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NASH'S IMPROVED FARM FENCE. bushel higher than spring barley. In New-York it has as
yet been but little cultivated, but wherever it has been The accompanying illustration represents a section of tried it has proved a successful and remunerative crop when straight fence, recently invented by E. Nash, Auburn, N. properly attended to, and its culture is extending. Y. It may be built of rails or of boards. The upright The advantages of growing winter over spring barley pieces are made of boards about four feet long and sis are : Ist. The farmer has more time to prepare his land inches wide. The ends of the rails are flattened to a uni- get it into good tilth in autumn than spring, when a mulform thickness, and two battens or uprights are nailed to tiplicity of work comes on him at once.
2d. He is less dependent on the weather, which is generally such in autumn as will allow of almost any soil being worked to better advantage than in spring.
3d. Less secd is required, as it will tiller out very considerably, especially when sown early.
4th. It blossoms and ripens earlier even than winter wheat, and will thus more easily escape the ravages of the wheat midge, which has recently shown a disposition to attack and commit extensive havoc in spring barley.
5th. It is preferred by the brewers, who will give from
10 to 15 per cent more for it.
Aslan. Whics each panel, when they are set on flat stones, as represented the same preparation as for wheat, and it will amply repay
The ground intended for winter barley requires much in the illustration, and braced with a brace on each side, which are set firmly in the ground with a pick or spade, suitable for it, and the land should be ridged so as to carry
any extra care bestowed upon it. Dry loans are most and the upper ends beveled off and nailed or bolted to the off' all surface water. The surface soil is better to be made uprights. Two small stakes may be driven on each side loose and friable, as the roots are short and spread out near of the bottom rail to keep it from being moved sideways. tbe surface, and it is found desirable to encourage as much It may be erected on rolling land or up and down slopes, growth of rvot as possible before the soil freezes up. The main as well as on lovel ground. It may be used for burdles, point is to have the soil rich, well drained, and thoroughly or for fencing stacks, or for making pens for stock. The only portion linble to rapid decay is the ends of the braces. pulverized. The time for sowing the seed is the last of SepThe foot of the braces need not be more than twenty too heavy a top, and become smothered in winter, should
tember or first week in October, if sowr earlier it is apt to get inches from the blocks. The cost of such fence per lineal rod will depend on the little enough to sow. If drilled in early, less might do;
the snow be heavy and lie long. Two bushels per acre is value of the materials used, in the locality where it is and everything having been properly attended to, forty to erected, which any one can compute. When it is made of bonrds, the panels may be made in sixty bushels per aere may reasonably be expected as a re
turn for the labor and trouble bestowed on this crop. the workshop in the winter or at any time.
Hamilton, C. W.
Jors MACKELCAN, JR. It makes a very permanent fence when the braces are firmly set; and the frost of winter will not affect it more than an ordinary rail fence. It has been well tested du
TURNIPS SOWN AMONG CORN. ring the past season, and I have applied the principle to some of my board fence; and I do not hesitate to pro- the practice now becoming quite prevalent there, of put
In some recent notes from Dutchess Co., we alluded to nounce it the most permanent surface fence that I have cver met with.
S. Enw srdS TODD. ting turnips in between the rows of corn. A Berks Co.,
(Pa.) correspondent of the Germantown Telegraph says: (For the Country Gentleman and Cultivator.)
The practice of sowing turnips among Indian corn, at the WINTER BARLEY.
the last boeing, and especially where the latter has been thin
Ded by worms or other insects, is one which eannot be too Some years ago it was thought that the coldness of the urgently recommended. The turnip is a vegetable wbiek rewirker in Western New-York would prove a bar against quires less assistance from solar light during the incipient the successful cultivation of winter barley. The same idea stages of its development, than almost any plant in the whole was also held in England, although the winter there is con- catalogue of edibles ; consequently, it is but slightly injured paratively mild.
by the foliage of the corn plants, or the close dess of tbe al mosBut this theory has proved to be erroneous, and winter phere thus created. After the corn crop is barvested, and bobarley is now extensively grown in England, in some coun- root, especially if the soil be well cultivated. Burnt lands,
fore the advent of frost, there will be apple time for them to ties it having become almost as frequently grown as winter in which the natural vegetative powers of the soil are aug. wheat. It has also been found that barley raised from mented by the alkaline principles of the ashes, are very faseed grown in the south of England succeeds better in the vorable to the cultivation of turnips; and when they are Northern counties than that grown from soed matured in sowed among corn on gnch, they almost invariably produce a the colder temperature of the north. It ripens earlier | lucrative crop. Hundreds of busbels of excellent turnips may and gives a more certain crop.
frequently be grown in this way without any appreciable It having been demonstrated that barley can be success- diininution of the corn crop. Ecunomy is wealth," says the fully grown in Great Britain as a winter or autumn sown adage, and it is certain no one can practice it long without incrop, it would be well for us to endeavor to do the same enterprises
. In this business of producing cheap orops in sub
creasing to some extent his means for future operations and for it here. I have no doubt but that it would succeed well anywhere portant advantages, among which may be mentioned as pot
stitution for the moro expensive cereals, we gain several imin the United States south of the 420 degree of north lati- the least prominent, the saving of time, and the realization tude. North of this it would perhaps be too hazardous a of a lucrative yield of produce from Jand prepared for anotber crop, although it bas been successfully grown in Canada, species of roots or grain. The ravages of insects often prove especially in the peninsula lying between Jakes Ontario fatal to many vegetables--especially to Indian corn; and and Huron, and along the northern shores of lake Ontario. when this happens, unless the vacated land can be filled with I saw some winter barley in full ear carly in June, which some crop of later growth, it must rowain, either in part of had been grown near Ottawa, C. W. Most of that which wholly idlo. I observed is already being harvested, one field near this
Again, the turnip boars Inte sowing so well that it may be city being cut and ready to go into the barn on the 7th of grown on fields from which enrly vegetables have been taken ;
it succeeds well after a crop of "pons, beans, &c. July. Winter barley has been cultivated for some few years at cellent articles' to be used in the cultivation of turnips.
Bono madure, wood ashes, lime and poudrette are all exthe west, especially in Indiana and Ohio, and in the Chicago Ground and crushed bones, and bones dissolved in sulphurio market reports will be found quoted six to ten cents per acid-itself possessing powerful stimulant and manurial pro.
perties, makos an admirable dressing. Gypsuin also, is ap- fore them but a life of slavery, with no present pleasures plied with success, both before and after planting. Green and to alleviate. The old house stands close to the road, with fermented manures should never be used on this crop. not one foot to adorn with shrubbery or flowers, and if
there were, they have no time to improve it, for from THE TORNADO IN IOWA.
morning until noon, and from noon until night, all is labor,
labor, labor. There are many very curious circumstances connected
Now when those boys shall have grown up and begin to with that wind. A friend of mine has visited its track, inquire for some plan to escape the slavery to which such and has given me these facts.
a system of labor has dooined them, 'Columella' will say It bas generally been said to have been about one quar- they have an aversion to labor, an aversion produced by ter of a mile wide. It did not vary ten rods from three- high mental culture. Now the same advice that I gave quarters of a mile, neither did it vary much in width for to that man I would give to all in like circumstances. Sell many miles. Precisely in the center, a space of about 100 at least 300 acres of your land, and then fit the other 200 feet, the effect was much more severe than the rest of the acres to live on. Select 10 acres and underdrain it to bespace; and in this center all the trees and timber lay gin with. Then, after applying to it all the manure of a north and south, while at the south side the things were single year, with the plow, the cultivator and the harrow, carried east, and at the north side west ; and yet there was prepare it for laying down to grass. Then, the next year, much loose materials fell filter skilter on the top of the another ten acres, and so on for ten years. At the end of first prostration. This rotary motion then, of course, was ten years, or fifteen at the most, bis whole farm would profrom west to eist on the south side, and from east to west duce more than 1000 acres would in the present condition on the north side.
of his land. Under such examples and influences, his boys The crops are not destroyed along the track of the tor: would become farmers and his girls farmers' wives. nado. It was the 3d of June; wheat was not jointed, and
Waverly, N. Y.
J. L. EDGERTON. although it was swept off, leaving only the root in the ground, it came up again, and now stands at the edge of the
(For the Country Gentleman and Cultivator,] track about eight inches lower than that outside, and green
GINGER BEER. and late, supposed to harvest over half as much as the very heavy crops in that region. Corn also came up and I will give you my way of making small beer that is the looks quite well.
right kind of beer, in answer to an inquiry by A Subscribor. Along this track were strewn fragments of household fur- Take 8 gallons of warm water and I gallon of New-Orloans niture, clothing, family utensils, buildings, fences, timber, molasses, and a small handful of hops, and boil them in a galand carcasses of all kinds of 'animals; and most of all loa and a balf of water, and strain it in with the other warm these things were besmeared with mud and dirt, for the and put it in and mix it right well, and then put in two tablo.
water. Then take two large tablespoonfuls of good ginger wind took up quite a quantity of dust and dirt, which was spoonfuls of good cream tartar. Next put in 1 gallons of well moistened in the clouds, and thoroughly stirred into good yeast, and mix it all well, and let it stand for six or eight mud. SUEL FOSTER. Muscatine, Iowa.
hours, or rather till it has worked a good scum over the top.
Take a clean cloth and wash it in warm water, and wring the (For the Country Gentleman and Cultivator.) water out and lay it in a culender and strain carefully; IMPROVING TOO LARGE A FARM. bottle and cork and tie up so that the strings will mako a cross
on the top of the cork. Set the bottles out in the hot sun for Messrs. Editors—In the days of my boyhood, about two hours, and then put them in a good cold cellar or spring fifty years ago, I was acquainted with three good farmers house and let it get ono day old, and then you will baro good of olden times, each owning about 130 acres adjoining on
beer. the saune road, lying along about a mile. The land being
Skim before you strain ; also, before you put the ginger and then comparatively new and productive, each of these men it a little cool, a little more than milk warm, but no warmer
molasses, and the cream tartar and yeast in your water, mako became independent and reared a large family, and sent
or else it will kill your ingredients. G. GEBHART. Indiana. them into the world well to live. About fifteen years ago, a young man of my acquaintance bought one of these
APPLES for Pork MAKING.-A pithy writer in the farms, and moved into an old house that had stood there Genesee Farmer remarks on this subject as follows: "For more than 60 years. But he found the farm so unpro- swine, nothing equals an apple-pie, either for relish or for ductive that he could not live upon it. So he bought the fattening power. The pig is not very dainty about his second farm, but he could live no better, and finally he pie, however. If you merely cook the apples and stir in bought the third, making him about 500 acres of very good a little bran, he won't refuse the dish; substitute shorts, and yet very unproductive land. Now he is just be or corn and cob-meal, or ground oats or buckwheat, and it giuning to learn that the more he has of such land, the will suit his palate and pile on the fat amazingly. And for worse he is off. But what ails the land ? It was natural. finishing up a piece of pork, an apple pudding thickened ly productive, and being porous when new it was not too with good corn meal, is as far ahead of hard corn as the wet, nor was it too stony even. But from long use and
corn is of raw pumpkins. Pork made with apple isage it has become very compact, and is now wet and cold, sweeter, and quite as free from shrinking as the cornsfed and of course unproductive. His whole farm, both meadow and pasture land, is being
WhiteWOOD Hoxey.—The Ohio Farmer remarks that overrun with every variety of foul stuff. His whole farm the Whitewood or Tulip trees are covered unusually with lies facing to the west. Nearly every acre of the farm blossoms this season, and adds what had never attracted must be underdrained before it can be made productive. our notice, that the bees gather a rich harvest of honey But the owner can never do that. First, for the want of from this source, leaving while they last almost untouched a disposition to do it; and secondly, for want of means. the flowers of the wbite clover. It is a splendid tree, not His whole capital is invested in unproductive land. If he only when in bloom, but through the entire summer seawould sell 300 acres of his land, and with the means pre. pare 200 acres to live on, he could make money, become COOKED FOOD For Hogs.-An experiment related in independent, live like a freeman, and, what is most im. the Working Farmer resulted as follows:-"Mr. Mason of portant of all, he could educate his children right. Somerville, N. J., found that by using cooked corn meal,
But what I am coming to is the influence such a course from the middle of April to the first of December, he inof farming and of life has upon his children in giving an creased the weight of two pigs from about 40 to 602 lbs., early directiou to their future life. He is rearing a young being a gain of one and quarter pounds per day, and that family of boys and girls. But his boys will never become the entire cost of the pork was about four cents per farmers, nor will his daughters ever marry farmers. They pound.” will live old maids first. There is not a single thing con. For TAKING OUT IRON RUST AND YELLOW Stains.—Dij nected with the life of that growing family calculated to the articles in a strong solution of Tartario Acid, and lay them make them happy upon the farm. There is nothing be-l exposed to the sun.-Exchange.
Cutting Back Trees when Transplanted.
(For the Country Gentleman and Cukivator.)
CROPS ON DRAINED LAND. This practice, now generally adopted by the most suc cessful cultivators, and founded partly on the principle that
MESSRS EDITORS—I have not seen any statement of mutilated and greatly reduced roots cannot supply a fun crops grown on lands that the New-York State Ag. Sa amount of nourishment to a great multitude of buds, L 1858, and to let the people know how I have succeeded,
ciety awarded their premium on draining for the year objected to by some of our correspondents. Having adopt- will write you a short account of the same. ed the practice for twenty years, and had many opportuni. About 12 acres, as shown by diagram on page 230 of ties of comparing the results of cutting back with those that Society's Transactions for 1858, was plowed and plantof planting the tree with the top entire, we have felt no ed to corn about the 16th of May. The same was hoed hesitation in recommending it for general adoption—the June in the morning, the frost had cut all clean-beyond
from 6th to 11th of June, looking finely. On 12th of only exceptions perbaps being those trees which have ac- any hope of recovery. That day being the Sabbath, and quired some age, or have become enfeebled or stunted in Monday a rainy day, we commenced plowing again the growth before removal. In such instances a severe cutting 14th, continuing the 15th and 16th. The result, with the back may not possibly always be advisable. It is better, coldest season I ever knew, was the largest growth of corn however, to set out none but young and vigorous trees.
ever seen in these parts, not fully ripened of course. The
corn was acknowledged by all to grow the fastest that they Much may be said by way of theorizing, but we prefer ever saw, and the mystery was what made it grow so; as testing this question simply by experiment; and where the year before, all said it was folly to try to drain that this mode of reaching truth has been fully adopted, in con- piece, and much more so to try to raise corn there. nection with good trees and good culture, we have never
I harvested 100 bushels ears per acre, which I know is known a cultivator who has not been convinced of the de- think it highly remunerative, as the fodder was enormous,
not a heavy crop, yet considering the frost and the season cided advantages of the practice. Having made a few ex. and as hay was scarce, was valuable. I did not weigh but periments in this way the present year, in order to exhibit a part of the dried fodder, but think it safe to say five tons the results, we shall now merely state what these results per acre, which would have sold for $7 per ton, wbich are up to the present time.
would be $35 for fodder, and the corn 50 bushels at 80 Four two-year cherry trees, each about six feet high, acre for the produce. The labor was nearly double, as
cents, would be $40 more, making a sum total of $70 per were set out, three with entire tops, and one with two- all was planted twice and hoed three times. This year thirds of each one year sboot cut off. The three unpruned the same piece is sown to oats, and promises an abundant trees have expanded their leaves, but none have made a crop. A neighbor said to me yesterday, the crops on that new shoot half an inch long. The pruned tree is covered field was a better argument than all the talking I or any
other man could do for a month together. with vigorous shoots about two inches long, now growing
Tell the people to drain-to drain well, not less than rapidly. The contrast will no doubt be much greater in a three feet deep, with wood, stone, or tile, as each advofew weeks more.
cate, but be sure to do it, for it will pay if well done. Three Mahaleb trees, of three years' growth, and about More anon. Jonathan Talcott. Rome, June 27, 1860. six feet high, were set out. On two of them the shoots were mostly left untouched. These are scantiiy furnished
Preserving Green Corn for Winter Use. with small leaves, and none have grown half an inch, ex- Messrs. EDITORS—I give you a recipe for pecserving green cept where one of them had four shoots cut back; these corn for winter. four shoots have each several new shoots from one to two handful salt to a pint of corn.
Cut the corn off the cob, and put it in a stone jar, with a
When the jar is full, put : inches long. The third Mahaleb had each last year's growth weight on it. When you wish to use it, remove a little of the cut back two-thirds; it is now covered with young grow- top, and wash and soak over night. ing shoots about one inch or more in length.
Waynesborough, Va. Of six Breda apricot trees, two years from the bud, and Red Ants---How to Get Rid of Them. about seven feet high, five were cut back, and one left un
MESSRS. EDITORS - Please tell "A Distressed Housekeeptonched. In order to avoid vague estimate or guess work, er," that she can get rid of her ants by placing camphor we measured and counted the shoots they have each made about the shelves where they are found. Á neighbor of mine, up to the present time. On the five cut trees the follow- in whose word I can place the utmost confidence, says-take
spirits of camphor and sop it on the shelf, making a perfect ing are the results :
ring, and place the ants inside of the ring and none of them 1 tree has 18 new.shoots, from 6 to 18 inches long. can get out alive-it is sure death. He has tried it. Those
out of the ring will leave in the first train. Will "A Distressed Housekeeper" try this, and report in THE CULTIVA:
TOR. Joseph E. PHELPg. Worcester, Mass. besides which all have many other shoots from three to six inches.
RULES FOR PRUNING GRAPES. The remaining tree, left uncut, has seven shoots one to two inches long, none are over two inches. The amount
The last number of Hovey's Magazine gives substan. of foliage it contains is certainly not over one-twentieth tially the following general rules for grape pruning, after part that on either of the five pruned trees; hence the in- recommending grape-growers to be free in the use of the tention which some have of obtaining more foliage by knife, followed by the remark that where one vine is pruned leaving the trees unpruned, results in failure and defeats too severely, nine are not pruned enough:its own end,
1st. No shoots should be nearer than one foot of each
other. The worst part of the unfavorable result on the un
2d. Prune back to within one eye of the old wood, pruned trees has not yet come, for the trees having once every fall and spring, about one one-half of the annual become thoroughly stunted, will require years to restore shoots—the remaining eyes producing canes to be retained them.
for bearing next year-when the old bearing wood is in
turn to be cut out, to make room for new shoots. The Rensselaer Co. Ag. Society has commenced 3d. Disbud or rub off, as soon as they appear, all sboots the publication of a monthly "Jourual."
not wanted as bearing wood.
9 13 21
6 to 9
Native Fruits and Errors of Opinion. fully through a bag into the water you use, before it is
stirred in the whole mixture. If a larger quantity than We never could perceive why a pear seed, containing five gallons be wanted, the same proportion should be obwithin itself the germ of its future character, deposited in served. E. F. AIKEN. Grove Ranch, Cal. soil on one or the other side of the water, should come up and make a different tree on account of the place of
(For the Country Gentleman and Cultivator.)
A NOTE FROM VIRGINIA. its growth. For the same reason we cannot perceive why a native grown variety is necessarily better than one A two weeks' visit among the farmers in Fauquier, enabrought across the national line. It is true, that the se- bles me to say that the season there is generally a fruitful lected native seedlings are as a general rule better than one.
Wheat will be quite an average crop; some plantothers, being selected because they are found best in the ers, however, have nearly lost that crop by the cut-worm.
I know of one instance where three hundred bushels of particular region of their origin.
wheat sown will not return one hundred. Yet the average As an example,-take 100 seeds of the Bartlett pcar. crop of the county is good and superior in quality: An Plant 50 in England and 50 in New-York. Out of the intelligent farmer told me that he had examined the inseedlings, one is selected in England as best, and one in sect which was troubling his wheat, and thought our HesNew-York. The English seedling will not prove so good sian fly bad got among it for the first time in his experience.
I introduced spring wheat there this season, and when in America as the other, nor the New-York seedling so I left it looked very promising; it has not been tried in good in England, simply because each has been chosen that section for years, and if it should turn out as there is for its adaptation to the respective locality. But there reason to anticipate, it will prove a great benefit, as it is no doubt that of the remaining plants, there are as many comes in after the cut worm lias done its work.
Toin England that would be good in New-York as those bacco paid so poorly last year that many planters have
Corn, oats, clover, rye, &c., never looked better. growing here; or as many of the New-York plants that declined trying it this season; it is a crop requiring more would be good in Eugland as those growing there—could labor than any other, yet there is some compensation in their place of growth be changed and the choice made the fact, that contrary to the received opinion north, it accordingly.
makes a good preparation for wheat the succeeding year. These remarks have been suggested by a remark in for almost nothing, are giving large crops of potatoes and
The mountain lands of Madison, which have been sold Hovey's Magazine, from an intelligent and eminent cor-grass, and if Northern seed corn was introduced there, respondent, that pear trees as hardy as our forest trees, would make a crop. Sheep are being extensively intro"can be expected only from native seedlings.” Time duced there. will prove much in relation to the bardiness of varieties,
Can you tell me why it is that onions (which would be and in the meantime we will only remark that western
a valuable crop there,) cannot be raised from the seed,
and that what they terin “clove onions” are always used cultivators assure us that the hardiest pear tree they have to produce them? I have supposed that the introduction tested is the Flemish Beauty; and fruit raisers in Maine of new seed might answer, instead of their “rare ripe" assert that the Urbaniste is the hardiest there—both Euro- plan, but I am not a practical farmer. pean sorts.
AYRSHIRE PRIZE MILKERS.-It will be remembered (For the Country Gentleman and Cultivator.)
that we noticed some weeks since, the Duke of Atholl's VALUABLE WASH FOR BUILDINGS.
tender of certain Prizes for Milking Cows, to be awarded I saw an inquiry in one of The CULTIVATORS, a short by the Ayrshire Agricultural Society. The trial formed a time since, for a good whitewash, that would not wash off. novel feature ; eight cows competed, and they were kept I send you the following. More than three years ago I together for five days, and carefully watched and milked. whitewashed my barn and outbuildings with it, and they The following is a statement of the quantities of milk givlook nearly as well as when put on. The recipe was originally taken from the National Intelligencer.
en by the cows belonging to the winning competitors : Take half a bushel of rock line; slack it with boiling
Average of water; cover it during the process to keep in the steam.
26 lb. 5 oz. ....... Strain the liquid through a fine sieve, and add to it a peck of salt, previously well dissolved in warm water; three pounds of ground rice, boiled to a thin paste and stirred in boiling hot; half a pound of powdered Spanish whiting, and a pound of clean glue, which has been previously
* Mr. JEREMIAH Niver of Stuyvesant, Columbia Co., dissolved by soaking it well and then hanging it over å is agent for Eddy's “Patent Protective Bee Hive.” Mr. slow fire, in a small kettle within a large one filled with N.'s experience leads him to speak in high terms of the water. Add five gallons of hot water to the mixtnre, stir operation of this invention. He has written a little book it well, and let it stand a few days, covered from the dirt. on the subject, which we presume may be had by address
It shouid be put on right hot. For this purpose it can ing him as above. Mr. Niver has also placed one of the be kept in a keitle on a portable furnace. About a pint Hives at this office, where it will remain some days on exof this mixture will cover a square yard on the outside of hibition, and by way of sample of what it can accomplishi
, a house, if properly applied. It answers as well as oil- has left with us a box of new honey of first quality, weighpaint for wood, brick or stone, and is cheaper. It retains ing upwards of 10 lbs. its brilliancy for many years. There is nothing that will compare with it, either for inside or outside walls.
FARMING Hilly LAND.Such land is apt to wash into Coloring matter may be put in, and made of any shade you like. Spanish brown stirred in will make red pink, guillies in heavy rains, especially if poor and shallow; the more or less deep according to the quantity. Yellow ochre best way to prevent it, says a Hill Country farmer, is to stirred in makes yellow-wash, but chrome goes further and make the ground deep and rich, and sow on grass seed in makes a color generally esteemed prettier. In all these the hollows most exposed. “Make a sufficient quantity of cases the darkness of the shades of course is determined the soil mellow to absorb all the rain that falls, and none by the quantity of coloring used.
will run off, carrying the soil with it.” Deep plowing, When walls have been badly smoked, and you wish to sub-soiling and underdraining, will best accomplish this bave them a clear white, it is well to squeeze indigo plenti- I end.
Per Centage of Cream.
1. 2. 3. 4.
28 ib. 7 oz. .
24 7 22 10 12 1
HAY AND GRAIN RACKS.
Another form of construction is first to make a foundaA correspondent in Indiana has requested directions for tion frame of side pieces about 2 by 8 inches, connected constructing a rack or frame for placing on an ordinary together by four cross bars morticed into them, nearly as farm wagon, to draw hay and grain upon. There are many already described, the cross bars being of white oak or modes of construction, variously known and adopted in other hard wood, into which oblique mortises are cut on different localities, and possessing various advantages and each side, within the side pieces. These oblique mortises defects
. Among them we have selected two already well receive sloping side frames, which complete the rack—the known to many of our readers, but doubtless new to others, feet of the side frames being thrust into the oblique morand which, on the whole, are, perhaps, as good as any that tises, and the frame resting against the top of the foundaare used.
tion frame. This rack is not so substantial as the preceding, but as the side frames are taken out and put in separately, one person may more easily place the whole on the wagon.
Fig 1. Fig. 1 represents a strong frame, the only objection to which is its weight, and the consequent inconvenience of placing and removing it from the wagon. It consists, first, of a bottom frame, (forming the foundation or base,) just wide enough to fit within the stakes of the wagon, made of two side pieces 10 inches wide, two inches thick, and about 13 feet long; these are connected at the ends by cross pieces morticed through them. On this frame rest three curved cross timbers, about 4 inches square, and 61 or 7 feet long—the curve may be about 6 inches, or enough
(For the Country Gentleman and Cultivator.) for the boards that rest on them to clear the wheels-if
A GOOD FARM GATE, the curve is less, the bottom frame must be wider. These timbers support two boards on each side, each board an of a gate that was erected on the farm I now own, by my
Editors. Co. GentLEMAN— Annexed you will find a plan inch tl:ick and 6 inches wide, and about 13 feet long, or father, more than 30 years ago, which gate is still in good as long as the rack. Stiff, curved iron straps span from working order, except that the post of the gate into one board to the other over the forward wheels, to prevent which the rails are morticed, is beginning to decay, and the hay from resting on the tire. This frame or rack may will have to be renewed; otherwise the gate is firm and be modified by making the bottom frame five or six inches good, never having sunk or swayed an inch either way. wider, and using straight instead of curved cross timbers, in Co. Gent., but is much more substantial, and very little
The plan of the gate is similar to one already described but this will make it heavier, and the load will not rest so more expensive. The posts and cross piece at the top are securely upon it.
locust. The posts are 11 feet high above ground, are 5 inches square at the top and 6 inches square at the ground; the cross piece is 4 by 5, and curved as represented, to make it (I suppose) more ornamental. The posts are set in the ground about 3 feet, and firmly fastened with stone. The rails in gate are-top rail 54 inches wide; 2d, 57; 3d and 4th, 6, and 5th or lower rail, 7 inches ; upper space 71 inches; 2d, 74; 3d, 5, and lower space 4 inches. The railings are morticed into the post of the gate, and secured
by a wooden pin; said post being 3 by 6 inches, and made Fig. 2.
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and secured, prevents it from drawing out or giving way. 24 by 4 inches; their length may be about 6 4 feet, or if simple, and in fact the whole gate is so easily constructed the rack is large, 7 feet. The bottom frame may be made that any man that can use a saw and chisel, and bore a of 3 by 5 inch stuff, 12 feet 6 inches long, and the top hole, can make and put one up: frame 2 by 3 stuff. An inch board a foot wido goes all be worthy a place in the Co. Gent., and that it may be of
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Reflections of Love is a track that doesn’t simply fall into any particular category of genre. The music is beautiful in a unique and unusual manner, and from the first few moments – the sound sets a mood and conjures up certain emotions that are powerful and memorable.
One of the most slept on and perhaps most necessary components of instrumental music is to have that leading riff, that hook, which gives the track a signature sound to separate it from many of its peers. Not only does the music here build an impressive and calming soundscape, but the leading riff is instantly satisfying, addictive even – this is in the instrumental choice, in the notes, and in the effects added to enhance. The track creates an ambiance that you can lose yourself to, but rather than blend away into the sound of the world – the vague and vast art of noise – there’s a distinguishable characteristic here to latch on to, to find solace in, to familiarise yourself with. It’s this particular riff that is likely to bring listeners back time and time again, as opposed to seeking out other new age or experimental soundscapes to brighten up their day with.
The way the music builds and intensifies is clever, it allows you witness the evolution through the feelings and the instrumentation, but it does so in a way that somehow maintains that initial feeling of bliss, of calm. It’s enjoyable throughout, and there is consistent change; there’s no point at which things get tiresome, but there’s also no point at which things veer off in too strange of a direction. The thickness of the beat and the beauty of that leading riff are the thread throughout. The track allows you to become one with it, whilst still confidently leading you through the moments. It’s a strength worth shouting about, and the upcoming album is most definitely one to watch out for.
Les Fradkin’s album The New Age will be released under Bongo Boy Records in the Spring. The stunning music video for Reflections Of Love will be released on the 15th of March. Find and follow the artist on Facebook & Twitter for the update. Visit his Website for more information.

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Challenger Chris "Chip" Beeker Jr. has upset incumbent Terry Dunn for the Republican nomination for Place 2 on the Alabama Public Service Commission.
With 86 percent of the precincts reporting Tuesday night, Beeker has 59 percent to Dunn's 41 percent.
The winner has no Democratic opposition in the general election Nov. 4.
Beeker was making his second run for the state's utility regulatory board. He drew support from some business and coal groups who were upset with Dunn calling for formal rate hearings for Alabama Power.
Two former candidates for Place 2 on the Alabama Public Service Commission have endorsed former Greene County Commission Chairman Chip Beeker in the Republican runoff July 15.
The primary election June 3 put Beeker in a runoff with incumbent Commissioner Terry Dunn.
Birmingham businessman Jonathan Barbee, who finished third, and Alabama Minority GOP Chairman Phillip Brown of Birmingham, who finished fourth, say they are throwing their support to Beeker. Barbee called Beeker the only remaining candidate who can effectively fight a radical environmental agenda.
Republican Public Service Commission member Terry Dunn has formally kicked off his re-election campaign after drawing three opponents.
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PSC President Twinkle Andress Cavanaugh says customers should see annual savings between $30 and $110, depending on their usage. Commissioner Jeremy Oden says residential customers and small businesses should save between $30 and $45 a year.
A member of the Public Service Commission says hedging agreements on natural gas prices have added nearly $245 million to the bills of Alabama Gas Corp. customers since the state's largest natural gas distributor started the practice in 2003. PSC member Terry Dunn said Alabama Gas is one of many utilities that used the risk-management strategy and saw it "go very badly in recent years." He said it points to the need for the PSC to re-examine its rules on hedging agreements. Alabama Gas spokeswoman Sherri Goodman said the PSC changed its rules in 2000 to allow hedging.
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|What is the fastest way to recharge the battery?
||If the blue LED is not blinking (below the CE symbol), the battery is flat. Recharging the battery takes more power than normal operation of the device. So you’ll need to lay it horizontally, tilted up at the sun (like in this photo). If convenient, turn it to follow the sun in morning and afternoon. The more directly the solar panels face the sun, the faster your charging will be. One or two sunny days like this will usually get it charged enough to turn on, and a third day to fully top up the battery. You cannot charge up the battery with the Wind Instrument vertical on the mounting rod, because it does not get enough direct sunlight that way to charge up the battery. The charging is faster outside rather than through a window. It will still charge on cloudy days, but not as fast. For previous models with a sealed battery in the tail, solar charging is faster with the blue cap for the magnetic off-switch, because the unit is not consuming power then.
|Does turning off the Wind Instrument reset the battery level indicator?
||Yes, if you turn off your Wind Instrument the battery level indicator in the API is reset to the default level of 2 bars (out of 4). This does not mean your battery suddenly has less power; it is like when you turn the keys off in a car, and the battery gauge goes to empty even though you know the tank is still full. With the Wind Instrument, once the battery level is full and has fluctuated, the indicator will be activated again. (Although it is very frugal on power, so this could take a week or weeks to happen.) There are further details about different battery assessment with earlier models on page 12 of the Owners Manual.
|Is the battery chemistry or lifespan affected if I flatten my battery?
||First, prevention is always best: try to avoid flattening your battery if at all possible. Monitor the battery level gauge until you know that it is fully charged and operating sustainably. For normal operation, your Wind Instrument generates a lot more power than it consumes. But it is much easier to keep the unit charged and operating than to have to fill up the battery with the trickle charge from a small solar panel. Leaving any battery flat for weeks or months could damage your battery chemistry. This is out of the manufacturer’s control, so is not covered by warranty. (But we can provide a customer discount if you want an upgrade or replacement in this situation.) However, as long as you recharge the battery without delay, the lifespan of the battery will not be affected.
|Do indoor lights or plant lights allow the solar panels to charge?
||These solar panels are designed for the wavelengths of sunlight. Indoor lights and plant lights will not charge the Wind Instrument. However, for Wind Instruments up to the 4th generation (2016): based on reports from several customers we can confirm that the Snap-on Tools LED shop light in 2000 or 2700 lumens (available from stores like Costco in North America) does charge the Wind Instrument back up. It actually appears to be faster than solar charging, because instead of 8 hours of sunlight per day for 3 days, you can get the same 24 hours with the shop lamp overnight. If you have the 5th-generation (2017) or later: it has different charging circuitry and this LED shop lamp (or others) should not be used. The new charging circuitry provides a better display of battery levels, but can occasionally malfunction with LED light. This is preventable, so is not covered by warranty.
|Does the battery on my Wind Instrument lose power when temperatures are below freezing?
||These are very advanced batteries designed for use in a wide temperature range outdoors. The battery specs show that it provides power better than most battery types in temperatures near or below freezing. But as the temperature gets colder near or below freezing, the battery becomes less efficient for taking or holding a charge. As the battery becomes less efficient it may not provide enough power for the electronics. So temperatures near freeing are not recommended. If you have a Wind Instrument with an off-switch, it is recommended to store it inside for the winter. It will not lose power when shut off, so it does not need to be kept in a window.
|Do I need to follow the instructions for solar charging if I am in a very sunny location?
||Yes. Paradoxically, most enquiries we get about flat batteries are from users in sunny locations. It may appear that a location in the tropics where you can easily get a sunburn makes solar charging easier, but that is not true in this case. All solar panels put out more electricity when facing directly at the sun. However, near the equator, the sun is higher overhead (so it does not face the solar panels as often). Also, summer days are significantly shorter near the equator, giving you fewer hours of sunlight. Inadequate solar charging is not covered by the warranty. Therefore, to get the best out of your Wind Instrument it is important follow the instruction sheet in the box, regardless of your location.
|When I remove the RB battery for the offseason and put it in the LCD charger it shows 3.4 volts. Is this normal?
||Yes, these lithium batteries are designed to put out the same voltage all the time regardless of how full they are. They are not like traditional batteries. A voltmeter cannot be used with these lithium batteries to determine how full they are. Your Wind Instrument uses an elaborate system to determine how full the battery is, by measuring in millionths of a volt the power going in from the solar panels, and the power consumption coming out. The LCD charger uses a similar approach (not voltage) to assess the battery level. Most of the time from when the battery is full to empty the voltage will stay within the range 3.0 to 3.8V. After the charging the battery to full you’ll probably see it at 4.2V, but then within a few minutes of use it will settle down to around 3.8V.


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If the only Bollywood movie you’ve ever seen is Bride and Prejudice, you’re in for a treat! Seven quick film reviews, from the epic and heart-breaking to the aliens/mentally disabled/Singin’ in the Rain mash-ups. Okay, there’s only one of those.
1. My Name is Khan
A portrayal of a man (played by the fantastic Shah Rukh Khan) with Aspergers, struggling to adjust to life as an immigrant in California, that manages to be charming and moving without being condescending. This movie successfully deals with the tensions between Kahn’s devout Muslim family and his Hindu wife, who is also a single mother; the biases and fears of a society recovering from September 11th; and the gamut of responses run by parents suffering the loss of a child–all while keeping a sense of humor. The second half of the movie portrays Kahn’s impetuous trek across America, half the pilgrimage of an innocent fool and half the romantic hobo’s rambling of O Brother Where Art Thou. This movie requires less suspension of disbelief than most Bollywoods, but it does require quite an emotional commitment. Underneath the dramatic events, it’s really just a beautiful story of love and crisis in marriage, patience, prejudice, and forgiveness.
2. Lage Raho Munna Bhai
A hapless small-time thug pretends to be a Gandhi expert to impress a girl, and gets predictably involved in a Wodehousian tangle of lies and mistaken identities. Things get more complicated when Munna begins getting apparitions of Gandhi, who urges him to tell the girl who he really is. Starring the marvelous comic face of Sanjay Dutt, and featuring some very catchy songs, Lage Raho Munna Bhai weaves together together reality, fantasy, slapstick humor, high ideals, sappy melodrama, and musical routines the way only a Bollywood movie can.
3. Johda Akbar
This movie is a feast for the eyes–rampaging battle elephants, royal palaces, ornate historical costumes, whirling dervishes, and color-soaked, sari-swirling dance routines. Hindu princess Jodha is forced into a political marriage with Akbar, a Muslim ruler reminiscent of an Old Testament king: pious and righteous, but also prone to impulsive violence and revenge. Lots of classic fairy-tale elements, including the king’s treacherous old nurse who is the power-behind-the-throne. Underneath the historical and martial drama runs the story of a marriage beginning in convenience and distrust that gradually grows into respect and mature love. (Warning: several scenes of disturbing violence)
4. Singh is Kingg
A really sweet, Roberto Benigni-type comedy about a naïve, small-town Sikh who mistakenly inherits a mafia dynasty in Australia and sends his henchmen out to do boy scout-style good deeds. (Warning: some sexy club scenes)
5. I Have Found It (Kandukondain Kandukondain)
The lesser-known but more authentic cousin of Bride and Prejudice, this is a well-cast retelling of Sense and Sensibility. Austen’s themes of class prejudice and city vs. country culture shock translate very believably into an Indian setting, with its busybody relatives, arranged marriages, stiff-upper-lip Englishmen, and tradition-defying youth.
Set in 1893, Lagaan is a drama about a cricket contest between a drought-plagued village and the local British forces. The wager is three years worth of the exorbitant lagaan tax. The villagers’ team includes an untouchable, and they are aided by the British captain’s sister, who is in love with one of them. One of the most bittersweet scenes is her painfully awkward and unexotic love song, unable to compete with the lively dancing of the village girls. A really satisfying and enjoyable movie even if (like me) you know very little about Indian history or cricket.
7. Koi Mil Gaya (“I’ve found someone”)
This is the most amazingly weird movie. It stars the impressively versatile Hrithik, who played the king in Jodha Akbar, as a sweet, mentally disabled man who makes accidental contact with an alien. Ripping elements and whole scenes from E.T. and (really!) Singin’ in the Rain, it also includes a few good songs. I…don’t even know what else to say about this movie. But I’m glad I saw it, I guess.
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How hyped new author Scott Bergstrom infuriated the YA literature community
Is he for real?
In the space of just one interview, first-time author Scott Bergstrom has caused widespread ire throughout the young adult literature community.
Bergstrom’s debut novel, The Cruelty, just landed him an impressive six-figure book deal, with Paramount securing the rights to make a film adaptation. His agent compares The Cruelty to The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo and The Bourne Identity, describing it as a thriller about a 17-year-old girl trying to rescue her father, a kidnapped diplomat. This sounds like an intriguing premise, but his first interview with Publisher’s Weekly has already alienated a swath of his target audience.
In the interview, Bergstrom downplays the depth and talent needed to write young adult literature. “The morality of the book is more complicated than a lot of YA,” he says. “In a lot of YA, the conflict takes place inside a walled garden, set up by outside adult forces. If you think of those stories as a metaphor for high school, they start to make a lot more sense, but that was one thing I wanted to depart from.”
Of course many bestselling YA novels tackle complex topics like war and terminal illness. In response, YA fans and authors have flooded the #MorallyComplicatedYA hashtag with critiques (and mockery) of his comments.
Waking up to my Morally Simplistic Thanksgiving Visit. Having Morally Simplistic Fruit Loops. After a Morally Simplistic Pee.
— Patrick Ness (@Patrick_Ness) November 25, 2015
In the context of other commentary on YA lit, Bergstrom’s interview also takes on an unfortunately gendered tone. As a community dominated by women and girls, YA is frequently dismissed as frivolous and simple. There’s an unavoidably sexist undertone to a male author denigrating a genre dominated by female authors and audiences, all while getting a lucrative book deal to write in that same genre.
SOME GUY: I invented the female action character!
SOME GUY: You can be heroes too! First, you get skinny…
US: Can we stop you there?
— Maureen Johnson (@maureenjohnson) November 25, 2015
It doesn’t help that in The Cruelty‘s sample chapter, the protagonist appears to criticize dystopian YA novels like The Hunger Games and Divergent.
“I pull a book out of my backpack and lean against the door as the train shoots through the tunnel under the river for Queens. It’s a novel with a teenage heroine set in a dystopian future. Which novel in particular doesn’t matter because they’re all the same. Poor teenage heroine, having to go to war when all you really want is to write in your diary about how you’re in love with two different guys and can’t decide between them. These novels are cheesy, I know, and I suck them down as easily as milk.”
Elsewhere in the excerpt, the heroine muses on men wolf-whistling her on the street: “They love this—the school uniform, the flash of seventeen-year-old legs.” Combined with the character’s strategic weight loss (a key aspect of her transformation into a “lean warrior”), this felt more than a little offputting to fans of other female-led YA novels.
Am broadly a bit anti-burning-books – BUT I’d consider lightly singeing the ones in which overweight girls get thin to meet their destiny.
— Katherine Rundell (@kdbrundell) November 25, 2015
For a book that hasn’t actually been released yet, this intense level of criticism may seem overly harsh. Hundreds of YA fans are piling on to Twitter to complain about a book they haven’t had a chance to read, based on a single interview and some quotes from the book’s sample chapter.
However, this frustration didn’t just materialize out of nowhere. The YA genre already has a hard time being taken seriously by outsiders, and Bergstrom isn’t winning himself any new fans by insulting YA audiences in his own book announcement. And judging by the number of popular authors frequenting the #MorallyComplicatedYA hashtag, Bergstrom may find himself feeling lonely at his first YA lit conventions. Here’s hoping he familiarizes himself with the genre before his first book comes out.
Photo via Joe Crawford/Wikimedia (CC BY 2.0)
Gavia Baker-Whitelaw is a staff writer at the Daily Dot, covering geek culture and fandom. Specializing in sci-fi movies and superheroes, she also appears as a film and TV critic on BBC radio. Elsewhere, she co-hosts the pop culture podcast Overinvested.

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Material: Cast metal & wood. Mostly employed in the period of the American Civil War, Dahlgren guns were muzzle loading naval artillery designed by, and named after, Rear Admiral John A. Dahlgren's design philosophy evolved from an accidental explosion of a 32-pounder that actually killed a gunner.Dahlgren thought that a safer, more powerful naval cannon could be designed by simply applying more scientific design criteria. Dahlgren guns were designed with a smooth curved shape, equalizing strain and concentrating more of the weight of the metal in the gun breech to keep the gun from bursting. This miniature cannon reproduction of the famed 12 Pounder cannon is truly a distinctive display piece for your home or office. Features include a wood carriage, 6 metal rimmed wheels, and a detachable ram and powder rod. Its 7.5 cast metal barrel can be removed from the carriage for closer inspection. Detachable ram and powder rod.
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The Class: I took the hour-long Beyoncé Ballet class at 6:30 p.m. on a Wednesday at Arts Mission in OakCliff.
The Appeal: The class mixes classic ballet moves with a Beyoncé soundtrack. I chatted briefly before the class with Anastasia Munoz, Arts Mission Founder, who told me that Beyoncé Ballet was created because of the desire to spice up the soundtrack used when performing traditional ballet moves.
“We tried it and the class just blew up,” she said. “The women who come are just phenomenal and the music is super fun. There’s less pressure to be perfect.”
The Instructor: Austin Lintner, a dancer, taught the class. He’s been dancing his entire life and even teaches children’s dance classes. He was upbeat, energetic, and I love that he thoroughly reviewed every single move we were required to do in the class. Austin also made sure to give us real-life ballerina tips such as making sure we looked straight ahead (and not down at our feet) and which parts of our bodies to focus on while performing the moves.
The Space: The class is located inside Arts Mission – a huge, refurbished church building that houses studios and all the space an artist needs to dance, paint or create.
Who’s There: While the class is for both men and women, it was full of women. Thankfully, none of them seemed to be professional ballerinas, so I didn’t have to feel self-conscious about not pointing my toes for the majority of the moves.
“The women who come are just phenomenal. There’s less pressure to be perfect.”Founder Anastasia Munoz
What To Wear: There’s no real uniform requirement for the class and all the women there appeared to be wearing traditional work out tops and pants. No shoes are required – unless you prefer to wear traditional ballet slippers. The dance moves can be completed in socks, which everyone – including myself – seemed to be wearing.
How It Went: I haven’t taken a ballet class since childhood, but I dance to Beyoncé music on a regular basis, so I waltzed into the studio feeling pretty confident that I’d be able to handle it. But, one look at the barre in the middle of the room was enough to make me feel a bit nervous. However, my fears were immediately assuaged after Austin told the class that this was a beginner ballet class, not to worry about having perfect form and to just have fun. We performed each of the dance moves he taught us to Beyoncé music and the class flew by pretty quickly. Some of the moves we performed at the barre included: passé, tendu, plié and degage. For the last half of the class, we did lots of crunches and planks, a few stretches and it was done.
The Aftermath: I loved the class so much that I came back for another session on Friday evening, which featured some of the same ballet moves as the first class I’d taken, plus body rolls and even a bit of twerking.
Loved: The energy of the class was amazing and everyone in both classes that I took that week left the room smiling and laughing afterwards.
Didn’t Love: There really wasn’t anything that I didn’t love about this class.
Difficulty Level: The only difficult part of the class was the final portion that involved lots of crunches and planks. Also, the ballet moves definitely work your core, so be prepared for that when you walk in.
Bottom Line: Overall, I’d have to say that the only real requirement for Beyoncé Ballet is to have a love for dancing. But even if you don’t, you’re still guaranteed to leave the class feeling leaner, stronger and just as awesome as Beyoncé looks.


The Rolling Stones: Exile on Bobby Dodd Way
The Rolling Stones packed out Georgia Techâ€™s Bobby Dodd Stadium on June 9 as part of the group's 15-city â€œZip Code Tour.
- Perry Julien
- The Rolling Stones
The Rolling Stones packed out Georgia Tech’s Bobby Dodd Stadium on June 9 as part of the group's 15-city “Zip Code Tour.” “Start Me Up,” “It's Only Rock 'n' Roll (But I Like It),” and a run through Mississippi Fred McDowell’s “You Gotta Move” set the mood for a two-hour greatest hits set.
Frontman Mick Jagger, guitarist Keith Richards, guitarist Ronnie Wood, and drummer Charlie Watts' faces all bear the war wounds of more than half a century steeped in rock ‘n’ roll. They are the last of the old gods — titans of classic rock — but the energy they displayed was unrelenting.
Scenic spectacles included a massive show of lights, three Jumbotrons, and even a fireworks display. But they were merely garnishes for the Stones' time-tested, battle-proven stage presence. Jagger’s strut across the stage through “Miss You” and the almighty “Gimme Shelter” was the stuff of swaggering legend. He still has the convulsive dance steps, and the swiveling skinny hips that made him famous. He knows how to charm a crowd, and his fiery delivery of “Sympathy for the Devil” sucked the air right out of the arena. When the song was done he offered his own bit of criticism: “You all sing beautifully!”
Watts plays drums like it’s still the 1960s, heavy and steady. Wood brought the most teenage energy to the stage, and served as counterpoint to Richards’ coolly hedonistic presence. Alabama-by-way-of-Macon pianist Chuck Leavell graced the stage too, along with a backing band featuring sax man Karl Denson, Darryl Jones (bass), Matt Clifford (keyboards and French horn), Lisa Fischer (vocals), Bernard Fowler (vocals), and Tim Ries (sax). And, of course, the Emory University Concert Choir came to the stage for riveting run through “You Can’t Always Get What You Want.”
But if ever there was a Stones’ moment that could reduce even the most hardened souls in the crowd to tears it was when backing vocalist Lisa Fischer traipsed along the catwalk to unleash her unholy cry: “Rape, murder! It’s just a shot away, it’s just a shot away,” during “Gimmie Shelter." Her duet with Jagger at the edge of the stage was one for the history books.
There were a few downers: “Some Girls,” Atlanta’s crowd request, was performed for the first time since 2007, and the group clearly hadn’t rehearsed it since. Richards took lead for “Before They Make Me Run” and “Happy” — the group made it through both numbers, but just barely.
They all rolled with the mistakes, though. And they were all smiles, even when sending those unspoken cues to each other: “Get it together.” The fleeting loose moments only underscored the ecstatic spirit of the music. This was Rock ’n’ roll majesty. Exile on Bobby Dodd Way.


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Building a 360° View of the Patient Experience by Using a Unified Clinical Data Management Platform
Clinical trials have evolved rapidly over recent years. They now have highly sophisticated protocols and multiple divergent data sources, inordinate data volume, decentralization, and increasingly complex adaptive designs. These changes have led to significant clinical data management challenges because the data management technologies and processes have not progressed at the same breakneck speed.
Clinical data management solutions are often built with a mix of disparate tools that are homegrown or from different vendors, so the individual components lack interoperability. This leads to disconnected silos with duplicative and inconsistent data that are challenging to reconcile, ultimately making it very difficult to produce holistic views of the patient experience.
This is why an increasing number of sponsors and clinical research organizations (CROs) are tapping into unified, intelligent, and secure modern clinical data management solutions. These solutions merge different data streams—including both subjective (e.g., PROs -Patient Reported Outcomes) and objective data (e.g., wearables/sensors)—through a common model so that you can easily and quickly visualize and analyze clinical trial data in a unified way. They also reduce the risk to data integrity, quality, and patient safety. Since many data streams are complementary, you can develop aggregated views of patient data that are hugely informative for how patients are affected by drugs and diseases.
Some of the key features that are making it possible to develop more comprehensive views of patient data include the following:
Agility: Study designs must be more data acquisition focused, regardless of source across all data assets. Data capture and clinical data management processes must be designed with agility in mind to enable changes in data capture to meet the custom needs of an individual study, site, or patient (e.g., ePRO/eCOA, eConsent, sensors/wearables). It is important to define the full schedule of assessments (visits), the set of protocol activities, and any streaming or other study aspects that may not be visit related. This will also include other characteristics, including cohort, arm, and study phase design, that provide context and drive behavior during execution.
Common Data Model: The model must support a wide variety of data from a diverse group of sources and co-localize the disparate data for algorithmic cleaning, AI-assisted workflows, and custom data extractions and models. For instance, whether “systolic blood pressure” is designated as SBP or Sys BP does NOT drive the meaning of the data point. The semantic meaning, which is systolic blood pressure, is the key. A common data model allows drug and device developers to focus on the implications of their analyses rather than wasting time and resources on the nuances of ingesting and harmonizing disparate clinical datasets.
Scalable: Data capture must be scalable for all types and volumes, ranging from simple laboratory test results to high-volume, high-velocity data from medical-grade sensors/wearables. Scalability is also achieved by automating data review with machine learning and displaying downstream outcomes in easily interpreted visualizations based on a single source of truth that allows all program and study stakeholders to consume the data’s meaning.
Secure: When asked to rate EDC product attributes by their impact on clinical trial success, respondents to an Industry Standard Research survey selected data security as the attribute with the overall highest impact, with 48% and 34% saying it has high or moderate impact, respectively (Industry Standard Research, 2020). Therefore, you should seek a partner that has a solid track record of data security and acting as a custodian of patient trust. They should have ISO 27701:2019 certification, which is the closest to a General Data Protection Regulation certification that can be obtained, and SOC 2 Type 2 “Plus,” which has additional controls over and above the basic AICPA professional standards for both the Information Security and Privacy trust principles.
Example Scenario: Holistic Approach to Patient Data Capture and Monitoring
In a clinical trial conducted to test a new type of diuretic in patients with congestive heart failure, a holistic approach to patient data capture and monitoring helped avert negative patient outcomes. The trial involved remotely collecting data using various sources, including a biosensor patch, a smart weight scale, smart urine strips, eConsent, and ePRO.
Since the site was able to view both the sensor and ePRO data, they were able to quickly detect data anomalies that they could then act on, such as determining if patients needed to be checked on by a nurse via video visit and whether the patients should go to a hospital for additional tests. By using this comprehensive approach, negative patient outcomes were averted due to real-time data observed by multiple stakeholders (site, sponsor, and CRO), including the ability to review sensor and ePRO data together, and withdrawing patients if necessary.
As clinical trials continue to modernize, you will increasingly face new and changing clinical data management challenges that will only worsen if your clinical data management technologies and processes are not unified, intelligent, automated, and secure. By deploying modern solutions that can merge different clinical trial data streams through a common model, you can easily and quickly visualize and analyze your data in a unified way, building a truly comprehensive view of the patient experience.
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LONDON There is likely to be a significant flight of financial activity out of Britain if companies are no longer regulated on equivalent terms to those in the European Union after Brexit, European Central Bank council member Philip Lane said on Friday.
BEIJING A senior Chinese diplomat visited North Korea this week where he discussed border security and infrastructure projects, China's Foreign Ministry said on Wednesday, in the first trip there by a high-ranking Chinese official since February.
WASHINGTON The U.S. policy of trying to persuade North Korea to give up its nuclear weapons "is probably a lost cause" and the best that could be hoped for is a cap on the country's nuclear capability, the Director of U.S. National Intelligence James Clapper said on Tuesday.
SEOUL/WASHINGTON North Korea test-fired a missile that failed immediately after launch early on Thursday, the U.S. and South Korean militaries said, hours after the two countries agreed to step up efforts to counter the North's nuclear and missile threats. | Video
SEOUL/WASHINGTON, Oct 20 North Korea test-fired a missile that failed immediately after launch early on Thursday, the U.S. and South Korean militaries said, hours after the two countries agreed to step up efforts to counter the North's nuclear and missile threats.
WASHINGTON The United States and South Korea agreed on Wednesday to step up military and diplomatic efforts to counter North Korea's nuclear and missile programs, saying they posed a "grave" security threat following repeated tests this year. | Video
WASHINGTON In spite of the apparent failure of another North Korean missile test at the weekend, the country's aggressive testing schedule could see its Musudan intermediate ballistic missile entering operational service sometime next year - much sooner than expected, a leading U.S. expert said on Monday. | Video
TOKYO Japan may accelerate around $1 billion (804.1 million pounds) of planned spending to upgrade its ballistic missile defences in the wake of rocket tests suggesting North Korea is close to fielding a more potent medium-range missile, three government sources told Reuters.
WASHINGTON The U.S. military detected a failed North Korean test launch of an intermediate ballistic missile, the Pentagon said on Saturday.
WASHINGTON An adviser to Donald Trump said on Tuesday he could not foresee any circumstances in the short or medium term in which the Republican presidential nominee would meet the leader of North Korea if he became president.


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*originally posted at The Relative Comment, July 24/2011
Here’s a way to make life more enjoyable: Experience things earnestly and with seriousness, even the silly things, rather than being cynical and filled with negativity.
This post is not about politics, and the poential impending doom of our economy and its credit rating. It’s not about NASA or physics or evolution and the dismal state of Science in the United States, nor any of the things TRC makes a habit ranting about. It is about Harry Potter.
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Part 2 was released last week. You probably heard. And for me and mine, the release of HP 7.2 was a big deal. It was the culmination of 10 years of fandom and enjoyment and wonder. 10 years of overly intricate discussions about how the world of Harry Potter works, what it means to acknowledge the gravity of a child carrying the fate of the world, what character one would be and why (Neville, obviously), what spell one would use at work or in school if one could (muffliato, of course), and what it means to have evil battle good. To ask ourselves to sacrifice for the greater cause, and what it means to be put in (hypothetical) situations that ask us to give it all up for the friends we love. This has been my earnest experience of Harry Potter for the past decade.
And I’m grateful for J.K. Rowling and the makers of the Harry Potter films for providing those ten years of absolute joy. (I say 10 knowing Potter actually arrived in the world 14 years ago, but it was not until the first film that I came aboard) . It comes up because now the films are over, the books are written, and no new Potter material will (maybe) be produced and I feel like expressing my appreciation. The cynics have had their say for all these years, but the Potter machine rolled on, and the experience for those of us who chose it was riveting.
There were the literary critics who have spent their hours mocking the books, berating a literary culture where Rowling could have the success she has with such minimal talent. Those of this ilk are always ready to throw cold water over those unwashed readers who love to escape with the ease and fascination of young adult fiction. It seems for many critical literary individuals, Harry Potter reached such heights of popularity that it actually posed a threat to great fiction.
There were those in the Christian Church have worked tirelessly to warn the world of the dangers of witchcraft and the temptations of Satan that are present in the texts, as though children (and adults) lack the imagination to separate the wizarding world of the Durselys and Hogwarts from their world of school and parents.
And there are the hipsters and the keepers of the cool who have always turned their nose up at the pulp and baseness of Rowling’s talents and the eagerness and earnestness with which some of us embraced it.
Cynically, people mocked those who love to escape into the make-believe and spend their lives talking about it. Instead some of these individuals spend their time belittling those who get wrapped up in the silliness, putting down those of us who loved to pick up Potter.
Of course, these are not all people. Millions (and millions and millions) of people around the world-literary critics, conservative Christians and hipster elitists among us-loved and adored the Potter world, and Harry and Ron and Hermione and their journey to defeated He Who Shall Not Be Named. We ate it up for 10 years or more because taking things up with love is more exciting than putting things down. This is a change for me. The naysayer of Potter and other pop-culture swill was the role I played for many years. And, at least in part, Harry Potter is among the reasons this started to change.
So for that, I want to say thanks to Harry and his friends. Because it truly is more fun to love something silly, than to be a cynic in the face of something that actually worth the effort.
That’s all. Back to politics, science, and seriousness of the real world.

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In News: Odisha reported its first-ever case of a baby born with harlequin ichthyosis, a rare genetic condition, at a hospital in Berhampur in the state’s Ganjam district April 22, 2021.
About Harlequin Ichthyosis
- Mutations in the ABCA 12 gene are stated to cause harlequin ichthyosis.
- The ABCA12 protein plays a major role in transporting fats in cells which make up the outermost layer of skin.
- Severe mutations in the gene lead to the absence or partial production of the ABCA12 protein.
- The disease affected one in three million births and is caused due to a mutated gene inherited from the parents.
- The disease sees the skin form large diamond-shaped plates across the body that are separated by deep cracks..
- The skin is dry and scaly, almost like fish skin and hence the term ‘icthyosis’, derived from ‘ikthus’, Greek for fish.
- The facial features of the baby, including the mouth, eyes and ears were deformed, restricting breathing and eating.
- The baby was kept in the intensive care unit.
- The condition of the mother was good, Indira Palo, assistant professor at the college and hospital’s gynaecology department.
- India’s first recorded case of a baby born with harlequin ichthyosis was in 2016, at a private hospital in Nagpur, Maharashtra.
- Such cases were also reported in Delhi, Patna and West Bengal.
- The infants could not survive for long and succumbed to the disease days after birth.
- There have been maybe 200 to 250 such cases across the world.


At the same time, Mr. Pompeo is facing a revolt in the State Department. Confidence in his leadership has plummeted among career officials, who accuse him of abandoning veteran diplomats criticized by Mr. Trump and letting the president’s personal political agenda infect foreign policy.
Many diplomats now contend that Mr. Pompeo has done more damage to the 75,000-person agency than even his predecessor Rex Tillerson, an aloof oil executive reviled by department employees…
Some State Department officials have resorted to back channels to voice their complaints, congressional aides said. Over the summer, as confidence in Mr. Pompeo eroded, a stream of career officials spoke quietly with congressional offices about their concerns over administration policy — on the hold on Ukraine military aid, a move to cut $4 billion of foreign aid, and arms sales to Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates.
On Oct. 23, the three congressional impeachment committees said Mr. Pompeo had overseen a “culture of harassment and impunity.” That echoed what Ms. Yovanovitch had told investigators: The State Department was being “attacked and hollowed out from within,” she said.


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The Bendigo and Adelaide Bank says the Federal Government's reforms to increase competition and boost the profile of community banks and credit unions will be good for regional customers.
The verdict was not so positive from shareholders yesterday, with the bank's stock price falling nearly 3.5 per cent.
But the Bendigo's spokesman, Owen Davies, says the changes will help the bank to keep expanding.
"Bendigo Bank has 90 communities in which we are the only bank, many of those in regional communities across Australia," he said.
"Equally, many of those communities have perhaps a local credit union which is the only bank, so it's just as important for competition for communities to be able to access a banking service as the price of the products that the bank provides."

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