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Edel-Optics: THE Outlet for Brand and Designer Sunglasses
SEE AND BE SEEN: sunglasses are and will remain a lifestyle product!
"We don't just shine, we illuminate the whole show." - Jay-Z
Richard Madden aka Rob Stark does it.
And that's what Edel-Optics is all about. Because we are totally aware that today it is almost impossible to do without sunglasses. Female superstars like Madonna, Lady Gaga, Beyoncé, Angelina Jolie or social media phenomena like Kim Kardashian and Kylie Jenner are rarely seen in public without sunglasses.
Do you want to breathe a touch of high society or just protect your eyes from UV radiation with unique quality sunglasses? Then you are exactly at the right address because we have a real bee in our bonnet when it comes to your most important summer accessory. In our brand and designer eyewear outlet, you'll find a huge selection of Ray-Ban, Oakley, Tom Ford, Gucci, Prada, Michael Kors and others. Thanks to our practical filter function the
Sunglasses as an All-Purpose Weapon?
For many people, sunglasses have now become both a fashionable and functional marvel. A fashionable all-purpose weapon combined with high-tech glass technology and the highest quality materials makes sunglasses no longer just a stylish means of getting through the spring and summer but have also found more than just a niche in the colder seasons, making sunglasses an omnipresent everyday companion, especially in snow or on rainy roads where your eyes are quickly dazzled.
In addition, sunglass lenses protect against harmful UV radiation. If the UV light hits the retina unfiltered, it can have health consequences. UV-protected sunglasses protect your eyes from ultraviolet rays. Apart from that, the tinting in sunglasses ensures a glare-free view. It feels good and is an important safety factor on the road or on the slopes.
Furthermore, sunglasses fulfill a fashionable function. After all, there are reasons why actors, singers and celebrities make extensive use of this accessory. Depending on the model, sunglasses can give the wearer a casual or mysterious look and, in this manner are the icing on the cake in a stylish outfit.
History of Sunglasses
Not only since yesterday has it been known that bright sunlight can be unpleasant or even harmful to the eyes. In fact, research shows that early indigenous peoples helped themselves with provisional snow goggles made of bone or other materials that filtered light only through a narrow slit.
According to the tradition of Gaius Plinius, Emperor Nero made use of an emerald when following the battles of the gladiators in the games of ancient Rome. It took some time, however, until the first specimens of early sunglasses came into circulation. Towards the end of the 15th century, glasses were provided with coloured lenses to protect against the blinding sun rays. These were mainly green and in isolated cases also blue lenses.
However, the real breakthrough of sun-protection goggles did not take place until the 18th century. From this period many original eyewear with red, green, blue and yellow lenses have survived. But it was not only in eyeglass frames that the coloured lenses were used, which appeared to be particularly popular in China. Especially in Europe it was considered très chic to insert coloured lenses in monocles, scissors glasses or pince-nez.
Until the middle of the 19th century, the so-called double glasses introduced to the market by the Englishman John Richardson in 1797 enjoyed undeniable popularity. The system was relatively simple. Green protective glasses could be folded in front of the actual lenses.
Sunglasses had only been stumbling on the edge of eyewear history, until the discovery of ultraviolet rays and their harmful properties in the early 20th century, when they increasingly came into the spotlight.
Progress was also made as a result of the great attention the Swiss ophthalmologist Alfred Vogt drew to the harmfulness of ultraviolet light in his study, whereby sunglasses polarization filters were only introduced for the first time shortly before World War II, in order to prevent serious damage to the choroid and retina, in addition to damage to the lens of the eye.
The final breakthrough was made by the polaroid company with the Polaroid with their polarizing filter in the 1960s and more than a decade later, the Japanese company Ito Optical that produced polarizing lenses from Polymer CR39. In 1986, there was another revolution in this field when Rodenstock created the first coloured plastic glass.
Already at the beginning of the 20th century, the industry recognized the potential of sunglasses as a mass-produced product for a broad audience. The company Schott was at the forefront. But Bausch & Lomb, who had already produced their first solar lenses in series in 1930 and Zeiss recognized the signs of the times and would not be asked twice before other companies went in the same direction.
What types of sunglasses are available?
Women's sunglasses and men's sunglasses are available in different variations. The difference is not just in the look, but also in the tint of the lenses, processing and finishing.
Classical sunglasses: classical sunglasses like the Ray-Ban Wayfarer, Ray-Ban Clubmaster or the Ray-Ban Aviator are available in a variety of colours and lens colours, usually with a tint of 85 percent in green, gray or brown.
Polarized sunglasses: Especially when driving on a wet road or during winter sports, dazzling light reflections can ensue. Unlike their classical relatives, polarized sunglasses offer the opportunity to mitigate or immensely reduce these reflections. Using polarization filters the reflected light is absorbed, guaranteeing the wearer a clear view, even when the sun is low or when it's snowing. One quick tip: when buying glasses make sure that the glasses fit snugly so that no harmful sunlight can creep in through the sides.
Phototropic Sunglasses: Phototropic Sunglasses or photochromatic sunglasses are self-tinting sunglasses, which are characterized by the fact that the lenses darken depending on the proportion of UV rays and the respective temperature. In closed rooms, they remain transparent, while they wrap themselves in a "darker robe" in the blazing sun. The advantage is obvious because the sunglasses can be worn comfortably all day long, so that the annoying change between eye glasses and sunglasses is a thing of the past.
Mirrored Sunglasses: mirrored sunglasses offer the benefits of complete privacy as they are completely opaque from the outside. The inside, however, is just as anti-reflective as other lenses. These sunglasses are preferably used in winter sports. But in the meantime, they are gaining more and more popularity in everyday life because of their unique, mysterious optic and are experiencing an even greater hype through the most diverse coatings in garish and bright colours. Mirrored glasses look casual and cool, without disregarding the contemporary aspect. But the mirroring not only lends a fashionable effect because mirrored lenses protect the eyes from light reflections and thus guarantee a clear view.
Prescription sunglass lenses: Many eyeglass wearers also want to equip their new affordable sunglasses with prescription lenses. It is important to know that the model should not be too curved, made of a material that is suitable for glazing and the lenses have a corresponding size. Some frames are only available for glasses up to certain values. However, with a multitude of models in the Edel-Optics online shop you should easily find a suitable model. In general, you can have your prescription sunglasses made with original shade and gradient lenses. Just choose your favourite model from the wide range of designer frames available at Edel-Optics and take it to the optician of your choice for the prescription lenses.
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You have your favourite cool outfits for the summer, but the most important accessory is still missing: your sunglasses. As far as we are concerned, the question arises: which sunglasses suit the summer? Are they the sunglasses with round-shaped lenses? Or do edgy ones suit you better? Which model suits which face is explained in our Master of the Glasses and Phil also likes to tell you in our Tutorial on the topic. An important criterion is always the right size or width of the sunglasses and the rule of thumb is "The best sunglasses for you, are those that are not too big and not too small". Our "Master of the Glasses" has also a little help for your orientation. Additional information about each of our more than 15,000 different sunglasses for men and women, can also be found on the respective product page for each model. Here you can also read again which colours 2017 and 2018 are in vogue, whether sunglasses with blue lenses may be suitable for driving and much more. Any further questions? No problem. Our blog will not be asked twice to deal with any last doubts you have.
Of course, the ultimate test for the right choice is how the sunglasses feel and look on your nose. For many of our models, you can try on the sunglasses virtually with our virtual mirror via online fitting and get a first impression of what you look like wearing mirrored or black, retro or gold. For this you can use your webcam or upload a photo. The Virtual Mirror Icon can be found on the product detail pages for sunglasses for which trying on on-line is available. Alternatively, you can take advantage of our free return shipping to test the look and feel in your own home.
But what type of frame is the ideal one for you? To make a decision, it makes sense to look at your own face shape to have an approximate idea of which frames suit your face:
Heart-shaped face: cat eye sunglasses or models of cat eye sunglasses like the Tom Ford Anoushka FT0371 or the Dolce & Gabbana DG4304 or Butterfly Sunglasses such as Ray-Ban Jackie Ohh RB4098 or the Prada PR 08OS are among the box-office hits because of their upward curvature. Other options include round sunglasses like the Gucci GG0061S or the Polaroid PLD 2052 /S or oval sunglasses such as the Oakley Latch OO9265 or the Emporio Armani EA2055, whereby the colour hardly plays a role, but rather is dependent on the preferences. However, you should keep one thing in mind when choosing your sunglasses. Keep your fingers off frames with wide, conspicuous temples.
Round face: For round faces, we recommend (Michael Kors BANFF MK2066, Timberland TB9155) and subtle frames like the Porsche Design P8478 or the Prada Sport PS 50RS, as they make the face appear narrower.
Square face: The square face shape is the complete opposite. Here highlights are created with round (Ray-Ban Round Metal RB3447, Persol PO3172S) and oval frames (Ray-Ban Oval RB3547N, Tom Ford Whitney FT0009) that lend the face a softer touch. In addition, our tip is to look out for discreet colours to round off the picture with a touch of elegance.
Oval face: There are no rules of thumb for oval faces. Basically, any pair of glasses, such as the Michael Kors Chelsea MK5004, which are Ray-Ban Erika RB4171, the Versace VE2150Q or the Oakley Holbrook OO9102 are suitable for this face shape. But be careful: Make sure that the glasses suits both you and your personality.
In addition, we also have everything in our sunglasses range that the heart or the eyes desire. How about the black sunglasses with tinted lenses (Ray-Ban Justin RB4165, Carrera New Champion), which do not have to be fooled by any other model when it comes to current fashion. From the Sunglasses grey (Sylvie Optics Active, JB by Jérôme Boateng Visionary JBS111) and the Sunglasses Blue (Céline CL 41373/S, Calvin Klein CK2149S) on red sunglasses (Tommy Hilfiger TH 1445/S, Gucci GG0083S) and the Pink Sunglasses (Dolce & Gabbana DG2179, Jimmy Choo Andie/S) to Sunglasses Gold (Maui Jim Wiki Wiki HS246, Cazal CZ 662/3, Saint Laurent Classic 11 M) and the Sunglasses Silver (Police SPL156V). As you can see we have everything you need for a sunny day.
Of course we also have the classics like the Sunglasses White (Fendi sunglasses FF 0287/S, Fossil FOS 2053/S ) and the Black Sunglasses (Superdry SDS Enso, Givenchy GV 7057/Stars, Joop 87352).
Furthermore, we also stock sunglasses models for the flamboyant personalities among sunglasses enthusiasts. For example, Yellow Sunglasses (Persol PO3152S, Vogue VO5235S) or the Sunglasses with yellow lenses (Oakley Frogskins OO9013, Adidas 3Matic A427. Also Sunglasses with Animal Print, Wooden Sunglasses, Vintage Sunglasses or Foldable Sunglasses that always bring a fresh breeze and sell like hot cakes in the sunglasses world.
At the end of the day, it only remains to say that we have them all! Burberry Sunglasses, Giorgio Armani Sunglasses, Valentino Sunglasses, Moschino Sunglasses, Ralph Lauren Sunglasses, Kate Spade Sunglasses, Zegna Sunglasses, Escada Sunglasses, Roberto Cavalli Sunglasses or Bvlgari Sunglasses are in our sunglasses portfolio. The brand you finally choose, is entirely up to you. After all, when buying glasses everything depends on your own preferences!
However, there are other factors, apart from the face shape, which are decisive regarding what sunglasses suit you. To keep you happy with the selected model in the long term, you should choose a model that matches your style of clothing and suits your appearance. If you are an extrovert who likes to be noticed, then lenses and frames in bright colours are the perfect choice. If you value restraint, discreet glasses are usually better suited. And of course, sunglasses offer you the opportunity to contribute exciting contrasts to your appearance. But even so, eyewear should basically suit your personality and not look artificial – to ensure that you feel good.
Have you discovered your favourite model, such as sunglasses made of metal or plastic or titanium? Then you can directly order the sunglasses online at an affordable price. In addition, the model can be easily send back for free, if you should change your mind. If you have any questions, just contact our customer support via the local telephone number or contact our staff directly in one of our two Hamburg stores.
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As every person has individual face features and shapes with different characteristics, you should always try on several models before making a final decision. And you don't even have to leave your own home, because thanks to our online fitting you can do everything comfortably from your own couch. In addition, the appropriate filter settings, such as brand, size, customized sunglasses, colour or rimless sunglasses, sunglasses with half rim or sunglasses with full rim can simplify finding the right glasses. If you cannot choose between different lenses, just choose sunglasses with interchangeable lenses or sunglasses with clips. So, you stay flexible, with no loss in terms of sunglasses quality or sunglasses design.
For any questions you may have while buying eyewear, you can contact us at any time. We are always available with our concentrated expertise, both in the digital and analogue world. Just pop into one of our two Hamburg stores in the AEZ or in the Ottenser Hauptstraße to get professional and individual advice. If you have an acute "sunglasses emergency" and need the right accessory for the beach party at the weekend, you can order via express delivery and get your sunglasses on the next working day. In addition to the standard payment methods, we also offer buying sunglasses on account. This makes purchasing a real visual treat.
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If you want to buy sunglasses online at an affordable price, we are the right people to contact. We are not the exclusive Sunglasses Online Store or Sunglasses Outlet Store, but with our wide range of eyewear, we also have all known brands from Esprit Sunglasses and Boss Orange Sunglasses, Boss Sunglasses and Diesel Sunglasses and Nike sunglasses to trendy and hip labels like the Maui Jim sunglasses, the Havaianas Sunglasses or the Dsquared Sunglasses, all that and much much more at the suggested retail price.
Apart from our already low prices you can get sunglasses in the sunglasses sale section of our online shop, discount sunglasses and discount on other models and brands that run across the entire product range.
But the shopping experience and the service we offer is anything but cheap, because our customer's satisfaction is more important than any sunglasses price comparison in which we always perform well, anyway. You can reach our support team via email or via our local landline number and we are always available to answer any of your questions. We will also gladly help you with the ordering process, with the handling of returns or with other questions that you would like to ask.
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A couple of weekends ago while I was making lunch, Jeff suddenly froze at the computer. In an intense whisper, he said: "Sue, there's an eagle on our windowsill." "Yeah, right," I responded, and continued slicing my fennel.
The next thing I knew, Jeff s-l-o-w-l-y slithered out of his chair and grabbed the camera. So I dropped my chef's knife and walked to the window. "OH MY GOD! There's an eagle on our windowsill!" I exclaimed. "I know, that's what I tried to tell you!" he said.
For months now, I have been holding back. Well, no more. I am frankly quite tired of the whole weekend cat blogging scene. Having never had a cat nor met a cat I particularly liked (or that liked me), I have always felt left out on Saturdays. I think I might have been a dog in a former life or something, because every time I encounter a cat, it stops in its tracks and stares me right in the eyes -- like it knows my secret or something. Even in pictures on the web, they are staring at me.
Every Saturday as I troll through my reader, I jump when a cat picture pops up. I have found myself now avoiding the whole Saturday scene. So here's my idea. For all you non-cat girls (and guys) like me who slump on the sofa on Saturdays, ostracized by the cat community, I'm starting W.E.B. (Weekend Eagle Blogging). Send me your most adorable shots of Tabby or Fluffy the eagle eating a rodent or picking road kill out its talons, and I'll post it. Oh yeah, this is gonna be big.
"I likes to eats weekend catz."
"I seez raisins on that apple fennel salad."
This salad is like a farewell to winter and a hello to spring: winter's tart Granny Smith apples get a lift from the season's new crop of licorice-laced fennel and fresh dill. Topping it off with plump, chewy raisins makes it even sweeter. It's a satisfying salad of complex textures and flavors that is sure to please (even if you don't have any eagles to admire while you eat it).
Since I never feel left out of Weekend Herb Blogging, I'm sending my salad to this week's host and creator of WHB, the always kind Kalyn of Kalyn's Kitchen.
In addition to being an aphrodisiac, mildly licorice-flavored fennel is low in calories and nutritious. One cup of sliced fennel is only 27 calories and has a mere 6 grams of carbohydrates. Yet it provides 17% of your daily recommended allowance of vitamin C. It's currently in season and is exceptionally flavorful, so it's the perfect time to try it.
Apple, Fennel, and Celery Salad
Makes 4 servings
Print recipe only here.
1 teaspoon yellow mustard seeds
1 shallot, sliced
1 tablespoon, plus 1 teaspoon extra virgin olive oil
2 teaspoons rice vinegar
2 teaspoons
1 tablespoon, plus 1 teaspoon honey
2 tablespoons fresh Meyer lemon juice**
3-4 tablespoons water
2 teaspoons fresh parsley, chopped
2 teaspoons fresh dill, chopped
Salt and black pepper, to taste
8 cups spicy mesclun greens
1 large Granny Smith apple, thinly sliced
2 tablespoons Meyer lemon juice**
1 medium fennel bulb, thinly sliced
2 inner celery stalks, sliced on the diagonal, with some leaves
2 tablespoons crimson or golden raisins
2 tablespoons toasted walnuts
Optional garnishes:
fennel fronds, fresh dill, toasted nuts, such as almonds, chestnuts, pecans, or pistachios
To toast the walnuts, place in a small, dry skillet over medium heat for 1-2 minutes, until golden brown and aromatic. Set aside.
To make the vinaigrette, place mustard seeds in a small, dry skillet over medium heat; toast for 1-2 minutes until they begin to pop; set aside. In the same skillet, sauté shallots in olive oil; whisk in remaining vinaigrette ingredients. Turn off heat.
For the salad, place apple and fennel slices in a bowl with fresh lemon juice and toss to prevent them from turning brown. Pour out lemon juice before adding to salad.
In a large bowl, add mesclun, apple and fennel slices, and celery; add vinaigrette, and toss until well coated. Divide among 4 plates. Garnish with raisins and walnuts.
**If you can't find Meyer lemons, then regular lemons are fine.
You might like these other recipes featuring fennel:
- Sicilian Fennel, Orange, and Olive Salad
- Tagliatelle with pan seared shrimp and fennel
- Sun-dried tomato and fennel risotto
- Savory sausage and fennel galette
**Update: OK, OK, so it's not an eagle; it's a hawk. But WHB was already taken.
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Work with a departmental curricular representative to identify an alternative class location for that day, and communicate this change to your students as soon as possible,Of course, I am attempting the first of those options. Even though I can perceive the potential for doing new media reporting from the fringes of the event, I care — to the exclusion of any other concern — about making my class happen as scheduled. But — on the advice of the higher UW authorities — I could simply cancel the class and "adjust" my syllabus, somehow merge the planned material into whatever else I was thinking of covering this semester. And... what is that third option? Fulfill instructional responsibilities... by... what?? Emailing them my notes? Or to put it professorily: delivering the instruction asynchronously.
Cancel class and adjust syllabus to cover content in future class session, or
Think about ways that will allow you to both fulfill instructional responsibilities to students, and to enable students to participate in the events on campus (e.g., assignment options to replace the day's class instruction, utilizing academic technologies (e.g., Learn@UW, Moodle, email, or other tools) to deliver instruction for the day asynchronously, or through other approaches).
For that, they pay tuition? I could email my notes for the whole semester, but these are students who pay $40,040 tuition per year! ($21,350 if they are Wisconsin residents, a break they get because their parents pay the exorbitant Wisconsin taxes that help keep this stellar university going.)
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Lost In The Trees Live Broadcast Tonight On NPR
NPR Music will be streaming a live performance by the acclaimed pop collective Lost in the Trees this Monday, March 28. The show will be broadcast from the Black Cat in Washington DC at 10:30 p.m. ET and the station will have a chat room open for discussion during the concert.
To listen live or to the podcast, just go to href="http://www.npr.org/2011/03/28/133565025/live-monday-lost-in-the-trees-in-concert?ps=cprs">NPR Music.
The group has just returned from a triumphant stint at the SXSW Festival where they garnered rave reviews for a string of powerful performances:
"I've been hearing about Lost in the Trees for a while now, but it wasn't until seeing them perform at SXSW this year that I understood what all the fuss was about. The band has a stage presence that is absolutely mesmerizing while boasting a catalog of songs that are both heart wrenching and beautiful. I was so impressed with Lost in the Trees that I actually ended up catching two of their sets." - Paste Magazine
"For all my love of Lost in the Trees, (their album was on my best of list last year and I loved our Tiny Desk Concert) I've never seen this band on stage till tonight. And despite the nuttiness of SXSW concerts (usually there isn't much of a soundcheck and the sets are short) it was still a delight to hear them. I invited a few musicians to come and hear Lost in the Trees and by the end of the show Josh Ritter and Adam Arcuragi were loving this band too. That was my evening's highlight. "- NPR
"These guys were amazing at 35 Conferette, I'm a fan now. It was an amazing show, restrained and heartfelt while still compelling." - MOG
On Saturday, March 26th, Lost In The Trees was proud to participate in the New York City premiere of Big Star's "Third" Live concert alongside Michael Stipe and Mike Mills (R.E.M), Ira Kaplan (Yo La Tengo), Norman Blake (Teenage Fanclub), Matthew Sweet, Chris Stamey, Jody Stephens (Big Star), and many other luminous musicians. For this unique performance, Ari Picker, Lost in the Trees' principal, conducted the orchestra of esteemed members of the classical community from North Carolina and New York respectively.
This April LITT will head west for a series of anticipated West Coast performances.
Lost In The Trees West Coast Dates:
2011-04-19 The Echo Los Angeles CA 2011-04-20 UC San Diego La Jolla CA 2011-04-22 Hemlock Tavern San Francisco CA 2011-04-24 Doug Fir Lounge Portland OR 2011-04-26 Tractor Tavern Seattle WA 2011-05-13 Cats Cradle Carrboro NC


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Hi there. Just a quick hello and a recipe today. Last week, I promised you bread. Um, here's some salad.
It looks a little like this salad. And, well, this salad too. I made it for a friend's birthday and after we ate dessert as our first course (hey, it's a birthday!) it was, hands down, everyone's favorite dish. More on that dinner and that first course cake soon. But for now, again and from a different angle, here's some salad.
Kale and pear salad with pomegranate gremolata This salad is based on an arugula and watercress salad in last month's Food & Wine. It's a great combination of bitter, sweet, and sour. And a great combination of textures – the crisp juicy pears, the pop of the pomegranate arils, the chewy kale. Make sure to toss the greens with half the vinaigrette about 30 minutes before serving so that it will start to wilt and absorb the flavors. You probably will have some leftover vinaigrette. Gremolata is an herb mix, usually lemon zest, garlic, and parsley, and traditionally sprinkled over osso bucco. The zest and parsley give any dish a really bright flavor; I like how Food Lover's Companion puts it: "It's sprinkled over … dishes to add a fresh sprightly flavor." Sprightly, yeah, that nails it. If you don't want to dirty another bowl, feel free to sprinkle the gremolata ingredients over the salad after you've dressed the greens rather than mixing everything separately. Next time, I'll peel and segment the oranges and add them to the salad too.
– 2 larges bunch kale (approximately 1 1/2 pounds or 6 C shredded and loosely packed) – I tried this with dinosaur and curly kale, and preferred the slightly tougher curly variety
– 3 Bosc pears
– Pomegranate vinaigrette (recipe below)
– Pomegranate gremolata (recipe below)
Slice. Fold each kale leaf in half and cut away the stems. Working in batches of several leaves, stack the leaves in a pile, roll them like a cigar, and slice the leaves crosswise into thin ribbons. Cut the pear into bite-sized pieces. Assemble. Scoop the kale into a large bowl and add half the dressing. Toss the leaves and let them sit for a half-hour. Right before serving, sprinkle with the pears and gremolata. Drizzle with more dressing to taste.
Pomegranate molasses vinaigrette
– 1/4 C extra-virgin olive oil
– 2 T pomegranate molasses
– 2 T apple cider vinegar
– 1 T honey
– 1 T Dijon mustard
– salt and pepper
Whisk or shake. In a bowl or jar, add all the ingredients and whisk or shake to emulsify. Add salt and pepper to taste.
Pomegranate gremolata
– 1 pomegranate for 3/4 C arils/seeds
– about 20 stems flat-leaf (Italian) parsley
– 1 shallot
– 1 orange for zest
Seed. Remove the arils/seeds from the pomegranate. I usually cut the pomegranate in half and tap the skin with a wooden spoon over a bowl of water (the seeds sink and any white pith floats to the top) but if you want to get every last seed, check out these detailed instructions. Chop. Finely chop the parsley leaves. Mince the shallot. Mix. In a small bowl, mix together the pomegranate seeds, parsley, and shallot. Zest the orange into the bowl and toss again.


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Bob Henrick wrote:there are a handful (small hand) of California Semillons you can find when you get back here
Hoke, I am purposely taking you just a bit out of context, but With a purpose of my own.
I just recently picked up a bottle of 2004 Ch. Ste Michelle sauvignon blanc and found it is blended with a smidge of semillon. I usually drink my SB's from either NZ or Chile and seldom from the USA. I would love to be able to afford the French sb's but alas! This little $7.99 bottle is easily as good as most $15 white Bordeaux, and the difference in it and most west coast sauvignon is the semillon and no discernible oak. (yes I do understand that there are unoaked Cal sauvingon)
Fair enough, Bob.
Washington state has grown Semillon for as long as it has grown Sauvignon Blanc, and the Semillon is normally blended with the SB. You can find a few varietal Semillons too, as well as Semillon-Chardonnay blends and Sem-Sauv blends labelled as such. Most of those don't make it far outside the state or region though.
I think Eastern Washington is a great growing area for Semillon, and that Sem and Sauv make great blending partners, since the Sem often adds some body and flesh to the leaner SB, softens the aggressive acidity a bit, and adds "bottom" to the blend. Semillon can develop some almost tobacco-like characteristics too, which makes for interesting variations in blends.
Since the New Zealanders don't go the Semillon route (I don't believe there's much, if any, Semillon in New Zealand), I personally believe that's why they are playing around with adding a smidge of oak-influenced SB to some of their blends, to give that touch of roundness and softness and fleshiness that pure cold-climate SB usually shows.
The most controversial Semillon is easily the Hunter Valley in Australia. I confess I'm not a big fan of that style---but it is so distinctive, I think it is a "love it or hate it" decision for most people.


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This week's blogging prompt from Genea-Bloggers on Facebook is to write about a brick wall in the hopes that someone else can help break it down.
One of my brick walls is Abraham Lowe, born between 1795 and 1801 in Burke County, North Carolina, and his wife, Margaret [–?–], who was born about 1800 in Virginia. They married about 1822, probably in Haywood Co., NC, and had six children that I know of: Jesse (born about 1823, Haywood Co., NC, married 1853 in Macon Co., NC to Mary A. Butler), Bashuba (born about 1826, Haywood Co., NC), Rachel (born about 1829, Macon Co., NC), Gideon (born about 1831, Macon Co., NC, married 1855 in Jackson Co., NC to Naomi Miller), Nancy Ellen (born about 1835, Macon Co., NC, married about 1854 to Henry Woodfin Miller), and Mary Ann (born about 1844, Macon Co., NC).
Abraham and Margaret were enumerated in the 1830 and 1850 US censuses in Macon Co., NC, in the 1860 US census in Jackson Co., NC, and in the 1880 US census in Transylvania Co., NC. Chances are, they never moved and it was the county boundaries that changed around them.
A Nancy Lowe, aged 75 and born in NC, was enumerated with Abraham and Margaret in the 1850 US census, and again in the 1860 US census, where her age was given as 83. This may have been the Nancy Creaseman, daughter of Abraham Creaseman, who married a Jesse Lowe in 1803 in Lincoln Co., NC. This Jesse was subsequently enumerated in 1810, 1820, and 1830 on the US censuses for Lincoln, Haywood, and Macon Counties, respectively. It's possible that Nancy was Abraham's mother or step-mother, but I have yet to prove that. I have not been able, for instance, to locate any probate records for this Jesse Lowe. In fact, I haven't found a lot on this family, period, outside of census records. It could be that I'm looking in the wrong place, and with pretty much all the "old" counties in Western NC to sort through, it could take me a while to find the right place or places to search.
Even if I can connect Abraham to Jesse Lowe and Nancy Creaseman, I still have to find Margaret's family. If children Jesse and Nancy were named after Abraham's parents (assuming that I can somehow reconcile Jesse and Nancy's marriage date and place with Abraham's birth date and place), then there's a good chance either Bashuba, Rachel, or Gideon, or possibly all three, were named after Margaret's family. It's a shaky lead, and one that would have to be corroborated fully with other documents, but it's about the only lead I have at the moment.


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Oregon Youth Substance Use Project (OYSUP), 1998-2010 (ICPSR 34263)
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The Oregon Youth Substance Use Project (OYSUP) began in 1998, with the recruitment of 1,075 first through fifth graders within a single school district in a working class community in western Oregon. OYSUP is an extensive etiological study that provides a multi-method annual assessment of etiological factors from a variety of contextual (including family, peer, neighborhood and school) and individual (personality, biological influences) domains, predictive of children's cognitions regarding substance use, their own substance use and their at-risk sexual behaviors (beginning in middle school). This unique study follows a representative sample of youth with approximately annual assessments from early childhood, through adolescence, and into emerging adulthood (at age 20-22). The primary objective of the original project and its renewals is to identify risk and protective factors predictive of or comorbid with the development of substance use and at-risk sexual behaviors.
Quantitative survey data was collected from each respondent from 1998 to 2010. Within the aims of the original OYSUP study and the two subsequent renewals (one of which is ongoing), participants and their parents were followed annually until they were one-year post-high school, with an additional intensive assessment at age 20-22. In each year, the target participant and their parents completed assessments. The intensive assessment at age 20-22 included a diagnostic interview with the target participants and an assessment of cortisol reactivity in response to acute stress. During the school years, teachers completed assessments assessing their student's behavior, and school records for most students were obtained each year. In addition, principals in elementary schools completed school climate assessments and census data is used to obtain measures of neighborhood climate. Finally, respondents' demographic information was also collected.
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Access to the OYSUP data is restricted. Users interested in obtaining these data must complete a Restricted Data Use Agreement, specify the reasons for the request, and obtain IRB approval or notice of exemption for their research. Apply for access to these data through the ICPSR data access request system portal, which can be accessed via the study home page. See the ICPSR data access request system portal for information and instructions.
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The data for this study consists of nine groups of data files:
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- Youth Assessment
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- Parents Assessment
- Parents Scales
In the original data deposit for this study, there were 215 data files divided into 11 waves (years). To reorganize the data into the nine groups listed in the first collection note, individual components were merged as necessary to create one data file per year per group. This method resulted in the total of 80 data files for this study.
All the questionnaires for this study have been combined into a single document. There will be indications in this document when multiple questionnaires were used on a given year. Also, please note that there is a crosswalk of the variables across the years included in this document. Furthermore, please note that some questions in the earlier waves will not be included in the questionnaires for later waves, but some corresponding variables may remain in the data for additional waves.
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(1) To examine the developmental progression of intentions, in the early grades, and use of substances across the school years (grades 1 through 12) and one-year post-high school.
(2) To examine the impact of key life transitions on changes in substance use, and the processes by which these transitions lead to changes in substance use, namely (a) the transition to middle school, (b) the transition to high school, and (c) pubertal maturation and the timing of pubertal maturation.
(3) To examine the effect of demographic, personal, familial, peer, school, and neighborhood factors, on the development of use of alcohol, tobacco, marijuana, and inhalants, as well as on the development of other problem behaviors and health-risk behaviors related to substance use.
(4) Examine the concurrent and across time associations of substance use with high risk sexual behavior and problem behaviors in mid adolescence to emerging adulthood to identify predictors of the covariation in these behaviors.
(5) Predict high risk sexual behaviors from individual trajectories of substance use and identify processes that explain the relationship between these behaviors.
(6) To further our understanding of the relation between childhood stress and stress in emerging adulthood, and substance use and abuse/dependence and high risk sexual behavior.
(7) To further our understanding of the relation of substance use to the assumption of "adult" roles in emerging adulthood.
(8) The Principal Investigator proposed to assess the generalizability of models of substance use and HIV/AIDS risk behavior developed within the sample(s) of the study.
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Fifteen of the 16 elementary schools in one western Oregon School District were recruited. Schools ranging in size (from 97 to 555; Mean = 335, s.d. = 151) and in SES, using an index based on proportion below the poverty level, mobility of served population, and mother's education of served population (index ranges from 77 to 668). The population was recruited from the total enrollment in grades 1 through 5, consisting of approximately 5,600 students. The community served by the district is a working class community of approximately 50,000, largely comprised of middle class and lower-middle class citizenry. However, a few schools serve primarily upper-middle class households and three schools served a rural population.
Sampling was done in two stages. The first stage involved gaining parental permission to consider their children in the population. Passive consent procedures were used. In the second stage, using stratified random sampling, (by school, grade, gender, and racial/ethnic group) parents of 2,506 students in 15 elementary schools were sent a letter followed by a phone call describing the assessment procedures and asking for parents' active consent to allow their child to participate and agreeing to participate themselves with the restriction that only one child from each family (randomly selected) was included in the sampling frame.
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Children in grades 1-5 randomly selected from a school district in a mid-size Oregon city in 1998 and their parents and teachers.
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- Andrews, Judy. Oregon Youth Substance Use Project (OYSUP), 1998-2010. ICPSR34263-v2. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2014-03-13. http://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR34263.v2
2014-03-13 All files for the Student Questionnaire and Parent Questionnaire groups have been added to this data collection.
2013-03-29 ICPSR data undergo a confidentiality review and are altered when necessary to limit the risk of disclosure. ICPSR also routinely creates ready-to-go data files along with setups in the major statistical software formats as well as standard codebooks to accompany the data. In addition to these procedures, ICPSR performed the following processing steps for this data collection:
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- Checked for undocumented or out-of-range codes.
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I previously weighed in on one aspect of race and genealogy, and now would like to do so again, as prompted by a recent discussion I saw online wherein a woman born in Ghana was offended when called an "African-American". Apparently, the offense was caused by the perception that in the United States to be labeled "African-American" means that one is descended from black slaves who were primarily of African origin.
First, a question: Aren't we beyond all this? I mean, honestly, wasn't this settled during the Civil Rights Movement, that one's race doesn't matter, or shouldn't, that because one is black or white or purple with orange stripes doesn't mean one lacks good character and intellect or vice versa? And why do we have these labels anyway? Aren't they virtually meaningless in the hodge-podge society we live in today?
In genealogy, one's race or ethnicity can provide a fascinating clue to one's ancestral origins. But it is only one part of the puzzle, one small piece of a much larger whole. I have two ancestors whose ethnicity I know for certain, and only then because I know their nationality. One was Irish, the other German-speaking Swiss. Do I identify with those? Well, yes, mostly with the Irish side because those traditions have been preserved within my immediate family.
But is that the entirety of who I am? No. In fact, a fascinating new web service over at WolframAlpha calculates genealogical relationships as a percentage. My Great-great-great-grandfather John Martin, Sr. (the Irish immigrant) contributed only 1/32 of my DNA, all things being equal, which means I self-identify with only 3.125% of my total ancestry (assuming no other Irish ancestors).
My family isn't "Irish American", but we do tend to self-identify as Irish. This in spite of the fact that we are equally Swiss (another 3.125%), while the other 93% of our ancestry is unknown, though likely European (largely British) in origin. In other words, we're mutts in a world of purebred wannabes.
I actually envy those whose ancestries allow for research outside of non-US and non-British sources. What a boon to be Jewish, or Polish, or Mexican, or Italian! I would love to have an ancestor like that in my family tree, but no, just plain ol' white people. (Ok, there are a couple of Quakers in there somewhere, but mostly just boring ol' law-abiding Protestant farmers, with the exception of those involved in the Watson-Hooper feud.)
My envy is so great that it led me to develop a graduation thesis around early non-white settlers in Rabun County, Georgia, where I grew up. Truth be told, I'm fascinated with that period of Rabun County's history and have worked quite a bit on the earliest records trying to reconstruct all the residents of this area. But the slaves and the Cherokee, those who largely went unrecorded, those are the ones who tug at my intellectual curiosity the most.
Perhaps it is a quirk of my character, a flaw even, that where others might see a handicap, I see an opportunity. But what I don't see, what completely escapes my understanding, is why one's race or ethnicity is important outside of cultural identification and heritage. To be brutally honest, there is no such thing as a "pure" racial heritage in this country; there's been too much interbreeding for such a thing to be true. There are people who look black but are genetically primarily white, and vice versa, people who are blond-haired and blue-eyed, but whose racial heritage is Semitic, and so forth. When such people are labeled as being black or white or orange with purple stripes, a great disservice is being committed, both against them and against the ancestors who remain unsung in such a rigid, superficial identification system.
But really, the abiding question remains: in day-to-day matters, why are racial and ethnic labels important? Do they contribute to our understanding of the world? Do they make our lives more comfortable or easier to deal with? No. All labels do is create disharmony rather than unity, and I think we've all had enough of that. Isn't it time we put those labels aside and see people for who they are rather than judging them based on a (literally) skin-deep characteristic?


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John McAfee, the fugitive software company founder who is wanted by authorities in relation to a murder in Belize, was arrested in Guatemala today for "entering the country illegally," the Associated Press reported.
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I am in jail in Guatemala. Vastly superior to Belize jails. I asked for a computer and one magically appeared. The coffee is also excellent.
Only time will tell what will happen. No one has a crystal ball. However, I would be truly shocked if I did not conduct the press conference tomorrow as I had originally planned.
Stay tuned.
I believe, by the way, that blogging from a jail cell might be a groundbreaking activity. Let's see if it catches on.
A little later, McAfee was back with an update: "My lawyer just brought a judge to the jail and the judge issued a stay order until a higher judge can review the case. This effectively stops Immigration from returning me to the Belize border. So….. the urgency is eased a bit."
McAfee had tried to claim asylum in Guatemala, but he was arrested at a hotel "in an upscale part of Guatemala City," the AP report said. "We are awaiting instructions from the Foreign Ministry. It will be the foreign relations department that decides the process," Interior Minister Mauricio Lopez Bonilla said in relation to whether Guatemalan authorities intend to send McAfee back to Belize.
McAfee's lawyer, Telesforo Guerra, said "He will be in danger if he is returned to Belize, where he has denounced authorities."
At the jail, McAfee reported a pleasant scene. He was using the computer of one of the wardens, who "is a sweet man and a gentleman." McAfee's girlfriend, Sam, "is fine, by the way. She is under my attorney's charge—and some Israeli bodyguards. Serious looking fellows with plenty of body mass. Made me worry a bit less about Sam. She is worried about me, of course, but I have a more optimistic view of things."
"Everyone here is nice," McAfee continued. "And sympathetic. So far, my experience on the inside of this establishment has worn away a bit of my natural cynicism and added a measure of hope for humanity."
McAfee also responded to one person who asked if he'd considered suicide, saying "I enjoy living, and suicide is absurdly redundant. The world, from the very begining, hurls viruses, accidents, hungry animals, defective DNA — and uncountable more – in an attempt to kill us. It always succeeds. Suicide is simply aiding and abetting."


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java –version.
To get started with Gradle, download the distribution directly from the Gradle homepage. As a beginner to the tool, it makes sense to choose the ZIP file that includes the documentation and a wide range of source
code examples to explore. Unzip the downloaded file to a directory of your choice. To reference your Gradle runtime in the
shell, you'll need to create the environment variable
GRADLE_HOME and add the binaries to your shell's execution path:
- Mac OS X and *nix: To make Gradle available in your shell, add the following two lines to your initialization script (for example,
~/.profile). These instructions assume that you installed Gradle in the directory
export GRADLE_HOME=/opt/gradle export PATH=$PATH:$GRADLE_HOME/bin
- Windows: In the dialog environment variable, define the variable
GRADLE_HOMEand update your path settings (Figure 1).
Figure 1: Updating variable settings on Windows.
You'll verify that Gradle has been installed correctly and is ready to go. To check the version of the installed runtime,
issue the command
gradle –v in your shell. You should see meta-information about the installation, your JVM, and the operating system. The following
example shows the version output of a successful Gradle 1.7 installation.
$ gradle –v ------------------------------------------------------------ Gradle 1.7 ------------------------------------------------------------ Build time: 2013-08-06 11:19:56 UTC Build number: none Revision: 9a7199efaf72c620b33f9767874f0ebced135d83 Groovy: 1.8.6 Ant: Apache Ant(TM) version 1.8.4 compiled on May 22 2012 Ivy: 2.2.0 JVM: 1.6.0_51 (Apple Inc. 20.51-b01-457) OS: Mac OS X 10.8.4 x86_64
Setting Gradle's JVM Options
Note that like every other Java application, Gradle shares the same JVM options set by the environment variable
JAVA_OPTS. If you want to pass arguments specifically to the Gradle runtime, use the environment variable
GRADLE_OPTS. Let's say you want to increase the default maximum heap size to 1 GB. You could set it like this:
Although, the preferred way to do that is to add the variable to the Gradle startup script under
Now, let's implement a simple build script with Gradle. Even though most of the popular IDEs provide a Gradle plugin, all you need now is your favorite editor. Gradle plugin support exists for IDEs such as IntelliJ IDEA, Eclipse, and NetBeans.
Getting started with Gradle
Every Gradle build starts with a script. The default naming convention for a Gradle build script is
build.gradle. When executing the command
gradle in a shell, Gradle looks for a file with that exact name. If it can't be located, the runtime will display a help message.
Let's set the lofty goal of creating the typical "Hello world!" example in Gradle. First, create a file called
build.gradle. Within that script, define a single atomic piece of work. In Gradle's vocabulary, this is called a task. In this example,
the task is called
helloWorld. To print the message "Hello world!" make use of Gradle's primary language, Groovy, by adding the
println command to the task's action
doLast. The method
println is Groovy's shorter equivalent to Java's
task helloWorld { doLast { println 'Hello world!' } }
Give it a spin:
$ gradle –q helloWorld Hello world!
As expected, you see the output "Hello world!" when running the script. By defining the optional command-line option
quiet with
–q, you tell Gradle to only output the task's output.
Without knowing it, you already used Gradle's DSL. Tasks and actions are important elements of the language. An action named
doLast is almost self-expressive. It's the last action that's executed for a task. Gradle allows for specifying the same logic in
a more concise way. The left shift operator
<< is a shortcut for the action
doLast. The following snippet shows a modified version of the first example:
task helloWorld << { println 'Hello world!' }
Printing "Hello world!" only goes so far. I'll give you a taste of more-advanced features in the example build script shown in Listing One.
task startSession << { chant() } def chant() { ant.echo(message: 'Repeat after me...') } 3.times { task "yayGradle$it" << { println 'Gradle rocks' } } yayGradle0.dependsOn startSession yayGradle2.dependsOn yayGradle1, yayGradle0 task groupTherapy(dependsOn: yayGradle2)
Listing One: Dynamic task definition and task chaining.
You may not notice it at first, but there's a lot going on in this listing. You introduced the keyword
dependsOn to indicate dependencies between tasks. Gradle makes sure that the depended-on task will always be executed before the task that defines the dependency. Under the
dependsOn is actually a method of a task.
A feature I talked about in the first installment in this series is Gradle's tight integration with Ant. Because you have full access to Groovy's language features, you can also print your message in a method named
chant(). This method can easily be called from your task. Every script is equipped with a property called
ant that grants direct access to Ant tasks. In this example, you printed out the message "Repeat after me" using the Ant task
echo to start the therapy session.
A nifty feature Gradle provides is the definition of dynamic tasks, which specify their name at runtime. Your script creates
three new tasks within a loop using Groovy's
times method extension on
java.lang.Number. Groovy automatically exposes an implicit variable named
it to indicate the loop iteration index. You're using this counter to build the task name. For the first iteration, the task
would be called
Now running
gradle groupTherapy results in the following output:
$ gradle groupTherapy :startSession [ant:echo] Repeat after me... :yayGradle0 Gradle rocks :yayGradle1 Gradle rocks :yayGradle2 Gradle rocks :groupTherapy
As shown in Figure 2 Gradle executed the tasks in the correct order. You may have noticed that the example omitted the
quiet command-line option, which gives more information on the tasks run.
Figure 2: Task dependency graph.
Now, let's get more accustomed to Gradle's command line.
Using the Command Line
You just executed the tasks
helloWorld and
groupTherapy on the command line, which is going to be your tool of choice for learning. Even though
using an IDE may seem more convenient to newcomers, a deep understanding of Gradle's command-line options and helper tasks
will make you more efficient and productive in the long run.


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Legendary game designer Peter Molyneux has told Ars that he and his independent studio 22cans plan to release a playable prototype for the Project Godus Kickstarter effort tomorrow. It's an effort hoping to attract more funding for the group's still-struggling god game project.
"I've seen the prototype, I've actually played it... I've got a few changes I'd like to be made, but the progress has been pretty constant, so Friday is going to be the time when we show the rest of the world what the prototype is," Molyneux told Ars.
Potential backers will be able to download the prototype for both PC and mobile platforms to get a more direct idea of what Molyneux and his team have in mind. It's the Populous and Dungeon Keeper designer's first god game since the Black & White series. "[The prototype] is not the most beautiful piece of computer interaction ever," Molyneux said, "but you knead it and you touch it and you get the idea that sculpting the landscape is amazing, seeing things react in the landscape is incredible, and it's definitely going to work."
Early last week, Molyneux told Joystiq that a playable prototype for the game would hopefully be ready for public consumption by Christmas. Later last week, the team released a video including some footage of the still-buggy prototype in action.
As of this writing, Project Godus has raised more than £273,000 ($440,485) of its £450,000 ($726,075) funding goal, with a little more than a week to go until the deadline. Molyneux said the stress of trying to meet that goal, and living up to his promises to revolutionize the god game genre, have lately had him "sitting in a corner shaking slightly with fear and trepidation." Still, he's hopeful that having a playable prototype will get the team over the last hump.
"We're hoping that in the last eight days, some people will pledge some money, and we're constantly looking, asking ourselves what we need to do to persuade people to spend money in what is an insanely difficult time of year for people," Molyneux said. "Just before the holiday, 'do I pledge to Godus or do I buy a present for my children' is a tough decision to make, I think."
Ars will have much more from our chat with Molyneux in the coming days.


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A lot of academic papers will call for an introduction. What you ought to know is that a paper with a very good introduction will be taken as one of the best terms papers in that curriculum. Whether you are writing an essay or a term paper, you should become conscious of the fact that most teachers and even readers will generally look at the introduction to determine the type of material that is found in the body of your paper. Therefore, your introduction should be clear and precise. It should be written in an unambiguous language. The introduction has a dual purpose. The first aim of every introduction will be to herald to the readers that something serious which has to be dealt with properly in the body of the term paper. Secondly, the introduction will serve as an attention grabber to the readers. This is what will hold their attention and urge them to wanting to read from page to page. Through the introduction your readers should be eager to know what is to come in the body of your term paper.
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Lifelong friends
I was fortunate enough to attend two reunions this weekend, in both cases with friends I've known half my life or more. This set me thinking about our ancestors and their friends. When we find a 'visitor' or 'boarder' staying with our ancestors in a 19th century census, how much effort do we put into trying to track down who that visitor was?
A child might well turn out to be a grandchild (or niece or nephew), and their surname might provide the clue to what happened to missing children or siblings. Often the boarder or visitor is a relative. Just as today, when visiting or moving to a new location, it might be convenient to stay with a family connection. Or perhaps the visitor was a work colleague.
Sometimes we don't know the reason why the boarder is staying in that particular family home, but they continue to be present at census after census. One such person in my family history is Ralph MORT. In the 1851 census, Ralph and his younger sister Ann were lodging with the family of William and Maria KELLETT, in Preston, Lancashire (England). William was my 3g.grandfather, and in the 1851 census William was listed as a coal carter and Ralph MORT was a (railway) engine driver, so perhaps they knew each other through work. That is the nearest I have found to a possible explanation for their connection.
In the 1861, 1871 and 1881 censuses, Ralph (without his sister Ann) continued to live with the KELLETT family. William KELLETT died in 1883 and his wife Maria in 1889. In the 1891 census, Ralph was listed as the head of the household, living at that same address with KELLETT relatives. In 1901 (again same address) 81-year-old Ralph is back to being a boarder with a KELLETT son as head of the household.
When I ordered a copy of the 1889 will of Maria KELLETT, I had a sinking feeling as I deciphered the names of her heirs. I had never heard of the children that were named and the children that I knew about were not mentioned. I thought I must have the wrong Maria KELLETT – until I interpreted the signature of a witness – Ralph MORT. It was the confirmation I needed that in fact I had the right will and so a number of new children to research as relatives.
Ralph Mort – long-time friend or a branch of the family not yet connected? (Ralph's will unfortunately does not answer that question.) Either way for me "and Ralph Mort" is like the full stop at the end of this family sentence. He is also an example of why it is worth paying attention to the various lodgers and visitors listed with our families on census nights.


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