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You know that a market is about to transition from an early fantasy market when IT architects begin talking about traditional IT requirements. Why do I bring this up as an issue? I had a fascinating conversation yesterday with a leading architect in charge of the cloud strategy for an important company that is typically on the bleeding edge of technology. Naturally, I am not allowed to name the company or the person. But let me just say that individuals and companies like this are the first to grapple with issues such as the need for a registry for web services or the complexity of creating business services that are both reusable and include business best practices. They are the first companies to try out artificial intelligence to see if it could automate complex tasks that require complex reasoning.
These innovators tend to get blank stares from their cohorts in other traditional IT departments who are grappling with mundane issues such as keeping systems running efficiently. Leading edge companies have the luxury to push the bounds of what is possible to do. There is a tremendous amount to be learned from their experiments with technology. In fact, there is often more to be learned from their failures than from their successes because they are pushing the boundary about what is possible with current technology.
So, what did I take away from my conversation? From my colleague's view, the cloud today is about "how many virtual machines you need, how big they are, and linking those VMs to storage. " Not a very compelling picture but it is his perception of the reality of the cloud today. His view of the future requirements is quite intriguing.
I took away six key issues that this advanced planner would like to see in the evolution of cloud computing:
One. Automation of placement of assets is critical. Where you actually put capability is critical. For example, there are certain workloads that should never leave the physical data center because of regulatory requirements. If an organization were dealing with huge amounts of data it would not be efficient to place elements of that data on different cloud environments. What about performance issues? What if a task needs to be completed in 10 seconds or what if it needs to be completed in 5 milliseconds? There are many decisions that need to be made based on corporate requirements. Should this decision on placement of workloads be something that is done programmatically? The answer is no. There should be an automated process based on business rules that determines the actual placement of cloud services.
Two. Avoiding concentration of risk. How do you actually place core assets into a hypervisor? If, for example, you have a highly valuable set of services that are critical to decision makers you might want to ensure that they are run within different hypervisors based on automated management processes and rules.
Three. Quality of Service needs a control fabric. If you are a customer of hybrid cloud computing services you might need access to the code that tells you what tasks the tool is actually doing. What does that tool actually touch in the cloud environment? What do the error messages mean and what is the implication? Today many of the cloud services are black boxes; there is no way for the customer to really understand what is happening behind the scenes. If companies are deploying truly hybrid environments that support a mixed workload, this type of access to the workings of the various tools that is monitoring and managing quality of service will be critical. From a quality of service perspective, some applications will require dedicated bandwidth to meet requirements. Other applications will not need any special treatment.
Four. Cloud Service Providers building shared services need an architectural plan to control them as a unit of work. These services will be shared across departments as well as across customers. How do you connect these services? While it might seem simple at the 50,000-foot level, it is actually quite complex because we are talking about linking a set of services together to build a coherent platform. Therefore, as with building any system there is a requirement to model the "system of services", then deploy that model, and finally to reconcile and tune the results.
Five. Standard APIs protect customers. Should APIs for all cloud services be published and accessible? If companies are to have the freedom to move easily and efficiently between and among cloud services then APIs need to be well understood. For example, a company may be using a vendor's cloud service and discover a tool that addresses a specific problem. What if that vendor doesn't support that tool? In essence, the customer is locked out from using this tool. This becomes a problem immediately for innovators. However, it is also an issue for traditional companies that begin to work with cloud computing services and over time realize that they need more service management and more oversight.
Six. Managing containers may be key to the service management of the cloud. A well-designed cloud service has to be service oriented. It needs to be placed in a container without dependencies since customers will use services in different ways. Therefore, each service needs to have a set of parameter driven configurators so that the rules of usage and management are clear. What version of what cloud service should be used under what circumstance? What if the service is designed to execute backup? Can that backup happen across the globe or should it be done in proximity to those data assets? These management issues will become the most important issues for cloud providers in the future.
The best thing about talking to people like this architect is that it begins to make you think about issues that aren't part of today's cloud discussions. These are difficult issues to solve. However, many of these issues have been addressed for decades in other iterations of technology architectures. Yes, the cloud is a different delivery and deployment model for computing but it will evolve as many other architectures do. The idea of putting quality of service, service management, configuration and policy rules at the forefront will help to transform cloud computing into a mature and effective platform.


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Adults with intellectual disabilities are at high risk of preventable emergency admissions
Adults with intellectual disabilities have more than twice as many emergency hospital admissions and five times more preventable emergency admissions than other comparable individuals.
Researchers from St. George's University of London linked primary care records with hospital admission data in a sample of 16,666 adults with intellectual disabilities and 113,562 age-, sex- and practice-matched controls without intellectual disabilities from England's general population. They analyzed all emergency admissions and those only for preventable ambulatory care sensitive conditions. Among adults with intellectual disabilities, 3,847 (23 percent) had an emergency admission and 1,809 (11 percent) had multiple admissions.
In comparison, 12 percent of those in the control group had one or more emergency hospitalizations and 4 percent had multiple admissions. The overall annual rate for emergency hospitalizations in adults with intellectual disabilities was 182 per 1,000 adults, nearly three times higher than their matched controls (IRR=2.82; 95 percent CI, 2.66-2.98) and more than double the control group when adjusted for comorbidities, smoking and deprivation (HR=2.16; 95 percent CI, 2.02-2.30). The overall rate of emergency admissions for ACSCs for adults with intellectual disabilities was 61 per 1,000 adults, compared to 12 per 1,000 for the control group (IRR=5.62; 95 percent CI, 5.14 -6.13). The most common ACSCs resulting in admission for adults with intellectual disabilities were convulsions/epilepsy (36 percent), lower respiratory tract infection (19 percent) and urinary tract infection (11 percent).
This study, the first in the United Kingdom to use an unselected group of adults with intellectual disabilities to accurately quantify differences in emergency admissions, lays the foundation for health interventions for adults with such disabilities, particularly as their life expectancy increases. Higher emergency admission rates represent an area where improvements can be made, the authors suggest.
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Hi, everyone! I wanted to quickly post the supply list for the "Christmas Traditions" Class-In-A-Box! This way you'll get to see a list of everything that's included in the kit, so you know what luscious goodies are coming your way. Pre-orders start at 5:00 a.m. tomorrow here on my blog!
Supply List:
7 Gypsies:
1 pack of Naked Pockets, multi-size
American Crafts:
10 sheets of textured cardstock in five luscious colors
1 pack of glittered Thickers in the "Rainboots" font
3 Colorbox Fluid Chalk Ink Cat's Eyes in Blackbird, Warm Green and Warm Red
Crafty Secrets:
"Vintage Christmas" Clear Art Stamp set
Graphic 45:
1 full "Christmas Past" Deluxe 8"x8" Paper Pad
1 full "Christmas Past" Deluxe 12"x12" Paper Pad
Jenni Bowlin:
Vintage Christmas Chipboard Buttons
1 Victorian Vas Pin
1 pack Holiday Lights
1 pack Camelot Roses
1 pack Lilliput Roses
1 pack Rossetti Roses in "Sara"
1 pack Winter Branches in "Apricot"
1 pack Antique Mistletoe in "Raspberry Mocha"
2 packs of Brown Say it in Pearls w/ Crystals
1 Adirondack Dabber in gold
1 bottle of Liquid Pearls in White Opal
1 bottle of Stickles in Gold
Tattered Angels:
1 bottle of Glimmer Mist in "Iridescent Gold"
3 yards of elegant cluny lace
5 yards of assorted ribbons
12 8.5"x11" sheets of chipboard
24 assorted size shipping tags
36 large eyeletss
Chipboard die cuts from Sizzix and Spellbinders
Custom journaling spots of my design
Mulberry Leaves
The MSRP for all these goodies is over $150.00 ~ the stamp set alone retails for $24.95. There are seven full packs of Prima flowers, not to mention pearls, stamps and two full packs of Graphic 45 paper. This kit is loaded! You are getting all of this PLUS an exclusive DVD class for less than the MSRP of just the goodies.
Those of you who purchased the kits last year know that we had a problem with one of the manufacturers not being able to supply the quantities we needed. In the unlikely event that a similar situation occurs this year, a comparable item of equal or greater value will be substituted so that your kit remains complete and you get your full value.
~Kathryn :D
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You were probably told, in your earliest riding lessons, that a savvy school horse might hold his breath to expand his chest and make it difficult to tighten the girth---and that's why it's important to recheck your cinch before mounting.
|It's a good idea to check the security of your girth midway through a lesson or ride
That's not to say that some horses don't "puff up" while they are being saddled. But what is happening is that the horse is tensing his abdominal muscles, an action that expands the width of the chest slightly, allowing the cinch to loosen when he relaxes. The tension may come because the horse is anticipating an unpleasant experience or because the act of tightening the girth causes discomfort, but it's more likely just a natural response to the feeling of having something wrapped around his barrel.
The key to "deflating" a horse's belly is relaxation. First, double-check your tack fit to make sure you are not causing him discomfort when you saddle up. You might need to switch to a different type of girth, such as one lined with fleece.
When you go to tack up, first place the saddle on your horse's back and attach the cinch loosely, so it is secure but not tight, then finish grooming him or picking his hooves. Before you mount, tighten the girth a bit more and walk him around until he relaxes, then check it again. Remember that your weight will push the saddle down on his back, so you may need to tighten the cinch one final time after you mount.


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Fernando Alonso says that he doesn't have to change his approach now that the title battle has closed up.
The Spaniard's lead in the championship has dwindled to just four points after his early retirement in Japan, but he doesn't concede that he will be changing from a defensive to attack mode, as he insists he's been aggressive already.
"I think we have been pushing from the first test in the winter, so nothing has changed in the last five races," he said Thursday in Korea. "We just need to keep doing the things we've been doing so far. I think it has nearly been a perfect championship for us at the moment, with good strategies, good starts, good approach to the races.
"Everything we had in our hands on Sunday, we maximized the points. We had one zero in Spa and one zero in Suzuka, but things completely outside of our team, so apart from that we don't need to change too many things.
"We were fighting in all the races the maximum we can, approaching the races to maximize the points we have available. Sometimes we were on the podium, sometimes we were fourth, sometimes we were fifth and this will not change now. I don't think we can over-drive or over-do what is available for us."
Alonso said that he'd had his fair share of bad luck lately: "Now we have lost many points, in the last four races let's say, because at Spa we had a DNF which we had nothing to do with. In Monza we had a Q3 problem, and started in tenth, and in Suzuka we had a puncture at the start, in the first corner.
"All these last four races, in which we lost a lot points, I think are just some unlucky situations. Things normally change, they go up and down. Hopefully our bad run will finish and we will start a run of good runs until the end."
He added that there wasn't much new on the F2012 for this weekend.
"Not many updates, obviously it has been only four days from Suzuka to here so we will try to set up the car as best we can for this race, this layout. But, I remain reasonably confident that we will be competitive.
"We've been more or less competitive in the last eight, 10 races – maybe not the fastest but always in position to fight for podiums, et cetera. I think here will be no different."


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Today is my sister's birthday! I made her a head piece out of a remnant of sky blue satin and drew her this card. Sometimes I think it'd be a lot easier if I just bought presents from the shops!
Happy birthday Manda.
Annnnd I wanted to leave a photo of her dog, Stanley. He is adorable but such a troublemaker!


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To Binge or Not to Binge: The 'Arrested Development' Dilemma, from TV Experts
It is the conundrum of our time — or at least this Memorial Day: Should you watch the entire fourth season immediately in Netflix's big batch, or savor the return? We asked TV superfans, writers, critics, and Annyong himself about their Arrested Development Day plans. Model your viewing habits accordingly.
One of the biggest problems for fans of Arrested Development amidst their impending joy has been the problem of how to watch the first new episodes in seven years, 15 of which will be released on Netflix all at once in the wee hours of this Sunday morning. The comedy dump has created the conundrum of our time — or at least this Memorial Day: Should you watch the entire fourth season immediately in one batch, binging on all the inside jokes until you can sustain yourself no longer? Or should you savor and watch slowly as you would a "regular" television show? (Or, you know, at least as you would a regular television show streaming on your computer, this one just happening to be a cult hit reborn and perhaps never to return again.)
In an interview with Denise Martin of Vulture, a site that has intensely considered the Great AD Binge Debate, creator Mitch Hurwitz explained that he thinks you should see Arrested Development Day as a beginning, not necessarily as an exhaustive holiday of the Netflix couch-potato variety. Watching all at once would be draining and make the material not as funny, Hurwitz insists. You're also guaranteed to miss something, and that's not as much fun with a show as nuanced as Arrested Development. So, Hurwitz said: "Don't feel obligated to watch it all at once. It's a comedy! It's not like Lord of the Rings. Comedy takes a lot out of you." (You also have to watch the season in order, he said, since the single character-centric episodes won't overlap as much as anticipated.) Meanwhile, Jason Bateman told Andy Greene of Rolling Stone that he plans to watch four episodes a day of what Hurwitz called an eight-hour movie, and Will Arnett told Greene in an interview published Friday that he endorses binging: "I think you just gotta hit play and don't stop until you run out of battery."
But we were curious how TV superfans, writers, and critics — and Annyong! — plan to deal with the Development dilemma, so we contacted them to find out what strategy they had lined up for their Memorial Day weekend. Perhaps you can model your viewing habits accordingly.
We first wanted to hear from our very own Richard Lawson, who wrote about the "new neurosis" caused by Netflix's marathon-inducing release strategy back in February. Despite binging on House of Cards in one weekend, Lawson plans to take it slow this time. "I will be in a farmhouse in Rhode Island with no Internet on Sunday and Monday, so I will be way behind the curve on watching the new episodes," he said. "And you know what? That's fine with me. I learned my lesson with my insane House of Cards binge. I'm going to savor things this time around."
Following Hurwitz's counsel is Karey Dornetto, who wrote for Arrested Development's third and final season on Fox from 2005-2006. She told us in an email that she plans to watch "while eating a frozen banana and taking Mitch's advice of watching in order and not all at once."
There are, of course, those who are opting for the too-much-is-not-enough method. "I'll just watch it like everyone else, by inappropriately binging and ignoring my children," New Yorker TV critic Emily Nussbaum confessed in an email.
Will Leitch, who wrote a feature about Arrested Development fandom for New York, isn't exactly locking himself in a room as he suggested in his article, but he's not going to let the little matter of a plane ride stop him from watching ASAP. "As it turns out, I'm actually on a cross-country flight first thing Sunday morning. So as long as WiFi is working, I am going to have the best flight of all time," Leitch wrote in an email. "If it's not working, though: So much rage." Should Boingo prevent Hey, brother, well, Leitch is binging as soon as possible: "Oh, man, the second I get to the hotel. Specifically made sure schedule was clear Sunday night for that very purpose."
Jeff Smith and Neil Lieberman, the men behind The Arrested Development Documentary Project, told us in a phone conversation that they hadn't really made their plans — except that they planned on watching the new episodes together. "If was going to put money on it, I think we will probably end up watching it all back-to-back," Smith said.
HitFix's Alan Sepinwall plans to marathon — for fear of spoilers — but only after Memorial Day: "I'm going to watch all the episodes likely on Tuesday. I have a wife and kids who rightfully expect to spend the holiday weekend with me, so I won't be getting to them any earlier. And because I don't want every surprise cameo and joke ruined for me on Twitter before I get to watch it all — and because I have a job that allows me to do it — I'm going to power through the whole thing in a day. It's not ideally how I'd want to watch it (as Mitch Hurwitz himself notes, comedy tires you out after a while), but I had too many things about House of Cards ruined for me before I got to it."
Willa Paskin, of Salon, will also be waiting out the weekend. She detailed her plan in an email: "observe Memorial Day, start watching on Tuesday, finish Wednesday, try to write something smart by Friday." She added: "Nothing ruins comedy quite like watching it when you really, really don't want to, which would be my state around episode nine if I was force-binging myself. And binge watching really does erase some of the nuances — the grace notes, the quibbles — from one's memory, and Arrested Development has nuances I would like to take at least 24-36 hours to notice."
But Doug Mand, a writer for How I Met Your Mother, is planning on exhibiting extreme restraint. "I couldn't be more excited about the new season of Arrested Development. I'm a Jew, so this feels like my Christmas," he wrote. "I've actually talked to people about how they plan on watching. I'm gonna try to limit myself to two episodes a day, but it's gonna be hard not to watch it all at once. I want to savor it. Having a great show to come home to, and watch with my fiancé and dog for a whole week, that just sounds perfect."
Finally, we asked one of Arrested Development's own, actor Justin Lee, who plays Annyong, how he plans to watch. Lee (though a representative) wrote: "My plans are to have an Arrested Development mini premiere party marathon at The Actors Room [where I train] with a bunch of close friends and family. We will definitely have enough food, drink, and snacks to last about eight hours — that's the way to watch!"
So, now you have some guidance. Now get comfy. Put on your jorts. (Or don't.) Eat some frozen bananas. (Or cornballs.) Drink some Cloudmir. Enjoy the ride, however you choose.


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All software comes with terms and conditions that you are supposed to read, understand, and then acknowledge that you agree. How many times have you clicked to "Accept" one, when you really didn't read it?
If you're like most people the answer is "I never read them." I'm not going to chastise anyone since I don't read them either. It's a shame, because they are there to protect us and to advise what might be done with any information that is collected. And yet, who has the time and patience to read through all of that legalese?
Norway's Consumer Council sponsored an interesting study. The study group decided to publicly read aloud the terms of 33 smartphone apps in a live-streamed event hosted on their website. On average, Norwegians have 33 apps installed. But reading the terms of all of them took the activists more than 31 hours.
"The average consumer could easily find themselves having to read more than 250,000 words of app terms and conditions," the council explained on its website. "For most people this is an impossible task, and consumers are effectively giving mobile apps free rein to do almost whatever they want."
"The current state of terms and conditions for digital services is bordering on the absurd. Their scope, length and complexity mean it is virtually impossible to make good and informed decisions," the council's digital policy director, Finn Myrstad, was quoted as saying.
Following the 30+ hour live stream, the Norwegian consumer rights body urged app service providers to "cut back on the obvious" and to "write so that people understand."


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The earliest records of the family show the Darwins to have been substantial yeomen residing on the northern borders of Lincolnshire, close to Yorkshire. The name is now very unusual in England, but I believe that it is not unknown in the neighbourhood of Sheffield and in Lancashire. Down to the year 1600 we find the name spelt in a variety of ways -Derwent, Darwen, Darwynne, &c. It is possible, therefore, that the family migrated at some unknown date from Yorkshire, Cumberland, or Derbyshire, where Derwent occurs as the name of a river.
The first ancestor of whom we know was one William Darwin, who lived, about the year 1500, at Marton, near Gainsborough. His great grandson, Richard Darwyn, in
, herited land at Marton and elsewhere, and in his will, dated 1584, " bequeathed the sum of 35. 4d. towards the settynge up of the Queene's Majestie's armes over the quearie (ch doore in the parishe churche of Marton." *
The son of this Richard, named William Darwin, and
* We owe a knowledge of these earlier members of the family to researches amongst the wills at Lincoln, made by the well-known genealogist, Colonel Chester.
described as "gentleman," appears to have been a successful man.
Whilst retaining his ancestral land at Marton, he acquired through his wife and by purchase an estate at Cleatham, in the parish of Manton, near Kirton Lindsey, and fixed his residence there. This estate remained in the family down to the year 1760. A cottage with thick walls, some fish-ponds and old trees, now alone show where the " Old Hall" once stood, and a field is still locally known as the "Darwin Charity," from being subject to a charge in favour of the poor of Marton. William Darwin must, at least in part, have owed his rise in station to his appointment in 1613 by James I. to the post of Yeoman of the Royal Armoury of Greenwich. The office appears to have been worth only £33 a year, and the duties were probably almost nominal ; he held the post down to his death during the Civil Wars.
The fact that this William was a royal servant may explain why his son, also named William, served when almost a boy for the King, as "Captain-Lieutenant" in Sir William Pelham's troop of horse. On the partial dispersion of the royal armies, and the retreat of the remainder to Scotland, the boy's estates were sequestrated by the Parliament, but they were redeemed on his signing the Solemn League and Covenant, and on his paying a fine which must have struck his finances severely ; for in a petition to Charles II. he speaks of his almost utter ruin from having adhered to the royal cause.
During the Cominonwealth, William Darwin became a barrister of Lincoln's Inn, and this circumstance probably led to his marriage with the daughter of Erasmus Earle, serjeantat-law; hence his great-grandson, Erasmus Darwin, the Poet, derived his Christian name. He ultimately became Recorder of the city of Lincoln.
The eldest son of the Recorder, again called William, was born in 1655, and married the heiress of Robert Waring, a member of a good Staffordshire family. This lady inherited from the family of Lassells, or Lascelles, the manor and hall of Elston, near Newark, which has remained ever since in the family.* A portrait of this William Darwin at Elston shows him as a good-looking young man in a full-bottomed wig.
This third William had two sons, William, and Robert who was educated as a barrister. The Cleatham property was left to William, but on the termination of his line in daughters reverted to the younger brother, who had received Elston. On his mother's death Robert gave up his profession and resided ever afterwards at Elston Hall. Of this Robert,
, Charles Darwin writes t :
"He seems to have had some taste for science, for he was an early member of the well-known Spalding Club; and the celebrated antiquary Dr. Stukeley, in 'An Account of the almost entire Sceleton of a large Animal,' &c., published in the Philosophical Transactions,' April and May 1719, begins the paper as follows: 'Having an account from my friend Robert Darwin, Esq., of Lincoln's Inn, a person of curiosity, of a human sceleton impressed in stone, found lately by the rector of Elston,' &c. Stukeley then speaks of it as a great
. rarity, 'the like whereof has not been observed before in this island to my knowledge.' Judging from a sort of litany written by Robert, and handed down in the family, he was a strong advocate of temperance, which his son ever afterwards so strongly advocated :
From a morning that doth shine,
Good Lord deliver me!
Captain Lassells, or Lascelles, of Elston was military secretary to Monk, Duke of Albemarle, during the Civil Wars. A large volume of account books, countersigned in many places by Monk, are now in the possession of my cousin Francis Darwin. The accounts might possibly prove of interest to the antiquarian or historian. A portrait of Captain Lassells in armour, although used at one time as an archery-target by some small boys of our name, was not irretrievably ruined.
+ What follows is quoted from Charles Darwin's biography of his grandfather, forming the preliminary notice to Ernst Krause's interesting essay, • Erasmus Darwin,' London, 1879, p. 4.
"It is suspected that the third line may be accounted for by his wife, the mother of Erasmus, having been a very learned lady. The eldest son of Robert, christened Robert Waring, succeeded to the estate of Elston, and died there at the age of ninety-two, a bachelor. He had a strong taste for poetry, like his youngest brother Erasmus. Robert also cultivated botany, and, when an oldish man, he published his ' Principia Botanica.' This book in MS. was beautifully written, and my father (Dr. R. W. Darwin] declared that he believed it was published because his old uncle could not endure that such fine caligraphy should be wasted. But this was hardly just, as the work contains many curious notes on biology-a subject wholly neglected in England in the last century. The public, moreover, appreciated the book, as the copy in my possession is the third edition."
The second son, William Alvey, inherited Elston, and transmitted it to his granddaughter, the late Mrs. Darwin, of Elston and Creskeld. A third son, John, became rector of Elston, the living being in the gift of the family. The fourth son, and youngest child, was Erasmus Darwin, the poet and philosopher.
The table on page 5 shows Charles Darwin's descent from Robert, and his relationship to some other members of the family, whose names occur in his correspondence. Among these are included William Darwin Fox, one of his earliest correspondents, and Francis Galton, with whom he maintained a warm friendship for many years. Here also occurs the name of Francis Sacheverel Darwin, who inherited a love of natural history from Erasmus, and transmitted it to his son Edward Darwin, author (under the name of "High Elms ") of a 'Gamekeeper's Manual' (4th Edit. 1863), which shows keen observation of the habits of various animals.
It is always interesting to see how far a man's personal characteristics can be traced in his forefathers. Charles Darwin inherited the tall stature, but not the bulky figure of Erasmus; but in his features there is no traceable resemblance to those of his grandfather. Nor, it appears, had
Robert Waring. ERASMUS, m. (1) Mary Howard ; m. (2) Eliz. Chandos-Pole.
ROBERT WARING, Charles. b. 1774, d. 1841.
Samuel Fox. b. 1767, d. 1848. b. 1758, m. Susannah
d. 1778.
ROBERT DARWIN of Elston.
b. 1682, d. 1754.
William Alvey.
Anne m.
Sarah, m.
William Francis Rhodes, Edward Noel. Darwin Fox. now Francis Darwin of Creskeld and Elston.


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Justin Bieber is one of the few celebs who has openly admitted that he is dealing with mental issues. On March 10th he shared an Instagram post where he hinted that he is dealing with mental issues.
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Just wanted to keep you guys updated a little bit hopefully what I'm going through will resonate with you guys. Been struggling a lot. Just feeling super disconnected and weird.. I always bounce back so I'm not worried just wanted to reach out and ask for your guys to pray for me. God is faithful and ur prayers really work thanks .. the most human season I've ever been in facing my stuff head on..
The singer and songwriter have hinted through his multiple posts that he is going through depression and a bad phase in his life. In an interview, he said
"I'm struggling to get through the days. I think a lot of people are," he said at the time. "You get lonely, you know when you're on the road. People see the glam and the amazing stuff, but they don't know the other side."
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Love u guys.. I'm going to be canceling my meet and greets. I enjoy meeting such incredible people but I end up feeling so drained and filled with so much of other people's spiritual energy that I end up so drained and unhappy.. Want to make people smile and happy but not at my expense and I always leave feeling mentally and emotionally exhausted to the point of depression .. The pressure of meeting people's expectations of what I'm supposed to be is so much for me to handle and a lot on my shoulders. Never want to disappoint but I feel I would rather give you guys the show and my albums as promised. Can't tell you how sorry I am, and wish it wasn't so hard on me.. And I want to stay in the healthy mindset I'm in to give you the best show you have ever seen 😉
He also shared another post on Instagram which showed that he is looking forward to meeting people physically and share that happiness in real terms. One of the most obvious things which always came during his conversations or posts was about "Celebrity Pressure". We all will admit that celebs always stay in deep pressure. They are the one who needs to look glamorous and the pressure is always mounting with every release or with every appearance. And sometimes it becomes difficult to stay true to these expectations. After they are also regular human beings and thus they should be allowed some amount of privacy.
Also, with digital and social media coming closer even their bedroom secrets are also out in the public. Celebs should also be given some amount of respect and there should be a gap between their public and personal life.
Selena Gomez also joked some days back about marrying 68-year-old Bill Murray. Now, this came as an utter shock for everyone who is not even her followers. People started questioning like why on earth will she marry Bill Murray. There are millions of millionaires who are waiting to get married to her and here she marries this old man.
And now after some days, she is denying the same. God knows what's the truth. Selena Gomez has been the ex-love affair of Justin Bieber. The two were going quite strong when the latter broke up and got engaged to Hailey Baldwin. This is said to leave Selena heartbroken and she even had to rush to rehab to heal her healing heart. Recently Selena announced her marriage with 69 years old actor.
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Now, when Justin and Hailey are engaged, it is being said that their public marriage is on hold till Justin comes out of his mental cocoon shell. But inside sources have said that this marriage has also hit a rocky patch and they are even visiting marriage counselors. Some also said that Justin is meeting Selena to patch things up.
We don't know what to say and whom to trust.
But the bottom ground is that depression is very much real. As per the Anxiety and Depression Association of America, 322 million people suffer from depression worldwide. And if celebs like Justin Bieber and Selena are going through the same, then it's huge.
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A baby giraffe has been born at a zoo that faced international outrage after workers killed a "surplus" young giraffe in 2014.
Denmark's Copenhagen Zoo posted a video of the new giraffe's birth to YouTube on Friday, showing the young animal exiting the mother's body and quickly gaining footing as onlookers cheered.
But only a little more than two years ago, the same zoo killed a healthy 2-year-old giraffe, claiming that the young male was "a surplus animal."
That giraffe, named Marius, was not inbred. However, zoo officials said his genes were too common in the zoo population and thus he would be of no use for breeding.
So in February 2014, a zookeeper lured Marius away from the other animals with his favorite food, a piece of rye bread. Then a veterinarian shot him in the head with a bolt gun, National Geographic reported at the time.
Zoo workers later publicly dissected Marius' body for an educational demonstration. They fed meat from the body to the zoo's lions, which was the reason they shot him instead of using lethal injection, according to the Guardian.
The decision sparked outrage from rights groups and animal lovers around the world, who felt killing Marius was cruel and unnecessary ― especially since some other zoos, including Yorkshire Wildlife Park in the UK, offered to take him.
Zoo spokesman Jacob Hoeck told The Huffington Post in an email that it is "still too soon to say" whether the newborn giraffe could end up with the same fate.
"It will stay with the rest of the giraffes for the next couple of years though," Hoeck said. "But when the giraffe is about 2 years old it will be moved to another European zoo."
Killing an animal was not a one-off event for the zoo.
Workers killed four lions — a breeding pair and their young offspring — weeks after Marius' death in order to make way for a new male lion coming to the zoo to form a breeding group, CNN reported at the time. In 2012, the facility used lethal injection to kill two leopard cubs for the same reason they killed Marius — their genes were "overrepresented" in the zoo's population and they would have been of no use for breeding.
And those are just the animals that got media attention. The zoo's conservation director, Bengt Holst, told the BBC that the zoo culls 20 to 30 animals every year for the purposes of managing populations.
Some zoos, especially in the United States, administer contraception to animals to avoid having "extra" offspring, according to The New York Times. And Times reporter Leslie Kaufman noted in 2012 that "it might seem suspiciously convenient" when a zoo kills an animal "just after it has completed its most adorable phase." After all, zoogoers love seeing baby animals.
But Holst told the Times that the reason Copenhagen Zoo avoids contraception is because allowing animals to breed is more "natural." Euthanizing some of the offpsiring also mimics nature because in the wild, many young animals die of predation, injury or other natural causes, he added.
"We'd rather they have as natural behavior as possible," he said. "We have already taken away their predatory and antipredatory behaviors. If we take away their parenting behavior, they have not much left."
Hoeck, the zoo spokesman, tol HuffPost that the zoo's breeding policy is unchanged, but added that "it is a bit more nuanced than a mimic of nature." He pointed to a frequently asked questions section on the zoo's website that addresses its rationale:
Copenhagen Zoo's animals are part of an international breeding programme which aims at ensuring a healthy animal population in European zoos. This is done by constantly ensuring that only unrelated animals breed so that inbreeding is avoided. If an animal's genes are well represented in a population further breeding with that particular animal is unwanted. When an animal's genes are well represented in the breeding programme and there is no place for the animal in another zoo, the European Breeding Programme has agreed that the animal is to be euthanized. This is a situation that we know from other group animals that breed well. When breeding success increases it is sometimes necessary to euthanize.
Copenhagen Zoo is not the only European wildlife center that deals with "surplus" animals. Dr. Leslie Dickie, executive director of the European Association of Zoos and Aquaria, told the BBC shortly after Marius' death that between 3,000 and 5,000 animals are "management-euthanized" in European zoos each year. That number includes smaller animals, like tadpoles, she said, noting that when it comes to larger animals like lions and bears, she estimates the number drops to "less than a few hundred" annually.
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♡ Saturday, February 4th ♡
❣ Hornsby ❣ Alli ❣ Eunice ❣ Olaf ❣ Kitty ❣ Apple ❣ Agent S ❣ Drago ❣ Doc ❣
I can totally see why Goldie is as popular as she is for this franchise. THOSE PRECIOUS PUPPY EYES. I have her Amiibo Card that came with Amiibo Festival and she's got a tiny fishing hat on. Best thing ever.
It's Mira the super hero bunny! She reminds me of the Jetsons because of her futuristic look. She has the full outfit and even the permanent mask to top it off.
Man I actually really like the wolf villagers. I have Chief and Wolfgang in two towns but I hope to get Fang and Lobo some day. I have designed for most of them on Happy Home and I just enjoy their personalities so much.
Aww I just love Erick's little hairline. He's got some real fluffy bangs and it's totally adorable. He's a villager who gives me all the holiday feels because of the reindeer look and cabin!
For some reason it feels like I have Sprinkle on every single recap post. Do I really scan her in that much for this town? LOL Anyways, she's a cutie and her hair swirl is everything.
I'm really sorry about missing last Saturday's stream! I ran into a lot of issues with my website where a lot of photos got messed up. It put me in a really bad mood and I don't ever want stream when I am like that. After spending a few hours trying to fix it I started to feel really sick and my allergies were out of control. I really have to start taking care of myself more now that we are in this weird season transition. New Year's was pretty long ago but I'm making a resolution to eat better and stay active because I need more energy and a fit, healthy body if I want to keep streaming for you guys. I won't get very far with what I am doing now because my sleep schedule is really awful and I feel exhausted pretty much every day. I need to stop over working myself and be nice to my body. Sorry for the rant but I love you guys and I really appreciate all the love and support :)
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I time travel a whole lot in this town and result will be that some villagers sell or switch out their furniture. I can try to prevent this from happening by filling up retail with place holders! I like to have flowers on display so it looks like a nice flower shop. Dandelions and dandelion puffs have a cute brown pot!
I have been seeing a bunch of hybrids pop up in this town so please feel free to take them on your way out of Cycling town!
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June baby! I really wish that other villagers could also wear accessories like this. June's hibiscus flower clip is permanent just like Bud's sunglasses. I should totally wear a tropical outfit for this Mayor character when summer hits. June is the perfect island villager but her house should really have more beach house items.
I just now notice how Chrissy and Francine's little piece of hair reminds me of a baby. Whenever you see baby cartoon clip art images there is always a single curly strand of hair. HOW CUTE because they are pink and blue bunnies representing the gender colors.
The first time I ever got legitimately emotional (in tears) from Animal Crossing was when I lost Merengue in Bristol. I still remember where her house was when she lived in town before everything changed. WHO WOULDN'T LOVE A STRAWBERRY SHORTCAKE RHINO VILLAGER? She broke my heart and I can never forgive her.
Pink villagers were taking over Cycling Town this weekend. Flora is in my gardening town and she may look sweet but she caused a lot of issues for me in my Garden Town. Such a troll, but she's still very cute so I'll let it go.
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If you win the sub scan, you DO NOT have to pick up immediately. Enter and choose your dream villager! Take time to make room in your town because I know how stressful and risky it is if you are time traveling and trying to move specific villagers out.
I don't even know how I still manage to finish these weekly blog posts in time. I have been so overwhelmed with everything going on. I just graduated and joined an ESports team, Splyce! Not to mention I still have things to do for my new Twitch team and product reviews blog! I am drowning but I feel very accomplished and proud of how far I have come. I feel extremely humble and appreciative that companies like my work and what I do. I really hope you guys enjoy the Cycling Town stream and recap posts! I try to put out as much Animal Crossing and relevant content as possible. Please bear with me if I am a bit slow with updating some other pages. I am very excited to celebrate the upcoming months with you all! Lots of love, Sugar xoxo
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Camden bishop among those under fire for costly homes
Before moving to South Jersey one year ago, Bishop Dennis Sullivan lived in a Manhattan mansion with a chair reserved exclusively for a visiting Pope.
Sullivan, now the Diocese of Camden leader, is again in a mansion — but this one has the church leader on a hot seat.
Critics have assailed Sullivan's decision to spend $500,000 for a Woodbury estate, a 20-room manor known as Rugby Pines once used by the president of Rowan University.
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They assert the money would be better spent helping the needy and the bishop should seek a more humble home.
Sullivan is not alone.
Controversies have flared recently over church leaders' pricey homes in the Atlanta and Newark dioceses. And Pope Francis removed a German bishop from his post last month after the cleric spent the equivalent of $43 million for a new residence and related improvements.
Indeed, Francis may have ignited the debate over residences for high-ranking clergymen when he became pope in March 2013 and declined to occupy the papal apartments in a Vatican palace. He lives instead in a guest house.
"I think Pope Francis has challenged us all to look more closely at the way we are as a church — our priorities, our sensibilities, the choices we make," noted Greg Kandra, a former TV journalist who now blogs about church activities as a deacon with the Diocese of Brooklyn.
"The controversies about where bishops live and how they live are part of that."
A similar view came from Archbishop Wilton Gregory in Atlanta, who faced an angry backlash over a new home valued at $2.2 million.
Gregory said the house, built with donated funds, could be justified "fiscally, logistically and practically." But the Georgia bishop acknowledged he had failed to consider the cost "in terms of my own integrity and pastoral credibility."
"What we didn't stop to consider ... was that the world and the church have changed," said the apologetic bishop.
Gregory announced plans earlier this month to sell his 6,400-square-foot mansion "and invest the proceeds from that sale into the needs of the Catholic community."
But while Gregory thanked his critics, church leaders in the Diocese of Newark have fired back at foes of a planned $500,000 expansion at a retirement home for Archbishop John Myers.
Co-Adjutor Archbishop Bernard Hebda, expected to succeed Myers, has decried criticism of the project as "sensationalism" and "distractions."
The North Jersey diocese in February issued a response to media reports on the controversy, alleging "a number of misrepresentations" in news coverage and "numerous errors and mistakes" in readers' online comments.
In a March 17 op-ed in the Bergen Record, Hebda described Myers as "a generous shepherd who works tirelessly for his flock" and noted the retiring cleric had previously lived for 13 years in a rectory in Newark — "in a ZIP code that few would consider enviable."
But that defense drew more than 30 comments from readers, all negative. As part of that feedback, one reader noted the financial plight of parochial schools, while several brought up the subject of clergy sex abuse.
And an online petition asking the Newark Archdiocese to scrap the expansion plan has drawn more than 21,000 signatures, according to Faithful America, a Christian activist group.
The disputes show the need for modern bishops to have strong skills as communicators, according to Rocco Palmo, a Philadelphia-based blogger who writes on the Catholic Church.
"If you don't communicate well, you're setting yourself up for people being furious."
In announcing the purchase in December, diocesan spokesman Peter Feuerherd said the Woodbury house for Sullivan provides "needed work space, and room for meetings, that the quarters in Blackwood just didn't have," and noted $395,000 for the acquisition came from the sale of another home owned by the diocese.
Feuerherd declined to comment for this story. Sullivan, who has led the diocese since February 2013, has not talked publicly on the issue.
Local Catholics unhappy with the bishop's purchase of the home also fault his handling of the controversy.
"I am saddened that Bishop Sullivan has chosen to not address this ... as it has become a much talked about subject within the church walls," said Michelle Alexander of Clementon.
She added the home's purchase "was not a sound investment" at a time of parish mergers and church closings.
Michael DiClaudio described the diocesan response to the controversy as "disappointing." He suggested the bishop could convert the house into "something meaningful, such as a rehabilitation center for victims of domestic abuse (or) a homeless shelter for the poor and forgotten.
"I think most Catholics would agree that this is what they would like to see their church tithes spent on," DiClaudio added, "not fancy living quarters for the religious of our church."
The Glassboro resident said the dispute has made him more aware of his own need to help others, but that he's also changed his charitable activities.
"I have ceased contributing any money to the weekly collection that goes to the diocese. Nor have I contributed to the bishop's (current) annual appeal for the House of Charity," DiClaudio added.
That annual appeal has consisted of videotaped messages from Sullivan during Sunday masses.
"I cannot, with a clear conscience, tithe to this diocese until the hypocrisy has been dissolved."
DiClaudio now directs donations to St. Anthony of Padua parish in Camden, "where the priests work tirelessly towards building a better city for the residents."
But the Rev. Carmel Polidano, pastor of St. Rita of Cascia Parish in Bellmawr, said critics are distorting the bishop's actions.
"The word 'mansion' has to be taken away," explained Polidano, contending a $500,000 property hardly passes for palatial in South Jersey.
"It's a big house."
The pastor, who compared Sullivan's temporary quarters to a motel, said the Woodbury house would help the bishop oversee the six-county diocese.
"He needs a home where he can continue his ministry," said Polidano, adding Sullivan will share the home with two other priests. "A lot of work is done in the evening."
Polidano also asserted withholding donations from the diocese would only hurt charitable activities.
"If people say that money is going to the bishop, that's not true," he noted. "Why don't we use the energy of criticizing to see what we can do to help the church?"
Palmo said church officials "didn't do a good job of explaining" the need for the Woodbury house. But he also saw compelling reasons for the purchase of the 6,000-square-foot building, constructed in 1908.
Camden's bishop traditionally occupied an imposing home until Sullivan's predecessor, Bishop Joseph Galante, moved into a single-story retreat facility for health reasons. That residence was sold as part of the Woodbury transaction.
"A bishop's home is almost a public facility," said Palmo, adding residences often are used for catered receptions, meetings and other events.
Sullivan, who was the No. 2 administrator in the Archdiocese of New York, formerly shared a four-story Madison Avenue mansion with Cardinal Timothy Dolan and other city clergymen.
That art- and antique-filled building includes reception and office space, as well as a private entrance to St. Patrick's Cathedral and an imposing chair set aside for a visiting pontiff.
"People would rather get an invitation to the bishop's home than come to his office," said Palmo, author of the blog Whispers in the Loggia. "It really does help with fundraising."
The blogger also said the bishop's move could help the diocese financially, because Sullivan's former home at the Spiritual Life Center in Blackwood is being razed to make way for a Catholic cemetery.
"The diocese stands to make millions off that," predicted Palmo, noting several Catholic graveyards are close to capacity in the Philadelphia area.
He also observed the Woodbury home, vacant for two years and once priced at $800,000, received extensive improvements before its sale.
"If anything, the house is going to end up being a bargain."
The debate over the bishops' homes also reflects a cultural change within the Catholic Church, Palmo said.
"One hundred years ago, these houses were meant to say, 'The Catholics have arrived,' " Palmo explained.
"The bishop and the archbishop, as leaders of the Catholic community, were on a par with the governor and the mayor."
But since the Second Vatican Council in the 1960s, a bishop has been increasingly seen as "a pastor, teacher and servant of the people.
"That requires a very different model of how you conduct yourself in office," Palmo added.
In Philadelphia, Archbishop Charles Chaput last year sold his mansion and a Ventnor property to overcome a $6 million operating deficit. He now lives in an apartment at a seminary.
"The resources of the church don't belong to the bishops or the clergy or some remote institution," Chaput wrote to the diocese's Catholics in June 2013.
"They belong to her people."
In his recent Lenten message, Pope Francis suggested a lavish lifestyle was not compatible with a spiritual life.
"When power, luxury and money become idols, they take priority over the need for a fair distribution of wealth. Our consciences thus need to be converted to justice, equality, simplicity and sharing."
"He's making us look more deeply at how we live as Christians and how we conduct ourselves as clergy," said Kandra, also multimedia editor of the Catholic Near East Welfare Association.
"I think that's healthy — and I think the result will only make us better Christians and better servant leaders."
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Point Blank: Mr Botta had a blog this afternoon and wrote he felt the right moves would be made moving forward and more players would be added to Rick DiPietro and Kyle Okposo.
He also wrote Garth Snow or Ted Nolan would never use injuries as an excuse but pointed out the huge list of players injured and wondered how any team could stay in contention under those circumstances?
NYI Fan Central Comments:
On the surface Mr Botta is correct and you do have to look at the injuries as a reason for the club failing which began all the way back with Jon Sim and his production which is a very big deal on a team like this but the cold reality is this was a very flawed team on several levels since day one and it cannot all be chalked up to man games lost which will go over four hundred when it's all done.
We can say injuries finally did them in but a team that scored two goals or less fourteen games in a row in November and December when it was mostly healthy should have fallen off the playoff map back then. Around mid-December the New York Islanders had a grand total of eleven first period goals for the season. It had a powerplay that was terrible for over five months that seemed to allow more goals then they can score too many nights and the worst I can ever recall in all my years as a fan.
The goal-less streaks by the veterans counted on to produce for the most part lasted from beginning to end.
I never went into games wondering would an Islander powerplay give the opposition momentum in all my years as a fan. This year it seemed a matter of when, not if before they would make a mistake. Everyone was part of the blame from Guerin's cross ice pass in Montreal to Bergeron, Berard and Satan turnovers. It was a team effort here led by the veterans and it had little to do with injuries.
This was the lowest scoring Islander team in decades for a while and one of the lowest scoring clubs in the league from beginning to end. It killed penalties very well and cut it's powerplay to penalty ratio but little else improved besides what the kids provided.
Worst of all the Islanders ability to play five on five was gone from a year ago with most of the roster deep in negative plus/minus ratings which is why they could not get games to overtime.
The veterans did not produce with any consistency with Guerin struggling badly into December, Satan having a second poor season in a row and you can go down the line with who was counted on for offense between Sillinger, Hunter and Fedotenko who faded after a strong start. Mike Comrie at best was average for the talent around him.
I also have no doubt some players were hurt but hung in as long as they could led by Satan who was supposed to be out eight weeks but missed one game. Having written that Satan's been struggling for two seasons plus, I cannot tell if it's all about injuries.
Part of the reality here is to write what everyone knows. Richard Park gives all he has to every game but he cannot score with the consistency required for the minutes and role he was given, same for Andy Hilbert. Josef Vasicek for a player who had six goals a year ago gave all he had but is not a player who can produce enough to be a second line center, not on a club with so many other players in offense roles with no scoring resume.
Then came the January losing streak of seven games in a row where the club dropped out of it's playoff spot, never recovered and the injuries finally started mounting, despite the character from the players and their replacements to grind out a six game winning streak, they never got all the way back to being in the top eight.
The ability from a year ago to manufacture enough goals to send games to overtime in seventeen of twenty games after they were a game over five hundred at the end of January 2007 was gone from day one, replaced by a lot of regulation losses where the veterans did not seem to work as hard as they could many games. Last night I pointed out that was the second home Coliseum shootout all season and the first of any kind in close to a month, survival skills to grind games out to overtime was missing all year.
I'll never forget the game before the all-star break against Boston. Ted Nolan afterward talked of his team looking forward to getting away while Marc Savard said how desperately they wanted to win that game after coming off a bad loss. We saw a lot of bad losses where this team could not score or generate much of anything like against Anaheim or Los Angeles.
To me games like that defined the Islander season a lot more than the injuries which have to be talked about but cannot be used as the over-riding factor for the club's failure this season.
It also cannot be ignored how many of these kids have outworked the veterans for months, the coach has said it several occasions.
Also moving forward the cold reality is players like Brendan Witt, Andy Sutton are going to miss a lot of games with injuries because that is their career resume. Bill Guerin is not getting younger and neither is Mike Sillinger. Mike Comrie's resume has a lot of injuries. For Bryan Berard to hold up enough to complete a season and play as much as he has in the second half had to be considered unexpected at this point in his career.
Point Blank: Mr Botta did a second blog on this because he felt some flame throwing was going on about his earlier blog.
In it he includes the disclaimer his blog was not a commentary on the woes of the power play or the struggle to score goals and with the knowledge Ted Nolan gets as much out of his players as any coach in the league if everyone (including Jon Sim) were healthy do you really think the Islanders would be in the playoff hunt this week?
NYI Fan Central Comments:
I hope Mr Botta knows and understands this blog does not engage if flame throwing but only asks the questions from all angles and is critical when something deserves criticism. Of course when he reaches out some will flame him regardless which to me only hurts what I feel are good intentions and giving his thoughts like any of us.
He is not required to blog and share his thoughts with anyone, instead he goes out of his way to talk hockey like one of the fans.
I again reiterate as above on the surface Mr Botta is correct that the injuries were a big issue but it cannot be ignored this club had major issues in other key area's that were even bigger factors that I wrote about in detail.
To me everything has to be taken into account.
I have to admit he asks a fair question and a good one. Do I think if everyone were healthy would the Isles be in a playoff hunt this week? I do not know for sure what Jon Sim would have done here but I can speculate like everyone else his production would be down from where it was in Atlanta like everyone else.
Having written that I could be wrong there too, Sim could have had a career year with his quickness and skill that carried the club and got more out of other players he had seventeen goals on a third line in Atlanta.
To be fair I can also write no team goes eight two games without some significant injuries.
To answer Mr Botta's question the Islanders even with the injuries and losing seven in a row hung around until the final two weeks of the season, so sure I think if they were healthy they would be in contention now if everyone was healthy because it's obvious even now there is no team in this division the Islanders cannot win against on any given night.
In March they beat the Devils, Penguins, Rangers and were ahead against Philadelphia all night before losing a shootout.
Still this was a flawed team on a lot of levels for six months, but what team is not?
A good question for Mr Botta to ask is how come Howie Rose on the telecast Saturday made it seem like it was almost a waste of time for the Islanders to finish eighth again, lose in the opening round and just do a rebuilding around the young players?
Anyone think Mr Rose will be saying that about the Rangers if they are fighting for eighth come Friday?


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Sunday 3rd August 2014: 1.54am.
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The Emerging Plan for Caddo Commission Self-Pay
June 5, 2016
It is certainly true that the Caddo Parish Commission self-pay scandal, more that two decades old, is the stuff of non-fiction books and documentary films. Now, a valued, primary source reveals more of its signature abuse of power.
According to the vigorous assertion of a Commission attorney, the entire matter of CPERS and other Commissioner self-pay will be resolved "in November."
How is that for certitude in rigging the supposedly unriggable? More specifically, Commission bad actors will preserve, if not increase, their (illegal) self-pay with Caddo Parish Home Rule Charter (HRC) amendments. The vote on these would be in November, on the presidential election ballot. Riggers "know" that particular turnout somehow ices their score.
Such a plan, oh by the way, would also mean my lawsuit against the Commission* would likewise be "resolved." How can a Commission attorney know that … when neither I nor my attorney do? How can my lawsuit be finally litigated on a schedule dictated to the court byCommission malefactors?
Yes, this scandal has crossed over into what many offenders believe is pay-dirt. Now, a citizen committee, run by Commission offenders, works to devise self-pay-protection amendments to our HRC. Commissioners will approve said protections – with some thus voting on their own (illegal) self-pay.
This new committee has an impressive-sounding name – the "Quadrennial Charter Review Committee 2016 – but no matter how spiffy the words, nothing can hide its actual role. Committee members will be led to create the appearance that illegal is legal, and wrong is right.
Although the Commission website is supposed to provide the Minutes of these committee meetings, as I write this, no Minutes for the first four meetings are yet available. I obtained them by written request.
From the jump, here are house-sized violations of process, and, I will bet, law. Four meetings deep into their work, these bells cannot be unrung:
1. The lone Commissioner on the committee – and I do not believe ANY Commissioner can legally / ethically be a member in this instance – is Matthew Linn, a CPERS recipient and prime defender of self-pay for Commissioners, regardless the type, shape, color / tint, size / amount, purpose or method of same.
2. For the first time in my decades of experience with many, many such groups, two of thevoting members of the group are the Caddo Commission Administrator (and CPERS recipient) Woody Wilson, and Caddo Commission Parish Attorney Donna Frazier. Wilson should be nowhere near this, and no staff members should be voting, of course.
3. A stunning entry in the Official Minutes of one meeting is the following "anything goes" rule for the committee, one which purely fits the history of this nightmare:
"There was a brief discussion of rules and what process might be followed during the review process. … Mr. Frazier pointed out that there are no specific guidelines on how the Charter is reviewed (emphasis mine), it is that it be reviewed by a committee every four years (sic)."
4. Then, consider these features:"It was moved by Mr. Linn, and seconded by Dr. Wilson, to move forward without any changes to Section 3.05. Compensation. due to pending legal discussion."
The two who "moved" and "seconded" are two committee members who have CPERS pay on the line, in their accounts. Can there be a more dramatic conflict of interest? For obvious reasons, neither should be at all involved in this.
Too, the reference to "pending legal discussion" is pure excrement. There is no pending legal discussion. Such refers to my lawsuit against the Commission, which they well know is dead in the water. They also know why and how.
What Commission doers have thus achieved took consummate rigging, with parish officials in all branches of government playing critical roles. Lest we forget, included in their cover-up and stonewalling is careful ignorance of two official reports against all of this by the Louisiana Legislative Auditor.
(I cannot shake Dr. King's apt and powerful warning: "In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.")
To those who only want this ugly chapter in Caddo Parish over and behind us, all of this marks the beginning of the end. But, for those in pursuit of law and justice, it likely marks the end of the beginning.
( … continuing … )
* Since March 2014, I have written and online-published 46 articles about corruption within the Caddo Parish Commission. The articles written since January 2015 may be read on RealShreveport.com. Click first on "CPERS Timeline," then begin reading the first article at the bottom of Page 2. Articles are chronologically arranged from there, forward.


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Introduction: How To: 100lb Anvil Stand
I have had this 122LB Peter Wright Anvil for a few years and it needed a worthy stand! @Doghouseforge on Instagram posted a great sand filled 2x3 construction stand about a year ago and I decided to make my own version of that.
The concept is pretty simple, the 2x3's make a square frame, with 3/4" plywood as the bottom. This size stand will accept about 100lbs of sand and using large threaded rods and steel you can secure the anvil to the top. Follow along with this project on this video below:
For a detailed write up continue into this instructable. Got questions? Ask them in the comments! Enjoy!
Step 1: Design:
As I said, the original design for this stand came from @doghouseforge on Instagram back in January 2016. For my stand I will choose to use 2 layers of 3/4" plywood as the bottom, and then 11 layers of 2x3s on the flat.
The total height of the stand will be about 17" when its complete. My anvil is about 11" tall, and I am aiming for a finished height of 28". The proper height of an anvil is about the height of your knuckles when your standing at a relaxed stance with your hands hanging straight down from your elbow.
Step 2: Cutting Up the 2x3s
This project has a few repetitive components and one of them is cutting up the 2 x 3s to length. Since the top is solid 2x3s the 6 pieces of 2x3 will be 15" long. The rest of the stand is 12.5" pieces in a square pattern. I use a stop block on my miter saw stand to quickly cut everything to length. You have to be very careful when using a screwed down stop block with a miter saw, if the material binds up it will go flying. I always allow the blade of my saw to stop completely before moving it back upward out of the cut. BE CAREFUL
Step 3: Cutting Up and Glueing the Plywood Base.
I use the miter saw to cut up the 15" x 15" plywood base. This isn't a very precise build so I didn't have to go so crazy getting these pieces to be perfect. I use a healthy amount of wood glue to secure the 2 pieces together. Then I use a collated screw gun to get about 15 screws in the two pieces making them nice and secure.
Step 4: Assembling the Stand:
The design of the stand is a square boarder with each layer staggered above the layer below it. I use glue between each layer and 1 3" screw on each piece of wood to hold it all together. You could really load this up with screws but I felt with the glue that it was not necessary to use more than 1 per piece of 2x3.
Step 5: Trace Out the Anvil:
The stand is roughly assembled so now I put the anvil on top to trace out the base.
Step 6: Adding the Threaded Rod
The clamp down system is 2 - 5/8" threaded rods, so I drilled 2 - 5/8" holes in 2 of the 2x3s on the top. I kept the tolerances tight on this so I get the best hold when I bolt everything down.
Step 7: Making the Steel Clamping Bars:
The steel bars are 1" x 1" with 1/8" wall. I drilled 5/8" holes in both side of the steel tube and cut each piece down to 12" with my small portable bandsaw. I deburr the edges using a belt sander.
Step 8: Filling the Base With Sand (A Creative Solution):
A base of this side will hold about 90lbs of sand, but you have to really pack it in there to make it fit. At first I tried whacking the side with a mallet and thought i would be able to manually vibrate the base enough to get the sand to settle, I was wrong. It would have taken me a week to shake out the voices with a hammer. So then I tried packing it down with a scrap piece of wood, this worked well but also took too long.
I decide to use my cordless SDS hammer drill to compact the sand quickly. I used a flat shipping bit and a scrap piece of 2x3 to vibrate and compact the sand to a point where it wouldn't move any further down the frame. This worked VERY well and I am really happy with the compaction I got out of the sand.
If you don't have a hammer drill, a piece of scrap wood will absolutely do the trick!
Step 9: Attaching the Top:
I decided not to glue the top section of 2x3s onto the base. I did this because I think the sand will continue to settle over time and I want to be able to add more sand in the future if necessary. Again I used 3" screws to screw down the top, but first I added the 5/8" threaded rods with a lock washer and nut on the bottom side.
Step 10: Attaching the Anvil:
Now that the top is on and the bolts are sticking out its time to drop the anvil on there and bolt it down! I made everything nice and tight and added more lock washers to keep things from vibrating loose over time.
Step 11: Adding a Tool Caddy:
Once I put the anvil into place and hit it a few times I realized I had no where for my hammers to hang while I'm using it! A quick trip back to the miter saw solved that. I cut up some 1/2" plywood for the sides and a 2x3" for the front section. I attached this to the stand using 3" screws.
Step 12: Swing Away!
As soon as you hit the anvil you can feel the stand doing its job. The impact rings off the anvil and its a really satisfying sound. This is an easy project that you can get done in a few hours. It will make using your anvil that much better! Thanks again to @doghouseforge for the original idea! Got questions? Ask them in the comments and ill be sure to try and answer them! Thanks for checking out this Instructable!
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Great build!
I have a couple of questions.
1) Why not use a heavy-duty plastic bag to put your sand in. This would probably eliminate any problem with sand getting through the cracks, if you didn't want to use glue. A poly bag would also protect your wood from the dampness in the sand, which could cause future rot, and possible fungal growth.
2) Why 2"x3"s, instead of 2"x4"? Five 2"x4"s would be 17 1/2" nominally, giving you a slightly larger base, which might be handy to have. This would also give a slightly larger inside area for your sand.
I like the idea of the bag or maybe a free tarp from harbor freight. Also what do you think of structural sand using plastic or steel screen layers?
What would be the advantages of "structural sand using plastic or steel screen layers"?
it would decrease the load off the walls when you axial load he top
In the photos you show the anvil resting on a 4 legged stool. I also have one like that (also cut down). Where did you get it? It's been so long now, I'm not sure where exactly it came from.
First off, I really hate when I read a great 'ible like this and then I have to rearrange my schedule so I can make it right away! I do have a question that is kinda dumb. I would love to be able to add wheels to this base to move it when not in use. They would have to fold up so they weren't taking the impact, but I can't seem to think of a creative way to do this while keeping them out of the way. Any ideas? (Don't worry, I'm sure I'll post my solution when I make this seeing as now I have to make one!) 8>0 Again, thanks for an awesome 'ible!
Consider adding a flip down wing with the wheels on it with some kind of jacking system to lift the box off the floor and and lock the wheels down !!
Would a heavy-duty, steel, roller-type, wheel work? If used, I would think, any impact would basically be inconsequential?
The only potential problem with this type of wheel/roller, is the floor would have to be fairly clean, so as not to impede rolling the stand to where it would be stored.
I think I saw a recent instructable where someone created foldable casters. Alternatively you could just mount the casters at an angle so you can tilt the stand back and roll it around.
you could probably build a hollow space underneath (possibly adding in some denser material to offset the loss in sand volume) and make some kind of lever system to lower casters from the hollow, possibly some bearing/ball casters for maneuverability and to reduce the vertical space for the retraction mechanism.
Unless your floor is perfectly flat you'll need to and two-by blocks for feet.
I love the idea, but was wondering if you are getting the full advantage of the sand. Since sand does not compress once fully settled, would you would get better performance by putting on a more ridged top, like a plate of iron?
My anvil stand is an old crane counter weight, so my experience is limited.
The use of the hammer drill was a nice touch.
mount casters on outside just above the floor, tilt stand and roll
Great 'ible!! I will make it, as soon as I can. And would add wheels as on a two-wheel-dolly: to the side. And also add a sort of removable handle to be able to tilt it onto the wheels.


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Dear Ones,
I hope the start of this new year has been a good one and the year brings each of you many blessings. My initial instinct was to just wish each of you a happy new year yet, that sentiment while sincere, felt insufficient and shallow given these times. We need each other more than ever and I am very grateful to have this community. I hit the ground running (mostly in a good way but also had a few bumps) and hope to settle into a bit of a slower pace over the next few months. It is my relationships with you all and felt sense of community that sustains and inspires me.
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One aspect of my Board Ministry that calls me is the opportunity to help shape culture to ensure we live our mission.
Perhaps you may recall my mentioning that the Board of Trustees (Steffani Brandenburg, Greg Goett, Kathryn Ward, Jack Kozuchowski, Suzi Novak, Vicki Bloom, and Stuart Marcus) had taken on the task of developing a three-year Rolling Strategic Plan. This is a living, ever-evolving document and tool that is designed to assist all of us towards growth and fulfilling our mission. I am pleased to announce that this initial work has been completed.
What is a Rolling 3-year strategic Plan?
A rolling strategic plan is a living document that is designed to guide us and our Ministry Teams to help fulfill and live OUR MISSION. "Rolling" refers to how it will be utilized. Year two goals (will become year one (2021-2022); year three goals will become year two (2022-2023) and new year three goals will be developed for 2023-2024, etc. Additionally, all goals will continue to be reviewed for their relevance. What is special about our plan is that it was created by the congregation.
During 2019 our congregation hired a UUA consultant to assist in developing our mission and vision statement. All congregants were invited to participate in the process which resulted in our current Mission Statement along with more detailed broad-brush goals that outlined our vision as to how this would be carried out. In May 2019 we voted to formally accept our Mission and Vision at our annual meeting. The Board used these documents as the basis for the strategic plan. While the categories of "Gather, Engage, and Create" are not noted specifically in the Plan, each and every one of the goals identified in 2019 is incorporated.
We began the process at the Board retreat and worked closely with our current Ministry Teams. In December 2019 we were able to complete our work and in doing so (drum roll) we are now eligible to apply for a Chalice Lighter Grant from the UUA for a Membership Coordinator. In order to be eligible, we need to meet a threshold for chalice lighter supporters so if you have not done so, I hope you will consider becoming a supporter.
As we continue to gather, engage, and create, we have so much to look forward to!
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