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Sunday, September 19, 2010
Researching in Greenville
It started with my cousins, Paula and Carolyn. Paula and I met online just a few months ago through my Footnote Page for my great-great-grandfather William Spencer Moore. We had both, through separate paths, found the will of Spencer's father Samuel Moore (also the father of Paula's great-great-great grandfather Freeman Manson Moore) on the South Carolina Department of Archives and History website.
Within a week of first contact, Paula and I were planning a trip to Greenville. There was some preparation involved. We downloaded indices to microfilm of land and probate records from the Greenville County website and made lists of resources in Greenville. Greenville has a lot of documents, indices, and databases online, so we were able to reduce the volume of films we needed to look at and documents we needed to copy. I also e-mailed one of the librarians to ask for advice. Unfortunately, we didn't even make it to the Greenville Historical Society or the Greenville History Museum. There were so many resources and we were finding so many things in the Hughes Main Library of Greenville that I couldn't tear myself away. So they are on the list for the next trip – oh, yeah, my husband and I are planning another trip. Don't know when, yet, but there will be plenty more to do and see.
We did take part of an afternoon to visit the Special Collections and Archives section at the James B. Duke Library at Furman University. Paula called ahead to request pulls for any material involving our Moore family as well as on the local churches. There were no materials on our family, but they did have some microfilm of church record minutes that we were interested in. One of the rolls was barely legible, and by the time we got to the second one it was getting late. We'll probably use inter-library loan and/or a visit to the Anderson County Library to pursue these. We were still glad that we got to visit the campus of Furman University, which is absolutely beautiful.
View from the steps of the James B. Duke Library at Furman University
Paula and Carolyn left Greenville a day ahead of us, but we had two full days together in the Library. Being able to work with other researchers has a real multiplication effect, both in the effective division of labor and in the "multiplied energy." Paula and I have somewhat different, but complementary approaches: she is a bit more name-oriented and I am a bit more location-oriented. It was very helpful for us to bounce ideas off one another. On the evening of the Sunday when we all arrived, we got together at our hotel, pulled out all of our Moore and Greenville materials, and made a plan of action. We also exchanged family pictures and genealogy program-generated reports on our respective families. Monday morning we dove in, pulling books, maps, and microfilm. Every time we made a big find, we had to run over to share it: "Greta, you're going to have a heart attack when you see this!" "Paula, Carolyn – I've just stumbled onto a bombshell!"
When it was time for Paula and Carolyn to leave, we had an emotional parting – at the Library, of course; it was where my cousins knew they could find me. They brought me the last pile of Xerox copies of the materials we had printed out from the microfilm. The librarians had gotten to know us pretty well by this time and kindly offered to take pictures of us.
So, what did we gain from our trip? Quite a bit.
- We didn't find the wife of our Samuel Moore, but we did find a number of new (and surprising) names of Moores, most of which are in all likelihood related to our Moores. Now we have to find out exactly how they were related and what happened to them. We found further information on a number of families descended from Samuel Moore who had reached a premature dead end for us. We found Freeman Manson Moore associated with Bud Mathis Moore in Greenville, and not just in Henry County, Georgia. We also found more information about associated families who may be related. These were on land deeds, in probate records, and in church minutes.
- We (actually I) learned a lot about research trips (Paula and Carolyn are pros at this): how long I can work without getting cross-eyed (about 11 hours), how to operate a microfilm machine (yes, I was a "noob") and balance microfilm squinting time with less stressful-on-the-eyes resources, how to pack the most fun into breakfast/lunch/dinner/afterhours so that there is still an element of vacation, how to prioritize and organize research so that I am not jumping around too much (couldn't help jumping around just a little bit – this was a sort of Genealogy Candy Store, after all), how to actually map out my day's activities, and how to quickly scan documents for clues that might lead to other documents. Some other things I learned:
1. Bring more change. Lots more change. Even though I brought our very impressive (and heavy) collection of change from home, it wasn't enough. Tuesday morning got three rolls of quarters at the bank. It wasn't enough. ("Paula, remember that offer you made to give me some of your quarters and I said that was OK, I wouldn't need them? Uh, I was wrong."). Wednesday morning got four more rolls. Well, OK, I brought almost two full rolls home, but at least it's real money.
2. Bring paper clips and sticky notes. (This was a real "duh" moment for me. Again, Paula and Carolyn saved the day.)
3. Don't forget to eat! Luckily, Hughes Library has a little café – inexpensive and good food. But still, lunch always ended up being at 2:00 or later.
4. Review, review, review your new materials to find hints on still more documents. I won't say stick strictly to your research plan, but refer back to it and amend it as necessary as you proceed.
5. Take advantage of the many conversations you have with people in the area (well, I certainly ended up talking to lots of people) to mention why you are visiting; you may find a fellow genie, someone who is knowledgeable about the area's resources and/or sights, or even a relative or someone who knows a relative (I didn't find the last one, but you never know).
6. The "magic wand" (scanner) did get a workout, but it was all from books, particularly when there were extended sections of things like church minutes where taking notes didn't capture enough information. I did learn that you have to make the surface as flat as possible, and if the inner margin is tight, that part may be distorted on the final scan. When the curve of the book is too great, the scanner interprets that as time to turn off; so I would place the book with one side flat, which I would scan from the outer margin to the inner margin, and the other half held perpendicular so as to reduce the curvature of the pages on the flat side.
7. It is particularly effective to have someone to whom you can describe your findings, hypotheses, and questions. I was lucky to have my cousins and husband along. If I had been traveling alone, I would have used my blog and e-mailed cousins and other interested researchers.
- And last, but certainly not least among the things gained: For my family line, there were two, possibly three, Great Big Bombshells. But more on that later.
Before this trip, I was addicted to genealogy. And now I am addicted to genealogy research trips.
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Your post has really gotten me excited for my next research trip, which unfortunately won't be until Spring. :(ReplyDelete
The "magic wand" sounds interesting - have you ever tried a digital camera? I've used the latter, but not the former. Always looking for something faster/easier/better.
I put together a "Research Kit" in part of my laptop case. Pens, pencils, yellow stickies, little stapler, highlighters, paper clips, scratch paper, etc.
Can't wait to hear about the bombshells!!
Sounds like a beyond wonderful experience. So glad. I've never tried "group" research but it sounds amazing. Congrats.ReplyDelete
You make me want to leave tomorrow on a research trip.ReplyDelete
Glad the wand worked. I've wanted one since you 1st wrote about it and now I really have to have it.
Cousin research trips are the best!
Thanks for your post. I'm still trying / hoping to do a research trip sometime in the near future so the tips definitely help.ReplyDelete
Congrats,a great time, great research, great post, eagerly awaiting the "rest" of the story.ReplyDelete
You've inspired me to start planning my next research trip! So many places to research, which shall it be first?ReplyDelete
Good tip on the Magic Wand. I'll have to try it. I love mine as it really cuts down on the number of copies I make (and time spent at the copy machine-that means more research time).ReplyDelete
I can't wait to hear the rest of the story.
I am in awe that you were able to find other family researchers to work with and that you all were able to get together. I wish I could locate some in my lines. Also must mention....love the name of the library....Hughes Library....lol....my maiden nameReplyDelete
Great tips, Greta! I' glad you had such a successful trip.ReplyDelete
Thanks everyone, for the comments. Karen - well, at least you can have fun until the spring planning your trip. I'm less intimidated by doing this, now, so I'm going to plan some dream "research trips/vacations." I brought my camera with me to the library, but didn't take pictures as I should have to complement the scans. It can also work, and between the two, I would be most likely to capture all of the information.ReplyDelete
Lisa - I'd pick an area where you are really passionate about the family and where you know there are good resources available, with lots of things online to help you figure out where you want to go and what resources you can access.
All - hope you are all able to take great research trips in the near future! I know I won't always have such ideal circumstances, but now I have more of an idea how to do it and more confidence.


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My teaching covers the fields of modern and contemporary literature, gender and sexuality studies, ethnic studies, and creative writing and poetics. I include creative-critical exercises in all of my courses, and in introductory courses especially, I teach foundational skills like close reading through imitation and translation. Together, my students and I write through poems like Paul Laurence Dunbar's "When de Co'n Pone's Hot," translating his language into our own colloquial English, and translating his references to fit our own experiences. We end up with new poems like "When You're Eating Your Chow Kueh Teow," or "Fri. Nite at BK." We also read multiple versions of texts, particularly recordings, in order to investigate multiple strategies for reading. When we observe, for example, that in Linton Kwesi Johnson's poem "Inglan is a Bitch," language that is inflammatory on paper seems exhausted or resigned in performance, we can revisit the written text and discuss its form, its politics, and how these are carried into and transformed by the live version. Such exercises develop students' abilities to read the smallest details of texts, a crucial skill for critical and creative practices alike. More importantly, these detailed engagements help us to understand that creative practices are critical, and that critical practices are creative — the two cannot be separated.
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My first book, Security Posture, exemplifies my approach to poetry: using techniques of disruption, permutation, and erasure, it examines the cultural valuation of romantic couplehood. Drawing from a broad range of source texts including corporate and banking websites, newspapers, and advertisements, I question the safety and goodness attributed to this social formation. The term "security posture" typically refers to the level of risk to which a system or organization is exposed. In this book, however, stray letters and misplaced commas reveal the extent to which tropes of security are indeed postures; broken words suggest vulnerability to violation. I am currently at work on a second project, Hinterland B, which explores urban hinterlands as both gathering place and metaphor for peripheral identities and ideas. Excerpts from this project appear in the anthology I'll Drown My Book: Conceptual Writing by Women, and in journals such as P-Queue and The Windsor Review. Additionally, a chapbook of performance writings based on pop songs, DOWN, is currently in development.
My research extends the considerations of intimacy and of difficult coalitions undertaken in my creative work. My scholarly book project, Remote Intimacies: Multilingualism in Contemporary Poetry, examines the turn to languages other than English in contemporary Anglophone poetry. I argue that other languages signify both the foreignness of, and an intimacy with the pure products of colonialism in the Americas: defunct writing systems, dead languages, murdered slaves, immigrant childhoods, and present-day enmities. In contradistinction to the radical impersonality and stance of revolt commonly associated with experimental artistic practice, I trace a constellation of poets from North and South America and the Caribbean who traffic in unfashionable emotions such as nostalgia, sympathy, and compassion. Although contemporary multilingual poetry derives its forms from radical traditions, it presents a crucial challenge to the critical paradigms scholars have derived from modernist aesthetics: rather than the bold charge forward of an avant-garde, multilingualism in contemporary poetry trails behind, lingering over intimacies with and desires for what is temporally or geographically remote. Articles adapted from this project recently appeared in GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies and Canadian Literature. I also have critical work forthcoming in Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society and the Journal of Medical Humanities.
"How lucky I was to be free and safe and at home": Reading Humor in Miné Okubo's Citizen 13660." Signs (forthcoming 2013).
"States of the Field: Anxiety and the Turn to Identity Politics in Contemporary Poetics." Co-author, with Julia Bloch. Jacket2 (forthcoming 2012).
"Persons and Voices: Sounding Impossible Bodies in M. NourbeSe Philip's Zong!"
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Security Posture. Snare Books: Montreal, 2009.
"Hinterland B." I'll Drown My Book: Conceptual Writing by Women.
Eds. Laynie Brown, Caroline Bergvall & Vanessa Place. Los Angeles: Les Figues, 2012.
"Hinterland B." Philadelphia Innovative Poets, 2003-2011. Eds.
John Krick & Ryan Eckes (forthcoming 2012).
Windsor Review (2013, forthcoming); P-Queue (2010); Action, Yes! (2009); the ixnay reader 4 (2009); The Capilano Review (2009); West Coast Line (2007); Cue: A Journal of Prose Poetry (2007); Descant (2007); EOAGH: A Journal of the Arts (2007); How2 (2006); In/Vision (2005); Taproot III (2004).
1913: A Journal of Forms (2012); Fence (2012); World Literature Today (2011).
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Cappuccino Cafe was awarded a Food Hygiene Rating of 5 (Very Good) by Chorley Borough Council on 26th January, 2018.
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Here's the latest from Syria.
Last Friday, 44 people were shot dead. Another 11 were shot dead on Saturday, in the city of Homs, which has been a hotbed of anti-Assad regime protests.
The Economist has an excellent report from Homs, which gives you a tactile sense of what is happening there and, by extension, across the country. It's the uprising that refuses to die, that seemingly can't be bullied into submission, that has at its core people who are willing to die rather than put up with another day of the regime.
Time magazine has an equally compelling report from Damascus. Their (unnamed) correspondent reports that the number of street vendors in Damascus has seemingly quadrupled. Everyone assumes that three-quarters of the "new" vendors are actually agents of Mr. Assad's secret police, there to kill or arrest or blackjack anyone who might be thinking of demonstrating against the regime.
The East Germanization of Syria hasn't yet worked. The protests keep bubbling up, the demand for "regime change" will not die. It matters a great deal how this situation gets resolved. If Syria slides into chaos, many observers believe that all bets are off in the Middle East.
We'll keep you posted.


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After years of talking about a spiral-based curve editing tool, the provisional patent application is filed, and I've made an unpolished release of the stuff I have now. Brave souls can check it out to see what I've been talking about. Others among you may choose to wait until there's a release that's not quite as spartan.
I made a Mac build, but loading and saving is more or less not implemented (you can kinda make it work using the commandline, but it really needs a file dialog). Background images (for tracing) are not supported yet either.
The solver has also not been tuned for numerical robustness, so when you play around with it, you'll often see it fail to solve the spline. It does work reliably when the pattern plate represents a real font shape rather than random points, though.
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What's New in the Sixth Edition of the Publication Manual?
Book has been updated to acknowledge and incorporate advances in computer technology.
- New discussions of the creation, submission, and storage of supplemental data.
- New guidelines for referencing electronic sources.
- New and expanded reference examples for a variety of on-line sources.
- Redesigned APA Style® website, expanded to provide tutorials, on-line courses, and other resources for learning APA Style.
Book has been reorganized and streamlined for ease of use.
- Organized to describe the writing process from idea to publication, it begins with background information on ethical issues in publishing, then moves on to manuscript structure and content, then writing style and rules, then graphics and references, then guidance on working with the publisher.
- Sample paper section has been moved up and featured to better exemplify manuscript structure and content.
- Like discussions have been moved to one place in the book, with discussions of function followed by instruction on form.
Focus has been broadened to include readers in the behavioral and social sciences.
- Information specific to APA has been moved to the web, where it is more broadly accessible and can be updated frequently.
- New examples throughout the book have been drawn from publications in education, business, and nursing as well as psychology.
Chapter-by-Chapter Changes
Chapter 1: Writing for the Behavioral and Social Sciences
- Ethics discussion significantly expanded:
- New section on data retention and sharing
- New section on self-plagiarism
- Expanded section on duplicate and piecemeal publication
- New discussion of determining authorship, focusing on student contributions
- Expanded section, "Protecting Rights of Research Participants" additional expanded guidance on assuring confidentiality
- Expanded guidance on conflict of interest
- New "planning for compliance" checklist
Chapter 2: Manuscript Structure and Content
- New section on uniform standards for reporting research.
- Journal article reporting standards incorporated into new discussions of abstract, methods, statistical results, and discussion.
- Three modules added with standards for describing experimental manipulations.
- Flow chart added to describe how subjects move through study.
- New section on meta-analyses.
- New section on supplemental material.
- New sample papers featured that illustrate key new rules of APA style.
Chapter 3: Writing Clearly and Concisely
- New heading structure established to simplify retrieval and ease reading comprehension.
- Fully revised guidelines on reducing bias in language.
- New section on historical and interpretive inaccuracies in language.
- Use of "subjects" vs. "participants" revisited, with "subjects" fully accepted for use.
- Gender—guidelines for avoiding bias updated (e.g., question the use of such constructions as "opposite" sex).
- Definitions and preferred usage for terms "transsexual" and "transgender" updated.
- Race—avoid language that reifies race, avoid use of "minority" for "non-White".
- New sentence added for those of Middle Eastern descent.
Chapter 4: The Mechanics of Style
- Numbers—requirement to use numerals for numbers below 10 grouped with those above 10 has been dropped.
- Numerals vs. words—exception has been added for using words when discussing approximations of days and months (about five days).
- Decimal fractions—new guidelines for reporting of p values to two or three decimal places. (However, p values less than p<.001 should be reported as p<.001).
- Statistics in text—new guideline added to include not only statistics but also associated effect sizes and confidence intervals.
- Form for reporting confidence intervals delineated.
Chapter 5: Displaying Results
- Expanded general guidance on determining the purpose of data displays and designing to achieve that purpose.
- New section on confidence intervals in tables—guidance on reporting results of statistical significance in tables.
- All new tables, focused on kinds of data being displayed.
- New table examples added (hierarchical multiple regression, multilevel model); ANOVA table removed.
- New section on principles of figure use and construction.
- New section on presenting electrophysiological, radiological, and biological data.
- New cautions about ethical ramifications of manipulating data in photographic images.
[Note that this chapter may be distinguished as much by what has been removed as by what has been added. No longer here:
Long text passage describing kinds of graphs (scatter plot, line, bar, etc)
Section on line art v. half tone
Much reduced section on preparation of figures]
Chapter 6: Crediting Sources
- Chapter now groups rules for quoting and guidance on getting permissions with standards for citation.
- Citations—new passage added on what to cite and recommended level of citation.
- New guidance on in-text citations of material quoted from electronic sources with no page numbers.
- Reference list
- New discussion on citing the archival version or version of record.
- New expanded information on electronic sources and locator information, with an emphasis on the DOI.
- New guidance on what to include for publication information, with focus on electronic sources.
Chapter 7: Reference Examples
- All new reference examples—electronic formats incorporated with print formats for each form.
- Examples drawn from wider range of journals in social and behavioral sciences.
- New examples for new media, including data sets and software, internet message boards, archival documents and collections, wikis, and podcasts.
Chapter 8: The Publication Process
- New discussion of peer review.
- New discussion of editorial decision-making process by which manuscripts are accepted or rejected.
- Author responsibilities—new section in getting assistance on scientific writing in English.
- Guidance on complying with ethical, legal, and policy requirements condensed in one place.
- Condensed information on publisher policy requirements.


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Whether a case of divine intervention or just fortuitous programming, PBS begins airing "The Life of Muhammad," a three-part explanation of the history of Islam, on Tuesday, the same day Al Jazeera America makes its debut on the channel formerly known as Current TV. It's a coincidence that only intensifies the PBS series' air of demystification.
As any fifth grader knows, the history of all the great religions includes the battle of opposing forces: humanity and divinity, spirituality and economics, humility and power. That unsettling see-saw of righteousness and ruthlessness is very much evident in "The Life of Muhammad," which walks us through the prophet's life (and far too many deserts) as he grows from impoverished orphan to a man who changed the world.
As with documentaries seeking the historical Jesus or Buddha, "The Life of Muhammad" attempts to separate the "facts" from the countless, and often crazily diverse, interpretations — a task inevitably made more difficult by the lack of primary sources. There is no recently unearthed scroll, no "Da Vinci Code" reveal at the heart of this series. There's only the history of the region and the Koran, Islam's holiest text.
Fortunately that is more than enough to achieve journalist-narrator Rageh Omaar's primary goal: to separate the beliefs and practices of Islam from those of its more bloody-minded zealots. "If Jesus came back today and saw what was being done in his name," Woody Allen wrote in "Hannah and Her Sisters," "he'd never stop throwing up." Muhammad too, this series suggests, might experience some nausea.
Born poor in Mecca and orphaned as a young boy, Muhammad's fate took a turn for the better when he was adopted by his tradesman uncle who showed him both the art of business and the existence of a wider world.
With an open-mindedness unheard of at the time (and rare in much of the modern Middle East), Muhammad accepted the marriage proposal of an older businesswoman. Khadija, who continued to work after the marriage, would become, technically, the first member of Islam: When Muhammad began experiencing the physical pain and psychological mayhem of his divine revelations, it was Khadija who comforted him and, more important, convinced him that the visions of a one and true god who demanded a life of prayer and community service were real.
Interlaced with modern topics, each of the hour-long episodes deals with a portion of the prophet's life — his early days, his departure from Mecca to Medina, and the later years in which he made peace with Mecca, and established a moral code that became known as Sharia law.
Beginning from a point of essential reverence — there is no questioning of Muhammad's direct relationship with Allah — "The Life of Muhammad" directly addresses high-stakes issues including the divide between Muslims and Jews, and the medieval nature of Sharia law in a way that is almost painfully balanced.
The message of Muhammad, according to the religious experts in the series, was one of tolerance, humility and, in most cases, non-violence. Yes, he fought to defend Medina from the Meccan forces and yes, he ordered the slaughter of a Jewish tribe he believed had betrayed him.
But the series contends that these acts must be weighed in the context of their time and balanced by Muhammad's calls for inclusion, forgiveness and compromise. Those who concentrate on the few verses of the Koran that espouse violence, we are told by the series, or who take the description of Muhammad's wives being covered as a universal directive, are twisting the prophet's original intent.
Imagery on the whole is a problem for the series; no visual depictions of Muhammad are shown, which is in keeping with Islamic tradition. (Even when using non-Islamic art, the face of Muhammad is blanked out.) As a consequence there is not too much to look at during the series. Shifting sand and shots of Omaar walking through the rocky hills or the markets of Medina take up so much screen time that the talking head-static of the experts is actually a relief.
Muhammad never comes alive as a man, but then, that is not the point here. "The Life of Muhammad" is an earnest, at times anxious, attempt to set the record straight on Islam, to remind Americans that this religion should not be judged by the actions of extremists any more than Christianity should be defined by the Inquisition.
'The Life of Muhammad'
Where: KOCE
When: 8, 9 and 10 p.m. Tuesday
Rating: TV-PG-V (may be unsuitable for young children with an advisory for violence)


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Taste Changes During Cancer Therapy
People going through cancer treatments, such as chemotherapy and radiation therapy, frequently report changes in taste. These changes can include food and drinks tasting bitter or like metal, an aversion to certain foods, or a change in the taste of your favorite foods.
Radiation therapy to the head and neck area can damage your taste buds and sense of smell or cause xerostomia (dry mouth caused by a decrease in or loss of saliva), which can exacerbate taste changes and interest in eating. Dental problems can also add to taste changes, so a visit to the dentist may be in order. Be sure to check with your oncology team to identify the best time during therapy to see a dentist. Mucositis (mouth sores) can also cause changes in taste.
Taste changes can impact your enjoyment of eating or drinking. In turn, you may not eat or drink enough for proper nutrition. Although the problem with taste changes typically resolves over time after therapy ends, it can persist for a year or longer. There are some things you can do to help manage taste changes and, in the process, decrease or prevent weight loss.
- Rinse your mouth before meals with salt water, sparkling water or ginger ale, or brush your teeth.
- Avoid cigarette or cigar smoking, as this can make taste changes worse.
- Try making the flavors of your food more powerful with the addition of spices, herbs, marinades, lemon juice, sauces or pickled foods.
- Choose foods with strong flavors, lemon, for instance (lemon meringue, a lemon marinade, etc.).
- Avoid any acidic additives if you have mouth sores. While it seems logical that spicy foods should be avoided with mouth sores, research has found that capsaicin (which is derived from chili peppers) can be used to treat pain from mouth sores, so it may be helpful for some.
- Try to overpower a metallic taste with lemon drops, sugar free hard candy, mints or gum. For those dealing with xerostomia, these can also help stimulate saliva.
- If a metallic taste is your concern, use plastic utensils and drink beverages from bottles, not cans.
- Beef is particularly prone to tasting metallic, so you may want to replace it with other forms of protein like chicken, eggs or dairy products.
- Consult with the cancer center dietitian for help with food selections.
Taste changes can make you lose interest in eating. Some activities that can increase your desire or ability to eat enough for proper nutrition include:
- Eat small, frequent meals throughout the day. Have "snacks" on hand for when you feel hungry.
- Make meal time a social and enjoyable experience. Invite your visitors to come at mealtime and eat with you.
- Eat foods that you enjoy. Milkshakes, puddings, sauces and gravies can provide extra calories or lubrication to assist eating.
- Attractive presentation of foods can increase your appetite. Try meals that include bright colored foods at a set table to appeal to your other senses.


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CRESTVIEW � The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission on Wednesday selected June 1 and Sept. 1 as this year's saltwater license-free fishing days.
CRESTVIEW � The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission on Wednesday selected June 1 and Sept. 1 as this year's saltwater license-free fishing days.
The requirement to have a recreational fishing license will be waived on these days for Florida�s residents and visitors who saltwater fish.
All other regulations such as seasons, size limits and bag limits still apply on these days.
The commission offers four license-free fishing days � two saltwater and two freshwater� each year. While it annually selects new saltwater license-free fishing days, freshwater license-free fishing days are always the first Saturday in April and the second Saturday in June.
This year�s freshwater license-free fishing days are April 6 and June 8.
This year�s June 1 saltwater and the June 8 freshwater license-free days are during National Fishing and Boating Week. This week promotes boating and fishing across the country as fun and healthy outdoor activities.
In 2012, 37 states had at least one license-free fishing day during this annual event.
"The Sept. 1 saltwater license-free day falls on Labor Day weekend, when many families will be out on the water, enjoying one of the last big fishing weekends of summer," a spokesperson said.
"License-free days not only introduce new anglers to the lifetime sport of fishing; they also economically benefit the state, as those 3 million anglers cited by the American Sportfishing Association�s 'Sportfishing in America' report, shop at tackle stores, purchase boat fuel and bait and travel to their favorite fishing hole," a spokesperson said. "Some of this money even finds its way back to the FWC via the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Sport Fish Restoration Program specifically to create more fishing and boating opportunities."
See MyFWC.com/Fishing to learn more about saltwater and freshwater fishing in Florida.
You can sign up for a Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission freshwater angler recognition program at www.TrophyCatchFlorida.com.
Those who photograph and release a largemouth bass heavier than 8 pounds are eligible for rewards or certificates for catching qualifying freshwater fish from among 33 species in the program.
The state has more than 3 million anglers, according to the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission.


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Friday, August 14, 2009
I Forgot My Blogoversary
On the other hand, I can take comfort in the fact that, once again, thanks to Thomas MacEntee of GeneaBloggers, I managed to do something at least semi-technical: putting the contact button thingy on my blog. (See left center.)
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HAPPY BLOGAVERSARY TO YOU, HAPPY BLOGAVERSARY TO YOU, HAPPY BLOGAVERSARY DEAR GRETAAAAA, HAPPY BLOGAVERSARY TO YOU!ReplyDelete
Congrats on the Blogaversary! Thanks for writing, I enjoy it so much!ReplyDelete
Happy Blogaversary!!!! I wish I could remember the day I started genealogy! I still have the piece of notebook paper where I wrote stuff down my grandparents told me, but no date, oh well!!ReplyDelete
Happy Blogaversary, Greta. Hope you have many more!ReplyDelete
Congratulations on your first year! I enjoy your blog and wish you continued success.ReplyDelete
Congratulations on your Blogaversary!I really enjoy your blog.ReplyDelete
Congrats on your Blog anniversary! So happy you have it there for all of us to read & learn something from you. Later, DebReplyDelete
Happy Blogiversary, Greta! You are no longer a blogling.ReplyDelete
Can't wait to see what you're up to this next year. And if you forgot, it just means you were busy blogging, of course.
Thank you all so much for your kind words of encouragement. Blogoversaries might be even better than birthdays - after all, our little pictures never have to get older...ReplyDelete
Happy Blogiversary, Greta!ReplyDelete
Happy Blogaversary!!!!ReplyDelete
Bill and Laura - Thanks, and thanks also to everyone for all the entertainment and joy you provide in your blogs!ReplyDelete


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52 Weeks of Personal Genealogy & History by Amy Coffin is a series of weekly blogging prompts (one for each week of 2011) that invite genealogists and others to record memories and insights about their own lives for future descendants. You do not have to be a blogger to participate. If you do not have a genealogy blog, write down your memories on your computer, or simply record them on paper and keep them with your files.
A new challenge wil be listed each Saturday which should be completed by the following Friday. This week's challenge:
A new challenge wil be listed each Saturday which should be completed by the following Friday. This week's challenge:
Week 4: Home. Describe the house in which you grew up. Was it big or small? What made it unique? Is it still there today?My childhood was spent in loads of different places, with my father being in the Navy.
However, the home I remember most as being the family home, was the house we lived in, when we were in Lower Hutt, Wellington - 49 Chapman Crescent.
It was basically a two-bedroom with sunroom home, average size lounge, and a combined kitchen diner. I shared the sunroom with one of my sisters.
Looking back, it now seems quite small, for a family of six:- two adults and four children. Finding somewhere for peace and quiet was always difficult. I remember struggling to concentrate on my homework frequently: my siblings were quite a bit younger than me, and didn't yet have the pressure of homework, study, exams etc.
However, it was most probably the norm for those days, and it didn't feel small to me then. Houses were smaller, families did live in close proximity, and there was no such thing as "personal space". If you search further back in your family history, most will see that families had even less space.
As each generation has passed, the need for space seems to have grown. Affluence and expectations have changed. Where once, whole families or even just children were packed in six or more to a bed in one room, now we all get our own bed, and often even our own rooms.
Anyway, back to the home in question:
My bedroom had windows on three sides. It was the sunroom, so jutted out from the front of my house slightly (the room with the venetian blinds in the picture). It had a concrete patio attached to it. There was just enough room in the bedroom for a single bed down each side of the room, and a chest of drawers between the beds. You accessed my bedroom through a sliding door off the lounge.
The lounge was a good size with many nights with us sitting there as a family watching TV. My parents and I used to often play cards, scrabble or Monopoly in there too. Good fun.
The house had a large back garden. Dad had a vege plot down the back, and grew a wide variety of vegetables such as carrots, pumpkins, marrows, lettuce, cauli, radishes, and tomatoes. Dad loved radishes especially and would eat them straight from the soil.
We had a small Para Rubber swimming pool, that was a real bonus in the summer. Great for keeping cool. I lived in the house from about 12 to 17 years old. It was by the far, the house I lived in the longest till I left home. In fact, to this day, I don't think I have lived longer than that in any house - even as an adult!
I took my daughters to Wellington for a holiday two years ago. I had a lovely time, showing them where I went to school, the playground I used to play on (Avalon), and man-made lake I learned to kayak on, and the house in Chapman Cres I used to live in. Would love to have gone inside, to see if it had changed!
It had been painted (of course) and the patio had been changed. But still brought back that nostalgic feeling you have when you revisit the home of your childhood!


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Contracts (Vehicle)
(Civil Code § 2982 (h))
The buyer of a vehicle can obtain their own financing to purchase the vehicle, or, more typically, obtain financing through the dealer (seller). If the buyer finances the purchase through the dealer, it often tries to get one of the lenders that it does business with to make the loan. Sometimes, the dealer cannot get a lender to make the loan on the terms agreed to by the buyer in the purchase contract. In that case, the dealer may try to require the buyer to sign a new purchase contract with new terms (for example, higher monthly payments or more money down).
After the buyer has signed the original purchase contract, the seller cannot change the financing or payment terms unless the buyer agrees in writing to the change. The buyer does not have to agree to the change, and it is an unfair or deceptive practice for the dealer to make the change without the buyer's agreement. If the buyer does not agree to the change, the dealer can require the buyer to return the vehicle. The dealer may require the buyer to pay a reasonable amount for the buyer's use of the vehicle prior to returning it.
If a consumer feels that a dealer has used unfair or deceptive practices or methods, the consumer should try to resolve the complaint with the dealer. If that fails, the consumer can contact:
If a dealer does not disclose all the terms of the contract, engages in unfair or deceptive business practices, or fraud is involved in the sale of a new or used car, consumers should contact the investigative field office closest to their location.
Department of Motor Vehicles
Investigative Review Unit
Sacramento, CA 94269-0001
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UBS announces comprehensive settlement, in principle, for all clients holding auction rate securities at the estimated cost of USD 900 million
UBS announced today a settlement, in principle, with the New York Attorney General (NYAG), the Massachusetts Securities Division, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and other state regulatory agencies represented by North American Securities Administrators Association (NASAA) to restore liquidity to all remaining clients' holdings of auction rate securities (ARS).
Under the agreement in principle, UBS has committed to purchase a total of USD 8.3 billion of ARS, at par, from most private clients during a two-year time period beginning January 1, 2009. Private clients and charities holding less than USD 1 million in household assets at UBS will be able to avail themselves of this relief beginning Oct. 31, 2008. From mid-September, UBS will provide loans at no cost to the client for the par value of their ARS holdings.
In addition, UBS has also committed to provide liquidity solutions to institutional investors and will agree from June 2010 to purchase all or any of the remaining USD 10.3.billion, at par, from its institutional clients. Today's news is in addition to the firm's recently announced intention to repurchase USD 3.5 billion of tax-exempt Auction Preferred Stock.
"Today's solution provides further relief, beginning in September, to investors who have been understandably frustrated by the industry-wide failure of the ARS market. Our leading position in supporting the market and providing liquidity is clear, and now, we are the first firm to give all clients -- private, corporate and institutional the opportunity to be made whole," said Marten Hoekstra, Head of UBS Wealth Management Americas.
"Since the breakdown in the market, UBS clients have been offered multiple liquidity options. They have been able to borrow 100 percent against the value of their holdings. The solutions announced today provide our clients with the widest range of choices in the industry, including a two-year window during which clients can either continue to earn interest or redeem their ARS at any time," Hoekstra added.
The firm has also agreed to pay a fine of USD 150 million - USD 75 million to the state of New York and USD 75 million to other state regulatory agencies. UBS neither admits nor denies allegations of wrongdoing.
The full cost of the proposed settlement, taking into account the projected redemption patterns of clients, the difference between the purchase prices and the current market value of client ARS holdings, and the regulatory fine related to the settlements, is estimated to be in the range of USD 900 million on a pre-tax basis, to be booked in the second quarter results. This includes reimbursements to all clients for losses incurred from sales of ARS holdings between Feb. 13 and Aug. 8, 2008.
A provision for the costs of this settlement will be included in the firm's second quarter financial results, which will be announced on Aug.12, 2008.
Results, including this settlement, for UBS AG for the second quarter will be consistent with guidance given by the firm on July 4, 2008.


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How to Check Your Armrests:
Sit comfortably in your chair with your hands on your lap, your shoulders
relaxed and your elbows against your trunk. Check your elbow height in
relation to the arm rests. If your elbows are lower, you are forced to
raise your shoulders when using the armrests. When sitting in this
position, you can develop chronic shoulder tension.
Sit with your arms relaxing on the rests. Are they soft and comfortable?
Or are they firm and rigid? If not comfortable, you may brace your arms
to protect yourself from the discomfort of hard rests.
Pull fully up to your keyboard and mouse and begin working. Do the
armrests bump against the keyboard tray? Do you have to twist your wrist
or hand to get around the armrest in order to mouse?
If the rests are too high, lower the armrests so that you do not have to
raise your shoulders when resting. If too hard, wrap a soft cloth or
padding around the armrests. If they constrict movement, check to see if
the rests can wing out (banana wing rests).
If you cannot adjust the armrests to suit your body, the best option is to
remove them completely (most can be unbolted from the bottom of the chair)
and allow your arms to rest on your lap during micro-breaks.
Eliminating the armrests also offers more freedom for "flow typing" where
your arms, shoulders and trunk can move instead of being rigid and
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Just over 200 trees were donated by 25 volunteers in a record-breaking 90 minutes, and the rain did little to place a damper among residents in the two lines that formed from the center of the park to Queens Boulevard.
Adopted trees were planted outside homes in the days that followed, enhancing streets creating a more sustainable environment. Also planted were stories that will unfold over generations, inspiring and bonding community residents.
Karyn Slutsky, assistant director of the Queens Paideia School, asked her youngest students to design tree-inspired artwork for the giveaway.
"We wanted them to think like advertisers and convince people of all the benefits of having more trees around us," she said.
Some of the student's slogans were "A place to find the sun through the leaves" and "A place to cool down."Art Instructor Donna Levinstone envisioned hanging the work on a string to resemble lanterns.
"Her idea of using large circles was to give viewers the sense that they were peeking into windows of important messages," said Slutsky.
Sandra Mandell owns Oliloli Arts & Crafts Studio at 103-23 Metropolitan Avenue. In the coming weeks, the studio will expand into the shop's secret garden with the help of Kiel Bros. Mandell's two adopted trees will become a focal element.
"I would love to coordinate a tree planting ceremony with an art project, and I hope the rustic space with a seating area will serve as a sanctuary for our community to get inspired and create art," said Mandell.
In advance of the tree giveaway, she collaborated with Annie Marshall, a New York State-certified art educator who designed a mixed media canvas depicting trees with earth tones.
The event also inspired Forest Hills apartment buildings to hold tree-planting ceremonies. First-time tree giveaway volunteer Yolanda Vega coordinated one such ceremony at her building, The Fontaine Gardens at 100-11 67th Road. Residents Nadia Grebenyuk and Daniel Cifuentes each adopted a Dawn Redwood to plant in their spacious front courtyard, in place of trees that succumbed to old age.
At least 20 residents participated in the 10-minute ceremony. "The purpose of involving residents in a ceremony was to create a sense of community and respect for our trees," said Vega.
Vega lived in The Fontaine for 12 years, and it's not the first time she's planted something on the grounds.
"Ever since my son would buy plants from his school's plant sale, I began to adopt a plot of land on the side of my building," she said. "We would always plant Marigolds and Geraniums, and I would use this opportunity to teach him about the importance of plants. He loved watching them grow, and during times of drought, we would water them."
Now, Vega envisions the Dawn Redwoods maturing along with the children of her building, who will witness their growth.
Quality Gardens and Ruskin Gardens co-ops, which is bounded by Yellowstone Boulevard and 108th Street between 66th Road and 67th Road, has been adopting trees since the first giveaway in 2011.
Designed in 1951 by architect Arthur Weiser, his vision was to provide sufficient space for residents while maximizing green space and neighborliness. This was accomplished by courtyards accessible from the street.
Marie Trope-Podell, Patricia Willis, and other residents are determined to help restore that vision by beautifying their grounds. At the most recent event, they adopted a Persian Ironwood and five Witch-Hazels, and then coordinated a tree-planting ceremony.
The event inspired Trope-Podell to create a new blog, www.qualitreesnblooms.net, which will document Willis' landscape restoration work over the last five years and their partnership. It will feature the type of plants, choice of location, and the benefits of pruning. She hopes the blog will encourage other residents to fulfill their civic duties.
"A green community is a happier community simply because the air is cleaner and summers are cooler, but trees and other green spaces engage community members in so many ways," she said. "This is incredibly rewarding as plants respond to both skilled cultivation and TLC. Caring is contagious, and it will breed respect for the block or neighborhood."


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There Is SOME Online Rental Business/
Okay, okay. I stand corrected, but it was a good headline, wasn't it? And I am not sure if $385Million per year in the US of online renting and downloading is cause to rejoice.
Besides, if you noticed, my post was really a jumping off point to try to address how we want to watch, or at least like to watch. We do have to offer our work for single transactions, but we have to recognize that is not how most people are choosing to watch. And yes, as many noted, we should not judge the lack of traction on YouTube for online rentals as representative of much. As Scilla Andreen pointed out, you need to honor your work with appropriate placement. YouTube has done so well building a community of generators and viewers accustomed to watching for free, it may be antithetical to the experience to pay anything ever there.


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There are four forms included:
- Certificate of Arrival
- Declaration of Intention
- Petition For Naturalization
- Oath of Allegiance
|Certificate of Arrival
|Declaration of Intention
|Petition For Naturalization
|Oath of Allegiance
The Certificate of Arrival told me when, where, and how he arrived on this side of the pond. He arrived in New York under the name of Michele Mangiafico, October 4, 1920 aboard the SS Canada. No wonder I couldn't find him! I was looking for a Paolo Mangiafico!
The Declaration of Intention furnished me with his wedding date and a very handsome picture.
It also confused me a little that his daughter was listed as Bridget cause everyone knew her as Bea(trice). But, according to the Italian naming customs it makes sense that her name would be Brigida because she was the oldest daughter named after Paolo's mother.
They also spelled his name wrong - Paulo Michel Mangiofico.
I was finally able to find the ship's passenger list and discovered a cousin. He was going to Boston to join cousin Rosario Bologna.


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If this sounds cynical, it's normal, at least in part. That's only a part of the story, however.
Activists and radicals are prone to dismiss mainstream politicians as cynical and self-serving, but this comes from a distorted view of what politics are and can do. We may live in offices and eat processed food, our social behavior is still rooted in our evolutionary history as pack hunters and primates. Archaic human societies were ruled by coalitions, most of the time a strongman and his lieutenants, with a number of social devices designed to make sure he is dependent upon his followers for his continued dominance.
With the Neolithic revolution, our societies have grown far beyond what a single coalition could reasonably manage and have become fractal as a result. Modern societies are a hierarchy of nested coalitions all built upon the same model, from your average nuclear family to the G8. Inside those coalitions, everyone is jockeying for position and fighting for access to scarce resources. This the way all human groups work, even anarchies. In fact, it is far more brutal among anarchists – especially the Randite subtype – because by rejecting institutionalized power, they destroy the various social devices our species evolved to check the pack leader's dominance.
A consequence is that our leaders' power is utterly dependent upon the support of their allies and followers. The chieftain of a Cro-Magnon tribe could theoretically browbeat his fellow hunters into submission. A modern politician must give his supporters what they want – or at least tell them what they want to hear – lest they desert him. That means he must cater to the delusions and obsessions of his electorate if he does not want to become a very lone voice crying in a very empty desert.
That is why even the few politicians who know the truth about our situation cannot do anything meaningful about it. If they did they would soon find themselves out of a job, in the manner of Ben Ali.
The Greens, which I supported, are basically a revitalization movement. The closest historical example – at least from an American point of view – was Tecumseh and Tenskwatawa's confederacy. Quitting drinking and opposing a united front to the settlers was clearly a good idea, but even a total success on that front would not have been enough to keep the settlers at bay. Piling up symbolic acts – even if some of them are actually good ideas – won't prevent, or even significantly slow, the decline of industrial civilization, not this late in the game. The only thing which could have some effect, that is deliberately diminishing our consumption, is every bit as unthinkable among the Greens as it is in the other political parties – including mine, it has to be said.
I am, in fact, quite sure that at least some Greens (as well as some of us) are aware of this. The problem is that going so blatantly against the wish and expectations of their (and our) electors will make them run away in less time than one needs to say "Mubarak".
Even those who officially support degrowth are forced to disguise it as progress, lest they lose whatever small support they have. There is no way to support extensive public services without an industrial economy, yet degrowthers feel obliged to claim the contrary because most of them come from the left and being on the left here means maintaining that state funding for your lifestyle is an inalienable right.
Should a left winger (or anybody else for that matter) state the truth — that is, that the years of affluence are nearing their end and that we, as a people, are going to have to live with far less — he would be immediately branded as a dangerous extremist and an accomplice of whatever conspiracy is fashionable at the moment.
In fact, politicians' options are far more limited than laymen's.
Acting openly to prepare for the future is impossible – we would be quickly out of a job. We can, of course, prepare covertly for the future. I am persuaded that a few leaders, and at least some services, do this. The problem is that the changes needed to adapt to the end of the industrial society are so drastic that one cannot implement them stealthily. Moreover, even a gradual implementation is likely to be met with fierce resistance... and there would be no shortage of would-be presidents to capitalize on that.
In France, the most likely winner would be Marine Le Pen – think Nick Griffin with a brain, and a skirt.
The role of intellectual exile is another option, and a tempting one. Walking out of the political scene and writing for the future enables you to keep your intellectual integrity. It may also give you a greater influence upon the future. After all, Augustine of Hippo's writings have had a far greater impact than the actions of the Western Emperor Honorius or the Vandal king Geiseric. The problem is that not everybody is Augustine of Hippo, and that whatever you write is far more likely to end up in a recycle bin than in a neo-monastic library.
Besides, politicians are often dependent on the power structure for their livelihood. They are as free to leave as your average middle manager – especially after a nasty and costly breakup. Incidentally, this is also true for radicals. Could a Marxist or the head of a women's studies department diverge from the party line without endangering his or her job? Hardly.
The end result is that those of us who are aware of the situation just muddle through, and try to quietly advance policies we know might help without jeopardizing the social order or our ability to pay our mortgages.
And sometimes, we think of Augustine of Hippo.


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Jeff Dahn - Perfect Game
GOODYEAR, Ariz. – It's tempting to look at the roster of California Baseball Academy (CBA) Marucci that's here for this weekend's Perfect Game/EvoShield National Championship (Upperclass) tournament and wonder if the team didn't arrive in the Valley a week too late.
CBA Marucci is, for all intents and purposes, an underclass team with only two 2014s (high school seniors) on the 18-man roster with the rest being 2015s. It's a team that would have seriously contended for last week's PG/EvoShield National Championship (Underclass) crown, but since so many of the prospects from this group have already committed to colleges, CBA co-director and CBA Marucci head coach Jon Paino decided to take another tact.
He put some of his uncommitted 2015s on another CBA team to play in last week's Underclass tournament in an effort to get them maximum exposure in front of the college coaching community. He put his committed underclassmen in the Upperclass event to get them ready for play in the prestigious PG WWBA World Championship in Jupiter, Fla., at the end of October.
"We just felt like this would prepare us to go to Jupiter and we just felt it was a better fit for this group," Paino said Friday from the Goodyear Ballpark Complex before CBA Marucci played its PG/EvoShield Upperclass opener. "We're really, really looking forward to this event, and then on to Jupiter."
There are nine prospects on the CBA Marucci roster – all 2015s – that have already committed to NCAA Division I colleges, although not all of them made the trip. There are also five players ranked in the top 151 of the class of 2015 national rankings, although right-hander Austin Moore (2015, Huntington Beach, Calif.), ranked No. 44, and corner infielder Tyler Nevin (2015, Poway, Calif.), ranked No. 124 and a UCLA commit, are among the absent.
One of the leaders of this group is Chris Betts, a 6-foot-2, 210-pound left-handed swinging catcher from Long Beach, Calif., who is ranked the No. 15 overall national prospect in the 2015 class. A University of Tennessee recruit, Betts is the No. 2-ranked catching prospect in the country in his class, and he's been enjoying his time playing with this cast of very talented characters.
"It's always fun to come out here," he said. "Perfect Game always puts on good tournaments and brings good teams out here; it's great competition. We've all been playing together since were younger – 10 or 11 – and this is the same team we took out to Georgia where we had a great time and we finished pretty well out there. I don't expect anything less out here; I think we have a chance to win this."
The other top players (all 2015s) include right-hander/outfielder Kyle Molnar from Aliso Viejo, Calif. (a UCLA commit, ranked No. 8 nationally) and third baseman Niko Navarro from Rancho Cucamonga, Calif. (San Diego State, No. 151).
Middle-infielder Bryce Fehmel (Agoura, Calif.) is an Oregon State commit; outfielder Steven Elliott (Alta Loma, Calif.) has committed to UC Santa Barbara; left-hander Kolby Allard (San Clemente) is headed for Cal State Fullerton; lefty Bailey Falter is a UC Santa Barbara commit; and left-hander Kyle Robeniol an Oregon recruit.
"The majority of us have committed somewhere and we've all put in the time and effort together," Betts said. "To see all of us kind of get a payoff for it is really nice to see; it's always good to see your buddies do well. It's awesome to win and everything but you're trying to showcase your talents and abilities. Whoever does the best and does well will get it, and we're all pretty good at that."
Just in its first year of existence, the California Baseball Academy (CBA) has already established itself as an organization that is going to send teams to Perfect Game tournaments that are able to compete at the highest level.
Back in July, Marucci CBA advanced to the playoffs and finished with a 5-1 record at the rain-soaked PG WWBA 17u National Championship in Marietta, Ga. Earlier this month, the CBA Warriors 15u and CBA Marucci 17u won championships at the inaugural Perfect Game SoCal Super25 Qualifier in Anaheim.
And just last weekend, CBA Marucci 2016 and CBA Victory each won their pools and advanced to the playoffs at the PG/EvoShield National Championship (Underclass) played here in the West Valley. The CBA Rookies, CBA Victory and CBA Warriors join CBA Marucci here this weekend.
"We've won a lot of tournaments together and we've enjoyed playing together; it's become like a family," Navarro, the San Diego State recruit, said of CBA Marucci. "We're an energetic team, we love to win and just love to play the best competition. We've always loved to play 'up' and it's always nice getting to play with these guys.
"This group of guys that we have out here … we love each other and we just have a good time playing together."
Paino and several of his CBA associates were formerly involved with the late Mike Spiers at ABD Baseball. There does seem to be an inherent connection between the two groups, although ABD Baseball is still going strong and has four teams entered in this event, as well.
"We like to call them a 'slow grinding machine,'" Paino said of CBA Marucci. "They're not going to get too excited or talk a whole lot; they kind of go about their business professionally and just grind out every game and grind out every tournament that we go to. You're not going to see me get too fired up with any of these guys – they've been playing together for a long time and they know how we do things.
"A lot of them played for Mike Spiers when we were all at ABD and they know what Mike would have wanted; so that's what we do."
CBA Marucci won its first two pool-play games at the PG/EvoShield Upperclass, beating Mad Dogs Baseball out of San Diego, 3-0, Friday night and the So Cal Wahoo's out of Encino, 4-2, Saturday morning. CBA was less than impressive in either victory.
The Maruccis totaled just two hits and all three of their runs were unearned in the win over the Mad Dogs. They did get a fine seven inning, nine-strikeout, four-hitter from left-hander Stephen Young (2014, Mission Viejo, Calif.), one of only two seniors on the roster.
They mustered only five hits in the win over the Wahoo's, with Jake Ortega (2015, Mission Viejo) collecting two of them. Four CBA pitchers combined on an eight-hitter with nine strikeouts and no walks; left-handed starter Bailey Falter pitched four innings, didn't allow an earned run on five hits and struck out seven.
"Anytime we come out and play we want to have a good showing and put our best foot forward," Paino said. "This group, most of them, has been playing together since they were 14 and it's become like a family. Anytime we get together we obviously want to win but have a good time in the process, and play the game the way it should be played."
Because the core of this group has played together for at least three years, there is a sense of familiarity – and a sense of family – many other teams here this weekend can't possibly experience.
"They know what each other is going to do before it happens," Paino said. "It's really a good thing for me as a coach when you've worked with kids and prepared them in middle school to see everything come to fruition now as older high school players. With Niko Navarro and Bryce Fehmel playing the left side of the infield, they know what each other are going to do before it happens."
Paino also spoke highly of Betts' abilities behind the plate:
"Chris Betts commands the pitching staff," he said. "He calls all the pitches – I may have to guide him every now and then – but by and large now, he's the general and he runs things. As a coach, it's a great place to be."
Watching the progression of these young prospects has been especially rewarding for Paino, although everyone realizes they still have a lot of work to do. Paino can most look forward to the future, knowing he will have this group not only through this fall, but through the summer of 2014, as well.
And he can also rest assured in the knowledge that the players are also set on improving their games as they enjoy their last two years of high school.
"I've been extremely happy with how much I've progressed but I'm definitely not content with where I am," Betts said. "I still have a lot of room to improve on a lot of different things and I'm excited to see how well I can improve on those things."
"I'm always trying to get better in the cages every single day of the week, trying to get better with my swing," Navarro said. "I work defensively taking extra ground balls and just trying to get better every day."
And, despite their successes to date, they won't stand on their laurels.
"It's been fun and everything; we've come a long way," Betts said. "All of our guys have jelled really well together and we're all the best of buds; it's awesome playing with all these guys. We come out expecting to win everything. We have the right guys and we have the right coach, and he does a great job with all of us. If we do our job we can easily win (this tournament)."
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Renowned aerial photographer Jason Hawkes has been up in the air again. This time taking some extraordinary images of London. More of his work can be seen on his website - http://www.jasonhawkes.com.
South Bank overhead the National Theatre looking East down Thames to City of London, Southwark and The ShardPicture: JASON HAWKES


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The Christward Ministry at Questhaven Retreat
A Training and Retreat Center Devoted to Christian Mysticism
Questhaven is a non-denominational Christian retreat nestled among chaparral-covered hills in northern San Diego County. Founded in 1940 by the Reverends Flower and Lawrence Newhouse, it encompasses 655 acres of pristine wilderness with hiking trails inviting the worship and experience of God in a beautiful nature setting. Wandering through these oak-lined canyons and shaded woodland sanctuaries, seekers are led to release the stress from their outer lives and experience the centered stillness and quiet necessary for awakening to the Living Presence of God.
Flower taught that the Lord Christ offers us the greatest pattern to our own unfolding—to the full awakening of God within. Thus, every inch of this holy ground is consecrated to the Lord Christ forever and His call for the spiritualizing of all life.
Questhaven Retreat is home to the Christward Ministry—an Esoteric Christian Training Center for students who seek a deeper study into the universal way of the Living Christ.
A time arrives in the life of every true seeker when it is not enough to simply believe in God. The greatest need is to know God.
Flower A. Newhouse


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With so many liberal protesters waving signs in the streets of Washington, D.C., it's not surprising that many news reports have muddled who is in charge of what.
But activists camping out in McPherson Square with the Occupy DC movement want to make one thing perfectly clear: Occupy DC has nothing to do with a separate set of demonstrations going on at Freedom Plaza. That campout, which has also featured anti-corporate slogans, was mounted by an unrelated group of activists who call themselves the "October 2011 Movement."
It's easy to see how reporters or even casual observers might mix up the two. Over at Occupy DC, an outgrowth of the now national Occupy Wall Street movement, an eclectic band of grass-roots activists is protesting corporate greed and unrestricted political money.
At Freedom Plaza, an equally eclectic group of liberal activists has launched a protest that was six months in the making around the slogan: "Stop the Machine! Create a New World!" Occupy DC organizers convened a special meeting to tackle whether they should try to team up with the Freedom Plaza folks, but decided against it, said Paul Taylor, an unofficial spokesman for Occupy DC — a group which emphasizes that it has no official spokesmen.
"Stop the Machine was very top down," said Taylor. "We at Occupy DC and the other Occupy movements are very bottom up."
Taylor stressed that Occupy DC participants have much in common with the Freedom Plaza protesters, but noted: "We didn't want to be associated with any political organization or established organizations, because we are very broad in our scope."
On Friday, Occupy DC organizers went so far as to send out a press release stressing that their group "is not the same as the October 2011/Stop the Machine rally that is taking place at Freedom Plaza in Washington, D.C." The release went on to state: "We are a spontaneous upwelling of unrest and frustration, rather than an organization put together with months of fundraising support, steering committees and professional activists."
The release followed numerous press reports that described Occupy DC protesters rallying at Freedom Plaza and marching to the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and down K Street. In fact, said Taylor, Occupy DC went over to the Newseum to rally outside the Washington Ideas Forum organized there in conjunction with The Atlantic magazine and the Aspen Institute. October 2011 Movement protesters were the ones who went to the Chamber and K Street, he said.
October 2011 Movement organizer Margaret Flowers said that it was sheer coincidence that the two groups came to Washington at the same time. The October 2011 Movement is also very bottom-up and consensus-driven, she said, but represents months of planning by seasoned environmental, social justice and peace activists, and is endorsed by 150 progressive organizations. That helps explain why the group's crowds have been much bigger, swelling to more than 1,000. The Occupy DC crowds have reached the low hundreds at most.
"We're experienced organizers," said Flowers. "We wanted to create a structure." She added that her group sent Occupy Wall Street a letter of solidarity early on, and that activists from the October 2011 Movement are eager to work with that movement.
"We feel that we really share a common goal and vision and want to see a participatory democracy that benefits human needs," she said. "And we're trying to find ways to work together without stepping on their process."
The complicated relationship between the groups underscores the challenge that faces liberal organizers of all stripes, including labor leaders and even Democratic lawmakers who have sought to tap the energy of the Occupy Wall Street movement and its offshoots.
"I don't have a problem with them endorsing and embracing our message," said Taylor, of recent labor union endorsements. "But we are aware of being co-opted. And of course, we don't want that to happen, because we're trying to build broad consensus."
Whoever is organizing them, the groups are on the same schedule. Asked when the October 2011 Movement planned to leave Freedom Plaza, Flowers said: "We're not sure. It depends on how long the people that are here feel we need to be here."
Similarly, Taylor said the Occupy DC campout has no end date: "The whole point of occupying a space is not to leave it."