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Founded on 15th April 1923; revitalised under the leadership of the then Secretary General Com EX Jospeh in 1957, faced innumberable onslaughts by the bureaucracy of
Indian Audit & Accounts Department under CAG of India; fought disruptions patronised by CAG many a time;
champions the cause of audit and accounts employees,
the Central Government employees and workers
and toiling masses.
Wednesday, September 21, 2016
Tuesday, September 20, 2016
15/1089-90, VASUNDHARA, VASUNDHARA (P.O.), Dt. GHAZIABAD (U.P), PIN-201012
Reference: AIA/Circular-24/2016 Dated: 15th September 2016
Unit Secretaries,
Members & Spl. Invitees – NE &
Members of Women's Committee
Dear Comrades,
As stated in the Circular 22, the 47th Conference adopted the "Policy & Programme Resolution" based on which the Association shall function in the coming three years, till next Conference. The same is placed in our blog.
The 47th Conference has taken conscious decisions to:
1. Mobilise the membership and organise struggles so as to achieve the charter of demands finalised by the 47th Conference;
2. Do everything possible to strengthen by widening the reach of All India Audit & Accounts Association;
3. Address the weakness of the organisation and prepare it to face future challenges;
4. Strengthen the organisation organisationally and financially;
5. Take leading role in mobilising the central government employees across the country in pursuance of the charter of demands finalised by Confederation of Central Government Employees & Workers, ensuring total participation in all future struggles;
6. be in the forefront in moblising the members in the fight against the retrograde anti worker, anti people policies pursued by successive governments;
7. Be a part & parcel of the working class movement of the country
The National Executive Committee will have its first meeting on 1st October 2016 at New Delhi to consider the above tasks and finalise a road map for implementing the above decisions of the Conference.
On Finances
The 47th Conference had a detailed discussion on the subject and have decided the following:
1. All the Units shall collect Rs 500/- per member from the 7 CPC arrears and remit it to HQr before 31st December 2016;
2. All the units shall revise the rate of monthly subscription to atleast Rs 30/- from 1st April 2017 and
3. The HQr quota shall be Rs 12/- per member per month from 1st April 2017.
The Conference further called upon the Units to collect and remit to HQr Rs 1000/- from each of those AAOs who is benefitted by the decision to treat AAOs as direct recruits for the purpose of MACPS.
All the Units are requested to initiate the drive for fund collection and also for revising rate of subscription.
Resolutions adopted
The Conference adopted resolutions on the following issues.
1. Filling up of vacancies through local recruitment
2. UN Audit exam
3. Bench Mark for MACP
4. Raising of Income Tax Exemption Limit to Rs 10 lakhs
5. Restructuring of cadres in IA&AD
6. Court cases
7. Grant of GP 5400 to AAOs on completion of 4 years
8. 7 CPC recommendations
9. Grant of Higher Pay Scales to Junior & Senior Hindi Translators
10. Treating of Exam Quota promoted LDCs and Auditor/Acctt as Direct Recruits for the purpose of MACPS
11. Number of Chances for SAS exam
12. Negative Marks for Departmental exam
13. Harassment of Association Office-bearers by the administration of PDCA/MAB-1, Mumbai
14. Revision of Honorarium rates from Rs. 2500 to Rs. 25000 per year
15. Price Rise
16. Scrapping of NPS
17. Right to Strike
18. Downsizing, outsourcing and contractorisation
19. Solidarity with workers of West Bengal
20. Introduction of PLB and removal of ceiling on Bonus
21. Functioning of JCM, Implementation of Arbitration Awards
22. Flood situation in Assam
23. Strike on 2nd September 2016
24. Denial of promotion to MTS as Clerks/Accountant
25. Grant of GP 4200 to erstwhile SG Record Keeper under MACPS
26. Sports Quota Recruitment
27. Compassionate Appointment
Formation of All India Audit & Accounts Pensioners' Association
On the eve of 47th Conference a meeting of former leaders of the movement was held as preparatory to form an All India organisation of pensioners of IA&AD – All India Audit & Accounts Pensioners Association.
The meeting was attended by Com KKN Kutty, Secretary General, National Co-ordination Committee of Pensioners' Associations (NCCPA).
The meeting formed an adhoc Committee with Com RK Shrivastava as President and Com GK Gohain as Convener. The other members of the Committee are: Coms - 1. T. Narayanan, 2. S. Radhakrishna, 3. T. Radhamony 4. Jagmohan Thakur 5. KC Mitra 6. Harishankar Tiwari 7. AS Rawat 8. K. Kamalasanan & 9. G. Kaliamoorthy. Circular issued by Com GK Gohain is attached.
All Our Units are requested to organise the pensioners of their station and extend whole hearted help – financial and physical – so that State Committee of All India Audit & Accounts Pensioners Association is formed is formed throughout the country within six months. The financial help may continue till the Association is capable of raising its own funds.
With greetings,
Yours fraternally
Secretary General
Adopted by the 47th Conference of at Nagpur on 8th to 11th August 2016
The 47th Conference of All India Audit & Accounts Association held at Nagpur, Maharashtra from 8th to 11th August 2016 after having deliberated on developments since the 46th Conference of 2013 at Guwahati in various fronts came to the conclusion that the attack on the livelihood of the common man is on the rise. Misery upon misery is heaped on the common man through different policy initiatives and legislations at the behest of crony capitalist forces. The promised "achhe din", the thrust of the 2014 electioneering by the present day ruling dispensation, has just remained as slogan, as the common man is subjected to every kind of misery, be it because of rising prices of essential commodities or rising tensions on trivial issues.
The decisions to allow unbridled entry of FDI in every sector including Railways, Defence and retail has thrown big question mark on the future of the nation and its economic independence. The fast moves to open up the Indian labour markets to the mercy of corporate world are something that should alarm each one of us. The hard earned rights that the worker earned through sacrifices of many are being upturned. The proposed changes to the labour laws of the country are to be fought back at any cost.
The All India Audit & Accounts Association welcomes the efforts of the Trade Unions and mass organisations to bring the unity of all the working class and democratic movements in the fight against these anti people policies of the government. The united action of organising one day strike on 2nd September 2015 and the decision to go for another one day strike on 2nd September 2016 are the only hopes of suffering people to resist and repulse the attack of the government on their livelihood. We hail the unity achieved by these movements and now the Audit employees can safely join the movement under the broad umbrella of the Central Trade Unions. This Conference is of the conscious view that the naked anti people, anti worker and pro-capitalist force policies of the government can be resisted and fought back through sustained and continuous united actions of the working class and people at large. The 47th Conference of All India Audit & Accounts Association held at Nagpur from 8th to 11th August 2016 therefore, unanimously resolve to join every struggle decided by the Central Trade Unions and independent Federations and endorsed by Confederation of central Government Employees & Workers against the anti worker, anti people economic policies, including the proposed one day strike on 2nd September 2016.
Part – II
The 47th Conference records its total rejection of the recommendations of the 7 CPC on the demands of the central government employees on minimum wage, fitment factor, MACPS etc. The Conference further rejects its proposals on the pay scales recommended to Audit & Accounts cadres, ignoring all scientific and factual presentations. This Conference concludes that the recommendations of the 7 CPC has perpetuated the ill-treatment of the audit and accounts cadres at the hands of the executive.
The 47th Conference further resolves to continue the struggle under the banner of Confederation of Central Govt Employees and Workers for securing negotiated settlement on all the outstanding issues and also for revival and effective functioning of JCM at all levels.
The demand for restructuring of cadres in IA&AD is not going to be achieved by merely raising demands. This Conference of the considered view that long drawn struggles are required to achieve it. The 47th Conference, therefore, resolves to pursue the demands organisationally and legally, wherever required and feasible, independently as well as under the banner of Joint Action Committee of Accounts and Audit Employees and Officers Organisations.
This 47th Conference calls upon all the personnel in IA&AD to rally under the banner of All India Audit & Accounts Association in pursuance of the charter of demands given below. This Conference makes a special appeal to all those who were misled to return to the parent organisation, in the larger interest of the audit and accounts fraternity.
This 47th Conference here-by adopts the following Charter of Demands.
Charter of Demands
1. Strengthen Audit & Accounts to Safeguard People's Rights
Stop down-sizing; Stop outsourcing & privatisation of Audit & Accounts; Scrap Curtailment/shedding of Audit functions in the name of Audit Plan; ensure continuance of the existing Accounting and Auditing methodologies and appropriate party days with scientific work norms; ensure effective Panchayati Raj Audit & Accounts by sanctioning adequate posts; revisit restructuring of Audit effected from 1..4. 2012.
2. a) Amend Company Law and DPC Act for Audit of Public Sector Undertakings & Corporations even after reduction of Government share to below 50%.
b) Amend Company Law to ensure the Audit by IA&AD of all Public Limited Companies listed with Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI)
c) Enact necessary law to bring audit of all public Financial Institutions by IA&AD.
3. Restructure the audit/accounts cadres as per submitted by this Association &
Grant the following Grades Pay to other cadres
Auditor/Accountant – 4200,
AAO – 4800 & 5400 (PB2) on completion of 4 years,
4. a) Vacate victimisation of Association activists.
b) Allow democratic functioning of Association without interference from administration
5. i) Fill up all vacant posts through local recruitment, coming out of SSC if required;
ii) Reserve 80% posts for those from the respective territory.
6. i) Withdraw annual audit criteria introduced vide letter dt 27 January 2011.
ii) Stop unilateral implementation of transfer policy in Commercial Audit & P&T Audit
7. Implement Arbitration Award on SA pay Scale
8. Permit all Employees in the GP of 1800 to appear for all Departmental Exams including SOGE.
10. Designate Supervisor as AAO & Earmark 20% of AAO post for seniority cum fitness promotion in all wings
11. Stop downsizing of P&T Audit Offices; conduct audit of private service providers as per TRAI regulations, widen scope of audit.
12. Re-imburse hotel charges to Railway Audit personnel wherever Railway accommodation is not allotted while on tour.
13. Restore unilateral transfer policy.
14. Restore metal Pass facility to AAOs in Railway Audit
15. Restore/Extend JCM facility to AAOs (who were part of the scheme uptil 1984)
This 47th Conference of All India Audit & Accounts Association here upon declares to pursue the above demands through negotiation backed by agitation and hereby authorises the National Executive Committee to take appropriate decisions on various organisational steps including agitational programmes in pursuance of all the issues covered under this resolution.
Ph No.09435118213 / 08751917861
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Ref: A&APA/Circular.1/GHY/2016 Date: 19-09-2016
- All Unit Secretaries/members of Audit and Accounts Pensioners Association.
- Unit Secretaries of All India Audit& Accounts Association & NE members
Dear Comrades,
The meeting of the pensioners of IA&AD held on 7th August'2016 just before one day ahead of the 47th Conference of All India Audit and Accounts Association being held from 8th August 2016 to 11th August,2016 at Nagpur. The meeting was convened by Com. M.S.Raja, Secretary General with an idea of forming the Audit and Accounts Pensioners Association under one umbrella.
The meeting was presided over by Com. R.K. Shrivastava, former President. Com. M.S.Raja, welcoming the members, explained the purpose of the meeting and its urgent need to give a shape the Pensioners organisation at National level. Com. K.K.N Kutty, Secretary General of National Co-ordination Committee of Pensioners Association (NCCPA) addressed the members and explained in details on the problems and demands thereof formulated by NCCPA. Com. Kutty also enlightened the members about the adverse recommendations of 7th CPC in respect of Central Govt. pensioners. Com. Kutty appealed the pensioners to form department wise Pensioners Association in all the States Com. T. Narayanan, former President moved a resolution on the aims and objectives of the Pensioners Association and also the steps to be taken in forming the Audit and Accounts Pensioners Association. Com. S. Radhakrishna, former Vice-President seconded the resolution and cited some examples how to organize the pensioners and make effective the pensioners Association in Karnataka State.
The other members also spoke on various aspects and their experiences in forming the Pensioners Organisations.
The President of the meeting has proposed to form an Ad-hoc committee of All India Audit and Accounts Pensioners Association . The house accordingly agreed to form the Pensioners Association with the following 11 members Ad-hoc committee.
1. President : Com. R.K.Srivastava, O/o the A.G., Nagpur- 09422807600 (M)
2. Convener :Com.G.K.Gohain, 09435118213(M) and 08751917861(M)
O/o the A.G.(A&E) Assam, Guwahati.
3. Members:
1. Com. Hari Shankar Tewari , 09336709696(M)
O/o the AG(A&E) UP, Allahabad,
2. Com. S. Radhakrishna , 09448880921(M)
O/o the A.G (Audit), Karnataka
3. Com. T. Narayanan, 09446465903(M)
O/o the A.G (A&E), Kerala
4. Com. T. Radhamony, 09447586780
O/o the A.G(A&E), Kerala
5. Com. Jagmohan Thakur, 09816035486(M)
O/o the A.G(A&E), HP, Shimla
6. Com. K.C.Mitra, 09831086386 (M)
O/o DGA, Central, Kolkata
7. Com. K. Kamalasanan, 09495515784(M)
O/o the A.G (Audit), Kerala.
8. Com. A.S.Rawat, 08449859277(M)
O/o the DGACR, Delhi, New Delhi
9. Com G. Kaliamoorthy, 09444067889(M)
O/o the A.G (Audit), Tamilnadu, Chennai
The first meeting of Adhoc Committee of All India Audit and Accounts Pensioners' Association was held on 8th August 2016 at Nagpur under the Presidentship of Com. R.K.Srivastava. The Convener initiated the discussion on the agenda items. After threadbare discussion the following decisions were taken unanimously:
1. Two members committee has been formed with Com. T. Narayanan and Com. S. Radhakrishna to draft the Constitution of the Association.
2. The convention of the All India Audit and Accounts Pensioners Association may be held within six months.
3. The Audit and Accounts pensioners Association may be formed in every state with the help of the respective units within October 2016 and they are to organize State convention with intimation to the convener. Where the Audit and Accounts Pensioners Association have already been formed need not hold the State Convention.
4. As regards the fund of the Association, the All India Audit and Accounts Association may be requested to help initially as a loan which will be refunded subsequently.
5. The leaders of the respective units will help the Pensioners to form the pensioners Association in all respects.
All the unit leaders of Audit/Accounts Association, Audit& Accounts Pensioners Association/Pensioners of Audit and Accounts are requested to materialize the above decisions so that the All India Audit and Accounts Pensioners Association could be formed under one umbrella.
With greetings,
Yours fraternally,
Wednesday, September 14, 2016
Wednesday, September 7, 2016
15/1089-90, VASUNDHARA, VASUNDHARA (P.O.), Dt.
Reference: AIA/Circular-23/2016 Dated: 2nd September 2016
Unit Secretaries,
Members & Spl. Invitees – NE &
Members of Women's Committee
Dear Comrades,
HQrs of All India Audit & Accounts Association extends its warm greetings to more than 15 crore workers for the successful strike on 2nd September against the disastrous economic policies pursued by the government of the day and in pursuance of the 12 point charter of demands. We also greet all the central government employees for their participation in the strike called by the Central Trade Unions.
Our members participated in the strike in Kerala, Bengaluru, Guwahati, Agartala, Kolkata and Chandigarh (Punjab). In Hyderabad, Gwalior and Delhi the Executive Committee went on strike and held demonstrations. In Chennai, Allahabad and Bhopal lunch hour demonstrations were held. In Kolkata, the Executive Committee and activists participated in the strike and sat on dharna in offices of AG (A&E), AG (Audit) and DGA (Central) whereas the strike was total in other offices.
We once again greet all the workers for their splendid participation in the one day strike on 2nd September 2016. Press Statement issued by Confederation is enclosed.
We take this opportunity to have self introspection with regard to the participation of audit & accounts personnel in the strike so that corrective steps are taken for future.
The Aam Aadmi Party led Govt in Delhi and Lt General of Delhi are one in crushing the strike by Nurses of various state & central govt hospitals of Delhi demanding rectification of anomalies out of 7 CPC recommendations. Instead of engaging the striking Nurses through negotiations the Delhi Govt has invoked Essential Service Maintenance Act (ESMA) to deal with the strike. This shows the anti-working class character of AAP Govt of Delhi. We condemn the brutality unleashed on the Nurses of Delhi.
With greetings,
Yours fraternally
Secretary General
15/1089-90, VASUNDHARA, VASUNDHARA (P.O.), Dt.
Reference: AIA/Circular-22/2016 Dated: 30th August 2016
Unit Secretaries,
Members & Spl. Invitees – NE &
Members of Women's Committee
Dear Comrades,
47th Conference – Hats off to Hosts & Participating Units
The 47th Conference of All India Audit & Accounts Association held at Nagpur from 8th August 2016 to 11th August 2016 commenced at SK Vyas Nagar (South Central Zone Cultural Centre, Nagpur) with the hoisting of the Association flag by Com Subhash Chandra Pandey, President at 2 pm on 8th August 2016 amidst thunderous sloganeering, in the presence of Com AK Padmanabhan, President, CITU, Com KKN Kutty, President, Confederation of Central Govt Employees and Workers, Com RK Shrivastava & T Narayanan, former Presidents, Com S Radhakrishna, former Vice President and leaders of fraternal organisations.
After the flag hoisting, the leaders, delegates and observers and guests paid floral tributes to Martyrs columns erected at the venue.
Comrade KC Mathai, Convener, Reception Committee invited Comrade Subhash Pandey (President) to preside over the inaugural session. Coms. AK Padmanabhan, President, CITU and Chief Guest, RK Shrivastava, Chairman, Reception Committee, MS Raja Secretary General, KKN Kutty, President, Confederation of Central Govt Employees & Workers, RN Parashar, Secretary General, NFPE & Com. VV Asai, Vice President, CITU Maharashtra State Committee, were introduced and invited to the dais.
Com RK Shrivastava, Chairman, Reception Committee formally welcomed all the guests, leaders, delegates and observers.
Com AK Padmanabhan, President, CITU, inaugurating the Conference, stressed on the need to strengthen the unity of working class in furtherance of the struggle against the disastrous economic policies. The hard earned rights of the workers are under attack. The forthcoming strike on 2nd September 2016 should be a forceful statement by the workers that they are determined to carry the struggle till the end, serving an ultimatum to the government. The campaign on the charter of demands and educating the workers on the charter of demands is equally important as participating in the strike on 2nd September 2016, stated Com AK Padmanabhan.
Com KKN Kutty, President, Confederation of CG Employees and Workers & main speaker, spoke elaborately on the issues related to 7 CPC and the need to prepare for another struggle if the government drags its feet from the commitment to revisit the minimum pay and fitment factor.
Comrade RN Parashar, Secretary General, NFPE who enthralled the house, recalled the role of Confederation in ensuring that the strike was not deferred without any formal commitment forthcoming from the government. He spoke in details about the move of the government to privatise the postal functions through back door.
Com VV Asai, Vice President, CITU, Maharashtra State Committee spoke about the attacks on the workers' rights by the Maharastra government. He also spoke about the resistance/struggles by the workers with specific reference to Maharashtra. Com Asai called upon the house for ensuring total success of strike on 2nd September 2016.
Com MS Raja, Secretary general spoke on the challenges before the audit & Accounts personnel and the task before the Conference to strengthen the organisation to withstand and outgrow the challenges.
Com Subhash Chandra Pandey, President, spoke on the hospitality of the host unit and the fine arrangement made by them. This, Com Pandey said, has created a conducive atmosphere for healthy debates, discussions and decisions that will definitely help the Association in its march forward.
Comrade YK Khapre offered vote of thanks to guests, leaders and all others.
The inaugural session was concluded at 5.40 pm
The subject committee met at 6.30 p.m. with Comrade Subhash Pandey in chair.
President announced the composition of the house, subject to final report by the Credential Committee.
Secretary General moved the resolution on condolences and homage. The house observed two minutes' silence in memory of all who left us since the 46th Conference at Guwahati in March 2013.
Secretary General moved a resolution forming different committees for the conduct of the Conference:
Presidium: Coms Subhash Pandey, Jagdish Panchal and Ninakumari Kujur
Steering Committee: Coms: MS Raja, V Nageswara Rao, V Sreekumar & KL Gautam
Credential Committee: Coms: Anindya Mitra, Amitava Chatterjee and Anilkumar
Resolution Committee: Coms K Ramesh, KB Sureshkumar and Subrata Saha
Minutes Committee: Coms. Tapas Bose, Rajagopal and Anjan Sanyal
The house unanimously adopted the resolution which was seconded by com KL Gautam.
The house also approved the proposal moved by the Secretary General to form different sub-committees for the effective deliberations on wing wise issues
1. Civil Audit – KL Gautam – Convener
1. Anilkumar, 2. T. Anandakumar, 3. Pramod Mishra (Members)
2. Civil Accounts – Com V Nageswara Rao (Convener)
1. Tapas Bose, 2. Amitava Chatterjee (Members)
3. Railway Audit – Samir Ghosh (ERly Audit)
4. Commercial Audit – Amitabh Bhattacharjee & Nitin Ghatkamble
5. P&T Audit - JR Iyer & Anjan Sanyal
Taking up item No 3 of the agenda given in the Notification for the 47th Conference, President sought the approval for the minutes of the 46th Conference held at Guwahati from 11th to 14th March 2013 which has already been circulated, if no amendments are proposed. As no amendment was proposed by any delegate, President declared the minutes of the 46th Conference as adopted.
President invited Com T Narayanan, former President, to address the house. Com T Narayanan in his speech stressed the need of education of the cadres. He stated that it is high time the Association give enough importance to "Save Audit to save the nation" campaign, in a sustained manner, till it catches the imagination of the nation.
Taking up items 4, 5 & 8 together, President directed the Secretary General to present the report on activities since the 46th Conference along with policy and programme resolution.
Secretary General supported by Additional Secretaries General Coms V Nageswara Rao, V Sreekumar and KL Gautam read the report in full and presented the same before the house.
President sought the permission of the house to treat the Accounts (that has already been circulated to all delegates and observers) as presented. On getting the approval of the house the Accounts for 2012-13, 2013-14, 2014-15 and 2015-16 was declared as presented before the house.
Com KC Mathai read out the message from Com S Mohan, Secretary General, All India Audit & Accounts Officers Association.
President announced that the discussion on Secretary General's report and Accounts would commence in the first session of 9th August (2nd day) and called for names of participants in the discussion.
The house adjourned for the day at 9.10 pm.
The second day's (9th August 16) session commenced at 10 am.
Com P Prabhakar, President, All India Audit & Accounts Officers Association, recalling his long Association with All India Audit & Accounts Association greeted the Conference. Com Prabhakar also conveyed the greetings on behalf of Com S Mohan, Secretary General, All India Audit & Accounts Officers Federation who is indisposed and hence could not make it to the Conference.
Com KKN Kutty, President, Confederation spoke at length on the history of audit movement, the leading role by it in the yesteryears and the contribution it makes to the common movement of the Central Government employees. Speaking on the role of employees' organisations in the present days' context and the challenges before it, Com Kutty placed before the house certain proposals for its consideration that would help us to develop a really democratic, vibrant organisation encompassing all sections of personnel working in the department.
Com S Radhakrishna, former Vice President, greeted the Conference saying that this is his 11th Conference. Recalling the yester years, he said the first strike decision, after his joining the service, was taken at Nagpur Working Committee in 1981. In Ghaziabad Conference in 1981, demand was raised for Vyasji's stepping down. Vyasji was criticised for giving more time for Confederation.
Com Radhakrishna urged everyone to study the books 'Inception and Growth of Trade Union movement in India' by Com Sukomal Sen and 'Panorama of P&T Trade Union Movement' by NJ Iyer. He said that these books have guided him all through these years. Attempts made by Com Raja in 2011 to revive the movement, after the mass victimisation in the aftermath of mass casual leave in 2010, did not succeed. He recalled the old days when the Vyasji or Warrier visited a station, the whole unit leadership would spend time with them upto midnight. Now a days the visiting leaders are left alone in their rooms after the days business is over. The interaction with the leaders would help the unit leaders and would also make the leaders alert. He concluded by stating that there is no short cut to success except hard work, but to expect the apex leader alone to work hard and bring results would be quite self damaging and all have to work together to bring better results and strengthen the organisation.
Secretary General welcomed Com PK Mittal and AK Shrivastava, Secretary General and Vice President of All India Federation of Divisional Accounts Officers and Divisional Accountants and invited them to the dais. Both Com Pavi Kant Mittal and AK Shrivastava greeted the Conference. Com Mittal thanked for the help rendered to his Federation by Com Raja during the 7 CPC deliberations.
President then announced the discussion on Secretary General's report and Accounts and invited the delegates in the order of request received.
The following delegates participated in the discussion on Secretary General's report and Accounts.
Coms: 1. Dillip Rout, Odisha Accounts Cat 3 Association, Bhubaneswar 2. Soumitra Bandopadhyay, Defence Audit Cat III Association, Kolkata, 3. Kuldip Thakur, HP Civil Audit Association, Shimla 4. Rajkishor Sahu, AAO Assn, Odisha, Bhubaneswar 5. Rajkumar Roy, Accounts Cat III Association, Assam, Guwahati, 6. AK Gogoi, Accounts Cat 2 Assn, Assam Guwahati 7. Shankar Paul, AG (A&E) WB Cat III Assn, Kolkata 8. Madhubalan, Madras Civil Accounts Association, Cat II, Chennai, 9. Harish Jhulka, Asstt Accounts Officers Assn, Shimla 10. Sohan Lal, Haryana Civil Accounts Association, Chandigarh, 11. D Muthuraj, Madras Civil Accounts Association, Cat III, Chennai, 12. BC Dhyani, Civil Accounts Brotherhood, Dehradun 13. Sanjay Kumar Raina, Asstt Accounts Officers Assn, Dehradun 14. Bahadur Singh, Punjab Accounts Assn, Chandigarh 15. Amitava Bhattacharjee, MAB-II, Kolkata, 16. Balbir Suri, HP Civil Accounts Association, Shimla, 17. KB Sureshkumar, Accounts Cat II Kerala 18. Tapan Kumar Das, PAG (Audit) WB Cat III Assn, Kolkata, 19. Gauranga Malakar, DGAC, WB, Cat III, Kolkata 20. Mahesh Verma, Asstt Audit Officers Assn, Jaipur 21. Pramod Kumar Mishra, Civil Audit Association, Allahabad, 22. Rupak Mukhopadhyay, ERly Audit Assn, Cat III, Kolkata, 23. Samir Kumar Ghosh 24. Malay Kumar Kundu, Scientific Audit Cat III Assn, Kolkata 25. T. Anandakumar, Madras Civil Audit Association, Cat 2.
The house was adjourned for the day at 7.30 pm
The session commenced at 10 am on the third day i.e. 10th August 2016. The discussion on Secretary General's Report and Accounts continued.
26. Nitin Ghatkamble, Commercial Audit, Cat III (MAB-I) Mumbai 27. KN Jayashree Raj, Accounts Cat II, Bengaluru 28. Mahender Singh, Asstt Audit Officers Association, Shimla, 29. R Srinivasa Rao, Asstt Accounts Officers Association, Hyderabad 30. SK Khanna, Audit Cat III Assn, Jaipur 31. Raghavan VK, Audit Cat III Association, Kerala, 32. Bikromjit Ghosh, Asstt Accounts Officers Association, Shillong, 33. VM Rajeev, Accounts Cat II Association, Bengaluru, 34. Anjan Kumar Sanyal, P&T Audit, Cat 2 Kolkata 35. PA Kumar, Accounts Cat II, Mumbai 36. Harish Shetty, Accounts Cat II Mumbai, 37. R Muralidharan, Madras Civil Audit Association, Cat II, Chennai 38. Gautam Guha Roy, MAB-1, Kolkata 39. G Rajagopal, Accounts Cat III, Hyderabad, 40 JR Iyer, P&T Audit, Cat III Nagpur, 41. YK Khapre, Civil Accounts Association, Nagpur, 42. PN Challirwar, Accounts Cat II, Nagpur.
Com Shiva Gopal Mishra, Convener NJCA and General Secretary, AIRF addressed the subject Committee in the afternoon session of 10th July 2016. Delegates and observers greeted Com Mishra with sloganeering. Com Mishra explained the efforts of NJCA with 7 CPC and there after including the strike preparation and meeting with group of ministers. He stated that the strike is only deferred not abandoned. If the government backtracks from its commitment, then we would not hesitate to go organise the strike action, he stated.
Com Shiva Gopal Mishra also answered queries from the house. Com Nageswara Rao offered vote of thanks to Com Mishra.
Comrade Anindya Mitra submitted the report of the credential Committee – the Conference is attended by 55 units, 133 delegates (including 12 from National Executive Committee) and 88 observers. The House adopted the credential Committee report. List of delegates and observers with Unit name was made available to all Units. After adoption of the credential Committee Report, President announced the composition of the house as final.
Item No 6 of the agenda was then taken up.
The Report on Organisation prepared by the Secretary General was already circulated to the house.
The proposal on the organisational part with regard to financial position of the organisation was moved by Com KL Gautam. Com Gautam, in detail, presented the present position and the need to have a financially healthy organisation. Com Gautam proposed a special fund of Rs 500/ per member from the arrears of 7 CPC to be collected and remitted to HQR by every Unit. It was also proposed to collect another Rs. 1,000/ from those AAOs who are benefitted from the CAG's order treating AAO as direct recruit for the purpose of MACP. It was further decided that all the Units should pay the special fund of Rs 500/ per member before 31st December 2016.
After some discussion, the proposals were unanimously adopted by the House.
Com V Nageswara Rao presented the organisation report on one day strike on 2nd September, explaining in detail the charter of demands and the situation prevailing in the central government employees' front. The House unanimously resolved to organise the one day strike on 2nd September 2016.
Item No 7 of the agenda, amendment to Constitution, was moved by Com KL Gautam. It was proposed to raise the HQr quota per member per month to Rs 15 and the Units raising their subscription to atleast Rs 30/- per month from April 2017. Units from West Bengal raised objection to HQr quota being raised to Rs 15/- per member per month and insisted that it should be revised to only Rs 12/- per member per month. President, intervening in the discussion, proposed that the house may agree to revision of HQr Quota to Rs 12/ per member per month from 1st April 2017. The House agreed to the proposal moved by the President.
The Conference also advised all the Units to revise the rate of monthly subscription to atleast Rs 30/- per member with effect from 1st April 2017.
President proposed that item No 9 of the agenda i.e. developments in the common front of CG employees may be considered as having taken up and discussed as Coms KKN Kutty and Shiva Gopal Mishra did speak on the issues elaborately and clarified the position. The House agreed in unison with the proposal and item No 9 was considered as discussed and summed up.
The house adjourned for the day at 7 p.m.
The host unit had arranged an exciting musical evening after 7 pm that reveled the delegates and observers.
The session commenced at 9.30 am on the fourth day i.e. 11th August 2016.
Com RK Shrivastava, former President, addressed the house. Com Shrivastava, recalling his experiences with the movement since 1960s to late 1990s, exhorted the delegates and observers to give more time to organisation. He reminded the house that no organisation has ever performed well on the shoulders of one person – it is the collective will of the organisation that will bring outstanding results. If everybody expects the Secretary General to perform miracles, it won't be correct, rather it would be the beginning of an end, he cautioned.
Com Shrivastava requested all Units, delegates and observers to implement the programmes given by the HQr religiously (though the word is bit misplaced) and send communications on time to HQr. This itself would bring about a electrifying change in the scenario. He also pointed out one deficiency that is spreading – that is, lack of reading habit.
Com Shrivastava concluded by stating that he is proud of audit movement and is confident that if we all work unitedly, the movement will reach new heights.
Com SV Deshpande, former Assistant Secretary General and former President of All India Audit & Accounts Officers Association, Com Harishankar Tiwari, former Assistant Secretary General and Com CM Phatak, former President of CAA, Nagpur greeted the Conference. Comrade Gurpreet Singh, Convener, Joint Council of Trade Unions, Nagpur also greeted the Conference.
The Secretary General summed up the discussion on Report, Audited Accounts and Policy and Programme resolution. After summing up of the discussion by the Secretary General, the house unanimously adopted the Report of the Secretary General and Audited Accounts and also the Policy and Programme Resolution.
Secretary General reported that the Women's Convention held at AG's Office from 11 AM elected a Committee with Com Bandana Bhattacharjee (Guwahati) as Chairperson and Com KN Jayashree Raj (Bengaluru) as Convener. The Convention also elected Coms Jeyajothy (Chennai) and Rekha Narsikar (Nagpur) as Joint Conveners. The newly elected office bearers of Women's Committee were introduced to the House. The House welcomed the Women's Committee office bearers with thunderous applause.
Com Ramesh, Convener, Resolution Committee & Com Subrata Saha, Member Resolution Committee moved various resolutions during sessions. The House adopted all resolutions.
Various Subcommittees constituted by the Conference submitted their Reports. The House adopted all the reports with the direction to the National Executive committee to pursue the issues raised in each of the report.
Thereafter President declared the constitution of the Electoral College and proposed Com KL Gautam as Election officer and Com. Abhay Jha of Audit Cat II Jaipur as polling officer for conducting elections to the National Executive Committee. The House approved the proposals, initiating election of the National Executive Committee.
The election procedure was over by 4 pm and the results were declared by the Election Officer at 4.15 p.m.
The Newly elected National Executive Committee was introduced to the house.
Comrade Jagdish Panchal, Vice President in the outgoing National Executive was felicitated by the Host Unit by presenting shawl and momento. The house gave a standing ovation to Com Jagdish Panchal.
Comrade Tapas Bose, newly elected President, addressed the House. Com MS Raja Secretary General thanked everybody for the confidence reposed and assured to carry out the decisions of the Conference with determination.
Subhash Pandey, President of the Conference thanked everybody for the co-operation for the smooth conduct of the conference and assured that he would always be available at the call of All India Audit & Accounts Association. He specially thanked the host for the excellent arrangements.
Comrade V Sreekumar Additional Secretary General offered vote of thanks to the Host Unit – for the warm hospitality and the best arrangements. All the delegates, observers and the guests would remember the warmth of Nagpur comrades, he said.
Com KC Mathai thanked all for the co-operation in the smooth conduct of the conferences. He apologised for any lapse that could have occurred unwittingly from the Reception Committee. He also thanked the National Executive Committee for honouring the Nagpur Units with the responsibility of hosting the 47th conference.
The 47th conference concluded formally when the flag of All India Audit & Accounts Association hoisted on 8th August was taken down amidst slogans.
The Conference was formally declared as concluded at 5.40 pm on 11th August 2016.
With greetings,
Yours fraternally
Secretary General
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By Bruce Levine-
(CBS) — The Jackie Robinson West Little League players that won the national championship were honored guests of the Cubs at Wrigley Field on Monday.
The now-famous 13 members of the team from the South Side club received pregame congratulations from the players, a picture with the entire Cubs team and a tour of the clubhouse.
The Cinderella story for the young players continues until Tuesday morning, when Chicago Public schools go back in session. The young men who captivated the entire nation with their improbable run at the Little League World Series have one more celebration in front of them. The team and their families will be honored with a celebration at Disney World next weekend.
Cubs players seemed excited about having the young champs at Wrigley on Monday.
"It has been great getting to know these young men," pitcher Wesley Wright said. "I have been really impressed with them. They are very mature and not over their heads by all the attention."
Wright was asked if this experience and exposure for young African-American children can get more kids from the inner city back playing baseball.
"It won't hurt the process," Wright said. "I think it will take more than one team though. I believe throughout the U.S, people start playing the game at a younger age and sticking with the game. I think a lot of kids play the game at a younger age, then get pulled away for a number of reasons. If we can keep them playing all the way from middle school though high school, it will give the game a chance to grow all over."
The number of African-Americans playing in the major leagues has dropped to under eight percent of the 900 players listed on the 30 clubs. The highest percentage of African-American players was 27 percent in 1975. Since 1980, there has been a steady decline in black players in the sport. MLB has seen an increase in Hispanic players from seven percent in 1975 to more than 30 percent in 2014.
Bruce Levine covers the Cubs and White Sox for 670 The Score and CBSChicago.com. Follow him on Twitter @MLBBruceLevine.

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CMN Backstory
Welcome to the launch site for my project, Call My Name: African Americans in Clemson University History. My name is Rhondda R. Thomas, and I'm the Calhoun Lemon Professor of Literature at Clemson University in Clemson, South Carolina, where I conduct research and teach courses about 18th & 19th-century African American literature and American Literature and culture.
I became interested in learning more about Clemson's history on my first day of work during a campus tour in August of 2007 when one of my colleagues informed me the university was built on American statesman John C. Calhoun and his wife Floride Calhoun's Fort Hill Plantation.
I had been hired as a visiting assistant professor/post-doc to teach early African American and American literature in Clemson's Department of English. Later that fall, I accepted a tenure-track position and intensified my research, inspired by and building on the work of my English department colleagues Professors Susanna Ashton and Michael LeMahieu, and working alongside Professors Cameron Bushnell, Kimberly Manganelli, and Angela Naimou who were also engaged in recovering and examining this history.
Photograph: Professor Thomas standing in front of John C. & Floride Calhoun's Fort Hill Plantation house that is located in the center of the Clemson University campus. (Source: Clemson University Creative Media Services.)
Seven Generations of People of African Descent
in Clemson University History, 1737 onward
The Call My Name team is researching and documenting the stories, acknowledging the contributions, and honoring the legacy of six generations of people of African descent at the university. I chose "Call My Name" as the name of the project to evoke the call and response tradition associated with African American culture, as we are calling the names of Black people in early Clemson history and inviting the public to assist us in making their stories accessible locally and internationally. The project name also evokes the roll call for the cadets who matriculated at Clemson College, as well as the roll call that occurs in classes and at graduation for current Clemson students.
While some higher education institutions established during the colonial and antebellum periods initially focused on the history and legacies of slavery in the founding and flourishing of their universities, CMN adopts an approach for Clemson University that reaches back to Africans who lived freely before they were captured, sold into slavery, transported to the British colonies and eventually forced to migrate to John C. Calhoun's Fort Hill Plantation that had been established in the South Carolina Upstate in 1825. The story traces the journey of African peoples from slavery forward more than a century to the enrollment of Harvey Gantt as the first Black student at the University in 1963 and the graduation of the first Black PhD student James Bostic Jr. in 1972, and then into the twenty-first century. There are seven generations of Black people connected to early Clemson University history during this time period: 1) Free Africans and enslaved persons of African descent, 2) sharecroppers and servants, 3) convict laborers, 4) wage workers and cooperative extension service employees, 5) musicians, 6) students, faculty, staff, and administrators, as well as 7) 21st century activism. Their stories will increase our understanding of South Carolina and America's complex history including that of families and plantations, and black labor and race relations and higher education.
To support the work of the Call My Name: African Americans in Clemson University History Project, please click here to make a donation through the Clemson Foundation. Thank you.
More details about the six generations are provided below the photographs.
Photographs (l to r): Matilda Brown, who was enslaved on the Fort Hill Plantation, and her thimble (circa early 1900s); Harvey Gantt registering for classes on January 28, 1963; Sikes Sit-in in April 2016 (Sources: Eva Martin Personal Collection, Harvey Gantt Papers, Clemson University Libraries' Special Collections & Archives, and Edith Dunlap).
Generation I: Free Africans & Enslaved Persons of African Descent
At least 129 enslaved Blacks lived and labored on the Fort Hill Plantation, established by American statesman John C. Calhoun in 1825 near Pendleton, South Carolina. But their story really begins with free Africans like Polydore and Menemin who are believed to have been captured and enslaved in Africa and transported to South Carolina where they were sold to enslavers again and eventually forced to migrate to and labor for the Calhoun family in the Upcountry region of the state. The Calhouns had initially settled in Abbeville, SC, before John C. Calhoun relocated his family to his own plantation. Enslaved persons worked on Fort Hill as domestics, field hands, valets, gatekeepers, gardeners, blacksmiths, carpenters, carriage drivers, and weavers for the Calhouns, Andrew Pickens and Margaret Calhoun, and Thomas Green and Anna Calhoun Clemson families.
CMN is conducting research to document and provide new insights into the lives and labors of people of African descent who were enslaved at Fort Hill, as well as their descendants who remained in and migrated from South Carolina after the Civil War. In telling their stories, CMN will also enhance our understanding of the Calhouns and Clemsons as enslavers and the institution of slavery in Upstate South Carolina.
Photograph: Thomas and Franny Fruster, former enslaved persons (foreground) and Mary Prince, caretaker (on porch) at the Fort Hill Plantation House (Source: Thomas Green Clemson Papers, Clemson University Libraries' Special Collections & Archives).
Generation II - Sharecroppers & Servants
Between 1868 and 1874, at least 44 freedmen and women—formerly enslaved—signed annual contracts to labor as sharecroppers for Clemson University founder Thomas Green Clemson and his agent on the Fort Hill Plantation. Sixteen children worked alongside them as half-hands. The adult laborers signed the documents with an X mark (due to illiteracy or disability) that stipulated the terms of their work, including pay for planting and harvesting crops, housing arrangements, rules governing behavior, and punishments for offenses.
Thomas Green Clemson also hired African Americans as servants to work for him at Fort Hill.
CMN is conducting research about these sharecroppers and servants who labored on Fort Hill during the Reconstruction era. We are also seeking details about their enslavement during the antebellum period and their descendants. Additionally, CMN will investigate the roles of Thomas Green Clemson and his agent for the sharecropping enterprise at Fort Hill and the maintenance of the home place.
Image: Annual Articles of Agreement signed with an X mark by freed men and women, alongside notations regarding child laborers, to work as sharecroppers for Thomas Green Clemson on the Fort Hill Plantation during Reconstruction during Reconstruction (Source: Thomas Green Clemson Papers, Clemson University Libraries' Special Collections & Archives).
Generation III: Convict Laborers
Between 1890 and 1915, Clemson College trustees successfully petitioned the South Carolina State Assembly at least three times for permission to lease incarcerated boys and men from the state penitentiary in Columbia to help build Clemson Agricultural College of South Carolina. The men and boys assigned to the Clemson College convict detail hailed from nearly every county in the state and ranged in age from 12 to 67 when they were processed into the penitentiary. The 12-year-old turned 13 before he was assigned to the Clemson convict work detail. The majority of convicts assigned to work at Clemson College were under the age of 25.
Convicted of crimes varying from petty theft to murder with sentences ranging from six months to life, members of the predominately Black convict workforce cleared land, made bricks, erected buildings and a dike, farmed crops, and built an extension station for Clemson College, a land-grant academic institution for white cadets founded in 1899 and opened for classes in 1893. A small percentage of the convicted men received pardons from several SC governors, including Benjamin R. Tillman, while working at the College. Those who died while laboring were buried in unmarked graves within the Fort Hill cemetery for enslaved persons.
CMN seeks to confirm the identity of all of the men and boys who were listed in the registers of convict laborers assigned to Clemson College and determine which of them actually worked on the convict detail at the institution. We are also documenting their contributions to the building and maintenance of the College. Additionally, we seek to provide insights into the lives of the men and boys before, during, and after incarceration, as well as identify their descendants.
In writing the stories of members of this generation, CMN illuminates the socio-political structure that emerged in South Carolina following the end of Reconstruction, particularly the excessive policing and criminalization of Black boys and men, the rise of the prison industrial complex, and the impact of Jim Crow laws and customs on the African American community.
Image: Page one of the first register listing the names of men and boys assigned to the Clemson College convict detail in August of 1890 (Source: South Carolina Department of Archives & History, Columbia, SC).
Generation IV: Wage Workers & Cooperative Extension Service Employees
Beginning in the late 1800s, Black Americans were hired as wage workers on the land that became Clemson University as domestics, cooks, farm hands, barbers, garbage collectors, groundskeepers, construction workers, and butchers to maintain the infrastructure of the institution.
Clemson also employed "Negro" Cooperative Extension Service Agents to develop and support community organization, increase farm and home ownership, encourage educational pursuits and independence, improve residents' health and understanding of nutrition, and facilitate the development of sanitation services in rural Black communities throughout the state.
CMN seeks to identify and tell the stories of Black Americans who labored as wage workers and extension agents at Clemson prior to and immediately after integration, and to document the essential role of Black labor for Clemson's growth and success. We will also tell stories about the impact of extension workers on the development of Black communities throughout South Carolina.
Photograph: South Carolina 4-H Club, Clemson College Extension Program (Source: Documenting the Clemson African American Experience, Clemson University Libraries' Special Collections & Archives.)
Generation V: Musicians
As early as 1920, African American musicians performed for dances and gave concerts at Clemson. That year, the Tiger, the student-run newspaper, reported that a "negro orchestra" played for the Junior Prom. Throughout the Depression, other African American musical groups, including Graham Jackson and the Seminole Syncopators, Neil Montgomery, the Jimmy Gunn Orchestra, and Fletcher Henderson and his Orchestra, were hired to play at Clemson. In 1939, Jimmie Lunceford became the first Black musician booked by Clemson's student-run Central Dance Association (CDA) to have his photograph included in a Tiger article about his performance. In 1955, the CDA hired Duke Ellington and his orchestra for three performances. Eight years later, while Clemson College administrators sought unsuccessfully to legally bar Black architecture student Harvey Gantt from enrolling at the higher education institution, the CDA continued to pay Black musicians to perform at dances and social events for white Clemson students on campus.
CMN seeks to identify all Black musicians who performed at Clemson prior to and in the decade immediately after integration and to document their varied experiences at the institution during and after the Jim Crow era.
Photograph: Duke Ellington autographed this photo for the Clemson Dance Association (Source: George Bennett Papers, Clemson University Libraries' Special Collections & Archives, ca. 1955. Photograph is in the public domain).
Generation VI: Students, Faculty, Staff & Administrators
On January 28, 1963, Harvey Gantt became the first Black student to enroll in Clemson after winning a class-action lawsuit for admission without regard to race. Harvey Gantt began the admission process by requesting a bulletin and application on November 2, 1960. After his application was repeatedly denied or delayed for various reasons, his father filed a lawsuit on his behalf in the summer of 1962, which he won on appeal in January of 1963.
CMN seeks to ensure that the details regarding Harvey Gantt's two-year fight to gain admission to Clemson are accessible to the public, as well as information about the matriculations of other Black students who enrolled at the University, particularly during the first decade of integration. We will also document how the desegregation of the student body helped to facilitate the hiring of the first generation of Black faculty and administrators and a marked increase in the number and variety of staff at Clemson, as well as honor their accomplishments.
Photograph: Harvey Gantt at press conference following enrollment in Clemson College in January of 1963 (Source: Harvey Gantt Papers, Clemson University Libraries' Special Collections & Archives).
Generation VII: 21st century activism
During the 21st century, African American students and their allies and accomplices became increasingly vocal about changes that Clemson University needed to make in order to address systemic racism and implement changes that would enable it to become a more inclusive and welcoming academic community.
A.D. Carson, then a graduate student in the RCID program, composed a powerful poem titled "See The Stripes" that drew much needed attention to the oft glossed over "stripes" of Clemson's history--namely, slavery, sharecropping, and convict leasing--and issued a much needed call for change.
Students also became involved in the Black Lives Matter movement begun after Trayvon Martin's murderer was acquitted and Black people like Mike Brown, Eric Garner, Tamir Rice, Sandra Bland and many others were murdered, and more recently Elijah McClain, Ahmaud Arbery, Brianna Taylor, and George Floyd, often by police.
More than a year before the Sikes Sit-in in April 2016, students submitted grievances and demands to Clemson's executive leadership team to address their concerns.
Through a steady stream of marches, forums, meetings, and protests, African American students and their supporters are continuing to demand changes that Clemson University must make to create a diverse, inclusive, and welcoming community.
Photo: Sikes Sit-in, April 2016.
South Carolina Historical Markers Project
Beginning in January of 2015, a team of Clemson professors, alumni, and staff, including Barret Anderson, Dr. James Bostic Jr., Will Hiott, Professor Jeremy King, Professor Denise Anderson, and Professor Rhondda Thomas worked to research, write text, and prepare the applications for three new South Carolina state historical markers that provide recognition for the Native American and Black American life stories in early Clemson history. Some Clemson historians were also consulted for the project. After we secure Board of Trustees approval, these markers were installed on Clemson's campus in April of 2016: 1) Esseneca Town/Calhoun Bottoms, 2) Fort Hill Slave Cemetery and Convict Laborer Burial Ground/Woodland Cemetery, and 3) Fort Hill Slave Quarters/Convict Laborer Stockade.
Clemson Student Research Projects
The Clemson Story Creative Inquiry Project
During the 2015-16 academic year, a team of 13 undergraduate students conducted research for the Clemson University Story Project. Their work ranged from documenting all of the Clemson University trustees and their political affiliations to detailing the stories of Black women at Clemson.
"The African American Experience at Clemson" Honors English Project
During the spring of 2012, Kali Kupp, an English major in my Honors Seminar, renaissance @ clemson.edu which examined Clemson University founder Thomas Green Clemson and Harvey Gantt who integrated Clemson in 1963 as renaissance men, developed a website devoted to Black peoples' contributions to and involvement in Clemson for her final project. Click the link below to learn more about Kali's research.
Photograph: CI team member conducting research in the South Carolina state archives (Credit: Rhondda Thomas, 2016).
Call My Name Publications by Dr. Thomas
Forthcoming: Call My Name, Clemson: Documenting the Black Experience in an Upstate South Carolina University Community, Humanities and Public Life Series, University of Iowa Press, November 2020. Pre-order your copy by clicking here.
Photograph: Susan Calhoun Clemson Richardson holding Byron Herlong (ca. 1892 (?). Mrs. Richardson was enslaved by both the John C. Calhoun and Thomas Green Clemson families. After the Civil War, she was employed as a caretaker for the Herlong family children for three generations. She died in Aiken, SC, in the early 1900s. Her burial site is currently unknown. (Source: Historic Properties, Clemson University)
StoryCorps Collaboration with CMN
Media Coverage of CMN
Photograph (left to right): 90-year-old Mrs. Eva Hester Martin. Mrs. Martin's grandmother Matilda Brown—daughter of Sharper and Caroline who were enslaved on the Fort Hill Plantation. Mrs. Martin's mother Anna Brown, born after Emancipation. Mrs. Martin's high school graduation photo (Credit: Rhondda Thomas, 2016).
In March of 2019, CMN faculty director Dr. Rhondda R. Thomas gave a TEDx talk in Greenville, South Carolina, titled "The Power in Calling a Name."
Call My Name Research Team
CMN Project Affiliation
Call My Name Coalition
The purpose of The CMN Coalition shall be to maintain a partnership of organizations interested in documenting the African American experience at Clemson University and in the Clemson area, particularly the three adjacent counties of Anderson, Oconee, and Pickens, in Upstate South Carolina. By recording, representing, and soliciting the experiences of generations of African American life in an extraordinary microcosm of American history and racial politics, we hope to advance and encourage appreciation, understanding, of the African American experience, and to cooperate, when appropriate, with other groups to improve the cultural activities of the community.
CMN Coalition Members
Photograph: Student League for Black Identity organized at Clemson University in 1968 (Source: Clemson University Libraries' Special Collections & Archives, ca. 1975).
Call My Name Tours
Professor Thomas conducts 2-hour tours of Clemson University that focus on Black history and heritage. Stops include Calhoun Bottoms, the last piece of Fort Hill Plantation land, originally the location of the Cherokee town of Esseneca, where Clemson's organic farm is currently located; the site of the Fort Hill slave quarters and convict stockade near Lee Hall; the historic district that includes buildings built by boys and men on the predominately Black convict labor crew (Hardin Hall, Trustee House, Sikes Hall, and Old Main [Tillman Hall]); the Fort Hill Plantation House; and the Fort Hill Cemetery for the Enslaved and Convict Burial Ground located adjacent to Woodland Cemetery. Most tours end with conversation over a meal featuring cuisine from the African Diaspora.
Tour Schedule
We will begin tours again after the COVID-19 pandemic ends.
- Black History Month Celebration, Clemson University's Harvey and Lucinda Gantt Multicultural Center, February 11, 2020, 3-5 p.m.
- Black History Month program sponsored by Clemson University's Harvey and Lucinda Gantt Multicultural Center, February 7 and 21, 2018, 3-5 p.m.
- Black History Month program sponsored by Clemson University's Harvey and Lucinda Gantt Multicultural Center, February 7 and 21, 2018, 3-5 p.m.
- Clemson Undergraduate Student Association Cabinet, November 2017
- Contemplative African American Heritage Tour, October 2016 and March 2017
- Greater Clemson Music Festival, April 2015 and April 2016
- The Slave Dwelling Project Encampment at Clemson, former site of Fort Hill Plantation Slave Quarters, April 2016
- Leading for Environment and Future Living Learning Community (LEAF), Clemson University, April 2016
- Clemson Black Student Union, March 2016
For more information about tours, please email email@example.com
Photograph: Descendants of Franny and Thomas Fruster who were enslaved on the Fort Hill Plantation. (Source: Clemson University Creative Media Services, Ken Scar)
Coming Soon
traveling Museum Exhibition
Call My Name: The African American Experience in the South Carolina Upstate from Enslavement to Desegregation is a traveling museum exhibition that functions as a case study that explores how Upstate South Carolina, particularly the greater Clemson community, became part of the African Diaspora. The exhibition will begin with free Africans in their homeland, and then trace their and other Black peoples' journeys through slavery, freedom, emancipation, segregation, and desegregation in the Greater Clemson University community. Their stories include those of free Africans and enslaved people of African descent prior to Emancipation; freed men and women who labored as sharecroppers during Reconstruction; incarcerated laborers, aged 13-67, who erected the University's earliest buildings; wage workers who maintained the campus infrastructure during the Jim Crow era; musicians like Duke Ellington and Ray Charles who performed at segregated social events; and students, faculty, and staff who came to Clemson during the first decade of integration. Black Clemson will also draw a connection between Clemson University history and the stories of Black people and the development of institutions in local communities by/for Blacks, such as the King's Chapel African Methodist Episcopal Church organized in 1865 and the Abel Baptist Church established in 1868; Littlejohn's Grill, a nightclub-restaurant-hotel where musicians like James Brown and Count Basie performed; the Calhoun and Cadillac Heights neighborhoods; and the Silver Spring School, Calhoun Elementary School, and Seneca Institute.
Key project partners are the Call My Name Coalition, the Bertha Lee Strickland Cultural Museum of Seneca, SC; the Clemson Area African American Museum; the Lunney Museum of Seneca, SC; and the Pendleton Foundation for the Study of Black History and Culture. Other collaborators include Clemson University Libraries Special Collections and Archives; the Clemson University Humanities Hub; and the Upcountry History Museum of Greenville - Furman University, a Smithsonian affiliate.
The exhibition reclaims these forgotten stories that are essential for understanding the intricate connections between the history of Black folks in Clemson and the region, state, and nation.
Gifts, Grants, and Awards, Sponsors, & collaborators
Gifts, Grants, and Awards
CARES Act Grant, support of post-doc for research of African American history in South Carolina Upstate, with co-PI Professor Lee Morrissey, director of the Humanities Hub, Clemson University, National Endowment for the Humanities, Summer 2020
Public Humanities Exhibitions - Implementation with co-PI Professor Lee Morrissey, director of the Humanities Hub, Clemson University, National Endowment for the Humanities, 2020
Common Heritage Grant, "Documenting Your Roots" Community Digitizing Event with co-PI Professor Lee Morrissey, director of the Humanities Hub, Clemson University, National Endowment for the Humanities, 2018 (co-PI Professor Lee Morrissey, director of Clemson Humanities Hub)
Whiting Public Engagement Fellowship, 2018-19 (for exhibition project)
Creating Humanities Communities Grant, National Endowment for the Humanities with co-investigator Professor Lee Morrissey, director of the Humanities Hub, Clemson University, 2017-2022
Mini-Grant, South Carolina Humanities (for exhibition project), July 2017
African American History, Culture and Digital Humanities Scholar, University of Maryland, Spring 2019
Gift from Dr. James E. and Edith H. Bostic, Jr., Clemson University Foundation, 2014 and 2017
Matching grant for Bostics' gifts from Office of the Provost, Clemson University, Clemson, SC, 2014 and 2017
The Department of English, Clemson University
Office of the Provost, Clemson University
Office of Inclusion & Equity, Clemson University
College of Architecture, Arts, and Humanities, Clemson University
Harvey and Lucinda Gantt Multicultural Center, Clemson University
The Humanities Hub, Clemson University
Clemson Libraries' Special Collections & Archives
Pearce Center for Professional Communications, Department of English, Clemson University
Historic Properties, Clemson University
Clemson University Art Majors
Clemson Athletics Creative Media Team
Photograph: Descendants of Franny and Thomas Fruster who were enslaved on the Fort Hill Plantation attending History in Plain Sight Day at Clemson University on November 14, 2016. Credit: Ken Scar
Make a Gift to Call My Name
To support the research for the Call My Name: African Americans in Clemson University History Project, please click here to make a donation through the Clemson Foundation. Thank you.
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RIVERSIDE—Associate Justice Thomas E. Hollenhorst, of the Court of Appeal, Fourth Appellate District, Division Two announced his retirement effective August 1, 2017, after 45 years of public service—over 28 years on the Court of Appeal in Riverside.
Justice Hollenhorst served as the acting district attorney, assistant district attorney and deputy district attorney of Riverside County from 1972 to 1981. He was appointed by Governor Edmund G. Brown, Jr., to the Municipal Court, Riverside Judicial District in 1981, where in 1984 he served as presiding judge. In 1985 he was appointed by Governor George Deukmejian to the Superior Court of Riverside County, and then to the Court of Appeal in 1988. During his judicial career Justice Hollenhorst was elected, or retained in office, by the voters five times.
"Tom is an ideal judge, that rare individual who is blessed with both a head and a heart. He worked hard inside the courthouse, but never forgot to give back to the community through his work with the Rotary Club and education and outreach programs. He is a self-described ʻplough horse' and one of the hardest working, most prolific appellate court justices in the state, authoring close to 5,000 opinions," commented Presiding Justice Manuel Ramirez. "He is a man of many talents and interests, a modern day ʻRenaissance Man'—he began the unprecedented practice of sending tentative opinions to counsel to prepare for oral argument—he was very active in judicial education and ethics—on a daily basis, worked to improve the administration of justice and the lives of those he came into contact with. He truly saw himself as a public servant, devoting his life to serving others, most especially the people of California."
Justice Hollenhorst chaired the Center for Judicial Education and Research Governing Committee and their Ethics Education Committee. He also served as faculty on statewide judicial education programs and institutes, including science and the law, judicial ethics, and court technology. He was a member of the American Bar Association Appellate Judge Seminar Series Planning Committee, the California Judges Association Ethics Committee, the Science and Law Steering Judicial Council Advisory Committee, and the Court Technology Judicial Counsel Advisory Committee.
In 1995, he published a study of the tentative opinion program that he co-founded. (Hollenhorst, Tentative Opinions: An Analysis of Their Benefit in the Appellate Court of California (1995) 36 Santa Clara L.R. 1.).
Justice Hollenhorst received a B.A. from San Jose State College in 1968, a J.D. from the University of California, Hastings College of Law in 1971, and an L.L.M. from the University of Virginia School of Law in 1995.
An avid fisherman and pianist, Justice Hollenhorst enjoys time with family, friends, and his dogs, and motorcycle rides and small aircraft flights around Southern California. He is married to Beth Hollenhorst and is the father of two adult sons and has four grandchildren.


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Cozy up by the fire with a warm mug of Apple-Ale Wassail. This English holiday drink is made with apple-ale and flavored with allspice, cinnamon, cloves, and cardamom.
How to Make It
Step 1
Stir together ale, apple cider, port, lemonade, brown sugar, diced apple, whole allspice, 2 (3-inch) cinnamon sticks, whole cloves, cardamom in a 5-qt. slow cooker. Cover and cook on LOW 3 hours or until hot. Remove diced apple, if desired. Ladle into mugs. Garnish, if desired.
Step 2
Note: We tested with Sierra Nevada Tumbler Autumn Brown Ale.
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Teaching how to use the Integration Cloud Service Connectivity Agent by Carlos Rodriguez Iturria
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I have been Integrating applications for the last 15+ years and normally every integration is a new challenge. It really doesn't matter what technology or standards you use or have used in the past, the reality is that integrations come a new set of challenges. In the past few years the pre-built adapters have simplified in a way these challenges, but with hybrid architectures a new set of challenges comes to the picture, for example; connectivity, security, simplicity, message reliability, etc.
I was very excited when I learned the way Oracle Cloud is using to solve this problem. It is with something called Oracle ICS (Integration Cloud Service) Connectivity Agents, that basically get installed close to the Application being integrated, for example on-premise or in IaaS. Then using ICS in a browser, you can introspect into the backend application as if it was close to ICS, in fact with this solution ICS is completely oblivious of the location of the actual backend application. The Connectivity Agent will in this case connect internally with the back-end applications and communicate to ICS by pushing out messages via Messaging Cloud Service.
This agent is installed and runs in an on-premises environment on the same network as internal systems such as Oracle E-Business Suite, Oracle Siebel, Oracle Database, and others. You download the on-premises agent installer from the Agents page in Oracle Integration Cloud Service to your on-premises environment for installation. Multiple agents can run on a single host. There can be multiple host systems, each running one or more agents, in a cloud/on premises topology. Read the complete article here.
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Intellimed Releases IntelliMarket, a Big Data Healthcare Analytics Solution
Intellimed Releases IntelliMarket, a Big Data Healthcare Analytics Solution
Advanced Analytics of Claims Data Solves Critical Pain Points for Hospital Systems
PHOENIX, Ariz., October 2, 2018 – IntellimedInternational, a healthcare data analytics solution provider, announces the release of IntelliMarket™– a web-based tool that provides turnkey strategic direction based upon the advanced processing of billions of healthcare claims records. Using IntelliMarket™, healthcare strategy and marketing groups can quickly query diagnostic (DX) and procedure (PX) codes across specific geographic service areas (zip or county), by physician, service line, place of service, payor, patient location origin or disease.
"With IntelliMarket™ we've built a tool that supports and encourages healthcare systems leveraging claims data from 360 degrees," said Rob Pickering CEO of Intellimed. "The application is built to support not just all types of healthcare users – for example analysts, marketers and senior level individuals – but also all skill levels, from novice to highly advanced users. Users can query data by disease state, referring or rendering physician, service area, place of service, payor, patient location and more, and view in a multitude of formats including dashboards and reports."
Healthcare claims record processing requires a big data solution that frees users to control or customize his or her queries and that produces fast and accurate results. "Our new product fills the void for this critical need for hospitals and other healthcare providers," stated Goodwin.
"Our goal was to create a big data healthcare analytics solution that solved a real pain point for hospitals and healthcare systems," said Sarah DeSantis-Sullivan, Vice President of Product Solutions. Desantis-Sullivan added that the IntelliMarket™ tool provides three key solutions:
- Providing transparency in the data and application to ensure hospital systems can make the most accurate decisions.
- Accessing the data from almost unlimited vantage points to find the critical insights and market opportunities.
- Delivering insights in formats that support the variety of end-users within a health system.
According to Pickering, "For years, Intellimed customers have come to rely on our quality data and analytics solutions, high-level of customer service and strategic value of our Intelliclient™and Physicians Pattern Insight solutions. Our IntelliMarket™tool continues in that mode and delivers turnkey big data healthcare insights to the users who are charged with favorably impacting the future of the health system."
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You were the one who first broke my heart.
It was because of you I learned to make pain an art.
I'm the light, but I live in the dark.
I'm the light, but I live in the dark.
I never knew I needed love until I ached,
Until I was shaped by every escape.
In kindergarten, I dropped many tears
On the pages of my homework and always
Handed it in without a world of care.
I never knew I needed to be loved until I saw
everyone else's parents loved them back, in awe.
In awe, I was. In awe I was because I saw.
I carried around anger like my lifeline.
And I never held it against the divine.
And I never questioned if I was good enough.
I was, despite the hefty handcuffs.
I vowed to not be like you in so many ways.
I've set blaze to many things under your name.
And I still don't have a heart the way I ought to.
And I sit facing entrances, never giving my back to a view.
And many of my feelings are dead and sometimes ill-advised.
And it doesn't matter how I tread, I can't disguise the chill in my eyes.
And the anger I kept has evaporated nearly now that you're gone.
Permanence is never permanent, and somehow I found a way to live on.
Your body in the coffin was as real as when I imagined it at twelve.
That was the last time I cried and put my feelings on the bookshelf.
The numbness I contained up until that day released at your wake.
I didn't understand with every preparation came a new defense,
It's almost as if everything in life made sense, and yet not at all.
Happy 56th Birthday. You're infinite now.


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Introduction: How to Open Mp3, Mp4, Ppt, Doc and Pdf Files With a Browser
The web browser you're using can do much more than just open websites. Google Chrome and its derivatives actually support a wide variety of media formats and office documents. Some of them are supported by default while others require some additional installations. Here are the files that you can open with your web browser.
Step 1: MP3 Music
You can play an MP3 music file with a Google Chrome web browser. All you need to do is right-click on an MP3 file in a folder on your PC and choose "Open in Google Chrome". This is perfect for opening a single music file.
However, if you intend on listening to full albums and creating playlists, Citrio Browser — a browser similar to Chrome — has this option.
The Media Player can be accessed via a pinned tab. Inside there's a fully functional media player where you can create playlists and listen to the music.
Step 2: MP4 Video
The previously mentioned Media Player in Citrio browser can also play video files. Fullscreen mode is available, just as shuffle for the video files playlist. Files can be opened via a context menu or by clicking on the folder icon inside teh player.
Step 3: PDF Files
Google Chrome can open PDF files by default. If you come across a PDF file online, Chrome will open it in a separate tab for viewing. Chrome and Citrio can be set as a default program for opening PDF files.
Step 4: PPT Presentations
You can open (but not edit) PPT presentations even without having Microsoft Office suite installed. For this you'll need an official Google Chrome plug-in called Docs PDF/PowerPoint Viewer (by Google). It's available for free in Google Chrome Web Store.
After installing the plug-in, you'll be presented with a list of file extensions that can be opened with the said plug-in. All of them will be opened using Google Drive and you don't need a Google account for this.
When you find a PPT file available online, right-click on the link and select Open with Docs PDF/PowerPoint Viewer.
Step 5: DOC Text Files
The same plug-in (Docs PDF/PowerPoint Viewer) works just fine with DOC files. They are also can be opened from the context menu while browsing.
Step 6: BONUS! Play Retro Games
Unfortunately, there's no way to use a browser as an emulator for old video games. There's no plug-in that allows you to open ROM-files. However, there's a site that works as an emulator and allows you to play a ton of classic console games. Head over to playretrogames.com and enjoy cool retro games (they support gamepads).


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Microvolts is a video game where I want to hack myself to be at a high level, how can I do that? I don't mind working hard for the hack to work.
Microvolts is a video game where I want to hack myself to be at a high level, how can I do that? I don't mind working hard for the hack to work.
Have a look at the descriptive advise on how to get into higher level(nearly a hack) by -
x_1_x -
.......... I can answer this because I'm currently ranked 41 on the the 100 and first appeared on the top 100 when I was LEVEL 58.
Ok, the top 100 is based on these 4 factors mainly
Believe it or not, Level and WL mean a lot more than KD and playtime. This is because MV designed the top 100 to filter the level/kill hackers out. If you see a obvious hacker they are most likely low ranked for their level (like last page of top 100 when level 71). If you got a good WL, you are most likely higher ranked than a same level good KD user. Therefore, kill farming is useless if you are trying to get to the top 100.
Therefore, to get on the top 100 with a low level as fast as you can. You must farm Yuki's 1:55 method as this gives you a large WL. Keep in mind that if you got an 8 WL ratio and you stop farming so your WL drops to 5. Your rank will not go down as the top 100 is also designed to only let users go up in rank by playing.
This means that if you farm 1:55 a lot you will appear on the top 100 when you are level 58, if you elimination kill farm, you will appear at around 63, if you play legit or TDM/CTB farm you will appear on the top 100 in around level 66/67.
From my correct infos, I will assume that luptatortheck used some CE or TDM farmed and UziEl used hacks but was really good at disguising it.
Hope I help (I obviously did)
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If you 'travel' in the planner world you know who The Reset Girl is. If you don't know who she is check out her YouTube channel called "The Reset Girl" or her Instagram account called @TheResetGirl or her shop…you guessed it… theresetgirlshop.com. She started a challenge for the month of April called #Listersgottalist and it has grown HUGE. Everyone doing the challenge is having so much fun. It is not too late to get in on it. I've posted here my first two lists. Day one was "Why I love being a Planner Girl" and day two "My Favorite Songs of All Time". If you want the challenge sheet and more info on it head on over to the website for it – here. By the time the challenge is over I will have an insert that will go to my collection of writings, journals, etc that I will leave for my kids and grandkids when I am gone, helping them to know who I was just a little more..priceless information. Thank you Cori AKA The Reset Girl for the challenge. You are inspiration to many…..
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How do Kids do on a Bareboat Charter?
Does having children in your "crew" leave you at the dock? Nope. Ok, so your friends WILL call you nuts. They will implore you to reconsider. Suddenly your wife's (or husband's) parents will offer to let the kids stay with them, but why? As with most things unknown, the thought of little ones on a boat for a week (or more) scares the pants off of them. Hey, it may even scare you a bit. But it shouldn't. Kids adapt more quickly than adults do. Even the shy ones. Once they get aboard they become better sailing companions than your long time friends or family chartering with you (soon to be ex-friends and ex family, just kidding!). The Mayday Crew even has a 3 year-old Jr. First Mate on the crew. She manages the anchor light, has the best memory of all of us and is probably the strongest swimmer (not that the rest of the crew are slouches). The little ones love to keep the safety rules enforced! Kids, when given responsibility on a yacht, take to it like a fish to.. OK I'll say it.. water. They become as purposeful as they become imaginative. It is easy to fall back on toys.. but fight the urge. There is plenty to keep them more than occupied. Happy even!
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JUST weeks out from the Olympics, the CSIRO and its Chinese partners have officially launched a post-combustion capture (PCC) pilot plant in Beijing that strips carbon dioxide from power station flue gases in an effort to stem climate change.
The project represents another first for the CSIRO PCC program – the first capture of carbon dioxide in China using a PCC pilot plant. It begins the process of applying the technology to Chinese conditions and evaluating its effectiveness.
PCC is a process that uses a liquid to capture carbon dioxide from power station flue gases and is a technology that can potentially reduce carbon dioxide emissions from existing and future coal-fired power stations by more than 85 per cent.
The post-combustion research pilot plant at the Huaneng Beijing Co-Generation Power Plant is designed to capture 3000 tonnes per annum of carbon dioxide.
CSIRO's partners in the Beijing pilot project are China's Huaneng Group and the Thermal Power Research Institute (TPRI).
Chief of CSIRO's Energy Technology Division, Dr David Brockway, said the project was part of a broad program to identify ways to significantly reduce greenhouse gas emissions from the energy sector.
"Given the world's reliance on coal, we need to find ways to make it a cleaner energy source. We're delighted to be working with our partners in China to help find solutions to this global challenge," Dr Brockway said.
"In a recent visit to China, Prime Minister Kevin Rudd said that China was the largest consumer of coal in the world and Australia was the world's largest exporter of coal. As such, Australia and China should work together develop low emissions coal technologies."
The PCC project will focus on assessing the performance of an amine-based pilot plant under Chinese conditions.
"It will allow PCC technology to be progressed in the Chinese energy sector which will have a much greater impact than operating in Australia alone," Dr Brockway said.
"The next steps in the research would be moving to a much larger demonstration phase, before then progressing to a full scale system."
The installation of the PCC pilot plant in Beijing is a CSIRO Energy Transformed Flagship research project which receives funding from the Australian Government through the Asia Pacific Partnership on Clean Development and Climate initiative (APP). The APP program for PCC also includes a pilot plant installation at Delta Electricity's Munmorah power station on the NSW Central Coast, with an additional Queensland site currently under negotiation.
The Australian Government's APP support PCC research is $12 million, $4 million of which supports this work in China.
CSIRO is also undertaking PCC research outside the scope of the APP program with a $5.6 million project in the Latrobe Valley, which focuses on brown coal.


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Killington Reopens and Others Soon to Follow
Killington, VT, Nov. 8--Killington Ski Area fired up its lifts again Saturday, reopening after a temporary closing. Killington was the first resort to open in New England, on Oct. 25, but was forced to close again due to mild temperatures that stalled snowmaking efforts
The Canyon Quad and the Glade triple serve the advanced Rime and East Glade trails for top-to-mid-mountain skiing with a 1-to 24-inch base. Snowmaking continues on Ram's Head and Header for top-to-bottom skiing within the next two weeks.
Also in Vermont, Mount Snow Resort's snow guns have been firing around the clock since Saturday. Last night, Mother Nature helped snow teams out with a dusting of snow spread over the Mount Snow Valley. No opening date is set, but it shouldn't be too much longer.
In New Hampshire, Attitash Bear Peak also got a dusting of snow. This prompted them to start up the snow guns yesterday on Upper Saco, Moat, and Upper Highway.
"We added man-made flakes to the natural snow that had already been falling throughout the morning," said Russ VanDeursen, vice president of mountain operations.
Attitash plans to open Moat, served by the Flying Yankee quad, on Sat. Nov. 13.


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I am trying to make a program that uses the far most column and bottom row. (the ones that basic can't use)
Here's what I have, and I have no clue why it isn't working. Help please?
BCALL ClrLCDFull
BCALL RunIndicOff
Set fullScrnDraw,(IY+apiFlg4)
LD BC,0 ;bottom left corner
LD DE,95*256+63 ;top right corner
BCALL DarkLine
BCALL GetKey ;I get the same result even if I leave this off
Oh, and I'm using Mimas .3 on my calculator.
What (I think) this code should do is draw a line from the bottom left corner to the top right corner, including the pixels at the corners.
What I am getting is a line across the screen, but neither of the corner pixels are darkening.
So I am getting the line I want, it's just that it is clipping the parts of it that are in the "forbidden rows".
This is just one of several tests I have done, all with the same results.
"Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away."


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I've been eating rather rich food the last few days, so I was keen to have something fresh and clean for dinner. Ok, so I had chips for lunch. I was craving mashed potatoes with oodles of cream and cheese and fries were a good way to satisfy my potato craving without compromising my vegan ways. But I digress. Point: clean and fresh for dinner.
I have no idea how I dreamed up the idea of dim sum for dinner. it just felt right. The only problem is that all the store-bought wonton wrappers I've ever bought are rather yellow, which must mean they're made with egg yolks, right? I could make my own wonton wrappers, but is there even a thing such as vegan wonton wrappers?
Turns out, no-egg wonton wrappers do exist and they're not even that difficult to make. I used this recipe with a few modifications; I ended up using a touch more water than recommended and I didn't have the patience to rest the dough for a full 20 minutes.
Not keen to roll the wrappers out by hand (impossible with my carpal tunnel issues anyway) I dug my pasta maker out of my cupboard and rolled them out nice and easy (-ish).
Aren't my wonton wrappers pretty?
l set them aside, and threw some red onion, garlic, ginger, half an aubergine, half a handful of cashew nuts and some yellow pepper into my food processor.
When blitzed, I turned it out into a bowl and threw in some tahini, sesame oil, chinese five spice, salt and loads of fresh coriander.
I mixed the filling up and then spooned it onto my cut wonton wrappers, before sealing the ends with water and squeezing the bits together.
this being my first attempt, the dumplings… erm… varied in size…
I lined the bottom of my steamer with baking paper then steamed the whole lot for 20 minutes (you really just need to steam them until the wrappers turn translucent).
Dinner time! I whizzed together a quick dipping sauce of garlic, ginger, sesame oil, rice wine vinegar, chili flakes and some dry white wine to have with the dumplings.
Verdict: Pretty darned good. But this was the first meal this week where I missed animal protein.
What I would do differently: Add pork. All dumplings need pork. It's just the way it is. I'd also try and be more consistent with the amount of filling per dumpling.
What I would keep the same: I'm super impressed with the wrappers I made from scratch. Also, the dipping sauce is amazing.
Would I make them again? Probably not.. unless there was some pork in there 🙂