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Pokémon Double Trouble (タッグバトル!さいごのジム!! Tag Battle! The Last Gym!!) is the 28th episode of Pokémon: Adventures in the Orange Islands.
Ash and Co. arrive on Kumquat Island where Ash hopes to win his final badge. As a woman on the beach advertises her hotel, she notices Ash, rushes up to him and nearly hugs the life out of him because she thought Ash was her son. After the confusion was cleared up Team Rocket appears in a giant robotic Rhydon. The woman calls out her Alakazam and is revealed to be Luana, the Kumquat Gym Leader. After Team Rocket was defeated (again), Ash challenged Luana to a gym battle and she accepted his challenge. The rules were to use two Pokémon at the same time. Can Ash adjust to this new style of battling and win his final badge?
Episode plot
The heroes arrive to Kumquat Island, where Ash is supposed to challenge the last Gym Leader. Tracey and Misty plan if he fails, they'll be in a nice place for a while. Ash tells them why they have no confidence in him. Tracey and Misty tell (by a not-so-confident voice) they support him, so Ash and Pikachu go to prove themselves. A woman advertises her hotel. Misty tells them to hurry up to get a room, but Ash tells her they are here for his match. Tracey advises him to relax and go for a swim. The woman who advertises the hotel sees Ash and tells it is her boy. She runs up and hugs him heartily. Ash responds he does not know her, making the woman sad, as she hugs Ash even more.
Ash tells he has a mother and it is not her. The woman apologizes, thinking Ash was her boy, Travis. She remembers the day Travis left with his Pikachu, wanting to become a Pokémon Master. Ash tells it is what he wants to be and the woman remarks that fact. Suddenly, a giant robo-Rhydon appears, as Team Rocket want Pikachu. Arbok and Lickitung run on a track to power the robot up. Jessie declares a Hyper Beam while Weezing uses Smog. Meowth sees James did not taught Weezing such an attack to use. Nevertheless, Weezing uses Smog, making Jessie pleased panic is spread, but James reminds her they came for Pikachu. Ash tells them to stop, as hurting innocent people is not fair. Jessie tells that it is natural it is not fair and has Arbok to use Poison Sting. The woman declares her Alakazam, who uses Reflect to protect Ash.
The woman orders Team Rocket to get out and not to come back. Ash tells her Team Rocket can get dangerous, but the woman is confident, as she can be dangerous, too. Jessie tells the woman to get out, calling her grandma. Misty tells Jessie she should not call her grandma, calling Jessie a witch, making her enraged. James and Meowth think that Jessie is an expert on ages (unlike the twerp), but Jessie gets even angrier. Ash tells the woman that they can take care of Team Rocket, but the woman replies a member of the Orange Crew should take care of these things herself, making Ash surprised she is the Gym Leader. Weezing uses Smog, but the woman and Ash run away, while Alakazam uses Psychic to shut the robo-Rhydon's mouth, causing Team Rocket to cough at Weezing's Smog, which is inside the machine. Ash sends Charizard, who uses Take Down on the robot. James accidentally pushes a button, causing Arbok to use Acid, burning a hole in it. Charizard attacks with a Flamethrower through the hole, making Team Rocket blast off. The woman is impressed by Ash's skill. Ash challenges her to a battle and the woman accepts, although promises she won't go easy on him.
The heroes arrive to a hotel and Misty asks if there is a Gym inside. The woman confirms and Tracey sees it is a good combination, as Ash can have his battle and they some relaxing time. The woman tells her staff to prepare a room for their guests. After passing an area where trainers leave their Pokémon for training, the heroes arrive to the battlefield. The woman, Luana, tells that they can have a Double Pokémon Battle. If one team loses, the other wins. Tracey sees it is somewhat like tennis. Ash is confident he can win this. Luana gives him a strike, telling it is that attitude that can keep a trainer in shape, although Ash coughs at that strike. Luana sees it is that attitude her son Travis had. Luana tells tomorrow is the battle, but lets them use the hotel. In the tub, Ash thinks what Pokémon should he use. Tracey tells it might be Alakazam Luana will use, so Ash thinks a Ghost or a Bug-type Pokémon should defeat her. Misty tells with neither of those, he is in hot water. On that statement, Ash falls in the tub and gets overheated. Misty and Tracey pull him out and tell he shouldn't warm up for tomorrow.
Next day, Ash and Luana have the battle. As it is a Double Battle, Luana sends Alakazam and Marowak, while Ash chooses Pikachu and Charizard to fight them, thinking his combo will work. However, Pikachu and Charizard argue with each other. The fight begins and Pikachu runs, while Charizard uses Flamethrower. Marowak and Alakazam dodge, but Charizard burns Pikachu, much to Ash's disappointment. Charizard goes to tackle Alakazam, but gets stopped by Psychic. Pikachu uses Thundershock, but uses it on Charizard, making Ash angry. Luana tells Ash his Pokémon should work as a team. Marowak uses Bonemerang, hitting Charizard with it. Alakazam uses Psychic and pushes Charizard down, allowing Marowak to hit it with Bonemerang. Pikachu sees Charizard getting hurt, while Alakazam uses another Psychic attack. To help Charizard out, Pikachu electrocutes Alakazam and the Psychic attack is stopped.
Ash sees Pikachu and Charizard are friends now. However, Luana reminds him about the match, as Marowak uses Body Slam on Pikachu. However, Pikachu gets stopped by Charizard's wing. Charizard flies with Pikachu on its back. Marowak uses Bonemerang, but misses. Alakazam goes to use Hyper Beam on Charizard. Charizard goes up, as Marowak's Bonemerang hits Alakazam. The Hyper Beam gets on a new target - Marowak. With that, Marowak and Alakazam are defeated. Ash hugs Charizard and Pikachu for victory, while Tracey and Misty congratulate him on this fine battle. Luana goes to Ash and presents the Jade Star Badge. Luana tells Ash he can compete in the Orange League. To get the honorary trophy, he needs to defeat the Head Leader, the best trainer in the League. Misty asks her if Ash has a chance to defeat the Head Leader. Luana responds if he works with his Pokémon together, so now they now he can.
As they depart, Luana tells Ash if he sees her son, he should tell him that his mother misses him. Ash promises this and waves with Misty and Tracey goodbye for their departure. Meanwhile, Team Rocket are depressed, as they wrecked the boss' robot and plan what to do next.
- "Who's that Pokémon:" Alakazam (JP), Dodrio (US)
- This episode was the first to introduce Double Battles, a concept which was very popular from Generation III onward.
- In spite of other episodes in Japan with Jynx featured in them having its design updated to the purple design in the Amazon Prime versions, this episode and "Stage Fight!" still retain the original design of Jynx even on Amazon Prime.
Dub differences
- A scene where Jynx was on a treadmill was removed due to the blackface controversy.
- This is the first instance of Jynx's appearance that was censored by 4Kids, due to the transition of the series to Season 3 in "The Pokémon Water War".
- Both Venusaur and Jynx are not featured at any point in this episode's dub due to this.
- A scene where Luana squeezed Ash was cut in the dub, due to him being squeezed onto her breasts.
- While heading to the Kumquat Gym, Luana didn't have her lipstick on.
- Luana ordered Marowak a Body Slam, but it was Tackle.
- Ash's Charizard used Tackle in this episode, a move Charizard cannot learn.
- Charizard was hit by Bonemerang, although Ground-type attacks do not work on Flying Pokémon.
- Pikachu uses Thunderbolt on Marowak, but couldn't as Marowak is a Ground-type Pokémon.
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ATV: Closing in on the target
Europe's Automated Transfer Vehicle introduces a new generation of spacecraft, capable of entirely automated rendezvous and docking. To close in on its target it will rely on two laser-based sensors, a telegoniometer and a videometer.
Jules Verne ATV's laser rendezvous sensor will emit a signal and receive a reflection back from the International Space Station. Engineers at the ATV Control Centre and the astronauts on board ISS will monitor the spacecraft as it approaches for docking, making sure it follows a predefined corridor and that the spacecraft is flying at the right angle.
This complex system has back-up layers which will kick in if there are any problems. But should its two redundant chains break down, the ATV has a third, totally independent monitoring and safing unit which can be triggered to order the spacecraft to safely back-off from its target and return to its usual cruise mode.


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Got a rust-bucket Mazda MX-5, but you really want a Caterham? If you're in the UK, check out Westfield's MX5. The company took the running gear from a used last-gen Mazda and added its own kit body and components to create a kind of, well, Mazderham. But there's a twist to the story. Considering the UK's new "End of Life Vehicle regulations" (an environmental law that requires manufactures to pitch in to recycle old, valueless cars) the company is actually promoting environmental sensitivity. Kit-car building on old platforms, they say, is a form of recycling. We're not sure it'll wash over at Greenpeace, but it sounds like a good enough idea to us.
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A farmer harvests corn near Farmingdale, Ill.
Newly disclosed documents in a legal battle over the taste buds and wallets of sweet-toothed American consumers show that some of the nation's largest agri-business companies forged ahead with a plan to rebrand high-fructose corn syrup as "natural … corn sugar" despite misgivings among some senior executives.
Emails outlining the reservations were included in a half-million-page trove of previously confidential court documents made public in advance of a procedural hearing Thursday in a pair of high-stakes federal lawsuits pitting the corn syrup manufacturers against sugar companies.
The sugar companies, led by the Western Sugar Cooperative, sued the Corn Refiners Association in 2011, alleging that giant food makers -- including Archer Daniels-Midland, Cargill Inc., and Tate & Lyle – engaged in a $50 million ad campaign to promote high-fructose corn syrup as "corn sugar," while describing it as "natural" and "nutritionally the same as sugar."
The corn refiners filed a counter claim in September 2012, alleging that the sugar companies were themselves deceiving consumers by engaging in what they called a decade-long "spin and smear conspiracy" aimed at damaging corn syrup's reputation.
Hundreds of millions of dollars could ride on the outcome, depending on whether public attitudes shift as a result of the case. While high-fructose corn syrup remains a mainstay in soft drinks and many other sweetened food products, particularly baked goods, some makers have been returning to sugar after some studies linked consumption of high-fructose corn syrup to health problems such as diabetes and obesity.
At the center of the court dispute is a "Sweet Surprise" print, online and television ad campaign launched by the Corn Refiners Association in June 2008, which touted high-fructose corn syrup as natural and equivalent to sugar. Corn refiners argue that the campaign was intended to educate the public after sugar firms tricked consumers into believing the former was a safer, more healthful alternative to high fructose corn syrup.
But emails included in the newly revealed court records show some executives in the corn syrup camp debated the wisdom of making the "natural" case to consumers.
"I think we're unnecessarily asking for trouble by using the 'natural' language," Archer Daniels-Midland spokesman David Weintraub wrote in a previously "confidential" Feb. 3, 2010, memo that included the term "Marketing Ploy" in the subject line.
"I don't think we really gain much in the mind of the audience or customers and I think it provides a point to ridicule the ads and the industry comes off as being disingenuous ("How can something that comes from a big chemical factory really be natural?" said Maddow/Olberman/whomever.) Weintraub added that while the "claim is true," that "doesn't mean we have to say it … and I don't think it gets us much."
Several months later, Weintraub described the name change in an email as "dishonest and sneaky."
About the same time, a Tate & Lyle executive Matthew Wineinger expressed "concerns" over two upcoming corn sugar television ads, referencing a separate and unrelated lawsuit by the sugar manufacturers against the makers of Splenda that was resolved in a settlement for an undisclosed amount.
"Knowing and understanding how the sugar industry sued Splenda Sucralose over their tagline several years ago, do you have any concerns about how we use Sugar here?" the company official said.
Stephen D'Amore, an attorney representing the corn syrup manufacturers, said the emails merely reflect a healthy debate among pariticpants over the campaign.
"What the emails clearly show is the corn refiners engaged in a rigorous internal discussion about the public relations aspects of what HFCS is called, while never wavering in their core belief that high fructose corn syrup is both natural and nutritionally equivalent to sugar," he said.
A different concern was aired by in an April 2009 email by Audrae Erickson, then president of the Corn Refiners Association.
In the email, Erickson defended the campaign, noting that it was not surprising "that the food and beverage industry would want to defend this highly versatile ingredient that is highly prized and widely used in the food and beverage supply."
But she also noted that it was important that the Corn Refiners Association remain out of the limelight, saying, "Our sponsorship of this campaign (should) remain confidential." (Erickson did not immediately respond to a request for comment from NBC News.)
The industry followed its ad campaign by petitioning the U.S. Food and Drug Administration in September 2010 to be allowed to change the name of high-fructose corn syrup to "corn sugar." That request was rejected in May 2012.
By that time, the sugar industry already had taken the corn refiners to court, alleging false and misleading advertising for using the term "corn sugar" and claiming that there was no difference between high-fructose corn syrup and sugar, despite "numerous scientific publications that have reached the opposite conclusion.
The corn refiners, in their countersuit, accused the sugar industry of using a "discredited study" to tie high-fructose corn syrup to the national "obesity crisis."
The interlocking cases are a long way from resolution.
Adam Fox, an attorney representing the sugar manufacturers, said late Wednesday that for his side, the next chapter in the case revolves around removing what he described as "broad, indiscriminate confidentiality designations made by the defendants and their allies."
"People can form their own conclusions about why the defendants followed this strategy," Fox said.
As for the corn syrup camp, D'Amore indicated that his team would focus on undercutting some of the science cited by the sugar manufacturers.
"The Sugar Association … scientist internally warns that certain studies are 'totally flawed' and should not be cited, yet the Sugar Association and its operatives go ahead and use those studies as part of a 10-year attack campaign against high fructose corn syrup," he said. "… The Sugar Association and its operatives seek to attack high fructose corn syrup as a means to boost profits."
Stan Goldman, a professor at Loyola Law School in Los Angeles, said the dispute boils down to the legal question of whether the corn syrup campaign was educational or commercial.
"It's clearly connected to commerce in one form or another, and there's a reason why," he said. "With respect to commerce, the U.S. Supreme Court generations ago allowed the government to have greater authority and latitude from potentially harmful commercial speech as compared to political or other forms of speech."
Whatever the outcome, he said, the documents made public as a result of the lawsuits may ultimately benefit the public by shedding light on the efforts to influence their eating habits.
"Even when you have a battle of titans of industry, occasionally the public ends up benefiting," Goldman said. "Not always, but sometimes."
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He has taught as adjunct assistant professor at Parsons MFA in Design & Technology and Parsons School of Art, Design, History, and Theory (ADHT) from 2010 to 2014. He has also taught in the Media, Culture, Communication dept of NYU Steinhardt School of Culture Education and Human Development (2009, 2010, 2011). He has also taught at NYU's Interactive Telecommunications Program (ITP) (2007, 2008), and Trinity College's MsC in Interactive Digital Media (2003, 2004). From 2001-2004 he was a Research Fellow in the Human Connectedness Group at Media Lab Europe and from 2006-2007 he was an R&D OpenLab Fellow at Eyebeam Center for Art and Technology in New York City. He received his Masters from ITP in 1999 and was an Interval Research Fellow from 1999-2001.
Jonah's work and thesis focuses on the theme of "Deconstructing Networks" which includes over 80 projects that critically challenge and subvert accepted perceptions of network interaction and experience.
He is co-founder of the Dublin Art and Technology Association (DATA Group), recipient of the ARANEUM Prize sponsored by the Spanish Ministry of Art, Science and Technology and Fundacion ARCO, and was a 2006 and 2008 Rockefeller Foundation New Media Fellow Nominee. His writing has appeared in numerous international publications including WIRED Magazine, Make Magazine, Neural, Rhizome.org, Art Asia Pacific, Gizmodo and more, and his work has been presented at events and organizations such as DEAF (03,04), London Science Museum (2008), Future Sonic / Future Everything (2004, 2009), Art Futura (04), SIGGRAPH (00,05), UBICOMP (02,03,04), CHI (04,06) Transmediale (02,04,08), NIME (07), ISEA (02,04,06,09,12), Institute of Contemporary Art in London (04), Tate Modern (03), Whitney Museum of American Art's ArtPort (03, 12), Ars Electronica (02,04,08), Chelsea Art Museum, ZKM Museum of Contemporary Art (04-5),Museum of Modern Art (MOMA – NYC)(2008),San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) (2008), and Palais Du Tokyo, Paris (2009). His work has been reported about in The Times, The New York Times, Wired News, Make, Boing Boing, El Pais, Gizmodo, Engadget, The Register, Slashdot, NY Post, The Wire, Rhizome, Crunch Gear, Beyond the Beyond, Neural, Liberation, Village Voice, IEEE Spectrum, The Age, Taschen Books, and more.
He has given lectures about his work at locations and venues such as Intel Corporation, School of Visual Arts, Ars Electronica, Canadian Consulate, NYU, UCLA, USC, San Jose State University, ISEA 2002, 2004, 2006, 2012, University of Buenos Aires, Institute of Contemporary Art London, Transmediale, Universität der Künste Berlin, Tate Modern, Oslo National Academy of the Arts, Urbis Manchester, CCCB Barcelona, Open Hardware Summit, Contemporary Art Museum Belo Horizonte, Brazil, The Banff Centre, Brown University, Carnegie Mellon University, Rhode Island School of Design, Maker Faire, Royal College of Art, Royal Library, Copenhagen, Denmark, Eyebeam, Anderson Ranch Arts Center, Pratt Institute, and more.
Art in Your Pocket 4: Net Art and Abstraction for the Small Screen
"The Facets of Obama" created by Jonah Brucker-Cohen using the Fracture application by James Alliban, 2011
The devices we carry with us can do much more than simply act as communication tools and entertainment appendages. They can also bring us into a growing world of artistic projects that could have never been imagined without their existence.
The recent boom in creative software for the iPhone and iPad now enables artists to remake existing web projects as iOS apps or use the physical world as a canvas for augmented reality, reimagining our physical surroundings through painting and rendering. In this article, the fourth one in a series that I've written over the past six years of reviews surveying art for the iPhone and iPad, I cover projects that both revive net art pieces that were once only possible on traditional computer systems or in browsers, as well as those that use the iPhone and iPad's sound and camera capabilities to their fullest.
Thicket:Classic (Hairy Circles mode), 2011, Interval Studios (aka Joshue Ott and Morgan Packard)
Beginning with abstraction and sound, two works examine methods of sound production through algorithmic composition. Thicket (2011) by Interval Studios (programmer and artist Joshue Ott and composer Morgan Packard) is an amalgam of abstract shapes and patterns that engage with touch-based interaction, visual stimulation, generative pattern creation, and mesmerizing sound transference. The original version of Thicket, or Thicket:Classic, feels like a musical masterpiece on the edge of a high precipice. As a user changes the orientation of their phone in four directions (up, down, right, left) the onscreen graphics shift to new modes.
Thicket 3.11 Video, Joshue Ott and Morgan Packard, Interval Studios.
My favorite mode in Thicket:Classic is "Hairy Circles," which features menacing yellow-orangish circles of tangled lines that correspond to each finger's touch and shift when dragged around, creating a machine-like beat that evokes an industrial assembly line. Ott explains, "Thicket uses a bunch of different algorithms—for both audio and visuals. The aesthetic came from repeated experimentation and rapid prototyping of modes. Sometimes we would start with the visuals, sometimes with the audio, but there was often a back and forth process of each of us adjusting our part until we both liked the results."
Locative Media Revisited
Molly Dilworth, 547 West 27th Street (2009). From the series "Paintings for Satellites."
In the early 2000s, as location-aware devices first became commonplace, there was a lot of hype surrounding their potential creative use by artists. However, over time, this initial enthusiasm for "locative media"--projects that respond to data or communications technologies that refer to particular sites--leveled off, even dissipated. Regardless of this drought, geospatial technologies are widely used, and play an important and often unnoticed role in conditioning many aspects of our existence. Responding to this condition of ubiquity, artists have continued to use locative technologies critically, opening up closed systems, making their effects visible, and reconfiguring our relationship with such systems.
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A kind of cold weather antipode of summer's "Love Parade," the Transmediale 2014 media arts festival was a beacon of light in the long dusk of a Berlin winter. As a twist on the usual curated exhibition, this year's festival opted for an ad-hoc "Art Hack Day" (AHD) approach, where submitting artists were expected to create new and original artworks in the span of two days (and nights). Opening the exhibition with a more down-to-earth feel, AHD ultimately resembled a DIY, garage-style party instead of a highbrow exhibition space.
Art In Your Pocket 3: Sensor Driven iPad and iPhone Art Apps
PXL, Rainer Kohlberger, 2012
As the iPhone just celebrated its fifth year on the market, artists have already made a substantial dent in the commercially lucrative world of Apple's AppStore. Despite this success, artists are still pushing forward to build apps that further integrate with the device's sensors and location-based capabilities. Rather than working solely within the context of software art as I have covered in two previous articles on the subject for Rhizome, there is a focus now on artists who are interacting with the physical world by using the device's internal sensors, location capabilities, constant Internet connectivity, and built-in cameras.
"Konfetti", Stephan Maximillian Huber, 2012
Using the camera as a sensor, "Konfetti" by German based designer Stephan Maximillian Huber visualizes the image of its subject into countless dots. In effect, the camera image is translated into virtual confetti that follows any movement and creates an ever changing images based on which camera is selected. The dot's movement is correlated to the detected flow captured by the camera and by repelling other dots, which also move as you touch and drag them. Huber explains over email how the app works as a reflection based art tool. "The app started as an iPad-only app, and on an iPad the app acts like a mirror, showing an abstract reflection of yourself. You'll get a clear image of yourself only when you concentrate on the process of the app, and don't move too fast. It's like contemplating about yourself and the image of yourself. And as your thoughts and emotions aren't static the image the app generates is dynamic and adapts to minimal movements and new ...
Art in Your Pocket 2
In the summer of 2009, I wrote an article here at Rhizome about the burgeoning activities of media artists creating new works or updating versions of their older interactive screen-based projects for Apple's iPhone and iTouch mobile devices. As the article made its way throughout the blogosphere, comments surfaced ranging from criticism of the "closed world of Apple's App Store and iPhone devices" to a championing of the availability of inexpensive multi-touch technology now available to artists who had been waiting for a platform that could adequately display and allow for the type of interaction their projects demanded. A year after the article came out, the draw of these devices and their potentially expansive audience has become even more irresistible to artists enough so that several more "apps" have surfaced. The following article catalogs several new iPhone works which have emerged over the past year, works that are pioneering the next generation of portable media art.


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Our family has long known that ancestors Benjamin Booth married Jane Ebrey in 1866 in northern Shropshire, England, and they came to Milwaukee, Wisconsin, on their honeymoon. Benjamin's older brother George, also a carpenter, was already in Milwaukee, a likely reason they came. Ben and Jane stayed to work and raise their family.
Benjamin's parents and birth date and place were known. But when was Jane born and where, and who were her parents? The usual online records did not yield an answer. No International Genealogy Index or IGI record for her and nothing in FreeBMD that matched what we knew from later records.
Following considerable genealogy sleuth work, answers have turned up in a number of records – including Benjamin and Jane's marriage certificate ordered from the General Register Office or GRO in England. It proved to be the key that opened the door to solving the mystery of Jane Ebrey's family and early life.
An important clue was found on a family tree that a cousin wrote out some years ago, based on his research. It was this:
> In the 1861 Census, Jane Ebrey was recorded as keeping house for her uncle Robert Ebrey and his sons Henry and Frederick in Prees, Shropshire. They lived on on Whitchurch Street. The men all worked as butchers.
Benjamin and Jane's marriage record revealed that:
> Benjamin, a carpenter, age 21, and Jane, age 27, were married in the Prees parish church on 23 April 1866
> Benjamin's father was Joseph Booth, a builder
> Jane's father was John Ebrey, a butcher
With Jane's father's correct name, I at last was able to find Jane's family and her presence in key records.
John and Robert Ebrey were among the sons of Thomas Ebrey who in 1828 and 1835 was listed in Shropshire Directories as Thomas Aberey & Sons, Butchers, in Prees. Thomas Aberey [also Eberey and Ebrey] had on 31 Dec 1795 married Isabelle Gilchrist, who sometimes was recorded as Elizabeth [Elizabeth is the English version of the name Isabelle].
John Ebrey was recorded as John Gilchrist Ebrey when he was baptized on 15 Aug 1802 in Prees. He most likely was named for his maternal grandfather John Gilchrist, Isabelle's father.
On 15 Nov 1827, John Ebrey married Mary Palin, or Paling, in Ightfield, a rural village about 4 miles northeast of Prees and 4 miles southeast of Whitchurch. He and Mary then settled in her home village of Ightfield where John was a butcher while his brother Robert continued the butcher business in Prees. John and Mary had 10 children.
So that's one reason Jane Ebrey was hard to find. It turns out that she was born in Ightfield, not Prees or Hodnet as the family had assumed. Likely born in October 1836, she was baptized in Ightfield on 20 Nov 1836 as shown in the parish records on microfilm. [In the 1900 Census, Jane's birth was recorded as October 1855. She never liked giving her real age!]
But why no IGI for Jane's baptism? It turns out that the IGIs for Ightfield are based on a document the ended with 1830. And the FreeBMD records start with required registration in 1837. Jane's birth fell in the gap, but the microfilm of Ightfield parish records , ordered through the local Family History Center, had records of her birth and those of her siblings.
So why was Jane not with her parents in the 1841 Census? In fact, I believe she was – but the census taker hearing "Jane who is four" wrote down "James, age 4, son." There is no birth of a James Ebrey to John and Mary in the microfilm records. So the census error is the likely reason Jane seems to be missing in 1841. In that year, the John Ebrey family lived in Prees but by 1851 they were again in Ightfield.
In the 1851 Census, Jane Ebrey, 14, born in Ightfield – surely our Jane – was in service in the household of John Paling in Prees. John, a grazier and butcher, was Jane's maternal uncle, being her mother Mary Paling's brother. [It was this record, giving her birthplace in Ightfield, that sent me to the Ightfield microfilm].
In this period, it was typical for young women from families of modest means to work as a servant in another household. In 1861, Jane, as yet unmarried, was recorded as keeping house for her paternal uncle Robert Ebrey in Prees. Robert was a widower with two sons and so in need of someone to run his household.
Then on 23 April 1866, in the Prees parish church, Jane married Benjamin Booth, who had been baptized and confirmed at the church in Hodnet. The Booth family lived in the nearby village of Marchamley at the entrance to Hawkstone where the Booth men were carpenters and builders. Benjamin and Jane came to Milwaukee where he was listed in the 1866 Milwaukee Directory as a carpenter, living with George Booth, carpenter.
A fun extra. On 15 May 1866, at the Prees parish church, Sarah Booth, Benjamin's sister, married Henry Ebrey, Jane's first cousin and the son of Robert Ebrey mentioned earlier. Sarah had been a witness when Benjamin and Jane married.
One last bit gleaned from Shropshire Directories about John and Robert Ebrey. In the 1851 Directory for Shropshre, in the Whitchurch Trades Directory section, both John Ebrey and Robert Ebrey were listed as "country butchers who stand at the market in High Street" in Whitchurch [History, Gazetteer & Directory of Shropshire, 1851, p. 351.] Whitchurch was a market town where on Fridays merchants and tradesmen set up their booths to sell their wares.
Thus a genealogy brickwall – built of various errors and omissions – was finally overcome. Evidence that it can be done!
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$1.5 Million Worth of Stock on Sale
By Nick B. Reid
Hampton Union, Friday, February 22, 2013
[The following article is courtesy of the Hampton Union and Seacoast on line]
HAMPTON -- Hubbingtons Furniture is closing its Hampton store and holding its "Great $1.5 Million Sale" to consolidate its merchandise into the flagship Barrington location.
Dan Webb, a consultant hired to run the sales promotion, said Hubbingtons is "jam-packed" with furniture filling both stores and a warehouse, valuing upwards of $1.5 million, and the sale will go on until the stock is pared down enough to fit in the Barrington store.
Webb said Hubbingtons can't renew its Hampton lease, since the building's owner, Brayton Energy, is expanding beyond its current borders into the location where Hubbingtons has been for the past two years at 75 Lafayette Road.
All the merchandise, including that of the store at 1048 Calef Highway in Barrington, has been retagged for the sale, according to Webb.
"We have enjoyed a tremendous relationship with the people of Hampton, Barrington and surrounding communities for 30 years," said Peter Rhoades, Hubbingtons owner. "In order to continue this tradition and insure our longevity, after we close our Hampton store, we will be consolidating our entire operation into our Barrington store, where we will be servicing the needs of all our customers for many years to come."
Hubbingtons website indicates that will be opening another location on the Seacoast in the fall.
Webb said each store had more than 40 customers waiting outside the doors before the first day of the sale on Feb. 13 and hundreds have been filing every day.
"Consumer response has been unbelievable," Webb said.
The Hampton lease runs out at the end of March, but Webb said he expects the company to achieve its goal before then.


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In '87, Huey released this; Fore!, their most accomplished album. I think their undisputed masterpiece is "Hip To Be Square". A song so catchy, most people probably don't listen to the lyrics. But they should, because it's not just about the pleasures of conformity and the importance of trends. It's also a personal statement about the band itself.


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Many Texas wind farms constructed since 2000 qualify for Texas property tax incentive agreements. These agreements are designed to encourage investment in the state, create jobs and provide other economic benefits.
In 2001, the Texas Legislature passed House Bill 1200, which created Chapter 313 of the Texas Tax Code, also known as the Texas Economic Development Act. Chapter 313's purpose was to spur economic development by allowing local school districts to offer companies property tax abatements. Wind farms, which are typically asset intensive and subject to large property tax assessments, have been one of the biggest beneficiaries of Chapter 313. These types of incentive programs have been instrumental in making Texas the leading wind generator in the U.S.
Many wind farms have participated in Chapter 313 by entering into value limitation agreements with local school districts. Similar to abatements, value limitation agreements temporarily limit the taxable value of facilities over a 10-year period. This limit or cap "freezes" the value at a tier based on that respective school district's total industrial base, which can be as low as $10 million in a rural area. The taxable value caps the school district's maintenance and operations tax, but not the debt service rate, at the limited or capped value. Considering that the school district tax rate can be two to three times the rate of the county, this can be a significant amount.Â
Since its introduction, Chapter 313 has been considered a "right" for any wind farm planning to do business in Texas. However, the act was modified during the Texas 2013 legislative session, and approval of value limitation agreements with a participating school district can no longer be viewed as a given.
Under the old methodology, companies entered into these agreements with participating school districts hoping to create a mutually beneficial relationship, resulting in tax savings for the taxpayer (because renewable energy facilities are asset intensive) and additional funding for the school districts, some of which had seen little to no economic development until the "wind rush" of the late 2000s.
In addition to the Chapter 313 limitation agreements, many wind farms also applied for traditional Chapter 312 property tax abatement exemptions, which are similar agreements with counties that exempt a portion of the county taxes for up to a 10-year period. Every two years, each county is responsible for publishing and renewing a set of guidelines and criteria for the effective administration of abatement applications and awards. One of the key criteria for Chapter 312 has always been a "but for" or similar provision that the companies could and would locate in other localities and that "but for the incentive(s) being offered, the company would not proceed with the project." The incentive must be, or at least appear to be, an important factor in the company's decision about whether to move forward with the project.
With most incentives, the "but for" provision was determined by the jurisdiction providing the incentive. In the case of Chapter 313 applications, final approval was at the discretion of the local school district.
However, that has changed. The Texas Legislature added restrictions by adding an audit provision and language stating that "economic development decisions involving school district taxes should occur at the local level with oversight by the state and should be consistent with identifiable statewide economic development goals." One of the key requirements is that the limitation on appraised value must be "a determining factor in the applicant's decision to invest capital and construct the project in this state." This statutory provision can restrict the participating school district's discretion in approving Chapter 313 applications.
The revisions further state that school districts should "strictly interpret the criteria and selection guidelines provided by this chapter" and ensure the incentives awarded "provide a net benefit to the state over the long term." The latter simply means the ultimate amount of taxes received should be greater than the taxes abated. Additionally, provisions for recapture and penalties and interest were added.
So, what does this mean for the wind farm looking to set up shop in Texas?
Basically, what was once considered a "right" for wind farms to help offset the high cost of green energy or to help achieve renewable portfolio standards has now been restructured to ensure consistency with other incentives and provide a net payback. In a nutshell, approval of a Chapter 313 application is no longer a given; it will be governed by the Comptroller's Office.
When moving forward with a project, companies should discuss their planned capital expenditures with tax advisors and remember that all incentives are discretionary.
Joe Molina is a principal at international tax services firm Ryan, focusing on Complex and Utility Properties. Susan Bittick is a principal at Ryan and leader of the firm's Public Affairs practice.


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Bill may allow Lake Michigan ferry to stay afloat
SS Badger faces Dec. 16 deadline for dumping coal ash into lake
A Lake Michigan ferry that travels between Wisconsin and Michigan would be allowed to stay afloat even though it dumps 500 tons of coal ash into the lake each season, under a special provision added to a bill pending in Congress.
A U.S. Coast Guard reauthorization bill would reportedly allow the nearly 60-year-old SS Badger to remain in business for as long as it floats.
The ferry faces a Dec. 19 deadline for renewal of its federal permit or an investment to end the ash dumping.
The version of the Coast Guard bill in the U.S. House would require the federal Environmental Protection Agency to green light any coal-fired vessel that is a National Historic Landmark.
"It just happens to be the only one in existence," said Brian Patrick, spokesman for U.S. Rep. Bill Huizenga, R-Mich. Both Huizenga and U.S. Rep. Tom Petri of Wisconsin support the bill.
The ferry transports cars and passengers between Ludington, Mich., and Manitowoc, Wis., and is the last coal-burning steamship on the Great Lakes.
The Badger, run by Lake Michigan Carferry, has been criticized by environmentalists but defended by nautical history buffs and those who see the ship as a boon to the economies of the two cities it serves.
One of the ferry's critics is Aaron Schultz, a spokesman for the Badger's Milwaukee-based competitor, Lake Express ferry. He said the Badger was given four years to become compliant by either coming up with a way to retain the ash or to burn a cleaner fuel such as diesel.
"It's a permanent exemption for coal ash, and we don't believe it's good policy," Schultz said of the special provision.
Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett said it was unfair to have different rules for the two vessels.
"Congress should not exempt the SS Badger, nor should it allow that boat to continue dumping thousands of tons of coal ash into Lake Michigan," he said in a statement.
U.S. Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Ill., agrees, and is blocking the Petri-Huizenga provision as the final details of the bill are being negotiated between the House and Senate.
A phone call and email The Associated Press sent Friday seeking comment from Lake Michigan Carferry were not immediately returned.


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Lala, a streaming music service and DRM-free store that keeps your music library in the cloud, has gotten an update that gives it a polished look and some key new features. In addition to these improvements, the company has also hopped on the music discovery bandwagon, boosting its potential as a one-stop shop for almost all of your music needs.
Lala changed the music equation last October by introducing unlimited streaming access to all the songs you already own in addition to providing a cheap DRM-free MP3 store. With this redesign, Lala has greatly improved its Web-based player to provide desktop-like features. Album art is displayed next to each track as it plays, and a snap back button allows you to quickly return to the page where you found the song. New buttons allow for instant access to your queue of upcoming songs and provide the ability to quickly add the currently playing song to any playlist. All this makes for a much more functional, enjoyable player that is accessible from anywhere in the Lala site, no matter where you navigate.
In recent months, Lala has also gained a number of other enhancements, such as a comprehensive music search box on its homepage and a Music Feed that displays friends' activity and news about artists in your collection. Lala users can also buy gift cards for each other, directly gift a track as a Web song (unlimited streaming for 10?) or MP3 download, purchase an entire playlist of Web songs, and get a Web album for free when purchasing a physical CD (remember those?).
Even Lala's embeddable Web player has received some enhancements, like an updated look and the ability to embed entire albums, playlists, or an artist's top songs. The site has also received some UI changes in this recent redesign, with navigation that has been shifted to drop-down menus which sit below the player.
The company is also experimenting with a few beta features. Facebook Connect allows users to share certain activity back to their Facebook profiles, and Last.fm scrobbling will share each played track with your Last.fm account. If you want in on the features, sign into your account preferences, go to the Beta section, and use the contact form there to ask the company for access.
The last of Lala's new additions is "Mix it up," a discovery feature that lets you quickly create a mix playlist of music similar to any artist. Visit an artist's page (or simply search from the main page) and hit the "Mix it up" button to generate a playlist. Ars spoke with John Kuch of Lala's Business Development about how Lala builds its recommendations. According to Kuch, they're based on a variety of factors, like what your friends are listening to and what the general community is buying. Different kinds of activity weigh differently in Lala's discovery algorithm, however. Tracks that users add to their online collection from home or by purchasing the Web song have one level of influence, while songs that are purchased as MP3 downloads weigh more heavily on the recommendation scale.
It has been about six months since Lala introduced its music library in the cloud feature, and Kuch shared some interesting statistics about the company and its users' behavior. Lala has nearly 6.5 million tracks in its catalog now (though users are still allowed to upload their own if Lala's Music Match software cannot find what they are looking for), and the company is powered by 30 people, only five of whom do not write code.
While Kuch could not share hard user numbers, he did say that the new two-punch system of cheap, unlimited streaming Web songs and purchasable DRM-free MP3s is enjoying an 18 percent conversion rate. That is, for every 100 songs that a user listens to (either by streaming once for free or purchasing as a Web song), he or she buys 18 of them.
Kuch could not share details on Lala's streaming rights contracts with the labels. He could only mention that "we have a very unique licensing structure that allows us to do this."
Though Lala's redesign today is not quite revolutionary, it tops off a series of recent enhancements that maintain the company's position at the forefront of the Web music market. The company is making music more social in subtle new ways, and the enhanced player and site make it more appealing than ever to put your entire library in Lala's cloud.


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The cover of Adventure Comics #312 [September, 1963] is pencilled by Curt Swan with inks by George Klein and John Forte. The latter inked the heads of the Legionnaires.
Adventure Comics wasn't a must-get-every-issue title for me until the Legion of Super-Heroes got their own feature. A lot happened in their first year. Mon-El joined the team from the Phantom Zone and was released from the Zone permanently a few issues later. We got the secret origin of Bouncing Boy. There were stories focusing on Sun Boy and Matter-Eater Lad. Lightning Lad died in action. The Legion of Substitute Heroes were introduced. Element Lad joined the team. Lightning Lass posed as her late brother and then joined the team as herself.
At one point, when my money was tight, buying all the Marvel comics was my priority. Only five DC Comics titles stayed on my must-buy list: Challengers of the Unknown, Doom Patrol, Green Lantern, Justice League of America...and Adventure Comics. All those young heroes of the future, combining human interest with science fiction and super-heroes, were irresistible.
"The Super-Sacrifice of the Legionnaires!" was by Edmond Hamilton with art by John Forte. Still mourning the loss of Lightning Lad, six heroes were determined to find a way to bring him back to life. The roster for the issue: Superboy, Mon-El. Saturn Girl, Sun Boy, Lightning Lass and Chameleon Boy. Also featured was Chameleon Boy's shape-changing pet, Proty. The story was told in two chapters, one running 7.67 pages and the other 6.67 pages. That spare third of a page at the end of each chapter were filled with advertisements for Tootsie Roll and Tootsie Roll Pops.
Hamilton's story was imaginative and emotional. As with many of the Legion stories of the era, bits of future business would be tossed into the mix for a panel. Then and now, I thought you could write entire stories around these background elements.
Forte's figures were sometimes stiff, but he was a master of faces and expressions. He made the Legionnaires real.
This story has been reprinted many times. The most recent reprints were in Showcase Presents: Legion of Super-Heroes #1 [April 2007] and Legion of Super-Heroes: 1,050 Years of the Future [June 2008].
The inside front cover advertises for the "Magic Art Reproducer." This "amazing invention" allows the user to "draw any person in one minute" even if they nave taken no lessons or have no talent. The buyer's $1.98 includes a free "How to Easily Draw Artists' Models" guide. The device seems to be some sort of projection thing and is sold by Norton Products.
A half-page "Coming...Super-Attractions!" ad follows chapter one of the Legion story. It promotes the issues of Superman and Lois Lane which were used in the Action Comics #304 version, replacing that comic's ad for Adventure Comics #312 with an ad for Action Comics.
The other half of the page offers 207 stamps for 25 cents. Buyers would also get 88 flags of the world and all 14 Confederate States facsimiles in color. The hook is that a buyer will continue to get selections of unusual stamps and be billed for them.
Two more half-page ads follow the conclusion of the Legion story. "Missile Attack" ($1.50 including postage and handling) is a game that lets buyers make all out war in their own homes. The ad claims "you get enough nuclear battle equipment for maximum effort warfare and massive counter-attack! The game pieces are said to be "multi-color unbreakable plastic."
The bottom half of the page offers 104 classic, racing, foreign and modern cars for $1.49. This one actually looks like it could have been fun.
"Smallville Mailsack" is next with five letters and the very cool "Bits of Legionnaire Business" section in which readers were asked to create new Legionnaires. Letters first.
David Smith of Knoxville, Tennessee wants Lightning Lad back from the dead. Stephen Tenyak of St. Mary's, Ohio thinks Superboy broke his vow against killing any living thing when he made water salty so Lana Lang wouldn't sink in it. The editor says Superboy checked the pool for fish before he did this.
Violet Smith of Santa Ana, California questions a story that said Superboy and Lana were too young to get married. She points out that the World Almanac says that "in the state of New Hampshire, a girl can marry at 13 and a boy at 14 providing they have their parents' consent." She dares the editor to squirm out of this one and he replies:
Superboy's parents are Martha and Jonathan Kent, right? And, if they gave their consent to his marriage to Lana, everyone would know Superboy was their son, a fact they have gone to great lengths to conceal. So your ingenious suggestions won't work.
Maybe Superboy was saving himself for Lois Lane, his one true love. Or maybe, as per the New 52, he was awaiting for the chance to be a man-slut with Wonder Woman.
Paul Tremaine of Denver, Colorado asks if Krypto, Superboy's dog, ever met Streaky, Supergirl's pet. The editor answers that they're both members of the Legion of Super-Pets who will be featured in an upcoming story.
Larry Minton of Parls, Texas wants to know why Lex Luthor is bald as a teenager. The editor says it was a meth lab fire. Okay, just kidding. The cause was chemical fumes released when one of Luthor's experiment went awry.
Then and now, I love "Bits of Legionnaire Business." In fact, some of these characters showed up in future Legion stories:
Bird Girl (can do anything any bird can do)
- Dennis Persica, New Orleans, Louisiana
Time Girl (can alter time and evolution)
Rex Osborn, Essex, England
Banish Boy (can temporarily send people to the Phantom Zone)
Mike Meridler, Kenner, Louisiana
Airless Boy (doesn't have to breathe)
John Maynard, Columbus, Ohio
Spell Boy (can cast spells on any outlaw)
Gary Haught, Akron, Ohio
E.S.P. Kid (second sight, telepathy, hypnotism)
Tom Holberg, Forest Park, Illinois
Weight Wizard (can make himself weigh any amount)
Maggie Fraser, Pleasantville, New York
Blockade Boy (can change into a steel wall)
Tom Kegley, St. Paul, Minnesota
The letters page is followed by the same full-page subscription ad that ran in Action Comics #304.
Superboy stars in "Lana Lang, Hollywood Star!" (10 pages). George Papp is the artist, but the writer has yet to be identified. Since the story has never been reprinted that I can see, I'll make with the more complete summation.
Lana Lang's father is filming a documentary "deep in the heart of the African veldt." Lana is with him. When they are reported lost, Superboy flies across the world to find them. The Langs aren't so much lost as unable to return to civilization because a quake has caused a chasm. Superboy decides to help them secretly to protect their reputations as explores.
When Lana recklessly swings across the chasm on a vine, Superboy uses his super-breath to push her to safety when the vine breaks. He helps her start a fire and keeps a jaguar from eating her. But Lana is now over-confident because stupid moves are what we expect from Superboy/Superman supporting characters.
When the documentary is screened, Cosmic Studios thinks Lana looks like a female Tarzan and wants to star her in a jungle queen movie. Her parents don't like the idea of her going to Hollywood alone - they're going to India and are afraid the movie might be too lurid - but agree after the studio agrees to buy a new wing for the local hospital and add a clause that lets Lana choose her own leading man and make technical changes in the story.
What could possibly go wrong? I mean besides Lana going completely diva-bitch on the studio.
Lana rejects any leading man that might distract from her starring role. For the sake of the hospital, Superboy disguises himself and gets the part. When he reveals himself as the Boy of Steel, Lana is pissed. She plans to write him out of every scene.
Superboy has tricks of his own. He upstages Lana in several scenes. Lana has no control over what footage is used.
Months later, the film premieres at the Smallville Theater. Lana is still being a diva...until she sees the marquee:
in "JUNGLE
with Lana Lang
Humiliated, Lana doesn't even walk into the theater. Superboy goes after her and flies away with her. She's angry, but he explains the billing was the producer's idea. But he wants to show her that she got the star billing where it really counts.
There's a plaque on the hospital's new wing:
This new wing built
through the generous
contribution of
Ashamed, Lana learns her lesson. She's been a conceited little fool but she's over it. She says:
I don't want to be a Hollywood star anymore! I'd rather be an average person, a nobody like...like Clark Kent!
"Super-Turtle" appears in 0.6-page gag strip written and drawn by Henry Boltinoff. He rescues a paratrooper whose chute didn't open, puts out a forest fire by creating a huge wind with his super-speed and is called on to perform a feat that requires great strength. He has to help a woman whose heel is caught in a sewer grating.
Why isn't there a collection of Henry Boltinoff's various DC Comics fillers? I loved those things as a kid and love them even more now that I can appreciate how talented Boltinoff was.
The rest of the page has the Tootsie Roll Fudge ad that appeared in Action Comics #304. The following page has the 104 Kings' Knights and 100 Toy Soldiers ads that also ran there.
The last interior page offers Blast Off, a space game that costs a mere $1.98 and comes with 196 unbreakable plastic pieces plus the "giant 312 sq. inch target of our entire solar system in brilliant color." It's from Five Star Toys of Commack, New York.
The inside back cover has the Wallace Brown advertisement telling folks they can make big money selling Christmas cards.
The back cover ad offers "204 Revolutionary War Soldiers" for only $1.98. You would get two complete armies - the British Redcoats and the American Bluecoats - with each piece made of that pure molded plastic so common to these comic-book ads.
This July 1963 series will continue with one or more installments each week. I'll be back tomorrow with an update on The East Coast Black Age of Comics Convention. See you then.
© 2016 Tony Isabella


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LIVERPOOL manager Brendan Rodgers believes new £12million signing Daniel Sturridge has already shown a glimpse of what he will offer his side.
The 23-year-old came off the bench at Old Trafford yesterday to re-invigorate a lacklustre performance and scored his second in as many matches since arriving from Chelsea, also missing the chance to snatch a late equaliser.
Prior to his introduction at half-time, Liverpool had endured a dismal time in which they showed none of the fight or quality required in a game against their arch-rivals, as United eased into a 2-0 lead through Robin van Persie and Nemanja Vidic.
But Sturridge's goal, following in a Steven Gerrard shot which David de Gea could only parry, lifted the side and also displayed a predatory instinct the Reds have been lacking for 18 months.
"I just think this is a boy who can be a real top striker in this country and I think he will be scoring many goals for Liverpool," said Rodgers.
"You have seen from a half appearance yesterday and 55 minutes last weekend this boy is a goalscorer and what he needed was an opportunity.
"He got one goal (against United) and was unlucky with a couple of opportunities. He is going to be a terrific signing for us."
Rodgers insists he does not regret not starting with the striker, whose two appearances for the Merseysiders (totalling 100 minutes) were his first since November 17.
"I have been assessing him in training and he is coming back," he added. "If I thought he could have lasted the game I would have put him in. Sometimes you can rush them back too quickly and break them and I didn't want to do that. He is certainly getting there with his work-rate.
"We had won seven out of our last seven so the team and some of the players had been doing well and it is just the feeling you get. I felt at the start we needed to make sure we stayed solid and tight while still creating chances and once the game opened up a bit Daniel could come on and affect the game with his pace and power."


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In a recent interview, Dan Akroyd reveals a few details on the upcoming "Ghostbusters 3." Confirmed is the return of Sigourney Weaver, and shooting is tentatively scheduled for this Winter.
Myriad Pictures and the Roseblood Movie Company announce a new flick based on an original Brett Easton Ellis screenplay. Ellis, known for penning some pretty edgy fare such as "American Psycho," lends his expertise this time around to the original story of a social outcast ridiculed by his peers who in turn takes them hostage, with disastrous results.
It's rumored that Oliver Stone is in talks to direct "Helter Skelter", based on the book of the same name written by Vincent Bugliosi.
Bruce Willis returns to the genre with a supernatural flick centered around small town horror as a young girl turns up missing under weird circumstances in "Grimm." The movie is currently in pre-production with Russell Mulcahy directing.


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It never fails.
The minute I say I'm going to do something on the blog my life completely gets in the way.
So if you are here for the Teapot Tutorial that was promised on Wednesday, I'm sorry. Its coming soon!
To add insult to injury, I'm about to tell you something not spoken of here....
I'm not a fan of bathroom humor.
Like, really, not a fan.
I don't know why, its just the way I'm wired.
However the DNA of anti-bathroom humor must not be a dominant trait because I happened to produce two offspring that think talking about (or making sounds like) obnoxious functions of certain body parts is pretty hilarious.
This fact is compounded by the fact that I have a thirteen year-old for a son.
If you have a three-year old, you know what I'm talking about...now add a decade (with a dash of wit and a few wacky hormones) and the hilarity adds exponentially.
The kids have been studying Astronomy for the last month in their science class.
The text has been great and they've really enjoyed this course. They've especially enjoyed the study of planets, in particular the planet of Uranus.
There were giggles and guffaws coming from downstairs last week that led me to believe school-work was not being completed. So I went to take control of my rowdy students....but when The Boy saw me charging down the stairs in haste, he said, "Mom, I've GOT to read this to you, the writers of this book HAD to have done this on purpose," and then he proceeded to read the following excerpts - out loud.
Seeing Uranus - At its brightest, Uranus can be seen with the naked eye if you know just where to look.
What Uranus is made of - The atmosphere of Uranus is mostly hydrogen gas, with helium and tiny amounts of other gases.
Moons of Uranus - Uranus has at least 22 moons, although there may be more that are discovered.
Uranus's Rings - Uranus has rings that are made up of dust. The outer ring is particularly dark.


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I tried pretzels for the first time at the Reading Terminal Market in Philly. I was visiting my friend Michael, who lived there at the time and who insisted I had to try 'those' pretzels. I had tried pretzels before, German style, at the cafeteria of the Goethe Institut in Barcelona, exactly during the World Cup of 2006. Liked them, but not so much. I've always been more of a hard pretzel person. Or I was until I tried 'those' pretzels.
They were soft, warm, yummy, salty but not so much and the perfect snack. I think I ate mine in 30 seconds flat. No kidding. It was that good. I thought making them at home would be an impossible mission. Oh boy, was I wrong. Ok, I'll admit it's not the best thing to bake in a hot summer day, but still, I survived the mission.
For those of you who are unfamiliar with them, the secret to that hard crust and soft inside is baking soda. The pretzels are briefly boiled in a bath of water and baking soda and then baked until golden brown. Of course, they wouldn't be authentic pretzels without those perfect coarse salt crystals.
Honestly, however you make them, just make them. They are ideal for some snacking at your summery grilling!
Recipe adapted from Tracey's culinary adventures
Note: I made half recipe, got a bunch of bites and 16 small pretzels
Print this recipe
1 1/2 cups warm water (about 110 F)
2 tablespoons sugar
1 package (2 1/4 teaspoons) active dry yeast
3 ounces (6 tablespoons) unsalted butter, melted and cooled just slightly
2 1/2 teaspoons coarse salt
4 1/2 to 5 cups all-purpose flour
For the soda bath:
3 quarts water
3/4 cup baking soda
For coating:
1 whole egg, beaten with 1 tablespoon cold water
coarse sea salt
barbecue spice mix
These pretzels were submitted to this week's yeastspotting!


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Friday, December 14
Good morning, TexMessagers! Which politicians do you most often search for on Google?
Ron Paul might not have won the presidential primary, but if clicks count he would have beat both President Barack Obama and Mitt Romney in the 2012 election.
Paul made second on the list of top trending politicians on Google, placing higher than both Obama and Romney, according to the search engine's year-end review. Paul Ryan topped the list. As of August, people most searched for the politician along with "vice president" and "shirtless."
Another Texan, Gov. Rick Perry, also made the list of top trending politicians, coming in tenth.
Paul's success might have stemmed from his strong following of young Libertarians. His Facebook page has more than 1.1 million likes and he's followed by close to 200,000 people on Twitter.
Top trending issues this year included immigration, preceded by abortion and gay marriage. Gun control and the death penalty rounded out the top 10.
Here's the full list of highest trending politicians on Google:
- Paul Ryan
- Ron Paul
- Barack Obama
- Rick Santorum
- Mitt Romney
- Newt Gingrich
- Gary Johnson
- Todd Akin
- Joe Biden
- Rick Perry
Headlines from TxPotomac's top articles:
★ 'Former Texas lawmakers lament "fiscal cliff," join bipartisan coalition to Fix the Debt
★ Loud commercials banned last midnight after four year effort
★ Rep. Henry Cuellar is lone Texas Democrat on Appropriations Committee
★ Excited George W. Bush wants grandkids to call him "sir" or "jefe"
★ An appreciation: One of Congress' rambunctious "Watergate Babies" remembers Jack Brooks
★ 11 ill-starred presidential picks, from Abe Fortas to Susan Rice
★ Rep. Barbara Lee blames "radical right" on sinking Susan Rice
★ Barney Frank publicly apologizes to Jeb Hensarling on House floor, proving civility still exists in Washington
★ Susan Rice withdraws her name from consideration for Secretary of State
★ President Barack Obama signs child protection bill into law
Reader Comment of the Day
In response to our post, 'Mitt Romney Wins!….Lie of the Year award,' "Rockette" wrote in the comments forum:
Mitt lost the race for the White House and I think he is licking his wounds very well. Let's stop beating up on him, I am sure he is doing a good job of that all by himself.
TxPotomac lets you know what stories to look out for.
★ Economic indicators: consumer price index, industrial production and capacity, assets and liabilities of commercial banks
★ The Migration Policy Institute is hosting a discussion on race and immigration analysis at 10:30 a.m., at the institute's Washington office at 1400 16th St. N.W., Suite 300.
★ The Heritage Foundation talk strategies to limit government at noon at the Lehrman Auditorium of their building at 214 Massachusetts Ave. N.E.
★ Rep. Eddie Bernice Johnson, D-Dallas, is holding a town hall press conference about how falling off the fiscal cliff might impact Texans in District 30.
Tomorrow and beyond:
★ Dec. 19. Senate Judiciary Committee (Chairman Leahy, D-Vt.) will hold a hearing titled "The State of the Right to Vote After the 2012 Election" at 10 a.m.
★ Dec. 20. Senate Foreign Relations Committee (Chairman Kerry, D-Mass.) will hold a hearing titled "Benghazi The Attack and the Lessons Learned" at 9 a.m. Secretary of State Hillary R. Clinton is scheduled to testify before the committee.
Today in Texas History
On this day in 1934, the School Defense League, a group promoting educational opportunities for Mexican-American children, was founded in San Antonio. More>>>


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Courthouse collapse
Yikes! Less than an hour ago, the entire back corner of the old Juvenile and Domestic Relations Court collapsed. Officials were still trying to figure out who was going to talk to the press when the Hook arrived on the scene. Stay tuned for details!
Update 4:45 pm:"They (Kenbridge Construction Co.) were in the process of underpinning the foundation for the three-story court house addition," says city building code official Tom Elliott. "Right now, the contractor has to find a structural engineer to temporarily brace the structure."
Apparently, workers on the site noticed a crack forming on the wall and had time to clear the area. About 20 minutes later the corner of the building came crashing down. No one was hurt. According to Elliot, the brick rubble will have to be sorted through and cleaned and replaced, a project that could be quite time consuming and expensive. As city councilor Blake Caravati–who also happens to be a building contractor–-told the Hook, "It's going to be costly"Šperiod!"
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Incredible. It is right next door to our office. It looks like it was empty so I hope that means noone was injured.
It's been under renovation. There were workers on the site, hopefully none hurt. Earlier in this same renovation, workers managed to accidentally set the building on fire. This one's just not going as planned.
A recently deceased federal judge and fine man told me during a discussion in 1996 or 1997 that some of the courthouses in the block were built on old Indian burial grounds. We were discussing the repeated Sick Building Syndrome in the Charlottesville Circuit Court building at the time. For the superstitious, I wonder if this comes into play with all the events in this particular building now? :D
First of all it is a blessing that no-one was injured - isn't it lucky that a contractor was around when this happened. Personally, I have learned that it may be cool to sort of blame the ancient ones - Sometimes the best revenge is no revenge is no revenge.
Sick building syndrome is caused many time by using products that are inferior/or sometimes are full of chemicals that over time literally make folks ill. Think green - think responsibly - think I am kidding - google it and you will find majour businesses/hotels are doing just that. It is not always about a quick buck and how fast can we get it done. Do it right and just maybe - this type of thing - may not happen. HO!
In the Circuit Court building they found cancer causing carcinogens located in the ventilation ducts near the Sheriff's Department within the building. John Nightengale (custodian) and Carlton Baird (sheriff) both died of cancer. Others exposed to it could very well die of cancer sometime in the future if this discovery and their deaths are related. /Steve


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Title 19: Customs Duties
(a) No imported merchandise shall be released from Customs custody until a permit to release such merchandise has been granted. Such permit shall be issued by the port director only after the merchandise has been entered and, except as provided for in §141.102(d) or part 142 of this chapter, the duties thereon, if any, have been estimated and paid. Generally, the permit shall consist of a document authorizing delivery of a particular shipment or an electronic equivalent. Alternatively, the permit may consist of a report which lists those shipments which have been authorized for release. This alternative cargo release notification may be used when the manifest is not filed by the carrier through the Automated Manifest System, the entry has been filed through the Automated Broker Interface, and Customs has approved the cargo for release without submission of paper documents after reviewing the entry data submitted electronically through ABI and its selectivity criteria (see §143.34). The report shall be posted in a conspicuous area to which the public has access in the customhouse at the port of entry where the cargo was imported.
(1) Where the cargo arrives by vessel, the report shall consist of the following data elements:
(i) Vessel name or code, if transmitted by the entry filer;
(ii) Carrier code;
(iii) Voyage number, if transmitted by the entry filer;
(iv) Bill of lading number;
(v) Quantity released; and
(vi) Entry number (including filer code).
(2) Where the cargo arrives by air, the report shall consist of the following data elements:
(i) Air waybill number;
(ii) Quantity released;
(iii) Entry number (including filer code);
(iv) Carrier code; and
(v) Flight number, if transmitted by the entry filer.
(3) In the case of merchandise traveling via in-bond movement, the report will contain the following data elements:
(i) Immediate transportation bond number;
(ii) Carrier code;
(iii) Quantity released; and
(iv) Entry number (including filer code).
When merchandise is released without proper permit before entry has been made, the port director shall issue a written demand for redelivery. The carrier or facility operator shall redeliver the merchandise to Customs within 30 days after the demand is made. The port director may authorize unentered merchandise brought in by one carrier for the account of another carrier to be transferred within the port to the latter carrier's facility. Upon receipt of the merchandise the latter carrier assumes liability for the merchandise to the same extent as though the merchandise had arrived on its own vessel.
(b) When packages of merchandise bear marks or numbers which differ from those appearing on the Cargo Declaration, Customs Form 1302, of the importing vessel for the same packages and the importer or a receiving bonded carrier, with the concurrence of the importing carrier, makes application for their release under such marks or numbers, either for consumption or for transportation in bond under an entry filed therefor at the port of discharge from the importing vessel, the port director may approve the application upon condition that (1) the contents of the packages be identified with an invoice or transportation entry as set forth below and (2) the applicant furnish at his own expense any bonded cartage or lighterage service which the granting of the application may require. The application shall be in writing in such number of copies as may be required for local Customs purposes. Before permitting delivery of packages under such an application, the port director shall cause such examination thereof to be made as will reasonably identify the contents with the invoice filed with the consumption entry. If the merchandise is entered for transportation in bond without the filing of an invoice, such examination shall be made as will reasonably identify the contents of the packages with the transportation entry.
(c) If the port director determines that, in a port or portion of a port, the volume of cargo handled, the incidence of theft or pilferage, or any other factor related to the protection of merchandise in Customs custody requires such measures, he shall require as a condition to the granting of a permit to release imported merchandise that the importer or his agent present to the carrier or his agent a fully executed pickup order in substantially the following format, in triplicate, to obtain delivery of any imported merchandise:View or download PDF
The pickup order shall contain a duly authenticated customhouse broker's signature, unless it is presented by a person properly identified as an employee or agent of the ultimate consignee. When delivered quantities are verified by a Customs officer, he shall certify all copies of the pickup order, returning one to the importer or his agent and two to the carrier making delivery.
(d) When the provisions of paragraph (c) of this section are invoked by the port director and verification of delivered quantities by Customs is required, a permit to release merchandise shall be effective as a release from Customs custody at the time that the delivery of the merchandise covered by the pickup order into the physical possession of a subsequent carrier or an importer or the agent of either is completed under the supervision of a Customs officer, and only to the extent of the actual delivery of merchandise described in such pickup order as verified by such Customs officer.
[28 FR 14596, Dec. 31, 1963, as amended by T.D. 71-39, 36 FR 1892, Feb. 3, 1971; T.D. 77-255, 42 FR 56321, Oct. 25, 1977; T.D. 91-46, 56 FR 22330, May 15, 1991; 56 FR 27559, June 14, 1991]


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Fairless High School seniors are volunteering time in front of Brewster's Belloni Foods, seeking donations for The Salvation Army's largest annual fundraiser.
Bell-ringing is taking a bit of a different tone at Belloni Foods.
It's a Christmas tradition for people to volunteer time by ringing the bell for donations, as part of The Salvation Army's Red Kettle Campaign. But at the entrance to the Belloni store, a couple dozen Fairless High School seniors are chiming in.
"It's serving and volunteering with community, and a good way to help raise money for those who need it," said Fairless senior Jackie Reusser, 17, who was out Wednesday afternoon ringing and greeting customers at Belloni Foods, 258 S. Wabash Ave.
The Red Kettle Campaign is the Salvation Army's largest and most visible annual fundraiser. The effort helps to serve hungry and homeless people, as well as providing after-school care at regional community centers.
The bell ringing season typically starts in November and runs through Christmas Eve. Fairless students began participating just after Thanksgiving Day, Reusser said.
Fairless seniors are volunteering in shifts of two each day from 10 a.m. to
6 p.m. All students are part of the school's National Honor Society, according to senior Jordan Tull, 18, who joined Reusser Wednesday at Belloni Foods.
"People have been really nice, and giving," Tull said. "I like doing this and talking to people. Sometimes I get in the spirit and sing 'Jingle Bells' to people coming in and out."
Red kettle donations can be made at various local retail locations with the red kettle or online at www.gosalarmy.org.
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Overall, there will be eight keynote speakers and six concurrent session streams covering medical and nursing, management, research, rural hospital, models of care and community presentations over the two main days – Friday, March 31 and Saturday, April 1. Visit the programme tab on this page for more details.
The conference theme is "Healthy Rural Communities – Mauri Ora, Whanau Ora, Wai Ora" and the TSB Arena-Shed 6 complex on the Wellington waterfront is the venue for the conference.
A rural research day and pre-conference workshops on Thursday, March 30, herald the event's start followed by keynote and concurrent sessions and exhibition/trade days on Friday, March 31 and Saturday, April 1, culminating with members' breakfasts and political sessions on Sunday, April 2.
The conference programme also offers a range of social activities including an official welcome function and gala dinner along with doctors', nurses' and students' dinners and casual networking opportunities.
An awards ceremony will take place on Friday, March 31 when accolades including the Peter Snow Memorial Award and the rural practice of the year as voted by the community, will be announced.
The conference will be held in association with the New Zealand Rural Hospital Network and the Rural Health Alliance Aotearoa New Zealand.
To view the programme click here.
To register for the conference and individual sessions please click here.
To book your accommodation click here.
On behalf of the 2017 conference organising committee, I invite you to attend this exciting event and be part of an annual celebration of rural primary health care. We look forward to seeing you in Wellington in 2017.
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2012 MuchMusic Video Awards Red Carpet Pictures
Tonight at the 2012 MuchMusic Video Awards, stars posed for fun pictures on the red carpet with some very interesting guests on their arms. Katy Perry, Canada native Justin Bieber, fellow Canadian Carly Rae Jepsen and Selena Gomez — most of whom are performing at this evening's show — all hit the red carpet at the 2012 MuchMusic Video Awards in Toronto for some adorable, and is some cases, steamy pictures.
Katy Perry had one of the most memorable red carpet moments. Dressed in a gold and black gown with her purple locks flowing, the 'Wide Awake' songstress escorted a troop of "mini Katy's" around the red carpet with her. Each of the girls was dressed as a different character from her series of 'Teenage Dream' videos, making for some adorable and hilarious red carpet pictures.
Justin Bieber was also in attendance with little brother Jax, who clutched onto his big bro like a little Koala bear — they were too cute! Surprisingly, the Biebs posed for red carpet pictures with his pal Carly Rae Jepsen (who was also pictured next to some super hunky male models), but failed to snap a pic with his girlfriend Selena Gomez.
On a side note, the Biebs looked super swagged out in all-black with gold-trimmed sneakers, and Carly Rae looked very sexy in a shiny black gown. Meanwhile, the always beautiful Selena Gomez dazzled in a gold mini-dress.
Check out these picture from the 2012 MuchMusic Video Awards and let us know who you think was the best dressed! Our vote definitely foes to the 'T.G.I.F.' mini Katy.