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Archie's sons decided that their parents were getting too old and brought them down from Chichester to Bemidji after 1901. Why they went to Bemidji instead of going to International Falls may have had something to do with access. It was not easy to get to International Falls back then. Taking the train was a rather circuitous route to International Falls and it was probably not big enough yet in terms of population. Koochiching County would not break off from Itasca till 1906. So International Falls was lagging behind Bemidji by about 5-10 years in development. It also might have had something to do with E.W. Backus, the lumber baron, establishing himself in International Falls.
Bemidji was growing and logging was big by 1900, according to online histories. Bemidji is in Beltrami County, Minnesota in the northwestern part of the state. It is spread out around two large lakes: Lake Bemidji and Lake Irving. If you are coming from International Falls you enter the city on Hwy 71 and make your way to the center of town. I have visited Bemidji twice and did a little more exploring each time.
The Beltrami County Genweb has a nice listing for sites and places to research. They haven't finished some of their projects like a cemetery listing so check back periodically.
There were some interesting articles on the history of Bemidji around 1900 at this website, click on News Clips:
I visited Bemidji in 2000 and then I visited the Beltrami County Historical Society in 2000 and 2001: http://www.beltramihistory.org/ They are located in the train depot that has been restored. Very nice facility. Always check hours before you visit. They are at 130 Minnesota Ave. SW in Bemidji. I found a very old city directory that featured my family.
Al [Granby], Plaintiff against J.O. McDonald and R. O. McDonald, defendants. Lein of $6.70 against the Lot 6, Block 1 Lake Park addition in Bemidji, Beltrami Co., Minnesota. [ ]
#49 McDonald Archie, Lake Blvd, #1101, M., 70 years, white, born in Canada, lines thru parents birth with no data entered, location, resident 3 yrs., 9 mos.; same for district, occupation: retired.
#50 McDonald, Mary, Lake Blvd, #1101, Female, age 68, white, born in Canada, parents born in Scotland both, resident 3 yrs. 9 mos, same for district, retired.
#51 McDonald, Nellie, Lake Blvd, #1101, Female, age 30, white, born in Canada, both parents born in Canada, resident 3 yrs 9 mos., same for district, occupation: housekeeper.
By 1905, John (Jack), Alexander (Alex) and R.S. McDonald are living in Koochiching Twp., Itasca County, Minnesota which International Falls is a part. It would not be long before Archie, Mary and Nellie followed them. See the post dated March 27, 2010 "McDonald's Settle in International Falls," for a comparison of the 1905 Minnesota State Census for the various members of this family.
So for about 3 years and 9 months Archie and Mary McDonell were taking up residence in Bemidji and their daughter Nellie was with them?
During that time Archie and Mary became grandparents with the birth of their granddaughter Leola Vivian on May 12, 1902 in Grand Rapids, Itasca County, Minnesota. She was a child of R.S. and Grace (Barclay) McDonald. See the post dated June 5, 2010 "Darling Vivian," for more information about this birth.
They receive great news again on 3 May 1904 when Ronald Gordon McDonald another child of R.S. and Grace (Barclay) McDonald was born. See the posted dated July 9, 2010 "Brother Gordy."
The family group portrait which I feature in the post dated March 20, 2010 "Archibald and Mary McDonell's Children," was taken in Bemidji about 1905. It features Nellie, Mary, Jack, Archie, R.S. and Alexander but not Angus the oldest son.
The move from Canada to the United States was completed by around 1901-1902. Archie and Mary would live the rest of their lives in Minnesota. John (Jack), Nellie (Ellen) and Alexander (Alex) would remain in the United States. R.S. ventured back to Canada for a short time from about 1915 to 1919 but eventually end up in the United States till his death. The move from Bemidji to International Falls took place around 1905 to 1906. Having lived in Chichester, Pontiac Co., Quebec they all had knowledge of the logging industry and so they followed the lumber which would bring prosperity and other types of employment.
In summary so far:
In past posts the life of R.S. (Ronald Sandfield) and Grace (Barclay) McDonald has been featured. R.S. being a son of Archie and Mary McDonell. I talked about their marriage in 1898, their children and their lives in International Falls. R.S. was employed with the International Lumber Co. and also was a commissioner in the area. The death of Grace and the death of his parents Archie and Mary were also featured. I stopped with R.S.'s decision to leave for Grand Prairie, Alberta in 1915. At that time I stepped back in time and described the life of his parents, Archie and Mary, in Chichester, Pontiac County, Quebec. Sharing what I knew of the family and its origins. Then I showed how they migrated to the United States by first going to Bemidji and then to International Falls. Archie and Mary had siblings and family in the Pontiac County, Quebec and I described what I knew of their families based on Aunt Nellie and Aunt Miriam's charts.
My goal now is to talk about the other children of Archibald and Mary McDonell in more detail. I have mentioned Angus McDonald, the oldest son, and that he left the family after 1881 and may have returned around 1898 only to leave again. What happened to him? John or rather Jack and his wife Sarah Burns whom he married just before leaving Canada in 1901. What happened to them? Jack was a very interesting man. Nellie, she devoted her life to raising R.S.'s children after the death of Grace in 1911. So she followed him wherever he went. Alexander he remained in International Falls. From there I will resume the story of R.S. McDonald from 1915 to his death in 1947. R.S. and Grace had eight children of which six survived to live out their lives to very advanced ages in some cases, all as United States citizens.
The spelling of McDonell changed to McDonald after the move to Minnesota.
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January 30, 2013
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Corbett came into office with a mess created by democrats and ha had to make very tough decisions because of it. decisions that do not set well with liberals who see their benefits threatened.
So, next time another democrat will be elected, and the situation will just go from bad to worse.
It's a shame that people cannot realize that "biting the bullet" is a necessity and sooner or later everyone will be forced to do so.
Using the gas exploration/drilling is just a liberal excuse for doing nothing and letting things get worse.
For the love of God, when will people wise up and learn that taxpayer pockets are not bottomless?
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The people of this state are not stupid governor Corbett sold out to the gas companys and is now their puppet.I will never forgive him for that.I think he is very corrupted with greed and should be out of office and a job by next election.
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No kidding, with what he is allowing to be done on our lands (yes our State lands) by the gas industry is terrible, and then you wonder why his numbers are going down.
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Softball Signs Four For 2015 Freshman Class
MUNCIE, Ind. - - Ball State softball first-year head coach Tyra Perry has signed her first four student-athletes to National Letters of Intent during the early signing period.
Set to join the Cardinals in the fall of 2014 are Julia Bailey (Lafayette, La./Teurlings Catholic), Leigh McAnally (Trussville, Ala./Hewitt-Trussville), Elise Sandberg (Mariette, Ga./Lassiter) and Carolyn Wilmes (Evansville, Ind./Mater Dei).
A projected middle infielder for the Cardinals, Bailey enters her senior season at Teurlings Catholic High School after earning second team all-district accolades as a utility player her junior year. A .384 batter last season, Bailey helped guide the Lady Rebels to a 23-7 overall record, a district title and state runner-up finish. She also tallied 10 multiple base hits on the year with five doubles, four triples and a home run.
"I am very excited Julia has chosen to continue her career at Ball State," Perry said. "She is a talented utility player with the ability to contribute as a middle infielder and catcher. She competes for a strong high school program and with the Louisiana Voodoo travel team. Julia is from my home state of Louisiana, and I know she will do great things for the Cardinals."
As a sophomore, Bailey earned first team all-district honors at shortstop after helping Teurlings Catholic capture the Louisiana High School Athletics Association Class 4A State Championship. The 2012 TCH squad finished the year with a 25-5 overall record and also posted a runner-up finish in the district tournament. Her freshman campaign, Bailey helped the Lady Rebels tally a 26-4 overall record, earn a district title and finish runner-up in the state tournament.
"I am ecstatic to be able to live out my dream of playing collegiate softball at Ball State University," Bailey said. "I am very thankful and look forward to this experience I have been granted."
A projected catcher for the Cardinals, McAnally enters her senior season at Hewitt-Trussville High School after being named the All-Metro Northeast Catcher of the Year for the fourth consecutive season as a junior. McAnally posted a .426 batting average and 43 RBI her junior season to help guide the Huskies to their fifth consecutive Area Championship. She was also nominated for the Alabama North/South Junior All-Star Team.
"Leigh is a great fit for our for our program and will bring much needed depth to our catching position," Perry said. "She plays the game like a veteran, knows how to talk to pitchers and has a solid presence behind the plate."
As a sophomore, McAnally posted a .407 batting average with a team-best 56 RBI. She also led the Huskies with 19 walks. During her freshman campaign, McAnally produced a .403 batting average with 49 RBI. McAnally was called up to the varsity team for the playoffs as a seventh grader, going 5-for-15 from the plate with three walks. She continued to play in the varsity squad in eighth grade, batting .398 with 32 RBI and a team-best 19 walks. In 112 at bats as an eighth grader, McAnally struck out just two times.
In addition to softball, McAnally is a four-year starter for the Hewitt-Trussville girls basketball team. She currently holds the state record for rebounds in a game, at 22, and was named to the All-Area Tournament Team.
"The opportunity that has been given to me is very exciting and uplifting," McAnally said. "I cannot wait embark on the next chapter of my life at Ball State University. I know the next four years will be challenging. However, I look forward to anything that might come my way."
A projected outfielder for the Cardinals, Sandberg finished her senior season at Lassiter High School this fall with a .404 batting average, 32 RBI, seven doubles, four triples and three home runs. For her efforts, Sandberg was named to the all-region first team and Co-Offensive Player of the Year. She helped guide the Trojans to a 32-8 record, a regional championship and a third-place finish at the Georgia High School Association Class AAAAAA State Softball Tournament as a senior.
"Elise is the true definition of a student-athlete," Perry said. "She has done great things in the classroom and on the softball field. Elise has the ability to step in next season and make an immediate impact. She will provide speed and a lefty presence in the line-up."
A four-year scholar athlete and member of the National Honor Society, Sandberg posted a .358 batting average and 25 RBI her junior season, while helping guide Lassiter to a 31-7 overall record and a fifth-place finish at the state tournament. As a sophomore, Sandberg was named first team all-region, honorable mention all-state and honorable mention all-county after posting a .382 batting average with 14 RBI. She helped guide Lassiter to a 24-10 record and a regional championship her sophomore season, and a 25-14 record and four-place finish at the state tournament her freshman year. Sandberg finished her career as a member of the winningest senior class in Lassiter softball history.
Sandberg also played travel softball for the EC Bullets and the Beverly Bandits, helping her squads place fifth at the 2013 PGF Nationals and to top 20 finishes at ASA in 2011 and 2012. She was also a member of the Lassiter track & field program.
"I could not be more excited to be a Ball State Cardinal," Sandberg said. "I feel BSU is a great academic fit for me and offers an environment which will allow me to succeed both academically and athletically. The team and coaching staff have all been so welcoming, and I would like to thank Coach Perry for giving me this amazing opportunity. I have always wanted to be a part of a successful program, and I cannot wait to work hard to achieve greater success in the future. I could not be happier with my decision."
A projected pitcher for the Cardinals, Wilmes enters her senior season at Evansville Mater Dei High School after earning first team all-state honoree the past two seasons. During her junior campaign, Wilmes posted a 26-2 record in the circle to help guide the Wildcats to a 29-3 overall record, as well as regional and sectional titles. The All-Metro Player of the Year, Wilmes also posted a 0.48 earned run average and 365 strikeouts her junior season.
"Carolyn has the tools to become one of the top pitchers in the MAC," Perry said. "She has a combination of speed and control that is any coach's dream. We are proud to welcome Carolyn into the program."
Wilmes was also named the Metro Player of the Year as a sophomore after posting an 18-6 record in the circle, to go along with a 1.17 ERA and 240 strikeouts. An ESPN Radio 106.7 FM Player of the Week selection, Wilmes led Mater Dei to a 20-7 record her sophomore campaign. Wilmes has also success in the batter's box, hitting .312 with 19 RBI as a junior and .356 with 30 RBI as a sophomore."I am very excited to be part of the Ball State family," Wilmes said. "I cannot wait to see what goals we can achieve and how the softball program is going to grow. Softball has always been a passion of mine, and I am glad I get to continue my passion by playing for Ball State."


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AOL Fanhouse's Chris Tomasson has published a report saying that Shaquille O'Neal's goal is to play two more seasons, and the team he is targeting is your San Antonio Spurs.
He'd really like to go to San Antonio and team with Timmy (Duncan), and try to win one more title," said the source about O'Neal, who starred in high school in San Antonio.
Spurs general manager R.C. Buford declined comment.
The source said O'Neal, 38, plans to play two more seasons and then retire. He wants there to be a farewell tour in 2011-12, which he expects would be his 20th and final NBA season.
"He wants to sign a two-year deal," the source said about O'Neal, who made $21 million last season with Cleveland. "And then the second year will be a farewell tour. He can tell a team that you would sell out all 41 games (that season)."
The story states that there is interest on both sides, from Shaq's camp and the Spurs front office. But the kicker here is that Shaq is reportedly willing to play for San Antonio for the midlevel exception.
But wait, wasn't the midlevel exception supposed to go to Tiago Splitter?
Well, yes. The latest on the Splitter situation is that the Spurs have yet to offer the Brazilian a contract. But with the cap figure finalized just last night, and today being the first day that teams can officially sign players to contracts, there's little rush. The Spurs have exclusive rights to Splitter, they don't have to worry about another team swooping in and offering him more money. The only deadline they have is a reported July 15 deadline for Splitter to complete a buyout from his Spanish team.
San Antonio's interest in Shaq is somewhat baffling. Outside of Phil Jackson and Mark Cuban, there has been no greater villain for San Antonio Spurs fans than Shaquille O'Neal.
I'm skeptical that RC Buford and co. have plans to add Shaq to the frontcourt rotation. For a team whose pick-and-roll defense led to its demise this past season, adding O'Neal doesn't help. At all.
One possibility in this is Tiago Splitter's camp is looking for the full midlevel exception, while the Spurs front office is only willing to part with a portion of that. Showing interest in signing Shaq to the midlevel may be San Antonio's way of putting pressure on Splitter and his agent to lower their expectations.
The next few days will tell if San Antonio's interest in Shaq is genuine, or just jostling for position in negotiations with Splitter. But I think one thing's for certain, Spurs fans would rather have a 25-year-old Spanish league MVP in Splitter than a 38-year-old Shaq looking for one last ring and a "farewell tour."


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High Point, NC -- Tens of thousands of people will make way to the High Point Furniture Market Saturday, and they may feel like they're walking through a rain forest at times, because of the surplus of green labels on display.
The Business Journal reports, the variety of eco-claims is rivaled only by the variety of certifications, labels and organizations that exist to document them.
Susan Inglis, Executive Director of the Chapel Hill based Sustainable Furnishings Council, a membership organization that promotes environmentally practices told The Business Journal, "It's a problem particularly when there's more than one certificate about the same thing. They they can't tell if it's this one or that one that they'll respond to, and they'll say 'I'll just go home and research it,' and not buy today."
The website EcoLabelIndex.com counts 27 different environmental labels commonly used by furniture makers around the world, ranging from CertiPUR's voluntary indoor air emissions standards to the Brazilian SustentaX Seal, which is meant to signal compliance with social environmental and marketing standards.
The High Point based American Home Furnishings Alliance trade group is trying to provide a comprehensive environmental certification through its new Eco3Home program, formally launched a year ago.
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A former co-worker and then employee of Hollidaysburg engineer Joe Keller has referred to him as having a "quiet and unassuming" way.
"He's unique ... one of a kind," said Sandy Ivory of Ashville, who first knew Keller when he was working for another Hollidaysburg-area engineering firm, P. Joseph Lehman Inc. She was then a reporter covering a major wastewater treatment project in Cambria County, and he was an inspector and project manager.
Ivory later joined Lehman's marketing department, but when Keller, a civil engineer, decided to open his own company 22 years ago in downtown Hollidaysburg, Ivory went to work for him.
What she learned over the years is that Keller's mission was not only to help design and make good bridges, highways, buildings and business parks, but, she said, "His biggest thing was he needed to give back to the community, not only here, but everywhere we worked."
This meant that Keller would become involved in other communities where his company had projects, sponsoring Little League teams and always giving to the firemen's association of that town.
And, she said, Keller not only contributed to various events and projects, he was a guy who went out and worked in the community as a volunteer. She remembered how he cooked at the St. Patrick Catholic Church fish fries in Newry, where his wife, Joan, was a teacher and administrator of the elementary school.
She said one of her jobs was to subscribe to the newspapers of the towns where Keller Engineers was involved, find out what was important to that community and then find ways to lend support to the community.
"I don't think anybody realizes this," Ivory said this past week.
While most of Keller's community activities might be under the radar so to speak, he is receiving attention this week for his work to build a new community library in Hollidaysburg, a project that has taken years to gel.
That hard work will come to fruition at 2 p.m. Thursday when a groundbreaking ceremony is scheduled for the site of the new 11,200-square-foot library adjacent to the Hollidaysburg Area Senior High School.
Keller and his wife have not only contributed to the library, but he has served as the president of the library's board of trustees during the lengthy search for a site and the resolution of the tedious problems that come with any building project.
Janet Eldred, the director of the library now at Clark and Allegheny streets, said that Keller "has been wonderful in being there to answer questions."
She said his knowledge about construction and the rules and regulations that come with such a large effort have been invaluable.
Eldred said, "I've always been confident we'd get there."
But the path has been a long one. She said she was hired nine years ago with the mission of constructing a new library, and Keller has been the president of the board for most of those years.
She described Keller as "kind, very personable, patient," and she said, "I've had unending questions for him."
A former Hollidaysburg library worker, Lucy Wolf, now law librarian for the Blair County Courthouse, is on the board of trustees, and she called Keller a "very good president of the board.
"He is respected in the community. ... He is very knowledgeable of construction and zoning," said Wolf.
Many people have contributed to the effort, but she said Keller's "all-around knowledge has been very beneficial to the project."
Then she added, "He's a nice guy."
Keller believes that the Hollidaysburg library is a "good community asset."
The appreciation of a library runs in the family. His wife is a reading specialist, and his son, Keller said, "was always a big reader."
He said a new building was needed because the current 7,000-square-foot building was not large enough.
The new structure will have room for more computers. That is valuable in this economy to help people with job searches, he said.
There will be more room for the kids, and the new library will have a community room that can be rented by the public for events.
He said finding a site was a challenge. The board looked at the now-vacant Highland Hall, a huge and very historic building, but the rooms were too small.
Keller said the board looked at 10 to 15 sites, including a former downtown furniture store, a site near the Blair County genealogy building on the east side of the borough and at Legion Park.
He complimented the staff at the library, noting, "I appreciate what they do."
As the project began to take form, it had to be redesigned, Keller said. A new two-story structure became too expensive. The new library will all be on one floor.
The beginning
Keller grew up in Altoona at Grant Avenue and 13th Street where his parents, George and Gertrude, still live.
He maintains his roots, still attending nearby St. Mary's Catholic Church.
He's a graduate of Bishop Guilfoyle High School and went to Penn State Altoona for two years, then completed his engineering degree on Penn State's main campus.
Keller was asked why he became an engineer, and in his matter-of-fact way, he said, "I was always decent in math. My mom said, 'How about engineering?'"
He said, with a shrug, "no great epiphany" led to his decision.
But he clearly loves his work, and he said with pride that his son is following in his footsteps, studying civil engineering at George Mason University.
For 16 years he worked at the Lehman company before going on his own. He credited Joe Lehman with "giving me the opportunity to learn a lot of things."
Ivory pointed out that when Keller decided to open his own company, there were many other large and well-established companies in the area, but she said from the beginning Keller made it part of his business to be involved in the community and do volunteer work.
Keller explained his mission to be part of the communities where he works as not unique but only following examples he admired from other community-active firms.
He said community involvement is part of companies such as Ward Trucking, the Sheetz Corp. and The Hite Co.
"A lot of companies put a lot back into the community. Part of our mission and vision is we get work from the community. ... I think it [giving back] is the thing to do. It's win-win for everybody," Keller said.
What Keller has done is build a business that has become a staple in downtown Hollidaysburg.
He first rented a room from developer P. Jules Patt at 420 Allegheny St., across from the courthouse. Then it was two rooms, then three and finally in the mid-1990s, he bought the building.
Keller, who has more than 50 employees, does engineering work on many municipal projects within a 60 to 80 mile radius, and, he said, one of his largest clients is PennDOT.
His business has been expanding throughout Pennsylvania and into surrounding states, and he said, he has even been involved in the design of some border-crossing buildings in Texas.
As Keller's business grows so does his community work. He has been involved with the American Cancer Society, the Boy Scouts, the Industrial Advisory Board at Penn State Altoona - his company also contributing to the Campus Rail Transportation Engineering Program - the ABCD Corp. and Improved Dwellings for Altoona, and he served with the Easter Seals Society.
Jamie Baser, Hollidaysburg Main Street manager, said Keller does a lot of work for her organization and its events.
"He's at every meeting. ... He's been so involved, and sometimes he brings his son," she said.
He helps put lights on the Christmas tree displayed in the borough, and his company provided a stage for downtown concerts.
She said Keller Engineers is a "great business to have in the downtown."
Keller has worked with the Hollidaysburg Community Partnership since 1993, and Baser said he's a good person to have in the organization because he knows what has been tried and what works when it comes to marketing the borough. She said Main Street managers have changed over the years, but his leadership has provided needed stability.
"It's amazing to me," said Baser, "when I go out to other events in the community, he's there."
The Keller firm has recently been honored as one of the best places to work in the state and in May received a Governor's Impact Award for the Southern Alleghenies Region.


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Welcome all to playoff time! Luckily for us here in D3land, we have an extra round of games mid week. Here is a plain and simple pick'em for these first round games. We have some really great match ups for the first round as most teams have faced similar opponents and in two cases each other during the regular season. It's going to get real tricky to pick these games as the playoffs go on. In my mind there are 6-7 teams that could easily take the crown this season! But first they'll have to make it to Foxboro where I will take the trophy from the winning team and parade around the parking lots like I just won myself!
Springfield (11-6) vs Mount Ida (13-6)
Both teams are lead by strong offensive units. They both beat Babson, however Mount Ida only won 8-7 where Springfield topped them 22-6. And they both lost to Amherst but Springfields was just a wee bit closer. Mount Ida has an offense that can put up huge numbers in a run and gun game. If Springfield isn't sharp this one could be the shocker of the D3 playoffs.
Prediction: Mount Ida - 13-12 OT
St. Lawrence (12-3) vs Nazareth (11-6)
Earlier this season, St. Lawrence topped Naz 15-10. Both teams beat Oswego handidly yet lost by large margins to Cortland. Naz seems to have a better offense from the numbers and the tilt moves to St. Lawrence on the defensive side. It should be a battle to see who moves on to the next round. The game against each other was pretty early on and both teams have gotten better along the way. It should come down to coaching.
Prediction: St. Lawrence - 12-10
US Merchant Marine 11-5 vs Eastern Conn. St. (14-3)
No common opponents played in 2009. UMM has played 3 playoff teams going 1-2 (beat FDU-Florham 7-6 and lost to Wesleyan and W&L). ECS has faced 3 playoff teams also going 1-2 (Win over Mt Ida 14-7 and losses to Salisbury and Montclair St). ECS has just a tad more fire power and will cruise to the win.
Prediction: Eastern Conn. St. - 13-8
Cabrini (14-3) vs Montclair St. (13-4)
Both teams dominated in weak conferences but made up for it with tough out of conference schedules. No opponents in common. Monclair St. has faced two playoff teams with losses to both Cortland and Wesleyan. Cabrini has faced 4 playoff teams going 2-2 (Wins over Haverford and FDU-Florham and losses to Gettysburg and Roanoke). Look for Cabrini's strong offense to run away with this one.
Prediction: Cabrini - 16-8
Denision (12-2) vs OWU (10-4)
Due to travel, OWU and Denison get to meet for a 2nd time this season after a Denison TKO in the 1st meeting. Common opponents; OWU lost to Lynchburg who Denison crushed, both defeated Oberlin, Adrian, Colorado College, Kenyon, Wooster, Wittenburg and Mount St Joseph. Denison seems to be the better squad this season out in Ohio.
Preditcion: Denison 15-10
W&L (15-3) vs FDU-Florham (13-4)
The Generals are coming out of the South's toughest division in 2009. Common opponents faced; US Merchant Marines beat FDU and lost to W&L, both beat Desales. FDU is 0-3 against playoff teams (Cabrini, US Merchant Marines and Haverford). W&L has played 4 playoff team games and are 2-2 with wins over US Merchant Marines and Roanoke in the ODAC finals and losses to Roanoke and Middlebury. This will be a warm-up for W&L for the following weekend where they will see Gettysburg.
Prediction: W&L 15-6
Here's what the 2nd RD games would look like based on my 1st Rd picks. I will update these after the first round of games if any of my picks are in correct.
*Cortland St. (15-2) vs Mount Ida (13-6)
Tufts (13-4) vs WNE. (16-2)
*Middlebury (13-2) vs St. Lawrence (12-3)
*Wesleyan (CT) (14-3) vs Eastern Conn. St. (14-3)
*Stevenson (15-1) vs Cabrini (14-3)
*Haverford (13-3) vs Salisbury (15-3)
*Roanoke (17-1) vs Denison (12-2)
*Gettysburg (13-3) vs W&L (15-3)


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When Premier Wine & Spirits left its longtime Kenmore location on Delaware Avenue for new digs on Maple Road in Amherst last year, merchants and residents worried what effect the landmark retailer's departure might have on the neighborhood.
But competing liquor store owners saw opportunity.
Husband-and-wife team Dan Locche and Brenda Alesii, former Kenmore residents themselves, quietly opened Straight Up Wines & Liquors at 2534 Elmwood Ave. in December, despite having no real professional background in the business. Premier's neighborhood customers would be looking for a place to shop nearby, and the pair figured there would be enough of them to sustain a new liquor store.
"We thought, 'What the heck, we'll take a shot,' and it has worked out wonderfully," Locche said.
They hadn't expected to see a profit for up to two years, but the store is already turning a profit, just three months after its soft opening.
The store's 3,200 square feet is just a fraction of the cavernous former Premier location, but it fills the needs of local consumers.
"We've seen continuous growth since December," Locche said. "Even our slowest times are steady."
Not only has Straight Up capitalized on the customers Premier left behind, it has gotten more mileage with its advertising. The store's tag line is, "There's still a great liquor store in Kenmore."
Shortly after Premier announced its move, Mark Butler of Butler's Sheridan Plaza Liquors on Sheridan Drive seized the opportunity to expand. He spent $250,000 and doubled the size of his store.
Even Wayne Riggs, owner of Great Arrow Wine and Liquor on Delaware Avenue in North Buffalo, said he has absorbed some former Premier customers and has seen an increase in business.
"The biggest thing I've heard is, 'I'm not driving all the way to the Boulevard Mall,' " Riggs said.
But local stores' gains are not necessarily Premier's losses.
"We've had double-digit growth," said Burt Notarius, Premier's owner.
Customer database records show that, while about 14,000 shoppers did not follow Premier to its new location, about 40,000 new ones have come from elsewhere, according to Notarius. The new location serves three times as many customers as the store in Kenmore, he said.
"Western New York is a regional market and the people who live here take advantage of the whole region," he said. "Not many people are shopping and doing things in just one area. That's the way retail is going."
While he said he understands why people might want to shop only in their immediate neighborhood, there "just weren't enough" of them to justify keeping Premier in a location the company had outgrown.
It made more sense for the store to be near retail hot spots that draw large amounts of shoppers. Premier Center is directly across from Boulevard Mall, very close to Boulevard Consumer Square, and also draws students who attend the University at Buffalo down the street.
Its proximity to popular retail districts has brought an influx of Canadian customers as well. Canadians can bring up to 40 ounces of wine or spirits back over the border tax free, and often buy bottles to enjoy in their hotel rooms during overnight shopping trips to the area.
It may not have been a zero sum game for local liquor store owners. But Bob Bolt, president of the Kenmore Merchants Association, says that doesn't mean Kenmore is a bottomless opportunity for wine and spirit stores.
"People won't drive from Eggertsville and Amherst and North Tonawanda like they did for Premier, but to fill the needs of Kenmore, I think a couple of places will do OK."
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WPC - winning phone call. Term used by people who enter competitions and the phone call they receive from promoters letting them know they've won!
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An Acronym describing the white society in today's world. More specifically, White People Crazy
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The acronym for White People Crazy. A term used to give a reason why white people do stupid shit.
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Dude 2: Yeah those motherfuckers are WPC.
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Acronym for "Up The Ass"
Dude 1: How far did you get with my sister last night?
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UTAS stands for Up The Ass Syndrome. It's when someone is constantly following you around, always up under you, not letting you breathe, not giving you space.
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Form of YITAS meaning U Took A Shit. Also see ITASOY. You may also say UFTAS, meaning U Fucking Took a Shit.
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The 5 Least Necessary Cover Songs of All Time
Have you ever heard Chris Cornell's cover of Michael Jackson's "Billie Jean"? How about Marilyn Manson's version of the Eurythmics' "Sweet Dreams"? No? What about Naked Eyes doing Dionne Warwick's "Always Something There to Remind Me"? Well, those are some of my favorite covers of all time, great examples of how artists reinterpreted an old song, simultaneously honoring the original while creating something new. Indeed, Cracked's Robert Brockway, author of RX, did a whole column about covers that surpassed the original. (Thanks, Robert, for introducing me to Shatner's "Common People," and please eat hot death for what you said about Nirvana improving upon Bowie's "The Man Who Sold the World").
I'm sorry, Brock. As the only two Cracked columnists who can grow a beard, we shouldn't fight.
But there are also covers that are mad celebrations of mediocrity -- covers that add absolutely nothing new and are successes merely for the artists' ability to ape everything that was good about the originals. Here are five covers, competently played, but with shockingly little imagination. Not awful, painful covers like Ellie Goulding doing Elton John's "Your Song," but covers so devoid of imagination, you wonder why they even bothered.
#5. "Smokin' in the Boys Room": Motley Crue's Cover of Brownsville Station's Song
The year was 1973. The band was Michigan's Brownsville Station. The song was "Smokin' in the Boys Room." That's right, Brownsville Station. Not Foghat or Grand Funk Railroad. Brownsville Station. And they wrote an anthem for teenage derelicts everywhere. Finally, a song that spoke to all the high school delinquents who said, "Screw you, old man. You're not stopping me from my constitutional right to get lung cancer near fecal matter!"
"Smokin' in the Boys Room" reached No. 3 on Billboard:
Flash forward 12 years. Every teenager who loved that song is now pushing 30. Some of them are dead, having been beaten to death outside of pool halls after gambling incidents. Others died in factory mishaps during spot-welding accidents. And some moved on with their lives and said things like "Wow, I used to like that song." The point being, in 1985, there was a whole new group of classic rock teenagers who were all about sticking it to their crusty old principal. That's where Motley Crue came in. Finally, a song that was perfectly suited to Vince Neil's ability to not being able to write lyrics or sing many notes! It was all right there. Motley Crue released their version (and by "version" I mean pretty much the exact same thing played in the exact same way) and got a top 40 hit out of it.
#4. "American Woman": Lenny Kravitz's Cover of the Guess Who's Song
Things were tough for the Guess Who. They were from Canada, so right there, they were starting with one foot in the hole. Then they had just an awful name, considering that one of the biggest bands in rock history was already called the Who. Notwithstanding these setbacks, they established a decent chart presence in the early '70s with "These Eyes," "No Sugar Tonight" and "American Woman." Although the latter song is sorta lacking a bridge or chorus or more than five lyrics, it's still a rock classic.
In 2000, Lenny Kravitz had a brilliant idea. After over 10 years of writing songs that sounded like diluted ripoffs of the Beatles or Jimi Hendrix, Lenny finally realized that he could just cover other people's material. Even better, he could do it in such an unimaginative and uninspired fashion that no one would be able to accuse him of having any creativity whatsoever. Re-imagining? That's for losers. Why not employ all the creativity of a New Jersey wedding band and secure yourself a hit?
#3. "I'll Feel a Whole Lot Better": Tom Petty's Cover of the Byrds' Song
Hey, do you know the Byrds? "Before my time, old man," you say. "Me too," I reply, considering that I'm not 60. Then I continue, because I hate you and I'm not done shaming you, "I didn't know there was a statute of limitations on knowledge. When are they gonna finally start burning all the books released more than 20 years ago?" Ooh, feel that, Internet? Yes, it's called shame. I know that concept is also before your time, but it has a purpose.
In any event, the Byrds were an important '60s rock band, and if you've ever seen a movie about the '60s, you've no doubt heard their songs in the soundtrack. Songs like "Eight Miles High," "Mr. Tambourine Man," "So You Want to Be a Rock 'n' Roll Star" and "My Back Pages" are all synonymous with montages of Lennon sunglasses, peace signs and soldiers going off to 'Nam. The Byrds were no strangers to covers. Some of their biggest hits (like two of the songs above) were covers of Bob Dylan songs, but they brought out a melodic sophistication only hinted at in the originals. One of their bigger hits of original material, however, was 1965's "I'll Feel a Whole Lot Better." Take a listen, won't you?
Now jump ahead 20 years. Rock and roll superstar and Byrds fan Tom Petty decides to cover a Byrds song for his wildly successful Full Moon Fever album. "Before my time, old man." Shut your whore mouth, Internet. I swear, I'm going to murder you. I don't care if it's before your time. You know this album, and if you don't, you should. It's one of the best-selling albums ever, it was produced and co-written by Jeff Lynne and there is no way you've made it through malls or Supercuts or life without hearing "Free Fallin'." Seriously. Shut up.
In any event, I'd have to imagine that covering a song by a band known for masterful covers would be daunting. How to reinvent the song? Well, if you're Tom Petty, the solution is to redo the song in what might be the most faithful cover ever recorded. It's super hard to tell them apart. I shouldn't be too hard on Tom, considering that I'm guessing he did this to earn some more publishing royalties for one of his biggest influences, and because he's fucking Tom Petty, but it has to be on this list because I can't think of another cover that is harder to distinguish from the original.


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Two couples, who have a son in common, met one evening to discuss the son.
You see, the biological parents are divorced and married. But they have a civil relationship when it comes to raising their son.
However, this particular evening was far from civil, according to a police report.
Police were called to the biological moms house.
Her ex-husband arrived with his significant other, earlier that evening. They sat around the coffee table and the discussion of their sons health insurance came up.
For some reason the biological father became agitated during the discussion and began to argue with the biological moms new husband.
The step-father slammed his hands on the coffee table in frustration. The biological dad then lunged at the step father, according to the report.
He began punching him in the face and threw him to the floor and was on top of him.
The biological fathers significant other and he biological mom were able to pull the man off the step dad and kick him out of the house.
They called police right away.
A few minutes later the significant other called the biological mother for help. She said the biological dad had been so angry he dropped her off at a nearby gas station and left her there.
She somehow got a ride back to the residence and sat with the couple until police arrived.
The significant other did not want to get in the middle of it, but she already was. She admitted to what happened that evening and said the biological father had been irritated all day and probably should not have come over that night.
Police made numerous attempts to contact him, but he would not answer. They went to his residence etc. To no avail.
The significant other was told to have the man contact police as soon as she saw him.
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"I can't believe you didn't recognize me," she said. "Give me another hug."
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Thomas Pinckney Lowndes had cracked the Union military's code, which allowed him to decipher the feverish messaging between U.S. warships and the Yankee soldiers on Morris Island.
July 10, 1863
Union forces on Folly Island cross the inlet and invade Morris Island. In a few hours, the U.S. Army has secured the southern two-thirds of the island.
July 11, 1863
More than 200 troops from the 7th Connecticut attempt to take Battery Wagner, at Morris Island's northern tip. They are unsuccessful.
July 18, 1863
Union gunboats bombard Battery Wagner for 10 hours before a dusk land assault by more than 5,000 U.S. soldiers. The 1,600 men inside the Confederate fort hold them off.
Aug. 22, 1863
Union troops stationed on Morris Island, south of Battery Wagner, take aim at Charleston with the Swamp Angel — a 16,000-pound cannon that fired 200-pound shells. The siege begins, and will last more than 500 days.
Sept. 4, 1863
Land batteries and U.S. warships begin a new bombardment of Battery Wagner that will last for two days.
Sept. 6-7, 1863
Low on provisions and drinking water, Confederate troops abandon Battery Wagner. Union forces move into the fort within days.Visit our Civil War 150 section for more stories and photos.
The news was not good.
Upcoming events
Thursday: The National Park Service is organizing re-enactors and living history events for 3½ days at Fort Moultrie on Sullivan's Island. There will be history talks at 10 a.m., noon, 1 p.m. and 2 p.m. on that day, as well as an outdoor concert of Civil War music from 6:30-7:30 p.m.
From 7:45-8:15 p.m., the hour that the 1863 Assault on Battery Wagner began, Lt. Gov. Glenn McConnell will speak, and re-enactors will represent the 54th Massachusetts, the 48th New York and the 7th South Carolina battalions.
In the field in front of Fort Moultrie, 294 luminaries will be lit — one for every Union and Confederate soldier who died in the July 18 battle on Morris Island.
Friday: The city of Charleston will present the movie, "Glory," whose final scenes depict the July 1863 battle on Morris Island, from 7-9 p.m. at Marion Square.
Saturday: The Fort Sumter-Fort Moultrie Historical Trust will present a forum, Toward "A New Birth of Freedom": Sesquicentennial Reflections on Charleston, the 54th Massachusetts Regiment, and the Battle for Morris Island.
The forum runs from 9 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. at the Dock Street Theatre and is free and open to the public. Speakers include these historians and authors: Joseph T. Glatthaar, Thavolia Glymph, Robert N. Rosen and Stephen R. Wise. College of Charleston history professor Bernard Powers will lead a discussion with the audience.
July 21: The National Park Service's living history programs will run from 10 a.m. to noon.
At 7 p.m., the city of Charleston will dedicate a monument to the 54th Massachusetts Regiment at White Point Garden on the Battery. The ceremony will include Civil War music, Union and Confederate re-enactors, and remarks by Charleston Mayor Joe Riley.
Also, The Charleston Museum is continuing its Civil War Sesquicentennial observation with its exhibit, "Our Duty was Quite Arduous": The Union Encampment on Little Folly Island, 1863-1865. It features items the museum's archaeologists recovered from the beach there after erosion caused by Hurricane Hugo in 1989.
"An assault is ordered at dusk," Lowndes reported to the Confederate brass, less than three hours before dark.
It was July 18, 1863, and the Union forces had been bombarding Battery Wagner for nearly 10 hours.
Before they finished, 9,000 rounds of ammunition would hit the earthen fort on the northern end of Morris Island.
Now it appeared that the 1,600 shell-shocked Southerners at Wagner would be forced to repel a full-frontal assault before the night's end.
Lowndes' intelligence would allow the Confederates to hold off nearly 6,000 Union troops, including the black soldiers of the famed 54th Massachusetts.
But the South's victory that night was actually the beginning of a long end-game for Charleston.
After the Battle of Battery Wagner, which happened 150 years ago this Thursday, nothing would ever be the same again.
"The siege of Charleston begins with the assault on Battery Wagner," said National Park Service Historian Rick Hatcher. "It is overlooked or forgotten by the general public because it happened soon after Gettysburg and Vicksburg. But it's an important component of the overall Civil War era."
The battle marked the escalation of warfare in the city where the conflict began.
It would take more than a year to play out, but the Battle of Morris Island was the beginning of the end for Charleston.
'Great wickedness'
The Union desperately wanted to take Charleston.
The South Carolina port was far from most of the action, and not giving the North too much trouble by the mid-point in the war, but it held unparalleled significance.
Charleston began the secession movement and, less than four months later, fired the first shots of the War Between the States.
"The place has no strategic importance, yet there is not another place our anxious countrymen would so rejoice to see taken as this original seat of the great wickedness that has befallen our country," Gideon Welles, the Secretary of the Navy, wrote in his diary on May 26, 1863. "The moral effect of its capture would be great."
The Union had tried, off and on, to take Charleston for the past year. In June 1862, 6,000 Union troops landed on James Island but were held off by barely 2,000 Confederates at Secessionville.
It had been the North's plan to take the city via James Island, bypassing Forts Sumter and Moultrie, as well as the batteries on Morris Island.
When that did not work, Union troops set up on Folly Island and began plotting to take Morris Island. The rank-and-file soldiers wanted to take Charleston just as badly as Welles.
"To capture Richmond would be grand, but to capture Charleston would be glorious," one soldier from the 11th Maine Infantry Volunteers wrote.
The Union had stepped up its efforts months earlier. On April 7, 1863, the U.S. Navy launched an assault on Sumter, hoping to neutralize the fort and take the city. But they seriously underestimated the South's resolve. That afternoon, a fleet of Navy warships took 2,200 hits from Confederate artillery while barely landing 150 shots on Sumter.
It was an embarrassing defeat — but they would be back.
The Confederates knew a Morris Island invasion was coming at some point, and they knew the consequences. Robert Barnwell Rhett Jr., editor of the Charleston Mercury, wrote that "the fall of Fort Wagner ends in the fall of Charleston."
Union Gen. Quincy Gillmore wanted to be the man to take Charleston. In April 1862 he had shelled Savannah's Fort Pulaski into submission in barely more than a day, and he desperately wanted to do the same to Fort Sumter.
The only logical place to launch such an assault was Morris Island, and military leaders in Washington were willing to let him try.
The intricate battle plan began on Friday, July 10, 1863. That morning, Union troops launched an invasion of the southern end of Morris Island from Folly Beach. It took 2,000 Union soldiers just four hours to take two-thirds of Morris Island.
But it would take a little more time to take the northern third — home of Battery Wagner.
A night of chaos
The Union's first attempt to take the battery came the next day, on July 11.
The 7th Connecticut made the first pass, but it was a chore just to reach the walls of the earthen fort. Battery Wagner was protected by a ditch 10 feet wide that held 5 feet of water. The Southerners had planted mines and mounted wooden palmetto stakes on its banks.
The men of the 7th Connecticut were pinned down under heavy fire before they reached the fort and had to retreat. The Union would have to rethink its strategy.
Union gunboats shelled Wagner for the next week, culminating in the 10-hour strike that began at 8 a.m. July 18.
Somehow, the fort held, even though Union soldiers would later write that "No one would suppose that a human being, or a bird even, could live for a moment upon that fort."
But that was just the first phase of the battle. The plan, as intercepted by Lowndes' signal corps, was to send in more than 5,000 infantrymen at dusk, to finish off what was left.
The Union forces would be led by the 54th Massachusetts, a regiment of 650 African-American men led by Col. Robert Gould Shaw — a white man, and a son of abolitionists.
The 54th, immortalized in the movie "Glory," was not the first black regiment in the war. There was the 1st Kansas colored infantry regiment, and even the 1st South Carolina, but the 54th held a notable significance. While other states distinguished between black and white troops, Massachusetts, a center of the abolitionist movement, simply gave its black regiments the next available number. It would not distinguish between its white and black troops.
The state would, however, distinguish soldiers by race, paying black soldiers less than whites — a source of contention throughout the war.
The soldiers of the 54th volunteered to lead the charge against Battery Wagner. They wanted to prove themselves, they wanted to lead the battle and they wanted payback for the men they had lost the previous week in a skirmish on James Island. It also made sense to let the 54th lead, as it was the largest of the 11 Union regiments on the island.
The Confederates spotted them just before 8 p.m. — two columns of more than 2,500 men each. The 54th attacked on the right and, when they were 60 yards out, the Confederates sent "a galling fire into the masses" — or as galling a fire as they could, since the shelling of the fort had taken out Wagner's biggest gun.
The men of the 54th actually reached the Battery Wagner parapet, but the Charleston battalion opened fire, picking off the commanding officer, Shaw, and dozens of others. In all, 34 men from the 54th would die, 146 would be wounded and 92 were listed as missing.
Other Union regiments took even heavier losses.
The battle lasted three hours. Some Union troops made it into the fort, where they fought hand-to-hand with Confederate soldiers. The final hour of the battle was chaos, as war often is.
"Men fell by scores and on the parapet and rolled into the ditch, many were drowned," one survivor later wrote, "and others were smothered by their own dead and wounded companions falling upon them."
With more Confederates arriving late in the evening, the Union forces retreated by 11 p.m.
Nearly 250 Union soldiers had died, 800 were wounded and nearly 400 were captured. They would be tended to on the battlefield by nurse Clara Barton, years before she started the American Red Cross.
The Confederates had fewer casualties. They lost only 36 men, with another 130 wounded.
It was over.
Beginning of the siege
In August of that year, the Union troops on Morris launched their first shells into the city, beginning the siege of Charleston — the longest siege of the war. It would last more than 500 days.
"The last thing the Union wanted was a protracted siege of Charleston," said Doug Bostick, executive director of the South Carolina Battleground Preservation Trust. "What occurred is exactly what they hoped so fervently to avoid."
In September 1863, more than a month after the battle, the Confederates abandoned Battery Wagner. They were low on provisions and drinking water, and the fresh water on Morris Island had been contaminated by the decomposing bodies of the war dead.
Despite the fears of Charleston, or the plans of Gillmore, none of this led to the fall of Sumter or Charleston.
"The defense of Sumter is one of the most amazing stories of the siege of Charleston," Bostick said.
Although the shelling led to many people fleeing Charleston, the city stood as tough as Fort Sumter.
"It was the impregnable city, ... They thought the battle of Morris Island would lead to the fall of Charleston."
It was, however, the beginning of a siege, a long-distance bombardment that would rattle the city to the end of the war. But the battle of Battery Wagner convinced many Union soldiers that taking Charleston would not be easy.
"I regard any attempt to enter Charleston harbor by its direct channel, or to carry it by storm, or James Island, as too hazardous to warrant the attempt."
That is what Gen. William Tecumseh Sherman said on Jan. 19, 1865, just as he was marching into South Carolina. He decided to take Columbia.
Other Union forces landed in Charleston the next day — but only because the Confederates had evacuated.
The 54th Massachusetts regiment, under the leadership of Colonel Shaw, was in the 1863 attack on Fort Wagner on Morris Island, as portrayed in this mural at the Recorder of Deeds building in Washington. See more photos on page A4.×
Re-enactor Ernest Parks with the 54th Massachusetts Infantry Regiment listens to stories during a daylong event at the Seashore Farmers Lodge, full of hands of history as the group honors the anniversary of the historic 1863 Civil War battle of Battery Wagner held on Morris Island.×
An unidentified camp in July or August 1863.×
An unidentified artillery unit.×
This photo was taken in July or August 1863.×
General Quincy A. Gillmore stands in front of his tent.×
Re-enactors with the 54th Massachusetts Infantry Regiment held a day-long event, at the Seashore Farmers Lodge, full of hands of history as the group honors the anniversary of the historic 1863 Civil War battle of Battery Wagner on Morris Island.×