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Alliance Chapter Patriot Ancestors
George Abel (Elizabeth) Maryland John Acker Virginia Matthew Adams (Mary Fisher) New Jersey William Adams (Lydia Mahlin) Virginia William Aiken (Hannah Hale) South Carolina John B. Akers (Nancy Jeffs) Virginia Richard Allen Virginia James Allnutt Sr. Maryland
Joshua Anderson MarylandJoshua Anderson Pennsylvania
Robert Anderson MarylandWilliam Annin New Jersey
Barnabas Arthur Virginia
Cornelius Atkinson (Mary Cross) Pennsylvania
Thomas Averill (Elizabeth Robinson) Vermont
Moses Baker North Carolina
Amos Balch North Carolina
Joseph Ball (Rachel Thompson) New Jersey
Benoni Banning Virginia
John Banta (Ann/Anaejte Demaret) New Jersey
Jean Cardinal Baptiste Virginia
Richard Bardley Virginia
Moses Barnard (Hannah Williams) Connecticut
James Barnett (Jane Greenlee) Virginia
Robert Beall Maryland
John Bell Virginia
Thomas Beggs (Sarah Barnes) Virginia
James Berry (Hannah Williams) Pennsylvania
John Berry Virginia
Hans/hance Black North Carolina
Joseph Blackwell (Sally Chandler Banks) North Carolina
Jacob Blaisdell (Ruth Morse) New Hampshire
Reading Blount North Carolina
Reading Blouny (Lucy Harvey) North Carolina
John Bogue/Booge (Asenath Rogers) Connecticut
Daniel Boone (Rebecca Bryan) Virginia
Charles Borror (Sidney Wees) Virginia
Dr. John Boudinot (Rachel VanNorden) New Jersey
Nathan Bourme (Patience Jones) Massachusetts
Thomas Bowen (Elizabeth Spicer Daugherty) Pennsylvania
James Boyd VirginiaJohn Bradley Virginia
Robert Brashear North Carolina
Samuel Bridgewater (Mary Ann Coughman) Virginia
Elijah Brittin (Jane Evans) Pennsylvania
Consider Brockway (Keziah Ferry) New York
Abner Brown (Naomi) Massachusetts
Matthew Brown (Mary Throckmorton) Pennsylvania
John J. Brown New Jersey
Reuben Brown Connecticut
John Burnham (Tryphena) Connecticut
James Callaway Virginia
Jean Cardinal Virginia
John Carhart New York
Hanchrist Carlock (Sarah Whitman) Virginia
John Carr New Jersey
Thomas Carr (Ann Sanders) Virginia
Thomas Carr Virginia
Pierre Cartier Virginia
Patrick Cassidy Pennsylvania
Berry Chase (Pheobe Wixon) New York
Simeon Chester Connecticut
Simeon Cole Connecticut
David Condit (JoAnna Williams) New Jersey
David Conger (Elizabeth Ayers) New Hampshire
Isaac Cook (Lydia Gray) Rhode Island
Thomas Copenhaver Sr. Pennsylvania
Thomas Copley (Mary Holcomb) Connecticut
Ephriam Corey (Susanna Stevens) Massachusetts
Jacob Corson (Charity Stillwell) New Jersey
Robert Stuart Coulter South Carolina
William Crawford (Martha Cooper) Virginia
Thomas Cresap (Anna/Hannah Johnson) Maryland
Andrew Creveling New Jersey
William Crowson North Carolina
Samuel Culbertson Pennsylvania
William Curle (Sarah Brown) Virginia
Benoni Cutler (Laurana Leavens) Connecticut
Thomas Dagley North Carolina
Moes Daniels (Abigail Aldrich) Massachusetts
Azariah Davis (Elizabeth Wolison)
Robert Davis (Sarah McElroy) North Carolina
Samuel Davis Maryland
Noah Day (Anna Loomis) Connecticut
Gideon Dean (Mary V. Lancey) Massachusetts
James DeAtley Virginia
William Denny (Mary Shields)
Peter DeWitt (Jane Bray) Virginia
William Dickey (Mary Stephenson) Virginia
Obediah Dickinson (Susannah Knowles) Connecticut
Asael Disbrow Connecticut
Elijah Dodson (Sarah Everett) Virginia
John Doane Massachusetts
James Drummond Pennsylvania
Joseph Dutton (Mary Winchell) Connecticut
Samuel Dyer Maryland
Peter Earle New York
Thomas Eaton Massachusetts
Lawrence Eberhart (Mary) Massachusetts
Rev. Jedediah Elderkin Connecticut
Rev. Robert Elkins Virginia
Rev. Joseph Leveron Eugene VirginiaRev. Oliver Everett Connecticut Rev. Lawrence Everhart Maryland John Files South Carolina
Edmond Fitzgerald VirginiaSamuel Fletcher Vermont Michael Freeman North CarolinaMartin Fritz (Catherine Wildt) Pennsylvania
George Harris Fuller Virginia
William Gannon (Elizabeth Tibbits) North Carolina
William Gannon (Betty Tramble) North Carolina
William Garrard South Carolina
William Garrett (Elizabeth Black) Virginia
James Garrison North Carolina
James Gaston South Carolina
Silas Gates Connecticut
Nathan Gilbert (Elizabeth Scout) Virginia
James Gilmore (Martha Dennison) Virginia
William Gilmore Virginia
Benjamin Goble (Amelia Howell) Pennsylvania
Henry Goodman Pennsylvania
John Goodman (Catherine) Pennsylvania
Samuel Gore Connecticut
Hugh Gormley Pennsylvania
Philip Gossard Pennsylvania
Charles Green New York/Rhode Island
Charles Greene (Waite Bailey) Rhode Island
John Greider North Carolina
Jacob Gundy (Katherine Maury) Pennsylvania
William Guthrie (Esther McClelland) Pennsylvania
Joshua Hadley (Ruth Lindley) North Carolina
William Hamilton South Carolina
Joel Harbour Virginia
Talmon Harbour Virginia
Thomas Harbour Virginia
Joseph Hardin (Jane Gibson) North Carolina
Alexander Hawkins (Tabitha Satterly) New York
John Hazeltine (Jane Wood) Vermont
John Hendershot Pennsylvania
Daniel Higgins (Mary Pegg) Pennsylvania
Minor Hilliard (Abigail Hill) Connecticut
Rev. Oliver Hitchcock (Nancy Parker) Pennsylvania
Derrick Hoagland Virginia
Asahel Hoisington Vermont
Henry Holman Virginia
Tunis Hood Sr. North Carolina
John Hopkinson Massachusetts
Christopher Horn (Elizabeth) Virginia
Elijah Horton (Jemima Currie) New York
Mathias Houck Maryland
Abraham Houser Maryland
Uriah Howe (Martha Graves) Vermont
Phillip Howell (Mary Bewer) North Carolina
Abraham Howser (Nancy Rohner) Maryland
Philip Huckaby North Carolina
Jonathan Hughes Virginia
Jacob Hunter (Polly) South Carolina
William James (Elizabeth Wells) Virginia
Thomas Jeffery Virginia
Thomas Jeffris (Martha Ferguson) Virginia
Micah Jepson Massachusetts
John Johnson North Carolina
William Johnson (Catherine Tartar) Pennsylvania
Enos Jones (Mary Whitmore) Massachusetts
Thomas Keeler (Elizabeth Woolson) New Jersey
Henry Keim Pennsylvania
Thomas Kelso Maryland
Jacobus Kiersted (Charity Taylor) New York
Eliphalet Killam (Submit Abbey) Connecticut
Andrew Kincaid Pennsylvania
Isaac Kirby (Phoebe Haines) New Jersey
Samuel Kistler (Catherine Brobst) Pennsylvania
Peter Knouf (Judy Sullivan) Maryland
Thomas Lackey Virginia
Mathias Lair Sr. Virginia
Daniel Lake New Jersey
Rudolph LaRosh Pennsylvania
Isaac Larue Virginia
Jacob Larue Virginia
Judah Monis Lawrence New York
Felix Leeds New Jersey
Joseph Leveron Virginia
Daniel Linder Virginia
Peter Lukens (Martha Johnson) Pennsylvania
James Lutton Maryland
William Magill Virginia
Samuel Magruder Maryland
Moses Mann (Frances Bland) Virginia
Abraham Marlatt (Ann Linder) Virginia
Abraham Marlatt Jr. Virginia
John Martin (Margaret) South Carolina
William Matteson (Mehitabel) New Jersey
Benjamin Maxwell
William McCain (Charlotte Johnson) New York
Samuel McCall (Rebecca Sherry) Virginia
George McConnell (Eva) Pennsylvania
George McConnell Pennsylvania
John McCormick Virginia
Phillip McCracken (Mary McKeever) New Jersey
Alexander McKinley (Mary Wilson) Virginia
Alexander Mckinley Virginia
Thomas McLaughlin (Margaret Ayers) New Hampshire
Thomas McLaughlin Sr. New Hampshire
Patrick Mcneil Virginia
Daniel Merriman (Damaria Andrews) Connecticut
Nathaniel Mershon (Martha Stevens) New Jersey
John Millikin Virginia
John Mitchell North Carolina
Abraham Monnette (Ann Hilleary) Virginia
Asa Moor (Huldah King) Connecticut
John Morehart Pennsylvania
Robert Morris (Content Dunham) - New Jersey
Robert Morris New Jersey
Zebediah Morse (Mary Sabin) Massachusetts
Thomas Morton South Caroloina
Peter Mull (Barbara Kline) North Carolina
John Mulvane Pennsylvania
Heman Munson (Abigail Fenn) Connecticut
John Musick (Mary Berry) Virginia
Caleb Nash (Rachel Nash) Massachusetts
Edward Nason Massachusetts
John Newland Pennsylvania
Walter Newman (Catherine Lair) Virginia
John Nicholson (Catherine Stephenson) New Jersey
George Nixon Delaware
Thomas Norman Virginia
Lot North (Silence Horsford) Connecticut
William Offutt Jr. Maryland
David Ogden New Jersey
David Ogden, Jr. (Mary Wilkinson) New Jersey
Joseph Ogle (Drusilla Biggs/Briggs) Virginia
George Pack Virginia
John Park (Sarah Hiscox) Rhode Island
Joseph Parrott Virginia
Jacob Roush Paul Virginia
Joahannes Mull Peter (Barbara Kline) North Carolina
Joel Phillips Sr Georgia
Joel Philbrook (Mary Leadbetter) Massachusetts
George Pitts (Lydia Stetson) Massachusetts
Charles Polk (Delilah Taylor) North Carolina
Gershom Pope Connecticut
Elias Porter Virginia
Rev. Nehemiah Porter (Rebecca Chipman) Massachusetts
William Porter North Carolina
Daniel Preston (Ann Rigdon) Maryland
Jonathan Purcell Virginia
John Pyle North Carolina
John Quick (Phoebe Smith) New Jersey
Francis A. Ramsey Virginia
Henry Reavis North Carolina
Josiah Record (Susannah Tulley) Pennsylvania
Conrad Reedy Pennsylvania
John Reynolds (Hishey Gheskie) North Carolina
Jesse David Reynolds Virginia
Stephen Reynolds Massachusetts
Titus Reynolds New York
Sylvanus Rice Massachusetts
John Riddell New Jersey
Daniel Riegel Pennsylvania
William Roark New Jersey
Rev. Elkin Robert (Sarah) Virginia
Jacob Roller Pennsylvania
Jacob Roosa New York
David Rose New York
Philip Rothrock (Catherine Kuntz) Pennsylvania
Zacharias Rothrock Pennsylvania
William Rourke New Jersey/Pennsylvania
Jacob Paul Roush Virginia
Increase Rudd (Bathsheba Johnson) Vermont
Reuben Rugg Massachusetts
Henry Rule Sr. Virginia
Ebenezer Russell (Elizabeth Stark) Connecticut
John Rutherford Sr. Virginia
John Rutherford Jr. Virginia
Henry Ruyle, Sr. (Catherine) Virginia
Andreas Schadt/Shade (Maria Kraft) Pennsylvania
Thomas Shafer (Mary) Pennsylvania
John Shaffer Maryland
Philip Shepler Pennsylvania
Robert Sisson (Sarah Crump) Virginia
Joshua Skidmore (Catherine Hous) - Pennsylvania
Daniel Skinner Massachusetts
Shorten Smth New York
John Snell (Elizabeth Watt) Virginia
Jacob Snyder Pennsylvania
James Sodowsky Virginia
Jacob Solliday (Barbara Laux) Pennsylvania
Mordecai Soper (Naomi Owens) Vermont
George Speak (Jemima Gaines Hurt) Virginia
George F. Spears Virginia
Amasa Spencer Virginia
Abraham Spitler Virginia
Simon Stevens (Lydia Silsby) Vermont
Lemuel Stewart (Rebecca Rose) Connecticut/Rhode Island
Ephraim Stinchfield Massachusetts
Jacob Stoneking Pennsylvania
David Stout (Sarah Parke) - New Jersey
Jacob Strait - Virginia
Comfort Streeter - Massachusetts
Clayton Stribling (Evaline Kinchloe) South Carolina
John Stringfield (Sarah Boylston) North Carolina
Robert Sutherland North Carolina
Jonathan Swain Massachusetts
John Swearingen (Jennie Barkley) Pennsylvania
Samuel Swing New Jersey
Isaac Taylor (Phebe McIntyre) South Carolina
Richard Taylor (Sarah Ann Cornet) Virginia
Abraham Teeter Pennsylvania
Charles Thrift (Elizabeth) Virginia
Mashac Tipton Pennsylvania
Joseph Tomlinson, Jr. (Elizabeth Hartness) Virginia
John Todd New Jersey
Gilbert Tracy Connecticut
Peter Trautman Maryland
John Trees Pennsylvania
Thomas Truxtun (Mary Van Driell) New Jersey
Ephraim Tucker New Jersey
William Tuggle Virginia
Elijah Twining (Lois) Massachusetts
Oakey Van Arsdale New Jersey
Simon Van Arsdale Pennsylvania
Tunis Van Arsdale (Martha) New York
Oakey Vanosdal (Mary South) New Jersey
John Wadell (Mary Dickey) Pennsylvania
John Walker Virginia
John Wallace Pennsylvania
John Michael Wallick Pennsylvania
John Ware (Elizabeth Miller) Virginia
Benjamin Wayne (Nancy Tankersly) Virginia
John Weaver (Martha Nichols) Virginia
Philologos Webster (Sarah Scott) - Connecticut
Philogos Webster (Sarah Scott) Connecticut
Benajah West (Anna Younglove) New York
Agnes Whigham Georgia
John Wilmore (Mary Clayton) Virginia
George Wisegarver (Mary Elizabeth Steele) Pennsylvania
John Wiseman Pennsylvania
Adam Woods (Sarah) Virginia
Jonathan Woodworth Connecticut
Richard Woolsey (Sarah) Pennsylvania
*The name in parentheses is the patriot's spouse. See link for types of acceptable service.
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American Revolutionary War heroines - There is the little known story of Rachel and Grace Martin who disguised themselves as men and assailed a British courier and his guards. They took his important dispatches, which they speedily forwarded to General Greene. Then Rachel and Grace released the courier and guards who never knew that they were women.
American Revolutionary War heroines - Another heroine of the American Revolution was Anna (Warner) Bailey, wife of Captain Elijah Bailey, who earned the title of "The Heroine of Groton" because of her fearless efforts to aid the wounded on the occasion of the terrible massacre at Fort Griswold in Connecticut. Anna went from house to house to collecting material for bandages for the wounded.
American Revolutionary War heroines - Angelica Vrooman, during the heat of battle, sat calmly in a tent with a bullet mould, some lead, and an iron spoon, moulding bullets for the rangers.
American Revolutionary War heroines - Some women went to extraordinary lengths in liberty's cause. At Pepperell, following the men's departure for Concord, the women met, formed a military company, dressed as men, armed themselves, and patrolled the town. Prudence Cummings, elected captain, captured a Tory officer at gun point.
American Revolutionary War heroines - Mary Hagidorn, upon hearing the order by a Captain Hager for the women and children to retire to the long cellar, said: "Captain, I shall not go to that cellar should the enemy come. I will take a spear which I can use as well as any man and help defend the fort." The captain, seeing her determination, answered, "Then take a spear, Mary, and be ready at the pickets to repel an attack." She cheerfully obeyed and held the spear at the pickets till hurrahs for the American flag burst on her ear and indicated that all was safe.
American Revolutionary War heroines - Margaret (Cochran) Corbin (Captain Molly) was the wife of John Corbin, an artilleryman in Captain Thomas Proctor's 1st Company of Pennsylvania Artillery. Following her husband's example, she was taught how to load and fire cannons gaining the respect and admiration of the soldiers in the company. On November 16, 1776, Margaret assisted in the battle at Fort Washington, New York. "Molly," as she later became known, stood on the front line with her husband John. In the course of the battle he was mortally wounded. As a result she assumed his duties as matross and was injured herself. Once the fort fell she was moved to Philadelphia where she was paroled and later pensioned by Congress. Corbin was later assigned to the Corps of Invalids at West Point where she remained until her death in 1800. "Captain Molly" is now buried on the grounds of the United States Military Academy.
American Revolutionary War heroines - In Menotomy (Arlington), Mother Batherick while digging dandelions accepted the surrender of six fleeing British soldiers with the admonishment, "...tell King George that an old woman took six of his grenadiers prisoner."
American Revolutionary War heroines - Alice (Stearns) Abbott, like many others, remained at home (Watertown) with her mother and sisters making cartridges and sending food to the army. Later she would write, "I suppose it was a dreadful day in our house and sad indeed for our brother, so dearly loved, never came home."
American Revolutionary War heroines - Mrs. Butterfield, of Menotomy, returned home one day to find a bleeding, dying British officer in her bed. Though accused of being a Tory, she cared for him some 10 days until he died. When a neighbor threatened to kill him, Mrs. Butterfield protected him shouting, "Only cowards would want to kill a dying man."
American Revolutionary War heroines - Mary (Flint) Hartwell, of Lincoln, upon hearing Dr. Prescott's night alarm for her Minuteman husband, handed their baby to a servant and ran a distance in the dark to warn Lincoln's Captain Smith of the approaching danger.
American Revolutionary War heroines - At age 71, Martha Moulton, of Concord, was at home when the soldiers entered town. When sparks from burning captured materials caught the Town House roof on fire, Martha begged and harangued the British into extinguishing the blaze. The resulting smoke was observed by the Americans mustered near Buttrick's farm and caused them to march to the town's rescue, precipitating the "shot heard 'round the world."
American Revolutionary War heroines - Various acts of bravery were performed on that fateful day by women of Concord. Mrs. Amos Wood saved military stores from British capture by insisting a locked room harbored women and thus it was left unopened. Hannah Barron/Barns/Burns protected the Provincial Treasurer's chest of money and important papers by blocking soldiers from entering a tavern room, claiming it and the trunk to be hers.
American Revolutionary War heroines - Abigail Wright, wife of the Concord Tavern proprietor, is said to have secreted the church communion silver in soap barrels to avoid it being stolen. The same tale is attributed to Mrs. Jeremiah Robinson, who supposedly gathered the silver, hid it in her basement soap barrels and barricaded her door against British intrusion.
American Revolutionary War heroines - Rebecca Barrett, wife of Concord's militia colonel, helped hide military stores and equipment around the farm and then remained at home to protect family and property from the expected British. She fed the searching soldiers upon request but refused money thrown at her commenting, "we are commanded to feed our enemy" and that their coins were "the price of blood." Rebecca's actions saved valuable military materials from discovery as well as her property from damage and her son from arrest.
Another Barrett womanJames' and Rebecca's granddaughter, Meliscent, age 15had learned from a British officer how to roll powder cartridges. On the night of April 18th, she supervised young women of Concord in preparing these items that were most likely used against the Regulars at North Bridge.
American Revolutionary War heroines - Margaret (Kemble) Gage, American-born wife of Boston's British military governor, was suspected by both sides and harbored hopes that her husband's actions would not be the cause of blood-spilling. It is believed that she may have been the "spy" who leaked word of the Regulars' mission to Concord.
American Revolutionary War heroines - For most wives and mothers, it was a time of fear, trauma, uncertainty, terror, and often sadness as their husbands and sons went off to fight. Yet the women contributed to freedom's stand as best they could. Lydia Mulliken, Lexington, watched her fiance Dr. Prescott ride off with Revere and Dawes to warn Concord of the British threat. During the enemy's retreat, the soldiers would burn her house and shop.
From her house near Lexington Green, Ruth Harrington watched as her husband, Jonathan, who was standing with Parker's company, was struck by a British musket ball and crawled to their house and died at her feet.
From the Manse, Phoebe (Bliss) Emerson, the Concord minister''s wife would watch the bridge fight in dismay and wonder after the welfare of her William.
American Revolutionary War heroines - Many women spied for the cause: Ann (Trotter) Bailey carried messages across enemy territory in 1774. Sarah (Bradlee) Fulton, sometimes called the "mother of the Boston Tea Party," delivered dispatches through enemy lines. Emily Geiger rode 50 miles throough British and Tory enemy territory to deliver a message to General Sumter.
American Revolutionary War heroines - On Oct. 27, 1991, a new stone was placed on the grave of Elizabeth Pledge Poindexter by the Jonathan Hunt Chapter of the NSDAR, Surry County, North Carolina, to honor her as a Patriot of the American Revolution.
Elizabeth was born in Goochland County, Virginia, in 1740, the daughter of William and Betty Pledge. She married Thomas Poindexter February 12, 1760, in Goochland County, Virginia, and he died on February 9, 1816. They had 12 children: Ann Radford, Frances A., William, Martha Milner, Thomas, Elizabeth P., Mary W., John G., Archibald Pledge, Sarah/Sallie, Robert A., and Dorothy/Dollie Poindexter.
Thomas was a Captain in a company of Revolutionary soldiers in the North Carolina Militia. There were skirmishes along the Yadkin River that brought the enemy (Tories) close to the Poindexter home. Elizabeth sewed letters in her young daughter's petticoat and sent her through the enemy lines. On Oct. 14, 1780, a few miles down the rivers, the Whigs met the Tories in the "Battle of Shallowford."
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Mikyle became an Associate Athletic Director of Detroit PAL after serving as a teacher and athletic director At Starr Detroit Academy for 5 years. He has worked with PAL since he was 18 years old, assisting with the basketball, football, and baseball programs.
Mikyle started in PAL at the ripe age of 6, playing soccer in the PAL's recreation soccer league. From then on, he played football and basketball with Detroit PAL until he aged out. He always wanted to give back to the children of the city of Detroit, as he was born and raised on the eastside of Detroit. He found that teaching values through sports can have the biggest impact on a child's life, as it did his.
He is a proud Eastern Michigan University Alum and is currently working on his Masters in Sport Administration at Post University. His passion is the children in the city of Detroit and Detroit PAL is the best way he can put his mark on the youth.
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I have been using the Internet for many years now and I wanted to stop for a moment and say thank you. The people that created this amazing tool should be given an award and maybe a monument. Why you might ask? Well, it has brought to my life the aspect of the Open World. From surfing on my laptop, desktop, phone and even these days my television, the Internet has opened my eyes to so many things many that I would have never encountered in my lifetime otherwise. I have met wonderful people along the way. I have been able to share a piece of their lives even though we are so far from each other. I have seen the greatest of evils and sadness and the greatest of joys and the absolute beauty that the human soul can be. I have seen those that before the Internet would have not had a voice become powerful enough with the Internet to change lives of the many. I have seen the written word, a video, or just a single photo rally the world or create a dialog. Truly amazing stuff indeed.
We take so many things for granted, I think high speed Internet is one of them. We of course pay for it and expect it to work. I know that I d but sometimes I am reminded of those poor souls who have dial up still or even worse no access at all. Thank you for letting me surf in a timely fashion. Don't get me wrong our broadband sucks in the US compared smaller countries and I would like more. In the meantime while I await that upgrade I am grateful for the speed that I have.
Oh great Internet you have provided an open world to me that has allowed me to enjoy so many things and learn more in a few years than the whole time that I was in school. I salute you and all your digital goodness and the promise of more great times ahead learning about things from all over the world. Social media, news, entertainment, information, collaboration, and the list goes on and on, it's there for the browsing. From endless videos to countless pictures to more words than any one person could ever read the Internet has become the greatest teacher and the most amazing classroom I have ever known, period. Thank you for enriching my life and enabling me to interact with the world!
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Alan Finkel recently wrote an opinion piece where he commented that "with the perspective of time we see a failure of imagination". He was commenting that in the 1880's the idea of electric street lighting seemed absurd and that today we face the same arguments around electric vehicles.
With new electric vehicle models coming on the market it is becoming clear that technology is reaching a tipping point. But is technology going to be enough for electric cars to dominate the road?
To understand the impediments that electric vehicles face it is worth going back in time, not to the 1880's when gas lighting was beginning to dominate the streets, but to the turn of the last century when automobiles first began to be commercially manufactured.
The tipping point for car manufacturing was Ford's Model T which took the automobile from a luxury good to a mass consumer good. In 1904 Ford manufactured 1,708 cars. By 1916, 533,921 cars were manufactured.
In addition to the actual car, drivers needed two things to be able to enjoy their new product; roads and petrol.
Today there are around 6,400 petrol stations scattered around Australia. This is down from a peak of 20,000. But a network of petrol stations wasn't born overnight.
The first network of petrol stations in Australia was actually the Australian Motorists Petrol Company Ltd in 1936. Before that time distribution of petrol occurred through a variety channels. The first petrol stations were actually a side business for pharmacies in Germany. In Australia country pubs played a role as "filling stations', taking on a role in transport that they had filled since the network of horse staging posts was established by Cobb and Co.
The point for electric infrastructure is that home delivery of petrol never really figured in the development of the automobile. At the moment however this is the principal mechanism available for electric vehicles. Without imagination, the lack of electric vehicle infrastructure will become the principal reason that could hold up electric vehicles.
There are a number of issues with home based electric infrastructure. The first is that it requires home ownership or enlightened landlords. In addition to buying an electric car, a driver has to install their own infrastructure. The issue is not just the cost, it is the evolution of technology. It is not yet clear how electric charging technology will evolve. An electric driver can easily be left stranded with out-dated technology which can also be tied to a particular manufacturer. Specialist businesses are much better placed to manage this technology risk than households.
The second issue is around shifting living patterns. The growth of apartment living in particular is notable. Whilst there are examples of charging technology being installed in new apartment blocks, the cost of this technology is effectively paid by all building owners – whether or not they actually use the technology. There are also insurance implications around electric charging facilities that are still in the infancy of being addressed. This don't stop the growth of electric vehicles, but it will make it harder for individuals to make their own choice. They will need to firstly consider whether their living arrangements can accommodate an electric vehicle.
The third issue is simply the number of cars that are not garaged in Australia but are parked on the street. You only have to drive down any street in a major city to see the number of cars that would struggle to be charged from a household connection.
So what are the options for electric infrastructure?
To understand where there may be opportunities we need to firstly understand the core difference between petrol stations and electric charging stations – and that is time.
With a petrol stations it is possible to fill up and be gone in a few minutes. For electric charging, although technology is changing the fasted charging options are still going to take 30 minutes.
The best opportunity for electric infrastructure is therefore where people park their cars for a period of time.
There are three opportunities that, with a bit of creativity could be developed; shopping centres, train stations and street parking.
It would be possible for instance for Westfield to develop part of its parking facilities to service electric vehicles on a pay for service basis.
Governments could also develop charging stations for electric vehicles at train stations.
There is the capacity that energy companies could offer street side charging. An option could be to trial this with local councils where a charging facility was placed on council land, aiming to overcome the ownership issues around housing and electric charging.
The early development of the automobile resulted in a fundamental changing in living patterns. It was also accompanied by the raft of rules and regulations on road use which we now take for granted.
We need to see electric vehicles as being not just about the car itself, but about the infrastructure. If we do that we can start to focus on all the elements we need to see a transition to electric vehicles.
Originally published LinkeIn Published on February 16, 2018


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In California, state officials projected that some 2.3 million voters sent in ballots during the 29-day early voting period, a total that could constitute half of the total votes cast. That means that people in the Golden State could have voted in the wake of the Iowa caucuses or Sen. Hillary Clinton's New Hampshire comeback victory or the South Carolina blowout by Sen. Barack Obama.
If nothing else, it could make for a very long night for reporters and candidates watching the results.
"Perhaps one of the most profound effects of the increased early voting in California is that the winner may not be declared on election night, with two million ballots likely to be left uncounted until tomorrow," the Wall Street Journal reported.
But California is not the only state seeing record early voting turnout. In Tennessee, more than 320,000 ballots were cast by the time early voting closed. Another 200,000 voted in Georgia. Early voting also took place in critical states like are Illinois, Arizona, New Jersey and Utah.
Although there has been much reporting about uncertainty amongst Democratic voters and people making up their minds at the last minute, many of the campaigns urged supporters to vote early in the hopes of ensuring that they get to the polls.
"The fluidity and uncertainty in the race would normally lead people to hold their ballots," Paul Gronke, who directs the Early Voting Information Center at Reed College in Portland, Ore., told the Associated Press. "What is cutting in the other direction is that the campaigns are out there mobilizing people to vote early."
Although there has been little reporting and research on how early voting changes the political landscape, the campaigns have been quick to adjust, according to Robert Stein, a political science professor at Rice University
"You basically divide the electorate into two groups, early and election, and you work early voters because you know they're more partisan, and you work election-day voters, because they're less partisan and less likely to vote," Stein told the Christian Science Monitor.
That micro-targeting of early voters appeared to pay off for Clinton in Florida.
According to surveys, nearly 25 percent of Florida Democratic primary voters said they cast their ballots early. Among those voters, Clinton garnered 50 percent, Obama won 31 percent and Edwards took 14 percent.
Among voters who said they decided in the final days before the primary and cast their ballots after the early-voting period had closed, Obama won with 37 percent to 34 percent for Clinton and a significant 24 percent for Edwards.
Pollsters have been trying to count early voters in their surveys, often asking voters whom they plan to support or already voted for during their calls, but the overall impact of people voting before Election Day remains unclear.
Still for some writers and commentators, the early voters have just become a source of irritation.
"Casting an absentee ballot so far ahead of Election Day is like picking a Super Bowl winner based on who's ahead at halftime. It's like recommending a book you've only halfway read. It's like getting married on the first date," Patt Morrison wrote on the Oakland Tribune's Web site.


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June 14-16, 2019
June 13 Pre-Conference Workshops
Family Innocence founder, Michelle MacDonald, an attorney, mediator and restorative circle facilitator, has agreed to coordinate the "Restorative Room" throughout the Elevating Justice: Widening the Circle event. Michelle is a member of NACRJ, and on the national planning team. The "Restorative Circle Mat & Guide/Talking Peace" (copyright – familycourt.com), a peacemaking tool for facilitators and participants alike, should be available before and during the conference.
What is NACRJ? It's the National Association of Community and Restorative Justice, and you can check them out at:
For more information, call Michelle MacDonald at 651-783-5878 or email clerk@Family Innocence


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The desire since inception was to provide organic products and not to pollute the environment. The dream has now fructified and we have started delivering milk and produce to our near and dear ones initially. As an ongoing process of continual improvement, we are in the progression of generating electricity through bio gas besides cooking and lighting the premises.
"Whatever you vividly imagine, ardently desire and enthusiastically act upon, must inevitably come to pass."


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Smart Boards, iPads, iPhones, projectors, Moodle, Portal.
The plethora of gadgets and gizmos teachers are expected to use can be overwhelming, especially for those whose most sophisticated tool of choice is a new box of squeaky white chalk.
The result: Cafe 2.1.
Modeled after Apple's Genius Bar (one-on-one technical support for customers in any Apple store), Cafe 2.1 provides 30-minute help sessions for district employees with school-related technology questions. Employees from cafeteria staff to principals can register for a session from 4:30 to 7:30 p.m. Tuesday and Thursday.
"I hate to see all this money being spent on technology and none of it is really being used," said Sue Godfirnon, a kindergarten teacher at Bay Point Elementary who participated in a session recently at Maximo Elementary.
Cafe 2.1 is also offered at Palm Harbor University High and Morgan Fitzgerald Middle, giving employees a north, south and mid county option.
"We want teachers to feel comfortable with the technology they are using," said Nancy Buckles, a 30-year teaching veteran and employee of Cafe 2.1. "Sometimes teachers feel out-smarted by their students. Now, they can ask unanswered questions."
The cafe is staffed by district employees with ample technology experience. So far, the district has employed about 12 "techxperts" for the three locations.
For now, Godfirnon is working on learning more about Portal, a program with teaching applications such as e-mail, attendance and a grade book.
She plans to attend more sessions at Cafe 2.1 to learn how to create a website for her class.
"Parents love to go on to their child's class website,'' she said. "It's a great way to communicate."
Now that Godfirnon is learning more about technology, she's eager to use it.
"Cafe 2.1 will springboard employees into finding out more about technology and taking it back to their classroom," Buckles said. "That's really what these sessions are all about."
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I couldn't resist posting this handsome picture of my three boys as part of my Vintage Fashion Series!
They are actually dressed as magicians but they look like little vintage gangsters!
Eli looks like a vintage Newsboy 📰
Thank you Goodwill for all pieces of their outfit… Pants, shirts, vests, hats ($2 each)


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Award honors, helps facilitate immigrant contributions to the U.S.
Rice alumni Benjamin Chou '13, Norma Torres Mendoza '13 and Muhammad Shamim '14 are among 30 scholars awarded 2018 Paul & Daisy Soros Fellowships for New Americans.
The Paul & Daisy Soros Fellowships for New Americans program awards merit-based fellowships of up to $90,000 exclusively for immigrants and children of immigrants who are pursuing graduate degrees in the United States.
Selected from a pool of 1,766 applicants for their potential to make significant contributions to U.S. society, culture or their academic fields, fellows are chosen for their focus on creativity, originality and initiative in light of the challenges and opportunities that have been part of their immigration story. The fellowships were established by Paul and Daisy Soros, Hungarian immigrants and American philanthropists.
Shamim, who earned degrees in computational applied mathematics, computer science and cognitive sciences at Rice, will use his award to support work toward an M.D./Ph.D. in bioengineering at Rice and Baylor College of Medicine, where he is currently enrolled.
The eldest of five siblings, he was born in Pakistan to physician parents and immigrated to the U.S. at 2 years old for his father's medical residency. "My mother sacrificed her career to raise my siblings and me," Shamim said.
His parents' background in medicine inspired him to pursue the field, and his multidisciplinary interests developed further at The Science Academy of South Texas, an engineering magnet high school in the Rio Grande Valley.
At Rice, Shamim's passion for research grew through several projects, such as improving echocardiogram analysis software for researchers at Texas Children's Hospital. He was also an engineering computation lab assistant and a member of Rice Emergency Medical Services (REMS).
"It was an honor to comfort and treat patients on what was often the worst day of their lives," he said. "REMS was an incredible part of my undergrad experience — dropping everything at a moment's notice to attend to an emergency whether it was in the middle of rush hour or 3 a.m."
Shamim plans to pursue a career in both medical practice and research as a physician-scientist. His recent work has focused on the computational analysis of genomic architecture, and the National Human Genome Research Institute's ENCODE (ENCyclopedia of DNA Elements) Project adopted the high-performance computing pipeline he co-developed for processing of 3-D genomics datasets. He is also utilizing augmented reality headsets to correct advanced vision problems, such as spatial distortions in early stage macular degeneration.
"This award is an amazing recognition of the journey that a lot of immigrants take in the United States," Shamim said. "It acknowledges the challenges our families have overcome and our contributions to this amazing country that we call home."
Chou, who earned a bachelor's degree in political science, Asian studies and energy policy at Rice, will use his award to support his work toward a doctorate/MBA at Northwestern University.
Chou was born in Houston to Chinese and Taiwanese immigrants. His grandfathers both served in the Chinese military and were forced to flee their ancestral homes to Taiwan after the Communist Revolution. Chou's parents were born in Taiwan and subsequently pursued graduate studies in the U.S., where they met.
"My family's harrowing experience with politics and war drew me to fight for the twin American ideals that all people are created equal and that everyone should be able to succeed with hard work and determination," Chou said.
At Rice, Chou won national recognition as both a Harry S. Truman and a Morris K. Udall scholar for his work on environmental and civil rights organizing. After graduation, he served as a fellow for U.S. Rep. Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., and was a policy adviser for the Congressional Asian Pacific American Caucus. Prior to beginning graduate school, Chou worked as the political director for then-Maryland Gov. Martin O'Malley and led his political action committee.
"After Northwestern, I plan to return to Texas and continue to work in electoral politics and government to ensure that all people are treated equally and have the economic opportunities to succeed," Chou said.
Mendoza, who earned a bachelor's degree in political science and Hispanic studies at Rice and a master's degree in public policy from Harvard's Kennedy School of Government, will use her award to support work toward an MBA at Rice's Jones Graduate School of Business. She is the first Soros fellow to enter Rice's MBA program.
"My mother and I came to this country undocumented when I was 9 years old," she said. "We came, like many immigrants before us, in search of the American dream that would provide basic necessities and an actual opportunity to attend college. Through tears, hard work, determination and the unwavering support from various mentors, I became the first person in my family to attend college."
At Rice, Mendoza co-founded the Young Owls Leadership Program, a nonprofit that has raised more than $250,000 and helped more than 400 students in the Houston area become the first in their families to attend college. It was through this project that she discovered her love and passion to serve as a bridge to resources for nonprofits through consulting work.
"I plan to start my own nonprofit consulting business, where I will merge my love for improving society by leveraging my business-sector knowledge," she said.
Mendoza said her firm will focus on expanding the American dream to more people by exploring questions about how to create transformative social change and provide interconnected social solutions.
"Given the political climate, this award continues to showcase the importance that immigrants like myself play in our society," she said. "Overall, my life as an immigrant has been about working hard to leave this country better than I found it. It's the same work ethic my mother taught me by cleaning houses and the same energy that my uncle instilled in me as he built our Houston road channels."


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Tea Detox: 4 Reasons Why You Need It in Your Life
A tea detox has some incredible health benefits. Considering the huge amounts of toxins we get exposed to on a daily basis, it is always wise to cleanse the body every now and then. The only thing you have to do is ensure that the tea detox is done safely, using the right products. This is because there are some forms of tea detox that have been found to do more harm than good.
A tea detox is classified among the healthy and safe types of cleansing. With this form of detox, all you need is to take a few cups of teas consisting of natural cleansers for a few days. For best results, however, you also need to be careful about what you eat and change your diet to incorporate foods that are healthy and easy on your digestive system. Below we look at 4 of the main benefits you can gain from a tea detox.
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Increase your body metabolism
Metabolism is the energy you need to survive. If your metabolism stays within its normal levels, then your body will remain efficient. Your metabolism can, however, go below the normal range because of several reasons. Whatever the cause of a slow metabolism, there is no denying that a sluggish metabolism can prevent you from reaching your goals if you want to lose weight.
With a high metabolism, you will burn more calories even when your body is at rest. This means that little or no calories will get stored as fats. Maintaining a healthy body will be easy, not to mention the fact that your body will be in a position to make better use of the food you eat.
A slow metabolism can also leave you feeling tired. If the energy available is less than the energy your body needs to perform normal functions then you are going to have a hard time staying active throughout the day. If fatigue has become a constant problem, a detox tea can make all the difference and push up your metabolism. Without the toxins weighing your body down, you can be sure that your metabolism will go back to the normal levels.
Suppress appetite
A huge appetite is something many of us struggle with. However careful you are with your food choice, it is highly likely that you will exceed your daily calorie intake if you have a huge appetite. You, therefore, must curb your appetite if you want to lose some pounds and maintain a healthy weight. A tea detox comes with ingredients that are meant to suppress your appetite. This way you do not have to endure strong cravings and can stick to a low-calorie diet.
Numerous studies have shown that cravings come as a result of hormonal imbalances. Because of this, it is impossible to control cravings by willpower alone. Plain green tea comes with EGCG, a nutrient that increases the production of a hormone that creates a feeling of satiation. Incorporating this tea into your diet will mean that you will feel full in between meals and consume fewer calories at the end of the day. A tea detox using other types of teas can also help a great deal were suppressing your appetite is concerned.
Get Rid of Bloating
In most cases, bloating is brought about by toxin overload. These toxins slow down digestion and food gets accumulated in the stomach. Over time, this can become a huge problem that can greatly affect your quality of life. Bloating will also give you that bulge around your stomach region which means that it will also affect how you look.
Bloating is characterized by a swollen belly mostly after eating. Bloating is quite uncomfortable and in extreme cases, it can lead to stomach pains. Once your body starts to get rid of the accumulated toxins when you try a tea detox, you will start to feel relieved and within no time, bloating will become a thing of the past.
Cleanse your system
The essence of detox is removing toxins from the body. Toxins can be anything from alcohol to medicine we take to manage general conditions. Once these substances accumulate the body, they make it hard for the body to perform normal functions. Toxins also result in lifestyle diseases.
A body that is free of toxins is more efficient as everything runs smoothly. That is why it's always good to cleanse the body every now and then. Thanks to this cleansing, you will feel much better and more energized after a tea detox. You will also enjoy better immunity and overall body health.
Tea detox is more efficient in body cleansing when its incorporated into a healthy diet. Just resist the temptation to take extreme measures such as taking liquids only for a few days. There is no way your body will function normally on a fluid diet and taking such measures will only be detrimental to your health in the long run.


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The last time I was in Israel I arrived in Tel Aviv at dawn. I left Athens for Israel at one in the morning, and it took many hours of travel before I finally reached Tiberias, my first stop on the journey. Tiberias is a beautiful little city that occupies a short stretch of the coast along the Sea of Galilee. There are small and winding stone alleys, a lively beach scene, elegant boutique hotels and crumbling, ancient minarets left over from the Ottomans. Ignore the young teenagers carrying machine guns; it's a charming town. Tiberias is particularly special to me because it is where I met my husband. I can easily conjure the colorful, swirling, exhilarating memories of the night that we met, so you can imagine how excited I was to return with him three years later.
However, our reunion with this cherished city was not the picture of romance that I envisioned. We were tired, confused, starving. We had been up for hours. We were hangry (a unique physical/emotional state brought on by low blood sugar; hunger+angry=hangry). People that know me know about hangry. Hanger must be attended to. We ended up at a small place called Little Tiberias. We ate quite a few dishes that day, but I only remember the fried cauliflower. Is it terrible to say that my memories of the fried cauliflower run alongside my memories of meeting Jon?
I don't know if I have ever loved a vegetable the way that I loved that cauliflower. It could have been because I was starving but I'm pretty sure its because it was out of this world. It was tender and crispy all at the same time, warm and smothered with garlic and olive oil and lemon and coriander leaves. My mouth is watering as I write this. My passion for this cauliflower was so intense that the chef came out and shared the recipe with me, which basically consisted of "loads and loads of garlic" and "tons of lemon and olive oil" and "good white cauliflower dropped in a lot of hot oil."
Cauliflower is an underused vegetable, pushed aside all together or covered in fake, melted cheese. Yuck. I have always enjoyed its earthy flavor and prefer it roasted in the oven with lemon or nutmeg or paprika, but ever since that day I really love my pretend Little Tiberias version. I don't technically fry the cauliflower (although I'd like to try one day) and I swapped the coriander leaves for arugula, but it still tastes delicious and reminds me of Israel and love and beach and sunshine. I also added a little bit of paprika – no idea why. The cauliflower gets nice and browned and lemony and garlicky – the wilted arugula a perfect complement. Please try this immediately and tell me all about it or share one of your favorite ways to prepare cauliflower!
lemony garlicky cauliflower and wilted arugula (and love)
- one head of cauliflower, cut into bite sized florets
- four or five cloves of garlic, chopped
- one large or two small lemons (meyers are best)
- one generous handful of arugula
- one teaspoon of paprika
- kosher salt and freshly ground pepper
- extra virgin olive oil
- heat a very generous amount of olive oil in a large skillet over medium high heat and add the cauliflower, cooking for a few minutes untouched until they begin to brown
- add the paprika, salt and pepper and give the florets a turn or a shake to encourage nice browing on their opposite sides
- once cauliflower is browning nicely, squeeze half of a lemon over the florets, add a splash of water, reduce heat to medium and cover, cooking for about 8 more minutes or until cauliflower is tender (be sure and check temperture level and add a little water as necessary to keep from burning)
- in the meantime, whisk the rest of the lemon with some extra virgin olive oil and a pinch each of salt and pepper to create a simple vinaigrette
- in the last few minutes of cooking, add the chopped garlic to the cauliflower and stir, watching carefully so that the garlic doesn't burn
- when cauliflower is finished, toss it with the arugula and the vinaigrette
I like to serve this will something simple like chicken or salmon or steak.
You could substitute the arugula for cilantro, a cousin to the coriander leaves that they use at Little Tiberias. I don't use cilantro because I hate it, which goes to show just how good the version in Israel was!


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I don't know about you guys, but I'm pretty sure that all I need to survive is my hair straightener and pho. I can assure you that even in 90 degree weather, you can catch me in my kitchen hovering over my stove cooking up a big pot of pho. Since I married into a Vietnamese family, I figured that it would probably be a good idea to teach myself how to make it. This recipe feeds my family of 5 for 2-3 days depending on how often we eat it. Remember, that you may cut recipe in half or just use it as a reference. I actually used 3 pounds or so of beef bone in this recipe along w/ one whole foster farm chicken. If you think it's weird to make a broth with that mix, you don't have to do it. You can use all beef bones if you'd like, or all chicken. Whatever your preference, I assure you that it will all come out delicious!
You will need:
1 whole 3-4 pd skinned foster farm chicken(cut up chicken into large manageable pieces)or you may use all beef bone/knuckle for this recipe as well
3 pds of beef bone and/or beef knuckle
3 pound pkg of beef bottom round roast(use only if you want cooked beef slices)or you may sub w/oxtail
2 pkgs of beef meatballs
1 4 inch piece of ginger split in half
2 large onions cut in half(DO NO PEEL SKIN)
1 1/2 T. of coriander
1 tsp. whole cloves
2 cardamom pods split
2 cinnamon sticks
1 handful of star anise
2/3 cup of fish sauce
1 1/2 T. salt
3 oz. of palm sugar or 1/4 cp of sugar
1/2 tsp of msg(optional)
3 pkgs of fresh rice noodle
2 cheese cloths for straining broth
12 qt. stainless steel pot and an extra pot to parboil your bones
26 cups of water(or fill up halfway but remember you may cut recipe in half)
1 Stainless steel tea balls or mesh vegetable bags to hold all the spices for easier clean up
Bean sprout
Lime wedges
Thinly sliced onion(soak onion in ice water for 30 min and drain)
Lime wedges
Chopped green onion
You want to roast your onion and ginger in the oven. Bake @ 400 degrees for 30 minutes. If you have an open burner, then you should preferably char the onion and ginger over an open flame, turning occasionally until slightly blackened.
Take a pot big enough for all your meat,(except for bottom round roast)add enough water to cover and bring them to a boil for about 8-10 minutes or so. This step is for cleaning your bones and it will help you to get a clearer broth. While that pot is coming to a boil, get your other 12 qt pot ready and fill it half way(about 26 cps). Unless, you want to wait FOREVER AND A DAY for a big stock pot of water packed with meat and bones to boil, then you can skip this part. Otherwise having two pots going at a time will save you a butt load of pho'cken time(pun intended).
Once chicken and/or beef bone is done parboiling, dump it into a large colander in sink and lightly rinse off bones under cool water.
Since you should have another pot of water almost coming to boil, carefully add the bones/meat into the pot of water. This is also the time where you would add in the bottom round roast. When making this pot of pho, I didn't quite measure how much water I added, just make sure that after you've added all the meat in, that the pot is pretty much filled with water 3/4 way up. Feel free to take some water out if there is too much. Add in the char broiled ginger and onion. Add in fish sauce, palm sugar,salt(and msg if you're opting to use it), cinnamon sticks, and a big handful of star anise.
Put the other spices listed, into 1 stainless steel tea ball or mesh bags and drop them into the the pot. Make sure you remove that chain that comes along with the tea ball.
Now all that's left is leaving it all to simmer on low heat for 3 hrs. You know you've done it right when the pot looks disgusting and greasy.
Skim off fat as you go along trying to only take out what you need. Sometimes, if I feel like I'm taking out too much water along with the fat, then I will add more water to compensate.
After the broth has been simmering for 2 hrs I then taste the broth to see if I need to add any additional seasonings. Remove your beef bottom roast(if using) and allow to rest on cutting board before slicing against the grain. Keep in mind that this recipe uses chicken instead of all beef bone which means less fat, so if you decide to use more beef bone and/or oxtail, your broth will be very greasy at first, so make sure you use your ladle to skim off any fat that rises to the surface and add more water to pot if necessary. Also note, that you want the broth slightly stronger tasting cause once you add the noodles and garnishes it will bring down the flavor a tad bit. I usually make a small bowl for myself to taste check before serving to guests.
Once it's seasoned to your liking and has been simmering for at least 3 hrs, remove all bones and meat and place into colander over a large bowl.
Place two cheese cloths over a mesh strainer fitted on top of a pot and slowly strain the broth until done.
Now that your broth is pretty again and smells FANTASTIC, you can add in the beef meatballs if you opted for them and bring to a slight boil until the balls are cooked through(they will puff up when they are almost ready).
Using a very sharp knife, thinly slice your bottom round roast against the grain. Also don't forget to shred the meat off of the chicken that you had set aside. This is a very crucial step when using beef bone with tons of meat on it and ESPECIALLY OXTAIL! Right before you pour the broth into your bowl, is when you would toss in a couple of pieces of this delicious and tender meat!
You can also use raw, thinly sliced sirloin steak if you wish. To make slicing easier and to ensure thin cuts of meat, put meat in freezer for 30 min. and then slice.
Assembling the bowls: Place blanched rice noodles(or if using dry noodles, follow directions on package)in individual bowls and top with thinly cooked beef slices. If you are adding raw beef slices, the broth must be boiling to cook it through before you ladle the soup into the bowl. If the broth is not quite boiling but VERY HOT, than you can cook the meat by quickly dipping it into the pho broth using the ladle(it should take seconds). Once you've added the broth into the bowl, top with the garnishes of your choice and....VOILA!!!
Notes: The spices used in pho can get pretty pricey if you purchase them at your local Safeway, Fred Meyers or wherever you shop. If you know of a local Asian market or know someone that can get to one, I would highly recommend you go there cause it is waaaaay more inexpensive BELIEVE ME!
Also the type of fish sauce you use matters!! Don't use the ones that come in the plastic bottles...YUCKY! Use the ones that come in the glass bottles instead. There are various brands and most of them are very similar in taste.
Lastly, if you're using all beef bones and oxtails, the longer you simmer the broth the better! But I wouldn't recommend simmering chicken for longer then 3 to 4 hrs cause it will get VERY GELATINOUS after cooled and it will not look too appetizing when you're trying to reheat it. Feel free to add in any fixings to satisfy your taste buds! You can add all kinds of stuff to pho...tripe,shrimp,flank stank(I mean steak):),or even beef tendon. Whatever your palette, pho is always a real crowd pleaser!
I posted this recipe on my blog MONTHS before I started my Youtube channel so it differs slightly than the video. The spices, and the amount of meat I used DID NOT CHANGE, so feel free to use and follow the recipe listed w/ a few minor adjustments as stated in the video! If you want a healthier alternative than follow the written recipe for pho using chicken as the base but if you want a full bodied and tastier pho experience, than follow my video where I use all beef bones/oxtails and let it simmer for up to 8 hrs! ENJOY AND HAPPY EATING!! :)


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In preparing my speech for today's Universities UK annual conference, I've had cause to reflect on an intense - and sometimes turbulent - period for higher education. In less than a year, the sector has gone from anticipating reform to actively preparing for the first intake of students under very different financial arrangements.
It seems remarkable that this time last year, Lord Browne had yet to issue his report on higher education finance. A mere 12 months on and preparations are well under way for a substantially different funding system. Money - and more of it - will follow applicants to the institution of their choice, the quid pro quo being that those institutions become more accountable to students for the undergraduate experience they provide.
By establishing this new system, the government is seeking to improve student choice and access, teaching and employability - as well as putting the sector's finances on a sustainable footing. Whereas my department, the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills, invested about £9 billion in higher education in 2010-11, we expect this figure to reach about £10 billion in 2014-15. This is at a time when the government - including BIS - is making overall cuts.
Also by 2015, the sector will be spending more than half a billion pounds annually on widening access, thanks to the institutional plans agreed with the Office for Fair Access. UUK is to publish its recommendations on improving institutional efficiency later this month. And in the next few weeks, recent graduates will start visiting English schools, sixth forms and colleges to explain the new funding, grant and loan arrangements.
In line with the White Paper, Students at the Heart of the System, we're designing a less intrusive regulatory regime - to be introduced through legislation next year - so that universities and colleges have more room to develop according to their own missions.
We are also working with the Higher Education Funding Council for England on lifting some of the restrictions on student numbers for 2012-13. We are doing this not to revive a two-tier system, but to increase competition and support diversity in the sector.
The government has no ideological attachment to the selected methods for freeing up places and we won't attempt any reform that could upset careful management of public expenditure. The goal is greater choice for students between different types of high-quality provision - and we will review the effectiveness of our "core and margin" plans to this end.
All told, this represents not just a coherent vision for the higher education sector, but also an opportunity for universities to grow and flourish. As secretary of state, I've seen ample evidence of such potential in further education colleges that deliver excellent undergraduate degrees, as well as in the research-intensive institutions that boast Nobel laureates.
Most encouraging from my perspective is the evidence of universities joining forces with business to fund student places, exploit their intellectual property and help companies to bring their products to market. Indeed, one of the main themes of my UUK speech is the importance of universities making a contribution to the country's economic growth that is commensurate with their clear potential to do so.
This aspect of universities' remit did not feature heavily in the higher education White Paper because we intend to address it as part of a forthcoming innovation and research strategy. The government has already protected public investment in science and research, but we must make sure that our policies on knowledge exchange and innovation are mutually reinforcing.
The task is to preserve a virtuous circle of excellent research, which will entice the smartest academics to our universities and pull in grants and investment so that technological and intellectual breakthroughs continue to occur in the UK rather than somewhere else.
Many universities already make a major contribution to their local areas. Now there are additional ways in which they can work with businesses and support growth.
The new technology and innovation centres, for example, will draw on the work of leading researchers to accelerate the commercialisation of emerging technologies. We have announced three centres to date, covering high-value manufacturing, cell therapies and offshore renewable energy. And of the 15 local enterprise partnerships recognised so far, each has at least one university participant.
Feelings of optimism on my part in no way disregard the challenges that still face our universities. Nevertheless, with increased funds going into the sector - albeit in a different way - opportunities abound to strengthen our outstanding higher education institutions.
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* {{Card|Remodel}} can trash cards to activate Market Square, and can then turn the {{Card|Gold|Golds}} into {{Card|Province|Provinces}}.
* {{Card|Remodel}} can trash cards to activate Market Square, and can then turn the {{Card|Gold|Golds}} into {{Card|Province|Provinces}}.
* [[Combo: Highway and Market]]
* [[Combo: Highway and Market]]
Revision as of 11:36, 17 July 2018
|Market Square
|Action - Reaction
|Kingdom card?
|Dark Ages
|Lorraine Schleter
|Card text
+1 Card
+1 Action
+1 Buy
When one of your cards is trashed, you may discard this from your hand to gain a Gold.
Market Square is an Action-Reaction card from Dark Ages. When played, it is a cantrip source of +Buy; however, when paired with a trasher (or as a defense against a trashing attack), it can gain you Golds!
Official FAQ
- When you play this, you draw a card and get +1 Action and +1 Buy.
- When one of your cards is trashed, you may discard Market Square from your hand.
- If you do, you gain a Gold.
- If there is no Gold left in the Supply, you do not gain one.
- You may discard multiple Market Squares when a single card of yours is trashed.
Other Rules clarifications
You can discard Market Square before or after other when-trashed triggers. For example, if you trash a Cultist while holding a Market Square in hand, two things happen - you can discard the Market Square to gain a Gold, and you can draw 3 cards due to Cultist's when-trashed ability. You can do these in any order - you can first draw 3 cards and then discard one or more Market Squares to gain Gold (even ones that you just drew), or you can first discard a Market Square to gain a Gold, and then draw 3 cards from trashing the Cultist. You can even do both - discard a Market Square to gain a Gold, draw 3 cards for trashing the Cultist, and then discard another Market Square from your hand! (Yes, it is technically possible to discard the same Market Square twice, if you drew it again!)
Strategy Article
There is no strategy article yet for Market Square. Feel free to add your thoughts!
An obvious use case for Market Square is as a cheap +Buy in an engine. Sometimes you'll buy a Woodcutter or Herbalist for the +Buy, and Market Square is probably better - a lot of the time you'd rather have your +Buy be a cantrip that doesn't get in the way rather than a terminal.
Market Square has an obvious synergy with Hovel - if you draw your Market Square with Hovel, you can buy a Victory card, trash the Hovel, and discard the Market Square to gain a Gold. This could be either on a lucky early hand, or once you've ramped up your engine and want to add a little bit of buying power while starting to green.
Market Square typically won't help a Big Money game, with one big exception - Masquerade. Big Money+Masquerade+Market Square can supply a steady stream of Golds. I'm not sure how best to play it, but presumably you want more than one Masquerade and Market Square.
Obviously, when setting up an engine, Market Square can help with early buying power. If you open Chapel or Steward with Market Square, you can safely trash everything, buy engine components like Villages and Smithies, and forgo Silver entirely, jumping straight to Gold when your Market Square and your trasher collide.
Market Square has great synergy with a lot of trashers. Since it is a cantrip, you can freely load up on Market Squares, to match up with your smaller number of trashers. - Moneylender, Forager, Mine, Upgrade, Remodel, Junk Dealer, all can be used to activate Market Square to good effect.
- early-game trashers like Chapel, Steward
- Hovel
- Masquerade
- Bishop
- Donate
- Remodel can trash cards to activate Market Square, and can then turn the Golds into Provinces.
- Combo: Hermit and Market Square
- Combo: Highway and Market
English versions
| +1 Card. +1 Action. +1 Buy.
When one of your cards is trashed, you may discard this from your hand. If you do, gain a Gold.
|Dark Ages 1st Edition
|August 2012
| +1 Card. +1 Action. +1 Buy.
When one of your cards is trashed, you may discard this from your hand to gain a Gold.
|Dark Ages 2nd Edition
|September 2017
Other language versions
|Náměstí (lit. square)
|Marktplein (lit. market square)
|Kauppatori (lit. marketplace)
|Place du marché
|青空市場 (pron. aozoraichiba, lit. open-air market)
|+1 カードを引く。 +1 アクション。 +1 購入。 あなたのカード1枚が廃棄されるとき、これを手札から捨て札にしてもよい。 捨て札にした場合、金貨1枚を獲得する。
|시장 광장 (pron. sijang gwangjang)
|Plac targowy (note: as referred to in Polish Empires rulebook)
|Рыночная Площадь (pron. rynochnaya ploshshad')
|Plaza del Mercado
Secret History
Once Intrigue had the top half. By the time I was working on Intrigue for publication, it didn't seem worth a slot. I brought it back here because I needed a simple top for the reaction. Before that I tried the reaction paired with Fool's Gold's top.
Originally the reaction was, you could trash this to gain a Gold when one of your cards was trashed. Time has shown that gaining a Gold is not as awesome as it looks (btw spoilers), and I eventually got around to testing the stronger version that made it into the set.
The reaction also dates back to Intrigue. I had a reaction that let you gain a copy of a card of yours that was trashed. To be good enough it had to give you Gold instead.


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IIFA 2017: Karan to host event in New York, Salman-Katrina to perform
Mumbai, June 3: Filmmaker Karan Johar will be hosting the 18th edition of the International Indian Film Academy (IIFA) awards to be held in New York from July 13 to 15.
To reveal some of the details about the upcoming gala, Bollywood stars Salman Khan, Katrina Kaif and Alia Bhatt addressed press conference here, and later got together for a live video Conference with five Cities globally — New York, London, Dubai, Chicago and Houston.
The awards night, to be telecast live on Colors, has a star-studded line-up of performers. Apart from Salman, Katrina and Alia, audiences can look forward to Shahid Kapoor, Sushant Singh Rajput and Kriti Sanon among others on the stage at the Metlife Stadium.
Commenting on the occasion, Salman said, "It always feels great to be a part of the IIFA Movement and I look forward to the 2017 IIFA Awards."
Katrina added, "I'm really excited and looking forward to performing at the IIFA Awards this year. It is such a great platform that not only showcases the celebration of cinema globally, but also it's a great opportunity for us to reach out to our fans worldwide."
The musical evening, IIFA Rocks 2017, will be held on July 14 and will celebrate 25 years of A R Rahman in the industry.


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It's an awkward time of the year. November is over but the New Year has yet to begin. For once the American model of celebrating Thanksgiving is worth consideration. You get to do the whole turkey dinner a month early. This either frees you to have something more enjoyable for Christmas lunch, or, if there is lingering commitment to this bird, an opportunity for experimentation - and all before Santa makes a stop here as part of his Caribbean cruise. The day after Americans have had the turkey, mash, corn etc. they shop with deadly determination for all those presents they want to give themselves or their loved ones. By 1 December everything is bought, wrapped and waiting.
On this small rock we also have a marker to bridge November to the holidays. Independence was granted on a rainy November 30, 1966. And here's the spooky bit: it has rained every single 30 November since then – even though the rainy season is supposedly at an end. This year was no exception. The heavens opened and poured its blessings for a solid 4 hours. Nearby in Trinidad, Independence is just another holiday – at best a signal to enjoy shark and bake on Maracas beach. For Bajans it's a huge deal. Buildings were draped in blue and yellow bunting - our national colours – for weeks. Instead of Beyoncé on the radio wistfully lamenting "If I Were A Boy" you might have heard The Merry Men's patriotic cry:
Beautiful Barbados
Gem of the Caribbean Sea
Come back to me
My island, Barbados
Come back to my island and me
Every Bajan to the bone wore as much blue and yellow as they could manage – reaching a frenzy on the day itself. It is quite likely that on Independence Day citizens of this small rock were wearing blue and yellow smalls. It is great to see a nation so proud of independence. But with each passing year I am more and more unsure of exactly what we are independent of.
However, even before Independence Day, this small rock's version of Martha Stewart (Canadian and no convictions) inquired if I had decorated my tree or bought my Christmas presents. I thought she was winding me up. No. By 29 November her tree had been delivered and was about to be decorated. Is your tree bought and decorated yet? Am I the last civilian not to have lugged home an imported Norwegian Spruce to take pride of place in the front room? We already have thousands of fairy lights festooned to a huge Samaan tree in our front garden – lights that have been turned on for every festive occasion since September: Divali, Obama victory, First Born doing really well in his spelling test, Jack surviving "the snip" – you get the picture. To place a dead tree, alien in this landscape, within a house surrounded by old Mahogany, Samaan and Immortelle trees, seems perverse. However, as I am not above the unspoken competitiveness of middle class mothers worldwide, I consulted the boys.
"Kids, shall we get a tree for inside the house like we had in London?"
"How big will it be?" asked Second Born.
"As big as you like." I enthused.
"Eh. Maybe. But we already have that pretty tree outside with lights."
Out of the mouths of babes…
Even if there is no Spruce sprucing up our home we need to make an effort this year. Our first Bim Christmas was pretty dire in spite of my parents providing presents and the full turkey spread. We missed London rituals like Handel's Messiah at St. John's Church in Smith's Square. We missed our friends and we missed the home that First and Second Born had inhabited from birth. This year has to be different. One year on we have some friends here, a home, and I at least have an invitation to enjoy some sweet, sweet music at THE Parang party of the season. Handel can wait.
The one small snag to the Yuletide festivities is that our new home is kitchen-less. The previous owners had worked tirelessly for ten years making the grounds and house beautiful. But the kitchen was left untouched. If that kitchen were human we would say it had "issues" and "challenges" to overcome. We would have its mismatched colours treated for ADHD. The cupboards would have triple bypass surgery and the sink and faucet would need a course of colonic irrigation. Now you understand why I had to hack the thing to bits while in the background Gloria Gaynor sang:
First I was afraid
I was petrified
Kept thinking I could never live
without you by my side…
By January that loser will have been replaced. I have secured a hot Italian model – smooth, elegant, perfectly proportioned, and providing unbeatable performance for ten, guaranteed, years. In the meantime we are often caught out in the pouring rain while walking to the guest cottage kitchen to get dinner or make a cup of tea.
You think I'd crumble?
You think I'd lay down and die?
Oh no, not I
I will survive.


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Wednesday, December 2, 2009
Namco Bandai Games Used Craft Director Studio in Tekken 6
Craft Animations announced today that Namco Bandai Games has used Craft Director Studio to generate the animated sequences in NBGI's newly-released Tekken 6.
With over 2.5 million units on the market, users will enjoy the vehicle and camera animations in the scenario campaign mode of the game which have been created using Craft Director Studio.
NBGI created much of the film material using Craft Director Studio - including the animation of the main-character's motorcycle, large numbers of cars, helicopters and more.
Shinichirou Yoda, Assistant Manager, Computer Graphic Motion Department, Contents Production Group of NAMCO BANDAI Games Inc.
explains that the methods for generating motion which they have used in the past have had restrictions.
One example is motion capture; it is difficult to use motion capture when the scale of the scene constantly changes.
For instance, a camera enters into the car that is driving recklessly at high speeds.
Or think of the scene where a character enters from far-off on a motorcycle, approaches the camera, and then leaves again.
Mr Shinichirou explains that his team was given a greater power of persuasion with the greater degree of freedom that CDS offered.
Not only would the alternatives have meant they would have to collect a prohibitive amount of data, but they would have been restricted in their creative process, not being able to create all the affects they had wanted.
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A Scientist Explores Spirit
A Biography of Emanuel Swedenborg
Author : George Dole and Robert H. Kirven
Format : Paperback, 102 pages
Release date : 1997
This book introduces the life and spiritual thought of Emanuel Swedenborg (1688-1772). A Swedish scientist and statesman, he underwent an extraordinary religious experience at age 55 and spent his last twenty-seven years producing thirty volumes that detailed his visionary experiences. Richly illustrated, the book includes a chronology of Swedenborg's life, a bibliography of his works, and an outline of his key theological concepts.
Rev. Dr. George F. Dole holds a B.A. from Yale, an M.A. from Oxford, and a Ph.D. from Harvard University. Now professor emeritus, Dr. Dole taught ancient languages, the Bible, and theology at the Swedenborg School of Religion in Newton, MA. His recent translations of the New Century Editions of Heaven and Hell, Divine Love and Wisdom, and Divine Providence have won critical acclaim. He is also the author of Freedom and Evil and Sorting Things Out.
Robert H. Kirven was president and professor emeritus of the Swedenborg School of Religion in Newton, Massachusetts. He held degrees from the University of Chicago, Andover Newton Theological School, and Brandeis University, where he earned a Ph.D. in the history of ideas.
"Swedenborg is like a whole Himalayan Range of the mind. This biography, . . . as from a mountain top, presents the whole vista of wisdom."
- Wilson Van Dusen, Author of 'Beauty, Wonder, and the Mystical Mind'; 'Design of Existence'; and 'The Presence of Other Worlds'.
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