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Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900/Cavendish, William (1592-1676)
CAVENDISH, WILLIAM, Duke of Newcastle (1592–1676), son of Sir Charles Cavendish and Catherine, second daughter of Cuthbert, lord Ogle, was born in 1592 educated at St. John's College, Cambridge. In 1610, when Prince Henry was created Prince of Wales, Cavendish was made a knight of the Bath. He was then sent on his travels under the care of Sir Henry Wotton at that time ambassador to the Duke of Savoy. On his return he married Elizabeth, daughter of William Basset of Blore, Staffordshire, and widow of Henry Howard, third son of the Earl of Suffolk. In 1619 King James visited Welbeck, and in the following year raised Cavendish to the peerage by the title of Viscount Mansfield (3 Nov. 1620). On 7 March 1628 he was further created Earl of Newcastle, and in the following year the Barony of Ogle was revived in favour of Lady Catherine Cavendish (4 Dec. 1629), which title at her death descended to the Earl of Newcastle. On the king's journey into Scotland he was entertained at Welbeck 'in such a wonderful manner, and in such an excess of feasting, as had scarce ever before been known in England; and would have been thought very prodigious if the same noble person had not within a year afterwards made the king and queen a more stupendous entertainment, which no man ever after in those days imitated' (Clarendon, Rebellion, i. 167). For the first of these visits Jonson wrote the masque entitled 'Love's Welcome at Welbeck;' for the second, 'Love's Welcome at Bolsover.' The two entertainments together cost the earl 20,000/. (Life, p. 192). He was lord-lieutenant of Derbyshire 1628-38, and of Wiltshire 1626-42 and from 1660 till death. A letter to Strafford, dated 5 Aug. 1633, shows his desire of important court office. I have hurt my estate with the hope of it. If I obtained what I desire, it would be a more painful life, and since I am so plunged in debt, it would help very well to undo me. Children come on apace, and with this weight of debt which lies on me I know no diet better than a strict diet in the country (Strafford Correspondence, i. 101). The earl's ambition was at length gratified when in 1638 the king appointed him governor of the Prince of Wales, and made him a member of the privy council (Clarendon, State Papers, ii. 7; Collins, p. 27). For Prince Charles the earl drew up a very interesting paper of instructions, which has been printed by Sir Henry Ellis (Original Letters, 1st ser. iii. 288). The prince is warned not to be too devout, for one may be a good man and a bad king, bidden to be courteous to everybody, and enjoined to remember that he cannot be too civil to women. The earl succeeded in making his pupil an accomplished horseman. Our gracious and most excellent king, he wrote in after years, is not only the handsomest and most comely horseman in the world, but as knowing and understanding in the art as any man (New Method and Extraordinary Invention, p. 7). The outbreak of the Scotch rebellion enabled the earl to show his loyalty. He lent the king 10,000/., and raised a volunteer troop which consisted entirely of knights and gentlemen of quality (Life, p. 9). In defence of the dignity of this troop Newcastle challenged the general of the horse, the Earl of Holland, to a duel to be fought when the war was over. The king, however, intervened. In May 1641 Newcastle resigned his office as governor of the prince, and retired from court (17 May, Whitelock, 144). According to Clarendon, his resignation was due to the hostility of Essex and Holland, who thought that his influence with the prince would not be agreeable to their designs (Rebellion, iv. 293). A more likely reason is the discovery of the earl's share in the first army plot which became known about this time. Suckling and Jermyn had selected him to succeed Northumberland in the command of the army, and the earl, with the prince, according to the deposition of Colonel Ballard, was to meet the army in Nottinghamshire with a thousand horse. Although there was not ground enough for a judicial proceeding, yet there was ground of suspicion, says the parliament in its remonstrance of 26 May 1642, and their suspicions made them resent the king's appointment of Newcastle as governor of Hull (11 Jan. 1642; Lords' Journals, 14 Feb.). The earl hastened down secretly to seize that important magazine. I am here at Hull, he wrote to the king on the 15th, but the town will not admit of me by no means, so I am very flat and out of countenance (S. P. Dom. Charles I, vol. cccclxxxviii. No. 55). He strove to gain a party in the town, and, according to the duchess, would have secured the admission of the king's troops had not Charles changed his policy and suddenly recalled him. The House of Lords, which had required his attendance, admitted the king's commission as sufficient defence, and allowed him to retire to the country. In the summer, when the king began to raise forces, Newcastle joined him at York, and was despatched thence in the middle of June to secure Newcastle-upon-Tyne and take the command of the four northern counties. The lands and influence he inherited from the family of Ogle enabled him rapidly to raise troops, while the possession of a port enabled him to forward to the king supplies of arms and money from Denmark and Holland, and facilitated his correspondence with the queen. The appeals of the Yorkshire royalists for help obliged Newcastle to march south, but he prudently refused to move till the support of his army was assured (A New Discovery of Hidden Secrets, 1645). At the end of November 1642 he entered Yorkshire, defeating Hotham at Piercebridge, and successfully raising the blockade of York. A few days later he attacked Fairfax at Tadcaster, and though the battle itself was indecisive, Fairfax was forced to retreat and abandon the attempt to hold the line of the Ouse (7 Dec. 1642). Newcastle proceeded to garrison Pontefract, to despatch troops to occupy Newark, and to send a strong division to invade the West Riding, but its repulse from Bradford, and the recapture of Leeds by Sir Thomas Fairfax (23 Jan. 1643), obliged him to return to York and await reinforcements. In February he carried on an animated controversy with Lord Fairfax on the propriety of employing catholics and the rights of kings and subjects. Each accused the other of permitting indiscipline and pillage, and Newcastle concluded by challenging his opponent to follow the example of our heroic ancestors, who used not to spend their time in scratching one another out of holes, but in pitched fields determined their doubts (Rushworth, v. 78, 113). At the end of February the queen landed, and was received by Newcastle and conducted to York. In April he made a second attack on the West Riding, and, though obliged to abandon the siege of Leeds, took Wakefield, Rotherham, and Sheffield. Again Sir Thomas Fairfax, by the surprise of Wakefield (21 May), forced him to abandon his conquests. But though obliged to detach a large portion of his troops to escort the queen to Oxford, Newcastle returned to the attack in June, took Howley House (22 June), defeated the Fairfaxes at Adwalton Moor (30 June), captured Bradford, and subjected all Yorkshire, with the exception of Wressel Castle and Hull, to the king's authority. He is generally blamed for not advancing southwards to join the king, and his action attributed to jealousy of Prince Rupert. The king had wished Newcastle to join him against Essex in June, but in August he seems to have instructed him to attack the eastern association (Green, Letters of Henrietta Maria, 219, 225). In accordance with a design which Newcastle had previously announced to Sir Philip Warwick (Memoirs, p. 243), he entered Lincolnshire, recapturing Gainsborough on 30 July, occupying Lincoln, and threatening to raise the siege of Lynn. His orders, which I have seen, says Lord Fairfax, were to go into Essex and block up London on that side (Masères, i. 431; Clarendon, vii. 177). But the appeals of the Yorkshire committee, the reluctance of his local levies to march further from their homes, and the activity of the garrison of Hull in his rear, induced him to return to besiege the last-named town. After lying before it for six weeks, a destructive sally forced him to raise the siege, while on the same day the division which had been left to protect Lincolnshire was defeated by Cromwell at Winceby, and that county entirely lost (11 Oct. 1643). A few days later the king raised Newcastle to the rank of marquis (27 Oct. 1643, Collins, Historical Collections, p. 31). In January 1644 the Scots entered England, and Newcastle was called north to oppose them. But he could neither prevent the passage of the Tyne, nor bring the Scots to a battle (Rushworth, v. 614). His own army was greatly superior in cavalry, and he distressed the enemy by cutting off their supplies. The severity of the weather was ruinous to his forces. The defeat of the army left in Yorkshire (Selby, 11 April 1644) obliged Newcastle to make a hurried retreat to York, where the armies of Fairfax, Manchester, and the Scots closed in upon him. On 1 July Prince Rupert successfully raised the siege, and on the following day the battle of Marston Moor took place. Newcastle had vainly urged the prince to await the arrival of expected reinforcements, or the separation of the three armies opposed to him. He held no command in the battle, but fought as a volunteer at the head of a troop of gentlemen, distinguishing himself as usual by his courage. The next day he announced his intention of leaving England. Already in the previous April he had thought of laying down his commission to escape from the criticisms of his own party. If you leave my service, wrote the king, I am sure all the north is lost. Remember all courage is not in fighting, constancy in a good cause being the chief, and the despising of slanderous tongues and pens being not the least ingredient (Ellis, Original Letters, i. iii. 298). But Newcastle, according to Clarendon, was utterly tired of his employment as a general, and transported with passion and despair at the way in which the army he so painfully raised had been thrown away (Rebellion, viii. 87). When Prince Rupert urged him to endeavour to recruit his forces, No, says he, I will not endure the laughter of the court (Warburton, Prince Rupert, ii. 468). Accordingly he set sail from Scarborough a few days later, taking with him his two sons and his brother, Sir Charles Cavendish, and many friends, but leaving the rest of his family in England. He landed at Hamburg on 8 July 1644, stayed there till February 1645, and then set out for Paris, where he arrived in April, and remained for the next three years. Here, soon after his arrival, he married Margaret [see Cavendish Margaret, Duchess of Newcastle], daughter of Sir Thomas Lucas of St. John's, Colchester, his first wife, Elizabeth Basset, having died in April 1643 (Letters of Queen Henrietta Maria, p. 188). When Prince Charles went to Holland in the spring of 1648 to take command of the ships which had revolted from the parliament, Newcastle was desired by the queen to follow him, but did not arrive until the prince had put to sea.
Six months he stayed at Rotterdam, but hopes of further opportunities were destroyed by the defeats of the royalists, and about the end of the same year he removed to Antwerp. At Antwerp he remained for the rest of his exile, being 'so well pleased with the great civilities he received from that city that he was resolved to choose no other resting-place all the time of his banishment: he being not only credited there for all manner of provisions and necessaries for his subsistence, but also free both from ordinary and extraordinary taxes and paying excise' (Life, 118). In April 1650 he was made a member of the privy council of Charles II, and was one of the party in it which urged the king to 'make an agreement with his subjects of Scotland upon any condition, and go into Scotland in person himself, that he might but be sure of an army, there being no probability or appearance then of getting an army anywhere else.' He pressed the king also to reconcile the parties of Argyll and Hamilton. 'If his majesty could but get the power into his own hands, he might do hereafter what he pleased' (Life, 104). In August 1651 Newcastle, whom the Scots had not permitted to accompany his master, was engaged in negotiating with the elector of Brandenburg for an auxiliary corps of ten thousand men, and with the king of Denmark for ships to carry them to Scotland; but the battle of Worcester put an end to these designs (Cal. Clarendon State Papers, ii. 105-7). During the rest of his exile Newcastle seems to have taken no part in political transactions. Probably one cause of this was the growing influence of Hyde, who opposed the policy advocated by Newcastle with reference to Scotland, and describes him in one of his letters as 'a most lamentable man, as fit to be a general as to be a bishop' (ib. 63). Nevertheless, Hyde and Newcastle continued outwardly on very good terms, and when Hyde was accused in 1653 of betraying the king's councils, Newcastle wrote him 'a very comfortable letter of advice' (ib. 280).
Newcastle had left England in 1644 with not more than 90l. in his possession (Life, 84). As one of the chief delinquents, he had been excluded by the parliament from pardon, and his estates had been confiscated without the alternative of paying a composition being offered to him. He had been at times reduced to great extremities, and even obliged to pawn his wife's jewels. The queen gave him 2,000l., and assisted him with her credit. The Earl of Devonshire and the Marquis of Hertford lent him another 2,000l., and William Aylesbury 200l. (ib. 91, 97, 98). These resources were now exhausted, and he despatched his wife and his brother, Sir Charles Cavendish, to England, to endeavour to raise some money. The sequestration committee refused to allow Lady Newcastle the customary share of her husband's estate allowed to the wives of delinquents, on the plea that the marriage had taken place since the sequestration (ib. 109, 298). But Sir Charles Cavendish succeeded in compounding for his estate, and sent a supply to his brother; and after the death of Sir Charles Newcastle obtained the remainder of his estate (ib. 125). As Newcastle was also aided by his eldest daughter, Lady Cheiny, and by his two sons, who had made advantageous matches in England, he was sufficiently prosperous during the latter part of his exile (ib. 125, 133). In February 1658 he entertained with great magnificence the king and the royal family (Cal. State Papers, Dom. 1657-8, 296, 311). About the same time he published the first of his two works on horsemanship, 'La Methode et Invention Nouvelle de dresser les Chevaux,' Antwerp, 1657, folio. Shortly before leaving Paris, Newcastle had bought a pair of Barbary horses, 'resolving, for his own recreation and divertisement in his banished condition, to exercise the art of manage' (Life, 90). In these horses¾soon increased to eight in number¾'he took so much delight and pleasure that though he was then in distress for money, yet he would sooner have tried all other ways than parted with any one of them' (ib. 100). No stranger of distinction passed through Antwerp without visiting the Marquis of Newcastle's riding-house, and he has himself recorded, in the preface to his second book, the compliments paid him on his skill. The 'Methode et Invention' contained the theory and practice of 'the art of manage,' the results of these nine years of experiments and studies. The illustrations by Diepenbeke are remarkable not only for their excellence, but for the number of portraits they contain. Numerous diagrams represent Newcastle training horses in his riding school. In the large plates he is performing various feats of horsemanship before Welbeck, Bolsover, or some other of his houses. There are also two allegorical designs, in which he is adored by a circle of reverential horses. The cost of this work was above 1,300l., in defraying which Newcastle was generously helped by his friends Sir Hugh Cartwright and Mr. Loving (letter to Nicholas, 15 Feb. 1656, State Papers, Dom.) A second edition was published in 1737, London, folio, and a translation of the duke's treatise is contained in the first volume of 'A General System of Horsemanship,' London, 1743 or 1748, folio. Lowndes also mentions editions published at Paris and Nuremberg.
At the Restoration, Newcastle followed the king to London, leaving his wife at Antwerp as a pledge for the payment of his debts. But soon after she arrived in London he retired to the country, to order and re-establish his ruined estate. Those of his lands which had been confiscated by the parliament or the Commonwealth were restored to him by a private act. Those purchased by the regicides had been given by the king to the Duke of York, who graciously restored them to their lawful owner (Egerton MS. No. 2551). But those which had been alienated by his sons or by feoffees in trust, even when they had acted without his sanction, he could not recover. The duchess computes that he lost in this way lands worth 50,000/., and he was obliged to sell others, to the value of 60,000/., to pay debts contracted during the war and exile. His woods had been cut down, his houses and farms plundered, and he had lost sixteen years' rents. The total of his losses is estimated by the duchess to be about 940,000/.
Charles II rewarded his sufferings and services by restoring him to the offices which he had held before the rebellion. He was, in addition, made chief justice in eyre, Trent north (10 July 1661, Doyle), and created Duke of Newcastle (16 March 1665, Collins, 43). He was also invested with the order of the Garter (15 April 1661), which had been conferred on him during his exile (12 Jan. 1650, ib. 38, 42). During the remainder of his life he took no part in public affairs. The restoration of his estate occupied most of his time; his leisure he employed in literature and horsemanship. Soon after his return he established a racecourse near Welbeck, drawing up himself rules for the races which were to be run every month during six months of the year, which have been preserved by the care of Anthony à Wood (broadside in the Bodleian). In 1667 he published a second book on his favourite subject, 'A New Method and Extraordinary Invention to Dress Horses, and Work them, according to Nature; as also to Perfect Nature by the Subtlety of Art; which was never found out but by the thrice noble, high, and puissant Prince, William Cavendish,' &c. In the preface he explains that this work is 'neither a translation of the first, nor an absolutely necessary addition to it,' which 'may be of use by itself without the other, as the other without this; but both together will questionless do best.' Other editions of this second book were published in 1677 (London, folio), in 1740 (Dublin), and a French translation in 1671.
Although Newcastle is chiefly remembered by his two works on horsemanship, he was also the author of numerous plays and poems. 'His comedies,' says the duchess, 'do sufficiently show his great observation and judgment; for they are composed of these three ingredients, viz. wit, humour, and satire; and his chief design in them is to divulge and laugh at the follies of mankind, to persecute vice and to encourage virtue.' The following is a list of the duke's comedies: 1. 'The Country Captain,' 12mo, 1649, said in the title to have been acted with applause at Blackfriars, and printed at the Hague and London. Pepys terms it 'so silly a play as in all my life I never saw' (Diary, 26 Oct. 1661). 2. 'The Variety,' printed with the 'Country Captain.' 3. 'The Humorous Lovers,' acted at the Duke's Theatre, 4to, 1677. Pepys, who attributes this to the duchess, calls it 'the most silly thing that ever came upon the stage' (30 March 1667). 4. 'The Triumphant Widow, or the Medley of Humours,' acted at the Duke's Theatre, 4to, 1677. The plays are certainly not good plays, yet they contain amusing scenes. Shadwell incorporated a large part of the 'Triumphant Widow' in 'Bury Fair,' and a droll, entitled the 'French Dancing Master,' was made out of the 'Variety,' and is printed in 'Sport upon Sport' (1671). The duke also translated Molière's 'L'Etourdi,' which Dryden converted into 'Sir Martin Mar-All.' This play, printed in 1668, did not appear with Dryden's name until 1697, and is entered in the 'Stationers' Register' under that of the duke; but, according to Pepys, every one knew at the time that Dryden had assisted his patron (ib. 16 Aug. 1667; Scott, Dryden, i.).
In the plays of the duchess occasional scenes are the contribution of the duke. His poems consist of some tales in verse, published in his wife's book entitled 'Nature's Pictures by Fancie's Pencil,' adulatory verses prefixed to her various publications, and songs interspersed in her plays and his own. But he deserves praise rather as a patron than a producer of poetry. 'Since the time of Augustus,' writes Langbaine, 'no person better understood dramatic poetry, nor more generously encouraged poets; so that we may truly call him our English Mæcenas.' Jonson wrote, besides the two masques already mentioned for his entertainments, elegies to celebrate the duke's riding and fencing, epitaphs for his father and mother, and an interlude for the christening of his eldest son (Jonson, ed. Cunningham, i. cxxxix). Shirley dedicated to Newcastle his own play of the 'Traitor,' and assisted his patron in the composition of his plays (Wood, Athenæ, iii. 739; Dyce, Shirley, i. xliii). Wood also states that Newcastle invited Shirley 'to take his fortune with him in the wars,' and Davenant certainly held the post of lieutenant-general of the ordnance under him. 'Such kind of witty society,' says Warwick, 'diverted many counsels and lost many opportunities' (Memoirs, p. 235). After the Restoration, Dryden, Shadwell, and Flecknoe were among the recipients of the duke's favours. Dryden dedicated the 'Mock Astrologer' to him, Shadwell the 'Virtuoso' and the 'Libertine.' Flecknoe also has poems addressed both to the duke and the duchess. Nor did Newcastle confine his patronage to poets. 'I have heard Mr. Edmund Waller say,' writes Aubrey, 'that W. Lord Marquis of Newcastle was a great patron to Dr. Gassendi and M. Des Cartes, as well as to Mr. Hobbes, and that he had dined with them all three at the marquis's table at Paris' (Aubrey's Letters, ii. 602).
Newcastle died on 25 Dec. 1676, and was buried in St. Michael's Chapel, Westminster Abbey (Collins). His wife, in the life of her husband, which she published in 1667, describes at length his person, habits, and character. 'His shape is neat and exactly proportioned, his stature of a middle size, and his complexion sanguine. His behaviour is such that it might be a pattern to all gentlemen; for it is courtly, civil, easy and free, without formality or constraint, and yet hath something in it of grandeur, that causes an awful respect for him.' Clarendon, so severe in his judgment of Newcastle as a general and a politician, sums up by describing him as 'a very fine gentleman.'[The Life of the Duke of Newcastle, by his second wife, was published in 1667 (London, folio); Pepys, in his Diary (18 March 1668), refers to it as 'the ridiculous history of my lord Newcastle, wrote by his wife, which shows her to be a mad, conceited, ridiculous woman, and he an ass to suffer her to write what she writes to him and of him.' A Latin version, translated by Walter Charlton, followed in 1668, and a second English edition, in quarto, in 1675. A careful reprint of the first edition, edited by M. A. Lower, is contained in Russell Smith's Library of Old Authors; Another edition, with notes and illustrative papers, edited by C. H. Firth, was published in 1886; Letters of the Duke of Newcastle are printed in the following collections: the Strafford Papers, the Clarendon State Papers, Warburton's Prince Rupert, and the Calendar of Domestic State Papers; Rushworth's Collection contains the declaration of the Earl of Newcastle on marching into Yorkshire, and his declaration in answer to Lord Fairfax; also letters relating to the siege of York (v. 78, 133, 624); Other letters are contained in Hunter's Hallamshire and the Pythouse Papers; an intercepted one is printed in Several Proceedings in Parliament, 18-25 Sept. 1651, and a number of unpublished letters addressed to Strafford are in the possession of Lord Fitzwilliam; Sir H. Ellis gives six letters from Charles I to Newcastle in Original Letters (series 1, iii. 291-303), twenty from the queen are in Mrs. Green's collection of her letters, and four from Ben Jonson in Cunningham's edition of his works. In addition to these sources may be mentioned Collins's Historical Collections of the Noble Families of Cavendish, Holles, &c., the Calendar of Domestic State Papers, the Clarendon State Papers, Clarendon's History of the Rebellion, Masère's Tracts, and the Memoirs of Sir Philip Warwick.]


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During the ARM press mixer held at Racepoint Group HQ in San Francisco, we sat down with Dr. Andreas Gal and Mike Manning from Mozilla Foundation e.g. Mozilla Corporation. In a long conversation, we gained quite a lot of insight into the way how Mozilla Foundation works, in pair with this wholly-owned subsidiary, Mozilla Corporation.
First and foremost, the key focus for Mozilla Foundation is Open Source. The non-profit organization and its commercial subsidiary work day and night on expanding the reach of its key technologies such as Firefox, Thunderbird, and others.
One of the projects that recently gathered pace is Boot-to-Gecko. The idea of writing an operating system in HTML5 is definitely a very ambitious one, but the Foundation is pretty focused on making this a reality. The fruit of that labor is Firefox OS, a mobile operating system targeting mobile devices for emerging markets. Unlike closed ecosystems such as the Apple iOS (with its iTunes) or Google Play, Mozilla Foundation does not want to censor the content which comes with its applications.
The targeted devices do not belong to the superphone, but rather to redefine the $50 category – how to offer a smartphone at the price which is lower than the most affordable Android, Windows or iOS phone. As you can see in the exclusive video below, the first fruit of their labor is collaboration with Chinese ZTE. The foundation already has local telecom partner, and the development of the prototype phone is targeting markets in the BRICA. Without further delay, click play and see what Mozilla will bring to market. Bear in mind that this fully functional phone is mere $50. Is that too much or quite the good price.. it will be up to you to decide. The phone itself arrives sometimes in the 2013.


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Three men arrested after an attempted robbery at the CVS pharmacy on Route 58 in Riverhead Wednesday are being investigated in connection with several pharmacy robberies throughout Suffolk County, prosecutors said.
During their arraignments Thursday in Riverhead Town Justice Court, county assistant district attorney Tisha Burrows said Jhmil Dawson, 26 of Coram, his younger brother, Lavon Dawson,17, of Riverhead, and Ishawn Jackson, 16, of Calverton, may have been involved in a "pattern of other robberies" that have occurred throughout the county since January.
One of those robberies includes the Jan. 14 robbery of the same Route 58 CVS, Ms. Burrows said.
Ms. Burrows also told the court that Lavon Dawson has confessed to the January robbery, in which he and two other men entered the CVS armed and wearing masks, taking off with over $8,000.
He also confessed to holding the handgun during Wednesday's armed robbery, pointing it at a CVS employee and forcing the employee to the floor in an attempt to steal money and cigarettes, she said.
Defense attorney Anthony Rutkowski said the handgun recovered by police was a BB gun.
Lavon Dawson, who has no criminal record according to the assistant district attorney, was charged with first-degree attempted robbery as well as first-degree robbery – both felonies – following his confession.
Ms. Burrows requested $200,000 cash bail, however Justice Allen Smith set it at $100,000.
Both Jhmil Dawson and Ishawn Jackson are also facing first-degree attempted robbery charges, with Jhmil Dawson also being charged with criminal possession of a controlled substance in the fifth degree, also a felony.
Hours after the Wednesday morning incident at CVS, the men were spotted by a farm worker in fields at nearby Anderson Farms and apprehended shortly after, police had said.
Jhmil Dawson is being held without bail, due to a past criminal history, Mr. Smith said during court.
Mr. Dawson has two prior felony convictions, including an attempted robbery conviction for which he served time in jail, Mr. Burrows said.
Ishawn Jackson, 16 and still in the Riverhead school system, is being held on $100,000 bail
Family members for all three men were present in court.
Before her son's court appearance, Lakisha Jackson said her "heart is broken.
"He is so good with his sisters; he's just a follower," Ms. Jackson said. "I love him."
Jhmil Dawson currently lives with his mother in Coram, his father, Andre Lee, said.
"He just turned the wrong way." Mr. Dawson said, explaining that his son had recently moved back to Coram from Virginia, where he had graduated high school. "May God bless him."
A Suffolk County grand jury is taking up the case, and all three suspects are due back in town court Monday.
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I want to rip out my radio when I hear the DJ on the French station say Stevie Ray Vah-gaun-ah. It's your freakin' job to know that the 'g' is silent.
Unfortunately, even though I went to a private school in a primarily French-Canadian city, the French I learned in school was Parisian French. I took 5 years of French in school, and felt pretty comfortable with it back in the day, but I could never under stand a word of French that my méméres and pépéres spoke. The Canuck French is so drastically different from Parisian French.
Maybe we should start calling it season instead of saison and stop trying to be fancy borrowing from other languages.
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Bone jor no!
Depends on if you're speaking German or English. I just say YUM!


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Bohuslav Sobotka's centre-left government to face no-confidence vote in the lower house on Tuesday
Prime Minister Bohuslav Sobotka's centre-left government will face a no-confidence vote in the lower house on Tuesday. The demand for a no-confidence vote was tabled by the opposition in reaction to a vote on a bill which would secure continued state support for biofuels. Opposition TOP 09 deputy leader Miroslav Kalousek told the lower house earlier this week that by supporting the bill the centre-left government was serving the interests of Finance Minister Andrej Babis' business empire Agrofert. Although the government has enough support in the lower house to survive the no-confidence motion, the opposition Civic Democrats said the governments malpractices were such that it was no longer possible to let them pass unnoticed. The opposition has 52 votes in support of the motion but would need 101 to push it through.
Communist Party will not support no-confidence vote in centre-left administration
The leader of the Communist Party Vojtěch Filip has made it clear that the communists would not support the vote of no-confidence in the Sobotka government. Mr. Filip told reporters on Friday that his party welcomed some of the social measures effected by the Sobotka administration and that the Communist Party was not about to assist the return of right-wing government. Politicians like Miroslav Kalousek damaged the Czech economy for years and are now doing everything possible to return to power, the Communist Party leader noted.
Fourteen employees from Agency for Social Inclusion hand in their notice
Fourteen employees from the Czech government Agency for Social Inclusion, which is aimed at helping integrate Roma and other deprived groups, into mainstream society, handed in their notices on Thursday. They are walking out after a disagreement with the Minister for Human Rights, Jiří Dientsbier, over the way the agency should be run. According to the agency's Lucie Macků, they are in particular angered by the recent dismissal of the agency's long time head Martin Šimáček. She said the employees don't want the agency to remain within the ministry's authority and have called for it to be established as an independent entity.
Experts rule out technical error in Hungarian Gripen crash
The crash of a Hungarian Jas-39 Gripen fighter jet at the Časlav, airbase southeast of Prague, on Tuesday was not caused by technical error, Czech Defense Minister Martin Stropnický told reporters on Friday. The minister did not elaborate further, saying the investigation by Czech, Hungarian and Swedish experts had not been concluded. The plane crash-landed during an international military drill in the Czech Republic. Both pilots ejected and were unhurt. The plane was completely destroyed. The information that the crash was not caused by a technical error means that the Gripen fighter jets used by the Czech army will not have to be grounded.
Group of world public figures protest against Days of Jerusalem festival
A number of well-known personalities have protested against the Days of Jerusalem Festival, which is to be held as part of the Pilsen s 2015 cultural events. In an open letter addressed to the European Commission, parliament, and council, they claim that the label European Capital of Culture is being used to help legitimise Israel's political strategy. They are asking the Commission to "take steps to ensure that no event held as part of the European Capital of Culture official programme is breaching EU foreign policy and misinforming or manipulating the public for the political gains of a third party state." Among the signatories are the linguist Noam Chomsky, former Czech Foreign Minister Jan Kavan and British film director Ken Loach. The festival will be held in Pilsen in June, presenting dance, music, visual arts, films and cuisine.
President Zeman says Russia should join EU's Eastern Partnership project
Attending an EU-Eastern Partnership summit in Riga Czech president Milos Zeman said Russia should consider joining the EU's Eastern partnership. Mr. Zeman, who recently visited Moscow, noted that Russia had been invited to participate and had rejected the offer earlier on and may well be regretting its decision now. The Eastern Partnership project, launched at a summit in Prague in 2009,seeks to deepen relations between the EU and six former Soviet-bloc states and help them on the road to democracy and economic prosperity. Russia has criticized the project as an attempt to damage its interests and undermine its relations with the said countries.
Czechs admit to animal smuggling in Australia
Two Czech nationals on trial for animal smuggling in Perth, Australia have admitted their guilt. The two men told the judge they had attempted to smuggle around 150 reptiles, mostly lizards and snakes out of the country. They were arrested along with two Russians when customs officers found reptiles hidden in their luggage, among them 33 dead snakes. The men face up to ten years in prison and steep fines.
Chinese investors want to build wellness centre in Moravia
Chinese investors from Hebei Province want to build a huge wellness centre not far from Brno, in Moravia, the governor of the South Moravian region Michal Hašek told journalists on Friday. The investment would be worth two billion crowns and would create hundreds of jobs. The deal should be finalized in September and the wellness centre should be built by the end of 2018, the governor said.
Czech scientists to study influence of insects on forest vegetation
A team headed by a Czech scientist is to study the influence of insects on forest vegetation on six continents, the ctk news agency reports. The project headed by Vojtěch Novotný from the Czech Academy of Sciences has received a 92 million crown grant from the European Research Council. The team will work in Japan, Ghana, Panama and Papua New Guinea among other locations. The Czech Academy of Sciences has been operating a research centre in New Guinea for almost two decades.
Rosický set to stay at Arsenal for another season
Tomas Rosický is set to stay at Arsenal for another season, manager Arsene Wenger confirmed on Friday. Wenger said Rosický's contract had been extended for another year. Rosický, 34, has been on the fringes of the Gunners squad this term, making only five starts in the Premier League. However, Wenger insisted the Czech Republic international remains integral to his plans for the 2015-16 campaign. Arsenal are likely to strengthen their squad in the summer, with Chelsea goalkeeper Petr Čech a reported target.


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Doctors in America are up in arms over the suggestion that they have no business advising their patients on gun ownership and safety. The incensed medics insist that it's their duty to tell Americans not to keep guns in the home, or if they do, to keep them unloaded and locked away.
The debate on this issue was kicked off in June when a law went into effect in Florida which placed limits on doctors' ability to ask their patients what guns they owned and how they kept them stored, and prevented them entering any such information into people's medical records. Similar measures have been proposed to prevent medics interfering in the relationship between US citizens and their often-treasured firearms in other states, though no other such laws have yet made it onto the books.
The passage of the Florida law made Dr Eric Fleegler of the Children's Hospital Boston pretty mad. He and some colleagues have written a paper, published today in the American Journal of Preventive Medicine, which contends that guns kept at home are a major danger to Americans - particularly to American children.
"The role of the physician is to treat, and help prevent, injuries and disease that can occur from behaviors or environment," says Fleegler, in tinned quotes issued by the Children's Hospital Boston press office. "We ask about gun ownership for the same reasons we ask about infant sleeping positions, car seats, pools, drugs, alcohol and tobacco. It is our responsibility to understand possible health risks and provide appropriate information to help patients make decisions to keep themselves and their families safe."
A different press release issued by the Journal of Preventive Medicine editorial office also adds:
The American Academy of Pediatrics ... notes that a gun in the home is 43 times more likely to be used to kill a friend or family member than a burglar or other criminal. AAP and American Medical Association guidelines cited by Fleegler and colleagues "encourage physicians to inquire about the presence of household firearms and support the storage of unloaded firearms with trigger locks and in locked cabinets."
"Morbidity and mortality from firearm injury represent a ubiquitous and costly epidemic," write Fleegler and his co-authors.
Preliminary data (PDF) on causes of death for 2009 issued by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention note the following figures for that year in the USA.
- Accidental discharge of firearms: 588 deaths
- Accidental drowning and submersion: 3,539 deaths
- Accidental falls: 24,834 deaths
- Accidental poisoning and exposure to noxious substances: 30,504 deaths
- Motor vehicle accidents: 36,284 deaths
- Complications of medical and surgical care [medical accidents]: 2,550 deaths
It would seem that there are many more important health and safety issues out there than firearms accidents. In most cases where an American gets killed by a gunshot, it is suicide (18,689 cases in 2009). It seems reasonable to suppose that many of these suicides would happen anyway without access to firearms, as 17,859 Americans managed to kill themselves by other means that year.
Gunshot homicide, a lot of which does involve criminals being killed rather than the shooter's family members or friends (though the doctors are correct to say that this is only rarely a matter of a householder shooting an intruder - it is more commonly criminals shooting each other) is a small health issue overall compared to accidental poisonings or falls. It resulted in 11,406 deaths in 2009 according to the CDC. If one chose to subtract the criminal-on-criminal violence it would be smaller still.
A US doctor, unless he or she happens to be an expert on firearms safety, might very well find time with a patient better spent discussing what household cleaning products that person owns and how they are stored, or what shoes they wear, or what ladders they own, or what car they drive and how they drive it, rather than talking about their guns.
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OWN Saturday Primetime Lineup Ranks Among Top 10 In All Of Cable with Popular Series "Welcome to Sweetie Pie's" and "Iyanla: Fix My Life" Ranking in Top 5 for W25-54
November Posts Double-digit Ratings Gains Up +65% in the Key Female Demo W25-54 Versus Year Ago
Year-to-Date OWN Continues to Post Double-digit Ratings Gains Versus Year Ago Numbers
Los Angeles - OWN: Oprah Winfrey Network has scored its tenth consecutive month of year-over-year ratings gains across key demos in primetime and total day. For the month of November, thenetwork posted double-digit ratings gains across primetime and total day (Primetime up +65% W25-54 and +93% in total viewers; Total Day up +60% W25-54 and +83% in total viewers).
OWN's Saturday primetime lineup featuring the popular series "Welcome to Sweetie Pie's" (9 p.m.) and "Iyanla: Fix My Life" (10 p.m.) ranked in the top 10 among all ad-supported cable networks for the month of November in the network's key female demo of women 25-54, posting triple-digit ratings gains versus year ago numbers (+107% W25-54). Among all Saturday night cable series in November, "Iyanla: Fix My Life" and "Welcome to Sweetie Pie's" ranked #3 and #4, respectively, among women 25-54. "Welcome to Sweetie Pie's" season average is a .67 W25-54 and 768,000 total viewers, posting triple-digit growth versus year ago (+116% W25-54, +118% total viewers). "Iyanla: Fix My Life" is averaging a .66 W25-54 and 675,000 total viewers, up triple digits versus year ago numbers (+230% W25-54, +200% P2+).
In addition, for the month of November OWN was Saturday night's #1 network across all broadcast and cable for African-American viewers in the key female demos W25-54 (3.11), and W18-49 (2.53). The network also scored the top two Saturday night series across all broadcast and cable series in November in the African American W25-54 demo with "Iyanla: Fix My Life" (3.92) and "Welcome to Sweetie Pie's" (3.87).
November's Sunday primetime grew double-digits up +94% W25-54 and up +88% total viewers versus year ago numbers. "Oprah's Next Chapter" (9 p.m.) continues ratings momentum posting triple-digit ratings gains up +213% W25-54 and up +154% total viewers versus year ago numbers. The series is averaging a .72 W25-54 and 784,000 total viewers.
Sunday morning also saw ratings growth, as the Emmy Award-winning original series "Super Soul Sunday" (11 a.m.) hit its highest month of ratings and posted triple-digit ratings gains versus year ago numbers (+250% W25-54, +208% P2+).
Year-to-date, OWN continues to post double-digit ratings growth in both primetime and total day across the network's key demos, with primetime posting +32% W25-54 and +29% gains in total viewers, and total day up +36% W25-54 and +45% total viewers versus year ago numbers.
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Release Date: July 26, 2013
BUFFALO, N.Y. – University at Buffalo Graduate School of Education Dean Jaekyung Lee has appointed four new associate deans, a move that he says will point the school toward its goal of emphasizing interdisciplinary research and inter-professional education from preschool through higher education.
The new associate deans are Greg Dimitriadis, associate dean for academic affairs; Xiufeng Liu, associate dean for interdisciplinary research; Randy Yerrick, associate dean for inter-professional education and engagement; and Jenifer Lawrence, associate dean for student affairs and administration.
The appointments, Lee says, signify his commitment toward turning the school's many diverse areas of education and research into distinct and coherent themes. Administrators will lead changes toward inter-professional collaboration both "horizontally" – across different fields and professions of practice – and "vertically" – across different levels of the educational pipeline from preschool through college.
The school, he says, will now be focused on better integrating research and teaching goals, whether students' future career goals are to be college professors, school teachers, administrators, psychologists, counselors or librarians.
"This new appointment of associate deans in GSE signifies our collective commitment and efforts to contribute to Realizing UB 2020 and move our school to new heights," says Lee, UB professor of counseling, school and educational psychology who was appointed dean earlier this summer after serving as interim dean since July 2012.
"Through this emphasis on interdisciplinary research and inter-professional P-20 (preschool through college) education, we will break silos and work as a team for a unified vision across the departments and programs," he explains.
Lee also says he hopes the new administrative structure will work toward building better faculty mentoring and student/alumni service, ultimately building a stronger GSE community.
"I am confident that these new leaders will help GSE advance further on our four institutional goals: world leadership in research and scholarship, superior teaching and learning, students proud of their experience, and engaging partners to help and learn."
The four associate deans represent a range of expertise that will help the school move toward those four goals: Dimitriadis has expertise in academic and faculty matters; Liu has been a principal investigator or co-principal investigator on large national research grants; Yerrick has expertise in educational technology applications (Apple Educator), as well as working with local schools and educators; and Lawrence has administrative experience in student and alumni matters, and student counseling.
"This is an extraordinarily exciting time for GSE," says Dimitriadis, professor of educational leadership and policy. "I look forward to helping GSE develop academic policies that will strengthen our core mission and highlight our unique and distinct academic strengths."
In his new role, Dimitriadis will work on new ways to serve and support faculty as they strive for the "highest standards of scholarship in their respective fields."
"I will also be working to ensure that all students benefit from a fully engaged and distinctly recognized research faculty," he says. "I especially look forward to helping make GSE a more integral part of UB's broader academic mission as we continue to work together on the UB 2020 plan."
Liu, a professor of learning and instruction, will help build a culture within the GSE that encourages interdisciplinary research.
"GSE has many great scholars whose research is nationally and internationally well-known," says Liu. "We can become an even greater school with more distinct research programs and impactful research outputs."
Yerrick, professor of science instruction in the Department of Learning and Instruction, brings a distinguished career of innovative online classroom instruction to his new position.
UB 2020 "has many strategic goals that require collaboration between and among UB academic units and agencies, and institutions external to our university. GSE houses a wealth of knowledge and resources that can be instrumental in leading the charge to improve education for all students," he says.
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"Creating positive feelings in our students and alumni about their GSE educational experiences is paramount to my role as associate dean for student affairs and administration," Lawrence says. "It is GSE's responsibility to respond to the diverse needs and interests of our students, and alumni outreach can play a critical role in the creation of satisfactory learning communities."
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Wow...this thread is still going!
Too funny...so what do we know now? Anything happening?
Wow...this thread is still going!
Too funny...so what do we know now? Anything happening?
"Sometimes, it's not the sexiest moves that put you over the top," Krivsky said. "It's a series of transactions that help you get there."
Only reason i believe some of the rumor has to be true usally they just leave that type of crap alone i mean its for the fansOriginally Posted by savafan

We offically know that Chris Hammond has cleared waviersOriginally Posted by MartyFan

I didn't even realize that this was the same thread!Originally Posted by MartyFan
Nice...wonder if we can get Scott Sullivan back?Originally Posted by NatiRedGals
"Sometimes, it's not the sexiest moves that put you over the top," Krivsky said. "It's a series of transactions that help you get there."
You have to look at this thread on espn your gonna laugh your asses of excuse my language but its just that funny hahaa

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In 2011, prior to the U.S. debt downgrade and the most recent bout of market volatility, retirees and pre-retirees were less concerned with their finances than they were in 2009, the Society of Actuaries found. In a report released in September, SOA found 62% of retirees and 65% of pre-retirees were more concerned about their finances than they were five years ago, but their level of worry had "decreased significantly" since 2009.
In 2009, 25% of retirees said their financial situation was much worse after the recession. That percentage fell slightly to 23% in 2011. Among pre-retirees, the difference was more significant. Over a third of pre-retirees said in 2009 that they were much worse off after the recession, compared with 25% who said the same in 2011.
SOA's report is based on a biennial survey conducted in July 2011 among 1,600 adults between ages 45 and 80. Half of respondents were retired and half were not.
Although SOA didn't survey respondents again this year and won't until 2013, Anna Rappaport, spokeswoman for the organization, suggested that the trend has continued. "Generally, people are feeling a little better about the economy," she told AdvisorOne on Thursday.
The Conference Board, which releases monthly data on consumers' confidence level, found the Consumer Confidence Index increased nine points in September. The Board found consumers are more optimistic about their present situation, as well as the short-term outlook for business conditions.
The report found the changes people put in place following the recession are still being maintained, but noted that retirees and pre-retirees have yet to learn how to manage risk properly.
"Economic change makes it more imperative that people do careful planning and evaluation, yet also makes it more difficult to do so," the report says. "Research to date does not show much change in the way that people are planning, and it does not indicate that more people are thinking longer term, hiring advisors, or attempting to do more analysis of the influences that could affect their retirement security."
Economic changes and market volatility have highlighted the importance of planning for retirement and good money management in general. Two-thirds of pre-retirees and 52% of retirees said they needed to do a better job of minding their finances and planning for retirement. Almost three-quarters of pre-retirees said they needed to save more money, compared with half of retirees.
Pre-retirees were more likely to think they would have to work longer, the report found. Sixty-seven percent said they would have to do so, compared with just 23% of retirees who said they would have to go back to work.
Despite being largely in agreement that they need to do a better job managing their money, neither pre-retirees nor retirees were likely to say they needed more advice from a professional. Less than a third of pre-retirees and 22% of retirees said they needed more professional advice regarding saving and investing.
Rappaport (left) noted that the July survey did not ask respondents whether they were working with an advisor, so it's unclear if those who said they don't need more professional help are confident with their own skills or if they have a financial professional. However, an earlier SOA survey found that the percentage of retirees with a personal financial advisor increased between 2008 and 2009, remaining steady at 61% in 2011.
Inflation is the biggest retirement concern for both groups, although health care rated a close second. Furthermore, retirees and pre-retirees grew more concerned about those risks than they were in 2009. To combat these fears, the report found, more retirees and pre-retirees are planning to secure guaranteed lifetime income, but only about a quarter have taken steps to do so.
Despite being more concerned about risk than in previous years, SOA found retirees and pre-retirees were no more likely to have used risk management strategies than they ever have been. The strategies they do adopt tend to be short-term: eliminating debt, cutting spending or going back to work.
Regardless of whether they work with an advisor, retirees and pre-retirees have "too short of a planning horizon," Rappaport said. "The risks they are most concerned about are inflation, health and long-term care. They should be more concerned with long-term issues, running out of money."
Another major concern for people who haven't accumulated a large amount of assets, Rappaport said, is that to continue working, they need to "keep their skills up to date, keep their contacts up to date: They need to position themselves to be able to work longer."
Social Security is another area retirees and pre-retirees could do a better job in planning. "The majority of people still claim too early," Rappaport said, noting that by claiming at age 70 instead of 62, retirees could increase their benefit amount by 75%. "They give up that income in earlier years," she acknowledged, but for some people, that higher payout later may be worth it.


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There is no one out there more deserving of this honor. Besides representing a stalwart champion of the Les Paul, Slash has been recognized as a character on the culture-changingGuitar Hero IIIvideo game and continues to be featured on the covers of music publications around the world. But at the heart of it all is a simple and wide-eyed guitarist who remains a bit baffled by all the accolades. In fact, he is still trying to figure out what happened.
"I didn't have any sort of far-reaching goals when I first started playing," Slash explains, laughing at the notion. "I was busy with the task at hand which was just learning how to play the guitar and that seems to still be the case. I guess because I've persevered over the years, I've probably just stuck around for so long that I've finally been recognized as someone who won't go away."
That's highly doubtful. Did it require a lot of refining to come up with this final version of your signature model? Was it a situation where you were hands-on showing the Gibson people necks and wiring pickups and doing that kind of thing?
You know what happened? There are basically four Slash models at this point: there's the Gold Top which is coming out and the other ones that I did not too long ago. And those are just after years and years of refining my own Les Pauls. So it was very simple to sort of go down and hang out with the boys over at Gibson in the Custom Shop and also Gibson USA and go, "This is specifically what we need to put on this guitar and how we need to do the neck," and so on and so forth. It's like I've been developing my own Les Pauls over the years for myself and so we just modeled these guitars after particular favorites of mine.
Let's talk tech for a moment: Certainly there's a specific kind of neck you look for on your Gibsons. Can you describe what that is?
Well, as far as the neck goes, there are a few different standard cuts for a guitar neck; there's not a huge amount of them. And the ones that I prefer aren't too wide or too thick. There are some and we always call it, for want of a better word, we compare it to a baseball bat; something that's a little bit more flat and a little thinner so it just fits in the palm of your hands for somebody who doesn't have like tentacle-sized fingers (laughs). I don't know what the measurements are but I think the '58s and '59s have a bigger neck and when you start looking at the sixties and later, they get smaller. And I think that's what we modeled 'em after.
In terms of the woods that were used, it's composed of maple …
Maple top, mahogany body and a rosewood fingerboard.
Can you describe in personal terms how those woods sound to you? These are heavier woods as opposed to Strats that tend to be built from ash and alder.
Les Pauls are mostly known for mahogany bodies and maple tops. And as far as the quality of the wood goes, that's a Gibson trademark because they always use good quality wood. I don't know technically about this wood and that wood; that's beyond me. But what I familiar with is the fact that mahogany which tends to be pretty dense is what they've been using for years. And as a result, Gibson guitars invariably sound good. They're pretty consistent. But I don't know which part of the tree it is (laughs).
Who does?
If you talk to a guitar maker, he'll tell ya!
So the weight of the instrument is a contributor to the tonality and also something you look for.
I used to think that but apparently it's sort of a myth; you can find a light guitar that resonates great as well. But just from my experience, I've always found that the heavier ones have always sounded better to me. But I guess that's a very personal thing. I think part of the reason why I like heavy guitars, I like to feel the weight of it over my shoulder. I'm just used to picking up a Les Paul and knowing that it was gonna be pretty heavy. And so if you pick up a Les Paul and it's unbelievably light, I feel like I'm being gypped.
Pickup-wise you've been a longtime fan of Seymour Duncan, right?
Yeah; the same pickups I've always used. There are so many different kinds of pickups; the one that you identify with the most is usually the one you stick with. And that's been the case with me. I've been using the same Seymour Duncan pickups since the very first Guns record.
Seymour Duncan and Slash photo: Gibson
They're called Alnico IIs and all I really know about them technically is that they're medium to low output pickups. So, they're really gruff instead of being way high output which gives you that sort of obvious heavy metal kind of thing. Obviously, totally low output pickups which are jazz pickups or whatever, they're somewhere in between so they've got a good, sort of edgy rock sound. And then you sort of pack that with the amp and you get more of a rough, gravelly kind of sound.
So, it's by cranking the Marshalls that you're really getting the overdrive and the dirt in your sound.
Yeah, I mean I crank the Marshall. I'm not looking for the ultimate distortion kind of experience; I'm looking for something that's a little bit more gravelly. So, I get the gain (but) I don't crank the gain on the Marshall (100-watt JCM Slash 2255 Signature Model head) all the way either. I turn it usually between 6 and 7; usually at 7, there's a peak. So it's not totally cranked all the way up. And I get a lot of edge from that and then the pickup is giving off basically a very honest guitar sound without over-emphasizing anything in particular.
Have you ever had the chance to sit down and talk with Seymour about pickups and stuff like that?
We haven't really. He's actually approached me a couple times to design a pickup; just to come up with a new idea for a pickup. I've been using the Alnico II since the first time I ever stumbled across it and that wasn't by trial and error; they just happened to be in the guitar that I got, that I recorded the album with. I still use (that guitar) and it still has the same pickups in it. And I started using those pickups in every Les Paul after that and the old cliché, if it ain't broken, don't fix it. So I've never been able to design a new set of pickups for Seymour Duncan because I just don't have any new ideas. We've talked about it and still end up back at the Alnico II.


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A Platter of Figs by David Tanis is a beautifully written and conceived cookbook. It's one of those cookbooks where you'll read the foreword (by Alice Waters in this case) and 20 pages later realize you're still going! I particularly enjoyed reading about the beginnings of Chef Tanis' culinary career and about his time spent running the downstairs kitchen at Chez Panisse. It must be nice to run such a wonderful kitchen 6 months out of the year and spend the other 6 meandering along the streets of Paris...What a dream! (sigh).
This particular book is filled with simple, but flavor-packed recipes. One of my favorite things about this book is that it is divided into sections according to the seasons and the produce that's available at that time. Chef Tanis is known for his uncomplicated recipes, which incorporate nothing but the finest ingredients. After all, why should a recipe be complicated and fussy when simplicity is sometimes the best way to really showcase the freshness and quality of seasonal produce? That's his basic philosophy.
As David says:
"Simplicity is key. People who cook fussy food for their friends seem to have the least fun. I say leave that fussy food to those with a staff and a paid dishwasher....A meal needn't be fancy, nor should it take all day to make."
This recipe for Cherry Tomato Crostini with Ricotta is one such dish. After spending one weekend afternoon gathering the best and freshest ingredients around town for this recipe, I was ready to go! My loot included a fresh baguette from Continental Bakery, ricotta cheese from Nabeel's Cafe & Market, and a basil plant and grape tomatoes from the Pepper Place Market.
After purchasing the ingredients, my mouth was watering at the thought of the deliciousness that we would have for dinner that evening. The finished crostini did not disappoint. The dressing that the tomatoes are marinated in is quite incredible, especially when paired with the crunch from the baguette and the fresh ricotta. It all comes together to form a burst of yumminess with each and every bite!
Bon Appetit!
Cherry Tomato Crostini with Ricotta
Source: A Platter of Figs by David Tanis
- 1 large shallot, finely diced
- 2 tablespoons red wine vinegar (I used white balsamic vinegar)
- Salt
- Pepper
- 1/2 cup olive oil
- 2 cloves garlic, smashed to a paste with a little salt, plus another peeled garlic clove or two
- 2 pounds cherry tomatoes, halved
- 1 Italian ciabatta
- 1/2 pound fresh ricotta cheese
- 1 teaspoon crushed red pepper flakes
- 1 handful basil leaves
- In a medium bowl, macerate the shallot in the red wine vinegar with a little salt. After a few minutes, whisk in the olive oil. Add the pounded garlic and the cherry tomatoes, season well with salt and pepper, and toss gently. Leave to marinate for a few minutes.
- Cut the ciabatta into 1/2-inch slices. Spread the slices on a baking sheet and toast on both sides under the broiler until golden. Swipe the toasts very lightly with a peeled garlic clove. Don't push too hard on the garlic—you want the bread to have just a hint of garlic flavor.
- Spread a tablespoon of fresh ricotta on each toast, then put them on a platter. Sprinkle with a little salt and a little red pepper. Spoon the marinated cherry tomatoes over the toasts. Sliver or tear the basil leaves and strew over the crostini.


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Toronto, ON – Toronto Rock Head Coach John Lovell has announced his coaching staff for the 2014 season with the naming of Blaine Manning and Dan Ladouceur as his assistant coaches. Matt Sawyer (Video) and Pat Campbell (Goaltending) will also return as assistant coaches this season.
Both Manning and Ladouceur enjoyed tremendous success in their playing days with the Rock and each spent their entire NLL careers with Toronto. This will be the first stab at coaching in the NLL for each of the former Rock greats.
Both assistant coaches have gained some valuable experience in recent years as Manning served as an assistant coach with the Oakville Rock of the Ontario Lacrosse Association's Major Series Lacrosse (MSL) while Ladouceur has been on the bench with the Whitby Junior A Warriors.
"Blaine and Dan both understand this is a big step," Lovell said of adding two assistants without previous pro coaching experience. "They are both respectful of the challenges and learning that will be a part of this process for everyone. You never stop learning when you are a coach. There will be a lot of hard work put in by everyone on this staff to find the answers to make us successful."
Manning announced his retirement from the NLL earlier this week after a professional career that saw him win four championships over his 12-year journey with the Rock.
"He has been in the trenches for 12 years living an offence," said Lovell of Manning. "Blaine understands the game and why things work and why things don't work as well as anybody. We had some great candidates with far more experience than Blaine but when we assessed at the end of the day, he was my number one choice."
Ladouceur was a pivotal part of five Champion's Cup titles in Toronto over his 11-year career and was one of the most feared defenders in the league. His size, physical play and competitiveness made him a player teams did not want to play against.
"Dan has a presence as a former player and that is going to help him," said Lovell. "He's developed and gained a lot of experience in Junior A in Whitby working with good people like (Edmonton Rush Head Coach) Derek Keenan. Dan is a guy that is going to have a number of defensive systems and not just one. He knows a lot, he makes adjustments quickly and he can get a message across in a variety of ways. He's a very positive person."
Returning to the coaching staff from a year ago are assistant coaches Matt Sawyer and Pat Campbell. Sawyer will continue in his role as video coach and Campbell will once again work with the goaltenders.
"Matt is going to be a very valuable resource for Blaine and I really respect and value his opion," said Lovell who also notes Sawyer is an important part of the staff when it comes to the NLL Draft as he's been the head coach of the Orangeville Junior A Northmen for the past nine seasons winning three Minto Cups.
"I see Pat continuing to grow in the role of goaltending coach and building on what he started in the position last season. He brings a lot to the table."
With the entire Rock coaching staff now in place, the club will continue preparations for the upcoming NLL Draft in mid-September.


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Pet Insurance University
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American College of Veterinary Behaviorists
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Cornell University College of Veterinary Medicine's Pet Loss Support Hotline
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Discussion in 'Samsung Galaxy S3' started by MyEntityRemains, Dec 15, 2012.
Anybody else experiencing terrible battery drain with stock JB? Any fixes/workarounds?
You know, I turned on battery saver and never had a prob. I can get 3 days standby easily..
My phone has worse battery drain too.
Also for some reason my Gmail isn't sending my email anymore. I tried to pull out the battery and sim but idk... Nothing.
Not had either issue after my phones upgrade to Jelly Bean. The download went fine, the upgrade went fine and at this point the phones noticeably faster. Great upgrade from my stand point.
After another week has past still no battery issues, in fact no issues at all. Great upgrade.
Have you done a factory reset since installing it? While it's not necessary to do one, a factory reset often resolves all kinds of issues after an update, especially a fairly major one like this that jumps from one version of Android to another.
I just don't feel like putting everything back to the way I have it now. Takes hours.
Might have to if it gets bad.
I let it charge once and its better.
Yeah, no one does. But sometimes it's necessary, especially after an update. It can solve a lot of different problems.
Well, after I did the factory reset, I can honestly the battery drain is drastically better. As much as we hate to do it, it is sometimes the easiest solution. Now to charge to 100% and drain, and repeat!
i also note the sever battery drain.:frown: will give it a few and my do FRS
Mine is good today. I had this issue before too though where my screen became unresponsive...it's hardware though I think. But phone is back to good again
Been though several phones, I have to say the GSII has the best battery life. Been on 4 days now standby, used it to play music, nephew played games... and it charges incredibly quick.
I have to say JB seems to have improved standby time a good bit. However screen time is pretty much the same. Not saying that's a bad thing...


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Vegan Chocolate Mocha Mousse
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Though I don't have any particular dietary restrictions, I like trying [insert ingredient here]-free recipes from time to time to see if I like them. And if I don't, how I might be able to tweak them so I do. When I saw this chocolate mousse recipe posted on Scharffen Berger's website, I figured it'd be a good one to try. The procedure is insanely simple. All I really had to buy was the tofu.
It's a bummer when an ingredient like tofu gets a stereotypical bad rap, too. Granted, it's a little trickier to work into sweet applications, and you have to be a bit more inventive with technique, but the results can be quite tasty. Making fun of tofu for being hippie-food is so 20 years ago.
Simplicity aside, another appealing aspect of this recipe, and tofu in general, is versatility. The coffee definitely punches up the chocolate flavor, and makes it taste a little more sophisticated. But you could just as easily add some cayenne and a glug or two of dark rum. Or, switch out the maple syrup for honey and add some orange flower water. Or, well, you get the idea. The basic recipe is pretty damn good so it's posted here with only a couple minor tweaks.
So whether you're a vegan, omnivore, or anywhere in between, I encourage you to try something new and add a little more tofu to your dessert course.
There's plenty of time to try out that deep-fried bacon-wrapped Twinkie recipe next week.
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