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parish of Christchurch, Barbados, my duties colleague. Hope brightened up the face of extended to the occasional supervision of the the wretched priest, and I could perceive his various 'gangs' or droves of negro workmen nervousness and agony of suspense while I employed in agriculture. The estate of which recapitulated the evidence, and explained that I I was manager belonged to a Mr. Lane, my could not give judgment against the man, when generous and considerate patron, who, besides to my mind the required proofs of his guilt were my board and lodging, gave me a Poet Lau- not satisfactory. I therefore stood out, and reate's remuneration of three hundred a year ultimately prevailed in getting my colleagues and a cask of wine; my position, therefore, to remit the sentence of death, and dismiss the was no inferior one. Offences of all sorts which charge of murder; for I was, myself, fully perwere committed on the estate were put before suaded that there was not sufficient legal evime regularly, and I dispensed justice accord- dence to justify a capital sentence. You will ingly. On one occasion, I remember, a negro, now hear how I had cause not to regret my named Theophilus, was brought up to me by carefulness in this matter. Some weeks after the watchman of the estate, charged with some this affair of the Obeah priest had occurred, I theft or assault-I forget now what the par- was driving to Newton from Bridgetown, where ticular offence was,—and I was called upon to I had been engaged in making some purchases sentence him. He was a large man, with for the estate, and my road led between two more daring and 'fierté' in his manner than large plantations, in which the sugar-canes was usually observable in slaves. I inquired were standing to the height of eight or ten feet, who and what he was.
forming a wall on either side of my gig. I “He was ' driver' of a gang, and carried a was hastening to pass through this spot, for I whip of authority over some eight or ten work- knew well enough that such places as these,
where retreat whilst on horseback or in a vehi. “I took measure of the man, and bethought cle was impracticable, were usually selected by me of a fitting punishment for him. I soon ill-spirited negroes for attack. Rapidly, but decided. “Take his whip away from him,' I with caution, therefore, I was driving on, when said, “and give him a hoe like the rest of the suddenly a man leapt out of the cane-piece gang. This was done immediately, and a suc=1 some twenty yards in front of me, and cried cessor to Theophilus was soon appointed. I out,-'Stop, sir! stop massa! I beg you stop!' had not very long to wait for an opportunity. I nade up my mind to drive on at all hazards; of seeing the effects of my too well-judged and hastily seizing a pistol out of the front punishment. Shortly after this occurred I was pocket of the gig, I slackened the reins and elected to serve as one of the three local ma- touched my horse smartly with the whip. In gistrates for the parish of Christchurch, and another minute I should be upon him, over him, assumed any dignity in due form, without, or past him. The man, perceiving his danger, howover, throwing up my post of manager atidarted into the cane-piece again, and, as I Newton. One day an Obeah-man was brought i passed him, one glance satisfied me that my before myself and my colleagues, charged with supposed assailant was no other than the Obeaha variety of offences, amongst which the count man whose life I had been the means of saving a of suspected murder figured most threateningly. short time previously, as I have told you. No It appeared that he had “bewitched ' sundry sooner had I swept by than the priest leapt cattle, sheep, and poultry, thereby causing their : out into the path again, and cried out as death; and, moreover, it was rumoured that before. “Stop, young massa! stop! I want the decease of one or two of the Degroes you!' I couldn't refrain from throwing a glance in the parish was attributable to his evil in- behind me, and I instantly perceived that my fluence. This was the grave accusation z and pursuer was unarmed.” This, at first, reassured as we discussed the evidence for and against him, me, but in another moment I reflected that: matters began to look very black indeed for probably there were others concealed near me the priest. My two colleagues seemed to have who only waited for my gig to be stopped, on already decided on his guilt, and the jury any pretext, in order to attack me with greater looked to the judgment to be given in con- impunity; and I should have soou got clear of demnation. I was not so certain of the bear- this road and my supposed danger had not the ing of the evidence, and, fancying that there Obeah-man cried out again, - 'Stop! young was a weak point somewhere, went very care- massa, stop! I want to save you life! This fully through the evidence before me. This staggered me, and caused me to draw rein. second reading persuaded me that there was The Obeah-man came at full speed after me, not suficient evidence to hang the Obeah-man, reiterating his former cry, with this startling and, when judgment was called for, I dissented last addition. I hesitated a moment, and then, from the opinion of Mr. Harding and my other | with mingled doubts and fears, pulled up.
ONCE A WEEK.
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'Surely,' I thought, the service I have so paper were which the Obeah-man had given lately done to this creature must be remem- him for my destruction, he would have been still bered by him in my favour—perhaps he tells more disconcerted. I didn't die, for the powthe truth—perhaps I am running into danger der which had been dissolved in the water was of which he is aware, and would, in gratitude, simply arrowroot. The
wretch in whose give me warning. Before I had done with behalf my interference had been so fortunately my conjectures the Obeah priest was standing and, I must say, justly urged, had too much panting and out of breath by the side of my gratitude in his heart to conspire against my gig. "What is it?' I asked ; 'why do you stop life. So he substituted arrowroot for someme? •Massa,' answered the man, with diffi- thing more deadly, and saved my life in return culty speaking, so exhausted was he by his long for his own acquittal.” run; 'massa, you save my life once, I now save “What,” interrupted one of my grand
“What do you mean?' I asked in father's hearers, “became of the murderersome trepidation. 'I mean I will save you Theophilus?" life as you save mine. Take me wid you, I tell “Ah,” said my grandfather, “here comes you all about it as you go along. I save you the most wonderful part of my story. Long life myself' (he kept on repeating this phrase before the law had time to complete his punishincessantly) as you save mine.' •What am I ment, he died miserably in prison—swollen, to do?' said I, looking earnestly at the priest bloated, and diseased—a victim to the Obeah as I spoke to see if he flinched, as negroes priest's influence. Not content with saving often will at the fixed gaze of a white man, who me, he 'bewitched' my enemy." suspects them. He confronted my gaze and
R. REECE, Jun. replied, "Take me wid you, massa, and write down what I got to tell you; take me wid you, and I save you life.' As he still kept to this
ANA. request, I acceded at last, and permitted him to join me in the gig. We soon reached New- POISONING BY TOBACCO.—A very curious ton, and when pen, ink, and paper had been case of poisoning by the absorption of tobacco procured, and the witnesses he desired had through the skin was mentioned, at a recent been called for, the Obeah-man disclosed the meeting of the Académie des Sciences, by M. secret to me. I won't trouble you with an Cl. Bernard, who received the information account in his own words, but will briefly give from a M. Namias. A smuggler had placed the purport of what I took down from his dic- a quantity of unmanufactured tobacco next his tation. It seems that Theophilus, the driver skin, and the heat and perspiration produced whom I had degraded, had never forgiven the by walking caused the poisonous properties of author of his punishment, and after long brood- the tobacco to enter the system, the conseing over various methods of obtaining his re- quences of which were very serious. venge, had called in the aid of the all-powerful HOUNDS IN THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY.Obeah priest. Most fortunately for me the One of the earliest packs of fox-hounds on man whose services he sought to obtain against record that kept by the then Lord me was no other than the priest whose life had Arr dell of Wardour, between the years 1690 been spared at my intervention and by my vote. and 2,00; and the family are in possession Gain, however, being prominent with this man, of memoranda proving that they occasionally he agreed to supply Theophilus with a poison hunted then from Wardour Castle, in Wiltshire, which should make away with me, and offered and at Breamore, near Salisbury, now the seat to show his employer how to mix the powder of Sir Edward Hulse, but then the occasional in the jug of water, to which I always used residence of Lord Arundell. These hounds to apply in the evening, before quitting the were kept by the Arundells until about the manager's house for my own. He accordingly year 1745, when the sixth Lord Arundell died. received his reward, and in return handed After his decease they were kept by his Theophilus a paper of powder, with full direc- nephew, the Earl of Castlehaven, by whom tions as to how, when, and where to administer and his successors they were hunted until the it to me. Theophilus took the powder, and in death of the last Earl of that name, about the due course mixed it with the water which used
The pack was then sold to the to stand in a jug by my side. Then, at a safe celebrated Hugo Meynell, Esq., of Quorndon distance, he watched till he saw me raise the Hall, Leicestershire ; and it is probable that jug to my lips and drink its contents. He they contributed largely to the establishment must have been disappointed at seeing no ill of that gentleman's fox-hunting fame, and have effects following upon my drinking the water; been the progenitors of some of the Quorn but had he known what the contents of the hounds of the present day.
I don't know how people feel who have seen hanging in a hopeless and impotent manner a ghost ; perhaps it would be a relief to them to by a single water when the rooms were taken : find that the white garment shrouded a broom- at least I concluded that they were taken, for stick; but for myself, I once saw a figure in a the bill disappeared altogether, and was not sheet which it would be an infinite relief to me replaced. In the course of a few days the to believe a ghost. I saw this figure, man or windows were cleaned, and a bed and two woman I know not, five years ago, when I chairs were placed in the inner room. There was lodging in the second-floor of a house were no curtains and no carpets, nor, so far as in Bloomsbury Street, and within a few doors I could see, any other furniture in these two of Oxford Street. There were at that time
But there was some one in the bed, unfurnished rooms to be let on the second very ill I imagined, for although I saw the figure floor of the opposite house. The blinds were move from side to side, I never saw it sitting not drawn down, so that, before the windows up, or saw the bed empty, or saw the face so as were too dirty, I could see into two of these to recognise if it was that of man or woman. empty rooms. That opposite my own was In any case I should not have been able to an inner room, lighted by two windows, and see much of these opposite neighbours, for I entered only from the adjoining small ante- was only at home in the morning and evening, chamber, and this, which also looked into the and they had other rooms besides the two I street, had one window. The great bill, have mentioned.
About a fortnight after the lodgers came, I TO LET, UNFURNISHED,
was sitting near my window in the early was there for so many months that it grew morning, when my attention was attracted by yellow with age and grey with dirt, and it was a figure at the window of the ante-room opposite, wrapped, as it seemed, in a white sheet. great city. The blinds of the rooms opposite A corner of the sheet was drawn up round the were drawn down, and the windows were head and hung over the face like a cowl, so closed, and they remained so on the following that, although the person was looking out of morning. But in the evening, as I watched window, no trace of form or feature could be from my window in the dusk, I saw two men seen ; and the arms, which were crossed, were coming down the street, bearing on their also tightly covered by the sheet. For a few shoulders a coffin. They stopped at the house seconds it paused at the window, and I, opposite, and carried the coffin in and up the sitting partly behind iny window curtain, stairs, and through the ante-room, and into could see without being seen. Then it entered that room with the bed, which was opposite to the inner room, into which I could see very mine. I saw the shadow of it cast upon the distinctly, as the windows were open.
white window blinds, for some one went first, And here it seems necessary to state that carrying a candle. the effect produced upon me at the time by And then I knew that there was death in this person in a sheet has been intensified, the room, and that the antic which had and has received an added horror, from circum- mocked and made sport on the previous day, stances which occurred later. It is difficult to had mocked at the dying or the dead. describe that which follows without allowing The following day was Sunday, and I was this horror to creep in, and yet, so far as I can again at my window when the plain deal remember, I was not sensible of it at the time, coffin was carried down-stairs and put into a and felt only a strange attraction and interest; shabby hearse. This was followed by a street and a half surprise that any one should dress up cab, and one small person sprang quickly into and play the fool at 7 o'clock in the morning. it, closely muffled in a large black cloak. I
The figure, as I have said, entered the inner could not tell whether this person was young room, and stood for some time quite motionless or old, and could only guess whether it was by the bed-side. Then slowly the arms were man or woman ; but something in the rapid stretched out, pointing at something or some one resolute movements at once recalled the in the bed; the hearl, still covered by the sheet, sheeted figure which had startled me three was bent downwards ; the whole attitude was days before. I could not watch the house that of one speaking with an earnest and eager again, it was too terrible ; and on the followintensity. But soon there was the strangest ing day when I returned home, I saw that the change : the figure started, gave a wild bound, bed had been removed, the windows were wide and commenced leaping and dancing round the open, and there were new bills, announcing bed, standing with outstretched arms for a that the rooms were To Let, Unfurnished." moment at the foot of it, and then springing first to one side and then to the other with such
THE MECHANICAL SEMPSTRESS. wonderful rapidity that it was impossible to follow every movement. At length there was Our readers will doubtless remember that in a pause ; again the hands and arms were a recent number of ONCE A WEEK, that of stretched out, again they pointed, and, as it August 20th, there appeared a paper under the seems to me now, in bitter mockery, to the above title, in which the comparative merits of bed, and then the body swayed and bent back- certain sewing machines and their application wards, and the head was thrown up in one were discussed. There was no intention on the long burst of uproarious laughter. It seemed part of either Editor or writer to show any to me that I could hear the mocking sounds invidious preference for any particular machine even above all the noises in the street. I beyond that which facts and the best informado not know if I turned away for a moment, tion warranted, and subsequent inquiry has or if the figure crouched down, but I remember only confirmed the conviction of both of them my surprise at finding that it had left the bed- that the statements made in this particular room, and was again standing at the window article were mainly and substantially just. It of the ante-room. From thence it passed out is necessary that the Editor should state this in into the passage, and I saw no more of it. declining to insert a controversial letter on the
The bed was, as usual, occupied, but I do same subject in which the statements of the not remember noticing any movement on the original paper are questioned, or rather qualipart of the occupier.
fied, and which would entitle the writer of the Early in the summer evening I returned latter to an equally lengthy reply. There are from my daily work, and sat at the window to obvious limits to which we can open our pages watch the sun, as, like a solitary eye of fire to such discussions, and we see no reason to go glowing through mist and smoke with a dim beyond them on the present occasion. angry light, it sank down into the heart of the
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Edgar Rice Burroughs' The Chessmen of Mars is the fifth of Edgar Rice Burroughs' Mars novels, and one of my favourites. I own the edition with this phantasmagoric cover by Gino D'Achille. John Carter is not center stage in this book, which has to be the weirdest entry in the series; certainly ERB outdid himself with his descriptions of the titular "Chessmen" creatures. D'Achille's cover certainly made me shudder when my uncle gave me a copy for my 12th birthday. But I loved it just as the other ERB Mars novels, and it's still a fantastic read.

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The East Granby Historic District was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1988. Portions of the content on this web page were adapted from a copy of the original nomination document. [‡]
The East Granby Historic District encompasses a large rural residential/agricultural area (approximately two square miles) which extends from the Suffield town line on the north to about one mile below the East Granby town center. It is located on a broad open plain of rolling farmland on the east side of the Talcott Range, a ridgeline that divides the town almost in half. The East Granby Historic District contains a large number of historic farmsteads, along with individual houses, strung out along three principal north-south streets: North Main Street, South Main Street, and East Street. At the town center. Route 20, known as Rainbow Road, and School Street run from east to west.
Since the economy has been based on agriculture since settlement, approximately two-thirds of the land in the East Granby Historic District is occupied by historic farms. Many are still working farmsteads, which consist of a farmhouse with a cluster of associated detached and attached outbuildings set near the road, surrounded by open farmland. Some of the individual barns and sheds are large free-standing buildings; other barns are large composite structures built over a period of years. Together these agricultural buildings account for about half of the contributing buildings in the East Granby Historic District. Some of the barns are attached to the rear of the house by one or more ells in a linear fashion. Some of these ells are apparently older than the main house. This type of arrangement of attached farm buildings is more common in northern New England where the winters are more severe.
The historic rural appearance of the East Granby Historic District still predominates despite some modern intrusion. Its rural character is especially evident north of Route 20 where open fields run behind the houses on North Main Street and between North Main and East streets. The latter street is the location of four undisturbed eighteenth-century farms. While the majority of the historic properties along North Main Street have retained their outbuildings and open land, some modern development has taken place there. Several clusters of houses have been built on small lots subdivided from extensive farm acreage. Open fields still continue behind the houses on the east side; those on the west side now abut two small residential developments, one accessed from Route 20, the other from North Main Street. The farm properties along South Main Street below the town center have been somewhat reduced in size, a process that apparently began in the nineteenth century. The lots there are generally smaller; some compatible modern residential infill has taken place along the road. A good portion of the open land behind the house lots in the southern part of district has been developed. A trap rock quarry, a new school, and a recreational club now make use of this land, but all of them are set well back from the road.
The town center is the location of two historic institutional buildings, a church and a school, the latter now used as the library, and the first town cemetery dating from 1722. It is in this area that most of the modern development has taken place. Some of this development has been excluded from the East Granby Historic District but it has had an impact on the historic appearance of the village. Several modern commercial buildings border the cemetery, such as a gas station and a restaurant. An industrial office building of considerable size occupies the southwest corner of Route 20 and South Main Street, the former location of the Samuel Clark Mansion House, which was demolished about 1920. A small shopping center on Route 20, just to the east of the center, almost totally isolates two colonial farms on the south side of the highway from the rest of the district. Other changes at the center include the widening of Route 20 and Church Road which resulted in the destruction of several historic buildings, including the former Congregational Church parsonage built in 1846. Following a fire in 1968, the Town Hall and firehouse were rebuilt on Center Street on the west side of the town center. They now occupy two Neo-Colonial Revival style buildings. A modern bank now occupies their former site on School Street.
Most of the contributing buildings, the houses as well as the agricultural buildings, are of wood frame construction, set on stone foundations of granite or locally obtained brownstone. There are only five masonry buildings: a stone church in the center of the district, and four brick buildings, a school, two houses, and a hipped-roof carriage house. The historic houses in the East Granby Historic District are one-and-one-half to two-and-one-half stories in height. They range in date from about the middle of the eighteenth century to 1936. Roughly one-third were built in the eighteenth century (37%), with an almost equal number in the nineteenth century (42%).
The eighteenth-century houses are generally large five-bay, center-chimney colonials often with overhangs and gabled roofs. Two examples of this form are the Isaak Gillett House at 33 East Street and the Ezekiel Phelps, Jr., House at 39 North Main Street. Several display exceptional original Connecticut Valley doorways, such as the hand-carved surround of the Richard Gay House at 123 North Main Street, or the Georgian surround with its pulvinated frieze on the Luke Thrall House at 46 East Street. Some of the later Georgian style houses are more detailed. Two prime examples are the Edmund J. Thompson House and the William Rockwell House, both distinguished by a finely-detailed Palladian window over the entrance. The former house also has a colonnaded portico on the south with a pediment dating from the Greek Revival period.
Three of the houses dating from the colonial period were built with an unusual interior feature. On the second floor, a swinging partition between chambers could be raised and hung from the ceiling to make a ballroom. These include the James Moor Tavern, the Gay House, and the Samuel Clark House that was demolished in the town center.
Other colonial forms, such as the gambrel or saltbox, are uncommon in the district. Only two houses still have the saltbox form with the lean-to at the rear, the Deacon Samuel Owen House and the John Holcomb, Jr., House. Some may have originally been built in this configuration such as the Ebenezer Mills House. The gambrel roof also was rarely used, although some of the original ells have this form. Again, there are only two examples: the small Oliver Moor House at 20 School Street and the James Moor Tavern, a brick house built by the same family at 171 North Main Street and used as a tavern. The latter building has several unusual features for this period. The roof pitches are flattened and extended to accommodate the unusual width of the building and the single end chimney is located at the rear. Also the use of the end elevation as the principal facade is more common in eighteenth-century commercial buildings.
Houses from the nineteenth century are well represented in the East Granby Historic District. A number were built in the Greek Revival style and some were remodelled in this mode. Three of the four almost identical temple-fronted buildings at the head of South Main Street remain. Two of these were originally built as stores; today all three are in commercial use. Simple farmhouses utilizing the temple form can be found along both ends of Main Street. A typical example is the farmstead on North Main Street known as the Charles T. Hillyer House. A slightly more elaborate version is located at the intersection of East Street and Rainbow Road, the Isaac Owen II House. An earlier house (1730) is incorporated into the building. A late example built of brick at 11 School Street in 1860, the Thomas H. Lee House, owes more to the Gothic style with its scroll-sawn bracketed porch. Its roof with exposed rafter ends in the gables is probably a replacement.
The most architecturally distinguished Greek Revival-style building in the East Granby Historic District is the East Granby Congregational Church (United Church of Christ) designed by the noted Connecticut Valley master builder, Isaac Damon of North Hampton, Massachusetts. A solid masonry building of ashlar granite, it has a square belfry tower which has been recently resided.
Very few of the Victorian era styles are found in the East Granby Historic District. Most of the farmhouses built after 1850 are simple vernacular buildings, displaying little adornment. The Gothic Revival-style James H. Alderman House, near the north end of North Main Street, is one of the few exceptions. Some of the houses display stylistic features which are the result of remodellings in this period, such as the turret and veranda added to the circa 1750 Joseph Phelps, Jr., House about 1900 and the addition of Italianate-style porches to the late Federal style Phelps-Forward House, both on North Main Street. The latter house is located on a corner with its large detached composite barn visible from the public roadways. A few farm cottages, which may have been used to house farm workers in the nineteenth century, remain in the district.
Three of the thirteen contributing houses built or remodelled after 1900 are Bungalows. One at 91 South Main Street is part of a complex with several large barns, an unusual juxtaposition of forms. This house was originally built with a center chimney about 1820 and completely remodelled as a Bungalow about 1915.
Colonial Revival style houses of several types were built in the 1930s. They range from a reproduction Cape on North Main Street (1936) to a brick Georgian Revival at the corner of East Street and Nicholson Road. The latter property is a formal interpretation with a Georgian-style doorway and quarter round lights on the gables. Today this house is somewhat overshadowed by its immediate neighbor, a brick office building on the north. Although the new building has a residential appearance, it is much larger in scale than the house.
The East Granby Historic District is a historically significant farming community which illustrates the broad patterns of agrarian history and rural town formation in Connecticut in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries (Criterion A). An architecturally significant group of historic rural properties, the East Granby Historic District is distinguished by a superb collection of well-preserved farmsteads dating from the Colonial and Federal periods
The East Granby Historic District encompasses most of the Turkey Hills Ecclesiastical Society, as the community was known for over 100 years. Its historical development follows a now familiar pattern common to second and third generation villages in Connecticut. Due its small size, limited natural resources, and geographic isolation, it never really achieved full autonomy but remained part of a larger geographic and political entity throughout most of its history.
East Granby evolved from the division of three towns. It was part of Simsbury until the Town of Granby was formed in 1786. Despite the efforts of the Turkey Hills citizens to become a part of Windsor, the East Granby Historic District remained a section of Granby until 1858. In that year East Granby was established and the East Granby Historic District became the political and institutional center for the new town. The town (and some of the district) boundaries that exist today were the result of the settlement of several border disputes. A portion of the Windsor Half Mile was annexed in 1858. This area, which encompasses the East Street section of the district, was historically associated with the Turkey Hills Society since settlement. The earlier resolution of a border dispute with Suffield on the north had resulted in the addition of one lot at the north end of North Main Street.
The East Granby Historic District was the last arable land to be laid out in the Farmington River Valley. It was first surveyed by the Simsbury proprietors in 1688, but it was not until 1715 that any settlement took place. The first settlers, some descendants of the settlers of Windsor and the parent town of Simsbury, built small, often crude houses; some were little more than a cellar house. In a few cases, their first houses were log cabins. Lots of 60 to 100 acres were laid out in strips running perpendicular to the present day North and South Main streets. Although there has been some subdivision, the general configuration of these properties has been maintained. Some of the houses built in the East Granby Historic District from this period were incorporated in later buildings or became the rear ell of the mansion houses built in the later eighteenth century.
From the very beginning the mountain ridge that divides East Granby contributed to the isolation of the people of Turkey Hills. By 1729, the settlers in the district were petitioning the General Court to have their own church society rather than travel nine miles over the mountain to Simsbury for church services. This petition was not granted until 1736. In that year, construction began on the first meetinghouse, but the building was not ready for services and town meetings until 1744. The delay was not unusual for an outliver town such as Turkey Hills, but the usual problems of limited resources were compounded by claims to the church site by the neighboring property owner. The Reverend Ebenezer Mills, the first minister, built the first parsonage, now part of the house at 100 South Main Street.
Turkey Hills was a largely self-sufficient community of subsistence farmers with a barter economy from settlement through the early nineteenth century. Most goods and services were supplied by local men. Housewrights in the district, such as Isaak Gillett and Joseph Phelps and his sons, probably built their own homes and those of their neighbors. It is known the Gillet House was partially finished by Isaak at his death and completed by his sons. Reuben Barker, a joiner who had his shop across the street from 23 East Street (he was the second owner), supplied the woodwork and windows for Ezekiel Phelps, Jr., at 39 North Main Street. Oliver Moor, a jack of several trades, owned a shop near his small gambrel on School Street. He employed three men to make glass, locks, and furniture.
While all of these men were farmers as well as craftsmen, some had other trades as well. Joseph Cornish, who built his house at 143 North Main Street, made potash; Joseph Phelps was also a shoemaker. The latter was a wealthy man who owned several slaves; they were inherited by his family, with each slave being allowed to choose his new master among the surviving Phelps children.
Other household needs were met by district men, John Holcomb, Jr., was a tailor, as was Nathaniel Mather. Ezekiel Phelps, one of several blacksmiths, is said to have made the hardware for the unusual cupboard in the base of his chimney. William Rockwell and Samuel Forward were tanners; Rockwell had tanning vats in the stream behind his elegant Georgian-style house on School Street. Part of the house at 81 North Main Street was used for a coopering and chairmaking business. Charles Tudor and George Thompson were carriage makers; the latter's sons followed him in the business and built several houses on South Main Street, including the remarkable Georgian/Greek Revival with the Doric portico at 99 South Main.
With the general prosperity of the early nineteenth century, there was an increased demand for imported goods in Turkey Hills. Several stores were opened in the East Granby Historic District: a general store in the ell of the house at 1 North Main Street, and several new buildings constructed for this purpose. John Viets, whose descendants still live in the district, was a horse dealer, with a store at 7-9 South Main Street.
Horse breeding has a long history in the East Granby Historic District. Near the site of a modern horse farm on East Street, John Thrall raised horses for export in the early eighteenth century. His house was bought by Matthew Griswold, a brick maker, who appears to have had few customers in the district. Griswold, along with several other men of the district, served as overseers at the Newgate Prison, East Granby's famous historic landmark.
The general exodus from Connecticut towns which took place after the Revolution began in the district by the mid-eighteenth century. East Granby had a limited amount of arable land, most of which is located in the East Granby Historic District. Family farms were not large enough to divide among all the heirs and there was little room for expansion. Although the sons who stayed in the community and inherited were clearly prosperous as evidenced by the large "mansion houses" built from the eighteenth century through 1820, natural increase in the next thirty years did not compensate for out-migration. The population dropped from an estimated high of 1,500 in 1820 to 1,200 by 1850. In the last half of the nineteenth-century, East Granby suffered even greater population losses. By the Civil War the population was only 851 and dropped to a low of 661 by 1890.
The industrial development which took place in most Connecticut towns passed East Granby by, but a new cash crop rescued the economy. Tobacco, introduced in 1850, became a major crop by 1870, with 117 families participating. This labor-intensive crop required not only the work of all family members, but imported labor as well. In addition to Blacks from the south, district farmers drew upon an unusual labor source. For at least 30 years, state paupers were auctioned off to district farmers and housed in sheds behind two houses on North Main Street. Some of them were hired out as field hands and also may have worked at rolling cigars, the related cottage industry. More barns were built in the district than houses; some of the large tobacco storage sheds built in this period are still standing today . Anson Bates, a local attorney and tobacco dealer, built his new house on Main Street, one of the few constructed in the East Granby Historic District in the late nineteenth century.
Improved methods of transportation opened the East Granby Historic District to the outside world after the Civil War. A regular stagecoach left East Granby for Windsor and Hartford from 21-23 School Street. By 1902, the trains of the Central New England Railroad ran through the center, providing farmers with a better and more direct access to markets. District high school students took the train to Simsbury High School until 1918. Although the tracks and the station house in the center have been removed, the station master's house at 4 North Main Street is still standing. The automobile era was ushered in when David Viets opened a commercial garage in the district behind 11 South Main Street about 1915.
Tobacco remained a major cash crop in the East Granby Historic District in the twentieth century. It was successfully combined with dairy farming because cow manure could be utilized to fertilize the tobacco fields. The tobacco-dairy farmers of the district remained independents and did not participate in the growing of the new shade leaf tobacco, leaving this specialized crop to the large syndicates in neighboring towns such as Windsor. For the first time, however, tobacco was purchased in the field rather than after storage, subjecting the local tobacco growers to the fluctuations of the marketplace. The lean years were balanced out by the relatively steady income provided by supplying Hartford dealers with wholesale milk from their dairy herds. Eventually, however, because of economic pressure, district farmers became part of a dairymen's cooperative, the Connecticut Milk Producers Association. Today only seven farms are still operating in East Granby, with six of the seven in the district, all to the north of the center. Tobacco is no longer a cash crop, but dairy and beef cattle are still raised.
Few rural areas in Connecticut have remained as unchanged as the East Granby Historic District. Fewer still contain such large numbers of eighteenth and nineteenth century historic farms which have retained their historic fields and meadows. The historic pattern of these fields is imprinted on the land. Old property boundaries are still defined by stone walls or tree lines and scrub growth. They follow the original plot lines of the land division of Turkey Hills over rolling pastures, interrupted only by the low lying swales, where brooks run through the marshes.
The East Granby Historic District's exceptional collection of historic farmhouses is almost perfectly preserved. With few exceptions, the eighteenth-century houses still display their simple exterior features, the clapboard siding, wooden sash, overhangs, and center stone chimneys. Most of these buildings have the typical straightforward, unembellished rectilinear form popular in Connecticut until well after the Revolution. While a few of the houses may have been restored to their original appearance, very few built in this period display the later architectural features commonly added in the nineteenth century. Most of the farmhouses built after 1800 are equally austere, simple functional buildings where the only concession to architectural fashion may be a different orientation to the road.
East Street is a remarkably undisturbed eighteenth-century enclave, providing a glimpse at how the entire district must have appeared at that time. The only intrusion in this area has been the later nineteenth and early-twentieth century barns. Given the fact that the form and method of construction of agricultural buildings has changed very little in Connecticut since 1800, these barns reinforce, rather than diminish, the historic rural ambience of this area. A more typical developmental pattern is found elsewhere in the district where equally fine examples from the colonial period are interspersed with later-nineteenth and twentieth century houses.
Several houses from the 1800s are individually significant. They include the Luke Thrall and Richard Gay houses, both of which display exceptional doorways. The surround of the Thrall House, probably added after the Revolution, is quite formal. With its pulvinated frieze and protruding cornice, it has a Georgian appearance. The doorway of the Gay House is probably original, a simply executed, but fine example of the craftsmanship of the period. The plinths do not have the elaborate carving found in other Connecticut Valley doorways, but the proportions and form are similar to this genre. Unique to the district is the brick tavern built by the Moor family. The gambrel form constructed of brick is not unusual and is found in neighboring towns to the east, such as Windsor and East Windsor, but both the end chimney placement and the orientation of this house to the road are rare in Connecticut. The Moor Tavern is also noted for its fine, well-preserved, but uncommon brickwork. The soldier courses over the windows are quite tall and the end facade displays several string courses that protrude from the wall surface. These latter features do not extend the full width of the building and are apparently purely decorative in nature.
Two late Georgian houses are particularly notable for their degree of style. The relatively elaborate facades of the Rockwell and Thompson houses, with their Palladian windows and modillion courses, were a common sight in entrepot towns in the Post-Revolutionary period, but unusual in an isolated rural community. In fact, the Thompson House with its colonnaded end portico has several counterparts in Litchfield, where attempts were made to duplicate Mount Vernon, albeit on a smaller scale, creating an enduring architectural genre for that town. While the residential construction of the next century produced a fine group of buildings which illustrate the history of East Granby, none ever approached the individual significance of these Georgian examples.
Roughly one third of the nineteenth-century houses are the typical temple form farmhouses of the Greek Revival style, with side or rear ells, built until the Civil War. Well-preserved and maintained, these houses make an important contribution to the East Granby Historic District. It is the Greek Revival-style East Granby Congregational Church, however, that makes an architectural statement. Eliminating the colonnaded portico commonly used in religious and institutional buildings in this period, the designer/builder settled for a minimalist approach to this style with a simple pediment and brick pilasters. The lack of a spire is also unusual, but can be attributed to Damon's preference for the square belfry tower. The recent residing of this tower, however, has obscured its original design and materials.
Most of the contributing buildings of the late nineteenth and early twentieth century are barns of various types, including the large tobacco storage sheds, commonly called barns. Once more numerous throughout the district and throughout the central Connecticut Valley, these vacant unused buildings are gradually falling into decay, but remain as important artifacts of the tobacco agriculture practiced in the district for almost a century. Better preserved because they remain in use are the animal barns which were built in great numbers and make a significant contribution to the historic rural character of the East Granby Historic District.
Report of the Historic District Study Committee: East Granby, Connecticut, n.d.
Springman, Mary Jane, and Betty Guinan. East Granby; the evolution of a Connecticut town.
New Canaan, New Hampshire: Phoenix Publishing, 1983. Survey of Architectural and Historical Resources, East Granby, Connecticut.
‡‡ Jan Cunningham, Cunningham Associates, Ltd., and David Ransom, consultant, and John F. A. Herzan, Connecticut Historical Commission, East Granby Historic District, East Granby CT, nomination document, 1988, National Park Service, National Register of Historic Places, Washington, D.C.
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- Imagine a Raft: Hard Rubbish 4+5
- Place where the work was made
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- Materials used
- triptych: oil on linen
a - left panel, 140.5 x 140.3 cm, stretcher
b - central panel, 140.7 x 140 cm, stretcher
c - right panel, 140.7 x 140.2 cm, stretcher
- Signature & date
Signed and dated u.l. verso on canvas [part a], black fibre-tipped pen "Cattapan 2006-2011".
Signed and dated u.r. verso on canvas [part b], black fibre-tipped pen "Cattapan 2006-2011 [underlined]".
Signed and dated u.r. verso on canvas [part c], black fibre-tipped pen "Cattapan 2010".
- Art Gallery of New South Wales, Bulgari Art Award 2013
- Not on display
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- © Jon Cattapan
- Artist information
Works in the collection
Art Gallery of New South Wales, Bulgari Art Award 2013
The Bulgari Art Award for contemporary painting has enabled the Gallery to acquire an exceptional work by Jon Cattapan for our permanent collection. Cattapan is a highly regarded artist and one of Australia's finest contemporary painters. His subject is often contemporary cities: their architecture and organisation, and their various modes of occupation. Cattapan overlays specific imagery with an abstract patterning that recalls the digital matrixes through which information circulates, extending local references into more global concerns.
The triptych 'Imagine a raft: hard rubbish 4+5' 2012, was painted over a five year period, evolving through a series of accruals and revisions. The left and right panels present schematic versions of a raft like assemblage of detritus, based on a pile of disused furniture waiting for the council collection trucks at the end of Cattapan's street in Melbourne's St Kilda. The central panel refers more broadly to the idea of the city as a global screen of gridded information.
For Cattapan, the discarded objects resembled a marooned vessel, and set him thinking about broader issues of what we value and what we discard. How do simple belongings shape our sense of identity? And how, by extension, can global preoccupations with territories and surveillance inform the creative zeitgeist of our times? These questions are a part of the artist's thinking and aesthetic.
Where the work was made
Referenced in 10 publications
Jon Cattapan, ARTAND Australia, 'The creative mix', pg. 57-59, Sydney, Aug 2013-Oct 2013, 58 (colour illus.).
Suzanne Fraser., MelbourneReview.com.au, 'Bulgari Art Award: Jon Cattapan', Melbourne, Apr 2013, n.pag. (colour illus.). viewed 15.10.2013, http://www.melbournereview.com.au/arts/article/bulgari-art-award-jon-cattapan
Sonia Harford., smh.com.au, 'Work of 'humble discards' wins art prize from luxury label', Sydney, 12 Apr 2012, n.pag. (colour illus.). viewed 15.10.2013, http://www.smh.com.au/entertainment/art-and-design/work-of-humble-discards-wins-art-prize-from-luxury-label-20130412-2hpeo.html
Carolyn McDowall., thecultureconceptcircle.com, 'Bvlgari Art Award 2013, won by Melbourne Artist Jon Cattapan', South Yarra, 12 Apr 2013, n.pag. (colour illus.). viewed 15.10.2013, http://www.thecultureconcept.com/circle/bvlgari-art-award-2013-won-by-melbourne-artist-jon-cattapan
Clive Paget., limelightmagazine.com.au, 'Hard rubbish earns Cattapan $80,000', Sydney, 15 Apr 2012, n.pag. (colour illus.). viewed 15.10.2013, http://www.limelightmagazine.com.au/Article/339813,hard-rubbish-earns-cattapan-80000.aspx
Professor Marie Sierra, Hits & memories: 10 years at the Academy Gallery, 'Foreword', pg. 2, Launceston, 2012, front cover (colour illus.), 2, 14 (colour illus., detail), back flyleaf (colour illus., detail).
Jill Sykes, Look, 'A continuum of ideas: winning artist with a conscience', pg. 12-13, Sydney, May 2013, 2-3 (colour illus., detail), 12 (colour illus.), 13 (colour illus., detail).
Eleonora Triguboff (Editor), Art & Australia, Sydney, May 2013-Jul 2013, frontispiece (colour illus.). artist is pictured in front of the artwork (Bulgari Art Award advertisement)
Jack Willet, Jon Cattapan, Melbourne, 2012, n.pag. (colour illus.).
Natalie Wilson and Anneke Jaspers, Foundation Newsletter #22, 'Curators' and coordinators' reports: Australian art', pg. 6-7, Sydney, Jun 2013, 7 (colour illus.).

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Jesus says, “The works . . . testify to me.” Spiritual leaders, politicos, government authorities, and corporate moguls know how to spin a good cover story, but can we trust their words? We all know better, but the temptation is great. It takes effort to find out what certain people or governments or companies actually do, so we let it slide. Jesus emphasizes works not because they are miraculous and testify to his messiahship, but these are the works of the Father. Jesus’ works testify to the fact that “the Father is in me and I am in the Father” (John 10:38).
Those who state the request “If you are the Messiah, tell us plainly” must have felt puzzled by Jesus’ response: “You do not believe, because you do not belong to my sheep.” What? Ask for a straightforward answer, and you get sheep. Jesus says that a rather important dimension of spiritual life encompasses paying attention to what is happening around us.
I take comfort when a leader says words that I like to hear. In this specific instance the Jews are hoping to hear certain words, but it doesn’t really matter what is said. They don’t want to “hear” what the actions say either because that requires change on their part. When I pay attention to what Jesus is saying in this passage, I get uncomfortable because I resist change, as we all do. Perhaps we will hear Jesus’ words and follow. Listen to his words closely: “You do not believe, because you do not belong to my sheep. My sheep hear my voice. I know them, and they follow me.” I wonder, Do my works testify that I have changed—that I belong in Jesus’ flock?
Jesus, help me to listen and watch, to hear with more than my ears and to be willing to change. Amen.
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My son and his family came and spent some time with us the last few days and honestly it took me a couple days to recover. I love my grandkids and I do not want to miss a minute, but I do not have the stamina I once had. But I am caught up on my rest and back in Ephesians. Today I focused on chapter 4 and only a bit of chapter 5. The part that strikes me in these passages is Paul’s desire for us to walk in love and to put away our old selves and put on our new bodies.
Paul closed chapter 3 with a prayer for spiritual strength. He prayed to the Father that – “he may grant you to be strengthened with power through his Spirit in your inner being, 17 so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith—that you, being rooted and grounded in love, 18 may have strength to comprehend with all the saints what is the breadth and length and height and depth, 19 and to know the love of Christ that surpasses knowledge, that you may be filled with all the fullness of God.” Ephesians 3:16-19 (ESV
And Paul urges us to walk in a manner worthy of the calling. That calling is where I started today.
Unity of the Body
I began with chapter 4 1-6 and as I read it I could not help but think of the division in this country. 2000 years ago God, thru Paul, encouraged us to unite in the body of Christ and there is still so much division. I read these words and I consider all the ways we find to divide up over color or economic class or talents but nowhere in these passages are any of them mentioned. Paul is very clear.
Ephesians 4:1-6 (ESV) 1
I therefore, a prisoner for the Lord, urge you to walk in a manner worthy of the calling to which you have been called, 2 with all humility and gentleness, with patience, bearing with one another in love, 3 eager to maintain the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace. 4 There is one body and one Spirit—just as you were called to the one hope that belongs to your call— 5 one Lord, one faith, one baptism, 6 one God and Father of all, who is over all and through all and in all.
Nowhere in that passage is there any reference to separation or putting one above another. Nowhere is one called out above another. In fact, n the Next passage Paul further speaks of unity in verses 9-16
Built on Love
Paul speaks of Jesus’ path and where he went and what assignments he made and why.
Ephesians 4:9-16 (ESV)
9 (In saying, “He ascended,” what does it mean but that he had also descended into the lower regions, the earth? 10 He who descended is the one who also ascended far above all the heavens, that he might fill all things.) 11 And he gave the apostles, the prophets, the evangelists, the shepherds and teachers, 12 to equip the saints for the work of ministry, for building up the body of Christ, 13 until we all attain to the unity of the faith and of the knowledge of the Son of God, to mature manhood, to the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ, 14 so that we may no longer be children, tossed to and fro by the waves and carried about by every wind of doctrine, by human cunning, by craftiness in deceitful schemes. 15 Rather, speaking the truth in love, we are to grow up in every way into him who is the head, into Christ, 16 from whom the whole body, joined and held together by every joint with which it is equipped, when each part is working properly, makes the body grow so that it builds itself up in love.
We are one body, when it works together properly it grows and builds itself properly in love.
I cannot help but notice one thing in these two passages. It is the foundation of love and working together. Paul also councils us to bear with one another in love. We are not perfect we still have that sin nature that can show itself, but it takes two to battle. One can fuss and be angry but it takes two to escalate that into an argument, and this isn’t the only time that Paul mentions it. In my Bible, there was a cross reference to Galatians.
Galatians 3:23-29 (ESV)
23 Now before faith came, we were held captive under the law, imprisoned until the coming faith would be revealed. 24 So then, the law was our guardian until Christ came, in order that we might be justified by faith. 25 But now that faith has come, we are no longer under a guardian, 26 for in Christ Jesus you are all sons of God, through faith. 27 For as many of you as were baptized into Christ have put on Christ. 28 There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free, there is no male and female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus. 29 And if you are Christ’s, then you are Abraham’s offspring, heirs according to promise.
I read this passage out of Galatians and consider Paul’s Council and look at the violence in the world and can see no reason to add to it. In Christ Jesus, there are only one people. We are all united. God did not divide us by any trait or economic class or click. We are one people united under one God.
He is the reason for our existence.
Walk in Love for one Another
Look now at Ephesians 4:17-24. Paul reminds us that if we have received Christ Jesus we no longer can walk as Gentiles, those living in the flesh. We are no longer the same. We have been transformed.
Ephesians 4:17-24 (ESV)
17 Now this I say and testify in the Lord, that you must no longer walk as the Gentiles do, in the futility of their minds. 18 They are darkened in their understanding, alienated from the life of God because of the ignorance that is in them, due to their hardness of heart. 19 They have become callous and have given themselves up to sensuality, greedy to practice every kind of impurity. 20 But that is not the way you learned Christ!— 21 assuming that you have heard about him and were taught in him, as the truth is in Jesus, 22 to put off your old self, which belongs to your former manner of life and is corrupt through deceitful desires, 23 and to be renewed in the spirit of your minds, 24 and to put on the new self, created after the likeness of God in true righteousness and holiness.
I shudder a bit when I read that passage. He minces no words, and the part that gets me is “assuming that you have heard about him and were taught in him, as the truth is in Jesus.” I shudder a bit because this letter is to the church and to me it sounds like if you are struggling with these things he speaks of you may not really know Jesus.
I looked at another cross reference from Colossians 3
Colossians 3:12-14 (ESV)
12 Put on then, as God’s chosen ones, holy and beloved, compassionate hearts, kindness, humility, meekness, and patience, 13 bearing with one another and, if one has a complaint against another, forgiving each other; as the Lord has forgiven you, so you also must forgive. 14 And above all these put on love, which binds everything together in perfect harmony.
In this passage, it goes even a bit further to say that love binds everything together in perfect harmony. Again, the Lord does not pick any further than “God’s chosen one.”
I read on through the close of Ephesians 4 and the first paragraph of chapter 5 and in that Paul reminded me that I am a child of God. I should be speaking the truth to my neighbor; why? Because “we are members one of another.” He reminded me to be angry but do not sin and give no opportunity to the devil.
Ephesians 4:25-32 (ESV)
25 Therefore, having put away falsehood, let each one of you speak the truth with his neighbor, for we are members one of another. 26 Be angry and do not sin; do not let the sun go down on your anger, 27 and give no opportunity to the devil. 28 Let the thief no longer steal, but rather let him labor, doing honest work with his own hands, so that he may have something to share with anyone in need. 29 Let no corrupting talk come out of your mouths, but only such as is good for building up, as fits the occasion, that it may give grace to those who hear. 30 And do not grieve the Holy Spirit of God, by whom you were sealed for the day of redemption. 31 Let all bitterness and wrath and anger and clamor and slander be put away from you, along with all malice. 32 Be kind to one another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, as God in Christ forgave you.
I love the closing sentences of this chapter. “Let all bitterness and wrath and anger and clamor and slander be put away from you, along with all malice. 32 Be kind to one another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, as God in Christ forgave you.” That is our hope. To be tenderhearted and forging toward one another as God in Christ forgave me. Paul restates it at the beginning of Chapter 5
Ephesians 5:1-2 (ESV) Walk in Love
1 Therefore be imitators of God, as beloved children. 2 And walk in love, as Christ loved us and gave himself up for us, a fragrant offering and sacrifice to God.
Ephesians 4 is filled with illustrations of the compassion we are to have for one another. No one person or one group is above another. We are all children of God. Our model is Christ Jesus and there was no task and no person that was beneath his love and compassion. No one that he looked down on.
The world would choose to dictate my morality. I choose to follow Jesus and His example. I choose to follow my King and Lord, my Savior and Redeemer. I choose the absolute truth of His Word.
Father, help me that I might simply hold fast to your Holy Word and my hunger for Your wisdom never be satisfied. Thank you, Lord, for igniting this fire in me and giving me the fuel to keep it burning. In Jesus name, I pray! Amen!


Electric vehicle startup Polestar is teasing the next iteration of its Android-powered dashboard, complete with deep personalization to each driver and attention-based instruments. The new concepts look beyond the Android Automotive-based Polestar 2, which is expected to be the first to use Google’s dashboard-specific version of the OS.
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A combination of eye-tracking and proximity sensing will be used to adjust screen content and brightness. Look away from the driver’s instrumentation, for instance, and it could dim so as to avoid glare at night. Look back at it, and metrics like speed and remaining range would come crisply into focus.
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While some automakers have used proximity sensors to control what infotainment displays will show, based on whether they’re idle or being actively used, this would be the first time that the driver’s instrumentation might use the same sort of system. How well it will work, only time will tell. Polestar says we can expect its next-generation HMI design concept to debut on February 25.


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A cutting-edge pedestrian-warning system is being piloted on the University of Florida Transportation Institute (UFTI) campus, in collaboration with the Florida Department of Transportation.
The research will be led by Lily Elefteriadou, director of UFTI. The team will study the effectiveness of these systems at both regular intersections and, crucially, at so-called mid-block crossings – those spots between intersections where pedestrians often cross but that lack traffic signals and other ways to control cars. The majority of pedestrian deaths happen outside of intersections, including at mid-block crossings.
“This is a unique collaboration between our university, the city and the Florida DOT that is creating a living lab, which means the testing happens on real roads,” says Elefteriadou. “In realistic settings we will get to study more naturalistic behavior. There is no replacement for that.”
In addition to UFTI’s expertise in transportation research, UF provides the ideal location to study connected vehicle infrastructure because of the diversity and complexity of transportation on a college campus.
“We have a good amount of pedestrian and bicycle traffic. We have e-scooters, cars and the bus system. You get all of this in one place and you don’t have to go study different things in different places,” said Pruthvi Manjunatha, one of the project’s leaders and manager of the I-STREET Living Lab, the advanced tech traffic research center within UFTI that is running the study.
In focus groups and at real street crossings, Elefteriadou’s team will evaluate how pedestrians and cyclists use the smartphone app to receive warnings. The researchers will also study how drivers respond to dashboard alerts sent from roadway sensors. That information will help the scientists tweak the alerts to encourage consistent use.
Following the roughly year-long study, the researchers will prepare a final report that will help universities like UF and communities around the country implement connected vehicle infrastructure technology more effectively.
“It’s only a matter of time before more and more cities have this communication between the infrastructure and drivers. The quality of data that is coming out of this project will definitely help us design better solutions,” says Elefteriadou.


St James Quarter: Scottish eyewear retailer IOLLA announces new Edinburgh showroom
Scottish eyewear brand IOLLA are bringing local to centre stage in the new St James Quarter, launching a new experiential showroom and standing shoulder to shoulder with some of the biggest names in retail.
Let us know what you think and join the conversation at the bottom of this article.
The instantly recognisable brand launched in 2015 with an aim to offer affordable eyewear to everyone. Their single-vision prescription glasses and sunglasses cost just £75, with lens thinning and anti-glare and anti-scratch coating included, with varifocals costing £125 all in.
The Glasgow-born business is the latest retailer to confirm its opening in Edinburgh’s new £1.7bn city centre development St James Quarter set to open at the end of June.
IOLLA will be opening its fourth location across Edinburgh and Glasgow which will feature a new style of plug-and-play shelving stations, digital screens and modular podiums, brought to life with the help of local Edinburgh design studio Splintr.
It is the Capital’s second showroom, with the first located in the Stockbridge area of the city.
Its new showroom design will feature a 360º interactive window display and movable podiums, designed to bring the experience to the customer, replacing traditional ‘checkout’ desks.
By putting technology, adaptability, and the customer at the centre of the new design, IOLLA hope to create a customer journey within their St James Quarter showroom that is unique, fun and memorable.
At the beginning of the Coronavirus pandemic, the closure of IOLLAs showrooms led the brand to enhance their digital presence and offering, investing in their online platform and introducing a Virtual Try-On app to their website, allowing customers to virtually try-on their collection before ordering online. Now they are set to embrace the digital and retail environment together with their new concept store.
Stefan Hunter, IOLLA’s founder said: “Our new St James Quarter showroom will be the most enriched customer experience we’ve ever created.
“Visitors can discover and journey through our brand by using our new creative touchpoints like material and manufacturing displays and an interactive try on garden. The St James Quarter showroom is also our biggest yet, and will give us the opportunity to truly showcase our passion for great customer service, great products and a fair price.” -
Martin Perry, director of development for St James Quarter added: “With the first phase opening of St James Quarter just weeks away, the addition of IOLLA will help further bolster the already formidable array of local and international brands St James Quarter has to offer as we look to build a diverse offering, including some national and city ‘firsts’, that will help create a one of a kind destination.”
Since opening its doors in 2015, IOLLA have been one to watch, paving the way for local retailers and shaking up the traditional optical industry with a direct to consumer approach and designing and manufacturing in their Glasgow headquarters.
The opening of the new showroom is a landmark moment for IOLLA, allowing the brand to branch into new territory when it comes to retail expansion and in high footfall locations.
The store will open on June 24 and those looking for a job with IOLLA can apply to be part of the team on the website.


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Hey, guys! In this episode split into two parts, I am chatting with Nina Vakueva, on Instagram known as Sirpangur, a comic artist and freelancer from Russia known for webcomic “Lilith’s word”.
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ABLAZE, the comics publisher known for releasing Mirka Andolfo's Un/Sacred and attempting to publish Conan comics, has announced a new series of graphic novels that already has a Netflix anime deal. TRESE debuts in English this September from writer Budjette Tan and artist Kajo Baldisimo. The series, which focuses on Philippine mythology, was originally published to acclaim, winning the Philippine National Book Award for Best Graphic Literature of the Year three times. This new TRESE comic will, in addition to being translated to English, will feature new content.
TRESE has a unique success story that harkens back to the do-it-yourself indie comics scene of times gone by. The series went from a run of comics made on a photocopier, to scoring a deal to be turned into a forthcoming Netflix anime. Writer Budgette Tan says:
"When we started TRESE back in 2005, we did it for fun, because we wanted to tell stories about Philippine myth and folklore through the lens of a detective story. We photocopied 30 copies and sold it for less than a dollar. Most of copies ended up with friends. Thankfully, more people wanted to read our stories. So, we are extremely excited to have partnered up with ABLAZE and now have a chance to share with the world the wonders and mysteries of Philippine mythology to a new set of readers."
Artist Kajo Baldisimo, a storyboard artist and zinester, adds:
"With TRESE, we would like to contribute to the trillions of stories shared all over the world. Other talented Filipino artists and writers will be sharing their stories too as we slowly find more readers across the globe curious for tales set in the various seven thousand islands of The Philippines."
In addition to their unique success story and original take on Philippine mythology, Baldisimo and Tan have received the elusive, coveted Neil Gaiman endorsement. Gaiman, who can make or break a book with one word from that drawling, velvety, can't-beleive-he-isn't-a-member-of-the-Watchers-Council voice, says of the TRESE comic creative team: "I feel like you and all the smart Filipino writers and artists out there are doing something really brave and powerful, making a whole new wave of Filipino art and story."
The series kicks off this September at Ablaze with TRESE Vol 1: Murder on Balete Drive, including redrawn, remastered pages, and a promise of more to come in the series. On the Netflix anime front, the series will be executive produced by Tanya Yuson and Jay Olivia, the latter of which will also direct.


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It’s the end of the Summer season, and that means cooler nights and shorter days – but don’t despair – Mangoes are cheap!
I bought a few and have been wanting to get more chia in my life so what better way with a blitzed mango and coconut milk? Best breakfast or snack around. Mangoes can be a bit sweet and when it was all mixed up I thought it could do with a lift, and lime juice worked wonders. It gives it a beautiful zing and strangely makes it taste a bit like passion fruit too! To. Die. For.
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Fiola, Schmid need to help Freetown shut down Excel Recycling
State Rep. Carole Fiola, in her victory speech, said she ran a campaign of love, so I feel forced to write this and compelled to apologize to the person for whom I voted, for not having written parts of it sooner.
So, a friend takes a ballot and goes into the voting booth. She is panic-stricken when she cannot find her state representative’s name. Her confusion gets sorted with some assistance as she learns that the woman whom she’s been relaying concerns to regarding an issue in town and who claims to be the only state representative working on said issue — for three years -- is not her state representative. She was left unaware, all this time, that her section of street is in the 8th Bristol District, not 6th.
Fiola has been repeatedly asked to reach out to her colleagues on Beacon Hill to help a group of residents in Assonet shut down Excel Recycling’s mega metal auto-shredder, a source of nuisance pollution that is ruining their lives.
My friend finally met her “missing” state representative at the polls. The two of us were holding signs in front of Freetown Elementary when he pulled up in front of us and parked in the street, not on the grass, but in the street, between the entrance and exit of the parking lot. He popped his trunk to expose donuts. He got out of his car and introduced himself as Rep. Paul Schmid.
Schmid whipped out a tiny note pad and agreed to take questions and an update from my friend. He even took time to cross the street and consult with camp Fiola. Meanwhile, traffic was snaking around his parked car.
To Schmid’s credit, he arranged to meet with residents the next day. He talked of a good friend in Westport who was an abutter to Excel Recycling’s facility there and who had to move because of nuisance noise. After two hours of touring properties and witnessing Excel’s operations, he told residents, “My wife would never tolerate this.” Where has Schmid been since 2015? The day after election day he was in residents’ backyards. He left with shredder debris tucked in his coat pocket that he snatched from the air himself.
Fiola has met with all stakeholders, including residents. Yet, is our plight and periodic victories in her newsletters? No. Were we asked to campaign for her? No. Has she defended Marty Costa, president of Excel Recycling, as a nice man? Yes. Does she believe, to quote her, “the town made the first mistake?” Yes. Did it? Arguably, no.
On Dec. 13, 2015, donations were made to Fiola’s campaign. Six months after receiving license to do business in the Assonet portion of Fiola’s district and purchasing land in November, Marty and his son Jon, vice president of operations at Excel, each donated to Fiola’s campaign. One month later, while town Building Department and MassDEP Air Approval permits were still pending, Costa financed Excel’s expansion in part through her husband Ken Fiola’s Jobs for Fall River, Inc. Excel was operational before year’s end.
There are no donations on record this election cycle from Marty or Jon Costa to either Fiola or her republican opponent, David Steinhof. What there is, however, is a perceived relationship, accurate or not, between Excel and the representative, who has said more than once that she wants to make all sides happy. Noble as neutral may be, sometimes sides must be chosen.
Residents spoke to that hard fact at the ballot box, having looked forward to the election long before Fiola’s opponent started knocking on doors. Steinhof won Assonet by about as many votes as there are residents affected by Excel.
Prior to my first conversation with Steinhof, he had spoken with Marty Costa. Theirs was a phone conversation facilitated by a third party. Steinhof was told a potential donor wanted to speak with him. Though Costa made no mention of donation, he wanted to talk. When the encounter was over, Steinhof was left with the same conclusion as residents. Perplexed, he contacted me, wanting to know what was going on.
Representatives Fiola and Schmid, you won this mess. Going forward, your constituents, these residents, want and deserve unquestionable representation. They want manifest collaboration on Beacon Hill. One legislator is no match against a metals giant. And, they want your wholehearted commitment to the immediate and permanent shutdown of Excel Recycling’s nuisance operations to be overt. Otherwise, elected officials, no love lost.

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New Space India Ltd, the commercial arm of Isro, will engage with startups and private companies for new applications and use the space infrastructure to build them.
The proposal came as a result of a year-long process initiated by the PMO to reform strategic sectors
Last month, Isro identified a set of 17 technologies that it invited researchers to develop locally at lower costs for use in its Gaganyaan missions.
India will allow private firms and startups to use facilities of ISRO to build satellites and rockets.
The Indian Space Research Organisation said the “revised launch date will be informed in due course” without disclosing specific details on the technical reasons or glitches. The satellite was one of the key launches planned by the country’s space agency for this year.
The Hyderabad-based Ananth, a supplier of systems for the Indian Space Research Organisation’s (Isro) satellites, is opening a full-fledged satellite making facility later this month in Bengaluru
Narayanan takes up the role at a time when the Indian space agency is looking to engage the industry in building rockets and satellites and launch them from the country.
The plan includes launching high throughput satellites that can beam high-speed internet at more than 300 gigabytes per second into remote corners
Isro's geospatial data will help the government better plan e-government services in villages.
While a lot of design work has been completed for Gaganyaan already, there will be several tests that will be done this year.
The mission by the Indian Space Research Organisation (Isro) will need powerful rockets, as well as a capsule to carry human beings and return them safely back to earth.
Sivan also said the the generic spaceflight training will commence in India shortly and that would be followed by the mission specific training using simulators.
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Isro plans space station and more human space flights post Gaganyaan mission
The Indian space agency's ambitious plans over the next few years may stutter in the absence of a robust home-grown electronics manufacturing ecosystem
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SAN JOSE, California (AP) - Three teens facing charges in the sexual assault of a 15-year-old Northern California girl who committed suicide after the attack appeared in court for the first time on Tuesday.
The proceedings were not public, and lawyers involved in the case declined to comment.
The three 16-year-old boys are each charged with sexual battery, dissemination of child pornography and possession of child pornography.
Attorneys and family members of the defendants were seen entering juvenile court, the San Jose Mercury News reported.
Relatives of Audrie Pott, who hanged herself after a humiliating photo of her on the night of the attack circulated online, were also there.
Santa Clara County Deputy District Attorney Jaron Shipp said he could not comment or provide any information on the case because the boys are juveniles.
Meanwhile, Mr Robert Allard, an attorney for Audrie's family, announced on Tuesday that they have filed a claim with the Los Gatos-Saratoga Union High School District over what they say was negligence by school administrators in addressing bullying which they say Audrie suffered while she was a student at Saratoga High School.
Filing a claim is a necessary step before a lawsuit can be filed against a public agency.
Mr Allard claims that school administrators did not act on bullying concerns brought up to the principal who preceded the school's current principal Paul Robinson, and that Mr Robinson proclaimed that bullying was not the cause of Audrie's Sept 10 suicide despite having knowledge of the police investigation into the alleged assault.
"That caused a great deal of anxiety for the family," Mr Allard said. "From the mother's perspective, it was extremely inappropriate and insensitive for the school to have announced to the student body Audrie's passing before the family even understood that she had passed."
A call to the school district late on Tuesday seeking comment was not immediately returned.

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This issue brief offers a snapshot of the full Strategies for Improving Patient Representativeness in Research Governance report, which provides examples of governance recruitment and retention practices sourced from literature scans and case study interviews from the PCORI-funded Patient/Participant-Driven Research Community Learning Network (PDRC LN) project. With a focus on engaging populations traditionally underrepresented in research in patient-driven research community governance, the brief provides exciting highlights from the report, which gives detailed descriptions of how PDRCs are doing this work and highlights lessons learned from their experiences. The brief concludes with a set of guiding principles with important implications for both funders and researchers. The PDRC LN project was supported by NORC at the University of Chicago (NORC) and AcademyHealth.
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