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United States. District Court (California : Northern District). Land case. 3, Related Name Indexing Term
From: U.S. District Court. California, Northern District. Land case 3 ND, page 328; land case map A-5 (Bancroft Library)."194."Shows drainage, boundaries, etc.Relief shown pictorially.Oriented with north toward the upper left.4362 S2268Pen-and-ink and watercolor on tracing paper.
Rancho San Joaquin (San Benito County, Calif.) -- Maps, Manuscript
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Norman Rockwell painting of Ted Williams, Boston Red Sox players auctioned for $22.6M
NEW YORK (AP) � A Norman Rockwell painting of Boston Red Sox players has sold to a private buyer for $22.6 million.
"The Rookie (Red Sox Locker Room)" led the bidding Thursday at Christie's auction of American art in New York.
"The Rookie" shows Hall of Famer Ted Williams and other seasoned veterans as an awkward newcomer arrives for spring training.
The painting appeared on the cover of the Saturday Evening Post in 1957. An anonymous owner acquired it in 1986. It remained in the same private collection since.
It was exhibited this month at Fenway Park and the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston. It was previously shown at the museum in 2005 and 2008 following Red Sox World Series victories.
Christie's sold 115 pieces, netting $64 million.


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The architect's foundation gained $5.5 million after his materials were moved to New York.
How much are the Frank Lloyd Wright archives worth?
"Priceless," says Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation CEO Sean Malone.
The exact financial components of a deal that permanently relocated the legendary architect's vast archives from Scottsdale, Ariz.'s Taliesin West to New York City remain unknown. A non-disclosure agreement related to the September 2012 acquisition effectively silences the parties involved.
However, financial documents reviewed by The Arizona Republic show that the Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation tallied an increase in its archives and exhibition revenue of $5.5 million for the same year in which the deal was finalized and the archives moved to New York City.
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An audit of the foundation's 2012 financial statements also references a long-term agreement with two well-established museums. In the same note, it says the foundation is expected to receive up to $4 million over the next three years.
In September 2012, after years of consultant studies, the Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation entered into joint archive stewardship with Columbia University's Avery Architectural & Fine Arts Library and the Museum of Modern Art, both in New York City.
Malone said while the financial statements are accurate, they do not reveal the full scope of the agreement among the institutions. Neither Malone, Columbia University nor MoMA would comment on any financial aspects of the agreement.
"The 2012 financial statements do not document or reflect the entirety and complexity of the joint stewardship agreement with Columbia and MoMA," Malone said.
The foundation retained copyright and intellectual-property rights for the archives material, while MoMA received the three-dimensional works, including architectural models, and Columbia received all of the paper contents, including 23,000 architectural drawings and 44,000 photographs.
In February, the Museum of Modern Art will debut some of the Wright archive material in a new exhibit, "Frank Lloyd Wright and the City: Density vs. Dispersal."
In 2011, when still in possession of the archives at Taliesin West, the foundation received roughly $183,000 through its archives and exhibition programs, the audit shows. The revenue skyrocketed to about $5.7 million in 2012, according to the audit, by EideBailly, a public-accounting and business-advisory firm.
A tax document form for 2012 also reflects the huge jump in archive and exhibition revenue for the foundation during the 2012 calendar year.
The audit references "a long-term agreement with two well-established museums in September 2012." It continues that "future receipts on this receivable are expected as follows" and lists $1.5 million in 2013, and $1 million for each of the years 2014-16.
The audit does not attribute payments to the foundation as coming from the museums themselves.
Debate will continue about whether the body of work from a man once dubbed the greatest American architect of all time should have remained at his once winter home and studio at Taliesin West rather than relocate to New York.
But Malone said Taliesin West, which houses the Frank Lloyd Wright School of Architecture and provides tours to more than 100,000 visitors a year, has lost nothing of the "experience" it provides to the general public. The archives while at Taliesin West were only available to scholars and researchers, he said.
"I can tell you that nothing was taken away from the Taliesin West experience," Malone said. "We are not an exhibit gallery. We are an extraordinary landmark. We are a home and a studio."
Meanwhile, MoMA is gearing up for its first exhibition of the materials. The exhibit explores the architect's vision for new forms in the American skyscraper and the urbanization of the American landscape in what he called "Broadacre City."
"I wanted an exhibit that would simultaneously show the treasures of the archive and its variety but also make clear that to work with the archive was to make new discoveries that are historical but relate to issues of our own day," said exhibit curator Barry Bergdoll, former Philip Johnson Chief Curator of Architecture and Design at MoMA, now at Columbia University as a Meyer Schapiro Professor of Art History and Archaeology.
The show will feature the model of "Broadacre City," Wright's visionary idea of a decentralized city, essentially suburbia, that relied on the automobile. Yet Bergdoll said the exhibit also looks at his counter-vision for skyscrapers such as the never-built San Francisco Call building. The exhibit features a photograph of Wright at "Taliesin West — his rural paradise," with the model of the tall building, Bergdoll said.
The exhibit runs Feb. 1 to June 1.
Whatever the value of the collection, splitting up the archives was never considered, Malone said.
Speculators say the true monetary "value" could lie with the Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation's retention of the copyright and intellectual-property rights of the material, given that the foundation can expect to be compensated for use of the material for commercial gain. For example, there is value in owning a piece of paper on which Janis Joplin wrote some song lyrics, but more value may reside with whoever owns the rights to the song and receives royalty checks every time the song is played on the radio.
R. Brooks Jeffery, director of the Drachman Institute at the University of Arizona's College of Architecture, Planning and Landscape Architecture, said that regardless of the archives' value there are both winners and losers in its transfer to New York.
"Having the archives leave Arizona was a real shame. I'm a big believer that archives should be as close as possible to the original resource," said Jeffery, who was director of UA's architectural archives, which drew from southeastern Arizona architects before it became too costly to maintain and were absorbed by the college's overall archive system.
"But striking the deal they did was a win/win for the collection as it's arguably in the best possible environment and now available to a broader group of people on the East Coast than they would have been in Arizona. And hopefully it created a revenue stream to go toward the preservation of more of Frank Lloyd Wright (legacies)," Jeffery said.
Malone declined to discuss how any revenue generated from the sale of the archives would be used because under the non-disclosure agreement he could not disclose whether there was any money made from the sale.


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What rivers, how sunshiny and revelling, are the Brembo and the Serio!
Sir Hero is revelling in the wars, or in Armida's bowers; Mr. Poet has spied a wrinkle; the brush is for the rose in its season.
She is trifling with me, and very likely she is now revelling in her triumph.
I will not allege, as perhaps I might, the example of my companions, then revelling in all the pleasures of the day.
She had some glorious moments, revelling in the joy of creation.
There he lay in the deepest black, gigantic, revelling in his horrid debauch—the Black Killer!
How had the happiness in which she fancied she saw him revelling been constituted?
I actually wanted the necessaries of life, while he was revelling in superfluous luxury.
That is to say, I am to starve while you are revelling here!
late 14c., "riotous merry-making," from Old French revel "entertainment, revelry," verbal noun from reveler "be disorderly, make merry" (see revel (v.)). Related: Revels; revel-rout.
early 14c., "to feast in a noisy manner;" late 14c., "take part in revels," from Old French reveler, also rebeller "be disorderly, make merry; rebel, be riotous," from Latin rebellare "to rebel" (see rebel (v.)). The meaning "take great pleasure in" first recorded 1754. Related: Reveled; reveling; revelled; revelling.


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Cheap, Abundant Waste Sulfur Made Into New Polymer for Plastics, Batteries
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Material has better properties than past sulfur-based batteries
University of Arizona
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filtered out of burnt fossil fuel exhaust
to prevent
acid rain pollution
-- into a polymer.
I. From Trash to Treasure
The new polymer can be used both structurally and in polymeric battery electrodes.
The new plastic is light and rugged. The pair bill it as highly promising when paired with liquid lithium in battery cells. The invention comes at an opportune time -- sulfur production is outpacing stock. At North America's largest oil refineries, such as Ft. McMurray in Alberta, refiners have taken to storing powder sulfur in dusty yellow "mountains" waiting for somebody to come up for a clever use for it.
According to Jered Griebel's calculations, 0.5 lb of sulfur is produced per every 19 gallons of refined gasoline. While some of that waste is used to make sulfuric acid, much of it is piling up unused. Professor Pyun bills the resource as the "garbage of transportation",
[press release], "There's so much of it we don't know what to do with it."
Oil refiners are literally piling up "mountains" of unsold waste sulfur, waiting for an invention like this to come along. [Image Source: Ken Cooper Photography]
The pair has filed for a patent on their process.
The production of the new sulfur polymer begins with liquefying the sulfur at high temperatures and pressures (sulfur has a boiling point of roughly 441 degrees Celsius under standard temperatures) via inverse vulcanization. The researchers had to hunt down special materials -- most don't like to blend with the molten sulfur.
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Ironically, the first material tried of 20 potential candidates worked out the best by far; the rest proved duds. The resulting polymer is between 50 and 90 percent sulfur by weight.
The batteries made from the polymer have better capacity retention (how long charge is preserved) than past Li-S batteries. They also have a higher specific capacity (823 mAh/g at 100 cycles) than past designs, meaning they could store more energy. The relative stability of the Li-S sulfur polymer battery could make them an attractive target for automotive, aerospace, and personal electronics uses where traditional lithium ion batteries have
suffered flammability issues
A petri dish made from the new polymer, next to a pile of raw sulfur. [Image Source: UA]
In addition to the patent, the authors published
an article
[abstract] on the work in the prestigious peer-reviewed journal
Nature Chemistry
. They had a lot of help -- other coauthors listed on the paper are Woo Jin Chung, Adam G. Simmonds, Hyun Jun Ji, Philip T. Dirlam, Richard S. Glass and Árpád Somogyi of the UA; Eui Tae Kim, Hyunsik Yoon, Jungjin Park, Yung-Eun Sung, and Kookheon Char of
Seoul National University in Korea
; Jeong Jae Wie, Ngoc A. Nguyen, Brett W. Guralnick and Michael E. Mackay of the
University of Delaware
in Newark; and Patrick Theato of the
University of Hamburg
in Germany.
The research was funded by the UA,
The National Research Foundation of Korea
, the
Korean Ministry of Education
Science and Technology, and the American Chemical Society
Mr. Griebel has
won an innovation award
for his work.
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I recently witnessed an interesting experience involving my small Maine town and open government. For the third time in the past five years we find ourself in need of a town manager, who is chosen by the elected town council, who make their decision after interviewing all the applicants. In meeting with candidates for the current opening, our council had secret -- excuse me, "unpublic," (their term) -- interviews. In defending this, the head of the council played the media card -- he claimed that the last time they had interviewed candidates for the town manager's position, the interviewees had been identified and listed in a local newspaper report. This caused problems for some of the candidates with their current employers, who didn't know their employees were looking at other openings. The council head has been very open in defending the secret arguing that he was "defending the candidates from harassment."
Now this isn't really an open government issue. It's actually an illegal action. I'm writing about it to a) share my appreciation of the irony of my local government being open about not being open, and b) point out that I'm pretty sure my town council would proclaim itself and our town as practitioners of an "open" government.*
This brings me to one of my concerns about open government or, more specifically, the Open Government Initiative. That is, the name. With all the latest Web 2.0 technology at hand and a community of intelligent and talented people champing at the bit to participate, couldn't they have come up with a better name than the Open Government Initiative? I'm pretty sure most governments in history have considered themselves "open." And while our current open government refers to a perfect storm of available technologies, regulations, and eager participants, wouldn't one of the first steps -- a beta test, if nothing else -- have been to use those technologies to get the community to come up with a more descriptive and vibrant name than the "Open Government Initiative?"
History is full of states that referred to themselves as "open," but didn't quite pass the smell test. I'm not accusing our government of going North Korea on us, but by calling yourself "open," aren't you inviting cynicism and challenges? By going bland -- and let's face it, they could not have gotten more bland than "Open Government Initiative" -- the leaders of said initiative haven't given me reason to think of it as a cutting-edge, creative process. If, after using all the social conversations and technologies, you come up with vanilla ice cream you're not exactly giving me hope for raspberry fudge swirl in the near future, if you know what I mean.
I've looked through the site. They have categories and links for every conceivable issue of importance to interested citizens. Would it be so hard to add a link to a wiki tool allowing motivated parties to propose, discuss and choose an improved name for the Open Government Initiative? (And, in the highly likely event that this has already occurred and I missed the naming opportunities, was this really the best name? I can't help but feel that the fix was in.) I would start the process by proposing the following possibilities:
- WiiFed
- The We Need More Things for the Interns to do Site
- Ideas 'R' You
*Of course, in an actual open government process my local government would have used available technologies to allow the candidates to introduce themselves to the community and allow the community to give input into the interviewing and selection. Instead, there was a bunch of finger-wagging and harrumphing at a town meeting that Frank Capra would have appreciated. No charges were pressed, and we moved on to the all-important discussion of what to do with the leftover rocks from a local bridge improvement project.
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Excuse me, I didn't clarify that. Maine does have provisions for executive sessions. Our council did not follow those steps, and claimed that they needed to conduct private, unannounced meetings, because citizens had noted and publicized who was coming in and out of the building in past interviews. (I would contend this is part of public service, and candidates should be prepared for such attention, no matter the size of the community.) There was much attention and discussion of these secret meetings in local media, but no one ever took the steps to press charges against the council.
I was most struck by your "illegal action" example. Does Maine law not have provisions for governing bodies to have excutive (closed) sessions to address specific categories of issues (including employee issues) that require some degree of confidentiality?


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If you find something that DataNucleus Access Platform can't handle you can always extend it using its plugin mechanism for one of its defined interfaces. Just look for the icon.


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Samsung SCX-4216F LASER USB PAR. Print technology: Laser. Print speed (black, normal quality, A4/US Letter): 16 ppm, Maximum resolution: 600 x 600 DPI, Standard printer languages: SPL. Copy speed (normal quality, black, A4): 16 cpm. Input colour depth: 24 bit. Modem speed: 33.6 Kbit/s
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Re: Some assistance from seasoned users.
On 11/02/2012 20:46, peter livingston wrote: > Folks! > > > > I have recently come to the pleasures of Mathematica from other popular but > very expensive programming methods that I, as a retiree, cannot afford. > > > > My specific question is this: why am I able to get Mathematica to do the > complete integral of sin(x)/x, but it refuses to do any of the other types: > specifically sin^3[x]/x or sin^3[x]/x^3 over the half interval from zero to > infinity. (see page 449 of G& R Table of Integrals). > > > > It seems to suggest that throwing away my Gradshtein and Ryzhik is premature > in spite of the claims in the Mathematica "Mathematics and Algorithms" > manual. > > > > Peter Livingston All of those integrals evaluate, but you have to use Sin - not sin. All the built-in keywords start with a capital letter, and conversely if you use a variable that starts in lower case, you can be sure it is 'yours'. BTW, no error is generated, because Mathematica treats your input (with sin) exactly as it would the integral of f[x]/x^3 - as something that might evaluate later if f is subsequently defined. David Bailey http://www.dbaileyconsultancy.co.uk


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©1994 Donna Leon; (P)2009 BBC Audio
Donna Leon's series has been so highly recommended by so many people for so long that I finally downloaded this book. I found the first half to be very slow-moving, as Leon carefully seeded her plot with clues, red herrings and domestic details. The villains were almost immediately identified, and painted with a very broad brush; the murder "twist" was quickly obvious; the observations on Venetian life only moderately interesting. Then the second half just kind of stumbled to a conclusion. Leon seems very impressed with the decency of her decent characters, which gives the book an odd air of self-satisfaction.
But perhaps it's the narration I found the most off-putting. The narrator is American, so the descriptive bits feel quite transparent to this listener. But, if every single one of your characters is Italian, why adopt an Italian accent in the dialogue? It's not as if we need to distinguish among nationalities (as we did in Neal Stephenson's "Reamde", for instance, or Jess Walter's "Beautiful Ruins"). It puts an unnecessary distance between the listener and the characters, as if they are "colorful characters" rather than people.
"I'm hooked!"
The vivid depiction of Venice.
David Colacci's narration.
Great characters.
The author's understanding of Italy and the Italian people.
Good story telling that kept my interest till the end.
His ability to change his voice to create/interpret the various characters in the book. I actually purchased this book (I'm a first time Donna Leon reader) because Colacci was doing the narration. I became of Colacci from reading the John Lescroart, Dismas Hardy series.
No, because I wanted to make it last as long as possible. I could have listened in one sitting, but I forced myself to limit my sessions.
I'm looking forward to my next book by Donna Leon, but I want Colacci to be the reader. I sampled a little of Willful Behavior with Steven Crossley doing the read and decided I'd skip this one.
"This is my favorite in the series so far"
I havent read the whole series, nor have I read them in order, but this one definitely kept my attention better than the others I have heard.
Commissario Guido is called to a crime scene where the body of what appears to be a transvestite prostitute. However, something doesn't seem quite right to the Commissario and he refuses to just write the crime off because of the type of victim. Besides, the corpse has a body much like Guido's own and he doubts this is a figure people would pay for.
From the undercover world of the gay and transvestite scene in Venice to the seedy and even more covert world of Italian finance Guido must ferret out the truth while staying alive and thwarting very powerful men.
Honestly, the ways in which the characters have to confront ideas of italian masculinity in this maybe what amused me the most. However, it does have a good amount of action as well.
"marvelous duo"
Author Donna Leon and narrator David Colacci area a marvelous duo. Leon's books are literary mysteries. They aren't blood and guts and violence (well, there is some) and they aren't page turners. Leon brings you into the Italian culture as she weaves a nice mystery. The narrator is superb.
"I am so happy to have found this series"
I am so happy to have found this series with the wonderful Commissario Guido Brunetti. Raised on Hercule Poirot and falling in love with Chief Inspector Armand Gamache in the Louise Penny's Three Pines Mysteries, I was searching for another similar series with a smart and likable lead character. I tried the NYPD sergeant Kathleen Mallory series by Carol O'Connell and was very disappointed with the cardboard characters . I am looking forward to listening to all the books with Brunetti and getting to know and like him even more.
"Venice.. Italy .. Finally"
Excellent detective series in a contemporary cozy manner.
WISH the early books were available on Audible. They exist but can not be sold in the USA .
Proud Canadian. Lakeside views. LOVE audio. Living with MS. Prefer male authors. J.K. fooled me aka Silkworm. Action, adventure, suspense!!
I found the narration of this book to put me to sleep!! I was expecting the Italian version of French Canadian "Gamache" however, this was not to be and I did not finish this book as I forcing myself to continue to listen!!
"My first of many Donna Leon novels."
NA. I didn't read the dead tree version.
Paula Brunetti, for her solid grounding.
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OCD over books, listening to 1 a day; ANY genre, fact & fiction. Influenced by Audible reviewers so I keep mine unbiased - FRONT to BLACK!
Gotta love Italian police detective Guido Brunetti! Author Donna Leon serves up Venetian life with a side a great food and wines. The characters are well-rounded and the subject matter is deeply researched. I'm working my way through the entire series and I'm hoping that the missing audiobooks will be available soon.
"Great Donna Leon story"
As usual I love her Brunetti stories. This was an especially good one and I will love working my way through all of them.


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Ben is a third-grade teacher at Brookland Education Campus @ Bunker Hill in Washington DC. Michele is a kindergarten teacher at Gladys Noon Spellman Elementary in Cheverly, Maryland. Over the 2010 summer, both Ben & Michele decide to enroll into an innovative professional development program to improve their teaching practice. After their initial meeting during the Center for Inspired Teaching summer practicum, Ben & Michele return to their respective schools during the 2010-2011 school year to bring new and challenging ideas to their classrooms and students. The film follows Ben & Michele on their journey from dedicated teacher to inspired teacher.
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i was wondering if anybody else bought SotS in the recent sales? And if so, does anybody fancy a multiplayer game? Myself and a friend bought the game a few months ago, but haven't really played it very much. We briefly test out how the multiplayer system works though, and it's pretty slick (especially compared to the problems we've had with Blood Bowl etc).
So, we were wondering, is anybody interested in joining us? We'd be looking at doing a couple of turns a few nights a week. Maybe more maybe less. I think it's possible to set up and run a server for the game, so players can log on and take their shots whenever (similar to Dom3).
Anybody interested?
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1890s: Long travel is difficult, limited principally to rail and horseback or horse-drawn cart, carriage, or sleigh, often on roads that for half the year were impassable. Although the telephone has come into use in some cities in Europe and America, it has not yet reached the likes of Sorin's country estate. While such estates could be situated fairly close to towns providing railway connections to Moscow and other major cities, many people live their lives never venturing more than a few miles away from where they were born.
Today: Modern technology makes it possible for even the most physically isolated communities to stay in touch, not just with the world's urban centers, but with each other. Today, even those geographically isolated in what few wilderness outposts remain, or in transit over the world's remote regions, can talk to relatives or friends with whom...
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SAN BERNARDINO, Calif.
It was minutes before the biggest game of their young lives, one that could deliver their state a gigantic piece of history, a packed stadium and national television audience prepared to sit and watch and hang on every pitch.
Put it this way: Fingernails of those parents in attendance didn't stand a chance.
And just outside their dugout, with the smiles and excitement and innocence you would expect from boys loving the game that once served as a way America passed time, were a group of players from Mountain Ridge Little League and their hip manager.
They were dancing to the song, "Cha Cha Slide."
To the left
Take it back now y'all
One hop this time
Right foot lets stomp
Left foot lets stomp
Cha cha now y'all
They could have added a line right there.
Time to make plans for Williamsport y'all
Mountain Ridge on Saturday night made the history it so justly deserves, becoming the first Nevada team to advance to the Little League World Series, where a small town in Pennsylvania awakes each summer to the sounds of shrieking moms and dads and the pings of mammoth home runs delivered when ball meets composite-barreled bats that cost a small fortune.
Hand it to Mountain Ridge. When its time came to put Nevada on the map of those states to live a World Series dream, it didn't delay. The kids from Las Vegas scored nine first-inning runs and never looked back, routing Pacifica, Calif., 11-2 before 8,556 at Al Houghton Stadium.
"An emotional, emotional ride," said Mountain Ridge manager Ashton Cave, he of the nifty pregame dance moves. "We put a lot of time into selecting this team and it was about meshing, about humility. You need a bunch of humble players that get along and understand their roles. They're role players, utility players, kids that whatever we ask of them, will step up and do it. That's the difference.
"You know, I'm just so grateful. You can say the baseball gods were looking over us, that maybe this year was a perfect storm, first Nevada team to get there. ... But these kids put in a lot of time and hard work. Give them all the credit. So many years, so many lessons, so many people putting in quality time to get them to this point and develop their skills. They just happened to all live in the same area the last four or five years."
This wasn't close, by the way. Not just Saturday. The entire Western Regional.
Mountain Ridge coaches wear inspirational shirts with this message on the back: Always earned, never given.
Earned is right.
Mountain Ridge went 4-0 in pool play, then beat Southern California and Northern California by a combined score of 16-3 in two bracket games.
California has won seven Little League World Series championships, the most of any state and trailing only Taiwan and (17) and Japan (9) for the most in the history of an event that was first played in 1947.
It happened for so long, Little League teams driving south on Interstate 15 and crossing the state line into a chasm of dominant sides, always hoping for the magical time that might one day occur where kids from Nevada toppled mighty California.
That time officially arrived here Saturday when Zachary Hare retired the side in order in the bottom of the sixth.
Fly out.
Ground out.
A celebration at the mound.
Young boys crying tears of joy.
History secured.
"It's amazing to be here right now," said Bradley Stone, who hit one of two Mountain Ridge home runs. "We can pass this feeling down to everyone we know. We will have this to remember forever. We had the right chemistry. We play hard. We're not selfish. We had a goal and reached it."
Their next goal will come upon arriving in Williamsport, where Mountain Ridge as the West representative opens the World Series on Thursday at 4 p.m. PST against the Midwest champion from Rapid City, S.D., on ESPN2.
A victory would send Mountain Ridge to a winner's bracket game Sunday; a loss would mean facing an elimination game Saturday.
"I think this proves the talent in Southern Nevada is getting closer and closer and more competitive with states like California," said Kristi Black, president of Mountain Ridge Little League. "We try and instill that in all our players from the beginning to when they are growing out of Little League baseball — develop their baseball skills, learn life skills and have fun. The kids came here focused and trying to achieve a dream.
"They do believe. We were able to represent (Nevada) here two straight years now and we want to be here again the next couple years. I think we have started making a name for ourselves. The kids had the time of their lives here, meeting and making friends with people from all over the country, relationships they will have the rest of their lives."
The ride isn't over.
This time we're gonna get funky
Everybody clap your hands
Clap clap clap clap your hands
Clap clap clap clap your hands
Clap your hands for the boys from Mountain Ridge y'all
Las Vegas Review-Journal sports columnist Ed Graney can be reached at firstname.lastname@example.com or 702-383-4618. He can be heard from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. Monday through Friday on "Gridlock," ESPN 1100 and 98.9 FM. Follow him on Twitter: @edgraney.


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Father's Day Roast
~~!! KaosAngel !!~~
Dark Fantasy, Cannibalism, Snuff, Written by women
Author's infos
Gender: female Age: N/A Location: N/A
Posted Tue 23rd of November 2010
Wanting to supprise her father on fathers day Jessica decides to give him a meat-girl barbeque, but when the town butcher shop runs out of meat-girls Jessica find herself on the sharp end of the spit.
Father's Day Roast
Story: #32
Copyright ©2005
Written: June 12 2005
A story By: KaosAngel
Proofed by: Piasa_Troll
Please send any comments about this story to (firstname.lastname@example.com)
"Mom?" Jessica called out as she was coming down the stairs from her room wearing nothing more then a thin T-shirt and a pair of red silk panties, "Yes dear" her mother replied as Jessica entered the kitchen, "Father's day is coming up soon, what should I get dad" Jessica asked as she opened the refrigerator and pulled out a plate wrapped in tin foil.
Taking the plate over to the counter she unwrapped it to reveal a fresh cunt steak, popping it into the microwave while her mother turned to her to answer her question, "Well you know how much he likes meat-girls why don't you go over to hills pick one out and we will have a barbeque for him, he will love that" her mother replied as the microwave dinged telling Jessica her cunt steak was ready to eat.
Sitting down at the table Jessica began to eat her cunt steak, "Fathers day is tomorrow can hills fill an order that fast?" Jessica asked as she took a huge bit of her delicious meat, "You will have to go find out, I have never tried to get a meat-girl in such short notice" her mother said while she made the plans for the Father's Day Roast.
When Jessica was finished with her cunt steak she ran back up to her room to change into her street clothes by the time she had come down from her room she found her mother had already planed the entire barbeque, "No backing out now" Jessica thought to herself, "Now I have to get a meat-girl" she further though as she jumped into her car and headed towards Hill's Fine Meats the best girl-meat butcher in town.
Ever since Mayor Perro made cannibalism legal in the small town of Dolcett California, the harvesting of human females were a common sight on the streets of the city, designated meat-girls who still had human rights could still come and go as they please but could no longer ware clothes and had a small ring pierced onto their left labia with a tag connected to it, this tag had all the information any meat processor and harvester would need to know about each meat-girl.
Girl-mean butcher shops like Hill's Fine Meats were popping up all over the city over the last few years since, but Hill's always had to he best, everyone wanted a Hill's branded meat-girl for their barbecue's, this thought him Jessica as she arrived at Hill's to see the large number of men and woman placing their orders for the best meat in town.
Sitting in her car at the Hill's parking lot Jessica debated weather or not she wanted to go inside and try to place her order although, she wasn't legally classified as a meat-girl for harvest she was of age and she knew if Hill's was running low on eat they could order her to give her meat to fill the next order. "It's a gamble either way" she though as she stepped out of her car and into the packed butcher shop.
Just as Jessica had thought when she entered the butcher shop she heard one of the female customers complaining to the head butcher, "What do you mean your out of meat?, when I called and placed my order an hour ago you assured me a meat-girl would be ready for me!" she yelled at the head butcher, "Yes ma'am but we have just run out I am very sorry" was the butchers reply as a man came up to the counter, "I need one meat-girl for a live spit roast at the family barbeque I'm having tomorrow" the man asked.
Jessica knew what was going to happen next, she had heard all the story's about how Hill's converted any girl available when they ran out of meat, so she slowly crept out the door in time to hear the female customer who had complained yelling again, not in anger, but in fear, as two large butchers ran over and grabbed two young woman striped off all her clothes, bound her wrist's tight behind her back and shoved a ball gag in her mouth. The head butcher then took what looked like a gun and placed it between her legs a large pop was heard as she creamed though her ball gag.
When the gun was removed she had a meat-girl tag attached to her left labia, "Here you go sir, one young meat-girl ready to roast for your barbeque" the head butcher said as the man standing by the counter smiled and paid for the meat. Jessica was still in a state of shock at having seen that, but she knew that they did do that when they were out of meat, had she stayed inside any longer she would now be standing next to the now new meat-girl in a similar condition.
Jessica was still sitting in her car outside of Hill's Fine Meats butcher shop as the man came out with his newly converted meat-girl struggling to get away from her owner, Jessica watched as the man forced her into the back of his car that Jessica could see was converted into a cage for transporting meat-girl's who like this one tried to resist her fate. Having seen enough Jessica started the car and headed home, empty handed.
When she got home she found her mother in the kitchen preparing side dishes, and stuffing for the meat-girl Jessica was supposed to bring home, "Where is the meat-girl Jessica?" her mother asked as she looked up to se Jessica come in with no meat, "I couldn't get one, Hill's were all out" Jessica said as she entered the kitchen and sat in a chair, "While I was there this girl was complaining about them being out of meat, then a man came in to pick up his order, you can guess what happened next" Jessica said looking at her mother.
"You don't mean?" her mother stammered, "Yep the butchers came over bound her up tight and converted her to meat status right there and then sold her to the man to fill his meat order" Jessica replied looking into her mothers eye's, "If I hadn't gotten out of there before they converted her I might not be sitting here right now, they would have converted me too, to sell to the next man" Jessica added.
"Well what do we do now?, we have a lot of people coming tomorrow looking for a Father's Day spit roast and we have no meat-girl to put on the spit" her mother reminded Jessica of their meatless predicament, "Humm maybe I can get one of my friends to volunteer to roast for our barbeque" Jessica said trying to think of who she could ask to give up there life for her, "Humm never mind none of my friends would let us roast them" Jessica said lowering her eye's in thought.
"Maybe you can trick one of them into coming here and convert her?" Jessica's mom said, "No, unless they volunteer its murder, we are not certified as meat processors or harvesters" Jessica replied as they both tought harder about how to get a meat-girl for the upcoming Father's Day Roast.
Jessica was upset that she couldn't get a meat-girl and even more upset at her mom for planning the whole thing before knowing if she could get the meat-girl now they have a barbeque planned and no girl to spit, Jessica knew that her father would be upset if they went ahead with the planned barbeque with no girl-meat, she knew what she had to do so her father would not be disappointed on father's day.
"Well mom there is no other choice" Jessica said as she stood up and began striping off her clothes, "You will just have to roast me for tomorrow's barbeque" she added standing in front of her mom completely nude turning her back to her and placing both of her hands behind her back waiting for her mother to use the traditional meat-girl binding strips to bind her wrist's together tight behind her back, "Are you sure honey?, this isn't something you can change your mind about, once I bind your wrist's its permanent until your cooked, you will be a volunteer meat-girl and roasted for tomorrow's barbeque" she said waiting for an answer.
"Yes mom im sure, I wanted to do something special for dad on father's day letting him roast me would be the ultimate gift, now bind me up im ready for the spit" Jessica replied as he mother used the permanent meat-girl bindings converting her lovely young daughter into a delicious looking young meat-girl, "Don't get ahead of yourself, you know your father gets to tenderize every meat-girl he cooks before she meets the spit" her mother reminded her.
"Ohh right, but he's my father?" Jessica replied, "No he's not, not anymore, your are a meat-girl now, just live stock for the harvesting, just like any of those meat-girls out there" she looked out the window to see nude meat-girls walking around, some lead by leash as pets and some bound up just like Jessica was now, ready to roast for tomorrow, "When your former father gets home i will tell him all that we have planned for him and about your gift to him, until then you stay hidden in the meat locker" she said as she placed a ball gag into Jessica's mouth completing the meat-girl ensemble.
Jessica was then pushed into a small dark room in the back of the house behind the kitchen, this was where the family stored their meat-girls before they were ready for tenderizing and spitting, While Jessica waited bound and uncomfortable in the meat-girl storage locker, her mother was busily cooking and preparing all the things she would need in the morning when it was time to stuff and spit her former daughter now turned meat-girl for the Father's Day Roast.
Several hours later Jessica's former father soon to be tenderizer came home, entering the kitchen he could see all the prep work being done, "What's gong on here?, you going to cook up a meat-girl?" he asked as he moved close to his wife, "Yes we have a meat-girl to roast for a barbeque Jessica and I planned for tomorrow" she replied as her husband looked around the room, "Ohh where is that daughter of mine?" he asked, "She will be out in a few minutes and then all will be explained" his wife replied, "Why don't you go out to the shed and get the spit cleaned up and ready for tomorrow, when you come back you can meet the meat-girl and start her tenderizing" she said pushing him out the back door toward the shed.
When the spit was cleaned polished and ready for tomorrow Jessica's former father headed back to the house toward the kitchen entrance, "Ok its ready hun, now where's this meat-girl?" he asked as she pointed toward the meat-girl storage locker. Walking over to the locker he opened it to see his daughter standing there nude bound up like a meat-girl, "What's this?, your going to roast up our daughter?" he said in shock, "No we are going to roast up the meat-girl that volunteered who use to be our daughter" she replied as her husband signaled for Jessica to exit the storage locker.
"Ill take off the gag so she can tell you herself" his wife said as she removed the gag allowing Jessica to talk, "Hi dad, I wanted to do something special for you for fathers day, I tried to get a certified meat-girl from Hill's but they were all out, so I agreed that you and mom can roast me instead" she said looking into her former father's eye's, "So go ahead daddy treat me like you would any other meat-girl on your table, cause that's all I am now, you know there is no way to remove the meat-girl bindings, if you don't roast me tomorrow ill die in a day or so anyway, and that would be a waste of good girl-meat and I know how you hate to waste girl-meat" she added with a smile on her face.
"Ok sweetie if that is the way you want it then that is the way you will have it" he said as he forced the ball gag back in her mouth, Jessica suddenly had a flashback in her mind of all the other meat-girl he had tenderized and remember he liked to be pitifully violent and torture them before spitting them, with this image in her head now she tried to resist him as he forced her back into the meat-girl storage locker until tomorrow, where he would work on her tenderizing in the morning then spit her in the afternoon where she would then cook up nice and golden brown and be ready by dinner time.
There was nothing Jessica could do now but wait in her tiny dark meat-girl locker for morning to come and her former father to unleash his tortures on her newly converted meat-girl body, like Jessica had said when she talked to her father the meat-girl bindings were permanent designed in a way that cause it to grow tighter and tighter every few hours squeezing the life out of her wrist's sort of like what happens to wet raw-hide as it dries but 10 times worse, if the binding was removed Jessica would die immediately, and if left on, even if she didn't roast tomorrow the bindings would grow so tight that she would die anyway, so she really had no other choice but to sit in her meat-girl storage locker and wait for her fait to talk her, which ever fate that maybe.
The next morning even before she had woken up the door to the meat-girl storage locker opened and standing in the door was Jessica's former father now turned tenderizer, Jessica began to wake up as he moved toward her, she began to show some fear in her eye's, but he was expecting that all meat-girls have that same look in their eye's when he comes toward them at the start, Jessica was no different, but she decided she would take anything he would do to her cause today was his day, today was Father's Day. Although technically with his only daughter's impending roast he was no longer a father.
Deciding for himself to enjoy this day he would not go easy on the meat just because it use to be his daughter, reaching out for her he grabbed her by her hair picked her up and threw her out the meat-girl locker door into the kitchen where she hit the floor hard tear's filling her eye's, "Your day has only began sweetie, or should I say sweet meat, yes that's a better name for you now, by the time im done with your tenderizing torture's you will be begging me to spit you" he said as she lay there on the floor quietly crying with some blood dripping from the open cut she now had on her face from hitting the floor.
He walked over and grabbed her hair again pulling her to her feet, with her hands still bound tight behind her back she could do nothing to resist him and that was the way she was meant to be she was the meat and he sure was going to enjoy tenderizing her, "First you see we need to make sure all your hair is gone, don't want people getting hair in their food" he said as he left the room for a moment leavening Jessica standing their to afraid to move in fear of angering her former father.
When he returned he had a blow torch in his hand the sight of it scared Jessica she had seen girl-meat hair removed with a blow torch before, it is the quickest way to remove the pubic hair and although it is not the most painful way it does hurt quite a bit as the hair is singed away, Jessica knew what she was supposed to do so with little help from her tenderizer she was on top of the counter in seconds, still sitting up she placed her feet into stirrups that came out over the edge of the table where they were locked in place.
Giving her a big smile her tenderizer turned the blow torch onto high and touched it to her bare pussy singeing away some of her hair, leaving the flame there for more time then needed to singe away all the hair started to cook her cunt steak, she was screaming loud through her ball gag and crying begging him to stop what he was doing with her eye's, he expected this, all meat-girl's do it when he torches them.
When he finally removed the flame from her exposed pussy the smell of cooking girl-meat was in the air, she had started to turn a light brown with some blistering, Jessica was now gratefully he removed the flame and that she was able to endure the pain, "What will be next?" she wondered while he allowed her some time to adjust to the pain in her lower body, he allowed her more time then the usual meat-girl he was showing her a little more compassion then past meat-girls he had on his table.
When he returned to his little meat-girl on the table the pain in her pussy was just starting to let up but not gone, he saw the tears in her eye's as he got closer to her, then did something he would never do for any other meat-girl, he removed her gag allowing her to speak to him, "Please don't! Please no more" was all she could say. Looking at the tears in her eye's and her blistered pussy he decided she had enough, "Ok I wont go any further with the normal tenderizing torture, but I still have to fuck you" he said while releasing her feet from the stirrups.
Jessica jumped down from the table the labia of her pussy rubbing together as she hit the floor caused her enough pain to make her lose her balance and her rump hit the floor, she was helped to her feet and then they went to Jessica's room, her father placing her on the bed on her back with her arms tucked behind her she was ready to receive him, spreading her legs and not wanting to waste time since it was nearly 11:00am almost time to stuff her with tasty stuffing, but first he would stuff her with his cock.
Taking his place at the entrance to her pussy he pushed his cock in slightly to find she was still a virgin, he figured taking her virginity could not be as painful as torching her labia with a blow torch so he plowed in deep in one thrust until he was all the way inside her, Jessica squealed loudly not from the pain of losing her virginity but from the pain of her fathers public hair rubbing on her bare blistered labia.
Before they knew it the hour went by and it was now 12:00noon and Jessica's mother was calling for them it was time to get the roast stuffed and spitted to be ready by dinner time, Jessica was helped to her feet and surprisingly her labia were not in much pain witch was a relief to her, she had hoped to enjoy the spit sliding though her she would be able to do that if her pussy was in burning pain, that would just add to her torture.
Jessica was lead down stairs by her father to the kitchen where she found her mother totally naked mixing a second bowl if stuffing, Jessica seeing her mother nude like a meat-girl cause her to ask, "Mom why are you nude?" she said as her father looked and at the same time asked "Hun why you nude?" both Jessica and her father looked at each other then back to her mother who replied, "I made a huge mistake, I invited so many people Jessica could never feed them all by herself, you will have to roast me too, I don't want anyone to go home hungry" she replied with a smile on her face as she continued to mix the bowl of stuffing that would soon be packed into her own belly.
"Do you want a quick fuck before I spit you hun" her husband asked, "No that's ok Im all fucked out, see when I told the guests about my mistake and that I would be on the menu as well, all your friends got in line and started fucking me like a common meat-girl for sexual pleasure" she replied as she picked up both bowls of stuffing and walked toward the back door to the yard where the pit and the guests were waiting, "You coming you two" she said with a mile as she opened the door and walked out.
Jessica and her father followed her out the door, "As soon as my husband and I finish stuffing and spitting Jessica, I will be bound, stuffed and spitted as well to roast" she said as Jessica walked over to a large picnic table, "I couldn't rent a spitting machine in such short notice so we will both have to be spitted by hand" Jessica said to the crowed of guests many of them were her teenage friends and their mom's and dad's.
Jessica bent over the picnic table resting her chest and breasts on top of it as her mother and father placed a took inside her pussy that opened her up wide enough to force hand fulls of stuffing inside her, they pushed it passed her cervix into her womb where it would be sure to cook up nice in her juices and still allowed the spit room to pass though her, when her belly was full she looked to be about 9 months pregnant, "She is ready for the spit her father proclaimed he was then handed a spit by one of Jessica's friends. Who was enjoying herself so much had been servicing all the men at the roast orally and vaginally.
Jessica's father placed the sharp end of the spit inside her pussy and pushed it in deep, with expert precision the sharp point of the spit was completely though her and came out of her mouth blood dripping from its deadly tip, Jessica's father and her mother wasted no time in securing her legs to the end of the spit and placing her over the coals to roast. Once she was rotating it was clear to all she was enjoying herself now twitching in one organism after another fucking herself on the spit.
Jessica's mother presented herself to her husband much the same as Jessica had done with her mother the day before she turned her back to him and placed both wrists behind her back and he quickly bound them tight using the same permanent meat-girl bindings she had used on Jessica now she was in the same predicament if she changed her mind now it was too late she knew the bindings would take her life even if the spit didn't.
Before long both mother and daughter were rotating over the coals browning nicely while the entire party were engaged in an orgy of honor for the two lovely roasting meat-girls, Lina one of Jessica's friends was in the middle of bouncing on top of her own fathers cock as she saw him looking at her lovely friends roast then look at her then back to the roasting Jessica then at her again, just as they both came, her all over his cock and him inside her tight pussy, he had started to ask the question, but was cut off, "Don't even think about it dad, your not converting me to meat-girl" Lina said as she jumped off his cock in search of another hard cock to take inside her.
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Anonymous reader
2016-11-30 05:35:48
This is one of my favorite stories. I would love to hear more details about the stuffing and spitting process.
Anonymous reader
2016-04-22 19:07:01
i liked the mother nd doughter spitting , though the details were short. nd most like the girl talk to her father at the last nd find another cock . will expect more orgy of family nd frhends before roasting or in front of the roast. nd a (one by one all volenteering to be roast) .like - twin saw her sister nd want to do same nd then mother want the same too nd then friends too.
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2016-04-22 19:06:59
i liked the mother nd doughter spitting , though the details were short. nd most like the girl talk to her father at the last nd find another cock . will expect more orgy of family nd frhends before roasting or in front of the roast. nd a (one by one all volenteering to be roast) .like - twin saw her sister nd want to do same nd then mother want the same too nd then friends too.
anonymous reader
2012-12-03 21:51:38
Repetitive stories. Nothing very original here. Challenge yourself to come up with new forms of torture and such. Spits and backyard bbqs over and over again is quite redundant.
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2012-05-22 08:54:58
This story made me really hard. Now I can't stop reading your stories.
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yay I like this alot ^^ keep gooooing ^^
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Interesting character designs. They're simple, but that's what makes them intriguing. The monochrome really adds to the tone, it really feels dream-like (or nightmare-like)!


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The perception of many surrounding the Red Sox ownership group since the team's on-field collapse in September of 2011, through the one year Bobby Valentine "era," right up to the start of the 2013 season was that whenever things got bad, John Henry, Tom Werner and Larry Lucchino were there to make things worse — all by attempting to spin things back in their direction with their mouths.
That approach backfired with fans as the team's record sell-out streak at Fenway Park officially ended on April 10 of this year after 820 consecutive games at "100 percent capacity" or above.
One year ago this month, Lucchino sent out a letter to Sox season ticket holders that was openly mocked by the media and fans alike on sports radio and on the internet. Lucchino's intention was likely to give Red Sox fans hope and to give them a reason to come to Fenway in the second half of the 2012 season despite the fact that the team was sitting at .500 (43-43 at last year's All-Star break). There were more than a few dreaded "red seats" popping up at Fenway on NESN home broadcasts despite the "streak" and Lucchino spoke more about the allure of the ballpark itself in the letter than the on-field product.
"As you come to Fenway Park throughout this season, we hope you will come early—the secret to fully enjoying a sports venue," Lucchino wrote. "Now 'A Living Museum,' Fenway Park probably leads the league in bronze plaques and commemorative displays along the concourses. Enjoy them at your leisure early, well before the escalation of excitement as game time approaches."
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Llyn y Forwyn
The following tale of Llyn y Forwyn (Damsel's Pool) appeared in 'Celtic Folklore Welsh And Manx' (1901) by John Rhys and was in turn a translation of a Welsh language version featured in Elfed and Cadrawd's 'Cyfaill yr Aelwyd a'r Frythones' (1892).
'Llyn y Forwyn, " the Damsel's Pool," is in the parish of Ystrad Tyfodwg: the inhabitants call it also Llyn Nelferch. It lies about halfway between the farm house of Rhondda Fechan, "Little Rhonda," and the Vale of Safrwch. The ancient tradition concerning it is somewhat as follows:--
'Once on a time a farmer lived at the Rhonda Fechan: he was unmarried, and as he was walking by the lake early one morning in spring he beheld a young woman of beautiful appearance walking on the other side of it. He approached her and spoke to her: she gave him to understand that her home was in the lake, and that she owned a number of milch cows, that lived with her at the bottom of the water. The farmer fancied her so much that he fell in love with her over head and ears: he asked her on the spot for her hand and heart; and he invited her to come and spend her life with him as his wife at the Rhondda Fechan. She declined at first, but as he was importunate she consented at last on the following conditions, namely, that she would bring her cattle with her out of the lake, and live with him until he and she had three disputes with one another: then, she said, she and the cattle would return into the lake. He agreed to the conditions, and the marriage took place. They lived very happily and comfortably for long years; but the end was that they fell out with one another, and, when they happened to have quarrelled for the third time, she was heard early in the morning driving the cattle towards the lake with these words:--
Prw dre', Prw dre', prw'r gwartheg i dre';
Prw Milfach a Malfach, pedair Llualfach,
Alfach ac Ali, pedair Ladi,
Wynebwen drwynog, tro i'r waun lidiog,
Trech llyn y waun odyn, tair Pencethin,
Tair caseg ddu draw yn yr eithin
And into the lake they went out of sight, and there they live to this day. And some believed that they had heard the voice and cry of Nelferch in the whisper of the breeze on the top of the mountain hard by--many a time after that--as an old story (weddal) will have it.'
From this it will be seen that the fairy wife's name was supposed to have been Nelferch, and that the piece of water is called after her. But I find that great uncertainty prevails as to the old name of the lake, as I learn from a communication in 1894 from Mr. Llewellyn Williams, living at Porth, only some five miles from the spot, that one of his informants assured him that the name in use among former generations was Llyn Alfach. Mr. Williams made inquiries at the Rhondda Fechan about the lake legend. He was told that the water had long since been known as Llyn y Forwyn, from a morwyn, or damsel, with a number of cattle having been drowned in it. The story of the man who mentioned the name as Llyn Alfach was similar: the maid belonged to the farm of Penrhys, he said, and the young man to the Rhonda Fechan, and it was in consequence of their third dispute, he added, that she left him and went back to her previous service, and afterwards, while taking the cattle to the water, she sank accidentally or purposely into the lake, so that she was never found any more. Here it will be seen how modern rationalism has been modifying the story into something quite uninteresting but without wholly getting rid of the original features, such as the three disputes between the husband and wife. Lastly, it is worth mentioning that this water appears to form part of a bit of very remarkable scenery, and that its waves strike on one side against a steep rock believed to contain caves, supposed to have been formerly inhabited by men and women. At present the place, I learn, is in the possession of Messrs. Davis and Sons, owners of the Ferndale collieries, who keep a pleasure boat on the lake. I have appealed to them on the question of the name Nelferch or Alfach, in the hope that their books would help to decide as to the old form of it. Replying on their behalf, Mr. J. Probert Evans informs me that the company only got possession of the lake and the adjacent land in 1862, and that 'Llyn y Vorwyn' is the name of the former in the oldest plan which they have. Inquiries have also been made in the neighbourhood by my friend, Mr. Reynolds, who found the old tenants of the Rhondda Fechan Farm gone, and the neighbouring farm house of Dyffryn Safrwch supplanted by colliers' cottages. But he calls my attention to the fact, that perhaps the old name was neither Nelferch nor Alfach, as Elfarch, which would fit equally well, was once the name of a petty chieftain of the adjoining Hundred of Senghenydd, for which he refers me to Clark's Glamorgan Genealogies.
It is hard to pin point the location based on old names. The map shows an area near a road called Rhondda Fechan Farm in Ferndale which was on the eastern side of the ancient parish of Ystradyfodwg (Vale of Tyfodwg). Slightly south of this road is Llyn y Forwyn School which is named after the lake and between the two is a pool which has been referred to on on Flikr as Llyn y Forwyn.
A longer version of the fairy wife's call to her cattle, as appears in Glanffrwd's Plwyf Llanwyno, 'the Parish of Llanwynno (Pontypridd, 1888).
Prw me, prw me,
Prw 'ngwartheg i dre';
Prw Melen a Ioco,
Tegwen a Rhuddo,
Rhudd-frech a Moel-frech,
Pedair Lliain-frech;
Lliain-frech ag Eli,
A phedair Wen-ladi,
Ladi a Chornwen,
A phedair Wynebwen;
Nepwen a Rhwynog,
Tali Lieiniog;
Brech yn y Glyn
Dal yn dyn;
Tair lygeityn,
Tair gyffredin,
Tair Caseg ddu, draw yn yr eithin,
Deuwch i gyd i lys y Brenin;
Bwla, bwla,
Saif yn flaena',
Saf yn ol y wraig o'r Ty-fry,
Fyth nis godri ngwartheg i!
John Rhys in 'Celtic Folklore Welsh And Manx' (1901) gives a second version and discusses similarities with the legend associated with Llyn y Fan Fach.
Mr. Probert Evans having kindly given me the address of an aged farmer who formerly lived in the valley, my friend, Mr. Llywarch Reynolds, was good enough to visit him. Mr. Reynolds shall report the result in his own words, dated January 9, 1899, as follows:--
'I was at Pentyrch this morning, and went to see Mr. David Evans, formerly of Cefn Colston.
'The old man is a very fine specimen of the better class of Welsh farmer; is in his eighty-third year; hale and hearty, intelligent, and in full possession of his faculties. He was born and bred in the Rhondda Fechan Valley, and lived there until some forty years ago. He had often heard the lake story from an old aunt of his who lived at the Maerdy Farm (a short distance north of the lake), and who died a good many years ago, at a very advanced age.
He calls the lake "Llyn Elferch," and the story, as known to him, has several points in common with the Llyn y Fan legend, which, however, he did not appear to know. He could not give me many details, but the following is the substance of the story as he knows it:--The young farmer, who lived with his mother at the neighbouring farm, one day saw the lady on the bank of the lake, combing her hair, which reached down to her feet. He fell in love at first sight, and tried to approach her; but she evaded him, and crying out, Ddali di ddim o fi, crâs dy fara! (Thou wilt not catch me, thou of the crimped bread), she sank into the water. He saw her on several subsequent occasions, and gave chase, but always with the same result, until at length he got his mother to make him some bread which was not baked (or not baked so hard); and this he offered to the lady. She then agreed to become his wife, subject to the condition that if he offended her, or disagreed with her three times (ar yr ammod, os byssa: fa yn 'i chroesi hi dair gwaith) she would leave him and return into the lake with all her belongings.
'1. The first disagreement (croes) was at the funeral of a neighbour, a man in years, at which the lady gave way to excessive weeping and lamentation. The husband expressed surprise and annoyance at this excessive grief for the death of a person not related to them, and asked the reason for it; and she replied that she grieved for the defunct on account of the eternal misery that was in store for him in the other world.
'2. The second "croes" was at the death of an infant child of the lady herself, at which she laughed immoderately; and in reply to the husband's remonstrance, she said she did so for joy at her child's escape from this wicked world and its passage into a world of bliss.
'3. The third "croes" Mr. Evans was unable to call to mind, but equally with the other two it showed that the lady was possessed of preternatural knowledge; and it resulted in her leaving her husband and returning into the lake, taking the cattle, with her. The accepted explanation of the name of the lake was Llyn El-ferch 1 (= Hela 'r ferch), "because of the young man chasing the damsel" (hela 'r ferch).
'The following is the cattle-call, as given to me by Mr. Evans' aged housekeeper, who migrated with the family from Rhonda Fechan to Pentyrch:
Prw i, Prw e ,
Prw 'ngwartheg sha [= tua] thre';
Mil a môl a melyn gwtta;
Milfach a malfach;
Petar [= pedair] llearfach;
Llearfach ag aeli;
Petar a lafi;
Lafi a chornwan [= wèn];
[ . . . ] 'Nepwan drwynog;
Drotwan [= droedwen] liliog;
Tair Byncethin;
Tair gyffretin;
Tair casag ddu
Draw yn yr ithin [= eithin],
Dewch i gyd i lys y brenin.
Mr. Evans told me that Dyffryn Safrwch was considered to be a corruption of Dyffryn Safn yr Hwch, "Valley of the Sow's Mouth"; so that the explanation was not due to a minister with whom I foregathered on my tramp near the lake the other day, and from whom I heard it first.'
The similarity between Mr. Evans' version of this legend and that of Llyn y Fan Fach, tends to add emphasis to certain points which I had been inclined to treat as merely accidental. In the Fan Fach legend the young man's mother is a widow, and here he is represented living with his mother. Here also something depends on the young man's bread, but it is abruptly introduced, suggesting that a part of the story has been forgotten. Both stories, however, give one the impression that the bread of the fairies was regarded as always imperfectly baked.


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