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I'm once more stuck in a corner...
I'm using MMF and no problem but now I need to have a form with a file upload field.
First of all, if I understand correctly, MMF does not support these fields.
So I've downloaded the patch posted by dinhtrung (page 1 of this thread). I've also downloaded the example he posted but I couldn't find any sign of MMF being used... doh!
My main model uses a function to init the form to be cloned, such as:
public function getMMFDocConfig() { return array( 'elements'=>array( 'booking_id'=>array( 'type'=>'hidden', ), ... 'document_filename'=>array( 'type'=>'file', ), ) ); }
And in my view MMF works fine, with add/remove links and everything, for all child MMF's.
In my controller I thus save this MMF the same way I do for the others child MMF.
if (... && MultiModelForm::save($bookingdoc,$validatedBookingdocs,$deleteBookingdocs,$bookingValues) && $model->save()) { ...
Problems are:
- it seems I never get to execute this line in my controller when I save main model, turning off Ajax validation doesn't change anything (a var_dump call placed right before MMF::save is never executed)
- I'm then sent back to the edit form (not saved) and the file upload field shows error "filename can't be blank"
- I've also tried to manually add code to check for any CUploadedFile object, then I've checked MMF code and that should be done in there (by function initItems); with or without my code, nothing changes
Anybody has experience with these? Anyone could give hints or suggestions...?
EDIT: meanwhile I've also tried another fork of MMF (by wandoledzep, that uses an older version of jquery relcopy) without success. It looks like I'm unable to find an example of using MMF with a file upload field...


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The 2010 USA World Cup forward had his contract with Nottingham Forest terminated by mutual consent, the League Championship side announced on Monday. Findley had fallen completely off the radar at Forest, spending the first half of the season on loan with League Two side Gillingham.
Findley joined the club from Real Salt Lake in 2011, but the 27-year-old battled injuries and never cemented himself as a consistent starter for a club that had five managers in his brief time there. Findley scored six goals in all competitions while with Forest, all of which came in the 2011-12 season.
According to a report last week from Soccer By Ives, RSL has arranged to reacquire Findley, whose MLS rights are held by the Portland Timbers. Portland selected Findley during its expansion draft in 2010 despite having the knowledge that Findley was going to sign with Nottingham Forest. The report on SBI suggests that the two MLS clubs have agreed to a trade, and now that Findley has been released from his contract, the path to completing that trade would appear to be clear. Even though Findley would be a returning U.S. international, the fact that he left MLS on a free transfer and has his rights held by Portland would allow him to circumvent the league's allocation order.
Should Findley rejoin Salt Lake, he would fill a need for the club, which dealt one of its starting strikers, Fabian Espindola, to the New York Red Bulls during the offseason. In four seasons with Real Salt Lake, the speedy Findley tallied 29 goals, including a career-high 12 in 2009. He also has four career postseason goals, three of which came in his breakout 2009 campaign.
Findley earned a place on Bob Bradley's U.S. national team roster for the 2010 World Cup in South Africa, starting three of the four games the Americans played in the tournament, including the knockout-round loss to Ghana.

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, and from that point of view ID cards will be a good thing, at the moment we are getting personal fines of 80 quid if we serve someone under 18, and get caught. The problem is theres no real form of ID that we can _expect_ people to have, a lot of people over 18 don't carry it.
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I am lucky in that our company will back you to the hilt with regards to ID, but OTOH if you fail a test purchase you get a disciplinary.
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Jason Strange's side have swept all before them in the last three seasons, winning back-to-back One East titles before taking home the inaugural SWALEC Championship last season.
They also reached the quarter finals of the 2012/13 SWALEC Cup, only exiting the competition following a nail biting one point defeat to eventual winners Pontypridd.
That game showed just how competitive Ebbw Vale can be against the best club sides in Wales, something they will have to show again at Cardiff Arms Park on Sunday, August 25.
"I'm really looking forward to it. It gives young players like myself the chance to play on the Arms Park, I can't wait to be honest," was Hughes' verdict on the upcoming sevens tournament.
"I've got some sevens experience from when I was younger and we've been training hard up at Ebbw Vale.
"We've been sticking to our preseason schedule which hopefully means we'll do well."
The Steelmen face Llanelli in the final game of the opening round at Cardiff Arms Park, a stiff challenge given that the west Wales side reached last year's Principality Premiership play-off final.
But after scoring 159 tries in their 26 games in the Championship last season, it's clear Ebbw Vale have plenty of firepower of their own.
"Llanelli are going to be tough opposition, they've got a very strong academy but hopefully we'll do well against them," Hughes added.
"We'll see how far we get but obviously there are some very good teams in the competition.
"It's a brilliant prospect as a whole though and a great place to play at Cardiff Arms Park."
The Foster's National Sevens is a good opportunity for players from all 16 teams to both have a blow out ahead of the start of the regular season and claim some silverware.
"There are youngsters at Ebbw Vale who maybe haven't been given the chance in the 15 a side game yet and sevens is a different style of play," said Hughes.
"So it's a good chance for them to make a name for themselves.
"We've got great coaches, a great set up and everyone is working hard. It's a fantastic club to be at and it's going to be a very interesting season."
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Nationally, August home sales soared to their fastest pace since February 2007, while local single-family sales for the same month remained virtually unchanged from a year ago, and were down about 10 percent from July.
But at all levels, homes are being sold at significantly higher median prices than a year ago. The median price is that level at which half the homes sold for more, half for less.


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The worst halftime show by a long way...just incredibly bad...
Pretty good halftime show, honestly.
The worst halftime show by a long way...just incredibly bad...
Okay who else switched to Channel 5 to watch The Simpsons during the halftime show?
Actually the Destiny's Child thing really helped that halftime show. Made it a bit more humanitary.
That actually wasn't that bad.
Ok we're back on.
Remember when alot of jets fans thought Sanchez was better then Flacco,lol
Very good military spot with Oprah
Kat Dennings and that other chick
Who were those two broke whores?
Ok. Next year the Jets will be in the super bowl with a 21 pt lead and Led Zeppelin will play at halftime.


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US iPhone ready to be tied down?
Tethering: believe it when you see it
The latest iPhone OS has options to enable tethering, not to mention a custom-dictionary editor and a control to stop the screen spinning around every time you lie down.
The next version of Apple's iPhone OS is now in its fourth beta, and the interwebs are thrilled to see that it appears possible to use an iPhone as a GSM modem - though one shouldn't get too excited given the same feature appeared, and disappeared, during testing of the last OS version.
iPhone tethering - connecting a laptop to an iPhone for internet access - has been promised to Americans, and delivered to everyone else, for years. The option appeared in beta versions of iPhone OS 3 only to vanish again before general launch, as C-Net reminds us, but now it's back with a dialog prompting customers to contact AT&T to enable tethering.
Needless to say no other smartphone platforms have any problem with tethering, and most feature phones can do it these days too.
The problem isn't technical - the iPhone is perfectly capable of routing internet traffic - but in the USA AT&T is reluctant to let punters connect laptops over their unlimited-data iPhone tariffs. Introducing a "tethering fee" is the obvious solution, and that's what O2 et al do in the UK where tethering is encouraged.
However, AT&T seems concerned that charging punters more would make the company look bad, so the best option is to keep promising and never deliver.
Kowtowing to AT&T's preferences is the price Apple has to pay for the subsidy AT&T provides. Last week Engadget reminded us that Apple and AT&T signed a five-year deal back in 2007, so if that's not been updated since then AT&T could be calling the shots for another two years and tethering in the US could continue to be the promised feature that never arrives. ®
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CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. - Facing a tough opponent today in Charlottesville, Yale captain Brandon Wai fell in the first round of the University of Virginia's annual fall tournament. Coming off a tournament in which he had to withdraw because of a sore throat, Wai lost to NC State's Nick Cavaday in straight sets, 6-2, 6-1.
Wai, currently ranked No. 50 in the nation, was never quite able to get it going in his match against Cavaday, the country's No. 39-ranked player. Wai will travel to Princeton, NJ next week to compete in the Princeton/Farnsworth invitational.
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They plan to look at the way each region of the state does things, and implement the best plans. Kalamazoo happens to be one place that the governor feels is doing things right, and should serve as a template for other areas. But you are correct in that this is not really about "open source" government at all, which would allow anyone to contribute. This is about taking the best policies and procedures already out there, and using them in places that are not yet doing so.
And in the intelligence community, "open source" means a publicly available source of information.
Since it's almost a requirement that you're an addle minded bozo to be accepted in politics, it's could be he has a number of meanings of the term wrapped up together.
...But you are correct in that this is not really about "open source" government at all, which would allow anyone to contribute...
Isn't that democracy?
(or do you really want to debate it and get into the finer points of a representative republic?)
Haha, I'm not one of those folks who prattle on about "It's not a democracy, it's a republic!" Yeah, uh, the states are democracies that democratically elect representatives to join the governing bodies of the republic.
Unfortunately, we do not allow just anyone to contribute. Try writing a bill and getting it before congress. But that really wasn't what I was talking about, most of government is not decided on by votes of any sort, it is set as policy. I think this story is more about governmental operation
If you're a corporate lobbyist, getting a bill introduced is actually quite easy.
I do! I do!
And yuu don't want the common person having specific input. It goes badly because the people who show up are generally clueless and demand shit that's stupid, doesn't apply, or would cost far too much.
OR they will use 'common knowledge' to tell you what you shouldn't do.
I am not saying they should be out all together. example:
JQ Public wants a park? great. They want swing, grass and a soccer field, fine. The implementation and the details should be done by professionals. Cause I guarantee you that some jack
No, let anyone have specific input, just as any old schmoe can contribute patches to an open source project. Make it as easy as possible for everyone, even the stupid people, to see how things are done and contribute ideas about how they could be done better. Just as with open source, the maintainer (i.e. the government official in charge) decides what gets committed and what gets thrown out. Sure, you would have to look over and toss out dozens of bad ideas for every good one, but I think it would be worth
I think the plan needs to first address some more fundamental issues, such was: why anyone should take a place called fuckin' "Kalamazoo" seriously. That's such a joke name.
Maybe what he means by "open source" economic model is that he wants state workers to work for free.
Snyder mentioned a concept called "open-source economic development." He said the state is going to look at every region and see which area is the best at a certain practice and ask if the community is willing to share it with the rest of the state.
Applying best practices around the state is not about getting credit but rather uplifting the state for all, Snyder said.
Snyder mentioned a concept called "open-source economic development." He said the state is going to look at every region and see which area is the best at a certain practice and ask if the community is willing to share it with the rest of the motherland. Applying best practices around the motherland is not about getting credit but rather uplifting the motherland for all, Snyder said.
In all seriousness, though, the "open source development model" (not necessarily a Mozilla Foundation version of that, b
I don't think the "open source development model" is the correct association to make with his statement "open source economic development".
The way I read it is more like recipe sharing. Whoever makes the best apple pie gets their recipe distributed throughout the state. I didn't read anything about mandates in the article, so it sounds like the local governments can take recipes and do with them as they see fit.
One would hope that efficiency would prevail, but I'm sure that some local governments will stu
Why is the word "Socialism" so hard to say for some ?
Calling Open Source communist is false because people arent being forced into it, they have a choice, it is reasonable call it socialist though.
Socialism is all about sharing, society has been "into it" for a long time, its not a dirty word, its not something to be ashamed of.
Communism is when society tries to FORCE its people to share, it doesn't work, its too inefficient.
"Applying best practices around the state is not about getting credit but rather uplifting the state for all, Snyder said.
So he wont mention anything about this initiative when he runs for reelection?
Maybe what he means by "open source" economic model is that he wants state workers to work for free.
Time for them for fork and start their own state.
Or give the cars away for free but charge for service
Or give the cars away for free but charge for service
Last time I tried that they threw the DMCA at me, so I had to go back to selling cars and charging for non-existent service.
I've mentioned this before
http://linux.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1377061&cid=29499823 [slashdot.org]
But I've seen the phrase "open source" used all over the place by non-tech people
Particularly when they want to express the idea of a transparent process, one that's open (to debate and democratic reform)
The taxpayers might be able to help out if they can see exactly where their money is being pissed away.
This has nothing to do with Open Source. It is about using the best practices found and implementing them. The real problem with government is a lack of good metrics to measure performance. If you measure it then you know what works and what doesn't and you use what works.
But on the flip side you get a bunch of whiny pants who wants to keep the bad way of doing things and state that the metrics are not good.
This is about measuring performance in particular areas and using what works better as a best pract
The problem is the open source license being used. Lots of government bodies use a license similar to the BSD license where "taking without giving back" is perfectly acceptable which is what big business does most of the time.
He said the state is going to look at every region and see which area is the best at a certain practice and ask if the community is willing to share it with the rest of the state... He said he's going to give Michiganders a sense of how the state's doing on myriad metrics annually. He also said wants to give residents a road map of where the state is going, by planning a two-year budget and creating an online "dashboard" that tracks the government's progress on different issues.
Now, we can have a lot of pointless dickering about whether the term "Open Source" is being abused. But more importantly, those ideas in themselves sound fine to me. I doubt they'll be enough to solve Michigan's huge problems, but that's another matter.
It is. Best practices != software, and if he actually means copying coftware solutions you can bet most of it is closed source they'll have to buy more licenses for.
P.S. Most of the time
I'm fairly certain you are infringing on the model used by many powerful businesses that patent such models. I hope you like being a revenue source.
Because its open source, I'm going to make the following changes to your model and submit it.
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Spend less than you take in.
When cutting spending, try cutting big ticket items first.
Pay down more than the minimum payment on debts.
Round expenses up
In a deal hammered out by the state's Democratic leadership, the lame-duck legislature pushed through a 67% increase in the state income tax and a 45% increase in the corporate tax....
I'm tired of seeing numbers presented like this. Semi-related XKCD: http://xkcd.com/558/ [xkcd.com]
From the same article, the real numbers are: income-tax rate from 3% to 5%, corporate tax from 4.8% to 7%.
I'm not saying the tax increase was a good idea. I'm not saying it's not burdensome. I'm just saying that the phrase '67% increase' is intended to incite anger without understanding, while 'from 3% to 5%' is intended to inform.
A few years ago my state was having gubernatorial elections, and the challeng
That all sounds really familiar.
I'm going to change #2
2. Never actually cut spending. Less than expected increases in the budget shall be called "cuts". When "cutting" spending, "cut" which ever program will cause the most news (good or bad).
But what if borrowing leads to more growth that pays off the debt? What if cutting spending in a depression lowers economic activity and therefore tax revenues? What if interest rates are low enough to make it non-sensical to pay more than the bare minimum?
Your model may work for a household, but not a government.
The idea that government spending creates "growth" is, at best, arguable. It can be used to maybe prevent a further slide (ie: temporarily paying unemployment when there are mass layoff, so those people have money to eat on, so rent is paid, food is bought, etc.) Government spending is a patch, it isn't an investment plan. Notable exceptions would be in infrastructure and other items that the people can't themselves provide, but even then, too much is too much and the payback time for infrastructure is typically measured in years if not decades.
The idea that government spending creates "growth" is, at best, arguable... Notable exceptions would be in infrastructure and other items that the people can't themselves provide...
Then the proposition is not "at best arguable", you actually state that it's true. The only thing you're quibbling over is the price tag. Say what you mean, dude...
The idea that government spending creates "growth" is, at best, arguable.
I think you're correct, and are pointing out a common mis-conception. A government can't reasonably directly create economic growth, but it can provide an infrastructure and context that promotes private economic investment and growth, and doing so is not usually without cost. The government spending does not directly create growth, but without the necessary contextual factors growth will not happen.
Now, with that said, you are also correct that the proper amount of spending and on what services and infrast
The idea that government spending creates "growth" is, at best, arguable
Well, for the past 7 years, I've been gainfully employed in a private biotech company. The core technology was developed in a university setting under the funding of government research grants.
In this case, government spending has clearly led to economic opportunities. In fact, considering that a huge portion of fundamentally new technology comes from academic research, and that emerging technologies on the market can create huge
Generally, I agree.
But when should you invest extra in infrastructure? During a recession.
- The price is lower than normal (even factoring interest on borrowing, labor and equipment are idle and should therefore be cheaper than normal)
- It's better to pay salaries of construction workers than pay them unemployment for not working
- Whatever stimulative benefits you may or may not get
When the government is rich tends to be when the economy is booming and infrastructure projects
It's dangerous to think that spending just for the sake of spending will spur economic activity. Economic activity is only really worthwhile if it produces tangible goods and services with real benefits. Hap-hazard spending will produce the same economic numbers in the short term, but over time it will become ineffective because it failed to produce anything or real value. In the end, you'll be worse off than you were at the beginning because of all the resources that you wasted, worse still if you accum
Oh, yeah, all that government spending. The bailouts, the 1% during Greenspan and then 0% during Bernanke interest rates, the stimulus packages, the buying out of various private businesses, buying out bad mortgage loans, insuring mortgage loans with no collateral, with no downpayment, giving out all sorts of free money, sure sure, that'll generate economic activity.
If by activity you mean: people will buy more stuff they didn't produce with the given/borrowed money - you are right.
If by activity you mean:
What if the government actually didn't take on debt? What if the government actually had a policy of saving 25% of any budget surplus and returning the rest as a tax refund? What if the government actually had its own private cash reserves with which to do non-deficit spending and lower the need to have discretionary funds in the budget in any given year? What if those cash reserves were stored in local banks that gave out loans in good times? What if the government tried to actually cut out unnecessary spending?
If a private household did the equivalents of those things, it'd be quite well off within several years. After 30-40 years, the parents would have their home firmly paid off and would be able to fold their mortgage payment into their savings and retirement funds.
I'm only 27, but my grandmother remembers when the federal government actually used to be the one doing for the world what China does for us. How the mighty have fallen.
5. If the choice is between services not essential to physical survival of the public, and raising taxes, shitcan the services.
Real simple, right? Except, you get voted out of office for cutting services *or* raising taxes, or running on a platform of doing either. That's the rub. People want services, but have a naive disassociation with their tax revenue and funding their government.
Plenty of politicians love to talk in vagaries about how they'll do one or the other, but no one has the courage to campaign that way.
Social Security isn't really a service. And it's our biggest expense. Let's cut it.
The so called "social security trust fund" has already been raided with sneaky accounting in the form of government bonds.
It's already bankrupt because it's holding worthless IOUs from Uncle Sam.
Yeah, so if you eliminate it, you'll eliminate a large portion of the national debt. It's a win-win.
You can't just make debt go poof. The money is already gone and we're already in the hole.
Stopping it wouldn't take care of the IOUs that are already outstanding.
The US would have to go bankrupt against its own citizens to pull that off.
Imagine you take out a loan with a loan-shark. One day he tells you that he'll break your legs if you don't pay him back. But you can't pay him back, so you kill him instead. Who will come back to collect? He was the one with a financial interest in the loan.
It works the same way with social security. Only the program has a financial interest in the debt, cancel it and you no longer need to it back. Of course, there are people depending on social security money for their retirement/whatever, so you'd
I never received a dime from them, how am I supposed to pay back some kind of "dept" that I "owe" them? The money's not there, and moving forward it will continue to be less and less there. We need to find a better way to take care of our overweight diabetic Vietnam vets.
Here's my model:
Here's the reality:
Spend as much as you can. People love it when you spend on new programs.
When the stupid people want you to cut spending cut to police and fire first so they will think twice about asking for cuts the next time.
Pay down debts?! Debts show your development! Every successful government is in debt. The more debt the more successful!
Always underestimate the cost of programs to make them look appealing, then overestimate the revenues from anything you do! It makes you look good!
2.When cutting spending, try cutting big ticket items first.
The big ticket items in your state budget are the ones that care for the poorest and most vulnerable. The very young and the very old. The sick and the disabled.
The geek keeps his toll free commuter bridge.
The middle class entitlement that costs next to nothing in the larger scheme of things.
Grandma loses her senior van, dental clinic and home care services.
The big ticket items in your state budget are the ones that care for the poorest and most vulnerable.
Like the two cell phones that Social Services gave my worthless sister, who would (literally) not work in a pie factory, for being one welfare. Now she can sit in her government paid for apartment and make calls for 250hrs a month without worrying about a bill. It was attached to the Food Stamps program in North Carolina, btw. The government likes to wrap all of those programs up into one big bag so that parts are hard to throw out.
It's called the "free market." Michigan should try it.
I think they did, and the market sent all their jobs to the third world.
I think they did, and the market sent all their jobs to the third world.
The problem with a market is that if you aren't willing to meet a counterparty at an agreed on price, then no transaction occurs. In the case of Michigan, they simply priced themselves out of the labor and industry markets by imposing too many conditions on businesses.
I know, like labor and environmental protections. The problem isn't that Michigan priced themselves out of business, it's that places like China treat people like shit and crack down on people who oppose such abuses. Logically, the only way to compete with China would be to reduce costs down to being just under China costs + shipping.
Of course, I doubt many people in the US would be willing to accept such a drop in quality of life, or accept such corporate abuse.
Of course, I doubt many people in the US would be willing to accept such a drop in quality of life, or accept such corporate abuse.
That's ok, it doesn't need to be voluntary. Many people in the US are getting that drop in quality of life, whether they chose to accept it or not.
Of course, I doubt many people in the US would be willing to accept such a drop in quality of life, or accept such corporate abuse.
I don't think you've been watching the same country I have. Since I was little, I've watched a corporate chain systematically replace nearly every independent business, to the detriment of the local environment, to the standard of living of the local populace, and even to the continued success, education, and care of children.
We now live on Planet Starbucks, just as Thomas Jefferson predicted. It's the inevitable course when our economy is based on the Federal Reserve and debt slavery. You know Andrew Ja
Free market - this is an interesting term.
'Free' implies no imposition of order or expectations, but 'Market' connotes an establishment of certain expectations, such as equitable trading, enforced obligations, peace, security, and probably a negotiable instrument as a means of exchange. 'Market' doesn't exist without agreed upon regulation and an external entity to enforce said regulation.
So, a market can only be free up to a certain point before it ceases to be a market and instead becomes looting and anar
'Market' connotes an establishment of certain expectations, such as equitable trading, enforced obligations, peace, security, and probably a negotiable instrument as a means of exchange. 'Market' doesn't exist without agreed upon regulation and an external entity to enforce said regulation.
Nonsense! Trading doesn't have to be equitable for it to take place. Black marketplaces exist everywhere outside of any established regulation, but yet we still have a market place if exchange takes place. It's nice if obligations are enforced, but not necessary. All the homes in foreclosure show that aspect of it, yet it is still possible to get a house.
All of those items are desirable, but by no means are they necessary by any definition of a market. A market is simply when you have two entities tra
I believe that all software produced by the US government has no copyright protection in the USA and is effectively public domain. This doesn't apply to the work of contractors though.
Open source is a fine notion in many things. However we are seeing our government looking like a deer frozen in the headlights with no clue of which way to turn. One reality is that we can never hope to have labor compete with foreign labor. There are so many workers in nations like China that labor simply can not get paid the way Americans do. We also now have huge problems in competing with designs and technologies from several nations. A general lack of education is hurting America bad. We also c
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With polls showing the race for Senate within each candidate's grasp, Republican incumbent Scott Brown and Democratic challenger Elizabeth Warren scrapped for every last vote on Sunday, barnstorming with spirited rallies where they evoked Massachusetts' storied past and warned of the high stakes for its future.
"It's not just about us. It's about our children. It's about our grandchildren," Warren told more than 400 supporters at a rally at Braintree High School. "Because this truly is about whose side America stands on."
In Faneuil Hall, beneath the logo, "Liberty and Union Now and Forever," some 700 supporters cheered Brown, who urged them not to go to bed on Tuesday wishing they had done more to help the fight for his reelection, for veterans and small businesses, and against government interference.
"I'm asking you all to go on one final mission," Brown said. "This is all about getting out the vote. They know it. I know it. The difference is — we've got you. We've got an army."
The rallies on each side buzzed with the energy of the home stretch. Crowds of fervent supporters packed the venues, filling them with robust cheers. The candidates' families beamed from the front rows. Brown's wife, Gail Huff, and daughters introduced him in Boston; Warren's husband, Bruce Mann, along with her daughter, son-in-law, and three young grandchildren crowded in for hugs after she spoke.
Brown, whose special-election win in 2010 stunned Democrats, was joined onstage at Faneuil Hall by former governor William F. Weld, a Republican, who recalled campaigning with Brown the weekend before that victory.
"It was man vs. machine then and it's still man vs. machine," said Weld. "The machine never rests. The machine never sleeps. All it does is say, 'I want some more automatic votes for higher taxes.' "
Weld, who ran for a Senate seat in 1996, was returning to the hallowed hall where he had debated his rival, US Senator John F. Kerry, 16 years ago. Kerry, too, took to the trail yesterday, joining Warren onstage at her rally in a more modest auditorium, where he was introduced after a string of local officials.
"We can decide who controls the United States Senate," Kerry said, as he blasted Republicans in the Senate for filibustering. "I want somebody in there who works for America."
Earlier in the day, Brown took the massive blue bus that has become his traveling campaign headquarters to Mul's Diner in South Boston. There, former Boston mayor Raymond L. Flynn, a longtime Democrat who endorsed Brown and has campaigned on his behalf for weeks, echoed the bipartisan theme, saying the "People over party" refrain has been resonant since 1960, when Republican John Volpe was elected governor at a time when Massachusetts voters were flocking to the polls to elect Democrat John F. Kennedy president.
"If people voted party, John Volpe would not have been elected governor," Flynn said. Likewise, "this election is about what's best for the people. Not what's best for a political party. And that's why I think Scott Brown's going to win."
Others were more cautious in their projections. "Brown's got his work cut out for him," said David Calvani, a Lynnfield resident and Brown supporter who brought his 7-year-old son, Jake, to his first campaign event. "He's done what he said he was going to do and he deserves to be elected again."
At Warren's rally, she begged to differ, casting Brown in the same cloth as his fellow Republicans. She declared, as she has for weeks, that he had voted with Republicans against jobs bills, against equal pay for women, and against mandated insurance coverage for birth control, and that he had pledged to never raise taxes.
"Scott Brown has made clear with his pledge and with his votes, he stands with the millionaires, with the billionaires, with the big oil companies," Warren said. "Me, I don't want to go to Washington to work for those guys. They're doing fine. . . . I want to go to Washington to fight for people who want to work."
While Republicans kept their focus on Brown and GOP congressional candidate Richard R. Tisei, who is running against US Representative John F. Tierney on the North Shore, Democrats also targeted GOP presidential nominee Mitt Romney, a former governor.
"I am sick and tired of the lies in American politics," said Kerry, who derided politicians who "say one thing, do another. There's no one in this nation who has been in more positions on more issues and leaves you questioning what he really believes than Willard Mitt Romney."Stephanie Ebbert can be reached at firstname.lastname@example.com. Follow her on Twitter @stephanieebbert.


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One in ten Harvard freshmen admitted to cheating on exams
In a survey of the Harvard freshman class, one in ten students admitted to cheating on an exam, and 42 percent said they cheated on a homework assignment or problem set, according to The Harvard Crimson.
The student newspaper surveyed more than 1,300 students from the class of 2017, or nearly 80 percent of the freshman class.
A year ago, Harvard announced that it was investigating whether a "significant number" of the 250 students in an undergraduate course cheated on a final exam. In February, the school confirmed that more than half of the Harvard students investigated by a college board were ordered to withdraw from the school.
According to the results of the survey, ten percent of the incoming class admitted to cheating on an exam, and 17 percent said they had cheated on a take-home assignment or paper. Forty-two percent said they had cheated on a homework assignment or problem set.
Jeff Neal, a spokesman for Harvard, said in an e-mailed statement that studies by Rutgers University Professor Donald McCabe and other experts have shown that cheating is a national problem, and that it is made worse by technology.
"Even though this is a national problem, the numbers reported from the student newspaper's informal survey align with the decision Harvard College made last year to take action," Neal said in the statement.
The Crimson also said that the class of 2017 reported higher rates of cheating than did the most recent graduating class. In a survey last spring 7 percent of seniors said they had cheated on an exam, and 7 percent reported cheating on a paper or take-home exam. A total of 32 percent said they had cheated on a homework assignment or problem set during their time at Harvard.
Neal wrote that Harvard has taken steps to reduce cheating; for example, the university gave presentations to students during orientation.
"While the vast majority of Harvard and other students do their work honestly, beginning this year Harvard College has implemented a new, more robust strategy of communicating with all students, particularly first-year students, about the importance – and the ways to achieve – academic integrity," Neal wrote.
Neal said that a committee of faculty, staff, and students is working on recommendations to "better support academic integrity on our campus."
"At the end of this process, we hope that Harvard will not only continue to beat national averages in reports of cheating, but also strengthen Harvard's culture of integrity, in which cheating is the rare exception," he said.
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From SARA GRUSKY
I would like to share some information regarding the treatment of those who have been arrested while protesting Caltrans' bypass construction. The Willits News on June 28 stated that criminal charges have been filed in two cases and that I received a traffic ticket for being a pedestrian on a roadway during a protest action. While this information is entirely correct, it does fail to include the fact that some of those arrested spent quite a few days in jail. In the example mentioned above, when I was arrested for being a pedestrian on a roadway during a protest, I was kept in jail for three days before I was arraigned for a traffic violation. When four citizens, myself included, were arrested while trying to deliver food and water to Will Parrish in the wick drain derrick we spent another four days in jail.
I do not share this information as a form of complaint. I fully understand that civil disobedience has consequences. In fact, spending time in Mendocino County Jail has been an important, eye-opening experience and I don't regret it at all. Some of the hardest moments were spent in the overcrowded jail holding cell, which is a 6ft. by 8 ft. room with a concrete floor, fluorescent lights that shine day and night, one metal bench, and a toilet in the center of the room. Because the jail is often overcrowded, many arrestees are spending increasing lengths of time in the holding cell before they are placed in general population. If I add together all the times I was arrested I think I probably spent 3 or 4 days in that holding cell. I had some very deep and emotional conversations with complete strangers in that holding cell. My daughter and I were arrested together on June 22 and we slept side-by-side on the cold concrete floor of that holding cell – well, she slept. I never quite could.
I learned many things while in jail — about the seriousness of drug and alcohol addiction in our county, about the pitfalls of the probation system, and most of all about the depth of generosity and humanity that are possible in situations of great adversity. I found that most of the employees in the County Jail are trying their best to do a decent job when the jail is overcrowded and they are understaffed. I did not meet any hardened "criminals" in jail. I met a lot of people with serious addiction problems – most of whom need love, a good rehabilitation program, and a network of supportive friends and family.
Some of the inmates joked around with us and said we should be protesting the penal system instead of the bypass. They do have a point. There is no doubt that the County Jail is severely overcrowded and has suffered from recent budget cutbacks. Many of the people I met in the jail would be better served in a decent rehabilitation program – which are also lacking, and suffering from budget cuts.


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The Edward C. Smith Civic Center and Arts United for Davidson County have teamed up to offer a new art gallery in Lexington.
The Edward C. Smith Civic Center and Arts United for Davidson County have teamed up to offer a new art gallery in Lexington.
The idea for the gallery was born several months ago, according to a press release from Arts United. The civic center was preparing to undergo renovations of its lobby and ballroom and was looking for a way to offer gallery space to the community — something that had been missing since the Arts Center closed in 2009. However, installation of a gallery hanging system was not in the renovation budget.
Arts United had received a generous contribution earmarked for a visual arts project, and a hanging system seemed to be a perfect match for the funds. After discussion and agreement by both boards, the project moved forward.
The two organizations have worked diligently to bring this dream to fruition. The results will be unveiled from 6 to 8 p.m. April 19 as Arts United and the civic center host an opening reception for the 2013 Student Art Exhibition in the civic center's lobby and ballroom. Artwork from the county's three school systems and home schools will be on display through May 12. In addition, Marisa Drake, Arts United's 2012 Young Artist Scholarship recipient, will be on hand for a demonstration. The event is free, and the public is invited to attend.
For the opening exhibit, Arts United chose to bring back the annual Student Art Exhibition.
"This was always very popular," says Melinda Hedrick, a visual arts teacher, Arts United board member and former Young Artist Scholarship recipient. "Now that this gallery space is available, the Student Art Exhibition will again be an annual event."
"Arts United and the civic center will collaborate on upcoming exhibits," says Deborah Conrad, Arts United's executive director. "We are excited to work with the civic center on this project and look forward to bringing more exhibits to Lexington in the future."
"The gallery space is an embodiment of the mission and goals of the Edward C. Smith Civic Center," says Staley Nance, president of the civic center board of directors. "Through this collaboration with Arts United, we now have the ability to offer enrichment opportunities in the visual arts that are relevant to all citizens of our diverse community."
In addition to the lobby refurbishment, the civic center ballroom has received a total makeover. The renovations were made possible by the City of Lexington and Hedrick Creative Builders.
Exhibits in the civic center gallery may be viewed during public events at the civic center.
For more information, contact Arts United at 249-2742 or the civic center at 249-7875.


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Anna Belle (Jobe) Orrell
Anna Belle (Jobe) Orrell, 79, of Benton, passed away Tuesday, November 27, at Cabot Nursing & Rehab Center. She was born February 11, 1933 in North Little Rock to the late Harold W. and Mamie Mae (Hackler) Jobe. Mrs. Orrell was of the Baptist faith and retired from Teletype.
She is preceded in death by her husband, Hurshul L. Orrell.
She is survived by two sisters, Faye Rozier and Amye Hicks and husband Harold; one brother, Ronald Jobe, nieces, nephews, other relatives, and friends.
Funeral service will be at 10 a.m., Friday, November 30, in the chapel of Roller-Ballard Funeral Home in Benton with Rev. Curtis Kyle and Bro. Joe Campbell officiating. Interment will follow at 1 p.m. at Nooner Cemetery in Hollis. Serving as pallbearers will be Frank Tarkington, James Ronald Tarkington, Jonathan Hicks, Harold Hicks, and Kirk Cybulski.
Visitation will be held from 6 to 8 p.m.,Thursday, November 29 at the funeral home.
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Family Comments: The family wishes to express their gratitude for the loving care given by the entire staff over the years at Cabot Nursing and Rehabilitation Center and by Arkansas Hospice in Mrs. Orrell's final days. And he said to him, "Truly, I say to you, today you will be with me in Paradise." Luke 23:43


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SISD excited about changes
While the sweltering summer winds down, the Sweetwater Independent School District (SISD) is already preparing for the "New Course - New Direction" of the new school year which is just days away.Two huge changes have been made that will drastically impact the community: the closing of the HOBBS alternative school and the reorganization of the two elementary schools.Sweetwater ISD Superintendent Terry Pittman, in his latest Superintendent's Corner on the district's website, stated, "Both moves were made after much consideration, deliberation and research. Our HOBBS students will be served at the Wallace Campus in Colorado City."Talks of the alternative school changes began as early as October 2010 when concerns of costs, distance, and travel concerning the campus arose. "Although the miles of transportation are similar, the bus route on Interstate 20 is less hazardous than the winding country roads of wildlife," said Pittman.Two options were presented during the selection process — relocation inside the city limits or consolidation with the alternative campus in Colorado City. In December 2010, the Colorado City location was selected. Melinda Alexander, principal at the Wallace Accelerated High School (WAHS), is excited to see the changes that will take place at her campus for the 2011-12 school year. Alexander describes the Wallace campus as a "school of choice" that partners with a variety of entities such as students, area schools, communities and staff. With the consolidation of SISD students to its campus, Wallace explains her expectations for the upcoming school year, saying, "We hope to provide SISD students...with the same opportunities that have been provided to students in CISD [Colorado Independent School District] who have chosen to attend WAHS, — whether they desire to recover lost credits or to accelerate their education."Furthermore, the collaboration with SISD also provides more opportunities for CISD and WAHS. Alexander added, "It will allow our campus and staff the opportunity to build new partnerships and enhanced creativity among students who are choosing to continue their education in hopes of making a difference in their future."Alexander knows that each new school year comes with challenges and the 2011-12 school year is no different, but she is eager for what's ahead. "My staff and I are very excited about being able to work with students, parents and neighboring districts."She quotes the saying, 'It takes a village to raise a child', yet Alexander states that in this instance, it will take many villages. "The staff members at Wallace Accelerated High School, along with CISD, consider it an honor to be partnering with neighboring districts as we educate our students together."The other amendment was in regards to Southeast and East Ridge elementary schools. "Southeast Elementary will be the campus for all Kindergarten and first grade students while East Ridge Elementary will serve the second and third graders," Pittman announced on the website.On making the changes, Pittman noted, "Consistent classroom size and curriculum are huge benefits with cost savings in combining programs and services that are age specific." He also praised the district's maintenance team for successfully completing the transfers.Southeast will be under the new leadership of Peggy Elliott, who was previously on staff at East Ridge. And as the school year approaches, Elliott's excitement for her new position is very evident. "My expectations for Southeast are to provide a safe, positive and nurturing school environment where learning is the focus," said Elliott. "The Southeast community will be encouraged to exhibit a culture of excellence that lays the foundation for the future of all students."Along with the new school year, Elliott also eagerly anticipates the teamwork aspect — "building partnerships with students, staff and the community of Sweetwater that will lay the foundation for learning in our students in Sweetwater ISD."Vicki Mayberry will now be the principal at East Ridge. Mayberry formerly served as the principal at Southeast and is "excited and looking forward" to her position at East Ridge and the newly implemented grade leveling at the elementary schools."I am proud to be a part of the transition of grade level campuses," Mayberry shared. "With the grade level campuses comes an opportunity to better serve the students in the District through a more thorough curriculum alignment."Mayberry understands the high standards set not only by the school but the state as well, yet she is eager to begin collaborative efforts to work toward those goals. "In keeping with the District's high expectations, I look forward to high academic achievement at East Ridge. While there are challenges in education for Texas, I feel confident and motivated working with the talented staff and parents of East Ridge."The 2011-2012 school year for the Sweetwater Independent School District begins on Monday, Aug. 22.


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Hello, I've been looking through the postings on this site but can't seem to find anything that quite answers my questions.
I am British and married to a Taiwanese national. We both live in the UK. I have been given a six month career break from work so that I can go to Taiwan to learn Mandarin ( I already have some Mandarin experience, having studied it with the open university for 6 months now)
I've been doing a lot of research but am thoroughly confused, there is so much conflicting information!
First of all, courses.
Unfortunately I've kind of gone about it the wrong way...booking my leave from work first and then trying to find a course that fits but I have no choice as the time I can have off from work is quite restricted. I am going to Taiwan in the middle of October and coming back middle of April. I have found that a lot of courses start in September or run until after April. Does anyone know of / can you recommend any colleges, universities, languages schools in Taipei that do taylor-made courses to run from when ever suits you and for as long as you require? ( I was hoping to find a course running from November until early April) Or, am I best piecing together a couple of separate courses?
This leads to my next question...do I need a visa to study Mandarin in Taiwan? And if not, how long can I stay as a European on visa free entry? I phoned the embassy in London, they said I can enter without a visa and stay for up to six months but I can't find anything in writing on their website that confirms this (the longest it mentions is 60 days). If I do need a visa but am planning on doing 2 or more Mandarin courses to make up the six months, will they only issue a visa for the length of the first course?
Thirdly, do I have to study at a government approved college, or does this depend on the answer to my visa question? If so, does anyone know of any that would do the type of course I'm after. I found a government list of universities but I also found on a lot of the private language schools websites that they mention giving you an acceptance letter for visas even though none of them are listed on the government website.
From the research I have done it appears that there are several ways to do what I want to do, so I'm just hoping for a bit of advice on the best way to go about it. My main concern is when we booked our 6 month return tickets the agent said the airline (Eva air) will check to make sure I have a visa because we are going for so long, but the embassy didn't seem to think it would be a problem!
My alternative appears to be applying for a spouse visa which gives me entry for 15 days, I can then apply for and ARC, how easy is the process and do they still allow you to do this even if you're not intending to stay in Taiwan permanently?
Sorry it's such a long post but I'm a bit confused!!


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MIAMI (AP) - Florida health officials are sending staff to visit more than 200 disabled children living in nursing homes, days after federal investigators accused the state of unnecessarily sending medically needy children to adult facilities.
Agency for Health Care Administration Secretary Liz Dudek said she dispatched staff Tuesday to visit the facilities and will also meet with parents to make sure they feel the child is in the best place.
U.S. Department of Justice officials said the state has cut in-home medical services leaving parents with no other option than nursing homes.
The state has until Friday to respond. If the state doesn't comply voluntarily, then the U.S. Attorney General may initiate a lawsuit under the federal disability act.
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To create civic buy-in, the understanding that the community's represents the individuals in it, one has to listen and listen intently, City Commission candidate Jan Scoggins said.
In her job as a long term care ombudsman for the state, she is a professional listener. She and her staff of 12 volunteers are there to advocate for the residents of nursing homes, assisted living facilities and other long term care facilities in the 21,000 square mile southwest Kansas district.
Doctors, nurses and staff members work in homes, she says, residents don't live at their work. It's not her job to make residents fit into the institution, but to make the institution fit around the residents.
The Dodge City Commission could use more communication, more listening, and more answering. When she was Dodge City's representative to the Kansas House, not a single question or letter went unanswered, she said.
She has a background in helping at-risk populations, currently nursing home residents, but in the past she helped abused women and families pushed to breaking at the Crisis Center.
Scoggins and six other candidates are running for one of three seats on the Dodge City Commission in an election on April 1.
Scoggins sat down with the Daily Globe to describe her goals for the city and the style of leadership she hopes to bring to the community.
Daily Globe: What made you decide to run for the office?
Jan Scoggins: I'm really very interested in what's going on in Dodge City. I was born and reared here; it is my home town. I often saying of the commission, "Why are they doing this?" and trying to find out what's going on. If I'm going to have an opinion about something, then I need to be willing to step up to the plate and do something about it.
Dodge is doing a lot of good things and there are a lot of things that could improved, certainly, and I'd like to be part of that.
I'd like for us to use a vision of 20 years from now. If someone comes back to Dodge I want them to be able to say "Wow, look at what they've done! This is great!" I think we need to look that far forward at least and try to do something that will keep us really progressive and keep going, and make us an impressive part of southwest Kansas.
DG: What would that 20-year plan look like?
JS: I know we have to do some infrastructure. I want us to throw out a really good welcome mat. The brick streets really need to be worked on. Though it's easy for me to say the streets need to be done. I don't know what all is planned and what is being done without being on the City Commission.
I know we have a very rich history. I like us to utilize that, and we do. I think we can improve on that a bit more, but we need to realize not everyone is interested in history and we need to do some other things for the citizens who live here who will make them stay and have their children come back and say, "This is where I want to rear my family, where I want my kids to go to school."
DG: In a conversation with one of the commissioners, he said one of the major challenges is getting young professionals to stay and buy into the community rather than use Dodge City as a career springboard. What could be done?
JS: We need to really focus on some good quality of life issues. We need to make sure there are things available that will keep people here and will attract people. I have some thoughts on what could be done; I've seen it done in another community. It was a way to use some of the older buildings and older homes, and I believe the word is re-gentrification. I would share those ideas if I think that is something that would spark the interest of developers and home owners. I think it could be done in a way that would attract the young professionals.
DG: What types of things could the city do to draw people and businesses to the community or keep them here?
JS: I have a picture of my grandfather with Judge Miller clear back in the 30s and they were out in front of that airport. You know, it hasn't changed a whole lot.
It's kind of disconcerting, even flying out once you get through security. If you have to use the bathroom you have to go through security again.
I think there are some real improvements we could do at the airport. I would like to see the streets improve. I would like to see this water park here. There have been a lot of people who have worked really hard on that, and they've researched that, and I give them great credit for that.
We have something above and beyond any other area because we have our rich history and we can make that water park with a really cool western theme. We can make it a little step above the others and we need to make it where we can have good competitive swim meets here. That would attract people; that would help the businesses.
DG: How does a city government go about making people care about what happens in the community?
JS: They have to feel like it's their community and the only way they'll feel that way is if they feel like their voice is being heard. If their voice isn't being heard or their not being acknowledged or they don't feel like they can call and talk to a commissioner, then they won't buy into a community.
I had a phone call a few weeks ago and the caller spoke for 45 minutes extremely upset about many things and I said "You need to call the commissioners." They said, "I don't think I can do that."
I want to bring a feeling about our community that if someone wants to call they can call. This person felt like there wasn't a single commissioner they could call. So, they're not buying into the community if they feel like they couldn't call someone. That's not to say one of the commissioners wouldn't have listened for 45 minutes, it's that they chose to call me.
We're not sending that message to people, we're not sending that message to people that have lived here a long time. We're not making them feel like they're worthwhile.
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With the day of her parents' car bombing fast approaching, Alex makes their deaths into a case – a crime that has yet to happen. With Ray's help, Alex crushes a blue four-door Ford Escort that she thinks her parents died in, as a way to prevent her parents' murders, and then, after planting a small amount of cocaine, arrests her parents for drug possession. Lord Scarman is due to visit CID for an inspection, so Gene releases all the station's prisoners and locks Chris up, so that the station can get a good review. However, Gene releases Alex's parents who in turn arrange for the release of a prisoner who is the last person Alex would want set free. Guest starring Geoffrey Palmer
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1802 Convict 1828 Publican Woodriffs, Evan, New South Wales
Transported to Australia aboard "Atlas II" in 1802 for 'life'. Trial at Wicklow in 1799.Living at Emu Plains in 1825 when Martha was born.
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"Nicholas and his compatriots were transported from Cork Harbour, on 30th May, 1802 per the Atlas 2. The Master of the ship was Thomas Musgrave and the Surgeon was Thomas Davie. Of the 193 male convicts transported, only 5 died on the voyage. Quite a remarkable feat for that period. Having rounded the Cape safely, the Atlas 2 finally arrived in Sydney Cove on 30th October, 1802, after a voyage lasting 153 days.
On arrival in New South Wales, Nicholas was assigned to Major George Johnston of the Rum Corp fame. In the early days with Johnston, it is believed that Nicholas worked as a groomsman on Johnston's property at Annandale.
A new biography of this Irish rebel and convict
by two of his descendants,
Who was Nicholas?
As a young man living on the borders of Ireland's Counties Wicklow and Wexford, Nicholas was caught up in the violent events of the Rebellion of 1798. After the rebels were defeated, he was tried and convicted of murder on the word of a notorious informer. Sentenced to death, he was reprieved and sent as a convict to Australia. His Government road gang built some of Australia's oldest roads. Later he married and became a farmer and innkeeper, one of the first to settle west of the Blue Mountains.
This book tells the story of Nicholas's eventful life against the background of rebellion in Ireland, the suffering of convicts in Australia and the forging of a new country. It is a tale which has captivated genealogists and historians in Ireland, Australia, the UK and America. Now, for the first time, it is available in an illustrated paperback from BANNER, ISBN 0 9533418 0 1.
On July 6, George Heppenstall, John Myers, Richard Twamly, his brother George and nephew Robert Twamly were held up by three men ?on the highroad leading thro Kilpipe?. Myers was soon allowed to go ? we must assume he was not a revenge target. The rest of the captives, referred to by Edward Neil as ?the orange men?, were put under guard. Heppenstall and Richard Twamly were to die.
Kilpipe is a small town by the Derry Water, south of Aughrim on the Carnew ? Arklow road. Nearby, the road forks off north-west into the Wicklow Mountains, where many of the insurgents had fled, and passes through Aghavannagh, where they had that day made a temporary camp. Although the troops were not yet pursuing them into the mountains, the presence of anyone on the Aughrim road would be unwelcome to the rebels ? and these men were instantly recognised as enemies...
The only witness to finger Nicholas was, not surprisingly, Bridget Dolan [a notorious informer and former rebel]. She said that she had been at ?the rebel camp at Aghavanagh? when ?two men and a Boy were brought Prisoner ~ by the Prisoner Edward Neil and the Prisoner Nicholas Delany and several other Rebels ~ Neil had a Pistol and Sword and Delany had a Gun?.
The men were taken back onto the road and shot by Ned Neil and Nicholas: ?There was a ring around the men who were killed and the Prisoners Neil and Delany were within the ring, and within less than two yards of the murder?d men when they fired.? Replying to Nicholas?s cross-questioning, Dolan was positive that he had been one of the party that brought in the captives and that he ?certainly fired the Gun at one of them?. Nicholas and Neil attempted, through further questioning, to show that she was not sure of the time or the exact place of the murders, though she gave a precise description of the roadside which enabled us to find the site 200 years later. Neil tried to discredit her evidence:
~ On your oath were you bribed to swear against me ~
~ I was not.
It seems that the authorities found it important to identify Nicholas as being among the men present at Heppenstall and Twamly?s death. They took the trouble to bring in Bridget Dolan to swear that he was one of the murderers.
Nicholas now had another 16 months of ?long and severe confinement? before he was taken aboard Atlas II, bound for Sydney Cove. Any imprisonment in the 18th century was severe at the best of times; now the overcrowding with captive rebels made it even worse. The Irish Parliament had introduced many Acts for the regulation of prisons which the reformer John Howard found admirable, compared to the state of prisons in England and Wales. One of these was to order the purchase of a secure piece of ground beside a prison where the inmates could get some air and exercise. Unfortunately, Howard notes, ?the policy of this country in these matters is as defective in point of execution, as it is commendable in theory?. Howard gives a picture of Wicklow Gaol in 1789:
"WICKLOW COUNTY GAOL adjoins to the sessions house. On the first floor there is one room for debtors and another for women. Down six steps are two very damp rooms called the low gaol for felons, which have no air or light but by the iron grated door towards the street. A small court; no water. The county proposes to build a new gaol."
He and his fellow convicts spent these months in dangerously overcrowded gaols; the overflow was herded onto moored derelict, mastless ships known as hulks. There, in the foul air, stinking of wounds and excrement, they had to wait until ships were chartered and ready to sail. The unlucky ones died of ?gaol fever?, a virulent form of typhus which was endemic in prisons and frequent in the hulks.
Once a ship was in the bay, the ragged and filthy convicts were stripped, scrubbed and dressed in new canvas shirts in order to reduce the likelihood of infection spreading through the ship. They were then chained together and packed in batches of 120 into long cabins. It is a reflection on the conditions on land that prisoners competed to get out of the gaols and hulks and onto the transport ships ? whatever might lie ahead...
Convicts transported to America had been assigned to their ships? masters for the length of their sentences. The captains could sell on the services of their convicts; they therefore had a reason to protect their human cargo and land them in good health.
This was not what happened to convicts sent to Australia. Though they were still assigned to the ships? masters for the voyage, once they arrived, the assignment automatically passed to the colonial governor. There was little financial incentive for the captains to look after the convicts, although the governor might set up an enquiry into cases of outstanding malpractice or attempted mutiny. Prisoners were regarded as goods rather than as people. Captains were paid a sum for every convict shipped out and an extra amount if the transportee was still alive when the ship arrived in the colony. Presumably the ships? other cargo gained their masters enough profit to make the humans on board relatively dispensable.
On arrival in New South Wales, the luckier convicts escaped government service and were ?assigned? to a master ? often himself an ex-convict. The majority of convicts arriving in Australia were unmarried landless workers with an average age of 26, much like Nicholas. Where he differed from the crowd was the fact that he was a countryman and a political prisoner: most were urban thieves who did not know how to work the land.
It was Major George Johnston, commander of the New South Wales Corps, who was to be Nicholas?s master. As a senior officer ? and one of the largest landowners in the colony ? Johnston was a person of importance and would have had his pick of the newly arrived convicts. Nicholas, a young man, must have still looked strong and competent, despite the deprivations of the voyage.
The assignment system was centrally controlled. Convicts? masters had to feed and house their workers to standards regulated by the government. Any punishment of an assigned convict had to be endorsed by a magistrate. And, while unsatisfactory convicts could be returned to government service, they could, in theory, sue their masters if the conditions of assignment were breached. When adhered to, it must have seemed a fairly liberal regime to masters and assigned convicts alike. Certainly George Johnston rather prided himself on his treatment of his labourers. Asked his opinion on the controversial question of whether convicts really could be reformed, he replied: ??Yes?; he kept them hard at work and gave them plenty of vegetables?.
On October 17 1806 young Elizabeth Bayly (also spelled Bailey or Bayley) sailed from England, bound for Australia. She arrived in Sydney on April 4 1807, a free settler who had braved the long journey in the ship Brothers under Captain Oliver Russell. She was only 16 years old. In October 1808 she married Nicholas Delaney...
It is one of the paradoxes of Australian history that, as one who ?came free?, Elizabeth is less documented than her convict husband. It is nearly impossible to know why she came to New South Wales, apparently without any family to support her. Until the 1820s most women who went to Australia of their own (comparatively) free will were the wives or close relatives of men who went there. Fewer than one in five of the transportees in the colony were female, and the proportion of those who came free was even smaller. Women of any age were at a premium, and young women even more so.
The arrival of women, convicts or free, in the colony in its early days was not welcomed by the administration, which saw them not as sources of productive labour but as extra mouths to feed ? and threats to morality. The aim was to get them dispersed as quickly as possible, mainly as domestic servants. Britain?s view was that all convict women, most of them transported for theft, were impossible to reform and that, coming from gaols where ?extortion, prostitution, and drunkenness were routine?, as the Parliamentary Report of 1814-5 on Mendicity had found, they would turn the colony into an extended brothel. The fact that many women had been used sexually by the guards and crew while on board ship, and arrived pregnant or with a babe in arms, would have added to the administration?s prejudice.
by PATRICIA AND FRANCES OWEN
Nicholas spent much of his working life in Australia as a maker of roads ? like so many other Irish emigrants. The colony needed roads: Sydney was growing fast and required paved streets and open spaces; and the Blue Mountains were crossed for the first time in 1813, making better access to the new cattle and sheep farming areas in the interior vital. Nicholas was involved in all these projects.
As he grew in favour with Lachlan Macquarie, governor from 1810-1821, so Nicholas began to make his mark on Sydney. Traces of his and his gang?s work survive to this day, and as this book goes to press there is growing support for their being preserved as part of the nation?s heritage...
Nicholas and his gang went work on the Governor?s new projects. One of their tasks was to help build ?Mrs Macquarie?s New Road?, also known as ?Mrs Macquarie?s Drive?, which circled Sydney?s Government Domain land...
By luck or planning, Nicholas?s gang finished the job on June 13, 1816, Elizabeth Macquarie?s birthday. As her husband noted in his journal:
'This day at 1. P.M. Nicholas Delaney the Overseer of the Working Gang employed for some time past in the Government Domain reported to me that Mrs Macquarie?s New Road ? (measuring three miles and 377 yards ?) around the inside of the Government [domain] ? together with all necessary Bridges on the same ? were completely finished agreeably to the Plan laid down originally for constructing it by Mrs Macquarie.
As a reward far their exertions in having completed ?Mrs Macquarie?s Road?, on this particular and auspicious Day, I have given Delaney and his gang of Ten Men, Five Gallons of Spirits among them ? as Donation from Government from the King?s store...'
More traces of Overseer Delaney?s work can be seen in central Sydney. With the major projects completed, small spaces left on the plan could be embellished, as Macquarie noted on July 1 l8l6:
'This Day Nicholas Delaney?s Gang of Labourers commenced clearing and levelling that Piece of Ground in the Town of Sydney, adjoining the Government Domain called ?Macquarie Place?, preparatory to its being enclosed by a Dwarf Stone Wall and Paling in the form of a triangle.'
And in the form of a triangle of grass and trees, a green oasis among the tall buildings, it remains to this day. The most prominent feature is the obelisk commemorating Francis Greenway, Macquarie?s emancipist architect. Distances in New South Wales are measured from this point; you could say that all roads from Sydney begin where Nicholas made his mark on the map.
The Delaney family tree starts with two mysteries. Just who were Nicholas and his wife, Elizabeth Bayly?
Nicholas, we know, came from the Wicklow/Wexford borders, and his mother and uncle lived in the little township of Ballyellis, near Carnew. Apart from the fact that he was a landless, illiterate labourer, that's all we know about him until his trial.
Elizabeth is even more elusive. Genealogists are fairly certain that she was not Irish. She might have been Welsh or English. Wherever she came from, she was of sturdy stock. She bore Nicholas 12 children, of whom at least two died in childhood - a low number at the time.
They were: Mary Ann, who died a baby; John, a successful man, twice married; Thomas, our ancestor, born in 1812; James and William; Nicholas, who may have died young; Charles, whose hand was damaged as a child; Jane, like Charles, sent to an orphan school and then given into the charge of their big brother John; the twins Martha and Edward; Matthew, born in the same year as the twins but who faded from history (was he a triplet who died?); and lastly Clara.
After Nicholas died, Elizabeth married three more times, but there is no record of her having further children.
In January 1834 Thomas married Lucy Simpson, herself the daughter of two convicts, Sarah Marshall and John Simpson. Theirs, too, was a large family, with Lucy also bearing 12 children. Jane, the first, died a baby; then came John, another Jane, William, Sarah, Wilfred, Edward and Clara. Their son Thomas, always called Tom, who is our ancestor, was born in 1851; then came Mary Ann, Nicholas (Nick), Andrew (Andy) and Charles.
Tom married Mary Maude Wilson, whose own parents had a somewhat hazy past: her father, Robert Sandon Wilson, known in the family as 'the man of mystery', came from nowhere and returned there after a few years of marriage to Sarah Emma Henley - or was she Sarah Emma Dicks? Another unsolved puzzle in our tangled family tree. Mary's sister Emma married Andy Delaney, Tom's brother.
Mary and Tom had five children from their 1875 marriage: Ethel, who married Michael Maher and had one son, Laurence (Laurie); their only son, Laurence Thomas; Florence (Flo) and the two little girls, Winnie and Ella, who died young. Several of the photographs which illustrate A Rebel Hand were taken by Flo.
Laurence Thomas, born in 1880, broke away from the family tradition of working the land and left Moyne Farm as a young man. He travelled the world and finally settled in London with his wife, Rebecca Anne (Betty) Winter, where their only child, Patricia, was born. During WWII she lived with her father in Sydney and became an announcer for the ABC.
After the war Patricia returned to the UK where, as a postgraduate at Oxford, she met and married a handsome Welshman, Aidan Lloyd Owen. They had three children, Frances, Katharine and David. David and his wife, Polly, have just added Bethan Rose to the family (July 9th).
Nicholas Delaney died at Penrith on September 3, 1834. There is some confusion over his age at death: the convict records list his birthdate as 1772, which would have made him 62; the 1828 census gave his age as 50, making his birth in 1778 or 1779 and his age at death 55 or 56; his tombstone has him dying at 62...
His grave, shown below, can still be seen, a little weathered, in Sir John Jamison?s Catholic cemetery in Regentville, near Penrith. The headstone, topped with a round arch and square shoulders, still has this clear inscription in its worn sandstone:
SACRED [Maltese cross]
TO THE MEMORY OF W?NICHOLAS DELANEY WHO DIED SEP 3d 1834 AGED 62 YEARS ALSO 2 CHILDREN J?E? ELIZABATH THE DAUGHTER OF JOHN AND ELIN DELANEY AND JANE THE DAUGHTER OF THOMAS AND LUEY? DELANEY
[Authors' note: the grave needs upkeep and several of Nicholas's descendants are hoping to get together to preserve this monument. If you have any thoughts about this, e-mail us and we'll pass your comments on to the Delaney network]
Please visit our page about our line of descent from Nicholas. If you're a fellow descendant, do get in touch!
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Transported to Australia aboard "Atlas II" in 1802 for 'life'. Trial at Wicklow in 1799.Living at Emu Plains in 1825 when Martha was born.
Convict. After trial on a charge of Double Murder at Wicklow in 1799 was sentenced to death. This was commuted to Transportation for life to Australia aboard "Atlas" on its second voyage in 1802. On arrival Nicholas was assigned to Major George Johnston of the Rum Corps. In the early days with Johnston, it is believed that Nicholas worked as a groomsman on Johnston's property at Annandale.
Nicholas received an Absolute or Free Paredon (No. 200) on 31st of January, 1813. Very few Convicts received an Absolute Pardon, which 'cleaned the slate' and allowed Nicholas to go anywhere including a return home to Ireland if he wished.Nicholas was involved in the building of roads in the early colony as overseer of the working gang constructing "Mrs Macquarie's Road", in the Government Domain, including what may be Australias first Stone bridge, over what is now the Royal Botanic Gardens creek. He was also overseer of the convict gang that constructed Maquarie Place. Both of these projects are mentioned in the diary of Lachlan Maquarie, 10th April, 1816, 1 July, 1818, held in the Mitchel Library.
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Agile fraudsters prey on clueless UK surfers
Get Safe Online week aims to curtail easy pickings
Posted in Security, 17th November 2008 11:14 GMT
British attitudes to online safety remain patchy at best, leaving surfers vulnerable to scammers who typically empty funds from compromised accounts before moving onto the next victim.
That's according to a survey published in conjunction with the launch the UK's fourth annual Get Safe Online Week, which kicks off today.
Although use of anti-virus software (85 per cent) is widespread, almost half (48 per cent) of net users surveyed fail to update definition files at least every month, leaving their protection ineffective against the latest malware threats. Anti-spyware protection is installed by less than one in four (23 per cent) UK internet users. Nearly half (47 per cent) are not using any anti-phishing website authentication software.
The lack of protection against phishing scams is concerning due to the increased presence of this type of scam. One in four (23 per cent) of UK net users surveyed by Get Safe Online said that they or someone they knew fell victim to such an attack this year, compared to just eight per cent in 2007.
Worst of all nearly one in five (19 per cent) of the 1,400 UK surfers polled by ICM Research on behalf of Get Safe Online use just one password for all their websites. That means if a hacker works out a way to extract the password for a less sensitive site, for example a social networking site, he has full access to any site a user might be using.
GetSafeOnline.org experts report that fraudsters typically try to get in and out of compromised accounts quickly before moving on to the next mark. This means, in practice, emptying a victim's current and savings accounts and exhausting the full limit of their credit cards.
It estimates that an average UK worker earning £23,764 a year would be worth £14,500 to online criminals. This is based on the idea of three months salary held in online bank accounts and an average of 2.4 credit cards with credit card limits of £3,500 per card, amounting to £8,400.
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"Bachelorette" fans weren't sure what to make of Brett Melnick as he stepped out of the limo in the season premiere with a tall floor lamp in hand.
Would the slender bow-tied contestant make a joke about hoping to turn her on? Or promise to be the light of her life?
The Warminster native's explanation didn't do much to alleviate the confusion.
"My mother always said, 'Never greet a lady empty-handed,' so I figured what better than a lamp?" he told Andi Dorfman, this season's bachelorette.
Dorfman responded that they'd have to make sure to return the lamp to his hotel, and ultimately, Melnick was sent packing a few episodes later, too.
A hair stylist at Jolie Salon & Day Spa in Blue Bell, Melnick said it was his co-workers who suggested he try out for the show. He filled out an application and a few months later, ABC called him. While his friends at work were excited for him, he said his parents were a bit skeptical about it. Eventually, though, Melnick said they eased up and said, "OK, well, have fun."
Right before he flew to California, Melnick found out that the woman ABC chose as the next bachelorette was Dorfman, and he said his reaction was "definitely excited."
"I watched the season before, and I thought she was the one who caught my eye to begin with," Melnick said, adding that he went into the show "open-hearted" to see where the relationship would go.
Unfortunately, Melnick was eliminated in Episode 3, after his group date with Dorfman where she and the contestants sang with Boyz II Men.
In terms of how accurately portrayed events were on the show, Melnick said he thought the episodes were a fair representation of what happened.
This season's "The Bachelorette" was unique in that one of its contestants, Eric Hill, died in a paragliding accident April 23, after the taping of the show but before the season aired. The season started with a tribute to Hill before the show delved into Dorfman and the first scenes of her meeting the contestants. Some critics described the transition from memorial to first impressions as somewhat awkward, while other viewers said they were glad ABC kept Hill in the show instead of editing him out.
Hill exited the show in the June 2 episode after a disagreement with Dorfman in which he said she had a "poker face" and wasn't revealing her true self in front of the cameras.
Melnick said he understood why ABC decided to keep Hill edited into the show, even though Hill's relationship with Dorfman turned sour.
"It was a shame what happened to him after the show," Melnick said. "But why twist something totally different than what really happened?"
He added that it's hard to show who you really are on camera, and Dorfman was probably exhausted after long days of filming, which may be what caused Dorfman to come off a little reserved to Hill.
Melnick described his point of view of the show as "accelerated speed dating," where contestants had to be aggressive in order to get Dorfman's attention.
"It was hard to get going and get to know who she was and introduce yourself," he said. "I was shy and nervous."
When considering his own prospects of being the next bachelor, Melnick said he doesn't know if he would say yes if asked.
"Seeing what Andi went though, it would be a hard job," he said. "It'd be a fun experience, but I don't know — a hard decision."
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