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"For 150 years these holy men, the devout believed, have roamed the towns, villages, and isolated settlements of this intermountain state; there's scarcely a locale that has not been touched in some way by the Three Nephites with their bone white feet, their long flowing white hair and beards. They travel singly by most accounts, arriving unseen, unbidden, often seeking a meal or simply a place to stay the night. They come on foot, usually, less often by a rickety cart pulled by an ancient nag. They cure the sick, bring prosperity to the poor. The host who shelters a Nephite never learns his true identity until after he has left. After the stranger vanishes, leaving no earthly trace whatsoever, the Mormon family believes they have been touched by the hand of God. The Nephites remain on earth voluntarily. Although the earliest reports of their encounters with faithful Mormons came from Utah, later stories started coming from all over the world as the Nephites supposedly followed Mormon missionaries who sought converts in every part of the globe."FROM "HAUNTED AMERICA"
Nephite stories have been told since the very beginning of the LDS church. They were more prevalent in the 1800s than they are today, but while everyone else has angel stories, the Mormons have the three Nephite stories. Most of them are usually told about only one of these old men with long white beards and a staff and hat, though occasionally someone was lucky enough to have two or even all three of them show up at once. And sometimes, especially in more modern times, they were not old with a beard but appeared in any particular human form that would fit the occasion. Sometimes they were no more than a warning voice that one hears in one's head, or an invisible hand or hands which catch the person or do work for them, etc. But in the 1800s the Nephite was always a bit like Father Christmas in the Black Forest of Germany. There are so many stories that I am only going to relate just a few here, to give you an idea of what sorts of things the Nephites did for people.
When the Nephites were seen, they were described in this fashion. A mother alone with her dying baby in a log cabin, waits for her baby to die having done everything that she can for it. There is a knock on the door and an older man wearing a long white beard and wearing light colored clothes with a kind, firm face walks in. He places his hands on her children, talks to her about her faithfulness, hands the child to her and walks out the door. The next day there are no signs of his having been there, but the woman has a new attitude and goes about her duties cheerfully. Another pioneer woman, hungry and ill and alone with her children hears a knock on the door. A tall thin man with a long black beard and pioneer style clothing walks in. He is kindly but serious and talks to her about her bravery for bringing her children to Zion alone. When she turns to get him a chair, he vanishes. She runs to the door but there is no sign of his having been there. There are many such stories of a visitor coming for dinner when the family is in dire straits and then leaving without having eaten his meal. After which the family enjoys some measure of prosperity over that of their neighbors whom they are then obliged to help.
These Nephite stories were told and experienced for decades, but they did not reach their peak until the '40s and '50s. Two tales from this period involve a man and his wife traveling by truck across a desolate stretch of highway in 1944. They pick up an old man who stands by the roadside who appears to be very knowledgeable about world events. In a little while the man suddenly asks them to let him out of the truck out in the middle of nowhere. They ask him if he is sure he wants to get out at that particular spot. "This is the place," the old man says and then proceeds to tell them that on the way back they will be hauling a dead man and also that World War II will end in August. Sure enough the couple comes across an automobile accident where a young man has been killed and they have to haul his body back to the nearest town. World War II ended a year later in August. In the other story, the driver of a convertible picks up an old man hiking on the road and the old man proceeds to have a religious discussion with the driver knowing more about the Book of Mormon than the driver does. When the driver of the car lets the old man out a few miles later, he looks back and the man has disappeared. He asks his neighbors later if they had seen the old man in the car since they were outside at the time. They say, "What old man? There was no one sitting beside you!"
On the flip side of the three Nephites are the Gadianton robbers. They were an evil tribe of Israel, roaming the earth through eternity and doing their various evil deeds. Thank goodness they are not as well known, nor did they last as long as the Nephite stories have; possibly because there is enough evil in the world as it is and we do not need to add any more to it. Near the town of Modena on the Nevada-Utah border just past St George, a sort of Union Pacific flag stop; reports by freighters going to the mining camps in Nevada, were numerous. Hauling to Pinoche and Panaca, freighters went through a rocky gorge there that was said to be haunted by the terrorist brotherhood of the Gadianton robbers. Huge rocks were supposed to have tumbled down right in front of them, a few crushing others on the trail. But most important were the ways in which the rocky cliffs on either side of them would close in around them, keeping some trapped forever in the gorge to die of the heat and of starvation. Many others narrowly escaped these cliff rocks as they attempted to close in around them, watching for the supernatural Gadiantons who were suppose to swoop down upon them when the rocks closed and kill and rob those whom they entrapped. Either way, through supernatural apparitions being allowed to remain on the earth forever, or through simply being shut in by the rock cliffs apparently guided by these same forces; some freighters supposedly never made it home.
One such story tells of a certain unnamed settlement where a series of events were blamed on the Gadianton robbers who were evil spirits of Satan trying to prevent the establishment of the Mormon Church. Tools disappeared, women would set their bread out to raise and when they went back to check on it, all the bread would be turned upside down. Irons would disappear from ironing boards when the women turned their backs and the sawmill would run at night all by itself and yet cease whenever the men came out to check it. All of these strange events went on for several months and then suddenly ceased as suddenly as they had begun. The town blamed all of this on the spirits of the Gadianton robbers in the area.
Besides around the St. George area, the Gadianton robbers were suppose to haunt Red Creek in the Uintah basin. They became quite a famous band of robbers in the area and rode down the canyon on phantom horses. They would rumble down the old Red Creek road at night, robbing and plundering as they did and re-enacting actual events as ghosts and spirits from more ancient times. People saw them as they rode past, their dark shapes pounding past them in the darkness. Little boys that were being bad were threatened with being stolen or kidnapped by the Gadianton robbers from their beds at night. Whenever it was thought that wickedness was being built up somewhere, it was the fault of the Gadiantons who were calling up their secret oaths and combinations from the earth where they had been hidden. At one point even the Lord could not hold them back or restrain them from finding the treasures of others hidden in the land.
In the modern world now, the Gadianton robbers have totally disappeared. Media moguls, big business, technology giants, environmental pollutants, threats of nuclear and bio-terrorism, huge political machines and worldwide terrorist groups have replaced them. They would be nothing in comparison to what we deal with in our world today, both visible and invisible to us. It is interesting to me that the Nephites have survived through time while the Gadianton robbers are nothing more than a name that many Mormons don't know much about. Yet most that I have talked to know exactly who the three Nephites are or at least what they are supposed to symbolize: all that is good in the world. Angels, saints, spirit guides and Nephites, all carry out the same work, God's work. They guide us in our lives, sometimes even stopping long enough to heal us either spiritually or physically. They guide us in our spiritual work on earth, to treasures not so much hidden from us but hidden within us.
They teach us to take the right road, to fill our flour bins for others, to see those less fortunate than us rather than to pass them by. They warn us about impending dangers and come to us in dreams, to give us information about our lives and futures. They tell us where to find the healers just right for us, and what we should be doing in the world. The biggest hope to me is that out of the two polar opposites, it will be the Nephites and angels, which will withstand the test of time.
© Copyright 2003 by Linda Dunning. All Rights Reserved.
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Foreign Office Minister deeply concerned by conflict in Burma
Foreign and Commonwealth Office Minister Rt Hon Hugo Swire MP expressed dismay today at the ongoing violence in Kachin state in Burma.
Foreign Office Minister Rt Hon Hugo Swire MP said:
"I am deeply concerned by the ongoing conflict between the Burmese Army and Kachin Independence Army (KIA) in Burma's Kachin State, including recent reports of air strikes in the state. An escalation in hostilities would put at risk the chance of a lasting peace in Burma. It is imperative that military commanders in Burma heed their President's calls for an end to hostilities. I raised these concerns with the Burmese government during my visit last month. It is important that all sides, including the KIA, come to the negotiating table and make renewed efforts to work towards lasting peace.
"During my meetings with the Burmese government I highlighted the importance of normalising the role of the Burmese military. Lasting democratic reform in Burma will not be successful unless they come under the direct authority of the Burmese government.
"The UK continues to support the peace process in Burma directly. We are working with experts with experience of inter-communal trust and peace-building in Northern Ireland to encourage Burma's own reconciliation efforts. The UK is also contributing £3.5 million in humanitarian food aid for civilians displaced by fighting across Kachin State, including in non-government controlled areas. During my visit I stressed the importance of allowing the unhindered supply of humanitarian assistance to the civilian population. We will continue to work closely with humanitarian partners to monitor needs in the event of any further civilian displacement."

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It's official: After a five-year legal battle, Europe has ruled that Google is not being evil– or at least not entirely – when it comes to the search giant's treatment of competitors overseas. But what does this major antitrust decision tell us about why global policymakers are so eager to dismantle monopolies? Lina Khan, a policy analyst for the Markets, Enterprise and Resiliency Initiative and Daniel Kurtz–Phelan unpack the underreported benefits and controversy around trust-busting. Later, New America Fellow Gabe Sherman shares his bleak prognosis for Fox News' future – and what he learned from writing a 600-page biography of Fox News Founder Roger Ailes.
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AZVJC uses a reputation system to reward members for outstanding contributions to the club, members with high reputations can "cash-in" their reputation points for sponsorships... effectively giving them the benefits of a sponsorship with no cost. If you want to trade in your reputation points for a membership, just send Joe West a PM and let him know what sponsorship level you want:
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Once your reputation points are cashed-in, they will be deducted from your reputation level and you will be given a 1 year sponsorship at the level you chose.
Note: You can even donate your reputation points to give someone else the gift of sponsorship. Just let Joe know who you want the sponsorship to go to and what level sponsorship you want to give.


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A study published in the Journal of Labor Economics shows women who worked past eight months of pregnancy delivered babies who weighed a half a pound less than women who stopped working between six and eight months.
Researchers collected data from previous studies that suggested gestating babies grow slower in the wombs of pregnant women who smoke.
Emily McGee, a mother of three and six-year-old boys, discovered May 18 she is pregnant for the third time.
McGee said she worked within days of her first two deliveries.
"I worked until two days prior to delivery with my first, and until one day prior to delivery with my second."
McGee is reluctant to agree with the study.
"Both of my children have been healthy, and a lot of moms don't have the option. You have to work until right before."
"I think the study definitely has some limitations when you look at it," said Dr. Joe Sams, Emily's OBGYN.
Dr. Sams said low birth weights are relative to each mom and each pregnancy.
"It all depends on how far along you are in your gestational age, also again with your medical history, Mom and Dad's size, so there's a lot of factors that really determine what is low birth weight for an infant."
He encourages his patients to stay reasonably active throughout their pregnancies, unless their doctors say otherwise.
"As long as they're getting adequate nutrition and adequate hydration, taking their prenatal vitamins, and doing the things that you're just supposed to do, they should be fine," he said.
"At this point, there's really no contraindications to working all the way up to their due date if they want to."
He believes it is good idea for moms to keep busy, and remember to consider needed to take off after the baby is born.
"Just to keep them active and keep them going and keeps their minds off of being pregnant towards the end when sometimes it gets a little long and hard," he said. "A lot of patients want to have that time off after baby's here instead taking so much time off before so I definitely would encourage any patient to be sure to have that discussion with their employer before they look take a lot of time off."
Emily McGee plans to work as long as possible.
"I will work up until the day I deliver if I can."
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Shekhar Suman says CC2C worst film ever made
Shekhar Suman has minced no words in lambasting Akshay Kumar's recent movie Chandni Chowk to China. He not only said that he wasted his money in the movie but also said that Chandni Chowk to China is the worst film ever made in Indian history. He added that the film is not only disappointing and amateurish but offends one's sensibility as well. He also said that January 16 (the day the film released) should be declared National Mourning in India, as it's the day cinema died. He also said that Singh Is Kinng was illogical too, but it was at least entertaining. He even went to the extent to say that the film has been shot so amateurishly like a child with a handycam that too banally and that Akshay owes India a national apology. Although many celebrities have lambasted other movies which they did not like but perhaps a lambasting of any movie by a celebrity to this extent was never seen before.
He said
It will go down as the worst film ever made in Indian history. What an utter waste of Rs 400 that I spent on my ticket. I want a refund of all Akshay films that I've seen. The film is not just disappointing and amateurish but offends one's sensibility as well. I don't think there has been a film as sad or horrible as CC2C this far! I declare January 16 (the day the film released) to be declared National Mourning in India, as it's the day cinema died. I watched it at Cinemax's Red Lounge and everyone was hooting and jeering. I am upset with Akshay for doing such a film. He's lost it after seeing success. Akshay was better when he wasn't in the race now his brains have turned topsy-turvy. I think Shah Rukh must be having the last laugh Akshay said somewhere that SRK's not in the race but he (Akki) is already at the finishing line. Singh Is Kinng was illogical too, but it was at least entertaining. CC2C makes David Dhawan look like Satyajit Ray. The film has been shot so amateurishly like a child with a handycam that too banally. I tried to find moments which I could like action, romance, music but couldn't! I have seen Akshay grow as an actor but he's terrible in the film. It's like winning the jackpot, losing it and starting from scratch again. I will migrate from this country if they do! It's blasphemy to make a sequel. I am sure that the Warner Brothers execs are fighting amongst themselves wondering why they made such a film. I guess Nikhil and Akshay were too involved in the film and lost focus. I wouldn't know whether to lambast him or run away in embarrassment. Akshay owes India a national apology. From a non-actor, he became such a good one. I had loved him in Namastey London. To give the devil his due, his comic timing in all his earlier films were fantastic, considering comedy is so difficult to do. CC2C is the last film one expected from him!
However, sources tell that a friend of Akshay said
Suman obviously went out of his way to trash it because his son Adhyayan's film is up for release and he does not want any competition. Competition is good but now it is reaching unhealthy levels in the industry
Chandni Chowk to China movie review
Far below my expectations! Absolutely horrible! I had a lot of expectations from Chandni Chowk to China and I can say that I am highly disappointed. Akshay Kumar told Amitabh Bachchan during the London premiere that leave your brains at home. He also told recently in the movie's promotion that all movie viewers should leave their brains at home while watching this movie and should watch it like a cartoon film. I just thought it was a joke and certainly this movie would be quite good with all the hype around it. But after watching the movie I would like to ask that if I was so dull to watch a movie like a cartoon then why would I waste my time and money by watching such a worthless movie. Would I not watch Tom and Jerry or any Disney cartoon at home. We can enjoy a movie and have fun but we cannot enjoy a senseless movie which does not have any worthwhile meaning.
This movie is perhaps Akshay's most expensive movie till now and the movie is produced by one of the biggest Hollywood production houses Warner Bros. There were four international premieres of the movie and it was promoted as the Kung Fu comedy of Bollywood. This movie had the biggest release in US with supposedly 125 prints released all over US. But what were Nikhil Advani and Akshay trying to show to the western Indians. On one hand, a Hollywood director Danny Boyle makes an awesome movie (Slumdog Millionaire) from an Indian subject (with many Bollywood actors) increasing the stature of Bollywood while a Bollywood director Nikhil Advani makes a horrible movie after taking support from a huge Hollywood production house degrading the level of Bollywood. I really expected a lot from this movie and thought it would be an awesome action-comedy and it would be a great opening for Bollywood into the west. But I am really disappointed that this opportunity has been missed completely.
The movie is about Sidhu who lives in Chandni Chowk in Delhi and cuts vegetables and peels potatoes for a living. He prays to Ganpati Bappa to rescue him from such a life and tries different methods to get from his daily drudge. Then he abruptly gets the chance to go to China after two strangers from China claim him to be a reincarnation of their war hero. Then he goes to China where he finds Chopstick (Ranvir Shorey), Hojo (Gordon Liu) and Sakhi (Deepika Padukone). Then the messed up story continues till the end of 2 hours and 45 minutes when you repent for watching the movie. To cut short the movie is meaningless and there is no proper story. The movie has got good action by Bollywood standards but that is not enough to watch a mindless movie which does not even make us laugh. You might still remember the pathetic Salaam-E-Namaste by the same director Nikhil Advani and it seems that he has not improved till now and is till in the Salaam-E-Namaste mode.
Akshay said it in his interviews that the story of the movie was written only after Akshay and Nikhil decided to make the film. Nikhil is supposed to have got Akshay's Kung Fu style poster got printed which he then showed to Akshay and then they decided to make the movie and write a story around it. But if there was no prior story (which is pathetic) before Akshay signed the movie, still a proper story could have been wrote around it. Akshay has to learn a lot from Aamir still on how to select a script based on a proper story. The writers Shridhar Raghavan and Rajat Aroraa have failed miserably with the movie's script.
Akshay has done fair enough in the movie but unless you are a die hard Akshay fan I would advise you not to waste money and time on this movie. Instead wait for Slumdog Millionaire and Raaz The Mystery Continues next week which might be much better (Slumdog Millionaire is a million times better for sure). Chandni Chowk to China might do average business due to the movie's hype. But I would not be surprised if it proves to be a debacle at the box office and 2009 starts with its first big flop.
I would give it a rating of 2/5.
Akshay Kumar in hot air balloon
Akshay Kumar and Deepika Padukone descended from a hot air balloon at Ambience mall in Gurgaon infront of a large gathering of people to promote their movie Chandni Chowk to China. There were thousands of Akshay fans waiting in the mall to get a glimpse of their superstar. Both Akshay and Deepika are said to have enjoyed the air balloon act very much. Akshay said
I came here sometime back too. At that time about 100-200 people came to see me. And today, I see almost 5,000 people here. I am so overwhelmed. I have no words to say or describe how good I feel
Here are some photos from the same event.
Akshay Kumar rejects his Annual Star Screen Best Popular Actor award
Akshay Kumar has rejected the best popular actor award that he recived at the Nokia 15th Annual Star Screen Awards. However, Akshay was in a happy mood when he came with his wife to attend the award function. But later on when he was presented the Best Popular Actor award he refused to accept it saying that Aamir Khan had done much better than him in Ghajini and deserved it. Akshay said that he had watched Ghajini recently and he felt that Aamir Khan had done a lot better than him or any other Bollywood actor this year. He said that he believes that Aamir Khan should have won the award irrespective of the fact that he attends award functions or not.
Akshay Kumar said
It is Aamir Khan who deserves this award. I will request Aamir to accept this award instead of me
However, many people also think that the best actor award won by Hrithik Roshan although Aamir Khan and Akshay were nominated might have hurt him. But everybody appreciated this show of appreciation by Akshay Kumar. Akshay's gesture was a bit weird but everybody believed that Aamir had done far better than anybody else and deserved to win the best actor award for Ghajini without any doubt.
Akhay flying kites on Makar Sakranti
Akshay Kumar was flying kites on the occasion of Makar Sakranti at the terrace of Roxy Cinema. He was also using this festival as a means of promoting his movie Chandni Chowk to China. There were many special kites with Chandni Chowk to China stills printed on them and Akshay autographed on many of them. He was flying kites himself and he was also helping kids in flying the kites. Akshay did all he could to promote the movie and the movie sustains itself at the box office.
Chandni Chowk to China London premiere
Amitabh Bachchan came as special guest on the London premiere of Akshay Kumar's Chandni Chowk to China. After the three successful premiere of CC2C at Los Angeles, New York and Toronto the movie had its fourth premiere at the famous Empire theater in Leicester Square, London. The whole of UK is known as a very good market for Indian films and it is said that "there is something Indian in everything in UK". Anyways UK and India has been associated with each other for hundreds of years and so it is evident that Indian culture and movies would attract them. The crowd at the London premire of Chandni Chowk to China was huge and it was even more special as Bollywood megastar Amitabh Bachchan came to the premiere on Akshay's request. However, I found Akshay and Deepika's dressing sense in the London premiere quite funny more so with Akshay's striped pants.. lol. But they rocked London too and the expectations from Warner Bros film Chandni Chowk to China is increasing manifold after the success of these premieres.
CC2C Toronto premiere
Chandi Chowk to China had its third premiere at Toronto, Canada. Akshay Kumar, Deepika Padukone and director Nikhil Advani all wore black on the occassion. Akshay's wife Twinkle accompanied him as she has been doing on all the previous premieres. This was the last premiere of the movie in North America. Chandni Chowk to China is going to become the first Bollywood movie with a huge release in US at par with any Hollywood movie. CC2C has been produced by Warner Bros which is one of the biggest production companies in Hollywood. The next premiere of the movie would be at London.
"Chandni Chowk to China" New York premiere
The second international premiere of Chandni Chowk to China was held at AMC Empire Theater, 234 West 42nd Street, (Between seventh & eight Avenues), New York City, United States on January 8. Akshay Kumar, Deepika Padukone, director Nikhil Advani as well as Akshay's wife Twinkle were present on the occasion. Akshay's best friend Toronto-based tycoon Ajay Virmani, lent his luxury 17-seater jet to his friend so that the cast and crew of Chandni Chowk to China can attend all the premieres in North America without any delay. Infact the cast of CC2C stayed for only 35 minutes at LA premiere because they had to move to this New York premiere. These premieres are quite significant too because it is an Warner Bros film and it will release at par with any Hollywood film with 50 prints in the US. The next premiere of the movie would be at AMC Yonge & Dundas Square, Toronto, Canada followed by the London premiere at the famous Empire Theater, Leicester Square, London. Akshay seems to be on a great high this year with his next movie Kambakkht Ishq also an international project with a lot of Hollywood stars.
Chandni Chowk To China premiere at Los Angeles
Chandni Chowk to China premiere at Los Angeles, California which was the first worldwide premiere of the movie. Akshay Kumar has left no stone unturned in the promotion of the movie after the huge success of Aamir Khan's Ghajini and Shahrukh Khan Rab Ne Bana Di Jodi. There would be seven international premieres of movie before its release on January 16. These photos are of the first premiere of Chandni Chowk to China held at the Warner Brother premises becoming the first Bollywood movie to do so. Akshay's wife Twinkle Khanna and lead actress of CC2C were also present at the premiere. There were a lot of Hollywood directors also present on the occasion including John Landis, the director of Beverly Hills Cop 3, Blues Brothers, Coming To America and Trading Places, Rob Cohen of Dragonheart, The Fast & Furious, Bruce Lee Story and McG, and who has just finished Terminator 4. The exact schedule of the premieres are Los Angeles premiere on January 7 followed by New York premiere on January 9, Toronto, Canada premiere on January 10, London Premiere at the the Empire theater, Leicester Square on January 11, Dubai premiere on January 12, Bangkok premiere on January 13 and finally Delhi premiere on January 14. Akshay seems to have decided to make this film a huge hit overseas too. Best of luck Akshay!
Deepika Padukone and Javed Akhtar on Oye Its Friday
Deepika Padukone came as a guest on Farhan Akhtar's chat show on NDTV Imagine Oye Its Friday where she had some intense questioning from Farhan. He asked her about the most beautiful girl in Bollywood to whom she replied Sonam Kapoor. She was also quizzed about her relationship with Ranbir Kapoor by Farhan. She was also seen in the show as a part of promotion of her upcoming movie Chandni Chowk to China with Akshay Kumar. In the show, lyricist and Farhan's dad Javed Akhtar is also said to have made an entry. Javedji also did Bhangra dance on the show which was quite funny as he is a very serious person normally. The episode will be aired on TV on this Friday and hope everybody will enjoy it. Here are some stills from the show.


text: Passage of a bill that would reauthorize the D.C. Opportunity Scholarship Program, which provides scholarships to D.C. students to cover tuition and other expenses to attend private schools. Specifically, the bill would extend through fiscal 2021 the current annual authorization level of $60 million, evenly split among the program, D.C. public school improvement and D.C. public charter school expansion. The bill would require private schools to be accredited or be seeking accreditation to be eligible to participate in the program and would bar the Education Department from limiting student eligibility based on certain factors, such as the school the student previously attended.


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|Presidents, Soldiers & Statesmen
Submitted by Louise JOHNS Neu
Generation No. 1
1. WILLIAM21 SPENCER (LYNDS OR LYNDES20, JEWETT19, ICHABOD18, JOSEPH17, JOSEPH16, WILLIAM15, GERARD14, GERARD13, MICHAEL12, JOHN11, JOHN10, JOHN9, ROBERT8, THOMAS7, HENRY G.6, THOMASDE5, NICHOLAS4, JOHN3, WILLIAM2, JOHN1) was born Apr 08, 1839 in Union Twp, Tioga Cty., PA1,2, and died Mar 21, 1896 in Union Twp, Tioga Cty., PA3,4. He married MARY ADELINE DEVALL Sep 13, 1864 in home of Rev. I.B. Reynolds, Union Twp., Tioga Cty., PA5,6, daughter of STEPHEN DEVALL and LAURA WILLIAMS.
Notes for WILLIAM SPENCER:
William Spencer was a Civil War Veteran.
William Spencer is a son of Lynds Spencer and was born in Union twn, April 9, 1839. He enlisted in Sept. 1862 in the 132nd PA volunteers for nine months re-enlisted in Sept 1864 in the 1st NY cavalry and served throught the war, and was wounded at Appomattox. Sept 13, 1864 he married Ada daughter of Stephen and Laura DeVoll. His children are Lizzie L., Stephen A., Mattie E., and Jack.
Mr. Spencer is a farmer and dairyman.
(Source: Union Township section of History of Tioga County, PA pub 1883)
William Spencer died at his home in Union township on Saturday March 21st, 1896, in the 57th year of his age. Death was caused by a complication of diseases which resulted from wounds received in the late war. He had faced death in many battles but was spared to live a useful life and die at last surrounded by loving friends. The deceased was born in Tioga county, PA, April 8, 1839, a son of Lynds and Betsy Spencer, both now deceased. He married Addie Duvall on Sept. 13, 1864. He is survived by his wife and three children: Lizzie wife of Hiram Leonard, Stephen and Mattie. Hr. Spencer was a private in Company C., 132nd PA V. I., 2nd A. C., and at the time of his enlistment at Canton, Pa., at the age of 24 years, in August, 1863, was engaged in farming. He was honorably discharged from his first enlistment April, 1864, at Harrisburg, Pa., and re-enlisted September, 1864, at Avon, NY, in Company B., 1st NY Dragoons. April 9, 1865, he received a severe wound in his left side at Appomattox, from which he had never recovered. He was taken to Jarvis hospital, at Baltimore, MD then transferred to Satterlee hospital, Philadelphia, where he remained two months. He fought at Antietam, Fredericksburg, Chancellorsville, Cedar Creek, Boonesboro, Petersburg, Five Forks, and numerous skirmishes in following up General Lee to Appomattox. He was granted his honorable discharge June 30th, 1865, at Satterlee hospital. He was a member of Ingham Post 91, of Canton, PA., the members of which acted as pall bearers and took charge of the remains. The funeral was held at his late residence and was largely attended, Rev. Delmont officiating. His remains were then borne to the Spencer burying ground, where they were tenderly laid to rest. Mention should be made of the floral tributes, which were very beautiful, and were contributed by friends from Troy, Canton and Roaring Branch. The music also was very appropriate and well rendered.
In Memoriam
Farewell, dear one, thou hast gone,
Unto the mansions of the dead,
And left thy earthly friends forlorn,
To mourn a kindred spirit fled.
But let those eyes of mine be dried,
Our loss is his immortal gain,
He reigns through the far-off skies,
Free from every care and pain.
The ills of life no more inspire
His grief-worn heart with pain or woe,
His dying groan has now retired,
His tears of grief have ceased to flow.
(Source: Obituary from unknown Newspaper)
More About WILLIAM SPENCER:
Occupation: Farmer And Dairyman
More About MARY ADELINE DEVALL:
Burial: Glenwood Cemetery, Troy?
Occupation: Housewife
Children of WILLIAM SPENCER and MARY DEVALL are:
More About HIRAM LEONARD:
Occupation: Of Leolyn
ii. STEPHEN A. SPENCER, b. Jan 24, 1872, Union Twn., Tioga Co. PA7,8; d. Mar 08, 19129,10; m. LOTTIE FRANCIS BUNN, May 10, 1893, Elmira, Chemung Cty, NY11,12,13.
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Burial: Ogdensburg
iii. MARTHA (MATTIE E.) SPENCER, b. Jan 20, 187614; d. Dec 30,
195414; m. (1) R. G. LANDON; m. (3) THOMAS STULL, Nov 25, 189614.
More About R. G. LANDON:
Record Change: Jun 24, 1996
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Occupation: Of Troy
iv. JACK SPENCER, b. Jul 04, 188014; d. Jul 30, 188614.
1. Spencer Family Bible.
2. Obituary - Unknown paper and date.
3. Spencer Family Bible.
4. Obituary - Unknown paper and date.
5. Spencer Family Bible.
6. Obituary - Unknown paper and date.
7. Spencer Family Bible.
8. Hand written sheet found in family papers.
9. Spencer Family Bible.
10. Hand written sheet found in family papers.
11. original Marriage Certificate.
12. Spencer Family Bible.
13. Hand written sheet found in family papers.
14. Spencer Family Bible.
William Spencer private, Capt. Townsend's 132 Reg't Pa. Inf. (This organization subsequently became Co. C, 132 Reg't Pa. Inf.) Age 23 years. Company Muster-in Roll Harrisburg Aug 11, 1862, Joined for duty and enrolled When: July 25, 1862 Where: Canton, Bradford Co. PA Period: 9 months Remarks: Bounty $25.00 Prem $2.00.
William Spencer musician, Co. C., 132 Reg't Pa, Inf April 10, 1863.
William Spencer musician, Co. C., 132 Reg't Pa, Inf Age 23 years. Company Muster-out Roll dated Harrisburg Pa May 24, 1863 Muster-out to date May 24, 1863 Last Paid to: Feb 28, 1863, am't for cloth'g in kind or money adv'd $37.57 Remarks: $2.00 prem. Due.
Source: Military Record from National Archives.
To all whom it may concern – wounded in action at Appomattox Station, VA April 9, 1865, know ye that William Spencer a Private of Captain Justus F. Coy Company "B" First Regiment of New York Dragoons volunterrs, who was enrolled on the sixth day of September one thousand eight hundred and sixty four (1864) to serve one years or during the war, is hereby discharged from the service of the United States this twenty-ninth day of June 1865, at Philadelphia Pennsylvania by reason directions from War Department dated May 3d, 1865. Said William Spencer was born in Union in the State of Pennsylvania is twenty six years of age five feet six inches high, light complexion, blue eyes, light hair, and by occupation when enrolled a farmer. Given at Philadelphia, Penn'a this twenty ninth day of June 1865. E.S. Stratton Capt. V.R.D.
Source: Pension Record from National Archives.
William Spencer had no death certificate so when his wife tried to get a pension she had a lot of paperwork that had to be filed. I have received over 20 pages of pension information from the National Archives and they state that there are 98 pages more of information in Williams files. I'm still deciding whether to send for them. The following people made statements as to their knowledge of William Spencer that I received from his pension file. Clarence Landon of Gleason age 49 years in June 1896, Mrs. Electa A. Randall of Canton age 46 in June 1896, Patrick Wynne of Canton age 67 years in May 1896 (he states he lived in Union since 1842), Henry H. Spencer of Canton age 55 in June 1896 (he states he is a cousin of William and visited him when he was in the 132nd it reads like he was in the service too.) Mr M. Stone (signed Mortimer Stone) of Canton age 67 years in May 1896 (he states he lived in Union from about 1850 to 1895) D. N. Peet of Gleason, Union Twp. Age 57 in Mar 1893 (he states that he is currently Postmaster at Gleason, PA)
Source: Pension Record from National Archives.


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I must say, it feels weird to be writing my first blog entry since August. But I have had good reason to be delinquent in blogging. Really.
- First, I've been pretty busy adding writing credits to my clip file. I feel fortunate to be keeping busy with freelance work.
- In September my husband and I moved to a new apartment after the lease on our house ran out.
- And the main reason this blog has been dormant: Shortly after the move our laptop had an unfortunate accident. Which means the two of us were sharing one desktop computer. I write for a living. He's a computer geek. So having one computer for the two of us was, I imagine, worse than four teenage girls being allotted a single bathroom. About a week ago we had much cause for celebration thanks to two boxes that arrived via FedEx. One held a new laptop. The other, two smartphones we both remain infatuated with.
OK, now that's out of the way.
My last entry was about an experimental news Web site in the planning stages at Berks Community Television in Reading, Pa., down the street from the newspaper that used to give me a regular paycheck.
The revamped BCTV.org launched Dec. 1 and I think it's worth a look from everyone in Berks County, Pa., and anyone interested in the future of journalism.
BCTV.org is full of in-depth stories on issues that affect what local marketers like to call Greater Reading. It's pretty remarkable for an experimental product put together almost entirely by freelancers with various levels of journalistic experience.
Not that I'm biased or anything.
When the site launched I had the top story, which was about the decline of recess in Berks and nationwide. My other story details statewide efforts to set up a single phone number to connect people to social services.
Some of the other reports on BCTV.org:
- Reading and other small Pennsylvania cities have a host of financial troubles, but state legislators don't put much effort into helping them.
- Raw milk is growing in popularity among those who think it's healthier than the pasteurized variety.
- The effectiveness of a study on the Reading area's economic future isn't clear, four years after it was completed.
- Doing your own electrical work could be a fire hazard.
BCTV joins the ranks of experimental local news sites near my hometown and my new apartment, along with similar ventures nationwide. Since Berks County was my base for four years and the source of my first real job in journalism, I'm especially pulling for its success.
I don't see many comments on the stories on BCTV.org, which tells me it's not getting much traffic yet. I'm sure that's because it's a new news source that a lot of people haven't heard about yet, but I hope that changes soon. Quality journalism can't flourish if no one knows where to look for it.


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One of the 55′ released 3 marlin last week and added a few sailfish each day as well.
The 32′ Irwin Forbes got into the tuna yesterday and boated 10 to 12 all over 40 pounds.
A couple guys up in the Tamarindo area are reporting some good marlin numbers. I heard rumors of one boat raising 6 little blues on a recent trip offshore.
One of my buddies is moving back to the states for several months so he is trying to get in as much fishing as possible before he leaves. He is fishing on our boat the next couple days in hopes of a marlin.


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TOP 5 FRIDAY is when we each list five of our favorite things, depending on the topic. Feel free to join in via the comments or by posting on your own blog and linking back here. Play along. It's Friday.
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When I was a kid, I loved to read in the bathtub. It was the best. I would drain and fill the tub with hot water at least twice, depending on how good the book was. I didn't so much care about being clean. I mainly cared about getting to turn the page.
I still have my original copies of these books – they have wrinkled pages and smudged words. It's a shame how many times they were dropped in the tub. When the book was soaked, I was always more concerned about the fact that I would have to read something else than the fact that I had a wet book in my hands.
Summary: I was a book nerd.
And as you've seen from this previous Top 5 Friday, I still love to read [and it seems a bunch of you do too!].
Summary: I am still a book nerd. Proudly.
But today I shall list for you my five favorite books from my childhood. I wonder if you loved any of these as well?[Sidenote: This is not a list of my favorite children's books as an adult. We'll save that for another day. These were MY favorite books as a kid.] [Double sidenote: I've been over-explaining myself for the last 31 years. Sorry bout it.]
#1. Starring Sally J. Freedman as Herself by Judy Blume
I always loved history and while I do not like horror books, something about Hitler frightened me to death- but Sally J. Freedman wasn't scared of Hitler. And I liked that about her. She also got stung by a man-o-war and that fascinated me. I understood her. I remember wanting to dream as vividly as she does. We would have never been friends- I would have been jealous of her dreams. But I loved her and loved this book.
#2. Molly Saves the Day by Valerie Tripp
Like most of the girls in the 1980s and 1990s [and right now], I had an American Girl Doll. Molly was mine. [I'm sensing a theme… 1940s for the win!] I loved to read her books and dress her in the coordinating outfit. Molly Saves The Day was always a favorite. I learned about poison ivy and capture the flag. I could read this one year round.
#3. Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank
Seriously. I'm freaking MYSELF out with the realization that I loved World War 2 era books something fierce.
I loved this journal. I would write ridiculously detailed journal entries thinking that someday, my childhood journals would be published. [Trust me. You don't want to read it. Boring stuff.]
I thought Anne Frank was the bravest girl I knew. I cried every time the book ended. Probably still would.
#4. Harriet the Spy by Louise Fitzhugh
I thought Harriet was funny. This book taught me about how you can use a dumbwaiter to solve a crime. I also loved that she wore glasses. The first time I read the book I had just recently gotten glasses myself [watch out middle school, here comes braces too!], so I loved that Harriet and I both lived a four-eyed life. She was smart, a little shifty, and usually thought life was far more dramatic than it really is.
I have no idea why I related to that. 🙂
#5. Garfield by Jim Davis
I don't have a particular favorite Garfield cartoon book, but I checked them out of the library one by one and read them all. I laughed outloud. I always searched for the comic drawn on my birthday. I would take the book to my parents and read them the funniest lines. I mean, as a 4th grader to reading Anne Frank repeatedly for pleasure, I deserved a little comic relief, don't you think?
I have honorable mention books this week- like From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler, Sideways Stories from Wayside School, and Superfudge. I could keep going. I won't. But you will…. 🙂
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What were your favorite books as a child?
1. My Friend Flicka by Mary O'Hara
2. Anything Judy Blume- Superfudge, Shiela the Great, Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret, Tales of the Fourth Grade Nothing, Freckle Juice
3. Beverly Cleary's Ramona books
4. The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett
5. Mr. Popper's Penguins by Richard and Florence Atwater
Honorable mentions to- Stuart Little, Charlotte' Web, Trumpet of the Swan, The Babysitter's Club series, Sweet Valley Twins series, and the HUNDREDS of horse novels that I can't even remember the names of
@elizabeth, Ohh, the Ramona books were awesome!
@erin, OK… so I don't know how I forgot the Little House books!! Looking back, I think they were my absolute favorite! I have them on my list to buy next time we are in the States so that my girls can read them.
Also, I loved Shel Silversteen poems. They seemed so edgy and funny.
Ramona books yes! I loved her. And Shel Silversteen's poems are genius. I still have Sarah Cynthia Syvlia Stout Would Not Take The Garbage out memorized. 🙂
No bathtub reading here. I would have drowned the books. I'm sorry to say I wasn't much of a book nerd when I was younger. Some of these were assigned books that I had to read then fell in love with.
1. From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler – I still have this book. One of the few I bought from the Weekly Reader Book Club, I think. It fascinated me that children would run away from home. (Not that I would ever do that. Well, only once and I only made it to the end of the road with clothes on hangers over my shoulder. There were no nearby museums to escape to and my sister wouldn't go with me.) I loved the mystery of it all.
2. Tom Sawyer – I still have this one, too. What can I say? Tom had a lot of gall and I loved him.
3. Charlotte's Web – I remember this being the first book I actually cried over.
4. An Amelia Earhart Biography – I had to pick a biography of a woman for a report. In the school library I just scanned the shelves and picked Amelia. She was born the day before my birthday, too. That helped her make my list. 😉
5. My mind has drawn a blank.
You really made me think this time. My childhood was substantially longer ago than yours. 😉 As soon as I click Submit Comment I'll think of one more…
@Southern Gal, I too did a report on Amelia Earhart and ended up being completely fascinated by her!
@Southern Gal, From the Mixed-up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler was fantastic! I totally forgot about that one.
I actually didn't love Charlotte's Web… I should read it again to see why. 🙂
1. any and all of the american girl doll books, for sure. (sidenote: i had all of the dolls. all but two drowned in the flood last year.)
2. nancy drew books
3. number the stars by lois lowry
4. the mandie books series by lois gladys
5. if you wanna go way back to early childhood, the berenstain bears books.
Ah yes! the Mandie books!! those were awesome!
I loved Nancy Drew.
OK, this one's tough because I hated to read as a kid. My parents tried everything(including bribing me) to get me to read. As a kid, and as a teenager. I pretty much read when I had to, but there were a few times where I read on my own, and this is what I remember reading.
1. Nancy drew and the Hardy Boys; I was into these books around 5th grade.
2. A sesame Street book with Grover in it that I can't remember the title of for the life of me. But, I checked it out of our town's library frequently.
3. comic books; just in general. My cousin and I were really into them in late elementary and middle school. I was a tomboy, so a lot of them were super hero ones like X-men, Spiderman, etc. I think I still have a box of my comics at my parents' house.
4. Comic strips; I read all the comics in the newspaper, along with my horiscope, on Sundays. Garfield was, and still is, my favorite. I still look for Garfield greeting cards when I buy birthday cards for people because they usually are really funny. I liked the Peanuts gang, too.
5. The Big Red Dog; I don't remember when I read this, but I was probably really young.
Other than those, I had a couple of books of kids poems(A Light In The Attic), and I liked to look at the pictures in books on cats.
I read the comics every day when I got home from school!
1. The Dear America and Royal Diaries series, particularly one about a pilgrim girl named Remember Patience Whittle and the one about Queen Elizabeth. [I also loved history. American Girl books were thoroughly read as well.]
2. Island of the Blue Dolphins
3. Little Women (and Little Men and Jo's Boys)
4. My Louisiana Sky. It's the first book that made me cry.
5. I also read every Babysitter's Club book and every Boxcar Children's book our library had. I was very familiar with the ordering system to get them from other libraries, too.
I never could read The Diary of Anne Frank, since I knew how her story ended. I tried a couple of times, but couldn't get very far because I'd get so sad and upset.
@Elizabeth, Elizabeth, your #2 was my all-time favorite when I was a child!
I loved Babysitter's Club. Probably still do. 🙂
Since I still read children's books to my 4th graders it's tough thinking back to what I loved as a kid….
#1 The Black Stallion books
#2 Are You There God,It's Me, Margaret?
#3 Little House on the Praire series
#4 The Great Brain series
#5 biographies of American pioneers
I had the same problem, Kathy! That will be another list for another day for sure- books that I think kids should read today!
I loved pioneers too. Caddie Woodlawn was another favorite that I forgot to mention.
Love this!
1. Dear America diary series….I had almost all of them.
2. From the Mixed of Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler
3. Nancy Drew!!! I read ALL of them!!! also – lots of the Hardy Boys
4. The Boxcar Children! I used to pretend with my sister that we didn't have all the resources of our well-equipped home. We'd go into the backyard and pretend that we needed to be all creative and resourceful like the Boxcar children 🙂
5. Little House on the Prairie Series – Loved them and then my mom lent them to another family and they never gave them back 🙁
I never read Little House books- no clue why not.
Worth the read now?
Yes, definitely!
@AnnieBlogs, Yep! I definitely think so!
I am also a lover of From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler.
A Wrinkle in Time, Chronicles of Narnia, Little House on the Prairie series, The Five Little Peppers and How they Grew, Encyclopedia Brown, Lois Lenski books….
I could continue for much longer but I think we've now firmly established that I was first picked for the spelling bee, last picked for kickball.
Encyclopedia Brown- yes!! Loved those!
1. Eloise
2. Amelia Bedelia
3. The Babysitters club
4. American Girl, most specifically Samanta
5. The sisterhood of the traveling pants
Amelia Bedelia used to crack me up.
What a fun list! I did not read in the bathtub, but I read pretty much everywhere else when I was a child–in the car, in school (with it tucked inside my textbook-oops), at the dinner table (my mom loved that). My favorites:
1. Island of the Blue Dolphins. This book will always hold a special place in my heart, and I can't wait to read it to my little girl. My fourth grade teacher read this to us, and I remember anxiously awaiting that day's reading every single day.
2. Little Women. I read this in fourth grade, and I was so proud of myself because it seemed so BIG. It's a favorite to this day.
3. The Ramona books. They cracked me up, and I just loved Ramona's spunk b/c I myself had very little spunk.
4. The Anastasia Krupnik books by Lois Lowry. Man oh man, could I relate to Anastasia!
5. Where the Sidewalk Ends by Shel Silverstein. I read the poems in this book over and over again.
Runners-up: Amelia Bedelia books; Berenstein Bears; Aesop's Fables (I remember getting in trouble for reading this in bed when I was supposed to be asleep).
Shel Silverstein poems are the best.
Oh my gosh, I totally forgot about the Little House books!
I love all the books you came up with (except Harriet the Spy, which I have not read) but if I were to try to come up with just 5 books, it would take years, so I just won't try… 🙂
I was a total bathtub reader too! I distinctly remember reading an entire Babysitters Club book in one sitting in the bathtub. I come from a family of readers, so they never blinked twice at this. 🙂
Some of my favorites as a child/young adult were:
1. The Babysitters Club series. I think I had every single one of them up until 100 or so. Then I started getting to the age where it seemed weird that they always stayed in 8th grade and though they had birthdays, they never seemed to get older than age 13. Logic kicked in and robbed me of genuinely enjoying them after that. Dang. I also had all the mysteries and Super Specials. I recently came across all of them while helping my mom clean out the garage and I would not let her get rid of them! Too much of my childhood mixed in with them!
2. The Wind Blows Backwards by Mary Downing Hahn. I read this for the first time in 8th grade. It definitely deals with some more mature content–romantic relationships, parental conflicts, even suicide. But I really appreciated the depth of the characters. And this book started my appreciation for poetry, as one of the main characters quotes poetry in the most beautiful, tragic, poignant way.
3. Just as Long as We're Together by Judy Blume. As an adult, I am sooooo not a Judy Blume fan. I vividly remember losing a little bit of my innocence by unwittingly reading one of her books. (Not the one I'm talking about here). But as an elementary age kid, I read Just as Long as We're Together at least 20-30 times, no exaggeration. I loved the friendship between the 3 main characters.
4. Sideways Stories From Wayside School by Louis Sacher. So creative and fun.
5. Christy Miller series. Without a doubt, one of the most influential series that I read. I still am reaping fruit from decisions I made as a teenager because of the impact of Christy, Katie, and Todd.
6. Where the Sidewalk Ends by Shel Silverstein. Still love it.
7. Encyclopedia Brown. Totally made me want to be a detective.
8. Like a few have mentioned, I too loved Ramona by Beverly Cleary. Classic.
9. Archie comic books. I have no idea why I loved these so much! I would beg my mom to buy me one everytime we were at the grocery store, because they were at the checkout line. 95% of the time, she did. And I still love her for it. 🙂 I totally wanted to be Betty. I thought she was so cute!
As a younger kid, I loved Berenstein Bears, The Velveteen Rabbit, and the American Girl series. Way back when it was brand new, in the late 80's.
I could probably go on and on. I am so thankful that my parents fostered a deep love of reading. To quote another favorite blogger, Natalie Lloyd, "I believe that library cards and passports function in much the same manner." So true, Natalie; so true.
Natalie is one of my favorite humans.
EVERY book you mentioned I absolutely loved. When I met Robin Jones Gunn, I cried telling her how much I love Christy Miller. Oops. 🙂
Kirsten was my favorite American Girl doll! As for my list of favorite childhood books, I'm cheating and sending you all to a post I wrote last month on this very subject: http://www.leighkramer.com/blog/2011/05/the-books-of-childhood-book-nerds-unite.html
Annie, you may be a book nerd, but I will contend that I'm a bigger book nerd:)
Bridge to Terabithia… sigh. Great book.
(Not cheating- I LOVE reading your blog, so I'm glad you linked over!)
@AnnieBlogs, I'm so glad you liked it!
1.) Amelia Bedelia (one of the first books i read on my own)
2.) Raggidy Ann (don't judge.)(:-))
3.) The Amazing Days of Abby Hayes.
4.) All the vowel books. (In case you don't know what those are, they were little books that showcased one vowel per little booklet and showed how to pernounce it. I loved them.)
5.) MARA DAUGHTER OF THE NILE!!! That was the book that made me fall completely, head over heels, no turning back, in LOVE with reading. And what made me fall in love with mystery and danger and supense. I SO wanted to be crafty and smart and quick on my feet like Mara. The downside though is that it was heavy in the godS department (it was ancient Egypt), and my God wasn't even mentioned. Pooh. But, obviously, God used it to make me into the person i am today, so…
I love your list! Haven't read most of these…. but I kinda want to. 🙂
I too, was guilty of reading in the tub….my mom would yell at me to get out because other people had to use the bathroom. I also used to lock myself in the bathroom to not be disturbed because it was the only room in the house that locked…I could read for at least an hour without being discovered.
Here are my top 5
1. Little House on the Prairie books
2. American Girl books, Molly was my fav too! (I am jealous that you got an American Girl doll…I saved money for one, but in a not so good year, my parents used it to pay their taxes….I am not bitter anything.)
3. Babysitter Club books
4. Charlie and The Chocolate Factory
(I love Chocolate!)
5. Little Women – Still one of my favorite books!
You should save up again and get you a Molly doll. She's a good friend to have around.
I was/am an ADHD kid/adult. Which meant my nose was always buried in a book, except when I was in the tub because it was sure to take a dip. I still can't even read magazines in the tub.
My favorite childhood books:
1. A Wrinkle in Time (which is still my all time favorite book)
2. Step to the Music by Phyllis A. Whitney. I remembered the title and the author for this many years. Can't find the book anymore. Out of print. Sigh.
3. Babysitter's Club
4. Nancy Drew's mysteries.
5. Anything else I could get my hands on. I was constantly grounded to my room, and would go foraging for books. I'm also prone to "over-favorite" things, so whatever I was reading at the moment was my favorite.
I'm pretty much the same way… put the book in front of me and unless it is HORRIBLE, I'm going to read it.
The Silver Skates by Hans Christian Anderson
I still love Anne Frank
Perry ( it was a Disney book about a squirrel)
I still have my copy of Anne Frank on my book shelf.
I've never joined in on the top five friday convo, but this was hard to resist!! I was a fanatic reader as a child (and still am!) and this got my brain whirling!! Here's what I remember as being absolute favorites as a young girl:
1. Pen Pals series – oh heavens, how I loved these! It was about four girls who became pen pals with four boys and the stories that ensued. Even as a young girl, I was a total romantic! 🙂
2. I am Regina by Sally Keehn – I read this book over and over and over. It's a true story about a young girl captured by Indians; she takes on the Indian lifestyle and forgets completely that she was ever a "white man"… Oh, I loved!!
3. To Kill a Mockingbird – required reading in 7th grade, and I thought it was the greatest book ever.
4. The Giver – Still a favorite to this day!!
5. A Face in the Water – I think* that's the name of the book! It's what pops in my head! All I know is it's a mystery style book about a young girl who sees a face in the water and ends up befriending a ghost, and I thought it was absolutely fabulous… Ring a bell with anyone?
That was a fun trip down memory lane. I'm sure I'll be thinking of more all day! 🙂
I read The Giver in high school and LOVED it. Have you read Gathering Blue or The Messenger? You should. They are AMAZING.
I've never commented on the Top 5 Fridays, but this one is an awesome topic!
1. Meet Felicity. I was such an American Girl fanatic, and Felicity's first book was the first book I ever bought from my favorite bookstore in the world (Sundog Books in Seaside, FL). I remember climbing up to the balcony of the beach house and reading for hours.
2. The Alice series by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor. I've only read the first five or so, but I loved those books!
3. Nancy Drew books. I collected the copies from the 1930's and 40's and still have them. It's more than just a story, I have copies with awesome inscriptions in them too!
4. Julie by Catherine Marshall. I tried to read Christy, but Julie is always my favorite. I read this in one afternoon in fifth grade.
5. Little Women by Louisa May Alcott. Um, favorite book and favorite movie and favorite play growing up. It consumed my life!
Julie is an amazing book. The flood at the end? Always stressed me out… in that good suspenseful way.
I was obsessed with:
1. The Elizabeth Gail series by Hilda Stahl
2. South Seas Adventures by Pamela Walls
3. The Seven Sleepers Series by Gilbert Morris
4. The Last of the Really Great Whangdoodles by Julie Andrews Edwards
5. The Hidden Diary series by Sandra Byrd
Obviously, I liked reading series when I was younger 🙂
Sandra Byrd is one of the greatest writers. EVERYTHING by her is fantastic.
I LOVED Harriet the Spy! And the American Girl books. I don't recall that particular Judy Blume book but I really got into the Super Fudge saga…thanks for this post! I'm right there with you on the loves of childhood and book fever.
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The Harvard Classics, vol. 10: An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations
by Eliot, Charles W., Smith, Adam, Bullock, C. J.•
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Adam Smith's The Wealth of Nations was recognized as a landmark of human thought upon its publication in 1776. As the first scientific argument for the principles of political economy, it is the point of departure for all subsequent economic thought. Smith's theories of capital accumulation, growth, and secular change, among others, continue to be influential in modern economics.
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Charles William Eliot (1834–1926) served as president of Harvard University for 40 years, helping to shape the struggling provincial college into a premier American research university. Eliot graduated from Harvard in 1853, and was appointed tutor in mathematics in 1854, before becoming assistant professor of mathematics and chemistry. Eliot left Harvard in 1863 and traveled in Europe for nearly two years, studying the educational systems of the Old World. He took an interest in every aspect of institutional operation, from curriculum and methods of instruction, to physical arrangements and custodial services. But his particular concern was with the relation between education and economic growth.
Returning home in 1865, Eliot accepted an appointment as professor of analytical chemistry at the newly-founded Massachusetts Institute of Technology. In 1869, he published a two-part article with his ideas about reforming American higher education in The Atlantic Monthly, catching the attention of Harvard businessmen trying to pull the university out of a crisis of short-term presidents and languishing curriculum. Eliot was quickly elected as the youngest president in Harvard's history. Under his leadership, Harvard began to expand the range of courses offered, permitting undergraduates with unrestricted choice in selecting their courses of study. This enabled them to discover their "natural bents" and pursue them into specialized studies. The university soon became a center for advanced scientific and technological research. During his presidency, the university extended its facilities with laboratories, libraries, classrooms, and athletic facilities. Eliot was able to attract the support of major donors from among the nation's growing plutocracy, making it the wealthiest private university in the world.


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I had just gotten in bed and closed my eyes. It had been a long day. I was tired. I really wanted to go to sleep. Then I heard it. The squeak of a door opening, and the footfalls of my 10-year-old walking into my room.
My first thought was "Please, don't be sick." My second one was "Why are you out of bed?" I wasn't prepared to give a life lesson. I wasn't interested in a long, drawn-out conversation. All I wanted to do was send her back to bed.
She approached the bed slowly. She knows how much I hate to be woken up. "I can't sleep," she says.
This is my favorite excuse for being out of bed. It covers so many things, and it's not something you can argue with or fix. Usually I tell my girls to go lie down and count purple hippos until they fall asleep, but that night something stopped me from my usual response.
Instead of suggesting the purple hippo method, I asked "What do you think the problem is?" The flood gates opened. A tearful child told me how hard she was trying to get along with her sister, but it was really hard, and it was keeping her awake at night.
My girls have struggled to get along well this summer. Some of it is age. Some of it is hormones. And some of it is just plain orneriness.
Usually, it all just rolls off my younger daughter's back, but we've been working hard with her on holding onto her tongue and thinking about others first. Clearly, the message was getting through, but she was struggling with the implementation.
I laid in bed for a moment, caught between my need to capture this teachable moment and the need to go to sleep. It would have been so simple to throw out an easy answer and to have gone to sleep. But the still, small voice of the Holy Spirit prodded me to take the time to really answer her. It reminded me that this teachable moment might never come again.
So instead of a pat answer and a quick trip to dreamland, I spent the next 10 minutes talking with her about how God doesn't expect us to be perfect. He expects us to rely on Him. We talked about how sometimes in hockey you miss the net the first time you shoot, but sometimes you can pick up the rebound and hit the net. We talked about how we don't expect her to score every time when it comes to her sister, but we do expect her to be aiming for the net. And we talked about asking God to help us when we struggle.
I sent her back to bed with much to think about but with a calmer spirit. She and I both fell asleep quickly. I tell you all of this as a reminder that teachable moments with our kids don't always come when it's convenient. Sometimes they come when we're exhausted, when we're sick, when we're walking out the door five minutes late.
No matter when they come, though, we need to grab them. We need to listen to the prompting of the Holy Spirit when He tells us not to let this moment go. Our kids need us to be ready to teach them on a moment's notice. We can only do that if we're paying attention to what they are really saying.
It's easy to give our kids the easy answers. The simple choice is to pat them on the head and send them back to bed. The hard part of parenting comes when we make the choice to give up our own comfort to spend a moment teaching our kids.
Teachable moments come our way every single day. The challenge is to grab them -- even when it's not convenient.


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The management of the well-known digital agency, White Shark Media, has decided to overhaul its customer service after listening to the feedback of customers. It is noticeable that the company is already known for its superior service. Still, the management is actively looking to set new industry benchmarks. As a result, it has released numerous press releases to generate awareness among the public on how White Shark Media has overhauled its platform based on the feedback of its clients.
According to the company's CMO and founder, Andrew Lolk, the first step is to update every client with the Adwords platform. It is necessary to re-initiate contacts because a lot of customers complained that they lost touch of their campaign, said Andrew. As a result, the company is reaching out to its clients ensuring that everyone is aware of the ins and outs of the entire platform, technology, and performance of individual campaigns.
In the past, customers have also complained about the communication. It means that it is sometimes hard for the customer to interact with their SEM Strategist. To resolve the issue, the management has decided to schedule monthly calls using the latest GoToMeeting software. In addition to the regular meetings, these monthly calls will focus on providing a detailed evaluation of the ongoing campaign by allowing clients to visualize campaign reports instead of listening to their strategist on the phone.
Another important step is to offer direct telephone extension to clients enabling them to reach their strategists and team supervisors, in real time. By offering access to the direct telephone lines, the company wants to reduce complaints and resolve problems, quickly. Behind the scenes, every supervisor will only handle anywhere from 3 to 5 SEM Strategist, at any one time. This will allow supervisors to actively manage interactions among clients and their strategists.
In fact, the company has also started offering free SEO evaluation. Despite the fact that White Shark Media is not an SEO company, its in-house SEO experts will analyze SEO campaigns of its clients on third party platforms to made recommendations. Similarly, clients are able to install conversion tracking, call tracking, and in some cases Google Analytics free of charge. Recently, White Shark Media has teamed up with Marchex to provide call tracking to its clients. Accordingly, call tracking will allow clients to monitor conversion rates of their own callers who decide to become customers.
These freebies will be complemented by allowing access to Senior SEM Strategists. For new customers, these Senior SEM Strategists will take care of the client from initial sign-up to the optimization process. Actually, every client will also get access to these senior analysts who will play a critical part of a client's lifetime cycle with the company.


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Nehemiah 1
Nehemiah 1:1-10 (Part of the Nehemiah series).
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If you are interested in the paranormal, is very likely that you have heard several stories of a land filled. There are many stories of real life ghost scary ghost video clips and photographs of real ghosts that have been around the world. Many of these stories and sources of evidence are directly connected to a specific part of the / land or occur in a particular area in March. Investigators ghost who have a passion for creating a proof of ghosts often spend countless nights of these pieces of land. Many mysteries surround these sources of paranormal activity. In this part of the Greatest Unsolved Mysteries, you'll soon find many interesting facts related to different types of properties, which are believed to be haunted.
The first and one of the most common types of haunted lands include battlegrounds. There are many battlegrounds located throughout the world today. Many individuals refer to these as "battlefields". Regardless of what they have, the emotion and tragedy that has occurred on these lands has seemingly increased the amount of unusual phenomenon and basic ghostly experiences on the plots of land. In the United States, some of the most popular battlefields include that of Pearl Harbor and Bunker Hill. Gettysburg is also a very popular section of land where many individuals lived, fought, and tragically died.The next most common types of haunted lands found in the world are graveyards and cemeteries. While these types of lands are designed to place the deceased at rest, many spirits are more active than they ever were when they were among the living. Not only are the deceased present on these grounds, other entities are believed to haunt these types of lands as well. There are stories of voodoo queens, poltergeists, demons, and even ghostly animals circulating the globe in today's world. This is especially true since television is now covered in shows pertaining to the paranormal and ghost hunting in general. Throughout this section of Greatest Unsolved Mysteries, you will learn many ghost facts surrounding the haunted lands throughout the world.
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Improving Out of Hours Care in Hospitals
Today's conference focuses on out of hours care in hospitals and moving towards delivering high quality safe care at night.
Conference Chair Dr Juliane Kause Specialist in Critical Care and Acute Medicine University Hospital Southampton Foundation NHS Trust opens the conference with an important update on 'Towards the 24/7 Hospital'.
Dr Kause discusses the UHS Staff survey:
"UHS conducted a Staff survey. It was sent to Medical Staff, local leaders, clinical staff & Corporate managers"
"Survey method - The three agreed elements of the work were collaborative design, development, conduction and analysis of:
Bespoke inpatient feedback survey
Independent staff, patient and stakeholder interviews
Stakeholder workshops as part of a regional RCP accredited Out of Hours and 7DS conference "
"Most clinically based staff's feedback was a lack of staff. New roles ahve been created:
First new job role created: Doctors administators have been appointed to keep all records up to date and conduct ward rounds and stock items. They also prepare discharge summaries.
Second job role - medical assistant who work 24 hours a day.
Thirdy - Acute care fellow."om Giancarlo
Dr Kause's Biography:
Juliane Kause graduated from Charing Cross and Westminster Medical School in 1994. She trained in Acute and Critical Care Medicine and worked as a consultant in Intensive Care in Portsmouth before joining University Hospital Southampton NHS Foundation Trust in 2011. Since 2013, she has been the lead consultant for Out of Hours Care, leading delivery, development and research in out of hours inpatient care. University Hospital Southampton has been chosen as an early implementer of seven day services in March 2016 on the basis of all the improvements made through the out of hours programme.
Juliane is particularly interested in multiprofessional working to achieve best outcomes for patients, 24 hours a day, seven days a week, establishing an enhanced and sustainable Out of Hours service for inpatients.
Juliane is a founder member of the international Society for Rapid Response Systems, and contributes to the current national Seven Day Services programme. She has contributed to research and co-authored textbook chapters on acute physiological deterioration and rapid response systems in hospitals and is currently conducting research in Out of Hours Care Systems in collaboration with the University of Southampton.
Juliane is a founder member of the Internal Medical Examiner Group at University Hospital Southampton.
Her personal professional journey has led her to change career from intensivist to extensivist.
The morning sessions continue with a presentation fr Laura Programme Manager at NHS England on '24/7 Services in Hospital: are we there yet?', covering
• implementing the updated 7 day services clinical standards
• delivering the standards at night: are we there yet?
• the challenges: delivering consultant led care at night
Giancarlo comments:
"There's lots of data pointing towards the weekend effect.
These are the areas that improving out of hours servics will have:
- Better patient experience
- Improved patient flow
- Patient Safety
- Better clinical supervision across the week
Progress is measured through a national self-assessment survey completed by all acute trusts every 6 months (Spring and Autumn)
The latest survery (Oct 16) showed that progress has been made but there are specifit issues with certain standards."
Pre conference abstract:
A substantial body of evidence exists which indicates significant variation in outcomes for patients admitted to hospitals in an emergency at the weekend across the NHS in England. This variation is seen in mortality rates, patient experience, length of hospital stay and re-admission rates. Additionally medical, nursing, other health professional and managerial staffing levels, as well as trainee doctors' perceptions of supervision by consultants, also vary by day of the week.
To tackle this variation, the NHS is making sustained and comprehensive improvements to the quality of care at times when there has traditionally been a reduced consultant presence. These improvements are focused on the delivery of four priority seven day clinical standards, selected from a list of ten devised in 2013 by the NHS Services Seven Days a Week Forum. These standards cover time to first consultant review, timely access to diagnostics, access to consultant-directed interventions and ongoing consultant-directed reviews.
The ambition is for 25% of the population to receive hospital services that meet these standards by March 2017, building to 100% coverage by March 2020. Alongside this sits a related ambition for these four priority clinical standards to be met in five urgent network specialist services, specifically acute stroke, paediatric intensive care, STEMI heart attack centres, major trauma centres and emergency vascular services.
Giancarlo Laura's biography:
Giancarlo Laura is the Programme Manager for 7 Day Hospital Services at NHS England. He has been in this role since April this year. Prior to this, he spent 10 years at the Department of Health in a wide range of policy and briefing roles, including being the Department's policy lead for end of life care and long-term conditions. His other roles at DH included running two junior Ministers' offices for a number of years, which covered the 2010 General Election period. Before joining the Department, Giancarlo worked in Local Government, including the Greater London Authority, and in the private sector.
Click here to see Giancarlo's full presentation
Future conferences of interest:
Outstanding CQC Inspections in Hospitals
Monday 6 February 2017
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9 December 2016


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Stocks shook off steep losses, as small caps and transports moved higher Thursday, but strategists say the selloff will likely continue until investor psychology changes and they feel more pain.
"I think there's potentially more downside. My target on the S&P is around 1,800, the Nasdaq is around 4,000 and the Dow is 15,400," said Paul LaRosa, technical strategist at Maxim Group.
LaRosa said the market signaled a pending selloff when the small-cap Russell 2000 failed to confirm the September highs made by the Dow and S&P 500, and instead moved lower. The Russell bounced slightly Thursday, as it did late in Wednesday's session, and is now off about 11 percent from its July 1 high.
Stocks opened sharply lower Thursday, with the Nasdaq entering correction territory with a 10 percent decline from its highs. The Dow reversed much of its steep losses, and the S&P turned positive briefly. The Russell 2000 was trading higher, with a gain of 0.7 percent.


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Families win holiday compensation
Hundreds of families have won compensation after they were struck by illness whilst staying at a hotel in Bulgaria.
Live updates
Full Report: Families compensated after holiday hell
Holidaymakers who returned home from Bulgaria with severe food poisoning have been awarded thousands of pounds in compensation.
Nearly three hundred tourists, including a family in Gateshead, suffered sickness at the Royal Park Hotel in the popular Bourgas region four years ago.
Now the tour operator First Choice has agreed to pay out more than half a million pounds to the victims.
Watch the full report from Ben Chapman below.
Tour operator pays out compensation to families
Nearly three hundred holidaymakers, including a family from Gateshead, have won compensation after they became seriously ill on holiday.
They developed severe sickness and diarrhoea at the Royal Park Hotel in Bulgaria four years ago.
The tour operator First Choice has agreed to pay out more than half a million pounds to victims.
The Skee family say the hotel was dirty and had poor standards of food hygiene.
"It was like being trapped in hell" says Gateshead couple who won compensation after nightmare holiday
Families win compensation battle with travel operator
Holidaymakers left devastated after their 4-star Bulgarian holidays were ruined by illness have won their battle for compensation. Sandra and Mick Skee from Gateshead, were one of a number from our region to suffer serious stomach problems during their stay at the Royal Park hotel in 2008.
Four years on they have finally won their legal battle with tour operator First Choice.


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ADELANTO � Sheriff's officials are looking for three men who beat a convenience store clerk during a robbery, and are asking for the public's help in finding the robbers.
The men entered the Circle K in the 11400 block of Chamberlain Way at about 12:40 a.m. Saturday and ordered the clerk to the ground, according to San Bernardino County Sheriff's Department Adelanto station officials.
One of the robbers smashed a beer bottle over the clerk's head, leaving him with a serious head wound, authorities said.
The three men then began to place items including flavored cigars, cigarettes and candy into two duffle bags, then ran away, officials said.
"The clerk was transported to a local hospital by AMR and later taken to Loma Linda University Medical Center due to the seriousness of the head injury he sustained," said Staci Johnson, spokeswoman for the Adelanto station.
The three men are described as black adults.
The first man is about 21 years of age, about 5 feet 11 inches tall and weighs about 140 pounds, officials said. He was last seen wearing a black T-shirt, black pants, a green bandana and white shoes.
The second man is about 20 years old, about 5 feet 10 inches tall and weighs about 145 pounds. He was seen wearing a multi-colored camouflage hooded sweatshirt and dark pants.
The third man is about 19 years old, about 5 feet 9 inches tall and weighs about 135 pounds. He was wearing red shorts, a black shirt, a black bandana and black Converse shoes.
The same convenience store has been robbed at least three times since the beginning of the year, sheriff's officials said.
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whew--it's been a while.
I really don't know what i meant by that line but it seems appropriate. Perhaps I'm trying to treat my blog as an old friend who I just ran into at the 24Hour Diner at 1:30am. So i'm fighting that and instead saying hey...blog...you is my beeyatch. i don't owe you nuffin.
Let me begin with some thoughts on absinthe.
The green fairy...Oscar Wilde once said "after the first glass, you see things as you wish they were. after the second, you see things as they are not. after the third, you see things as they really are...and that is the most horrifying experience of all".
and its hangovers are killers. leaving you longing for the good old days of mere headaches and listlessness. you wake up 4 or 5 times throughout the night and roll over...or, rather, think you roll over...but quickly realize you're still in the same spot. rather disorienting.
All that being said, now you know the state of mind i'm in right now. I suppose i should say that it wasn't thujone-infused absinthe. I know, i know, kind of deceptive to talk about it and only be drinking the "pussified" legal kind...but still it's strong as anything, mixed with sugar which opens the capillaries and hits you harder, and there's...just something else there.
Okay okay. enough about absinthe. there are more pressing matters here
like...uhm...well there's that...wait...wait, no...
ok so maybe nothing on my mind is all that pressing so i'll bring you up to date with my life.
- Soon to begin playing a once-a-week jazz gig at this Swanky-as-hell steakhouse in the historic district.
- Single now...look out ladies...haha right....
- Soon to begin a weekly-update webcomic type thing. Updates to come.
- CD to be out soon for my band No Cats in America. Updates to come.
- Updates coming...updates to come.
That's about all for now. I'll leave you with this quote that's been running in my head ever since Easter and i've for some reason been bombarded by religious B.S.
"When the pain is great enough, we will allow anybody to play doctor"
now...how many churches do you see in destitute neighborhoods?