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I live in a split-level development on a half-acre of land in suburban Philadelphia. While I may not have to worry about bears or lions showing up to devour my family, I do at times have my own version of Wild Kingdom going on in my backyard.
Recently, I had to do phone interview with a company CEO for an article I was writing. With my office being in my home, I try to make sure my dogs cannot be heard by another party when I am on the phone. When the weather is good, "the girls" play in the yard or sit in the shade and just enjoy their near Utopian existence so I can work in peace. I do check on them periodically. While my dogs love their yard, on occasion they have been known to dig tunnels under the fence and make a break for it. Well, it's my big dog, Frankie, who is the instigator in this activity. My little pooch, LuLu, goes along with Frankie out of peer pressure.
Anyway, I was doing the phone interview with this CEO, and I heard a weird sound emanating from outside. My first thought was that one of my dogs was stuck trying to escape, but the sounds were not the sounds either of my dogs would make. They were high-pitched, disturbing screams that sounded as if they might be coming from my neighbor's house. With phone in hand, and interviewee still on the line, I headed toward the source of the screeching noise. I opened the backdoor, and immediately my heart began to race. By my vegetable gardens, I could see my dogs, and they were engaged in hand-to-hand combat with a woodchuck, groundhog or some kind of creature like that.
I will have to admit that I do not know the difference between many of these critters. I can identify skunks, raccoons and deer, but that is where my expertise ends. This furry creature did resemble the groundhog, Punxsutawney Phil, who comes out every February 2nd to tell us if spring is on the way. However, this animal was a lot bigger, and he did not look quite as happy as Phil since each of my dogs had one of its legs in their mouths, and the animal was about to be drawn and quartered.
You might have guessed this about me by now, but I don't do "calm" very well. In fact, panic is pretty much my strong suit. I dropped the phone and started to wave my arms in a wild motion hoping I would grab the attention of my dogs who seemed intent on pulling apart this rodent-looking creature. When my flailing failed to distract the pooches, I started to yell. "WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU DOING? GET AWAY! STOP IT! LET GO OF THOSE PAWS! DON'T YOU DARE EAT THAT ANIMAL!"
Then I heard this voice screaming at me from a distance, and I realized I left the man I was interviewing on the phone. "Donna, where are you? Are you okay? Should I call 911?"
I ran back to the phone which was lying in the grass and in a surprisingly professional voice I said, "My dogs are tearing apart some kind of animal. Could you hold just one minute?"
The man had to think I was a psycho, but I didn't even wait for an answer. I threw the phone back on the lawn and ran to get the garden hose. I turned on the water and dragged the hose back to where the animal tug of war was taking place. In my haste, I tripped over the hose, and yes, I got boo boos which inspired me to let out another set of colorful expletives. To my credit, my bloody knees did not prevent me from saving that bold critter that came into my yard to feed on my garden.
I felt like a super cop in one of those action movies. From the ground, I hoisted myself up on my scraped elbows, took aim with the hose like a sharpshooter and blasted both dogs and the critter. All three were pretty shocked when that water hit them. The dogs, who hate the hose, immediately let go of the animal and took off to hide behind trees. Still trembling with fear, the alien critter stared at me but made no attempt to leave the yard.
I took a closer look at the creature and noticed there was no blood. This animal wasn't hurt. So, I turned the hose on it again, and it scurried under my neighbor's fence. Then, I took the girls inside and gave them tons of doggie breath fresheners.
As I was lying in bed that night, I suddenly realized that the phone was still outside on the lawn, and I never got back to the CEO and most likely he heard the whole chaotic event. Yeah…I had a lot of explaining to do the next day.


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Taliban enhance diplomatic contacts with Iran, Russia
Taliban enhance diplomatic contacts with Iran, Russia
KABUL (Pajhwok): The Taliban have formalised their relationship with Iran by appointing a representative to the Islamic Republic, according to a media report on Monday.
The Express Tribune reported that Maulvi Nek Muhammad, who was education director when Taliban ruled southern Kandahar province before being topplled in 2001, is the Taliban's envoy in Tehran. "Maulvi Nek Muhammad is a frequent visitor to Iran," the newspaper quoted a source in the group as saying.
"We have named envoys for several other countries, including Central Asian States, and have also increased contacts with Russia," said the Taliban leader, who requested not to be identified in the report.
The group also enjoy good relations with China. A Taliban delegation visited the People's Republic in July at the invitation of Beijing. Last year, the Chinese special envoy for Afghanistan said his country considered the Afghan Taliban a 'major political force'.
The emerging threat from Islamic State, or Da'ish, and longer stay of the US-led foreign troops in Afghanistan had been seen as main reasons behind Iran's growing relationship with the Taliban. Da'ish claimed credit for deadly attacks on Shia mourners this Muharram in Kabul and Mazar-e-Sharif. The Taliban condemned the attacks motivated by sectarian hatred.
For years, the Taliban and Iran had been bitter foes and their relations touched the lowest ebb in 1998 when Taliban fighters stormed the Iranian consulate in Mazar-e-Sharif. Ten Iranian consulate staffers and an Iranian journalist were killed in the attack.
A lukewarm response from most Arab states, including Saudi Arabia, pushed the Taliban to reach out to Tehran, according to insiders. The group angrily reacted to a plan of the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation to hold a conference of religious scholars in the holy cities of Makkah and Madina in mid-October. The conference, which the Taliban described as a 'plot of intelligence agencies', was subsequently postponed.
Taliban leaders were now frequent visitors to Iran as they are campaigning to find new allies, a second Taliban leader told The Express Tribune. A three-member Taliban military delegation, headed by military commission chief Ibrahim Sadr, visited Tehran this year in an apparent move to 'seek military aid' from Iran.
The delegations are said to have allayed Iran's concerns about the harsh treatment of the Shia Hazaras during the Taliban rule in Afghanistan. Officially, Iran has never confirmed the Taliban's visits; however, the Iranian media close to the security establishment confirmed such visits on several occasions.
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BABSON PARK, Mass.—Visiting Amherst College got goals from three different players on its way to defeating No. 13 USCHO.com/No. 11 D3hockey.com Babson College, 3-2, in non-conference men's ice hockey action on Sunday afternoon at the Babson Skating Center.
Babson, which has dropped two straight games, slips to 7-2-1 overall, while Amherst improves to 2-2-0 on the year.
Senior Stevie DeForge (Norwood, Mass.) and sophomore Christian Faggas (Norwood, Mass.) both scored for the Beavers. Senior Matt Brazel (Hingham, Mass.) had two assists and Zach Richterman (Canton, Ohio) added one assist in front of senior goaltender Bryan Botcher (Mequon, Wis.), who finished with 30 saves in the loss.
Senior Stephen Mallory (Egg Harbor Township, N.J.), junior Joey Lupo (St. Louis, Mo.) and sophomore Jack Lloyd (Herndon, Va.) all had a goal for the Mammoths, who got 31 saves from sophomore netminder Michael Cullen (Ottawa, Ontario).
The Green and White jumped on top midway through the first when Brazel gained control of the puck along the left boards and came flying into the zone before dishing it to his right for Faggas, who beat Cullen on the short side for a 1-0 advantage. Amherst pulled even at 11:25 of the second period when Mallory's wrist shot from the left face-off circle made it through a crowd in front for his first goal of the season.
The Mammoths took their first lead 41 seconds into the third period when junior Patrick Daly's (Hamilton, Mass.) pass from behind the net took a deflection and was finished by Lupo with a blast from the slot. Lloyd controlled a face-off and lifted a wrist shot over Botcher's shoulder six minutes later to make it 3-1.
Amherst was whistled for a tripping penalty with 8:34 to play and Babson pulled Botcher for a 6-on-4 advantage. Cullen made a pair of stops to kill the penalty, but DeForge took a cross-ice pass from Brazel and ripped a slap shot from the right face-off dot to cut the Beavers' deficit to 3-2 with 5:53 to play.
The Green and White pulled Botcher again with 2:16 to play, but was unable to pull even. Cullen stopped Faggas' slap shot with 1:59 to go and then made a blocker save sliding to the right post to deny first-year Ryan Black's (Pomfret, Conn.) attempt off a rebound with 33 seconds remaining.
Both teams return to action on Friday at 7 p.m. as Babson hosts Skidmore, while Amherst travels to Wesleyan.
• The Beavers are now 24-16-3 all-time against Amherst but have dropped each of the last two meetings at home.
• Prior to Sunday's loss, Botcher had gone 5-0-1 over his last six starts dating back to last February.
• Babson is 2-2 this season in games decided by a single goal.
• Despite Sunday's setback, the Beavers are 9-3 following a loss dating back to January 2016.


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On Thursday, June 15, 2017, the Career Guidance Office at Bethlehem University held a certificate distribution ceremony for students who participated in the Employability Skills course that was held in cooperation with the Czech Republic Development Cooperation, Caritas Czech Republic, and Caritas Jerusalem. The course was offered to senior students and fresh graduates during the months of October and November of 2016. It covered several life skills topics, such as CV writing, interviewing skills, time management, communications skills, presentation skills, team work, problem solving, goal setting, and leadership skills.
The certificate distribution ceremony was attended by Mr. Martin Náprstek, Head of Partner Relations Department at the Czech Republic Development Cooperation, Ms. Iva Peterkova, Program Manager at Caritas Czech Republic, Mr. George Handal, Acting General Director of Caritas Jerusalem, Mr. David Fawadleh, Project Coordinator at Caritas Jerusalem, and Bethlehem University faculty and staff including Mr. Michael Tanas, the course instructor, and Mr. Saher Khair, Career Guidance Coordinator.
Opening the ceremony, Mr. David Fawadleh greeted attendees and students, and announced about the second session of the training course that will begin mid-July.
Speaking on behalf of the students, Ms. Jane Mousallam, expressed gratitude to Bethlehem University for organizing the course and the Czech Republic, Caritas Czech, and Caritas Jerusalem for their support towards its success. She emphasized the positive impact the course has had on her life and the help it has given her toward finding employment after graduation.


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Making music magical – Leeds to welcome back UK's brightest young musicians this August!
A hundred-strong orchestra of the country's finest young musicians is gearing up for its upcoming performance at Leeds Town Hall on Saturday 13 August – all of them thirteen years of age or younger!
National Children's Orchestras of Great Britain performances are a regular feature at Leeds Town Hall, and the Under 13 Orchestra members are determined to impress audiences yet again.
"This is my fourth year playing with NCO, and I have thoroughly enjoyed the experience, both musically and socially. My playing has improved tremendously," comments Peter Stobart, an eleven year old percussionist from Halifax. "I am really looking forward to playing at Leeds Town Hall in August, as it is really close to my home!"
The young musicians will spend just over a week rehearsing together at Sedbergh School, in Cumbria, before its performance in Leeds. The musicians will have eight days together at the school where they will enjoy a combination of rehearsals and recreation. The school has stunning grounds for the children to have fun and relax in when they are not rehearsing.
The performance is guaranteed to delight and inspire audiences of all ages. The children's enthusiasm matches that of NCO's Artistic Director and Principal Conductor, Roger Clarkson: "We cannot wait to deliver another triumphant concert in Leeds. When you hear this Orchestra perform you are guaranteed to be inspired by the passion and commitment of our young musicians. Close your eyes and I guarantee you will forget you are listening to an Orchestra made up of players aged thirteen years of age and younger!"
Its performance is guaranteed to delight and inspire music lovers of all ages. Audience members can expect to witness a variety of stirring classical pieces including Saint-Saëns spine-tingling Danse Macabre, Strauss Jnr's Overture to Die Fledermaus and Borodin's descriptive In the Steppes of Central Asia.
Jessica Ellis - a twelve year old oboe player from Manchester - cannot wait to perform again with the NCO. She says: "I'm really excited about performing at Leeds Town Hall. I love being a part of the NCO. I've made some great friends who all share my passion for music. It's wonderful that we can showcase our talents at such exciting venues across the UK."
Founded in 1978, the National Children's Orchestras has performed in some of the world's most prestigious venues and locations, including the Royal Albert Hall in London and the Forbidden City Concert Hall in Beijing. Its performances are renowned for their intensity, vivacity and commitment – but above all for their professionalism.
Tickets to see the National Children's Orchestra of Great Britain: Under 13 Orchestra at Leeds Town Hall are priced at £22, £18, £15 (concessions available) and are available from the Box Office on 0113 376 0318 or book online at www.leedstownhall.co.uk.


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Good manners do not go out of style. Hopefully you are teaching your kids manners to practice at home, in school, and in sports. Yep, in sports.
Playing sports doesn't have to be dog-eat-dog and athletes don't have to have an attitude to succeed. Teach your kids to keep practicing their manners even in the heat of competition.


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Ka Hale Wailele 'o Kaua'i
Yes, after more than two weeks in Hawaii on vacation, I've returned. But I'm just not quite in the mood for fullblown blogging yet. Probably tomorrow. I'm still shaking geckos offa my sandals.
In the meantime, I thought I'd share a few photos of the house we rented in Kaua'i, called the Kaua'i Waterfall Home. It blew me away.The final photo is of the backyard. Sheesh.


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"The game didn't recognize any user input whatsoever"
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Introducing StarGame for iOS.
To read more about my personal story of becoming a geek and iOS jailbreaker, this post might be interesting to you: Me, iDevices and Jailbreaking.
How it all got started
The project began about two years ago: as I was teaching myself how to program in Java, I decided to make a simple computer game to gain some actual coding experience. Its initial name was "SpaceGame"; I uploaded the very first teasers to my YouTube channel on the 13th of December 2013: Continue reading I'm making an iOS game: StarGame


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You can read all of our PlayStation 4 coverage here.
It's real. The PlayStation 4 is no longer a rumor even if we don't know what it looks like. Sony's decision to announce a new console four months before the Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3), a game industry trade show that takes place in Los Angeles every June, means that the PS4 gets the gaming public's full attention. It's not competing for the spotlight against rivals Microsoft and Nintendo.
Gamers were watching closely. GamesBeat gathered a handful of reactions from Twitter and popular gaming forum NeoGAF to gauge the Internet response to "Panty Raid" engines and Square Enix's uneventful announcement, among other points of interest.
NeoGAF didn't seem impressed with Knack:
Sony didn't show off the console, and fake Kaz Hirai, a parody Twitter account of the president and CEO of the Sony Corporation, has something to say about that:
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Cliff Bleszinski, formerly of Epic Games, wanted to see more new franchises:
Nick Chester, the publicist at Harmonix:
The fanboys didn't waste any time bashing the PlayStation 4:
Publisher and developer Square Enix's massive non-announcement received some criticism:
Street Fighter maker Capcom's non-announcement and the Panta Rhei (Panty Raid) Engine:
Ubisoft's Watch Dogs got some love:
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Guerrilla Games' demo for Killzone: Shadow Fall impressed with its new color palette:
Halo maker Bungie finally showed off Destiny, and some folks made fun of the way the team appeared on stage:


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Although cotton is associated with large plantations, much cotton production in the South was and still is by small farmers with only a few acres of cotton land. While slave labor was used on larger farms and plantations, many farmers and their families provided their own labor. After slavery was abolished, Although some call it a tree, cotton is actually a shrub that grows in the tropical and sub-tropical regions of the world. Along with corn, or maize, it's native to the Americas where its fibrous seed protector has been woven into cloth for at least 15,000 years. Cotton was the product that made the United States into an economic power and it was cotton, not slavery, that led to the secession of eleven states from the Union thus precipitating the war now commonly – but erroneously – called the Civil War.
Although cotton is associated with large plantations, much cotton production in the South was and still is by small farmers with only a few acres of cotton land. While slave labor was used on larger farms and plantations, many farmers and their families provided their own labor. After slavery was abolished, many land-owners contracted with landless farmers, white as well as black, to farm their land for a share of the production. The land-owner typically footed the bill for all of the production costs and the sharecropper got part of the proceeds from the sale of the cotton. Another method was to rent land out to tenants.
Although cotton cloth has been produced for thousands of years in various parts of the world, it wasn't until Eli Whitney invented his cotton gin that cotton production finally became economical. Prior to Whitney's invention, cotton seeds had to be separated from the locks in which they grew by hand, a tedious and time-consuming task. Once seeds could be separated mechanically, the production of cotton became a major crop in the southern portion of the new United States because American cotton was found to be superior to varieties found elsewhere in the world. Reportedly, by 1860 cotton accounted for three/quarters of US exports and was the driving force behind the US economy. Although cotton could not be grown in New England, the region had become dependent on Southern cotton for fiber for its mills, most of which were water powered.
Modern Americans commonly believe that growing cotton was a laborious task involving the labor of thousands of slaves working in the hot sun. In reality, this is not true. Yes, some aspects of cotton production required manual labor, specifically the hoeing of the rows to remove grass and weeds and the harvesting of the mature locks, but much of the actual labor was provided by animals, particularly mules. Mules and horses, and sometimes oxen, pulled the plows that broke up the soil in springtime and the cultivators used to plow the rows until the plants were large enough to shade out the grasses and weeds that came up in the fields. Until mechanical cotton planters were developed, planting was by hand as was hoeing, commonly known as "chopping." Hoes are metal blades attached to wooden handles that are used to cut grasses and weeds at the roots. Once cotton plants reach a significant height, the fields are "laid by" and receive no more attention until picking time.
Although cotton is a perennial plant in the wild, it became an annual in North America due to winter temperatures that kill the stalk. Cotton is planted when the danger of frost has passed; the tiny fragile plants are killed if temperatures drop to the freezing level. This can be as early as February in Texas and the Deep South or as late as April or early May in Tennessee, Missouri and Kentucky. Once the seeds have sprouted and have emerged from the soil, the plants may be thinned although modern farming practices have made this unnecessary. Neither is hoeing necessary due to the use of "pre-emergence" chemicals that are placed in the ground at the time of planting to prevent the growth of grass and weeds.
In the Twentieth Century farmers discovered that their production could be increased by defoliating the plants, thus allowing sunlight to reach the bolls thus causing them to open sooner and more fully. The advent of the airplane allowed defoliating chemicals as well as insecticides to be dispensed quickly without damage to the plants. Insecticides became an important part of cotton farming to fight boll weevils, which can destroy a cotton crop if they aren't eradicated. Prior to the development of insecticides, boll weevils had to be picked off by hand.
For a century after the abolishment of slavery, cotton production was essentially the same, although by the 1930s farmers were using tractors instead of horses and mules for land preparation and cultivation. Fields still had to be hoed and picking was mostly by hand. However, by the 1960s farmers were starting to use mechanical cotton pickers as they became more readily available at more reasonable prices. Wealthier farmers had started using them by the 1950s. The proliferation of mechanical cotton pickers came about at the same time as the civil rights movement and probably had a lot to do with it. Cotton pickers eliminated the need for human pickers and thus put a lot of share croppers out of work. With no need for share croppers, landowners told them to get off of their land. Many ended up in tent cities until they were moved into towns or migrated to cities such as Memphis and St. Louis or to the North where many became part of a new welfare class when they were unable to find work due to lack of education and employability beyond the performance of menial tasks.
As I said in the title, Roy Clark may not have picked cotton but I did. In fact, I was involved in every aspect of the growing and picking of cotton as a boy growing up in West Tennessee except planting, and then only because Daddy wanted to do it himself. We were mechanized farmers, except that we didn't have a cotton picker. Daddy got one a year after I left home for the Air Force. As soon as I was old enough, at about ten or eleven, I started driving a tractor. At first, I mostly pulled a harrow but I eventually began disking and eventually breaking ground in the spring. Our plows were disc breakers rather than conventional turning plows but they did the same thing. Once the ground had been turned over, we went over it with a disc harrow, an implement with several rows of discs that broke up the ground into small clods. Sometimes we drug a spike harrow behind the disc to break the clods into smaller ones but sometimes we went back with the disc. Once the ground was prepared, the cotton was planted. We had a set of cotton planters that mounted on the sides of the tractor. Each side had two hoppers, one for fertilize and one for seed. The planters had plates on the bottom that were designed to space the seeds a certain distance apart.
Once the cotton was "big enough to plow," meaning the stalks were tall enough that they wouldn't be covered by dirt tossed up by the cultivators, we went through the fields row by row. We usually used scratchers, which were basically metal spring leafs with a small plow point on the end but we also had cultivators that used small plows. Plowing broke the surface and allowed air into the ground; it also covered the grass and weeds in the rows and cleared those from in between them. We plowed for the last time around the first of July then left the fields alone except for monitoring for boll weevils and other insects or blights.
Hoeing cotton or corn is not particularly strenuous work. We went down the rows, usually taking two at a time, and cut out the weeds and grass. I personally preferred to how corn because young cotton stalks are easy to catch with the corner of the hoe. We usually hoed in May and June when the weather wasn't terribly hot yet. We had no hired hands so we did all of the work ourselves, sometimes with assistance from my aunts and uncles. We had a split vacation from school. We got out at the beginning of May and remained out until early July when the cotton would be laid by. We went back to school for the new year and remained in school until late September, when we got out for "cotton picking." We were out for six weeks then went back to school in early November. Not only did those of us who lived on farms pick cotton, so did boys and girls from the surrounding towns as well as those who lived in the country but whose fathers weren't farmers. As I recall, the going rate for cotton pickers was a nickel a pound. An average of 100 pounds a day was a pretty good average, with some pickers doing a lot better and others doing less. I knew a few people who could pick 200 pounds a day – sometimes – but they had to get to the field early and leave late to do it. I once saw something on the Internet where someone claimed they picked 600 pounds a day – uh, uh!
While I can't speak for those who picked cotton in the Deep South, in West Tennessee the weather conditions at picking time were pleasant. We'd start picking around the end of September and be finished by early November, although we'd go back again to pull bolls. Morning temperatures were cool and were usually in the seventies or low eighties during the day. Because wet cotton causes problems with the gin, we didn't start picking until after the dew had burned off, usually around 10:00 AM. We stayed in the field until it was getting too dark to pick or Daddy decided it was time to quit for the day. We had no hired hands but family and neighbors often helped us, usually teenagers and older children. Some kids picked cotton to make money for school clothes but I'm sure some were boosting their family income. Picking cotton was not an unpleasant experience. Yes, we pulled a cotton sack behind us and we often were on our knees, depending on the height of the stalks, but cotton isn't very heavy and a full sack didn't usually weigh much more than fifty pounds. When someone's sacks started getting full, we'd head for the trailer to weigh-in and empty it. The first weigh-in was around dinner time (lunch to Yankees) so we'd take a break to eat the sack lunch everyone had brought with them. Our family usually ate tuna or potted meat sandwiches – Mother sometimes mixed them together. Sometimes we had Vienna sausage. Some of the neighbor kids would stop by the store to buy something to take to the field with them. Some of those who picked with us were teenage girls. Some were friends but some I barley knew before I met them in the cotton patch. Having them in the field increased my productivity because I'd pick faster to stay close to them. This is no lie – one girl I knew would come to pick wearing makeup. We were in about eighth grade at the time and I suppose it was for my benefit.
In some respects, picking cotton was a social event not unlike quilting bees and barn-raisings. Someone was always telling a story and we sometimes sang while we picked. Daddy would sometimes talk about his experiences in the war. I picked faster so I could stay close enough to him to hear what he was saying. I'd also pick faster to be closer to some of the older teenage boys (and some of the girls) who picked with us. There was sort of contest to see who picked the most each day. That was something I knew I was never going to win. I only remember a time or two when I broke the 100 lbs a day. I knew full well that I wasn't going to be a professional cotton picker.
The skies were generally clear. if there were clouds, they were usually high cirrus clouds. Cotton picking time coincided with Indian summer, which is a great time to be outside. My main complaint was that it also coincided with squirrel and dove season. I often prayed for rain so I could go to the woods. If I recall correctly, we picked our fields at least twice then came back to pull bolls. Farmers today only pick a field once, and they use mechanical cotton pickers. Hundreds of dollars worth of cotton is often left lying on the ground where it spilled out when the operator was emptying the bin into the trailer and a lot of cotton is left on the stalks. I guarantee you that our stalks were bare when we finished pulling bolls. We didn't get as much per pound from the gin for bolls. That money was our Christmas money.
There were potential hazards in the cotton patch, particularly the green caterpillars with the acid-filled spines we called "stinging worms." if you accidentally brushed against one, you got a painful welt. They were one reason everyone wore long sleeves. We wore cotton gloves to pull bolls but not to pick the cotton from the boll. Hands got chapped and somebody usually had a bottle of Corn Husker's oil. Occasionally, someone would see a snake but they were usually non-poisonous. The copperheads were usually in the woods. Most of the snakes we saw were black or blue racers – and they raced off as soon as they were startled.
The cotton patch began changing in the 60s. I left home in July to join the Air Force, which I had wanted to do since I was about 13. It wasn't but a couple of years later that Daddy bought a cotton picker. It was used, an International Harvester mounted on a Farmall C tractor frame and only picked one row at a time. But that was all it took. I remember being home on leave once right after he got it and thinking that if we'd had one sooner, I might not have left home. He also started growing soybeans which, like corn, are harvested mechanically. (We had neighbors who picked their corn by hand but Daddy bought a corn picker when I was still a little boy. Not only did he pick our corn, he picked corn for others as well.) More and more cotton pickers were appearing all over the South, and their advent meant the end of a lot of things, including share-cropping and split vacations for school children since kids were no longer needed in the fields to pick cotton. In fact, the cotton picker probably had more of an effect in the South than the civil rights movement.
My parents have been dead for some time, my dad since 2003 and my mom since 2008. Daddy farmed as long as he was able then started renting out the land to cotton farmers. After Mother died, their two farms were divided between me and my brothers and sisters. The same farmers who had been growing cotton on my part continued to farm it, until this year. They decided to get out of the business after a couple of bad crop years. Some other farmers are working it now. They're growing corn.


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Promenade élégante – Exa Photographie
15 novembre 2014
Hello dear readers!
I am so sorry I didn't do my wednesday post this week. But It was for the better! Indeed, I was launched my portfolio project on indiegogo (HERE) I'll tell you more about ùy portfolio project soon. Stay tuned!
For today, just a quick photo-set with the talented Exa Photographie. You can find his guest post HERE for more informations about this great photographer!
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Shoes: Chelsea Crew
Petticoat: The Snow Field
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18 Hole Par 3 Course, over 2,758 yards in length with full size greens.Glen Mill Golf Course
Glen Mill Golf Club is ideal for both new and experienced players. The course is professionally designed and takes maximum advantage of the lie of the land which provides both a testing challenge for the experienced golfer and a series of superb vistas. There is also an easy play option for the less experienced golfer with the provision of forward tees.The History of Glen Mill
A horizontal wheeled watermill was discovered in the Glen during construction of the fifteenth green. The mill dates back to approximately 750 AD. It is from this historic site that the Glen Mill Golf Club draws its name and logo.


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Sheet Music – Tum Ko Dekha To (Saath Saath)
Publisher: Abysm Books.
The Sheet Music Score represents music notations written in 2 notations primarily.
- Tablature Notations (aka Tabs).
- Staff Notations.
And additionally chords will be also available.
Who is this transcription notes book for ?
Most noteworthy part is that this Notation book is for both student and teacher. So who wants to master Tum Ko Dekha To song on Guitar / Keyboard or on any instrument can do so in a precise better and manner.
About the Composition
Furthermore, this popular song is from the Bollywood movie Saath Saath. Which is a 1982 Hindi drama film directed by Raman Kumar. The film starred Farooq Shaikh, Deepti Naval, Rakesh Bedi, Neena Gupta. Sung by legendary singer Jagjit Singh, Chitra Singh. Movie Edited by David Dhawan. Music By Kuldeep Singh.
Saath Saath is a 1982 Indian Hindi language film that is written and directed by Raman Kumar and produced by Dilip Dhawan. It stars Farooque Shaikh and Deepti Naval in the lead roles, and was first released in India on 4 March 1982


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View from the back door and from the bedroom window upstairs. I do love how green everything is. Amazing how the perenniels grow once it is warm.
And the roses are just gorgeous.
As it is so dry over here (just had two or three cold days with one day 4 the other 7 litres of rain per square meter - which is as good as nothing...) Glad we dug a well at the back of the garden, you need a permission here, that costs a bit but better than using drinking water from the tap.
I just hope my tomatoes will do right... Had them too long on the window sill, they are tiny, yellow leaves, weak. But a check this morining showed evidence of flower buds and new dark green leaves in the edges of the old ones. So there is hope!
(Sweetheart might need another one or two bought plants, just in case... tomatoes are the main purpouse of our veggie garden!!!)
Thanks for coming over!
Here I post about my knitting, my dogs, my garden and other things that keep me busy. Hundgestrickt is a word that I invented combining the German words for "dog" and for "knit" making it similar to "handgestrickt" for handknit (think of "houndknit") as that's what this blog is mostly about :-)
Saturday, 4 June 2011
June Garden
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Dress up winter's favorite miniature cabbage with sweet sun-dried tomatoes and protein-packed cannellini beans. Feta cheese and thyme lend Mediterranean flavors to this simple dish. This recipe comes to us from Sarah of So Hungry I Could Blog.
Serves 2
- 15 medium-large Brussels sprouts
- olive oil
- sea salt or kosher salt
- 1 – 1 1/2 cups cooked cannellini beans (about 1 can)
- 1/2 cup sun-dried tomatoes, sliced thin
- 1/2 cup feta cheese, crumbled or cubed
- leaves from 2-3 sprigs of fresh thyme
- pepper
Rinse the Brussels sprouts in a colander. Trim the ends of the Brussels and cut in half, length-wise. Remove the outer leaves and discard (these leaves will usually fall right off after cutting the sprouts in half).
In a glass or tin baking dish, toss the Brussels in a few teaspoons of olive oil and a few pinches of salt. Roast at 400 degrees for 15-20 minutes. Toss the sprouts and roast for an additional 15-20 minutes, or until browned and slightly crisped.
While the sprouts are cooking, combine the beans, feta, tomatoes and thyme — tossing carefully so as not to break up the cheese too much.
Add the warm Brussels sprouts to the bean mixture and gently combine. Drizzle with a little extra olive oil and a sprinkle of fresh pepper before serving.
Makes about 4 servings as a side dish.
This Recipe's Ingredients:Beans, Brussels Sprouts
Nutrition Information
Mediterranean Brussels & Beans
Servings per Recipe: 2Amount per Serving
Calories: 344
Calories from Fat: 55
Total Fat: 6
Saturated Fat: 1
Cholesterol: 32
Sodium: 653mg
Potassium: 1089mg
Carbohydrates: 46g
Dietary Fiber: 17g
Protein: 21g
Sugars: 4g
Vitamin A: 34%
Vitamin C: 205%
Calcium: 25%
Iron: 36%
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) recommends 2000 calories a day as a reasonable average guideline for most American adults. Click here to learn how you can use the Monday 2000 to reset the calorie budget you have to spend each day. For specific calorie recommendations based on your age, metabolism and medical history, consult your doctor or nutritionist.


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The Ultimate Writers link wheel tutorial earning from your backlinks : Do linkwheels work in 2011?
The ultimate writers link wheel tutorial
I'm going to break a cardinal rule and just write one massive post here. Its not going to have many explanations. You will read and probably have read a lot of explanations and tutorials on how to get your content to top positions in Google search result. You have heard about the importance of keyword selection a thousand times over.But have you seen or done the rather arduous process of actually developing your content systematically? So how about the actual work it takes, Would a process help you?
If you don't have time on your hands I suggest you turn back now.
Still here? roll up your sleeves, grab some coffee and a scratch pad and get ready.
Ok, one short explanation – You are going to rank and earn better if you have your content spread across a variety of domains. You are far more likely to get those top results and related earnings with a horizontal keyword monopoly at as many sites as possible all catching traffic and funneling authority towards your one main site whatever you choose that to be.
Who this tutorial is intended for:
Writers, webmasters and content writers with enough experience and motivation to follow through all the way through the process so they can see and feel the true power of such a method.
Your initial topic selection will be
far easier if you have some existing content. Because we want to use
your existing analytics and adsense statistics data to pick your keywords
and URLs to develop your ultimate writers link wheel.
This is important as you will actually be able to see the change that results from your efforts. This will encourage and prove the efficacy of these type of methods.
I'm going to assume you understand at least the basics of finding competitive keyword terms
For an arbitrary reason we are going to works in a series of seven, hey its lucky right!
Now unlike most link wheel systems every source but one will be a potential earner for you so none of your written content will be for "free"
Required resources:
Existing content portfolio with trackable analytics and adsense information
A Word Processing program open-office does the job well
Accounts at the following sources
A spreadsheet program to keep track of all your links – once again open-office should suffice
(this is optional if your not comfortable with spreadsheets don't add more learning or frustration at this point, notepad will work for you this time)
You most likely don't have accounts at all these places yet and I'm not going to explain the differences or plusses between them at this point, just know they are at different places on the net and are for the most part respected.
An optional but suggested ability to have at this time is some sort of AutoFill program. If you are already making money online you know the humdrum of account creation, roboform is the leading candidate, but it is a premium product and does cost around $35 from the manafacturer, you can usually find the product on eBay in the 20 something range,, a good free alternative is the lastpass plug-in for Firefox. These programs essentially just allow you to fill in form information once and than click a button to fill all subsequent forms. But, the remember form history built in feature of Firefox does an adequate job too.
Step 1. Identify your best potential content
Open up your adsense account and go to your advance report options. Select a minimum of a 3 month period for the date range and show channel data select all and group by channel.
Toggle the form so it displays your earnings from high to low. Now you know what your top earners are, make a note of your top earners or select your content with the highest ecPm..as theoretically the boost you get in traffic can blow your current earners out of the water.
Now open up your analytics account and individually examine each of those site urls, what keywords are bringing in your content, if you have thousands pick your top 15 or so, we want to whittle these down to 7.
Step 2. Examine your Search Engine Result Placement
Examine your Search Engine Result Placement for these terms one by one by entering them into Google (make sure you are signed out of all Google accounts when you do this) or use scroogle.org as an easy alternative.
You should have SEO for Firefox or SEO quake installed already. If not take a break and do some research on why and how.
See what terms your appearing for that can be boosted to top positions from your list, whittle it down to your best 7-10 options.
Step 3 - Get writing!
You have your topic keywords and since you already wrote one article you should have some knowledge about the topic.
Time to write your content!
7 sites, 7 articles, using the terms write 7 unique articles as your topics, ideally all should be over 500 words, but if your blocked, two of them can be in the 300 word range and one can be in the 200 word range. Spell check them within the word processing program.
Your search terms you selected earlier should be used in all your Titles, which will later be your URLs also.
Step 4 Submit your content
Get all your accounts at once, most of these sites will require an email confirmation so It is fastest to do them all in bulk, this is where your auto-fill features could come in handy.
You might ask, Do my Profile names matter for each site? No, not really..just pick something that feels genuine, don't do "cutesy" or "spammy"
- MichaelDrexler – Pseudonym Good
- GolfingwithMike – Fine if you have a permanent niche
- MikeyWikey – Avoid
Having these resources to publish at is a long term investment, but most allow for multiple accounts so you can always have different names should you desire. Feel free to use different names at each site so its not so obvious that your "your own authority/reference) but it isn't required.
set up an account – make sure to go to affiliate settings and enter in your adsense, analytics and any other affiliate accounts you may already have that is offered at hubpages.
This is the first site as it is a great resource to apply for these programs through
Fill out your account information, make sure to add your paypal email address
Sign up for an account make sure to add your adsense code and chitika code
(get chitika)
get an account and be sure to add your paypal email
You can set this up right through your Google account. This is slightly more involved than the others – but not as much as you would think. Use your keywords as the blogspot site name, just use the default theme at this point..move on
set up an account, add your adsense and chitika ids
set up the account use your profile URL wisely, this one isn't a direct earner but the returns both SEO wise and possible syndication-wise are worth the small investment
Step 4. Arrange your link wheel
Arranging your link wheel. Manually arrange a couple of pieces of paper or use a mindmap software or even ms paint to quickly sketch out your link diagram.
We will use your blogspot and hub or infobarrel as your 2 biggest receivers of juice.
Have each article link out to 2 other articles, once to blogspot (feel free to pick another site as your center spoke) and once to another article in your wheel.
Make sure all links are one-way
Use the diagram to make sense of this.
(This is also where your spreadsheet would come in, have a list of URL's and show who links to who, plus you can use it as you go through further backlink campaigns.
If you wrote a few shorter articles, the shortest goes to shetoldme. The 300-500 can be your main blog post ideally you want at least 3 posted on the blog but you have a little time to write those later or even use the new amazon functionality to quickly build a couple of related product reviews that can fill a blog quick.
One of the shorted, but well edited should go to eZines also.
Factoidz, InfoBarrel and eZine are all human reviewed (at least at first)..nowhere in this tutorial did I suggest trying to use crap content. This is the ultimate link wheel tutorial for writers! That means make sure your work is up to snuff. Although your hubpages account isn't directly human reviewed it is peer reviewed, so don't submit anything that will draw disdain from the community.
Tiny revenue Bonus option:
InfoBarrels runs a contest each month, see if you can tweak your content to relate, this month (Feb 2010) you can impression bonuses for Olympics based content or any Holiday infobarrel.
Factoidz works on an impression scale, they have calls for topics that will receive a higher earning per 1000 impression see if you can tweak to fit that content as well.
Congratulations, Support and the Future
Step 5
Congratulations you have actually done a lot of work already. i never mentioned anything about formatting and capsules and the basic window dressing aspects. Feel free to go back through your Hubpages ,Squidoo and Blogspot submissions to tweak and prettify and optimize your adsense layouts. They are published, live, interlinked and set to be indexed now you can fret the details.
Step 6
Start supporting your backlink articles with more backlinks. Social bookmark the hell out of every single link you made. This is another example of why multiple names at multiple domains is a good idea. You can sit there in one social bookmark account and just go through all 8 of your initial sites in a row, you wont look like a self promoter at all! For long term results look for "dofollow" sites but even the "nofollow" sites can help you get quickly indexed.
Step 7
Reward yourself by doing the whole process all over again with a new keyword set. You can also continue to develop this same wheel using all the free hosted sites out there on the web ...just off the top of my head, weebly.com, wordpress.com,blog.com, and similar ilk.
Advanced Options:
After you start seeing results and you can gauge what terms worked best for you, especially after developing a couple of these wheels with different terms, you can buy your own hosting and start using wordpress blogs with keyword rich as your middle spoke. This opens up so many automation options for you to assist in your eventual internet domination!
sorry had to throw some power terms in there
Hows this for a tag line – dominate the net with hours of hard work! would that sell my upcoming ultimate writers link wheel system , lol
The Ultimate Writers Link Wheel System Quiz
Do you have what it takes to see this simple link wheel to conclusion?
In the spirit of the article I am publishing immediately so I can start my index wait. If you come upon this article while its still a little ugly, dont worry your eyes and googles already have everything you need contained within.
You can see exactly how this was drafted within my word processor with spaces for links and a general plan for the end composition. Swing back by, it will be fully tweaked in afew hours.
This capsule will self destruct after final edits are made
Read the entire article word for word! Well done Sunforged. Great to read you again !
Freudian slip, Andrew? lol.
-sorry!!!white hat, should have said white hat! always getting my hats mixed up...ask my wife!
Hi SF, a nice reminder to spread your content across several sites (including your own sites) to ensure that you don't have too many eggs in any one basket, whilst heavily benefiting from the links provided.
I have been doing this now for a little while and for some of my keyword terms I have 4 or 5 listings on the first page of the SERPS - world search engine domination is planned in my niches for 2012.. lol
@Sunforged, aka, The Man.
Lots of changes coming down via the Google Ban-Hammer, lol. I make my living as a marketing professional, and use writing as an extracurricular outlet.
I never intended to make money, but some of my articles are already dominating (crazy). So it's actually motivated me to spend a little more time.
Do you plan on revising this article to point to some non Google-hated sites for wheel architecture?
Excellent I like it
I'm going to bookmark this hub so I can study it again--lots of good info.
Whoa. Some business going on here huh. Looks like something I could be very interested in but don't know if I have the inner strength to pull it through. Will definitely take a closer look though.
Thanks for taking your time in writing it.
The value of this hub can not be overstated. I'm going to get started on this right now. Thanks!
Totally fantastic hub! Its like engaging in a full time course.Bookmarked for future reference.Thanks
Thank you SunForged. Hub bookmarked. I need to read it again and again. God bless.
Quite clear and procedural--a lot for me to work on.
It's not clear to me what has been updated and what hasn't. The title is for 2011; the comments were for 2010. The final paragraph was going to self-destruct within hours, but maybe you never actually got back to filling out the formatting.
SF, do you think this is still a valid strategy post-Panda? I've heard awful things about Factoidz and I thought Shetoldme had lost credibility a long time ago.
Maybe time to update to include better sites instead of those two?
Thank you. I will give it a go. Looking at my adsense account I am going to have to sort that first. Difficult to get any clarity out of it.
Thanks for a great article. I'm new to building link wheels but will start to get started on this tomorrow.
Hi, you have a great hub here! I'm definitely going to bookmark you! Thank you for your info.
I have actually followed some of your links, but could not really see how you made the link wheel. Maybe you have made it more complicated that it seemed. Just my opinion that I think you'd like to know.
However, I have seen Kathryn Vercillo doing it very well. I am able to follow her link from one place to another and back to the central point.
Very useful article, I'm going to start implementing this idea right away. It's always great when you can find a "How to..." article with specifics...
Thanks for an up and useful and excellent hub. Bookmarked.
Excellent !!! Love it..
Really useful info. Fantastic hub.Vote Up. bookmarked
Great hub! Additionally, I would break the wheel on several places and randomly link between blogs and put several wikipedia, techcrunch, gizmodo links etc. for making it more natural.
sunforged-- I finally "get it" ha ha! (sorry a bit giddy) I keep reading your hubs, and I fianlly "get this" idea... took me a while... off to write!
Great article!! Thank you for the information.
Fantastic information! I have this bookmarked and will refer back to it often. Thank you!
Thanks Sunforge,
It is a pleasure to find so much genuine and helpful information in one place. I have been reading your other SEO/Internet savy hubs and I have found them all helpful. Especially as I am a complete newbie to all of this. The ideas should save me a lot of time in generating traffic. I will get back to you and let you know how I get on.
Once again - Thank You.
I'm so going to bookmark this hub, and now going to get back to more research and writing. Excellent tips.
Bookmarking this. It would seem that I have much work to do! Thanks!
I think it would be a good recommendation for beginners to help them get organized if they aren't using a spreadsheet for links
Thanks for sharing!!!
I have to start building these. I've been putting it off for soo long
Great information about link wheels. Thank you!
Great information, had to book mark it though to come back to later, thanks Sunforged :)
Good stuff sunforged, I believe I will give it a try
Excellent! Excellent! This is a fist to forehead discovery. Thanks.
Bookmarked and voted up. Very very good content, thanks a lot!
I like it sunforged. will give it a whirl. I have decided to do some work with social network sites using the share button on huib pages. I think that will compliment the introduction to the link wheel quite nicely.
Rated up and bookmarked.
Hi again, hope it was ok to link to this hub from mine - also, in the create accounts at the following sources - did you mean infobarrel.com not infobarrels.com? Thank you.
Thank you for this hub - I have got as far as printing it off to refer to - I will try and be systematic with this and use it with my next Hub. Thanks again, Alison
Great advice your hubs have been very helpful in my intenet marketing endeavours
Fantastic post - great step by step. Since I'm a noob, I was wondering if someone could answer a question for me. What is a good example of the actual text and link language that goes from one outer page to another. I can't really find anything about the language or suggested variations for the different pages.
Learning this stuff is like emptying the ocean with a tea cup. But here I am with my cup nd my determination. We'll see how far I actully get. Thanks!
Hi, very good post and suggestion I have some question about link wheel. If some of blog or webiste is droped any reason such as baned. The link wheel are broken What we can do in this case?
I feel quite overwhelmed.
I'll skip most of the blathering, but for the keyword effect, your backlinks lnkwheel info for keyword seo optimazation to help others make money online with hubpages and squidoo and blogspot is very helpful.
now then. you should checkout bubbl.us for creating link diagrams. I think it would be a good recommendation for beginners to help them get organized if they aren't using a spreadsheet for links. it's a great visual tool for motivation to get the job done.
Another powerful hubs Sun Thanks a lot with this...
Sunforged, the concept of the wheel is fantastic. But no way will I do all that you have suggested, too much time. I believe, however, that following your advice would bring in a ton of revenue. Just the few measly little links I've been working on have really made a difference here on HP. Thanks for the tips!
I think I could be in love with this wheel. As I am going through learning about backlinks I keep having this dream I am in one big circle and cant get back to where the circle began. I have a feeling this wheel will put an end to this never ending dream while at the same time keep me on track! Thanks for sharing this essential tool.
Your hub is a great explanation of the link wheel and how it should work. This will be a big help for me, as a beginner!
Thanks for all this helpful and insightful information!
Great hub. I bookmarked this as I'm going to have to refer to it a few times to get things going.
Worthy information on linkwheels. Thanks for sharing!
I came across the link wheel idea a couple of months ago and tried it by using my Hubs to link to each other and back to my website - I now realise that Hubs linking to each other do not a wheel make! Great Hub, need to do some work now.
If you've been on Hubpages awhile, you always come back to Sunforged! I could not on my best day, do all this my friend! But because of your advice, and support, I have seen a slow but steady increase in my earnings. I will come back here for a reread in the future mon frere, well done.
I am going to bookmark this hub, it has lots of information that I will find useful in future.
For now I am happy that I read it as it has made me realise I should be signed up for Chikita and did not think about it until I read this.
Excellent Hub! I'm doing this already but I'm not nearly as organized as you. I see room for me to inprove from this article. Thanks Bunches! Bookmarked and up-rated.
This is a piece of anthology.
I was thinking lately about different linking strategies, but most of them where of the (multi-level) "funnel" or "tree" types... But reading your hub, I immediately recognized the power of your link wheel strategy! No link juice is lost! And it is an amazingly simple idea!
Thanks Sunforged for sharing your SEM/SEO strategies with the HP community.
Thank you, thank you, thank you....great information here. Bookmarked so that I can find it while I put it into action. Thank you!
Bookmarked for later use and rated up. Thanks for sharing. Amber
Nice one, I am actually dreading the task of tweaking my link wheel. I have almost 50 hubs, accounts at shetoldme,yousaytoo,blogspot,digg,AC,CC,Article base...on and on and on. I have done some work initially but until I had all of them set up and ready for linking I just linked where ever I could. The point about setting all up at once and then drawing a diagram would have saved me tons of tweaking now. Anyway great hub and I will be checking back for info as I spend days (rather than hours)tweaking my stuff.
Thank you for the knowledge release, I will have to come back a couple of times to absorb what you have written, and decide whether it will be of any benefit for me, for (if you have seen my profile)I am not really a 'commercial' writer.... but I am thinking of developing a commercial writing persona or seven, because my short time here on the hub has persuaded me that I like writing and (even in my limited niche) people seem to like reading me!
So thanks again for being an 'elder brother' here on the hub, I'll let you know how it goes in a few months!
Wow is all I can say...I think I'll check back in about 6 months...I just got the hang of backlinks this week! :>
Thank you very, very much for such a lot of information and help.
I think the best google item wonder wheel most probably could help in choosing the right keyword or something to write for a certain topics.Your diagram almost the same with wonder wheel idea!Great posting and advice!


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Richland County Ohio Ghosts and Hauntings
Mansfield Reformatory
100 Reformatory Rd,
Mansfield, OH
Haunted by the inmates who died there.
Malibar Farm - Rose Cottage at Malibar Farm
4050 Broomfield Road
Lucas, Ohio
Haunted by the young woman who poisoned her family and the family who lived there.
Bissman Building -
193 N. Main St.
Mansfield, OH 44902
Haunted building in Mansfield.
Mt. Olive Cemetery
Haunted by Bloody Mary an alleged witch who was buried in an unmarked grave beneath the tree in the center of the cemetery.
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Putting on a school show is no easy feat. It's even harder when you've only been working on it for two-and-a-half weeks, but that's exactly what the pupils of St Andrew's Primary School did on Wednesday with their musical,'Frankie and Me'.
Written by Peter Fardell, the show tells the story of Mary Shelley and her attempts to find acceptance and friends at a new school. She discovers that you don't have to be human to show humanity. When you need a friend, the only monster is prejudice!
The show came about after a school drama club was set up by Miss Morrison, giving pupils the chance to flex their acting muscles, which has been a great success.
The entire school played a part in the whole production, which was directed by Mrs Spencer, whether performing on stage or helping move scenes and props, and it was clear from the audience's reaction that they thoroughly enjoyed the show.
Click on the slideshow above to view a small selection of photos from Frankie and Me.


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One week ago today, under the extraordinary leadership of U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, the UN Security Council took the courageous step of declaring that rape is not just a by-product of war, but a military tactic in and of itself. This is a huge step for womankind. A declaration from the UN Security Council is sure to help the thousands of women worldwide who are systematically raped and sexually tortured every day in the name of war.
OK, I'll stop being sarcastic. This is such bullshit. It's taken me a week to blog on this because I had to simmer down or this blog space would have been filled with too many f bombs (my weapon of choice) for the average reader. First, what took the UN so long? It's not like this is a sudden development. Rape has been a tool of war for hundreds of years. I will grant that deliberate violence against women, given the conflicts in Darfur, the Congo, Rwanda, and Liberia, has reached epic proportions. But it should not be a newsflash for anyone, especially someone sitting on the UN Security Council, that women's bodies are being used as battlefields.
Second, what good does a resolution do? Especially from an organization whose own Peacekeepers have their own history of sexual abuse against women? The UN is asking for another report in a year. Oh goody! That will help the situation. The good members of the Security Council couldn't even agree on the strength of the language of the resolution, of course, watering it down for the benefit of (guess who) China and Russia. A resolution with no teeth, backed up by Peacekeepers who may be just as likely to commit sexual abuse, themselves. Perfect.
Finally, while I will admit that the UN giving voice to the issue does have the potential of alerting some folks living under rocks, I have huge problems with the folks at the UN and, say, the Bush White House congratulating themselves on this one. They haven't actually done anything, and yet they are, in the person of Condi Rice, saying things like,
"I am proud today that … (t)his world body now acknowledges that sexual violence in conflict zones is indeed a security concern.
"We affirm that sexual violence profoundly affects not only the health and safety of women but the economic and social stability of their nations."
Well, good on ya. It's about damn time.
If you want to actually do something on this issue, educate yourself and your friends and go to Doctors Without Borders and donate or, if you are able, volunteer. Be sure when you visit their site to read their annual Top Ten Lists and note that they cover the sexual violence issues. They may not advertise it on their front page, but understand that they are addressing it in the field.


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DEMO Africa Super Stars: Alison Jacobson, CEO, Firestring
Meet Alison Jacobson, CEO of Firestring, one of the DEMO Africa Final 40 set to pitch at the event on October 24-26 in Nairobi.
Here's her pitch for Firestring, as found on the VC4 Africa site:
Firestring is a technology company leading the field of semantic technology leveraging social architecture to radically enhance knowledge management.
As a field-leader in Web 3.0 technologies for the enterprise, our customers use our unique Enterprise Social Networking platform powered by the Firestring Social-Semantic Engine, Serendipity. Our customers use our technologies to structure their unstructured information, creating semantic metadata automatically from their document repositories and collaborating in real-time via our private social networking front-end.
What this means is that Firestring will find the right information for you when you need it. And, in time, that information will also use our algorithms find you.
We asked her a few questions about her startup, as we have been doing with several of the African startup entrepreneurs selected for the Final 40. Her focus seems to be on focus.
What was the most difficult challenge your business faced this year?
Our challenge often boils down to a narrowing of focus. There are so many products we could develop, we get excited by new ideas and opportunities all the time. Our customers are really excited about our products and share our vision of simplifying enterprise information sharing. As entrepreneurs we have to stay focused on taking to market the products we've already developed and supporting and enhancing those in live customer environments. This allows us to leverage actual revenue opportunities and has sustained growth. Aligned to this is the challenge of staying focused on creating licensable product that we can sell many times instead of chasing short-term revenue by responding to diverse customer project requirements.
Who inspired you the most this week, and why?
We were really inspired in meeting with the CIO of a global banking and investment group. He was able to blend a genuine and practical understanding of enterprise processes and systems with innovative thinking around cutting-edge web technologies. Often the two are at odds with one another and CIOs see cutting-edge as presenting risk. Instead of only focusing on risk and compliance he articulated the opportunities - defining specific inflection points regarding big data management, mobile technologies and enabling his workforce to be more agile through social business architectures – connecting people to people and information where and when they need it.


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Central records of the Girls' Day School Trust and its predecessors split into the following series: constitutional records, 1872-1992; papers regarding honorary members of the Trust, [1889]-2004; records of the Council of the Trust, 1872-2005; papers regarding annual and extraordinary general meetings, 1872-1968; annual reports, 1871-2002; papers regarding the committees of the Council, 1872-1998; shareholders' records, 1872-1966; financial records; general administration records, 1876-1994; papers regarding the relationship between the Trust and local and central government, 1876-1986; papers regarding the central governance of Trust schools, 1920-2000; miscellaneous papers regarding schools owned by the Trust, 1873-2006; miscellaneous records regarding former Trust schools, 1873-1997; property records, 1906-1965; records regarding staff, 1875-2001; records regarding pupils, 1901-2005; papers regarding the curriculum in Trust schools, 1868-1985; papers regarding teacher training in Trust schools, [1900]-1952; papers regarding examinations and assessment in Trust schools, 1916-1994; school inspection records, 1879-2005; scholarship records, 1894-1994; publicity material, 1879-2005; publications, 1923-2002; papers regarding events, 1890-1998; artefacts, [1872-1992]; photographs; papers regarding old girls' associations and the Minerva Network, 1976-2004; and miscellaneous papers regarding the development of the Trust, [1870-2004]. The collection also contains the papers of Maria Grey and Emily Shirreff, 1843-[2000]; and records of the Friends of the Girls Public Day School Trust, 1946-2003.
Girls' Day School Trust (GDST) and predecessors
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- Bookmark:https://archiveshub.jisc.ac.uk/data/gb366-gds
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- ReferenceGB 366 GDS
- Dates of Creation1872-2006
- Name of Creator
- Language of MaterialEnglish
- Physical Description180 boxes and approx. 33 oversized
Scope and Content
Administrative / Biographical History
The Girls' Day School Trust is an independently run but centrally supported group of girls' schools initially created in 1872 to advance the education of women. In 2007 the Trust was responsible 29 schools located across England and Wales. The Trust was created in 1872 as the Girls' Public Day School Company (GPDSC), a limited liability company founded by the National Union for improving the Education of Women of All Classes (also known as the Women's Education Union). The Union had been created a year earlier by sisters Maria Grey and Emily Shirreff with the support of Lady Henrietta Stanley of Alderley, Mary Gurney, and HRH Princess Louise, who all played active roles in the early years of the GPDSC. The Company was created to establish good and cheap academic day schools for girls of all classes above the level of elementary education. New schools would only be founded were they were most needed and they were expected to become self-supporting. The first school opened in January 1873, and by 1901 the GPDSC was responsible for 38 schools. Initially the schools only provided secondary education but soon opened junior and kindergarten departments. Most of the schools had teacher training departments and provided domestic science courses for girls over 17. Some of the schools also developed specialism, such as Kensington High School which trained music teachers and Liverpool High School (later Belvedere School) which trained art teachers. Headmistresses were also an important part of the GPDSC policies and were engaged in experimental education techniques. From 1875 the GPDSC amended its constitutions to enable it to become a charitable Trust to continue to receive government grants, which was wary of giving public grants to a company with share holders. In 1906 the GPDSC was reconstituted as the Girls' Public Day School Trust Limited, a limited company with charitable status which had to be wound-up by 1 January 1956 if the Trust failed to buy all the existing share capital. The Trust continued to amend its constitution until it was able to make an offer to buy the entire share capital in 1950 to become the Girls' Public Day School Trust. The Trust was faced with many financial problems in the first half of the 20th century due to the demands of shareholders and competition from new state secondary schools. The schools began to take free scholars from state elementary schools, whose fees were paid by the local education authority. The less profitable schools were closed, amalgamated with other Trust schools, or transfer to the local education authorities. World War Two plunged the Trust into more financial trouble as the schools accepted refugee children at reduced fees and the inner city schools were evacuated. After the 1944 Education Act, the Trust schools had to cater for the sudden increase in number of pupils. They joined the government's new Direct Grant Scheme in the same year. The scheme required that a third of school governors had to be representative of the local education authorities and a minimum of 15 percent of their intake had to be transferred from state elementary schools, though they could remain academically selective. The Trust schools became fully independent in 1976 when the scheme was withdrawn. In 1980 the Trust applied for the Government's Assisted Place Scheme for all schools and registered as a private company under the Companies Act 1980. The schools remained in the scheme until it was discontinued in 1997. In 1992-1993 the Trust effected a corporate reorganisation resulting in the division of the Trust's operations into two separate but connected charitably companies. The Girl's Public Day School Trust (1872), a company limited by guarantee, and managed the property and investments and The Girl's Public Day School Trust (GPDST) ran the operation of the schools. In 1994 the Girl's Public Day School Trust (1872) acquired 'GPDST (Enterprises) Limited, which was responsible for promotional merchandise for the Trust and to administer the new Minerva Network, a club for all former pupils of the Trust. The reorganisation was finally completed in 1998 when the Trust became the Girls' Day School Trust. The Head Quarters of the Trust has based in London, firstly in 21 Queen Anne's Gate. By 1919 the Trust had moved into new premises at Broadway Court in Westminster. In 1963 it moved opposite its original home into 26 Queen Anne's Gate. In 1997 The Trust moved into 100 Rochester Row.
It is difficult to tell how they collection was originally arranged as it has been rearranged several times, so the structure of the collection attempts to reflected the structure of the Trust rather than an original filing system. Approximately half of the collection was resorted, weeded by the Trust before it was catalogued by the British Records Association. This catalogue had 13 series which was felt too be insufficient to cover the all the aspects of the collection, therefore the collection now has 27 series and two subfonds. There has been an attempt to retain or recreate the originally filing system where it is apparent. The papers of the Friends of the Girls' Public Day School Trust and the papers of Maria Grey and Emily Shirreff where created independently of the main series of records and have been treated as collections within the collection (subfonds). Further notes on arrangement of individual series can be found in the series level descriptions.
The Alt Ref field has been used to record the former references of the material in the collection. 'Old Ref' has been used to signify the numbers used in the Trust's catalogue. 'BAC' refers to the number used in the list written by the Business Archives Council in 1981. The numerical reference (1-719) refers to material which was held in Wimbledon High School at the time it was listed and the other references refer to were the material was originally held (see GDS/28/6 for details).
Access Information
All administrative papers are subject to 30 year closures unless it is or has been publicly available. Papers which contain personal data on living persons are subject to closure under the Data Protection Act, including information on heads; staff files; student files; material regarding employment matters; papers regarding bursary funding; scholarships; specific information regarding grants and bequests; and salaries and wages. Some records have been closed because they are too fragile to be produced, though Archivists can provide information on request
Acquisition Information
Most of the records were transferred to the archives by the GDST from Croyden High School in August 2006.
Other Finding Aids
The collection has been catalogued and is available on the IoE on-line catalogue. An electronic copy of the catalogue is also held by the Archives.
Physical Characteristics and/or Technical Requirements
The majority of the collection has been reboxed but some material still needs specialised packaging.
Archivist's Note
Used IoE online catalogue. Submitted to Archives Hub as part of the Genesis 2009 Project.
Conditions Governing Use
A reader wishing to publish any quotation of information, including pictorial, derived from any archive material must apply in writing for prior permission from the Archivist or other appropriate person(s) as indicated by the Archivist. A limited number of photocopies may be supplied at the discretion of the Archivist.
Custodial History
In 1981 the Business Archives Council compiled a company archive survey of the records of the GDST. At this date the records were held mainly held in the Trust's headquarters at 25 Queen Anne's Gate; Wimbledon High School; and the Trust's surveyors Department in Sutton. Some point after this date the material was resorted in series and much of the original filing system has been lost as it appears the original files were often separated or amalgamated. Also some documents relating to more than one topic were photocopied and placed in multiple files.Most of the records were transferred to the Institute by the GDST from Croydon High School in August 2006 where they had be listed to series level by the British Records Association.


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The New West Hospice Society is dedicated to building a grassroots hospice initiative from the community level up, based on the Compassionate City model. Founded in 2016, a major underlying purpose of the New West Hospice Society is to acknowledge and affirm that dying, death and grief are natural parts of the life-cycle. The overarching mission of the NWHS is to provide services and to facilitate processes for those in New Westminster experiencing end-of-life and bereavement. We envision a city in which dying, death and bereavement are normalized and where community bonds enable each other to live to their fullest in their communities during illness and dying, and through bereavement.
We aim to achieve this our mission and vision through a commitment to adopt the tasks of the Compassionate City Charter and by using a neighbour helping neighbour approach with partner organizations to support those at end-of-life to live as fully and comfortably as possible in locations that are conducive and appropriate.
Our Board members are highly experienced and educated people who personally espouse the concepts of treating your neighbours, friends, and families with kindness and respect. We see what is happening in the world today and are committed to helping to make the world a better place in some small way. We chose a community development approach to starting our organization based on these tenets.
Read our strategic plan here.
Our mission is to promote and affirm that dying, death and grief are part of life across the life span.
We will work to build a community where death is no longer hidden or whispered about; where people know what to say and do to be supportive; where residents can die with dignity; and family and friends can grieve well.
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