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Colonial New Hampshire
This article originally appeared in "Colonial English Research" by Robert Charles Anderson, MA, FASG in The Source: A Guidebook to American Genealogy
Jurisdictional History
The first permanent settlement in New Hampshire was made in 1623 at the site of what is now Portsmouth, followed no later than 1628 by the establishment of Dover further up the Piscataqua River. Two more towns, Exeter in 1637 and Hampton in 1638, were established by religious refugees from Massachusetts Bay. These four towns existed as self-governing bodies until they were absorbed by Massachusetts Bay Colony a few years later. For many decades, they formed the bulk of settlement in what became New Hampshire.
When Massachusetts Bay established its first counties in 1643, these four settlements were in Norfolk County (distinct from modern Norfolk County), along with the other settlements between the Merrimack and the Piscataqua, Salisbury and Haverhill. The residents at Dover and Strawbery Bank (Portsmouth), however, did not go along with this scheme, as they had been operating a court of their own from at least 1640. They continued, without surviving evidence of formal concurrence by Massachusetts Bay, as the County of Dover and Portsmouth, also known as the County of Piscataqua.
In 1679 the Crown established the Province of New Hampshire, incorporating the towns of Dover, Portsmouth, Exeter, and Hampton. Old Norfolk County was dissolved, and Salisbury and Haverhill were included in Essex County in Massachusetts. For the next century, the Province of New Hampshire existed as a single jurisdiction, with no governmental entities intervening between the levels of town and province. Then, in 1769, the province was divided into five counties'Cheshire, Grafton, Hillsborough, Rockingham, and Strafford'which began operating as separate entities between that year and 1773.<ref>New Hampshire Provincial and State Papers, 39:v'xix.</ref>
Once the jurisdictional maneuvering was done in the early 1640s, the towns that form the early core of New Hampshire were served by two county courts. Hampton and Exeter were in (old) Norfolk County, while Dover and Portsmouth were in Piscataqua County.
In Norfolk County, courts were held alternately at Hampton (in the fall) and Salisbury (in the spring). Although Hampton eventually ended up in New Hampshire and Salisbury in Massachusetts, each of these courts covered all the Norfolk County towns. These early Norfolk court records have been published along with the other courts that operated in the area that is now Essex County, Massachusetts.<ref>Records and Files of the Quarterly Courts of Essex County, Massachusetts, 9 vols. (Salem, 1911'75). In the first volume, see pp. 149'51 and 164'68 for the first surviving records for Hampton and Salisbury Courts.</ref> Separate deed registers, referred to as Norfolk Deeds, were maintained for these same towns, and these volumes also contained wills and other probate material. This probate material has been included in the published volumes of Essex County probates, but the deeds have not been published.<ref>The Probate Records of Essex County, Massachusetts, 3 vols. (Salem, 1916'20).</ref>
The court that sat at Dover and at Portsmouth (Strawbery Banke), known variously as Piscataqua County or Dover and Portsmouth County, entered all its records in a single volume in its earliest years. The book, designated as Volume 1 of the provincial deeds (and a number of succeeding volumes), contains court records, deeds, and probate material. The court records themselves have been extracted and published in the last volume of the provincial and state papers, New Hampshire Provincial and State Papers.<ref>New Hampshire Provincial and State Papers, 40 vols. (Concord, 1867'1943).</ref>
Probate records for these first four New Hampshire towns may be found in a number of places. Transcripts of these records have been gathered together in Volume 31 of the New Hampshire Provincial and State Papers. Most of the probate documents for the earliest years are taken from the first volume of New Hampshire deeds and from the first volume of Norfolk County deeds. A few additional probate records were recorded in Suffolk County, Massachusetts, which at various times and for various reasons had superior jurisdiction over some estates.
Finally, the recorded deeds for these towns may be found in the same places as the probate and court matter discussed previously. In addition, original land grants and some later transfers between person and person may be found in the town records.
In summary, the published volumes of court and probate records for early New Hampshire have selected their material from several sources, and portions of the original sources have been published in various places.
West of the Merrimack River, the most southerly tier of towns in what is now New Hampshire was part of Massachusetts until the border was adjusted in 1741. Prior to that time, deeds for these towns should be sought in Middlesex, Worcester, or Hampshire County records, as appropriate.
In 1791, Vermont was admitted to the Union as the fourteenth state. The area north of Massachusetts and west of the Connecticut River, which became the Republic and then the State of Vermont, was claimed in the colonial period by both New Hampshire and New York, and both made extensive grants of proprietary townships there. Although the Crown eventually ruled in 1764 that this region should be governed by New York, the majority of the early immigrants were New Englanders. Vermont has always been culturally a part of New England.
In the wake of the 1764 ruling, the region fell within the jurisdiction of Albany County, New York. In 1766, Cumberland County was erected for the area between the Green Mountains and the Connecticut River. In 1770 this county was divided, with Gloucester to the north and Cumberland to the south. Finally, in 1772, Charlotte County was set off from Albany County, to include much of northern New York, along with the area that would become northwestern Vermont.
Documents created by New Hampshire relating to the area that would become Vermont have been printed in two volumes of the New Hampshire Provincial and State Papers. Volume 10 has a lengthy collection of records on 'The Controversy Between New Hampshire, New York, and Vermont...,' while Volume 26 is totally devoted to the actual charters of the New Hampshire Grants of townships west of the Connecticut, the earliest of which was issued in 1749.<ref>New Hampshire Provincial and State Papers. 'The Controversy Between New Hampshire, New York, and Vermont . . .' is found on pp. 197'500 of volume 10.</ref>
Case Studies
Steven Edward Sullivan, 'The Two Families of Sarah (Libby) (Smith) Dolbear of Hampton and Rye, New Hampshire,' American Genealogist 73 (1998): 258'71. Sullivan tackles a very difficult problem in spousal identification by using a very wide range of sources, in many different formats. First, he uses many different volumes of the New Hampshire Provincial and State Papers for probate, town, and military records. Second, he consults the original documents behind some of these published volumes in the Rockingham County records, which in their earliest years were equivalent to the provincial records. Third, he uses many town records, including vital, land, and tax documents in the original, in microfilm, in typescript, and in published forms. Fourth, he examines many church records, again in many formats.
Janet Ireland Delorey, 'John Woodin, Brickmaker, of New Hampshire, Massachusetts, and South Carolina,' American Genealogist 64 (1989): 65'74, 150'56, 238'45. John Woodin lived, at one time or another, in virtually every town in old Norfolk County, including three of the four towns that formed the core of early New Hampshire. Delorey makes good use of the town, county, and colony records both in Massachusetts Bay and in New Hampshire to follow Woodin throughout his restless career (which ended in South Carolina).


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Talkin' Outdoors
Sometimes even when everything bad imaginable happens, fate smiles on you and bad turns to good. For Casey Young, who hunts his family property in Concordia Parish, the good couldn't have been better on the afternoon of Tuesday, November 13 as he stood over the fallen form of a huge 18 point buck sporting lights-out headgear. With a score of 205 6/8, the buck currently sits atop the non-typical archery category in the Simmons Sporting Goods big buck contest.
"I bow hunt but had never arrowed a buck. In fact," Young said, "when I took up bow hunting a few years ago, I went into the sporting goods store for a bow, the salesman asked what brand and I told him I didn't know; just pick me one out. I came out of the store with an Archery Research (AR) bow and that's what I hunt with," he added.
A couple of days prior to that Tuesday, Young, who is funeral director at Young's Funeral Home in Ferriday, accepted an invitation from a friend to hunt on his property. Young thought he was ready when a doe walked out. The release was not attached correctly, the arrow flew off and the doe fled. Young was determined that things would go right as he headed to his lock-on stand the afternoon of November 13.
"I had a funeral that morning so I was ready to try and get a deer that afternoon. I was content to take a doe, although in the back of my mind, I had the image of a monster buck that had recently appeared on my trail camera.All the photos were at night and I told a friend that nobody would likely ever see this big buck," Young recalled.
After parking his ATV around 3:15, Young got half-way to the stand when he realized he'd forgotten his "possibles" bag containing all his bow hunting gear.
"I walked back to the buggy, got my stuff and climbed into my stand and strapped myself in. I use not only a safety harness but also a safety belt like utility linemen use. I reached for my release and realized I'd left it back in the buggy; I had to get down and go get it," he continued. "Finally, about 4:30, I was in my stand and ready to hunt."
Not long after eventually getting settled in, Young watched a doe step from behind a patch of salt bushes just out from the stand. He was ready to arrow the doe when he noticed movement behind the bushes and got a glimpse of an antler.
"I picked up my binoculars and what I saw just about wiped me out. It was the big buck I'd seen on my trail cam and he was only 15 yards away and about to step into an opening. I lowered my binoculars and my heart was beating so fast, they were just bouncing on my chest," said Young.
He was able to draw his bow before the buck stepped from behind the bushes and when the deer took the final two steps, Young was ready, or so he thought.
"I realized I was staring down my arrow with both eyes wide open but I recovered in time to get on the peep sight, put the pin on his shoulder and release the arrow. The buck took off like nothing had happened and Young assumed he'd missed.
"It took me several minutes to calm down enough to climb down and when I went to where the buck was standing, I found nothing. Just as I began thinking of every possible scenario of how I'd missed, I found one speck of blood, about the size of a pencil eraser," he said.
Leaving the area, Young called a friend and three hours later, they walked up on the downed buck, which had run only 60 yards, and the celebration began.
The 18-point buck was taken to Simmons Sporting Goods the next day and scored a whopping 205 6/8, good enough to lead the non-typical archery division in the store's big buck contest. Inside spread fanned out to 24 5/8 inches and the buck weighed an incredible 293 pounds.
Casey Young proved that a thigh-slapping comedy of errors can have a successful ending.

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Whitmyer Wins Big In Talamone At Audi Melges 20 2014 Audi-Tron Sailing Series
2 June 2014
Talamone, Italy - The third edition of the 2014 Audi-Tron Sailing Series circuit organized by B.Plan Sport & Events in collaboration with Melges Euope has concluded with American stars and stripes. Congratulations to Wes Whitmyer and his Slingshot crew comprised of tactician Max Fraser and Johnny 'Rockstar' Goldsberry as they triumphed over the more than thirty-five strong Audi Melges 20 fleet in Talamone, Italy. Whitmyer won the final race of the event, sealing the deal on the overall trophy win.
Placing second overall was Dario Levi 's Fremito D'Arja, while Achille Onorato's Mascalzone Latino Jr. came third.
Just missing podium position was Richard Davies ' Section 16 in fourth, ahead of the ever-increasing competitive Mirko de Falco on Peccere in fifth.
With the third act of the Audi Melges 20 2014 Audi-Tron Sailing Series now complete, every team now looks forward to preparing for the next challenge — Riva del Garda on 12-13 July. It will be the ultimate warm-up to the World Championship taking place on 25-30 August.
In addition to main sponsor Audi, the Audi Tron is supported by official sponsors Kuehne+Nagel, Torqeedo electric motors and technical partners such as the Ente Fiera di Genova, Nespresso, Olicor, Movidos, Norda and Frantoi Redoro.
TOP TEN RESULTS (FINAL, After Four Races)
1.) Wes Whitmyer/Max Fraser, Slingshot; 4-1-9-1 = 15
2.) Dario Levi/Nicolo Bianchi, Fremito D'Arja; 6-5-6-2 = 19
3.) Achille Onorato/Malcolm Page, Mascalzone Latino Jr.; 1-8-5-6 = 20
4.) Richard Davis/Charlie McKee, Section 16; 3-3-16-3 = 25
5.) Mirko de Falco/Guglielmo Giordano, Peccere; 5-4-11-5 = 25
6.) Marco Franchini/Sandro Montefusco, Mezza Luna; 18-15-2-12 = 47
7.) Lauro Bonora/Carlo Fracassoli, Camay; 12-7-14-7 = 50
8.) Jan Kuchar/Martin Trcka, Aloha; 21-14-7-8 = 50
9.) Federico Albano/Giulio Desiderato, 3Menda; 30-9-4-9 = 52
10.) Pasquale Orofino/Branko Brcin, Raffica; 9-6-3-BFD = 55
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"Saaaayyyyy-gggaaahhhhh" and Lucasarts' efforts might be the most memorable, but a ton of console games of the 1990's had great little intro screens, not for the games themselves, but for the publishers releasing them.
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I am a delinquent blogger, but this is a life experience that I will always cherish and must share. Larry and I were invited to join a phenomenal, dream-come-true trip to the London Olympics.
|Our home for a week...with unprecedented access. The Leeds Castle!
|Larry holding his first Gold medal.
|We had a couple Gold medalists stay with us through the week. This is Taylor Ritzel (on our Rowing team)
|Remains of the Old mill
|Exploring castle grounds...so breathtaking in person.
|So excited to be at the Gymnastics finals...
|We saw USA win GOLD!
|That is MISSY FRANKLIN...and she was darling!
|Our Mock King Henry VIII for a murder mystery dinner
|An amazing meal in King Henry VIII actual banquet hall.
|This was a canary diamond a friend let me try on...um....
|Track and Field...great day. We even saw the Blade runner.
|At the Track and Field event. So fun to watch! So exiting in person.
|At the top of the maze in the stunning castle gardens.
|St. Paul's Cathedral in Canterbury
|A resting place for many Medieval kings and patron saints.
|The Big Ben
|VIP seats in Wembley Stadium for the Gold medal Soccer Match...AMAZING!
|This man is the archery trainer that personally taught Russel Crowe, Richard Gere, and many more.
|Can you see my head in our bedroom window?
|View from our bedroom window in the castle..
|So this is first class, huh? It's hard to go back after having a seat like this.
|A family that I will forever LOVE...for a million reasons.


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Cyprus capital controls seen gone by year's end
NICOSIA, Cyprus (AP) — Cyprus' central bank chief says he expects all restrictions on bank money transfers and withdrawals to be lifted by the end of the year.
Panicos Demetriades says most, if not all, domestic capital controls are likely to be eliminated in the next few weeks.
Demetriades was quoted by the Cyprus News Agency Friday as saying that getting rid of all restrictions — including unlimited money transfers abroad — depends on confidence being fully restored in the banking system and on the government making substantial progress in implementing the country's rescue program.
The controls were imposed to prevent a run on the banks after Cyprus agreed in March on a multibillion-euro international rescue plan that mandated a raid on uninsured deposits in the country's two top lenders.


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Alrighty folks- I have some great news! I am in the process of taking over responsibilities as the Deputy Treasurer for a Political Action Committee (you'll hear all about it when our new website goes live, hopefully later this month). You can be sure however, that I will continue writing great content on a regular and frequent basis here at THL.
The cool thing about it is that I feel like my electoral activism has dominated a disproportionate amount of the content here lately, and I would like to get back to some very deep, analytical-type essays about policy and the proper role of government.
So a lot of my work and writing with respect to libertarian candidates and electoral activism will likely move to the new PAC website, while I continue to write political essays and keep you updated on other news here at The Humble Libertarian.
I have lots of good articles in store for you and you will likely notice a marked difference in the style of content over the next month. I am also putting together an issues page tonight, which I will hopefully have completed and linked to by tomorrow.
That said, please share your thoughts, feelings, and suggestions about the nature of the content here. What have you liked and not liked? Have you actually preferred the posts I've been doing lately? Will you be glad to see me get back to the kind of writing I was originally doing more of here? Would some balance between these suit you better? Just let me know!
Charging Forward,PS: I updated my favicon (I tried this multiple times before and failed- it finally worked for me tonight.)! If it's not showing up in your browser and you'd like to see it, clearing your cache may help (particularly for IE).
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Cathedral Village resident Sarah West, 76, was unsure if she should try out for a seat on Team USA's senior Dragon Boat racing team. She shouldn't have worried. Her time in the one-person outrigger trials was fast enough to earn her a spot on the senior's Division C team (over 60) and an invitation to Hungary for the World Dragon Boat Racing Championships two months ago.
West has been racing Dragon Boats for 12 years, ever since the day a friend of hers brought her along to see one of her practices. West grew up on the Maine coast and was comfortable in a boat but had never raced competitively before. She participated in the practice and immediately joined the club, the Philadelphia Flying Phoenix. But team racing is not as easy as it might sound.
"It takes about a year to learn how to paddle correctly. And then you still have to work at it," she explained. "You need to be putting your paddles in the water at the same instant, at the same angle; and coming out at the same instant, the same angle as everyone else. And keeping the same pace. You have to concentrate and let go of all the things that are on your mind weighing you down. I come home feeling quite relaxed and tired."
Being in the same frame of mind as everyone else on the boat is important, and that's why West's Senior Division C team found themselves at a disadvantage immediately. Because this was the first time a Division C had been allowed to compete in the championships, they had gotten a late start. They hadn't had tryouts until May 1, and the team wasn't set until June 1. Four members lived too far away to practice with the rest of the team in Philadelphia before arriving in Hungary. And the powerhouses in this division, Canada and Australia, had been together almost a year by then.
Canada also carried with it the distinction of helping popularize Dragon Boat racing. It began gaining in popularity in Western Canada in the late 1990s when Dr. Don MacKenzie went against conventional wisdom and told his post-surgical breast cancer patients to take up the sport. Most breast cancer patients were instructed not to participate in physical therapy for fear of complications with swelling. Activities that included lifting with the arms or repetitive upper body exercises were deemed out of bounds.
Instead, his patients that were rowing improved quicker than average and felt great. From there, breast cancer Dragon Boat racing teams sprang up across the country and then internationally. When West first joined her club, it was on the breast cancer survivor team, Against the Wind. Every four years, an international festival is held just for breast cancer survivors.
Dragon Boat racing is a strenuous sport. Originally a ceremonial activity in ancient China, the sport today consists of 20 paddlers in a 45-foot boat, with a steerer in the back with a long oar and a drummer up front to keep the pace. Paddlers are placed by who has the longest reach (they sit up front), who are the most powerful rowers (they sit in middle, referred to as the "engine room") and who will give a strong push off the back of their paddles (they sit in the rear). Races vary from 200 meters (a dead-out sprint done in an average of one minute) to 2000 meters. (Good teams average 10 minutes.)
The Philadelphia Flying Phoenix club practices on the water Monday, Wednesday and Friday every week. They also are required to perform exercises on their own to promote cardiovascular fitness and strength training. In the winter they rent time at an indoor paddle pool in Bryn Mawr. The pool has boxes with benches inside for 25 people. The water goes around at a good rate, "like paddling upstream in a current," West described.
Team USA arrived in Szeged, Hungary in July with a total of 282 people on the team. They had many divisions represented: youth (under 24), premier (the strongest of any age), Senior A (over 40), Senior B (over 50) and Senior C (over 60). West's Senior C team consisted of 45 people, counting paddlers, drummers, steerers and the coach. In total, the university town of Szeged played host to teams from 33 countries from five continents at this year's championships.
The night before the races there was a parade through town of all the teams. West remembers clearly when the Iranian men's team rose. "Our governments tell us we're enemies. One of them had an American flag on his shirt, then he raised a little American flag. Then someone else on the team raised a full-sized Iranian flag and someone else raised a full-sized American flag and waved them together. They made a point of making friends. In a setting like that, you get a chance to know people as people, not as stereotypes."
Over the five day event, West's Senior C team competed in the 2000, 500, and 200 meter races. The team came in third, behind Canada and Australia. "We were not on the same level as them," West said. "But we made them work hard. I was proud of what we did." She stood on the medal stand four times, for all three women's events and the mixed 500.
Team USA had success overall in Hungary, winning 2 gold medals (for the Senior A mixed 1000 and the Premier mixed 1000), 12 silvers, and 17 bronze medals.
At the end of the games, the custom was to trade shirts between teams. West was approached by some Chinese members for one of her shirts. Again, she was moved that people from a country that we were taught to regard as "an enemy" wanted a shirt from the USA. She described the sportsmanship present during the whole time as "high caliber." The next world championships are in 2015 in Canada.
In the meantime, West continues to stay active in Philadelphia Flying Phoenix. She is also helping prepare for the upcoming Dragon Boat festival in Philadelphia on Oct. 5.
West grew up in Boston and moved to Mt. Airy in 1963. She taught math and science for 40 years at local schools such as Springside, Temple University, and Germantown Friends School. She is also a Trail Ambassador for the Friends of the Wissahickon. She moved to Cathedral Village to "rest" in 2004. For more information on the Philadelphia Flying Phoenix Dragon Boat Club, visit philadelphiaflyingphoenix.org.


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ETSU looks to build on its six-game winning streak against Stetson and FGCU
DELAND, Fla. (October 13, 2011) – 5-0-0 through their first five games of the conference season, the ETSU women's soccer team looks to carry on its winning ways in a weekend series against Stetson and Florida Gulf Coast.
The Lady Bucs first head to DeLand, Fla. on Friday to take on Stetson at 7 p.m., before ending the weekend in Ft. Myers, Fla. for a matchup against FGCU on Sunday at 1 p.m.
ETSU (10-3-0, 5-0-0 A-Sun) jumped to the top of the Atlantic Sun Conference standings last weekend with victories over North Florida and Jacksonville. The Lady Bucs have acquired all 15 potential points in the conference standings through their first five games and are currently riding a program-best six-game winning streak. The streak has helped the Lady Bucs to victories in 10 of their last 11 games after starting the season 0-2-0.
In their two victories last week, the Lady Bucs combined for five goals to keep them among the nation's elite goal scoring squads. ETSU has scored 34 goals and are currently 14th in the nation in scoring offense at 2.62 goals per game. The Lady Bucs also sit five goals away from the team record for goals in a season, 39, which they set back in 2005.
Leading one of the nation's top scoring offenses is the reigning A-Sun Player of the Week, senior Genna Petersen (Loveland, Ohio). Petersen has scored nine goals and registered four assists to combine for 22 points on the year. Her nine goals and 22 points lead the team in each category, and also ranks the senior second in the A-Sun in goals and first in points.
On her way to being named both conference player of the week and a CollegeSoccer360 Primetime Performer, Petersen put in a 10th minute goal against UNF on Friday and then put up two goals in a, 3-0, win against Jacksonville on Sunday.
Second to Petersen on the team in goal scoring is freshman Jenna Caudle (Middletown, Md.). The newcomer has scored seven times for the Lady Bucs, including a six-game scoring streak the freshman strung together earlier in the season.
Defensively, the Lady Bucs have been led by the play of senior goalkeeper Caitlin Gaughan (Indianapolis, Ind.) The senior has played all 1,207 minutes in goal for ETSU, saving 56 shots on her way to five shutouts and a conference leading goals against average of 0.82. Gaughan's GAA currently sits atop the ETSU single-season record books, and her five shutouts is tied for the most by a Lady Buc in a single season as well.
Although collecting all the stats, Gaughan has been helped immensely by her starting back line comprised of senior Jessica Hiltenbrand (Bartlett, Tenn.) sophomore Lindsay Bickel (Hampstead, Md.), sophomore Samantha Kron (Paradise Valley, Ariz.) and freshman Ellis Parsons (Cardiff, Wales). The four ETSU defenders have made it difficult for the opposition to develop chances towards Gaughan throughout the season, and they will look to do the same in a road conference weekend.
Stetson (2-9-2, 1-3-1 A-Sun) will be the first this weekend to challenge ETSU's back line, but the numbers do not play in the Hatters' favor. Stetson ranks eighth in the conference in goals, points and shots, and will need to put up better numbers if they want to break the conference's top keeper.
The Hatters' biggest threat to score has been Alexis Hermosa. Hermosa leads the team with five goals, 11 points and 22 shots, getting nine of her 22 attempts on target. In Stetson's most recent game, a 2-2 draw to Mercer, Hermosa scored her team-leading fifth goal of the season in just the 12th minute of play, and she will look to get off to the same quick start against ETSU.
FGCU (9-3-2, 4-0-1 A-Sun) trails the Lady Bucs by just two points in the conference standings, as both sides will be competing to push further forward in the conference. The Eagles sit among the middle of the conference in most offensive stats, but rank near the top in almost every defensive category. FGCU ranks second in goals allowed, tied for first with ETSU in GAA and first in shutouts.
Goalkeeper Stephanie Powers leads the Eagle defense, as the senior keeper carries a GAA of 0.82 to tie her for first in the conference with Gaughan. The Eagles have not allowed a goal in conference play all season, and currently ride an A-Sun unbeaten streak of 18 games dating back to October of 2009.
Last week's A-Sun Defensive Player of the Week, Ashley Ciesielczyk leads FGCU with 12 points having registered a team-leading eight assists. The Eagles top goal scorer is Gina Petracco, who has scored four times off 22 shots. Petracco last struck in FGCU's, 3-0, win over Kennesaw State on Sunday.
The Lady Bucs lead Stetson 5-2-0 in the all-time series, while having split their four contests with FGCU at 2-2-0.
Live Stats will be provided for the match against Stetson courtesy of gohatters.com, and for Sunday's contest against FGCU courtesy of fgcuathletics.com.
For more information on ETSU women's soccer please visit ETSUBucs.com and click on the women's soccer links. Fans can also follow the Lady Bucs on Facebook at ETSU Buccaneer Women's Soccer.


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Alana's Gnarled Oak Cardigan is divine. The detail at the neckline is perfection. Oh, I really want to knit this one up right away! Love it. I would wear this one out. I clearly have to knit my own Gnarled Oak Cardigan this winter.
The Rocky Coast Cardigan is already one of the most popular patterns on Ravelry. I have to make this one, too. The front is worn open, the feel is relaxed and easy, the cable pattern is paired with a wide rib which I love. It really is perfection in every way.


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This man is Atikur Rahman. We, the members of 'Science and Rationalists association of India' caught him red handed on 15th March when he was selling the kavacha named 'METAL TABLET' in Bankura town.He claims that this 'metal tablet' made of a mixture of eight different types of metal has…Continue
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Right after the Annual Conference held at Kolkata, our Bankura branch has jumped into action. A tribal girl, Putul Tudu aged 12 years was being given in marriage against her will. It is not only illegal in India, but unethical and inhuman. Our secretary Biplab Das from Bankura visited the remote village Housibad amidst the jungles of Taldangra with another member Tarun Rakshit on 9th March and stopped the wedding. He informed the police and got the attention of the administration and saved…Continue
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The 'Science and Rationalists Association of India' popularly known as 'Juktibadi Samiti' is working for eradication of superstition and racism for past many years. They have quite a few publications- books, magazines those are in high demand.
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This is a collection of tips and information regarding blueman, a GTK+ bluetooth manager. The information here was originally collated from the AUR thread at https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=13870.
# pacman -S blueman
Be sure to add the bluetooth daemon to rc.conf and start blueman with blueman-applet.
Blueman and pulseaudio
Users who want to use pulseaudio with a bluetooth headset may want to activate the pulseaudio plugin of Blueman. This automatically loads pulseaudio bluetooth module after audio device is connected and plays all audio through the bluetooth headset.
Blueman and Thunar
As long as you have gvfs-obexftp installed, you can use thunar from blueman to browse files remotely. Open up the blueman services configuration window and replace
nautilus --browse obex://
thunar obex://
NOW obsolete! >> Workaround for a Bug with obex and gvfs
To browse mobile phone via nautilus with blueman you need a patched gvfs. Install gvfs-rar from AUR: https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=23861
obex-data-server package is broken for now and needs to rebuild with:
$ ./configure --prefix=/usr --sysconfdir=/etc
Just grab it from ABS and rebuild.
>>For me now with actual obex-data-server and standard gvfs all is working fine (Yes obex-browsing too) the only thing is delete files on remote storage do not work.
Workaround a bug with network manager in bluetooth networking
Some distributions show all bluetooth interfaces as net.80203, which can cause strange behaviour in network manager, for example NM trying to get dhcp address for an incoming connection.
This is for versions <= 1.01, versions 1.02 and up will include this patch.
Put this in
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <deviceinfo version="0.2"> <device> <match key="info.category" string="net.80203"> <match key="net.interface" contains="bnep"> <merge key="info.category" type="string">net.bluetooth</merge> <merge key="info.product" type="string">Bluetooth Interface</merge> <merge key="info.capabilities" type="strlist">net, net.bluetooth</merge> <merge key="net.bluetooth.mac_address" type="copy_property">net.80203.mac_address</merge> <remove key="net.80203.mac_address"/> </match> </match> </device> </deviceinfo>
Can't receive files
You have to edit /etc/conf.d/bluetooth file and uncomment this line:
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November 24, 2012 7:36:56 PM
Perhaps it's those little chocolate silver bells that my brother and I would stuff into our pockets as tiny boys, or the glistening silver tinsel with which Mama dressed our childhood tree for the holidays. Maybe it's just this time of year, but it's beginning to look a lot like Christmas to me. Everything is getting a dusting of silver sparkle this season, and that should include you!
The eyes will twinkle this December with spectacular eye shadows in silver, shining brightly well into the night. One of my favorite ways to decorate the eyes for the holidays is to smudge a creamy metallic silver shadow onto the lids, dust a shimmery shadow along the upper and bottom lash line, and then wrap the lashes in several coats of black mascara. It's a surefire way to make your season merry and bright.
Naughty or nice, I'm sure Santa will only be paying attention to the shiny silver nail color on your fingers and toes when caught under the mistletoe. I love anything that sparkles, shimmers and glitters any time of the year, but most especially this season.
A bit of silver goes a long way, whether it's an ornament for the tree or for yourself, so adorn your hairstyle with a silver jeweled clip, comb or headband. Nothing says glamour more than a warm, cozy winter hat, and if you can't find a silver one in your closet, rummage through an antique store, flea market or a grandmother's jewelry box for a sequined broach bound to add a silver lining to any boring ensemble. Spread the holiday magic with a say-something silver scarf, earrings or purse from a consignment shop. Be bold, be daring, and by all means be jolly this season with the allure not of silver and gold, but of silver and old.
One of my fondest memories from childhood is lying underneath the twinkling lights of our family's Christmas tree, staring up into the branches wishing time could stand still. The icicles of silver my mama tossed onto the pine needles reflected bright shimmers of light and beauty, and that's just what I wish for you and yours this holiday season -- light and beauty.
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- Nov 18:
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- Nov 14:
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- Nov 6:
- Superior Chamber establishes relief fund for residents affected by floods
- Oct 15:
- Boulder County homeowner haunted by mysterious concrete block
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- Boulder area car buyers warned how to avoid flood-damaged autos
- Boulder Reservoir draws 300 volunteers for flood clean-up, repairs
- Oct 4:
- Vail Resorts to put 150 employees to work fixing flood-ravaged Coal Creek Trail
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- Superior launches Flood Buster program to match volunteers with victims
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- Superior to hold flood impact public meeting tonight
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- Boulder County flood victims facing housing crunch
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- Boulder ceremony honors memory of couple lost in flood
- Boulder begins inspections of flood-damaged properties Monday
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- Collection for flood relief at final Art Night Out on Friday in Lafayette
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- 'Camp Erie' to provide activities for kids during flood-related school closure next week
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- 234 people remain unaccounted as rescuers gain ground
- Residents, officials: We will come back.
- Road closures in Boulder, east county and surrounding area
- Closings, cancellations and re-openings post flood
- Boulder area canyons remain isolated
- Boulder County's major reservoirs holding steady, despite week's deluge
- Fifth-graders stranded at Cal-Wood near Jamestown return to Louisville
- Officials: Extensive road damage still being assessed
- Boulder County to provide community dumpsters for flood cleanup
- 234 remain 'unaccounted for', rescuers slowly gain ground
- Boulder remains under flash flood watch through Sunday afternoon
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- St. Vrain schools closed until Thursday, BVSD officials still deciding when to reopen
- In the mouth of Boulder Canyon: The aftermath of a 100-year flood
- Football: No make-up date yet as CU postpones game against Fresno State because of flood
- East Boulder County emerges from a tough night of evacs, road closures
- Boulder to see some relief, but more rain in forecast
- U.S. 36 reopened in both directions between Denver and Boulder
- 181 'unaccounted for,' at least 3 dead in Boulder County
- Flood-related closures in Boulder County for Friday, Sept. 13
- List of Boulder County road closures due to flooding
- Boulder police chief tours flood damage, says 'things are looking better'
- Eldorado Springs residents ordered to evacuate due to high waters, mudslide risk
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- Surge of water carrying cars, other debris flattens in Boulder Canyon
- Evacuations ordered for 4,000 residents along Boulder Creek
- Flooding claims at least 2 lives in Boulder, Jamestown
- RTD suspends numerous bus routes in Boulder
- 2nd Boulder flooding fatality was recent Centaurus grad Wesley Quinlan, friends say
- 100-year-flood: Boulder rainfall records swamped in dueling weather systems
- Louisville, Lafayette open shelters as creeks swell; downtown Superior under evac order
- Homeless people turned away from Boulder flood shelter
- Flooding prompts evacuations near Erie; community center to serve as shelter
- BVSD: Students at Jamestown's CalWood Education Center are safe
- Closures: Host of area roads closed, as well as CU, Naropa, Boulder Valley, St. Vrain schools
- Firefighter trapped by 'wall of water' rescued, suffers severe injuries
- Boulder registers wettest 24-hour period, and month, on record
- 500-year flood nearly cuts Longmont in two, forces evacuations
- National Guard carries evacuees from Lyons, delivers supplies
- Boulder flood: Live social media coverage of flash-flood emergency
After heavy rains caused flooding across the Boulder County overnight, Sheriff Joe Pelle asked residents to avoid driving to school or work today in an effort to keep area roads open for emergency vehicles.
Pelle said that while waters may recede in some areas, the flooding has left debris on the roadways.
"It may look OK in your neighborhood, but by the time you get on the thoroughfare to work, you may run into some real issues," Pelle said. "We've got cars in water and debris and manholes missing their covers literally everywhere in the county."
Pelle said rains are expected to continue throughout today, and crews will be working out on the roads.
"We're extremely busy, especially in the mountains, and we're going to have our hands full all day," Pelle said. "I can't shut down the whole county, but it would be very helpful for us if we didn't have a lot of traffic."
Both Boulder Valley and St. Vrain Valley school districts have closed all their schools for the day, and the University of Colorado also will be closed.
Boulder County also announced all of its offices, as well as the Justice Center, will be closed today.
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KiwiRail budget cuts will compromise safety
26 February 2013
KiwiRail budget cuts will compromise safety
The tragic recent events at Morningside have highlighted the need to always put safety first, Green Party disability spokesperson Mojo Mathers said today.
A young woman trying to cross tracks in her electric wheelchair at Auckland's Morningside Station, was struck by a train yesterday when her wheels became stuck in the tracks.
"Disability advocates have been raising concerns about Morningside for years," said Ms Mathers.
"Kiwirail has failed to step up and it seems possible this is driven by a desire to stay within its tight budget.
"Pressure from the Government for KiwiRail to cut its budget over the next three years by $200 million raises the question of how KiwiRail is going to improve its safety standards," said Ms Mathers.
"Of further concern is the Government's decision to amend the Land Transport Management Act so that regional transport committees are no longer required to have access and mobility representatives.
"This move will have a negative impact on improving safety and access to public transport.
"When making decisions regarding transport the Government must take on board the concerns of representatives from Disabled Persons organisations and include them in its decision making process.
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Charlie Sheen Covers Paparazzo's Funeral Expenses
The holidays may be over, but Charlie Sheen is still in the giving mood.
TMZ reported that the "Anger Management" actor cut a check for the paparazzo's family, who tragically died attempting to snap a photo of Justin Bieber and was the first to find out about the image of the Biebs smoking a marijuana blunt.
The entertainment news hounds said Sheen donated $12,000 to Chris Guerra's loved ones in order for the them to cover funeral expenses.
According to Los Angeles police, the photographer was struck by oncoming traffic after attempting to take pictures of the driver of the car who he believed to be Bieber.
TMZ said that Sheen happens to be close friends with a photographer who was close with Guerra.
After learning that the family was raising funds to cover the costs, Sheen sent his condolences and cut the family a check.
"A tragic incident like this erases the line between the photographer and the subject. It's an unforgiving moment that begs us all to be human and work as one to prevent this in the future," the actor told TMZ.
"As parents, we are all not supposed to bury our children. My deepest condolences to the families involved," he added.
During the Thanksgiving holiday Sheen also showed his good Samaritan side, helping fellow "Scary Movie 5" co-star Lindsay Lohan to pay off her tax debt.
Sheen is said to have voluntarily cut the "Liz and Dick" actress a check for $100,000 to help her get rid of her debt to the IRS, to which supposedly Lohan refused.
According to TMZ, LiLo and Sheen became close after filming "Scary Movie 5" in September. Despite Lohan's refusal of the cash, Sheen decided to send LiLo's manager the money, which was used right away to cover her debt.
Records show that Lohan owed the IRS around $233,904 dollars.
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Group's plan to host alternate anti-gay prom sparks backlash in small Indiana community
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SULLIVAN, Ind. – A quiet Indiana community known for its parks and corn festival has become the latest setting for the debate over gay rights and bullying after several area residents, including some high schoolers, proposed holding a non-school sanctioned "traditional" prom that would ban gay students.
School officials and many residents of Sullivan, a city of about 4,200 near the Illinois border, have scrambled to distance themselves from the controversy caused by the group's plans and some strong, anti-gay remarks made by one of its members.
Diana Medley, a group member who is a special education teacher in another school district, said she believes being gay is a choice people make and that gays have no purpose in life.
"I just ... I don't understand it," Medley said, referring to whether homosexuals have a purpose in life. She was speaking to Terre Haute television station WTWO at a Sunday planning meeting for the anti-gay dance.
Medley's comments have been widely circulated on social networking sites and in news coverage of the story, and have led to online campaigns to get her fired. A petition on Change.org calling for her dismissal had generated more than 18,000 signatures from as far away as the United Kingdom as of Friday, and a Facebook page supporting a prom that includes all students had more than 27,000 likes.
The fallout has surprised many residents of the coal mining town, which is known in the region for its attractive parks. Some say they think the issue has been blown out of proportion.
"We are conservative around here. That's just the way of this town," said Nancy Woodard, 60, who owns the Hidden Treasure Exchange store. "In any town in this county, you'll find four or five churches no matter how small the town. ... The Bible is a big belief system here.
"Everybody has jumped on this little town. To me, there isn't any need for it," she said.
David Springer, the principal of Sullivan High, said talk of the "traditional" prom began in January after a student began circulating a petition demanding that gays be allowed to participate in the grand march at Sullivan's April 27 prom. The grand march is when couples are presented at the dance.
Springer said Sullivan High's official prom is the only prom the school supports and that it doesn't exclude anybody, including gay couples.
"I've been to eight grand marches and ... we always had girls go out together, and a lot of times they just didn't have a date," Springer said. "Our prom is open to all of our students."
He said the school, which has 545 students in grades 9-12, has never banned same-sex pairs from attending the prom.
"I don't know how you can have a dance and exclude certain people," he said.
Some critics say Medley's statements and the campaign to hold the "traditional" prom speak to a larger climate in which gay students fear being bullied and aren't welcome.
"When someone says your kid has no purpose, how do you think that makes a parent feel?" asked Annette Gross, Indiana state coordinator for Parents, Families and Friends of Lesbians and Gays (PFLAG), whose son came out at age 19.
Aaron Gettinger, a 20-year-old Stanford University student who graduated from Sullivan High in 2011, said he isn't surprised by the push for a "traditional" prom that would ban gay students. He said he was bullied daily because he is gay and encountered viewpoints similar to those espoused by Medley.
"It's just the way that it is," he said. "It's part of a way of thinking that the rest of the country needs to know still exists and goes on."
Those behind the push for a "traditional" prom declined to comment, and it's unclear whether the event will still happen.
School officials and the minister of a church where planners met Sunday have worked to distance themselves from the flap.
Dale Wise, the church's senior minister at Sullivan First Christian Church, said his church turned off its fax machine and took its website offline Tuesday because both were the target of hate mail and pornographic messages.
Wise said the planning group met at the church because it allows community meetings to take place there, but he said the church "had no affiliation whatsoever" with the "traditional" prom effort.
Springer said his staff has been inundated with calls and emails about Medley, who does not work in Sullivan's Southwest School Corp. district. She teaches in the Northeast School Corp., a neighboring district.
Neither Medley nor Northeast officials returned calls seeking comment. The district issued a statement earlier this week saying Medley was "expressing her First Amendment rights" to free speech and that "the views expressed are not the views of the Northeast School Corporation and/or the Board of Education."
Northeast's superintendent, Mark A. Baker, said in another statement issued Thursday that he "cannot emphasize enough the extent to which we are dismayed and disappointed with the statements made by a school employee."
Sullivan isn't alone in its struggles over how to handle same-sex couples at proms. A small southeast Missouri school district is facing a threat of legal action over a policy barring same-sex couples from attending prom together.
The Southern Poverty Law Center on Thursday accused the Scott County Central School District in Sikeston of discrimination and gave the district until Feb. 25 to revise the school dance policy or face a potential lawsuit.
Sullivan High School freshman Te'Airra Walters, 15, said it shouldn't be a big deal for a same-sex couple to attend prom together. She said she doesn't like the negative attention the controversy has attracted.
"People from other schools around here are saying Sullivan is trashy," she said. "I think it's pretty much ridiculous."
Associated Press writer Charles Wilson in Indianapolis contributed to this story.
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By SEANNA ADCOX
Associated Press
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) - South Carolina's education oversight panel recommends that legislators spend more on programs designed to draw high school students into teaching and fill slots in the state's neediest schools.
The Education Oversight Committee's budget recommendations include spending an additional $1 million on Teach for America, $2 million on student loans to future teachers, and $400,000 on the rigorous Teaching Fellows scholarship program.
The independent panel of legislators, educators and business leaders also recommends restoring the $275 given to each teacher for classroom supplies. It also approved simplifying how teachers are paid by distributing money based on each district's student population.
Committee executive director Melanie Barton calls it a teacher-focused education budget.
The recommendations are on how to spend the penny per dollar of the state sales tax designated solely to education.
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Computergiant needed a new web page design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 313 designs submitted by 52 freelance designers.
This contest is for a website design. Please use the wireframe at http://www.iavionics.com/wf for the layout design. I would like to see 2 pages: Home page and Search Results page. I will give very timely feedback on each and every design submitted to give everyone the best chance to win this contest. See my last ones at http://99designs.com/logo-design/co…-one-39574 and http://99designs.com/logo-design/co…nics-40585 for proof of this. I will log in multiple times a day in order to answer every new submission before going to bed.
The best way to get a great website design is for me to review every submission and provide my honest feedback and to make recommendations on how to improve the design or to scrap it entirely and go with a new concept.
iAvionics.com Concept
This company is a marketplace for buyers and sellers of avionics equipment (aircraft electronics such as GPS, radios, etc.) to find each other. It is more business to consumer and consumer to consumer rather than business to business transactions.
The overriding message of the site is empowering users to save money by cutting out the middleman
The target audience are buyers and sellers of business jets and general aviation equipment, as well as current business and small plane owners and even avionics technicians who are seeking a specific part they are having trouble finding.
These individuals tend to have money (after all they are buying electronics for very expensive aircraft), are sophisticated and tend to be successful people. They are highly motivated and driven to succeed so the logo must impart quality and reliability to the visitors.
Please feel free to be creative. I require 2 pages: a Home page and a Search Results page.
The site also needs to have a background behind the site. The most modern backgrounds usually have a small section on top then a different color below it.
For graphics in the website pages images of business jets, planes, electronics, made up symbols, streaks, etc are all fine with me. A Business Jet is like a Lear Jet. See http://www.embraerexecutivejets.com…0_home.asp for an example.
The site markets general and corporate aircraft electronics (avionics).
Information about general (http://www.cessna.com/single-engine.html, http://www.newpiper.com/home/pages/Seneca.cfm) and corporate (http://www.cessna.com/citation.html) aviation. If you need additional images of planes and cockpit instrumentation they are available on these web sites.
Font: I am a fan of Helvectia style fonts due to their clean lines and no text end caps (like Times New Roman), but any font with clean lines will do (weight and style are totally up to you). This is not a requirement per se but rather a general guideline. If you have another font style you feel will work better please choose it. If I don't like it I'll let you know and work with you to revise your submission to my preference.
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my parents used to buy loose tea, orange pekoe and pekoe cut black and I would love to buy the same loose tea and taste the tea of my youth. I cannot however find any loose tea with that name or description. Can anyone help me? Thank you!! Love and Peace,
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Hi I'm writing a cross platform open GL application, doing my development on linux, and porting to windows (using glut for windowing)
The only openGL problem I've had so far with the porting is with the call:
which gets me:
G:\Programming\mesaFace\main.cpp(51) : error C2065: 'GL_RESCALE_NORMAL' : undeclared identifier
anybody know what's up with that? My theory is that this is part of the openGL 1.2 spec. and I perhaps only have 1.1 on my windows installation. I've looked for a download to fix it but no luck.
So if someone can help me out, please do.
Additionally, I'm about to start implementing a gui, and I was thinking of using MUI (remember cross platform is key here). I have also considered gtk. Anyone care to share an opinion/experience?


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Featuring a spa with massages and a hot tub, La Estrella features a pool, tennis court and gym. It offers a private runway and the tour desk can arrange canoeing and horse riding. These luxurious suites boast a classic décor with a fireplace. All feature a private bathroom, spa bath, minibar, and an LCD satellite TV with a DVD player. Room service and free Wi-Fi are available. Estancia La Estrella is 25 km from Balcarse Bus Station and Fangio Museum. Tandil City is 45 km from this bed and breakf...ast, and Mar del Plata City is 100 km away. Free parking are available. Guests can enjoy a full board meal plan at the restaurant. It serves a daily buffet breakfast with breads and hot meals. Beverages are not included. Pool tables, darts and table tennis can be found in the game-room. Children can have fun at the playground by the garden.Read more
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Woody's CheeseSteaks
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Atlanta's growing and changing fast with some pretty cool additions (we're looking at you, Beltline). But there's something comforting about Woody's, an ATL institution that's been serving up their classic cheesesteaks since 1975.Time-travel is here folks, and it's right on the Atlanta Beltline. You can take a step into Woody's Cheesesteaks and be transported right back to the '70s, because they've been serving up their famous cheesesteak the same way since 1975, with seasoned, grilled-to-order beef, smothered in gooey, melty white American cheese all atop a classic Philly roll. And the time-space continuum doesn't quit acting funny there, either- the little red wooden house right off the Beltline seats us on repurposed bus seats from the '70s, at hand-painted wooden tables, all whilst surrounded by something that kind of reminds us of mom's house- avocado linoleum. If you're more the outdoorsy type, we recommend grabbing a beer and a cheesesteak on the the covered patio- the people watching opportunities are endless, and the patio itself features strands of twinkling lights reflecting off the exposed beams and wooden exterior, making the whole experience nothing shy of spectacular.
The warm, meaty, cheesesteak is known throughout the city, but we can understand that maybe you want to branch out, and we really can't blame you. Of course, there's the veggie option, full of onions, peppers, and cheese. And where would we be without the cold subs and hot dogs? Pair any of these offerings with a beer and a bike ride down the Beltline on a crisp fall day, and you've got yourself a quintessential Atlanta afternoon. Oh yes- we said beer. Although they have a rotating draft list, they still serve up some superstar local drafts all the time from the likes of Sweetwater and Red Hare from right here in the Atlanta area, and Starr Hill from Charlottesville, Va. (And our inside sources also tell us Woody's has the cheapest PBR tall boys in the city.) They've packed a heap ton of food into one tiny restaurant, and well, we can't wait to hop in the ol' way back machine to get a little taste of it .
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Cheesesteak, $6.95
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text: Korean Job Discussion Forums :: View topic - What's so bad about kindergarten? Speak Korean Now! Korean Job Discussion Forums"The Internet's Meeting Place for ESL/EFL Teachers from Around the World!" FAQ Search Memberlist Usergroups Register Profile Log in to check your private messages Log in What's so bad about kindergarten? Goto page Previous 1, 2 Korean Job Discussion Forums Forum Index -> FAQ View previous topic :: View next topic Author Message wendysueJoined: 17 Apr 2003Location: Seoul Posted: Tue Jun 17, 2003 4:13 am Post subject: I teach 180 minutes of kindy a day and either three or four elementary classes a day and I really, really like my kindy classes, for many of the reasons stated by other posters. I have a pretty good amount of freedom in my lesson planning, so I mix it up between academic stuff (spelling, subtraction, reading) and fun (coloring, songs, PE time twice a week). I have one class of 7 and one class of ten and I could not imagine having more than 10-- make sure your contract specifies class size! A question for other kindy teachers--are you expected to give them homework? I was just told this week that I should be doing homework and I just can't stand the thought of giving homework to such little ones knowing that they have a whole life of crazy Korean academic pressure ahead of them. Back to top waterbabyJoined: 01 Feb 2003Location: Baking Gord a Cheescake pie Posted: Tue Jun 17, 2003 4:39 am Post subject: wendysue wrote: A question for other kindy teachers--are you expected to give them homework? I was just told this week that I should be doing homework and I just can't stand the thought of giving homework to such little ones knowing that they have a whole life of crazy Korean academic pressure ahead of them. I am expected to give them homework too (though is the Kindy kids I teach in the hagwon, not the actual Kindergarten) but I make sure it's really easy &/or fun stuff (colour in the page, trace the words) Personally, I like to set "read to mum and dad" homework activities - print out a bunch of words they should know how to read. You can make little check boxes next to each of the words (like what they do on the "I can read" pages of Scholastic Phonics books) and I'm always suprised by the amount of kids that hand me their checked homework the following day/lesson. Back to top maxxx_powerJoined: 17 Mar 2003Location: BWAHAHAHAHA! I'M FREE!!!!!!! Posted: Tue Jun 17, 2003 4:59 am Post subject: I have a class of 14 kindergarteners for 3 1/2 hours each day for 5 days a week. Mind you, I have no aptitude for dealing with the little hellspawn so I resort to breaking their spirits and forcing them to submit. You could cut the tension in the room with a knife at times. The korean staff prefer to physically punish the more wild demon children but I find that psychological trauma is much more effective at controlling them. Inflict the wounds that leave no physical scars, only mental ones. I swear that sometimes I've turned the little ones into miniature adults, sitting quietly in their seats until I utter the magic words "play time". I could have an army of child soldiers in another 3 months of hogwan teaching. It's not that kindergarten is bad, you just have to REALLY like kids. Now that I think about it, I really should stop teaching kids. Now if only my @#!$#@@ director would release me from my contract! Back to top tomatoJoined: 31 Jan 2003Location: I get so little foreign language experience, I must be in Koreatown, Los Angeles. Posted: Tue Jun 17, 2003 6:10 pm Post subject: Hello, Haxah! For a new teacher, the kids could be difficult to control. In fact, for even an experienced teacher, a class newly arriving at the English school or Korean kindergarten could be difficult to control. It requires a special skill which is somewhat different from the skill required for teaching other classes. Kindergarten teaching involves providing a wide variety of activities. That's good news in the sense that it is generous in providing creative outlets. That's bad news in the sense that it requires a lot of energy. If you accept a job that involves teaching kindergarten, come with a suitcase-load of books, pictures, and other materials. You cannot trust your director to provide the necessary materials. Take a look at my Website. I've listed the activities which I have found most effective in teaching kindergarten. Back to top jacob7207Joined: 12 Feb 2007Location: Seoul Posted: Tue Jan 22, 2008 4:57 pm Post subject: I hate Kindergarden Every time I see a kindergartener I want to kick him/her like you do in football. Seriously, Kindergaten sucks. Back to top chaiplzJoined: 21 Mar 2011 Posted: Tue Mar 22, 2011 7:06 pm Post subject: Anyone have a good salary idea for the average kindie teacher? I'm one of those TESL newbies with a lot of energy, but I've also worked with young children for years... I'm not so much the 'motherly' type, as the 'patient auntie that knows eventually I can give the kiddy back to mom'. Either way, I love singing stupid songs and doing little dances with kids and think it would be a fun job. But seriously.. are the 35 student classes the norm? That, would in fact, be awful.. especially for the kids. Back to top tomatoJoined: 31 Jan 2003Location: I get so little foreign language experience, I must be in Koreatown, Los Angeles. Posted: Wed Mar 23, 2011 12:47 am Post subject: 35-student classes? We have 22 children and 5 teachers! Back to top chaiplzJoined: 21 Mar 2011 Posted: Wed Mar 23, 2011 8:52 am Post subject: ^ phew... I must have misread Back to top MarzipooJoined: 10 Feb 2011 Posted: Wed Mar 23, 2011 9:51 pm Post subject: Re: What's so bad about kindergarten? haxah wrote: I am planning to go to Korea this summer to begin teaching... after reading all these postings, I don't know how to tell whom I can trust. Many ads say, "No Kindergarten." What's so bad about teaching English to kindergarteners? Any insight would be appreciated. Thanks. They are very young, very needy, and have short attention spans so they are naturally more difficult to deal with than older children who are more independent. The thing that sometimes makes teaching kindergarteners difficult for me personally is that they all require so much attention that I end up neglecting the needs of some of them. Kindergarten is great for those that enjoy teaching very young children and pure hell for those who don't. So you just have to ask yourself if you have the right personality to handle them or not. 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Affordable personal protection that packs a powerful punch. Thanks to its tremendous stopping power, deep penetration, awesome mushrooming and dead-on accuracy, Guardian Gold is fast-becoming a favorite among those seeking reliable, affordable personal protection. Simply put, Guardian Gold gives you the advantage against those who may seek to do harm to you or your family. Every round of Guardian Gold undergoes an extensive quality control process before it ever leaves the factory. After passing initial inspection, each case is primed with reliable ignition primers, loaded with the finest clean burning propellants, and assembled with the specified bullet. Only after passing each and every stage is the loaded round approved for final packaging.
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Roderick Lipscomb is looking for work, no easy task in the current job climate.
The 26-year-old is finding out the hard way that having a criminal conviction on your record makes the feat of finding a job even tougher. In July, he pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor assault on a female charge.
�Employers won�t even continue talking to you when they find out there�s something in your background,� Lipscomb, of Whitsett, said Friday. �I can�t tell you how many interviews I got turned down from.�
Though he won�t be eligible until next summer, he hopes to apply for and receive relief under a new and little-known law intended to help those with minimal criminal records get jobs and re-qualify for other assistance. The Certificate of Relief Act went into effect Dec. 1.
The direct consequences of a criminal conviction are clear � prison time, probation, repayment of restitution � laid out in black and white by a judge�s order. It�s the unseen fallout from such a conviction that�s often more punishing. Civil statutes automatically bar convicted criminals from licensure and employment, cause housing evictions and deny access to financial aid and welfare programs. For instance, someone convicted of felony larceny couldn�t receive a barber�s license.
Contrary to myth, there aren�t time limits attached to many of those automatic restrictions, dubbed �collateral consequences,� and their effects can be debilitating years and years after a judge�s ruling.
The new law lets low-level felons and misdemeanants with fewer than two convictions apply for relief from the collateral consequences of their convictions. It gives judges the power to sign off on a waiver of those collateral consequences after a review of a defendant�s criminal record and hearing with prosecutors and victims.
Daniel Bowes, of the N.C. Justice Center, is something of an expert on the Certificate of Relief Act. Bowes spoke to more than 60 people, including Lipscomb, at Burlington�s Positive Attitude Youth Center on Monday about the law. He�s traveling the state to teach ex-offenders as well as judges and court personnel about certificates of relief.
�It�s severely under-utilized right now,� Bowes said.
The law primarily benefits job seekers in three ways: by overriding automatic civil sanctions to occupational licensing and other areas, persuading employers that a person�s criminal past is behind them and by protecting employers from negligent hiring liability.
That last factor � immunizing an employer from litigation if an employee commits a crime � could be hugely influential to employers simply looking to minimize their financial risks, Bowes said. In any job interview, having a certificate signed by a judge and explaining that someone isn�t a risk to society or the public is likely to be looked at favorably, he said.
Tavores Vanhook, director of Men�s Empowering Resource Center, organized Monday�s information session to help spread word about the law. Employment is the greatest barrier ex-offenders have to reintegrating into society and not becoming repeat offenders, he said.
�Ten out of 10 guys I talk with, employment is a big issue,� Vanhook said. �That�s what an employer is always looking at and society is always looking at if you committed a crime in the past. These people have already done their time. They�ve paid their debt to society. What now do you want them to do?�
Phil Bowers runs Sustainable Alamance, a program to help those with criminal backgrounds find permanent employment. He says the lack of job prospects often causes people to return to crime to feed their families or pay their way. It�s a cycle of crime that stems from hopelessness, he said.
�All that sort of adds up. For a lot of guys, it�s a burden too heavy to carry. They just can�t take it. Many of them have thought seriously about ending their lives,� Bowers said.
Superior Court Judge Rob Johnson said few people know about the certificate of relief, which came about as part of last year�s sweeping Justice Reinvestment Act passed by the General Assembly to reconfigure sentencing laws and probation.
He�s seen only one local request for relief, and it was placed on his desk rather than filed through the Clerk of Courts. He had to return the submitted form and tell them to file it with the clerk�s office. He hasn�t heard about it since.
The law requires the standard eligibility form be filed with the clerk�s office so that district attorneys and victims will be notified of the request and a hearing can be calendared. It also requires the district attorney�s office to run a record check on defendants.
The petitions are heard by senior resident superior court judges and chief district court judges or other delegated officials.
What are collateral sanctions and disqualifications?
Apart from criminal statutes regarding prison sentences or probation, state law also imposes civil penalties on convicted offenders.
Collateral sanctions automatically bar a person from a benefit or opportunity. Collateral disqualifications allow a board or group of authority to deny someone a benefit or opportunity based on the conviction. These civil punishments often have indefinite time limits, meaning the effects of a conviction could last decades.
The UNC School of Government tabulated more than 900 of those civil penalties, including:
▪Barring from or termination of occupational licenses, such as trade licenses or licenses to practice medicine or law
▪Loss of state and federal housing benefits
▪Eviction from public housing
▪Loss of financial aid assistance
▪Loss of public benefits, such as food stamps and unemployment
▪Child custody issues
The certificate of relief doesn�t apply to:
▪Sanctions on possession of firearms by a felon
▪Drivers license restrictions, revocation or ineligibility
▪Sex offender registration
▪Criminal justice officer and sheriffs certification, employment as corrections or probation officer or employment as prosecutor
▪Sanctions enacted by federal law or in the N.C. Constitution
Source: N.C. Justice Center, UNC School of Government
Who is eligible for the certificate of relief?
Requirements to be eligible for a certificate of relief:
▪Person must have been convicted of two or fewer Class G, H or I felonies or misdemeanors in a single court session. Two or more convictions in different court session make someone ineligible for relief
▪Any felony conviction class E or higher means ineligible for relief
▪Examples of G, H and I felonies include: felony death by vehicle, common law robbery, financial identity fraud, trafficking marijuana, larceny, possession of stolen goods, cruelty to animals, abandonment of a child
▪12 months must have passed since completion of sentence
▪No pending criminal charges
▪Actively seeking lawful occupation
▪Eligible persons must submit a Petition and Order for Certificate of Relief form to the clerk of court in the county of their conviction. The form, AOC-CR-273, is available online through www.nccourts.org.
▪A court hearing before a judge and including members of the district attorney's office and/or the victim of the underlying offense.
▪The court has the right to deny a petition but must state reasons why.
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Dear Friend of the Buffalo & Erie County Public Library System,
The Buffalo and Erie County Public Library System invites you to participate in our Re-Imagine Campaign. Hit this link to give us your ideas and suggestions for the downtown Library of the future. We have already held three community meetings, focus groups and web surveys to learn the needs of the community as they relate to the Buffalo and Erie County Public Library System.
Thank you for your interest in and support of this regional Public Library System. We look forward to your involvement in helping us plan for an exciting future.
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Russians Use Grenade as Depth Charge on Fishing Trip [VIDEO]
As a kid I can remember making small explosive devices with plastic soda bottles and other common household ingredients. I then used that as a depth charge at a local creek. Every so often we'd see a turtle or alligator gar rise to the surface but that's about it.
Well, apparently these Russians were on a fishing trip and decided to try the same type of scenario, but with a grenade. What happens next is nothing short of hilarious.


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Official OS 188.8.131.524 has been released for the Curve 9220 from Claro Peru. If you have a Curve 9220 its time once again to get out that USB cord and give your device a fresh OS. And as always, please remember to let us know about any findings/fixes in the comments below.
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Tyree made the statements during an interview earlier today with the National Organization for Marriage -- a faith-based anti-gay marriage group.
During the interview, Tyree is asked about the push to legalize gay marriage in the United States -- and says if it happens, "This will be the beginning of our country sliding toward ... it's a strong word, but anarchy."
To reinforce his point, Tyree says, "You can't teach something that you don't have ... so two men will never be able to show a woman how to be a woman."
And the kicker, Tyree -- who's black -- says, "How can marriage be marriage for thousands of years and now all the sudden because a minority, an influential minority, has a push or agenda ... and totally reshapes something that was not founded in our country."
FYI -- Tyree's statement comes almost 44 years to the day after interracial marriage was legalized in the United States ... thanks, in part, to the agenda of an influential minority.
Uh, weren't blacks an influential minority not long ago? I remember people saying the same thing about civil rights of African Americans. He sounds like a rich white guy 50 years ago.
If marriage is so sacred then we should outlaw divorce.
Good going Tyree!! Finally someone to stand up for what is right! Real men stand up for what they believe in and don't apologize like the wimps Kobe and Obama! Tyree, you are awesome!
It's wonderful to see such an influential man standing up for what he believes in. We need more like him!
Why does anyone care who someone marries, grow the f up. The strongest empires (greek and rome) embraced homosexuality and only faltered when Christianity took over. Maybe he should pick up a history book.
Lets get real! It's wrong all you all know it! Marriage is between a woman & a man! Now how would you multiple any other way! Please don't be so stupid to say a surrogate, that just enforces what I said!
Strong words for a guy who catches balls in his face.
I applaud this young man for speaking up.
David Tyree was raised by a single mother and has 2 sisters. Yet SOMEHOW he managed to "learn to be a man". Sort of flies in the face of his asinine logic, no?
David Tyree is 100% RIGHT. Do we vilify a gay man for saying a heterosexual lifestyle is wrong? Of course not - that would be bigotry. We can NO LONGER speak up in this country, or disagree with someone or something without immediately being called a bigot or racist. Our country is falling apart - and we're wondering why. Look around us. Anything goes now, and it coincides with the social agendas being forced down our throats.
Classy. I am so glad he is staying true to his minority roots. Oh wait...
Now he will get slammed for saying something he believes in. I applaud him for taking a stand against immorality.