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This painting (circa 1872) by John Gast called American Progress is an allegorical representation of Manifest Destiny. In the scene, an angelic woman (sometimes identified as Columbia, a nineteenth-century personification of the United States) carries the light of "civilization" westward with American settlers, stringing telegraph wire as she travels. American Indians, buffalos and wild animals are driven into the darkness before them.
Manifest Destiny is a nineteenth-century belief that the United States had a mission to expand westward across the North American continent, spreading its form of democracy, freedom, and culture. The expansion was deemed to be not only good, but also obvious ("manifest") and certain ("destiny"). Many believed the mission to be divinely inspired while others felt it more as an altruistic right to expand the territory of liberty. Originally a political catch phrase of the nineteenth century, Manifest Destiny eventually became a standard historical term, often used as a synonym for the territorial expansion of the United States across North America.
A general notion rather than a specific policy, Manifest Destiny comprised not only a mandate for territorial expansionism, but also notions of individualism, idealism, American Exceptionalism, Romantic nationalism, White supremacism, and a belief in the inherent greatness of what was then called the "Anglo-Saxon race." Although the phrase defies precise definition, the components all tend to share the mindset that presumed the indigenous peoples to be primitive "others" whose lifestyle and thinking required that they be socialized, segregated, or, if necessary, destroyed, while the Anglo-Saxons occupied the land and harnessed it to useful purposes such as agriculture.
Manifest Destiny was both an explanation or justification for the territorial expansion of the United States and the westward migration of settlers to the American frontier, and an ideology or doctrine that helped promote the process. This article addresses the history of the idea of Manifest Destiny and the influence of that idea upon American expansion.
The phrase was coined in 1844 by New York journalist John L. O'Sullivan, then an influential advocate for the Democratic Party. In an essay titled “"Annexation” and published in the Democratic Review, O'Sullivan urged the United States to annex the Republic of Texas, not only because Texas desired this, but because it was America's "manifest destiny to overspread the continent allotted by Providence for the free development of our yearly multiplying millions." Texas became a U.S. state shortly thereafter, but O'Sullivan's first usage of the phrase "Manifest Destiny" attracted little attention.
O'Sullivan believed that God ("Providence") had given the United States a mission to spread republican democracy ("the great experiment of liberty") throughout North America. Because Great Britain would not use Oregon for the purposes of spreading democracy, argued O'Sullivan, British claims to the territory could be disregarded. O'Sullivan believed that Manifest Destiny was a moral ideal (a "higher law") superseding other considerations, including international laws and agreements.
O'Sullivan's original conception of Manifest Destiny was not a call for territorial expansion by force. He believed that the expansion of U.S.-style democracy was inevitable, and would happen without military involvement as whites (or "Anglo-Saxons") immigrated to new regions. O'Sullivan disapproved of the outbreak of the Mexican-American War in 1846, although he came to believe that the outcome would be beneficial to both countries.
At first, O'Sullivan was not aware that he had created a new catch phrase. The term became popular after it was criticized by Whig opponents of the Polk administration. On January 3, 1846, Representative Robert Winthrop ridiculed the concept in Congress, saying "I suppose the right of a manifest destiny to spread will not be admitted to exist in any nation except the universal Yankee nation." Winthrop was the first in a long line of critics who suggested that advocates of Manifest Destiny were citing "Divine Providence" for justification of actions that were motivated by more earthly interests.
Despite this criticism, Democrats embraced the phrase. It caught on so quickly that it was eventually forgotten that O'Sullivan had coined it. O'Sullivan died in obscurity in 1895, just as his phrase was being revived; it was not until 1927 that a historian determined that the phrase had originated with him.
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Many Americans agreed with Paine, and came to believe that the United States had embarked upon a special experiment of world-historical importance, a rejection of Old World monarchy in favor of freedom and democracy. President Abraham Lincoln's later description of the United States as "the last, best hope of Earth" is a well-known expression of this idea. Lincoln's Gettysburg Address, in which he interpreted the Civil War as a struggle to determine if any nation with America's ideals could survive, has been called by historian Robert Johannsen "the most enduring statement of America's Manifest Destiny and mission."
The belief that the United States had a mission to spread its institutions and ideals through territorial expansion—what Andrew Jackson in 1843 famously described as "extending the area of freedom"—was a fundamental aspect of Manifest Destiny. Many believed that American-style democracy would spread without any effort by the United States government. American pioneers would take their beliefs with them throughout North America, and other countries in the world would seek to emulate American institutions. Thomas Jefferson initially did not believe it necessary that the United States itself should expand, since he believed that other republics similar to the United States would be founded in North America, forming what he called an "empire for liberty." With the Louisiana Purchase in 1803, however, he embraced expansion. As more territory was added to the United States in the following decades, whether or not "extending the area of freedom" also meant extending the area of slavery became a central issue in a growing divide over the interpretation of America's "mission."
The phrase "Manifest Destiny" is most often associated with the territorial expansion of the United States from 1815 to 1860. This era, from the end of the War of 1812 to the beginning of the American Civil War, has been called the "Age of Manifest Destiny." During this time, the United States expanded to the Pacific Ocean—"from sea to shining sea"—largely defining the borders of the continental United States as they are today. Manifest Destiny played a role in U.S. relations with British North America (later Canada) to the north, but was more consequential in relations with Mexico and the outbreak of the Mexican-American War. The pervasive racialism of Manifest Destiny had serious consequences for American Indians.
Adams did much to further this idea. He orchestrated the Treaty of 1818, which established the United States-Canada border as far west as the Rocky Mountains, and provided for the joint occupation of the Oregon Country. He negotiated the Transcontinental Treaty in 1819, purchasing Florida from Spain and extending the U.S. border with Spanish Mexico all the way to the Pacific Ocean.
Adams also formulated the Monroe Doctrine of 1823, which warned Europe that the Western Hemisphere was no longer open for European colonization. With this the U.S. conceptually and rhetorically annexed the whole of the Western Hemisphere into its sphere of influence.
The Monroe Doctrine and Manifest Destiny were closely related ideas; historian Walter McDougall calls Manifest Destiny a "corollary" of the Monroe Doctrine, because while the Monroe Doctrine did not specify expansion, the sense of Manifest Destiny implicitly nurtured the national will to enforce the Doctrine, which was driven by concerns in the United States that European powers (especially Great Britain) were seeking to increase their influence in North America. In his influential 1935 study of Manifest Destiny, Albert Weinberg wrote, "the expansionism of the 1840s arose as a defensive effort to forestall the encroachment of Europe in North America."
On the northern border of the United States, Manifest Destiny played its most important role in the Oregon Country border dispute with Great Britain. The Anglo-American Convention of 1818 had provided for the joint occupation of the region, which included much of present-day Oregon and Washington states in the U.S. and the southern part of today's province of British Columbia in Canada; Americans migrated there in the 1840s over the Oregon Trail. The British refused a proposal by President John Tyler to divide the region along 49th parallel (an offer made earlier by John Quincy Adams), instead proposing a boundary line further south along the Columbia River. Advocates of Manifest Destiny protested, and called for the annexation of the entire Oregon Country. Presidential candidate James K. Polk used this popular outcry to his advantage, embracing the slogan Fifty-Four Forty or Fight! (referring to the latitude of the northern border of the region) in the U.S. Presidential election. The Whig candidate Henry Clay, misjudging popular sentiment, spoke against annexing any part of Canada or Texas, which some historians believe cost him the election.
American westward expansion is idealized in Emanuel Leutze's famous painting Westward the Course of Empire Takes its Way (1861). The title of the painting, from a 1726 poem by Bishop Berkeley, was a phrase often quoted in the era of Manifest Destiny, expressing a widely held belief that civilization had steadily moved westward throughout history.
The dispute was settled diplomatically with the Oregon Treaty of 1846, setting the border at the 49th parallel, the original U.S. proposal. Despite the earlier clamor for "all of Oregon," the treaty was popular in the U.S. and was easily ratified by the Senate. Many Americans believed that the Canadian provinces would eventually merge with the United States, and that war was unnecessary, even counterproductive in fulfilling that destiny. The most fervent advocates of Manifest Destiny had not prevailed along the northern border because, according to Reginald Stuart, "the compass of Manifest Destiny pointed west and southwest, not north, despite the use of the term 'continentalism.'"
After the election of Polk, but before he took office, Congress approved the annexation of Texas. Polk moved to occupy a portion of Texas that was also claimed by Mexico, paving the way for the outbreak of the Mexican-American War on April 24, 1846. With American successes on the battlefield, by the summer of 1847 there were calls for the annexation of "All Mexico," particularly among Eastern Democrats, who argued that bringing Mexico into the Union was the best way to ensure future peace in the region.
[W]e have never dreamt of incorporating into our Union any but the Caucasian race—the free white race. To incorporate Mexico, would be the very first instance of the kind, of incorporating an Indian race; for more than half of the Mexicans are Indians, and the other is composed chiefly of mixed tribes. I protest against such a union as that! Ours, sir, is the Government of a white race.... We are anxious to force free government on all; and I see that it has been urged … that it is the mission of this country to spread civil and religious liberty over all the world, and especially over this continent. It is a great mistake.
This debate brought to the forefront one of the contradictions of Manifest Destiny: on the one hand, while racist ideas inherent in Manifest Destiny suggested that Mexicans, as non-Anglo-Saxons, were a lesser race and thus not qualified to become Americans, the "mission" component of Manifest Destiny suggested that Mexicans would be improved (or "regenerated," as it was then described) by bringing them into American democracy. Racism was used to promote Manifest Destiny, but, as in the case of Calhoun and the resistance to the "All Mexico" movement, racism was also used to oppose Manifest Destiny.
The Mexican Cession eventually ended the controversy, which added the territories of California and New Mexico to the United States, both more sparsely populated than the rest of Mexico. Like the "All Oregon" movement, the "All Mexico" movement quickly abated. Historian Frederick Merk, in Manifest Destiny and Mission in American History: A Reinterpretation (1963), argued that the failure of the "All Oregon" and "All Mexico" movements indicates that Manifest Destiny had not been as popular as historians have traditionally portrayed. Merk wrote that, while belief in the beneficent "mission" of democracy was central to American history, aggressive "continentalism" (and later, imperialism) were aberrations supported by only a very small (but influential) minority of Americans. Merk's interpretation is probably still a minority opinion; scholars generally see Manifest Destiny, at least in the 1840s, as a widely popular belief.
After the Mexican-American War ended in 1848, disagreements over the expansion of slavery made further territorial annexation too divisive to be official government policy. Many Northerners were increasingly opposed to what they believed to be efforts by Southern slave owners—and their friends in the North—to expand slavery at any cost. The proposal during the war of the Wilmot Proviso (a statement declaring that slavery would not be permitted in any new territory acquired by the U.S.), and the emergence of various "Slave Power" conspiracy theories thereafter, indicated the degree to which Manifest Destiny had become controversial.
Without official government support, the most radical advocates of Manifest Destiny increasingly turned to filibustering—the mounting of expeditions of unauthorized volunteer soldiers often motivated by a belief in Manifest Destiny. While there had been some filibustering expeditions into Canada in the late 1830s, the primary target of Manifest Destiny’s filibusters was Latin America, particularly Mexico and Cuba. Though illegal, the filibustering operations in the late 1840s and early 1850s were romanticized in the U.S. press. Wealthy American expansionists financed dozens of expeditions, usually based out of New Orleans.
Filibuster William Walker launched several expeditions into Latin America. For a time he ruled Nicaragua, although he was eventually seized by the U.S. Navy and returned to United States. In 1860 he was captured and executed in Honduras.
The United States had long been interested in acquiring Cuba from the declining Spanish Empire. Just as they earlier had been concerned that Texas, Oregon, and California would fall into British hands, American policy makers became concerned that Cuba would fall into British hands, which, according to the thinking of the Monroe Doctrine, would constitute a threat to the interests of the United States. Prompted by John L. O'Sullivan, in 1848 President Polk offered to buy Cuba from Spain for $100 million. Fearing that filibustering would hurt his effort to buy the island, Polk informed the Spanish of an attempt by the Cuban filibuster Narcisco Lopez to seize Cuba by force and annex it to the U.S., and the plot was foiled. Nevertheless, Spain declined to sell the island, which ended Polk's efforts to acquire Cuba. O'Sullivan, on the other hand, continued to raise money for filibustering expeditions, eventually landing him in legal trouble.
Filibustering continued to be a major concern for presidents after Polk. Whig presidents Zachary Taylor and Millard Fillmore tried to suppress the expeditions. When the Democrats recaptured the White House in 1852 with the election of Franklin Pierce, a filibustering effort by John A. Quitman to acquire Cuba received the tentative support of the president. Pierce backed off, however, and instead renewed the offer to buy the island, this time for $130 million. When the Ostend Manifesto—a secret agreement in 1854 between the U.S. and Spain for the U.S. to buy Cuba with the proviso that the United States could seize Cuba by force if Spain refused to sell, and with further innuendos that slave-holding would be permitted in Cuba once the U.S. acquired it—was leaked to the public, strong reaction, especially by northern anti-slavery elements, effectively killed the effort to acquire the island. The public now linked expansion with slavery; if Manifest Destiny had once had widespread popular approval, it was no longer the case.
Filibusters like William Walker continued to garner headlines in the late 1850s, but with the outbreak of the American Civil War in 1860, the "Age of Manifest Destiny" came to an end. Expansionism was among the various issues that played a role in the coming of the war. With the divisive question of the expansion of slavery, Northerners and Southerners, in effect, were coming to define Manifest Destiny in different ways, undermining nationalism as a unifying force. According to Frederick Merk, "The doctrine of Manifest Destiny, which in the 1840's had seemed Heaven-sent, proved to have been a bomb wrapped up in idealism."
Manifest Destiny had serious consequences for American Indians, since continental expansion usually meant the occupation of Native American land. The United States continued the European practice of recognizing only limited land rights of indigenous peoples. In a policy formulated largely by Henry Knox, Secretary of War in the Washington Administration, the U.S. government sought to expand into the west only through the legal purchase of Native American land in treaties. Indians were encouraged to sell their vast tribal lands and become "civilized," which meant (among other things) for Native American men to abandon hunting and become farmers, and for their society to reorganize around the family unit rather than the clan or tribe. Advocates of "civilization" programs believed that the process would greatly reduce the amount of land needed by the Indians, thereby making more land available for purchase by white Americans. Thomas Jefferson believed that while American Indians were the intellectual equals of whites, they had to live like the whites or inevitably be pushed aside by them. Jefferson's belief, rooted in Enlightenment thinking, which held that whites and Native Americans would merge to create a single nation, did not last his lifetime. Jefferson grew to believe that the natives should emigrate across the Mississippi River and maintain a separate society, an idea made possible by the Louisiana Purchase of 1803.
In the age of Manifest Destiny, this idea, which came to be known as "Indian Removal," gained ground. Although some humanitarian advocates of removal believed that American Indians would be better off moving away from whites, an increasing number of Americans regarded the natives as nothing more than "savages" who stood in the way of American expansion. As historian Reginald Horsman argued in his influential study Race and Manifest Destiny, racial rhetoric increased during the era of Manifest Destiny. Americans increasingly believed that Native Americans would fade away as the United States expanded. As an example, this idea was reflected in the work of one of America's first great historians, Francis Parkman, whose landmark book The Conspiracy of Pontiac was published in 1851. Parkman wrote that Indians were "destined to melt and vanish before the advancing waves of Anglo-American power, which now rolled westward unchecked and unopposed."
As the Civil War faded into history, the term Manifest Destiny experienced a brief revival. In the 1892 U.S. presidential election, the Republican Party platform proclaimed: "We reaffirm our approval of the Monroe doctrine and believe in the achievement of the manifest destiny of the Republic in its broadest sense." What was meant by "manifest destiny" in this context was not clearly defined, particularly since the Republicans lost the election. In the presidential election of 1896, however, the Republicans recaptured the White House and held on to it for the next 16 years. During that time, Manifest Destiny was cited to promote overseas expansion. Whether or not this version of Manifest Destiny was consistent with the continental expansionism of the 1840s was debated at the time, and long afterwards.
For example, when President William McKinley advocated annexation of the Territory of Hawaii in 1898, he said that "We need Hawaii as much and a good deal more than we did California. It is manifest destiny." On the other hand, former President Grover Cleveland, a Democrat who had blocked the annexation of Hawaii during his administration, wrote that McKinley's annexation of the territory was a "perversion of our national destiny." Historians continued that debate; some have interpreted the overseas expansion of the 1890s as an extension of Manifest Destiny across the Pacific Ocean; others have regarded it as the antithesis of Manifest Destiny.
In 1898, after the sinking of the USS Maine in the harbor at Havana, Cuba, the United States intervened on the side of Cuban rebels who were fighting the Spanish Empire, beginning the Spanish-American War. Although advocates of Manifest Destiny in the 1840s had called for the annexation of Cuba, the Teller Amendment, passed unanimously by the U.S. Senate before the war, proclaimed Cuba "free and independent" and disclaimed any U.S. intention to annex the island. After the war, the Platt Amendment (1902) established Cuba as a virtual protectorate of the United States. If Manifest Destiny meant the outright annexation of territory, it no longer applied to Cuba, since Cuba was never annexed.
On the other hand, Manifest Destiny had also contained within it the idea that "uncivilized" peoples could be improved by exposure to the Christian, democratic values of the United States. In his decision to annex the Philippines, President McKinley echoed this theme: "There was nothing left for us to do but to take them all, and to educate the Filipinos, and uplift and civilize and Christianize them…." Rudyard Kipling's poem "The White Man's Burden," which was subtitled "The United States and the Philippine Islands," was a famous expression of these sentiments, which were common at the time. Many Filipinos, however, resisted this effort to "uplift and civilize" them, resulting in the outbreak of the Philippine-American War in 1899. After the war began, William Jennings Bryan, an opponent of overseas expansion, wrote that "‘Destiny’ is not as manifest as it was a few weeks ago."
After the turn of the century, the phrase Manifest Destiny declined in usage, as territorial expansion ceased to be promoted as being a part of America's "destiny." Under President Theodore Roosevelt, the role of the United States in the New World was defined, in the 1904 Roosevelt Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine, as an "international police power" to secure American interests in the Western Hemisphere. Roosevelt's corollary contained an explicit rejection of territorial expansion. In the past, Manifest Destiny had been seen as necessary to enforce the Monroe Doctrine in the Western Hemisphere, but now expansionism had been replaced by interventionism as a means of upholding the doctrine.
… I think we all realize that the day has come when Democracy is being put upon its final test. The Old World is just now suffering from a wanton rejection of the principle of democracy and a substitution of the principle of autocracy as asserted in the name, but without the authority and sanction, of the multitude. This is the time of all others when Democracy should prove its purity and its spiritual power to prevail. It is surely the manifest destiny of the United States to lead in the attempt to make this spirit prevail.
↑ From Revolution to Reconstruction. . "Manifest Destiny" By Michael T. Lubragge. University of Groningen, American Studies. Retrieved December 11, 2007.
↑ Anders Stephanson. Manifest Destiny: American Expansionism and the Empire of Right examines the influence of Manifest Destiny in the 20th century. (New York: Hill and Wang. 1995), particularly as articulated by Woodrow Wilson and Ronald Reagan.
↑ Excerpt The Great Nation of Futurity. The United States Democratic Review 6 (23): 426-430. Mount Holyoke College. Retrieved May 9, 2008.
↑ Frederick Merk.  1970. Manifest Destiny and Mission in American History: A Reinterpretation. (New York: Knopf), 144-147.
↑ Calhoun quoted in Merk, 162.
↑ Walter A. McDougall. 1997. Promised Land, Crusader State: The American Encounter with the World Since 1776. (New York: Houghton Mifflin), 87–95.
↑ William Earl Weeks. 1996. Building the Continental Empire: American Expansion from the Revolution to the Civil War. (Chicago: Ivan R. Dee), 144–152.
↑ Republican Party platform UCSB. Retrieved May 9, 2008. ; context not clearly defined, Merk. 241.
↑ "antithesis" of Manifest Destiny: Merk, 257.
↑ McKinley quoted in McDougall, 112; Bryan quoted in Weinberg, 283.
↑ ”"Safe for democracy”; 1920 message Retrieved May 9, 2008.
↑ Wilson's version of Manifest Destiny: Albert K. Weinberg.  1994. Manifest Destiny: A Study of Nationalist Expansionism in American History. (Reprint Services Corp.), 471.
Weinberg, Albert K. Manifest Destiny: A Study of Nationalist Expansionism in American History. Reprint Services Corp, 1994. ISBN 0781248566 Cited by many scholars.
The March 1845 Inaugural Address of James K. Polk MARCH 4, 1845, The Avalon Project, Yale University.
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CHICAGO (March 6, 2017) – The U.S. Under-23 Women’s National Team finished its three-game set in La Manga, Spain, with a 1-0 victory against Norway as midfielder Morgan Andrews scored in the 34th minute. The USA also fell to England 2-0 and defeated Japan 2-0.
The goal came after Boston Breakers forward Margaret Purce had slammed a free kick into the Norway wall from just outside the left side of the penalty area. She got it back and re-served the ball, but this time it was cleared by Norway. Orlando Pride midfielder Danielle Weatherholt ran down the clearance above the right side of the penalty area and quickly played Portland Thorns forward Tyler Lussi down the right side. NC Courage forward Ashley Hatch got her foot on an excellent far post cross from Lussi, but spun her volley high and back to the right end line where Lussi, still in motion, headed the ball back into the middle of the goal. A Norwegian defender played another poor clearance right into the path of Andrews who hammed a left-footed shot into the net from 16 yards away.
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The JNU+FTII+HCU episode is an attempt to reduce students as ’employees’ and ‘consumers’ and not nurture citizens who should understand and aspire for a better polity. Anyone with activist leanings is labelled as ‘non-employable’ borrowing from Mr Ratan Tata as his/her spirit needs to be subjugated to the majoratarian narrative in order to work. The contrarian spirit is essential for innovation. Make in India needs ‘ignited minds’ in the words of late President APJ Abdul Kalam.
This sentiment connects with the entirely bogus conversation on liberal arts majors being not market worthy and wasting taxpayer rupees/dollars. In the words of Mr Mohandas Pai in a NDTV article, activist students waste money and the subsidies are for education. According to Mr Pai students are supposed to treat their opportunity at JNU as a social elevator and train themselves to be call centre workers. Tax payer cash is not only the perogative of supposedly more productive STEM majors, who will be ‘Bangalored’ for fulfilling headcount for North American IT Outsourcing Project.
The average student at JNU would not be able to pay the fees at Manipal Education which he is chairman at. Kanhaiya, an aaganwadi workers son, was reading his PhD as Umar. JNU is very competitive to enter, and fortunately not the same as Manipal and as competitive as an IIT/IIM. Mr Ratan Tata, as per his logic should shut down TISS, one of the best social science institutions that bears the Tata brand. The positive from this episode is raised conciousness regarding nationalism and identity.
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Some of acoustic musics greatest contributors are often overlooked, usually from a lack of material that is easily marketed and turned into profit. This is no coincidence, this is a symptom in the nature of our times. Music is it’s own language, in and of itself. We must move past using names like, “Country, Bluegrass, Jazz and classical,” to define what is an art form with it’s very own vocabulary.
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Both have devoted lots of time and effort into this particular style. Naturally, after a certain amount of time a new style, or composer is needed freshen things up. An example of this would be Marshall’s change to playing Brazilian music. Another good example is Tony Rice’s movement towards Jazzier playing, and away from what we call bluegrass. Bluegrass is unique in that it is a genre created by a single man, the master Bill Monroe. There is one and only Bill Monroe. “So it goes,” as Kurt Vonnegut would say.
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A report is expected to be released Tuesday detailing how an unknown cyber hacker broke into South Carolina's computers and stole millions of tax returns from residents dating back years. NBC's Michael Isikoff reports.
COLUMBIA, S.C. -- A single malicious email sent to workers at the South Carolina Department of Revenue last August enabled an international hacker to crack into state computers and gain access to 3.8 million tax returns, including Social Security numbers and bank account information, in what experts say is the biggest cyber-attack ever against a state government, according to details in a report released Tuesday.
“We were a cocktail for an attack,” Gov. Nikki Haley said, referring to the necessary ingredients for cyberassault, as she released a report by a computer security firm Mandiant, which was commissioned to investigate the data breach. At the same time, Haley accepted the resignation of her Department of Revenue director, Jim Etter, and acknowledged that state officials “could have done more” to protect the personal data of state residents.
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“I’ve gotten more phone calls and emails about this than anything else in the last four years,” said Tom Davis, a state senator and former chief of state to Gov. Mark Sanford. “There’s a great degree of anger and frustration over what happened. This is information you’ve got to give the government; if you don’t, they put you in jail. There’s a real sense of betrayal,” he said.
According to the Mandiant report, the cyberattack, which state sources say is believed to have originated inside Russia, started with a “phishing” scheme, a common tactic used by cyber criminals.
Last Aug. 13, a hacker sent multiple South Carolina Department of Revenue employees a malicious email containing an embedded link containing malware or a computer virus. When at least one of the employees clicked on the link, the malware was activated and allowed the hacker to steal the employee’s user name and password.
From there, the hacker was off to the races. Two weeks later, the attacker logged onto the remote-access service for Department of Revenue computers, using the credentials of an employee who had clicked on the Aug. 13 email. The invader then “leveraged the user’s access rights to access other Department of Revenue systems and databases with the user’s credentials,” the report states.
The attacker performed “reconnaissance activities” over the next several weeks, then started copying large amounts of data and transferring them onto zip files that were moved onto the Internet. The breach was not discovered until the Secret Service notified state officials on Oct. 10 that it had uncovered information that data on three state residents had been stolen.
Since then, Haley and other state officials have scrambled to react as the magnitude of the attack has become increasingly apparent. In addition to 3.8 million tax returns, including the Social Security numbers of 1.9 million children and other dependents, the hackers got access to data on 699,900 business tax returns and 3.3 million bank accounts.
The attack has exposed vulnerabilities that experts say will cause state governments across the country to reexamine their cyber-defenses. Although South Carolina had encrypted credit card numbers according to industry standards, it had never encrypted the Social Security numbers. And some cyber experts say there is evidence that that data may now be marketed on Internet black market sites that peddle personal information on millions of Americans.

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This costume is the perfect mix of any kid's two favorite things: Treasure hunting, and candy. Which is coincidentally perfect for Halloween, because that's what trick or treating is! Trick or treating is just treasure hunting for candy if you think about it.
You'll wander the neighborhood with your pirate buddies and look for some delicious plunder to take for your own. If you find someone that refuses to share any sweet treats with you, you play a trick on them! It's the Halloween equivalent of making someone walk the plank. Once you've got all the candy you can carry, you'll head back home and sort and stash all of your candy, maybe even trading some with the other members of your pirate crew, until everyone is happy with their loot. So, as you can see, pirating and Halloween have a lot of things in common!
This costume comes with everything you'll need to look like a pirate, and it comes in way more fun colors! You'll be wearing a pink striped dress with blue and orange accents, complete with roughed up edges, probably from your years at sea. It has a vest built in, tied with an orange ribbon on the front. This costume also comes with the scarf you'll tie around your head because no self-respecting pirate would wear a scarf the normal way! The finishing touch for this costumes are the boot tops, which will have you looking like a fearsome, colorful pirate from head to toe!
When you go trick or treating for treasure, what will you carry all of your plunder in? You'll want something rough, like something a pirate might have had from their years at sea, but also something colorful. Our recommendation? Make yourself a colorful treasure chest to carry about while you trick or treat! It's the perfect accessory to make this costume complete.

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Highly desirable Milestone neighborhood in Simi Valley! This beautiful single family home is situated on a corner lot with no neighbors to the West of the home. The only home in Milestone that offers a 2 car driveway. A beautiful open and bright side yard with palm trees, perfect for entertaining. Walk through the front doors and you are greeted by the family room to your left and dining room to your right, as you walk down the beautifully arched hallway there is a powder room to your left whilea great open floor plan with kitchen, mini breakfast area, and living room. As you make your way upstairs you will see a great size loft, master bedroom with a big bathroom and down the hall two more bedrooms with a full bathroom and a laundry room. Huge walk in closet in the master and let's not forget the guest room also features a great walk in closet - so much storage plus windows everywhere for lots of natural light. This home is the perfect entertainers home. 2 car attached garage with new floors. Newer paint throughout the home. The neighborhood offers two beautiful parks and picnic tables. Homes in Milestone don't last long, so don't miss out on this one of a kind gem!
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Bradegate Holdings Limited is urgently seeking to recruit a Feed Mill Production Manager. The position is based in Nyeri, Kenya.
The Holder of this position should meet the below requirements.
The incumbent should coordinate, account, and offer leadership in the operations of the food mill by instituting proper operating procedures that will result in maximum throughputs and timely execution of customers’ orders; low breakdowns;( factory time efficiency above 95%); reduced wastage and losses (product recovery above 99%); zero tolerance to accidents, high quality products (Zero damage on raw material in store and Zero complaints from the customers’).
- Should possess a Degree in Food Science, Animal nutrition, Post-harvest or any other related fields.
Any person applying for this position must have a minimum of a five years progressive working experience in a similar setup and on a similar position.
Must portray very high levels of integrity and must be a good planner.
Must have good problem solving skills, well-disciplined and must be a good team leader.
Applications are hereby invited from candidates who qualify.

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Albert Einstein theorized that because time is relative, a space traveler who leaves earth and travels near the speed of light will return to earth having aged more slowly than the people she left behind. For the space traveler, time has slowed down relative to the passage of time on earth. But those of us who are earthbound must deal with time moving as quickly as ever. And that is why we now find ourselves with only a year left in the remedial amendment period (“RAP”) that the IRS has provided to 403(b) plans. If a plan sponsor wants to take advantage of the RAP, it must complete the requirements of the RAP before March 31, 2020.
First, some background. Those who have worked with 403(b) plans since before 2009 will remember that prior to the IRS regulations that were effective in that year, the Internal Revenue Code (“IRC”) did not require that a 403(b) plan be maintained in accordance with a written document. ERISA covered 403(b) plans were subject to the ERISA document requirements, but the IRC did not require it. To continue with the space-time theme, the 2009 regulations were something like the big bang, creating a new universe for 403(b) plans. One of the changes was the requirement that a contract (or custodial account) would not qualify under IRC section 403(b) unless it was maintained pursuant to a “written defined contribution plan”. The regulations require that the written plan “contain all the material terms and conditions for eligibility, benefits, applicable limitations, and the time and form under which benefit distributions would be made”.
However, (in contrast to the parallel 401(k) universe) the IRS neither provided for a determination letter program for 403(b) plans or for pre-approved prototype or volume submitter plans. It provided some limited guidance as to what it expected in a 403(b) plan, but mostly document providers were on their own. This started to change in 2013, when the IRS announced procedures for the issuance of pre-approved 403(b) plans (Rev. Proc. 2013-22). Once the program was opened up, document vendors (which included many of the major investment companies serving the 403(b) market), submitted documents to the IRS for approval. The IRS reviewed the documents and issued opinion or advisory letters when they were approved beginning in March of 2017. Employers that adopted the approved plans could rely on the letter that the form of the document that they adopted to a substantial extent satisfied the form requirements of 403(b).
In addition, in connection with the introduction of pre-approved 403(b) plans, the IRS announced a remedial amendment period. The RAP allows an eligible employer to retroactively correct defects in the form of a written 403(b) plan by timely adopting a pre-approved plan or by otherwise timely amending its plan document. The document may be retroactively adopted to the first day of the RAP period to obtain retroactive relief to that date. The first day of the RAP is January 1, 2010, and the last day is March 31, 2020. Therefore, if a plan completes the adoption of a pre-approved document by March 31, 2020, and is retroactively adopted to January 1, 2010 (or, if later, the date the plan was initially adopted) any defects in the form of the plan will be deemed corrected for all years after 2009. The RAP requirements can also be met by a sponsor making corrections to its current document, but the sponsor only has reliance from the IRS that the document meets the requirements of 403(b) if it adopts a pre-approved document. Note that the RAP cannot be used to correct operational errors, but can correct a plan provision, or the absence of a provision, that causes a plan to fail to meet the requirements of 403(b).
If it hasn’t done so already, should a sponsor restate its plan onto a new, pre-approved document? To be clear, restating the document is not a requirement. A sponsor is free to maintain its current document if it chooses. But there are some compelling advantages to restating the plan, especially before the March 31, 2020 deadline. In addition to the ability to rely on the approval letter and the retroactive effective date, another plus is that the sponsor of the pre-approved document is responsible for keeping it up to date if there are changes in applicable laws or regulations that require plan amendments.
Start early. It may be a little late in the game to give this advice but you should at least begin the process as soon as you can in 2019. It seems likely that the plan document sponsors will start to experience a rush as we get closer to the end of 2019 and it is important to make it into the queue before document sponsors start closing the door. Beginning the process often means simply contacting your investment provider and asking for a document to be prepared.
Gather all prior plan documents and amendments. If your plan is taking advantage of the RAP and retroactively adopting the plan, you will need to incorporate all of the changes in the plan’s design since 2010. Be sure to also gather documents that were sent to participants about the terms of the plan, such as a summary plan description, summary of material modifications, enrollment kits or forms. It is important that the retroactive document reflect the promises made to participants during the remedial amendment period unless not permitted.
Use the restatement process as an opportunity to re-consider aspects of your plan design. Are there any issues in the plan’s operation that you want to address? Are you satisfied that the design accomplishes your objectives?
Use the restatement process as an opportunity to conduct a compliance review. Is the plan being operated in accordance with the terms of the document? You may need to fix operational errors, and in any event, you don’t want to carry mistakes over to the new document.
Ask for help from your service providers and advisors. The pre-approved documents are meant to cover a wide variety of plan designs and situations and so can be quite complicated and some sections of the adoption agreements can be challenging to complete.
Start early. We know – we already said that. But unless you have a space ship capable at traveling at the speed of light, the deadline is drawing near.

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Are you full of strong opinions on the right way to do things that you’re dying to share with the world? Do you geek out over everything from how best to pack a suitcase to the finer points of cell phone etiquette? Do you give incredible advice, if you do say so yourself? Are you also a smart, curious, witty, detail-oriented writer who wants to help people improve their lives?
Lifehacker has an immediate opening for a staff writer. This is full-time position with competitive salary and good benefits, working out of Gizmodo Media’s New York City mothership, where you’ll pitch and write stories, star in videos, go on adventures, and bring our audience of tens of millions the best-in-class service journalism they clamor for/for which they clamor.
We’re looking for someone with a minimum of two years writing for a consumer-focused outlet.
We are also hiring a social media editor, so if you think you should be paid to write clever tweets about sous vide cooking, drop us a line.

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text: Eating habits are set in early childhood. Choosing a vegetarian diet can give your child-and your whole family-the opportunity to learn to enjoy a variety of wonderful, nutritious foods. Offer your child a wide variety of grains, fruits, vegetables, nuts, seeds, and soy products, keep it simple and make it fun, and they’ll learn good eating habits that will last them a lifetime.


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Play your part in a year long online programme, connecting people across the globe.
This is not a small scale project. It is ambitious and will be a first for Hull. There’s no better time to show what can come out of not only the people of Hull, but those across the World. Especially during Hull’s 2017 UK City of Culture year!
Your sponsorship will fund the project team of five people, suitcase design & manufacture, transportation, marketing, administration and organisation of 5 Art installations in Amsterdam, Hull, Liverpool, New York and Chicago.
We also have Legacy projects included in our plans, such as a Book and a Film documenting the project, a ToHull App and new 3D Animations of Hull as it was at that time (working with Hull College of Art & Design). The biggest local and global legacy being the online social media archive of the entire project. The photos and comments from which, along with all of the above, we’d like to permanently display in this City.
How are registering your sponsorship?
Name of your Company or Organisation.
Tick here to register to become a ToHull Suitcase Sponsor.
This does not commit you to purchase straight away, one of our admin team will contact you to confirm your details.
How to make the most of your sponsorship?
As a BUSINESS you can be assured that from the moment you take up your role as a SUITCASE SPONSOR we will be telling the world about your involvement.
Your logo and link will be added to our website on the official Business Sponsors page.
Your dedicated suitcase hashtag (allocated in sequence) #ToHull0001 will be used to tweet about your sponsorship of it and for you to use when uploading any of your own pictures, comments and links. This will be both well before the project start date and during the unfolding 12 month suitcase journey.
Social Media platforms will play a major role and will allow you to connect in new conversations with other Sponsors, Art Carriers and organisations and businesses across the World.
Engage your contacts and staff with your sponsorship and have them follow and comment about your sponsorship. Do they have a story that links with the transmigrant story?
Help promote the project to your own clients, suppliers and trade organisations, showing your role in it.
Our dedicated Social Media team at www.creative1hull.uk will be available to help and advise you about how to maximise your on and offline interaction with the project.
As an INDIVIDUAL your opportunity is to be part of this historic first from Hull. Helping the world to know more about the past and future of this topical subject.
Your Name will be added to our website on the official Individual Sponsors page.
Your dedicated suitcase hashtag (allocated in sequence) e.g. #ToHull0001 will be used to tweet about your sponsorship of it and for you to use when uploading any of your own pictures, comments and links. This will be both well before the project start date and during the unfolding 12 month suitcase journey.
Social Media platforms will play a major role and will allow you to connect in new conversations with other Sponsors, Art Carriers and interested people across the World.
Help promote the project to your own family, friends and organisations, showing your role in it.
Do you have a story about your great grand parents own journey? Write about it on your chosen social media platform and link it to your #toHull0001 suitcase hashtag.
If you’re an ORGANISATION already involved with promoting the themes within the project (Arts, Heritage, Freedom, Migration, International Trade, Philanthropy, Charity, etc), you will of course understand the potential of connecting your own story with ours. We are keen to coordinate and promote ideas which will highlight your aims and objectives throughout the year and onward after the project.
Your logo and link will be added to our Website on the official Organisational Sponsors page.
Engage your contacts, and staff with your sponsorship and have them follow and comment about your sponsorship. Do they have a point to make that links with the transmigrant story?
Help promote the project to your own media contacts, benefactors and related organisations, showing your role in it.
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TO HULL PROMO TRAILER ON ITS WAY!
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A boat with at least four immigrants on board, was intercepted last week off Santa Pola after a local fisherman called the emergency services when he became suspicious in the harbour.
He told sources that at about 1615 hours he saw a boat landing about 15 people on the seafront at Mirador de Tabarca, although the figure is still being investigated. The Guardia Maritime Services were quickly on hand to make the arrests.
The say that the boat was made of fiber, it was 3mtrs in length with a 10 horsepower engine. After two hours, the patera was transferred to the Maritime Rescue unit in the port of Alicante.
Four of the crew were arrested and taken to the headquarters of the Armed Forces Institute of Santa Pola. Although they were generally in good health, all were treated for severe sunburn and dehydration. Only one of them required further treatment from Red Cross doctors who had moved to the barracks.
It is said that one of the four detainees claimed to be minor and that, according to their statements they had all spent three days at sea since they began their journey although details of their nationality was not disclosed.
The Civil Guard investigation is now focused on finding out how many immigrants were aboard the boat, as it appears likely that some of them fleeing to succeed in the race after landfall disappeared after landing in Santa Pola.


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There is a great sale going on at Cuts of Cotton. If you are low on yellow, now’s a good time to fill in your fabric stash. Every month they offer a nice discount on a color. Today through Monday, they are offering a 15% discount on all yellow fabrics, which is a great deal. Go to http://www.cutsofcotton.com/blogs/blog or click their button on the right side of this blog.
Additionally, to celebrate Veteran’s Day, my sponsor, Cuts of Cotton is offering this Patriotic Bundle of beautiful fabrics. In order to win, please leave a comment in the comments box, telling me what your favorite color is, and your e-mail address so i can contact the winner. Give-a-Way ends at midnight on Tuesday, November 12.
Have a great weekend. Good luck with the give-a-way. And please take some time to think about those who serve, and their families. It means so much to them, and we need to let them know we are grateful for the freedoms they help to protect.
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Preheat the oven to 180C/gas 4/fan 160C. Tip the spinach into a large hot pan, shake in 1 tbsp water and cook, stirring, for about 1 minute. Squeeze out any liquid. Or, if you have a microwave, pierce both bags of spinach and cook them together on Medium (500W) for 3 minutes, until the spinach is just wilted - it's more convenient but takes a couple of minutes longer.
Butter a baking dish and spread the spinach out on the bottom. Lay each plaice fillet out flat on a chopping board, skinned-side up, and season with salt and pepper. Roll each one up like a Swiss roll and arrange on the spinach.
Spoon the sauce over the fish and spinach so they are well covered. Scatter over the almonds and bake for 20 minutes, until the fish is cooked and everything is golden and gently bubbling. Serve with boiled potatoes.
Made this last night, instead of the spinach, don't like it, used leeks, which was lovely. Made my own cheese sauce, missed out the almonds, was really nice, would definitely make again.
This was a very quick and easy dish to make, even though I made my own sauce from scratch. I microwaved the spinach, so there was very little water to squeeze out, and the whole meal was prepared and on the table within 30 minutes. It was tasty and the fish and cheese sauce worked really well. However, although I love raw spinach in a salad, I just can't get on with it as a cooked vegetable. For that reason, I'm not sure that I would make it again.
Very nice dish quick and easy, even with homemade sauce. Ooops can't seem to get the stars to work but I would rate it with a five.
Really loved this quick and easy dish. If its low fat too then that is a bonus although I guess it depends on what sauce you use. Missed out the almonds as other half not keen on them. Yummy - well definately make again!
Delicious. Didn't use the almonds as I don't like them. Has become a family favourite.
I've used both a mushroom alfredo sauce and a sun-dried tomato alfredo sauce (as well as a plain one) and it's all worked wonderfully.
The taste of the fish with spinach and cheese sauce is absolutely fantastic. It's so quick to do although I made my own sauce. My husband who is a fan of plaice really enjoyed this dish even though I used frozen fish.


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LARAMIE, Wyo. (AP) — Four missing snowmobile riders have been found safe in southern Wyoming.
The Albany County Sheriff's Department says a search helicopter spotted the four men from South Dakota on Tuesday afternoon and they all appeared to be in good condition.
The helicopter wasn't able to land in the Snowy Range of neighboring Carbon County and ground searchers weren't able to reach them by nightfall. The pilots dropped some supplies along with a note telling the men that help was on the way and asking them to remain there.
Searchers plan to rescue them Wednesday.
The sheriff's department was notified that they were missing Sunday after they failed to check out of their lodge in Albany as planned.


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Create a Passive Income with a Portfolio of Low Competition Private Label Products With What I Teach...Guaranteed! The Course Contains Instant Workig Amazon FBA Program Tips!
The goal of this course is to give you the ability to find LOW COMPETITION private label products on Amazon FBA, source them for yourself, and then launch them to overtake the competition and create a PASSIVE INCOME for yourself.
If you have taken another Amazon course and are stuck and cannot seem to find success, this is the perfect course for you. If you just don't have the budget to sustain a business that consists of a large number of the same product, this is the perfect course for you! This course skips all the fluff presented in other courses and gives you the details you need to not only win, but dominate.
This course skips the basics: creating an Amazon account, FBA requirements, and sourcing products, BUT you will find all these topics covered in the 100+ pages of your eTextbook "How to Crush it on Amazon" Standard edition.
The core portion of this course was designed to be consumed in one sitting so you can take immediate action. It lays out a clear plan for you to follow so you can have success within your first two months of being on-board.
This course will PAY FOR ITSELF by giving you tips to save you money on Day One.
This course is created by Jon Bowser whose very first Udemy course is sponsored by FBAForward and HonestFew.
Basic understanding of Amazon and it's FBA program.
If you are currently selling on Amazon you can start having success you've never seen before as soon as tomorrow with your more competitive products implementing just the launch portion of the course.


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Drum Mix Mobile Asphalt Plant with Capcity 20 tph. The mobile drum mix plants shown here are is of capacity 20-30 tph. These mobile asphalt plants come with 2 x 2 cold feed bins. The drying and mixing unit and the fuel tank for burner is on the same chassis with the cold feeder bins in the mobile asphalt drum mix plant.
Our asphalt drum mix plants are available with diverse capacity ranging from 20 TPH to 150 TPH. It contains efficient dryer unit, slinger conveyor, loadout conveyor, filler unit, dryer automatic burner, bitumen tank, fuel tank and other structural components.


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Easily adaptable - because it is expandable.
For a even more comfort and precise solution LÜBBERING offers the possibility to equip L.ADU with useful additionals (L.ADU option).
Perfect drilling results through axial spindle vibration: with Lübberings Mirco Peck Solution "Sine-Feed"

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text: Sometimes the quest for the perfect brew takes you back to the techniques of the past... and sometimes just a name does. In the 19th century heyday of American brewing, coopers handmade each wooden barrel with as much care as our brewers now use to craft each distinct brew. Only the best barrels were used by the best brewers, and this pilsner style honors not only the importance of quality but also the early popularity of American style Pilsners.


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Samsung on Sunday finally took the wraps off of its next-generation flagship smartphones, the Galaxy S9 and Galaxy S9+. Of course, the release date, specs, and even pricing of these hotly anticipated new Android handsets were already common knowledge among smartphone enthusiasts. In fact, we can’t think of any other Android phones that have ever leaked more extensively, with every last detail having been revealed well ahead of Samsung’s Unpacked press conference on Sunday.
MWC 2018 is just getting underway and there are plenty of big announcements that will be made over the course of the next few days. It’s a rare turn for a company that’s grown accustomed to launching handsets on its own terms, but the stars aligned with Qualcomm’s latest super-powered chip, the Snapdragon 845, and Samsung clearly didn’t want to be left behind.
First things first: The Galaxy S9 and Galaxy S9+ are not “S” upgrades, as had been rumored. This of course refers to Apple’s practice of releasing iPhones with nearly identical designs in successive years. This has changed a bit in recent history since Apple decided to use its iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus designs for four consecutive years, but you get the idea.
Samsung’s new Galaxy S9 and Galaxy S9+ are unmistakably similar in design, but they are not identical, as had been reported. In fact, the differences are quite pronounced. This year’s flagship Galaxy S phones sport a design that is clearly iterative, but there are a number of key differences. The bezels around the gorgeous Super AMOLED displays have been made smaller, the new 7000 series aluminum is stronger, and the glass is 20% thicker to increase durability. The phones are also not the same sizes as last year’s models — both the Galaxy S9 and Galaxy S9+ are slightly shorter and narrower than the models they replace, but also slightly thicker.
The end result is two phones that are far more sleek and refined than their predecessors. If you’ve ever held a Galaxy S8 or a Galaxy S8+ in your hand, you know that’s saying a lot.
Inside, Samsung has upgraded nearly everything that can be upgraded. In the United States, the Galaxy S9 and Galaxy S9+ are powered by an octa-core Snapdragon 845 chipset. This 10nm chip includes a 2.8GHz quad-core processor for heavy lifting as well as a 1.7GHz quad-core processor for lower power consumption during normal operation. The industry-leading Super AMOLED displays have been upgraded as well. The sizes are the same — 5.8 inches for the Galaxy S9 and 6.2 inches for the Galaxy S9+ — but the screens are significantly brighter than they were on last year’s models.
Both phones come in 64GB, 128GB, and 256GB sizes with microSDXC support, but they have different amounts of RAM and different rear cameras. The smaller Galaxy S9 comes with 4GB of RAM and a single-lens camera, while the larger Galaxy S9+ has 6GB of RAM and a dual-lens rear camera.
Let’s take about those cameras for a moment, shall we? Wow. Just, wow.
Samsung calls its new camera a “Super Speed Dual Pixel” camera and as the name suggests, it’s much faster than the Dual Pixel camera Samsung introduced on the Galaxy S7 and then reused on the Note 7, S8, S8+, and Note 8. The new Super Speed version is better in literally every possible way, but it also introduces some impressive new technology.
First, the camera on Samsung’s Galaxy S9 and Galaxy S9+ has dual apertures, which is a first in the smartphone industry. When shooting a scene with ample lighting, the camera uses an f/2.4 aperture. In low light, however, it switches to a wide f/1.5 aperture to let in as much light as possible (the user can also manually select which aperture size to use in the camera’s Pro mode). Beyond that, Samsung’s new Super Speed Dual Pixel camera has a dedicated DRAM chip, which means image data is processed right at the sensor rather than by the phone’s main RAM.
All that is well and good, but what does it mean for you, the user? It means dramatic quality improvements for low-light photography thanks to the wider aperture, and crisper photos with far less noise in any lighting situation. Of note, the Galaxy S9+ includes a second 12-megapixel telephoto lens in addition to the main 12-megapixel wide-angle lens, adding two features that the smaller S9 doesn’t have: Optical zoom and a “bokeh” background blurring effect.
Samsung’s Super Speed Dual Pixel camera also brings dramatic improvements to videos as well, and the star of the show is the Galaxy S9’s new “Super Slow-mo” camera feature. According to Samsung, slow mo was the most used camera mode on its Galaxy S8 phones aside from the standard camera mode, so it spent a ton of time enhancing slow motion on the Galaxy S9 and S9+.
Super Slow-mo on the Galaxy S9 and Galaxy S9+ can be captured with frame rates as high as 960 fps in 720p HD resolution, and it looks absolutely incredible. Don’t worry, we’ll have samples in our full review. Beyond the clarity of slow mo and the smoothness when shooting at such a high frame rate, there’s also a cool mode that automatically switches from standard video capture to Super Slow-mo when motion is detected within an outlined area in the frame. This way you can capture normal footage so you don’t miss anything, and you’ll automatically get great slow mo footage when the action starts.
Finally, these new phones offer Samsung’s twist on Apple’s Animoji from the iPhone X, as had been rumored. The feature is called AR Emoji on the Galaxy S9 and S9+, and there are a number of different characters you can select that will mimic your mouth and facial expressions as you talk.
Samsung has also added Snapchat-like filters to its new camera app, as well as a nifty feature that had been rumored for the iPhone X before it launched. Instead of only selecting different AR Emoji from Samsung’s stable of characters, you can scan your face and have the phone turn you into an emoji. Then you can record animations with your own emoji, or there are dozens of graphics that are created automatically, similar to Bitmoji but with little animations.
Both new phones will be made available for preorder beginning March 2nd, and every major carrier in the US will sell them. Preorders will ship on Friday, March 16th, which is also when the phones will be released in stores.
Pricing varies by carrier, but Samsung will sell unlocked models directly to users, with financing options available. The unlocked Galaxy S9 will cost $719.99 or $30 per month for 24 months if financed, and the unlocked Galaxy S9+ will be available for $839.99 or $35 per month for 24 months.


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East Petersburg Volunteer Fire Co. annual Chicken BBQ - Brubaker Inc.
The East Petersburg Volunteer Fire Company will be hosting their annual take out chicken barbecue dinner on Saturday April 27th, 2013.
Hours are from 11:00am until everything is sold out! The meal consists of a half chicken, apple sauce, roll, potato chips, dessert, and a beverage.
The price is $9.00 for a dinner, $5.00 for a half chicken only.
Take time to come on out and support a valuable friend, your local volunteer fire company!

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In the early 1960's George P. Mitchell, a Texas wildcatter and oil and real estate entrepreneur, envisioned a master-planned community that would include as many jobs as homes. After several years of planning, involving ecological specialists, and acquisition of tracts of land in Montgomery County, construction in what became The Woodlands actually began in 1972.
At 9:30 a.m. on Saturday, October 19, 1974, a flag-raising ceremony at the original Information Center in the Village of Grogan's Mill marked the first official act of the Grand Opening. When opened, The Woodlands consisted of a few families living in Settlers Corner, a conference center and country club, the Information Center, the Wharf shopping area, 19 model homes, 50 apartments, three office buildings, and several recreation amenities, all in Grogan's Mill Village. Other villages followed.
Since the opening in 1974, The Woodlands has grown rapidly in population and in amenities. The Woodlands Hospital (now Memorial-Hermann) opened in 1985; the Hardy Toll Road opened in 1987; the Cynthia Woods Mitchell Pavilion was added in the early 90's; The Woodlands Mall opened in 1994 and was greatly expanded in 2003; Anadarko and other large companies have located (and continue to locate) in The Woodlands, many of them in the area of the Town Center. Residents of the Village of Grogan's Mill have easy access to all of the job locations, shopping opportunities, dining experiences, recreational and entertainment venues, and medical facilities. In addition, residents can reach I-45, the Hardy Toll Road, and Bush Intercontinental Airport within a few minutes.
As The Woodlands continues to grow on the north, the west, and the south, residents of Grogan's Mill remain ideally situated to enjoy all of the advantages of living in this master-planned community.


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A lot of people take their nails for granted, but they actually go a long way in enhancing the overall beauty of an individual. The most important way to maintain the health of your nails has nothing to do with how you cut them. Instead, it has to do with your overall diet and nutrition. People who have thin, flimsy nails are often lacking a special B vitamin in their diet called biotin. This is a vitamin found in natural foods like carrots, bananas, and salmon. You should also drink a minimum of 8 glasses of water per day. All this hydration will make it easier for your nails to stay moisturized. This will make them look healthy and smooth.
Aside from maintaining a good diet to get beautiful nails, you also need to treat your nails good too. This means cutting and filing them so that they’re shaped in a presentable way. Be careful, though, because it is easy to ruin the integrity of your nails if you overcut them. For instance, if you take a cuticle remover and trim away too much of the overgrown cuticle, that nail will run the risk of infection. Then your nail and finger will show signs of inflammation.
In case you didn’t know, cuticles are the waxy substance in the nail bed which prevents it from getting infected by foreign pathogens. To avoid this circumstance, cut just enough of the cuticle to reduce its size back to normal. Keep your cuticles and nails hydrated by moisturizing them regularly. Wash your hands with lukewarm water. This will prevent hangnails as well as cracking and peeling.
Finally, be sure to cut your nails properly. Refrain from biting your nails or using your nails as a replacement for a tool. You want to treat your nails as naturally as possible, which means no fake nails. If you must add something artificial to your nails, then go for partial nail extensions on the tips instead. These won’t ruin your nail beds like the full nail extensions would. And when you go to cut the tips of your nails, it is important that you cut the tips straight off in a linear fashion. Try not to curve the cutting by making it round like your finger. Straight cuts with nail clippers will make your nails stronger. Then you can use nail files to smooth out the corners.


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The Newcastle Park Tour began in 2007 in response to a number of factors. Firstly, with daylight savings having been extended to 6 months of the year it seemed a pity to waste those extra daylight hours on a Wednesday evening. Secondly, the Summer Street Series had already been extended to 17 events and it was felt that this was a plenty long enough season. Thirdly, and finally, numbers in the Street series had grown to around 100 per week but many of these participants did not come along to the traditional bush orienteering events over winter. It was thought that a Park series might be a gentle way of transitioning Street orienteers to bush orienteers.
The format for the tour has remained unchanged since its inception. The number of events was initially dictated by the number of weeks left of daylight saving after the street series concluded and by the small number of park maps that the club had available at the time. The decision to have only two courses (long and short) per event was made to try to make the demands on the course setter as small as practical (since the course setter has to put the controls out and bring them all in again on the Wednesday afternoon). Lastly, since most competitors were used to running for 45 minutes at the street events it was decided to make the long course in the park series around the 5km mark. For most maps this is as long as is practical, (even with a map change), but hopefully long enough that people felt it worthwhile travelling to the event. The short course, it was decided, should be about half the length of the long course.
The first significant change that occurred in the running of the NPT over the years has been the introduction of the SportIdent (SI) timing system. Its first use at a NPT event was at the finals of the 2011 tour. Russell and Karen Blatchford used gear borrowed from the NSW Junior Squad at that event at Hunter River High. After much discussion, fact finding and debate the club decided to purchase its own set of SI equipment in 2012. The club’s own SI gear was used for all events in the NPT during the 2013 tour. While the benefits of the SI system to competitors is obvious it does bring with it some headaches for the organisers, notably the control units placed in public areas need to be locked and computer equipment now has to be brought to each event.
Another slight change in format occurred in 2015. A new map of the TAFE College at Islington had been produced but access to the grounds could only be obtained for a Sunday. Thus it was decided to use the map for the final of the series. Having the final on a Sunday has the advantage of allowing time after the event for a presentation and complete control collection.
Finally, the biggest logistical hurdle that the NPT faces has been (and will continue to be) finding suitable venues and mapping them. Of course this problem is common to all forms of orienteering. To this end Newcastle Orienteering Club is grateful for the efforts of long time mappers Denis Lyons, Russell Rigby and Ian Dempsey who have overseen the production of most of the maps we currently use.
Hopefully the tour will live on!!


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ROCHESTER — The Franklin Gallery, 60 Wakefield St., will host an exhibit called Up from The Deep: Multi-Media Conjurings by Berwick artist Ross Bachelder, for the month of May.
Bachelder, a writer, artist and musician, has exhibited his unorthodox and playful drawings, paintings, found object assemblages and photographs in galleries in Maine, New Hampshire and Massachusetts for many years.
As a musician, he has performed many solo recitals, played frequently as a pit orchestra musician in musical theater and appeared at art exhibit openings and other special events as The Flute Guy. He has performed seven times at the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, and in October of 2011 he performed at an art exhibit Opening in Tauranga, New Zealand.
Bachelder travels frequently to perform, to paint and photograph what he sees, and to write and speak publicly about his longtime immersion in the Arts. Most recently he spoke and performed before a group of adult violin students at the Rollinsford studio of musician and music teacher Kathryn Norris, and he has appeared twice as speaker and performer at Back to Roots Chiropractic and Nutrition in Rochester.
He has traveled twice to England and Scotland to visit museums and write about the theater. He tours galleries in New York City twice a year and visits other galleries wherever he travels — most recently to the Philadelphia Museum (Van Gogh Up Close) and, in March of this year, the Cincinnati Contemporary Art Center.
Bachelder is the manager of the Frame shop and Franklin Gallery at Ben Franklin Crafts in Rochester, New Hampshire and the founder of Artful Endeavors New England, a consulting service for creative people of every kind.
He is a past member of the Kittery Art Association, where he founded the KAA Seacoast Moderns, and a past member of the Newburyport Art Association, where he was the 2010 coordinator of AAGNE (the Abstract Artists’ Group of New England), an interest group of NAA.
“The world needs and depends on both specialists and generalists in every intellectual endeavor,” says Bachelder. “I clearly was not born to be a specialist. I am unusually well-suited for immersion in many art forms, and love to explore the connections between them. For me, the fine and performing Arts are an immeasurably vast, magical playground for those of us who cannot help but express our lives through music, the visual Arts and the written word.
The Franklin Gallery and Ben Franklin Crafts are open Monday through Friday 9 a.m. to 8 p.m., Saturday 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. and Sunday 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. For information, contact artsmultiple@gmail.com.


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Kinfonet Quote of the Day: When right thinking comes into being, there is no contradiction.
. . .to choose one of the contradictions is to avoid direct action, because choice at all times is a process of the avoidance of action. That is, if I choose one of the contradictions, peace, and do not understand its opposite, conflict, then such choice leads to inaction. It is not choice, but right thinking, that brings about integration. Where there is right thinking, contradictions are not possible; when we know how to think rightly, contradiction will cease. So, we have to find out what is right thinking, and not be caught in choice between good and evil, between war and peace, between riches and poverty, between freedom and regimentation. When right thinking comes into being, there is no contradiction. Contradiction is the very nature of the self, the seat of desire. So, to understand desire is the beginning of self-knowledge, and without self-knowledge, there is no right thinking. If I don't know myself, the total process of myself, not only at the economic level of everyday existence, but at the different psychological levels, then I live in a state of contradiction; and to choose one of the opposites does not bring about integration. We see contradiction about us and in our lives, there is a constant battle of choice between right and wrong; and we choose one of the opposites, yet that does not bring about peace, integration. So, to choose is to avoid action, and only right thinking can bring about integration.
Can you rely on your experience? Because, when you choose, your choice is based on desire; what you call essential is that which gives you satisfaction.
To understand every mood, every sense of reaction, surely one must be aware without choice because the moment we choose, we set into motion a process of conflict.
As long as we have choice, we are really not free and we are not really individuals.
Awareness does not result from the struggle to be aware; it comes of its own accord when you are conscious with your whole being, when you realize the futility of choice.
Creation is choiceless, as life is choiceless, as understanding is choiceless.
Karma, or the limitation of action in the present, is created through impeded consciousness of values, ideals, hopes which each one has not wholly understood.
Choice in action creates duality, and this affirms the process of consciousness as individuality.
You think you are able to choose between the false and the true.
Question: Are we not always in daily life, if we are intelligent, making a choice?
You can only understand acquisitiveness, or any other problem, in its isolation, not by bringing it into comparison, into opposition.
That which is achieved through the cultivation of the opposites is still within the opposite, though one may think that the state one has achieved has transcended the opposites.
Questioner: Last Sunday I understood from what you said that we do not take time from our jobs, family, activities, to study ourselves. This seems a contradiction of your former statement that one can be aware in everything one does.
Happy is he who sees the false as the false and that which is true as true.
We are ever-changing contradictory thoughts-feelings: love and hate, peace and passion, intelligence and ignorance.
We have to think of our existence as a whole, as a total process, and not as many unrelated processes at different levels.
Sirs, how very respectful you are to me, and how very cruel you are to your servant, to your wife, to your neighbours?
Contradiction is when I do not see clearly, when choice comes into action.
You cannot call yourself a nationalist and at the same time talk of peace.
Contradiction is one of the hindrances to transformation as it will not allow any moment of full attention on something directly.
If you do not see any contradiction, it does not mean that there is no contradiction.


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FYI, env is a POSIX thing , so I think it works just by virtue of using the system shell. Unfortunately, I think you'll need to use a different thing for Windows, if the tests are not running in a msys2/mingw/cygwin environment.
> FYI, env is a POSIX thing , so I think it works just by virtue of using the system shell.
The cool thing is that Lit recognizes `env` and makes it work cross-platform (same as e.g. `rm` and `mkdir`).
>> FYI, env is a POSIX thing , so I think it works just by virtue of using the system shell.
> The cool thing is that Lit recognizes `env` and makes it work cross-platform (same as e.g. `rm` and `mkdir`).
> RUN lines are specified in the comments of the test program using the keyword RUN followed by a colon, and lastly the command (pipeline) to execute. Together, these lines form the “script” that lit executes to run the test case. The syntax of the RUN lines is similar to a shell’s syntax for pipelines including I/O redirection and variable substitution. **However, even though these lines may look like a shell script, they are not. RUN lines are interpreted by lit.** Consequently, the syntax differs from shell in a few ways. You can specify as many RUN lines as needed.
Do you know where I can find the relevant lines in the source code?
> Do you know where I can find the relevant lines in the source code?
Not the lines, but the lit code is in https://github.com/llvm-mirror/llvm/tree/master/utils/lit/lit.
As a side note, when they made `cat` a builtin command, that broke some of our tests (IIRC because they forgot to ship that `builtin_commands/cat.py` for Windows or something like that).
>> Do you know where I can find the relevant lines in the source code?


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Welcome to our Platypus Big Zip LP 2 Litre review, our dedicated team of Cycling experts have just undertaken an extensive review of all of this year’s latest products in a whopper kit test at our favourite locations. For all the serious outdoor pursuits enthusiasts out there, you’ll be pleased to hear that our famously extensive product testing has really put the Platypus Big Zip LP 2 Litre to the test for our latest product review. The key attributes we look at in our product tests are performance, durability, ease of use and many other important factors to ensure that your outdoor adventure, whether for leisure or business purposes, is as productive and stress free as possible.
Before we get into the specifics of the Platypus Big Zip LP 2 Litre, we thought it might be best to start with some of the key things to look out for when purchasing Cycling equipment. First of all, it is always a good idea to look out for the manufacturer’s description, although it will be written in a manner to try and sell the product, it is still worth an in depth read. Due to the stricter legal restrictions in place to protect consumers, the manufacturer of the goods now has to be much more careful about any claims they make in their sales literature, to the extent that they can provide practical evidence in the case it ever needs to stand up in court, this is particularly relevant to the American market.
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So you’ve got some disposable cash that’s quickly burning a hole in your pocket for that latest piece of outdoor sports kit, and that’s certainly no bad thing, as adventurers ourselves we know exactly how that feels. But before you take that leap, there’s one last step we would highly recommend before you take the plunge and buy your Platypus Big Zip LP 2 Litre and that is to delve into the murky depths of owners reviews. Yes there will be varying qualities and definitely quantities too, but an honest review from a like-minded explorers is definitely worth throwing into the mix on top of the retailer’s product description and the expert product review.
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