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An event every week that begins at 10:00am on Monday, repeating until April 29, 2019
Washington Park Library: For children up to age 6. Approximate running time is 45 minutes.
Introduce your children to books and reading at our fun storytimes. Experience a lively mix of stories, songs, rhymes and crafts that make this a special time for you and your child. Storytime is every Monday, March 4 – April 29.
Sign up is not required, but is appreciated. Groups are asked to register. Visit the Washington Park Library or call 232-2052 for more information or for questions.

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Doctors raise alarm over toxic coal seam gas leaks
TOXIC gases leaking up through coal seam gas fields could be having an effect on human health, doctors and anti-pollution groups say.
The revelation that methane, carbon dioxide and other compounds are being detected at high levels several kilometres from the Tara gas wells on Queensland's Western Downs has prompted calls for further health studies.
No known connection exists between coal seam gas drilling and the impact on human health but people living near the drilling sites at Tara have reported persistent rashes, nausea, headaches and nose bleeds.
''While the cause of these symptoms has not yet been determined, they show many similarities to symptoms experienced by communities living in gas fields overseas,'' said Dr Helen Redmond, a physician representing the NSW branch of the group Doctors for the Environment. ''Hydrocarbon exposure cannot be ruled out as a cause without much more comprehensive investigation.''
With drilling developments planned for western Sydney and other parts of the state, NSW Health has requested to be part of the government's coal seam gas working group.
''NSW Health is aware of concerns about human health effects,'' a spokeswoman for the department said. ''Australian studies currently planned or under way will assess exposure types, doses and pathways. These can then be used to assess potential human health effects.''
She said it had not initiated any studies into possible health effects of exposure to air or water contamination resulting from gas drilling.
''NSW Health is not aware of public health effects that have been caused or exacerbated by coal seam gas drilling in Australia at the present time but there is insufficient information at this time to be completely satisfied that there is no potential for public health effects caused or exacerbated by coal seam gas drilling,'' she said.
In Sydney AGL wants clusters of six wells each at 11 sites between Campbelltown and Liverpool, many of them within 400 metres of suburban streets in Currans Hill, Varroville, Kearns, Eschol Park and Denham Court. Its proposal is being put to the state's Planning Assessment Commission.
The Queensland Premier, Campbell Newman, said he supported the coal seam gas industry but would examine the report of gas leaks, along with Queensland's Health Minister, Lawrence Springborg.
''I'm not going to tolerate any activities in any industry that affects people in terms of the environment where they live,'' Mr Newman told ABC Radio.
The high methane and CO2 levels detected by Southern Cross University researchers in the Tara gas field are highly unlikely to have caused any human health impact on their own.
''Methane and carbon dioxide are being used here as tracers, so that their presence indicates the likely presence of other gases from within coal seams,'' said Dr Isaac Santos, a biogeochemist at the university, who worked on the independent study.
''There are many things we don't know here but we do know that the results show widespread elevated levels, and it really highlights the need for baseline studies so we can determine whether this is due to the coal seam gas operations or not.''
The Southern Cross team made no attempt to link the elevated gas emissions to health effects but the concern of Doctors for the Environment and other groups such as the National Toxics Network is that compounds brought up by the drilling process could be making people sick.


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Ever since Kronos Quartet tackled Hendrix back in the '80s, classically trained musicians have been trying to prove that their cellos and oboes are more than just museum pieces, good for wheezing out dusty old "Concertos in B Flat Minor" and not much else. So they trot out string quartet versions of Radiohead, or even Lady Gaga medleys for bassoon, and…well, okay, the Lady Gaga bassoon ensemble, the Breaking Winds, is actually kinda cool. But they're the exception. Most of this stuff just sounds like a slightly classed-up version of Muzak.
So when a friend and reader named Josh (sup, Josh?) suggested that we check out his buddy's "heavy chamber music" quartet, we have to admit, we were skeptical. Classical musicians doing heavy metal covers? Apocalyptica covered that territory 15 years ago. Moving on.
Then we actually heard Edmund Welles—which is a band, not a person (the name is a Monty Python reference…I mean, not that I would know that without having to look it up…okay, maybe I would)—and, well, let's just put it this way: The bass clarinet is an inherently weird instrument. Put four of them together in one group, and it sounds like a chorus of demon cats in heat fighting over a chicken bone. A demon chorus whose eerie caterwaulings just happen to occasionally assemble themselves into passages from Pixies and Nirvana songs.
Edmund Welles is the brainchild of one Cornelius Boots (his given name? if so, his parents rule), who first conceived of the idea of an all-bass clarinet ensemble back in 1996, the same year Apocalyptica was giving Metallica the all-cello treatment. Boots liked heavy metal, too, but he also liked alternative rock, jazz, traditional American folk music, and even good old fashioned baroque classical music, the stuff the bass clarinet was invented to play in the first place. And he was determined to combine all his affections into a single, pulsating mass of bass clarinet awesomeness. This was such a uniquely weird concept that Boots worked on his Edmund Welles project in solitude for several years before finally assembling enough fellow bass clarinetists to begin staging public performances.
In 2004, the group released its first album, Agrippa's 3 Books, which Boots himself has described as "Muzak for conspiracy theorists," "inspired by occult philosophy and heavy metal music." In addition to an original multi-part movement with titles like "Asmodeus: The Destroyer, King of the Demons," the album also featured covers of songs by Black Sabbath, Sepultura and (no, really) Spinal Tap. They've since released a second album of original material called Tooth & Claw, which has cover art that would've made the late great Ronnie James Dio smile. Is the bass clarinet the Woodwind of the Beast? Well, now that you mention it, that's kinda what it sounds like.
Inevitably, Edmund Welles have gotten the most attention for their covers, especially a very solemn reading of Radiohead's "Creep." Their original stuff is weirder and ultimately much more interesting, but we'll give you their version of "Creep" here in the hopes that it serves as a gateway to some of the harder stuff. Sort of the way your local Philharmonic does "The Nutcracker" every Christmas in the hopes that you'll buy season tickets and come back for some Bartok and Stravinsky.
P.S. Did we mention that Cornelius Boots has also released an album of "sound, not music" called Sabbaticus Rex, featuring "spontaneous, sustained sound structuring" with Japanese flutes, gongs and Tuvan throat singing? Well, he has. Just thought we'd throw that in there.
- Edmund Welles official site
- Edmund Welles on MySpace
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An emergency meeting to discuss a pending lawsuit ended in a heated face-to-face exchange between two commissioners that brought law enforcement to the meeting room.
An emergency meeting to discuss a pending lawsuit ended in a heated face-to-face exchange between two commissioners that brought law enforcement to the meeting room.
By the time deputies arrived, Commissioners Carmen McLemore and Joanna Bryan had separated, but not before another episode in the soap opera that has become the Gulf County Jail played out.
The meeting was called to notify commissioners that county attorney Jeremy Novak had received a notice of intent to file suit against the BOCC.
The suit, Novak said, alleges defamation, negligent training and negligent supervision and is being brought by Tallahassee attorney Marie Mattox on behalf of James Smith.
Smith was formerly employed at the jail and according to warden Michael Hammond had left the county�s employ some three years ago.
Novak said he was asking for approval to move ahead with the needed steps: perform an investigation into the allegations, notify the BOCC insurance carrier and hire special counsel.
Novak said the public emergency meeting was necessary under statute � the county failed to take this step when notified of a federal lawsuit brought by a local political action committee � to receive BOCC approval to move ahead and be able to call a closed-door session when appropriate to discuss legal strategy.
Before commissioners voted on a motion to approve Novak�s request and adjourn the meeting, however, McLemore requested permission to ask a question of Hammond regarding any further background on the suit.
Hammond said Smith was an individual who had been talking to Bryan � in three separate meetings Hammond has accused Bryan of conspiring with others to have the county sued over the jail, a charge Bryan has vehemently denied.
Hammond said Smith was bragging about receiving his back pay and other promises he supposedly received from Bryan, which she vehemently denied.
Hammond, echoing remarks by McLemore, also reiterated that the attorney handling the lawsuit was the same attorney who represented a local PAC in a suit against the BOCC.
Bryan said none of what Hammond was saying was true regarding her interactions with Smith and later cautioned Hammond, as she did in a prior special meeting, to �check himself� as to his comments to her, which Bryan has repeatedly labeled as �insubordination.�
She said McLemore had �teed� up his question in order to allow Hammond to once again attack her on the subject of the jail, which Hammond has coincided with Bryan�s inquiries about operations, budget and an inspection of the jail.
Hammond said it was a �liability� for the county to have a commissioner talking to disgruntled former employees and was also a problem for staff.
In the midst of the exchange, Novak was repeating a request previously made to commissioners and staff � if there are questions about pending issues address them individually outside public meetings � and Commission chair Tan Smiley was trying to intercede.
Commissioner Warren Yeager again reiterated a motion to approve Novak�s request and adjourn the meeting and second was on the floor and moved for a vote.
Upon adjournment, Bryan and McLemore engaged in a pointed exchange just out of microphone and ear shot of all but those at the podium while Smiley repeatedly slammed his gavel and tried to separate the two.
McLemore, standing over Bryan, moved slightly away but continued to jaw at his fellow commissioner for several minutes as she returned in kind.
Before deputies, called by staff from the meeting room, arrived, McLemore walked into the hallway, with Hammond, while Bryan began a discussion with Novak.


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Since 1989, Emmanuel Georges has dedicated a series to abandoned American cars in the USA (American Lost Cars). He continued his work focusing on American cars with ' Cadillac - Habana ' in 1999. However, for the 'Automology' series which is still being developed, the photographer?s interest lies in miniature cars from his childhood. The artist talks about nostalgia and the symbolic value given to an everyday object. Emmanuel Georges positions these objects on black backgrounds. This staging is reminiscent of showcases in natural history museums or Renaissance cabinets of curiosity. The title of the series ' Automology ' is a play on words with the term ' entomology '. Emmanuel Georges transcends the depiction of the small cars from his childhood and elevates these everyday objects to the rank of works of art. The museum staging enhances the relic and the plastic depiction borders upon abstraction. Beyond the aesthetic reasoning, it is also the photographer as a little boy who talks to us. He nostalgically evokes souvenirs common to us all and the poetry of the patina of age.Read more Read less
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Emmanuel Georges is a graphic designer and photographer living in Strasbourg. He observes the surrounding landscape and world around him. Since 1989, he has had numerous individual and group exhibitions in France and in Argentina. He has a realist and frontal approach to photography. Between documentary research and intimate testimony, he photographs miniature cars for the 'Automology' series and magnifies them through enlargement and his method


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Rihanna's Instagram is so 2 months ago. Beyoncé's tumblr is so last week. Hot today? Katy Perry's Pinterest. In addition to pictures of candy and cupcakes and manicures made to look like cupcakes, Katy Perry encourages fans to pin their own KP-inspired pics: "We may use your board as part of the KP3D movie campaign!" Meaning your images will serve as free content and advertising for Katy Perry's 3-D movie. Cool!
Katy Perry also has a board for fireworks and a board for fans. Just another way in which stars are offering carefully curated versions of themselves directly to the public, so that you we no longer have to rely on elaborate puff pieces from ladymags, which always promise "the truth" or a glimpse at the "real" celeb, but instead deliver a quick profile (she ate a salad! she laughed heartily!) and heavily Photoshopped images. Plus, social media allows you to see stuff the magazines wouldn't bother including… Like that person who got Katy Perry's autograph tattooed above her breast.


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West Virginia legislators and Gov. Earl Ray Tomblin joined with local leaders at River City Ale Works in downtown Wheeling Wednesday to celebrate the Mountain State's 150th birthday.
"We are both reflecting on history, as well as making history," said Wheeling Mayor Andy McKenzie while enjoying the festivities, which extended into the closed-off 14th Street with a live band.
"These legislators will go home, and they will tell people about Wheeling," he added.
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Enjoying her time at the gathering was Legislative Joint Committee staff member Shannon Riley.
"I cannot speak highly enough of the professionalism shown by the people who have organized all of this for Wheeling," she said.
Workers at some of the buildings in the 14th-16th Street block decorated windows and buildings for the festive occasion, including the offices of The Intelligencer and Wheeling News-Register.
Sen. Jack Yost, D-Brooke, said he was impressed with the turnout, both for the block party and the entire schedule of events in Wheeling.
"Wheeling has taken the bar and raised it," he said. "This is awesome."
Yost said some of the legislative committee meetings are getting public participation, which he believes is good for the Wheeling community.
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Brunswick County Sheriff's Office detectives are asking for the public's assistance in locating a missing local man.
Andy James Anderson, 34, was last seen in Bolivia on Wednesday, Oct. 5, BCSO spokeswoman Emily Flax said. He was last seen wearing a gray t-shirt, blue shorts and white tennis shoes.
Anderson has family in Conway, S.C., and may be visiting homeless shelters, Flax said.
Anyone with information about Anderson's whereabouts is asked to call 911 or Det. Kip Hester at 253-2777.
Over the years, tournament king mackerel fishermen begin to realize that no matter how hard they try, some days are good, and some are bad. It typically isn't the bait, boat or skirt you have tied to your leader. It's usually about finding the right spot and hoping your number gets called. It's a waiting game and all you can do is hope that patience pays off. On Saturday, Oct. 1, it paid off for my wife, Kelly, and I, as well as the rest of team OIFC: Brant, Amy, Brayden, Caroline and Barrett McMullan.
It's a seasonal transition period for our area and every element associated with fishing is letting us know. The cool morning breeze is just enough to make you think it's fall, yet by 1 p.m., it's 90 degrees. Nonetheless, the fish are beginning to cooperate as fall fishing is on our doorstep.
Every fisherman has his idea of what a perfect day on the water would be like. Whether it be catching mahi mahi and wahoo in the Gulf Stream on a warm spring day or catching king mackerel along the beach on a cool, crisp October morning, we all have our dream trip. And unfortunately, no matter how hard we have tried this year, the days where these dream trips have been fulfilled were few and far between.
At the beginning of every year, tournament king mackerel fishermen of Brunswick County start to plan which tournaments they are considering competing in. Some schedule to fish any event close to home while others struggle to fit one or two in their schedule. However, one tournament almost every angler strives to fish in is the Jolly Mon King Classic.
The water temperatures have been very hot this year, staying close to 90 degrees most of the summer. The week of July 24 was the last week I have been able to do any fishing until this past week. It has taken about a month to recover from something that happens to me daily. As a charter guide, I get stuck by fish fins all the time, not to mention all the shrimp that horn me throughout the year. Well, one fish must have gotten me a little bit deeper and apparently was carrying some nasty bacteria. I knew within a few hours this incident was different.
Fishing off the Brunswick County coast was difficult last week. As I stated in my column last week, a combination of wind, scarcity of baitfish and high water temperatures have directly influenced how and when fish feed off our coast. And to put this problem in its simplest form, it's too dang hot.
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Filled with inspiring instruction for turning an ordinary backyard into a productive small-scale farm, this book shows how to build various structures to help make the most of limited growing space. Blending square-foot and vertical gardening methods with practical advice from experienced growers, the 21 projects include raised beds, trellises, irrigation and rainwater collection systems, cold frames, a compost box, a greenhouse, a beehive and a rabbit hutch (some projects may be subject to local regulatory or climatic limitations).
Plans include cutting and supplies lists, along with diagrams, detailed step-by-step directions and photos. There are helpful tips and interesting facts throughout, as well as charts comparing varieties of several common vegetables, and even a chart suggesting how many of each crop plant should be grown per person to supply the household.
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Commissioner's Award of Excellence
- 2010 ANNUAL AWARD WINNER - Elden Forsgren, Equipment Operator
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The Lancaster County Board of Commissioners presented the 2010 Annual Commissioners Award of Excellence to Elden Forsgren, an Equipment Operator for the Lancaster County Engineering Department. This award recognizes employees who consistently provide outstanding service and work that demonstrates exemplary personal commitment to Lancaster County. As the 2010 Annual Commissioners Award of Excellence recipient Elden was awarded a $500 U.S. Savings Bond, two days off with pay and a plaque.
Elden won the award in the category of Valor for his actions when he came upon a car accident while grading South 38th Street the morning of May 26, 2010. He shut down his grader and ran to the driver's aid. The driver was upside down in the car. Elden reacted to the situation without hesitation, placed the 9-1-1 call, managed to pry the door open and created a way out for the driver. He stayed with the driver until the emergency squad arrived, assuring him help was on the way.
Commissioners Annual Award of Excellence Honorable Mention recipients were Barbara Frazier, an employee with the County Weed Control Authority, and Chad Anderson, an employee with Lancaster County Corrections.
County Board of Commissioners Chair Deb Schorr stated: "On behalf of the Board of Commissioners I want to congratulate these three employees and thank them for their dedication to Lancaster County. We are fortunate to have many wonderful employees who provide great service to our citizens."


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the-art urologic care in a timely and sensitive manner with a compassionate and personalized approach. Board certified urologists, Drs Koo, Park and Wolk are dedicated to providing the highest quality of urologic care using non surgical as well as minimally invasive surgical techniques.
Urology is the medical and surgical specialty that deals with the problems of the male and female urinary tract (kidneys, ureter, bladder and urethra) and the male reproductive system. These problems include urologic cancers (including prostate cancer), impotence, urinary tract infection, kidney stones, infertility, urinary incontinence and prostate conditions ( see Services section for more detailed description). The staff of Urology Specialty Group have been trained to treat these problems in a friendly manner in the context of a safe and confidential environment.


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The December edition of GLIMPSE is now available!
We hope that you enjoy this edition and look forward to the next one – which from 2012 will be bi monthly! The first one to be out on the first of February 2012.
Please share Glimpse with all your friends, family and also please seriously consider contributing to it in the future. A Big Thank you to everyone who has contributed in any way to Glimpse over the last 18 months since it was first created, we appreciate your sharing!
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Best of the Week: Our Most Popular Stories/
This week, we took a closer look at what we realized we didn't know, and learned a lot. Beginning with morels—those alien-looking, intimidating fungi—we fried them, and found that they weren't scary, just addictive. At the farmers' market, we learned the secrets to more produce (read: don't be afraid to buy anything as long as it's in season). The same goes for the colorful rainbow swiss chard, whose versatility adds to its healthy charm. And, if you've ever been struck by brain freeze and wondered what could have possibly gone wrong, look no farther. We found out, and you can blame sphenopalatine ganglioneuralgia from now on. For Marcus, the adventure continued as he attended the beautiful, fairytale royal wedding of Swedish Princess Madeleine to her New Yorker, hedge funder Chris O'Neill.
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I never thought I would enjoy being on facebook and now I can't stay off of it!
Reconnecting with my old high school friends, seeing pictures of them now, with their families and sharing memories has been great.
Also, preparing for surgery, which may take a couple of months.
Swimming everyday and eating healthy foods. I feel pretty good and want to get even better.
Made some beaded earrings, a necklace and cell phone charms.
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I never thought I would enjoy being on facebook and now I can't stay off of it!
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I agree with you, Camille - the same thing happened to me! What's worse is that I even post from my phone - it's addicting!
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Verizon Awarded Over $33M in Cybersquatting Case
Verizon last week was awarded a $33.15 million judgment in a cybersquatting case against San Francisco-based OnlineNIC.
OnlineNIC registered at least 663 domain names that were identical or very similar to Verizon trademarks, such as myverizonwireless.com, iphoneverizonplans.com, 123verizonphones.com and verizononline.com.
The court concluded that OnlineNIC registered these names in bad faith in an effort to lure Verizon customers to the sites. Verizon was awarded $50,000 per domain name, the largest ever judgment in a cybersquatting case, Verizon said.
"This case should send a clear message and serve to deter cybersquatters who continue to run businesses for the primary purpose of misleading consumers," Sarah Deutsch, Verizon vice president and associate general counsel, said in a statement. "Verizon intends to continue to take all steps necessary to protect our brand and consumers from Internet frauds and abuses."
No lawyers or representatives from OnlineNIC appeared in court to defend themselves.


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South Bank Sunny Side
The official South Bank London poster design from their 2015 Summer advertising campaign - designed by Ruth Sampson in collaboration with South Bank London.
A3 size is digitally printed on high quality 300g Castillo Pearl paper, in a soft white tone with a beautiful wove finish. Posted loosely rolled in a sturdy tube.
A2 & A1 sizes are digitally printed on 180g satin photo paper. Posted rolled in a strong cardboard tube.
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Recently got a tub of this - love it. And so does the girlfriend, who usually hates the taste of most energy/recovery drinks... so that's a win.
High5 4:1 Energy Source is drink powder, with a mix of carbohydrate and protein at a ratio of 4:1, as the name implies. We reviewed this product back in 2010 (and some of what we said still holds), but it's recently been re-launched with a new emphasis on the nature of the carbohydrate, although not clear if the actual formula of the drink has changed.
First, let's look at the carb component of this 4:1 drink. The packaging displays another ratio -- this time 2:1 -- which refers to the proportion of glucose to fructose, the basis of another High5 carb-only product which we've also reviewed on road.cc.
The thinking behind the 2:1 is this: Using glucose-only products as a source of carbohydrate, most cyclists (or any athlete) can absorb only a limited amount - usually around 50g to 60g per hour, depending on body mass and other factors. High5 say that fructose can deliver more carbohydrate to the muscles, in addition to that provided by the glucose. Put in the simplest layman's terms, the fructose goes in another way, bypassing the mechanism that usually limits carb intake to around 50/60g per hour. The end result: you can increase your carb intake by up to 50%, meaning up to 75g or even 90g per hour, according to High 5. And that means you can go faster, or further, or both. High5 brands this mix as 'super carbs'.
Second, let's look at the protein component of this 4:1 drink. Is it really needed in addition to the carb? It depends. Simply put, in races or other events of around two hours or less, you need only carbohydrate to keep going. Once you get nearer three hours, and definitely over four hours, you need a bit of protein because - again to put it in the simplest layman's terms - it helps the carb work better. Sports scientists generally agree that the protein won't necessarily make you go any faster, but it will help you go for longer - which is exactly what you need in a 100-mile sportive, or similar endurance event. High5 say the ideal proportion of carb to protein is 4:1 - hence this drink.
So that's the science, but does Energy Source 4:1 actually work? Yes. It definitely works for me. From a personal point of view, having used a lot of different carb-based energy products over the years, with and without the addition protein, I definitely find a bit of protein helps. There's no doubt I feel stronger towards the end of a long sportive if I'm taking on protein as well as carb in the final few hours. My usual tactic is to carry a sachet or two of 4:1 in my back pocket, fill up with water at the final feed station, bung in the power, get back on the bike, give it a few minutes to fully dissolve, then take a sip every 10 minutes or so until I reach the finish.
And it's not just me. A lot of top-level riders use carb-protein combinations towards the end of a day's racing, especially in the tours. And that's because their soigneurs know that protein is essential to help muscle repair and recovery, so riders are ready for the next day. The High5 website promotes this angle too, emphasising that 4:1 is not just for single-day events, but also for multi-day events and training sessions.
What's it like in your mouth? The taste is okay, with two flavour options: citrus and summer fruit. The texture, as you might expect, is thicker than most carb-only drinks, more like milk than juice. Presumably this is due to the whey (which gives the protein) as well as the maltodextrin and fructose (which give the carbohydrate).
In addition to the carb and protein, Energy Source 4:1 also contains what High5 calls 'unique high electrolyte anti-cramping formula'. This refers to the sodium and potassium in the list of ingredients, which are certainly among the key minerals lost via sweat during extended exercise, which can lead to cramps if not replaced.
As with all nutrition products, it's important to sample Energy Source 4:1 on a training ride first rather than an important race or sportive, just in case it doesn't agree with you.
A big 1.6kg tub of Energy Source 4:1 costs £29.99 from the High5 website - which is more than you'd pay for the same amount of carb-only drink mix, although it's the cheapest way of buying 4:1 (working out at less than £1 per recommended 50g serving). Before forking out for a tub you can check if it works for you buy buying a few sachets - which is also ideal if you want to start taking this drink on board halfway through your ride rather than at the start. You can get individual 50g sachets in your local bike shop for between £1.20 and £1.50 each, or in a box of 12 for around £14. The tub and box of sachets are cheaper at the usual on-line stores.
A highly effective and very handy all-in-one energy product with two sorts of carb, plus protein and some vital minerals, ideal for longer races, sportives, and other endurance events.
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Make and model: High5 4:1 Carbohydrate/Protein drink mix
Size tested: Citrus flavour, 1.6kg drum
Tell us what the product is for, and who it's aimed at. What do the manufacturers say about it? How does that compare to your own feelings about it?
The High5 website says: '4:1 contains 4 parts Super Carbs and 1 part whey protein isolate. 4:1 is designed for use DURING exercise. It provides energy, hydrates, accelerates recovery and reduces muscle breakdown and soreness. It's great for back-to-back sessions or when you expect a step up in mileage. Light fruit juice flavours and it's easy on the stomach.'
From a personal point of view, having used a lot of different carb-based energy products over the years, with and without the addition protein, I definitely find a bit of protein helps me go better in sportives.
A big 1.6kg tub of Energy Source 4:1 costs £29.99 from the High5 website. This is more than you'd pay for the same amount of carb-only drink mix, although it's the cheapest way of buying 4:1 (working out at less than £1 per recommended 50g serving).
Did you enjoy using the product? yes
Would you consider buying the product? yes
Would you recommend the product to a friend? yes
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I usually ride: an old Marin Alp My best bike is: an old Giant Cadex
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Audrey Hepburn's granddaughter covers Harper's Bazaar September issue
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Like grandmother, like granddaughter! 20-year-old art student Emma Ferrer, Audrey Hepburn's granddaughter, is covering this year's September issue of Harper's Bazaar. While Lady Gaga has the magazine stand cover, subscribers will receive Ms. Ferrer's cover. The shoot was styled by Bazaar Style Director Joanna Hillman, and Emma is dressed in classic and feminine Hepubrn-esque looks from the likes of Lanvin and Ralph Lauren.
Even better, the photographer who shot the photos is Michael Avedon, none other than the grandson of storied fashion photographer Richard Avedon. Hepburn and Bazaar both have significant histories with Avedon, making his grandson the absolute perfect choice for Ms. Ferrer's shoot.
Ms. Ferrer certainly bears a resemblance to her famous grandmother, and it's none clearer than in the shot on Bazaar's cover, and the spread within the magazine. The entire story is such a cool homage to Audrey Hepburn. See the full spread with Emma Ferrer here, or click through the gallery for the most iconic pictures of her late grandmother, Audrey Hepburn.
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OK TAR fans, let's play the latest game show. "Where's Peach" You too can follow along as the adventurous Peach (and trusted sidekick Harley) go on their own TAR12 challenge in NYC. Follow along on Google Earth (see attached .KMZ file below). Don't forget to select "3D buildings" in GE to get the full experience. Who may be eliminated next?....dum...dum...da...dum...dum... (cue opening credits)....
I can safely say, peach is not at my house awesome pictures peach and harley
I don't know who put the label TARCON on those pictures, but TACON XII doesn't start for another hour yet. Those are the ****** Lunch pictures taken at PUGLIA's.
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The crisis in California stems from Golden State cheese makers carrying more political clout than dairy farmers. As a result, the minimum legal price of milk in California is 2 ½ cents per pound less than the average minimum legal price in other states. Two and a half cents may not sound like much, but in a business in chronic oversupply, that's larger than typical profit margins. With feedstock costs skyrocketing due to the diversion of corn to make subsidized ethanol-another brilliantly managed business- California dairy farmers are on the ropes. Meanwhile, California cheese makers enjoy a competitive advantage because it is illegal for out-of-state cheese makers to buy cheaper California milk.Milk is apparently a very special product that requires the intervention of federal and state government to ensure that its market is properly managed. Supply-and-demand won't work. Which is why the state of California has set a minimum price that consumers have to pay in order to get their milk at a price that is fair to cheese makers. And if the milk producers can't sell enough of their product at that fair-to-cheese makers- price, then the government (i.e., "taxpayers," i.e., "you and me") buys the excess milk and turns it into cheese that we can't eat. It's the circle of life. It turns out that this started a long time ago:
Around the time of the New Deal, guaranteeing the milk supply joined life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness as one of the cardinal responsibilities of government. While this may be ascribed to a desire by politicians to always have enough babies to kiss, some suspect that buying the votes of dairy farmers had something to do with it.Maybe it was vote-buying that originally motivated the program, but I have a feeling Wonder Woman might have had something to do with it. Back in July 1942 ("around the time of the New Deal"), Sensation Comics #7 ran a story in which Wonder Woman battled an evil milk magnate who was charging so much for milk that children were literally dying:
Wonder Woman, in her Diana Prince alter ego, goes to the offices of International Milk to investigate. There she meets the oily Mr. Alphonso De Gyppo, a man so transparently awful that he has a thin mustache and a racially insensitive name. As it turns out, his business plan is not entirely different from the current government milk subsidy program:
As Frezza points out, the minimum legal price of milk inflates the cost of milk so that everyone, even "poor children," are forced to pay more. They just can't tell exactly how much more:
Estimates put the cost to consumers as high as $5 billion a year. But since this tax is hidden, legislators get to enjoy the gratitude of dairy farmers without having to face the wrath of consumers, who remain in the dark about how much they are individually paying.But because International Milk is a private business, and not part of the government of the people, by the people, and for the people, what they're doing is wrong. Wonder Woman is not so subtle in her critique of Mr. De Gyppo's business practices:
With the help of a trap door in the floor of his office, De Gyppo manages to capture Wonder Woman and, as so often happens in these wonderful old William Moulton Marston-Harry Peter stories, the heroine is tied up. The twist in this story is that after she's tied up, she's thrown into the back of a truck, which two semi-literate thugs slowly fill with milk:
Wonder Woman escapes (she was just toying with them, anyway-- for crying out loud, she's Wonder Woman!), and leads a protest march against
Just like Michelle Obama using her position as "First Lady" to pressure Walmart to sell less poisonous food, and to pressure Mars to stop selling disgustingly delicious "King Size" candy bars, Wonder Woman seeks to shame International Milk into adopting business practices that she deems appropriate. For her trouble, she is again captured, and again tied up, this time to the front of a tank truck filled with (what else?) milk. And here she finally discovers the truth about International Milk and its real leader and motives:
Yes, it's all part of the evil Baroness Paula Von Gunther's nefarious plan to weaken the bones of American children so they won't be able to defend the country from future blitzkriegs. Something else that Michelle Obama has been warning us about, by the way: the obesity epidemic is a national security crisis. As an aside: You'll note in the panels above that The Baroness mentions that she has invented an apparently fictional "electrical machine" that raised her from the dead following her execution. This subplot allowed Marston to slip in a plug for an apparently real device he helped develop, the so-called "lie detector test." While investigating Diana Prince's disappearance, Major Steve Trevor gives a "lie detector" test to the doctor who officially declared The Baroness was dead:
Anyway. Wonder Woman escapes from the milk tank, and uses her "magic lasso," which is an apparently fictional device, to compel The Baroness to confess her plan. She also takes a moment for a photo op with a group of adorable young children who will no doubt benefit from the effects of cheap access to "milk, the perfect food," assuming none of them are lactose intolerant:
Although it's not specifically spelled out anywhere in the story, it's implied that The Baroness's plan was then used to help draft the original legislation that has led to the current cow exodus that Frezza described in the Real Clear Markets editorial. Or, perhaps I should more accurately state that it's inferred, by me, right now, today, that The Baroness's plan was used to help draft that original milk-protecting legislation. Like most superheroes of her era, the original Wonder Woman was a rah-rah FDR-loving New Dealer with the best of intentions. However, sometimes good intentions can lead to actions that have unintended consequences. In the world of comic books, this is called "the law of unintended consequences." I'm not sure what they call it in social sciences, or in economics, or whatever discipline it is that studies these things. But perhaps if the people who write the dairy market laws would read Wonder Woman comics, the cows wouldn't be leaving California, and milk wouldn't cost quite so much.
The scans from this post were taken from the wonderful Wonder Woman Chronicles Volume 1, which is well worth your time.
Originally posted at When Falls the Coliseum. Re-posted here because I'm lazy. And, also, I do like Marston's and Peter's original Wonder Woman comics.


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Janet Garcia, 89, died Friday, July 25 at her Sonoma home, surrounded by her family.
Born Janet Van De Pol on March 15, 1925 in Hughson, CA, Janet was one of 12 children-a large farming family that raised dairy cattle in South Dakota, Iowa and Central California.
Janet settled in Stockton and after husband Peter Monga's death, she raised three children on her own, supporting the family by working at the Bank of Stockton, where she rose through the ranks to become
Senior Trust Clerk.
In 1978 she married William Garcia of Morada and after she retired, the couple travelled in Europe and the US. Garcia died in 1989.
Janet loved gardening, the San Francisco Giants, and her cat, Peanuts.
Janet is survived by her children: Anita Monga (Peter), of Berkeley; Peter Monga (Victoria), of Sonoma and Catherine Monga, of Carmel. She also is survived by her grandson Joshua Monga, brothers Robert and Henry Van De Pol, and sister Ruth Kuiken as well as numerous nieces and nephews.


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From the 1800's until the 1930's, during the months of January and February, it was a common sight on the lakes, ponds and some of the rivers to see men and horses harvesting ice and storing it in barn-like icehouses, large and small.
Beginning in the late 20's, my great grand uncle (one of my great grandmother's brothers), Alexander Archibald Hamilton (1883-1962), worked at harvesting ice in Orange, Massachusetts. In 1930, according to the Springfield Daily Republican,1 he purchased his partner's interest in the Independent Ice Company:
On average, ice-cutting time did not come until well into January. The icemen wanted ice that was 10 to 12 inches thick. They hoped for good clear ice that was not mixed with sleet or snow. It was really hard work and one had to be rugged, with plenty of muscle. This item in the Springfield Daily Republican2 reports on Arch's very successful harvest (17 inch thick ice cakes!) in 1934:
Usually, local men were hired for the entire harvest. Being seasonal work, it might occur when the factories were slack and men would be available. Cutting commenced as soon as the ice was a foot or more thick. Then it was strong enough to hold a team of farm horses and humans. Horses were used singly and in pairs with the men.
As the ice cakes moved up the 'run' they passed under sets of knives. The knives were set one behind the other to trim the ice to uniform thickness. The ice is first packed into the bottom level four feet high, then the staging and 'run' is moved up by winch to the next higher four foot level and continue loading each compartment by four foot levels until the house is full. Each four-foot section was covered with sawdust from the nearest sawmill, thus insulating the ice so that it would last all summer.
Eventually, the New England winters began to get milder and it was difficult to harvest any appreciable quantity of ice. As early as 1931, harvests became noticeably smaller and the harvests of 1931-32 and 1932-33 were relatively dismal.
By the late '30's, the ice business was waning, the competition was more desperate, and a lawsuit was filed:3
The old icehouse has disappeared. They went out of business after folks started making artificial ice in convenient sizes.Gone is the husky iceman hauling a block of ice on his shoulder. Many of the icehouses were destroyed by fire, or torn down. Additionally, mechanically-produced ice began to replace natural ice during this period. A while later the home refrigerator that didn't need ice came on the market.
This was not the end for Arch Hamilton in Orange, however. A second chapter was about to begin, with wife Margie, The Maples Tea House, and the Hamilton Tourist Home and Gardens. Stay tuned for that story.
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3Springfield Daily Republican, Mar. 24, 1937, p.5, col.2
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Times of Trouble novel's backdrop is on the End Times and all the other events leading to it. It is like a true story as most of the character sketches, circumstances, and plots are familiar and possible to happen in real life.
Honestly, this is the very first Christian fiction novel I have read and reviewed and I appreciate Cliff Ball's heart to keep on stressing and repeating the importance of God, Bible, prayer, salvation, church, fellowship, close family ties, purity before marriage, and honesty about the character's feelings and weaknesses.
I love the many prayers included in this novel and many times, at some point of the story, I can readily identify with the lines of the characters and the situations. Times of Trouble ministered to me greatly right now and it inspired me to keep the faith and never to give up in times of trouble knowing that the ending of everything–the world, mankind, and my own troubles are glorious when Jesus Christ returns on the earth and we will be raptured and caught up in the clouds at the trumpet blast.
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Delighted Blues target new Origin dynasty
After finally ending Queensland's quest for a decade of dominance, NSW players believe they can create their own State of Origin dynasty.
Trent Hodkinson's 71st-minute try sealed a 6-4 win for the Blues and an emotional first series win since 2005 in front of more than 84,000 fans at ANZ Stadium on Wednesday.
The last time that happened Bob Carr was still running NSW, John Howard was prime minister and Mariah Carey had warbled her way to the top of the charts with the uncatchy We Belong Together.
Blues back-rower Greg Bird, who made his debut in 2007, is now confident after so much heartache over the last nine years that it's NSW's turn to rule the roost.
"That's the thing with Origin football it does go in waves," Bird said.
"Through the 80s it was all Queensland, the 90s and early 2000s it was NSW and then Queensland again.
"Hopefully the dynasty can switch hands once more and we can win a few.
"But it's going to be a lot of hard work and even starting from next game they're not going to lie down."
The Blues will head to Suncorp Stadium on July 9 aiming for a first 3-0 whitewash since 2000 and prop James Tamou said although the series had been won, creating a consistent winning culture was vital to more success.
"It's important for us to put that exclamation point on the whole series just to show there's a wind of change," Tamou said.
"That's the proposition we've instilled in the players. It's a start and it's a change and it's going to be a big change.
"Queensland have had that belief for such a long time and now we have it inside us. We're happy to take control of it and take it wherever it can go."
In addition to satisfying a success-starved state, NSW's victory helped soothe some personal demons for several members of the side.
Vice-captain Robbie Farah lost his mother to cancer just four days after she watched him help the Blues level the series in 2012.
He's admitted in the past how emotional he feels when he pulls on the Blues jersey at ANZ Stadium. It always reminds him of that awful week.
Talismanic skipper Paul Gallen has for the past 18 months been caught in the crossfires of uncertainty surrounding the long-running ASADA investigation.
And for match-winner Hodkinson, the greatest moment of his career comes less than two years after he seriously considered retirement due to a serious knee injury.
"Everyone's got their own story and there's a lot of passion within the side," Farah told AAP.
"We wanted it so bad and said before the game, `it ends tonight. Enough's enough'.
"We deserve this. We've worked so hard for it. The last few years we haven't got what we deserved, we've fallen just short. But we've finally got what we deserved and we worked our butts off for it."
Farah revealed the team adopted the mantra of "it ends now" throughout their Coffs Harbour camp after so many near misses.
"It's been our catch cry the whole time," he said.
"Now is our time and enough's enough, it's been a long eight years.
"We've been through all the tough times, fallen just short and you never forget all those demons in your head about all the previous losses.
"But we can finally put those demons to bed tonight."
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Encounters the Spanish
Spanish chroniclers and subsequent historians have provided conflicting versions of Paquiquineo's encounter with the Europeans. The Relation of Bartolomé Martínez, written by a minor Spanish official and dated October 24, 1610, claims that Paquiquineo met the Spanish with his father, the chief. The Spanish captain (whom Martínez misidentified as Pedro Menéndez de Avilés, the founder of Saint Augustine) first "regaled" the Indians with gifts of food and clothing, and then asked the chief for permission to take Paquiquineo to meet the king of Spain. The chief assented. While many historians have broadly accepted this version of events, others have argued that it is more likely that Paquiquineo was kidnapped. Spanish captains regularly captured boys and young men to serve as interpreters. In fact, Velázquez had two such men—Indians from New Spain—on board when he met Paquiquineo. The historian Camilla Townsend has noted a source in which a "Spaniard gave the game away, indicating that the young men [Paquiquineo and his companion] had said their families would have no way of knowing what had happened to them."
Velázquez intended to present Paquiquineo at the court of Philip II, and by the end of October he had transported the Indian to the king's new capital, Madrid. Paquiquineo's arrival came a decade after the famous debate between the Dominican friar Bartolomé de las Casas and the Franciscan theologian Juan Ginés de Sepúlveda. Las Casas argued that American Indians, being rational animals, should be converted to Christianity by peaceful means; Sepúlveda countered that they could only be warred upon. By 1561, the Dominicans had largely prevailed, and Philip ordered that Paquiquineo—who up to this point had resisted conversion—join a Dominican mission back to his homeland, which the Spanish believed Paquiquineo called Ajacán (likely pronounced Ah-zha-KAHN).
Two Failed Missions
After spending the winter in Spain, Paquiquineo and his companion sailed from Cádiz at the end of May 1562, their ship part of a fleet captained by Pedro Menéndez de Avilés. The plan was to make a brief stop in New Spain before departing for Ajacán with the Dominicans. They arrived at San Juan de Ulúa, near Veracruz, on August 10. Soon after that they visited the capital at Mexico City, where Paquiquineo and his companion both became ill. Only on the brink of death did they consent to baptism, at which point, according to the Dominican provincial, "our lord was moved to give them back their health." Now a Christian, Paquiquineo took the name Don Luís de Velasco, after the viceroy of New Spain.
Spanish authorities had authorized a ship on its way to Spain to drop off the Dominicans at the Chesapeake Bay, but because of the Indians' illness they missed their boat. When Don Luís and his companion sought passage home some other way, the Dominican provincial, Father Pedro de la Feria, asked his superiors to force them to remain: "if they were to return to their rites and idolatries, and thus lose their souls," wrote Feria in 1563 to the king, "their baptism would have caused them to be damned."
Menéndez de Avilés summoned Don Luís and two Dominican friars to Havana, Cuba. (Don Luís was living at the Santo Domingo convent in Mexico City, despite having been encouraged to return to Spain. Meanwhile, his companion had disappeared from Spanish records.) Then, on August 1, 1566, the adelantado placed Ensign Pedro de Coronas in command of La Trinidad, its crew, fifteen soldiers, three bureaucrats, and Don Luís. Fathers Pablo de San Pedro and Juan de Acuña were assigned to govern the colony. They all sailed for Ajacán the next day. On August 14, while just north of the Chesapeake Bay, probably in present-day Chincoteague Bay, Maryland, La Trinidad encountered a fierce storm that blew the ship out to sea. Ten days later, the Spaniards anchored off the coast of present-day North Carolina; the next day they landed and claimed the area for Spain. Some time after that the ship again sailed north, searching for Don Luís's homeland. While anchored once more at Chincoteague Bay, another storm hit, and on September 6 the ship's pilot ruled that La Trinidad would sail east to Spain rather than return to the Caribbean.
Once the expedition landed in Cádiz, on October 23, the recriminations began. Ensign Coronas blamed Don Luís, writing in his report that the Indian was unable to recognize the waters of the Chesapeake Bay. The ship's pilot blamed the weather, while those close to Pedro Menéndez de Avilés blamed the Dominicans. Menéndez de Avilés's brother-in-law, Gonzalo Solís de Merás, wrote that while Don Luís was "crafty," "a good Christian," and intelligent, the Dominican fathers were exhausted by the "hunger, hardships and danger in Florida." For this reason they conspired with the crew of La Trinidad, including the pilot, to bypass the bay and then blame their failure on the weather. Some modern historians have argued that Don Luís may have chosen not to identify Ajacán in order to thwart the Spanish military men who accompanied the mission.
Return to Ajacán
Don Luís spent the next four years studying in Seville with Jesuits. In the meantime, the Jesuit leader in La Florida, Father Juan Baptista de Segura, planned a new mission to the Chesapeake Bay. Although he had described La Florida as "one long pile of sand" and the Indians who lived there as "beasts," he nevertheless erred on the side of Bartolomé de las Casas: the Indians could and should be converted only through peaceful means. Menéndez de Avilés, still intent on establishing a Spanish presence north of Santa Elena, approved a nonmilitary mission. Sometime in the middle of 1570 Don Luís arrived in Havana.
When he arrived, Segura's missionaries were bickering with one another and with Menéndez de Avilés. At some point, Father Antonio Sedeño called for Segura's removal, while Menéndez de Avilés tried to insist on 100 soldiers for protection. He failed, and when the missionaries sailed from Havana at the end of July, their members consisted only of religious men, and relatively inexperienced ones at that. In addition to Segura and Sedeño, there were Fathers Juan Rogel and Luís de Quirós; Brothers Gabriel Gómez, Sancho de Zaballos, and Pedro Mingot de Linares; and three lay catechists: Cristóbal Redondo, Juan Baptista Méndez, and Gabriel de Solís.
On August 5, 1570, the missionaries anchored at Santa Elena, and a Jesuit living there, Brother Juan de la Carrera, argued that they should not be traveling without military protection. Segura responded that Don Luís had promised that Ajacán, like India and Japan, boasted a large population of potential converts. Writing in 1600, with the benefit of hindsight, Carrera recalled his thoughts about Don Luís: "The Indian did not satisfy me, and judging by what he had told me, I saw that he was a liar." Fathers Rogel and Sedeño decided to stay behind, while a teenager, Alonso de Olmos, joined the mission as an altar boy and a woodsman.
The missionaries arrived on September 10 to a warm welcome from Don Luís's people. In a letter to a Spanish official in Cuba, Quirós wrote that the Indians "seemed to think that Don Luis had risen from the dead and come down from heaven," and they begged the missionaries to stay. Numbering fewer than the missionaries had expected, the Indians were perhaps desperate, Quirós wrote, because for six years they had been living in drought conditions and suffering from widespread famine. And yet they still seemed willing to "give to us from their poverty"—at least until what Quirós described as "a bit of blundering" changed the dynamic between the two groups.
The anthropologist Seth Mallios has argued that the Algonquian-speaking Indians in the area participated in a gift-exchange economy, meaning that instead of trading goods of equal value, they gave gifts. In return, the gift-givers did not receive goods but debts, or the unspoken promise of future gifts. Quirós notes that when the Spaniards (unknowingly) violated this protocol by attempting to trade, the Indians followed their lead. They shifted forms of exchange, from a something-for-nothing exchange to something-for-something, and demanded "trinkets" in return for their generosity. This, in turn, upset the Jesuit plan of bestowing gifts only on those Indians they hoped to convert to Christianity (i.e., Don Luís's tribe). Mallios points out that the Jesuits later engaged in trade with groups outside of Don Luís's tribe, inadvertently insulting their hosts and leading to the violence that followed.
The Mission Ends
Paquiquineo remained with his family through the winter and did not respond to two messages from Father Segura asking for assistance in securing food and in communicating with the Indians. "They got along as best they could," Rogel later wrote, "going to other villages to barter for maize with copper and tin, until the beginning of February." The anthropologist Mallios identifies this trading as what may have so profoundly insulted Paquiquineo and his people.
Another anthropologist, Helen C. Rountree, makes a different argument. She notes that Paquiquineo came from a shame culture, or one in which harsh public ridicule motivates members to conform. If the Virginia Algonquian-speakers were like the better-recorded Eastern Woodland peoples, then they were equally anxious to avoid being the subjects of such ridicule. As such, Paquiquineo found himself in an untenable position. If he did what the Jesuits wanted, he would be taunted for acting the servant to negligible, if starving, foreigners. But if he ignored their pleas, he would bear the guilt of knowing he had brought them to Ajacán only to let them die a slow death. He might even endure additional ridicule for breaking his word to them.
In February 1571, Segura sent Father Quirós and Brothers Gabriel de Solís and Juan Baptista Méndez to meet with Paquiquineo. On February 4, Paquiquineo killed the three Jesuits and then traveled to the mission, where he and his companions surrounded the house and killed Segura and the remaining Spaniards, leaving only Alonso de Olmos. (Sources disagree as to whether Olmos actually witnessed the killings.) Rogel, who later interviewed Olmos, wrote that Paquiquineo greeted Segura: "Raising his club and giving his greeting were really one gesture, and so in wishing him well, he killed him." Accounts by Juan de la Carrera and Bartolomé Martínez both suggest that Paquiquineo and his men killed the Jesuits with the Spaniards' own axes. If these were axes the Jesuits attempted to trade with other tribes, then Paquiquineo, according to Mallios, used the weapons as symbols of his grievance.
After a relief ship found no trace of the Jesuits, the Spanish governor sent a military expedition to the James River in August 1572. Some of Paquiquineo's people were captured in a skirmish, and several of them were found guilty of the Jesuits' murder and hanged from the ship's yardarms. (One of the Indians wore a paten, or Eucharist dish, around his neck.) In a bid for clemency, the Indians returned Olmos, but the man the Spaniards had known as Don Luís was nowhere to be found.
Paquiquineo disappeared from European records and is not mentioned in any verifiable oral tradition taken from the Virginia Indians by the Jamestown colonists. There were, however, two somewhat garbled rumors among the colonists that may have referred to him. In 1615, the settler Ralph Hamor wrote of "the Spaniards, whose name is odious amongst [the Chickahominy]—for Powhatan's father was driven by them from the West Indies into those parts." This may have been a reference to Don Luís, but he likely was not a Chickahominy Indian, and he was a contemporary of the paramount chief Powhatan and not Powhatan's father.
The idea that Opechancanough had Spanish origins, meanwhile, took hold among some scholars. In his book Jamestown: 1544–1699 (1981), the historian Carl Bridenbaugh popularized the notion that Paquiquineo and Opechancanough were the same person. His theory complemented the widespread belief, established by John Smith in 1624, that Opechancanough had always been hostile to the English, from their landing at Jamestown in 1607 until the chief's death in 1646. Now Bridenbaugh provided an explanation: Opechancanough understood that Europeans could not be trusted because, as Don Luís, he had seen firsthand what they had done to the Indians in New Spain and what they intended to do in Ajacán.
However, the anthropologist Helen Rountree has countered that there is no documentary proof that Don Luís and Opechancanough were the same person, and available evidence suggests that they were not. True, their life spans overlapped and their names—Paquiquineo, recorded by the Spanish, and Opechancanough, recorded by the English—were similar. But even if their names had been identical, according to Rountree, it was not unknown among the Virginia Indians for two people to have the same name. She further argues that Paquiquineo hailed from the mouth of either the Chickahominy or the James river, while Opechancanough came from near the fall line—territories that in 1570 were not yet politically united under Powhatan. Finally, taking note of some claims that Paquiquineo was a chief, Rountree notes that the title was inherited through the mother. If both Paquiquineo and Opechancanough were chiefs, and if their mothers came from different places, then the two men must have been different people.
It is not known what happened to Paquiquineo, but his legacy has been an important one. For half a century, the Spanish explored the Atlantic coast of La Florida looking for a spot that might produce valuable natural resources and a shortcut to the East Indies and to China. They suspected that the Chesapeake Bay was such a place, and if the Jesuit mission had succeeded, the Spaniards might have planted a colony there, more than thirty years prior to the English landing at Jamestown. "The idea is an intriguing one," the historian Charlotte M. Gradie has written, "for the Jesuit failure to establish a mission in Virginia was a turning point in the history of Spain's American empire as well as in Jesuit history: Virginia was left to the English, and the Jesuits built their great missions elsewhere."
Time Line
Late June 1561 - Two Virginia Indians—Paquiquineo and his companion—encounter the Spanish caravel Santa Catalina somewhere near where the James River empties into the Chesapeake Bay. The two Indians either volunteer to go with the Spanish or are kidnapped.
September 9, 1561 - After landing in Lagos, Portugal, a party of Spaniards that includes a Virginia Indian named Paquiquineo and another unnamed Indian, arrives in Seville, Spain.
Late May 1562 - Paquiquineo and another, unnamed Virginia Indian sail from Cádiz, Spain, their ship part of a fleet captained by Pedro Menéndez de Avilés. They are bound for New Spain (present-day Mexico), where they will make a brief stop before Paquiquineo joins a Dominican mission to the Chesapeake Bay.
August 10, 1562 - After sailing from Spain, Paquiquineo and his Spanish companions arrive in San Juan de Ulúa, New Spain (present-day Mexico). They intend to stop only briefly in Mexico City before embarking on a mission to the Chesapeake Bay, but Paquiquineo falls seriously ill. He is baptized in Mexico City and takes the name Don Luís de Velasco.
February 13, 1563 - Father Pedro de la Feria, provincial of the Dominican convent Santo Domingo in Mexico City, writes to King Philip II requesting that the Virginia Indian Don Luís/Paquiquineo remain with him. He also proposes a new mission to the Chesapeake Bay.
October 15, 1565 - Pedro Menéndez de Avilés, governor of the Spanish province of La Florida (present-day Florida), writes to King Philip II proposing that the Spanish take the Virginia Indian Don Luís/Paquiquineo on a mission to the Chesapeake Bay, where the Spanish should build a fort.
August 1, 1566 - Pedro Menéndez de Avilés, governor of the Spanish province of La Florida (present-day Florida), places Ensign Pedro de Coronas in command of La Trinidad, its crew, and fifteen soldiers.
August 2, 1566 - The Spanish ship La Trinidad, carrying a Dominican mission to the Chesapeake Bay, along with the Virginia Indian Don Luís/Paquiquineo, sails from Havana, Cuba.
August 14, 1566 - The Spanish ship La Trinidad, carrying a Dominican mission to the Chesapeake Bay, along with the Virginia Indian Don Luís/Paquiquineo, encounters a storm off the coast of present-day Maryland.
August 24, 1566 - The Spanish ship La Trinidad, carrying a Dominican mission to the Chesapeake Bay, along with the Virginia Indian Don Luís/Paquiquineo, anchors off the coast of present-day North Carolina.
August 25, 1566 - The Spanish ship La Trinidad, carrying a Dominican mission to the Chesapeake Bay, along with the Virginia Indian Don Luís/Paquiquineo, claims the coast of present-day North Carolina for Spain.
September 6, 1566 - The Spanish ship La Trinidad, carrying a Dominican mission to the Chesapeake Bay, along with the Virginia Indian Don Luís/Paquiquineo, abandons its search for the Chesapeake Bay and sails for Spain.
October 23, 1566 - The Spanish ship La Trinidad, carrying a Dominican mission to the Chesapeake Bay, along with the Virginia Indian Don Luís/Paquiquineo, having failed to find the Chesapeake Bay, arrives at Cádiz, Spain.
Late July 1570 - A Jesuit mission led by Father Juan Baptista de Segura that includes the Virginia Indian Don Luís/Paquiquineo sails from Havana, Cuba, bound for the Chesapeake Bay.
August 5, 1570 - A Jesuit mission bound for the Chesapeake Bay led by Father Juan Baptista de Segura that includes the Virginia Indian Don Luís/Paquiquineo lands at the Spanish settlement of Santa Elena, near present-day Parris Island, South Carolina.
September 10, 1570 - A Jesuit mission led by Father Juan Baptista de Segura and including the Virginia Indian Don Luís/Paquiquineo lands near the mouth of the Chesapeake Bay.
September 12, 1570 - In a letter written from their settlement somewhere near the mouth of the Chesapeake Bay, Spanish Jesuit Fathers Luis de Quirós and Juan Baptista de Segura write to Juan de Hinistrosa about their mission to the Virginia Indians.
February 4, 1571 - The Virginia Indian Paquiquineo kills three Jesuit missionaries who have traveled to his village to meet with him. Paquiquineo and a group of warriors then travel to the mission site and kill the remaining missionaries save for the altar boy, Alonso de Olmos.
Spring 1571 - A Spanish ship arrives in the Chesapeake Bay to resupply a Jesuit mission there and finds that the priests have been killed. A skirmish leads to the capture of two Indians, one of whom explains that Paquiquineo (once Don Luís), a Virginia Indian who had belonged to the mission, ordered the attack.
August 1572 - A Spanish military expedition enters the James River attempting to rescue the Spanish boy Alonso de Olmos and capture the Virginia Indian Paquiquineo (formerly Don Luís), who had ordered a group of Jesuits killed. Olmos is found but not Paquiquineo.
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Cite This Entry
- APA Citation:
Wolfe, B. Don Luís de Velasco / Paquiquineo (fl. 1561–1571). (2019, March 18). In Encyclopedia Virginia. Retrieved from http://www.EncyclopediaVirginia.org/Don_LuA.
- MLA Citation:
Wolfe, Brendan. "Don Luís de Velasco / Paquiquineo (fl. 1561–1571)." Encyclopedia Virginia. Virginia Foundation for the Humanities, 18 Mar. 2019. Web. READ_DATE.
First published: December 15, 2010 | Last modified: March 18, 2019
Contributed by Brendan Wolfe, editor of Encyclopedia Virginia.


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