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__label__wiki	0.768512	0.768512	BBIOGRAPHY Chaske Spencer- Wiki, Age, Height, Net Worth, Girlfriend, Ethnicity, Career Chaske Spencer is a well-known American actor. He is most recognized for his appearances as Sam Uley in The Twilight Saga film trilogy, Teddo in the critically acclaimed film Wild Indian, and Deputy Billy Raven in the Cinemax original series Banshee. Chaske Spencer Biography Chaske Spencer was born in Tahlequah, Oklahoma on March 9, 1975, to an undisclosed Indigenous family. However, the actor mentions them since his mother was a high school teacher and his father formerly worked as a high school counselor. Chaske saw as his two younger sisters relocated from Montano to Kooskia to Idaho as a kid. In 2022, the actor turned 47, signifying his current age. He had an ordinary childhood in a loving family with his parents. Spencer is the son of a high school teacher and counselor. As a result, it is difficult for him to lack a higher education degree. Chaske enrolled at and graduated from Clearwater Valley High School. He afterward enrolled at Lewis Clark College to get a degree in photography. Chaske Spencer’s Height, Weight Chaske, 47, is 6 feet 2 inches tall, or 1.87 meters. He has maintained a slim and powerful 80-kilogram figure. Furthermore, the actor has black hair and dark brown eyes that shimmer. At this point, his stature and physical condition remain unclear. Chaske Spencer’s early professional years were challenging. He initially moved to New York City and started working as a bartender to support himself while following his photography love. He was cast as the title character in his debut Broadway play, “Dracula,” but destiny had other ideas for him. As a consequence, the actor traveled to appear in New York City’s Public Theatre, where director Rene Haynes spotted his potential. Chaske’s acting career started in 2002 with the film Skins’ Teen Rudy. She also appeared in Dreamkeeper as Eagle Boy. Chaske’s role as Sam Uley in the Twilight Saga series provided him with his big break. Among his most recent popular roles are Billy Raven in Banshee, Chaska in Woman Walks Ahead, Micah Dawson in Longmire, and Sachem in Barkskins. Chaske Spencer’s Net Worth In 2022 Chaske’s acting profession has earned him a decent living. He had a prosperous career because of his recognition, respect, and riches. There is little doubt that Chaske Spencer will be worth $4 million by 2022. Nonetheless, the specific amount of his gains and remuneration is still being investigated. Chaske Spencer Girlfriend, Dating Chaske is a talented actor in Hollywood. Millions of his fervent fans found him amusing. But, from the standpoint of the fan, it’s always a matter of asking questions about how they’re related. However, the actor has opted to remain silent regarding his personal affairs. Chaske lives a fairly secluded life and only mentions his job in interviews. As a result, determining whether he is single, married, or already married is tough. Whatever the circumstances, Spencer was known to have a beautiful girlfriend called Emilee Wegner. Zahn McClarnon- Wiki, Age, Height, Net Worth, Girlfriend, Ethnicity, Career Evan Bates- Wiki, Age, Height, Net Worth, Girlfriend, Ethnicity Lindsay Capuano- Wiki, Age, Height, Ethnicity, Net Worth, Boyfriend Lindsay Capuano is a well-known social media personality and model. Lindsay Capuano is well-known for her Instagram account,… Anthony Pullen Shaw- Wiki, Age, Wife, Net Worth, Height, Career Anthony Pullen Shaw is a well-known actor, director, producer, celebrity kid, media face, and social media star from… Brittany Schmitt- Wiki, Age, Husband, Ethnicity, Net Worth, Height, Career Brittany Schmitt is a well-known American comedian, writer, television personality, producer, social media influencer, content creator, media face,… Paulo Dybala- Wiki, Age, Height, Wife, Net Worth, Ethnicity, Career Paulo Exequiel Dybala is a striker for Serie A club Roma and the Argentina national team. Dybala, nicknamed… Amy Klobuchar- Wiki, Age, Height, Net Worth, Husband, Ethnicity Amy Klobuchar is a well-known American lawyer and politician who serves as the senior United States senator from… Antonee Robinson- Wiki, Age, Height, Girlfriend, Net Worth, Ethnicity, Career Antonee Robinson, nicknamed Jedi, is an American professional soccer player who now plays for Premier League side Fulham…	cc/2023-06/en_head_0031.json.gz/line0
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__label__wiki	0.778443	0.778443	From Connemara to Coomooroo and beyond From Connemara to Coomooroo and beyond (with a few places in between) John Mannion, Australia. I will probably never know what my paternal, great, great grandfather, Michael Mannion, his wife Mary and their infant son, John Francis Mannion thought as they looked back at the shores of Ireland in c1865 aboard a sailing ship ultimately bound for Australia. Michael Mannion was one of a family of five. As Thomas Keneally said of his Irish ancestors in his 1991 book: Now and in Time to Be: Ireland and the Irish. “… did they look back from the deck of whatever class they sailed in with a frightful grief, or with a mix of wistfulness and exaltation? Was their young blood really geared up for the longest possible dosage of sea then available to them? Did they think they’d be back to the dear, familiar sights and faces so often invoked in songs of emigration? I’m sayin’ farewell to the land of my birth And the homes that I know so well, And the mountains grand of my own native land, I’m biddin’ them all adieu . . . On the other hand, were they pleased to see the last of it: the tribalism, the recurrent want, the contumely of being one of Britain’s sub-races? Or did they harbour both sets of feelings? “ In any event that day was the last they would ever see of Ireland and possibly their three other children Mary aged seven, Bartholomew (my great-grandfather) aged five and Joseph aged three, whom they left behind, to follow several years later in 1873. Whatever their circumstances they must have been desperate to migrate to a new life, for not only was this a physical migration, it was a migration of their hopes and aspirations to re-establish and better themselves in the province of South Australia, 12,000 miles away. For many years it had been accepted in the Mannion family that, “Michael Mannion and Mary Coyne were married on 6 June, 1858. They came from Clifden, Ireland via the Cape of Good Hope arriving in Australia in 1871. They first settled in Farrell’s Flat then Mannanarie and finally Coomooroo. When they came to Australia, they left three of their children in Ireland, namely Bartholomew, Mary and Joe, who came out later on.” This information was supplied by my great-uncle Joseph William Mannion and his sister Margaret Quinn, and no-one had ever queried it until I began some ‘serious’ research in 1997 and when I began researching birth dates and places, I found that three out of their seven “Australian-born” children were born prior to 1871. They may have been staunch Catholics but even their faith could not transport their unborn children across the ocean to South Australia! Despite years of research, including a trip back to Ireland and to the United States, where I became acquainted with many ‘cousin’s’, I have been unable to find out when and where Michael and Mary sailed from nor can I find any official record of their marriage. However I did visit the ruins of the family home a few miles east of the town of Clifden, nestled in a valley among the Twelve Bens east of Canal Stage and had a drink of water from ‘Mannion’s bog’ (a rock-hole fed by spring water) in May 1986. On my visit in 1999, the rock hole had dried up and was only a muddy hole. This land is now farmed by Pauric Hynes who breeds Connemara Ponies, exporting several to Australia. A neighbour of Pauric’s, ‘Paddy Pat Joyce’ lives in a small cottage about half a mile away and I was told by a bloke in Clifden named Casey (his daughter has a chemist shop in Clifden) that ‘Paddy Pat’ was a local historian. On the first visit he wasn’t home, but next day he was. It turned out that I’d met him in 1986, because after we got talking he said that an Australian called in a few years previous enquiring about the Mannion family and how they were married in 1858 by Fr O’Dwyer. Now there was no way that he could have known that from anyone else. He also said that if I’d been there 20 minutes earlier, I’d have met a Stephen King from Glasgow who was also seeking info on the Mannion family. Paddy Joyce was an interesting old bloke, about 70 I’d say. He lived on his own in his cottage with no electricity, no telephone and no motor car. He had a battery radio, gas lighting and a bicycle, and a couple of sheep dogs for company. The old dog ‘Swim’ lived in the house with him. Paddy spoke very loud Nell reckons and was very philosophical about life, with many sayings. When and where they arrived in South Australia, I have been unable to establish as yet. (Family records again indicate: Michael Mannion and Mary Coyne, second eldest daughter of Michael and Miriam Coyne of “Ilane Earaugh” Galway, Ireland, were married on 6 June, 1858 at “Killeen” in the presence of Darby Coyne and Penelope Coyne, County Galway, Ireland, by Rev. Fr. A. O’Dwyer.) When I was in Ireland in August 1999 I visited the Catholic priest at Carna, Fr Pauric Addley and had a look through the Parish records with him.(Nell was with me but she preferred to sit in the car and read!) Father Pauric was not entirely forthcoming with information until I mentioned ‘Ilane Earaugh’ and then it clicked! He told me that ‘Ilane’ is Irish for island (Oilean) and Earaugh was a small island off the west coast in the vicinity of Carna. At first Fr Pauric assumed that I was American; he was sick of American tourists not knowing anything about their family history arriving and expecting him to have all the answers! So I went away with a bit more knowledge. On the way back to Clifden we called in and had a look at one of the many roadside grotto’s or shrines in the area. I noticed a bloke shifting some sheep in a nearby paddock, so we wandered over and had a yarn with him, mentioning that I was researching the Mannion and Coyne families. It turned out that he was typical of many Irish who lived and worked in New York, but intended to retire in Ireland, where he was building a house. However he told me to go back along the road and see a bloke by the name of Michael Coyne. So back we went only a few hundred yards, Michael Coyne was not at home, but his wife Margaret said he would be back soon so we waited. The Irish are very hospitable and we talked and had a coffee until Michael returned. Michael Coyne was actually born on Ilane Earaugh in 1918. His grandfather John Coyne was known as ‘Lord of the Island’. I have been able to follow their movements northward from Adelaide to Farrell’s Flat, Hill River, Yongala and eventually Coomooroo, in c1876 from the birth records of their children. Along the way seven more children were born:- Michael Joseph Mannion, born 28 June, 1866, at Farrell’s Flat, district of Clare, S.A. Patrick Peter Mannion, born 28 August, 1868, at Farrell’s Flat, District of Clare, S.A. James Mannion, born 22 August, 1870, at Hill River, District of Clare, S.A. Annie Mannion, born 3 September, 1872, at Farrell’s Flat, District of Clare, S.A. Martin Henry Mannion, born 18 June, 1874, at Farrell’s Flat, District of Clare, S.A. Bridget Mannion, born 6 July, 1876, at Yongala, District of Frome, S.A. Edward Mannion, born 4 April, 1879, at Coomooroo, District of Frome, S.A. (Note: Place of registration may be birth place or residence of parent/informant) This is an important note, as on Patrick Mannion’s Death Certificate, his birthplace is stated as being Adelaide, South Australia. From shipping records and newspaper reports, Mary aged 14, Bartholomew aged 11 and Joseph Mannion aged 9, arrived in South Australia at Port Adelaide aboard the sailing ship Asterope, from London on 30 October, 1873 accompanied by a Mr. John McDonough (aged 35). They had spent three months at sea and were classed as assisted immigrants. There were only twelve passengers aboard the Asterope. John McDonough is still a ‘mystery man’, but may have been a relative; anyway, it can be assumed that these children joined their parents and five siblings at Farrell’s Flat in 1873. I have been unable to find any official records of the births of Mary, Bartholomew or Joseph, only family records, but a John Manion is recorded as being born on 3 July, 1864, (0431) in the Lettermore District, Galway, Ireland to Michael Manion and Mary Coyne. From information supplied on the South Australian birth certificates, Michael’s occupations are listed as a farmer at Farrell’s Flat in 1866, a shepherd at Farrell’s Flat in 1868, occupation not listed at nearby Hill River in 1870, and from then on as a farmer at Farrell’s Flat and Yongala in 1876. There are no land titles issued under Michael Mannion until 1876 at Coomooroo, so it can be assumed that he leased land in the various districts until then. The 1860s was not a good decade for South Australian farmers, there were a number of factors responsible for this, such as the severe drought in the middle of the decade followed by a devastating outbreak of rust in the wheat crops. But increasing difficulty in obtaining new areas of readily arable farmland, coupled with the lure of country being made available across the border in the Victorian Wimmera district were causing intending farmers and farmers wanting larger blocks, to look interstate. One of the major inhibiting factors to agricultural expansion was the ‘cordon of pastoral country’ which had been taken up and held by wealthy land owners under the original purchasing scheme…………. Thus the state turned its attention increasingly during the 1860s to the problem of facilitating closer settlement and to finding more land suitable for agriculture. The small farmer was always at a disadvantage as, under the South Australian scheme, land had to be sold at auction, and it had to be bought for cash and the small farmer found cash hard to come by. The Premier Henry Strangways proposed increasing the maximum acreage allowable to a sole purchaser from 80 acres to 640 acres and also abandoning the auction system in favour of a purchasing system by application at a fixed price and abolishing the cash payment by introducing a credit scheme for farmland buyers.(The Strangways Act) Following the drought of 1864-66, the Surveyor General, George Woodroffe Goyder, was sent by the S.A. Govt. to assess the effects of the drought, with a view to allowing Government relief to pastoralists. Thus was drawn on the map, the famous “Goyders Line”. The pressure for more land for farming increased with a run of good years in the early 1870s. Until this time, the Government had accepted Goyder’s line to be the limits where farming should extend, but on 26 November, 1874 an Act was passed which permitted credit selection on all unappropriated lands ‘situated south of the twenty-sixth parallel of south latitude’. This meant that the whole of the state was made available for farming! The ‘Strangways Act ‘ of 30 Jan. 1869 was originally designed to put the small farmer on his own land and by 1880 this had been achieved, however some including Goyder foresaw the disaster that would follow the farming of the more arid parts of the state, but their voices were drowned by those who considered that everyone was entitled to a share of the public estate, including Michael Mannion. The Hundred of Coomooroo, in the County of Dalhousie was proclaimed on 8 July 1875. Michael Mannion selected Section 88, Hd. Of Coomooroo on 30 May 1876 and paid £1/acre for his land. The 565 acre property was on rising ground, about three miles north-east by road from the small township of Morchard, about 160 miles north of the South Australian capital, Adelaide and they named it Fair View. Although Michael Mannion was allocated Sec. 88, Hd. of Coomooroo of 565 acres on May 30th 1876, the Land Grant was not issued until April 3 1882, when paid for: £565. Part of the house they built in 1877 is still standing, as is a small one-roomed hut built in 1880, but apparently they did not establish the place all alone. Records indicate that Michael’s brother, Martin, a farm labourer, accompanied by his son, Patrick, and daughter, Rose arrived in the Colony in 1879 aboard the ship Woodlark. From Coomooroo School records, Rose attended the nearby school with her cousins and Michael Snr was named as parent. What happened to Martin and Patrick no one knows! but Rose stayed in S.A. with her cousins and eventually married and raised a family of her own, a descendant of Rose’s, Jan Perry is currently researching her Mannion connections too, so we keep in touch. Another mystery are the ‘O’Toole’ family, more cousins of Michael Snr, whom he sponsored to come out to South Australia, and apparently they lived and worked at Fair View as well, before moving to the Port Pirie area. The land in the Hundred of Coomooroo is situated outside ‘Goyder’s Line’ of ten inch rainfall and for an Irish farmer and his family to start farming, literally from ‘scratch’ in this newly opened area, it must have taken a tremendous amount of faith. Farming is a gamble, there are elements of risks in farming and even with good farm management it still takes faith to go out in the late autumn weeks and sow a crop, believing that the rains will come and provide a harvest at the end of the year. That faith has been severely tested throughout the years, not only faith in their own ability and self-reliance, but faith in their Catholic beliefs and the Mannion’s prospered at Coomooroo in the run of ‘good years’ during the 1880’s and in 1884 bought out their southern neighbours property (Section 66, Hd. Coomooroo) of 440 acres for £517 Only one more child was born to Mary Mannion; Edward, on 4 April, 1879 at Coomooroo, unfortunately he died in infancy less than a year later, on 20 January, 1880 and his burial was the first in the Morchard Cemetery on 21 January, 1880, the Ceremony being conducted by the Catholic Priest, Rev. Fr. William Unsworth, a young Englishman. The Mannion boys were noted as being keen cricketers and horsemen, and on Sundays after attending mass at the Coomooroo Catholic Church/School, just down the road, friends and neighbours of the Mannion’s would gather at Fair View for lunch in the large kitchen (12 ft. by 17ft.). After lunch they would play cricket ‘out on the flat’ and adjourn for tea, after which the kitchen was cleared and they would dance the night away. Michael Snr, was an early councillor on the Orroroo District Council (est. Dec.1887) representing Coomooroo Ward in 1888/89, (when the Ward system was introduced ) 1890/91 and 1891/92. Having a number of boys (7), Michael and Mary ‘had’ to find properties for them, so they purchased or leased various properties; one at Erskine, east of Orroroo; Matawoolunga, east of Yednalue; Uroonda, south of Cradock, Kanyaka Station, south-west of Hawker and Pat managed the Kanyaka Station and had an interest in the property at Uroonda as well, before eventually going to Western Australia, as did Bridget and Jack (John), while Martin studied engineering and went to Broken Hill as a mining engineer and Annie went to Broken Hill as well. Michael (Mick) Mannion Jnr. is also listed as owning land west of Coomooroo, in 1888, in the adjoining Hundred of Pinda, (Sect. 14, Hd. of Pinda, 606 acres) He increased his holding after buying the adjoining farm from his sister Mary, following the death of her husband, John Bourke in 1895 (Sect. 13, Hd. of Pinda, 593 acres). Joseph and Bartholomew went north to Uroonda and settled at the 302 acre property they called Clifden (Section 142, Hd of Uroonda, County of Granville) which their father, Michael had selected in 1878, in recognition of their homelands around Clifden, Connemara, County Galway on the west coast of Ireland. They built a stone cottage and established a farm under what must have been very harsh conditions, but I guess all things are relative and they didn’t know anything else! The original house at Clifden was four- roomed, two stone and two pine and daub, but as times improved it was re-modelled in stone with a cement tank adjacent. During the severe droughts of the 1890’s dust storms ravaged the district and stock died from lack of feed and water. Very little wheat was grown for the next ten years and during 1897 the State Treasurer provided seed wheat to District Councils; to supply to farmers for sowing in that year. At a Special Meeting of The District council of Orroroo, held on 9 January, 1897, re Seed Wheat Distribution many applications were considered including: Mannion M. 250 Bushels. Sec 66 & 88, Coomooroo. 1002 Acres, the application was granted, but the season was a failure and at a Special Meeting in Jan. 1898, M. Mannion along with 50 other farmers, was granted an extension of twelve months for the payment of Seed Wheat supplied. In Jan. 1899 Michael Mannion, along with scores of other farmers in the Orroroo district, was again granted an “Extension of time for payment of Seed Wheat.” Mary Mannion, a woman, not a super-woman, who had followed her husband, confronted the loneliness and the remoteness of South Australia, and bought up their family under harsh and difficult conditions, died at Fair View on 5 November, 1899 aged 63 years after a lengthy illness and from her obituaries in local and state papers, it is obvious that the Mannion’s were a well known and respected family in the Coomooroo district. In Jan. 1900, Michael was granted another extension to pay for Seed Wheat and I reckon his faith would be sorely tested by now! with years of bad seasons, followed by the death of his wife. Along with many other pioneers who ventured north into this country to grow wheat, unaware that the average rainfall made it unsuitable for that venture, and through no fault of his own, after spending the most productive (and reproductive) years of his life trying to do so, he was forced to quit. On 24 Feb. 1900, The D.C. of Orroroo received a cheque from The Queensland Mortgage Co. for M. Mannion’s Seed Wheat (amount not noted) and on 11 Nov. 1902, Michael Mannion transferred Section 88, Hd Coomooroo to the Queensland Investment and Land Mortgage Co. The drought had broken him and I doubt that he ever recovered from the loss and grief of that tragedy, he obviously stayed on at Fair View, but in what capacity, I don’t know? and as if that wasn’t enough, a rabbit plague was infesting the district as well! From the Minutes Book; Orroroo Council Meeting:- 28 May, 1904: Letter re. rates, James McKenna on Mannion Land Section 66, 88 (Hd. Coomooroo) I dont’ know the significance of this entry, but it would appear that a James McKenna, whoever he was, was responsible for the rates on Fair View. There is no further reference to the matter. Michael stayed on at the farm, perhaps in forced semi-retirement, whilst son James ran the farm until his father’s death on 29 June, 1904, aged 76 years. His obituary reads : “On Wednesday, Michael Mannion an old resident of Coomooroo died. He was a large farmer and worked hard before retirement. His losses in stock and crops since 1895 had been heavy which affected him severely. He had a long illness and for a long time had been unable to lie in bed, owing to heart trouble.” Michael, Mary and Edward Mannion are all buried in an unmarked grave at Morchard Cemetery, although the plot is fenced by a cast-iron surround. Following the death of his father, James stayed on at Fair View until 1909, when he left the district, and tavelled around the state, farming at Booborowie Experimental Farm, Waikerie, and eventually died in Adelaide and was buried in West Tce. Cemetery. Bartholomew Bernard Mannion and Mary Teresa Neylon were married on 9 May 1887 by Father Bernard Nevin in the Cradock Catholic Church, in the presence of John Mannion and Annie Neylon. The Neylon family moved to Uroonda in 1881, from Kapunda and they tried farming in the vicinity of the Uroonda School with about as much success as their neighbours (Goyder’s predictions were correct!) Clifden, in the Uroonda district, 8 miles south of the Township of Cradock was to be the home of Bartholomew and Mary and their ten children : Annie Immaculate Mannion, born at home, 23 March, 1888. (Married John Fahey of Jamestown, two descendants) Mary Catherine Mannion, born at home, 7 August, 1889. (Never married) Michael James Mannion, born at home, 7 December, 1890. (Never married) Martin Vincent Mannion, born at home, 7 August, 1892. (Never married) Nellie Jane Mannion, born at home, 21 August, 1894. (Never married) Bartholomew Coyne Mannion, born at home, 20 July,1896. (Never married) Joseph William Mannion, born at home, 21 July. 1898. (Married Marie Kavanagh, no children) Peter Laurence Mannion,born at Hawker, 16 May, 1900. (Married Eileen Williams, five descendants) Patrick John Francis Mannion, born at Hawker, 4 April, 1902. (Married Mary Murphy of Jamestown, no children) Margaret Doreen Mannion, born at Hawker, 25 July, 1906. (Married John Quinn of Mt. Bryan, five descendants) The Mannion’s and Neylon’s endured the harsh seasonal and living conditions, possibly through their their frugal living and life-style and watched many of their friends and neighbours leave the area. ”Farmers who took up land outside of Goyder’s Line were meeting with increasing difficulties, and nearly every year there were ammendments to Govt. Acts to try and give relief to these farmers; by 1882 many had walked off their properties.” In 1911, the Mannion’s purchased a mixed farming property in a more reliable rainfall district at Willalo, in the Booborowie district, north-west of Burra and about 120 miles south of Cradock and in 1913-14, some of the family headed south to greener pastures. All of the Mannion children, except Margaret who was not of school age when the family moved to Willalo, attended the Uroonda School/Church, five and a half miles north-east of their home, and completed their schooling at Willalo School. Despite the area being settled after 1910, the Mannion’s were among the earliest at Willalo and established themselves in a small galvanised iron house of 4 rooms. Being in a very productive area, farming must have paid off, as in around 1920 they had a stone house constructed, and in 1929 a verandah and main bedroom were added to the front and ‘a priests room’ built onto the back. A stone implement shed also functioned as a shearing shed and at shearing time all the farm machinery was removed. Hillside, was to be the focus of many family functions due to it’s central location in the state and Bartholomew used to put on a ‘keg’ on the front verandah at Christmas. My father has childhood memories at Hillside and recalls playing in the hayshed and finding the hen-eggs and bombarding the work-horses with them. Jack Fahey also recalls farm holidays spent at Hillside, going around the sheep with his grandfather. In the 1920’s my grandfather, Peter Laurence Mannion and his brother, Joseph William Mannion returned to Clifden and took over the running of the Cradock property, which had been added to over the years through Crown Leases of resumed farming properties. They ‘batched’ there together, farming and chasing sheep and picking up work around the place. It was through his blade shearing that Peter (P.L.) became friendly with Eileen (Eily) Agnes Williams, one of the thirteen Williams children from Willila, a few miles down the road towards Carrieton. Of the Catholic faith they might have been, but they were also human and the bible tells us ‘that we will reap whatever we sow’ and the fruits of life dictated their marriage at Carrieton, S.A. in 1925. Joe studied wool-classing and worked at Michell’s Wool Processing Works in Adelaide and also spent some time in Tasmania. Mary Theresa Mannion died at Hillside, on 1 March, 1937 aged 71 and is buried in the nearby Booborowie Cemetery and from her obituary, considered her faith in the Catholic Church very important. Bartholomew, with his son, Patrick and daughters Mary and Nellie, stayed on at Hillside and continued farming until his death from heart failure, at home on 20 February, 1943. He too is buried in the Booborowie Cemetery with his wife. Pat married Mary Murphy from Jamestown and lived in an adjoining ‘tin house’ at Hillside until the mid 1950s when the property was sold and they retired to Somerton Park in Adelaide. Bartholomew’s brother Joe, in his later years, took up land, a small block also at Willalo, near the Willalo Hall. He sold that and lived a lot of his time with his brother and nieces, Mary and Nellie at Hillside until his death at home on 4 December 1946, aged 84 . He is buried in the Jamestown Cemetery in an unmarked grave; a very undignified end for a pioneering bushman of the state’s north during the 1890s ! Bartholomew and his brother, Joe were apparently fairly close, having shared the experience of being ‘abandoned’ by their parents and travelling to Australia together as youngsters in 1873. ‘P.L’ and family, and ‘J.W.’ continued in partnership at Clifden (although my father reckons that it was in name only, as P.L. and Sons did most of the work) and purchased another grazing property, for Joe and his wife, Marie Kavanagh, The Springs, at nearby Bendleby, from Alex Gangel in 1947. The partnership was dissolved in 1951, when ‘P.L’ took over the running of Clifden in his own rite. Six children were born to Peter and Eileen, of whom five survived, Maurice Ignatius; my father, Peter Thaddeus William (P.T.W.) Mannion , born at Hawker hospital , 27 miles north of Clifden, on 28 June, 1927; Reginald Joseph; Patricia Mary and Josephine Anne. The Clifden in South Australia differed from its namesake in Ireland in climate and ‘life on the land’ at Clifden was a struggle at the best of times, especially during the 1930s depression. The boys went to Uroonda School, five and a half miles away, on foot, by horse and on bicycles. The Uroonda School closed in 1947, so the girls started their schooling by correspondence, Pat later boarded at Carrieton with her uncle and aunt, Arthur and ‘Doss’ Rowe and family and attended the Yanyarrie School, until the shift to Pekina, when she and Jose went to Tarcowie School According to my father, P.L. Mannion’s break came in the mid ’30s when “stony broke” he won a road-work contract, stone knapping, for the Carrieton District Council, for £33.00, which entailed breaking several chain of stones, prison-style, with a knapping hammer, down to a useable size for filling on district roads. P.L. also won other contracts digging out the noxious weed, Bathurst Burr along the roadsides, in which he involved the entire family, Mum, Dad and the kids!. P.L. and E.A. had differing political beliefs throughout the years, with P.L. very anti-Labour, but as Eily often pointed out, he wasn’t too proud to work for the state when private industry was down and out! P.L.was interested in local and community events and played tennis for Cradock in the ‘Far Northern Association’. The land was not really suitable for cereal cropping, with the rainfall being too erratic, so the Mannion’s sowed their last cereal crops at Cradock in 1939 with a yield of 8 bags/acre, and concentrated on sheep grazing and wool-growing, and were very successful in this venture (and still are, with a descendant of ‘P.L’, my cousin, Kevin Mannion, still running the Clifden property.) During their time at Clifden, Peter and Eileen never had electricity of any form, no telephone and used kerosene lamps for lighting, a wood stove for cooking and relied on a dam and underground rain-water tank for domestic water and were generally self reliant and self sufficient. Eventually, Arthur Rowe, Eileen’s brother in-law from Carrieton gave them a kero fridge. The property was not viable to support a growing family, so Maurice and Pete found work around the district working in shearing sheds and eventually both became good shearers, travelling extensively in the northern areas on their Triumph and Ariel motor-bikes, after the Second World War. A lot of their work was in the Quorn area of the Flinders Ranges and it was in Quorn that my father, Pete met Carmel Finlay, a shop assistant at ‘Foster’s Emporium’ a drapery and haberdashery store. The Finlay family farmed in ‘Richman’s Valley’ south of Quorn and were also keen and successful sporting family, involved in athletics and horse-racing. Through his successful involvement in the merino sheep industry, P.L. Mannion made many contacts throughout the state and one of these was Mick Caulfield, a farmer from Pekina, a township and district 50 miles south of Cradock in the mid-north. Caulfield apparently told P.L. that his neighbours, Frank and Dora Kenny were selling out and that it wasn’t a bad place, so………….. In 1952 P.L. and E.A. Mannion and family, Maurice (25),Pete (P.T.W. 24), Reg, (20), Patricia (12) and Josephine (9), moved back into the ‘inside country’ at Pekina, a mixed farming district with a 14 inch annual rainfall, about 8 miles south of Orroroo and not far from Coomooroo. P.L. didn’t have a truck, so he got Colin Fogden, and his son, Ray, carriers from Carrieton to carry the bulk of their goods and chattels down, while the boys made several trips back and forth with a four wheeled rubber tyred trolley, drawn by two horses. On the initial trip, they tied their saddle horses (hacks) to the side of the trolley and they had no choice but to jog along beside. After the move to Pekina, they retained their Cradock property, Clifden as a grazing proposition and one of the harness horses, Major, found his way back to Clifden and died there a couple of weeks later (homesick!?) The property they bought at Pekina, was in the Pekina Valley at the western base of the ‘Hogshead Hill’, and they named it Clifden Vale and it was operated as P.L. Mannion and Sons. Through success at wool growing, with wool prices at a premium, cereal farming and working for wages in the shearing industry, the Mannion’s eventually bought three more farming properties in the Pekina district, one for each of the sons. Pete moved into Dempsey’s, about a mile east of Pekina, Maurice went over the hill, towards Wepowie, to Kitto’s and Reg eventually settled at Redden’s about half a mile south of Pekina. The Pekina district was a close knit Irish/Catholic community and was a bit overwhelmed at these ‘northerners’ buying up large parcels of ‘their land’ and whilst being Catholics, the Mannion family have always felt like ‘outsiders’, despite being involved in church, community and sporting events. Some of the Pekina ‘locals’ still recall P.L. riding around the district on horse-back after his arrival at Pekina, which they considered unusual! Despite retaining and practising their Catholic faith, Mannion’s found some of the Pekina practices a bit restrictive : Eily was not allowed to wash; or at least hang out the clothes, on a Sunday in case a ‘would be’ prominent local saw it!. The same bloke, a few years later, upon learning that my father was going to kill and dress a sheep on the Sabbath, warned him that it (the carcase) would “go black on the hook”, Dad told him that the previous three hadn’t! But they must have done something right, as eventually P.L. inherited the job of ‘taking up the collection plate’ at Sunday Mass and after he died Dad got the job, which he still has. The relationship between P.T.W. and Carmel Finlay blossomed and eventually they were married at Quorn on 1 May, 1954. Following a honeymoon to Melbourne, they returned to Pekina and settled on the “Dempsey” farm. P.T.W. was in farming partnership with his father and brothers at Pekina and Cradock and while this kept him busy he also continued shearing around the area. Carmel, being a ‘newcomer’ to the district and being unable to drive a motor-car must have found it a daunting and lonely experience, however, she didn’t have a lot of spare time on her hands, trying to establish a run-down old farm house with limited washing facilities and an outside ‘long-drop’ dunny and with a ‘honeymoon-baby’ on the way! Pete and Carmel tried to assimilate into the church and sporting communities, playing cricket and tennis. On 20 March, 1955 at 2a.m. John Francis Mannion was born at the Orroroo Hospital, nine miles from Pekina. The Mannion ‘boys’ were not really familiar with cereal cropping, but with some neighbourly advice, observation and after many hours on their open ‘Massey-Harris’ 744D and ‘Twin-City’ tractors, in the frosty Pekina winters pulling bridle draft cultivators and ‘Shearer’ combines, followed by many more in the heat and dust of summer, they eventually became adept farmers. But their real passion was sheep and as P.L. and his brother, Joe had both established stud flocks, it must have been inherited, or conditioned, and their shearing ability guaranteed them off-farm incomes, which is what they lived on, as the ‘Boss’, P.L.wasn’t noted for his generosity! In the early 1960’s they built a new shearing shed and it was commissioned with a grand opening. The three brothers with P.L. as the boss, operated as an efficient, but not always amicable, team and between them they could just about fix anything, from cars, trucks and stationary engines to windmills and pumps, but it was with sheep that they stood out. I remember, as a boy watching them, Dad, uncle ‘Maurie’ and uncle ‘Regie’, castrating ram lambs and pulling the testicles out with their teeth, their faces covered in blood and guts. Shearing was a big occasion too, with all hands ‘on the board’. P.L. was also interested in Red-Poll cattle and established a Stud, ‘Pekina-Lea’, which was disposed of in the early 1970s. Some of my earliest memories of Pekina are the reflections of the firelight on my bedroom wall, after Dad had lit the wood-stove, first thing in the mornings and I can always remember Dad going away shearing on Sunday afternoons, heading off with an old yellowish, fibre suitcase with a grey army blanket strapped to it with a brown leather strap. Where he was going or how he got there, I have no idea. I also remember vaguely, going to Clifden, sitting on the petrol tank of a motor bike in front of my father. Two other children were born to Pete and Carmel, another son, Gary Vincent Mannion, in 1959 and Anne-Marie Mannion in 1963. Despite his limited education at Uroonda School (one room-one teacher) my father developed a remarkable mechanical ability and is able to fix most things. He possesses the three ‘m’s’ essential to being a farmer: to mend, make and maintain machinery. This probably evolved through interest and necessity and my brother Gary and I have the same ability and stubbornness to fix things, whether we like it or not. The family partnership was eventually disolved in 1969, following Maurice and Margaret Mannion’s return to Cradock, from Pekina with six children, where they had increased the original holding by buying out the neighbours, Burt’s, which they then called Clifden, too. They eventually had eight children and stayed at Cradock until Maurice died on 13 October, 1993, aged 67 at Hawker; his son, Kevin now runs and lives on the place. Reg Mannion stayed in Pekina, but increased his holding, buying land in the Yatina hills, where one of his two sons, Tony now lives. Reg eventually moved to western New South Wales where he lives with his wife, Donna on a sheep grazing property. Pete and Carmel are still at Pekina, farming wheat and barley, and running merino sheep for wool production and fat lambs for meat. My grandpa Mannion, P.L. died on 5 October, 1974, aged 74 in the Booleroo Centre Hospital and is buried at the foot of Mt. Maurice in the Pekina Cemetery. He was a proud man, proud of his success and achievements in setting up his sons on their own properties and well he should have been, but he was a ‘man’s man’ (but not a boozer) and lived a man’s life of ‘stockwhip and shears’ and didn’ t approve of women’s involvement in business. Typical of many family farm operations, he did not get on with his sons at times, especially my father, and disapproved of my parents decision to send me away to learn a trade ( a decision I didn’t really like at the time either!) and not stay ‘on the land’. In retrospect, I don’t think my ‘grandma Mannion’, Eily ever really liked living at Pekina and always yearned to go back ‘up north’ to Carrieton and her family. On several occasions she was admitted to the Booleroo Centre Hospital suffering from depression, this wasn’t common knowledge, but that was in an era when such things weren’t talked about! But she had a kindly disposition and although not ‘house-proud’, her house always had ‘open doors’. I don’t think she had an easy life with her husband and due to his frugality she spent a lot of time milking cows and sending the separated cream to the Orroroo Butter Factory to get some regular income. She loved her grandchildren and in my early years I can recall Christmas’ at Clifden Vale, with lots of relations and heaps of food around, and a native pine Christmas Tree adorned with silver-frosted pine cones, in the corner of the dining room. I can remember too, her cream and sugar sandwiches and later on the big tomato sandwiches, made with fresh bread; she was a wholesome cook and always had a ‘pinny’ on. Following the death of her husband, Eily, or E.A. as she was sometimes known, took on a new lease of life and enjoyed her new found freedom, going on several holidays and ‘gallivanting’ around the district in her old red Falcon car. Eileen Agnes Mannion died in the Booleroo Centre Hospital on 9 February, 1982, aged 75 and she is also buried in the Pekina Cemetery. On Thursday, 24 September, 1998, the Mannion family will gather again at the foot of Mt. Maurice to bury my fathers elder sister and my aunty, Patricia Mary Mannion, who died in London, on 12 September, 1998, aged 57. Pat grew up in the Pekina/Tarcowie district after the move from Cradock, but later went to boarding school in Adelaide. She was a bit of a radical for a woman of the 1950’s, born into a conservative Irish/ Australian Catholic farming family. she never did marry or have any children, neither did she expect any man to keep her. She did have a relationship with a local bloke, but her mother didn’t approve and that was doomed; an event Pat never really got over and she devoted her life to her career, nursing. She drifted around a bit and shifted to Casterton, Vic. where she studied nursing, eventually she went to Western Australia where she continued nursing and through her studies eventually became Deputy Head of Undergraduate Studies – Clinical Liaison, in Nursing at Curtin University, Perth. W.A. In 1997, Pat was diagnosed as having bowel cancer and despite treatment never recovered and died in London, U.K. while on holidays. Her body will be flown to Adelaide for transport to Pekina to join her parents. But life must go on! and despite the myth that Australian/Irish Catholic families breed prolifically, the Mannion’s haven’t really caused a population explosion, only in small bursts! I have only one daughter, Nell Grace Mannion, born 12 May 1990, at The Queen Victoria Hospital, Rose Park, Adelaide, but, that’s another story.	cc/2023-06/en_head_0031.json.gz/line12
__label__wiki	0.654131	0.654131	World Premiere of Moothon! Indian writer-director Geetu Mohandas presents an unsparing yet inspiring vision of Mumbai through the story of two small-town siblings, each with their own reason for escaping to the big city, in this urgent ... RAMBO LAST BLOOD To Release on September 20th CURTAIN RAISER –Based on the novel First Blood (1972) by John Morrel, the Rambo franchise 1st began in 1982 with First Blood that kick started a famous franchise - a series of 3 more action thrillers- Rambo: F... Men in Black: International Releasing on June 14th CURTAIN RAISER – Based on Malibu/Marvel comic book series The Men in Black by Lowell Cunningham, M.I.B. has now grown up into a series of science-fiction action comedy films with 3 outings so far-Men in Black ... CURTAIN RAISER –Remember the blockbuster comedy, The Secret Life of Pets (2016), a 3D computer animated flick which holds the record of being the biggest opening weekend ever for an original film, as well as t... Spider-Man-Into the Spider-Verse-Character Biographies MILES MORALES – The all-new Spider-Man Miles Morales is a young teenager and a Brooklyn native. He’s a bright kid who’s been thrust into a new school and is having a hard time adjusting to a more rigorous acad... The Girl in the Spider’s Web to Release on November 23rd Based on the novel of the same name by David Lagercrantz, which in turn is based on characters in the book series by Stieg Larsson, this is a soft-reboot with different actors, is a sequel to David Fincher's Th... Ryan Gosling starrer ‘First Man’ to release in India on Oct. 12 On the heels of their six-time Academy Award®-winning smash, La La Land, Oscar®-winning director Damien Chazelle and star Ryan Gosling re-team for Universal Pictures’ First Man, the riveting story of NASA’s mis... Johnny English Strikes Again to hit theatres on September 28 Seven years after the release of its second instalment, Universal Pictures International India is thrilled to announce the return of the comedy king Rowan Atkinson as the beloved accidental spy, Johnny English ... Hansa Pictures Release Rock’s Skyscraper Known for his noteworthy films as Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story (2004), We’re the Millers (2013) etc, Rawson Marshall Thurber has collaborated with ‘The Rock’, Dwayne Johnson for a 2nd time after Central Int... Tom Cruise is all praises for Superman The latest installment of the MI series, Mission: Impossible – Fallout introduces August Walker, a CIA agent played by Henry Cavill. (more…)...	cc/2023-06/en_head_0031.json.gz/line16
__label__wiki	0.657724	0.657724	SOURCE: The New Yorker Revisiting Saidiya Hartman on the Meaning of Freedom Historians in the News tags: slavery, African American studies, racism, emancipation by Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor In the United States, we like to discuss the distortions of the nation’s history as amnesia, when it is more appropriate to understand our affliction as selective memory clotted with omissions intended to obscure the raw truth about our society. From the local to the national, our history of slavery has been recast as part of our narrative of forward progress. Where slavery is depicted as our founding “national sin,” it is as quickly dispatched as having been exorcized through the carnage of the Civil War, setting the United States upon its essential course toward a more perfect union. Slavery’s essential role in building the most powerful nation on earth has been minimized, if not wholly ignored—as have been the roots of slavery to the nation’s enduring crisis of racism and its attendant impacts within the lives of Black people thereafter. Saidiya Hartman’s powerful exploration of slavery and freedom in the United States, “Scenes of Subjection: Terror, Slavery, and Self-Making in Nineteenth-Century America,” first appeared in print in 1997, during the last period of spoiled “race relations” in the twentieth century. Just a few years prior to its publication, the United States had experienced the Los Angeles rebellion, one of the largest urban insurrections in American history. In response to the uprising, the American state rallied its political forces around crime legislation and a prison-building bonanza. The draconian response provoked the unprecedented outpouring mobilized in the form of the Million Man March, organized by Louis Farrakhan and led by the Nation of Islam. The march was not conceived of as a protest, but became a massive gathering of Black men dejected and marginalized within an increasingly repressive United States. The mounting instability of racial politics in the late nineteen-nineties precipitated the then President Bill Clinton’s poorly conceived “conversation on race,” to be facilitated by a new commission to study “race relations” in the United States. Shortly after its formation, that commission produced a dubiously titled report called, the One America Initiative. The remedies that emerged for healing the “racial divide” in the United States included a heated debate over whether the President should apologize for slavery. In 1998, when Bill Clinton travelled to Africa, the intensifying debate over the apology continued, even as his spokesperson assured the American public, “He certainly is going to talk about the legacy of slavery and the scar that it represents on America,” but an apology would be “extraneous and off the point.” In lieu of an apology, he eventually conceded the painfully obvious: “Going back to the time before we were even a nation, European Americans received the fruits of the slave trade, and we were wrong in that.” Twenty-five years later, the United States is embroiled in new turmoil in its latest iteration of a national reckoning about the continuing role of racism in American society. The latest national awakening about the continued power of racism within American society has returned us to old and unresolved discussions about the role of slavery in American history and the longevity of racism in the United States. This has included a renewed discussion about reparations for African Americans as compensation for a history of unpaid labor. To that end, the main federal legislation to emerge from the rebellions and protests of the summer of 2020 has not been for police reform or in the establishment of comprehensive new programs intended to improve the life chances of Black people; it has been the establishment of Juneteenth, a new national holiday to commemorate when federal troops arrived in Texas and freed the enslaved. This kind of national celebration of the symbolic, while leaving undisturbed the architecture of oppression that has made African Americans disproportionately vulnerable to premature death and a “travestied” freedom, has been a hallmark of the Black experience since the abolition of slavery. This is not to say that the national recognition of the end of slavery is unimportant, but it does serve to reinforce what formally concluded, while paying almost no attention to what carried on after slavery. Instead, the celebrations of the abolition of slavery and the misassumption that it inaugurated Black people into personhood and then citizenship have served to mute other conversations about the ways that one form of bondage gave way to new coercive relationships. This is less about cynicism concerning the immutability of racism or even anti-Blackness than it is an expression of extraordinary pessimism about American liberalism and all of its haughty conceits about its universalism, autonomy, and justice. “Scenes of Subjection” does not retell the history of slavery and emancipation; instead, Hartman is asking us to think differently about these events. Not as part of the narrative arc of justice and progress in American history but as affirmation of a kind of deeply constrained and compromised conception of democracy and liberty in the first place, which inevitably then gave way to constrained and compromised visions of freedom in slavery’s aftermath. Hartman is challenging the assumption that the continued forms of subjugation endured by ordinary Black people after slavery’s end are only the result of ongoing patterns of exclusion from the governing and financial institutions of the country, leaving inclusion as the solution. Instead, Hartman has asked us to consider different questions, namely, what is meant by freedom? If freedom is simply the opposite of bondage, while affording nothing other than the right to compete with other free people in a human scrum for income, food, clothing, and housing, then it is an exceedingly thin and narrow conception of liberty. If, however, we think of freedom as a right to move through life with genuine self-possession that can only be rooted in the satisfaction of basic human needs and desires, then Black emancipation in the United States was something altogether different. Read entire article at The New Yorker	cc/2023-06/en_head_0031.json.gz/line17
__label__cc	0.596295	0.403705	Sifu - Philip Ng click picture to get more food Philip Ng Ngai Foon at age 11, began studying the Hung Gar System under the guidance of Lee Yat-Ming in Hong Kong. In 1975 he taught at the Chinese Cultural Center of Boston in Boston, Massachusetts. He also taught martial arts at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst and the University of Alabama at Birmingham in 1976 and 1982, respectively. In 1979, he opened a martial arts school in Chinatown of Boston until relocating to Dallas, Texas in 1984. Since 1986, teaching at the Chinese Community Activity Center of Richardson and then in 1993 establishing the Kung Fu Acadamy also of Richardson, Texas. "I believe that the spirit of Hung Gar Kung Fu is a form of physical and mental fitness development, as well as self-defense. I will use all my knowledge to train those who are determined to learn the traditional Shaolin Kung Fu" Home Lineage School Objectives Photo Album 1 Photo Album 2 Family Links Lion & Dragon Dance Photos Class Schedule Contact Us	cc/2023-06/en_head_0031.json.gz/line18
__label__wiki	0.742966	0.742966	Eli Sigel Overholt Born May 5, 1862 One of the valuable tracts of arable land in Madison township is that on which Eli Sigel Overholt cultivates the cereals for which the middle western states, especially Iowa, are noted throughout the world. A native of Jones county, he was born in Oxford township, May 5, 1862, and is a son of Jonas and Sarah (Means) Overholt. The parents, both natives of Ohio and of Pennsylvania-Dutch extraction, were reared and married in the state of their birth, coming in the fall of 1856 to Iowa. The first winter was spent in Clinton county and then in the spring of 1857 they came to Jones county, settling in Oxford township on a quarter section of land which Joseph Overholt, the paternal grandfather of our subject, had entered some years before. On that f arm Jonas Overholt lived continuously until 1885, when he removed to Wyoming, Iowa, to spend the rest of his life in retirement. His death occurred in that village, March 9, 1889. He had been an ardent republican throughout his life but was never an office seeker. His first wife, the mother of Eli Sigel Overholt, died in 1863, and Mr. Overholt later married Miss Minerva Walston, who survived him about two years. Eli Sigel Overholt was reared at home and attended the public schools, from which he derived a good education. Upon attaining his majority in 1883 he went to Sac county, Iowa. After one season's work as a farm hand he returned to Jones county, which has been his home continuously since. In 1885 he married, rented a tract of land and engaged in agricultural pursuits for himself. Seven years later, in 1892, he purchased his first farm of one hundred and sixty acres, lying on section 8, Wyoming township. He lived thereon until 1907, when he sold it and purchased the valuable farm he now owns. It embraces two hundred acres on section 12 Madison township, and is accounted one of the richest tracts of land in this county. On it Mr. Overholt follows a diversified line of agriculture, also devoting considerable attention to dairying. While he is industrious to a high degree his success is also due to the progressive methods which have characterized his cultivation of the soil. He has spared no exertion nor expenditure of money in procuring the best results for his labor. It was in 1885 that Mr. Overholt was united in marriage to Miss Phurby Mitchell, of Wyoming township, this county. Three children have been born to them: Joseph Owen, George and Emma A., all of whom are at home. Like his father, Mr. Overholt has been a stanch supporter of the principles of the republican party, but he has never sought any office. Fraternally he enjoys membership relations with Camp No. 183, M.W.A. The record of his years of activity in this township places him among the leading and representative agriculturists here, where he enjoys a respect commensurate with his achievements in his vocation. Source: History of Jones County, Iowa, Past and Present, R. M. Corbitt, S. J. Clarke Publishing Co., Chicago, 1910, p. 430.	cc/2023-06/en_head_0031.json.gz/line21
__label__cc	0.566511	0.433489	Ontario: evidentiary considerations in a motion to add after the limitation period’s presumptive expiry Ali v. City of Toronto is a good example of an issue with the law of adding a party to a proceeding after the presumptive expiry of the limitation period. The Court held that there are circumstances where a plaintiff has a positive obligation to make inquiries or risk the court finding that the failure to do shows a lack of due diligence: [22] More recent case law has clarified that the principles in Madrid do not release plaintiffs or their counsel from their obligations to make any inquiries at all (Cote v. Ivanhoe Cambridge I Inc., 2018 ONSC 5588 at para. 33). There are circumstances where a plaintiff is expected to make inquiries or risk that the court may find that their failure to do so constitutes a lack of due diligence causing their motion to fail (Cote at paras 33 and 35; Laurent-Hippolyte v. Blasse, 2018 ONSC 940 at paras. 26-27). In recent cases, the courts have consistently held that requiring plaintiffs injured in slip and falls and other accidents involving snow and ice to inquire into the possible existence of winter maintenance contractors does not constitute a “pro forma” letter as described in Madrid. Further, a plaintiff’s failure to make these inquiries has been consistently found to constitute a lack of reasonable diligence ultimately leading to the denial of leave to amend. This reasoning is not uncommon, as the citations indicate, but I think it’s fundamentally flawed. Essentially, the reasoning is this: a reasonable person would have asked a question the plaintiff did not, and therefore a reasonable person would have discovered the claim earlier than the plaintiff. The problem is that it’s not the question which matters, but the answer—specifically, whether the answer would have provided the plaintiff with knowledge of the discovery matters. Had the reasonable person asked the question on some earlier date would it have resulted in discovery of the claim? Without evidence of the date and content of the answer had the question been asked, the court can’t make the findings necessary to determine discovery, and whether asking the question would have resulted in discovery is purely speculative. And so the court risks finding a proceeding statute-barred for want of due diligence per se, not because a reasonable person would have asked the question and, having done so, discovered the claim earlier than the plaintiff discovered it. The court made this point explicitly in Ledoux v. Lee: 40. Uber also argued that Mr. Ledoux’s lawyer should have served Co-operators with a formal notice of his claim against Mr. Lee after getting the police report. Mr. Giugaru contended that this is a standard practice because it allows a plaintiff to claim pre-judgement interest from the date of the notice. Had Mr. Ledoux’s counsel put Co-Operators on formal notice of a potential claim, he argued, the insurer might have advised the plaintiff of the coverage issue and disclosed Mr. Lee’s activity as an Uber driver. 41. This argument is speculative. I could not conclude, on the evidence before me, that it is standard practice for plaintiff’s counsel in MVA claims to formally notify the defendant motorist’s insurer of a potential claim. Even if I had been able to, I could not infer that a formal notice letter to Co-Operators would have yielded information about its position on coverage. Mr. Ledoux’s lawyers were in communication with Co-Operators from September 2017 forward, providing it with a copy of the police report and Mr. Ledoux’s hospital record. There is no evidence that, in the course of this correspondence, the adjuster ever so much as hinted that it might deny coverage or disclosed that Mr. Lee was participating in the gig economy, even though it notified the insured of its denial of coverage on this basis two weeks after the accident. The interesting complication is that when moving to add a party after the presumptive expiry of the limitation period, the plaintiff needs to show enough due diligence to found a prima facie discovery argument. The courts consistently find that this can require sending letters of enquiry, a point the court made explicitly: [30] I also reject the Plaintiff’s argument that there is no guarantee that she would have received a response from the City had she made these inquires. The relevant issue is the absence of evidence demonstrating effort and diligence on the part of the Plaintiff, not speculation as to the likelihood of a response. As the courts have held in previous cases, had the Plaintiff asked and not received a response, the efforts would have been evidence of diligence. I think the plaintiff’s argument was correct for the purposes of a s. 5 analysis: absent any evidence as to the response to the inquiry, whether it would have resulted in discovery is speculative. But in the context of a motion where the plaintiff had an obligation to show evidence of due diligence, the failure to make the inquiry was fatal. From a limitations perspective, the plaintiff probably would have been better suing the City in a new action where its evidentiary argument might have prevailed. The takeaway is twofold: first, personal injury lawyers should always send pro forma letters of this kind to avoid these arguments; and second, this is an area of limitations law that could use a little rationalising. It’s probably my least favourite corner of the limitations scheme, but plainly I’m due to give it more consideration. 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__label__wiki	0.73606	0.73606	Krystina Yeager Budding Historian. Artist. Humanist. Effed Up History Print Project Effed Up History / February 10, 2021 February 12, 2021 Effed Up History: The Connecticut Witch Trials https://www.buzzsprout.com/1655014/episodes/7569733 Hello history nerds and historians! Welcome to the first official segment of Effed Up History. I’ve embedded the youtube and podcast link above, but for anyone who wants to read about this thrilling subject, you’ve come to the right place. So sit back, relax, and practice your “Oh, good gods what the fuck” faces. You can look at the youtube video above to see what mine looked like while researching this story. Now, I bet you might be thinking, Krystina, did you say the CONNECTICUT witch trials? I never knew there was such a thing as the Connecticut Witch Trials. But that’s OKAY. I didn’t either until about a year and a half ago and found that there are even people in Connecticut who didn’t know this was a thing… like Benjamin Trumbill, the author of the 1818 book, The Complete History of Connecticut who said that there was never a witch trial to happen in Connecticut ever. Which obviously isn’t the case because I’m sitting here writing about it and you’re sitting wherever you are reading about it. This dude clearly knows what he’s talking about…. But it isn’t completely his fault. The documentation of the Connecticut Witch Trials is really sparse and, as we will see the people who were supposed to document all of this… weren’t very good at their job. Not like Salem. Those bitches had their shit together when it came to documenting what happened. I mean, everyone knows about Salem. Happened in spring of 1692. Lasted about 7 months. And during that time over 200 people were accused of being a witch. Of those people, 25 died in total: 19 were hanged, 5 died in jail, and one man was crushed to death when they were trying to press him for information and a confession. Giles Corey’s last words are said to have been, “more stones.” Metal AF. The Salem Witch Trials of 1692 has become iconic to not only American history but World history. While witch trials have been happening for hundreds, if not thousands of years, Salem was so explosive that it was surprising. And crazy. Wow, how could something like this happen and thank the Gods it was an isolated incident in American history, Except for the fact that it wasn’t. The Beginning of the Witch Trials and those lovely not at all extreme Puritans… The first mass witch trials in America happened in Connecticut beginning in the mid 1600s. During that time, 34 people were accused and 11 of them were executed. Now, I know that that doesn’t seem like a lot in the grand historical context what with all the massacres and genocides. But, when compared to the iconic and crazy Salem, over half of the amount executed. And to further compare with Salem: in Salem, you had a 1 in 10 chance of being executed if you were accused. In Connecticut, it was 1 in 3. Honestly, I’d much rather take my chances in Salem. To give a little bit of a background on the accusers and accused in both Connecticut and Massachusetts, we can look first to the Puritans who settled New England in 1620. Puritans, a more extreme faction of Christianity, came to the American colonies to escape religious persecution only to then become the persecutors themselves. In Puritanical New England, it was literally illegal to practice anything other than Puritanism. Like Mary Wright, who in 1660 was accused of being a witch, which she was later acquitted of. However, she was also accused of being a Quaker and was later convicted of this and banished from the colony completely. Puritans followed the bible literally. So in turn, many of the reasons that people were accused had to do with the bible. This included reasonings like, if you had a proud look, a lying tongue, a heart that devised wicked deeds, and feet that ran swiftly towards mischief. Other reasons that didn’t have to directly do with the bible included if two people accused you, if you got angry when people were questioning you, or if something weird happened that you may have been involved with or were in the general vicinity of possibly. This was especially true if you were an outspoken, middle aged woman of low financial standing…. But those in higher social standings were also often accused. So you pretty much just couldn’t win. And this is not to say that there weren’t also men that were accused of being witches. But it was mostly women. Or husbands of women who were accused. Testing for Witchcraft (read: how it was pretty much impossible to not be convicted) Now, to test these accused witches, investigators used a variety of different methods. Often the first one was just making the accused sit in a room for 24 hours without access to food, water, or toilet to see if a familiar would come and suckle from their witch teats. If there were no witch teats visible for these familiars, investigators would strip down the accused and shave off all their hair to see if they could find the hidden ones. If they were still invisible, the investigators would start poking them with knives, needles, and sharp pins to encourage them to appear. Another method would to be to take a dull knife and run it along the arm of the accused. If they didn’t bleed they were a witch. Because, I don’t know about you but literally any time I use a butter knife, I need stitches. The last method that I’m going to write about is probably one of the most popular and most well depicted in popular culture: the water test. This is when they would strap the accused to a chair and throw them in a body of running water. If they floated, the water was rejecting them and they were a WITCH. If they sank, then they were deemed innocent…. But probably also dead because of that pesky inability to breathe under water. A water test… Because this is totally a fair way to convict someone. The first person to be accused of witchcraft in the American colonies was a woman named Grace Dutch, in the early 1600s. All of the sources I’ve found so far just say “16??” when it comes to the date so it was some time after 1620 but before 1647. After Grace there were a few people who were accused but none went through the whole trial to be convicted and executed. The First Executions with barely an explanation Until May 26, 1647 when Alse Young was hanged for being a witch. For those of you, like me, that are terrible at math: that’s FOURTY FIVE YEARS before Salem. We know this from a note written by the first governor of Massachusetts, John Winthrop, who wrote, “One Alse Young of Windsor arraigned and executed for a witch.” This is later confirmed by a clerk, Matthew Grant who wrote, “Alse Young was hanged.” The note from Matthew Grant’s journal. What a wonderful and captivating account of the execution of a woman. And that’s it. That’s all we know. There are no details about her trial. There’s no background info about what led up to her accusation. There’s not even a lot of information about her life. She may have been married to a man named John Young because there are land records that kind of match up during that time. Some historians think that they had a daughter also named Alice who, in one account that I read, said that she was later accused of being a witch in Massachusetts, but I couldn’t find anything about that. Historians also think that there was an especially deadly flu season that year that the people in Connecticut blamed her for. Which is fine. It’s all fine. We don’t need to know why a woman was executed. It’s fine. I’m fine. The next person to be executed for witchcraft, is the first that actually confessed to being a witch. She gets a single sentence in the Connecticut records that states, “the jury finds the bill of indictment against Mary Johnson that by her owne confession shee is guilty of familiarity with the devil.” And that’s all. But we can thank Cotton Mather of later Salem Witch Trial fame. He wrote more about her and her trial. Mary claimed that the devil did her many services like cleaning out ashes from the fire place and driving the hogs out to the field. Who knew the devil was so handy with household chores? But her main confession was that she murdered a child and was “unclean with men and devils.” Now while this seems cryptic and supernatural, this most likely meant that she got pregnant out of wedlock and either had a miscarriage or terminated the pregnancy. But because of her extreme religious beliefs, she interpreted this to be the greatest of sins and was under the influence of the devil. She was executed in 1648. Next up we have the first of seven couples to be accused and the first of two to be executed. Their names are John and Joan Carrington. They were charged with “familiarity with Satan” and “works above the course of nature” whatever the fuck that means. They were executed in 1651 but not much more is known about them. Next up we have Goody Basset who we know even less about because, like Alse, there are no records other than that she was executed in 1651. Although, apparently, she told investigators and magistrates that there was another witch in town. This is what lead to Goody Knapp getting accused. According to court records, she had witch teats and marks all over her body and was executed in 1653. Next up we have Lydia Golbert who was probably executed as a witch? Literally the sources that I read says “probably witchcraft.” Elizabeth Kelley: devils, autopsies, and super hot witch broth, OH MY! ~or~ Super wonderful examples of parenting that you should totally implement immediately After these first seven deaths, it was pretty quiet for a few years until 1662 when an eight year old girl named, Elizabeth Kelly, died suddenly. And the cause? Witchcraft. Which lead to what is known as the Hartford Witch Panic of 1662. Unlike pretty much everything else that has to do with this story, her story is actually pretty well documented but it is all told by her father so… how reliable is that really? But allegedly, a woman named Judith Ayers, also known as “Goodwife Ayers” or “Goody Ayers”–because “Goody” is the puritan version of “Mrs”– required Elizabeth to drink hot broth. Later that night, Elizabeth started experiencing horrible stomach cramps so her parents gave her some angelica root for her gastrointestinal issues and went to bed. Later that night, Elizabeth sat up and screamed, “Father! Father! Help me, help me! Goodwife Ayers is upon me. She chokes me. She kneels on my belly. She will break my bowels. She pinches me. She will make me black and blue. Oh father, will you not help me?” Her father, upon hearing her screams, told her to be quiet and go back to bed so that she did not disturb her mother. Great parenting. Surprisingly this wonderful example of parenting only calmed her for a little while and she started again later screaming out, “She torments me. She pricks me with pins. She will kill me. Oh father, set on the great furnace and scald her. Get the broad axe and cut off her head. If you cannot give me the broad axe, get the narrow one and chop off her head.” Because, while they may have not been flexible in their beliefs and religious toleration, puritans were flexible with how they committed their beheadings and decapitations. Apparently, Judith came to visit Elizabeth the next day to see if she was alright and to ask her why she was pinning all of this on her. She also told her that if she just shut the fuck up about it, she would buy her some beautiful lace and that was all that was needed to calm her down. But later that night, Elizabeth began calling out again and asked for Goody Ayers to be punished then screamed loudly, “Goody Ayers, she chokes me.” And died. In addition to starting this panic, she was also the first autopsy performed in Connecticut and the first in the colonies to be performed in association with a witch trial. This was mainly because her father refused to bury her until he knew for sure if it was due to witchcraft or not. So her autopsy was carried out five days after her death and there were significant supernatural findings… That are super similar to things that happen naturally when a body is left decomposing and exposed to the elements for five days (there were no refrigerated morgues in 17th century Connecticut, you know.) A month later, Judith Ayers was officially accused and exclaimed, “this will take away my life.” During her trial, the main evidence was a story told by her neighbors. They claimed that Judith had told them this story about how years before there was a man who courted her in London and they set up a date to meet in the park. But when she looked down, cloven hooves were where feet should be and she stood him up. When he found out he was so angry that he tore up an iron fence. This was enough to convict her. However, she was not executed. She fled to Rhode Island with her husband who was accused of stealing livestock, leaving their two children, aged five and eight, behind. 200 years later, chief medical examiner H. Wayner Carver II, which is a badass name, reviewed the case and came to the conclusion that Elizabeth’s affliction was not witchcraft but a mixture of pneumonia and sepsis which caused her delirium and later death. But I still like to think it was the super hot witch broth. Hartford Witch Panic, continued and the most petty revenge of this whole story While Judith was not executed for her conviction, there were four other people who were. The first is Mary Sanford who, surprise, we know very little about. The next are the second couple to be executed in Connecticut for the conviction of witchcraft, Nathaniel and Rebecca Greensmith. This is also the most incredibly petty revenge that I’ve ever read about. Rebecca and Nathaniel were both accused but Nathaniel was acquitted and Rebecca was convicted. While in jail, she decided instead of trying to fight it, knowing that her chances were slim, she embraced it and confessed. She said that she was in fact guilty and often went off and danced and had sexual relations with the devil BUT she had not yet given the devil her soul because she was waiting until Christmas. BUT she was not alone when she was doing all this with the devil. Her husband was with her the whole time and did everything that she did, too. She also stated that she constantly saw small unnatural creatures around him and he was able to cut wood that no man should be able to cut on his own. When Nathaniel heard about this, he confronted her in prison and asked her to recant her statements. He promised her that if she did, he would continue to take care of her two teenage children from her previous marriage and she could die with happy thoughts knowing that they would be taken care of. Rebecca told the investigators just that but twisted his exact words in such a way that there was no other conclusion that they could come to other than that he was also a witch and they were executed together in 1662. Next we have Mary Barnes who was a servant who may have been named by someone else trying to escape their own execution. She was executed in 1663 but was the last person to be executed during this panic and also the last to be executed in Connecticut period. This elimination of executions was largely due to the efforts of John Winthrop, Jr. John Winthrop, Jr.: Connecticut Governor, Philanthropist, and WITCH?!!!!! John Winthrop, Jr., magical AF John Winthrop, Jr. was the eldest son of the first governor of Massachusetts also named John Winthrop and mentioned above in association with Alse Young. Perhaps seeing this made him the way he was. He was the governor of Connecticut in 1657 and again in 1659-1676. He was widely renowned for his “first hand knowledge of natural magical practices associated with alchemy” which is an early chemistry where alchemists attempted to transform organic compounds to precious stones and metals. It was also said that he was an astronomer and was known for his uncanny healing abilities. It was said that he could cure someone of an illness that he had never seen before with remedies he had never used before. He spoke out to his constituents that he believed that there WERE actually witches in Connecticut but that there was a distinction between natural magic and diabolical magic and Puritans were way too quick to jump to the Satan argument. And that’s because HE WAS A FUCKING WITCH. Witchcraft is not about worshipping the devil and sacrificing babies and dancing naked under the full moon while giving your soul to Satan. I mean, there are people that do that but they are definitely in the minority. Real witchcraft is working with herbs or the cosmos and healing and working with energy. So… pretty much everything that Winthrop did. He also argued that spectral evidence, like what we saw (or rather didn’t see) with Elizabeth Kelly, was no longer sufficient evidence and there needed to be concrete proof and multiple people stating that they personally witnessed the same thing. This completely changed how witch trials were won and led to significantly less convictions and no more executions in association with witchcraft. In fact, during the whole Hartford Witch Trial panic of 1662 and 1663, Winthrop was in England fighting for a charter to separate Connecticut from Massachusetts as its own separate colony. The hysteria died down a lot until 1692 (which is just a terrible years for witches in general). The OTHER Witch Trials of 1692: Seizures, Dancing Cats, and Floating like a Fucking Cork In 1692, a 17-year-old French servant named Catherine Branch was picking herbs in the field when she started feeling a prickling in her chest which were followed by convulsions and swallowing her tongue. Which I know sounds a lot like epilepsy but it is NOT, it was definitely witchcraft. Then she began having visions. First she saw cats talking to her, inviting her to banquets where they would shower her with gifts and if she did not come, they would throw rats at her. Then she started seeing a woman in a silk hood and blue ribbon standing outside which later became an old hag that wore a homespun wool cloak with two firebrands on her forehead. Then they started becoming women from the town. Which led to multiple women being accused. Two of the main women that were accused were Mercy Disborough and Elizabeth Clawson. The reason why they are so well accounted is because they were both subjected to the water test. Mercy actually asked to do the water test because she was so sure that she would sink because she was innocent and, even if she drowned, she would be absolved of any sins. But when they put her in the water, she floated like a fucking cork. Even when they tried to push her under the water she still popped right back up. Elizabeth also floated and was found to have multiple witch teats and marks all over her body including a one inch growth by her “nether lips.” However, Elizabeth was so well loved that, even though there were many tell tale signs that pointed to her guilt, 76 people from the town came and spoke in her defense and she was acquitted. But, there was no mercy for Mercy and she was convicted. But she received a stay of execution and was later pardoned. The Final Witch Trial of Connecticut: Winifred, Winifred, and a Shot to the Face The final witch trial in Connecticut happened in August of 1697 when Winifred Benham and her daughter Winifred Benham were both accused. This was the third time that the elder Winifred was accused and the family was so over it that Winifred’s husband threatened to shoot the accuser in the face with two bullets. However, all evidence was deemed spectral and speculative and the case was dismissed. Now this was not the last witch accusation to happen in Connecticut but it was the last that was brought to trial. In 1750, witchcraft was removed from the laws as a capital offense entirely. The conversation that led to this decision was not well documented but, after Salem, witch trials in general put a really bad taste in everyone’s mouth. Salem was regarded as a “miserable toil” and a “great noise” and no one wanted to be associated with them. That concludes the Connecticut Witch Trials. 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__label__wiki	0.562315	0.562315	The dress lodger summary. The dress lodger 2022-10-17 The dress lodger summary Rating: 7,7/10 1248 reviews The Dress Lodger is a historical fiction novel written by Sheri Holman. Set in 1831, the story follows the life of a young girl named Genny, who works as a dress lodger in the town of Tyne, England. Genny is a poor, orphaned girl who has been forced to work as a dress lodger to survive. As a dress lodger, she is required to wear a specific dress for a set period of time, and is paid a small sum for her services. The dress is then returned to the owner, who rents it out to another lodger. Genny's job is to advertise the dress and attract customers for the owner. The novel explores the themes of poverty, disease, and social inequality in early 19th century England. Genny lives in a slum and is constantly at risk of contracting diseases such as cholera and smallpox. She is also constantly subjected to abuse and mistreatment by her employer and the wealthy customers she serves. Despite her difficult circumstances, Genny is a strong and resilient character who tries to make the best of her situation. One of the central themes of the novel is the contrast between the rich and the poor. Genny is constantly reminded of the vast social divide that exists between her and the wealthy customers she serves. She is treated with contempt and disrespect, and is often reminded of her inferior social status. Despite this, Genny is able to maintain her dignity and self-respect, and is determined to improve her circumstances. The Dress Lodger is a poignant and powerful novel that explores the harsh realities of life for the poor in early 19th century England. It is a poignant reminder of the social inequalities that continue to exist in society, and is a testament to the resilience and strength of the human spirit in the face of adversity. The Dress Lodger, by Sheri Holman Review The Dress Lodger The Dress Lodger by Sheri Holman Published by Atlantic Monthly Press 291 pages, 2000 Buy it online The Body Trade Reviewed by Frederick Zackel I love Gustine. The Dress Lodger, by Sheri Holman, is a novel that express the connection between poverty and illness, and how poverty and illness impacted a 15 years old girl named Gustine and her fragile baby boy. It took me weeks to finish reading it as a whole. This demonstrates how Sammy began to realize how closed-minded and ordinary the town he lived in was. Chiver is busily trying to jump-start his brilliant career through the study of diseases of the heart, yet remains fearful of both the law and the public mob. In Sunderland, England, a city quarantined by the cholera epidemic of 1831, a defiant, fifteen-year old beauty in an elegant blue dress makes her way between shadow and lamp light. One Saturday night, after Gustine has pulled a trick beneath her town's Iron Bridge, she and the Eye discover a corpse, whose "wide sightless eyes are turned upstream, watching for ships trapped on the far side of the Quarantine. Chiver, he is in exile with his uncle, an established Sunderland surgeon. Reflection On The Autobiography Of Malcolm X This is my personal reflection about this book. I think, for the most part, the author does a good job with the situation but I do wish some things had been St. March 2000 Frederick Zackel is a contributing editor of January Magazine. He's a 32-year-old anatomist who, two years earlier, fled his home in Edinburgh, Scotland, after being implicated in the scandal surrounding William Burke and William Hare. The dissolute, violent landlord takes all her earnings and to keep her from hiding the money or stealing the dress, he has her followed by an elderly, sinister-seeming woman, called "the Eye. This novel is a joy to read, to luxuriate within. Social Problems in "The Dress Lodger" Essay At times, the characters and the emotional core of the events are almost obscured by such quick maneuvering through the weighty plot. They all mind their own business unaware of the fact that she is breaking the dress code. Another of Holman's most important characters is Sunderland itself. Even when I read from the viewpoints of the League ladies suchlike Miss Hilly, to the maids who work for them people. To provide for her sickly -- and nameless -- son, Gustine not only plays the harlot, but works half of each day carrying 60-pound wedges of sodden clay on her head in a pottery factory. In The Dress Lodger, Sheri Holman prowls the same territory that Robert Louis Stevenson did in his 1881 short story, "The Body Snatcher," and that Dylan Thomas prowled in his 1954 movie script, "The Doctor and the Devils. Gustine loves her child and tries to care for it, in the grinding poverty and filth of the crowded rooming house. The Dress Lodger When those possessions are stolen it hurts more, and it makes it harder to condemn the thief, especially if the thief is someone you know and trust. But Holman introduces us to some marvelous secondary players as well, among them Whilky Robinson, Gustine's landlord. By this time no one in the class got to study for the important test they would be taking the next day and stephanie has been on the verge of tears for a half an hour. Holman A Stolen Tongue delivers a wealth of morbid, authentic detail, as well as an emotional pivot in her captivating Moll Flanders-like heroine. Holman attempts to use different writing styles into developing the novel based on poverty and illness in the old periods of time. Even though Goodman Brown and Mr. If these antecedents suggest a ponderous or didactic read, think again: Compulsively fascinating, the novel draws the reader through the alleys and quays of Sunderland with all the practiced charm of its title character. He is both attracted to Gustine and appalled by her profession; but when he discovers the secret of her child he sees yet another opportunity and his obsession to become a famous researcher makes him lose sight of all that is appropriate. A potter's assistant during the day, she changes at night into a gown, rented by her pimp to walk the narrow streets. In that time, she began to write her first novel, A Stolen Tongue. And she makes Gustine an unwitting instrument of the infection's transmission. Throughout history, we see how millions upon millions of people have been killed simply because one group of people believed in a different God, came from another country, or simply had a different color of skin. Henry Chiver, is intent on making his name as a scientific doctor and educator through dissections. Set in the port city of Sunderland, England, during the cholera epidemic of 1831, "The Dress Lodger" weaves a chilling tale of disease and social unrest, following the tangled relationships among an unlikely gathering of characters: Gustine, the "dress lodger," a young prostitute who rents a lavish blue gown from her pimp to attract a tonier clientele; the Eye, a silent, hideously deformed old woman who guards Gustine's precious frock; Dr. But the doctor has been having a devil of a time locating bodies on the local black market. Globally, there have been seven great cholera epidemics the first one dating back to 1817 , with their mortality rates reaching as high as 70 per cent. With the wisdom she's learned from the mean streets, she seems an unstoppable force, not at all the naïf her nighttime clients think they are borrowing for their back-alley romps. The local publican "sweetens" his wine "with a little packet of grayish-red oxidized lead got off the chemist. "The Dress Lodger" by Sheri Holman I should point out, finally, that the bemused narrator of The Dress Lodger whose true identity is only revealed near the end of the reader's journey is well worth observing. In various situations in The Dress Lodger, author Sheri Holman demonstrates that the inequalities presented in a society create challenging obstacles that need to be overcome in order for strong and stable communities to develop. With Dickensian squalor and characterization, this story clearly evokes the period and underscores the connections between poverty and illness. Book Summary: Similar Characteristics Of Lock And Mori The book also takes a shot at dealing with child abuse which is such a hard issue to tackle. When the mysterious writer Malcolm Slaight rents the house, Bunting never sees the lodger and believes his wife is fabricating the tenant and her family has given the money to them. Stockett wrote was fiction due to the part that everything seemed believable during the time of the events. The Dress Lodger by Sheri Holman This subversion can be seen throughout the conscious characterisation of three distinct characters: Billy, Old Bill and Caitlin- each of whom has different social and financial positions, yet deliberately challenge the expectations of their gender and class to construct complex, even contradictory, identities. The doctor needs corpses for dissection and since Gustine stumbles upon plenty of dead bodies in her night work, she becomes a resource for the ambitious, depraved doctor. Hayden was an American painter who depicted African-American life as he saw it, especially during the Harlem Renaissance. On the other hand, Rebecca Davis was able to illustrate the distinct differences between upper class and lower class lifestyles. By turns tender and horrifying, The Dress Lodger is a captivating historical thriller charged with a distinctly modern voice. As a slow reader, it is a quite hard for me to finish reading it within time. It is cold and business is slow. . He knows he stands a chance of poisoning half his clientele, but most of them drink beer, so he doesn't sweat it. Please see the supplementary resources provided below for other helpful content related to this book. Fortunately, human beings hold the ability to overcome prejudice through education and dialogue between different ethnic or racial groups. From there, she became an assistant to a literary agent. In a publishing world that's filled with slick but predictable thrillers, confessionals from mindless celebrities and honeyed manure from political animals, The Dress Lodger marks a return to Dickensian writing. With its stark depictions of human innards and industrial squalor, Holman's novel is not for the faint of heart. Throughout this first part of the story, the narrator's mother is virtually inexistent, outside her disapproval of her husband's pelting business. There's also Fos, who "glows in the dark" and is slowly dying from a lifetime of work painting poisonous phosphorus on matchsticks. It seems she has struck a grim bargain with a local surgeon: In exchange for his ministering to her son, who has a rare anatomical defect, Gustine will find him dead bodies for dissection purposes. . The physician's name is Henry Chiver.	cc/2023-06/en_head_0031.json.gz/line29
__label__cc	0.518108	0.481892	中文 Contact us About Bazhong Folk Customs Home > In Focus Numbers in the report to the 20th CPC National Congress In the past decade, China has made historical achievements in economic and social development, and significant changes have taken place in people's lives. How CPC convenes its national congress [10 years on] Bazhong puts a new look on its transport development Over the past decade, Bazhong, a city in southwest China's Sichuan province, has entered the fast track in the building of its transport infrastructure and has endeavored to build a comprehensive transport network. 10 years of China's economic development Amazing China in 60 Seconds: Sichuan Sichuan province is well-known to people around the world for its beloved pandas. Two sessions: What you need to know 100th anniversary of the CPC's founding Poverty relief album Xiaoluoma is a village tucked away in the Qinling-Daba mountain areas of southwest China's Sichuan Province. For years, the villagers here had been living in poverty. Video: Landscape picture, beautiful Bazhong Bazhong, situated on the south of the South-North Boundary of Qinling Mountains and Huaihe River, serves as the geometric center of three metropolitan cities of Chengdu, Chongqing and Xi'an. Copyright © Bazhong City.	cc/2023-06/en_head_0031.json.gz/line32
__label__cc	0.703617	0.296383	Western Lake County FOP 116 - FOPA 69 Lake County Ohio F.O.P. 116 About FOP 116 FOP 116 Board F.O.P. History F.O.P.A. 69 About FOPA 69 FOPA Board FOPA Membership Cooking Schedule Education Assistance Lodgeletter Past Lodgeletters Photos – Past In 1915, the life of a policeman was bleak. In many communities they were forced to work 12 hour days, 365 days a year. Police officers didn’t like it, but there was little they could do to change their working conditions. There were no organizations to make their voices heard; no other means to make their grievances known. This soon changed, thanks to the courage and wisdom of two Pittsburgh patrol officers. Martin Toole and Delbert Nagle knew they must first organize police officers, like other labor interests, if they were to be successful in making life better for themselves and their fellow police officers. They and 21 others “who were willing to take a chance” met on May 14, 1915, and held the first meeting of the Fraternal Order of Police. They formed Fort Pitt Lodge #1. They decided on this name due to the anti-union sentiment of the time. However, there was no mistaking their intentions. As they told their city mayor, Joe Armstrong, the FOP would be the means “to bring our grievances before the Mayor or Council and have many things adjusted that we are unable to present in any other way. . . we could get many things through our legislature that our Council will not, or cannot, give us.” And so it began, a tradition of police officers representing police officers. The Fraternal Order of Police was given life by two dedicated police officers determined to better their profession and those who choose to protect and serve our communities, our states, and our country. It was not long afterward that Mayor Armstrong was congratulating the Fraternal Order of Police for their “strong influence in the legislatures in various states, their considerate and charitable efforts” on behalf of the officers in need and for the FOP’s “efforts at increasing the public confidence toward the police to the benefit of the peace, as well as the public.” From that small beginning the Fraternal Order of Police began growing steadily. In 1955, the idea of a National Organization of Police Officers came about. Today, the tradition that was first envisioned 89 years ago lives on with more than 2,100 local lodges and more than 310,000 members in the United States. The Fraternal Order of Police has become the largest professional police organization in the country. The FOP continues to grow because we have been true to the tradition and continued to build on it. The Fraternal Order of Police are proud professionals working on behalf of law enforcement officers from all ranks and levels of government. Western Lake County FOP 116 - FOPA 69 © 2013 Lake Metro Web, Willoughby Oh	cc/2023-06/en_head_0031.json.gz/line42
__label__wiki	0.629894	0.629894	ssps@chairmen.org (+86) 18081079313; (+86)28-86256789 中文说明 SSPS2019 About Guangzhou Guangzhou, also known as Canton and formerly romanized as Kwangchow, is the capital and most populous city of the province of Guangdong in southern China. On the Pearl River about 120 km (75 mi) north-northwest of Hong Kong and 145 km (90 mi) north of Macau, Guangzhou has a history of over 2,200 years and was a major terminus of the maritime Silk Road, and continues to serve as a major port and transportation hub, as well as one of China’s three largest cities. Due to a high urban population and large volumes of port traffic, Guangzhou is a Large-Port Megacity, the largest type of port-city in the world. Guangzhou is at the heart of the most-populous built-up metropolitan area in mainland China, which extends into the neighboring cities of Foshan, Dongguan, Zhongshan and Shenzhen, forming one of the largest urban agglomerations on Earth, the Pearl River Delta Economic Zone. Administratively, the city holds subprovincial status and is one of China’s nine National Central Cities. At the end of 2018, the population of the city’s expansive administrative area was estimated at 14,904,400 by city authorities, up 3.8% from the previous year. Guangzhou is highly ranked as an Alpha- (global first-tier) city together with San Francisco (the U.S) and Stockholm (Sweden). Guangzhou also ranks 21st globally (between Washington, D.C. and Amsterdam) and 8th in Asia (behind Shanghai, Tokyo, Hong Kong, Singapore, Beijing, Shenzhen and Dubai) in the 2020 Global Financial Centers Index (GFCI). There is a rapidly increasing number of foreign temporary residents and immigrants from Southeast Asia, the Middle East, Eastern Europe and Africa. This recent population influx has led to it being dubbed the “Capital of the Third World”. The domestic migrant population from other provinces of China in Guangzhou was 40% of the city’s total population in 2008. Together with Shanghai, Beijing and Shenzhen, Guangzhou has one of the most expensive real estate markets in China. In the late 1990s and early 2000s, nationals of sub-Saharan Africa who had initially settled in the Middle East and other parts of Southeast Asia moved in unprecedented numbers to Guangzhou in response to the 1997/98 Asian financial crisis. Long the only Chinese port accessible to most foreign traders, Guangzhou was captured by the British during the First Opium War. No longer enjoying a monopoly after the war, it lost trade to other ports such as Hong Kong and Shanghai, but continued to serve as a major transshipment port. Nowadays, in modern commerce, Guangzhou is best known for its annual Canton Fair, the oldest and largest trade fair in China. For three consecutive years (2013–2015), Forbes ranked Guangzhou as the best commercial city in mainland China. Guangzhou ranks 10th in the world and 5th in China (after Beijing, Shanghai, Hong Kong and Shenzhen) in terms of the number of billionaires according to the Hurun Global Rich List 2020. The city is home to many of China’s most prestigious universities, including Nanfang College · Guangzhou, South China University of Technology, South China Normal University and Jinan University. Guangzhou is also one of the top cities in the world by scientific research as tracked by the Nature Index and it ranks 15th globally and fifth in China (after Beijing, Shanghai, Nanjing and Wuhan). More introductions to Shenzhen please visit: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guangzhou. Copyright © SSPS 2023. All rights reserved.	cc/2023-06/en_head_0031.json.gz/line45
__label__wiki	0.517637	0.517637	15 Amazing And Interesting Facts About Hermiston, Oregon, United States Hermiston is a city in Umatilla County, Oregon, United States. Its population of 19,354 makes it the largest city in Eastern Oregon. Take a look below for 15 amazing and interesting facts about Hermiston, Oregon, United States. 1. Hermiston is the largest, and fastest-growing, city in the Hermiston-Pendleton Micropolitan Statistical Area, the eighth largest Core Based Statistical Area in Oregon with a combined population of 92,261 at the 2020 census. 2. Hermiston sits near the junction of I-82 and I-84, and is 7 miles south of the Columbia River, Lake Wallula, and the McNary Dam. 3. The Hermiston area has become a hub for logistics and data center activity due to the proximity of the I-82 and I-84 interchange, Pacific Northwest fiber optic backbone, and low power costs. 4. The city is also known for its watermelons, which are part of its branding. 5. The historic inhabitants of the area were the indigenous Umatilla, Cayuse, Walla Walla, and Columbia Indians, descendants of peoples who lived in this area for thousands of years. 6. The earliest European settlers established a mission near Pendleton in 1847. 7. The territorial government organized Umatilla County in 1862 from the larger Wasco County. 8. On July 10, 1907, the town of Hermiston was incorporated. Robert Louis Stevenson’s novel Weir of Hermiston inspired the name. 9. Hermiston serves as the retail and services center for much of western Umatilla County, as well as Morrow County and parts of Gilliam county. Hermiston’s Local Trade Area, which describes the area where people will travel to purchase items on a weekly basis, stretches from Pendleton on the East, the Columbia River to the North, Heppner to the South, and Gilliam County to the West. 10. There were 46,000 people living within Hermiston’s Local Trade Area based on 2010 U.S. Census data. Major national chain retailers in Hermiston include Wal-Mart, Home Depot, Big Lots, Sears, AutoZone, Big 5 Sporting Goods and Harbor Freight, among many others. 11. The community also has Ford, Chevy, Dodge, Toyota, and Subaru dealerships. Despite a relatively robust local retail & services market, Hermiston experiences significant retail sales leakage to the Tri-Cities for items purchased on less than a weekly basis. 12. The Tri-Cities, located approximately 30 minutes north of Hermiston in Washington, had a metro-area population of 275,740 as of April 1, 2014, making it the fourth largest metropolitan area in Washington. 13. The City of Hermiston Parks Department maintains 10 parks, 13 landscape areas, and 100-plus acres for the enjoyment of the community. In addition to the developed parks, the Department also has 50 additional acres planned for future development. Recent major enhancements include the additions of Riverfront Park, the Oxbow Trail, and continual additions to the Hermiston Family Aquatic Center. Riverfront Park features 16 acres of open grassy areas alongside the Umatilla River, as well as nearly a mile of paved walking paths, with picnic shelters, restrooms, and fishing access. 14. A 1.8-mile paved walking path, named the Oxbow Trail, was added in 2015 to connect Riverfront Park with the north side of town near Good Shepherd Medical Center. The Trail winds through protected wetland area for nearly the entirety of its length and also connects to Harrison Park. 15. Hermiston is on the La Grande Subdivision of the Union Pacific Railroad, constructed originally through the area in the 1870s as the Oregon Railroad and Navigation Company. Railroad facilities include the Hinkle Locomotive Service and Repair Facility and “hump yard” located just outside the city. HermistonOregonunited states 15 Amazing And Fascinating Facts About Central Point, Oregon, United States 15 Awesome And Fun Facts About Sherwood, Oregon, United States 23 Amazing And Fascinating Facts About Croconaw From Pokemon 15 Interesting And Amazing Facts About Rohnert Park, California, United States 27 Interesting And Fascinating Facts About Wuthering Heights	cc/2023-06/en_head_0031.json.gz/line53
__label__wiki	0.911279	0.911279	Faces Places Monday, January 22, 7:30 pm Directed by Agnes Varda & JR PG 89 Mins. Reviewed by A. O. Scott / New York Times At 89, Agnès Varda is an artist with nothing to prove and everything to discover. A small woman with a two-toned pageboy and an open, unsentimental manner, she is an ideal traveling companion: a wise and canny guide, an impetuous risk-taker, a trusted friend. Her recent documentaries, while not exactly confessional, are unabashedly personal, infused with her voice, her eye, her wry and rueful on-camera presence. Each film is a map of her thinking, a record of her musings and insights as she explores parts of the modern world — especially but not exclusively France — that less attentive voyagers might overlook. The latest of these adventures, “Faces Places,” finds Ms. Varda in the company of a younger comrade, the 34-year-old French photographer and environmental artist known as JR. Together they set out on a series of meandering road trips through agricultural and industrial towns, talking to people and taking their pictures. (The French title, “Visages Villages,” is more specific than the English version about the kinds of places that interest them.) JR’s van is equipped with a printer that produces portraits big enough to cover the sides of barns, houses and apartment buildings and even, magnificently, a towering stack of shipping containers. The easygoing, episodic structure of their journey gives “Faces Places” a deceptively casual air. It superficially resembles one of those ubiquitous cable-television shows in which a semi-celebrity bounces around the globe tasting the food and philosophizing with the locals. Ms. Varda and JR, who is tall and stylish and never takes off his sunglasses, are a charming pair. Their subjects are happy to chat, and touched (if also sometimes a little embarrassed) to behold their likenesses turned into large-scale public art installations. The film works just fine as an anthology of amiable encounters and improvised collaborations. But it’s a lot more than that. Despite its unassuming, conversational ethos — which is also to say by means of Ms. Varda’s staunchly democratic understanding of her job as a filmmaker — “Faces Places” reveals itself as a powerful, complex and radical work. Ms. Varda’s modesty is evidence of her mastery, just as her playful demeanor is the expression of a serious and demanding aesthetic commitment. Almost by stealth, but also with cheerful forth- rightness, she communicates a rich and challenging array of feelings and ideas. As we contemplate those faces and places we are invited to reflect on the passage of time and the nature of memory, on the mutability of friendship and the durability of art, on the dignity of labor and the fate of the European working class. Ms. Varda and JR visit a town in France’s northern coal-producing region where the mines have shut down. They call on a prosperous farmer, on factory workers and retirees, on a group of longshoremen and their wives. Without pressing a political agenda or bringing up matters of ideology or identity, they evoke a history of proud struggle and bitter defeat, a chronicle etched in the stones of the villages and the lines on the faces. Beneath the jauntiness and good humor there is an unmistakably elegiac undertone to this film, an implicit acknowledgment of lateness and loss. The places will crumble and the faces will fade, and the commemorative power of the images that JR and Ms. Varda make will provide a small and partial compensation for this gloomy inevitability. The world and its inhabitants are protean and surprising, but also almost unbearably fragile, and you feel the pull of gravity even in the film’s most lighthearted passages. Ms. Varda, steeped in the traditions of the avant-garde, is resistant to nostalgia — there’s always too much to notice here and now — but she finds herself drawn to retrospection. Her glance turns backward, to her own earlier work and to her relationships with colleagues and friends. She tells JR that he reminds her of Jean- Luc Godard, her erstwhile comrade in the heady, heroic days of the French new wave. Mr. Godard in his 30s favored dark glasses and an impish, enigmatic air, and he plays an intriguing off-camera role in “Faces Places.” He is muse and villain, a source of inspiration and exasperation, a secret sharer and a vengeful ghost. He’s probably not so vain that he thinks this movie is about him. And Ms. Varda is too generous to make it all about her, even though no one else could have made it. “Faces Places” is unforgettable, not because of dramatic moments or arresting images, but because once you have seen it you want to keep it with you, like a talisman or a souvenir. Wherever you’re going, it will surely come in handy.	cc/2023-06/en_head_0031.json.gz/line55
__label__cc	0.678381	0.321619	Home > IEEE ABSTRACTS WITH FULL PAPERS > Abstract on DNA: THE FUTURE OF COMPUTING creativeworld9 11:51 AM abstract of IT branch in ieee format, IEEE ABSTRACTS WITH FULL PAPERS DNA: THE FUTURE OF COMPUTING DNA computing is a nascent technology that seeks to capitalize on the enormous informational capacity of DNA, biological molecules that can store huge amounts of information and are able to perform operations similar to a computer's through the deployment of enzymes, biological catalysts that act like software to execute desired operations. This paper gives an insight into evolution and the future of DNA computing. Scientists around the globe are now trying to marry computer technology and biology by using nature's own design to process information. Research in this area began with an experiment by Leonard Adleman, a computer scientist at USC who surprised the scientific community in 1994 by using the tools of molecular biology to solve a hard computational problem. In terms of speed and size, however, DNA computers surpass conventional computers. While scientists say silicon chips cannot be scaled down much further, the DNA molecule found in the nucleus of all cells can hold more information in a cubic centimeter than a trillion music CDs. A spoonful of DNA contains 15,000 trillion computers. While a desktop PC is designed to perform one calculation very fast, DNA strands produce billions of potential answers simultaneously. This makes them suitable for solving "fuzzy logic" problems that have many possible solutions rather than the either/or logic of binary computers. In the future, some speculate, there may be hybrid machines that use traditional silicon for normal processing tasks but have DNA co-processors that can take over specific tasks they would be more suitable for. As the lines between real and manufactured continue to blur, and science approaches finer and finer resolutions down to the subatomic scale, emergent technologies are rapidly evolving to radically alter the way humans interact with Nature. Increasingly we are wresting the fundamental tools of creation from the hands of the gods and employing them for our ownpurposes. A prime example is the discovery that DNA computers can be used to solve extremely complex mathematical problems much more readily than their silicon counterparts. This ingenious bit of repurposing appears to have many practical applications. Technology is rapidly accelerating, hurtling us towards a not-too-distant future where the human imagination will manifest itself everywhere in Nature. DNA could be used as a computing medium - is opening a new interdisciplinary laboratory to explore the possibility of using the hereditary material to solve real-world computing problems. Information can be written onto individual DNA molecules, using the alphabet of four bases that all living things use to record genetic information. A DNA computation is done by coding a problem into this alphabet and then creating conditions under which DNA molecules are formed that encode all possible solutions of a problem. This process produces billions of billions of molecules encoding wrong answers, along with perhaps a few encoding the right one. WHAT IS THE NEED? Computers have become significantly smaller and more powerful over the past 40 years, but they still have a silicon substrate, and silicon has inherent limitations. The abilities and power of computers to this day have increased, almost exponentially, since the dawn of their creation. This exponential growth of silicon chip speed and inverse of size has come to be known as Moore's Law. Computer chip manufacturers are furiously racing to make the next microprocessor that will topple speed records. As advancements in micro silicon chip production continue, however, more and more obstacles are faced due to the increase in complexities of the problems for which they are required. Chip makers need a new material to produce faster computing speeds. It would be hard to believe where scientists have found the new material they need to build the next generation of microprocessors. Millions of natural supercomputers exist inside living organisms, including our body. DNA (deoxyribonucleic acid) molecules, the material our genes are made of, have the potential to perform calculations many times faster than the world's most powerful human-built computers. DNA molecules have already been harnessed to perform complex mathematical problems. The fastest supercomputers now available can perform about 109 (1 billion) operations per second. By using DNA molecules, it would be possible to achieve effective speeds of as much as 1017 operations per second WHERE IT ALL STARTED? The scientists at the forefront of the DNA computer revolution are a brilliant breed indeed. It was all started by a professor of Computer Science at USC by the name of Leonard M. Adleman, who utilized recombinant DNA to solve a simple Hamiltonian path problem, more popularly recognized as a variant of the so-called "traveling salesman problem." In Adleman's version of the traveling salesman problem, or "TSP" for short, a hypothetical salesman tries to find a route through a set of cities so that he visits each city only once. As the number of cities increases, the problem becomes more difficult until its solution is beyond analytical analysis altogether, at which point The Hamiltonian path problem, on a large scale, is effectively unsolvable by conventional computer systems. Computers now solve such problems by trial and error. But if hundreds of cities were involved, a conventional computer would require years to find the answer. A DNA computer, on the other hand, tests all possible answers simultaneously, offering the prospect of much speedier solutions. DNA computation is based on the fact that technology allows us to 'sequence' (design) single DNA strands which can be used as representations of bits of binary data. Technology also allows us to massively 'amplify' (reproduce) individual strands until there are sufficient numbers to solve complex computational problems. • DNA input molecule • The famous double-helix structure discovered by Watson and Crick consists of two strands of DNA wound around each other. Each strand has a long polymer backbone built from repeating sugar molecules and phosphate groups. Each sugar group is attached to one of four "bases". These four bases – guanine (G), cytosine (C), adenine (A) and thymine (T) - form the genetic alphabet of the DNA, and their order or "sequence" along the molecule constitutes the genetic code. The bases are spaced every 0.35 nanometers along the DNA molecule, giving DNA a remarkable data density of nearly 18 Megabits per inch. In two dimensions, if it is assumed one base per square nanometer, the data density is over one million G bits per square inch compared to that of a typical high performance hard drive, which is about 7 G bits per square inch. One of the most significant properties of DNA is that every DNA sequence has a natural complement. For example if sequence S is ATTACGTCG, its complement, S', is TAATGCAGC. Both S and S' will come together (or hybridize) to form double stranded DNA. This complementarity makes DNA a unique data structure for computation and can be exploited in many ways. Error correction is one example. If the error occurs in one of the strands of double stranded DNA, repair enzymes can restore the proper DNA sequence by using the complement strand as a reference. This facility for error correction means that the error rate can be quite low compared to that of the hard drives that are used today In the cell, DNA is modified biochemically by a variety of enzymes, which are tiny protein machines that read and process DNA according to nature's design. Just like a CPU has a basic suite of operations like addition, bit-shifting, logical operators (AND, OR, NOT NOR), etc. that allow it to perform even the most complex calculations, DNA has cutting, copying, pasting, repairing, and many others. Many copies of the enzyme can work on many DNA molecules simultaneously. This is the power of DNA computing, that it can work in a massively parallel fashion. Pairs of molecules on a strand of DNA represent data and two naturally occurring enzymes act as the hardware to read copy and manipulate the code. DNA computers derive their potential advantage over conventional computers from their ability to: • Perform millions of operations simultaneously. The massively parallel processing capabilities of DNA computers may give them the potential to find tractable solutions to otherwise intractable problems, as well as potentially speeding up large, but otherwise solvable, polynomial time problems requiring relatively few operations. • Another advantage of the DNA approach is that it works in "parallel," processing all possible answers simultaneously. Therefore it enables to conduct large parallel searches and generate a complete set of potential solutions. • DNA can hold more information in a cubic centimeter than a trillion CDs, thereby enabling it to efficiently handle massive amounts of working memory. • The DNA computer also has very low energy consumption, so if it is put inside the cell it would not require much energy to work and its energy-efficiency is more than a million times that of a PC. While still in their infancy, DNA computers are capable of storing billions of times more data than a personal computer. • The potential applications of re-coding natural DNA into a computable form are many and include: • DNA sequencing • DNA fingerprinting • DNA mutation detection • Development and miniaturization of biosensors, which could potentially allow communication between molecular sensory computers and conventional electronic computers. • The fabrication of nanoscale objects that can be placed in intracellular locations for monitoring and modifying cell function • The replacement of silicon devices with nanoscale molecular-based computational systems, and • The application of biopolymers in the formation of novel nanostructured materials with unique optical and selective transport properties • DNA based models of computation might be useful for simulating or modeling other emerging computational paradigms, such as quantum computing, which may not be feasible until much later. • Evolutionary programming for applications in design or expert systems. • In theory, this technology could one day lead to the development of hybrid computer systems, in which a silicon-based PC generates the code for automated laboratory-based operations, carried out in a miniature 'lab in a box' linked to the PC. However, there are certain shortcomings to the development of the DNA computers: • A factor that places limits on his method is the error rate for each operation. Since these operations are not deterministic but stochastically driven, each step contains statistical errors, limiting the number of iterations one can do successively before the probability of producing an error becomes greater than producing the correct result. • Algorithms proposed so far use relatively slow molecular-biological operations. Each primitive operation takes hours when you run them with a small test tube of DNA. Some concrete algorithms are just for solving some concrete problems. Every Generating solution sets, even for some relatively simple problems, may require impractically large amounts of memory. Also, with each DNA molecule acting as a separate processor, there are problems with transmitting information from one molecule to another that have yet to be solved. LATEST DEVELOPMENTS: Israeli scientists have devised a computer that is so tiny that a trillion of them could fit in a test tube and perform can perform 330 trillion operations per second, more than 100,000 times the speed of the fastest PC with 99.8 percent accuracy. It is the first programmable autonomous computing machine in which the input, output, software and hardware are all made of biomolecules. Recently, the team has gone one step further. In the new device, the single DNA molecule that provides the computer with the input data also provides all the necessary fuel. Classical DNA computing techniques have already been theoretically applied to a real life problem: breaking the Data Encryption Standard, DES. Although this problem has already been solved using conventional techniques in a much shorter time than proposed by the DNA methods, the DNA models are much more flexible, potent, and cost effective. Israeli scientists have devised a computer composed of DNA and enzymes. The enzyme FokI breaks bonds in the DNA double helix, causing the release of enough energy for the system to be self-sufficient. The design is considered a giant step in DNA computing which could transform the future of computers, especially in pharmaceutical and biomedical applications. FUTURE CONSIDERATIONS: Future applications might make use of the error rates and instability of DNA based computation methods as a means of simulating and predicting the emergent behavior of complex systems. This could pertain to weather forecasting, economics, and lead to more a scientific analysis of social science and the humanities. Perhaps most importantly, DNA computing devices could revolutionize the pharmaceutical and biomedical fields. Some scientists predict a future where our bodies are patrolled by tiny DNA computers that monitor our well-being and release the right drugs to repair damaged or unhealthy tissue. The DNA computer might be a cost-effective way to decode the genetic material of humans and other living things, and it might be able to create "wet data bases" of DNA for research purposes. Considering all the attention that DNA has garnered, it isn’t too hard to imagine that one day we might have the tools and talent to produce a small integrated desktop machine that uses DNA. It certainly might be used in the study of logic, encryption, genetic programming and algorithms, automata, language systems, and lots of other interesting things that haven't even been invented yet. With so many possible advantages over conventional techniques, DNA computing has great potential for practical use. Future work in this field should begin to incorporate cost-benefit analysis so that comparisons can be more appropriately made with existing techniques and so that increased funding can be obtained for this research that has the potential to benefit many circles of science and industry. 1).Wechsler A W ,”Advances in DNA ”,1992 2).Christina .T. Mora, “Secrets of Human DNA”, Springer Publications, 1995 3)www.vector.cshl.org/dnaftb and some websites and journals. Abstract on DNA: THE FUTURE OF COMPUTING Reviewed by creativeworld9 on 11:51 AM Rating: 5 DNA: THE FUTURE OF COMPUTING ABSTRACT: DNA computing is a nascent technology that seeks to capitalize on the enormous inform... seo pormotion September 21, 2019 at 2:30 AM very interesting post.this is my first time visit here.i found so mmany interesting stuff in your blog especially its discussion..thanks for the post! DNA test fitness	cc/2023-06/en_head_0031.json.gz/line58
__label__wiki	0.548218	0.548218	Phil Collen Really Looking Forward To 2015 Canadian Tour Tuesday, 9th December 2014 Def Leppard announced a 13 date tour of Canada in April/May 2015 today and Phil Collen has spoken about it with the local press. The band will start the tour on 15th April in Penticton, BC and wrap up on 5th May in London, ON. Phil talked to Canoe Jam Showbiz about the tour, Canadian fans, the 2015 studio album and Vivian Campbell's health. View all the tour dates below which were announced earlier today. Def Leppard Canadian Tour 2015 - Tour Dates April 15, 2015 - South Okanagan Events Centre, Penticton, BC, CANADA April 17, 2015 - Save-On-Foods Memorial Centre, Victoria, BC, CANADA April 18, 2015 - Pepsi Live at Rogers Arena, Vancouver, BC, CANADA April 20, 2015 - EnCana Events Centre, Dawson Creek, BC, CANADA April 22, 2015 - Scotiabank Saddledome, Calgary, AB, CANADA April 23, 2015 - Rexall Place, Edmonton, AB, CANADA April 25, 2015 - Enmax Centre, Lethbridge, AB, CANADA April 26, 2015 - Brandt Centre at Evraz Place, Regina, SK, CANADA April 28, 2015 - SaskTel Centre, Saskatoon, SK, CANADA April 29, 2015 - MTS Centre, Winnipeg, MB, CANADA May 02, 2015 - Bell Centre, Montreal, QC, CANADA May 04, 2015 - TD Place Arena, Ottawa, ON, CANADA May 05, 2015 - Budweiser Gardens, London, ON, CANADA Canadaian Tour 2015 - Phil Collen Interview Quotes "It's always been a bit special (the relationship with our Canadian fans) .... I've always felt it a little bit weird that we haven't come back and kind of kept a presence there. So having said that we're back and that's exactly what we are doing so it's going to be cool. This is a good thing. I'm really looking forward to it." 2015 Studio Album "We have 15 songs that we're finishing off, Joe is singing I think today. I may go in, in January, just to finish off some solos and a bit of backing vocals. So I would imagine (it'll be out) April-May-ish. I don't want to promise anything because I don't really know." News Source - jam.canoe.ca Def Leppard - 2014 Album News Previous News - 9th December 2014	cc/2023-06/en_head_0031.json.gz/line60
__label__cc	0.505675	0.494325	Home> Zhejiang First First national art academy in China ezhejiang.gov.cn\| Updated: November 2, 2020 L M S The opening ceremony of the National Academy of Art was held on March 26, 1928 in Luoyuan Garden, part of Gushan Mountain in Hangzhou. The first president of the academy was Lin Fengmian and its founder was Cai Yuanpei, a prominent Chinese educator and politician, and president of Peking University from 1916 to 1927. [Photo from caa.edu.cn] [Photo from news.gmw.cn] [Photo from xinhuanet.com.cn] The academy changed its name in June 1950 from Hangzhou National College of Art to Zhejiang Academy of Art. It then changed its name to China Academy of Art in November, 1993. Throughout the decades, many well-known artists and professors taught in the school, giving rise to a large number of famous artists in the country.	cc/2023-06/en_head_0031.json.gz/line65
__label__cc	0.651302	0.348698	Sammy Gyamfi, wants Akufo-Addo to get rid of Finance Minister Ofori-Atta. NDC Communications Officer, Sammy Gyamfi, says President Akufo-Addo should reshuffle his ministers and get rid of Finance Minister Ken Ofori-Atta. He contended that the Finance Minister is like stale water in a bottle, adding that “there is no reason he must still be in office.” According to him, “the earlier he is fired for a more competent hand to take charge, the better for us.” President Akufo-Addo in an interview on Tamale-based North Star FM ruled out any reshuffle of his ministers. He said he is of the view that some of the calls come with ulterior motives. He, therefore, stated that he won’t heed to plans of the NDC to destabilise his government. “The calls come for all kinds of reasons; NDC wanting to destabilise the government is one. There are people who are also looking for jobs.” In response, Mr. Gyamfi stated that the President’s claims are not true and not borne out of facts. He explained that “there are many people in this country including journalists, public servants, NPP supporters who have called on the President to reshuffle his non performing ministers.” According to him, President Akufo-Addo’s comment, clearly indicates that he has lost touch with the realities in the country. “If there is any doubt that President Akufo-Addo has lost touch with the realities in Ghana today, this latest comment of his should clear any such doubt. “It should settle the fact that we have a President who is not in tune with the happenings in this country and the feelings and sensibilities of people in this country,” he said. Mr. Gyamfi added that the Finance Minister’s deeds that have led to the country’s downgrade by Moody, Flinch and S&P also confirms his assertion. Previous Trial of 320 suspected Islamic State fighters starts in Libya Next Ghana Card is proof of citizenship for electoral registration targeting persons turning 18 years	cc/2023-06/en_head_0031.json.gz/line69
__label__cc	0.743039	0.256961	7 Characteristic Shared by Every Productive American Educator The past of American educators is actually a long and also varied one. From the early days of the country to the here and now day, countless folks have brought in substantial additions to education and learning. One of all of them are such remarkable figures as Lucy Calkins, John Dewey, and also Lola Truck Wagenen. These are actually a number of the absolute most widely known titles in education. Van Eaton Booker Taliaferro Washington was a foremost African American instructor, speaker, as well as political leader in the overdue nineteenth and also very early twentieth centuries. He possessed a tremendous effect on the advancement of the black neighborhood and on southerly nationality associations. Michael Van Eaton Born in to slavery in 1856 in Franklin Region, Virginia, Booker Taliaferro Washington was actually the boy of a restricted mom. His mom, Jane, married a free of charge Black man, Washington Ferguson, that was after that able to move the loved ones to Malden, West Virginia. He was actually born in to enslavement, Booker Taliaferro Washington knew to review at a young grow older. In his early youth, he operated in sodium heaters, charcoal mines, as well as manual work work. Booker Taliaferro Washington analyzed at the Hampton Principle, an institution for Black people in Hampton, Virginia. The Institute’s principal, Samuel Chapman Armstrong, thought that learning disability education was actually needed to have for freedmen. Lola Truck Wagenen Lola Vehicle Wagenen is an American educator as well as author. After making her bachelor’s degree from Vermont University, she participated in New York University, where she got her professional’s level in Community Background. Vehicle Wagenen is a supporter for environmental issues and has actually been energetic in the battle to preserve past history. She has been actually working in this area for much more than 4 years. Along with focusing on part of the environment, she has additionally been an advisor to a number of organizations. As a protestor, she has actually been actually involved in many different nationwide companies. One such institution is actually the United Nations International Year of the Kid. Jaime Escalante Jaime Escalante is a United States educator that has actually shaped the standards of arithmetic learning in The United States. His pupils are several and commonly hispanic don’t communicate English as their first language. However despite this, the pupils he instructs prepared unrivaled requirements in mathematics education. In 1999, he was actually inducted in to the Teachers Hall of Popularity. He additionally acquired the Presidential Award of Superiority in Learning, the Andres Bello Reward from the Company of American States, and also the Independence Discussion forum’s Free Spirit Award. When Jaime Escalante involved the United States in the 1960s, he intended to locate a far better lifestyle for his household. He studied at a distinguished Jesuit high school in Los angeles Paz, Bolivia. In the course of his time certainly there, he participated in and also was actually a really good sportsmen football. John Dewey was actually a United States instructor and also thinker that was a pioneer in the reform of public schools in the USA. He was also a social lobbyist. His tips carried weight in many locations of education. John Dewey committed his life to the idea that all people must be actively associated with their autonomous community. A sturdy supporter of dynamic informative reform, he spoke out for females’s civil rights, workers’ legal rights, and political equality. Early in his job, John Dewey became curious in psychological science. At the time, American colleges ready pupils for congregation department. Lucy Calkins Lucy Calkins is an American teacher who has actually formed the education of countless kids for many years. Besides her task as an instructor at Columbia College, she has actually educated lots of instructors. She likewise functions as director of the Educators University Analysis and also Composing Project, a think tank that supports dozens hundreds of educators in the United States and also other nations. Professor Calkins has been criticized for her approaches and also has actually been actually indicted of utilization “wasteful” approaches. Her procedures consist of using “decodable” publications and also the reassurance of self-expression. Regardless of critical remarks, having said that, she continues to care about peer cooperation throughout phonics courses. The “science” responsible for phonics is actually a little bit uncertain. Practical magnetic vibration imaging (fMRI) reveals that people can read through written language through sounding out characters. Analysts have proposed that knowing to read through is a process that requires rewiring the brain. The past history of United States teachers is actually a long as well as differed one. Lola Van Wagenen is actually an American instructor and also writer. Jaime Escalante is actually a United States teacher that has shaped the specifications of math education in The United States. John Dewey was actually a United States instructor as well as thinker who was actually a trailblazer in the reform of social institutions in the United States. Lucy Calkins is a United States instructor that has shaped the learning of thousands of youngsters for decades.	cc/2023-06/en_head_0031.json.gz/line76
__label__cc	0.623959	0.376041	Steven G. Blum Negotiating Truth Blog by Steven G. Blum On Being a Negotiation Teacher March 25, 2014 By Steve I’ve been teaching negotiation at the Wharton School of Business of the University of Pennsylvania for more than 20 years. Time flies when you are doing something rewarding and fun. This week I learned that I have again won the William G. Whitney Award for Distinguished Teaching. … [Read more...] Filed Under: Negotiation Strong Alternatives Give You Power In negotiation, as in all areas of life, having a strong best alternative gives you great power. Alternatively, the lack of a good alternative results in relative weakness. Negotiators speak frequently about BATNA – the Best Alternative to a Negotiated Agreement. In plain … [Read more...] Let’s Get Rid of “Carried Interest” In July I wrote a piece criticizing the tax break for what is referred to as “carried interest.” That topic is back in the news because President Obama’s proposed budget suggests we might eliminate it. Why does our tax code include this tax preference? What purpose does it … [Read more...] Filed Under: Taxation Compounding as a Practical Matter March 4, 2014 By Steve Last week, in order to demonstrate the power of compound interest most dramatically, I wrote about compounding at 100% per period. The huge numbers that result can really get one’s attention. Today let’s consider compound returns using rates that are very realistic. In doing so, … [Read more...] Filed Under: Finance Fun With Compounding February 25, 2014 By Steve Among the most important concepts an investor must comprehend is compound interest. While the idea is simple, the math can get complicated. The concept is straightforward, though, even though it is definitely not intuitive. In the end, the compounding of returns means that there … [Read more...] Steven G. Blum has been teaching in the Department of Legal Studies and Business Ethics at the Wharton School of Business of the University of Pennsylvania since 1994. In addition to teaching semester-long courses for undergraduate and MBA students, Mr. Blum has taught in Wharton Executive Education programs, lectured and consulted widely, and frequently leads seminars and educational forums. Mr. Blum has five times won the William G. Whitney Award for outstanding teaching. He holds the degrees of Masters of Laws and Juris Doctor. He also earned a Masters Degree from the Harvard Graduate School of Education, and the Specialization in Negotiation and Dispute Resolution from the Program on Negotiation at Harvard. In addition to teaching and consulting, Steven maintains a practice of law and is a registered investment advisor. He has a strong research interest in the area of ethics and fiduciary duty. His book entitled Negotiating Your Investments was published by Wiley in April 2014. Negotiating Your Investments: Use Proven Negotiation Methods to Enrich Your Financial Life (Hardcover) Investing is best understood as a series of negotiations. The ability to conduct that bargaining with skill and confidence is worth a fortune. Read More The Best Longevity Insurance Cheating With a Charitable Foundation is a Serious Crime Please Don’t Take Your Social Security Benefits Early Stock Investing: The Long Game and the Short Game What The World Needs Now is a New Vanguard Copyright © 2023 Steven G. Blum · Log in	cc/2023-06/en_head_0031.json.gz/line77
__label__cc	0.677903	0.322097	Scientism and Contemporary ‘Tolerance’ Posted by: J.P. Moreland Exclusive offer for JPMoreland.com readers! 40% discount on print/ebook of Scientism and Secularism by going to crossway.org/more40 [now extended until 10/31/18!] Scientism warrants a shift in how we think about and practice tolerance: it moves us away from a classic model to a contemporary one. According to the classical sense of the principle of tolerance, a person holds that his own moral views are true and are known by him to be such, and those of his opponent are false, but he still respects his opponent as a person and he respects his right to make a case for his views. Thus, someone has a duty to tolerate a different moral view, not in the sense of thinking it is morally correct, but, quite the opposite, in the sense that a person will continue to value and respect one’s opponent, to treat him with dignity, to recognize his right to argue for and propagate his ideas, and so forth. Strictly speaking, on the classic view, one tolerates persons, not their ideas. In this sense, even though someone disapproves of another’s moral beliefs and practices, he or she will not inappropriately interfere with them. However, it is consistent with this view that a person would judge his opponent’s views to be wrong and would dedicate himself to doing everything morally appropriate to counteract those views, e.g., using argument and persuasion. Classic tolerance presupposed the reality of moral knowledge. For that reason, it cannot survive in a culture of scientism. And it is scientism that has led to the contemporary view of tolerance. The contemporary version of tolerance, popular in the general culture, goes beyond the classical version in claiming that one should not even judge that other people’s viewpoints are wrong. Thus, the very act of disagreeing morally with someone else is intolerant. Unfortunately, if scientism is correct, there is no moral truth or knowledge and, thus, no real moral disagreements in the first place. This contemporary version of tolerance is deeply flawed for at least two reasons. First, it cannot be consistently asserted or lived out, because those who affirm it imply that others who do not share their view of tolerance are wrong. In other words, people who follow this new version of tolerance do not tolerate those whom they consider intolerant! Second, it silences the moral protest of evils such as child molestation, racism, and so on. Why? Before one can morally protest something, he or she must judge it to be wrong and not worthy of being tolerated. Such is the culture in which we now live, and we have scientism largely to thank for it. Download a free excerpt of the Scientism and Secularism! Help support content and leadership that advances the Christian worldview by becoming a regular financial supporter of Eidos Christian Center today!	cc/2023-06/en_head_0031.json.gz/line80
__label__wiki	0.842924	0.842924	ELIZABETHTOWN - Greatly Terrible And Terribly Great "Jerry Maguire" and "Almost Famous" were Cameron Crowe's masterpieces. They're perfect movies. Perfect; at least, if you like the Crowe touch; if that's your thing. Don't worry, I'm not forgetting "Say Anything" or "Fast Times At Ridgemont High" (which he wrote, but didn't direct..) but either way; these are his films; and the one thing you could say about Crowe, is that he was Crowe; which is basically Billy Wilder in color, with a little less wit but a little more romance. And then there's "Elizabethtown," which is generally perceived as something that went wrong, which it did; or something that was terrible, which it wasn't. At least, not all of it. You see, with Elizabethtown; something strange happened - in that, we saw the very best and the very worst of Cameron Crowe. There are moments of true magic, and there are moments where it's almost cringe-worthy watching. The blame has mostly gone one of two ways. One way being "Orlando Bloom sucked," which he did, although; it wasn't really his fault, which we'll talk about soon --or-- that the script was too cheesy, which is wasn't - although I think maybe Crowe thought it was, and had a crisis of faith midway through shooting; which may explain how scattered the movie is. So what is going on with this film? Strangely, at the beginning, the film is awful. It begins with an Orlando Bloom voice-over, which is one of the most unconvincing voice-over's in the history of cinema. Who knew Bloom could act so badly without a camera on? The way the scenes are directed and cut are also majorly problematic. The seamless feel of 'Maguire' and 'Famous' are gone, and we're left with clunky, awkward edits; which don't even flow continuity-wise. We feel like we're watching fifty different takes, cut together. That's true, probably; most films have multiple takes. But here it really shows. Cameron Crowe made a film that he wanted to dedicate to his Father, and it was set in Elizabethtown. Weirdly, the film gets much better when we finally get to Elizabethtown. But up until that point, when it's set in Oregon, it's one big struggle. It's almost like, on some spiritual level; the film was at home in Elizabethtown but was alien everywhere else. It just doesn't feel like a real movie until twenty five minutes in. Naturally, this isn't very acceptable, and is a likely reason why most viewers lost faith. Orlando Bloom is the wrong actor for the movie. I think this is a perfect example of bad casting. I feel sorry for Bloom (actually, not too sorry, he earns pretty well,) but this just isn't his kind of role. The screenplay was calling out for a Tom Hanks, or a Jack Lemmon, someone we believe in. Orlando Bloom, for all he tried, just didn't come across as a human being capable of any feeling. At least not as an actor. It's like that joke from "Friends" when Joey does terribly at an audition because he 'wasn't believable as a human-being.' Well, in Liztown; the character that's needed is like William Miller from "Almost Famous," he needs to be uncool, the blessed uncool. But with Bloom, you just can't buy it. He wouldn't get talking to a girl all through the night and then meeting her at sunrise, he wouldn't get the pure magic of a mix CD. The reason I feel sorry for him is that he really does try, he gives everything. And it probably is good acting, but it's not the right acting. It's not what a Cameron Crowe film needs. But this is a film that's essentially about moments. It's about meeting someone as the sun rises when really you should be getting ready for work, it's about playing "Freebird" despite the fact you're about to get electrocuted, it's about running through a cemetery and feeling the joy of life, it's about taking solitary road trips, it's about breaking up with a girl when you're not even together and it's about learning to tap dance. THAT, is what Cameron Crowe is great at. He is the KWAN at that. And Crowe gets it right, a LOT in this picture, and he's never really gotten the credit for it. The all-night phone call scene is magic; and his use of Tom Petty's music, is magic; and the whole end sequence of the film is magic. But overall, the film isn't magic. So what happened? A large part of it is that a film was made. And you can't force a film to be amazing. You just can't. "Elizabethtown" was a beautiful, moving, and funny screenplay. When I first read it some time in 2004 I absolutely fell in love, and was certain this would be the greatest movie of all time. It's what every Cameron Crowe fan hoped for. But how can a director live up to that pressure? The problem is: I think Cameron Crowe believed the hype. His genius at choosing perfect music for his movies had always been amazing to me. But I remember seeing him interviewed around the release of this movie; and he seemed almost smug, even lightly arrogant about how great he is with music, rather than humbled by it. And he seemed sure about himself, and the project, in a way that seemed different to how he was going back five years to when he made 'Almost Famous.' It shows when you watch the film. Some of the music fits almost too well, and it doesn't have the emotional impact that the director would have hoped. When I read the screenplay, I was in love. When I first saw the film in the cinema, at the London Film Festival all those years back: I was angry. Angry for the first half of the film. I couldn't grasp Bloom's performance, or the fake sounding voice-over, or the awkward performances from Baldwin, Greer and Sarandon. But then after about thirty minutes or so, everything seemed to sink into place more, and I started to enjoy myself. By the end of the two hours, I felt true, pure, JOY. There really was MAGIC in the movie. It was inspiring, exciting, romantic and uplifting. If 'Jerry Maguire' and 'Almost Famous' are both a solid 9 out of 10, then 'Elizabethtown' is a solid 4 out of 10 yet also a solid 12 out of 10. It's everything and nothing, it's great and terrible, terrible and great. It's Crowe the artist, trying to live up to his other films; against the weight of a big-budget and a studio-endorsed movie star fresh out of that 'Pirates' thing. Now, when I watch it; I find myself being forgiving. Underneath the many flaws, is Cameron Crowe's big-beating-heart. When he's on form, he is the epitome of a 'Kid In The Front Row,' when he's off form - he's still better than pretty much everyone else. When Cameron Crowe interviewed Billy Wilder, shortly before his death; Wilder said "Jack Lemmon was my everyman." That's one thing that Cameron Crowe hasn't found. Woody has his Keaton, Ephron has her Hanks, Capra had his Stewart - what Crowe needs is his everyman. And that's when he will truly become the legend that he very nearly is. MartininBroda 7 October 2010 at 15:54 It is refreshing to see someone writing so passionately and precisely the same time :-) filmgeek 8 October 2010 at 05:27 I really want to love Elizabethtown but Bloom really puts me off. It's still a decent film though and Dunst and the soundtrack make up for most of the pitfalls. I often think about who I would rather have seen in the leading role and I think it could have done with a semi-unknown - someone with a bit of Jo-Go quality. Got to say, I loved your comment: "the one thing you could say about Crowe, is that he was Crowe; which is basically Billy Wilder in color, with a little less wit but a little more romance." Anonymous 8 October 2010 at 05:36 I really enjoyed Elizabethtown for all the reasons you stated! And although I wanted to believe in Orlando Bloom, I do agree that there was just something off about him being in it. I don't know if it's because I think it's just weird to see him trying to be "all American" when we all know he isn't. He did try very hard and I don't believe he is necessarily a bad actor, but he was just trying to be something he wasn't. And yes, the voiceover was bad. I did still get the DVD, though, because the music and the good moments were just magical. I can always fast-forward through the weird beginning bit. James G. Wall 8 October 2010 at 17:33 I really enjoyed this film. Agreed Bloom is wooden, but I fell in love with Dunst. Think I'm gonna go watch it. Nicholas 14 October 2010 at 06:11 Thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you. That's really all I can say - thank you. I am so in love with this movie and I find myself in so many arguments about it and now I will simply say it is a film "about moments." Well done. The Kid In The Front Row 14 October 2010 at 07:44 Nicholas, you are awesome. James - did you watch it? I enjoyed the article on Elizabethtown. Bloom deserves credit for working with a coach to speak in an American accent. I didn't realize at first that the voice over was Bloom, due to the accident. As you mentioned moments, there are many favorites. Crowe got the wedding and funeral juxtaposition just right. Nowhere else except for this type of wedding and funeral, will people kick back and include everyone in their lives, welcoming near-strangers and strangers into their homes and parties as if they are old friends. (the Chuck and Drew scene in the hotel hallway is a great example of how a major life event (accompanied by alcohol) brings people together. This film could be for all viewers who have lost, or will lose, their parents. Drew's scene where he begs the funeral director "Stop the cremation!" really taps into the type of feelings and thoughts in these situations. And the scenes with his cousin, the musician, are poignant in looking at a family that has grown up, with adult responsibilities. Great movie. Mark 3 April 2016 at 17:24 My favorite movie of all time! I've watched it over a hundred times and it gets better with every viewing. I fell in love with everything - the acting, actors, writing, beautiful scenery, soundtrack, you name it. I only wish Crowe had released a director's cut with the scenes that were cut between the original film festival version and the theatrical version. 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Boston, which didnt have a power play, increased its lead to 5-2 in the third period on a pair of goals by Gregory Campbell -- first short-handed at 9:04 and then at even strength with 6:34 left. Milan Lucic finished the scoring with 1:36 remaining. The Bruins have received an NHL-low 176 power plays this season. "They couldve mixed one in, but it seems to go the other way for us all the time," Rask said. Jarome Iginla scored in the first period, and Hamilton and Carl Soderberg connected in the second with assists from Hamilton. Boston won all three games from the Rangers for the first time since the 1982-83 season. J.T. Miller made it 1-0 just 3:20 in with a short-handed goal. Brad Richards tallied in the second, and Ryan McDonaghs power-play goal made it 5-3 with 4:42 left for the Rangers. Iginla began to change momentum when he scored with 1:53 left in the first. "They played yesterday, too, and it shouldve been a pretty even start," Rask said of the Rangers. "We just werent ready. 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Anderson failed to break Federers serve in the match, which lasted just over an hour. The South African had 21 unforced errors, while Federer hit 17 winners and won 79 per cent of his first serve points. A four-time Indian Wells champion, Federer will play Ukraines Alexandr Dolgopolov in the semifinals. Dolgopolov beat Milos Raonic 6-3, 6-4. On the womens side, top-seeded Li Na beat Dominika Cibulkova 6-3, 4-6, 6-3 in a rematch of their Australian Open final. She next plays Flavia Pennetta, who defeated Sloane Stephens 6-4, 5-7, 6-4 in Thursdays other quarterfinal. Federer earned the only break in the first set in the last game when Anderson netted a backhand volley. The Swiss star then broke Anderson twice to take a 4-0 lead in the second set. Anderson did his best to trade groundstrokes with Federer while looking for an opening to rush the net, but the South Africans repeated errors spoiled his game plan. "It was big to win the (first) set and then to go on to break early in the second," Federer said. "Then double break was like a bonus. From then on I was home, basically. It was a really good match for me." Dolgopolovs win assured the Ukrainian of rising to a projected No. 23 in next weeks ATP Tour rankings. He has already made the biggest jump in the top 50 this year, moving up 26 spots to No. 31 before the tournament began. "Obviously if youre ranked 20, 30, 40 youre a good enough player. To get in the top 10 you just need all those small things to be together and to be solid," he said. "Its really small differences from the players that are top 10 and top 50." Dolgopolov improved to 6-2 against top-20 opponents this year, including hiss third-round win here over top-ranked Rafael Nadal.dddddddddddd Li, who beat Cibulkova to win her second Grand Slam title in January, dropped her first set in four matches while improving to 15-1 this year. The Chinese star is seeded No. 1 for the first time at a larger WTA event. "Not like before if I come here, maybe like No. 6 or No. 7 seed," she said. "But I think I am handling very well, so just continue." Li rallied from a 5-1 deficit in the second set to close to 5-4 before Cibulkova called for her coach. After they huddled, the Slovak player held to even the match at a set apiece. They traded breaks to open the third. Cibulkova survived a service game that went to deuce seven times and staved off four break points to level the score at 2-all. Li swept the final three games, however, to seal the victory. "Im disappointed I didnt win because I had my chances," Cibulkova said. "My serve was just not there. Maybe I tried to go for too much. Her serve was much better than mine." Pennetta emerged victorious after a wildly uneven match affected by swirling winds in the third set from a dust storm outside the Indian Wells Tennis Garden. "The third was a disaster for both of us," Pennetta said. Stephens was the lone American woman left in the tournament, enjoying her best showing of the year so far. She appeared poised to move on after winning six straight games over the end of the second set and start of the third to take a 3-0 lead in the decider. But the Italian, who at 32 is 12 years older than Stephens, won six of the final seven games, breaking the American at love in one of those games. "I was trying to play in the middle of the court, but there was no one ball was in the middle, was always right or left," Pennetta said. No. 2 seed Agnieszka Radwanska and Simona Halep meet in the other womens semifinal Friday. ' ' ' It was a move of some time in the making » « back when his walk to Olivo loaded the bases with	cc/2023-06/en_head_0031.json.gz/line83
__label__wiki	0.53533	0.53533	Scream If You Want to Get Married David begins what may be the last day of the rest of his life half-heartedly dropping letters through random mail slots. You can tell he’s distracted because he’s only stomping on the parcels marked “fragile” with one foot today. You know, all of this could’ve been avoided if he’d planned more carefully and made sure Annette was the one who got shot in the polytunnel last season. At home, Pádraig is frantically leaving voicemails for Sonia for some reason, having forgotten that it’s better to ignore raving lunatics until they go away than to engage with them. He hangs up, and Gráinne starts banging on about centerpieces for the wedding, asking him whether he prefers the pink and white fairies or the white and pink gnomes, and he pretends to be interested for as long as he can, which today is 1.5 seconds, before biting her head off and telling her no one cares before storming out, hopefully to initiate Operation: Push Sonia Off A Cliff. Gráinne is so deep into Wedding World at this point that neither light nor sound nor hope can escape from her gravitational field, so she rings up the Makes Downton Abbey Look Crap Inn and brightly tells them that she and David have narrowed down their processional music to either “Blurred Lines” performed by a string quartet of elves or “Under the Sea” played on a xylophone made of seahorses. Things take a turn towards the fatal, however, when the person on the other end informs her that because David didn’t pay the deposit yesterday, they’ve given the venue to someone else and are also on their way over in their Deposit Enforcement Van to burn Gráinne’s house down. She hangs up, and by the look on her face it seems she is wondering if the Buddhist doctrine of nonviolence precludes her from running over David repeatedly with his own mail truck. Frances is putting Áine’s hair into a ponytail, although it looks a awful lot like she just wants an excuse to pull someone’s hair, and reports to Dee that they should be out of the way in a day or two. Dee tells her she’s welcome to stay as long as she needs to, by which she means the locksmith is coming over to change the locks tomorrow at 8 a.m., but Frances thanks her and bravely says she has to learn to stand on her own two feet sooner or later, preferably on Tadhg’s windpipe. However, noted attorney Dee advises her that it may not look so good in the divorce proceedings that Frances vacated the pub so readily, citing the legal doctrines of “possession is nine-tenths of the law” and also “Áine, barricade the doors while I shoot at your father from this window.” And now we start building up to the screaming. Gráinne finds David hiding under his van and asks why the deposit hasn’t been paid and also why there isn’t any money left in the wedding account. He gives a meandering answer that begins with “can any debt ever really be paid?” and travels through the teachings of St. Heroclitus of Aphrodite before eventually settling on the fact that he can’t tell her because, uhh, it’s a surprise. Fortunately for him, Gráinne has been suffering from a brain-eating parasite for the past couple of weeks and immediately burbles that she loves surprises and that he’s totally iontach for being so thoughtful and that she thinks that for their honeymoon they should fly to Jupiter in a balloon. There is a lot of giggling, and then she coos, “What’s going on in that head of yours?”, which is of course a question we’ve all been wanting to ask David for some time now. At their place, Colm tells Mo he’s been getting an endless string of texts congratulating him on his excellent radio show, only half of which are close-up photos of local genitalia. She’s still staggering around, what with being knocked up and all, but she insists she’s got to go to work today and suggests he get his toast out of the vicinity of her face, which has been designated “the splash zone.” He goes off to wherever he goes during the day and then she glumly looks in her purse and pulls out what at first looks like a 6-pack of pregnancy tests, but it turns out the big “6” on the box means it can tell you if you’re pregnant 6 days before you’ve even had sex. Out in the street, Gráinne is telling Caitríona all about the big surprise David has planned for the wedding, speculating that it probably involves a glass gazebo in the woods or possibly a bridge over the Grand Canyon made out of bubbles. Caitríona, who’s normally the first to dive into a big pool of seafóid like this one, is more interested in the fact that David cleaned out the bank account without consulting Gráinne, saying there’d be hell to pay if Vince pulled something like that. For example, when he bought a new set of golf clubs without asking her first, she made him go get a vasectomy. Gráinne thinks Caitríona needs to stop being so practical all the time and let David be romantic, and then they go their separate ways, neither of which is in the direction of their jobs, we’re sure. Elsewhere, Pádraig is leaving Terrible Sonia yet another voicemail, explaining that he can’t just uproot himself and leave town overnight because he’s got a business and a life here. The fact that he’s even taking her nonsense threats seriously rather than telling her to get over herself and then farting into the phone before hanging up on her makes me want to grab him by the collar and shake him. And now we drop in on the happy household of Micheál, Laoise, and Réailtín, a sort of reverse Who’s the Boss? situation we’d kind of forgotten existed. It seems there’s a teen dance for teenagers coming up at the teen school for teens, and teen Réailtín wants to go, but Micheál of course thinks she has no business at a place like that. Furthermore, instead of wanting things all the time, he thinks she should try being grateful for the things she’s already got, such as all those childhood vaccinations he paid for and never sees her playing with. Oh, the therapy bills Réailtín is going to have someday! Laoise counters that she’s sure Micheál went to a few discos, céilí dances, or raves in burnt-out warehouses when he was a child, but of course he retorts that when he was a teenager he stayed at home doing his lessons and having the plague, and it wouldn’t hurt Miss Réailtín to try a bit more of that sort of thing herself. At the pub, Mack is complaining to no one in particular that living with a houseful of womenfolk is really doing his head in. For example, now you have to sign up to use the toilet seven days in advance, and if you try to go off-schedule, Dee charges you a €150 change fee, if there’s even availability left. In unrelated news, Dee doesn’t understand why their back garden is full of poo all of a sudden. John Joe wonders what’s going on with Tadhg and Frances and asks Mo if she’s heard anything, so she bites his head off and tells him to mind his own business. As usual, it’s service with a smile at Tigh Thaidhg. Just then Gráinne bursts in and starts carrying on about how they should ignore the bit on the invitations about the Makes Downton Abbey Look Crap Inn, because the wedding is actually going to take place at a location that’s a secret, but that may or may not rhyme with “Stembley Arena.” Of course Mack and John Joe had completely forgotten any of this is happening, but before Mack can ask “David who?”, she literally tells him that she’s going to “arrive in a carriage, just like Maid Marian.” Oh, for pete’s sake. It seems the brain-eating parasite has done a real number on poor Gráinne. Back in the latest Archie comic, Réailtín shows Laoise the dress she’s bought to wear to the school disco, which Laoise declares scandalous and hooker-y—and she should know, because as you may recall she was branded the town slut by noted expert Máire—but it just looks like an ice-skating costume to me. She explains her plan to sneak out of the house and go to the dance while Micheál is busy writing his Naked Attraction recap blog, but Laoise thinks she should try being honest and reasoning with him, because she has never met Micheál before. She continues that Réailtín needs to demonstrate to her dad how responsible she is, for example, by making dinner tonight and also doing Laoise’s laundry and taking her car for an oil change. I think Laoise may be confusing “liberated teen” with “indentured servant.” At the pub, Annette is sitting four inches from David’s face and begging him not to tell Gráinne what’s going on, because if she finds out she’ll probably call the Gardaí. Annette does not want to go to prison because she knows all her gang tattoos will rile up the other inmates. He counters that he can’t keep lying to Gráinne, who of course walks up and overhears the end of this sentence and then wants to know what exactly he’s been lying to her about. Umm, it’s a surprise? After the break, we’re upstairs at the pub, where Tadhg finds Frances searching for the switchblade Áine needs for school. He asks how Áine’s adjusting, and Frances is basically like, “Well, she’s fine except for the part where she’s crying all the time and keeps pushing Mack down the stairs.” She says she can’t keep avoiding Áine’s questions, and Tadhg says he’ll tell her what’s going on today when he picks her up from flamethrower practice. Downstairs, Gráinne is screeching at David and accusing Annette of trying to steal her man and telling everyone to go to hell. This is a new side of Gráinne, and I kind of like it. Annette tries to explain that David helped her when she was in trouble, behind on her mortgage and running out of tricks like “accidentally” mailing the gas payment to the phone company and the phone payment to the gas company. Gráinne, speaking for the audience, couldn’t give less of a shit about Annette’s problems, so finally Annette confesses that she stole the charity money and David emptied out the wedding account to keep her out of jail. Gráinne can’t believe the maelstrom of idiocy she’s wandered into, and when she realizes this is why the wedding venue was lost and that there is no big surprise, she starts screaming all over again. If you’ve ever wanted to see Gráinne go completely berserk, this is the episode for you. Out in the street, Frances tells Dee she’s found a place for her and Áine to live that’s reasonably priced and conveniently located near all of Áine’s probation officers. In the course of the conversation Dee starts to realize that Frances’ plan is to use Áine as a weapon to hurt Tadhg, but Frances clarifies that she’s actually using Áine as a weapon to trick Tadhg into getting back together. Having been married to Mack for some time now, Dee knows a terrible plan when she hears one, but Frances assures her it will all work out because she knows Tadhg better than anyone. That’s like saying, “I’m going to survive this case of Ebola because I’ve read a lot of Wikipedia articles about it.” Upstairs at the pub, Tadhg has sat Áine down on the sofa and is telling her that he’ll always love her and there’s nothing he wouldn’t do for her, but he’s decided he wants “a different life,” one without Mommy, and she’s not very happy about it. Áine suggests he fix things by doing what they do at school to solve conflict, such as saying “I’m sorry” even though you don’t mean it or locking the teacher in the closet and driving off in her car. He tells her it’s more complicated than that because he and Mommy are not in school anymore, but promises that it will all be fine eventually. She breaks all our hearts by asking him, voice cracking, if they broke up because she’s “bold sometimes,” and then does it again by asking plaintively, “But the three of us will never be living together again?” and then beginning to sob quietly when he shakes his head “no.” Brilliantly, she’s clutching a roll of candy in the hand she’s using to wipe her tears, which is so exactly what a child would do, and it really is devastating to see it from Áine’s point of view, where all of a sudden one day your old life disappears and you never got to say goodbye to it or even look at it wistfully one more time before closing the door and being dragged away from it forever. Downstairs, Mo returns from getting change at the bank, an errand that should’ve taken ten minutes but that she seems to have turned into an all-day affair. Bobbi-Lee is annoyed because Mo is pilfering from her bag of tricks, so Mo basically tells her to shut up and then insults John Joe for good measure before wandering away. Bobbi-Lee and Mo are each filling in for Tadhg in their own ways. Now Bobbi-Lee is annoyed that Mo’s disappeared again without actually giving her the change, which was the whole point of her errand in the first place. She goes digging through Mo’s purse looking for it, and of course finds the pregnancy test along the way. At first it looks like she’s going to keep this discovery to herself, but as soon as Mo wanders back through Bobbi-Lee is like, “I found something very interesting in your purse here,” and Mo pulls her aside and hisses, “You didn’t see nothin’!” as if she’s the Mafia and Bobbi-Lee has just seen her dumping a body in the harbor. Back in the disco chicken story, Réailtín unveils the dinner she’s made, and it actually seems lovely and not the smoldering toxic mess we expected. Micheál is very impressed, and then a reenactment of the Camp David Accords breaks out, with Micheál as Menachim Begin, Réailtín as Anwar Sadat, and Laoise as Jimmy Carter. The result is that Réailtín will be allowed to attend the dance on the condition that she a) be home by 10:00, b) stay in the girls’ toilets the entire time, and c) wear a burqa. This seems to satisfy all parties, at least until next episode when we will discover drunk Réailtín in a leather bikini dancing on the roof of a stolen ice cream van. At David and Gráinne’s, he’s hunched over the kitchen table in silence as she paces back and forth ranting and yelling. When she pauses for breath, he weakly argues that he felt like he didn’t have a choice, and she retorts that he did have a choice, and that choice was to use the tongue in his mouth to tell Annette no. He says he was only trying to help, and she shouts, “You’re a bigger idiot than I thought!”, and it’s all very Kirsty MacColl hissing “Well, so could anyone!” at Shane MacGowan. There is back-and-forthing, and eventually he points out that they can still get married, to which she spits, as if it’s the most ludicrous thing in the world, “And have a barbeque out in the street afterwards, is it?”, which is actually exactly the sort of wedding I would’ve imagined her wanting until all this “riding a flying carpet to a tent made of marzipan” nonsense started a few weeks ago. She grabs her coat and heads out the door, stopping to sneer that it’s just as well that they don’t have any money because they were probably wrong in thinking they should get married anyway. Ouch. Back at Mo’s, the wee stick is on the kitchen table, and after a slight delay in which she has to hide it from Colm as he passes through, it reveals that she is indeed pregnant. 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__label__cc	0.735104	0.264896	Book reviews, author guest posts and interviews. Features general fiction, chick lit, young adult, and children (3 - 8th grade) genre. Some Favorite Authors Melanie Summers Laura Barnard Sophie Kinsella Email Animation Grab My Blinkie ~ I received no compensation and opinions are 100% my own or my family. ~ Synopsis (from Amazon): When a mother is targeted by a dangerous group of masterminds, she must commit a crime to save her kidnapped daughter -- or risk losing her forever -- in this "propulsive and original" thriller (Stephen King) that has won the Barry and Macavity Awards, and was named the ITWA Best Novel of the Year. It's something parents do every morning: Rachel Klein drops her daughter at the bus stop and heads into her day. But a cell phone call from an unknown number changes everything: it's a woman on the line, informing her that she has Kylie bound and gagged in her back seat, and the only way Rachel will see her again is to follow her instructions exactly: pay a ransom, and find another child to abduct. This is no ordinary kidnapping: the caller is a mother herself, whose son has been taken, and if Rachel doesn't do as she's told, the boy will die. "You are not the first. And you will certainly not be the last." Rachel is now part of The Chain, an unending and ingenious scheme that turns victims into criminals -- and is making someone else very rich in the process. The rules are simple, the moral challenges impossible; find the money fast, find your victim , and then commit a horrible act you'd have thought yourself incapable of just twenty-four hours ago. But what the masterminds behind The Chain know is that parents will do anything for their children. It turns out that kidnapping is only the beginning. One (or more) Sentence Summary: What a wild and crazy book. I couldn't put it down. Amazing plot - no idea how the author Adrian even came up with it. A parent's worst nightmare and to make it worst you have to kidnap another child to get yours back. The Chain will keep you on the edge of your seat to the very end. The Chain is a must read book. Adrian McKinty was born and grew up in Belfast, Northern Ireland during the Troubles of the 1970s and 1980s. His father was a boilermaker and ship's engineer and his mother a secretary. Adrian went to Oxford University on a full scholarship to study philosophy before emigrating to the United States to become a high school English teacher. His debut crime novel Dead I Well May Be was shortlisted for the 2004 Dagger Award and was optioned by Universal Pictures. His books have won the Edgar Award, the Ned Kelly Award, the Anthony Award, and the Barry Award and have been translated into over twenty languages. Adrian is a reviewer and critic for the Sydney Morning Herald, the Irish Times, and the Guardian. He lives in New York City with his wife and two children. Posted by Jilleen at 3:00 AM Labels: 5 Stars: Must Read Breaking the Spine Pug Actually The Stepsisters Review The Clover Girls The Summer Of No Attachments Message In The Sand Pack Up The Moon Dial A for Aunties - Review 2021 - What's In Your Beach Bag This Summer?	cc/2023-06/en_head_0031.json.gz/line88

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