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By dialing 511 or by visiting 511.idaho.gov , travelers can get updates about winter driving conditions, weather reports, emergency road closures and tourism.
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"511 is designed for continual updates when conditions change. Within minutes, information can make its way direct from the snowplow cab to the 511 phone system or Web site," says Charles L. Winder, Idaho Transportation Board Chair. "This kind of timely information will provide a higher level of accuracy to travelers."
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Ariel Quiros, who is accused of masterminding a $200 million fraud at Jay Peak, has formally denied the allegations against him filed by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.
Quiros has asserted 34 "affirmative defenses," including a claim the SEC failed to make its allegations with "sufficient particularity."
An amended civil complaint by the SEC, filed in May in federal court in Miami, is 86 pages. Quiros' response, filed Dec. 21, is 52 pages.
In his answer, Quiros asks the court to dismiss the SEC's complaint in its entirety, enter a judgment in favor of Quiros against the SEC, and award him his costs, including "discretionary costs and attorney's fees." Quiros also demands a trial by jury, should the complaint not be dismissed.
The SEC has asked the court for an extension to Jan. 25 to file a motion to strike Quiros' affirmative defenses.
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TUESDAY, May 31, 2016 (HealthDay News) -- Two studies highlight the complex relationship between parents' perceptions and their children's weights.
One study found that no matter a child's actual weight, those whose parents believed they were overweight gained more weight. The other study found that more than 82 percent of parents underestimate the weight of their overweight or obese children.
The first study included more than 3,500 Australian children, aged 4 to 5 years at the start of the study. Of those children, nearly 20 percent were overweight or obese and more than 75 percent were normal weight. Only 20 percent of parents of children who were overweight correctly identified their child as being overweight.
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Parents in families where more than half the members were overweight were more likely to underestimate the weight of overweight and obese children than parents in families where less than half the members were overweight, the findings showed.
The study also found that socioeconomic status affected the rates of overweight and obese children -- the rate was 16 percent in poor families compared to 11 percent in wealthy families.
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"Parents are unlikely to adequately perceive overweight in their children. Perception of overweight and obesity in children concerns underestimation in four out of five cases," Grietje Lijklema, from the University Medical Center Groningen in the Netherlands, and colleagues wrote.
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This study was also presented Tuesday at the obesity meeting. The findings by Lijklema's team should be considered preliminary until published in a peer-reviewed journal.
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[Annegret Weng:] > I would like to use the Pari-Library. I read through the User's Guide and > then I tried to write a small C++-program. It turned out that I still > don't know how to build a polynomial, more precisely how to assign values > to the coefficients of a polynomial. > Can anyone help me? I think a small sample program would be very helpful. Well, the library itself is a nice sample code... If the coefficients already exist in an object x somewhere (e.g are the entries of a PARI vector), you can use gtopoly(x, v) [ correspond to Pol() under GP ] To avoid chicken-egg recursion, here's how you do it "from basic principles": the following snippet creates x^4 + 7x^3 + 2*x [ I assume you use version 2.0.* ] { const long deg = 4; const long var = 0; /* x */ GEN pol = cgetg(deg+3, t_POL); /* cgetg fills in the first codeword */ /* fill the second codeword */ pol[1] = evalsigne(1) | evalvarn(var) | evallgef(deg+3); pol[2] = (long)stoi(0); /* start from lowest degree term */ pol[3] = (long)stoi(2); pol[4] = (long)stoi(0); pol[5] = (long)stoi(7); pol[6] = (long)stoi(1); } [ I could have used gun and gzero instead of stoi(1) and stoi(0) respectively, and lstoi instead of (long)stoi ] You can make it look nicer by using another pointer for the coefficients: { const long deg = 4; const long var = 0; GEN pol = cgetg(deg+3, t_POL); GEN *P = (GEN*) (pol+2); pol[1] = evalsigne(1) | evalvarn(var) | evallgef(deg+3); P[0] = stoi(0); P[1] = stoi(2); P[2] = stoi(0); P[3] = stoi(7); P[4] = stoi(1); } Another possibility is to build the polynomial from different pieces, starting from polx[var], but it's _much_ slower. It works nicely for recursively defined polynomials [ I use the same polynomial; for a non-trivial example, see cyclo() in src/basemath/bibli2.c ] /* Inefficient, ugly, and only meant to examplify basic principles. If you * want efficient code, look at the library sources */ { const long var = 0; /* x */ const long ltop = avma; /* record stack pointer */ GEN pol, X = polx[var]; pol = gpowgs(X,4); pol = gadd(pol, gmulsg(7, gpowgs(X,3))); pol = gadd(pol, gmulsg(2, X)); pol = gerepileupto(ltop, pol); /* clean up accumulated garbage */ } Hope this helps, Karim. P.S: Since you intend to program in C++, it should be trivial to overload operators so as to write the above simply as pol = X^4 + 7*X^3 + 2*X Corresponding C++ wrappers have even be written by various people, but (I believe) never widely distributed. You can have a look at http://www.math.u-bordeaux.fr/~papanik/pali.html [PaLi also implements automatic garbage collection, at the expense of some efficiency]. I don't share all the goals expressed in the page above, but the project itself was interesting. It more or less died when Thomas left Bordeaux, unfortunately. __ Karim Belabas email: firstname.lastname@example.com Dep. de Mathematiques, Bat. 425 Universite Paris-Sud Tel: (00 33) 1 69 15 57 48 F-91405 Orsay (France) Fax: (00 33) 1 69 15 60 19 -- PARI/GP Home Page: http://hasse.mathematik.tu-muenchen.de/ntsw/pari/


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- 1.Head southeast on Dupont St toward J St0.6 mi48.75962,-122.48812
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We will be open on Mondays 10-4 and Tuesday-Saturday 9-5. We are closed on Sundays.
Come and view the work of David Warther, a fifth generation carver of Swiss heritage, who is continuing his family's carving legacy in the center of Ohio's beautiful Amish country.
The carvings created by David are intricately worked of antique ivory, ebony wood and abalone pearl. Each of the 87 works (and counting!) is heavily engraved through the art form known as scrimshaw. David works daily in his on-site workshop where he is creating the "History of the Ship" from 1st Dynasty Egypt, circa 3000 B.C., to the present day. This unique art collection-museum forms an artistic and highly educational exhibit that culturally enriches all who view these extraordinary works of art.
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David Warther Carvings is a new attraction located in the center of Ohio's Amish community. The exhibit features over 80 carvings made by David Warther, a 5th generation carver of Swiss heritage. The carvings created by Warther depict the "History of the Ship" from 1st Dynasty Egypt to the present day. Our carver purchases old legal estate elephant tusks and is knowledgeable of the laws and regulations regarding the buying and selling of legal pre-ban elephant tusks in the United States. Created in miniature from legal antique elephant tusk ivory and ebony wood the details include intricate scrimshaw engraving and finely carved ivory rigging lines ....Read More →
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These are some videos of a pair of regular swing wings from our Dyed4you Readymade store called Beckoned. The recipient loved her wings and shared this comment, "These are my flags!! Thank you for them!! They are absolutely beautiful!!" Continue reading
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Comparing Wings: Spin, Bendie, & Swing
Quick comparison of three types of wings (spin, bendie, and swing) in our three sizes (regular, large, and XL). I try to hit pros/cons, storage, use tips, etc. and quick facts on each size are listed below. Continue reading
Cross Pollination & Blooming
As you all know from my many posts, I love cross pollination between ministries! This silk story shared my friend Christina (from Wings of Mercy Arising) with the regular swing wings I gave her as well as me with the silk I got from her called Father's Heart. What was fun about the ones I made her is that she unknowingly named them! On our Dyed4you Ministries FB page, we frequently post things in progress and let people share what God gives them and sometimes those things make it into the word. That was what happened with Full Bloom. Continue reading
Very Sweet Personal Kiss from God
It's always a joy to get to hear how people are blessed by their Dyed4you silks! This woman was gifted a large swing wing called Forthright Flames and it brought encouragement and confirmation, and God timed its arrival perfectly. He's so good 🙂 Continue reading
Ann Mack from INovia Dance
We were able to bless the Bethel Church dance team (INovia Dance, headed by Ann Mack) with some Dyed4you silks a while back. Recently she shared this video with us of them in action. We thought you all would enjoy seeing her with them! Continue reading
Anointed Artisans
I know this one is long, but there's a LOT of good stuff in here – silk stories, words shared by one of you in the Dyed4you Community as well as some fun Dyed4you history. So I hope you'll be blessed by it!
First up is a topic I've shared on a number of times on the our blog and it's one I feel passionate about. God has specifically anointed certain people to do certain things. I call them anointed artisans (think of artisan as being an expert not simply an artist because you could be an "artisan" of computer code if that's what Papa has gifted you to do). We see this concept clearly illustrated in Exodus 31:1-6 (AMP) Continue reading
Beautiful to Worship With
It's always wonderful to get positive feedback from you all in the Dyed4you Community, and it's great to hear you understanding and embracing both venues you can get silk through: our custom order site (this one – Dyed4you) and our new Etsy store (Dyed4you Readymade). Both bring you beautiful silks as this customer below shares about her pair of RSW (regular swing wings): Continue reading


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AMSTERDAM – The emergence of MPEG Dash as a standard for streaming Internet video has reached a milestone of sorts as it is being tested by Google on Chrome in a limited program initiated earlier this month, says Will Law, Principal Architect, Media Cloud Engineering, Akamai, in this video interview at the IBC conference.
This is the first time that a major browser has supported Dash.
Law is an evangelist for the new standard as he serves as secretary of Dash Industry Forum.
MPEG Dash is big topic of discussion at the conference this year. Tonight (Sunday) some 300 members of the Dash consortium are meeting and Beet.TV is covering.
Note: This video was produced as part of the sponsorship of Beet.TV's IBC coverage by Akamai.


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As the remainder of 2014 reduces to only a matter of days, it's hard not to reflect on all that's happened this year in both my own life and the world. So, here is a little month-by-month recapitulation of 2014*.
January: Along with the new year, I celebrated my 22nd birthday! Meanwhile, Ariel Sharon (Prime Minister of Israel from 2001-2006) passed away.
February: I injured my IT band while training for an ultramarathon, putting me out of running for a few months. Meanwhile, thousands of athletes from all over the world traveled to Sochi, Russia, to compete in the Winter Olympics.
March: I went on a fantastic road trip with my girlfriend to visit her best friend. Meanwhile, Crimea declared independence from Ukraine, an act declared illegal by the United Nations.
April: I found my calling to be a sociology professor. Meanwhile, the Islamist militant group Boko Haram kidnapped 280 school girls in Nigeria.
May: I finished my senior thesis in sociology on which I researched academic alienation. Meanwhile, some kind of political alienation in Egypt was apparent based on low voter turnout, resulting in an added third day of voting.
June: I was honored to speak at my own graduation from the University of Denver, where I snagged a killer selfie. Meanwhile, the Pakistani Taliban launched attacks at Karachi's Jinnah International Airport, resulting in twenty-nine deaths.
July: On a trip to Ireland, I made it out to the Cliffs of Moher and had one of the most enlightening moments of my life. Meanwhile, Germany got their own kind of enlightenment by winning the World Cup in soccer.
August: Basic Training Academy for City Year started, and I knew from the first day that I was a part of something special. Meanwhile, American Journalist James Foley was killed by ISIS in response to U.S. airstrikes.
September: Service hit full swing with our first whole month of school and I learned the true meaning and importance of flexibility. Meanwhile, Scotland voted to remain apart of the United Kingdom.
October: We started literacy interventions (the crux of the academic part of service) with students. Meanwhile, a Canadian soldier was shot and killed by Michael Zehaf-Bibeau as he guarded the National War Memorial in Ottawa, Canada.
November: Sadly, a student with whom I developed a close relationship had to move schools. Meanwhile, The U.S. and China reached a landmark agreement on climate change and reducing emissions.
The major personal and world events of December are still to unfold, but I know that there will be both good and bad. That's how it's supposed to be, because there can't be one without the other. When my service at College View Elementary began, I would get home every night completely exhausted. I took this to mean that as a whole, it was not a good day. I've come to realize, however, that although we've been taught to think of happiness and sadness as mutually exclusive, they really exist as two sides of the same coin, just as the sun shines even on rainy days.
Serving for City Year is an emotionally loaded gig. Each day brings everything from hysterical laughter to utter frustration, but it's that signature, fiery idealism of City Year that pushes me to choose a positive perspective, while maintaining an understanding that multiple exist. I ask that you forgive my excessive use of "meanwhile" in this reflection, for it served the juxtapositional purpose of showing just how small and large the world can be, depending on the chosen perspective. As I look back on this closing year, I understand that it was both confining and inspiring, scary and comforting, painful and prosperous. Most importantly, I know that everything life delivers through the days, months, and years gives us the chance to learn about ourselves and grow to our fullest potential.
Yours in service,
Mike Schutte, City Year Denver
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In a major victory for cranes and other water users on the Texas Gulf Coast, a federal judged has ruled the state's environmental agency is responsible for the death of 23 whooping cranes during a drought in 2008 and 2009.
The ruling on Monday is being widely studied in Texas, but also has ramifications in Wisconsin.
Baraboo-based International Crane Foundation is a member of the Aransas Project, which sued the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality over the way it doles out water in south Texas to communities and other users.
Federal Judge Janis Graham Jack agreed with claims by Aransas that the Texas commission failed to manage water use on the Guadalupe River, which flows into the Gulf of Mexico and serves as a habitat for endangered whooping cranes.
The 23 cranes represented nearly 10% of the whooping crane population in the western United States.
In addition to its participation in the suit, the Crane Foundation has intensified its outreach efforts in Texas over the last two years because a protracted drought in the region has threatened cranes and their habitat. Whooping cranes, the tallest birds in North America, are a federally endangered species.
The foundation has hired a biologist in Texas and is working with landowners to protect crane habitat, foundation officials say. In addition, George Archibald, co-founder of the foundation, testified during the trial about work by private groups and government dating back to the 1960s to bring cranes back from near extinction.
Texas is the wintering grounds for the only self-sustaining flock of migratory whooping cranes in the world. The official population in the west now stands at 254 and has declined in recent years because of the drought in south Texas.
A second flock resides in the eastern United States. Much of the population lives in Wisconsin in the spring and summer, and migrates south in the fall. The eastern flock is not self-sustaining. The eastern population is 111 birds, according to the Whooping Crane Eastern Partnership.
In Texas, the judge ruled authorities there must come up with a plan that assures that cranes will have adequate supplies of fresh water.


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Making God Laugh
Nov 10th-Dec 17th 2017
A Comedy/Drama
by: Sean Grennan
Directed by: Brent A. Stringfield
Produced by:Merrill Gill & Ruth Woodbeck
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Audition time is 7PM.
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Making God Laugh
Character Description
Each Character will age 30 years over the course of the play.
The age listed below is the starting age of the character
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RUTHIE Starts late 40s – early 50s – a strong willed woman who loves her family but has trouble showing that loves. Wants the best for her children but doesn't express herself in the best light. Firm believer in family-values and traditions. The true Matriarch of her Catholic family.
BILL Starts late 40s – early 50s – a kind and easy-going husband and father. Is proud of all his children and loves Ruthie with all his being. Bill is the peace-keeper but is by no means "rail-roaded" by Ruthie.
RICHARD Starts mid 20s – late 20s – The eldest of the children. Ex-Football Star still trying to find himself. Looking for get rich quick opportunities and easily caught up in the newest fades. Eventually becomes the dependable son.
MADDIE Starts mid 20s – late 20s – The middle child and only daughter. Maddie is an actress and a lesbian. She and Ruthie know how to push each other's' buttons…and often do. Maddie is closest to her Father and younger brother. By the final act, she comes to terms with her relationship with Ruthie.
THOMAS Starts early 20s – mid 20s – The youngest child; often referred to as "the good son." Thomas is going to a priest and this thrills Ruthie completely. Thomas, like his father, is a peace-keeper. Eventually, Thomas will leave the priesthood to marry and become a Father of his own. Thomas loves his siblings and is the "go-to person" for both of them
Auditions will be by cold-readings from the script. No appointment necessary. Headshot and resume are extremely helpful, but not a requirement to audition.
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Making God Laugh follows one typical American family over the course of thirty years' worth of holidays. Starting in 1980, Ruthie and Bill's grown children -- a priest, an aspiring actress, and a former football star -- all return home, where we learn of their plans and dreams as they embark on their adult lives. The empty-nester parents contend with their own changes, too, as old family rituals are trotted out and ancient tensions flare up. As time passes, the family discovers that, despite what we may have in mind, we often arrive at unexpected destinations.
As Woody Allen once said, "If you want to make God laugh, tell him your plans..."
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A Bhutanese wedding is much more than a simple exchange of vows and rings. It includes a number of religious rites performed by Buddhist monks and lamas. This represents the importance of the bond between a husband and wife.
Day 1
Arrive Paro.
Paro is situated in a beautiful valley at 2,280 metres and is a fitting introduction to this charming kingdom. Your guide will meet you and take you on a short one-hour drive along the Paro and Thimphu river valleys to Thimphu, Bhutan's capital, at 2,320 metres. You can stop on the way to take in the magnificent Tamchhog Lhakhang, the hereditary place of worship for Bhutan's iron bridge builder. Take a late afternoon walk around town and soak in the atmosphere of this magical capital with its busy shops and bazaars and photogenic citizens in national dress. Overnight in Thimphu.
Day 2
Thimphu sightseeing.
We will visit the weekly market and the School of Traditional Arts. Later we will take the couple to choose their wedding outfit - the traditional Bhutanese dress of gho for the groom and a kira with a scarf for the bride.
Day 3
Wedding ceremony
- Our staff will be at your hotel to put on the KIRA for the BRIDE and GHO for the GROOM
- When you reach the temple you will be received by the monks
- Couple will sit inside the temple next to the LAMA where they will have made special place for them to sit
- LAMA will perform religious ceremony. After that they will ask couple to drink local wine in a cup
- After the religious ceremony couple will be offered final blessing from LAMA
- We will offer Bhutanese tea and snacks during that time and enjoy the ceremony laid on by Bhutanese
- After the ceremony will drive back to hotel and the couple will enjoy their evening in the hotel with dinner
The wedding ceremony will take place either in Dechen Phodrang Monastery, Changangkha temple or other private temple.
Day 4
In the morning we will experience some traditional Bhutanese cooking with a Bhutanese family.
You will also have a weaving class before driving to Paro. In Paro we visit a local farmhouse and experience a traditional hot stone bath. After this we return to the hotel in Paro.
Day 5
Take a day walk to the 'Tiger's Nest', the sacred Taktshang monastery which clings to the rock face 900 metres above the valley floor.
Guru Rinpoche is said to have flown to the site riding on a tigress. He subsequently meditated here for three months. It is one of Bhutan's most holy sites and draws pilgrims not only from Bhutan but also from neighbouring Buddhist countries. You can have lunch at the Taktshang cafeteria from where you get a spectacular view of the monastery. On the way back you can visit Dumtse Lhakhang, a temple built by Thangtong Gyalpo, the iron bridge builder.
Day 6
Early in the morning your guide will accompany you to the airport to see you off onto your flight and wish you Tashi Delek - goodbye and good luck.
DetailsEnquire about this itinerary
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- All porters, camping equipments ( if on trek)
- All meals (but not beverages). Bottled water is complimentary in the car/coach
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- Services of an accompanying English speaking local tour leader/ guide
- Fees for museums and permits to enter temples & monuments
- 35% government welfare levy (used for developmental projects) & tourism development fee
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- Special monk to explain about GNH, about how the wedding will work and why it is important in the Bhutanese culture
- Rental of Kira with a scarf for the bride; Gho for the groom
- To hire and book private monastery for wedding ceremony
- 4 - 5 monks with Rinpoche
- Chipdrel to monastery by few monks
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If you ask me what I like about being a Sindhi I can go on and on.. Yes we are loud and at times have the tendency of leaning towards bright colours and daring prints on our clothes. But if you STOP at this peripheral caricature of Sindhis you will miss our true essence. Sindhis … [Read more…]


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This month's terrible winter storms have brought back memories for older Kirklees residents who lived through a biblical deluge 80 years ago.
Nostalgia writer Margaret Watson takes up the tale of an incredible once-in-a-lifetime weather event which hit Mirfield back in 1935:-
We have all watched with deep sorrow and growing concern the devastation being caused in some parts of Yorkshire due to heavy rainfall and rivers breaking their banks. Over the years Dewsbury and Mirfield have had more than their fair share of floods, but nothing in recent years quite as bad as what we are seeing today in other parts of the country. However there was one amazing storm in Mirfield in 1935, the likes of which local people had never seen before, and one which was terrifying in the extreme.
On that day in April, the sky turned black and suddenly it seemed day had turned into night, and torrential rain fell non-stop, hour upon hour. Lightning flashed vividly throughout the day, and thunder came in continuous deafening peals, and in the midst of it all hailstones crashed down and snow started falling. This never-to-be-forgotten storm varied between conditions of almost tropical intensity and Arctic severity.
During the height of the storm, two foals in a field were struck by lightning and killed, and as the water rushed down the hillsides of Hopton, people could see dead rabbits being washed down Chadwick Lane and into the River Calder. Much loss was sustained by hundreds of householders in the Lower Hopton district in particular, and in other parts of the town households' belongings were ruined. Roads were turned into rivers by thousands of tons of water being released in a big burst which could have been likened to a cloudburst.
The first suggestions of an unusual visitation came in the early afternoon, just after noon, when the sky began to present an unsettled appearance. Later, the increasing gloom made it necessary to put on lights indoors, but darker and darker it became, until at 2.30pm the district presented a picture of night.
All the principal shops were closed, and walking along Eastthorpe was like walking along some dim cavern with side streets looking like tunnels which ended in vague darkness, their lower halves disappearing in the gloom. The storm broke over Upper Hopton and continued throughout the afternoon until early evening, and for about an hour it was a pure thunderstorm.
Lightning flashed vividly, thunder came in long drawn-out volleys, and for a time the rain was torrential. At about 3.30pm, snow and hail started to fall, and continued falling for an hour, the fall being so thick that snow was still lying in the fields until late at night. The thunder and lightning continued for five hours, and at night there were unprecedented scenes in the district of Lower Hopton.
The vicar of Upper Hopton, the Rev H.N. Myers, likened the visitation to tropical storms which he had experienced while serving in Jamaica and Panama .
"It was not at all like an English storm," he said. "The sky was almost pitch black and from about 3 o'clock it was one mass of forked lightning.
"The roads leading to Lower Hopton were like many rivers, and when the rain turned to snow we could dimly see the white-topped roofs of the houses lower down."
When the deluge was at its height, water roared its way down Hopton Lane, sweeping at a depth of 18 inches over the full width of the lane. It uprooted setts and even flagstones, leaving holes in the pavement into which ordinary-sized barrels could have been put. The torrent crossed the bridge over the River Calder into Station Road, and it was calculated that there were at least 18 inches of water under the railway bridge.
Amazing scenes were witnessed in the vicinity of the station, which was almost marooned, and the water submerged some of the entrance steps. For some time the station was rendered inaccessible from the ordinary entrance, and passengers were required to use the old goods yard to reach and leave platforms.
In one part of Station Road, snow was washed down from Upper Hopton and packed itself in a mass of some depth for a distance of ten yards. The rushing water down Hopton Lane brought with it stones of varying sizes and an amazing amount of mud. Quickly the Flower Pot Inn and two adjoining cottages were turned topsy-turvy. Linoleum, oilcloth and carpets were lifted from the floors, and the cellars were flooded from top to bottom.
The licensee of the Flower Pot Inn said: "The water came in at the kitchen door, then spread itself through the public rooms and finally went into the cellars.
"The oilcloth and carpets used in the adjoining cottages were ruined, and further along Calder Road, many other houses were flooded."
The worst flooding occurred in the neighbourhood of Chadwick Fold, Chadwick Lane, and at Calder Road, by the Bridge Hotel. The water raced down the hillsides sweeping away nearly everything in its path. It ploughed up gardens, entered houses through ground floor cupboards, swirled its way over the living room floors, and rushed out by the doorway.
The water was still rushing down Chadwick Lane late the following day, and here again all the cellars of all houses were flooded to a considerable depth, as also were those in the vicinity of the Bridge Hotel. Further along Calder Road there was silt several feet deep, and Waste Lane was indeed laid to waste.
This thoroughfare and the roads in the neighbourhood of Chadwick Fold presented an amazing sight. So completely ploughed up were they that they might have been the centre of an air attack on miniature lines. At Battyeford, water rushed down Stocks Bank into Huddersfield Road, carrying with it large pieces of stone which had to be removed to facilitate the passage of traffic. There was also flooding in the vicinity of the Three Nuns Inn, Knowle, Doctor Lane and Eastthorpe. Water rose from 3ft to 4ft in the cellar of a house in Doctor Lane, and furniture was afloat.
An off-licence shop in Eastthorpe was inundated, and at Park Bottom a stone wall was washed away for a distance of five yards. Water 18 inches deep poured across the main roadway. Residents at Old Bank said during the storm a fire-ball seemed to drop in the vicinity of the old Reformatory.
Although Dewsbury did not suffer so severely as Mirfield on that day, nevertheless so heavy was the downpour that there were miniature floods in several places. Streets became miniature rivers, and there was slight flooding in the Market Place. People living on the hillsides found the repeated flashes of lightning an impressive spectacle, while the thunder was almost continuous, peal following peal for several hours.
The people of Mirfield would talk about this strange happening for many years to come. Perhaps there are some still alive who may recall it.


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Sandy chose a FUN challenge for Paper Players this week...buttons! Who can resist a card with buttons on it? They just add that little bit of somthin' somthin' to make the card special.
I reached for two new SU sets, Work of Art and Nuts about You. I love using the Work of Art set for backgrounds. Here I used it with baked brown sugar and coastal cabana. I love that combo! In fact, I decided to keep just those two colors for the whole card. I also added some tiny hearts and little brown buttons to the tree.
If you want to play along this week, head on over to Paper Players!


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It has been said, in Christian circles, that a non-believer can not be healed. I find this very disturbing and limiting of our God. Plus, I have seen non-believers healed.
I was at a graduation ceremony for a class at my church years ago. A man came to see his son graduate. This man was an atheist and was deaf. He had been deaf since birth. Several of the women, that were there, asked this man if they could pray healing over him. Now, I'm not sure why this man said "yes", but he did. They began to pray and soon I heard a lot of celebration going on. This man received his hearing and instantly became of believer.
Randy Clark, an incredible man of God, takes groups of trained Christians to Muslim countries and prays healing over people in the name of Jesus Christ. He tells, the non-believer, that they will be healed by the name of Jesus Christ. When they are healed, he reinforces, that the healing comes from Christ and they are saved by the same name.
There is never a reason to limit our God. He can and will do anything. Do we, as Christians, believe that God's grace and mercy is just for us, the believer. Aren't we all, believer and non-believer, children of the Most High. Again, this thinking isolates Christianity to the few.
I met a woman who stands outside of pharmacies and asks everyone who comes out if she can pray for their ailment. She does not ask first, "are you a Christian."? She doesn't ask this and then pass over those who may say "No. I am a pagan." She prays for all who want to receive.
To choose who you pray for and who you don't based on your decisions, is basing God's will on yours. We need to be listening too and obeying the call of God. Of course, if He says not to pray, we don't. But, most of the time, God is waiting for someone to pray.
There is no better witness to the glory of God than a miracle. The non-believer who is healed, by the name of Jesus is a walking miracle. This walking miracle is a testimony to the healing power, glory and blessing of our Lord Jesus Christ. This walking miracle will bring others to believe in the power of God. There is no better a witness.
This all takes us back to the exclusiveness of Christianity. Again, we find ourselves excluding people. This exclusion hurts and isolates us from the people who need God the most. Our idea that a non-believer does not deserve or will not receive healing sets us apart as more important to God and more deserving. I suggest that this is judgement and a sin.
Christ is for all and we should stop our limiting His love by our own judgments. Instead, we should be giving Jesus to everyone. Offering up, to all, the healing, love, power and salvation of the true and living God.
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2011 Simple Dinner Series 5 :: Mr. P's Birthday (20110401)
What a sinful day! After a fabulous lunch, I headed to The Moomba (Aussie Restaurant) @ 52 Circular road with a theme – Benchmark Aussies 10-Years and Older. This is our first ever full Aussie theme since the Simple Dinner Series … Continue reading


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Ron Paul Has Saved Us From Hyperinflation
Mass Inflation, Yes; Hyperinflation, No
by Gary North
The United States is not going to get hyperinflation unless Congress nationalizes the Federal Reserve System.
It will get mass inflation at some point: anywhere from 15% per annum to 30%. But it is not going to get 50% or 100% or more.
Why not?
1. The temporary nature of the payoff
2. The fear of getting blamed
3. The boom-bust cycle
4. The employees' vested pension fund
Hyperinflation lasts only a few years. People in the hard-money camp ought to know this, but they tend to forget.
Those economic forecasters who keep telling us the dollar will fall to zero forget the obvious: big banks are creditors. Bankers lose when a currency falls to zero. Never forget this. If you believe, as I do, that the Federal Reserve is the enforcement arm of the largest commercial banks, then stop worrying about hyperinflation. But don't stop worrying about Congress.
Ever since All the President's Men – the movie, not the book – we have been told to follow the money. So, let us follow the money.
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I've been using the standard Numix (GTK?) theme, Square icons and the Arc-Dark-Solid windows theme since the very first install of Antergos 1/2 a year ago.
Until today it looked like this:
But todays system update broke that dark theme, so now it looks like this:
What went wrong? How can I fix this?
Thanx in advance!


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22 October 2014
Crafty Camping and Woodland Workshops
Glamping in Bell Tents, Yurts, Tipis, Shepherds' Huts or Our New Tree House.
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Jonathan Greening has joined Fulham on a permanent deal following the end of his season-long loan from West Brom.
The 31-year-old midfielder has agreed a two-year contract to remain at Craven Cottage.
The former Middlesbrough player was a member of the side beaten in the Europa League final in May and was keen to extend his stay.
Fulham confirmed the move had been made permanent on Thursday.
Greening did have one year remaining on his deal at The Hawthorns but he has chosen not to return to the Midlands despite West Brom's promotion back to the Barclays Premier League.
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Mie celor
A plate of Mie Celor with sambal.
|Main course
|Place of origin
|Region or state
|Palembang, South Sumatra
|Serving temperature
|Main ingredients
|Noodle, coconut milk, dried shrimp broth, bean sprouts, egg, celery, scallion, shallot
|Cookbook: Mie Celor Media: Mie Celor
Mie celor (meaning: celor/blanched noodle), is a noodle dish served in coconut milk soup and shrimp-based broth, specialty of Palembang city, South Sumatra, Indonesia.[1]
It is made from rather large yellow wheat noodle, with the size similar of Japanese buckwheat noodle. The broth can be made from ebi (dried shrimp) or fresh shrimp, cooked in rich coconut milk. The noodle is served with bean sprouts and hard boiled egg, and sprinkled with sliced fresh celery, scallion and fried shallot.
If the broth was made from some fresh shrimps, the peeled shrimp itself would be the part of the topping. If however dried shrimp are used instead, the ground dried shrimp powder would be sprinkled on top of the noodle. To add spiciness, a separate sambal might be added on the side.
In local South Sumatran Malay dialect, celor or celur means showering the ingredients in boiled hot water, in similar fashion as blanching. It refer to the method of softening and cooking the noodle before simmered in coconut milk soup. Today, together with pempek, mie celor has become Palembang's signature dish.
See also
- ↑ "Mie Celor Palembang". Ridha's Kitchen. November 18, 2013. Retrieved May 20, 2014.
External links
- Mie Celor Palembang recipe
- Mie Celor Palembang recipe (Indonesian)
- Video about mie celor street vendor


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A new survey released by The Economist and YouGov suggests that a plurality of Republican adults favor courts being able to shut down media outlets.
"Generally speaking, do you favor or oppose permitting the courts to shut down news media outlets for publishing or broadcasting stories that are biased or inaccurate – or haven't you heard enough about that yet to say?" the poll asked of 1,500 U.S. adults.
By a margin of 45% to 20%, Republicans said courts should have the authority to control the media and free speech. (35% of respondents said they haven't heard enough to make a choice.) The number dipped when looking at conservative respondents, 37% in favor to 23% opposed.
Similarly, respondents that voted for President Trump in 2016 agreed with the notion that courts should be able to curtail the First Amendment and shut down media outlets by similar margins, 45% supporting to 24% opposing.


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LOWELL -- As the co-owner of Valentina's Portuguese Market walked into the frozen-goods section to grab a drink Wednesday night, he heard, "Oh my God" from the register.
Max, 25, saw a robber pointing a gun at the other co-owner of Valentina's, located at 886 Central St.
Max, who declined give his last name out of fear of retaliation, immediately stepped back around Portuguese imported cheese and cereals, pulled out the gun he's licensed to carry, cocked his gun and waited for the thief.
"I fired. Boom. Boom," recalled Max Thursday morning. "I thought he was dead right there, but he got up. I fired two more. Boom. Boom. He was ducking, though. I would have got him if he was standing up."
Again, the suspect was lying on the floor.
"He really got lucky," Max said of the robber not getting seriously injured or killed Wednesday night. "Sometimes people really get real lucky. He got (expletive) lucky."
The suspect, who did not shoot back, is still at large on Thursday, according to police. He is described as a heavy-set white male, wearing a winter jacket with a logo on the left breast and lettering on the rear hem, blue jeans and black sneakers.
He entered the market Wednesday, shortly before 7 p.m.
Max said his gun was pointed right at the thief, but Max flinched.
"At the same time, you're scared because you don't wanna get shot yourself," Max said.
"I was just nervous as (expletive)," he added. "I didn't want to get shot and die over a (expletive) small amount of money. That's not worth your life."
The Portuguese market sells imported cheese, octopus, codfish, sausage, coffee and more. People travel from all over to buy food there because it's hard to find, according to Max.
The co-owner said he didn't want to wait and find out if the thief would use his weapon.
Max, who calls himself a gun activist, said it's his legal right to fire his gun when a thief walks around the store pointing a gun.
"I wouldn't have shot if anyone (else) was in here," Max added.
In the summer of 2015, the owner of The 99 Store on Liberty Street fired gunshots at men who jumped over his counter, covered his face and mouth, and took more than $10,000.
No one was reported hurt. One of his bullets struck an apartment building at 171 Liberty St.
Late in 2014, there was a similar incident at Pacific Liquors on Central Street in Lowell. The store owner chased an armed robber down Linden Street -- a block away from his store -- and fired two "warning shots" into the ground.
In the wake of this, his license to carry was suspended by Police Superintendent William Taylor. The reason for the suspension: firing a weapon in a residential area.
Fast forward to today, and Taylor said Wednesday's incident is still under investigation. They're actively looking for the suspect, he said.
"It certainly appears the clerk was defending himself and other people working in the store," Taylor said.


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Teenage striker Liam Mandeville has joined Evo-Stik League Premier Division side Whitby Town on a month's loan.
The 18-year-old will go straight into the Blues' squad for Tuesday night's Doodson Sports Cup tie at Scarborough Athletic.
Town boss Darren Williams told the Whitby Gazette: "Liam is a good player with an eye for goal.
"I'm really pleased that we've got him for a month because he's a lad who I've heard a lot of positive things about.
"Some of my contacts who have seen him play regularly are surprised that he's even on the loan list, and isn't involved more with the first team, which I think says a lot about how good he is."
Mandeville made his first senior appearance for Rovers last season and has featured three times this season.


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The University of Kansas Center for Russian, East European & Eurasian Studies (CREES) has been a national leader for the study of the former Soviet Union and Eastern Europe since 1965. The center is a degree-granting program and serves as a resource for K-12 teachers, post-secondary educators, business, media, government, and military. CREES faculty and students have conducted field work, researched, and taught courses covering the entire region: from new European Union members in the west to the Russian Far East; from indigenous peoples of the Arctic to traditionally Islamic societies of the South Caucasus and Central Asia. Through the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures and other language programs, students can study Bosnian/Croatian/Serbian, Czech, Persian (Tajik/Farsi), Polish, Russian, Slovene, Turkish, Ukrainian, and Uyghur.
KU Library resources are unparalleled in the Central Plains, featuring thousands of bound volumes and electronic resources in all disciplines. CREES also hosts The Russian Review, the renowned Russian studies journal, as well as electronic resources about the South Caucasus and Central Asia (KU Silk Road Resources) in addition to SEEFA website (Slavic & East European Folklore Association).
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KU and NON-KU Students: FLAS Fellowships provide support for students (both KU and non-KU) to attend KU sponsored study abroad programs in Ukraine and in Croatia. For more information about these programs, please go to:
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Students must confirm that their student-initiated program meets the following Department of Education FLAS requirements:
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Pending funding, CREES supports FLAS students studying Bosnian/Croatian/Serbian, Czech, Persian (Tajik/Farsi), Polish, advanced Russian, Slovene, Turkish,Ukrainian, Uyghur, and Yiddish.
* Important Note: Applicants should be aware that all FLAS awards are contingent on federal funding. CREES will be applying for federal FLAS funds for the next 2018-2022 cycle. Therefore, funding decisions made for the 2018-2019 academic year by all four Centers will be provisional as they are contingent upon the Center receiving FLAS funds from the Department of Education. Students are advised to apply for FLAS funding with the understanding that they should not neglect to seek additional funding opportunities if needed, since the Center or language/s may not be awarded future funds from the U.S. Department of Education. Final award results may not be known until the beginning of the Fall 2018 semester.


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On February 28th, student attorneys Andi Wilt and Sean Doran and TLPC Director Blake Reid delivered a webinar on best practices for public library makerspaces hosted by the Colorado State Library Association.
The webinar focused on addressing problems and concerns that arise when a public space like a library provides access to 3D printing technology. 3D printers present challenges to libraries stemming from objects that may infringe intellectual property rights or raise other concerns under library policies.
The best way for libraries and other public makerspaces to mitigate against these risks may be to set up a positive agenda, training, and programming for the use of the space. For example, libraries should provide education and training of design technologies that work with 3D printers. Programs like Tinkercad are now free and easy to use, and many of them offer free training programs. Webinar attendees contributed a variety of helpful best practices that have worked in libraries across the country.
The webinar was recorded and archived by the CSLA and can be viewed anytime along with links to various resources and best practice ideas.


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Happy New Year! I feel like staring a new post with "it's been a while since my last post" is a bit cliché, but also pretty darn common for myself, oopsies. Oh well, let's get over that and continue with this post shall we now. Alert alert, it's a bit of a deep one, oh … More Melting down to mould into a new year.


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Mr. Courtney, the R.M., was a man of ideas, and prided himself on his
sympathy with progress, the advance of thought, and similar delights. If
he had been thirty years younger, and had lived in Dublin, he would have
been classed among the "Intellectuals." He would then have written a
gloomy play or two, several poems and an essay, published at a shilling,
in a green paper cover, on the "Civilization of the Future." Being,
unfortunately, fifty-five years of age, he could not write poetry or
gloomy plays. Nobody can after the age of forty. Being a Resident
Magistrate, he was debarred from discussing the Civilization of the Future
in print. No Government allows its paid servant to write books on
controversial subjects. But Mr. Courtney remained intellectually alert,
and was a determined champion of the cause of progress, even amid the
uncongenial society of a West of Ireland town.
The introduction of Summer Time gave Mr. Courtney a great opportunity.
Almost everyone else in the neighbourhood objected to the change of the
clock. Cows, it was said, disliked being milked before their accustomed
hour. Dew collects in deep pools, and renders farm work impossible in the
early morning. It is unreasonable to expect labourers, who have to rise
early in any case, to get out of their beds before the day is properly
warm. Mr. Courtney combated all these objections with arguments which
struck him as sound, but irritated everybody else. When it appeared that
Ireland, worse treated as usual than England, was to be fined an
additional twenty-five minutes, and was to lose the proud privilege of
Irish time, Mr. Courtney was more pleased than ever. He made merry over
what he called the arguments of reactionary patriotism.
Sir Timothy was the principal landlord, and, socially, the most important
person in the neighbourhood. Sir Timothy did not like Mr. Courtney. He was
of opinion that the R.M. was inclined to take a high hand at Petty
Sessions and to bully the other magistrates—Sir Timothy was himself
a magistrate—who sat with him on the Bench. He also thought that Mr.
Courtney was "too d——d superior" in private life. Sir Timothy
had the lowest possible opinion of the progress made by civilization in
his own time. The Civilization of the Future, about which Mr. Courtney
talked a great deal, seemed to Sir Timothy a nasty kind of nightmare.
It was natural, almost inevitable, that Sir Timothy should take a
conservative view on the subject of the new time.
"I don't see the use of playing silly tricks with the clock," he said.
"You might just as well say that I'd live ten years longer if everybody
agreed to say that I'm forty-eight instead of fifty-eight. I'd still be
fifty-eight in reality. It's just the same with the time. We may all make
up our minds to pretend it's eight o'clock when it's really seven, but it
will still be seven."
Mr. Courtney smiled in a gentle, but very annoying manner.
"My dear Sir Timothy," he said, "don't you see that what is really wanted
is a complete change in the habits of the population? We've been gradually
slipping into wasteful ways of living. Our expenditure on artificial light———"
"I know all about that," said Sir Timothy. "If you've said it to me once,
you've said it a dozen times, and last year I did alter my docks. But this
year—hang it all! They're sticking another twenty-five minutes on
it. If they go on at this rate, moving us back an extra half hour every
May, we'll be living in the middle of the night before we die."
"I'm sorry to hear you taking up that question of the so-called Irish
time," said Mr. Courtney. "Reactionary patriotism——"
Sir Timothy spluttered. Being an Irish gentleman, he hated to be accused
of patriotism, which he held—following Dr. Johnson—to be the
last refuge of a scoundrel.
"There's nothing patriotic about it," he said. "What I object to hasn't
anything to do with any particular country. It's simply a direct insult to
the sun."
"The sun," said Mr. Courtney, smiling more offensively than ever, "can
take care of itself."
"It can," said Sir Timothy, "and does. It takes jolly good care not to
rise in Dublin at the same time that it does in Greenwich, and what you're
trying to do is to bluff it into saying it does. When you come to think of
it, the sun doesn't rise here the same time it does in Dublin. We're a
hundred and twenty miles west of Dublin, so the real time here——"
"We can't have a different time in every parish," said Mr. Courtney. "In
the interests of international civilization——"
"I don't care a row of pins about international civilization. We're
something like twenty minutes wrong already here. When you've made your
silly change to summer time, and wiped out that twenty-five minutes Irish
time, we shall be an hour and three quarters wrong."
"At all events," said Mr. Courtney, "you'll have to do it."
"I won't."
"And when you've got accustomed to it, you'll see the advantages of the
Sir Timothy was profoundly irritated.
"You may do as you like," he said, "I mean to stick to the proper time.
The proper time, mind you, strictly according to the sun, as it rises in
this neighbourhood. I haven't worked it out exactly yet, but I should say,
roughly, that there'll be two hours' difference between your watch and
Mr. Courtney gasped.
"Do you mean to say that you're actually going to add on two hours?
"I'm going to take off two hours," said Sir Timothy.
Mr. Courtney thought for a moment.
"You'll be adding on those two hours," he said, "not taking them off——"
"You're an extraordinarily muddle-headed man, Courtney. Can't you see that
if I call it six when you say it's eight I'm taking off——"
"You're not. The way to look at it is this: A day is twenty-four hours
long. You say it's twenty-six hours. Therefore, you add on."
"I don't do anything of the sort," said Sir Timothy. "Look here, the sun
rises, say, at 6 a.m. You and a lot of other silly people choose to say
that it rises at 8. What I'm doing—I and the sun, Courtney—mind
that. The sun's with me—— What we're doing is taking off two
The argument went on for some time. Its result was that Sir Timothy and
Mr. Courtney did not speak to each other again for a fortnight Arguments,
religious, political and economic, often end in this way.
During that fortnight summer time established itself, more or less, in the
neighbourhood. Mr. Courtney, the local bank, the railway company, and the
police observed the new time in its full intensity. The parish priest and
most of the farmers took a moderate line. They sacrificed the twenty-five
minutes of the original Irish time, but resisted the imposition of a whole
extra hour. With them it was eight o'clock when the nine o'clock train
started for Dublin. A few extremists stood out for their full rights as
Irishmen, and insisted that the bank, which said it opened at 10 a.m., was
really beginning business at 8.35 a.m. Sir Timothy, dragging his household
with him, set up what he called actual time, and breakfasted a full two
hours after the progressive party.
The practical inconvenience of these differences of opinion became obvious
when Sir Timothy arrived at the Petty Sessions Court to take his seat on
the Bench just as Mr. Courtney, having completed the business of the day,
was going home for a rather late luncheon.
"No cases to-day?" said Sir Timothy, coldly polite.
"Oh, yes, there were, several. I've finished them off."
"But," said Sir Timothy, "it's only just the hour for beginning."
"Excuse me, it's 2 p.m."
"12 noon," said Sir Timothy.
"2 p.m.," repeated Mr. Courtney.
Sir Timothy took out his watch. The hands were together at the hour of 12.
He showed it to Mr. Courtney, who grimed. Sir Timothy scowled at him and
turned fiercely to a police sergeant who stood by.
"Sergeant," he said, "what time is it?"
It is not the function of the Irish police to decide great questions of
State. Their business is to enforce what the higher powers, for the time
being, wish the law to be. In case of any uncertainty about which power is
the higher, the police occupy the uncomfortable position of neutrals. The
sergeant was not quite sure whether Sir Timothy or Mr. Courtney were the
more influential man. He answered cautiously.
"There's some," he said, "who do be saying that it's one o'clock at the
present time. There's others—and I'm not saying they're wrong—who
are of opinion that it's half-past twelve, or about that. There's them—and
some of the most respectable people is with them there—that says
it's 2 p.m. If I was to be put on my oath this minute, I'd find it mortal
hard to say what time it was."
"By Act of Parliament," said Mr. Courtney, its 2 p.m.
"In the matter of an Act of Parliament," said the sergeant, "I wouldn't
like to be contradicting your honour."
Sir Timothy turned on his heel and walked away. The victory was with Mr.
Courtney, but not because he had an Act of Parliament behind him. Nobody
in Ireland pays much attention to Acts of Parliament. He made his point
successfully, because the police did not like to contradict him. From that
day on Sir Timothy made no attempt to take his seat on the Magistrates'
Bench in the Court House.
Late in the summer Sir Archibald Chesney visited the neighbourhood. Sir
Archibald is, of course, a great man. He is one of the people who are
supposed to govern Ireland. He does not actually do so. Nobody could. But
he dispenses patronage, which, after all, is one of the most important
functions of any Government. It was, for instance, in Sir Archibald's
power to give Mr. Courtney a pleasant and well-paid post in Dublin, to
remove him from the uncongenial atmosphere of Connaught, and set him in an
office in the Lower Castle Yard. There, and in a house in Ailesbury Road—houses
in Ailesbury Road are most desirable—Mr. Courtney could mingle in
really intellectual society.
Mr. Courtney knew this, and invited Sir Archibald to be his guest during
his stay in the neighbourhood. Sir Archibald gracefully accepted the
Then a surprising thing happened. Mr. Courtney received a very friendly
letter from Sir Timothy.
"I hear," so the letter ran, "that Sir Archibald Chesney is to be with you
for a few days next week. We shall be very pleased if you will bring him
out to dine with us some evening. Shall we say Tuesday at 7.30? I shall
not ask anyone else. Three of us will be enough for a couple of bottles of
my old port."
Sir Timothy's port was very old and remarkably good. Mr. Courtney had
tasted it once or twice before the days when summer time was thought of.
No doubt, Sir Archibald would appreciate the port.
He might afterwards take an optimistic view of life, and feel well
disposed towards Mr. Courtney. The invitation was accepted.
Sir Archibald and Mr. Courtney dressed for dinner, as gentlemen belonging
to the high official classes in Ireland should and do. They put on shirts
with stiff fronts and cuffs. With painful efforts they drove studs through
tightly sealed buttonholes. They fastened white ties round their collars.
They encased their stomachs in stiff white waistcoats. They struggled into
silk-lined, silk-faced, long-tailed coats. They wrapped their necks in
white silk scarves. They even put high silk hats on their heads. Their
overcoats were becomingly open, for the day was warm. They took their
seats in the motor. Every policeman in the village saluted them as they
passed. They sped up the long, tree-lined avenue which led to Sir
Timothy's house. They reached the lofty doorway, over which crouched lions
upheld a shield, bearing a coat of arms.
On the lawn opposite the door Sir Timothy, his two daughters and a young
man whom Mr. Courtney recognized as the police inspector, were playing
tennis. It was a bright and agreeable scene. The sun shone pleasantly. Sir
Timothy and the police inspector were in white flannels. The girls wore
pretty cotton frocks.
Sir Archibald looked at Mr. Courtney.
"We've come the wrong day," he said, "or the wrong hour, or something."
"It is Tuesday," said Mr. Courtney, "and he certainly said 7.30."
"It's infernally awkward," said Sir Archibald, glancing at his clothes.
Sir Timothy crossed the lawn, swinging his tennis racket and smiling.
"Delighted to see you," he said. "I'd have asked you to come up for a game
of tennis if I'd thought you'd have cared for it. Had an idea you'd be
busy all day, and would rather dress at your own place. Hullo, you are
dressed! A bit early, isn't it? But I'm delighted to see you."
Sir Archibald stepped slowly from the car. Men who undertake the task of
governing Ireland must expect to find themselves looking like fools
occasionally. But it is doubtful whether any turn of the political or
administrative machine can make a man look as foolish as he feels when,
elaborately dressed in evening clothes, he is suddenly set down on a sunny
lawn in the middle of a group of people suitably attired for tennis. Sir
Archibald, puzzled and annoyed, turned to Mr. Courtney with a frown.
"He said half-past seven," said Mr. Courtney.
"I'm delighted to see you now or at any time, but, as a matter of fact,
it's only half-past five," said Sir Timothy.
Sir Archibald looked at his watch.
"It's—surely my watch can't have gained two hours?"
"It's half-past seven," said Mr. Courtney, firmly.
"Oh, no it isn't," said Sir Timothy. "I don't dine by Act of Parliament."
Sir Archibald frowned angrily.
"We'd better go home again," he said. "We mustn't interrupt the tennis."
He climbed stiffly into the motor.
"I suppose," he said to Mr. Courtney a few minutes later, "that this is
some kind of Irish joke."
Mr. Courtney explained, elaborately and fully, Sir Timothy's peculiar
views about time.
"If I'd known," said Sir Archibald, "that you were taking me to dine with
a lunatic, I should not have agreed to go."
Mr. Courtney recognized that his chances of promotion to a pleasant post
in Dublin had vanished. The Irish Government had no use for men who place
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Sir Richard Grenville, Vice Admiral, of the Revenge
In early youth Greynvile is said to have served in Hungary under Emperor Maximilian against the Turks, and to have won special distinction (Arber p 10). On 28 April 1570 he made a declaration of his submission to the Act of Uniformity of Common Prayer and Service (Col. State Papers, Dom). In 1571, and again in 1574, he sat in parliament as one of the members for Cornwall, of which county he was also sheriff in 1577. He is said to have been knighted while holding this office, but it appears from a petition, 22 March 1573-4 (ib), that he was already a knight at that date. He was then interesting himself, in company with Sir Humphrey Gilbert, in ['an enterprise for the discovery of sundry rich and unknown lands',]but it does not appear that he himself undertook any such voyage till in May 1585 he had command of a fleet of seven ships which sailed from England for the colonisation of Virginia, acting in this, it would seem, as the representative of his cousin, Sir Walter Raleigh. On his return in October he fell in with a Spanish ship, homeward bound from St Domingo, which attacked him, but was herself overpowered and captured; Greynvile and a part of his men, not having any boat, going on board her on a raft hastily made of some old chests, which fell to pieces just as they reached the Spaniard. In 1586 he returned to Virginia with stores for the colonists, who, however, had left before his arrival [see Drake, Sir Francis; Lane, Ralph], and on his homeward voyage he landed at the Azores, where he pillaged the towns and carried of many of the Spaniards as prisoners. He had already, in 1583 and 1584, been employed as a commissioner for the works at Dover harbour, and from the time of his return from Virginia he was actively engaged in concerting measures for the defence of the western counties; an important post, which he still held through the eventful summer of 1588 (Col State Papers, Dom 8 March 1587, 14 Sept 1588).
Where Granville, boast of freedom, fell,
Your manly hearts shall glow.
It is therefore necessary to point out that, in the opinion of contemporaries well qualified to judge, the loss of his ship, of his men, and of his own life was caused by Greynvile's violent and obstinate temper, and a flagrant disobedience to the orders of his commanding officer. His 'wilful rashness' according to Monson, 'made the Spaniards triumph as much as if they had obtained a signal victory, it being the first ship that ever they took from her majesty's, and commended to them by some English fugitives to be the very best she had.' Mr. Froude, on the other hand, tells us that the gallant defence, 'struck a deeper terror, though it was but the action of a single ship, into the hearts of the Spanish people; it dealt a more deadly blow upon their fame and moral strength than the destruction of the Armada itself, and in the direct results which arose from it it was scarcely less disastrous to them' (Short Studies, i 494). For this statement there is no sufficient authority, and it may be doubted whether in it, as in Ralegh's prose or Tennyson's verse, there is not a good deal of poetic exaggeration. In the numbers there is certainly such, for of the fifty-three Spaniards, a large proportion were victuallers intended for the relief of the Indian ships. Not more than twenty were ships of war, and of these not more than fifteen were engaged with the Revenge (Bacon, Considerations touching a War with Spain, in Arber, p.8). That was sufficient. The truth in its simple grandeur needed no exaggeration. When we have before us the fact that 150 men during fifteen hours of hand-to-hand fighting held out against a host of five thousand, and yielded only when not more than twenty were left alive, and those grievously wounded, the story, 'memorable even beyond credit and to the height of some heroic fable' (ib), is not rendered more interesting, and scarcely more wondrous, by trebling the numbers of the host.
The circumstances of Greynvile's death correspond very exactly with what we are told of his character; a man he was 'of intolerable pride and insatiable ambition' (Lane to Walsingham, 8 Sept 1585; Cal. State Papers, Col), a man 'very unquiet in his mind and greatly affected to war', 'of nature very severe, so that his own people hated him for his fierceness and spoke very hardly of him' (Linschoten, in Arber, p 91), but also a man 'of great and stout courage', who 'had performed many valiant acts, and was greatly feared in these islands' the Azores.
Greynvile married Mary, daughter and coheiress of Sir John St Leger, and by her left issue four sons and three daughters..... The spelling of the name Greynvile is that of Sir Richard's own signature, in a bold and clear handwriting...... A portrait, supposed to be of Sir Richard Greynvile - half length, embossed armour, red trunk hose, dated 1571 - was exhibited at South Kensington in 1866, lent by Rev Lord John Thynne.
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