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Lower Deschutes River Report II (Long)
Floated the river between Macks and Moody Saturday through Monday.
When we started down the Macks Canyon Access Road, we knew something must be up, because every flat piece of ground held a couple of tents or RV's and by the time we got to the Canyon parking lot, we thought we were in sort of Lower Deschutes River Canyon Festival Daze or something. I've never seen such a bunch of people milling around, and, as I walked back from leaving my rig up by the archeological site (about 1/4 mile from the put-in and the nearest place I could find to park) I didn't know what to think, other than we'd be damn lucky to find a place to camp near any fishing.
The H'Oregonian, our local rag, had reported excellent steelhead fishing in the lower river, and the dam counts have been tremendous; this is possibly what caused the mass migration, but I'm not sure. What I did know, as we dropped the boat off the trailer, was that the White River had blown out from a combination of unseasonably high freezing levels and some rain, and the Deschutes was looking pretty murky. This didn't bother me, particularly, and I wasn't about to abort the trip at this point just because of murky water and crowds of people. Besides, the number of drift boat trailers amid the parked rigs really wasn't that many and typically sleds and foot/bike traffic have not been a factor for us when it comes to finding a place to lay over and fish.
Everything went very well up the point where we started to fish seriously. We had all the prime water we wanted, the river was full of fish (we could see them splashing and rolling all over the place), we had four experienced steelhead anglers to fish it, and we had three days to do it in. Bottom line: 1 fish almost landed for the four of us. That was it. Worst fishing I've ever experienced on the Lower River.
The wonderful thing about steelheading is the reasons and the conventional wisdom you can use to explain why the fish aren't taking. This time, the conventional wisdom was that the water was too murky and too warm (never mind that on other occasions we'd caught fish in warmer and murkier water). Anyway, this theory prevailed over another of my favorites, that the moon was too bright. The fishing was so bad, for whatever reason, that real hard core fly-guides were having their clients fish contraptions (i.e., sideplaners) in a desparate attempt to bank a few fish.
[Aside: I regard side-planers as an unethical method on the Deschutes. People should be able to cast and retrieve spinning lures well enough to catch fish without resorting to harassing the fish into striking, which is what the side-planers do. Guides will assemble conga lines of their clients to position the planners 10 feet apart, from about 20 feet off the bank to about 60, and then have same clients walk slowly down a two or three hundred yard drift, virtually sweeping the whole thing. The method and strategy reduces the sport of angling to plain meat fishing; it unduly harasses and harms wild steelhead and I'm all for banning it. But you probably guessed that.]
One more note before I leave you alone: for the first time in about three years we were checked in our camp by the BLM. They sent a couple of enforcement representatives out in a cataraft and a kayak to see that river runners were complying with all the regulations. After checking our river passes, the BLM checker asked if we had a portable toilet, since we were in a primitive site (more than 800 feet from an out house). She suggested, since we didn't immediately show her one, that we move our camp to be nearer to an out house (there's only one for the whole Lockit area, and many sledders were camped on both sides of it). We weren't about to move, since we had an ideal campsite, and hastily contrived a container out of an ammo can that seemed to satisfy her. She remarked that real enforcement of this regulation would begin next year.
Back in the bad old days, before out houses were introduced to the river, the banks used to be festooned in toilet paper from June through until the fall rains washed it away. Many campsites were smelly, disgusting holes after a season of use. The out houses really improved this situation, especially in the upper river, and I thought the BLM would use the ample amount of Boater's Pass money it receives every year to build and maintain more of these facilities. Imagine my surprise when I found out the real plan is to phase the out houses out and require everybody to carry portable human waste disposal units. While most people will comply, I think this BLM policy, if true, is wrongheaded. If the intention is to keep the river clean, more out houses should be build. This is a recreational river, and the people who recreat on it are not the conscientious stewards of the outdoors that the BLM would hope for. There will be countless slobs who will not comply with the rules, citations or no, and we'll soon see the sagebrush festooned again. It's bad enough now; it will only get worse.
Your Boater's Pass money at work.
Sorry for the diatribe. Had to vent,
Petri heil,
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Great reports on the Deschutes.
I just wanted to comment briefly on the outhouse scenario. First, the fact the BLM officer used common sense rather than the letter of the law is encouraging. Second, you are correct on the wrongheadedness of the BLM. The unlittered banks are simply a result of the combination of the law AND outhouses. Without the outhouses... Third, I hope you are wrong and the outhouses stay. No matter my love for the outdoors, there's a certain comfort in that early morning trip with the walls around you...just a tad of civility I'd certainly miss, not to mention the obvious environmental issues...
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"To heck with this," Egge said. With that, we left the pasture, crossed a creek and slipped 200 yards through a ditch, stopping at the base of a small bluff. I yelped on a box call, and the gobbler cut me off.
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NARRATOR: Crystal Newborn and Black Newborn are made in sandblasted glass. They take their form from a sculpture called The Newborn by Constantin Brancusi. Levine has installed them on top of grand pianos, something she began doing after seeing a photograph of a Brancusi exhibited this way in the home of a British collector. This display foregrounds the ways art is shown differently in the domestic sphere and reveals much about the operations of class.Levine made the sculptures with the cooperation of the Philadelphia Museum of Art, which owns a version of Brancusi's Newborn. HOWARD SINGERMAN: The work itself, The Newborn, is a remarkable work. NARRATOR: Howard Singerman is an art historian and critic.HOWARD SINGERMAN: It is compact, it is smooth, it is aerodynamic: it's a kind of wonderful abstraction or encapsulation, on Brancusi's part, of a kind of birth, an origin, that first cry in the world of the newborn. And indeed the idea of an origin was a crucial idea for Brancusi that he works over and over again in this egg‑like form. The fact that he works it over and over again is, in a sense, where he issues the invitation for Sherrie Levine to make the work after Newborn, to continue his series of newborns. NARRATOR: The casting process that Levine used to make these sculptures bears a certain resemblance to photography. Once the mold is made a number of identical copies can be made from the mold, a number of identical versions for which in fact there is no original because the mold is a sort of negative out of which these multiples can come. So there is a play here both within Brancusi's practice and within Levine's of taking that which is the emblem of the origin and to allow it to continue to spread, to stretch out across the century and into the twenty-first here in this exhibition.


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Marr Park in Ainsworth has several new additions in the works. Director of the County Conservation Board Steve Anderson says they have expanded the campgrounds, and are almost finished with that project. He says they just need to put up new signs and it will be finished by the start of the camping season. They are also planning a trail that would connect Ainsworth to Marr Park. They have an engineer's estimate set between 3 and 4 hundred thousand dollars for that project, but have not taken and contractors bids yet. The funding is already available for that path through a grant from the Riverboat Foundation. They are also almost done with a project that involved remodeling a popular shelter in the park.
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ARSC HPC Users' Newsletter 280, October 24, 2003
A Tale of Porting to the Cray X1
[ Thanks to Kate Hedstrom of ARSC for this article. ]
My primary application is an ocean model called ROMS (the Regional Ocean Modeling System). Before I can even try to compile it, I need to have access to the NetCDF library. I have compiled NetCDF several times over the years, but I am by no means an expert on it. It is usually very easy to compile the C part, with the f77, f90 and C++ parts being trickier. On the X1, I had some trouble with the C part because of one of those #ifdef cray do something special, #else do the default. On the X1, you want to be using the default POSIX code. Beyond that, I accepted the cray-compiled NetCDF library.
Back to ROMS, the first thing to do is to find out what arguments to give selected_real_kind for real*4, real*8, and real*16. (See an article devoted to "kind" issues in newsletter #263 .) Our code is written to use the r8 kind for 64-bit reals in most of the computations, including literal constants. Since we are managing our own kinds, I didn't feel that Cray ftn's "-s default64" option would be necessary.
With the "kind" issue settled, I went ahead and compiled and ran a serial job. The only change I had to make to the code was to work around a missing getpid function (informational, not really necessary). The job ran fine. With the serial code running, I went ahead and tried to run an MPI job. It died pretty quickly inside the MPI message passing. It was another #ifdef CRAY problem regarding the size of default reals. It cropped up in the size of messages to pass, and also in the writing of NetCDF files.
The moral of the story is to search out those special Cray cases, assuming your code currently runs on both Cray and other flavors of Unix.
Performance Issues
Once the code runs and results have been verified for correctness, the question of performance comes up. We have a standard ROMS case needing no input files but including most of the complicated physics of our more realistic domains. A number of obvious interest is the run time on the IBM Power4 system (iceflyer).
ROMS has its own built in timing, to find the relative costs of the major model components. The IBM times vary depending on the other jobs in the system, the best achieved being 1020 seconds, broken out as follows:
Model 2D kernel .......................... 237.580 (23.5765 %) KPP vertical mixing parameterization ..... 176.150 (17.4804 %) 3D equations predictor step .............. 113.330 (11.2464 %) Atmospheric boundary layer coupler ....... 103.560 (10.2769 %)plus smaller stuff. The Mflips rating on this is:
Flip rate (flips / WCT) : 521.414 Mflip/sec Flips / user time : 530.482 Mflip/secwhich is exactly 10% of peak, peak being 5.2 Gflip/sec on this 1.3 GHz power4 processor.
The Cray timing for the original ROMS code is 2510 seconds, broken out as follows:
Model 2D kernel .......................... 38.333 ( 1.5286 %) KPP vertical mixing parameterization ..... 855.806 (34.1271 %) 3D equations predictor step .............. 15.775 ( 0.6291 %) Atmospheric boundary layer coupler ....... 1531.398 (61.0678 %)
Obviously, some parts of the code are faster on the X1, but some parts are vastly slower. About 95% of the time is spent in two vertical mixing routines which didn't vectorize particularly well. The first of these routines was sped up by inlining one of its constituent functions, by adding "-O inlinefrom=lmd_wscale.f90", to the compile line for the two routines which use it. For some loops, inlining will enable vectorization which would otherwise be inhibited by procedure and function calls.
This extra option cannot be added to the compile for all the files because the function we are inlining uses f90 modules which have to be compiled before the function can be inlined.
With inlining, the X1 time dropped to 1652 seconds:
Model 2D kernel .......................... 38.531 ( 2.3333 %) KPP vertical mixing parameterization ..... 27.370 ( 1.6575 %) 3D equations predictor step .............. 15.783 ( 0.9558 %) Atmospheric boundary layer coupler ....... 1502.950 (91.0149 %)It is pretty clear that this bulk_flux atmospheric boundary layer code needed some attention. A specialist from Cray and I rewrote the code to further improve vectorization and clean up some unnecessarily weird logic in it. The final X1 timing was 171 seconds:
Model 2D kernel .......................... 38.004 (22.3496 %) KPP vertical mixing parameterization ..... 27.273 (16.0387 %) 3D equations predictor step .............. 15.648 ( 9.2024 %) Atmospheric boundary layer coupler ....... 23.059 (13.5604 %)The answer was even the same! I never imagined it would go so fast. The flop rating was:
Total FP ops 2679.144M/sec 452281560816 opswhich is 20% of peak for one Cray X1 MSP (which has a peak theoretical performance of 12.8 Gflops).
MSP vs. SSP Experiment
All timings shown above for the X1 are for one MSP, or one multi-streaming processor. Each MSP is actually composed of four SSPs, or single-streaming processors, which share cache and have other hardware and software support (multi-streaming) to make them behave as one processor. SSPs can, however, be accessed individually.
Early on, I ran some timings to assess SSP vs. MSP performance and found that four SSPs were about twice as fast as one MSP. However, 16 MSPs were vastly faster than 64 SSPs, in fact I couldn't get the 64 SSP run to finish - it kept timing out. With the X1 optimized version of ROMS, I sincerely doubt that I could get the four SSP run to be faster than one MSP, now that the compiler is able to vectorize and multistream both vertical mixing routines.
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A:[[ Special characters for egrep include "$" (match end of line) and [[ "^" (match beginning of line). I had a file containing dollar [[ signs ("$") at the beginning of many lines, and of course, these were [[ the lines I wanted to extract with egrep. [[ [[ By trial and error, I discovered I had to DOUBLE escape the dollar [[ signs. My curiousity aroused and my day already shot, I then [[ discovered that to extract lines beginning with carats ("^"), I would [[ only have to escape the carat once. Like this: [[ [[ mywkstn> cat test.txt [[ wwwww [[ $ xxx [[ yyy $ [[ ^ zzz [[ 000 ^ [[ 11111 [[ mywkstn> egrep "^\\$" test.txt [[ $ xxx [[ mywkstn> egrep "^\^" test.txt [[ ^ zzz [[ mywkstn> [[ [[ Am I cursed? Or is this rational behavior which someone can explain? # # Thanks to Martin Luthi: # This is one of the fine distinctions of the different types of quotes. For example in the bourne shell: 'xxx' disable all special characters in xxx "xxx" disable all special characters in xxx except $, ', and \. \x disable the special meaning of character x so mywkstn> egrep '^\$' test.txt mywkstn> egrep '^\^' test.txt gives you the behaviour that you want. # # Thanks to Rich Griswold: # A few examples using echo should explain what is going on: ~> echo "$" $ ~> echo "\$" $ ~> echo "\\$" \$ ~> echo "^" ^ ~> echo "\^" \^ ~> echo "\\^" \^ Shells perform expansion of special characters inside double quotes, so \$ gets turned into $, but \\$ gets turned into \$. This is because a dollar sign is a special character (used for shell variables), so escaping it with a backslash gets a plain dollar sign. Since the backslash is also a special character (used to escape other special characters), you need two of them to get a single backslash. Since a carat is not a special character, escaping it with a backslash results in \^. However if you choose to escape the backslash with another backslash, that will turn into a single backslash. Confused yet? In summary: "$" -> $ "\$" -> $ "\\$" -> \$ "^" -> ^ "\^" -> \^ "\\^" -> \^ These examples were done using bash, but the results should be similar for sh and ksh. To save some confusion, you can use single quotes so that the shell does not do any expansion of special characters. What you see is what you get: '$' -> $ '\$' -> \$ '\\$' -> \\$ '^' -> ^ '\^' -> \^ '\\^' -> \\^ In closing, if you are wondering what the difference between "$" and "\$" (and "\\$", and "\\\$", ...) is, this should clear it up: ~> echo "$HOME" /home/richard ~> echo "\$HOME" $HOME ~> echo "\\$HOME" \/home/richard ~> echo "\\\$HOME" \$HOME # # And thanks to Greg Newby: # You are probably not cursed. Find a good tutorial on Regular Expressions on the Internet or in a shell script book for a good (though not necessarily illuminating) treatment of this. The short answer is that the dollar sign is how your Unix shell identifies a variable, but it's also a regular expression for the end of line. Some shells interpret the caret as a substitution symbol for command-line editing (tcsh, zsh and others). The caret is also a regular expression symbol for the start of line. The trick you discovered with escapes (which could also work with quotatation marks) is a way of telling the shell whether to interpret these special characters before passing them on to the grep command as arguments. Then, if they're not already interpreted, grep gets to decide whether to interpret them as regular expressions or as simple strings. That is the short answer. Regular expressions are very powerful, but pretty complex, too. There's even a special version of grep, "egrep", to make more powerful use of them than standard "grep." Q: Here are the first four lines of a file that just goes on and on: USER DATE CMDS REAL SYS USER jimbob ALL 2267.0 674011.6 2113.5 258037.0 bobbob ALL 109.0 1335.0 570.8 98.2 amysue ALL 58.0 1223863.9 3003.7 1186547.6 The columns remain consistent for the entire file. I want to sort this on fields like "REAL" and "USER," and thought I could just use Unix "sort"... but the data is delimited by varying numbers of spaces and I can't figure it out. Doing it by hand is taking forever! Can anyone help?
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White House officials claim that making the more accurate data available across the globe will not compromise national security. The Pentagon can implement SA over specific regions where there's trouble, or use GPS signal jammers that would not affect our military forces.
And that, my friends, is the rub. Pity the unfortunate cruiser who happens to be caught unaware in a troubled region. Lulled into a false sense of security, cruisers could quickly get into trouble when SA is turned back on or the GPS signal is jammed. This is why you must always back the GPS up with other navigation aids and Dead Reckoning (DR). You will never know ahead of time when they are going to take the GPS down or degrade the signal again.
Secretary of Defense William S. Cohen said, "This IGEB decision reinforces the continuing US commitment to provide the most capable, efficient and reliable satellite navigation system for use by all the world's nations well into the 21st century."
When this press release came out, we all missed the intent of the announcement and that the newly formed IGEB agency was set up to circumvent the desires of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, allowing the President, through another executive order, to turn SA off.
What do I mean by all practical purposes? I'm talking about being able to plot or use a position to three decimal places. On GPS, the first number displayed after the minutes of latitude and longitude are tenths of minutes and each tenth represents 600 feet. The second decimal place represents 60 feet for each hundredth, and the third decimal place represents six feet for each thousandth. On most coastal charts you can only use the first decimal place (tenths of a minute). On harbor charts you may be able to use the second decimal place, but nowhere can anyone use the third decimal place for normal operations. The GPS course will be computed to a tenth of a degree—but can you maintain the heading to within a degree without the help of an autopilot?
For years when SA was on, I criticized the GPS manufacturers for showing present position to three and four decimal places. At that time, the accuracy these decimal places represented was simply not available and gave the user a false sense of security. Now, with SA off, the normal GPS is accurate to two places and the DGPS is still accurate to three decimal places. I use these additional decimal places only to help determine when to round up the first decimal place. I will admit that there are specialized uses that require positions to four and five decimal places, but not for normal navigation purposes.
When I was in the Air Force we had a saying about planning air strikes versus the actual implementation. "Measure it with a micrometer, mark it with a grease pencil and cut it with an axe." The meaning here is that everything was computed down to a gnat's ass and then a No. 2 pencil was used to mark the target for a nuclear strike. The same thing applies to using the GPS on the sea.
So what's the bottom line on SA? The accuracy of non-differential GPS has improved about ten times. This means that fewer applications need differential correction. The commonly quoted "RMS" specification for GPS receivers is now in the less than 10 meter (33 feet) range.
For DGPS most of the effects of SA were minimized by differential correction and now you should see an improvement in the range of 10 to 20 percent, but certainly not the same ten times. The USCG claims an accuracy of 10 meters for DGPS' but in most cases it approaches five meters. Now it should become even more accurate.
There is one final thing you still need to remember. The number of available satellites is still the most important factor in determining your positional accuracy. Turning off SA does not reduce this requirement. If you want a 95% or better probability of your GPS position being within 10 meters (less than five meters for DGPS') you will need at least 5 satellites in view—more is better.Using your GPS for NavigationWith or without SA off, there are some important things you should always do when you use your GPS for navigation.
Using your GPS for Navigation
With or without SA off, there are some important things you should always do when you use your GPS for navigation.
Remember that one basic rule of navigation is to never blindly follow or trust any one electronic navigation instrument unless its accuracy is confirmed by other means and your DR position.
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That was a tough game to watch last night. It was very frustrating. I thought some of the whistles lately against LSU have been a little overboard. Patric Young was fouling the shite out of JOB the other night and was barely getting whistled. Every time LSU touches an opposing player, it's a fricking whistle. I know we have had some stupid fouls, and JOB has led the way with dumb fouls, but we could use a break or two to go our way.
Forget NIT this year. Expectations are way to high for this team.
quote:Until the team IS there mentally, LSU fans will not be there physically. The PMAC is going to be sparsely populated until something happens to put people back into the seats. Doubt if that happens this year. Talent not there yet, but some of these coaching glitches are not a welcome thing to see. Jones needs to reign in JOB, get him under control or sit him on the bench. Fans will just have to grin and bear it for now. There should be major improvement with the class coming in, but LSU basketball fans have been hearing "Wait till next year" for far too long and are just about out of patience.
Sorry but your 7 SEC wins is a bit over optimistic. This team is not there mentally.
but LSU basketball fans have been hearing "Wait till next year" for far too long and are just about out of patience.
This is Coach Jones' first year as coach and he has brought some excitement back to the PMAC early
but the team just barely lost to SC at home and @Aub
Next year, we should be in contention for the NCAA tourney.
Im really starting to get tired of this fanbase and their ridiculous pessimism.
Next year, we should be in contention for the NCAA tourney.
I've seen nothing to suggest this. At the current rate, we'll be lucky to get 5 SEC wins this season. The vast majority of freshmen can't turn a team around like that.
Don't tell Kentucky that.
I think the pessimism is justified after we lose to the 2nd or 3rd worst team in the SEC at home. This team has enough talent that we should expect to win this sort of game.
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I've successfully created Samplers in code in the past using code like this:
// Create the sample state D3D11_SAMPLER_DESC sampDesc; ZeroMemory( &sampDesc, sizeof(sampDesc) ); sampDesc.Filter = D3D11_FILTER_MIN_MAG_MIP_LINEAR; sampDesc.AddressU = D3D11_TEXTURE_ADDRESS_CLAMP; sampDesc.AddressV = D3D11_TEXTURE_ADDRESS_CLAMP; sampDesc.AddressW = D3D11_TEXTURE_ADDRESS_CLAMP; sampDesc.ComparisonFunc = D3D11_COMPARISON_NEVER; sampDesc.MinLOD = 0; sampDesc.MaxLOD = D3D11_FLOAT32_MAX; DXCall(g_pd3dDevice->CreateSamplerState( &sampDesc, &m_pSamplerLinear));
However, its my understanding that you can define samplers in your HLSL code instead of your C++ code. So for example I could have the following in my HLSL:
SamplerState permSampler2d { Filter = MIN_MAG_MIP_POINT; AddressU = WRAP; AddressV = WRAP; };
The problem is, when I define the sampler in my HLSL code I always get the following Debug messages in Visual Studio:
449 : ID3D11DeviceContext::DrawIndexed: The Pixel Shader unit expects a Sampler to be set at Slot 0, but none is bound. This is perfectly valid, as a NULL Sampler maps to default Sampler state. However, the developer may not want to rely on the defaults. 449 : ID3D11DeviceContext::DrawIndexed: The resource return type for component 0 declared in the shader code (FLOAT) is not compatible with the Shader Resource View format bound to slot 0 of the Pixel Shader unit (UINT). This mismatch is invalid if the shader actually uses the view (e.g. it is not skipped due to shader code branching).
And any attempt to use the sampler in my Pixel Shader always returns black:
float4 PS(VertexOut pin) : SV_Target { float4 colour = permTexture2d.SampleLevel(permSampler2d, pin.TextureUV, 0); return colour; }
I've confirmed from the Visual Studio 2012 Graphics Debugger that the texture is correct at this point, and the TextureUV co-ords are correct so I can only guess I'm doing something wrong with the sampler.
I feel that I'm missing something obvious here, but I don't know what.
Any help would be appreciated.
P.S. Note that I'm not using the Effects framework. I presume defining Samplers in HLSL isn't something that only possible through Effects?
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When Stanford researcher Jonathan Mayer uncovered a Google workaround to circumvent the default privacy settings on Safari, EFF called on Google to change their tune on privacy by respecting the Do Not Track flag and building it into the Chrome browser. We specifically praised the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) multi-stakeholder process, which for a year has been convening consumer advocates, Internet companies, and technologists to craft how companies that receive the Do Not Track signal should respond.
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Earlier today, the Wall Street Journal published evidence that Google has been circumventing the privacy settings of Safari and iPhone users, tracking them on non-Google sites despite Apple's default settings, which were intended to prevent such tracking.
This tracking, discovered by Stanford researcher Jonathan Mayer, was a technical side-effect—probably an unintended side-effect—of a system that Google built to pass social personalization information (like, "your friend Suzy +1'ed this ad about candy") from the google.com domain to the doubleclick.net domain. Further technical explanation can be found below.
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Scholars including Princeton's Peter Singer and Robert George, two noted figures in the public debate on abortion, will discuss the question "Is It Wrong to End Early Human Life?" at a conference planned for 2:30 to 6 p.m. Thursday, May 1, in 101 Friend Center.
The event will include talks by Singer, the Ira W. Decamp Professor of Bioethics in the University Center for Human Values; Don Marquis, professor of philosophy at the University of Kansas and the Laurance S. Rockefeller Visiting Professor for Distinguished Teaching in the University Center for Human Values; Patrick Lee, the John N. and Jamie D. McAleer Professor of Bioethics and director of the Institute of Bioethics at Franciscan University of Steubenville; and Jeff McMahan, professor of philosophy at Rutgers University.
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FULTON – The Itawamba Community College Lady Indians are trying to play their way into becoming a state championship team.
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"We've done a really good job this season," Lady Indians head coach Nanci Gray said. "We've won some games against out-of-state teams, won some road games, and we've won two division games.
"I'm generally pleased."
The Lady Indians (8-5, 2-0) are looking to repeat their state title effort from last season, but are attempting that with a far different roster of players.
Ty-Nita Baker from Houston is leading the team in scoring at 20.5 points per game, with Ayanna Lynn next at 11.4 ppg.
"We're getting good scoring from Ty-Nita Baker, and good leadership from Ayanna Lynn and Ashley Wiley," said Gray of three key sophomores. "The rest of the team is trying to grow into their roles."
With the division schedule upon them, Gray is looking for freshmen LyTia Coleman, Leslie Robinson of Belmont, and Latova Collins to improve their level of contribution. Especially with Lemeisha Gillom of Oxford, Nicole Griffin from Coffeeville, and Presley Pulse from Walnut on the injured list, cutting into the Lady Indians depth.
I just know we have to get more scoring options, and have better rebounding," Gray said. "You come back after Christmas, you have to make things happen as a team."
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The scenery was enough but always up for more adventure Chloe and I decided to hang back at the rear of the group and, when we had enough free road, slammed on full throttle and zoomed off skidding over the snow! Great adrenalin and catch-your-breath fast speeds!
We then stopped by a wooden hut out in the middle of nowhere to have a hot drink round a campfire before heading back again. The delicious berry tea was served in authentic little wooden cups called kuksa
After a quick bite of lunch we were off again, this time cross-country skiing. Now, I have never been skiing at all before and Chloe has only done downhill skiing, but we were reassured by our brochure that no experience was necessary for the beginners group. So once we were kitted out we assembled in our group of 5 by the start of the cross-country track. At this point the guide pretty much said, 'right strap on your ski's and off we go'. Hmm.. perhaps this was not the beginners group.
What followed was much fumbling with ski's and then a very bambi-like approach to the track. Neither of us really knowing what we were doing we somehow managed to shuffle ourselves along the track until we reached a big uphill.... It was literally one foot forward and then 2 slides back. At this point lagging behind the rest of the group they were all waiting and watching with amusement as we struggling to heave ourselves up the slope.
Eventually we made it up and then they were all off again in front. Great tutoring! However now it was the ride down the other side of the hill... with everyone merrilly shooting off I shouted at Chloe, 'what do I do?!' to which she called back 'just ski down'. Aaa of course, very helpful! At the crest of the hill I held my breath and pushed off making sure to lean slightly forward and whoooooooosh, a great sensation of sliding down the hill! I could get used to this!
Although then there was more trudging across the flat or uphill
Now the way back was much more downhill and 'weeeeeeeeeeeee' very exhilerating! A very funny moment was when the man infront of Chloe fell over, causing her to crash into him, followed by me careering into the both of them to top off the pile. No-one really knew how to stop. Pah, that just makes it more exciting I suppose!
As evening drawed in, we were then taken for our next night-time excursion. This time a snowmobile journey out to 'Aurora Kota', a little hut specially designed for presentations by the nearby Geological Institute. In this 'theatre' we discovered the science and magic behind the Aurora Borealis, fascinating stuff. Then the return snowmobile ride through the darkness back to our chalet for dinner.
On the menu was salty house pastry with salad, followed by lavastone grilled beef steak with creamy potatoes and Aurora's seasoned butter (being a veggie I had risotto), with crispy cranberry dessert avec caramel sauce for pudding! Yum.
After dinner we were chilling out in the lounge area along with some of the other guests, when we all heard a 'beep'. And then another 'beep', and another and another! Everyone's alarms were going off so with a flurry of excitement we were all racing back to our rooms to get layered up for the cold, then dashing out eagerly focussing on the night sky.
We headed to the frozen lake as had been told this was a good place near the chalet for observing, and lay on the snow and ice fixed on the sky. And there they were again, glorious greens glowing in the distance, then forming waves and lines over our heads with shapes dancing along the lengths. Enchanting and again, breathtaking.
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Advogato... interesting.
I stumbled across a reference at the very end of last Friday's Need To Know to the Salon article. I was taking some time off from work (and non-work programming) to help my wife care for our newborn son. Soon I'll be starting back to work, which will probably mean I won't have much time to revisit Advogato. Oh well.


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An interfaith prayer service will take place from 8 to 9:30 a.m. in the University Chapel and an inaugural ball is scheduled for 7 to 11 p.m. in Jadwin Gymnasium. The events are not open to the general public.
Chapel Drive will be open on Tuesday morning only to University shuttles and to busses bringing guests to the service. Princeton is not providing parking for the prayer service in University lots, but metered parking spaces along William Street will be reserved for busses and special guests at the service.
Beginning at 4:30 p.m. Tuesday, traffic patterns around the campus will be altered to accommodate the 5,000 guests expected for the ball. Most will park in lots off Scudders Mill Road in Plainsboro and be bussed to Jadwin Gym. One lane of traffic coming toward Princeton on Route 1 from Scudders Mill Road to Harrison Street and one lane of traffic on Faculty Road from Harrison Street to the gym will be closed.
University employees will be able to leave the campus via the regular routes, including on Faculty Road toward Harrison Street and Route 1; however, traffic in that area is expected to be heavy. Traffic control officers will be stationed at major affected intersections to facilitate traffic flow.
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Nobody has posted in here, so I figured I'd start it off. This year my son who is 10 got his second bird (he got one last year also). It was 19 pounds, 9 inch beard and 1" spurs.
We had hunted the first day of youth weekend and had no luck, got messed up by another hunter and called it a day as it was opening day for baseball season for him.
That night we roosted some birds and the next morning we went out and set up on them. I was with a buddy and we called and it seemed like the birds were going away after coming out of the roost. I left my Lynch 1995 Deluxe World Champion call in the truck and was lost without it. We called for a while and figured the birds where heading to another field we had scouted, so we picked up and drove to the field to set up and beat them there. When we got there nothing, we could hear them way back where we came from. We drove back to set up again and when we pulled in they were in the log landing that we had originally parked at. After letting them work away, I drove further up the logging road and stuffed my burb in the bushes and we got out and worked back towards the landing. It didn't take us long, I brought my good call this time and both my buddy and I started calling and both toms came charging in. My son was rock solid this year (a little nervous last year) and the birds came around a knoll and right out in front of us on the logging road. We waited to see if they would come in closer, but they hung up on the road and the second bird turned like he was going to head back into the woods so I told my son to take him. His shot was dead on and the bird flopped and tried to run, but didn't make it far.
My hunt was very easy compared to his. I roosted birds last night and went out this morning to set up on them. I walked to the field and heard one gobble from the roost. I headed down the woodline to get out of sight of it as it was on the other side of a stand of trees that jutted out into the field. As I was almost across the field I heard an alarm cluck from a turkey and when I looked up there was another one right above me. It clucked a few more times and flew out of the roost into the field and ran across it to the woods. I was really upset I did that as I had scanned with binocs before crossing the field and didn't see it. I continued to work up towards the point, put out my decoy and found a spot near the end of the point to sit. I used the lynch call to do some soft tree yelps for a while and the other bird broke loose gobbling. I then used my hat to simulate wings and did a fly down cackle and the other bird immediately flew out of the roost. When it landed I noticed the first bird break into a strut and it was way above me in the field. The second bird was within shooting distance, but after I called again the first one dropped it's tail and started running towards us. I was patient and yelped quietly with one hand as the second bird was well within range. The first bird came in and started strutting and gobbling. It worked towards me and I could hear it's wings dragging, it was spitting and drumming and all worked up. I waited till it got behind a tree and shouldered my gun. It then came on the other side of it, about 15 yards away spitting and drumming and strutting it up. I did some mouth yelps and the bird stuck it's head up and I ended my season. Mine was 19.5 pounds with a 9" beard and 7/8" spurs.
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The hotel sits beside what remains of the old castle moat, now just a reminder of Hereford's strategic importance. Hereford Castle held an important position in the 12th and 13th century but once the Edwardian conquest of Wales took place between 1272 and 1284, it lost its strategic importance and fell into ruin. After the Civil War in the 17th century, the castle was demolished completely and the area landscaped for use by local people. The Castle Green now forms the heart of the city, and the old castle moat is overlooked by our garden.
In the early 18th century, a local entrepreneur, recognising a good piece of real estate when he saw one, built a pair of fine Georgian villas in what was then the middle of the road facing along Castle Street. The rear of the building was added in the second half of the 19th century when the then-owner Frederick Boulton (you can see an F and B interwined in a blocked up window from the garden) obtained permission to join the two houses together. The spine wall was simply removed and what was once two staircases for each house became the impressively wide one we have now!
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I had a great discussion with some of my friends in the Scouting world the other night.
They were there to join me on my podcast, but we got into the discussion about how many great people you meet in Scouting.
Within your units, within your Districts and Council, and around the world.
Looking back I can see the impact Scouting has had on friendship, meaning the amount of friends I have made through Scouting.
Since I have started blogging and podcasting, you could not imaging the numbers of people that I now coorespond with regularly, talk to, and share ideas with.
Serving on the District committee, being and advisor with the Order of the Arrow, and running district events has opened my eyes to many now and fantastic Scouts and Scouters.
This last weekend I had the pleasure of backpacking with a few members of our OA Chapter. We did 20 miles and did some trail work on a much needed section of the PCT.
The trek was awesome, we saw 5 of the 7 mountains of the Cascade range and you could not ask for better people to trek with. I met two new (to me) Scouters, that I am sure that we will have lasting friendships.
Like I said doing the blog and the podcasts has opened up many friendship doors and I am thankful for that. I can only hope that one day I can meet with some of the folks, maybe at Jamboree.
Most of the people that I have listed in my Scouting Blog section are friends and I hope you pay them a visit.
A new blog that just hit the net is by another friend of mine, from Green bay. Shawn started a blog and I hope that it takes off and does well… regardless, I am sure that if he blogs about some of the ideas that him and I have talked about, and he has many, his blog will be a huge success.
So check his blog out at http://commissionercleary.blogspot.com/.
Scouting opens up pathways to friendship. Take advantage of the friendships with great people you meet along Scouting's trail. You will be thankful in the end that you met such wonderful people. And the touch they have on your life will be priceless.
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I wonder what would have happened had Luke successfully been frozen in a carbon block. Would he somehow have escaped or recovered enough after unfreezing to still fight the Emperor and Vader, or would that have sealed his fate as an "agent of evil"?
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I am getting used to this but I am also getting really really pissed off too. How many times have I said "every six months they delay the removal day one year"? Well they just changed the formula now every six months they delay the removal three years.
Article in the Seattle Times has the strating date now set for sometime in 2012 this because the municipal water system is well behind schedule and as you may or may not know that is a must do before the walls can come down and free up the decades old silt containment piles that are laying upstream of the dams.
Oh well the fellows who like to fish in the backwaters will be able to keep at it a bit longer.
I really am an optimist at heart but I don't think there is any one strong willed individual involved in this project lurking around and ready to take a big bite out of any and every bureacratic backside that is not pushing to expidite the removal project.
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The marina is save and silent. The pano was taken early in the morning (no on awake, so one to see!) with a Panasonic TZ 7 on Gigapan system. The camera is nice but not perfect for Gigapanos, because she is automatic and can not be used by manual settings.
The bay is popular because of her cold water sources and Ali Tunas yacht restaurant. From here you can take a 60 minutes walk to the abandoned village of the greek village Levissi, today Kayaköy. Kayaköy is a village with decayed houses where Greeks were used to live up to the population exchange in 1922.


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By Laura Marrich
Of Chokecherries and Loaves
Local newbies Chokecherry Ranch will play this week at Ralli's Fourth Street Pub and Grill (see "Flyer on the Wall" for the poster). The band's lead man, Jason Darensburg, is a mellow fellow with an easy, open sort of voice. He's notable for some good, if smalltime, productions around town over the years. But what makes this project especially interesting, for me anyhow, is that he says our former Alibi news editor Tim McGivern is playing drums in the project. Tim always swore up and down that he played drums with Archers of Loaf ... and truth be told, I still don't totally believe him. But at least he's proving he can actually play, which certainly helps his story. Get an earful of Jason's homegrown Albuquerque jam (to say nothing of Tim's fabulous storytelling) this Thursday, July 19. There's no mention of cover, but bring a few bills just to be safe.
Bernalillo Battle
The County of Bernalillo is hosting its first battle of the bands, and the deadline for application is looming: You've got until Wednesday, July 25, to get squared away. The battle, which is co-sponsored by the Bernalillo County Board of Commissioners and Parks and Recreation, will be held Aug. 10 at Downtown's gorgeous KiMo Theatre. The competition is worth entering just to say you played there. It doesn't look like there's an age limit or an entry fee—so what are you waiting for? Applications for the showcase are sprinkled all over town, including Lesmen's Music, Studio-D, CR Music and Entertainment, Grandma's Music and Sound, the KiMo Theatre, YDI (6301 Central NW or 1223 Fourth Street NW), South Broadway Cultural Center and the National Hispanic Cultural Center.
For more information, call 314-0475 or 877-1884, or try www.bernco.gov (though I don't think it's terribly helpful).
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All right, kiddies, it's time to unplug the Wii and get outside while it's still summertime. And what's this? One of this weekend's best options is a park concert put together by one of my awesome music interns, Justin Hood. His "Summer of Love" show is going down this Saturday, July 21, at High Desert Park (Academy east of Tramway, between Cortaderia and Imperata). Besides a sand volleyball court and peerless mountain views, Justin tells me the park has a sweet outdoor amphitheater. He's stuffed it with upcoming local music from his own band, The Kranks (formerly Suns of Delos), plus Soul Collectibles, Drama St., KT Trujillo and Cellar Door. It's free and it starts at noon. See you there!
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|Ocean Flyfishing for Salmon Perhaps the most under-rated fishery in the world
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Wow! makes me shake even as I sit here. I'd say Leland has the Mojo and the M's are toast!
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Lincoln Park Report or "Hours of Boredom Interrupted by Periods of Sheer Excitement."
Four of us fished the incoming tide this morning from 6:30 to 1am1. There were only two gearfishers on the beach and one of them had a wriggling fresh-caught silver behind him. Soon, two more flyfishers and three more geartossers showed up to make a total of seven fishers on the beach.
A quarter hour later, I hooked an absolute monster coho. This baby hit like the proverbial freight train. It turned on the popper just short of the beach, wallowed while I set the hook, then tail-walked away in a wide sweeping semi-circle towards Vashon. It was a big strong fish that got into the backing three times after I had him to the beach. It also put on one of the best aerial shows I've had in a long time. But this one was not meant to be. On the fourth long run, it dove deep, twisted and came unbuttoned.
For the next two hours, my lost fish was the topic of conversation on the beach. All in all, four of us turned ten fish on poppers while the gearboys hooked and landed one. At 9:30, I hooked one of about five pounds that charged the fly as if it was his last meal.
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Students Attend Freshman Convocation
One of the highlights of Welcome Weekend is the Fairmont State University Convocation. During this traditional ceremony, faculty, staff and administrators officially welcome all new freshmen to Fairmont State. During the event, freshmen recite the Academic Pledge. FSU President Maria Rose said the ceremony is a perfect opportunity to make a lasting impression on new students. "Convocation is not only a ceremony to formally welcome new students to campus, it is also an opportunity to inspire and motivate them with the significance of the academic journey they are beginning.


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Billy Jones
JUMPERTOWN – Billy Lee Jones, 64, of Jumpertown died Sunday, May 19, 2013, at Magnolia Regional Health Center in Corinth. He was born March 26, 1949, to Christine Standford Jones and Leroy Jones. He grew up in the Dumas community and was a 1967 graduate of Pine Grove High School. He also graduated from Northeast Mississippi Community College. He was a member of Jumpertown United Methodist Church, where he currently served on the committee of Trustees. He served as chairman of the Pastor-Parish Relations Committee for many years and taught Sunday School. He always wanted to be at church early to have coffee ready for everyone. He was a man of great character and integrity.
He married Norma Jo English Jones, the love of his life, on March 1, 1980. They enjoyed traveling and going out to eat at different restaurants, but they mostly enjoyed being together at home working in the yard or taking care of the house. Their favorite pastime was sitting side-by-side in their recliners, holding hands, and watching their favorite television shows. Together they raised four daughters and created a very happy life in the Jumpertown community. He enjoyed working in his yard and helping others. His eight grandchildren brought him great joy and he loved them so much. He enjoyed sharing stories about his grandchildren with everyone. He was loved beyond measure by his family and all who knew him.
He was an avid Ole Miss football fan and loved tailgating in The Grove. He loved inviting friends to visit on game days. He was a member of University of Mississippi Athletics Association. He was a 32nd Degree Mason and a member of Lodge 47 of Ripley.
He was an employee of Long Distribution of Corinth for the past 28 years. He loved his work and customers. He always said that his job never seemed like work. His customers became lifetime friends. He enjoyed spending time with them. Prior to working for Long's, he worked 15 years at American Biltrite in Ripley in Quality Control.
Funeral services were Tuesday, May 21, 2013, at Jumpertown United Methodist Church with Bro. Jason Franklin officiating and Ronnie Sweeny and Randy Long delivering the eulogy. Burial was in the Jumpertown Cemetery.
He is survived by his wife of 33 years, Norma Jo English Jones; four daughters, Lori Stroupe Sims of Booneville, Leslie Jones (Jonathan) Pettey of Saltillo, Andrea Jones (Travis) Tucker of Tuscumbia, Ala., and Marcie Whitley (Dustin) McCafferty of Ripley; his mother, Christine Jones of Dumas; two sisters, Brenda Jones Robertson and Bonita Jones (Barry) Crawford, both of Ripley; two brothers, Bobby (Martha) Jones and Bruce (Janet) Jones, both of Dumas; eight grandchildren, Cayson Coleman, Kaylee Sims, Livvy Coleman, Sidney Tucker, Emma Pettey, Jacob Tucker, Ruthie McCafferty and Maggie McCafferty; and his mother-in-law, Beth English of Jumpertown.
He was preceded in death by his father, Leroy Jones; father-in-law, Norman English; and his grandparents, W.T. (Bill) and Ida Jones and Robert Herman and Ozelle Standford.
Pallbearers were Jarvine Shackelford, C.O. Boone, David Brown, Johnny Robbins, Ronnie Sweeny, Shane Strickland, Larry English and William Ellis Jones. Honorary pallbearers were his Sunday School Class, Craig Brown, Butch Essary, Donnie Lauderdale, Rusty Boone, Tracy Dye, Jonathan Pettey, Travis Tucker, Dustin McCafferty, Mikel Sims, Nathan Robertson, Brandon Crawford and employees of Long Distribution.
In lieu of flowers, donations may be sent to the Billy Jones' Grandchildren College Fund, c/o The Peoples Bank, P.O. Drawer 419, Ripley, MS 38663.
Condolences may be left at www.mcmillanfuneralhome.com.
Ella Mann Shelton
RIPLEY – Ella Mann Gray Shelton, 86, died Tuesday, May 21, 2013, at Gilmore Memorial Regional Medical Center in Amory. She was born Nov. 11, 1926, to Robert Claude and Ethel Velora Kirk Gray in Hickory Flat. She was a member of Springdale Baptist Church in Ripley. She loved the Lord and served faithfully as a children's Sunday School teacher for 43 years. She loved praising God in song and was an active member of the choir until her health began to fail. She was a spiritual leader. Her greatest accomplishments and joys in life were leading her children and grandchildren to know Christ.
She worked as a beautician but was primarily a caregiver and homemaker for her family. She was happiest when she was surrounded by family and friends. She loved her husband, her boys and their wives, her grandchildren and her great-grandchildren. She loved doing whatever her grandkids wanted to do (cooking special treats, playing games, making crafts, dancing the polka, anything with them). She loved to laugh whether at herself or at anything comical. She enjoyed her tomato garden and liked to go fishing. She was also a competitor. She was the star basketball player for Hickory Flat High School. She was an avid golfer. She enjoyed being with her golfing friends, her brothers and their families, her husband's family, close neighbors, civic club friends, church family and particularly the Snow Lake cabin families. She is now enjoying Jesus and is with her eternal spiritual family.
Services will be at 2 p.m. today, May 23, 2013, at Springdale Baptist Church in Ripley. Bro. Randy Hamilton and Bro. Stacy McKee will officiate. Burial will be in Tippah Memorial Garden in Ripley. McBride Funeral Home of Ripley is in charge of the arrangements.
She is survived by two sons, Danny Shelton (Sue) of Ripley and Kirk Shelton (Beth) of Tupelo; eight grandchildren, April Byers (Anthony), Patrick Shelton (Kristi), Nikki Edwards (Kyle), Melissa Quilio (Joey), Chris Shelton, Jordan, Graham and Grisham Shelton; nine great-grandchildren; two sisters-in-law, Margie Gray of Hickory Flat and Patti Sue Shelton of Ripley.
She was preceded in death by her husband, Albert Lee Shelton Jr.; her parents; one son, Lee Gray Shelton; and four brothers, George, Rayburn, Maurice and Russell Gray.
Pallbearers will be Patrick Shelton, Anthony Byers, Kyle Edwards, Eddie Conner, Joel Moore and Robert Parks.
Visitation will be from 7 a.m. to noon today at the funeral home and from 1 p.m. to service time today at the church.
Memorials may be made to the Alzheimer's Foundation of America, 322 Eighth Ave., 7th Floor, New York, NY 10001.
To view and sign the online guestbook, visit www.mcbridefuneralhome.com
Cecil Aron
PONTOTOC – Cecil Junior Aron, 85, died Tuesday, May 21, 2013, at Sunshine Health Care in Pontotoc. He was a U.S. Army veteran and a member of Robbs Baptist Church. He graduated from Randolph High School in 1956 and attended Itawamba Junior College. He retired from Day-Brite Lighting.
Services will be at 11 a.m. today at Tutor Memorial Funeral Home in Pontotoc. Bro. Tommy Inmon and Bro. Chip Johnson will officate. Burial will follow in Guinn Cemetery. Tutor Memorial Funeral Home is in charge of the arrangements.
Survivors include his wife of 60 years, Clarene Aron; three children, Ricky Aron (Shelia) of Pontotoc, Teresa Tackitt (Sam) of Pontotoc and Juanice Hooker (Ricky) of Thaxton; son-in-law, Clyde Tackitt Jr.; grandchildren, Tommy Caldwell (Jennifer), Jackie Caldwell, Tracy Tackitt, Robin Duffie (Joshua), Joey Tackitt, Kristi Carwile (Calla), Amanda Floyd (Cameron), Jason Williams (Dani), Shuana Wilson (Joey), David Hooker (Christina) and Brad Hooker; seven great-grandchildren and 11 stepgreat-grandchildren; siblings, Dorothy McDonald (Carol), Lois Matkins (Keith) and J.C. Aron (Sue).
He was preceded in death by his parents, George and Dorothy Aron; daughter, Cecelia "Bo" Tackitt; siblings, Ekoy, Q.T. and L.V. Aron, and Mary Waldo White.
Pallbearers will be Tommy and Jackie Caldwell, Joey Tackitt, Calla Carwile, Joshua Duffie and Jason Williams.
Visitation will be from 9 to 11 a.m. today.
In lieu of flowers, make donations to Gideons or charity of your choice.
Jack Cobb
BATESVILLE – Jack A. Cobb, passed away Tuesday, May 21, 2013, at Baptist Memorial Hospital in Memphis.
A memorial service will be at 11 a.m. today at the First United Methodist Church in Batesville. Wells Funeral Home of Batesville is in charge of the arrangements.
Memorials may be made to First United Methodist Church Chancel Choir or the Daycare Center, 119 Panola Ave., Batesville, MS 38606.
Cherry Word
OKOLONA – Cherry Ann Wilkinson Word, 86, died Monday, May 20, 2013, at her residence following an extended illness. She was born Jan. 25, 1927, in Memphis to Joseph C. Wilkinson and Mary Halliburton Wilkinson. After graduating high school she continued her education at Mississippi State College for Women (MSCW) in Columbus. She married Thomas Lawler Word Jr. on April 12, 1947, and worked for many years as a teller for BancorpSouth in Tupelo as well as Okolona before retiring. She was a gracious lady who enjoyed her Bridge Club, cooking, crossword puzzles, reading, watching the cooking channel, and spending time at the beach. She was the last surviving member of her generation of a very large and loving family, known as the "Queen," and being fun-loving and witty. She was of the Presbyterian faith, attending First Presbyterian Church in Okolona and a former member of Wren Presbyterian Church.
A celebration of life service will be at 11 a.m. today at First Presbyterian Church in Okolona with the Rev. Sandra Sisson and the Rev. Tom Cheatham officiating. Visitation will be from 10 a.m. to service time today at First Presbyterian Church. Holland Funeral Directors is in charge of the arrangements.
Survivors include her son, William Word (Pat) of Houston; daughter, Janice Word Cain of Okolona; daughter-in-law, Suzanne Word of West Point; 12 grandchildren, Thomas Word (Natalie), Amy Bryan (Wilkes), Matt Word (Dayna), Jenny Stubblefield (Earl), Lonny Cain (Kimberlie), Patrick Cain (Amanda), Clay Cain (Jennifer), Beth McArthur (Johnathan), Chad Galloway, Katie Mitchell (Sam), Emily Word and Tara Criddle; 16 great-grandchildren, and a host of nieces, nephews and cousins.
She was preceded in death by her parents; her husband, Thomas Lawler Word Jr., who died June 10, 1976; her son, Tommy Word; two brothers and one sister; and her companion, Louie Demoville.
Pallbearers will be Herbert Word, Rodney Hollingsworth, Tom Hollingsworth and David Turner. Honorary pallbearers will be her grandsons.
Memorials may be made to First Presbyterian Church, 326 W. Main Street, Okolona, MS 38860, First Presbyterian Church, 209 Fourth Street, South, Amory, MS 38821, or LIFE of MS, 1051 Cliff Gookin Blvd., Tupelo, MS 38801.
Condolences may be emailed to firstname.lastname@example.com.
Bobby Hale
OLIVE BRANCH – Bobby Wayne Hale, 63, passed away on Wednesday, May 22, 2013, after a brief illness. He was a veteran and a retired Teamster. He drove for Greyhound Lines and Roadway. He was a talented singer and guitar player, but his greatest joy was spending time with his family. He was a believer in Jesus Christ our Lord and loved his church family.
Services will be at 10 a.m. Friday at Clearview Baptist Church in Southaven. A graveside service will be at 2:30 p.m. at Sardis Baptist Church Cemetery in Iuka. Brantley Funeral Home of Olive Branch is in charge of arrangements.
He is survived by his wife of 39 years, Molly Hale; two daughters, Kellie Moore (David) of Southaven and Renea Beene (Scott) of Olive Branch; seven grandchildren, Mollie and Makenzie Beene, Tucker Beene and Jude Beene, all of Olive Branch, and Hayden Tapper, Gabriel Moore and Garrett Moore, all of Southaven; one brother, William d. Hale of Southaven; two sisters, Martha Rushing (Frank) of Olive Branch and Linda Bray (Larry) of Booneville.
He was preceded in death by his parents, Silas and Inezz Hale, and a brother, Don Hale.
Visitation will be from 5 to 8 p.m. today at the funeral home.
Online condolences may be left at www.brantleyfuneral.com.
Bonnie Dunnam
KEOWNVILLE – Bonnie Jean Dunnam, 58, died Tuesday, May 21, 2013, at Baptist Hospital East in Memphis. She was born May 9, 1945, in Tippah County, the daughter of Roy and Annie Lee Ledbetter Dunnam. She was a member of Lowery Methodist Church and attended Mt. Olivet Methodist Church. She was a surgical technician at Baptist-Union County, in New Albany for 22 years.
Services will be at 2 p.m. today at Glenfield Funeral Home in New Albany. Bro. Trey Lambert will officiate. Burial will be in Mt. Olivet Methodist Church Cemetery.
Survivors include one son, Orville Earnest Goolsby III of Booneville; two sisters, Erna Ruth Paseur (Elmer) and Ann Studdard (Max), all of Ripley; and several nieces and nephews.
She was preceded in death by her parents; a brother, Sammie Dunnam; and two sisters, Leila Waldon and Nell Holliday.
Visitation will be from 10 a.m. until service time today.
Memorials may be made to the American Cancer Society.
Sarah Wray
DORSEY – Sarah M. Shumpert Wray, 90, died Tuesday, May 21, 2013, at her son's home in Amory. She was born Oct. 17, 1922, in the Evergreen community to Andy and Dessie Shumpert. She played basketball during her school years. She was a member of the Kingdom Hall of Jehovah's Witness in Fulton. She did house cleaning, upholstered furniture and cooked for people during her working years. She enjoyed inviting people over her house and cooking for them.
Services will be private for family only and will be held at a later date. McNeece-Morris Funeral Home of Fulton is in charge of the arrangements.
Survivors include two sons, Duane Wray Sr. (Beverly) of Amory and Carl Wray of Milwaukee, Wis.; one daughter, Diane Wray of Milwaukee; three brothers, John Shumpert of Jacksonville, Fla., Otis Shumpert of the Evergreen community and Robert Shumpert of Pensacole, Fla.; five sisters, Blanzine Shumpert Dunwoody of Fulton, Loisteen Shumpert Gray of Dorsey, Murtha Shumpert Russ of Dorsey, Exie Shumpert Muhammad and Cedera Shumpert Muhammad, both of Verona; several grandchildren, great-grandchilden and great-great-grandchildren; a host of nieces and nephews.
She was preceded in death by several brothers and sisters; and her parents.
Online condolences may be expressed at mcneecemorrisfuneralhome.com.
Judy Roberson
STARKVILLE – Judy Lynn Roberson, 57, passed away on Wednesday, May 22, 2013, at North Mississippi Medical Center in Tupelo. She was a data analyst with North Mississippi Health Services for 26 years. She was a 1973 graduate of Starkville High School and an honor graduate of East Mississippi Community College. She attended Itawamba Community College and Mississippi State University. She was a former employee of The Department of Wildlife and Fisheries, the College of Veterinary Medicine at MSU and First United Methodist Church in Starkville.
She was preceded in death by her parents, Marion George Roberson and Willie Sue Lewis Roberson; and a sister, Marian Sue Roberson.
She is survived by her sisters, Nelda Newell (Dan) of Scottsboro, Ala., and Mary Jo Ingram (Lowell) of Grenada; brothers, George W. "Billy" Roberson (Debra) and Roy H. Roberson (Dorothy), all of Starkville, and Jesse Keith Roberson (Rita) of Shannon; 12 nieces and nephews; and six great-nieces and great-nephews.
Visitation will be from 5 to 7 p.m. Friday at Welch Funeral Home in Starkville. Services will be at 1 p.m. Saturday in the chapel of Welch Funeral Home. Burial will be in Pleasant Ridge Cemetery in Bradley.
Memorial donations may be made to American Cancer Society.
You can go online and sign the guest register at www.welchfuneralhomes.com.
Haynes Stephens
DRAPER, Utah – George Haynes Stephens, 72, died Monday, May 20, 2013, at North Mississippi Medical Center in Tupelo. He was born April 20, 1941, to Artis and Larue Willis Stephens. He enjoyed NASCAR.
Memorial services will be at 1 p.m. Friday at the McMillan Funeral Home Chapel in Booneville with Minister Jim Estes officiating.
He is survived by one daughter, Shelia (Danny) Harrison of Birmingham; his companion, Mary Gajkowski of Draper, Utah; one sister, Serene (Earl) McCarley; two brothers, James (Teresa) Stephens and Harold (Betty) Stephens; one sister-in-law, Margret Stephens; one grandson, Stephen Rakestraw; and a host of nieces and nephews.
He was preceded in death by his parents; and two brothers, Dewayne Stephens and Euvone Stephens.
Malcolm Driver
GREENWOOD – Malcolm Wayne Driver, 72, died Tuesday, May 21, 2013, at Greenwood Leflore Hospital.
Services will be at 1 p.m. Monday at Serenity-Martin Funeral Home in Oxford.
Visitation will be from 6 to 7 p.m. Sunday at the funeral home.
Ila Fay Perry
OXFORD – Ila Fay "Toot" Perry, 51, died Monday, May 20, 2013, at Baptist Memorial Hospital-North Mississippi in Oxford.
Services will be at 11 a.m. Saturday at East Providence M.B. Church. Burial will be in Oxford Memorial Cemetery. Hodges-Freeman Funeral Home of Oxford is in charge of arrangements.
Visitation will be from 6 to 7 p.m. Friday at the funeral home.
Marlene Hitchcock
PONTOTOC – Marlene Patterson Hitchcock, 82, died Tuesday, May 21, 2013, at Sunshine Health Care in Pontotoc. She was born April 10, 1931, to Eulice F. Patterson and Amye White Patterson of Pontotoc. She was a graduate of Algoma High School Class of 1950. She married Thomas L. "Droop" Hitchcock on Aug. 29, 1951. They had three children. She was a retired garment and furniture seamstress. She was an active member of First United Methodist Church of Pontotoc and a member of the Abundant Life Sunday School Class as long as her health permitted. She was a loving mother and grandmother.
Services will be at 11 a.m. Friday at First United Methodist Church in Pontotoc. The Rev. Roger Shock will officiate. Burial will follow in the Oak Forest Cemetery. Tutor Memorial Funeral Home of Pontotoc is in charge of the arrangements.
She is survived by her sister, Faye Patterson Sills of Thaxton; two daughters, Paula Wren of Saltillo and Marla Walls of Pontotoc; one son, Joe Hitchcock of Pontotoc; grandchildren, Jennifer Dye (Steve), Karla Morris (Tim), Scott Walls (Melanie), Tyler Sneed (Courtney), Brittany Poole (John) and Michael Wren; 12 great-grandchildren, five great-great-grandchildren.
She was preceded in death by her parents; her husband, Thomas L. Hitchcock; a sister, Joann Patterson Enis; a brother, George R. Patterson; and two infant great-grandchildren.
Pallbearers will be Mickey Mapp, Jimmy Roberts, Jon David Naugher, Shane Clayton, Kyle Walker, Kelly Luther and Wayne Mahon. Honorary pallbearers will be Tanner Clayton, Jacob Mapp, William White, Devan Dallas, Charles Thomas, Jimma Clayton, Beth Luther Waldo and Patsy Luther Walker.
Visitation will be from 5 to 9 p.m. today and from 10 to 11 a.m. Friday, all at the church.
In lieu of flowers, donations can be made to First United Methodist Church, P.O. Box 308, Pontotoc, MS 38863; Palestine United Methodist Church, ATTN Rev. Rob Grant, 2806 Hwy. 341, Pontotoc, MS 38863; or to the choice of the donor.
Fred Davis
BOONEVILLE – Freddie "Fred" Davis, 62, went to be with the Lord on Tuesday, May 21, 2013, at the North Mississippi Medical Center in Tupelo after a long illness. He attended Calvary Baptist Church in Booneville. He retired from the City of Baldwyn. He loved horses and enjoyed hunting and fishing. He loved spending time with his grandchildren.
Services will be 2 p.m. today at Kesler Funeral Home Chapel in Baldwyn with Bro. Steve Lampkin and Bro. Tim Robbins officating. Burial will be in the Jumpertown Cemetery. Kesler Funeral Home is in charge of the arrangements.
Survivors include his wife, Brenda Davis of Booneville; one daughter, Brandie Swinford (Roger) of Booneville; two sons, Mike Davis (Heather) of Sherman and Ethan Davis of Booneville; two sisters, Betty Joe Davis of Jumpertown and Liz Rice (Jimmy) of Booneville; three stepsisters, Pat Downs (Jack), Kay Brassfield (Frankie) and Sherry Pannell, all of Booneville; one brother, Chester Dotson( Becky) of Booneville; one stepbrother, Leland Barnett of Booneville; one sister-in-Law, Zola Wren of Nettleton; five grandchildren, Joseph and Athena Miller, Lexie Davis, James and Mariah Swinford; a special niece, Angie Young; a special sister-in-law, Peggy Henry; several nieces and nephews.
He was preceded in death by his parents, Frank and Opal Eaton Davis; one brother, Jimmy Wren.
Pallbearers will be Joey and Bill Hall, Andy King, Nickey Owens, Buddy Lynch and Mike Underwood. Honorary pallbearers will be his many friends.
James Smith
HAMILTON – James Wilson Smith, 77, died Tuesday, May 21, 2013, at Pioneer Community Hospital in Aberdeen. Arrangements are incomplete and will be announced later by Belle Memorial Funeral Home in Aberdeen.
David Forrester
PHEBA – David Forrester, 83, died Tuesday, May 21, 2013, at his home, in Pheba.
Services will be at 2 p.m. Friday at Pheba Baptist Church. Burial will follow in Pheba Cemetery. Calvert Funeral Home of West Point is in charge of arrangements.
Visitation will be from noon to 2 p.m. Friday at Pheba Baptist Church.
Memorials may be made to Pheba Baptist Church, P.O. Box 5, Pheba, MS 39755; or to The Baptist Children's Village, P.O. Box 27, Clinton MS 39060-0027.
Friends may leave a Memory Message at www.calvertfuneralhome.com.
Stella Goodson
FULTON – Stella Mae Bourland Goodson, 97, passed away Wednesday, May 22, 2013, at North Mississippi Medical Center in Tupelo. She was born Sept. 2, 1915, to Byron E. and Hessie Wood Bourland in Itawamba County. She was a member of East Fulton Baptist Church, and former longtime member of Guntown Baptist Church and Sherman Baptist Church. She enjoyed yard work, traveling, going to church and spending time with her family. She was the owner of Stella's Fabrics for many years before her retirement.
Services will be at 11 a.m. Friday at Senter Funeral Home in Fulton. Bro. Gary Smith and Bro. Russ Crosswhite will officiate. Burial will be in Keyes Cemetery.
She is survived by three daughters, Nancy (James H.) Bruce of Blue Springs, Ellen G. (Billy ) Todd of Fulton and Maggie (Richard) Davis of Fulton; one son, William B. (Gogie) Goodson of Baldwyn; 10 grandsons, Mike (Jennifer) Bruce of Blue Springs, Jim R. Bruce of Tupelo, Lee (Belinda) Bruce of Mooreville, Kevin (Selena) Nolan of Fulton, Cole (Mollie) Goodson of Guntown, Cory (Laura Jane) Goodson of Madison, Will (Ashley) Davis of Tupelo, Mike (Cathy) Todd of Fulton, Mark (Martha) Todd of Fulton and John Holland; four granddaughters, Beth (Bobby) McCuiston of Murray, Ky., Deanna (Russ) Harrington of Tupelo, Nan (Rick) Mitchell of Fulton and Gina (Jeremie) Bray of Burnsville; 27 great-grandchildren and two great-great-grandchildren.
She was preceded in death by her parents.
Pallbearers will be Mike Bruce, Jim Bruce, Lee Bruce, Kevin Nolan, Cole Goodson, Cory Goodson, Will Davis, Mark Todd, Mike Todd and John Holland.
Visitation will be from 5 to 8 p.m. today at Senter Funeral Home.
Memorials may be made to Three Rivers, Itawamba Meals on Wheels, c/o Patricia Jenkins, P.O. Box 690, Pontotoc, MS 38863.
Online condolences can be expressed at www.senterfuneraldirectors.com.
Solas Morgan
CORINTH – Solas Argie Morgan, 96, died Tuesday, May 21, 2013, at his home.
Services will be at 3 p.m. today at Corinthian Funeral Home. Burial will be in Lone Oak Baptist Cemetery.
Visitation will be from 1 p.m. to service time today.
Albert Parker
MICHIE, Tenn. – Albert Lynn "Buddy Joe" Parker, 61, died Tuesday, May 21, 2013, at his home.
Services will be at 4 p.m. Friday at The Highlands Church. Burial will be in Pisgah Cemetery in Henderson, Tenn. Corinthian Funeral Home is in charge of the arrangements.
Visitation will begin at 10 a.m. today.