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The Borg begin a new offensive against the Federation, but this time they're acting as individuals; Data experiences his first emotions while fighting them. (Season finale)
Data is playing cards on the holodeck with simulations of Isaac Newton, Albert Einstein and Stephen Hawking. They engage in a conversation about the curvature of space-time and the "apple story". Hawking has just laid down a winning hand of four sevens when Riker calls for red alert. The USS Enterprise-D responds to a distress call from Ohniaka III, an outpost with little strategic value. The Enterprise arrives to find a mysterious ship in orbit. An away team consisting of Riker, Worf, Data, and security officer Corelki find that all personnel on the station are dead and it appears that whoever was responsible for the attacks was specifically interested in their deaths. Data overrides a control panel, causing a door to open and revealing that the attackers are the Borg.
Act One
In the ensuing battle, the away team notice a marked difference in Borg behavior when compared to earlier encounters. Most notably, one Borg, Bosus, expressed sympathy for another by name, Torsus, after it is killed by the away team, promising that he would make the away team "suffer" for the death of his comrade, and referring to himself with the singular pronoun "I". In a similar unusual display, after a Borg kills Corelki and attacks Data, Data becomes uncharacteristically enraged and brutally kills a Borg in hand-to-hand combat. The engagement ends shortly afterward and the Borg transport out.
Picard orders pursuit, but the Borg vessel disappears through a subspace distortion. La Forge will need time to understand the method used, so they go back to the planet.
Following the Borg's departure, Data reveals to Riker that he had genuinely felt anger, and is stunned.
Act Two
Later, in a briefing in the observation lounge, Riker describes the marked differences in Borg behavior as compared to their previous encounters. The Borg were more aggressive, emphasizing destruction over assimilation, and Riker compares their behavior to that of Klingons rather than the Borg they had encountered in the past. Worf notes furthermore that they demonstrated facets of individuality rather than a collective consciousness, in referring to themselves in the singular "I" over the plural "we", as well as their concern for their dead comrade. It is hypothesized that the developments of named Borg and assertions of individuality may be tied to the influence of the Borg Hugh, who developed a sense of individuality after being rescued by the crew in 2368.
Later, Admiral Alynna Nechayev arrives on the USS Gorkon and assigns the Enterprise to head a three-ship contingent of a fifteen-ship task force in the sector, consisting of the Enterprise, the USS Crazy Horse, and the USS Agamemnon. Nechayev berates Picard for having sent Hugh back to the Borg when they had a chance to destroy the Collective in one swift stroke. Despite Picard's insistence that Hugh's budding individuality had ethically compelled him to respect his desire to return to the Collective, she orders him to safeguard Federation citizens rather than his sense of morality in the future.
Meanwhile, Data is trying to make sense of the emotion he felt earlier. He speaks with La Forge and Troi about his recent feelings of rage, and begins to fear that negative emotions are the only ones he is capable of feeling, despite all attempts to elicit other positive emotions through experimentation. Troi assures him that feelings of anger are natural, and are not to be suppressed. However, what most worries Data is that he felt pleasure after killing the Borg on Ohniaka III, which in turn worries Troi as well.
Act Three
After sixteen hours of patrol, the Enterprise had no further Borg encounters, though tension still ran high on board and throughout the surrounding sector, causing at least one false alarm from the New Berlin Colony. During this time, analysis of the subspace distortion through which the rogue Borg ship escaped is revealed as an "artificially-created energy conduit", which later becomes labeled as a transwarp conduit. Picard reviewed mission recordings of Hugh's experiences on the Enterprise, and revealed to Riker an ounce of regret and second thoughts over sending Hugh back to the Collective. Though Riker maintains it was the moral thing to do, Picard is still fighting with himself over whether it was the right thing to do, given that Hugh presented the opportunity to destroy the Collective before it had caused further destruction.
La Forge later joins Data in a holodeck simulation of his experience with the Borg, wherein he tries to recreate the emotional response it had generated on the outpost. Despite multiple attempts, Data tells him that he has not been able to duplicate the sensation, repeatedly and dispassionately killing the simulated Borg while increasing its strength with each failure. Data then asks La Forge if he could help him deactivate the safety protocols on the holodeck in order to augment the Borg's strength to dangerous levels. While La Forge refuses to let him put his life on the line for a theory, Data genuinely believes it will allow him to answer his questions of emotion that he has sought throughout his entire life. Data asserts his ownership over his life, and that he can risk it if he chooses, but despite compassion La Forge refuses.
Shortly afterward, the Enterprise receives a distress call from the MS I colony, and immediately responds. The Enterprise gives chase to the Borg vessel, and is pulled into the transwarp conduit as it attempts to flee the system.
Act Four
As the Enterprise exits the conduit her shields are down significantly. With a single Borg weapons shot, shields are down completely and two Borg transport aboard the bridge. After succeeding in killing security officer Franklin, the Borg are neutralized, though in the diversion the Borg vessel was able to escape. This incident further compounds the differences in Borg behavior for the Enterprise crew, notably in that the disabled Borg were left behind instead of vaporizing them, as had been done on previous occasions.
One of the Borg survives, and during his interrogation it reveals that he does not have a designation, but a name: "Crosis", given to him by an individual referred to as "the one", and, "the one who will destroy [them]". Picard argues with him on this emphasis of destruction, that it is the purpose of the Borg to assimilate rather than destroy. However, Crosis reveals that the modus operandi of these particular Borg is far different from those encountered in the past, in that they "do not assimilate inferior biological organisms, they destroy them", reflecting the development of an internalized ideological identity in these Borg rather than a mere collective identity as linked cybernetic organisms. After an unsuccessful attempt by Picard to communicate with him by referring to himself as Locutus, he orders Dr. Crusher to perform an autopsy of the dead Borg to find any connection to Hugh as an explanation for this behavior, and also leaves Data alone with the Borg to conduct a biospectral analysis.
While Data is alone with the Borg, it attempts to communicate with him. After activating an unknown device on its body that noticeably affects Data in some way, Crosis begins talking to Data about emotions. Despite resistance to Crosis' insistent inquiries Data relents and reveals his experience on Ohniaka III. Crosis pointedly asks him if it felt good to kill, and though Data fights with his understanding of ethics he reveals the pleasure he felt in killing, despite the fact that Dr. Soong gave him programming that defines his sense of right and wrong. It quickly becomes evident that Crosis is goading Data into admitting his like of brutal pleasure. Data admits that it was a potent experience, and noticeably appears to be getting seduced by emotion. Data's ethics begin to deteriorate as he admits he wants to feel this way again. When Crosis asks him if he had a friend, Data mentions La Forge, and in a tremendous reversal of his ethical programming Data says he would kill his friend like the Borg he killed in order to feel emotions again.
During this exchange, La Forge continued his analysis of the subspace conduit and its operation. As he explains the analysis a shuttlecraft leaves the shuttlebay, revealed to contain Data and the Borg prisoner, and proceeds through the transwarp conduit.
Act Five
After a short flight through the conduit they emerge 65 light-years away, it is revealed that there had been significant Borg activity in the three systems closest to the terminus, as there had been indications both of advanced civilizations, recent plasma weapon discharge, and no signs of life.
The shuttlecraft is tracked to a planet with unusually high EM interference. Weighing the risk of putting an away team down to the surface without knowing what could be waiting for them, to which Riker replies that they'll have to take that risk of being surrounded by Borg; Picard orders a well-armed away team down to the surface near the shuttle, with the transporter chief maintaining a lock on all of them at all times.
The shuttle El-Baz is found abandoned in a field, with no structures in the immediate area and no signs of Data or the Borg prisoner. Sensing a need to cover more ground, Picard decides to establish a command post near the El-Baz and wants to use the shuttles for low-level reconnaissance, therefore ordering the designated pilots to the shuttle bay. Finally, he orders all available personnel including La Forge and himself to put together four-man away teams, while leaving a skeleton crew on board. When asked by La Forge who would be in command of the Enterprise, Doctor Crusher enters the bridge and asks for last orders. Picard orders her not to wait for him or anyone else, but to take the Enterprise back to the conduit, and return to Federation space should the Borg return and threaten the ship. Both officers wished each other good luck, with Picard adding "captain" to her title.
Twelve teams from the Enterprise had been deployed so far, with Riker and Worf in one and Picard, La Forge, Troi, and a security officer armed with a phaser rifle in another. After leaving Wallace and Towles manning the command post on the planet, Picard's team search the surface. Troi sees a structure in the distance. Picard's team enter the structure some distance from the landing site, the interior and exterior bare save for a unknown claw-like insignia in the decor. When the crew attempt to leave the building, a large number of armed Borg flood the building, displaying a near-mob mentality. The security officer is killed, and shortly afterward Lore appears on a promontory in the hall, revealing himself as their leader. Data reveals himself as in league with his brother, as well as their plans to destroy the Federation.
Memorable quotes
"But then I said 'In that frame of reference, the perihelion of Mercury will have precessed in the opposite direction.'"
- - Stephen Hawking (first lines)
"All the quantum fluctuations in the universe will not change the cards in your hand."
- - Albert Einstein to Stephen Hawking, incorrectly calling a bluff
"Do not patronize me, sir. I invented physics. The day that apple fell on my head was the most momentous day in the history of science."
"Not the apple story again..."
- - Issac Newton, to Data with Stephen Hawking responding
"Wrong again, Albert."
- - Stephen Hawking while showing his winning hand to Albert Einstein
"You have killed Torsus. I will make you suffer for this."
- - Bosus, to Riker
"Stop it! Stop! Stop! Stop! Stop! Stop!"
- - Data, while strangling a Borg drone
"What happened?"
"I got angry."
- - Riker after Data kills a Borg
"If it meant that you could feel emotions again, the way you did on Ohniaka III, would you kill your friend? Would you kill Geordi?"
"Yes... I would."
- - Crosis and Data
" ... transmit another copy of Starfleet's ship recognition protocols, and tell them to read it this time!"
- - Picard to Worf after a false alarm
"They were fast, aggressive, almost vicious. It was more like fighting Klingons than... (realizing) ...Borg. (to Worf) No offense."
"None taken."
- - Riker and Worf
"Biological organism: Human. Sever spinal cord below third vertebrae. Death is immediate."
- - Crosis
"... feelings aren't positive and negative. They simply exist. It's what we do with those feelings that becomes good or bad."
- - Troi to Data about his first emotion
"That's not Data."
"You should listen to her, captain. She's way ahead of you."
- - Picard and Troi, when Lore reveals himself
"The sons of Soong have joined together, and together we will destroy the Federation."
- - Data
"It may turn out that the moral thing to do was not the right thing to do."
- - Picard to Riker in the ready room
Background information
Production history
- Two-page story pitch memo from Jeri Taylor to Michael Piller: 4 March 1993 [1]
- Final draft script: 12 April 1993 [2]
- Filmed: 12 April 1993 – 22 April 1993
- Wrap day before summer hiatus: 23 April 1993
- Premiere airdate: 21 June 1993
- First UK airdate: 3 January 1996
- This is the only Star Trek episode in which the episode title and guest star credits appear in the teaser, before the main opening sequence. This may have been done so as not to detract from the action of the phaser fight between the away team and the Borg, which comprises the majority of Act One. Alternatively, this might have been done because the credits would have run longer than Act One itself.
- In one of the few identical shooting sites used by both Star Trek: The Original Series and Star Trek: The Next Generation (besides Vasquez Rocks Natural Area Park), the oak-studded hillside seen just before Lore's fortress is spotted was the same location used for Spock and Leila's discussion of rainbows and dragons in "This Side of Paradise".
- According to the Star Trek: The Next Generation Companion [page number? • edit], the plot was inspired by the novella Heart of Darkness.
- The eyepiece used by Crosis is identical to the medallion on Worf's baldric.
- According to the Star Trek: The Next Generation Companion' [page number? • edit], no live effects were used for the phaser fight; all flames and sparks were added in post-production.
- Although many Borg appear on screen in the final scenes, only eleven extras were used (limited by the available wardrobe). They were multiplied using split-screen overlays. (Star Trek: The Next Generation Companion [page number? • edit])
- While not very apparent or recognizable, the Borg building in this and the next episode is the Brandeis-Bardin Institute, perhaps most well known as the building said to contain the command center and power chamber in the first five seasons of Power Rangers. [3] This institute was also used as Camp Khitomer in Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country.
- Several costumes and props from this episode were sold off on the It's A Wrap! sale and auction on eBay, including Tom Morga's costume. [4]
- This episode marks the third time that the Enterprise-D is commanded by a female officer (Beverly Crusher). Tasha Yar was the first female in command of the ship while Commander Riker was supervising repairs at the holodeck in episode "The Big Goodbye". Deanna Troi was in command of the Enterprise-D during the episode "Disaster", as the highest ranking officer known to be alive after the ship was struck by quantum filaments.
- Newton makes a reference to the day the apple fell on his head as the day science was born. In the Star Trek: Voyager episode "Death Wish" we learn that the apple fell on his head because a Q shook the tree.
- In this episode Data says "I believe I've experienced my first emotion". However, in the episode "Deja Q", Data experiences a brief moment of laughter, which he then describes as "a wonderful... feeling".
- The USS Gorkon is the first Federation starship to be named for an "alien" individual, in this case, Klingon Chancellor Gorkon. Later, Star Trek: Discovery would feature several ships named after aliens, including the USS T'Plana-Hath, USS Shran, and USS Muroc.
- The matte painting used to portray the Federation outpost on Ohniaka III was with slight changes previously seen as the Darwin Genetic Research Station in "Unnatural Selection" and as the Arkaria Base in "Starship Mine".'
- Before Lore is revealed as the leader of Crosis and the others, Picard briefly speculates it to be Hugh.
- Darien Wallace, a background character played by long-time extra Guy Vardaman, receives his last name in this episode.
- The security ensign in the brig is a Bajoran who wears a Bajoran earring. This was referenced in a cut line of Crosis' from the script: "Bajoran. Puncture the lower ventricle of the heart. Death is immediate."
- Professor Stephen Hawking appears as himself. He is the only actor to ever play himself in the Star Trek franchise.
- One of the most subtle references to the number 47 occurs in this episode. Stephen Hawking's poker hand consists of four of a kind: four sevens.
- Hawking's off-screen remark which Newton doesn't understand is a bit of an inside joke: Einstein understands the joke (and Data, who has no sense of humor, understands that a joke has been made and appreciates it), but Newton doesn't get it. Data explains that the joke is based on knowledge about the perihelion precession of the planet Mercury, before Newton angrily cuts him off, saying "Don't patronize me, I invented physics". The perihelion precession of Mercury could not be explained by Newtonian physics alone, and was regarded as a major flaw of Newton's theory, but it later was explained by Einstein's General Theory of Relativity.
- Furthermore, Hawking's comment "Wrong again, Albert," when revealing his winning hand is a reference to the professor's life work in physics, in which he has disproved some of Einstein's theories.
- Lastly, during the intellectuals' poker game, Einstein has trouble with the math of how much the next bet is. Newton asked if Einstein could do "simple arithmetic". It is a commonly held myth that he could not. In fact, he was quite brilliant as a child, and began teaching himself higher math when he had outpaced his schooling.
- In his foreword to The Physics of Star Trek [page number? • edit], Hawking jokingly wrote that after "winning" the holodeck card game, he called Paramount Pictures to try and cash in his chips, "but they didn't know the exchange rate."
- During the filming of this episode Hawking was taken on a tour of the set. While on the bridge he requested to be helped into the captain's chair and in engineering he paused in front of the warp core and said, "I'm working on that." (citation needed • edit)
Video and DVD releases
- UK VHS release (two-episode tapes, CIC Video): Volume 76, catalog number VHR 2738, 10 January 1994
- As part of the UK VHS collection Star Trek: The Next Generation - Borg Box: 5 December 1994
- In feature-length form, as part of the UK VHS release Star Trek: The Next Generation - The Full Length TV Movies: Volume 8, catalog number VHR 4108, 24 April 1995
- As part of the US VHS collection Star Trek: The Next Generation - The Data Collection: 19 August 1997
- As part of the TNG Season 6 DVD collection
- In feature-length form, as part of the Star Trek: The Next Generation - The Complete TV Movies collection
- As part of the Star Trek: Fan Collective - Borg collection
Links and references
Also starring
- LeVar Burton as Lt. Cmdr. Geordi La Forge
- Michael Dorn as Lieutenant Worf
- Gates McFadden as Dr. Beverly Crusher
- Marina Sirtis as Counselor Deanna Troi
- Brent Spiner as Lt. Commander Data / Lore
Guest stars
- John Neville as Isaac Newton
- Jim Norton as Albert Einstein
- Natalija Nogulich as Alynna Nechayev
- Brian J. Cousins as Crosis
- And
Uncredited co-stars
- J. Aldrin as Borg
- David Keith Anderson as Ohniaka III science division officer
- Majel Barrett as USS Enterprise-D computer voice
- Joe Bauman as Garvey
- Christine Anne Baur as Corelki
- Pam Blackwell as Borg
- Steven Boz as Borg
- Carl David Burks as
- Cameron as Kellogg
- Tracee Lee Cocco as Jae
- Gerard David, Jr. as operations division ensign
- Joey Davis as Ohniaka III command division officer
- Jonathan Del Arco as Hugh (archive footage)
- Debra Dilley as Borg
- Matt Goodrich as Ohniaka III operations division officer
- Grace Harrell as operations division officer
- Heather as Ohniaka III command division officer
- Gary Hunter as Borg
- Jeff as Ohniaka III operations division officer
- Kathy as Towles
- Ken Lesco as operations division ensign
- Dennis Madalone as Borg
- H. McLaughlin as Borg
- Michael Moorehead as science division ensign
- Tom Morga as Borg / Hologram
- Geoffrey Mutch as operations division officer
- Mark Riccardi as Franklin
- Joyce Robinson as Gates
- M. Rotter as Borg
- Sissy Sessions as Ohniaka III operations division officer
- Noriko Suzuki as operations division ensign
- Adrian Tafoya as Borg
- John Tampoya as operations division ensign
- Mary Thompson as
- Curt Truman as Ohniaka III command division officer
- Guy Vardaman as Darien Wallace
- Rogan Wilde as Borg
- Vaun Wilmott as Bajoran security ensign
- Unknown performers as
Stunt doubles
- Tom Morga as stunt double for Brian J. Cousins
- Mark Riccardi as stunt double for Jonathan Frakes
- Brian J. Williams as stunt double for Brent Spiner
- David Keith Anderson – stand-in for LeVar Burton
- Carl David Burks – stand-in for Brent Spiner
- Michael Echols – stand-in for Michael Dorn
- Ron Large – stand-in for Ken Lesco
- Nora Leonhardt – stand-in for Marina Sirtis
- Tim McCormack – stand-in for Brent Spiner
- Lorine Mendell – stand-in for Gates McFadden
- Geoffrey Mutch – stand-in for Jonathan Frakes
- Richard Sarstedt – stand-in for Jonathan Frakes
- Dennis Tracy – stand-in for Patrick Stewart
- Guy Vardaman – photo double for Brent Spiner
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Library computer references
Starship mission status: Ajax, USS; Alderaan; Alpha Laputa IV; Ambassador-class; Apollo-class; Aries, USS; Beta Cygni system; Bradbury, USS; Bradbury-class; Charleston, USS; Constellation-class; Excelsior-class; Fearless, USS; Goddard, USS; Hood, USS; Korolev-class; Merced-class; Merrimac, USS; Monitor, USS; Nebula-class; pulsar; Renaissance-class; Repulse, USS; Romulan Neutral Zone; sector; Sector 21396; Sector 21538; Sector 22358; Sector 22846; Sector 22853; Sector 23079; Starbase 134; Starbase 434; Thomas Paine, USS; Trieste, USS; Victory, USS; Vulcan Science Academy; warp drive; Zhukov, USS
External links
- "Descent" at Memory Beta, the wiki for licensed Star Trek works
- "Descent" at Wikipedia
- "Descent, Part I" at StarTrek.com, the official Star Trek website
- "Descent" at MissionLogPodcast.com, a Roddenberry Star Trek podcast
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NEA Statement on Midland, Arkansas School Board Vice President Clint McCance Remarks
WASHINGTON - October 29, 2010 -
The following statement may be attributed to NEA Executive Director John Wilson:
"History teaches us that hate must always be confronted. If people of good will do not stand strong against hate, hate will triumph, as it did in Nazi Germany in the 1930s and in Philadelphia, Mississippi in 1964. Hate can poison a society. When I read what Clint McCance, the Vice President of the Midland, Arkansas School Board, wrote on the Internet about gay people, my first concern was for the impressionable children and young people who might read it, and the harm his hateful and venomous words might do. My second thought was that Clint McCance must resign immediately from the school board. He has proven himself morally unfit to serve in such a position of trust.
"I am proud to be the executive director of an organization that has stood up and spoken out, without equivocation, for the health and safety of gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender (GLBT) students. All students deserve a quality public education, including GLBT students. All students deserve a chance to succeed in life. No student who is subjected to hatred and intimidation can learn to his or her potential. The National Education Association is committed to working with communities and parents to make all of our schools safe and supportive for all students. I am convinced that together, educators and other responsible adults can form an invincible alliance against the Clint McCances of this world. We will not let them win. We will not let hate destroy this great country of ours."
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Imperious and Pompus
Fund: Trident Capital
Posted by Anonymous on 2007-05-03
Trident has made a lot of money as an expansion growth VC group. Once upon a time there wasn't a lot of money available to scale between VC's and Public exits. Times are now different, and they have a lot of competition that adds value outside of capital. Met twice with near full partnership. Not very impressive outside of making it clear that they were imperious name droppers. Don Dixon had a very hard time getting his ego through the doorway.PRIVATE: Members Only


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Father land: Huguely's Morgantown property yanked from foreclosure
Besides being accused of murder in the death of UVA classmate Yeardley Love, George W. Huguely V has been branded a spoiled rich kid. But according to an action taken by a local lender, the Huguely family appears to be enduring the kind of financial setbacks that have affected many property owners in the ailing American economy.
According to property and other public records, an 8.34-acre parcel of land along upscale Morgantown Road owned by a company controlled by the accused killer's father, George W. Huguely IV, has fallen into foreclosure proceedings.
The auction, under the auspices of Charlottesville attorney Rick Carter, was slated for the steps of the Albemarle County courthouse at noon on Tuesday, December 7. According to a source, that auction was called off. The reason, says Carter, is that the land-owning company has declared Chapter 11 bankruptcy.
Purchased five years ago for $485,000 in a transaction funded by Virginia National Bank, the originally 10.34-acre property was replatted a year later with a two-acre parcel sold off as the building site. The remaining land appears to contain no house.
An early deed of trust from VNB shows indebtedness of $325,000. How much debt remained on the property at the time of the foreclosure action could not be immediately learned.
The Albemarle assessor values the tract at $333,800. The property is held by a West Virginia partnership whose general partner, and the person signing the documents, is George W. Huguely IV. The company's legal address is a building in Bethesda, Maryland, that also serves as the headquarters for the Huguely Companies. Efforts to reach the elder Huguely were not immediately successful.
In 1993, a West Virginia firm bearing the same name declared bankruptcy in Maryland's federal bankruptcy court. Whether there was any connection to Huguely's company could not be immediately determined.
Huguely's son has resided in the Albmarle Charlottesville Regional Jail since May 3, the day of the slaying. His lawyer has termed the young woman's death a tragic accident.
–original headline retired (as tonally inappropriate): Killer land? Huguely's Morgantown property yanked from foreclosure
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Of course this is news. I read the story simply because it pertained in any matter to young George Huguely. My take on the story is that all the family monies need to be invested directly into young George's defense. Tells me something.
No, it's completely typical Hook fare, dirty up the family when only one is guilty (allegedly)of anything. A common land transaction, they throw up the picture of a murderer (allegedly) to draw an audience to an otherwise mundane story. Well done Hook. You've been doing this a lot lately.
Sounds like private family business to me. why is it newsworthy?
Who cares? When the bleeding heart liberal C-ville jury lets him off the hook like they did Alston, he can take over the family business and get things up and running again. This whole murder thing is just a bump in the road for them.
It will become much more newsworthy in January when Huguely's defense plays their cards. It is very expensive to prevent your son from going down the first degree murder path.
Since "THE HOOK" is a free read= If you don't like what it feels is news or how it prints something DON'T read it!! LMAO
Morris Shifflett is incorrect.
A so-called "liberal" jury is not what got Andrew Alston a light (three-year) sentence in the Walker Sisk case.
There was a combination of factors involved, including (1) the ability of Alston's father to fund a costly defense, (2) the acquittal of Alston on an assault charge against his girlfriend (engineered by his dad), and (3) the fact that virtually all participants in the altercation that led to Sisk's death were drunk when it happened, making the "truth" harder to ascertain.
Go back to the articles posted below Morris, and re-read.
Because I knew and liked Walker Sisk, I thought the jury erred.
But to simply categorize a perceived error in justice as the result of a "bleeding heart liberal" jury is more than a little narrow-minded.
steph: see latest I could find here: http://www.c-ville.com/index.php?cat=1991704080566501&act=post&pid=12032...
Why blame the messenger? The Hook did not kill this person........none of this would be newsworthy if George Hugugely did not murder this person- PERIOD!!
Mrs. Love has created an incredible foundation for her daughter. One Love: this will insure that Yeardley will forever be remembered for the remarkable, energetic, beautiful and bright young woman that she was. Yeardley was an unique blend of huge vibrant character combined with solid values and work ethic that is rare. This foundation seems to be designed to reflect her amazing spirit and to remind us of the thousands of good things she gave us in her short time here. She will not be forgotten.
Caroline- I agree- it is sad that none of Yeardley's friends tried to intervene in the issue she was having with Hughuley. I truely wish there were no outcome in the matter due to invervention and protection.
ââ?¬â??original headline retired (as tonally inappropriate): Killer land? Huguely's Morgantown property yanked from foreclosure
Was that "tonally" or "totally" inappropriate?
What is the latest with the case. Thought there was a hearing October 8, haven't been able to find the outcome.
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JJ - guess the apple didn't fall far from the tree.
You gotta enjoy this..............
"Huguely's son has resided in the Albmarle Charlottesville Regional Jail since May 3, the day of the slaying."
that has to be the highlight of his life.
If you attach a forum such as this blog to an article, you will get opinion, that's the point!!!
I agree HarryD.
How does the article show that Huguely is NOT a spoiled rich kid?


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Set up Floating IPs with OpenStack
Follow QA:Testcase_launch_an_instance_on_OpenStack
Make sure that nova is configured with the correct public network interface. The default is eth0, but you can change it like:
$> echo '--public_interface=em1' | sudo tee -a /etc/nova/nova.conf $> sudo service openstack-nova-network restart
Ensure that ICMP (ping) and SSH are allowed to your instances.
$> euca-authorize -P icmp -t -1:-1 default $> euca-authorize -P tcp -p 22 default
How to test
If you've followed all of the test cases, the private network used for OpenStack instances is 10.0.0.0/24. The purpose of this functionality is to be able to assign a pool of floating public IP addresses to instances, as well.
The details of this test case are a bit specific to the environment you are using to test. For this documentation, we're going to assume that the the OpenStack server's public interface is on the 192.168.122.0/24 subnet. We are going to take an unused address from this subnet, 192.168.122.150, and define it as a floating IP address to be used by OpenStack.
$> sudo nova-manage floating create 192.168.122.150/31
Allocate an address to use for an instance:
$> euca-allocate-address ADDRESS 192.168.122.150
Associate the allocated address with a running instance:
$> euca-associate-address -i i-00000001 192.168.122.150 ADDRESS 192.168.122.150 i-00000001
Expected Results
Verify that the public IP address got assigned to your public network interface on the OpenStack server.
$> ip addr ... 2: eth0: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 1500 qdisc pfifo_fast state UP qlen 1000 link/ether 52:54:00:db:c8:51 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff inet 192.168.122.58/24 brd 192.168.122.255 scope global eth0 inet 192.168.122.150/32 scope global eth0
Verify that you can now ssh into the instance using the newly assigned address:
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Check for new errors in the logs:
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If you would like, you can now disassociate and release the address assigned for testing.
$> euca-disassociate-address 192.168.122.150 ADDRESS 192.168.122.150 $> euca-release-address 192.168.122.150 ADDRESS 192.168.122.150


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Q: The song/album that changed everything?
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By Alan Robinson
Published: Wednesday, February 20, 2013, 12:01 a.m.
Updated 7 hours ago
What still bothers defensive coordinator Dick LeBeau about the Steelers' season of unfulfilled expectations is that he is convinced they rather than the rival Baltimore Ravens could have won the Super Bowl.
The Steelers went 8-8 and missed the playoffs, yet LeBeau believes there was little to no difference between them and the team that displays the Lombardi Trophy.
Do I feel we could have done the same thing they did? I do. I do, LeBeau told the Tribune-Review on Tuesday. It didn't break that way.
Watching the Super Bowl two weeks ago was a bit difficult for the 75-year-old LeBeau because, he said, It hurts to see the Ravens win anything.
Still, LeBeau was effusive in his praise for the Ravens, citing their back-to-back road wins at AFC No. 1-seeded Denver and No. 2-seeded New England ahead of their Super Bowl upset of the 49ers.
However, LeBeau wonders if the injury situations had been reversed for example, Ray Lewis doesn't come back to the Ravens but Ben Roethlisberger makes a quick and effective return from his injury if the Steelers might not have won a third Super Bowl since the 2005 season.
They got the right people back at the right time, and we continued to have more injuries, it seemed like, LeBeau said. Many times that decides it.
The Ravens (10-6) and Steelers played a pair of three-point games during the season, each winning on the other's home field. The Steelers were without Roethlisberger for both games, with Byron Leftwich playing during the 13-10 loss to Baltimore on Nov. 18 and Charlie Batch leading the Steelers to a 23-20 win in Baltimore on Dec. 2.
Can I say with a certain amount of credence we can compete with Baltimore day-in and day-out? I know it and I can say it, LeBeau said. We didn't have Ben in either one of those games. I know we're a better team with Ben because he's a great player, and that's not a knock on Charlie or Byron. Ben's our No. 1 quarterback, and we didn't have him.
The Steelers' defense finished No. 1 statistically for the second straight season and the third time since 2008 despite being without star safety Troy Polamalu for a majority of the season or a healthy linebacker James Harrison for most of it.
But while Polamalu sat out nine consecutive games and an injured knee all but wiped out his 2009 season, LeBeau is convinced that Polamalu's career isn't close to being over. Polamalu turns 32 in April.
Polamalu played as effectively as ever once he returned late in the season, LeBeau said. As a result, LeBeau is hopeful Polamalu can play at such a level and for full seasons for several more years.
He has a lot of tremendous football talent still in him, LeBeau said. Once he got back on the field, I couldn't see any difference in his play than when he was winning the Defensive Player of the Year award. ... I know Troy will do everything he can to get himself physically ready to compete for a 16-game season. And we'll have to wait and see (if he can).
LeBeau will be honored Wednesday when a plaque recognizing his Pro Football Hall of Fame selection in 2010 is unveiled at his alma mater London (Ohio) High School. LeBeau will speak to the school's students during the ceremony.
It's not a disadvantage to come from a small town. In many ways it can be an advantage, and I'm glad to share that message with them, LeBeau said.
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3 people killed, deputies wounded in N.C. shootout
Baku: An angry husband sprayed his father-in-law's house with bullets from two 30-round magazines, killing two people, after his wife ran to the home during an argument Wednesday, APA reports quoting Associated Press.
The man later exchanged gunfire with authorities and died of a gunshot wound after hitting several deputies and a state trooper, Cumberland County Sheriff Earl "Moose" Butler said.
"He just went wild," Butler said of the shooter. "I mean, shooting at random. He just turned it loose, that automatic. He unloaded it every time I think he pulled up there" in front of the victims' house.
The violence began before 7 a.m., when 41-year-old Valerie Michaelis called 911 for help, authorities said. Michaelis and her husband, Andrew, were arguing and she said he was holding her at gunpoint.
Investigators said Valerie Michaelis got the gun from her husband, who then pursued her with a knife. She fled to her father's house.
Seven people were in the house when authorities say Andrew Michaelis drove by in his truck and discharged a 30-round magazine from what authorities described as an assault rifle. He killed two people: his wife's father, 61-year-old Gary Simpson, and Simpson's 10-year-old grandson, Trekwan Covington. Among those in the house was Ryan Michaelis, 13, who was there "because of problems in the home," Butler said.
His father knew Ryan was in the Simpson home, the sheriff said.
Michaelis drove away and then returned a second and third time to fire into the house and from inside the truck, Butler said. Deputies arrived in between the volleys, and one who entered the home was hit in the chest, back and shoulder.
"Later on we heard a series of bang, bang, bang, bang, bang, bang," said Luz Ross, who lives beside the Simpson home. "It was like war over that side. And a little later on there were a series of high-powered bang, bang, bang, bang, over that area."
Other deputies pursued Andrew Michaelis through a wooded area into an adjoining neighborhood and onto a residential street. He continued firing at deputies, who returned fire, Butler said.
Michaelis died at the scene, but it wasn't clear if the deputies killed him or if he took his own life. Authorities found another 50 to 60 rounds in his truck "so this man was prepared to take some lives this morning," Butler said.
One neighbor who lives near the woods where the suspect was killed, Jacarria Bethea, said she didn't get up when she heard shots because she's used to hearing gunshots at nights. Another neighbor, Cheryl Feeley, attributed those nighttime gunshots to people firing guns into the air in the woods, not at each other.
Neighbors have had disagreements but never fired weapons, she said. "It's a scare for everybody in the neighborhood," Feeley said.
The house where the shooting occurred is on a corner lot in a neighborhood of mostly mobile homes on foundations. Its front door had what appeared to be gunshots, and tiny pieces of shattered, green glass were in the street. Spatters of blood stained the front porch, which was covered with broken glass from a shattered storm door. A tiny American flag sticker sat among the glass.
The deputy shot while in the house was in stable condition, Butler said. A second suffered a grazing wound to his head while a third suffered minor bruising when a bullet struck her duty belt, which prevented the bullet from entering her body.
Another deputy escaped injury when a bullet penetrated his uniform but didn't strike his body. A state Highway Patrol trooper suffered a shrapnel wound when a bullet went through his vehicle.


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Imagine Dragons' Dan Reynolds talks success, touring and more
Imagine Dragons' Dan Reynolds has been enjoying rock stardom from a relevantly sane place.
Despite recently winning a Grammy, reaching double platinum status with its debut album and having three international hits, some folks still wonder who - or what - the band is.
"People are still saying, 'Who are Imagine Dragons? Like, why do I keep hearing this name?'" Reynolds said. "I think it is a pretty strange thing to live in this day and age where we're selling all these records and it's all going well, and we have still kept some anonymity. I think, in our case, it's something we kind of cherish."
Reynolds and his bandmates may not be able to blend in for too long. Imagine Dragons set a record last week on the Billboard Hot 100 with the anthem-like rock jam, "Radioactive," which has spent 77 weeks on the chart, beating Jason Mraz's 76-week run in 2009 with "I'm Yours."
Reynolds, 26, talked recently about the band's hits, new music, arena tour and why it might not release a fourth single following the hit "Demons," "It's Time" and "Radioactive," which won the best rock performance Grammy and has sold 6.6 million tracks.
AP: The past year has been insane for the band, so how do you feel when people say they don't know who the band is?
Reynolds: That's something that comes with time. We've had some opportunities to have some major exposure visually and to kind of get our personalities out there more that we turned down just because I feel like the way that I would want people to find out who we are is organically and through their own interest and their own curiosity, rather than seeing some commercial or movie.
I remember growing up listening to U2 and I didn't even know what Bono looked like. I didn't even know his name. It got to a point where I was invested so much that I wanted to know who Bono was - not to say that I would compare us to U2 because that's one of my favorite bands of all-time and it feels, like, sacrilegious.
AP: How does it feel to set this Billboard record?
Reynolds: I don't really know how to comprehend it, I think. I feel like this last year has been full of events that I don't know if I'll fully understand till years down the road. I think right now I'm a little overwhelmed by it all.
AP: "Radioactive" has had a slow climb on the charts, versus other contemporary hits that debut high and fall shortly after.
Reynolds: That's been the most important part of the band from the beginning. With our radio team, we were never like, "This is the single! Push this to road!" It literally just started off on its own. We never wanted to skip steps. We always wanted to grow slowly and take our time with things.
AP: Will the band release a fourth single from "Night Visions"?
Reynolds: I don't think so. At this point, we're trying to pull back from the reins and say, "OK, we don't want to overkill the record on people's ears and force it upon people to some extent." I feel like it's been on the radio so much that it's almost been overwhelming to us.
AP: Have you been recording new music?
Reynolds: We've really been recording on the road When we get home from tour, we'll comb through those demos and pick out the best ones and bring them to a live band setting. Right now, I have a good 40 or 50 demos that I've been writing over the last two years.
AP: Will the album come out this year?
Reynolds: We want to take a little time off. Sometimes you can put out an album that's maybe not as good as it could have been because you rushed it.
AP: The band has toured a lot in the last year. How's the arena tour different?
Reynolds: You come and you understand what Imagine Dragons is about, and what the vision is about, and what the feeling is and what the visual is, instead of just us coming and playing our 10 songs like they sound on our CD. I feel like my favorite bands growing up, I went to their concerts and walked away feeling like I was part of that band and that experience.
AP: Your wife is the lead singer of the band Nico Vega. Has your 18-month-old daughter caught the music bug?
Reynolds: She's definitely singing some Ariel, you know, some "Little Mermaid" here and there. She'll probably get interested in music. I don't know if I'm going to let her get into that industry. But maybe at the end of the day, she'll just do it anyways. My mom didn't want me to do it and I did it.


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Mary Baker Eddy, founder of the Church of Christ, Scientist, purchased this Italianate house in the Lynn "Diamond District" in 1875 and lived there until 1881, in what she would call the Christian Scientists Home. The Diamond District became known as such because of the wealth of its inhabitants, many of whom had made money their fortunes making shoes. But by the late 1800s many of the larger homes had been converted to boardinghouses and the general make-up of the neighborhood was changing. The front parlor of the house became the first meeting place for what would become the Church of Christ, Scientist. Eddy lived and wrote in the attic and rented the other rooms to her followers. This period of time saw the development of her theories on health and Christianity evolve into the formal religion of Christian Science that Eddy formulated after recovering from a life-threatening accident. Just a few months after moving here, Eddys Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, the primary supplement to the Bible for Christian Science, was published. Despite many adversities, such as lawsuits against Eddy and her students, followers continued to meet in her home. In 1879, the Church of Christ, Scientist was officially chartered, and in 1881, Eddy chartered the Massachusetts Metaphysical College, the core of the fledgling religion and the forum for Eddys teachings. In 1881 members of the association ordained Eddy as the pastor, and the group decided to relocate to Boston. In 1995, Eddy was elected to the National Womens Hall of Fame as the only American woman to found a worldwide religion. Mary Baker Eddy is buried in the Mount Auburn Cemetery in Cambridge.
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Canada Newspaper Reports of Crimes and Accidents (National Institute)
The original content for this article was contributed by The National Institute for Genealogical Studies in June 2012. It is an excerpt from their course Canadian: Newspaper Records by Ryan Taylor, revised by Susanna de Groot, PLCGS. The Institute offers over 200 comprehensive genealogy courses for a fee ($).
Crime and Newspapers[edit | edit source]
Crime, always of newspaper interest, is a rich resource if researchers have relatives involved, either as perpetrators or as victims.
Robbery[edit | edit source]
In the earliest Edmonton Bulletin, with its lack of local personal news, there is a theft given in some detail. It begins with a short item on the first page:
|On Friday Matche-sis was tried on another charge of having stolen some cloth from an Indian woman named Margaret Resurrection and selling the same to Mrs. Wesley Joe. On this charge he was also sent down for trial. The trials will take place before Col. Richardson, S.M. (23 February 1881)
The odd wording of this news item is confusing to the reader, as if we had stumbled into the middle of an article. When we reach an inside page (they are unnumbered), we find that is true.
Here we find a lengthy account of what happened, clearly written before the short item on page one:
|A week ago last Tuesday night the house occupied by Mose McDougall and Charlie Sutter was entered and about $25 worth of goods belonging to Charlie and about $3 in cash, belonging to Mose, was taken. The Goods were not missed for some time, but as there seemed to be a superabundance of blue ribbon and silk handkerchiefs lying around in various quarters, an inventory was taken, which showed the before mentioned amount was missing. Part of the property was recovered, and the theft was traced to a young rascal called Mat-che-sis, and another who worked for Mose a short time before. One Tuesday the latter called at the house and made a statement of the affair and on Wednesday morning an information was laid against Mr. Mat-che-sis for house breaking and robbery. It appears that as they were passing the house the noticed that no one was at home, and Mat-che-sis proposed they should go in. They went to the back door, raised it off the hinges, went in, and took what they fancied, --three rolls of ribbon, a silk handkerchief and some other turff. On thursday the gentleman was arrested, examined before Messrs. Hardesty and Gagnon, J.P.'s and committed for trial on the above charge.
Elsewhere in the same issue is an advertisement for C. W. Sutter, gentleman's outfitter, ready made clothing and fancy goods. There being less concern in those days lest a newspaper account affect the trial outcome, the accused is assumed to be guilty and a full description of the crime given. In true old newspaper style, the miscreant's name is spelled differently on page one than inside the paper.
From this newspaper notice, a researcher with an interest in any of the participants could access the relevant court records to see what the official version would be, and what sentence, if any, was passed on the two men.
Accidental Deaths[edit | edit source]
Newspapers and court records of many different kinds work in tandem to provide researchers with very detailed materials on legal matters. The sometimes undetailed record in the governmental archives can be supplemented by the juicier version in the newspaper account.
An accidental death resulting from a car running into a horse-drawn wagon near Highland Creek, Ontario, in 1926 led to a court case with a man convicted of leaving the scene of the accident, among other things.
It starts on page one and continues inside the paper in great detail as this snippet illustrates:
|Walter Anderson, who was a passenger in a car whose lights picked up the damaged wagon, told of seeing a lantern laying on its side beside Bull on the highway. Half an hour earlier, Anderson had seen this lantern sitting on the ground near Bull at West Hill just before he pulled out to go to his home on the Danforth road.
"Bull wished me a merry Christmas at West Hill," said witness. "I did not see him leave for home though." The lantern was not lighted when found beside Bull on the road but was lighted at West Hill. (Oshawa Daily Reformer, 7 January 1927)
|While a researcher might discover an interesting crime through the newspaper and then proceed to the court records, it should also be remembered that court records, easily accessed through finding aids in local, provincial or national archives, can also be lead to newspaper accounts.
Looking at the index to an archival finding aid (an easy task) produces a court case, which will include a previously unknown date of the event. Once the date is known, it is a simple matter to consult local newspapers.
In the case above, which took place at West Hill and Highland Creek, some distance from Oshawa, the trial took place at the county seat (Whitby, next to Oshawa). Keep these jurisdictions in mind when linking court cases to newspaper reports.
Murders[edit | edit source]
Newspapers have always loved murders, because of the sensational reports they generate:
|Brutal Murder
Colwell, Oct. 1.—O. W. Garrett, a pioneer of Montcalm county, and 61 years old, was brutally murdered last night or this morning, his head being nearly severed from his body by an axe or hatchet. About a quarter past 11 this morning Mrs. Garrett, wife of deceased, came over to the residence of Mr. Knight, a near neighbor, and informed them that Mr. Garrett was dead, and that he died about 4 o'clock this morning. Mr. Knight, accompanied by three or four other neighbors, also by Dr. Hammond, of Trufant, visited the residence of the deceased and there a horrible sight was found. The deceased lay with his head and shoulders on the floor, and his feet resting on the side of the bed. Life was extinct, and from appearances had been dead for some time.
A jury was summoned and an inquest held. Several witnesses were examined and evidence taken from which the jury brought in a verdict that the deceased came to his death at the hands of his wife from wounds inflicted by an axe or hatchet; that no weapons were found, and that one or more of the wounds would have been fatal. Mrs. Garrett was arrested and taken to Coral. From the evidence taken it appeared that the deceased had lived very unhappily with his wife for the past fifteen years, and that she has several times threatened his life. The supposition is that Mrs. Garrett struck the deceased with the axe one or more blows while in bed, and then either dragged him or he fell from the bed and she finished her hellish purpose while his head lay on the floor, as there was no signs of a struggle and but very little blood on the bed. Mrs. Garrett refused to testify at the inquest, and would answer no questions at all. (St. Mary's Argus, 6 October 1881)
This excited narrative, with its shaky grammar, was published a long way from the events it describes. It probably derived from a telegraphed wire story which was published across North America because of the quality of the story. Nonetheless, it can represent murders as they have always been reported, emphasising the gore and dramatic quality of everyone's reaction. There will certainly be more detail in the local newspaper at the time of the trial, and court records in the archives.
Most people do not have a murder in the family, but it is a rare thing when there are no relations who have gone to jail at some point, or at least faced a judge in court.
Domestic Disputes[edit | edit source]
One of the commonest of these is the domestic dispute.
|One year for wife beating
Returning to his home in Meaford between one and two o'clock Sunday morning, after working for some months with farmers in the country, Walter A. McKay proceeded to make things lively by smashing in the front door with an axe, pulling his wife out of bed and assaulting her in a way that left marks of violence on her face and body. One of the children, jumping out through a window, ran to a neighbor's house and telephoned to Chief Constable Clark who soon arrived at the scene of the trouble and placed McKay under arrest. The chief at once took his man to the lock-up.
Charged with causing bodily injuries to his wife McKay appeared before Magistrate Creasor. when the charge against him was read he pleaded guilty and elected to be tried by the magistrate. Mrs. McKay related the particulars of the assult while Dr. Eberhart described the nature of the injuries which she had sustained.
Magistrate Creasor, in imposing a sentence of one year in the Guelph Reformatory, said the maximum penalty for wife beating was three years in the penitentiary, but he hoped a sentence of one year would prove a lesson to the accused for the rest of his life. (Collingwood Bulletin, 10 March 1927)
Although finding this sort of event in one's family history is not pleasant, it cannot be ignored. In larger cities, this routine domestic occurrence would not merit newspaper coverage. In earlier days, wife beating seemed to be the occasion of levity.
|Richard McCarroll was penned up for beating his wife last week. After thus exerting himself he is taking a rest of 20 days in jail.
Abigail Fanson was fined $10 or 20 days in jail last week for thrashing her darling husband. (St. Mary's Argus, 6 October 1881)
Fires[edit | edit source]
A common news item reported local fires. In the days of open hearths, or of wood-burning stoves, house fires happened regularly. Descriptions of fires are often vividly detailed, and can be copied directly into a family history.
|The residence of Thomas Perley of Maugerville was destroyed by fire Thursday. As the house was surrounded by water the inmates would have had great difficulty in escaping had it not been for the assistance rendered by the ferry Sarah H., which had been sent by the Government to render assistance to the inhabitants of the overflowed country of Maugerville and Sheffield. (Religious Intelligencer, 18 May 1887)
Information about fires can be used in conjunction with fire insurance maps, which are widely available, to obtain a good idea of a relative's house (size and construction). For more details about using fire insurance maps in this way, see Fire insurance maps: their history and applications, by Diane L. Oswald (Lacewing Press, 1997).
Some idea of the extent of Canadian fire insurances maps can be gained by consulting Robert J. Hayward'sFire insurance plans in the national map collection (National Archives of Canada, 1977). Many fire insurance maps, either in the original paper format or on microfiche, are available in local archives.
There may also be local guides, such as Canadian fire insurance plans in Ontario collections, 1876-1973, by Marcel Fortin, Lorraine Dubreil and Cheryl A. Woods (Association of Canadian Map Libraries and Archives, 1995).
Legal Notices[edit | edit source]
Newspapers have always been a means of conveying legal notices to the public. These might be governmental in origin, announcing public appointments, for instance, or personal.
|I hereby give notice that I am not responsible for any debts contracted by my brother, Thomas St. Jean.
X. St. Jean
(Edmonton Bulletin, 16 April 1887)
Husbands giving notice that they would not be responsible for a wife's debts can be found in many pioneer newspapers. This indication of a breakdown in family relations may be the only independent record a genealogist can find that the pair has parted.
Divorces were so difficult to obtain in Canada that couples would separate but not divorce, but without the newspaper notice a researcher several generations later has no way of knowing this. Even the earliest newspapers have these legal notices in them.
A variation of this kind of notice is that regarding missing people. These are more rare, and information about runaways might be found more profitably in news items, but the data in the notices can be useful.
|Province readers are asked to help find this boy [portrait] Desmond Boyd, 16, five feet six inches, husky build, 140 pounds, brown eyes, dark brown hair, and heavy, dark brows. May be wearing a grey tweed suit or grey jacket and blue trousers. He has been missing from his home at 882 East Thirty-second since April 12. (Vancouver Province, 25 April 1947)
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The Southeastern Conference keeps building add-ons to the mansion.
The SEC Network was announced May 2, a full-immersion media initiative that will close the revenue gap between America's best football conference and America's most lucrative TV conference (the Big Ten). The College Football Playoff is coming, and no league figures to gain more financially from that than the SEC. And there is one other underrated cash geyser soon to begin spraying the SEC's way – its whopper of a deal with the Big 12 to basically co-opt the Sugar Bowl, with ESPN paying a reported $80 million a year to televise.
That is new money and a new concept – not quite cutting out the middleman that is the bowl, but taking control of the property and the vast majority of the cash.
"We created what I might call a paradigm shift," commissioner Mike Slive said Thursday on the "Wetzel To Forde" show on Yahoo! Sports Radio.
And the $80 million annually in TV money that comes along with that shift?
"We were comfortable with the amount," he said, chuckling.
In SliveSpeak that translates to, "We're making out like bandits with this deal."
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Now here is the byproduct of the rich getting richer: There is no longer a viable excuse for the rich not to play a nine-game conference schedule. The SEC mansion needs quality competitive furnishings, not knock-offs from the FCS thrift store.
The Pac-12 is doing it now. So is the 10-team Big 12, which doesn't have a title game and doesn't need one with everyone playing every opponent in the regular season. The Big Ten formally announced last month that it is headed to nine games in 2016.
So the ACC and SEC should join the movement. Especially the SEC.
There is backlash to that, of course.
You've heard a lot of caterwauling from coaches, who would love eight SEC opponents and four games against Cadaver Tech if it were the difference between 5-7 and a berth in a bowl – any bowl. You've heard some grousing from athletic directors, who say they need a guaranteed seven home games a year to make ends meet financially. You've heard coaches and athletic directors doomsaying about the physical toll of one more week in the meat grinder of league play.
Now hear this: Every SEC team should play a nine-game league schedule, with one decent non-conference opponent and two creampuff home games. Anything less and the league is cheating itself and its fans.
"I'm open-minded and I want to hear the discussions," Slive said, adding that the topic is sure to come up for the second year in a row at the league's annual spring meetings in Destin, Fla.
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The reasons it should happen are abundant and obvious.
With an expansion to 14 teams, it is harder to make equitable schedules that establish true divisional champions with eight games. More teams means the need for more games to diminish the odds of a team riding a weak league schedule (ahem, Georgia) to a division title.
The commitment to the SEC Network translates to a need for more quality programming. That should mean fewer games against Samford, Alabama State, Southeast Missouri State and others. Nobody wants to see those games but the parents of the third stringers, whose kids may actually get to play.
The clear mandate to the as-yet-unnamed selection committee for the College Football Playoff will be increased reliance on strength of schedule as a differentiating factor. Slive correctly points out that league games are part of that, and nobody's league is harder than his. (No matter what Bob Stoops says.) But playing another SEC opponent instead of Western Carolina will absolutely boost strength of schedule.
And as noted above, the massive influx of new revenue drowns out concerns about needing an annual seventh home game to balance the books. If six home games every other year plus the increasingly fat SEC member check that arrives every June isn't enough to keep the athletic department running a surplus, then ADs need to stop spending like Steinbrenner on a bender.
(Exhibit A: Alabama blowing nearly $900,000 at the Fontainebleau hotel in Miami for the BCS Championship Game – an extravagance Caligula himself might deem excessive. Bringing a 458-member marching band was a bit much, too. Maybe they don't need a dozen baton twirlers.)
Some schools undoubtedly would like to respond to a ninth league game by dropping any and all decent non-conference opponents. That should be vigorously discouraged, especially by schools that have established non-league rivalry games. South Carolina has to play Clemson, Florida has to play Florida State, Georgia has to play Georgia Tech, Kentucky has to play Louisville. And it would behoove the more traditionally ambitious schools like Tennessee and LSU to continue to play opponents from the West Coast or elsewhere.
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Even with a nine-game SEC schedule.
Asking fans to pay ever-escalating ticket prices for bad games is an insult to the consumer, especially when there is money to be made elsewhere beyond the turnstile. It's true that college football fans – especially in the SEC – have come to tolerate multiple mismatches on the home schedule every autumn. But if some of the empty seats around the South last year were any indication, we may be reaching the consumer saturation point for bad football games.
That's something for all the SEC honchos to keep in mind when they meet later this month in Destin. For all the new money the league will soon be raking in, nine league games is the least it can do in return.
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Cisco: CEO Chambers Makes the Architecture Pitch, Refuting 'White Boxes'
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I'm at the Westin Grand Central hotel in New York, where Cisco Systems (CSCO) chief executive John Chambers just wrapped up the opening keynote for the company's annual financial analyst meeting and is passing the baton to Rob Lloyd, president of development and services, to talk about initiatives for growth.
Presentations from the various segments can be downloaded in PDF form from Cisco's investor relations Web page.
Chambers spent a bit of time first explaining the 13% drop in service provider bookings last quarter, saying that some of it had to do with Cisco making ambitious bets on router and switch innovations that led to product "transitions," during which sales were impaired. Chambers said it was the burden of being an innovator. "No one else is making these kinds of bets."
Chambers gave a variant of a talk he has delivered before in various forms, arguing about the power of Cisco's products when considered as an "architecture." It was an allusion to the incursion of so-called white box network switches and routers, and "IT as a service," inside of cloud computing facilities, both of which Cisco has acknowledged recently is among the company's biggest challenges.
Chambers talked about "the battle we're in" as one of proving that as it makes products work together, the result is an economy and efficiency that will prevent customers from going to white box vendors or challengers like Huawei.
Chambers through up a slide showing the diverse set of different companies against which it competes in each product category. "It's a rainbow," he said.
Cisco will argue that it is one of the few firms with a breadth of product expertise to be able to tie together various equipment offerings from that panoply of product categories. Tying together products can reduce the operating expenses of customers, which, he pointed out, is bigger than the up-front cost of gear.
Cisco pointed out it would take time for such architectural sales to bear fruit. He mentioned a carrier that had taken two years, he said, to evaluate Cisco's offerings before committing to buying. "Are service providers going to trust the future of their network to Juniper, to Alcatal, to Huawei?" he asked rhetorically.
"That's a battle we should win every time," said Chambers.
Chambers said the big surprise for Wall Street in a year from now will be how well the company does with collaboration. That is already a $4 billion business for Cisco annually. However, Chambers said a small group of about 80 people would be split off on the side of the 2,000-person division, un collaboration veep Rowan Trollope, to pursue new opportunities for growth the company has identified.
Cisco shares are down 15 cents, or 0.7%, at $20.73.
Lloyd's presentation focused on cloud computing, where he said the company had spent three years building a "go to market" strategy with partners and resellers that had the result of producing an "extended salesforce" of 280,000 people to sell Cisco's services for the cloud. Cloud computing in total represents a $42 billion opportunity in total for the company, he said.
During a discussion of the white box phenomena following Lloyd's discussion, Cisco's head of marketing, Soni Jiandani, said the idea customers can save money with such gear is false. She threw up a slide of some stats that showed a white box switch costing $2,500 compared to a "branded" switch costing $4,000. Jiandani cautioned that the white box hardware typically comes with a separate software license running on top of it that costs $1,000, so that the total cost over a period of three years would be $5,500, 27% more than the branded, Cisco cost for a comparable box.


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Foes aside, Yankees know they must win
NEW YORK -- Last week, in the cramped visiting manager's office at Fenway Park, Joe Girardi backed ever so slightly off his initial estimates. Perhaps, he thought aloud, 89 victories might be the bare minimum for the Yankees to qualify for postseason play.
That number is now impossible for them to reach, as the Yankees entered play on Tuesday with an 82-74 record and six games remaining on their schedule, but the club is still mathematically alive in the chase for the second American League Wild Card spot.
New York trailed the Indians by four games entering play on Tuesday, with the Rangers one game back and the Royals three out.
"The feeling is, you have to go out and win, then you hope you get some help from some other teams," Girardi said on Tuesday. "But I don't think the thought has changed what we have to do. If we don't win, then we have no shot. So the feeling is you have to go out and win."
The Yankees have missed qualifying for postseason play just once in the last 18 years. That also came under Girardi, in 2008, when his club was 89-73 in the final season at the old Yankee Stadium.
"I think our guys know that we have to basically win out," Girardi said. "I think they understand that. As long as you're still alive, you still have hope. Guys understand that, and I think they'll be prepared to play."


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Muniyan has over 17 years of eminent Military Service in Indian Army since 1983, as a Field Man in Bombay Engineer he makes lot of Equipment which is related with his Jobs, he retired on Apr 2001, after retirement he joined as Security Officer in many Organisation like Ennoor Tower Power Station BSNL, Electricity Board and finally Joined our Gratitude Team.
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Ayushi Sharma is a graduate from Sri Aurobindo International Centre of Education (SAICE), Pondicherry. She has done her Masters in Energy Strategies from MINES ParisTech, France.
Her interests are in the field of micro/nano- grids for rural communities and plans to set up her own social enterprise. She is currently working as a research engineer in the renewable energy startup, SunMoksha.
She is developing technologically advanced but affordable water management solutions for our organic farms.
Suresh Subbarao is one of the co-founders of Gramonnati and Gratitude Farms.
His entire 36-year career has been with technology companies. He worked with Cisco Systems for the last 18 years in various capacities in the Engineering, IT, Professional Services and Technical Support areas. He was a very active member of the India Civic Council – a body that structured, coordinated and led all the CSR related activities of Cisco in India. Before joining Cisco, he worked for over ten years with a Utility company in the USA designing, implementing and supporting various networking and technology platforms.
He is focused on the application of technology, business and entrepreneurial skills to create more vibrant, sustainable and thriving rural communities. He is working with his co-founders to find relevant, cost effective and scalable solutions to some of the problems of rural communities.
Two primary objectives they are working towards are to increase educational and entrepreneurial opportunities in rural areas and nudging communities towards sustainable and integrated farming practices by providing the required training, support and connections.
He believes that it is possible to create the 'World of Three Zeros' so eloquently advocated by Mohammed Yunus – a world with zero poverty, zero unemployment and zero net carbon emissions. Suresh has always been a strong proponent and supporter of equitable and sustainable societies and is now trying to add his mite to the cause via Gramonnati's work.
He is an alumnus of NITK and IIM-B. He lives and works out of Mysuru.
Brig Rakesh Kaul has over 33 years of distinguished military experience as an officer in the Corps of Signals, Indian Army. He has led major communications and networking projects for the Army over the years in various parts of the country. He joined Gramonnati after his retirement in Mar 2018. He is also a wildlife enthusiast and is a post graduate in Eco-Tourism.
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Presently he is Co-founder at Gramonnati and Gratitude Farms. He has now settled in Pondicherry permanently post his retirement from Indian Army.
Educational Qualifications: B Tech, M Sc (Ecotourism)
VP Sharma is a technology professional with over 34 years' global experience in Telecommunications / Networking domains. An alumnus of National Defence Academy, Khadakvasla, Pune, he served in Indian Army (Corps of Signals) for 16 years from 1985 to 2001. During his career in Army, he has served in many operational assignments and military technology projects in India and internationally.
He transitioned to corporate world in 2001. From 2001 to 2010, he worked in telecom sector during the years of hyper-growth. During this period, he worked for Airtel, Ericsson and Nokia Siemens Networks in senior positions. An expert in organizational and business transformation, he setup and managed the first Network Operations Centre of Ericsson in India, first 3G operations in Malaysia and Managed Services business of NSN India. At NSN, he led the business transformation to profitable growth.
From 2011-2017, he was Technology Director with Cisco Systems, where he setup and managed Global Technology Support Organisation and Cisco's Reliance Jio Network Operations.
In 2017, he left his corporate career and along with three of his close friends (two from Cisco and one retired Army Brigadier) to take up social entrepreneurship full-time through two ventures – Gramonnati Trust and Gratitude Farms with a goal to develop 10,000 rural entrepreneurs over the next five years from amongst youth, women and ex-soldiers.
Gratitude Farms has been setup with a mission to develop 5000 ex-soldiers as organic farming entrepreneurs.
He is also an Executive Committee Member of Sri Aurobindo Society (www.aurosociety.org), a global not-for-profit NGO based out of Pondicherry.
He lives in Pondicherry.
He is an alumnus of IIT Kanpur (M Tech, EE), and Military college of Telecom Engineering (BE, E&C).