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Shock Question?
Hi all I have a question regarding front shock mounting, if I use the mounts on my four bar that will put my shocks mounted to the front of my car and if I rotate my mounts inward then I run into interferance with other obstacles , so was wandering if I don't use the mounts on the bottom of the perch bolts and make a mount off the bat wing that should provide the room I need just was not sure if the bat wing would handle the abuse of a shock. If your in question of my problem check my journal out and yes this car will be a full fendered 1926 model-t when done any help or pics of any one's projects would be great. thanks
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The lower four bar mount bolt on a straight axle is going the wrong direction to mount a shock. It will bind up a shock when the car leans... Also you will probably have interference from the tie rod when the car turns. The cutout in the batwing is there to clear the tie rod.
Use the lower shock mounts you have ...they work. (I looked at your journal) Later, Mikey
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powerrodsmike, I checked my clearance with my tie rods left to right I think it should work , if I use the mounts on the axle I will have my shocks right out in front for all to see they are not hidden that way and if they are rotated toward the back there is not enough room for them to work , I guess I'm confused as how a shock can get in a bind wheather it is mounted in the front or rear of the axle.
Also you should consider that your shock will be installed in a much more vertical position using the 4 bar bolt as a mount...this will make the car ride stiff in front. Do what you want, the fact that those perch bolt mounted shock mounts are used on so many cars is a testament to the fact that they work. I suggest that you do as I have done in the past...remove the spring and move the front axle through it's travel with the shocks and panhard bar installed to see what I'm talking about. Later, mikey
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DNA tests confirm that Ariel Castro is the father of a 6-year-old girl born to one of the three women he is accused of keeping in captivity for close to a decade, the Ohio attorney general's office said Friday.
Castro's DNA did not match that from any other open Ohio cases, according to Dan Tierney, a spokesman for the attorney general's office. National results are pending through the FBI, he said.
Amanda Berry's 6-year-old daughter was among those rescued Monday when Berry escaped from the home where police say she had been held since Castro allegedly lured her into his car on April 21, 2003.
Also freed: Michelle Knight, who disappeared in 2002, and Georgina "Gina" DeJesus, who vanished in 2004.
Berry had identified Castro as the father.
A judge ordered Castro held Thursday on $8 million bond on kidnapping and rape charges.
Cuyahoga County Prosecutor Timothy McGinty said he would seek additional charges against Castro for "each and every act of sexual violence, each day of kidnapping, all his attempted murders and each act of aggravated murder."
The attempted and aggravated murders refer to instances in which Castro allegedly forced miscarriages in his captives after impregnating them, according to McGinty.
According to an initial incident report obtained by CNN, Knight told investigators immediately after she was freed that she had become pregnant at least five times while in captivity, and that Castro repeatedly starved and punched her in the stomach to induce a miscarriage.
Prosecutors are trying to determine whether he would be eligible for the death penalty.
Meanwhile, new questions have emerged about how authorities handled the search for Knight, whose disappearance generated far less publicity and attention than did those of Berry and DeJesus.
The Plain Dealer newspaper reported Friday that Cleveland police removed Knight's name from an FBI database of missing people 15 months after her family reported her missing.
The newspaper cited a city spokeswoman as saying police followed proper procedures in removing her name from the list because they weren't able to reach her mother to verify that she was still missing.
But the newspaper said police department policies require that an officer verify in person that someone who has been reported missing has returned.
Cleveland police have been subject to intense criticism from some quarters over their handling of missing persons cases, and city officials have said they did everything they could to find the missing women.
While Berry and DeJesus are staying with relatives, Knight remains hospitalized in good condition. Hospital officials have declined to say what she's being treated for.
"Michelle Knight is in good spirits and would like the community to know that she is extremely grateful for the outpouring of flowers and gifts," the hospital said in a Facebook posting Friday. "She is especially thankful for the Cleveland Courage Fund. She asks that everyone please continue to respect her privacy at this time."
The Cleveland Courage Fund is an effort to raise money that will help nonprofit organizations provide services to the three women.
According to the initial report, the women told investigators that they were chained in the basement of the home, but later moved upstairs to rooms on the second floor. They were allowed out of the home only twice, and then just briefly, according to the document.
Castro would frequently test the women by pretending to leave and then discipline any of them if they had moved, according to a law enforcement source.
Castro has confessed to some of the allegations, a law enforcement source closely involved with the investigation told CNN on Thursday.
Authorities have also been reviewing a lengthy document described by a law enforcement source as "more of a diary" in which the source said Castro cites being abused by family members as justification for his actions.
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The desperate attempt by Tom Hicks and George Gillett to hold on to Liverpool took another extraordinary twist last night when they managed to halt the sale of the club yet again – securing a temporary restraining order from a Texas court which was served on the club just five minutes before the start of a board meeting expected to ratify the new owner's succession.
On a night of extraordinary drama, even by the standards of the past eight days, billionaire businessman John W Henry, owner of New England Sports Ventures arrived at the London board meeting, expecting to be confirmed as the new owner and with plans to pay the £300m required to buy Liverpool today. Henry and his NESV chairman Tom Werner were also both preparing to be at Goodison Park on Sunday for the club's critical derby match.
But at 8.25pm, five minutes before the meeting was due to start, the Liverpool directors were served with the restraining order and when Hicks and Gillett made contact through a conference call facility minutes later their message was words to the effect of "We're restraining you." It was a carbon copy of the Americans' conference call tactics at last week's meeting in the same offices, convened to agree the NESV sale, when they rang to declare three of the directors suspended.
Lawyers were scrambling to ascertain the jurisdiction of the Texas District Court in Dallas, which described the imminent sale to New England Sports Ventures as a "swindle of epic proportions." It is understood that the club's non-executive chairman, Martin Broughton, who brought about the proposed NESV sale, must now wait several days to conclude it. He must go back to the High Court and through the Texas legal system to prove the restraining order carries no weight. He is confident that he will succeed again.
Though last night's board meeting at the London office of solicitors Slaughter & May "resolved to complete the sale of the club to NESV" according to a statement issued by Liverpool, the restraining order was enough to "prevent the transaction being complete."
Even if the order cannot be enforced by Hicks and Gillett, the paperwork confirms something that managing director Christian Purslow has been particularly aware of – that the outgoing owners will pursue the remaining three directors for damages, seeking compensation for an under-valuation of the club which has seen them lose £144m. Hicks' and Gillett's High Court defeat yesterday is believed to leave them liable to pay costs of around £500,000, including a portion to NESV.
Henry arrived at the board meeting clutching two briefcases and declaring that he was "pretty confident" as he headed into the meeting. But in less than an hour he was to be confronted by the restraining order.
The suit accuses the English directors' of an "epic swindle" in which they conspired to devise and execute a scheme to sell Liverpool to NESV at a price they know to be well below true market value. It repeated arguments Mr Justice Floyd had utterly dismissed in Court 18 of the High Court seven hours earlier, about how the "defendants" – Broughton, Purslow, commercial director Ian Ayre and finance director Philip Nash – had marginalised Hicks and Gillett from the sales process.
But Hicks also introduced information about two new higher valuations for the club – one of which was touched upon in court; the other not mentioned, which was a bad omission if Hicks considered it significant
One of the bidders was represented by FBR Capital Markets, offering to purchase Liverpool FC for £375m to £400m, the Texas court papers said. A letter from the bidder had informed Hicks that the potential purchaser would not need financing, possessed the funds to close the transaction, and intended to build a new stadium.
Hicks also claimed through the court that he and Gillett had heard about another potential investor that made a similar offer in the £350m to £400m range "that was communicated to Defendant Broughton and another unnamed co-conspirator in late August." (The language becomes more far-fetched as the restraining order advances.) Hicks claims Broughton failed to respond to this buyer.
Liverpool's players will presumably be depressed to awake to the latest developments today, since they were already preparing to usher in the new era yesterday, with Jamie Carragher issuing a typically intelligent and uncompromising response. "We have changed the manager, changed the board and if things don't change now then the players will go, too," he said. "Everything else has changed, it is just the players who have stayed the same."
The High Court may take a dim view, too, given that the ground had been cleared for the board meeting after Mr Justice Floyd's insistence that by 8pm last night Hicks and Gillett must sign documents asserting that the two men they had suspended – Purslow and Ayre – had been reinstated. The court case, brought by RBS, turned on Clauses 1c and 1d in a "corporate governance sideletter" signed with RBS on 15 April this year. This transferred the right to hire and fire directors to Broughton as one of the conditions on which the Americans would get an extension of the £200m loan they took to buy the club.
"The outgoing Americans took a decision to renege on that pledge, knowing it was illegal to do so, but they tried to use the court case to present the notion that Broughton has 'rushed' into a sale of the club while ignoring higher bids," the judge said.
Broughton's written submissions to court showed that he had approached 130 possible buyers, and that the announcement of the sale process on 16 April delivered 27 expressions of interest, with 13 firm ones. He had also called board meetings on 4, 13 and 27 August, then 28 September, to discuss the sale process and had invited the Americans to last Tuesday's fateful meeting at which the NESV deal was accepted.
Liverpool reaction: 'It's a major step forward. Totally over the moon'
Steven Gerrard Liverpool captain
A fantastic result and credit to Christian Purslow and Martin Broughton who have worked so hard.
Jamie Carragher Liverpool defender
A lot of supporters will be delighted with the outcome. I am sure that will give us a feel-good factor.
John W Henry Head of NESV consortium
Well done Martin, Christian and Ian [Ayre]. Well done RBS. Well done supporters.
Rafael Benitez Former Liverpool manager
Today I am so happy for the people of Liverpool. Finally the club can move forward and get stability.
Chris de Burgh Singer
Hicks & Gillett were catastrophic; like unwanted houseguests who outstay their welcome.
David Fairclough Former Liverpool striker
It is good news and Liverpool can look forward. There will be smiles on the faces of the fans.
Uwinsa RedandWhiteKop.com
Totally over the moon. Well done everybody who helped us get here, never underestimate fan power.
Tinhat LFCOnline.com
Now maybe we can get back to doing things the Liverpool way, behind closed doors, in house.
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It's December already, snow fell yesterday and Christmas is in a few weeks already. Time for some Christmas amigurumi! I wanted to make something for Christmas for weeks, but I'm so busy these days… Thursday I had some free time so I started to make this teddy and finished it today. This is the first pattern I made for my blog, so I hope you like it.
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I will give you an introduction about my crafts/creative activities. This is very difficult, I have had so many different hobbies.. drawing, crafting things from paper, origami, clay, beading, crochet and amigurimi. I may have forgotten something. This post is to somewhat show what kinds of crafts you can expect on Hungry at Midnight.


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A survey of the multifaceted animal rights movement where polar positions on protest and protection are thrown into the ring. Amiable alternatives to animal liberation are up against radically aggressive activism and the questionable ethics of corporate campaigning and celebrity endorsement. What emerges, however, is a larger context for rights and tactics in an American political climate quick to silence non-conformists. Even with the loose definition of a 21st century terrorist, the FBI's deeming of...more
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An Israeli settler jailed for life for the murder of a Palestinian is to be freed early next week, against the advice of the attorney general, a prisons spokesman said Thursday.
Yoram Skolnick was ordered released on bail by retired judge Eli Sharon, head of a committee on remission of sentences, who said he had expressed "sincere regrets for his action."
Elyakim Rubinstein, the government's top legal adviser, disagreed, calling Skolnick "a public danger."
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Barham Bridge over the Murray River
Dive into a river adventure at the twin towns of Barham and Koondrook. Revel in long, sunny days spent fishing, canoeing and camping among the red gum forests and wetlands. Feeling competitive? Get involved in some friendly competition over a game of golf.
Tee off at the Barham Golf and Country Club – a par 72 layout, carved into a natural bush setting. To follow in the footsteps of pro golfer Stuart Appleby, play a round at the Cohuna Golf Course where the nine-time PGA champ spent his formative years. Alternatively, head to CluBarham on the NSW side of the twin towns to play on slick greens set in natural bushland.
Summertime transforms the Murray into a playground for the old and young alike. Cycle the scenic riverside trails or take a drive out to the Kerang Lakes district, an area perfect for water-skiing, canoeing, wake boarding and swimming.
Cast a line for golden perch and Murray cod in the Murray or enjoy a picnic at the Barham Lakes Complex, four interconnected artificial lakes surrounded by grasslands, picnic facilities, a walking track and a swimming area with a beach.
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Whist morality is an innate human quality with evolutionary advantages, it was nonetheless well shepherded in early cultural development by religion. Although we now have a better understanding of the natural origins of morality and are more than capable of being good without god, tradition and culture still maintain the now defunct association between religion and morality. So much so that as soon as we suspect a moral decline the first port of call for the press and media is always a priest or bishop to point us in the right moral direction. We install Bishops in the House of Lords to ensure a moral health-check on new legislation and we religiously broadcast platitudes on the Radio 4's Today programme just to keep our moral compasses in check. Tradition, culture and public opinion will simply not accept the uncoupled status of religion and morality.
To their credit though, the Catholic Church have been working very hard to clearly demonstrate this misconnect. We are familiar with the church's institutionalised child abuse and habitual cover ups, we're familiar with the frequent homophobia, the antiquated suppression of women and the unforgivable deadly sexual health misinformation. But the vast majority of us still refuse to let the church step down from the moral high ground.
Today sees a new low in Catholic immorality as the secret of Spain's stolen babies is finally revealed. Parents considered "undesirable" or morally or economically deficient by priests, nuns and doctors were told their babies had died so that they could be placed with "approved" families.
Despite the revelation of this latest scandal (which the Catholic Church is of course at the heart of), I have no doubts that we will still be encouraged to look up to these child traffickers for our moral guidance.
I'll wager that even if the Vatican installed gas chambers and ovens in St Peter's Basilica and invaded Poland, we would still be wheeling in a priest to give us a good talking to on our depraved morality.


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Well, so much for the idea of a patriotic-themed launch party for this device. Still, if you're on AT&T and you're excited about getting your hands on the exclusive red version of Samsung's latest and greatest flagship phone, your wait is about to be at an end. In a few short days, starting on July 15th, AT&T will be offering the device en rouge via pre-order on its site.
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Alpine Kiwanis Car Show & Chili Cook-Off - September 21, 2013
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The Alpine Kiwanis Club and Alpine Community Center are having a car show and a chili cook off on September 21, 2013 at the community center. Mark your calendar. Call Jerry Price at 709-4411 or Doug Benson at 445-3328 for more information.


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Trungpa Rinpoche on the Nature of Mind; Berkeley, Ca, 1971
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Westchester Buddhist Center's 5th Annual Retreat
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Jakusho Kwong-roshi is a lineage heir of Shunryu Suzuki-roshi and was also close to Trungpa Rinpoche. He is the founder and abbot of the Sonoma Mountain Zen Center outside of Santa Rosa, California, and has been teaching Zen in the United States and Europe for more than thirty years. In 1995, he was given the title of Dendo Kyoshi, Zen Teacher, by the Soto School in Japan. He is one of nine Western Zen teachers to receive this acknowledgment. "Zen," he says, "is the aliveness we bring to each moment." Please visit www.smzc.net for more information about Jakusho Kwong-roshi, and the Sonoma Mountain Zen Center.
This interview emerged from a film project that Bill Scheffel began in the summer of 2008, provisionally titled, Lineage: Jakusho Kwong-roshi and Sonoma Mountain Zen Center. About this project, Bill wrote:
What led me to ask Kwong-roshi if I could interview him was the time I spent in Cambodia (2005 to 2007). Life in Cambodia occurs at a far slower and more "elemental" way than in industrialized countries. In Cambodia an uncanny "inner experience" was constantly with me: that being in Cambodia was like being with Trungpa Rinpoche. Life in Phnom Penh, especially, felt very "in my face" intimate, chaotic, disturbing, loving and inescapably awake.
On returning to the U.S., I began to interview some of my friendsstudents of The Vidyadharaand ask them the question, "What was it like to be around the body of Trungpa Rinpoche?" This question seems to evoke something more than our so-called stories of being with Trungpa Rinpoche. Perhaps it is a more difficult question to answer, coming from a deeper memory or less tangible impression. Perhaps the question evokes ways in which Rinpoche is "haunting us along with the dralas" even now. This is the question I asked Kwong Roshi in this interview.
Kwong-roshi has a profound connection with Trungpa Rinpocheand with the drala principle. Sonoma Mountain Zen Center has hosted Level Drala of Shambhala Training for the Bay Area sangha for many years. Roshi and his wife Shinko have, for three decades, invoked the dralas of Sonoma Mountainand no doubt many lineagesthrough their loving sacrifice to create a rural practice center and carry on the Soto lineage of Suzuki-roshi.


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Battle of Cowans Ford
February 1, 1781
Mecklenburg County, NC
A rendering of the Battle of Cowans Ford by Dave Teague
The original battle took place when 5,000 British troops ran into about 900 American Patriots while crossing the Catawba River at Cowans Ford, between Lincoln and Mecklenburg counties.
The Great River was named after the
people who lived by it, the Catawba Indians. They were known in their own
language as the Kawahcatawbas, "the people of the river". As the settlers began
moving into the fertile lands along the Catawba, they brought with them diseases
from Europe that the Catawbas had no resistance to, and in less than 175 years,
their population dwindled from over 5,000 to less than 400.
These settlers built their cabins and farmed the land beside the Catawba
River, but before long, they were drawn into battle against the British Crown.
In 1781, General Cornwallis proclaimed Charlotte to be "a damned hornet's nest
of rebellion". At the battle site at Cowans Ford, General William Lee Davidson,
along with a band of Catawba Valley farmers were able to slow the advance of
General Cornwallis. Early in the battle, General Davidson was shot and killed
at the riverbank. A monument honoring Davidson is located near the present site
of Cowans Ford Dam, but the exact location of his demise is under the waters of
Lake Norman.
British commander Cornwallis
advances back into North Carolina as American General Nathanael Greene's army
retreats. At a crossing place, or "ford," on the Catawba River, the Battle of
Cowan's Ford claims the life of beloved North Carolina militia commander General
William Lee Davidson. In later years, a town, a county and a college will be
named for Davidson
On Cowans Ford Road, British Lt. Col. Banastre
Tarleton brought cavalry up the road after the Battle of Cowans Ford on Feb. 1,
1781, the battle in which Gen. William Davidson was killed. He met Gen. Charles
Cornwallis' infantry on Beatties Ford Road, at the site of what's known as the
Skirmish of Torrence Tavern.
General William Lee Davidson was shot by the British at the
Battle of Cowans Ford, depicted here by painter Dave Teague.
According to Russell Snapp, an associate professor of history at Davidson College who teaches about the Revolution, Gen. Davidson was a well-known patriot leader in the southern Piedmont area. He served as an officer in George Washington's Continental Army at Valley Forge, then led militia forces in his home state. After British General Charles Cornwallis captured Charleston in early 1780, he marched toward North Carolina and attacked Charlotte in September.
Gen. Davidson rallied several hundred patriots to battle them at Cowans Ford, slowing the British retreat while American forces retreated to Guilford Courthouse. The battle that the Americans and British fought there a month later weakened the Redcoats and hastened their surrender.
At the conclusion of the battle of Cowans Ford, searchers found Gen. Davidson's dead body stripped naked by the British. His friends and wife buried him hastily by torchlight five miles away at Hopewell Presbyterian Church on Beatties Ford Road, intending to hide the body from British troops who may have sought it for further desecration at his home church, Centre Presbyterian Church.
Professor Snapp said, "General Davidson is one of those figures who's larger than life today because of his 100 percent commitment to the patriotic cause. It was Gen. Cornwallis who nicknamed this area 'The Hornet's Nest' because of the fierce resistance of the local partisans. Though General Davidson and others didn't stop the British advance, they stung the British repeatedly, and the small engagements had a significant cumulative effect."
General William Lee Davidson Artifacts
At the Battle of Cowpens, on January 17, 1781, Patriot forces under General Daniel Morgan won an important victory over Lt. Col. Banastre Tarleton at the Battle of Cowpens, and this started the "race to Dan River". Lord Cornwallis wanted to rescue the troops who had been taken prisoner by Morgan. General Davidson, waiting with the Mecklenburg and Rowan North Carolina militias, took position at Beatties Ford to cover Morgan's crossing.
General Nathanael Greene arrived giving orders to General Davidson to slow the British Army's crossing of the Catawba River. At that very moment, General Cornwallis and the British Army were on the opposite shore at Beattie's Ford in full view of the Americans. Early in the morning of February 1, 1781 the British moved down to "force a passage" at Cowan's Ford, and General Davidson was there with his militia forces to give battle.
General Davidson's resistance at the Catawba River succeeded in slowing the great British advance, but it was a great sacrifice. The British lost over 100 soldiers. The Americans lost 3 men and General William Lee Davidson.
The British then faced off with General Greene at the Battle of Guilford Courthouse, and finally left North Carolina for good.
Rural Retreat, in Mecklenburg County, North Carolina, was the home of Major John Davidson and the area of the Battles of Cowpens and Cowan's Ford.. A signer of the Mecklenburg Declaration of Independence, he fought with General Rutherford against the Cherokees and at Camden. John was a distant cousin of General William Lee Davidson. He provided a campground at Rural Retreat for the use of General Davidson's forces before they took up position at the Catawba River.
John loaned William a horse for the battle. After the battle the horse
returned to Rural Retreat riderless, and they feared the worst. They found
the General's body lying naked at Cowan's Ford. They buried him secretly
at Hopewell Presbyterian Church.
The Battle of Cowan's Ford The tardiness of Cornwallis was
not altogether due to the flushed condition of the Catawba, however much the
swollen waters of the Yadkin and the Dan may have later impeded his pursuit. The
prime cause of delay was the vigilance of the Whigs in guarding
the several fords. On the approach of the British,
Gen. William Davidson placed
guards at the Tuckaseegee, Tool's and Cowan's fords;
with his greatest force and Capt.
Joseph Graham's cavalry troops, he took position himself at Beattie's
Ford; while Morgan and
Washington were at Sherrill's
Ford. Cornwallis kept posted on these dispositions. Cowan's was a private ford,
guarded only by Lieut. Thomas
Davidson with twenty-five men. After getting the best information he
could obtain, Cornwallis resolved to attempt the passage at Cowan's Ford. Each
army was keeping close watch on the movements of the other. On the 30th
Captain Graham's cavalry was dispatched across Beattie's Ford
and ascertained that the British were encamped within four miles, and in two
miles they discovered one hundred of the enemy's cavalry, who followed them to
the river but kept a respectful distance, evincing fear of an ambuscade.
Green, Morgan, and
Washington came to
Davidson's headquarters at Beattie's Ford on the afternoon of the 31st
and held a consultation. The British vanguard of four or five hundred men
appeared on the opposite hill beyond the river and viewed the American position.
After General Green's
departure, leaving a portion of his force at Beattie's Ford, under
Colonel Farmer,
General Davidson, with 250 men
and the cavalry, marched down the river four miles to Cowan's Ford, where he
arrived after dark. The river at Cowan's Ford is one-fourth of a mile wide. The wagon ford went
directly across the river. The horse ford, entering at the same place, obliqued
down the river, through an island and came out on the Mecklenburg side a quarter
mile lower down. The latter was the shallower and most used, and the one the
British were expected to follow, so
General Davidson took position on the hill overlooking this ford. Above
the coming-out place of the wagon ford was a narrow strip of level bottom, and
then an abrupt hill. Lieutenant
Davidson's picket remained at their post on this level strip, fifty steps
above the landing and near the water's edge. Cornwallis broke camp at
one in the morning of the first of February, and detached
Lieutenant-Colonel Webster
with that part of the army and all the baggage to Beattie's Ford, where
General Davidson was supposed
to be posted, with direction to make every possible demonstration by cannonading
and otherwise of an intention of forcing a passage, while he marched to Cowan's
Ford, arriving at the bank of the river as day began to break. The command of
the front was given to Colonel Hall
of the Guards. Under the guidance of
Frederick Hager, a Tory
living on the west bank, employed by Cornwallis on account of his familiarity
with the ford, the bold Britons plunged into the river, with the firm
determination of encountering the small band of Americans on the eastern bank.
When one hundred yards in the river they were discovered and fired upon by
Lieutenant Davidson's picket
which aroused the guard, who kept up the fire, but the enemy continued to
advance. No sooner did the guide who attended the light infantry to show them
the ford, hear the report of the sentinel's musket that he turned around and
left them. This, at first seemed to portend much mischief but in the end proved
fortunate for the British. Colonel
Hall, forsaken by his guide, and not knowing the true direction of the
ford, led his column directly across the river to the nearest point of the
opposite bank. The picket fire alarmed
Davidson's camp, who paraded
at the horse ford, then Graham's
cavalry was ordered to the assistance of the picket. By the time the cavalry
were in position on the high bank, and ready for action the British were within
fifty yards of the Mecklenburg shore. The cavalry poured a destructive fire into
the advancing columns. The British did not fire a gun while in the water; as
they landed they loaded their guns and fired up the bank. The firing was kept up
some minutes, but the Whigs
soon retreated from the unequal contest. By the time his Lordship crossed the river
Webster had his force in array
on the face of the hill fronting Beattie's Ford, and was making demonstrations
of attempting a passage. His front lines were firing by platoons, a company went
into the water fifty steps and fired; while four cannon were booming for half an
hour, the flying balls cutting off the limbs of trees and tearing up the
opposite bank, the sound rolling down the river like peals of thunder. All this,
however, was only a feint. Colonel
Farmer, being notified by an aide of
General Davidson, that the
enemy had crossed at Cowan's Ford, retired. The pickets at other points were
notified and all united at John
McKnitt Alexander's that afternoon, eight miles from Charlotte; while
Cornwallis united his forces
two miles from Beattie's Ford at Given's farm. In this action, the Americans lost
General Davidson, a gallant,
brave and generous officer, and three others. Of the British,
Colonel Hall and another
officer and twenty-nine privates were killed and thirty-five wounded. the horse
of Cornwallis was shot and fell dead as he ascended the bank. Lord cornwallis on
the 2d of February returns his thanks "to the Brigade of Guards for their cool
and determined bravery in the passage of the Catawba, while rushing through that
long and difficult ford under galling fire." Death At Cowan's Ford HIS LORDSHIP'S venturing into North Carolina had been disastrous. The
carefully thought out southern campaign upon which he had embarked so hopefully
was shattered never to be reshaped. The backbone of the British offensive
against the South was broken. Cornwallis had envisioned a three-pronged drive northward to overpower what
he considered would be feeble resistance in North Carolina. He had ordered the
capture of Wilmington, to be held as a port city through which he could receive
supplies and also as a right wing protection of his own forces in their drive
toward Charlotte and on to Hillsboro. And to the west he had dispatched Ferguson
from Ninety-Six to move northwestward to enlist Tory supporters and subdue
rebels. Cleared of resistance on the wings and in the rear, his Lordship would
sweep through North Carolina and roll on into Virginia to end all American
resistance to His Majesty's government. That had been Cornwallis' plan. But now, hardly more than five weeks after he
had left Camden, his grand strategy was a shambles. The capture of Wilmington
would come too late to help Cornwallis. To the west Patrick Ferguson was dead
and buried at Kings Mountain and his forces, regulars and Tories, were dead,
wounded or captured. And in the center his Lordship, chagrined, fearful, bitter,
was running southward in disorganized retreat. The correspondent of the Pennsylvania Packet in a subsequent
analysis summarized the Redcoats' ill-fated two weeks in Charlotte:
Whilst the enemy lay at Charlotte they were confined within their lines by our riflemen, who nabbed them if they set out their heads. In short, his lordship never found himself so far from home as at that place; and it may appear strange that although we were more than two weeks in surprizing distance with our raw militia, yet the enemy never attempted it, owing, I suppose to the great attention of our commander in preventing them from obtaining intelligence, and moving his troops every night. |
The British had left Charlotte in virtual panic; in their rush to leave the camp at Barnett's mill they had abandoned some twenty wagons, a large quantity of clothing, many tents and other equipment, and a number of guns. They had heard that General Davidson had some 5,000 soldiers and was pursuing them; actually the brigadier general had hardly more than 300 men, but Davie with a part of Davidson's cavalry was harassing the fleeing Redcoats and the number of their pursuers must have seemed frightfully large.
General Davidson wanted to attack Cornwallis, particularly after a heavy rain had swollen the Catawba with Tarleton's Tory forces on the west side and Cornwallis' not yet across. He sent a message to Sumner suggesting that they join in an assault on the British, but the rain slowed Sumner and Cornwallis outdistanced his pursuers and withdrew to Winnsboro, where seventy miles south of Mecklenburg's pestiferous hornets he established headquarters.
The battle of Kings Mountain had electrified American hopes, which after Camden had been at perhaps the lowest point since the Revolution's beginning. In the Salisbury district General Davidson was busy enlisting men to take the places of those whose terms of service had expired. By the middle of November, the deeply concerned Colonel Davie wrote General Smallwood, "The torments of the damned are scarcely equal to the torture of my feelings these five or six days past, from the rage of the militia for returning home. Most of them deserted before the last evening."
But down in South Carolina General Sumner added to the confidence of the Americans in the Carolinas by a victory over Tarleton at Blackstock's plantation, though in doing so he was himself several wounded. General Davidson in writing his congratulations expressed deep concern:
My anxiety for you (least your Wound be fatal) is such that I have scarcely spirit to congratulate you on your glorious victory. I sincerely wish you a speedy recovery, and in the meantime regret the Want of your services in the field, at this critical and important Juncture. Gen'l Gates with the Continental Troops will be at Charlotte tomorrow. We lie at the old post a dead weight on the Publick. I think I am possessed of all the patience necessary to my profession but I assure you it is nearly exhausted. . . . |
In the last week of November General Gates brought what was euphemistically called the southern army into Charlotte. On December 2 General Nathanael Greene took command of this force, numbering, according to a field return made just before the march to Charlotte, more than 1,100 militiamen and upward of a thousand Continentals, with some 400 under command of Morgan. But it was what Green aptly termed "only the shadow of an army." Several hundred of them had no arms and were almost without clothing in the dead of this winter of 1780, and half of the entire force were untrained militiamen. Too, the fighting in the vicinity of Charlotte had used up all the supplies in that region. Greene decided to leave Charlotte. But before he could get his army moving, heavy rains set in and kept his troops from marching. It was December 20 when he divided his forces and went with one group to the Cheraw region on the Pee Dee in South Carolina, where he made camp the day after Christmas. The other group was sent toward Ninety-Six under Daniel Morgan.
Cornwallis, too, was on the move. He sent Tarleton to meet Morgan; they clashed at Cowpens on January 17 and Morgan gave the British cavalry a resounding defeat.
Now Cornwallis, smarting at this new setback started in determined pursuit of Morgan, who began retreating toward Mecklenburg. As Morgan kept safely ahead of the British commander, General Greene at Cheraw ordered his force under Huger to march northward toward Salisbury and he himself rode northwestward toward Charlotte to join Morgan, who had written him that a continuing ailment in his hip would make necessary his taking a leave of absence from his command. "I am not unacquainted with the hurt my retiring will be to the service, as the people have so much dependence in me," he wrote Greene; "but the love I have for my country, and the willingness I have always showed to serve it, will convince you that nothing would be wanting on my side were I able to persevere. So that I must beg leave of absence, till I find myself able to take the field again." He assured the General that "Gen. Davidson, Col. Pickens and Gen. Sumter" could "manage the militia better than I can, and will well supply my place."
Meanwhile, during the preceding many weeks General Davidson had been riding the district enlisting recruits to fill the places of those men whose terms of enlistment had expired. On learning that Cornwallis was again on the move, he had sent out orders for the militia to meet at Charlotte on January 10. The victory of Morgan at Cowpens a week later, in which many of the men sent by Davidson to Morgan had fought, had given to the Americans a resurgence of hope and confidence. But even yet, two weeks after the Charlotte muster and a week after Cowpens, Davidson wrote Greene that he was "distressed on account of the Smallness of our Resources and the Want of propper Ecconomy." But he was still anxious to attack the enemy, even though by Greene's appointment of Colonel Davie to be his commissary-general, Davidson would not have the services of that daring and resourceful cavalry leader.
In this new venture into North Carolina Lord Cornwallis was careful to avoid a second encounter with the Mecklenburg hornets. He swung to the left and came northward west of the Catawba. It was late in January now. For three days he camped at Ramsour's Mill, where he was joined by Tarleton. On the twenty-eighth he marched eastward toward the river to Jacob Forney's; there for another three days his hungry Redcoats feasted on the affluent Forney's cattle and sheep, hogs and chickens, while they waited for the swollen waters of the Catawba to subside. Before establishing his camp at Forney's, some four miles from the river, he had ventured to Beatties Ford but had fount it impassable because of the raging current. On the other side of the river, too, he had been informed, were Americans awaiting him at all the fording places. Above Beatties were McEwen's and Sherrill's, and below were Cowan's, Tool's, and Tuckassege.
The task of the Americans, spaced thinly along the eastern bank, was to anticipate Cornwallis' crossing strategy and slow his advance in order to give Morgan, already impeded by the prisoners and supplies he had taken at the Cowpens, more time to conduct an orderly retreat. Cornwallis, on the other hand, would be trying by a surprise maneuver to get across the river with a minimum number of casualties and as quickly as possible.
On Monday, January 31, Cornwallis made his move. It had begun to rain again and the British commander felt that to delay longer might mean the loss of any chance to overtake and destroy Morgan's forces. He made a move to indicate he was planning to cross at Beatties Ford by sending Lieutenant Colonel Webster and a detachment of redcoats to "make every possible demonstration by cannonading and otherwise, of an intention to force a passage there," he would write some six weeks later. But at one o'clock on the morning of February 1 he would march down the river to Cowan's Ford, where he planned his major drive to cross the stream.
Meanwhile, General Greene had arrived at the Catawba and with Colonel Washington had visited Morgan and Davidson at Beatties Ford and planned his strategy. Though no records of this meeting reveal what was said, it is evident by what immediately followed that Greene directed Davidson, who had placed his men at the various fords along the eastern bank, to do what he could to slow Cornwallis' crossing. And then he and Morgan set out towards Salisbury.
Soon after they left him, Davidson dispatched a company of cavalry under Joe Graham, who had by now recovered from his wounds at Sugaw Creek in late September, and infantry led by Colonel William Polk, southward four miles to Cowan's Ford. Graham was to keep a patrol on the move to see that the British did not make a surprise crossing under cover of darkness. Toward nightfall Davidson himself led a detachment to Cowan's Ford and set up camp a half mile or so back from the river, but he assigned a picker to watch from the water's edge the Cowan's crossing point.
At one o'clock in the morning of February 1, Cornwallis reveals in his own account of the skirmish at "McCowan's ford," the British general began his march to the river, which was reached after much difficulty and the loss of some of their cannon, "the morning being very dark and rainy & part of our way through a wood where there was no road." But instead of going to Beatties Ford, which his actions there during the day had indicated he would try to force, he moved down the river to Cowan's. This was actually two fords; one, the horse ford, though shallower than the other, was longer, because it crossed the stream obliquely; the other, called the wagon ford, went straight across the river.
Davidson evidently feared that Tarleton's troops might, in the darkness of a winter's night, slip across the Catawba and get behind him, from which position they could attack him as the British infantry began its crossing. So he stayed well back from the river bank opposite to the point where the horse ford emerged on the Mecklenburg side. Meanwhile, the pickets huddled on the bank at the eastern end of the wagon ford.
It was nearing daybreak when Cornwallis reached Cowan's Ford and, hardly hesitating, began crossing the swollen stream. A man named Frederick Hager, a Tory who lived in the vicinity, was serving as the Redcoats' guide. Hager led them straight across along the wagon ford and soon the horses were over their heads in the raging torrent. The pickets on the eastern bank were asleep, according to the story related years later by one of them, Robert Henry, a boy of sixteen at the time. But the noise of the Redcoats crossing awakened them and their firing brought General Davidson and his men racing toward the wagon ford.
For a few minutes the action was lively; the militiamen were picking off many Britishers struggling in the water. The return fire was heavy, and hardly had Davidson arrived when he was struck form his horse. In a few minutes, several other Americans were killed. The British loss was greater, but the skirmish proved a defeat for the Americans. Their resistance hardly slowed Cornwallis' advance. It would be recorded, however, as the last battle with an invader on Mecklenburg soil. And in the fall, on October 19, Cornwallis would surrender at Yorktown.
February 1, 1781, was a dark day in Mecklenburg. General Davidson, an amazingly successful organizer, had been the driving force of the area's resistance. His death, as General Washington and the Congress would testify, was a great blow.
Late that evening the General's body, stripped and raindrenched, was found by David Wilson, brother-in-law of his kinsman, Major John Davidson, and Pastor Thomas McCaule of Centre Church, and Richard Barry. They took it to the home of David's widowed stepmother, Mrs. Samuel Wilson. Fortunately, they were able to dress it in a suit left there by Captain James Jack, Mrs. Wilson's brother. That night by torchlight, with Pastor McCaule conducting the brief service and with Mary Brevard Davidson standing stalwart beside the red clay grave, William Lee Davidson was buried in Hopewell churchyard.
General Davidson had been killed by a rifle ball through the heart. Frederick Hager's rifle, said the neighbors, shot such a ball. Hager went west, and died in Arkansas in 1814. Tradition persists in naming the Tory as Davidson's slayer.
Today the Duke Power Company's huge Cowan's Ford dam spans the Catawba almost at the exact point of the British crossing.
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Carotid cavernous fistulas are abnormal communications between the cavernous sinus and the external or internal carotid arteries. Although rare, closure of carotid cavernous fistulas can lead to immediate ocular complications. To our knowledge, our case represents the first report of worsening angle closure glaucoma and choroidal detachments over an extended period of two months subsequent to closure of a carotid cavernous fistula.
A 70-year-old female with a history of primary angle closure glaucoma presented with 4mm of proptosis, resistance to retropulsion, tortuous corkscrew blood vessels and an orbital bruit of the right eye. Diagnostic cerebral angiogram showed a small indirect Barrow type D right carotid cavernous fistula. Transarterial embolization was planned but repeat cerebral angiography prior to the procedure demonstrated spontaneous partial closure of the carotid cavernous fistula and the procedure was aborted. One month later, our patient was noted to have worsening vision and choroidal detachments of the right eye. She declined further testing and was thus started on self-administered manual carotid jugular compressions. One month later, she developed progressive worsening of her choroidal detachments and angle closure. She eventually opted for surgical intervention but repeat cerebral angiography showed significant thrombosis of the carotid cavernous fistula and no intervention was warranted. Examination two months later showed complete resolution of the choroidal detachments and open angles of both eyes.
Our patient demonstrated worsening angle closure glaucoma and choroidal detachments after spontaneous closure of her carotid cavernous fistula had been noted. Ocular complications, including acute angle closure, have been reported to occur immediately after closure of carotid cavernous fistulas, but not over months as in our patient. It is imperative that individuals who have undergone apparent closure of a carotid cavernous fistula be carefully monitored for worsening ocular complications.
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Baked Queso Dip
When Betsy and I were visiting her family a few weeks ago in North Carolina, we were getting ready for dinner one night when Betsy said, "Nick is bringing queso dip tonight!"
I was a bit confused at first because, in fact, I was not bringing queso dip.
She meant one of the other Nicks… turns out there are many Nicks in her family.
She continued, "It's as good as your mud dip, but I'm pretty sure it's easier to make."
"I'll believe that when I taste it," I huffed.
Later that night, after I consumed a few truckloads of said dip, I agreed with her. I adapted the original recipe a bit, but it's still super easy and makes for a very tasty Baked Queso Dip!
Baked Queso Dip
Simple baked queso dip recipe that will disappear at your next party! Easy to stir together with layers of pinto beans and cheddar cheese.
Helpful Equipment
1) Chop four full scallions. In a large skillet, melt butter over medium heat. Then add drained beans, chile peppers, and scallions. Season with a pinch of salt.
2) Cook over medium heat for 4-5 minutes. Gently mash beans with the back of a spoon. The mixture doesn't need to be completely smooth.
3) In a small bowl, stir together taco seasoning, hot sauce, and yogurt.
4) In a large baking dish, spoon in bean mixture followed by the yogurt and hot sauce mixture. Spread it evenly over the beans. Top with about 1 pound of grated cheese, but leave 1 cup of cheese for the topping. I like to use a mixture of cheddar and monterey jack.
5) Bake dish for 30 minutes at 350 degrees.
6) Stir dip well to mix layers and ingredients. Top with reserved cheese and two chopped scallions (just greens).
7) Return to oven and bake for 15 minutes.
8) Serve immediately with tortilla chips!
Baked Queso Dip
The Bean Layer
There are three basic layers to this dip. The original recipe just uses a can of refried beans, which was very delicious, but I took the opportunity to inject a bit more flavor.
So you'll need these things:
Melt the butter in a large skillet and then add the drained beans, green chiles, and scallions. Season it with a pinch of salt.
Cook this mixture over medium heat and as it cooks, mash the pinto beans with a large spoon.
There's no need to make it completely creamy. Some texture is a good thing!
Cook and mash it for about 4-5 minutes.
The Other Layers
The other two layers for the dip are pretty simple. One is just sour cream or Greek yogurt (I used yogurt) mixed with taco sauce and hot sauce.
The third layer is just about a pound of grated cheese. I used a mix of cheddar and monterey jack.
Building and Baking
To make the dip, pour the bean mixture into a large casserole dish. I used a nice 2.5 quart dish, but any large baking dish will do the trick.
Then spoon your yogurt or sour cream mixture over the beans.
Once the yogurt mixture is spread evenly, go ahead and top with the grated cheese. Reserve about 1 cup of grated cheese for later, but otherwise just pile it on!
Bake this whole thing at 350 degrees for about 30 minutes.
It should be bubbly and melted.
Now for the key part… stir the dip together!
Really stir it together well so all the layers mingle. It should look something like this!
The Toppings
While this is delicious, we can pretty it up a bit for serving.
So add the reserved grated cheese to the top along with the extra scallion greens.
Stick this back in the oven for 10-15 minutes to melt the top cheese and then you are ready to rock.
Serve this as soon as possible with lots of tortilla chips!
I really like the extra cheese topping. You get this solid cheese layer and then a creamy dip underneath.
I will admit that Betsy and I basically ate just this Baked Queso Dip for dinner one night. Well, actually, it took us two nights to finish it off.
I think that should be evidence enough that it's a pretty awesome dip!
15 comments on "Baked Queso Dip"
September We're having a party Saturday night and may need to make this! I'd never really had queso before moving to TX, but its definitely a staple here!
Noelle (@singerinkitchen) Looks perfect for a party!
CGCouture Mmmmm! Thanks for the idea!
josie This looks great – love thats is a queso recipe without processed cheese. I just cooked up a batch of pinto beans will definately have to try this weekend!!
sara Wow, this looks incredible!! :)
Melissa I definitely want to try making this, but I'm not familiar with bottled taco sauce. What exactly is it? What brand do you use? Would it be similar to perhaps a homemade enchilada sauce?
Nick I grabbed it in the latino section of my grocery store… it literally just says taco sauce. You could use homemade sauce or even a medium/mild salsa would do the trick.
Meg @ www.ourwaytoeat.com I keep wondering who won yesterday. Has it been announced? If it has and I can't find it, I apologize.
Nick Hey Meg, I just updated yesterday's post with the winners and also emailed them. Unfortunately yesterday wasn't your lucky day when it comes to winning digital thermometers. :(
Chris Just in time for tailgating season. You could assemble this at home and then grill it at the game.
stephanie Hi Nick,
Made this last night for my husband's game night with guys and they raved over it. One guy swore he tasted bacon in it. (I cooked the beans, chilies, onions, butter in my cast iron skillet, so that's the only thing I could think of?) But bacon or not, it was a hit. I know it will be requested again. Thanks!
Kathleen Nick, I have a quick question. Why can't you mix everything together before baking? (Just wondering..)
Allison I made this tonight for a party and the flavor was awesome, but the texture was pretty strange – very grainy and greasy. It reminded me of when a cheese sauce breaks. Any ideas where I went wrong? I think the problem was with the greek yogurt or the cheese I used? I will be making this again because the flavor was great, but I will use sour cream instead of the yogurt.
Kristen My yogurt broke. Why?
Nick Hey Kristen, did you use greek yogurt or regular yogurt?


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27 August 2011
From Lidia's Table ... Polpette di Verza
Lidia Bastianich is such an inspiration! Her roots may be in Europe, but she has embraced the American dream whole-heartedly. Her family came to the United States after WWII, sponsored by Catholic Charities, and worked hard to establish themselves. Lidia married, raised a family, apprenticed in restaurants to learn her cooking craft, and built her career step by step. She has maintained a tight family that works together to establish critically acclaimed restaurants, run cooking classes, host television shows on Italian cuisine, and develop the family name 'brand' through cookbooks and affiliation with various commercial ventures. Now THAT'S fulfilling the American dream, huh? Right on, Lidia!
She is so deserving of a spot on Gourmet Live's list of 50 Women Game-Changers.... but that's enough gushing. Lidia also has some killer recipes on her website. It was such a hard decision, choosing one recipe to highlight her work. I have settled on a rather time-consuming one, as I have time on my hands this week.
main ingredients minced and used to make the sauce and the stuffing for the little cabbage rolls
I will admit that I had to read this recipe (right click the link above to open in a new window) two or three times to get the three components of the dish right in my mind. It must have been a spacey week for me, as I have been 'off in the stratosphere' all week long. BUT ... after reviewing the steps and halving the recipe, all came out fantastically. There are four preparations involved in making this dish, the pestata that serves as a base for the cabbage rolls' stuffing and the vegetable-based sauce, the stuffing itself, the sauce in which the rolls are braised, and then the cabbage rolls. It was a labor of love, but man, was it worth it!
Polpetta di Verza on the simmered cabbage sauce and waiting for the chicken stock braise
When I made this dish, I prepared the dish up to the point of pouring in the chicken stock and braising it in the oven for an hour and a half. That's a nice break between prep and sitting down to eat.
... cabbage rolls perfectly caramelized on top, warm and creamy sausage filling, a tangy cabbage and sauce on the side ... all that's needed is a pat of butter and salt and pepper on that rice ...
I have always wanted to make cabbage rolls, but have been intimidated by the tomato-based version of cabbage rolls. This blogshare was just the motivation for me to complete a 'little goal of mine' - thank-you, Lidia and Mary!
I had steamed rice and sliced tomatoes with basil ribbons, salt, and black pepper to accompany the cabbage rolls and sauce. There was more than enough for dinner with a friend. We had leftovers for lunch the next day. I cannot tell you how great these were! If you like a tart and savory cabbage, this is the dish for you. We loved the cabbage roll filling too. The sausage and that bit of olive oil melds really well with the pestata, egg, bread, and hint of Parmesan cheese to make a really smooth and creamy filling for the cabbage. Prima!
I wonder what everyone else is making to honor Lidia Bastianich, this week's #12 on Gourmet Live's list of 50 Women Game-Changers. Please follow me as I head up to Mary's link and check out all the other posts! And ... come join us as we cook our way through this list of remarkable women!
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Britain faces a worsening housing crisis as a dysfunctional planning system delivers new homes at just half the pace needed to match demand, an industry body will warn today.
The Home Builders Federation's (HBF) figures show planning approvals were granted for 32,900 homes between July and September, down 10 per cent on a year ago and running at little more than half the pace required to keep up with official estimates of UK household growth over the next 20 years.
The figures are in stark contrast with the boom years of the housing market in 2006 and 2007, when more than 60,000 homes were given the go-ahead on average every quarter. But the toxic combination of a mortgage lending drought, a deep recession, and planning uncertainty has seen housebuilding plunge to its lowest levels since the 1920s while some 5 million people languish on council waiting lists.
The HBF executive chairman Stewart Baseley warns: "Building the homes we need would take millions off social housing waiting lists and enable beleaguered first-time buyers to buy their own home. It could also create half a million new jobs, so giving the country a huge economic boost."
Planning approvals so far this year are down 17 per cent on 2010 and average just 33,280 per quarter against 38,500 last year, the HBF's figures show. The worst-hit region was Scotland, where approvals are down by 38 per cent so far this year, although other regions, including the Midlands and the North, have also seen double-digit declines.
The worsening housing shortage comes at a time when lenders' demands for much bigger deposits are locking hundreds of thousands of would-be homeowners out of the market, as well as forcing up the cost of scarce rental properties to record levels as rock-bottom interest rates allow more families to hang on to their homes.
Housebuilders have cut back on building to reflect the mortgage lending drought and tackle debts built up in the boom, while the Coalition also threw the planning system into limbo last year by scrapping regional housing plans under its localism agenda.
July's draft National Policy Planning Framework (NPPF) won more support from the industry by including proposals to speed up the system with a presumption in favour of sustainable development. But a committee of MPs will today warn the the NPPF risked tilting the balance too far in favour of the developers. Labour's Clive Betts, the chairman of the Communities and Local Government Committee, says the new framework's default approval for schemes should be stripped out of the proposals and called for extra time for councils to adopt their own local plans.
He says: "The way the framework is drafted currently gives the impression that greater emphasis should be given in planning decisions to economic growth. This undermines the equally important environmental and social elements of the planning system."
Housebuilders hit out at the committee's recommendations, which Mr Baseley says would "risk creating additional barriers to housing delivery".
He adds: "Our figures demonstrate clearly why Government must stand firm and deliver a robust planning system that provides enough land to meet the nation's housing needs. The committee's report appears to discount the seriousness of the housing crisis."
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Hi A-M :) I have been very much challenged by the "stillness" thing as well. In my job - working for a church - there is little time to be still and think properly. I read a really good book called "Solitude and Silence" where the author stressed that sometimes it is a discipline we must take time to do. She also gave a really good analogy of a jar of river water, shaken up and cloudy....then staying still to allow the sediment to settle and the water to clear. I always found that really helpful, when I felt guilty for being still and silent instead of working working working. I hope you enjoy your peaceful "sit" on the park bench tomorrow :) xxx
ReplyDeleteThats very buddhist philosophy! I once had a moment with a monk who stilled my thoughts momentarily, there was complete silence, it was incredible! I had a real ahh moment - so thats what they mean ! I'm not buddhist btw, but its relevant for anyone. Will look at the full article, have a great day!
ReplyDeleteI am so in love with that front porch A-M. Divine. It looks like something you might see in Mississippi/Southern America. I think I could "just be" on that porch. I find it difficult to be still. LIfe is too busy and I think too precious to spend too much time being still. However I would like to be still for maybe 5/10 minutes and a day. That would be nice. I try to stop each day and think about what I am grateful for that day so maybe that is my still time. Have a lovely day. Much excitement down here today after our earthquake. Have a lovely day. Nataliexx
ReplyDeleteGreat post, A-M. This year, I've finally found stillness in yoga and it has changed my life. At the end of practice, we finish with the shavasana (or corpse) pose, which involves lying flat on your back, eyes closed, completely still. At first, it feels totally bizarre to stop and be still - we're so not used to taking time out of our busy lives to do so. But, in being still, you return to your core and everything else fades away, which has so many benefits. My yoga teacher describes it as, '...coming home to yourself.'
I signed up to the 'TUT... A Note from the Universe' series on your recommendation, and absolutely love getting little messages in my inbox every day! Often, at 7.30am when I'm staring bleary-eyed at my inbox, they are exactly the shot of inspiration and perspective I need. So thanks for the recommendation :)
xxI find it interesting to observe people when I'm waiting in a crowd and notice that most people play with their phones! No one can just sit, they are checking emails/ Facebook or making calls. What a crazy, fast world we live in. xT
ReplyDeleteOh A-M I love to sit and be still! It's not something everyone does or knows how to do, it's something you must learn to do and it's the greatest gift I think you can give to yourself. I love it! it gives me clarity something we loose in the busy lives we lead. I'm trying to teach my children the importance of being still in the moment a great tool to carry though life. Thanks for an inspiring post as always xx
ReplyDeleteHi AM, I'm so happy to hear you are staying in Southampton. We have just come back from a few days there. It is gorgeous! East hampton is ,otoh,like a scene from a movie. It is picture book perfect. We stayed at the 1708 House. Foundations from 1647 & then house from 1708 onwards.
We did hire a car. it was great to get around.
You will surely have a great time.
WendyHi A-M,
What a pleasant surprise to discover that you featured my article on your blog today! I am deeply honored. I especially appreciate that you find the message about the importance of stillness so essential that you wanted to share it. Just a few moments every day can make a difference, as you well know.
Love to you and all your readers,
GailI always find time to meditate every now and then,
I prefer in early mornings when the world seems so quiet.
It helps a lot,
I have my own clothing and beauty products shop
that needs a lot of attention plus I want to be hands on when it comes to my family... very stressful indeed and I need time to quiet my mind and keep still.
I think we all do need to calm down.AM I am a psychologist who is very much into 'in the moment' type activities. When you run you are practising being 'mindful' which is to quote Jon Kabat Zinn is "paying attention in a particualr way on purpose in the present moment non judgementally" Aqwesome stuff. We can be mindful cleaning our teeth or even doing the dishes! Running, yoga or meditating is more fun though!
ReplyDeleteMy mother and I were just talking about this on the weekend. My "still" time is during the drive home to the farm to visit them - 5 1/2 hours of just me thinking. My mom's still time is on the lawn tractor when she's working in the yard....she has one yard that takes her 6 hours. She's always deep in thought. We love those moments just for us.


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Strategy is a crucial part of any sport and bowling is no different. The Brunswick Mastermind Strategy pairs the Relativity Solid Reactive coverstock with the Modified Mastermind Asymmetric core to offer a ball that has a strong and controllable hook motion when used on medium to heavy oiled lanes. The ball motion of the Mastermind Strategy is similar to the one produced by the original Mastermind.
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Factory Finish- 500, 2000 Siaair
Ball Layout- 60x4.5x55
The Brunswick Mastermind Strategy is a bowling ball that will probably be the first one to come out of my bag. If you liked the original Mastermind, you are absolutely going to love this ball. I have had the ball for about a week now, and have had a change to throw it both on wood and synthetic lanes. The Mastermind Strategy really leaves a foot print in the oil. Like the original, this ball sees the mid-lane very well, but this this one continues through the pins much harder. It's almost the best of both worlds. The Strategy has that strong mid-lane roll of the original, but it continues through the pins just as hard as the Mastermind Brainiac. I find myself saying wow every time this ball starts up, and goes through the pins. I would say overall it's about the same amount of hook as the original, just with a stronger continuous roll. Compared to the Mastermind Brainiac, the Strategy is probably three to four feet earlier with a stronger mid-lane roll, but continues through the pins just as hard. Make sure you check this ball out. Available July 12th.
I love this ball, it has that same Mastermind shape that is very predictable and everyone likes. This ball has more continuation though, it allows the bowler to kill the transition!
Threw this ball for the first time this week , all I can is say is wow. This reads the mid-lane so well and it completely stands up , ball is very angular . Great complement to the original mastermind . Great step down from the Nirvana or Original Mastermind
First night of league with this ball I shoot 300/799. If you liked the original mastermind then you will want to put this one in your bag. This ball cleaner through the fronts with great traction in the midlane and a strong smooth continuous backend.
I use this ball on fresh house and sport conditions. Ball is very strong with versatility
I drilled my Mastermind Strategy with a 45 X 5 x 30 lay out to use on heavy oil patterns. It had a big mid lane reaction but smooth continuos backend.
I could only use this ball for a game and a half before it was just to strong for the house shot. I would suggest if you need something for oil this be the first ball on your list, you will not be disappointed .
Good Luck and keep hitting them hard.
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"This review is my opinion and does not necessarily reflect that of the Brunswick Corporation."
In my eyes this is the best overall hook and smoothest reaction ball out of all of them in this line! I was a huge fan of how this ball digs and transitions smooth with a continuous motion. It hits the pins with power! I have mine drilled pin under so it picks up a little earlier but with the speed I play it is very forgiving. I just keep moving left and this ball keeps me in play.
Jay Langler
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The Mastermind Strategy to me is the best Mastermind ball in the line. The Mastermind Strategy is so strong and continuatous in the backend and has great midlane roll. I drilled mine 45 x 6 x 80 for tougher flat patterns to allow me to get the ball to roll more throughout the lane. This ball is gonna be a moneymaker and is a outstanding benchmark ball as well.
Pin Length: 3.2"
Starting Top Weight: 3.1 oz
Ball Weight: 15 lbs 2 oz
Ball: 65 x 5 x 35
X Hole (if there is one): Small P1 hole
Rev Rate: 375 rpms
Ball Speed:17.5 mph off hand
PAP/Track: 4 3/4 over 3/4 up
Grit: 2000
Type: (Matte, Polish, Sanded): Sanded 2000 Siaair
Lengths of patterns: 41 foot house shot
Volumes: moderate
Type: house
Length: Moderate with plenty of midlane read
Back End: Super Strong Arc
Overall Hook: very strong
Midlane Read: Strong
Breakpoint Shape: Strong Continuous Arc
Likes: Heavy midlane read, over all strength, ability to smooth out over under conditions
Dislikes: none
The Mastermind Strategy is a stronger upgraded version of the original Mastermind. The newer Composite Coverstock technology helps the ball start a bit sooner and still maintain some motion down the lane. This one is much earlier than the Brainiac and will work very well when the lane conditions are fresh. I believe I will find this ball to excel when I need something to even out the wet dry ball reaction caused by today's slicker surfaces and higher volumes. This ball possesses a controllable reaction simply not seen in most reactive balls. If your looking for strong, controllable performance with plenty of hook the Mastermind Strategy is more than worth your consideration!
Hand: Left Ball Speed: 16-17 mph Rev Rate: 400 Axis Tilt: 2 degrees
Axis Rotation: 84 PAP: 5" Left and 1/8th up Pattern: THS 39-40 ft
Ball: Mastermind Strategy Weight: 15.3 Top Weight: 2.5
Drill Pattern: 70 X 4" X 25 Weight Hole: P3 position
Smooth and predictable are the best words to describe the Mastermind Strategy. One of the best things of this ball is the hitting power and continuation through the pins. The Strategy get through the heads easily. Good back end recovery if thrown out to far. Never worried that this ball would make it back to the pocket. The Strategy is a medium to heavy oil ball, but is still tame enough to use on multiple patterns. I was easily a whole arrow deeper with my Strategy compared to my original Mastermind. Easily a ball to use when you need a little extra up front to cut through that oil, but not sacrificing on back end performance. The ball motion overall is a very strong arch. If you need something to combat the oil and destroy the pins, then the Brunswick Strategy is the ball for you! Another winner for Brunswick.
This ball allows me to play the deep inside part of the lanes. It seems to come back from about anywhere and doesn't lose carry. A lot of equipment will burn up and die when you start hooking the whole lane but not this one. This gives me a look that I don't usually have. This ball is a must have!!!!
This ball is a must have! Compared to the original Mastermind this ball is cleaner through the fronts and a few more boards pop in the backend. Whats most impressive is the continuation through the pins and it never seems to burn up and lose carry no matter how deep you get. Another winner from Team Brunswick!!
This is a must have in your bag when you are going to bowl a tournament. This ball will work in oil with no problem. Its a ball that just works from any angle
I drilled this ball the same as I did my original Mastermind as I'm using this ball to replace that ball in my arsenal. I drilled it 50 x 5 x 60 putting the pin below my fingers. The Mastermind Strategy goes a little bit longer with a touch more backend compared to the original Mastermind. The biggest characteristic you will notice is how clean this ball clears the front part of the lane and when it clears the pattern gives you a strong backend reaction with excellent continuation through the pin deck. My favorite part about this ball, like the original Mastermind it gives great predictability in its ball motion allowing the bowler to read transitions earlier. This ball will match all bowling styles.
I drilled my second one 60 x 5 1/2 x 15. I really wanted this ball to rev up and be quick off the spot. I'm incredibly impressed on this layout has allowed me to open the lane and my angles, with unbelievable response and recovery off the pattern. The biggest characteristic you will notice is how clean this ball clears the front part of the lane and when it clears the pattern gives you a strong backend reaction with excellent continuation through the pin deck. My favorite part about this ball, like the original Mastermind it gives great predictability in its ball motion allowing the bowler to read transitions earlier. This ball will match all bowling styles.
Troy Schaefer
Brunswick Regional Staff Player
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Batticaloa NGOs want PTA repealed[TamilNet, Friday, 18 January 2002, 14:53 GMT]Members of the consortium of NGOs of Batticaloa demonstrated in the eastern town Friday morning urging the government to repeal the Prevention of Terrorism Act (RTA), release Tamil political prisoners and remove restrictions on fishing and street blocks in the district set up by the Sri Lankan security forces. Addressing the demonstrators, the president of the consortium, Mr. A. Selvedran, said that the United National Front government should create conditions of normalcy in the district and that the army and Police should vacate the schools, temples and libraries which they occupy in Batticaloa. He said that it has been the long-standing wish of the people of Batticaloa that the army should remove its bunkers and defended positions in and around the towns Weber Stadium. Mr. Selvendran was a candidate of the Tamil National Alliance at the general elections in December 2001. He said that the peace process could make meaningful progress only if the cessation of hostilities is negotiated into a mutual and stable ceasefire. The demonstrators later handed over a memorandum addressed to the Prime Minister to the Government Agent. |
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