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Lonnie Chisenhall 3B Indians AAA- 55 AB, 19 H, 5 2B, 4 HR, 8 RBI, .345 BA
His current spot is occupied by Jack Hannahan; look for Chisenhall to get the call up soon if Hannahan continues his struggles.
Will Middlebrooks 3B Red Sox AAA- 48 AB, 16 H, 3 HR, 11 RBI, .333 BA
His sport is occupied by Kevin Youkilis and I doubt Middlebrooks gets the cull up till next year, when the Red Sox hold an option on Youkilis.
Julio Teheran SP Braves AAA- 2-0, 2.19 ERA, 12.1 IP, 8 H, 6 BB, 12 K
I doubt Teheran sees Atlanta before September, given his struggles during spring training.
Travis Snider OF Blue jays AAA- 44 AB, 19 H, 6 2B, 16 RBI, .432 BA
Snider had his opportunities to play every day for the Jays, however, struggled. If he keeps these stats up, he should be called up by June.
Anthony Rizzo 1B Cubs AAA- 50 AB, 20 H, 5 HR, 13 RBI, .400 BA
Rizzo should see time soon in Chicago, although LaHair is not doing to bad there. I am thinking once the Cubs call up Rizzo, they want to make him the everyday 1B, so they will make his call up a permanent one.
Brad Peacock SP Athletics AAA- 1-1, 1.50 ERA, 12 IP, 6 H, 4 BB, 14 K
Peacock came to Oakland in the Gio Gonzalez deal, looks as if Peacock is another real deal pitcher the A's wanted and landed. He keeps these numbers up; he will be pitching in Oakland by May or June


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Friday, April 20, 2012
It's My Turn
I am tackling a tough subject today, bullying. I cannot recommend the movie BULLY enough. It should be required viewing for every teacher, every school administrator, and every student from the age of six on up.
Here is someone that took a stand:
And here is a school that is clueless:
Comment Away.
12 comments:
- Pat said...
Oh, Bill, sorry to hear your news. Of course you're scared. It's always scary when the see "something" and want a bunch of tests. I'm sending lots of good wishes and vibes for good test reports. At least the echo lets you see right then what they're seeing, if they're nice enough to let you. I wonder why they call it a "nuclear" stress test. I just looked it up and don't see any relation to nuclear medicine. But whatever, I'm sure you're not looking forward to it. Let us know when the tests will happen so we can concentrate all the good vibes.
I probably won't see the Bully movie, as I have no dog in that fight any more. But I do know it's a serious problem, and I have nothing but sympathy for kids who get bullied. I wonder if that school suspended both kids, not just the one who fought back.
- April 20, 2012 at 9:57 AM
- Lady DR said...
Oh, Bill, sorry to hear about the abnormality, but glad to hear they're doing tests quickly, to determine if there's a problem. Of course you're scared. Being told anything is "abnormal," then having to wait for tests and test results is scarey for all of us. I'll be sending extra prayers and positive vibes on the 3rd and 7th. (Hugs!)
Bullying has, from what I read and hear, reached epidemic levels around the country, starting off in the lower grades, and it seems it's escalated in terms of the techniques. Name calling is bad enough, but too often it gets physical. Yes, schools and teachers need to be more proactive, but when you look at the student-teacher ratios in many schools and the fact incidents often happen before and after school, it's going to take more than that. Kids need be able to report bullying, with the knowledge something will be done and knowing they won't suffer retaliation and I'm not sure how you accomplish that, unless you get parents involved in the responsibility.
Kudos to Orz for making the video, showing adults just what bullying is like from a child's point of view and getting it out for people to see. I like his day of silence and hope it picks up and takes off.
- April 20, 2012 at 12:07 PM
- William J. said...
Hi Pat
The nuclear test is one where they inject a dye into your heart so they can watch it travel through your heart to see blockages. It is a four hour process. You do the treadmill without the dye. Then you eat a peanut butter and jelly sandwich because there is something about peanut butter that makes the dye easier to see.
- April 20, 2012 at 3:33 PM
- William J. said...
Hi DR
Thanks for the prayers and good thoughts. They are appreciated and needed.
Bullying has become epidemic. Everywhere and goes all the way through school. It has reached the stage where students are dying.
Schools are not staffed properly but the bone I have to pick with schools, teachers, and administrator is that when bullying is reported to them they often ignore it the reports until it gets way out of control. That is where education comes in, we need to educate everyone about bullying.
I also hope the day of silence catches on because it would result in more awareness.
- April 20, 2012 at 3:47 PM
- Mary said...
Ah, Bill, just when life was getting manageable. I am sending all the good thoughts and prayers I can muster in your direction. Please let me know if you need anything.
- April 20, 2012 at 5:46 PM
- snugpug said...
Love, good thoughts and prayers winging their way to you.
And thank you, everyone, for all your kindness in my time of need. Les came home today. They wanted to discharge him as he is medically OK, just unstable on his feet, but his leg strength will come back in time.
- April 21, 2012 at 2:30 AM
- Ellen said...
Oh, Bill, I am sorry to hear the news. How scary! I am hoping it is just a scare and I am sending prayers, vibes, and good thoughts.
- April 21, 2012 at 5:16 AM
- William J. said...
Hi Mary
Just need what you are already sending. Prayers and good thoughts.
Kind of a weird thing but I slept the last last night than I have for a while so all of your prayers are calming be down!
- April 21, 2012 at 5:28 AM
- William J. said...
Hi Snugh
Thanks for the Love, good thoughts and prayers. They are appreciated.
And the good news aboout Les helps! I am glad he is home and I hope that takes a little bit of burden off of you.
- April 21, 2012 at 5:30 AM
- William J. said...
Hi Ellen
Thanks for your vibes, prayers, and good thoughts. They are appreciated. I am hoping it is just a scare also.
- April 21, 2012 at 5:32 AM
- dona said...
Bill, so sorry to hear your news.
Shankster says to not worry so much about it, he thinks its just Hawaiian disease...(lackanookie) (Shankster's words he lived in Hawaii for a while, not me) :)
But he did have the nuclear test done twice but he wasn't so lucky to get the PB&J sandwich so hopes you fare at that better than he did. He says the treadmill is a piece of cake he would do that any day. He says if you have any patience take it with you, as it is a long process, which wears on your mind, but thinks you will be just fine and hopefully, all is well and this is just one of those things where they need some tests to make sure all is well.
So we are both saying some prayers and shooting good thoughts your way. Keep us informed.
- April 21, 2012 at 6:40 AM
- William J. said...
Hi Dona
I would settle for Hawaiian disease! I like Shankster's attitude.
I am surprised they didn't give him the sandwich. This will be my third test and they made me eat a peanut butter sandwich each time.
They already told me it will be four hours so I am taking a book or a computer!
Thanks for the prayers! Needed and appreciated.
- April 21, 2012 at 7:41 AM


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Bareilly showcases a beautiful example on communal harmony
Bareilly, a city in the Uttar Pradesh state of India, is home to many ancient Hindu temples. These temples besides showcasing the rich cultural heritage of the city also play a great role in religious unification. One such temple is Chunne Miyan's Lakshmi Narayan Temple, which traces its origin to independence and has become a symbol of communal harmony because of its amazing history. The temple was thus constructed by Fazal-ul-Rahman, also known as Chunne Miyan, a Muslim devotee after whom the temple is named. Its inauguration was done by our first President, Dr. Rajendra Prasad in the 1960s. The temple has an idol of LaxmiNarayan, which is beautifully decorated with garlands. Besides this, you can get to see a number of idols and pictures of Hindu God and Goddesses such as Ganesha, Rama, Krishna and many more. The temple is thronged by thousands of devotees every year, irrespective of their religion. The temple has set a great example of religious harmony as it is frequented by people from all religions thus strengthening the secular fabric of our country.


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Chamber keen for more investment in small business
The Toowoomba Chamber of Commerce says it is hopeful the Queensland Government will introduce more funding grants to help local small businesses.
Small Business and Tourism Minister Jann Stuckey met business owners in Toowoomba last night.
Chamber executive manager Greg Johnson says supporting local manufacturing is an important issue.
"Manufacturing is a concern for everybody," he said.
"The fact that we've lost a lot of our manufacturing, it would be good to think that the Government may have incentives in place in the future to encourage manufacturing to prevail."
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Wrath of the Righteous
Blackwing Library
Blackwing Library, more formally know as the Librarium of the Broken Black Wing was founded recently within the Gate District in Kenabres. Thirty-six years ago, a caravan traveling along the Sellen River to Kenabres was set upon by a gang of black-winged demons. The caravan might have been outmatched if not for one of the recently hired guards, a wizard named Quednys Orlun.
After serving as a guardsman for another few years, Orlun founded the Librarium of the Broken Black Wing, pinning one of the preserved demon wings above the entrance. The Librarium, often called "Blackwing" by locals, has since become the premier library for demonology and planar travel research in Mendev.
In addition to being a library, Blackwing is a museum of demon skulls, talons, and other grotesque trophies. An aged Orlun still oversees the collection of tomes and scrolls and is always keen to acquire new research material for the stacks.


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Linda Mitchell will exhibit "Big Muse," a new series of mixed media paintings of Zoo Atlanta's elephants and rhinos at Chastain Arts Center Gallery located at 135 W. Wieuca Road NW, Atlanta, GA. Phone: 404-252-2927. This exhibition is supported in part by a grant from the City of Atlanta Office of Cultural Affairs.
Mitchell employs these animals as characters in her narrative pieces, which celebrate the beauty and complexity of our local pachyderms at Zoo Atlanta. These immense creatures also serve as emissaries of the vanishing wilderness, and evidence of the extraordinary gifts which nature has to offer. Mitchell says that she has always been attracted to the tremendous size, mesmerizing movements, and humble beauty of elephants.
In her work, Mitchell explores themes of the self and close relationships, the melding of past and present, loss and memory. Throughout her oeuvre, the artist explores how meaning can be found in the broken and the castoff, with unexpected beauty permeating our daily life. The use of reclaimed and reused materials is environmentally conscious while providing a unique palette for each creation, inviting personal and societal associations to the work. In Mitchell's paintings, heartfelt emotion coexists with humor, whimsical wit, and a feeling of affection for her animal subjects. Mitchell has described her process as intuitive, with a kind of visual poetry emerging from the layering of images and materials, reflecting the diverse layers of life and experience.
John Mendelsohn has written that, "Mitchell is a prolific artist who delights in a constant flow of creative invention, but throughout her work is a feeling of fleeting beauty, of holding on to yesterday and today, and the recognition of the impermanence of it all… this feeling of embracing what is vulnerable and what is loved and keeping it whole at least for a while is at the heart of her artistic vision."
Mitchell has exhibited her paintings extensively with solo exhibitions including: The Goddard, Ardmore, Ok; Tinney Contemporary, Nashville; Mason Murer Fine Art, Georgia State University, and Callanwolde in Atlanta, GA; Berry College, Rome; West Georgia University, Carrollton; and The Brimingham Art Association and the Metropolitan Arts Council in Birmingham, AL.
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The entire table is of the built-up area that housed the old foreign legations - the one closest is the partially demolished (by Boxer fire) British Legation compound.
Some of you of our vintage may remember a wonderful old action drama '100 Days in Peking' starring David Niven, Charleton Heston and Ava Gardener etc, etc set during the Boxer Rebellion in 1900. The Boxers, with the conniving of the Chinese Empress Dowager, attacked the compounds of the foreign legations in Peking and lay siege to them for 100 days before finally being relieved by an international force sent to rescue them. Its a mighty story and one of uncommon cooperation amongst the Western powers who had to pool meager resources to survive the ensuing siege.
Not known for any half measures our mate Andrew (of the Kokoda campaign fame posted previously on this blog) organised a group of equally fanatic wargamers to rebuild old Peking, including a section of the huge wall of the Forbidden City, to re-stage a game of the 100 Days in Peking episode. He even went to Beijing and took photos of the surviving old legation buildings and area which is just down the road from Tianamen Square and the Forbidden City. He's quite mad as I've been there too and I believe the old British legation building is now a Ministry of State Security (MSS) headquarters. Historical or not - you can be locked up for happy-snapping it! You can imagine what the security guys would have thought of his explanation: ("Listen mate, I just wanted to rebuild old Peking! Honest!') But it goes to show what lengths wargamers will go just to 'get it right' - the reconstruction of the legation buildings is amazingly accurate with an incredible attention to detail.
In addition to the fantastic buildings reconstructed, there are all the main characters involved such as the various diplomats and spouses etc.
The British Consul and his good wife: 'just loading up to pot a few of those dastardly Boxer chappies, eh what?'
They are accompanied by other diplomats like the Russian Consul and his wife (dressed for a Siberian winter!) and the Teddy Roosevelt-like US Consul and his offsider. I think the Americans provide most of the fighting muscle of the tiny Legation force.
The fur-clad Russian Consul and consort
The US Consul and his Marine guard captain - both of 'em 'can-do' kinda guys &
the epitome of the heavily armed diplomat, fully equipped for 'negotiation'!
Their redoubtable and fanatic Boxer opponents - hordes of 'em!
I don't know how the action went as I was too involved in our own game but there was a noticeable crowd around the table and plenty happening - the three demos attracted a lot of attention from the WinterCon crowd. Suffice to say it looked spectacular and all the more impressive as half the building is still to be completed - an amazing job in just a few months. I predict its going to be a knockout at CanCon next year.
Quite a view - the Americans capture and occupy the section of the wall that overlooks the Legation compounds and surrounding hutongs (Chinese walled house compounds). Gives you some idea of the scale of the thing.
Boxers or Imperialists wait to advance into the barricaded legation area
Hordes of fanatical Boxers swarm over the ruins to get at the 'Gwailo' ('foreign devils')
Not to be forgotten were the redoubtable Greg and Ian who put on a quick skirmish game 'Isandlawanah'. Here the challenge for the colonial British is to survive the onslaught of the Zulu hordes (hmmm, hordes of Boxers, now Zulus and then Prussians - I'm sensing a theme here...). Greg assures me that of the five(!) games played that day, three were 'won' by the British. I'll take a liberal interpretation of 'won' to also equate with 'survive'! I have a few of my photos but also include a few of Greg's amusingly captioned shots.
A peaceful bucolic scene at the British camp, a few of the lads falling in for early morning parade...
Meanwhile, out on the veldt the Africaaner scouts spot something :
'what's that rustling in the grass over there...?'
Ye Gods sir - its 'ordes of Zulus - permission to run for it sir? Er... sir?
'Do that button up Private Williams - you slovenly soldier!' [Photo: Greg]
"I say Caruthers, do you think we could just talk to these chaps and sort it all out!" [Photo: Greg]
The guys also kindly sent me some very nice photos of our game (thanks Ian!) including one of two old farts
messing about splendidly attired in their field marshal's flouro vests! (oooh - the power!!!)
Doug gazes on Yours Truly thinking 'what is that silly old sod doing now?'
Not happy as he had to pay for his own coffee AND mine too!
Game participant and French co-commander Mark looks on patiently, waiting for the initial set up by myself and Prussian co-commanders Dom & Michael so that he can obligingly shoot them to pieces.
The French wait patiently in their entrenchments for more
feelthy Boche Prussian targets
The first Prussians march boldly out of Worth: "now ver ist zoz verdammten Franzosiches?"
We is 'ere - come and get it Monsieur Boche!
Prussians with wet feet just innocently trying to go for a walk in the woods...
Ooh look boys - a French vineyard!
Hope they brought their tubs with them 'cos a lotta grapes are gonna get trampled today!
Well that's about it for this post - much fun was had by all at WinterCon and judging by what we managed to put on, the next CanCon in 2013 will be even more impressive - and fun! Thanks also from Doug and myself to the many interested passers-by who stopped to look and ask us about this little known but fascinating era of wargaming and of course to our convivial guest gamers Mark, commanding the French and Dom and Michael the victorious Prussians. Hope you all enjoyed it as much as we did.


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22 JUNE 2018 – National Flash Fiction Day
June 22, 2018 is our shortest day of the year — and the day we know and love as National Flash Fiction Day.
The competition this year opens February 15 – April 30. The 2018 judges are acclaimed short story writers, novelists and poets Tracey Slaughter and Sue Wootton.
The youth category will be judged in 2018 by acclaimed short story writer and poet Tim Jones and NFFD 2017 winner Patrick Pink.
This year, we are also adding a te reo Māori prize in both youth and adult categories, judged by poet, novelist, essayist and short story writer Vaughan Rapatahana.
More about the judges and competition guidelines/ rules on the Competition page.
Winners will be announced this year at our main events in Auckland, Christchurch, Dunedin, Northland and Wellington. National awards, regional awards, micro awards, guest readers and more!
This year, we will also run the fourth annual Micro Madness series, in which 22 micros will be selected for inclusion, and three winners will be selected from the 22 finalists. Previous Micro Madness winners can be found here; the 2016 Tiny Tales series is here.
Winning stories are published in Flash Frontier: An Adventure in Short Fiction.
More news and updates, including other publications and competitions involving New Zealand writers of compressed fiction, can be found on our Flash News page.
National Flash Fiction Day is New Zealand's celebration of the shortest form of fiction writing, on the shortest day of the year. See the Competition page for details about the 2018 competition. See interviews with the 2017 winners here: Patrick Pink (adult), Joy Tong (youth).
The 2012-15 competitions saw approximately 300 entries; 2016 and 2017 were banner times for flash fiction, with over 500 submissions each year.
You can find the winners from previous years by clicking on the tabs at the top of the page. And you can read them, published at Flash Frontier: An Adventure in Short Fiction. See the Archives page for links.
National Flash Fiction Day celebrates each year with prize-giving ceremonies and presentations by the judges as well as readings key flash all across Aotearoa. Our main events will take place take place simultaneously in Auckland, Christchurch, Dunedin, Northland and Wellington, on June 22.
Details about the 2018 events will be posted on our Events page.
contact: nationalflash [at] gmail [dot] com
National Flash Fiction Day is an organisation run by volunteers in the writing and business community who believe that some of the best things come in small packages.
Michelle Elvy is a writer, editor and manuscript assessor based in the Bay of Islands. She edits at Flash Frontier: An Adventure in Short Fiction and Blue Five Notebook. Her first online project was the acclaimed 52|250 A Year of Flash. Michelle has published poetry, fiction, travel writing, reviews and creative nonfiction in numerous print and online magazines. She is Assistant Editor of the international and acclaimed Best Small Fictions series (Braddock Avenue Press) and was an associate editor of Flash Fiction International (W W Norton, 2015); she has guest edited at Smokelong Quarterly and judged the Bath Flash Fiction Award. Recent work can be found in Memoirs of the Feminine Divine: Voices of Power & Invisibility (US), Manifesto: A Political Anthology (NZ), Borderlands & Crossroads: Writing the Motherland (Canada) and the Bath Flash Fiction Anthology (UK). This year she is editing, with Frankie McMillan and James Norcliffe, Bonsai: The big book of small stories (CUP, forthcoming 2018). Michelle lives on her sailboat Momo, named after the novel by Michael Ende. More at michelleelvy.com.
Raised and educated in Dubai and Scotland, Katherine Honeyman completed her education in New Zealand and returned to the United Kingdom where she worked with the newly established World Association of Nuclear Operators in London. Her role included liaison between Moscow, Atlanta, Paris and Tokyo regional centres and management of the WANO inaugural meeting in Moscow. Katherine then assisted Grant Dalton, Skipper and CEO of 'New Zealand Endeavour', in preparations for the Round the World Yacht Race then pursued her career in film and television as a production executive with South Pacific Pictures. The family moved to Fiji for several years and following the coup and returned home in 2007. Art, literature and animal welfare remain her passions.
Frankie McMillan's most recent collection of short fictions is My Mother and the Hungarians (CUP 2016). She is the author of The Bag Lady's Picnic and other stories and two poetry collections:Dressing for the Cannibals and There are no horses in heaven; her work has also appeared in the 2008 and 2009 Best NZ Fiction anthologies as well as Flash Fiction International. Winner of the 2015 Ursula Bethell writing residency at Canterbury University, Frankie judged the NFFD competition in 2014 and was the national competition winner in 2013 and 2015 (in 2015 taking 1st and 3rd prize). This year she is editing, with Michelle Elvy and James Norcliffe, Bonsai: The big book of small stories (CUP, forthcoming 2018).
James Norcliffe has published a collection of short stories, eight collections of poetry, and several award-winning novels for young people. His newest collection is Dark Days at the Oxygen Café (VUP 2016). In 2016, with Joanna Preston, he edited Leaving the Red Zone: poems from the Canterbury Earthquakes (Clerestory Press). His most recent book for young people is Felix and the Red Rats (Longacre/Random), released in 2012. He had a long time involvement with Takahē magazine and has edited anthologies of poetry and of writing by young people. He is poetry editor for the Christchurch Press. James has been awarded writing fellowships both in NZ and overseas including the Burns Fellowship, the IWP / Iowa Residency, and residencies in Hobart, Massey University and Otago University College of Education. He publishes poetry widely internationally and regularly reads at festivals and occasions throughout NZ and overseas. His flash fiction appeared in Flash Fiction International (Norton, 2015). He is editor at Flash Frontier: An Adventure in Short Fiction and is also editing, with Michelle Elvy and Frankie McMillan, Bonsai: The big book of small stories (CUP, forthcoming 2018).
Auckland: Jessie Puru
Jessie Puru is a Māori/Pākehā writer and solo mother who grew up in South Auckland. In 2017, Jessie graduated with a Bachelor of Creative Arts (Creative Writing) from Manukau Institute of Technology. In the same year, her story Three Dresses was shortlisted for the NFFD competition. She is currently working on her first collection of poems. Jessie's work has been published journals including Ika, Landfall, Blackmail Press, Flash Frontier and Poetry Magazine (US).
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Christchurch: Brindi Joy
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Dunedin: Iona Winter
Iona Winter (Waitaha/Kāi Tahu) lives in Waikouaiti, Otago. In 2017 her fiction was anthologised with Bath Flash Fiction, Nottingham Peacebuilders, Pacific Monsters, Elbow Room, Centum Press, and Ora Nui. Her writing has appeared in numerous publications including: Flash Frontier, Reflex Fiction, Headland and Corpus. Iona is passionate about representing Aotearoa in her work, and exploring the intersection between written and spoken word. https://ionawinter.wordpress.com/
NZ Herald, 25 June 2016 — Heather McQuillan's winning story featured.
Flash on the radio! Sam Averis and Nod Ghosh read their NFFD short-listed stories; Brindi Joy discusses NFFD 2016 with Morrin Rout and reads her Micro Madness. Plains FM.
The Sunday Star Times, 14 June 2015 (click on the link for article)
Plains FM Radio, 16 June 2015 — Morrin Rout talks with James Norcliffe and Nod Ghosh about the fine art of flash, NFFD, Flash Fiction International and the events scheduled in Christchurch. Go here to listen.
Radio New Zealand, 21 June 2015 — interview with Eileen Merriman and Nod Ghosh, the creatives behind the Micro Madness series at NFFD this year. Plus other micros read on the radio by participants in last year's month of mad micro fun, Patrick Pink, Sally Houtman and Heather McQuillan. Go here for the programme and schedule.
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Remnant Indians of the Southeast
by Karlton Douglas
April/May 2002
I have always been interested in American Indians. From my boyhood until the present my ears have perked up at the very mention of the word Indian. So it is no wonder that I was fascinated in finding out about the Indian looking cousins on my mom's side of the family, and that clearly Indian Great Grandmother on my dad's side. Then there were all those people from East Tennessee and Southeastern Kentucky that looked like Indians. How could I explain my own East Tennessee Indian heritage, along with the legion of those other folks that were from Tennessee and Kentucky who looked like, and claimed to be Indian? There were not supposed to be any Indians in those regions—they had all been moved out west, at least that is the "official" story.
So I started building upon an already well-established foundation of interest in Native Americans. I began searching for clues, any reference I could find for Indians that may have remained in the southeast. There was substantial information that through hiding their heritage, intermarriage with other "races", passing for white, black, or mulatto, that American Indians did indeed leave descendants in the southeast.
In searching for the Indian origin of my great grandmother Mary Byrge Wishoun I was directed to a resident Indian tribe and chief in Scott County, Tennessee where my great grandmother was born, and lived for several years. An editor for a newspaper in that region gave me the telephone number of the tribal chief. I had several phone conversations with her, and correspondence by mail. Donna Markham, also known as Laughing Fawn, is Chief of the United Eastern Lenape Nation (middle division). Formerly known as the Upper Cumberland River Cherokee. The Cherokee band merged with the Lenape when a Chief from that tribe moved south to Tennessee from Ohio and joined them. Chief Markham uses the tribe as a springboard to help the poor in Appalachia. I am proud to say she accepted me as a member in the tribe.
Another interesting event in my desire to gain knowledge about Indians in general came from a visit a few years ago to the newly opened Zane Shawnee Caverns and Indian Museum near my home here in Ohio. Chief Hawk Pope—a direct descendant of the Shawnee Chief Cornstalk—who is today a leader of the Shawnee Nation United Remnant Band, happened to be at the museum and gave me a personal tour. He showed me the artwork, and other exhibits, explaining how the Shawnees had much in common with their neighbors to the south the Cherokee. He also spoke briefly about how Native Americans often were listed as Black Dutch on census records. The personal tour was an honor, and I really enjoyed his insights.
Again the conviction continued to grow that not all Indians were out west.
It is hard to deny your own eyes. Many of the children I grew up with were from the southeast. I had friends that looked like Indians right out of the southwest. Their parents had come from Tennessee and Kentucky for jobs in the Midwest, just like my mother did. When I worked in factories in Ohio, many of the good people I worked with from Kentucky and Tennessee also had Native American features, one guy was actually called by the nickname "Indian". On top of this, my wife, whose family is from Southeastern Kentucky, has Native American ancestry on both sides of her family that clearly show Indian features. This too was a source of interest in the overall picture of these people who appeared to be Indians from the southeast. So the desire for answers continued to grow.
In looking for answers to these Indians of the modern Southeast, I ran across the Melungeons, and discovered that my mom's side was very likely Melungeon through the Branham surname. I found that Melungeons are considered to be at least part Native American. And researchers like Virginia DeMarce had connected Southeastern Siouan Indians to Appalachian area people. A book called: Indian Island In Amherst County, by Peter W. Houck and Mindy D. Maxham, also showed evidence of Southeastern Siouan Indians in Virginia. They pointed out that a Lewis Evans map of 1751 clearly showed Monacan (Siouan), and Tuscarora (Iroquoian) Indians living in the mountains of Southwestern Virginia. Not only that, they also listed my maternal grandmother's Branham surname as being prominent among the Monacan Indians. My first documented Branham ancestor was found in the adjoining county to Amherst in the late 1700s. Recently I have found that in the same area a group known as the Buffalo Ridge Cherokee was also asserting their Indian heritage.
Cherokee Indians were often mixed with other ethnic groups. Consider that quite a number of Cherokee had already intermarried to whites by the early1800s, and that it is shown in books like: Black Indians, by William Loren Katz, that tribes like the Cherokee had intermarried with Blacks, as well. Indeed as early as 1721 slaves were known to speak not only English, but the Cherokee language also. It is notable that African slaves and Cherokees also shared a common folklore in the "Brother Rabbit" stories as noted by James Mooney in his book about the Cherokee. The proportion of Indian blood among southern Blacks is probably considerable. In the decades between the Revolution and the Civil War Black Indian Societies were reported in TN. VA. NC. NJ. NY. DE. MD. SC. CT. MA. William Loren Katz points this out. It is no stretch to imagine that many Indians, and part Indians were able to avoid removal by simply claiming to be of another race, or were assumed by later Census takers to be so. In his book: From Africa To America, William D. Piersen says that many African Americans labeled as mixed-race were a mixture of African and Native American ancestry rather than African and white European ancestry.
Samuel Carter in his book: Cherokee Sunset, notes that Black slaves worked arm in arm with their Cherokee owners. The Blacks were allowed to plant their own crops, also their children went to the same schools as the children of the Cherokee. Blacks and Cherokees often intermarried. The Children of Black-Cherokee unions were born free. In another place Carter mentions that the 1835 census of the Cherokee listed about 10% of the Nation as Black slaves—1,600 total population Black slaves, keep in mind this is before the removal to the west. There was considerable intermingling between Indians and Blacks.
My Great Grandmother Mary E. Byrge was listed as white on the censuses—you have to wonder about the eyesight of those early census takers—as was her mother Lucy Ann Newport, both of them show Indian features in photographs. My dad's eyewitness account of his grandmother Mary Byrge also speaks of her looking like a full-blood Indian. And it is understood that she was American Indian through her mother Lucy Ann Newport. If these could pass for white, I can only wonder at how many others must also have passed for white.
The Cherokee tribe probably had contact with more ethnic groups than we will ever know about. All of the southern colonies bought and sold Native American slaves. The slaves worked side by side with Black Africans. As early as 1693 the Cherokee complained slave hunters were kidnapping their people. Hundreds of captured Tuscarora, and nearly the whole tribe of Appalachee was distributed as slaves among Carolina Colonists in the early 18th century. In 1776 Cherokee prisoners of war were still sold to the highest bidder. The Governor of South Carolina was accused of trying to provoke an Indian war by his encouragement of slave hunts. James Mooney writes of these things in his book on the Cherokee, and on page 224 says: "The Cherokee have strains of Creek, Catawba, Uchee, Natchez, Iroquois, Osage, and Shawano blood," This not only from their contact with those tribes, but from their own "slave" taking excursions. The famous Shawnee Chief Tecumseh's own mother was a Cherokee. She was taken captive from the Cherokees in a reciprocal raid by the Shawnee tribe.
The Uchee/Yuchi Indians resided in East Tennessee, and as far north as the Green River, in Kentucky, Mooney makes note of the fact that the Uchee had a village in Cleveland Tennessee, John Swanton mentions a village in Polk County, Tennessee called the "Rabbit Place". He also mentions that some Yuchi Indians remained in Appalachia among the Cherokee, never moving out of the Appalachian region. The Yuchi were thought to be Siouan Indians, but the Uchean language may be distinct from all others. They called themselves: "Children of the Sun." David H. Corkran in his book about the Creek Indian frontier informs us that Yuchi Indians were said to have stolen English slaves in the 1730s, this shows that the potential for ethnic mixing was there at an early period.
The Natchez also had several villages in Tennessee and a joint village with the Cherokee in North Carolina at the junction of Brasstown Creek and the Hiawassee River. The Natchez were driven into Tennessee because of warfare in the west, in 1729 the Natchez and a group of Blacks attacked the French in Louisiana. It is likely that the some of the Black allies of the Natchez followed them into Tennessee, thus we have opportunity for continued ethnic mixing. Swanton says that the Natchez long maintained an independent existence in the territory of the Cherokee, and that a great deal of Natchez blood flows in the veins of the Cherokee. Both the Yuchi and Natchez tribes were incorporated into the Cherokee before the removal. It is possible that people of East Tennessee and Southeastern Kentucky with Native ancestry may have received that ancestry from Yuchi, Natchez, or other tribes absorbed by the Cherokee that did not go west in the removal.
The Cherokee more than just about any other tribe tried to blend in with the whites around them, in clothing, farming, slave holding, trade, and religion. Still, despite every attempt to remain in the east, President Andrew Jackson was determined to have them removed, even defying a Supreme Court ruling to do so. We know that about one thousand Cherokee were able to officially remain behind in North Carolina, and it is more than likely that other Cherokees remained hidden and blended into the white communities of Appalachia in particular. I can find no other explanation for the large number of southerners from Tennessee and Kentucky that claim, and certainly show Indian Heritage. It had to be a large, persecuted, southern tribe to leave so many remnant members behind, and the most obvious source is the Cherokee. In 1819 Cherokee territory included the mountainous areas of, NC. TN. GA. AL. The Cherokee in the east numbered 16,542 people in the census for the year 1835. In Tennessee and North Carolina alone they numbered 6,172 individuals in that same census. (The removal didn't take place until the years 1838-1839.)
I believe that at the time of the Cherokee removal in the east a lot of whites were already intermarried into the tribe. Every history about the Cherokee tells of their intermarriage with white Europeans from an early period of contact, before their removal from the east. For instance, the famous Cherokee leader Nancy Ward had a white husband. Any doubt about Cherokee intermarriage with whites is easily removed by looking at eastern Cherokee Rolls, such as the Immigration Roll of 1817 which has a large number of English surnames. Isn't it possible that Indians with white relations, maybe even states away, could have been taken in and hidden during the Cherokee and other removals of the Five Civilized Tribes? This is only a hypothesis, but would help to explain why so many Indians were able to remain in the east. I know my own white Great Grandmother Rachel Walden took in two Indian Children in east Tennessee in the twentieth century to care for, so I hardly think it a stretch that it could have happened in historic times among white families intermarried to the Cherokee. Other Cherokee may simply have hidden in the mountains to avoid being removed. It is hard to believe otherwise when you consider the legion of people who filtered into the Industrial Midwest from southern states that look Indian, and claim Indian heritage. It has been said that there is hardly a county in Ohio that doesn't have someone who claims Indian Heritage. This is in addition to those descendants who remained in the southeast and also claim Indian Heritage. It is a shame that we feel we have to prove our Native Heritage. No one expects you to prove you're German, Irish, and Scottish, but somehow there are doubts if you say you are American Indian, especially if you don't fit the stereotype Hollywood Indian. By all accounts American Indians come in many shapes and sizes, shades and hues. We don't all look like Sitting Bull, or Red Cloud. Cherokee, and being Native American is also a heart and spirit thing as well, that too is overlooked.
The stories of Indian great grandmothers from Appalachia are legion. Made completely believable when you look at their descendants, many of whom do have features that would allow them to walk onto the set of any American Indian Hollywood movie.
In the book: Indians of the United States, by Clark Wissler, he notes that due to continued intermarriage between whites and Indians about half of the Indians in the United States are mixed with whites. By the year 1900 nearly half of all Cherokee were married to whites and spoke English. In the 1990 census 80% of American Indians were of mixed ancestry. American Indians are becoming whiter genetically. Obviously this is not only a recent phenomena.
Besides the three federally recognized tribes of Cherokee, there are more than fifty other Cherokee organizations in at least twelve states.
The Cherokee undoubtedly make up a large portion of Native American input of those from Tennessee, Kentucky and southern Appalachia in general, but an often-overlooked group is the Southeastern Siouan Indians.
The northern Iroquois were their enemies. John Lawson, an early surveyor in the southeast said the southern Siouans joined together for mutual protection. There are a dozen or more names for these Siouan tribes. Some of the most prominent names were Monacan, Saponi, Tutelo, Sara, Manahoac, Occaneechi, and Catawba.
The Southeastern Siouans are believed to have originally resided in the Ohio Valley. I take great pleasure in the thought that as a possible descendant of the Siouans I now reside in the area that they originated from. Moreover it is a tradition that the Cherokee also dwelt in the area of Ohio in their early history, but were driven south by their enemies. Maybe there is some poetic justice that my residence is where my Indian forefathers once called home.
The historic home of the Monacans was in Virginia on the James River, at a place called Manikin near Richmond. Today the Monacans reside in Amherst County, Virginia, and are a State recognized Tribe.
The Monacan confederation originally consisted of the Tutelo, Manahoac, Saponi, Sara, and Monacan proper. In the year 1714 the Monacan-Sara of Virginia and North Carolina were estimated at 750 people.
In 1700 John Lawson the surveyor traveled through villages of the southern Siouans. He mentions coming across a unique tribe named the Keyauwee. These Keyauwee Indians had mustaches and whiskers. I think it is quite possible that these Keyauwees were a remnant group of Spaniards, likely intermarried into the southern Indians. The Keyauwee were not mentioned much before 1700 when Lawson found them in a palisade village, after 1761 they do not reappear in any historical records, it is possible that this North Carolina tribe left remnants among todays Indian descendants. As for the Spanish—it is still a mystery as to what happened to some of the Spanish soldiers and Missionaries of Forts in the Carolinas and Tennessee frontier, and other outposts in the southeast. It is quite possible that they took native wives and by 1700 were for all purposes a "tribe", yet a unique tribe with mustaches and whiskers. It would be interesting to know how many shipwrecked sailors of different nationalities may also have found their way into the southeastern tribes.
After 1700 the Saponi, Keyauwee, Tutelo, and some other small tribes of Indians headed north to Virginia and resided just north of Roanoke, they lived in Virginia 25 years before they were thought to have returned to the Carolinas. I think it likely that some remained in Virginia, then possibly moved further back into the western mountains.
Swanton records that in 1761 the southern Tuscarora, Meherrin, Machapunga, and southern Saponi were on and near Roanoke River in southwestern Virginia and that the Meherrin probably had ultimately united with the Tuscarora. These Indian tribes did not completely remove to the north to join their Iroquois brethren until 1802—so there was ample time for them to mix with the surrounding ethnic groups.
To summarize this: Iroquoian and Siouan tribes in the southeast were already joining forces because of their dwindling numbers after 1700—they told Lawson they were doing this—Tuscarora, Saponi, Meherrin, Monacan, and others were located in the mountains of western and southwestern Virginia circa 1750 and later. These tribes very likely had a disproportionate ratio of females over males due to constant warfare, and because of slave hunters stealing males. When White, FPC (Free Persons of Color), and other males moved into these frontier areas it is likely they would have married the females at hand from the tribes mentioned. Consider also that these tribes like the Keyauwee were probably already mixed with Spanish and others from an earlier period. This explains the Mediterranean element found in groups like the Melungeons, and there is additional information emerging about Armenians and others in Virginia brought over for industries like the silk trade. All this adds up to an interesting and very amalgamated group of people in the southeast. American Indian was certainly a large part of any mixture.
It can be stated that the Spanish were among the Cheraw/Sara/Keyauwee Indians in the area of Asheville, North Carolina. The Spanish fled to this region after Fort Santa Elena and other Forts in that area were destroyed by Indians. These survivors married into the tribes mentioned, and later we find the Keyauwee in Virginia, and Sara towns in Northwest North Carolina (1755).
One other strange, but interesting item is worth mentioning. The Siouan Catawba and the Powhatan Rappahannock both made use of the Crossbow. The Spanish, particularly those Spaniards with De Soto, used this weapon against Indians in the southeast. Also when Juan Pardo was in the southeast years later his men used the crossbow as one of their principle weapons. It is in Pardo's weapon supply list. Could these Indian tribes have learned the use of this weapon from the Spanish? The State Recognized Virginia Monacans, The Saponi Indians of North Carolina, and the better known tribe of Catawbas evidence that the Southeastern Siouans are still among us.
What about those who were scattered upon the ridges, and within the hollows of the Appalachians? Those who blended into the white settlements, black communities, or who didn't blend in at all but were labeled Melungeon? Is it possible, even likely that the southeastern Siouan blood still flows in the veins of the multitude who have an Indian grandma, or are themselves obviously Indian, yet have no records to back that up?
We know the Southeastern Siouans existed, we know they were in the Appalachian areas as tribes even as late as 1755. Lewis Evans' map of 1751 shows Monacan as well as Tuscarora Indians in the area of southwestern Virginia. Mitchell's map of 1755 shows Sara Indian towns in northwestern North Carolina. Virginia DeMarce mentions the Saponi tribe as residing in Orange County, Virginia, later they were found to be among Tennessee Melungeons. So the Saponi Indians are certainly part of the Indian mix of Appalachians with Indian heritage.
In the twentieth century little articles began to appear in books about Native Americans. The word Tri-Racial-Isolate (White, Black, and Indian), and the label "Marginal Groups" were added to explain pockets of people who claimed to be Native American, especially in the southeast. Melungeon was a name that was also applied to them. The Historians and Ethnologists were not sure what to do with these people, but they had to classify them somehow. They figured they had it covered by using the label Tri-Racial, so they tucked them into this category thinking they had it figured out. And I agree that Tri-Racial is part of the mix, we know for instance that Lawson ran into Virginia Traders with 38 loaded pack horses when he left the Keyauwee village. That was in 1700—I am sure there was plenty of white contact after that time. And just by considering the well-known historic tribes and their positive attitude about blacks—adopting and accepting them as fellow warriors—it is not hard to picture them in the mix as well. After all, where would a free person of color or an escaped slave head to in those days before the Underground Railroad? Obviously west, into the mountains, and who would they run into there—the Eastern Siouan Indians.
In a book called: From Africa to America, by William D. Piersen, he notes that from the time of the Spaniard expeditions of the sixteenth century Africans would escape from their Spanish masters and settle among the American Indians. Those Tuscarora Indians already mentioned as being in southwestern Virginia in 1751 were known to have built forts during the Tuscarora War that resembled forts in West Africa. Indeed it seems that an escaped African named Harry who joined the Tuscarora Indians was the one who taught them to build their sturdy forts. Though many of the Tuscarora would go north and join their Iroquois brothers, they would do so over a period of ninety years. And there were neutral Tuscarora who did not take part in the Tuscarora War who may never have moved north. The Tuscarora Indians are undoubtedly part of the mixture of southeastern people with Native American heritage.
William D. Piersen records that on the Appalachian frontier black males escaping slavery would marry into the Indian nations of that area who had become weakened. And these black males took the place of missing Indian males among the tribes. And that is the very thing I have thought for quite some time—I was glad to find I wasn't the only one to think so. Warfare along with Indian males being taken as slaves had to leave an uneven ratio of males to females among many tribes in the southeast. Just as the male ratio of black slaves probably outnumbered females—especially of those likely to be found on the frontier, this was a situation that made a good fit for black males and Indian females.
Considering just the face value of the term Tri-Racial, a question arises in my mind—what tribe made up the Indian part? I think an obvious answer is—along with the Cherokee and some Tuscarora—the Southeastern Siouans. What group made up the white part besides possible children of the traders, and maybe some escaped white indentured servants, along with the later whites moving into the frontier area of Appalachia? Could Spanish Portuguese have been mixed in there? Besides those already mentioned where did the blacks come from who joined the mix? Could some of them have been among the Spanish as Conversos—Moors? We need to be cautious about trying to put folks into a tidy little box ethnically or racially.
The Spanish spent more time in Georgia than any other area of the southeast with the exception of Florida. They had contact with the Cherokee, but particularly with the Creek Indians. It is very likely that the Spanish—and those who were with them—are part of the genetic mixture of the southeastern Indians.
Something that jumped out at me in William D. Piersen's book was that in 1653 an Englishman was taken to a Tuscarora Indian village where he found a wealthy Spaniard with his family of thirty persons. Also with the Spaniard were seven black slaves. Not only did the Englishman find these, but also there was a strange black person said to be of the "Newxes" nation. After digging around a bit I would now speculate that this last person was actually from the Neusiok tribe of Indians. These Neusiok Indians lived south of the Neuse River in North Carolina and were believed to have joined the Tuscarora Indians.
So here again we have a situation with Indians, blacks, and a "rich" Spaniard. Nothing is dull about the history of the southeast.
Back to the Siouans. I think from what little bit I have written here it is obvious that the southeastern Siouans have not completely disappeared. I think it is not a stretch to say they make up the heritage of at least some Appalachian people with Indian heritage. Since all the Indians were supposed to have been sent out west, in the eye of the census beholder these folks were listed as White, Black, Mulatto, Black Dutch, Mixed, and Free Person of Color (FPC). The academics fairly worship these often bogus census records, and point to them as evidence in their studies. I have seen enough census records to doubt them in a serious way. I have seen race designation on census micro-films that have been changed white to black, black to white, two brothers living beside each other, one listed as white, one listed as black. My own great-grandmother was very dark, yet she was given a white rating on the census. So let us not put too much of our faith in these records. Especially when you are looking at a stand in for Pocahontas, and she is listed as white.
Are there people from Kentucky and Tennessee—Appalachia in general that are American Indian? The answer again is a resounding Yes!
I have focused mainly on the regions of Kentucky, Tennessee and southern Appalachia where these descendants of Indians may have got their Indian ancestry. There are more groups in the Southeast such as the Lumbee, Seminoles, and others who also descend from Indians that I have not delved into here, but nevertheless are Southeastern Indians.
It should also be noted that people who migrated westward into Appalachia from the Tidewater-coastal regions might have already been mixed with Powhatan, Pamunkey, and other coastal tribes—thus they would have been added to the Indian mix as well.
Indian Island In Amherst County, by Peter W. Houck, M.D. and Mintcy D. Maxham.
Black Indians, by William Loren Katz.
Encyclopedia Of North American Indians, edited by Frederick E. Hoxie.
The Indian Tribes Of North America, by John Reed Swanton.
The Indians Of The Southeastern United States, by John Reed Swanton
"Very Slitly Mixt" Tri-Racial Isolate Families Of The Upper South A Genealogical Study, by Virginia Easley DeMarce.
Indians Of The United States, by Clark Wissler.
The Creek Frontier, by David H. Corkran.
From Africa To America, by William D. Piersen.
Karlton Douglas lives in Ohio with his wife and daughter. He spent his summers growing up at his grandmother's home in Appalachia. Moderates the Melungeon Christians e-mail list. Is the author of two books: Chronic Illness: Living With a Thorn and the fictional story: Griffin Island. He has had articles published in the Appalachian Quarterly magazine, and contributes articles to Angel Wings Magazine. He is proud of his mixed ethnic hybrid status.
by Karlton Douglas
Copyright © 2001 Karlton Douglas. All rights reserved.


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6 Tbl butter
1 1/3 cups sugar
2 large eggs
1 cup pumpkin
1/2 tsp vanilla
1/3 cup milk
1.5 cups flour
1.5 tsp ground cinnamon
1 tsp baking soda
1 tsp ground ginger
1/2 tsp ground nutmeg
1/4 tsp ground cloves
1/4 tsp baking powder
Combine all dry ingredients in a bowl. Set aside. In a large bowl, beat butter until creamy. Add sugar, mix well until light in color and texture. Beat in 1 at a time the 2 eggs. Add pumpkin, mix until blended. Then start adding the dry ingredients in parts, alternating with the milk and vanilla. When all is added, mix well until smooth. Pour into a greased loaf pan. Spread evenly. Bake at 350 degrees for approx. 1 hour and 5 mins. or until a toothpick comes clean. Cool in the pan on wire rack for 10 minutes before unmolding.


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Wednesday, February 15, 2012
Pretzel and chocolate snack
Put a hershey kiss on top of pretzel.
Heat oven 275 for 3 min
As soon as they come out put M & M on top.
Refrigerate for 10 min
Serve & enjoy!
For variety, instead of the chocolate kiss you can use a Rollo or Mini-peanut butter cup.
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Thursday, December 08, 2005
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Tonight I handed Violet her little rattle toy and she grabbed onto it and held it for a long time. I know this is just a reflex, but it's a little milestone. Sweet baby!!
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donderdag, december 31, 2009
Another quick flower card
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Happy New Year!
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Don't know if anybody else does this, but I use a paper towel to take some chalk from the soft pastels, and rub firmly on the whole stamped piece. The Versamark part absorbes more chalk than the rest of the paper.
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Ready for the Spring?
Show Time Begins March 20th 2009.
Set in an office environment, Quigley Quack (Lloyd) sets up a psychiatry office in order to scam the general public.
His Brother, Wally Wimp (that be Alan) simply returns now and then for a refreshment of cash
Dress Rehearsal Sunday March 15th 3:00 p.m.
First Performance Friday March 20th Then:
March 27th, 28th, 29th
April 3rd, 4th
Rehearsal times for March are Mandatory


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Five Things I'm Grateful For
- Netflix, specially when there is a sick child at home.
- My mother in law was able to get out of the hospital after a 2month stay and is doing good in rehab.
- That diet coke w/ lime was on sale this week!
- That in the past month I have been able to drop my grocery bill by $50-$80 a week. Thanks True Couponing!
- I finally figured out how to use the clippers on the dogs and they are both sporting a nice short hair cut that did not cost me an arm and a leg to have done.
Four Things I Can't Stop Thinking About
- What are we to do with my mother in law when she is well enough to come home? Will she come to stay w/ us permanently? If so how will we work it in our small 3 bedroom 1 bath house.
- What is the next step in my Big Daddies accident case?
- The Used Book Sale coming up and all the details that I need to take care of before hand.
- Couponing, couponing, couponing!
Three Things I Want To Accomplish This Week
- Get Mother in Law's paper work in order for taxes and disability.
- Get Moosey healthy! (poor thing has had a yuck nose for ever it seems)
- Survive the week.
Two Things I Am Working To Be Positive About
- All this stuff that is out of my control w/ my mother in law. That God is in control and knows what we as a family and I as a person can handle.
- The lack of me time. (My time will come)
One Random Thing
- I can't wait till our income tax refund comes in and I can pay some bills and get these bill collectors off my back!! Big Daddies accident has really put us back on some things.
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Sunday, January 16, 1983
Phantasms of the brain
Shelley's been strange for a while now, so when she vanished again last night at 3 a.m., saying she was "going to the lake," I went after her, worried it wasn't safe among all the dark trees and thinking that perhaps she wanted to talk. But perhaps she wanted to be alone too, although I never considered that. I caught up with her fairly quickly and we strode together to the dark, silent water to sit awhile beneath the stars and clouds. Then we headed up the road into the hills overlooking campus.
Shelley wanted to climb to the very top and watch the sun come up, but we didn't get that far: instead, we sat at the side of the road in the blowy cold of the early hours, looking down towards the University, which was a sprinkle of white flickering lights buried amid a blanket of black hills, the orange street lamps of distant Watermouth and the motorway casting a glow into the sky.
We were quiet a long time until finally Shelley said: "All the people we know are down there, in those lights. I never want to leave: I want to stay here forever." Later, Penny told me that it's as though Shelley is trying to push herself so far that she'll actually believe she really does want to end it all; this is what the incessant late nights and the drinking every night are designed to do. It as if she's trying to prove something.
We decided we'd better go back so we walked back down the road. Occasionally the searing glare of passing car headlamps froze us for an instant in their light, the drivers no doubt wondering what we two were doing out there at this hour, who we were, etc.
Today I made Grant a birthday card and wrote a letter on the inside of the card, but other than this, a boring yawn of a day, a day so stiflingly ordinary that I started to feel I have no purpose or direction in my life. What am I doing? I wandered to and fro from room to room or to the kitchen and back, the heavy hand of confusion upon me, "moving in a mist." It's depressing. Is this all there is to life?
At eight p.m., everyone was in Stu's room having a big debate on the validity of poetry, Stu declaring all poetry pretentious--he argued that only if it's put to music does it have any validity, although he faced united disagreement.
Suddenly there was a knock at the door. It was a tall gaunt hippy type wearing an embroidered smock, dirty red and white striped trousers, baseball boots, a small green woolen skull cap perched on his head. He carried a huge white sack. He came in holding out a cigarette and nodding strangely with tiny birdlike movements and sat down. The atmosphere grew heavy with scarcely-stifled laughter. Gareth was red-faced and hilariously sarcastic in the corner, and a couple of people rushed from the room.
When the man spoke his voice was small, distant, and barely audible. He asked us if we had any biscuits and whether Stu had any Grateful Dead LPs. Who was he? Where had he come from? He said his name was Steven, but little else was forthcoming, and he was virtually impossible to talk to. He started to mutter something about Hobbes and Leviathan (which both Stu and Barry are reading), but soon progressed onto Jim Morrison, black crows, astrology, and something about a Chinese man. He's been in Watermouth since Thursday he says, sleeping rough in the railway station: he'd come to the Uni. because he used to know someone here.
He vanished out to the kitchen where he pulled plastic carrier bags from his white sack that were filled with grubby tins, jars, odd boxes of teas, a piece of licorice honeycomb, and numerous crusts of heavy bread. Then he proceeded to tear the bread into stodgy lumps and tried to grill it, sitting with his back to us, facing the dark window, while we nervously paced the kitchen behind him, whispering various theories about his condition. Maybe he's a social psychology student conducting an experiment? Maybe he has amnesia? "No, he's an acid-head," said Jamie. Gareth told Steven he could kip on his floor
Then, all of a sudden, three hulking uniformed security men appeared from nowhere, officious and all hard no-nonsense words. Did I know him: Was he my friend? Had I invited him here? Who was he? I had my name taken and Gareth was asked to show his Registration card; he was quiet and angry. We'd been all for leaving him be but Emily and Shelley had complained to Security.
For a few minutes I pretended I'd invited him to stay but the patience of the three security men was wearing increasingly thin and despite Steven's quiet protestations (they, half-smirking, cutting in, "yes yes, come on!"), they led him by the arms and out of the kitchen. "It's been the same all along the line," he said as they bundled him through the door, like a 'piece of shit on the pavement' as Marco might say.
I was upset. We were split into two camps: Gareth, Stu and I in one and everyone else in the other, and for a while I hated them for their practicality but this soon faded; I could see that Shelley was torn with remorse and upset that we'd fallen out. "Are we still friends," she asked me, so I apologised and said I wasn't upset with her, just at the whole shitty situation.
So Steven sat in the Taylor Hall security office shrilly trying to explain himself, the subject now of laughing phone calls to the police (". . . yes, he's gabbling on now . . .") .
It's been a strange evening.
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Athy Model School
Athy Model School Ethos
Athy Model School is a primary school under the patronage of the Department of Education, with a Church of Ireland ethos. We endeavour to enable each child to acquire a set of moral values based on the ethos of the school.
We encourage parents and children to involve themselves in the activities of both the Church of Ireland community and the wider community. However, we have due recognition of all other beliefs and cultures and we respect cultural and religious diversity.
History of the School
Model schools
In 1831, an educational system was set up in Ireland. One of its main aims was to provide trained teachers to work in the new national schools. The idea was that able pupils would be encouraged to stay at national school as monitors and train under an experienced teacher. Therefore the concept of the 'model school' was set up as non-denominational national schools.
When the Commissioners of National Education began teacher training, it set up a Central Training Institution in Marlborough Street, Dublin with three central model schools for boys, girls and infants.
In 1834, steps were taken to extend both the model schools and the training establishment. Between 1848 and 1857, other model schools were built in Limerick, Galway, Clonmel, Waterford, Kilkenny, Trim, Dunmanway, Newry, Ballymena, Coleraine, Belfast and of course Athy.
In 1870, the Royal Commission into Primary Education examined the model school system and recommended that the schools should be closed and that the buildings should be used as ordinary locally managed national schools. Teacher training was to move into residential training colleges offering one-two year full time courses and model schools were to be used for teaching practice only.
Athy Model School
In 1848, plans were being made for the Athy District Model School. The Duke of Leinster agreed to lease his land for 'educational purposes'. On the 26th June 1848, the 99 year lease was drawn up.
In 1850 building began on this Tudor Gothic School at a cost of £8,224.21. It consisted of a male and female school with an adjoining agricultural school, together with a headmaster's residence and dormitory accommodation for trainee teachers and agricultural schools.
The Model School was officially opened on 12th August, 1852. Mr. John Walshe was principal of the school, assisted by John Henderson and pupil teachers William Patterson and Charles Dodd.
Mrs. Anne O'Reilly was headmistress of the girl's school, assisted by Bessie Glover and Amelia Craig was headmistress of the infants section, assisted by Mrs. Maguire.
On its first day, 13 boys, 1 girl and 1 infant were enrolled. By the following February, the school had 207 on its register and 281 by September 1853.
In each succeeding year up to 1856, when 567 children were enrolled, the Model School attracted more and more local children to its non-denominational classes.
It achieved its highest enrolment in 1858 when 582 children were listed on the school registers.
In the agricultural school pupils received training in the latest farming methods on the farm attached to the school. This extended to 64 acres in 1855 but was sold by auction when the agricultural school closed in September 1880.
The District Model School remained open but with a reduced number of children on its roles the majority of them now being of the protestant faiths.
By 1881, Mr Patrick Doogan had taken over as principal of the Model School. Mrs. Anne O'Reilly remained as headmistress of the girls' school and Harriet Souter was in charge of the infants.
In 1901, Mr. Daniel Rice became the new principal of the newly named National Model School. There were six in the family: his wife Margaret, their baby son, a servant Mary Price and two boarders in the school- pupil teachers Cassells Cordner and John English Bolton, both aged 17.
The whole school was re-roofed and decorated in the early 1990s. Due to the deteriorating condition of some of the 'no longer used' rooms in the school, and the urgent need for facilities for the V.T.O.S (Vocational Training Opportunity System), an arrangement was reached to accommodate them in the school. They moved into a totally separated area, which included the old 'turf-room' and the infant's extension with the junior play-ground as their entrance and car park.
In 1970, a temporary home was found for the Garda Síochána at the Model School in the old headmaster's house, and adjoining unused rooms facing the Dublin Road. The gardaí remained there until 1985 when they moved into their newly built premises at the rear of Duke Street.
The Model School building was sadly destroyed by fire in March 2010. Kildare VEC arranged for the immediate accommodation of pupils and staff in a section of the newly built Athy College, in Tomard, on the Monasterevin Road.
In September 2011, pupils and staff moved to what is the new Athy Model School, on the Athy Educational Campus, Tomard, Athy. The Model School shares the campus with Athy College, Gaelscoil Áth Í and Scoil Phádraig Naofa.
It is interesting now that DCU is going to be at the centre of education whether they are aware of the early origins of National School education there?
Also we make available the article we published by Bro Eoin yesterday.
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A few kilometers north of Christiansfeld – opposite Den Gamle Grænsekro – a small museum telling a great history is situated. It is the story about one of the most important events in Danish history – the Reunificatien and the time around this event. It all happened just outside the windows of the museum on July 10th in the year of 1920 – the famous ride of the Danish king on horseback across the border which was wiped off the map – a pi.cture we have seen so ofte n being illustrated in the history backs. Here H.M. King Chr. X was cheered. Here he lifted up a little girl dressed in white on his horse. For 56 years the region had been under Prussian control. The king's ride across the border that did not exist any more meant that now is was over. The region belonged to Denmark again. If you walk from the museum down to the old border today, you will find it hard to imagine that people trying to flee by crossing the border were shot in cold blood. Many people tried. Most of them succeeded. They smuggled goods in a large scale across the border. Here there was a crossborder trade in small wooden sheds on both sides of the border, too. If you were going to leave Denmark, you had to go through the Danish customs room lying in the southeast corner of "Den Gamle Grænsekro" before you could go south through No Man's Land until after a few hundred meters more to the south you would be checked by the Prussians at their frontier station. This building still exists, but is converted into a private residence. Opposite this two former Prussian gendarme houses are situated. The old main house of the museum was situated north of the old border and was a private residence at that time, but with a proviso that said that there must always be a bed at the disposal of gendarmes staying for the night here in a room on the first floor. As you may understand, the area around the museum is really a historic treat for the ones who appreciate the whirr of wings when it comes to history. The museum tries to illustrate what happened around the Reunification, to explain what the Unification meant and to communicate knowledge about what it meant to people who voted the region back "home" to Denmark in 1920. The museum has many things to show its guests and quite recently – in 2006 – it has been enlarged with a new wing for exhibitions 127 m2 big. In 2008 it will be extended again. This time with a new glass arcade which is supposed to unite the old and the new building. One of the main attractions of the museum is the stained-glass window which you can see in the southern gable of the museum. A glass window similar to this one also with a motive from the Reunification – is found in a window niche on Christiansborg – few meters from the exhibition case showing the Danish Constitution. The Reunification well from Odense was made by a blacksmith from Fyn and his journeyman within 14 months in memory of the Reunification. For many years it was placed at the Grand Hotel in Odense. Today you can see it at the Genforenings- og Grænsemuseet. The paintings from Frej – three in all – tell the story from 1897 of how Valentiner, the German leader of the county, let the gendarmes bar the gate s of the Danish meeting hall (Frej) and the tables laid for coffee on the very opening day. The dry cakes were filled with dust and the coffee was dried out in the cups when after having won the case in court – people again had access to the big coffee meal one and a half year later. At the museum, you'll find Knud's coat and many, many other curiosities to look at and no doubt you'll feel amused. Among other things also effects lent out from Koldinghus. Apart from the permanent exhibition also special exhibitions are arranged. For the time being you can see a special exhibition about the voting in Zone II. Keep an eye on the calendar and on the news on the homepage of the museum for occasionally the museum arranges cultural features such as an evening with singing and reading, days of open-house arrangements and so on. The museum was opened July 10th 1995 by H.M. Queen Margrethe II and H.M. Queen Ingrid. Also H.R.H. Crown Prince Frederik, H.R.H. Prince Joachim, H.E. Ingolf, Count of Rosenberg and approximately 5000 people took part in the happy event. Since then running the museum has been managed by idealists – unpaid members of the board – 7 in all- and 16 attendants. The number of visitors passed 69.000 in 2016. We are looking forward to YOUR visit.
Easter: 29.3. – 1.4.2018 Summer: 1.6. – 31.8.2018 All week-ends in September Autumn: : 13.10. til 21.10.2018
Daily – when open: 10 – 17 (Monday closed) During winter the museum is closed, but groups are welcome when booked in advance: Price: 100 kroner plus the normal entrance fee. Booking by telephone for groups out of season: +45 2283 1879. Prices: Adults: 30, kroner pr. person Groups (more than 20 persons): 20 kroner pr. person Children: 15 kroner pr. person Special members: Free entrance


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Days Hotel London Hounslow is a brand new hotel offering a superb rooms and great value for money. It s easily accessible from London s main motorways M40, M4, M25 and M1. Heathrow Airport is only 5 miles away and Hounslow Central Tube Station is 100 yards away. All of our 96 rooms are equipped with the latest comfort such as: 26 inches flat screen television, direct dial telephone, ensuite bedroom with shower, laptop safe, free wireless and wired high speed internet access. The hotel restaurant and bar is open for breakfast and dinner. Continental and English breakfast will be serve buffet style and dinner is from the a la carte menu. The Launge bar offers a selection of wines, beers, spirits and soft drinks in an informal and relaxing atmosphere. Days Hotel Hounslow has three meeting rooms equipped with state-of-the-art audio visual facilities offering a great choice for any meeting of 2 to 100 delegates.
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The Society for Cardiovascular Angiography and Interventions
news & highlights
SPRING 2017 www.SCAI.orgwww.SecondsCount.org
President's Message........................... 2
SCAI 2017 Preview............................... 3
Quality News....................................... 10
Coding Corner..................................... 14
CME Calendar..................................... 15
The slate of SCAI satellite symposia begins even before the official launch of SCAI 2017, with SCAI's Complex Peripheral Vascular
Interventions (SCAI-CPVI) half-day workshop beginning at 7:00 am
CT on Wednesday, May 10.
Led by Sahil Parikh, MD, FSCAI, Doug Drachman, MD,
FSCAI, Mehdi Shishehbor, MD, FSCAI, and Ehrin Armstrong,
MD, FSCAI, this workshop is designed to allow participants to discuss LE PVD treatment strategies with experts in the field and leave
prepared to incorporate state-of-the-art peripheral interventions into
their practice. In addition to reviewing the latest data
and guidelines in this area, the program will have
participants review cases in advance of SCAI 2017
SCAI 2017 Scientific Sessions will feature several new additions this year – including the addition of live cases and keynote
speaker Arianna Huffington – as the Society and the Interventional
Community celebrate 40 years of Coronary Angiography and SCAI.
Another value-added wrinkle to SCAI 2017 will be the launch of
several SCAI-sponsored satellite symposia in New Orleans, expanding SCAI-provided CME opportunities well beyond the meeting's
traditional offerings.
Designed to take a deeper dive into some of our field's hottest topics such as treating patients with advanced lower extremity peripheral
vascular disease (LE PVD), decision-making on the treatment of
coronary artery disease in the age of TAVR, integrating transradial
into your high-risk procedures, current and coming percutaneous
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Thierry Guetta,
another street artist
not as Mature as Banksy but is doing fine for himself,
he is HIGHLY influenced from Banksy that one can see in his work.
Mr. Brainwash, often stylized as MBW, is the moniker of Paris born, Los Angeles based filmmaker and street artist Thierry Guetta. According to the Banksy-directed film Exit Through the Gift Shop, Guetta began as a proprietor of a clothing store and videographer who filmed street artists through the 2000s and evolved into an artist in his own right after an off-hand suggestion from Banksy. Guetta was first introduced to street art by his cousin, the street artist Invader.
Guetta does not typically have much physical involvement in the construction of the artwork attributed to him; he passes ideas to his creative team, mostly graphic designers who realise the finished pieces. Like his associate Banksy, Guetta employs famous artistic and historic images, many of which are copyrighted, and amends the originals in sometimes slight, sometimes significant ways. A number of critics have observed that his works strongly emulate the styles and concepts of Banksy, and have speculated that Guetta is an elaborate prank staged by Banksy who may have created the works himself. Banksy insists on his official website, however, that Exit Through the Gift Shop is authentic and that Guetta is not part of a prank.
His work sold for five-figure sums at his self-financed debut exhibit Life is Beautiful due, it is thought, to a mixture of an over heated and hyped street art market and, according to Banksy and Fairey as seen in Exit Through the Gift Shop, his misuse of endorsements from Banksy and Fairey. The exhibit was held in Los Angeles, California, on June 18, 2008 and was a popular and critical success. In 2009, Madonna paid Guetta to design the cover art for her Madonna's Celebration album.
On October 6th 2011 MBW opened his latest solo exhibition at Opera Gallery in London. The night before the opening of the show the street outside the gallery was sprayed with paint by artist RSH as a statement about the false nature of Mr Brainwash's artwork. When interrogated about this, Mr Brainwash declared that he actually really liked the street thus spray painted and that as long as he stirred reactions from the public / other artists he judged it a success. The exhibition sold out within 2 days, with one private collector buying 14 of the 36 artworks on display.


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Wednesday, October 14, 2009
It's A Boy!
We had an ultrasound today that confirmed we are having a boy. Everything looked great in the ultrasound and we'll be expecting his arrival in late February. When we told Lexi that she was going to have a little brother she replied, "No, I want a little sister!" Hopefully her attitude will change over the next few months or the baby may be met with some hostility when Lexi realizes he's not a girl.
8 comments:
- Bethanie Vanbuskirk said...
Yippee for you guys, congratulations.
- October 14, 2009 at 7:22 PM
- Amy & Scott said...
Congratulations!!! We are so excited for you!
- October 14, 2009 at 7:32 PM
- Jonah and Aja said...
YEA!!!! I'm so thrilled for y'all!
- October 14, 2009 at 10:51 PM
- Mauri said...
ahh,,,congratulations!! you will LOVE little boys!!! (of course i am bias....but they are so much fun!) so happy for y'all! how are you feeling??
- October 16, 2009 at 6:32 PM
- Rutter Family said...
how exciting. congrats! boys are great :)
- October 16, 2009 at 7:22 PM
- Allison Serr said...
Yay! Congratulations!
- October 16, 2009 at 10:57 PM
- Lindsey Walker said...
Congrats! Lucky you,you will have a little boy and a girl!!
- October 18, 2009 at 3:02 PM
- The Young Family Inc. said...
- November 2, 2009 at 9:37 PM
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Monday, November 14, 2011
30 Days of Thankful: Day 14--Sosie
Friend, sister, spirit that reaches in and touches my very soul, you are an amazing woman. There's not a day that goes by that I am not grateful that you picked me to befriend. In all honesty, I would have been too intimidated by your beauty and vibrant personality to have made the first step. I remain forever indebted to you for changing my life by just being my friend.
Sarah, thank you for adopting my family as well. It warms my heart when you and my Daddy play flirt and you and Bubba play fight. I don't think I will ever get used to you calling my mother and father Mr. and Mrs. Moore. They consider you their child so I always expect mama or daddy. Words will never be able to fully express our gratitude for you when it came to everything regarding Gayla. She loved you so much and was so very proud to call you sister friend. I will always remember you as one of the few people she and I shared equally in our lives. Thank you for being my rock in the last few months. I will never be able to repay your love and friendship. You are my treasured joy, Sister.
Thank you also for sharing your family with me. I absolutely adore your sister and brother-in-law, nephews, nieces, parents, aunts and uncles. Also, Becky and Cale will forever be a part of my heart and the times they were in our lives are the most important times for our relationship. We will always be thankful for their love, and I will always be grateful that you shared them with me. Thank you also for sharing Flanagan with me. He is the perfect mix of picking brother and chilling buddy. I wish y'all all the love and friendship you deserve in the future. All of your people have hearts that are a reflection of you, Love.
Your Sister Friend,
P.S. I would so have loved to name my baby girl after you and Gayla...Elizabeth Gail...we would have called her Lizzy or Izzy or something equally fun and cute like her aunts. ;-)
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