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Agnes of Rome, Saint, MARTYR.—Of all the virgin martyrs of Rome none was held in such high honor by the primitive church, since the fourth century, as St. Agnes. In the ancient Roman calendar of the feasts of the martyrs (Depositio Martyrum), incorporated into the collection of Furius Dionysius Philocalus, dating from 354 and often reprinted, e.g. in Ruinart ["Acta Sincera Martyrum" (ed. Ratisbon. 1859), 63 sqq.], her feast is assigned to January 21, to which is added a detail as to the name of the road (Via Nomentana) near which her grave was located. The earliest sacramentaries give the same date for her feast, and it is on this day that the Latin Church even now keeps her memory sacred.
Since the close of the fourth century the Fathers of the Church and Christian poets have sung her praises and extolled her virginity and heroism under torture. It is clear, however, from the diversity in the earliest accounts that there was extant at the end of the fourth century no accurate and reliable narrative, at least in writing, concerning the details of her martyrdom. On one point only is there mutual agreement, viz., the youth of the Christian heroine. St. Ambrose gives her age as twelve (De Virginibus, I, 2; P.L., XVI, 200-202: "Haec duodecim annorum martyrium fecisse traditur"), St. Augustine as thirteen ("Agnes puella tredecim annorum"; Sermo cclxxiii, 6, P.L., XXXVIII, 1251), which harmonizes well with the words of Prudentius: "Aiunt jugali vix habilem toro" ("Peristephanon," Hymn xiv, 10 in Ruinart, Act. Sine., ed cit. 486). Damasus depicts her as hastening to martyrdom from the lap of her mother or nurse ("Nutricis gremium subito liquisse puellam"; in St. Agneten, 3, ed. Ihm, Damasi epigrammata, Leipzig, 1895, 43, n. 40). We have no reason whatever for doubting this tradition. It indeed explains very well the renown of the youthful martyr.
We have already cited the testimony of the three oldest witnesses to the martyrdom of St. Agnes: (I) St. Ambrose, "De Virginibus," I, 2; the inscription of Pope Damasus engraved on marble, the original of which may yet be seen at the foot of the stairs leading to the sepulchre and church of St. Agnes (Sant' Agnese fuori le muri); Prudentius, "Peristephanon", Hymn 14 The rhetorical narrative of St. Ambrose, in addition to the martyr's age, gives nothing except her execution by the sword. The metrical panegyric of Pope Damasus tells us that immediately after the promulgation of the imperial edict against the Christians Agnes voluntarily declared herself a Christian, and suffered very steadfastly the martyrdom of fire, giving scarcely a thought to the frightful torments she had to endure, and concerned only with veiling, by means of her flowing hair, her chaste body which had been exposed to the gaze of the heathen multitude (Nudaque profusum crinem per membra dedisse, Ne domini templum facies peritura videret).
Prudentius, in his description of the martyrdom, adheres rather to the account of St. Ambrose, but adds a new episode: "The judge threatened to give over her virginity to a house of prostitution, and even executed this threat; but when a young man turned a lascivious look upon the virgin, he fell to the ground stricken with blindness, and lay as one dead." Possibly this is what Damasus and Ambrose refer to, in saying that the purity of St. Agnes was endangered; the latter in particular says (loc. cit.): "Habetis igitur in una hostia. duplex martyrium, pudoris et religionis: et virgo permansit et martyrium obtinuit" (Behold therefore in the same victim a double martyrdom, one of modesty, the other of religion. She remained a virgin, and obtained the crown of martyrdom). Prudentius, therefore, may have drawn at least the substance of this episode from a trustworthy popular legend.
Still another source of information, earlier than the "Acts" of her martyrdom, is the glorious hymn: "Agnes beatae virginis", which, though probably not from the pen of St. Ambrose (since the poet's narrative clings more closely to the account of Damasus), still betrays a certain use of the text of St. Ambrose, and was composed not long after the latter work. (See the text in Dreves, Aur. Ambrosius der Vater des Kirchengesanges, 135, Freiburg, 1893.) The "Acts" of the Martyrdom of St. Agnes belong to a somewhat later period, and are met with in three recensions, two Greek and one Latin. The oldest of them is the shorter of the two Greek texts, on which the Latin text was based, though it was at the same time quite freely enlarged. The longer Greek text is a translation of this Latin enlargement (Pio Franchi de' Cavalieri, "St. Agnese nella tradizione e nella legenda", in Romische Quartalschrift, Supplement X, Rome, 1899; cf. Acta SS., January II, 350 sqq). The Latin and, consequently, the shorter Greek text date back to the first half of the fifth century, when St. Maximus, Bishop of Turin (c. 450-470), evidently used the Latin "Acts" in a sermon (P.L., LVII, 643 sqq.). In these "Acts" the brothel episode is still further elaborated, and the virgin is decapitated after remaining untouched by the flames.
We do not know with certainty in which persecution the courageous virgin won the martyr's crown. Formerly it was customary to assign her death to the persecution of Diocletian (c. 304), but arguments are now brought forward, based on the inscription of Damasus, to prove that it occurred during one of the third-century persecutions subsequent to that of Decius. The body of the virgin martyr was placed in a separate sepulchre on the Via Nomentana, and around her tomb there grew up a larger catacomb that bore her name. The original slab which covered her remains, with the inscription "Agne sanctissima", is probably the same one which is now preserved in the Museum at Naples. During the reign of Constantine, through the efforts of his daughter Constantina, a basilica was erected over the grave of St. Agnes, which was later entirely remodeled by Pope Honorius (625-638), and has since remained unaltered. In the apse is a mosaic showing the martyr amid flames, with a sword at her feet. A beautiful relief of the saint is found on a marble slab that dates from the fourth century and was originally a part of the altar of her church. Since the Middle Ages St. Agnes has been represented with a lamb, the symbol of her virginal innocence. On her feast two lambs are solemnly blessed, and from their wool are made the palliums sent by the Pope to archbishops.


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NEW ORLEANS (AP) - BP is scheduled to call its first witness at a trial designed to determine causes and assign blame for its April 2010 well blowout in the Gulf of Mexico.
The BP witnesses are scheduled to start appearing Monday.
They follow testimony presented by Halliburton, BP PLC's cement contractor on the Deepwater Horizon drilling project.
Halliburton rested its case Thursday at the end of the trial's sixth week.
BP witness testimony is expected to last at least two weeks.
US District Judge Carl Barbier is hearing testimony. Barring a settlement, he could decide how much more money BP and its contractors owe for their roles in the catastrophe.
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So, here you go drivers, another one, as I promised for the new year, your 2nd in a line of brand new CB chatter files this year just over a hour long. I only post these to 3 SCS mod sites so if you see em elsewhere thanks to whoever is sharing em, but this site is one of the ONLY 3 sites I use. You'll never see these chatter mods in the Steam ATS workshop as the workshop only uploads mods to your "mod" folder and my CB chatter mods will always go in your "music" folder NOT "mod" folder. As always with my CB chatter mods, WARNING DRIVERS FOR THE ADULT LANGUAGE!!! these files are not intended for younger SCS drivers or sensitive listeners, and if you know how REAL truckers talk on their cb's then you already know most have the dreaded "potty mouths". (and no I will not censor these playbacks) This mod is simply a studio edited MP3 file and you will place in your SCS "MUSIC" folder not "MOD" folder and play with your in cab radio playlist ok. Other than that enjoy em drivers, got plenty new ones coming this year and keep on trucking and keep on talking @#$@ on dem radios out there drivers!
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The company SRT was founded in 1994 and is known since then for its detailed and lifelike 3D replicas of European animals, the quality of which is second to none. SRT offers a variety of various animals, whose killing zones are designed according to the IBO rules. Not only, for this reason, SRT is the most frequently used brand at national and international IFAA, FITA and FIARC competitions, but also the European market leader.
When producing 3D targets, SRT also thinks of the environment. For example, the polyurethane foam (PU) used is CFC-free and the water-based paints used are solvent-free.
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Each goal articulated below advances the education of Willamette undergraduates in the field of chemistry within the context of a liberal arts education. These goals refine critical thinking skills, enhances our students' awareness of the broader importance of chemistry, and prepares our students to contribute their chemical knowledge to society upon graduation.
The Student Learning Outcomes of the Chemistry Program include:
- Foundations in Chemistry
- Chemistry is conveniently divided into several widely recognized subfields. The chemistry major at Willamette University requires all students to take courses in analytical chemistry, inorganic chemistry, organic chemistry, and physical chemistry. In addition, the Biochemistry Track within the major requires biochemistry. A chemistry major should be knowledgeable about the important theories, experimental evidence, and applications of these subfields. Students should be able to apply knowledge from a combination of subfields to solve problems of a chemical nature.
- Laboratory Skills
- Chemistry is a laboratory science. All chemistry majors should acquire the skills necessary to work in an academic, commercial, or industrial laboratory after graduation. These skills include experience with the instruments, glassware, and techniques commonly used in laboratory settings. Majors should be able to work collaboratively on investigations, and they should develop an ability to design experiments from the ground up.
- Analytical Skills
- All chemistry majors should be able to draw appropriate and reasonable conclusions from the data they collect in the laboratory. Majors should understand how to assess the uncertainty, precision, and significance of data using formal statistical techniques; they should be comfortable using commercial software designed for data manipulation and presentation; and they should be familiar with sophisticated chemical computation software.
- Communication Skills
- A successful chemistry graduate should be able to communicate in a variety of formats commonly used by chemists. The department has identified the literature summary, the research poster, the formal laboratory report, the research proposal, and the research report as essential forms of written communication for chemists, and has incorporated these formats into the curriculum. Majors should have experience discussing chemistry before an audience in the context of both formal and informal oral presentations.
- Research Tools
- Research is the method by which chemical knowledge is acquired, and all chemistry majors should be capable of conducting an independent research project. Chemistry majors should know how to search reference sources and literature databases for specific information. They should have experience reading the primary scientific literature. Chemistry majors should be able to develop a hypothesis regarding a significant chemical question, design a method to test that hypothesis, carry out the method they propose, and evaluate the results.


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Wednesday, November 11, 2009
Vulnerable road users
I saw this terrifying analysis of crash data in Ft Collins CO (from Cyclelicious via treehugger). The thing that scared me about it is that the most fatal kind of accidents are "hit from behinds" and "sideswipes". The thing that is so disturbing about this is that as a defensive cyclist I can ride outside the door zone, never overtake the right hand side of a moving vehicle, and go to extremes to make sure my right of way is respected before entering an intersection. However, there's nothing I can do to prevent someone texting or drunk, or just plain not paying attention from veering into me or crashing into me from behind.
I don't think that the solution to this is infrastructure or road presence, although they might help (especially protected cycle tracks. ) I'm becoming convinced that the solution is to impose extreme penalties on drivers who strike a cyclist or a pedestrian. "I just didn't see him" should cease to be a legal defense. If you're driving a multi- ton steel vehicle at speed in a public space, the burden of looking where you're going should rest fully on your shoulders. Except in some rare cases (ninja salmon come to time) the reason that drivers don't see cyclists and pedestrians is because they're not looking for them and they're not looking for them because there are rarely any consequences for hitting one. Such penalties exist in Europe. I have read that in any car- pedestrian collision in the Netherlands, the driver is automatically at fault, just like a rear end collision here. I would support taking away the license of anyone who hits a pedestrian or cyclist for a year regardless of fault, automatically. If the driver was behaving recklessly or was texting or drinking, there could be criminal prosecutions in parallel.
I think that until "accidents" are properly labeled "crashes" and vunerable road users (bikes, pedestrians, people in wheelchairs) are protected by law, there will be no incentive for drivers to pay attention and truly see the people who share the road with them.
A good post on a similar topic
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I am confused by those findings, as they fly in the face of all other cycling-motorist collision data I have read to date (which claimed that only a very small, insignificant percentage of such collisions are drivers hitting cyclists from behind or side-sweeping). I wonder why the discrepancy.ReplyDelete
I don't think that they were saying that those were very common-it's only 8.5% of the recorded crashes, but that they were the most deadly, accounting for two of the three fatalities and 50% of the serious injuries.ReplyDelete
I dug into the data a little more, and interestingly the highest number of accidents by time were at rush hour (a spike at 7-8am and a spike from 3pm to 6pm. I'm sure that that reflects a decrease in overall numbers of bikers (and cars) at night.
If you're intersted in comprehensive crash studies, here is an excellent one done by Mighk Wilson in Orlando.ReplyDelete
(I pasted a link into the name URL since blogger wouln't allow me to paste into the comment window)
I agree that the solution is better justice. I'm not a fan of user-specific laws for enforcing road safety, though. I think we need to improve traffic justice across the board and insist that our society place a higher importance on driver responsibility. When we single out "vulnerable users," we run the risk of the response being: "Well it's too dangerous for them to be on the road, so get them off the road."
As you pointed out about the word "accident," We've manipulated many aspects of language to obscure personal responsibility for operating a vehicle. It's part of the denial. It also points to the fact that no one will own the safety problems as changeable behavior problems. Rather, they regard traffic as an uncontrollable and dangerous force of nature (vs individuals making decisions). Therefore vulnerable users, like children, must be kept from danger.
I agree. Althoough as for car v.s ped don't cars usually get the fault? I'm ignorant here. I assumed that should a car hit me while I am walking the car is to blame. As when I took my written test wasn't it all about "peds have the right of way". I think the same should hold true for bikes obviously. Not sure if it does- clearly not for either?ReplyDelete
When I get most freaked out about safety is really the thought of someone not paying attention and hitting me. I ride slowly. I ride visably and I ride on quiet streets and do not take risks at all. A too many cars at an intersection will bring me to the sidewalk in a blink. I'll walk through an intersection/ busy area. But the idea that someone texting or talking on the phone or god forbid drunk- just doesn't pay attention freaks my shit out. Mostly b/c if I get hit- my children get hit.
I am appalled at the horrible behavior of people driving. The speeds and the multitasking. It makes me so angry I could spit frankly. I feel equally unsafe while walking too- so it isn't a case of - oh well I better stop biking. With our MASS crosswalks etc, I am constantly scanning the road and holding onto my kids b/c people zip through not seeing us in the SANCTIONED crosswalk and are at risk for hitting us all the time.
Peds have the right of way in a crosswalk, and in MA they may get it by default, but there are just so many sickening stories about people hitting pedestrians and unless they're drunk they get off scott free. A good example is the bus driver in NY who killed a guy who was running to try to make the light. He might lose his job (and in this economy that's a real problem) but that's it.ReplyDelete
I think that speed would be the scariest thing out where you're biking MamaVee. When I'm out in the western burbs for work I really notice how much faster people go than in the city, even on smaller residential streets.
I am amazed--honestly, amazed-- at the numbers of drivers I see talking on handheld phones (illegal here) and TEXTING while I commute with my kids by bike. I am completely a rules-follower, especially when my kids are on the bike with me. At my leisurely pace, I can see into many a car window and it is really incredible how common it is for a driver to be doing other things than simply driving.ReplyDelete
I joked with my husband tonight-- our next cargo bike decorations are going to be signs that read, "Please hang up and just drive/ Please stop texting and just drive. You are scaring the crap out of me."
it doesn't matter how defensive one is when cycling. there is *always* a risk of being hit by a negligent driver despite best cycling practice. i once was hit from behind while cycling (with my 4yo daughter in a child seat!) in the bike lane in broad daylight. we were fortunate that the motorist was traveling at fairly low speed when he hit us (he was trying to overtake a slow moving car by passing on the right-- an illegal move), and that we weren't run over after we fell! we came away with nothing more than scratches.ReplyDelete
i agree with most of the above comments. the thing that shocked me most about this incident was that the driver was not ticketed. it was left entirely up to me to seek damages through the civil court system, while there was no legal disincentive for this driver to continue his bad driving habits. so i agree that it's not so much about infrastructure as it is about rigorous enforcement of laws and stiff punishment for unsafe driving.


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Mitsubishi only managed to sell 12 i-MiEVs in November in the US, so in order to boost sales, the 2014 model receives an expanded standard equipment package and a price reduction of $6,130.
Automotive News posted some figures yesterday, and according to that, Mitsubishi's electric offering is as shockingly popular as high taxes, despite the fact that it actually helps in cutting them:
Mitsubishi sold just 12 i-MiEVs last month, with year-to-date sales of the car totaling 1,018 units through November.
The 2014 MY will come with heated seats and side mirrors, a quick charge port with lamp, a 8A/12A switchable charging cable, battery warming system, rear door speakers, while the interior gets a leather-covered steering wheel and shift knob, a vanity mirror on the passenger side and trim updates. From the outside, new alloys, fog lamps and DRL completes the list of upgrades.
Mitsubishi have built 30,000 i-MiEVs and i-MiEV based cars since 2009, but the US market is hard to conquer, especially after the Nissan Leaf's price reduction. With the $6,130 price cut, the $7,500 federal tax credit and other benefits, it's possible for Californians to get a 2014 i-MiEV for as low as $12,995.
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Vatican City, 30 July 2014 (VIS) – This morning Cardinal Angelo Sodano, dean of the College of Cardinals, presided at the funeral of Cardinal Francesco Marchisano, archpriest emeritus of St. Peter's Basilica, who died on Sunday 27 July at the age of 85. In his homily, Cardinal Sodano recalled the late prelate's 62 years of service to the Church, praising his methodical and silent approach. "A style that recalls that of the bees depicted on Pope Urban VIII's coat of arms, in memory of his work".
He also commented on Cardinal Marchisano's works of charity, in particular his thirty years of work at the Institute for the Deaf-Mute, and thanked the Lord "for the gift He has given to the Church, for this generous ministry".


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initramfs, klibc and early userspace
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Currently the Linux kernel contains a large amount of once-off routines to handle things that would normally be done in userspace. These are in the kernel only because they are run before root is mounted. In the Linux 2.4 kernel series, the kernel core was simplified by by creating a synthetic root filesystem at a very early stage, which is later overmounted by the user-visible root. In the Linux 2.5 kernel series, work is currently underway to remove these once-off routines by populating the synthetic root filesystem with small user-space programs. This will result in a more familiar programming model for most developers, less risk of bugs, and more flexibility.
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Mitt Romney 'Retired Retroactively' From Bain Capital, Whatever The Hell That Means
"Retroactively" is a word that might haunt Mitt Romney for some time.
The Republican nominee has been railing against President Obama's campaign ads, calling Obama's assertion that Romney lied about his time at Bain Capital "false and deceptive and dishonest."
The ads, however, are based on the Boston Globe's findings that Romney owned 100 percent of the company through 2002, despite his claim that he left in 1999 to run the Salt Lake City Olympics. Romney insists that despite the SEC filings, he was not playing any management role in Bain Capital after 1999.
Today Romney's senior adviser Ed Gillespie went on CNN's State of the Union to try to clear things up. Instead, he likely made everything worse for the Romney campaign. As he explained to host Candy Crowley—
There may have been a thought at the time that [Romney's leave of absence from Bain Capital] could be part-time. It was not part-time. The Olympics was in a shambles. The International Olympic Committee was going to pull the Olympics from the United States of America, which would have been a huge embarrassment. He took a leave of absence and in fact, ended up not going back at all and retired retroactively to February 1999 as a result.
Wait, what? The concept of "retroactive retirement" is confusing, to say the least. Some are calling it, "the worst talking point ever."
But there's no ignoring Bain Capital either: the Obama campaign's attacks have increased in past days, now that government documents show that Romney was listed as owner of the company during its time of bankruptcies and outsourcing jobs.
On NBC's Meet the Press, Sen. Dick Durbin had harsh words for the way Romney is trying to distance himself from Bain Capital.
Why is Mitt Romney running away from his company, Bain Capital, like a scalded cat? Because there's abundant evidence that under Bain Capital they were exporting American jobs to low-wage countries and he doesn't want to be associated with it.
He may not want to be associated with outsourcing, but Romney probably doesn't want to be associated with the confounding phrase "retired retroactively" either.
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What are the market issues in personal and business debt consolidation?
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Based on Type, the Consumer and Business Debt Consolidation Market is split into: [Type]. In 2022, the segment held the largest share.
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North America is the region's largest market for Consolidation of consumer and business debt.
North America includes countries like the United States, Canada, and Mexico. North America is the second largest consumer and producer of electricity after Asia-Pacific. The United States and Canada, which are among the largest consumers in this region and the world, account for the largest share of the Consolidation of consumer and business debt market.
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Various sources from the supply and demand side were queried during the primary research process to obtain qualitative and quantitative insights for this report. Key sources included industry experts from core and related industries, as well as preferred suppliers, manufacturers, distributors, technology developers, researchers, and organizations from all segments of this industry's value chain. . To obtain and verify critical qualitative and quantitative information, in-depth interviews were conducted with various key informants, including key industry participants, subject matter experts, C-level executives from key market players, and industry consultants. sector.
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TABLE OF CONTENTS OF Consumer and Business Debt Consolidation Market Report
1.1 objectives of the study
1.2 definition
1.3 inclusions and exclusions
1.4 market scope
1.5 years considered
1.6 currency
1.7 limits
1.8 stakeholders
1.9 summary of changes
2.1 research data
2.2 Market Breakdown and Data Triangulation
2.3 scope
2.4 impact of covid-19 on the industry
2.5 market size estimation
4.1 Exciting Opportunities in the Consumer and Business Debt Consolidation Market
4.2 Consumer and Commercial Debt Consolidation Market, by Region
4.3 North America Consumer and Commercial Debt Consolidation Market by End User and Country
4.4 Consumer and Commercial Debt Consolidation Market, by Application
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5.2 covid-19 health check
5.3 path to recovery
5.4 covid-19 economic evaluation
5.5 market dynamics
5.6 trends
5.7 market map
5.8 average price of personal and corporate debt consolidation
5.9 trade statistics
5.8 value chain analysis
5.9 technological analysis
5.10 pricing and regulatory landscape
5.11 Consumer and Business Debt Consolidation: Patent Analysis
5.14 analysis of the carrier's five forces
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Transcribing and Inventorying the Records of Baltimore City, 1905-1940
Research in the records of the Public History of Baltimore for the period prior to the late 1930s should begin with the archival efforts of the Works Progress Administration, and the previous transcription/collation publications of the City Librarian, Wilbur Coyle.
In order to combat unemployment during the depression of 1929-1941, the Federal government, through the Works Progress Administration, Historical Records Survey, hired more people to be archivists and catalogers of America's record heritage than at any other time in the history of the United States including the present. For a discussion of the Maryland project which produced two pioneering archivists and local historians, Dr. Morris L. Radoff, an unemployed assistant professor of Romance Languages who would later become Maryland's second State Archivist, and Dr. Carl Everstine , an unemployed Johns Hopkins Phd who later would head Legislative Reference for Baltimore and the State of Maryland, see: Edward C. Papenfuse, "A Modicum of Commitment: The Present and Future Importance of the Historical Records Survey." The American Archivist, April 1974. The Baltimore City Historical Records Survey chronologically arranged and inventoried all the surviving public records it could find relating to the City, resuming the work begun and published between 1905 and 1909 by Wilbur F. Coyle, the City Librarian.
As the 1984 …. Guide to the Baltimore City Archives , edited by William G. LeFurgy, pointed out:
In 1874, the municipality made a significant move toward better record keeping practices by establishing a city library. This office had, among other duties, responsibility for maintenance and preservation of the city's records. While little was accomplished during the library's first few years, it had by the 1890s done some limited collecting of material judged to be of historical value. The work of the library reached a zenith in 1903 when Wilbur F. Coyle assumed the post of librarian. Coyle gathered historical records, arranged and indexed them, and published a collection of significant eighteenth and nineteenth century documents. His resignation in 1920, however, effectively ended this kind of work. (p. 7)
Between 1905 and 1909, Wilbur Coyle published five volumes of records relating to Baltimore City, the originals of which were then in the custody of the City Library. Four of those volumes are currently on line at http://www.archive.org as scans by Microsoft. The fifth volume is available on Google Books. Generally the quality of the scanning is better on Google Books which means that the indexing is better. The printed transcriptions as edited by Wilbur Coyle with links to indexed pdfs and the on-line versions, are as follows:
- Coyle: 1729-1797 (1905) First Records of Baltimore Town
First records of Baltimore Town and Jones' Town. Baltimore, 1905. (note: the online version does not include the three maps that were included as an appendix to the volume.) The searchable pdf hyperlinked above is derived from Coyle: 1729-1797 (1905) First Records of Baltimore Town
- Coyle: 1797-1813 (1906) Records of the city of Baltimore (City commissioners)
Records of the City of Baltimore (City Commissioners) 1797-1813 . Baltimore : City library, 1906. The searchable pdf linked above is derived from Coyle: 1797-1813 (1906) Records of the city of Baltimore (City commissioners)
- Coyle: 1729-1813 (1909) Supplement
Records of the city of Baltimore 1729-1813 . Supplement. List of levels and establishments. Extracts of minutes of City commissioners . Issued by Wilbur F. Coyle, city librarian. Baltimore : Press of Meyer & Thalheimer, 1909. Searchable pdf cited above is derived from: Coyle: 1729-1813 (1909) Supplement
- Coyle: 1782-1797 (1909) Records of the City of Baltimore (Special Commissioners) 1782 to 1797
Records of the City of Baltimore (Special Commissioners) 1782 to 1797 . / Issued by Wilber F. Coyle, city librarian. Baltimore : Press of Meyer & Thalheimer, 1909. Searchable pdf cited above is derived from: Coyle: 1782-1797 (1909) Records of the City of Baltimore (Special Commissioners) 1782 to 1797
- Coyle: 1810-1817 (1909) "Records of the city of Baltimore. Eastern precincts commissioners. 1812-1817
Records of the city of Baltimore. Eastern Precincts Commissioners, 1810-1817. Western Precincts Commissioners, 1810-1817 . Issued by Wilbur F. Coyle, city librarian. Baltimore : Press of King Bros., 1909. Searchable pdf cited above is derived from: Coyle: 1810-1817 (1909) "Records of the city of Baltimore. Eastern precincts commissioners. 1812-1817
While the LeFurgy Guide does not correlate the volumes published by Wilbur Coyle with the reorganization of the City Records into record groups, the originals of the transcripts published by Coyle, as they survived to 1984, are encompassed in Record Groups BRG1 , BRG2 , and BRG3.
When the WPA/HRS resumed the archival efforts of Wilbur Coyle, all the loose papers that could be found were sorted as much as possible by date, and numbered sequentially within years. Typescript inventories, a subject card index, and name index to the typescripts were produced. In the early 1980s the Baltimore City Archives, with financial support from the National Historical Publications and Records Commission, reorganized the papers, originally sorted and indexed by the WPA/Historical Records Survey, into record groups, removing the papers from the chronological series created by the WPA and placing them in archival boxes and folders according to assigned record group numbers, retaining their WPA year/sequence number. For the record groups to which papers were assigned and reboxed see WPA-HRS Record Groups, Baltimore City Archives, 1982. For the electronic version of the inventories, see the Maryland State Archives CE number below. For a general overview of the Record Groups of the Baltimore City Archives, see William G. LeFurgy, ed., The Records of a City: A Guide to the Baltimore City Archives, 1984.
The subject card index to the WPA inventories , while apparently losing some cards in the interim between its creation and its filming in the 1980s, is a good place to begin looking for topics (as they were thought of in the late 1930s) relating to the public history of Baltimore. There will also be an on-line name index to the WPA Inventories by the summer of 2011 derived from one compiled by the WPA, but with both the name and subject indexes to the WPA inventories listed below, researchers are cautioned that they should also carefully review the typed inventories that are arranged chronologically:
The typescript inventories of Baltimore City Records prepared by the Historical Records Survey are to be found in the Maryland State Archives Guide to Government Records, MSA CE 40, and in the original at the Baltimore City Archives.
- Dates: 1756-1827 Description: 1 MSA CE 40-1 Accession No.: 19,499 MSA No.: C 171-1 Location: 2/16/7/59
- Dates: 1828-1838 Description: 2 MSA CE 40-2 Accession No.: 19,500 MSA No.: C 171-2 Location: 2/16/7/60
- Dates: 1839-1849 Description: 3 MSA CE 40-3 Accession No.: 19,501 MSA No.: C 171-3 Location: 2/16/7/60
- Dates: 1850-1860 Description: 4 MSA CE 40-4 Accession No.: 19,502 MSA No.: C 171-4 Location: 2/16/7/61
- Dates: 1861-1864 Description: 5 MSA CE 40-5 Accession No.: 19,503 MSA No.: C 171-5 Location: 2/16/7/61
- Dates: 1865-1870 Description: 6 MSA CE 40-6 Accession No.: 19,504 MSA No.: C 171-6 Location: 2/16/7/62
- Dates: 1871-1876 Description: 7 MSA CE 40-7 Accession No.: 19,505 MSA No.: C 171-7 Location: 2/16/7/62
- Dates: 1877-1883 Description: 8 MSA CE 40-8 Accession No.: 19,506 MSA No.: C 171-8 Location: 2/16/7/63
- Dates: 1884-1899 Description: 9 MSA CE 40-9 Accession No.: 19,507 MSA No.: C 171-9 Location: 2/16/7/63
- Dates: 1900-1909 Description: 10 MSA CE 40-10 Accession No.: 19,508 MSA No.: C 171-10 Location: 2/16/7/64
- Dates: 1910-1938 Description: 11 MSA CE 40-11 Accession No.: 19,509 MSA No.: C 171-11 Location: 2/16/7/64
In order to request documents found in the indices and inventories of the late 1930′s Historical Records Survey of Baltimore City Records, the year/HRS reference number of a document must be converted to its current location in a Record Group series, utilizing the conversion table: WPA-HRS Record Groups, Baltimore City Archives, 1982. Examples of how to do this using the subject index cards is to be found in the Topic section of this web site.
The original paper series from the record groups, and record group series unique to microfilm, are in the process of being scanned and compiled into ebooks for editing and transcription. They include the following topics:
1) Care of the Poor and Indigent, BRG19 (Health Department)
Another example of editonline scans are volumes found only on microfilm (the originals appear to be missing) taken from BRG 19, Health Department Records, series 3 ,
bca_m0397 (Trustees of the Poor and successor agency Minutes, 1833-1879; BRG.19, S.3)
bca_m0398 (Trustees of the Poor and successor agency Minutes, 1879-1935; BRG.19, S.3)
Another example of editonline scans is a sample of folders of original papers taken from the WPA/HRS arrangment and placed in RG 19, series 1-179. The sample consists of three folders of papers inventoried by the WPA/HRS as 1819-179 (see: MSA CE40-1, image 319 ) with a single index entry for 1819-179-Miscellaneous bills, (coffins, burying dead, quarantine,etc). All are apparently related at least in part to the Yellow Fever epidemic, and amount to 144 images, folder labels included.
2) War of 1812 records, BRG22
An example of a Record Group that has been imaged from the original paper for editing and transcription purposes utilizing an online editing program is Record Group 22 of the Baltimore City Archives.
This ebook edition of the War of 1812 records of the Baltimore City Archives was compiled and is currently being edited by Ed Papenfuse, the Maryland State Archivist, Retired, who can be contacted at email@example.com.
To view enlargements of the images, a current version of Adobe pdf viewer or an open source viewer such as Sumatra, is required.
You can proceed from here to the first folder: Folder 1 of Series 1.
There are 3475 images associated with this electronic book.
This web site is presented for reference purposes under the doctrine of fair use. When this material is used, in whole or in part, proper citation and credit must be attributed to the Maryland State Archives. PLEASE NOTE: The site may contain material from other sources which may be under copyright. Rights assessment, and full originating source citation, is the responsibility of the user.
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A former member of a band of hackers faces up to 10 years in prison after pleading guilty Tuesday to a single computer hacking charge.
Jeremy Hammond, 28, of Chicago admitted to participating in more than a half dozen attacks perpetrated in 2010 and 2011 by Anonymous and affiliated groups, according to the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York.
He pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy to engage in computer hacking and has agreed to pay $2.5 million in restitution. Hammond, who went by the nickname "Anarchaos," is scheduled for sentencing on Sept. 6.
The plea related to the most prominent of the hacks in which Hammond participated, in which analyst company Stratfor was attacked.
The hackers obtained the information of 860,000 subscribers and later released emails, credit card numbers and the MD5 hashes, or cryptographic representations, of passwords. The credit card data was used to make $700,000 in purchases, according to prosecutors.
Hammond also admitted hacking computer systems belonging to the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the Arizona Department of Public Safety and various other law enforcement agencies and companies.
In an online statement, Hammond wrote that he participated in the hacking campaigns because "I believe people have a right to know what governments and corporations are doing behind closed doors."
"I believe what I did was right," he wrote.
Hammond wrote that the type of plea agreement he signed—a non-cooperating plea—"frees me to tell the world what I did and why, without exposing any tactics or information to the government and without jeopardizing the lives and well-being of other activists on and offline."
Anonymous and LulzSec
Anonymous and its offshoot, LulzSec, ran an aggressive hacking campaign in 2011, bragging of their exploits on Twitter and taunting law enforcement agencies trying to track them down. They hit many organizations including the Public Broadcasting System, Sony Pictures Entertainment, Fox Entertainment Group and the U.K.'s Serious Organised Crime Agency.
Law enforcement did catch up with several of the prominent participants. LulzSec leader Hector Xavier Monsegur, also known as "Sabu," was secretly arrested by the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation in 2011.
Monsegur pleaded guilty in August 2011 to various hacking charges and agreed to work with investigators, which resulted in several more arrests.
Ryan Ackroyd, Ryan Cleary and Jake Davis, all of whom live in the U.K., were sentenced in London earlier this month for a string of high-profile distributed denial-of-service attacks. They received sentences ranging from 24 to 30 months.
In April, 25-year-old Cody Andrew Kretsinger, of Decatur, Illinois, was sentenced to one year in federal prison for his role in a May 2011 breach of a Sony Pictures website and database by LulzSec.


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During a visit to any given website -- including this one -- the average user's browser may execute a dozen or more tracking scripts, each with its own associated tracking cookie, stored on the user's computer. This enables website publishers and ad distribution networks to record a visitor's online activity and then serve up "interest-based" or "behaviorally targeted" ads -- customized messaging based on that activity.
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The benefit to website producers is that targeted ads can be sold to advertisers at higher rates because, presumably, they will be more effective than the traditional banner ads that have long been used on websites. Ad networks generally do the tracking by placing a cookie on consumers' computers when they visit a participating publisher's website. The industry refers to these as "third-party cookies" because the ad network is a third party to the relationship between the user and website publisher. Users are typically unaware that they're being tracked -- and that has made the practice controversial.
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There are disagreements even among those who depend on website advertising. While digital ad networks and many website publishers push forward with the practice, some publishers remain cautious. "They get more money from more targeted ads, but they also have brand [reputation] considerations," says Justin Brookman, director of consumer privacy at the Center for Democracy and Technology. He's also co-chair of the World Wide Web Consortium's (W3C) Tracking Protection Working Group, which is developing a Do Not Track (DNT) standard for the industry.
"Do they want to be seen as enabling third party tracking?" Brookman asks. "They're a little more cautious around perceptions than are the third-party ad networks."
Here's how the practice of tracking affects both consumers and website publishers -- and what each side of the equation is doing to try to fix matters.
Whys and wherefores of Do Not Track
In 2011, Do Not Track (DNT) technology was introduced as a method to ensure user privacy. DNT is an optional browser feature that signals advertisers to not track the user's Web activity. It does this by sending an HTTP header with the syntax DNT:1 to every website the browser visits.
The W3C working group was supposed to develop a standard to define what DNT means and how ad networks should respond, but made little progress for the first two years. So while the DNT signal was eventually adopted by most major browsers, many Web publishers and advertisers have been ignoring any privacy requests sent by the signal.
That has left consumers who don't want to be tracked with a more drastic option: Turn on the third-party cookie blocking setting in the browser and install special browser add-on software that prevents tracking scripts from running (because not all tracking is cookie-based).
It's not a complete solution, however. Anti-tracking tools defend against tracking only by third-party advertising networks that deliver ads through the content publisher's website -- although the tools do block all third-party requests, whether from ad networks, social media or analytics companies. The tools don't prevent any tracking by a "first party" -- the publisher of the site or any affiliated advertising networks it owns.
In addition, most anti-tracking tools won't work on mobile devices (although one, Disconnect Kids, claims to work on iPhones). Because mobile devices don't use cookies, the operating systems are locked down and mobile apps are isolated from each other, it's difficult to create a mobile app that globally blocks the tracking of your browsing and app activity, says Casey Oppenheim, co-CEO at Disconnect, maker of Disconnect Kids and the Disconnect anti-tracking browser add-on.
Replacing the cookie
While cookies assign a unique identifier to a user's browser, they can't easily be used to track the user's activity across different devices or even across different browsers running on the same computer. New techniques, such as those recently disclosed by Facebook, Google and Microsoft, will assign a unique identifier to each type of device the user has and link those together to track activity across all of the devices the person uses. These new tracking mechanisms, if they catch on, could be used across each vendor's ecosystem -- and beyond.
Other advertising networks have also been working with statistical identification methods -- browser and device "fingerprinting" techniques -- that don't require the presence of a cookie file.
Meanwhile, as user awareness has increased, so has the level of discomfort with the idea of having all of one's online browsing activity recorded -- particularly by third-party advertising networks that consumers don't know and with whom they have no relationship.
And as the number of tracking scripts has increased, so has the bandwidth consumed when the user attempts to load the page. "Up to 26% of bandwidth goes to loading trackers," says Sarah Downey, privacy advisor at Abine, the distributor of a free anti-tracking add-on program called DoNotTrackMe. According to Downey, the percentage comes from a 2012 Web crawling exercise conducted by Abine.
"As the industry moves toward stealthier methods of tracking [such as device and browser fingerprinting], the only way we can reliably prevent tracking is to block entire requests," says Brian Kennish, co-CEO of Disconnect. Tools like Disconnect take the draconian step of blocking requests to third-party ad networks to deliver an ad when the user visits the site -- which means even a non-targeted ad can't be delivered to the user.
In contrast, a universally accepted Do Not Track mechanism would still allow third-party advertising networks to substitute a contextually appropriate ad for a behaviorally targeted one (e.g., a game ad for users on a gaming site) rather than cutting off the request entirely. "We'd prefer a more subtle solution where we don't have to throw out the entire request," Kennish says.
"It's a very blunt tool. That's why we're trying to find a middle ground with Do Not Track," says the Center for Democracy and Technology's Brookman.
The DNT controversy
W3C formed the Tracking Protection Working Group in 2011. Its mission is "to improve user privacy and user control by defining mechanisms for expressing user preferences around Web tracking and for blocking or allowing Web tracking elements."
But debate among the members of the organization -- which include privacy advocates, Web publishers, advertising networks and many others -- has been contentious, culminating last year with some well-publicized resignations on both the consumer and advertiser sides of the debate.
More recently, the group has been making slow progress on its Tracking Preference Expression standard, which determines the syntax and meaning of the DNT signal. This specification should be ready to be released this spring, according to Brookman. But that may turn out to be the easy part. The group still needs to agree on the Tracking Compliance and Scope specification, which deals with what actions ad networks must take to comply with the DNT request -- and that is still controversial, he says.
For the third-party advertising networks in particular, the DNT discussions represent a potential crisis. Eliminating all tracking is unfair, says Mike Zaneis, senior vice president of public policy at the Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB), a trade organization for website publishers and online ad sellers; Zaneis is also the IAB representative to the W3C Tracking Protection Working Group.
Advertisers increasingly pay based not on whether users view an ad but whether they respond to it. "You need a way to track user interactions, both on the publisher page and throughout the purchase process. This represents basic accounting and measurement practices for digital advertising," he says.
Not unexpectedly, privacy advocates disagree. "We don't want to break the Web," Abine's Downey says, but adds that users should have a choice as to whether to share -- and with whom. "The industry has created a default where you're followed wherever you go by hundreds of companies."
And the information gathered isn't used to just deliver behaviorally targeted ads, she says, but can be used in other ways, resulting in lower credit scores, price discrimination on e-commerce sites based on your tracking profile or higher insurance premiums. (Downey keeps a running list of examples of such abuses.) "You don't have a say in any of this," she says. Users, she explains, should have a choice when it comes to tracking.
But they do have a choice, argues Zaneis. While no global Do Not Track program is available yet, many publishers and advertising networks allow users to opt out of interest-based advertising for individual sites and services. In addition, the Digital Advertising Alliance's Ad Choices program lets consumers opt out of receiving interest-based advertising from the trade group's 118 members, which include third-party ad networks. And when users opt out, he says, members also agree to stop tracking their online activity.
Is the W3C working group working?
What the W3C's working group was supposed to deliver is that global option -- a choice for users in the form of a universally recognized Do Not Track option that, when turned on, would enable the browser to communicate a Do Not Track signal to publishers and ad distribution networks. The browser vendors were to offer the feature and the working group was to develop the standards dictating what Do Not Track means and how advertisers should respond.
All organizations would then be obligated to honor the user's request, following the specifications laid out by the working group. For instance, Brookman says, "you can't [manually] opt out of every single tracking company. You need a global opt out."
But the effort has bogged down. Since its founding, the working group's membership has ballooned to more than 100 voting participants that represent a wide range of competing constituencies -- including consumers, Web publishers, ad networks, browser vendors, ISPs, cable companies and others.
Until recently, the group hadn't even been able to agree on the basic definitions behind Do Not Track, says group member Mark Groman, president and CEO of the Network Advertising Initiative, a self-regulatory industry association that counts 95 advertising companies as members.
"What does it mean to track -- or not track? What is a first party versus a third party?" And, he adds, does Do Not Track mean "don't gather any information on the user at all," or "don't deliver behaviorally targeted advertising based on that data"?
Last fall, Groman says, they were still having discussions over how to define the words "collection" and "sharing." "That presents a real problem when you're trying to develop a standard," he says.
"Instead of defining what we wanted to control, we delved right into the minutiae," says the IAB's Zaneis. But Brookman, who joined the group in 2011 and became co-chair in September, says the group finally has agreed upon definitions, including the terms "tracking," "collect" and "share." The group has "only a couple unresolved issues that we're working out in the technical document, and then we'll proceed to last call," which is the last opportunity for public input before the standard is approved, he says.
"Perhaps those should have been nailed down earlier, but they are the first things we are settling under the new plan to move forward," he says.
The gathering of some tracking data, such as screen resolution, IP address and referring URL, is required for the basic operation of the Web. But how much information is acceptable to users, and needed or just wanted by the advertisers who are funding commercial websites? "We're trying to walk through what is the least amount you can collect and retain while still allowing the third-party ad ecosystem to work," Brookman says.
"We don't need to tell the Web server nearly so much as we do right now," says Jonathan Mayer, a Stanford University grad student and former working group member. "We can limit it to the bare bones required for the Internet to do its thing."
Mayer has a strong bias against the retention of tracking data by third-party ad networks and has been at the center of some of the more contentious exchanges within the working group. "I don't want companies I've never heard of keeping track of where I go on the Web," he says flatly.
"One side wants the cessation of data collection for any purpose. The other side wants the status quo. It's difficult to rectify those positions, particularly when those tend to be the loudest voices in the room," says Alan Chapell, president of Chapell & Associates, a consumer privacy law firm serving the advertising industry, and working group member.
Then there's the issue of what actions would be required when the ad network receives a Do Not Track signal -- and at what point DNT policy actually applies. For example, should a Do Not Track policy pertain to tracking for all purposes, including market research by firms such as The Nielsen Company, or just for the delivery of those behaviorally targeted ads?


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JOHNSON CITY, Tenn. (May 15, 2014) – Jimmy Nesselt (Plantation, Fla.) tossed his first collegiate complete game and all nine of ETSU's starters recorded a hit as the Buccaneers powered past Mercer, 7-2, in the series opener Thursday night at Thomas Stadium.
Nesselt used his pin-point location all night to keep the Bears in check as the junior right-hander allowed two runs on seven hits, while striking out seven to earn the win. The Plantation, Fla. native worked out of jams in the second and third innings by picking up a pair of double plays, while Nesselt struck out Chesny Young swinging and Matt Sorrow (Griffin, Ga.) gunned down Michael Massi stealing to end the sixth.
Momentum quickly shifted following the play as Kevin Phillips (St. Louis, Mo.) belted a three-run home run in the bottom of the inning, giving the Blue and Gold their first lead of the night, 4-1. The three-run cushion proved to be enough offense for Nesselt to work with as he improved to 7-5 after tossing 127 pitches on the night.
Phillips' homer was his third of the season, while Clinton Freeman (Jonesborough, Tenn.) and Trey York (Knoxville, Tenn.) both finished with three hits. Freeman tied the game at one when his Atlantic Sun-leading 12th home run cleared the wall in right-center in the fourth, while Chris Riopedre (Miami, Fla.) delivered the knockout punch when his two-out, two-run scoring double down the line in right plated Freeman and Jordan Sanford (Powell, Tenn.) in the seventh. Sanford extended his hit streak to 11 straight games, courtesy of his two-out single earlier that inning. Freeman was a triple shy of the cycle as he also singled, doubled and scored three runs.
As a team, ETSU out-hit Mercer, 13-7, while the Bucs went 4-for-11 with runners in scoring position and tallied three two-out RBI. The Bears went 1-of-3 with runners in scoring position and only 2-for-9 with two outs (one RBI).
With the win, the Bucs snapped their five-game losing streak and remained in fifth-place in the conference standings after improving to 25-27, 12-12. Mercer, who defeated then No. 23 Georgia Tech and No. 4 Florida earlier this season, dipped to 37-14, 17-8.
Both teams squandered scoring chances in the first three innings, but after both pitchers tossed three scoring innings the long ball came into play in the fourth.
Derrick Workman gave the Bears a 1-0 lead when he sent a 2-2 pitch to opposite field and cleared the wall in left, but Freeman jump-started the Buccaneer offense as he led off the bottom of the frame for his round-tripper to even the game at one.
From there, both team were held scoreless in the fifth, and things turned in the sixth.
Following the Bucs picking up the strike 'em out throw 'em out twin killing, Phillips hit a monster shot off the scoreboard in left, putting the Bucs ahead, 4-1. Prior to the blast, Freeman led off the frame with a double to left and Riopedre reached on a passed ball strikeout.
The Bears pulled within two runs when Nick Backlund led off the seventh with a towering homer to left, but with two outs and runners on first and second, Riopedre greeted Mercer reliever Stephen Glaze with a clutch two-RBI double down the line in right to make it a 7-2 contest.
ETSU capped off its scoring in the eighth when Sorrow became the final Buccaneer starter to register a hit as his two-out single scored York – who reached via a double earlier in the frame – resulting in a 7-2 contest.
Nesselt made quick work of the Bears in the ninth as he struck out the side and snapped ETSU's skid.
Mercer starter Brandon Barker took the loss (4-4) after allowing five runs (four earned) on nine hits and struck out six in 6.2 innings.
Seven different hitters accounted for the Bears' hits as Backlund and Workman provided the RBI with their solo homers.
The Bucs look to win the series Friday night as first pitch is set for 7:05 p.m.


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Cold cases heating up history
There's nothing like a mystery or puzzle from times past to 'engage those little grey cells'. Whether you're looking for something to engage students or to exercise their critical thinking skills, unravelling or delving into the stories behind mysteries might be one way to achieve this.
I've been revisiting Case Closed? : nine mysteries unlocked by modern science by Susan Hughes (902 HuC 2010) because it ties into a website that also enables students to investigate true historical, unsolved crimes.
But first, a recap of Case Closed?. These nine mysteries are arranged more or less chronologically from oldest (around 1457 BC) to most recent (1968): from the death and disappearance of Egyptian pharaoh, Hatshepsut to the inexplicable disappearance of a submarine enroute to
Israel from England in the Mediterranean
Sea. Each case opens with a
briefing about what is known about the circumstances surrounding the mystery
plus possible reasons for the disappearance.
Maps, illustrations and photographs help present each case. Detailed
information is provided about the research, including revisions to the hypotheses
along the way, and finally, the most plausible explanation at the end.
I like this book because it shows the work that goes into uncovering a mystery, who's involved (often teams of people from various backgrounds) and some of the science used. The mysteries vary from the very well known to ones I was completely unaware of, including: a Chinese explorer, Hsu Fu around 215 BCE, the ancient Arabian city of Ubar, the Anasazi, the lost expedition of John Franklin, the murder, burial and possible survivors of the Romanov family in 1918, the mountain climber, George L. Mallory lost on Mount Everest in 1924, and the disappearance of an airplane in the Andes Mountains in 1974.
The website I came across is Great Unsolved Mysteries inCanadian History from the Department of Canadian Heritage and the
. These are fairly detailed accounts of cold
cases from various time periods from University of Victoria Canada's
past. There's plenty of information
about the people involved, the time period, newspaper articles, relevant
documents such as court transcripts, interviews, photographs, and teacher
support resources that include interpretations of the evidence. Fascinating reading. The cases include both the known and the
obscure but are intriguing nevertheless once you start reading. I love that primary documents are used to support
the cases. Most of the information is
accessible without a login and password but to look at interpretations and
teacher's guides, you will need to have these which are free.
Both of these resources exercise historical thinking skills, which is part of the emphasis of the
social studies curriculum. Both could be
used to model other cold cases from the historical record providing teachers
and students a way to research information, interpret evidence and then present
plausible explanations.
Check out Nonfiction Monday at Perogies & Gyoza for this week's roundup of nonfiction children's literature.
Check out Nonfiction Monday at Perogies & Gyoza for this week's roundup of nonfiction children's literature.


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Designer Mary McDonald has done it again. This time in a home in Los Angeles.
The project is featured in the September issue of House Beautiful magazine…out on newsstands next week. I am so thrilled to have the exclusive preview of this Mary McDonald imagined home here on COCOCOZY! Woohooo!
In this home, interior designer Mary was working for a couple in their early 30's who are both lawyers and have children. Mary's goal with this project was to lighten and brighten the space. She is calling the style of this re-imagined house "a clean modern California take on French country with a teeny bit of industrial sparseness".
Apparently before the remodel, the home was dreary and dark. Mary infused light and life into the home with a soft color palette of ivory, oatmeal, beige, gray, and taupe, with hints of lavender, aqua, and celadon.
For me , the kitchen is the jewel of this home…with Carrara marble counters, white cabinetry, except for the center island which is dark charcoal and then there is the fantastic gray and white chevron pattern floor made in an engineered stone tile. Love!
|The living room is a study of grays, pale blues and taupes on the walls, wood floors and furniture. (above)
|Striped drapery and chevron pattern floor add texture to the neutral color palette of gray and white in the kitchen area. (above)
|The master bedroom design is an updated French boudoir and completely inspired by Napoleon's Chateau Malmaison outside of Paris. (above)
|The dressing room and closet with gray and cream floral wallpaper and mirrored accents including a lovely upholstered mirrored bench. (above)
|The neutral color palette even extends outside into the outdoor patio! (above)
What do you think of this Mary McDonald designed Los Angeles home…do you like this cleansed color palette? Which room is your fave? Comment below! I want to hear your take.
Thank you SA and House Beautiful for giving me the sneak peek on this magazine feature. Can't wait to pick up the magazine and see the rest next week!
Happy Wednesday!
P.S. COCOCOZY Pillow Giveaway – So if you'd like to win a COCOCOZY Rive Pillow in a neutral palette cleansed mist gray and white, Caesartone's Interior Collective is giving away pillows to a few lucky winners. Click here to read my guest post on the Interior Collective blog and to find out more on how to enter the pillow giveaway!
|COCOCOZY Light Rive Pillow in Mist Gray being given away on Interior Collective! (above)


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help my puppy from China??
I am a Canadian living in China and I have serious doubts about my veterinarians accreditation . Anyway I have a 4 month old Labrador and he has a hard red lump on his nipple about the size of a grain of rice. My vet said its an infection and advised me to use this black tar gunk to put on it everyday, im not sure what the stuff is called in English as its all in Chinese. While she examined him she noticed that his belly was hot and his penis bone was harder than usual, and the tip of his penis where his hair is there was some yellow puss. She said he has a cold in his penis and prescribed him Norfloxacin 4 time a day breaking one 0.1g pill up and dividing it into 4 pills. Does this sound normal to you? All I want is the best for my puppy and I hate not having a Western Doctors opinion.
Hello. I'm very weird about talking about haha... 'body parts' but since I'm typing online I guess it doesn't really matter.
A red bump the size of a grain of rice really wouldn't concern me too much. I would (from your description) attribute it to a bug bite or a pimple before saying it's an infection. Technically I would say it would be INFECTED from the dog scratching at it or something, but calling the bump it's self an infection is weird. I would put a an anti-biotic cream on it but I have no idea what is available in your country. If you can research and see if you have plain Neosporin like the kind humans use you can use that on animals. I would highly advise you to check every single ingredient in it where you are before using it incase it's different then what I have in the USA.
As for the yellow goop on the fur, I can tell you this is VERY common in dogs, mostly those who are not neutered I work in a spay/neuter clinic and hate to say I've seen plenty of dog and cats private parts and what you are describing is very very very common for male dogs of sexual maturity... and even some puppies!
I would not put it as a 'cold' because it's most certainly not in any way shape or form. Maybe an infection but that's a totally different thing then a 'cold'.
I have no experience with Norfloxacin so I google searched it and it appears to be a fairly dangerous drug and just from what I read, if it were my dog I would immediately stop using it.
He could very well have an infection, but there are so many safer drugs then whatever that is that you were given. Clavamox seems widely available and would be great if you could find that.
Good luck... I'd really get a second opinion. I have no idea what kind of degrees they have to have in China but I'd ask about that.
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try finding a SPCA i know there are several in China. This is the areas in Hong Kong but they may have contact for you in other regions, or have a mobile clinic. They use western vets http://www.spca.org.hk/eng/vet/vetclinic.html
I watched a season of Vets in Hong Kong. haha
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Thank you both your help, I have decided not to use Norfloxacin it just seems like a nasty drug with horrible side effects and life threatning issues. I really wish I could find Clavamox here in China but it looks like a losing battle. As for the SPCA I can only find it in Hong Kong and not on the tiny island of Hainan where I live. So I did some research and what I can find is Amoxicillin used to fight bacterial infection 5 mg per lb. ev ery 12 hours. So I think I will use that instead. Please post back if you have any other suggestions as I would greatly appreciate them.
Hi, Nick, and welcome to pets.ca.
Amoxicillin sounds like a safe choice and is actually one of the ingredients in Clavamox.
I can understand your having some concerns about vet care for your dog in a foreign country. I'm sure I would have some of the same reservations. Hopefully, in time, you will find someone you are confident in.
You may or may not know that, in addition to having some very knowledgeable members, we also have some wonderful vets on-line at pets.ca who are happy to answer questions, if requested.
If you had a chance to look around, you may also have noticed that people on this board are about pictures, so if you want to post some pics of your dog, we would love to see them.
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"The soul is the same in all living creatures, although the body of each is different." -Hippocrates
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"Be the change you want to see in the world" -Gandhi
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Peter Facinelli from Twilight Saga and Nurse Jackie leaves Vancouver after Twi-con
The hardest working doctor in show business was in Vancouver this past weekend for a Twilight fan convention.
The double shifting doc, known to the rabid Twilight series fanbase as Dr. Carlisle Cullen, or at his second doctoring job as Dr. Fitch Cooper on the television show Nurse Jackie spent several hours meeting, greeting and talking to fans at the convention.
While other stars were whisked away from the fans like they were recluse rock stars thru private corridors, Peter opted for a more low key & personable departure from the convention. He simply walked out the front door into an awaiting vehicle.
Outside he greeted fans, signing autographs & posing with fans.,..FOR FREE. Despite the absurd $30 an autograph & $50 for a photo with price the convention hawkers were gouging fans for inside, Peter did it for no extra charge outside upon his departure.
Once at the airport, a group of 8 people were awaiting his arrival. Fans & hounds waited for his arrival & when he finally showed up, he acted as if we were just as special as the people who in total might have shelled out over $360 for a complete Twilight fan package that weekend.
His willingness to sign multiple items per person, stop and pose for photos with several of the fans, answer a few questions as best as he could, and do it all without even a sign of disdain is why I have him on my top 10 nicest celebs list. Because truthfully, most celebs in his position after just getting paid to sign autographs & pose for photos wouldnt have lifted a finger.
To top it off, you could clearly tell he was a bit worn down & probably, truthfully, would have been just as happy to leave with no fanfare. But instead of being gruff & anti-social he took it all in & seemed genuinely happy for the attention. He thanked the fans for coming out. He thanked the other photographer there and myself for coming out, shook our hands & went on his way.
Another great experience with Peter Facinelli wrapped up. With news that Breaking Dawn may be done in Louisiana, its possible this was my last interaction with Mister Twitter 2009. If it was, he left an incredible impression.
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