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I never much liked Peter Beattie before, but I do now! Makes no difference to me though - I have Foxtel, but I won't be here anyway!
'Copperfield,' said Mr. Micawber, 'farewell! Every happiness and prosperity! If, in the progress of revolving years, I could persuade myself that my blighted destiny had been a warning to you, I should feel that I had not occupied another man's place in existence altogether in vain.
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Yeh saw that today. Good on him I say
We recently disconnected Cable knowing we won't see the ashes. This won't help. The stations are adament not to show it. Channel 10 is too hung on the simpsons, channel 9 wants wimbledon and channel 7 have no-one to do it.
ABC don't have the funding, neither do SBS. It's all just ********.
Surely ABC can arrange a BBC feed...
They have to pay the host broadcaster in the end.
This always confused me when watching the live channel 9 feeds on sky sports at night. Why do they always say hello / goodbye to local viewers during the days play...do they get to see certain sessions free if they live in the area of the ground? or only if its a sell out etc... and which channels is the free sessions shown broadcast on?
Just always interested me
Yep, Channel 9 only show one session (2 hours of an ODI) to the home city unless the match is sold out.
Correct. And they always show the news & current affairs hour, which causes the lucky south-eastern state viewers to miss the first 15 minutes of a run chase, or the end of a days play if it's a test match.
I dont' care what they do as Long as I get to watch it. I will be sending some emails, lets say some not nice ones either if its not shown on either free to air or foxtel.
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Was thinking about the wimbledon thing, at the moment no aussies are exactly ripping the tennis court up and alreayd the ashes is mounting in expectation..wouldn't the damn *******s want the ashes instead which should get higher ratingsOriginally Posted by Josh
That doesn't happen in Test matches as much anymore because people get very angry if someone is about to get a 50,100, something is exciting happeningOriginally Posted by Josh
They took it off when McGrath was on 46, didn't they?? *******s...Originally Posted by GoT_SpIn
And don't worry, there ain't a chance fox will pass on showing it if the FTA networks don't.
I would still rather watch it on channel nine
It feels more authentic on Channel 9..
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This week, a British court convicted Aymen Korbi, 21, of grievous bodily harm for stabbing his wife.
Back in November 2011, a dispute broke out in their home in England after Korbi's wife threatened to leave him. The previous night, the couple had an argument over how much time Korbi spent on playing his PS3. His wife, Aida, threatened to leave with their 1 year-old daughter, but Korbi smashed a bedroom mirror.
"He found the sharpest bit of the mirror and came towards me, saying if I was going to leave he'd kill me," Aida told the court. "I felt my back go funny. That's when I realized I had been stabbed."
Police discovered Korbi, covered in blood, in a neighborhood park. He admitted his crime, but later denied it. According to Aida, her becoming upset with Korbi's incessant gaming was an indication that she "couldn't take the arguments anymore" and he was "unable to change his ways".
Man Convicted of Stabbing His Wife Over PS3 Addiction [Game Politics]
PlayStation fan stabbed his wife in the back in row over his games obsession [Mirror]
Man Stabs Wife for PlayStation Nagging [The Sun]

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Castle Johannisburg in Aschaffenburg was built in 1605-1614 by Georg Ridinger and served until 1803 as a second residence of the archbishops of Mainz and Elector. It features an art gallery, the Vestment Chamber of the Palace Church with ecclesiastical vestments from the Mainz Cathedral, the royal living quarters and the City Palace Museum.
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Wikipedia: Franconia (German: Franken) is a region of Germany comprising the northern parts of the modern state of Bavaria, a small part of southern Thuringia, and a region in northeastern Baden-Württemberg called Heilbronn-Franken. The Bavarian part is made up of the administrative regions of Lower Franconia (Unterfranken), Middle Franconia (Mittelfranken), and Upper Franconia (Oberfranken).Franconia (like France) is named after the Germanic tribe of the Franks. This tribe played a major role after the breakdown of the Roman Empire and colonised large parts of medieval Europe.Modern day Franconia comprises only a very tiny and rather remote part of the settlement area of the ancient Franks. In German, Franken is used for both modern day Franconians and the historic Franks, which leads to some confusion. The historic Frankish Empire, Francia, is actually the common precursor of the Low Countries, France and Germany. In 843 the Treaty of Verdun led to the partition of Francia into West Francia (modern day France), Middle Francia (from the Low Countries along the Rhine valley to northern Italy) and East Francia (modern day Germany). Frankreich, the German word for "France", and Frankrijk, the Dutch word for "France"; literally mean "the Frankish Empire".


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This is what Cowboys defensive tackle Jason Hatcher looked like right after his team's 24-21 victory over the Giants. That's fake blood all over his face, because Jason Hatcher likes to celebrate victories like a totally normal person, obviously.
Hatcher's post-game blood smearing seems to have had something to do with Giants defensive end Jason Pierre-Paul's pre-game proclamation that there was "going to be a lot of blood spilled" during the game. When reporters in the locker room were like, "Hey man, what's the deal with the fake blood all over your face?" Hatcher explained himself with panache.
From the Dallas Morning News:
"I just got finished feasting," Hatcher said as he turned toward reporters, never smiling once. "I just finished eating a Giant. Y'all didn't see me out there? That's some leftover blood. They said blood is going to be shed, right?"
Whose blood is it?
"It's all of them," Hatcher said.
Hatcher may have a different definition of "feasting" than the rest of us do, unless by "feasting" he means "Being really bad at defending the run and surrendering a combined 202 rushing yards to Andre Brown and Brandon Jacobs." Then again, it would have been silly to let all that fake blood he bought go to waste.


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Makeover Peach Bowl Pizza
Total TimePrep: 30 min. + cooling
Makes16 slices
- 1-1/4 cups all-purpose flour
- 6 tablespoons sugar
- 1/4 teaspoon salt
- 9 tablespoons cold butter
- 1 package (8 ounces) reduced-fat cream cheese
- 1/2 cup confectioners' sugar
- 1/4 teaspoon almond extract
- 1 cup reduced-fat whipped topping
- 4 medium peaches, peeled and diced
- In a large bowl, combine the flour, sugar and salt. Cut in butter until crumbly. Press onto an ungreased 12-in. pizza pan. Bake at 350° for 15-18 minutes or until lightly browned. Cool on a wire rack.
- In a small bowl, beat the cream cheese, confectioners' sugar and extract until smooth; fold in whipped topping. Spread over crust. Arrange the peaches on top. Refrigerate leftovers.
Nutrition Facts1 slice: 180 calories, 10g fat (7g saturated fat), 27mg cholesterol, 142mg sodium, 20g carbohydrate (11g sugars, 1g fiber), 3g protein.
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Jun 29, 2013
My family enjoyed this recipe. To make it easier on myself, I just bought sugar cookie dough and used it as the crust. I will definitely make it again, but may do more of a fruit medley on top. I'm thinking it could be a pretty red, white, and blue dessert with strawberries and blueberries artfully arranged.
Jun 15, 2012
This was delicious! I'm giving it 4 stars because the instructions were not clear. After baking the crust for 18 mins mine was light colored and very soft, it did harden after cooling but I didn't know it would so I baked mine another 10 mins total. So now it takes some work to serve. You need to beat the cream cheese mixture until it is very fluffy if you want to fold the whipped topping in easily. Also, 16 servings is a joke. This is a very thin dessert, if your family is used to sinking their teeth into cake or pie, they are going to want a bigger slice. I do like the previous reviewers suggestion of using strawberries. I will make this again knowing what I know now.
Aug 6, 2010
I made this to take to my card club and nearly everyone asked for the recipe. Easy and delicious and healthy too!
Jun 23, 2009
So easy to make. I used strawberries and low fat cream cheese. I also used margarine instead of butter. Yummy!


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Do you like shoulder surfers? It would seem wise to raise both your security and your privacy hackles. On a security angle, shoulder surfing is a low-to-no hacking technique for acquiring sensitive or financial information. On a privacy angle, if you wanted to share with nosy shoulder surfers then you could do so of your own accord. Although it is considered "social," that choice to share or not should be each users. There are dangers lurking under the surface of frictionless sharing apps.
The lack of choice in auto-sharing apps is the reason the appeal of Facebook's frictionless sharing evades me; all that too much information (TMI) and in-your-face oversharing rubs me the wrong way. While BuzzFeed says the "backlash is fixing Facebook social readers," PCWorld says "Facebook's social reader users are fleeing in droves." Mashable took middle ground, stating, Facebook's social reader apps "usage may be down but engagement is up."
Netflix has a Facebook app that auto-posts for subscribers, publicizing what movies you are watching and even making recommendations based on your friends' viewing habits. Netflix offered its "frictionless" sharing tool to subscribers in 46 other countries, everywhere the company operates except in the USA. The "sole reason" it didn't launch in the U.S. is due to a law written 24 years ago, the 1988 (VPPA). The CEO of Netflix, Reed Hastings, also a Facebook board member, is backing a bill to change the U.S. law so the Netflix frictionless sharing app can automatically broadcast what you are watching.
Zuckerberg's social mission has a serious case of mission creep. He asked, "Do you want to go to the movies by yourself or with your friends? You want to go with your friends." Then again Zuckerberg wants you to share everything including music, reading, web-surfing and searches to which Neil Richards, professor of law at Washington University, said, "Not so fast." Indeed Richards makes numerous valid points, "A world of automatic, always-on disclosure should give us pause."
Richards blogged on Privacy Revolution:
What's at stake is something I call "intellectual privacy" - the idea that records of our reading and movie watching deserve special protection compared to other kinds of personal information. The films we watch, the books we read, and the web sites we visit are essential to the ways we try to understand the world we live in. Intellectual privacy protects our ability to think for ourselves, without worrying that other people might judge us based on what we read. It allows us to explore ideas that other people might not approve of, and to figure out our politics, sexuality, and personal values, among other things. It lets us watch or read whatever we want without fear of embarrassment or being outed. This is the case whether we're reading communist, gay teen, or anti-globalization books; or visiting web sites about abortion, gun control, or cancer; or watching videos of pornography, or documentaries by Michael Moore, or even "The Hangover 2."
EPIC reported that the 2011 Netflix-backed VPPA amendment "was heavily supported by entertainment companies" and passed the House of Representatives "without any opportunity for public debate or discussion" in December. The VPPA consent provision was weakened so that Netflix, and companies like it, would only need to obtain a "one-time, blanket consent from a user and then continuously disclose on Facebook all of the movies watched by that user. Netflix would automatically post this viewing information regardless of whether users would choose to post such information themselves."
Netflix is now busy throwing money at the VPPA problem and lobbying the Senate to pass the updated law. The company hired "the powerhouse law firm Greenberg Traurig to lobby Congress." Now that the Senate is considering a "TMI law," SFGate asked, "Should Congress be in the business of deciding what people can share through social media?" Patrick Leahy, the author of the 1988 VPPA, said, "A one-time check off that has the effect of an all-time surrender of privacy does not seem to me the best course for consumers."
Netflix is totally disregarding Citi analyst Mark Mahaney's survey results that seven out of 10 Netflix subscribers are 'not at all interested' in 'seeing what [their] FB friends have watched on Netflix.' Mobile apps stated, Mahaney must think it's a grand idea, since he noted that perhaps "the folks he surveyed just don't know how cool it will be to learn that their pals are watching 'Mad Men' or 'Dora the Explorer' or whatever. And that if it becomes possible, they'll change their mind."
If you are a Netflix subscriber, then you know that between the ups and downs of Netflix and the slim choices of decent videos, you might watch something out of boredom that you wouldn't normally watch, most definitely don't want automatically shouted to the world, and then tapped again for Facebook advertisements.
In February, Netflix coughed up "$9 million to settle a lawsuit alleging it violated video privacy laws." Yet a company spokesperson denied wrongdoing, claimed the lawsuit was "immaterial" and any "potential loss was not probable." He also told The Hill "the case is unrelated to Netflix's lobbying for changes to the VPPA." Yeah, right; it surely has nothing to do with once bitten, twice shy.
Appdata shows that Netflix jumped 100,000 app subscribers today. Although I can't wrap my head around the wisdom of it, maybe people like the idea of shoulder surfers and frictionless social readers that get permission once to thereafter blab automatically? I hope frictionless sharing and social readers have jumped the shark, but the +100k jump could have also been tied to the fact that Netflix signed a deal with Twentieth Century Fox. Then again the jump may have been influenced by the New Zealand ISP that allows New Zealanders to get around "geographic restriction on US commercial download providers such as Netflix." The ISP FYX "promises to take geo-block beating into the mainstream."
If you are interested, here is a great article about social readers and privacy law. I don't have anything against Netflix, but I do value my privacy. If Netflix gets VPPA updated, hopefully it will follow Hulu's lead of privacy by design and be turned off by default.
What happens now shapes the future of what is considered a "reasonable" expectation of privacy. As privacy law expert Richards stated, "The stakes in this debate are immense. Choices we make now about the boundaries between our individual and social selves, between consumers and companies, between citizens and the state, will have massive consequences for the societies our children and grandchildren inherit."
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This story, "Netflix Frictionless Sharing: Do You Want to Automatically Broadcast What You Watch?" was originally published by Computerworld.


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There is no such thing as routine breast cancer.
At the OSUCCC – James, our breast cancer subspecialists are world-renowned cancer experts who focus solely on breast cancer and who reach across medical disciplines (medical, surgical and radiation oncologists, radiologists, pharmacists, reconstructive surgeons, pathologists and more) to design the very best treatment plan and therapies to target each patient's specific breast cancer.
And by offering access to the country's most advanced clinical trials right here at the OSUCCC – James, patients know that additional options, when needed, are always available for their treatment and care.
What is Breast Cancer?
One in eight women will develop breast cancer in their lifetime, and although it's the second most diagnosed cancer in women behind skin cancer (more than 230,000 women in the U.S. are diagnosed every year), the five-year survival rate is more than 90 percent for breast cancers detected early thanks to enhanced screening and prevention methods as well as new, individualized and targeted therapies like those discovered at the OSUCCC – James. There are more than 3.1 million breast cancer survivors living in the U.S. today.
Although breast cancer is diagnosed more often in older women, it does occur in younger women and in men (men, however, account for less than one percent of all breast cancers). About 75 percent of all breast cancer diagnoses are in women age 50 and older.
The risk of developing breast cancer also increases with age. While a family history of breast cancer may increase the risk, it's important to note that only 5 to 10 percent of all breast cancers are the result of inherited genetic factors.
Breast cancers can be found on a mammogram or by a physical examination by either the patient or the doctor. Not all breast cancers are detected by self-exam or mammogram, but regular screenings greatly increase the chances of early detection, successful treatment and cure.
Kinds of Breast Cancer
Breast tumors are most often classified as invasive (has a tendency to spread) or noninvasive:
Noninvasive breast cancer or carcinoma in situ begins and remains in the cells where it began. Noninvasive breast cancer can be confined to the milk ducts, called ductal carcinoma in situ (DCIS) or in the lobules, the milk-producing glands of the breast, called lobular carcinoma in situ (LCIS).
Invasive breast cancer has grown beyond the cells where it began either deeper in to the breast tissue or to other organs. The majority of breast cancers are invasive. Invasive breast cancer can be invasive ductal carcinoma or invasive lobular carcinoma.
Less Prevalent Types of Breast Cancer
Inflammatory Breast Cancer
A rare and aggressive disease in which cancer cells block lymph vessels in the skin of the breast.
Triple-negative Breast Cancer
A sub-type of invasive ductal carcinoma, and it is diagnosed based upon the lack of three cell receptors: estrogen receptors, progesterone receptors and human epidermal growth factor receptor 2 (HER2). Those three receptors are known growth factors in most other breast cancers, which helps experts design targeted treatments in those cases. With triple-negative breast cancer, however, the exact cause for tumor growth and spread in this quickly progressing disease is unknown. Chemotherapy and drug combinations designed to target this particular sub-type lead to the most successful treatment, and research experts continue to study the disease.
The OSUCCC – James research scientists are breaking scientific ground with several new studies on triple-negative breast cancer, offering new hope for even more targeted treatments and novel therapies.
Paget Disease of the Nipple
A rare kind of tumor that begins in the ducts, spreads to the nipple and then spreads to the areola (the dark circle around the nipple).
Phyllodes Tumor
A very rare breast tumor that begins in the connective tissue of the breast.
Recurrent Breast Cancer
Cancer that returns (or recurs) after it has been treated. The cancer may come back in the breast or in other parts of the body. Even if the new tumor is located in a different location, it is still called breast cancer.
Breast Cancer Symptoms
Breast cancer symptoms vary from person to person, so it's important to be familiar with your breasts so you know what "normal" feels and looks like for you. If you notice any changes in your breasts, tell your doctor.
Symptoms of Breast Cancer may include:
- A lump or thickening in or near the breast or in the underarm area
- Enlarged lymph nodes in the armpit
- Changes in size, shape, skin texture or color of the breast
- Skin redness
- Dimpling or puckering
- Fluid, other than breast milk, from the nipple, especially if it's bloody
- Scaly, red or swollen skin on the breast, nipple or areola (the dark area of skin that is around the nipple)
- Nipple pulling to one side or a change in direction
These symptoms do not always mean you have breast cancer. It is important, however, to discuss any symptoms with your doctor, because they can also indicate other health problems.
(source: National Cancer Institute)
Many breast cancers are found by mammograms before any symptoms even appear, and early detection is important to improved outcomes and successful treatment. Just as there is no routine breast cancer, there is also no such thing as a routine mammogram. The expertise of the radiologist is paramount to detecting cancer as early as possible.
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Before I seriously immersed myself in my writing cave this past year, I looked young. I went out to a party with my eldest daughter last October and someone asked her, "Who's your friend?" Of course, we pissed ourselves laughing at that and explained I was her mother. I can't blame them for thinking how they did. I had my daughter just after I turned eighteen and I was also acting like a younger person by freaking out on the dance floor to House of Pain's Jump Around. Um, yeah. I love that song.
Anyway, my daughter and I, when she was still at uni, used to go and have our hair and nails done every couple of months. She's a darling and treated me every time. We'd go together, sitting side by side having our locks chopped then leave the salon hoping no one we knew saw us. The stylist never did our hair the way it was supposed to be—don't you just hate that? I have mine in a trendy cut, yet they blow-dried it to make me look forty years older. Ugh. Then we'd run to the nail salon and sit like royalty, reading trashy magazines while the lady attended to the acrylics. White tips, square cut…God, I'm drooling at the memory.
During that time I felt so…confident and pampered. They say if the outside of you looks good, you feel good on the inside. I can vouch for that, because now my daughter is working full time as a social worker, and I'm deep inside my cave writing, neither of us have had the time to do the hair and nails days. We talked the other week about feeling a bit poo about ourselves and discussed whether we were vain, whether hair and nails mattered at all. After all, we're still the same people now we have bitten nails and split ends, but…we don't feel as "nice".
So I looked at myself this morning, really looked at myself—something I try not to do because I don't like what I see (another topic entirely)—and thought: You look old, my dear.
I have wrinkles I didn't have last year. Grey circles beneath my eyes. Split ends a hairdresser would cuss me out for, not to mention a style that isn't a style but just hair. And that hair…I haven't dyed it in a while and I can see by the roots that if I didn't dye it at all I'd be completely grey. That's a family thing, that we all go grey early, not age, so I don't feel so bad about that but…
It frightened me.
And then I thought of how rundown I've felt lately and wondered if me not taking time out to make myself feel better has attributed to that. There is something to be said for chasing your dream, that you sacrifice many things, because it's hard work, you have to remain focused, and you don't stop even when you get to where you want to be; you still have to keep honing your craft so you get better with every book.
I read a line in a book last night. It went something like this: A writer is known for neglecting their family, holing themselves up in a room alone, and not washing.
I had to smile at that, because, although I try not to neglect my family, I can say that for the past five years I haven't spent as much time with them as I should. And there are days I stay in my pyjamas… I don't have an office because if I did, I'd always be in it. My family would never see me. So I write in the living room. I'm there but not "there". Available if anyone needs me, but for the most part, if I'm writing, I'm left alone.
And then that brings me to whether I need to find more of a balance. Can I continue to write as I do without sacrificing memories? I try and think of things we've done as a family that my kids can remember when they're older, and I fear that all they'll remember is: Mum sat at the computer all the time…all we ever saw was her back.
So, here are my questions:
How do you feel as you've aged? Are you fighting it? Does it scare you?
Do you do the hair and nails thing? I'd go out right now and visit those salons, but due to the economic crisis, I can't justify spending that kind of money just to make myself feel better. There are bills to pay, blah blah blah.
And if you're a writer, how do you balance your time? Do you feel you've neglected your family or other obligations? Do you wash (lol, sorry, couldn't resist that one…)?


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'Influencers' Shake Up the Fashion Industry
New York Fashion Week is back, but the front row elite is getting swapped out for the up-and-coming style bloggers that used to live on the sidelines of the fashion world. Elizabeth Holmes gives the low-down on the industry's new "influencers." Photo: Andrew Spear for The Wall Street Journal.
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A 40-year-old treaty stands in the way of local LNG export
The biggest news in Chesapeake Country is hidden in plain sight at a bump on Calvert County's long, otherwise smooth Bay shoreline.
Travel by water in the vicinity of 38 degrees 23 minutes north latitude and 76 degrees 23 minutes west longitude and, right off of Cove Point, you'll see the tip of the iceberg. A mile and a quarter from shore is an enormous loading platform, mostly waiting nowadays for any 800-plus-foot tanker's load of 30 million gallons of liquefied natural gas.
The gas docks, and much of their on-land infrastructure, have been a landmark on the Bay since the oil crisis of the 1970s suggested natural gas would boom. But demand for imported gas has seldom lived up to expectations. For a couple of decades, the only boats arriving at the gas docks were after the fish teeming about the docks' underwater structure.
In 2002, the Virginia-based energy giant Dominion Resources won approval to reopen the site and over the next few years expanded its capacity with new storage tanks and a second Calvert stretch of the 87-mile pipeline that delivered the gas to northern Virginia for nationwide distribution.
All that is history — or would have been had not the bottom once again fallen out of the LNG import business.
It was history waiting to be forgotten until Dominion Resources decided the time — and the Marcellus Shale — was right for adding a gas export line to Cove Point's business.
No go, said The Sierra Club last week, with an authority that might have made you wonder who those environmentalists thought they were.
"We will not grant Dominion's request again to expand the facility in order to export LNG," national and Maryland Club leaders wrote in a letter dated April 26.
As partner in a 40-year-old treaty that let the gas docks rise, The Sierra Club seems, at least for now, able to do just what it says.
Back in 1964, Calvert Cliffs State Park was conceived to preserve the archaeology and geology of the storied cliffs. It would also create public access to the Chesapeake Bay with a beach, campground, picnic areas and boat ramp. The new park would cover 1,800 acres, including a unique 200-acre freshwater marsh.
In 1967, a federal appropriation of $250,000 enabled Maryland to buy private land for the new park. By 1970, Maryland owned 1,000 acres, with plans to acquire the remaining 800.
But in May 1970, Columbia Gas Systems — one of the country's largest energy supply companies — set its sights on the same 800 acres. Instead of a park, Columbia planned a port of entry for imported liquified natural gas from Algeria.
In a private meeting between then Maryland Gov. Spiro T. Agnew and the companies, the plan to acquire those 800 acres for the park was scuttled in favor of the more financially — and likely politically — lucrative LNG facility.
Enter The Sierra Club. Empowered by major court victories in the western United States — blocking a dam that would have flooded the Grand Canyon — Sierra used the newly enacted National Environmental Policy Act to block the construction. At issue was the proper use of a prime natural area already designated by the state as a park.
The Sierra Club and Maryland Conservation Council were ready to take Columbia to court. But in an unlikely twist of events, the environmentalists and the corporation reached an out-of-court settlement.
To get its facility, Columbia had to agree to protect the beaches, fresh-water marsh and the appearance of the shoreline. The facility's design was modified to include a mile-long tunnel under the Bay to an offshore pier, the gas docks. Columbia also agreed that should it cease to import LNG at Cove Point, the land would be donated to the state and become part of Calvert Cliffs State Park.
The agreement also bound Columbia — and any future owners of the terminal — to conditional land use and required the approval of the environmental groups for any expansions.
Dominion Cove Point, the current owner of the docks, has honored the treaty, both on expansion and in actively protecting the fragile Bay environment, from partnering in the Cove Point Natural Heritage Trust and Living Shoreline Project to building a LEED certified headquarters.
"We take our role as stewards of the environment seriously," says spokesman Karl Neddenien.
That condition came back to haunt Dominion in 2005 when it sought to add new storage facility tanks. On the strength of the 1972 agreement, the Sierra Club struck another out-of-court agreement. Cove Point would have its new tanks, but they would be kept to a size that would not adversely affect "visual impact" from land or water.
That deal, according to The Sierra Club, also restricts Cove Point to LNG imports and bars major new construction on the site without consent of the two environmental groups.
"The deal says what it says, and that's the end of the story," said Sierra Club lawyer Craig Segall.
Both sides are holding their ground. The Sierra Club is a dedicated national opponent of natural gas exports and the controversial extracting method known as fracking.
"The damage that this project would bring to the Maryland coast as well as the disastrous effects of the fracking boom on communities in states like Pennsylvania make it clear that exporting liquefied natural gas is bad news for Americans' air, water and health," the Club's executive director, Maryland chair and Natural Gas Reform Campaign director wrote in the April 26 letter to Dominion.
Dominion, in turn, disputes the claim that the agreement bars gas export.
"We are confident we can locate, construct and operate a liquefaction plant at Cove Point … within the footprint of the existing facility without amending the agreement involving The Sierra Club and Maryland Conservation Council," wrote Thomas F. Farrell II, Dominion chairman, president and CEO.
What's next? Only time will tell. This story is in the making.
When will we ever learn? As the Bay Weekly reported last week, Dominion Resources which owns the Cove Point terminal on the coast of the Chesapeake Bay in Calvert County wants to expand its operation so that it can profit from exporting American natural gas. These sales would likely cause prices here at home to rise for industry, consumers, and local governments.
Millions of cubic feet of gas would be shipped to Japan and other foreign countries, potentially endangering the Bay to pollution, and equally threatening the air, water, and health of communities across the United States where the gas is extracted from rock deep in the earth.
The hydraulic fracturing process being used to free the natural gas from shale formations uses millions of gallons of fresh water laced with a multitude of toxic chemicals under pressure. Most of the waste fluids return to the surface and, without proper containment, pollutes surface streams. A portion of the waste seeps into the local groundwater which can poison drinking water wells.
Natural gas holding areas and transmission facilities also often pollute the air nearby. Many people have been sickened by exposure from vented vapors, which have led to cancers and chronic neuropathy in some cases.
Possible jobs and profits cannot be sufficient rationale for endangering the health and well-being of all creation nearby. We can tend and care for the earth while we earn good livings in occupations that may be threatened by callous gas mining—for example, farming, fishing, and recreational fields.
Rather than be dominated by the economics of the past, why not launch new ventures in wind, geo-thermal, and solar power to free us and our air and water from old dogmas and their tragic results.


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With Missouri's recent run on the field and the recruiting trail, all 14 teams in the SEC are in RecruitingNation's top-40 class rankings. While Missouri and Tennessee have made the most news of late, the strangle hold on the top spot remains in the hands of Alabama.
Trending up: Missouri and Auburn are a pair of schools on upward trends. Missouri's Tigers had a huge week with commitments from ESPN300 No. 82 Andy Bauer (Saint Louis, Mo./De Smet Jesuit High) and No. 239 Brandon Lee (Indianapolis, In./Lawrence Central High). The SEC East leaders are now clearly in the picture for No. 145 Brian Wallace (Saint Louis, Mo./Christian Brothers College High), No. 156 Roderick Johnson (Florissant, Mo./Hazelwood Central High) and others.


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MARIETTA, Ga. - Luis Ortiz brought his entire five-pitch arsenal to work with him today at the 2013 18u WWBA National Championship as he threw five perfect innings to earn the win for the San Diego Show.
That's right, the 6-foot-3 205-pound 17-year-old California native has five pitches, all of which he can throw with unparalleled accuracy and precision.
"I throw a palmball, a circle change, a slider, a curveball, and a fastball," Ortiz mentioned. When asked what his favorite two-strike pitch is he replied, "I like my slider. It works a lot."
It seemed to everyone watching him throw this afternoon, including the countless number of scouts with their eyes glued to their radar guns, that much more than just his slider 'works a lot.'
The hard-throwing right-hander threw five perfect innings before being yanked due to pitch count limitations. He made the most of his five innings, throwing just 50 pitches, 41 for strikes. That's an 82-percent strike rate, in case you were wondering.
"He just came out there throwing strikes," said assistant coach Luis Lorenzana. "Obviously, we all know what he brings to the table, but his command of every pitch (and) his demeanor coming out is what makes him that much more impressive."
His effortless release has the ball screaming to the plate at 95 mph, sitting between 91-93 mph. Four off-speed pitches Ortiz also throws kept opposing hitters off balance all game. Ortiz ended his perfect outing with seven strikeouts.
Ortiz keeps the ball down in the zone and isn't afraid to attack hitters inside, which makes him that much harder to hit. He was able to get seven groundouts, compared to just one flyout.
"He's one of the premier arms in the '14 class," said Perfect Game scout Jheremy Brown.
"It was cool. He's pretty on today," said travel ball teammate Rowdy Tellez, a first baseman who played in the Perfect Game All-American Classic last year. Tellez said he has never faced Ortiz before, but has seen him pitch in California and was very impressed with his stuff.
The jaw-dropping command, break, and velocity of his pitches don't all come to him without hard work. The fireballer recently worked to drop 40 pounds. He went from 245-pounds to 205-pounds and instantly saw the benefits. "I saw the velocity was picking up and I was hitting my spots and my other stuff was starting to work," Ortiz said.
"He comes to the park with a workman's-like mentality and at this level and beyond everyone has a talent, everyone can throw the baseball hard for the most part, but what he brings to the table, his demeanor, that's what makes special pitchers," Lorenzana said.
"Every time I step on that mound I gotta give 110-percent," Ortiz added. "When I go out there it's just me and my catcher and we just have fun. That's what the game is all about; just having fun."
The kid with a slingshot arm has had a loud 2013 campaign thus far, opening a lot of eyes when he was at the Perfect Game National Showcase earlier in June that is sure to catapult his national ranking up close to the top.
After a stellar outing on Day 1 of the PG National in Minneapolis, one scouting report read:
"Ortiz pitched aggressively, showing good feel for both his 93-95 fastball and his 82-84 slider. He has easy arm strength and speed, and wasn't afraid to throw his slider, going right after hitters."
Although his performance didn't let him show it, Ortiz admits he was nervous at first when pitching in front of so many scouts, but claims he has gotten past that.
"Now scouts are just regular people," said Ortiz. "(They are) regular guys with radars and that's it and you just do your part on the mound."
Despite the nerves, Ortiz was happy to be in attendance and said he learned a lot from being in the Metrodome for the National.
"It was a great experience going out there and competing against the best players in the U.S. It can't get any better," Ortiz said. "You're playing the top level and those are guys you're gonna see later down the road."
Surely, Ortiz will see top-caliber competition very often in his baseball future. He is a top-caliber player himself. After all, how many 17-year-olds can say that draw a crowd when throwing a bullpen?


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Chapter Nine: Rescuers
"About this time….two men rode into our camp,.."
From "Hunger and Cold"
Oh, whence came those shouts in the still, starry night,
That thrilled us and filled us with hope and delight?
The cheers of new comers, a jubilant sound
Of triumph and joy over precious ones found.
Life, Life was the treasure held out to our view,
By the "Boys from the Valley," so brave and so true,
The "Boys from the Valley," sent out by their chief,
Brought clothing and food and abundant relief.
That thrilled us and filled us with hope and delight?
The cheers of new comers, a jubilant sound
Of triumph and joy over precious ones found.
Life, Life was the treasure held out to our view,
By the "Boys from the Valley," so brave and so true,
The "Boys from the Valley," sent out by their chief,
Brought clothing and food and abundant relief.
O'er mountainous steeps, over drearisome plains
They sought us, and found us, thank God for their pains!
They sought us, and found us, thank God for their pains!
Hurrah! and hurrah! from the feeble and strong.
Hurrah! and hurrah! loud the echoes prolong.
They were saviors, these men whom we hardly had seen,
Yet it seemed that for ages, acquainted we'd been.
When Fate introduces Compassion to Need,
Friendships quickly are founded and ripen with speed.
Weatherworn were our friends, but like kings in disguise
Their souls' native grandeur shone out of their eyes.
Hurrah! and hurrah! loud the echoes prolong.
They were saviors, these men whom we hardly had seen,
Yet it seemed that for ages, acquainted we'd been.
When Fate introduces Compassion to Need,
Friendships quickly are founded and ripen with speed.
Weatherworn were our friends, but like kings in disguise
Their souls' native grandeur shone out of their eyes.
Oh, soft were their hearts who with courage like steel,
left their homes in the Valley our sorrow to heal.
left their homes in the Valley our sorrow to heal.
And soon as they sensed our deplorable plight,
Like children they weeped, 'twas a pitiful sight!
What e'er was combustible quickly they found
And speedily kindled, gleamed brightly around.
And nourishing food was prepared in a trice,
Oh, never were dainties more tempting and nice!
For helpful and kind, as a woman or Saint,
These men cheered the feeble, the frozen and faint.
God bless them for heroes, the tender and bold,
Who rescued our remnant from hunger and cold. (Woodmansee)
Like children they weeped, 'twas a pitiful sight!
What e'er was combustible quickly they found
And speedily kindled, gleamed brightly around.
And nourishing food was prepared in a trice,
Oh, never were dainties more tempting and nice!
For helpful and kind, as a woman or Saint,
These men cheered the feeble, the frozen and faint.
God bless them for heroes, the tender and bold,
Who rescued our remnant from hunger and cold. (Woodmansee)
Franklin D. Richards, after passing the Handcart Companies, had arrived in Salt Lake October 4, and reported to Brigham Young that same day. This was when the Martin Company was close to Scotts Bluff, before they had reached Fort Laramie. They had traveled 472 miles from Florence, (and 270 across Iowa) and were still 559 miles from Salt Lake. (See Olsen p 310) President Richards reported to the presence of two handcart companies, and two wagon companies, 1200 people, still on the planes. Brigham Young immediately knew they had left too late in the season to make it without problems. This may have been from experience, or from inspiration. A journal kept by missionaries on the plains "The Shoshone Mission" described this as inspiration. "The Lord showed Prest. [President] Young the situation of those handcart cos [companies] & told him to call out 500 teams to go forthwith & bring them in." (Shoshone, CH)
That evening he called a meeting to discuss what would be needed to mount a rescue effort:
…Brigham Young's concern was immediate… He did not delegate the fact finding to his Presiding Bishopric but himself called a meeting, the very evening of Richard's arrival, to ascertain the location and condition of the handcart companies. At this meeting were the First Presidency; eleven returning missionaries; managers of the tithing store, church store, and church herds; several local bishops; commander of the territorial militia Daniel H. Wells; and several clerks. (Cornwall and Arrington p 5)
This meeting was practical. It involved drawing up specific needed supplies to bring in the Saints still on the plains. The next day happened to be the semiannual conference of the Church. Brigham Young introduced the theme:
I will now give this people the subject and the text for the Elders who may speak today and during the conference. It is this. On the 5th day of October, 1856, many of our brethren and sisters are on the plains with handcarts, and probably many are now seven hundred miles from this place, and they must be brought here, we must send assistance to them. The text will be, "to get them here." I want the brethren who may speak to understand that their text is the people on the plains. And the subject matter for this community is to send for them and bring them in before winter sets in.
That is my religion; that is the dictation of the Holy Ghost that I possess. It is to save the people. This is the salvation I am now seeking for. To save our brethren that would be apt to perish, or suffer extremely, if we do not send them assistance...
I will tell you all that your faith, religion, and profession of religion, will never save one soul of you in the Celestial Kingdom of our God, unless you carry out just such principles as I am now teaching you. Go and bring in those people now on the plains." (See Hafen and Hafen p 120-21.)
Franklin Richards also spoke at the conference, of the storms abating:
The Saints that are now upon the plains….feel that it is late in the season, and they expect to get cold fingers and toes. But they have this faith and confidence towards God, that he will overrule the storms that may come in the season thereof, and turn them away, that their path may be freed from suffering more than they can bear…
When we had a meeting at Florence, we called upon the Saints to express their faith to the people, and requested to know of them, even if they knew that they should be swallowed up in storm, whether they would stop or turn back. They voted, with loud acclamations, that they would go on. Such confidence and joyful performance of so arduous labors to accomplish their gathering, will bring the choice blessings of God upon them. (Hafen and Hafen p 122)
I have written a duet summarizing the attitude of Brigham Young and President Richards at the conference:
(Brigham Young) I will now give you the subject for those who speak today;
Our brethren are on the plains far from the safety of this place.
They must be brought here.
We will send them aid.
(duet) This is pure religion; the dictation of the Holy Ghost.
(Brigham Young) Attend to your duties so your faith be not in vain.
Go and bring those brethren from the plains.
Get them here! Get them here! (both) Get them here! (Wardle, Billy)
Brigham Young spoke again, calling for volunteers as quickly as possible, and allowing for all to participate either by going, helping in preparations for those who were to go, and donating teams, food and linens. Conference continued on Monday, and Brigham Young dismissed the blacksmiths to go and ready the horses and wagons. On Tuesday they were ready to start with "sixteen wagonloads of food and supplies." (Hafen and Hafen p 124) Initially there were 27 men, with more to follow.
The Hafens gave a summary of the help offered:
Families of moderate means and the poorest individuals contributed from their meager stores. One lent a horse, one a wagon, one a tent; another, two bales of hay and a sack of barley. Some gave iron camp kettles, Dutch ovens, brass buckets, tin cups and plates. Women darned socks and shawls; patched underwear, trousers and dresses; faced quilts, sewed together pieces of blankets; and took clothes from their own backs. Families brought out from their scant cellars sacks of flour, sides of home-cured bacon, bags of beans, dried corn, packages of sugar and rice. (Hafen and hafen p 124-25)
Harvey Cluff summarized the response to Brigham Young's request:
I attended the October conference of that year which opened on the 6th as usual, having walked from Provo to Salt Lake City. On that day President Brigham Young at the opening of the first Session made a call upon the people to furnish teams provisions and clothing to aid the late Handcart companies in as the winter Season was fast hastening on. Snow having already fallen upon the mountains. The response to the call of President Young was most remarkable. On the following day, October 7th, 22 teams – two span of mules or horses to each wagon and each wagon loaded to the bows. There were about fifty young men in the company. Being in Salt Lake City and of an ambitious turn of mind I volunteers to go. (Cluff, CH)
Many of the rescuers came to the rescue through inspiration, whether when they heard Brigham Young's pleas for help, or later when they prayed:
Grandfather Allen told of one time when "Brother Brigham" had called him to accompany several other young men in going out to meet the Hand Cart Company, to take them some provisions and assist them into the Valley. As he knelt in prayer the evening before going, he said that he told the Lord that it was a foolish thing to do, going out in such weather and with no roads to follow. But while he was still in the act of prayer, it was made known to him that he should go. It was also made known that he would be able to save many of their lives. (Housley, CH)
Even though Ephraim Hanks wasn't with the original group of rescuers, he joined the rescue by miraculous means:
In the fall of 1856, I spent considerable of my time fishing in Utah Lake; and in traveling backward and forward between that lake and Salt Lake City, I had occasion to stop once over night with Gurney Brown, in Draper, about nineteen miles south of Salt Lake City. Being somewhat fatigued after the day's journey, I retired to rest quite early, and while I still lay wide awake in my bed I heard a voice calling me by name, and then saying: "The handcart people are in trouble and you are wanted; will you go and help them?" I turned instinctively in the direction from whence the voice came and beheld an ordinary sized man in the room. Without hesitation I answered "Yes, I will go if I am called." I then turned around to go to sleep, but had laid only a few minutes when the voice called a second time, repeating almost the same words as on the first occasion. My answer was the same as before. This was repeated a third time.
When I got up the next morning I said to Brother Brown, "The handcart people are in trouble, . . and I have promised to go out and help them;" but I did not tell him of my experiences during the night. I now hastened to Salt Lake City, and arrived there on the Saturday, preceding the Sunday on which the call was made for volunteers to go out and help the last handcart companies in. When some of the brethren responded by explaining that they could get ready to start in a few days; I spoke out at once saying, "I am ready now!" The next day I was wending my way eastward over the mountains with a light wagon all alone. (Hanks)
The experience of Dan Jones, in joining the rescuers was not so dramatic:
I ATTENDED the October conference of 1856. When conference was opened President Young arose and said: "There are a number of our people on the plains who have started to come with hand-carts; they will need help and I want twenty teams to be ready by morning with two men to each team to go out and meet them. If the teams are not voluntarily furnished, there are plenty of good ones in the street and I shall call upon Brother J. C. Little, the marshal, to furnish them. Now we will adjourn this conference until to-morrow." Brother Young was in earnest; he seemed moved by a spirit that would admit of no delay.
A few days before this a number of elders had arrived from the old country reporting that the hand-cart people were on the road, but they did not know how far they had advanced. In those days there was no telegraph, and mails from the east only reached Utah monthly, they being many times delayed by high water, Indians or other causes.
Brother Young called upon every one present to lend a hand in fitting up these teams. As I was going out with the crowd, Brother Wells spoke to me saying: "You are a good hand for the trip; get ready." Soon after Bishop Hunter said the same thing to me. Also Brother Grant met me and said: "I want you on this trip." I began to think it time to decide, so I answered, "all right." (Jones, Dan)
Shortly after leaving the Valley, the rescuers elected George Grant to be their captain. (Jones) One of the rescuers, William Broomhead, kept a diary. He describes the singing and dancing around the campfire. This was a group of men with no female partners. Even after the snow began to fall, they still sang at every opportunity. Singing and prayer were common entries. "I sang some Songs for the boys." "Singing after supper…three of us set up singing and talking till half past 11." (Broomhead, CH) Dan Jones described the rescuers. "…Those going were alive to the work and were of the best material possible for the occasion. (Jones)
Jones also provided a list of those rescuers with the original company, although many others, including Ephraim Hanks, would join the rescue later:
George D. Grant was selected captain, with Robert Burton and William Kimball as assistants; Cyrus Wheelock, chaplain; Charles Decker, guide. I was given the important position of chief cook for the head mess. I was quite proud of my office, for it made me the most sought after and popular man in the camp. The rest of the company was made up of the following persons Joseph A. Young, Chauncey Webb, H. H. Cluff, D. P. Kimball, George W. Grant, Ed. Peck, Joel Parrish, Henry Goldsbrough, Thomas Alexander, Benjamin Hampton, Tomas Ricks, Abe Garr, Charles Grey, Al Huntington, "Handsome Cupid," Stephen Taylor, William K. Broomhead, Ira Nebeker, Redick Allred, Amos Fairbanks and Tom Bankhead, a colored man. These are all the names that I remember, if there were any more I have been unable to find them. (Jones)
It is interesting to note that Tom [Nate] Bankhead was African American. As near as I can tell he helped the Willie Company get into Salt Lake.
Early on, the storms missed the rescuers. A rescuer wrote, "Clear and fair, storm passed to the right and left us." (Burton, CH 1) Later, at Devil's Gate he wrote, "After prayers, ceased snowing." (ibid) "…It looked as if we were going to have a heavy storm but the clouds Divided to the right and left… (Broomhead, CH)
The rescuers did not have an easy time of it. Upon reaching the Sweetwater a very severe storm began. "At the South Pass, we encountered a severe snow-storm. After crossing the divide we turned down into a sheltered place on the Sweetwater. (Jones) Harvey Cluff added:
This relief party proceeded eastward as rapidly as possible and in due time passed over the "Southpass" [South Pass] the backbone of the continent, being the divide point of the waters flowing into the Atlantic Ocean east and the Pacific Ocean west. Nine miles brought us down to the Sweetwater River where we camped for the night. On arising in the following morning snow was several inches deep. During the two following days the storm raged with increasing furry until it attained the capacity of a northern blizzard. For protection to ourselves and animals, the company moved down the river to where the willows were dense enough to make a good protection against the raging storm from the north. (Cluff, CH)
The snow was so high the rescuers had to lay over a couple days:
But I desire to state that at one time while we were traveling down the Sweet Water [Sweetwater] about 300 or 400 miles east of Salt Lake City, the snow was so deep that the axle-trees of our wagons dragged and we were compelled to remain camped at the same place for one or two days in consequence of the severity of the storms, but with no idea other than resuming our journey when the weather would permit, until we found the companies we were sent to relieve. (Burton, CH 2)
Captain Willie found them in this spot the next day, and they were able to help in the rescue of the Willie Company. Elder William Kimball and a few others remained with this company to help them get into Salt Lake.
The rescuers continued east, sending a fast search team ahead. The main body traveled 100 miles in five days. (Hafen and Hafen p 126)
Captain Grant, in his letter to Brigham Young noted:
We had no snow to contend with, until we got to the Sweet Water. On the 19th and 20th of October we encountered a very severe snow storm. We met br. [James G.] Willie's company on the 21st; the snow was from six to ten inches deep where we met them. They were truly in a bad situation, but we rendered them all the assistance in our power. Br. Wm. H. Kimball returned with them, also several other brethren. The particulars of this company you have doubtless learned before this time. (Grant, CH)
"The greater portion of our company now continued on towards Devil's Gate, traveling through snow all the way. When we arrived at Devil's Gate we found our express there awaiting us. No tidings as yet were received of the other companies." (Grant, CH)
They met the advance scout team at Devil's gate. They still had not come upon the handcart pioneers. The advance team was sent forward to the Platte River. They found the Martin Handcart Company and the two wagon companies at Red Buttes, about 18 miles to the west of the Platte River. They were able to rally them and get them moving, and returned to Devil's Gate and encouraged the rescue teams to move forward. The rescue wagons met the handcart company at Greasewood Creek October 31. From John Bond we learn that the "Valley Boys' had a "theme song." As they approached Greasewood Creek he noted:
All were anxious to see the valley boys as their musical voices could be heard getting closer and closer as the saints sat by large sage brush fires. Finally arrived in camp sing their much loved song to cheer them on the way.
It's every Sunday morning
When I am by her side,
We'll jump into the wagon
And all take a ride.
We'll wait for the wagon,
We'll wait for the wagon,
We'll wait for the wagon,
And all take a ride. (Bond, CH)
Heber McBride described the rescuers in this fashion, pointing out they had come so far, they did not have a great deal of provisions, "But they were workers. They put the tents up and got wood and took care of mother and the three little ones." (McBride, Heber, CH 1) The rescuers put their lives in jeopardy, but had faith Heavenly Father would see them through. "Those who have gone back never will be sorry for or regret having done so… If they die during the trip, they will die while endeavoring to save their brethren; and who has greater love than he that lays own his life for his friends?´ (Kimball, CH)
From Greasewood Creek, the next day's trek brought them to Devil's Gate. While at Devil's Gate and Martin's Cove, the rescuers supported the immigrants not only physically, but also spiritually. "During our stay here, we had meetings ever evening to counsel together and ask the Lord to turn away the cold and storm so that the people might live." (Burton, CH 1) "No power could save the people from death but that of God. To our rescue O Lord God Almighty seemed the fervent prayer constantly offered to our Heavenly Father." (Cluff, CH)
The Hafens summarized this period as a time of frequent prayers by the Saints for the rescuers and the pioneers. "Prayers at all public meetings and in private homes petitioned the Almighty to avert the storms, strengthen the rescuers, and spare the trapped emigrants." (Hafen and Hafen p 125) Captain Grant expressed the belief that prayers were general from the entire church:
I never felt so much interest in any mission that I have been sent on, and all the brethren who came out with me feel the same. We have prayed without ceasing, and the blessing of God has been with us…
I have never seen such energy and faith among the 'boys,' nor so good a spirit as is among those who came out with me. We realize that we have your prayers for us continually, also those of all the Saints in the Valley." (Grant, CH)
This effort included frequent prayers by the rescuers. "During our Stay here, we had meeting to counsel together and ask the Lord to turn away the cold and storm, so that people might live." (Hafen and Hafen appendix D) Another Rescuer added this testimony:
I am setting not on the stile. Mary. But on a sack of oats with the paper on my knee, by the side of a blazing Camp fire, surrounded by some eight hundred persons, one old lady lays dead within twenty feet of me, babies crying. Some singing some praying, &c &c. but among all this, I feel to rejoice. For the hand of the Lord has been continually with us. Almost every day angry Storms arise very threatening, and judging from this appearance one would think that we should be unable to withstand the tempest but the prayers of the holy men of God are heard, the clouds, divide to the right and left, letting the saints pass through in safety. The suffering of the camp from frozen feet and various other causes, I will not attempt to describe, suffice to any bad. Bad. [We have] faith of our heavenly Father being continually with us, Staying the storm as in the past for without the help of high heaven, we should have been Snow bound in the mountains long ago. (Hunter, CH)
At one point President Young had started toward the East to help in the rescue. "He said that if they did not go that he would go himself and he started out himself with the brethren. He got as far as the big Mountain. He took cold and the brethren prevailed on him to return back home:" (Archer, CH) However his mind was still with the stranded pioneers:
…My mind is yonder in the snow, where those immigrating Saints are, and my mind was been with them ever since I had the report of their start from Winter Quarters (Florence) on the 3rd of September. I cannot talk about anything, I cannot go out or come in, but what in every minute or two minutes my mind reverts to them; and the questions whereabouts are my brethren and sisters who are on the plains, and what is their condition, force themselves upon me and annoy my feelings all the time. And were I to answer my own feelings, I should do so by undertaking to do what the conference voted I should not do, that is, I should be with them now in the snow, even though it should be up to the knees, up to the waist, or up to the neck. My mind is there, and my faith is there; I have a great many reflections about them. (Young, Brigham, CH 1)
The rescuers where empathetic to the strugglers. Harvey Cluff explained:
Every possible assistance from the boys from Utah was freely given. And these young hardy men from the Rockies were a mighty force and power in the salvation of that people. No more efficient help could have been furnished. They had crossed the dreary plains knew what hunger, thirst, starvation, weary travelling with sore feet meant; hence with the subsequent experience in the valleys gave them the vim to endure and they did endure and they worked valiantly for the poor emigrants. (Cluff, CH)
Dan Jones said, "We did all we possibly could to help and cheer the people. Some writers have endeavored to make individual heroes of some of our company. I have no remembrance of any one shirking his duty. Each and everyone did all they possibly could and justice would give to each his due credit." (Jones)
Patience Loader Archer offered this description of the rescuers, "I am told they are all good men but I daresay that they are all rather rough in there manners, but we found that they all had kind good hearts." (Archer, CH) Rough in their manners, but all with good hearts is a fitting description. Patience would later add, "What brave men they must have been to start out from Salt L[ake] City in the middle of winter in search of us poor folks that was away back camped near the last crossing of the Platte River. When they left the city they did not know how far they would have to travel in the snow before they would find us." (ibid)
The members at Salt Lake had donated supplies liberally, and there was an effort to keep track of donations and disbursements:
The weather was cold, the snow deep, the people poor and nearly destitute of clothing, and some provisions. These supplies had been donated by the people in Salt Lake, and these people had been very liberal in their donations, (for they were all in straightened circumstances) but had given such articles as they could and such as would aid the suffering imigrants. Most of the supplies were given to Capt. Edward Martin's Hand cart company, whose sufferings were intense and necessities very great. A strict account was kept of all these disbursements. The lives of the people were too precious to permit of our carrying anything in the wagons which could possibly be dispensed with. We consequently cached at Devil's gate all freight that, in our judgment, could be left so as to relieve the company. (Burton, CH 2)
Ephraim Hanks joined the rescue effort late, but had a big impact on the pioneers. He actually did not meet the Martin Handcart Company until after they had left the Martin's Cove:
The terrific storm which caused the immigrants so much suffering and loss overtook me near the South Pass, where I stopped about three days with Reddick N. Allred, who had come out with provisions for the immigrants. The storm during these three days was simply awful. In all my travels in the Rocky Mountains both before and afterwards, I have seen no worse. When at length the snow ceased falling, it lay on the ground so deep that for many days it was impossible to move wagons through it. Being deeply concerned about the possible fate of the immigrants, and feeling anxious to learn of their condition, I determined to start out on horseback to meet them; and for this purpose I secured a packsaddle and two animals (one to ride and one to pack), from Brother Allred, and began to make my way slowly through the snow alone.
After traveling for some time I met Joseph A. Young and one of the Garr boys, two of the relief company which had been sent from Salt Lake City to help the companies. They had met the immigrants and were now returning with important dispatches from the camps to the headquarters of the Church, reporting the awful condition of the companies. In the meantime I continued my lonely journey, and the night after meeting Elders Young and Garr, I camped in the snow in the mountains. As I was preparing to make a bed in the snow with the few articles that my pack animal carried for me, I thought how comfortable buffalo robe would be on such an occasion, and also how I could relish a little buffalo meat for supper, and before lying down for the night I was instinctively led to ask the Lord to send me a buffalo. Now, I am a firm believer in the efficacy of prayer, for I have on many different occasions asked the Lord for blessings, which He in His mercy has bestowed on me. But when I, after praying as I did on that lonely night in the South Pass, looked around me and spied a buffalo bull within fifty yards of my camp, my surprise was complete; I had certainly not expected so immediate an answer to my prayer. However, I soon collected myself and was not at a loss to know what to do. Taking deliberate aim at the animal, my first shot brought him down; he made a few jumps only, and then rolled down into the very hollow where I was encamped. I was soon busily engaged skinning my game, finishing which, I spread the hide on the snow and placed my bed upon it. I next prepared supper, eating tongue and other choice parts of the animal I had killed, to my heart's content. After this I enjoyed a refreshing night's sleep, while my horses were browsing on the sage brush.
Early the next morning I was on my way again, and soon reached what is known as the Ice Springs Bench. There I happened upon a heard of buffalo, and killed a nice cow. I was impressed to do this, although I did not know why until a few hours later, but the thought occurred to my mind that the hand of the Lord was in it, as it was a rare thing to find buffalo herds around that place at this late part of the season. I skinned and dressed the cow; then cut up part of its meat in long strips and loaded my horses with it. Thereupon I resumed my journey, and traveled on till towards evening. I think the sun was about an hour high in the west when I spied something in the distance that looked like a black streak in the snow. As I got near to it, I perceived it moved, then I was satisfied that this was the long looked for handcart company, led by Captain Edward Martin. I reached the ill fated train just as the immigrants were camping for the night. The sight that met my gaze as I entered their camp can never be erased from my memory. The starved forms and haggard countenances of the poor suffers, as they moved about slowly, shivering with cold, to prepare their scanty evening meal was enough to touch the stoutest heart. When they saw me coming, they hailed me with joy inexpressible, and when they further beheld the supply of fresh meat I brought into camp, their gratitude knew no bounds. Flocking around me, one would say, "Oh, please, give me a small piece of meat; "another would exclaim, "My poor children are starving, do give me a little;" and children with tears in their eyes would call out, "Give me some, give me some." At first I tried to wait on them and handed out the meat as they called for it; but finally I told them to help themselves. Five minutes later both my horses had been released of their extra burden the meat was all gone, and the next few hours found the people in the camp busily engaged in cooking and eating it, with thankful hearts.
A prophecy had been made by one of the brethren that the company should feast on buffalo meat when their provisions might run short; my arrival in their camp, loaded with meat, was the beginning of the fulfillment of that prediction; but only the beginning, as I afterwards shot and killed a number of buffalo for them as we journeyed along. When I saw the terrible condition of the immigrants on first entering their camp, my heart almost melted within me. I rose up in my saddle and tried to speak cheering and comforting words to them. I told them also that they should all have the privilege to ride into Salt Lake City, as more teams were coming. (Hanks and Hanks p 48-49)
The next chapter we will talk more about Ephraim Hanks' service. He is one of the two rescuers Isaac mentioned in his history, he and Joseph Young. (Wardle, Isaac, 1)
Brother Redick Allred, already mentioned by Ephraim Hanks, became known as the "bulldog" for his efforts with the handcart companies. He had been left in charge of seven men at a forward resupply point along the trail. Most of those with him became discouraged and headed back to Salt Lake. "Those men said the reason they turned back was because they could hear nothing from the last hand cart co – &
supposed they had gone back to the States or made
their winter quarters in the Buffalo country."
(Shoshone, CH) They were turned back
around again, with much exhaustion to their teams.
Brother Allred said when he met Captain Grant on 17 Nov, 30 days after being left, that Captain Grant said, "Hurrah for the Bull Dog—good for a hang on." (Allred, CH) Allred, a former member of the Mormon Battalion made this comment about his efforts. "Thus ended one of the hardest & most successful missions I had ever performed, for although the mission with the Mormon Battalion was long hard & tedious, & therefore very severe, yet this was short & sharp in the extreme." (ibid)
As they approached the valley, more and more young men came to their aid. These were known as the "Valley Boys." "As we neared the valleys—younger men—boys in their red shirts, their trousers thrust well down into their boot tops made their appearance felling the dry timber for our fires—& even trying to make merriment to cheer up our gloomy & sorely tried people." (Jones, Albert, CH 3) They would often have fires and meals waiting for them when they arrived in camp. This would sometimes include a drink made with burnt wheat, which would warm the pioneers:
When dinner was ready, the valley boys place the tin plates, cups, knives, forks & spoons on the canvas cover and then brought the brown wheat the mothers had made ready to make coffee to warm the saints who had sunken eyes and emaciated cheeks to help their pale and frail systems. The coffee smelled delicious when cooking as had not had such a thing for a long time, but thanked God for the donors of such. As soon as the food was cooked ready the Valley Boys took the same to the weak ones, those who were unable to be out of their beds were supplied, and comforted them the best they could and many of those noble hearted boys deprived themselves of many necessaries their loved wives and sisters had made ready for them while gone on an errand of mercy, but gave to the needy saints with loving and contrite hearts.
Many times their eyes were full of tears as they returned from taking food to the sick ones. As they handed them the food or medicine it would invariably be, brother, sister or child "I have brought you something strengthening and the best we have brought from the valley what our dear mothers, wives, sisters, and friends sent to help strengthen you, as they have had severe trials to contend with while journeying in the valleys of the mountains." Now brethren and sisters cheer up as will soon be in good houses in the beautiful valleys you all wish to be in and see. (Bond, CH)
Jedediah M. Grant, of the first presidency, in a discourse the first part of November, explained that the rescue effort to that time had included 200 wagons. More wagons were needed to help with the rescue of the wagon companies, and to supply forage for the wagons already out. (See Grant, Jedediah, CH) Taylor indicated that eventually there were over 250 teams playing a part in the rescue. (Taylor, P.A.M. p 240)
The Deseret News complemented the rescuers for their response. "For never have we witnessed a greater general alacrity in answering to the calls of the First Presidency, and in turning out at such a time of the year with animals, provisions and clothing in abundance, to rescue brethren and sisters that the most who went forth had never seen." (Deseret News, CH)
John Jaques would later include a message of gratitude in his series of articles published in the Salt Lake Daily Herald. He thanked not only those who came out for them, but others who donated items and sacrificed in other ways:
A most commendable spirit of liberality was manifested by the residents of this valley, not only in hospitable and kindly attention to the emigrants after their arrival here, but in making donations of provisions and clothing and in sending hundreds of wagons, with horse, mule, and ox teams, to the relief of the snowed-up and winter bound company. Too much can hardly be said of the self-denying exposure, privations, and labors of those who went with the teams from this city to help the emigrants along. Everybody who went out to meet the company, or who contributed anything to relieve it, might pardonably wish his or her name inserted herein to that effect. But if so, and if I and you were anxious to accommodate all such, how could I find the time or you the space for this friendly detailed acknowledgement. (Jaques, CH)
There are a couple more declarations of the heroism of the rescuers: Heber C Kimball, an apostle said. "These brave men by their heroism—for it was at the peril of their own lives that they thus braved the wintry storms on the plains—immortalized themselves, and won the undying gratitude of hundreds who were undoubtedly saved by their timely action from perishing." (Whitney) Another was published in the Improvement Era:
Probably no greater act of heroism was ever recorded in the annals of history than that performed by the twenty-seven young men [and the many more who followed] who, on the morning of October 7, 1856, went from the city of Great Salt Lake to the relief of the 1,550 belated emigrants, who were caught in the early snows of a severe winter, hundreds of miles from human habitation, without food and without shelter. By their indefatigable labors these brave mountain boys were instruments in the hands of the Lord in saving 1,300 of that number. Had it not been for their heroic efforts, not enough emigrants would have been left to tell the dreadful tale. (Kimball)
A modern-day historian has added these words as testimony of their sacrifice. "The scores who answered the call to help the emigrants in the Willie, Martin, Hunt and Hodgetts companies all did so at the peril of their lives… The rescuers were exposed to conditions similar to those that trapped the handcart pioneers. For those rescuers with the Martin Company, there was….more than three weeks' exposure to snow, cold, and wind after the crossing and before they reached the Salt Lake Valley." (Orton)
Later, in writing of Isaac's experience, his granddaughter would write, "They never could have arrived in Utah if this help had not been sent. They all knew God had heard and answered their prayers." (Rupp)
The rescue of these handcart pioneers did not end with their arrival in Salt Lake City. Many were still invalid, and in need of succor. Brigham Young happened to be giving a discourse for Sunday services on the morning of November 30, the day they arrived:
When those persons arrive I do not want to see them put into houses by themselves; I want to have them distributed in this city among the families that have good and comfortable houses; and I wish the sisters now before me, and all who know how and can, to nurse and wait upon the new comers and prudently administer medicine and food to them. To speak upon these things is a part of my religion, for it pertains to taking care of the Saints…
The afternoon meeting will be omitted, for I wish the sisters to go home and prepare to give those who have just arrived a mouthful of something to eat, and to wash them and nurse them up. You know that I would give more for a dish of pudding and milk, or a baked potato and salt, were I in the situation of those persons who have just come in, than I would for all your prayers, though you were to stay here all the afternoon and pray. Prayer is good, but when baked potatoes and pudding and milk are needed, prayer will not supply their place on this occasion; give every duty its proper time and place…
Works have been most noble when they were needed; we put works to our faith, and in this case we realize that our faith alone would have been perfectly dead and useless, would have been of no avail, in saving our brethren that were in the snow, but by putting works with faith we have been already blest in rescuing many and bringing them to where we can now do them more good.
We are their temporal saviors, for we have saved them from death…. Now that most of them are here we will continue our labors of love, until they are able to take care of themselves, and we will receive the blessing. (Young, Brigham, CH 1)
Brigham Young's requests were again exceeded. Isaac made this comment, "President Brigham Young with many other brethren and sisters bid us welcome and took us to their homes. By night we all had places to lay our heads down, rest in comfort, to rest our weary body." (Wardle, Isaac 1)


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FloriDUH tip: There is no expectation of privacy in a jail facility.
This is important to know — especially inside jails where loved ones visit inmates via a closed circuit monitor instead of a face-to-face encounter separated by glass.
When Mitchell Eugene Thomas visited his wife at a Pinellas County jail, the 46-year-old St. Petersburg man reportedly exposed his sexual organs after baring himself to the monitor-image of his wife, according to the Pinellas County Sheriff's Office, reports the Tampa Bay Times in St. Petersburg
Guess this amorous couple are just meant to be prisoners of love.
But Mitchell should have been well-acquainted with the rules, Pinellas County jail records show he has been an inmate at the jail 13 times since 2009.
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Each year, the Dan David Foundation, headquartered at Tel Aviv University, selects a laureate — for each of three time dimensions past, present and future — who represents the culmination of innovative and interdisciplinary research fostering universal values and goals towards promotion of outstanding scientific, technological, cultural or social achievements that improve the world.
This year the Dan David Foundation International Board selected MIT professor emeritus Marvin Minsky to receive the Dan David Foundation Prize for the Future Time Dimension titled "Artificial Intelligence: The Digital Mind." Minsky was selected as one of the founders of the field of artificial intelligence. He is cited as among the most influential intellectuals of the 20th century in a variety of disciplines, including AI, robotics, computation, learning, cognition, philosophy and optics.
Marvin Minsky is professor emeritus of media arts and sciences and a founding member of the MIT Media Lab, where he continues to teach and mentor. He came to MIT as a faculty member in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science in 1958, and in 1959 co-founded the MIT Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, for which he served as co-director until 1974. He was the Donner Professor of Science at MIT from 1974 to 1989, and became the Toshiba Professor of Media Arts and Sciences in 1990.
Pioneering robotics and telepresence, Minsky is recognized for his work using computational ideas to characterize human psychological processes — and working to endow machines with intelligence. His early 1960s papers "Steps Towards Artificial Intelligence," "Matter, Mind, and Models," and (co-authored with Seymour Papert) "Perceptrons," placed Minsky in the forefront of the new field of AI. With Papert, Minsky proposed a new theory they called "The Society of Mind" — combining developments from child psychology with their research on AI to address the complexity of intelligence.
Minsky continued to develop this theory through the next decade, publishing in 1985 a book of the same title and proposing individual mechanisms to account for a matching psychological phenomenon. He proposed theories to account for human higher-level feelings and uniquely human resourcefulness in his 2006 sequel, titled, "The Emotion Machine."
Minsky has received numerous awards including the ACM Turing Award in 1970, the IEEE Computer Society Computer Pioneer Award in 1995 and the Benjamin Franklin Medal from the Franklin Institute in 2001. He is a member of the National Academy of Engineering and the National Academy of Sciences, and many other societies. He completed his PhD dissertation at Princeton University in 1954. It was titled, "Neural Nets and the Brain Model Problem." This represented the first publication of theories and theorems about learning in neural networks, secondary reinforcement, circulating dynamic storage, and synaptic modifications.


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Tuesday, 17 May 2011
Raleigh & Red or Dead Join forces
Red or Dead Photoshoot 2011 from Joe Coales on Vimeo.
I am pleased to see a flurry of cool, interesting bikes making an appearance this spring. The first that have grabbed my attention are a partnership between Red or Dead and Raleigh. Classic Raleigh bike with iconic Red or Dead graphics on the frame and saddle. Here's a sneaky peek of the fashion shoot. I am loving the guy who's sunglasses match his bike... nice touch.
Labels: Cycle fashion
2 comments:
- MCarlos said...
Maravillosas bicicletas y muy buenas las fotos. Saludos desde Sevilla (España).
- 23 May 2011 at 23:42
- Fitness Options said...
Spectacular designs bikes, I like it!
- 25 October 2011 at 17:25
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Sony has tapped "The Town" scripter Peter Craig to adapt the French Canadian hit "Fathers and Guns" for Columbia Pictures.
Comedy-thriller, about a father-son cop duo assigned to investigate an outdoor adventure group for fathers and sons, is being developed and produced by Kathleen Kennedy and Frank Marshall.
The original pic, "De pere en flic," became one of Quebec's biggest local hits when it launched there in summer 2009 and earned more than $10 million.
Pic's producer Denise Robert and writer-director Emile Gaudreault will share producing credits on Sony's remake.
Warner Bros.' "The Town," which grossed nearly $90 million domestically, was Craig's first screenwriting credit.
He is currently working on a script for Sony's "Bad Boys 3."
Craig is repped by CAA and Management 360.


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California's Congressional Democrats find themselves in an increasingly embarrassing situation. Pete Stark, a 40-year veteran from Northern California, finds himself threatened by another Democrat.
Stark is not your typical incumbent--he's the 6th most senior member of Congress. Long a champion of liberal causes, Stark has fought for health care and a number of social welfare programs.
He's lambasted farm subsidies and corporate tax breaks. In the heat of the Iraq war, Stark accused Republicans of sending young American soliders to war "to get their heads blown off for the president's amusement."
He doesn't mince words.
In the 2010 election, Stark won with 72 percent of the vote. And in 2012, he has the support of virtually the entire liberal Democratic establishment. Still, the threat looms.
What gives?
Always a man with strong opinions, Stark increasingly has been criticized for intemperate remarks in Congress.
His behavior has taken its toll. In 2010, after the sudden resignation of Ways and Means Chairman Charlie Rangel, Stark should have had the job because of his seniority. Yet, he was not chosen.
Now Stark may be in trouble at home. Courtesy of post-census redistricting, Stark is new to more than half of the voters. Add to that California's new "Top Two" primary, which has the highest two vote collectors in June racing off against each other in November, regardless of party affiliation.
Starks's principal opponent is Eric Swallwell, a 31-year old Democrat from the new part of the reconfigured 15th congressional district.
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An Alameda County assistant district attorney, Swalwell refers to himself as a "law and order" Democrat, a description that may serve him well in a new district that is more conservative than Stark's previous stomping grounds.
The lone Republican in the race has little more than a symbolic candidacy.
Stark has gone on the offensive. In debates, he accused Swalwell of taking bribes from a local developer, with no facts to support the claim. Stark also belittled Swalwell for a poor voting record, yet records show that Swalwell has never missed a vote. Swalwell hasn't missed a beat either, referring to Stark's behavior as "bizarre."
Meanwhile, Democrats are depressed about the entire episode. Most worrisome is that the circus will play out twice--in June and then again in November. All of which begs the question, if Swalwell gets a good chunk of the vote in June, how many Democrats will jump ship?
The story is far from over. But for now, Democrats would be a lot happier if it just went away.
As for Republicans, while they have no hope of winning the seat, they have a great opportunity to embarrass the Democrats for protecting Stark with their endorsements. In that sense, the 15th congressional district brawl has the potential to reverberate throughout the state. On that score, Republicans are licking their chops and may "win" regardless of the outcome.
Larry Gerston teaches political science at San Jose State University and political analyst at NBC Bay Area. His latest book is Not So Golden After All: The Rise and Fall of California.