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|Madison, WI (608) 467-0333
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|Miami, FL (305) 669-5433
|Birmingham, AL (205) 945-5544
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|Mobile, AL (251) 666-5400
|Buffalo, NY (716) 824-2525
|Nashville, TN (615) 244-8888
|Charleston, SC (843) 769-7200
|New Orleans (504) 456-9700
|Charlotte, NC (704) 342-1313
|Philadelphia, PA (215) 471-3000
|Chicago, IL (312) 609-1313
|Pittsburgh, PA (412) 645-9800
|Cleveland, OH (216) 623-1313
|Rochester, NY (585) 454-1616
|Columbia, SC (803) 765-1313
|San Francisco, CA (415) 692-3525
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|Scranton, PA (570) 342-6500
|Greenville, SC (864) 370-2828
|Syracuse, NY (315) 437-1313
|Houston, TX (713) 774-1200
|Trenton, NJ (609) 528-2500
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Manchester woman, 66, knocked down, robbed of purse, groceries
September 26. 2013 1:23PM
MANCHESTER — A 66-year-old woman told police she was knocked down by a man at her home after running errands, and the man took her groceries and purse.
Police said the woman put down her groceries at the door of her Jewett Street home when she was pushed from behind Wednesday afternoon and fell to the ground. Police said when she got up, the groceries and her purse were gone. The purse included cash, credit cards and medication.
The man was described as Hispanic, about 5-foot-7 with a stocky build and wearing a brown sweatshirt. Children in the area reported seeing him scale a fence.


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Reviewed by Evelyn A. (age 8)
I liked this book because the pictures are drawn very well. I like when Harry made a sad face when he wanted a cupcake. I also liked the writing.
I recommend you read this story. If you do, you will find out the secret, surprise ending. This story is good for all kids to read.


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I have about one hundred of these $1 silver certificates in various stages of preservation. All are dated in the 1930's & 1950's and all are blue seal small size notes. Value, $6-$8 for nice ones like these. For the ones "not so nice", about $3-$4


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Box Office: Zero Dark Thirty Rises to No. 1, Beats Gangster Squad
Jan 13, 2013 1:19 PM EST
In its first week of wide release, Zero Dark Thirty skyrocketed from No. 16 to No. 1 to beat new entries A Haunted House and Gangster Squad. The military thriller, which earned five Oscar nominations, grossed an estimated $24 million, Box Office Mojo… Read more


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Law Practice Magazine
Edge International is pleased to announce the winners of the 2007-2008 Edge Awards for the best articles published in Law Practice magazine in the past year. The awards commend outstanding written works most likely to have a practical influence in shaping the actions lawyers take to manage their practices. All votes were cast and winners chosen by the distinguished 2007-2008 Edge Awards Article Review Board.
Best Feature Article
Certificate and $2,000
"Rethinking Retirement: Understanding the War for Legal Talent in the Changing Marketplace" by Stephen P. Gallagher
(Law Practice, December 2007)
Silver Feature Article
Certificate and $500
"Building the Bridge to Inclusion: The Work of Law Firm Leaders" by Martha Fay Africa
(Law Practice, June 2008)
Bronze Feature Article
Certificate and Commemorative Gift
"The Importance of Emotional Intelligence in Law Firm Partners" by Ronda Muir
(Law Practice, July/August 2007)
Leslie McCarthy Apodaca
Business Litigation Practice Group Leader
Rodey, Dickason, Sloan, Akin & Robb
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Ted Glendening
Practice Development Manager
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Bruce MacEwen
Attorney and Consultant
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Jay M. Rector
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Wichita, KS
P. Maureen Weaver
Executive Committee Chair
Wiggin and Dana
New Haven, CT
The EDGE Awards are sponsored by Edge International, an international management consultancy serving law firms since 1983, working in cooperation with the Editorial Board of Law Practice magazine.


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Soft neutrals are the inspiration for this shoot and a stunning, simple elegance is at its core. Designed and photographed by Retrospect Images along with beautiful, lush florals by Three Sisters, take a peek at not one but three equally gorgeous ways to style a tablescape plus a whole slew of elegant details too (including a lineup of almost-too-pretty-to-eat cakes by Just Delightful Cakery). It's all sitting pretty right here in the vault.
Inspired by a palette of soft neutrals and delicate textures, this fine art neutral wedding inspiration shoot emphasizes that simple is elegant and highlights the ethereal quality of subtle use of texture and very soft colors. The Barn at Tyge Williams Cellars provided our neutral backdrop, where the light poured into the neutral space of concrete floors and ivory paneled walls. We set our table to be inviting to those who may come to gather- each item thoughtfully place. We then re-styled the same table THREE different ways- a table with a floating arrangement for a more dramatic look, a simple more organic look with a simple arrangement, rustic bread/carving board, and a floor table with pillows outdoors. From the cakes to the gowns to the stationary, we sought to curate ethereal stunning details with the right balance of simplicity and elegance.


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Stockton, CA
Thelma Jean Speers
Oct. 7, 1950 - Feb. 8, 2013
Thelma passed peacefully with her family by her side. She was a homemaker for 44 years. Preceded in death by her parents Roy W. Van Norsdall and Thelma L. Van Norsdall, and her son Roy W. Andrews Lawson. Survived by her husband of 16 years Robert T. Tuckwood, her son Jimmy Glenn, daughter Angel Calhoun, sister Sue Luft, brothers Ish Van Norsdall and Robert Van Norsdall, her beloved 4 grandkids: Dustin,
Melissa, Mark and Jared, her 2 great grandkids Courtney and
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Girls' hoop takes flight tonightBy KEVIN GRAY
New Hampshire Union Leader
December 07. 2012 12:45AM
The Roads to Durham, Plymouth and Manchester - where basketball champions are crowned - are busy throughout the Granite State tonight.
Fifty-four NHIAA varsity games will be played on the first big Friday night of the season. Several coaches are making their varsity debut on the bench, including Cassie Turcotte at Winnacunnet of Hampton. Turcotte took over for Ed Beattie, who stepped down after winning 519 games and seven titles through 32 seasons with the Warriors.
Turcotte has been an integral part of the coaching staff for the past 11 seasons, coaching the junior varsity team and conducting practice alongside Beattie. The Warriors host Londonderry tonight at 7.
"Taking over the program has been a pretty easy step for me because I've been part of it for so long," Turcotte said. "The girls know me. I know them. That part has been an easy transition. What hasn't been easy is not having the wealth of information that comes from coach Beattie's head. I miss having that at my fingertips."
The Warriors, who have won five of the past six championships, begin the Turcotte era in rebuilding mode. Senior Carly Gould and junior Mimi MacLeod are the only returning starters.
Londonderry returns with all-everything junior guard Aliza Simpson, who led the Lancers to last season's runner-up finish. Bishop Guertin of Nashua beat Londonderry in the final, 46-43, played at Southern New Hampshire University in Manchester. BG opens next Tuesday at home against Salem.
In Manchester, former Trinity High assistant Matt Courchesne is the new varsity girls' coach. Maureen LaRoche, a coach in the New England Crusaders AAU program, takes over at Manchester Memorial.
Trinity opens tonight at Timberlane of Plaistow, while Memorial opens Tuesday at home against Alvirne of Hudson.
Mario Pena takes over at Manchester West, which opens Division II play tonight against Kingswood of Wolfeboro.
All four girls' divisions are in action tonight.
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by Daniel E. Schmidt
New York – "First Winter" Actor Paul Manza was officially charged today by the New York Department of Environmental Conservation Law Enforcement Division with the illegal taking of a whitetail deer — a misdemeanor.
The ticket is returnable in Town of Hamptonburgh Court, Orange County, on May 23, 6:30 p.m.
"The defendant was cooperative," said a DEC spokesperson. "DEC Law Enforcement did not have enough evidence to substantiate the killing of a second deer."
According to the complaint, a bolt-action centerfire rifle was used in the incident. The spokesperson said the DEC does not have information about the make or caliber.
The fine range for the charge is $250-$2,000.
"Mr. Manza is from Campbell Hall in Orange County, N.Y., near where this all took place."
As reported earlier today, film director Ben Dickinson recorded the scene as part of a 23-day-shoot for his film, "First Winter," which follows a group of Brooklyn hipsters who are forced to survive in the wild after an apocalyptic event. The scene was recorded on a private farm in upstate New York last year, according to DNAinfo.com.
The crew reportedly not only killed the deer without a license, but out of deer hunting season as well.
"We are idiots. We didn't know how to do this stuff," DNAinfo quoted Dickinson as saying. "There were so many deer weak from the winter and getting eaten by the local dogs we didn't even think about it."
The crew was reportedly practicing yoga together on set when someone spotted a herd of deer in a neighboring field, DNAinfo reported. Manza, 34, grabbed the rifle and pulled the trigger.
According to DNAinfo, the bullet hit two deer, killing one and wounding the other. The crew eventually shot the second deer to put it out of its misery. The group then skinned one of the deer, cut it up and cooked it in front of the camera.
""It was amazing to eat that meat and really feel the spirit of the animal," Manza said. "It gave me a different relationship to eating animals and animal products."


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As the House prepares to take up a bill next week extending the federal pay freeze through the rest of 2013, some GOP lawmakers are looking to reduce their own compensation to curtail spending.
Rep. Randy Forbes, R-Va., reintroduced legislation on Tuesday that would tie lawmakers' salaries to the growth in government spending, reducing their pay in proportion to the percent increase in spending between the previous two fiscal years. For example, if government spending increases by 7 percent from one fiscal year to the next, then members' salaries would decrease by 7 percent the following calendar year.
If Congress passes the measure, then lawmakers' pay would be reduced in proportion to government spending beginning in January 2015.
Forbes said the legislation is designed to "insert personal accountability" of lawmakers into the budget process. "I believe in the simple truth that we should not spend what we do not have, and we must make it a priority to put our nation back on a path of fiscal prosperity," Forbes said in a statement. "As public servants, we have a lot of work to do to bring down our national debt and reduce deficit spending."
Forbes also introduced this bill, known as the Congressional Accountability Pay Act, in the 112th and 111th congresses.
In addition, Rep. Richard Nugent, R-Fla., reintroduced his bill that allows lawmakers, regardless of when they were elected to Congress, to opt out of receiving a pension. It also allows lawmakers to reject Thrift Savings Plan contributions. Dubbed the Congress is Not a Career Act, the legislation redefines member of Congress under the Federal Employees Retirement System so that lawmakers elected after the enactment of the 2004 Legislative Branch Appropriations Act can choose not to receive FERS benefits.


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From afar, the perception Jamal Crawford had of Blake Griffin was as mistaken as anyone else who writes Griffin off as nothing more than a highlight dunker with a couple of cleverly conceived commercials.
Crawford now realizes his misguided assumptions, swayed by the two years he's played alongside Griffin and privy to the inner-workings of a driven star whose ceiling keeps soaring higher and higher and higher.
The latest display was Griffin's 35-point hammering of the Warriors in Game 2 of the Western Conference playoffs.
Crawford took it in stride, but before the benefit of perspective, it was a curious Crawford who approached his new teammate upon signing with the Clippers in 2012.
"Because from a distance all you see are the dunks and the commercials and you're like, 'OK, obviously he's doing a lot of things off the court," Crawford said.
The question being, was Griffin as committed to his on-court craft as he seemingly was building his off-court profile?
Crawford soon had his answer, courtesy of a long Griffin work day that stretched across a 26-point performance against he Detroit Pistons, a long flight from Motown to Charlotte and an evening visit to the hotel weight room.
Upon arriving in North Carolina, Crawford headed to the gym to get a quick abdominal workout in. Assuming he'd likely be the only Clipper there, he was shocked by the scene awaiting him.
"Blake is already in there, like in a full workout," Crawford said. "He's got bands around him, he's got a trainer with him, and I'm like, 'this is unbelievable,' I had to really go back and think, 'Did we really just play today?' Like, it was unbelievable."
Crawford has been a believer ever since.
"This guy just wants to be great," Crawford said. "He really does."
The rest of basketball is beginning to understand just how much.
Griffin launched himself into consideration for the Most Valuable Player award with a well-rounded regular season in which he averaged 24.1 points and 9.5 rebounds, then backed it up Monday by dominating the Warriors to draw even with them in this best-of-seven series.
But the numbers only tell part of the story.
By expanding his repertoire with a more consistent mid-range game and freeing his mind of the clutter resulting from the beating he takes every night and the referees' inconsistency controlling it, Griffin is better equipped to deal with the physical and emotional challenges confronting him each game.
It helped that he finally spent a healthy off season working on his game as opposed to rehabbing from surgery, as he did his previous three summers. But for Griffin the mental improvements are every bit as important as the physical.
"We talk about it all he time," Clippers coach Doc Rivers said, "You have no opponent. We throw you the ball, you score. I don't care who's guarding you, just go play. I don't care what they do to you, just go play."
And as the Clippers Game 2 blowout victory showed, when Griffin is playing freely and confidently he's nothing short of a beast.
The Warriors have little recourse.
Consider that his 35 points Monday came in just three quarters, and that when Griffin is on the court the Clippers own a 31-point advantage over Golden State.
That's of utmost significance considering he was hampered by foul trouble throughout Game 1 – eventually fouling out after playing just 19 minutes – and the Warriors stole a win at Staples Center as a result.
With fouls never an issue Monday – remarkably, after being whistled for six in Game 1 he didn't draw any in Game 2 – the Warriors were helpless defending Griffin and the Clippers as a whole.
"You saw tonight how dominant he is," said Clippers guard Chris Paul, who implored Griffin to be more cognizant of his importance after fouling out of Game 1, emphatically telling him he needed him on the court the rest of the series.
Paul was but one voice in a chorus of Clippers urging Griffin to play smarter with his fouls, but also be more aggressive offensively. They understand his importance, and reminded Griffin it was his commanding regular-season performance, as much as anything else, that lifted them to a franchise record for victories and the third seed in the Western Conference playoffs.
The catalyst being a stretch of time in which Paul was sidelined with an injury and Griffin was forced to assume more responsibility. He responded by lifting the Clippers on his shoulders and carrying them during Paul's absence, the ramifications of which reached far beyond the standings.
Griffin was earning the respect of his teammates.
"He led with his voice, led by example and led us every single night when Chris was out," Crawford said.
Griffin didn't necessarily nudge Paul aside for ownership of the Clippers in the process, but he absolutely became a co-signer on the deed.
"Now they can work together. We have two MVP candidates on the same team," Crawford said. "They're both unselfish and that makes it that much better."
The esteem with which Griffin is held in his locker room was felt between Games 1 and 2 when teammates urged him to punish the Warriors.
It was an forceful plea, and it was appreciated.
"It means a lot," Griffin said. "Whether you believe it or not, you know, every NBA player deals with confidence issues at times and before every game. To hear CP, Jamal Crawford, DJ DeAndre Jordan, Matt (Barnes) DC (Darren Collison), on down the line and then our whole coaching staff say, 'Go attack, go score, go do what you do,' that's a confidence-builder. That gets me into the game."
Griffin responded with a career playoff high in points, and in the process helped batter the Warriors into submission.
If he continues the assault, it's difficult to imagine the Warriors mapping out directions leading to three more wins.
"When we play that way, when we play with that force and thrust, it's tough to defend us," Paul said.


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This 400 foot trolley bridge was built in 1908 for the Shelburne Falls & Colrain Street Railway. It was built of paved concrete by Italian laborers recruited in New York City. In the 1890s trolley fever spread throughout Western Massachusetts, reaching Shelburne Falls in 1896. This Trolley line initially stayed on one side of the river, transporting workers, some of whom were German or Irish immigrants, to and from the mills and factories. With the construction of this bridge, the exciting new technology allowed freight from the railroad cars at the Boston & Maine Railroad - New Haven station in Buckland to be transported to Shelburne quicker and easier and vice versa. It also provided easy transportation for locally produced goods such as milk, apples, cider, and vinegar.
The trolley boom died down with the widespread excitement over the next transportation wonder, the automobile, and by 1926 this trolley line was out of business. Three years later the Shelburne Falls Women's Club transformed this bridge into the "Bridge of Flowers."
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I've been reading around and it seems that Asian Americans are not considered URM's at top ranked schools. That being said, I do think that I have reason to include a diversity statement, but I was wondering if it would be OK or even appropriate to mention that I am a Korean adoptee. Not only that, but I was adopted into a low income household in Arkansas.Now, Arkansas probably isn't as bad as some places, but there have definitely been some hard times down here. Honestly, I was the only Asian guy in my entire city, and even though I grew up here people still stare at me every time I walk into a store or a restaurant. It's more than a little grating.In any case, I was wondering if this could factor into my admission at all.Any opinions?
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O's drop series finale to A's with sloppy effort
OAKLAND -- With runners on the corners and one out in the bottom of the third inning on Sunday afternoon, A's third baseman Josh Donaldson lined an offering from O's starter Kevin Gausman to center field. Adam Jones came in to make the catch -- and then began jogging toward the dugout.
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OAKLAND -- With runners on the corners and one out in the bottom of the third inning on Sunday afternoon, A's third baseman Josh Donaldson lined an offering from O's starter Kevin Gausman to center field. Adam Jones came in to make the catch -- and then began jogging toward the dugout.
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Cespedes might have scored on the play either way, but Jones' mental lapse was the most memorable moment in an ugly game that the O's would like to forget. Baltimore was routed in the rubber match against the A's, 10-2, and dropped the season series, 4-2.
"Jonesy's one of the most engaged, locked in, intense guys that you'll see," said O's manager Buck Showalter. "It makes you realize how hard it is to maintain that concentration for seven or eight months. I guarantee you it'll never happen to him again."
The blame certainly extends beyond Jones. Oakland finished with 15 hits, scoring five times off Gausman and opening the floodgates against the Baltimore bullpen. Showalter said before the game that he wanted to get his relievers some work -- but this was not what the skipper had in mind: T.J. McFarland gave up a pair of runs in the fifth and Ryan Webb allowed three more in the sixth.
That came after Gausman exited with no outs in the fifth, matching his shortest outing of the year.
"You've got starters with six, seven days in between, you've got relief pitchers seven [to] 10 days. It's tough to get back," Showalter said. "You kind of give them a little pass, know that they're only going to get better going forward. I think everybody's looking forward to getting back into the routine of the season."
Gausman surrendered five runs for the third time this season, despite holding opponents to one or fewer runs in each of his other five starts. He struggled to get some low strike calls, and 14 of his 23 first pitches were balls.
"I think they were pretty patient today and they took a lot of good pitches," Gausman said. "They took pitches that were just a couple inches off that I wasn't getting called strikes. You take the things that you can. My splitter was really good today, I was pretty happy with it, but fastball command I just kind of want to forget about it. I'm better than that."
Gausman had limited the A's to one run in seven innings on June 7, but the Majors' best team had a better idea against him this time around.
"He's throwing 98, 99, it's sinking in and out, plus he has that split-changeup, and when you face a guy like that for a first time it makes it difficult," said Donaldson. "Today I think we had a good idea of what we were going to get out of him and really just harnessed our approach."
The O's offense, meanwhile, offered little help. Young right-hander Sonny Gray held Baltimore to two runs on two hits in 6 2/3 innings, and the O's had just three hits total, marking the fourth time this season the club has managed three hits or fewer.
"He's one of the best pitchers in the American League right now, statistically, and you saw why today," said Showalter. "Real good angle on his slider, command. It's not like he's picking on us -- he's been doing it most all year."
"When you look at his ERA, look what he's done this year, it's not good to fall behind early," said shortstop J.J. Hardy, who was removed in the seventh inning with what Showalter characterized as normal wear and tear. "We battled, and he just had some good stuff today."
It was a sloppy Sunday afternoon on both sides, with four errors committed between the teams, including a wide throw by Manny Machado that led to a run.
Machado did hit an RBI single in the seventh to extend his career-best on-base streak to 19 games, and he went 3-for-11 with three RBIs while absorbing three straight days of relentless booing from the Oakland crowd.
The Orioles will now take their three-game AL East lead to Anaheim on the heels of a series in which they lost once on a walk-off homer and once in a drubbing.
"If you look at that first game, they came back in the end, but we could have very easily won two of three here," Hardy said. "They are the best team in baseball right now, and we were right there with them."
Aaron Leibowitz is an associate reporter for MLB.com.


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Manchester superintendent offers teachers inspirationBy PAT GROSSMITH
New Hampshire Union Leader
September 03. 2013 10:30PM
MANCHESTER — Study after study has proven people work harder for those they like and the same holds true for students, the city's new school district superintendent, Dr. Debra Livingston, told about 300 high school teachers in her first formal address Tuesday.
"When students like you, they feel a connection and quite likely they will learn more from you," she said.
She said the relationship teachers establish with students starting on the very first day of school will affect the amount they learn.
Livingston, a former superintendent of Fall Mountain Regional School District who was selected in June to head the state's largest school district, said she met with several students over the summer. One who wasn't doing particularly well in school was born in a refugee camp of Nepalese parents. He lived in the camp all his life before coming to Manchester.
Life in the camp meant everything was provided for him and his family, including food, so when the family arrived in Manchester there was culture shock. His parents don't work and haven't for 18 years, the rather embarrassed student told Livingston. They had no idea how to enter the work force.
Now, in Manchester, the student is enjoying his freedom but, at the same time, having a hard time grasping the idea of freedom. Still, he dreams of becoming an engineer but no one believes in him, he confided to Livingston. He meant his family, she said."That really hit home with me," she said. Her parents expected her to get married and provide them with grandchildren.
But she had bigger dreams she knew could come true because, she said, of the 64-count Crayola crayons box that came with its in-box crayon sharpener. With four children in her family, school shopping meant an eight-count box of off-brand crayons or, if it was a good year, a 16-count box, but never Crayolas.
In school, she definitely had Crayola envy and would maneuver around so she sat next to a classmate with those coveted crayons with names like Almond, Orange and Lime — and even Cotton Candy.
Livingston said every year she still goes school shopping — even though she needs no supplies — and picks up a box of those Crayola crayons.
"Every crayon represents a wonderful teacher who influenced my life," she said. They represent the teachers who believed in her even though her father only had an eighth-grade education.
"They believed I would be a first generation college graduate," she said.
She urged Manchester's teachers to celebrate each and every student, from that young Nepalese student yearning to be an engineer, to the student from Syria struggling to learn English, to the student striving to be the fourth generation of her family to attend Harvard.
"You are their hopes and dreams," she said.
The principals of the city's four high schools — Ronald Mailhot of Central, Arthur Adamakos of Memorial, Chris Motika of West and Karen White of the Manchester School of Technology — then outlined the district's vision for the school year. The focus, they said, should be on the student and strong communication with students, parents and fellow teachers, and collaboration among the high schools.
On the first day of school, Mailhot said the focus should be on welcoming the students and getting to know them, not necessarily on all the rules.
"Books and supplies will be on hand and students will learn something on day one," he said.
Teachers were asked to comment or offer suggestions about what to do on the first day of classes. One said he like to talked to the kids to find out what he could about them.
"Learn their names," Adamakos advised.
He said the high schools are a community and, as such, will be sharing ideas and not working as independently as before.
Motika said there are a lot of students who need additional effort. What is needed is communication on all levels, especially with parents and students, including home visits or making telephone calls to home, he said.
A call home doesn't necessarily have to be to tell a parent what the child did wrong but can be to praise the students, something parents appreciate.
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An archive of diaries written by staff at the British Antarctic Survey's Halley research station.
December 2001
- Christmas Celebrations amid the Work
By Catherine Moore, Halley Meteorologist.
November 2001
- Penguins leave, Planes arrive
By Mark Ryan, Halley Communications Manager.
October 2001
- Moving Containers, Sun Dogs and Fancy Dress
By Alan Burchell, Halley VLF Engineer.
September 2001
- Increasing Light, Trips Out and a Birthday
By Richard Borthwick, the Halley Heating and Ventilation Engineer.
August 2001
- Raising the Flag and a visit to the Emperors.
By Elizabeth Hudd, Halley Meteorologist.
July 2001
- Return of the Sun.
By Thomas Rieley, Halley Doctor.
June 2001
- Midwinter celebrations.
By Catherine Moore, Halley Meteorologist.
May 2001
- Winter takes hold
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April 2001
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By Elizabeth Hudd, Halley Meteorologist.
March 2001
- The first full month of winter.
By Richard Borthwick, the Halley Heating and Ventilation Engineer.
February 2001
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This summer the College of Business teamed up with the University of Sao Paulo, Brazil, to challenge students from both universities in an international case competition. The case competition was part of an international program for freshmen and sophomore James Scholars. The students prepared for the trip to Brazil in a BADM 199 class held in spring semester 2010. Working with Professor Terry McCoy, 18 freshman and sophomore James Scholars students received an opportunity to learn about the world's fifth largest country.
After eight weeks of instruction, class members, Professor McCoy and Dean Collette Niland traveled with honors students to Brazil from May 16 to May 29. The competition was held on May 26 and 27. The University of Sao Paulo hosted the group which also traveled to Rio de Janeiro. Ambev, the parent company of Anheuser Busch, wrote and judged the competition for the teams of students (two each from the College of Business and University of Sao Paulo).
In addition to the case competition, the James Scholars visited Brazilian companies and attended lectures by faculty at University of Sao Paulo.
Attending College of Business students were as follows:
Brian M. Donenberg-member of third-place team
Wenjie Fu
Jamieson D. Gray
Victor Wee Liam Hong
Thomas D. Hough
Annie C. Jao-member of winning team
Sarah Anne Jeep
Daniel Patrick Joyce-member of second-place team
Amanda M. Kidd
Jonathan C. Kinsella-member of third-place team
Adam Eugene Laurenti
Xinwo Li
Alex C. Menter
Kimberly Elizabeth Nelson
Thomas P. Sullivan-member of winning team
Hiromi Yazawa
Feiyang Ye-member of second-place team
Zachary A. Youman
Funding support was provided by CIBER, the Lemann Institute for Brazilian Studies, and the Office of the Provost.
Visit the University of Sao Paulo website for photos from the competition.
Other stories about the competition can be found here (Portuguese):
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Your stud high school senior dreams of the NBA. What do you tell him? College? D-League? And what do you say to those who want to raise the age limit?
Steve Aschburner, NBA.com: College. Easy choice. And here's how I say it: "Get someone to fund your fallback preparation while still pursuing your dream. You're not ready yet for the working world, especially one that shreds through wannabes the way the pro sports meritocracy does. If you're talented enough and get good enough after, yes, at least two years, you might actually be able to give a fair return on the dollars someone will be pushing at you. In the meantime, learn as much as you can in and out of the classroom. Grow up as a player and as an adult. Scrape together a few bucks – your school of choice will have boosters, right? – for an insurance policy on future earnings, if possible, to guard against a major injury. Oh, and go easy on Twitter and Facebook – that stuff can come back to haunt you."
Fran Blinebury, NBA.com: I still believe there is value in even a limited exposure to a college environment. If and when the NBA D-League raises salaries, guarantees signing bonuses and therefore raises the overall talent level, then my thinking could change. Raising the age limit would definitely help the colleges and would also help the NBA teams on not having to guess so much on potential. But last I checked, this is America with a free-market system and an individual should be able to reap the best price he can get for his talent with no arbitrary restrictions.
Jeff Caplan, NBA.com: Go to college, young man. Go play for a marquee coach at a big-name school in front of body-painted student bodies jumping up and down and hollering like mad in hallowed venues across the country. Go get some March Madness and enjoy the camaraderie (even if it is just for one year). The D-League? To play in front of 1,500 people (on a good night) in some cold city via third-rate travel? Nah. As for the age limit, raise it.
Scott Howard-Cooper, NBA.com: Depends on the person. Going to college, even if just for one academic year, is a great experience, and not just in basketball terms. That should always be the first choice. But some people cannot keep up academically. They should not be put in a situation that creates more difficulty, for the student and the school. (And that's to say nothing of the larger issue of taking away an enrollment spot from someone who can genuinely put it to good use.) The D-League is a worthwhile option. I am against raising the age limit. I get the NBA wanting to protect its product, but getting prospects into the system sooner, not later, will help.
John Schuhmann, NBA.com: Go to college, enjoy the experience, go to class, and earn some credits toward the degree that you will eventually earn. I'd have to see the full data on one-and-doners (vs. players with more experience) to determine if it's still too early to be making decisions on them, but Anthony Bennett might be the poster boy for raising the limit.
Sekou Smith, NBA.com: I wish the NBA Draft straight out of high school was still an option. I'm in favor of any high school graduate being given the freedom to make his own choice, good or bad, about their own future. Because it's un-American to think of anyone of legal age not being able to choose their own path. But for the best of the very best, I have to agree that going the professional route makes the most sense to me. With all of the constraints that come with collegiate basketball, the idea that a guy could work for free, even for six to eight months, when he could hit the professional ranks immediately just doesn't make sense. I know people love college hoops. I do, too. But if we're not going to give kids the option of entering the NBA Draft out of high school and we're not going to require kids to stay in college for three years (so they could actually mature, surrender themselves to the process in college and prepare themselves for life after basketball in some form or fashion), they need to be allowed to make the same decisions all high school graduates are allowed to make. There's no guarantee a guy makes it to and lasts in the NBA based solely on whether they attended school or toiled in the D-League.
Lang Whitaker, NBA.com All Ball blog: Son, I know you think you're ready to play in the NBA right away, and you maybe even think you're good enough to play professionally overseas as well. But before you decide, I left a few movies on your Netflix queue that I want you to watch. Yeah, those top three: Hoop Dreams, Lenny Cooke, and the 30 for 30 film, Broke. So go ahead and watch those, and then when you're done, come on back and talk to me and we'll sit down and figure out where you're going to attend college. Well, at least for one year.
Simon Legg, NBA Australia: College. I just like the idea of exposing a young player to crowds and big TV audiences early so they're not overwhelmed when they come into the league. The NBA can be so daunting for a young player. I'm definitely for raising the age limit and removing the whole 'one and done' system. I'd like it to be raised to 21 so we can have young adults with three years in college entering the league consistently.
Philipp Dornhegge, NBA Deutschland: I actually liked the way that Mark Cuban touched on the subject. To me, a proper education is crucial besides being developed as a basketball talent. Because once you come to the NBA you're simply more than just an athlete, you're an ambassador of the league and a role model for possibly millions of kids. And if you don't make it, you should be prepared to be successful otherwise. As of now, colleges appear to be better suited to provide education and character-building than the D-League. However, those capacities aren't put to use properly, as Cuban rightfully criticized. And the D-League does have the chance to grow into a true personal development league, too. Concerning the age limit: I don't have a clear preference, as long as education is taken seriously, even in a one-and-done scenario.
XiBin Yang, NBA China: I prefer that kids stay in college. Playing basketball is just one possible way of making a living. That's not the whole thing of life. You've got to take your talent into account. Spending more years in college could make a player more mature, both mentally and physically. There're more issues than that on the table, and it's not just a basketball affair. Raising the age limit is a good move, but it seemed not so smart to prevent all kids from joining the pro league earlier. Maybe the league could take some measures to value each player, whether this player has got the ability to stay in the league. If you've got the talent, and ready for all things, you get the permit.


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Under the Köppen Climate Classification climate classification, "dry-summer subtropical" climates are often referred to as "Mediterranean". This climate zone has an an average temperature above 10°C (50°F) in their warmest months, and an average in the coldest between 18 to -3°C (64 to 27°F). Summers tend to be dry with less than one-third that of the wettest winter month, and with less than 30mm (1.18 in) of precipitation in a summer month. SMany of the regions with Mediterranean climates have relatively mild winters and very warm summers.
The Köppen Climate Classification subtype for this climate is "Csb". (Mediterran Climate).
The average temperature for the year in Susanville is 49.4°F (9.7°C). The warmest month, on average, is July with an average temperature of 69.8°F (21°C). The coolest month on average is January, with an average temperature of 30.6°F (-0.8°C).
The highest recorded temperature in Susanville is 106.0°F (41.1°C), which was recorded in July. The lowest recorded temperature in Susanville is -23.0°F (-30.6°C), which was recorded in February.
The average amount of precipitation for the year in Susanville is 15.1" (383.5 mm). The month with the most precipitation on average is January with 3.0" (76.2 mm) of precipitation. The month with the least precipitation on average is July with an average of 0.2" (5.1 mm). There are an average of 57.0 days of precipitation, with the most precipitation occurring in January with 8.0 days and the least precipitation occurring in July with 1.0 days.
In Susanville, there's an average of 35.6" of snow (0 cm). The month with the most snow is January, with 11.6" of snow (29.5 cm).


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Anyone looking to get rid of their old car in an eco-friendly manner.
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We are mostly pleased with the general design of the current site but we want to take advantage of larger screen sizes and we need to have more calls to action and a web 2.0 feel added.
We like the truck with our logo on it but don't have the original .psd, so that portion will have to be re-built. We are open to changes but nothing too drastic.
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Sunday, 6 May 2012
Romantic Novel of the Year Award. Not the Grand National. Because books don't jump.
And I shall be obeying all these orders (well, maybe some of them, others are less 'orders' and more 'guidelines'..) in a nice dress and heels. For, attendant with the Summer Party, comes The Awards.
Those of you nice people who follow my blog, and me around the supermarket, know that my book 'Please Don't Stop the Music' is one of those in the running for the Romantic Novel of the Year award. Which is lovely, but I have to say that my book doesn't jump well, isn't keen on soft going, and may well fall at Beechers, although I have cantered it up and down a few times and popped it over some low fences...oh. Hang on a minute, I think I may have got confused here.
This has necessitated a certain degree of rummage. Since my budget has squeaked rather alarmingly at the cost of travelling down to what, since the advent of the new anti-cigarette laws, can no longer be called The Big Smoke and must instead be described as the The Big Outside, for the second time (and since I shall be travelling down again in June for the Melissa Nathan Award) I will not be buying a new dress. Instead, I shall be wearing just one of the many, many designer creations which adorn my Ikea wardrobe, hanging in its slightly wonky chipboard interior like diamonds in an outside toilet.
You will have to wait eleven days to find out which one I have chosen. And also which shoes are to be the pair that tread the hallowed carpets of the Royal Over-Seas League which isn't, despite the name, actually overseas, it's in St James' Park. Well, not actually in the park, obviously, because then the whole party would be one long search for the toilets and pigeon-bunfight and there wouldn't be any carpets to worry about, but it's in the environs. At least, I hope there are carpets. Knowing that I am to be attending may be enough for them to strip out all the moveable fixtures and spread the floor with sawdust.
Maybe I should wear my wellingtons again?
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I'm not sure if the peaceful sanctuary of the Royal Overseas League is quite ready for us. I have just looked out my inflatable traffic cone, my best frock and a pair of unfamiliar heels that I found (mysteriously) in the spare bedroom. Woo hoo - Big Outside Place That Isn't In The Midlands here we come!
- 6 May 2012 at 10:26
- Lesley Cookman said...
I almost wish I was going, Jane! Well, I DO wish I was going, but your blog makes me wish it more. Sigh.
- 6 May 2012 at 10:35
- Jan Jones said...
It's okay, Jane, I think all the traffic cones have been sequestered for the Olympics.
See you soon :)
- 6 May 2012 at 10:36
- LizB said...
LOL, Jane! Can see why you are up for the Melissa Nathan!
- 6 May 2012 at 10:41
- Jane Lovering said...
Those of you who are coming - I shall see you there! Those of you who aren't (especially you, Lesley)...well, SOMEONE has to stay at home to post bail...
- 6 May 2012 at 13:57
- Chris Stovell said...
My sense of direction isn't great so I may well end up in St James' Park instead. I'll look out for discarded traffic cones and fallen young men (oo-er) if I get too lost as I certainly want to be there to cheer you and the other Choc Lit contenders on.
- 6 May 2012 at 14:09
- Liz Harris said...
I look forward to seeing you at the party, Jane, and then at the lunch on the next day.
My fingers are crossed for the success of the Choc Lit authors, and for the success of all my non Choc Lit author friends who are in the race, too.
Happily, everyone is winner just to be that close to the finishing line.
Liz X
- 6 May 2012 at 14:10
- Margaret James said...
So excited, am palpitating! I think that's the word, anyway :-).
- 6 May 2012 at 21:07
- Flowerpot said...
Know you will have agreat time and look forward to hearing all about it!
- 8 May 2012 at 10:37
- Jane Lovering said...
Lock up your young men..actually, lock up all your men, for I am not known for being fussy... London, Choc Lit are coming to town! And by our inflatable traffic cones and unsuitable shoes shall ye know us!
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The U.S. is a beacon still
The flow toward freedom
July 12. 2014 7:51PM
President Obama might not believe in American exceptionalism, but thousands of Central Americans sure do. They are sending their kids here by the tens of thousands. They must think this is a pretty special country if they are risking their children's lives to send them here unaccompanied through deserts crawling with poverty, disease and drug cartels.
The wave of children flowing illegally over the nation's southern border is a humanitarian crisis. If 50,000 children were sent alone across African deserts or Eastern European mountains, the United Nations would be summoned to protect them. The only reason they do not need that aid is because they have arrived in the land of plenty, where they will not starve or be sold into slavery or left to die.
That truth is lost in all of the finger pointing and political posturing regarding the fate of these kids. They are safe because they came to America, and they came to America because they knew that here - and here alone - they would find both immediate safety and a future.
The academic Shelby Steele wrote in The Wall Street Journal in 2011 that here in America "the values that made us exceptional have been smeared with derision. Individual initiative and individual responsibility - the very engines of our exceptionalism - now carry a stigma of hypocrisy."
He was referring to the left's vision of America as a hopelessly corrupt nation rooted inextricably in the great evils of racism, sexism, militarism and unearned hubris. Read any left-of-center publication and you will encounter this theme repeatedly. American exceptionalism, rugged individualism, equality of opportunity, all of these great national ideals are derided as myths at best, or even worse, deliberate deceptions.
Listen to any random Elizabeth Warren speech and you probably will hear how the deck is stacked against the have-nots, how America is a land ruled by sinister plutocrats who prey on the weak so effectively that those on the bottom have no hope of rising.
Scores of thousands of Central Americans have a very different view of this country. Apparently the message that America is an irredeemable oligarchy where the poor are doomed to hunger and misery did not filter down to the poor of Guatemala, El Salvador and Honduras - places where the poor actually are doomed to lives of hunger, misery and violence.
They don't send their children to the socialist paradises of Venezuela or Cuba. They send them to the United States of America. Maybe the left should send teams of community organizers to the detention centers to tell these poor children to slip back into Mexico and board the first boat to Cuba. We hear they have free universal health care there.


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The utter lack of interest that ensues shortly after downloading numerous, mind-numbingly worthless apps for an iPhone or similar "smart phone" device. Appathy may also apply, in a broader sense, to the same feelings that arise from the proliferation of numerous "app" stores as greedy corporations try to profit jumping on the app store bandwagon.
His appathy started shortly after downloading that light-saber for his iPhone or was it that completely inane app to calculate tips for restaurant bills.
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I bought myself a new laptop the other day, and while I'm happy with it, it came with Windows 8. This wasn't an issue per se, once I looked up on the internet how to find the "shut down" button... Sure, the gestures are a bit annoying when you don't have a touch screen, but I could live with that.
But then I started running into familiar issues again, as I tried to set all the Haskell libraries I needed for a project: libraries not working on Windows, MinGW/MSYS/Cygwin hell, etc... I just couldn't take it anymore. So I guess this is an admission of defeat that when you need work done quickly using a significant number of Haskell libraries, you need a Unix based OS.
So I decided to dual boot the computer with Ubuntu. I don' really know why I chose Ubuntu, from looking around it looked like it was both stable and developer friendly.
I was first pleased to see that Windows would give me tools to resize my main partition. I remember a time where you had to use third party software to to do that!
I burned a DVD with the 12.10 image (I see 13.04 is out, I'll have to upgrade some day I suppose), and went with the Linux Secure install. It didn't recognize that I had a Windows install, so I configured my partitions and tried to understand what the messages about the boot loader meant. But when I restarted, I went straight to Windows as if Ubuntu didn't exist. So I restarted using the DVD, and launched the Boot Repair utility. At the end it told me that I had to change something in the UEFI options of the computer. I went in there and sure enough there was an entry for Ubuntu. Once I selected that, I could now see the dual boot screen, giving me the choice between Ubuntu and Windows, and both work! Success!
After that, not much sweat to report. I quickly appreciated apt-get, as opposed to the various downloads+install procedures you get for windows software. Sure, at the time I installed it, Eclipse was still 3.8 and not 4.2, but I'm not going to complain.
Ho, and the library I needed that I couldn't get to work on Windows? Installed like a charm.
I'm now a Ubuntu Haskell developer, and I don't regret it.
Thursday, May 09, 2013
Moving from Windows 8 to Ubuntu (I'm a Haskell on Windows developer no more!)
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- Matt Walton said...
Don't upgrade to 13.04 yet if you use haskell-platform - the package doesn't exist because they upgraded to GHC 7.6 and there's no platform release for that compiler yet. Personally I think that's a good reason to stick with GHC 7.4 for another cycle, but apparently they didn't.
- JP Moresmau said...
Matt, thanks for the tip! I'll wait for the next Haskell Platform release, then.
- FRLinux said...
Also to get the previous windows look and feel, download the open source software classicshell, that is a must have.
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2012 Ram Power Wagon - Long Term Report Part 3Posted in Vehicle Reviews on May 1, 2013
During the last two quarters our 2012 Pickup Truck of the Year winner has spent nearly a third of its time hauling trailers of all different shapes and sizes. This quarter we took the 2012 Ram Power Wagon on several trailer-less road trips and even a few rockcrawling adventures.
On the highway we have found that keeping the speeds below 70 mph will result in slightly better fuel economy. We can muster 13 mpg if we watch the speed and travel on mostly level ground. Slowing down would likely improve the mpg even more. The 4.56:1 axle gears are the main culprit here, but the overall weight, rolling resistance, and wind resistance aren't helping. Be prepared to hit the fuel station often if you plan to make long, high-speed, highway road trips.
We used our Power Wagon to prerun much of the on- and off-road route for the 2013 Four Wheeler of the Year and Pickup Truck of the Year. This included graded dirt roads, unmaintained trails, washouts, sand dunes, silt, mud, and more. The Power Wagon has plenty of skidplating and awesome ground clearance. Combine these features with the BFG All-Terrain tires, selectable lockers front and rear, and the disconnecting sway bar and you have a nearly unstoppable truck. However, as you might imagine, the sheer size of the Crew Cab Power Wagon becomes the limiting factor. It turns amazingly sharp for a big truck, but there are some tight twisty trails that will be difficult if not impossible to navigate. One recently washed-out trail corner we encountered had several precariously placed boulders in difficult-to-avoid locations. We found ourselves hung up on the rear axle, unable to move forward or back. With the lockers engaged we had all four tires digging to China. In a scenario such as this you need to be extremely cautious of the aluminum rear driveshaft. It's totally sturdy enough to haul the Power Wagon's max GCWR of 17,000 pounds, but it's not designed for heavy rock impacts. Since a recent wildfire had burned anything large enough to connect the Power Wagon's 12,000-pound Warn winch to, we resorted to some jack work (using the factory tire jack) and rock stacking, which quickly had us out of the predicament and back on the trail again. A factory tire jack that is still functional off-road is a really nice feature that we certainly appreciated on this particular trip.
Next, we spent several days on trails littered with loose sharp rocks. With the ESP off and in high-range 4x4 we were able to pitch the Power Wagon around most corners without issue. After nearly 100 miles of spinning and sliding we noticed that the BFG All-Terrain tires were chunking. Few tires can survive this kind of abuse. There really isn't much you can do to keep this from happening in loose sharp granite except to slow down. Our tires are missing small bits from the tread area, but they have held together far better than some of the other OE tires we have used in the past. Drive sanely and the Power Wagon's BFG All-Terrains should last a long time. Despite the abuse on- and off-road, we have better than 60 percent of the tread left.
One problem we ran into was with the fuel filler. It started kind of randomly with only a few fuel nozzles shutting off prematurely. Then it became progressively worse. It got to the point that we had to hold the fuel filler nozzle at an angle and fill the tank very slowly. The dealer we took the truck to for the oil change said they had seen the problem before and that it stems from a kink in the vent hose. Once the local dealer fixed it (under warranty) the problem was gone.
Next quarter we'll load up the camping gear and take the '12 Power Wagon on a multi-day desert adventure and hitch it up to a few more trailers before we say goodbye to our year-long tester.
Report: 3 OF 4
Previous reports: January '13, February '13
Base price: $45,795
Price as tested: $52,810
Four-wheel-drive system: Part-time, two-speed, manual shift lever
Long-Term Numbers
Miles to date: 11,022
Miles since last report: 3,939
Average mpg (this report): 11.2
Test best tank (mpg): 14.2 (highway less than 70 mph)
Test worst tank (mpg): 6.1 (towing 10,000 pounds up mountain grades)
This period: Oil change and tire rotation $75.84
Problem areas: Kink in fuel filler vent hose (warranty repair)
What's Hot, What's Not
Hot: Great ground clearance, can put more traction to the ground than most people will ever need, turns surprisingly sharp for a big truck
Not: Tires chunking, dusty roads cause brakes to squeak, difficult to get better than 12 mpg on a tank
Logbook Quotes
"Amazing handling for a ¾-ton truck on graded dirt roads"
"Fuel filler cutting off too soon on pretty much every pump now, what a pain"
"I wish the Power Wagon came with a Hi-Lift Jack, but the stock one actually worked to get me unstuck"
"The factory Bilstein shocks got so hot that spit sizzles on them, yet they still work"


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1774. "A seine for my fishing place below the old dam should be 30. fathom long & 10. f. deep in the widest part. Will take 50 lb. twine @ 10d sterl. pr. lb. The knitting is 20d currcy. pr. lb."[2]
1776 August 23. "Pd. for fishing tackle 20/6."[3]
1776 August 24. "Pd. dinner at falls of Schuylkill 10/."[4]
1777 April 22. "Pd. for fishing reed 1/."[5]
1777 May 27. "Pd. B. Calvert for fishing rods 2/."[6]
1780 July 4. "Pd. for fish hooks 36/."[7]
1791 May 31. "An abundance of speckled trout, salmon trout, bass and other fish with which [Lake George] is stored, have added to our other amusements the sport of taking them."[8]
- ↑ Please note that this list should not be considered comprehensive.
- ↑ Ibid 1:423.
- ↑ Ibid. The Falls of the Schuylkill River, a popular site for a day's outing five miles above Philadelphia, were submerged by the building of the Fairmount Dam in 1821. Jefferson evidently took advantage of the excellent fishing at the Falls. See Edwin Iwanicki, "The Villlage of Falls of Schuylkill," Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography XCI [1967], 326-41.
- ↑ Ibid, 1:447. "B. Calvert" is Benjamin Colvard, Jr., who worked under Joseph Neilson as an apprentice carpenter at Monticello in 1778-1779.
- ↑ Ibid 1:498.
- ↑ Jefferson to Martha Jefferson Randolph, PTJ 20:464.
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