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Saturday, September 03, 2005
WCB 13 - Meet our kitty
Lots of new recipes again this week. The total was right around 12 again. Dinner will be Chicken salads of course, as it is Saturday after all!
Tonight from Netflix we will be watching Election. No idea what this one is about - just that it is suppose to be a comedy. Looks like our big stack of untried recipes is slowly getting smaller, but don't get me wrong - it is still quite large! I'll be checking it out tonight and see what we can come up with for this week!
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she is adorable. If my honey would let me have a cat and not complain I would definetly keep one!ReplyDelete
aww so beautifulReplyDelete
She's stunning Joe :) such a sweet face too!ReplyDelete
Nice cat.ReplyDelete
I didn't know it was cat week. Then again, I'm always out of the blog loop ;).
Hope you like Election. It's a Reese Witherspoon classic.
We just watched some Daniel Day Lewis movie called Ballad of Jack and Rose. Excellent, but depressing.
Miss Kitty, you are such a beautiful feline. Black beauty indeed!ReplyDelete
wow, ms kitty is a beauty!ReplyDelete
Great photo. So glad the gorgeous Miss Kitty has joined us for Weekend Cat Blogging! : )ReplyDelete
gorgeous girl!ReplyDelete
Very pretty, Jow. Reminds me of my first cat, who was also black with gold eyes.ReplyDelete
- Anonymous9/04/2005 08:26:00 PM
Oh, she's beautiful! How cute--she naps in a shoebox!ReplyDelete
Miss kitty would like to say thanks for all the nice comments!ReplyDelete
The movie was pretty funny!
Until just recently, I've owned black cats exclusively. She is a doll!ReplyDelete
- Anonymous9/06/2005 09:39:00 AM
What a darling cat! Tuckered out from catnip...such a familiar site.ReplyDelete

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[Dying to be famous: retrospective cohort study of rock and pop star mortality and its association with adverse childhood experiences doi 10.1136/bmjopen-2012-002089]
Successful solo rock/pop stars are around twice as likely to die early as those in equally famous bands, indicates research published in the online journal BMJ Open.
And those who died of drug and alcohol problems were more likely to have had a difficult or abusive childhood than those dying of other causes, the findings showed.
The authors included 1489 North American and European rock and pop stars over a 50 year period between 1956 (Elivs Presley) and 2006 (Regina Spektor, The Arctic Monkeys, and Snow Patrol)
Their achievements were determined from international polls and top 40 chart successes, while details of their personal lives/childhoods were drawn from a range of music and official websites, published biographies, and anthologies.
During the 50 year period, 137 (9.2%) famous rock/pop stars died. The average age of death was 45 for North American stars and 39 for those from Europe.
The gap in life expectancy between rock and pop stars and the general population widened consistently until 25 years after fame had been achieved, after which death rates began to approach those of the general population—but only for European stars.
Solo performers were around twice as likely to die early as those in a band, irrespective of whether they were European (9.8% vs 5.4%) or North American (22.8% vs 10.2%).
A successful solo career may be a proxy for fame, it also raises the question of whether the peer support offered by band-mates may be protective, suggest the authors.
While gender and the age at which fame was reached did not influence life expectancy, ethnicity did, with those from non-white backgrounds more likely to die early. And the chances of survival increased among those achieving fame after 1980.
Nearly half of those who died as a result of drugs, alcohol, or violence had at least one unfavourable factor in their childhoods, compared with one in four of those dying of other causes.
These factors—referred to as adverse childhood experiences, or ACEs for short— included physical, sexual, or emotional abuse; living with a chronically depressed, suicidal, mentally or physically ill person; living with a substance abuser; having a close relative in prison; and coming from a broken home or one in which domestic violence featured.
Four out of five dead stars with more than one unfavourable childhood factor died from substance misuse or violence-related causes.
A career as a rock/pop star may be attractive to those escaping an unhappy childhood, but it may also provide the resource to feed a predisposition to unhealthy/risky behaviours, say the authors.
"Pop/rock stars are among the most common role models for children, and surveys suggest that growing numbers aspire to pop stardom," they write. "A proliferation of TV talent shows and new opportunities created by the internet can make this dream appear more achievable than ever."
But they caution: "It is important they [children] recognise that substance use and risk taking may be rooted in childhood adversity rather than seeing them as symbols of success."
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The Data Science Research Programme, SAILS and the Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences have joined forces in this unique event at the intersection between these three areas of science and the possibilities that arise from them.
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Serge Rombouts - Professor of Methods of Cognitive Neuroimaging
Imaging Brain Networks: pharmacological manipulation and individual prediction of cognitive decline.
|Friday 5 June 2020 13:00
Wouter van Loon - PhD Candidate
Selecting views in multi-view learning.
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Bernet Elzinga - Professor of Stress-related Psychopathology
Innovative approaches on parenting from a family perspective.
Serge Rombouts - Imaging Brain Networks:
pharmacological manipulation and individual prediction of cognitive decline.
Individual dementia biomarkers are strongly needed for i) early (differential) diagnosis in the stages preceding significant cognitive loss, ii) marking disease stage and monitoring disease course and possible treatment effects, and iii) guidance for drug development targeting the early phase of the disease. The discovery of an early biomarker is considered the holy grail in dementia research.
With MRI, both brain structure, anatomical connections and functional brain networks can be studied. Different (early) stages in dementia and different dementia types can each be characterized by a combination of MRI-derived features, contained in a 'multivariate multidimensional MRI biomarker'.
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2. asymptomatic mutation carriers, destined to develop frontotemporal lobe dementia
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We study whether these innovations will lead to an early individual MRI biomarker that contributes to the quality of early dementia diagnosis, is useful for monitoring of disease course and treatment, and will provide new leads for drug development studies.
Parallel to this, we are developing methods of pharmacological FMRI, to study effects of various pharmacological manipulations on functional brain connectivity in young, elderly and in dementia patients.
Wouter van Loon - Selecting views in multi-view learning
Integrating information from different feature sets describing the same set of objects or persons is known as multi-view learning. In biomedical research, such feature sets (views) may correspond to different data sources such as medical imaging modalities, questionnaires, and omics data. Views can also be defined within data obtained from the same source, for example as different feature sets derived from the same image, as different brain regions, or as gene sets. Integrating the information from different views can increase the accuracy of medical classification models. However, collection of biomedical data can be expensive and/or burdening for patients. Identifying the views that are most important for prediction can improve the understanding of disease and can contribute to reducing the amount of required data collection. This leads to a group-wise feature selection or 'view selection' problem. In this talk I will discuss this view selection problem and a method we have been developing to tackle it.
Bernet Elzinga - Innovative approaches on parenting from a family perspective
Sensitive parenting, including parental warmth, is crucial for later mental well-being. Child maltreatment, particularly physical and emotional abuse and neglect, often occurs within the family context. Studying on the impact of specific parenting styles on adult mental well-being can be methodologically challenging, since families consist of multiple family members (i.e., parents, children, siblings) with each their own perspective. So far, commonly used methods focus usually on the perspective of one single individual and investigate the impact of individual parent-to-child interactions, while the complex interactions and the different perspectives of family members are not taken into account. To further contribute to the ecological validity of the research on parenting and child maltreatment, incorporating the perspectives of different individuals living in the same household is important. In this lecture, I will present a number of studies on parenting and child maltreatment, using a variety of research methods, e.g. observations of interactions, fMRI research and multi-informant assessments, while integrating different family perspectives (i.e. parents versus children, brothers and sisters) and discuss its impact on individual's and family's lives. These approaches may further advance our knowledge relevant for assessment, prevention and (family) interventions.


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It's time to get crafty here on onekriegerchick. I have been trying to make as many of my Christmas gifts as possible. Today I am going to share how I made my adorable DIY Snowflake Wreath
Supplies needed:
Wreath form (wire, foam, or my homemade version)
patterned paper
glue gun
small scissors
snowflake punch or cutting machine
fabric or crepe paper strips (approx. 2 in. wide)
Okay…Let's get started. First you will need a form. I thought I had a wire form- couldn't find it, so I decided I'd have to make one myself. I have an abundance of 12×12 in. pieces of cardboard and decided that would be perfect to cut out as my wreath shape.
Here's how I did it:
I started by cutting out a shape similar to what I wanted my wreath to be.
Then I traced the shape and cut it out with an exacto knife. The edges don't have to be perfect, but you do want the wreath to be about 2 in. wide.
Then you will want to cut some strips of fabric or crepe paper to wrap around the wreath form. I cut approx. 2 in. strips of burlap . I hot glued one end of the burlap to the underside of the wreath form. I continued to wrap the burlap all the way around the wreath form.
You want to make sure to pull the ribbon fairly tight as you are wrapping.
Ta Da! Moving on to the snowflakes…
Choose some coordinating sheets of paper and cut out between 50-60 snowflakes. I used papers from Close to My Heart and a cutting machine to cut out a variety of 3-3.5 in. snowflakes. {A large snowflake punch would work well too}. Starting with the outside edge, put a dot of hot glue on each snowflake and adhere it to the wreath. When the outside edge is covered, move to the middle and interior layers.
I couldn't resist added a few more ornate snowflakes!
After adhering another strip of burlap to the back of the wreath with hot glue, I tied it up in my dining room. Lovely!
Might have had to test it out in the Mud Room too…
Yep…Loving it there too!
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Where Dragonflies Hover
Sometimes a glimpse into the past can help make sense of the future …
Everyone thinks Lexi is crazy when she falls in love with Hollingsworth House – a crumbling old Georgian mansion in Yorkshire – and nobody more so than her husband, Dylan. But there's something very special about the place, and Lexi can sense it.Whilst exploring the grounds she stumbles across an old diary and, within its pages, she meets Allie – an Australian nurse working in France during the First World War.
The late sunshine enveloped the house in a golden glow. Again, it seemed to call to her, begging for attention. A path on the left of the drive looked inviting as it meandered through a small strand of poplars. Lexi grabbed her keys, locked the car and took off to explore again. She had nothing to rush home to now, and if she got caught for trespassing, then so be it.
The overgrown pathway brought her out on the far side of the grounds near the end of a small lake. She gazed over the water towards the back of the house and noticed a paved terrace area. From there the lawn then sloped down to the water. She'd not been around the back before and fell even more in love with the property. She could imagine the serenity of sipping a cool drink on a hot summer's day and looking out over the lake.
Lexi stepped out along the bank. A lone duck swam by, its movement serene on the glassy, dark surface. This side of the lake was in shadow from large pine trees, and she stumbled on fallen pinecones hidden in the long grass. On the opposite side of the water were some small buildings, a garage, fruit trees in early blossom, and an overgrown vegetable patch, complete with a broken, rejected-looking scarecrow.
She wandered over to a narrow shed on her left and peered through its sole, dirty window. Unable to make out much in the dimness, she walked around to the front and was surprised when she was able to pull the bolt back on the door. Why didn't people lock things? A covered rowboat took up most of the space inside. She smiled, seeing herself rowing it on the lake. Growing more excited, Lexi edged around it to peer at the workbenches and the odd assortment of tools and useless things one found in abandoned sheds. It was like treasure hunting in an antique shop. She used to love doing that with her grandfather.
She glanced about and spied a dusty painting leaning against the wall. The scene was of a child and a brown dog. Behind the canvas were more paintings, some framed, some not. Lexi flicked through them. The ones that caught her attention she took out and set aside.
She looked for somewhere to sit and study the paintings. A small tin trunk wedged under a workbench seemed the only offering. Thinking it empty, she went to tug it out, but it remained fast.
Using both hands, she heaved it out and was showered in a puff of dust. Squatting down, she inspected the latch that was held tight with a small lock. 'Why are you locked?' she murmured. The shed was open to anyone passing by, yet this ugly little chest had a lock on it. The trunk was nothing special, plain and in parts rusted. No ornament or writing hinted at its use.
Intrigued, she grabbed a hammer from the workbench, but then hesitated. She had no right to open someone else's property. Lexi closed her eyes momentarily. What was she thinking of breaking into the trunk? What am I doing? Never had she broken the law and here she was guilty of trespassing and breaking and entering! She looked around the rowboat as though expecting someone to jump out and arrest her.
Something inside urged her on. She knew she couldn't stop now. Sucking in a deep breath, she bent and hit the lock hard. The ringing sound was loud in the quiet serenity of the garden. The metal dented and with another few solid whacks the lock gave.
Shivers of excitement tingled along her skin. Gently, she eased up the lid.
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[atduskgreg] posted this cool looking rig. That's a batting glove, chopped up and equipped with a flex sensor and a pressure sensor. The end goal was to create a new method of drawing. You can see he's interfaced with the servos decently. It seems fairly responsive and intuitive. Looking at his results though, make us wonder if all that effort was worth it. We would probably apply this rig to some kind of animatronics.
4 thoughts on "Pinch Control2: Laser Drawing"
I appreciate this, but I would like to see some photos the demonstrate the level of control he has over the device. The video gives me an idea… but is there enough control to produce simple shapes?
it's really hard to tell. This video would make you believe so, but his example images would make you believe otherwise.
To draw on a wall with a laser you need a closed-loop galvo scanner, everything else is too slow or too unprecise. Two servos, that's way too unprecise even to draw with a pen, let alone with a beam on a wall.
judging by the drawing of the system on the project site: http://www.flickr.com/photos/unavoidablegrain/3947082830/ the builder needs to learn more about the "old" system of drawing before trying to make a "new" one.
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Rayman 3 HD hits XBL, PSN March 21
Ubisoft's high-def downloadable revamp coming to Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 next month; updated audio, 60fps visuals included.
Ubisoft's high-def downloadable revamp coming to Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 next month; updated audio, 60fps visuals included.
Ubisoft "very pleased" with eight-fold boost to European software sales, but unnamed publisher's rep describes retail reaction as "not euphoric."
There are plenty of Nintendo 3DS games being released this week to coincide with the local launch, but it's not all about Nintendo's shiny new toy.
New release slate championed by Crytek's multiplatform shooter, TT Games' latest block game, and Square Enix's fighting game; The Sims Medieval, Ghostbusters: SOS, Tomb Raider, Splinter Cell Trilogies, and Assassin's ...
Listing from Down Under points to new title in classic platformer series with 3D visuals.
Ubisoft announces new handheld game featuring the popular platformer hero.
This week: Nintendo apologizes to purveyors of porn, and Mario Kart DS becomes a launch title in the US.
Super Mario DS, Spider-Man 2, Madden, the Urbz, and Mr. Driller will be in the first wave of titles for Nintendo's portable.
Ubisoft plans to unleash its popular platforming character in a launch title for the Nintendo DS.
Super Mario 64 DS and Spider-Man 2 highlight a US launch lineup that will consist of 10 to 12 titles. Also, Japanese launch details, Final Fantasy III confirmed.
We recently got our hands on a preview version of Ubi Soft's mascot platform game. But is it as good as the early preview made it out to be? Check ...
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Ubi Soft's main character to run the San Francisco streets with kids and Yasmine Bleeth.
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Robertsdale is known as the "hub" of Baldwin County because of its central location. This city has seen substantial growth in recent years due to affordable housing and new businesses. Robertsdale features a livestock auction and is home to the Baldwin County Fair, which takes place each fall. The Baldwin County Association of REALTORS® is located along Highway 90, near the Central Baldwin Chamber of Commerce. When driving south on Highway 59, you can't miss the 44 American Flags flying high, honoring local veterans who served in the first Persian Gulf War. Robertsdale has produced many notable people, including former NFL running back Joe Childress and Apple CEO Tim Cook. Cook graduated from Robertsdale High School, home of the Golden Bears. Highway 104 allows for easy access to the Baldwin Beach Express, Silverhill and nearby Fairhope. Robertsdale provides a walking trail, a children's splash park, several tennis courts and a large baseball/softball complex with multiple fields.


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QUESTION: Are continuing education meetings and workshops effective for improving professional practice and patient outcomes?
Data sources
Studies were identified by searching the Cochrane Effective Practice and Organisation of Care Group specialised register, Medline (1966 to January 1999), the Research and Development Resource Base in Continuing Medical Education, and reference lists of relevant papers.
Study selection
Studies were selected if they were randomised controlled trials (RCTs) or quasi-experimental studies with contemporaneous data collection, involved qualified health professionals or post graduate trainees, examined the effect of planned educational activities, and objectively measured health professional practice behaviour or patient outcomes. Studies were excluded if allocation was by participant choice or if participants were all undergraduate students.
Data extraction
2 reviewers extracted data on study quality, interventions, and outcomes.
Main results
32 studies (36 comparisons, 30 RCTs) involving physicians, nurses, psychotherapists, pharmacists, and other health professionals met the selection criteria. 31 studies measured health professional behaviour and 8 measured patient outcomes. Almost all of the targeted behaviours involved learning a fairly complex set of skills. In general, studies had poor reporting of the methods used. All 32 studies compared educational meetings with a non-intervention control group; of these, 24 showed improvement in professional practice in ≥1 major outcome among those who received the intervention. Of 8 studies that measured patient outcomes, 3 showed changes in favour of the intervention group. 1 study comparing interactive educational meetings with lectures showed no differences between groups. Of 7 RCTs with ≥1 intervention arm comprising a didactic presentation targeting a specific behaviour, 6 showed no between group differences. Of 19 comparisons that evaluated didactic presentations combined with workshops, 11 showed moderate or moderately large intervention effects, 1 showed small effects, 3 showed no effect, and 4 had unit of analysis errors; 2 of 6 studies showed improvement in patient outcomes. 8 studies compared interactive workshops with either a non-intervention control group, a large group problem based session, or a lecture format; 7 of these studies showed improvements in professional practice in ≥1 major outcome in the intervention groups.
Continuing education activities can improve professional practice and patient outcomes. Interactive workshops or conferences, alone or in combination with other interventions, are likely to be more effective than a lecture format alone.
Because of the rapid changes in health care and the emphasis on evidence based practice, nurses constantly need to update their professional knowledge and skills. In addition, regulatory organisations are increasing their expectations that professionals provide evidence of actions to maintain their professional competencies. Participation in continuing education meetings is commonly used for this purpose. This review by Thomson O'Brien et al examined the effectiveness of various continuing education delivery strategies on healthcare practice and patient outcomes. Although the review mainly reported on studies of physicians, the interventions included skills relevant for nurses.
Each study was rated for methodological rigour. Of 32 studies reviewed, protection against bias was rated as "high" in 7 studies and "moderate" in 25 studies. Despite the paucity of rigorous evaluations, the authors concluded that little support existed for the continued use of lectures alone in professional development sessions. Findings showed that interactive workshops seemed to be a more effective strategy; however, the effects of this approach were variable and should be further studied. For example, a closer examination of the effects of duration and frequency of sessions, group size, and use of follow up and practice sessions is needed. Emerging innovative uses of internet based, computer strategies to support continuing education also present an important area for future research.1, 2 Health professionals who want to improve their practice are encouraged to choose continuing education sessions with interactive components over purely didactic interventions. Similarly, educators are advised to incorporate participant interaction in educational meetings. The findings are specific to educational interactions aimed at improving practice, and results should not be generalised to interventions for other purposes, such as professional socialisation or team building.
Sources of funding: Alliance for Continuing Medical Education, USA; Scottish Office Home and Health Department, UK; Health Evidence Linkage and Application Network, Industry Canada; Ministry of Health and Social Affairs, Norway; Norwegian Research Council; Society of Medical College Directors of Continuing Medical Education, USA; Health Services Research Unit, University of Aberdeen, UK.
For correspondence: Ms M A Thomson O'Brien, School of Rehabilitation Science, McMaster University, Hamilton Regional Cancer Centre, Concession Street, Hamilton, Ontario L8V 5C2, Canada. Fax +1 905 575 6308.


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It Happened on the Brooklyn Subway
The car was crowded, and there seemed to be no chance of a seat. But as I entered, a man sitting by the door suddenly jumped up to leave, and I slipped into the empty seat.
I've been living in New York long enough not to start conversations with strangers. But, being a photographer, I have the peculiar habit of analyzing people's faces, and I was struck by the features of the passenger on my left. He was probably in his late 30s, and when he glanced up, his eyes seemed to have a hurt expression in them. He was reading a Hungarian-language newspaper, and something prompted me to say in Hungarian, "I hope you don't mind if I glance at your paper."
The man seemed surprised to be addressed in his native language. But he only answered politely, "You may read it now. I'll have time later on."
During the half-hour ride to town, we had quite a conversation. He said his name was Bela Paskin. A law student when World War II started, he had been put into a German labor battalion and sent to the Ukraine. Later he was captured by the Russians and put to work burying the German dead. After the war, he covered hundreds of miles on foot until he reached his home in Debrecen, a large city in eastern Hungary.
I myself knew Debrecen quite well, and we talked about it for a while. Then he told me the rest of his story. When he went to the apartment once occupied by his father, mother, brothers, and sisters, he found strangers living there. Then he went upstairs to the apartment that he and his wife once had. It was also occupied by strangers. None of them had ever heard of his family.
As he was leaving, full of sadness, a boy ran after him, calling, "Paskin bacsi! Paskin bacsi!" That means "Uncle Paskin." The child was the son of some old neighbors of his. He went to the boy's home and talked to his parents. "Your whole family is dead," they told him. "The Nazis took them and your wife to Auschwitz,"
Auschwitz was one of the worst Nazi concentration camps. Paskin gave up all hope. A few days later, too heartsick to remain any longer in Hungary, he set out on foot again, stealing across border after border until he reached Paris. He managed to immigrate to the United States in October 1947, just three months before I met him.
All the time he had been talking, I kept thinking that somehow his story seemed familiar. A young woman whom I met recently at the home of friends had also been from Debrecen; she had been sent to Auschwitz; from there she had been transferred to work in a German munitions factory. Her relatives had been killed in the gas chambers. Later, she was liberated by the Americans and was brought here in the first boatload of displaced persons in 1946.
Her story had moved me so much that I had written down her address and phone number, intending to invite her to meet my family and thus help relieve the terrible emptiness in her life.
It seemed impossible that there could be any connection between these two people, but as I neared my station, I fumbled anxiously in my address book. I asked in what I hoped was a casual voice, "Was your wife's name Marya?"
He turned pale. "Yes!" he answered. "How did you know?"
He looked as if he were about to faint.
I said, "Let's get off the train." I took him by the arm at the next station and led him to a phone booth. He stood there like a man in a trance while I dialed her phone number.
It seemed hours before Marya Paskin answered. Later I learned her room was alongside the telephone, but she was in the habit of never answering it because she had so few friends and the calls were always for someone else. This time, however, there was no one else at home and, after letting it ring for a while, she responded.
When I heard her voice at last, I told her who I was and asked her to describe her husband. She seemed surprised at the question, but gave me a description. Then I asked her where she had lived in Debrecen, and she told me the address.
Asking her to hold the line, I turned to Paskin and said, "Did you and your wife live on such-and-such a street?"
"Yes!" Bela exclaimed. He was white as a sheet and trembling.
"Try to be calm," I urged him. "Something miraculous is about to happen to you. Here, take this telephone and talk to your wife!"
He nodded his head in mute bewilderment, his eyes bright with tears. He took the receiver, listened a moment to his wife's voice, then cried suddenly, "This is Bela! This is Bela!" and he began to mumble hysterically. Seeing that the poor fellow was so excited he couldn't talk coherently, I took the receiver from his shaking hands.
Stay where you are," I told Marya, who also sounded hysterical. "I am sending your husband to you. We will be there in a few minutes."
Bela was crying like a baby and saying over and over again, "It is my wife. I go to my wife!"
At first I thought I had better accompany Paskin, lest the man should faint from excitement, but I decided that this was a moment in which no strangers should intrude. Putting Paskin into a taxicab, I directed the driver to take him to Marya's address, paid the fare, and said good-bye.
Bela Paskin's reunion with his wife was a moment so poignant, so electric with suddenly released emotion, that afterward neither he nor Marya could recall much about it.
"I remember only that when I left the phone, I walked to the mirror like in a dream to see if maybe my hair had turned gray, she said later. "The next thing I know, a taxi stops in front of the house, and it is my husband who comes toward me. Details I cannot remember; only this I know-that I was happy for the first time in many years....
"Even now it is difficult to believe that it happened. We have both suffered so much; I have almost lost the capability to not be afraid. Each time my husband goes from the house, I say to myself, Will anything happen to take him from me again?'
Her husband is confident that no horrible misfortune will ever befall them. "Providence has brought us together," he says simply. "It was meant to be."
Paul Deutschman
More Stories for the Heart, compiled by Alice Gray (Portland: Multnomah Press, 1997), pp. 135-38.


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However, I can think of one gift that, at first, seems like the genealogist's dream—but then, turns around and starts kicking and tormenting the very person who once welcomed it.
Tuesday, December 11, 2012
Giving Back Again
However, I can think of one gift that, at first, seems like the genealogist's dream—but then, turns around and starts kicking and tormenting the very person who once welcomed it.
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This summer my Mother gave me two albums of CdV's. she remembers they came from her parents house..that is all..no idea which side of the family they came from. I was so happy to get them..and so disappointed that they were not marked. So personally I keep one eye out for old photos of my family too.ReplyDelete
Yesterday I sent out a photo to a gal who is going to give the photo (of her Grandmother as a young lady) to her Mother for Christmas..I am so excited to hear about that reaction..:)Replies
Far Side, I know you make someone's day when you find those photos and reunite them with long-lost family--and it makes a wonderful story, too!Delete
How frustrating to find your own mom handing you unmarked photos! But, true confessions, so will I to my own daughter if I don't get my act together and finish labeling everything. We take so many pictures nowadays and think nothing about preserving them for those who have no way to know who they are.
Oh, well, for your sake, here's hoping there are copies of the stuff somewhere out there--sent to someone who made sure to mark down the names!
Your Christmas series is filled with thoughtful ideas.ReplyDeleteReplies
Thank you Wendy! I love Christmas time and almost everything associated with it.Delete
Bummer...missed your radar with my orphan photo blog, Who Will Tell Their Story? at http://telltheirstory.blogspot.com.ReplyDeleteReplies
Now, that is one that flew under my radar, Julie! Thanks for mentioning it! Looks like a useful blog...as does your other one I wasn't aware of :)Delete
No worries, just thought I'd share. Just had another photo reunion a few weeks ago, which is always fun. I've terrible about keeping up with the writing one only because I've been debating about whether to combine all 3 into one magazine-style blog...just haven't had time to devise a plan yet :)Delete
Oh, Julie, I can so relate to you there. It does really all come down to having a plan and working it. Both options have their pluses as well as down sides. The main thing is to be able to devote the attention each one deserves. Sometimes, that's hard, when everything is divided and distributed all over the map. Wishing you well as you make the reorganization decision.Delete


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Fox and Friends host Elisabeth Hasselbeck has had enough of the Black Lives Matter movement.
A Monday morning Fox and Friends segment covered Black Lives Matter protesters chanting, "Fry 'em like bacon, pigs in a blanket," at the Minnesota State Fair shortly after the shooting death of Texas Deputy Darren Goforth. During the segment, Hasselbeck asked guest Kevin Jackson why the movement hasn't been labeled a hate group. More


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Florida Today reports that a woman contacted local media outlets after learning that students were being served three tablespoons of soda and some trail mix before taking the Florida Comprehensive Assessment Test.
Brevard County schools spokeswoman Michelle Irwin says they've advised officials at Creel Elementary School to provide only water to students.
Irwin says Principal Kathryn Eward started serving soda and trail mix about 10 years ago after reading about its positive effect on students taking tests.
The newspaper reports that Eward says it was part of an effort to get kids excited about the FCAT. The soda was served in small paper cups.
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Friday, February 27, 2009
REVIEW: The Stalk
Naturally, when PPP announced the release of three new products, I was quick to order them. I am quite happy to say that they all arrived promptly and intact. Whatever problems PPP had with fulfilling orders in the past seem to have been resolved and I have no complaints on this score. I must, however, take issue with the physical quality and presentation of the product I'm reviewing today, The Stalk. Like its predecessor, The Living Room (which I also reviewed), The Stalk isn't really a book; it's a collection of what look to be laser-printed pages, without any binding whatsoever. There are nine pages of text, of which one is an introduction by Kuntz and the last page is a copy of the Open Game License. That leaves only 7 pages dedicated to the "dungeon" itself, including some background and tips for the referee -- a very meager offering. There are four additional loose pages in this product: a modern map, a reproduction of the original map, and a two-page reproduction of Kuntz's original handwritten notes. There is also a cover sheet, with some attractive art by Eric Bergeron. At $11.95, this is a rather pricey product, but then it is almost certainly geared toward collectors and oddballs like myself interested in the history of the hobby rather than a wider audience.
The Stalk is actually an outdoor encounter area: a gigantic plant stalk whose many tendrils reach high into the sky and are the lairs of a variety of similarly mammoth insects, arachnids, and other bugs. The map for the encounter reminds me of the map for the Demonweb, with lots of overlapping "passages" that connect the lairs of its inhabitants. In his introduction, Kuntz explains that the Stalk was an attempt to move the dungeon to the outdoors, so to speak, which makes a great deal of sense, given the inchoate nature of wilderness adventuring at the time. The Stalk was also an experiment in "three-dimensional dungeoneering," since the environment allowed movement vertically as well as horizontally, a fact Kuntz notes as something he used to his advantage, when giant bugs swooped or dropped down on the party.
Undoubtedly, the Stalk would have been a tough slog back in the day, even at levels 9-12, which is the recommended range for this module. The basic premise of the adventure is that the characters, having climbed up the Stalk will become trapped as a result of an old curse that prevents escape (the reasons for which are explained in a brief bit of background). The characters must therefore explore the Stalk to find a means to leave it, all the while contending with its monstrous denizens, many of which are quite tough. Players used to the standard "clean up crew" dungeon vermin might be in for a nasty surprise when they encounter the creatures that call the Stalk home.
The Stalk is basically a self-contained, one-shot encounter, probably playable in a single evening. That's not a bad thing by any means, both because it's a rejoinder to the notion that all adventures need to have a "meaning" beyond themselves and as a reminder that, even in the old days, there was more to do than just plumb the depths of the local megadungeon over and over again. The Stalk offers up a few new magic items, albeit of limited appeal outside the encounter area itself. But the real appeal of this product is Kuntz's commentary, of which I wish there were more, and the reproductions of the original maps and notes. It seems clear to me that Kuntz has a lot to say and it's a pity that he didn't avail himself of the opportunity to do so here. I think more reminiscences and commentary would have gone a long way toward overcoming my qualms about The Stalk, which is a good, if amateurish, product and one whose contents and presentation seem like a step backward after the near-perfection of The Original Bottle City. While I don't regret buying it, I am mildly disappointed that it didn't build on the success of that product and give us something of wider and more lasting interest.
Final Score: 3 out of 5 polearms
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The recently released El Raja Key Arcane Treasury is very nicely bound in the same style as Bottle City, Tower of Blood, and Cairn of the Skeleton King.ReplyDelete
Given this, I've very much hoping that Daemonic & Arcane and The Stalk will be the last generation of unbound PPP products.
I wish it had been booklet-printed - probably cost around the same, but much easier to use. I'd comb-bind it, but I am a bit uncomfortable about ounching holes in the map...ReplyDelete
Interesting product, though - it is very much the epitome of a "lair". I still can't figure out the map, and I suppose it wouldn't be easy to run this thing since the PCs would see their surroundings.
1) it is very interesting (giant ladybugs! :D)
2) if we discount the tremendous production delay, once it was announced, it actually shipped super-fast, so PPP may have indeed cleaned up its act!
I would like to read your thoughts on the other two; I have browsed through them, and been favourably impressed by at least Daemonic & Arcane (Arcane Treasury requires more study to pass a judgement on, it is a bit "2e" to me, but definitely imaginative).
Is it unreasonable of me to suggest playing it through for a review? I'd love to know if its a good play and I'm sure there are others out there that would too... is it fun? Do the ideas on paper work in practice?ReplyDelete
Is it unreasonable of me to suggest playing it through for a review?ReplyDelete
Not at all. Unfortunately, I'm not the one to do that at this time, as I don't have any PCs in my campaign who are of high enough level for The Stalk and I'm not a fan of running adventures disconnected from a campaign. That said, I'll likely incorporate bits of this module into Dwimmermount eventually and I'll certainly report on that, when the time comes, but it'll be some months in the future before I reach that point.
Great stuff. The module sounds like quite a good one from the review and I look forward to hearing about how it plays out in practice; I might even pick it up if its as much fun as I suspect it might beReplyDelete


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Based in Salt Lake City, Utah, ProGenealogists specializes in genealogical, forensic and family history research. During its 10-year history, the firm has become a trusted name in professional genealogy, finding great success with client research and expanding both its domestic and international capabilities. As a part of Ancestry.com, ProGenealogists will continue to provide premier family history research to its existing clients while extending the Ancestry.com reach across the genealogy value chain.
"We are delighted to welcome ProGenealogists into the Ancestry.com network," said David Rinn, senior vice president of strategy and corporate development for Ancestry.com. "With this acquisition Ancestry.com can better serve subscribers who are seeking dedicated, personal support in their family history research. As a natural service extension for Ancestry.com, we expect the addition of ProGenealogists will also enhance and expand the professional research offerings currently available through Ancestry.com Expert Connect."
"Ancestry.com is definitely in a class by itself in the genealogy industry," said Natalie Cottrill, CEO of ProGenealogists, Inc. "We are excited to become part of the Ancestry.com family and look forward to finding new ways to help more people interested in learning about their roots."
Terms of the transaction were not disclosed. Ancestry.com does not expect the acquisition to have a material impact on its financial guidance as issued in connection with its second quarter earnings release on July 29, 2010.
ProGenealogists and Ancestry.com have worked together on several initiatives over the past few years including driving the research for the NBC television program, "Who Do You Think You Are?" which traced the family histories of celebrities including Sarah Jessica Parker, Lisa Kudrow, Brooke Shields, Susan Sarandon, Emmitt Smith, Matthew Broderick and Spike Lee. Ancestry.com will continue leveraging the expertise at ProGenealogists for similar initiatives in the future.


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[Hazer] managed to take a PlayStation 3 SixAxis controller and modify it so that all of the buttons can be remapped in hardware. Aside from this being really cool, he had a good reason for doing it. Regular readers should remember the feature regarding [Chuck Bittner's] internet petition calling for button mapping as a feature in all games. As the industry still hasn't taken up the torch in this area, [Hazer] developed this mod for [Chuck] to use and has released it for any others out there who wish to give it a try.
The hardware alterations are pretty hardcore. On the left of the image, just below the rumble motor, a DIP microcontroller is nestled dead-bug style. This is a PIC 18F14K50. It's running a bootloader, and has its own USB port on the opposite side of the controller. By cutting traces and soldering to vias, this chip intercepts button presses and shoots them off to the controller's processor based on alternative mapping stored in EEPROM. There's a helper app that lets you plug the controller into a computer to specify what each button does, including features like toggle for the buttons. Check out [Chuck's] thoughts on the hardware in the video after the break.
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NOT SEEN ON TV: Were anti-hate-speech strictures to tighten, there would be less leeway for political protest or satire — namely, films like the British mockumentary Death of a President (above).
Recently, though, Lewis has been reassessing the legal standard for how far threatening speech should be allowed to go. The key precedent here is 1969's Brandenburg v. Ohio, in which the Supreme Court ruled that calls for violence against Jews and blacks at a Ku Klux Klan rally were legal: such advocacy is protected, the court found, unless it's "directed to inciting or producing imminent lawless action and is likely to incite or produce such action."
Harvey Silverglate — the chairman of the board of directors of the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education, and a regular Phoenix contributor — explains the "imminence standard" thusly: "If you get a speaker who gets up there and says, 'All Jews and blacks should be hung,' that is fully protected. But if the speaker says, 'There's a Jewish neighborhood or a black neighborhood two blocks down the road. Let's go down there and lynch them,' that gets into an area where the speech that's recommending action becomes more realistic — more imminent."
In Freedom for the Thought That We Hate, however, Lewis suggests that, in the context of the so-called War on Terror, a more expansive reading of Brandenburg's imminence standard might be appropriate. And he makes a similar — albeit hypothetical — argument regarding anti-Obama speech.
"If somebody tried to assassinate Obama," says Lewis, "and upon further examination it turned out that they were a regular listener to Sean Hannity [of Premier Radio, ABC Radio, and Fox News] — and decided, on the basis of Hannity's many broadcasts, that Obama was trying to destroy the United States — would that justify shutting Hannity down and curbing speech in some way? It's hard to say . . . but if it had that effect, surely the imminence requirement is at least partially met."
Surprisingly, Lewis isn't the only civil libertarian thinking along these lines. Gene Policinski, the vice-president and executive director of the Tennessee-based First Amendment Center, says there's a chance that the courts will pay closer attention to extreme anti-Obama speech than they have to speech regarding previous presidents. "I think there's great concern, since he's the first African-American president," says Policinski. "And given our history of violence directed at African-Americans — particularly those who stand out by challenging the status quo — the courts may see these kinds of expression in a much more serious and immediate way." (One of those African-Americans, Martin Luther King, was assassinated in the state where the First Amendment Center is headquartered.)
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At June term, 1900, of the superior court of Guilford county, state of North Carolina, E. M. Caldwell was tried before a court and jury for an alleged offense in having engaged in the business of delivering pictures without having first obtained a license so to do. The jury found a special verdict as follows:
Upon this special verdict the court adjudged that defendant was guilty, and sentenced him to pay a fine of $20 and costs of the action. From this judgment the defendant appealed to the supreme court of North Carolina. [127 N. C. 521, 37 S. E. 138]. That court, Faircloth, Ch. J., and Clark, J., dissenting, on November 7, 1900, affirmed the judgment of the superior court; and thereupon the cause was brought to this court by a writ of error allowed by the chief justice of the supreme court of North Carolina.
Messrs. Charles M. Stedman and W. R. Plum for plaintiff in error.
Mr. Alfred M. Scales for defendants in error.
Mr. Justice Shiras delivered the opinion of the court:
It might fairly be contended that, upon the facts found by the special verdict, the defendant was not guilty of engaging in the business of delivering pictures without a license, within the purview of the ordinance in question. But as the supreme court of North Carolina has held otherwise, we must accept that conclusion as a question of construction belonging to that court. Our task is to determine whether the ordinance, as so construed, is invalid as an attempt to interfere with and to regulate interstate commerce, and can be speedily performed, for [187 U.S. 622, 625] we think the case falls within previous decisions of this court on this subject.
Such decisions are numerous, but we do not deem it necessary to refer to but a few of them.
The subject was elaborately considered in Robbins v. Shelby County Taxing Dist. 120 U.S. 489 , 30 L. ed. 694, 1 Inters. Com. Rep. 45, 7 Sup. Ct. Rep. 592. The case was brought here on a writ of error to the supreme court of Tennessee, which had held valid a statute of that state, by which it was enacted that 'all drummers and all persons not having a regular licensed house of business in the taxing district, offering for sale or selling goods, wares, or merchandise therein by sample, shall be required to pay to the county trustee the sum of $10 per week or $25 per month for such privilege, and no license shall be issued for a longer period of three months.' Robbins, the plaintiff in error, was a citizen and resident of the city of Cincinnati, Ohio, and was convicted of having offered for sale articles of merchandise belonging to a firm in Cincinnati without having procured a license. In his discussion of the case Mr. Justice Bradley stated the following principles, as already established by this court: The Constitution of the United States having given to Congress the power to regulate commerce, not only with foreign nations, but among the several states, that power is necessarily exclusive whenever the subjects of it are national in their character, or admit only of one uniform system or plan of regulation; that where the power of Congress to regulate is exclusive, the failure of Congress to make express regulations indicates its will that the subject shall be left free from any restrictions or impositions, and any regulation of the subject by the states, except in matters of local concern only, is repugnant to such freedom; that the only way in which commerce between the states can be legitimately affected by state laws is when, by virtue of its police power, and its jurisdiction over persons and property within its limits, a state provides for the security of the lives, health, and comfort of persons and the protection of property, and imposes taxes upon persons residing within the state or belonging to its population, and upon vocations and employments pursued therein, not directly connected with foreign or interstate commerce, or with some other [187 U.S. 622, 626] employment or business exercised under authority of the Constitution and laws of the United States; and imposes taxes upon all property within the state, mingled with and forming part of the great mass of property therein; but that, in making such internal regulations, a state cannot impose taxes upon persons passing through the state, or coming into it merely for a temporary purpose, especially if connected with interstate or foreign commerce; nor can it impose such taxes upon property imported into the state from abroad, or from another state, and not become part of the common mass of property therein; and no discrimination can be made, by such regulations, adversely to the persons or property of other states; and no regulations can be made directly affecting interstate commerce.
Upon these established principles the conclusion was reached that the state statute in question was invalid, and the following observations are pertinent to the question before us:
Asher v. Texas, 128 U.S. 129 , 32 L. ed. 368, 2 Inters. Com. Rep. 241, 9 Sup. Ct. Rep. 1, was a case where a state statute required from 'every commercial traveler, drummer, salesman, or solicitor of trade, by sample or otherwise, an annual occupation tax,' and such legislation was declared inoperative, so far as it affected one soliciting orders for a business house in another state. The same doctrine was held in Stoutenburgh v. Hennick, 129 U.S. 141 , 32 L. ed. 637, 9 Sup. Ct. Rep. 256, in the case of an agent of a Maryland business house soliciting orders in the District of Columbia without having taken out a license as required by an act of the legislative assembly of the District of Columbia.
In Lyng v. Michigan, 135 U.S. 161 , 34 L. ed. 150, 3 Inters. Com. Rep. 143, 10 Sup. Ct. Rep. 725, the general proposition was repeated:
In Crutcher v. Kentucky, 141 U.S. 47 , 35 L. ed. 649, 11 Sup. Ct. Rep. 851, an act of the state of Kentucky which forbade the agent of an express company, not incorporated by the laws of that state, from carrying on busi- [187 U.S. 622, 628] ness without first obtaining a license from the state, was held to be a regulation of commerce and invalid. Mr. Justice Bradley, speaking for the court, said:
In Brennan v. Titusville, 152 U.S. 289 , 38 L. ed. 719, 4 Inters. Com. Rep. 658, 14 Sup. Ct. Rep. 829, was again presented the question of the validity of an ordinance providing 'that all persons canvassing or soliciting, within said city [of Titusville], orders for goods, books, paintings, wares, or merchandise of any kind, or persons delivering such articles under orders so obtained or solicited, shall be required to procure from the mayor a license to transact said business, and shall pay the said treasurer therefor the following sums, according to the time for which said licenses shall be granted,' and also prescribing a penalty for failing to procure such license. An agreed statement of facts showed that Shepard was a manufacturer of picture frames and maker of portraits, residing in Chicago in the state of Illinois, of which state he was a citizen, and in which state he had his manufactory and place of business; that in the prosecution of his business he employed agents, who, under his directions, solicited orders for pictures and picture frames in the state of Pennsylvania and in other states of the Union, by going personally to residents and citizens of said state of Pennsylvania and other states, and exhibiting samples of his pictures and frames, going when necessary, from house to house; that Brennan was an agent of the said Shepard, employed by him to travel and solicit orders for pictures and [187 U.S. 622, 629] frames, upon a salary; that upon receiving orders for pictures and picture frames, the agents of Shepard forwarded the same to him at Chicago, where the goods were made, and from there shipped to the purchasers in Titusville by railroad freight and express, and the price of said goods was collected and forwarded by the express companies and sometimes by the agents to said Shepard at Chicago; that Brennan, the agent employed by Shepard, was engaged in conducting the business in the manner stated, at the time of his arrest, and acting solely for Shepard.
Upon such a state of facts, and upon a review of the cases, this court held it was not bound by the decision of the highest court of the state in which such a tax was authorized and imposed that such a tax was an exercise of the police power, and not of the taxing power; and that the ordinance in question imposed a tax upon interstate commerce, and was therefore void. To the argument that no discrimination was made in the ordinance between domestic and foreign drummers, the court said:
The last case we shall cite is the recent one of Stockard v. Morgan, 185 U.S. 27 , 46 L. ed. 785, 22 Sup. Ct. Rep. 576, where was considered the validity of a statute of the state of Tennessee providing for the collection of a privilege tax on the occupation of merchandise brokers. [187 U.S. 622, 630] By agreement of the parties two questions only were argued in the state court: (1) Whether or not the complainants, who had filed a bill to restrain the collection of the tax, were merchandise brokers and subject by the statute to tax as such; (2) whether or not their business constituted interstate commerce, and therefore was beyond the reach of the state's taxing power. The state supreme court held that the complainants, as merchandise brokers, were within the meaning of the statute, and that the tax was a valid one under the Constitution of the United States.
This court, though recognizing that it was obliged to accept the construction put upon the statute by the state court, reversed the judgment of that court in respect to the nature of the commerce as interstate. In the opinion of the court, delivered by Mr. Justice Peckham, the principal cases, beginning with Brown v. Maryland, 12 Wheat. 419, 6 L. ed. 678, and ending with Brennan v. Titusville, were again reviewed, and the conclusions there reached were affirmed.
The state supreme court endeavored to distinguish the present case from that of Brennan v. Titusville, in the following observations:
We are not persuaded by this reasoning. It seems to proceed upon two propositions: First, that the pictures in question were not completed before they were brought to Greensboro; and, second, that the articles were not shipped directly to the purchasers, but to an agent of the senders in Greensboro.
But it certainly cannot be pretended that, if the pictures and the disconnected frames had been directly shipped to the purchasers, the license tax could have been imposed, either on the vendor out of the state, or on the purchaser within the state. If the pictures and the frames intended for them had been shipped directly to the purchasers, whether in the same or separate packages, such a transaction would, beyond question, be interstate commerce beyond the reach of the taxing power of the state. It is too plain for argument that the supposed in- [187 U.S. 622, 632] complete condition of articles of commerce, if shipped directly to the purchasers, cannot subject them to the license tax.
But we are not disposed to concede that, under the facts of this case, the pictures were, in any proper sense, incomplete when received in Greensboro. That the frames and the pictures were in separate packages, if such was the case, was merely for convenience in packing and handling, and 'placing the pictures in their proper places' (the language of the verdict ), meant that each picture was placed in the frame designed for it. The selection of the frame was as much a part of the purchase and sale as the selection of the picture.
Nor does the fact that these articles were not shipped separately and directly to each individual purchaser, but were sent to an agent of the vendor at Greensboro, who delivered them to the purchasers, deprive the transaction of its character as interstate commerce. It was only that the vendor used two instead of one agency in the delivery. It would seem evident that, if the vendor had sent the articles by an express company, which should collect on delivery, such a mode of delivery would not have subjected the transaction to state taxation. The same could be said if the vendor himself, or by a personal agent, had carried and delivered the goods to the purchaser. That the articles were sent as freight by rail, and were received at the railroad station by an agent who delivered them to the respective purchasers, in nowise changes the character of the commerce as interstate.
Transactions between manufacturing companies in one state, through agents, with citizens of another, constitute a large part of interstate commerce; and for us to hold, with the court below, that the same articles, if sent by rail directly to the purchaser, are free from state taxation, but, if sent to an agent to deliver, are taxable through a license tax upon the agent, would evidently take a considerable portion of such traffic out of the salutary protection of the interstate commerce clause of the Constitution.
It cannot escape observation that efforts to control commerce of this kind, in the interest of the states where the purchasers reside, have been frequently made in the form of statutes and [187 U.S. 622, 633] municipal ordinances, but that such efforts have been heretofore rendered fruitless by the supervising action of this court. The cases hereinbefore cited disclose the truth of this observation.
Upon principle and authority, therefore, we conclude that the judgment of the Supreme Court of North Carolina should be and is reversed, and the cause is remanded to that court to take further proceedings not inconsistent with this opinion.
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Citation: 187 U.S. 622
Docket No: No. 54
Argued: October 22, 1902
Decided: January 12, 1903
Court: United States Supreme Court
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