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With the recent publication of his autobiography, Twain became a best-selling author in the nineteenth, twentieth and twenty-first centuries. And he is proving once again how little technology and mass communication have changed - or improved - the makeup of guilty man.
For many years, Twain wanted to write his own life story, but found the usual style of autobiography a straitjacket of dates, times, places and memories, to be put into some chronological order. For a self-invented man, this kind of artificial order for the sake of palatable narrative was not to his liking. It didn't feel true, he wrote. And so, he began dictating a series of daily talks, with observations on the day's news, sprinkled with memories and seasoned with his own singular humor.
Basically, he was blogging.
On January 10, 1906, Mark Twain sat down to dictate that day's entry. In the news was a little item he referred to as 'the Morris incident,' and Twain wondered what the verdict of history would be on it in fifty years time. "The Morris incident comes up and blots the whole thing out. The Morris incident is making a flurry in Congress, and for several days now it has been rioting through the imagination of the American nation and setting every tongue afire with excited talk." He then goes on to state, rightly, that by the time people read his autobiography, they will have no idea what he is referring to.
He is correct, of course. The reader can be excused for not remembering the plight of Mrs. Minor Morris, who came to the White House on January 4, 1906, to ask President Theodore Roosevelt to have her husband reinstated to his post at the Army Medical Bureau. Unable to see the president and unwilling to leave, she was dragged out by police screaming and arrested for disorderly conduct, then temporarily charged as insane. She was later released and told her indignant story to reporters from her sick bed, resulting in six months of charges, countercharges, investigations and the sort of general public spectacle that Washington, even then, was good at manufacturing.
Twain's reason for inserting this into his autobiography was not because he felt it was important - but rather that it was the stuff of life. The stuff that consumes most of our time and attention, Twain is saying, may not be as important in scope as the events we believe invest our lives with meaning, but they have some importance because they illustrate the quotidian nature of existence.
The item is also instructive because of how familiar it is to our news junkie sensibilities 100 years later. One common complaint among bloggers is that daily news topics sometimes act as a convenient ideological bait and switch for "the real issue." The idea is that some group, invested in keeping "the real truth" from the public, either invents a cause celebre or serves up a steady drumbeat of stories about some inane topic and the American people conveniently seize on that topic instead of paying attention to this or that issue which begs for change. Everything from short attention spans to lack of education to the lure of "infotainment" is offered up as an explanation. If only the public weren't so gullible, we are told, then they would see these banalities for what they are, and we would finally have genuine change.
For example, a quick Google search of the words "media smokescreen" calls up accusations that the story of the "Ground Zero Mosque" was a right wing plot to divert attention from President Obama's bringing the last combat troops out of Iraq. Another site complained that last year's stories about the private peccadilloes of South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford were the liberal media's attempt to divert the nation from recognizing Obama's policy failures and inability to restart the economy.
I'm sure readers can immediately call to mind at least a dozen news stories from the past decade that received disproportionate coverage from their relative importance. It took the cataclysm of 9/11 to wipe the Gary Condit-Chandra Levy case from the 24-hour news cycle. Anna Nicole Smith's death, Michael Jackson's death and other celebrity funerals have had the same effect. The disappearance of Natalee Holloway, during the summer of 2005, was also labeled a distraction drummed up to divert attention from the mounting dead in Iraq, even as ratings mounted for chat shows that did nothing but dissect such diversions.
Critics complain of ideological bias as driving news judgments, while others point to shadowy corporate interests intent on controlling the news and thereby controlling political thought and discourse, as well as dissent.
But Twain's observations come in 1906 - before radio, television, the Internet and ideological blogs. In fact, the 24-hour news cycle did not exist in any recognizable form. News was strictly disseminated by word of mouth and by newspaper. Whatever the news topic of the day, it may not have arrived at any given spot for days, or even weeks.
Looking at the Morris incident a century on, we see that perhaps the public's appetite for news hasn't changed as much as we might like to believe. It also reveals another truth - people tend to digest these stories, and hunger for similar news, because of the stories' larger narrative significances.
Twain points out what the Morris affair says about Theodore Roosevelt and his character. "Certainly a biography's chiefest feature is the exhibition of the character of the man whose biography is being set forth," he observes, with his point being that Roosevelt was a man of extreme enthusiasms, passion and an occasional inattention to courtesy, which he naturally transferred to his secretary, who dealt with Mrs. Morris. The reason for the Morris incident's hold on the public's imagination in 1906 was what it said about the first Roosevelt White House and the occupant at that time.
The death of Anna Nicole Smith, for example, was yet another all-too-familiar example of how little happiness money can buy, or how outer beauty does not guarantee inner peace. Mark Sanford's multiple denials of infidelity, and then his daily reactions to the uncontestable proof, appeal not just to a gossipy public but act as confirmation of our worst fears about politicians - that they are, in fact, human beings. By seeing his failures, we see ourselves, or we see what we hope we might never become. It isn't a shadowy conspiracy diverting us as much as our own curiosity and temptations not to fill time with what is important, but with what is, on some level, a little more exciting, or petty or fun.
Twain's voice sounds amused and astonished: "You set the incident down which for the moment is to you the most interesting. If you leave it alone three or four weeks you wonder why you ever thought of setting such a thing down - it has no value, no importance…But that is what human life consists of - little incidents and big incidents, and they are all of the same size if we let them alone. An autobiography that leaves out the little things and enumerates only the big ones is no proper picture of the man's life at all; his life consists of his feelings and his interests, with here and there an incident apparently big or little to hang the feelings on."
Reading Twain, one is reminded that much of life is forgotten, and forgettable, but almost never dull.
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A mother who fooled two agencies - by deliberately using the wrong man for DNA tests to get her ex-partner's name removed from a birth certificate - has prompted policy changes.
Last week the Herald on Sunday revealed a 33-year-old woman pleaded guilty in the Waitakere District Court to perverting the course of justice, after taking an "unknown male" into Auckland's DNA Diagnostics clinic and introducing him as the father.
The man gave DNA samples, which the mother used to remove her ex-partner's name from her son's birth certificate. Police claim she later requested her and her son's samples be destroyed after a Family Court judge became suspicious and ordered new tests.
The mother has been granted interim name suppression to protect her son's identity. The Herald on Sunday has called the father Ryan for the same reason.
Auckland DNA Diagnostics technical manager Patricia Stapleton said parents had attempted to cheat the system in the past, but this was the first successful case of which she was aware.
She said staff were surprised about the incident and the clinic had changed its identification procedures to prevent it from happening again.
Previously, formal identification was not required if the mother and father came to the clinic together, she said.
"Historically we have always allowed three people to identify each other, but obviously that was not a good thing to do and we don't do that anymore."
Now, everyone must provide a photograph and, if possible, some form of identification.
"In that particular situation, had they all brought in photographs there would not really be a problem because the photographs could be viewed by the appropriate authorities.
"Now we require photographic ID; at minimum they have to absolutely bring in photographs."
Under the Family Proceedings Act 1980 - which covered paternity tests - DNA clinics were not legally required to ask for identification.
Department of Internal Affairs spokesman Michael Mead said there had been one other case where a parent provided false DNA tests to alter a birth certificate. He would not provide any details due to privacy reasons.
"Ryan" told the Herald on Sunday DNA Diagnostics had helped him fix the situation, but the same could not be said for the Department of Internal Affairs.
"Births, Deaths and Marriages were calling me a liar - even though I had proof they made me go through the courts to get a court order saying she lied. DNA Diagnostics bent over backwards to help me. They fixed all their systems to make sure it never happens again."


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oul to do hattie in his country's cause and right nobly did he bear himself till called from the tented field by his countrymen ,,, preside over the destinies of his state .,. her chief executive this we put down as cause number one for our pre ference 1(1 n nl ml'.l'i two it-is a conceded fact that the xorth carolina troops in the army of northern virginia and elsewhere under the foster ing care and love of gov vance and through ids untiring labors in their be half were better cared for and bet ter eqnipped lhan the soldiers of any other state the writer being at that time n private soldier 11 sharer in iiid recipient ofhis kindness and grati fied for ami mindful of his can in those toiiny jlass we put this down ns cause number two for our preference ueason nl " m 1 1 1 : 1 _ three after long weary months aid even icar of gallantry and heroism unsurpass ed in the annals of war after undergoing untold hardships and toil the baleful spirit of desertion instigated by traitors ill lo me seized upon some of our troops inventor vance alone of all the southern governors appreciating tlio duty of the hour left the executive mansion visited the army of noil hern virginia and there around the camp tires in the trenches and on the mump he warned them of tl.e evil consequences oi desertion won them linin thc error nf their ways and steadied ami strengthened them in the liue of duty i.t do or die and this we put down as i cause number three for our preference bason m ml kit 1 « mi when the war was over and the fear 1 tul struggle had closed in a gloomy night of hope when abolition malice and fiend ish hate had accomplished its ends when ' men poke wiih bated breath and an iui penetrable pall of uncertainly and dis i ■t hung ovei us gov vance alone ofl all the southern governors on account of th great and mighty love he bore his southern people aud for his unswerving j fidelity to their interests iu the prosecu 1 tion of the war was mi objectionable to the lc.!<iei ofthe north that he was iii , c.ucci.ited iu lhe old capitol prison at washington and there behind its grated bars the grandeur the nobleness and the true greatness of tlio man shone out in ins patience and his heroic endurance ' lm litis ue love him and desire to dol iiini honor and this we put down as cause ' number lour tor our pre fere nee keason nl mlt'.i five he has never cat auy dirt and has nev ' cr asked for pardon for an uncommitted i sin needing no 1 open'.inee he has simil j lated none but he is to-day the same ; glorious chivalrous noble zeb vance j lhat he was iu prison and in camp in his j official or his social sphere and thi.s wc put down as cause number live for onr preference ke i-'n i mr.l -:\. in l-7 gw vance was almost thc unanimous choice of the democracy of the state for i'nited states senator he wa defrauded ofhis election by a com bination of radicals and a few disaffect ed democrats that justice must be done and a merited rebuke meted out to his enemies we desire his election now and t'lio we put down as cause number ix for in preterei ce reason nl ■mil kit seven he is the most objectionable and dis tasteful man in the state to the kadicai party and as it is a safe criterion to love those things and honor the men thev dis like he i.s therefore our first choice for senator and this we pat down as cause number seven for our preference axotfeeb who wn 1 i:k(.(i(.ni/j those reasons lour correspondent could enumerate muses for his preference ad infinitum but t],e aforesaid are the chief causes by wlijidi he is swayed and he is acquainted witl une more besides himself who i.s act uated by the same reasons he is a white il'wi was a confederate soldier is ubi liiitous ami his naiiie is legion he can be found nearer hjs god on the bleak mountain tops ofthe cloud lands f the west ou tin rolling hill and smiling dales ofthe center in the swamps and on tbe savannas of the east on flic barren sands of the coast and his pilot boat far out on the waves of the atlantic he keeps his lonely vigils he is omnipresent and in tin coming contest he will be politically omnipotent objection's to meheimox that judge merrimon is the possessor of brilliant talents and is a pure patriot that he has made a splendid and enviable j record and has raised tho standard ofj statesmanship high above any ofhis pre decessors none will be so silly as to even attempt to gainsay yet to attain his station he lent himself as a willing tool to bolters we do not like the manner of judge merrimon's election it defeated the expressed wishes of the party and he j and his supporters deserve rebuke vanck till ctioic of th party governor nance has always been equal to any emergency his genius has cast a1 lustre over every position to which he has been called and judging him by thei lijdit of thc past wc have everv reason to ' believe that should he be elected senator he will till the full measure ofthe require i ments of tin position with honor aud 1 . edit to himself and the state he pos ; susses iii an eminent degree all the quali fications of judge merrimon he is his peer in every particular and over and above all this he is thc unmistakable choice of a vast majority of the demo cratic party to those whose behests we should cheerfully bow casting aside all personal preferences governor vance has lost much of his popularity in this immediate vicinity owing to his unfortu nate selection ofthe railroad appointees j this however we think was an error of tl.e head and not of the heart which error j we hope in lime to see remedied old fashioned democuat piety fortompany it is not unusual for peopte to keep ! their best household things the be-t bed and china for their guests sonic keep for them iheir best looks and words some go still farther and keep all their piety for i hem not a bit of it do they use for themselves or for their fu miles it is never seen 011 ordinary occasions and so perhaps is all the nicer and there is j all llie in nc of it for company enough of ii there surely is if not a surfeit the visitor is treated to if with a liberality like that of the western housewife who on being told by her minister that she might put less molasses in his tea insist ed thai if she made it all molasses it wouldn't be any too good for iiim it was mrs sinipkins pallor a nice re ligions-looking parlor very a mon strous great bible bound in morocco and ; gold w itli a purple ribbon book-mark a yard long dangling with crucifixes lay alone in seeming saeredness on the centre table three certificates of life member ship iu religious societies hung in heavy gilt frames upon the wall no idle orna ments or vain curiosities on the what-not but divine songs and sacred hymns bax ter's saint kest taylor's holy living and dying how's blessedness of the righteous books of exaltt-d piety tlmt bear their readers like angel wings tothe very gates of the beautiful ciiy besides them were choice piles of magazines la beled guide lo holiness the air of the place was still and sol emn almost holy deacon wilson felt that il was while he waited therefor mrs simpkins he took up a number of thc guide to holiness and opened it per fect love 1 leaven below living be low lur privileges he read in the table of contents what a goodly woman sister simpkins j i !" he said lo himself and laid the mag l a/.ine in place feeling hinislf so far from holiness that the very title of the articles were discouraging to him 1 am ulad there are some good people he added looking around ihe room at the ' parlor bible and the life memberships | yes sister simpkins is a very devoted woman mrs simpkins entered with a sweet and placid countenance and grave subdued manner like one just leaving chapel ser vice or closet im dilation and in low chastened tunes welcomed tiie deacon and assured him of her lijgh estimate of the privilege of christian communion of the strength she derived from christian association the comfort from christian sympathy the deacon had barely time to make a suitable response when she inquired and what is the state of ion deacon what say the watchmen on her walls the question was general and the dea con was safe iu the answer few go in at thc gates and why why is it exclaimed mrs simpkins with a tone of touching solici tude why must wc wait so long to see the spirit of god poured out ? surely the fault is in ourselves thc church is liv ing far below hei duty and privilege too many of us are not yet sanctified wholly sanctilied one with the lord too many of us still ding to the world still have appetites for the flesh-pots of egypt wo have come out of the world and we must not look back oli groaned the good deacon l feel sometimes that i am the acl*an in the ' camp of israel tbe jonah that hinders the ship 1 do you ever read the guide to hbli ] ness asked mrs sinipkins when she had fully delivered her opinions on the condition und duty oftho church the deacon confessed that he had not it's an excellent work deacon said mrs simpkins with increased warmth of manner i can recommend it with en tire confidence i bare taken it for years and lind it very spiritual perhaps you would like to read it take the last num ber if you would thank you sister ; uot to-day some other time perhaps the work strenuously urges the doc trine of entire sanctilication ; that it is the privilege of all christians what do you think of it deacon questioned mis sinipkins o 1 don't know sighed the good 111:111 the command is be ye holy as i am holy hut oli dear sometimes i'm afraid that i haven't even been justified — that after all i shall be a cast-away ." ve need faith faith to lay hold on the promises,1 urge mis simpkins but my life is so poor sister groan ed the deacon , t come so far short in everything the thing i would not i do and what i would i do not i believe it is our privilege to live above sin began mrs sinipkins when the door opened and a smutty uncared for little fellow of half-a-dozen veins put in his head ves darling you may take one off the bureau now don't disturb mother any more i believe it is our blessed privilege resumed mrs sinipkins fo live above in to have christ dwelling in us contin ually filling us with perfect love raising us above all doubts and fears and st rengtli ening us with the hope of glory a blessed privilege echoed lhe dea con and rose to go i thank you for this visit deacon " said mrs sinipkins i think it is good for the saints to speak one to another conic again soon deacon and borrow my guide to holiness " thank you thank you said the kind hearted deacon hastening his movement seemingly at this second mention of the magazine thank you i am glad we meet so often in the house of god sister i am never willingly absent from the means of grace answered mrs simpkiii with something like a glow of satisfution iu her sweet face 1 am glad you love cod's worship sis ter good-by and thc deacon took his leave in 110 way benefited by his visit nnd feeling that he had conferred no benefit mrs simp kins was 011 spiritual heights far above him he could not touch the hem of her garment she hew up stairs to her nursery and snatched the baby from bridget now go to your washing as quick as you can and try and have it done in some kind of season for once and have your dinner cooked decently for once if you can not a word of thanks to the poor ser vant for having held the poor baby so long while her work was undone below stairs what had so suddenly changed mrs sinipkins look and manners what had driven away her sweetness and pla cidity her heavenly smile how chang ed her voice was ? so keen and cutting how angry she looked as she called to her little son : • jimmy come here !" the boy obeyed now don't you ever come again to the parlor when i'm there with company she exclaimed to thc young intruder as she cuffed ii i 111 lirst on one ear and then 011 the other making both ring she did not call him darliug then you're the worst boy 1 ever saw she went on i have no idea what you'll grow up to be how many times have i told you not to come tn the parlor when i'm therewith company ? and yet you always come just as sure as i ani there in comes your frowsy head this was tine for thc child was bright enough to know his opportunity the only sweet liberal time his mother ever had was when she was under the obser vation of com pa 113 then for appear ance sake she would give him what he asked for lie always had to pay for ii afterwards in tingling ears and smarting flesh but he was well accustomed tough ened aud did not mind them much this unsaintly and unwholesome treat ment had only just been administered to jimmy when an odor of burning food was perceptible bridget screamed mrs sinipkins your soup is binning bridget !" no answer and leaving the baby with jim my mrs simpkins flew to the kitchen and snatched a kettle from the stove what made you let the soup burn she exclaimed as bridget entered 1 was yn the shed ma'am " but you ought not to be out of your kitchen when you've anythng on the lire but i had to hang out the clothes ma'am or they wouldn't be dried i was so long with the baby lhat thc washing's far buck l'la'ain 1 never saw anything like it you've always some excuse no matter what you do why didn't you set the soup back while yoq were in the shed ■i did not think of it sure and why didn't you think of it ! i've tried so hard to make a good girl of you and 1 declare i'm most tired out well i've thought of giving you a rest from me there's no use in so much said and beiug so tired all for a sup of broth no words bridget : i never allow my girls to answer back it is bad enough to have a thing burnt up without any impu dence from you yon can look out for another girl to do your work i can't suit yon and you've leave to find one that can how foolish in you bridget to get mad just for nothing it was my place to get angry and not yours it was my money that was burnt in the soup ah and there was no money burnt at all and no loss of soup either for the childien and me'll have it to ate burnt or not burnt — as you yourself knows well and it's not at all about the soup either from morning until night whenever your selt's in the house and i'm running here and there for the children and yourself and me work to be doue all the same and ye never pleased but always this is wrong and the other ain't right and mc working till i can't hold me two feet twunst tothe flour and thin i've never done the work half well enough if you are dissatisfied you had better go bridget ; but lirst consider what it is to have a good steady place with good religious people you i iish girls never know when vou are well off and it's not well off any one is that works in this house answered bridget i shan't listen to any more of your im pudence bridget 1 wish you to keep on with your work till i get another girl said mrs sinipkins then was something indecscribably galling and oppressing in her tone and manner that roused the worst feelings the generous good-natured bridget was ca llable of and she dashed the dipper from her to the floor before mrs simpkins had turned her back mr simkius came home tared and worn with business and the lirst thing that fell upon his ear was the dash of the dipper and the next a complaint from his wife what worthless things these servants arc what now ?" he asked h bridget lias flared up what's the matter she complains of her work i don't much wonder she's at iteve ry morning at ."> o'clock and i leave her hard at it when i go to bed and yet i do not believe it is ever doue well whose fault is it 1 should like to know *.'" asked mrs simpkins it isn't mine i know answered her husband ; and it don't seem to be bridg et's then i suppose you'll have it that it's mine responded his wife 1 didn't say so vou might as well do you think so / now whose fault is it all our girls complain of being over worked and scolded and underfed and underpaid ; and you have the whole man agement of things here i leave all house matters to you — " and this i.s what i get for my manage ment interrupted mrs s but not all responded her husband yon get a great reputation for piety : a great deal of time to go to meetings male and female sewing societies maternal as sociations anniversaries and every other religious meeting far and near that you can hear of aud you get money for guides to holiness and life member ships and great expensive frames to hang tlieir certificates in thereby obeying the divine command not to let your left hand know what your right hand doeth all your good work done secretly that you may be rewaidcd openly what has all this todo with bridget interrupted mrs simpkins a little touch ed by the cutting irony it lias a great deal to do with her answered her husband if it puts a part of your work on her or tires you out so as to make you cross and unreasonable with her or if it makes you pinch her iu wages or deny her in food or wrong her in any way : you'll allow that won't you ves if it dies well don't it ? i ask the question what ! would you have me do more than 1 do now !" perhaps not more but i would have j you do somewhat differently you eau i make some equalization he as sweet and | angelic with bridget as you are with your , deacons as mild in the nursery where j only god and the children hear you as j you would be if the maternal association j were here show a little of your dead j ness to the world and heavenly-minded j ness when the new fashions come stop i taking the guide to holiness and give the money to bridget as her rightful due ■don't furnish up the parlor v ith any more religious show till you have given her as i good wages as you would think yourself j deserving if you were iu her place don't j go to a single meeting w hen she will lose , more by your going than yuu will gain ! don't say any more to the church about • sanctilication here below till you have made your own family think such a thing is possible learn to be just before you j even aim at perfection ; learn to be patient before you think yon have reached it and be sure aud take the opinion of those who know you best before you come to a settled opinion on the subject don't think i'm persecuting yon wife or anything of the sort i am glad you are a pious woman and that is the reason why i married you every mau likes to have a good wife : i want a little of your piety myself and the children wouldn't be the worse for some nor bridget neither we are not deacons nor ministers nor saints but we should like to im treated in a sweet heav enly way sometimes and perhaps twould make us better i am sure it would make us happier and you too suppose you try to give us a little more family piety this is my first sermon and i hope it will be productive of good there is no com pany here so i won't pretend that it has been preached from a sense of duty but because i feel out of patience and just like speaking my whole mind well what did mrs sinipkins say iu answer thi.s only that she was glad there was one in her own family to hear him ; that she was glad there were some people who bad a good opinion of her that thc kev dr smoothtongue had told some of the church that very week he wished there were a few more women just like her polishing calf-skin two years ago john l garthman of lew iston me graduated with honors at vale as during his years in college he had in addition to his regular studies read law with an attorney of xew haven it only required a year iu a law office at kokonie ind to lir him for admission to the bar after wliich he immediately came to xew york and tried to get into prac tice unfortunately for mr garthman he j discovered that there were already 0,000 lawyers in this city all trying to get in | to practice and there was about as much chance for hi 111 as being elected to the presi dency oflice rent and board bills soon consumed the little means he had and he was at the end of his string as he was a month in arrears his landlady commen ced to regard him with looks not altogeth | er pleasant and the prompt landlord who owned the ollice he occupied notified him to pay or get out mr garthman dis covered that while there was plenty of room on the upper shelves it would re quire a great many years of climbing and that he would probably starve to death a great many times before he could reach j even the lowest of the said upper shelves so he determined to quit law and try something else he was a sensible young ! man and so he did not — ask for the management ofa mannfac i tilling corporation apply for the position of actuary in a life insurance company ask for the presidency of the board of education ask for the managing editorship ofa daily paper apply for the cashiership ofa bank or anything of the kind but he did find something he could do ' down in one of the streets close to wall under the sidewalk ofa popular restaurant j he noticed a light clean open space that | was unoccupied he went to the pro j prietor of the restaurant and took that 1 place at a nomiual rent and promptly j pawning his ulster to produce stock ! opened businesss there as a bootblack ! as a matter of course he did not wish to be known as a polisher of boots up i town for he was living in it rather exclu sive boarding house to which only the most respectable were admitted it was no trouble to conceal iiis idenity somo old clothes smutch of black artistically ; palced on his pantaloons iu his boots and no human being could reeognfoein garth mau bootblack the fashionable and ele j gant mr garthman of the twenty-first street his venture was entirely successful he was something of a wit in his way j and entertained his patrons judiciously while he polished their boots and then 1 there was something about him which at j traded the young brokers who freqnen j ted the restaurant and he entered upou i a career of prosperity that was delightful • i j is earnings frequently ran as high as j six dollars a day and his business in two \ weeks increased so that he had to employ i an assistant his changed condition attracted atten tion at his boarding-house it had become well known that he had been impecu nious and now the fact that he had bet ter clothes and was again carrying his watch aud paid all his billspromptly led to much comment had he abandoned law ? yes and gone into business what business polish j iu call-skin and be was congratulated at his success and became a very popular voung man and was received into the verv best boarding-house society was it possible that a young man like john l garthman slionld go through life , without love .' never in the same house resided an old gentleman a merchant who knew just when to quit who with | his daughter occupied the best apai i ments in this house lillie pickham the daugh - ter was a delightful girl and garthman and she became very much attached to each other and there was a decent pros pect that in time they would make up their minds to go through life together but garthman had as who has not had a hated rival a broker named bathurst who l?v-rd at the same house had cast his eyes upou the girl and inflamed faff her excellencies as well u the comfortable fortune she was sure to po sess deter mined to possess her lillie favored ; gartham and the father favored bathnrst and so it was about an eveu race between them bathurst did not lielieve in mr garth man's business for there was something 1 msyterious about if garthman when asked where his place of business was ; had always replied vaguely down j town with a sweep ofthe city bathnrst had searched ail the directories for in tor nation in vain no such name appeared j and no such business either and so he i plied tin old gentleman with suspicious intimating that probably the yonng man was a dealer in a faro bank a bmuggler a policy dealer and all that till both he and lillie were nearly crazy finally the following conversation ensued mr garth man i insist before you are seen with my daughter any more upon knowing who you are aud what you arc doing and where yoa are doing it !" mr pickham i am john 1 garth man i earn money enough to support your daughter properly and for the rest must decline to answer you decline do you j jfo man who has anything to conceal sliall have any thing to do with a daughter of mine and in consequence a sti ick injunction was laid upon the girl to see him no more wliich she violated just as often as she could get out of the house one day mr bathurst entered the res taurant iu which mr garthman plied his brush and sat down in the chair to have ' his boots cleaned mr garthman kept , his face averted as much as possible bnt mr bathurst observed him iuteutly lie sinned and paid his ten cents and went out in an hour he came back and though his boots were yet clean he sat down again at the conclusion of the opera tion he remarked : ha ha mr garthman this is the polishing of calf-skins you do ! ha ! ha ! and taking a coupe he hastened up town full of the discovery he had his ! rival in his power now miss lillie would throw garthman over now the elder pickham would insist that all connection between them cease for of course he would never permit his daughter to mat 1 ry a bootblack and he lost no time in ; getting at the old man and telling uiuil his discover . do you pretend to say that john garthman is blacking boots in a base ment cei'tainly i do he has an old suit of clothes which in wears during the day and the when his work is done he puts on his good clothes and comes up here imposing himself upon us as a gentleman he's au imposter he was a lawyear wasn't he '.'" ves lillie yelled the old gentleman somewhat red in t'ie face come here you may take john garthman as soon as you please 1 like the fellow bathnrst if yon had been fixed as he was yon would have borrowed of your friends and thence glided gently inlo deadbeat ing and ended finally as a dealer of faro john did'nt do anything of the kind he set about earning a living honestly and has succeeded that young fellow will getjon good-bye bathui-t you iiav dime us a favor garthman won't black jour boots a great while and so the troubled john was pleas antly received and all restrictions we e taken oil the meeting of the young ones and mr bathurst quit the house in dis gust and the twain are to be made one very soon mr garthman has resumed the practice ofthe law and as mr rick ham has iufluence it is probable that he will get 011 very well this little romaqeo ended properly we would not however advise all young lawyers to go to bootblackiog for then that profession would bo overdone and j besides all old gentlemen might not be as sensible as mr pickham however 1 i few of them might try u to theadvautago \ not only of themselves but the world - j f.v v evening mail thc following is the official vote of the gubernatorial and congressional ejection in the 7th district for 1870 robhins dula vance settle alexander 8u7 37 hh 35 alleghanv 51 133 513 154 ashe 108 j 811 l»hi7 7 davie 1018 697 101 1 70 kor.-vth mini 1 4-ii 14.'.4 i'i 10 iredell -•-•"• 1 1307 &*•-*» spa kowan shio 1201 2163 12-0 s-m-rv 1360 7 i 1042 watauga 090 30 676 301 wi 1328 j484 1 149 vadkin 900 1073 849 1112 bobbins 137 1 9649 13467 10072 a ance 13467 bobbin maj 257 printers ink will keep the hinges of tho store doors loose why is an editor amoral man ? because he always does write charles beade claims to have forgotten even the names ol some of his early books vaper sir ?*' asked thenewsboy xo i never read was the blunt answer hi boys come lere called out the gamin heres a man as is practisin for the jury '" — ■^ drinking ice-water there is no more doubt that miking 101 water arrest digestion than thero is that a refrigerator would arrest perspira tion it drives from the stomach its mt andheat ospeod the sow of gastric juice and shocks j weakens the deli cate rgans with wliich it eomes iu con tact an able write ,.., human disease snys habitual ice-water drinkers are usually very flabby about the region of the stomach tliey complain that their tood lies heavy on that patient organ rhey taste their diaserf hour_af.er it is bolted they cultivate the use of stimulants to aid digestion if thev are intelligent they read upon food and what the physician has to say about it how long it rakes cabbage and pork and beef aad potatoes and other meats a escu lents to go through the process of assimi lation they mir at new bread hot cake fried meat imagining these to have been the cause of maladies but the ice water goes down all the same and li 1 . friends are called in to take a farewell look at one whom a mysterious providence has called to aclinic where as far as is known ice-water is not used the num ber of immortal beings who go hence to return no more on account of au injudi cious use of ice water can hardly be es timated the spurs of the liberator gov hampton of south carolina has been sent by a new port admirer mi w w woolsey a splendid pair of silver spurs with the following note these spurs were made by the bogatano b»lv smiths after bolivar struck tiie s kles from < u ir limbs ami mado then ftee thej may well be worn by one who u.is made equal rights befi i ■the law a bless inganda reality to so many thousand freedmen lime a southerner mi his death a well dressed man who ive his name a wm holt of caswell county n c and who had been run over in a main was taken to trenton \. i . lyedncs day morning by the eastward bound owl train on the pennsylvania liailroad he died at 7 a m and his bod as placed i die morgue the new haven c i register saya-t if this ort of suiuiiiei is going to be the usual thing in this latitude somebody will have to g.t up summer excursions to the tropics v o nearer the iin than new orleans they an comparatively cool with und n mid inelcganl familiarity tin chicago alliance calls ihe hon alex ander ii stephens a slight bundle ol un limited energy and describes iiis voice as so feeble that it sounfls i : l i tin pho nograph copy of somebody else's the fate of a i . tat religious newspa per ent rprise iu chicago induces it pro jector to remark with some acerbity now let the devil foreclosoon this town as soon as he wants to the tunic i'al*s reporter remarks . if edison would n w only iu vent a coun try editor v ho could with a headache at tachment write three nr four columns .,{ brilliancy in seventeen minutes for a pa per i lat didn't begin to pay he wuuld improve i the prevailing animal we fancy somebody in the louisville l oarier journal wild suggests that since most of the writing in newspaper offices is done with bail pencils it would be well to rc construct richelieu's aphorism thus the iencil called the lain i's more po tent than tin sabre '•!- there an opening here fir an intel lectual writer asked a seedy red-nosed individual of an editor yes my friend replied the man of quills a considerate carpenter foreseeing your visit let n opening for yoa : turn the knob to tho liglit !" an english medical authoiity says that the nam who blows the big horn in a band rarely i.e beyond a period oi three year this is about two year cloven montlis and twenty-nine days lon ger than hi next door neighbor wants h;ni to live musical reel the scrvanl i:l stays in the kitchen bu two dollars a week while the master daughter remain in tin parloraud spends i'a j 1 illars a week in atl rniag hei per en which will make the better wife j every mce in a whilo we hear ■.{' *, california woman killing a he that i all : : dit i'a we cbaljeijg i lie « ■rid to i n-iok the pages of !■: tor and shovi ■where a woi an bas ever gol i •.■• ay with y mouse a brave man i one who is >* afraid to wear old clothes nutil he can afford t buy new ah editors are heroes atlanta constil ition a smoker in poitutnoutb x i . lind ing that his ciga wouldn't draw cut ii open and discovered a cartridge v li the bullet toward the mouth .*:.*_. an observer tares that aliout tl.iv fifths of the jury trials iu this county iu elude at least one man on the jury uu ought to have been born a mule
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the carolina watchman vol ix third series salisbury n c august 8 1878 ho 42 uk senatorial struggle " jieasoji showing why coventor ■,,' mould he elated men-ilium's , 1 ■/.,'<• methods nf obtaining pro miau'li . , inden ■• ot the sews ni.w berne july 30 mania has secmi ugly seized upon lry oue to ventilate through the press ' pinions upon the merrininn-vance fflbreglio nj m mr correspondent has kilned the malady but has an itch ," write lu will with your permis j sion indulge in a little ink-slinging and j . 1(.-..,oiin why all his preferences i vance reason number one q g6l when northern venom avarice envy ac 1,;i1 ui iu khehnritablcues j l^.l'.iiliiiiaai.d in a civil war when the trpad of armed men had echoed over the land win all of onr dearest rights were , lied and imperiled when the black forbidding w.-ti cloud that hovered over ,,., bui-t upon us with all its terrible con necs zebulou b vance recognizing -,** duty did not stand hesitating but stniichtway donned the gray and went oul to do hattie in his country's cause and right nobly did he bear himself till called from the tented field by his countrymen ,,, preside over the destinies of his state .,. her chief executive this we put down as cause number one for our pre ference 1(1 n nl ml'.l'i two it-is a conceded fact that the xorth carolina troops in the army of northern virginia and elsewhere under the foster ing care and love of gov vance and through ids untiring labors in their be half were better cared for and bet ter eqnipped lhan the soldiers of any other state the writer being at that time n private soldier 11 sharer in iiid recipient ofhis kindness and grati fied for ami mindful of his can in those toiiny jlass we put this down ns cause number two for our preference ueason nl " m 1 1 1 : 1 _ three after long weary months aid even icar of gallantry and heroism unsurpass ed in the annals of war after undergoing untold hardships and toil the baleful spirit of desertion instigated by traitors ill lo me seized upon some of our troops inventor vance alone of all the southern governors appreciating tlio duty of the hour left the executive mansion visited the army of noil hern virginia and there around the camp tires in the trenches and on the mump he warned them of tl.e evil consequences oi desertion won them linin thc error nf their ways and steadied ami strengthened them in the liue of duty i.t do or die and this we put down as i cause number three for our preference bason m ml kit 1 « mi when the war was over and the fear 1 tul struggle had closed in a gloomy night of hope when abolition malice and fiend ish hate had accomplished its ends when ' men poke wiih bated breath and an iui penetrable pall of uncertainly and dis i ■t hung ovei us gov vance alone ofl all the southern governors on account of th great and mighty love he bore his southern people aud for his unswerving j fidelity to their interests iu the prosecu 1 tion of the war was mi objectionable to the lc.!


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Business leaders urge George Osborne to drive growth
BUSINESS leaders will today urge Chancellor George Osborne to "pull out the stops" to enable companies to drive Britain's economic growth.
The British Chambers of Commerce believes a double-dip recession will be avoided after the economy contracted 0.2 per cent in the fourth quarter of last year but has downgraded its GDP growth forecast for this year from 0.8 per cent to 0.6 per cent before predicting an upturn to 1.8 per cent in 2013.
With the Bank of England expected to mark three years of record low interest rates this week by holding the base rate at 0.5 per cent, the BCC predicts this figure will remain until the final months of 2013 because of the weak growth outlook.
The Chancellor must pull out the stops to enable British businesses to drive growth here at home
However, it does not expect more money to be pumped into the economy beyond the current £325billion quantitative easing programme.
BCC director general John Longworth warned that while it is important that Britain's credibility in international markets is maintained by the deficit reduction programme, Osborne must deliver a Budget later this month to "bring confidence to businesses".
He said: "The Chancellor must pull out the stops to enable British businesses to drive growth here at home. There is room within the current spending envelope for measures that will encourage firms to export, invest and grow. Only the private sector will drive recovery and help deliver public services.
"Real deregulation, a simple easy- to-use planning system, improving the flow of credit to firms and improving our lacklustre infrastructure and skills system – these are measures businesses want to see from a Government confident enough to take radical measures to squeeze every last drop out of the UK economy."
With the Government coming under renewed pressure from business leaders to consider expansion of London's Heathrow airport to improve air links to emerging markets such as China and India, the BCC called for the Budget to include an aviation strategy that also delivers growth opportunities for regional airports.
It also believes consideration should be given to creating an SME (small and medium-sized enterprises) bank to improve the flow of credit to viable businesses and radical planning system reforms to boost business expansion.
Although the Chancellor unveiled a plan in his autumn statement to encourage private sector pension schemes to invest £20billion in infra- structure – stimulating growth by bankrolling the building of power stations, roads and railways – he was urged to speed up reform.
Business organisation the CBI said there are 52 major proposed projects in the pipeline, including wind farms and nuclear power stations, which have yet to reach application stage.
CBI deputy director-general Dr Neil Bentley said: "Investing in major infrastructure projects will bring big rewards for our economy with new jobs and growth.
"But investors both at home and abroad must have the confidence that the planning system will deliver timely decisions, so the Government needs to act now. Waiting for a much fuller review in 2014 would be a lost opportunity."


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Friday Financial Five – August 10th, 2012
Friday, August 10, 2012
RI unemployment numbers are still dismal
The latest unemployment numbers continue to disappoint for Rhode Island, coming in at 11.2 percent, second highest in the country. The most pressing issue is creating job opportunities for the state's lower to middle earners. It sounds simple, but the unemployment number won't come down until red tape is cut and incentives increased for entrepreneurs. The onus isn't simply on political leaders to get us out of the economic doldrums. Economic initiatives are useless unless small business owners take advantage of incentives and inexpensive borrowing costs to create jobs.
With President Obama's health care reform upheld, 2013 will bring two new taxes on higher income earners, so incorporate that into your financial strategy. The big one will primarily consist of a 3.8% surcharge on net investment income. That means you might consider reducing or avoiding annuity income, rents, taxable interest, and dividends in order to escape this tax. You might also consider increasing your municipal bond holdings in taxable accounts. The second tax is the Medicare Hospital Insurance Tax of 0.9%, which is based strictly on wage income. If you're near the income thresholds, you might increase retirement plan contributions or take advantage of other pre-tax methods to save yourself the near 1% surcharge.
Investment Spotlight: Room to run for REITs?
The yearly return for REITs has topped 30% for the last 3 years, including 8% last year when the S&P was basically flat. The inflow of money has sent the prices on real estate related securities skyward, and in turn, decreased the dividend yield below 4% in many cases. For those looking for income, that still might be a high enough yield to justify continued exposure to the real estate sphere. Keep in mind that if you own investment property, you're already exposed to this asset class and should include it when evaluating your investment allocation. You may not want to double down by also owning a large percentage of REITs in your portfolio.
Not So Easy Target
A feature of many auto-enrolled retirement plans is the use of target date funds based on the participant's age and perceived retirement year. If you're currently 45 years old, this might mean using a target date fund of 2035. There are a few things to consider here. As the 2008 crisis taught us, some of these funds are managed with assumptions that may not match your goals, such as working into retirement or taking on a riskier portfolio mix. The other consideration is the menu of available funds outside of the target date funds. Using a mixture of funds may allow for greater control and diversification than a target fund that's primarily focused on investing in domestic equities.
Unclaimed property
A pet project is making sure as many people as possible visit www.missingmoney.com (partnering with the state) to check and see if they have unclaimed property awaiting them. It may be residual money from when you lived at a prior address, but it's still your money. Don't be discouraged if you submit a claim and the response is slow. That seems to be par for the course. There's no reason to let your money sit there when it could be working for you.
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LONDON (AP) — Britain's Tate gallery says it will return a painting by John Constable that was stolen from its Hungarian owner by the Nazis during World War II.
The gallery said Thursday that the government's advisory committee on contested artworks had recommended that "Beaching A Boat, Brighton 1824" be returned to claimants who wish to remain anonymous.
Tate said it accepted the ruling.
Britain's Spoliation Advisory Panel said the oil painting had been owned by a Hungarian collector from a Jewish background who went into hiding in 1944. It said his property was confiscated, and the painting was likely "looted by the Germans in 1944 or early 1945."
The committee said the gallery had a moral obligation to return the painting to the family of the man, who died in 1958.


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Namco Bandai Games has released new screenshots of Naruto Storm Revolution featuring the Second Tsuchikage, Muu! Known for his particle style kekkei tota (and as the Null-Man for his skill of being able to hide his presence completely), the Second Tsuchikage pulls off a few of his tricks in developer CyberConnect2′s latest fighter. In one screenshot he shows his ability to split into two physical forms and attack, while in a few of the others he launches his particle style jutsu!
Past Naruto Storm Revolution Screenshots
- Naruto Storm Revolution: Second Mizukage Screenshots January 24, 2014
- Naruto Storm Revolution: 4th Kazekage Screenshots January 22, 2014
- Naruto Storm Revolution High Quality Edo Kage, Team 7 Screenshots January 20, 2014
- Naruto Storm Revolution Jump Festa Demo Screenshots December 21, 2013
- Naruto Storm Revolution: Over 30 Images of Mecha Naruto December 20, 2013
- Naruto Storm Revolution: First 30 Screenshots, Confirmed for Europe December 2, 2013
Naruto Shippuden: Ultimate Ninja Storm Revolution is the latest game in Namco Bandai and CyberConnect2's acclaimed Naruto Storm series. It'll contain team jutsus and over 100 playable characters, including an original character and awakening by Naruto creator Masashi Kishimoto. Naruto Shippuden: Ultimate Ninja Storm Revolution is planned for a 2014 release worldwide for the Sony PlayStation 3 and Microsoft Xbox 360. No exact date has been announced at this time.


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I was just browsing blogs and found something super fun on A Book Lovers Review's blog.
She posted a photo of herself with Patch. I lol'd and had to try it!
Check out the APP on Becca's Website, here.
I couldn't really find the right photo, but you get the drift! hehe:)


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Here they are, my 5 good things!
Link me to your current "good things" if you've blogged about them!
Glad to hear you're making progress with your doctors!! Hope everything goes well :)
Renee | Lose the Road
Hope everything goes well with the tests. Love your skirt - hope you can get it fixed! xReplyDelete
Hope you're feeling a bit brighter now Victoria - and today you can perk back up with those adorable little ones!! xReplyDelete
I was diagnosed with CFS last year and remember feeling upset that it had got to that point when I was referred and I hadn't managed to get myself better! However, it's positive that your GP is being proactive in trying to help you. And remember, even if it is CFS people can, and do, make good recoveries in time!ReplyDelete
If you see this reply will you drop me an email or leave your email address here? Thanks! XDelete
Sure, what's your email? Had a quick look but couldn't find it on the blog.ReplyDelete
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I have M.E./C.F.S. which started with glandular fever too. It's not easy to be told you have something which is very mis-understood and incurable but there are definitely ways to improve the situation. I wish you the very best of luck & if you have any questions at all, my email is firstname.lastname@example.com
I had to giggle at your buttons opening! lol! xx
Oh. That's a bit pants about the Dr's and all the visits. Fingers crossed your results are positive and there is something you can do to get better.
I'm off to Canada in a few weeks and I'm debating how much extra space I'm going to need for the b&bw shopping spree I'll be doing!
Sorry to hear you're still not feeling great. I'm not a doctor or an expert but I suffered from post viral fatigue syndrome after having glandular fever and it is horrible. But I have found that trying to take care of myself more (more rest, less stress - harder than it seems!) has helped to extend the good periods and the super tired, achey and generally miserable periods are less frequent. I know it's a different journey for everyone, but the positive thing is that you are getting help from medical professionals and hopefully they will be able to help. Sending lots of hugs
Oh I'm gutted that you're having to look into cfs now. I was diagnosed with cfs/m.e over 7 years ago and I go through good and bad periods but as long as you can stay positive and use your energy wisely you can still lead a relatively normal life, just in a different way! xReplyDelete


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My son drew the top image in rebuttal to my own artwork depicting two characters from my book. Epatras and Timera are the first father and mother, aka: Adam and Eve.
My son, he's 9, thought that Adam would be caucasian with a buz cut. He must also have though he had no legs.
I know what your thinking. I thought that drawing was done by a 4 year old, but 9?!
Here's the good news, he's really good at math.
I don't know what the first humans looked like, but they had to carry all the genes for the races we know today.
In my book this is what they looked like.


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Latest Wyoming news, sports, business and entertainment
Engineers build wall to slop sliding butte
JACKSON, Wyo. (AP) - Workers in Jackson are building a massive wall officials hope will temporarily stop a landslide that is slowly moving down a hillside.
The Jackson Hole News & Guide reports crews used backhoes and excavators on Wednesday to build concrete barriers as high as 10 feet along a road.
Geologists say road-grading projects over decades may have contributed to a slow-moving landslide that has displaced residents of four homes and two small apartment buildings and cut off road access to dozens of other homes.
The ground has cracked and is slipping at a rate of about an inch a day. At the foot of the slide, the earth is bulging upward and buckling the pavement in a pharmacy parking lot. Officials say there is little chance of a catastrophe.
Judge issues narrow ruling in public records case
CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) - A state judge has ruled that elected officials cannot use the Wyoming Public Records Act to obtain massive amounts of internal documents from other government agencies.
District Judge Peter Arnold issued the narrow ruling recently in a lawsuit filed by state schools Superintendent Cindy Hill against Gov. Matt Mead and the state Department of Education director.
Hill is seeking correspondence among employees in the department and the governor's office.
While Arnold ruled Hill can't seek the documents as superintendent, he noted she can still seek them as a private individual. Hill filed the lawsuit in both her capacity as superintendent and as a private citizen.
Bruce Moats, Hill's attorney, says the lawsuit continues and the state is supplying some records but still withholding others that the governor's office considers privileged.
Poll: most Wyomingites trust state government
CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) - A recent Gallup poll shows that 76 percent of Wyoming residents have a great deal or fair amount of trust in their state government.
The percentage is the second-highest among states.
Only North Dakota, at 77 percent had a higher ranking than Wyoming.
The poll's results are based on interviews with at least 600 residents in every state and were conducted between June and December 2013.
Gov. Matt Mead commented that the poll results are a compliment to those in state government and to the Legislature. He says having a citizen Legislature is one of the keys to good state government.
Davis dies, will provides for ranch use by UW, CSU
CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) - The will of a wealthy Denver philanthropist who has died contains an incentive for the University of Wyoming and Colorado State University to use a ranch for agricultural education rather than sell the property.
Amy Davis died Wednesday. She was 86.
Davis' personal representative, Tyson Dines, said Thursday that Davis' will sets aside a considerable amount to support teaching at the Y Cross Ranch. He wouldn't specify the amount.
University officials said they were saddened by Davis' death but had no additional comment.
Davis donated her family's southeast Wyoming ranch to the UW Foundation and CSU Research Foundation in 1997. Davis later expressed concern the Y Cross saw little use for hands-on teaching.
Preparations to sell prompted Davis to sue in 2012. She lost before the Wyoming Supreme Court in March.
Gov. Matt Mead meets with Taiwanese officials
CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) - Gov. Matt Mead has met with Taiwanese officials in Cheyenne and says he looks forward to building greater trade and cooperation with the island nation that has a powerful hunger for Wyoming coal.
Mead welcomed officials to the Wyoming State Capitol on Thursday including Andy Chin, the director general of the Taipei Economic and Cultural Office in Seattle. The governor visited Taiwan last year.
Mead called Thursday's visit a great opportunity for Wyoming to build on its relationship with Taiwan. He says he hopes the state can increase tourism as well as trade.
Chin says Taiwan sees coal imports as critical for its national energy.
Wyoming has run into some opposition from states in the Northwest to its plan to export coal to Asian markets through deep-water ports there.
Pickens teaming up with family-run Wyoming firm
CASPER, Wyo. (AP) - T. Boone Pickens is teaming up with a family-run Wyoming business hoping to become the largest maker of natural gas engines for drilling rigs.
The Texas millionaire's energy hedge fund, BP Capital, is partnering with Casper-based Moser Energy Systems to create a new company - Mesa Natural Gas Solutions. The Casper Star-Tribune (http://bit.ly/1h6KGqz ) reports that Moser will continue making the engines and Pickens' fund will promote them.
Pickens joined Moser executives in announcing the joint venture Wednesday at its new building in Evansville.
He says 95 percent of drilling rigs are powered by diesel engines but Moser's engines are a cheaper and cleaner domestic alternative.
Moser's engines convert raw natural gas from oil drilling sites into fuel for the engines, eliminating the need to haul diesel to the sites.
Death penalty ruled out in Gillette murder case
GILLETTE, Wyo. (AP) - Prosecutors say they will not seek the death penalty in a first-degree murder case against a 21-year-old man charged in a fatal shooting in Gillette on Thanksgiving.
Todd Sindelar is accused of killing Matthew Boyer at Boyer's home.
The Gillette News Record reports Deputy County Attorney Ron Wirthwein refused comment, saying it's still an active case.
If convicted of first-degree murder, Sindelar faces up to life in prison without parole.
Sindelar was returned to Campbell County after spending several weeks in a South Dakota jail.
Montana inmate dies at Colorado prison
HELENA, Mont. (AP) - Montana State Prison officials say an inmate has died of an apparent hanging at a Colorado prison.
Prison spokeswoman Linda Moodry says 38-year-old Timothy DeHerrera was found unresponsive in his cell late Saturday afternoon. He was hanging with a sheet that was tied to a cell window.
DeHerrera's death is under investigation.
DeHerrera was first sentenced to prison in April 2004 for two auto thefts and assault on a peace officer in Yellowstone County. At the time of his February 2003 arrest, the Colorado Springs, Colo., man was suspected of stealing a minivan in Colorado Springs and a pickup truck in Wheatland, Wyo.
He was sentenced in September 2008 for riot and criminal mischief and later moved to a Colorado prison.
Moody did not say where in Colorado DeHerrera had been held.
School district spent $43K suing Laramie newspaper
LARAMIE, Wyo. (AP) - The Albany County school district says it spent $43,000 on legal fees in a lawsuit against the Laramie Daily Boomerang over access to records of an employee survey.
The Boomerang reported Thursday that Albany County School District No. 1 released the figure after denying two previous requests for the information in December and January. School officials said then the lawsuit was still pending.
The lawsuit was settled in March with the school district agreeing to make redacted comments from the survey available to the public.
Officials agreed to make an unredacted version available to a teacher group if members signed a confidentiality agreement.


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The reminders are everywhere. They are painted on walls, written on T-shirts, printed on playbooks. And they stick, thanks to the sage messenger who has become one of the most underrated motivators in the coaching profession: Giants coach Tom Coughlin.
That was Coughlin's theme to last season after his team had suffered too many late-season collapses for his 66-year-old stomach to handle in previous years. So Coughlin incorporated the word as the team's rallying cry and the Giants responded, winning their last six games, including the Super Bowl.
"Build the bridge.''
That has been Coughlin's call for 2012, a message to his players to build a bridge from their Super Bowl victory in February to a repeat performance in February 2013 in New Orleans.
As they enter tomorrow's game against the Steelers (4-3) at MetLife Stadium, the Giants (6-2) are halfway through the regular season to building that bridge to the playoff tournament, where they can begin their title defense.
The Giants, who before last year followed three of their first four Super Bowl appearances by missing the playoffs the next season, have a 2 1/2-game lead over the Eagles and Cowboys in the NFC East and appear to be cruising toward a playoff berth.
A win over the Steelers, considered one of the top contenders in the AFC, would strengthen that bridge and further solidify Coughlin as one of the most shrewd motivators among NFL head coaches.
Who, after all, was more prophetic than Coughlin was with that "finish'' theme a year ago? And how much would his legend grow if his team builds that bridge to the Big Easy three months from now?
"When we have something as powerful as those [themes] then that becomes an easy way for us to recall exactly what this is about for us,'' Coughlin told The Post yesterday. "We really weren't pleased with the way we finished for years before last year. We really believed that those six games last year were emblematic of what we believe in and how we like to play and we wanted to bring those things forward.''
So, enter "build the bridge."
It's easy to be a cynic and look at those sayings of Coughlin's as coach-speak without much substance. That, however, is not the way his players see it.
"It's always nice to have something to rely on and a message to keep referring to during the season,'' Eli Manning said.
"Some people might look at [the sayings] as window dressing, but once you've been around him and you see what it takes to win in the NFL, to have that verbal key and to have it plastered on the wall and on shirts it's just an easy reminder that there's only one way to win and that's Coughlin's way,'' long snapper Zak DeOssie said. "These things are not picked out of a bag blindly. They always correlate in some way to our locker room.''
Defensive tackle Chris Canty bristled at the notion Coughlin's sayings and themes are anything but a powerful motivational tool.
"Outsiders don't understand, but we do, so it makes sense to us and that's all that matters,'' Canty said.
"It is motivational, because it keeps pounding the message about things to pay attention to,'' guard Kevin Boothe said. "He tries to find something that really applies to us. The 'finish' mentality is still there now, but also it's about building the bridge from how we played last year at the end to this year.
"We've gotten off to a decent start so now let's keep going, finish strong and get to where we want to be.''
Tackle Will Beatty said: "We're building a bridge from last season, where we were at the pinnacle of the sport, to this season, when we've had to start all over. You have to build the bridge and connect it. Each game you're building it toward the final destination.''
That destination is New Orleans, where, like as beacon of light, a second consecutive Vince Lombardi Trophy stands at the other side of the bridge.


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Sad story, drug related homicide of her former boyfriend.
Woman Sentenced to 20 years in Scottsdale Hot-Tub Slaying
April 20, 2011 · Published By Student Journalist
A 28-year-old Phoenix woman was sentenced Friday by Maricopa County Superior Court Judge Roland Steinle to 20 years in prison for a 2009 Scottsdale hot-tub slaying.
Morgan Leigh Adams pleaded guilty to three felony charges: manslaughter, attempted sale of narcotic drugs and sale of narcotic drugs. She was sentenced to a five-year probation following her prison term.
On May 14, 2009, a landscaper found the body of 44-year-old Dale Webber in the spa of his Scottsdale home. The cause of death was initially believed to be a drowning, but the Maricopa County Medical Examiner later found that Webber had been shot, according to court records.
Police records stated that Webber had been dead for a number of days before his body was found.
Adams, who dated the victim for three years and remained in contact with him to purchase oxycontin after their breakup, was arrested in connection with the killing on July 9, 2009, according to court records. Adams was initially charged with 16 counts, including first-degree murder, armed robbery, misconduct involving weapons and narcotic drug violations, court documents stated.
She was held at the Fourth Avenue Jail on a $1 million cash bond, according to court records.
Defense attorney Eric Kessler told Adams' loved ones before the proceedings began, "There's nothing I can say that will change the outcome of today."
Steinle said during the sentencing that "while (the plea bargain may not fully be what the family wanted," he accepted the plea and believed the attorneys had worked hard on the case.
"I have full confidence… that it was not just to remove another file from the desk," Steinle said.
Deputy County Attorney Laura Reckart commended the Scottsdale Police Department in "bringing this woman to justice," calling it a "very difficult case to solve."
Adams fainted as she walked to stand in front of the judge, causing a brief halt in the proceedings before she gave her final statement to the court.
"I want to send my condolences to the family," Adams said as she shook. "When they lost a son and brother, I lost my best friend myself."
Webber's sister, Rhonda Long, spoke on behalf of the victim's family, calling the killing "senseless, unnecessary and cold-blooded."
"I'm here today with family members to speak for Dale, who can no longer speak for himself," she said, tears in her eyes. Her husband David stood behind her and comforted her as she spoke to the judge.
The killing occurred around Mother's Day in 2009, and the holiday will "always remind (their mother) of the night her youngest son's life was taken," Long said.
"I can only hope (Adams) will gain a conscience and someday feel remorse for what she has done," Long said.
Guest article contributed by Shane McOwen and Kirsten Adams
Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication


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The Solid Waste Advisory Board (SWAB) of Manhattan is a non-profit, non-governmental organization dedicated to increasing recycling, reducing solid waste, and advancing solid waste policy in New York City. We are a Board comprised of waste and recycling industry experts and concerned citizens, appointed by the Manhattan Borough President's Office. We meet once per month to hear speakers in various areas related to our mission and provide a forum for advancing solid waste policy. We host several events and fundraisers annually and collaborate on many other worthwhile programs with partners.
Join us at our next meeting! MSWAB meetings are open to the public, and occur on the second Wednesday of every month from 6pm to 8pm (except for July and August.)
Find SWAB meetings and other events on the SWAB Calendar. The location changes every few months.
The Manhattan SWAB membership application period is currently closed. Click "Join the MSWAB" to learn more.
The Manhattan Solid Waste Advisory Board (MSWAB) is a volunteer citizens' advisory board dedicated to helping NYC achieve its zero waste goals. We advise the Manhattan Borough President, City Council, City Administration and others on policies and programs regarding the development, promotion and operation of the City's waste prevention, reuse and recycling programs. We are a Board comprised of solid waste management industry, waste reduction and diversion consultants, sustainability professionals, and concerned citizens, appointed by the Manhattan Borough President's Office. We produce two grant programs: the NYC Community Composting Grant and the NYC Reuse and Repair Grant, hold monthly meetings, provide information online about waste reduction and diversion in NYC, and have a number of active committees, all of which are open to the public.


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When the Boise City Council meets Tuesday, Aug. 21, city officials will be asked to consider new or revised fees—three for the Boise Fire Department and nearly 90 for the Parks and Recreation Department—to be effective Monday, Oct. 1, the beginning of the city's new fiscal year.
The Fire Department is asking to charge $75-$150 for responding to illegal fires at family dwellings, in addition to a $300 hourly charge for emergency responses to any illegal fires.
The Parks and Recreation Department has a laundry list of higher rates for the city's AdVenture adapted recreation and aquatics programs. Additionally, new fees are being proposed for the use of the Boise Depot, court-ordered disinterments at city cemeteries, and private ice time at Idaho Ice World. Parks and Rec also wants to bump up rates for use of the Julia Davis Park bandshell and extra tables at both Julia Davis and Ann Morrison parks.
A public hearing will precede the vote, scheduled for 6 p.m. at the State Capitol.