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14. No member shall have a certificate but County Committees.-1. When any county by applying to the committee, who shall not shall contain three or more baronial commitgrant it, unless the member is leaving his tees, two persons shall be elected by ballot place of residence, which certificate shall be from each baronial committee to form a county lodged with the secretary on his return. 15. committee (for three months.) 2. County When this society shall amount to the num- committees shall receive delegates from barober of thirty-six members, it shall be equally nial committees of adjacent counties, if said divided by lot; that is, the names of all the counties do not contain three baronial commembers shall be put into a hat or box; mittees. the secretary or treasurer shall draw out Provincial Committees.- 1. When two or eighteen individually, which eighteen shall more counties shall have county committees, be considered the senior society, and the re- three persons shall be elected by ballot from maining eighteen the junior, who shallapply to each, to form a provincial committee (for the baronial committee, through the delegates three months.) 2. Delegates from county of the senior society, for a number, and that committees in other provinces will be received, this division shall take place only in the if such province do not contain two county months of October, January, April, and July. committees. The fund shall also be equally divided. 16.
National Committee.—That when two proThat no society shall be recognized by any vincial committees are formed, they shall committee, unless approving of, and taking elect five persons om each, by ballot, to the test, and amounting in number to seven
form a national committee, Societies first members.
meetings in November, February, May, and Order of Business at Meetings.—1st. New August, to be on or before the 5th. Baromembers read declaration and test, during nial committees on or before the 8th. Counwhich subscriptions to be collected. 2nd. ty committees on or before the 25th of the New members take the test, all members above months. Baronial, county, and prostanding and uncovered. 3rd. Minutes of vincial committees, shall meet at least once preceding meeting read. 4th. Reports of in every month, and report to their consticommittees received. 5th. Communications tuents. Names of committee men should not called for. 6th. Candidates ballotted for. be known by any person but by those who 7th. Candidates proposed.
8th. Motions elect them. made and determined. 9th. Place and time Test for Secretaries of Societies or Comof next meeting appointed.
mittees. Constitution of Committees, as adopted the 10th of May.
“ In the awful presence of God, I, A.B. Baronial Committees.-1.When any barony hold the office of secretary to this
do voluntarily declare, that, as long as I shall or other district shall contain three or more I will, to the utmost of my power, faithfully societies, three persons from cach shall be discharge the duties thereof; that all papers elected by ballot, conformable to the sixth ar- or documents received by me, as secretary, I ticle, to form a baronial committee (for three will in safety keep; I will not give any of months); their names to be returned to the them, or any copy or copies of them, to any secretary of the senior society, who shall request a deputation from the nearest baronial person or persons, members or others, but by
a vote of this
and that I will, at committee to constitute a committee for the the expiration of my secretaryship, deliver up said barony or other district. 2. When any to this
all such papers as may be barony or district shall contain eight societies, then in my possession.” they may form another committee, to be called the second committee of said barony or Certificate.-Society of the United Englishdistrict, provided each contain three or more societies. 3. Baronial committees shall re. ceive delegates from societies of a contiguous elected, and, having taken the test provided
“ I hereby certify, that A.B. has been duly barony, provided said barony do not contain in the constitution, has been admitted a memthree societies. 4. That the haronial com
Sec." mittee shall correspond with societies or individuals who have subscribed the declaration, App. (No. 14.)—Copy of Test to be used by and taken the test of the present associated
ber of this society.
the Soldiers, societies. 5. That all questions shall be determined by a majority of the members pre- I, A. B. do swear not to obey the colonel, cent. 6. That the baronial committee being but the people, not the officers, but the comregularly summoned, the one-third of its mittee of United Englishmen, then sitting members shall be deemed a quorum, and ca- in England, Ireland, and Scotland, and to pable of proceeding to business. 7. That any assist with arms, as far as lies in my power, business originating in any individual society, to establishi a republican form of government shall, at the instance of such society's dele- in this country, and others, and to assist the gates, be by the baronial committee laid be- French on their landing to free this country. fore the other socicties.
So help me God.
App. (No. 15.) --Resolutions and Constitution world, that we will never desist till we proof the Society of United Scotsmen.
cure this our national right, the wart of which
is probably the source of all our national grievIn the present age, when knowledge is ances. Impressed with these sentiments, we making rapid strides among mankind, and have collectively and individually agreed to neighbouring nations have been under the form an association, to be called The United necessity of meliorating their condition, ow- Scotsmen; and we do pledge ourselves to our ing to the stubbornness and perfidy of the go- country, and mutually to each other, to carry vernments under which they lived, by de- into effect, by all just means, the following spising and rejecting the reiterated and just Resolution:-An equal representation of all calls of the people for reform; it becomes us, the people in parliament. as friends to peace and good order, at the Constitution.--1. This society is constituted present awful crisis, when we are engaged in for the purpose of forwarding a brotherhood an unprecedented bloody and expensive war, of affection, a communion of rights, and a to investigate with calmness and deliberation union of power, among Britons of every deinto the system of our own government, on scription, — for the purpose of obtaining a purpose to discover its errors and defects; so complete reform in the legislature, founded that whatever abuses may exist, they may on the principles of civil, political, and relibe rectified by a timely reform, and the like gious liberty. 2. The members of this socalamities which have befallen a neighbouring ciety shall not be confined to any description nation may be prevented.-Conscious of the of men, but extended to all persons who may rectitude of our association and intentions, be deemed eligible. 3. Every candidate for and regardless of the threats of the venal and admission into this society shall be proposed interested, we will inquire into our grievances by one member, and seconded by another; with a determined anI manly freedom, know- both of whom shall vouch for his character ing that we have no other object in view, but and principles, and be ballotted for, before he the peace and happiness of our native coun- can be admitted a member. 4. Each memtry. Possessing such ideas, we cannot but ber shall pay not less than sixpence on enterexclaim with astonishment, What a multitude ing the society; and not less than threeof ages have mankind been kept in complete pence per month during his continuance in ignorance with respect to their natural rights ! ihe said society. 5. The one-half of the inRights of which no association of men have a come to be paid into the hands of the secret power to deprive them, whatever foolish titles committee, the other half to defray exthey may assume. Was the human race penses of delegates attending their duty in created with reasoning faculties by the Su- different committees. 6. The officers of this preme Being, for no other purpose than to be society shall be, a secretary and treasurer, possessed and made tools by corrupt govern. who shall be chosen by ballot, and continue ments, for the destruction of their own spe- in office two months. 7. No member shall cięs? No. It was for a more noble end. speak more than twice to one question, withWe disdain the principles of corrupt courtiers out leave from the chairman, whom he shall and their satellites, who propagate such ne- address standing. 8. A president to be chosen farious doctrine. Mankind are naturally by ballot each meeting, whose business it friends to each other; and it is only the cor- shall be to keep order, and not to enter into ruptions and abuses in governments that debate. 9. When any society amounts to make them enemies.- We profess ourselves sixteen members, they shall divide into two friends to mankind, of whatever nation or re- societies, the new society taking along with ligion. National and party distinctions have them a secretary properly constituted. been created and supported by tyrannic men,
Parochial Committees.-1.When any parish on purpose to maintain their unjust usurpa- or district shall contain three societies, two tions over the people. We will ask any un- persons from each shall be appointed, by balprejudiced person, if the people in Britain are lot, to form a parochial committee, one of fairly, fully, or equally represented ? Have whom shall go out each month, and another the people in general any control or concern ballotted for. 2. When any parish or district in the election of magistrates in the different shall contain ten societies, they shall divide boroughs in Scotland? Are clergymen, in into a second committee of said parish. 3. many parts of Scotland, forced on the people Parochial committees shall receive delegates against their inclination? Are there any in- from societies of a neighbouring parish, protricacies or inequalities in law procedure that viding said parish does not contain three so- . could be rectified? We decline enumerating cieties. 4. That all questions shall be determany other abuses, all of which could be re. mined by a majority of the members present. moved by a timely and radical reform in the None to sit in the committee but delegates. House of Commons. We abhor ard detest 5. That any business originating in any society all riots and tumults. Our armour shall be shall, at the instance of such society's dele. reason and truth, which we will not swerve gates, be, by the parochial, laid before the from on any account. Our whole aim is to other societies. procure annual parliaments and universal suf- County Committees.-1. When any town or frage. Till this is done, we declare to the county contains three or more parochial com
mittees, they shall elect two persons from God, I, A. B. do declare, that neither hopes, each to form a county committee. 2. When fears, rewards, or punishments, shall ever inany county shall contain twelve parochials, it duce me, directly or indirectly, to inform or shall divide into a second committee of said give any evidence against any member or county. 3. County committees shall receive members of this or similar societies, for any delegates from parochials of adjacent counties, act or expression of theirs, done or made colif said county does not contain three parochial lectively or individually, in or out of this socommittees.
ciety, in pursuance of the spirit of this obliProvincial Committees.—1. When any pro- gation. So help me God. vince contains three county committees, they shall elect two from each to form a provincial King's Proclamation respecting Persons committee. 2. Provincial committees shall coming from Ireland.], March 18., Mr. receive delegates from adjacent provinces, if Pitt presented the following Proclamasaid provinces do not contain three county
tion : committees.—3. Every provincial committee shall send not less than two delegates to the By the King a PROCLAMATION. supreme national committee. National Committees.—The national com
66 GEORGE R. mittee shall elect a secret committee of seven
66 Whereas we have reason to appremembers, all residing in or near the place hend that divers persons, engaged in the where the National holds its sittings; two of treasonable conspiracy against us in our them to go out by rotation each national kingdom of Ireland, which lately mani. meeting, and two others elected in their fested itself in open acts of rebellion and place.
Ordinary Business at Meetings.-1. Presi- war against us in our said kingdom, have dent elected. 2. Reports of delegates received. not abandoned their treasonable designs 3. Communications called for. ° 4. Candidates against us; and acting in concert with voted for. 5. Motions made and determined. our foreign enemies, are preparing to as6. Time and place of Dext meeting ap- sist our said enemies, in an invasion of our pointed.
kingdoms, and for that purpose are endea. Plan of Discipline.-That there shall be a vouring to incite and stir up rebellion and committee of three elected out of every so
war against us in this kingdom: we have ciety, consisting of the secretary and two of the members, chosen for the following pur
therefore thought it necessary, for the poses, namely, to receive such persons as have safety of our kingdoms, to prevent all perbeen approved by the society, and to admo- sons engaged in such treasonable designs, nish members who have behaved impro- from passing from our said kingdom of perly.
Ireland into this kingdom, and we do for Test for Members.—In the awful presence that purpose, by and with the advice pf of God, I, A. B. do voluntarily declare, that our privy council, order, and do hereby I will persevere in endeavouring to form a stricily charge and command, that from brotherhood of affection amongst Britons of and after the 20th day of March instant, every description; and that I will also perse no person whatsoever be permitted to pass
my full, and adequate representation of all the from our said kingdom of Ireland into this people in Great Britain: I do farther declare, kingdom, except such persons as shall be that whatever misfortunes may befall any in our service, and actually so employed ; member or members of this or similar socie- and such persons as shall obtain a passties, in legally pursuing the objects of this port for that purpose from our lord lieuunion, I will esteem it my duty to support tenant of our said kingdom of Ireland, them lawfully, to the utmost of my ability. his chief or under secretaries, the mayor So help me God. Test for Sccretary. In the awful presence
or other chief magistrate of some city or of God, I, A. B. đo voluntarily declare, that town in Ireland, or one of our general as long as I shall hold the office of secretary
officers commanding our forces within the to this
I will, to the utmost of several districts in our said kingdom: and my abilities, faithfully discharge the duties by and with the advice aforesaid, we do thereof. That all papers or documents, re- further order, and hereby strictly charge ceived by me as secretary, I will in safety and command, that no person whatsoever keep: I will not give any of them, or any (except as aforesaid) coming from our said copy or copies of them, to any person or per kingdom of Ireland, be permitted to land sons, members or others, but by a vote of in this kingdom without our licence for that this ration of my secretaryship, deliver up to this purpose first obtained ; and that all such
all such papers as may be then in persons (except as aforesaid) who shall my possession. So help me God.
land, or attempt to land, in this kingdom Test of Secrecy.--In the awful presence of without such license as aforesaid, shall be
forthwith taken into custody, and detained | ture should be duly respected; and sein custody until our pleasure shall be fur condly, that it is essential to the interests ther known: and we do further order and of the empire at large, and indeed, in the require, that all persons having such pass- present state of things, to the existence of ports as aforesaid, shall produce the same civilized society in Europe, that the conto some officer of our customs, at the port nexion between the two kingdoms should or place to which such persons shall come, be strengthened and improved. He was before such persons shall be permitted to aware, that there were some who would land at such port or place and we do argue vehemently against the adoption of hereby, by and with the advice aforesaid, the measure at any time, and under any strictly enjoin, require, and command, all circumstances. Without attending at that and singular justices of the peace, mayors, moment to objections in toto, he would sheriffs, bailiffs, constables, and all other consider whether or not the present was a our officers and subjects, to use their ut time proper for bringing forward the dismost endeavours for the due execution of cussion; and in this view he would simply these our commands.-Given at our court ask, whether it was not wise and politic, at St. James's the 15th day of March, by urging with as little delay as the na1799, in the 39th year of our reign.-God ture of the case would admit of, a fair and save the King."
temperate discussion of the general ques
tion to endeavour to do away the misKing's Message relative to Persons taken prejudices which have prevailed brought in Custody from Ireland.) April against the measure in Ireland ? In making 3. Mr. Secretary Dundas presented ihe this observation, nothing was farther from following Message from his Majesty : his intention than to offend the Irish par« GEORGE R.
liament, or irritate the feelings of that “ His Majesty thinks it proper to ac- nation ; neither did he think the present quaint the House of Commons, that, in proceeding on the part of the British par. consequence of representations received liament could fairly have that effect. And from his lord lieutenant of Ireland; his here he must remark upon the way in Majesty has judged it important, for the which the question stood in the parliament peace and security of that kingdom, to of Ireland. The resolution of their Comgive directions that several persons, who mons (for more it could not be called) were in custody at Dublin and Belfast, on certainly was not conclusive. The proaccount of the active part they took in ceeding was taken in consequence of the the rebellion, or for treasonable practices measure being alluded to in a speech from committed in promoting the same, should the throne. What passed in their lower be immediately removed to some place of House of Parliament, so far from amount. safe custody out of that kingdom ; and his ing to a law, was, in fact, a dead letter Majesty has therefore ordered that they upon the Journals. In such case, should the should be brought over to this country, British parliament be precluded from doin; and should for the present be kept in cus- what wisdom and national policy dictated. tody in Fort George. G. R.”
The conduct of their ancestors, upon au
occasion nearly similar, offered the bes: Debate in the Lords on the Resolutions rule to them.° Let them see what that relative to a Union with Ireland.] March conduct was upon the affair of the Union 19. The order of the day being read for with Scotland. If the resolutions of the the Lords to be summoned,
parliaments of either country had been at Lord Grenville rose for the purpose of that time considered as a bar to farthe calling their lordships attention to the proceedings, that salutary measure would very important resolutions, communi. never have been perfected. The quescated to that House by the Commons re- tion, therefore, was, whether, in the partilative to a Union with Ireland. In bringing cular circumstances of both countries, forward this subject for the consideration there was a necessity for the adoption of a of their lordships, he had the satisfaction plan, whereby their strength and resources of being convinced that the two main might be consolidated and improved? The points upon which the question could be necessity of a change in the system of the properly argued had been already esta- Irish government was allowed on all blished; namely, that whatever steps hands. The grand difference of opiniot they should take on the present occasion, was, with respect to the remedy for the the exclusive rights of the Irish legisla- grievances complained of in that country, (VOL. XXXIV.]
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and on this head he would declare, that he | Britain and Ireland now. The British never yet conversed with any well-in parliament undoubtedly possessed a power formed man from Ireland, who did not of binding the American colonies in cases say that the present state of things could of general and external policy; but for not continue, consistently with the general | the internal concerns of the countries, safety of the empire. He would contend, each province possessed a separate legisthat the much-talked-of settlement of lature. When the colonies effected their 1782 was not, nor could it be from its na separation from Great Britain, in some ture conclusive. But because, in the degree the old system was continued; peculiar circumstances of that day, it was but they found it so inefficient to all the thought prudent to make certain tempo- purposes of good government, that two rary arrangements were they not to be years had scarcely elapsed before it was revised at a fitter opportunity? The coun- set aside, and a new form of government try was at that time engaged in one of the substituted, in which the bond of union most calamitous wars ever known in his was made closer than the connexion which tory. Discontent, to a very high degree, now subsisted between Great Britain and was prevalent in Ireland ; the nation was Ireland; and the executive and legislative called upon to arm itself, and it took that were made the same in a great degree opportunity to claim those concessions throughout the whole United States : which were then made by this country as yet, notwithstanding, every well-informed a right. From these considerations, it statesman would acknowledge, that the might easily be implied, that the settle-grand defect in the American constitution ment was imperfect; and it was considered is, that the executive authority is not yet as such at the time. The parliament of rendered sufficiently strong. However, England declared that farther measures other countries, besides America, had were necessary. It was therefore, the to complain of such defect. Had the duty of parliament to come forward and Swiss provinces possessed an adequate supply the defects of the former settle- bond of union, they would have been able ment.
successfully to oppose the designs of In looking farther into the relative state France. With respect to the supposed of the two countries, he would examine existing bond of connexion between Great into the nature of their connexion, and Britain and Ireland he was not afraid to what was the bond which held together say that it was absolutely null. If the countries ruled by separate and indepen. two parliaments were suffered to remain in dent legislatures—it was merely this, that their present state ; if the countries hung one common sovereign reigned over them together by no other bond of connexion ma sovereign constituted equally by the than the present, the connexion was, he laws of both countries. This identity of repeated, absolutely null. If, by the the royal power was now the only remain British constitution, the royal power could ing bond of connexion. In a pure and ab- be exercised, free from the control of solute monarchy such a bond of connexion parliament, then, indeed, the regal idonmight possibly be sufficient ; but in a iity might be a bond of connexion ; but if mixed government and limited monarchy the whole system of the regal power was as was the British, and the other compo- not only under the control, but could not inent parts of the government of the coun go on without the aid and assistance of tries distinct and separate, such a bond of parliament, and the parliaments of each union must be obviously imperfect. Nor kingdom were to remain distinct and sepawas it alone to the British empire that rate, then he repeated, the bond of consuch an objection could be applied : the nexion was obviously null. But, if we system of government of the United Pro- scrutinize the leading branches of the royal vinces laboured under a defect not dissi- powers, and see in what manner they are milar. The connexion of the different capable of being exercised under the preparts of that confederacy was by no means sent system, the insecurity of the constrong enough, and the effects of it were nexion will be still more apparent. The felt in every war those countries were en- first branch of the regal power, in order gaged in. The case of America offered and in dignity, in the British constitution, another instance. Formerly, the con- was what regarded the ecclesiastical estanexion between the different provinces of blishment: in this consideration, let the that continent and the mother country House look at the present situation of the was nearly the same as that between Great Irish parliament, the measures proposed

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ABC Family’s new show “Shadowhunters”is set to premiere on Tuesday, January 12 at 9:00 pm EST/PST. This series is based on the best-selling book series The Mortal Instruments by Cassandra Clare and follows one young woman’s journey as she learns the truth about her past.
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ANKARA (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump and Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan in a phone call on Monday discussed a Turkish proposal to create a joint working group on its planned purchase of a Russian S-400 missile defense system, the Turkish Presidency said.
“Our Honourable President brought up the proposal to establish a working group regarding the procurement of the S-400 defense system from the Russian Federation,” it said.
The two countries have argued for months over Turkey’s order for the missile defense system, which the United States says is incompatible with NATO’s defense network and could compromise its F-35 fighter jets.
Ankara has said a working group could assess the impact of the S-400 on the fighter jets, but on Friday said that it has not heard back from the Americans.
The White House confirmed on Monday that Trump and Erdogan had discussed Turkey’s planned purchase of the S-400 missile defense system.
Asked if Trump raised with Erdogan the U.S. concerns about Turkey buying the S-400 system, a senior administration official said:
“We have been clear and consistent in emphasizing our grave concerns on the S-400 acquisition with representatives of the Turkish government on numerous occasions and at the highest levels.”
U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and several U.S. senators have warned Turkey it will face penalties for buying S-400s under a law that calls for sanctions against countries procuring military equipment from Russia.
Turkey has said that as a NATO member, it poses no threat to the United States and the sanctions should not apply.
Trump and Erdogan also discussed trade and the ongoing crisis in Syria, the White House said.
Reporting by Tulay Karadeniz in Ankara; Additional reporting by Steve Holland in Washington; writing by Ali Kucukgocmen and Makini Brice; editing by Jonathan Spicer and James Dalgleish
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It is estimated that the Skyrider will allow just 23 inches (58 centimetres) of legroom, seven inches (18 centimetres) less than the average seat pitch of around 30 inches (76 centimetres). The new seats are curved like a saddle and forces passengers to sit at an angle. Part of the passengers’ weight will be taken on their legs, which are also tucked under the seat in front.
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|January 21, 2013 06:00 AM EST||
DAVOS, Switzerland, Jan. 21, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- ManpowerGroup (NYSE: MAN), the world leader in innovative workforce solutions and World Economic Forum (WEF) strategic partner, will lead discussions at the WEF Annual Meeting 2013 this week, asserting that macro-economic forces driving the Human Age are creating an era of "certain uncertainty" and require innovative new approaches to the world of work.
This year, "Resilient Dynamism" is the focus of the WEF summit, with efforts to rebuild confidence and restore growth against looming political and economic shocks. Two years ago at Davos, ManpowerGroup was the first company to identify and announce the dawn of the Human Age, where talentism is replacing capitalism as the key competitive differentiator. In 2013, the forces at work creating such uncertainty mean companies require new leadership models, people practices and talent sources, and to develop their internal systems, culture, engagement and training.
"Companies everywhere must prepare for one certainty — uncertainty. This unpredictability requires the development of strategies that strikes the right balance between the need for built-in flexibility of plan and results," said Jonas Prising, ManpowerGroup President, "Businesses need to be prepared to adapt to changing conditions and opportunities, with access to the right talent critical to success in the ever-evolving Human Age."
ManpowerGroup's executive delegation at WEF is led by Prising; and includes Mara Swan, Executive Vice President, Global Strategy and Talent; Hans Leentjes, President of Northern Europe; and David Arkless, President of Corporate and Government Affairs. Sessions that they will be participating in include:
Wednesday 23rd January:
- Scenarios for the Russian Federation, which examines the outlook for the country's economic development against a backdrop of significant global vulnerabilities.
- The Human Capital Context, analyzing which strategic shifts and transformational issues are impacting the education-skills-jobs nexus; youth unemployment and usage of technology by the workforce.
- The Digital Infrastructure Context, analyzing the rise of networked devices, big data and cloud; shifting norms and regulations; increasing infrastructure vulnerability.
Thursday, 24th January
- Policy and Practice for the Age of Talent, exploring how a new understanding of the global human capital stock can help business and government make the right choices to deliver the right solutions across the education-skills-jobs nexus.
- G20 Outlook, discussing the role of the G20 group of nations in responding to global challenges.
- Eurozone Crisis — The Way Forward, examining what Europe must do to turn the current crisis into opportunity.
- Scaling Up Investment in Workplace Wellness for Measurable Impact: Demand for talent is set to outstrip supply as workforces dwindle due to aging and chronic disease, impacting capacity and productivity. To meet these challenges, employers must find cohesive and comprehensive new models to invest in and manage human capital, or face substantial financial and strategic risks.
- Preventing a Lost Generation: With more than 14 million people out of work and disengaged, this session will explore how Europe's leaders can prevent a lost generation of talent.
Friday, 25th January
- Closing Critical Equality Gaps: With excessive inequality known to hinder social and economic progress, this session will examine how widening income gaps should be closed.
- The Economic Malaise and its Perils, exploring what near- and long-term political and societal risks are arising from the economic malaise.
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In the next five to ten years, millions, if not billions of things will become smarter. This smartness goes beyond connected things in our homes like the fridge, thermostat and fancy lighting, and into heavily regulated industries including aerospace, pharmaceutical/medical devices and energy. “Smartness” will embed itself within individual products that are part of our daily lives. We will engage with smart products - learning from them, informing them, and communicating with them. Smart produc...
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SYS-CON Events announced today that 910Telecom will exhibit at the 19th International Cloud Expo, which will take place on November 1–3, 2016, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA. Housed in the classic Denver Gas & Electric Building, 910 15th St., 910Telecom is a carrier-neutral telecom hotel located in the heart of Denver. Adjacent to CenturyLink, AT&T, and Denver Main, 910Telecom offers connectivity to all major carriers, Internet service providers, Internet backbones and ...
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Extreme Computing is the ability to leverage highly performant infrastructure and software to accelerate Big Data, machine learning, HPC, and Enterprise applications. High IOPS Storage, low-latency networks, in-memory databases, GPUs and other parallel accelerators are being used to achieve faster results and help businesses make better decisions. In his session at 18th Cloud Expo, Michael O'Neill, Strategic Business Development at NVIDIA, focused on some of the unique ways extreme computing is...
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SYS-CON Events announced today that Coalfire will exhibit at the 19th International Cloud Expo, which will take place on November 1–3, 2016, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA. Coalfire is the trusted leader in cybersecurity risk management and compliance services. Coalfire integrates advisory and technical assessments and recommendations to the corporate directors, executives, boards, and IT organizations for global brands and organizations in the technology, cloud, health...
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SYS-CON Events announced today that Transparent Cloud Computing (T-Cloud) Consortium will exhibit at the 19th International Cloud Expo®, which will take place on November 1–3, 2016, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA. The Transparent Cloud Computing Consortium (T-Cloud Consortium) will conduct research activities into changes in the computing model as a result of collaboration between "device" and "cloud" and the creation of new value and markets through organic data proces...
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The Internet of Things (IoT), in all its myriad manifestations, has great potential. Much of that potential comes from the evolving data management and analytic (DMA) technologies and processes that allow us to gain insight from all of the IoT data that can be generated and gathered. This potential may never be met as those data sets are tied to specific industry verticals and single markets, with no clear way to use IoT data and sensor analytics to fulfill the hype being given the IoT today.
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In his general session at 18th Cloud Expo, Lee Atchison, Principal Cloud Architect and Advocate at New Relic, discussed cloud as a ‘better data center’ and how it adds new capacity (faster) and improves application availability (redundancy). The cloud is a ‘Dynamic Tool for Dynamic Apps’ and resource allocation is an integral part of your application architecture, so use only the resources you need and allocate /de-allocate resources on the fly.
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As data explodes in quantity, importance and from new sources, the need for managing and protecting data residing across physical, virtual, and cloud environments grow with it. Managing data includes protecting it, indexing and classifying it for true, long-term management, compliance and E-Discovery. Commvault can ensure this with a single pane of glass solution – whether in a private cloud, a Service Provider delivered public cloud or a hybrid cloud environment – across the heterogeneous enter...
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Traditional on-premises data centers have long been the domain of modern data platforms like Apache Hadoop, meaning companies who build their business on public cloud were challenged to run Big Data processing and analytics at scale. But recent advancements in Hadoop performance, security, and most importantly cloud-native integrations, are giving organizations the ability to truly gain value from all their data. In his session at 19th Cloud Expo, David Tishgart, Director of Product Marketing ...
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We're entering the post-smartphone era, where wearable gadgets from watches and fitness bands to glasses and health aids will power the next technological revolution. With mass adoption of wearable devices comes a new data ecosystem that must be protected. Wearables open new pathways that facilitate the tracking, sharing and storing of consumers’ personal health, location and daily activity data. Consumers have some idea of the data these devices capture, but most don’t realize how revealing and...
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A completely new computing platform is on the horizon. They’re called Microservers by some, ARM Servers by others, and sometimes even ARM-based Servers. No matter what you call them, Microservers will have a huge impact on the data center and on server computing in general. Although few people are familiar with Microservers today, their impact will be felt very soon. This is a new category of computing platform that is available today and is predicted to have triple-digit growth rates for some ...
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Governments around the world are adopting Safe Harbor privacy provisions to protect customer data from leaving sovereign territories. Increasingly, global companies are required to create new instances of their server clusters in multiple countries to keep abreast of these new Safe Harbor laws. Is it worth it? In his session at 19th Cloud Expo, Adam Rogers, Managing Director of Anexia, Inc., will discuss how to keep your data legal and still stay in business.
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SYS-CON Events announced today that MathFreeOn will exhibit at the 19th International Cloud Expo, which will take place on November 1–3, 2016, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA. MathFreeOn is Software as a Service (SaaS) used in Engineering and Math education. Write scripts and solve math problems online. MathFreeOn provides online courses for beginners or amateurs who have difficulties in writing scripts. In accordance with various mathematical topics, there are more tha...
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In past @ThingsExpo presentations, Joseph di Paolantonio has explored how various Internet of Things (IoT) and data management and analytics (DMA) solution spaces will come together as sensor analytics ecosystems. This year, in his session at @ThingsExpo, Joseph di Paolantonio from DataArchon, will be adding the numerous Transportation areas, from autonomous vehicles to “Uber for containers.” While IoT data in any one area of Transportation will have a huge impact in that area, combining sensor...
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SYS-CON Events announced today that SoftNet Solutions will exhibit at the 19th International Cloud Expo, which will take place on November 1–3, 2016, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA. SoftNet Solutions specializes in Enterprise Solutions for Hadoop and Big Data. It offers customers the most open, robust, and value-conscious portfolio of solutions, services, and tools for the shortest route to success with Big Data. The unique differentiator is the ability to architect and ...
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The best way to leverage your Cloud Expo presence as a sponsor and exhibitor is to plan your news announcements around our events. The press covering Cloud Expo and @ThingsExpo will have access to these releases and will amplify your news announcements. More than two dozen Cloud companies either set deals at our shows or have announced their mergers and acquisitions at Cloud Expo. Product announcements during our show provide your company with the most reach through our targeted audiences.
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More and more brands have jumped on the IoT bandwagon. We have an excess of wearables – activity trackers, smartwatches, smart glasses and sneakers, and more that track seemingly endless datapoints. However, most consumers have no idea what “IoT” means. Creating more wearables that track data shouldn't be the aim of brands; delivering meaningful, tangible relevance to their users should be. We're in a period in which the IoT pendulum is still swinging. Initially, it swung toward "smart for smar...
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@ThingsExpo has been named the Top 5 Most Influential Internet of Things Brand by Onalytica in the ‘The Internet of Things Landscape 2015: Top 100 Individuals and Brands.' Onalytica analyzed Twitter conversations around the #IoT debate to uncover the most influential brands and individuals driving the conversation. Onalytica captured data from 56,224 users. The PageRank based methodology they use to extract influencers on a particular topic (tweets mentioning #InternetofThings or #IoT in this ...
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SYS-CON Events announced today that Niagara Networks will exhibit at the 19th International Cloud Expo, which will take place on November 1–3, 2016, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA. Niagara Networks offers the highest port-density systems, and the most complete Next-Generation Network Visibility systems including Network Packet Brokers, Bypass Switches, and Network TAPs.
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In an era of historic innovation fueled by unprecedented access to data and technology, the low cost and risk of entering new markets has leveled the playing field for business. Today, any ambitious innovator can easily introduce a new application or product that can reinvent business models and transform the client experience. In their Day 2 Keynote at 19th Cloud Expo, Mercer Rowe, IBM Vice President of Strategic Alliances, and Raejeanne Skillern, Intel Vice President of Data Center Group and ...
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The city lights switch on as the sun sets over Xi'an. [Photo/Xi'an municipal government's WeChat account]
Last year, the commerce bureau of Xi'an, capital of Northwest China's Shaanxi province, undertook a raft of measures to boost the development of commercial trading enterprises above a designated size and foreign trade enterprises with performance.
By the end of 2022, there were 3,232 commercial trading enterprises above a designated size in Xi'an, up 379 on the previous year. There were 3,049 foreign trade companies with performance, up by 144.
Last year, the bureau introduced a series of support policies, designed to encourage enterprises to optimize their structure and expand the scale of their operations. It also implemented initiatives to boost the number and quality of companies above a designated size in the city.
In addition, the bureau strengthened its support of and guarantees to foreign trade enterprises – in terms of their transformation and upgrading, development of international markets, development of bonded logistics, the processing trade, cross-border e-commerce and policy coverage.


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AUGUSTA, GA (WFXG) - Commissioner Sammie Sias held a community breakfast at the Jamestown Community Center with an agenda of “hot topics” including the Depot Project, TIA, the James Brown arena and electing the next commissioners of Augusta.
The James Brown Arena is still the main buzz around Richmond County. Augusta residents who attended the Community Breakfast like Jeanette Scott, is happy that the downtown location is moving forward.
"When people come to town that the first place they want to go is downtown.”
The mayor announced in a letter a few weeks ago about the desire to move forward with rebuilding the arena at its current location, but as discussed at the breakfast, it’s simply not enough parking.
“Parking is an issue, and it must be addressed” said Scott.
Commissioner Sias says the only way it will have his full support is if this project includes a parking deck. “When you have downtown, you have a very high market for the property, so that’s not feasible to go buy additional, what you would call surface parking, that is why you go up.“
He says the James Brown Arena is very critical to the community, and the longer it gets delayed, the more it will cost.

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Color and light are Kim Gibbs passion and inspiration. Creating a series of images from her imagination, she explores each subject with color, texture and composition. Paint is the interpretive vehicle for her art.
Kim uses a variety of applications on each canvas including pushing, pulling, scraping and throwing the paint to express her emotion to the viewer. Her direct approach is very aggressive and energetic with the goal of creating a strong emotional response from the viewer. She paints daily in her studio creating art that inspires.
As a child, Kim was inspired by her aunt’s three-dimensional art and the wonders of exploring the family’s art store. While raising her own children, she studied watercolor which opened her eyes to seeing how color reacts to light. From watercolor Kim moved on to working in pastels and acrylics, finally finding her current medium of oil. Primarily self-taught, Ms. Gibbs has studied with many world class teachers and participated in numerous workshops from Scottsdale to Maine. Her instructors have included Albert Handel, Timothy Horn, Millie Gosch, Camille Prezwodek and Andy Braitman among others. She is a graduate of the University of Georgia Journalism School.
Ms. Gibbs has been in many juried shows in the past several years as well as a solo show in Charleston, SC. In addition, she was the featured artist in November 2016 for ArtFoodHome.com. Kim is a member of Oil Painters of America, Women Painters of the Southeast, Artists of NW Atlanta and the Dilworth Artisan Station in Charlotte, NC. Her large landscapes can be found in private and corporate collections.


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Today I am reviewing the Anime series Mirai Nikki, known outside of Japan as Future Diary. If you go on to enjoy this review, please consider liking, commenting and becoming a fan. Request any things to review? Please be aware that spoilers may be shown.
A poem about the modern world and the working life, as well as society. Do not mistake this as a simple Marxist critique. The Poem criticises every aspect of modern industrialised life and society as a whole, transcending mere ideology. In fact, if you actually read in between the lines, it is...
We create our worlds.
A young man travels back in time to save the life of his girlfriend.
The Key of Deus Cor literally translates to:
Teachings of a Cherokee spiritual person
CHEROKEE MEDICINE MAN TURTLE WINDS FIRE WALKER
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16th June h 20.30 | Polverigi Teatro della Luna
created and performed by Bertrand Lesca and Nasi Voutsas
choreography Laura Dannequin
lighting design Jessica Hung Han Yun
lighting associate Ruth Green
company manager Ginny Graham
producer Hannah Slimmon for Farnham Maltings.
THE END is a poignant and funny account of the ongoing climate catastrophe. In this new show, Bert and Nasi dance the end of their relationship, imagining what a future without each other might look like. Their dance is a reminder and a celebration of our own mortality, and that of everything around us.
Recent recipients of the Forced Entertainment award, Bertrand and Nasi are two European theatre makers based in the UK. They have made five shows together that toured the world in prestigious venues and festivals such as the Adelaide International Festival (Australia), Mostra Internacional de Teatro (Brazil), Festival de Otono (Spain) and PuSh Festival (Canada).. Their shows are direct and emotional responses to the here and now of the world we’re living in. Their most recent piece THE END received the Total Theatre Award in 2019. Bertrand Lesca and Nasi Voutsas are Associate Artists with MAYK and guest fellow artists with PACT Zollverein in Germany. They are produced by Farnham Maltings in the UK.


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Rose is a flower. It’s not mean only flowers. Or it’s not a just a flower. Rose is More Than Just a flower. Or something else goes way beyond its meaning as a simple flower. The rose signifies a meta-signified symbol metonymy that may or may not mean anything more than a bit of nature that arbitrarily signifies beauty, love, aesthetics, youth, and an almost unlimited host of other things.
Roses have their own place in the hearts of people. Roses are the ultimate flower for expression of emotion or feeling meanings hidden in the number of roses exchanged between people. There is a rose of every color for every person. Every rose Possesses many Characteristics that make it uniquely itself. Every rose Blooms Differently. Roses have been the symbol of love and affection since times immemorial. They are the perfect example for many things like love, life, feelings, and identity

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Scott Hahn and the St. Paul Center for Biblical Theology have joined annually with scholars around the world to bring about a Catholic biblical theology journal for the third millennium, Letter & Spirit.
Letter & Spirit seeks to foster a deeper conversation about the Bible and its most significant themes. The journal takes a crucial step toward recovering the fundamental link between the literary and historical study of Scripture and its religious and spiritual meaning in the Church’s liturgy and Tradition.
The 10-journal set of Letter & Spirit includes every one of the groundbreaking volumes of the series. Save by purchasing the entire set.
Vol. 1, Reading Salvation: Word, Worship, and the Mysteries
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Vol. 4, Temple and Contemplation: God’s Presence in the Cosmos, Church, and Human Heart
Vol. 5, Liturgy and Empire: Faith in Exile and Political Theology
Vol. 6, For the Sake of Our Salvation: The Truth and Humility of God’s Word
Vol. 7, The Bible and the Church Fathers: The Liturgical Context of Patristic Exegesis
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Vol. 10, Christ Our Passover: Theological Exegesis of St. PaulLetter & Spirit journal is easily accessible to clergy, students, and laity as a resource for both academic and personal study.
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FORT WORTH, Texas -- Greg Biffle regained the lead when he charged under Jimmie Johnson with 30 laps left Saturday night, then pulled away to end his 49-race winless streak while giving owner Jack Roush another NASCAR Sprint Cup victory in Texas.
Johnson led 156 of the 334 laps while going for owner Rick Hendrick's 200th career victory. But he never recovered, even scraping hard into the wall trying to catch up after Biffle drove under him in Turn 3 and completed the pass before the start-finish line.
Biffle, the season points leader, went on to win the fastest Cup race at the 1 1/2 -mile, high-banked Texas track. His average speed of 160.577 mph put his Ford 3.2 seconds ahead of the Chevrolet driven by Johnson.
It was Roush's ninth win in 23 Cup races at Texas, and completed a Lone Star State weekend sweep. Ricky Stenhouse Jr. won the Nationwide race on Friday night for Roush's fourth Texas victory in a row and ninth overall in the second-tier series.
Biffle got his 17th career victory. It was his first since an October 2010 race in Kansas, where the series goes next week.
After starting third, Biffle was among the lead pack the entire race, leading 91 laps on a fast-paced and windy night.
There were only two cautions for 10 slowed-down laps, both for debris, and the race finished with a record 234 consecutive laps of green-flag racing.
Mark Martin finished third in a Michael Waltrip-owned Toyota, followed by Jeff Gordon and Roush driver Matt Kenseth. Polesitter Martin Truex Jr., another Waltrip car, finished sixth after leading 68 laps.
Biffle got his eighth consecutive top-10 finish at Texas, where he had a victory in 2005 even before that stretch.
For Hendrick Motorsports, it was the second race in a row that Rick Hendrick was close to getting his 200th victory.
Johnson, Gordon and teammate Dale Earnhardt Jr. were running in the top three at Martinsville two weeks ago before a late restart in the last race before the Easter weekend break. But Clint Bowyer's aggressive inside move took out Johnson and Gordon, and Earnhardt ended up third.
IndyCar field scrambled
LONG BEACH, Calif. -- Ryan Briscoe kept Penske Racing perfect so far this season by winning the pole for today's Toyota Grand Prix of Long Beach (3:30 p.m., NBCSN).
He won't be there for very long.
A decision by Chevrolet to yank the engines from all 11 of its teams because of concerns the engines wouldn't last throughout the race meant all the Chevy drivers knew they wouldn't start Sunday where they actually qualified. The IndyCar penalty for unapproved engine changes is 10 spots on the starting grid, so Briscoe will actually start 11th when the green flag falls.
Defending series champion Dario Franchitti, a Honda driver, qualified fourth but will start on the pole because the top three in qualifying were Chevy drivers.
Josef Newgarden, an IndyCar rookie, leaps from seventh to second, and Justin Wilson will go from ninth to third.
After that is anyone's guess.
"I feel like we need to call in NASA to figure out who is starting where," said Chevy driver James Hinchcliffe, who qualified sixth.
"Who is starting sixth?" asked Chevy driver Ryan Hunter-Reay, who was third.
"I have no idea," Hinchcliffe replied.
"Who's on first?" Hunter-Reay cracked.
All humor aside, Chevrolet was proud to have five drivers qualify in the top six on what's been a trying weekend.
The engine issue was discovered after Hinchcliffe's blew up during a test session on Monday, and Chevrolet IndyCar program manager Chris Berube said the drivers "rose to the challenge of the engine change."
"We were not certain something would happen during the race, but we wanted to preserve the show, and decided it was in the best interest of all our Chevy teams, and the Long Beach Grand Prix to swap the engines out beforehand, knowing the grid penalty will be difficult to overcome in the race," he added.


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Rural Demography and Aging: The LTSS Imperative in Rural America
In the coming decades, the older adult population of the United States is projected to expand significantly. This demographic shift will pose challenges for the nation’s healthcare and LTSS systems. Rural areas are likely to experience a disproportionate share of this growth, due to existing rural infrastructure deficits and the relatively high needs of rural elders. In order to help rural communities meet the increased demand for health/LTSS services, rural stakeholders and policymakers will benefit from having a current, broad-ranging, detailed profile of healthcare/LTSS needs and use patterns among rural and urban older adults. The proposed project aims to create such a profile through a literature review and analysis of data sets including the American Community Survey, the Area Health Resource File, and the Medicare Current Beneficiary Survey.
Residential Settings and Healthcare Use of the Rural "Oldest-Old" Medicare Population
Maine Rural Health Research Center
This study used Medicare Current Beneficiary Survey data to profile rural/urban Medicare beneficiaries ages 85 & older. Rural adults in this age group are more likely to be disabled and live alone in the community or in nursing homes and less likely to live in assisted living facilities. Findings highlight rural needs for community-based services.

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Wind Cave National Park
|Wind Cave National Park|
|Location||Custer County, South Dakota, United States|
|Nearest city||Hot Springs, South Dakota|
|Area||33,847 acres (136.97 km2)|
|Established||January 9, 1903|
|Visitors||448,405 (in 2020)|
|Governing body||National Park Service|
|Website||Wind Cave National Park|
|Southwestern South Dakota|
|Geologic and natural history|
|Forests and wildernesses|
Wind Cave National Park is an American national park located 10 miles (16 km) north of the town of Hot Springs in western South Dakota. Established on January 3rd, 1903 by President Theodore Roosevelt, it was the seventh national park and the first cave to be designated a national park anywhere in the world. The cave is notable for its calcite formations known as boxwork, as well as its frostwork. Approximately 95 percent of the world's discovered boxwork formations are found in Wind Cave. The cave is recognized as the densest cave system in the world, with the greatest passage volume per cubic mile. Wind Cave is the seventh longest cave in the world with 154.2 miles (248.16 km) of explored cave passageways (as of 2021[update]) and the third longest cave in the United States. Above ground, the park includes the largest remaining natural mixed-grass prairie in the United States.
Origin of name
The passages in the park are said to "breathe" as air continually moves into or out of them, equalizing the atmospheric pressure of the cave and the outside air. When the air pressure is higher outside the cave than inside it, air flows into the cave, raising the cave's pressure to match the outside pressure. When the air pressure inside the cave is higher than outside it, air flows out of the cave, lowering the air pressure within the cave. A large cave such as Wind Cave with only a few small openings will "breathe" more obviously than a small cave with many large openings.
Rapid weather changes, accompanied by rapid barometric changes, are a feature of western South Dakota weather. If a fast-moving storm was approaching on the day the Bingham brothers found the cave, the atmospheric pressure would have been dropping fast, causing the cave's higher-pressure air to rush out all available openings, creating the wind for which Wind Cave was named.
The Lakota, Cheyenne, and other Native American tribes who traveled through the area were aware of the cave's existence, as were early Euro-American settlers, but there has been no evidence yet discovered that anyone actually entered it.
The Lakota (Sioux), an indigenous people who live in the Black Hills region of South Dakota, spoke of a hole that blew air, a place they consider sacred as the site where they first emerged from the underworld where they had lived before the demiurge creation of the world.
The first documented discovery of the cave by white Americans was in 1881, when the brothers Tom and Jesse Bingham heard wind rushing out from a 10-inch (25 cm) by 14-inch (36 cm) hole in the ground. According to the story, when Tom looked into the hole, the wind exiting the cave blew his hat off of his head.
From 1881 to 1889, few people ventured far into Wind Cave. Then in 1889 the South Dakota Mining Company hired Jesse D. McDonald to oversee their mining claim on the cave site. The South Dakota Mining Company may have hoped to find valuable minerals, or it may have had commercial development of the cave in mind from the start.
No valuable mineral deposits were found, and the McDonald family began developing the cave for tourism. Jesse initially hired his son Alvin (age 16 in 1890) and, beginning in 1891, Alvin's brother Elmer, to explore and help develop the cave. Alvin fell in love with the cave and kept a cave diary. Others who worked at Wind Cave and helped explore it between 1890 and 1903 include Katie Stabler, Emma McDonald (Elmer's wife), Inez McDonald (Emma and Elmer's daughter), and Tommy McDonald (brother of Elmer and Alvin).
By February 1892 the cave was open for visitors; the standard tour fee was apparently $1.00 (equivalent to roughly $30 in 2021). Tourists explored the cave by candlelight on guided tours. These early tours were physically demanding and sometimes involved crawling through narrow passages.
Flora and fauna
Wind Cave National Park protects a diverse ecosystem with eastern and western plant and animal species. Wildlife that inhabits this park include raccoons, elk, bison, coyotes, skunks, badgers, ermines, black-footed ferrets, cougars, bobcats, red foxes, minks, pronghorn and prairie dogs. The Wind Cave bison herd is one of only four free-roaming and genetically pure herds on public lands in North America. The other three herds are the Yellowstone Park bison herd, the Henry Mountains bison herd in Utah, and on Elk Island in Alberta, Canada. The Wind Cave bison herd is currently brucellosis-free.
|Climate data for Wind Cave, South Dakota, 1991-2020 normals, extremes 1990-present|
|Record high °F (°C)||69
|Average high °F (°C)||39.7
|Daily mean °F (°C)||27.2
|Average low °F (°C)||14.8
|Record low °F (°C)||−21
|Average precipitation inches (mm)||0.45
|Average snowfall inches (cm)||6.3
|Average precipitation days (≥ 0.01 in)||4.5||5.8||6.0||9.4||11.2||11.4||9.7||8.5||6.3||7.0||4.1||3.8||87.7|
|Average snowy days (≥ 0.1 in)||3.9||4.9||3.5||2.8||0.5||0.0||0.0||0.0||0.1||1.1||2.7||3.6||23.1|
Several roads run through the park and there are 30 miles (48 km) of hiking trails on the surface. The park had an estimated 656,397 visitors in 2018. More than 109,000 people toured the cave itself in 2015, the most since 1968 before cave tours were limited to 40 people each.
The Wind Cave visitor center features three exhibit rooms about the geology of the caves and early cave history, the park's wildlife and natural history, and the work of the Civilian Conservation Corps in the park.
Elk Mountain Campground, located in a ponderosa pine forest, is about 1.25 miles (2.0 km) from the visitor center. The campground has 75 sites for tents and recreational vehicles, and is open year-round with campfire programs offered in the summer and limited services available in the winter.
The three levels making up the Wind Cave system are located in the upper 76 m of the Mississippian Pahasapa (Madison) Limestone. Deposited in an inland sea, chert, gypsum, and anhydrite lenses within the limestone are evidence of high periods of evaporation. When sea levels dropped at the end of the Mississippian, dissolution of the limestone formed a Kaskaskia paleokarst terrain, complete with solution fissures, sinkholes, and caves. Thus, an unconformity exists between this limestone and the overlying Pennsylvanian Minnelusa Formation. These red sands and clays filled in cavities. Those cavities not filled in were coated in dogtooth spar. Subsequent deposition of the Permian Opeche Shale, Permian Minnekahta Limestone, Triassic Spearfish Formation, and Tertiary White River Group followed. Paleocene and Eocene erosion removed these overlying sediments, in the area of the caves, down to the Minnelusa. Geologic uplift started during the Laramide Orogeny, which lowered the water table, draining the cave system and enlarging it. Today the water level is 150 m below the surface, which amounts to a drop of 0.4 m every 1000 years.
Boxwork was first noted in Wind Cave. These calcite fins were once cracks filling gypsum and anhydrite. Calcite-gypsum pseudomorphs are common. The released sulfuric acid weakened the bedrock, allowing it to weather faster than the calcite. The resultant intersecting fins form open chambers and protrude from the surrounding bedrock by amounts ranging from 0.6 to 1.2 m. Lower levels of the cave have boxworks mixed with frostwork and cave popcorn. Helictite bushes were also first discovered in Wind Cave. Moonmilk is found on many surfaces, while calcite rafts are found in the lower levels of the cave system.: 18, 20–21
In popular culture
During the 2020 Democratic Party presidential primary debate on December 19, 2019, candidate Senator Amy Klobuchar referenced the Wind Cave as part of an attack on fellow candidate Mayor Pete Buttigieg, who had hosted a campaign fundraiser in a purported wine cave. Klobuchar remarked, “I came here to make a case for progress, and I have never even been to a wine cave. I’ve been to the Wind Cave in South Dakota, which I suggest you go to.” South Dakota public figures, including the state's Representative Dusty Johnson, used it to promote tourism to Wind Cave National Park.
A prairie dog; part of an extensive colony in the park
- Carlsbad Caverns National Park
- Jewel Cave National Monument
- Great Basin National Park (Lehman Caves)
- Lava Beds National Monument (lava tubes)
- Mammoth Cave National Park
- Oregon Caves National Monument
- Russell Cave National Monument
- Timpanogos Cave National Monument
- List of longest caves in the United States
- "Listing of acreage as of December 31, 2011" (PDF). Land Resource Division, National Park Service. Retrieved March 7, 2012.
- "NPS Annual Recreation Visits Report". National Park Service. Retrieved August 11, 2021.
- Gulden, Bob (April 19, 2021). "Worlds longest caves". Geo2 Committee on Long and Deep Caves. National Speleological Society (NSS). Retrieved September 4, 2021.
- Wind Cave brochure, National Park Service, GPO, WDC
- National Park Service: Early cave explorers
- McDonald, Alvin Frank. A Private Account of A. F. McDonald, Permanent Guide of Wind Cave (a.k.a. "Alvin McDonald Diary," written 1891-1893). Facsimile ed., no pub. data. Sold through Wind Cave National Park. Financial entries, pp. 20-21 and 23-25.
- McDonald, Alvin Frank. A Private Account of A. F. McDonald, Permanent Guide of Wind Cave (a.k.a. "Alvin McDonald Diary," written 1891-1893). Facsimile ed., no pub. data. Sold through Wind Cave National Park. Financial entries, p. 9
- McDonald, Alvin Frank. A Private Account of A. F. McDonald, Permanent Guide of Wind Cave (a.k.a. "Alvin McDonald Diary," written 1891-1893). Facsimile ed., no pub. data. Sold through Wind Cave National Park. Financial entries, p. 8-9
- "NOWData - NOAA Online Weather Data". National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. Retrieved June 12, 2021.
- "Summary of Monthly Normals 1991-2020". National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. Retrieved June 12, 2021.
- Kent, Jim (January 19, 2016). "Wind Cave Numbers Highest In 40 Years". South Dakota Public Broadcasting. Retrieved January 19, 2016.
- KellerLynn, K. (2009). Wind Cave National Park Geologic Resources Inventory Report, Natural Resource Report NPS/NRPC/GRD/NRR-2009/087. Denver: National Park Service. pp. 14–15, 29–30.
- @RepDustyJohnson (20 December 2019). "For once, I agree with @amyklobuchar..." (Tweet) – via Twitter.
- Official website of the National Park Service
- Historic American Engineering Record documentation, all filed under Hot Springs, Fall River County, SD:
- HAER No. SD-53, "Beaver Creek Bridge", 5 photos, 2 color transparencies, 3 measured drawings, 9 data pages, 1 photo caption page
- HAER No. SD-54, "Pigtail Bridge", 6 photos, 3 measured drawings, 10 data pages, 1 photo caption page
- HAER No. SD-55, "Wind Cave Roads and Bridges", 51 photos, 6 color transparencies, 4 measured drawings, 66 data pages, 5 photo caption pages


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As you might already know by now, Laurel Hubbard (NZL) became the first openly transgender Olympic Weightlifter, after she competed in the Women’s +87 kg category in Tokyo 2020.
She failed to record a successful attempt and was not classifed. She then proceeded to gracefully walk off the stage thanking the audience and making a heart symbol with her hands (pictured).
Although Hubbard did not win an Olympic medal, she was a medal contender. It has been compellingly argued that a big factor in her being a medal contender is the fact that she is transexual and underwent male puberty.
This is further reinforced by the fact that she is 43 – very unusual for a World-Class competitor in this sport- and that she was never a World-Class competitor as a male during her “peak” years as a man.
It is very hard to argue against the fact that she had some advantage from having gone through male puberty.
Scientific reviews point that such factor contributes to a 30-40% athletic advantage compared to a loss of performance from testosterone suppression of almost 5%, according to a study by Emma N. Hilton and Tommy R. Lundberg, published in Sports Medicine (2021, 51, 199-214).
The current rules adopted by the International Olympic Committee and the International Weightlifting Federation allow Hubbard to compete because it allows trans athletes to compete as long as they prove a certain maximum of testosterone level (10 nmol/L) for the 12 months prior. Hubbard -it must be noted- also complied with the previous regulations from 2003, which were stricter.
Testosterone definitely helps improving athletic performance.
The clearest cases of its influence have been those of women with «Differences of Sexual Development», where a person’s sex develops different to most other people.
Examples can be intersex and “XY” women. Men are generally born with XY chromosomes, while women are generally born with XX Chromosomes.
However sometimes women are born with female-normative genitalia (or not) and XY chromosomes as well as elevated testosterone levels.
The policies taken by international bodies have been mostly reactive to high-profile DSD cases.
In 2014 Dutee Chand (IND) brought a case before the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) challenging IAAF’s (now World Athletics) «Regulations Governing Eligibility of Females with Hyperandrogenism to Compete in Women’s Competition»,
These regulations limited women to 10 nmol/L, back in 2011. Chand was allowed to compete. The ruling found that there was no satisfying evidence that testosterone improved female athletic performance performance to a degree that warranted the regulations.
It did find that the increase in lean body mass at puberty due to testosterone provided an advantage.
But Chand did not challenge for world-class wins. It had been Caster Semenya (ZAF), an XY woman, that dominated the women’s 800 meters for the majority of 2009 to 2017 and that triggered the policy changes.
It was World Athletic’s perception that Semenya’s testosterone levels gave her a World-Class advantage so they further moved forward with rules that limited testosterone levels to 5 nmol/L for «46 XY females».
This limit is double stricter than weightlifting’s limit towards trans competitors we have previously cited.
It was in the last part of this period that Semenya -2012 Olympic Champion- moved down to 8th at the 2015 World Championship.
The Court of Arbitration in Sport ruled to lift the testosterone regulations for two years. Semenya went ahead and won the Olympic Games and World Championship gold medals.
IAAF reinstated the testosterone rules in 2019. That year, the CAS found that the orgniazation succesfully dicharged its burden of proof to show that testoterone was the key factor driving performance.
The most notable argument presented by the IAAF highlighted in the Executive Summary was one where IAAF submitted «the many different factors that contribute to sport performance» and the only factor where men and women differed was testosterone.
The Summary read:
«The IAAF submitted that if the purpose of the female category is to prevent athletes who lack that testosterone-derived advantage from having to compete against athletes who possess that testosterone-derived advantage, then it is necessarily “category defeating” to permit any individuals who possess that testosterone-derived advantage to compete in that category.
The majority of the Panel accepts the logic of the IAAF’s submission.»
The Panel concluded that the statistical over-representation in the «Relevant Events» (400 to 1500 meters) created «a significant and often determinative performance».
As such, they allowed the «DSD Regulations» to be implemented, as they seemed to be proportional. But the Panel also noted concern towards the applicability insofar as it could be very difficult for some athletes to comply with the regulation, even through no fault of their own.
These limits were imposed only in distances where athletes under “Differences in Sex Development” were visibly dominating.
As a result of not being allowed to contest the 400 meters, in 2021 teenage Christine Mboma (NAM) moved to the 200 meter event and took home a surprising silver medal without any previous world-class competition in the event, triggering new discussions regarding perhaps not only limitinf the «restricted events».
46, XY DSD females and male-born females are very distinct cases in one key issue: hormone therapy. While transgender athletes generally already suppress testosterone as part of their transition, XY DSD females’ bodies, mood and health in generally might be altered by hormone-suppressing therapy in ways they did not intend.
For the same reasons that it sounds cruel to make women take testosterone therapies in order to perform better -as is known was a widespread practice in some pseudo-Communist regimes such as Eastern Germany- it could be cruel to ask to alter the hormone levels of XY females if they wwere to suffer health consequences, particularly via contraceptives.
Having said that, it is even more incoherent that trans female athletes are allowed double testosterone levels than XY DSD females.
The governing bodies and sports are different, and the IOC prefers to side with inclusiveness, which is a fair cause. But as an exercise of comparative analysis, it does provide a reference of where the system could be better.
Athletes like Hubbard, Mboma and Semenya should have a place in sport, respecting their gender identity.
Their competitors should also have a fair shot at beating them. In a utopia perhaps we could measure how much of a “handicap” each body has vis-à-vis others considering every factor and then balance results – such as is done in some powerlifting competitons, where the mody bass index is factored to the final result.
That scenario is not possible. It would also be unsound, as naturally some people are gifted with genetic advantages that make them to go higher, faster and stronger, if disciplined. That is an inherent part of sport.
Some proponents of full inclusion of trans athletes in competition refer the previou idea. They say that indeed some people are genetically more gifted and predisposed towards success in some sports. Some trans people fall in that category too.
Those against their participation also contend that the difference is that some individuals could abuse of the system and «fake» their gender in order to win. They point at the regimes that forced females to undergo testosterone as examples of what could happen even if they were to accept that individuals could have no ill-intention.
The conversation then can move towards the argument that innocent people should not be punished for the potential of others to abuse od the system, especially if the punishment means vanishing them from competition.
For the extreme ends this is a situation about allowing one’s dreams to be a Champion athlete not be frustrated due to sexual differences in other people’s bodies.
The pool of world-class DSD or trans athletes is currently so small that it would not warrant a separate category.
DSD females – unlike most transgender women – do not undergo male puberty and would be uncompetitive against XY males.
Bodies are the interface upon which these sportspeople compete. Maybe a compromise could lay in considering that the sex division exists only in sports where the interface -the body- is considered to give a significant intrinsic advantage.
In some sports, such as auto racing, a machine is an added interface. Since it is more deterministic than the body, then women are allowed to compete against men.
Sometimes the cars are so fast against others that an extra ballast is added or a budget cap is set in order to make the competition more equal.
This is a solution similar to reducing testosterone levels, forgetting the fact that reducing testosterone levels could be detrimental and not very practical. It’s the status quo that seems not to be the best solution available.
Another measure in endurance racing is that faster cars are allowed to compete with slower cars for the overall win, but there is also a sub-class added as needed.
Perhaps something similar could be applied here: letting all of them compete for the overall triumph, keeping testosterone limits -in order to avoid hormonal doping but to levels that do not affect DSD females’ health- but recognizing the top 3 within each category.
This could happen only in the instances where you have transgender or DSD females, which will be in a few occasions.
The dystopian scenario where competitions will be “full” with females under this condition is extremely unlikely to happen, just based out of relative numbers of «DSD» or trans individuals that engage in world-class sport.
The strongest counter-arguments would seem to be that first, this would single out some female competitors. They are already singled out, sometimes in very unhealthy ways. Non-unique impact.
Secondly, that this could alter medal tallies. This would not be significant if, for example, for the overall records you only consider the overall result, even if two or three podium ceremonies are being held.
At least it could allow all women to not be concerned about the fact that other’s testosterone levels -when there is no ill intent to gain athletic performance- would frustate them from the perks, prestige and glory that come attached to a world-class title.
This would be awkward, certainly, and does not sound like the best option to implement. But it is a baseline that improves the status quo both in terms of accesibility and fairness: you don’t bar anyone but also you don’t make it impossible for «XX» cisgender women to compete against trans females.
This «subcategory» division however probably also does not make sense for the same reason that a separate category would not: the pool is too small.
So we are back to status quo and the need for further discussion.
The cases of DSD females and transgender females are very different, but they share some similarities in principle that should be considered when implementing policies to come.
At the very least, the different testosterone limit requirements need to be reconciled.
It is not unlikely that the CAS will have more cases in the future.
Let us retake the argument by World Athletics. The spirit of a differentiated men and female category is to separate people with different body developments due to testosterone.
A «female» category does not exist in major competitions in the first place to add diverse identities. For that reason an argument about adding trans female athletes in order to be inclusive of identities is not an argument that will be sound to the legal precedent.
Competitions where identity is important already exist, such as the Deaflympics, the Maccabi Games, the Firefigther Games or indeed the OutGames. Perhaps a similar avenue could be a place who consider their identity of such importance.
The arguments contending that trans women are just genetically benefited «just as a taller or stronger person is» will also not hold for the same reason: the men and female division is not a gender division but rather a «testosterone-advantage-based» division.
Trans female sportspeople have succesfully competed in women’s division in sports such as Ultimate Frisbee, Freestyle BMX and Basketball.
They might still have some physical advantage but it seems to be less clear due to the large role that skill and teamwork also play. These are sports where trans sportspeople currently also seem to fit in place and thrive.
It seems likely that in cases where trans females have a significant advantage due to sheer power, strength and explosiveness, such as weightlifting or athletiscs there will be further testosterone limits imposed.
Perhaps Hubbard would have not been a world-class female sportsperson had it not been for the physical advantages that having undergone male puberty gave her.
She did nothing wrong, but followed the rules. But that is why rules evolve and adapt to their needs, in order to follow general principles from where they stem.
It seems that a case like Hubbard shows that the system needs to be better.
If that means that in the future there «men’s category» will rather be the «10 nmol/L testosterone category» so be it.
In some cases individuals change their national identities for reasons that they need to give no explanation for. But even national allegiance is limited. There is a point of no return and commitment, even if it conflicts your identity. Individuals sometimes have to make tough choices and take uncomfortable decisions in life.
Whatever the outcome is, there is still a long road to be walked. Let’s be guided by reason and not just by loudness.


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During US President Barack Obama's upcoming visit to Israel, Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu will need to work out whether or not he can rely on the US for support in the case of a military strike on Iran, Director of the Institute for National Security Studies, Maj.-Gen. (res.) Amos Yadlin said Saturday.
Speaking on Channel 2's "Meet the Press" program, the former Military Intelligence chief said that there are no high expectations for Obama's visit. "This is an attempt to reach an understanding between the prime minister and the president, who do not have a high level of trust between them" Yadlin explained. He listed several issues that Obama and Netanyahu are due to discuss, saying that first and foremost, "they need to discuss the agreement that the US is trying to reach with Iran, and what type of arrangement Israel could live with." Yadlin also said that the two leaders must discuss the issue of red lines and what it means for each of them; if the red line is crossed, he said, Netanyahu needs to ensure that he can rely on Obama.


LYNN — The Beverly girls soccer team didn’t expect to be in the Division 1 state semifinals here at Manning Field.
A year from now, however, they’ll expect to be back.
Beverly (18-4) bowed out to unbeaten Franklin, 2-0, last night, to end a postseason run that caught everyone on the North Shore, even the Panthers themselves, by surprise.
With underclassmen playing important roles at every level of the field, the Panthers wake up this morning already looking forward to next September. Record-setting striker Caitlin Harty is a junior. She’ll be paired up with sophomore Eva Gourdeau again next year, instantly giving Beverly the best offense on paper for 2013.
Juniors Diandra Crowley (a captain) and Kristen O’Connor will backbone the defense next season, and Swiss Army Knife Casey Cook, who can play goalie or midfield, is back, too.
Beverly has four senior starters, and while they may not be headline grabbers, their contributions to this first Division 1 North title can’t be overlooked.
When a young team goes further than expected in the state tournament, there are usually some strong-willed, unsung seniors driving the bus.
“In terms of leadership, we had some incredible seniors. I couldn’t have asked for a better group,” said Beverly coach Kristin Simpson. “It’s tough to go out like this, but we had a great run, and hopefully this is something the girls won’t forget.”
Captain Becca Kemmer is at the top of the list of Beverly’s senior leaders. A stalwart at fullback, Kemmer challenged opposing strikers throughout the tournament. Her communication with O’Connor and Cook in the back end helped the Panthers shut out Dual County League powers Concord-Carlisle and Westford Academy on their way to the Division 1 North final.
Just how much did Kemmer, who played the tournament with a large padded brace on her wrist, mean to Beverly?


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