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Welcome to the Manuscript Division of the Library of Congress.
We hold the papers of many important Americans, including
the papers of twenty-three American Presidents, half of
the Secretaries of State, and about a third of the members
of the Supreme Court. We have papers of people who have
been in virtually every field; great scientists, writers,
and so forth. And I am going to take you on a tour of some
of the highlights, at least some of the things that I like
best, and we are going to go behind the scenes in the stacks
and you'll see the way our collections are stored, and
we'll invite you to come here and do your own research
here in the Manuscript
In this part of the stacks, we have our smallest collections.
But just because the collections are small, fit into a
file folder or two, doesn't mean they are unimportant.
For example, if I were to take out this collection, the
Harold Armold Papers, nobody in my division knows who Harold
Armold is, but if you were interested in the Second World
War and you were interested in the Japanese conquest of
our American troops in the Philippines, and a man who made
the Death March, you have here a memoir of his experiences.
By the same token, there are all kinds of other interesting
collections that we have here in this area of our stacks.
We have a journal of a whaling ship, the Constitution.
This journal was compiled in the 1840s. And every time
they landed a whale, the sailors used a stamp and they
stamped this with a whale. Now you say, well, why is that
important? The fact is that in the nineteenth century,
whaling was a very important industry in the United States
because whale oil was a wonderful material for powering
lights. And of course for women's fashions, we know that
the whalebones were used for corsets and the head of the
whale provided the basis for perfume.
Let's look at another collection. The George Young Bradley
Papers are important because Bradley went along with Powell
on his expedition down the Colorado River. And we have
a journal. So that's important for people interested in
I'll pick out another collection that may interest people.
We don't have a complete collection of this man's poems,
but the poet, Robert Frost, is represented by a small file
folder of material, including letters and some examples
of his poetry. This is signed by Robert Frost. It's a fair
copy in his own hand of one of his poems and we have a
number of them in this collection.
I'm pulling out journals of Titian Ramsay Peale. He went
along in the 1840s to the South Pacific and to the North
Pacific. The exploring expedition was sometimes called
the Wilkes Expedition. And the men spent four years out
at sea looking at these areas and particularly bringing
back botanical specimens, bringing back animal skins; they
didn't bring back any animals, but they brought back some
plants with them. And some of those plants are the grandparents
of plants that we now have in the United States Botanic
Garden just below the Capitol.
In this part of the stacks, we put things that we consider
oversized. They don't fit into the normal manuscript boxes
which you've seen before, but they can be very important
as well. For example, Caleb Cushing went as our first minister
to China and he came back in 1844 and he brought back a
commercial treaty, the Treaty of Wang Xia. But while he
was over in China, just before the age of photography,
he brought along with him a staff artist who drew pictures
of what China looked like in 1844. We have these marvelous
watercolors and other drawings in this collection. We actually
have the treaty, but it's out on loan now. The treaty is
on black ink on Chinese silk.
This is a portion of the collection, again oversized,
from the Elizabeth Cady Stanton collection. Elizabeth Cady
Stanton was a great believer in women's rights and at the
end of the nineteenth century, she decided that the fathers
who had written the Old Testament, or whoever had written
the Old Testament, had left the women out. And so she produced
the Woman's Bible. And here's an example of a page. There
would be a cutout from the Bible and then she would add
material, putting the women back in the Bible.
One of the interesting collections that we rediscovered
within the last half dozen years is this collection of
signature books that was given to the United States on
its 150th birthday by the people of Poland. In addition
to these oversized volumes, there are over a hundred volumes
of signatures; and some five million Poles, school children
and other Poles, thanked the United States. Poland was
brought back together--it hadn't existed as a country for
many years--and it was a country formed out of the remnants
of the First World War. So the Polish people wanted to
commend us on this and it was a token to the United States
on our 150th birthday in 1926.
The next item I wanted to show you was again an oversized
volume and these are the scrapbooks of George Patton, the
famous World War II general. There are about twenty of
these albums that go along with his papers. Perhaps most
famous of all are the Patton diaries. They have been published
and edited by Martin Blumenson, but we have the original
manuscripts here in the Library of Congress.
I want to show you that we have materials that are rather
humorous and this is a letter that Groucho Marx sent to
Warner Brothers. Warner Brothers had complained when the
Marx Brothers announced that they were going to produce
a picture called A Night in Casablanca. They felt it might
interfere with the sale of their great masterpiece, Casablanca.
And so Groucho wrote this letter and I'd suggest to you
that the humor displayed here was typical of Groucho and
this is a case where he put it in a letter.
So he writes, "Dear Warner Brothers, apparently there
is more than one way of conquering a city and holding it
as your own. For example, up to the time that we contemplated
making a picture, I had no idea that the city of Casablanca
belonged to Warner Brothers. However, it was only a few
days after our announcement appeared that we received a
long, ominous legal document, warning us not to use the
name 'Casablanca.' It seems that in 1471, Ferdinand Balboa
Warner, the great-great grandfather of Harry and Jack,
while looking for a shortcut to the city of Burbank, had
stumbled on the shores of Africa and, raising his alpenstock,
which he later turned in for a hundred shares of the common,
he named it Casablanca. I just can't understand your attitude.
Even if they plan on re-releasing the picture, I am sure
that the average movie fan could learn to distinguish between
Ingrid Bergman and Harpo. I don't know whether I could,
but I certainly would like to try. You claim you own Casablanca
and that no one else can use that name without their permission.
What about Warner Brothers--do you own that, too? You probably
have the right to use the name Warner, but what about Brothers?
Professionally, we were brothers long before you were.
When Vitaphone was still a gleam in the inventor's eye,
we were touring the sticks as the Marx Brothers and even
before us, there had been other brothers--the Smith Brothers;
the Brothers Karamazoff; Dan Brouthers, an outfielder with
Detroit, and 'Brother, can you spare a dime?'"
Well, when the Warner Brothers lawyers received this letter,
they responded to it and in the collected letters of Groucho
Marx, you can find the totality of the correspondence.
But this is the carbon of the letter that Groucho Marx
wrote to Warner Brothers.
We're looking at the papers of Earl Warren, who was Chief
Justice of the United States. Any of you who look at TV
and watch a crime show, know that as soon as the policeman
puts the cuffs on somebody, the first thing they do is
they read him his rights, the Miranda rights, and that's
the Miranda case. And what I have here is Earl Warren's
file. He wrote the opinion. Originally, he first drafted
an opinion on yellow foolscap paper like this. He had it
typed up and he circulated it to the other justices in
the court. And for example, he got a memo back from Justice
Brennan of New Jersey. He said, "I think this is going
to be a very important case and I have a few suggestions
to make to improve the decision." And so what happens in
the Supreme Court whenever there's a case, you have various
justices suggesting ways of improving the opinion and so
eventually you reach a consensus on what the opinion should
be and the various justices either sign on the majority
opinion or they sign on with a minority opinion.
The next set of papers I want to talk about are the papers
of the famous anthropologist, Margaret Mead. It's one of
the largest private collections we have here at the Library.
We estimate there are five hundred thousand items. More
than a third of the collection consists of photographs.
These are her field notes that she took when she was in
Samoa in 1925-26. She would go back to her tent or dwelling
place and type them up in a more formal way. But in these
notes, every time you see a line through it, it means it's
been typed and she didn't have to retype it. You can find
Samoan words for this, that, or the other thing, or you
can find out about the way the people lived.
One of the things that we haven't talked about so far
are our literary collections. And we have some really exciting
ones here at the Library. We have the papers of Walt Whitman,
we have Bernard Malamud, and these are the papers of Truman
Capote. This box contains a manuscript that he wrote for
In Cold Blood. And here he wrote it in a student notebook.
This is actually the first draft. That's the remarkable
thing about manuscripts: you can see the evolution of a
person's mind. We're going to lose that now with people
writing on computers and erasing. Nobody keeps the eleven
drafts they've written of a chapter anymore. And we'll
never see that again, the creative process, as we can see
it with some of these wonderful manuscripts which we have
here in the Division.
The Library is very fortunate in having the papers of
a great many scientists, and inventors, and so forth; the
papers of Alexander Graham Bell; and I have a box here
of the Wright brothers' notebooks and diaries. This is
one of the genuine treasures of the Library of Congress.
This is actually Orville Wright's diary of the flights
that took place at Kitty Hawk in 1903 and his description
here of the four flights of that day; and he describes
the longest flight as 852 feet, it lasted 59 seconds, and
the propeller turned over a thousand times. We also have
a wonderful telegram that they sent to their father, who
was a bishop in Ohio. They reported the success of the
flight: there were four successful flights; this was the
longest one, the fourth one. And then they wrote that we'll
try to be home by Christmas. But, the most important thing
of all from my perspective is they tell their father, "Inform
the press." Wright wanted to be sure that he got credit
for the first successful heavier-than-air flight.
We're now in Presidential Row here at the Library of Congress
in the Manuscript Division. And we are very fortunate to
be the presidential libraries for twenty-three American
presidents. We go from George Washington through Calvin
Coolidge and have most of the presidents' papers in those
periods. For more recent presidents, you have to go to
the presidential libraries, but we serve as the presidential
library for these twenty-three men. And we house these
all together. The one thing that I have to tell you about
presidential papers is though we have the originals here,
for preservation purposes, we serve microfilm in our reading
room. And we're now starting to digitize the presidential
collections so that Washington and Jefferson are already
digitized, Lincoln is digitized, and we are working on
Jackson and Madison.
One of the things that we have and is kind of unique is
the largest Jefferson collection in the United States.
But we've also collected microfilm from ten or several
more depositories, so if you come here, you'll probably
get the widest range of any place in the country.
I'm going to start with George Washington. This is actually
a notebook which Washington kept when he was a student.
There are arithmetical calculations, the geographical calculations;
it's in remarkably good shape. The paper of that day was
rag paper and it doesn't deteriorate like modern paper
does. And we have a wonderful collection of George Washington's
materials. We have the diaries he kept; we have letters
he wrote. If you look through these papers, you'll see
that he was a man of many parts. There are architectural
drawings, he was a general, he was a statesman, and altogether
a remarkable person.
Next, we're going to turn to Thomas Jefferson, perhaps
the most rounded of all of our American presidents. Many
years ago, when John F. Kennedy had a room, the state dining
room, filled with Pulitzer Prize winners, he said there
wasn't so much intellect gathered here excepting when Thomas
Jefferson ate alone. But, Jefferson was a man who was interested
in a great many things. For example, he was much interested
in cookery. He brought back, when he was in Europe, recipes
for his chefs in Monticello to make. This is a recipe for
meringue. On the other side, it's a recipe for "Nomilly
a maccaroni." We have other interesting items. For example,
the material which Jefferson wrote when he was Vice President
for the Senate. He decided that the Senate was a rather
anarchic place and it needed rules to run itself and he
created Jefferson's Parliamentary Rules for the Senate.
We'll turn next to Abraham Lincoln. I'm going to show
you a letter where the original is actually here in the
collection and this was a letter on what was passed for
White House stationery in those days. And it said Executive
Mansion. The name of the building really officially wasn't
changed till Theodore Roosevelt's time, so that in Lincoln's
day, he was president from 1861 to '65, Executive Mansion
was the proper thing. This is a letter dated July 14, 1863.
And it was written to General Meade who had been the Union
commander at Gettysburg. And to me, this letter is the
quintessence of why Lincoln is considered the greatest
of American presidents. He writes this letter; he thanks
General Meade for the wonderful, wonderful success at Gettysburg.
But what happened in the few days after Gettysburg, the
final battle was on July 4th, is, Lee retreated. But he
couldn't cross the Potomac because the river was at flood
stage and he waited there several days and Lincoln was
terribly distressed because Meade did not advance on Lee.
He might have been able to wipe him out and end the Civil
War right there. In the letter he said, I'm very, very
happy about Gettysburg, but why didn't you pursue Lee?
And Lincoln, being the great president that I think he
was, left this envelope behind, and it says, "To General
Meade, never sent or signed." In other words, Lincoln knew
that Meade was a pretty good, maybe not the greatest, but
he was a good commander. If he had sent this letter to
Meade criticizing him for the post-Gettysburg few days,
Meade would have resigned his commission and Lincoln would
have lost a decent general. So, being the statesman that
he was, he took the letter and he stuffed it in his desk.
And the final president that I wanted to talk about briefly
is Theodore Roosevelt. Most people think of Theodore Roosevelt
as the Roosevelt carrying a big stick and speaking softly
and so forth. Less is well known, less is known, about
Roosevelt as a human being. I have here some of the pocket
diaries which he kept early in life. This diary entry is
February, Friday the 13th of 1880. And what has transpired
is that Theodore Roosevelt has been courting a woman, Alice
Hathaway Lee, for over a year, and she has finally consented
to marry him. And he writes in his diary, "Raining hard,
I drove over in a buggy to the Lees' to dinner, and thanks
to the storm, spent the night there. In the evening, I
was all the time with my darling little sunshine. She is
so marvelously sweet, and pure, and lovable, and pretty
that I seem to love her more and more every time I see
her. Though I love her so much now, that I really cannot
love her more. I do not think that ever a man loved a woman
more than I love her. For a year and a quarter now, I have
never, even while hunting, gone to sleep or waked up without
thinking of her. And I doubt if an hour has passed that
I have not thought of her. And now, I can scarcely realize
that I can hold her in my arms and kiss her and caress
her and love her as much as I choose." And terribly tragically,
in 1884, as she gave birth to a child, she died essentially
in childbirth. And the child grew up and lived on and was
known as Alice Roosevelt Longworth. And she was still alive
here in town, one of the grandes dames, when I first moved
to town. The impact of the death of Roosevelt's first wife
was very traumatic. And Roosevelt eliminated all of the
photographs of his first wife, he tore up the letters,
and he never was able to talk to his daughter Alice about
her mother, Alice. He stopped writing his diaries in 1884
after his wife--and actually his mother died on the same
day, of typhus, in the same house in New York, I think
it's 28th Street, on the east side of New York. They both
died in the same day and Roosevelt wrote about that and
he stopped keeping diaries, as far as we know.
It's been a pleasure talking to you about some of the
collections that we have here in the Manuscript Division.
We have in the vicinity of twelve thousand collections,
with something like sixty million separate items here.
And we welcome you to Washington to use the materials that
we have. We will be delighted to bring out collections
that you want to see. Most of the material, you'll see
the original material. As I said earlier, there are some
collections which we have microfilm for preservation purposes,
but ninety percent of the material we have here is available
for you and our reference librarians will be very happy
to serve you here at the Library of Congress in Washington.
So, enjoy the collections as I have for so many years.
They are simply marvelous and they are wonderful ways to
get inside of other people who have passed from the scene.


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What Is Happening in DaBaby’s “Pony” Video?
If you haven’t joined the DaBaby train, please direct your attention to the rising North Carolina rapper’s new music video for “Pony” from his very good major label debut Baby on Baby. The song’s beat is built around handpicked guitar and castanets, so DaBaby uses the opportunity to pay tribute to, um, Scarface. His wig is definitely a Tony Montana wig, at least. DaBaby’s accent, delivered during an opening skit in which he dunks a dismembered head into a trash can, is more like Tony if you’ve only ever heard your friends portray Tony. The skit features subtitles even though DaBaby is speaking in English. There’s also a mariachi troupe, a Donald Trump piñata, multiple miniature alligators, and the requisite pony. It’s a thoroughly confusing and amazing homage, directed by Reel Goats, the same team behind the rapper’s breakout western-themed video for “Walker Texas Ranger.”

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The Adventures of Ma Suzhen: 'An Heroic Woman Takes Revenge in Shanghai'
The comic novel, The Adventures of Ma Suzhen, was written during a highpoint in the popularity of xia "knight-errant" fiction. It is an action-packed tale of a young woman who takes revenge for her brother, Ma Yongzhen, a gangster and performing strongman, who has been murdered by a rival gang in China's most cosmopolitan city, Shanghai. After publication of the book in 1923, the character of Ma Suzhen appeared on stage, and subsequently in a film made by the Mingxing Film Company. The book version translated here, displays a delightful combination of the xia and popular"Mandarin Ducks and Butterflies" genres, with additional elements of Gong'an "court case" fiction. The translation is followed by an essay that explores the background to the legend of Ma Suzhen - a fictional figure, whose exhilarating escapades reflect some of the new possibilities and freedoms available to women following the founding of the Chinese Republic.
Translation and essay by Paul Bevan. Published by Springer Link, December 2021
attached to: Paul Bevan

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Women Journey In Time
WOMEN JOURNEY IN TIME collection is a reflection of the glory, originality, and creativity of the Persian women. An echo over the years and centuries, which bypassed so many constraints to reach here.
Women's Journey in Time Collection was created with great inspiration from the ancient Persian heritage, PAZYRYK carpet, which is the oldest carpet of the world from woven fabrics of the Seljuk period and the 11th and 12th centuries. The star and the bird in this carpet demonstrate monuments far from the origin and originality of Persian motifs.

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Earlier in the year we published an article about Sweden introducing border checks over increased numbers of migrants attempting to cross into the country from Denmark. For example, the Immingham-Esbjerg freight ferry route involves driving across Denmark to the Oresund bridge in order to get to Sweden - the same land route arguably targeted by migrants. Yet, this action by Sweden has caused political problems, and continues to exacerbate a political fall out with Denmark.
These new identity checks for all travellers arriving from Denmark via the Oresund bridge are considered to be both a benefit and a constraint to Sweden, a country that sees itself as deeply liberal.
During 2015 Europe struggled to cope with the migrant crisis that engulfed the continent. The Port of Calais, culminating in severe traffic problems at Dover experienced many problems. Kent County Council took the action to implement its traffic control management system otherwise known as OpStack.
Sweden, while geographically much larger than Britain for example, has a very sparse population of 9 million compared with our highly dense population of 65 million. In 2015 Sweden received more than 150,000 asylum applications, more than the UK but many here would argue Sweden has the space and capacity to take those migrants. Yet there are groups within Sweden that do not agree.
Despite the extra border controls by Sweden, more vehicles crossed the Øresund by ferry on the Helsingør and Helsingborg route during the first quarter of this year compared to the same period in 2015. In fact it was a 6 percent increase. Although some in the ferry industry point out that the Easter festival occurred earlier in 2016 than it did last year.*
However these figures are misleading. Apparently since the introduction of the extra border checks, ferry traffic has declined. Henrik Rørbæk, the managing director of HH Ferries said, "Following the introduction of ID controls at the beginning of 2016, we have experienced a decline in ferry traffic because passengers think the trip has become cumbersome due to more ID checks”. HH Ferries declared that there is no evidence to illustrate that the extra border checks have resulted in significant delay.
According to a recent report from the Chamber of Commerce and Industry of Southern Sweden (CCISS), the increased security could cost both coutries 1.2 billion kroner.
The ongoing debate over the border checks is creating tension between Denmark and Sweden. It has been reported that commuters and tourists trying to move between the two countries are inconvenienced, delayed, and some claim 'harassed'. It is alleged that some tourists who experienced security profiling at the border said it was because they were 'not blonde'.
However, all these stories are refuted by ferry companies and the government of Sweden - as pointed out already, they say there is no evidence of delays and everything runs as smoothly today as it did before the extra checks came into force.
If you have any questions about ID checks at the Oresund Bridge there's more info here
Source: News Øresund.


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KDH Expands COVID 19 Testing Capability
MADISON, Ind. – King’s Daughters’ Health has expanded COVID 19 testing capability.
If you are experiencing any of the following symptoms and would like to be evaluated by a provider, call the COVID 19 Hotline at 812-801-8010 to request an appointment.
Cough, fever, extreme fatigue, muscle aches, sudden loss of taste or smell, shortness of breath, blueish lips, headache, sore throat, or new GI (gastric intestinal) distress.
If you are having a medical emergency or difficulty breathing, call 911 or go to your nearest emergency room.
The COVID 19 Hotline is available from 8:00 am to 5:00 pm seven days a week.
For the latest KDH updates and information regarding COVID-19, please visit www.kdhmadison.org/cvinfo.

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The Virginia Department of Transportation will be repairing a failing slope on Route 621 (Upper Craigs Creek Road) starting at 8 a.m. on Monday-Friday, July 7, 2017. This work was previously announced to start on June 19 but has been rescheduled due to weather.
The site is located 9.4 miles from Route 311 in Craig County and 11.2 miles from Route 460 in Montgomery County (just east of the Foxfire Subdivision in Craig County).
Route 621 will be closed to traffic during the repairs, except for daily set times in the morning from 6 a.m. to 8 a.m. and in the afternoon from 5 p.m. to 6 p.m. when the road will be open under a one-lane condition.
Flaggers will be present to control traffic during the morning and afternoon. At all other times, motorists will need to seek alternate routes.
Arrangements have been made with emergency services to allow emergency vehicles access through the work site at any time, and there will be no expected impacts to those services during repairs.
Electronic message boards have been placed on Route 621 near Route 311 in Craig County and near Route 460 in Montgomery County announcing this road closure.
If the work progresses smoothly, there is a possibility of the road opening back sooner than expected. VDOT will remove the electronic message boards from the side of the roadway once the road reopens.


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- Meghana Ravichandran
For those with a passion to enjoy, to immerse their senses in an intermingling adventure of interest, intrigue and culture, London should be a priority to visit.
My adventure, if I may call it that, started as soon as my family and I disembarked from the flight, to be welcomed by the chill weather one would have ever come across, if they had not strayed from the Indian shores. I was in absolute amazement that snow, white snow, frosting the window and the runways, made Heathrow airport look like a scene out of a movie.
The immigration line was one long queue, but surprisingly orderly (very English). As the officer checked my documents, he gave me a wry smile as he waved me on. Relief made me feel light headed, as I had seen people being escorted to a waiting room for further queries. After all the formalities at the airport, we were picked up at the exit by our relative, whose house we were to stay in.
After a night of much needed rest, the first thing we did the next day was to insulate ourselves to face the UK winter. We walked on cobble stone streets to the nearest subway station, where I had a tough time getting used to the long express escalators, where the left side was reserved for people in a hurry. The subway system was like a miracle of confounding connections travelled by more than million people daily and yet, the sense of order that prevailed was nonetheless mesmerizing. It took me a while to get used to the hustle and bustle of the constant influx of passengers boarding and getting off the trains, as we walked towards the platform where the sub, which would take us to The London Eye, would stop at.
The giant Ferris wheel, the London Eye, is a must experience attraction. It gave us a beautiful view of the river Thames and the Big Ben, as we slowly took a loop on it, enchanted by the new setting we were exposed to, suddenly. My first look at the Big Ben as we walked past it made me feel very tiny, as it towered over the many commuters alike.
Food culture here is quite accommodating, as one street was lined with restaurants ranging from cart food to gelato, to even a North Indian restaurant. We visited an Italian wood fire pizza restaurant that made us realize how simple the true ‘poor man’s food’ is. It was slightly bland, very light on the tummy and was not assaulting on the taste buds, unlike our Indian versions. Here, in London, they consider tipping to be a form of respect, a must and not an option (which we learnt the hard way to not defy).
The next place we visited, was the great Buckingham palace’s souvenir shop. The very first thing that I picked up was an oval blue pendent modelled after a jewel that Mary, the queen of Scots, wore. Most of the jewellery that was sold there was modelled after the baubles that the older and present generations of the royal family wore. Unlike in India, the UK has strict rules about the freedom of children inside shops and my brother was told off by one of the counter clerks for running around the shop alone. I still regret not having a photo taken with the palace guards due to a defence protocol, since the queen and her entourage were on the premises. Our day came to an end as we reached the house, just as a colourful sunset made the sky turn into a brilliant canvas of orange and fuchsia.
Our next day turned out to be more of an adventure as we had to traverse the city ourselves. We had quite a laugh after we realized that, we had hurried to catch a sub that would take us to Trafalgar square, which happened to be just a short walk down the road, off the shopping district we were in. The square, heralded by 4 bronze lions, was beautifully expansive and was truly worth seeing for its craftsmanship as well as the view. Thus, as our short but memorable stay in London came to an end, what I took from it was an appreciation for the strong sense of pride, cleanliness and aesthetics that the English follow even today.


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Andriol is one of the few new steroids that have emerged in recent years. Unlike most anabolic steroids that entered the market already in the 50-60s, Andriol has existed since the early 80s. This circumstance probably explains why Andriol occupies a special place among steroids. This is a revolutionary steroid because along with “Methyltestosterone” is the only oral testosterone preparation.
Testosterone itself is completely ineffective when taken orally. is reserved through the portal vein and is immediately inactivated in the liver. The active chemical substance testosterone undecanoate contained in Andriol is absorbed through the intestine and bypasses the liver into the lymphatic system, so this drug is effective when taken orally. At the same time, there is not the slightest effect on liver function. Testosterone undecanoate is an ester of a fatty acid of the natural androgen – testosterone and is converted in the human body mainly into dihydrotestosterone, a product of testosterone metabolism. Therefore, Andriol is only minimally flavored, i.e. only a small part of this substance can be converted to estrogen, because Dihydrotestosterone is not aromatized. Therefore, Andriol does not show feminization phenomena in those who accept it, such as, for example: gynecomastia or increased formation and accumulation of fat. Therefore, it is a desirable alternative for athletes who have problems with conventional injectable testosterone preparations. On this basis, “Andriol” is suitable for preparation for the competition.
Another advantage – the non-aromatization of Andriol – allows the body not to feel the effect of the steroid on its own hormone reproduction, which happens only in cases of long-term treatment with high doses. Because “Andriol” is very quickly excreted by the body, this should be taken into account when competing with doping control. Women should avoid using Andriol because androgenic components – as in all testosterones in general – are very pronounced in the body when taking this drug. When using it, sometimes there are phenomena of high blood pressure, accumulation of fluid in the body, acne, supersexuality, and in women, all this leads to the phenomena of masculinization.


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Hannah the Pet Society is a membership organization dedicated to saving the lives of Pets and improving the lives of people – all at the same time. Our goal is to remove many of the barriers and to Pet Parenthood so more people who want to experience the healthy benefits of a furry family member – families with children, seniors, empty nesters, singles, young couples – can. We are dedicated to finding loving homes for Pets and ensuring they never go back to a shelter. Hannah members enjoy the love of their Pet without having to worry about unanticipated Pet health care costs or about changes in their circumstances that could make keeping their Pet difficult.
The companionship of a Pet not only makes people’s lives happier, the relationship actually makes us healthier.
Hannah has created a new model that makes the highest quality Pet care more accessible and affordable for a lifetime. With Hannah’s one-of-a-kind Total Lifetime Care (TLC) Plan, members pay less than half the cost for comprehensive Pet care than they would if they purchased their Pet and cared for it the typical way. Hannah provides everything a Pet Parent needs to care for a Pet – routine and emergency veterinary care, behavior training, vaccines, deworming, medications, surgery, laboratory services, x-ray, ultrasound, Pet Nurse Advice line, and member activities – for a low monthly fee that starts at just $69 per month (less for cats, rabbits and guinea pigs). Hannah members can also customize their TLC Plan with grooming, boarding, home delivery of Pet food and even behavior services to fit their lifestyle, budget and personal preferences.
If you are looking for a new Pet, Hannah will find you and your family as good a match as we can from reputable shelters, humane societies, rescue groups, foster families, animal welfare organizations or families in search of a home for a Pet they can no longer keep. If you already have a Pet, Hannah can make it possible to give your beloved companion the best Pet care for a lifetime for a very affordable, always predictable cost. Hannah members never have to worry about expensive veterinary bills, the high cost of routine care, potential behavior problems or even picking up their Pet food.
To make this all possible, Hannah retains actual legal ownership of the Pet but you as the Pet Parent make all of the decisions. Hannah will never take away your Pet for any reason. You can cancel your TLC Plan at any time and once again have complete legal ownership of your Pet at the price you agreed to when you enrolled your Pet with Hannah.
Hannah members with a Pet enrolled in Hannah’s TLC Plan enjoy the peace of mind of knowing their Pet will have a lifetime of the best care without co-pays, deductibles or other fees. If there is any change in life circumstances and you can no longer keep your Pet, the society will even find a new loving home for your Hannah Pet.
Hannah is also committed to bringing the healthy benefits of Pet companionship to people in the community through our nonprofit sister organization called Hannah’s Helping Hands (HHH). Through HHH, we bring the benefits of Pet companionship to schools and senior centers at no cost to them. HHH is also committed to working with veterans organizations to place and support Pets free of charge for those who have kept our nation safe. This not only enhances the lives of kids, seniors and heroes, it helps save more Pets’ lives.
One of the best things about being a Hannah Pet Parent is sharing your passion for Pets with other members. Our members form online and in-person friendships, provide support for each other and even meet at the local dog park to share time together. Through educational opportunities and social gatherings such as our “Puppies and Pinot” events, members can share knowledge, fun and stories about their Hannah Pets. We also encourage members to bring friends, neighbors and colleagues who might be interested in Hannah. Referrals to Hannah have changed, and even saved, lives.
We promise every Hannah Society member:
You will never have to choose between what’s best for your Hannah Pet and paying the bills.
You will never need to hesitate to make a veterinary appointment because of concerns about cost.
You will never have to worry about behavior problems hurting your relationship with your Pet.
You will never have to feel like you’re alone in caring for your Hannah Pet – you have an entire society to support you!
You will always have peace of mind knowing that in any and all situations, your beloved Hannah Pet will be loved and cared for.
You can join The Hannah Society (with a Lifetime Membership) by paying $199 (or four easy payments of $49.75). Please join or help a loved one join today!
The number of Hannah Pet Families is growing rapidly because we are making a big difference in the lives of people and Pets. Here are the top 10 reasons Hannah members love being a part of our one-of-a-kind society devoted to Pets and the people who love them.
They love the peace of mind of knowing that injury or illness will not create an economic hardship for their family.
They love knowing their Hannah Pet was carefully selected to fit their family, and that if anything ever changes, Hannah will find their furry family member another loving home - no questions asked.
They love knowing Hannah helps shelters place Pets in loving homes for life.
They love knowing that no Hannah Pet will ever be returned to a shelter or be euthanized because it doesn’t have a home.
They love the convenience of having the right Pet food in the proper quantity for their Hannah Pet delivered right to their door.
They love having access to Hannah behavior experts who can help them solve issues or challenges that may come up.
They love Hannah’s 24-7-365 Pet Nurse Advice line and our helpful team members who always do their very best to help.
They love having free prescriptions and free emergency care – even in the middle of the night.
They love knowing that our nonprofit arm – Hannah’s Helping Hands – is committed to enriching lives in our community by providing Pets to local classrooms and senior centers, supporting Pets for veteran’s programs and helping to cover Pet health care for those who cannot afford it.
And the Number 1 reason families love Hannah the Pet Society: They love our mission to help Pets live the longest, healthiest, happiest lives possible for a reasonable and sustainable cost.
The Hannah Society works closely with shelters and other animal welfare organizations to find homes and families for Pets. The relationships we have with our shelter partners are very beneficial for us, for them and for the Pets we help them place. Here are the top 10 reasons our shelter partners love the Hannah Society:
Our shelter friends love Hannah because they know that once we adopt a Pet from them, we will place it in a loving home for a lifetime and will never return it to a shelter or euthanize it because it does not have a home.
They love Hannah because we support their mission to end Pet homelessness by paying an adoption fee for the Pets they provide, as well as a voluntary, monthly donation for the lifetime of each Pet we place in a loving home.
They love Hannah because we support their mission financially through our Hannah Partnership Program and help them with ongoing charitable contributions.
They love Hannah because we reduce the likelihood that Pets will be given up because of behavior problems by carefully matching them with the right families, and then providing comprehensive behavior training for a lifetime.
They love Hannah because we provide excellent veterinary care – including optimal preventative care, 24-hour emergency care and a 24-7-365 Pet Nurse Advice line -- for the lifetime of each Hannah Pet.
They love Hannah because we are committed to keeping Pets healthy by delivering the highest quality Pet food and nutritional supplements to our Pet Parents on a regular basis for the lifetime of their Pet.
They love Hannah because they know that with our Total Lifetime Care Plan, our Pet Parents will never have to choose between proper medical care for their Pet and their family’s financial well-being.
They love Hannah because they know if a Hannah Pet ever gets lost, they can identify it through a permanently implanted ID chip making it possible for Hannah to immediately retrieve the Pet and reunite it with its Hannah family.
They love Hannah because we support local programs that enhance the lives of people and Pets including Classroom Pets, Senior Companions, Pets for active and disabled veterans and the Prisoner Pet Therapy Program.
And the Number 1 reason our Shelter friends love Hannah is because we share the same goal of ensuring Pets live long, happy and healthy lives with loving Pet Families.
At Hannah's, we get all Pets either directly from non-profit Animal Welfare Organizations, or directly from individual people/consumers who wish to enroll their own Pet or to find a home for a Pet they can no longer keep. (Example: a person whose mother had passed away recently asked Hannah to help him find homes for her three older Westies.)
We never charge a surrender fee to persons or families when we help find them a home for a Pet they can no longer keep (we pay these people the average that we pay shelters for a similar Pet adoption, less additional costs incurred).
We charge all new Hannah members:
A "Lifetime Membership Fee" to join the Hannah Society. The current Membership Fee is $199, but it is often discounted.
Most members eventually enroll a Pet; when they do, they are charged:
A monthly "Total Lifetime Care & Companionship Fee" (Monthly TLC Fee) that is set based on species, breed, age and other factors. Depending on the breed, the Monthly TLC Fee goes up $1-5 per year as the Pet ages to cover actuarial increases in health care costs. This varies a lot due to different species, ages, breeds and options chosen by the Pet Parent (i.e. grooming, Pet Limo Service, etc.), but starts at $69 for a dog and about half that for a cat.
About a third of the new Pet Parents also are charged one or more of the following:
A "Healthy Start Fee" if they get a puppy or kitten, to cover the extra costs of care for a young Pet for the first year. This varies based on species and different conditions, but the top is about $40 per month for 12 months.
A "Testing, Training, & Transportation (TTT) Fee" to cover approximately 50% of Hannah's costs for new Pets we find (this does not include the adoption/purchase fees paid to shelters, etc.). This TTT Fee ranges in price for different species and conditions, but the top is about $40 per month for 12 months (and covers the cage for rabbits and guinea pigs).
A "Sick or Injured Care Fee" that covers approximately 50% of the regular veterinary bill to treat an already sick or injured Pet that the current owners want to become a Hannah Pet. These fees range from $5 to $100 per month for a year.
VERY FEW Pet Parents are charged:
An "Adjusted Pet Adoption/Purchase Fee." At "sign up," Hannah and the new Hannah Pet Parent agree to the value of the Pet in case the Pet Parent would ever want to actually own it (if they move out of Hannah’s service area, etc.). For dogs, this fee is almost always $800 when we find them the Pet, or $200 if the Pet Parent brings the dog to us (but it is more if the Pet is sick or injured when we take ownership of it). Whatever the amount is – $800, $200, or something else – the amount goes down by $50 every year to a minimum value of $200 (for dogs). When Pet Parents pay this fee, they are provided with a “Bill of Sale” for the Pet that they now own and a complete medical record of everything we know about the Pet – this always includes all the medical records since the moment Hannah acquired the Pet from the shelter or other source, and any other information we received when we adopted/purchased the Pet from the shelter or other source
At Hannah’s, we are committed to helping Pet Parents know everything possible about your Hannah Pet. We believe an informed Hannah Pet Parent is a better Pet Parent, which is a big part of the reason that we require education for both Pet Parents and Hannah Pets!
For Hannah members enrolling their existing Pet, we gather necessary information from them, from observation of the Pet, and with a complete medical and mental examinations. If eligible to become a Hannah Pet, the Pet Parent transfers ownership to Hannah. The Pet Parent is notified that they can reverse that change in ownership and end the lease at any time by reimbursing Hannah for what Hannah paid them for the Pet. Pet Parents are told verbally, in writing, and by watching a video, that they will now be “leasing” the Pet.
For members getting a new Pet that Hannah has located and matched to them, Hannah generally provides three potential Hannah Pets to the potential Pet Parent and provides them with as complete a picture as possible for each of those Pets including results of our mental and medical assessments, all known medical history, and the Pet source (although usually not known because we get them from nonprofit animal welfare organizations like shelters). Generally, the Pet Parent also gets introduced to the potential new Pet with still pictures or on a live video (like Skype) whenever possible, and are informed what all the charges would be for each choice. The potential Pet Parent can then choose one of the three Pets offered, or decline all three and we will find three more (and repeat as needed). Most people find that Hannah has found them a good match and choose one of the first three. Hannah has a long term match success rate of approximately 97 percent. Most Pet Parents have no questions or concerns about medical history because they know that absolutely all medical costs for the Pet are taken care of by Hannah’s under their Total Lifetime Care & Companionship Plan.
Pet records of any kind are released ONLY to Hannah Pet Parents. Blinded (no names attached) records may be released (as agreed with the Pet Parent) to pharmaceutical companies if the Pet is enrolled in a study. Current members with Hannah Pets may request and receive a complete copy of their Hannah Pet’s medical records at any time. Hannah members also have access to a Hannah veterinarian at any Hannah’s Health & Education Centers – 7 days a week – and have access to their Hannah Pet’s records and medical advice via the Hannah website or 24-7-365 through the Hannah Pet Nurse Advise line.
When a Hannah member ends their relationship with Hannah’s for any reason, Hannah’s provides printed or electronic copies of all Hannah Pet medical records (which includes everything we know about the Pet) at no charge (even if they refuse to pay a bill owed to Hannah) and subsequently if they ask in person, by phone or through the website.
Sadly, there are many people who would like to provide a loving home for a Pet but simply can’t because of concerns about the cost, behavior problems, getting the right Pet or potential changes in their life circumstances that might keep them from providing care for their Pet. Hannah the Pet Society was created to eliminate those barriers so that more people who want to enjoy the benefits of Pet Parenthood can.
We do this through a new model by which Hannah retains legal ownership of the Pet – and all of the obligations for Pet care that come with that – leaving you to simply enjoy the companionship and love of the Pet and giving you the right to make all decisions without economic concerns. By owning the Pet, we avoid many of the regulatory, tax and other costs associated with traditional Pet insurance and are able to pass those savings on to you.
Due to our retained ownership, we are able to provide Hannah Pets and their Pet Parents everything they need – things like routine and emergency veterinary care, super-premium Pet food delivered to your door, medications, nutritional supplements, behavior training, a Pet Nurse Advice line and a variety of other services. We are able to do all of this at a much lower cost than you would pay if you owned your Pet or purchased Pet health insurance. But while Hannah retains legal ownership of the Pet, we will never, ever take a Hannah Pet from a Pet Parent unless requested to do so. In fact, any Pet Parent who wishes to end their business with Hannah can do so at any time by simply paying the pre-agreed Pet Adoption/Purchase Fee for the Pet.
Our goals are simple: We want to help save Pets’ lives and want every Pet to live a long, happy and healthy life in a loving home. We want to lower or eliminate unnecessary barriers to Pet companionship so more people who want a Pet can benefit from that relationship without the worry of high-cost emergency and preventive care, behavior problems or unanticipated veterinary service fees.
At Hannah, we are committed to saving the lives of Pets by matching them with responsible, loving and supportive families. The better the fit, the less likely a Pet will end up back in a shelter. Also, by lowering the barriers and risks associated with having a Pet, we can help more Pets find homes and help more families find Pets.
How and where we obtain our Pets matters greatly to us. This is why we only obtain Pets from reputable shelters, humane societies, rescue groups, foster families, other animal welfare organizations, or families who are no longer able to keep them or who are in need of a more affordable way to care for their Pet. When we source a Pet from an animal welfare organization, we pay all adoption fees for the Pet as well as make a voluntary donation of $5 per month for the lifetime of the Hannah Pet. To date, Hannah’s donations to our nonprofit sourcing partners exceed $1 million.
Once a Pet becomes a Hannah Pet, it will never be returned to a shelter for any reason unless the Pet Parent decides to give up the Pet and our shelter partner requests that it be returned to them. It will also never be euthanized because it does not have a home or because its family cannot afford the veterinary care it needs. On the rare occasion a Hannah Pet is returned to us by the Pet Parent, we will find it a loving homing with a supportive family. If this is not possible, the Pet will be cared for by Hannah for the rest of its life.
While we always source our Pets from the organizations listed above, it is not always possible to know the origin of each of those Pets. We share the name of the providing source when they give us permission to do so. We always know that these Pets are in need of loving homes, regardless of their past or origin. Our ultimate goal is to provide a loving home for as many of these Pets as possible and to ensure they are never homeless again.
If in the future, due to supply constraints, it becomes necessary to expand our sources for Pets, we will restrict our sources to responsible Pet families who breed their Pets within the strict guidelines set forth by the Humane Society of the United States, the American Veterinary Association, and the American Animal Hospital Association. Hannah would consider these reputable sources only if it can be determined they operate pursuant to established and recognized guidelines consistent with our values and our mission.
At Hannah, we know that a healthy and loving relationship with a Pet is one of life’s greatest joys. We also know that confronting the inevitable end of that relationship can be one of life’s most trying and traumatic experiences.
In case of a severe decline in the health of a Hannah Pet, our goal is to ensure the Pet is as comfortable as possible for as long as possible, and to provide treatments that support quality of life. Under these difficult circumstances, Hannah veterinarians consult directly with Pet Parents and provide guidance with the highest levels of compassion, medical ethics and current medical knowledge. We want Hannah Pet Parents to be as actively involved in all medical, nutritional and nursing care decisions and he or she chooses to be.
Under no circumstances will Hannah ever end the life of a Pet (even at the request of a Pet Parent) unless we believe it is medically necessary to end pain or suffering and the Pet Parent provides their consent. However, the Pet Parent authorizes the veterinarian to use their best medical and ethical judgement on such decisions if the Pet Parent cannot be reached. We not only believe that a long, healthy and happy life is in the best interest of the Pet and Pet Parents, this principal is at the core of our values, mission and reason for existing.
To support Hannah Pet Parents and their families when a Hannah Pet is injured, ill or dying, we will provide expert veterinary care and ethical, compassionate consultation to help the Pet Parent determine the most appropriate, necessary and timely care for the Pet. We are available any time of the day or night and every day of the year to ensure Pets receive proper veterinary care, and that the Pet Parents receive the expert advice they need to make appropriate decisions for their Hannah Pet.
If a disagreement between Hannah and the Pet Patent regarding Pet care cannot be resolved, the Pet Parent can cancel their Total Lifetime Care (TLC) Plan and Hannah will return ownership at the pre-agreed Pet Adoption/Purchase Fee so the Pet Parent can pursue their own course of treatment and care. Our doctors have the authority to waive the Pet Adoption/Purchase Fee in end-of-life situations. Finally, Hannah believes the quality of life for an older Pet in decline can be enhanced by having a younger Pet in the Home. If the Pet Parent and the Hannah veterinarian agree that this would be best during the limited time the Pet has left, and the Pet Parent adopts a younger Pet, Hannah will waive the additional monthly TLC Fee to make the transition easier for the family. When a Hannah Pet passes, Hannah will support the Pet Parent’s wishes for the Pet’s remains, whether they desire cremation or burial in a special place. Hannah will find a new Pet for the Pet Parent at an appropriate time at no charge.
The Lifetime Matching Program is a state-of-the-art, computerized matching system developed with input from psychologists, veterinary behaviorists and personality testing experts. The program considers everything from lifestyle factors, Pet experience and pricing considerations to match Pets with loving families. You can learn more about this program at: http://www.hannahsociety.com/lifetime-matching-program.php.
If Hannah is unable to make a suitable Pet match after five months, the Membership Fee will be returned unless the Pet Parent asks us to keep looking. If Hannah does find a suitably matched Pet and the Pet Parent decides they don’t want a Pet after that work is done, the Testing, Transportation & Training Fee is still due because all the work has been done. The money will be used to care for the Pet until another home is found or will be donated to charity.
Fees paid by all Pet Parents:
Additional fees (when applicable):
Hannah the Pet Society is a closely held private company founded by Dr. Scott Campbell, DVM. There are 50 or so Pet lovers who are small private investors that have funded the startup of the company.
Dr. Campbell is very committed to Hannah and serves as Chairman. Hannah President Dr. Will Novak, one of Dr. Campbell’s close friends for 20 years, was Senior Vice President of Operations and Chief Medical Officer at Banfield. He stayed at Banfield in that role for about a year after Dr. Campbell retired and then took a year off before the two of them started working on Hannah.

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A decade from now, President Xi Jinping’s reign might be defined more by the success of his anticorruption campaign than his country’s material progress. China has always been the outlier on many economic issues, and so it is with corruption.
Studies show that for most developing countries, corruption retards economic growth. They also suggest that developed countries are less corrupt than developing ones. So has China managed to grow so rapidly because or in spite of rampant corruption? And why has corruption in China gotten worse rather than better? Read More »

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Launched in London in 1980, THE FACE is one of the original, definitive style magazines.
From the beginning it was a cultural trailblazer, covering music, fashion, film, TV, society, politics and global current affairs. And it covered them with invention, innovation, wit and class – and not to mention with groundbreaking graphic design.
The gallery of cover stars is as eclectic as it is iconic: from Kate Moss to Alexander McQueen, New Order to The Stone Roses, Grace Jones to David Beckham, Beyoncé to Björk. The talent behind the stories was legendary, too, as the magazine worked with the best writers, photographers, stylists and designers in the world.


At the expo, Aradex will be presenting its latest product, the VP600 Evolution x8WAxx double inverter series. A double inverter for traction and functional drives, available in different model types: Versions for two motors or connected in parallel for one big motor.
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MANILA- The alumni association of the University of the Philippines College of Mass Communications (UP CMC) is now accepting nominations for its first Glory Awards.
The awards, to be handed out in honor of the college's first dean, the late Dr. Gloria Feliciano, will be conferred on 10 alumni achievers in the fields of communication, journalism, social advocacy, and performing arts.
Alumni who were previously recognized by the college and the alumni association are no longer eligible for the Glory Awards.
Awarding ceremonies will be held on Nov. 11 at the Plaridel Hall grounds in UP Diliman coinciding with the birth anniversary of the late Feliciano.
Criteria and nomination requirements for the Glory Awards are posted on the UP CMC website and the alumni association's Facebook page.
Deadline for the submission of nominations is on Sept. 15.


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Azealia Banks decides to make fun of Lil Kim & K. Michelle's skin care/color on twitter.
Azealia Banks is back at it once again. Known for not always being able to keeping her mouth shut on twitter, the NYC rapper had some choice words once again on Tuesday evening that were aimed at Lil Kim and her once former touring partner, K. Michelle.
Going at the ladies’ skin care, Azealia decided to make fun of K. Michelle’s yellowish/orangish tint, while calling Lil Kim’s skin off the chain, & her knees, knuckles, and elbows are looking “tight,” which can safely be assumed as sarcastic. She also “praises” the GOAT, Diana Ross, calling her the “bleach queen” and saying she loves her career.
This series of tweets is just latest in Azealia’s long list of beefs & issues this year, including most recently news that she’s being investigated for attacking a security guard as well as going at Nicki Minaj. She's definitely not afraid to voice her opinion, even when not asked.
Check out the tweets below and let us know what you take it as.

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The small side garden of a West Hollywood bungalow was literally a blank slate; the client had removed all of the previous garden, paving, and features in an effort to ‘start the ball rolling’ before Gerrit Goss Landscape Architecture was called. During the course of the subsequent design process, a program to create a space for entertaining evolved, centered around a new built in BBQ and counter, a casual outdoor living room seating area, and a dining table. A fountain is just animated enough to drown out the sounds of the adjacent sidewalk on a charming West Hollywood street just steps from the design retail center. Plants were chosen for their color and texture as a backdrop to the new concrete terrace and a single standard olive tree will one day shade the garden. An herb planter and lemon tree make outdoor cooking even more appetizing.


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Search for Ralph Brown continues
The search for Cornelius' Ralph Brown continues.
The former Cornelius mayor, Forest Grove school board member, and Hillsboro teacher and administrator has been missing since the evening of May 16, when he reportedly left his home in Cornelius in his dark blue 2014 Nissan Sentra.
Reports of sightings have come in all over the region, but neither Brown nor his vehicle, with Oregon license plate 319KQV, have been located as of Monday evening, May 24.
"The law enforcement officers have been awesome," Brown's daughter Laurie Saunders said Monday. "We're hanging in there and staying cautiously optimistic, but the police, detectives, deputies and all the volunteers have all been very gracious. We're very appreciative of that."
Last Wednesday, May 19, the Washington County Sheriff's Office encouraged Newberg-area residents to be on the lookout for Brown after a community member reported seeing what they believed to be Brown's car.
Rumors flew on social media pages Sunday, May 23, over another possible sighting at a homeless camp in Newberg, and the Washington County Sheriff's Office told the News-Times that another unsubstantiated sighting was reported that day in Longview, Washington.
Saunders said the family has also heard reports from people who thought they might have seen Brown or his vehicle at Silver Falls State Park near Salem and at a Chevron station in Molalla.
Volunteers have continued to actively search for Brown. Many supporters and well-wishes attended a prayer vigil Sunday outside Forest Grove United Church of Christ, where Brown and his wife, Carol, are longtime parishioners.
"My mother's getting a lot of visitors, and we're getting a lot of well-wishers, including at the vigil yesterday," Saunders said. "It was well-attended by people pretty much from every phase of my dad's life. Friends from when he was a kid, all the way up to people from the church."
Brown is 76, and family members say he has been suffering from memory problems. He reportedly talked about going "home" before leaving his house on May 16, which those who know him believe may have been a reference to Astoria, where he grew up.
As part of the search, Saunders said the Oregon Department of Transportation has posted messages on highway reader boards, law enforcement has used drones to scout for Brown or his car, volunteer pilots have taken to the air to scan from above, and first responders have patrolled the Willamette River.
Friends, former colleagues, family and other volunteers have spread flyers and searched throughout the area.
Saunders hopes to soon get some concrete evidence as to Brown's whereabouts so that local authorities can engage their search and rescue units.
Meanwhile, Saunders said the family is taking it day by day.
"It's tough and it definitely comes in waves between frustration and hope," she said. "We've definitely run the gamut."
Brown is about 5-foot-10 and 210 pounds, with gray hair and blue eyes. He is missing the tip of the index finger on his right hand.
If you have any information regarding Brown's whereabouts, contact the Washington County Sheriff's Office at 503-629-0111.
Mark Miller contributed to this report.
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After signing performance contract 2014 Mayor tells FCC staff to be hardworking
His Worship the Mayor yesterday transformed its Monday regular management meetings into a general meeting which was well attended by the entire Management and staff of the Freetown City Council (FCC). (Photo: His Worship the Mayor addressing Management and Staffs of Council)
Addressing workers, Mayor informed them that he called a general meeting for staff to put more effect on their work as he has on behalf of the council signed the 2014 Performance Contract with the Government of Sierra Leone at State House last week.
He recalled that for 2012 the council took 17th position out of 19 Local Council, and in 2013 the Freetown City Council took 7th position, stressing the point that if the Management and Staff of council put more effect on their work, FCC is sure to score more goals, adding that Freetown City Council is the biggest of all councils in the country in terms of its duties and responsibilities of running and managing the city.
He informed them that performance contract targets all activities of Councils, Ministries, Commissions, Agencies NGOs etc who at the end of every year should give account of their stewardship to government.
He also revealed to them that the Management of council has taken its decision to cut down on logistics and office supplies and at the end of the each month department of the council should present a report of their activities undertaken to ensure that more funds generated by council goes into social and cooperate responsibilities.
Deputy Mayor, Hannah M. Jaia said that by next week the sales of local tax will be out and they have ensured that any individual that is doing business within and out of council should be a holder of local tax as it is one strategy to speeding the sales of local tax.
The Human Resources Manager, Claudious Campbell said Asset Declaration forms are out and that all staff of Council are to declare their asset.
Secondly he noted that the council has declared war on anybody or individual be it staff or visitor that will be caught drinking alcohol or smoking within the premises of council will be arrested.
He also said every staff of council should be punctual and at the end of the day’s work should have something effectiveness done in the office.
In another development, the Bethel Church Missions Team from Redding-California has visited the Mayor of Freetown, according to their Team Leader, Ken Williams he said that their mission is to move around praying for countries to prosper.
They offer prayer for Sierra Leone and for the city to proper.
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Tableau's data visualization software is provided through the Tableau for Teaching program.
The dates listed are when the readings will be discussed in class (by you!).
J. Yang, A. Patro, S. Huang, N. Mehta, M. O. Ward, E. A. Rundensteiner, Value and Relation Display for Interactive Exploration of High Dimensional Datasets, Proceedings of IEEE InfoVis, 2004, pp. 73-80
Catherine Plaisant. The challenge of information visualization evaluation, Proceedings of the working conference on Advanced visual interfaces (AVI), 2004, pp. 109-116.
W. Aigner, A. Bertone, S. Miksch, C. Tominski, H. Schumann, Towards a conceptual framework for visual analytics of time and time-oriented data, Proceedings of the Winter Simulation Conference, pp.721-729, Dec. 2007, doi: 10.1109/WSC.2007.4419666
E. Adar, M. Dontcheva, J. Fogerty, D. Weld, Zoetrope: Interacting with the Ephemeral Web, Proceedings of UIST, 2008.
Martin Wattenberg, Fernanda Viegas, The Word Tree, an Interactive Visual Concordance, IEEE Trans. on Visualization and Computer Graphics, Vol. 14, No. 6, Nov.-Dec. 2008, pp. 1245-1252. (InfoVis 2008)
Daniel A. Keim, Daneila Oelke, Literature Fingerprinting: A New Method for Visual Literary Analysis, Proceedings of IEEE VAST 2007, Sacramento, CA, Oct. 2007, pp. 115-122.
A. Perer, B. Shneiderman, Balancing Systematic and Flexible Exploration of Social Networks, IEEE Trans. on Visualization and Computer Graphics, Vol. 12, No. 5, Sep.-Oct. 2006, pp. 693-700.
David Selassie, Brandon Heller, and Jeffrey Heer, Divided Edge Bundling for Directional Network Data, IEEE Trans. on Visualization and Computer Graphics, Vol. 17, No. 12, Dec 2011, pp. 2354-2363 (InfoVis 2011) -- just skim
Stuart Card and David Nation, Degree-of-Interest Trees: A Component of an Attention-Reactive User Interface, Proceedings of AVI, Trento, Italy, May 2002, pp. 231-245.
Brian Johnson and Ben Shneiderman, Tree-maps: A Space Filling Approach to the Visualization of Hierarchical Information Structures, Proceedings of the IEEE Visualization, Oct. 1991, San Diego, CA, pp. 284-291.
Note: These readings are not necessarily about Tufte's design principles, but are regarding Tufte's claims against the Morton Thiokol Engineers in their role in the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster in 1986.
If you aren't familiar with the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster, take a look at Wikipedia's page first.
The following two blog posts are regarding the Robinson et al. paper:
F. Viegas, M. Wattenberg, F. van Ham, J. Kriss, and M. McKeon, ManyEyes: A Site for Visualization at Internet Scale, IEEE Trans. on Visualization and Computer Graphics, Vol. 13, No. 6, Nov.-Dec. 2007, pp. 1121-1128.
E. Segel and J. Heer, Narrative Visualization: Telling Stories with Data, IEEE Trans. on Visualization and Computer Graphics, Vol. 16, No. 6, Nov.-Dec. 2010, pp. 1139-1148.
Matthias Shapiro, Once Upon a Stacked Time Series: The Importance of Storytelling in Information Visualization, Ch 2, Beautiful Visualization.
Ji Soo Yi, Youn ah Kang, John T. Stasko and Julie A. Jacko, Toward a Deeper Understanding of the Role of Interaction in Information Visualization, IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, Vol. 13, No. 6, November/December 2007, pp. 1224-1231.
Alfred Inselberg, Multidimensional Detective, Proceedings of IEEE Symposium on Information Visualization '97, Phoenix, 1997, pp. 100-107.
A. Cockburn, A. Karlson, and B. Bederson, "A Review of Overview+Detail, Zooming, and Focus+Context Interfaces", ACM Computing Surveys, Vol. 41, No. 1, Dec. 2008, pp. 2:1-2:31.
Robert Amar and John Stasko, Knowledge Precepts for Design and Evaluation of Information Visualizations, IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, Vol. 11, No. 4, July/August 2005, pp. 432-442.
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Charlotte is the third hottest housing market in North Carolina, according to a new report, right behind Durham and Raleigh.
NerdWallet analyzed figures from real estate data firm Zillow for 175 U.S. cities to see how long a home was for sale, as well as the median age of the market’s inventory, to determine the fastest moving real estate markets in the country.
The report found that a house in Charlotte is listed on Zillow for an average of 95.7 days, and Charlotte’s housing inventory is 70.8 days old. NerdWallet ranked Charlotte the No. 62 hottest housing market in the U.S.
The findings for fast-moving real estate markets suggest that homebuyers should consider getting preapproved for a mortgage since inventory is tight, according to NerdWallet. Preapproval means a lender reviews income, assets, debt and possibly credit history to provide an estimate of how much house a buyer can afford.
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“Preapproval can be especially important for homebuyers in cities where houses sell quickly, because a fast-moving market is often a sign of high demand for a smaller supply of housing,” the report read.
With a house listed on Zillow for an average of 76.9 days, and with a housing inventory age of 62.2 days, NerdWallet ranked Raleigh the No. 1 hottest housing market in North Carolina. Durham ranked No. 2, with a house listed on Zillow for 89.9 days and a housing inventory age of 72.5 days, according to the report.
Wilmington ranked right behind Charlotte, and No. 5 was Burlington.
NerdWallet found that the states with the most cities in the list of 175 fastest-selling U.S. markets are California, Florida, North Carolina, Michigan, Texas and Tennessee.


Attorney General, Dale Marshall, dismisses as mischief a viral post alleging draconian computer use laws are to be passed outlawing a series of activities such as recording the police or government ministers.
Mr. Marshall describes the allegations as garbage.
Mr. Marshall notes that the existing laws are being updated to deal with such issues as cyber-bullying, child pornography, cyber forgery and fraud.
But he stresses that the new legislation doesn’t include any of what is alleged in the post.
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Heskey backs Brendan Rodgers
The pressure is mounting on manager Brendan Rodgers, but former Liverpool striker Emile Heskey told Goal that the club need to back their manager rather than sack him.
"I don't think [he should be sacked]. He's been given a long-term plan to move forward," said Heskey. "Last year was a phenomenal jump and everyone's looking at this season being a backwards step, but he still has to get the best out of the new signings and it usually takes about a year for them to get used to the Premier League."
Souness seeks turnaround at Old Trafford
When it rains, it pours. Now, Rodgers and Liverpool face their big derby match this weekend, as they travel to Old Trafford to face Manchester United - and another former Liverpool star, Graeme Souness, says he hopes that it can spark a revival for the Reds; and backed Steven Gerrard to be the man to do it.
"What you hope as a Liverpool supporter - and certainly what I hope as a Liverpool supporter - is that some of the big players stand up and are counted at the weekend, as going to Old Trafford, even when we were dominant, was never an easy game for Liverpool," said Souness.
"Steven Gerrard is the one very special player that Liverpool have got, and he has been for the last 10 years, and time and time again he has got big goals in big games for them," Souness continued. "And even at 34 you would argue that he is still their biggest influence."
“So hopefully that is the same at the weekend and he turns up at Old Trafford and whether it is a free kick, a magic pass, or he fires one in from 25 yards, they need someone to spark their season and he is the most likely one who can do that," he added.
Sterling snubs new contract
And the problems continue to pile up for Rodgers, as reports today suggest that forward Raheem Sterling has rejected a new contract to stay at Anfield.
The England international, 20, only signed a brand new five-year contract in 2012, but has now snubbed a £70,000-per-week offer from the Reds.
It's believed that Sterling is looking for a figure in the region of £100,000-per-week, and that the current offer is 'nowhere near enough' for him to put pen to paper - leaving Rodgers and Liverpool with another problem to solve.


Thematic Area Working Group on Skills and Qualification Recognition met for its Second Meeting via BluejeansThursday, 01 December 2016
The Chair of the Thematic Area Working Group (TAWG) on Skills and Qualification Recognition, Sri Lanka, convened the Second Meeting for the TAWG on 1 December 2016. This was the very first meeting for the CP Member States (CPMS) to exclusively meet online by using the video conference tool, Bluejeans.
The primary objective of the meeting was to discuss the Terms of Reference for the TAWG in order to move forward the agreed goals and key tasks for the TAWG through regular meetings. The meeting also provided an avenue for the TAWG members to exchange good practices and lessons learned through the updates on country and regional initiatives.
Sri Lanka presented an update on their participation in the UAE pilot project on skills development, certification, upgrading and recognition. This initiative between a country of destination (COD) and countries of origin (COO) from the Colombo Process (CP) region is regarded as a promising model that will facilitate the mutual recognition of upgraded skills of migrant workers, and the CP has agreed to promote the wider replication of good practices and lessons learned from the initiative in other CPMS.
Another TAWG member, Afghanistan, gave an update on the progress at the policy front, highlighting the development of a National Labour Policy, a Labour Migration Policy and a National Employment Strategy. The representative also shared the key outputs that the Government of Afghanistan aims to pursue through future projects, including formalization of institutional support for labour migration and public awareness on regular migration.
From the development partners, ILO shared the key findings from their research study on “mapping of the skills assessment procedures, certification standards and equivalencies between Sri Lanka, UAE and Kuwait in identified occupations in the construction industry”. One of the suggestions highlighted from the research findings was the importance of involving experienced returnee migrants in the pool of instructors as well as upgrading the training equipment available at training facilities in view of aligning with the requirements and technologies of CODs.
Mr. K.O.D.D. Fernando, General Manager of Sri Lanka Bureau of Foreign Employment, in his concluding remarks, congratulated the TAWG members for the successful convening of the meeting first time online, and stressed the importance for the TAWG members to continue engaging in sharing knowledge and ideas through this platform.
The TAWG members have agreed to meet biannually.


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Where would we be if Mr Phillip Adams, radioman, collector of curiosities, curator of Gladdies and Poddies, and general cultural roustabout had taken a conventional life path and kept pretty much to himself? For starters, we’d sound different.
As host of ABC Radio National’s long-running flagship program (their words!) Late Night Live, Phillip simply is, for many listeners, the voice of the ABC.
In measured, resonant tones, he plies his guests with thoughtful interrogation, humour and a seemingly endless supply of anecdotes, allusions and asides that draw the interviewee into his, and the listeners’ confidence. We, the listeners, are privileged to feel complicit as Phillip cajoles the previously unheard from his guests.
And then, apparently at the other end of the cultural spectrum, how much useful vernacular would we have missed out on without the linguistic exuberance of the extraordinary Barry McKenzie? Originally created by Barry Humphries, The Adventures of Barry McKenzie were brought to film, larger-than-life, in 1972 by director Bruce Beresford with Phillip in key role as producer.
At that time, Phillip was crucial force in the revival of the Australian film industry. The financial success of The Adventures of Barry McKenzie showed that money could be made from an Australian movie. Along the way, Phillip was instrumental in developing the Australian Film, Television and Radio School, the Australian Film Development Corporation (replaced by the Australian Film Commission) and the Australia Council itself, overseeing the development and promotion of all the arts across the country. For perhaps the first time in Australian history, the arts had a collective voice and effective platforms for the individual voices of thousands of practitioners.
Not only a facilitator of conversations, Phillip has contributed many of his own, perhaps most notably via his weekly column in The Australian and more than 20 published books covering topics from the origin of the universe via histories of the Australian media to anthologies of famous jokes. He was behind the Life Be In It and Slip, Slop, Slap campaigns that generated some of the most recognisable slogans of the time, and, without a doubt, contributed to the saving of many lives.
Phillip’s contributions to the world of arts, culture, politics and public life have been recognised far and wide. One above all epitomises his style: the naming of a ‘minor planet’ between the Red Planet, Mars, and the Gas Giant, Jupiter as #5133 Phillipadams, recognising his support for an Australian program looking for near-earth asteroids.
Phillip has been an enthusiastic supporter and promoter of the AFoI since its inception in 1999 by Greg Mackie and a team of reckless visionaries. As we relaunch AFoI into a new era replete with excitement, challenge and uncertainty, nobody embodies our ethos better than that one-man Festival of Ideas, Phillip Andrew Hedley Adams. So it is to him, we proudly and affectionately dedicate the 2016 Adelaide Festival of Ideas.