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Here are some photos of the historic buildings in our park.
Building Tour Information – Contact the Ferndale Heritage Society for tour times and information outside of the annual picnic dates. See Links Section for Ferndale Heritage Society contact information. Note that some buildings are available for private event rentals. Contact the Ferndale Heritage Society for more information.
[accordion][accordion_section title="Pioneer Headquarters Building (1925)"]
Pioneer Headquarters Building (1925) was constructed on site of roughly 6″ diameter logs in a "log pen" that measures 15′ X 30′. The cabin is built of round saddle notched logs and has a cedar shake gabled roof. The roof has a projected overhang on the west gable end sheltering two registration windows. The entry door and a window are on the north elevation and a pair of windows light the southern wall. The building houses the registration office for the Pioneer Picnic and the City of Ferndale Parks Maintenance Supervisor's Office.[/accordion_section]
[accordion_section title="Congregational Church (1876)"]
Congregational Church (1876) is a 20′ X 30′ slab building with square notching, with a central door on the western side and three large double hung windows on the north and south sides. The gable roof is cedar shake and supports a bell tower with a 600-lb. bell cast in Cincinnati Ohio. The rear gable end (eastern wall) is covered in clipped shingles. The construction and log finishing was done with relatively crude tools. The church provides an excellent opportunity to view adz marks on the outside walls. The church was the first one built in Whatcom County and was originally located on California Creek, close to the corner of Loomis Trail Road near Blaine. It was moved to Pioneer Park in 1968 under the sponsorship of Elmer and Edna Pike.
In his 80th year, the Reverend W.M. Stewart visited his son in Whatcom County and quickly decided to move here and build a church. He had lead an active life: He was a nephew of President Lincoln, helped to form the Republican Party after the Civil War, and had assisted with the passage of the Homestead Act of 1862. The Zion Congregational Church stood peacefully alone along the banks of California Creek until the arrival of the Methodists. Although the two churches had California Creek between them, the waters were not wide enough to mute disagreements between the two congregations. The two churches did finally make peace and unite some years later.
From 1914 to 1955, the Tom Snow family lived in the Church. Virginia Derr (a Snow by birth) recounted a time while living in the church when her parents were away, and she and brother Loren, were home alone. Loren and a visiting friend were playing with a shotgun when it accidentally discharged, peppering the logs in one corner of the room with shot. The friend was so frightened that he ran for home as fast as he could, and Loren begged Virginia not to tell their parents when they came home. Though the walls have since been whitewashed, some holes are still visible. Whitewash, a popular home-grown substitute for paint, was typically made by mixing 50 pounds of hydrated lime, ten gallons water, ten pounds salt, two pounds alum and one bar laundry soap. Formaldehyde could be added to make a disinfectant whitewash. The ingredients were melted and mixed together 24 hours before the whitewash was to be used, and if necessary, more water was added before using; the ideal mixture was the consistency of a thin cream. Meetings are still held in the church from spring to fall and it is growing as a popular location for small weddings.[/accordion_section]
[accordion_section title="Granary (1887)"]
Granary (1887) is a one-story 25′ X 30′ foot split log building with hook notched corners and is generally primitive in design. The building has an oversized doorway on the west wall and a small window on the eastern side. The low-pitched roof has board and batten gable ends and is cedar shake. The logs of the building are of small dimension. John Gischer built the Granary on Marine Drive in Birch Bay. Gischer was one of the earliest settlers of the Birch Bay area. It was moved to Pioneer Park in the 1970s. The building was originally intended to be a house but ended up as a granary and now holds many of the tools that Mr. Gischer used on his homestead. One of the earliest dragsaws manufactured in Bellingham is displayed in the Granary. These types of saws were designed to be drug from tree to tree by the sheer will of the operator. The large red dragsaw on the west wall had a sign on the underside, whereon the company that manufactured it in 1846 boasted that this was the ultimate invention for sawing wood and couldn.t be matched. An early grain fanning mill constructed of crabapple wood by Mr. Gischer in 1872 or 1873 and more modern grain fanning mill run by stationary engine or tractor are located in the back of the building. Small mills worked by fanning away the seed hulls, leaving clean, chaff-free grain kernels behind. Also on display is a hand-cranked drill press (known as a post drill in blacksmith terms) and stump puller. Getting rid of the stumps was one of the most difficult jobs the early settlers had to contend with. Among the many small tools displayed in this building is a horn cutting tool. Cutting back the horns of the cattle was a messy, difficult and dangerous job as the horns bled and the cattle usually resisted the procedure.[/accordion_section]
[accordion_section title="Foster House (1895)"]
Foster House (1895) is a two-story building that measures 25′ X 32′. The building displays very large, roughly split cedar logs measuring between 12 and 24 inches thick with square notched corners. The house has a shed type roof that covers the entries on the west and south ground floors. There are paired windows on the east and west ground floor elevations and a single window on the ground floor south. Additionally there are single windows in the north and south gable ends of the second floor. The cedar shake roof is supported by round log purlins running the length of the structure and frame brackets under the eaves. The Foster House was donated by D. Ross and moved to Pioneer Park in the 1930s by long time Old Settler Association member William Scrimsher. It was the first cabin to be moved to the park. The interior walls were covered with newspaper and have proven to be a valuable tool for dating. We may not know how much earlier the Foster House was built, but we can know for sure that it wasn.t built later than the date on the papers. Commercial wallpaper was only used if it was readily available and the owner could manage the added expense.
The Foster House is filled with photographs, letters and other reminders of the past including a handmade license plate, shovel-nosed canoe, a plank from one of the plank roads and a bell from the Ferndale Nooksack River ferry crossing (prior to any bridges).[/accordion_section]
[accordion_section title="Shields House (1885)"]
Shields House (1885) is the most carefully crafted building in the park. It is a two-story residential structure built with a .T. floor plan which, accommodates raised, covered porches on the east and west elevations. The building, including porch area, measures 25′ X 34′ which was considered large at the time. The preparation of the logs for this house involved planing on all surfaces, beautiful compound dovetailing at the corners and mortised walls to accomplish the complicated floor plan. There are three windows on both the upper and lower levels of the front west walls, paired windows on both levels of the north side and single windows up and down on the west and south walls. There are entries onto both porches covered by shed type porch roofs. The gable ends are shingled and the roof is cedar shake.
The Shields House was built on the Old Guide Road south of Wiser Lake. It was moved to Pioneer Park in 1950 by the Whatcom Old Settlers Association and represents the second building moved to Pioneer Park. The Shields house is a monument to craftsmanship of the early pioneers and specifically to Conrad Shields who constructed the house. Cedar trees were cut down, bucked into the proper lengths, and pulled by three ox teams belonging to Shields and his neighbors. Each log, some thirty feet long were split and mortised and dovetailed so precisely that no nails are needed to hold them together. Weather boarding came from the old Shelter mill on Deer Creek, and the inside ceiling and wall lumber was hand split, hand dressed and tongue and grooved by hand until it looked like the millwork.
The house is furnished as it may have been years ago. The wicker lamp in the parlor dates to the 1920s and the wallpaper is thought to be from the 1940s. The dress displayed on the mannequin inside the house belonged to Mrs. Cora Shields.
This is the Shields first of four houses. The second Shields house has been converted to the Whatcom Brewery located behind the former Harlin Hovander residence in Ferndale (adjacent to the Ferndale Library). The third Shields House became the Legoe House The fourth Shields House, Mrs. Shields dream house, is the former Harlin Hovander residence across from house number three. Mrs. Shields is reported to have been Whatcom County's first traffic fatality when she was crossing the street from the third house to the new house of her dreams.[/accordion_section]
[accordion_section title="Parker House (1879)"]
Parker House (1879) is an "L" shaped building with a two-story main section measuring 25′ X 25′ with an additional one-story 12′ X 12′ foot rear wing. The log slabs are dovetailed at the corners and foursquare planed. The building has a main entry under a shed roof porch on the front west elevation. It has two rear entries on both the main section and the wing. Because it served as a commercial building there are very large storefront type windows flanking the front entry and oversized openings on the other ground floor elevations. The roof is cedar shake.
The Parker House was built across the river from Pioneer Park and was one of East Ferndale's original buildings. According to George LaBounty, who later bought the house, Eugene Parker lived in the house for 52 years. During 1882-83 it served as Charlie Dowden's Hotel and was frequently filled to overflowing with incoming, land hungry, settlers who slept on mattresses put down on the floor. This house was donated to the Whatcom County Parks Department by owner Dr. Greg Harvey in 1974 and was stored over at Hovander Homestead Park for some time. It was completely dismantled in 1979 and moved to Pioneer Park sans any photos, plans or system of numbering the pieces. Fortunately, Fred Sutcliffe the City of Ferndale's Parks Maintenance Supervisor could remember exactly how the building looked and reassembled the building over a period of a month. The Parker House is set up as a country store, which at one time it was. Pioneers often set up a store in the corner of their house, sometimes just a few shelves, selling whatever was surplus amongst their own supplies. Freight came infrequently and it behooved the prudent to order as much as they could afford at one time.[/accordion_section]
[accordion_section title="Grandview Rogers House (1877)"]
Grandview Rogers House (1877) is a two-story building measuring 20′ X 40′ with the main entry set in the west gable end elevation. There is a gabled porch with end facing out to repeat the upper main roof gable. The house has two windows on the west ground floor, two on the south and one each on the east and north. In the upper story there is a single centered casement window on the west elevation and pairs on the remaining three sides. This building, more than any other in the group, displays the patching and filling that could be done to slab buildings in order to accommodate varying sizes and types of window replacements. The building displays excellent, very early compound dovetailing. The roof is cedar shake.
The Grandview Rogers House was built across the Nooksack River from Ferndale. LeRoy Rogers later moved the house to Portal Way and Grandview. It was also used as a dance hall and hotel. John Young purchased the building in 1952 from Charles Cowden and sold it later to Al Jensen. The house was to be burned down in the 1970s. Pioneer Park was given one week to get it moved off of the property or it would have burned.
There were three separate, unrelated sets of Rogers brothers among the early settlers . one at Blaine, Everson and Ferndale. According to Jeffcott, in 1881 when Arthur Rogers first arrived, just three log buildings existed in all of east Ferndale.
The Grandview Rogers House currently functions as a Veteran's Museum, displaying uniforms and military memorabilia donated by a variety of local veterans. The two W.W.II Japanese flags on display are one of the most interesting exhibits. A local man married a Japanese woman who was so impressed with the Ferndale Pumpkin Growing Contest she sent some pumpkin seeds home to Japan. Eventually, a group of friends and relatives from Japan visited Pioneer Park. While they were being shown the buildings, they walked into the Veterans. Museum and were visibly shaken by the two flags, especially the one signed by their countrymen. It was their belief that the spirits of the men who signed the flag will never be at rest until the flag is returned, yet on the other hand, the museum had been entrusted to keep the captured flag at the park in Ferndale. Through some often delicate and diplomatic negotiations, the flags remain as artifacts in the park. The hometown of the signatories of the flags has since become a sister City of Ferndale.[/accordion_section]
[accordion_section title="Van Buren Post Office (1879)"]
Van Buren Post Office (circa. 1879) is a very early example of small-scale cedar slab buildings. It is a single story building with simple dovetailed corners and only measures 12′ X 18′. This building was likely constructed from a single tree and probably built by only two people using an ax and crosscut saw. It has a single entry on the west elevation and single windows on the north and east walls. The roof and front gable is cedar shingle.
The Van Buren Post Office was originally located on Van Buren Road. It was first established as a post office 3 miles north of Everson on the Milwaukee Rail Road on October 2, 1891. It served as a post office until November 14, 1918. The post office had four postmasters during its history: William Van Buren, Andrew Kirkman, Allen Holstein, and Mary Acikinson. It was later moved to Berthusen Park in Lynden and, in 1994, was brought to Pioneer Park in pieces. Local Eagle Scouts and the City of Ferndale Park Maintenance Supervisor reassembled the building.[/accordion_section]
[accordion_section title="Jenni House (1873)"]
Jenni House (1873) is a saltbox house with a two-story section in front and a single-story shed type section in the rear. It measures 30′ X 30′ and has a hipped porch roof over a centered front entry. The house has paired windows on the ground floor of every wall and a rear centered entry. The log working on the building is very skilled and employs compound dovetail notches and interior wall tendons There is a single window in the gable end of the upper floor on the south and paired windows on the north. The roof is cedar shake.
Jenni House was built near Laurel on the old Northwest Diagonal Road, which was at that time, only a trail. This road was eventually planked and made accessible to wagons by 1885. It connected Bellingham to Ferndale and eventually Canada. The house was used as a stagecoach stop where travelers could refresh themselves with a meal or an overnight stay. At one time a community dance hail was located on the second floor. The first sawmill located north of Whatcom was built in 1882 on a portion of Jacob Jenni's 160 acre parcel. The fir table in the back room is from a solid piece of wood, 8 feet long 4 1/2 feet wide and 6 1/2 inches thick. It was the mill owner's conference table. Jacob Jeni donated 5 acres of property for the Woodlawn Cemetery on Northwest Road and was the first to be buried there. He died in 1886 at the age of 56.
The Old Settlers had the building moved to Pioneer Park in 1989. The upper portion of the building had to be detached during its relocation to the park. Doing so was required so that it could pass beneath the railroad trestle on Main Street. It is currently being shown as a residence. The tin ceiling is not original to the building, but is typical of the time and was made by W.F. Norman & Sons of Nevada, using original molds.[/accordion_section]
[accordion_section title="Lopas House (1878)"]
Lopas House (1878) is a small one-story cabin measures 14′ X 20′ with adz cut slabs, square notched at the corners. The building has a main entry on the east side which opens onto an elevated porch under a shed roof. The building has a second entry, porch and shed roof on the south wall and windows on all but the back. The gable ends are board and batten covered and the roof is cedar shingle.
Edwin Lopas built the House. He was a former stove molder from Illinois. Lopas located his homestead on a high knoll in the Mountain View area. He was a very active communit member, and was Postmaster at the Mountain View Post Office from 1899 to 1908. Afterwards he successfully operated a shingle mill on his property. The two story cabin was remodeled several times to accommodate his growing family. Intalco Aluminum Corporation bought the original site and moved the cabin to their employee recreation area. In 1990 Intalco donated the cabin to Pioneer Park, where it now displays newspaper and printing memorabilia. The linotype equipment on display in the cabin was a process first used in 1866 and is still used on occasion to print newspapers and other items. Some of the printing equipment in the cabin is still functional and is occasionally run for demonstration purposes.[/accordion_section]
[accordion_section title="Barrett House (1874)"]
Barrett House (1874) is a single-story cabin 18′ X 20′ feet with a pair of entries on the north and west sides. Like the Grandview Rogers House, it has window patching in addition to the existing openings on all but the south wall. Like many slab cedar buildings, it was sided over inside and out and was only discovered to be a slab cedar building recently (it was sometimes common to side these types of buildings as an early form of remodeling facelift to bring them current with the times at hand). The notching is dovetailed and the roof is shingle. The building was donated to the Old Settlers Association by Pete and Sandie Hanson and moved to Pioneer Park in 1989.
Thomas E. Barrett, who came from Ireland in 1868, built this House. He was one of the earliest white settlers to the area. He took a native wife and they raised seven children in this cabin. When more space was needed, a lean-to was added to the building to accommodate the overflow of family members. According to Chet Speziale, Mr. Barrett was a day late and a dollar short in nearly everything he tackled. He explored for gold in the foothills of Mt. Baker, worked as a clerk at the Sehome Coal Mines, and ran a tavern in Fairhaven where he had an enigmatic reputation for being an "genial Irishman".
Barrett was called as a witness for the prosecution, in the trail of Blanket Bill Jarman, on February 27, 1872. Jarman worked as the bartender in the Bellingham Bay Coal Company Store where Barrett was the clerk. Jarman allegedly killed Jim farmer. Jarman must have been acquitted, because on April 25, 1872 he got married and Barrett was a witness at the marriage.
Barrett retired on his claim on the shores of Barrett Lake, then called Trudder. He set up a Post Office and all mail to the Ferndale area was addressed to the individual in care of Trudder Post Office, Whatcom County, Washington Territory. Frequently, the first settler on the scene would setup a post office, since it only required one government form and a few dollars. They then encouraged others to come, making it sound more like a town existed there. They sold the newcomers part of their land donation claim and used the proceeds to finance clearing and other improvements on the remainder of the property.
Thomas Barrett was the clerk of the Ferndale School District, which had 50-60 pupils on November 13, 1875.
It seems probable that the quiet life of the homestead on the lake did not meet the approval of Barrett's liking, for by the end of 1876 he had leased and rented the Bellingham Bay Coal Company's Saloon at Sehome. Unfortunately for Barrett, the BB Coal Mines for some time had been losing money and had quietly decided to close up the business. Accordingly, they began disposing of their goods and machinery. Thus Thomas Barrett's saloon soon became a near desert and his profits dried up with his business.
He then turned toward another field of operations and announced that he would organize a prospecting party to search for the hidden wealth of gold on the upper South Fork. Seems to be quite a gold excitement in the Nooksack River. A Whatcom County newspaper reported that in 1878 Thomas Barrett was sending a prospecting party up the river. The party departed in 1879 and returned six weeks later claiming to have reached a point in the river about 100 miles from the mouth, further than any white man had been known to travel.
Barrett then returned to the farm on the lake and took his place beside his fellow settlers to help boost the interest and development of Ferndale. In 1879 a number of Barrett's neighbors met at his home to butcher hogs. Among those present was a man by the name of Brown. Brown had filed on the place later taken by William Baer. Brown had a very attractive wife, and a man by the name of Peter Galiger was paying considerable attention to her which created suspicion in Brown's mind that he was trying to steal her. A quarrel ensued and Brown stabbed Galiger to death with a butchers knife. Brown immediately fled the country and Browns wife later sold the property and left the area.
Thomas Barrett was part of the delegation for statehood in 1889. He died on October 13, 1889 and is buried in Woodlawn cemetery. Thomas Barrett had ten children, six boys and four girls with his wife Fanny.
The Barrett House is reported to have had visitors of a different kind. .A friend one day came to visit the house in its new location and although no one was home, the visitor claimed he saw somebody upstairs in the window. Perhaps Mr. Barrett came to visit.. It's possible that it is a friendly ghost looking over and protecting this wonderful old home from decay and destruction.
The Barrett House displays Post Office memorabilia collected by retired Postmaster Chet Speziale. A horse drawn Postal carrier's wagon dominates the center of the cabin.[/accordion_section]
[accordion_section title="Holeman House (1890)"]
Holeman House (1890) is a single story 25′ X 35′ foot split round log building with dovetailed corners and very rustic woodwork. The building has entries on the south and west walls and single windows on every side. The building is crudely constructed by comparison to the other cabins located in Pioneer Park.
The Holeman House was either a shack in the woods or once a schoolhouse before it was donated to Pioneer Park in 1985. This building, located on Mountain View Road, was covered with Blackberry brambles, and the bottom logs were so completely rotted that they were left behind when the building was disassembled to be moved. John Holeman was a logger and farmer who claimed Daniel Boone as an ancestor. The cabin is an example of some of the more primitive cabin building skills of the early pioneers. The Holeman House is used to depict a typical one room school setting. Early log cabin schools had few windows and no electric light, leaving the interior shrouded in gloom on cloudy days. Neither did they have plumbing. Washing up was completed outside, drinking was from a communal dipper and outhouses, usually one for each gender, were located out back. A metal railing to protect students and provide a place to dry wet mittens and clothes surrounded the woodstove. Since many in the surrounding community set their clocks by the school bell, it behooved the teacher to have a good watch for she was soundly criticized if her timing was off.[/accordion_section]
[accordion_section title="Lynden Jail (circa early 1900s)"]
Lynden Jail (circa early 1900s) the jail was constructed somewhere near Lynden in the early 1900s. It has two cells. The original location of the 10′ X 12′ building is still somewhat of a mystery. In the 1930s or so the building was moved to private property where it was used for storage. The building was then moved to Berthusen Park in Lynden where it remained for several years. The jail was moved to Pioneer Park by the a members of the Lynden Antique Tractor Association in 1996.[/accordion_section]
[accordion_section title="Barr Barn (circa 1890s)"]
Barr Barn (circa 1890s) the Barr Barn was originally located on Main Street in Ferndale on the site of the Haggen Foods Grocery Store. The homestead on which it was located had relatively few owners over its history. The 32′ X 50′ barn was donated by Haggen Foods and moved to Pioneer Park by the Old Settlers Association when the grocery store was constructed in 1996. The barn features mortise and tennon construction with wooden pegging, and is indicative of the barns of the period. It has a walk in man door on the east gable wall and two large sets of sliding doors centered on the north and south walls. There are no windows. It has vertical board and batten siding. It has a single cupola on top of the gable roof. The large sliding doors enable a hay wagon to be driven in one side to unload hay, and out the opposite side once unloaded. The current loft floor and stairs on the west half of the barn was added by the Old Settlers Association for storage. The barn also had a shed roof type lean-to, extending form an "L-shape" from the northwest corner of the main structure. At this time the lean-to has not been re-erected, however it may be re-erected in the future.[/accordion_section]
[accordion_section title="Tillicum House (1926)"]
Tillicum House (1926) is a stick frame building with clapp-board siding. The building was constructed on site. It was built by the Old Settlers Association as a meeting/dance hall. It is a single story building that measures 35′ X 55′ and has a gabled roof with asphalt shingles (originally cedar) and a poured concrete foundation. The main entry is on the west gable wall. Inside it has a kitchen area along the west end, as well as a small bathroom and janitor closet. One the west end of the building is shed-roof type lean-to with a food vending window. There is a door into the lean-to from the kitchen only. The Tillicum House was also intended to provide a place suitable for food service and it still serves as a community center and meeting place for the Old Settlers Association. Tillicum means, .Friend. in Chinook Indian jargon.[/accordion_section][/accordion]


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We're so grateful to everyone who participated in, volunteered at or sponsored the 2017 Heart & Sole Run / Walk. September 23rd was a beautiful morning of fitness and fun for the whole family presented by Boston Scientific and emceed by Sven Sundgaard of KARE 11. The groovy fun event included an inflatable bounce house for the kids and a tie dye station for all ages. A remarkable $35,000 was raised at the 2017 run /walk to support Camp Odayin's programs for children with heart disease.
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This Friday we met Adara O'Blaney coming home for the weekend from Philadelphia! A senior at the University of Pennsylvania, Adara wanted to have a relaxing weekend with her family just before the stressful start of finals week.
In her sophomore year of high school, Adara and her family moved from Verona, New Jersey to Vestal, New York. She spoke warmly of the change, claiming it was "drastic at first but so easy to acclimate to the friendly, comfortable atmosphere of Vestal."
Adara has always been passionate about saving the environment and, after graduating this May she plans to work in D.C. with a non-profit organization focusing on making a greener, cleaner planet. Adara believes the Nature Preserve located on the Binghamton University campus has definitely contributed to her love of nature and dedication to helping the environment. She says it's her favorite spot in Binghamton, "the Preserve is beautiful all year round. In fact, whenever my friends visit it's the first place I take them!"
We hope you keep following your passion, Adara. Happy holidays!


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While trying to attack the problem described in the previous entry, it became clear that a logic analyzer would be necessary. I thought I'd try to build one, and my first attempt was so close to being successful, but not quite there. It records 19 channels (the maximum pins available on the ATMega48 not being occupied by the status LED or USB connection pins) at a rate just under 1,000 samples per second. The USB connection to the PC is obvious, and it utilizes the V-USB project to bit-bang the USB protocol. I'm posting this in part because some of the comments to my entry two posts ago were disheartening, discouraging, and even down-right viscous! I made a simple way to send numbers to a PC through the sound card, so what? Don't be nasty about it! Meh, internet people. Anyway, here's a marginally more proper way to send data to a PC with USB and an AVR (logging and interface designed in python), but I'll probably still get yelled at for it.
As you can see from the video, it's good but not good enough. If I could get samples at 2,000 per second I'd probably be OK, but it's just not quite fast enough with it's current, ultra-simplistic method of sample recording. I'll figure out a fancier way to build a spectrum analyzer – it's obvious the platform is there, it just needs some refinement.
UPDATE! The more I think about it, the more I think this might be just good enough to work! Look at the stagger in those peaks near the top – that's probably the lines telling which character to display. Data between the peaks indicates the value to be provided, and I should have enough time to accurately measure that… Maybe this is good enough after all? I'll have to run some more tests tomorrow…
Where's the code? It kills me to do this, but I need to withhold the chip side code. I'm working on an idiot's guide to USB connectivity with AVR microcontrollers, and I'd rather post the simplest-case code first, then share complicated stuff like this. I'll post the python scripts:
# LOGIC.PY - this script will log (or print) raw data from the USB device from optparse import OptionParser import time import usb.core import usb.util import os while True: print "nTrying to communicate with the Gator Keyer ...", dev = usb.core.find(find_all=True, idVendor=0x16c0, idProduct=0x5dc) if len(dev)==0: print "FAIL" dev=dev[0] dev.set_configuration() print "there it is!" break def readVals(): x=dev.ctrl_transfer(0xC0, 2, 2, 3, 4).tolist() return x def toBinary(desc): bits=[] for i in range(7,-1,-1): if (2**i>desc): bits.append('0') else: bits.append('1') desc=desc-2**i return bits def toStr(lists): raw=[] for port in lists: raw+=toBinary(port) return ''.join(raw) ### PROGRAM START ################## live=False #live=True start=time.time() if live==True: while True: a,b,c,d=readVals() if not a==123: continue #bad data elapsed=time.time()-start print "%.010f,%s"%(elapsed,toStr([b,c,d])) else: times=0 data='' f=open("out.txt",'a') while True: a,b,c,d=readVals() if not a==123: continue #bad data elapsed=time.time()-start data+="%.010f,%sn"%(elapsed,toStr([b,c,d])) times+=1 if times%1000==999: print "%d readings / %.02f = %.02f /sec"%(times,elapsed,times/elapsed) f.write(data) data=""
#logicGraph.py - this will show the data in a pretty way import matplotlib.pyplot as plt import numpy c={ 0:"", 1:"", 2:"blk sol", 3:"yel str", 4:"yel sol", 5:"pur sol", 6:"pur str", 7:"", 8:"", 9:"", 10:"blu sol", 11:"blu str", 12:"orn sol", 13:"orn str", 14:"pnk sol", 15:"pnk str", 16:"", 17:"", 18:"", 19:"", 20:"", 21:"", 22:"", 23:"", 24:"", } print "loading" f=open("out.txt") raw=f.readlines() f.close() print "crunching" times=numpy.array([]) data=numpy.array([]) for line in raw: if len(line)<10: continue line=line.replace("n",'').split(',') times=numpy.append(times,float(line[0])) bits = [] for bit in line[1]: if bit=="1":bits.append(1) else:bits.append(0) data=numpy.append(data,bits) columns=24 rows=len(data)/columns data=numpy.reshape(data,[rows,columns]) print "DONE processing",len(data),"linesnn" print "plotting..." plt.figure() plt.grid() for i in range(len(c.keys())): if c[i]=="": continue plt.plot(times,data[:,i]+i*1.1,'-',label=c[i]) plt.legend() plt.show()


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The aim of Sustainable Bradninch is to help reduce carbon emissions and waste from the town and promote green initiatives in the local area. Bradninch has a long history of action in this sector, and they will be using the expertise and experience of local people to build on past successes and help prepare the town for the future. Projects will include a Repair Cafe (launching Spring 2019), a Community Fridge and surplus food events. Contact Katy Mackenzie on 01392 881034 or Lucy Mottram on 01392 881190 if you want to join.
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Don't forget that if you prefer to renew your membership online, that's an option now. It' s certainly not required; we'd love to see you at the meeting on Tuesday, April 7th, for a program given by Jim Holm, and elections for Board members. You can bring your check or cash and renew your membership during the meeting. We start with snacks and chitchat at 6pm, meeting at 6:30pm, Food Bank building.
For those of you who attended the Spring Conference in early March, please fill out our evaluation. We'll pass along your good ideas and suggestions to the Anchorage Master Gardeners for next year's conference.
It's hard to believe those little teeny tiny starts in my garage will turn out to be big lush petunias in just a few months, but I know they will; they always have. I squashed my first mosquito in the kitchen last night – March 29th! – so I know spring is well on the way!
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Without a shadow of a doubt, this is the best YA dystopia that I have read all year. Actually I'll go further than that, it is the best dystopia that I have read since The Hunger Games, the pinnacle of all dystopia books for me. So when I say that I loved it, you will understand the context that I'm putting that it.Only Ever Yours by Louise O'Neill
Published by Quercus on 2015-04-07
Genres: Dystopian, Young Adult
Pages: 300
Format: Paperback
Source: Purchased
In a world in which baby girls are no longer born naturally, women are bred in schools, trained in the arts of pleasing men until they are ready for the outside world. At graduation, the most highly rated girls become "companions", permitted to live with their husbands and breed sons until they are no longer useful.
For the girls left behind, the future – as a concubine or a teacher – is grim.
Best friends Freida and Isabel are sure they'll be chosen as companions – they are among the most highly rated girls in their year.
But as the intensity of final year takes hold, Isabel does the unthinkable and starts to put on weight. .. And then, into this sealed female environment, the boys arrive, eager to choose a bride.
Freida must fight for her future – even if it means betraying the only friend, the only love, she has ever known…
First Line of Only Ever Yours by Louise O'Neill:
"The chastities keep asking me why I can't sleep."
My Thoughts on Only Ever Yours by Louise O'Neill:
This book is scary, dark and a horrible prediction of where society could go. OK, maybe we won't end up exactly in the type of world that the world building depicts – where women are artificially designed and designated to be either companions, concubines or chastities. However we are heading furiously towards a world where image is everything and this book showcases how disastrous this would be.
Quick warning; if you suffer from any type of eating disorders, I would recommend you avoid as it could be triggery for you. A huge part of the book is about the constant pressure for the girls to be thin.
I thought the world was built up solidly which was a pleasant surprise as lots of YA dystopias are falling flat on their face on this aspect. However, here we see how the world developed and how it works. And I thought it was totally unpredictable. I had no idea how it would all end. My heart was thumping just as loud as it could as I read.
I loved that this book takes the old cliches like insta-love and just puts its own unique spin on them. Believe me there is nothing tired and overdone about Only Ever Yours. It is fresh, will pull you right in and make you shiver over and over again with fear and repulsion. At times I was wondering how far the book would go and all I will say is that the author is fearless.
There is a romance of sorts in the book. However for me a huge theme of the book was loyalty, wanting to be a good friend but also wanting to fit in with the pack. freida is not the bravest of characters but very believable as she has never been given any positive reinforcement which would give her confidence. When image is everything, all you want is to be seen to be popular and I really understood what motivated her even when she frustrated the hell out of me.
So many horrible things happen during this book but one that really disturbed me was when I realised the girls couldn't read. I didn't even realise this was the case earlier in the book and had to flick back to realise that what I thought were written communications were actually video calls and video messages. But this is only the tip of the iceberg, so many bad things happen.
Overall this is a brilliant debut from a teenage author. More please ASAP!
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We will be expanding our hours for weekdays starting on Monday the 18th for the two weeks of Winter vacation. Weekday hours will be 12-9 with sessions starting at 12, 3 & 6. Come 15 minutes early and the odds are you will not wait in line very long.View Post
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Sorry to say but we will not be opening today, Friday February 8th due to the storm. Already 2″ on the ground at home and way more to come, or so they say. The FREE Skate Session will be rescheduled to a later date, most likely Go Skate Day for an after dark session. We […]View Post
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Thinking of old school X & Gravity days…
Raise your hand if you went to one of the original X Games or Gravity Games events in Providence. This is kinda like that with more energy drinks. http://www.fise.fr/en/videos/video-montpellier-s-fise–teaser-5616.htmlView Post
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In case you missed it last week, our own Nora Vasconcellos won the 2013 Vans Combi pool classic!! To put this in perspective, the only contest (imo) that carries comparable prestige would be X Games. There might be bigger events, but this one is skating to the core with a nasty bowl that goes beyond deep and […]View Post
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For each computer, DCC has a custom set of standard software applications that we support. While it may be the case that other software appeals to you for purchase, choosing an alternative must be weighed against the fact that DCC cannot guarantee as high a level of support as would be provided with the recommended standard software.
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Just listened to it for the first time the other day. I haven't really listened to Kanye's music before (except for "Lift Yourself" but it has one curse word in it so listener beware), so I have no real basis for comparing Jesus is King to his other albums. That said, my first impression was that most of the songs had a good beat and from what I can tell overall good messages. "Hands On" was definitely the most hard-hitting song to me with its message.
To clarify, I haven't read the full lyrics yet, so this is just based on what I heard. Thought I would add this disclaimer just in case I missed something.
Who here has listened to Rock-Paper-Scissors by Katzenjammer? I'm really digging the piratey, upbeat music and the inspirational lyrics.
I just listened to it and I really like the song
@Emman_Jumpsong1 can you recommend some good songs for working out/boxing to? I making a playlist right now.
Sweet! *dances a little jig *
I have not listened to all of it, but my classmates think it's cool. The few songs I heard were okay. Some were silly. Is Kayne West a Christian? I've never heard of him.
Well, he's a really well-known rapper that just recently openly shared his Christian and conservative beliefs/values. I'm honestly a bit surprised.
That's interesting. I wonder how the rest of the world is reacting to it.
Hey @Rachel_Blackruin @Jane_Gogglerubble @Nola_Applequill and @Ariella_Newheart, I just watched a really interesting video about Kayne West yesterday. I wouldn't get too excited, because he may be lying. However, he may be true, and that would be good. But he has recently said some not-good stuff, misleading people towards a tolerant Christianity, saying we make it too hard for people of other religions "to join this thing." The truth is, Kayne is really young in his faith (assuming he's telling the truth), and he probably should not be in a leadership position already. I encourage everyone to be careful concerning his album, and to look into Kayne some more and his more recent speeches before you decide to listen to him. Here's a link to an article about the not-good stuff he recently said: [https://reformationcharlotte.org/2019/10/14/kanye-west-defends-mormons-catholics-and-t-d-jakes-says-we-all-have-the-same-gospel/]
Well cracking knuckles, I dreamed of this day coming. I'll just wrap up my list and put it up tomorrow. Also, would you like a list of music I listen to for calmness after or what ever time of day?
violin's are the best! XD
Sure why not! Sounds great.
Where them girls at
What does that supposed to mean?!
Its a song.
Oh. #ShelterHomeschooler
Im a sheltered homeschooler too,
Here you go. here are the ones I enjoy listening to. Some of them you may already have heard before, some I have not used yet because their not in my play list yet, but will pretty soon. Just put the titles in YouTube and the first one should be the one I have.
I'll wrap that up for next week.
This is epic! I will have to look these up. Audiomachine, you say? I know them! One or two of their music pieces are in the ballet thing I rehearse on Saturdays. The Birth is my favorite.


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The new report was released recently. Nothing surprising there, but a very good synthesis on online and blended learning success factors.
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I presented yesterday at DESA 2016 (Digital Education Show Asia). There were great presentations and many good resources shared. Stay tuned for updates.
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Jeremy Drew saw a police officer parked illegally outside a market, so he recorded the officer and asked for his badge number. The officer refused, fired up his motorcycle and then spoke (mostly unintelligibly) to Jeremy. But what impresses me most is that the kid asserted himself to the officer without being disrespectful. It's a valuable lesson for all of us when we engage with abusers of power, however large the abuse.
The video went viral. Jeremy then posted a followup, entitled, "My Response to My Viral Video." It's damn near the most precious thing I've seen in a long time. He asks YouTube commenters to be nicer to him and the police officer involved. I hope that kid doesn't lose his strong regard for his fellow man and his willingness to directly, assertively and respectfully engage with people. It's sorely needed … especially on YouTube.


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Year in School: Senior
Major: Mathematics Education
Hometown: McHenry, IL
Q: Are you reading anything good right now?
A: Yes! I actually just started "The Martian."
Q: What's the last song you listened to?
A: Brave: live by Sara Bareilles.
Q: What's your favorite spot to study on campus?
A: In the Founder's library basement/café with friends!
Q: Most interesting place you have traveled?
A: Jiquilillo, Nicaragua or Mendoza, Argentina (I can't pick).
Q: If you could be any fictional character, who would you be and why?
A: Anastasia! She's the perfect balance of silly and mature.
Q: What are three things you could not live without?
A: Singing, traveling and those I love.
Q: What word or phrase do you most overuse?
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Q: What makes you laugh?
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Q: Who do you admire?
A: Rachel Stice, my supervisor! She is superwoman.
Q: On the weekends you like to…?
A: Sleep and spend time with friends.
Q: What is your biggest pet peeve?
A: Unnecessary lying. I'd rather know the truth right away.
Q: What quality do you most admire in a classmate?
A: I think that classroom involvement is especially important. When students are engaged, that's when magic happens in the classroom. (Future teacher cheesy language, but it's the truth.)
Q: What quality do you most admire in a professor?
A: I like a professor who is consistent and clear with instruction.
Q: What is the biggest lesson you've learned at NIU?
A: It's hard to say, but "you do you" has come in handy for me a lot. I have a hard time figuring out what I want from life, and what others want from me, but I have learned to go with my gut. Because of this, I signed up to volunteer abroad and study abroad and I wouldn't change it for the world.
Q: What was some advice a person gave you when you were young that you still hold onto today?
A: Learn to love yourself.
Q: What is the best part about working on campus?
A: I love working on campus because there are so many different kinds of people. The more time you spend around people different from you, the more you learn about yourself and have opportunities to grow.
Q: What is your favorite advice to share with first year students?
A: You do you!
Q: What do you want to do after NIU?
A: I want to travel and teach!
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In two shrewdly commercial moves, director-actor Kenneth Branagh chose as his follow-up to the critically acclaimed Henry V (1989) the eminently accessible romantic comedy Much Ado About Nothing (1993). Second, he hedged his bets by integrating four established Hollywood stars into the usual mix of British talent. This latter strategy both helps and hurts, but overall the film is a jubilant and lushly romantic viewing experience.
MGM's Blu-ray, distributed by Fox, looks and sounds excellent, and the high-definition image enhances the experience as it brings out more subtle details in the actors' performances and the warm Italian scenery. The disc is light on extra features, however, and what little there is dates back to the original theatrical release.
Adapted from the c.1598 play, Much Ado About Nothing follows the burgeoning romance of two contrasting couples: Benedick (Kenneth Branagh) and Beatrice (Emma Thompson, then married to Branagh), and Claudio (Robert Sean Leonard) and Hero (Kate Beckinsale). The play's clever title is generally lost on modern viewers, unaware Shakespeare was playing on the homophonic words "nothing" and "noting," the latter once defined as overheard rumor or gossip. And gossip is what drives Much Ado's plot and plotting. (For what it's worth, in Shakespeare's day, "'n othing" was reportedly also slang for "vagina.")
The film's bawdy, exuberant tone is established at once, first with Thompson superb reading of the poem above, followed by the arrival on charging horseback of Don Pedro (Denzel Washington) and his noblemen, including Benedick, Claudio, and Don Pedro's surly brother Don John (Keanu Reeves). They plan a month's stay at the spacious villa of Don Pedro's friend, Leonato of Messina (Richard Briers), the father of Hero and Beatrice's uncle.
Don Pedro learns of Claudio's love for Hero and arranges a marriage at a masked ball. The bitterly unhappy Don John, presumably out of jealously and an unstated interest in Hero himself, tries to screw up the match but fails and the wedding date is set. But then Don John plots to discredit Hero as an unfaithful woman and not the virginal beauty she appears. Meanwhile, Don Pedro himself playfully plots to bring Benedick and Beatrice together, despite their open contempt for one another.
The film is a delight from start to finish, alternately tender and lusty and so earnest that it's hard not to get swept up in its romanticism. Audiences experiencing Shakespeare for the first time with this film were probably surprised by the sexually charged opening scenes, where the entire cast rip off their clothes and en masse jump into various pools of water. In the featurette Branagh says he aspired toward a primeval sort of adaptation, one of "wine and bread and grapes and cheese." He achieved just that, especially the opening and closing scenes, which make great use of long Steadicam shots and which convey a positively joyous atmosphere.
It's also quite funny though Emma Thompson's sharp-tongued Beatrice gets more laughs than the play's most broadly comic character, malapropism-prone constable Dogberry. Michael Keaton's bizarre interpretation, while admirably no-holds-barred, is like watching his Batman co-star Jack Nicholson playing Fagin on crack. Thompson, conversely, imbues her character with unexpected and delicate humanity, the sadness and loneliness just behind the take-no-prisoners facade. Beatrice may say she "speak(s) all mirth and no matter," but Thompson gives her much, much more.
Both Denzel Washington and Robert Sean Leonard are excellent in their roles, the former exuding understated authority and nobility, and amused by his machinations involving Benedick. Leonard and Beckinsale, she in her film debut, are an irresistible pair and give their roles the intense emotion those parts require.
As one might expect, Keanu Reeves is a minor disaster - hammy and unconvincing as he almost always is. Perhaps Branagh thought the personality, rather than prose-driven role ("I am not a man of words," Don John says), suited the popular Reeves, but his limitations as an actor still stand out.
American ad art gave the British cast short shrift, with even Michael Keaton's smallish part awarded above-the-title billing while ignoring Beckinsale and Richard Briers (excellent), among others.
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Much Ado About Nothing is presented in its original 1.85:1 theatrical aspect ratio on a region "A" encoded 50GB dual-layered disc. The results are excellent, with the warm colors of the Italian locations and subtle details in the actor's performances coming through nicely. Audio is 2.0 Surround DTS-HD Master Audio, which more than adequately serves, among other things, Patrick Doyle's lovely score. (However, reader "Antony" points out that the audio is "actually just a DTS 2.0 256kbps track rather than the 2.0 DTS HD MA track [that] the cover and menu list.") Spanish and French Dolby Surround tracks are also available, while on my bought-in-Japan PlayStation 3, the disc defaulted to Japanese subtitle options (on the film only, not the extra features). English SDH, French, and Spanish subtitles are also available.
Extra Features
Sadly, these are limited to a barely six-minute vintage featurette in standard-def 525p that at least offers sound bites from most of the cast, and a trailer in high-definition that tries hard to make a difficult sale.
Parting Thoughts
Probably the most completely satisfying of Branagh's five Shakespeare movies to date (Henry V and Hamlet come close, however), Much Ado About Nothing is a terrific film, very accessible and just short of perfection. Highly Recommended.
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In Second Part of Don Quixote, chapter LIX, p. 845 in the wonderful translation by Edith Grossman that I am reading, we are nearly at the end of our journey, or the Don's journey. He and his squire, Sancho, find themselves at an inn that is, or the proprietor claims it to be well supplied with foods of all kinds. Sancho is elated, but when he orders dinner, nothing on the menu is available. He and the Don settle for a simple rustic stew.
While they are eating, they hear through the thin wall a discussion next door. Some travelers, well fed by their own private cook, are discussing how to entertain themselves. One suggests that they read the second part of Don Quixote. "Why does your grace want us to read this nonsense? Whoever has read the first part of the history of Don Quixote of La Mancha cannot possibly derive any pleasure from reading this second part."
They refer, of course, to a false edition of the Don's adventures, that was circulating. In fact, there was a true-false edition. The Don makes his presence known, and they, delighted to meet the real Don Quixote, invite him to their table. He takes a quick look at their edition and pronounces it utter trash: there are so many basic errors, one must assume that the entire book is false. For instance, it refers to Sancho's wife, Teresa, as Mari Gutierrez.
A translator's note informs us that this fictionalized error, a jab at the true-false edition, was not true, or completely true, since Cervantes himself, in his own First Part, refers to Teresa Sancho as Mari Gutierrez!


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Coroner Identifies Man Killed Nov. 23 in Crash at Route 20 and Harmony Road
The Kane County Coroner's Office has identified the man who was killed in a Nov. 23 crash at the intersection of Route 20 and Harmony Road in Coral Township.
According to a Coroner's Office news release and media reports, a 1999 Ford Expedition driven by John Burke, 54, also known as John Dimauro of Woodstock, was driving north on IL Route 20 when it was struck by a 2007 Hino 268 box truck that was driving east on Harmony Road.
The accident occurred at around at 6:43 p.m. Wednesday, Nov. 23, 2016.
The McHenry County Sheriff's Office's preliminary investigation indicates the box truck did not stop at the stop sign. The 24-year-old driver of the Hino was transported by fire officials to Sherman Hospital for precautionary reasons where he was treated and eventually released. Burke was pronounced dead at Sherman Hospital.
On Monday, Nov. 28, 2016, an autopsy was conducted, and the preliminary cause of death is multiple injuries. Toxicology samples were sent to the forensic laboratory for analysis, the Kane County Coroner's Office said. The Coroner's Office is cooperating with all police and fire agencies in their ongoing investigation of the incident.
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Cookin' with Kerouac: Brakeman Breakfast
Posted by Erik at Booktunes in Recipes on August 18, 2015
Although more known as a drinker than a culinary writer, Jack Kerouac often talks food during his hikes and searchings as a Dharma Bum. Reading about his rambles with Gary Snyder reminds me of one of my favourite Kerouac fragments from "The Railroad Earth".
Completely at ease, with no reason to rush, Jack prepares for a long day of working at the tracks. The perfect day for a brakeman seems to unfold itself from the moment he awakes watching a fresh coffee brew as it does. His writing made me feel like having a cuppa myself and start my day with a true Kerouac breakfast.
The beautiful piece of prose also raises a question. How can one work like a devil all day on just an omelette and café? Let's be fair, Jack throws in some bacon and tops is eggs it off with a lick of peanut butter, but still. Organic, vegan, superfoods, paleo… on my own journey to what is best for me I sometimes wonder if the food in 2015 is as good as it once used to be. This morning, from wonderer to wanderer, I decide Jack's diet is best bet:
I had heard that peanut butter and lettuce contained all the vitamins you should want, this after I had originally started to eat this combination because of the deliciousness and nostalgia of the taste
from "The Railroad Earth", Lonesome Traveler – Jack Kerouac
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Booktunes Moviefood – Hell on Wheels
Posted by Erik at Booktunes in Uncategorized on January 15, 2013
On the verge of redeveloping Booktunes and ad more fields of interest to the Booktunes realm I bumped in to this great Hell on Wheels recipe!! To be honest, really I was looking for a Corn Likker dealer but thanks to Google I found this fab frontier dish. Yum![audio http://www.2001.net/Booktunes/Blog_Hell_On_Wheels_Main_Title_Extended.mp3]
Open fire expert Jessica tells us:
Cooking is more than just preparing food. Cooking from scratch is a food experience. For the past 10 years, I've been learning about cooking from vintage cookbooks, friends, and family.
Her foodie blog called A Pinch Here, A Dash There brings mouthwatering recipes like these Perfect Cacao Pancakes. As a visual bonus her friend Alexander Yerks is a great photographer inspired by Jessie's cooking…
.. and apparently a craftsman as he makes wooden cups that hold your likker! How about a new goal for 2013? Make your own cups.. goes purty damn well with my musical saw ambitions!


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Now that Josh has concluded his eight month-long analysis of the Bill of Rights,* it's time for we at NPI to finally face facts: The Bill of Rights as a whole is incredibly overrated. The Ninth and Tenth Amendments are glorified addenda, the Seventh is, as Josh said, dull, the Third has been pretty useless, and the Second is essentially gibberish. The entire document is in desperate need of a proofreader (seriously, the grammar in that thing is offensively ambiguous).
*And in depressingly anticlimactic fashion, I might add: Oh, the First Amendment is first and the Second is last? How original! Is he also going to write something about how rainbows are pretty and chocolate tastes good?
And yet the Bill of Rights remains incredibly popular. Demagogic political figures appeal to it for justification of any principle they want to espouse; citizens regard it with a scriptural sanctity even though polls show that most of them don't know what it says. In other words, the Bill of Rights is basically the secular version of the Bible. And not much of that has to do with its proscription on troop-quartering.
You don't have to be a constitutional scholar to know that the Bill of Rights' reputation with the public is largely the result of the First Amendment, specifically the freedoms of speech and the press. And yet it is this part of the Bill of Rights that is the most overrated.
Let me be clear from the outset: I am not anti-free speech. In fact, I would venture to say that I'm just as big of a fan of John Stuart Mill's defense of liberty as Josh is. It's not liberty I object toit's the conception of "freedom of speech" that the First Amendment endorses and propagates. The most troublesome aspect of the First Amendment, and indeed about the Bill of Rights as a whole, is its establishment of free speech as a "right."
The Bill of Rights is so popular because of its creation (or protection, depending on who you ask) of certain "rights"—it's right there in the name. Free speech and free exercise from the First Amendment are two of the most popular rights, but what does it mean to list these things as "rights"? The concept of a right is an outdated modality, a remnant from a time in which political philosophy was hardly different from religious philosophy. As it famously says in the Declaration of Independence, one of the "self-evident" truths is the existence of "certain unalienable rights" that were "endowed by [the] Creator." All this "rights come from God" shit is a very popular trope even today. Recall President Bush's statement that "the liberty we prize is not America's gift to the world; it is God's gift to humanity."
This kind of language is very disturbing, and not just because God isn't real. The problem with this kind of argument is that you can just say it without any justification. All you have to do is assert that God is in favor of some right, and you've won the argument. You don't even need to provide evidence that God is in favor of free speech, free religion, trial by jury, or against troop quartering.*
*And, actually, there's probably more evidence that he is AGAINST these things. Why on Earth would God want there to be free exercise of religion? And free speech? Didn't he DROWN THE WHOLE WORLD because some people said some blasphemous things? I hate to break it to you, but God is not a classical liberal.
Even if you don't subscribe to the belief that rights come from God—and I know Josh doesn't, because he's not irrational—the concept of a "right" is still an autocratic fiat. To claim something as a right, you need to appeal to some authority—either the Founding Fathers, or a political philosopher, or something else–because the concept of a right is absolute. It is not based on consequences or arguments; it is merely an entitlement to a certain protection, regardless of the outcome.
In the overall scheme of governance, however, this is decidedly unhelpful. Law and policy are largely about consequences and results: What is going to promote the general welfare of the society in question? That is, after all, the aim of political philosophy. There is a school of a thought—of which Mill is a part—that believes that certain freedoms will promote the general welfare more than anything else. That may or may not be true, but construing these things as "rights"—protections to which you are entitled no matter what the consequences are—is tremendously unhelpful. After all, what happens when the rights of two people conflict? Or when, for example, someone construes something as a free exercise of his religion, which others construe as an establishment of that religion?
This introduces the second major flaw in the conception of "rights": Rights are worthless without a clear, indisputable definition. Granted, for some rights protected within the Bill of Rights, this is not a serious issue. There aren't many debates, for example, about what constitutes troop-quartering. But for most amendments, questions of definition and elaboration abound, most notably in the First Amendment. What, for example, constitutes "speech"? Is it an act of speech to burn your draft card? To burn a flag? To carry a sign that says "Lynch Obama"? What about "press"? Or, for that matter, "religion"? What do these words mean in the context of the Bill of Rights?
Of course, there is a long tradition of legal scholarship about just these types of definitions; I do not intend to rehash or dismiss them. The problem with these discussions, though, is that they merely generate debate over what conforms to some standard: Is this what the Founding Fathers meant by "speech" (or some other variable)? And this standard is, ultimately, pretty arbitrary. What is more interesting, and more important from the standpoint of a government, is what promotes the general interests and values that our society wants to uphold.
As Josh summarized, Mill provides a brilliant and eloquent explanation for why free speech—or, as Mill called it, the liberty of thought and discussion—is just one of these values: Allowing ideas and opinions to flow freely allows good ones to defeat bad ones, forces people to justify the beliefs they express, promotes democratic discourse, and helps to prevent all opinions, whether good or bad, from becoming dogma. These are all good things, but the First Amendment itself doesn't really deal with any of them. The First Amendment does contribute to these values, but since it frames free speech as a right, and not as something to promote such values, it exists by fiat and not real justification. In other words, if the First Amendment ever stopped leading to good outcomes, then, well, too bad.
Former Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes formulated this view in his dissent in Gitlow v. New York: "If in the long run the beliefs expressed in…dictatorship are destined to be accepted by the dominant forces of the community, the only meaning of free speech is that they should be given their chance and have their way."
This is known as free speech absolutism. Often attributed to Justice Hugo Black, free speech absolutism basically means that any and all speech is protected by the First Amendment, no matter how harmful or odious it may be. It is not the job of lawmakers to determine whether certain speech is beneficial or harmful; if something is speech, then it is permissible. With respect to free speech absolutism, tests like the Brandenburg test, or guidelines for obscenity, are technically unconstitutional.
Now, even though tests like Brandenburg exist, it seems pretty obvious to me that free speech absolutism is the correct interpretation of the actual text of the Constitution. Is there something vague about "Congress shall make no law" that I am missing? I don't really know how you get clearer than that. Maybe the Founders should have added a footnote that just said, "Seriously guys, NO law."
In some sense, the absolutist aspect of the First Amendment is in the spirit of Mill's arguments: Only in the complete absence of constraints is the free exchange of ideas actually possible. Once the government starts inspecting speech for potentially negative consequences, then it has already imposed certain standards and values on the marketplace of ideas.
The problem with this line of thinking, though, is that government entities are not the only institutions that can impose constraints on speech, yet they are the only ones the First Amendment applies to. It should not be forgotten that Mill's arguments were not merely directed at governments but indeed at society at large and even "mankind" in general. And yet non-governmental entities silence, restrict, limit, modify, or otherwise interfere with speech all the time.
Take, for example, the recent case decided by the Supreme Court, Citizens United v. the Federal Elections Committee. In this case, decided just two months ago, the Court overturned a law that prohibited corporations and unions from spending money to support or defeat candidates for elected office. That law constituted a prohibition on speech and was, thus, unconstitutional. Now, there is a lot of debate about the decision of the court—President Obama even criticized it in the State of the Union—but most of it centers on whether or not financial contributions to political candidates constitute speech. Once again, we have gotten bogged down in a debate over the technical meaning of the word "speech," as opposed to the actual values that free speech promotes.
The problem, of course, is that striking down the law is just as much of an interference with the free exchange of ideas as upholding it. The law in question is not concerned with the kind of opinion elimination that Mill is opposed to, but with the question of acess. Since the law in question deals with campaign spending, then certain groups—namely, corporations and unions with access to large amounts of money—have certain privileged access to the "speech" in question. In this instance, then, the First Amendment has not leveled the playing field for the different viewpoints expressed, but merely restored different inequities that have nothing to do with the quality or degree of truth in the speech.
This is why the absolutist or unqualified nature of the First Amendment does not really cohere with the general principles that underlie actual liberty of thought and discussion. Mill's arguments, for example, repeatedly refer back to the hypothetical "silencing" of opinions: "All silencing of discussion is an assumption of infallibility." This suppression of opinion, whether it be by government or any entity, is what freedom of speech is really opposed to.
In the context of the First Amendment, though, freedom of speech is not about the prevention of silencing or suppressing viewpoints, but merely about complete government neutrality on speech. In modern life, speech is limited by other factors far more often than it is threatened by government restrictions. These other factors can range from relatively harmless social norms to corporate censorship to monopolization of access to certain outlets. Some of these are understandable and/or hard to avoid, but some are pretty significant infringements on the exchange of ideas. In the Citizens United case, for example, an argument can be made (and was, by Justice Stevens in the dissenting opinion) that allowing corporate and union spending will actually end up silencing or suppressing other views.
Now, whether or not this argument is persuasive, or whether such a worry merits government intervention, or whether the worry outweighs a desire to keep the government from prohibiting campaign spending—these are all separate and debatable questions. But the mere fact that something is speech ought not make it sacred.
Indeed, the problem with the First Amendment is that it values the mere existence of speech over the productive discourse that speech is supposed to foster. If a certain viewpoint has more privileged access or dominance due to things besides its persuasiveness or degree of truth, then certain regulations, or "abridgements" of that view, may actually breed dissent and be more in line with the spirit of free speech. In other words, if a corporation can afford to spend more money on political ads to promote candidates whose policies it prefers, then a law prohibiting such spending would promote fairer discourse–whether or not it is an "abridgement" on speech.
Many modern issues of free speech come down to more nuanced questions of access, which cannot really be dealt with in the simple "if it's speech, protect it" manner of free speech absolutism. Questions like who is allowed to run political ads and when and on what channel, which media will be able to host which content, equal-time rules and Fairness Doctrine issues, how limited resources of expression are distributed to different viewpoints, etc. are all more complicated than mere prohibitions on a type of speech, so government neutrality on the question of speech is insufficient to deal with them.
It's not that I'm in favor of government censorship or regulation of speech. It's actually quite the opposite: As a matter of policy, I would do away with pretty much all regulations of speech, including obscenity laws. But I don't think that makes free speech a "right" or entitlement; it's merely a value government should respect.
The business of government is primarily about compromise and management, about figuring out how best to settle opposing sides. But the concept of a "right"—whether it be free speech, free exercise of religion, trial by jury, etc.—is absolute. That's why even when the principle promoted by the right is noble—as it certainly is in the case of the First Amendment—the right itself is only a hindrance on actual political and philosophical debate. By its very nature, then, the Bill of Rights is not a constructive addition to the Constitution. It may be historically and legally important, and worth ranking, but that doesn't make it good for society. And even if you disagree with what I say, you better defend to your death my right to say it.


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They have previously visited Japan, Korea and New Zealand
Hydroponics is a method of growing plants without the use of soil. Plants are instead grown in water to which a mineral nutrient solution has been added.
Back at home in France, Castaner is a policeman and Willemot is due to soon finish her political science studies, focusing on environmental protection and ocean pollution.
As part of their experience at Oasis Hydroponics, they help sell the organic hydroponically-grown lettuces, herbs and organic sprouts as fresh salads at the market. They also sell home-made pawpaw salad dressing, (it's the most popular, says Castaner), and Asian sesame seed dressing.
He also points out that the clear salad containers used by the business are biodegradable.
"This is important," he says. "Rarotonga is pretty environmentally conscious, compared to other countries like Japan.
"In Japan everything is plastic, and they hand you plastic bags without even asking. I think this island is already doing some good things toward reducing plastics. You see the paper straws and that's a good thing. There's no place for plastic straws anymore."
When the couple have finished their stint at Oasis Hydroponics, they say they will probably return to New Zealand.


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Whiteness: The Other Side of Racism, a course taught by associate professor of psychology and education Sandy Lawrence, is one of the Young America's Foundation's "Dirty Dozen," a selection of "the most bizarre and troubling instances of leftist activism supplanting traditional scholarship." Other courses on YAF's list are Occidental College's The Phallus (first), Amherst College's Taking Marx Seriously (third), and Swarthmore's Nonviolent Responses to Terrorism (twelfth). We recently asked Lawrence about her course, which she has taught for four years.
QA: What do you want your students to get out of the course?
SL: I want students to be knowledgeable about the social, political, and economic aspects of the current racial landscape and to understand the history of how it got that way. I want students to be aware that while racism disadvantages people of color, it provides benefits to whites. By examining the other side of racism--whiteness--we can see the advantages in education, heath care, and employment that white people continually accrue. I want students to see that racism still exists (even though it seems less overt to some) and that dismantling racism will take the work of all of us working in coalition with one another. I also want students to see that they have agency, that they can do something about racism and the power of whiteness; they do not have to sit by and watch it happening, while lamenting that it is terrible. We all can take action, no matter how small, to interrupt the workings of racism. We have a long history of racism in our society, but we also have a long history of everyday people like you and me of all racial and ethnic affiliations working for racial justice. I want students to know about these people so that they will have models to follow if, and when, they decide to take action.
QA: What texts and materials do you use?
SL: I use one anthology of essays titled White Privilege: Readings on the Other Side of Racism by Paula Rothenberg, as well as essays and journal articles from a variety of disciplines (sociology, law, history, and psychology, among others) on e-reserves. Students also read current news media articles, both print and online, and they view films and videos.
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Scottish folk/power metallers ALESTORM have released the official music video for their new song "Alestorm", taken from the band's upcoming fifth full-length album. Titled "No Grave But The Sea", the disc will be released on May 26 via Napalm Records.
Says the band: "Oh wow! It's a new ALESTORM album! I hope all of you fellow humans and dogs like it; we think it's pretty gosh darn okay! It's also our first album to feature our grandiose guitarist Máté Bodor who brings his tasty and delicious solos and rifftacular riffing into the mix.
"This is the place in the press release where we would usually tell you this album is darker and heavier than our previous works, but that's probably not true. It is, however, full of epic songs about pirates, drinking, and pseudoscientific cryptogeography. I'm sure y'all will enjoy those things just as much as we do."
"No Grave But The Sea" track listing:
01. No Grave But The Sea
02. Mexico
03. To the End of the World
04. Alestorm
05. Bar und Imbiss
06. Fucked with an Anchor
07. Pegleg Potion
08. Man the Pumps
09. Rage of the Pentahook
10. Treasure Island
ALESTORM's last album, "Sunset On The Golden Age", came out in August 2014 via Napalm Records.