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your girlfriend stabbed me in the back with lefty scissors.
she's my wife now.
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"People are afraid of themselves, of their own reality; their feelings most of all. People talk about how great love is, but that's bullshit. Love hurts. Feelings are disturbing. People are taught that pain is evil and dangerous. How can they deal with love if they're afraid to feel? Pain is meant to wake us up. People try to hide their pain. But they're wrong. Pain is something to carry, like a radio. You feel your strength in the experience of pain. It's all in how you carry it. That's what matters. Pain is a feeling. Your feelings are a part of you. Your own reality. If you feel ashamed of them, and hide them, you're letting society destroy your reality. You should stand up for your right to feel your pain."
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…Spain. I went there when I was fifteen on a class exchange trip. I don't speak the language and I'd never traveled out the country before, but I just decided I wanted to go. So I did. And fell in love. Sometimes I can still smell the city in the morning. Sometimes I dream about it as vividly as if I was there only yesterday. The language barrier didn't matter. People thought I was Spanish. It felt like going home. I'll go again one day.
n. the exhilarating dread of finally pursuing a lifelong dream, which requires you to put your true abilities out there to be tested on the open savannah, no longer protected inside the terrarium of hopes and delusions that you created in kindergarten and kept sealed as long as you could, only to break in case of emergency.


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I find myself saying this expression in almost any situation, appropriate or otherwise, as an excuse for my behavior. Example numero uno: "Shelby, can you take the dogs outside? Shelby, can you order the pizza? Shelby, can you walk in a straight line?" And my response? "Well, insert person here, I would if I could." Since when does this expression make any sense? Sure, it seems like an appropriate response to whether or not you can end world hunger or become America's Next Top Model, but that's about it. Thus, me sounding like a complete asshole set aside (For the record, I do my chores and never drink and drive, pinky swear!), I really need a new go-to phrase.
The real point of this tirade is that while conversing with a friend a few nights ago, we discussed the topic of flirting. Actually, this has come up numerous times recently but that's neither here nor there. As a renown, famed flirt, my friend, who shall remain nameless, naturally exclaimed her prowess at the subtle arm touches, well-placed giggles, and witty banter. And my genius response, you ask? "I would toootally flirt if I could." Brilliant, right? I'm a grade-A linguist.
It should be a given that as a woman, I would have some variety of flirtatious qualities in my arsenal of womanly-womanness. But I don't. Sure, I could always fall back on the classic "hair flip" or "straw trick" (I actually don't even know what that is, but apparently it's a real thing involving straws and mouths). Instead of doing the Garnier Fructis hair flip combined with the Covergirl lip pout, I just sort of twirl a stray lock of hair and pull it in front of my face to create a sort of faux-mustache effect. And I ask, what straight male doesn't want a girl with a nervous habit of creating mock facial hair? I understand your lack of an appropriate response to that question, I really do. Damn you, Cosmo and your unrealistic expectations!
Unfortunately, it would seem that I am hopeless. Maybe i'm just born with it, or maybe, possibly, it's Mabelline.


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I have watched all but maybe five wings' games this season, and we have gotten away with our fair share of calls, just as any team does. It is probably not 50/50, but would you really expect it to be? Human error does not work that way. It is no surprise that every fan base has very selective memory when it comes to bad calls - they will always remember the times when they get screwed more than the times when they benefit.
When you are driving in late to work and you hit a red light, do you get irritated and complain? I think most people do, but what they don't consider is how many green lights they made before the red. Selective memory, you only remember the bad things.
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DX-Clusive: AZ Talks Nas-Inspired Mixtape
During his conversation with DX, AZ revealed that there were many motivations for N4L, which included to stay current and keep music coming out to the public, and that he was approached by DJ Absolut with an offer to do just that. But the most obvious motivation for this release was his Lifes A Bitch [click to read] co-star.
I was inspired by Nas movement, said AZ. Thats my boy. And when I was putting out the Undeniable album I was getting a lot of questions like, When you and Nas doing this and doing that? And it was overwhelming actually. I mean, I always got [those questions] through my career, but it was more overwhelming this run. And [so] I decided I would never know if [working together again is] gonna come into fruition. So I said, You know what, Ima hop on that bandwagon and do my Niggaz 4 Life cause hes doing the nigger theme, and itll give the fans an opportunity to say [if] they did do an album [together] this how it would sound like.
Earlier this year however, during AZs most recent feature interview with DX [click here to read], the Brooklyn emcee fairly, but firmly, made a point of establishing his own artistic identity apart from the mighty shadow that Nas has cast over his career. So why now do a mix inspired by, and thematically aligned with, his longtime partner-in-rhymes forthcoming new album?
When its dealing with awareness, thats totally different, AZ replied. [Im not doing this to be in his] shadow, this [mixtape] is awareness for the fans, the culture, our peoples. Im not under nobodys shadow. Im not trying toMe and homie cut from the same cloth at the end of the day regardless of whom or what. But Im always gonna hold mines lyrically on my own.
Unfortunately, skepticism about As claim of a genuinely non-strategic motivation for this mix have surfaced in the days since the release of N4L was first announced, suggesting that "Sosa" is merely riding on the conceptual coattails of the man who introduced him to the world on 1994s Illmatic.
I aint look at it from that perspective when I got into [making this mixtape], said AZ. So it wasnt no shadow shit or nothing, Im just adding on. That was my frame of mind when I got into [recording the mixtape], that Im adding on. Cause [the concept] is so powerful. So when I jumped into it I didnt even think about that small way of thinking [about my intentions]. But if [my name] is gonna be connected [with Nas] its gonna be connected in something thats powerful. And I feel like this is powerful.
Boasting 16 all-original songs (no freestyles to other artists tracks) modeled in the same early-'90s sonic vein as Nas forthcoming Untitled disc, N4L is sure to be as powerful an artistic statement as the album it was inspired by.
My Niggaz 4 Life is 'never ignorant getting goals accomplished,' thats what nigga stands for to me, explained AZ of his releases n-word theme. So I use [the word] in a positive [way]I speak from every spectrum: the ignorant nigga that has no knowledge of self, to the nigga that do have knowledge of self, from the broke nigga to the rich niggaIm not preaching, but I just try to drop a jewel. And awareness is always good for me. So I entertain and educate at the same time. Thats just me, [my career] overall, if you listen to my poetry you gonna get something out of it.
With song titles such as Knowledge, Freedom, 12 Jewelz, Conspiracy, Nigga Games, and Runaway Slave, AZs lyrical direction on N4L is made abundantly clear.
I try to deal with every spectrum of the black man, he noted. Were frustrated, and its a long line of frustration that came from our ancestors thats in our D.N.A. And thats why we may act a certain way, and the reason why certain brothers project themselves a certain way. And I just try to speak from that perspective.
Helmed by DJ Absolut [click to read] and entirely produced by Absolut and A.W.O.L. [click to read] collaborator Frado for their Addicted For Life production squad, the mix sports cameos from Raekwon [click to read], Sheek Louch [click to read], Trey Songz, and artists from AZs Quiet Money fam including Charlie Rock and StarKim. The first shot from N4L is The Secret [click to listen].
Wanting to secure formal distribution for the mix so that it can be available at traditional retail outlets, Absolut suggested that he and AZ use Kochs distribution arm to release N4L to the public. But after controversy ensued between AZ and Koch Records A&R department in the days immediately following the release of Undeniable [click to read], it seemed unlikely A would ever do business with the indie-powerhouse again.
Nobody at Koch [the New York-based label] has any affiliation with this, he clarified, noting that only the Canadian-based distribution headquarters for Koch will be involved in any way with N4L. Everything [was] funded and done by me and Absolut.
AZ further clarified that his days recording for Koch Records are over. Im officially a free agent right now, he declared. I owe Koch nothing. Im done with that. I did that chapter and now Im just trying to find the next avenue. I did the majors. I did the independents. And now I know both sides and gotta make my next move my best move. I got my masters in the game now.
His newfound education and insight into the game aside, AZ remains fairly adamant in his opinion of his final Koch Records funded release, Undeniable, with his hindsight view of the album differing little from his initial pre-release outlook, even with mixed reviews and a less than stellar chart performance for his seventh solo effort.
Every time we sit down as artists and do an album its that zone we in, its that chapter of our life, he explained of his creative direction on Undeniable. And that particular chapter of my life I felt like I was in a comfortable state of mind, and I wanted to bring that across to my audience. It wasnt too much of the hardcore cause I did the hardcore [already]. Coming from A.W.O.L. to Format I said, Okay, let me switch it up for a minute and just get into that musical zone and still keep the poetry sharp. And I felt like I got that across. I did it. And Im cool with it. Im good. Im constantly elevating, and theres so much more to come.
N4L will signal the reemergence of a much rawer AZ.This is totally to the left of what Undeniable was, he noted. To me, I think this is a classic mixtape. The whole joint is that [early-'90s] Hip Hop vibe. Its all street music.
More street releases from he and his Quiet Money team are due to follow N4L (Im bout to get on some [Lil Wayne] shit, some [2Pac] shitjust constantly putting music out, he revealed.), as well as his first foray into street cinema, his self-funded and co-written movie Silent War, which is set to begin filming next month, with a soundtrack tentatively slated to drop in November.
But for the time being, AZs focus is firmly on making N4L as memorable a mix as he claims it will be, and not be seen as just an exploitative knockoff of his homies much-publicized new album.
You know Nas always brings something to the table thats food for thought for the people, AZ noted. And [so] I think [its] a good time for me to put [this mixtape] out. Youll get him burning the candle from one end, [and me] burning the candle from the other end, [and] at the end of the day we gotta meet up in the middle. And [thatll] be for the fans, what they been missing.
Hopefully the tag team that crafted classics the likes of the aforementioned Lifes A Bitch, The Essence, How Ya Livin, The Flyest, and more can indeed meet up in the middle, possibly using their similarly themed releases as a bridge back to recording with one another again.
Not as of yet, AZ replied when asked if he and Nas have communicated since details of N4L were announced. I think itll be the right time for us to politic [when its the right time]. Like I said [in our last interview], aint no bad blood or nothing, everything is everything.
N4L (Niggaz 4 Life) is due in stores August 5th.
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According to a report, Oakland Athletics right-hander A.J. Griffin, who was shut down from throwing in spring training with a sore elbow, will undergo Tommy John surgery sometime next week.
Joe Stiglich of CSNBayArea.com, citing a source "with knowledge of the situation," reported the new development on Friday.
Griffin was shut down with tightness in his forearm and elbow soreness after throwing 8.2 innings in Cactus League action, where he allowed 10 runs on 19 hits in 8.2 innings. He last appeared in a game on March 13.
Griffin becomes the second A's starter to undergo Tommy John surgery this season, joining Jarrod Parker, who had his second ligament replacement procedure performed last month.
Griffin, 26, was 14-10 with a 3.83 ERA and 1.125 WHIP for the A's in 2013, starting 32 games and working 200 innings, striking out 171 hitters and leading the American League, allowing 36 home runs.
He made one start in the AL Division Series against Detroit last October, taking a no-decision after working five innings and allowing two runs on seven hits with one strikeout in Game 4 of the series, a game the A's eventually won 4-3 with a three-run rally in the bottom of the ninth.
Griffin was a 13th-round pick of the A's in the 2010 amateur draft out of the University of San Diego and he made his debut with Oakland in June 2012.


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As the most memorable first round of the NBA playoffs wound down Sunday, it seems as if the Washington Wizards have gotten lost in the shuffle of things. But now with the second round starting today, the Wizards are back at the forefront as they will face off with the Indiana Pacers as the Eastern Conference Semifinals take off. Here is my preview and prediction for what should be an exciting series.
Neither team is known as a powerhouse offensively, but each do certain things well. The Wizards offense is based off the attacking ability of point guard John Wall, who uses his blazing speed to beat defenders and find open players on the perimeter. The Wizards shot 38 percent from beyond the arc in the regular season, fifth-best in the NBA, and Wall's drive and kick ability is a big reason for that. Bradley Beal, Trevor Ariza, and Martell Webster are all big-time 3-point shooters.
Besides the solid perimeter play of the Wizards, they have a two-headed monster down low that gave the Bulls frontcourt all sorts of problems in the first round. Marcin Gortat and Nene are both capable of scoring in a variety of ways. Whether it is on the block with their back to the basket, facing up, pick and rolls, or pick and pops, these two veteran big men are capable of causing any opposing frontcourt issues trying to defend them. Nene obliterated Defensive Player of the Year Joakim Noah in the previous series, scoring 17.8 points per game on 54.8 percent shooting for the series. The Wizards can attack you in a variety of ways.
The Pacers are not considered an offensive juggernaut, by any means. In the regular season, they scored 101.5 points per 100 possessions, according to NBA.com Stats. That was 22nd-best in the league. However, that number is slightly skewed by their hot start in the beginning of the year. In 18 games in March, they scored just 96.5 points per 100 possessions. A big reason their offense has struggled is because of the decline All-Stars Paul George and Roy Hibbert have been on throughout the year. Hibbert has been horrible in recent weeks and was a complete non-factor in their first-round series against the Atlanta Hawks. In what was a terrible matchup for him, he scored just 5.3 points per game on 37 percent shooting. With the Wizards playing two bigs most of the time, Hibbert will have a chance to get his name out of the Hasheem Thabeet comparisons for the time being.
While George has been the brunt of criticism lately, rightfully so, he was pretty impressive in the first round. He scored 23.9 points per game while shooting 45.8 percent from the field and 40.8 percent from deep. George is still a star in this league and is capable of leading his team to the Eastern Conference Finals for the second straight year.
Advantage: Wizards
Defense is the reason the Pacers secured the No. 1 seed in the East this season. They are the best defensive team in the league. Even when their offense struggled at scoring points in the regular season, their defense was always there. They held opponents to a league-best 96.7 points per 100 possessions in the regular season. They are led by one of the best wing defenders in the league in Paul George. His ability to deny the basketball on the perimeter is an underrated trait that can be extremely disruptive to opposing offenses. Behind him is Roy Hibbert, who defends the rim better than anyone in the league. Of guys who played more than 25 minutes per game and played in more than 50 games, Hibbert defended the rim the best. Opponents shot 41.4 percent around the basket when Hibbert was defending the rim, according to NBA.com's Player Tracking Data. The Pacers' funnel opposing offenses to Hibbert, thus making it hard to score, and it is a big reason why he anchored the league's best defense.
The Wizards are also a good defensive team. While they don't have the standout defensive players like the Pacers, they are made up of a group of solid defenders. Their backcourt of Wall and Beal can be disruptive with their speed and Wall's length. Neither are elite defenders, but both can hold their own on the defensive end. Ariza is the Wizards' best defender. His length and ability to play passing lanes is a reason the Wizards held opponents to 102.4 points per 100 possessions, ninth-best in the league, during the regular season. Both Nene and Gortat are big, physical bodies, who are good on rotations and find themselves getting in the way of offensive players a lot. Yes, getting in the way of offensive players is a big part of defense.
Advantage: Pacers
Every year throughout the playoffs, we see how important bench play becomes. A guy can come in and spark a team and swing a series. While neither of these teams have a so-called heat-check guy coming off the bench, both teams have players that can impact a series.
For the Wizards, it is Andre Miller and Trevor Booker. When Miller comes in, he gives Wall a breather and runs the offense. His ability to post up smaller guards and facilitate can spark a run for the second unit at any moment he steps out on the court. Booker is a high-energy guy who does damage with his effort. He was huge in the Bulls series, grabbing rebounds and loose balls off of sheer hustle. His energy is often contagious and could get the Wizards going in a game where they are flat. Martell Webster is a sniper off the bench as well for the Wizards (146 made 3s on 39.2 percent shooting in the regular season).
The Pacers' key bench players are C.J. Watson and Luis Scola. Much of the time the Pacers were struggling late in the season was when Watson was out. He is a solid backup guard who provides more scoring than starter George Hill. Scola is a player who can stretch a defense with his mid-range shooting. Those two are the cornerstone of this Pacers bench unit. Evan Turner has done very little since being acquired at the trade deadline from Philadelphia. We may see Chris Copeland from time to time, depending on how the Wizards try to attack the Pacers, because of his ability to stretch the floor (more on this in a minute).
Advantage: Wizards
3 Things To Look For
1. Do the Wizards try to go small?
One the biggest reason the eighth-seeded Atlanta Hawks took the Pacers to seven games in round one was because they played small and made the Pacers adjust. It had the Pacers all out of whack and took Hibbert out of the series. The Wizards have not experimented with many small lineups this year, so I am not sure if they see this as a good strategy to try. Plus the Hawks had Pero Antic, a center who can knock down 3s. The Wizards do not have a guy with Antic's size who can really drag Hibbert that far away from the hoop. But, who knows? It is certainly something to look for.
2. The Trevor Ariza-Paul George Matchup
George is clearly the better player, but if Ariza can even almost play George to a standstill on both ends of the floor, it's hard to imagine the Wizards losing this series. Ariza has the ability to defend George and if George is being contained that means Lance Stephenson will try to be the Pacers main playmaker, which can lead lead to a variety of things (good and bad). Ariza was great in the Bulls series. He scored 15.6 points per game on 46.4 percent shooting from long-range while grabbing 7.6 rebounds. If he can put up similar numbers to that and adequately defend George, the Wizards will have a great chance to head to the Eastern Conference Finals.
3. Can Nene keep up his hot play?
As mentioned before, Nene was sizzling in the Bulls series. He completely owned Noah and Taj Gibson, two elite defenders. It will be interesting to see if the big Brazilian will have enough in the tank to keep putting up big numbers against another physical team. Remember, he missed significant time at the end of the season and just had a few regular seasons game to get right before bing thrown into the fire against the Bulls for big minutes.
As of right now, the Wizards are the better team. The Pacers looked better in their Game 7 Saturday, but the Wizards looked very impressive against the Bulls. The better team usually wins in the playoffs.
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Lego Christmas Writing Prompts
So I was checking my emails and opened up one from Free Homeschool Deals. In there was a link for free Lego Christmas Writing Prompts from HomeGrown Learners. Now my children LOVE legos but not writing. I figured I wouldn't use it but decided to look at it anyways. The first prompt is:
You are a minifigure. What is your favorite thing about Christmas?
Bam-Bam reads it aloud and says, "Maybe I'll get some new friends for Christmas". I don't know why, but I busted out laughing at this thought. Then I thought about it in "picture" form and asked Bam-Bam to bring me a minifig. I didn't ask for Gollum but that's who he brought over and it made the whole idea that much more funnier.
November~~A time for giving Thanks
I know we are already on the 4th of November but I have decided for the rest of November, the children and I are going to give purposefully thanks. I'm going to share a verse each day about giving thanks and they are going to write, draw, or even take a picture of something or someone they are thankful for.
Today's verse will be
Psalm 92:1 It is good to give thanks to the Lord.
And to sing praises to Your Name, O Most High;
Today, I'm thankful for God's promises. Promises he keeps and does not break, EVER!
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Planning or lack thereof
Our 3 week break is coming to an end and I don't have plans written out for our 2nd quarter. In fact I should be working on them right now instead of making this blog post but I just can't get my mind there for them yet. Some of them will be very simple and it's just a matter of taking the time to write them down. However, the problem because history. Yes that subject is that is causing me so much grief this year. I'm fairly sure that I'm overthinking all of it. Until this week I was leaning towards using The Real Story of Mankind put out by the Puritan's Homeschool Network. And I have MapTrek Ancient World from Knowledge Quest to help with geography. I'm having a little difficulty sorting out which ones to use with which chapter but I think it could work. I just, I don't know. I have reserves about what to do (just like I had reserves driving into that rain in the picture and was quite thankful I wasn't driving and my wonderful dh was). This is probably a case of putting on my big girl panties and just doing it. Yep, that's probably what it is and I need to just bite the bullet and sit down and do my planning.
On a completely different note, none of my pictures were picked for the calendar, just in case anyone was wondering.
3 reasons why Homeschooling is better than public school
As we were driving to the store and pass the local elementary school, we saw the school kids out at recess. This lead to some discussion among the kids and ended with Bam-Bam rattling off some reasons why homeschooling was better than public school. Here are 3 of them:
- No bullies except your siblings
- Can set your own schedule and order for doing classes
- You're not in school all day long
On the days I wonder why I am homeschooling I think I will look back on this and remember.
1st quarter bust
So I really feel like our first quarter has been a bust. Here's a little run down of what worked and what didn't.
Working well:
Science! Who knew, the subject that in the past has been inconsistent at best is becoming the easiest and best subject this year. Bam-Bam is doing Apologia's Exploring Creation through General Science (the first edition). I am so glad I snagged the Knowledge Box Lapbook Journal to go with it. It has been a big help. Also Donna Young's schedule, huge blessing! Pebbles is doing Beautiful Feet's History of Science. I plan on sharing some of her work in future post. Slingshot is doing Beautiful Feet's History of the Horse. Again, I plan to share her work in a future post.
Math Mammoth and Life of Fred work for us. I have Bam-Bam just doing Life of Fred but Pebbles and Slingshot are doing both.
Language Arts:
Learning Language Arts through Literature also works well for us.
So you may say, how is your first quarter a bust, you have a lot of things working for you. Because my history/bible course is not working for us. In a big way. I was very excited about it, but after only 3 weeks I just can't continue with it. The first book is a mile over Bam-Bam's head and it certainly is not reaching his sisters. Now in theory I shouldn't be scrambling for anything, in fact the opposite is true. I have about 3-5 choice hanging around that could be used and I"m just not sure what direction to take. One of the reasons I liked it was because it was going to do a quick overview of history. I thought this would be great for Bam-Bam being that he is in 8th grade. We could do an overview of history this year and then break it down into "four year cycle" for high school. Nothing that I have hanging around does that and other programs that do cost more than I want to spend right now. So then I need to decide, do I start the four year cycle this year, or just do "random" history. Also what do I do with Pebbles and Slingshot. I have seen some suggest keeping your children in the same time period and just gearing assignments towards abilities but I just don't know. It's almost time for a three week break so I figure I have 4 weeks to get it figured out.


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How I helped passenger land plane in Humberside Airport drama
Posted: October 09, 2013|
By Lucy Leeson
A flying instructor has spoken of the dramatic moment he guided a passenger to land a plane at Humberside Airport after the pilot was taken ill.
Roy Murray, 51, received a call at 6:25pm yesterday evening alerting him to problems on board a light aircraft flying to Sandtoft near Doncaster.
Mr Murray said: "When I arrived, I established we had this aeroplane in the overhead that was having difficulties trying to land.
"We managed to get the passenger, who was called John, to do two or three circuits, going round, and he had done three- the last one wasn't very good so we told him to go round again and on the fourth one, he managed it and did a beautiful landing, in my opinion."
Mr Murray, from Grimsby, also described how the darkness hindered the operation.
He said: "We first had the plane on radar in the daylight but, as it got darker, we decided to put him on the main runway which is lit up like a Christmas tree and we guided him down there.
"When the plane landed, we all shook hands and all thanked God for that."
The pilot, who has not yet been named but is not believed to be from this area, was pronounced dead last night after Humberside Fire and Rescue, police, and ambulance service were placed on standby at the airport.
The RAF Sea King from Leconfield was also scrambled.
The emergency services have been praised for their efforts in helping to guide the plane to safety.
Inspector Chris Shepherdson from Humberside Police explained how contingency plans are in place between emergency services in case of a major incident.
He said: "We hope that we never have to put any of these actions into play but it is pleasing and satisfying when such a scenario is brought into real life that all the emergency services responded tremendously.
"There was a great deal of communication work going on between them to ultimately end in a successful safe landing of the aircraft."
An investigation is now under way into the cause of the mid-air drama.


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Echoes of the Past is back!
Findmypast releases World War One and court records, as well as a quarter of a million historic Irish Newspaper articles
Every Friday, the family history website Findmypast reveals thousands of new records to explore over the weekend on its dedicated Findmypast Friday page.
This week saw the launch of British Army records, Irish newspapers, British inheritance dispute and Court of Chancery records.
Transcripts of 4.5 million World War One British Army Medal Index Cards have been added to Findmypast's collection of military records. Created and kept by the Army Medal Office in Droitwich, the medal index cards were designed to keep an accurate record of the many medal entitlements earned by soldiers during the war. The records mainly consist of British soldiers but a number of commonwealth soldiers, as well as those who took part in operations on the North West Frontier in 1919, can also be found in the index. For a small fee, a scan of the original record card can be downloaded from The National Archives' website.
Over a quarter of a million newspaper articles and nine fascinating new titles have just been added to Findmypast's collection of historic Irish newspapers. These new additions are packed with fascinating insights into life in historic Ireland and cover all four of Ireland's provinces.
Over 77,000 Inheritance Disputes Index 1574-1714 records detailing over 26,000 law suits at the English Court of Chancery have also been added. The disputes heard by the court typically involved several members of the same family so are of particular value to family historians. The index covers the wills, bequests, grants of administration, descent of property, identity claims and other testamentary disputes tried in the Chancery Court in London.
The Charles I Court of Chancery Index 1625-1649 is now available online exclusively at Findmypast. This unique record set is an index to all 81,163 Chancery Cases heard during the reign of Charles I. These fascinating records can provide extraordinary insights into Britain's family and business links with the nation's colonial empire. Perhaps more so than any other English records, Chancery documents can reveal personal, business and family relationships and are a particularly important source of information for descendants of early migrants to North America.
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In the last of the present series and in a show that was the 100th from the BBC of the gripping genealogical programme, we were treated to 60's icon, model and fashion designer Twiggy.
And what a great show it was.
Twiggy's Who Do You Think You Are? research revealed that she has a family history story filled with colourful characters, leading lives as eventful as her own has been.
The story of her great-great-grandmother who turned to crime "uttering forged coins" (passing them in payment) and spending time in a Victorian prison. The same woman and her daughter who were prosecuted for stealing a significant amount of money from the girls employer. The mother, having taken all the responsibility and being convicted, doing hard labour.
Others who ended up in the workhouse and the tale of the parish, when faced with having to support the inmates of this harsh institution, prosecuted the husband for abandonment of his wife and children and had him committed to jail with hard labour.
The fact that the convicted man's occupation was that of a Slater, a hard job dependent on seasonal employment and from his death records we discover that he had a strangulated hernia. All of which point to another era when the welfare state did not exist to provide the safety net that we all so much take for granted today.
So why did the Workhouse exist? Why was there such fear on the part of the administrators of the Parish Poor Relief that they made conditions harsher than those that a labourer on the outside had to endure?
For centuries in England, those who fell on hard times would become the responsibility of their parish. The old poor law system had coped well enough until around 1800 new demands on the system caused the government to think again.
Unemployment had risen to new heights, a consequence of the growing industrialisation of the country that now needed less men to make the goods that previously had been created in the old cottage industries.
Another pressure on the poor law came from the disaster of a succession of bad harvests that meant those who subsisted in rural areas found it difficult to feed themselves.
Then, on top of this, the ending of the Napoleonic Wars caused a great many soldiers to return from France with no work to go to.
In today's United Kingdom, we often refer to a North South divide with the balance being towards the richer South. In the 1800s the industrial north, with its large cotton mills and other factories, fared better than the South where fewer industries existed to employ those people who had previously worked on the land and were no longer required.
As the situation got worse for the government, by 1832 they believed that they had to overhaul the poor law system and the way in which the poor relief was distributed. A Royal Commission was asked to look into it and as a result parliament passed the Poor Law Amendment Act of 1834.
A belief was widely held in the country that the poor were often undeserving of the money. That they were idle if they had no work. Under the new Act Parishes were compelled to ban together into Poor Law Unions that often covered a 20 mile radius and each Union a Board of Guardians were chosen to administer the new system.
The biggest result of this change that could have affected your ancestors was the provision of a workhouse in each Union.
Five hundred plus of these Union Workhouses were constructed during the next 50 years with two-thirds of them having been built by 1840.
Although workhouses were not a new phenomenon, under the old system most of the unemployed would have received poor relief while continuing to live in their own homes (so called "out relief").
Any parishioners, now needing help after the passing of the new law, were compelled to live inside the workhouse, where conditions were made as harsh as possible so as to discourage all but those who were desperate from applying.
Families were split up. Men and women segregated with children over seven separated from their mothers and forced to live in the children's section.
On admission the poor would have to undress, have their clothes taken away from them until they were discharged. They would have had a thorough wash and then dress in the workhouse uniform of rough shapeless material. This stripping away of identity was all part of the discouragement from claiming indoor relief.
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If you caught the BBC TV programme Who Do You Think You Are? this week then you too were treated to a really interesting story.
It was that of Billy Connolly and in particular his ancestral links back to India.
His maternal great-great-grandfather was a soldier in British India who married the daughter of another British soldier. One who had seen the atrocities of the Indian Mutiny first hand and who himself was married to a young Indian girl at the time.
The Anglo-Indian aspect is another fascinating subject that could be examined in detail, but today I wanted to concentrate on the 1857 Indian Mutiny, as the British called it, or the First War of Indian Independence, as it is known to Indians.
What was good about this episode of the TV series was that it explained a bit about this historical time. There were brutal killings on both sides and it reminded me to go and look in my notes for an inscription that I had once seen on a headstone in one of the old cemeteries here on the other side of the world in Jersey, Channel Islands. There is no connection to Billy Connolly other than it is a person who also witnessed the brutality that his ancestor had in Northern India and the effect that it had on her.
Last year I was looking at some of the old Victorian monuments in Mont A L'Abbe Old Graveyard in Jersey when I came across this one:
Lavinia Fanny Kelly Hicks
Granddaughter of the above Mary Symons and the beloved wife of Captain W.J. Hicks H.M.E.I.S, who died at sea on her homeward voyage on the 28th of April 1858 in the 19th year of her age. Her constitution having been destroyed by the suffering she experienced during the mutiny at Allahabad.
So many other questions spring to mind from this.
This particular headstone can be viewed in its entirety as part of the Diamond subscription of TheGenealogist. This site has published photographs and transcriptions from several churchyards and cemeteries and I am told by my contacts at TheGenealogist that there are more to come in the future months.
Just search for Lavina Hicks and you can see the actual headstone that I was so moved by.
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I got sent this interesting news in the week from Findmypast.
They have introduced a brand new premium benefits programme for 12 month subscribers called Findmypast First.
Findmypast First say it is their way of saying thank you to those customers who have taken out 12 month subscriptions by offering exclusive benefits and offers that they can take advantage of for the duration of their subscription.
Benefits include:
- Monthly webinars on record sets, hints and sneak previews – the first of which will take place on the 15th October.
- Having your say about the record sets you'd like to see next
- Being first to know about all things Findmypast; from record sets to new features.
- Priority support
- Monthly competitions –Findmypast First members can enter this month's to win an afternoon with one of their genealogists
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With new perks added each month, exclusively available to 12 month Findmypast subscribers. So if you've not yet taken out a 12 month subscription, there really has never been a better time to start.
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If your ancestors had money problems before the 1860s, they could have found themselves locked up for many years. This new collection of prison records is packed with engrossing detail about the unfortunate people jailed for debt or bankruptcy.
The records include the Marshalsea Prison Commitment and Discharge Books, 1811-1842, and King's Bench and Fleet Prison Discharge Books, 1734-1862. Prisoners had to pay what they owed before they could be released – and their debts added up in prison so they often found themselves locked up indefinitely. You can discover how much they owed and how long they were jailed for, as well as details of their time inside.
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I have to say that when I read this month's Who Do You Think You Are? Magazine that I was a bit taken aback with the review of the four major sites.
Ancestry.co.uk, Findmypast.co.uk, GenesReunited.co.uk and TheGenealogist.co.uk are tested by a panel for the magazine.
I am a regular user of three of the websites as there are times when data can be found on one that is not on the others. Also, when searching for a person who has been illegibly recorded in the original records, and so posing a headache for the transcribers, one site may better identify your ancestor than on the others.
Sometimes Ancestry's interface can be a bit overwhelming, as I have found in showing new users how to find their ancestors using this platform. Drilling down with the Card Index helps greatly.
I was very surprised, however, that Findmypast got such a high rating in the magazine review, after all the problems it has had this year with its new interface. I completely understand that there are good reasons for the new platform, which enables them to continue to expand the records available. Yet we have all seen the reports of disgruntled customers who feel the customer service was not what they had expected when they voiced their concerns. So why wasn't this reflected in the article? FMP actually comes out highly for Navigation and search in the piece.
As a blogger I continue to post news about FMP's data set releases on my site, along with those of the other providers, only to then receive emails and comments from FMP users expressing their frustration with the site. And I am completely independent of FMP!
Returning to the review article, I was also disappointed to see several wrong statements made about The Genealogist website which I feel I have to mention in the cause of fairness.
Firstly, it has been possible for as long as I can remember to simply use the "?" icon on this website to report an error and yet the reviewer states bluntly that it "wasn't possible to flag up transcription errors". On the contrary!
I also can not agree with the reviewers, who indicate that this website "promises more than it delivers" and that it is "possible to form an inflated impression of the content contained based on the marketing".
An example given by one reviewer is the number of newspapers and magazines on the site. The article erroneously makes out that the data is less than it really is. I have found that TheGenealogist site has a lot more than just the two newspapers that their reviewer was able to find. I make it 15!
One of the contributors reported that, when searching, you couldn't group all the census years together and she says that you have to examine them year by year. Again this is just plain wrong as all you need to do is use the Master Search which will allow you to do this!
I have always enjoyed reading Who Do You Think You Are? Magazine, but this article perplexes me in its bias. What is going on here?
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Another Brick Wall Crumbles!
I was asked this week to find out what I could about a man that was never talked about in the client's family.
Intriguing, I thought!
The subject had married the contact's aunt in 1943 and fathered three children before, at some time, becoming estranged and then divorced from the aunt.
What little I had to go on was that in the Second World War the man was a British officer in the Indian Army. We didn't know his date or place of birth, where in the U.K. he was from or any other family details.
To make things a bit more difficult he had always used a nick name "Ron" that was not the short form for his actual first name. Luckily for me, the client did know the full name of the subject and to preserve anonymity I am going to refer to him here as Vincent Martin Edwards (not his real name).
Before the independence of India, in 1947, the Indian Army was an important component of the British Empire's forces and made a significant contributions to the Second World War effort. After independence the records of officers, such as my man, have been deposited at the British Library in St. Pancras, London and so this was my first port of call.
I know from my visits to the British Library that they have runs of the Indian Army lists on the shelves of The Asian & African Studies Reading Room on Floor 3. A look in one of these, for the war years, should provide the officer's number that can then be used to locate his service records that are held there, but not on open access.
From research that I have done in the past at St.Pancras I know that access to the service record for someone of this era would more than likely be restricted to the next of kin. All I wanted, however, was for one of the staff to look inside the document folder and to provide me with the date and place of birth of Vincent Martin Edwards and so I shot off an email request.
In amazingly short order I was emailed back with the answer: Streatham, 22 February 1919.
Meanwhile I had found the marriage details online for the couple at Findmypast in their British India Office Ecclesiastical Returns. The bride and groom were both 24 when they married in St Anthony's church, Coonoor and so I had confirmation of a birth date of 1919.
Turning to the online Birth, Marriage and Deaths, that are widely available on the internet, I went in search of the birth of Vincent Edwards for that quarter. These should be held in the records for the district of Wandsworth and so all I had to do was find the reference and order the certificate from the GRO.
Ever think things are going too well… that they are just a bit too easy?
The rapid reply from the British Library, the exact date and place?
Yes, that's right! There were no records for Vincent Martin Edwards in that area for that date.
I began to expand my search to the neighbouring districts and found a Vincent Edwards in Camberwell for the first quarter. Perhaps this was my man? Was he born just into this district, I wondered, as it is not that far away on the map.
Now you may have heard the mantra "Always kill off your ancestors" that is try and find their death and in this case it only took me four years in the same Camberwell district to find the death registered of this namesake. This Vincent Edwards only had a life of 4 years, so couldn't be my man.
So if the district was not wrong what about the date, not withstanding the supposed corroboration of the year from the marriage return?
I went back to the Wandsworth BMDs and began checking for the birth in the years either side for 5 years at a time. Result: a Vincent M Edwards born in 1920, so now we know he had lied about his age on his Indian Army records and at his marriage as well!
The lesson is to always treat dates with healthy scepticism until you get the primary record to prove them. I have ordered the certificate and await it with interest. From it I will be able to see such details as the Father and Mother's names (The mother's maiden name was added to the births, marriages and deaths index (BMD) held by the GRO from the September quarter of 1911).
I have a useful tutorial in my Family History Researcher course on using the General Register Office index and ordering certificates for anyone that is unsure of how these records can help in your English/Welsh family tree research. Click the link below to read more.
Great news from the team at TheGenealogist. You can now find records of injured First World War servicemen online for the first time.
Over 1.3 million records from daily and weekly First World War casualty lists have been released online by TheGenealogist. This vast collection of unique records cover all ranks to help you discover more about your injured ancestor's wartime service.
The new records include career soldiers, volunteer Pals battalions, war poets and even a future Prime Minister, Harold Macmillan. The collection covers both those who died of their wounds and those who recovered and returned to the front.
The records are a great resource for finding out what happened to an ancestor during The First World War. Details include:- the name of the injured serviceman, his regiment and rank, the date he was registered as a 'casualty' and often his home town or place of enlistment.
These records also work with TheGenealogist's unique 'SmartSearch' feature, which allows you to link to the comprehensive range of other military records available on TheGenealogist. Many of the wounded servicemen received medals for their actions and with a few mouse clicks you can discover whether your ancestor received any commendations, such as in the Military Medals records available online on TheGenealogist.
The First World War affected people from all backgrounds who were bravely wounded in the line of duty. Daniel Laidlaw, a career soldier from Little Swinton in Berwickshire, re-joined the army aged 40 as a Piper in the 7th Battalion, The King's Own Scottish Borderers , 15th (Scottish) Infantry Division.
At the Battle of Loos, troops of his battalion were ordered by General Douglas Haig to attack the heavily fortified German positions in their sector. The Scottish troops, facing a thick cloud of chlorine gas, were hesitating but Piper Laidlaw climbed out of the trench and under fire began playing his pipes to inspire the troops and they successfully resumed the attack. He was wounded in both legs but had carried on playing for as long as he could, his Casualty Record can be found on The Genealogist along with a SmartSearch link showing that Laidlaw was awarded a Victoria Cross for his bravery.
Mark Bayley, Head of Online Content at TheGenealogist comments: "The sheer number of records in this latest release show how brutal The First World War was. Record keeping at the time must have been a real challenge, but thanks to TheGenealogist's SmartSearch technology, when you find a casualty record, you can instantly see if other records, such as medals, appear on the site."
The new 1.3 million records of the wounded are available as part of a Diamond Subscription.
To find out more about the 'First World War Wounded Collection' see the dedicated page on TheGenealogist.co.uk/ww1-wounded. There you will find photographs, stories, statistics and a free search facility.
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The greater the knowledge that we have about a subject, then the more tools we have at our disposal to explore it.
In family history, the more we understand the records and resources, then the better we are able to locate our ancestors hidden in the documents.
Today I am really excited to announce the launch of yet more help for those people researching their English/Welsh family roots.
I've listened to your feedback and acted on it.
Some of you told me that you'd like to buy tutorials on certain specific areas for a very modest outlay of under a couple of pounds.
For those of you who asked for this quality information, so as to increase your knowledge of the family history records and resources, then here are the initial four tutorials being released today. I am making them available for the first time as MP3 downloads for £1.99 (or $3.30) so that they really are affordable to all.
Whether you want to listen to them on your computer, or transfer them to your MP3 player, then these programmes in my new Nosey Genealogist's Master Mind Audio Series explain what the records are, where to find them and how to use them.
I know that many satisfied family history researchers have passed through my Family History Researcher Course of 52 written lessons – downloaded in pdf format to their computer each week. I have received compliments on the content and the accessible style and it gives me great pleasure that many of you really enjoy receiving a weekly module from my Family History Researcher Course. (If you have not joined yet, but are interested in this written course then check out the special offer which is currently a £1 trial for 2 weeks http://www.familyhistoryresearcher.com/trialoffer/)
But I also understand that some of you just wanted to listen to an audio programme on certain specific subjects and so that is what I have done for you today.
The first four Master Mind Audio Series Modules are:
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Lori Mitchell loves to go to flea markets with her friends. It's the place where she finds her broken plates, old board game pieces, beads, jewelry and other trinkets to create her mosaics. But to make her boxes a bit more unique and distinctive she uses cement as a grout.
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Taste it. Is it tender (as it would be if cooked) or crunchy (as if raw)? Though I cannot imagine eating raw beets, so I'd be surprised if they are raw. If they are raw or cooked but still firm, you could steam them for a few minutes to soften them up and make them tender.
They're probably raw for salads. If your beet cake is patterned on the carrot cake model, then the beets should probably be raw anyway. If you need to be able to puree them, though, do as above to test for crunch and proceed as cookbookchick recommends.
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So I am one of the many people, especially people <25 years old, that has more or less stopped reading books. I don't remember the last book I successfully read. I tried to read Moneyball recently, only to stop ~30 pages in. I opted out of reading the Steve Jobs biography, assuming I had already heard all of the juicy stuff on Facebook and face to face (gasp!) conversations with friends.
This behavior does not sit well with me. I have mixed feelings about it. Reading blogs and Twitter updates, and skimming articles (titles + anything in bold), is my new M.O. While I do this, I feel guilty every time I notice the barely touched Moneyball book sitting in my messenger bag. I keep it there for the same reason I set my alarm for 6am every day - maybe one day I'll follow through.
I am intentionally not placing anything in this post in bold or in headings in some ill-conceived protest of my own behavior.
So I thought about it some more today. Every thought about this has been a fleeting <10 second feeling before. But finally I am thinking with a bit more depth about it.
I was reading this blog post on how IT has changed in the past 40 years (http://raganwald.posterous.com/i-have-a-bad-feeling-about-this). I confess; I still haven't finished it. But yet I still recommend it. Anyway - I digress.
So when I was reading it, I felt like I was learning. I felt like it was provoking thoughts in me. For example, the author writes "Microprocessors disrupted mainframes." That got me thinking about the cycles of innovation, lessons to be learned from history, etc. Maybe I can glean my next business idea by learning from the mistakes and triumphs of the past (after all, isn't Facebook just the new AOL?).
And so I thought, am I learning while reading this blog post? And the answer was, yes - yes of course. Now, was it the same type of engrossed, and perhaps deeply intellectual learning I get from investing myself in reading a book with 100 pages of material? Probably not. But I learned something new, and the words made me think a lot. And arguably if I can get through 10 posts that make me learn more than what I would get out of spending that time reading 10 pages of a book, so be it.
Maybe I am being defensive. I know there is something lost as reading books wanes in popularity. Long form content (ironic that this is what tech people view blogging as nowadays), or books, offers us something unique that blog posts and skimming headlines will never do for us.
But I wonder if this is just another change of the times situation. People used to go to the theater and watch plays. Then they stopped; the printing press and other things made mass literature popular. Entertainment and education shifted media (this is not entirely correct as a historical transition, I know). But maybe blogs and skimming articles is just the new way we consume content.
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So Cleveland Browns fans aren't exactly pleased that Brandon Weeden is once again their starting quarterback.
In fact, one frustrated Browns fan has put Weeden's job on craigslist.
The ad was actually pretty funny.
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Weeden has struggled so far in his NFL career. The second-year pro out of Oklahoma State has completed 86 of 153 passes for 1,005 yards with four touchdowns and five interceptions. Last season, as a rookie, Weeden was 297-of-517 for 3,385 yards with 14 touchdowns and 17 interceptions.
Weeden showed some flashes last season and had some impressive performances in the preseason, but Browns fans were happy with the performance of former Michigan State Spartans and New England Patriots quarterback Brian Hoyer. In two full games as a starter (and a drive before being injured against the Buffalo Bills), Hoyer completed 57 of 96 passes for 615 yards with five touchdowns and three interceptions. The Browns won all three games.
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WINCHESTER -- A violent sex offender from Strasburg violated probation by groping a teen girl near the Shenandoah County town less than two years after serving time for a sex crime against a child.
Substitute Judge Benjamin Kendrick ordered David McDowell Hillyard, 35, of 608 Branch St., on Thursday in Frederick County Circuit Court to serve 13 years in prison for violating the terms of his supervised release. The time runs in addition to the 10 years Hillyard must serve for committing aggravated sexual battery on a 14-year-old girl while she worked at a fruit stand in the 28000 block of Old Valley Pike on July 25.
Judge Dennis L. Hupp sentenced Hillyard on May 4 in Shenandoah County Circuit Court to 20 years in prison for the July 25 sex crime. Hupp suspended half of the prison term.
Assistant Frederick County Commonwealth's Attorney C. Todd Gilbert asked Kendrick to revoke all of the probationer's suspended time on his earlier conviction.
"He is nevertheless a full-blown threat to society, when he is in society," Gilbert argued. "Short of him being insane, which he is not, he's just as accountable as anybody."
Hillyard's attorney, William Crane, told the court he suspects the Virginia attorney general's office may seek to have the man committed to a facility for violent sexual predators. Crane asked the court for leniency in revoking the suspended time.
Hillyard's father, David, testified on his son's behalf.
"He's a baby himself," the father said. "He wouldn't hurt a flea."
The father noted his son had been living with a 43-year-old woman until authorities told him he could not. Hillyard attended sex offender classes as instructed by the probation office but, as the father testified, the material was "over his head."
Crane told the court his client changed his mind and decided not to testify Thursday.
Hillyard's probation officer, Brandon Daisy, testified in the Frederick County court that the defendant met the 14-year-old female victim at the fruit stand on July 24 and talked to her. The probationer returned the next day and, after the two talked, asked the girl if he could hug her, the officer testified. As he hugged the girl, Hillyard began groping her breasts, buttocks and vaginal area on the outside of her clothes, Daisy said. The girl told her mother who then reported the crime to law enforcement, the officer said.
Daisy told the court Hillyard processes information slower than some people.
"He can discern the difference between right and wrong," Daisy said. "He said he was sorry that he did it."
The prosecutor noted, and the officer confirmed, that Hillyard committed a violation shortly after his release from prison by coming in contact with a 16-year-old female neighbor. Hillyard was forbidden from having unsupervised contact with a child under 18.
A judge in Frederick County Circuit Court sentenced Hillyard on Sept. 6, 2002, to 20 years in a state penitentiary for forcible sodomy on a 4-year-old child in May 2001. The court dismissed two counts of aggravated sexual battery before sentencing at the request of the commonwealth. The judge suspended 13 years of the term and ordered Hillyard to serve three years of supervised probation upon his release. On the same date, Hillyard received a two-year prison term, all suspended, for making a false statement on a form to buy a firearm.
On Aug. 14, 2009, a judge in Frederick County Circuit Court revoked six months of Hillyard's suspended term for the firearm charge. Court records show the judge at the same hearing found Hillyard violated his probation but did not impose any of the suspended time in the sodomy conviction.
Hupp on May 4 ordered Hillyard to serve 20 years of probation, the first five supervised. Hillyard must have no unsupervised contact with minor females or use of a computer
Kendrick also revoked the remaining one year and six months of the suspended term in the firearm case on Thursday.
Gilbert said Hillyard's revoked time would run consecutively to, and not concurrently with, the prison term Hupp imposed last week.


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Beijing, China (Sports Network) - China moved two players into the semifinals of the men's badminton tournament at the Beijing Olympics.
Top-seeded Lin Dan will meet teammate and fourth-seeded Chen Jin in the round of four after dispatching Denmark's Peter Hoeeg Gade 21-13, 21-16 on Thursday. Chen moved on to the semis with a 21-8, 21-14 win over Hsieh Yu-Hsing of Chinese Taipei.
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