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George R. Dempster
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George R. Dempster
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Although he lived in Fountain City only a few years (1928-1932), George R. Dempster should be included in the first rank of those "Fountain Citians Who Made a Difference." His former home has long been a showplace at arguably the most visible address in Fountain City at Broadway and Gibbs Drive. Now known as the Dempster-Francis House, the home was built in the early 1920s by real-estate developer B.L. Chambers.1
Those who know of Mr. Dempster's contribution to American industry and to the political scene on local, state and national levels will find it hard to believe that he stood on the Court House steps in 1932 during the Great Depression and observed as his home was being auctioned to the highest bidder. His career was marked by periods of adversity, but nothing ever diminished his native drive for very long. His years in Panama would set the tone for his distinguished career.2
Beginning almost with the arrival of his parents on American shores, the Dempsters would make a contribution in their community. His parents, John (1848-1915) and Ann (Doherty) Dempster (1850-1934), were married in Coberg, Canada and came to Knoxville shortly thereafter in the Fall of 1872. John Dempster came from his birthplace in Perth, Scotland and his wife, Ann, from her native County Cork in Ireland. They met and married on this side of the Atlantic. Three of John's brothers, James, William and George, immigrated also but another brother, Thomas, remained at home and later became Lord Provost of Perth from 1925 to 1932. 3 4
George Dempster established a flourmill at Mossy Creek (now Jefferson City) and James founded the Dempster Machine Shops in Knoxville, operated later by several succeeding generations. John Dempster with his partner established a grist mill, the Scott-Dempster Milling Company, on First Creek at Clinch Avenue and Crozier (now South Central). It was an ambitious mill with a millrace extending practically to present-day Vine Avenue with an overshot waterwheel 20 feet in diameter. The mill served the community for many years.
George Roby Dempster was born on September 16, 1887. The family home was near the East Knoxville junction of Main and Cumberland, then one of Knox County's most fashionable neighborhoods. While John and Ann Dempster lived there, most of the eleven Dempster children (five boys and six girls) were born, most of them delivered by Chalmers Deaderick, M.D., prominent Knoxville physician. Eight of the children survived to adulthood. The Dempster boys were: William James (1876-1937), John Scrimgeour (1885-1958), George Roby (1887-1964), Thomas Cameron (1889-1964) and Robert Bruce (1891-1966). The girls were: Ann Blanche D. (Moffett) (1872-1962), Lorena May D. (McMillan) (1879-1946) and Ida Taylor D. (Moore) (1883-1974). Two girls, Elicia Jessie (1874-1880) and Lila Georgia (1877-1879), died in early childhood and Cinnie Boyd (1881-1907) died when she was only 25 years old.
Young George showed how ambitious he was very early. During his grade school and high school years he carried both the morning Knoxville Journal and Tribune and the afternoon Knoxville Sentinel. When he was fourteen and school vacation time came, he applied for a job in construction with the W.J. Oliver Construction Company, a Knoxville business and one of the largest of its type at that time. They would not hire him because of his age so he hoboed to northern Virginia, gave a false age and was hired on as a laborer for the C&O Railroad. He moved up quickly to track worker, brakeman and then fireman. At the time the C&O was "double-tracking" from Orange Court House, Virginia to Washington tunneling directly under the Capitol.
He returned to school in Knoxville the following year and, when he was 16, got a job running a locomotive in South Georgia with the AB&A Railroad for a short while. Then, eager to see the world, he signed on as an oiler and water tender on one of the Ward Liners and set sail for New York. On the high seas outside Cape Hatteras the Chief Engineer asked his age and, in an unguarded moment, George answered "16." He was promptly fired but received free passage the remainder of the way to New York.
A week after he landed in New York, he decided he would seek work on the West Coast. He rode on top of box cars, passenger cars and on the blind baggage car until he reached Council Bluffs, Iowa, where a hobo jungle of 5,000, George included, was stranded because of a railroad strike on the Union Pacific. When the strike was over, he headed back East; visiting the St. Louis Exposition on the way. Finally, he was old enough to get a job with contractor W.J. Oliver, who was "double-tracking" the Big Four Railroad in Indiana.
He continued to work for Oliver between school years. The Oliver Company had bid to become the contractor for the Panama Canal in 1907 and George Dempster hoped to have a job on the project. Oliver had the low bid but, after much negotiating by President Theodore Roosevelt and Secretary of War William Howard Taft, the government decided to hire their own workers for the gigantic task.
His formal education had ended with his graduation from Girls High School (the future Knoxville High School) in 1906. George was president of his graduating class. He did return to school in the early 1930s to attend the John R. Neal School of Law for one year. Although he barely failed to pass the bar exam after only one year of law school, he never found the need to repeat the exam.
Nineteen-year-old George and his younger brother, Tom, both pretending to be older than they were, became civilian employees of the Isthmian Canal Commission in Panama, under Colonel (later General) George W. Goethals. It was George Dempster who rode the first steam shovel placed in service on the Pacific Division of the Canal, excavating for the locks at Miraflores and Pedro Miguel. He scooped the very first shovel of earth from the Pacific side of the giant shipway.
Living in the barracks with laborers from all over the world and working in mosquito infested swampland, George contracted both typhoid and malaria. Who should become his physician but the famous Colonel (later General) William C. Gorgas, who had conquered yellow fever and bubonic plague and was now battling malaria?5
The standard treatment for typhoid at the time was a starvation diet of cracked ice and two glasses of milk a day. When his weight dropped to 86 pounds, Colonel Gorgas again saw him and prescribed eggnog. Reflecting his lifelong opposition to alcohol (also tobacco), George refused and Gorgas said, "Young man, you have the distinction of being the only patient I have ever had who refused to take my prescription and unless you do you will be dead within a week."
Respectfully, George refused and the colonel left. An old friend in an adjoining bed had a different ailment and his treatment called for double rations. Since he was only nibbling on his food, George asked if he could eat it. The friend, having overheard the doctor, warned George of the consequences. George said, "I'll be dead anyway in a week and I want to die on a full stomach." The friend said, "It's OK with me." For three meals a day, the friend would nibble and George would wipe the platter clean. The majority of typhoid patients in the ward died on the starvation diet. Eventually, medicine adopted the George Dempster treatment plan, not knowing that he had discovered it. He would relate many years later in writing his unpublished memoirs, "since that date in 1909 I have never even had a headache."
His memoirs describe several exciting and often life-threatening episodes in his life:
George Dempster was absorbing engineering and mechanical skills under the tutelage of the world's finest engineers of the time. But, ironically, his first invention caused him to be "reported for discharge." An old-time steam shovel engineer testified that "George Dempster is the laziest man on the Panama Canal because he is trying to invent a mechanical device to dump the dipper on his shovel." An investigation followed which indicated the need for the equipment and, eventually, all shovels on the Canal project were equipped with similar devices.
As president of the Panama Local of the Associated Union of Steam Shovel and Dredge men, George met with the other members of the committee to take up grievances with Colonel Goethals. After their first meeting one Sunday morning, the top brass departed leaving just the colonel and the committee. The colonel unbuttoned his jacket, put his feet up on the desk, passed cigarettes around and said, "When I think you are right I will see that you get a fair deal; when I think you are wrong I will d--- soon tell you about it." Although Goethals had autocratic powers, he remembered the workers first names and addressed them that way. He also gave credit when credit was due and performed feats of engineering and construction that, George Dempster felt, had never been matched. Perhaps this exposure to an exemplary leader provided the model for Dempster's expertise in his work and his skill in labor relations later in life.
Although he would remain in Panama from 1907 to 1912, George returned home to marry Frances M. Seymour on March 21, 1911, in a marriage performed in the stately manse of First Presbyterian Church (until recently the seat of the Knoxville Academy of Medicine at Walnut and Cumberland) by the venerable pastor of the church, the Rev. James Park. George and Frances described their arrival at the manse in a Buick open car with all the old-fashioned controls and a rubber bulb horn on the running board. Frances accompanied him back to Panama for his final year there.
Upon his return to Knoxville he and his brothers, Tom and John, organized the Dempster Construction Company. They built highways, railroads and water-powered dams in Georgia, Tennessee, Virginia and Kentucky. By 1922 they had 26 shovels operating on various jobs, all the way from three-quarter yard buckets to the largest strip-mining shovel in the world at the time. Later, brothers Bob and Will J. came into the firm. Then they founded the Dempster Machinery Company.
Things developed rapidly for both firms, but then came the Great Depression. Both the construction firm and the machinery firm were forced into bankruptcy. George stood on the Court House steps one morning and watched as his Fountain City home on Gibbs Drive was auctioned to the highest bidder. The depression crushed many lesser men, but not George Dempster.
By the end of his career he would hold over 75 patents, but his best known patent was the one that revolutionized solid waste disposal. In 1935 he conceived the idea of the Dempster-Dumpster to facilitate construction work. Competitors saw it working so well that they asked that similar units be made for them. Shortly thereafter, he patented the idea and, before long, the five brothers were devoting their entire time to manufacturing Dumpsters at Dempster Brothers, Inc.
Mayor Dempster with the Dempster Dumpster
Photographic Archives, Knoxville News-Sentinel
Dempster Dumpsters reduced the cost of collecting, hauling and dumping garbage more than 75 percent compared to the cost of performing the task with conventional dump trucks. Eventually they were able to handle a 38,000-pound net load, plus the two ton weight of the bucket, all on a single-axle heavy-duty truck. By 1939 the company had designed and manufactured the Dempster-Balester, a hydraulic machine capable of crushing and bailing an entire automobile into a billet for shipping. The Russian government ordered sixteen Model 125 Balesters under lend lease and required that each machine be accompanied by 15 blueprints, obviously so they could build the machine themselves after the war.
Work with the U.S. Navy resulted in Dempster equipment being used all over the world. For instance, there were 125 Dumpsters on the docks in Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941. Their work with the Navy and their reputation for welding and fabricating metal resulted in 15,000 pontoons supplied during WW-II with none of them being rejected upon inspection. Dempster Brothers ability with hydraulics enabled them to make and handle containers weighing over eight tons for the Hydrogen Bomb Plant in Georgia.
The company employed more than 450 people at their plant on Springdale Avenue and the Southern Railroad in the 1950s. Eleven buildings on 27 acres were devoted to manufacturing and repairing their equipment. They paid top wages and their benefit package was unexcelled at the time. More than 10 percent of the workers were physically handicapped, but not because of injuries at the plant for it had an outstanding safety record. At various times the plant acted as a training ground for expert welders and machinists who were later employed by the Tennessee Valley Authority and the Atomic Energy Commission. Fortune Magazine reported that by 1952 the company was grossing $6,500,000 a year.7
Early in his marriage George worked out a "deal" with his spouse. Frances was a member of the Episcopal Church and a Republican. He was a Presbyterian and a Democrat. Observing that he disliked seeing a couple attending different churches, he proposed she choose one affiliation and he the other. She chose the Episcopal Church and he the Democrat party. This arrangement would continue throughout their married life.
No matter how busy he was at work, in civic affairs, on numerous volunteer boards in the community and as Vestryman at his church, he always had time for his family. The couple had three children: Josephine (Mrs. Harry G. Epperson), Ann Gordon (Mrs. Jack Hamilton) and George S., who spent five years in the Air Force in World War II in Alaska and the Pacific, and an additional four year tour at Ardmore, Oklahoma.
Mr. Dempster was not a Democrat in name only, rather he was a participant in politics. He served as campaign manager for Henry Horton in the 1928 gubernatorial election and, when Horton was elected, Dempster was named commissioner of finance and taxation for the State of Tennessee. The Governor later appointed him to the Tennessee Great Smoky Mountains Park Commission. In 1929 he was appointed city manager of Knoxville, serving two years, and in 1935 he served another two-year term. Later he served two terms on City Council and was elected mayor for one four-year term (1952-1955), after the city switched to the mayoral form of government. In 1940 he ran for governor in the Democrat primary against the incumbent, Prentice Cooper, but suffered one of his few defeats at the polls.8
During his ten years at City Hall, Dempster was a hard-working, efficient administrator. One reporter stated that he would often talk to two callers simultaneously on the two telephones that sat on his desk. Sometimes an aggrieved citizen would call in only to have the mayor call the appropriate department head on the second phone to negotiate a solution.
He rarely needed to compromise and the many "monuments" he left behind in Knoxville attest to his managerial skills. But for his persistence we might not have the benefits of the Henley Street Bridge (fortunately, he insisted on four lanes when Council wanted only two), the Fifth Avenue viaduct, four branch libraries, the sewage disposal system, Chilhowee and Tyson Parks (he recommended their purchase), the Smithson (later Bill Meyer) Stadium, the gas plant, the municipal garage and many other civic improvements.
Always a supporter of minorities, Mr. Dempster employed the first black civil service secretary, built the first black fire department and conceived the black unit of the Knoxville General Hospital. He then persuaded the Rosenwald Fund to appropriate $50,000 toward its construction.
He was on the Advisory Board of the John F. Kennedy Memorial Library and a board member of the United Cerebral Palsy Association, the Mental Health Association and the Knox County Association of Retarded Children. He founded the Dempster Memorial Sheltered Workshop and was a member of the Knoxville Executive Club, the President's Committee on Employment of the Handicapped, the Nobel Awards Dinner Committee, the Committee for a Peaceful and Orderly Desegregation and a 32nd Degree Mason and Shriner. Mr. Dempster personally sponsored a talented blind pianist for a Sunday musical program on radio for twenty years.
The Dempster marriage of 49 years ended on September 30, 1960, with the death of his beloved wife, Frances Seymour Dempster (1891-1960). The beautiful and gifted daughter of Digby Gordon Seymour, Sr. and Josephine (Douglass) Seymour, she was a talented church organist and, for a time, early in their marriage, taught school. Her father was a Harvard educated civil engineer who was chief engineer in building one of the transcontinental railroads.9
The Dempster family owned six homes in the area over the years, including their Fountain City home on Gibbs Drive. One home was on his 500-acre Hereford cattle farm fronting Fort Loudon Lake off Maryville Pike. After selling their home at 806 Scenic Drive, they purchased their final residence at 2061 Cherokee Boulevard which was all on one level so Mrs. Dempster would not need to climb stairs.
George Roby Dempster, the first generation, self-made son of immigrants to America--adventurer, inventor, manufacturer, public servant, businessman and philanthropist--succumbed to a heart attack on September 18, 1964. Over 1000 mourners attended his services at St. James Episcopal Church, described as the largest funeral ever held in Knoxville. U.S. Senators Albert Gore and Herbert S. Walters and former-Mayor Edmund Orgill of Memphis attended along with many other dignitaries. He is buried in Greenwood Cemetery beside his wife. Truly, George R. Dempster made a contribution to his local community and to his country. His life and works made a difference.10
1Knoxville City Directories (1928-1932), McClung Historical Collection, Knoxville, Tennessee. A Fountain City historian recalls hearing that Mr. Dempster would have remained a Fountain Citian but that he needed to establish residency within the Knoxville city limits to fulfill his ambition to serve eventually in Knoxville city government. Of course, those years were also at the height of the Great Depression and that may also have had an influence.
2Susan Church, "Francis Home--a Grand Reminder of Times Past," Knoxville News-Sentinel, May 21, 1997.
3George S. Dempster, Autobiographical Essay (Unpublished), Dempster Papers, McClung Historical Collection, circa 1954. Dr. Jan Merchant, Archivist of the Council Archive in Perth, Scotland, advises that Thomas Dempster was Lord Provost of Perth from 1925 to 1932 when he resigned his post and also resigned as a member of the Town Council. Judging from the council minutes, which were very fulsome in praise of his achievements during his seven year tenure, he resigned due to ill health. The Perthshire Advertiser, carried an obituary (with photograph) when Thomas died, aged 75 years on December 22, 1937. He was a partner of the solicitors' firm of Messrs Robertson, Dempster & Co., WS in Perth and had two sons - R. Scott Dempster and Thomas G. Dempster, both Writers of the Signet - and three married daughters.
The term Provost originally derives from the officer appointed to have charge of any royal estate, but came to be applied to an officer in charge of a burgh (town). He is the head of the Council in much the same way as an English Mayor. Usually, he is the chief magistrate. Perth was a Royal Burgh until 1975, when there were widespread administrative changes. As a Royal Burgh, Perth originally enjoyed special trading privileges. Perth is also a cathedral city and consequently, along with the four designated cities of Scotland (Aberdeen, Glasgow, Edinburgh and Dundee), the Provost is entitled Lord Provost.
4Carson Brewer, "Dempster, Ex-Mayor, Is Dead," Knoxville News-Sentinel, September 19, 1964.
5Dempster, circa 1954; David McCullough, The Path Between The Seas: The Creation of the Panama Canal 1870-1914, Simon and Schuster (New York, 1977); Benton J. Stong, "Construction Gang Was George Dempster's Training School," Knoxville News-Sentinel, July 24, 1927.
6By the 1950s, 120 cubic yard capacity shovels would be used in strip mining. Of course, much larger ones are used today.
7Dempster Brothers Company was founded by George Dempster in 1933, later sold to Carrier Corporation, then to Krug International. It closed in April 1987 when Krug International closed the plant and stunned the 250 workers who were on strike at the time. The Dempster Dumpster continued to be manufactured in California, Georgia and Canada. They are sold nationwide and shipped overseas to many countries.
8Lucile Deaderick, Editor, Heart of the Valley (A History of Knoxville, Tennessee), East Tennessee Historical Society (Knoxville, 1976).
9Bob Cunningham, "Heart Attack Fatal to Mrs. Dempster," Knoxville News-Sentinel, October 1, 1960.
10Carson Brewer, "Dempster, Ex-Mayor Is Dead," Knoxville News-Sentinel, September 19, 1964; "George Dempster, Industrial, Civil Leader, Dies at 77," Knoxville Journal, September 19, 1964.
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And this isn't the first time Harris has run into trouble with collaborating with a musically inclined partner. When he broke up with Rita Ora, the pair had some disputes of their own over music they'd written or recorded together.
According to Us Weekly, Ora's second album's release was delayed because Harris banned her from using tracks he had taken part in recording. Ora claimed that the delay was actually because she'd changed her mind about the "tone" of the album, but fans didn't really buy it, especially when Ora wasn't able to perform her collaborative hit "I Will Never Let You Down" at the 2014 Teen Choice Awards because Harris wouldn't consent to it.
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These are some photos of Michael B. Jordan, star of Fruitvale Station, from a photoshoot he did with Rolling Out Magazine. I went to see Fruitvale Station this weekend, and I'm still thinking about it this morning. I had dreams about it. I don't want to push the film as "the greatest film of the year" or something like that, although it is a great film, an important film, a unique film full of extraordinary performances and telling a unique and important story about humanity. In case you don't know, Fruitvale Station tells the true story of the last day in the life of Oscar Grant, a 22-year-old black man who was killed by a police officer on New Year's Day, 2009.
Michael B. Jordan plays Grant so beautifully, with so much depth and nuance, and what I really loved – and this was the product of an excellent script too – was that Oscar was neither all bad nor all good. He had already served time in prison, and you see him threatening his former boss, lying to his girlfriend and coming to terms with whether or not to sell drugs. But he also loved his girlfriend (played beautifully by Melonie Diaz), he adored his mother (played by the extraordinary Octavia Spencer, who will likely get another Oscar nomination for her performance) and he was a loving and hands-on father to his little girl. Personally, I think Jordan should get nominated for every award for his performance, and there is no way (in my mind) that he shouldn't be one of the biggest contenders this awards season. And if you go to see it… just be prepared to cry. It comes in waves.
So now that Jordan is one of my new favorite people in the world, I checked on his Twitter – he basically uses it to promote his work, thank God. And I also looked up this Rolling Out interview – you can read the whole thing here. Here are some highlights:
On the night George Zimmerman was acquitted of the murder of Trayvon Martin, Michael B. Jordan experienced an all too familiar feeling. The 26-year-old actor was attending a sporting event when the verdict was announced.
"I was at the L.A. Dodgers game with my girlfriend," Jordan revealed to rolling out. "And once the verdict was read, you could see how it affected the crowd. You could see the people in the audience, one person finding out from the next. People were just talking to one another about the verdict. After the game, I had to go to a Q-and-A session for the film. My heart was hurting so bad that I thought about skipping the interview. I didn't know how to respond or express myself in a manner that I should have. But I sucked it up and went to do the interview. I spoke my peace. But it was hard. To look at the evidence and he's not guilty, that's tough. It's really tough."
The Zimmerman verdict was tough for millions across the nation. But for Jordan, it was a case eerily similar to the Oscar Grant murder, which is examined in his new film, Fruitvale Station.
On New Year's Day 2009, Oscar Grant was detained by police while at the Fruitvale Bay Area Rapid Transit station. While handcuffed and unarmed, Grant was shot and killed by BART police officer Johannes Mehserle as shocked passengers recorded the incident on their cellphones and watched in horror. The case caused outrage in Oakland, Calif., and across America. However, Mehserle, who was convicted of involuntary manslaughter, only served 11 months in prison for the murder. Mehserle is currently free and attempted, to no avail, to get his conviction expunged from his record after his release.
"It could have been me," Jordan says of the untimely deaths of Grant and Martin. "Around the time I read the [Fruitvale] script, Trayvon Martin's shooting had just happened a week or two before. I remember when Oscar Grant died in 2009 and how frustrating it was during that time. And then the Trayvon murder occurred, it was like all of this was happening again. I'm from New Jersey and Oscar is from Oakland, but the same things are occurring. When I was younger, I always hung out with my boys. So we could've experienced a situation that was similar to Oscar Grant's. Being from the inner city, you have to do the best with what you have — even when the odds are stacked against you. People from outside your community may judge you because you may look different, walk a little different, or talk a little different. But, dealing on a more personal level, after I got a chance to get to know Oscar's story, I saw a lot of similarities between Oscar and I. With the film, I really wanted to give him a voice. It's kind of fun for me to dive into those characters as well."
"We hope that we will create something that can stand the test of time," Jordan says. "As far as opening numbers are concerned, it doesn't really affect the project. Hopefully, this movie will cause people to make a change on how we look at each other when it comes to violence. I hope it has a positive impact. I hope it's a project that will be talked about for years and years to come."
I was thinking about Jordan and the early buzz on how many great performances there are from black actors this year, and how there's a real possibility that Michael B. Jordan, Idris Elba and Chiwetel Ejiofor will all be up for lead actor nominations. While I haven't seen 12 Years a Slave or Long Walk to Freedom yet, I hope the Academy voters don't give more weight to Idris and Chiwetel just because they're playing historical figures in period films. Jordan's performance was such a breath of fresh air, so naturalistic and real – he was like a young Marlon Brando or Benicio del Toro.
And this is just a bizarre FYI – the writer/director of Fruitvale, Ryan Coogler, is going to team up with Jordan again… for a reboot of the Rocky franchise. Jordan will be playing Apollo Creed's grandson. For real. You can read about the deal here.
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Ruleset - The game plays in 4 stages.
Benefits - As a player-vs.-player game, Double Hold'em surpasses Texas Hold'em markedly in several areas; it creates many more playable hands (games with more action are desirable), it better rewards skilled play, etc. At the same time, it has similar ease of deal and hand-speed to Texas Hold'em. Overall, it provides a better player experience.
During each round, starting with each unfolded player left of the dealer button, each player has these choices: checking if there is no blind requiring a call or bet pending; betting if there is no bet pending; folding if there is a bet pending; calling if there is a bet pending; or raising if there is a bet pending. Each betting round has a maximum of three allowed raises. Play moves clockwise around the table during each betting round until all pending bets or raises are called or until there is only one unfolded player in the hand.
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Once betting is complete, it's time for the showdown. The best 5-card poker hand possible is read using the 5 community cards and his 2-card hand that produces the highest value hand. The reading commences with either: A) The last bettor, or if there was no bet on the river round of the hand, B) The first active player to the left of the dealer flips over all his hole cards. Moving clockwise around the table, each active player's cards are opened if they produce a higher value hand than the best hand opened so far, or are mucked unopened if they don't beat the high hand shown by a preceding player. The message area displays the results of the action. The chips in the pot are added to the winning player's bank or duly shared in the instance of a tie.
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Double Hold'Em requires each player to set his card configuration and so establish a point card. To select the card configuration, each player is shown how to select the card he wishes to have as his point card as follows:
Once the player cards have been opened, the winning hand animates in a way that indicates the winning cards.
Double Texas Hold'em Poker game has buy-in credits. You bring these credits to the table with you and can keep playing as long as you have credits. In the tournament, the players must play through the disposition of the event.
There is no ante. Instead, two blinds are posted for each hand. A small blind of half the low stake bet is automatically posted by the player immediately clockwise of the rotating dealer button. The player to the small blind's left automatically posts a big blind equal to the low stake bet. The dealer button rotates one position clockwise after each hand, so everyone posts blinds equally.
There are two betting stakes used in each hand. During the hand's first two betting rounds, a low stake value is used. The last two betting rounds use a high stake value that's double the low stake. The amount of the stakes increases every time the dealer button has made a full orbit of the table.
Beyond being a Player-vs.-Player Game, there's a Player-vs.House version of Double Texas Hold'em.
Ruleset - The game plays in multiple stages. Each player is dealt 3 hole cards (not 2), and as the game plays the player sets his cards in a V; the point-card plays with each of the other cards BUT the tertiary cards do not play with each other (he now has two 2-card hands). Depending upon how the hand plays out for the player and the house - things such as placing of additional bets by the player, the house qualifying, bonus payouts, etc. being considered - the hand is resolved.
Benefits - Double Texas Hold'em, as a player-vs.-house game, is not just another poker variant table game. It's a better one! It surpasses competing games such as Caribbean Stud Poker and WPT All In Hold'em. Key areas where the game excels include:
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'Star Wars: Episode IX' Director Colin Trevorrow Addresses Rey's Parentage
"Jurassic World" director Colin Trevorrow is preparing to take the reins for "Star Wars: Episode IX (despite fan outcries), and — while he wouldn't outright spoil who Rey's parents are — he did promise fans would be satisfied with the answer.
"We're going to make sure that that answer is deeply and profoundly satisfying," Trevorrow told EntertainmentTonight.
"Rey is a character that is important in this universe, not just in the context of 'The Force Awakens,' but in the entire galaxy," he added. "She deserves it. We'll make sure that that answer is something that feels like it was something that happened a long time ago, far away, and we're just telling you what happened."
"What's interesting is I'm not creating a host of new characters," he continued. "I have a lot of characters that people really love that we're going to make sure are all honored. No one's going to be left behind."
"['Episode IX'] is something that needs to honor a story that's been told over a period of 40 years… I don't want to ignore any of it, and I respect all of it. It's something I think the fan base is going to embrace," he concluded.
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Uganda's parliament has overwhelmingly voted in favor of holding a referendum to decide whether the country should return to multi-party politics.
Two hundred 21 lawmakers voted for the measure Wednesday, while 18 voted against it. The referendum will be held in July.
Political parties in Uganda are allowed to exist, but their activities are severely restricted and candidates for office must run as individuals.
President Yoweri Museveni restricted political parties when he came to power in 1986, claiming they only exacerbate ethnic and religious tensions. However, his government has come under pressure to allow multi-party politics ahead of next year's elections.
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Kelly Osbourne will wed her fiance Matthew Mosshart in her native U.K. next summer (14).
The 28-year-old daughter of Ozzy and Sharon Osbourne confirmed she is engaged to the vegan chef last week (ends19Jul13), but revealed he had actually popped the question during a romantic New Year's Eve (31Dec12) moment on vacation in Anguilla.
Now Kelly's mother, Sharon, has spilled a few details about the happy couple's big plans.
During Monday's (22Jul13) episode of her daytime show The Talk, she said, "My daughter Kelly is now officially engaged and she's planning a summer wedding next year at our home in England."
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I should admit that I don't buy the JC every Friday. There's really no point because it is exactly the same every week. Without fail, there will be at least one article about Ken Livingstone, something about resurgent anti-Semitism in Hungary, a recipe with a terrible pun for a headline ("Flan-tastic") and the usual smattering of provincial synagogue tittle-tattle. You could save yourself a fortune by just folding the paper up on a Saturday night and keeping it in a safe place to read the following week. It'll be 90% the same as a new copy.
But the Social and Personal page is different. It's an institution in itself. You can gauge the stage of life you're at by which column you read. Once you hit your early 20's you head straight for the Forthcoming Marriages. After a couple of years your eyes veer to the left to check out the Births, and later, hopefully much later, you start reading the Deaths. The best column by far is the Births. Initially you read the Births to see which of your friends have had kids and later, once you start having them yourself, to check out the names. It simply isn't Friday morning until someone has screamed "Milo Patrick!? What kind of name is that for a Jewish boy??" There is also some fun to be had (albeit in terrible taste) in seeing which death has provoked the most announcements. (The record so far is 22. Which I think is a tad excessive. Nobody is THAT important.) My late grandfather outlived most of his friends (I suppose you would if you live til you're 90) and he would always comment on the age of the deceased. When I was younger this was understandable. "Chap in the JC today, died at 52. Terrible". But by the time he hit his late 80's it was harder to sympathise. "Dear God" he'd say. "Hymie Blimie died. 87 years old. That's no age!"
Be that as it may, you cannot get married in North-West London without placing an advert in the JC. It's the rule, apparently. And, since we don't want to rock the boat at this stage, YKW and I happily agreed. The truth is that YKW's parents were especially keen. This is because their son is now in his [very] late 30's and the only time he's ever been in the JC was when they published a photo of him wearing a bra over his t-shirt for a breast cancer charity event. A very noble thing to do, but not exactly what any Jewish mother intends when she dreams of reading her son's name in the JC.
Placing the announcement has turned out to be more problematic than I anticipated. You would be staggered by how many emails, phone conversations and dummy texts need to be drafted purely to tell everyone that he and I are engaged. You would think that "YKW and R.X are delighted to announce their engagement" would suffice. But no. A whole morning was spent, sending drafts back and forth before we finally pinned down the exact wording for this grand opus.
The parents favour a traditional wording. Something along the lines of "X and Y together with A and B are thrilled to announce the engagement of their children YKW and R.X". I am not one to wilfully find fault. But I took exception to the phrase 'their children'. YKW is nearly 40 (as I may already have mentioned) and, to put it politely if bluntly, I've been around the block a bit myself. I'm not sure that either of us can accurately be described as children. So that had to go.
Once all interested parties had agreed on the text I submitted the announcement online and pressed 'send'. I then panicked. Had I spelled all the surnames right? Did I remember to mention my parents? Did I send it to the Forthcoming Marriages page? I decided I'd better phone up to check. The internet is all well and good, but in the end, you always end up having to speak to a human being.
"JC Personals. [pause] Shirley speaking. [pause] How can I help you?"
Now Shirley is clearly a clever woman, who spends the best part of every day talking to people who are either sleep deprived due to the arrival of a new baby, grief stricken by recent bereavement, or giddily in love. But Shirley doesn't know when she answers the phone which personal occasion the voice on the end of line has called up to announce. So she speaks...very...slowly...and...clearly until she's ascertained whether I am calling about a hatch, a match or a dispatch. As soon as I tell her that I'm phoning to announce my engagement her voice rises an octave, she starts jabbering ten to the dozen and refuses to let me get a word in edgeways. In fact, she seems so delighted that for a moment I suspect that she might know me. Or my mother. (Exactly how many people HAS my mother told the good news to??)
"How lovely. That's wonderful news. Mazal Tov. Let me take down your details"
I tell her that I've already submitted the wording of the announcement online, together with my date of birth, credit card details and email address, and that I am merely phoning to check that the submission was received and that it's all right for printing.
"Let me just bring it up on the screen for you. Did you choose a ring yet?"
"Erm, actually, my fiancé chose it. He gave it to me when he proposed."
"Did he really?? How wonderful. How did he propose? Was it romantic?"
I decide not to tell Shirley the entire Boggle story. I just reply "Yes, it was very romantic".
"Okay, here we are." Shirley then mumbles the announcement under her breath. "That all seems fine dear. Only you haven't mentioned any grandparents. Most people mention their grandparents."
"Yes, well, er, the thing is we both left it rather late and neither of us have any grandparents left."
There is a slight pause which I only realised afterwards was the time it took Shirley to scroll up the screen to find my date of birth.
"Yes, I see. Well, never mind. I'm sure they are with you in spirit."
"Thank you. I'm sure they are too"
"And your mother must be very relieved. Better late than never."
"Erm, yes, she is"
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Plans are in the works for a fitness center at Galax High School that would be named in honor of Carroll County Deputy Curtis Bartlett.
Bartlett, who was killed in a line of duty crash in March, was a GHS graduate and was very passionate about nutrition and fitness throughout his life.
According to GHS Principal Justin Iroler, the project has been in discussion for about a month-and-a-half. Bartlett's father, Sam, contacted school officials after the Lift Life Foundation reached out to him.
HILLSVILLE – The Carroll Board of Supervisors adopted and appropriated the fiscal year 2018 spending plan by a split vote at its June 12 meeting, after a debate about the county's budgeting process.
Two supervisors, one of whom served on the budget committee, did not vote for the budget.
During the meeting Laurel Fork supervisor and budget committee member Joshua Hendrick made a motion to approve and appropriate the total budget, including the county general fund, law library fund and previously adopted school budget, in the total of $84.7 million.
HILLSVILLE – The Carroll County School Board announced the county's new superintendent at its regular monthly meeting on June 15. Dr. Shirley A. Perry, the current Director of Human Resources for Pulaski County Schools, will fill the vacancy left by retiring superintendent Dr. Strader Blankenship.
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Suspension from school has long been linked to academic failure.
Students are away from the classroom for up to several days, missing out on material taught in class and falling behind. Meanwhile, assignments pile up, making a difficult situation even worse.
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Summer can be a tough time for low-income families, when their children lose access to free or reduced-price school meals.
A grant from the U.S. Department of Agriculture Food Nutrition Service will provide thousands of students and their families in Galax, Grayson County and six other Southwest Virginia school divisions with increased food security during the summer.
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As they read the list of the five scholarship winners on April 30 at the culmination of the Moose Youth Awareness Congress in Kenosha, Wisc., Houston Dixon stood holding hands with two of her closest friends.
The Virginia Department of Education has notified the Commonwealth's 132 school divisions that as many as 4,000 school buses may need retrofitting to install a safety device that prevents the parking brake from accidentally disengaging.
School officials said that a total of 23 buses in Galax, Carroll and Grayson need retrofitting for the brake interlock.
A stringent cross-examination of the Galax school system's proposed budget for the next fiscal year led the May 8 Galax City Council meeting.
A public hearing for the budget was the first item under old business; there were no public speakers.
The $15.1 million school budget — with $3.99 million in local operating funds and no debt service — was passed by all council members who were present. John Garner was absent.
HILLSVILLE — More than 280 Carroll County seniors took their first steps towards life after high school at commencement exercises May 20.
A full grandstand of parents, grandparents, family and friends watched the ceremony, which took place at Tommy Thompson Field.
Grayson County 4-H partnered with several businesses in the Galax area and the Grayson County Sheriff's Office for a Career Immersion event for 40 students.
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CLEVELAND -- The Cleveland Indians pounded out seven home runs, five of them two-run homers, and rolled to a 14-2 victory over the Philadelphia Phillies Tuesday night.
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Indians 14, Phillies 2
CLEVELAND -- The Cleveland Indians pounded out seven home runs, five of them two-run homers, and rolled to a 14-2 victory over the Philadelphia Phillies Tuesday night.
The seven home runs are one shy of the club record. Indians utilityman Ryan Raburn, who has played right field the last two games, hit two of Cleveland's home runs, and now has hit home runs in four of his last six at-bats over two games. Raburn hit two home runs Monday night in Kansas City.
Cleveland scored four runs in three of the first five innings, most of that damage coming off Phillies starter Roy Halladay, who gave up eight runs on nine hits, three of them home runs, in 3 2/3 innings. Halladay's record fell to 2-3.
Indians starter Zach McAllister gave up two runs in seven innings to get the win. He is 2-3.
The Indians scored four runs each in the first, fourth and fifth innings to take a 12-2 lead. In the seventh inning Raburn and Drew Stubbs hit back-to-back solo home runs off Phillies reliever Raul Valdes.
Every starter in the Cleveland lineup hit at least one home run with the exception of Jason Kipnis, Asdrubal Cabrera and Jason Giambi. Every Cleveland starter scored at least one run, with the exception of Cabrera.
The Indians have won three games in a row and have out-scored their opponents 33-5 in the three games.
Cleveland used the long ball to knock Halladay from the game in the fourth inning. Halladay gave up two two-run home runs in the first inning and another two-run shot in the fourth.
Carlos Santana and Mark Reynolds hit two-run homers in the first inning to give the Indians a 4-0 lead. A home run by Delmon Young, in his first at bat of the season, off Cleveland starter Zach McAllister in the second inning cut the Indians lead to 4-1. But Cleveland erupted for four more runs in the fourth inning to knock Halladay out of the game.
Halladay gave up hits to the first four batters he faced in the inning, one of those a two-run homer by Lonnie Chisenhall. A two-run single by Asdrubal Cabrera, the last batter faced by Halladay, gave Cleveland an 8-1 lead after four innings.
Phillies reliever Chad Durbin gave up two more two-run homers in the fifth inning, one by Raburn. The other, by Michael Brantley, stretched the Cleveland lead to 12-1.
NOTES: Phillies outfielder Delmon Young, who had been on the disabled list since the start of the season as he recovered from right ankle surgery, was activated prior to the game. ... Outfielder Ezequiel Carrera was designated for assignment by the Phillies prior to the game, in order to make room on the roster for Young, who was activated off the DL. ... Indians first baseman/outfielder Nick Swisher was not in the starting lineup and manager Terry Francona said Swisher probably won't play Wednesday as well, due to a sore left shoulder. ... Indians outfielder Michael Bourn (lacerated right index finger) was eligible to come off the disabled list Tuesday, but Francona said before that happens Bourn will play a couple of games on a minor league rehab assignment.


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Our team of Quality Analysts set up test environments, develop automation, manage a delivery pipeline to worldwide production environments, and speak as the voice of our clients in scrum teams. Analysts also investigate problems uncovered during testing, recreating those problems as appropriate and verifying fixes. We provide feedback on usability, reliability, serviceability, and documentation to the appropriate stake holders, as well as collaborate closely with Product Management to prioritize plans and ensure timely, high quality deliverables to our clients.
Our testing activities are primarily focused around the system verification of a Cloud-based offering. The successful candidate could also be exposed to other testing aspects of the product including function/component, performance, stability, and regression. Knowledge of the target market for the product and the client environment is necessary. Familiarity with Continuous Integration systems, Agile development practices, and other testing methodologies, tools and techniques is encouraged, but not necessary.
We currently have an opportunity for a Quality Analyst- Business Analytics to augment our team to help design and implement our cloud-based Analytics offering. In this role, the successful candidate will create test strategies and plans, work with clients, development and test engineers to identify and automate test cases, execute these plans and analyze the test results. The successful candidate should have a demonstrated ability to work independently on advanced technology projects, and will be a graduate of a recognized post-secondary institution, and possess a passion for improving software products.
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The college bowl season may be winding down, but we still have the game of the year to look forward to: a BCS Championship showdown between Alabama and an unbeaten Notre Dame. In anticipation of the upcoming powerhouse display between the Crimson Tide and the Fighting Irish, we've assembled a college-centric Sunday Sports Page.
Embattled Ex-Cal Coach Re-Lists Danville Estate
When Jeff Tedford listed his luxurious Danville home in August, many mused that the then Cal Bears head coach might be on his way out in Berkeley. Fast-forward to the end of the college football season and Tedford has indeed been ousted from his position and, as such, is once again shopping the 8,900-square-foot home. It appears that the two-time Pac-10 Coach of the Year is more motivated to sell this time around, as he's dropped the listing price for his fancy digs from $5.35 million to $5.1 million.
Boomer Sooner Bob Stoops Still Selling in Norman
Six months later, Bob Stoops is still looking for a buyer for his luxury home in Norman, OK. The Oklahoma Sooners coach originally listed luxury spread for $2.1 million back in August and has held firm at that price. But don't you worry, Sooners fan. This does not mean Coach Stoops is splitting town for greener pastures. No, he's undoubtedly enjoying his time in his brand new, custom-built mansion.
Dennis Franchione Headed Out of Horseshoe Bay
Dennis Franchione was back in the FBS this year as Texas State made its debut in the Western Athletic Conference. While the Bobcats finished 4-8 on the year, Coach Fran is expected to be back in 2013, but that hasn't stopped him from lowering the price on his Horseshoe Bay, TX property. Franchione now asks just $1.65 million for the 6,000-square-foot home located roughly an hour and a half north of the San Marcos campus.
Rick Pitino's Multi-Million Dollar Florida Mansion
If Rick Pitino's Indian Creek Village mansion is any indication, the Florida real estate market is on the up and up in the new year. The Louisville men's basketball head coach originally listed the grand 7,300-square-foot estate in 2010 for $17 million, and was asking as little as $13.9 million for the property in 2012. However, it seems Pitino sees restored value in the Mediterranean waterfront home and has increased his asking price by a cool $2 million.


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So, Android 4.3 is out now, and it's rolling out to Nexus users slowly but surely. I have it on my Nexus 4, and here's what's new about it: virtually nothing that I use on a daily basis! The camera interface is different, some people might use the autocomplete and emoji features, sure, but if this is had been Android 4.2.3 instead of 4.3, it would have made sense. Even things like the much-ballyhooed battery life improvements may be hit or miss for some users. Over a 12-hour period, an unused Nexus 4 went from 98% to 85% on background processes alone, though background streaming with Falcon Pro may have been the culprit there. Though, it did feel like the drain was at least slower, but still, it isn't a dramatic improvement.
For those Nexus users who don't want to wait for the update to roll out despite the relative inconsequentiality of it, or to call me bad names for my opinion, then here's a guide to installing it without losing data, if you are on a stock and unrooted device. If you've unlocked a bootloader or rooted or installed a custom ROM, turn away. There be monsters here. This is for the unadventurous who suddenly have some bravery (or impatience) and aren't afraid of a little exploration in the command line.
Step 1: Get the Android SDK
You need the programs adb and possibly fastboot to do this if something goes wrong. The best guaranteed way to get them is to install the Android SDK. This is available on multiple platforms and contains the files we'll need. If you have Windows, this file from the XDA-Developers forum contains all you need.
Step 2: Get the zip file that you need
There are special zip files for the OTA updates available form Google's servers. The XDA-Developers forum has compiled the links. Go there to get them, check to make sure you're getting the right OTA update file, download it, and come back here.
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Step 3: Copy the update zip to the folder with adb and rename it to update.zip
Go into the SDK and find where the adb executable is, most likely in the /tools subdirectory. Copy the update zip you had into this folder. Rename it to something simple like update.zip – that long file name might be hard to type out!
Step 4: Charge your device to at least 80% and plug it in to your computer
We don't want it dying on you while flashing an update, do we? For best results, plug your device directly to your computer's USB port, not through a USB hub, if possible.
Step 5: Navigate to the folder with adb and the update.zip in a command line terminal
That would be running cmd on Windows, or in Terminal on Mac. Linux users – y'all ought to know, you use Linux. If you don't know about command line, turn away and wait for the update.
Now, type in adb devices and hit enter. You should see your device. If not, you may need to install drivers. If you're ready, type and enter adb reboot recovery. This will reboot your device to the bootloader. You should see Andru, the Android mascot, laying down. Hold down power and hit volume up. Use the volume keys to navigate, and select apply update from adb. First, on your computer, do adb devices again to make sure it's connected. Then type and enter adb sideload update.zip and the update will transfer to your Nexus. Let the process continue untouched until your device reboots, and congrats, you have Android 4.3!
If you do manage to mess up your device, Google your device's name and how to unbrick it. Android Police has a good guide for the Nexus 4 and Nexus 7. Recovery mode is there for a reason! If the thought of this scares you, don't worry – you'll get the update soon!
Thanks to the XDA-Developers forums, Android Police, and Droid-Life for their guides: I wanted to make it available in a clear and concise form for readers.


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How about Marie Curie, who won two Nobel Prizes, or Jonas Salk, who created the vaccine against polio? We have trouble with the concept of greatness in terms of people today because the world is in a state of transition. Before the middle of the 20th century, what was considered most important in the world--thus what was recorded in history books and taught in history classes--was military strength and victory. After the Suez crisis in 1954, when the world learned that war could be avoided through planning and negotiation (thanks to Canadian Lester Pearson, another Nobel winner), we lost our taste for war as the primary answer to everything. True, wars and genocides have continued since that time, but they happen less frequently now and they are generally frowned upon by the world community. Nations that continue to identify themselves with war are considered brutal or bullies these days in international forums. Without success in battle, we aren't certain what we should use to measure
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