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France suspended hunting in the western Pyrenees on Wednesday to save a bear cub orphaned when his mother, the last female bear native to the region, was killed by hunters earlier this week.
BORDEAUX, France France suspended hunting in the western Pyrenees on Wednesday to save a bear cub orphaned when his mother, the last female bear native to the region, was killed by hunters earlier this week.
Hunting and dog walking would be banned temporarily in the districts where the cub is believed to be roaming, said Philippe Gregoire, the government's representative in the Pyrenees Atlantiques region in southwest France.
Environment Minister Serge Lepeltier was to travel to the region on Thursday to find out the circumstances under which the mother, known as Cannelle (Cinnamon), was shot on Monday.
President Jacques Chirac told a cabinet meeting on Wednesday that "the loss of a species is always a serious loss for biodiversity" in France and in Europe, government spokesman Jean-Francois Cope said.
Lepeltier called the incident "an ecological catastrophe."
Animal rights activists said hunters were warned in advance the female bear was nearby.
A group of six who were hunting wild boar said the bear attacked their dogs. One of the hunters, fearing that he was in danger, shot her, and the badly injured bear fell into a ravine.
Her corpse was taken to a veterinary school in Toulouse for autopsy, and police were due to run ballistics tests. The results will determine any legal action against the hunters.
The Association for the Protection of Wild Animals (ASPAS) has said it plans to file complaints against the hunter who fired the shots and the president of the hunting group for destroying a protected species.
If found guilty, they would face a maximum sentence of six months in prison and a 9,000-euro (US$11,500) fine.
"Cannelle was shot by hunters who never should have come into her area. Her son is doomed," the group said in a statement.
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Great British beer moves county
Newcy broon leaves toon
Newcastle Brown Ale - one of Britain's most famous and recognisable beers - is moving from its home on Tyneside to Yorkshire.
Technically, the brewery had already left Newcastle when it moved to Tyneside, south of the river, in 2005. But the move south to Yorkshire is still likely to shock locals.
Brits drink about 47 million bottles of the blue starred bottles each year. Exports to over 40 countries account for another 100 million bottles. The US is one of its largest - and strongest growing - markets, accounting for over six million cases a year.
Scottish & Newcastle, which owns the brand, reassured beer lovers that it intends to continue to support the bottled brown ale.
The company said it was moving production from Dunston to John Smith's brewery in Tadcaster, with the likely loss of 63 jobs. It blamed the economic downturn and surplus brewing capacity. The Dunston brewery was working at about 60 per cent capacity.
Newcy Brown or brown ale, as it is known, is traditionally drunk from a half-pint glass.
The beer used to have protected regional status from European bureaucrats similar to that used by Parmesan cheese and Parma ham. But the company applied to have this protection removed in 2004 when it shifted the brewery over the river to Tyneside.
The closure is likely to be complete by the middle of next year. ®

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Strachan, John
Cartwright and Wood Families fonds
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Cartwright and Wood Families
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Patterson, Graeme H.
Alexander Neil Bethune Collection
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Bethune, Alexander Neil
Archibald Hope (A.H.) Young Collection
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Young, Archibald Hope
The fonds consists of a letter book and an itemized list of the contents of that letter book. A significant portion of the correspondence is in regard to a letter published in The Globe on 2 February 1875. The fonds also includes a poem titled &qu...
Ambery, John
Trinity College Literary Institute Collection
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Trinity College Literary Institute
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McMurray, William
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Geikie, Walter Bayne
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Harris Family
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Beverly Jones
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Allan, George William
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Edward Marion Chadwick
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Bleasdell, William
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Cameron, Irving Heward
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Ashley, Charles Allan
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Fonds consists of material from Grover's days as a student at Trinity College (1939-43). Also donated is material on the history of St Hilda's gathered by Miss Alma Conway, a 1914 graduate of Trinity College.
Rachel Grover
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- 1229 - Pope Gregory IX deletes thirty-one days from the Gregorian calendar, during a Florentine siege of Rome that had prevented toiletries from entering the city.
- 1841 - Oscar Wilde imprisoned for practicing heterosexuality in England without a Royal permit, a capital offense.
- 1941 - Germany and Italy celebrate for the first and last time "Let's Go To War With Russia Day." Italians and Germans regret this decision by 1945.
- 1941 - Mao Zedong suggests to rename "Chinese demographic boom" to "Yelow bang". Due to unpopularity of this idea among his generals, all of them were executed.
- 1953 - Trans-dimensional squirrels attempt a coup on the Kremlin but are driven back after the Soviets break wind in unison, creating a tear in the fabric of the universe into which the invaders are obliterated, nuts and all.
- 1983 - A passenger airlines goes Boom over the South China Sea. Only the pilots and hostesses survive after they are seen moments before the explosion floating in a rubber dingy thousands of miles below. Thank you for flying AirChina.
- 2005 - Face of Oscar Wilde is seen in a frozen pizza
- 2009 - All forms of international combat are banned by the UN. From this point on, international disputes are decided by caged death matches between the leaders of conflicting nations.
- 2009 - Annual 'Try Communism Day' is celebrated by the people of Lancashire
- 2010 - Lancashire appoints Ted Dansen as Director of the Communist Party
- 2011 - President Ted Stevens brutally beats Hu Jintao to death in a cage match, completing his domination and conquest of every country on Earth. Ban of weaponry two years earlier regarded as "a mistake" by most UN officials not already killed by Ted Stevens.


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CAMBRIDGE, Mass. – Ranked No. 1 in the preseason poll, MIT kicked off the men's basketball season this evening with a convincing, 82-49, win on the road against Lesley University. Senior Mitchell Kates (Colts Neck, N.J.) led an MIT offense that shot 53 percent with 22 points, finishing as one of four Engineers in double figures in the contest. And with his first basket in the second half, senior Will Tashman (Atherton, Calif.) became the 26th player in MIT history to reach 1,000 points in the victory.
Freshman Justin Pedley (Kennewick, Wash.) hit the first shot of his collegiate career, a three-pointer less than a minute in to give MIT the early 3-0 advantage. Sophomore Justin Rosa hit a jumper to answer for Lesley, but a put-back by senior Will Tashman (Atherton, Calif.) and a pair of free throws from senior James Burke (Scotch Plains, N.J.) put MIT up 7-2 two and a half minutes in.
MIT (1-0), which never trailed in the game, led by just two at 9-7 after a three-point shot by Lesley senior Matt Gibson at the 15:48 mark. Kates answered the trey with one of his own on the next trip down the floor, igniting a 14-3 MIT run over the next four minutes. Kates wound up with eight of the 14 points in the stretch, with his steal and ensuing basket giving the Engineers a 23-10 lead midway through the first half.
Lesley (0-1) struggled to solve the MIT defense in the opening 20 minutes, as the Lynx shot just 24 percent from the floor in the half. The lead was still 13 after a pair of free throws from junior Kris Bennett, but MIT extended the advantage to 20 with seven quick points. Lesley tried to close the half on a run, scoring four straight to cut the MIT advantage to 16, but the Engineers put in the last seven points of the half, four from sophomore Dennis Levine (Weston, Conn.), as they built a 42-19 lead.
MIT slowly continued to expanded its lead in the second half, moving it out to 29 points at 51-22 five minutes in after a 5-0 run that was finished off by a Tashman free throw. Lesley answered with five straight, getting three-pointer from junior Mike Kaufman, but Burke counted that with a trey and the Lynx could not put together more than five consecutive points the rest of the way.
Keyed by five points from Pedley, who finished with 13 for the night, MIT pushed its lead to its biggest of the night at 77-41 with three minutes left. That was more than enough for the Engineers, who picked up a win in their first game of the season for a fifth straight year.
Burke put in 19 points in his first action since his freshman season, hitting on six of 11 three-point attempts. Tashman added 15 points and shared game-high honors in rebounds with sophomore Matt Redfield (Los Altos, Calif.) and Levine with six. Kates completed his solid first outing of the season with eight assists, five rebounds and four steals. Rosa led Lesley with 15 points, with Kaufman adding 11 and leading the team with four rebounds. The Engineers outshot the Lynx 53 percent to 37 percent, and also held a 37-23 rebounding advantage.
MIT play again on Saturday when it travels to Gordon College for a 6:00 p.m. game. Lesley will be back in action tomorrow as it plays at Roger Williams at 6:00 p.m.


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State Treasurer Walker Stapleton is saying enough with the politics when it comes to pensions for state workers and teachers. Monday he sent a letter to Democrat and Republican leaders urging them to work together to fix Colorado Public Employees' Retirement Association fund, which Stapleton contends is headed for a financial hole the size of the Black Canyon of the Gunnison — a Colorado landmark the National Park Service calls "deep,steep and narrow."
The metaphor is mine, but it's an apt description, given the past politics that created narrow solutions for the pension fund's $23 billion-plus deficit, money needed to pay retirees over the next 30 years. At Walker's insistence, the PERA board last month voted 8-7 to lower the projected rate of return on investments from 8 percent to a more conservative 7.5 percent. While it's a step toward reality, it also will increase the projected deficit, at least on paper, since that estimate means less income from investments to help pay benefits.
Much more needs to be done, Stapleton said Monday, calling on Gov. John Hickenlooper and both parties in the statehouse to deliver meaningful changes to keep the pension fund from falling apart.
"It is my hope that I will be able to work with legislative leaders on both sides of the aisle and Gov. Hickenlooper to find a solution to fix our ailing pension system," Stapleton said in a statement released Monday afternoon. "We owe our public servants, from school teachers to state employees, a sustainable and well-funded retirement that they can count on."


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Obama sees voter mandate on taxes
President Barack Obama never said the word "mandate" Tuesday night, but that's exactly what the White House thinks he has to break Washington's cold war over taxes.
If Obama thought he had a moment to celebrate, though, he was quickly confronted with the reality of defiant congressional Republicans. Less than 24 hours after the president declared victory, House Speaker John Boehner put down his own marker, saying his caucus won't hike tax rates but will consider raising new revenues through tax reform.
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Republicans aren't buying Obama's view of the 2012 elections that voters have settled the debate over taxes — and he won.
( Also on POLITICO: No clarity on fiscal cliff after election)
The conflicting interpretations of Tuesday's vote provide the political subtext to the upcoming fiscal cliff drama. Before Obama can even get to the substance of the matter, he'll need to convince Republicans that voters didn't side with them on taxes and it's time to move his way.
Obama will tell them he wants a grand bargain. He'll offer to cut entitlement programs that Democrats treasure. And he'll pledge work with "anybody of any party to move this country forward," as he said on the campaign trail.
But he will go only so far, the White House insists. His starting point in the negotiations is that raising taxes on the wealthy is non-negotiable.
( Also on POLITICO: Obama's victory speech: 5 best lines)
It's a tricky two-step for the president: extend his hand in victory but assert that that victory means Republicans need to abandon a core doctrine.
"Tonight you voted for action, not politics as usual," Obama said in his speech Tuesday. "You elected us to focus on your jobs, not ours. And in the coming weeks and months, I am looking forward to reaching out and working with leaders of both parties to meet the challenges we can only solve together."
Democrats, who were disappointed in 2010 when Obama extended the Bush-era tax cuts for the wealthy, said there is no reason for him to back down this time.
"President Obama did something few campaigns have done: He campaigned on higher taxes for the wealthy," said Neera Tanden, president of the Center for American Progress, a liberal think tank with close ties to the White House. "That issue was in every debate, it was in every stump speech and was in his closing argument. Mitt Romney tried to attack him on it, and he always parried back. The president has a mandate for the American people for tax fairness. It is the GOP whose position is out of step with the American people: threaten a tax increase on the middle class to protect the wealthy from paying their fair share. That should not be acceptable to anyone."


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It has sensors for temperature (wired and wireless), rainfall, wind speed and direction, soil moisture, leaf wetness, humidity (used for calculating dew point temperature) and solar radiation (used to calculate potential evapotranspiration).
Text messages, voice messages or emails can be sent when alarm levels are exceeded (e.g. frost, high temperature, high rainfall intensity, high wind gust).
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Soil Moisture White Paper
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Updated Acclima Soil Sensor Installation Videos
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Harvest Tip #6
With the right sensors, your Harvest weather station can calculate and display the risk of Botrytis cinerea and powdery mildew.
The Bacchus model for calculating Botrytis risk was developed in NZ by Dr Balasubramaniam (Bala).
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Harvest Tip #5
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Earthquake Slip Monitoring
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Using Soil Moisture Readings
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Photos From Harvest System on MV Rena Finally Released
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Frost Fighting in 1935
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If you like your summer reads to come with a side order of glamour and sizzle, then Rival Passions is one for you. Set amid a stunning backdrop of five star hotels and swanky champagne-fuelled parties, this is definitely a book to pack for your summer holidays.
Serena Taylor and Jack Devlin are twins who have taken over the running of the family hotel, Tamarisk Manor, from their mother Charlotte. While Jack has been getting over his wife's death, Serena has thrown herself headfirst into the business of ensuring Tamarisk remains the haven of choice for well-heeled celebrities, but she is struggling to balance her roles of businesswoman, wife and mother; just one of the 'rival passions' which is addressed in the book and a familiar conflict which many readers will identify with.
While taking time out in France at Tamarisk's sister hotel 'La Mimosa', Jack meets Jenni, a young waitress, and starts to put his life back together. Meanwhile, despite the financial pressures of the recession and the fact that her husband Paul has discovered she is deceiving him, Serena continues to chase the elusive accolade of 'Haven of the Year'.
In addition to the pivotal story of Serena's failing marriage and her fraught relationship with her distracted brother, there are interesting sub-plots offered through family friend Kim, who is fed up of the single thirty-something party scene and also has a very soft spot for Jack, and also in the flashback's to Charlotte's life.
With scenes set among the beautiful people of Dublin society, this book rips along with designer shoes, stunning dresses and passionate liaisons at every turn. But bubbling underneath the glamorous façade of the main character's lives are secrets and anxieties which provide several interesting twists and turns.
If I had to describe Rival Passions as a meal, it would be an aperitif of Kir Royale, a starter of oysters, and a main course of succulent fillet steak. There would be no dessert; just more of the finest champagne money can buy!
For sheer escapism, this has to be a book that ticks all the boxes and would be best enjoyed while on a sun lounger in your bikini – preferably with a cocktail to hand, just to keep you cool!
Rival Passions is published by Hachette Ireland and is available now priced €13.99. Zoe's previous titles are Guilty Secrets and Sinful Deceptions.
I spoke to Zoe, who is married with three children and lives in south county Dublin, about Rival Passions and her writing life.
How did you start writing – and why – and when was your first novel published?
I've been writing since I was young – I still recall standing in a library at age seven, filled with wonder at the shelves of books, knowing that I had found my life's passion. I was first published as a freelance writer, with articles and short stories. Eventually I realised that if I wanted to write a novel I was going to have to carve out the time somehow. There were lots of hiccups along the way but Guilty Secrets was published in 2009, Sinful Deceptions in 2010 and Rival Passions in 2011.
And having established yourself as a successful author, what's the most exciting moment so far?
Signing my book deals and getting onto that bestseller list! A writer's life is 95% working at the laptop in solitary confinement, but I've had a few glamorous moments at various book launches, the Hachette Summer party, and champagne occasions with Sheila Crowley, my agent. Recently I had a glitzy moment at my launch for Rival Passions when Ireland's newly crowned, most stylish couple, Nicky Byrne of Westlife and his lovely wife
Georgina popped in to say hello.
Oh, I don't think I would enjoy that at all (ahem). Rival Passions is set in several stunning locations. Do you always write about locations you've spent time in?
Yes, in all my novels I like to include a foreign location I've already visited; Italy, Paris, the French Riviera… I think you need to have been there to write with authenticity. A great excuse, I tell myself, to plan a trip to the Maldives! Or the Seychelles… (wishful sigh)
Is Tamarisk Manor based on a real hotel?
Tamarisk is based on the best that Irish hotels have to offer. I had planned to base most of Rival Passions in France, then I realised it was a golden opportunity to showcase Ireland's beautiful scenery and great hospitality. It was fun checking out 5 star hotels and enjoying the spa and facilities. I'd love to say I go to lots of glamorous parties, but have to admit that I research some of this online.
How do you develop your characters and are any of the characters in Rival Passions based on real celebrities (oh go on, tell us)?!
I watched a girl stroll out of a café in Old Town, Nice, and Jenni from Rival Passions walked right into my heart and sparked a whole book. Generally my characters are an amalgam of lots of different impressions. I develop them by making some initial background notes and focussing on the human relationships between them. By the time I'm finished a novel, I'm emotionally attached to my characters as though they are my family, and I hate saying goodbye. I'd never consciously base a character on a real person or celebrity – I think they need to come from your heart.
Which three words would best describe your writing style?
I like to think my trademark style is a heartfelt and passionate story, under the facade of glamour. I like to unravel the hopes and fears behind the glossy persona my characters present to the world, the life experiences that shape them and compel them to behave as they do. Then, no matter how many mistakes they have made, there is still hope for the future.
If you could be a character from any book, either one of yours or someone else's, who would it be and why?
Hmm… tough question, Hazel! It would have to be a mixture of the best of some of my characters, please! I'd like to have the success of Lia Lacey, novelist in Guilty Secrets, with a string of bestselling novels, who enjoys worldwide, whirlwind book tours, but without her skeletons in the cupboard. Mix this with the fun of Jenni in Rival Passions, then add a touch of Serena with the sexy Paul …
Wow. I think we'd all like to be that person! So, which celebrities would you love to play the main characters in Rival Passions?
Cameron Diaz for Serena and Jude Law for Jack, when they take it to the big screen. (another wishful sigh)
Have you ever spotted anyone famous reading one of your novels?
Georgina Ahern Byrne bought a copy of Rival Passions at my launch. I think she is keeping it for her hols and I hope she is spotted lounging by the pool, thoroughly engrossed in it!
Are you working on your next novel (and can I come and help with the location research)?!
The draft of my next novel – Bold and Beautiful – has just been sent off to my agent and my editor in Hachette, and right now I'm suffering major withdrawal symptoms! Locations include New York, Hong Kong and London. It's about three glamorous sisters and what happens when the consequences of a family scandal holds the mirror up to their lives and reveals who is the most beautiful of them all…. and who is the boldest…
Oooo, I can't wait for that one!
Thanks so much to Zoe for these brilliant insights. Visit Zoe at facebook.com/zoemillerauthor or find her on Twitter @zoemillerauthor


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Still Tracking Helen Carnegie/Ferguson/Chick
My two previous blogs on my gg grandmother Helen Carnegie were on 28 November 2009 and 28 January 2010. When we left the story, I was waiting for an email from a Chick descendant who was going to give me some information on Helen's second husband Charles Wademore Chick. Due to various family commitments my Chick informant could not get to my enquiry till June so I was left patiently waiting which I didn't mind because I was finally discovering how Helen turned her life around.
Charles Wademore Chick was the sixth son of Henry Thomas Chick and Jane Hutchinson and he was born in Bathurst, NSW in 1871. In all there were nine children all born in Bathurst. At some point he left Bathurst and family notes show that he was believed to be in the Coolgardie area of WA between 1903 and 1906. His brother George died near Laverton WA in 1906. When did he meet my gg grandmother?
I know that Helen Ferguson was released from prison in Brisbane in 1902 and disappeared so I am now wondering if she met Charles Chick shortly after her release. The next sighting I have is a reference to Ellen Chick alias Ferguson being charged with vagrancy in Barcaldine, QLD in May 1904. Helen is now using the Chick surname so she must have met him either in Brisbane or between there and Barcaldine. The fact that she wasn't recharged in Brisbane indicates that she left Brisbane and perhaps headed north before she could get into trouble again.
As I mentioned in the last blog, a search of electoral rolls placed Charles and Helen Chick in Sapphire near Anakie, QLD in 1910, 1913, 1915 and 1922 with Charles listed as a miner.
The gap between 1904 and 1910 may indicate that they did go to the WA goldfields as the Chick family believe but at some point returned to Queensland. The family story also indicates that they spent some time at Lightning Ridge in NSW but that has to be confirmed.
Charles and Helen married in country Queensland in 1927, two years after the death of her husband Alexander Miller Ferguson. Helen had been with Charles since at least 1904 so in some ways it is very touching that they did finally marry over 23 years after they started living together. She must have finally found love and companionship and I am so pleased for her. But it was shortlived with Charles dying just two years later in 1929 in Sydney, NSW. The funeral notice gives Helen's address as Bolettie Avenue, Baulkham Hills and Charles was buried in Rookwood cemetery.
At some point Helen returned to Brisbane to live and died there in 1946, 15 years after Charles. As I mentioned in the earlier blogs, her sister Clara knew she was there but not apparently her son and his family. I still wonder why?
If I could go back in time, I would ask my grandmother and my father if they knew a woman called Helen Chick. Did they know her but were not aware of her relationship to the family? Both of them always said they knew nothing about Helen Carnegie/Ferguson but did they know someone called Helen Chick? I need to learn where Helen was living between 1929 and 1946 and was it anywhere near her son and his family.
There are still gaps in Helen's story and I need to purchase her marriage certificate and Charles' death certificate in case there are any more clues in the official records. I also need to look into the Coolgardie, WA and Lightning Ridge, NSW connections and also how long she was in Sydney. But I have at last demolished the brick wall surrounding her later years and it is truly comforting to know that her life ended up far better than I had ever thought possible.
Brick Wall Tips
- Was there another marriage – especially after a husband/wife dies
- Trace the new partner's family in case they have information on your couple
- Check other States – people moved around especially if they were miners
- Buy BDM certificates because different or conflicting information on each might just be the clue you need
- Be flexible with spellings and even names
- Try and get living relatives to tell you as much as they can, although if they are trying to hide a family secret this can be difficult
- Persevere and keep revisiting the research as more records become accessible and online
- Tell others how you did it – inspiration and clues for researching their own brick walls
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A couple of years ago, I blogged about the 1886 adventures of my 3GGM and the Texas Supreme Court. I had put her name into the search box on the Google News Archive page and found a transcript of the Court's decision in the case of Kennedy vs Upshaw. Wow! Pretty exciting!
Only problem was… I couldn't understand much of the paper's language! Apparently lawyers speak (and write) something other than English 🙂
In a nutshell: the lower court determined that part of the will was a forgery and therefore invalid and my 3GGM appealed, with the case eventually reaching the Texas Supreme Court.
Flash forward to yesterday.
I was updating my 3GGM Susan William Lee Martin in my RootsMagic database and did a routine Google search, looking for anything new.
To my surprise and delight, Google Books found another transcript of the Texas Supreme Court's decision in this case, more of a review actually, written in plain English!
From this new "translation", I learned the case apparently dealt with a codicil to the last will and testament of my 3GGM Susan William Lee Martin's father, James Harris Martin. In the original will, James Martin's estate was equally divided between my 3GGM and his other daughter. The codicil (a document that amends a previously executed will) added about 2 weeks before James' death and witnessed by Susan Martin and her husband Dr N B Kennedy and signed in the Kennedy home, changed the distribution of the estate. Susan would continue to get her 50% of the estate, with the other 50% to be divided between Susan's 2 kids and the other daughter!
James Harris Martin was apparently quite ill at the time the codicil was signed (according to his attending physician's testimony) and his hands were very shaky. Martin's signature on the codicil was "written in a smooth and regular hand", unlike the signature on the original will, thus it came into question and was determined to be a forgery.
The Supreme Court did not question the final verdict in the case, but did find several mistakes in the way the trial was conducted and returned the case to the lower court for retrial.
What was the genealogical value of these documents?
The transcript that I found 2 years ago gave me the full name of James Harris Martin ( I previously had James H Martin, from his 1850 Federal Census entry) as well as the date and location of his death (28 Mar 1883 in Hillsboro, Texas). Armed with these new details, I was able to locate Martin's burial location and headstone photo at Find-A-Grave, which contained his exact birth date, 21 Jun 1807. All that from a court transcipt… AWESOME!
And what genea-goodies did I get from yesterday's "translation" document? Remember the other daughter who was originally supposed to get half of Martin's estate? Martin's 1850 Federal Census enumeration lists his kids as Susan W L and Sarah A D (apparently this family had a thing for 2 middle names!). Susan was of course my 3GGM and I have been able to follow her life and amass quite a bit of data on her. But what of Sarah A D Martin? We all know the difficulties in tracking down female family members, especially from this time period. I have found essentially nothing on Sarah and even thought she might not have survived childhood, as frequently happened in those days.
Thanks to Cases Argued and Decided in the Supreme Court of the State of Texas, Volume 66 , Sarah A D Martin is now Mrs S. A. D. Haigler! I now have her married name! This is a major find for me, as hopefully it will begin a new line of research!


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What is Cloud Connected for the Enterprise?
Earlier today we had a brief press conference introducing our Cloud Connected solutions that enable you to connect users to the cloud with confidence. And you can get the meaty detail tomorrow [June 13 @ 8am PDT] when we have a special episode of TechwiseTV on CiscoLive365 with Jimmy Ray Purser and Robb Boyd showcasing these new solutions, doing a technical deep dive, and kicking the proverbial tires. You can get a sneak peek here as Jimmy Ray took a stroll through our CiscoLive demo space. As you can see in the picture to the right, Robb is very excited for these new solutions! [He said I could post this picture, muahaha]
AppNav – Best of Interop, No Longer A Secret!
The first solution we'll review is AppNav. You may have already heard of it as it won Best of Interop just a few weeks ago. Now we can finally tell people what it is. Basically, it allows you to take a bunch of WAAS appliances in your network and make them appear as one giant smart virtual WAAS. We're calling it 'scale-as-you-grow' WAN optimization control, orchestration, and cluster management. The really neat thing is that you can then utilize the power of all of these appliances and have granular control down to the level of the application protocol. You still have all of the control and finesse of an individual WAAS but now can create a network-wide megaWAAS!
<Obligatory Personal Story> When I was a kid, my favorite cartoon was Voltron. As I was watching the above video I kept thinking, "AppNav is VOLTRON!". Or maybe, since it's virtual, we'd have to call it vOLTRON!</Story>
AVC – A Very Cool Demo
Next on Jimmy Ray's trip was the AVC demo. AVC stands for Application, Visibility, and Control and is a tool we have for helping customers with their top cloud concerns – reliability, performance, and visibility as they connect the apps running on the cloud to their end users in disparate branch, home, and campus offices. With so many applications running over HTTP, you need to be able to look beyond just IP address or port, and get more granular with deep packet inspection.
AVC utilizes the network embedded intelligence such as NBAR2, Netflow9, Performance Agent (PA) and hierarchical QoS on our enterprise routers, the Cisco ASR 1000 and the Cisco ISR G2 series.
This demo also has a very cool side-by-side of what it looks like when you're trying to run a virtual desktop with WAN optimization and without. It's pretty cool.
UCS-E Your New Blade Server
Jimmy Ray also visited the UCS E -Series Server Modules for the ISR G2 – a data-center blade server for the branch that enables customers to deploy a single converged networking and compute platform designed specifically for remote office and branch office infrastructure consolidation. There are two versions and they are configurable to support up to 48 Gigabytes of RAM and three Terabytes of local storage.
Survivability to Make Your Admin's Life Easier
Next, Jimmy Ray did a quick clothing swap* and stopped by the Survivable Remote Site Telephony (SRST) manager for Cisco Hosted Collaboration Solution (HCS) demo. The new manager is virtual code that can run on any virtual machine and it can grab all the configuration info (speed dial lists, etc.) for up to 1000 sites, turn that GUI info into an IOS-based CLI and store it in an ISR G2 branch router. All phone specific configurations are preserved during fallback so if the network goes down, your data comes right back up.
CSR – A Fundamentals Video on Our Newest Router
Finally, while this isn't technically a demo, I have the video Robb was pointing at (of himself) – Fundamentals of the new Cloud Services Router 1000v. Enterprises can now transparently extend a WAN to off-premises clouds, and cloud providers can offer enterprise-class networking services to their tenants.
To get an even deeper dive on these new technologies, check out the TechwiseTV Episode tomorrow, June 13, at 8am PDT on CiscoLive365. After, we'll be answering questions on Twitter @CiscoEnterprise.
* Ok, maybe this was filmed on a different day – or maybe someone got a little too excited to meet him and forgot they were holding coffee.
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Syria is Becoming the New Pre-9/11 Afghanistan
By Peter Brookes (bio)
In a now widely reported private meeting with U.S. lawmakers at a Munich security conference last weekend, Secretary of State John Kerry told them the administration's policies toward the bloody Syrian civil war weren't cutting it.
That's a striking admission on the part of our chief diplomat.
I agree with Kerry that things are going horribly for our interests in Syria, but I do draw the line at the idea that Team Obama even has a real policy for a positive ending to the three-year conflict that has taken nearly 140,000 lives.
Despite President Obama's happy talk in the State of the Union address about the removal of chemical weapons from Syria — a well-intentioned effort that seems to have stalled — the situation in the country is only getting worse.
First, after lots of chatter about a hopeful political solution to stop the conflict, the just-concluded Syrian peace talks between the regime and parts of the opposition that droned on for days in Geneva achieved nothing.
That's right: zero, zilch, bupkis.
The talks couldn't even get the Bashar Assad regime to allow humanitarian aid to millions at risk, in need or displaced by the conflict.
A U.N. official reportedly said recently that the Syrian refugee flows are causing the worst humanitarian crisis since the outflows surrounding the 1994 Rwanda genocide. A startling — and troubling — comparison.
Equally alarming is the continued rise of al-Qaeda and other militant Islamists in Syria. Some estimates put the number of violent jihadists at more than 25,000, including some 7,000 fighters who have flocked there from as many as 50 countries.
In recent congressional testimony, Director of National Intelligence James Clapper reported that Syria is a "huge magnet" for extremists and is used by al-Qaeda affiliates to "recruit, train and equip" other terrorist wannabes.
Clapper & Co. noted that some terrorists in Syria aspire to "conduct external attacks." That means undertake terror strikes beyond Syria, including against the West and our homeland. There are training camps in Syria for this purpose.
You might say that Syria is becoming pre-9/11 Afghanistan.
The war's effects aren't contained to Syria, either. Surrounding countries such as Jordan have absorbed millions of refugees, putting a significant social and economic strain on the U.S.-friendly country.
Lebanon, due to Hezbollah's fighting on the side of the Assad regime, has been rocked with violence. The high levels of terror attacks in Iraq are in part related to al-Qaeda's resurgence in Syria.
If the Syrian regime holds on — and it may very well — the other big winner will be Iran, its closest ally in the Middle East. Of course, if the regime falls, the security vacuum could be filled by al-Qaeda and other assorted militant extremists.
The future for American interests in Syria doesn't look bright — to say the least.
I'm sure the administration would insist that they have some sort of Syria policy. But the question is: When are they going to realize that "muddling through" and "hoping for the best" isn't really a policy for protecting and advancing U.S. interests?
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Re: Re: Re: Re: Often Overlooked OO Programming Guidelinesby scrottie (Scribe)
|on Dec 31, 2003 at 07:21 UTC ( #317851=note: print w/replies, xml )
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Hi ysth,
"Hackish" is kind of vague, perhaps intentionally. I don't think anyone is saying perl's OO is bad, just quick and dirty. The implications of what it is are more interesting than what it is. Implications:
Negitives, point by point:
Not Helpful:: That is, completely unhelpful in diagnostics and debugging compared with virtually any other OO implementation. Privacy levels, prototypes/typechecking, and so on exist to help a programmer who can't keep a large project in his head (or a team of programmers who can't). If a method doesn't exist I'm trying to call, I want to know about it at compile time, not a month down the road when a client clicks on things in the wrong order and some corner case runs.
Doesn't encourage good style:: Java is adding multiple inheritance grudgingly, and a lot of people say they shouldn't. It has willfully not so far. So, Java makes good style easy and bad style possible. Perl makes bad style easy and good style possible. Privacy, finalization, data hiding, strict typechecking (yes, you heard me) and so on are all possible in Perl, but they aren't easy. They require additional syntax and sometimes don't mesh well with other language features. On the other hand, breaking encapsulation, multiple inheritance, and other things of questionable style are all easy in Perl. This doesn't matter if you know your way around, but a novice programmer assumes that is easy is what they are supposed to be doing. If the langauge encourages you to multiple inherit and encourages you to access data in a class as if it were a hash, then it must be the best way. People don't read documentation until and unless all other things fail. This is a well known principle =)
So, when I say Perl's OO is hackish, what I personally mean is it is something that kind of happened through tinkering and building (hacking), not something designed, specified, tested on focus groups, with second opinions from industry experts. But that doesn't mean that we can't continue to hack on it in future versions (eg, 6) and do RFC processes to form a coherent design, learn from feedback, visiting Java programmers, and so on. Hackish isn't fundamentally bad. It fits with "release early, release often". We just need to hack on it some more so it is less hackish =)
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Roger Federer is old. That's the simple explanation for why he has fallen off so dramatically this year.
At 32, he is currently the 23rd oldest player in the top 100, the sixth oldest player in the top 50, the second oldest player in the top 25, and the oldest player in the top 10.
While tennis players generally stick around longer than they used to, there are only a handful of men over the age of 33 on tour.
Pro tennis is increasingly a sport that requires impeccable physical conditioning. There are currently zero under-20 players in the top 100, and only one over the age of 35.
Federer has entered the final chapter of his career. He's struggling through nagging injuries (a back injury gave him fits this summer), losing to no-name qualifiers at small tournaments, and getting his doors blown off before the quarterfinals in majors.
He still might have another run at a major left in him.
Agassi won the Australian Open at age 32, and Sampras won his last major at age 31. But those guys didn't have all-time great players like Nadal, Djokovic, and (if we're being generous) Murray to deal with.
In short, Federer's days of sustained success without the possibility of a letdown are over.


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|2010-06-11, 13:50
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Whoa! This ep was amazingly fast-paced. Action packed, a fair amount of exposition, and just lots of stuff happening -- but it all just went by pretty fast.
Ep11 Summary:
Disclaimer: I didn't get most of what they were saying, especially during the first meeting with Kanade. The stream was also pretty crappy. Trust at your own discretion.
Episode starts with a comedy sequence between Naoi, Hinata and Otonashi. This gets broken quickly though as Naoi gets ambushed by a Shadow. Thankfully, the three managed to push it back and kill it.
After this incident, Yuri calls a quick meeting with Naoi and Kanade (and Hinata and Otonashi). They have a rather long conversation. I don't really get what they're saying, but in the end Yuri told Christ to do something with Angel Player, specifically concerning the skill Overdrive. After this meeting, they find out that there are several Shadows massing in the field, engaging a few SSS members. Kanade jumps out to help them using her new wings (which are apparently just for decoration ). Yuri follows her, and Hinata and Otonashi then joins in. They defeat the shadows, and Yuri learns one important thing: the Shadows are transformed NPCs (or at least some of them are, since Naoi got attacked by his own shadow transforming into a Shadow earlier)! And then, Fujimaki arrives with bad news: Takamatsu got "taken" by a Shadow.
A while later, someone claims that they saw Takamatsu being all fine. However, it turns out that he (Takamatsu) has been turned into an NPC, and has forgotten all his memories. This causes a lot of turmoil among the SSS core (sans Chaa, he wasn't in this Ep at all), and Yuri calls for a quick meeting. Now, it seems like Yuri already knew about Otonashi's plan about making people disappear, and she then calls on the entire SSS and gives them all orders to find inner peace and disappear before the Shadows get to them and turn them into NPCs.
Then, Yuri calls on a last meeting with Hinata, Otonashi, Naoi and Kanade. She reveals to Otonashi that Kanade wasn't an angel all along, that she is human like the rest of the SSS, and then she goes on her own mission to fight the Shadows. She basically tells the others to not worry about her, and that she hopes she can meet them again. As of this statement, the SSS is practically disbanded. We then see everyone trying to pursue their own happiness, and find inner peace. (TK dancing, Noda holding Yuri's picture, Shiina and her cute puppies, Fujimaki contemplating, GirlDeMo calling it quits, and more)
Then, after the credits, we see Yuri's spec ops mission. She goes into the computer lab, and finds an old man there. She suspects him as sysadmin, and they have a nice chat which ended in the old man leaving the room. Yuri then scouted around the room and found a hidden passageway into Guild. Next Ep can't come soon enough!
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Yuri explained the situation and told everyone to find inner peace and vanish before the shadows get them ( easier said than done)
She herself wants to find the culprit. By deduction she thinks that the culprit is someone who is using Angel Player (Kanade's manual) to hack the world using one of the school computers
She infiltrates the computer lab and finds a lab tech there, but he just turns out to be an NPC.
After searching further she finds a hidden hatch that leads underground to the guild.
This means that the culprit came or had access to from the guild
Primary suspects
1) Christ: God complex. Knows about Angel Player. Proven to be versatile with a computer.
2) Chaa. Suspiciously absent. One of the longest players and has considerable knowledge about the world.
3) Someone we haven't seen yet. Possible but that would kill the drama.
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Ehh... Isn't that random and sudden... Somehow and for some reason, shadows appear and suddenly start sucking people's souls up. (Eh?)
Anyways, can't judge this ending development until I see how the anime ends everything, but I hope they don't end up creating a new setting or character just to finish up the story.
Anyways, poor Muscle-megane and every other character that never got a background story...
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Very good episode.
Interesting to note that Yuri apprently knew of Otonashi's recent actions all along, but didn't do anything about it. Naoi and Hinata also figured it out, and were about to form the After life gay liberation front with him before the shadows attacked. I didn't expect the shadow would turn people into NPCs. I wonder if they'll find a way to reverse the process or if Takamatsu is gone for good.
You know, I thought Otonashi had already figured out Kanade was just a normal human. He had the same hints as Yuri, as far as I remember.
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While the end boss might be Chaa I just don't see why.
As for the wings it actually does work to break her fall so it's not completely useless, although Yuri and co. simply jumped without breaking their legs.
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I don't really see Chaa as the culprit at the end, though he is suspiciously missing. I'm thinking more that the Dark Archon merge a while back may have corrupted something. Or, it could also be that the clones did quite a lot off-camera.
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This was the 16th Goodguys PPG Nationals held at the Ohio Expo Center, and the first of five events this year where we'll be selecting the Coker Tire–sponsored R&C Fab Five awards. It's also where Goodguys select their Street Rod and Street Machine of the Year, so you know the pro builders were out in force with their latest and greatest.
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1927 Ford Model T Roadster
David Trent's steel 1927 roadster packs a small-block Chevy and Muncie four-speed. Wide-five wheels are used all around, the fronts bolting to early Ford brake drums, with the back connecting to a late-model GM rearend via adapters. Plenty of louvers were stamped into the three-piece hood, as well as what looks like a bellypan, but is actually cleverly disguising the framerails. A track-nose, engine-turned dash, and Firestone dirt trackers complete the package.
Chris Ryan
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Sat in the five spot as Radcliffe finished fourth in the second varsity eight third-level final at the NCAA Championships in West Windsor, N.J., May 27 ... Rowed in the five position of the second varsity eight which finished fourth in the grand final, helping Radcliffe claim the first ever Ivy League Championship Regatta May 13 … Assisted the second varsity eight from the five seat, as it took down Yale for Radcliffe's lone win in the Case Cup April 21 … Contributed in the second varsity eight to Radcliffe's sweep of No. 20 Dartmouth and Syracuse to claim the O'Leary Cup April 14 … Sat in the five seat of the second varsity eight for Radcliffe's second-place finish (7:20.4) at the Class of 1975 Cup April 7 … Helped the varsity eight to win the Beanpot over rivals Boston College, Boston University, MIT and Northeastern with a time of 6:25.9.
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Perhaps more than the Olympics, Sochi is becoming very famous for its bizarre toilets.
But despite its weird take on bathroom etiquette and sketchy training slopes, there is a diamond amongst the coal.
That fantastic looking bathroom you see above is at the Red Fox, a restaurant at the Rosa Khutor ski resort in Sochi. The two-year-old restaurant features Russian and French cuisine and has its own farm with a greenhouse, apiary and poultry yard. It also has a karaoke room.
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Hey, you! Chew that turkey properly and then give us a hand. We want to know about your tips for 2007.
That's right, folks: one year may be over, but a new one is just about to begin. And when it does, we're going to have seventeen skip-loads of brand new bands to talk about. Excited? C'mon, we're sweating liquid expectation here.
Among DiS's 'tips', if you will, for 2007 are, without a doubt, Foals, Jamie T (who will finally release the album we've been waiting for), Los Campesinos! (pictured), The Maccabees and I Was A Cub Scout. Expect full-blown previews of what these acts have to offer in 2007, and more, in January.
For now, though, we want to know what you're looking forward to on the new bands front. Is an act making waves in your neighbourhood and seems certain to find a much bigger audience in '07? Is there a band you've been following for ages that's about to make good over the next twelve months? Are there any albums in particular, from artists old or new, that are sure to hover near the top of end-of-'07 lists? Be sure to include links. Share the love!
As aforementioned, we'll be previewing our tips for 2007 just as soon as our Christmas pudding goes down properly. Look forward to that. In the meantime… DiScuss…


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