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A closer look: Pa. Supreme Court decision on fracking
The state Supreme Court recently declared unconstitutional certain provisions of Act 13, the state natural gas drilling law. While only a handful of provisions were struck down, the impact could be far-reaching, according to Penn State Dickinson School of Law professor Ross Pifer.
"Is the rest of the statute so integrally connected to the unconstitutional statutes that they, too, must be struck down?" Pifer asked.
The question is being considered by the Commonwealth Court, which also will examine whether Act 13 violates a provision of the state constitution that requires similarly situated entities to be treated similarly, according to Pifer.
"The issue was raised as to whether this statute was treating the oil and gas industry differently than other similarly situated entities," Pifer said.
If the court finds either scenario to be the case, Act 13 will be invalidated in its entirety, according to Pifer.
If Act 13 is found not to be entirely unconstitutional, the Commonwealth Court will look at the eminent domain section and medical provisions within the chemical disclosure section, according to Pifer.
Popularly called the "doctor gag order," this portion of Act 13 restricts information a doctor can share with a patient exposed to drilling-related chemicals. It is among the legislation's most controversial statutes.
Currently only four provisions of Act 13 have been deemed unconstitutional – most notably those that stripped municipalities of zoning power.
"Municipalities are essentially back in the position that they were in before Act 13 of 2012. They clearly have some ability to regulate but they still have some restrictions," Pifer said.
Provisions regarding setback requirements and state Department of Environmental Protection waivers for those requirements also were invalidated, according to Pifer.
"(Those provisions) were struck down on the basis that there weren't sufficient standards for DEP to determine how or when to grant these waivers," Pifer said.
There now is no setback requirement for drilling near streams, lakes or rivers, according to Pifer. While Gov. Tom Corbett asked the industry to continue to comply with the overturned setback requirements, municipalities are free to set their own limits, according to Pifer.
"Those provisions have been struck down and so, until there's some action on that reconsideration, I think everyone can operate on the basis that these provisions are no longer part of the law," Pifer said.
The Supreme Court's historic decision also calls into question the power and relevance of the Environmental Rights Amendment, which was passed in the early 1970s. The Environmental Rights Amendment states that the public has the right to clean air and clean water. It also imposes a duty upon the commonwealth to maintain public resources for the benefit of all, according to Pifer.
"Up to Act 13, I think it's fair to say that there was a question as to how much teeth (the Environmental Rights Amendment) really had," Pifer said.
In his opinion, Supreme Court Chief Justice Ronald Castille uses "very, very strong language" and the authority of the Environmental Rights Amendment to declare portions of Act 13 unconstitutional, according to Pifer.
Three justices signed on to the entirety of Castille's opinion; one concurred in Castille's result but not his specific reasoning; and the remaining two dissented, according to Pifer.
"If it had been a majority opinion, it would have had a huge impact moving forward because it placed great emphasis on the constitutional rights the public has through the Environmental Rights Amendment. But it was only signed off on by three justices. So the question is, how is that going to play out in the future?" Pifer said.
Depending on the weight placed on Castille's opinion, it could have an impact well beyond the oil and gas industry, according to Pifer. Pifer said he "certainly wouldn't be surprised" if future claims emerge in lower courts that rely on Castille's opinion to address the environmental impact of activities outside of oil and gas development.
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Acronius, Ruardus (d. 1611)
Ruardus Acronius was a Reformed divine. His date of birth is unknown, and he died 1611. He was first a priest, then a preacher in Franeker (1572), Alkmaar (1574), Bolsward (1579), Cornjum (1580) which released him to Leeuwarden (1583-1591), where he became involved in disputes with his more moderate colleague Balck. From 1599 until his death he was stationed in Schiedam. In his Frisian period Acronius violently opposed the Mennonites. His hindering their meeting in Cornjum resulted in a public disputation with the Mennonites in Leeuwarden, whose spokesman was Pieter van Ceulen. This disputation lasted through 155 sessions from 16 August to 17 November 1596. The proceedings were published in the Protocol Dat is, De gantsche handelinge des ghesprecx . . . (Franeker, 1597). One of his other works named by van der Aa in his Biographisch Woordenboek (I, 44-45) is Seer grondighe ende uit Godes Woordt wel ghefondeerde onderrichtinghe tegens de lasteringhe ende het geschrey der Wederdooperen—over het onderholt ende de middelen daer door de dienaren der warer ghemeynte Christi in haren Dienst—ondholden worden (Franeker,1599).
Hege, Christian and Christian Neff. Mennonitisches Lexikon, 4 vols. Frankfurt & Weierhof: Hege; Karlsruhe: Schneider, 1913-1967: v. I, 12.
Nauta, D. "Acronius, Ruardus." Biografisch lexicon voor de geschiedenis van het Nederlands protestantisme, 6 vols. Kampen: Kok, 1978-2006: deel 2, 15-17. http://resources.huygens.knaw.nl/retroboeken/blnp/#source=2&page=16&accessor=accessor_index (accessed 16 December 2014).
Reitsma, J. Honderd Jaren uit de geschiedenis der Hervorming en der Hervormde Kerk in Friesland. Leeuwarden, 1876.
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Athens, Ga. – The University of Georgia School of Law recently dedicated one of its newly renovated spaces in honor of Kathelen V. Amos, a 1982 graduate of the law school. The ceremony included a portrait unveiling of Amos, whose likeness now hangs in the space that bears her name—the Kathelen Van Blarcum Amos Foyer. Amos and her husband, Dan, made a leadership gift to the law school to assist in its renovations and have been longtime supporters of the school.
"I cannot say enough about what Kathelen and Dan have done throughout the years to help ensure a bright future for Georgia Law," Dean Rebecca Hanner White said. "Kathelen is an outstanding advocate for and a dear friend to the law school, giving unselfishly of both her time and money. She leads by example and seeks out new ways to make a difference in the lives of those around her. Kathelen is an amazing individual, and I am thankful for having the privilege of working so closely with her over the years."
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It's 10 p.m. Do you know where your data is?
- Jon Toigo, Toigo Partners International
The American Academy of Family Physicians says nightmares are a common phenomenon affecting both children and adults. Frequent nightmares in adults, however, are considered abnormal, except in the cases of persons who possess thin boundary personalities, take certain drugs or manage enterprise storage for a living. Storage managers commonly manifest stress levels that are at least on par with those of dentists, Middle East peace negotiators or sleep-deprived parents of newborn children. An unscientific poll of IT professionals and their confidants in the vendor and reseller/integrator community reveals that their ten most common storage nightmares align fairly closely with the most frequently reported themes of generic nightmares.
Here's my list.
NIGHTMARE 1: chase or attack
Probably the most common nightmare involves being chased or attacked by a shadowy pursuer. Researchers suggest that the pursuer is often a metaphor for a repressed part of the dreamer's personality - a part they are afraid to confront and integrate. Psychobabble aside, storage managers tell real-life tales of how vendors and resellers pursued them relentlessly to sell products, but later refused to help integrate them into their networks.
Mike Linett, CEO of Zerowait, a storage integrator in Newark, DE, says an IT manager once bought a half terabyte of EMC's Symmetrix storage to host SQL and Oracle data. EMC's sales reps were all over the customer, pressuring him to ink the $500,000 deal. "When the hardware arrived, however, the EMC engineers refused to set it up because they said it wouldn't work in his 10/100 [Ethernet] backbone network," he says.
Linett says this problem isn't limited to a specific vendor. Another IT manager for a major outsourcing company had a similar problem involving a Network Appliance acquisition. "NetApp sold them the storage platforms," he says, "but wouldn't certify their deployment with the customer's Inrange switches." Network Appliance reportedly resolved its customer's situation, after some hemming and hawing, "by providing the customer with Brocade [Communications Systems] switches," he says.
As we move toward an era of greater storage commoditization, there are still substantial differences between storage products and their support for network or fabric interconnections. Unfortunately, incompatibilities are the rule - rather than the exception. To avoid this storage nightmare, managers need to work with vendors proactively to identify not only the best storage box for the job - but also the system and networking parameters that determine how readily the platform can be implemented once it's delivered.
NIGHTMARES 2 AND 3: falling into an abyss and car out of control
The next two most common nightmares reported to dream researchers involve free-falling into a bottomless chasm and careening down the road in an out-of-control automobile. Researchers explain the two dreams in similar ways.
Free-fall nightmares suggest that the dreamer feels ungrounded or unsafe in some aspect of their waking life; car-out-of-control dreams suggest that the rapid pace of change in the dreamer's life is causing consternation. There are obvious corollaries to these nightmares in the everyday life of storage managers.
According to Howie Evans, business development manager with integrator Dallas Digital Services in Grapevine, TX, many customers are pursuing storage consolidation projects to forestall just such nightmares.
"At one large dot-com company," Evans says, "the IT manager told us that the storage decision-making process was totally decentralized and had gotten out of hand. Each department was buying different products that would never work together."
While it's usually the CIO's responsibility to navigate around these diversity shoals, at this company, out-of-control buying behavior was running rampant because of frequent CIO turnover, Evans says.
One way to exorcise this nightmare is for the buyer to do their homework. First, get the vendors to reveal their product road maps. Next, test the product in your environment before you buy. If you don't have the in-house expertise, hire a consultant; it's less expensive in the long run rather than buying some gear that just won't work as advertised.
NIGHTMARES 4 AND 5: unprepared, late and public nudity
Nightmares with these common themes often underscore the dreamer's performance anxieties or lack of confidence. Storage managers often report crises of confidence with respect to their acquisitions or the performance of their installations. To stop those concerns, users need better management tools, says Ken Barth, CEO of Tek-Tools, Dallas, TX.
Barth says storage resource management (SRM) tools must "cut through proprietary technology to provide useful management information," adding that "customers want to manage storage from a single pane of glass - just one management console. Once you understand the trends in your capacity utilization, and you can drill for specific information, you won't have the anxiety anymore about the decisions you are making."
But how many SRM tools can operate across a diverse SAN environment?
Mark Bregman, executive vice president for product operations with Veritas Software says the absence of effective software tools for managing increasingly complex and heterogeneous storage environments has resulted in storage that's "underutilized and over-mirrored." Until customers "get the industry to cooperate in a common management model," he says, the confidence level of storage managers isn't likely to get much better.
NIGHTMARES 6 AND 7: stuck in slow motion, without a voice and a helpless/ abandoned/crying baby
Shrinks say that these nightmares reflect the dreamer's inability to verbalize true feelings. As storage technology becomes more complex and as products from disparate vendors are required to work together, storage managers are becoming frustrated when attempting to get a vendor to solve their problem or even pick up the phone. On the other side of the fence, vendors are increasingly pointing the finger at other vendors saying, "It's not my problem - it's their problem." No wonder users get the distinct feeling that they're crying for help and no one is listening.
Bill Basinas, software engineering director for Avamar Technologies, Irvine, CA, and a former software engineer for Legato Systems, explains a vendor's perspective. He says, "A few years ago, Fibre Channel SANs created a lot of pain for companies. Networks were breaking down for no reason. Simple tasks like backup and restore were complicated by a complex infrastructure and a lack of knowledge about SANs [and Fibre Channel.] At Legato, we found ourselves spending 80% of the time helping customers sort out problems with their environment, rather than with our software."
According to Basinas, there was a dot-com that "had lost about a half a terabyte of user data and was attempting to recover it with Legato software. Every time they tried, they received corrupted data. Of course, they blamed the backup software."
"What we found," Basinas says, "was that they had created a file system that was too big for the Microsoft operating system. The file system was so big that just doing a file system check on server boot up would cost the company a day of server uptime." As a result, the customer had never checked the file system, "which was entirely corrupt, except for the last 20GB or so." The backup software was doing its job: The bad data being recorded on tape was, in fact, a faithful duplicate of the bad data on the disk."
Luke Fica - an Avamar software engineering manager also formerly from Legato - agreed that the complexity of the storage infrastructure was making it less possible for customers to set blame effectively. And, he adds, along with the increased complexity there will always be stupid user errors (SUEs).
Fica tells the story about "an intelligence agency within the DOD told us that all of their backups were failing and we needed to fix the problem quickly. Because of the nature of the customer's work, we needed to get our guy a top secret security clearance before he could begin his work. Once that was done, soldiers with guns escorted our guy around for two weeks while he tried to find the source of the problem. When he checked the tape autoloader, he discovered that all of the tapes in the subsystem were cleaning tapes [rather than magnetic tapes]. Apparently, a box of cleaning cartridges had been delivered and the customer had slapped a top secret label on each one [obscuring the manufacturer's label that clearly indicated that the tapes were not for recording]. It cost them two weeks of downtime to discover a simple user error," Fica says.
NIGHTMARE 8: personal injury or dismemberment
Shrinks blame this nightmare on the subconscious realization by the dreamer that they are neglecting an important part of their life. Storage managers often report another interpretation: Data is disappearing for no apparent reason.
An IT manager for a major Wall Street financial firm reported recently that using a volume management tool to scale a SAN-based virtual volume cost him 640GB of data and nearly his job. "We were using a virtualization software product from a well-known vendor to aggregate physical disk drives into scalable virtual volumes. The plan was to add more physical disk to the drive whenever our application needed more elbow room. But, when we applied the volume re-sizer utility to an existing volume, it obliterated the virtual disk and deleted all the handles and pointers to data on the volume. Fortunately, we were able to recover most of the information from tape."
This frequently reported problem points to an oft-cited foible of many volume virtualization products. Operating systems don't understand volumes can scale, so virtualization software typically operates outside the rules of the OS. In some cases, when the virtualization software's illegal kernel calls are detected by the server operating system, the operating system responds unpredictably.
Veritas' Bregman, whose Volume Manager software is sometimes blamed for such mishaps, reported that it's the vendor's responsibility to identify what operations or procedures place data in potential jeopardy. He noted that Veritas has resolved many potential snafus in its latest release of Volume Manager, which is now in beta. He recommends that consumers heed the hacker's dictum: Read the fine manual (RTFM) before performing any software operation that has the potential for corrupting data.
NIGHTMARES 9 AND 10: being trapped or locked in and drowning
Dream researchers attribute these nightmares to denying emotions and fearing change. Most storage managers can sympathize.
Derek Gamradt, CTO with integrator/reseller StorNet Inc., Plano, TX, reported a number of instances where customers failed to heed the advice of those in-the-know and deployed products that proved inadequate to the task or created unwanted dependencies on vendors.
"One E-book company," he says, "wanted to implement a SAN for the conversion of books to digital formats. They selected Tivoli's SANergy - despite our recommendation to the contrary. Soon after, they found that backup performance was about 300Kb/s against 2TB of data. They tried everything the vendor recommended to fix the problem, but eventually ended up pulling out the software."
"In another instance," he says, "a title insurance company placed 3TB of RAID storage behind its Microsoft NT servers. They haven't been able to do a full backup since, but they are locked into the RAID vendor's products for the foreseeable future."
Such nightmares, according to Gamradt and others will continue to plague storage managers until one of two things occur: either consumers demand better from their vendors and integrators, or vendors agree on common standards that will most likely lead to the commoditization of their product offerings.
The first option is a dream that has yet to materialize; the latter is the storage industry's worst nightmare.
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Our Feb. 27 webinar Genealogy Problem Solving: Creative Ideas for Overcoming Research Challenges got me thinking about the strategies that have helped me solve problems in my family history research. I looked back on some old posts and came up with these six before I realized what time it was:
1. Tracing family and friends, aka "cluster genealogy." This approach helped me discover my third-great-grandmother Mary Frost's maiden name, which wasn't legible in her divorce case file. You can read about it in this blog post.
2. Looking for alternate sources of missing information. Six or seven years ago, my request for records of my great-grandfather's 1913 bootlegging trial in Texarkana, Texas, came back with a "found nothing" note. Not long after, at the Family History Library in Salt Lake City, I scrolled and scrolled through microfilmed Bowie County, Texas, court records. Like the county clerk, I came up empty.
But while attending a genealogy conference in Little Rock, Ark., in 2009, I jumped at the chance to use microfilmed Texarkana newspapers (Texarkana straddles the Texas/Arkansas border). They didn't provide the level of juicy detail I'd hoped for, but several articles had updates on the trial.
3. Using multiple sources for the same data. Using the Ellis Island passenger search, Stephen P. Morse's One-Step search form for the Ellis Island site, and passenger records on Ancestry.com eventually led me to my Haddad great-grandparents in passenger list records of ships arriving in New York.
4. Formulating a theory. When I found two mystery men in a family cemetery plot, I looked at what I knew about them and then came up with a theory about their identities. From there, I could come up with steps to see if my theory was correct, which you can read about here.
5. Researching a potential relative forward in time. I do this often when I'm not sure whether a record I find is really my ancestor. For example, I've found online trees with my great-great-grandmother in a different family. I understand how it happened: She was born just after the 1880 census and her 1890 census listing is, of course, toast. A similarly named person lived in Indiana in the 1900 census.
What if I was the one with the wrong lady? I researched the other person forward, and she ended up in northern Indiana—so she couldn't be my great-great-grandmother in Covington, Ky. (I later found my ancestor in 1900, listed under a nickname as a servant for an unrelated family.)
6. Keeping on keepin' on. Continuing to research an ancestor—not necessarily focusing just on my problem or question—has probably been the most helpful strategy. It also requires the most time and patience.
As an example: It was after I found my great-grandfather Mike Haddad's passenger list that I requested his alien registration record (AR-2), which gave his first name as Fablo. Later, I found a son's marriage record, which gave his father's name as Fadlow. A few years ago, I ordered microfilm of the baptismal register listing my grandfather. The register named his father as "Daddlod."
Had I found these records before beginning my ship's list search years ago, I would've looked harder at the passenger named Fadlo Hadad—who turned out to be my ancestor. But as it was, not realizing my great-grandfather Mike had used that name, it took me several more years to identify him in passenger lists.
What genealogy research strategies have you used to solve questions? In our Genealogy Problem Solving webinar, taking place Feb. 27 at 7p.m. ET, Gena Philibert Ortega will share creative techniques she and other professional genealogists use to overcome difficult problems. Anyone who registers will receive access to download the webinar for future viewing, as well as a PDF of the presentation slides.
Click here for more details on Genealogy Problem Solving: Creative Ideas for Overcoming Research Challenges.


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60-Seconds #325 : Should graphic designers have social responsibility?
You may remember my 2002 post about Steven Heller's "Citizen Designer." Milton Glaser often says, "Good design is good citizenship." So, we decided to go out on the limb a decade later and ask the same question amongst a cross section of Designers today. The responses we got are somewhat amazing! Is the graphic designer as accountable as the marketing and publicity departments for the propagation of a message or idea? Be careful, don't answer until you've read this. June 16, 2015


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it happened in a burger king bathroom
For a very long time, I was absolutely certain I did not want children. I had thought it all out, see. I was not the mothering type. I wanted to spend my money on myself. I wanted to travel and have nice things. I proclaimed this loudly and often to anyone who would listen, and I took great pains to get offended when people would kind of shake their heads and say, "You'll change your mind," in response.
I was so mellow back then.
And then I entered this period of great ambivalence about childbearing, which I didn't share with many people. I wasn't really sure. Maybe I'd have kids. But I definitely did not want to date someone who already had kids. I'd heard horror stories of what a minefield it was to be a stepparent, and I just didn't even want to deal with that kind of baggage. I wanted a man unspoiled by life, other women, and offspring.
Silly old mellow me.
So now here I am. I'm in love with the man I intend to marry someday, a man who loves me back and intends to marry me too. Weddings are always best when both spouses-to-be agree to show up, right? So I'm in love with this man – this amazing, intelligent, supportive, divorced father of two. Somehow I'm pretty sure he's still unspoiled.
We waited several months into our relationship before I met the kids. Their stability is really important to both of us, and we wanted to be sure we were serious and in it for the long haul before we introduced them into our lives as a couple. So for the first few months we were dating, he went on his own to see them and I stayed home. When we began making plans for them to spend the first weekend with us, I was terrified.
I wanted desperately to like them and to have them like me back, but I knew there was a very good chance that they might not like me at all. They might even hate me at first, which would be fairly normal and probably not even about me as a person at all, and more about me as their dad's new girlfriend. I tried to prepare myself for the possibility of a chilly reception and I hoped and hoped we'd have a good time.
And we did. I wrote about it in the spring. We had our moments of awkward tiptoeing and figuring each other out, but no one seemed to hate me and things were fine. I, of course, fell in love with them immediately. We had a couple of other visits and things continued to go pretty well, and I continued to fall in love. And I knew they liked me, and we had fun, but I didn't know if they loved me and I didn't expect them to. I'm not their mama, after all. I'm just The Other.
It's become a little tradition that when we take the kids back after visits, we stop at Burger King. Seth and I have a thing for Mocha Joes and the kids can hit the Playland and it's a convenient location. Plus it boosts our mood just a little, because though we never let the kids see, we're always both a little mopey when we're taking the kids back. So we stop at BK and the first thing we do, of course, is hit the bathroom.
M, age 5, likes to make small talk in public restrooms. One time we were at IHOP and I was waiting outside her stall for her to finish and from her perch on the toilet, she described to me in anatomically correct detail how babies were made. It's always unpredictable and entertaining and sometimes embarrassing.
So we're in the bathroom at Burger King and I'm waiting for her and she says, "Hey Lorie, you know what?" I'm kind of only halfway paying attention and I kind of absently say, "What?" and she says, "Did you know I love you?"
I'm almost certain it's not the first time she told me that, but I think it's the first time it came out of the blue and it's definitely the moment I will always remember. It's not terribly poignant, my little sorta step-girl on the toilet with her feet dangling down telling me she loves me, but ohh. My heart grows a little bit just in the retelling. She doesn't have to love me, but she does.
It took me a second to respond that I loved her too, of course I did. She finished and we washed her hands and went out to join the rest of the family and the whole time, all I was thinking is, I want to be a mom. I want to be a mom. I want to be a mom.
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A creative pulley system allows apartment-dwellers to stretch their green thumb.
While plans are in the works for a 100,000 square-foot hydroponic rooftop farm in Sunset Park, Brooklyn, urban gardening options are slightly more limited for the average city dweller without access to a sprawling warehouse rooftop. As a solution, Paris-based design collective Barreau&Charbonnet offer the Volet Végétal, a system of planters that uses a drawbridge-like contraption to utilize the space directly outside an apartment window.
Rows of custom-sized planters are fitted into a wooden frame that is then mounted against the windowsill. A pulley system allows one to pivot the entire frame horizontally, extending five feet perpendicular to the window. To water, trim, and harvest the plants, one simply reels the planters back into a vertical position for easy access. In colder months, the entire frame can be moved indoors, serving as a free-standing indoor garden. As Natalia Repolovsky mentioned on Shoebox Dwelling, the Volet Végétal functions much like an obsolete fire escape, extending access to that precious commodity we call space beyond the small interiors of many city apartments.
All images via Shoebox Dwelling.
This post originally appeared on Architizer, an Atlantic partner site.


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Since 1916, NOUSAKU began manufacturing Buddhist altars, tea sets, and flower vases, later adding tableware, interior products, and construction metals to its lineup. Despite their seemingly simple appearance, it often requires multiple steps by our skilled craftsmen. Fine appearance of wind bells and table wares are due to our advanced casting technique and refined finishing. We continue to preserve the values of Takaoka Copper with innovative challenges.
Nousaku takes on new creative challenges themed by material, technique, and design. They recently began projects in collaboration with designers to produce new products with a modern feeling. In terms of technique, their main features include products made from 100% pure tin – renowned for the processing challenges it entails – a hairline finish on brass that requires extremely sophisticated skills, and silicon casting that can create expressive details. Nousaku not only maintains and preserves tradition; they constantly pursue innovation.
Brass Raw casting technique :
An alloy of copper and zinc, brass has been used from around 1000 B.C. Study shows that the Roman Empire used coin made of brass, while in Japan, one of the oldest records is known as items from China in the Nara Period. Nowadays brass is familiar to the Japanese by 5 yen coin, various accessories, interior decorations, and architectural hardwares. It has also been used in Buddhist altars, tea utensils, and instruments.
Products express a range of textures; from rough, cast surfaces to polished mirror finish or plated. Our wind bells offer the fineness of material and clear ringing sound. Each item being hand finished by our craftsmen, we ask you to enjoy these sophisticated traditionally-made items.
Weight:0.129 kg
Dimensions: H128 φ50
Material:Brass (60% copper, 40% zinc)[Directions for use] -Do not rub with a metal polisher.
-Although the object receives a color fixing finish, the color may slightly fade over time.
-The slip is made of Japanese paper which is water resistant but not waterproof.
-We recommend you place the wind bell indoors when the wind blows strongly. [Maintenance] -Wipe with a soft cloth or a sponge after use.
-Treat with diluted dishwashing detergent and lightly rub with a damp sponge/ cloth if needed. Then wipe with a dry cloth.


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What do you know about territorial Florida's first civil governor, William Pope DuVal? If you aren't familiar with the governor's backstory, you're in luck. James M. Denham, Professor of History at Florida Southern University, has recently released a biography of DuVal entitled Florida Founder William P. DuVal, Frontier Bon Vivant. Moreover, Dr. Denham will be speaking about Governor DuVal and the book at Mission San Luis in Tallahassee on Friday, January 29th at 7:00pm. Admission is free; the details may be found on the Mission's Events Calendar.
But who was William Pope DuVal, and how did he end up as Florida's first civilian chief executive?
DuVal was born in 1784 at Mount Comfort, Virginia, not far from Richmond. His father was a lawyer, and at the age of 14 DuVal decided to follow the same career. He read law in Bardstown, Kentucky and was admitted to the bar at 19.
President Monroe appointed young DuVal United States Judge for the eastern district of the newly acquired territory of Florida in May 1821. John C. Calhoun, a friend of DuVal's who was then serving as Monroe's Secretary of War, had put in a good word for the young lawyer with the President. DuVal's career took another fortunate turn the following year when President Monroe appointed him governor. DuVal took over administration of the territory from General Andrew Jackson, who had served as military governor until Congress could establish a civil government for the new province.
DuVal served four three-year terms (1822-1834) as governor, leading Florida through a variety of early challenges as a territory. The very act of administrating the new province was one of the toughest. Commercial and political activity was concentrated at Pensacola and St. Augustine, which were separated by nearly 400 miles of sparse wilderness. The trip between these ports by boat took nearly as long as a land voyage and had its own inherent dangers. The answer, territorial officials determined, was to construct a new capital someplace between the two main cities. DuVal appointed two commissioners, John Lee Williams of Pensacola and Dr. William H. Simmons of St. Augustine to determine the best location. Tallahassee was the result; DuVal proclaimed it the capital on March 4, 1824.
Governor DuVal was also at the center of one of the most contentious issues of Florida's territorial era: banking. As is the case with most frontier societies, early Florida planters were in constant need of capital and credit to build up their plantations and create more wealth for themselves and the territory. The problem was that the basis for much of Florida's existing wealth at that time was tied up in those same plantations, with no banking facilities to offer any liquidity. Leading citizens attempted on several occasions to get a branch of the United States Bank established in Florida, but nothing came of their efforts.
Meanwhile, Governor DuVal opposed the territorial legislature's attempts to create a local territorial bank. He argued that the charters proposed by lawmakers lacked specific guarantees that notes would always be redeemed in specie upon demand. He also believed the charters should have contained provisions for forfeiture in the event of malfeasance by the bank directors, and that directors should be restricted from taking out large loans from their own bank. DuVal ultimately vetoed over a dozen bank charters in the 1820s. A few passed over his veto, but none lasted very long.
Then came the Union Bank, chartered in 1833 without a veto from DuVal. The Union Bank was an unusual institution, in that its stock was to be secured by public bonds. In other words, the territorial legislature was so desperate for capital that it allowed a private bank to do business supported by the credit of the territory itself! The scheme worked for a while, but mismanagement, the Panic of 1837, and a severe drought in 1840 combined forces to ultimately doom the bank and attract a Congressional investigation.
By this time, DuVal had returned to private life, practicing law in Florida until he moved to Texas in 1848. He died while on a trip to Washington, D.C. on March 19, 1854, and was interred in the Congressional Cemetery.
DuVal's name is commemorated in a number of place names around the state (usually without the capital "V"). Streets carrying the name Duval may be found in Jacksonville, Tallahassee, Key West, Pensacola, and many other towns and cities. Duval County was named for the governor in 1822.
Find more images of Governor William Pope DuVal and Florida's other governors by searching the Florida Photographic Collection.


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Tagged: Manny Acta
Kellan and Tim, 1 and 100 (7/16/11)
July 16, 2011 was a special day. Most importantly, it was Kellan's first birthday. Yep, he's finally made it to the single digits. We decided to celebrate his birthday with a weekend trip to Baltimore with a whole bunch of friends and family. The big event on Saturday (Kellan's actual birthday) would be attending the game between the
Indians and the Orioles. The following day, we would visit the famous National Aquarium in Baltimore's Inner Harbor.
As an added bonus, the baseball game would be Tim's 100th game.
Just like the Cleveland Indians, we stayed at the Renaissance Harborside hotel across Pratt Street from the Inner Harbor. We started off with lunch a Tir Na Nog and then it was back to the hotel for birthday cake:
We were a little bit late to batting practice and missed out on most of the Orioles BP. Right as we circled around to the 3B side, two Indians pitchers were finishing playing catch and one of them tossed their baseball to us.
A few minutes later, Avi Miller (decked out in full Indians garb) was chatting with Tony Sipp. I called out, "Hey, Tony! It is this guy's first birthday, how about a picture!?"
Thanks, Tony!
Just a few minutes later, Chad Durbin and his partner finished playing catch. A quick "Hey, Chad" later, he spun around and tossed his baseball to me, Tim and Kellan. A few seconds after that, Durbin became the second major leaguer to hold the birthday boy:
In that last picture, the Orioles stadium attendant (Tom) has pointing at me and telling me to give him my camera so Tim and I could get in the picture. The funniest part was when Tom delayed the picture so he could clear all of the people out from behind us – Tom apparently thought they were cluttering our picture with Durbin.
The picture of all of us with Chad Durbin turned out pretty hilarious…
…because Kellan is about to blink and his eyes are half closed. He looks like he is falling asleep.
Earlier in the day, Avi had told me that the day before Zack Hample had pre-arranged to get the line-up cards from Manny Act after the game. It would be awesome to get a line-up card for Kellan's first birthday game. So I figured it was worth a shot.
At the time, it was me, Tim, Kellan, Colleen, my cousin Nathan and his buddy Matt. We all relocated from the 3B line to the seats behind home plate:
We spotted Manny Act hitting fungo on the 1B side of the batting cage. Kellan and I scooted down to the first row on the side of the umpire tunnel. Everyone else grabbed some seats, and Tim provided the entertainment:
Things worked out ideally. I wasn't sure if we would be able to get his attention. But he ended coming over to the net on the other side of the umpire' tunnel to talk to some
people he knew:
To get back to the Indians dugout, Manny would have to walk directly in front of us. While we were waiting on Manny, an Orioles reporter (who Avi Miller has identified as Craig Heist)…
…came over and played with Kellan. It was pretty funny. The guy acted like Kellan was the cutest and funniest baby of all time.
And then Manny Acta walked by and stopped…
…to chat with us after I called out his name. The discussion went something like this:
Todd: Hi, Manny. Hey, it is my son's first birthday today. I was wondering if there is any way that after the game we could get the line-up card with his birthdate on it?
Manny: Oh, sure. No problem. But, it has to be after the game.
Todd: Awesome! Thanks so much.
Manny: But, after the game!
Todd: Sounds good.
Manny: Yeah, but you have to wait until after the game.
Todd: Cool. Thanks.
Manny: So just come down to the dugout, but not until after the game.
Got it. I was excited to come back to see Manny, after the game, and see if he would remember us.
Tim, Kellan, Colleen and I spent the rest of BP out in left field, but nothing came of it…well, except for some nice family time:
So, it was game time. We reported to our seats in section 7. This picture is out of order, but here was our view from section 7, row 11:
There were 21 of us in all, including Tim's buddy Sam…
…, who is the son of Colleen's friend, Deb.
To start the game, we moved over a section so we could hide in the shade. Kellan spent some quality time sitting on his aunt Kimberly's lap:
In the bottom of the first, J.J. Hardy led off with a double for the Orioles. He eventually scored on a sacrifice fly by Adam Jones. That made the score 1-0 Orioles after one inning.
At one point, the Orioles Bird showed up in the seats just below section 7. I called out for whoever wanted a picture with the Bird to follow me. And then began the slowest Bird chase of all time. My crew included my sister-in-law Kimberly, my nephew and niece Gill and Kate, and Noah. None of them had ever chased down a mascot before and they didn't understand the urgency of a mascot chase.
Tim and I could have got our picture with the Bird and been back in our seats eating a pile of steaming hot nachos before this rag-tag group of Bird watchers made it to the
spot where the Bird used to be. But the Bird had darted into a new section and was making his way through rows of fans handing out high fives and posing for pictures.
I repositioned our group at the bottom of the next section over where I predicted the Bird would return to the cross aisle. While we waited, Kimberly posed with some displeased Orioles fans:
And then the Bird arrived on the scene and made Noah's day:
When the moment came, Kate opted not to get in the picture. The funniest thing about this picture is that I was the only person taking a picture. The Bird is looking at the camera, and I have no clue what Gill and Noah are looking at…maybe they are watching the game! And check out Gill with the classic Ted Williams glove on, ready to catch a foul ball. Atta'boy, Gill!
The Orioles extended their lead to 2-0 in the bottom of the fourth when Derrek Lee singled in Nick Markasis.
With a group of 21 people to choose from, it was our first real opportunity to get one of the more difficult photos from the 2011 myGameBalls.com photo scavenger hunt:
15 people in 3 rows of 5, each holding a baseball. Many thanks to (front row) Noah, Kate, Tim, Sam and Ellie; (second row) Jenn, Geralyn, Gill, Kristen, and Andy; and (back row) Mark, Kevin, Will, Matt and Nathan!
In the middle innings, it was time to hit the play area and get some dinner:
After having lots of fun on the fort, Tim gave us a huge scare by trying to inhale his hot dog and choking on it. It was really freaky. It was just like in "Field of Dreams" when the daughter chokes on a hot dog. I slapped Tim on the back and he shot a two inch piece of hot dog out of his throat.
We've learned our lesson. MLB games are nacho time, not hot dog time.
We had to hustle back to our seats because we were expecting something fun on the scoreboard. But first there was more scoring. The Indians tied up the score at 2-2 in the
top of the sixth on a double 2-RBI double by Mariner-child Michael Brantley. The Orioles then recaptured the lead in the bottom of the sixth inning when Nick Markakis blasted a homerun to RCF.
And then our scoreboard message appeared out in CF:
Kellan's first ever scoreboard "Happy Birthday!" First of man, I am sure.
Then Avi and Zevi showed up at our seats to say hello, and I handed off a Mexican League (FeMeBe) baseball to Avi for a little prank I had in mind and with which Avi offered to help – you can see that story here.
Avi also told me that Orioles pitcher Alfredo Simon would soon be heading back to the Dominican Republic to stand trial for involuntary manslaughter in the celebratory-shooting death of his cousin. I figured I should take an action shot of Simon in case he gets convicted and never returns to MLB:
Of course, we got some random shots in the stands. Like this shot of Colleen and Kellan seemingly in the middle of a staring contest:
And this shot of the Steeles as they get ready to call it a night:
And you know we had to get a brothers-in-matching-shirts shot:
It was a nice and relaxing evening at the ballpark. The birthday boy got lots of attention…like here where he gets some snacks from Geralyn while I hold him:
Tim was his usual silly self:
In the eighth inning, Tim, Kellan and I relocated to some seats behind the Indians bullpen in hopes that Manny Acta would remember that he said Kellan could have the line-up cards. Soon after grabbing some seats, Avi joined us. And then a few minutes later, Colleen joined us as well.
Here was our view from the first seats we found:
Avi, Tim, Kellan and I eventually moved down to about the fourth row. Nice seats. This doesn't really do the view justice, but it looked something like this:
Now, the Orioles were leading 3-2 going into the bottom of the eighth. But then, on the strength of a trio of doubles by Nick Markakis, Adam Jones and Felix Pie, the Orioles put up three more runs to make it a 6-2 lead going into the bottom of the ninth.
Koji "Now A Ranger" Uehara pitched a 1-2-3 eighth for the Orioles, but they did not bring him back for the ninth. Instead, they went with Kevin Gregg. It was not a good decision. Gregg was anything but clutch.
After striking out the first batter in the top of the ninth, Gregg walked the bases loaded. He then struck out the Lonnie Chisenhall for the second out of the 26th out of the game. As Orlando Cabrera strode to the plate and the Orioles still leading 6-2, Avi declared, "The Orioles are going to win this game 6-5."
He was spot on. Cabrera laced a double to the RCF gap. It cleared the bases and made the score 6-5 Orioles.
Buck Showalter had seen enough of Mr. Gregg. He got the hook and was replaced by Mike Gonzalez. Three pitches later, Grady Sizemore grounded out to first base and that was the ballgame.
I was did not have high hopes of actually getting the line-up card for Kellan because the Indians started filing into the tunnel to their clubhouse instead of out onto the field
for high-fives. But we walked down to the first row right above the player exit to the clubhouse. Just then, Manny Act walked by. He looked up and saw me and gave me a look that made it clear we were getting the line-up card! I was excited. Manny ducked out of view for a few seconds and then he popped out of the dugout, reached up high and handed me the line-up cards – not one card (like the one taped to the dugout wall), but two (as in the official cards he kept in his pocket during the entire game). They were beautiful. One for the Orioles. One for the Indians. Each signed by the respective managers (Manny Acta and Buck Showalter. And both emblazoned with the date of Kellan's first birthday.
Thanks, Manny!
Before heading for the exit, Avi took two family pictures for us – this one with Kellan finding the field much more exciting than the camera (can you blame him)…
…and this one (where we could at least see his face):
On the walk to the exit, I took this photo of Kellan's birthday gift from Manny Act:
He is officially the first Cook to ever receive birthday gifts (two baseballs and two line-up cards) from Major Leaguers….of course, he is also the only Cook whose birthday is
during the baseball season, so he has an advantage over the rest of us.
All-in-all, it was a great night!
Ah, I almost forgot, we also got another baseball post-game behind the Indians dugout. The next day was Noah's birthday and we had got him a Rawlings baseball glove.
Conveniently, it was in a gift bag and not sealed up in a wrapped box, so I slid that baseball into the glove when we got back to the hotel and gave it to Noah at breakfast the next day. I am pretty sure he likes the baseball more than the glove.
Speaking of the next day, we had a blast at the aquarium and Inner Harbor.
The National Aquarium is great. Here is a family photo of us in the Australia exhibit…
…and a shot of Tim and his cousins looking at some fish…and it appears Tim is applauding the fish. "Good job swimming, guys!"
Tim really loved the dolphins (who were practicing for their show):
That is Uncle Kevin holding Kellan in the dolphin arena.
Tim and Kellan both loved the big jelly fish exhibit…
…but the sharks were scary with all of those teeth. Actually, Tim told me the scariest thing about the sharks was their gums!
After the aquarium, we took a water taxi…
…to Fells Point for an early dinner.
What can I say, it was a great birthday weekend for our little boy. Thanks to everyone who joined us and helped make it extra special.
|2011 C&S Fan Stats
|17/3 Games (Tim/Kellan)
|16/5 Teams [Tim – Mariners, Orioles, Rangers, Brewers, Nationals, Phillies, Mets, Rays, Braves, Diamondbacks, Astros, Royals, Cubs, Angels, Indians, Reds, Giants and Tigers; Kellan – Mariners, Orioles, Angels, Mets and Indians]
|12 Ice Cream Helmet(s) (Orioles (2), Nationals, Phillies (2), Rangers (2), Mets (1), Reds (1), Tigers (1))
|50 Baseballs (6 Mariners, 7 Rangers, 3 Orioles, 3 Umpires, 2 Nationals, 2 Brewers, 5 Phillies, 2 Mets, 1
Rays, 2 Braves, 2 Diamondbacks, 1 MLB Authenticator, 1 Easter Egg, 1 Glove
Trick, 2 Royals, 2 Cubs, 2 Angels, 4 Indians, 1 Giants, 1 Tigers)
|8/2 Stadiums [Tim – Camden Yards, Nationals Park, Citizens Bank Park, Minute Maid Park, Rangers Ballpark in Arlington, Citi Field, Great American Ball Park, Comerica Park; Kellan – Camden Yards, Citi Field]
|12/9 Player Photos* [Tim – Felix Hernandez, Adam Moore, Garrett Olson, Chris Seddon, David Aarsdma, Michael Pineda, Miguel Olivo, Ryan Langerhans, Greg Zuan, Mark Lowe, Michael Saunders, Chad Durbin; Kellan – Luke French, Milton Bradley, Franklin Gutierrez, Justin
Smoak, Matt Tuiasosopo, Ryan Langerhans, Michael Saunders, Tony Sipp, Chad Durbin]
|3/1 Management Photos* [Tim – Howard Lincoln, Jack Zduriencik, Eric Wedge; Kellan – Jack Zduriencik]
|5 Autograph(s) (Michael Pineda, Michael Saunders, Mark Lowe, Felipe Paulino, Aroldis Chapman)
|1 Bat* (Milton Bradley)
|6/2 Mascot Photos* [Tim – Mariner Moose, Teddy Roosevelt, The O's Bird, Mr. Redlegs, Gapper, Slider; Kellan – Mariner Moose, The O's Bird]
|1/0 Divisions Closed Out** [Tim – A.L. West (Safeco Field, Oakland Coliseum, Angel Stadium & Rangers Ballpark in Arlington); Kellan – N/A]
|2 Line-up Cards (Royals vs. Rangers; Indians vs. Orioles)
|*includes Spring Training**divisions where we have seen each team play a home game.