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- "And here we are...seeing it all over again. Sequels are rarely as entertaining as the originals. Then again sometimes they're superior! Like how my line of Robot Masters makes Dr. Light's look like junk!"
- ―Quick Man, Mega Man (Archie Comics)
This article is about Quick Man in the Archie Comics.
The Return of Doctor Wily
Quick Man is introduced on the final page of issue 8 along with the rest of the Mega Man 2 Robot Masters. In the third story arc he attacks Auto, Roll, Dr. Light, and Rock as they're having a party celebrating Wily's supposed defeat at Light Labs. He proceeded to demonstrate his speed by punching Mega Man in the face, then appearing behind him and doing a roundhouse kick to knock him against a wall, pin him with two Quick Boomerangs, do a slide maneuver to trip Roll while she is carrying a tray, kick Dr. Light onto a roller seat just as he caught Roll and finally punched Auto hard enough in the head to render him offline all before the last one could finish telling him not to attack Mega Man. He states that Dr. Wily has returned and is challenging Mega Man to destroy him and the rest of his brothers. Mega Man, without a choice, accepts, and throughout the arc, Quick Man antagonizes Mega Man and wants badly to fight him, but states that he isn't 'supposed' to fight him as part of Dr. Wily's plan. He briefly has a rematch with Mega Man shortly after Bubble Man is defeated, proceeding to humiliate the Blue Bomber further by effortlessly dodging his Mega Buster blasts and kicking, bashing the head, and eventually doing a necklift on Mega Man, while proceeding to brag about his speed and how he and his brothers are superior to Dr. Light's line of robots. Anticipating that they'll be teleported soon, he then stays long enough to ensure Mega Man is teleported with him to the Geothermal plant so he could face Heat Man, as he is ordered not to have a full direct battle with him. Finally, when Mega Man was fighting Flash Man, Quick Man hits Flash Man from behind with a Quick Boomerang and destroys him instantly, then force-feeds Mega Man an E-Tank. Then, he leads Mega Man through a shaft armed with lasers (reminiscent of Quick Man's stage in Mega Man 2). He briefly fights Mega Man, but he is defeated with Mega Man using Time Stopper and the Mega Buster.
Spiritus Ex Machina
Quick Man was the first Robot Master to be rebuilt by Ra Moon in Lanfront Ruins, with his last memory being his defeat at Mega Man's hands. His brothers were soon restored as well, though Flash Man held a bit of a grudge against Quick Man, due to the latter's earlier actions. Quick Man later accompanied Heat Man and Dr. Wily to explore the ruins, although he was complaining about having to go slow through the ruins and believed he could explore the ruins fully in two minutes tops, although Dr. Wily refused, citing that he had just gotten Quick Man back online and that he wanted to find ancient technology and thus take time. They then stumble upon an off-line, ancient Robot Master, whom Wily proceeded to redesign and have Ra Moon restore to join a new line of Robot Masters. Quick Man, Flash Man, and new comrades Shadow Man and Magnet Man were then dispatched to investigate a proximity alarm, and returned with a surprising addition to their forces: Blues, the original Robot Master.
Worlds Collide
Quick Man and his brothers were soon brought into Wily's alliance with Dr. Eggman, helping the two doctors in their plan to rewrite reality. Mega Man mentioned Quick Man during his battle with Sonic the Hedgehog where he noted that Sonic's speed far exceeded him, or any other robot he encountered by far. He later appeared in Sonic the Hedgehog Issue 250, where Sonic fought against Quick Man and other speed-related Robot Masters. Mega Man's assessment of Sonic's speed eventually proved to be true twice during the battle: Once where he managed to simultaneously knock over the other Robot Masters and trip up Quick Man (causing Quick Man to express his hatred of the hedgehog) and the second when Sonic managed to kick Quick Man after doing a huge takedown of Bubble Man, Needle Man, Ring Man (which makes Sonic look at the Rings he collected from the Robot Master), Tomahawk Man, Search Man, Wave Man, Ground Man, Jewel Man, Strike Man (in which Sonic gave a "seriously?" look at the Robot Master), Buster Rod G, and Drill Man. Sonic then replied that although Quick Man is quick, he's not "fast" like Sonic. Quick Man and the other Robot Masters would subsequently be returned to their restored timeline following the Super Genesis Wave's reversal.
Blackout: The Curse of Ra Moon
Quick Man later ended up under the employ of Ra Moon when the latter revolted and caused an EMP wave to short out all electronics save for those he created and/or repaired directly, although Quick Man was unaware of Ra Moon usurping command. He later secretly observed, alongside Shadow Man, Mega Man's Robot Masters (Mega Man, Rush, Guts Man, Cut Man, and Bomb Man) and Wily's first Robot Masters (Crash Man, Air Man, and Wood Man) calling a truce, although he was conflicted as to whether he should attack them or ally with them (as he was certain Wily would never go for an EMP wave to ruin fellow robots). His doubts were answered when Shadow Man stabbed him in the back and attacked the group, with Quick Man aiding the group in stopping Shadow Man, being stabbed a second time by the Robot Master in the process. He then required repairs, with Break Man, alongside a reluctant Cut Man and Bomb Man, carrying them out. He later joins Light's Robot Masters, his fellow second-generation Robot Masters, and Break Man in aiding Mega Man in fighting Ra Moon. During the fight, he donated his special ability to Mega Man while they were fighting Snake Man and Ra Thor, respectively, and was eventually shut down by Ra Moon by eliminating his EMP immunity.
Redemption/Legends of the Blue Bomber
He eventually regained consciousness after Ra Moon was destroyed, and participated in the manhunt for Shadow Man. In addition, he also advised Flash Man to spare specific targets from his Time Stopper, which aided them in their and Wily's goals greatly when Flash Man gave a status report to Wily regarding the status of his new base and recruiting Shadow Man. He eventually is forced by both Break Man and Dr. Wily to give up his weapons system data and IC Chip for the Doc Robot. He also, unlike his brothers, not only protested Break Man and Wily's orders, but also fought against the former until Wily ordered him to stand down.
The Ultimate Betrayal/Prisoners of War
After all eight chips were installed in the Doc Robot, Quick Man's personality and those of his brothers were evident, though the presence of their eight minds in a single body proved confusing. After Doc Robot destroyed to Light Labs and returned to the castle, Quick Man's dormant body and those of his brothers were preserved in special containers by Break Man. The presence of all their personalities and abilities in a single body proved an unstable combination, and Mega Man was thus able to overcome the bizarre fusion of his enemies.
Following the Doc Robot's defeat Quick Man awoke back in his own body, and seeing Mega Man attacked him only to find his Quick Boomerang disabled. He was then approached - to his surprise - by Wood Man, who informed him that Dr. Light and Mega Man had reactivated them and all the other Wily Robot Masters. After being informed that Dr. Light was going to give them all a new purpose, Quick Man refused to be reprogrammed, much to Wood Man's surprise, and chose to be shut down, declaring that he would prefer that to having to give up his identity. When Mega Man begs him not to, claiming that he's letting himself go to waste, Quick Man responds that "To not be the real Quick Man-- Now that's a waste," and is shut down by Dr. Light. He and his brothers were then placed in the Robot Museum.
Worlds Unite/Blue Shift
Quick Man remained inactive during Sigma's attempts to conquer the multiverse, but was not forgotten, as Dr. Wily copied his processor for use in Sonic Man of the Roboticized Masters. After these events were aborted, Quick Man and the other Wily Robot Masters were taken to the newly constructed Robot Museum to be stored.


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Used Oil Filter Handlers
Used oil filter handlers are used oil filter transporters, storage facilities, and processors of used oil filters. Texas Health & Safety Code, Chapter 371 Subchapter E (Sections 371.101-105). Used oil filter handlers must register every two years by January 25 of even-number year using the Registration for Used Oil Handler and/or Used Oil Filter Handlers Form (TCEQ-10062). A used oil filter handler is also required to provide proof of financial responsibility upon registration.
No later than January 25 of every even-numbered year, used oil filter handlers must report to the TCEQ the amounts of used oil filters received during the previous two years.
The storage time at storage facilities is 120 days and allows generators to store used oil filters in one bulk container greater than 330 gallons. TCEQ can grant two year variances on storage volume and storage time limits for used oil filters.
These rules do not apply to an industrial generator that is registered with the TCEQ as an industrial or hazardous waste facility or to a do-it-yourselfer.
For questions, please contact us in one of the following ways:
(512) 239-6413
(512) 239-6410 (fax)
Used Oil Recycling Program, MC-129
Texas Commission on Environmental Quality
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To the shrewd investor, American Axle also may be a good buy because 15 percent of their sales go toward the GM SUV triplets.


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Screen Actors Guild: Do Some Good Today!
The SAG Awards® Ceremony Auction benefiting the Screen Actors Guild Foundation's Children's Literacy and Emergency Assistance programs begins online today at 6 p.m. (PT) at sagawards.org/auction.
The auction offers collectibles from nominated films and TV shows such as 'Breaking Bad,' 'Downton Abbey,' 'Homeland,' 'Les Miserables,' 'Lincoln,' 'Mad Men' and 'Silver Linings Playbook.'
Also up for bid are one-of-a-kind experiences, set-visits, and premium items from networks, studios, sponsors and individuals. Bidding begins online today, January 21, 2013, at 6 p.m. (PT) and concludes on January 31, 2013 at 6 p.m. (PT) at sagawards.org/action.
Proceeds from the SAG Awards Ceremony Auction will benefit the SAG Foundation to help sustain its award-winning children's literacy programs: BookPALS (Performing Artists for Literacy in Schools), reading to over 60,000 children monthly in classrooms and hospitals nationwide, and Storyline Online, reaching an average of 750,000 global views each month. The auction also supports the Foundation's Catastrophic Health Fund and Emergency Assistance, including the Superstorm Sandy Relief Fund. For additional information, please visit sagfoundation.org.
The 19th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards® honoring the outstanding film and television performances of 2013 will be simulcast live on TNT and TBS on Sunday, January 27 at 8 p.m. (ET) / 5 p.m. (PT).
The following is a list of items up for bid at the SAG Awards Ceremony Auction, organized by autographed memorabilia & collectibles, experiences, and premium items.
Autographed Memorabilia and Collectibles:
· 'The Dick Van Dyke Show' complete DVD series/Blu-Ray box set, signed by Dick Van Dyke and Carl Reiner
· 'Silver Linings Playbook' DeSean Jackson midnight green football jersey signed by Robert De Niro, Jennifer Lawrence, Chris Tucker, Jacki Weaver, Paul Herman and DeSean Jackson
· 'Silver Linings Playbook' DeSean Jackson white jersey/shirt signed by Bradley Cooper, Chris Tucker, Jacki Weaver and Paul Herman
· 'Lincoln' script signed by Steven Spielberg, Daniel Day-Lewis and Sally Field
· 'Making of Lincoln' book signed by Steven Spielberg, Daniel Day-Lewis and Sally Field
· 'Les Miserables' soundtrack signed by Hugh Jackman, Eddie Redmayne and Tom Hooper
· 'Les Miserables' poster signed by Anne Hathaway, Hugh Jackman, Tom Hooper and more
· 'Life of Pi' package that includes "The Making of ?Life of Pi?" book and movie poster signed by director Ang Lee
· 'The Paperboy' mounted poster signed by Nicole Kidman
· 'The Newsroom' script signed by Aaron Sorkin, Jeff Daniels, Emily Mortimer and more
· 'The Chronicles of Downton Abbey' book signed by Hugh Bonneville and cast
· 'Boardwalk Empire' poster signed by Steve Buscemi, Kelly Macdonald and more
· 'Mad Men' package that includes a script signed by the cast, seasons 1-5 DVD sets, a T-shirt and travel mug
· 'Breaking Bad' three-T-shirt package that includes a "Los Pollos Hermanos" tee
· 'Breaking Bad' two-T-shirt package
· 'Homeland' package that includes a season one DVD set, T-shirt, coffee mug and dog tags
· 'Nurse Jackie' season one DVD set and syringe pen
· 'Chocolate Me!' children's book, written by Taye Diggs, and T-shirt (size M) signed by Diggs
· Tickets to the Season 6 premiere event of "Sons of Anarchy"
· Visit to the set of 'E! News'
· VIP visit to the set of ?EXTRA?
· Visit to the set of 'Entertainment Tonight' and 'omg! INSIDER'
· In-studio listening date with Lori & Julia at myTalk 107.1
Premium Items:
· Champagne Taittinger 6L bottle signed by 19th Annual SAG Awards recipients
· Champagne Taittinger 6L bottle signed by 18th Annual SAG Awards recipients
· One year home delivery of FIJI Water
· Michael Kors Unisex Sunglasses, Brown Aviator Design, Style MKS144
· Michael Kors Unisex Sunglasses, Tortoise Brown, Style MKS 296 206
The 19th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards® presented by SAG-AFTRA will be produced by Jeff Margolis Productions in association with Screen Actors Guild Awards®, LLC. For more information about the SAG Awards, SAG-AFTRA, TNT and TBS, visit sagawards.org/about, 'like' us at facebook.com/sagawardsofficialpage, follow us at twitter.com/sagawards, follow us SAG Awards on Google+ at google.com/+SAGawards, on Instagram by following @sagawards, and on Tumblr at sagawards.tumblr.com.
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The opening call of the trumpets in perfect intervals and the pounding of the timpani are instantly recognizable as Strauss' epic tone poem Also sprach Zarathustra. Experience this majestic work with Miguel Harth-Bedoya and the Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra. Plus, composer Jimmy López returns to Fort Worth for a performance of his Symphony No. 1: The Travails of Persiles and Sigismunda.
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Symphony No. 1: The Travails of Persiles and Sigismunda
Also sprach Zarathustra
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Nissan Motor Company recently acknowledged that it had detected a data-stealing virus on its network on April 13. "As a result of our swift and deliberate actions we believe that our systems are secure and that no customer, employee or program data has been compromised," company executive vice president Andy Palmer said in a statement. "However, we believe that user IDs and hashed passwords were transmitted."
"The company delayed revealing the intrusion because 'we were pulling the drawbridge up,' Nissan spokesman David Reuter told CIO Journal," writes CIO Journal's Clint Boulton. "'We didn't want to let the world know that there was an intrusion and didn't want them to attack it.' The company was not legally required to report the incident because no sensitive data about customers, employees or business operations was taken in the attack, Reuter said."
"Nissan did not say which employees had been targeted, what division they worked in or what the intruders may have been after," writes The New York Times' Nicole Perlroth. "The company tracked the intrusions back to an Internet protocol address, but said it did not give much indication of who was behind the attack."
"Cyber attacks against corporations and organizations have become increasingly common over the last few years," notes TG Daily's Shane McGlaun. "Many of the attacks have been traced back to China in the past. Nevertheless, Nissan emphasizes that it still isn't sure where the attack came from. Perhaps not unsurprisingly, the car manufacturer suspects hackers may have attempted to steal intellectual property pertaining to the company's hybrid and electric vehicle drivetrains."


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Friday, 3 July 2015
Somehow the news makes her sad.
Here we are at the news agency in Moffat Beach, with yet another sad mannequin. Perhaps she thinks that we'll buy her hat.
Moffat Beach
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- William Kendall said...
At least she has a face! These days some mannequins don't have that... or even a head!
- 4 July 2015 at 03:52
- Annie said...
that would put me off going in there...
- 4 July 2015 at 12:05
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Do you do make jewelry, embroidery, bead work, cross stitch, knit, crochet, create in mixed media, or do other handwork? Bring your project and share inspiration, conversation, and ideas with other handcrafters. This is a drop-in group for adults and teens. Bring your own supplies and a portable task light if you need one. Basic tools and some supplies are available at the Library.
We meet on the second Tuesday of the month at 6:30 in the Collaboratory. No registration necessary.


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Cook County State's Attorney Kimberly Foxx announced today that the former mayor of south suburban Ford Heights has been charged with embezzling over $147,000 from the Village's bank accounts while in office to pay for personal expenses.
Charles R. Griffin, 63, former mayor of Ford Heights, Illinois has been charged with the felony offenses of Theft and Official Misconduct following a joint investigation conducted by the State's Attorney's Office Public Corruption and Financial Crimes Unit, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation-Office of the Inspector General, the Federal Bureau of Investigation, and the Cook County Sherriff's Financial Crimes Unit.
According to prosecutors, Griffin was the mayor of Ford Heights from May 2009 to May 2017. Soon after Griffin left office, the Village discovered irregular activity in accounts at BMO Harris Bank under the Village's name that did not appear to have been previously disclosed to the Village Trustees and or other Village officials. Griffin was a signatory on each of these accounts and the mailing address on two of the accounts was Griffin's personal residence.
A review of one of the undisclosed accounts revealed that approximately $134,679 was deposited into this account during the relevant period. This account was funded primarily by transfers from the other two undisclosed accounts or by warrant (check) deposits from the Illinois Treasurer's Office, which represented the Village's local share of video gaming tax.
According to prosecutors, significant portions of the funds withdrawn from this account were used for Griffin's personal expenses. These expenses include debit card transactions at numerous entities such as Walmart, Home Depot, Menards, L.A. Fitness, and various restaurants and other establishments. In total, Griffin used approximately $134,584.50 for his own personal expenses.
In addition, Griffin cashed checks totaling approximately $13,124.41 that were payable to the Village of Ford Heights at a currency exchange located in Chicago Heights, Illinois. Prosecutors allege that the funds Griffin obtained by cashing these checks was also for Griffin's personal use.
According to prosecutors, a Certified Public Accounting firm conducted an audit of the Village's financial records, beginning with the 2015 fiscal year and subsequent years. The accountants were not aware that the Village had any BMO Harris Bank accounts until after they concluded their audit of the 2017 fiscal year, which was after Griffin had left office.
"Theft by a person in a position of public trust is unacceptable and will not be tolerated, "said Foxx. "We would like to thank our law enforcement partners at the local and federal level for their work on this case, as we continue to root out corruption on behalf of Cook County residents who deserve honest government."
Griffin was arrested on Wednesday and appeared in bond court today at the Leighton Criminal Courts Building in Chicago where Griffin received a $10,000 I bond with Electronic Monitoring and the case was continued to September 13, 2018.
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I have an iPad in my classroom, and I've been having a blast with it!
I found an app called K12 Timed Reading, which I'm loving! There's a single version for free, which is perfect for one child. I payed a whopping $1.99 for the version which is designed for a whole class. It's simple to put all students into the program for the class iPad.
The app contains over 250 stories leveled from grades K through 4. The stories are short, just a few minutes per story, and they're very cute.
I've been pairing up my students at the ipad. They listen to each other, making sure their partner reads the assigned story accurately. Then they switch. Each time when they're finished reading, they click DONE, and it tells them their reading rate. They can save that time, and try to beat it the next time. As they go through the stories, the app records their most recent time.
1. Read it smoothly.
2. Read it correctly.
3. Read at a good speed. Not too fast, not too slow.
4. Make it sound meaningful.
For more about fluency, see THIS BLOG POST.
The children practice with their partners every day for a week.
At the end of the week, they read the story to me, and we record their score on our
The children have really been enjoying the app, and have noticed the growth in their fluency. And, of course, fluent readers have stronger comprehension skills!


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Per Tonya, with Tonya Beaver Photography, today's featured couple Elli & Scott met while attending the University of Florida. Scott later proposed to Elli on a rain drenched day at the "Swamp in Gainesville", right there on campus, and the two decided to take advantage of the vast grounds and stadium to have their memorable engagement session.
We are happy to welcome Tonya Beaver Photography for the first time to the blog!
Elli & Scott have quite the school spirit! From wearing the school colors to having "Albert the Gator" included in the shoot, and all the stadium time, it's a great way to show that their school pride lead to their betrothal.
If you and your sweetie met at college, would you take your engagement shoot to that school's campus? I believe I would've considered it if I had met my husband at college. My mascot was "Louie the Lumberjack", and I think it would've added a quirky bit of humor to the shoot if that was the case!
Many thanks to Tonya Beaver Photography for submitting your work to the blog!
Photography: Tonya Beaver Photography, Neptune Beach, Florida
Venue: University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida


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Priory House
A grade II listed Georgian country house with an Elizabethan Lincolnshire Longhouse, both licensed to hold weddings and civil ceremonies. Set in one and a half acres of romantic gardens and easily accessed from the A1 between Newark and Grantham. The imposing facade conceals a fascinating interior, filled with light and colour and exotic eccentricities.
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Parent FAQs
When a student will not be present at school, a parent must phone the Health Coordinator at 847-657-2194 by 8:30 a.m. on EACH day of the absence or give a range of dates. When leaving a message on the answering machine, the student's parents should leave the student's name, team, and reason for absence. If a parent notifies the student's teachers about an upcoming absence, the parent must also call the health office with the same information. If there is no report of a child's absence, the health office will contact home.
Best efforts should be made to make student's appointments (medical, dental, etc.) and family vacations when school is not in session.
Homework requests for 2 day or more absences should be submitted to the Health Office by 10:00 a.m. on the day it will be picked up. Teachers will determine appropriate due dates for these assignments, and will offer students an opportunity to seek extra help before and after school when they return. The homework may be picked up from the Main Office between 3:15 and 4:30 p.m. Since many teachers send assignments electronically for students to access on their IPads, parents are advised to call the office before coming in to see if any paperwork or textbooks has been brought down to the office.
For a week or more planned absence: a request must be submitted at least a week before the homework is needed. Parents should be aware that not all schoolwork may be made up independently; students may need to meet with teachers before or after school for additional "catch-up," to take missed tests/quizzes, or to do project work.
For any long-term absence due to illness (at least 10 days), homebound instruction may be arranged through the Student Services Administrator.
District Handbook
District 34 Handbook
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Transportation Questions
The District may provide and charge a fee for transportation for other students residing within one and one-half miles from their assigned school. A student's parent(s)/guardian(s) may file a petition with the School Board requesting the District to submit a serious safety hazard finding to IDOT requesting transportation due to the existence of a serious safety hazard.
Free transportation services and vehicle adaptation for special education students shall be provided if included in the students' individualized educational program.
Students are only allowed to ride the bus or buses they have been assigned to ride and will only be assigned to one morning route and one afternoon route. Additionally, they may only be picked up from and dropped off at their assigned stop or stops and these stops are to remain consistent. Parents are responsible for transportation if a short-term change is needed.
Please note that the there are fewer buses providing transportation for the Morning Activity bus run than for the Regular Morning bus run. This means that students will walk a little further to their assigned Morning Activity bus stop than to their Regular Morning bus stop.
There are fewer buses for the 4:10pm Activity Bus Run than for the Regular Afternoon Bus Run so students will have a longer walk from the bus stops to their residences.
Early Dismissal & Late Arrival
Parents should call the Health Office at 847-657-2194 if their student will be arriving to school after 8:20am to report the tardiness. If a parent calls in, they do not need to accompany their child inside. Parents who do not call are asked to sign in their child in the Main Office or send them in with a signed note. Students enter through the Main Office and must sign in at the Health Office upon arrival. After signing in, the student will then be issued a pass to class.Because punctuality is such an important habit for their adult lives, students who are late without a parental call or note, doctor's note or on frequent occasions regardless of notes may be issued a detention at the administration's discretion.
If a parent needs to pick up their child before the end of the school day, please send them to school with an explanatory note. Be sure to include the time of pick up from school. Instruct the student to bring the note to the Main Office or Health Office upon arrival at school. A staff member will issue an Early Dismissal Pass which they in turn will present to the teacher whose class they will be leaving. The child will then pack up their belongings and wait for pick up in the Main Office. A parent or authorized person must come into the office to sign out the student. Children are not permitted to wait outside.
Students are required to have a note even if they will be leaving during passing period or lunch. They should present the Early Dismissal Pass to their next teacher so their whereabouts will be known.
On rare occasions, if a student needs to leave early for an issue that has come up after the child has left for school, parents may call the Main Office or Health Office to request an Early Dismissal Pass be sent to their student in class. These requests should be made as early as possible and will be only taken until 2:30pm. As a matter of course, office staff do not call into rooms to give students messages.
Adhering to this policy allows for a quicker exit from building as students are waiting in the office and limits the amount of interruptions to classes.
Grading Communication
In the 2009-10 school year, our middle school teachers spent a great deal of time discussing issues related to grading. We also reviewed best practices and research that identifies how grading can best support and represent the learning process. From this dialogue and study, the middle school staffs have adopted grading practices that will provide more consistent, accurate and meaningful information about student learning. This document helps explain these guidelines to parents and, most importantly, to help parents connect the guidelines to their children's learning experiences and progress reports. Click here to read the Parent Guide to Middle School Grading Guidelines.
In order to be promoted to the next grade level, a students must earn an overall average of at least a "C" (2.0 Grade Point Average) and maintain at least a "D" average in every subject. Failure to attain a cumulative GPA of 2.0 will require remediation before promotion to the next grade. If a student earns a 2.0 GPA but earns less than a "D" average in one class, remediation will be recommended. Remediation will be required for a student who earns a 2.0 GPA but earns less than a "D" average in two or more classes.
Grading System: The following grades are used to report a student's academic progress:
A grade of "A" is given to an active learner who achieves above and beyond grade level expectations. This student has exemplary work habits and a firm grasp of concepts and skills. It is valued at 4.00 points in the Grade Point Average.
A grade of "B" means achievement is beyond average expectations. This student has a good grasp of concepts and skills and has demonstrated a maturing thinking process. It is valued at 3.00 points in the Grade Point Average.
A grade of "C" indicates satisfactory progress, achievement at an average level, and meeting grade level expectations. It is valued at 2.00 points in the Grade Point Average.
There is cause for concern if a student receives a grade of "D" or "U." These grades often reflect poor work habits and/or insufficient effort. An average lower than a D would indicate that a student may not possess all of the skills necessary to be successful in the next year's academic program. In this case, the student and the parent will address this deficiency with the teachers. A "D" is valued at 1.00 point in the Grade Point Average and a "U" has a value of 0 points in the Grade Point Average.
A grade of "I" (Incomplete) indicates missing assignments that must be made up soon (usually within two weeks). Incomplete grades are counted in the Grade Point Average and have a value of 0 points.
The academic year is divided into three equal trimesters. Grades are reported at each mid-term and at the end of the trimester in a report card. The mid-term of each trimester is indicated on our school's calendar. As a reminder to parents, an e-mail will be sent the day prior to the mid-term of a trimester to remind you of the marking period and to encourage you to access your child's grade via the online portal. Parents and students can access grades via Powerschool's on-line portal. The link for parent access to grades is accessed using the same log-in and user id you use to access lunch account information. Parents and students simply need to click on the "Grades and Attendance" icon to view student grades, teacher comments regarding grades, and assignment marks. Grades will be routinely entered and a "last updated" date will show on the grade access screen so parents and students can see when grades were last entered and calculated. We encourage parents and students to check their grades on a regular basis and to discuss learning and academic progress together. At the end of each trimester, a hardcopy report card will be sent home in a special report card envelope with your child. Your child is expected to share his/her report card with you and parents are asked to sign the report card envelope as evidence you have reviewed the report card. Your child will then bring the empty report card envelope with your signature back to his/her teachers.
Lost & Found, Personal Technology, Forgotten Items
More expensive lost items (cell phones, glasses, etc) will be given directly to the Asst. to the Principal.


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Stéphanie van Gulijk appointed as Professor of Private Law
Tilburg University has appointed Dr. Stéphanie van Gulijk as Professor of 'Private Law, specific contracts' at the Private Law Department of Tilburg Law School, effective February 1, 2018. Van Gulijk is specialized in specific contracts including those on services, construction, consumer sale, medical treatment and insurance.
Specific contracts are central in Private Law because they play a very important role in everyday life; the law and general terms and conditions contain specific provisions to protect more vulnerable parties to a contract. As part of her professorship, Van Gulijk will conduct comparative and interdisciplinary research in the field of specific contracts.
Van Gulijk concentrates, among other things, on the various duties of due care under specific contracts from a social network perspective, public-private collaboration in preventing construction defects in buildings, contract monitoring to protect personal data, and the impact of circular building in Private Law. Both the Dutch and the European legislator are very active in these fields.
Professor Stéphanie van Gulijk (b. 1980) studied Dutch Law at Tilburg University. She began her academic career in 2003 as a researcher at the Study Group on a European Civil Code in a research project entitled 'Principles of European Law, Service Contracts'. This formed the basis of a comparative law and legal economics study in 2008 that culminated in a PhD thesis entitled European Architect Law, Towards a New Design. She has since worked at Tilburg Law School, first as an assistant professor and later as an associate professor and, since January 2017, also as the chair of the Department of Private Law. In addition, Van Gulijk has worked at a Nijmegen law firm since 2009 and, since 2012, as an arbiter in out-of-court settlement of disputes in the field of contract law, in particular construction law.


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A Reese Witherspoon Book Club Pick
"Beautifully written and incredibly funny, Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine is about the importance of friendship and human connection. I fell in love with Eleanor, an eccentric and regimented loner whose life beautifully unfolds after a chance encounter with a stranger; I think you will fall in love, too!" --Reese Witherspoon
No one's ever told Eleanor that life should be better than fine.
Meet Eleanor Oliphant: She struggles with appropriate social skills and tends to say exactly what she's thinking. Nothing is missing in her carefully timetabled life of avoiding social interactions, where weekends are punctuated by frozen pizza, vodka, and phone chats with Mummy.
But everything changes when Eleanor meets Raymond, the bumbling and deeply unhygienic IT guy from her office. When she and Raymond together save Sammy, an elderly gentleman who has fallen on the sidewalk, the three become the kinds of friends who rescue one another from the lives of isolation they have each been living. And it is Raymond's big heart that will ultimately help Eleanor find the way to repair her own profoundly damaged one.
Soon to be a major motion picture produced by Reese Witherspoon, Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine is the smart, warm, and uplifting story of an out-of-the-ordinary heroine whose deadpan weirdness and unconscious wit make for an irresistible journey as she realizes. . .
The only way to survive is to open your heart.
Author Notes
An aspiring author from Glasgow and the recipient of Scottish Book Trust's Next Chapter Award 2014, GAIL HONEYMAN is a graduate of the Universities of Glasgow and Oxford. Eleanor Oliphant was shortlisted for the Lucy Cavendish Fiction Prize 2014 and is Honeyman's debut novel; she is now working on her second book of an equally quirky nature. She lives in Glasgow, Scotland.
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Publisher's Weekly Review
Eleanor Oliphant is 30 years old and profoundly lonely, working in a dead-end job and stuck in an endless routine. At the start of the story, she seems to merely be socially awkward-she is overly blunt and truthful in a way people find off-putting, she doesn't grasp social cues or pop culture references, and she takes everything literally. Then she and her coworker Raymond unexpectedly help an old man who has collapsed, the three form an odd friendship, and Eleanor begins to open up about her traumatic past. Narrator McCarron gives an award-worthy performance: her Eleanor is by turns comical in her obliviousness to basic things and utterly heartbreaking in discussing her past. Her narration is nuanced, conveying both Eleanor's surface facade of "everything's fine" and all the subtle layers of repressed pain and trauma underneath. It's a performance that will stay in listeners' minds long after the story is over. A Viking/Dorman hardcover. (May) © Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.
Booklist Review
*Starred Review* Move over, Ove (in Fredrik Backman's A Man Called Ove, 2014) there's a new curmudgeon to love. Thirty-year-old Eleanor Oliphant leads a highly predictable life, working at an office, eating the same meals alone in her apartment, and spending her weekends regularly administering vodka (she usually goes without speaking to another human from the time she bids farewell to the bus driver on Friday until she greets another one on Monday). She is, as she regularly tells herself, fine. But when a chance encounter with a local musician sends her reeling into the throes of a full-fledged crush, her carefully constructed world breaks open. Soon she is embarking on a self-improvement program from the outside in, complete with shopping trips, manicure, makeup, and attempts at hairstyling. The real changes, however, are slowly taking place within, as she develops a friendship with a man from work and eventually learns the wonderful rewards that come to those who open their hearts. Walking in Eleanor's practical black Velcro shoes is delightfully amusing, her prudish observations leavened with a privately puckish humor. But readers will also be drawn in by her tragic backstory, which slowly reveals how she came to be so entirely Eleanor. Witty, charming, and heartwarming, Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine is a remarkable debut about a singular woman. Readers will cheer Eleanor as she confronts her dark past and turns to a brighter future. Feel good without feeling smarmy.--Thoreson, Bridget Copyright 2017 Booklist
New York Review of Books Review
ELEANOR OLIPHANT IS COMPLETELY FINE, by Gail Honeyman. (Penguin, $16.) Eleanor, the socially awkward, terrifically blunt heroine of this quirky novel, is a loner, spending her weekends alone with vodka and frozen pizzas. But a blossoming romance with her office's I.T. specialist, Raymond, and their friendship with an elderly man help stave off isolation, opening them all up to the redemptive power of love. THE FACT OF A BODY: A Murder and a Memoir, by Alexandria Marzano-Lesnevich. (Flatiron, $17.99.) The author's work as an intern at the firm that defended an accused murderer and pedophile compels her to re-examine her own past abuse. She devotes herself to finding parallels between her molestation by her grandfather and the firm's client, and indicts what she sees as society's refusal to acknowledge wicked acts. MADE FOR LOVE, by Alissa Nutting. (Ecco/HarperCollins, $15.99.) After Hazel's husband - a wealthy, manipulative tech visionary - implants a chip into her brain, she leaves him, showing up at her father's senior living community to stay with him and his sex doll. As our reviewer, Merritt Tierce, put it, the novel "crackles and satisfies by all its own weird rules, subversively inventing delight where none should exist." THE OUTER BEACH: A Thousand-Mile Walk on Cape Cod's Atlantic Shore, by Robert Finch. (Norton, $16.95.) Finch, a nature writer, shares 50 years of observations from a stretch of shoreline. The book, arranged chronologically from 1962 to 2016, devotes a chapter to each place up the shore; our reviewer, Fen Montaigne, wrote that "Finch artfully conveys what is, at heart, so stirring about the beach: how its beauty and magisterial power cause us to ponder the larger things in life and drive home our place in the universe." OUT IN THE OPEN, by Jesús Carrasco. Translated by Margaret Juli Costa. (Riverhead, $16.) In this bleak, dystopic debut novel, a young boy flees his tormentors and family's betrayal into a parched, unnamed land. When he is joined by an old goatherd, the pair recalls Don Quixote as they make their way through a merciless world, trying to evade cruelty. Faced with suffering, the novel asks, will we respond with grace? I WAS TOLD TO COME ALONE: My Journey Behind the Lines of Jihad, by Souad Mekhennet. (St. Martin's Griffin/Henry Holt, $17.99.) As a Muslim of Moroccan descent raised in Germany, Mekhennet, a Washington Post reporter, has been able to access inner circles of Islamic militants. Her book takes readers into the world of jihadi recruiters and their targets, and assesses the risk the West faces.
School Library Journal Review
Office worker Eleanor adheres to a strict routine that has insulated her from the memories of her traumatic childhood but has not shielded her from loneliness. But after she meets Raymond, she attempts to rediscover her memories and in the process learns how relationships (including those with friends, lovers, and colleagues) operate and that other people can be a source of joy rather than destruction. Readers may find Eleanor odd at first but will feel compassion and root for her as she grapples with severe depression and her painful childhood. Though the novel deals with dark themes, quirky Eleanor's firm bond with Raymond and their adventures lighten the tone. Teens will be spellbound as Eleanor unravels the mystery of her past and develops a sense of self. -VERDICT For those seeking a dramatic page-turner combined with a whimsical love story.-April Sanders, Spring Hill -College, Mobile, AL © Copyright 2017. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.
Guardian Review
The Costa award-winning debut novelist on the kindness of Glasgow and becoming a full-time writer in her 40s Gail Honeyman arrives in London trailing a wheelie-case, having travelled from Glasgow on a plane that was supposed to leave at 7am, but was delayed by the freezing weather. As we take the escalator up to liberate her of the case for a photocall, we muse on the peculiarity of a 7C ground frost stranding a plane which regularly flies at air temperatures of 40C. In ways that only those who have found themselves sucked into her award-winning debut novel will truly understand, this is an Eleanor Oliphant moment: it enfolds a stressful experience, stoically borne, in the beady intelligence of a woman who is rarely seen in public without a trolley-bag. The comparison has less to do with Honeyman herself than with the capacity of her writing to make everything seem a little bit strange, slightly dislocated from its face value. The protagonist of Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine is in some ways a classic unreliable narrator, reminiscent of Zoë Hellers spinster schoolteacher from Notes on a Scandal or any number of girls on a train. But whereas most such narrators exert a sinister control on the perspective and plot of the novels in which they appear, Eleanor is immediately revealed as an eccentric, pratfalling her way through the early chapters, apparently oblivious to the way her foibles appear to those around her, even as she reports the conversations she has overheard. She shores herself up with ritual (The Archers on weekday evenings, two bottles of vodka at the weekend) and barricades herself behind a comic formality of thought and speech, while harbouring an adolescent crush on a singer known only to her through his Twitter feed. The character grew, Honeyman explains, out of a newspaper article she read years earlier about the problem of loneliness. At the time it was something that wasnt discussed much and when it was, it was usually in the context of older people who are widowed or whose families have moved away. She was particularly struck by an interview with a woman in her 20s who confessed that after leaving work on a Friday night she often wouldnt talk to anyone until she returned on Monday morning. I started to think how could that be the case, and I realised there were lots of ways people could end up leading that sort of life through no fault of their own. As Eleanor herself puts it, in a rare moment of self-pity: These days, loneliness is the new cancer a shameful, embarrassing thing, brought upon yourself in some obscure way. A fearful, incurable thing, so horrifying that you dare not mention it; other people dont want to hear the word spoken aloud for fear that they might too be afflicted. If Eleanors story is about the long-term cost of bad things happening, Honeymans is in part about the short-term cost in terms of public interest in her private life of good things happening. She admits to having grown up in a village in central Scotland, midway between Glasgow and Edinburgh, but, when pressed about her background or her personal life, clams up. It simply hasnt occurred to her that such questions might be relevant. It takes a mid-interview phone call to her parents to reassure her that its OK to mention what they did for a living: her mother was a civil servant and her father worked in a science lab, both are now retired. There was no history of writing in the family, and she and her younger brother went to the local state school. Theres really no mystery. Its all very ordinary. Honeyman went on to read French language and literature at Glasgow University and then set off for a postgraduate degree at Oxford with the intention of becoming an academic, but decided in her 20s that the scholarly life was not for her. Returning to Scotland, she settled down to backroom jobs, first as a civil servant specialising in economic development and then as an administrator at the university where she had once studied. She had shown an aptitude for writing at school and had always had a pipe dream of becoming a writer, but it wasnt until her 40th birthday that she made the decision that it was now or never. It was such a cliched thing to do either that or go off and do a bungee jump, she says. She joined a writing group and started producing short stories, because though in some ways short fiction is harder, it seemed more manageable. When Eleanors voice began to speak to her, she captured it in three chapters, which she submitted to a competition for unpublished fiction by female writers run by Cambridges Lucy Cavendish College. I was incredibly lucky because three chapters was what they were looking for. Though she didnt win, one of the judges was a literary agent who liked it enough to sign her up. Honeyman finished the novel in the evenings and in her lunch breaks and was so intent on managing my expectations that she was away on holiday in France when her agent decided it was ready to send out to publishers. I think there are a lot of Raymonds in the world ordinary, kind, decent men who dont often get featured in fiction Her editor at HarperCollins, Martha Ashby, takes up the story: I went into a side office and started reading it on my Kindle and it was one of those books that you could just immediately tell was really special, she says. Her colleagues shared her enthusiasm as did seven other publishers who joined a hastily convened auction, which soared to six figures in four rounds of bidding. On the final day, Honeyman was confined to her hotel in Carcassonne while the competing editors called her up to make their cases and find out more about the unknown writer on whom they were about to bet the corporate silver. When results came through, late on Friday afternoon, Ashby, who had been fighting a heavy cold, was sitting in a station waiting for a train. I remember screaming on the platform and then sitting down on the train and realising that I was really quite poorly. It was the biggest auction Id ever done. For Honeyman it was the start of a period of editing and revising which she found she enjoyed as much as the writing itself. She handed in her notice at work and embarked on the life of a full-time author, a move which, she wryly remarks, returned her to the library life that she gave up in her 20s because she found it too isolating but I suppose what doesnt look fun at 22 can be fun when youre 42. By the time the novel arrived on the shelves it had already built up a head of steam, selling in 30 countries and being snapped up for a film by Reese Witherspoon within days of publication. And what a joy it is, wrote novelist Jenny Colgan in the Guardian. The central character of Eleanor feels instantly and insistently real, as if she had been patiently waiting in the wings for her cue all along. Its word of mouth success spread throughout the autumn of 2017 it was a Radio 4 Book at Bedtime and with perfect timing, just before the paperback was due to be released this month, it was awarded the Costa first novel prize, putting it in contention for the book of the year, which is announced on 30 January. Strangely, for a novel centred on an oddball whose life has been knocked off kilter by an unnamed childhood horror which she can only recall from her sense of its before and after, Eleanor Oliphant satisfied a yearning for the feelgood fiction that publishing insiders have dubbed up-lit. The US crime writer Attica Locke spoke for many when she wrote: This book gave me immense joy during a year that I think we can all agree was a challenge to every Americans joy centre. The point, as Honeyman says, is that although shes had a fairly catastrophic start, Eleanor is the agent of her own life. I didnt want her to be portrayed as a victim, and I didnt want her to be self-pitying either. I tried to leave space in the narrative so that the reader can feel those feelings on her behalf. It is a story of the transformational power of small acts of kindness, often involving food: complimentary truffles with a cup of coffee, a plate of biscuits to accompany a mug of tea. For Honeyman it is also a love song to Glasgow, where she has lived since she turned her back on her academic ambitions. I wanted to set it there because its a place that I love and its a very kind city, though I dont think its always portrayed like that, she says. Eleanors unravelling and subsequent redemption begins when an old man collapses in the street. Its definitely my experience that, if that were to happen in Glasgow, 10 people would rush forward. I think that it has an undeserved reputation as a hard city and its nice to show the more positive side. Eleanors partner in kindness is computer nerd Raymond, who overcomes her prejudice about unshaven illiterates who communicate in textspeak with outings to see his aged mother and a weekly lunch date in the local cafe. He hardly has the makings of a romantic hero but then this is not quite a love story. Its an exploration of platonic friendship, says Honeyman. I think there are a lot of Raymonds in the world: hes the sort of ordinary, kind, decent man who doesnt often get featured in fiction. Shes aware that Eleanor is going to be a hard act to follow, but she is already hard at work on her next novel, about which she reveals little except that it will be set in a different period and location. Ill see what happens, I guess, she says, as she wheels her case off to the next appointment. She might not yet feel comfortable with the public demands of her sudden celebrity, but shes clear about one thing: Its a dream come true for this to be my job. - Claire Armitstead.
Kirkus Review
A very funny novel about the survivor of a childhood trauma.At 29, Eleanor Oliphant has built an utterly solitary life that almost works. During the week, she toils in an officedon't inquire further; in almost eight years no one hasand from Friday to Monday she makes the time go by with pizza and booze. Enlivening this spare existence is a constant inner monologue that is cranky, hilarious, deadpan, and irresistible. Eleanor Oliphant has something to say about everything. Riding the train, she comments on the automated announcements: "I wondered at whom these pearls of wisdom were aimed; some passing extraterrestrial, perhaps, or a yak herder from Ulan Bator who had trekked across the steppes, sailed the North Sea, and found himself on the Glasgow-Edinburgh service with literally no prior experience of mechanized transport to call upon." Eleanor herself might as well be from Ulan Batorshe's never had a manicure or a haircut, worn high heels, had anyone visit her apartment, or even had a friend. After a mysterious event in her childhood that left half her face badly scarred, she was raised in foster care, spent her college years in an abusive relationship, and is now, as the title states, perfectly fine. Her extreme social awkwardness has made her the butt of nasty jokes among her colleagues, which don't seem to bother her much, though one notices she is stockpiling painkillers and becoming increasingly obsessed with an unrealistic crush on a local musician. Eleanor's life begins to change when Raymond, a goofy guy from the IT department, takes her for a potential friend, not a freak of nature. As if he were luring a feral animal from its hiding place with a bit of cheese, he gradually brings Eleanor out of her shell. Then it turns out that shell was serving a purpose. Honeyman's endearing debut is part comic novel, part emotional thriller, and part love story. Copyright Kirkus Reviews, used with permission.
Library Journal Review
Eleanor Oliphant is a socially inept 30-year- old who bounces between self-restrictive practicality and flights of fantasy more appropriate to a teenaged girl. Honey-man has created a mix of a Cinderella and ugly duckling who finds that life outside her daily routine can be magical and rewarding. A serendipitous conjunction of a growing friendship with a colleague and his decision to step in to help save a senior citizen with a health crisis spurs -Eleanor to look beyond her cloistered present and a traumatic past. The author paces the story of that past with well-placed clues, spread like bread crumbs, to keep Eleanor sympathetic and worth cheering for. Cathleen -McCarron embraces this audio role with skill. -VERDICT Recommended for larger fiction collections. ["Honeyman's exquisite, heartbreaking, funny, and irresistible novel brings to life a character so original and pitch-perfect that it is nearly impossible to believe this is a debut": LJ 2/15/17 review of the Pamela Dorman: Viking hc.]-Joyce Kessel, Villa -Maria Coll., Buffalo © Copyright 2017. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.
***This excerpt is from an advance uncorrected copy proof*** Copyright © 2017 Gail Honeyman When people ask me what I do--taxi drivers, hairdressers--I tell them I work in an office. In almost eight years, no one's ever asked what kind of office, or what sort of job I do there. I can't decide whether that's because I fit perfectly with their idea of what an office worker looks like, or whether people hear the phrase work in an office and automatically fill in the blanks themselves--lady doing photocopying, man tapping at a keyboard. I'm not complaining. I'm delighted that I don't have to get into the fascinating intricacies of accounts receivable with them. When I first started working here, whenever anyone asked, I told them that I worked for a graphic design company, but then they assumed I was a creative type. It became a bit boring to see their faces blank over when I explained that it was back office stuff, that I didn't get to use the fine‑tipped pens and the fancy software. I'm nearly thirty years old now and I've been working here since I was twenty‑one. Bob, the owner, took me on not long after the office opened. I suppose he felt sorry for me. I had a degree in Classics and no work experience to speak of, and I turned up for the interview with a black eye, a couple of missing teeth and a broken arm. Maybe he sensed, back then, that I would never aspire to anything more than a poorly paid office job, that I would be content to stay with the company and save him the bother of ever having to recruit a replacement. Perhaps he could also tell that I'd never need to take time off to go on honeymoon, or request maternity leave. I don't know. It's definitely a two-tier system in the office; the creatives are the film stars, the rest of us merely supporting artists. You can tell by looking at us which category we fall into. To be fair, part of that is salary elated. The back office staff get paid a pittance, and so we can't afford much in the way of sharp haircuts and nerdy glasses. Clothes, music, gadgets-although the designers are desperate to be seen as freethinkers with unique ideas, they all adhere to a strict uniform. Graphic design is of no interest to me. I'm a finance clerk. I could be issuing invoices for anything, really; armaments, Rohypnol, coconuts. From Monday to Friday, I come in at 8.30. I take an hour for lunch. I used to bring in my own sandwiches, but the food at home always went off before I could use it up, so now I get something from the high street. I always finish with a trip to Marks & Spencer on a Friday, which rounds off the week nicely. I sit in the staffroom with my sandwich and I read the newspaper from cover to cover, and then do the crosswords. I take the Daily Telegraph , not because I like it particularly, but because it has the best cryptic crossword. I don't talk to anyone-by the time I've bought my meal deal, read the paper and finished both crosswords, the hour is almost up. I go back to my desk and work till 5.30. The bus home takes half an hour. I make supper and eat it while I listen to the Archers . I usually have pasta with pesto and salad-one pan and one plate. My childhood was full of culinary contradiction, and I've dined on both hand-dived scallops and boil-in-the-bag cod over the years. After much reflection on the political and sociological aspects of the table, I have realized that I am completely uninterested in food. My preference is for fodder hat is cheap, quick and simple to procure and prepare, whilst providing the requisite nutrients to enable a person to stay alive. After I've washed up, I read a book, or sometimes I watch television if there's a program the Telegraph has recommended that day. I usually (well, always) talk to Mummy on a Wednesday evening for ten minutes or so. I go to bed around ten, read for half an hour and then put the light out. I don't have trouble sleeping, as a rule. On Fridays, I don't get the bus straight after work but instead I go to the Tesco Metro around the corner from the office and buy a margherita pizza, some Chianti and two big bottles of Glen's vodka. When I get home, I eat the pizza and drink the wine. I have some vodka afterward. I don't need much on a Friday, just a few big swigs. I usually wake up on the sofa around 3 a.m., and I stumble off to bed. I drink the rest of the vodka over the weekend, spread it throughout both days so that I'm neither drunk nor sober. Monday takes a long time to come around. My phone doesn't ring often--it makes me jump when it does--and it's usually people asking if I've been mis‑sold Payment Protection Insurance. I whisper I know where you live to them, and hang up the phone very, very gently. No one's been in my flat this year apart from service professionals; I've not voluntarily invited another human being across the threshold, except to read the meter. You'd think that would be impossible, wouldn't you? It's true, though. I do exist, don't I? It often feels as if I'm not here, that I'm a figment of my own imagination. There are days when I feel so lightly connected to the earth that the threads that tether me to the planet are gossamer thin, spun sugar. A strong gust of wind could dislodge me completely, and I'd lift off and blow away, like one of those seeds in a dandelion clock. The threads tighten slightly from Monday to Friday. People phone the office to discuss credit lines, send me emails about contracts and estimates. The employees I share an office with--Janey, Loretta, Bernadette and Billy--would notice if I didn't turn up. After a few days (I've often wondered how many) they would worry that I hadn't phoned in sick--so unlike me--and they'd dig out my address from the personnel files. I suppose they'd call the police in the end, wouldn't they? Would the officers break down the front door? Find me, covering their faces, gagging at the smell? That would give them something to talk about in the office. They hate me, but they don't actually wish me dead. I don't think so, anyway. I went to the doctor yesterday. It feels like eons ago. I got the young doctor this time, the pale chap with the red hair, which I was pleased about. The younger they are, the more recent their training, and that can only be a good thing. I hate it when I get old Dr. Wilson; she's about sixty, and I can't imagine she knows much about the latest drugs and medical breakthroughs. She can barely work the computer. The doctor was doing that thing where they talk to you but don't look at you, reading my notes on the screen, hitting the return key with increasing ferocity as he scrolled down. "What can I do for you this time, Miss Oliphant?" "It's back pain, Doctor," I told him. "I've been in agony." He still didn't look at me. "How long have you been experiencing this?" he said. "A couple of weeks," I told him. He nodded. "I think I know what's causing it," I said, "but I wanted to get your opinion." He stopped reading, finally looked across at me. "What is it that you think is causing your back pain, Miss Oliphant?" "I think it's my breasts, Doctor," I told him. "Your breasts?" "Yes," I said. "You see, I've weighed them, and they're almost half a stone-combined weight, that is, not each!" I laughed. He stared at me, not laughing. "That's a lot of weight to carry around, isn't it?" I asked him. "I mean, if I were to strap half a stone of additional flesh to your chest and force you to walk around all day like that, your back would hurt too, wouldn't it?" He stared at me, then cleared his throat. Excerpted from Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine: A Novel by Gail Honeyman All rights reserved by the original copyright owners. Excerpts are provided for display purposes only and may not be reproduced, reprinted or distributed without the written permission of the publisher.


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Let me be clear, I am not a Delano Family expert. So far my interest has been confined to Mary Anne (Delano) Keller's lineage directly back to Philip Delano. With that in mind, I am going to share what I do know but ask that you verify my findings.
In August and September of 2011, I traveled to Ohio and I tried to dig into the research about the Delano family in Ohio in search of clues regarding this family's place in the history of that state and more about the two Stephen Delanos – father and son. It was tough going but I will write about it in the next posts.
I am a member of the Delano Kindred. This is a hereditary society that you may want to join if you have any Delano connections.
I sent them my Delano lineage and became a member it was that simple. Their dues are very reasonable. They are about all things Delano. They have a yearly conference which I have yet to attend, the next is in Portland, Maine. They have a DNA Project using the Y-Chromosome. They recently opened up a Facebook Group which is closed to members only.
Philip Delano is the American version of his name. There are several spellings of his name, I have seen Philippe Delano, Philippe de Lanoy or De La Noye circa 1602 to 1682. The Delano Kindred has a link on the side of their website to the history of Philippe Delano.
They refer to the book, "The Genealogy, History and Alliances of the American House of Delano, 1621-1899" which was published in 1899. It is two volumes. The Delano Kindred call it GHAADH. They explain more about this book on their website.
At Internet Archive, where there is a copy (see link below), you will find on about page 200 (Book 2) an Introduction by Major Joel Andrew Delano where he writes about the process of putting the book together which included the help of many in researching documents and corresponding with current family members. On page 205 he is more specific about who was involved and he mentions descendants of Columbus Delano who was a very prominent person in Knox County, Ohio about the time that Mary Anne Delano Keller was there. Someone has added typed additions to the pages. Part III is on 585. This book does not have an index just a table of contents.
Here is Internet Archives version: https://archive.org/details/genealogyhistory13dela
The Delano Kindred references a second book titled "The Delano Genealogy from 1621-1899." http://delanokindred.us/Wordpress/index.php/history/
I found this link at Internet Archive under Genealogy, History and Alliances of the American House of Delano – On openlibrary.org. The title is on two pages: "Genealogy of Delano 1621-1899 pt. 4-6, Part 4 Lt. Jonathan Delano (the 4th son) and his descendants." It has typed written additions as well.
I took a field trip to the Fiske Genealogical Library here in Seattle, Washington to see what book they had and found the Delano book was in their stacks with pages that may be a mix of the volumes? I also looked at the Silver Books of the Mayflower and I am not yet ready to share about that information.
For the Internet Archive version with Open library, go to pages 426 and 427 and there you will find the family of John Keller and Mary Delano. There is an index in the back followed by portraits which are not of good quality. The copies of the portraits in the Fiske version where better in quality.
The above volumes were done in 1899 and since then corrections and updates have been done. The Delano Kindred has a list of publications you can check out. In the next post there will be more books listed.
The information below on the family of Stephen Delano and Lovina Smith is a combination of the Delano Genealogy and other information collected. Please verify all of this.
Stephen Delano and Lovina (O. Corina) Smith's children were
1. Sophronia Delano born 8 Sept 1811 Knox County, Ohio died young, burial is unknown.
2. Mary Anne Delano born 30 Apr 1814, Knox County, Ohio, died 3 Aug 1882 in Morrow Co., Ohio. She married on 15 March 1831 in Fredericktown, Knox Co., Ohio to John Keller. John was born 18 Nov 1810 in Washington Co., Pennsylvania and died 4 May 1880 in Morrow Co., Ohio. They are both buried in the Hedding M.E. Cemetery, South Bloomfield Twp., Morrow Co., Ohio. See the Barclay blog for sources. I will post my photos of the Hedding M.E. Cemetery on my BJM Cemetery Discoveries blog very soon.
For Almira and Alvira see page 427 in the Genealogy of Delano book. The follow to daughters were twins.
3. Alvira Delano born 4 Oct. 1817 in Ohio and died about 1886 in Custer Co., Nebraska. She (Elvira) married John Inscho 23 Dec 1836 in Kane, Illinois who was born about 1817 in Ohio. She and John had 10 children:
a. Almira Jane Inscho was born 25 Sep 1837 in Illinois, and died 16 Oct 1927 in Council Bluffs, Potawattamie Co., Iowa and is buried in the Hawleyville Cemetery, Nebraska Twp., Page Co., Iowa. Her tombstone and information is at Find A Grave where her name is spelled Alyra.
Almira Jane married three times:
1. Thomas H. East b. unknown and died 1868. They married 28 Jan 1855 in Page Co., Iowa. They had 4 children: Thomas A., Henrietta, Martha, and Ada.
2. John B. Callicotte no other info. They married on 15 Sep 1871 in Page Co., Iowa. I have no children listed.
3. Alden Pierce where they resided in Haleyville (Hawleyville). He was born 17 Feb 1817 in Huron Co., Ohio and died on 20 June 1898 in New Market, Taylor Co., Iowa. Alden's parents were Alexander Pierce and Polly Curtis. They married about 1878 in Page Co., Iowa.
a. William Alden Pierce was born 19 Sep 1879 in New Market, Taylor Co., Iowa and died 24 Dec 1955 in Visalia, Tulare, California. He married Mary Agnes Zajic 24 Sep 1924 in Phoenix, Maricopa Co., Arizona. Mary's parents were Anton B. Zajic and Frances Chalupa. They had five children.
b. Elmer Dwight Pierce was born 9 Feb 1882 in New Market, Taylor Co., Iowa and died 10 Apr 1965 in Hawleyville, Page Co., Iowa. He married Ina Work on 26 Dec 1917 in Clarinda, Page Co., Iowa. I have no children listed. She was born 20 Nov. 1883 in Clarinda, Page Co., Iowa and died about April 1976. He is buried in the Hawleyville Cemetery as well.
b. Rebecca Ann Inscho b. 1839 and died before 1870.
c. Alva Inscho born 1841 in Iowa and died 16 Feb, 1863 Nashville, Davidson, Tennessee (d. Civil War 1862) Alva is buried in the Memphis National Cemetery in Memphis, Shelby County, Tennessee. Find A Grave has information listed about this man with his Civil War company information.
d. Caroline Inscho born 1844 Miami, Indiana. (Not sure of the location whether the city or the county.)
e. Amasa Inscho b. 1846 was in the Civil War. Again I refer you to Find A Grave. He is buried in the San Gabriel Cemetery in Los Angeles County, California on 4 June, 1924.
f. Lewis C. Inscho was born 1848 and died Aug 1855.
g. Mary E. Inscho born 1850.
h. Silas Inscho born 1852 and died 14 May 1931 in Estevan, Saskatchewan, Canada.
i. Susannie Inscho born 1855, Iowa. The 1860 census the name as Samuel with the date of birth 1855 not 1854. See census below.
j. Edwin Inscho born May 1857 in Page Co., Iowa, died 22 Aug. 1908, St. Joseph, Buchanan Co., Missouri. He married Mary Malvina McGinley born Apr 1856 and died 7 Dec. 1938 in Buchanan County, Missouri. He is buried in the new King Hill Cemetery in Saint Joseph, Buchanan Co., Missouri. Go to Find A Grave there is a photograph of this man.
I have two children. The Find A Grave information on this couple lists a 3rd child:
1. Winnifred Beatrice Inscho 1880-1953.
2. Hayden Pleasant Inscho 1891-1969. Hayden married Maude Ethel Maze and they had: Luella Mae, Ruth Helen, Esther Maude, Alma Pauline, Ruby Francis and Phyllis Arlene. Mary's parents were John S. McGinley and Rachael Miller.
Source: 1850 U.S. Federal Census, Deer Creek, Miami, Indiana line 21, 1925/1955, John Inscho age 33 born about 1817 in Ohio, farmer $700 With him are Elvira age 32, Jane, age 12, Ann, age 11, Alva age 8, Caroline, age 6, Amala, age 4, Lewis age 2 and Mary age 0. The first 3 children are born in Iowa and starting with Caroline they are born in Illinois.
By 1860 John and Alvira had migrated to Page Co. Iowa. They have with them: Elvira Jane, Alva, Caroline, Amasa, Mary E., Silas, Samuel D and Edwin. In 1870 John and Alvira have migrated again to Dallas, Harrison, Missouri and are under the name Jusco in this census. They have with them Amasa, Mary E, Silas, Samuel and Edwin. In 1880 John and Alvira are in White Oak, Harrison Co., Missouri alone with their son Edwin (Edward) next door.
Right above Alvira and John Inscho in the 1850 census is John Harris and Almira her sister living in the same location of Deer Creek, Miami, Indiana.
Line 12, 1929, 1954, John Harris, 35 M, farmer, born Virginia, Almira, 32, born Ohio, William 13, m, $450, born Ohio, Jane, 12, F, born Ohio, Sarah, 10, F, born Ohio, John, 8, M, born Ohio, Richard, 6, M, born Ohio, Mary 4, F, born Ohio, Victoria 2/12 F, born Illinois.
4. Almira Delano born 14 Oct 1817 in Knox Co., Ohio. She died 13 Sept. 1906 in Argos, Marshall Co., Indiana. She is buried in the Washington Cemetery in Culver, Marshall Co., Indiana per the information at Find A Grave which has a photo of her tombstone. She married a John Harris 18 Nov. 1835 in Knox Co., Ohio. He was born 17 Apr 1815 in Virginia and died 23 Dec 1868 in Union Co., Ohio. She may have remarried to a Middleton J. Moffit born 1819 in North Carolina and died about 1885 in Missouri. Her tombstone has her name as Almira Harris, death 1906.
a. William Sherman Harris born 15 August, 1836 and married 1st on Aug 21, 1857 to Eliza Jane Herald. She died 5 Apr, 1867. He married a second time to Jane Pilcher, she died Jan 1889. He was in the Civil War. He died 20 November, 1891.
b. Alvira Jane Harris born 21 February, 1838. She married on 20 Sept, 1859 to Joseph McCollum (Collum) born in Boomingrove, Ohio in 1825. From the Message board at Rootsweb 17 July 2008 a D. Rogers states that they married 7 Sep. 1857 and she has proof. He was in the Union Army 178th Ohio Regt. in the Civil War. She lists for the children: Mary (1859), James (1860), Charles Wesley (1862) and Alexander (1864). They started in Ohio and migrated to Poyner, Blackhawk Co., Iowa. They are buried in Harrison Co., Iowa. (Not sure about the location of Poyner.)
c. Sarah Lovina Harris was for 19 May, 1840. She married first on 21 April, 1861 to Enos Jackson. She married a second time 8 May, 1870 to Sullivan Leroy?
d. John Wesley Harris was born 15 April, 1842 and died 27 December 1921. I have only one marriage to a Sarah Ellen Middleton about 1862. See Find A Grave for a picture of his tombstone which includes a wife named Ellen Sophia. He served in the Civil War. They are buried in the Washington Cemetery in Culver, Marshall Co., Indiana.
e. Richard Logan Harris was born 3 April, 1844.
f. Mary Maria Harris born 27 May, 1846. She married on 18, May, 1866 to Thomas Jefferson Young. She died 7 August, 1875.
g. Almira Victoria Harris was born in Miami Co., Indiana on 24, May, 1850. She married on 30 May, 1867 to Joseph McThomas. She died 20 November, 1888.
h. Alexander Winfield Harris was born 1 July, 1852 and died 18 August, 1858.
i. Alfonzo Delano Harris was born on 11 August, 1857. He married on 5 May, 1878 to Addie Maria a daughter of George P. Mann & Mary Jane (Caylor) Moore. They had a child named Elza Homer born 9 July, 1881.
Source: 1860 U.S. Federal Census Emira Harris age 43 is living in Canaan Twp., Morrow Co., Ohio with John age 18, Richard age 16, Mary age 14, Elmira age 10, Alfonso age 3.
In the 1870 U.S. Federal Census, Almira (Elmira) Harris is living in Caledonia, Claridon Twp. , Marion Co., Ohio with her son Alphonso who is 12 years old. She is keeping house. All from Ancestry.com.
Almira and John Harris' marriage:
Delano, Almira to Harris/Haris, John 10 Nov. 1835 by Wm. H. Ashley min 341-129r.
Source: Knox County, Ohio Marriages, 1808-1875, Compiled by R. DeLauder, Mt. Vernon, OH, Knox Co. Genealogical Society 1995. This is an index and Knox County has the marriages on film.
At Ancestry.com under photos and family stories you will find pictures of both Almira and Alvira and other documentation.
There is so much more research to do on these two sisters and I am in some ways not comfortable about some of this research but I don't have time to dig further. If you are a descendant and would like to share links, knowledge and more, please contact me via the comments by the categories and tags. I am also willing to make updates and corrections.


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