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Much more information regarding the Miami Dolphins' Jonathan
Martin and Richie Incognito will continue to surface in the coming
days and weeks. There is so much we don't know at the moment
and it is a virtual certainty more information will come to light
in the days and weeks (if not years) ahead, so making any kind
of grandiose statement about the situation in Miami now doesn't
seem appropriate. Given the limited information we have now, it
appears that we would do well to remember that while many of us
may speak a certain language, we don't always necessarily
speak the same language.
And just in case you were ready to make a final judgment on Incognito,
consider this
blog entry from the Miami Herald's Armando Salguero.
We've read about the voicemail that Incognito left, but
the transcript that has received so much airplay this week omits
the final part of the message: "Ok, call me back,"
and Martin did. Furthermore, Martin reportedly later played the
voicemail in front of teammates and was laughing with them. As
Salguero states at the end of the blog, "Does this release
Incognito from the racially-charged words? No. Do this add context?
Yes. Daily reminder: We don't know the entire story. Please withhold
judgment condemning or condoning either side until we know everything."
Well said.
If I were to make one prediction, however, it would be that I
believe the league will either initiate (or be forced to begin)
a directive that addresses mental health and team building in
the coming years with the same kind of fervor it has devoted to
concussions recently. Generally speaking, the NFL was able to
claim some degree of ignorance regarding concussions over most
of its existence because many of the players most affected had
been out of the league for some time and no longer had the platform
professional football provides or the resources to challenge the
league. It is a much different case when a mental-health issue
arises in a player that is only in his second year in the league.
Over the weekend, the NFL family took two more punches to the
gut (and was fortunate they turned out to be nothing more than
that). Denver Broncos HC John Fox knew he had a medical situation
and wanted to address it after the season, but it became clear
he could wait no longer after meeting with his surgeon last weekend
following an episode on a golf course. Although many of us didn't
see it in real time, a much more scary incident played out at
halftime on Sunday Night Football when Houston Texans HC Gary
Kubiak fell to one knee and eventually left Reliant Stadium via
ambulance. As most of us know by now, it is believed Kubiak suffered
a mini-stroke.
At its very core, one of the best qualities about sports is its
ability to teach us how to cope with and persevere through adversity.
Part of being a professional is being able to quiet the "noise"
and maintain focus through that adversity. With that said, every
pro player is not necessarily a "professional", just
like every player or team cannot be expected to process adversity
quickly or in the same way.
Rodgers is recognized as a team leader, Incognito was voted by
teammates to be a member of the Dolphins' leadership council while
Fox and Kubiak are the leaders of their teams based on their job
description. In other words, four of 32 NFL teams lost a player
or coach considered to be a vital part of their "backbone".
There's a common belief that as long as a team has an established
veteran quarterback, a team can still perform at a high level
without its coach in the short term. However, there's a
pretty good chance team owners wouldn't pay those same coaches
millions of dollars if they didn't feel they were essential
to the success and direction of the team. On a more positive note,
Fox and Kubiak each had former head coaches in Jack Del Rio and
Wade Phillips (respectively) on their staff. While transition
like this can never be considered easy, Del Rio and Phillips should
be able to make their absences more palatable.
Bringing it back to fantasy, the Packers' offense –
if not their entire team – was centered around Rodgers'
unique talents, even if Green Bay has established itself as a
very good running team this season. Defenses that are not as ravaged
by injuries as the Chicago Bears will have little fear in making
Seneca Wallace beat them. HC Mike McCarthy has a reputation for
getting the most out of his quarterbacks (Aaron Brooks, Brett
Favre, Rodgers…he even called Matt Flynn's six-touchdown
game a few years ago) and I have long felt Wallace was an underappreciated
quarterback, but he isn't going to pick apart many quality
NFL defenses.
Will the Martin-Incognito ordeal tear apart Miami at the seams?
I'm not going to pretend to know whether or not this story
will galvanize or divide the Dolphins for the remainder of the
season, but owners need to consider both possibilities. Kubiak
will be missed simply because he calls the offensive plays; Houston
was not the same team after he left Sunday and it could be said
the Texans' season was already headed in the wrong direction
(although I'm not sure how much blame Kubiak deserves).
While Fox has his hand in every facet of the game for Denver,
he does not run the offense, defense or special teams. If there
is a team of the bunch that could/should come out of this real-life
drama relatively unscathed, it would probably be the Broncos.
Perhaps I am still bitter (I am) about being on the wrong end
of so many of these unlikely career-high games this past weekend
and believe that sharing my pain with you will help the healing
process (no dice so far), but here is my ode to some of the notable
players that drove me crazy last weekend and their prospects for
the rest of the season:
Nick Foles joined some elite company with
his seven-touchdown performance in Week 9.
2013 Season (in three starts and part
of another game prior to Week 9): 649 total yards, seven
total touchdowns
Week 9: 420 total yards, seven total
Analysis: Prior to Week 9,
four quarterbacks in NFL history had thrown seven touchdowns passes
in a game. Two of them are in the Hall of Fame (George Blanda
and Y.A. Tittle) and one is a lock to join them (Peyton Manning).
All four quarterbacks were at least 31 years old and at home when
they did it and none of them had achieved a perfect QB rating�until
Foles came along on Sunday. If that doesn�t raise an eyebrow or
two, I�m not sure what will. For all of the Raiders� struggles
against opposing quarterbacks in 2013, they had yielded only 10
TDs through the air and Manning was the only one to throw for
more than two touchdowns against them. Foles has yet to throw
an interception and been incredible on the road thus far (his
only poor game was his only start at home), so it is very possible
he will not give the job back to Michael Vick with a pretty tame
remaining schedule ahead of him.
2013 Season (in one game prior to Week
9): 281 total yards, one total touchdown
Week 9: 376 total yards, three total touchdowns
Analysis: After two games of Keenum, it is hard to understand
what Matt Schaub was doing so well to keep his job for so long.
It has been said in this space a time or two the Texans were not
stretching the field, but I think it was only natural to assume
Schaub was following orders to manage games and let the running
game carry the offense. Keenum hasn�t really had the benefit of
a healthy Arian Foster (or Ben Tate, for that matter) for a full
game, but has still been able to take advantage of his weapons
in the passing game in a way Schaub hasn�t in years. It should
be noted that most of Keenum�s success is coming down the field
(his 17.7 yards-per-completion and 10.5 yards-per-attempt would
easily lead the league if he qualified), so defenses may begin
to adjust in the coming weeks. However, it may not matter anytime
soon considering three of the next four opponents are the Raiders
(see Foles above) and the Jacksonville Jaguars. Even Week 15 against
the Colts has to be considered a relatively tame matchup since
Keenum just had his way with them last weekend. All bets are off
as long as Kubiak is sidelined, but Keenum should have staying
power in fantasy for the rest of the season.
2013 Season (in eight games prior to Week
9): 1,842 total yards, eight total touchdowns
Week 9: 431 total yards, four total touchdowns
Analysis: It�s not a surprise Brady finally had a huge game;
it is that it took as long as it did and came against the Steelers
� even if they are a shell of the defense they used to be. After
this week�s bye, New England will face Carolina, Houston and Cleveland
in three of the next four games � all teams that are among the
top 12 in terms of fewest fantasy points allowed to quarterbacks.
Most of us had a pretty good idea that Brady�s struggles were
less about him (although he has struggled more than usual) and
more about the absence of his difference-making options in the
passing game like Rob Gronkowski, Danny Amendola and Shane Vereen.
Week 9 will probably go down as Brady�s best of the season, but
he is easily the most likely player on this list to repeat this
2013 Season (in seven games prior to Week
9): 1,980 total yards, eight total touchdowns
Week 9: 399 total yards, four total touchdowns
Analysis: Congratulations if you predicted Joe Flacco and Roethlisberger
would rank sixth and eighth in the NFL, respectively, in attempts
per game after Week 9. Roethlisberger has attempted at least 45
passes in three of the Steelers� last five games in part because
Pittsburgh cannot seem to find its offense until after halftime,
usually after it has fallen behind by double figures. As one might
expect, Roethlisberger�s fantasy production is far from predictable
going forward because the defense has been so awful. For owners
looking for something to hang their hat on in regards to starting
him, I believe his best performances are most likely to happen
when his opponent can be expected to establish a two-score lead
early in the game. (Detroit in Week 11, Cincinnati in Week 15
and Green Bay in Week 16 stand out to me to be those kinds of
games.) Either way, I expect Roethlisberger will be highly unpredictable
for the remainder of the season, so owners should consider moving
him if they can and strongly consider other options if they cannot.
Running Backs
2013 Season (in four starts to Week 9):
342 rushing yards, seven receptions for 40 yards and one receiving
Week 9: 127 rushing yards and two rushing touchdowns, six receptions
for 61 yards
Analysis: It isn�t so much that Stacy had a productive game;
it is all about how he did it. The fifth-round rookie out of Vanderbilt
had already established he was going to be the Rams� workhorse
for the foreseeable future, but St. Louis hadn�t scored a rushing
touchdown all season long and Stacy wasn�t exactly contributing
much in the passing game. In other words, it wasn�t a stretch
to expect Kellen Clemens to dig the Rams into a hole with a couple
of early turnovers and make Stacy a relative non-factor. After
two games post-Sam Bradford, it is clear St. Louis has decided
to put its offense on Stacy�s shoulders for as long as he can
carry it. So while the rookie has little chance to top his Week
9 output in any single week the rest of the season, his workload
should be more than enough to hold RB2 value the rest of the way.
2013 Season (in seven starts prior to
Week 9): 366 rushing yards, 15 receptions for 167 yards
and two receiving touchdowns
Week 9: 150 rushing yards and two touchdowns, three receptions
for 20 yards
Analysis: Amazingly, Johnson is right back on track for another
1,000-yard season. Johnson has clearly established himself as
the ultimate matchup play � capable of contributing numbers unfit
for a flex option in difficult matchups and week-changing totals
against softer defenses. Regular readers of this column already
know Johnson�s Week 9 was not an overly surprising performance
given: 1) the opponent and 2) the fact coaches threatened his
workload with Shonn Greene�s return. Three of the Titans� next
four opponents rank 27th or worse in terms of rushing yards per
game, so Johnson has a good chance to go on a mini-run before
a slight hiccup at the beginning of the fantasy playoffs.
2013 Season (in one start and parts of
three games prior to Week 9): 96 rushing yards, eight receptions
for 35 yards
Week 9: 158 rushing yards, two receptions for eight yards and
one passing touchdown
Analysis: Stacy exposed Seattle�s run defense six days earlier,
but James is no Doug Martin and isn�t even really as talented
as Stacy either. Yet James may have as well been James Wilder
or Warrick Dunn in their primes because the Seahawks had no answer
for the Bucs� 19th-ranked rushing attack (and that�s after their
205-yard effort against Seattle). Even more telling, ESPN Research
revealed that Tampa Bay gained 172 yards on 31 designed rushes
through three quarters, meaning the damage could have been a lot
worse. In short, this performance says a lot more about Seattle�s
surprising inability to stop the run recently than it does about
James� arrival as a useful fantasy property. James is a fine backup
running back and has a rather soft schedule ahead of him, but
the looming threat of a Martin return plus average talent does
not bode well for him to approach the kind of production he amassed
in Week 9.
2013 Season (in one start and parts of
five games prior to Week 9): 140 rushing yards, 12 receptions
for 97 yards
Week 9: 102 rushing yards and a touchdown, seven receptions for
74 yards
Analysis: Unlike the other three backs on this list, there�s
a pretty good chance Jennings� efforts went for naught on
your bench or someone else�s. Owners may remember Jennings
from the last time McFadden suffered a hamstring injury (Week
4�seriously, does it ever stop?) a little over a month ago
and subsequently strained his own hamstring the following week.
A non-starting running back who gains 137 of his 176 total yards
in the second half of a game that got out of hand early in the
third quarter certainly qualifies as one of the biggest flukes
in a week full of them. Add him to make the McFadden owner suffer
or as a bye-week option if he is available, but don�t do
it because you expect him to repeat this kind of performance again
anytime soon.
Wide Receivers
2013 Season (in eight starts prior to
Week 9): 48 receptions for 584 yards and no touchdowns
Week 9: nine receptions for 229 yards and three touchdowns
Analysis: There�s nothing fluky about the production, except
that it is obviously a bit much to expect Johnson to perform at
such a high level on a regular basis. At some point along the
way, it became acceptable for Schaub to do little more than hit
Johnson on a 10-yard curl or 12-yard in-route. Whether the first
half of the game against the Colts was about Kubiak electing to
open up the offense a bit or Keenum�s willingness to throw
the ball down the field, Houston�s offense was dynamic for
about the first 20-25 minutes of the game. Arizona doesn�t
exactly present the most inviting stage for Johnson to turn back
the clock for the second straight week in Week 10, but the Texans�
schedule isn�t exactly loaded with top-notch pass defenses
the rest of the way. The biggest fluke about Johnson�s 2013
season is that it took him eight games to find the end zone, not
the fact he scored three times.
2013 Season (in eight starts prior to
Week 9): 20 receptions for 214 yards and two touchdowns
Week 9: five receptions for 139 yards and three touchdowns
Analysis: Cooper is a bigger receiver (6-3, 222) whose main function
is to block, but he has been something of a fantasy giant since
Foles emerged against Tampa Bay in Week 6. In games started by
Vick, Cooper has caught exactly two balls in every one for no
more than 29 yards. In Foles� three starts, Cooper is averaging
five receptions for 116 yards and 1.3 touchdowns. The fourth-year
receiver is hardly a game-changer, but it is clear Vick either
does not make him a priority or Foles does. And when it comes
right down to it, there is enough evidence now to believe Cooper
is an every-week start when Foles get the call and bench-worthy
when he doesn�t. Philadelphia doesn�t face a daunting
pass defense the rest of the way either, so owners might be able
to consider Cooper a potential second-half stud if Foles can keep
the job.
2013 Season (in one start and parts of
six games prior to Week 9): 22 receptions for 328 yards
and two touchdowns
Week 9: seven receptions for 96 yards and three touchdowns
Analysis: Surprisingly, Cotchery may not be as bad of an option
going forward as it might seem. Five touchdown catches on 29 catches
(and 42 targets) indicates that Roethlisberger has a fair amount
of confidence in Cotchery in the red zone. Furthermore, the Steelers
don't have the look of a team that is going to turn it around
on defense anytime soon, so Pittsburgh could actually be a high-volume
passing team for the remainder of the season. He's far from
a must-add and will probably leave his future owners with a lot
more single-digit fantasy-point totals than double-digit ones,
but he is also not far away from fantasy relevance either. Emmanuel
Sanders hasn't proven to be the most durable player in his
career and the team seemed hesitant to use rookie Markus Wheaton
much before his injury, so the ex-New York Jet has a chance at
some value over the second half of the season.
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The History Of The Main Line
The Philadelphia "Main Line" is a collection of towns in suburban Philadelphia, PA named after the Main Line of the Pennsylvania Railroad (currently known as SEPTA´s Paoli/Thorndale Regional Rail Line). The Main Line suburbs, some of the wealthiest in the US, are situated west of the city. The stops along the line are remembered by the mnemonic device "Old Maids Never Wed and Have Babies: Overbrook, Merion, Narberth, Wynnewood, Ardmore, Haverford and Bryn Mawr. They continue: Rosemont, Villanova, Radnor, St Davids, Wayne, Strafford, Devon, Berwyn, Daylesford, Paoli, and Malvern. There is great debate about how far west (Exton?) the Main Line extends as it seems everyone wants to live there.
The Main Line was once home to the Lenni Lenape Indians. It was settled by Europeans in the 1600's, when William Penn sold land to a group of Welsh Quakers for ten cents an acre. The Main Line Railroad was constructed during the nineteenth century, and traveled through the area from Philadelphia to Harrisburg and Pittsburgh. The railroad is still in service. At the time, the Railroad owned much of the land surrounding the tracks, and encouraged the development of this picturesque environment. The city of Philadelphia´s elite were enchanted with the area, and many had one house in the city and another, larger "country home" on the Main Line.
Today the Main Line contains some of the wealthiest suburbs in the United States. The principal townships are Lower Merion Township, Haverford Township, Radnor Township, Tredyffrin Township, Easttown Township, Willistown Township, East Whiteland Township, and Charlestown Township. The area features diverse topography, steep cliffs along the Schuylkill River, dense woods, rolling hills, and open meadows. The architecture is world famous.
According to Fortune Magazine, "Radnor and the clutch of small towns around it offer families a top-rated school system and acres of green space, including walking trails…world-class arts, culture, and dining—all just 15 miles west of Philadelphia."

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CO11 Free Online Conference - Time to share and learn
Fantastic free online sessions taking place this weekend.
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To participate, click on the link below, check the session that interests you, and a few minutes before the session starts, click on the link of the session, click JOIN THIS CLASS, and then LAUNCH THIS CLASS.
I'm planning to watch two sessions today:
1. Blended Instruction w/ Blogs and Wikis for Young Learners (Shelly Terrell and Greta Sandler)
2. Language in Motion: Teaching with the Flow (Janet Bianchini)
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It was lovely to see you at my session on Saturday evening. Thank you so much for attending it. I hope to post feedback on my blog as soon as I can, and I will also add the links.
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This Memorial Day weekend visitors will be able to escape the warmer temperatures of the valley and enjoy the beautiful springtime weather at Lassen Volcanic National Park. "Even though the road through the park is not completely open, visitors can drive ten miles in from Manzanita Lake to the Devastated Area, and eight miles in from the Southwest Entrance Station to the Bumpass Hell Parking Area just above Emerald Lake," stated Park Superintendent Darlene M. Koontz. "Snow plows will continue to clear and we anticipate the main road to be open for through-traffic in two weeks. The Warner Valley and Butte Lake Roads are also open at this time," said Superintendent Koontz.
Camping is currently available at Southwest Campground (walk-in sites) and Warner Valley Campground (dry camping). The largest and most popular campground at Manzanita Lake will open this Friday, May 22. The concession-run Camper Service Store at Manzanita Lake opens for the summer season on May 21. Visitors are encouraged to stop in for information on trails, camping and other park activities at the Kohm Yah-mah-nee Visitor Center, open daily (year-round) and the Loomis Museum to be open daily beginning May 22.
Hiking trails in Manzanita Lake and Butte Lake areas are now open to hikers. Most other park trails, including Bumpass Hell Trail are still snow-covered, inaccessible and difficult to locate. Although Lassen Peak Trail Parking Area has been cleared of snow, the Lassen Peak Trail is snow-covered and many of the switchbacks have snowy ice drifts. Ice crampons and ice axes are required to safely negotiate the trail at this time. For those with the proper hiking equipment, the trail has been flagged to aid hikers to stay on trail and avoid off-trail damage to the underlying landscape.
Visitors that walk or bike along the plowed portions of the Main Park Road beyond the closure gates should be aware that the snow removal equipment is working and to avoid these areas. Visibility for the heavy equipment operators is very limited and can be hazardous. Even though it feels like summer in the valley, visitors need to be prepared for the possible wintery conditions as mountain weather can change quickly. It is best to dress in layers so you may adjust for changing conditions and bring food, water, sunscreen and sunglasses.
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SOURCE: Proximic
October 01, 2007 15:38 ET
New Startup Launches the World's First "Contextual Content Network," Enabling Publishers to Better Merchandise Content on Their Own Sites, as Well as Across the Web
New Global Network Is Supported by Groundbreaking Pattern-Recognition Technology Designed to Deliver Superior Ad Performance and System Scalability
New Startup Launches the World's First "Contextual Content Network," Enabling Publishers to Better Merchandise Content on Their Own Sites, as Well as Across the Web
New Global Network Is Supported by Groundbreaking Pattern-Recognition Technology Designed to Deliver Superior Ad Performance and System Scalability
PALO ALTO, CA and MUNICH, GERMANY--(Marketwire - October 1, 2007) - A new company came out of
stealth this morning with a radical new approach to search and online
advertising. The company is building the world's first dynamic "contextual
content network," a platform that enables publishers of all sizes to better
merchandise content on their own sites and across the Web. Based on a
groundbreaking search technology called "pattern proximity," the network
serves relevant content and ads at superior levels of performance. A number
of leading publishers have already joined the network, including The
Independent, one of the largest U.K. daily newspapers; and the Nature
Publishing Group, a leading publisher of science and medical publications.
Solving the Publisher Problem for the Post-2.0 World
Increasingly, publishers are under great pressure to find better ways to
monetize their online properties. Existing search-advertising technologies
are not providing publishers with significant revenue. Contextual
advertising technologies based on key words often fail to grasp the core
meaning of articles, resulting in irrelevant or inappropriate
advertisements. Aside from performance issues within large-scale
deployments, semantic approaches often cannot keep up with the demand of
sorting new content into the preset and trained categories they require to
serve up contextually relevant ads.
Proximic has overcome these limitations with a language-independent
approach that automatically reads and matches relevant content according to
interconnected "patterns" that are not even based on words but which exist
within each document. The approach enables publishers to automatically
serve up meaningful content -- articles, ads, products -- without the need
for keywords or preset categories. It's similar to querying a search engine
with a complete set of 200+ words, and finding the most relevant and
similar results to that query.
"We are, of course, interested in finding ways to generate money while at
the same time keeping the service free and open," said Ian Mulvany, product
manager at Connotea, Nature.com's free online reference management for
researchers, clinicians and scientists. "The obvious first step for doing
this is online advertising. At the moment, on some select pages, we display
Google ads. But for some reasons the targeting of these ads to the specific
content is not strong. As we roll out Proximic, we hope to be able to
include channels with information such as nature news, links to nature
articles, and related ad links that we hope will be of value to our
Another way that Proximic is helping to solve the publisher problem is the
content network. By joining the network, publishers not only have a way to
serve up relevant content to their readers; they also have an automated way
to syndicate their content across the Web, to wherever potential readers
"To be effective as a publisher today, you need to understand that it is no
longer enough to have a destination site," said Philipp Pieper, CEO and
co-founder of Proximic. "Publishers need to catch their readers' attention
wherever they go on the web and at the same time monetize effectively once
they are attracted. The Proximic network was designed to do that -- in a
completely automated way -- while generating ecosystems of content
connections for like-minded users."
From Computer Chess to Pattern-Based Search
The result of five years of R&D, Proximic's patent-pending technology has
benefited from the perspective that one of its founders gained in the world
of computer chess. CTO Thomas Nitsche, the 1984 world computer chess
champion, looked for ways to highly optimize the process of matching
content across increasingly large sets of documents.
"You need to remember, this was 1984, when we had to design for computers
with 5 kilobytes of memory," said Nitsche. "We took that same discipline
when designing the underlying technology for Proximic which then resulted
in a rat's tail of positive effects. The Proximic system requires very
little memory or computing power. We can scale to index the entire Web, at
the same time we don't have to build massive data centers."
About Proximic
Proximic provides publishers with a better way to monetize their content on
their own sites and across the Web. With the Proximic Contextual Content
Network, publishers automatically serve up highly relevant content --
articles, ads, or merchandize -- on their sites, as well as syndicate their
content to other sites throughout the network. Powered a radical new
search technology called "pattern proximity," the network delivers relevant
content to the reader at performance levels that outclass other technology
approaches. Proximic is a privately funded company based in Palo Alto,
California and Munich, Germany. Investors include Wellington Partners and
the Holtzbrinck Group, the publisher of numerous publications including
Scientific American. To learn more, visit www.proximic.com.
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Last weekend I played for Negeri Selangor team in the Malaysian Inter State Chess Championship held at MS Garden Hotel Kuantan Pahang. My team mates are Nur Nabila, Puteri Rifqah my KUSESS school mate, Roslina Marmono and Esther Tang.
|Me at the most right
The opening ceremony was officiated by the Highness Tengku Mahkota Pahang (TMP). It is good for the Malaysian chess community when a royal family member appreciates the game of chess.
The Malaysian chess community are surely happy when Datuk Mohd Nazifuddin, the PM's son, has promised to bring Chess into SUKMA. I did not realized when he was standing on my back watching shortly one of my games. Datuk Nazif has showed his commitment to the chess community by spending much of his time in the tournament hall.
|Datuk Nazif standing behind me
|Round 3 - Selangor vs Putrajaya
|Iqa (left), Esther (right)
|Me on the right at Board 4
Below are the photos during Round 5 where Selangor played against Pahang B on Table 2.
|Final Round - Selangor versus Pahang B
|Puteri Rifqah aka Iqa on 2nd Board
|Me on 4th Board (right) and Esther on 3rd Board (left)
|Nabila aka Biela as our team captain on 1st Board


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Clay County
Our town came into being because of a little prairie church.
A wave of homesteaders that came to Clay County in 1869-70 in search of new homes were of Swedish descent. At this same time, the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad started its line westward from Lincoln. Towns were named in alphabetical order, "A" probably for the state asylum, then Berks, Crete, Dorchester, Exeter, Fairmont, Grafton, Huxley, etc...
You have never heard of Huxley? Well, that is because it failed to develop. During the short time it was "on the map," the settlers built a combination church-school-community center about one-half mile south of the Huxley stake. The crude structure was known as "the Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Huxley." In 1881 "a proper church" was built about one mile west of the school. Before it was dedicated, the church was renamed "Saron Evangelical Lutheran," [reportedly for a village in Sweden.]
A Methodist congregation, north of the tracks, decided to move its church to the other side, not far from the new Lutheran Church. On October 3, 1882, a post office was established and given the name, "Saronville," the only office known by this name (as far as we can discover) in the world.
With two churches and a post office in place, the people realized that "a real town" could develop. All it needed was a railroad station. Rev.Haterius, pastor of the Saron church, led a group of promoters that went to talk with the railroad company. The request was granted, and Saronville came into being on November 29, 1882.
The village grew rapidly. Soon lots extended well beyond both churches. At its peak in 1900, there were nearly 200 residents and over 20 businesses. The village was known to the railroaders as "the white city" or "the windmill town," since all the brand-new houses were painted white and each had its own windmill.
During the early days there were four "Flyers" (fast passenger trains) and four "locals" traveling between Lincoln and Denver every day. One could take the 8 a.m. local to Lincoln, shop all day, and then return on the "Dolly" at 8 p.m. Freight trains took grain and livestock bound for Omaha, Chicago, or Kansas City markets.
During World War I, the community organized a Home Guard unit. Men, too young or too old for over-seas duty, practiced marching on main street. Young women in Red Cross uniforms rolled bandages and prayed that the war would not reach Nebraska.
In the 1920s the Saronville baseball team had a large following, and a local roller skating rink that drew huge crowds from neighboring towns. Ice cream and lunch was served when the town's band played from the bandstand on Main Street. As horse and buggy days gave way to the automobile, simple pleasures yielded to more elaborate activities.
During World War II, with the lack of housing and shortages of material, many of Saronville's homes were purchased and moved to other towns, leaving our village with vacant, uncared-for lots. When the war ended, the reliance on railroads faded. Passenger service was discontinued and the depot dismantled.
Amtrak now makes its daily round trip between Denver and Chicago, but it does not stop. Even though numerous freights rumble through and frequently pass one another on the mile-long siding, much of Saronville's grain is transferred to larger markets by truck. In 1970 a derailment toppled seven cars into empty lots north of the elevator. The tracks, once cared for by locally-based section hands, are now maintained by crews headquartered at Hastings.
In the 1880s the one-room school expanded to a two-teacher facility, educating students through the 10th grade. In 1968, when districts in the county reorganized, Saronville merged with Sutton. The schoolhouse is still used by Lewis Township, and for village board meetings. The school grounds, site of the bicentennial ceremonies in 1976, has become a park where many community gatherings and an annual picnic are held.
Saronville, population 54, still has a bank, the post office, a large grain terminal and storage facility, and a Methodist Church. The Saron Lutheran Church celebrated its 100th anniversary in 1972. In 1986, unable to maintain its membership, the church closed. Saronville, stands as a tribute to the many pioneers who worked together to create a town in the shadow of a little prairie church.
By Dorothy Kinyoun, Saronville, NE 68975
ADDITIONAL MATERIAL: The 100th year" Methodist Church, 1975 ; Saron Lutheran Church Centennial 1972, Blossoms of the Prairie, Matteson, 1988; and The Bicentennial Scrapbook, compiled in 1975.


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Hard drive density is constantly on the rise, the availability of 1TB platters now means much higher capacity drives particularly in the 3.5″ form factor where there is adequate space for as many as five platters. Even though manufacturers are still recovering from the effects of the Thai floods hard drive innovation continues to push forward. 4TB drives are now available in the Japanese market and will be arriving in Europe and North America very shortly.
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This weekend was a weekend of good company and good food. We had Richards brother, his wife and his sister over on Sunday and we did a big Mexican feast with fajitas, rice, nachos and corn..was soo good. I love dinner's where everything is just set on the table so everyone can just dig in. We also went to our local little cafe and got a selection of the cutest cakes for the day too.
So me and Beth were the chefs of the evening, with homemade guacamole, I should totally tell you guys my recipe one day..but yeah chicken fajitas with roasted peppers, grilled corn on the cob, and extra cheesy nachos, this was more then enough food for the 5 of us, and instead of getting the expensive packs of nachos and fajitas, we just brought a spice pack for the fajitas and brought wrap and salsa separately. It's so much cheaper, plus we got the most amazing salsa. Pineapple salsa…seriously it was soooo good.Got in some beers, everyone made their own wraps, and Richard cleared up the kitchen after. Twas perfect.
Look at all the lovely treats, I love getting cakes like this from local places, it's nice to know that more then likely a woman from he WI has lovingly made these, we all had a bit of each, cake sample if you will. The cookie in particular was my favourite.
So that was Sunday antics. My Monday involved me running a few errands, and Richard taking me out to dinner for date night. We haven't been out just us two since we moved here, so it was nice to spend some quality time together, he did his research and found a little Italian about 30 minutes away. It was amazing, and surprisingly it was situated right next door to a Prezzo. I am happy to report, it was way busier then the chain next to it, and now that I have eaten at both (Prezzo was a favourite of ours in Essex) I can happily report, this restaurant trumped Prezzo a million times over and I took pictures..
So we shared this tricolore salad with the garlic pesto bread below. This was incredibly good. It was so fresh, and well just insane. I could have just eaten this, but the mains were shortly on their way.
Richards main was a fish mixed grill. Tuna steaks, salmon, swordfish and king prawns, it looked incredible, I stole a prawn and believe me it was! I don't think the price was too bad either, this main cost £14.95. When you think of the size of it I think thats quite reasonable.
We got a portion of hand cut chips to share, which were amazing, I only managed a few of these as I barely made a dent in my gnocchi below. It was a garlic pesto cream sauce with broccoli and avocado. Amazing, but amazingly filling.
So that was my main, so good but like I said it's so filling, but we got it to take away and Richard took it to work today for lunch.
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The International Conference on Weblogs and Social Media (ICWSM)
There is more information on the ICWSM blog and also a few brief mentions by Matthew Hurst.
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It's the time of year we often think of reindeer, but how much do we really know about these animals?
Reindeer (their Latin name is Rangifer tarandus) live in areas far north. In North America they are called caribou. They are well adapted to living in cold, harsh climates having a thick coat which is woolly and warm underneath and with hairs above that trap a layer of insulating air. They have large flat hooves which are good for walking on snow, but equally good at walking on soft ground.
Reindeer have big antlers which grow new each year. The males have the biggest antlers while the females have smaller simpler ones.
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Another busy weekend in the Burien area, with LOTS of goings-on – here's what we have on our Calendar:
SATURDAY, MAY 7th:
- Want To Be An Extra? Time Travel Film To Be Shot At Highline Stadium May 7th in Burien
- 9:00 am – Parkside Garden Club Holding Plant Sale At Albertsons On Saturday, May 7th in Burien
- 10:00 am – Annual Moshier Spring Pottery Sale Will Be Held Saturday, May 7th in Burien
- 10:00 am – FREE First Time Homebuyers Class Is Saturday At The Tin Theater in Burien
- 10:00 am – Got Ideas For The City? Final Forum For 'Vision For Burien' Is Saturday in Burien
- 11:30 am – Highline Medical Center's 'Hats On For Highline' Fundraiser Is May 7th in Auburn
- 9:00 am – Zenith Holland Gardens Holding Mother's Day Plant Sale May 6-8 in Des Moines
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2. Sandby Sofa from Ikea $299. I love how sleek this little sofa is! It would be perfect in an office or a small apartment. Oh, how I wish the chair in the Sandby collection had arms!
3. Colette Chair from JC Penney $650. This chair looks very similar to the Harrison Chair at Williams-Sonoma that starts at $929. However, it only comes in one fabric and it's out of my price range.
4. Baldwin Chair from World Market $429.99. This one looks like the Sweep Chair from West Elm, but it only comes in brown.
5. Lindley Sofa from World Market $599. Can you believe a sofa that stylish is only $599? I wish they made a chair like it.
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Indian flapshell turtle
|Indian flapshell turtle
|L. p. punctata
Chambal River, Uttar Pradesh, India
|Scientific classification
L. punctata
|Binomial name
|Lissemys punctata
(Lacépède, 1788)
The Indian flapshell turtle (Lissemys punctata) is a freshwater species of turtle found in South Asia. The "flap-shelled" name stems from the presence of femoral flaps located on the plastron. These flaps of skin cover the limbs when they retract into the shell. It is unclear what protection the flaps offer against predators.[2] Indian flapshell turtles are widespread and common in the South Asian provinces.
- 1 Description
- 2 Status
- 3 Distribution
- 4 Habitat and ecology
- 5 Reproduction
- 6 Scientific interest and potential value
- 7 Specific dangers and threats to species survival
- 8 References
- 9 Further reading
- 10 External links
The carapace of L. punctata viewed from above is broadly oval in adults, but more circular in young, widest just anterior to hind limbs. The width of the disc is 77-86% of its length, the carapace is moderately arched, shell height is 35.0-40.5% of carapace length, the margin of the carapace is smooth and slightly flared posteriorly, the marginal bones are not united with the pleurals, the plastron is large but mostly cartilaginous, and its length is 88-97% of the carapace length. A pair of large flaps can be closed over the hind limbs and a smaller flap over tail; seven plastral callosities are present, and the head is large, its width is 21-25% of the carapace width. The proboscis is short and stout; the nasal septum has no lateral ridge, the edges of the jaws are smooth, the alveolar surfaces are expanded and granular. The claws are large and heavy; the penis is thick and oval, with deep dorsal cleft and four pointed, soft papillae; the tail is very short in both sexes.[3]
The carapace length of L. punctata has been known to range from 240 to 370 mm (9.4 to 14.6 in).[4][5]
The Indian flapshell turtle was placed in Appendix II of CITES in 1975 at the request of Bangladesh. However, L. p. punctata was the taxon listed, not L. p. andersoni. Subsequent reviews of the literature and available data could find no evidence to support this endangered status. Some scientists now classify L. p. punctata and L. p. andersoni as a single subspecies. This subspecies is the most common aquatic turtle in India. Consequently, the Indian flapshell turtle was removed from the endangered species list in 1983 (48 FR 52740). This action, however, did not affect the turtle's status on Appendix II of CITES.[6]
The Indian flapshell turtle is found in Pakistan, India (common in lakes and rivers), Sri Lanka, Nepal, Bangladesh (Indus and Ganges drainages), and Burma (Irrawaddy and Salween Rivers). It has been introduced to the Andaman and Nicobar Islands. It is also found in the desert ponds of Rajasthan, where hundreds are killed every year during the dry summers. The race L. p. andersoni is found in Bangladesh, India, Nepal, and Pakistan.
Type locality: "Des grandes Indes" (= continental India); restricted to "Pondicherry, Coromandel Coast, India" (11° 56'N; 79° 53'E, on the southeast coast of India) by Webb (1980).[7][8]
Habitat and ecology[edit]
The Indian flapshell turtle is known to be omnivorous. Its diet consists of frogs, fishes, shrimp, snails, aquatic vegetation, plant leaves, flowers, fruits, grasses, and seeds.[4]
Habitat and environmental impact[edit]
L. punctata lives in the shallow, quiet, often stagnant waters of rivers, streams, marshes, ponds, lakes and irrigation canals, and tanks. Waters with sand or mud bottoms are preferred[9] because of the turtle's tendency to burrow.[4] L. punctata turtle plays an important role to reduce pollution in aquatic ecosystems by feeding on snails, insects, and fragments of dead animals.[10]
Drought survival[edit]
L. punctata is very well adapted, both morphologically and behaviorally, to drought conditions. The turtle uses mainly burrowing and moving from water hole to water hole to avoid desiccation. The femoral flaps that cover the retracted legs help the turtle survive dry conditions. During a time of drought, the turtles enter a time of estivation in an attempt to survive the dry conditions.[11] Although many turtles die during drought conditions, some turtles have been reported to survive up to 160 days.[4][11]
Courtship routines[edit]
L. punctata becomes reproductively active at age 2 or 3. Courtship and mating behavior is unique. Courtship begins when the male begins stroking the female's carapace with his neck and limbs extended. When receptive, the female faces the male with her neck extended and they begin bobbing their heads vertically three or four times. This behavior is repeated, then mating begins when the female settles to the bottom and is mounted by the male. Near the end of mating, the male releases his grip and rotates to face the opposite direction from her. They remain attached in this position for as long as 15 minutes. During this time, the female may drag the male about. The pair then separates and copulation ends.[5]
Nesting times of L. punctata occur during many periods in the year depending on habitat and location. Swampy areas with soil and exposure to sunlight are common nesting sites. Eggs are usually laid two or three times per year in clutches of two to 16. These eggs are buried in soil for protection.[5]
Scientific interest and potential value[edit]
- Medicinal value
The shell of L. punctata is believed to be of medicinal value in both China and India. The shell is burnt and ground with oil to produce a medicine in China used to treat certain types of skin diseases. In India, the shell is used to make a remedy believed to be a medicine fortuberculosis.[12]
Specific dangers and threats to species survival[edit]
- Economic and environmental factors
In many South Asia provinces, freshwater turtles and their eggs are commonly used as a source of food. As a result, these turtles are often exploited as a source of profit. In Bangladesh and India, this is especially evident as the Indian flapshell turtle is larger and has more meat than other turtles in the area. The value of this meat along with the efforts in the conservation of this species has driven the price of meat higher and has led to an increase in the illegal international exploitation and killing of these animals.[12] Changes to the turtle's natural habitat by the construction of dams and barrages, cultivation along river banks, and pollution are also major threats to the survival of this turtle.[4]
- ^ Fritz, Uwe; Havaš, Peter (2007). "Checklist of Chelonians of the World" (PDF). Vertebrate Zoology. 57 (2): 315–316. Archived from the original (PDF) on 17 December 2010. Retrieved 29 May 2012.
- ^ Franklin, Carl (2007). Turtles: An Extraordinary Natural History 245 Million Years in the Making. Voyageur Press. pp. 134-136.
- ^ Minton SA Jr (1966). "A contribution to the herpetology of West Pakistan". Bull. American Mus. Nat. Hist. 134 (2): 27-184.
- ^ a b c d e Environmental Information System (ENVIS) center of India. Zoological survey of India. Lissemys punctata. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2010-10-29. Retrieved 2010-12-03.CS1 maint: Archived copy as title (link)
- ^ a b c Ernst C, Altenburg R, Barbour R (1997). Turtles of the World. Netherlands Biodiversity Information Facility. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2011-03-20. Retrieved 2010-12-03.CS1 maint: Archived copy as title (link)
- ^ CRS Report for Congress.98-32:Endangered Species List Revisions:A Summary of Delisting and Downlisting (cont'd)Status Archived 2006-05-13 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ Webb RG (1980). "Gray, Hardwicke, Buchanan-Hamilton, and drawings of Indian softshell turtles (Family Trionychidae)". Amphibia-Reptilia 1: 61-74.
- ^ Webb RG (1980). "The identity of Testudo punctata Lacépède, 1788 (Testudines, Trionychidae)". Bulletin du Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris, Fourth Series 2: 547-557.
- ^ Ernst CH, Altenburg RGM, Barbour RW (1997). Turtles of the World. Indian flapshell turtle Archived 2011-03-20 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ Hossain L, Sarker S, Sarker N (2008). "Ecology of spotted flapshell turtle, Lissemys punctata (Lacepede, 1788) in Bangladesh". Department of Zoology, University of Dhaka. ECOPRINT. 15: 59-67.
- ^ a b Auffenberg W (1981). "Behavior of Lissemys punctata in a drying lake in Rajasthan, India". Bombay 78 (3): 487-493.
- ^ a b Moll D, Moll E (2004). The Ecology, Exploitation, and Conservation of River Turtles. Oxford University Press. pp. 177-180.
Further reading[edit]
- Das I (2002). Snakes and other Reptiles of India. Sanibel Island, Florida: Ralph Curtis Books. 144 pp. ISBN 0-88359-056-5. (Lissemys punctata, p. 139).
- Khan MZ, Safi A, Fatima F, Hashmi MUA, Hussain B, Siddiqui S, Khan SI, Ghalib SA (2015). "An evaluation of distribution, status and abundance of freshwater turtles in the selected areas of Sindh and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa provinces of Pakistan". Canadian Journal of Pure and Applied Sciences 9 (1): 3201-3219. http://www.cjpas.net
- Safi A, Khan MZ (2014). "Distribution and current population of freshwater turtles of District Charsadda of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan". Journal of Zoology Studies 1 (4): 31-38. http://www.journalofzoology.com
- Akbar M, Mushtaq-ul-Hassan M, u-Nisa Z (2006). "Distribution of Freshwater Turtles in Punjab, Pakistan". CJES 4 (4): 142-146.
- Asian Turtle Trade Working Group (2000). "Lissemys punctata". The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. IUCN. 2000: e.T46579A97399871. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2000.RLTS.T46579A11061187.en. Retrieved 9 January 2018.
- Biswas S, Bhowmik HK (1984). "Range of Lissemys punctata punctata from the foot-hills of Siwaliks". Hamadryad 9 (2): 10.
- Lacepède BGE (1788). Histoire Naturelle des Quadrupe des Ovipares et des Serpens. Vol.1. Paris: Imprimerie du Roi, Hôtel de Thou. xvii + 651 pp.
- Verma, Anil K.; Sahi, D.N. (1998). "Status, range extension and ecological notes on Indo-Gangetic flapshell turtle, Lissemys punctata andersoni (Testudines: Trionychidae) in Jammu Shiwaliks, J&K State". Cobra 34 (Oct.-Dec.): 6-9.
- Webb RG (1982). "Taxonomic notes concerning the trionychid turtle Lissemys punctata (Lacepede)". Amphibia-Reptilia (Wiesbaden) 3 (2-3): 179-184.
External links[edit]
|Wikimedia Commons has media related to Lissemys punctata.


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The Man From U.N.C.L.E.: "The Yo-Ho-Ho and a Bottle of Rum Affair"
Illya and Napoleon hang out at the docks in Hong Kong, being all delightful and charming while spying on a ship chartered by THRUSH. Illya sneaks on board to search for THRUSH's latest fiendish device, a contraption that can generate deadly tidal waves. Displaying his usual level of competence, he somehow accidentally ends up locked in the hold. The ship sets sail while Napoleon remains behind on shore.
This is the last scene Illya and Napoleon will share together until the final seconds of this episode. It's not a terrible episode or anything—by the grotesquely lowered standards of season three, it's pretty darn watchable—but it does make the key mistake of keeping Napoleon and Illya separated the whole time, thus depriving viewers of this show's major strength, i.e. the magnificent chemistry between the leads. This is the first episode Norman Hudis wrote for the series, and, despite some problem areas, he did a decent job of it: The pacing is sluggish, but the characterizations are good, the plot is solid, and the dialogue often has at least a faint echo of the signature snappy banter of early episodes. Alas, Hudis would go on to write a handful of the worst episodes in the show's history, episodes so relentlessly terrible and tedious that I dread the day when I finally have to get around to recapping them: "The Five Daughters Affair", "The J Is For Judas Affair", and, most craptacular of all, "The Seven Wonders of the World Affair." This episode isn't strong enough to mitigate that dire legacy.
In U.N.C.L.E.'s Hong Kong office, Mr. Waverly and Napoleon fret about Illya's fate. Ever since the ship sailed, they've heard nothing from him, and they're both fearing the worst. They're unaware of the ship's destination, so Waverly orders Napoleon to pose as Professor Powers, inventor of the tidal wave generator, and make contact with THRUSH operative Jenny Janus (Peggy Taylor) to grill her for information as to where the ship might be headed. As Jenny is a criminal mastermind who also happens to be a sultry nightclub singer, Napoleon happily agrees to the assignment.
Napoleon spends this scene with his upper torso draped weirdly over a low-backed couch, which can't be comfortable. Probably suffering from inadequate lumbar support, poor fellow.
On the ship, Illya is still trapped in the hold, unnoticed by the crew. Even though he suspects the ship's sensors are jamming his communicator signal, he sends a series of mournful messages into the void, announcing his intention to bomb the ship and blow up the tidal wave device. As this will likely result in his death, he makes a series of grim requests: "I therefore hereby officially apply for an H1 classification—Hero Class One—when my file is closed. If you can hear me, please note that the stage here is set for noble tragedy. On the other hand, if I'm taking to myself, the situation is merely one of lunatic farce."
"Lunatic farce" is actually a pretty good way to describe much of season three.
Eventually, Illya is discovered by pompous, rum-soaked Captain Morton (Dan O'Herlihy) and the ship's sole passenger (Kevin Hagen), a nameless THRUSH goon in charge of transporting the tidal wave generator. The passenger is instantly suspicious of Illya, but Illya wins over the captain by claiming a love of the sea and quoting a little John Masefield at him ("Dirty British coaster with a salt-caked smoke stack / Butting through the Channel in the mad March days…").
Napoleon, meanwhile, pops up at Jenny Janus's glitzy Hong Kong nightclub, introduces himself as Professor Powers, and bats his lashes at her. She takes him back to her swanky quarters, where they sip gin cocktails out of fancy stemware and tumble into bed together.
On the ship, Illya is subjected to some light bondage and rough treatment, because it's not U.N.C.L.E. if Illya doesn't get tied up and slapped around a little.
Illya sets about charming everyone on board, including the engineer, a voluble yet soft-hearted Scotsman named Scotty (Eddie Quillan), because we're all of a sudden watching a Star Trek episode, and a crewman named Hank (Robert DoQui). Hank fills Illya in on all the fun gossip: Captain Morton is a reckless and dangerous drunk, and the crew has been plotting mutiny for months. Illya asks Hank where he can get his hands on some explosives. Sensing nothing at all weird or suspicious about this out-of-the-blue request, Hank helpfully points him in the direction of Captain Morton's quarters.
Meanwhile, Napoleon and Jenny have shacked up together and are having sex all over the place.
Illya breaks into the captain's quarters, where he's caught in the act of stealing explosives by Captain Morton. Drunk and belligerent, the captain regales Illya with his sordid history: He was court-martialed by the Royal Navy for stealing rum and stripped of his command. Dan O'Herlihy is a wonderful actor (check out his work in the far-superior "Fiddlesticks Affair"), but holy moly, this scene goes on forever. As the captain drones on and on, Illya looks increasingly exhausted and vaguely traumatized.
Anyway, the captain ends his long soliloquy by having Illya arrested for stealing his stuff. Fortunately for Illya, the ship's engine randomly explodes while the captain is in the middle of yelling at him. Illya leaps into action and, at great personal risk to himself, effortlessly fixes the engine. The captain deems him a god among men and promotes him to first mate, much to the alarm of the THRUSH goon on board, who is pretty sure Illya is an enemy spy
Jenny and Napoleon continue to have enthusiastic sex. When Napoleon tries to discreetly grill her as to the ship's destination, she dodges his questions. Then, as armed THRUSH goons burst into her quarters and apprehend him, she triumphantly announces that she's been aware of his true identity all along, a tidbit she presumably failed to disclose several days earlier because she was having too much fun banging him. Jenny is evil, but I find it difficult to fault her for this.
Illya shows Captain Morton his U.N.C.L.E. identification and reveals himself as a spy. The captain is enraged by this, for some damn reason, and orders him imprisoned below deck. Hank promptly breaks Illya out of his cell, whereupon Illya rallies the crew and leads them in a raucous mutiny. He locks up the captain in his quarters, then engages in a shootout with the THRUSH passenger and his henchmen.
Jenny Janus and the real Professor Powers take Napoleon up in a plane, intending to rendezvous with the ship on an island and activate the tidal wave device. Napoleon attempts to hijack the plane and ends up crashing it into the ocean.
Upon seeing the plane go down nearby, Captain Morton orders his crew to put the mutiny on hold long enough to the rescue the crash survivors. After subduing the THRUSH goons, Illya surrenders control of the ship back to the captain. The sole survivor of the crash is Napoleon, who floats by on a life preserver.
With THRUSH's plan scuttled and the tidal wave device destroyed, Mr. Waverly boards the ship to announce that he pulled strings with the Royal Navy and had Captain Morton's dishonorable discharge expunged from his record. He offers him a job with U.N.C.L.E. Why? Why would he do this? Sure, Captain Morton did Napoleon a solid by coming to his rescue, but we've had ample evidence that he's unforgivably awful at his job:
1. He spent the entire episode drunk.
2. He was dismissed from the Royal Navy for stealing rum.
3. He worked for THRUSH.
4. His entire crew cheerfully aided an unknown stowaway in a mutiny because they loathed him so much.
5. He's unpredictable, unstable, and relentlessly incompetent.
Which, come to think of it, probably means he'll fit right in at U.N.C.L.E. Never mind, Mr. Waverly. I withdraw my objection. Carry on, good sir.


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GOSZLERv.THE CORPORATION OF GEORGETOWN.
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In the year 1797, the Legislature of Maryland, among certain additional powers given to the Corporation of Georgetown, enacted, that they 'shall have full power and authority to make such by-laws and ordinances for the graduation and levelling of the streets, lanes and alleys within the jurisdiction of the same town, as they may judge necessary for the benefit thereof.'–Act of Nov. 1797, c. 56. s. vi. p. 35.
In pursuance of this authority, the Corporation passed an ordinance in May, 1799, for the graduation of certain streets–the first section of which appoints commissioners, and authorizes them 'to make the level and graduation of the streets;' and the second is in these words: 'And be it ordained, that the said level and graduation, when signed by the said commissioners or a majority of them, and returned to the clerk of this Corporation, shall be forever thereafter considered as the true graduation of the streets so graduated, and be binding upon this Corporation, and all other persons whatever, and be forever thereafter regarded in making improvements upon said streets.'
The plaintiff in error owned lots upon one of these streets, and made improvements thereon, according to the graduation made and returned to the clerk of the Corporation, under the directions of this ordinance. In September, 1816, the corporation passed another ordinance, directing the level and graduation of this street to be altered; and the commissioners appointed, being about to cut down the street by the plaintiff's house, were enjoined from proceeding by a bill filed by the plaintiff against them and the Corporation.
Upon the final hearing of this case, the Circuit Court dismissed the bill, being of opinion that the Corporation had the power asserted in their answer, of altering the level and graduation of a street graduated under their former ordinance of May, 1799.
The counsel for the appellant contends, that the Circuit Court erred in dismissing his bill, because,
1st. The power to graduate streets as given by the Legislature of Maryland, was not a continuing power, but was completely executed by the ordinance of May, 1799, and has never been renewed.
2d. The ordinance of May, 1799, is in the nature of a compact, and is unalterable.
1. The language of the act certainly does not imply that the power it confers is exhausted in its first exercise. The power is not 'to graduate and level the streets,' or 'to make a by-law for the graduation and levelling of the streets;' but 'to make such by-laws and ordinances for the graduation and levelling of the streets, &c. within the jurisdiction of the same town, as they may judge necessary for the benefit thereof.'
The act seems to contemplate a continuance of the power, and a repetition of the by laws and ordinances, as the Corporation 'may judge necessary for the benefit of the town.' It gives a power to legislate on the subject, and to pass more than one by-law and ordinance respecting it. Unless, then, there be in the nature of the operation something which forbids its repetition, the words of the act import no such prohibition.
There can be no doubt that the power of graduating and levelling the streets ought not to be capriciously exercised. Like all power, it is susceptible of abuse. But it is trusted to the inhabitants themselves, who elect the corporate body, and who ...
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William ROBERTS was tried at Bedford Assizes 8 Mar 1823, sentenced to Life and was transported to Van Diemen's Land aboard the Asia (1) which arrived at Hobart on 18-19 January 1824 having departed London, Downs and Portsmouth, England on 28 Aug 1823.
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William ROBERTS, Asia, to marry Sarah NEWPORT, Free, -- October 1832. [CON 45/1] [RGD36/2:1832/2015]
On the 6 November 1832 William ROBERTS and Sarah NEWPORT made a Petition to Marry to Lieutenant Governor George ARTHUR. [CSO 1/379/8600/p63]
On the 24 December 1832 in the Parish of Sorell in the County of Buckinghamshire, the marriage of William ROBERTS and Sarah NEWPORT, both of the Parish of Pitt water, was solemnised in this Church by Banns according to the Rites of the Church of England by James Norman, Chaplain, with the permission of the Lt. Governor. Both made their X mark in the presence of John WELLS of Sorell (who signed) and Mary NEWPORT (her X mark) of Pitt water. Henry Batten SORELL. [p18/70, R/N 2015] (Unfortunately no ages were recorded.)
Sarah NEWPORT was born 11 Aug 1804, chr 26 Apr 1804 Appleford, Berkshire, England d/o John NEWPORT/Fanny SHAILER [IGI Batch number C036471 extracted from parish records]
On the 22 Nov 1839 a son, George, was born to William and Sarah ROBERTS. William's status was described as Prisoner of the Crown at the child's baptism which took place three months later in February 1840. At the time the Roberts were living at Forcett. The baptism was conducted in the Parish of Sorell in the County of Pembroke by the Chaplain, James Norman, who had married William and Sarah seven years previously. [p28/1235]
William ROBERTS was granted a Ticket of Leave on 10 July 1829 and a Conditional Pardon in April 1836. [No. 846]
On 22 Jul 1839 William ROBERTS was found guilty in the Supreme Court of Van Diemen's Land of stealing three hogs from Mr GATEHOUSE who had a farm near Sorrell. Two assigned convicts named TUBB/S and LEACH who were employed at the ROBERTS' farm were also involved in the crime. Witnesses were David PHILLIPS who resided at Longbottom in the district of Pittwater, about a quarter of a mile from William ROBERTS; Thomas WRIGHT who was in the service of David PHILLIPS; Daniel ROON, a constable; Patrick James SMITH, a district constable, who in company with chief district constable BYRON, apprehended the prisoner at the London Tavern; and Clement GATEHOUSE Esquire who testified about an earmark.
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"The prisoner held a conditional pardon, and had been in the colony since 1824. Although he had been punished for insubordination and neglect of duty, it did not appear he had ever been charged with felony. How far his present convictions may affect his emancipation was uncertain, but his Honor would take care he had the benefit of every privilege to which he was entitled. Owing to the number of persons who had obtained indulgences from the government, setting themselves down in various parts of the country either as thieves or the receivers of stolen property, it became necessary to put some decisive check to a system, under which numbers of unfortunate assigned servants were led into rather than preserved from crime. In the present instance, the sentence of the Court would be - transportation for seven years; and his Honor had no doubt Roberts would find his way to a penal settlement for some time at least."
The trial was reported in the Hobart Town Advertiser, 26 Jul 1839 and is reproduced on Decisions of the Nineteenth Century Tasmanian Superior Courts, published by the Division of Law, Macquarie University and the School of History and Classics, University of Tasmania. (Brought to my attention by Meg Bate)
William ROBERTS served 2 years at Port Arthur. He was again granted a Ticket of Leave on 1 January 1844 and was Pardoned on 5 September 1845. His Conditional Pardon was extended on 3 February 1852. [CON 31/34]
At left: North View of Eagle Hawk Neck, which joins Tasman's Peninsular to the main land of Van Diemen's Land. Inscription: There is, at this place, a chain of dogs, which are so savage, that should any convict escape from the penal settlement of Port Arthur, it is impossible for them to pass into the colony. From a sketch by Captn Hext 4th The King's Own Regiment, 1845.
At right: Etablissement penitentiare de Port Arthur, Terre de Van-Diemen by Cyrille Pierre Theodore Laplace, 1854, engraving, (reproduction) National Library of Australia. Displayed at Convict Museum, Hyde Park Barracks, Sydney.
In February 1852 William and Sarah ROBERTS sailed on the schooner Gem from Launceston to Melbourne as steerage passengers. The passenger list shows William ROBERTS: Ship to the Colony: Asia (1st), Conditional Pardon. Sarah ROBERTS: Ship to the Colony Boadicea, Free by Servitude. [POL 20/9/1 p588] Presumably their son George (William) ROBERTS, aged 12, also sailed with his parents on the Gem but there is no clear listing for him. There is '& 1 child, in steerage' listed amongst the adults but it is one entry removed from that of Sarah ROBERTS. Her entry is one removed from that of her husband so perhaps the recording was just rather haphazard.
The shipping information for Sarah is incorrect as she was never a convict. This could have been a clerical error. Also she did not arrive in VDL on the Boadicea which in any case was not a convict ship. In 1835 this ship sailed from London to Hobart with 193 free females under a Bounty Scheme arranged by the London Emigration Committee which operated from 1833-1837 to redress the imbalanced ratio of males to females in the Colony. The arrival of the Boadicea at Hobart on 2 Feb 1836 with female immigrants was reported in the Hobart Town Courier on 12 Feb 1836.
Sarah was in VDL at least ten years prior to that so why did she fib about coming on the Boadicea? Perhaps to erase an association with the known convict ship Dromedary which brought her father and most likely his family to VDL thirty-two years previously.
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