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[47] Nobody knew whence she came or whither she went. All that any one
the children could have told you about her, was that
they looked up from their play and there she stood,
in her soft misty gray gown, and still softer, long, gray
and shadowy gray veil which always reminded them of thin
Sometimes her face could scarcely be seen behind this
mysterious veil, and sometimes it shone quite clear and
This was always the case when any one of them had done some
unselfish or brave act and thought no one knew it.
And yet, if happy with the thought, he or she chanced to
look up,
there would be the Little Gray Grandmother, her face
fairly shining with the glad smile of approval. Then
suddenly she
would disappear and they would not hear of her for days and
There was a large family of them, and they
[48] had sharp eyes too, but none of them ever saw her coming
as I said before, there she stood in the midst of them.
They lived near the great sea, and its mist often covered
coast for miles and miles so that nothing but the
dim outline of objects could be seen. Therefore, their city
cousins had fallen into the way of laughing at them
and saying the Little Gray Grandmother was only a bit of
the sea fog left behind after a damp day, but
they knew better.
Although she had never spoken to them, had she not smiled at
and sometimes looked sad when she came upon them suddenly
and found any one of them doing a mean or greedy deed,
and ah, how stern her eyes were the day she found Wilhelm
telling a lie! Nobody could make them believe
that she was only a dream which came from a bit of sea fog!
Then, too, had she not left that thimble for Mai which was
sooner placed on her thimble-finger than it began to push
needle so fast that a seam a yard long would be finished
before you could say, "Jack Robinson," unless you had
saying it very often.
Who else was it that brought those tall
leather boots for Gregory which helped him
[49] to run so fast when sent on an errand that even his dog,
could not keep up with him? And as for Lelia, everybody knew
it was just after the Little Gray Grandmother had paid them
a visit
Lelia had found herself holding that bottle of Attic salt
from far-away
Greece, two grains of which placed on the end of her tongue,
caused good humor and wit to flow with every word she said
she was equal to a bit of sunshine on a dark day.
All of them were as certain as certain could be that she had
presented Doodle when he was a very little child with those
warm mittens which somehow grew as he grew and so always
fitted his hands. What wonderful mittens they were,
All Doodle had to do on the coldest day was to reach out his
in his hearty, cheery way, to any one, and no matter how
that person might be, even if his teeth were chattering with
the cold,
he was sure to feel a warm glow all over his body.
This was how Doodle got into the way of taking care of all
the lame dogs and sick cats that came along;
and why all the old people liked him. They said he made
feel young again. And Tom and Wilhelm and the rest of
had not the Little Gray Grandmother left a gift for each of
[50] Ah, but they were a happy family! What if they did have to
herring and dry bread all the year round, with potatoes now
then thrown in, and had to live in a hut, didn't they have a
Little Gray Grandmother, when so many city children, who
themselves fine because they lived in big houses, had never
heard of her!
Now, you can understand why all the children were gathered
together eagerly looking at something which lay on the sand
before them. The Little Gray Grandmother had been there
and had left something. What was it? They could
not tell. It glittered like the surface of a pool of
water when it
is quite still and the sun shines down upon it, and they
see their faces reflected on it just as they had often seen
in the well back of the house, only this mirrored their
much more clearly than the well did. What was
For whom had the Little Gray Grandmother intended it?
These were the questions they could not answer. So they
decided to take it in to the dear-mother and have her
explain it
to them.
Ah, the dear-mother, she must know, she knew almost
everything and
what she didn't know she always tried to find out for them.
[51] That was the finest thing about the dear-mother. Of course
she cooked their food for them, and made their clothes,
and nursed any of them when they were ill, and all such
but the great thing about her was that she never seemed too
to look at what they brought her and was always ready to
answer their
questions. Therefore they with one accord decided to
take this new gift into the house and ask the dear-mother
about it.
Of course she admired it; she always admired everything they
brought her, if it was only a star-fish or a new kind of
She said it was made of some sort of precious metal, and
it seemed to be a mirror such as they used in olden times
looking-glasses had been invented. "Perhaps," she added,
"it has been washed up from the sea." But the children
"Oh, no, the Little Gray Grandmother left it."
They were very,
very sure of that. But for whom had it been left?
Even the dear-mother could not settle this question.
At last it was decided that it should be hung on the cottage
that all might use it; so there it hung for many a year,
and ah, such strange things as the children saw reflected in
It was not at all like an ordinary mirror,
[52] not in the least like anything you ever saw, and yet,
you may have seen something like it. How do I know?
Well, at any rate the children had never heard of such a
mirror before. It had a queer way of swinging itself on
its hinge—I forgot to tell you that it had been fastened to
wall by a hinge so that its face could be turned toward the
or the west window, and thus let the children see themselves
in the morning as well as the evening light. At first they
thought this
was a fine idea, but sometimes it was not exactly
to have the small mirror suddenly swing round and face them
when they didn't care to be faced.
For instance, when Mai had been working hard all day and
because she felt tired, spoke crossly to the little
it was not at all agreeable to look up and see the face of a
bear reflected in the silver mirror, or when Gregory had
boasting of something fine he was going to accomplish,
to catch a glimpse of a barnyard rooster strutting about as
he were indeed the master of the farm. Somehow it made
Gregory feel foolish even if the rest of the children did
not see
the image in the mirror. Once little Beta came in
ahead of the
[53] others, and, finding some apples that the father had brought
seized the largest one and began to devour it. A swing of
the silver
mirror brought its polished surface before her eyes,
and instead of a reflection of her own chubby face,
she saw a pig greedily devouring
a pile of apples. She couldn't understand it, and yet
it made
her feel ashamed and she quietly laid the apple back
on the table.
But the pictures were not all disagreeable ones. Sometimes
the small silver mirror reflected beautiful
One bright summer day when Mai had stayed indoors all the
morning to help the dear-mother finish a jacket for Beta,
when she was longing with all her heart to be out in the
she chanced to glance up at the small mirror, and there
was the vision of a beautiful Saint, with a golden light
around her head such as Mai had seen in a church window
once when she was in the city. The smile on the face
was radiant. In a moment the vision had disappeared and
only the shining surface of silver remained.
One day Gregory rowed little Beta across the bay to the
town on the other side, and did without his dinner that with
little farthing he might pay for the privilege of letting
her climb
the light-house stairs and see
[54] how big the world was. That night when they reached home,
tired and happy, Beta looked into the mirror and there she
the good St. Christopher wading through a dark stream of
with the little Christ-child on his shoulder, and somehow
the face
of St. Christopher was Gregory's face. As she cried, "Look!"
pointed to the mirror, but Gregory could see nothing but
its shining
surface. Still, Beta ever afterwards called him "St.
little dreaming that in years to come he would truly be the
by which many little children were carried safely across the
dark streams.
At another time Doodle had rescued a poor frightened cat
from some boys on the beach who were tormenting her, and
even though they jeered at him and called him,
he had taken the little creature up in his arms and brought
in to the dear mother. As he passed the small silver mirror,
a picture of a young knight shone in the depths of its
with a face so strong and pure and brave that Doodle
stopped to admire it and wonder how it came there.
Again and again when the children did a kind, or a truthful,
or loving thing, the mirror reflected for a moment
some beautiful
[55] image which instantly disappeared if it were spoken of.
Somehow it constantly reminded them of the glad look in the
eyes of the Little Gray Grandmother when she found them
playing peacefully and happily together. And strange to say,
the Little Gray Grandmother never came again after
the small silver mirror had been hung on the wall.
Probably she thought they did not need her any longer.
Many years passed by and the children were all grown,
when the dear-mother was called to pass on to her heavenly
home. As they gathered around her death bed she asked
them to hand her the small silver mirror which still hung
on the home wall. She took it and broke it into pieces,
giving a piece to each of the eight children, and each piece
immediately became a full-sized mirror as large as the first
had been. These she told them to keep always with them,
and then with a gentle smile she passed away.
As they separated to go out into the world, each one took
or her small silver mirror and hung it in his or her private
room, that each might look into it and know, for certain,
whether that day had been spent for the cause of the
right or the wrong.


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MANILA (Mabuhay) – Government projects quantity of water in Angat Dam is still sufficient in meeting this month's water supply needs of Metro Manila which sources about 90 percent of its water from that facility.
Philippine Atmospheric, Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration (PAGASA) senior hydrologist Max Peralta said the agency's monitoring showed water level of Angat at 190.29 meters as of 6 a.m. Thursday (April 3) — still above the dam's 190-meter rule curve which National Water Resources Board (NWRB) set for this date as thedesired water level to satisfy the dam's purposes.
"Angat's water level isn't critical yet," he said, describing water elevation there as still "normal."
He said Angat can provide domestic water to Metro Manila up to July this year, even if it won't rain there until that month, as long as withdrawal of water from the dam is in line with daily rule curve thresholds NWRB set.
NWRB earlier set such daily minimum and maximum thresholds to control water withdrawal in Angat so there can be domestic water supply for Metro Manila, he said.
The lowest threshold is 180 meters equivalent to some 390 million cubic meters of water in the dam, he noted.
"Release of water from Angat must be prioritized for domestic water supply of Metro Manila," he continued.
Angat water is also used for irrigation and power generation, he said.
PAGASA said Angat's water level this year began lowering in February due to absence of rainfall there.
"Further lowering of Angat's water level can be expected during the dry season when there's more evaporation," said PAGASA hydrologist Elmer Caringal.
He said PAGASA's computations show even if water level there dips by almost 30 cm. daily, latest available monitoring data indicate Angat will still have sufficient water for Metro Manila this month.
"We expect rains to begin by the third week of May so that'll help replenish water supply in Angat," he said.
However, PAGASA continues urging Metro Manila residents to rationalize their use of water so this commodity can be conserved for future utilization.
"Use water wisely," Caringal said.
He added people must make water conservation a habit.
Built and first operated in the 1960s, Angat Dam impounds water from Angat River.
Operation in the dam prioritizes domestic water supply over irrigation if the reservoir's water level drops below the day's lower rule curve threshold. (MNS)


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If you're living and breathing then you, or your family, or someone you know has been affected by the "economic crisis" the world is in right now. For many people, they don't really get all the "financial speak" that investment bankers, brokers and analysts are droning on about. Luckily, I came across these videos that break down exactly how we got ourselves into this mess. If you want a better understanding of the current state of affairs you should definitely check out the videos below:
With everyone settling down and not as free with their money as they were a year or two ago, the economic crisis is a bit of a wake-up call for a lot of people. It's a good time to re-evaluate your life, take stock of what's really important and appreciate the things that really count – family, friends and community. Here's a clip from the Conan Show with a light-hearted take on things:
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THE earth is rumbling under the feet of Democrats in Congress in these last weeks of the session. The defeat of Rep. Mike Synar (D) of Oklahoma and the poor showing of House Speaker Tom Foley (D) of Washington in primaries last week were but the latest tremors.
Legislative business, however, must go on. In the House, leaders have given up on health care legislation, says Rep. Richard Gephardt of Missouri, the second-ranking member of the House. But they still must pass the annual spending bills that keep the government running, and he is hopeful that Congress can still pass major bills approving world trade rules, streamlining toxic waste cleanup, and a handful of other issues.
Ultimately, said Mr. Gephardt at a Monitor breakfast Friday, the only way out of the low political esteem wilting Congress ``is to improve the product'' - that is, improve the quality of the work the federal government does.
Before President Clinton's term is over, says Gephardt, ``very major'' health care legislation will be enacted.
But the health-care legislation that Congress debated this year was the most controversial and complicated business to hit Capitol Hill in the nearly two decades Gephardt has served there, he says. ``That makes it very hard to find a consensus.''
The bill was so big that the various interest groups that opposed various pieces of it formed a kind of ``critical mass'' of opposition, he says. The more than $100 million they spent on television ads to defeat the Clinton plan was successful in ``frightening people'' about it. That public wariness was picked up by Congress.
``Public opinion eventually has an awful lot to do with what happens in the capital,'' says Gephardt.
It did not help that Republicans adopted a ``no-bill'' strategy and obstructed progress, says Gephardt. Republicans can argue, of course, that they proposed several health-care bills that the Democrats never gave serious shrift.
The political trouble that many Democrats are in now is largely due to local, race-by-race factors, he says. But he acknowledges that some national factors, such as negative views of President Clinton, are at work too.
The current political climate is partly due to economic anxiety. While the economy is creating jobs at an improved pace, standards of living are not rising the way people might have thought they would. Plus a concerted effort by Republicans, led by President Reagan in the 1980s, has ``beat up on government.''
Further, all institutions are under attack in public opinion. Then, through negative campaign attacks between rival candidates for Congress, says Gephardt, ``we do some of it to ourselves.''


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Operating companies also will be able to advertise for investors after the ban is lifted. They'll benefit because they'll be able to reach "a much broader audience than they would be able to with their own contacts," Guin said.
In an effort to address questions about deception, the commission approved a new proposal, on a 3-2 vote, that seeks to monitor how advertising is used and whether it contributes to more fraud. The SEC also approved a rule that blocks felons and others found culpable of securities-law violations from marketing private offers, which are more lightly regulated than public offers of stock or debt.
The three-step process allows White to complete the required rulemaking before two new commissioners replace Walter and Commissioner Troy A. Paredes later this summer. Paredes and fellow Republican Commissioner Daniel M. Gallagher voted to lift the ban.
"We want this new market and the private markets in general to thrive in a safe and efficient manner, and the rules we adopt today are designed to achieve that objective," White said.
Paredes and Gallagher voted against the proposal to add new rules to private offers, saying it would restrict their role in capital formation.
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Under the proposal, advertising would have to include cautionary statements about the risk of the investment and a disclosure that the offer is open only to accredited investors.
Companies raising money through private offers also would be required to file a required statement, known as Form D, to the SEC 15 days before the offer closes. The form would include information on the type of advertising used. Companies would have to update the information contained in the form within 30 days of completing the offer.
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Thank you to all who have given to our December edition. Our writers: Theresa Neate, Daniel Barrow, Scott Miles, John Lockhart, and Helena Jeret-Mäe. Our reviewers: Shirley Tricker, Aaron Hodder, Brian Osman, Paul Seaman and Sarah Burgess. Our graphic designer and layout maestro: Adam Howard.
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The male patient, 37, was diagnosed in Changsha City, the province's capital. He had contact with poultry before falling ill and is in a critical condition, according to the Health and Family Planning Commission of Hunan province.
The public are advised to avoid direct contact with poultry and wear masks when symptoms such as headache, fever, coughing and chest congestion appear.
H7N9 is a bird flu strain first reported to have infected humans in China in March 2013. It is most likely to strike in winter and spring.


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Seamlessly interweaving archival war footage and a fictional narrative, Stuart Cooper's immersive account of one 20-year-old's journey from basic training to the battle front lines at D-day brings all the terrors and isolation of war to its viewers with jolting authenticity. Overlord, impressionistically shot by Stanley Kubrick's longtime cinematographer John Alcott, is both a document of WWII and a dreamlike meditation on man's smallness in a large, incomprehensible machine.
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WASHINGTON – NPR's president and CEO resigned Wednesday in an effort to limit the damage from hidden camera footage of a fellow executive deriding the tea party movement as "seriously racist." Conservatives called the video proof that the network is biased and undeserving of federal funds.
NPR's board had pushed for the resignation of Vivian Schiller, whom conservatives also criticized in October for firing analyst Juan Williams over comments he made about Muslims. She was not in the video, which was posted Tuesday by a conservative activist, but she told The Associated Press that staying on would only hurt NPR's fight for federal money.
"We took a reputational hit around the Juan Williams incident, and this was another blow to NPR's reputation. There's no question," she said.
The timing of the video was exceptionally bad from NPR's perspective, with Republicans in the new House majority looking to cut all federal funding of public radio and television. Public broadcasting officials say that would force some stations to fold.
The video showed two conservative activists posing as members of a fake Muslim group at a lunch meeting with NPR's top fundraiser, Ron Schiller, who is not related to Vivian Schiller and who also resigned. The men offered NPR a $5 million donation and engaged in a wide-ranging discussion about tea party Republicans, pro-Israel bias in the media and anti-intellectualism.
"The current Republican Party is not really the Republican Party. It's been hijacked by this group that is … not just Islamophobic but, really, xenophobic," Ron Schiller said in the video, referring to the tea party movement. "They believe in sort of white, middle America, gun-toting – it's scary. They're seriously racist, racist people."
He also said NPR "would be better off in the long run without federal funding." That was a point many Republicans are more than willing to concede.
Last month, when the House voted to eliminate funding for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, which provides money to public radio and television stations, no Republicans stepped forward to defend it. Sen. Jim DeMint, a South Carolina Republican, introduced similar legislation in the Senate last week.
Similar efforts to strip funding from public broadcasting in 2005 and in the 1990s were unsuccessful, but DeMint's spokesman Wesley Denton said, "I don't expect the vote to be the same as it has in the past."
Rep. Earl Blumenauer, a Democrat from Oregon, said this is the first time he hasn't been able to get interest from any Republicans to co-chair the Public Broadcasting Caucus that he founded a decade ago.
Rep. Michael McCaul of Texas, the Republican co-chair of the caucus last year, said he would leave it entirely because "NPR has crossed the line to political bias."
Cutting funding for CPB will meet fierce resistance in the Democratic-controlled Senate, however, and President Barack Obama favors continued support. White House spokesman Jay Carney noted that both Democratic and Republican presidents have supported such funding in the past.
The CPB is receiving $430 million in the current fiscal year and will get $445 million in fiscal 2012. It CPB handed out nearly $94 million in grants to more than 400 public radio stations – not all of which are NPR affiliates – in fiscal 2010.
NPR itself typically gets only about 2 percent of its budget from CPB grants, but many of its 268 member stations rely heavily on them. NPR affiliates get an average of 10 percent of their funding from CPB, and some small and rural stations receive more than 40 percent of their funding that way, although NPR could not provide exact figures.
About a third of NPR's $161 million budget in fiscal 2010 came from its affiliates in the form of programming fees. NPR spokeswoman Anna Christopher said it's difficult to say how a loss of CPB funding would affect stations' ability to pay.
A cut in funding to CPB would hit public television stations harder than radio stations. By law, 75 percent of CPB's grant money must go to TV stations.
NPR board chairman Dave Edwards said NPR would make a strong case about the importance of federal funding.
"It is absolutely true that without federal funding, a lot of our public radio and public TV stations in the system could go dark, and that will happen in some of the smallest communities we serve," Edwards said. "In some cases, public broadcasting remains that community's primary connection with the outside world."
Howard Liberman, a longtime broadcast communications attorney who represents NPR affiliates, said many stations were unhappy with Vivian Schiller and the release of the video was the last straw. He pointed to the Williams controversy and other moves by Schiller that have alienated stations, such as shortening the organization's name from National Public Radio to NPR and trying to drive listeners toward NPR's website.
"This was just the last in a series of things that have shown to the members and the stations that this ship is not running very well," Liberman said.
It's not clear how the latest setback will affect fundraising, but when Williams was fired after he said on Fox News that he felt uncomfortable when he sees people in "Muslim garb" on airplanes, a number of major stations said they were meeting or surpassing their fundraising goals. Vivian Schiller took heat for Williams' departure, in part because she sacked him over the phone.
NPR listeners interviewed by the AP were divided over whether the video was a sign of problems within the network.
"They are obviously biased," said Frank Stefano of Erie, Pa., a 46-year-old facilities administrator who says he will stop supporting public radio unless changes are made. "They need to come out with a plan that says, 'Look, here's what we're going to do to fix this.'"
Linda Feltz Crews, a retired human resources director from Orange Park, Fla., said in an e-mail that the dust-up actually makes her more likely to contribute to public broadcasting. "There's been lots of great reporting by NPR and I would hate for this mess to permanently affect their ability to continue operating," she said in a Facebook posting.
Robert D. Charter, 49, a payroll administrator from Dallas, said it was probably better that Vivian Schiller resigned, but he fears for the future of public broadcasting.
"I'm afraid in this politically charged environment that there are people out there in Washington who would do anything to harm a venue that is enjoyed and probably even cherished by a lot of Americans," he said.
The video of Ron Schiller was posted by conservative activist James O'Keefe on his Project Veritas website. O'Keefe is best known for wearing a pimp costume in hidden-camera videos that embarrassed the community-organizing group ACORN. He also made headlines when he pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor last May after he was accused of trying to tamper with the phones in Sen. Mary Landrieu's office. O'Keefe didn't return a request for comment from AP.
NPR said it was appalled by Ron Schiller's comments. He was president of its fundraising arm and a senior vice president for development, and was not involved in NPR's reporting.
"While the meeting I participated in turned out to be a ruse," Ron Schiller said, "I made statements during the course of the meeting that are counter to NPR's values and also not reflective of my own beliefs. I offer my sincere apology to those I offended."
PBS spokeswoman Anne Bentley said the TV network also was contacted by the same fake Muslim group that met with Ron Schiller, but halted discussions after it was unable to confirm the organization's credentials.
Ron Schiller resigned immediately after the video emerged, but he had told NPR before it was made that he planned to leave to become director of the Aspen Institute Arts Program. The Aspen Institute confirmed Wednesday that he would not be taking the job, in light of the controversy.
Another NPR executive, Betsy Liley, was at the lunch with Ron Schiller. She said little, although she can be heard laughing when one of the men says his group referred to NPR as "National Palestinian Radio." She has been placed on administrative leave.
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AP Television Writer David Bauder in New York, Darlene Superville and Ben Evans in Washington and David Dishneau in Hagerstown, Md., contributed to this report.


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Did you know?
The Cape Floristic Region is one of only 6 floral kingdoms in the world.
The Cape Floristic Region's bounty of plant life has earned South Africa a place among the world's top-rated locations for biodiversity. Much of this rich natural heritage cannot be seen anywhere else on earth. Covering 90 000 km², it is estimated each 1000 km² of this floral kingdom contains 465 species.
The Cape Floristic Region is uniquely South African; unique in that a large percentage of this floral wealth is endemic to the country. Its incredible richness enables South Africa to claim the third-highest level of biodiversity in the world.
The Table Mountain National Park, one of a chain of 8 protected areas encompassed by the region, packs more plant species into its 22 000 hectares than entire countries like the British Isles or New Zealand.
The Cape Floristic Region, a World Heritage Site, begins at the Cape Peninsula and trails along a mountainous path to the Eastern Cape. Besides Table Mountain, it takes in the De Hoop Nature Reserve, the Boland, the Groot Winterhoek wilderness area, the Swartberg mountains, the Boosmansbos wilderness area, the Cederberg and Baviaanskloof.
Plant life includes fynbos, a vast group of plants that has tickled the fancy of scientists who marvel at its adaptive responses to fire and its reproductive strategies. Famous fynbos families are the proteas (also the country's national flower), the ericas (heaths) and the grass-like restios. Gardeners will be familiar with more common species like aloes and geraniums, and some of the 1 400 bulb species, such as gladioli.
One of the leading attractions in the Cape's active floral tourism sector, Cape Town's Kirstenbosch National Botanical Gardens - a floral mosaic that delights even those with little interest in plants - is perhaps the crown in this abundance. Located on the lower reaches of Table Mountain, most visitors like to wander its well-marked paths at their own pace, although tours can be taken.
A region of endemic Cape flowers, the Cape Floristic Region holds 20% of Africa's flora and 3% of the plant species on earth, one of the world's biodivesity spots.
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The Cape Floristic Region is spread over a wide area and is best accessed from the cities of Cape Town (Western Cape) or East London (Eastern Cape). Cape Town has an international airport as well as rail links to the rest of the country. East London is linked by air and rail to all South Africa's major cities.
Best time to visit
Prime flower viewing time in the Cape is late winter into early spring, when people travel from all over the country to see the bold displays all along the West Coast and throughout this region of Cape flowers.
Early spring is the best time to visit, as the region erupts in a rainbow of colour during the flowering season.
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Driving yourself around is best as it allows you to explore at your own pace. An alternative option would be to take a guided tour of the region.
Length of stay
A weekend will give you ample time to explore.
What to pack
Sunblock and a hat are musts. Good walking shoes are recommended for those who prefer to explore on foot. And don't forget your camera, the colours in the region are breathtaking.


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If you are interested in joining a committee, contact the chair.
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Museum of African American History
To preserve and interpret the contributions of people of African descent and those who have found common cause with them in the struggle for liberty and justice for all Americans.
About the Organization:
The Museum of African American History is the largest museum dedicated to preserving, conserving, and interpreting the contributions of African Americans in New England. In Boston and Nantucket, the museum has preserved four historic sites and two Black Heritage Trails that tell the story of organized black communities from the colonial period through the nineteenth century.
Current Programs:
In Boston, the African Meeting House — the oldest such meeting house in the United States, built in the early 1800s — has been restored to commemorate the history of African-Americans from slavery to the abolitionist movement, with a focus on the struggle for educational equality. In the adjacent Abiel Smith School, the first building in the nation constructed for the sole purpose of housing a black public school, galleries feature rotating exhibits about African Americans' historical legacy. In addition, a guided walking tour of the museum's Black Heritage Trail, which highlights African-American heritage and community on Boston's Beacon Hill, is offered by the National Park Service; a self-guided walking tour map and guide are also available. The museum also offers educational programs, including a summer institute for teachers and summer day camps for inner-city children.
On the Island of Nantucket, the Florence Higginbotham House — built on property purchased by a former slave in 1774, a decade before slavery was abolished in Massachusetts — and the restored African Meeting House (open to the public from June to October) stand as reminders of a thriving nineteenth-century African-American community. Guided tours of Nantucket's Black History Trail feature ten sites.
Web Site:
In addition to reading about current exhibits, visitors to the site can view a slideshow about the history of the Abiel Smith School, early African-American education, and the campaign for equal school rights; or take an online tour of the Boston and Nantucket Black Heritage Trails to read about the individual sites. They also can learn about supporting the museum by becoming a member, making a donation, volunteering, or donating artifacts, documents, prints, photographs, and other items to the collections.
The Museum of African American History is supported by individuals, corporations, foundations, nonprofit organizations, and government agencies.


text: Ballmer makes a pitch for Microsoft Published on April 28, 2000. Microsoft Corp. will break another TV spot April 30 to influence public opinion amid its on-going antitrust woes. The 30-sec. spot, "Technology & the Economy," features Steve Ballmer, the company's president and CEO, talking about how the PC has changed people's lives for the better. "Innovation is spreading through our economy," Mr. Ballmer says in the spot. "It's creating new jobs, changing our lives and helping children learn." Mr. Ballmer goes on to suggest that technology is fueling America's economy. The work was produced by Microsoft's agency of record, McCann-Erickson Worldwide, New York and San Francisco. It will run in prime-time network programming for one week, according to spokesman Dan Leach. Chairman Bill Gates appeared in a Microsoft TV spot just three weeks ago.Copyright April 2000, Crain Communications Inc. Most Popular In this article: News


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The Big Sort, Authors: Bill Bishop and Robert Cushing.
Polarized America: The Dance of Ideology and Unequal Riches, Authors: Nolan McCarty, Keith Poole and Howard Rosenthal.
By Peter Orszag – A new study provides a hint about one possible force behind this political segregation: Americans are increasingly choosing to live near people in their own income bracket. According to research by Sean Reardon and Kendra Bischoff of Stanford University, in 1970, almost two-thirds of American families lived in middle-income neighborhoods. By 2007, only 44 percent did. The share of those living in a poor neighborhood, in the same period, more than doubled, from 8 percent to 17 percent. So did the share living in an affluent neighborhood — from 7 percent to 14 percent.
As Reardon and Bischoff conclude, "The increasing isolation of the affluent from low- and moderate-income families means that a significant proportion of society's resources are concentrated in a smaller and smaller proportion of neighborhoods." A separate study, by Tara Watson of Williams College, concluded that trends in income inequality can fully explain recent increases in economic segregation. more> http://is.gd/y9eOuS
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- Fewer Americans Living In Middle-Class Areas As Country Divides Between Rich, Poor: Study (huffingtonpost.com)
- How Occupy stopped the supercommittee | Dean Baker (guardian.co.uk)


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Traders await Greek deal
Those left out of yesterday's strong surge in markets (based, of course, upon a Greece-related rumour that was swiftly denied) have been deterred from jumping in thanks to a Eurogroup heads of government meeting on Monday. It would be unwise to suggest that this is the last chance for Greece and its creditors to hammer out a deal, but with time running out it would certainly be beneficial for markets and for investors' peace of mind if the two sides were to sort something out.
Alexis Tsipras has played the Russian card today, suggesting investment from Moscow, adding a little extra spice to the situation. However, given Russia's own troubles, Vladimir Putin is unlikely to be able to find the cash to solve the problem, leaving Mr Tsipras to sort a deal between now and Monday afternoon. The prospects do not look promising, but a political deal that hands Athens some face-saving concessions while confirming austerity measures is still the most likely outcome.
In London broker upgrades lifted FTSE 100 newcomer Hikma to the top of the board, propelling it on to the best-performing list for the week and helping to reverse some of the heavy losses sustained since the beginning of March and the firm's incorporation into the top flight index.
Chip maker ARM gained over 2% today, thanks to speculation that Apple might be switching from Intel chips to ARM's products, further boosting the attractiveness of ARM shares as a proxy for Apple shares for UK investors.
US stocks look positive for investors
Wall Street has opened marginally lower, but compared to Europe it is enjoying a quieter session. With the Federal Reserve meeting out of the way, and Greece a rather smaller concern than in Europe, US stocks look better set than they have for some time. The fresh highs in the Nasdaq are a sign that investors are still willing to get involved in stocks, especially with Fed rate expectations being pushed back to the end of the year.
Caution over Greek shenanigans will keep most investors from jumping in until the middle of next week, but I expect a general recovery in risk appetite assuming that Armageddon does not descend on the eurozone next week.
Gold eyes $1200
Ahead of key events for Greece, the ultimate safe haven, gold, is finding some buyers. Consolidation above $1200 is a good first step if the metal is to attempt to regain the May highs, and a deterioration in the Greek situation should provide some modest upward force for the metal.
Oil meanwhile continues to see sellers, with traders still sceptical that recent highs in the price can be supported.
Profit-taking in GBP/USD likely
The pound has clung on to its recent highs today, but the week ahead is relatively bereft of data for sterling, which makes a retracement of at least modest duration a definite possibility.
Having seen a near straight-line move in GBP/USD over the past two weeks, the time has now come for some degree of profit-taking, especially if US data comes in ahead of forecasts or Mark Carney takes an even more dovish line at next week's Inflation Report hearings in Parliament. 'Buy on the dips' has been a workable strategy in cable since early April, and a pullback would not unduly undermine the longer-term rally here.


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College News - October 2012
Coming up!
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- NASA scientist on campus next month to discuss Mars Rover landing
- New! Power of Women Leadership Series starts in January
- 'Silent Heroes' at Samuels Theatre
- Art therapist addresses veterans' issues
Strategic Plan On Track
Now entering year three of implementation, Cedar Crest is making strong progress with the 22 initiatives in the Strategic Plan. Some highlights:
- Art Therapy–The new bachelor's degree has 33 enrollees and planning is under way for a master's degree.
- First Year Experience–Students have responded warmly to this award-winning new program designed to help them develop personally as well as academically.
- Global Studies–The new major is growing, and study-abroad opportunities are being expanded to Sweden, Germany, Australia, Korea, Guyana and other locations. In 2012-13, 40 or more students will study abroad.
- Living Learning Communities–The College now has three vibrant communities themed around art, social justice and the environment.
- New Media–With added faculty and the Media Convergence Lab, students in this new major are getting a first-rate grounding in tomorrow's technologies.
- SAGE–The School of Adult and Graduate Studies has a record enrollment of nearly 1,200 and has won a major federal grant.
- Women's Leadership Institute–Plans are under way for an undergraduate leadership certificate and executive leadership academy for early to mid-level career women.
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Cedar Crest Highly Ranked by U.S. News
For the second straight year, U.S. News and World Report has ranked Cedar Crest one of the "best values" among liberal arts colleges in its region, and a "top regional college." Cedar Crest ranked #6 for value and #16 in the regional college category–and in the top 26 percentof these colleges overall.
Cedar Crest distinguished itself most in percentage of classes with fewer than 20 students (76 percent) and low student/faculty ratio (10/1), both of which help ensure individualized attention. The report did indicate that many Cedar Crest students incur debt in pursuit of their education. A high percentage come from working-class families and communities, and such students typically can't attend college without student loans.
"Cedar Crest...is part of the proud working-class tradition of the Lehigh Valley, and we are happy to draw a large percentage of first-generation college students from the local area," says President Carmen Twillie Ambar. "While some do incur debt, our 'best value' ranking indicates that their investment pays off." She adds that 98 percent of Cedar Crest students receive some form of financial aid.
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An Impressive Class of 2016
Enrollment for 2016 is up 30 percent over the previous year, and the incoming class GPA is up 12 percent. The top three states students hail from are Pennsylvania, New York and New Jersey, but the class includes members from as far afield as Korea and Germany. The most often-mentioned majors are nursing, chemistry/forensic science, education and psychology.
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Creative Writing MFA Makes a Splash
Cedar Crest's new Pan-European Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing, launched this summer, features a faculty of internationally known authors. One of them–adjunct faculty member Dinaw Mengestu–has just earned a "genius grant" from the MacArthur Foundation. Mengestu's recognized work, The Beautiful Things That Heaven Bears (2008), depicts the stories of immigrants escaping the violence of their African homelands and remaking their lives in urban America. The MacArthur grants confer national prestige along with $500,000 to support recipients' work.
The MFA program links the craft of writing to the creative energy of place, bringing students and teachers together in inspirational cities like Dublin, Barcelona and Vienna. Students attend three 15-day summer residencies, and work in distance-learning mentorships between residencies. For more on the program, visit mfa.cedarcrest.edu.
On-Site M.S.N. Offered at Reading
Reading Hospital and Medical Center has chosen Cedar Crest to deliver an accredited master of science in nursing program to its nurses. Launched in August, the onsite program–identical in content and faculty to the campus version–can be completed in two years. Besides nurses at Reading Hospital, the program also is open to nurses working in the surrounding area, which is experiencing major growth in health needs.
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SAGE Business Program Available All-Online
To make it as convenient as possible for adult students, the School of Adult and Graduate Education (SAGE) now offers many business degrees and certificates that can be completed entirely online. Of course, SAGE students can take all or some of their courses on campus or in hybrid form during evenings and weekends, typically in an accelerated format. They may also take courses during the daytime in a traditional classroom format.


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Durham City Golf Club Junior Academy
- Providing children a safe and friendly environment to develop their golfing skills.
Meet the coaches
Class AAT PGA Professional Tom Cranfield
Tom turned professional in 2007 and became fully qualified through the PGA in 2010. Having worked in the golfing industry since the age of 15, Tom Cranfield has a wealth of experience in the industry, both from a coaching and retail point of view.
Tom completed his PGA training at Gosfield Lake Golf Club in Essex and soon after became the club's Head Professional. In doing so, at the time, Tom was the youngest Head Pro in Essex at the age of 26.
Becoming Head Professional at Durham City is undoubtedly Tom's biggest achievement since turning professional and he is proud to serve the members and visitors at the club.
Tom enjoys the challenge of retail and coaching immensely and has a flair for presenting products in an effective way. He also does everything he can to keep his product knowledge up to date by attending various seminars. Most recently, Tom took a visit to PING's Gainsborough fitting centre and factory where the clubs are made.
Natasha Martin - Assistant Professional
Natasha is a first year trainee with the PGA and will arrive here with the ambition to complete her training and develop her coaching skills. Having already worked at Ramside and the Tim Hall School of Golf, Natasha who turns 22 this year, has gained some excellent experience in Junior Coaching and she is ready to continue here at Durham City. Natasha is a good communicator with warm and friendly people skills. I'm sure she will get along well with all the members at DCGC.
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Better Goalies, Skill Cards
A patch for Konami's Pro Evolution Soccer 2012 is on the way, with an eye towards fixing errant goalkeepers who've been having problems of late handling vicious long shots. It'll also tweak the Speed Star skill card, which a number of PES fans have identified as being a tad unrealistic, granting the holder acceleration and speed even Thierry Henry would find enviable.
The list of tweaks and fixes is as follows:
- Issues with one or more players given a red card in a match, but 11 players available after loading formation
- In the myPES application, we have corrected the situation where a draw result is given after win/lose on the penalties
- Occasionally meaningless numbers were appearing when accessing the Community menu from the Community Card list
- Formation data in the Formation settings on the Game Plan screen can only be saved from the P1 controller
- Game data can be saved/loaded for both sides if you exit the Data Management menu while your opponent is saving/loading the game data and then enter the Data Management menu again on the Game Plan screen
No word on when this patch is set to be released, but once it has, Konami plans to roll out the Winter Transfer Window update, which I sincerely, sincerely hope includes at least one damn Arsenal signing! [Eurogamer]


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LANSING — Green is a great school. Red is a bad one. Lime, yellow, and orange are in-between.
Michigan's new color-coded school accountability system already could be up for an overhaul just two months after its debut.
Some lawmakers say schools should get A-F grades just like students do, so parents and others can easily understand.
"It's not clear, it's not concise, and it's not transparent. Nobody knows what a lime green means, but everybody knows what an A means," said House Education Committee Chairman Lisa Posthumus Lyons (R., Alto), who plans to introduce a bill to switch to letter grades.
Letter grades seem intuitive on their face since schools are used to evaluating students with letter grades. The tricky part is determining how the rankings are calculated.
Ms. Lyons' bills would do more than change the performance scorecard from colors to letters. She said she wants to change the formula so that grades "accurately reflect" schools' quality.
In the 2012-13 scores released in August, some schools were rated red despite being seen as traditionally high-performing, while other schools got green scores despite having no performance data because they were new, according to critics.
Another complaint is that Michigan's separate top-to-bottom percentile ranking of schools, which is part of its accountability system under a waiver from federal no Child Left Behind requirements, closely correlates with student poverty rates. And others complain that the top-to-bottom list and separate color grades are not aligned, causing confusion.
One goal of the House bills is to eliminate the top-to-bottom ranking and replace it with A-F grades so there is a single system. That does not mean that designations such as "reward," "priority," and "focus" schools would go away because they are in the state's waiver to the U.S. government.
But priority schools in the bottom 5 percent and subject to state intervention could be "F" schools. Reward schools in the top 5 percent could be "A" schools.
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When ESPN Classic launches in the U.K. on March 13, don't go looking for Game Seven of the Yankees/Dodgers World Series.
That's because the company's first network there, airing on Britain's BSkyB platform, will televise only past English sporting events or those germane to the country.
The introduction represents a bet by Walt Disney Co.'s ESPN International's Exec VP-Managing Director Russell Wolff that Brits are as much a fan of old sporting events as their counterparts in the U.S. While the sports are different, the premise is much the same as it is in the U.S., where ESPN Classic airs games, interviews, movies, profiles and documentaries from the past and bridges the action to today with fresh interviews, analysis and commentary from broadcasters and athletes.
"This is not ESPN Classic from the U.S. at all," said Mr. Wolff, exec VP-managing director for ESPN International. "These are dedicated, focused channels."
The channel will air such programming as England's historic 2003 victory over Australia for the Rugby World Cup, great soccer matches from the past, profiles of England's greatest athletes and more. ESPN did much the same when it launched a Classic network in France and Italy in 2002, showing such relevant content as the 1998 French World Cup win in France, or Italian skier Alberto Tomba's Olympic gold medal runs in Italy.
"We've looked at various spots in Europe and felt this was an underserved market in sports entertainment," Mr. Wolff said.
Yet ESPN is such an iconic brand that some English fans are confused, believing that the self-proclaimed "worldwide leader in sports" will morph into showing American sports like baseball and football. The network says it has no plans to do so.
In fact, ESPN has launched an ad campaign in England to make sure the Brits understand they'll be seeing strictly the hometown heroes on ESPN Classic in the U.K. The print, TV and outdoor campaign is being handled by London-based Heavenly. The tagline: "Dead Good Sports."
Mr. Wolff declined to name specific advertisers and sponsors, but said that "ad sales are going on. We'll have a good mix of pan-regional advertisers and U.K.-specific sponsors and partners."
Man on the (British) street
Let's just say ESPN started screening American sports, how would the Brits like that? Ad Age's Alexandra Jardine takes a straw poll of sports fans in London.
"I would definitely watch a new sports channel. There can never be enough sport on TV -- it offsets all the crappy reality shows. I wouldn't watch American sports as much as traditional sports, but as a sports fan, watching any sports is better than none."
-- Stuart, 32, doctor
"I have just been to Zimbabwe for a couple of weeks and they had the ESPN channel there. I must confess I didn't find anything worth watching on it. There can never be too much sport on TV, but most things Americans call sport should really be called something else. ... But maybe I'm a bit biased. If it covers sports like golf and tennis it might be worth watching."
-- Neil, 33, veterinarian
"I haven't heard of ESPN. But there's too much sport on TV already -- loads of Sky channels and Eurosport as well. I don't like that they make you pay to watch it. The only new thing I'd be interested in watching is more 'extreme' sports, like wakeboarding."
-- John, 50, builder
"ESPN would work on the basis of the growth in sports watching and betting, and it would give even more people access to watching sport."
-- Duncan, 34, investment banker
"There's plenty of sport on the box already, and some of the sports channels have some really weird and wonderful stuff, so I can't see any need. I have no interest in American sports to either play or attend, so I wouldn't spend valuable time trying to fathom out the strange rules they have."
-- Nick, 40, public-relations specialist
"I find the thought of a sport channel devoted to American sports depressing in the extreme. I'm a big fan of sport on the TV, but have no affinity with baseball, American football, etc., and feel that this would be more of the American insistence that they know best and need to inflict their culture and values on everybody else."
-- Tristan, 33, doctor


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By Ray Schultz
The United States was in a rare period of felicity in 1899. It had won the Spanish American War, taking over the remnants of the Spanish empire. William McKinley, a pro-business Republican with a benign nature, was in the White House; prosperity reigned. The automobile had been invented, the airplane would follow, and people could buy cylinders containing recorded songs like "I Guess I'll have to Telegraph My Baby," by Arthur Collins. But nobody was more optimistic than the lucky few who received pink Express Mail circulars from Honduras at the start of the year.
These were for the Honduras national Lottery (aka the Louisiana Lottery). They offered 12 monthly drawings, each featuring a $30,000 grand prize and hundreds of lesser awards. They were sent by private Express Mail because it was a crime for lottery operators to use the U.S. Post Office. And, of course, they didn't go to everyone: They went only to lottery enthusiasts—to the fools who had previously bought tickets from the company that had opened for business during Reconstruction.
In 1868, Louisiana was occupied by federal troops, and run by corrupt Republicans, "ignorant Negroes cooperating with a gang of white adventurers, strangers to our interests and our sentiments," one Southern editor wrote, reflecting the racism of the time and place. Among the newcomers was a 31 year-old Baltimorean named Charles T. Howard. Some people said Howard inflated his Confederate war record, but it didn't matter, for he had something in short supply in Louisiana: capital. It was provided by the New York gambler John Morris, and Howard liberally dispensed it to the Republicans in the legislature. His hosts rewarded him with an exclusive 25-year charter to operate a lottery, and made it a crime for anyone else to even start one. And the company was exempted from all taxes, except for a $40,000-a-year contribution to the state educational fund.
At first, the Louisiana Lottery sold chances mostly through policy shops in the state: the daily drawings were "the special curse of the colored population," one observer wrote. But it soon moved into the mails, largely thanks to Dr. Maxmillian A. Dauphin, appointed by Howard as president in 1873.
Dauphin was born in 1837 in Alsace Lorraine, and emigrated to the United States at age 16 with a brother. But the siblings separated after arriving, and Maxmillian ended up friendless in New Orleans. He attached himself to Dr. Sam Choppin, "then the center of one of the most brilliant social, professional and political coteries." and under his sponsorship became a physician. Then he went into business.
Dauphin knew that the lottery would never realize its full potential until it dominated the Yankee market, which it did within a few years. Next to New Orleans, Washington was the most lucrative city. The Lottery offered tickets at cigar stores, hotels, saloons and barber shops, and through bootblacks and newsboys in the streets. And, of course, it peddled them by mail, so many that Bin "D," in the Washington post office was assigned to Dauphin, and clerks worked into the night, using "express wagons and furniture cars to haul the outgoing mail," one account reported.
It was similar in New York and Chicago, where lottery agents mailed tens of thousands of packages a month, containing letters, certificates, logos, entry forms and tickets, all promising "grand" and "extravagant" prizes. One package sent in New York in 1880 said: ."No seed, no harvest." The Lottery's mailings pulled in $30,000 a day, or almost $11 million a year. And they constituted 45 percent of the entire business of the New Orleans post office.
The drawings were held in an ancient hall in New Orleans, with an alligator paddling around a pool outside. They were under the "personal supervision" of two venerated Confederate generals: Jubal T. Early and G.T. Beauregard. General Beauregard "was of large stature, but the progress of years weighed heavily upon him, and his shoulders were bent so as to throw his florid face, with its full white hirsute covering, forward towards the floor. Gray-blue eyes, fierce and penetrating, gleamed beneath bushy, overhanging brows. A suit of Confederate gray clothing, well cut and near, covered the aged man." Then there was Jubal Early, "clad in black, and a handsome face crowned by now-white closely cropped hair was poised proudly above an elegant, dignified form."
The generals were each paid tens of thousands of dollars a year to stand on stage once a month and "preside." The drawings featured blindfolded boys from a local orphanage, wearing knickers, and were conducted before men who were "redolent of rum and tobacco and poor bathing facilities, and had no taste or money for clean raiment," according to one eyewitness account. "With the utmost solemnity, Croupier Early proceeded to blindfold the boy beside him," wrote another witness. "Located near the brazen drum, Croupier Beauregard, with corresponding gravity, tied a white handkerchief over the eyes of his juvenile assistant."
The drawing began. Jubal drew the white paper from the encircling black rubber tube. "In measured tones he read the number, 48,146. The voice of General Beauregard was likewise measured and somewhat harder in its timbre when he called the figures on the white slip of paper which he drew from the little black tube: '200' he said." What it meant was the holder of ticket 48,146 had won $200."
Several larger prizes were drawn, including jackpots of $100,000 and $300,000, but no winner came up to claim them, causing groans in the gallery. With good reason: One third of the tickets in the drum were unsold, still owned by the Lottery, which meant that the bettors were playing against the house. And the house did well. Government lotteries in Europe distributed up to 85% of their ticket money in prizes; the Louisiana Lottery kept more than half.
In 1890, Congress passed a law making it a felony to use the mails to conduct a lottery. Unlike previous bills, this one made it an offense to even to patronize a lottery by mail. President Benjamin Harrison signed it, and his Postmaster General, the retail magnate John Wanamaker, vowed to enforce it.
So Dauphin bypassed the mails, employing private express deliverers and removing he criminal taint for customers. His ads advised players to "remit currency by express at our expense. Give full address and make signature plain." But the pressure and his rich New Orleans diet must have gotten to him, for in December 1890 Dauphin died at age 53 after a brief illness. Charles Howard was dead, too, having been thrown from a horse.
Paul Conrad, former chief clerk of the Lottery and part owner of an ice company, took over. The lottery office in Canada mailed thousands circulars over the border. They announced that "recent changes in the United States Postal regulations have rendered it preferable to more closely consult the interest of our Canadian patrons by establishing a branch office in Canada."
At this point, the Supreme Court of Louisiana was deciding a case over whether to renew the Lottery charter or put it on a ballot referendum. The court, heavily subsidized by the Lottery, ruled to renew, and Conrad quickly got out a mailing hailing the victory. The pamphlet contained return express envelopes addressed to the New Orleans National Bank, again bypassing the Post Office. Worse, in John Wanamaker's view, it was designed to look like a newspaper, and it was duly mailed at the second class rates for publishers.
Still, the publicity was bad for business. And in 1892, the U.S. Supreme Court upheld the anti-lottery laws. Conrad had one more trick: He relocated the Lottery to Honduras, again bypassing U.S. post office. "The Congress of the United Sates having lately passed laws prohibiting the use of mails to all Lotteres, we use the Express companies in answering correspondents snd sending Lists of Prizes to the U.S.A."
The prices were as follows: Whole tickets, $2; Halves $1; Quarters 50C; Eighths 25C. The pieces also specified: "No order filled for less than one dollar."
It's not clear if Conrad was still involved (or even alive) at this point. Purchasers were advised to send their mail to E.J. Demarest, of Puerto Cortez, Honduras, C.A., care of Central American Express, in Port Tampa City, Florida.
The circulars also warned recipients to avoid fraudulent lotteries. "BEWARE of any lottery which claims to be drawn anywhere in the United States," they said. "Buyers are cautioned against dishonest loteries. Fake lotteries give vendors thirty or forty cents on every dolllar for selling their tickets, therefore, an unscruplous vendor wll help their sale because it increases his profit."
It's not clear if the Honduras operation lasted far into the 20th Century: It probably didn't. In 1901, during the first year of his second term, William McKinley was assassinated. His succssor, Theodore Roosevelt started an era of heavy federal regulation. And few of the old junk mail pirates survived.


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Hey folks,
This is just in the concept stage but was looking at a pool installation and how to run the electrics from inside the house when all the electrical stuff is outside in the shed.
My mate who is a sparky was talking about a PLC and relays for operating it all which would require comms cable from inside the house but I have had a bit of a look at c-bus and it looks like it would be a good option.
The setup is pretty simple.
1. Pool pump. On a timer. Runs daily. Not required to be operated from the house. Not required to be attached to cbus.
2. Second pump. On and off required and maybe a timer
3. Pool and garden lighting. On / off and maybe a timer.
From where I sit one 4 switch cbus wireless wall switch (with a couple of spare switches for later) and two wireless relays would do the trick. This would negate the need to run comms cable for the PLC and up and down the wall in the house (although we would be running power cables if it went ahead anyway)
The wireless switches look like they can be programmed to act as timers.
How much are these things? Are they horrendously expensive?
Do you need to be c-bus certified to buy the c-bus stuff?
I probably have more questions....
Cheers, Matt.


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At the welfare office in Tucson, staffers talk to clients in Spanish, Russian, Vietnamese, and Creole. In the Arizona border city of Nogales, town meetings are conducted in both Spanish and English. On Indian reservations, some state lawmakers speak in ancestral tongues.
This is the human side of a messy free-speech case argued yesterday in the marbled splendor of the US Supreme Court - a case that could eliminate any speech by Arizona state employees other than English and boost proponents of "English only" laws in schools, government agencies, and ballot boxes nationwide.
Yet the oral arguments raised doubts about whether the merits of the case would even be taken up. Justices focused on the procedural details of the dispute.
Many Arizona state employees are uncertain how the state's official English law, passed by a narrow referendum vote in 1988, would actually work. Some joke about "language police" and "vowel cops."
Others vow not to comply if the law goes into effect. In Arizona, language is an issue that stirs deep feelings on both sides of a national debate that pits diversity and gradual assimilation against advocates of promoting common culture via tough language laws. Most are now waiting to see what the nation's high court will do.
What it did yesterday was question whether the plaintiff's lawyer, Barnaby Zall, had a case at all. Mr. Zall complained that since the state of Arizona had not vigorously prosecuted Article 28, his organization, Arizonans for Official English (AOE), which helped put the law to a referendum, had that right. Yet several justices, led by Associate Justice Ruth Bader Ginsberg, seemed to strongly disagree. "Why didn't this case end," in the two lower courts, she asked. Since Arizona officials said no harm would come to its employees, "what controversy was left?"
If the case is decided on its merits, Arizonans for Official English v. Arizona, would have broad consequences. Article 28 represents the most stringent "English only" law in the nation. In most of the 23 states that specify "official English," the law is largely symbolic, similar to the declaration of a state flower or bird. But Article 28 applies to the speech of all state employees - whether a Mexican-American legislator greeting his constituents or a Navajo meter reader trying to explain a water bill to a native American housewife.
Violators of the law can be sued. "State bureaucrats have been loath to enforce these laws, but Arizona's laws allows citizens to go to court if the government won't," says Jim Boulet Jr., director of English First, a national lobby.
Yet the enforcement "teeth" in Article 28 is what makes it so objectionable to Robert Pohlman, the Phoenix attorney who yesterday argued the case against official English before the high court. What Pohlman focused on during his 30 minutes before the high court yesterday was trying to convince the justices that their main line of questions to Mr. Zall was correct and that the AOE did not have standing.
Legal scholars say if the court does debate the merits of the case, it will be the first time the US Supreme Court will apply the First Amendment to a citizen's choice of language - the right to speak or be spoken to in a different tongue.
But the case itself has been weighed down by an unusual number of procedural and technical problems that have many scholars feeling it was a bad case for the high court to take. For example, the former governor of Arizona no longer wishes to be associated with the case, and so AOE has sought to take his place. Nor does the original plaintiff Maria-Kelly Yniguez, who processed medical malpractice claims for Arizona, work for the state any longer.
That raises the problem of whether the case is moot, since the court usually votes on "live" issues.
A longtime court observer says that the fact that the nation's highest legal body would take such an explosive case and then discover later the many technical problems involved, "is what happens when you have 25-year-old law clerks doing the winnowing." The court review some 7,000 cases a year, some of them the hardest in the country. Each of the nine justices has three or four clerks recently graduated from law school to screen them.
The case arose when Ms. Yniguez filed a suit saying that Article 28 was a violation of her First Amendment rights, since she was not allowed to communicate, even informally or at her discretion, with clients who spoke only Spanish. After many bizarre twists and turns, the case ended up with a Ninth Circuit panel in San Francisco, which affirmed that Article 28 was a constitutional violation since it prevented Arizona officials from communicating on political issues with state residents, excluding them from knowledge about state services.
At times, the justices seemed to have trouble following the shifting pathways and actors involved in the case, with several of them losing track of the question amid the jumble of nominal damages, cross appeals, and waived immunities. Justice Antonin Scalia at one point, in a funny repartee with Chief Justice William Rehnquist, said of Zall, "He wants to have a case here, but I don't think it is here."
The Ninth Circuit also carved out a new First Amendment argument to the effect that Article 28 also violated many non-English speakers' rights to be spoken to in a language they could comprehend.
Anti-English-only lawyers confide that the weakest part of their case is the status of Yniguez, a state employee. Trying to argue that a state can't govern behavior of its employees will not be easy.
"Can't the state say 'Don't swear,' or 'Be polite,' or 'Speak English?'" says one otherwise sympathetic lawyer, who adds, "It would have been better to have someone adversely affected, not an employee, bring suit."


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The TLC3544 and TLC3548 are a family of 14-bit resolution high-performance, low-power, CMOS analog-to-digital converters (ADC). All devices operate from a single 5-V analog power supply and 3-V to 5-V digital supply. The serial interface consists of four digital inputs [chip select (CS\), frame sync (FS), serial input-output clock (SCLK), serial data input (SDI)], and a 3-state serial data output (SDO). CS\ (works as SS\, slave select), SDI, SDO, and SCLK form an SPI interface. FS, SDI, SDO, and SCLK form a DSP interface. The frame sync signal (FS) indicates the start of a serial data frame being transferred. When multiple converters connect to one serial port of a DSP, CS\ works as the chip select to allow the host DSP to access the individual converter. CS\ can be tied to ground if only one converter is used. FS must be tied to DVDD if it is not used (such as in an SPI interface). When SDI is tied to DVDD, the device is set in hardware default mode after power-on, and no software configuration is required. In the simplest case, only three wires (SDO, SCLK, and CS\ or FS) are needed to interface with the host.
In addition to being a high-speed ADC with versatile control capability, these devices have an on-chip analog multiplexer (MUX) that can select any analog input or one of three self-test voltages. The sample-and-hold function is automatically started after the fourth SCLK (normal sampling) or can be controlled by CSTART\ to extend the sampling period (extended sampling). The normal sampling period can also be programmed as short sampling (12 SCLKs) or long sampling (44 SCLKs) to accommodate the faster SCLK operation popular among high-performance signal processors. The TLC3544 and TLC3548 are designed to operate with low power consumption. The power saving feature is further enhanced with software power-down/ autopower-down modes and programmable conversion speeds. The conversion clock (internal OSC) is built in. The converter can also use an external SCLK as the conversion clock for maximum flexibility. The TLC3544 and TLC3548 have a 4-V internal reference. The converters are specified with unipolar input range of 0-V to 5-V when a 5-V external reference is used.