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The Aldrich Alert
A Publication of the Patrick Henry Center for Individual Liberty
by Gary Aldrich - Volume 2, Issue 51
This article appeared at Townhall.com on November 21, 2002
Im driving a truck. Its a great truck with cushioned seats, a CD player, cruise control and all-climate air conditioning but its still a truck. I used to drive a European sports sedan, but my teenage son was starting to drive and the speedometer implied that he could go 140 miles per hour if nobody was watching so the truck seemed like a better choice.
Some call our truck an SUV, and I suppose this helps marketing, but its still a truck. Its even a guy color gunmetal grey. My son and I drive around in our Chevy Tahoe feeling manly. It has a big cargo area where we store our skill saw and tool chest. My boy managed to find room back there for his 12 inch woofers, explaining that these were very necessary if he was expected to drive it.
The speakers are big, loud, bulky, and ..manly!
Imagine my embarrassment when Chevrolet sent me a recall notice the other day warning that if I wasnt careful when folding down the back seats I might pinch my pinky finger! So, while loading two-by-fours or heavy plywood into the back, there was a chance that I or some innocent loved one of mine could pinch a finger.
Now, this could be just good public relations on the part of the manufacturer, but I dont think so. I smell the federal government in this decision to recall trucks for pinched pinkies. Imagine millions of owners inconvenienced by having to take their trucks to the dealer so that a small plastic cover could be installed to help prevent pinching.
Imagine the cost to the manufacturer, who will now, of course, pass that cost right along to the buyers but well all feel better!
I got to wondering, Did anybody at Chevrolet ever have a kid whose finger got pinched by a car door? Now, thats a pinch! Why doesnt Chevy recall every vehicle and install some sort of device to save us from that? And those dangerous 12-volt utility plugs they install everywhere what about those? How many kids (and dumb adults) have stuck their finger into those outlets to see if theres anything going on in there? Surely the manufacturer can be forced to produce little plastic covers to go over these outlets before somebody gets shocked!
Why is this happening to me to us? Ill tell you why there are too many federal government agencies with nothing to do with time on their hands. They look for issues to inject themselves into, and they do! Im willing to bet that some nosy, overbearing control-freak federal bureaucrat heard of a pinky pinching and saw this horrible trauma as his or her ticket to bureaucracy stardom. After all, its not sufficient to just show up at these warehouses of make-work federal agencies no, in order to get ahead you have to champion an issue!
So, minor matters that nobody cares about suddenly can become multi-million dollar crusades with the cost to the general public higher than anybody can possibly calculate.
My son is a vintage sports car buff. He knows about MGs and four cylinder Porsches with four cams, and Lotus racers with formula one tubular frames. We were looking at a few of these cars at a recent vintage car race. He asked, Dad, why do some of these cars have those neat wire wheels with the knock-off hubs, and others have one large nut?
I should explain to some of our less car-interested readers that these knock-off nuts had little wings, the sole purpose of which was to provide a surface for a manly brass hammer to whack.
In other words, you whacked the wheel off, and then after putting the new wheel on, you whacked the nut in the opposite direction to keep the wheel on. It was very manly, you see, and far more efficient than taking off five or six individual nuts. In a car race, every second counts.
When the wing nuts were outlawed by the U.S. Congress back in the sixties, that forced car manufacturers to create boring wingless nuts that needed an ugly looking wrench to get the wheel on and off. All the romance was taken away. The laws were so intrusive that some car manufacturers went right out of business, but who could deny the beauty of a 1967 Austin Healy 3000 with chrome wire wheels and those wonderful chrome wing nuts sparkling in the sunlight? And it was so beautifully loud! Every car nut knows what Im talking about.
How did this awful tragedy happen? Simple. The maternalistic types like Ralph Nader had been watching too many Hollywood movies. Ben Hur, featuring one of our greatest stars, Charlton Heston, had a great chariot race, and one of the chariots had these huge wheel wing nuts that had been made into deadly blades. The bad guy could get up next to our hero and use the deadly spinners to destroy his wheels, but thats not all!
If the chariot went out of control and slammed into a crowd, not only would innocent bystanders get trampled by horses, but they would be cut to ribbons by those deadly spinning blades! Imagine that! Of course, thats all it was imaginary.
But in the mind of a Ralph Nader, those little wing nuts on the wheels of those dangerous sports cars were worrisome. So, the wing nuts had to go, along with the wooden dashboards and the aircraft style toggle switches. All sharp edges were softened. Next came seatbelts and cushioned surfaces and bumpers that were so high they made the cars look like an old man with his pants pulled too high. They all but destroyed the European sports car market with their nanny-like concerns.
But, what an improvement! Now we have tiny, ridiculous looking jelly-bean vehicles that are boring, but they sure save a lot of gas. No longer can you get sliced by spinning wheels but if youre hit by a traditional sized vehicle youll be smashed like a bug in a paper cup.
If Ralph Nader and his ilk feel better, remember - thats all that really counts. Feelings.
And thats why my son and I drive a truck I mean an SUV. It not only makes us feel safer it is safer! But please, Mommy, let us enjoy our driving experience its one of the few freedoms left to us. Isnt it OK if I want to ignore those pinky pinching dangers that now face us on a daily basis?
Those mommies who drive us crazy with their worries about all other walks of life are now coming after our trucks! Whats next? Outlawed gun racks?
How about outlawing overbearing, personnel-swamped, maternalistic federal agencies instead?


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I've been inspired by all the interesting, poignant, witty, and funny entries so I decided to add my own two cents. I discovered #genfab on Twitter and would join the FB group, but I can't figure out where it is! This week they're doing a blog hop on the topic "writing a letter to your 20-year-old self". Here's what I have to say. I've also included links to some other posts at the bottom of this page for your reading pleasure.
1. Hey girl! Be a mouthy bitch sooner rather than later. Stop letting everyone push you around. Develop your Napoleon complex right now; don't wait!
2. Stay out of the sun. You don't need to lay out at the beach and tan for six hours a day, seven days a week–from June to September. Cocoa butter and baby oil are a lethal combo. Thank goodness there's Botox and fillers, but you can't imagine the rest of the damage too much tanning can do. A little spot of basel cell carcinoma will be in your future along with some Moh's surgery and a few sutures. You could have avoided that. Stop refusing the straw hat mommy gave you. She's a nurse. She knows.
3. Be nicer to mommy. (Yes, you and I called her mommy 'til the end.) Don't roll your eyes at me; really. Be nice. As soon as you have your own baby, you'll understand 99% of everything she said that you pretended not to hear. You will really miss her when she's gone, trust me.
4. For one second and one second only, peer inside this crystal ball and see all the things you're NOT gonna do: become a famous ballet dancer like Anna Pavlova, go to Val D'Isere to study French and ski, spend the summer in Minnesota studying the wolf population while actually living among them, move to LA to pursue a real acting career, study harder and go to med school, study harder and go to law school, marry the guy with the massive trust fund, get that boob job–and then STOP thinking about what you DON'T have and what you DIDN'T do and focus on what you DO have. That will end up being your most favorite thing to say to people–whether it's regrets about the past or food they shouldn't eat.
5. You are going to be the luckiest girl in the world. You are going to give birth to the most wonderful angel child that ever existed in the universe. He will be a planned for, wanted, loved, and adored boy– even before the very first moment you realized you were actually pregnant. As you will tell him on his twenty-first birthday, every breath he has taken has given you joy. You will be lucky enough to be a stay-at-home mom and never miss one smile, one milestone, one MEAL. You will be the one to nurture his every interest, teach him to read and watch his world open up through books. You'll teach him to love animals, to be kind and gentle, to care about the environment, to have a voice, to stand up for what is right no matter what. You are going to be a great mom except for those couple of times that you weren't. We won't discuss that. No one's perfect.
6. When you're a mother-in-law, you can take
all some none of the credit for his choice of a brilliant, outspoken, funny, gorgeous DIL (who also happens to have very curly hair that she diligently straightens.) Now's the time to give DIL a major shout out for kick starting my foray into blogging and social media. Thank you, S! Now go make J his dinner. Ha ha.
7. Sit down for this one. It's painful. All My Children will end. I know, right?
8. You're gonna marry two guys; one will become BioDad and the other will be the best stepdad in the world. Your past and present husbands will become friends and spend time together. (A really, really long future blog, maybe even a book.)
9. Now that I think of it, I'll allow a moment of sadness to recall how you didn't get that major role in Chekhov's The Cherry Orchard at the Old Globe in San Diego. You are really, really going to want that, and you were really, really awesome at the audition, and not getting it will be a huge disappointment.
10. And finally, when you're in your late, late late forties, and by that I mean fifties, you'll still act like you're 20, OK, I mean 16–oh all right then, 13! You're gonna love Katy Perry, Christina Perri, Adele, Gossip Girl, Hello Kitty (don't ask, just know that it's in your future), anything sparkly (especially diamonds), animal print, Chanel, and have a very healthy obsession with seashells that will bring you fame and fortune as Enchanted Seashells, Confessions of a Tugboat Captain's Wife, and you'll meet a few like-minded witty chickas– whilst writing something called a blog–
More articles in the blog hop…
The Fur Files Looking backward: What we'd tell our 20-year-old selves (After The Kids Leave) Dear 20-Year Old Me (Chloe of the Mountain) To Marci, On Your 20th Birthday (The Midlife 2nd Wife) Having a talk with my 20-year-old self (Midlife Crisis Queen) A Heart-to-Heart with 20 Year Old Me (Books is Wonderful) What Would You Tell your Twenty-Year-Old Self? (Empty House, Full Mind) Dear 20 Year Old Me (Kids Are Grown) Back to the Future (Employee to EmployMe) Callow, Clueless, and Cruising Paris (Daily Plate of Crazy) Happy Birthday, Twenty-Year-Old Me (Not a Supermom)
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City Councilor At-large Sefatia Romeo Thekn and friends help raise funds to support Megan Cole's participation in the Boston Marathon to benefit the Hoyt Foundation. She and her commares cook breakfast and lunch for Jack Ventola and his employees at National Fish & Seafood.
Congressman John Tierney, Mayor Carolyn Kirk, and State Representative Ann-Margaret Ferrante join Sefatia and friends. Wicked Tuna Captain Dave Carraro and First Mate Paul Hebert stop by to share lunch.
~ Starring ~ Sefatia Rome Thekan
~ Featuring ~ Megan Cole, Congressman John Tierney, Jack Ventola, Mayor Carolyn Kirk, Ann-Margaret Ferrante, Dave Carraro, Paul Hebert
~ Commares ~ Giovanna Margiotta, Gus Margiotta, Liz Margiotta, Rosalia Favazza, Pietra Locontro, Maria Cannavo, Rosaria Floyd, Lia Romeo Oliver, Tonianne Enes, Domenic Enes, Megan Cole, Mark Cole, Jane Fonzo, Frances Ferrante, Jennifer Arson, National Fish Employees
~ Music During the Event by Torianne Enes
~ Pastries and Bread Donated by Jim's Bagel and Bake Shoppe, Sclafani Italian Bakery, Cafe Sicilia
Opening Credit Music: "Fritto Misto;" Closing Credit "Music: Don Pietro."
A note about the song "Fritto Misto" ~ Searching for fun lively music for the video, I came across the song "Fritto Misto." Google search led to many recipes for Fritto Misto, which loosely translated means 'fried seafood and vegetable medley'–how perfect for this little film about cooking seafood with Sefatia and friends!
Filmed at National Fish and Seafood, March 25, 2013.


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Chris Medina is big in Europe. More specifically, Scandinavia.
The Oak Forest resident had all of the U.S. pulling for him on "American Idol" last year after learning of his loyalty to fiancee Juliana Ramos, who was in a car accident and left with brain damage two months before their wedding, but it's in Norway and Sweden that his song dedicated to Ramos, "What are Words," reached No. 1 on the charts. The song also peaked at No. 19 in Denmark.
The U.S. charts? That's a different story.
Medina's album, also named "What are Words," has never been released in the U.S. The former barista has remained unsigned here, which explains why he rarely performs around the country other than a few shows here and there and the occasional charity benefit.
On Saturday, Medina will perform at Bottom Lounge. He calls the show his last of the year in Chicago so he can focus on writing new music. He talks about his career in Europe, why he believes he hasn't been signed in the U.S. and the incredible progress Juliana has made since she was featured on "Idol."
Luis: How did you gain a following overseas?
Chris: Norway gets "American Idol" episodes about a month after we do. This 17-year-old who was put in charge of booking bands for a small music festival saw my audition on YouTube and contacted me (in spring 2011). He said "I can only pay you $200, but I would fly you out and pay for your hotel." You know what? Maybe my 15 minutes of fame are up. If this is it, why not get a free trip out of it? He called the radio stations and said "Can you play this 'American Idol' guy's song to promote my festival?" They played it that week and it debuted at No. 6 and for 11 weeks after that, was No. 1. Because it made such a splash in Norway, Sweden caught on. It was No. 1 for eight weeks in Sweden.
Luis: Why haven't you released your album in the United States?
Chris: Nobody in the US wanted to sign me. I don't know why that is. Maybe it's the stigma behind "Idol." Besides ("Idol" winners) Philip Phillips and Scotty McCreery, only a select few did really well coming off the show the last few years. The exposure is phenomenal but you get forgotten once the next season comes out and you're old news. I didn't even make the top 24 (on "Idol") – my exposure was based off of an audition.
Luis: How is Juliana?
Chris: She's in front of me right now listening to me talk to you. We've gone through pretty tough stuff: Lots of extensive therapy and non-traditional therapy. Fortunately the song did so well in Europe that I could raise enough money to pay for a lot of these therapies like horseback riding and an oxygen chamber. If you look at the audition, she couldn't sit in her chair without shaking and could barely speak, she couldn't hold her head up and her feet were crooked. Since then, her feet have straightened up and she can stand virtually by herself and eat by herself. Before we had to do everything for her, but now not so much. It's still a long road, but she's managed to inspire everyone around her.
Luis: Does Juliana travel with you overseas?
Chris: She travels with me (in the US), but not overseas. It's frightening because I don't know how the medical world works there. She still has seizures. I would feel awful if we were in the middle of an eight hour flight and she had a seizure. Also, it would get a little crazy. She's famous out there. I don't want her to be bombarded by people. And I don't think I could handle the ridicule of people saying "You're bringing this poor girl out there just to parade her around and she's being suffocated."
Luis: Do people accuse you of exploiting her?
Chris: Oh yeah, absolutely. But I don't regret ("Idol") for a second. People who know Juliana and talk to her on Facebook know she thinks this is the best thing that ever happened to her. The other day she was having surgery on her palate so she could talk better and instead of worrying about that, she tapped the doctor on the shoulder and said "I was on 'American Idol." For almost two years, she laid around on a recliner. I think the attention is motivation for her to reintegrate herself into society. She taught herself to type again so she can respond to feedback on Facebook. … She just told me to tell you Steven Tyler kissed her.
(The Aerosmith frontman and former "Idol" judge kissed Ramos on the cheek after meeting her at Medina's audition in Milwaukee.)
Luis: What happened after you were eliminated from "Idol" and were done doing the talk show rounds?
Chris: Virtually nothing happened after that. Here I am with all these hopes and dreams and nothing happens. OK, maybe that's how it goes. You hear all the time about 15 minutes of fame. The first show I played after that was Norway. It was in front of 2,000 people and then I was playing in front of like 70,000 people. I got off the plane and they were freaking out and losing their mind. I make the joke all the time: Nobody has been that excited to see me since I was a newborn baby coming home from the hospital.
Luis: Have you considered moving to Norway?
Chris: Not even a little bit. I'm happy it's happened in those countries, but everything I do is to try to get released here. My goal is to write enough material to (land a deal). Hopefully they would rerelease my album or repackage it with new material. It doesn't stand a chance if I have no money behind it. … I'm always trying to achieve some level of longevity. I'm trying to match my talent to my story. I'm trying to prove I'm worth something more than a story, one audition, more than 15 minutes. But even if it ends with just being successful in Scandinavia, I'm happy.
Luis: Are you living comfortably off of your music career?
Chris: I'm not living lavishly. We live with Juliana's parents in Oak Forest. It's seven people, two dogs and one cat. Every once in a while, I'll sleep on the couch when Juliana is talking in the middle of the night.
Luis: What does the future hold for you and Juliana?
Chris: Juliana and I are doing really great. Like any couple, we have our ups and downs. We're trying to figure out how to be together through disability. It's a really challenging relationship. We know we love each other and I don't want to leave her and she doesn't want me to leave. I think I just want her to get to the point where she's happy and more independent before we put the pressure on ourselves to walk down the aisle. The future for us looks more promising than my music (laughs).
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Baby boomers' duty to Iraq
This letter is especially directed to all middle and late baby boomers out there born from about 1956 to 1965…..Now we are of the age where most of our children are teenagers, in college, or starting families of their own. The question I ask—what historical legacy will we pass to our children? Will this legacy be electing Bush twice and seating a Republican Congress for 12 years? Demographic studies are VERY convincing our votes were critical in bringing this about! From our voting decisions, the Iraq war and other fallout from the Bush Administration is OUR responsibility!
Much is to be admired about the current generation of young people serving their country—whether in the armed forces or striving in so many other ways to make the world a better place. It is for them I ask you to direct your thoughts and energies to bring about a lasting peace in the Middle East—this can be done!
Today, I invite you to join me in writing a more positive chapter in US history. Consider a two-part plan. The first phase is to extricate our country from the current civil war in Iraq with a timetable. The war in Iraq is really two wars—the conventional war won in 2003, and the second, the insurgency leading to a civil war afterward—this part we handled badly; furthermore, this situation at present poses the real possibility of engulfing our country in a regional conflagration, with Iran leading the hot list.
The second is a region-wide plan that brings a permanent solution to the ongoing Middle East violence over the last 50 years where we include ALL belligerent nations—Israel, Syria, Saudi Arabia, Iran, etc. to settle ongoing differences to heal and build not only these nations, but also our own. This time we create an inclusive partnership with member countries of the United Nations rather than adopting a unilateral approach, as was utilized in 2003.
Do join me in contacting our elected representatives—let's set a higher standard in the pages of history!
David E. Diver, Denver
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— The Connecticut Sun had been in a defensive funk. The choreography hadn't been right; bad on Broadway, especially bad in the WNBA. So it wasn't the best time for a visit from the dynamic Diana Taurasi, the league's leading scorer and former UConn national player of the year.
But now the Sun have their own UConn icon, rookie center Tina Charles.
On Friday, Charles was more magnificent than Taurasi, with 19 points and a franchise-record 23 rebounds to lead the Sun to an 82-79 victory before 9,518 at Mohegan Sun Arena.
"This is what I wanted from myself," Charles said. "And this is the reason I went to UConn because Coach [ Geno] Auriemma produces this type of player. My goal is to try and do this every night."
It was Charles' 10th double-double, two short of Taj McWilliams-Franklin's team mark. The WNBA rookie record is 17 by Candace Parker and Yolanda Griffith.
"Tina was sensational on the boards," Sun coach Mike Thibault said.
Charles' effort was one short of the WNBA record set by Chamique Holdsclaw.
Taurasi scored 26 points and her presence brought fans out in a big way. She was cheered in introductions, then booed as the game moved on.
"Yeah, the fans are cheering Kara Lawson [the former Tennessee star] and booing me?" Taurasi said. "What's going on in Connecticut anyway?"
The arena was sold out for the first time this season and rocking, fueled by nine lead changes and eight players scoring double figures. Sandrine Gruda had 17 points and nine rebounds.
Penny Taylor scored 15 for the Mercury (5-8) and her three-pointer tied the score at 66 with 6:52 to play. A three-point play by Candice Dupree (16 points) provided the lead 24 seconds later. The Sun had led by nine in the second quarter.
It went back and forth from there until two great hustle plays by Tan White and two threes by Anete Jekabsone-Zogota (11 points) in the final three minutes gave the Sun an 82-75 lead.
Taurasi and White battled all night, just like last week in Phoenix.
"You just have to stay aggressive," White said. "When you are playing a scorer like Taurasi, you know that they can score from any place on the floor."
Like with 4.7 seconds to play. But Taurasi's three, which would have tied it, was short.
The Sun fell behind early. With Dupree beating them down the floor to score 11 straight points, the Mercury opened leads of 9-1 and 14-3. At that point, Thibault called a timeout and asked Charles to take a seat next to him on the bench.
It was a timeout well spent. Before the end of the quarter, the Sun cut the lead to 22-19 and with 8:06 to go in the half Asjha Jones' basket gave them their first lead, 26-24. The Sun increased the lead to 33-24 before five straight points by Taurasi. But the last run of the half belonged to the Sun, and not only did they lead 43-37 at the half, but Charles already had her double-double (11 and 11).
U.S. Vs. Australia
An Australian news service, Basketball Australia, is reporting its national women's team will train in Connecticut July 7-13 in preparation for some sort of event against the U.S. team July 11 in Connecticut, the day after the U.S.-WNBA All-Star Game at Mohegan Sun Arena. Neither USA Basketball nor the Sun would comment on the report, but there is a possibility the matchup might be a closed scrimmage.
— The Connecticut Sun had been in a defensive funk. The choreography hadn't been right; bad on Broadway, especially bad in the WNBA. So it wasn't the best time for a visit from the dynamic Diana Taurasi, the league's leading scorer and former UConn national player of the year.


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This morning Larisa over at the Pink Pigtail Inn posted about The Importance of Jumping Revealed. Since it relates to my series on situational awareness I wanted to talk about the tactical utility of jumping. First let me say I love jumping too. I played a few MMOs before WOW and none of them had jumping in them. It is amazing how much that little thing makes a world feel more real. Jumping and swimming were the things a lot of games before WOW did not have. Those two things make the world feel more like a world and less like a cage.
But on to tactical jumping.
This is Bob. He insulted the mother of these raptors. Now He is running like heck.
Some of you might think he has two choices, keep running or stop, turn and attack.
Oh now Bob is stopping to attack…
Can he get the shot off?
Oh! Too late!
This is Fred. He accidently stepped on a raptor egg.
Fred knows there is a third choice.
Ah jumping. We love jumping.
Oh wait what is this? Fred is spinning in the air! See the wonderful thing about WOW jumping is that physics is respected and your linear momentum is retained despite changes in angular velocity. HUh? I mean you keep moving in the same direction even if you turn while jumping. Oh!
Hey, Fred can shoot while jumping. Nice.
Now look, Fred did another 180 degree spin before he landed!
This means that Fred lost NO speed while running from the raptors but was still able to fight back!
Oh hey, see how I worked in the ability to spin EXACTLY 180 degrees in one try at any time? Yeah, just like I talked about in the situational awareness practice. Clean fast mouse control has more uses than just looking around.
This trick does not just work for hunters. Warriors can spin and 'hamstring' if they targets are close.. Rogues can do it and used one of their many stuns. Mages can even jump, spin, and 'cone of cold' things. Almost anything that is an instant cast can be used while moving. Anything that can be used while moving can be used with a jump-spin to attack behind you while moving forward at full speed. And it does not have to be something chasing you. Anytime you want to attack one way while moving at full speed another way you can use this trick.
Naturally it is hugely useful in PVP.
I mostly use it to shoot cows in Elwyn.


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Copp's Hill Burial Ground is located in Boston's North End neighborhood, right in front of the Old North Church made famous in the story of Paul Revere. There are more than 10,000 people buried here, but only about 2,300 tombstones. Many graves are unmarked, and some tombs hold up to ten people, so the number of graves doesn't match the number of inscriptions. It was first laid out as a burial ground in 1659.
In researching the Jones/Lambert family of my family tree, I found that my 4x great grandmother Catherine Plummer Jones (abt 1799 - 1828) had a sister, Sarah Dargue Jones (abt 1794 - 1875), who married Enoch Howes Snelling (abt 1790 - 1866). The Joneses lived in the North End, and so did a plethora of Snellings. There were many more Snelling tombstones than I have posted here today. There is a Snelling Alley still located between the burial ground and the church.
For more information on the Copp's Hill Burial Ground, and a listing of gravestones, please see the book Boston's Copp's hill Burying Ground Guide by Charles Chauncey Wells, Chauncey Park Press, 1998
Here lyes ye Body
of Mr. BENJAMIN
SNELLING. Who
Died Novbr. 6 Anno
Domi 1739 in ye 40th
year of His Age.
Here lyes Buried ye Body
of ANNA SNELLING
Dautr of Mr. JOSEPH and
Mrs PRISEILLA SNELLING
Who departed this life
Jany the 30th 1766
Aged 20 Years
Here lies ye Body of
Daur of Mr. JOSIAH &
Mrs MARY SNELLING
Died April ye 20th
Aet 5 Years & 10 Days
In Memory of
son of JOSIAH
decd April 27th 1799
Aged 24 Years
on the left
on the right
Rebeckah Hannah
Snelling Snelling
Died June 9th Died June 22nd
1730 Aged 1730 Aged
1 Years & 1 Years &
1 Mo. 1 Mo
ye children on Joseph
& Elizabeth Snelling
CAP JONATHAN SNELLINGs TOMB
JOSHUA SNELLING son of Cap JONATHAN & Mrs
MARY SNELLING Died Janry 26 1748 Aged 2 years
2 Mo. also SARAH SNELLING Died Janry 13th
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Anne Hathaway and Rebel Wilson star as female scam artists, one low rent and the other high class, who team up to take down the men who have wronged them.
Since his arrival at Buckingham palace, Rex lives a life of luxury. Top dog, he has superseded his three fellow Corgis in Her Majesty's heart. His arrogance can be quite irritating. When he causes a diplomatic incident during an official dinner with the President of the United States, he falls into disgrace. Betrayed by one of his peers, Rex becomes a stray dog in the streets of London. How can he redeem himself? In love, he will find the resources to surpass himself in the face of great danger…
Disaster strikes when the egotistical CEO of an edible cutlery company leads her long-suffering staff on a corporate team-building trip in New Mexico. Trapped underground, this mismatched and disgruntled group must pull together to survive.
Season 1 | Episode 7 Ed, Gordo, and Danielle struggle with an extended Jamestown mission.
Season 1 | Episode 10 Bumpy blackmails the mob in an effort to secure the safety of himself and his family. President John F. Kennedy is assassinated. Teddy performs at the Apollo Theater in Harlem.
Season 1 | Episode 5 The alethiometer sends Lyra and Iorek on a new path, leading to a shocking but vital clue in her search to find her friend Roger and the other missing children.
Season 1 | Episode 6 While helping her friend Jane through a marital crisis, Eve is distracted by a series of flirtatious texts. Brendan and Chloe have a study date.
Season 4 | Episode 9 Fsociety faces off against Deus Group.
Season 7 | Episode 3 Ray gets closer with Molly Sullivan when he realizes their family connection. Claudette comes to New York and discovers that Daryll is on Detective Perry's radar. Bunchy tries to leverage his heroism for a pay raise. Bridget gets closer with her music producer boss, and Terry goes on a trip with his new spiritual guide.
Season 10 | Episode 4
Season 6 | Episode 6 A major event puts PiperNet's capabilities to the test. Monica confronts Jian-Yang over his use of Pied Piper's name.
Season 2 | Episode 13 The Titans battle Deathstroke & more in the season finale.
Season 2 | Episode 9 Officer Nolan's trust is tested when he tries to help the previous owner of his home reconnect with his family. Meanwhile, Officer Harper has finally earned an overnight visit with her daughter that is put into jeopardy when her past undercover life resurfaces again.
Season 1 | Episode 7 Under Lady Trieu's care, Angela undergoes an unconventional treatment while Agent Blake chases down a lead. Elsewhere, The Smartest Man in The World delivers a stunning defense of his past actions.
Season 3 | Episode 10 Holiday-themed incidents include a shopper pushed over the edge, a woman who is literally having a "Blue Christmas" and a luggage handler accident on a tarmac; Maddie revisits her past to embrace her future; Bobby receives shocking news.
Season 6 | Episode 9 Hakeem raises concerns over Lucious' changes to the Empire movie script, causing Lucious and Cookie to come together to recount the events that lead to the evolution of Empire. Andre turns to Kelly Patel to help him gain controlling interest in the company, as Teri grows increasingly suspicious of Andre's role in signing Prophet the Poet. Meanwhile, Bossy Media considers taking on a silent partner to help with their financial issues and Philly Street confronts Lucious about the info he received from White Tracy.
Season 8 | Episode 7 Oliver's mission takes him to Lian Yu where he tries to ignore the repercussions of the looming Crisis until he receives help from an old friend. Meanwhile, a united Team Arrow faces a recognisable villain.
Season 1 | Episode 10 Knowing that the "Junkyard Killer" was in cahoots with his father, Malcolm goes against the FBI's wishes and continues to investigate. His findings reconnect him with a disgruntled ex-detective who was once heavily involved in the search for "The Surgeon," delivering them both into danger.
Season 6 | Episode 8 With The Flash freshly infected by the monstrous Bloodwork, Iris and Cisco battle to help Barry take control of himself before he's lost forever to Ramsey's influence. Meanwhile, the rest of Team Flash fight to reclaim control of Central City from Bloodwork's growing army.
Season 3 | Episode 10 Shaun visits his father on his deathbed and the family reunion reveals unexpected results. Melendez, Park, Reznick and Claire treat an injured star NFL player with severe spinal damage. Claire addresses her mental health.
Season 1 | Episode 8 Doug tries to save a target. Edwards and Haynes are hunted. Soyun goes undercover.
Season 3 | Episode 9 Conrad comes under fire when a former patient files a malpractice lawsuit against him, putting Bell in a difficult position with Red Rock. The doctors perform a risky brain surgery. Mina discovers that Adaku has a dangerous heart condition.
Season 1 | Episode 3 Max's nephew suffers a breakdown after the drowning of a fellow cadet at a military academy. The police department refute suspicions but Max shows Oskar a pattern of violence and believes that they're looking at a murder investigation.
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This electronic press release landed in my inbox the other day:
Carmel, Calif. – TomatoFest® Garden Seeds today announced that "black" tomatoes again rank high in the "Top 10" list of favorite heirloom tomatoes going into 2009. The "Top 10" favorite heirloom tomatoes are:
Brandywine (pink)
Paul Robeson (purple/black)
Aussie (red)
Julia Child (pink)
Cherokee Purple (purple/black)
Black Cherry (purple/black)
Kellogg's Breakfast (orange)
Gold Medal (yellow/red striped)
Aunt Ginny's Purple (purple/black)
Carmello (red)
The release from TomatoFest.com goes on to say that 2008 was a barn-burner year for "black" tomatoes.
" 'Black' tomatoes are not really black," says TomatoFest's Gary Ibsen. "They cover a range of dark colors, including deep purple, dusky deep brown, smoky mahogany with dark green shoulders, and bluish-brown. The depth of colors seems to be encouraged by a higher acid and mineral content in the soil."
Anyone out there grow black tomatoes last year? Or any of the others on this list?
I grew one "Black Pear" last summer that I ordered from chileplants.com. I was impressed with its production, even if it didn't really start pumping out tomatoes until pretty late in the season. I ordered late and planted late, so it might have been my fault. Black Pear also held really well sitting in a box on the kitchen table; under-ripe fruits kept turning from green to at least some form of blackish red. I kept thinking I would make green tomato pickles out of them and then they'd all ripen. The plant withstood a couple of flirtations with frost, too. My retired friends Perry and Ros, who didn't grow any tomatoes last year because they were building an addition to their house, gave the flavor high marks.
(I grew a yellow Brandywine, too, but it was a very needy plant, and the fruits were very convoluted. Sexy, but not very practical, so they're not on next year's list.).
TomatoFest is out of California, is all organic and offers a staggering SIX HUNDRED — correction MORE THAN six hundred types of heirloom tomato seeds. I wore my eyes out just scanning the paste tomato varieties.
Six hundred. Now that's what I call going to the tomato crazy place.
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LAKE BUTLER, Fla. — A former Florida trucking company employee who went on a weekend shooting rampage left a handwritten note that listed his four victims, two of whom died, investigators said Monday.
Union County sheriff's Lt. Lyn Williams said three days of interviews with people who knew 72-year-old Hubert Allen J. haven't turned up a motive for Saturday's shooting spree centered around Pritchett Trucking Inc., but his targets weren't random.
"Further investigation revealed by a handwritten note at Allen's house that this was a premeditated event targeting these individuals," according to a news release. "The note did not reveal a motive."
The Rev. Patrick Maxwell of Victory Christian Center said even family members do not know why Allen went on the shooting spree. Allen's daughter and grandchildren are members of Maxwell's church and went to their home on the day of the shootings to comfort and counsel them.
"We all hope and pray that some answers come out, but unfortunately the only person that knows is no longer with us. He slipped into eternity," Maxwell said.
On Saturday, Allen drove to a location owned by his former boss, Marvin Pritchett, the trucking company's founder. He shot and killed former co-worker Rolando Gonzalez-Delgado, 28, around 9 a.m., then went a short distance and killed Pritchett, 80, who began the company in 1980. Allen, at one time, was considered his top assistant.
A few minutes later, Allen pulled over where another former co-worker was driving a farm tractor, exchanged words with him and fired a shotgun, authorities said. The victim, 66-year-old Lewis Mabrey Jr., was in good condition.
Allen then went to the company's headquarters in Lake Butler and shot 44-year-old David Griffis in the stomach, the sheriff's office said. Griffis was in critical condition.
Allen killed himself at his nearby home. Deputies recovered a .22-caliber rifle, a .410-small-bore shotgun and an unfired .32-caliber handgun.
Allen was the great-grandfather of Buffalo Bills running back C.J. Spiller.
Pritchett Trucking's website said it employs 400 people and owns hundreds of vehicles that operate nationwide.


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A Delta plane traveling from Orlando, Fla., to Atlanta was able to land safely after a panel fell of its right wing during flight Sunday.
Flight 2412, carrying 179 passengers and six crew, landed without other incident as scheduled at Atlanta's Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport, a spokesman for the airline said.
"The problems with the wing did not affect the plane's ability to fly or operable change in flight," Delta spokesman Anthony Black said. The crew, knowing that, followed procedure by declaring an emergency to air traffic control as they were landing, which gave them priority clearance to land and alerted ground crews.
Maintenance officials are inspecting the Boeing 757 to determine what caused the panel to come off.


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Authorities in the northeastern Chinese province of Heilongjiang have admitted that "mistakes" were made in the case of a woman who was locked in a disused morgue for three years and have promised to pay her compensation.
Chen Qingxia, 44, had been petitioning the authorities over her husband's treatment in a labor camp when she herself was sentenced to 18 months' "re-education through labor" and then held in an abandoned building once used to store dead bodies, official media reported on Friday.
An employee who answered the phone at Chen's local Dailing district police station in her home city of Yichun said he knew about her case.
"I heard about that," he said. But he added: "I'm not really clear about the details."
Public outcry
Chen's case sparked a public outcry after her desperate posters calling for help stuck to the windows caught media attention last December, and an investigation was launched, Xinhua news agency reported.
It said four officials including three police officers in Yichun city and the head of a district-level complaints office in the city were fired for "mishandling" Chen's case, the report said.
Chen's husband Song Lisheng was handed the original labor camp sentence for one year and seven months for allegedly breaking quarantine restrictions during the SARS epidemic of 2003.
Police continued to hold him even after Chen's petition was successful and a local court had ordered him freed.
Chen was detained on a further complaints trip to Beijing in 2007 with her son, then 12 years old, from whom she was separated by officials and whom she hasn't seen since.
According to Xinhua, compensation rules state that Chen can expect her family's medical bills to be paid by the government, and can expect continued assistance in looking for her son.
Shifting stance?
Guangdong and Yunnan provinces last week announced they were discontinuing the highly controversial "re-education through labor" system this week, in line with pledges from central government.
But rights activists said it is still too early to say whether the system will simply continue under a different name.
Earlier this week, a court in Beijing upheld prison terms from six months to two years for 10 men convicted in November of illegally detaining petitioners from the northern province of Henan, sparking hope among rights activists that the government may be shifting its stance on the extrajudicial detention of those who complain about officials.
China says it receives between 3 million and 4 million complaints in the form of "letters and visits" annually, with the number peaking at 12.72 million in 2003.
Many petitioners are trying to win redress for alleged cases of official wrongdoing, including forced evictions, beatings in custody, and corruption linked to lucrative land sales.
Some have been petitioning for decades.
The contemporary "letters and visits" petitioning system was formally established in 1951 and reinstated during the 1980s following the large number of appeals against summary verdicts handed down during the political turmoil of the Cultural Revolution from 1966-76.
Reported by Yang Fan for RFA's Mandarin Service. Translated and written in English by Luisetta Mudie.


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"I just don't know what I'm doing with my life," declares the 25-year-old nanny/assistant played by Greta Gerwig in "Greenberg," and the same could be said of everyone else who drifts through Noah Baumbach's unemphatically comic new feature. As a study of stasis and of people conscious of not living the lives they had imagined for themselves, the picture offers a bracing undertow of seriousness beneath the deceptively casual, dramatically offhand surface, even if the characters' vague ambitions and aimless actions leave the film seeming relatively uneventful on a moment-to-moment basis. Ben Stiller's central presence at least gives this sneakily ingratiating effort a shot at a general audience, but it will be most appreciated by followers of distinctively flavored, off-center indie-style fare.
Before anything else, it should be stressed that "Greenberg" is an outstanding L.A. movie. Heretofore perceived as a quintessential New York filmmaker due especially to his last two features, "The Squid and the Whale" and "Margot at the Wedding," Baumbach, having worked up the story with Jennifer Jason Leigh (who co-wrote and co-directed the very L.A. "The Anniversary Party"), conveys a strong sense of what it's like to live in the city. Except for the opening shots, which seem specifically designed to spotlight Los Angeles at its smoggy worst, the metropolis is presented from ground level without editorializing and with a fine balance between the beauty and the blight, the ease and the hassle, the luxury and the basic, the stimulating and the banal.
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It's the Los Angeles any even reasonably comfortable resident experiences on a daily basis, except for the more-than-comfortable house where two strangers meet by chance. Gerwig's Florence Marr is left in charge of a spacious Hollywood Hills home when the Greenbergs, for whom she works as a family assistant, go overseas. But then the man-of-the-house's brother Roger (Stiller) turns up. Having just begun to emerge after a nervous breakdown in New York, he announces that he intends to remain for six weeks while "trying to do nothing for a while," except for building a new doghouse for the family canine.
Even in this becalmed state, Roger is a handful. Sharp-minded but vaguely intentioned, unassertive but prone to explosive eruptions and quite addicted to ChapStick, Roger is a pile of neuroses. Not only that, but he can't drive. Florence, who has just gotten out of a long relationship, is sufficiently drawn to his issues and complicated personality to spend time with him. She chauffeurs him around and, without a murmur of dissent, unhesitatingly submits to his abrupt display of sexual interest.
Latter development results in a couple of the most bizarrely impassive, juiceless, abbreviated and, in a word, unbelievable sex scenes ever put onscreen. It's unclear what either of them is feeling or thinking before, during or afterward, and the encounters are over so quickly it's as if they almost didn't happen. Even if the point is that the characters don't know what they want, usually people know if they want that.
There are other things going on, at an equally low boil. Florence imagines herself a singer, but her one ineffectual performance at an open-mike night inspires no illusions of "American Idol" in her future. Aside from composing numerous letters of complaint to businesses and government entities, Roger catches up with an ex who's now a mom (Leigh), to little effect, as well as with former close friend Ivan (Rhys Ifans), a British former bandmate who's struggled to kick drugs and booze and is undergoing a painful trial separation from his wife.
The resentment Ivan feels over his old pal's perceived past misdeeds comes as a shock to Roger, whose immediate response is denial. When Florence doubles his displeasure by becoming pissed off at him as well, how does Roger react? By indulging copiously in drugs for the first time in years and by firing off his funniest line to the seemingly worry-free twentysomethings who provide him with coke at a party: "I hope I die before I end up meeting any of you in a job interview."
Baumbach directs by deliberately withholding dramatic emphasis and emotional crescendos. All events, from mundane daily exchanges to the most pointed personal disclosures, are presented on an equal plane as taking up whatever short amount of time they last. Conversely, Roger can react explosively to the smallest thing but remain calm in the face of impactful issues. This calls for a different sort of Stiller performance from what audiences are accustomed to; it's showy in a way, but smaller, more thoughtful, unpredictable — a portrait of a guy easy to believe as adrift with few if any friends, 40 and without a family.
Familiar until now only to fans of ultra-low-budgeters such as "Hannah Takes the Stairs" and "Baghead," Gerwig here makes her move toward the mainstream with work likely to divide, or at least puzzle, viewers. A big young woman who's attractive enough but not at all in the usual glamorous-actress mode, she offers no perceptible performance in the popularly received sense; you don't detect impulse, calculation, yearning, hidden feelings or anything else beneath the surface. She just seems completely real, behaving the way people do, just reacting to things as they happen. Either she's a total natural — most likely — or she has the most invisible technique of any modern actor. Either way, interest will surround her subsequent work.
A subdued performance technique works very well here for Ifans, who strongly conveys in a minimum of time the difficulties Ivan is going through.
Lenser Harris Savides' contributions to the film's success in capturing a lived-in L.A. feel cannot be underestimated, and the same goes for Ford Wheeler's production design and the selection of locations, which includes undoubtedly the longest film sequence ever to take place in the legendary Musso and Frank Grill on Hollywood Boulevard, complete with real waiters. Songs by James Murphy provide a musical echo to aspects of what's going on with the title character.


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More than 50 years ago, Jane Goodall, then a young researcher at what would become the Gombe National Park in Tanzania, began introducing the public to the "fantastic beings" she had studied and lived with. In her book "In the Shadow of Man" and in later works, she showed the world complex animals with intricate social lives and helped change the way the world looked at the great apes.
On Tuesday, Dr. Goodall, 79, now a longtime champion of chimpanzee conservation, participated in what may turn out to be another milestone. She joined the director of the United States Fish and Wildlife Service, Daniel M. Ashe, in announcing a proposal to add chimpanzees in captivity to the endangered species list.
Wild chimpanzees have been listed as endangered since 1990, but the new proposal, which is open to public comment for 60 days, covers all chimps, including nearly 2,000 captive in the United States. The listing, if adopted, could block most experimentation on them, stop interstate trade in the animals and perhaps discourage use of chimpanzees in entertainment.
The Fish and Wildlife Service proposal came in response to a petition filed in 2010 by the Jane Goodall Institute, the Humane Society of the United States, the Association of Zoos and Aquariums and other groups. It would require permits for interstate commerce involving any chimpanzees, or for what the law calls "taking," which could be anything from harassment to major harm to something as simple as obtaining a blood sample. And those permits, Mr. Ashe said, would be granted only if the action could be shown to benefit the survival of the species.
If the new rule is enacted, it will be a major success for animal welfare groups, a grave disappointment for some scientists and another sign of the profound changes over the last half-century in the way animals are used and imagined in science and popular culture.
"What the chimpanzee has done is to prove there is no hard and fast line dividing us from the rest of the animal kingdom," Dr. Goodall said Friday. "That's the greatest gift the chimpanzee has given those of us who care about animal welfare."
In a blog post about the proposal, Mr. Ashe reflected this connection. "The chimpanzee is said to share 98 percent of our genes," he wrote. "It is in our nature to protect and conserve this iconic species, and this proposal will help."
Like any cultural shift, the change in how chimps are viewed has been spotty and uneven, but profound. In the 1950s and '60s, chimps provided comic relief in movies like "Bedtime for Bonzo" with Ronald Reagan. Although chimps are still dressed in costume and used on television and in advertisements, a recent film like "Rise of the Planet of the Apes" used human actors and technology for its apes, who were decidedly the heroes of the movie.
Pressure from animal welfare groups and the advance of technology have changed the climate. Patti Ragan, who runs the Center for Great Apes, a sanctuary in Florida that houses many chimps once involved in entertainment, said that 20 years ago, there were 10 to 15 trainers who "worked great apes." "There's really only three trainers left now," she said.
The genomics revolution revealed the genetic commonality that Mr. Ashe referred to, and science has a very different view of animals of all sorts than it did when Dr. Goodall went to Cambridge for her doctorate.
"I could not talk about chimpanzees having personalities," she said. "That was the worst anthropomorphic sin."
Now, she said, the "mind" of the chimpanzee is a legitimate subject of study, and chimpanzees used in research are routinely referred to by name in scientific papers.
In fact, most of the roughly 1,000 chimps held at biomedical laboratories are not being used. Animal welfare groups are hoping, with good reason, that the great majority of these animals will go to sanctuaries — places like Chimp Haven in Louisiana, where more than 120 chimps are kept in large social groups when possible, with time to roam in forested enclosures of four or five acres.
The National Institutes of Health is expected to act soon on a recommendation from one of its committees that most of the 450 or so chimps it owns or supports be retired to sanctuaries.
Robert R. Gabriel, chief of the division of management authority for the Fish and Wildlife Service, said listing captive chimps as endangered would not necessarily mean the end of research on human diseases using chimps. The service might still be able to issue a permit based on the benefit-to-chimpanzees clause.
"We will be talking to the biomedical community over the coming months," he wrote, "to determine what actions they might be able to take to provide such enhancement for chimpanzees, which would then qualify them for the necessary take permits to cover their research activities with the captive animals."
What the new rule would clearly do is require a permit for almost any kind of biomedical research. While this is viewed as great progress by Dr. Goodall and animal welfare groups, some scientists who conduct research on chimpanzees to find treatments or vaccines for human diseases are disappointed by the proposal.
Christian R. Abee, a veterinarian who is the director of the Michale E. Keeling Center for Comparative Medicine and Research at the M. D. Anderson Cancer Center at the University of Texas, said the new rule would require an application for a permit "for even sending a blood sample that is banked blood that is sitting in a freezer" to another lab in a different state, which in the best circumstances "could take months and months to obtain."
Dr. Abee said chimps were important in research on a hepatitis C vaccine. They can be infected with the virus, but it does not make them sick the way it does humans. A vaccine may well be achieved without chimps, he said, but time could be saved by using them.
"In the United States alone," he said "15,000 people a year die from hepatitis C. If we save six months because we can test in chimps, that's 7,500 human lives. Those of us who work in research think about those lives every day."
Stephen Ross, the director of the Lester E. Fisher Center for the Study and Conservation of Apes at the Lincoln Park Zoo, runs Project ChimpCARE, which keeps track of the number of chimps in the United States. Of the 1,884 chimps in the country, 864 are in biomedical facilities, 254 are in accredited zoos and 480 are in accredited sanctuaries.
Roadside zoos or unaccredited sanctuaries account for 206 chimps, while 59 are kept as pets or by breeders, and 21 are owned by trainers or used in entertainment.
How an endangered listing would affect the nonresearch chimpanzees is not yet clear. Dr. Ross and others argue that costumed chimpanzees cavorting in advertisements suggest to the public that chimpanzee populations in the wild are not in trouble.
Dr. Ross also said chimpanzees trained for entertainment were taken from their mothers at a young age, which affected their development. "Those practices do incur harm," he said, and should come under the scrutiny of the Fish and Wildlife Service.
Dr. Goodall said she was fully committed to seeing an end to the use of chimps in entertainment, as well as in biomedical research. Her goal, she said, is to see all captive chimps in sanctuaries. She said the Fish and Wildlife Service proposal was one more move in a continuing struggle.
"It's a big step forward," she said. "We're getting towards the endgame."


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Clock Changes in Viersen, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
Mar 31
Forward 1 hour
Mar 31, 2019 - Daylight Saving Time Started
When local standard time was about to reach
Sunday, March 31, 2019, 2:00:00 am clocks were turned forward 1 hour to
Sunday, March 31, 2019, 3:00:00 am local daylight time instead.
Sunrise and sunset were about 1 hour later on Mar 31, 2019 than the day before. There was more light in the evening.
Also called Spring Forward, Summer Time, and Daylight Savings Time.
More info:
European Union Ready to Scrap DST
EU Committee Votes to Scrap DST
DST Starts in Europe Sunday, March 31, 2019
EU States Call to Postpone Abolishing DST
Oct 27
Back 1 hour
Oct 27, 2019 - Daylight Saving Time Ended
When local daylight time was about to reach
Sunday, October 27, 2019, 3:00:00 am clocks were turned backward 1 hour to
Sunday, October 27, 2019, 2:00:00 am local standard time instead.
Sunrise and sunset were about 1 hour earlier on Oct 27, 2019 than the day before. There was more light in the morning.
Also called Fall Back and Winter Time.
More info:
European Union Ready to Scrap DST
End of DST in Europe 2019
Daylight Saving Time in Other Years
DST changes do not necessarily occur on the same date every year.
|DST Start (Clock Forward)
|DST End (Clock Backward)
|Sunday, March 25, 2:00 am
|Sunday, October 28, 3:00 am
|* 2019
|Sunday, March 31, 2:00 am
|Sunday, October 27, 3:00 am
|* 2020
|Sunday, March 29, 2:00 am
|Sunday, October 25, 3:00 am
|* 2021
|Sunday, March 28, 2:00 am
|Sunday, October 31, 3:00 am (Preliminary date)
|* 2022
|Sunday, March 27, 2:00 am (Preliminary date)
|Sunday, October 30, 3:00 am (Preliminary date)
|All times are local for Viersen. Current year is highlighted.
*Some or part of this period was on double DST.
Data for the years before 1970 is not available for Viersen, however, we have earlier time zone history for Berlin available.


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It's from Jill Stanek, so of course it's twisted. She's upset that people might consider Jimmy Connors, ex-tennis champ, to be a bit of a sleazebag for writing an autobiography that shames ex-girlfriend Chris Everett for getting an abortion. It seems to me that it was Everett's private decision, and that Connors needs some greater ethical awareness, but Stanek instead wants to shame Everett for an abortion 30 years ago. So she has a poll, apparently expecting that a majority would agree with her idea that outing people who got abortions is acceptable.
So far, it's not going her way, despite her misleading phrasing that abortion is "killing a child".
Is it acceptable to out the mother or father of one's aborted child?
No 50.43%
Yes 49.57%
I wonder if she would consider it legit for a third party to reveal any medical procedure received by a woman?


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Snow plows move a lot of snow at once. Duh. But what does it look like when the bulk of that snow hits a man on live television? It looks like this.
Steve Keeley from MyFox Philly was reporting on the winter storm that has taken hold across much of southern New Jersey earlier when a few plows drove by.
"Ah good," Keeley probably thought, "I was just saying how these roads are snowy. Now they're here to fix it for the good people of New Jersey."
But little did he know, those plow operators had other plans in store for him. Keeley gets absolutely slammed by snow in his back from a plow operator that most certainly didn't like the cut of Keeley's jib.
But what's amazing is that Keeley didn't fall or break his back. He isn't paralyzed. Nope. Instead he just went right on reporting the news. And that's because he's an American hero. Kudos to you Steve. Kudos.
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NEW ORLEANS (AP) As Terrell Suggs made his way to his seat for his first media appearance of Super Bowl week, a member of the Baltimore Ravens' PR staff pointed at the linebacker and whispered to a colleague: ``I think somebody should be here.''
Yes, generally, better safe than sorry with Suggs. Never know what he's liable to say.
Except this time, the 2011 Defensive Player of the Year was hardly a loud mouth. Not in the mood, apparently, to stir things up before his Ravens face the San Francisco 49ers for the NFL championship next Sunday.
Given a chance to crack wise or lob insults on a variety of topics - from President Barack Obama's concerns about football safety to New York Jets coach Rex Ryan's tattoo - Suggs was soft-spoken and thoughtful Monday. Even made sure to praise the 49ers.
Now we'll see what happens Tuesday in the circus that is Super Bowl media day.
The last time Suggs was seen leaving the field after a football game, he was tossing curse words and insults in the direction of the New England Patriots after Baltimore's defense shut out Tom Brady and Co. throughout the second half of a 28-13 victory in the AFC championship game.
Since then, Suggs has kept things low key within earshot of reporters, aside from the occasional non sequitur shouted in the locker room at the Ravens' practice facility last week.
Asked Monday whether he would be providing any bulletin-board material for the 49ers to latch onto, Suggs quietly replied: ``Maybe. Got to wait and see. I mean, nothing I do is scripted, so got to wait and see what I come off the noggin with, when I come off the top.''
Yet as he sat there in front of microphones and cameras, wearing a pinstriped gray suit with polka-dot tie and just-so pocket square, Suggs sounded mostly, well, scripted.
He did make sure to correct a reporter who opened a question by pronouncing Suggs' first name incorrectly - for the record, the emphasis goes on the second syllable, not the first - but otherwise said many of the right things.
Someone wanted an assessment of 49ers left tackle Joe Staley, one of the players who will try to slow Suggs' pass rush, and this is what came forth: ``Solid. Very good offensive tackle. I think he's highly underrated, but he was a Pro Bowler this year, so I think he finally got his just due.''
Then Suggs thought back to Baltimore's 16-6 victory over San Francisco last season and offered this: ``Had a little bit of a hard time with him. You know, he's a great player.''
What about San Francisco quarterback Colin Kaepernick, the guy Suggs will be chasing Sunday?
``I like the way he plays,'' Suggs said.
Someone else wanted a nickname for Baltimore's defense. No luck there, either.
``Ask me on Feb. 4,'' the day after the Super Bowl, was the reply.
When the topic turned to Obama's recent statement about wondering whether he'd let a son play football, Suggs gave a considered response, saying that he respects that point of view ``for the simple fact that this is a very physical and dangerous sport that we play.''
Asked whether he would allow his own 4-year-old son to pick up the sport, Suggs said: ``Absolutely, but it would have to be his choice. Football isn't for everybody. If my son ... came to me and said, `Dad, I want to play football,' then I would let him play.''
Toward the end of Suggs' interview session, a reporter brought up Ryan's body art.
After playfully saying to the reporter, ``Are you from New York? Last I checked, it was 49ers-Ravens. ... The Jets are nowhere around,'' Suggs launched into a from-the-heart discussion (OK, with some kidding around, too) about what the media doesn't need to know.
``Who cares? I've probably got something on my (body) that y'all don't see that's probably inappropriate, but who cares? I think you blow that all out of proportion,'' he said. ``Everybody should have a certain amount of privacy, even if they're in the public eye. ... We're not just football players. We're not just coaches. We're human beings, too, and just keep that in mind.''
It's been a difficult season for Suggs, who played in only eight of 16 regular-season games because of injuries. He missed the first six weeks because of an Achilles tendon problem, then also missed time with a torn right biceps.
A guy with four double-digit season sack totals - including a career-high 14 in 2011, when he also led the league with seven forced fumbles - only had two in 2012.
As someone who, as he put it, has ``rarely ever been injured,'' it wasn't easy to deal with. But his teammates are sure he's rounding into form at the right time, the postseason.
``He's what you want in front of you - a playmaker, a guy who never stops,'' Ravens safety Ed Reed said. ``And he's been playing like that in the last three (games).''
One more game to go.
And five more days to watch what he says.
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I'll admit it. I wasn't a Piers Morgan fan until now. I didn't like him on
"America's Got Talent" and I didn't think he deserved a talk show. How wrong I was.
Not only is he leading the way changing the gun culture, but he invites
opponent and gun nut Alex Jones to reveal himself as a frightened, enraged and mentally deranged person. If mental illness is going to be a criteria for gun ownership, Jones won't be able to buy so much as a pea shooter.
I think some people have to stay frightened and angry so they know they're
alive. This is what motivates them. They are the audience for all those
conservative cable TV panic-stricken talk shows. Buy a gun because you're
afraid. Keep the gun in the house, in a drawer, or on your nightstand.
Ironically, having a lethal device for killing humans around the house, or on your person adds fear. Buy another gun, feel more fear.
It's one thing to have guns because you're a collector and appreciate the
beauty and craftsmanship that goes into gun making. It's another thing to
arm yourself to fend off the feds or your needy neighbors when the apocalypse comes
The Second Amendment serves the deranged folks who are ready to snap, and the
art collectors. That's the problem with it.
I'll admit it. I wasn't a Piers Morgan fan until now. I didn't like him on


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The nationwide loss of science teachers will be the focus of the annual Gentile Lectureship presented in conjunction with Homecoming Weekend at Hope College.
Author and educational consultant Sheila Tobias of Tucson, Ariz., will present "Teachers' Authority vs. Teacher Accountability: Must We Choose?" on Friday, Oct. 22, at 3:30 p.m. in the Maas Center auditorium.
The public is invited. Admission is free.
Tobias is co-author, with Anne Baffert, of the book "Science Teaching as a Profession: Why It Isn't. How It Could Be," published earlier this year by the National Science Teachers Association. The book considers the exodus by science teachers from the profession, and how the loss negatively affects science education in the U.S. Using research from interviews with science teachers throughout the U.S., the authors cite poor working conditions, low pay, and loss of autonomy and control - with federal laws stressing test results over quality of knowledge -- as reasons for diminished teacher satisfaction.
Tobias is the author or co-author of a dozen books, on topics including not only science education, but math anxiety; women, militarism and war; and the women's movement. She has received external support for her work from agencies including the Ford Foundation, Rockefeller Foundation, Research Corporation and the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation.
Educated in history and literature at Harvard/Radcliffe, Tobias earned a master's in history and an M.Phil at Columbia University. She holds eight honorary doctorates, the most recent from Michigan State University and Worcester Polytechnic Institute.
The Gentile Interdisciplinary Lectureship at Hope was established in 2005 by faculty colleagues, former students and friends of Dr. James Gentile. Gentile joined the Hope faculty in 1976 and served as dean for the natural sciences from 1988 to 2005, when he became president of Research Corporation, a private foundation in Tucson, Ariz., that supports basic research in the physical sciences.
The Maas Center is located at 264 Columbia Ave., on Columbia Avenue at Street.