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The other night I went to a fundraising even at Inner-City Arts in Downtown LA. Inner City Arts is a program provides arts exposure and education to kids, most of whom live within a few miles of the school -- one of the more impoverished and under-served areas in the county (although there is at least one student who's bussed in all the way from Pomona).
A center for ants
The Inner-City Arts campus was designed by Michael Maltzan, whose Los Feliz-based firm is also responsible for Westwood's Billy Wilder Theater, part of Pasadena's Art Center College of Design and several housing units for the formerly homeless.
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Reports by Cybex International, Medway, MA, of growth in fourth quarter 2010, year 2010 and first quarter 2011 were a bit subdued due to news of other troubles the company faces.
Chief among those troubles is a $66 million product liability lawsuit judgment for which Cybex is 75 percent liable if its appeal for a reduction of the judgment is not heard. The Barnhard v. Cybex International case involved a piece of Cybex equipment that a woman, Natalie Barnhard, allegedly pulled over on herself. The incident rendered her a quadriplegic. As of press time, Cybex had not yet filed its appeal because it could not secure a bond, which is required to file an appeal. The bond would typically be in the amount of the judgment and would prevent the plaintiff from collecting on the judgment until after the appeal is heard.
Early last month, when Cybex held its financial call with analysts to report its fourth quarter 2010 and year 2010 financials, John Aglialoro, chairman and CEO of Cybex, stated that the company was working with banks to secure the bond. However, upon release of its first quarter 2011 financials late last month, Cybex noted that it was unable to secure those bonds.
Cybex also must come up with a plan to prevent delisting on the NASDAQ Stock Market, where its shares are traded. On April 5, Cybex received a notice from NASDAQ that its shareholder equity is at negative $15 million—well below the minimum requirement of $10 million. The company has until May 20 to submit a plan to NASDAQ for how it will regain compliance. If the NASDAQ rejects the plan, Cybex can appeal to a NASDAQ hearing panel.
This is the second time NASDAQ has threatened to delist Cybex. In late January, NASDAQ notified the company that its stock price had been below $1 per share for 30 consecutive days, which put it at risk for delisting. Cybex had 180 days to improve its stock price. After the company's release of its fourth quarter 2010 and year-end 2010 financials, which showed improved revenues despite the product liability judgment, its stock began to rise, finally reaching a close of $1 on April 6. As of press time, Cybex's stock price had remained above $1, hitting a high of $1.27 on April 15.
Despite the problems, Cybex has had an improvement in sales during the last two quarters compared to the same periods a year ago. Net sales for fourth quarter 2010 were $39.9 million compared to $34.8 million for the corresponding 2009 period, a 15 percent increase. The company's net loss of $57.1 million in the fourth quarter included a $46 million pre-tax charge to reserve for the jury verdict in the Barnhard v. Cybex International case, and a $12.7 million incremental tax provision, also ultimately caused by the litigation charge.
Net income for the quarter excluding these charges would have been $1.5 million.
First quarter 2011 net sales were $31 million compared to $26.1 million for first quarter 2010. The company had a net profit in the first quarter of $0.4 million compared to a net loss of $0.8 million in first quarter 2010.


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Kristian Prestrud (1881-1927)
Kristian Prestrud was born on 22 October 1881 in Hveberg in the county of Hedmark. He was baptized in Grue church in January 1882. His father, Christen Christiansen Prestrud, was a farmer at Hårstad Østre farm (bought in March 1883) and was also manager at Løiten's distillery.
Krsitian Prestrud went to school in Hamar before leaving for the sea at 15 years of age on the Bark Rolf. After two years on sailing ships he started at the Naval Academy in Horten. He became second lieutenant in 1902 and first lieutenant in 1905. After leaving the Academy he sailed for a couple of years in the merchant fleet.
When Roald Amundsen in early spring 1909 asked captain Sem-Jacobsen to construct a kite or similar that he could use to be lifted up from a ship to gain a better view over the ice, Prestrud was one of the test fliers. The man-lifting kite was constructed with six-seven kites in a row. Underneath there was a chair where the observer could direct the elevation with the help of lines. The kites could lift c. 250 kilo. Sem-Jacobsen and Prestrud were lifted several times up to a couple of hundred metres height, while the kites themselves were as high as 600 metres. The Fram's captain, ltn. Engelstad, was killed in the attempts when lightening hit one of the kites. Prestrud was asked to be first mate on Amundsen's expedition with the Fram (which was supposed to go north), and before departure he participated on Bjørn Helland-Hansen's course in oceanography in Bergen together with Hjalmar Fredrik Gjertsen and Adolf Schröer.
Prestrud was in the eight-man group which made the first start towards the South Pole early in September 1911. The temperature was then still far too low, and the group got into difficulties. The retreat to the base Framheim was a shambles and Prestrud almost lost his life in the extreme conditions. He was saved by Hjalmar Johansen, Fridtjof Nansen's companion on the North Pole attempt in 1895. Johansen's criticism of Amundsen's dispositions during this failed start sent him into disgrace, and both he and Prestrud were left out of the group that finally conquered the South Pole in December 1911.
Johansen and Jørgen Stubberud were instead sent, under Prestrud's command, eastwards to survey King Edward VII Land for two months.
After the South Pole expedition Prestrud started at the district command in Kristiansand before he was on the armoured ship Norge 1913-14. In 1914-15 he served on the torpedo ship Delfin in Skudenes. Prestrud was appointed captain in 1915 and during the summer he served at the Admiralty in Kristiania (Oslo). In 1915-16 he served on the torpedo ship Sild in Kristiansund and in 1916-17 on the torpedo ship Skarv in Farsund. Later in 1917 he served on the torpedo ship Ravn in Kristiansand, before he in 1918 was transferred to the torpedo ship Viking in Haugesund. In 1919 he was on the armoured ship Tordenskjold.
During the period 1919-21 Prestrud was at the 3rd district command Marviken in Kristiansand. He then became aide to King Haakon VII until 1923. He was with the King on state visits to Belgium and the Netherlands. From 1923 to 1927 Prestrud was naval attaché at the legations in London and Paris. He was appointed harbour master in Kristiansand in 1927.
Prestrud married Randi Usterud from Kristiansand on 22 May 1915, with Thorvald Nilsen as his best man. They had a son Kaare (1916) and daughter Kirsti (1919). Kristian Prestrud died on 11 November 1927.
Kristian Prestrud was presented with the South Pole medal, was knight of the Danish Dannebrog Order, the French Legion of Honour, the Dutch Oranje-Nassau Order and the Belgian Order of Leopold.


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Urbana, IL, July 28, 2011 – While a hoe may not be the preferred tool for late-season weed control, University of Illinois Extension weed specialist Aaron Hager cautions producers about spraying herbicides.
"Herbicides applied at this time of year typically target large weeds, with results often less than desired with respect to the level of weed control achieved and increased potential for other problems," Hager said.
One of the most common scenarios is the application of diphenylether herbicides such as Flexstar, Cobra and Ultra Blazer for waterhemp plants not controlled by a previous herbicide application. In non-GMO and glyphosate-resistant soybean varieties, Hager said these herbicide active ingredients can provide good to excellent control of small waterhemp, but control is often poor when waterhemp plants exceed 5 to 6 inches.
"These herbicides do not translocate following absorption into the plant and the contact leaf burn they cause can vary according to product, spray additive and environmental conditions," he said. "Soybean injury following application of these herbicides can be severe and should be avoided at this point of the growing season."
The only way to control large waterhemp plants at this time is through physical removal, he said. Nearly all herbicide labels have rotational crop intervals that specify the amount of time that must elapse between herbicide application and planting a rotational crop. This becomes particularly important with late-season herbicide applications.
"These intervals are established to reduce the likelihood that herbicide residues will persist in sufficient quantities to adversely affect the rotational crop," Hager said. "Some herbicide rotational restrictions are based solely on time, while other factors, such as soil pH and the amount of precipitation received after herbicide application, can influence the length of the crop rotational intervals."
Hager said soil moisture is often the most critical factor governing the efficacy and persistence of soil-residual herbicides. Many herbicides are degraded in soil by the activity of soil microorganisms, and populations of these microorganisms can be greatly depressed when soil moisture is limited.
For more information on late-season herbicide applications, read the Bulletin at www.bulletin.ipm.illinois.edu.


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|Years Coached:
|17 years
|Last Season Coached:
|Jack Adams Award
|Martin, a former NHL head coach with St. Louis, Ottawa, Florida and Montreal, joins Tony Granato and Todd Reirden as assistants on coach Dan Bylsma's staff.
"Jacques is a highly-respected and accomplished coach who will be a tremendous addition to our staff," Penguins general manager Ray Shero said. "He brings a wealth of experience and knowledge to our organization because of his extensive background as a head coach and an assistant."
Prior to his new role in Pittsburgh, Martin coached the Montreal Canadies from 2009 through a partial season in 2011-12. The St. Pascal, Ontario native was also the Florida Panthers' General Manager from 2006 to 2009 while assuming the duties of head coach with the Panthers from 2004 to 2008.
Martin first joined the Panthers' organization in May 2004 as head coach. In three seasons behind the bench, he posted a 110-100-36 mark and stands as the club's all-time leader in games coached (246) and wins (110). On November 2, 2006, Martin became only the 13th head coach in NHL history to record 450 wins and a few months later, on March 3, 2007, he became the 12th coach in NHL history to coach in his 1,000th game. He currently ranks 10th on the NHL all-time list for games coached (1,098) and also ranks 10th in wins (517).
Midway through the 1995-96 season, Jacques Martin was hired as head coach of the Ottawa Senators. In his 9-year tenure with the Senators, he led his team to three division titles and had four seasons of at least 100 points. In 2002-03, following a 113-point season and the best record in the Eastern Conference, he guided the Senators to the Conference Finals in a 7-game series against the New Jersey Devils.
As coach of the Ottawa Senators, Martin posted a 341-255-96 regular season record. He stands as the franchise's all-time leader in games coached (692), regular-season wins (341), playoff games (69) and playoff wins (31). Martin has been nominated for the Jack Adams Trophy as NHL Coach of the Year four times (1997, 1999, 2001, 2003) winning the award in 1999.
|Jacques Martin also has extensive experience on the international level serving as an associate coach on Team Canada's hockey team for the last two Winter Olympics (Salt Lake City and Turin), earning a gold medal at the 2002 Salt Lake City Winter Games. He was also a member of the Canadian Team coaching staff at the 2004 World Cup.
In 1986-87, Martin entered the NHL as head coach of the St. Louis Blues; leading them to the playoffs on each of his two seasons. From 1988 to 1993, Martin successively worked as an assistant coach with the Chicago Blackhawks and associate coach with the Quebec Nordiques and, following a one-year stint as head coach of the AHL's Cornwall Aces, with the Colorado Avalanche.
Jacques Martin began his coaching career in major junior hockey with the OHL's Peterborough Petes as an assistant to Dick Todd from 1982 to 1984. He then moved on to become Guelph's head coach in 1985-86 season leading the Platers to the J. Ross Robertson Cup as OHL champions and to the Memorial Cup. His achievements earned him the Matt Leyden Trophy as Ontario Hockey League Coach of the Year.
Before embracing a coaching career at the minor league level, Jacques Martin was a goaltender with the NCAA's St. Lawrence University from 1972 to 1974.


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With water management becoming an increasingly important factor in crop production, John Deere has introduced Field Connect to provide site-specific water management data for facilitating the decision-making process surrounding irrigation practices. With site-specific information, producers are able to efficiently utilize irrigation inputs, which can result in fuel savings and additional yield potential. The Field Connect system continuously logs soil moisture data from probes installed in fields and transmits the data to a website that users can access remotely.
Nicholas Shafer, product manager for the John Deere Intelligent Solutions Group, says John Deere Field Connect is a fully integrated system that includes three different probe options, solar panel, as well as both a satellite and cellular data connection. Field-specific soil moisture data are transmitted to a secure website for viewing, and users can program the system to receive alerts based on set parameters.
"John Deere Field Connect features multiple capacitance sensors placed at specific depths for measuring volumetric soil moisture levels," Shafer says. "The Field Connect gateway unit logs the moisture data from each sensor, stores it and transmits it to the John Deere Field Connect Web application. When customers access the data on the website, they can select from a variety of graph types to view the data."
Field Connect graphs soil moisture readings at the individual sensor level (soil depth) and over the entire monitored soil profile, and shows water movement within the profile over time. The system can be customized to each field depending on the type of crops grown, soil type and water management objectives of each customer. Producers will be able to integrate the data from John Deere Field Connect with yield, soil type, fertility and other agronomic information to more effectively optimize the productivity of each field.
"Knowing exactly how much water is in the soil and at what depth is becoming even more important to producers as they try to manage water resources most efficiently for maximum yields," Shafer says. "John Deere Field Connect is the latest tool they can use to help them optimize inputs, reduce crop stress from too much or too little moisture, and manage fuel and other costs in producing their crops."
The Field Connect Gateway retails for $2,481. For more information, visit www.JohnDeere.com.


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[Intro: Tech N9ne]
Let's get it!
Fredwreck, Robby Krieger, Ray Manzarek, John Densmore, Tech N9ne, and Mister Jim Morrison
[Hook: Jim Morrison & Tech N9ne]
Strange days have found us
(I been a nobody, but now I get it in)
Strange days have tracked us down
(Nowhere to run, what I did is keep it wicked real and never to pretend)
They're going to destroy
(Everything in my path I'mma gas, I'mma spit it to the end)
Our casual joys
(I'mma take away your everything, I'mma merk it a bit when I begin)
We shall go on playing
Or find a new town
[Verse 1: Tech N9ne]
In the beginning it was negative wasn't nobody checkin'
Or steppin' to this heavenly sick brethren, it's
Tech's veteran, better than clever man
You're gonna be off of your rocker when the chakra's on chopper, it's
Kinda funny having no money coming up
The number-one independent rapper, people running up
When the fact I'mma sum it up, way way back I was run amuck
Now I'm beastin' the nation, cheese generatin'
Now everybody know when the flame sprays
Fame pays, maintain brain crazed
Leaving them all leaking in pain, hey gang, wait
Get ready for Strange days
[Verse 2: Tech N9ne]
I told them I was gonna ball for y'all
Did it all, they didn't wanna get involved at all, yeah
They said that I was gonna fall, but now I'm walking tall
They all saw wicked raw a stud yeah
Everybody will applaud the odd lyrical god
The fraud better kneel before Zod, yeah
Never ever will I dissolve, I'm a hog in the dark
So when they call, I'mma maul and claw, yeah
Wanna hate me, industry gotta face me
They be shaky, ladies say we may be the crazies
They hella Gacy, John Wayne the case be
The industry fake, soft and sweet like pastry
Look at all these mentions
Look at all this uber attention
'Member everybody saying that I wasn't gonna make it
But the Tecca Nina kept on inchin'
This ain't no dang phase
Never will my reign fade
On the come up and a one up on 'em
Man, it feels good to finally see Strange praised
[Outro: Jim Morrison & Tech N9ne]
Strange days have found us
(This is the trip)
And through their strange hours
We linger alone
(The best part I, really really like)
Bodies confused
(6, 7, Tech N9ne!)
Memories misused
(Fredwreck, Thank you brother!)
As we run from the day
To a strange night of stone
Track 20 from the album "Something Else".
The track features The Doors. They are the ones responsible for Tech creating what today is Strange Music.


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You may have the opportunity to choose your energy supplier. These suppliers are
called competitive service providers (CSP) and must be licensed by the SCC. Competitive
service providers are companies that generate, produce or contract for electricity
or natural gas for delivery to a local utility. The price for the supply of the
energy provided by the competitive service providers is not regulated.
Same Reliable Service – Same Delivery
Whether or not you decide to choose a new competitive service provider, distribution
service -- the actual delivery of electricity and natural gas to your home or business
-- will still be provided by your local utility. The utility will remain as your
local distribution company (LDC), and a charge for delivery service will still appear
on your bill. Delivery will still be regulated to ensure safe and reliable service.
You will continue to notify your local distribution company about safety issues
or service interruptions.
Price to Compare
Price to compare information may appear on your monthly bill. It is a benchmark
to help you compare what you currently pay for electricity or natural gas supply
service with any competitive offers that you receive.
Steps to Choosing an Energy Supplier
Questions to Ask a Supplier
What is Aggregation?
An aggregator is a person or organization that forms buying groups, which are formed
within a community, non-profit organization, or business association. Through aggregation,
you may be able to get lower prices through volume discounts for the group and its
members. Like competitive service providers in Virginia, all aggregators must be
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November 25, 2012-Charlotteville Pirogue Festival
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Charlotteville Pirogue Festival.
Chris (left) from Shady Lady,and Liz, join Judy at the festival.
"The rainy season in Charlotteville extends past Christmas," said Clarence Thomas, by way of explaining why he opposed the November Pirogue Festival date, "I suggested it should be in July."
"You see, the merchants here depend on this festival to make some money, and if it gets rained out, they don't make anything. It should be held in July. It never rains in July in Charlotteville."
But Clarence Thomas, who runs Tanty's Restaurant and Bar here where we can get ice cold Stag beers and watch CNN, is an outsider in Charlotteville; he's only been here a few years, and outsiders are not held in high regard in Charlotteville. So his advice was discarded, even though, year after year, to hear him tell it, the Charlotteville Pirogue Festival gets rained out in November.
Sunday, November 25, was the date of this year's Charlotteville Pirogue Festival. It rained Friday, November 23. It rained Saturday November 24. And it rained Sunday morning, November 25, but by the afternoon it was clear, so this year's Charlotteville Pirogue Festival wasn't exactly rained out. It was just a little soggy. We went. We had fun. We got a little wet, but not bad. The rum merchants, and a couple of restaurant owners, got some of our money but we have no way of knowing if the festival met their expectations. Being outsiders ourselves we weren't exactly in the inner circle here in Charlotteville.
Nobody shared their business results with us.
But we stayed 'till dark, watched the Pirogue race (Pirogues are small fishing boats with big outboard motors, not meat pies) drank some rum, got our ears blown out by the biggest sound system I have ever seen or heard, bar none, and generally had a good time.
But we went home early.
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Lauging Man in Bow of Blue Boat.
The music went on all night, we could hear it, but by Monday morning all was quiet and the whole town was dead, not a living soul to be seen. Assumedly they were all inside somewhere counting their receipts.
We like Charlotteville. It is a scenic little town nestled in the valley at the head of Man of War Bay, on the north end of Tobago Island, surrounded by mountains and it is blessed with an abundance of water.
Sunshine, on the other hand, is parceled out sparingly. Our water tanks are full but our solar panels are getting a vacation.
Still, we love it here. The town is nice, the bay protected, and the bus ride to Scarborough, where the nearest supermarket is to be found, is stunning. We took that bus once, (twice, if you count the return trip). The road is narrow and twisting, and the drivers go pretty fast. We were lucky; we only had four close calls and one minor crash. Now we know why some sailors here sail the twenty-five miles rather than chance that bus ride.
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Charlotteville is also an out-of-the-way gathering point for international yachts and we've met some old friends here: Shady Lady, from Langkawi, whom we last met in Africa, Top to Top and Artic, both we know from St. Helena, and a few other boats. It is an insider's stop on the 'round the world circuit.
But our stay here in Charlotteville is coming to an end. We've enjoyed it but we've got places to go, people to see. And I need a new phone; somehow mine got wet and is ruined. Tomorrow we will set sail for Grenada.
Click here for more images from the festival
Click here for more photos from Charlotteville
Fred & Judy, SV Wings, Charlotteville, Tobago
December 8, Updated: Ruth and Angus, yacht DoIt, Whom we met in Africa, showed up the last night and we had a nice reunion with them.


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The shining silver pipes of this beautiful chime turn an ordinary breath of air into an orchestra! J.W. Stannard, the world's foremost maker of windchimes, individually tunes each component to bring forth magical music that will amaze and delight. Metal and wood. 6" diameter x 28" long. Retail Price: $39.95.
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When Donna Temple Brown first opened The Gray Door – the name was particularly fitting. Chosen as a play on words, the name both alerted clients of Donna's love of painted antiques and helped clients remember its location on West Gray Boulevard. After more than a decade on West Gray, Donna recently moved to West Alabama, an exciting and busy shopping destination. They say that competition brings in customers and West Alabama is teeming with both decor and antique shops, perfect for attracting more shoppers. Now on West Alabama, the name The Gray Door connotes a shop full of mystery and riches that lay beyond the front gate. How true it is.
The new shop, located inside a mid century designed building, is large and filled to capacity with French, English, Swedish, Belgian and Italian antiques hand picked by Donna on trips to Europe. There is a large amount of the gray painted pieces, along with the beautiful fruitwood finishes associated with French antiques. All the furniture is freshly recovered in a creamy muslin or linen – creating a sea of bright and light in the showroom. Donna runs a welcoming business. She is friendly and warm, and most important in this business, honest. She and her long time business partner, Linda Gale White, have a wonderful eye for finding exactly the antique that is desired for this moment. Now settled into West Alabama, Donna deliberated on how to make it better, if at all possible. Fate stepped in and recently she invited two new dealers to share the space. As usual her choices couldn't be more right.
Houstonians who visit the Round Top Antique Fair will be very familiar with the two who now share space at The Gray Door: A. Tyner Antiques from Atlanta and Roussett Antiques and Textiles from Austin via New Orleans. Both are antiquarians of note. Alice Tyner who owns A. Tyner specializes in Swedish antiques and her merchandise fits in perfectly with The Gray Door. All the painted gray and white finishes, the sexy and curvy lines of the Mora clocks, the chests, the desks, the settees of Swedish antiques visually blends with The Gray Door's Louis XV and XVI furniture.
Kathy Alexander who owns Roussett Antiques and Textiles closed her popular New Orleans shop after Hurricane Katrina and settled in Austin, opening up a store there on Burnet at The Courtyard Shops. An expert on antique textiles, her antiques are mostly fine French and Italian. Scattered throughout The Gray Door, her regal merchandise add a certain class.
With both Roussett and A.Tyner now in Houston, a trip to Round Top may no longer be needed. I know I used to go to see the Swedish antiques that A. Tyner brought because we don't have a dealer in Houston with such extensive Swedish inventory – until now, that is. Donna couldn't have made two better choices to join her on West Alabama than Roussett and A. Tyner. If you haven't visited The Gray Door lately – be sure to stop by. All three, The Gray Door, A. Tyner and Roussett are also on 1st Dibs.
The Gray Door: 3465a W Alabama @ Marquart. Contact @ 713-521-9085
The main showroom at The Gray Door. All the furniture is newly recovered in creamy linens and muslin – creating a soothing and cohesive atmosphere.
The Swedish corner cabinet is one of two. The Swedish settee is period Rococo – one of the finer pieces from A. Tyner.
Swedish cabinet and day bed – to die for!
Painted Swedish chairs mix well with French antiques. I fell in love with this vignette. The table has a beautiful patina.
Roussett Antiques and Textiles specializes in 16th and 17th century tapestries. Roussett also has a fine collection of vintage Fortuny fabrics.
The Italian chandelier over this pair of demi lunes is huge and gorgeous! Perfect for a two story entry hall or large dining room.
Donna says she would put this console in a kitchen. Pictures of Donna's own beautiful townhouse follow.
This pair of lanterns caught my eye, as did the chairs and ottoman.
I love the santos mixed with the rustic garden table and dressy Swedish chairs.
There are beautiful pillows made of antique fabrics from Roussett scattered about. As always, I love using a high end table as a tea table since there are no true antique coffee tables.
Great mirror and beautiful chairs left uncovered – their insides somehow are prettier without new upholstery.
A. Tyner has a huge selection Mora clocks. If you don't see what you want, just ask, there's more.
Centuries old set of vellum books. Whoa.
Old doors with beautiful hardware were made into two matching cabinets.
The curves of this sofa are so appealing. If I could take just one piece home…….
More great cabinets – these are filled with a line of new basket accessories that The Gray Door carries.
This cabinet is painted gray and is shallow – good for tight spots. The French chairs are upholstered in old tapestry.
Roussett has a great selection of Fortuny covered shades. The table is one of a pair.
Beautiful hardware makes this piece exquisite.
Great breakfast table or coffee table. The settee has wonderful lines.
One of three showrooms that make up The Gray Door.
Another beautiful Italian chandelier.
This Spanish styled table is covered in fabric with large nail heads!!! What a wonderful game table.
These chairs are stunning. So is the table.
And lastly, there is a good selection of painted headboards.
It's obvious from The Gray Door, that Donna Brown has impeccable taste and it is no surprise that her townhouse has been featured in several magazines and books. Donna has filled her house with antiques from the store – I'm not sure there is even one new piece of furniture anywhere! The house is bright and airy and although very sophisticated, it is warm and inviting. It's one of those houses that when you leave you wish you could bomb your own house and start over. Trust me on that, I've been there. Here, from Veranda is her front courtyard that you walk through to get to the front door. I love how she used antique and vintage furniture outside – so much more interesting than store bought sets.
Walking into the front door is a staircase on the left and the living room/dining room on the right. A large collection of Chinese export plates are displayed on the wall.
To screen off her staircase, Donna hung a piece a fabric that is semi transparent. Such a great idea to copy!!!
Her living room and dining room have traded spaces (although Donna told me she recently changed it back again!) I love the old, rustic shutters instead of the regular built in shelves found in townhouses. Gorgeous dining room chairs surround a skirted table. And her chandeliers here and in the living area are drop dead gorgeous.
Another view of the dining room – with sconces added in this picture.
The dining room looking out towards the front courtyard. She slipcovered the wood bench. Every piece of furniture, table, lamp – is so wonderful!
The living room – love, love, love!!! I love the French tea table, the iron side table, the gorgeous tapestry, the lamps, the chandelier – I love Donna's taste. Period.
Her famous kitchen. She completely torn out the brand new kitchen that came with the townhouse. The cabinets are stored in her garage, ready to be replaced when she sells. This is an earlier picture – she now has a skirt attached to the console next to the stove.
A view of the sitting room off the kitchen. Beautiful!!! I love the wine tasting table, the stool, the painting above the chest – everything!
Another updated view of her kitchen and sitting room.
Beautiful sitting area in the guest room. I love all her little iron tables throughout.
The master bedroom – that giant hydrangea is gorgeous.
Swedish bookcase and French chaise and chair.
The charming guest room with French headboards.
To visit The Gray Door – 3465a W Alabama St. @ Marquart. To call: 713-521-9085
Web sites:
The Gray Door HERE.
Roussett Antiques and Textiles HERE.
A. Tyner Antiques HERE.
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My daughter's recently remodeled bedroom – featured on the blog Color Outside The Lines.
Artie, who writes the blog Color Outside The Lines about his house and life near Niagara Falls, NY, has written a long blog story about ME! Artie is so sweet and talented. Sometimes I just click onto his blog to listen to his music playing. Please click over HERE to read the story and see pictures from my portfolio. Thanks for everything Artie – you're the BEST EVER!!!!!!
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I was wondering if you knew any perfume makers who would like to use my Hypnotizing.com as a website? I was going to help out a local perfume maker. I know the domain is a great name for perfume.
Hey there, I kinda needed some serious help with this. I did purchase a bottle of Salvatore Ferragamo F Pour Homme Black abt 5 months back and I love it a million. Probably want to name it my signature scent and was actually intending to purchase another bottle. But then I started with the Black and didn't try the original F Pour Homme. So my query was which one's the better out of two of them? (Strictly in the sense of Strength & Longevity.) Should I go get another bottle of the F Pour Homme Black or try the F Pour Homme? Does the F Pour Homme lasts less than the Black? Please help me out!
Hey Tim, just wondering if/when you had time, if you could drop me some feedback. Thanks!
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Long story short, I whipped up a batch of my favorite oatmeal cookie dough and tossed it all in - coconut, butterscotch chips, dark chocolate chips, dried cherries, slivered almonds, toffee chips and white chocolate chips. The cookies were delicious and garnered tons of compliments. Now, I just make them with whatever I happen to have on hand. This time it was pecans, dark chocolate chips and dried cranberries. I also like them with toffee chips, dark chocolate and slivered almonds.
I usually double this recipe and freeze some of the dough to bake later. The recipe makes about 30 cookies of the size pictured. The original recipe calls for 1/4 cup of dough per cookie, and makes only sixteen 4 inch cookies.
"Kitchen Sink" Cookies
adapted from Cook's Illustrated's
recipe for Chocolate Chunk Oatmeal Cookies with Pecans and Dried Cherries
1 1/4 cups unbleached all purpose flour
3/4 tsp baking powder
1/2 tsp baking soda
1/2 tsp table salt
1 1/4 cups rolled oats
1/2 cup of chopped dried cherries, apricots, cranberries or raisins
1/2 cup toasted chopped pecans or other nuts, such as walnuts or toasted slivered almonds
1/2 cup dark chocolate chips or other type, such as white chocolate, butterscotch or peanut butter
1/2 cup coconut
1/2 cup toffee chips
( Note - if you do not use the coconut or toffee, increase the dried fruit and nuts to 1 cup each)
1 1/2 sticks of unsalted butter, softened but still cool
1 1/2 cups packed brown sugar, preferably dark
1 large egg
1 teaspoon good vanilla extract
- Adjust oven racks to upper and lower middle positions, heat oven to 350 degrees. Line two large baking sheets with parchment paper or lightly grease
- Whisk flour, baking powder, baking soda, oats and salt in a medium bowl.
- Mix add-in ingredients (chocolate chips, nuts, etc.) in another bowl
- In a standing mixer fitted with the flat beater, beat butter and sugar at medium speed until no lumps remain - about 1 minute.
- Scrape down the sides of bowl and add egg and vanilla and beat on medium-low speed just until incorporated.
- Scrape down bowl, and with mixer running at low speed, add flour mixture gradually, until just combined.
- Add mixture of nuts, chips and fruit and mix until just combined.
- Give the dough a final stir with a spatula or wooden spoon to make sure no flour pockets remain.
- Form dough into balls about 1 1/2 inches around.
- Place 9 balls on each cookie sheet, and flatten to 3/4 inches thick
- Bake for about 12 minutes at 350. The cookies should be light brown and set on the edges - but still damp in the middle when they come out. Rotate the sheets top to bottom and front to back if they are browning unevenly.
- Cool on cookie sheets for at least five minutes, then transfer to a cooling rack with a metal spatula and cool to room temperature (if you can wait that long!)


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Anderson County Commission plans to audit the Andersonville Volunteer Fire Department, which has gained local residents' ire over a new membership plan.
Anderson County Commission plans to audit the Andersonville Volunteer Fire Department, which has gained local residents' ire over a new membership plan.
The 16-member County Commission recently voted to refer the issue of auditing AVFD to the Commission's Audit and Budget committees. Commissioners said they have to find out where they will get the money in the county budget to pay for the audit, but also they want to determine or identify the scope of the audit.
Commissioner Robert McKamey had originally brought up the issue of auditing the AVFD. He said the county's 40-year lease agreement with the department for land where its new Belmont station is currently under construction includes that there be an annual audit. He said he wouldn't have supported the 40-year lease with AVFD if it's in danger of going under financially, which has been a reason reportedly given for the membership program. When the Belmont station is complete, the AVFD will have three stations.
County Budget Director Chris Phillips, in response to questions, said AVFD, along with the other volunteer fire departments in the county, currently give the county information on its revenues, expenses and budget, but do not provide copies of audit reports.
Commissioner Tim Isbel said he agreed with an audit of AVFD being needed, but he also thinks a special task force needs to be set up to examine various issues pertaining to the volunteer fire departments.
Commissioner Myron Iwanski said in addition to finances, issues such as potential conflict of interest need to be looked at. He said in examining information he found on the AVFD, all of its board of directors are members of the fire department. Commissioner Dusty Irwin said a look at lease agreements, bylaws and other issues is needed.
Commissioner Rick Meredith asked why the county's budget department couldn't do the audit, but others indicated an independent look is needed.
Recently, the AVFD sent out letters to residents in its service area telling them they'd have to pay a membership fee to be given fire or medical help from the AVFD or risk paying more if they have to get the help and are not already members.
According to the AVFD website, www.tnavfd.com, the membership fee is .08-cent per square feet of the residents' buildings. AVFD states on its website, for example, that a resident with a building/house of 1,500 square feet would pay $120 a year. There is a $100 minimum membership.
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ELK CREEK – Elk Creek Dragway has been a busy place the last two weekends.
In May 22 racing, Independence drivers won three of the five classes.
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The other day I was speaking with a small business owner who was tired of being an independent consultant. He wanted to grow his business.
He was using all of the right words. "I know I can only make as much money as the hours I bill. I need to hire more people so I can bill for their time, too," he said with purpose.
It makes sense. If you provide a service, your product is the number of hours you work. The more hours you have, the more you can bill. He knew the only real way to scale a service business was to get more business so he could hire more people.
That's when the conversation started to get little shaky.
Instinctively, he knew what he had to do to grow his business. He had to start spending more of his time on marketing and sales and leverage other people's time for doing the actual service work. But he couldn't get himself out of the "I have to do everything" mode. Nor was he open to the idea of digging into his wallet to invest in tools that would save him a tremendous amount of time so he could focus on the most important things.
There was a disconnect: he was talking big, but thinking small.
It's going to be very difficult for him to grow his business until he outgrows the mentality of scarcity, both in terms of time and financial resources. He'll stay a "do it yourselfer" till he starts to think big.
If you think that buying a Mercedes-Benz is too expensive, then it is. If you continue to think this way, then it always will be. But if you set a goal for yourself to buy a Mercedes-Benz by a certain date, and you really mean it, then you will figure out ways to earn the money you need. You are thinking big. When you think big, your actions are big. You aren't scared of small investments of time and money because you see the payoff.
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However, Carroll School Superintendent Greg Smith failed to give the whole story. Comparing parent-directed home school to public virtual school is like comparing breastfeeding to infant formula, which is an inferior, watered-down version with the real risks hidden.
When parents enroll their child in a full-time, virtual school, they sign away much of their parental right to direct their child's education.
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·····Subchapter 4b - The Citadel
The green-clad woman was bored stiff.
She had been waiting for a decision at her regard for a few subjective centuries; not that her superior hadnt warned her.
Maryam, our brothers and sisters in the Art, far North had said Grandmother Nandi, live in fear for their lives and hide their true being. You have been chosen as emissary, to propose an alliance to them : those who stop to grow are bound to whiter; we need a fresh perspective, new knowledge.
And they need help, and hope.
Be brave, child, but cautious.
Remember: those who have been bitten by a snake fear a rope. They will suspect a ruse, need proof and time...
You were right nyanya...
Oh, the Initiated had been very polite, she was treated as an honored guest: albeit one who could decide to leave all of a sudden with the best cow in the herd. She was so weary of being followed everywhere that had begun to spend more and more time in the guest quarters reading again and again the few books she had been permitted to borrow from the Great Library.
I should have chosen a familiar before leaving, at least it would have been nice having someone to take care of.
She thought briefly about going to the stables to feed Agatha but decided against it. Some of this Northeners seemed to think physical work beneath a full-fledged mage, seeing her brushing down her donkey and mucking the stable, on her first day here, had almost given an hearth attack to the head-groom.
With a sigh she stood, her hands moved almost without conscious thought : Mwangacheza ngoma she whispered. Four small globes of light appeared, and she started to juggle idly, killing time.
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All of a sudden, two figures appear in the room as though out of no where. One standing, dressed in the clothing of the Brotherhood facing away from Maryam. The second laying, wounded, and suspended in mid-air by a simple spell. A raven at his side.
"Hmmph!" The standing figure says. "Missed again, blasted spell."
The man turns and regards you.
"Ah... Greetings. You're not of the brotherhood." He states bluntly. "Oh, sorry I don't mean to be rude. I am Thluclides (Flu-Clide-Eees), a member of the standing Council, I will have to learn your name later, I have to delive this man to the safety of our Hospital in order to examine him further." The man says, turning towards the door in your room, he exists the ground level building and into the beautiful courtyard with its rich flowers, grown with the aide of magic no doubt, and clean water ways and fountains.
Across from your room, sitting on a stone bench, a woman in some brotherhood clothing reading a book. No doubt to keep an eye on you. She glances up to your room, jumps to her feet and drops her book in the process.
"Thluclides!" The woman exclaims, Thuclides bends over and picks up the book.
"Try to take better care of these, for all we know they are the only ones left." He says handing the book back to the young lady and continueing on his way.
The lady nods and goes back to sit down only to see Cadogan's body floating out of the room behind Thluclides.
"Cadogan!" she exclaims.
"You can see him later, Lyria." Thluclides says as he continues down the balcony.
Sucking up Air since 1984.
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Basi!. The globes disappear as the foreign wizard leaves her room.
Taking her time to admire the lush, carefully tended gardens, Maryam strolls towards the occupied bench.
May I ? She asks the brotherhood woman sitting there.
Lost in thought Lyria nods absent-mindedly.
You seem worried, do you know the wounded one?
He has been my teacher for a while. The other woman tried to sound neutral, but her eyes told another story, Maryam chose not to comment; He should be safe now, I gather your healers are most competent.
It isnt right! Burst out Lyria, Why do we risk our lives everytime we leave the Citadel? What are we to deserve living in fear? Why do they hate us so?!
It is not like this everywhere, Lyria Answered Maryam, a bit taken aback by the others vehemence.
In my country The Three are honored, and arcanists, although few, are respected.
Sorcerers receive their calling in dreams. At the time of their passage to adulthood they dream an animal speaking to them, giving them a quest or a riddle, if the dreamer solves the riddle or completes the quest, the animal changes, revealing itself to be but an aspect of the left-hand sister.
The animal is what the Sorcerers familiar will be
And Wizards? Asked the younger woman, wide-eyed like a child hearing a fairy-tale.
In my city, Bamako, there is the Sankorè, the magic academy. Would be students flock every three years to the entrance examinations: one on twenty is accepted, and of those one on three completes the studies.
The accepted ones are clothed anew, on their entrance-day, and given a new name, to signify they renounce family and tribe affiliation; from that day we are in service of the people.
The new students are paraded trough the city, dancing, while the people sings and dances with them, throwing flowers and coloured ribbons. The procession arrives at the temple of the Three, and the students take an oath, vowing to use their knowledge only for good ends. Then they enter the academy the first time, while in the whole city they make merry till dawn.
Maryams contralto voice had taken a far-away quality, as if she was seeing again the celebrations of her entrance day, the sound of steps approaching brought her back to the present.
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"It does sound wonderful.." Lyria says in reply to Maryam. "If only it was true here. In some places Mages are even hunted down, captured, tortured before being burned alive. Its a truely sad tale." Lyria says with a deep sigh, plopping herself down on the bench and crossing her arms before leaning on her wrist looking over the gardens quietly for a moment.
The skies ahead cleared and the moon light shined down and reflected off the water in the ducts and ponds giving the garden a beautiful but cold apearance. Lyria sighs again before looking up at Maryam.
"Its beautiful here, i've been told it took years to get these flowers to grow all the way out here. The wastelands are not kind to plant life." She says dazing back off into the distance of the beautiful flowers where a man is tending to the blue and purple flowers by moon light with the aide of a simple light spell.
A gentle breeze blows over the garden and in the distance two figures appear out of thin air standing right in the flower bed. The man jumps backwards and falls on his arse, and Lyria sits up to pay attention. The two men are wearing clothing of the brotherhood also, and soon the gardener jumps to his feet and begins yelling.
"Get out of my garden! Out out out! Do you know how hard I worked on these flowers! Out out! Both of you!" The two quickly take a little leap out of the soil and onto the cobble stones of a pathway.
"Im sorry! Sorry!" Says the smaller and younger one.
"Don't be, it was my spell. I am truely sorry, I will see that you are helped in the restoration of this area." The older man says he then pats the younger boy, a neophyte it would seem, on the back urging him to get down and start working. "I have business in the courtyard, If you finish before the Moon is there..." He continues pointing towards the sky. "...Come and find me and we'll go over your cantrips, if not come and find me in the morning."
The young one nods, but his shoulders slouch at the mention of pyshical work. The gardener however seems more then pleased that he has an extra set of hands.
"Don't worry lad! When I first got here they had me cleaning the cobbles and pulling weeds!"
"So what has changed?"
"Ha! Respect your elders!" Says the old man, slapping the young one across the back of the ear.
Lyria giggles to herself, before stopping abruptly.
"Have you been to the lookout?" She says to Maryam.
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Here in the U.S., the Democrats want to drive talk radio off the air. But at least they aren't actually shooting up radio studios. Check out what happened to a television newscaster in Thailand whose broadcast apparently displeased the government:
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Find the answers to frequently asked questions about accessibility, the Xbox One console, and the Kinect sensor.
At Microsoft, we believe that as many people as possible should enjoy interactive entertainment. Xbox One brings significant technical improvements to users. With gestures, voice, and wireless controller input, we've made many features and options more accessible, expanding the ways users can enjoy games and entertainment on the Xbox.
We recognize that each person's abilities are unique and that not all Xbox games and experiences will be accessible to all users. We're continually working to improve the Xbox experience for all users. We actively seek feedback on how we can improve Xbox and Kinect technology, and we consider this feedback as we work on updates and future versions of our products and services.
Seated users can enjoy several features and games developed for Xbox One. Currently, the ability for the Kinect sensor included with the Xbox One console to work with seated users is largely dependent on individual games and apps. Some games and experiences are more accommodating of seated users than others. Developers can design their apps and games in such a way so some users can skip or complete activities they have trouble with. We continue to educate publishers in an effort to encourage them to provide an entertaining gaming experience that meets the needs of a broader audience.
You can navigate the Xbox One user interface and use the controller to experience free entertainment features on Xbox Live, such as Groove and Video Kinect, while seated or standing.
At present, Xbox One does not support sign language as a form of command input to the Kinect sensor.
For information on using speech recognition, see Use voice commands with Xbox One.
Note Voice commands are not available in all regions. For a list of Xbox One features and the regions where they're available, see Xbox One feature availability.
In an effort to deliver the appropriate response to user commands, by design, voice recognition on Xbox One responds to specific speech patterns. This feature helps limit the amount of unintentional on-screen responses from environmental sounds. This can affect the system's ability to track and respond to sounds and voices it's unable to map to the recognized spoken commands database.
Note Voice commands are not available in all regions. For a list of Xbox One features and the regions where they're available, see Xbox One feature availability.
Yes. The Xbox One console makes it possible for Movies & TV to display closed captions for videos that offer them. Video programming owners, not Microsoft, provide the captions.
Video programming owners are expected to provide IP-delivered closed captioning for all full-length, nonexempt, prerecorded video programming that airs on U.S. television. Additional programs will continue to be captioned in accordance with FCC guidelines.
For videos offered through Movies & TV, and for many third-party apps, you may use the settings on your Xbox One to play closed captions when they're available.
Here's how to enable closed captioning on your Xbox One console:
The Xbox One console usually saves closed captioning preferences for first-party videos and third-party apps. As a result, any caption-equipped video that plays on your console or computer will display the captions. To turn off the captions, follow the preliminary steps in the previous answer, and select Closed Captioning off.
For more information on closed captioning settings, see How to modify the closed captioning settings on your Xbox One console.
Xbox One video captions are similar to closed captions on your television, with the console displaying them as text in front of the video playing on the screen. After enabling closed captions, the default caption setting will display white text on a black background.
To change the characteristics of the captions displayed on your screen, see How to modify the closed captioning settings on your Xbox One console
No. When you purchase and download a captioned video through Movies & TV, the entire file—including the capacity for closed captions—is stored on your Xbox One console whether or not you've enabled closed captions through the console. This means that although you need an Internet connection to download a video to your console, you don't need a connection to the Internet or Xbox Live to play the video with closed captions.
Captions are provided by the video programming owners—usually the movie studios or television networks (or their parent companies) that own the video content. To request captions for a specific movie or TV show, contact the content owner.
If you're experiencing problems with Internet Protocol (IP) closed captioning, contact Rob Sinclair, Chief Accessibility Officer, by email at Microsoft Closed Captioning Accessibility Issues or by using the following contact information:
Rob Sinclair
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Phone: (425) 882-8080
Fax: (425) 936-7329
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Archive for the 'Kline Genealogy' Category
Day Three – Memory Three – What's in a Name – Part Three
Day Three – 365 Days of Memories – What's in a Name – Part Three
This will be my last post (for awhile) on names!
I promise!
It just seems only right to add the meaning and/or origin of my husband's family, and the last name that I've shared with his family since we said our "I do's" in 1968.
The KLINE name…
According to Ancestry.com, Kline is an American spelling of the name Klein, Kleine, Kleyn or Klehn, and can have German, Dutch, and even Jewish origins.
It is probably a nickname or topographic name, and could be derived from 'wedge' or 'wooden peg.'
My husband's family came from Germany. Their name was Klein when they arrived in America, and was spelled "Klein" for a few generations in Pennsylvania.
Just why it changed to the "Kline" spelling, nor who decided that it should change, I am not certain.
I'm also not certain if all branches of the family, or siblings in the family, changed their name at the same time.
According to www.surnamedb.com/Surname/Kline, the word Klein meant "small" and was a descriptive nickname originally given to someone who was small or short. It could also have been used to describe someone in the family who was younger.
Interesting, because my husband was about 5'6" tall, and his father was about the same height. Makes me wonder, as I write this, how many generations of my husband's Kline family were short in stature.
Amanuensis Monday – Charlena Fay Isgrigg Obituary
Obituary – Charlena Faye Isgrigg
Book "Obituaries – Argonia Kansas and Vicinity"
Volume IV
Freda Deen Earles
Charlena Faye Isgrigg, daughter of Frank and Susan Kline Holt was born October 19, 1915 in Bluejacket, Oklahoma.
She moved to Milan, Kansas with her parents at the age of 10 and lived in the Milan and Argonia communities until the time of her passing
On October 29, 1937 she married Earl Isgrigg and to that union was born one daughter, Connie Hodson.
She was preceded in death by both her mother and father, one brother, Olin Holt and one sister, Bessie Edwards.
She leaves to mourn her passing, her husband, Earl; her daughter, Connie Hodson and grandson, Brad Hodson of West Allis, Wisconsin; two sisters, Mrs. Mildred Carrico, Commerce, Oklahoma, and Mrs. Lola Blackett, Wichita, and one brother, Virgil Holt, Milan.
( Sherry's Note: The obituary did not state the date of death, but according to www.findagrave.com, Find A Grave Memorial# 38953421 Charlena passed away on 26 Jul 1971.)
Saturday Night Genealogy fun – The Ancestor Meme
by Sherry Stocking Kline
16 October 2011
I love to check out the Saturday Night Genealogy Fun challenges that Randy Seaver sends out way each Saturday Night, and this one looks like a great way to quanitfy what research I need to do next! So tune up the "Mission Impossible" music, check out the challenge, and play along!
Hello, genea-world!
It's Saturday Night (in the USA!) — time for some worldwide
Genealogy Fun!Your mission, should you decide to accept it is to:
1) Participate in the Ancestors GeneaMeme created by Jill Ball on the Geniaus blog.
Thank you to Jill for the SNGF idea! Jill is collecting Ancestors MeGeneaMeme entries too.The rules, and the Meme list, is given below in my response.
Here's mine: The Rules:2) Write your own blog post, or add your response as a comment to this blog post, in a Facebook Status post or note, or in a Google+ Stream item.
The list should be annotated in the following manner:
Things you have already done or found: bold face type
Things you would like to do or find: italicize (colour optional)
Things you haven't done or found and don't care to: plain type
You are encouraged to add extra comments in brackets after each itemThe Meme:Which of these apply to you?
2. Can name over 50 direct ancestors. (Definitely would have to cheat and look at my family tree program!)
3. Have photographs or portraits of my 8 great-grandparents. (I do have photos of all of them, thanks to my mom, and my generous aunts and uncles who have shared their holdings so that I might scan and digitize them.)
4. Have an ancestor who was married more than three times. (I have some who were married three times, but haven't located any that I know of that were married more than three.)
5. Have an ancestor who was a bigamist. (Not that I know of… Would make the family tree more interesting though, wouldn't it?)
6. Met all four of my grandparents. (I Couldn't. Both grandfathers passed away before I was born. I did meet and know both of my grandmothers.)
7. Met one or more of my great-grandparents. (I remember my great-grandfather even though I was about 2 1/2 years old when he passed away.)
8. Named a child after an ancestor. (We did, though not intentionally. My husband's great-grandfather was named James Kline, and we gave that name as a middle name to our son without knowing that there was an ancestor bearing that as a name.)
9. Bear an ancestor's given name/s. (Not only do I not bear an ancestor's name, my grandmother was unhappy with my mom, her daughter, for giving me the name of an alcholic beverage. Unhappy enough that for a time, when I was very, very small, I wondered if the "Carrie" that took an axe to the bars and saloons in Kansas was my grandmother…)
10. Have an ancestor from Great Britain or Ireland. (I have an ancestor from Great Britain, and I probably do from Ireland as well, but have yet to find that link or proof of it. Very difficult with the name Jones!)
11. Have an ancestor from Asia (No.)
12. Have an ancestor from Continental Europe. (Probably. My geography isn't what it should be….)
13. Have an ancestor from Africa. (No, but my granddaughters do.)
14. Have an ancestor who was an agricultural labourer (in the US and UK) (Yes, most of my ancestors were involved in farming, right up to my own father, and the same on my mother's side.)
15. Have an ancestor who had large land holdings (what's large? Larger than 40 acres? Yep. Larger than 640 acres? Probably.) (Yes, by yesterday's standards my ancestors had large land holdings.)
16. Have an ancestor who was a holy man – minister, priest, rabbi (Jonathan Oatley in Killingly CT in 19th century, several more in 17th century) (We have ministers in my family, and one of my ancestors was "Deacon Samuel Stocking, son of George Stocking. George was born in circa 1582 in Suffolk, England. Deacon Samuel was born in England also and immigrated to America in 1633. They became part of Thomas Hooker's party, and George was one of Hartford, CT's founding fathers.)
17. Have an ancestor who was a midwife (unsure) (Not that I know of.)
18. Have an ancestor who was an author (unsure) (Not that I know of.)
19. Have an ancestor with the surname Smith, Murphy or Jones (many Smiths, no Murphys, only one Jones line) One large Smith line, one Jones line that quickly turns into a huge brick wall.
20. Have an ancestor with the surname Wong, Kim, Suzuki or Ng. (No. Not that I know of.)
21. Have an ancestor with a surname beginning with X. (Not that I know of.)
22. Have an ancestor with a forename beginnining with Z (three generations of Zachariah Hildreths, and a Zechariah Barber) (Not that I know of.)
23. Have an ancestor born on 25th December. (Yes, my great-grandfather, Roderick Remine Stocking was born 25 December 1853.)
24. Have an ancestor born on New Year's Day. (Not that I know of.)
25. Have blue blood in your family lines (supposedly if Royal Descendants book is right) (No. Not that I know of.)
26. Have a parent who was born in a country different from my country of birth. (No.)
27. Have a grandparent who was born in a country different from my country of birth (nope, one great-grandparent born in Canada is the last one born in another country) (No. Two lines came to America in the 1600's. Need to get other lines back that far.)
28. Can trace a direct family line back to the eighteenth century (all but 3 or 4 of my 32 3rd great-grandparents. (Have several lines back to the 18th century.)
29. Can trace a direct family line back to the seventeenth century or earlier (quite a few) (some, not as many as to the 18th century.)
30. Have seen copies of the signatures of some of my great-grandparents (Austin Carringer, Della smith, Georgia Kemp, Frank Seaver, Thomas Richmond) (Just Roderick Remine Stocking, thus far.)
31. Have ancestors who signed their marriage certificate with an X (not that I know of) (My earliest Stocking ancestor, George Stocking, Hartford, CT founder, signed his will with an X. He was, besides being a farmer, a surveyor, so I wonder if he was just no longer able to sign his name due to advanced age, rather than not being literate.)
32. Have a grandparent or earlier ancestor who went to university (not that I know of) (Yes, both my grandparents on my father's side, Elmer and Maud (McGinnis) Stocking attended college, though I believe neither graduated with a four year degree. My grandmother received a teaching certificate and taught for a year or two, perhaps a bit longer.)
33. Have an ancestor who was convicted of a criminal offence (several are in Sex in Middlesex book) (Not that I have found yet.)
34. Have an ancestor who was a victim of crime (logic says someone in 12 generations must have been, not sure about this one) (Probably, but I have not found it yet.)
35. Have shared an ancestor's story online or in a magazine (probably in Genea-Musings…) (I have shared several ancestor's short stories online on my blog here, and in the small town history book that I co-authored, "Mayfield: Then & Now.)
36. Have published a family history online or in print (two books self=published and shared with family) (I haven't published a book, just a notebook that I take to family reunions.)
37. Have visited an ancestor's home from the 19th or earlier centuries (several in New England, and the Ranslow Smith Inn in Wisconsin) (Yes, several here in Kansas, and one ancestor's home in Kentucky.)
38. Still have an ancestor's home from the 19th or earlier centuries in the family (not in the family…the Ranslow smith Inn in Wisconsin would qualify if I'd bought it) (My grandfather's farm was bought by my parent's and is still owned by my mother. It has been in the family now since 1903. The house burned down several years ago, however.)
39. Have a family bible from the 19th Century (have Bible pages for births, marriages, deaths, but not the Bible) (The only family Bible that I know of is owned by my Uncle and his family.)
40. Have a pre-19th century family bible (No.)
Amanuensis Monday – Milan, Kansas 1909 Eighth Grade Graduates
by Sherry Stocking Kline
November 2nd, 2010
The following paragraph is excerpted from the "History of Milan, Kansas, 1879 – 1978", by Leslie "Bud" Yates. The book is now out of print and the author has passed away, but there is a copy of the book in the Sumner County History and Research Center. The book is small, but is packed with information about the area's early residents and the town's businesses.
"Teachers for 1908 – 1909 school year were Mrs. Gracia Kellogg for primary and Mr. Brooks for principal. The following were awarded their 8th grade diplomas: Mae Kline, Catharine Lee, Maud Perry, Chrystal Brown, Pearle Mears, Herbert Deffenbaugh, Sallie Bunker, and Ethel Bebee."
Of the Eighth Grade Graduates, Mae Kline and Herbert Deffenbaugh are in my husband's family tree. Mae was his great-aunt, and I'm honestly not sure who Herbert is, but probably an uncle or great uncle. Several of my husband's aunts and uncles (and his mother) went by their middle names, and sometimes kept their first names a closely guarded secret, so I will have to ask a cousin who is the keeper of the Deffenbaugh Genealogy to find out how he fits into our tree.
Sallie/Sally Bunker, who graduated with them, is the granddaughter of Eng Bunker, one of the famous Siamese (conjoined) twins, Chang and Eng Bunker.
Sally's father was James Montgomery, son of Eng Bunker. Eng and Chang married sisters and each couple had several children. You can read more about them by following the links below:
Wikipedia: Chang and Eng Bunker
Chang and Eng Bunker
Find a Grave Memorial for Chang and Eng Bunker
Sumner County (Kansas) History & Genealogy Research Center
Box 402; 208 N. Washington
Wellington, Kansas
Saturday Night Genealogy Fun or Who Do I Blame for My Fascination with Family History
by Sherry Stocking Kline
October 19, 2009
Randy Seaver of GeneaMusings issued this challenge on Saturday night! I'm a bit late, but I don't want to miss out on all the fun, so here goes!
Hey geneaphiles – it's Saturday Night, time for more Genealogy Fun for all Genea-Musing readers.
Your mission, should you decide to accept it (and we need more of you to do this, otherwise it may end…), is to:
1) Read Brenda Joyce Jerome's post Who or What Do You Blame? on the Western Kentucky Genealogy blog. She asks these questions:
* Can you identify person or event that started you on this search for family information?
* Did you pick up researching where a relative had left off?
* Did your interest stem from your child's school project on genealogy?
* If you have been researching many years, it may be hard to pinpoint one reason for this journey.
2) Write your responses on your own blog, in a comment to this blog post, or in a note or comment on Facebook.
Maybe I was always a little interested in family history, but after Hobart Stocking, a professor from Oklahoma researched, wrote, and published the Stocking Ancestry, I became more interested, and shared the information with my husband's family. And that's when my father-in-law, Melvin Kline, stated that he wished someone would research their family tree.
And He Kind of Hoped They Wouldn't, Too…
And, he said, he kind of hoped maybe they wouldn't, too. He said that he was afraid of "what we might find."
The story that he had always heard went like this, "three brothers came west, fought along the way, and never corresponded again."
And because there wasn't any correspondence between Pop's family, and his grandfather's family, at least that he knew of, he believed the story to be true, and he was afraid that we'd find out that his grandfather might have been the the person who caused the problem.
But still, he really wanted to know.
Who could possibly resist a puzzle or a challenge like this?
Not me, for sure, so I took up the quest and along the way became 'hooked' on genealogy and preserving family history.
I was woefully ignorant of how to get started, so it was quite a long time before I learned about at least one 'family feud', learned where the family had migrated to Kansas from, and 'met up' with some distant cousins.
Unfortunately, by that time, my father-in-law had passed on, and I really wish he were here so that I could say "Thank you" to him for starting me on such a fun and addictive hobby/pastime/obsession.
But I'd like to think that somehow, he knows.
Tombstone Tuesday – Walter C. Kline
by Sherry Stocking Kline
March 13, 2010
Walter is buried in the Milan Cemetery near Milan, Sumner County, Kansas. The cemetery is about 15 miles west of Wellington on Highway 160.
The Stone reads:
Walter C. Kline
1885 – 1959
Walt's parents were James and Elizabeth (Conver) Kline. James and Elizabeth are buried in the Milan Cemetery as well, and you can see their stone and read more about their family here. And here, also.
The Third Annual iGene Awards – The Best of my Best
Sherry Stocking Kline
February 15, 2010
Best Picture – Deciding which photograph I liked best in 2009 was extremely difficult!
Was it the photograph of new-found cousin Nancy and my husband looking over the Glasgow, KY cemetery? Or was it the photo of my brother Gary with his street rod? In the end, I chose the photograph of my Great-grandma Margaret "Maggie" Corson McGinnis holding little baby me on her 100th birthday.
Not everyone has a great-grandmother who lives to be 100, so this is a special photograph, and I'm glad my parents captured the moment on film.
Best Screen Play – I'm not sure that any of my stories would make a great screen play – unless it would be the part of the Christmas Gifts story that involves myself and my two oldest nephews playing Cowboys and Indians in the pasture on our stick horses! Even my patient collie dog Lassie wasn't safe if we had a lasso!
I'd have to cast John Wayne as my dad. First, I always thought there was a resemblance, and second, my dad had that same kind of confidence that the Duke projected on film.
My mom, well, she might be a cross of Maureen O'Hara and the Beav's mom, June Cleaver, though she never wore dresses, pearls, and heels everyday, those were church clothes.
Because she worked in the field she was more likely to be in jeans, flannel shirts, and maybe even overalls.
And the casting for my nephews and I, well, lets just say "The Little Rascals" would be the best cast for us…
Best Documentary – My blog post about the Burchfiel Cemetery, the church and the church history connected with it holds a special place in my heart.
Best Biography – This post about my brother, Gary "Sox" Stocking is probably my favorite biography. It doesn't tell when he was born, nor whom he was born to, but it does capture just a bit of the essence of who he was, what kind of man he was, and you get an idea of why other street rodder friends came from three states in their street rods to honor him one last time.
Best Comedy – The funniest thing that I blogged about in 2009 was when we crazy high school kids used to drag main singing the top hit at the time "Hey There Little Red Riding Hood" at the top of our lungs!
It was fun then, and it gives me a chuckle now to remember it…
Advent Calendar – Christmas Cards
Sherry Stocking Kline
December 4th, 2009
When I was just a little girl, I looked forward each year to my Uncle Frank Stocking's Christmas card.
It was unique, shaped like a little stocking, with a verse about each member of the family and their travels, triumphs, and sometimes the trials of their life. I still have most of them, stored away.
Sometimes this little Christmas card was my "show and tell" for school, I was that proud of it!
After I married and had children, Uncle Frank's example became my inspiration. Nearly every Christmas I drew up a little picture (usually of children in old-fashioned sunbonnet and overalls) to depict my two kids doing something representative of our year, and wrote a poem that reflected the years happenings, joys, and sorrows.
2001 was a year of incredible sorrow intermingled with small joys and it is that poem that I've chosen to share here:
Kline Christmas Card 2001
I want to be a kid again, it's Christmas time you see.
I want to hang the tinsel on a lop-sided Christmas tree.
I want to lick the frosting bowl and nibble cookie dough.
I want to call up all my friends and Christmas caroling go.
But most of all I want to wish you Peace and Joy and Love.
And thank our Lord for all His blessings and strength from above.
I hope that kids of every age receive their most-longed-for toy.
And find each day filled with love and the season's Christmas Joy.
There are days that bring us sunshine, while others bring us rain.
There are years that bring us joy, while others bring us pain.
2001 was such a year of sorrow and sadness in our life.
We pray for comfort and healing from life's sorrowful strife.
Nancy, my brother Fred's wife and friend lost her cancer's fight
In the wee hours of the morning on a January night.
Fifty years of marriage, with five children they were blessed.
Nancy's smile, her laugh, her faith, her courage, all are sorely missed.
We lost my brother, Gary, on Memorial Day's afternoon.
He was too young, he was so loved, he died much too soon.
His mom, his wife, his daughter, his brother and "step" sons three,
We each and all miss him so very much you see.
Amidst our grief, we pray for leaders and our troops overseas.
We ask the Lord on bended knee for Peace and safety, Please.
We look forward with hope to the year 2002,
And pray for healing of our hearts and joy that comes anew.
Jarrod's in K.C., and lucky to be working still at Sprint
We're thankful that his job was not one of those that 'went."
And soon wedding bells will ring in February 2002,
When Marya and Marc tie the knot and happily say "I do."
Norman hopes each plane he inspects is up to Cessna's best.
Sometimes he flies with the pilots when they run their tests.
Sherry writes for the Wichita Eagle's magazine "Active Life"
Web design, "The Mayfield Book", Sherry has an "active life."
May this your Merriest Christmas be,
May whatever you wish for be under your tree.
And May God hold you safely in His hand,
As you travel around our beautiful land.
Merry Christmas!
Norman, Sherry, Jarrod & Marya
My Christmas card has changed in several ways. I no longer draw the 'sunbonnet kids' as our family has expanded. I now have two adorable granddaughters, and their picture sometimes graces the card's front.
My oldest granddaughter loves to draw, and I think I will soon be asking her to draw the picture for the front of my card!
Thanks to the inspiration of my niece, I now also include a photo collage with my Christmas cards that I create on my photo software, and so we have a year of our life in word and picture for close family and friends.
Looking back through those cards, it's easy to see just where we 'were' in life, and what was going on each year!
It's Saturday Night – time for lots of Genealogy Fun from Randy Seaver!
by Sherry Stocking Kline
November 14, 2009
Here, thanks to Randy Seaver of Genea-Musings, is your Saturday Night Genealogy Fun writing mission, if you decide to accept it (cue the Mission: Impossible music…):
1. What is the Nicest Thing another genealogist did for you, or to you, in the last week or so? (If you have no examples for this past week, go back in time – surely someone has done a nice thing for you in recent years!).
2. Tell us about it in your own blog post, in a comment to this blog post, in a comment on Facebook, or in a tweet on Twitter.
In the past few weeks, two Twitter friends helped me navigate the rocky-for-me road of how to 'do stuff' on my WordPress blog!
I tweeted for help…
In late September, I tweeted for help in finding a Blog Roll so I could add other folks blog addresses to my blog!
And GeneaBloggers (@geneabloggers on Twitter) tweeted me the instructions for how to do it, then tweeted me a "why don't you blog about it message later." (I still plan to!)
It took @geneabloggers about six tweets at 140 characters to send me the info, but the instructions were perfect.
I found the Blog Roll I wanted, and next thing you know, I had a blog roll on my blog! Woo Hoo! Thanks, GeneaBloggers! Now, I just need to find the time to add everyone's blog on there.
Yesterday, I followed a link…
Just yesterday, I followed a link on Twitter from @Bonnie67 that led me to her post at Bonnie67′s. (Bonnie isn't a genealogist, yet, but I'm 'recruiting' her.)
Bonnie had a link to a music video, the very same song by Sam the Sham and the Pharoah's that I wished I could have added to my first Saturday Night Genealogy Fun post.
When I mentioned that I wished I knew how to post music video's on my site, Bonnie got busy and wrote a blog post to show me how!
Awesome! Thanks, Bonnie!
And though this was a long time ago and I'd have to dig through a lot of old genealogy to find her name, there was a wonderfully kind woman who was the first woman I wrote to to try to find information about my husband's Kline family.
This wonderful woman looked up some information in the newspaper, located a description about the farm animals owned, crops grown, and the orchard on the farm, and found information about the two children of James and Elizabeth Kline that had passed away while they lived there.
I was able to locate some information at the library in Wichita that helped her out some, too, information that told her that some of her family had been founding members in the small cattle town that was Wichita in its early days.
It was the help from this woman, and others like her that helped me have those early successes in piecing together the family histories that weave together and make up the fabric of who our family is, and fueled my desire to learn more, and more.
Thank you!
John Conver and Jessie (Wood) Kline – Tombstone Tuesday
by Sherry Stocking Kline
November, 10, 2009
This stone belongs to my husband's grandparents, John Conver and Jessie (Wood) Kline.
The Ryan Township Cemetery is located in Sumner County, one mile west of Milan, Kansas on Highway 160, or about 16 miles west of Wellington, Kansas.
John is the fourth son of James and Elizabeth (Conver) Kline. John had three older brothers who passed away before the family moved to Kansas. You can read more about James and Elizabeth Kline's family here.
Jessie is the daughter of Nathaniel and Mary (McMulin) Wood. Nathaniel and Mary homesteaded a quarter section of land in Sumner County, Kansas, near Milan, and are also buried in the Ryan Township Cemetery, Milan, Kansas.
John and Jessie had three children:
Lawrence Conver Kline b. May 15, 1911 – d. Feb 16, 1989
Dorothy L. Born & Died in 1915 at 4 mos of age
Melvin Ray Kline b. Mar 20, 1918 – d. Aug 18, 1988
Lawrence, Dorothy, and Melvin are all buried in the Ryan Township Cemetery, Milan, Sumner County, Kansas.
If you are researching the Kline family, I hope you will leave a comment with your contact information so we can share and compare research!
Thank you & Happy Researching!


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Cary News
Jobless rates fall in Cary, Apex
Apex and Cary continue to see lower unemployment rates than the Triangle as a whole.
Both towns had a jobless rate of 3.8 percent in February, according to data released by the N.C. Department of Commerce and seasonally adjusted by Wells Fargo.
The rates dipped from 4 percent in January and 5.5 percent in February 2013.
The Triangle, including western Wake County, posted its lowest unemployment rates in February since 2008.
Holly Springs saw a slight increase to 3.7 percent, but that number is down from 4.8 percent from a year ago.
Western Wake County towns are faring better than Raleigh, which saw a 4.5 percent jobless rate in February, down from 6.5 percent the prior year.
The Triangle unemployment rate was 5.1 percent, down from 5.2 percent in January and 7.2 percent in February of last year.
Apex and Cary tend to have lower jobless rates partly because of their proximity to Research Triangle Park and other employment hubs.
The towns have many residents with advanced degrees that make it easier for them to find jobs, said Mike Walden, an economist at N.C. State University.
"The type of jobs and the type of workers that are in Cary and Apex tend to be higher educated … even compared to Raleigh," Walden said. "The higher up the educational ladder you go, especially in today's economy, the better chance you have of getting a job."
Cary has big employers such as SAS and MetLife, which is hiring for its new technology office, said Howard Johnson, president of the Cary Chamber of Commerce.
"We're very fortunate to have these wonderful corporations based here and opening those opportunities," Johnson said.
An upswing in the economy and the housing market may have resulted in more lower-level jobs, too. Housing starts are up in each western Wake town, and retail follows rooftops.
"Hiring is up pretty much across the board with strong growth locally in retail trade, construction and professional services," Wells Fargo economist Mark Vitner wrote in an email.
He said the towns have "also done a very good job of attracting top notch businesses and developers, so they have been able to hold onto their charm."
Apex is just getting started when it comes to attracting businesses, said Town Manager Bruce Radford.
Last summer, the Town Council approved the Peak Plan 2030, which targets land along U.S. 64 and U.S. 1 for commercial and industrial uses.
Apex plans to create an economic development department in July to help lure business.
About 85 percent of Apex residents leave town for work, Radford said.
Working closer to home will reduce wear and tear on the town's roads, he said.
And by spending less on gas, Radford said, residents will have more to spend at local stores and restaurants.