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Also Ercole Moretti uses a small murrine (usually clear) with an "M". http://www.fossilfly.com/mm5/merchant.mvc?Session_ID=f55ceda4399de511f1735563a1b696ac&Screen=PROD&Store_Code=FI&Product_Code=ACP-3-LGR&Category_Code=AccentPlates
*from that link* this plate has Moretti's trademark "M" within the glass showing its authenticity. Honestly... if the Chinese can counterfeit microscopic security threads placed in collectable USA banknotes, does anyone really believe the 'M' detail is a proof of authenticity? Sorry, to me, that just stood out as way too optimistic and if your interested in rooting out forgeries you won't deny it. (...)fakes and the scammers out there.
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Sioux Falls Police See Big Success in Prescription Drug Drop-Off Boxes
The prescription drug drop-off boxes in the lobby of the Law Enforcement Center in Sioux Falls have been a big success. And police are reminding residents of the service they provide.
The boxes are a place for residents to safely dispose of medications they no longer want or need, and Information Officer Sam Clemens says the response since they were installed permanently has shown the need:
Clemens says the effort began with a US Drug Enforcement Administration program for a one-day drop-off in the fall of 2011 and again in the spring of 2012, that brought in a total of 1300 pounds of medications.
There are no forms to fill out, and the boxes are available from 6am until 10pm, when the lobby of the Law Enforcement Center on West 4th Street is open.
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The 2013 Institute of Genealogy and Historical Research (IGHR) will be held Sunday, June 9 through Friday, June 14, 2013 and registration will open Tuesday, January 22, 2013 at 11:00 a.m. Eastern time.
Beth Ashmore from the Samford University Library sent the following message about this year's deadline:
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A variety of activities have been scheduled for the annual Homecoming Weekend at Hope College, running Friday-Sunday, Oct. 9-11.
Highlights include the rededication of Graves Hall, a tailgate picnic for alumni, a celebration of 100 years of Hope football, home football and men's soccer games, the 175th-anniversary celebration of the Fraternal Society, a worship service, and reunions for the classes of 1989, 1994, 1999 and 2004. The weekend is expected to bring hundreds of alumni back to campus.
Many of the Homecoming events are open to the public.
Hope will hold a rededication ceremony for Graves Hall on Friday, Oct. 9, at noon. There will also be open houses on Saturday, Oct. 10, from 4 p.m. to 6 p.m. and Sunday, Oct. 11, from 1 to 3 p.m. Admission is free.
During the 30-minute rededication ceremony, the college's Alumni Association will present a Meritorious Service Award to Dr. Elton Bruins, a 1950 Hope graduate who is former director of the college's A.C. Van Raalte Institute and the Evert J. and Hattie E. Blekkink Professor Emeritus of Religion at Hope.
On Friday, Oct. 9, at 3:30 p.m., Dr. A. Paul Schaap, a 1967 Hope graduate who is a member of the college's Board of Trustees, will present "Chemiluminescence and 1,2-Dioxetanes: From Fireflies to the Detection of DNA" in the DeWitt Center main theatre. Admission is free.
Schaap is retired from the WayneStateUniversity faculty and from Lumigen Inc., the company which he founded in 1987 to commercialize the dioxetanes (high-energy chemical compounds which can be triggered to generate light) developed in his research laboratory. He will be speaking through the college's Gentile Interdisciplinary Lectureship, a divisional seminar in the natural sciences named in honor of Dr. James Gentile, a former dean for the natural sciences who is now president of Research Corporation.
The college's orchestra will present a concert on Friday, Oct. 9, at 7:30 p.m. in Dimnent Memorial Chapel. Admission is free.
The De Pree Art Center will be featuring the exhibition "Margaret Cogswell: River Fugues" from Tuesday, Oct. 6, through Saturday, Nov. 7, with a reception on Friday, Oct. 9, from 5 p.m. to 7 p.m. The regular gallery hours are: Mondays through Saturdays from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. and Sundays from 1 p.m. to 5 p.m. Admission is free.
The Hope-Geneva Bookstore in the DeWittCenter will be open on Saturday, Oct. 10, from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. The bookstore will also sponsor a tent staffed by members of the college's Alumni Board and featuring selected Hope merchandise, primarily clothing, at Holland Municipal Stadium on Saturday from 1:30 p.m. through the end of the college's game with AlbionCollege.
There will be an alumni lacrosse game on Saturday, Oct. 10, at 10 a.m. on the front lawn of the DeVos Fieldhouse. Admission is free.
The Alumni H-Club's annual Homecoming luncheon will begin on Saturday, Oct. 10, at 11 a.m. at the DeVos Fieldhouse. A reunion of alumni who played football will commemorate the 100 years that football has been an intercollegiate sport at the college. In addition, the H-Club will present its "Hope for Humanity Award" to 1984 Hope graduate Dr. Jaci L. VanHeest of Enfield, Conn., an exercise physiologist on the faculty of the University of Connecticut whose work to counteract childhood obesity has received national attention.
There will be a tailgate picnic for alumni and their families on Saturday, Oct. 10, from noon to 2 p.m. at Smallenberg Park. Tickets for the sixth annual picnic may be ordered in advance for $5 for adults and children age five and above, with admission free for children under five, by sending a check to: Hope College; Alumni Relations; PO Box 9000; Holland, MI 49422-9000 or by credit card by calling (616) 395-7250, or by registering online at www.hope.edu/alumni/. Tickets will also be sold on-site.
In place of a Homecoming parade this year, student organizations are arranging displays and will make presentations at the park in conjunction with the picnic.
The Flying Dutchmen will host Albion in football at Holland Municipal Stadium on Saturday, Oct. 10, at 2 p.m. Tickets are $7 for reserved seats, $5 for adult general admission, $3 for general admission for those under 18, and free for children five and under. They are being sold in advance at the ticket office in the front lobby of the DeVos Fieldhouse, which faces Fairbanks Avenue between Ninth and 11th streets and is open weekdays from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Tickets will also be available at the gate.
The pre-game show, which begins at 1:30 p.m., will feature the Schoolcraft High School band. Halftime will feature the band; the presentation of the 14th annual "Faculty Appreciation Award," as chosen by the student body, to Dr. Steven Hoogerwerf of the Hope religion faculty; the presentation of an award of appreciation for service to Hope to Dr. James Boelkins, Hope's provost, who is retiring at the end of the school year; the introduction of the Homecoming Court; and the crowning of the Homecoming king and queen. In addition, the college's chapter of Mortar Board will be holding a children's book drive at the stadium beginning at 2 p.m. on Saturday.
Men's soccer will host Olivet College on Saturday, Oct. 10, at 4 p.m. at the Van Andel Soccer Stadium. Admission is free.
A Homecoming worship service will be held on Sunday, Oct. 10, at 10 a.m. in Dimnent Memorial Chapel. The service will feature the college's Chapel Choir and Alumni Chapel Choir under the direction of Dr. Brad Richmond of the Hope faculty. The guest preacher will be the Rev. Kate Davelaar, a chaplain at Hope.
Events for the reunion classes include a celebration brunch at the Haworth Inn and ConferenceCenter and evening parties on Saturday. The weekend will also feature the 175th anniversary celebration of the college's Fraternal Society fraternity, and a variety of departmental and affinity-group reunions and events. Friday evening, former players and coaching staff will celebrate the career of Ray Smith, who retired from the Hope faculty in May as professor of kinesiology and director of athletics for men. Smith was the football coach at Hope for 25 seasons, through the fall of 1994, and also served as golf coach, wrestling coach and assistant baseball coach.
The De Pree Art Center is located on Columbia Avenue at 12th Street. The DeVos Fieldhouse is located facing Fairbanks Avenue between Ninth and 11th streets. The DeWitt Center is located on Columbia Avenue at 12th Street. Dimnent Memorial Chapel is located on College Avenue at 12th Street. The Haworth Inn and Conference Center is located on College Avenue between Ninth and 10th streets. Holland Municipal Stadium and SmallenbergPark are located on Fairbanks Avenue at 13th Street. Van Andel Soccer Stadium is located on Fairbanks Avenue between Ninth and 11th streets.
A full schedule of Homecoming activities and a link to the online registration are available at www.hope.edu/alumni/


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After an impressive turnout in Monday's presidential elections, one thing is clear about Kenya: citizens are energized and ready to participate in shaping the future of their country.
Despite concerns of violence, voters in Kenya were undeterred and turned out in historic numbers Monday - over 70% participation - to cast ballots in the country's first presidential election since 2007.
The remarkable level of participation had election officials calling the turnout "tremendous," as polling places were kept open hours later than scheduled to accommodate lines that stretched "nearly a mile long." Voters formed lines at polling places well before 6:00 a.m. when the polls opened, and many waited for up to 10 hours to cast their ballots.
While this election is a significant success, its true impact on the everyday lives of Kenyans will depend of how the new administration governs. Kenyans should be able to participate in the decision-making processes of their new government in as robust of a manner as they did when electing it.
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El Teatro Romano de Cartagena is an ancient Roman theatre in Cartagena, Spain. The theatre was built between 5 and 1 BC. It is amazing how many times we can come across these treasures that lie just below the surface of our modern lives!
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India is the fastest-growing major economy in the world with significant Government investments in infrastructure. According to estimates by WTO and OECD, as quoted in a report from the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, India: Probity in Public Procurement, the estimated public procurement in India is between 20 and 30 percent of GDP.
This translates to Indian government agencies issuing contracts worth an estimated US$ 419 billion to US$ 628 billion each year for various aspects of infrastructure projects. Ideally, in contractual agreements no disputes would arise and both sides would benefit from the outcome. However, unexpected events occur and many contracts end in dispute. Contractual legal disputes devoid project benefits to the public as time and resources are spent in expensive arbitration and litigation. As a result, India's development goals are impacted.


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Bonn, Germany, May 29, 2008 (IUCN) – For the first time in the history of CBD, delegates in Bonn have approved a road map ensuring that gender equality is a mainstream element in the work related to the CBD.
As a continuing response to global commitments and recommendations of international forums, and in compliance with internal mandates within the UN system calling for gender equality, the Secretariat of the CBD with the technical support of IUCN has developed a Gender Plan of Action.
This plan defines the role the CBD will play in stimulating and facilitating efforts, both in-house and with partners at the national, regional and global levels, to overcome constraints and take advantage of opportunities to promote gender equality and equity in the Convention process.
The Women's Caucus expressed their "support that there is a Gender Action Plan under CBD and extra budgetary resources for it. We hope that the Gender Mainstreaming and Capacity Building related to the Gender Action Plan will include enough independent expertise on biodiversity".
"Women should be more involved at CBD," says Lorena Aguilar, IUCN's Senior Gender Adviser. "The capacity of women, particularly of indigenous women, to participate in CBD processes and decision-making must be increased as well as valued."
The gender perspective also needs to be integrated into national biodiversity planning processes. Partnerships and networks should be built to promote the mainstreaming of gender within biodiversity conservation and management. These partnerships and networks should integrate women's organizations, gender organizations, governmental and non-governmental organizations, among others.
Women's constraints, needs and preferences need to be integrated into biodiversity research and programme decisions. Access to land and other natural resources, land use, conflict resolution, household food security during difficult economic and climatic conditions all need to be considered in research and decisions about biodiversity.
"Countries should take advantage of their compliance with the CBD's provisions to create policies and legislation that safeguard the human rights of men and women, as well as indigenous and local communities," adds Aguilar.
"This is an excellent opportunity to achieve equality and equity between men and women in their access to resources, control of their traditional knowledge, and benefits from sound management and participation in governance and decision-making," she adds.
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Stationed at a courtside press table in Philadelphia University's Gallagher Center in order to document Villa Maria's performance in the Catholic Academies basketball finals, a reporter from out West Chester way warily watched supporters of the Mount St. Joseph Magic fill up the bleachers behind him.
Numerous spectators at last Wednesday night's spectacle wore everyday MSJ garb, but many more were dressed especially for the occasion; the face painters, the body suit girls, the ersatz cheerleaders clothed in retired uniforms. The Chester County correspondent sensed that things were going to get loud, but there was no way for him to completely prepare himself for the experience of hearing Mount St. Joseph Academy in full song.
As famed boxing champ Joe Louis once said, "Everyone has a plan until they've been hit."
In the meeting between the same two finalists in the 2012 championship game, the Mountie Nation was a little subdued near the end, when the Villa Hurricanes put the finishing touches on a dramatic comeback that netted them a 39-35 victory. This year, the banshee cacophony continued up to the final buzzer and beyond, as the Magic went ahead for good in the middle of the second quarter and later led by as many as 21 points en route to a 57-41 triumph.
Junior guard Alex Louin saved 10 of her game-high 18 points for the fourth-quarter coup de grâce, in which the Magic outpointed the 'Canes 18-5 before Villa scavenged the last five points in the affair. Louin recorded 10 rebounds, four assists, and three steals, while the victors received double-digit offense from senior forward Meg Geatens (five rebounds, two assists) and junior forward Carly Monzo (five rebounds, two assists), with 12 and 10 points, respectively.
Close behind with eight strategically timed points was senior guard Adrienne Cellucci (three steals), and filling out the total for the Magic were two young guards, freshman Libby Tacka (five points), and sophomore Mary Kate Ulasewicz (four).
"I thought we executed both our offense and our defense very well," stated MSJ head coach John Miller. "When you shoot like we did, you give yourself a good chance to win; we were over 50 percent from the floor, 60 percent from the three-point line, and 85 percent on our free throws.
"On defense," he continued, "we're basically a man-to-man team, but we worked on going to a diamond-and-one [zone] at certain times. We certainly took them out of what they like to run, and that was our goal, to get them out of their comfort zone."
Mount St. Joe would take a 22-2 overall record into the District 1 Class AAAA playoffs. Reflecting back on the league campaign, Miller was understandably proud of the fact that the Mount has now appeared in the title game for seven straight seasons, the entirety of his tenure. This year, the squad accomplished the historically rare feat of making a 16-0 run through the Catholic Academies regular season and league tournament.
In 2011-2012, the Magic lost regular-season AACA games to St. Basil and to Villa Joseph Marie, but swept their home/away series against Villa Maria. The Mount had the Hurricanes down by 13 points with 13 minutes remaining in the league tournament final, but Villa then launched a 23-6 offensive to capture the title.
The next time the archrivals squared off, early last December, it was the Mount that recovered from a double-digit deficit (11 points) to prevail in overtime, 41-33. The Magic then won another OT encounter on January 17, beating the Hurricanes on their home court, 45-42. Still, in light of the way their previous AACA season ended, the Mounties felt they had unfinished business as they entered the 2013 tourney.
It didn't start well for the number one seeds. A year earlier, they'd cruised by 22 points in the semifinal round, but the Magic appeared to be off their game as they struggled to a 45-40 win over fourth-seeded Merion Mercy on February 10.
In that contest, Miller observed "Some of our girls played nervous. This was a playoff game and we had an undefeated record in the league that was on the line. The one good thing was that I think that game helped us get rid of the jitters. We told the girls in practice that there's going to be a winner and a loser in the championships, and what we wanted to focus on was just going out and playing our best. We wanted to make Villa Maria have to beat us, and not beat ourselves."
In the first few minutes on Wednesday, the impression was one of rather random, disorganized energy on both sides. Which club would be the one to settle down and execute its game plan? Down 4-2 just past the midpoint of the first quarter, Miller calmed his charges during a 30-second time-out. Louin, who'd opened the scoring with a put-back, returned to the floor to net three short jumpers in a 6-2 spurt that pushed the Magic ahead. Closing out the initial period, Tacka targeted a three-pointer from the right flank, and the Mount led 11-6.
If some soothsayer had told the Magic gathering that they would see no more scoring from Louin for the next two quarters, they would've been worried. On this night, it wasn't a problem.
It's true, things looked a little shaky in the first three minutes of the second round. After Villa junior Jackie Carlin traded field goals with the Mount's Monzo, the Hurricanes' senior leader, guard Lisa Mirarchi, lobbed in a "three" from the keytop and then tied the game at 13-all with a pair of free throws. That foul had been charged to MSJ's Tacka, who retired to the bench with her second personal as Ulasewicz took the court.
With four-and-a-half minutes remaining in the half, Monzo scored in transition to give the Mounties the lead for good. Cellucci bagged a trey to reinforce the lead, then Geatens drew Villa's fourth team foul and made a pair from the free throw line with 2:54 on the clock.
The Hurricanes' Carlin, who'd been a force in the second game with the Mount back in January, sandwiched a three-pointer and a lay-up around an old-time three-point play by MSJ's Geatens. The Mount senior then hit another lay-up, and when Villa put Mount St. Joe in the bonus seven seconds before the intermission, Ulasewicz pulled both points from the foul line for a 27-18 tally.
Some pushback from Villa was to be expected as the second half got underway. With a field goal from Carlin, two free throws by junior Molly Namiotka, and a triple from the left wing by Mirarchi, the Hurricanes tightened the score to 29-25 with 4:27 to go in the third quarter, forcing an MSJ time-out.
It was around this point in the third period that Villa began its big comeback in the 2012 final, as the Magic became anxious and hesitant. That didn't happen this time.
"We didn't go back on our heels when Villa pressured us," Miller noted. "Even when we got more of a lead and began to run some time off the clock, we went aggressively to the basket when we had the opportunity."
The Magic also clamped down on defense against Villa's primary threats. Carlin would not score again, and Mirarchi was limited to three free throws the rest of the way, each finishing with 11 points.
Following their time-out in the middle of the third stanza, the Mounties increased their margin once more with a three-pointer from the left corner by Cellucci, and a score off a rebound by Monzo. Freshman Marielle Picinich came off the Villa bench for two late baskets, but Geatens and Cellucci helped the Magic take a 39-31 lead into the fourth frame.
The Magic were doing well enough overall that one almost forgot that Louin, while making other contributions, hadn't scored for nearly 18 minutes. Now, to the immense and audible delight of the crowd, she showed that she'd been saving her best for the last period.
She started out with a lay-up of her own, then assisted one by Monzo with a pass in the offensive transition. Villa recouped two points on a put-back, but then it was bang-bang Louin as the junior scored consecutive buckets to make it 47-33 with 5:24 remaining in the game.
The frenzied Mount crowd was letting loose on the outnumbered Villa supporters. Every time their marquee player made a physical statement on offense or defense, the MSJ faithful bellowed "Hey Villa, how're you Louin?" And when a noteworthy play was made by Tacka, the ninth grader, the time honored "She's a FRESH-MAN!" chant cascaded around the arena.
"The girls in our student body were just terrific with their cheers," commented an appreciative Miller. "That's what makes it all worthwhile – you don't want to play a championship game in a vacuum."
When Mount St. Joe went up by 14, Villa called a time-out, but on their return to the court the 'Canes were greeted by a successful drive down the lane by Ulasewicz. Mirarchi's final three points for Villa, all from the free throw line, occurred around a Louin lay-up, and the count was 51-36 with two-and-a-half minutes remaining.
The MSJ 11th-grader then made two from the charity stripe herself on Villa's sixth team foul. When Tacka and Geatens executed flawless one-and-ones, the Magic's lead peaked at 57-36 with 54 ticks on the clock. Reserve players from both teams flooded onto the floor after that, and two field goals and a free throw for Villa locked in the final score.


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The Microsoft Surface RT (review here) is Microsoft's own-brand Windows 8 tablet running on an Arm processor. It's well constructed, performs well and is packed with utility. Here's our MS Surface RT video review.
Surface RT review: build quality
The build quality throughout Surface RT is sturdy and confident. The VaporMg material is silky to the touch, yet inflexible when torqued. And Surface RT is virtually identical to the iPad in thickness and weight - this despite the fact that it supports a slightly larger, 10.6-inch, widescreen display. Visit Microsoft Surface RT vs Apple iPad comparison review.
With the Surface's full-size USB port, you can side-load movies and music directly into the Windows RT desktop. There are front- and rear-facing 720 HD cameras.
Surface RT review: kickstand, Touch Cover and Type Cover
The integrated rear kickstand props up the tablet at 22 degrees. That's just the right angle for some viewing positions, but the kickstand is not adjustable.
Made of the same injection-molded magnesium that's employed throughout the Surface chassis, the kickstand opens with a faint metallic ting and closes with a confident click.
The point of the kickstand is to turn Surface RT into an effective productivity machine, and to varying degrees that promise is fulfilled via the system's Touch Cover and Type Cover keyboard accessories. Regrettably, neither cover is included in the tablet's entry-level package.
At 3mm thick, the Touch Cover lacks physical keys, and instead uses pressure-sensitive touch pads to record keystrokes. The Type Cover features real keys with actual key travel, but extends the thickness to 5.5mm. The keyboard docking system is as sweet as Microsoft wants everyone to believe. Magnetic attraction attaches the two sides—perfectly, every time.
The Touch Cover is the less rewarding of the two keyboard options. Lacking physical keys, this quasi-keyboard doesn't offer any tactile feedback, and it is tricky to type with the right amount of finger pressure. The Touch Cover is insanely light. It's spill-proof. And it's also the cheaper of the two cover options at £99. But the Type Cover costs only £10 more and it's a real keyboard with real, moving parts. It yielded considerably faster typing speeds.
Surface RT review: Display
The Surface RT's display is nice. With a 16 by 9 aspect ratio, the 10.6-inch screen provides an HD video window that's 42 percent larger than what you'll see on the iPad's 4:3, 9.7-inch display. The Surface's widescreen proportions also accommodate Windows' new "snap screen" multitasking feature, which lets you run two apps side by side.
Surface RT's display doesn't match the clarity and beauty of the iPad's so-called Retina display, however. It suffers from mild pixel blur, whereas the iPad makes all content look like a continuous-tone photographic print. The difference in resolution is particularly noticeable in text rendering.
Surface RT review: performance
The Surface RT's quad-core Tegra 3 processor and 2 gigabytes of system memory handle their workloads without drama. Gesturing through the OS itself is fast and fluid.
With a frame rate of 6.9 frames per second, the Surface can handle HD games and movies. And in posting a time of 10.4 seconds in our own punishing webpage loading test, Microsoft's tablet proved it is a good we browsing device.
In our custom-designed battery-life test, Surface RT came in second to the iPad, playing a looping HD video for more than 9 hours before fading out.
Surface RT review: software
The Surface runs Windows RT, rather than Windows 8. They are very similar operating systems, but on this device you won't be able to install and run traditional Windows software programs. You are limited to Apps available in the Windows Store.
At this point you won't find official apps lots of big-name stalwarts of the mobile world, but this should improve quickly. And Surface RT comes with its own version of MS Office, as well as Mail, music, video and games apps.
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The Surface RT is well constructed, performs well and packed with utility, and that's why it earns 4 stars.
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The Estilleto is based on the ATKO design, but it's been super-sized. Just push the button and the knife fires out the front of the handle. To retract the blade just press the button in and use the retracing lever to pull the blade back in. This out-the-front knife features a sturdy tan anodized T6 aluminum handle. The CPM-S30V DLC finished blade features the highly requested double edged dagger blade with serrated edges. The Estilleto has a pocket clip for easy carry (tip down) and a safety to ensure the knife is not fired by mistake. Made in the USA and new in box.


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Getting Your PPO
Who can get a PPO?
Can a PPO be issued for a minor?
Yes and No. A minor cannot get the PPO in his or her own name. An adult must be appointed by the court as a "Next Friend" for a minor under 17 years of age (or a legally incapacitated person). An unemancipated minor cannot get a PPO against his/her parent.
Can a PPO be issued against a minor?
Yes and No. Michigan now allows PPOs to be issued against a minor --- someone under 18 years old. [See Forms CC 375M and 377M.] But a parent cannot get a PPO issued against his/her own unemancipated minor child. Don't forget: many of the same "no contact" protections that you can receive through a PPO can be added as bond or probation conditions if the minor is prosecuted for assaultive, destructive, harassing or stalking behavior.
Where can I get a PPO?
A "do-it-yourself" PPO packet, containing instructions and all necessary forms, is available in the Eaton County Courthouse, 1045 Independence Blvd., Charlotte, MI 48813, at the County Clerk's Office (1st floor) and the Circuit Court Clerk's office (2nd floor). [Here are directions and maps to the Eaton County Courthouse.]
Where can I get help to fill out the PPO forms?
The Circuit Court Clerk's staff are not lawyers, and are prohibited from giving legal advice on how to fill the forms out, what to include, etc. The staff cannot assist you beyond explaining internal procedures of the court.
Some domestic violence organizations (such as Eve, Inc. (End Violent Encounters) hold clinics to assist with PPO paperwork. Contact local women's shelters in your area or local legal aid organization to see if they provide this service.
Your local Prosecuting Attorney may also be able to help review your papers, and may suggest additional information that you should include. In mid-Michigan, contact:
What forms are used?
You will use several forms, depending on what you are trying to do and your relationship with the abuser. The forms are listed below. Click on the form name to see an image of it.
Can I fill out PPO forms on-line?
Call your County's Circuit Court Clerk to find out. Some courts may insist that you use their SCAO forms packets, or local forms.
Most of the forms listed above are in PDF, and have fill-in-the-blank fields. (Use the Tab key to go from field-to-field.) The forms include instruction notes on which sections you must fill out. Check-boxes can be checked and unchecked, as needed. You can save your work and reopen the form. When you are done, print it off.
Can I get a PPO right away, or do I have to wait for a hearing?
If you are in immediate danger, you may request an "ex-parte" order, which will take effect immediately without a hearing and without advanced notice to the other party. If you want an ex-parte order, you must convince the judge with specific facts contained in your motion that you are in danger of immediate and irreparable injury, harm or damage (injury that cannot be repaired by a court order after the injury happens) if the PPO is not issued. "Ex-parte" PPOs do not require a court hearing, unless the defendant requests a hearing to modify or terminate the order.
"Non-emergency" PPOs will require a hearing in front of the circuit court judge before the PPO will be issued. At this hearing, the judge will listen to testimony by witnesses regarding what has happened that necessitates a PPO.
What facts do I have to include in the papers?
The facts that you include in the PPO application are very important! Tell the Judge what your relationship is with the respondent, and what has happened recently that makes you need a PPO ... in short, tell why you need to be protected. The forms give you very little room to include facts, but you can attach additional pages. Include detailed facts to support your need for a protection order.
What information and documents should I bring when I file for the PPO?
If you can support the facts with evidence, do it! Attach:
Will the person who is being restrained see everything I file, including where I am living?
A copy of your motion and anything you attach to your request for the PPO will be given to the person you want restrained. If you do not want to include your home address or phone number in these documents, tell the Court Clerk who assists you. She can help you fill out an edited version of the documents with that personal information deleted, which will be served on the defendant. However, you still must give the court a contact address so the Court can send notices to you.
Do "domestic relationship PPOs" and "non-domestic relationship PPOs" require the same facts or information?
No. "Non-domestic" relationship PPOs require clear facts proving "stalking", before a PPO can be issued (i.e., more than one incident or threats, harassment, etc.). "Domestic" relationship PPOs can be issued after a single incident.
The Respondent is a law enforcement officer, or is licensed to carry a gun. Is he treated differently?
A law enforcement officer or person licensed to carry a gun has no special protections against a PPO petition.NOTE: You must advise the Court if the person you are trying to restrain is a law enforcement officer or person who must carry a weapon as a condition of employment! Check the appropriate box in item #2 of either PPO Petition form (CC 375 or CC 377). As of July 1, 2000, a Respondent's employer must be notified immediately if a PPO is issued against a person who is identified in pleadings as a law enforcement officer! Also, the County concealed weapons licensing board must be notified if a PPO prohibits a Respondent from owning or purchasing firearms.
How much does a PPO cost?
There is no filing fee for PPOs. However, the cost of serving a copy of the PPO on the restrained person (which is the petitioner's responsibility) may vary depending on who does it.
What happens at the Courthouse when I file for the PPO?
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text: Consumable resources are your friends. As is the grid-engine mailing list. This is a bit different than the other license management problems discussed there, so the previous solutions are probably not appropriate, but could be used as the basis for something that is appropriate. Create 2 consumables, one for the short runs, one for the longer runs. Have the sum of the consumable slots equal the number of licenses. Interactive/short users submit to their consumable, and long running users submit to theirs. You really don't want to invoke checkpointing under SGE at this time. SGE (and most schedulers under linux) don't checkpoint, they kill the job. Condor has application libs which do checkpoint, but I have no idea how reliably this works. Moreover, checkpointing a job with an open license request tends to lock that license. If the application itself can checkpoint, you can hook that into the SGE checkpoint mechanism to use that checkpoint rather than the OS feature. This is not a great solution (2 consumables), but it does work, and can be adjusted/tuned on a live cluster trivially. You setup scripts to launch jobs that detect the return code of the Matlab/other job, and send the appropriate return code back to SGE (99 as I remember) to have the job rescheduled if no licenses are available. This of course requires Matlab/other to be able to intelligently let you know if there are no licenses available... Robert G. Brown wrote: >Dear Perfect Masters of Grid Computing: > >Economics is preparing to set up a small pilot cluster at Duke and the >following question has come up. > >Primary tasks: matlab and stata jobs, run either interactively/remote >or (more likely) in batch mode. Jobs include both "short" jobs that >might take 10-30 minutes run by e.g. 1-2nd year graduate students as >part of their coursework and "long" jobs that might take hours to days >run by more advanced students, postdocs, faculty. > >Constraint: matlab requires a license managed by a license manager. >There are a finite number of licenses (currently less than the number of >CPUs) spread out across the pool of CPUs. > >Concern: That long running jobs will get into the queue (probably SGE >managed queue) and starve the short running jobs for either licenses or >CPUs or both. Students won't be able to finish their homework in a >timely way because long running jobs de facto hog the resource once they >are given a license/CPU. > >I am NOT an SGE expert, although I've played with it a bit and read a >fair bit of the documention. SGE appears to run in FIFO mode, which of >course would lead to precisely the sort of resource starvation feared or >equal share mode. Equal share mode appears to solve a different >resource starvation problem -- that produced by a single user or group >saturating the queue with lots of jobs, little or big, so that others >submitting after they've loaded the queue have to wait days or weeks to >get on. However, it doesn't seem to have anything to do with job > > >>>control<< according to a policy -- stopping a long running job so that >>> >>> >a short running job can pass through. > >It seems like this would be a common problem in shared environments with >a highly mixed workload and lots of users (and indeed is the problem >addressed by e.g. the kernel scheduler in almost precisely the same >context on SMP or UP machines). Recognizing that the license management >problem will almost certainly be beyond the scope of any solution >without some hacking and human-level policy, are there any well known >solutions to this well known problem? Can SGE actually automagically >control jobs (stopping and starting jobs as a sort of coarse-grained >scheduler to permit high priority jobs to pass through long running low >priority jobs)? Is there a way to solve this with job classes or >wrapper scripts that is in common use? > >At your feet, your humble student waits, oh masters of SGE and Grids... > > rgb > > >


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Measuring the Mass of a Single Star
How do astronomers weigh a star? These images help tell the story.
In the image at top, left, astronomers discovered a subtle brightening of a star [located within the box] due to the effect of gravitational microlensing. This phenomenon occurs when a foreground star, in this case a dim red star, passes in front of a much more distant star and amplifies its light. Astronomers were engaged in a large-scale search for microlensing events in the halo of our Milky Way galaxy. They were looking in the direction of the Large Magellanic Cloud, a satellite galaxy of our Milky Way. The image was taken in February 1993 with the 50-inch telescope at the Mount Stromlo Observatory in Australia. The box represents the field of view of NASA's Hubble Space Telescope.
When astronomers used the Mount Stromlo telescope to observe the same region almost a year later, the background star had returned to its normal brightness. The foreground star - the "natural lens" that had magnified the background star - had moved away. The ground-based telescope's vision, however, was not keen enough to resolve the stars separately.
So, astronomers used the sharp vision of the Hubble telescope to resolve the stars as two separate objects. The foreground star is red, and is in our galaxy's halo. The background star is blue, and is in the Large Magellanic Cloud. The image was taken on July 11, 2002.
Seeing the two stars allowed astronomers to calculate the foreground star's distance from Earth, which is 1,800 light-years. They already knew that the background star is 170,000 light-years away, the distance to the Large Magellanic Cloud. Knowing the distances to both stars then allowed astronomers to calculate the foreground star's mass, which is one-tenth the mass of the Sun.


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Tuesday, February 8, 2011
43 comments:
- Judy said...
This is just painful.
- February 8, 2011 at 7:07 PM
- Fr. Cory Sticha said...
The only image that I would disagree with, other than the smiley priest (yes, priests can smile while distributing communion), is the camouflage chasuble on the jeep hood. That has a very long tradition, dating back to WWII. The rest of the images are just horrible.
- February 8, 2011 at 7:19 PM
There have been times when I prayed for a Mime Mass.
- February 8, 2011 at 8:37 PM
This video upset me --- not because of the pictures but because of the commentator's refusal to see the incarnational aspect of the liturgy, contextualized for every nation, tribe, and tongue.
When I watch this video I see women, children, and youth empowered to serve God in a way promised at Pentecost. It saddens me that those gifts are mocked and women-priests, especially, are assumed to be a liturgical abuse, without regard for the theological differences in the denominations that sponsor them.
- February 8, 2011 at 9:18 PM
- Jen P said...
I couldn't finish watching this. While I believe that Jesus did not intend for women to be ordained...and I find myself uncomfortable with female priests in ecumenical settings, I find the "Mr. and Mrs. Priest" label on images offensive. There is nothing in current Anglican practice that renders a male and female priest, consecrating together, disrespectful or laughable. To mock it (and many of these other things) seems to me to make it harder to have a real discussion about theological differences, valid and invalid practice, and where we can come together (and where we can't!). Instead, it strikes me as "Oh noez! Look at the girlz!"
- February 8, 2011 at 9:39 PM
On the one hand, some weird stuff went on in days gone by. Some things that I was witness to. A few things that I perpetrated that I have since repented of.
However, I believe that there is a photo of Karol Wojtyla saying mass on an overturned canoe. There is a long tradition of taking the elements of where you are and making them sacred or using them for the liturgy. (As the commentator about the mass on the jeep noted. Lots of pictures like that from WWII.)
There is a balance between bad taste and something that incorporates and ministers to the community. There is a balance between mockery and something that brings all of life, even humor, into our liturgy and preaching.
Reverence can be found in the most casual of circumstances. Irreverence can be found in the most formal.
If we are looking for good taste and for reverence, we're not going to find it at a Halloween mass (fails on both accounts), but we might find it on an overturned canoe in the woods. (And not just because a priest who became Pope said it.)
- February 8, 2011 at 9:40 PM
I had a problem with much of what I saw.
Some things did not bother me so much.
- February 8, 2011 at 10:27 PM
Really?!! Wow just wow. Mass is Mass. Anytime, any place. Jesus was not surrounded by a beautiful building.
I did not watch more than a minute of this, as it seems your trying to offend.
- February 9, 2011 at 3:23 AM
To Jen P.
The problem here is these photos are photos of a Roman Catholic Mass in the Netherlands. This woman is not a woman Priest but a "liturgical assistant" dressed up lie a Priest...
- February 9, 2011 at 5:27 AM
I appreciate your sensitivity to others in their attempts to serve, but I would say the following: God does not incarnate himself in a proper sense in everything, everyone, everywhere; God became incarnate in a particular man, Jesus of Nazareth, at a particular time and place. In the same way, the authentic spirit of the liturgy cannot simply be incarnated into every culture, for Christian faith and its liturgy are their own culture and judge (to a greater or lesser extent) all human cultures. Ultimately the liturgy itself has a tradition, which starts in Eden (the first temple, for God is present there), runs through the tabernacle and the two temples (Solomon's and Herod's), and through the synagogue. The liturgy of the Word comes out of temple and synagogue prayer and proclomation practices, while Jesus' last supper forms the foundation of the liturgy of the Eucharist as a replacement for temple sacrifice ("This is my blood...shed for you for the forgiveness of sins," Matt 26:28). Going forward in history, then, the Christian liturgy in its twofold form develops in ways appropriate to itself, always faithful to its particular heritage rooted in Eden.
Certainly there are multifold variations on the liturgy in Christian history (the Latin Rite is not the Divine Liturgy of St John Chrysostom, for instance) and certain aspects of various liturgies as practiced that reflect particular cultures. But one cannot and should not use the "incarnational principle" to justify the appropriation of anything and everything in human culture into the liturgy.
- February 9, 2011 at 8:14 AM
I found 99% of these images to be extremely offensive.
However, I'm with Anonymous on the subject of masses in the wilderness. I think it is amazing when a priest takes a youth group camping and celebrates mass outdoors, as JP2 did.
However that is an entirely different situation from having masses at a crowded beach, etc...
Also I think it can be appropriate to incorporate cultural elements into the design of vestments but they should never be a distraction.
Really, how hard is it to apply reverence and common sense into decisions about liturgy? But it seems that some people are just determined to cross every boundary of decency.
- February 9, 2011 at 10:18 AM
While most of the images were disturbing, some seemed to miss the context. I attended Catholic High School and the 'lounging about in the gym' mass was a weekly reality - it was the only place we could fit the entire student body.
I find the 'wilderness' masses similarly unremarkable - clearly it was some kind of a group on pilgrimage or retreat, it's not like they drug the log or canoe into the Sanctuary.
Seems to me there should be different standards of acceptable variations for what goes on in a school gym, on a retreat/pilgrimmage, and what occurs in the sanctuary of a parish church in the course of the regular cycle of services.
- February 9, 2011 at 12:27 PM
- Pastor Peters said...
What too many forget and not enough remember is that when we trivialize the mass, we trivialize the Christ who comes to us where His Word proclaims... in the bread which is His body and the cup of His blood. Why do we work so hard to make cheap what is so beyond price?
- February 9, 2011 at 3:34 PM
@ 0:45 is the Dutch TV mass
- February 9, 2011 at 4:05 PM
- Pastor Anderson said...
There is no such things as a contextualized Mass, just like there is no such as contextualized Scripture. The Scripture provides its own context. The Mass provides its own context. It is what it is and layers of silliness do not need to be added to it to make it "relevant". I hope the Holy Catholic Church rediscovers this in my lifetime.
- February 10, 2011 at 11:06 PM
- WeepingCross said...
I can see things here which do make sense in terms of occasion, and legitimate inculturation; and it seems historically rather daft to claim that the Extraordinary Form of the Roman Rite is somehow devoid of inculturation itself. The problem is the loss of the centre of gravity, and of the sense that God is beyond you and whatever you happen to be doing liturgically. Remember that, and determine to keep your centre of gravity, and the occasional excursion into the wacky isn't as serious.
- February 11, 2011 at 7:43 AM
- Pamela said...
I agree with several others -- some of these are really horrifying, but I think others are making the best of the situation at hand. When a priest knows he's going to be celebrating Mass, and has to bring along bread and wine anyway, there's no excuse for his not bringing along his alb, stole and chasuble as well, instead of wearing a Hawaiian shirt.
But, Mass in a gym, for a large Catholic school, that may not be anywhere near a proper church building? Would you rather Catholic schools not have Mass at all?
Mass in the wilderness -- when kids are going to summer camp, sometimes those camps start or end on a Sunday, or last more than a week. Thank God for those priests willing to celebrate Mass for those kids (and camp staff).
But, I have seen some pretty crazy things done on retreats that really did not need doing. When the retreat is being held in the educational wing of the Catholic Church to start with, there is no reason for a separate adoration chapel to be make-shifted in an office, or for Mass to be celebrated anywhere but in the sanctuary. Nor do the retreat participators need to make their own bread for Mass. Ever.
- February 11, 2011 at 12:44 PM
- Tancred said...
Wow, there are some people commenting here who don't get it. Aesthetic insensitivity leads to moral insensitivity.
Is it any wonder that the worst Liturgical tinkerers were also moral degenerates?
- February 11, 2011 at 9:20 PM
- Cunjo said...
Mass in wilderness....there is always a better and more reverent way for priest to say Mass in wilderness...
- February 13, 2011 at 3:40 AM
This video shows that the RCC are poor at contemporary worship -- as are many protestant churches. What is broken in the RCC church is not its liturgy, it is the public trust. Clown suits do little to restore the public trust.
- February 13, 2011 at 7:41 PM
This makes me glad I go to a Latin Mass (FSSP)
- February 14, 2011 at 6:16 PM
Thank you for the video, I need to constantly remind myself why I need to be grateful that I go to a Latin mass. Great blog by the way, some of your vestments had me splits.
- February 15, 2011 at 5:33 AM
I made the 'context' comment above. Don't get my wrong - I'm Orthodox so as a general principle I consider 'gospel' style hymns, any instruments from organ to electric guitar, and the priest commenting on the theme at any point other than the sermon to be an abomination.
That being said, if you are analyzing the services of a faith which has decided to allow some variation within their liturgy then it is appropriate to consider the context or occasion of that liturgy before shouting abuse!. There are enough egregious examples out there that the author of this video could have made their point without including either Episcopalians (who don't belong in a slide show about alledged Catholic liturical abuses) or events that clearly appear to be retreat/pilgrimmage/high school auditorium related and the circumstances which led to the picture might be quite unexceptional an understandable were they known.
- February 17, 2011 at 4:10 PM
A little descant is good for the soul.
- February 22, 2011 at 6:56 AM
- Donna said...
You are right. Everyone knows that Jesus was a stoic German and liked medieval architecture. For anyone to worship the Triune God in any way different than the Stoic German and European High Church manner is evil. It even warrants the use of words like "pagan" and "naked native" being used against fellow Christians. They can call us racist, xenophobic, and petty, but we know the truth! We KNOW that God only likes our culture's traditions, doesn't want us interacting with others, and feels that liturgical styles is an issue that needs to be made a priority over the Great Commandment and Great Commission! That isn't racist, xenophobic, or petty! (also- pretty sure I read on a White Supremest site that Jesus was Western European anyway.)
- February 26, 2011 at 12:59 PM
- mwilson523 said...
Please, can we all just pretend Vatican II never happened? Sometimes I feel like I should be confessing that I haven't been to Mass, even tho I've attended!
- March 2, 2011 at 9:07 AM
If God has created so many different kinds of people, what gives us to believe that there's only ONE correct way to worship Him?
- March 3, 2011 at 4:52 PM
This video and all the comments are the most offensive thing I've seen in awhile.
But I'll chalk it up to being protestant and move on.
- March 3, 2011 at 9:38 PM
As a few others have pointed out, the Mass being done in a military field setting is not a problem in my view. Nor are some of the summer camp ones. And a priest smiling while distributing the Communion seemed to be a very bad one to put in this; we should be sad that Christ died for us?
I realize this is RCC; however it is applicable to most liturgical churches.
- March 11, 2011 at 12:54 PM
- William said...
Other than the one's labelled as "episcopal," assuming Episcopal Church USA, rather than "epsicopal" meaning a Mass led by a bishop are the rest Catholic or LibProts that use vestments like Lutherans? It could be somewhat misleading.
Don't get me wrong, it's hoffifying bilge, but are these specifically a "Catholic" problem?
- March 17, 2011 at 6:51 AM
- Mike said...
I guess I'm glad I'm Orthodox. And several posters have it exactly backwards: Cultures ultimately need to make themselves relevant to Christ, which is another way of saying the Church is to convert the world and not the world convert the Church. Clowns and mimes and nonsense are entertaining but are not the Divine Liturgy in the Orthodox Church, thank God!
- March 20, 2011 at 3:41 PM
- peggy38 said...
This stuff seems like it should be comical. But it is just too sad. I almost couldn't get through the whole thing. It was making me sick and I wanted to just cry by the end.
But I get it. This is the kind of thing that should be mercilessly mocked and driven wholesale from Catholic Christian worship. You are doing good work.
- March 23, 2011 at 4:29 PM
I don't find any problem with most of these images. People are finding ways to get people of every age, gender, and nationality interested in the Lord. That should be applauded, not condemned.
- March 31, 2011 at 2:49 PM
- rusmeister said...
What Mike said. I'm glad I'm Orthodox. But I still feel the indignation that other non-Orthodox Christians feel as well. So many comments are so right. I would stress that we be careful to condemn the loss of awe and sense of holiness in approaching the Eucharist while not sitting in judgement of other people and looking down on them from some 'holy place'.
I would say to the last anonymous comment that there is a world of difference between getting people interested in Christ and treating the Body and Blood of Christ (if we truly believe it to be so) in a profane manner. Let us indeed call people to Christ. But let us take off our clown faces and prostrate ourselves in the presence of our Lord. As Mike said, we must conform ourselves to the Church, not conform the Church to us.
I hope that the Catholic Church (which I have a great deal of respect for, despite the division between us) does restore the sense of holiness that is being completely lost from our culture.
- April 15, 2011 at 1:44 PM
- Katie said...
We do historical re-enacting, and at the Feast of the Hunter's Moon, Mass is celebrated for participants on an overturned canoe (which has been properly prepared, of course). Most of these are awful, though.
- April 30, 2011 at 10:35 AM
I couldn't watch the whole thing, either. It's too pathetic. It also made me thankful that my (Protestant) church takes the Bible seriously. In my denomination, Jesus' choice of twelve men to be His disciples (He could have chosen women, but He did not) is taken to mean that men are the appropriate human vessel for being pastors.
Our worship is sometimes "minimalist," but it never lacks the dignity befitting the holy word and presence.
How awful for the church that such ridiculous vestments are worn and accepted. The sooner such irreverent clothes are discarded, the better.
- May 19, 2011 at 5:27 PM
I would be interested to hear the opinions of people who attended these services and found them to be meaningful and profound. I'm sure there were a few.
- May 28, 2011 at 4:15 PM
the only consolation I have in this is that God can use anything for His good. Aside from that, this might be THE most disturbing thing I've ever seen!
GOD becomes our food and drink -- is that not impressive enough for people??
Seriously, could not have made most of this stuff up.
- June 9, 2011 at 9:59 PM
- Stu said...
Yes, Molly, there probably were a few.
- June 14, 2011 at 5:17 PM
- Annaker said...
This is precisely why I left the Episcopal Church and joined the ACC (Anglican Catholic Church; there is no chance of any of these happening.
However, there isn't anything about the Wiccan services here - does anyone have a photo of that?
- August 3, 2011 at 4:48 PM
I'm pretty sure most of these pictures are taken out of context. You could make better use of your time serving the Lord than being so judgemental.
- October 14, 2011 at 9:07 AM
I read somewhere once, "Judge Thou not, lest Thou be judged." As an Anglican, I would never assume to make a comment about the worship of the Holy Eucharist in a Roman Church; I would ask the same respect - indeed, expect it from a fellow catholic Christian - for the Divine Liturgy as expressed in my Church. In other instances, such as using a canoe for the celebration of the Holy Mass, one need only look to the historicity of this practice among the Coureurs de bois in Canada... and in my proud Polish heritage, I have also seen pictures of Karol Cardinal Wojtyla using a canoe in similar circumstances when enjoying the outdoors in a trek with a group of young people.
Ultimately, Liturgy (a Greek work) means the work of the PEOPLE. It is what we offer to God. What happens at the Celebration of Holy Mass, the Holy Eucharist, the Lord's Supper or whatever you wish to call it, is for us an offering of thanksgiving to GOD - and GOD is the audience. (God who desires justice and not sacrifice; God, of whom "a penitent and broken heart you will not despise") That said, despite what we lament or revel - our ultimate is GOD, made known to us in Jesus: The Word Incarnate, whose Body and Blood we share.
- December 2, 2011 at 10:21 AM
Part of the reason I left organized religion is that I could not stand the kumbayaisation any longer. Certainly, Jesus forgave sins. Certainly, He preached to the masses. But even Jesus recognized sins and sinners. Even He was following Mosaic law while reforming it.
The top-down hierarchy that so long maintained that sense of propriety in some churches is now imposing chaos. I'm sad for all the beautiful old buildings and older parishioners who expected to one day be a senior part of something ancient and wonderful, and discovered instead that they were going to be herded into modern hippie services complete with prayer circles, hand-holding, and vestments that put tie-dying to shame.
"Out of context?" "White Supremacist?" You people slay me--you make a mockery of religion and religious liturgy. Then you have the gall to call out those who do the same in getting back at you, overdoing it to remove what they see as the violating elements, as somehow wrong? As if you weren't doing exactly the same thing, working to purge all tradition from the service with your Carey Landry-esque crapurgy.
Now, I've left religion behind for various reasons, and certainly, may burn for my myriad sins if there is a God who really does judge upon these. But if there is a God, and there is a Hell, I am certain one thing will also be true: there is a special place reserved there in that Hell, for the people who destroy great things merely to serve their own hatred of convention.
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Knocking down brick walls – Can you help me?
Like all genealogists, amateur and professional, I have met brick walls in my research and spend far too much time trying to figure out how to knock them down, jump over them or walk round them. This page is devoted to my brick walls, including those I have hopped over. I hope that this may trigger some responses to how I can resolve issues and also provide inspiration to others who have met a wall in their own research. (I have started to put together a list of posts to make here, but need to flesh out the details and define the questions more clearly). Any clues that you may have that will help me to get past these hurdles would be very welcome.
Missing birth record for great grandfather Robert Webb
My maternal grandfather, Jonathan (Jonty) Doleman Webb (1899-1981) was a Northumbrian pitman. We were left no documentary evidence at all about his ancestors. No certificates and no photos, so I have had to start from scratch in piecing together that part of the tree. Jonty was born in Radcliffe, Northumberland and his birth certificate gives his parents as Robert Webb, coal miner and Mary Davis. I have now tracked down two marriages and a death certificate for Robert, but no birth certificate. Without this I am stuck at trying to find his mother and identify the correct father for him. My main focus is to find a birth record for Robert Webb, but I am also interested in finding out whether his father Edmund married and died in Lancashire. The inconsistent information we have for Robert includes (in reverse date order):
- Robert's death certificate tells us that he died 20 July 1926 at Broomhill, Northumberland. It shows age 69 which suggests he was born about 1857.
- Second wife Bella Sharp died 23 Nov 1918. Robert was informant. Living in Radcliffe as a coal miner.
- The 1911 census shows Robert living at Long Row South, Radcliffe
Age 57, coal miner hewer, birth year 1854, born Oldham, Lancashire
Living with second wife Bella and sons Edmund and Jonathan from his first marriage. Daughter Annetta has moved out after her mother died to live with the Doleman relatives who witnessed her parents' wedding.
- Robert married his second wife Isabella Sharp in 1907. I have not found any children for Robert and Bella, which makes sense as she would have been about 50 when they married.
- First wife Mary Davis died 26 Feb 1902. Robert was informant. Living in Radcliffe as a coal miner.
- In the 1901 census Robert is living at Stobswood Colliery, Ulgham
Age 51, coal miner hewer, birth year 1850, born Oldham, Lanchashire
Living with first wife Mary and children Annetta, Edmund and Jonathan
- Robert married my great grandmother Mary Davis 18 July 1892 at Morpeth, Northumberland. The certificate records him as a bachelor, a coal miner living at Stobswood Colliery, Northumberland. His age on this marriage certificate is 31 which suggests he was born about 1861. Father recorded as Edmund Webb, Stonemason. No indication that Edmund is deceased. Witnesses: S.E. Doleman and J. Doleman.
- In the 1891 census Robert is living at Blake Town, Seghill as a lodger with the Lightley family. Single, coal miner, age 42, birth year 1849, born Oldham, Lancashire. I was doubtful about this record at first because of the age but I cannot find a better match and it is close enough geographically for him to have met Mary Davis who he marries the following year.
- I have found no appropriate trace of Robert Webb from Oldham in the censuses for 1881, 1871, 1861 or 1851.
- As you see from the above information Robert has given the following potential birth years in various official documents: 1849, 1850, 1854, 1857, 1861
A 12 year gap, which may well be explained by not wanting to appear 43 when he married 23 year old Mary. If he was actually born in 1849 then it does raise the issue of whether his status as single before marrying Mary is to be believed, so there may even be a marriage for him in Lancashire. That will be one of my subsequent lines of research. Since he has been less than truthful about his age and I find no census records indicating a childhood location and no Lancashire birth record I am also a little dubious about how much we can rely on Oldham as place of birth.
If you can help me to find a birth record for the mysterious great grandfather Robert Webb then please leave a message in the comment box.
Theory about 3x great granny Cracket : need advice / confirmation
Having recently identified my 3x great grandparents William Cracket and Isabel (Isabella) who were probably born in the Lowick area in the early 1790s I am now on the hunt for their birth and marriage records and their parents. Since they named one of their sons Mark Gowans Cracket I have started with the hypothesis that Isabel may have been a Gowans. The 1851 census gives her place of birth as Holborn, which I assume to be Holburn which is between Lowick and Belford in Northumberland. I have searched findmypast, freereg and familysearch for possible birth and marriage records for an Isabel Gowans or her siblings or parents. I have been unable to find either an appropriate birth or marriage record for an Isabel Gowans. I did, however, find two potential siblings in roughly the right area and timeframe:
- Adam Gowans, baptised 30 Jun 1793 at Longhoughton, abode Dunn's Heugh, son of William Gowans and Isabel.
- Eleanor Gowans, baptised 29 Jun 1800 at Ellingham (born 23 Jun 1800) daughter of William Gowans and Isabell Thompson
Eleanor's baptismal record indicates that she was born at South Charlton and that her father was a hind, native of Buston-barns in the parish of Warkworth and her mother was a native of Long Framlington. The Gowans family have clearly moved around the farming districts quite frequently, so it is not inconceivable that this couple may have been in Holburn at some stage and given birth to an elder daughter Isabella. I have found a marriage record 20 May 1792 at Eglingham for William Gowans of Edlingham and Isabel Thompson, which would fit in nicely with the theory. All four of these names (William, Isabella, Adam and Eleanor) repeat themselves often in the Cracket descendants of Isabella Gowans jr, so I believe I may be onto a good lead here. There is of course the possibility that I may be on totally the wrong track with the Gowans idea or that my Isabella Gowans may have come from Scotland or Ireland. (Note the transcriptions listed above do actually include all three of Ellingham, Edlingham and Eglingham). I have not had an opportunity to check to original records to see if any are transcription errors). I would welcome any input that might either confirm or disprove my theory that William Gowans and Isabella Thompson may be my 4x great grandparents.
Elisabeth Tait
The Birth certificate for my great grandfather Leonard Cracket tells me that he was born in Shoreswood and his parents were William Cracket and Elisabeth Tait……..more info to follow, can't find marriage, cannot find Elisabeth's birth. See CuriousFox entry – Elisabeth Tait, Cracket, Crackett
Did we have an Andrew Oliver, silversmith?
can granny's memory of a silversmith be proved? See CuriousFox entry – Andrew Oliver, silversmith
Parents of Robert Webb?
hard to track since not found birth record. Dad Edmund, but can't pin him down. Who was Mum? Don't even have first name
Was William Robinson Turner really Geordie's dad?
describe surprise at 2 year discrepancy between marriage date and birth date.
Where is the Doleman connection?
attempts to fit in the Doleman "cousins" and explain granda W's middle name
Vital records for George Davis?
Vital records for Ann Corbett?
The Bainbridge connection?
Why did Annie Turner have middle name Roden?
Was Will a missionary?
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Parents of Robert Parkinson, Wife of William Reay, Parents and wife of John Bainbridge, Which George Murray 1756, Which Isabelle (Isobel) Anderson, Beyond George Ruddiman and Isobel (or Ann) Garden, Parents of John Ironside, Beyond William Dow and Janet Stonehouse/Stenhouse, new Tait line in Midlothian, resolve Cullercoats Hendersons, Beyond William Newton and Elizabeth Miller, Beyond Peter Stavers and Margaret Young, Ancient Halls, Thompsons and Hedleys in Elsdon, Beyond Thomas Oliver and Alice, Beyond William Watson and Mary, check other tree theories on more Turner, Thornton, Carr, Nesbitt/Nisbet
Resolved brick walls
Each brick wall that gets flattened leads to new brick walls further back, but there is still a great sense of achievement each time a mystery is solved. Here are some of my successful resolutions which may hopefully give inspiration to other amateur genealogists who are contemplating giving up.
Solved – Maiden name for Mary Webb is Mary Davis
One of my early brick walls related to the mother of my grandfather Jonathan Doleman Webb. I grew up thinking that his middle name came from his mother's maiden name, so I wasted a lot of time looking for a Mary Doleman. At that stage I had not started to collect BMD certificates. After several months of getting nowhere with Mary Doleman I asked my aunt to dig in her cupboards and see if she could find any information to help me. She unearthed a file with many useful documents including an apprenticeship application stating that my grandfather's mother was Mary Davis. Moral of the story: Check vital records sooner rather than later. Do not just rely on what you think you know.
Solved – My grandfather's sister Annetta Webb
I knew that my grandfather, Jonathan Doleman Webb, had an older brother Edmund Webb who was killed in WWI, but it came as a surprise to discover in the 1901 census that he also had an older sister Annetta Webb born in 1893. My aunt had now memory of this aunt of hers. For a while after that I could find no more trace of this mysterious great aunt, but as more records came online I found out more about her. In the 1911 census she had moved out of the family home following the death of her mother and was living with relatives. She is recorded as the niece of James Doleman and his wife Elizabeth. Annetta married twice: To John George Spears in 1913 and to Robert Smailes in 1920. I tracked down her first marriage by stumbling across a local grave for a Robert Webb Spears and wondering if he might be a relation. He turned out to be Annetta's son. She had 8 children in total and I find it surprising that these first cousins of my mother lived very close to us without us knowing about them. Moral of the story: Keep rechecking online records periodically as new information might be added to help you on your way.
Thomas and Ellen (Ellenor Carr) See CuriousFox – Thomas and Ellen Carr. Have now confirmed which Thomas and discovered that Ellen (Eleanor) has surname Reid / Reed /Read.
What happened to Annetta Webb ? describe finding in 1911 census and following through two marriages to give 8 new cousins for Mam and more info on their families.
Maiden name for Barbara Turner? – solved: Barbara Murray describe use of census and Scotland's People
Where does David Taggart Henderson fit in? describe widow's penny, memorial, census info, exact relationship resolved Feb 2012
Parents of Mary Davis ?- solved: George Davis and Ann Corbett describe tracking through Mary's sister's birth. Still not sure about marriage.
Maiden name for Sarah Turner ?- solved Sarah Ann Carr describe tracking through census and GRO and sisters' birth records


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