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Ben F. Barnes Biographical Sketch
Scope and Contents of the Records
Correspondence files (Part I: State Representative), 1960-1972,
Texas Office of the Lieutenant Governor:
An Inventory of Ben F. Barnes' Correspondence Files (Part I: State Representative) at the Texas State Archives, 1960-1971
Ben F. Barnes Biographical Sketch
Ben Frank Barnes served Texas as lieutenant governor, Speaker of the House, and state representative. In his first political campaign, Barnes was elected in 1960 at the age of 22 as state representative for Brown, Coleman, Comanche and Runnels counties in West-Central Texas. He was elected Speaker of the House of Representatives by his colleagues in 1965 and became the youngest Lieutenant Governor of Texas in 1968, a position he held until 1972 when he lost a race for governor. Ben Barnes was born April 17, 1938 at Gorman, Texas and grew up on his father's peanut farm at Comyn, between DeLeon and Dublin. Barnes enrolled in Texas Christian University in Fort Worth in 1955, later transferred to John Tarleton College, and finally to the University of Texas at Austin where he graduated in 1960 with a degree in business administration. Barnes also attended the University of Texas Law School.
While a representative, Barnes served as chairman of the House Rules Committee and as vice-chairman of the Banks and Banking Committee. As Speaker, Barnes supported passage of the Consumer Credit Code, clean-air and water-quality legislation, legislation establishing programs for the elderly and legislation in behalf of the mentally ill and handicapped. During his first term as Speaker, Barnes led in the passage of legislation which created the Texas Department of Mental Health and Mental Retardation. He was instrumental in creating the Coordinating Board for the Texas College and University System and the Governor's Committee on Aging, in revising and codifying the Uniform Commercial Code, in raising teachers' pay, and in revising the Code of Criminal Procedure. Some of the major issues faced during his terms as speaker were redistricting, improvement of higher education, the promotion of tourism in Texas, and efforts to attract new industry to the state.
As Lieutenant Governor, Barnes witnessed the creation of two nursing schools, a dental school, three medical schools, and four senior colleges; an increase in the minimum wage; and the adoption of the Liquor Reform Bill. He backed legislation in the area of mass transportation, and legislation creating the Texas Rehabilitation Commission. Throughout his four terms in the two offices, Barnes was also interested in the issue of higher education.
President Lyndon B. Johnson appointed Barnes to his Advisory Commission on Intergovernmental Relations in 1965. In 1968, Barnes represented the U.S. Department of State at the Committee on Agriculture of the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe. Barnes represented this Department again in the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) Civil Defense Committee Conference in Brussels.
One of the overriding concerns of the 1972 elections was the Sharpstown stock-fraud scandal in which charges of fraud involving stock purchases were leveled against nearly two dozen state officials and former state officials. Though never directly implicated, Barnes' reputation was tainted by the scandal which caused him to lose his bid for the governor's office in 1972. Barnes retired from politics and became president of the Bennett-Barnes Development Company in Brownwood which was primarily involved in construction and real estate development. He also entered into partnerships and various business ventures, some with former governor John Connally.
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Agency History
The office of lieutenant governor is extremely powerful and influential in Texas state government. The Texas Constitution (Article IV, sections 1 and 16) gives the lieutenant governor power to act as governor in the event of the governor's absence from the state, or his/her death, resignation, impeachment, or inability or refusal to serve. The Constitution has also designated the lieutenant governor to serve as president of the Texas Senate. The current Rules of the Senate give the lieutenant governor authority to appoint all senate committees and their chairs, to decide all questions of order, to supervise all senate employees, and to determine the order of senate business. Texas statutes have made the lieutenant governor chairman of the Legislative Budget Board (which drafts the state budget) and the Texas Legislative Council (which is the legislature's main source for drafting bills); chair or vice-chair of the Legislative Audit Board (which appoints the state auditor) and the Legislative Education Board (which oversees state education policy); and member of the Legislative Redistricting Board (which redistricts house and senate seats after each decennial census).
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These records include incoming letters and copies of outgoing letters, telegrams, news clippings, postcards, petitions, invitations, brochures, studies, opinion surveys, and periodicals. Records date from 1960 to 1972 and are the correspondence files of Ben Barnes during his tenure with the Texas state legislature, including his time as Lieutenant Governor. (This first part of the finding aid includes files that cover almost the entire period, 1968-1971, but mainly files that cover Barnes' tenure as State Representative, 1960-1968). Correspondence, with attachments, is generally with constituents, officials, other legislators, and with members of state or federal boards, agencies, and commissions. Correspondents include such notables as Lyndon Baines Johnson (LBJ), Hubert Humphrey, George Herbert Walker Bush, Ralph Yarborough, and J.J. (Jake) Pickle. Topics of the correspondence include pending or proposed legislation, natural disasters in various parts of the state (hurricanes, tornadoes), welfare, job assistance, prisoners-of-war (POWs) and missing-in-action (MIAs) in Vietnam, the Apollo II landing, and welfare reform. Opinion surveys mailed to members of the National Federation of Independent Businessmen (NFIB) asked questions concerning blue laws, welfare, taxes, busing of school children, insurance, business affairs, and government rearrangement.
To prepare this inventory, the described materials were cursorily reviewed to delineate series, to confirm the accuracy of contents lists, to provide an estimate of dates covered, and to determine record types. The researcher should note that the contents of the boxes listed below have been compiled from a list provided at the time the records were transferred. Archives staff have not had the opportunity to verify the contents of the boxes and, therefore, cannot vouch for the accuracy of the list.
This finding aid has been split into two parts due to electronic file size limitations imposed by TARO. Click here on Part II (Lieutenant Governor correspondence) for the second part of the container listing.
If you are reading this electronically, you may click here on Texas Office of the Lieutenant Governor, Records of Ben F. Barnes to return to the main finding aid for records of this office. If you are reading this in paper, each of these finding aids is found at a separate divider within the binder.
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Restrictions on Access
Because of the possibility that portions of these records fall under Public Information Act exceptions, an archivist must review these records before they can be accessed for research. The records may be requested for research under the provisions of the Public Information Act (V.T.C.A., Government Code, Chapter 552). The researcher may request an interview with an archivist or submit a request by mail, fax, or e-mail including enough description and detail about the information requested to enable the archivist to accurately identify and locate the information requested. If our review reveals information that may be excepted by the Public Information Act, we are obligated to seek an open records decision from the Attorney General on whether the records can be released. The Public Information Act allows the Archives ten working days after receiving a request to make this determination. The Attorney General has 45 working days to render a decision. Alternately, the Archives can inform you of the nature of the potentially excepted information and if you agree, that information can be redacted or removed and you can access the remainder of the records.
In accordance with Texas Government Code, Chapter 306, Ben F. Barnes allowed public access to the communications between himself and his constituents on July 29, 2004.
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Accession number: 1995/037
These records were transferred to the Archives and Information Services Division of the Texas State Library and Archives Commission by the Texas Secretary of the Senate on December 22, 1994.
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Bulldogs Get Game-Winner with 19 Seconds Remaining
NEW HAVEN, Conn. – Junior wide receiver Deon Randall's 32-yard touchdown run with 19 seconds left capped a wild game at the Yale Bowl, Class of 1954 Field Saturday afternoon as Yale beat Brown 24-17. Randall's dash up the middle on third-and-10 provided a dramatic ending to a game that saw the Bulldogs play four different quarterbacks while continuing to cope with the absence of their starting tailback and one of their starting receivers.
Randall has been Yale's go-to option at receiver this season, especially with senior wide receiver Chris Smith sidelined by injury for the last four games. On Saturday, Randall also wound up as the team's leading rusher with 59 yards on six carries -- including 32 on that final, memorable run into the end zone.
"It was a mid-zone to the right," said Randall, who had played running back regularly earlier in his Yale career. "I saw a lane. The offensive line was doing a tremendous job. I saw a hole, hit it, and willed my way into the end zone."
Randall was part of a Yale rushing attack that wound up totaling 165 yards -- outgaining Brown by 16 yards despite the fact that the Elis remain without junior tailback Tyler Varga (injured for the past three games). The Yale defense managed to keep Brown tailback John Spooney from breaking off any runs like the ones he had a week earlier -- a 94-yarder and a 93-yarder. His longest run Saturday was a relatively modest 12 yards.
The Bulldogs took the lead on their first possession. Freshman tailback Candler Rich took a short pass from senior quarterback Henry Furman and turned it into a long gain down the left sideline, ending up with a 35-yard touchdown at 10:20 of the first.
Brown (5-3, 2-3 Ivy League) drove 60 yards in five plays for the game-tying touchdown, a five-yard toss from quarterback Patrick Donnelly to wide receiver Tellef Lundevall.
A third-and-three conversion in Yale territory kept the Bulldogs' next drive going, as Furman found Randall for a seven-yard gain to the Eli 40. Eight plays later Furman fired one to freshman wide receiver Myles Gaines in the end zone for Gaines' first career touchdown, putting the Bulldogs up 14-7 at 0:53 of the first.
The Yale defense then denied a Brown drive that got to the Yale 22, with freshman defensive lineman Marty Moesta stuffing a third-and-five run by Spooney. The Bears went for it on fourth down, but ended up with an incomplete pass.
Another Brown drive deep into Yale territory later in the first half came up empty as well. The Bears got to the Eli 19 but lost a fumble, recovered by sophomore defensive lineman Carl Kreitzberg with 1:38 left. A roughing the passer call on the Bears then helped jump-start the Yale drive. The Bulldogs were still forced to punt, but when the Bears fumbled that punt senior defensive end Beau Palin recovered it at the Brown 41.
With just eight seconds on the clock, the Bulldogs moved quickly to score before halftime. Sophomore quarterback Eric Williams, the third signal caller of the day for Yale after Furman and sophomore quarterback Morgan Roberts, completed a pass to Rich that got the ball to the Brown 29. From there junior punter/placekicker Kyle Cazzetta tied his career long with a 46-yard field goal that made it 17-7 as time expired.
The Yale defense continued to keep Brown at bay on the first drive of the second half, which ended with a Moesta sack. But Yale's first turnover of the day wound up enabling the Bears to creep closer. An interception by Brown linebacker Daniel Giovacchini at the Brown 47 at 8:57 of the third gave the Bears the chance to drive for a touchdown on a four-yard pass from Donnelly to wide receiver Jordan Evans.
Another interception by the Brown defense set up the Bears at the Yale 48 with 2:29 left in the third. The Yale defense stiffened as the Bears got to the Eli six, with junior linebacker William Vaughan pushing them back three yards with a sack. Alexander Norocea's 26-yard field goal tied the score 17-17 with 17 seconds left in the third.
Moesta's pass breakup ended Brown's first drive of the fourth quarter, a sign of the defensive back-and-forth struggle that was to ensue. Yale punted from its 27 on the next drive, and Brown then punted from midfield. A tipped Eli pass was intercepted on the ensuing drive, but a roughing the passer call against the Bears wiped that one out. Sophomore Logan Scott came in to play quarterback after that, the fourth signal caller of the day.
The Yale defense came up with another big stand on Brown's next drive, with freshman free safety Foyesade Oluokun stopping Spooney for a loss on a third-and-one run from the Brown 38. The teams then traded punts until Yale got the ball back at its own 41 with 1:43 to play. Three completions by Scott -- along with runs by Rich and junior tailback Kahlil Keys -- got the ball to the 32 for Randall to perform his heroics.
Rich, Keys and Scott were second, third and fourth on Yale's depth chart at their respective positions heading into the game -- but they came up with the big plays when it mattered.
"It says a lot about these guys and the mentality we have," said Tony Reno, Yale's Joel E. Smilow '54 Head Coach of Football. "I didn't have any reservations when I put Logan in the game. I didn't have any reservations when I put our third tailback in the game. A lot of it comes from Beau [Yale's captain] and the seniors. They have really changed this program. Our best two weeks of practice have been these last two weeks."
Oluokun broke up a pass on Brown's final drive. The final pass breakup of the day, on a Hail Mary pass in the end zone as time expired, was by none other than Randall -- who has seen time in the defensive backfield this year in addition to his work on offense.
Yale (5-3, 3-2 Ivy League) travels to first-place Princeton, the only team that is still undefeated in league play, next Saturday.
Report by Sam Rubin '95 (email@example.com), Yale Sports Publicity

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Corona del Mar High incoming senior Lynda Xepoleas advanced to the round of 32 on Tuesday at the United States Tennis Assn. Girls' 18 Nationals, held at Barnes Tennis Center in San Diego.
No. 17-seeded Xepoleas defeated Hailey Johnson, 6-3, 6-3, in the round of 64. Xepoleas will face No. 7-seeded Whitney Kay, of Alpharetta, Ga., in the round of 32.
Sage Hill School graduate Julia Blakeley fell in the round of 64 to Samantha Critser, 6-0, 7-5. At the same venue, Newport Beach resident Mazy Watrous fell in the girls' 16s nationals round of 64 to No. 17-seeded Emily Hahn, 6-4, 6-3.
At the girls' 14s nationals in Peachtree City, Ga., Newport Beach resident Meredith Xepoleas is still alive in the consolation bracket in singles. Xepoleas and partner Maia Magill fell in the doubles quarterfinals, 6-3, 6-4, to Kellyn Abbanat and Sophia Abelson.
— Matt Szabo
Free tennis clinic Friday
The Tennis Club Newport Beach is holding a free junior tennis clinic from 1-5 p.m. Friday, serving as an introduction to the club's new "Edge Tennis Academy."
The academy features coach Iain Russell, who formerly coached Michael Chang and played on the ATP World Tour. The Tennis Club pro John Craig is the academy director.
Reservations are not required, but are encouraged for the free clinic and academy introduction day. For more information or to reserve a spot, call John Craig at (714) 648-0983 or e-mail email@example.com.
— From staff reports
Quartet competes
Sarah Furgatch, John Kim, Kelsey Larson and Garrett Larson, swimmers from Newport Beach, are competing in the Speedo Junior National Championships this week at the William Woollett Jr. Aquatics Center in Irvine.
Furgatch and the Larsons swim for Irvine Aquatzots, the club coached by Brian Pajer, the former UC Irvine swim coach.
Furgatch, a former Corona del Mar High standout who's an incoming sophomore at Princeton, finished 55th in the 200-meter breaststroke (1 minute, 16.89 seconds) Monday.
She'll also compete in the 100 breaststroke Thursday and the 200 individual medley Friday.
Kelsey Larson, an incoming sophomore at Nebraska and also a CdM alumna, is competing in the 100 breaststroke.
Garrett Larson, also of CdM, finished 117th in the 400 IM in 4:45.74, nearly a two-second drop off his best time.
Kim and Garrett Larson will be competing in the 100 breaststroke Thursday and the 200 IM Friday.
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The skin issues I had back during the Spring made me revisit my skincare routine as well as my makeup, and with the Pixiwoo course and the shopping in England, I definitely discovered more great makeup products.
However I don't want this favorites list to be hopelessly long, so I am going to limit myself to (sort of) 12 products that really stayed with me all year, and possibly that were discovered this year as well!
Taaj Micellar Water
Although I am still the biggest fan of Bioderma in the world (and have been for SEVEN years, that's quite a commitment), I do enjoy the Taaj micellar water and its fresh smell, particularly in warmer weather. I also love that it doesplum up the skin!
Alpha H Liquid Gold
I certainly can't use this daily, but a couple of times of uses of this each week are great for chemical exfoliation, making the skin baby smooth and keeping little blemishes at bay!
La Roche Posay Cicaplast B5 Balm
Definitely a skincare revolution for me, this cured my Winter dermatitis and I have used it on my face every time it has gotten a bit too irritated for my liking. This is just so efficient, and you can wear it under makeup too.
REN eye contours
Perfect combo of day and night products for me. They help me keeping the area smooth, helped making dehydration lines disappear, and the gel one is just perfect under makeup. REN was definitely a great discovery of 2012 for me and these products have become staples in my daily routine!
Tosowoong cleansing brush
It's really a funny thing, that little brush, nowhere as fancy (or expensive!) as a Clarisonic but extremely effective at keeping pores clean! Can't be without it anymore!
This Works Perfect Look Skin Miracle
Half way through a skincare product and a tinted moisturizer (a very light one, though), this is just perfect for Summer and gives you the perfect glow! I wore it on its own all Summer, sometimes with a bit of foundation just around the nose and chin to help with discoloration, and it made my skin look just perfect. I can't wait to be able to wear it again next Summer. And I love the caramel smell :)
Nars Radiant Tinted Moisturizer
A fantastic launch of this year, this tinted moisturizer evens out the skin very well and makes it look smooth and flawless. It's, in my opinion, more covering than most tinted moisturizers while still being very lightweight. Too bad that all the shades seem to be very yellow so it's not for everyone, but it's a great product that I've been using a lot.
Chanel Vitalumiere Aqua
Not a new one, but definitely a much loved one that I actually had to repurchase this year after using up (wooot!) a whole bottle, which never happens to me. My only complai is that it has alcohol in it and I can't wear it when I'm very dehydrated, but I haven't found another foundation that looks as beuatiful on me or that I love as much.
Inglot eyeshadows
This first palette was a gift and since then I have been hooked! I now have 3 of them. I do think that the quality, pigmentation and texture of these shadows can't be beaten, especially for the price - and the freedom system is just great. Too bad I don't have direct access to it but I definitely want to get more. This has to be my most used brand of eyeshadows this year.
Illamasqua palettes
After my Inglot palettes, the Illamasqua ones are the ones I've used the most. Illamasqua used to lack on the eyshadow front with chalkiness issues, but they haev greatly improved and there's nothing not to love about these palettes. The liquid metals in the 2 palettes released with Generation Q (best collection of the year in my opinion) are also gorgeous bases. I am absolutely in love with these 3 palettes and hope they release more next year!
Illamasqua Naked Rose blush
Most worn blush of the year, and this picture isn't doing it justice: Naked Rose is a pink with a hint of beige that is just so wearable for every skintone. It goes with any makeup. You could practically live with just this one blush and be set for life (I love blushes too much to do that though). If you can purchase one blush from Illamasqua, get this one!
Jemma Kidd cream blush in Paw Paw
Sadly, Jemma Kidd is going out of business so I'll never be able to purchase this again but I wanted to mention it because I've used it so much: the peachy color is beautiful and the cream to powder finish is gorgeous and easy to blend. Really sad about not being able to further discover this range.
That's it for 2012. I'm excited to discover more new things next year. Are you, too? And what were your favorites this year?


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Banks was incensed that D&G used "black mammie" imagery its new line, declaring her commitment to boycotting the brand.
She tweeted: "Whoever designed that racist a-- Dolce and Gabanna collection needs a swift kick in the mouth…" She also posted something else that was really vulgar, but we left that part off. But clearly, the collection inspired Banks' ire.
Fact Mag reports that Banks isn't just spouting off at the mouth about nothing. The brand's fashion show reportedly boasted white models wearing burlap dresses, combined with imagery associated with the slave era. The collection was reportedly inspired by the first African settlers in Sicily.
Her tweets are below.
Definitely boycotting Dolce & Gabanna.
— AZEALIA BANKS (@AZEALIABANKS) October 21, 2012
It's all just really unnecessary. the clothes in the collection were fine without all the "black mammie" imagery.
— AZEALIA BANKS (@AZEALIABANKS) October 21, 2012
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When I heard about his latest project, co-written with Tracy L. Carbone, I asked them about it. My thoughts following the interview.
What's THE PROTEUS CURE about?
TRACY: It's a medical thriller that's hard to talk about without spoilers. It's about a brother and a sister, Bill and Abra Gilchrist, who've developed a cure for cancer – all kinds of cancer. That sounds impossible because there's a cancer for every tissue in the body, but–
PAUL: Tracy came up with an idea for an omnipotential stem-cell therapy that replaces tumors with non-cancerous cells. Since omnipotential stem cells can become any tissue, they can overcome any tumor. The hitch in THE PROTEUS CURE is that they don't stop there. And this is where the spoilers begin, so this is where I stop.
TRACY: We could have gone lurid with people turning into mutants–
PAUL: Like a third eye and all that–
TRACY: –but that wasn't the idea. I think where we went is much scarier, because it can't be laughed off. It's deeply unsettling and disturbing because you can see how it might happen. The issues we address are about parenthood and identity.
PAUL: The Gilchrists aren't evil. They're curing people of cancer. There's just this one annoying side effect, which they've found a way to mask. But Murphy's Law is inescapable and something goes wrong during the clinical trial. They've got to scramble to cover it up–
TRACY: –because, depending on your personality, some side-effects are acceptable and some are not. Some people will be okay with the side-effect because they're now cancer free. But others will be calling the FDA and malpractice lawyers.
PAUL: One of the Gilchrist's will do anything to cover it up. After all, it's a cure for cancer. You can't allow someone to derail a cure for cancer! And that's when our oncologist heroine gets caught in the middle.
Why are you indie publishing THE PROTEUS CURE?
PAUL: We had an offer from my publisher that I thought low. In the past my collaborations have never sold as well as my solo novels. I don't know why. The reviews are just as good. Maybe my readers don't like to see someone else's name of the cover. Whatever the reason, the sales figures never match up and the offer reflected that.
Tracy and I talked it over. In the old days (like five, six years ago) we'd have been on the short end of a take-it-or-leave it proposition. That's no longer the case. But this was her opportunity to be published by one of the Big Five. If she said yes, we would have done it. (She has a big emotional investment in this book – she came up with the seminal idea, after all – and I wasn't going to pull the Big Five rug out from under her.)
What was your reaction, Tracy?
TRACY: I asked Paul if he thought we could make more going the indie route.
PAUL: I said I did, and sooner – the indie will have it published and selling before my hardworking agent would be finished arguing contract commas with the publisher's rights department. Plus all rights remain with us.
TRACY: I said, Let's do it. And so it's coming out under Robert Barr's Shadowridge Press imprint.
Are you pissed at your publisher?
PAUL: Not at all. Submitting a book is the start of a negotiation. We were asking: What are the rights to our novel worth to you? After the dust had settled we realized the hardcover, softcover, and ebook rights were more valuable to us than to them. So, no deal. No rancor on my part (and I hope not on theirs). Simply… no deal.
I'm not doing this out of spite. Life's too short for that. They offered what they thought THE PROTEUS CURE was worth in today's thriller market. I love my publisher; he's a stand-up guy, always accessible, one of the savviest in the business. And I've known my editor forever. There's no emotion involved here. It's purely a business decision.
Will you indie pub your next book?
PAUL: Frankly, I don't want to be a publisher. Controlling all the rights is nice, but with that comes all sorts of busywork that keeps me from writing. So I'm willing to surrender those rights for an adequate advance and let the industry pros do their thing while I start the next book. As I said, my publisher gets first look. After finishing FEAR CITY, the last of the Early Years Trilogy, I'll start on a thriller that's been percolating for years. I hope they'll love it. I hope they'll offer an advance we can both live with.
How about you, Tracy? Will you indie pub you next book?
TRACY: Though my views were different several years ago, I've come around to seeing the advantage of using an Indie publisher. I like having say over the cover art, and the royalties are a lot higher. The quick turnaround from manuscript submission to seeing the book in print is the driving force for me. I published RESTITUTION, a dark psychological thriller, and THE COLLECTION AND OTHER DARKTALES, a group of horror stories, through Indie publisher Shadowridge Press and was pleased with the result. My next thriller, HOPE HOUSE, about genetically modified infants being sold through a black market adoption agency, will be coming out in June.
How did this collaboration come about?
PAUL: It started with Tracy so I'll let her begin, but I want it clear from the git-go that THE PROTEUS CURE is a genuine collaboration. Not one of those phony deals where the newbie does all the work and the established writer simply attaches his name. Tracy would do a few thousand words and pass it to me and I'd do a few thousand and pass it back. This is a definite 50-50 project, and it's not some lightweight toss-off either: it weighs in at 115,000 words with virtually no fat.
TRACY: Couldn't have said it better. I approached Paul at a conference for his opinion about a medical thriller I was starting. His first reaction was, "No, that couldn't work." I argued it could. We went back and forth and finally he said something like, "Okay, maybe, just maybe, but the story is all wrong." He explained it from a science and story standpoint. A couple of hours later we were brainstorming this great new novel. Within a few days we'd decided to write it together. I was thrilled for his mentorship and to know the book would be that much better for his involvement.
PAUL: I realized I was thinking more about PROTEUS than my own next book. When we came up with the final twist I was psyched. I had to get involved.
What was the process?
TRACY: Before writing a word of prose, we created a fully formed outline with subsections denoting POV changes. For example, Chapter One might have sections one through eight showing four characters' actions. Paul would say, "Okay, you take the odd numbers and I'll take even." This way we took turns writing the characters' POVs and neither of us had a character that was all our own. Except for the technical medical scenes which are clearly Paul's, our styles are blended together throughout the story.
PAUL: I've found that an outline is vital to collaborating on a tightly plotted thriller, where certain events have to take place in a certain order for the story to build suspense and make sense. The sequence has to be arranged in advance so that nobody's blowing the reveals. Both authors need to be able to anticipate those reveals in their sections.
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Joe sez: I believe it was Bob Mayer who coined the term "hybrid publishing." This is a catchall description for those authors who are diversifying, doing some self-pub and some legacy or Amazon pub.
I've got five ebooks with Amazon imprints, and last month sold about 14,000 copies of those titles. For me it's a no-brainer. Diversify the portfolio, get alternate revenue streams, and reach new customers.
As much as I rant against legacy publishing, the fact remains that it treats some authors well.
Publishing is a business, not an ideology. Writers need to set goals according to their needs. Different projects can lend themselves to different ways of publishing.
If you are an author who has been given a choice of how to publish, think long and hard about it. How important is an advance? Royalty percentage? Control? Speed to publication? Validation? Getting into bookstores and libraries?
This isn't "us vs. them". It never has been. It's simply about finding the formula that you're happy with. Once you do that, it doesn't matter what anyone else says.
Now go buy THE PROTEUS CURE, or I'm going to quit blogging forever.


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When Debbie Balogh's pug, Mugsy, started behaving strangely about three months ago, Mrs. Balogh had a feeling about what might be wrong with the dog.She was having accidents in the house, drinking more, just not acting like herself, Mrs. Balogh recalled. "I said to my husband: 'Do you think it could be diabetes?'" she said. The Temperance family was no stranger to the disease. Their now-grown daughter has type 1 diabetes. A trip to their veterinarian at Temperance Animal Hospital, 7375 Lewis Ave., confirmed her suspicion, and Mugsy is now on a special diet and must receive insulin shots twice per day. The perky dog doesn't seem to mind the shots, which go into a thick part of her neck. Daily life changed a bit for the Baloghs, however. "It's been an adjustment," Mrs. Balogh said. "We both work full time, but one of us, either me or my husband, Ken, have to come home right after work to give her a shot. There's no [pill] for it; she has to get those shots." The Baloghs have a niece and nephew who live nearby and have been taught to administer the shots in case of an emergency, and the couple can't be there. Those symptoms that Mrs. Balogh noticed before Mugsy's diagnosis are now under control with the insulin shots. Signs of diabetes in cats and dogs include drinking more water and eating more but losing weight, said Dr. Bob Esplin of Sylvania Veterinary Hospital, 4801 N. Holland-Sylvania Rd. Treatment for dogs and cats, which have an equal chance of getting diabetes, differ. "Most dogs require insulin plus diet modification," Dr. Esplin said. "Most cats are managed with diet -- canned food only -- and in some cases very low doses of insulin." Mugsy, 9, was already dealing with a special condition before the onset of the diabetes. A rare disease had left her blind a year ago. "Honestly, the blindness was harder for her and us to deal with," Mrs. Balogh said. "That was quite an adjustment for everyone. Now that she's used to it and knows where everything is in the house she's fine." The Baloghs have a senior golden retriever, Hayes, who is also "special needs." The 14-year-old dog has a hard time getting around and must be helped out to the yard with the use of a carrying harness. "I'm sure there are people who think we are crazy, carrying a blind dog and a dog who has trouble walking outside," Mrs. Balogh said. "But I don't like the alternative [which would be euthanizing them]. Why have them if you don't love them?" Nicole Knight of Toledo lost Hootie, her 13-year-old Yorkshire terrier and poodle mix, who also had diabetes, in January, 2012. He lived with the disease for five years and was given insulin shots twice per day. "In my opinion, diabetes was not a death sentence," Ms. Knight said. "Diabetes merely means his pancreas was not working quite right. I could not fathom putting him to sleep when a diet regimen and insulin injection twice a day would make him have a happy, healthy life." When Hootie was first diagnosed with diabetes, the Point Place resident was told he would live three more years at best. "Hootie proved them all wrong and lived five years with diabetes and subsequently died a happy little guy of mere old age," she said. "He still played, walked, and gave his little puppy kisses." Mrs. Balogh said the diabetes hasn't affected Mugsy's life other than more frequent trips to the vet. Mugsy must have her blood sugar tested once per month at the veterinarian's office. She also needs to stay on her special diet. "She's always liked people food, but we have to be real careful what we feed her," Mrs. Balogh said. "And we have to make sure she doesn't go after Hayes' food." The two dogs are best buddies and love to lie next to each other in the house. The Baloghs said they don't mind the extra work in taking care of Mugsy. "There was never any my doubt in mind that we would do this for her," Mrs. Balogh said. "She's a happy dog. We want her around as long as we can." Contact Tanya Irwin at: firstname.lastname@example.com or 419-724-6066. (c)2013 The Blade (Toledo, Ohio) Visit The Blade (Toledo, Ohio) at www.toledoblade.com Distributed by MCT Information Services


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Forget Balloon Boy, Today's All About Train Baby
If Balloon Boy and his family were looking for publicity, they'll find it's fleeting. There's a new amazing tot on the horizon, and this one survived being hit by a train.
This poor Australian mother must have had a stroke when her 6-month old's stroller, which should have had its brakes on, rolled on a train's tracks and was promptly hit. Thankfully, the child escaped relatively unscathed.
Some say disaster was averted because the baby was strapped in, but we prefer to think it was a vehicular miracle.


text: Sijun Forums :: View topic - Concept artists needed for iPhone/iPod touch games (paid) Log in to check your private messages Sijun Forums Forum Index >> Random Musings View previous topic :: View next topic Author Topic : "Concept artists needed for iPhone/iPod touch games (paid)" sealfinjunior memberMember #Joined: 16 Sep 2009Posts: 2 Posted: Wed Sep 16, 2009 1:17 am (Apologies if recruitment ads are forbidden in this forum - I couldnt find any information either way... If they are, please let me know and Ill delete this thread if a mod doesnt do so first.) Greetings, I represent an indie development team currently developing a couple of games for the iPhone/iPod touch, a platform- and a war- game; were not a virgin team - weve developed and released successful games in the past. Were looking for at least a couple of concept artists to create concept art for characters, vehicles, and vignettes of interactions between those in- and with- their respective game worlds; the amount of freedom you will have will vary between each piece of concept art - some pieces have very detailed descriptions of/backstory for the subject, other pieces have just an explanation of how the subject interacts in- or with- the game world, and you will have quite a free rein. Were offering payment on completion of each piece of the concept art, not some mythical profit sharing after the release of the games. Both of the games are best described as darkly cute (being influenced by, amongst others, the Metal Slug, Yoshis Island, and Super Puzzle Fighter series), although the two games differ in whether they weigh more heavily on the dark or cute side of that balance. If you might be interested in creating concept art for either of these games, please email firstname.lastname@example.com with a link to your portfolio and Ill provide further details. Thank you for your time! Back to top sealfinjunior memberMember #Joined: 16 Sep 2009Posts: 2 Posted: Wed Sep 23, 2009 7:26 am Greetings, I've been asked by a couple of people whether we have any art already created for the games, so I'm just posting some very early character art of the player character from the platform game; this character art was determined to have strayed too far towards 'cute' on the balance of 'darkly cute', one of the reasons we're in need of concept artists to help us nail down the character designs (The character is an inhabitant of a world created to be a dream, now infested and corrupted by nightmare - the undead and the eldritch abound. The character can, as in Yoshi's Island, flick out its tongue to grab objects, and hold objects in its mouth; unlike in Yoshi's Island, holding objects in its mouth affects the weight of the character, and objects can transmute whilst held in the character's mouth - for example, a bomb held for too long in the charcaters mouth will explode, injuring the character and resulting in the character spitting out a stream of smoke rather than the original bomb.) Back to top Godzilla Was MatthewmemberMember #Joined: 11 Jul 2009Posts: 237 Posted: Wed Sep 23, 2009 8:10 am Make it an evil penguin or scarecrow, introduce more black. I made something quick while brainstorming: evil penguin quick attack mode Back to top Display posts from previous: All Posts1 Day7 Days2 Weeks1 Month3 Months6 Months1 Year Oldest FirstNewest First Sijun Forums Forum Index -> Random Musings All times are GMT - 8 Hours Page 1 of 1 Jump to: Select a forum Digital Art----------------Digital Art DiscussionWork in ProgressGallery/Finished Work Miscellaneous----------------Random MusingsArchive : Sep99 - Dec00 You cannot post new topics in this forumYou cannot reply to topics in this forumYou cannot edit your posts in this forumYou cannot delete your posts in this forumYou cannot vote in polls in this forum Powered by phpBB © 2005 phpBB Group


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It's difficult to believe but this rather unassuming suburb, which lies just off the Pacific Highway between Brisbane and the Gold Coast, is home to some of the best movie-making facilities in Australia. Oxenford, which borders Coomera and the theme park mecca which is Dreamworld, Warner Bros. Movie World, Wet'n'Wild, and The Australian Outback Spectacular, can lay claim to Village Roadshow Studios.
Here, world-class film production facilities include eight sound stages, three water tanks, ten production offices, editing suites, wardrobe, makeup, construction, paint and carpentry shops. It also boasts the largest purpose-built film water tank in Australia. A number of high-profile Australian and international movies have been filmed and produced here and Oxenford is slowly being etched in to the psyche of international film makers.
Like a down-to-earth Geoffrey Rush or that hunky Hugh Jackman, this Gold Coast suburb just likes to get on with the movie-making business and leave the glitz to other places.
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ANSAN, South Korea — For South Korea, a country that pulled itself out of abject poverty to become the world's 15th-largest economy, the most stinging accusation about last week's ferry sinking is that it looks like a Third-World disaster.
While the captain escaped and the crew dithered and bickered with emergency officials, hundreds of passengers, most of them high school students, obediently remained in their cabins as the ferry rolled and slipped beneath the surface of the cold, gray sea.
Mistake piled atop mistake turned a near-shore mishap into the nation's worst maritime disaster in decades. The calamity has shamed many South Koreans and left them with serious doubt about their political leaders at a moment when they were preparing for a high-profile visit from President Obama, who is slated to arrive Thursday night.
"We are supposed to be a prosperous middle power, but the fundamentals are still weak," said Choi Kang, vice president of the Asan Institute for Policy Studies in Seoul. "There was no control tower, nobody in charge."
The botched rescue also has cast a harsh light on a Confucian culture in which young people are taught to respect the older generation.
"I feel embarrassed as a Korean. We failed our children," said Kim Seun-tae, a 50-year-old minister whose son attends Danwon High School, which had 350 students and faculty members among the 476 people aboard the ship. Kim's son was not on the ferry.
The minister said he was struck by video from survivors' cellphones that showed the mostly 16- and 17-year-old students sitting dutifully in their seats.
"They were good, well-behaved kids. They followed instructions," Kim said. "Everybody is in a state of shock and depression. We can't look each other in the eye or speak."
Some events initially planned for the presidential visit have been toned down to avoid any appearance of festivities at a time when divers will probably still be plucking bodies from the sunken vessel, according to people involved in the planning. More than 160 passengers remained missing as of Tuesday, with 139 confirmed dead.
South Korean President Park Geun-hye, who made the protection of youths one of the themes of her administration, lashed out Monday at the crew members who abandoned the ship, saying the "behavior of the captain and some crew members is beyond understanding and no better than homicide."
But Park faces accusations that her newly restructured Ministry of Security and Public Administration failed at its first disaster response.
"They were civil servants with no experience or expertise. When it came to a time of crisis, people were paralyzed," said Jeong Chan-gwon of the Seoul-based Korea Institute for Crisis Management Analysis.
"When she called the captain a 'murderer,' it showed clearly how much political pressure she is under," said Scott Snyder, a Korea specialist with the Council on Foreign Relations, who was visiting Seoul last week.
A panicked and inexperienced crew failed to call the coast guard, instead notifying the vessel traffic service at their destination on Jeju Island, about 50 miles away.
It took 53 minutes for the Central Disaster and Safety Countermeasures Headquarters to mobilize. Meanwhile, the 69-year-old captain had already left the ship. Most of the crew members survived, while more than two-thirds of the passengers appear to have been lost.
Even before the official call for distress, students used their cellphones to call their parents and the South Korean emergency number.
"Help us. The boat is sinking," one boy reportedly told emergency dispatchers, according to a report Wednesday on Joongang Tongyang Broadcasting.
"The kids had never been on a ferry like that before. They didn't know what to do. They could have been saved," said Kim Seong-kyu, 19, a school student who was among the mourners leaving white chrysanthemums and handwritten messages at a makeshift shrine outside the school.
Among those being mourned was one of the surviving teachers from the doomed expedition who hanged himself from a tree last week in Jindo, the port city where families are staying.
Seven crew members have been arrested, including the captain, a semi-retired and part-time pilot who had been called at the last minute to command the 6,825-ton ship. He was in his cabin when the boat ran into trouble, with a 25-year-old third mate at the helm. Investigators believe that a sharp right turn by the novice might have caused the ferry's cargo to shift, putting it in an irreversible list.
The 20-year-old vessel was purchased from Japan and refurbished in 2012 to accommodate more cargo and passengers for its regular overnight journeys between Incheon port and Jeju, a resort island off the southern coast.
The vessel had passed inspection in February, but former crew members have complained to South Korean media that they feared the boat was top-heavy.
"The boat had stability problems. It had been remodeled to carry more freight and more passengers than it should have," said Shin Sang-chul, a former shipbuilding executive.
Shin believes the ferry had been listing throughout the voyage and that the crew failed to alert authorities about the situation.
Whatever the cause, the remaining personnel were clearly unfamiliar with evacuation procedures. A transcript of a telephone call with the port in Jindo, revealed a crew in a state of panic and confusion.
"At least make them wear life rings and make them escape," the port operator yelled at the crew, according to the transcript. "A helicopter will be there and other ships nearby are approaching."
The crew resisted repeated suggestions that passengers evacuate, saying that the public announcement system was broken, that the ship was too tilted to move about, or that there were too many passengers to fit into the helicopter.
"It's completely impossible for the Sewol ferry to evacuate," the crew responded.
The equivocation proved fatal.
In the end, it appeared that most of the students followed earlier instructions to don life vests but remain in their seats and cabins. Fewer than 80 were among the 174 passengers and crew pulled from the capsizing boat, according to official tallies.
Many parents and residents in Ansan complain that the government assured them in the early hours of the disaster that most of the 325 students aboard had been rescued.
"They've lied to us all along," said a man in a Red Cross uniform at an emergency center in Ansan, who said he could not be quoted by name because of his position. "The parents believe that the government buried our young children alive at sea."
For Song In-ji, a 15-year-old freshman at the Danwon school, that might be the most enduring lesson from the tragedy: Don't trust adults.
"I can't understand how they could stay in their seats as the water was rising," the boy said. "We can't trust anyone anymore."


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Joe sez: If you've missed the previous guest blogs, they've been fascinating and informative.
You can read Brandilyn Collins talking about dialog subtext here: http://jakonrath.blogspot.com/2013/07/guest-post-by-brandilyn-collins.html
You can read Katherine Sears talking about Booktrope: http://jakonrath.blogspot.com/2013/07/guest-post-by-katherine-sears.html
You can read Richard Denoncourt talking about cover art here:
You can read Ann Voss Peterson talking about pacing here: http://jakonrath.blogspot.com/2013/07/pacing-by-ann-voss-peterson.html
You can read Nick Spill talking about his path to publication here: http://jakonrath.blogspot.com/2013/07/guest-blog-by-nick-spill.html
You can read Constance Phillips and Jenna Rutland and Joe Konrath talking about their path to publication here: http://jakonrath.blogspot.com/2013/07/guest-post-by-constance-phillips-and.html
You can read Ian Kezsbom talking about Fuzzbomb Publishing here: http://jakonrath.blogspot.com/2013/07/guest-post-by-ian-kezsbom.html
Now here's Gary Ponzo...
How I Learned to Write a Thriller
I generally despise "How-To" blog posts. I mean if you know how to pick stocks, then do it and become a millionaire and leave us alone. If you can teach us how to write a bestselling book, then why aren't you a bestselling author? So I pursue this topic with an agenda. I'm attempting to assist writers who might have the ability to become successful thriller writers, but are getting in their own way from that accomplishment. Mind you, each writer has a different opinion of what successful means. To many authors developing a core group of a couple of hundred loyal readers is their goal, and a worthy one at that. Hopefully this will offer some support.
The first time I heard someone explain how to write a thriller I was at a writers conference and there was a midlist author explaining her road to publication. As a newbie author I was intrigued with the topic. When she got to the part where she described her ability to conjure up the courage to ask her roommate to look at her manuscript, I was on the edge of my seat. Until she mentioned that her roommate was an agent with the Curtis Brown Literary Agency. That's when I threw up in my mouth and left the room. The title of the seminar should have been, "How to find a literary agent roommate."
My experience is a little more grounded. I began my writing career with short stories. It took a while to get noticed, but after three years I had five stories published in literary magazines, two of which were nominated for the prestigious Pushcart Prize. It was this form of acceptance which gave me the confidence to move on to novels.
I personally enjoy reading action thrillers. Something to keep me intrigued while the tension seemed to mount with each passing page. I became a fan of Nelson Demille, the late Vince Flynn, and Elmore Leonard, among others. After a while I noticed a pattern among these writers. They kept the pages turning with minimal exposition. There's a famous quote by Elmore Leonard: "Try to leave out the part readers tend to skip." This is exactly where I'm taking this post.
Readers have a wide variety of tastes. The important aspect to growing your core is to tap into the exact taste your readers are looking for. This is It's especially important when describing your book as well.
Here's why this is important-- If you took a date to a white tablecloth restaurant to celebrate a special occasion and found nothing but hot dogs and hamburgers on the menu, you would be disappointed. Mind you, these might be the finest hot dogs on the planet, but that's not what you were expecting. Well, readers have tastes too. If you're a romance writer and you're skipping the description of the protagonist's well-built body, then you're missing the important part of the journey for the reader. The opposite goes for thriller writers. Does anyone know what Jack Reacher looks like? Not really. All we know is that he's big. That's about it. And his size is important to the overall theme of the storyline. But for the most part thriller readers want the action. They want tension. They want speed.
If you're a thriller writer and you're spending a couple of pages describing a field of daisies blowing gently in the afternoon breeze, their stems better be attached to sticks of dynamite.
I've heard a rather famous author once comment very disparaging about a well-known thriller writer who left a lot of white space on the page. As if this was beneath a good writer to use dialogue to express the character's motives.
Here are my thoughts about short paragraphs and tiny chapters. If a writer uses less words on the page to move the story along then those words—
Compression is a valuable art form in this genre. The temptation to describe the protagonist's eye color as she walks in front of a mirror must be resisted. This doesn't mean you can't stretch out scenes for pages to describe an incoming plane with a terrorist prisoner on board the way Nelson Demille did with the opening scene to The Lion's Game. That scene was so tense I couldn't get through it fast enough. By the way, that was a 900 page book and it was too short.
The final thing I'd like to say about writing thrillers is simple: Start with the action up front. I've read so many thrillers where the author feels it necessary to give you a laundry list of the protagonist's past history so the reader will care about him or her. Believe me, if the protagonist is hanging upside down from the wing of a plane, all you need to do is mention that he's thinking about his daughter becoming an orphan and the reader is hooked. We care. Now get him out of there so we can flip those pages faster.
Let me give you an example of how the importance of first lines have escalated over the past few years, especially for an Indie author who doesn't have the luxury of a brand name to keep the readers getting through a slow first chapter.
My first thriller, A Touch of Deceit begins with the line: There was a time when Nick Bracco would walk down Gold Street late at night and young vandals would scatter. Not bad for a start, but still not the best. That was three years ago. I did a much better job, however, with the sequel, A Touch of Revenge. It begins: The bullet left the sniper's rife at 3,000 feet per second. Much better, huh? Especially when that bullet is headed directly at Nick Bracco. My latest thriller, A Touch Of Malice, begins: The pit viper slithered up the side of the tree and paused to glare at Trent Merrick with sinister eyes. I'll bet that'll get you to read the next sentence.
And really that's what this entire post is about—start fast, and keep the action up with minimal need to describe the scenery at length unless that scenery is going to have some value to the storyline. That sunset over the mountain better have the glint of a metal flashing or I'm snoozing through it.
How did I learn these traits? From the masters, Vince Flynn, Daniel Silva and Tess Gerritsen. Read them. Study them. Then create your own world using their techniques. I promise it will be a much faster trip. And a much more rewarding one as well.
FYI: I owe much of my success to my ex-literary agent Robert Brown (a prince) who pushed and shoved me into becoming an Indie author and Joe Konrath who opened up his financial books, allowing us to peek inside and see just how far hard work can take you. Almost a hundred thousand sold copies of my Nick Bracco series later I am forever grateful to those two.
Joe sez: Congrats on your success, Gary.
First lines are so important they often are responsible for a reader buying the book, or not buying it. So many ebook readers download samples, and if you don't hook them immediately, they don't buy.
To that effect, remember that your front matter is hugely important. This is how it should go:
1. Cover art.
2. Title page.
3. Back jacket copy. (your book description, as used on your book's Amazon page. This is because people buy or sample ebooks and forget what they are. Remind them at the front of your ebook.
4. Introduction (if any)
5. Table of contents.
5. Novel.
6. Bibliography.
7. Back jacket copy from other books you've written. (Two or three. Don't use excerpts--readers don't like them.)
8. Copyright page.
And speaking of first lines, here are a few of mine.
"It would be so easy to kill you while you sleep." - BLOODY MARY
No security cameras this time, but he still has to be careful. - DIRTY MARTINI
At my fiance's funeral I got a phone call form the woman who killed him. - CHERRY BOMB
"We need to hide somewhere, plan out next move," Hammett said. "He'll be looking for us." - THREE
"I found the head." - THE LIST
This guy isn't a killer, Dalton thinks. He's a butcher. - SHAKEN
Exactly nine hours and eleven minutes before I was charged with the complete destruction of Boise, Idaho, and the murders of the four hundred sixty-two thousand and nine people living there, I was mowing my roof and collecting the clippings like a good little taxpayer when I noticed a raccoon hiding in one of my hemp plants. - TIMECASTER
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Beckley Post-Herald
Beckley Charter Much Changed Since Inception
August 21, 1972
Beckley Charter Much Changed Since Inception
Editor's Note: The following article is the text of a speech that Peter Laqueur presented to the Raleigh County Historical Society Aug. 10. Laqueur used for sources information from Harlow Warren, Mrs. Dorothy Amick and the files of Beckley Newspapers Corp.
History is a field that has always fascinated me, partly through the influence of my family, which is full of amateur historians and a few professionals. My brother presently is getting his PH. D. in history at Oxford.
My interest in history has not really been the scholarly pursuit, but more of a hobby. Wherever I have gone, I have made it a point to learn something about the history of the area, its people and its growth.
My interest in the history of Beckley stemmed from two main sources, the main one being Hal Scott, whose friendship and wisdom I have long respected.
Listening to him tell stories of Beckley and Raleigh County in the early part of this century has always fascinated me. He always told me enough to make me go and dig a little deeper.
The second and equally important influence is Dorothy Amick, who actually inspired me to do my first articles on Beckley when I told her of the 100th anniversary of the 1872 Beckley Charter last Feb. 29. It was from this that I got the real bug." [sic]
I was immensely happy when I was asked to speak before this group because it offered me that opportunity to dig a little deeper and find more background on the development of this great city - Beckley.
No doubt many of you are familiar with the early history of the city, but I shall review it from the beginning, when Gen. Alfred Beckley came here from Philadelphia in 1836 with his first object being to create a new town. After two years of labor, the Virginia Assembly established the town of Beckley.
There really wasn't much to it. It was a fork in the road and had, at the most, five families in a 20-mile radius. Five trustees were appointed to run the city but they did not have much to do because actually there was no town. Legally the town existed but concretely it did not.
The first duty of these five trustees, Alfred Beckley, Clarkson Prince, William Prince, John Bailey and Richard McVey, was to lay off the area chosen for the town and to designate streets and alleys.
The town was to be no larger than 30 acres and the five trustees had the power to make any laws and rules that they felt were necessary.
When the trustees first met, the area was, as John Beckley, Alfred's son, wrote, "a howling wilderness." Little is known of what all these men did.
Evidence of a layout for the town dates back to 1848, when Beckley filed his "papermap" with the Fayette County Circuit Clerk. Much of what he designed still exists today and no doubt accounts for our traffic problems.
While these men were working on developing the town of Beckley, General Beckley already had grander plans - that of a new county with Beckley as its seat of justice.
The general always dreamed of the town becoming a major agricultural center and the seat of justice.
Two years before Raleigh became a County in 1850 (formed from Fayette County), the general donated a tract of land, where the present courthouse stands, with the understanding that this land would belong to the people of Raleigh County as long as Beckley remained the county seat.
Thus when Raleigh finally became a county in 1850, Beckley became the county seat and remains so to the present. Only once was it challenged - when there was a movement to move the county seat to Lester - but this was defeated by the citizens in a special election.
During this early time little is known of what took place. The Civil War broke the calm atmosphere of the community, which was still in its infancy.
It was not until 1872, when the second charter to the city was granted by the West Virginia Legislature, that Beckley, then known as Raleigh Court House for a short period, began to take the shape of a town.
This charter designated offices for the city and Beckley found itself with a mayor for the first time. Who he was was [sic], no one knows but it could have been John Beckley, Alfred's son.
The year of 1872 not only marked the new charter but also saw the first economic stirring in the city.
First there was the new state constitution and secondly, the opening of a railroad, the C&O, which ran from the eastern seaboard to the Ohio Valley and came within 10 miles of Beckley.
During this time, Beckley had grown some, but the area around it grew more rapidly. There was little action in the city and there was also little, if any, official law. There was no police chief until John Williams became the first one in 1887 and even then, he was a one-man force.
We move now briefly to the 1894 charter, which allowed for the position of treasurer but otherwise made no changes.
It was not until the turn of the century that Beckley began to move. Between 1890 and the next charter of 1908, the city and county grew rapidly and prospered.
The first coal mine was opened in the county in 1891 and soon thereafter many more followed. Business grew so much that a bank was finally established in Beckley in 1899, with the McCreery family as the principal founder.
The charter of real importance to us was the 1908 charter granted by the Legislature Feb. 1, 1908. This charter changed the status of Beckley from a town to a city and outlined in detail the various officers the city should have and what the duties of these officers would be.
This charter made provisions for mayor, recorder, treasurer, police chief, assessor, health officer and street commissioner and five councilmen.
All officers except police chief, treasurer, assessor, health officer and street commissioner were to be elected by the citizens.
Once this charter was effective, city elections were held and they were, according to several reports, rather heated. Who actually won is matter of conjecture. One report shows Joe L. Smith to be the winner and another shows Robert B. Robinson winning.
Robinson died before taking office, thus passing the office to the recorder, Lucian Davis, who later resigned in 1911. Most persons agree that Davis was mayor and that Smith took office in 1910 and resigned in 1912 to become a state senator.
The mayor and the council had a big job - that of financing the paving of principal streets such as Main, Neville and Third Avenue. Their prime concern was to get the new city out of the mud and out of debt.
One particular incident during these early years that I enjoy concerns the matter of cows in the city streets.
The time was 1924 and it was a May council meeting. The chambers, then on South Fayette Street, were packed. The issue was whether cattle were or were not to be allowed to roam free in the city.
Several years earlier, an ordinance had been passed prohibiting this but the pro cattle people were so strong that it was rescinded.
The vote was close after long debate. Councilman Joe Smith was absent and the remaining four voted two "for" and two "against". It took the vote of Mayor Hugh Miller to prohibit cattle in the city.
Although there seems to be much information on Beckley during the early period, many of the official documents were lost through the great fire in 1912, which nearly burned down the entire town. It destroyed over 20 buildings, mainly on Neville, Prince and Heber Streets.
In many ways, the fire was a blessing to the city. Gone were the fire traps and dilapidated buildings. The town, in rebuilding, became a city and more modern bigger and better church and business buildings were erected on the ruins of the fire.
Business in Beckley was booming with large land companies coming into the area, new rail lines being laid, coal expanding - and much more. It headed into the late 20's with a shot in the arm and foresight. While the nation was struck by the depression, Beckley was not hit as badly as the rest of the country.
It was in the latter 20's - April 26, 1927 - that the fifth charter was issued to the city of Beckley by the Legislature. This charter is basically the one under which we operate today, although changes have been made.
This charter attempted to streamline the government of the city. It combined the offices of recorder and treasurer and lodged much greater power in the hands of the mayor.
It relieved the mayor of the duties of police court chief and provided for such a person to be appointed by the mayor with consent of the council. It also gave the mayor authority to appoint firemen.
This was the last charter passed by the Legislature; further changes in our charter have been done either by resolutions of council or special elections.
The 1927 change was brought about through an organized citizens group.
It upped the salaries of the official family by providing $2,500 for the recorder-treasurer, $1,200 for the police judge and a minimum of $600 for the mayor. Council members were to be paid $5 for each meeting they attended, not to exceed two meetings per month.
This charter remained in effect until Aug. 3, 1954, when the voters approved certain changes which we shall discuss shortly.
The period of 1927 to the next charter change saw a great deal of progress being made in Beckley. It was now becoming the center of Southern West Virginia and competed only with Bluefield for this title. By 1930, the population of the city had jumped to 9,357 and by 1940 there were 12,852 persons in the city.
Beckley became known as the "Smokeless Coal Capital" as more and more coal operations were opened in Raleigh County, centering operations around Beckley.
Beckley was blessed then, as it is now, with many individuals who had a lot of faith in the city and a lot of foresight. Paved streets were pushed out in every direction, many costly homes were built and large investments in business and industry were made.
As the city grew and prospered, citizens began to look at their government and decided that changes had to be made. In the middle 40's, citizens groups began to look into ways of changing the charger so that government would be smoother and more efficient.
Under the 1927 charter, the recorder-treasurer was an elected position. There were no wards as we know them today; all councilmen were elected at large. There were no primaries, rather, nominees were selected in party conventions.
The big issue in the charter revision was a city manager type of government.
Many individuals felt that the operation of the city had come to a stage where a part-time mayor was not enough - Beckley needed a full-time individual to run and operate the fast growing community.
The commission appointed to study the revisions came up with the following recommendations: that primaries be held for the nomination of municipal offices; that the city be divided into not less than five nor more than nine wards with a councilman from each ward and two at large; extension of terms from two to four years; that a police judge be elected; that the recorder-treasurer be appointed instead of elected, and a permissive clause that would allow a city manager type government to be put into operation.
It was quite a struggle with long council meetings, citizen discussion and a lot of lobbying. When the voters went to the polls, they defeated the change, 1,147 to 834.
This, however, did not deter our far-thinking citizens. The discussions on changes were constantly brought up again and again. In the last term of Mayor W. A. E. Burke, another special committee was appointed to propose changes in the charter.
This was presented in 1951 to the council, which debated and debated the matter, finally deciding to let the Political Science Department of West Virginia University go over the proposed changes and make recommendations to the city.
For two years, the council held onto the proposed changes, doing nothing about it. It took the courage and determination of Councilman Clarence L. Bibb to get the matter before the public eye once again.
This time the major issue seemed to be the primary issue. The Democrat City Executive Committee had endorsed the primary form of nomination but the Republican committee had not. The council therefore refused to bring up the matter. Finally in August of 1953, both parties agreed and the matter was settled.
The first primary was held, nominating Elmer Davis as mayor for the Democrats and George B. Chambers for the Republicans. Nothing was decided, however, on other charter changes. This had to wait until another year.
Toward the end of 1953, the council held public hearings on the proposed charter changes which posed five main, basic changes: a four year term for the mayor and council; a ward system for the city; a permissive city manager clause (once decided, never to be changes unless through an act of the Legislature); appointment of a city recorder-treasurer, and the changing of the election from the first Tuesday in October to the fourth Tuesday in May and the terms of office to begin on July 1 instead of Jan. 1.
The council was ready to adopt these changes providing there were no objections raised at the meeting, but, once the chambers were packed, three individuals, the fire chief, the police chief and one citizen outlined objections, forcing the council to hold an election.
The election was held Aug. 3, 1954, and the citizens adopted the changes, giving us our present form of government. With this new change came a redefinition of powers of the officers of the city but not greatly changed from the 1927 charter.
Today Beckley is still a progressive and forward-moving community. Although the U. S. Census Bureau says we lost population, the city seems to be bursting at its seams. Housing is critical and if traffic is any mark of growth, the Beckley has grown.
The state and federal governments look to Beckley as one of the three growth centers in West Virginia.


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Ferran Adrià told an audience at Harvard University on Tuesday while giving a lecture that he plans to post a daily recipe from the research laboratory that's due to replace his El Bulli restaurant in northeast Spain. Per the Guardian:
He said he would be developing a "social networking site of culinary creativity" using the kitchens of El Bulli, which are set to close in the middle of next year...Adrià has said that El Bulli will continue to serve food, although it will change its name and not be a commercial restaurant. But fans may have to wait to try out the new creations. Adrià has said his new research foundation will not open until 2014.
His lecture, which is part of a general education course called "Science and Cooking: From Haute Cuisine to the Science of Soft Matter," packed a 350-seat theater. Students also watched him by simulcast feed in nearby classrooms. According to the Harvard Crimson, the lecture was the beginning of what he and chef Jose Andres hope will become a larger trend..."the great synergy between physics and cooking." The course has already attracted overflow crowds even after a student lottery was held.
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Kinnarps is Europe's 3rd largest office furniture manufacturer with showrooms in some 35 countries in Europe and other parts of the world and headquarters in Sweden. The eco-friendly manufacturer is a family business founded over 60 years ago in the unspoiled Scandinavian countryside, in the small village of Kinnarp in Sweden. All materials Kinnarps uses are produced with a minimum impact on nature and the wood is FSC-certified. Clients of the Swedish manufacturer include a wide range of private companies, public insitutions and international agencies. Together, Kinnarps and IUCN will promote the importance of green building to the business community. Kinnarps will provide in-kind support to the Conservation Centre through interior design expertise and sustainable furnishings.
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The mission of the Foundation is to contribute to maintaining terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems, both qualitatively and quantitatively, with a view to preserving their biodiversity. To this end, it promotes scientific research, training and integrated management practices whose effectiveness has been proved, while securing a future for local populations in cultural, economic and ecological terms. The MAVA Foundation has contributed to this project through financial assistance. In addition, the foundation relocated their own headquarters to the new Conservation Centre. IUCN is proud to having such a long-term and valued partner located on site with us. This is consistent with the IUCN vision to create a collaborative hub of multi-stakeholder activity for nature conservation.
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- I love my bedroom because it is cozy, simple and filled with things that reflect my personality. I love to juxtapose modern and vintage pieces. My dresser and Ikea side tables are simple and modern and the rest of the room is filled with thrift store finds that reflect whimsy and romance. I also love that my husband and I made the headboard and the star mirror. It pleases me that one doesn't have to spend loads of money for the sake of luxury.
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