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WASHINGTON — Fifteen field representatives deployed to locations across the United States this week to serve as liaisons between U.S. schools and the Student and Exchange Visitor Program (SEVP). The program, housed within U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement's (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations (HSI), certifies schools to enroll international students and protects national security by overseeing those students for compliance with U.S. laws.
The field representatives will serve as a key resource for schools on the SEVP certification and recertification processes. They will train school officials on SEVP, helping them not only understand the program's rules and regulations, but also federal laws governing international students studying in the United States. The field representatives will also aid in protecting national security by improving the data integrity of the Student and Exchange Visitor System (SEVIS), an Internet-based system that houses information on international students and exchange visitors while they are in the United States
Before deploying to their respective territories, field representatives completed an eight-week training course in Washington, D.C., where they learned about federal laws and regulations and the school certification process. In addition to classroom instruction, the field representatives spent time at U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP), the U.S. Department of State and HSI's Counter Terrorism and Criminal Exploitation Unit to see how the various agencies units work together to vet international students studying in the United States.
Field representatives will manage territories in one of three regions – eastern, central and western. They will work with schools in the field four days a week and spend one day per week at their home office. Once fully staffed, each region will have 20 field representatives, for a nationwide total of 60. SEVP determined the size and location of the 60 territories based on the number of SEVP-certified schools clustered in a specific geographic area.
Once deployed, a field representative has 30 days to contact designated school officials in their territory. Field representatives are required to meet twice a year with each certified school in their territory with active international students. If a school is SEVP-certified, but does not have any current international students, the field representative will reach out to that school via an annual visit, phone call or email.
ICE's Student and Exchange Visitor Program (SEVP) monitors approximately one million international students pursuing academic or vocational studies (F and M visa holders) in the United States and their dependents. It also certifies schools and programs that enroll these students. The U.S. Department of State monitors exchange visitors (J visa holders) and their dependents, and oversees exchange visitor programs.
Both agencies use SEVIS, an Internet-based system, to protect national security by ensuring that students, visitors and schools comply with U.S. laws. SEVP also collects and shares SEVIS information with government partners, including CBP and U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, so only legitimate international students and exchange visitors gain entry into the United States.
HSI reviews potential SEVIS records for potential violations and refers cases with potential national security or public safety concerns to its field offices for further investigation. HSI has reviewed more than two million records since SEVIS was introduced in 2003. Additionally, SEVP's Analysis and Operations Center reviews student and school records for administrative compliance with federal regulations related to studying in the United States.
Interviews and b-roll can be accessed at www.dvidshub.net/unit/ICE.
Learn more about SEVP at www.ICE.gov/SEVP.


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Monday, April 6, 2009
Zuda 52: Deadly/ Rock the Zuda vote!
Zuda 52 is a new blog feature that may or may not live past this post. Basically it's about what I hope to see from the next 52 screens of the latest winner of the contest. With Deadly by James Fosdike which I voted for it's pretty much a repeat of my early post about this comic, along with some general comments on the controversy which seems to envelope at least one comments section every month. My major complaint about the comic is still the same more panels per screen and better formatting to cut down on the blank black void. I have no doubt Fozzie will add to the panel count, and continue to kick ass with this comic. You often wonder when your reading the 8 screen pitch what comes next? The Foz had a very engrossing set-up apoco-wasteland genre, while it being set in Australia gives it a nice mysterious/foreign cache to readers in the States. I think from his comments the story is only going to build with the word count, and as the weeks go by the art will only become more impressive.
White stars shinning so bright
You have to be awed by the get out the vote campaign for both this comic and Children of Armegeddon. Of course at least one comic a month gets caught in a mini-fire storm, last month Deadly through no fault of its own also got that distinction. Their seem to be two worries in the main: 1. creators (and friends) voting more than once for a comic 2. Just how/who counts the votes anyway? I trust the Zuda folks more than some, so I have confidence they would catch any vote fraud done against the site. I also trust them to go by their secret formula whatever that may be in figuring out who a winner is.
Could the Wizard of OZ please show us some ankle
[no reference intended to the land down under] What I mean is I get for any number of reasons the Zuda folks don't want to make the vote counts public. I say keep standing behind the green curtain (not a green door hopefully), but just give us a peak inside maybe.The problem I have is I think the number of votes should decide the contest flat out. Never mind adding in stars/favs/number of comments/views and going through all the metrics -unless you need to go in search of a tie breaker. Keep things as simple as possible is generally the best way to go in any voting situation.
The legalease on the sight doesn't really let the light shine in, American English or everybody else's English with all those extra letters would be more helpful. I know legal probably insists it has to be worded just so, but goggle translate doesn't work on lawyer speak yet. I wish I knew it was just votes deciding this unless their is a tie, but their is going to be a veil around the voting process I think people will just need to deal with in one manner, or another. I don't blame the folks who are more dubious than I am either, everyone needs someone to hold their feet to the fire.
Have you ever... you know... done it.....
Talking about the feedback button here people. If you have any questions/concerns about view counts/ vote counts/ general Zuda questions/ concerns about the appropriateness of a post -click on a feedback button. In the early days some thought the Zuda Illuminati didn't even read those things. All this time after the start, I've had any number of responses from the Zuda folks to my feedback. You don't always get the answers your looking for, but it means something to know that do pay some attention to what fans are thinking/questioning. Before we go acting like Hercule Poirot in the big final denouncement scene in the comments section of someone else's comic, try the feedback button first.
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Or however it goes, looking forward to Deadly going live Foz.
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Today is another special birthday, this time being for my parents dachshund Rusty who turned 15 today!!!! She is officially the oldest dachshund my parents have owned (My mum has had dachshunds since she was a teenager). Rusty is very dear to my heart as I was 15 when we got her. I remember us picking her up from her breeders house and bringing her home when she was only 8 weeks old. It was summer and I took her everywhere with me. She's been a part of our family for half my life! And she is doing really good too, especially considering she is 15 (what's that like 105 in human years??)
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The river is within us, the sea is all about us;
The sea is the land's edge also, the granite
Into which it reaches, the beaches where it tosses
Its hints of earlier and other creation:
. . .
The sea has many voices,
Many gods and many voices.
~ T.S. Eliot, from The Dry Salvages in the Four Quartets
I spent a recent winter morning wandering the beach below a stretch of the Calvert Cliffs. The Cliffs are a remarkable geological phenomenon. From sediment laid down periodically in a period from roughly 18 to 8 million years (a sizeable chunk of the Miocene Epoch), the Cliffs run south for 30 miles on the western side of the Chesapeake Bay, from Fair Haven to the mouth of Patuxent River. In places they soar to over 100 feet. The oldest formation (the Calvert) is exposed only at the northern end and it was there that I was in search of Miocene mollusks, particularly gastropods.
To be frank, that's a foolish thing to do (setting my sights on a specific kind of fossil) when the hunting venue consists of the "float" along the shore, where the waves play randomly with fossils that have eroded from the Cliffs. It's better to go with no expectations and be on the journey just for the hell of it. My gastropod finds were minimal, although the array of marine invertebrate and vertebrate fossils that I picked from the cold water reflected, in a very small way, the rich diversity of the Miocene fauna in this area which, by one estimate, includes more than 600 species. I'm still determining the identities of the fossils that I found that day, a process to write about later.
Ultimately, I think, the best find of the day will turn out to have been a feeling, one that came to me as I paused in my hunt and looked east across the water. At that moment, I was alone on the beach and saw no boats on the Bay. The only sounds were the sporadic rustle marking the fall of bits of sand from the cliff face, and the slap of waves on the shore accompanied by gurgles as water filled and emptied holes in exposed clay (where mollusk fossils had once been). For a moment, four hundred years slipped away and I sensed how these Cliffs might have appeared to a certain 17th century explorer who ventured up these waters, in sight of these Cliffs, and who encountered (frequently for the worse) many of the Native American communities on the lands that bordered the Bay. Admittedly, it's not all surprising that in these circumstances my thoughts turned to Captain John Smith, "sometime President of Virginia" and "Admiral of New England," because his words appear in several of the texts I've read on the geology or paleontology of the Calvert Cliffs. Well, his purported words.
This calling on me by the spirit of John Smith is not a new experience along this shore. One fall day, about three years ago, I was fixed by the sight of a vessel with brilliantly white sails set on two or maybe three masts. I managed to capture one poor image on my cell phone of this "ghost ship." The intervening centuries disappeared that time, too, and Smith's spirit was upon me.
I'd never turned to the primary sources in search of Smith's words about the Bay and the Cliffs, but after my most recent outing I went on a hunt in the pages of texts first published in the early years of the 1600s. A tangled literary thicket surrounds John Smith. What did he actually write? What did other hands do to his original words? What might have he contributed to works not attributed to him? Which texts are ascribed to him but shouldn't be? Trained as an historian, I shouldn't have been surprised by this challenge regarding a 17th century writer, but I found cutting through this thorny mess to be hard, frustrating work, as challenging as identifying an unknown fossil or untying the taxonomic knot of the scientific name of some species.
After much floundering, I came to rely on the Smith texts contained in Narratives of Early Virginia 1606 – 1625, edited by Lyon Gardiner Tyler, 1907. (Unless otherwise noted, any material quoted in this blog posting comes from this book.) I also worked with the "digital copy" of Volume 1 of The Complete Works of Captain John Smith (1580 – 1631) in Three Volumes, edited by Philip J. Barbour, 1986, as presented on the Virtual Jamestown website, a collaborative project involving Virginia Tech, the University of Virginia, and the Virginia Center for Digital History at UVA. Barbour's analysis of the authorship of the various pieces helped immeasurably.
My first introduction to this penchant for quoting John Smith when addressing the geological or paleontological nature of the Calvert Cliffs had come in Wallace L. Ashby's Fossils of Calvert Cliffs (1979). After acknowledging that, in 1588, the Spaniard Vincente Gonzalez might have been the first European to see the Cliffs, Ashby wrote
Captain John Smith, during his exploration of the Chesapeake Bay in 1608, described the cliffs as ". . . mountains of diverse nature, Marle, Fullers earth . . ."I am wary of ellipses (inserted or omitted). As will become clear, the text just quoted is an example of their damaging effect. (Excerpting T.S. Eliot with ellipses, as I did at the top of this posting, is fraught with danger as well.)
At the outset, I would observe that these words of Smith's are not from the narrative of his exploration of the Bay in 1608. Rather, Ashby drew from what is perhaps the more geologically intriguing piece that might have some bearing on the Cliffs, at least in part. It is probably in Smith's own words, appearing in his A Map of Virginia With a Description of the Countrey, The Commodities, People, Government and Religion, (printed in 1612). In it he described Virginia, including the Bay, without specific reference to his Bay explorations of 1608. More on those in a moment. First, I need to unpack what Ashby crammed together and misconstrued.
In his description of Virginia, Smith noted (for all of these quotations I have left the spelling as I found it in Narratives of Early Virginia), "There is but one entraunce by sea into this country, and that is at the mouth of a very goodly Bay, the widenesse whereof is neare 18. or 20. miles." (p. 81) In describing this north – south lying Bay, he observed that at its head are mountains which stretch in a southwestward line. As a result, "the more Southward, the farther of[f] from the Bay are those mounetaines." (p. 82) Keep in mind the orientation of the mountains – they are more and more removed from the Bay as one journeys south along its western shore.
In the full passage that Ashby mangled (taking the first phrase of the paragraph and smashing it into text buried deep in the paragraph), Smith wrote,
The mountaines are of diverse natures, for at the head of the Bay the rockes are of a composition like miln-stones. Some of marble, &c. And many peeces of christall we found as throwne downe by water from the mountaines. For in winter these mountaines are covered with much snow, and when it dissolveth the waters fall with such violence, that it causeth great inundations in the narrow valleyes which yet is scarce perceived being once in the rivers. These waters wash from the rocks such glistering tinctures that the ground in some places seemeth as guilded, where both the rocks and the earth are so splendent to behold, that better judgements than ours might have beene perswaded, they contained more then probabilities. The vesture of the earth in most places doeth manifestly prove the nature of the soile to be lusty and very rich. The coulor of the earth we found in diverse places, resembleth bole Armoniac, terra sigillata ad lemnia, Fullers earth, marle, and divers other such appearances. But generally for the most part the earth is a black sandy mould, in some places a fat slimy clay, in other places a very barren gravell. But the best ground is knowne by the vesture it beareth, as by the greatnesse of trees or abundance of weedes, &c. (p. 82-83)The terms – bole Armoniac, terra sigillata ad lemnia, and Fullers earth – connote different kinds of clayey rock or soil. Marl (as it's now spelled) is mudstone. All of these terms would apply to sedimentary rock. With the exception of the mudstone, this is some of what Smith certainly would have found along the Bay's shorelines and come upon in spades at the Cliffs.
Though Smith may well have captured significant aspects of the geological appearance of the land bordering the Bay, I am certain that in this passage he was not describing the Calvert Cliffs specifically. The "mountaines" that begin the description are not the Cliffs which, in contrast to the structures described by Smith, don't move away from the Bay as one goes south, but rather rise to greater heights on the shoreline (at least until one reaches the Patuxent River). He was describing, instead, the actual mountainous terrain that runs from the northeast to the southwest along the east coast of the United States. It is the snows on those mountains that he commented on and the erosion from their slopes that make much of the sedimentary rock he described.
The Maryland Geological Survey, in its 1906 treatise The Pliocene and Pleistocene Deposits of Maryland, by George Burbank Shattuck did a better job than Ashby, quoting the entire passage and, better yet, not asserting that its words described the Cliffs. Shattuck observed, "With these meager notes which were not published until 1612-14, Smith summarized practically all he had to say of the geology of the region . . . ." (p. 25)
Where the Survey's treatment of the English explorer went astray was in its effort to link these words explicitly to Smith's Bay explorations in the summer of 1608. Yes, those are the journeys during which he undoubtedly saw and learned about the geography and geology of the Bay, but these words do not come from a "narrative" of these explorations. Rather, as I've noted, they are part of his description of Virginia which accompanied Smith's map of this land and its waters. A view of the complete map appears below with a blow-up of the Bay portion.
The initial image of the map was downloaded from the Library of Congress' American Memory
What about the narrative of the voyages around the Bay that year, 1608? The first iteration of such a narrative appeared in The Proceedings of the English Colonie in Virginia (1612) which was printed independently but constituted the "Second Part" of A Map of Virginia. Chapter V of the Proceedings described the voyage that began June 12, 1608, and Chapter VI described the second exploration of the Bay undertaken later that summer. I find it interesting that secondary sources providing an account of those journeys routinely attribute the text of these descriptions solely to Smith. In fact, the Proceedings themselves, though typically included in compilations of works by John Smith, ascribed these chapters to specific other authors, men who accompanied Smith on these trips. Chapter V, titled "The accidents that happened in the Discoverie of the bay," recounted the June to July adventure, concluding with this statement, "Written by Walter Russell and Anas Todkill." (p. 115)
What am I to make of the Proceedings as a whole, this chapter, and this attribution of authorship? Philip Barbour called the Proceedings "an often uneven, unclear compilation of accounts of what happened to the settlers of the first permanent English colony on the western side of the Atlantic." (The Complete Works of Captain John Smith, volume 1.) Significantly, Barbour posited,
With regard to the question of the extent to which Smith himself contributed to the accounts included in the Proceedings, there are details that he must have supplied here and there. There are other details that he could not have provided, though he may well have added personal touches.The portions that Barbour believed reflected a significant contribution from Smith did not include Chapters V or VI. He commented, "That Walter Russell and Anas Todkill produced the material for Chapter 5 would not be surprising. Both of them went on the expedition therein described. By the same token, the combination of Nathaniel Powell and Anas Todkill is entirely logical for Chapter 6."
As a result, I doubt we're hearing Smith's voice in Chapter V, but I wonder whose we're actually hearing. It's a deftly told account with a striking sense of humor, something hard to achieve, I think, in a collaborative document. Regardless, it began with the departure from the Jamestown colony ("James Towne") on June 12th and ended with the return to the colony on July 21st. Smith and a contingent of 14 men, among them doctor Walter Russell and soldier Anas Todkill, sailed down the James River in "an open barge of two tunnes burden." (Elsewhere this weight is raised to three tons.)
The "ghost ship" I'd spied three years ago was certainly not Smith's because the "barge" on which he went forward into the Bay had only two small sails and was often rowed. There was no "below deck," because there was no deck, only a tarp stretched from side to side to offer shelter from the elements. Writer Terence Smith characterized Smith's vessel as
an ungainly 30-foot boat called a shallop. It had been built in England and shipped across the Atlantic in two sections in the hold of a larger ship. It was strong and heavy (a replica built for the 400th anniversary celebration weighs 5,000 pounds), powered by ten-foot oars or two sails, and steered by a big wooden rudder – in short, a clunker of the first order. (Beyond Jamestown, Smithsonian Magazine, May 2007.)(See also The Virginia Adventure: Roanoke to James Towne, by Ivor Noël Hume, 1994, p. 206.)
For the seven weeks of this first reconnaissance of the Bay, Smith and his men sailed back and forth across the Bay. The one clear reference to the Calvert Cliffs (though they named them something else) came after the explorers encountered a vicious storm which threatened to sink the boat, forcing them to lay over for two days among some islands on the eastern side of the Bay. These islands they named Limbo, presumably because the continuing stormy weather kept them in limbo. After repairing the fore sail with their shirts (lovely detail), they were convinced by the lack of fresh water to sail west toward the opposite shore.
. . . we passed by the straights of Limbo, for the weasterne shore. So broad is the bay here, that we could scarse perceiue the great high Cliffes on the other side.
By them, wee anc[h]ored that night, and called them Richards Cliffes. (p. 111)Richards Cliffes are the Calvert Cliffs. On the map below, they are indicated by arrow number 3. Jamestown is number 1. Number 2 marks the mouth of the Patuxent River where the Calvert Cliffs begin (or end, depending upon how you come upon them).
That's it. No other direct reference to the Cliffs that I can find in these narratives. A bit disappointing, I must admit.
Much of Chapter V is devoted to stories of encounters with the native peoples which often began with hostility. But, at least, this particular exploration of the Bay was apparently without much shed blood. Indeed, the best of the chapter are some anecdotes told with wry humor. For example, the authors noted, with certain hyperbole, that in some places on the Bay the fish were so abundant and crowded together that they held their heads up out of the water. In lieu of nets,
. . . we attempted to catch them with a frying pan; but we found it a bad instrument to catch fish with. Neither better fish, more plenty or variety, had any of us ever seene in any place, swimming in the water, then in the bay of Chesapeack : but there [sic] not to be caught with frying-pans. (p. 113)On the return voyage, the barge ran aground on a shoal. While waiting for the tide to come in, the men, following Smith's lead, speared fish in the water with their swords. (This is a telling comment on the clarity of Bay waters four centuries ago.) Smith speared a stingray which, as he sought to remove it from his sword point, whipped its tail and stuck its barb into his wrist. Within four hours, Smith's hand, wrist, and shoulder had swollen, accompanied by great pain. Fearing the Captain's end was at hand, the men prepared his funeral and a gravesite on a nearby island. But doctor Russell applied "a precious oile" which, apparently, saved Smith's life. The narrative noted that he had recovered sufficiently by nightfall that he regained his appetite and dined on his attacker. They named the island Stingeray Ile. (Number 4 on the map.)
Appropriately, one of the finds on my most recent expedition to the Bay was this piece of a small ray barb fossil.
This first voyage of discovery into the Bay ended with the expedition playing a trick on those manning the fort protecting Jamestown. (I don't understand what might have inspired them to do this.) They sailed up the river having festooned the barge with "painted streamers and such devises" as would make the watchers believe it was a Spanish frigate approaching. The authors don't describe the colonists' reaction to this deception, but it's not hard to imagine.
Immediately upon their arrival, Smith was part of a change in government of the colony. Asked to take on the presidency, Smith tapped his friend Matthew Scrivener instead. Then, though Scrivener lay ill, the spirited Smith launched his second expedition to the Bay a mere three days after his return. I guess things were better in an open boat on the Chesapeake, dealing with storms, clashes with native tribes, and stingrays, than staying in the fractious colony. He may still be sailing along the Calvert Cliffs.


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Whether Atwater, California will join the prodigious ranks of Stockton, San Bernardino, and Mammoth Lakes to become the 4th Muni bankruptcy is up for vote on October 3rd (before a $2mm bond payment in November). As Bloomberg notes, the 28,000-strong Merced county town is suffering under the same weight of public employee costs, lost revenue, and a stagnant economy leaving it with a $3.3 million budget deficit. While some put their hope in the FB IPO, perhaps Bernanke should have mandated investment in AAPL for all these municipal comptrollers? The median income is 19% below the national average as the foreclosure crisis - which saw Atwater's median home price drop by more than half - has depleted property-tax revenues dramatically. "We just started negotiating with our unions and they are going to have to take a major cut," Mayor Joan Faul said. "We hope that once we declare a fiscal emergency, that they will realize that we are definitely in an emergency. If they want to save all the jobs, everyone is going to have to take a cut,"
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Atwater, California, is going broke under the weight of public employee costs, lost revenue and a stagnant economy, pushing it toward becoming the state's fourth city to seek bankruptcy protection. The city of 28,000, situated among Merced County's dairies and almond groves about 100 miles southeast of San Francisco, has a $3.3 million deficit that may leave it insolvent before year's end, according to budget documents.
Atwater's City Council is set to vote Oct. 3 on a fiscal emergency declaration that would permit it to follow other California cities – Stockton, San Bernardino and Mammoth Lakes – into bankruptcy court. Across the state, the recession and the foreclosure crisis have depleted property-tax revenue at the same time municipalities are burdened with rising costs including pensions.
The median household income in 2010 was $42,226, 19 percent below the national average of $51,914. Almost a fourth of the population is considered below the poverty line, compared with 13.7 percent statewide, according to U.S. Census figures.
The housing crash cut Atwater's median home price by more than half, to $140,000 in the fiscal year that ended in June from $336,000 in the same period in 2007. Unemployment surged to 21 percent. That helped send the city's tax revenue plummeting more than one-fifth since 2007.
Under labor contracts, the city pays all of an employee's 8 percent mandatory contribution for pension costs and 7 percentage points of the 9 percent for police and firefighters. Health-care premiums increased by 15 percent in 2011 and are forecast to jump 10 percent next year.
To help balance the books, Atwater has mostly depleted its cash reserves, fired 30 percent of its 120 workers since 2008 and may need to trim another third, Faul said. The city is in talks with unions for concessions from police officers and rank-and-file city workers, Faul said.
"We just started negotiating with our unions and they are going to have to take a major cut,'' Faul said. "We hope that once we declare a fiscal emergency, that they will realize that we are definitely in an emergency. If they want to save all the jobs, everyone is going to have to take a cut,'' she continued.
To make matters worse, the city is facing a $2 million payment on bonds in November, according to the budget documents.
Standard and Poor's lowered its underlying rating on the Atwater Public Financing Authority's wastewater revenue bonds to BBB- from A on Sept. 24, citing the city's potential move toward bankruptcy.
Under a law signed by Brown last year, cities seeking bankruptcy protection must first declare a fiscal emergency or hold talks with creditors through a mediator. Municipalities can file for court protection if mediation doesn't bring a resolution in 60 days or if the city runs out of money. The law was sought by unions after Vallejo went bankrupt in 2008 and asked a court to help it void labor contracts.


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When Steve Jax accepted the role of police chief in the semi-rural community where he lives he believed two things. He'd never again have to deal with the horror and violence he'd walked away from as an undercover cop in the city, and no woman would ever infiltrate his heart the way his now dead wife had. How wrong could one man be?
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Steve groaned and resisted the urge to open his eyes. He shivered, the chill in his bones becoming more evident with each second of wakefulness. He peeked out between crusty lashes. The sky exposed a hint of the coming day, the sunrise a glimmer of pink tinting the shoreline.
He sat up. Waves pounded in unison with the throb of his head, as surfers danced on the crest of waves before him. Unlike the pictures inside his head, the scene contained a peacefulness that he envied. Kathy had died a month ago. Treatment failed. They said he'd have her for a maximum of two years—she'd lasted less than one. He'd dealt with death before—at work, and when his parents had died—this was different. Kathy took a large piece of him with her, she'd left with his heart.
Steve stood on shaky legs, gathered the empty bottle of Jack Daniels nestled into the sand and began the long walk up the hill to the house he'd shared with his beautiful wife, the home he now hated because she wasn't in it.
He made it to the stairs leading up to the place he'd once called home but couldn't go any further, so he sat down and contemplated his options. Go inside to the constant reminder of what he'd lost, or sit with the step cooling his butt. Option two it was.
Steve toyed with the empty bottle knowing he'd sent the companies' profits into overdrive over the last four weeks. He had to stop, get back to the man he'd once been, but didn't know how.
"Why haven't you been answering your phone? I've been worried." Steve glanced up to see his sister, Angel, staring back at him with a worried annoyance filling her expression.
She took the bottle from him and delivered it to the trash.
"Where's your phone, Steve?" She asked.
"No idea." He replied, wondering why she'd even bothered to come.
He wanted to appreciate the concern but couldn't summon the energy to do so. Angel retrieved her mobile phone from her bag and called a number, staring at him with one raised brow, as his phone betrayingly responded from inside his pocket.
"Get up and get inside the house." Angel said, moving toward him and looking less than impressed. "I need coffee and from the look of you, well, you get the drift."
If he didn't want her to man handle him to get him inside—and she would—then he had to move. Standing slowly, he turned and led the way, fumbling through his pockets to retrieve his key. Movement hurt, his body aching from spending yet another night sleeping anywhere but the bed he'd shared with his wife. Although, last night, passed out drunk in the sand at his local beach, had set a new low for him. He saw no end in sight to the depths of his despair. Lost. That's what he was without Kathy, and he had no incentive to find himself. What was the point?
Angel hustled him into the shower, threatening to wash him herself if he didn't comply. He suddenly discovered that there were limits to the depths of humiliation he'd allow, and his little sister showering him was one of them. As he watched the traces of sand he'd washed from his hair and other crevasses disappear down the drain, he wondered where he'd end up. He dried himself and dressed in the clothes Angel had found and placed on the bathroom sink. Surprisingly they were clean. He didn't think he had any of those left.
He wandered out into the living room to the smell of breakfast and saw the pot of strong coffee Angel had made waiting for him on the dining table. She walked in just as he sat down and placed the feast of bacon, sausage, eggs, and toast in front of him. He wasn't hungry but ate it anyway.
"You're coming back to the Highlands with me. I can't stand the thought of you all alone up here slowly killing yourself." Angel stated.
He wouldn't argue, because there was no point. For someone a good foot shorter than him, his sister was a formidable woman. Once she set her mind to something then changing it took some effort. That was something Steve didn't have, and at least if he was in a different location, the reminders of Kathy wouldn't plague him every minute of the day.
"So, you'd rather me have an audience while I slowly kill myself?" He raised his gaze to look at her, Angel met him with a steely glare. Clearly, his dry attempt at wit didn't amuse her.
As he finished eating, Angel emerged from the back of the house carrying a duffel bag and suitcase. She plopped them near the door.
"Christian and Daniel will collect your Harley this afternoon and bring it back to the house. You have a meeting with Trevor next week, who, in case you're wondering, is also worried about you. That gives you seven days to try and get your head together and make some decisions about what you're going to do."
He already knew what he was going to do. Sulk, drink and continue to feel sorry for himself.
"Is this where you give me the talk about we all lost Kathy, and that I'm not the only one to miss her, that everyone is grieving, but I'm the only one letting it destroy me?" He asked.
Angel crouched down next to him. The compassion and sadness in her eyes boring into his empty soul.
"I can't even imagine the pain you feel right now. All I can see is the result of it and feel the fear that I might lose you because of it. I want to help you, but I don't know how, none of your friends do. That's why I'm taking you home with me. I want you to know that, despite losing Kathy, there is still hope. You are loved, Steve Jax, and I will not lose you. I will not let you fall any further down this rabbit hole. So, pick up those bags and let's go home."
As he drudged out of the house—for what he knew was the last time—walking behind the sister he'd not long known, he told himself he was lucky not to be going through this alone. He had an Angel to help him pick up the pieces. The sun made his eyes water as he headed to the car, at least that's what he told himself. He wished he knew where his shades were, so he could cover the evidence of his grief, as they drove away, heading toward a different life.
* Playing Jax is a contemporary, romantic suspense novel and book two in the Wylde Shore Series, however, it can be read as a stand-alone novel. The story features a M/F romantic pairing and contains erotic sex scenes with BDSM elements. *


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I find myself in a bit of a dilemma, one that should be easily avoidable for someone like me. Copyediting and proofreading is a skill that is a combination of the art of reading and the art of writing. As a teacher, I spend a lot of time pouring over the details of my young writers' work; I want them to be correct and creative. But first, I have to teach them to write. This, of course, requires a certain attention to grammar for the sake of readability.
A fundamental problem that happens with young writers is that they don't understand the power of punctuation. There are either too many commas or no commas at all. And don't even get me started on semi-colons; it's too much to bear to think about. There are usually always periods, but usually after a long, rambling run-on sentence. Did I mention the commas?
Don't get me wrong; I understand why the problem exists. My students are all writers in their own way, but social media writing does not translate well in any setting other than social media writing. And generally speaking, excellent grammar is not always the marker of a great writer (this is why copyeditors exist). Nevertheless, I have to hammer on the grammar to make the writings readable, then hammer on the art to make the writings creative.
Sometimes creativity necessitates the breaking of certain grammar rules. It's a necessary sacrifice. One that I see all the time as a professional copyeditor and proofreader, and this is where my dilemma comes in.
Proofreading Code of Conduct
I had to do a proofreading job recently, and I was in full teacher mode because, well, there were dangling and misplaced modifiers every where. Every description of every place, person, or thing included a dangling modifier. Of course my instinct was to fix all of the dangling because in a sea of nouns, I couldn't tell what was being modified.
I wanted to correct these dangly bits. But then I noticed that the color begin to drain from the text. That's a problem. A book without a voice is a terrible thing. So, I contacted my editor to get some parameters, and she told me that some of those dangling bits are literary. And she was right. And so I let the modifiers dangle, cringing a little in the process.
This led me to reconsider the work of the proofreader versus the copy editor. Proofreaders generally check for grammar, mechanics, punctuation, and syntax. Copy editors check for some of those things plus accuracy, mechanics, consistency, organization, clarity, and more. In some of those sentences, I thought the meaning was confusing. However, this meant that a copy editor didn't think so, and likely signed off on those sentences. If I were to proceed with too many changes, I would be overstepping my proofreader role.
So I deleted some of my suggestions, probably a bit too much. But the writer's poetic style remained intact. I guess we can call that a win, and I had to remind myself about the limits of proofreading. Here is the capital-T-truth: while proofreading is less work, copyediting is much easier. Go figure.
Reading is Art
While I sit here stressing over whether I did an adequate job on the project, I am reminded of this simple principle: reading is art. Copyediting and proofreading are artistic endeavors that facilitate the reading experience, an experience that can rise to the level of art if the writing is good.
I have to remind my professional self that what I do in the class room can actually limit me as a copyeditor. I also have to remind myself to allow my students to be creative and not just correct. Sometimes, breaking the rules of grammar is necessary for the sake of capturing experience. Knowing when to do that—or better, when to allow that—is the major dilemma of copyediting and proofreading.


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I love a good musical.... Don't you?....
Well here's another...
"Palais de Steff" has arrived and is a work in progress. So come on in...grab a cocktail... or the nearest available houseboy and make yourself at home...feel free to wander about or just plonk yourself down and stay a while... Princess says "Hello and Welcome"!...
Is this the next show you're doing costumes for?ReplyDelete
Yowzer!! I'm liking this!! A perfect ending to a Monday! Thank you Princess **kisses**ReplyDelete
It's not letting me view the video, but yes, I do love a good musical, I went to see Priscilla last year with that bloke from Home and Away is it Alf? very good!ReplyDelete
Ahhh... Naked Boys Singing! Great show!ReplyDelete
Mistress MJ volunteers her services as makeup artist.ReplyDelete
Oh how typical.
Full frontal and the technology hates me.
Hello All... sorry to disappoint some of you but i'm having server problems at the moment and things are going very slowly......
I'll be back posting in a week or two... till then
Keep smiling and bottoms up darlings!
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So I wrote a book. That's the good news.
The bad news is I wrote it, then let somebody else take care of the publishing. (So I did the work, while he retained the rights to publish the story – got it?) That was the deal I made, and in my naïve mind, nothing could have gone wrong. I had complete create control over the title, the story, and the freedom to do pretty much anything to make the words sound nice – as long as it was all romantic. That was a caveat I was more than happy to adhere to. So I wrote some romance, I gave it a nice title, and – in my opinion – made it all sound pretty lovely. In my head I'd done a good job. In my head it was bulletproof.
Then I got hit with this…
(I'll let you process that for a moment.)
If there was ever living proof of why you're not supposed to judge a book by its cover, you're looking at it. My story is a lovely short tale of an impossible love, yet this cover depicts a story where the word cock makes up a predominant percentage of the word count, and the only verbs used throughout are spank, thrust, and possibly gyrate. To say I was unhappy with it would be nothing short of an understatement. This guy had one simple job to do – one. To provide a cover that was, at the very least, in keeping with the overall tone of the story. And he screwed it up. Royally screwed it up.
Obviously I'm dissatisfied for the selfish reason that it taints my story with connotations of a genre I'd rather not be affiliated with, but also because I have to sympathise with those unassuming readers who paid for this book expecting to see some unadulterated action – only to be left feeling rather unfulfilled. (To clarify, there is no action in there. Honestly. None whatsoever.)
Fortunately everybody who has read the story (or at least everybody who I'm aware of) has only given me the kindest of compliments about it. That makes me happy. It means that as long as people are willing to detach the cover from the narrative, and take the words for what they are, they should be able to find some loveliness in there.
As for me? Well, I don't really regret it. It was just one of those times in life where I had to learn the lesson the hard way and come to understand that there are some very, very real perils of writing for other people. (The first one being, never – and I mean NEVER – let them design the front cover.)


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Apprenticeships guidance for employers
Case study
Food tourism opportunities
Taking advantage of food tourism opportunities - Broighter Gold (video)
Leona Kane, founder of Broighter Gold Rapeseed Oil, explains how they take advantage of food tourism to promote their products.
Broighter Gold, based in Limavady, run an ÉCONOMUSÉE - here tourists can visit their farm and pressing room to see how the rapeseed oil is grown, made and bottled. The business also attends food events and fairs to promote their products.
Here, Leona describes the work they do and the benefits of their close relationships with restaurants and suppliers.


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Senior Driver Training Program
Driving & Quality of Life
Driving provides a level of mobility and independence that's important. We want to help senior drivers maintain a high quality of life in the safest manner possible.
Comprehensive & Caring
We evaluate your vehicle and provide on-road training in our dual-control cars. For those in need, we can recommend Occupational Therapy support to help you continue driving safely.
Assessment Sign-Up
It's easy to sign up for your Senior Driving Assessment. Follow these simple steps:
- You will be asked to complete a questionnaire that helps us understand your expectations, and it also helps us prepare for your assessment.
- After the questionnaire, you will be taken to our student portal where you will create a student profile and make the $300.00 payment for your assessment.
The Details...
You've been a safe, considerate driver for a long time, and we're here to help!
As we age, at a certain point it's important to have regularly scheduled professional driving assessments. These assessments help determine if there are potential issues and help create a plan to correct any possible short fallings so you can continue being a good, safe driver.
A professional driving assessment should be viewed similarly to a physician's health care maintenance appointment. You've visited a doctor without feeling ill to ensure there's not an underlying issue that might cause a problem in the future… your professional driving assessment accomplishes the exact same thing!
During the driver assessment process, the first step is an in-car evaluation, here's the process:
- A pre-evaluation questionnaire is completed by the driver and/or a family member to help understand what your expectations are while adding our preparation. Elements of this pre-lesson preparation include:
- Concerns
- Opinions
- Expected goals, i.e., being able to continue driving on the highway, or over a specific route, driving at night, etc.
Upon our arrival, we will do some training and evaluation in the driver's personal vehicle (if it's available). We will evaluate:
- proper seat, steering wheel, and mirror positioning
- the positioning of both feet
- sight-line
- Seatbelt position
- Dashboard understanding
- plus, many other elements in your personal vehicle
Then, we will transition into our car and provide:
- General driving assessments & instructions
- If, a specific route or environment is a stated goal you will drive our dual-control vehicle in the conditions you've specified.
After the driving assessment, a complete written evaluation will be shared with you. Within that written assessment we may:
- Make suggestions on activities, or provide instruction (which would have also taken place while in our car) on elements to consider, work on, or avoid.
- If we see some physical limitations we may recommend Occupational Therapy; we can recommend someone local, committed to helping you.
When considering who should be permitted to drive, age alone should not be the deciding factor. People over 65 years old present a wide range of driving skills and abilities, just like younger drivers. Age should never be the sole deciding factor when deciding who should drive, when and where. In fact, seniors bring a level of experience and maturity not regularly seen in younger drivers.
Acknowledging that, it's also accurate to state that some seniors are experiencing factors that warrant an assessment from a professional.
Who Should consider a Professional Driving Assessment:
- You or a family member feel there has been a decline in your driving skills and execution
- You have experienced a significant change in your health, i.e. you have been diagnosed with:
- an eye injury or disease that impacts your vision
- dementia
- Diabetes
- Sleep disorders
- Stroke
- Seizures
- You have been involved in an accident (even minor fender-benders), and/or you're experiencing near-miss accident scenarios when driving.
- A family member or friend is expressing concern about your driving.
- You or a loved one are seeing a decline in elements critical to driving, including:
- Vision Acuity
- Range of Motion and flexibility
- Reflex and physical reacting
- Hearing
Having any of these limitations does not automatically mean someone should no longer drive, but it is critical that these conditions are identified, and methods to deal with them are used.
What are the possible outcomes of a Professional Driver Assessment:
- You will exhibit the skills and decision-making necessary to continue driving on your own.
- You will exhibit most of the skills and decision-making necessary to continue driving on your own, but there are some minor elements that you will need to be aware of and potentially practice. These will be covered in the in-car assessment and included in the written evaluation.
- You exhibited some deficiencies and it's recommended that some additional driving lessons occur to ensure these deficiencies are overcome.
Sometimes simple fixes and adjustments can be highly effective
- A physical or behavioral training
- the establishment of boundaries or safety mapping of a route, or routes
It is our recommendation that a clinical assessment is done to evaluate if there are physical limitations that need to be improved to be a safe driver.
You have not exhibited the ability to safely operate a motor vehicle


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As some of you may know, I am a Team Beachbody coach and Shakeology drinker. Some of you may have heard of Shakeology. It is NOT your typical health or protein shake. It is indeed, THE HEALTHIEST MEAL OF THE DAY.
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Thursday, February 26, 2009
Sweet Angel
Here are the steps to it.
1) Use the Artisan Floral Rouge pattern paper (included in the kit) as the base for this page.
2) Use a strip of scraps to create your own scallop edges masking template and do some masking using distress ink on the top and bottom of the page.
3) Cut out a huge rectangular piece from a pick card stock and ink it's edges with distress ink. Paste it to the right of the page.
4) Use a piece of the journaling notebook sheet (included in the kit) and paste it on the lower left of the piece above.
5) Cut out another huge piece of rectangular or pocket from a pattern paper and ink it's edges with distress ink. Hand stitch on three of it's edges and attach it over the piece of card stock earlier. You should still be able to see the top of the card stock. (kind of liked the library card)
6) Distress the edges of the photographs using the scissors distressing technique and paste them onto the page with a piece of card stock layering underneath each of them.
7) Hand stitch the huge circle using the "Net Stitching" technique and dress up the stitching holes with some liquid pearls.
8) Add a rub-on flourish and a flower with a jewel brad on the lower right of the page. Use the "Water in-your Flowers" technique on the flower.
9) I've used the "Acrylic Embellishment" technique to create the acrylic cupcake piece for the page.
10) The word "sweet" is actually rub-ons and the word "angel" is an epoxy sticker.
I just love how this page turns out to be really sweet!! lol!! Hope you all like it!
Sources: Scrapmagie February's Kit (Terem Palace): Pattern Paper: Making Memories, Basic Grey, Little Yellow Bicycle; Embellishments: Prima flowers, Making Memories brad, Basic Grey rub-on, Making Memories Journaling Notebook sheet; Others not included in the kit: Clear Scraps acrylic mini cupcake, Bazzill Cardstock, EKSuccess Zig Painty, Zig Writers, Ranger Distress Ink, Ranger Liquid Pearls, Ranger Glossy Accents, American crafts Rub-ons, Prima Epoxy Sticker, jewel brad, small beads, floss for stitching, laces, ribbons, Helmar glue, glue dots and other adhesives
17 comments:
- jacque4u2c said...
It really is beautiful! As usual I am still picking my jaw up off the floor! It is stunning!
- February 25, 2009 at 12:01 PM
Encore une superbe page et ta puce est magnifique !!!!!!!!!
- February 25, 2009 at 4:32 PM
- Peggy said...
It's beautiful Irene, I really like the colour palette here and your awesome combination of techniques.
xxx Peggy
- February 25, 2009 at 9:57 PM
So, so pretty. You always put so many lovely touches in your layouts and cards. I am always in awe when I see each new post. Sadly, I'm one of those silent viewers.
- February 25, 2009 at 10:41 PM
- Evelien said...
AWESOME layout!!!! really stunning!!!
- February 25, 2009 at 10:47 PM
great layout. it is so beautiful
- February 25, 2009 at 11:14 PM
- angie said...
another beautiful page! i love the colors and the sewing on here!
- February 25, 2009 at 11:56 PM
- mininessie said...
love it Irene as all your work!!
- February 26, 2009 at 1:04 AM
- Monica said...
I really love your scarpping, and been following your blog for some time now.
I'm just starting my owv blog now, and I hope I can add you to my bloglist?
- February 26, 2009 at 1:57 AM
- Loopylou. said...
i am always speechless at your gorgeous layouts, this is beautiful xxx
- February 26, 2009 at 3:45 AM
- Nikki Love said...
I have to say I love the new bright colors of your LOs!!! The stitching and details here are just amazing!!!
- February 26, 2009 at 3:51 AM
- Isabelle Norris said...
such a beautiful page! lovely colours and details
- February 26, 2009 at 6:56 AM
What a wonderful blog you've got:) Love your work!
Hugs from Cathrine =)
- February 26, 2009 at 7:07 AM
- Tammy said...
What a beautiful LO!! I just love all of your techniques!!!
- February 26, 2009 at 1:16 PM
AWWWW! love this one...as much as al the other ones that is :)... your work is so beautiful and inspiring...thank you... I will try the stitching tech from this one soon. HUGS...SK :)
- February 27, 2009 at 10:31 PM
- Paulien van den Bosch said...
Oh honey.... this is GORGEOUS!!!!!, The stitching, that cute cupcake, all of it.... just gorgeous!!!!!!!!!!!!!
- February 28, 2009 at 2:28 AM
- Edys Gonçalves said...
Ooooowwww!!! So WONDERFUL!!! Congrats for this beautiful and sweet LO.
I LOOOOOOVE your blog!!!
Kisses from Brazil
- March 1, 2009 at 9:45 PM


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Continuing where we left off after the first half of the year, here's what AMSOIL was up to for the second half of 2018. Thanks again to Lindsay Premo for contributing her expertise on the race & event highlights of 2018.
Tag: synthetic diesel oil
AMSOIL Heads to SEMA New Product Showcase with 13 New Products
The mighty SEMA show is just around the corner, and our AMSOIL trade show team is busy preparing for another successful presentation to the key players in the automotive industry. SEMA is where companies learn of the latest news, products and technology developments that shape the automotive aftermarket.
Stiction… What Is It?
By now you've inevitably seen this term in turbo diesel enthusiast magazines. And if you own a Ford Powerstroke 6.0L diesel engine, then you likely have experienced it. Stiction… it's a combination of two words. Static and Friction. What it really means is that there are two components touching each other and a specific force
2017 Diesel Power Challenge Just Around the Corner
We here at AMSOIL are all about increased power and performance in any vehicle, and diesels offer one of the best proving grounds to meet this goal. Enthusiasts in this realm stop at nothing to generate maximum horsepower and torque, and the Diesel Power Challenge is one event where they can flex their diesel-fueled muscles
Recent Diesel Oil Trends: Addressing Oil Consumption
Using a good diesel oil is essential to keeping engine components clean and protected. But changing tides may be dampening the level of wear protection offered by some oils. To meet emissions standards, oil additives that protect the engine were reduced with the introduction of the API CJ-4 performance specification, in 2006. Reduced additive content may cause unforeseen
Interview with 2016 Diesel Power Challenge Champion Charlie Keeter
The 2016 Diesel Power Challenge has come and gone, and new champion Charlie Keeter is enjoying the rush of out-besting the best diesels in the nation. In his first-ever appearance at the Diesel Power Challenge, Charlie edged out the competition to earn his final position atop the leaderboard. We caught up with the newly-minted 2016
2016 Diesel Power Challenge: The Final Results
After an exciting week of high-octane diesel action, the 2016 Diesel Power Challenge is a wrap and a new champion has been crowned. Competitors showed up with their A-game and made this one of the greatest Diesel Power Challenge events yet. In the end, Charlie Keeter and his '04 Ford F250 6.0 Power Stroke V-8
2016 Diesel Power Challenge in Full Swing
The 2016 Diesel Power Challenge has commenced, kicking off today in Denver with ten reader-selected competitors eagerly awaiting their chance to blow out the competition. Dubbed a '3-day diesel torture test' by event organizers at Diesel Power Magazine, these rigs face extreme tests of strength and mettle in hopes of being crowned most powerful diesel


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Problem source:http://bbs.csdn.net/topics/390991336 .
Table 1 (T1) stores single-value id field and name field. A selection of the source data is as follows:
id name
1 a
2 b
3 c
4 d
5 e
Table 2 (T2) stores multi-value ids field as follows:
According to T1's id field and name field, we want to transform T2's ids field into a field with values being the corresponding names. The transformed T2 is expected to be like this:
A1,A2:Execute SQL statements to retrieve data from T1 and T2.
Of course, the above approach is based on the assumption that values of id are consecutive integers. If they are not, then the last step could be rephrased as follows:
A4:=A2.(ids.array().(A1.find(~).name ).string@d())
The SQL approach uses subquery to generate distinct group numbers, and then solves the problem with relatively complex JOIN. The following shows how it is coded in MySQL:
select group_concat(t1.name) names from(
select @row:=@row+1 as gid,ids from t2,(SELECT @row :=0 ) r
) t2 left join t1 on find_in_set(t1.id,t2.ids) group by t2.gid
But note that this SQL approach can only apply in the situation where there are no duplicate values for ids in T2. Otherwise only one of the duplicates is allowed to be kept. For instance, the transformed result of "2,1,2,3" is "a,b,c" instead of "b,a,b,c". By comparison, esProc syntax is more intuitive, easier to understand and can be used more widely.


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Today, Martin, Jeremy and I descended upon Dewey's Flatiron, on 5th and 25th. It was the perfect place to watch this year's Pride March down Fifth Avenue. Dykes on Bikes, as always, led the parade, which got to us around 12:45. As always, there were a few moments where the March was at a total standstill (and all there was to look at were some random twicnks from Delaware), so Dewey's proved to be the perfect place to set up camp, with a super-friendly staff and great (cheap) beers on tap.
At around 4:30, the March was over, the boys and I decided not to join Jake and his crew down in the Village (crowded!), but instead to head over to XES on 24th and 7th. We ran into a few Brooklyn friends and made a few new ones, and somehow a drunken massage chain started. That was certainly a highlight of my Pride 2006. :-)
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Item description: Opening paragraphs of a report submitted to the Secession Convention by the Military Board of North Carolina. The document contains information on military appointees and other schedules related to the state's attempt to raise troops.
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Ordered to be printed. Syme & Hall, Printers to the Convention.
To the Hon. Weldon N. Edwards
President of the Convention:
SIR: In reply to the resolution of the Convention, asking the Military Board to report on this day, at 10 o'clock, A.M., the number of State troops that have been raised by enlistment or otherwise; their places of rendezvous; the names of the commissioned officers; the number of privates, and non-commissioned officers; and the counties from whence they are furnished,–the Military Board have instructed me to say that as neither the enlistment papers nor the muster rolls are filed in this office, there are no data by which the information can be furnished.–Such information can only be had from the Adjutant General's office, from the actual muster rolls. The Board have, however, procured from that officer an abstract of the number of men reported up to this time by the mustering officers, which can be found in Schedule marked C, appended to this report. Nor is it known officially where the respective Regiments are rendezvoused, from any official papers in this Department. From correspondence, however, with the various Commandants of Regiments, it is ascertained that the second, Col. Tew's Regiment, the third, Col. Meares' Regiment, the fourth, Col. Anderson's Regiment, are rendezvoused at, Garysburg; the 5th, Col. McRae's Regiment, at Halifax; the sixth, Col. Fisher's Regiment, at Company's Shops; the first, Col. Stokes' Regiment, at Warrenton and the seventh, Col. Campbell's Regiment, is under orders to rendezvous at the Company's Shops when the sixth Regiment shall have left. The organization, of the eighth Regiment commenced but a few days since.
This State force, unlike the Volunteers, has not been drawn from Counties, but has been recruited from all parts of the State. Until all the troops are mustered into the service, the number of privates and non-commissioned officers, the latter of whom are appointed by the Colonels respectively, cannot be ascertained.
The resolution asks for the names of the commissioned officers. Not a single commission has been issued to any officer of a Regiment. The necessities of the service have not yet called for the issue of commissions; and the immense pressure of business on every department of the military, with the very inadequate clerical force at their disposal, has precluded the execution of any business which could be postponed without injury to the service.
It is thought, however, that instead of commissioned officers, the real wish of the Convention was to obtain the names of the appointees. On the 27th of May, His Excellency, the Governor, in answer to a call of the Convention, reported the names of the appointees up to that date, and they will be found in Schedule C of that Document, to which the Board refer–pages 20 to 24, inclusive. Some of those persons have resigned or declined, and their names will be found in Schedule marked B, herewith. The names of the appointees since that period are to be found in schedule marked A.
It is proper to add that of these appointees, it is known that some have not yet accepted, that others will decline, and, from the difficulty in forming the companies, that others will ultimately be dropped, and not be included in the organization of a Regiment.
In schedule D, will be found a list of appointees made since the report of May, 27th, who have already declined the appointments conferred upon them.
The Board will be happy to communicate at any tine to the Convention any information it may be in their power relative to the military force of the State.
I have the honor to be, Sir, &c., &c.,
WARREN WINSLOW, President, &c.
June 26th, 1861.
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Item citation: From "State Troops." [Raleigh, N.C.] : Syme & Hall, [1861], VC342.2 1861d v. 1, from the North Carolina Collection, Wilson Library, UNC Chapel Hill.


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Many of the original streetcars and interurbans were projects financed by the power companies. There's a new source of subsidy unlikely to be enthralled by a trolley mania.
Buses are cheaper, and can make use of the road network (that is, when the government is funding expansion of the road network.) But the city bus, and its intercity cousin, are canonical inferior goods.
Light rail is hugely expensive. The federal government can cover 80% of the cost, but it is so deluged with applications that 50% is more typical. On the local level, higher taxes are always a hard sell—and several municipal governments are often involved, which complicates matters. A much-advertised benefit of light rail is that it sparks economic development around stations. At first, though, as is happening in Houston now, householders can delay projects out of fear that their property will fall victim to the bulldozers.
Cost overruns have already caused trouble in Seattle, which had to budget in an extra $1 billion several years ago. The city's financial storm has calmed, and Sound Transit expects to complete a light-rail link to the airport by 2009. Now, though, planners across America must worry about a huge jump in the price of construction materials. Concrete for tunnels, barriers and supports costs around 11% more than last year. Prices of steel, cement and copper wiring have gone up too.
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Can cities get by with buses, which are far cheaper than rail? Sadly, few people want to ride on buses unless they have to. In many American cities they are the transport of the poor, the drunk and the illegal. They are slow and often smelly, and come at unpredictable intervals. And when they stop, they may block traffic.
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