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When people go out ridin' and if their stirrups they don't adjust,
by the time they reach their trails end, they really could be in a fuss.
Maybe the stirrups are longer than what they really should be
and any of the support is just your bum rubbin' on the tree.
There are those whose stirrups are too short like those racin' jocks.
When this is the case they get off the horse and find their knees are locked.
An old cowboy doesn't have these problems, he's spent many days on his hoss.
Although he'd help I'm sure he probably chuckles at he who forgot.
The old cowboy hasn't adjusted his saddle since the day he first rode the thing.
When using a saddle on a regular bases there is no need for adjusting.
It's kind of like life you know, when we go at things our own way.
We get frustrated when nothing's been accomplished after another day.
Why can't I get this figured out? What's my purpose on this earth?
God knows the plan he has for us, he knew before our birth.
But just like the saddle, if we don't take time to adjust and make sure things are right,
if we don't dedicate our day to God, we'll be in the same predicament that night.
Like the old cowboy there are those who go to God with each problem they face.
He helps them and guides them along. When they stumble he offers grace.
So if your life is one, where the stirrups are too long or maybe too short,
go strait to God and to His message. And His plan don't try to distort.
For if in God we put our trust, and allow Him to shape and mend,
we won't be sore and we'll feel fulfilled when we reach our trails end.
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With a 35 percent increase in court filings this year, Huntington
County Sheriff Chris Newton and Chief Deputy Sheriff Chad Hammel say the
criminal justice system is at a breaking point, since a bill passed in
2015 forced county jails to house Level 6 felons instead of the Indiana Department of Correction (DOC), which traditionally housed all felons in Indiana.
"It's turning into a criminal justice crisis in Huntington County,"
Hammel said. "(The) probation department is so overwhelmed (that) it's
disgusting. (The) prosecutor's office: unbelievably busy. (The) judge's
office: unbelievable. Police officers covering the roads: busy all the
time… It's coming from all directions. Rehabilitating them at the county
level is not by design."
"It's ridiculous," Newton added. "We're barely keeping our head above water right now with staffing."
Huntington County isn't the only place in Indiana feeling the pressure.
According to a 2017 jail inspection report by the (DOC), 37 of the 92
counties in Indiana are at or over 100 percent capacity, and 59
counties are at or over 80 percent capacity.
H.B. 1078, which would allow counties to send certain Level 6 felons
back to the (DOC), passed the House of Representatives with a 96-0 vote
and the Senate with a 46-2 vote in favor of passing the bill.
The bill has changed since it was authored by Rep. Greg Steuerwald
(R-Avon), but the latest version would allow a court to relocate a
Level 6 felony offender from a county jail to DOC if the person is a
violent offender or has two prior unrelated felony convictions.
Steuerwald filed a motion to dissent on April 9, which means he
doesn't fully agree with the bill's language, but Rep. Andy Zay
(R-Huntington) said he believes the bill will ultimately pass after some
changes are made.
"I suspect there will be some technical corrections, but I'm almost
certain that they will get it back to us and then turn into law," Zay
Newton said he's not sure if the bill will solve the overcrowding
issues at the Huntington County Jail yet, since the bill is not
finalized and parts of the original bill included certain restrictions
which would not allow the county to send Level 6 offenders to DOC unless
their sentence is a certain length. But Newton said he thinks the
change would benefit taxpayers and the inmates themeslves.
"The resources that they're going to have at the state level is not
what they're going to be getting here … We're not really built for
rehabilitation. At the state, they have all of that, whether it is for
substance abuse or alcohol, detox, mental health. They have all those
programs in place."
The jail recently finished a renovation that will allow the Bowen Center
and Dream Center to provide inmates with rehabilitation classes, but
Newton said those programs are funded with grants which could dry up and
eventually cost the county more money to provide those services.
"When you don't have anything like that or space to do it, it becomes expensive to figure that out," he said.
Zay said he doesn't think the State of Indiana will be able to solve
the entire jail overcrowding issue alone, but he said this bill will be
"a step in the right direction."
There are other bills also being considered by the Indiana General
Assembly which focus on curbing the jail overcrowding issue, like House Bill 1065
which would allow sheriffs to transfer Level 6 felons to regional
holding facilities if they exceed their maximum number of inmates.
"If they could get both of those bills passed, we would be sitting in
pretty good shape and we probably wouldn't have to be building a new
jail," Newton said.
Newton added that he's glad that the Huntington County Council had
the foresight to begin collecting money using a 2018 law that allows
counties to impose an income tax in order to make jail improvements,
since there is so much uncertainty surrounding the legislation this
"I'm hopeful that this HB 1078 provides us a little bit of relief,"
he said. "Nothing would make this sheriff happier than saying that we
don't have to build a new jail, but I don't know if that is a promise we
can make at this point and time. Only time will tell."
Editor, John C. DePrez Jr.; Executive Editor, Carol Rogers; Publishers: IBRC and IAR
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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Greetings! Several times over the last year I have heard that OASIS doesn't have funds for suggested additional benefits or services for members. When Jim Hughes sent out the OASIS annual report this year, I decided to see what OASIS is spending its money on. - From agm-2013-audit-report.pdf: Consultants and Related Expenses 2012 $327,055 2011 $379,827 - From agm-2012-audit-report.pdf, Consultants and Related Expenses 2010 $227,715* - From agm-2011-audit-report.pdf, Consultants and Related Expenses 2010 $285,574* 2009 $258,516 - From agm-2010-audit-report.pdf, Consultants and Related Expenses 2008 201,005** - From agm-2009-audit-report.pdf, Consultants and Related Expenses 2008 228,888** 2007 410,860 - From agm-2007-audit-report.pdf, 2006 457,795 The asterisks (* and **) for years 2008 and 2010 indicate different amounts for consultants and related expenses in different annual reports. Using the higher reported amounts, OASIS has spent *$2,348,515* on consultants from 2006-2013. Viewing those amounts against the Form 990 reports, which OASIS is required to file with the US Internal Revenue Service: Section B, Part VII of Form 990 reads: "Complete this table for your five highest compensated independent contractors that received more than $100,000 of compensation from the organization Report compensation for the calendar year ending with or within the organization's tax year." I won't bore you with a form by form enumeration but in summary, the table for Section B, Part VII for *Form 990 from 2008 - 2011 is blank.* The 990 form changed for 2006, 2007 and the contractors should have been listed in an attached document. Online source I used for the 990s had some attachments but all I can say for sure is the independent contractor attachments did not appear on those copies. I assume the Board can request to see the original 990 forms to satisfy itself with the correctness of Form 990s by OASIS. In terms of a request to the Board, should further investigation by the Board reveal that one or more contractors have exceeded $100,000 as per Section B, Part VII of Form 990, I would request as follows: 1) OASIS staff be directed by the Board to amend its prior Form 990 filings to correctly reflect payments to independent contractors. 2) OASIS staff be directed by the Board to post and list its amended and future Form 990 filings on the OASIS website to enable public access to those documents. The Board's fact finding should resolve the Form 990 issue. On the contractor issue in general, going forward I request that the Board instruct OASIS staff to create a line item summary of every independent contractor billing, listing the contractor's name, the date of the billing, the activity covered by the billing and the amount of the billing for inclusion in the OASIS Open Financial Statements that are distributed to members every year. The Form 990 issue is a question of whether the OASIS 990 forms were correctly filed for the years in question. The contractor issue is a question of informing members of OASIS expenditures and activities. As such a member, all I know now is that OASIS has spent $2,348,515 on contractors between 2006-2013. I must confess that I haven't seen an equivalent increase in member services or benefits. As an "open" organization, members should have the information necessary to voice their opinions about spending on their behalf. My "requests" are just a lay person's view of the situation based on incomplete information. I trust the Board will take appropriate action based on more complete information, consistent with the OASIS promise of openness, including perhaps greater contractor disclosure looking backwards. Hope everyone is at the start of a great weekend! 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centralized systems, and government control13—have increasingly been
supplanted or supplemented by more diverse governance systems in many
arenas.14 The resulting variations, often referred to as "New Governance"
models, seek greater participation from non-governmental actors to render
governance more adaptive, participatory, and flexible.15 Further challenging
traditional governance models, some legal and policy researchers articulate
devolved governance models—non-hierarchical, multi-participant endeavors
that operate through multiple, uncoordinated nodes16 that nevertheless
comprise a complex, adaptive system.17 These models of governance are not
exclusive; rather they are inextricably linked and operate simultaneously and
concurrently.18 The concept of complementarity builds on these New
Governance and devolved governance models to articulate an expansive and
flexible view of governance across overlapping or duplicative infrastructure.
A related discussion over the challenges of regulation in a federalist
system highlights the ambiguities and inconsistencies that exist between
federal and state regulatory powers.19 Much of this literature has focused on
Scholarship, 41 AKRON L. REV. 1, 44–64 (2008).
13. Christopher K. Leman, Direct Government, in THE TOOLS OF GOVERNMEN T: A GUIDE
TO THE NEW GOVERNANCE 48, 49–53 (Lester M. Salamon ed., 2002). However, some scholars
have suggested less hierarchical, more adaptive approaches within the rubric of traditional
government actors. See Michael C. Dorf & Charles F. Sabel, A Constitution of Democratic
Experimentalism, 98 COLUM. L. REV. 267, 314–23 (1998) (developing a theory of democratic
experimentalism based on decentralization of government and the development of information
pooling, public/private coordination, and mutual learning).
14. See, e.g., Nan D. Hunter, "Public-Private" Health Law: Multiple Directions in Public
Health, 10 J. HEALTH CARE L. & POL'Y 89, 91 (2007) (describing changes in public health
governance); David M. Trubek & Louise G. Trubek, New Governance & Legal Regulation:
Complementarity, Rivalry, and Transformation, 13 COLUM. J. EUR. L. 539, 544–48 (2006)
(outlining new governance approaches in the EU).
15. See Orly Lobel, The Renew Deal: The Fall of Regulation and the Rise of Governance
in Contemporary Legal Thought, 89 MINN. L. REV. 342, 344 (2004) (describing and analyzing
New Governance approaches in the United States); Lester M. Salamon, The New Governance
and the Tools of Public Action: An Introduction, in THE TOOLS OF GOVERNMENT: A GUIDE TO
THE NEW GOVERNANCE 1, 1–14 (Lester M. Salamon ed., 2002) (defining the New Governance
16. Scott Burris et al., Nodal Governance, 30 AUSTRIAN J. LEGAL PHIL. 30 (2005); see
also Gunther Teubner, Introduction to Autopoietic Law, in AUTOPOIETIC LAW: A NEW
APPROACH TO LAW AND SOCIETY 1, 1 (Gunther Teubner ed., 1987) (describing a model of
reflexive law that accounts for other social institutions); David P. Fidler, A Theory of Open-Source Anarchy, 15 IND. J. GLOBAL LEGAL STUD. 259, 282 (2008).
17. R. Chad Swanson et al., Rethinking Health Systems Strengthening: Key Systems
Thinking Tools and Strategies for Transformational Change, 27 HEALTH POL'Y & PLAN. 54
18. Lance A. Gable, Evading Emergency: Strengthening Emergency Responses Through
Integrated Pluralistic Governance, 91 OR. L. REV. 375 (2012).
19. See, e.g., Robert B. Ahdieh, Dialectical Regulation, 38 CONN. L. REV. 863 (2006);
William W. Buzbee, Recognizing the Regulatory Commons: A Theory of Regulatory Gaps, 89
IOWA L. REV. 1 (2003); Heather K. Gerken, Our Federalism(s), 53 WM. & MARY L. REV. 1549,


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Has some yummy looking lip balms and perfume oils. I think I may be ordering these:
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Similar to last year's cash for clunker program, the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 has allocated $300 million for rebates to eligible residential consumers when they recycle their used appliances and purchase new energy-efficient ones (otherwise known as ENERGY STAR appliances). Each state is in charge of designing and implementing its own unique Appliance Rebate Program, and the Department of Energy (DOE) has already approved all of them. A handful of states (Iowa, Kansas, Minnesota, Rhode Island) have started their programs, but most will launch theirs later this month. Click here for details of the program available in your state.
Although this will vary state by state, most rebate amounts will range from $50 to $500 for the following list of DOE recommended appliances:
- Boilers
- Central air conditioners
- Clothes washers
- Dishwashers
- Freezers
- Furnaces (oil and gas)
- Heat pumps (air source and geothermal)
- Refrigerators
- Room air conditioners
- Water heaters
But note that states have the choice of choosing a subset of appliances from the above list. Consumers may also be eligible for more than one rebate if the state allows it. States have until February 2012 to spend the money they received from the federal government, but if the cash for clunkers program is any indication, the money will run out quick.
Most importantly, consumers can combine the rebate with the federal tax credit for energy efficiency. Under this tax credit, energy-efficient products are eligible for tax credits at 30% of the cost, up to a total credit of $1,500. However, the $1,500 is the maximum for the combined 2009-2010 tax years, so if you have already received the maximum for the 2009 tax year, you won't be eligible for a tax credit on the rebate purchases. Click here for more information on what products qualify for the tax credit.
Finally, if you decide to purchase an appliance, check to see if you can collect extra points or cashback with your credit cards. For example, the Discover Card is offering a 5% cashback this quarter for purchases at home improvement and department stores. The 5% cashback is subject to a $400 cap, but that would still translate to $20 in cashback on top of your rebate and tax credit.
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How do I place an order for materials?
All orders should be called in to our main office at (315) 637-3390. You may also place orders in person if you visit our offices in Fayetteville.
What material should I use for my project?
Our Products page found here online will help to answer this question, but as a general rule it helps to ask yourself the following: Are you looking for a material that will drain, or one that will pack? Are you looking for something that will be moved by machine, or by "hand" or shovel? Is the material supposed to fulfill a decorative need, or will the material eventually be buried under other material? ... Also, consider the effects of the existing site (wet, dry, sandy, heavy clay content) and the weather or time of year. Some materials (select fill is one example) do not work nearly as well in wet conditions as they do in dry site conditions.
How much material do I need?
This is relatively easy to calculate: Measure the length, width, and depth of the area that you plan to cover. Remember to measure the depth in feet (e.g. 4 inches = .333 feet). Multiply the length, width, and depth together. Divide that product by 27 to convert to cubic yards.
Expressed as a formula:
The conversion factor from cubic yards to tons varies depending on the type of material you are using. A general rule would be that if the material is compactible (e.g. crusher run, select fill, stone dust), you should use a factor of 1.5 tons per cubic yard. If the material is "self-compacting", meaning that it tends to be used for drainage (sized stone for example), you should use a factor of 1.25 tons per cubic yard. Materials such as screened topsoil and mulch do not have a good conversion factor, since they retain water weight so well.
How is payment arranged?
Payment may be made by open account, cash, check, Mastercard, or Visa. Payment by cash or check may be made to the driver at the time of delivery or to the weighmaster at the time of loading. Payment by Mastercard or Visa may be made to the main office either in person or by phone to (315) 637-3390. If you are a commercial client interested in opening an account for billing, please contact our office.
What services do you offer in addition to simply dumping loads of material?
As a general rule, we offer hauling to your site for each of our products, and leave them in a pile from which you may distribute as you please.
When conditions are right, we are sometimes able to "dump spread" materials over your site. We do this by raising the box of the dump truck while the truck is in motion, thus allowing the materials to leave the box in something like a sheet. While normally the only deterrents to "spreading" a load of material would be overhead obstacles such as branches or wires, we cannot guarantee that we are able to spread materials. Our driver will have the final say as to whether spreading is a safe and valid option.
We also have stone slinger trucks. Featuring conveyors much like that of a concrete truck, they allow the operator to place stone much more precisely than a dump truck. In fact, our most recent stone slinger trucks have the ability to be driven by a remote control while the slinger conveyor is in motion, allowing the operator to make quick work of such things as covering a bank.
Can I pick up materials at your locations?
Absolutely, as long as you are using a dump truck with USDOT numbers displayed.. There is a minimum charge of $20.00.
Do you accept fill materials and other materials for recycling or reclamation?
Yes, though we accept the following materials only:
• Concrete
• Blacktop
• Fill (dirt, stone, or any mix of acceptable materials)
There are charges for accepting most of these materials. Please call us for more information. We CANNOT accept any material containing wood or any construction debris.
What are your hours?
Our hours vary by season and demand. Please call (315) 637-3390 for more information.
How do I contact you?
The best and quickest way that you can contact us is by phone: (315) 637-3390.
You can also visit our Fayetteville location in person, or contact us by E-mail, postal mail, or fax. More information is available at our Contact page on this website.
I have a question about billing — how should I handle it?
Please call our main office in Fayetteville at (315) 637-3390.
I ordered materials from T. H. Kinsella, Inc. years ago. Can you remind me what it was I ordered?
If you have an account with us, this is relative easy for us to research.
If you have no account, but you kept a copy of the receipt for the sale, you will have a ticket number that we can retrieve from our digital archive. If not ticket is present, we will need to re-establish your record from scratch.
What is your delivery area?
While we don't have a hard and fast delivery area, we tend to deliver most of our material within Onondaga County and the four counties that surround it (Oswego, Madison, Cortland, and Cayuga).
What should I know about having bulk materials delivered at my house?
Some facts about our dump trucks may help you understand the constraints that we have to manage in making deliveries. Our dump trucks stand nearly 12 feet high when their boxes are down, and when the box is raised, can reach nearly 25 feet tall.
Delivery charges cover freight from our material source to the roadside at the customer's jobsite. We will attempt to dump or place materials at the customer's discretion on the site, allowing for the driver's discretion and concerns for safety of all.
When loaded, our trucks can weigh up to 35 tons—they can leave ruts on lawns when asked to leave the roadway. In fact, they can leave ruts on or destroy blacktop driveways whether they are newly-paved or long-established. Where our trucks go on customers' property is entirely at the discretion of the customer, and the customer assumes the risks involved.
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If this is the first time you've read anything I have written or posted, you may not realise that I simply adore Australian Rules Football. You may also not realise that I write, work, volunteer, advocate and agitate for gender equality. What do these two central cores of my life have in common? A hell of a lot as it turns out.
Picture Your Favourite Sports Team
Picture this. Your favourite sporting team runs onto the field/court. In the case of AFL, this would see my beloved West Coast Eagles running on. 18 players who run on and take their designated positions. Their role in the team is set. There are players who are in the forward line. They have to attack and kick goals. There are players in the back line. They are defenders and prevent the opposition from scoring. Then there's the midfield who are the glue between backs and forwards and run the ball out of defence into attack. The combination of specific, diverse skillsets make these teams work and win.
Imagine this. When your favourite team runs out, you see 18 players. They are all goal kickers. They are all forwards. There is no defence. There is no midfield. Just goal kickers. A team of 18 full forwards. Crazy huh?
Not so crazy. Because this scenario plays out every single day in sport and in business in Australia. When your (favourite) industry team runs onto the equivalent of a sporting field and they do not have diversity of skill, experience, culture and gender at the top tables, then you have the equivalent of a football team with 18 full forwards and not a defender in sight. In your business. Looking after your customers, clients, members and people.
The Scoreboard Doesn't Lie
Don't take my word for it. Check out these statistics which demonstrate the very poor scoreboard for gender in Australia.
In the Australian sporting sector, women are under-represented in key decision-making roles. Women make up:
- 3.9% of CEO's
- 13.4% of Chairs
- 25.3% of Directors
- 27.4% of Key Management Personnel
In Australian business, men are over-represented in key decision-making roles. Men make up:
- 83% of Australian companies have a male CEO.
- 86% of Australian companies are chaired by men.
- Nearly three-quarters of reporting organisations have a male-only team of key management personnel.
Why Am I Not Redundant Yet?
It's November 2018 as I write this. Seriously, I thought this issue, along with my work, would have been redundant by now. But incredibly and frustratingly, it is not.
I am incredibly frustrated that the men who run this country, business and sport cannot see the incredible disadvantage they put their organisations at by failing to diversify their top teams. I am incredibly bewildered that shareholders, clients, members and other stakeholders are not holding these executives to account for their underperformance. Because lets face it, if Adam Simpson (Head Coach of my beloved West Coast Eagles) sent 18 Josh Kennedy-like full forwards running onto the MCG, we'd be calling for his head.
So, check out your organisations top team. If there are 18 full forwards and not a defender in sight, we need to talk.
Michelle is the founder of Advancing Women, an enterprise providing advisory services on equality, inclusion and gender diversity in sport and in business. If your organisation needs to move gender diversity from conversation to action, then contact Michelle.


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Today is the first day of the rest of my Twitter life. I have just culled 500+ profiles from my 'Following' list. And it feels amazing!
My twitter account (@CatYoungLtd) has been in existence for 5 years. Over that time I've used it to follow industry commentators, customers, suppliers, brand names, news providers, local groups, councils, bands, comedians, friends and even a couple of 'talking' animals. The usual stuff really: a bit from all areas of my life.
Trouble is, it had got a bit out of hand, and I hadn't noticed. I'd log in to Twitter and glaze over when looking at my newsfeed. With over 1000 people posting updates, a lot of which is inane or irrelevant to me, slowly but surely my enthusiasm for Twitter had waned.
Also, close allies reproached me for not retweeting or responding to their updates. My stock response to which was, "Sorry, I didn't see it. You've got to understand I follow a lot of people".
I'd thought about culling before but had been worried that I might miss out on something of vital importance. In my Twitter training I'd even say "pish" at the idea of unfollowing and advise my delegates to use lists instead.
I've changed my mind. Now that I've done a mass unfollow I feel liberated. When I look at my newsfeed I'm interested in EVERYTHING that I see. I'm excited and engaged again. The updates from my close followers are now visible. I've sorted the wheat from the chaff.
Here is my amazingly simple process for you to follow:
Go to your Following list and look at each one and ask yourself these 3 simple questions:
- Do I know them personally?
- Can I remember reading (and enjoying/finding useful) a Tweet from this person?
- Is there REALLY benefit TO ME in following them?
If I answered No to ANY of these questions then unfollow them.
If you're not sure, can't remember, need to look them up, then unfollow them as they're clearly not important in your life right now.
Remember, be ruthless!
As for the fear of missing out. I'm sure that anyone significant to you will pop up again – through a retweet, via a DM or in person. So, you can right any wrongs at a later date.
Have a go and see what it does to refuel your enthusiasm for Twitter!
Then let me know how you've got on.


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After nearly seven months, the Leafs finally have their shot at redemption against the Bruins for their playoff series.
But, just like that first round matchup, the Bruins top line overwhelmed, the weak links on the blueline reminded us that they were the weak links, and the goaltending wasn't exactly ideal. Just great.
1st Period
Based on how they played, that may have been the Leafs best period this season, especially considering the context. It's a back-to-back, and they're still without both Matthews and Nylander, and they came in and dominated play, especially in the first half of the period.
So of course, the Leafs come out of the period down 1-0, as their biggest problem with the Bruins in the Marchand-Bergeron-Pastrnak struck again late in the period and gave the Bruins the lead with a deflection goal.
2nd Period
As good of a first period as the Leafs had, they had an almost equally bad second period. The Bruins top line torched them with a couple goals from David Pastrnak, and until a late period power play, the Leafs had almost no life in them.
Luckily for them, their power play is pretty good. While the power play itself didn't score, they kept the pressure up and scored shortly after, as John Tavares (fun fact: he's a Leaf) scored to bring the Leafs within two going into the third period.
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— The Leafs Nation (@TLNdc) November 11, 2018
3rd Period
Oh, you thought the Leafs would build momentum going into the third and mount a comeback? You thought wrong.
The Leafs managed 11 shots on net in the third, most of them in the final minutes when the game was already blown wide open. Not the kind of offensive generation you want from a team down by two. Not only that, but late in the third, Kappy took a double minor, giving the Bruins a four minute power play, and resulting in another Pastrnak goal.
This was then shortly followed by a goal from Joakim Nordstrom, and that would basically do it for the Leafs on this Saturday night, as the Leafs would fall 5-1.
Alright everybody, stop freaking out.
This was a back-to-back game with their backup in net, and without two of their best players. The Bruins top line overwhelmed them, and Jaroslav Halak had a really good night. It happens.
And let's keep calm about Sparks for a little bit as well. This is only his third game, and all three of Pasta's goals were terribly defended cross ice goals, with one of them seeing Pastrnak left wide open. Goal one was weak, but deflected, and goal five was bad, but the game was over anyways. Let's just chill.
The charts confirm the eye test. The Leafs started strong, but it was basically Boston's game after that. Poor defense and goaltending did the Leafs in, and a strong showing from Halak didn't help either.
Can we just have Matthews and Nylander back soon?
So @FriedgeHNIC just said on HNIC that the Leafs have told teams to put offers together for William Nylander.
— Faizal Khamisa (@SNFaizalKhamisa) November 11, 2018
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Aside from vintage year, Pu'er tea can be classified in a variety of ways: by shape, processing method, region, cultivation, grade, and season.
Pu'er is compressed into a variety of shapes. Other lesser seen forms include, stacked "melon pagodas", pillars, calabashes, yuanbao, and small bricks (2-5cm in width). Pu'er is also compressed into the hollow centers of bamboo stems or packed and bound into a ball inside the peel of various citrus.
Process and oxidation
Although Pu'er teas are often collectively classified in Western and East Asian tea markets as post-fermentation or black teas, respectively, Pu'er teas in actuality can be placed in three types of processing methods, namely: green tea, fermented tea, and secondary-oxidation/fermentation tea.
Pu'er can be green teas if they are lightly processed before being pressed into cakes. Such Pu'er is referred to as maocha if unpressed and as "green/raw Pu'er" if pressed. While not always palatable, they are relatively cheap and are known to age well for up to 20 or 30 years. Pu'er can also be a fermented tea if it undergoes slow processing with fermenting microbes for up to a year. This Pu'er is referred to as "ripened/cooked Pu'er", and has a mellow flavour and is readily drinkable. Aged Pu'ers are secondary-oxidation and post-fermentation teas. If aged from green Pu'er, the aged tea will be mellow in taste but still clean in flavour.
According to the production process, four main types of Pu'er are commonly available on the market:
· Maocha: Green Pu'er leaves that are sold in loose form. The raw material for making pressed Pu'ers. Badly processed maocha will result in an inferior pu-erh.
· Green/raw Pu'er: Pressed maocha that has not undergone additional processing. Quality green Pu'er is highly sought by collectors.
· Ripened/cooked Pu'er: Pressed maocha that has undergone fermentation in the ripening process for up to a year. Badly fermented maocha will create a muddy tea with fishy and sour flavours indicative of inferior aged Pu'ers.
· Aged raw Pu'er: A tea that has undergone a slow secondary oxidation and a certain degree of microbial fermentation. Although all types of Pu'er can be aged, it is typically the pressed raw Pu'ers that are most highly regarded, since aged maocha and ripened Pu'er both lack a "clean" and "assertive" taste.
Yunnan province produces the vast majority of Pu'er tea. Indeed, the province is the source of the tea's name, Pu'er Hani and Yi Autonomous County. Pu'er is produced in almost every county and prefecture in the province, but the most famous Pu'er areas are known as the Six Famous Tea Mountains (Chinese: 六大茶山; pinyin: liù dà chá shān)
Six famous tea mountains
The six famous tea mountains are a group of mountains in Xishuangbanna that are renowned for their climates and environments, which not only provide excellent growing conditions for Pu'er, but also produce unique taste profiles (akin to terroir inwine) in the produced Pu'er tea. Over the course of history, the designated mountains for the tea mountains have either been changed or listed differently.
In the Qing dynasty government records for Pu'er (普洱府志), the oldest historically designated mountains were said to be named after six commemorative items that were left in the mountains by Zhuge Liang, and using the Chinese characters of the native language of the region. These mountains are all located northeast of the Lancang River (Mekong) in relatively close proximity to one another. The mountains' names, in the Standard Mandarin character pronunciation are:
1. Gedeng (革登山): The term for "leatherstirrup" (马蹬, pinyin: mǎdèng)
2. Mansa (慢撤山): The term for "seed sowing bag" (撒袋, pinyin: sǎdài)
3. Mangzhi (莽枝山): The term for "coppercauldron" (铜鉧, pinyin: tóngmǔ) 1
4. Manzhuan (蠻磚山): The term for ironbrick" (铁砖, pinyin: tiězhuān)
5. Yibang(倚邦山): The term for "wooden clapper" (木梆, pinyin: mùbāng)
6. Yōulè (攸樂山): The term meaning "copper gong" (铜锣, pinyin: tóngluó)
Southwest of the river there are also six famous tea mountains that are lesser known from ancient times due to their isolation by the river. They are:
1. Mengsong Shān (勐宋山):
2. Menghai Shān (勐海山):
3. Jingmai Shān (景迈山):
4. Nánnuò Shān (南糯山): a varietal of tea grows here called zĭjuān (紫娟, literally "purple lady") whose buds and bud leaves have a purple hue.
5. Bada Shān (巴达山):
For various reasons, by the end of the Qing dynasty or beginning of the ROC period, tea production in these mountains dropped drastically, either due to large forest fires, over-harvesting, prohibitive imperial taxes, or general neglect. To revitalize tea production in the area, the Chinese government in 1962 selected a new group of six famous tea mountains that were named based on the more important tea producing mountains at the time, including Youle mountain from the original six.
Other areas of Yunnan
Many other areas of Yunnan also produce pu-erh tea. Yunnan prefectures that are major producers of Pu'er include Lincang, Dehong, Simao, Xishuangbanna, andWenshan. Other tea mountains famous in Yunnan include among others:
· Bānzhāng Shān (班章山): noted for producing powerful and complex teas that are bitter with a sweet aftertaste
· Yìwǔ Shān (易武山) : perhaps the most popular tea mountain amongst collectors.
· Bada Shān(巴達山):
· Wuliang Shān:
· Ailuo Shān:
· Jinggu Shān:
· Baoshan Shān:
· Yushou Shān:
Region is but one factor in assessing a Pu'er tea, and Pu'er from any region of Yunnan is as prized as any from the six famous tea mountains if it meets other criteria, such as being wild growth, hand-processed tea.
Other provinces
While Yunnan produces the majority of pu-erh, other regions of China, including Hunanand Guangdong, have also produced the tea. The Guangyun Gong cake, for example, featured a blend of Yunnan and Guangdong máochá, and the most recent production of these cakes contains mostly from the latter.
Other regions
In addition to China, border regions touching Yunnan in Vietnam, Laos, and Burmaare also known to produce Pu'er tea, though little of this makes its way to the Chinese or international markets.
Perhaps equally or even more important than region or even grade in classifying Pu'erh is the method of cultivation. Pu'er tea can come from three different cultivation methods:
· Plantation bushes (guànmù, 灌木): Cultivated tea bushes, from the seeds or cuttings of wild tea trees and planted in relatively low altitudes and flatter terrain. The tea produced from these plants are considered inferior due to the used of pesticides and chemical fertilizer in cultivation, and the lack of pleasant flavours, and the presence of harsh bitterness and astringency from the tea.
· "Wild arbor" trees: Most producers claim that their Pu'er is from wild trees, but most use leaves from older plantations that were cultivated in previous generations that have gone feral due to the lack of care. These trees produce teas of better flavour due to the higher levels of secondary metabolite produced in the tea tree. As well, the trees are typically cared for using organic practices, which includes the scheduled pruning of the trees in a manner similar to pollarding. Despite the good quality of their produced teas, "wild arbor" trees are not as prized as the truly wild trees.
· Wild trees (gŭshù, 古树; literally "old tree"): Teas from old wild trees, grown without human intervention, are the highest valued Pu'er teas. Such teas are valued for having deeper and more complex flavors, often with camphor or "mint" notes, said to be imparted by the many camphor trees that grow in the same environment as the wild tea trees. Young raw Pu'er teas produced from the leaf tips of these trees also lack overwhelming astringency and bitterness often attributed to young Pu'er.
Determining whether or not a tea is wild is a challenging task, made more difficult through the inconsistent and unclear terminology and labeling in Chinese. Terms likeyěshēng (野生; literally "wild" or "uncultivated"), qiáomù (乔木; literally "tall tree"),yěshēng qiáomù (野生乔木; literally "uncultivated trees"), and gǔshù are found on the labels of cakes of both wild and "wild arbor" variety, and on blended cakes, which contain leaves from tea plants of various cultivations. These inconsistent and often misleading labels can easily confuse uninitiated tea buyers regardless of their grasp of the Chinese language. As well, the lack of specific information about tea leaf sources in the printed wrappers and identifiers that come with the pu-erh cake makes identification of the tea a difficult task. Pu'er journals and similar annual guides such as The Profound World of Chi Tse, Pu'er Yearbook, and Pu'er Teapot Magazinecontain credible sources for leaf information. Tea factories are generally honest about their leaf sources, but someone without access to tea factory or other information is often at the mercy of the middlemen or an unscrupulous vendor. Many Pu'er aficionados seek out and maintain relationships with vendors who they feel they can trust to help mitigate the issue of finding the "truth" of the leaves.
Sadly, even in the best of circumstances, when a journal, factory information, and trustworthy vendor all align to assure a tea's genuinely wild leaf, fakes fill the market and make the issue even more complicated. Because collectors often doubt the reliability of written information, some believe certain physical aspects of the leaf can point to its cultivation. For example, drinkers cite the evidence of a truly wild old tree in a menthol effect ("camphor" in tea specialist terminology) supposedly caused by the Camphor laurel trees that grow amongst wild tea trees in Yunnan's tea forests. As well, the presence of thick veins and sawtooth-edged on the leaves along with camphor flavor elements and taken as signifiers of wild tea.
Pu'er can be sorted into ten or more grades. Generally, grades are determined by leaf size and quality, with higher numbered grades meaning older/larger, broken, or less tender leaves. Grading is rarely consistent between factories, and first grade tea leaves may not necessarily produce first grade cakes. Different grades have different flavors, and many bricks feature a blend of several grades chosen to balance flavors and strength.
Harvest season also plays an important role in the flavor of Pu'er. Spring tea is the most highly valued, followed by fall tea, and finally summer tea. Only rarely is Pu'er produced in winter months, and often this is what is called "early spring" tea, as harvest and production follows the weather pattern rather than strict monthly guidelines.


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Devoted to an actor of uncommon looks, charm and range, the Marcello Mastroianni retrospective at the Film Society of Lincoln Center includes a work that is itself rare: Luchino Visconti's adaptation of Albert Camus's novel "The Stranger."
The movie, in which an ordinary Pied-Noir (Algerian-born Frenchman) irrationally murders an Arab in broad daylight on a Mediterranean beach, was made in 1967 with Mastroianni in the lead. It has long been without an American distributor and, owing to complicated rights issues, was never released here on DVD. It's showing on Saturday and Tuesday in an excellent 35-millimeter print from the Istituto Luce Cinecittà.
Shot in Technicolor entirely in Algeria, with Jean-Luc Godard's favored actress, Anna Karina, as the protagonist's lover, Visconti's "The Stranger" makes the senseless sensuous — even sybaritic — in its blazing light and palpable heat. The movie was eagerly anticipated but suspiciously received when it opened in New York in December 1967. Andrew Sarris of The Village Voice deemed it a cynical producer's package intended to titillate "urban art-house, God-is-dead-and-living-in-Argentina sophisticates."
Visconti seemed an inappropriate choice to direct Camus's laconic classic. He was an operatic stylist and an aristocratic Marxist then best known in the United States for his neorealist and costume spectacles "Rocco and His Brothers" (1961) and "The Leopard" (1963). Mr. Sarris accused him of having "prostrated his own directorial personality before the cultural monumentality of Camus."
Actually, Visconti had a personal connection to "The Stranger," which he had been trying to film since the early 1960s. His first movie, "Ossessione" ("Obsession"), released in Italy in 1943, a year after "The Stranger" was published in France, was an unauthorized adaptation of James M. Cain's "The Postman Always Rings Twice." That hard-boiled novel inspired Camus, partly because it was narrated by a murderer on death row.
"The Stranger" à la Visconti, however, is far from film noir.
Visconti originally planned to set it in independent Algeria, a transposition vetoed by Camus's widow, Francine Camus. The time frame was pushed back to the late 1930s, intensifying the emphasis on French colonial rule. The novel necessarily focuses on its antihero's internal world; the movie effortlessly calls attention to the situation of the Pied-Noir, living amid a sea of subjugated natives. (A longish scene, barely in the novel, puts Mastroianni's character in a holding cell filled with Arabs.)
Steering clear of visual metaphor, Visconti focuses on atmosphere and quasi-documentary detail. (In her recent book, "Looking for 'The Stranger,'" the cultural critic Alice Kaplan called the movie "a precious record of Camus's lost world.") Visconti's attention to location and fidelity to Camus's text accentuate the story's peculiarities.
The first half of "The Stranger" depicts a shabby idyll. Visconti's anticlerical, anti-bourgeois politics become overt only in the trial sequence, broadly staged in a real, seemingly stifling Algiers courtroom. The movie reaches its existential apotheosis in the confrontation between Mastroianni's character and a priest in a dark prison cell.
Visconti's first choice to star was Alain Delon. Icy and self-contained, he might have been a beautiful cipher; Mr. Mastroianni's warmth and natural appeal make his inexplicable character all the stranger.


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A socio-political group, Greater Anambra Initiative (GAIN) has lauded the developmental strides of the governor of Anambra State, Dr. Willie Obiano, which according to the group, have changed the face of the state for good.
The group made the commendation during its inaugural meeting in Abuja on Monday, adding that its support for the governor is mainly hinged on the need to ensure credible leadership and sustainable development reign in Anambra State.
The National Coordinator of the group, Barrister Chike Nwosu, accessing the performances of the governor said, "Governor Obiano has achieved excellence in Security, Agriculture, Tourism and Youth Empowerment, among other sectors of the state's economy, hence, it's expedient the governor is allowed to consolidate on the giant strides he has taken thus far, and also, complete the several ongoing projects in the state."
Barrister Nwosu added: "Dr. Obiano fearlessly wrestled the Anambra State from the claws of hoodlums, armed robbers, kidnappers and clandestine individuals without any fear of contradiction, misconception, misinterpretation and misrepresentation. Today, Ndi Anambra go about doing their businesses and functions without harassments and unwholesome disturbances. Obiano is absolutely very sincere about it.
"His efforts on Agriculture in the state has placed the state among the best states in rice production, vegetable and cereal production too. His open-minded attitude became the strength which encouraged many foreign and local investors to come in and invest in Agriculture, while his sincerely supported MSMEs that are into agro-businesses to increase their capacity which translated into better outputs. This culminated in Anambra, being the first state in Nigeria to have her own rice brand, which is second to none in Africa. It is on record that Lagos State imitated Anambra when the state partnered with Kebbi State to package Lake Brand, which is no longer in the market. But Anambra Rice Brand is everywhere. Anambra Rice Mills, Josan Agro, Mesdevan Farms, Delfarm Songhai, Ekcel Farms and Lynden Farms, among others are now excelling in Anambra."
Barrister Nwosu disclosed that the governor has also empowered over 1,500 cooperative groups with over 45,000 membership with soft and single digit loan for micro and medium businesses.
The gesture, according to him, has empowered youths and created employments in hundreds of thousands.
Nwosu said: "The GDP of Ndi Anambra skyrocketed to enviable heights and second to Lagos State. The latest world bank F+ economic index ranked Anambra as 'The Best Economically-Managed State in Nigeria.' Anambra has the lowest poverty rate in Nigeria now. Anambra is the least indebted state in Nigeria!
"Believing that the provision of adequate infrastructure in the state will open up the state for better socio-economic activities, Governor Obiano consolidated on the infrastructure strides of the previous administration, while taking steps further to initiate flourishing ones, thereby giving Awka Capital a befitting ambiance. He built three flyovers under two years of his administration, while he is engaging in completion and construction of several roads in the state. Street lights are everywhere, including the hinterlands, in order to checkmate miscreants who hide in darkness to attack innocent people.
"Obiano brought Umuleri to into the news with the historic groundbreaking ceremony of Anambra Airport City. This world class project will have an International Cargo Airport, Passengers Lounge, Aviation Refueling Hanger, Five Star Hotel, Airport/Aviation Village, Intermediate Aircraft Hanger and a massive estate with shopping mall. This project, no doubt, will open up Omambala and Oyi axis.
"Past administrations tried in bringing the relevant authorities to explore and develop Anambra Oil and Gas Reserves, but on the other hand they paid lip service to it. But Obiano, in his inaugural speech, promised developing the Oil and Gas Reserves in the state. Today, he has successfully built 290 meters bridge across Omambala river, which leads to Aguler Oil fields. Akpokuodike also built another 160 meters bridge across Iyiora river that leads to another oil field and Igbariam Gas Reserve Basin too, while he is also constructing another bridge from Umueje axis to another oil fields too.
"In Ogbaru Oil Basins, he is constructing access road to Ogwuikpele oil basin. He is also constructing another 14 kilometers road from Umunankwo-Ogwaniocha oil fields which cross Ulasi river to Ihiala. This is a very sincere move by Chief Obiano to open up the Oil and Gas Reserve Basins in Anambra State. He is also sporting Orient Petroleum Limited to even surpass the 20,000bpd capacity."
While noting the need for a constructive opposition party in the country, Barrister Nwosu said re-election of Governor Obiano in the November 18 governorship election will set the state on the fast lane of development, which any successive government in the state would not be able to deviate from.


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Craving something with a bit of Thai flavor but unable to use a prepared peanut sauce, I improvised the following dish.
In a skillet, I heated olive oil and stir-fried fresh garlic, chopped carrots, and cubed extra-firm tofu. To this mixture, I added a few good splashes of rice vinegar and cooked until the carrots were tender.
In a separate sauce pan, I put a few good dollops of all-natural peanut butter (I was raised on and love Adam's; my choosy mom did not choose Jif!), and to this I added water (approx. 2 parts water to 1 part peanut butter), lemon juice, rice vinegar, and a bit of crushed rosemary. It starts out as a really thin mixture, which you can stir and heat on low-med heat until it reaches the desired thickness.
I served the tofu/carrot mixture on top of oven-roasted green beans (rice noodles would also be a good accompaniment, but I like to eat as many veggies as possible) and put a few good spoonfuls of my peanut sauce on top of this. It was delicious! I still haven't purchased any chili sauce (some prepared sauces have forbidden ingredients, so I need to keep looking), but a bit of this would be good to add to the peanut sauce to give it an added kick. Meat-lovers of course, could try this with chicken.
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LITTLE ROCK, Ark. — After helping strengthen tens of millions of marriages and families in 109 countries for more than four decades, Dennis Rainey announced to his team of 400 staff members today that David Robbins will succeed him later this fall as president and CEO of FamilyLife®, a ministry of Cru.
"I have observed that the tendency of ministry founders is to stay in the seat for too long and not make room for fresh leadership," said Rainey, who co-founded FamilyLife with his wife, Barbara, in 1976. As early as 2007, Rainey initiated conversations with the FamilyLife board of directors about a leadership transition plan he felt needed to take place near his 70th birthday (in 2018). At FamilyLife's 40th anniversary celebration in July 2016, Rainey shared with staff a plan to begin a leadership transition, and requested prayer as the board and executive leadership team worked to identify his successor.
"If we want to effectively reach and support the coming generations of marriages and families, we need a leader who is committed to the authority of the Scriptures, and is uniquely connected to and understanding of the issues associated with those generations," said Rainey. "Barbara and I are fully confident that David and his wife, Meg, embody the commitment, experience, passion and vision needed to lead FamilyLife into the future."
Robbins currently serves as a national facilitator for Cru's Millennials Ministry, which he and Meg launched in 2012. The initiative targeting 20-somethings quickly grew to reach a network of 1,000 millennials in New York and spread nationwide, establishing teams in 15 other cities across the U.S.
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'These person? made up the Committee of State, which 'was reproachfully after called the junto, and enviously 'then in the Court the Cabinet Council.'1
In the fourth volume of his History of England, Lord Macanlay has traced with considerable precision the rise of a true responsible Ministry to the period in the reign of William III. which intervened between 1693 and 1696. He describes how in the earlier years of the reign of William there was no Ministry at all; and that at the close of 1693 the chief offices in the Government were distributed not unequally between the two great parties; that the men who held those offices were perpetually caballing against each other, haranguing against each other, moving votes of censure on each other, exhibiting articles of impeachment against each other; and that the temper of the House of Commons was wild, ungovernable, and uncertain. 'Everybody could perceive,' says Lord Macaulay, 'that at the close of 1696 all the principal 'servants of the Crown were Whigs, closely bound 'together by public and private ties, and prompt to 'defend one another against every attack, and that the 'majority of the House of Commons was arrayed in 'good order under those leaders, and had leamt to 'move like one man at the word of command.' In giving the history of the period of transition and of the steps by which the change was effected, Lord Macaulay attributes the 'chief share in forming the 'first English Ministry' to Sunderland, who had disappeared at the time of the flight of James, and did not reappear at Court till 1691, nor attend regularly
1 Bist&ry of the BebelUon, vol. i. p. 211, ed. 1849.
'The First English Ministry! 271
in the House of Lords till the following year. Early in 1693, it was rumoured that Sunderland was consulted on all important questions relating to the internal administration of the realm; and Lord Macaulay says that he formed the opinion that 'as long as the King | 'tried to balance the two great parties against each 'other, and to divide his favours equally between them, 'both would think themselves ill-used, and neither 'would lend to the Government that hearty and steady 'support which was now greatly needed.' His Majesty must make up his mind to give a marked preference to one or the other; and there were weighty reasons for giving the preference to the Whigs. Lord Macaulay proceeds to describe the formation of the first Whig Ministry, observing that the organisation of the Whigs 'was not indeed so perfect as it afterwards became, but 'they had already begun to look for guidance to a small 'knot of distinguished men, which was long afterwards 'widely known by the name of the Junto. There is, 'perhaps, no parallel in history, ancient or modern, to 'the authority exercised by this Council, during twenty * troubled years, over the Whig body. The men who 'acquired that authority in the days of William and 'Mary continued to possess it without interruption, in 'office and out of office, till Cfeorge I. was on the 'throne.'1
The problem which now had to be solved was how to reconcile this effective Parliamentary Committee, the institution of which is thus seen to have been due to the special condition of parties in the time of William III. and to the personal character and peculiar
1 Bistort) of England from the Accession of James IT. By Thomas Babington Macaulay. Vol. iv. p. 435.
position of that King, with the older and permanent organisation of the Privy Council, which was far too deeply rooted in the monarchical system of this country to be superseded by the mere will or influence of any single statesman or group of statesmen. In his account of the framing of the Act of Settlement in the year 1700 (12th and 13th William III. cap. 2), and especially of the clause already alluded to, for requiring the signatures of the members of the Privy Council to the measures which they severally should recommend or assent to, Mr. Hallam points out that a distinction bad arisen long before between the confidential advisers of the Sovereign, who had formed a sort of spontaneous organisation for the more close and private management of business, and the 'sworn and notorious councillors' whose deliberation and assent were needed in the case of all formal resolutions of the Crown as to foreign alliances, or the issuing of proclamations and orders at home, or any other overt act of government. Mr. Hallam cites an interesting passage in proof of this from Trenchard's ' Short History of Standing Armies,' published in 1698. 'Formerly all matters of state and 'discretion were debated and resolved in the Privy 'Council, where every man subscribed his opinion and , 'was answerable for it. The late King Charles was the 'first who broke this most excellent part of our Consti'tution, by settling a Cabal or Cabinet Council wbere 'all matters of consequence were debated and resolved, 'and then brought to the Privy Council to be con'firmed.'1 The following passage from the Report in the Parliamentary history of a debate in Queen Anne's
1 Ifallam'i Constitutional History, vol. iii. p. 183, note. 7th ed.
The Cabinet and the Privy Council. 273
reign, in the House of Lords (January, 1711), points emphatically to the current confusion between the use of the expressions ' Cabinet Council' and 'Privy Council,' or at least to the transition of functions from one to the other that was taking place: 'The Earl of Scarsdale 'proposed the following question:—That it appears by 'the Earl of Sunderland's letter to Mr. Stanhope, that 'the design of an offensive war in Spain was approved 'and directed by the Cabinet Council.' But the mover afterwards substituted the word ' Ministers' for 'Cabinet Council,' as better known. Lord Cowper said, they were both terms of an uncertain signification, and the latter unknown to our law. Some contended that 'Ministers' and' Cabinet Council' were synonymous, 1 others that there might be a difference. Peterborough said 'he had heard a distinction between the Cabinet 'Council and the Privy Council; that the Privy Council 'were such as were thought to know everything, and 'knew nothing, and those of the Cabinet Council 'thought nobody knew anything but themselves.'1
Mr. Hallam says that during the reign of William 'this distinction of the Cabinet from the Privy Council, 'and the exclusion of the latter from all business of 'State, became more fully established. This, however, 'produced a serious consequence as to the responsibility 'of the advisers of the Crown; and at the very time 'when the controlling and chastising power of Parlia'ment was most effectually recognised, it was silently 'eluded by the concealment in which the objects of 'its inquiry could wrap themselves.' He also notices that William III., from the reservedness of his dis
1 Pari. Hut. vi. 971. See Hallam loc. cit.
position, as well as from the great superiority of his capacity for affairs to that of any of our former kings, was far less guided by any responsible counsellors than the spirit of our Constitution requires.
The next stage in the development of the Cabinet Council is marked by the increased independence which it assumed, owing to the Sovereign withdrawing himself from taking any share in its deliberations. This state of things, again, was precipitated by the historical accident that George I. was unable to speak English. The transition period is described by Mr. Hallam. After noticing that William III. was truly his own Minister, and much better fitted for that office than those who served him, Mr. Hallam says: 'The King, 'according to our Constitution, is supposed to be pre'sent in Council, and was in fact usually or very fre'quently present, so long as the Council remained as a 'deliberative body upon matters of domestic and foreign 'policy. But when a junto or Cabinet came to super'sede that ancient and responsible body, the King 'himself ceased to preside, and received their advice 'separately, according to their respective functions of 'Treasurer, Secretary, or Chancellor, or that of the whole 'Cabinet through one of its leading members. This 'change, however, was gradual; for Cabinet Councils 'were sometimes held in the presence of William and 'Anne, to which other councillors, not strictly of that 'select number, were occasionally summoned. But on 'the accession of the House of Hanover, this personal superintendence of the Sovereign necessarily came to an end. The fact is hardly credible that, George I. • being incapable of speaking English, as Sir Robert Walpole was of conversing in French, the monarch


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