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It is understood they were acquaintances of the man's son, who they believed was staying with him.

It is alleged the men fired two shots at the house and then tried to batter down the front door of the residence.

The 50-year-old and his alleged co-offenders, aged 42 and 48, have been charged with aggravated burglary and recklessly discharging a firearm.

Police found them driving a red Magna a short distance away from the crime scene.

A fourth man — a 38-year-old — escaped on foot.

Police allege the homeowner fired a gun at the men.

The 50-year-old's injury is to the back of his thigh and he may have been running away at the time.

The three men are all expected to face court later today, while


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STRANGLEHOLD was the official wrestling program offered by Detroit's famed Olympia Stadium for World Wrestling Assn. cards held from 1971-74. Arena Publishing produced 29 Stranglehold program magazines, and they are presented here in one huge 420 PAGE book!Every program has been re-typeset, cleaned up, with all photos reprocessed from the original source negatives (or photographs when negatives not available). In short, these programs look far, far better than they did when originally produced 40 years ago!The WWA included notables like Dick the Bruiser, The Crusher, Baron Von Raschke, the BlackJacks, Bobby Heenan, Bob Ellis, Ivan Koloff, The Valiant Brothers, Mitsu Arakawa, Luis Martinez, Red Cloud & Bold Eagle, the Canadian Wildman and The Wolfman, Big Ernie Ladd, Mooseof funding regional school districts and districts operating under sending-receiving relationships. The court noted that "a member of a regional school district ... has a voice in the operation of the school system both with respect to budget and the election of board members and [is] a participant in the school system" whereas "a sending municipality ... has no right of participation and [its] relationship to the receiving school is principally a contractual relationship, a payment for services." The court further noted that "[t]he Legislature and the Supreme Court in Robinson-Cahill have both determined that the most equitable basis of sharing school costs is on an equalized *229 ratable basis." In addition, the court ruled that "Sea Bright has no standing ... to contest the manner in which


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We have no doubt that New Jersey's method of financing regional school districts is compatible with the equal protection clauses of the federal and state constitutions as interpreted in Rodriguez, Robinson and Bonnet. Plaintiffs do not contend that there is any inequality in the school tax burden of residents of Sea Bright compared with residents of the other constituent municipalities in the district. To the contrary, the objective of apportioning the costs of a regional school district among the constituent municipalities according to their property values is to impose substantially equivalent tax burdens for education upon all taxpayers of the district regardless of the municipalities in which they reside. Thus, the method of financing education in a regional school district is substantially the same as incould not apportion regional district costs among constituent municipalities on the basis of ratables rather than the number of children sent "would erase a concept of the distribution of public tax obligation quite essential to the wellbeing of the public school system and of the body politic.").
The reasonableness of the current system of financing regional school districts, and hence its compatibility with the equal protection guaranties of the federal and state constitutions, is not affected by the fact that other municipalities which do not have school systems and are not members of regional districts may educate their children pursuant to sending-receiving relationships under which they pay the receiving district the actual per pupil cost of education. There are significant distinctions between membership in a regional school district and


The New Orleans Times-Picayune reports that Libertarian presidential candidate Michael Badnarik and Green candidate David Cobb are finding much in common:

During the first break in their live radio forum broadcast Friday afternoon from a Metairie studio, the Libertarian Party's presidential candidate turned to his Green Party counterpart and invited him—politely and sincerely—to an antiwar rally that night. Later, during another break, Michael Badnarik, the Libertarian, told David Cobb, the Green, "I keep liking you more and more."

…..

In New Orleans for different reasons—Badnarik for the Libertarian state convention today and Cobb on a campaign swing through the South—the two men know they have more in common with each other than they do with Democrats or Republicans. They are against the Bush administration's Patriot Act. They are against the warpossible molestation proved to be “unfounded.”

Cistone has encouraged anyone who believed they were victimized to contact authorities. Besides placing DeLand on administrative leave, the bishop ordered the 71-year-old to stop wearing clerical garb or presenting himself publicly as a priest.

A diocesan internal investigation was expected to begin after the criminal probe ends, the diocese said.

Meanwhile, Saginaw County Prosecutor John McColgan Jr. announced that a new law enforcement task force would investigate abuse allegations in the diocese.

DeLand’s lawyer has said the priest has dedicated his life to service, according to the Associated Press.

Ordained on June 17, 1973, DeLand served parishes in Bay County, earned a license in canon law, led international mission trips and was appointed a judicial vicar in 2001, according to the diocese.


before the Pico acid test in LA, they were staying in his rented house where he was also manufacturing acid. He was in the Dead camp for most of '66-'68 doing sound. There's a nice photo of him and Garcia at the San Diego airport in 1968 arriving for (or departing from) two shows at the old Hippodrome.

As has been said, this recording is a great bit of history for the band. I always find it fun to hear their banter. As the years went on, there was little said aside from, "We'll be back after just a short break." - May 30, 2014@drumz.space

Reviewer: njpg - favorite favorite - December 20, 2013

Subject: - Mostly pretty good, but the 15 minute jam is hella rough. - December 20, 2013

Reviewer:former Obama official Sam Jammal and Mai Khanh Tran, a pediatrician and Vietnamese immigrant who has the backing of the pro-abortion rights political group Emily's List, which says it will spend whatever it takes in this primary.

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“In 2018, Democrats are going to flip the House because of candidates like Mai Khanh getting into the fight,” Emily's List president Stephanie Schriock said in a statement to the Los Angeles Times.

Navy veteran and lottery winner Gil Cisneros is also in the race. Only one candidate, former professor Phil Janowicz, voted in the district last year.

All the Democrats challenging Royce make up a healthy number of the two dozen-ish first-time congressional candidates who see an opening in some of California's longest-held Republican seats. Lots of eyes were drawn to the region


stomped his Democratic opponent in November by 14 points, a little-known candidate who raised just $78,000. Democrats say the Orange County area, in the era of Trump, is ripe for a real challenger.

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Combine all the California Republicans' votes for an unpopular Obamacare repeal bill, with the area's changing demographics, with a historically unpopular Republican president, and Democrats think they smell blood in the water.

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House Democrats' campaign arm has set up a team in Irvine, its first headquarters in the state since 2000, to try to knock out at least nine California Republicans in their efforts to take back the House.

Orange County and Royce's district are Ground Zero.

“There are Republicans who represent the Orange County that existed 20 years ago,” said Drew Godinich, the Western press secretary for the(IV); among the latter an ill-fated attempt at making the reign of Pasebkhanut II entirely contemporary with that of Shoshenq I. I also produced a number of more general accounts of the period which, however, did not attempt to address any issues beyond those I had already dealt with separately.

However, an invitation to write entries on various individual kings for a forthcoming encyclopedia of ancient history led to my beginning to take a closer look at the _detail_ of many parts of the Third Intermediate Period and the late Rameside Period. This led me away from some positions I had long accepted, and prodded me into writing the book-length treatment with which I had been toying for some years. Furthermore, my dear friend Professor Salima Ikram, who had


on the high-priestly ones that were produced directly before them (see just below). This could well suggest an interruption in Herihor's career, with his removal from office in favor of Piankh as a result of whatever events were to give rise to the Nubian war. Then, in the wake of Piankh's demise, he will have returned to office, along with the likewise rehabilitated Panehsy, the two of them together once again separating the viceroyalty and high priesthood that had been combined by Piankh.

On the basis of the above, one would then allocate to this putative second stage of Herihor's career the series of large-scale depictions of him as high priest in the hypostyle hall of the Khonsu temple at Karnak (fig. 9). Here, they are fully integrated intoto Shepen-wepet, something also supported by the third ship being called "The Barge of King Piye." From temple of Mut, Karnak (Cairo JE31886).

Apart from Pekasater and Amenirdis, a certain Neferukakashta may, on the basis of her name, have been another daughter of Kashta. A later king, Shabaka, is shown to have been a son of Kashta by the fact that Amenirdis I calls him her brother. Whether Piye was himself a further sibling is not susceptible to proof, but if a wife of his named Kheñsa is identical with a King's Wife, King's Sister, and King's Daughter Kheñsa, Piye would also have been the offspring of a king—most probably Kashta, although Alara cannot be ruled out.

Given that Kashta was certainly present monumentally at Elephantine, it is likely that


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The hydroelectric generating plant worked by allowing water to enter the generating station from an inlet located one mile upstream of Niagara Falls, near Dufferin Islands, and was


government to do everything they can to ensure that as soon as he is well enough to travel our father is brought back to the UK where he will be safe.”

Asghar was arrested in 2010 in Rawalpindi after a blasphemy complaint was brought against him by a tenant with whom he was having a dispute. The family’s solicitor, Aamer Anwar, said that in court his lawyers were not allowed to present expert evidence that Asghar was suffering from severe paranoid schizophrenia and that he was unfit to stand trial even though he had been sectioned under the Mental Health Act in Edinburgh shortly before travelling to Pakistan.

Rana expressed her frustration that the family had been told to remain publicly silent about her father’s plight because of the sensitiveSearch form

French Connection: Chinese Ceramics and the Boone Collection

When I recently visited the exhibition Daily Pleasures, I was delighted to see a resonance between the French ceramics and several Chinese porcelains in LACMA’s permanent collection. It is perhaps not a surprise that porcelain is sometimes informally referred to as “china” or “fine china,” as it was from China that the technique of porcelain making was first introduced to Europe. Many of the exquisitely executed French ceramics included in the exhibition take inspiration from exported Chinese pieces in two aspects—technique and design.

Several figurative soft-paste ceramics have a monochromic white glaze, an imitation of a type of Chinese porcelain known in the West as blanc de chine (“white from china”). This type is called dehua in Chinese, named after the


kiln sites in Fujian province in South China. Dehua ware is known for its pure and even white glaze, often with a warm ivory or milky tone. Most of ceramics production in China was devoted to vessels and utensils, but dehua ware is also praised by connoisseurs for sculptural, especially figurative, presentations. A small figure of the Buddhist deity Guanyin (Bodhisattva Avalokiteshvara) in LACMA’s collection exemplifies the quality of dehua ware production, with its iridescent white glaze and silky smooth surface.

Guanyin is a deity of compassion in Buddhism, and this small sculpture idealizes her with a round face, almond-shaped eyes, and elongated ears. The French figures, in contrast, show a great degree of sensibility to realism, emphasizing an individual’s hair and costume. Despite their differences in style, bothChinese and French examples show a pursuit of purity and perfection.

Blue-and-white porcelain (qinghua) first appeared in China during the Tang dynasty (618-907), but did not reach maturity until the Yuan dynasty (1271-1368) when cobalt, the mineral for firing the color blue, became widely available through trade with Iran. Blue-and-white porcelain, such as cups, plates, jars, and vases, were exported to Portugal and the Netherlands, and were often depicted as luxury goods in paintings. The Meisen factory in Germany first started to imitate Chinese blue-and-white ceramics, followed by French and English factories.

The center motif of a blue-and-white charger made in Nevers, France, shows a typical European outdoor scene, but its rim features Chinese-style birds, flowers, and foliage, comparable to a fourteenth-century Chinese plate at LACMA.

At the center of the


stream, smoking opium, and contemplating in a garden. On a plate produced in Varages, France, a standing figure is playing with a bird, while his friend is holding what is possibly a musical instrument.

Set in a landscape of fantastic rocks and exaggerated vegetation, the scene perhaps refers to gatherings of scholars in gardens, a popular motif in China, just as seen on a fourteenth-century red lacquer tray.

Imitation and fascination with China in the West continued well into the twentieth century, and is by no means limited to the production of ceramics and other daily objects. In L.A., one of the best examples is no doubt the whimsical Grauman’s Chinese Theatre on Hollywood Boulevard.

Happy 86th birthday to Frank Gehry! What would the world be without the Walt Disney ConcertOn the fourth of March, in the sleepy British cathedral town of Salisbury, an ex-spy named Sergei Skripal was poisoned by an assassin with the most deadly nerve agent known to man.

The Russian government was immediately blamed by a shocked and outraged world. Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson assured the people of Great Britain that “There’s no doubt” that Moscow was responsible. In a large and sudden leap forward in cold war escalations, Russian diplomats were thrown out of countries all around the globe, including my own Australia, in a show of solidarity with the United Kingdom. It was the largest collective ejection of Russian diplomats in history.

Two months after his earth-shattering assassination, as the world stared spellbound at the weekend’s immensely popular PR spectacle of a royal wedding,


the horror stories they told us about how the city that had been occupied by good, noble freedom fighters was about to be taken by an army of depraved psychopaths who wanted to rape women, burn children alive, and shoot civilians in their homes. Back at the tail end of 2016, though, it was all you ever heard about. The “fall of Aleppo”, they called it. If the west didn’t intervene to stop Damascus and Moscow from retaking East Aleppo from the good-hearted rebels, everyone there would be raped, tortured, and butchered by the soulless army of the Syrian government.

Well, Moscow and Damascus did recapture East Aleppo, and it turns out that everything we were told about it was a lie. The atrocities the Syrian Arab Army wereIndian-origin man sentenced for seeking underage sex

An Indian-origin man from Canada was sentenced by a US court in Arizona state to 46 months in prison after he pleaded guilty to international travel with intent to engage in illicit sexual encounter with a minor.

Dilbagh Singh, 57, was sentenced on Monday by District Judge Steven P. Logan after he was arrested in May this year, the US media reported.

According to a statement by the US Department of Justice, Singh began an online relationship with one “Laura” in January 2017 thinking that she was a 15-year-old girl.

Over the course of nearly four months, Singh told the girl that he wanted to engage in various sex acts with her. In May 2017, Singh travelled from Canada to Flagstaff, Arizona, to meet the


Eyewitnesses, arrest records, metadata from photographs uploaded to the website evidently created by Dylann Roof sketch the most comprehensive timeline leading up to his alleged attack on the Emanuel A.M.E. Church in Charleston, South Carolina, on Wednesday, June 17.

February 9:

LastRhodesian.com domain is registered, which was discovered by Twitter sleuths this Saturday.

February 28:

Employees and security guards at Columbiana Centre mall in Columbia, South Carolina, call police about a “white male wearing all black” going into stores and “asking employees out of the ordinary questions” like how many people were working, and what time they opened and closed. Police discover Roof, who claims he is looking for a job but admits he hasn’t applied to any stores. Police find Suboxone, a painkiller, on him without a prescription. Roof is arrestedfor possession of a controlled substance and banned from the mall for one year.

March 16:

Roof is photographed wearing the flags of Rhodesia and apartheid-era South Africa in front of a sign marking Sullivan’s Island, just south of Charleston. The island was the entry point for 40 percent of the slaves brought to North America, according to the National Parks Service.

Roof is photographed scrawling “1488” into the sand of a beach on the same day, presumably at Sullivan’s Island. “1488” is white supremacist code. The 14 stands for the 14 words of a phrase coined by the founder of the American Nazi Party: “We must secure the existence of our people and a future for white children.” The eighth letter of the alphabet is H so 88 is HH


for “Heil Hitler!”

March 25:

Roof is photographed at Elmwood Cemetery in Columbia. Elmwood includes an area where Confederate war dead are buried.

April 3:

Roof gets money for his birthday from his family, according to his grandfather. It is believed Roof used that money to legally purchase a .45-caliber Glock pistol.

April 13:

Roof is photographed at the Boone Hall plantation in Charleston—one of America’s oldest plantations, and one that includes original slave quarters.

April 17:

Photograph taken of .45-caliber Glock and ammunition, presumably Roof’s.

April 20:

Roof poses with a gun pointed at the camera.

April 23:

Roof is photographed at McLeod Plantation in James Island, South Carolina. Roof is seen in front of the main plantation house, standing in front of a sign marking a “sacred burial ground for African ancestors,” and behind former slave quarters.

April 24:

Roofis photographed in front of the Museum and Library of Confederate History in Greenville.

April 26:

Police dispatched to Columbiana Centre mall in Columbia after Roof is seen in his vehicle. Roof is arrested for trespassing in violation of the one-year ban from the mall.

April 29 to May 11:

Roof takes several photographs of pro-Nazi, pro-Confederate propaganda, including another “1488” drawn into a beach and him burning the American flag.

May 11 to June 17:

Little is known about Roof’s whereabouts during this period. Joseph Meek Jr. says Roof contacts him through Facebook during this period about reconnecting. The two were friends in middle school, Meek tells the Associated Press on June 19. Meek says that over vodka one night Roof starts ranting about Trayvon Martin’s death, the Freddie Gray riots in Baltimore,


Upstate Farmers Find That a Fertile Flood Plain Is a Two-Edged Sword

New York growers, many of whose farms have been in the family for generations, suffered devastating crop losses as a result of Tropical Storm Irene.

LISA W. FODERARO

Like many other growers in the Hudson Valley, John Gill’s grandfather established his farm along the banks of a creek — in his case, the lower Esopus in Hurley, N.Y. — because the land was so fertile, with topsoil penetrating 10 to 30 feet into the earth.

The fertility is due to a flood plain. But the geological blessing of such a plain can change, in a matter of hours, into calamity, as Mr. Gill saw this week on the family farm, established in 1937, which sits at the base of theCatskill Mountains. More than a third of his 1,500 acres of sweet corn and other vegetables, which usually end up in the produce aisle of the ShopRite chain and on the menu at Blue Hill, among other places, was destroyed by Tropical Storm Irene.

“I had some fields under 10 feet of water,” he said. “You couldn’t see a stalk.”

From the Hudson Valley to areas farther north, along the Mohawk River and Schoharie Creek, New York growers, many of whose farms have been in the family for generations, were dealt a devastating blow by the storm, which dumped heavy rain on the region. Some farmers, who were without power and hobbled by disabled equipment, were not even able to assess the full extent of the damage.

State and local officials


that Bazaldua had recently
returned from Texas with a methamphetamine shipment. Surveillance officers
followed Bazaldua to a St. Paul apartment, but when the officers identified themselves
and attempted to speak to Bazaldua he fled in his vehicle. With the officers following,
Bazaldua drove unsafely and too fast for the road conditions, and, therefore, the
officers suspended their pursuit.

        Some time later, law enforcement officers relocated Bazaldua's vehicle and
resumed pursuit, with their emergency lights activated. In hazardous conditions,
including slippery roads caused by heavy snow and ice, Bazaldua wove in and out of
traffic while being pursued. Because Bazaldua refused to stop, an officer executed a
PIT maneuver,2 causing Bazaldua's vehicle to spin out of control and come to a stop.
After Bazaldua's vehicle stopped, he refused to exit the vehicle,acceptance of responsibility, resulting in a total offense level
of 33. With a criminal history Category III and a total offense level of 33, the parties
considered Bazaldua's advisory Guideline range to be 168 to 210 months. In
paragraph 6(c) of the plea agreement, "[t]he parties agree[d] that none of the
adjustments set forth in Guideline Sections 3A1.1 through 3C1.2 [were] applicable in
this case."

      After Bazaldua entered his guilty plea, the court ordered the United States
Probation Office to prepare a Presentence Investigation Report (PSR). The PSR
agreed with the parties' stipulations that: Bazaldua's base offense level was 36; the
offense level should be reduced three levels for acceptance of responsibility; and
Bazaldua's criminal history was a Category III. In contrast to the plea agreement,
however, the PSR recommended that the district


would have both great healthcare and massive tax cuts & reform," he tweeted to his 27 million followers, naming the three leaders of the arch-conservative House Freedom Caucus. He taunted them a second time immediately after.

In return for his earlier, more general threat to challenge Freedom Caucus members in 2018, one of them, Rep. Justin Amash (R-Mich.), accused the president of becoming a creature of Washington.

That wasn't all: Speaker Paul Ryan warned that the GOP health care stalemate could drive Trump to work with Democrats. A Republican senator accused Ryan of badmouthing bipartisanship.

The crossfire left a sour taste for lawmakers as they left town for the weekend without resolving any of the differences that ruptured health care deliberations the week before.

“You know, the great tendency in politics todayThis Month in

Led Zeppelin History September 07, 1968 - The band fulfills some old Yardbirds dates in Scandanavia

September xx, 1969 - Jimmy Page is reported saying the second album will be harder than the first

September 19, 1970 - Led Zeppelin gross over $100,000 for two performances at Madison Square Gardens on the same day

September xx, 1971 - Jimmy Page is furious over a live Yardbirds release. It was forced off the shelves

September xx, 1971 - The band vacations in Hawaii

September xx, 1972 - Discussions to play various countries ends with a decision to play Japan again

September xx, 1973 - Jimmy Page considers a live release of material before releasing a new album

September 14, 1974 - Led Zeppelin and CSN&Y jam at an after party

September xx, 1975 - Jimmy


If your child has ambitions to be a professional rugby player, please read on. If you are a school or club coach, a teacher or a Premiership director of rugby, what follows is also important. It can be paraphrased thus: what is the best way to develop youthful talent? Or, perhaps more pertinently, how can they be saved from the boneheaded thinking affecting too many teenagers up and down the country?

Here, by way of illustration, is a case study involving a 17-year-old academy player. On day one at his new club this summer he was asked how many games he had participated in last season. The answer was 68. Sixty-eight games! At the age of 17! When the medics examined him they found that – surprise, surprise –his shoulders were already shot. Before he had touched a ball the club had to book him in for surgery.

At another outwardly thriving Premiership club, the word is their junior academy players are being discouraged from applying for university in 2015. It is far easier for a club to manage them if studies do not come into the equation. Horribly easy, too, for the player to be persuaded his career will develop more swiftly if he dumps his files. Yet this is a profession in which some figures suggest just 4% of senior academy players go on to be Premiership regulars. Even if they make the first team, they are just one serious injury away from having to find alternative employment.

Which brings us to Worcester. Relegated from the


Premiership at the end of last season, they could have sat back, whisked out a large chequebook and signed a southern hemisphere has-been as a temporary fix. Instead, to their credit, they have done the opposite and set out to establish the most outstanding youth development structure they could conceive. It did not make many headlines when they launched their first junior academy centre at King Edward’s School, Birmingham, last week but their mission statement is both refreshing and impressive.

Nick Johnston, Worcester’s high performance director, explains it thus: formerly a strength and conditioning guru at Sale and Northampton, he was on the brink of leaving rugby when Dean Ryan phoned him to ask about the integral part he had played in resurrecting the Saints following their Premiership relegation.A stiffer, five-year residency requirement would be a much fairer way of separating the genuine migrants from the opportunists queueing up to reject the countries of their birth. There is also a good argument for a rule permitting players who win only a handful of caps for a tier one nation to switch allegiance to a tier two country for whom they also qualify through birth or bloodline. It would certainly make Rugby World Cups more competitive.

ONE TO WATCH THIS WEEK

South Africa v Australia. A significant game for both teams as they seek to stay in touch with New Zealand in the Rugby Championship. South Africa have injury issues and are blowing hot and cold but a Wallaby win on Springbok soil would still count as a serious


Galaxy get their all-stars back, but Seattle miss their unsung one

Seattle Sounders top the MLS standings and have also contributed most players to next week’s all-star line-up, but it was perhaps the least heralded of those players who was most decisive in their encounter with LA Galaxy on Monday night — and he wasn’t even on the field.

Chad Marshall was involved in a car accident on Saturday and was ruled out of the game with back spasms. In his absence, the Sounders defense, which Marshall has anchored all season in something of a renaissance year, suffered greatly — particularly in a torrid first half that yielded three unanswered goals for the Galaxy.

With Omar Gonzalez back on the team, and Robbie Keane and Landon Donovan contributing to the attack,the right mentality.”

That mentality will be further tested against the Philadelphia Union on Friday, with Besler suspended and Seth Sinovic questionable after leaving the field against TFC just before the hour mark with a right groin strain.

Sporting have now won their last four league games, tying the Sounders at the top of the standings on 38 points (although Seattle hold three games in hand) and making them MLS’s in-form side at the moment.

On the other hand, things have gone a bit Toronto FC at Toronto FC, with Ryan Nelsen’s side having just won just one of its past six league fixtures. The former New Zealand international took the opportunity in the mixed zone to go full Nelsen at the treatment being meted out to top scorer Jermain Defoe


top American players to MLS, or even the retention of talent (such as Besler signing his improved contract at Kansas City).

But in Vancouver this weekend, the emphasis was on an earlier version of a very American soccer career, as Jay DeMerit, the Whitecaps first signing when they entered the league, and a man whose unlikely trajectory had taken him from the ninth tier of English football to playing in a World Cup, announced his retirement.

DeMerit’s story is one of extreme tenacity. As a young man he missed out on being drafted to an MLS team despite having played on Chicago Fire’s PDL developmental side. He then worked briefly as a bartender before a friend advised him to try Europe because of his EU work status through a Danishgrandfather. DeMerit originally played for £40 a week at Southall, before a pre-season friendly against Watford earned him a two-week trial, and then a contract. A memorable goal in the playoff win that got Watford to the Premier League followed, and eventually a World Cup with USA.

Jay DeMerit says goodbye. Photograph: Jonathan Hayward/AP Photograph: Jonathan Hayward/AP

DeMerit completed his circuitous route to MLS when he was announced as the Whitecaps' first signing prior to their league debut in 2011. An all-star appearance followed in 2012, and a film was even made about DeMerit’s extraordinary journey, but injuries had been catching up with the central defender before this week’s emotional announcement that the player was calling time on a career that had almost been over before it began.

He’ll be missed


as he tries to build some solidity into a talented but sometimes flaky Vancouver team.

But DeMerit has gone (though he remains in an ambassadorial role for the Whitecaps, at least for this season). With him goes another connection to the pre-early MLS era of “lost generation” US players, who parlayed often modest talents into European careers whose obscure starts would be unrecognizable to, say, DeAndre Yedlin. It’s the nature of the existing systems in the US and Canada, and the scale of the countries, that possible talents have a confounding habit of falling through the many cracks, though slowly, slowly, things are improving. DeMerit did it his way though, and deserves his moment of acknowledgement. GP

No such thing as a quiet weekend

There weren’t many games scheduled in MLSabout nonprofit religious hospitals and schools.

As secretary, Price would have two main options. He could expand the “accommodation” that already exempts some houses of worship from the requirement to any employer with a religious objection. Or, because the specific inclusion of birth control came via a regulation rather than the law itself, he could simply eliminate no-copay birth-control coverage from the benefits that insurance plans must offer. (This assumes continuing existence of the health law, at least for the short term.)

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In 1826, James Smithson, a British scientist, drew up his last will and testament, naming his nephew as beneficiary. Smithson stipulated that, should the nephew die without heirs (as he would in 1835), the estate should go “to the United States of America, to found at Washington, under the name of the Smithsonian Institution, an establishment for the increase and diffusion of knowledge among men.”

The motives behind Smithson’s bequest remain mysterious. He never traveled to the United States and seems to have had no correspondence with anyone here. Some have suggested that his bequest was motivated in part by revenge against the rigidities of British society, which had denied Smithson, who was illegitimate, the right to use his father’s name. Others have suggested it reflected his interestin the Enlightenment ideals of democracy and universal education.

Smithson died in 1829, and six years later, President Andrew Jackson announced the bequest to Congress. On July 1, 1836, Congress accepted the legacy bequeathed to the nation and pledged the faith of the United States to the charitable trust. In September 1838, Smithson’s legacy, which amounted to more than 100,000 gold sovereigns, was delivered to the mint at Philadelphia. Recoined in U.S. currency, the gift amounted to more than $500,000.

After eight years of sometimes heated debate, an Act of Congress signed by President James K. Polk on Aug. 10, 1846, established the Smithsonian Institution as a trust to be administered by a Board of Regents and a Secretary of the Smithsonian.

The Smithsonian Institution conducts scientific and scholarly research, administers


the national collections and performs educational public-service functions. It is supported by its trust endowments and revenues, gifts, grants, contracts and funds appropriated by the Congress.

James Smithson

Shortly after his birth in France in 1765, Smithson was taken to England for his education. His father, Hugh Smithson, was created first Lord and Duke of Northumberland by George III in 1766 and, by an act of Parliament, took the name of Percy. James Smithson’s mother, Elizabeth Keate Macie, was a widow and member of the wealthy Hungerford family.

Early in his life, Smithson used his mother’s name, Macie, and so it was as James Macie that he entered Oxford University. A 1786 graduate from Pembroke College, he was a gentleman scholar in the 18th-century tradition. The following year, he was admittedto Britain’s Royal Society (a scientific academy).

It was not until 1802 that he used the name Smithson in his scientific writings. A well-regarded chemist and mineralogist—the zinc carbonate mineral smithsonite is named for him—Smithson made many field trips to Europe to collect specimens. He analyzed scores of minerals and published many reports on his research.

Smithson died in Genoa, Italy in 1829 at age 64 and was buried in a small English cemetery there. In 1904, when the burial ground was to be displaced by the enlargement of a quarry, the Smithsonian Board of Regents voted to bring Smithson’s tomb and remains to the institution he founded. They were escorted from Italy by Alexander Graham Bell, a Regent, and reinterred in the original Smithsonian building.

During a 1973 restoration of


the Castle’s crypt room, a team of Smithsonian anthropologists examined James Smithson’s bones. Their telling observations were recorded in an article in the January 1976 Smithsonian magazine.

The skeleton appeared to be that of a white male who died between 50 and 65 years of age . . . He was a couple of inches shorter than the average modern American and a little shorter than the average upper-class Englishman of the late 18th century. He was rather small and slight in build but athletic, with a long trunk, big chest and powerful arms and hands. His teeth were worn on the left side from gripping a pipe. He had bad teeth generally—17 had been lost while he was alive and five had abscesses when he died . .What makes a rivalry: Crew vs. Fire

The Crew and Fire will meet for the 59th time in history across all competitions on Saturday when the Black & Gold host the Men in Red at Crew Stadium. Over the past 16 years, the rivalry between the two clubs has blossomed into one Major League Soccer's best. Here are a few reasons why.

PROXIMITY

When the Fire joined MLS in 1998, it spurred a natural geographic rivalry between the two clubs. In its first two seasons, the Crew had no choice but to hold D.C. United as its top nemesis. Though the Black & Gold met United in back-to-back Eastern Conference Finals in 1997 and 1998, D.C.'s supporters often overlooked the Crew for the club's closer competitors in New York/New Jersey and


New England. The expansion of MLS in Chicago gave Columbus a rival of its own that would match the drama of the rivalries on the East and West coasts.

In the rivalry's inaugural season, the Crew and Fire met in the Final of the U.S. Open Cup at Soldier Field in the Windy City. Originally intended to be played in Hampton Roads, Va., Hurricane Bonnie postponed the Final by nearly two months and Soldier Field was controversially selected as the match's host stadium. Deadlocked at 1-1 after 90 minutes, the Black & Gold fell in Golden Goal overtime following Frank Klopas' 99th minute strike. While the Crew would be left with the runner-up medals, the Final added fuel to the budding rivalry.

SUPPORTERS

The Nordecke or Section 8? Even when theCrew and Fire aren't playing, the Twittersphere remains buzzing with trash talk between the two supporters' sections. With just over 300 miles between the two cities, hundreds flock to support their team on the road when the two sides meet to create one of the great rivalry atmospheres in MLS.

FAMILIAR FACES

Crew original and U.S. Soccer legend Brian McBride broke hearts in Columbus when he returned from Fulham in the Barclays Premier League to join his hometown Fire in 2008. However, McBride's move was hardly out of the ordinary, as 17 players have donned both the Black & Gold and Chicago Red since 1998. Just before the 2013 season, the Crew dealt winger Dilly Duka and the rights to Robbie Rogers to Chicago in exchange for Dominic Oduro. The


move has worked out for both sides as the Ghanaian striker currently leads the Black & Gold with 10 goals this season and Duka has been a steady contributor for the Men in Red. The Fire traded Rogers' rights to Los Angeles for Mike Magee, who leads Chicago with 10 tallies since joining the club back in May.

2008 EASTERN CONFERENCE FINAL

Ask any Crew fan: the 2008 MLS Cup was won in the Eastern Conference Final against the Fire at Crew Stadium. In a battle between the top two clubs in the League, Brian McBride put the home side and his former team on its heels early with a 29th-minute strike. But in the second half, Chad Marshall and Eddie Gaven found the net via Guillermo Barros Schelotto assistsWilliam Greendyke

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A Massachusetts Institute of Technology graduate died while trying to climb his alma mater's iconic 150ft-high dome.

Nicholas Paggi, 24, died after he climbed the roof near the dome and slipping on Tuesday night, CBS News reports.

The 2015 graduate of the top global university was climbing the dome as a fun sort of prank, his mother told CBS.

Nicholas Paggi, 24, died after he slipped and fell while trying to climb the 'Great Dome' at the Massachusetts of Technology, his alma mater. He is pictured on the Charles River in Boston and the dome can be seen in the background

Paggi graduated from MIT in 2015 with degrees in computer science and engineering, and physics. He had been working as a software engineer at the time of his death

He was workingas a software engineer and had graduated with degrees in computer science and engineering, and physics, the school's newspaper The Tech reports.

Doctor Rich Fletcher told CBS: 'He was one of the greatest computer programmers I've worked with.'

He added: 'He was a great mentor to all students. It's such a loss to all of us.'


law enforcement when a suspect's data was encrypted.

"I believe that Apple is making an important point," Smith said. "We agree wholeheartedly with Apple that the right place to bring this discussion is here, to the House of Representatives and the Senate so the people who are elected by the people can make these decisions."

Related: Apple tells court the government can't force it to write code

At the hearing, Smith showed off a prop: a century-old adding machine that he claimed was the most advanced technology from the time the All Writs Act was last updated. The All Writs Act is a central law that a magistrate-judge referenced in her order to Apple (AAPL).

"Put simply, we do not believe that courts should seek to resolve issues of 21st century technologyto be prepared to do a bunch of your holiday shopping during Prime Day 2020, even though that may not be what you are used to doing.

What were the most popular Prime Day deals in 2019?

Each year, Amazon announces the top-selling Prime Day deals, and in 2019 most of its own hardware topped the list. It's not a huge surprise to see this, as Amazon tends to aggressively lower the prices for the big event. Aside from its hardware, SanDisk microSD cards, Instant Pots, and a few others made the list.

In the U.S. Amazon said the highlights included:

A record number of Prime members shopped during Prime Day in the U.S.

Prime members purchased more than 100,000 lunchboxes, 100,000 laptops, 200,000 TVs, one million headphones, 350,000 luxury beauty products, 400,000


had a random mix of things on sale, and has evolved into what was a 48 hour event last year that offered well over 1 million deals.

Beyond just discounting its own hardware, Amazon features discounts on popular products from Bose, Instant Pot, TCL, KitchenAid, and many other big brands. The growth hasn't been flawless for Amazon, though. Last year, the company experienced nearly two hours of downtime at the beginning of the event due to the extra traffic. The site had immense troubles loading listings, showing updated pricing, and getting through the checkout process. Once this was resolved, the rest of it went pretty smoothly.

How does Amazon Prime Day work?

Prime Day is not as straightforward as some other big shopping days, and that's not such a bad thing.Green Party Leader Elizabeth May says that if Stephen Harper wins a minority government, she is prepared to call the Governor General and ask that she be given time to mediate a coalition with the opposition parties and ensure the Conservatives don't take power.

"Well, I disagree with the term 'win' in terms of minority," said May, who sat down with CBC News chief correspondent Peter Mansbridge for the last in a series of four interviews with the party leaders. "The opposition parties have a choice."

May said she doesn't like it when opposition parties "skip that step" when they could go to the Governor General to try to form a government.

The opposition parties, in a minority government situation, can approach the Governor General and say they would like the


account."

But she does have a list of demands if she held the balance of power.

"Short list — get rid of first past the post. Bring in proportional representation, repeal Bill C-51, reduce the powers of the Prime Minister's Office, because they are illegitimate and unhealthy, and real climate action beginning the day after the election. We have to get to work to prepare for the deadline negotiations that will take place in Paris."

The Green Party currently has three members who were MPs in the last Parliament. While May said her dream is to get a total of 30 seats in the election, she believes her party will more likely net 12 to 15.

May laid out her party's platform this week, saying she wants to eliminate university and college72122263

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MILWAUKEE, WI - NOVEMBER 03: U.S. President Barack Obama speaks to supporters during a campaign rally at the Delta Center on November 3, 2012 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Wisconsin is one of nine battleground states expected to determine the outcome of Tuesday's presidential election. (Photo by Scott Olson/Getty Images)


   Hall, a tanker loader at a chemical company, was hooking
a  hose  underneath  a  tanker  truck  in  mid‐2006  when  he  felt
pain in his low back. His pain persisted so he saw Dr. George
Miz,  an  orthopedic  surgeon,  who  ordered  an  MRI  of  Hall’s
lumbar  spine. After  reviewing  the  MRI,  Dr. Miz  found  that
Hall  had  a  large  disc  herniation  at  L‐5  that  was  pinching  a
spinal  nerve  root.  Dr. Miz  recommended  “conservative
treatment,” so Hall began physical therapy while continuing
to  work,  and  he  reported  progress  from  the  therapy. As  of
November 2006, Hall was still experiencing “ups and downs”
in terms of pain, and by December, Dr. Miz thought that any
improvement  Hall  felt  with  his  back  had  “essentially
plateaued.”  Because  the  pain  persisted,  Hall  and  Dr.  Miz
began  planning  a  lumbar  microdiscectomy  to  relieve  the
pressure on his spinal nerve root.
    In March 2007, Hall stopped working and underwent the
operation. The surgery was successful. Hall’s back improved,
and by June his range of motion during physical therapy had
increased. He reassured Dr. Miz the next month that he had
“slow  but  steady  progress  with  physical  therapy.”  By
December,  after  an  epidural  steroid  injection,  Hall  reported
that his pain was “down to 2 to 3/10.”
   Meanwhile, since the day of his surgery, Hall has received
temporary total worker’s compensation benefits. The record
shows that Hall continues to receive these benefits to this day.
   In 2008, Hall’s functionality continued to improve. In June
he said that he could sit, stand, and walk for about an hour.
No. 17‐2628                            Boehner withdraws from debt talks with Obama

President Barack Obama makes a statement in the Brady Briefing Room at the White House in Washington, Friday, July 22, 2011 on the break down of debt ceiling talks. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

President Barack Obama said Friday night that House Speaker John Boehner was "walking away" from negotiations to raise the nation's debt ceiling and avert financial catastrophe. Still, Obama said he was expecting congressional leaders from both parties at the White House Saturday morning.

In a dramatic appearance in the White House briefing room Obama said it was up to the Republican leaders to explain to him how they intend to avoid the default that is threatened after Aug. 2.

"I expect them to have an answer in terms of how they intend


to get this thing done in the course of the next week. The American people expect action," Obama said.

Boehner, in a letter circulated to the House Republican rank and file, said he had withdrawn from the talks with Obama because "in the end, we couldn't connect.He said he would turn instead to negotiations with leaders of the Senate, which is controlled by majority Democrats.

The disconnect in the talks with the White House, Boehner said, was "not because of different personalities, but because of different visions for our country.

The talks had veered uncertainly for weeks, generating reports as late as Thursday that the two sides were possibly closing in on an agreement to cut $3 trillion in spending and add as much as $1 trillion in possible revenue whileLongitudinal analysis of living donor kidney transplant rates in pediatric candidates in the United States.
Among adults, living donor kidney transplant rates began declining in the United States after 2004 but whether a similar decline is occurring in the pediatric candidates has not been well studied. Share 35, a change in allocation rules implemented in October of 2005, may also have influenced rates of living donation. We sought to determine whether a decline in rates was occurring in pediatric candidates and whether the Share 35 program was the cause of the decline. All children listed for a kidney transplant or transplanted with a living donor without listing between 1996 and 2011 were identified in the United States (N=14 911) of which 6046 had received a living donor transplant during


         _________________
        RONALD LEE GILMAN, Circuit Judge. On a Sunday morning in January of 2003, Amy
Lynn Ford, a self-described recovering alcoholic who also suffers from epilepsy, was arrested on
a probation violation and taken to the Grand Traverse County Jail in Traverse City, Michigan. That
afternoon, Ford had a seizure, fell from the top bunk of a bed in her cell, and sustained significant
injuries to her right hip and right clavicle. Ford subsequently brought suit against a number of jail
officials and the County of Grand Traverse (collectively referred to as the defendants). She claimed
that the officials had exhibited deliberate indifference to her serious medical needs in violation of
her constitutional rights under the Eighth and Fourteenth                   I. BACKGROUND
A.      Factual background
        On the morning of Sunday, January 12, 2003, Ford was arrested for violating the terms of
her probation for a prior offense and was transported to the Grand Traverse County Jail. Ford had
been prescribed an anti-seizure medication, Dilantin, to control her epilepsy, and had been advised
by her physician not to drink alcohol while taking the drug. Because she had been drinking on
January 11 and January 12, Ford acknowledged that she had not taken her Dilantin on the morning
of her arrest. The defendants, moreover, introduced proof (based on Ford’s lack of memory, her
physician’s testimony, and


at 69.   Plaintiff's employment with Digital ended on June 28, 1991.

22
In mid-August 1991, plaintiff again began experiencing back pain.  In October 1991, he was informed that scar tissue from his surgery was impinging on the nerve.  In September 1993, plaintiff wrote to Digital regarding his condition, seeking to obtain long term disability benefits.  Upon being informed that Prudential was the appropriate party with whom to file a claim, plaintiff submitted his claim in December 1993.  Prudential denied the claim on the ground that claimant had not satisfied the elimination period during his initial period of total disability, based on his medical improvement in May 1991, and that his second period of total disability commenced after he was no longer covered by the1.29.2012

Ed Emberley started illustrating children's books in the early 60's. He is well know for his drawing books, which some people claim sparked their interest in drawing. Emberley has written and illustrated over 80 children's books, of which some are drawing books and some are picture books. Woodcuts are not his main media, but in keeping with our woodcut theme of the last week I am showing a few of his books illustrated in that media. I really like Emberley's style, I think he's an American treasure.

1.26.2012

Antonio Frasconi became well known for his woodcuts after moving to the U.S. in 1945 to study at the Art Student's League in New York City. Frasconi has done a variety of work over the course of his career in advertising, magazine


illustrations, posters, record covers, Christmas cards and books - the latter of which I will be showing, specifically some of the children's books that Frasconi has illustrated.

Frasconi wrote and illustrated See and Say: A Picture Book in Four Languages (1955) for his son Pablo to expose him to other languages. Multilingual books were a recurring theme for Frasconi who felt that children should be exposed to other languages.

Frasconi was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, to Italian parents who immigrated to South America during World War I. Soon after the family moved to Uruguay, where his parents ran a restaurant. Antonio was just 12 years old when he was apprenticed to a printer. As a teenager he published cartoons and drawings in satirical newspapers. In the early 1940's hestarted to experiment with woodcuts. After studying in the U.S. woodcuts and lithographs became his main media. By the early 1950's he was recognized as one of America's foremost woodcut artists. In 1951 Frasconi married artist Leona Pierce.

Kaleidoscope in Woodcuts, published in 1968, is an accordian fold book, when fully opened it is 130" long. Publisher Harcourt, Brace and World published this book to honor the selection of Antonio Frasconi by the Republic of Uruguay as it's artist at the 34th Biennale in Venice in 1968.

Though picture books compromise a small portion of Antonio Frasconi's career, the work he did in them is exceptional. I would encourage anyone who likes woodcuts to read about him and seek out more of his work.

In continuing the theme of woodcut illustrators,


my next post will be about artist Ed Emberley.

1.24.2012

To start off our week of woodcuts, I am showing the work of Vermont artist Mary Azarian, who has over 50 children's picture books to her credit, amongst other work. Azarian's work is beautiful and highly detailed, she is clearly a master at her craft. Azarian says that inspiration comes from her farm and gardens.

Mary Azarian was born in 1940 and grew up on her grandfather's farm just outside Washington D.C. Her interest in gardening developed at an early age and continues to this day. She went to Smith College and studied printmaking with Leonard Baskin, one of the great 20th century printmakers. It was then she began to work on wood and says her interest in the medium hasnever wavered.

After college Azarian moved to a small hill farm in northern Vermont with her husband Tom. They farmed horses and oxen, kept chickens, sheep and a jersey milk cow. They raised three sons who helped with the large gardens and a maple syrup operation. Those years on the farm became the inspiration for many of Azarian's prints.

After teaching for three years in one of the last one room schools in Vermont, Azarian decided to try earning a living from selling her prints. She started working in black and white, printing each block by hand. After a while she started adding color by hand, painting each print. Later Azarian bought an old Vandercook proof press and began using that to produce her prints. In the 70's she started


illustrating children's books and now has over 50 to her name. In 1999 she won a Caldecott for her illustrations in Snowflake Bentley.

To view a previous post I did on The Man Who Lived Alone, illustrated by Mary Azarian, click here.

Mary Azarian

On her website Azarian states she has returned to the design of black and white woodcuts and is especially interested in working with simple shapes. To see more of Azarian's work, including her black and white gallery, you can view her website here.

My next post will be about the woodcuts of Antonio Frasconi as they relate to children's picture books.

1.23.2012

I love woodcut illustrations (and linocut and scratchboard...). This form of printmaking lends itself to illustration in children's books. My posts this week will focus on different woodcutof the Human Betterment Foundation are in Special Collections at Caltech in Pasadena.

See also
 Eugenics in the United States

References
"The Human Betterment Foundation," editorial reprinted from Eugenics, Vol. 3, No. 3: 110-113, in Collected papers on eugenic sterilization in California (Pasadena: Human Betterment Foundation, 1930).
Edwin Black, "Eugenics and the Nazis -- the California connection", San Francisco Chronicle (9 November 2003). For the full Goethe quote, go here.
E.S. Gosney and Paul B. Popenoe, Sterilization for human betterment: A summary of results of 6,000 operations in California, 1909–1929 (New York: Macmillan, 1929).

External links
 Information about Gosney and the HBF papers collection in Caltech
 Another picture of Gosney (Caltech Archives)
HBF Collection at Caltech
Eugenics Archive images relating to compulsory sterilization (contains picture of and letters from Gosney)
"Human Sterilization" – 1934 pamphlet published by the


Roster
of Company
H, 26th Regiment
South Carolina Volunteers

The
Twenty-Sixth
Infantry Regiment was organized at Charleston, South
Carolina
in September, 1862, by consolidating the 6th and 9th
Battalions South
Carolina
Infantry because the two regiments were essentially
wiped out in the
first
summer of the war in Virginia. After serving in South
Carolina, the
Twenty-Sixth
moved to Mississippi, was placed in N.G. Evans'
Brigade, and confronted
the enemy at Jackson, Mississippi. The expectation was
that they were to
relieve
Vicksburg which was under siege by General Grant.
Before dawn on the
7th
of July, news was received that Vicksburg had been
surrended on the
4th.
General Evans' brigage was ordered back to South
Carolina and arrived
in
Charleston late July of 1863.

On
Morris Island,
At Fort Wagner, the 26th threw back the Federals
including the famous
54th
Massachusetts. Abondoning Morris Island, the 26th was
transferred to
Fort
Sumter. They repelled the "Boat Attack" in September
of 1863 and
continued
to defend Fort Sumter throughout the Fall. They fired
upon theYankees
on Morris Island where the Federals had set up heavy
artillery and were
bombarding Fort Sumter.

In October of 1863,
there
were 343 men present for duty in the 26th
Regiment.

The
regiment
was sent to Virginia in March of 1864 where they were
assigned to
Elliott's
and Wallace's Brigade. They arrived on May 17th. ON
the night of the
19th,
they moved across the Appomattox River to Clay's farm
or Warebottom
Church
were they met the enemy. On the 18th of June 1864 the
Petersburg siege
began and lasted until April 2, 1865. Participating in
this long seige
the regiment sustained 72 casualities at the
Petersburg mine explosion
and lost many men at Saylor's Creek.

The
Twenty-Sixth
Regiment ended the war at Appomattox surrendering with
8 officers and
113
men having lost 222 men in just one and a half years.
The field
officers
of the Twenty-Sixth Regiment were Colonel Alexander D.
Smith,
Lieutenant
Colonels Stephen D. M. Byrd, and Joshua H. Hudson,
Majors


Ceth S. Land,
and Cornelius D. Rowell.

The 26th
Infantry Regiment
participated in the following battles:

Jackson
Siege,
Mississippi (July
1863)

Charleston
Harbor,
South Carolina
(August - September 1863)

Bermuda
Hundred,
Virginia (17
May - 16 June 1864)

Petersburg
Siege,
Virginia (June
1864 - April 1865)

The
Crater,
Virginia (30 July
1864)

Ft.
Stedman,
Virginia (25 March
1865)

Five
Forks,
Virginia (1 April1865)

Appomattox
Court
House, Virginia
(9 April 1865)

The
following
letter from Colonel
J.H. Hudson to Colonel J.P. Thomas was dated:

"Bennetsville,
South
Carolina
July 2, 1898."

My Dear Sir,The rolls are
the same
Except
the name of Capt. Dickenson who must have been the
first Capt. before
the
reorganization of the Volunteer Army in May 62 when
all enlisted for
the
War. Co. C & H of the 26 S.C.V. originally
constituted Byrd's
Battalion.
Located at McClellansville in Dec. 1862. these three
companies were
consolidated
with the seven companies of the 9th Battalion and came
to us at Church
Flats.Dickinson must
have
evidently
Resigned or were left out upon the reorganization at
all events,
Wheeler
was the Capt. when the Co. came to us and became Co. H
26 S.C.V. The
roll
headed by thename of Capt. Dickinson has been made
out by me who
mistook
the letters of the Co. whilst the roll headed by Capt.
Wheeler was made
out by a different person but who has been correct
letter Viz. H.
Therefore
each roll must be lettered H. or Dickerson's roll must
be changed from
D. to H.

Yours truly,J.H. Hudson

Joshua
Hilary Hudson
was born on 29 January 1832 at Chester, S.C.

He
married the former
Miss Mary Miller on 4 May 1854.

He
died on
22 July 1909 at Greenville, South
Carolina.

J.H. Hudson was commanding
officer
of the
26th SC Regiment at the Battle of Five Forks which
was fought on
April 1, 1865. During that battle, he was severely
wounded and
transported
to the Pegram House (where the depot agent lived)
at Ford's
Station,
about seven miles from the Five Forks battlefield on the
South Side
Railroad.

At the Pegram House, Hudson
shared
a room
with Willie Pegram, the famous Confederate Colonel of
Artillery, who
had
been wounded


in a similar fashion- and not too far
from where
Colonel
Hudson fell with his wound. The following morning, Col.
Hudson awoke
and
inquired about Colonel Pegram. He was told that Pegram
had died during
the night and was buried in the yard below.

On the morning of April 4,
1865,
Colonel
Hudson fell into the hands of the Union Army, as they
were passing
through
the area. On this day, he was visited by General Grant,
who had his
personal
surgeon examine Hudson and left orders with the Guard
stationed there
that
Col. Hudson was to remain at the Pegram House,
unmolested, until he was
able to get about from his wound.

On May 2, 1865, Colonel Hudson
received his
Parole Papers from a visiting General Joshua L.
Chamberlain of Maine.
Of
course, Chamberlain has been made into a post-war hero
for his gallant
deeds at the Battle of Gettysburg. After a total of six
weeks, Colonel
Hudson
began the trekback home to Bennettsville, South
Carolina., where he was restored
to
his family.

His wife, the former Miss Mary
Miller, had
been told that her husband was dead on the field at Five
Forks. As we
might imagine, his homecoming was indeed a very special
one!

In the years after the war,
Colonel
Hudson was
very active across the state of South Carolina. He
served as Circuit
Judge
from 1878 to 1894. After that, he maintained a private
law practice-
and
was called upon often to help dedicate many Confederate
markers and
monuments
across the Palmetto State.

Joshua Hilary Hudson was a
brother
to Dabney
Rush Hudson, who was the great-great grandfather of
Hudson Alexander of
Murfreesboro, Tennessee. Dabney Hudson served
throughout the war
as a member of the 13th SC Regiment. (Hudson Alexander
submitted the
photo
and biographical information about his co-lateral
ancestor, Colonel
J.H.
Hudson.)

The
roster
below, except
where indicated by a *, comes from J.H. Hudson's
letter.

If your ancestor is missing
from
this roster,
please let me know.

I


will be happy to add him
after
receiving
a copy of your documentation.

Oliver, William died
May 23,
1864. He was
born in Marion Dist., S.C. ##

Osborne, Joseph W. Clarendon
County,
died
of disease in Georgia 1863

Perkins, John P. (Corp.)
Sumter
County, died
at Petersburg, Va. May 23, 1864 ##

Piggot, E. Melton Sumter
County,
died at
Richmond

Player, M.C. Clarendon
County

Reynolds, Pleasent T. Darlington
County.*******He
was born in November 1836 and died 26 Jan 1920 in
Arkansas. His
certificate
of release as a prisoner from the Point Lookout,
MD prison camp of war
is dated 17 June 1865.

Robertson, Samuel Clarendon
County,
discharged
at Camp Palmer

Robertson, Ellison Clarendon
County

Rolong, Jacob Clarendon
County

Rush, Alvin W. Clarendon
County

Scurry, John C.Williamsburg
County

Sims, Thomas W.Darlington
County,
died of
disease at Jackson, Mississippi ,1863

Smiley, James Clarendon
County

Smith, Samuel E.Clarendon
County

Smith, Samuel Clarendon
County

Thornhill, Benjamin B.Clarendon
County

Truluck, James Clarendon
County,
captured
near Farmville April 6, 1865, sent to Point Lookout
Prison, released
July,
1865

In about 1990, Paul
Kraft,
who lives in the Gluckstadt,
Mississippi, an area just south west of
Canton, Mississippi found a
buttonembossed with the Palmetto tree
insignia. He had been searching for War
Between the States relics.

How this button came to be in this
area had always puzzled him
until he visited this website, honoring
Company H of the 26th Regiment
from Sumter and Clarendon, South
Carolina.

Upon discovering that Company H of the
26th Regiment SCV had engaged in battle
in
the area where he found the button, he
now feels that the mystery
has been solved.

Proudly, as with many folks west of the
Mississippi, Paul has
deep roots in South Carolina. His great
- great - great grandfather,
Sebastian Kraft was from near Sedalia,
in Union County, South Carolina.
Paul's ancestor is buried there,
in the family cemetery just north
of his home, the old Minter house.

If
you had an ancestor who served with Company H,
you may imagine
that the button possibly belonged to your
great-great-great
grandfather. You now know that a


man who
cherishes our shared history
and southern roots
found this button many years after it was lost
by another man who was
from South Carolina. Paul keeps it in
rememberance of men from Sumter and Clarendon
Counties, brave men, who
traveled far from
home, to fight and sacrifice for a cause in
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Richard W. Pfaff

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Abbo of Fleury [St Abbo of Fleury] (945x50–1004), abbot of St Benoît-sur-Loire, was a French monk influential, by both his presence in England and his writings, in the monastic revival of the late tenth century. He was born in the region of Orléans...

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Barbara E. Crawford

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Adam [Adam of Caithness] (d. 1222), abbot of Melrose and bishop of Caithness, is variously described as having been a foundling and as having originated in Cumberland. He was elected


bishop on 5 August 1213 when he was abbot of Melrose, the third bishop to be appointed to ...

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Máirín Ní Dhonnchadha

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Adomnán [St Adomnán] (627/8?–704), abbot of Iona and writer, who became known to history as the ninth abbot of Iona and the outstanding Irish churchman of his day, was born of the royal line of Cenél Conaill, a dynasty which formed part of the over-kingdom of the northern ...

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Alan Thacker

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Æbbe [St Æbbe, Ebba] (d. 683?), abbess of Coldingham, was the daughter of Acha, queen of Northumbria, and uterine sister of kings Oswald and Oswiu. According to late and unverifiable traditions preserved mainly in a life ascribed to the twelfth-century hagiographer Reginald ofDurham...

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Alan Thacker

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Ælfflæd [St Ælfflæd, Elfleda] (654–714), abbess of Strensall–Whitby, was the daughter of Oswiu, king of Northumbria (d. 670), and his wife, Eanflæd. She was dedicated to religion when scarcely a year old, in fulfilment of a vow made by her father before his victory at the battle of the ...

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Malcolm Godden

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Ælfric of Eynsham [Ælfric Grammaticus, Ælfric the Homilist] (c. 950–c. 1010), Benedictine abbot of Eynsham and scholar, is of unknown origins, though his language suggests he came from Wessex. He was educated under Æthelwold in the monastic school at Winchester, and after becoming a monk and priest was sent about 987 to the abbey of ...

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H. E. J. Cowdrey

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Ælfric (II) (supp.fl. 1070), supposed abbot of St Albans, appears among the mid-eleventh-century abbots of St Albans in the Gesta abbatum as begun c.1250 by Matthew Paris, who apparently used an 'ancient roll' of Bartholomew the clerk, servant of the twelfth-century ...

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William Hunt

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Ælfweard (d. 1044), abbot of Evesham and bishop of London, is said by the chronicle of Evesham to have been a relative of Cnut, presumably through Cnut's first, English, wife, Ælfgifu of Northampton. He was a monk of Ramsey and was made abbot of ...

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William Hunt

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Ælfwig (d. 1066), abbot of New Minster, Winchester, is reliably evident only in theLiber vitae of New Minster (later Hyde Abbey). This work gives the probable year of his appointment as 1063, and the information that he was killed in the battle of ...

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Daniel Gerrard

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Aethelwig (d. 1077/8), abbot of Evesham and administrator, was the son of an otherwise little-known thegn named Ordwig. Claims made in Thomas of Marlborough's History of the Abbey of Evesham, that he was a man 'of great nobility of family' (Sayers and ...

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Barbara Yorke

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Æthelwold [St Æthelwold, Ethelwold] (904x9–984), abbot of Abingdon and bishop of Winchester, was a leading figure in the tenth-century church reform movement. He was born in Winchester to noble parents during the reign of Edward the Elder, probably between 904 and 909.

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David N. Bell

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Ailred [Ælred, Æthelred] of Rievaulx (1110–1167), religious writer and abbot of Rievaulx, was probably the youngest of the three sons of Eilaf, the last hereditary priest of the church of St Andrew at Hexham, grandson of Eilaf, treasurer of Durham, and great-grandson of the learned ...

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Marios Costambeys

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Albinus (d. 732), abbot of St Peter's and St Paul's, Canterbury, was an informant of Bede. What is known of him is derived almost entirely from Bede's Historia ecclesiastica gentis Anglorum. Albinus was a pupil of Archbishop Theodore and his coadjutor Hadrian, abbot of ...

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D. A. Bullough

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Alcuin [Albinus, Flaccus] (c. 740–804), abbot of StMartin's, Tours, and royal adviser, was a major figure in the revival of learning and letters under the Frankish king and emperor, Charlemagne (r. 768–814).

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Michael Lapidge

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Aldhelm [St Aldhelm] (d. 709/10), abbot of Malmesbury, bishop of Sherborne, and scholar, was a prolific Latin author whose idiosyncratic style of composition in the media of prose and verse, both metrical and rhythmical, was profoundly influential both in England and on the continent up to the Norman conquest. His life is moderately well documented: ...

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Janet Backhouse

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Aldred (fl.c. 970), provost of Chester-le-Street and glossator, is known through three manuscripts. He added an interlinear Old English gloss and a colophon to the Lindisfarne gospels of c.698 (BL,


Cotton MS Nero D.iv), four collects in honour of St Cuthbert...

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Richard Copsey

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Alexandre, Pierre [pseud. Simon Alexius] (c. 1498–1563), prior of Arras and theologian, was born in Arras where he entered the Carmelite priory. He studied theology at Paris, gaining his doctorate there on 11 December 1534. This suggests he was born about 1498. Having become Carmelite prior at ...

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Anselm Cramer

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Allanson, Peter [name in religion Athanasius] (1804–1876), historian and abbot of Glastonbury, was born on 11 June 1804 in Castle Street, Holborn, London, the second son of William Walter Allanson and his wife, Mary Ann Barber, from Lambeth. The family was Roman Catholic and ...

Printed from Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Under theAll experiments were conducted according to the ethical recommendations of the Declaration of Helsinki, were approved by the Ethical Committee of the Italian National Research Council (CNR) and were in compliance with the APA standards for the treatment of human volunteers (1992, American Psychological Association). The participants earned academic credits for their participation. The data from one male and one female subject were discarded because of excessive eye movement; therefore, equal numbers of male and female subjects were preserved.

Stimuli and procedures
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The participants were seated in a dimly lit, electrically shielded cubicle, and asked to focus both eyes on a fixation point in the center of a visual display positioned 114 cm away. The participants were instructed to avoid eye or body movements. The faces of 130 attractive, adult males


complete the third
grade.

During the second week of June 100%0, I began to teach Kayla Braille. However,
on our first day she said that she already knew some Braille from earlier in
the year when the class did a unit on Louis Braille. Kayla remembered seven
Braille letters from that time, and the lessons progressed rapidly.

I have been a certified Braille transcriber since 1972 and a certified teacher
of the visually impaired for over twenty-five years. I have worked in residential
settings, public schools, resource rooms, and rehabilitation facilities and
have never seen a child or adult learn Braille as fast as Kayla.

My original plan was to teach her Braille in the fourth grade and to use only
one or two textbooks in Braille when she was ready. But by the end of August
100%0, Kayla knewmost of the literary Braille code and completed the contractions
and the basic rules by October of 100%0. I ordered all of her texts in Braille,
which she uses on a daily basis.

Kayla became an efficient Braille user after only four months of instruction
and uses Braille in every part of her day. She has a Braille 'n Speak Scholar,
Braille slates, Braille T-shirts, and Braille pins; and she spends indoor recess
teaching her classmates Braille. Kayla also does workshops on Braille for the
classes in her school.

In conclusion, on behalf of all Braille readers, I am very proud of her accomplishments
and hope that she will be recognized for the accomplishments she made in such
a short time.

Sincerely,

Pamela
S. Sudore

Supervisor,
Vision Services

Northshore
Education Consortium

Danvers,
Massachusetts

That's what Kayla's teacher wrote. Here is the story that appeared in the Salem
Evening News,


on May 30, 100%1:

A Feel
for the Language

Braille Second Nature for Blind Peabody Girl

by Linda Halfrey

When ten-year-old Kayla Bentas says she's going to write a letter, be prepared.
She jumps up from her desk at the Carroll School, grabs a Perkins Brailler
machine, and begins tapping her bright pink nails on the keyboard.

Once she's finished, she yanks the heavy paper from the typewriter-like machine,
runs her small fingers over the bumps, and proceeds to translate the Braille,
speaking in her sweet, high-pitched voice.

Kayla, who became blind last year following brain surgery to remove a benign
tumor, has no trouble banging out the Braille alphabet in about thirty seconds.
Typing out the numbers one through twenty-six is a piece of cake too. In fact,
the freckle-faced fourth-grader is so proficient in Braille, she's even been
teaching it toher classmates during recess.

"If you were a print reader and then became blind, it normally takes a
(school) year and two summers for an adult or child to learn Braille,"
said Pamela Sudore, Bentas' vision and mobility specialist from the Northshore
Education Consortium. "Kayla learned it all in four months."

That's just one part of Kayla's amazing story.

It began in the spring, a year ago, when she complained of headaches and double
vision. Doctors found what is called a craniopharygloma, a tumor located in
the area of the pituitary gland in her brain.

Even though it was removed during a fourteen-hour operation in April 100%0,
the weight of the tumor crushed Kayla's optic nerves, doctors said, causing
her blindness.

Although her parents, Jean and Michael Bentas, were first told her loss of
sight would be temporary, they now believe


to stop reading.

"I used to not like reading when I could see, but now I like reading,"
Kayla said. "It's weird."

Inside the principal's office a white sheet of paper lists the names of students
who made the 100%1 third quarter honor roll.

At the top of that list is Kayla Bentas. "Not only is she a terrific student,"
said Principal Michael Ryan, "but the way she has adapted to her blindness
has amazed everyone who knows her.

"The thing that I think about the most when I think about her is not that
she's blind," Ryan said. "She's really an inspiration. She doesn't
cry or say, `Why me?' She's always smiling."

Her teachers and parents also highlight her upbeat personality and remarkable
reading skills. The fact that she's blind is almost an afterthought.

"I was not scared," she said."When I was in the hospital, my
wish was that my mom would stop crying."

Kayla matter-of-factly points to the top of her brown curly hair and shows
where the surgeons cut into her scalp.

"It felt like a headband," she said. "But I felt better because
I didn't have headaches."

At home Kayla runs up and down the stairs the same way she used to. She makes
her own breakfast and listens to audio movies. Thursday night her mom is taking
her to Foxboro Stadium for an N'Sync concert.

"Everything she did before, she does now," her father said. "She
has zero self-pity and doesn't feel bad for herself."

Nevertheless, the ordeal has taken a toll on the family, which includes Kayla's
older sister Vanessa, thirteen.

"We have our ups and downs, but her spirit keeps us going," he added.

It's


that spirit that will now be shared with Channel 5 viewers. This morning
a news crew is scheduled to arrive in Peabody to film Kayla. She's been chosen
as an A+ student by the news station, an honor her teacher was hoping for when
she went online one night and nominated Kayla. Her story will be broadcast
tonight at 5:30.

"After working with her, I just realized she does everything the other
students do," Dullea said. "She just fit that exceptional-student
profile."

Sudore, her vision and mobility specialist, recalls being introduced to Kayla
about a month after her surgery. Sudore was prepared to start teaching her
Braille from square one. She was shocked to find out Kayla already knew some
Braille.

"I remembered it from a class we had in third grade," she said.

Sudore said children usually have an easiertime learning Braille than adults,
but she's never seen anyone learn as fast as Kayla.

"She's so far ahead. She's motivated to do well in school," Sudore
said. "I am very proud of her."

Some days, while Ryan is contemplating some of the everyday problems associated
with running the school, he sees Kayla--and he rethinks his day.

"She can make a lot of problems go away, because I see the way she's handling
her day," he said. "This is a child that has never stopped learning.
And she's learned even more than most. She's learned about coping."


Even Gene Chizik -- who hasn't traded any barbs with Kiffin yet -- got asked about Kiffin by the Birmingham and Tuscaloosa papers. As Kiffin's mouth sucks all the media's attention, Chizik avoids his 5-19 record from being the #1 question of the weekend.

Of all the articles on the subject of MouthGate, The State in Columbia does the best job of covering the issue. Particularly of Spurrier in person responding to one of Kiffin's latest dumbass remarks.

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comments:

Kiffin is one those people in life who was born on third base and thinks he hit a triple. Everything he has in life (indirectly including his wife) is because of the respect football people have had for his father. He has parlayed his father's name into a string of well paying,more than a year after Amazon surprised both the music sector and its rivals, Apple and Google, by launching Amazon Cloud Drive and Cloud Player without licenses from the top labels. Amazon became the first of the major music stores to enable users to upload their music collections into the cloud.

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Amazon Cloud Drive enables users to upload copies of their music, e-books, videos, and other digital media to Amazon's servers. The Cloud Player enables them to listen to the uploaded music with the help of Web-connected devices.

Earlier today, Amazon announced that the Cloud Player app is now available for the iPhone, iPad, and iPod Touch.

While we don't know what new features Amazon will offer, the company will likely eliminate the need for users to upload every one


This article explains the causes of the summer and winter solstice. It also includes notes about the historical importance of solstices. SciJinks is a joint NASA/NOAA educational website targeting middle school-aged children and their educators. It...(View More) explores weather and Earth science through articles, videos, images, and games.(View Less)

This article explains the role of the tilt of Earth's axis on seasonal changes. An accompanying exploration dispels the commonly held misconception that distances between the sun and Earth are a factor. The article is targeted to children ages 10-12.

This is the second in a series of three professional development videos that correspond to lessons taught by Andrew Cloud, an Earth and planetary sciences teacher, with a class of 9th and 10th grade students. In this lesson, Andrew asks studentssystem; water in the solar system; the Sun, transits and eclipses; astrobiology; magnetosphers and more. It is intended as a mathematics supplement for the science content presented at the YOSS website, and features grade-appropriate and Common Core State Standards-based math problems based on science content for grades 3-12.(View Less)

This is the third in a series of three professional development videos that correspond to lessons taught by Andrew Cloud, an Earth and planetary sciences teacher, with a class of 9th and 10th grade students. In this lesson, Andrew introduces the...(View More) concept of eclipses. He asks for student volunteers to represent the Sun (holding a flashlight), the Earth, and the Moon. He then asks the class to think about the order in which the volunteers should be assembled to


the Aloha was found again by a couple of local Kingston divers... Then in 1980 the wreck suffered a great amount of destruction with the illegal removal of a large winch from its deck... To-day the wreck sits in 60 ft of water offering a good second or third dive or a warm up dive for those who wish to hone their skills for deeper water. In the summer fish abound, the water is warm, and visibility is great. . Wreck is in OK shape. I believe right now they are about 48-50 ft down.

Beside her is the Effie May. She was an old dive boat that was scuttled by the owners. She is quite close and you can do both wrecks in a single dive.

Around the yearof Canada’s 100th birthday a 40 ft wooden trawler hull was started in Shelborne Nova Scotia.. The craft was being built for Ken and Lois Jenkins of Port Credit Ontario. The hull was brought to Port Credit and completed in their back yard. In 1968 it was launched.. The completed boat was christened The Effie Mae.. Around 1980 the Effie became the first live aboard dive charter boat in the Kingston area. In 1987 Ken sold the Effie to Ted and Donna Walker. Ken succumbed to cancer and died the following year. Ted and Donna started in 1987 to run charters out of Kingston and continued to the end of the 1992 season.. Ted was transferred out west. So the Walker family decided to sell their beloved Effie..


Finding no suitable buyers and not wanting their beloved Effie broken up or just left to rot. They decided to donate the hull for sinking to Preserve Our Wrecks Kingston. In the spring of 1993 they ran her for the last time to the Metal Craft Dry dock to be made ready for sinking.

On Sunday October 17 1993 twenty five years from the date of her christening the Effie Mae was put to rest beside one of the historic shipwrecks she visited so many times before. To-day she is a valuable and much visited dive site sitting upright beside the wreck of the Schooner barge Aloha. A silent tribute to the two families who sailed and cared for her during her life above the waves..

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“Everybody was saying to me ‘Riyad, England is not for you, it is too physical, too strong, Spanish football would suit you better ... so I never thought I would play in England,” Mahrez told the Guardian in September, explaining why, in late 2013, his first inclination was to shy away from a proposed move from the French second division side Le Havre to Leicester, who were then top of the Championship. Leicester’s head of recruitment, Steve Walsh, met Mahrez repeatedly to help convince him he had the skill to survive and thrive in the English jungle and, following the best €450,000 that Leicester ever spent, the Algerian began building up to performances that made his PFA accolade inevitable.

Yes, inevitable, especially given the timing of the voting,


too, is very fast. Indeed, his effectiveness often seems a triumph over physical disadvantage because of the twig-like build that made friends counsel him against a career in England. Not that he is brittle – he has delivered despite being the second-most fouled player in the league this season (after Wilfried Zaha). But his real power comes from sharpness of mind and sleight of foot, the ability to make opponents seem encumbered by superfluous brawn as he shimmies, darts or twists past them – on either side, if you please – like a waifish assassin, a goalbound glimmer man.

Facebook Twitter Pinterest Riyad Mahrez poses with his PFA Player of the Year award. Photograph: Barrington Coombs/PA

There is nothing superfluous about Mahrez: he knows so many tricks he could gobusking in shopping centres but he performs them only at the right time and place: there is a delicious glee in the way he torments rivals but, most of all, there is deadly efficiency, proving, along with the defensive work he never shuns, that he is as disciplined as the rest of this Leicester team. You want end product, he will give it to you in golden wrapping paper and a bow tied with a clove hitch knot.

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He showcased all his skills in the victory at Manchester City in February, which brought perhaps the best individual and collective performance of the season, in a match that seemed pivotal in the title race. Mahrez rose to the


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Enjoy the relaxing atmosphere of Athens and the Greek islands, combining remarkable archaeological sites, magnificent beaches, whitewashed villages, local culture, delicious food, and great shopping! In Athens pay tribute to the famed Acropolis. In Mykonos, stroll through the whitewashed houses, narrow alleyways, and beautiful paradise beaches. In Santorini, enjoy the magnificent views and whitewashed houses perched on the edge of the cliff overlooking the Aegean sea. Be daring to ride one of the donkeys as part of the natural charm of the island.

Experience Athens and the famous Parthenon/Acropolis

Enjoy a fun food walking cultural tour in Athens

Stay on the beautiful cosmopolitan island of Mykonos

How can you not miss the island of Santorini known for its gorgeous views of the Caldera?

Pricing?

This itinerary is designed to give you a taste ofnarrow alleyways in Mykonos town and visit the blue domed churches and the famous windmills.

Day 4 - Mykonos While in Mykonos take an optional cruise tour to the island of Delos one of the most important mythological, historical and archaeological sites in Greece.

Day 6 - Mykonos - Santorini Board the hydrofoil or ferry boat from Mykonos to Santorini. Upon arrival at the pier, you will be greeted and transferred to your hotel. Enjoy 3 days at this beautiful volcanic island with its breathtaking views and whitewashed houses draped along the high cliffs of Santorini's dramatic "Caldera." Take postcard pictures while walking through the villages of Oia and Fira and be daring to ride one of the donkeys as part of the natural charm of the island.

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sits up in the bed or leaves the bed in the night, this is registered by a motion sensor located next to the bed. The motion sensor, which may, e.g., be an infrared sensor, gives off a signal to turn on both the light under the bed, in the light strip in the floor as well as in the bathroom. This ensures that the patient can find his way to the bathroom without disturbing the other patients in the bed room. The use of motion sensors is however undesired since the movement of other people in the room could cause unintended activation of the light. Furthermore, the integration of a light source in the floor is subject to a number of expenses. Further, the application of the roomis limited as it is bound by the location of the light strip in the floor.
It is thus desired to provide an actuator system for a hospital or care bed which represents a simpler, more reliable and cheaper alternative for activating the orientation light, both in connection with the bed as well as in the proximity of the bed.


The trend was underlined last week by the release of a flurry of NBC/Marist College/Wall Street Journal polls that showed Trump even with Clinton in Ohio and just narrowly behind in Iowa, while lagging by virtually identical margins of six to nine percentage points in Virginia, North Carolina, and Florida in the Southeast, and Colorado in the Southwest.

Political strategists in both parties generally rank those four states, plus Nevada, as the five true swing states in the Sunbelt. New Mexico, a sixth Sunbelt state, was competitive during the George W. Bush years, but both sides now place it safely in the Democratic camp. Together, the five most competitive Sunbelt states offer 72 Electoral College votes (led by Florida with 29).

Likewise, strategists identify five Rustbelt states as key battlegrounds:and the 53-year-old man who calls himself Wizdom Williams, were sharing the tent set up on Mission Street, a location she said would be permanent for only a few days before police scooted them away.

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She didn't mince words when I asked her, "What's dating like when you're living on the streets?"

"You feel like two train wrecks," said Alexis, who grew up in San Francisco and attended Pepperdine University before being sucked into a crippling life of drugs and addiction. "It feels like a train wreck junkyard, because you're dating someone else who also doesn't have housing. You never plan


for it."

Wizdom said he needed to sleep next to a woman at night for warmth. He told me a story about how while he was serving in the U.S. Army, he fell into an ice hole in Antarctica and feeling cold triggers PTSD symptoms. He also said Alexis isn't his only girlfriend.

Welcome to dating on the streets of San Francisco.

For a series on homelessness, I've been asking people without housing questions, from "How did you end up on the streets?" to "What's the best thing that happened to you last week?"

These are questions that don't get asked in government surveys and help provide a look into the everyday lives of people many of us walk by in San Francisco.

For this newest installment, I talked to 20 people aboutget off drugs and create a new life together.

"He just got arrested. I think he's being transferred to a program soon so I think he'll get clean. He has has been using dope [heroin] 10 years. I've only been using three years. I met him on the street in Concord. He asked me for a cigarette. We had a mutual friend, and we became hella good friends. We used to live in the Sunnyside Hotel in San Francisco. By this time next year, I want to be clean with him and back in school." —Tessa, a 23-year-old heroin user from Pittsburg, Calif., who left home to live on the street when she realized the pain her addiction was causing her family. She first experienced homelessness while living with


her father in a shelter at age four.

This guy met his girlfriend in San Francisco, and now he's about to move to Nebraska, where she relocated, to stop using drugs.

"I met her at the methadone clinic. She wasn't on the street and I was barely on the street, but we both ended up on the street. We both started doing crack. She's now doing really good and has been clean two years. She owns her own house and her own car. It's a CBD business, marijuana without the THC. I'm going to go help her. I'm getting clean this month. This is my month. It's my birthday today. I'm going to try to get on Suboxone before I move out there. I talk to her on the phoneand Facebook. She's sending me money for my birthday. She's coming out here to pick me up. I'm hoping to meet her in Reno so she doesn't have to come all this way." —Dillon, 32, fentanyl and cocaine addict who grew up in Oak Run, Calif., east of Redding, and started using drugs at age 15. He has tried to get clean before.

This man has found dating difficult ever since his girlfriend died.

"We were in and out of homelessness. We both had some money at that time. It was hard to pay rent. We went to Santa Cruz to watch a championship volleyball game. She had a full body stroke — a reaction to the drugs she took. She was braindead. That was '95. That's when I started