacked with many integrations and features to address visitor needs. However, only a select few features generally associated with a brand differentiate them from the rest of the competition.
A dedicated team
It's hard to build a strong customer success team.
Webbermill has invested in its software development team over the years. From UI/UX, Front-End, Back-End, and DevOps to QA specialists, the team invests time in really getting to know the problems faced by SMEs in Africa, to engineer the right solutions.
The service from Webbermill's software development team doesn't end there. The team provides ongoing support, troubleshoots problems, and answers questions, to ensure your solutions continue to perform for their customers.
While each member has their own specific tasks, the team is evaluated as a whole and focuses more on each member's unique skills, rather than titles or hierarchy. This creates an environment where teams are motivated to work together towards a common goal.
Webbermill's software development team works like a well-oiled machine, with each team member making important contributions to the final project.
The team also uses rightly executed software development processes that offer timely sprints, faster time-to-market, improved business foundations, enhanced IT Processes, and others.
With Webbermill Workspace, it will be possible for companies in Africa to run software solutions and online data analysis without relying on installing and running applications on their own computer systems and data centers.
Webbermill is building a good solution for businesses in Africa and has the vision of becoming the go-to SaaS platform for every business need. SMEs will gain from the flexibility of on-demand scaling and pay-as-you-go efficiency.


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Winter season has come to Bend. Here's some winter guide to winter-proof your Central Oregon Home
The winter months may bring the promise of a silent night overnight snowfall, a fancy, leafless trees covered in a white blanket knit from snowflakes, a bracing jolt of crisp, cold air.
But you also probably shiver when you receive your winter heating bills.
However, there are various ways you can do to winterize your Central Oregon home using this Winter Guide.
Here are easy and cost-effective ways to keep the cold out, and let the heat in, and your energy bill down this cold season with this winter guide.
1. Change Furnace Filters
Yes, it's easy to forget, but it's essential to replace or clean furnace filters once a month during heating season.
Dusty and dirty filters restrict airflow and increase energy demand. Here's a stress-saving tip: Mark a monthly check on your calendar.
Also, consider switching to a permanent filter, which will reduce waste and hassle.
An excellent choice is the genuine HEPA filter, which can remove at least 99.97% of airborne particles and it also complies with the Department of Energy standards.
But, avoid "HEPA-like" filters, which can be significantly less efficient.
2. Winterize your A/C and Water Lines
This one is quick and simple to do, and it will even save you a few money next summer.
Just drain your air conditioner pipe and any hoses inside and outside of your home, and ensure that you don't have excess water pooled in equipment.
If your air conditioner has a water shutoff valve, go ahead and turn that off.
After draining all your hoses, make sure to stow them away neatly. Don't forget to turn off exterior water spigots.
It's also a great idea to seal any water leaks around your Bend home, and remember to remove any window air conditioner units and store them, so you don't have to deal with cold draft all winter.
3. Turn Down Your Water Heater
While most conventional water heaters are set to 140 degrees Fahrenheit by installers, most households don't need that much steam and end paying for it — whether in dollars or occasional scalding burn.
Setting the temperature to 120 degrees Fahrenheit (or lower) would reduce your Bend water heating costs by 6-10 percent.
If you want to replace your tank water heater, consider switching to a tankless water heater or go solar. This switch will save you money in a long run.
4. Dodge the Drafts
According to the U.S. Department of Energy, drafts can waste 5-30% of your energy use. Begin simple and adopt that old Great Depression fixture — the draft snake, which you can quickly create yourself.
Just put a rolled bath towel under a drafty door, or you can also use any scraps of fabric, even neckties, and fill with sand or kitty litter for heft. Also, make sure draft isn't giving your thermostat an incorrect reading, too.
5. Give your Heating System a Tune-Up
Keeping your furnace clean, checked, and well adjusted will decrease energy use, saving up to 5% of heating costs.
The good news is most utilities offer free seasonal checkups by licensed and qualified technicians — but you have to call early, as HVAC crews get backed up once heating season starts.
Also, consider replacing your old inefficient furnace with a new one as it will save you money every month through Bend heating season.
6. Mind that Thermostat
Turning down the heat when you leave the house is the surest way to save money. Many Bend homes spend 50-70% of their energy budget on heating and cooling, so why pay when no one uses?
Remember that for every degree you lower the thermostat during this winter season, you'll save between 1-3% of your heating bill. Make it simpler for you by installing a smart or programmable thermostat.
7. Use Caulking and Weatherstripping
Caulk and weatherstripping are effective methods to seal leaks.
Window frames are often the source of drafts, as is anywhere that two materials meet, such as around the chimney, in corners where the pipes exit the house, and around the foundation.
You can test for leaks yourself by walking around on a chilly night and feeling where the cold air gets in or using the incense test.
The incense test requires turning off any fans, lighting a stick of incense, and running it near potential leaks. If the smoke wavers, there's a breeze, you need to caulk or weather strip around the frame.
8. Run Fans in Reverse
Most people use fans only when they want to be cool, but most ceiling units come with a handy switch that reverses the course of the blades.
Counterclockwise rotation creates cooling breezes while changing it to clockwise makes it warmer.
9. Boost Insulation
Insulating your Bend home is one of the best ways to save energy and money during the winter season.
It can make a huge difference to add more insulation between walls and ensure your attic floor, and basement ceiling are well covered.
10. Insulate Your Pipes
Insulate your pipes to reduce your heating bills. This method can also help decrease the possibility of freezing and bursting pipes, which can be a disastrous plumbing nightmare.
Verify to see if your plumbing pipes are warm to touch. If so, they are good candidates for insulation. You can also use this method to your hot water heater.
11. Upgrade to an Efficient Furnace
Luckily, it's not something you have to do every year, but if your furnace is old, you could save lots of money in the long run, and improve your home's value by upgrading to a new system.
Get an Energy Star-certified furnace, and you'll save 15-20% versus standard new models.
If you have any concerns regarding this winter guide or your plumbing, water heater, or heating and cooling in your Bend home, then call Einstein Pros at (888) 671-7767 or email [email protected].
Our services stretch through Oregon, Washington, and Nevada. We repair, service, replace, and install all plumbing parts and systems, as well as, water heaters, sump pumps, HVAC, and more!
Contact us for more information about our fast and reliable plumbing repair services today.

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The 1953-1964 Topps baseball cards were gone, but the 1952's were still there. Hundreds of them. Literally untouched for nearly 70 years. In the first stack there were several Yogi Berra and Willie Mays, but in the second pile…three Mickey Mantles. Every card had sharp corners and full gloss as if they had been pulled from packs the day before. But the collection kept on going.
While growing up in Canada the original owner of this collection was a very meticulous collector. For him it was enjoyable to open a full box and gently place the cards back in the display box. He didn't make sets. He didn't put them in his bike spokes.
He even kept the gum – making a stack of 8 pieces and using one of the wrappers to protect it. And he rarely only opened one box.
6 boxes worth of 1966-67 Topps Hockey with several gorgeous Bobby Orr rookies, 5 boxes 1971 O-pee-chee Baseball with the brutal black borders, multiple boxes of 1979-80 O-pee-chee Hockey along with 6 Wayne Gretzky rookies. It went on and on with at least one box for every year in hockey starting in 1965 and O-pee-chee baseball from 1968.
As the years went on and the price of boxes increased he switched to more affordable products such as Upper Deck MVP Hockey until eventually switching to Topps and Panini stickers and albums.
Keep an eye on our site over the next few months as cards from this find come back to us from PSA. And of course, remember when you have anything collectible to sell to please contact us.
Now, if we can only find all the 1953's-1964's.
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Aceu Valorant Settings & Config
Mouse Settings
- eDPI: 376
- Hz: 1000
- Sensitivity: 0.47
- Windows Sensitivity: 6
- Scoped Sensitivity: 1
- Walk: L Shift
- Crouch: L Ctrl
- Jump: Space Bar
- Use Object: F
- Equip Primary: 1
- Equip Secondary: 2
- Equip Melee: 3
- Equip Spike: 4
- Use Ability 1: E
- Use Ability 2: Q
- Use Ability 3: C
- Use Ability 4: X
- Color: White
- Inner Lines: 1/5/1/1
- Outlines: Off
- Outer Lines: 0/0/0/0
- Center Dot: On/ 1/1
- Fade/Movement/Firing Error: Off
- Rotate Orientation: Based on Side
- Minimap Zoom: 1
- Keep Player Centered: Off
- Minimap Vision Cones: On
- Minimap Size: 1
- Show Map Region Names: Never
Monitor & Video Settings
- Display Mode: Fullscreen
- Resolution: 1920×1080
- Frame Rate Limit: Unlocked
- Material Quality: High
- UI Quality: High
- Anti-Aliasing: None
- Bloom: Off
- Texture Quality: High
- Vignette: Off
- Anisotropic Filtering: 8x
- Distortion: Off
- Detail Quality: High
- VSync: Off
- Improve Clarity: On
- First Person Shadows: On
Aceu PC Gear
BenQ XL2546
Inked Custom Mousepad
Logitech G402
SteelSeries Arctis Pro
SteelSeries Apex Pro TKL
Brandon Winn is a professional gamer from the United States and began playing professionally in 2020. The gamer plays for NRG Esport as a full-time streamer on Twitch, where he has thousands of viewers and impressed gamers who want to improve their skills based on his game skills. The gamer is popularly known by the professional game aceu. His settings make him a better player and improve clarity as he streams. These are the settings he uses to achieve a high ranking in the game.
Monitor setup
The gamer plays on a Benq XL2546 monitor and sets the brightness level at 64. The contrast setting is at 60 while the Low Blue Light is 2. He uses the Black eQualizer at 10 while the Color Vibrance is 11. Aceu sets the sharpness at six and the DyAC on premium for the best results, and the Color Temperature is Bluish. These settings improve the gaming experience and reduce visual strain on his eyes. The monitor has a 1920×1080 resolution, with the Display Mode is on Fullscreen. He also plays with the Frame Rate Limit unlocked to ensure he can hit high frame rates.
Video setup
The gamer plays Valorant using an Nvidia GeForce RTX 2080 TI, and it lets him achieve high picture quality and proper high frame rates. He sets the Material Quality, Detail Quality, UI Quality, and Texture Quality on high for the best results. The VSync and the Vignette options are disabled, while the Anisotropic Filtering option is at 8X. He plays with the Anti-Aliasing mode disabled, and Bloom and Distortion are disabled. Aceu enables the Improve clarity option for a better visual appearance on the game, ensuring he can hit targets easily.
Valorant Radar setup
Aceu plays with the Minimap Size at 1 while the Minimap Zoom is at 0.9. He plays with the Minimal Vision Cones while the map is set to rotate as he moves through the map. These settings allow him to navigate better and reach targets and shoot at them better.
Mouse setup
The gamer plays using a Finalmouse Starlight-12 Zeus, and it elevates his gaming experience. He sets the DPI at 800 and the eDPI at 376. These ensure he can navigate through the map better and achieve better results. He sets the Sensitivity at 0.47 and the Scoped Sensitivity at 1. These settings reduce strain on the wrist as he plays the game.
Benefits of using aceu Valorant settings
- Reduced strain on the wrist as you can now move the mouse in any direction easily. This will improve your gaming and make you more accurate.
- When using these settings on your monitor, you don't have to strain your eyes, and you can look onto it for longer. This makes you train better on your path to becoming a professional gamer.
- The settings will allow you to get a better picture quality as you play. This allows you to enjoy Valorant, and you can have a relaxing feeling as you play. You will also improve your ranking in the game.


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Handcrafted, 18 karat gold curated Gretta Bracelet with Relier Link Bracelet with vitreous enamel accents and asymmetrical vitreous enamel heart charm.
Color - White
A curated style, The Enamel Organic Heart Gretta Bracelet is simple yet makes a statement with its colorful standalone embellishment. Handcrafted with 18 karat gold and hand-poured, high-gloss vitreous enamel, this necklace features the hand-rolled 7" Relier Link Bracelet adorned with a center Enamel Organic Heart Charm. Personalize with hand-engraved messages, important dates, initials or names.


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Is Google Workspace free? In this article we will answer this question and more about Google Workspace online collaboration and management. Google Workspace is basically the new name for Google s new suite of business online collaboration and productivity tools. First launched as Google Apps back in 2006, it has now been rebranded to G Suite, making this its third rebranding.
What are the features that make up this great online collaboration and productivity tool? Well the first obvious feature is that it is a free online service that lets you do all the things an app could possibly do. These include booking appointments, planning meetings, and organizing tasks and assignments.
This workspace is very similar to any other online service where you can do all these with the added benefit of sharing what you do on your workspaces with all your co-workers. You can also share documents online and give presentations and even do research online from your workspaces. You can easily search for information and look at it from a variety of angles. For example, if you are planning a meeting online, you can just go to your workspaces and look for any pertinent information that you need to prepare a great meeting.
When it comes to saving and sharing documents, you can easily do this using this suite of tools as well. You can save files to a variety of different locations. If you are looking for some particular information, then you can just go to your search engine and type in the term in quotes. This will bring up all the websites that are available for your search.
Google Apps allows you to basically set up business workspaces within your own online social network. It is very similar to what you would do within a group. Within this suite of tools you have the ability to manage your projects, accounts, calendars, and contacts right from your own smartphone. The great thing about this tool is that it is available for free. You can try it out for free and see if it works for you.
If you are thinking about starting your own business online, then you should consider the use of workspaces from Google. These are great free tools to use for any business whether it be large or small. You are able to share important documents right from your own smartphone. This is why we ask the question, "Does Google Workspace Free? Find out today!


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Basic Specifications | |
Full model name: | Pentax Optio E40 |
Resolution: | 8.10 Megapixels |
Sensor size: | 1/2.5 inch (5.8mm x 4.3mm) |
Lens: |
3.00x zoom
(37-112mm eq.) |
Viewfinder: | LCD |
Extended ISO: | 80 - 1000 |
Shutter: | 1/2000 - 4 sec |
Max Aperture: | 2.8 |
Dimensions: |
3.7 x 2.4 x 0.9 in. (94 x 61 x 23 mm) |
Weight: |
6.2 oz
(177 g)
includes batteries |
Availability: | 09/2007 |
Manufacturer: | Pentax |
Full specs: | Pentax E40 specifications |
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The Pentax Optio E40 is an entry-level eight megapixel camera with a Pentax-branded 3x optical zoom lens and a 2.4 inch LCD display. Offering a resolution of 110,000 pixels, this LCD is the only method of framing images since the E40 forgoes any form of optical viewfinder. The Pentax E40 has a 35mm-equivalent focal range of 37 - 112mm, with a maximum aperture that varies from f/2.8 to f/5.2 across the zoom range. ISO sensitivity is from 80 to 1000, and the E40 keeps things simple with program mode plus ten scene modes. Connectivity includes both USB and NTSC / PAL video, and images are stored on Secure Digital / MultiMediaCards (including newer SDHC cards) plus 10MB of built-in memory.
Other E40 features include face recognition autofocus and auto exposure, Digital SR (Shake Reduction) which automatically boosts ISO sensitivity for faster shutter speeds in low-light, Auto Picture mode which automatically determines optimal shooting conditions for Landscape, Portrait, Night Scene, and Normal mode, and up to 4x digital zoom. The Optio E40 is also capable of recording movies in resolutions up to 640 x 480 pixels with audio, in AVI (Motion JPEG) format. The E40 derives its power from two AA disposable or rechargeable batteries.
The Pentax Optio E40 will ship first in September 2007, priced at US$150.


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Transfer in Vladikavkaz
What is the most important thing in travel? Vivid emotions, quality service and a lot of free time to rest. The transfer will take you to the specified point 2 times faster than the bus and a few minutes earlier than a taxi. After all, you don't have to look for a yellow car with drafts, and the transfer driver will arrive without delay. Book your transfer on the GetTransfer.com website and travel with pleasure.
Vladikavkaz is a city located in southern Russia in the central part of the North Caucasus. It is located on the coast of the Terek River and is surrounded by the peaks of the Caucasus Mountains. Tourists are attracted by amazing nature, the opportunity to visit ski resorts and go skiing, ancient monuments of architecture and hospitality of local residents.
The unique appearance of Vladikavkaz is created by Orthodox churches and mosques. Especially brightly their domes shine in clear weather. On Armenian Street towers the Cathedral of St. George is one of the main spiritual buildings in the city. Over a hundred years ago, a Sunni mosque was built in the center of the city. The height of its minarets exceeds 30 meters. The architectural ensemble is characterized by an abundance of decorative elements: the walls are decorated with stars and flowers.
There are many interesting monuments in the city: the commander Issa Pliev, the writer Mikhail Bulgakov and the cat Behemoth, an Ossetian deity who patronizes the soldiers.
The National Museum holds over 300 exhibits. You will learn how Vladikavkaz developed, how local people lived and what they used in everyday life, what kind of jewelry and clothes they wore. Here is a unique collection of bladed weapons. Free excursions are held on weekends.
If you want to see the natural sights of the North Caucasus, rent a car with a driver. We recommend to visit the Kadargavansky canyon, Zeygelan waterfall. The total height of its cascades reaches 700 meters. At 86 kilometers is the ski resort "Tsey". From the center of Vladikavkaz you will reach in just 1.5 hours.
Bus and tram is a popular form of public transport in Vladikavkaz. Every day, more than 40 route lines run from the center to distant areas and vice versa. Opening hours from 6:30 to 22:30. In the city there are auto and railway stations. Trains and trains run on a schedule.
Shuttle service is an indispensable service for travelers, especially when traveling long distances. Book a transfer to Vladikavkaz on the site GetTransfer.com if you plan to visit also resort towns: Jeyrah, Stepantsminda and others.


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International Commemorative Symposium 70th Anniversary of JSFS 1-5 October 2001 Yokohama Japan Call for Papers Registration Technical Program Satellite Symposia (There is no need to download the Japanese Text Display Support. Click Cancel.) Fisheries Science is the bi-monthly official journal of the Japanese Society of Fisheries Science. Recognised as a leading regional journal Fisheries Science is also respected internationally by oceanic and aquatic scientists for the publication of original and applied research articles in a broad range of subject areas relevant to Fisheries Science. The Journal is substantial in size with more than 1000 pages per volume and rich in experience with a sixty-five year history of publishing quality papers in Fishing Science and Technology Fisheries Resources Aquaculture Oceanography Ecology Physiology Pathology Nutrition Marine Biotechnology Biological and Organic Chemistry and Food Chemistry and Technology.


text: I would like to buy a laptop in the $1000 to $1500 range. I do plenty of Microsoft Office, especially Excel work, AutoCAD modelling, and programming but I am okay with 1920x1080 display. I am not looking to game with my laptop and I am expecting 6 hours or longer without charge. What are the best choices?


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Elizabeth Debicki Cast As Princess Diana For The Final Two Seasons Of 'The Crown'
The Crown is back to wrapping up the royal drama with six seasons. However, fans will have to wait a little longer to see the final two seasons of the series since production won't begin until next year, giving fans a two-year break as the series flashes forward in time and lines up a new cast.
Since The Crown has been chronicling the stories of the royal family starting back in 1947, we've watched as the likes of Queen Elizabeth II, Princess Margaret, Prince Phillip, and more have aged over the decades. The fourth season will be entering the more contemporary era of their bloodline, where we'll finally meet Princess Diana played by Emma Corrin. But when the final two seasons come around, Princess Diana will be played by the towering beauty Elizabeth Debicki (The Great Gatsby, Widows, Tenet).
The official Twitter account for The Crown made the latest casting announcement for the last two seasons:
Elizabeth Debicki will play Princess Diana in the final two seasons of The Crown (Seasons 5 and 6). pic.twitter.com/Z3CjHuJ56B
— The Crown (@TheCrownNetflix) August 16, 2020
For the final two seasons of The Crown, Imelda Staunton (Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix) is coming in to play Queen Elizabeth II, after Claire Foy and Olivia Colman played the role in the previous season. Jonathan Pryce (The Two Popes) was recently announced to be joining her as Prince Philip, following in the footsteps of Tobias Menzies and Matt Smith. Plus, the series has also cast Lesley Manville as Princess Margaret.
However, before we see any of that, fans are still waiting to see the fourth season of The Crown, which will take us up until 1990 when Margaret Thatcher, played by Gillian Anderson, is taken out of her position as Prime Minster. During that season, we'll see Princess Diana's marriage to to Prince Charles (Josh O'Connor) as it happened in 1981.
With the fifth and sixth seasons wrapping up the story of the royal family, presumably we'll see the tragic demise of Princess Diana after the car transporting her crashed inside of a road tunnel in Paris. Princess Diana's partner Dodi Fayed and her driver Henri Paul were pronounced dead at the scene, but the princess herself died at the hospital afterwards.
Princess Diana's death sent shockwaves around the world, and there was even some controversy about the cause of the accident being blamed on pursuing paparazzi trying to snap a picture of the princess. But it turned out the driver lost control of the vehicle at high speed while intoxicated and under the effects of prescription drugs. Even so, it was a pivotal, harrowing moment in the history of the royal family, and it'll be interesting to see how it's dramatized on the series.


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US eyes on climate payments, in sight of possible summit breakthrough
The proposal still may not satisfy critics from developing countries who say the United States continues to shirk responsibility for all the greenhouse gases it has released into the atmosphere since the 19th century. Another potential sticking point is the United States' insistence that China – now the world's biggest carbon polluter – must be among the countries opening up its portfolio.
Yet the idea that the United States would even consider supporting the creation of a climate damages fund is a potentially seismic shift in thinking after 30 years of opposing the concept. It could also draw heavy criticism at home, where Republicans hostile to President Joe Biden's climate agenda are set to take control of the House in January.
A State Department spokesperson said late Friday that summit delegates were continuing to negotiate, but did not confirm the draft text was a US proposal.
However, a British official told POLITICO that officials from the United States, Canada, New Zealand and Australia drafted the text together after being summoned by Alok Sharma, a British MP who led the UN climate talks last year in Glasgow, Scotland.
The draft being circulated, which has not yet been formally proposed to the Egyptian presidency of the summit, would expand the sources and methods of funding for affected communities. It calls for a two-year process that would culminate in the creation of an "effective fund that attracts contributions from a wide range of Parties and sources, both public and private."
The document also says a task force should be created to design the fund and tasked with "expanding funding sources," in a nod to US concerns over China paying.
The United States, which is historically the world's biggest contributor to climate change, has raised concerns that a fund would open it up to legal action for damage from its fossil fuel emissions dating back to the start. of the industrial revolution. The text includes an explicit clause exempting donor countries from "liability and compensation".
Many provisions of the proposal address US concerns about relying solely on public money to fill the fund. US special climate envoy John Kerry – who had been conducting talks by phone from isolation after falling out with Covid-19 – said it would be politically difficult to secure that funding through Congress.
The draft calls for "strengthening the responsiveness" of bilateral, multilateral and international financial institutions, which alludes to development banks such as the World Bank, of which the United States is the main shareholder. It also calls on the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund to "contribute to financing arrangements…in response to loss and damage."
Kerry argued that multilateral development banks need to spend more money on renewable energy and on efforts to adapt to droughts, rising seas and other effects of climate change in the developing world. He called on them this week to have a plan to overhaul their climate strategy by April.
The document also calls for the use of "debt deferral" by multilateral lenders in the wake of climate disasters hitting heavily indebted countries, an idea championed earlier at the two-week conference by the Prime Minister of Barbados Mia Mottley and supported by French President Emmanuel Macron. .
The project falls short of a request made on Tuesday by a bloc of 134 developing countries, including China, which called for the creation of a fund during the talks in Egypt rather than at a later date. This fund would be designed by a working group in which the balance of power would be held by the poorest countries who would be the beneficiaries. The EU criticized this proposal to prevent China from contributing.
The EU then made a counter-proposal to immediately create a new fund, but with only "the most vulnerable countries" as beneficiaries. He also conditioned the fund on global greenhouse gas emissions peaking before 2025 and would expand its donor base beyond the wealthiest industrialized countries — two issues that challenge long-standing red lines for China.
A climate activist present at the talks, Harjeet Singh of Climate Action Network International, derided the text leaked on Friday as "another watered-down version of what the European Union presented earlier".
"Instead of establishing a new fund at COP27, as demanded by developing countries, it offers only a vague process to postpone the decision," said Singh, the group's head of global policy strategy. "Such a proposal undermines the urgency of the action required to meet the needs of people facing the climate emergency."


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Books January 2017
The italics of life
A review of My Grandmother's Glass Eye: A Look at Poetry by Craig Raine.
Words mean things, sir," one of my old First Sergeants liked to say. This was his plea for carefully considered speech; he believed that words had great power and that a man was responsible for what he said. Craig Raine, in his new book on poetry, My Grandmother's Glass Eye, makes the same case. "The first task we require of poetry," he writes, "is to mean something" (his italics).
Here one is reminded of Matthew Arnold's dictum that poetry should be concerned with "high seriousness" (we know Raine is a fan—a quotation of Arnold's appears on the last page of every issue of Raine's magazine, Areté). One also thinks of Saint Paul's observation that "when I was a child, I talked like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned...
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After discovering he might die soon, a timid young man along with his estranged and outrageous childhood friends, embark on a magical realistic quest for closure and to learn why the love of his life left.
This is the world premiere for this film too!
Director Biography – America young
America Young was awarded the 2020 Humanitarian award by UCSD for her work promoting women in the film industry.
America Young is currently working in Film, TV, Animation and Video Games, as a Director and stunt coordinator. To date, she has directed for Network TV, two features, 13 shorts, a season of an animated show and four digital series to name a few.
She has stunt coordinated on projects for Warner Bros, Netflix, Lifetime and Cannal Plus. And worked on 65 video games.
Having stunt coordinated for years, America transitioned to directing seven years ago. While having a solid foundation in action, she is also known for her ability to bring out the best performances in actors, both drama and comedy, while translating subtle and rich story points visually on screen. The projects she has helmed have a wide range from a drag queen comedy to sci-fi action to fantasy action to coming of age drama to exploring domestic violence in a superhero universe.
Her first feature, "The Concessionaires Must Die!!," executive produced by Stan Lee, (www.cmdthemovie.com) is now available on Itunes, Amazon and other VOD platforms. Her most recent digital series, "Whatta Lark", that pairs a quiet, introverted woman with the fiercest and loveliest of Drag Queens can be watched on Amazon. "Protectress", a Xena-inspired fantasy, winner of several awards including Best Action, Best Director and Best Fantasy on the festival circuit, is being developed into a feature. And she is attached to, a heartfelt, brilliantly subtle drama, "It's Not Me" written by John Keating. She was the vertical slice cinematic director for Resident Evil the Village, top grossing title for the franchise.
America was pivotal in the rebranding of Barbie with the Barbie Vlog in 2015 and directed the critically acclaimed season of the Barbie motion capture animated series for Mattel which was featured on VICE, Vogue, Glamour and Newsweek among other publications. It has been viewed on youtube over 110 million times and went from 500k subscribers to nearly 11 million in the time she has been working on the Brand.
She is thrilled that her second feature, "Back to Lyla" which is Alice in Wonderland meets Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind inspired, will be screening at the Santa fe Film Festical! Upon completion of the Warner Bros directing program, she successfully entered the TV world, directing an episode of Blindspot (aired May, 2020) and Legacies (aired 1/23/20) with glowing feedback from both teams. She has since directed nine episodes of TV along with a pilot for Apple which is an adaptation of IDW's best selling graphic novel Surfside Girls.
She is a proud founder of The Chimaera Project, a nonprofit that gives opportunities to women in the film & media arts (www.chimaeraproject.org).
When America's not kicking the crap out of Super-Heroes that support the Superhuman Registration Act, jumping off buildings, directing, writing or setting herself on fire, she enjoys telling stories, sipping herbal tea and sharpening her pair of Sai.


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As many of you may have already heard, Kevin McHale emerged from his secret bunker yesterday to talk to PA & Dubay on KFAN. You can listen to the interview here.
There were a few interesting nuggets from the interview; the biggest of which, to me, was McHale touting the versatility and potential of having 2 6'4" guards in the starting lineup.
"I think that anytime you can get a couple of 6'3-6'4" guards...you can take advantage of some of the smaller guards in the league."
Hmmmmmm...2 6'4" guards...where have we heard that one before?
- Dennis Johnson: 6'4"
- Danny Ainge: 6'4"
If ever you wonder about what the Iron Ranger is thinking about with the current crop of Timberwolves, all you need to do is ask yourself this: How does player x relate to the 86 Celtics?
As has been pointed out many times before, McHale's entire basketball outlook is encased in the amber of the 86 Celts. As far as he's concerned, basketball reached its pinnacle on the parquet floor in Boston 22 years ago and it's been downhill ever since.
The way things stand right now, McHale has the updated version of himself in Al Jefferson. That's about it. Randy Foye and Rashad McCants are both listed at 6'4" but neither has the game or grit of Ainge and Johnson. Foye seems to have the mental potential while McCants has the physical game, but it remains to be seen if either of them can put it together enough to be the 6'4" combo guard that McHale loves to the tune of Dennis and Danny.
Soooooo...if you subscribe to this take, here's a few questions to answer:
- Who is more Larry Bird: Danilo Gallinari or Kevin Love?
- Who is more Robert Parrish: Brook or Robin Lopez?
- Is OJ Mayo more Danny or Dennis than either Foye or McCants?
What say you?


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Saw Trax C52VP Compact 52 Varsity Package Panel Saw
Saw Trax's "Compact" Model Panel Saws are perfect for space restricted shops or for taking to the job site. They pack many of the capabilities of a larger panel saw into a smaller more space efficient frame. The Compact 52 has a 52" cross cut and offers unlimited rip cut in either direction. This package comes with the Folding Stand and Wheels, Dual Rip Gauge and Stop Bar and Tapes and dust brush. Shipped assembled.
The Saw Trax Varsity Series Vertical Compact Panel Saw does everything a woodworker would want with a smaller footprint. At only 5' wide, it has 64" cross cut and unlimited rip cut capabilities. Ideal for breaking down sheet goods that are less than 1-3/4" thick with precision cuts.
Features a Makita 5007F 7-1/4" circular saw on a spinning saw insert and dust collection hook ups. The folding stand is as easy to open and close as a ladder while providing complete stability during operation. For portability and mobility, transport wheels are included.
Both the vertical and horizontal measuring systems ensure accurate cuts while the stop bar allows you to make repetitive cuts. The patented Accu-Square alignment system assures that your machine stays square. The unique sealed roller bearing system provides for smoother carriage action and tighter tolerances.


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Honey is the beautiful, sticky compound that keeps and also generate in hives.
In its all-natural kind, honey is created by enzyme task, plant issue, and live microorganisms collaborating to produce an effective active ingredient with thousands of functional usages.
The one-of-a-kind procedure that develops honey makes it particularly useful for aesthetic usages, such as removing acne, recovery marks, and night out complexion.
Raw, raw honey has one of the most prospective for topical application on the skin. Maintain checking out to figure out how honey can be related to your face and aid your skin.
Do It Yourself Honey Exfoliator
As soon as or two times a week with a mild scrub made with two components, honey, as well as one component, Arm & Hammer Cooking Soft Drink, you can scrub your skin. "Sodium bicarbonate supplies light peeling while the honey smooths the skin and also relieves," clarifies Wallace. "Do not be reluctant regarding utilizing this dish from head to toe– your legs, feet, and also arms will certainly additionally take advantage of this easy yet reliable mixture."
Clear Up Acne
Some acne is triggered by an overgrowth of microorganisms on the skin. Honey typically deals with that germs, leaving your pores tidy.
And also, the high antioxidant material aids alleviate swelling as well as inflammation that acne could leave. Once more, there aren't a lot of researches on honey's acne effectiveness. However, the initial study has been rather pleasant.
Reduce and also recover injuries scarring
Because of its all-natural microorganism and bacteria-killing residential or commercial properties, honey can be utilized to recover marks and injuries. When utilized as a therapy on injuries, one evaluation found that honey aided promotes cell development and decrease marks.
Because it does such an excellent work of ruining germs, it aids in maintaining injuries tidy as they recover. A topical honey therapy might aid if you have light scarring.
Or, if you have acne, you obtained a little also hostile with honey can aid speed up and also sterilize the location up recovery.
Brightens Skin Skin
You can utilize honey as a natural remedy to brighten your skin complexion in the adhering to methods:
Blending juice of one tomato with a tsp of honey helps reduce tan marks, lighten up skin complexion, and do away with imperfections & areas. Two times a week, massage therapy the mix on the face for 5 mins and leave it to relax for one more 15 mins before washing it off with faucet water for wanted outcomes.
Include 1 tsp honey to among the lemon fifty percent. Massage the cut side around your face. Allow it rest 5 mins and afterward wash with cozy water.
While uses honey for face are several, there are methods which you can prepare your very own face pack with honey within the convenience of your house and also avoid the inconvenience of hurrying to a parlor or the marketplace trying to find pricey as well as chemically dealt with lotions and also face masks.
Anti-aging impacts
According to older research, honey can assist with enhancing the skin's look. The writers specify that it can aid quit creases from developing, maintain the skin looking young, and protect against infections on the skin that can speed up aging.
Smooths as well as softens skin
You can scrub your skin as soon as or two times a week with a mild scrub made with two components honey and also one component, Arm & Hammer Cooking Soft Drink. "Cooking soft drink uses light peeling while the honey smooths the skin and also calms," discusses Wallace. Honey functions as an all-natural emollient and also a humectant. Regardless of all the anti-bad things residential or commercial properties, honey is unbelievably mild. Include 1 tsp honey to one of the lemon fifty percent.
Honey functions as an all-natural emollient as well as a humectant. Regardless of all the anti-bad things homes, honey is exceptionally mild.


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Having personally suffered with acne on and off since my early teens I know how upsetting it can be to have skin issues at any age. I must say on the plus side as a girl I was always very thankful for the high coverage foundations that I packed on not knowing they were causing me more problems but the tell-tale signs of problem skin always peaked through the camouflage and like everyone with acne I always wanted to find the cure.
Over the years I have tried everything out there including treatments, products and diets to balance my skin. Some worked, some didn't! Today I am going to talk about the condition, some possible causes and the products/treatments I have found gave myself and my clients the best results.
If you are suffering with acne, you are not alone. In fact over 85% of the population suffers with acne breakouts at some stage during their lives. Although more commonly associated with teenagers it can continue for many people well into 20's, 30's and beyond
Common characteristics of acne include blackheads, whiteheads, pustules and papules and all start with the same little plug of congestion in the hair follicle called a micro-comedone. This little plug is formed by sebum and dead skin cells and can either go to form a non-inflammatory acne lesion such as a blackhead or whitehead or inflammation and bacteria can set in and we end up with the more obvious acne traits pustules and papules.
There is no definite reason why one person develops acne and another may not but there are definite aggravating factors which can cause problems for certain predisposed skins -hormonal fluctuations, stress, diet, medications, genetics, cosmetics or changes in temperature.
Many people argue that diet and acne are unrelated. I can only speak from my own experience on this and say that I really believe it is and is worth looking at and taking professional advice if you are suffering from chronic breakouts.
As far as homecare solutions for acne – To have an impact you must target oil and increase cell turnover. The best ingredients for the job are retinol and salicylic acid. Salicylic acid balances oil, reduces inflammation, deep cleanses and increases cell turnover. Retinol is amazing at ridding your skin of excess dead cells and reducing over production of sebum. The combination can do wonders for problem skins.
Tips for treating acne:
- Clean skin thoroughly twice daily
- Choose clever cosmetics utilizing salicylic acid or retinol
- Choose breathable or mineral foundations that will give coverage but won't cause congestion.
- Help your skin detoxify by drinking plenty of water – at least 1.5 litres per day
- Avoid sugary/processed foods.
- Avoid over consumption of dairy products.
- Make sure you have enough Omega 3 in your diet. To reap the benefits of this complexion perfecting nutrient increase foods such as walnuts, avocados, flaxseed oil, and salmon into your diet.
- Eat extra greens armed with anti-oxidants and inflammation fighting vitamins
- Do not pick – you only increase inflammation and heighten your chance of scarring
- Change your pillow case every few days
- Do not re-use face clothes and avoid over stimulating the skin with heat when cleansing


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These days hair trends change quicker than the seasons and we know how difficult it is to keep up with the constantly changing trends. Therefore, lucky for you we have predicted this year's biggest hair colour trends to keep you updated with the happenings of the hair world. Read on as we reveal a fresh batch of hair colours for the year 2019.
Spoiler alert, they're so good you'll pick up your phone and make an appointment right away!
Living coral
Pantone's 2019 Colour of The Year will rule all beauty segments including hair. A bold and attention grabbing colour, living coral can surely enhance the colour of your eyes while softening your skin tone. If it seems a little too edgy for your style go for a softer version of the same.
Inky black
Rumour has it that 2019 is all about statement hair colour that still looks natural. We Indians are blessed with stunning shades of black and dark browns so if you're growing out of last year's bold hair colour it's time to embrace your natural hair colour because one of the trending colours this year is inky black.
Ash gray
Ash gray is an excellent choice for those who don't want experiment with shades of black but not ready for an all-black overall. It looks stylish, edgy and goes with almost every skin tone.
Cool copper
2018 was all about loud and fiery hues, this year will see a rise in subtle and subdued shades of copper. Classic brown shades with copper highlights all over will also be huge this year.
Rosy blonde
Blonde and pastel colours are still trending as we see so many celebrities transforming their hair into different shades of pastels. Get a light rosy blonde look so when the colour is not in trend anymore you can transform your hair to a different shade easily.


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Director, Paul Straupmanis, on BBC Radio 5 Live
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On Wednesday 18th April 2018, Moxley Architects Director Paul Straupmanis, was interviewed by BBC Radio 5 Live at King's College Hospital to discuss the work that he and other volunteers do to assist the nursing and medical staff at the hospital.
Paul gives his time to the hospital one evening a week where he mentors patients on Katharine Monk Trauma Ward.
The broadcast can be heard on the following BBC iplayer site –


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SANTA ANA (CNS) - The final defendant in an ambush killing of a man fatally stabbed near Trabuco Creek in San Juan Capistrano was sentenced today to time already served in jail.
Myles Emmanuel Jones, 27, of Laguna Hills, pleaded guilty on Nov. 8, 2019, to voluntary manslaughter in the killing of 38-year-old Alvario Rios. Jones has been in Orange County Jail awaiting trial because he was expected to testify against several co-defendants. But all but one of the defendants took plea deals and were sentenced to prison this week. Ryan Timothy Huebner, 27, pleaded guilty April 30, 2021, to voluntary manslaughter and was sentenced to 11 years in prison killing his former cellmate, 57-year-old Kirk Price, while Price wasawaiting trial on a charge of killing 44-year-old Fahness Lutalo at a mixed martial arts facility in March 2016.
Hyde was sentenced to 25 years to life in prison for the Rios killing, and got 11 years for Price's killing, but the latter sentence will run concurrently with the life term for the Rios murder. As part of the plea deal, prosecutors dropped a sentencing enhancement for lying in wait, which would have mandated a life in prison without the possibility of parole punishment. Co-defendants Anjelica Marie Shibata, 34, of San Juan Capistrano,
Ashkan Dezhangfard, 28, of San Juan Capistrano, and Siavash Hosseinaliarhani, 25, of Laguna Niguel, pleaded guilty last Thursday to second-degree murder just as attorneys were picking a jury for their trial. Orange County Superior Court Judge Patrick Donahue sentenced Shibata, Dezhangfard and Hosseinaliarhani to 15 years to life in prison. All four were given credit for 2,385 days in custody.
Shibata and Hyde were living together as a couple in San Juan Capistrano, but Shibata was also romantically involved with Rios when the married father was killed, authorities said. When Hyde found out about the infidelity he confronted Shibata, who accused Rios of raping her, authorities said. Prosecutors do not believe the rape claim was true, and some of the defense attorneys were expected to argue at trial that some of the accused expected the confrontation to be a beat down instead of a killing.
Hyde was considered the mastermind behind the plot and suspected of stabbing the victim nearly 30 times, authorities said. Shibata asked Rios to meet her in a remote area near a bike path in San Juan Capistrano in the early morning of July 12, 2016. All of the defendants were there when Rios was attacked and left for dead. A jogger found the body the next day and called the sheriff's department. When Rios' wife found out about the affair, she started posting negative comments about Shibata on Facebook, according to Jones' attorney Doug Myers
Myers alleged that two of the defendants brought knives to the planned beating and attacked the victim, but it is unclear which defendant dealt the fatal wound.


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We are currently living in the beginning of a new dark age. Those of us who believe in the liberal values of liberty, free speech, reason, good faith debate, and academic freedom are engaged in an existential battle with the forces of darkness. A new religion, cloaked in postmodernist language, seeks to convert the masses by force. They employ shame tactics, character assassination, and defend acts of physical intimidation which compel obedience, demand fidelity to their designs, and enforce public declarations of original sin. They demand commitment to an ideological purity as they simultaneously present themselves as agents of equality, inclusion, and justice. They are a den of thieves trained in the art of a slippery lexicon where words don't carry their original public meaning and your words are verboten. As they deconstruct you and the world around you, reducing history and science to a glowing pile of embers, they claim that your very words are violence and your very thoughts dangerous. They engage in a form of witchcraft, believing that certain words contain metaphysical power. They invoke magic spells and incantations in the form of metaphorical self-immolation and have reprised notions of transgenerational guilt. They will label you a blasphemer for daring to assert that the sky is blue. Everything is constructed and nothing is authentic, save for what they decree.
Now, they are telling you what your history is, and it doesn't matter that what they tell you isn't actually true, that the history is more nuanced than they claim, or that they are telling lies by omission. You will be made to bend to the agents of the new dark age. If you do not, they will burn you at the stake in the town square of public opinion they themselves manipulate and curate.
The gamble they are making is that if they use tactics of conflation and obfuscation, people will no longer recognize objective truth. They think the truth doesn't matter—is just a matter of unjust politics—and are wagering that people will generally give up on notions of reality as a trade-off for a little bit of peace of mind.
"Maybe if we give them what they want, they will leave us alone."
There's no evidence for that. They're not leaving the people who give into them alone; they're demanding more from them. But even if they were, the point stands. The truth matters, and some of us care about the truth. Some, like myself, who work in the field of history, will not allow it to become another weapon of nihilism utilized by those who seek to manipulate the past for transparently political ends.
As soon as the first essay of the 1619 Project was published in August 2019 in the New York Times Magazine, it almost immediately faced criticism for a false historical narrative which was present at the center of its thesis. Writer and main contributor to the project, Nikole Hannah-Jones, claims in the essay that the protection of slavery was one of the key motivators of the American Revolution. She asserts that "left out of our founding mythology is the fact that one of the primary reasons some of the colonists decided to declare their independence from Britain was because they wanted to protect the institution of slavery. By 1776, Britain had grown deeply conflicted over its role in the barbaric institution that had reshaped the Western Hemisphere… In other words, we may never have revolted against Britain if some of the founders had not understood that slavery empowered them to do so; nor if they had not believed that independence was required in order to ensure that slavery would continue." This is a powerful assertion, and one that fits within a particular worldview that sees the United States as nothing but an oppressor, founded not only upon slavery but upon the institution's preservation. It's astonishing stuff, and it's completely, historically wrong.
Jones tips her hand a bit early when she goes on to note that it "is not incidental that 10 of this nation's first 12 presidents were enslavers, and some might argue that this nation was founded not as a democracy but as a slavocracy."
Jones's argument that the United States was not founded as a democracy is true. That it was founded as a so-called slavocracy less so. The United States was not founded as a democracy but as a constitutional republic. This is not hair-splitting. An entire world of scholarship in political philosophy is devoted to understanding the intellectual history and political philosophy of the framers, and their distrust of direct democracy is neither controversial nor surprising. The fact that many have come to call the United States a democracy since the Progressive Era does not diminish the fact that the United States is not, nor was intended to be, a democracy. The inability for Jones to recognize the important difference between democracy and constitutional republicanism reveals the low-grade quality of her scholarship and the political, rather than educational, aims of the 1619 Project.
In response to the first published essay, a small group of prominent historians wrote a letter to the New York Times, critiquing its broken history. The historians, which included Gordon S. Wood and Victoria Bynum, applauded the 1619 Project for what it was trying to do but nevertheless condemned the thesis central to the essay. The letter disputes "matters of verifiable fact" that "cannot be described as interpretation or 'framing.'" The letter goes on to accuse the 1619 Project, and Jones, of committing "a displacement of historical understanding by ideology."
This is no small matter. The issue has largely been ignored, despite reports in some publications. Most historians, and indeed most journalists, have remained silent. Possibly the most essential voice among critics, however, did not come from the historians who wrote to the Times but a PhD at Northwestern, Leslie M. Harris, who wrote an opinion piece in Politico titled, "I Helped Fact-Check the 1619 Project. The Times Ignored Me." In the article, published in March 2020, Harris states, "I vigorously disputed the [preservation of slavery] claim. Although slavery was certainly an issue in the American Revolution, the protection of slavery was not one of the main reasons the 13 Colonies went to war." She goes on, "Despite my advice, the Times published the incorrect statement about the American Revolution anyway, in Hannah-Jones' introductory essay." Perhaps most powerfully, Harris observes "the complicated picture of the Revolutionary era that the New York Times missed: white Southerners might have wanted to preserve slavery in their territory, but white Northerners were much more conflicted, with many opposing the ownership of enslaved people in the North even as they continued to benefit from investments in the slave trade and slave colonies. More importantly for Hannah-Jones' argument, slavery in the Colonies faced no immediate threat from Great Britain, so colonists wouldn't have needed to secede to protect it."
It needs to be noted that Harris's article also condemned the historians who had criticized the 1619 Project. She notes that these are historians who have generally not focused on the issues of race and slavery in the history of the United States and North America. This is a point worth noting, but it does not discount their service in pointing to the flawed thesis of the project. I share Harris's sentiment that for too long American history ignored the role that slavery and racism played. I also agree with Harris's assertion that the "The United States was not, in fact, founded to protect slavery—but the Times is right that slavery was central to its story." It is simply unfortunate that Nikole Hannah-Jones did not correct her flawed thesis—a flaw pointed out to her by Harris—prior to publication. The fact Jones saw no need to make the correction, and that she and the New York Times only sought to address it publicly once criticisms became public, demonstrates a level of hubris not befitting an historian or a journalist of the esteemed publication. Jones has stated that the correction will be made in later editions as well as in the book edition published by Random House. How such a "correction" can be made when it undercuts the entire thesis of the first essay remains to be seen.
There has indeed been plenty of discussion regarding the 1619 Project over the past year. The matter became more relevant, however, when Nikole Hannah-Jones was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Commentary in May 2020. More than this, the Pulitzer Center (which is not associated with the Pulitzer Prizes) is now working in partnership with the 1619 Project in "educational programming" to "engage students," according to the Pulitzer Center's 1619 Project website. Thus an essay published by the New York Times, which got the central thesis of its opening essay wrong, has won a prestigious award and is being used to create curriculum for students. This is history education in 2020. The Pulitzer Prize administrator, Dana Canedy, acknowledged that "perhaps most historians" would disagree with the central premise of the 1619 Project that the American Revolution was fought to protect slavery. Amazingly, as Canedy admitted this, she stated she was nevertheless "very proud of this selection" and that its "fresh political perspective, provocativeness of the argument, and engaging writing" is what was being awarded. You catch that? The 1619 Project won the Pulitzer Prize for its prose, not for its historical analysis.
The matter of history education has grown more complex in the wake of recent protests in response to the killing of George Floyd by Minneapolis police. Protests have (d)evolved from a legitimate response to an epidemic of police brutality to a cultural revolution that seeks to topple all monuments related to America's racist and slave-driving past. It is a response I empathize with greatly, yet the kind of conflation and obfuscation seen in the work of the 1619 Project can now be seen in the defacing and toppling of monuments across the United States. Such a moment may well be necessary, but it is times like these when intellectual nuance and historical literacy is most needed. A robust and difficult debate can and should be had regarding what historical figures should continue to be revered and which should not. Any nuance, however, is currently lacking. A monument of Matthias Baldwin was defaced with red paint in Philadelphia. The vandals evidently assuming the nineteenth-century white man to have been a slave owner. Baldwin was, in fact, an abolitionist who helped open a school for African American children and donated a fair amount of his fortune to the Union North during the Civil War. The John Greenleaf Whittier statue in Whittier, California's Central Park was also vandalized. Whitter too was an abolitionist. Not all monuments defaced, toppled, or facing removal are as clear-cut as confederate monuments or memorials to abolitionists. For example, I understand the proposed removal of the Theodore Roosevelt monument which has been located in front of the Natural History Museum in New York since 1940. In this case it is the monument itself that appears to be primarily the problem. The statue includes a Native American and an African American flanking Roosevelt, on foot, as he gallantly rides a horse. It isn't lost on anyone who sees the image that it casts the Native American and the African American into servile positions. That said, it is important to maintain fidelity to the historical record, including monuments which evoke sentiments we as a nation no longer embrace. The Roosevelt monument, instead of being simply removed, could be included in a wing of the museum which wrestles with how Americans struggle to make sense of their own past, and the need to remember it.
Monuments of the American founders, specifically the Virginia dynasty of slaveholding figures like George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, George Mason, and James Madison are more complicated. Some are calling for the removal of these figures in the public square as well. A slaveowner is a slaveowner, so the argument goes. Nuance be damned. However, it is not just the fact that these are the nation's founders—and not traitors to the United States like the Confederacy—but also that it should matter as to why a monument was put up in the first place. A George Washington monument was pulled down in Portland, Oregon, recently. And why not? He was a slaveowner after all. Here is the rub, and this is why historical literacy and intellectual nuance becomes so important: the Confederate monuments put up, primarily in the South in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, were erected to reassert white cultural dominance during the Jim Crow era. This distinction matters. Understanding that Confederate monuments were built because they memorialized slaveowners while monuments to Washington and Jefferson were established despite their participation in slavery is important for understanding what exactly the given monument was intended to symbolize and celebrate. The need for civic engagement, then, is important for both sides of this debate. The issue is not merely whether certain monuments should be taken down. It is also a matter of how they are to be taken down and by what means. Accepting mob violence as the means to do so flies in the face of the greatest of America's liberal values. If monuments come down, it should through dialogue and reasonable debate and the votes of duly elected representatives and not through illiberal intimidation and force.
Some may wonder why I am discussing the 1619 Project's bad history along with the broader epidemic of historical illiteracy we currently see. Do I claim Nikole Hannah-Jones to be responsible for the nation's lack of historical knowledge and penchant for conflation? Of course not. She has merely exploited it. She continues to do so in recent interviews with the legacy media. In an interview with CBS in early June of this year, she defended the looting of rioters as "symbolic taking" because African American communities "have been looted for decades." Apparently, stealing from big box stores and small businesses, for Jones, is a political act. In a now-deleted tweet, she subscribed to a conspiracy theory that New York police were using fireworks upon black and brown protesters to "disorient and disrupt the #BlackLivesMatter movement." After deleting the tweet she apologized, stating that her remarks were "irresponsible" and beneath her own standards. When professor of government, Charles Kesler, wrote an op-ed in the New York Post, criticizing the toppling of monuments, arguing that perhaps the recent vandalism should be referred to as the "1619 Riots," Jones tweeted a link to the article with the comment "It would be an honor. Thank you." The article's image was of a toppled Thomas Jefferson monument in front of Jefferson High School in Portland, Oregon. Thus the Pulitzer Prize-winning writer of a supposedly history-related project, who didn't win her award for her scholarship but for her "engaging writing," is celebrating the unlawful vandalism and mob removal of historical monuments.
It needs to be said that I share many of the concerns and supposed aims of the 1619 Project, as I do with historians like Leslie Harris. One only need to look at a history book from the nineteenth century or first-half of the twentieth-century to see the hero worship, whitewashing, and lies by omission which posed as history. This tendency to distort our history in the service to some ideological mythology about ourselves is yet another ugly part of our history, and this forces us to wonder why we're trying, with projects like 1619, to repeat that mistake now, as though two blatant distortions make a true account. There has been an imperial impulse from the beginning of the formation of the United States, and to ignore such a fact is unethical. It expressed itself through the practice of the slave trade, the cultivation and amplification of a particularly brutal form of chattel slavery, and an expansion westward which removed the Native populations from their ancestral lands, killed ninety percent of their population—mostly through disease—and eroded their culture and ways of life. Following ninety years of slavery in the United States was a century of Jim Crow, black codes, and subjugation of African Americans under legal fictions that betrayed the promise of the Thirteenth, Fourteenth, and Fifteenth Amendments. The Civil Rights movements of the 1950s and 1960s did much to correct the laws, but concerns regarding a culture of racism that remains in the United States in the form of unfair police practices and a broken criminal justice system remain warranted.
Reform is a part of the American project. It always has been and always should be. The American project is one of creating a more perfect union. To want to make things better is itself a quintessentially American precept. To act, then, that reform can only happen by obliterating the system, ridding the nation of due process, subscribing to race-based notions of sin and purity, and assuming that all monuments were created equally evil, is a betrayal of the American mission itself. It's time for liberals to defend liberalism again. The American mission to continually improve itself is a liberal ethos. Conservatives make the mistake of ignoring sins of the past that may linger in another form in the present. Progressives are good at highlighting continued inequalities but fail at recognizing how far we have come. Observing the progress of the American mission while relentlessly pushing for improvement has always been the prerogative of liberals.
The liberal position requires the same attention to nuance and appreciation of complexity that is required of an historically literate polity. Thus, a liberal nation requires historical literacy for its very survival. Reforms are only possible when they are facilitated by liberal principles. Conservative principles hold fast to tradition for tradition's sake. Progressive ideology contains within it no limiting principle. Good intentions may obscure tragic results. It is up to liberals to champion the broadminded mission of history education, for the sake of a better future and for the preservation of the republic.
With that in mind, let's make things very clear:
- The 1619 Project is bad history facilitated by bad journalism, given accolades by bad actors who appear to care nothing for the truth.
- We need only to ask the important questions, which is what good historians (and good journalists) are expected to do.
- Why did the 1619 Project ignore the corrections recommended by a respected PhD who has a deep understanding of the relevant history?
- Why were they more interested in going to print with bad history than with the truth that is more difficult to reduce and simplify?
- Why did the New York Times allow an essay that got its history so wrong at the outset to continue to publish when such a thesis wouldn't receive a favorable grade in a first-year college history class?
- Why was the New York Times not embarrassed for being progenitors of false history?
- Why was this behavior rewarded? Why, after all of the controversy came to light of the broken history involved, was the New York Times and the 1619 Projected awarded a prize—often associated with integrity—when it was clear by the spring of 2020 that the 1619 Project got some of America's most basic, most fundamental history, wrong?
- What does this say, at its core, about the integrity of the 1619 Project, the New York Times, and the Pulitzer board? What does it say about their fidelity to a proper, disciplined, and apolitical approach to understanding the past? What does it say about their devotion to liberal values?
- How can a group of people, who got it so wrong, be trusted now to teach to the young?
This is the greatest ramification of the distribution and accolades heaped upon the 1619 Project. It now offers curriculum to public schools and educators. Now broken history is not limited to the readers of the New York Times. It is being spread far and wide to America's young. This is academic malpractice.
The 1619 Project is merely one great example of how history education in the United States is failing its liberal mission to inform and educate the public, especially the young. By prioritizing a politicized narrative that doesn't even get the basic facts of the American Revolution right, the project, the New York Times, and the Pulitzer committee have revealed that history is not their main concern. It's time for those of us who believe in the liberal mission of history education to reassert ourselves and act as an important counterweight to illiberal ideologies polluting the historical field.
If the history killers win, it will be because the liberals let them.


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Alzheimer's Disease (AD) is the most common form of dementia that affects 5.3 million Americans. In a small percentage (>1%) of cases AD is inherited as an autosomal dominant trait (Familial AD), however the majority of cases are sporadic. A key neuropathological event in AD is the cerebral accumulation of Aβ, a ~4kDa peptide derived by serial proteolysis of the amyloid precursor protein (APP) by β- and γ-secretase. Beta-site APP-cleaving enzyme (BACE1) is a membrane-tethered member of the aspartyl proteases that has been identified as β-secretase. Several studies have shown that BACE1 protein levels and β-secretase activity are increased in AD brains. Thus, BACE1 elevation may be the first step in increasing Aβ and triggering AD pathology, at least in the sporadic cases.
Our studies have elucidated a novel post-translational mechanism of regulation of BACE1 mediated by the BACE1-interacting molecule, GGA3 (Golgi-localized γ-ear-containing ARF binding protein 3). We have determined that GGA3 depletion stabilizes BACE1 and increases β-secretase activity.
Figure 1. Depletion of GGA3 results in BACE1 accumulation in early endosomes because of impaired delivery of BACE1 to late endosomes/lysosomes.
We also found that levels of GGA3 are decreased in post-mortem AD brains and are inversely correlated with BACE1 levels. We have shown that BACE1 is degraded via the lysosomal pathway and demonstrated that GGA3 regulates the delivery of BACE1 to the lysosomes. The BACE1-C-terminal fragment (CTF) contains a specific di-leucine (DXXLL) sorting signal that has been shown to bind the VHS domain of the three members of the GGA family of proteins, GGA1, 2, and 3. We have found that, unexpectedly, direct binding of GGA3 VHS domain to the BACE1 di-leucine motif is not necessary for this regulation. Instead, GGA3 interaction with ubiquitin is essential for regulating BACE1 levels. Accordingly, we have found that BACE1 is mainly mono- and K63-linked polyubiquitinated at lysine 501. Our work suggests that the impairment of BACE1 degradation is the underlying mechanism of BACE1 elevation in the brains of subjects affected by AD.
BACE1 is a primary drug target for AD therapy. However, in the decade since the discovery of β-secretase, the identification of effective BACE1 inhibitors that are active in the CNS has been very difficult. The catalytic site of BACE1 is exceptionally long and it has been very challenging to develop small compounds that efficiently inhibit BACE1, are able to cross the blood brain barrier and are reasonably stable.
An alternative approach to BACE1 small-molecule inhibitors is the indirect inhibition of BACE1 through the modulation of regulatory mechanisms that control BACE1 levels or BACE1 trafficking to acidic compartments where it is normally active. Our studies have elucidated a novel post-translational mechanism of regulation of BACE1 mediated by GGA3 and ubiquitin, which represent a potential therapeutic target for the treatment of AD.


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Hi there
I was wondering if there is a way to filter out/reduce the noise from sensor inputs through the adc~. Often the sensors values differ in between a very low range, so hopefully, someone out there has tried to stabilize this before.
Is there an easy way to store the previous adc/sensor value and compare it to the new value, in that case, how?
An interactive example, however not in PD code, can be seen here:
It has to be imported into 'bela', so external objects like [smooth] and [once] are unfortunately not usable.
All the best


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Cleveland Institute of Art Leaf 39
This leaf comes from a rare manuscript of Livy's History of Rome (completed in about 9 A.D.) copied in Italy in the middle of the fifteenth century. It measures 22.5 x 16 cm and its vellum is very well prepared, though some rubbing of the ink has cast a shadow over the text block of some pages. The Humanistic script is crisp, clear, and without adornment; an exception is the Denison leaf, with its striking initial "H." See Denison University Leaf 39 for more information about this manuscript.
Text: This leaf contains the text of Livy's History, Book 27, Chapters 27-28. The English translation is that of Cyrus Edmonds (1850), via Project Gutenberg.
Reconstruction Note! In Ege's original manuscript, this leaf was followed by what is now Leaf 39 in the Cincinnati Public Library portfolio.
Cleveland Institute of Art Leaf 39 Recto
-derat. Multos circa unam rem ambitus fecerim si quae de Marcelli morte uariant auctores, omnia exsequi uelim. ut omittam alios, Coelius triplicem gestae rei ordinem edit, unam traditam fama, alteram scriptam in laudatione filii, qui rei gestae interfuerit, tertiam quam ipse pro inquisita ac sibi comperta affert. ceterum ita fama uariat ut tamen plerique loci speculandi causa castris egressum, omnes insidiis circumuentum tradant. [28] Hannibal magnum terrorem hostibus morte consulis unius, uolnere alterius iniectum esse ratus, ne cui deesset occasioni castra in tumulum in quo pugnatum erat extemplo transfert; ibi inuentum Marcelli corpus sepelit. Crispinus et morte collegae et suo uolnere territus, silentio insequentis noctis profectus, quos proximos nanctus est montes, in iis loco alto et tuto undique castra posuit. ibi duo duces sagaciter moti sunt, alter ad inferendam, alter ad cauendam fraudem. anulis Marcelli simul cum corpore Hannibal potitus erat. eius signi errore ne qui dolus necteretur a Poeno metuens Crispinus circa ciuitates proximas miserat nuntios occisum collegam esse anulisque eius hostem potitum: ne quibus litteris crederent nomine Marcelli compositis. paulo ante hic nuntius consulis Salapiam uenerat quam litterae ab Hannibale
I should launch out into too many digressions for a single event, were I to relate all the various accounts which authors give respecting the death of Marcellus. To pass over others, Lucius Caelius gives three narratives ranged under different heads; one as it is handed down by tradition; a second, written in the panegyric of his son, who was engaged in the affair; a third, which he himself vouched for, being the result of his own investigation. The accounts, however, though varying in other points, agree for the most part in the fact, that he went out of the camp for the purpose of viewing the ground; and all state that he was cut off by an ambuscade. [28.] Hannibal, concluding that the enemy were greatly dismayed by one of their consuls being slain and the other wounded, that he might not be wanting on any opportunity presenting itself, immediately transferred his camp to the eminence on which the battle had been fought. Here he found the body of Marcellus, and interred it. Crispinus, disheartened by the death of his colleague and his own wound, set out during the silence of the following night, and encamped upon the nearest mountains he could reach, in a position elevated and secured on all sides. Here the two generals exerted their sagacity, the one in effecting, the other in guarding against, a deception. Hannibal got possession of the ring of Marcellus, together with his body. Crispinus, fearing lest any artifice should be practised by the Carthaginian's employing this signet as the means of deception, had sent round messengers to the neighbouring states, informing them, that "his colleague had been slain, and that the enemy were in possession of his seal, and that they must not give credit to any letters written in the name of Marcellus." This message of the consul arrived at Salapia a little before a letter was brought from Hannibal,
Cleveland Institute of Art Leaf 39 Verso
allatae sunt Marcelli nomine compositae se nocte quae diem illum secutura esset Salapiam uenturum: parati milites essent qui in praesidio erant, si quo opera eorum opus esset. sensere Salapitani fraudem; et ab ira non defectionis modo sed etiam equitum interfectorum rati occasionem supplicii peti, remisso retro nuntio—perfuga autem Romanus erat—ut sine arbitro milites quae uellent agerent, oppidanos per muros urbisque opportuna loca in stationibus disponunt; custodias uigiliasque in eam noctem intentius instruunt; circa portam qua uenturum hostem rebantur quod roboris in praesidio erat opponunt. Hannibal quarta uigilia ferme ad urbem accessit. primi agminis erant perfugae Romanorum et arma Romana habebant. ii ubi ad portam est uentum Latine omnes loquentes excitant uigiles aperirique portam iubent: consulem adesse. uigiles uelut ad uocem eorum excitati tumultuari trepidare moliri portam. cataracta clausa erat; eam partim uectibus leuant, partim funibus subducunt, in tantum altitudinis ut subire recti possent. uixdum satis patebat iter cum perfugae certatim ruunt per portam; et cum sescenti ferme intrassent, remisso fune quo suspensa erat cataracta magno sonitu cecidit. Salapitani alii perfugas negligenter
...written in the name of Marcellus, to the effect, that "he should come to Salapia on the night which followed that day; that the soldiers in the garrison should hold themselves in readiness, in case he might want to employ them on any service." The Salapians were aware of the fraud, and concluding that an opportunity for punishing them was sought by Hannibal, from resentment, not only on account of their defection, but also because they slew his horsemen, sent his messenger, who was a deserter from the Romans, back again, in order that the soldiers might do what was thought necessary, without his being privy to it, and then placed the townsmen in parties to keep guard along the walls, and in convenient parts of the city. The guards and watches they formed with extraordinary care for that night, and on each side of the gate at which they supposed the enemy would come, they opposed to them the choicest of the troops in the garrison. About the fourth watch, Hannibal approached the city. His vanguard was composed of Roman deserters, with Roman arms. These, all of whom spoke the Latin language, when they reached the gate, called up the guards, and ordered the gate to be opened, for the consul had arrived. The guards, as if awakened at their call, began to be in a hurry and bustle, and exert themselves in opening the gate, which was closed by letting down the portcullis; some raised this with levers, others drew it up with ropes to such a height that the men could come in without stooping. The opening was scarcely wide enough, when the deserters eagerly rushed through the gate, and after about six hundred had got in, the rope being let go by which it was suspended, the portcullis fell with a loud noise. Some of the Salapians fell upon the deserters, who were carrying their arms carelessly...


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Introduction - Battle of Cold Harbor
The Battle of Cold Harbor was one of the American Civil War's bloodiest battles and a great victory for the Confederate Army. Union General Ulysses S. Grant ordered attacks on well entrenched Confederate positions which resulted in great losses for the Union Army; Grant would later say "I have always regretted that the last assault at Cold Harbor was ever made". On this page we list interesting kid-friendly facts about this battle including where the battle was fought, how many casualties there were, when it was fought, and why the battle took place.
Click here for a great selection of Amazon.com books about the Battle of Cold Harbor.Please note that this battle is sometimes called the Second Battle of Cold Harbor due to there being an earlier battle on the same site. The earlier battle, the Battle of Gaines Mill, fought on June 27th of 1862, is sometimes referred to as the First Battle of Cold Harbor.
Battle of Cold Harbor Quick Facts
- The battle was fought from May 31st through June 12th of 1864.
- The Confederate commander was the legendary General Robert E. Lee and the Union commanders were future U.S. President General Ulysses S. Grant who supervised Union General Meade.
- This battle was part of General Grant's Overland campaign, which involved several battles fought in Virginia.
- General Grant regarded the crossroads at Old Cold Harbor as a vital intersection for attacking the Confederates as part of his Overland campaign.
- The battle pitted approximately 62,000 Confederate soldiers against about 108,000 Union soldiers.
- The battle location was approximately 10 miles (16 kilometers) northeast of the Confederate capital, Richmond Virginia in what is now the town of Mechanicsville.
- The battles casualties were 13,000 for the Union and 2,500 for the Confederates.
Interesting Battle of Cold Harbor Facts
- While digging trenches in preparation for the battle, soldiers unearthed skeletal remains of soldiers who had fought at the Battle of Gaines Mill two years earlier at the same site.
- Cold Harbor is located in central Virginia, nowhere near the ocean; it gets its name from the Cold Harbor Tavern located near the battlefield.
- This battle would be the last major victory for General Lee and his Confederate Army during the American Civil War.
Battle of Cold Harbor - Timeline
- May 31st, 1864 - The Union cavalry seizes the crossroads at Old Cold Harbor and holds it against Confederate attacks and begin to dig defensive trenches.
- June 1st, 1864 - Additional Union troops arrive at the battlefield and attack the Confederate positions west of the crossroads; they have limited success.
- June 2nd, 1864 - Both armies receive numerous reinforcements. The Confederate soldiers build fortifications that stretch for several mile.
- June 3rd, 1864 - At 4:30 A.M. Union forces launch an attack against the well-entrenched Confederate Army; they are decimated. The Confederate forces suffer relatively few casualties compared to the heavy Union casualties.
- June 4th - June 11th, 1864 - After June 3rd the Union did not launch any more infantry or Calvary attacks on the Confederate positions at Cold Harbor. Instead, the battle turned into several days of trench warfare with both sides bombarding the other with artillery. Sharpshooters were also used.
- June 12th, 1864 - The Union Army leaves Cold Harbor and moves southeast towards the crucial Confederate city of Petersburg Virginia.


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State of the Union Speech: Obama Sounded a Lot Like Clinton
Friday, January 29, 2010
Instead of conducting the more common subjective analysis of State of the Union speeches, Nate Silver at FiveThirtyEight
decided to perform a word-choice comparison. After tallying up the key buzzwords used by President Barack Obama and comparing them to those utilized by his predecessors in midterm election-year addresses since John F. Kennedy in 1962, Silver concluded that the president's speech most resembled those of President Bill Clinton in several ways.
Obama uttered the word "jobs" 29 times on Wednesday and variations of "work" or "working" 34 times. This reminded Silver of Clinton, "who also dealt less in abstractions about the economy and more in the question of jobs in particular."
Obama also invoked Clinton through the frequent use of the terms "family" and "families," which were used 20 times.
Silver says Obama's "combination of process talk and populist rhetoric was rather unusual," in that he "managed to reflect Clintonian populism while at the same time still sounding like himself."
Obama's speech was also unusual in that he dealt directly with the mechanics of lawmaking. He used the word "bill" 13 times, more than it appeared in any of the twelve speeches Silver studied. Obama also referred to the Republicans 8 times and the Democrats 5 times. None of the other presidents had used either word more than twice.
Three more words that stood out in Obama's speech were "business" (or "businesses"), which he used 29 times, beating Clinton's 10 mentions from 1994; "invest" (or its variations) 18 times to Clinton's 8 times; and "deficit", 14 times to Ronald Reagan's 12 uses in 1982.
-Noel Brinkerhoff, David Wallechinsky
Obama's SOTU: Clintonian, In a Good Way (by Nate Silver, FiveThirtyEight)
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Members Prepare as Contracts Come to a Head
August 23, 2007: Teamster employers are on the offensive, attacking our master contracts.
August 23, 2007: Teamster employers are on the offensive, attacking our master contracts.
August 23, 2007: Freight wages have fallen drastically, measured against the cost of living, in the past ten years.
August 23, 2007: We're overdue for important contract improvements in wages, benefits and job protections.
August 23, 2007: In August, ABF pulled out of Trucking Management Inc. (TMI), which bargains the National Master Freight Agreement, to bargain separately.
August 23, 2007: Teamster contracts and benefit funds are under attack—and our union's power is on the decline.
August 23, 2007: DHL Teamsters are organizing nationally to defend the National Master Freight Agreement and win a good contract for all DHL Teamsters.
August 23, 2007: Sept. 19 will mark the one-year anniversary of the most secretive UPS contract negotiations in Teamster history.
August 23, 2007: The assets of the Central States Pension Fund are on the rise and our union will lose long-term power in dealing with management if we let UPS split from the fund.
August 23, 2007: Brothers and Sisters,
August 23, 2007: "It is the Teamsters' pension—and particularly the multi-employer plan—that gives the union much of its draw and power, industry observers say." —Traffic World Magaz


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PriceSpotter is Curbed's price guessing game. We provide some details and pictures from a local listing, and you take a crack at the price. Friday, we reveal the answer. No cheating!
What/Where: Land in the Amagansett Lanes
Acreage: .84
The Skinny: This plot of land was snapped up quickly. It's "close to Bluff Road, walk to ocean beaches and Main Street." There's room for a 5000sf house, pool, pool house and more.
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