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Services for Margaret Martin White, 73, of Houston, will be at noon Thursday, June 6, 2013 at Lakewood Church, located at 3700 Southwest Freeway in Houston.
A viewing will be held at 11 a.m., one hour before the service. Arrangements are under the direction of Johnson Funeral Home of Houston.
Mrs. White died May 25, 2013 at Cypress Fairbanks Medical Center in Houston after a brief illness.
She was born March 7, 1940 and was raised in Palestine. She was a member of Lakewood Church, led by television evangelist Joel Osteen. She served as a children's ministry teacher for the 4-year-olds for many years.
Mrs. White was preceded in death by her parents, Roland Martin Sr. and Calla Jane Martin; husband, Willie White; and brother, Roland Martin Jr.
Those left to remember her sweet memories are sons, Kenneth White (Marion) of Germany, Stanley White (Lynette) of Houston and Stacy White (Marsha) of Houston; daughters, Jackie White Rosette (Barry) of Houston, Vicky White Wright (Steve) of Tulsa, Okla., Angela Martin of Houston, Marla White of Houston and Christina White of Tulsa, Okla.; sisters, Mary Irene Spurlock of Palestine and Flora Spurlock Davis of Jacksonville; brothers, Minister James E. Martin and William Martin, both of Palestine; aunt, Lydia DeCluette of Richland; many grandchildren and great-grandchildren; a host of nieces and nephews; and other relatives and friends.
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Services for Margaret Martin White, 73, of Houston, will be at noon Thursday, June 6, 2013 at Lakewood Church, located at 3700 Southwest Freeway in Houston.

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Lee Valley Ice Centre
The Ice Centre (as seen on ITV's Dancing on Ice) offers public skating, figure skating, ice-dance, pairs, synchronised skating, ice-hockey and Learn to Skate Courses. There are daily public sessions, family sessions at the weekends and during the school holidays for all ages and disco evening sessions every weekend.
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I was at a private Christmas party there and was amazed by how well organised everything was. It was clear that a lot of effort was put in order to satisfy our requirements for the event. Although it was my first time ice skating I got quite a few tips from the friendly staff members which helped a lot in not getting my bottom bruised. I was very pleased with the overall experience.more
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Well I'm finishing up my degree in Computer Science - and my day job is Web Development.
I've always loved designing games but I'm an LD newb. I like making Flash games but I'm hoping to branch into Unity soon.
[ Real World Gatherings | Ludum Deals (coming soon) | MiniLD #53 ]
Well I'm finishing up my degree in Computer Science - and my day job is Web Development.
I've always loved designing games but I'm an LD newb. I like making Flash games but I'm hoping to branch into Unity soon.
Ludum Dare 23
I made Flea Circus! There's not a lot to it, but I'm really proud of it, and this was my first LD. I just wanted to write a little bit about my what went right and wrong to clear my head and process the experience. Before you read this Post-Mortem, please check out the game by clicking here. If you don't want to read it, please at least go rate my game: click here.
I did a really good job of taking each idea that came out of brainstorming and running it through a Feasability Filter® before risking taking the idea further in my head and becoming attached to it. I stripped out the idea of levels, and character creation and character selection that's typical of extreme sports games and just focused on the fun of jumping around and doing tricks.
This first images in my head when the theme was announced were of Super Mario Galaxy type planets with big oversized objects on them. So – I knew I didn't want to go with something like that because I wanted something fresh and different from the rest of the competition.
Truthfully, though, there is one other flea circus meets extreme sport game in the competition. Weird.
Getting all the timing and the combos working was a really satisfying experience from a coding point of view – but I'm also proud that it works, and works as expected. Granted, you can say the game's a little easy, but that's aside from the fact that it's very satisfying to make the little flea do his tricks!
Think of fighting games : Yeah, you can beat me by button mashing – but can you beat me and know what you're doing?
Believe it or not I have a background in Graphic Design! But small pixel art … man, I don't know what I'm doing. Those curtains look pretty good, right? And so does the wood of the stage. But those judges and the flea … could be better to say the least. I need to get good and I need to get fast. I wanted to have poofs of smoke and blood splatters and animate the fire in the hoop.
I may have gotten a little too obsessed with wanting to use the same dimensions as the gameboy advance. I should have just made a game with the style that it needed and not with a style I wanted to try.
Also, yeah, that flea needed more contrast, I don't know what I was thinking.
It's easy. It's an easy game. In playtesting half said it was too hard and half said too easy – no one said 'just right' but me. So I went towards making it easier for those who said it was too hard and I think I made it too easy.
This is was my first LD and it was an eye opening experience:
Thanks for reading, I had a lot of fun at my first LD!
Whew! Glad that's done! This won't be a post mordem, just a post announcing that I've finished.
So, the game's called Flea Circus and it's much better than what I was expecting out of my first Ludum Dare! In general terms, it's an action game. A better description is a frenetic, simplified extreme sports game. If you test it out, I recommend trying the tutorial first, there's good stuff in there.
What I would like to use this time for though is just a quick comment about how great the community is! The book, the keynote, the chat room, the reddit – all of it is fantastic! Game design is my creative outlet and it is such a joyous feeling knowing that there are so many others as passionate about it as I am.
Thanks to all of you guys in the chatroom for the company and the laughs and the bug testing! I'll definitely be doing this again
Well, I'm in! First ever LD, I think it'll be fun!
I'll be using the modified flixel classes I wrote before the 0 Hour Game Jam. It's not much, just basic title screen and character movement, and health bar. I've shared these elsewhere, but I'll post the github link here too:
So, for tools, I'm thinking:
But, I've been really into prototyping physical games lately, so if the theme is right … those tools will likely go right out the window. Aside from Photoshop.
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From OpenwaterpediaKirsten Lepore. The stop-motion short details a transoceanic conversation between two characters via objects in a bottle. Bottle won the Best Animation film award at the 2013 Beloit International Film Festival.
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Kirsten Lepore is a Los Angeles-based director and animator with an MFA from CalArts. She was recently featured as a rising talent in Shots Magazine, Animation Magazine, Focus Features, and named one of the 50 most creative people of 2011 by Creativity Magazine.


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KDE 4 Preview
Another core KDE 4 technology is the introduction of Solid. Solid is a library for hardware discovery, network and power management. It's an attempt to deal better with the ever-changing devices and connections of portable systems in our increasingly wireless world. Solid will integrate with popular frameworks, such as freedesktop.org's HAL and Novell's Network Manager, to leverage their features on supported platforms.
Solid implements graceful handling of off-line/on-line state for applications that use it. A Solid-aware e-mail client would, for example, know that you were off-line and not attempt to connect to your mail server if you opened it to check an older e-mail message or look up a contact while off-line.
Solid also includes a command-line utility called solidshell to manipulate its API for scripting purposes.
Phonon is a sound framework that was created to supply a stable and consistent API for KDE applications. It's capable of using a variety of engines as its back end and can switch between those engines on the fly. Phonon integrates closely with Solid to maintain awareness of sound-capable hardware attached to the system. It's capable of per-application volume settings, grouped by category, and also is able to route different categories through different devices—for example, selecting to deliver a VoIP conversation only through the headset and leaving the other system sounds to play through the sound card.
Phonon is written to be cross-platform, needing only a platform-specific engine as a back end to it. Along with the Xine back end that the KDE Project developed, the maker of Qt (Trolltech) has released Phonon back ends for GStreamer (Linux), DirectShow (Windows) and Core Audio/QuickTime (OS X) to be developed in KDE's source repository. Trolltech has stated its intention to include Phonon itself in Qt from version 4.4.
This is excellent news for the future of Phonon, signaling significant amounts of funded development time, as Trolltech will be maintaining the engines and contributing to Phonon.
KDE has long had a policy of leaving hardware support to the distribution. Although KDE 3.x has very basic support for removable storage devices with support for freedesktop.org's hardware abstraction layer, HAL, in the 3.5 series, many KDE installations have less than stellar hardware management due to the limitations of the distribution implementation. Whether it's correct or not, to many users, the desktop is the computer and their expectation is that it should handle their hardware well.
Solid and Phonon look to overcome these issues, leveraging what user-space support they find into as consistent an experience as possible for KDE users, regardless of platform. Although the project has come under some criticism for creating Yet Another Abstraction Layer, Solid and Phonon make porting KDE to other platforms just a little bit easier. They also remove a lot of the complexity in dealing with hardware from most basic individual applications and keep it in a single place. Phonon isn't considered to be a one-size-fits-all solution, however; it's recognised that some applications may require more than Phonon's simplistic view of the world, like professional music editing applications.
Another major change for KDE 4 is the inclusion of Dolphin as the default file manager. Konqueror's file management abilities still will be available for the nostalgic or power user. Some of Dolphin's features include a "breadcrumb" style location bar and side panes for information and tree or bookmark views.
Dolphin as a project focuses on usability and simplicity. One of the larger benefits of including Dolphin is a long-sought-after separation of configuration between the Web browser and the file manager. A standing complaint among KDE users is the way that Konqueror's profiles mechanism doesn't achieve adequate separation between roles. Rearranging the toolbars in one profile would affect another, and bookmarks were the same between the browser and the file manager. Possibly even more confusing, clicking the Home button on the browser toolbar took one to the file management view of the user's home directory.
Although Konqueror is an exceptionally powerful and flexible tool, these configuration quirks were extremely frustrating to users who expected their file manager and Web browser to behave as separate applications. Not all flexibility is lost in the name of usability, however; Dolphin fully supports KDE's Kioslaves and Konqueror service menus.
There are myriad other changes to look forward to in the 4.x development cycle, but it would require far more space than is available here to detail them all. At the time of researching this article, KDE 4 was in a release-candidate state, with features still in a state of flux.
KDE 4 has been promising a desktop revolution, and it really looks as though it just might deliver. The first generation of new KDE technologies is shaping up to transform our expectations of what the Linux desktop should bring. When one considers that this is the state of the 4.0 release, and then looks at the length of the 3.x development cycle, the path that the evolution of the 4.x series will take stimulates the imagination.
Jes Hall is a Linux Technical Specialist and KDE developer from New Zealand. She's passionate about helping open-source software bring life-changing information and tools to those who would otherwise not have them.
kde4 is very beta and very very bad
not pleased with kde4.
I don't like the look, I don't like the behavior.
I should never have upgraded to FC9.
What a mistake.
Too bad. I liked version 3.
#vocal singing lessons
kde4 is very beta and very very bad
not pleased with kde4.
I don't like the look, I don't like the behavior.
I should never have upgraded to FC9.
What a mistake.
Too bad. I liked version 3. How do I switch back?
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A driver died Monday evening when his pickup flipped off Point Reyes-Petaluma Road and into the Nicasio Reservoir, according to the California Highway Patrol.
The man was identified Tuesday morning as as Richard Louis Giacomini, a 71-year-old resident of Point Reyes, according to the Marin County coroner's division. Giamonini was a prominent rancher in Point Reyes whose family sold their ranch in 2000 to the National Park Service, which transformed it into the Giacomini Wetland Restoration Project. It is managed by Point Reyes National Seashore.
The Giacominis also own Toby's Trucking, based in Petaluma.
Richard Giacomini was driving from Point Reyes Station in a 2003 Chevy Silverado pickup when he apparently drifted off the road just west of Nicasio Boulevard at about 5:45 p.m. The truck struck a guardrail, flipped and landed in the reservoir.
When emergency personnel arrived, the vehicle was submerged in the reservoir, with the roof approximately four feet under the surface, according to Mike Giannini, a battalion chief with Marin County Fire Department.
Giacomini was in the submerged truck when divers from the Marin County Sheriff's Office dive team found him. He was pronounced dead at 6:42 p.m., CHP said.
Last June, Giacomini's uncle, Ralph Giacomini died after his car crashed into a seasonal drainage ditch outside of Petaluma.
Point Reyes Petaluma Road was reopened at approximately 10:15 p.m.
Divers from the Marin County Sheriff's Office and the Southern Marin Fire District checked the truck for other occupants and combed the waters around the vehicle to be sure that no one was ejected during the accident. No other victims were located, Giannini said.
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- Studio: Warner Bros. Pictures
- Release Date: Jun 29, 2001
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Generally favorable reviews- based on 308 Ratings
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Feb 11, 2013There has been many topics on various forums debating whether this movie is a good one or not. I think it is! Mr. Spielberg and Mr. Kubrick explored the the possible consequences of humans creating robots, that mainly serve our different needs and desires (child like robots, prostitute or service robots...). We can see this future world through the eyes of a child robot named David, who wants to become "real" so that he can regain the love of his human "mother". This is where things get interesting, Many ethical questions arise: What does it mean to be "real" or alive? Does a robot has real feelings, soul, thoughts of his own? How do humans approach these artificial beings. Are they even beings or just objects? I think the director explored these ideas quiet well. The cinematography, and acting is really good. The future world is well thought out, Definitely worth a look, because sooner or later we need to face these questions in reality!… Expand
Feb 19, 2011One of the best films I have ever seen. They could have cut the end back but what fantastic acting and thoughtful plots... I can't understand why someone
Mar 2, 2012Brilliant movie. Kubrick's mind was a special place. And to have Speilberg finish his last project after death, is the combination of two of the most gifted visionaries in cinema. A futuristic tale of a robot boy programmed to love, seeks love and the "blue fairy," that will make him a real live boy.
Jan 5, 2011I thought it was a very strange film. I saw it when I was very young and I feel like someone was just trying to make another version of ET. It did however tug on the heart strings a bunch. But the end was just weird.
Dec 15, 2011Stephen Spielberg once again directs an excellent film, at least for the first half. The camera angles are beautifully positioned and the camera movements flow smoothly. Haley Joel Osment and Jude Law give terrific performances and the futuristic setting is entirely believable and well created. But for the majority of the second half, the film becomes tiresome. Every scene is filled with some implausible and unbelievable circumstance and the final ending almost seems as if Spielberg was attempting to give humanity a pat on the back for our "spirit" while ignoring our blood lust and violent nature. Then comes the resolution, which is simply horrendous. Spielberg introduces a new element to the plot as if trying to give homage to a truly great film from his past. Unfortunately, while the connection is seen, it is unrelatable and fails to enhance this film in any way. In fact, it becomes more of a detriment than anything else. Artificial Intelligence thus ways in as only slightly above average, entirely due to the first half of the film, and pales in comparison to Spielberg's true masterpieces.… Expand
Nov 18, 2012Artificial Intelligence is a miscalculation, and we can probably attribute that because it was Stanley Kubrick's unfinished vision.
Feb 24, 2013A.I. is quite possibly the strangest and most disturbing movie I've ever seen. The special effects and the teddy bear were cool as hell, but the whole story was just freaking creepy.
May 24, 2013Far from being the complete disaster of a movie that some would have you believe A.I certainly gets many things right. The plot, revolving around the ability to produce life-like artificial children, is certainly an interesting concept and the film does on occasions raise some interesting questions The performances, particularly from Hayley Joel Osment (The Sixth Sense), are also very good.
As a result, despite coming across as a little disjointed in places, A.I is a more than passable piece of sci-fi for the much of its running time. Unfortunately many viewers will remember only the apparently rushed and poorly explained ending and the fact that Spielberg has gone online to help clear it up speaks volumes for how it was received.… Expand
Jul 16, 2013Bad movie, just pointless. All the story is so unnatural, so forced. How the family reacts with the boy and the robot is without sense. I cant belive why that movie are so overrated.
Aug 5, 2013A.I. Artificial Intelligence 8/10.....................................................................................................................
Jul 5, 2014What a beautiful movie. It's heartbreaking, it's visually fantastic and very curious. The acting is top-notch, the story is interesting and overall, a great film.
Jul 10, 2014Superb acting, great visual effects, decent story. It had some fun and dramatic scenes, but overall this was a boring movie to me. Great idea but with less fantasy it would've been much better. 7/10
What we're left with -- Kubrick or no -- is a muddled, messy disaster of a film, something that seems more like a drastically edited miniseries, cut down to incomprehensible levels with whole sections missing.
Pure magic, a three-act movie fantasy that transports us -- as the best films do -- to a world of its own, a place of ambiguous joy and delirious terror.
Audiences may find that the deliberate, Kubrickesque pacing -- without his intellectual rigor -- causes them to tune out.


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Cooking with Linux - Really Useful Gadgets...Sort of
What on Earth is that, François? Something to make your job easier? Come on, mon ami, let's be honest. I don't work you that hard. So what does that thing do? Quoi? It's a combination corkscrew, pen, pocket knife, compass, notepad, wine thermometer, music player and crumber? That's the silliest thing I've ever heard of. You know I love gadgets as much as you do, but I think you outdo me with your choices. Our guests are arriving, François. Pay attention, and I will show you some really useful gadgets.
Good evening, everyone. It is wonderful to see you, mes amis. Welcome to Chez Marcel. François has prepared your usual tables and was just about to get tonight's wine. And, what a wine, mes amis. This 2006 wine from Tuscany is produced by Ornellaia and goes by the name of Le Volte (Figure 1). It's a rich, full-bodied, almost chewy red with lots of dark fruit on the palate. Your mouth will thank you. François, you'll find our shipment in the east wing of the cellar, near the secret passageway. Vite!
These days, software gadgets are designed to exploit the eye-candy capabilities of modern systems, and we'll look at some of those in a moment. But, what if your system isn't a modern computer? What if you have only limited memory and no high-end graphics system? Have no fear; I've found a couple gadgets guaranteed to be resource-friendly while still providing little productive value. The first is necessary for people using a Linux system who feel they may be missing out on that most important of Windows tools. Yes, I'm talking about the Blue Screen of Death, lovingly crafted for Linux by Folkert van Heusden.
Get the source from www.vanheusden.com/bsod, extract it and then simply type make (or make install) to build it. To run it, type bsod. Your console, or terminal window, displays the Blue Screen of Death. There are no options or flags, so it's very easy to use.
Of course, the Blue Screen of Death doesn't do much. And, it's nowhere near as interesting as, say, watching fish in an aquarium. We've got that taken care of as well with our next gadget. In keeping with our low-tech, low-end gadget needs, this aquarium doesn't require a graphics card. It's Kirk Baucom's ASCIIQuarium (Figure 3). The program displays a variety of fish, the occasional sea monster or man-eating shark, all in glorious ASCII.
Believe it or not, ASCIIQuarium is included in the repositories for various distributions, so you probably don't need to build it. However, source is available should you choose to go that route. There is no building to be done because ASCIIQuarium is a single Perl script. It requires only that you have the Curses and Term::Animation Perl modules installed. While the aquarium displays its two-dimensional life, you can press R to force a redraw, P to pause the display or Q to quit.
If ASCII seems just too, ahem, quaint for a desktop gadget, you'll be happy to know that you can get a different kind of aquarium with some nicer graphics. Most modern software gadgets tend to be small programs that run on your desktop background or wallpaper. Sometimes they become the background. One such program is xfishtank (Figure 4), written by Eric Bina. Once again, this is an easy program to find in your distribution's repositories.
Running xfishtank on most systems is as simple as typing the program name. You also can fire up your program launcher (Alt-F2), and type xfishtank to populate your aquarium. Whether you see something right away depends somewhat on the desktop environment you are running. Most environments, GNOME included, don't require any additional steps, but KDE does need to check with you before allowing programs to run on the desktop background. Right-click on your desktop, and select Configure Desktop from the pop-up menu. When the dialog box appears, click the Behavior icon in the left-hand sidebar. A three-tabbed window appears on the right-hand side. Look near the top on the General tab, and you'll see a check box with the words Allow programs in desktop window. Click that check box, and then click OK.
I mention this now because you may need it again with some of our other gadgets. A lot of the newer background gadgets are small programs that take up a small portion of your screen, quietly displaying useful information, such as system load, memory usage or network traffic. But, wouldn't you rather see Tux running around on your screen, walking across your windows, skateboarding or parachuting down to your taskbar? Me too. You can thank Robin Hogan for writing xpenguins to help us out of that productivity conundrum. When you run xpenguins, Tux, in all the forms I mentioned, suddenly takes over your screen (Figure 5).
Should you decide your screen isn't busy enough, you can increase the default number of penguins by using the -n flag. That default is defined in the current theme. Theme? Did I say theme? If those wonderful little penguins vying for your attention aren't enough, you are running the right program, mes amis. One of the really fun things about xpenguins is that it comes with multiple themes. To discover those themes, type xpenguins -l at the command line:
$ xpenguins -l Big Penguins Bill Classic Penguins Penguins Turtles
To select a particular theme, do the following:
xpenguins -t Bill
Figure 6 shows the result. Bill, the famous hacker from Red Mond, wanders across your screen taking away Linux systems and replacing them with his own brand of OS. Yes, this is a takeoff of the (in)famous xbill game.
Even more themes are available. Visit the xpenguins Web site, and check out the user-contributed themes at xpenguins.seul.org/contrib. Before we move on, I want to mention one last flag available with xpenguins—the -s flag. That one makes it possible for you to squish the characters with your mouse cursor. If you find yourself a little squeamish at the result, the -b option means no blood.
I could pass the next one by, but I really need to mention it. It's a little less tasteful, but it's lots of fun if you want to turn off your coworkers. xcockroach, written by Nicolas Adenis-Lamarre, generates a variety of cockroaches that scurry across your screen and hide under your active windows. Move the window and the critters run off in all directions. It's pretty disgusting, but certainly entertaining. Unlike xpenguins, there is no squash function. You can, however, change themes and behaviors for your roaches. For a full list of options, type xcockroach -h.
Let's get off the nostalgia bus now and take a look at the modern state of desktop gadgets. KDE 4.1's impressive desktop features a new desktop shell called Plasma. Plasma is, in a way, the ultimate gadget—it's a gadget that runs gadgets. Inside Plasma, you run programs (or widgets or gadgets) that appear on the desktop. Each of these programs is commonly referred to as a plasmoid. Plasmoids are more than programs, however. Each is a containment that can contain other plasmoids, all of which are, technically, able to communicate with one another. Plasma, the desktop shell, is just one big containment that contains other plasmoids. The panel at the bottom of the screen with its system-tray icons, taskbar, clock and program launcher is yet another containment. Shakespearean fans can think of it as a play within a play.
Plasmoids use scalable vector graphics (SVG). These graphics can be zoomed and rotated smoothly, meaning that plasmoids can live pretty much anywhere on your desktop, in any size and any orientation. The result is super-sweet eye candy of the gadget variety.
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Lección 1: Elementos fundamentales para la historia familiar
Las fuentes fundamentales de la historia familiar son los primeros recursos que debemos consultar en nuestra investigación. Las fuentes fundamentales más comunes incluyen: memoria viva, documentos del hogar, mapas, diccionarios geográficos y guías eclesiásticas.
Professor Christopher Andrew introduces the 25th Security Service records release, which contains 170 files, bringing the total number of its records in the public domain to more than 4,500. As with previous releases, around three quarters of the records are personal files relating to individuals (KV 2), with the remainder a combination of subject files (KV 3), policy files (KV 4) and organisation files (KV 5). The records cover a range of subjects and span the inter-war, Second World War and post-war eras.
A brief overview of the history of Norway and how it affected recordkeeping.
Railway Disasters: An Introduction
This talk looks at some of the most famous railway accidents and disasters of the 19th and 20th centuries, in particular, the disaster at Quintinshill in 1915, in which 226 people died. The National Archives holds a wide range of documents which record details of accidents and collisions but the talk also considers other useful sources such as railway staff magazines.
Finding an ancestor using Internet sources from the United Kingdom and Germany. This lesson also includes references to merchant navy records, and the SMS Seeadler (Sea Eagle) also known as the Pass of Balmaha which was commanded by Count Von Luckner. Douglas Page sailed on the SS Horngarth
Shop Workers: Tracing Your Retail Ancestors
We all go shopping, albeit with varying degrees of enthusiasm, and many of us have also worked in shops. It was the same for our ancestors, and although the records may not always be easy to find, they are out there if you know where to look. There is also a wealth of background material to show us what our ancestors' shopping and shopkeeping experience was like.
Mark Dunton, The National Archives' contemporary records specialist, explains how anyone with an interest in modern history can get the best out of the Cabinet Papers online resource. This provides access to historical records of the key episodes in 20th century British and international history. Mark also discusses the historical development of the Cabinet, how it works, and the main record series.
Learn what an English Parish is now and used to be and how it can help you with your family history.
Using documents from The National Archives, James Cronan will take you through the history of the ship, from its construction and launch to its fateful end. James Cronan is a records specialist in diplomatic and colonial records. His interest in all things Titanic stems from the fact that his great-grandfather was a crewman on board the stricken ship. He has worked at The National Archives for 17 years, at Chancery Lane, the Family Records Centre and Kew.
Tracing Marriages in 18th Century England and Wales: A Reassessment of Law and Practice
The Clandestine Marriages Act of 1753 marked an important development in the history of marriage by putting the requirements for a valid marriage on a statutory basis for the first time. But what was the situation before 1753, and what practical impact did the Act have on popular practice? This thorough reassessment of law and practice is of particular relevance to those tracing their ancestors. First, the universality of formal marriage increases the likelihood that a record of an ancestor's marriage will exist somewhere; secondly, parish-level studies provide us with a clearer idea of where one may need to look for a marriage; and, thirdly, success or failure in tracing a marriage can be set within the context of the marriage law and practice of the time.


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What is this medicine?NAPROXEN (na PROX en) is a non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drug (NSAID). It is used to reduce swelling and to treat pain. This medicine may be used for dental pain, headache, or painful monthly periods. It is also used for painful joint and muscular problems such as arthritis, tendinitis, bursitis, and gout.
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By Shelby Mertens, Capital News Service
Starting in 2017, Virginia voters could have the opportunity to re-elect the governor to a second consecutive term if the House joins the Senate in seeking to amend the state's Constitution.
The Senate this week approved a proposed constitutional amendment to allow governors to serve two terms in a row. The vote was 25-15.
SJ 276 was co-sponsored by Sen. Adam Ebbin (D-Alexandria) and Dels. Scott Surovell (D-Mount Vernon) and David Ramadan (R-South Riding).
Sen. George Barker (D-39th), who represents a large portion of Lorton, voted against the constitutional amendment. Sen. Toddy Puller (D-36th), who represents a portion of Lorton, voted in favor of it.
The resolution now moves to the House of Delegates, where its fate is uncertain.
"I'm not real optimistic about its chances, but I think it's the right thing to do," Sen. John Miller (D-Newport News) said. "We ought to give the voters the opportunity to decide whether a governor should keep his job and be re-elected."
Virginia is the only state that does not allow governors to serve consecutive terms. Sen. Thomas Garrett (R-Lynchburg), who introduced Senate Joint Resolution 276, said an extra four years in office would make it easier for the governor to tackle long-term problems such as transportation —
"It is important to give the governor sufficient time to really complete an agenda. Under a one-term limitation, the governor comes in and spends his first couple of years working on the previous governor's budget," Miller said.
Because it calls for a constitutional amendment, the resolution, if it passes, would require approval again from the General Assembly in 2014. Then it would appear on the November 2014 ballot for a statewide vote. If the majority of voters approve, the constitutional amendment would take effect.
While the measure drew more support from Democrats than Republicans in the bipartisan nod, Sen. Chap Petersen (D-Fairfax) was one of the proposal's largest critics, fearing a multiple-term governor could open the door to a full-time Senate, instead of the citizen legislature that has been in place for the past 225 years, he said.
"We're a citizen legislature and I know I'm a lot like the rest of ya'll: At the end of this work day, I'm back up in my office talking to clients and answering emails from my office," said Petersen, who along with Surovell is a partner in the Fairfax City- based Surovell Isaacs Petersen & Levy PLC. "And I guarantee you if we pass this the next bill, the next one down the line will be to make us a full-time legislature with a full-time salary. Well, you can count me out of this effort also. Because at the end of the day, I believe in what we do here and I believe in the system in which we do it."
Fourteen states have no gubernatorial term limits; 27 have a two-consecutive-term limit and four limit governors to two consecutive or nonconsecutive terms.
In Montana, the governor is limited to eight years within a 16-year period, while the Wyoming governor is limited to two four-year terms within a 16-year period. In Utah, the governor is limited to 12 consecutive years. The limit in Florida is eight years but with no lifetime limit.
Geoffrey Skelley, a political analyst at the University of Virginia's Center for Politics, said Virginia is unique in limiting its governor to a single term. He doesn't believe this will change soon.
"This will probably not get anywhere in the House of Delegates because such a change in Virginia politics would be an extremely significant shift in the institutional politics of Virginia," Skelley said.
Two identical proposals had been filed in the House: House Joint Resolution 549, introduced by Delegate Bob Purkey (R-Virginia Beach) and HJ 679, by Delegate Bob Brink (D-Arlington).
A subcommittee of the House Committee on Privileges and Elections folded Brink's resolution into Purkey's and then tabled HJ 549 on a voice vote.
"I think the Republicans are more focused on small government. And House Republicans, who are generally more conservative, will view this as a road to more governmental power to the executive," Skelley said.
But Skelley said it's possible Virginia might ease its term limit on the governor over time.
"The fact that it passed in the Senate is proof that there is some desire out there for it," Skelley said. "It's an indication that there is some portion of the political establishment that supports it."
How They Voted
Here is how senators voted on "SJ 276 Constitutional amendment; Governor's term of office (first reference)."
YEAS – Blevins, Colgan, Deeds, Ebbin, Edwards, Favola, Garrett, Herring, Howell, Locke, Marsden, Marsh, Martin, McEachin, Miller, Norment, Northam, Obenshain, Puckett, Puller, Reeves, Saslaw, Vogel, Wagner, Watkins – 25.
NAYS – Alexander, Barker, Black, Carrico, Hanger, Lucas, McDougle, McWaters, Newman, Petersen, Ruff, Smith, Stanley, Stosch, Stuart – 15.
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Bare Escentuals Faux Tan Good for Your Skin.
There are so many makeup brands in the market. Based on the experience some of the brands were quite good and others were not. Of the good brand is bare escentuals faux tan. This makeup is very popular makeup. They have been in makeup business for a long time. bare escentuals faux tan started their company in San Francisco in 1976, so they've been providing a more natural alternative for more than 30 years. You can found bare escentuals faux tan in the market or on the online store such as Ebay and Amazon. Straight Off, we will talk approximately customer choice beauty award, natural formula moisturizes, and make bare escentuals faux tan of a Bare Escentuals Faux Tan Good for Your Skin. We will uncover the set apart of a fully Bare Escentuals Faux Tan Good for Your Skin here. Keep on reading!.
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Some Celebrities have bad celebrity plastic surgery. It was the old news that almost happens every year. They were not satisfied with their look and they decided to change their look by plastic surgery. Some of them are success with the surgery but some of them are not. Refers to them that have unsuccessful surgery they will have strange and unnatural look, or the worst they have terrible scary look. Bad Celebrity plastic surgery maybe happened because the doctors were not skillful in the surgery because it hard to do plastic surgery. Before I give you some example of bad celebrity plastic surgery first thing to do is you should know some information about plastic surgery. Immediately, we will unwrap close to make better the look, the bad celebrity plastic surgery, and women celebrity plastic surgery of a Infamous Bad Celebrity Plastic Surgery. We will expose the expatiate of a fully Infamous Bad Celebrity Plastic Surgery here. Keep on reading!.
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Now, I'll show you some celebrities that have bad celebrity plastic surgery. You must know the famous such as Melanie Griffith, Faye Dunaway, Pamela Anderson, Marilyn Monroe and Michael Jackson. That name is some celebrities that infamous because of the bad plastic surgery. Melanie Griffith with her unnaturally thick lips, Faye Dunaway tightly skin, Pamela with her breast implants, Marilyn Monroe with her blonde hair, and Michael Jackson with his strange skin.
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Most of bad celebrity plastic surgery happened on women celebrity. Women love if they become attention because of their beauty. So they will do everything like plastic surgery to be beautiful. I remind you, even though today there are lots of potential doctors to do plastic surgery, I suggest you to not do plastic surgery. The successfulness of the plastics surgery is below average. Plastic surgery will not change your overall appearance. The bad celebrity plastic surgery is the real example.
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You may count it right when all people start to think that work is a priority of their lives. However, it will be a little bit disturbing if you are a career woman with a high demand on your appearance but do not enough spare time to do even your nail. Hair for women might be as precious as their career since it is the crown for them. There is always times when they mind to reduce the boredom from their business by experimenting on the hair color. Straightaway, we will divulge some best solution and smart alternative, security for women's preciousness, and at home hair color references of a Think Over the Best Solutions for at Home Hair Color. We will show the elaborate of a fully Think Over the Best Solutions for at Home Hair Color here. Keep on reading!.
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At home hair color sometimes will be quite difficult if you do not prepare the complete tools to do it. Oprah.com provides great references about what tools totally needed for at home hair color. A bowl is useful to mix up the dye and swirl an ideal paintbrush with one and a half or two wide in. Clips play a role to hold back the rest of your hair while you are working on the dye through each section. Rattail comb shows its value to distribute the dye while a narrow pointed handle divides hair into even section. You will also need a dark towel to drape over your shoulders to protect your clothes and another one to clean up any drips. An alcohol-based facial toner helps you to remove stains from skin; also floors and countertops. Timer cannot be forgotten to make sure you do not wind up with a color very different from what you expected.
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Bring Out Your Genuine Beauty with Asian Eye Makeup.
Asian eyes are always alluring. They are uniquely exotic and look sexy on some people's point of views. There is an opinion that 'Asian eyes are expressive, exotic, and fun to outfit in bold makeup colors'. Even though you can always opt any colors, shimmery white, charcoal grey, taupe and cobalt blue are perfect for gorgeous Asian eye makeup. However, such advantage for using rich kind of colors for your Asian eye makeup can lead you into disaster if you have not enough experience about how to combine them. Giving thoughtful consideration for your Asian eye makeup will result to bring out the genuine beauty that you already have. Directly, we will unwrap roughly the asian eyes most common complain, asian eye makeup, and precise eyeliner application of a Bring Out Your Genuine Beauty with Asian Eye Makeup. We will show the lucubrate of a fully Bring Out Your Genuine Beauty with Asian Eye Makeup here. Keep on reading!.
Bring Out Your Genuine Beauty with Asian Eye Makeup
The Asian Eyes Most Common Complain
The first thing you should be careful with is about the most common complain that Asian eyes are mostly with single lid. in applying Asian eye makeup is if you do not have any crease on your eyes, do not stick the pre-made strip of tape and stick onto them. It is totally not cute as when you do it on your junior high age. All you can do is just to play a trick by creating a faux-crease with eye shadows. Pick an eye shadow with light color to be applied from lash line to brow. Choosing pale pink or white all over the eye will give an exotic touch on you Asian eye makeup.
Asian Eye Makeup
Playing with a brow pencil which is one shade lighter than your natural hair color will be a great advice for your Asian eye makeup. It appears to trick people in enlarging your cute small eyes can be done by using the brow pencil to create a soft arch and fill in the empty spot where there is no hair. Heated eyelash curler will be a great match for Asian eyes with pin-straight lashes. Perfect the exoticism of your Asian eyes with black or navy blue mascara.
Precise Eyeliner Application
For Asian eye makeup, applying liquid eyeliner on the top of the eyelid and some at the lower, outer corner with a petite flick can be an appealing option. The choice of eyeliner brushes is significant too for Asian eye makeup since they come in various sizes and different bristle tips such as tapered, angled and flat. People pick the ultra fine eyeliner brush with firm, synthetic bristles and tapered tip as the most universal one to use. It is reasonable since its great work on precise eyeliner application.
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Season Ends for Buckingham County in State Semifinals
Posted: 12/07/2013 - The Knights longest playoff run in over a decade came to a close Saturday.
Posted: 12/07/2013 - The Knights longest playoff run in over a decade came to a close Saturday.
Posted: 12/04/2013 - Buckingham County is the last central Virginia high school football team standing in the VHSL Playoffs.
Updated: 11/27/2013 - The Knights are in the midst of their longest playoff run in over a decade.
Updated: 11/26/2013 - A handful of Central Virginia teams survived Round 1 of the VHSL football playoffs on Friday night, and advanced to next week's quarterfinals. Click for the latest details.
Posted: 11/04/2013 - Here are the latest VHSL Power Points from the Virginia High School League (VHSL) website. The top 16 teams from each region qualify for the playoffs.
Updated: 09/25/2013 - Monticello sits atop the inaugural Central Virginia Prep Football Power Poll.
Posted: 08/24/2013 - Buckingham has won nine games each of the past two seasons but hasn't been able to get past the Eastern Section quarterfinals.
Posted: 07/31/2013 - After filling in for the injured Cam Johnson for much of last year, Buckingham's John Edwards is now heading into his first season as the Knights' full-time starter. He's up on Day 4 of the "Scrimmage Play Six."
Posted: 05/02/2013 - Buckingham County senior Cam Johnson won't be traveling very far to continue his football career after high school.
Posted: 12/17/2012 - A bad case of the flu has swept through Buckingham County High School, forcing the Knights to cancel Monday's visit to Madison County in girls' basketball.
Updated: 10/22/2012 - Without running a single offensive play, Buckingham (7-1) built a three-touchdown lead en route to a 47-8 victory over Cumberland (1-7) Friday night in a James River District rivalry clash.
Posted: 10/08/2012 - It took six straight wins to start the season, but the Western Albemarle football team has cracked the Top 10 of latest Associated Press Group AA statewide poll.
Updated: 10/08/2012 - For the sixth straight game, and on homecoming night, the Knights running backs came to do work with Kenneth Johnson and Kyree Koonce combining for 292 yards and four touchdowns to pave the way to a 48-0 win over Randolph Henry.
Updated: 10/05/2012 - The Knights are undefeated and ranked fifth in the state headed into Friday's Homecoming with Randolph Henry.
Posted: 10/01/2012 - Saturday's 28-0 win over previously undefeated Monticello wasn't quite enough to get Western Albemarle into the latest Associated Press Group AA statewide top 10.
Updated: 09/30/2012 - The Charlottesville Black Knights snapped a 12-game Jefferson District losing streak with a 41-34 victory over visiting Fluvanna on Homecoming night.
Updated: 09/24/2012 - The Buckingham County football team is up a spot in the second week of the Associated Press statewide high school football polls.
Updated: 09/20/2013 - Click here for high school football scores from around central Virginia.
Updated: 09/18/2012 - Buckingham County is the only local team to crack the top 10 in any of the three initial state high school football polls released Monday by the Associated Press.
Updated: 08/16/2012 - Buckingham County has enjoyed regular season success the last few years but haven't been able to make it past the second round of the playoffs.
Updated: 08/07/2012 - This fall, Cam Johnson will take over as quarterback at Buckingham County. But before going under center for the Knights, he's going under the spotlight at the Scrimmage Play Six.
Posted: 02/16/2012 - Charlottesville, Western Albemarle advance to Jefferson District title game.
Updated: 02/03/2012 - The Buckingham senior athlete sets the example for her teammates on and off the basketball court.
Posted: 02/01/2012 - Here's a roundup of some local high school football stars and where they've signed to play collegiately.
Posted: 01/27/2012 - Monticello boys hand Fluvanna their first district loss; Western forces a first-place tie with victory over Charlottesville.


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In the Democratic Republic of Congo 6.4 million people are food insecure in the 2013/2014 year. Conflict in eastern DR Congo and Katanga continues to displace thousands of people. The June WFP assessment in conflict-affected North Kivu indicates that 61% of households were food insecure. In Katanga, the GAM rate is 13.8 % in Kabalo territory, according to the July MSF nutrition survey. Meanwhile, maize and cassava flour prices remained above the three year average in markets monitored by WFP and FAO. The price of vegetable oil increased in the DR Congo by 13%.
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The Iowa State University presidential search committee plans to meet Monday to prepare written evaluations of the two finalists for the university's top job.
Most of the meeting will be held in closed session. The evaluations will be forwarded to the Iowa Board of Regents, which will choose Iowa State's next president.
Steven Leath, the vice president of research at the University of North Carolina, and University of Kentucky Provost Kumble Subbaswamy are the finalists for the Iowa State University presidency.
They were interviewed by the search committee last week and
participated in public forums this week.
Current Iowa State President Gregory Geoffrey has announced he
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GENEVA — Diane F. Manes, age 69, of Ashtabula, Ohio, passed away Thursday, May 9, 2013, at Rae-Ann Geneva Skilled Nursing and Rehabilitation Center.
Born Nov. 28, 1943, in Willoughby, Ohio, she was a daughter of Charles L. and Marion G. (Nye) Spoor.
For 15 years, she was a Lab Tech at the Cocoa Cola Plant in Geneva.
She liked cooking and canning and enjoyed her grandchildren.
Survivors include her children, Ed (Jackie) Spoor of Harpersfield Township, Laura (Paul) Leider of Geneva Township and Sandra LaMarsh of Ashtabula; several grand and great-grandchildren; and brothers, Tommy (Ava) Spoor and Allen (Jo Ann) Spoor, both of Geneva and Clarence (Bonnie) Spoor of Saybrook Township.
She was preceded in death by her husband, Edwin "Ed" Manes; son, Rick LaMarsh; her parents; brothers, Charles "Buddy" and Gary Spoor; and sisters, Lucille Kelly and Joanne Potter.
Calling Hours will be 10:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. on Saturday, May 11th, at WALKER FUNERAL HOME, 828 Sherman St., Geneva, Ohio, with interment following in Evergreen Cemetery, Geneva.
Arrangements by WALKER FUNERAL HOME, Geneva. Obituary and condolences at starbeacon.com.


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STILLWATER — The last time Oklahoma State and Kansas State met on the football field it took a goalline stop for the Pokes to come away with a 52-45 win in Stillwater. The win sparked the Cowboys to their first Big 12 championship and a Fiesta Bowl berth, while Kansas State struggled down the stretch before losing to Arkansas in the Cotton Bowl.
Now, Oklahoma State is hoping history can repeat when the Cowboys travel to Manhattan, Kan., for a 7 p.m. kickoff today at Bill Snyder Family Stadium.
"Right now I feel like we kind of have a snowball effect," Oklahoma State senior linebacker Alex Elkins said. "The bigger our snowball gets, the harder we're going to be to stop. They're just another mark on our schedule, and if we can beat them then it's just going to make our snowball that much bigger."
The shoe is on the other foot this time, however. The second-ranked Wildcats come in as the highly ranked team primed for an upset at home, while the Cowboys are looking for that last jolt to push them toward another Big 12 championship.
"It kind of does seem like we might be in their shoes where they were last year," Elkins said. "That's not how we're looking at it. We have to look at it as they are the next opponents on their schedule and we have to get this W in order to create success for our program. To have an opportunity to take away a No. 2 spot like it was taken away from us (against Iowa State), it kind of does make you a little more hungry. We've been hungry all season, but to have an opportunity to take back what was taken from us is an awesome feeling."
The Cowboys will be looking to knock off Kansas State for the fifth time in six tries, but they will have to do so without NFL first-round draft picks Brandon Weeden and Justin Blackmon.
"We know that those guys aren't going to come walking through that locker room door anytime soon," Oklahoma State senior offensive lineman Lane Taylor said. "But we've got plenty of talented guys that can have an impact. We needed Brandon's leadership last year, but I feel comfortable knowing that we have a little more experience on the offensive line this year. They're pretty much the same team we saw last year so it should be another good game."
A good game is a safe bet when it comes to the Oklahoma State-Kansas State matchup. Four of the last five games have been decided by a touchdown or less — including last year's back-and-forth game in Stillwater. But with a shot at a Big 12 title on the line and the Wildcats hungry for revenge in their home stadium, Taylor said he expects the team to come out even more focused.
"People say that revenge is a factor, but it's always going to be a factor when you lose a close game like that," Taylor said. "Last year's game was a thriller that came down to the last play. We expect this one to be almost exactly the same way. We just have to make sure we go out there, do our jobs, stay focused and not get caught up in worrying about their revenge."
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By JED LOCKETT
PRINCETON — Anyone who did not know any better would think that Tyree Hayes was into the very latest in technology. Late last week, he was outside the Princeton Devil Rays' clubhouse gabbing away on his iPhone.
"It's a great device," Hayes said. "It shows that technology's going crazy these days."
Surprisingly, Hayes says he is not a person that keeps up with the latest in technology. He just got caught up in the hysteria over Apple's new gadget.
"I saw this phone and they were making a big deal about it," Hayes said. "So I thought I'd buy it and try it out. I've absolutely enjoyed this phone."
The pitcher for the Princeton Devil Rays uses that phone to maintain contact with those that are close to him in his life. Hayes, who is spending his second year in Princeton, was drafted straight out of Tumball High School by Tampa Bay.
Hayes lived in Houston at the time, so going from a bustling city to a small town was a major adjustment for him.
"It's more businesslike," Hayes said. "There's a lot more people. It's a little bit slower here. It's kind of hard to adjust, but not bad.
"I've been able to make the adjustment. You've just got to take it one day at a time."
Most minor leaguers, especially those on the rookie league level, can only dream of making it to the majors. Hayes has already lived it. His father, Charlie Hayes, played 14 seasons for seven different teams.
"I've been playing baseball my whole life," Hayes said. "My dad, he played professional. So I guess that kind of egged it on. Ever since I was three, I've been playing baseball every day almost."
Hayes has lived a baseball life. His father was the biggest influence in his upbringing. Hayes carries those memories with him wherever he goes.
"I followed baseball a lot," Hayes said. "My dad played, so I was always around it. So I really had no other choice but to follow it.
"Probably it was a little different than most people's lives I would guess. It was tremendous going to the yard every day, watching big leaguers do everything every day that you hope someday you can do. It was a blast."
Unlike a lot of players, Hayes did not have a favorite team growing up.
"I always had a favorite player, though," Hayes said. "I was a position player most of my life and my favorite infielder was Alex Rodriguez. And then growing up being a pitcher, too, my favorite pitcher was Pedro Martinez.
"I guess A-Rod because...he's one of the greatest players to play. And Pedro, I just like how Pedro went about his things on the pitching mound. He's got mental intimidation over the plate."
Hayes has gone from watching the lifestyle of a baseball player to living it.
"Since I play pro ball now, everything that we do from day-to-day is basically the same thing except they are more talented than we are," Hayes said.
The elder Hayes was a career third baseman. The younger Hayes wanted to follow in his father's footsteps by manning the infield as well. But scouts saw another talent in the son of a former Major-Leaguer.
"I always played middle infield," Hayes said. "I didn't start pitching until my sophomore year in high school.
"At first, I didn't think I was as good of a pitcher as most people thought I was. I just said, 'Everybody thinks I'm a better pitcher than a position player. So I might as well take on the pitching job."
Hayes has taken the proverbial bull by the horns. He is spending his time in Princeton learning from a former Major League pitching coach in hopes of someday getting to the majors.
"Being with my pitching coach Marty DeMerritt who was a pitching coach in the big leagues, I've learned a lot about baseball," Hayes said. "Coming into pro ball, I thought I had a pretty good feel about things. But he taught me so much about pitching."
Hayes plans to take that knowledge and his work ethic and use those things to achieve his ultimate goal.
"I think if I keep going about doing everything that I'm doing and working hard every day, coming to the ball park, loving to play baseball, I think I have a pretty good chance of making it," Hayes said.
"I'd give anything to play pro baseball every day. It's not so much about the money as it's just about being able to come to the ball park every day and play with some of the best players in the world."
Hayes wants to make it because he wants to do what he loves most in life.
"I love this game," Hayes said. "Baseball's probably my favorite sport. I'd play baseball over anything."
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August 1, 2014
WASHINGTON, D.C. (WYMT) - A new report shows the number of unemployed young adults who are not in school has skyrocketed in the past 10 years.
Research shows the reasons for this are increased competition from older workers and not preparing for college.
In Kentucky, the number of young adults ages 20 to 24 who are not in school and not working grew by 88 percent in the last 10 years.


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Looking to go to President Barack Obama's Inauguration on Jan. 21?
One of the newest arrivals in the U.S. House of Representatives might be able to help.
Rep. Jared Huffman (D-San Rafael), who was elected last November to replace retiring longtime North Bay Congresswoman Lynn Woolsey in the new 2nd Congressional District, has tickets to the Inaugural Ceremonies in Washington, D.C. on January 21, and is holding an online lottery to give away some tickets to his constituents.
"I'm looking forward to the 57th Presidential Inaugural Swearing-In Ceremonies and I'm excited to be able to invite my constituents to join me for this historic event," Huffman said in a statement.
To be eligible to win, entrants must be a resident of California's 2nd Congressional District and fill out a form on Huffman's website by midnight Pacific time, Sunday, Jan. 13. Huffman will notify recipients by the close of business on Monday, Jan. 14.