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Yesterday AND the day before M was so busy that she did not have time to walk with me! She has been looking at this luminous device for hours on end. While outside the sun was shining! Jeez. What is it with humans that they can't get their priorities right?
I tried to get her attention, of course. I ran around the rooms, dragging Chuck with me. I jumped up and down in front of M. I made special noises to emphasize the importance of Going Out. It did not work. Until today. I am glad to say that we just returned from the beach, both M and I.
It was glorious, as usual. I ran and fetched balls and got my toes wet. M walked and breathed the healthy salty air. She told me we will go to the beach together again every day, from now on. I'll remind her of that promise! Starting maybe… at seven in the morning, every morning? So she won't forget.
By the way, this is what she was so busy with. M wrote a book, a thriller, for an organization. She is kind of proud about it, so I am too.


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Виконтство Марсель () — феодальное княжество в средневековой Франции, существовавшее с X века по 1215 год.

Образовалось одновременно с графством Прованс (ок. 948).

Первый правитель — Арлульф. Согласно историку Жан-Пьеру Поли, он получил в 948—952 годах в лён от короля Бургундии территорию площадью около 60 тысяч гектаров в окрестностях города Марсель. В самом городе власть принадлежала епископам и аббатам монастыря Сен-Виктор, но там была и виконтская часть (Нижний Марсель).

Согласно гипотезе Мантейера (G. de Manteyer), поддержанной Поли, Арлульф — внук графа Теутберта (Тиберта), администратора королевства Прованс в 890—908 гг.

Рослен (ум. 1215) уступил свои права виконта аббатству Сен-Виктор, которое в 1228 году продало их коммуне города Марсель. Одновременно с ним и позже титул виконта Марселя носили его родственники, у которых были какие-то небольшие владения на территории диоцеза.

Виконты Марселя
 Арлульф (ум не ранее 965) (упоминается в документах без виконтского титула)
 Гильом I, сын, с 1004 бенедиктинский монах
 Гильом II, сын
 Гильом III (ум. 1085), сын
 Жоффруа I (ум. 1091), брат
 Гуго Жоффруа I, сын, родоначальник второй линии виконтов
 Гуго Жоффруа (ум. 1166), племянник (сын Понса - одного из 7 сыновей Жоффруа I)
 Гильом IV Большой (ум. 1188), сын
 Гуго Жоффруа (ум. 1199), брат
 Раймон Жоффруа (ум. 1192), брат
 Рослен (ум. 1215), брат. Уступил свои права виконта аббатству Сен-Виктор, которое в 1228 году продало их коммуне города Марсель.
 Бараль, со-виконтесса Марселя с 1208 года, дочь Раймона Жоффруа
 Гуго де Бо, муж, виконт Марселя по правам жены.

Вторая линия виконтов
 Раймон Жоффруа I, сын Гуго Жоффруа I , упом. 1131 и 1152
 Гуго Жоффруа II (ум. не ранее 1193), сын, виконт с 1184
 Раймон Жоффруа II (ум. 1216/17), брат
 Жоффруа Рефорцатус (ум. 1237), сын
 Бергундио (1198—1246), брат, виконт Марселя с 1213.
 Алазасия (ум. 1228), дочь Гуго Жоффруа II
 Раймон де Бо (ум. 1235/37), муж
 Жоффруа Гофриде (ум. после 1238), сын Гуго Жоффруа II, брат Алазасии
 Раймон Жоффруа III (ум. 1234), брат.

Источники
 http://jean.gallian.free.fr/comm2/Images/genealog/Marseille-vicomtes/p1b.pdf
 G. de Manteyer. La Provence du Ier au XIIe siècle : Études d'histoire et de géographie politique, Librairie Alphonse Picard & fils, Paris, 1908, 531 p.
 Histoire de Marseille, de Augustin Fabre
 Raoul Busquet, « Le rôle de la vicomté de Marseille dans la formation du comté de Provence et l'origine de ses vicomtes », p. 67-74, dans Provence historique, tome 4, fascicule 16, 1954
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Here's when you can get nailed: A manager knows or should've known that an employee worked more hours than he or she claimed to have worked.
A recent lawsuit shows just how hard it can be to defeat employees' claims that they weren't paid proper overtime.
Meet Jose Garcia and Raymond Sutton, two employees for SAR Food of Ohio, which runs several Japanese restaurants — under the names Sarku Japan and Sakkio Japan — that are located in shopping center food courts.
Both workers sued SAR. They claimed that despite their initial acknowledgement/certification that the work hours they were paid for were correct, they actually weren't paid for all the time they'd worked.
SAR posted employees' work schedules at the beginning of every work week. Often times, the schedules called for employees to work more than 40 hours in a week — and there was no dispute that when employees' schedules and subsequent payroll submissions indicated that they'd worked overtime, they were paid for the time indicated.
But Garcia and Sutton claimed they frequently worked beyond their scheduled shifts and didn't claim the additional hours on the payroll submissions. Garcia and Sutton gave several reasons for not claiming the additional hours — including not wanting "to seem petty," feeling "intimidated" and not thinking it was worth pointing it out.
The court, however, appeared to give little weight to the flimsy reasons Garcia and Sutton gave for not speaking up about their hours.
Instead, it decided to focus on a bigger fish: The fact that their managers may have known they were working undocumented hours.
Garcia and Sutton painted a picture in which it appeared as though they worked side-by-side with their managers, and their managers had a pretty good idea of the true hours the pair worked.
SAR moved for summary judgment in an attempt to get the workers' lawsuit thrown out. It said that they were given multiple opportunities to inform management that their time sheets were inaccurate and claim the additional work hours (again, there was no despite that SAR paid employees for all the hours they claimed).
But in the end the court said that didn't matter.
Bottom line: The lawsuit was allowed to proceed.
But what about Garcia and Sutton, weren't they culpable for failing to point out the unpaid hours? Not if management knew they weren't paid for time they'd put in, according to the court.
The ruling closely mirrors another ruling that HR Morning reported on earlier this summer in which a court allowed an employee's unpaid overtime claims to proceed based solely on his testimony that he'd worked overtime and hadn't been compensated for it. (In fact, the Garcia v. SAR court cited this case in its ruling).
Both of these rulings set a high bar employers have to meet to get employees' unfair pay claims thrown out of court.
So, naturally, the best thing for employers to do is avoid the courtroom altogether.
Step 1: Tell your managers that they cannot turn a blind eye to the hours employees work — no matter the hours an employee signs off on having worked. Managers should be reviewing time cards and engaging employees in conversations if they believe time cards are inaccurate.
Step 2: Discipline employees for performing unauthorized work or failing to follow your procedures when it comes to reporting work time. As long as employees are paid for all the hours they work, it's within your rights to punish workers for these actions.


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Yeah, that. I only have normal laundry today. Man, was I excited to get through the backlog created by the seasonal change-out. DH will take the last of the bins back out to the shed tomorrow, and then that task will be over for a few months.
I need to decide what to tackle next. It's not as if there is a shortage of stuff to do (see top of the sidebar, LOL). Heh. It occurs to me that ya'll may get tired of the nitty-gritty, down and dirty, true to lifestyle of this blog. I refer you then to the blog manifesto (also in the sidebar). I think I summed it up the other day pretty well, when I said that Cass Knits was all about what I do, and this blog is about who I am. The truth is that who I am is still struggling.
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UK conference Beyond HD to address future of digital formats
By Adrian Pennington2011-02-18T12:19:00+00:00
Beyond HD, a two-day film and TV conference on Feb 26 and 27, will host seminars, panels and workshops about how filmmakers can best use digital formats, including 3D.
The conference will be held at London film and TV college Ravensbourne and is sponsored by the Skillset Film Fund, as part of the UK Film Skills Strategy A Bigger Future 2.
Speakers will include Joanna Hogg, who shot her acclaimed film Archipelago on digital; and cinematographers Tim Palmer (who shot the Road to Coronation Street on the Canon Mark 2 Digital SLR) and Gavin Finney BSC (Hogfather, St Trinian's).
"The concept of shooting in HD has begun to move on to data capture at even higher resolutions," says Finney. " HD will be just one of many standards, from cinema to the internet to the iPad, that can be delivered from one high-resolution data stream."
Directors and producer Bruce Webb (The be all and end all) will be among those presenting the pro-film view. "I like to shoot on film as it is already HD and has been developed over 100 years," he says.
Other experts on hand will include LipSync head of post Kevin Phelan and cinematogrpaher Tim Palmer.
Also, The Foundry will present STORM, which is used in RED Camera workflows.
Neil Peplow, Skillset's Director of Film explains why Skillset is supporting the conference: "Beyond HD is an excellent and timely response to one of the most pressing skills needs that has emerged for the UK film industry in recent years."
More information can be found at rave.ac.uk/beyondhd/
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Q: 'url' requires a non-empty first argument. The syntax changed in Django 1.5, see the docs i'm trying to login using django.contrib.auth but seems this does not work in Django 1.5
this is urls.py
r'^login/$', 'django.contrib.auth.views.login',  {'template_name': 'login.html'}),

and this my template
1   {% extends "website/base.html" %}
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3   {% block content %}
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5   {% if form.errors %}
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Authentication error

7   {% endif %}
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9   <form action="{% url django.contrib.auth.views.login %}" method="post">
10    {% for field in form %}
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12      {{ field.label_tag }}: {{ field }}
13      {{ field.errors }}
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15    {% endfor %}
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<input type="submit" value="Login" />

17    <input type="hidden" name="next" value="{{ next }}" />
18  </form>

how can i fix it ??

A: You want quotes around the view name:
<form action="{% url "django.contrib.auth.views.login" %}" method="post">

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God Of War Mythology Greek
"We had exhausted Greek mythology and kind of started to set up Kratos to be able to connect to more myths. We didn't know exactly where we were going to go at the time, but we knew we were going to.
Upcoming PS4 exclusive God of War makes several big changes in comparison to the PS3 games. The PS4 game is based on Norse mythology, rather than Greek, and it will feature Kratos making parenting.
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The game is looking to be more narrative-focused, it trades Greek mythology for Norse mythology. the sex mini-games were such a small part of the God of War experience that this shouldn't be too.
Ares was the ancient Greek god of war, battlelust, courage and civil order. In art he was depicted as either a mature, bearded warrior armed for battle, or a nude, beardless youth with a helm and spear. His Roman name was Mars.
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PS4 exclusive God of War represents a significant shake-up for the series. The new game will ditch the series' Greek mythology roots and will explore Norse mythology instead. But developer Sony Santa.
May 28, 2018 · "Greek mythology is taught as a very scholastic subject, whereas Norse myth is encountered for fun," scholar Jackson Crawford said. 'God of War's' Reinterpretation of Norse Mythology.
Ares- Greek God of War. Ares is the god of war, one of the Twelve Olympian gods and the son of Zeus and Hera. In literature Ares represents the violent and physical untamed aspect of war, which is in contrast to Athena who represents military strategy and generalship as the goddess of intelligence.
The first trilogy of God of War games explored Greek mythology with Kratos out for revenge against Ares, the Greek God of War, before setting his sights on Zeus. God of War is set to release April 20.
Jun 21, 2016. We knew that the game would be set after God of War 3 and incorporate elements of Norse mythology, but the website paints a clearer picture.
Barlog's unwillingness to answer could mean that Kratos is completely leaving Greek mythology behind in the new game, but he also wouldn't outright deny if the character Athena would be returning. So.
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The Greek mythology is rich with many myths and legends. According to the Greek mythology, there were fourteen Olympian deities who ruled the world from their heavenly abode on Mount Olympus. The king of these divine beings was Zeus, the most powerful of them all. He overthrew the rule of the Titans by winning a war against his own father, Cronus.
Greek Gods HEPHAESTUS & ARES & Goddess ATHENA Statue Sculpture 6.3". Ares is the Greek god of war. He is one of the Twelve Olympians, and the son of Zeus and Hera.
Apr 9, 2018. Sony Santa Monica has confirmed to finder that God of War 5 will continue. Greek mythology has been traded out in favour of Norse lore,
Athena (Minerva) Greek Goddess marching to war – Art Picture With the help of the goddess, Perseus managed to kill the Gorgon. She was a monster that had snakes instead for hair and her eyes caused terrible panic or petrify anyone who was facing them.
"God of War" is getting a New Game+ mode in the form. Unlike the previous installments, this new entry in the franchise is loosely based in Norse mythology instead of Greek mythology.
Greek Mythology offers information on all Greek Gods, Greek Goddesses and Myths of Ancient Greece. All about Pandora, Hercules, Jason, Odysseus, Minotaur, Achilles, Medusa and many more!
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| Publication January 9, 2018 |
Recent Developments in Cryptocurrencies and Blockchain Technology in the Fund Industry
By Andrew C. Raby, Diana E. McCarthy and Joshua M. Lindauer
The era of virtual or "crypto" currencies arrived in 2008 with the founding of Bitcoin. Cryptocurrencies are digital representations of value that can be digitally traded and function as a medium of exchange, unit of account, or store of value. Cryptocurrencies are not, however, legal tender – that is, they cannot necessarily be tendered to a creditor as a valid and legal payment. Cryptocurrencies such as Bitcoin are created and disseminated using "blockchain" or distributed ledger technology (DLT). This technology utilizes a network of independent computers connected over the internet to verify and irrevocably log transactions in a decentralized public transaction ledger known as the "blockchain." The blockchain is a record of transactions written as a series of equations. Blockchain technology powers Bitcoin but can be used for other purposes as well. This alert explores some of the recent securities law developments in cryptocurrencies, blockchain technology developments in the fund industry, and related fund director responsibilities.
Recent Securities Law Developments in Cryptocurrencies
SEC Guidance
Jay Clayton, Chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), delivered a Statement on Cryptocurrencies and Initial Coin Offerings (the "Statement") on December 11, 2017. The Chairman noted that the rapid growth of the virtual currency and initial coin offering (ICO) market presents investors and other market participants with a multitude of questions, including whether the product or offering is legal, whether the trading markets are fair, and whether there is a significant risk of loss or theft. Chairman Clayton warned that virtual currency markets are substantially less regulated and offer fewer investor protections than traditional securities markets, with correspondingly greater opportunities for fraud and manipulation. He urged market professionals to (i) review recent SEC guidance1 and enforcement actions and (ii) read closely the Report of Investigation under Section 21(a) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934: The DAO (the "DAO Report").
The DAO Report focuses on the securities law implications of ICOs. An ICO is an offering of a new digital coin – sometimes called a token – in order to raise capital for a business or project. ICOs generally give the holders of the tokens some type of right related to the business or project being funded.
The SEC concluded in the DAO Report that under the present facts and circumstances, the DAO tokens were securities. In the DAO Report, the SEC admonished that, depending on the facts and circumstances, cryptocurrencies may be considered securities requiring registration, unless valid exemptions apply. The SEC further advised that, depending on the facts and circumstances, the platforms used to trade cryptocurrencies on the secondary market are securities exchanges.
Chairman Clayton further emphasized two points in the Statement. First, in determining whether a virtual currency or ICO constitutes a security or an offering of a security, the SEC will consider substance over form, stating that "simply calling something a 'currency' does not mean it is not a security" and that "before launching a cryptocurrency or a product with its value tied to one or more cryptocurrencies, its promoters must (i) be able to demonstrate that the currency is not a security or (ii) comply with applicable registration and other requirements …." Second, broker-dealers and other market participants who use cryptocurrencies to facilitate market transactions should ensure they are not violating anti-money laundering and know-your-customer obligations.
SEC Action on ICOs and Cryptocurrencies
The Statement came hours after a California company halted an initial coin offering after being notified by the SEC that its ICO was an illegal and unregistered offering of securities. The company also consented to a cease and desist order wherein the SEC reiterated its analysis and conclusion from the DAO Report, i.e., that under certain facts and circumstances, virtual currencies are securities and ICOs must comply with federal securities laws or find a valid exemption.
Last month, the SEC also obtained an emergency asset freeze to halt an ICO fraud that began in August 2017 and had raised up to $15 million from thousands of investors. The charges were the first to be filed by the SEC's newly created Cyber Unit. The Cyber Unit's mandate is to focus on cyber-related misconduct, including violations involving DLT and ICOs.
These actions highlight, among other things, regulators' concerns over the extreme price volatility (e.g., Bitcoin rose more than 40 percent in a 40-hour period in December) and risk of complete loss of value of cryptocurrencies. Cybersecurity also remains a concern. Although cryptocurrency transactions generally must be verified with the holder's individualized "private key" before being recorded, concerns remain over the integrity of blockchain technology and the potential for hacking or manipulation of distributed ledgers.
ETF Registration Statements
Chairman Clayton noted in the Statement that to date, no ICOs have been registered with the SEC and that the SEC has not approved any exchange-traded products holding cryptocurrencies. We should note, however, that there are at least six exchange-traded fund (ETF) sponsors who have filed registration statements for ETFs that would hold Bitcoin or obtain exposure to Bitcoin through futures contracts. The SEC has put out a call for public comment on two proposed rule changes to the Chicago Board Options Exchange that would allow the exchange to list the first Bitcoin related ETFs. No action has been taken to date on the registration statements, however, and at least one of those applications was withdrawn.
CFTC and Futures Actions
The first U.S. Bitcoin futures contracts began trading on Sunday, December 11, 2017, on an exchange run by Cboe Global Markets Inc. CME Group began trading Bitcoin futures one week later, and other exchanges are planning to introduce their own Bitcoin futures in the coming weeks. The debut of Bitcoin futures has renewed efforts to launch the first Bitcoin-related ETFs and exchange-traded products. Of note, the Commodities Futures Trading Commission considers (i) Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies to be commodities, (ii) derivatives contracts based on a cryptocurrency to be one area of its oversight, and (iii) its jurisdiction implicated wherever there is fraud or manipulation involving a cryptocurrency traded in interstate commerce.
Blockchain Technology Developments in the Fund Industry
Fund shops, custodians and other service providers are reportedly looking into possible uses of blockchain or distributed ledger technology for, among other things, trade processing and settlement, proxy voting, and repurchase agreements. Because DLT allows for control and transparency by documenting the author and creating a record of each change to a given ledger, the technology has the potential to reduce the risk of operational errors or fraud on trading platforms and in the clearance and settlement process, and to aid in regulatory reporting, audit and compliance. DLT could also streamline the trade clearance and settlement process through the use of "smart contracts," i.e., digital contracts that are stored in computer code and that can be digitally executed once two or more parties enter their individual "private keys." The technology also has the potential to provide for a more efficient process for complying with anti-money laundering and know-your-customer obligations by allowing one organization's verification of a client to be accessed by another organization without beginning the process over.
Certain fund industry providers have also announced specific blockchain-based initiatives. Vanguard recently tested and has plans to go live with a blockchain-based system that will automate the sharing of index data with one of its top benchmark providers. The Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC), working with Digital Asset – a DLT developer – demonstrated in early 2017 the first successful netting of the "start" leg of repo transactions with prior end-of-day net securities obligations in the DTCC environment. Nasdaq Private Market, a Nasdaq market that services the equity shares of privately held companies, has also launched a blockchain proof of concept called Linq, which currently records shares of privately held firms. Additionally, Broadridge, J.P. Morgan, CME Group, State Street and others have joined the Hyperledger Project, an open-source project aimed at driving the adoption and standardization of DLT.
Fund Director Responsibilities
Fund directors are responsible for the oversight of various aspects of a fund's investments, disclosures, operations and risk management. Blockchain technology and cryptocurrencies are both frontier issues for the fund industry and the potential benefits and risks remain to be seen. Fund directors may wish to consider asking fund sponsors for management's view on blockchain technology, ICOs and cryptocurrencies. Some specific questions that fund directors may wish to consider with respect to the use of blockchain technology in fund operations and a fund's holding of cryptocurrencies or cryptocurrency derivatives are listed below.
Oversight of Investments
To what extent, if any, will a fund invest directly or indirectly in cryptocurrencies and/or ICOs?
How will Bitcoin and other virtual currencies be categorized under the Investment Company Act of 1940 (e.g., an asset other than a security, cash or cash equivalent)?
Oversight of Fund Operations
To what extent is management considering using blockchain technology in fund operations? For what functions? What are the potential risks, rewards and liabilities associated with this technology as proposed?
Should transactions in Bitcoins and other virtual currencies be covered by the code of ethics applicable to a fund's investment personnel?
If a fund elects to keep its cryptocurrencies in the custody of a bank or broker, who will have access to and control of the fund's private key associated with its virtual currency holdings?
If a fund complies with the self-custody rules, should arrangements be made to deposit its private key in the safekeeping of a bank "or other company whose functions and facilities are supervised by a federal or state authority" (e.g., some states have established comprehensive frameworks for regulating and issue licenses under state banking or similar laws to businesses involved with virtual currencies)?
Oversight of Risk
What is the role of compliance and risk management in DLT technology as used by a fund?
What are the privacy and confidentiality ramifications relating to the use of this technology?
If a fund or its distributor elects to accept payments in a given cryptocurrency, how will the fund or its distributors meet anti-money laundering and know-your-customer obligations?
What risks do cryptocurrencies or cryptocurrency derivatives pose to a fund and its shareholders; are they appropriate for the portfolio of an open-end mutual fund structure?
Will cryptocurrency holdings affect the implementation of fund liquidity risk management programs?
Oversight of Disclosure
If blockchain technology is used in fund operations, are the risks sufficiently disclosed?
Do the fund's registration statement and related documents properly disclose the risks related to a fund's holding of cryptocurrencies or cryptocurrency derivatives (e.g., risks surrounding the potentially illiquid nature, extreme price volatility and cyber security of cryptocurrencies)?
How will valuation and financial reporting requirements be met for a fund's cryptocurrencies and cryptocurrency derivative holdings (e.g., are they valued based on quoted prices, but involving some degree of judgement by the fund because of the nature of the markets in which they trade)?
Developments in securities laws related to cryptocurrencies and in the fund industry's use of blockchain technology are occurring rapidly and the information in this alert is only accurate as of the date of this alert.
1 Investor Bulletin on ICOs; Statement on the Potentially Unlawful Promotion of Initial Coin Offerings and Other Investments by Celebrities and Others
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Andrew C. Raby
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Cult of the individual - is it worth following star fund managers?
Fund managers Richard Buxton (left) and Neil Woodford made high-profile moves - but how have they fared since? Credit: Steve Daszko/Jeff Gilbert
Sam Brodbeck
8 September 2016 • 3:36pm
Woodford Investment Management
Like it or not, where "star" fund managers go, money tends to follow. Whether it's Neil Woodford leaving Invesco Perpetual to start out on his own or Schroders' Richard Buxton joining rival Old Mutual, belief in the powers of feted managers attracts investors' money in huge quantities.
But do you actually benefit from backing a manager wherever they lay their hat? And what factors should you consider when deciding whether to move your money to their new fund? The past few years have seen some of the biggest names in investing jump ship.
Following the money
Analysis for Telegraph Money by Hargreaves Lansdown, the fund shop, looked at three instances of a high-profile fund manager leaving to run a different fund with a comparable mandate.
The three funds' performance data – expressed in "total return figures, which take into account capital gains as well as dividends – paints a mixed picture.
But note that in two of the examples managers switched firms not more than three years ago – and experts say judgments should be based on at least five years of data to allow for market conditions that may have masked flaws or artificially inflated performance.
The first of the three managers, Neil Woodford, left Invesco Perpetual in 2013 to set up his eponymous investment company. His new flagship fund, Woodford Equity Income, produced a total return of 29.7pc between its launch in June 2014 and the start of this month. This compares with the 14.6pc returned by the fund he left, Invesco Perpetual Income.
Likewise, Alister Hibbert swapped Scottish Widows for BlackRock in 2008 to run another European equity fund. To date it has rewarded investors with a mammoth 158.6pc return, compared with the 62pc returned by the sector as a whole and 31.2pc by his old fund, Scottish Widows European Select Growth.
In these examples, investors who followed a manager to a new firm found their loyalty justified. Yet those who moved with Richard Buxton – who quit Schroders to Old Mutual Global Investors – have not fared so well.
While Mr Buxton's new fund, Old Mutual UK Alpha, delivering strong returns of 17.7pc from July 2013 to date, this is less than investors would have received in Schroders' equivalent fund and the sector average. In this case, investors should have stayed put.
Despite this, Laith Khalaf, a senior analyst at Hargreaves Lansdown, said that "under most circumstances" investors should follow the manager they originally decide to place money with.
"A fund is just a shell. It's like a football club: if you've got Pep Guardiola running it you might be perfectly happy to bet on the club winning the Premier League, but if a Division Four manager came up to run the club you might not be as confident," Mr Khalaf said.
But Tom Stevenson of Fidelity Personal Investing, a rival firm, cautioned against following managers "blindly". He added: "Some star managers have rightly earned their reputation for investment skill and will feature in many investors' portfolios.
"It's better to focus on your long-term investment goals and look to build a diversified portfolio that meets your individual needs."
As our figures show, it is not obvious whether following a manager will turn out to be the right decision. However, there are several areas that investors should explore when the leadership of a fund is about to change. The first thing to check is if the manager's mandate will be different at their new fund.
This includes not only geographical remit and asset type, such as UK equities or emerging market bonds, but what returns the fund aims to make over a given period and what levels of risk the manager is prepared to take.
Understanding the investment processes and resources at the manager's disposal, as well as the new firm's track record, should be next on your checklist, said Russ Mould of fund shop AJ Bell.
This can be tricky for individual investors, Mr Mould admitted, but he noted that some fund groups, such as Aberdeen Asset Management, provided plenty of information on managers' strategies online. These could include details such as how regularly managers meet the companies they have invested in, or whether they favour "value" stocks – considered underpriced – or "growth" companies.
Did backing these big name investors pay off?
In addition, the teams that back the headline managers should also be taken into account.
At Invesco for instance, Mark Barnett took over the running of Mr Woodford's funds after 20 years at the firm. Many credit his appointment with keeping money from flowing out of the funds; the withdrawals, although they totalled billions of pounds, were not as catastrophic as some had predicted.
Lastly, as always in investment, there could be a cost to moving and this should be considered alongside the potential benefits. Many investment platforms no longer charge for fund switches – although AJ Bell charges £1.50 to buy or sell a fund – and if the investment is held outside a pension or Isa it could be subject to capital gains tax.
There is also the risk of being out of the market in the period between buying and selling funds, although this is likely to be less than 24 hours.
The steps outlined above should also be taken with the existing fund, Mr Mould added.
"All of these tests would apply to the fund left behind, which has potentially served you so well," he said. "You may be very comfortable with the team and resources dedicated to your existing holding and the style that underpins the investment selection process and feel that its fees mean it represents good value, given the performance."
The factors to take into account here are the expertise of the remaining team, including how well they can be expected to manage if the fund begins to suffer large withdrawals. While a handful of managers have gained a place in the public consciousness, the vast majority will remain relatively unknown.
Fund groups do not have to alert investors to changes in management, which can therefore fly under the radar. However, your platform provider should keep you updated on significant moves.
Has the manager's mandate – asset type, geographical focus, target returns – changed?
What resources, such as investment analysts, will the manager have available to them at their new fund?
Apply the above tests to the existing fund – does it still meet your investment needs?
What charges or taxes could you incur by switching funds?
Investment trusts with high performance fees – are they worth the cost?


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September 12, 2009 Cork, Event, Landscape
June 2003. Whilst at a very loose end one day and wanting to clear the head of unpleasant thoughts, I invented the tour which shall forever be known as the "Solstice Sojourn". Started at home in Carrigaline, west taking in Bandon, Clonakilty, Skibbereen, Schull, Leap, Sheeps Head, Bantry, Glengarriff and a few other towns that I can't remember. All in all, took about 9 hours and was held for two years running on the longest day of the year. IRead More
June 2003. Back when I first got my (what I would now refer to as) first proper digital camera I tried out more or less everything with limited success. It was only when I tried everything that I really started lusting after a DSLR. And so the cycle of expense and gear porn begins. Here I was, perched outside Cork's main fire station, waiting for an emergency so I could get what I imagined would be 'cool' shots of theRead More
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The Bubblegum Run
September 8, 2009 Dublin, Event, People
July 2004. Before taking the bus sized bike on the voyage to France, I hit upon the Bubblegum Run. It's an annual event in Dublin's biker calendar that (if I remember correctly as it was some years ago) starts at Mansion house in the city centre and makes it's way out to Mondello park in Kildare. This was the first year I'd done it but with any bit of luck, it won't be the last.
France on a Bike
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August 2004. Having bought a great big monster of a tourer, I came to the decision to take it around France on a 2,500 mile round trip down the west coast and back up the midlands to Paris. France really is an odd country. I'd never been there before and I think next time I'd be a lot wiser in my travel plans. No more camp sites and no more service station diners thanks. But I did get the opportunityRead More
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April 2005. Always one of the places I'd take the bike to for a spin in the evenings or weekends, Charlesfort and it's neighbour Jamesfort across the harbour are popular spots. That used to be just so I could go sit in the sunshine for a few minutes or to consume whatever I'd bought in the shop on the way down before walking around the outside of the castle taking photos. Then it became the invaluable spot to stop withRead More
Castlefreake
September 4, 2009 Cork
April 2005. Before being boarded up, wrapped in scaffolding and having very large 'no entry, prosecution blah blah blah' signs posted at it's gates some years ago, Castlefreake was, as it's name suggests, a freaky spot to visit. At one stage the basement, including the tunnel pictured, was in complete darkness. Hence, I wouldn't go down it. After a few bits of the building gave up and fell off it let a bit of light in and it was aRead More
Custom & Classic Show
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May 2005. I only really remember this as one of the first times I actively tried to sell my previous bike, a Yamaha Royal Star Venture. Put on by the Freewheelers MC in Waterford, the show was my first opportunity to get up close to and photograph trial bikes. When asked by one of the riders 'which paper I work for', I remember having to think fast and come up with something good so I'd be allowed further access toRead More
Victor Frankenstein
September 2, 2009 Cork, Event, People
June 2005. Victor Frankenstein marked a few firsts. First time I successfully blagged a press pass, first time I accidentally hit someone with a lens hood, first time I learned that the 20D was not a fan of being used at high ISO\'s and the first time I was propositioned by a very nasty prostitute. Serves me right for parking on the quays. Great show and huge crowds. One of the many great events that took part in Cork forRead More
Inchidoney Surf School
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Yes, spam is actually still a problem
August 19, 2014 by laura in Industry
I hear a lot of people claim that spam isn't really a problem any more. That filters are so good that the average user doesn't see a lot of spam and if they do get "legitimate" mail that they can just opt out.
These are great sounding arguments, the problem is that those arguments aren't always true.
There is an address I stopped using for commercial mail around 1997 and all mail around 2002. It still gets hundreds of emails a month.
Those hundreds of emails a month are despite the fact that the address is behind commercial spam filters. It's been on "flamers lists." It's on the "do not mail" list that came with the "Millions CD."
In addition, I am very open with clients (and their affiliates) that this is a "spam trap" address. I've handed it out to dozens and dozens of companies over the years describing it as my spam trap address.
In November 2013, I unsubscribed from every single email received at that account – at least those that had unsubscribe links.
What does the mail volume look like now?
If anything unsubscribing made the volume problems worse. In the best case it lowered the volume briefly to something approaching 10 emails a day.
There are currently over 500 messages I've received so far in August. These are messages advertising companies like Laura Ashley, MetLife, Military.com, Quibids, Walk In Tubs, Sainsbury's, Bloomburg, Fidelity, Oral B, Lasix Vision Institute, Virgin Broadband, ClickNLoan, Timeshares, iMotors, Walmart, oil changes, Experian, Credit monitoring, Life insurance, ADT, CHW Home Warranty, Health Plans of America, Bosley Hair Solutions, Jillian Michaels Online, restaurant coupons, credit cards, SBA loans, and that's before we get to the Garcinia cambogia, herbal viagra and clearly fraudulent stuff.
This account, that hasn't been subscribed to anything in more than 10 years is getting hundreds of unasked for emails a month, even with the benefit of commercial filters. It appears to be being sold or traded in multiple countries (Laura Ashley, Virgin Broadband and Sainsbury's are all in the UK). I don't want this mail. I have tried to stop getting this mail.
Yes, spam is still a problem.
mainsleaze • Spam • unsubscribe
Huey says
Let me start out by saying that I believe that you are one of (if not THE) finest professionals in your field, and I generally accept what you say without a second thought. And what you're saying here is most certainly true, from one perspective.
Let me start from an odd direction. My little brother is a chemist in a plating plant, and his principal responsibility is ensuring that all of the nasty stuff (cyanide, nitric acid, peroxide, whatever) that's used in the factory doesn't make it into the wastewater that eventually finds its way into Lake Michigan, or your drinking water. And he's good at his job, so it doesn't. So when someone says 'Cyanide in Lake Michigan isn't all that much of a problem", that's true: you can test for that, and clearly, it isn't.
But from another perspective, the REASON that it's true is because my brother, and a lot of other folks in his industry, are working very hard to MAKE it that way. It's not that the problem doesn't exist, it's that it gets solved before anybody notices.
For the end-user, spam is largely a solved problem. And there's a lot of people working very hard to keep it solved, before anybody notices.
This is an end user account at a regional ISP provider and is behind spam filters – it gets ZERO infection emails / executables and in the time I have been tracking mail there have been less than 20 phishes.
So I have to disagree with your statement that "for endusers spam is mostly a solved problem." This is an enduser email address. Admittedly, it's a 20 year old end user address that was used online for more than 10 years. But I can't be the only person with addresses that old.
KyLew says
As you know, there are usually two unsubscribe options in many of the bulk senders emails. Are you unsubscribing from the global or the offer unsub? Unless you are unsubscribing from both, you will still be on the lists.
Steevo says
Spam a solved problem?
Maybe, but it's really *because* of all the filtering. The filtering is why there is so much spam today.
Used to be a spammer could send out 100.000 messages to get one order of generic viagra. Now, they have to send 100 million to get that one order.
Unfortunately they have been able to do it. So we filter.
Which is why they send so much.
It's a ridiculous arms race, and it's resulted in me having to go into the server yesterday to look for an important email that I did not receive.
Email marketing is just too problematic. Spam too, but they are so close as to be nearly interchangeable.
Rick Noel says
SPAM filters have gotten better but are far from 100%. One possibility is to submit a SPAM complaint FTC or whatever regulatory body is relevant to your country.
The SPAM situation for end users can be felt through false positives in missing critical communications and lost productivity for bounces on legitimate non-SPAM emails.
This happens mostly with large corporations with very aggressive settings on their SPAM filters. For legitimate marketers, this is a problem as well. Getting someone to double opt-in is one thing, but getting them to contact their IT department go get an address to an email whitelist is quite another!
Rudy Gleiss says
Having a problem with spam, can you help?
Unsubscribing is hardEmail saves trees!


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(In the example I've used .tiff format, but I'm open to anything that works.)
What's the easiest way to compile the separate image files into a single PDF file?

A: Using ImageMagick is probably the easiest way:
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A: Try this.
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Winning wise, I really like winning when the odds are stacked against me and everybody counted me out though those races are just, I mean it is not just to prove other people wrong or haters wrong, it's that you did it, you overcame, you fought through it all even when people told you to quit and when you had so many doubts that you didn't know if you could do it.
So that's why I always encourage people when things look terrible keep fighting through because situations can change in a moment, you can go from last to first if you just keep plugging away.
I love epsom salt bath after I travel. So travelling really stresses me out, some workouts do as well, so I buy huge like insanely big bags of epsom salts often, even though epsom salt is so heavy to carry from the grocery store but I just have them shipped to my house and I love epsom salt baths!
If not an athlete, what would you likely be?
I would be a TV personality, I love entertaining people and I'm work on a few shows, I also like to do a lot of stuff on Instagram stories and I just like to make people laugh and entertain them.
What are your preparing for next?
We're two years out from Tokyo Olympics and this year's a big year with World Championships being held in Doha so those are my goals and I am working very hard every day to have finish my career strong.
As an athlete, you are often pushed against grave circumstances like severe injuries. How do you deal with that?
I would make sure to always have big goals and small goals and so after I had spine surgery, even though the Olympics were a year out from then and I was in a hospital bed and I couldn't walk, my main goal was just go day by day. So the first ones like ok walk then we're going to start rehab and then we're going to just get stronger every day but I had the bigger picture of making it to the Olympic Team in the hindsight. I think a lot of times we put pressure on ourselves when we get injured that we're going to be back in three months and then when we're not back in three months then our whole system, our whole confidence just collapses and we might freak out or stress so then you have to go back to what can I do today to improve my situation for tomorrow.
I think one of the hardest injuries I ever had was a Achilles injury even over the spine surgery because achilles takes over a year to recover, and in my mind I had given myself a time limit of six months and then it ended up being over a year and I was very depressed during that time so I had to just focus on your achilles is injured what can I do now, I can do abs, I could do pool workouts.
So if your goal completely shatters, then you need to research and make smaller goals so that you're still having confidence in achieving and you're making a forward progress.


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Home > Food > What are Probiotics and Are They Worth the Hype?
I've been hearing a ton about probiotics lately. How they can boost weight loss, help with allergies and even boost your mood. Without a good mix of probiotics in your stomach you may have all kinds of illness and issues. But what are probiotics in the first place?
I decided to do some research on the topic to see if I could learn more about what probiotics do and how they help us. Are probiotics worth all the hype they've been getting? Should I take a probiotic? If so, which one and why?
Here's what I found out about the benefits of probiotics.
What are probiotics in the first place?
Within your digestive system (aka your gut) you have many different bacteria. These bacteria process food and do a myriad of different tasks. They work with your hormones and nervous system to move food through your body, break it down, process the nutrients within your GI tract.
The bacteria in your GI tract is referred to as your gut flora or microbiome. Inside your gut there are also bad bacteria–the goal is to have a healthy mix and environment, where the good bacteria outweighs the bad (which can make you sick). Keeping the right microbiome will help the good bacteria flourish and help you avoid illness.
So probiotics do a myriad of beneficial tasks for your GI tract, with new research happening every day. Here are just a few of the benefits of probiotics.
Recent research at the University of Florida shows that probiotics may help with allergy symptoms. By increasing the body's healthy regulators: T-cells, probiotics help boost your tolerance to hay fever triggers like pollen, mold and dust. Taking a probiotic helped those mild allergy sufferers in the study to experience fewer symptoms such as running noses, watery eyes and itchy throats.
The biggest benefit of probiotics (and area of the most promising research) is in digestion. The good bacteria in probiotics help you digest carbohydrates in your small intestine and they help you absorb vitamin K in your large intestine. They help counter the effects of antibiotics (which kill bacteria in your system indiscriminately and thus can cause stomach upset). They also show promising benefits for those who suffer from IBS and other chronic digestive issues.
A research study showed promising results for probiotic use in fighting depression. Probiotics help the body convert tryptophan from the stomach (the "calming chemical" found in your Thanksgiving meal among many other foods) into Serotonin in the brain. Increased serotonin means less depression, anxiety and other mood disorders!
Recent studies also show that probiotics reduce inflammation in the gut, thus strengthening the immune system. Your small intestines contain a high number of lymph nodes, which fight off illness and attack viruses and bacteria. When fighting off these illnesses, the lymph nodes increase inflammation, but sometimes that inflammation sticks around even after illnesses have past, causing a myriad of problems. Probiotics strengthen the epithelial lining of your intestines, warding off these pathogenic microbes and keeping them from entering the body, making you sick.
There are many other benefits under research from battling bad bacteria in the urinary tract (that causes dreaded UTI's) to warding off vaginal bacterial, yeast and fungal infections and more. There's promising research in the area of skin disorders as well–psoriasis and eczema may both benefit from probiotic use. Both men and women may see health benefits from increasing the probiotics in their diet.
To increase your probiotics there are several methods. Many people think of taking a supplement first. While supplements can be good, they can also offer nothing more than a placebo effect.
Here's the deal, different strains of probiotics do different things. Lactobacillus is one of the most common probiotics, and is commonly called Acidophilus. It may also be called Bulgaricus or casei. It's most effective in treating diarrhea and stomach upset (especially from antibiotic use) and can be helpful for yeast infections. Bifidobacterium is another probiotic (Bifidus or Breve are other names). It's also helpful to counteract antibiotics and medication effects on your GI tract. Streptococcus Thermophilus is a bacterium that helps to ferment foods and counteracts lactose intolerance.
If all this sounds confusing, yes, it can be. To compound the issue, tests on probiotic supplements and "enhanced foods" show mixed results. In one ConsumerLab study, the levels varied greatly with a few of the tested supplements showing no viable probiotic organisms at all. Many supplements may need to be refrigerated and foods containing live probiotics shouldn't be cooked or you may eliminate any benefits from the living organisms.
As a general rule of thumb, if you're considering adding any supplement to your diet, ask your doctor or consult with a nutritionist. While probiotic supplements have benefits, they aren't necessary for everyone (especially if you're eating a balanced diet).
If you aren't sure about probiotic supplements, you can still see benefits by eating foods containing probiotics as well as "prebiotics." Prebiotic foods contain nutrients that feed probiotic organisms and reduce inflammation in the body. Another common conclusion is that sugar can harm probiotics, so avoiding sugar will help degrees your bad bacteria and increase your good bugs (and that sugary probiotic yogurt may be neutralizing its own benefits).
Foods fortified with probiotics should generally be "raw" or less-processed. Processing kills many of the positive bacteria. Fermented foods contain probiotics and it's easy to incorporate a few of these foods into your regular diet. Always look to ensure these foods contain live probiotics.
Incorporate a few of these beneficial foods into your meal plan to see the benefits of probiotics in your diet today!


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Music Service iLike In Search Of A Buyer: Report
Tameka Kee Nov 25, 2008 - 6:29 AM CST
Social music service iLike is on the block, MediaMemo reports — with existing stakeholder Ticketmaster and online music pioneer *RealNetworks* at the top of the potential buyers list. ILike has raised about $16 million in funding since its launch in 2006, with Ticketmaster and Bob Pittman's Pilot Group as its investors.
If this situation sounds familiar, it's because it is. Fellow music-focused social media company Imeem is also on the hunt for a buyer, a sign that both companies' management teams are wary of functioning independently in an increasingly cash-strapped market. Still, investors haven't shied away from from pumping money into the digital music space: distributor TuneCore closed a $7 million funding round just last month, and Facebook has even been pondering its own music offering. Facebook also could be a likely buyer, given that iLike is one of its most popular apps, attracting about 5.4 million active users per month, but a pure stock play is likely to go over as well as it did with Twitter.
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Know Your KCK History – Kansas Statehood
Date: January 28, 2021Author: Sheryl 0 Comments
Map of the Kansas and Nebraska Territories, National Archives
On January 29th, Kansas celebrates its 160th anniversary of statehood. The story of Kansas's path to becoming a state is a dramatic and important one in our nation's history.
All eyes were on Kansas in the 1850s. Kansas was the flashpoint for two events that changed our nation forever–the Civil War and the abolition of slavery. Just after Kansas Territory was formed in 1854, it quickly became the center of attention. The whole nation knew that when Kansas became a state, it would alter the balance of power between North and South. The territory became known as Bleeding Kansas because of violent clashes between anti- and proslavery supporters.
Kansas Territory was created on May 30, 1854. People seeking new opportunities immediately began immigrating here. Some came for land, some came to fight for a cause, and some came for both reasons. Farmers, land speculators, and railroad promoters looked westward for opportunity in the 1850s. The Indian country, though, lay in the way of their view of progress. Many Americans believed Kansas would determine the future of slavery. Willing to risk their lives and fortunes, people on all sides of the slavery issue flocked here in the 1850s.
Draft of the Kansas Nebraska Act, National Archives
To become a state, Kansas needed a constitution. The document voters chose would either prohibit or allow slavery. People came to Kansas especially to vote (to cast a legal ballot, they had to live here), but they couldn't agree on a constitution because of their differences on slavery. Kansas had four different constitutional conventions because delegates could not write a document that satisfied both the people of the territory and the U.S. Congress. Fraudulent elections, threats of violence, and congressional disagreements all prolonged the conflict.
Missourians crossed the border in great numbers to vote illegally. They were successful at first, electing several proslavery officials. Voting fraud was so serious in 1854 and 1855 that Congress ordered a special commission to investigate. One incident in the committee's report involved proslavery Sheriff Samuel Jones. He entered a polling place and gave the election judges five minutes to leave or be killed.
Kansas Territory quickly became known as Bleeding Kansas because of violence carried out by both sides. Antislavery as well as proslavery supporters made threats, destroyed property, and committed murder. Bleeding Kansas is as much about terror–the threat of death–as it is about spilled blood. Much of the violence was exaggerated by the press, with both Northern and Southern newspapers playing up acts of aggression. Nevertheless, the nation believed all of Kansas to be a bloody battleground. Most Kansans never experienced violence themselves, but all lived with the fear of it.
Lawrence was a well-known antislavery town. Its newspapers constantly criticized the proslavery territorial government. As a result, a proslavery grand jury stated that the newspapers and the Free State Hotel were nuisances and could be "removed." Shortly thereafter, a proslavery mob attacked Lawrence, looting homes and destroying businesses. Three months after the sack of Lawrence, free-state men retaliated by attacking Fort Titus, a nearby proslavery cabin. There they forced proslavery leader Colonel Henry Titus to surrender his sword.
John Brown is the symbol of Bleeding Kansas–a hero to many, a madman to others. Taught that slavery was a sin, Brown came to believe that only through violence would the institution be stopped. While in Kansas, he liberated slaves, raised funds for his activities, and fought in skirmishes against proslavery forces. Angered by the sack of Lawrence, Brown sought to "strike terror in the hearts of the pro-slavery people." Brown and a small group of men–including some of his sons–violently murdered five men living on Pottawatomie Creek. These proslavery men had not been involved in the sack of Lawrence. While some justified Brown's actions, others found the brutality appalling, and the murders hurt the free-state cause as much as they helped. Brown left Kansas in 1859, and soon after, he planned a slave insurrection that would begin at Harpers Ferry, Virginia, with an attack on the federal arsenal. Brown armed the rebelling slaves with pikes he had purchased from a Connecticut blacksmith. The attack failed, and Brown was hanged for treason in December 1859.
Kansas meant opportunity to most people. Although settlers came here for cheap land, some also came to fight for a cause. Only people living here could determine whether slavery would exist in Kansas. The outcome of this debate would influence national policy. The majority of people came to Kansas Territory from nearby states. Most Missourians were proslavery but did not own slaves themselves. They supported slavery in Kansas because they viewed it as an extension of their own slave state. On the other hand, settlers from Illinois, Iowa, and Ohio were predominantly free-state. They opposed slavery on economic (rather than moral) grounds.
A diverse mix of people lived here before 1854. Indians native to the region were forced to make way for nearly 30 additional tribes moved here from the East by the U.S. government in the 1830s and 1840s. Agents, soldiers, missionaries, trappers, and traders were in the territory, too. Anyone without prior approval of the government was here illegally. Whites, a handful of Blacks (primarily slaves), mixed-bloods, and full-blood Indians co-mingled, often with competing views about the best use of the land. Several tribes were moved to smaller reservations to make way for settlers. Thousands of people flooded into the new Kansas Territory even before these treaties were finalized in 1854. Whites knowingly settled on Indian lands, assuming they would eventually get title to the property.
Obviously, the opening of the territory did not always hold the same economic and political opportunities for Indians as it did for Whites. Some people believed Indians needed to give up their traditional practices to live peaceably among Whites. Many churches sent missionaries here before 1854 to educate and convert Indians. Tribal members assumed that missionaries had their best interests in mind, but speculators and government agents often bribed missionaries to obtain treaties giving up Indian land to Whites.
Kansas Territory became a magnet for people opposed to slavery. The most politically active settlers came from New England. The New England Emigrant Aid Company is a well-known antislavery group that brought settlers to Kansas. Formed in April 1854, it had two goals: to settle antislavery families in Kansas and to make a profit from land speculation. The company paid some of the emigrants' costs and organized their settlement at the site of Lawrence. These settlers established homes, businesses, and churches as well as spread the antislavery cause.
Kansas Constitution Adopted at Wyandot, 1859, Kansas City, Kansas Public Library
Kansas had four different constitutional conventions between 1854 and 1861. The territory had ten different governors, the capital moved to five different towns, and two separate legislatures existed at the same time–one antislavery and the other proslavery. Fraudulent elections, threats of violence, and congressional disagreements all prolonged the conflict. Writing and approval of the constitution took several years because delegates could not write a document that satisfied both the people of the territory and the U.S. Congress. Finally, in 1859 the Wyandotte constitution was drafted. Less radical than previous draft constitutions, this document provided voting rights for White males only–not Blacks or Indians. Although it was easily approved by Kansas voters, the constitution didn't gain congressional approval until Southern states began seceding from the Union. The balance of power in the U.S. Senate then shifted to free-state, and Kansas entered the Union on January 29, 1861, the 34th star on the flag.
Bill to Admit Kansas as a State, 1860, Kansas City, Kansas Public Library
This text has been condensed from a history published by the Kansas State Historical Society. You can learn more about Kansas's journey to statehood and view the full online exhibit here.
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Shirtless boy going out on Halloween as Justin Trudeau
October 30, 2018 by Aaron Hagey-Mackay ( @AaronHM )
PORT COQUITLAM, B.C. – Wanting to emulate his favourite feminist superhero, a local boy has spent several seconds preparing his costume as the Right Honourable Justin Trudeau by taking off his shirt and jumping in front of people taking selfies.
"I want to go as the Prime Minister because he's cool," said Maddock Murphy, 7, adding that he's already figured out the hair with a Disney Prince Eric from The Little Mermaid wig. "Everyone is going to want to take a picture with me and watch me do yoga."
According to sources in his grade 3 classroom, Maddock has proposed a gender balanced class room because, he says, "it's 2015." However, critics, like classmate Gillian Cardinal, point out he promised to bring clean drinking water to the Halloween party reserves but then "said he forgot."
"Every kids knows no takesy-backsies," Gillian added.
Maddock's parents are supportive of the costume idea, but pushed back, asking if he'd rather go out as a real superhero like, Batman or The Hulk. "He just said that they weren't real, but Justin Trudeau saves people with a single tweet, is able to summon the power of human tears, and can build oil pipelines with the power of his mind," said Maddock's mother, Patricia. "He's so excited at home, running around saying he's travelling at the speed of a pride parade," added the boy's father, Stan.
At press time, Maddock's mother made him put on a jacket over his costume because it was cold outside.
Images via Deposit Photos / Pixabay
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