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NEW YORK — It was at the same time unimpressive and unrivaled, unremarkable yet unprecedented.
USF added another piece of history to its breakout season Tuesday, picking up its first-ever Big East tournament win by dispatching 16th-seeded DePaul 58-49 in the opening round at Madison Square Garden.
The Bulls (20-11), the ninth seed, hadn't won 20 games in a season in 20 years. Their next win — they seek a fifth straight today at noon against eighth-seeded and 22nd-ranked Georgetown — could be enough to give them something else in common with that 1990 team: a trip to the NCAA Tournament.
"We need to win. We definitely need to win," coach Stan Heath said. "We can't leave things to chance. … The best thing you can do is win and control your own destiny."
USF didn't make it to the Big East tournament its first three years in the league, when only the top 12 teams played in Manhattan. Last year, USF lost in the opening round, so Tuesday night was the first the Bulls spent in New York as winners, as part of the party.
"Everybody wanted to get our first win at Madison Square Garden and start the Big East tournament," said guard Dominique Jones, who had a team-high 20 points for the third game in a row. "We came out with a lot of energy."
The Bulls led 30-15 at halftime, with Jones nearly outscoring the Blue Demons (8-23) himself. DePaul, led by Will Walker's 20 points, stayed close enough that USF couldn't give its starters a much-needed breather in the second half.
USF won despite an absence of perimeter shooting; of its 58 points, 50 came in the paint, six from free throws. The Bulls went 0-for-8 on 3-pointers, going without at least one for the first time in six years. Then again, they attempted just two in the second half, so Heath wasn't too upset.
"If we would have lost, it would be a big deal," he said. "Since we won, it's not a big deal."
The post players weren't at their best, as power forwards Augustus Gilchrist and Jarrid Famous were a combined 4-for-18, with Gilchrist missing his first seven shots. Point guard Chris Howard had six assists, three on dunks to senior Mike Mercer, who had 14 points. It will take more to earn a victory today.
The Bulls' biggest win of the season came at Georgetown, beating the then-No. 7 Hoyas 72-64 behind 29 points from Jones. Today, there is much more on the line, but they already have history on their side: There have been 123 Big East teams with 20 wins after the conference tournament, and 120 of them have earned trips to the NCAAs.
Heath is trying to keep his team's focus squarely on its next opponent, knowing that winning will take care of other things.
"We've never been here before, so in a lot of ways, I think we've accomplished things we've never accomplished before," he said. "So I don't think there's a lot of pressure on us. … We all want to go to the NCAA Tournament. … We just need to go out and play and play at a high level."
Times staff writer Greg Auman can be reached at email@example.com and at (813) 226-3346. Check out his blog at blogs.tampabay.com/usf.


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MARSHALL, MI — The Environmental Protection Agency and other area agencies will announce that additional sections of the Kalamazoo River closed because of the July 2010 Enbridge oil spill will reopen.
"Government officials will announce at 11 a.m. Thursday, June 21, the opening of an additional portion of the Kalamazoo River," the release from the EPA reads.
Exactly how much of the river will be reopened will be announced during the press conference, said Calhoun County health official James Rutherford.
Earlier today, MLive reported that an announcement related to opening the river would happen on Thursday. The release confirms that additional sections of the river will be reopened.
The conference is being held by the the Multi-Agency Coordination Group Members, which have worked on the spill since 2010.
The members are: Allegan County Emergency Management; Calhoun County Office of Emergency Management; Calhoun County Public Health Department; city of Battle Creek; city of Marshall; Enbridge; Kalamazoo County Health and Community Services Department; Michigan Department of Community Health; Michigan Department of Environmental Quality; Michigan State Police; and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
Earlier this year, 3.5 miles of the river were reopened. About a 35-mie stretch of the river was closed from Marshall to Morrow Lake in Comstock Township since more than 800,000 gallons of heavy crude oil spilled from Enbridge's pipeline in July 2010.
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DrQarni. Start a coop .i can be a spokesperson for all that need and deserve health care.Your so kind and caring
He is awesome!! He has said many times he has evening hours as well as walk in's. Well, he needs to explain that to his staff. It is very hard to get into see him.
On Tuesday November 4th, 2014 after 3:30 p.m., I reported to Dr. Qarni's office upon making an appointment after a traffic accident. I sustained back injury that day (where the pain continues to persist nearly one year later) and a wrist injury (something that remained constant for weeks after the accident). As his patient for nearly five years I trusted him to provide quality and comprehensive care as he may have done in the past (but as I reflect his recommendations and treatment of my health needs were subpar). I was left unassisted by him. I subsequently reported to Patient First and was treated for my injuries, never returning to his practice. While waiting to be seen, I was sorting out all of the details of the accident. I had, in fact, been told by the front office that I could use the office phone to confirm what I still needed to do with the insurance company and make a call to confirm that I would run late for a class that I was teaching that evening (I'm a university professor). The wait time in his office exceeded one hour and I was going to be late and needless to say did not have my personal cell phone to make the necessary calls. As I entered the patient room, I continued to communicate with the insurance company and my colleagues regarding my late arrival to class. After the nurse/ practitioner checked me in, having me answer questions, as she observed me conclude part of the phone calls, and departed herself, he entered. Hev yelled sharing that I should not use the phone (I thought he was joking) but when he snatched the mounted phone from my hand and slammed it onto the hook, it was at that moment that I realized that he was not joking and I decided that I could not seek care from him on that day or ever again. He snatched the phone from the hand that was injured. I will never forget the shock nor the pain. I am hoping Dr. Qarni gets the help that he needs in order to maintain the level of humanity and professionalism necessary to offer quality medical care and promised when he took the Hippocratic Oath, otherwise he should retire.
Very upset with him. I talked to him on the phone about a medical worry/concern. He was extremely condescending to me, acted as though I was bothering him and hung up on me. He hung up on me because I was upset and worried. That is not a good doctor/patient relationship - AT ALL. Everyone I told agreed and said that's so unprofessional. If you're a good doctor, you don't dismiss your patient's worries and concerns. You reassure them and treat them with the utmost of respect. Or hang up on them! I'm finding a new doctor.
I had always thought Dr.Qarni was great but if you are in any kind of pain he will not help. My elderly aunt couldn't get an appointment with a specialist for a a few weeks. After being Dr. Qarni's patient for over 15 years she suffered severely he would not prescribe anything for the pain. It was horrible. I lost all confidence in his compation. Home care nursing even called him and begged him, he was completely unwilling. It makes me wonder if he's done something in the past to jepordise his license to allow an 82 year old woman to scream and cry day and night for weeks. It was really sad. And very disappointing that Dr. Qarni let our family down.
Dr. Qarni is an extremely good doctor with a very good bed side manor. He is thourough in treating his patients. Would highly recommend him to be a family doctor. He is a caring and itelligent doctor.
great doctor. my whole family sees him. i take my children to see him. my aunt died about 5 years ago and he came to the viewing to pay his respects. my father is on hospice and he calls my mother to talk to her and see how they are all doing. he calls to give you results of tests right away no matter what day it is. my son was very sick and all test came back normal and he called on a sunday at 8:30 pm to give me results on a test that was done. i could not ask for a better doctor. when his office is closed there is a recording that gives you his cell number for emergencies and he calls you back within 10 mins. dr qarni is more then a doctor he is part of the family!!!
He is excellent, he doesn't treat as though I am stupid,he gives me the information tha I need in order to get healthier. Whenever he has had to refer me to another physician, that physician has also been excellent. I trust him implicitly.
He was there for us and my dad during his last days. He came to see my dad at the end when he was in the hospital in a coma basically, when there was nothing medically that could be done for him. But he came to give support to his family. He even came to the viewing. Dr. Qarni is a very caring compassionate local community doctor.
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The discovery could lead to novel means to alleviate chronic pain, researchers said.
The researchers were inspired by previous work on memory conducted some fifteen years ago. These studies had revealed that when a memory is reactivated during recall, its neurochemical encoding is temporarily unlocked.
Simultaneous administration of a drug that blocks neurochemical reconsolidation of the memory results in its erasure.
The investigators wanted to see whether a similar mechanism was at play during neurochemical encoding of pain sensitisation.
They injected capsaicin in the foot of mice. Capsaicin, the pungent chemical in chili pepper, triggers a burning sensation.
The procedure, which causes no physical damage, triggers pain hypersensitivity through a process of protein synthesis in the spinal cord.
After capsaicin injections, the mechanical pressure at which mice would flinch was about a third of that in the normal situation.
Three hours later, the researchers administered a second dose of capsaicin and, at the same time, a drug that blocks protein synthesis.
The hypersensitivity then vanished rapidly. Within less than 2 hours, the pressure tolerated by the mice was back to 70 per cent of normal.
"When the protein synthesis inhibitor is administered alone, the hypersensitivity remains. The second injection of capsaicin is necessary to render the sensitivity to pain unstable and be able to interfere with its neurochemical reconsolidation," said Yves De Koninck from Universite Laval in Canada.
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I've tried most of them, and the ones that I purchased last week, Beanitos, are the yummiest I've found in a long time.
Beanitos, as you can guess from their name, are made from beans…black beans and pinto beans. They boast a number of nutritional benefits, including high protein and fiber, and also claim to have created a 'unique, natural and proprietary way' to make them without gassy side effects usually associated with beans.
If you have a corn allergy or sensitivity, these babies were made for you. The makers seem to have quite the hate on for corn, citing that "corn is cheap, it's used to make ethanol gas for cars, and to get cows fat." Those are pretty good reasons to avoid it, although I still enjoy my organic corn tortilla nachos every once in awhile.
If you're looking for a yummy alternative to your classic potato chips, give Beanitos a try. The chipotle ones are really great, with a nice bite and just enough saltiness. Beanitos are low glycemic, gluten free, DELICIOUS, and non GMO certified. They are around $3.69 at your local grocery store (although I found some in the States for $2.49) and you can find them in the ever expanding potato chip aisle.
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"The risk models turned out to be quite flawed and should not have been given the weight they received."
What were the initial seeds of the 2008 financial crisis?
It's a big question, but I think it really starts with the origins of subprime lending, which is a form of lending that is intended to allow people who can't afford a 20 percent down payment and a normal, "prime" mortgage, to own a house. That sounds like a worthy goal, but over time it became horribly distorted. Eventually it became a means through which mortgage companies that specialized in subprime mortgages could just hand out loans to anyone with a pulse, take the fees and send those mortgages off to Wall Street.
Wall Street then bundled those loans into what's known as securities, which are basically bonds that are stuffed with thousands of these loans. That's what eventually becomes known as "toxic assets." The reason they were toxic is because they were mortgages that were bound to eventually default. Once the housing bubble burst, home prices declined, people were no longer able to refinance their homes, and so they defaulted in huge, unprecedented numbers. When that started happening, all of the banks that held these securities on their books were suddenly in a lot of trouble. That's really what brought us to the brink of disaster.
And why would the mortgage companies want to back those subprime mortgages?
Nobody had any skin in the game. Instead of a bank holding a loan on its own books, it would sell the loan to someone else and get a fee. They sold more and more loans and got more and more fees because if the person defaulted, it wouldn't really be their problem. They didn't care if the original borrower could pay it back or not. Similarly, Wall Street didn't really care either, because they were selling these bonds to investors. You would think the investors would care, but because these bonds were somehow rated AAA, everyone thought they were safe.
Why didn't the rating agencies do a better job of rating these products accurately?
There are two reasons for that. First, the entire system was hooked on these very mathematical risk models. The ratings agencies relied on these models to tell them that the chance of default was minimal, therefore they could rate the securities AAA. But the risk models turned out to be quite flawed and should not have been given the weight they received. The less noble reason is that the rating agencies made huge kinds of money rating these derivatives and bonds. It was a pot of gold for them and once they discovered how much money they could make doing this, there was no turning back.
In the book you wrote with Bethany McLean about the lead up to the crisis, 'All the Devils Are Here,' you start with the securitization of mortgages at Salomon Brothers in the '80s. What was new about what they were doing?
When securitization originally came about, it did two really powerful things. Firstly, it took what had previously been a very local means of finance, the local mortgage lender, and effectively nationalized it. The second thing it did, by turning these loans into something investors could buy, was free up lots of capital so that banks could make more loans. And the fact that these loans were all bundled into something else was itself an innovation that had never been done before. There hadn't even been something called a "mortgage desk" when this first came about. Over the course of time, mortgages became one of the most popular instruments that Wall Street would end up trading.


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JERUSALEM, April 7 (JTA) — Israel's state prosecutor is expected to issue recommendations by Passover on whether criminal charges will be filed against any government officials in connection with the short-lived appointment earlier this year of an attorney general. State prosecutor Edna Arbel and other senior legal officials held lengthy consultations this week with members of a police investigating team to review police recommendations in the case. The recommendations come after an inquiry into the January appointment of Jerusalem lawyer and veteran Likud activist Roni Bar-On as attorney general. When asked whether she expected to make any decisions before April 21, which is Passover eve, Arbel said, "We all want to burn the leavening before the holiday." Police officials have questioned Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and other members of the government to determine whether there were any illegalities behind the Bar-On appointment. Bar-On won Cabinet approval Jan. 10, but stepped down two days later amid growing charges in political and legal spheres that he lacked the experience to hold Israel's top legal post. Two weeks later, the Cabinet unanimously approved District Judge Elyakim Rubinstein to serve as Israel's attorney general. The police investigation was launched after an Israel Television report alleged that Bar-On was appointed as part of a deal to provide a plea bargain to one of Netanyahu's political allies, Shas Knesset member Aryeh Deri, who is on trial for corruption. In turn, Deri allegedly promised his party's support for the Hebron agreement, which was coming up for Cabinet approval at the time, the report said. Should police investigators discover that Netanyahu gave in to pressure from Deri to appoint Bar-On, he could be charged with breach of public trust. A legal source downplayed this week growing speculation that police evidence indicated that charges could be filed against Deri and Justice Minister Tzachi Hanegbi. Arbel had not yet made a final decision, the source said.
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While MIN can take several arguments MIN(A,B,C), why not permit the elemental intrinsic bit manipulation functions take more than two variables: IOR(I,J,K), same with the other bit manipulation functions.
(I expect "it's not done")
Jim Dempsey
While MIN can take several arguments MIN(A,B,C), why not permit the elemental intrinsic bit manipulation functions take more than two variables: IOR(I,J,K), same with the other bit manipulation functions.
(I expect "it's not done")
Jim Dempsey
I would suspect a matter of precedence would be confusing.
(i.e., which pair gets done first)
I wanted that featrure as well, with bit parameters for sdk calls you often need to ior several parameters and end up with a messy nesting of IOR.
@Linda - the order does not matter for ior.
Use IANY for this - it accepts an array for which you can use an array constructor. IALL is an AND operation
Thanks for that Steve I just looked at the help example, the key is constructing this array in the call e.g.
is much nicer than IOR(I,IOR(J,IOR(K.L)))
Thanks Steve,
IANY is equivilent to IOR of all args
IALL is equivilent to IAND of all args
This leaves out IXOR
Jim Dempsey
True, but how many times do you need to do that? If it's a lot, you can write your own.
Assuming I do wish to write my own, say a generic function (not necessarily IXOR), has there been any discussion with the FORTRAN standards comittee to provide a means of variable number of arguments? I do not mean a defined number of optional arguments, nor do I mean an array of values, rather something similar to the C/C++ elipsis (...) that can be used in place of a list of arguments (zero or more). This permits me to have the equivilent to an array of (unnamed) references. While IXOR could be satisified with an array of values, other functions/subroutines may require the references such that these references may get modified but the function/subroutine.
Jim Dempsey
I am unaware of any recent standard proposals to provide the ability to write routines with a variable nunber of arguments such as MIN and MAX have, and none have been discussed at any of the meetings I have attended over the years.
jimdempseyatthecove wrote:
Thanks Steve,
IANY is equivilent to IOR of all args
IALL is equivilent to IAND of all args
This leaves out IXOR
Jim Dempsey
Here's how I've been doing this, not elegant but it sure works:
INTEGER FUNCTION MOR (f1, f2, f3, f4, f5, f6, f7, f8) IMPLICIT NONE INTEGER,INTENT(IN) :: f1, f2 INTEGER,INTENT(IN),OPTIONAL :: f3, f4, f5, f6, f7, f8 ! MultiOR of multiple arguments, as supplied MOR = IOR(f1, f2) IF (.NOT.PRESENT(f3)) RETURN MOR = IOR(MOR,f3) IF (.NOT.PRESENT(f4)) RETURN MOR = IOR(MOR,f4) IF (.NOT.PRESENT(f5)) RETURN MOR = IOR(MOR,f5) IF (.NOT.PRESENT(f6)) RETURN MOR = IOR(MOR,f6) IF (.NOT.PRESENT(f7)) RETURN MOR = IOR(MOR,f7) IF (.NOT.PRESENT(f8)) RETURN MOR = IOR(MOR,f8) END FUNCTION MOR
Thank you Repeat Offender , IPARITY is duly noted , I wrote my own function for this but an instrinsic is a much neater way
IPARITY for IXOR great. Now if the standards committee can only agree to aliasing IALL, IANY and IPARITY to IAND, IOR, IXOR then the programmer won't have to re-read through the library functions to find a function name that is not quite self explanitory.
Your function MOR would be fine for cases where the caller supplies known arguments. In situations where the caller receives unknown (not known to be present) arguments, then any of the arguments (not just the tail end arguments) might not be present. Consider:
INTEGER FUNCTION MOR (f1, f2, f3, f4, f5, f6, f7, f8) IMPLICIT NONE INTEGER,INTENT(IN),OPTIONAL :: f1, f2, f3, f4, f5, f6, f7, f8 ! MultiOR of multiple arguments, as supplied MOR = 0 IF(PRESENT(f1)) MOR = IOR(MOR, f1) IF(PRESENT(f2)) MOR = IOR(MOR, f2) IF(PRESENT(f3)) MOR = IOR(MOR, f3) IF(PRESENT(f4)) MOR = IOR(MOR, f4) IF(PRESENT(f5)) MOR = IOR(MOR, f5) IF(PRESENT(f6)) MOR = IOR(MOR, f6) IF(PRESENT(f7)) MOR = IOR(MOR, f7) IF(PRESENT(f8)) MOR = IOR(MOR, f8) END FUNCTION MOR
Jim Dempsey
Seconded. It is easy to look up what a function with a given name does. Doing the reverse look up, i.e., finding a function with a set of desired capabilities, can be quite hard and time-consuming.Jim Dempsey wrote:then the programmer won't have to re-read through the library functions to find a function name that is not quite self-explanatory
Had completely forgotten about IPARITY! Odd name for this function, though.
Jim Dempsey wrote: then the programmer won't have to re-read through the library functions to find a function name that is not quite self-eexplanatory
Thirded, After Jims post I looked in the instrinsics begining with I to see if there was a function but IPARITY escaped my gaze....
Could you possibly ask the IVF document writers to include in the See Also sections of IAND, IOR, and IXOR hyperlinks to IALL, IANY and IPARITY respectively. I think this would be very helpful for any programmer that knows what they want but doesn't know the flavor of the cookie that the cookie monster wants. In reading the responses here, as an example the preceeding response from app4619, having this hyperlink in IXOR See Also section would have eliminated a tiersome search through the documentation (as well as help you un-forget your completely forgotten about IPARITY).
Jim Dempsey
I will make that suggestion.
Steve Lionel (Intel) wrote:
Had completely forgotten about IPARITY! Odd name for this function, though.
What's so odd about that, except that PARITY is .TRUE. if parity is odd? Jim Dempsey's spelling of IEOR as IXOR seems to me a little dangerous, however: ifort doesn't actually have an IXOR intrinsic, does it? And doesn't the precedence of operator(.XOR.) change depending on the status of the /standard-semantics switch, making it more risky to use than operator(.NEQV.)?
RO, I am used to the concept of parity having variants odd and even - IPARITY satisfies only one of those.
ifort does accept IXOR (and XOR) as a non-standard spelling of IEOR.
As for .XOR., if you say /standard-semantics, .XOR. is not defined as an intrinsic at all, so there is no precedence issue.
The odd parity thing was just a play on words on your usage of the word 'odd' :)
OK, I didn't look under the documentation of IEOR which one has to do to find the alternate spellings.
Doesn't (A .MyOp. B .XOR. C), where the programmer has defined operator(.MyOp.) and operator(.XOR.) then change its meaning according to the state of the /standard-semantics switch?
.XOR. is a logical operator not to be confused with an intrinsic function IEOR, IXOR, IPARITY (though I wish IPARITY would accept a list of variables in addition to an array of variables).
In the documentation Summary of Operator Precedence it lists defined binary operators as having lowest priority (less than .XOR.). It does not state that this is affected by the /standard-semantics switch.
Jim Dempsey
The precedence of defined operators doesn't change with /standard-semantics. What does change is whether or not .xor. is recognized as a predefined operator. Without /standard-semantics, if you have a user-defined operator .xor. that supercedes the predefined one.
The situation where this can make a difference is if you overload .xor. with a signature different from the intrinsic.
This program prints '/standard-semantics is in effect.' on gfortran, and 'Non-standard precedence detected.' on ifort without the /standard-semantics switch in effect. What does it print with that switch enabled?
module m implicit none private public operator(.MyOp.), operator(.XOR.) interface operator(.MyOp.) module procedure p1 end interface operator(.MyOp.) interface operator(.XOR.) module procedure p2 end interface operator(.XOR.) contains function p1(x,y) integer p1 integer, intent(in) :: x, y p1 = 0 end function p1 function p2(x,y) integer p2 integer, intent(in) :: x, y p2 = 1 end function p2 end module m program p use m implicit none if((0 .MyOp. 0 .XOR. 0) == 1) then print '(a)', '/standard-semantics is in effect.' else print '(a)', 'Non-standard precedence detected.' end if end program p
C:ProjectsQ697475Console3>ifort /standard-semantics ro.f90 Intel(R) Visual Fortran Intel(R) 64 Compiler XE for applications running on Intel(R) 64, Version 188.8.131.52 Build 20130607 Copyright (C) 1985-2013 Intel Corporation. All rights reserved. Microsoft (R) Incremental Linker Version 10.00.40219.01 Copyright (C) Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved. -out:ro.exe -subsystem:console ro.obj C:ProjectsQ697475Console3>ro.exe /standard-semantics is in effect.
I am a little bit confused with respect to /standard-sematics and non-standard semantics as it applies to Repeat Offenders post.
In his post, he has overloaded operator .XOR.
Your reply seems to indicate that depending on /standard-sematics or lack thereof that the compiler will (silently) use either the user specified overloaded .XOR. or the internal (intrinsic) .XOR.
On the other hand you could have ment the /standard-sematics or lack thereof only affecte the precidence, and in both cases the user specified overloaded .XOR. is used.
Jim Dempsey
Without /standard-semantics, one can overload (extend the generic) .xor. but you get the compiler's non-standard precedence for it. With /standard-semantics, the compiler doesn't provide .xor. so RO's definition is the only one.
"Additional intrinsic functions for bit manipulation [mostly 5.3]" The array reduction intrinsic functions IALL, IANY and IPARITY appear to be Fortran 2008 additions, perahsp that is why we are not so familliar....


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Kathleen Cannon of the Long Valley section of Washington Township, Level A ages 14 and up, placed in the top five in each of the four events and placed third with an all-around score of 32.2. Catherine Dame, Sparta, scored an all-around of 29.45 but did not place in the all-around.
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Form A
Circumstances of Interview
Federal Writers' Project
Works Progress Administration
Name of worker : William C. Haight Date February 24, 1939
Address : 1225 S. W. Alder Street, Portland, Oregon
Subject: Occupational Lore.
Name and address of informant: Charles Imus, 1624 S.W. 16th Street, Portland, Oregon
Date and time of interview: 1624 S. W. 16th Street, Portland, Oregon.
Place of interview:
Name and address of person, if any, who put you in touch with informant : Joseph McLaughlin, Project office.
Name and address of person, if any, accompanying you :
Description of room, house, surroundings, etc. : Mr. Imus' home is in a low-income district, located at the end of an alley. The house is an unpainted, weather-beaten, two-story building. Steps rise from the ground to a porch on the second floor; leading to an apartment.
His front porch is underneath these steps. A rickety door opens to a second flight of dark, unkempt, dirty steps. At the top of these steps a door opens into a long, musty smelling, ill-lighted hallway.
The hallway widens into a kitchen used by the informant and wife. The interview was conducted in a small, unclean living room. Old chairs, and tables filled the small room. A radio many years old stood under an unwashed window.
An incongruity in this obvious setting of poverty were many fine pieces of china and glassware. These, presumably, a hold-over from the more abundant life!
Form B
Personal History of Informant
Information obtained should supply the following facts:
1. Ancestry : English and Irish.
2. Place and date of birth : Roxberry, Kansas, June 11, 1879.
3. Family : Wife.
4. Places lived in, with dates : Roxberry, Kansas, 1879 to 1889. Portland, Oregon, 1900 to 1939. Kalama, Washington, 1889 to 1900.
5. Education, with dates : "Ain't had none." Wife: "You have too Charley, now tell him what he wants." Charley: "Well, maybe a little grammar school. I can write purty good." Wife: "Yes, Charley, a real pretty hand you write." Charley: "I learned a little as I went along."
6. Occupations and accomplishments with dates : Farm worker, logger, livery stably keeper, dance hall manager, "jack-of-all-trades."
7. Special skills and interests : Cribbage, and playing wind instruments.
8. Community and religious activities :
9. Description of informant : Light blue eyes shaded by light eyebrows accentuate the informant's smooth features. His face is expressive; the movements of his eyebrows punctuate his speech. A faded, ragged, brown tie, against a once bright green shirt supplied a concession and mark of distinction to the occasion. His suit was a peculiar color of blue, nearly green. He wore light brown shoes and dark socks that were held up by large safety pins.
10. Other points gained in interview :
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Well, feller, I hope this comin' up here at night don't discommode you none. Shucks! Joe told me you wuz a-comin' and for me to give you all I got. I'll be dingbusted if I know what you want but you just shoot the questions at me and I'll be a answerin' 'em as well as I can.
I betcha you have a hard time a gettin' the truth out of people. The truth was better in older times. Yes sir, seems as how people nowadays hear a story and they tell it from the angle that appeals to them. By the time that story has been told by three or four different people it ain't one dingblasted bit like it wuz.
Somethin' that might interest you is the re-union that my family had not so long ago. It was all written up in the papers. I got over 3000 relatives all a-livin'. I never in my life seen so many bloody bloomin' people as we had that there meetin'. Telegrams from all over the United States came to us that day. It seems that anybody by the name of Imus is a relation. Kinda funny.
I think the most important thing that happened to me when I wuz a kid wuz a-readin' Peck's Bad Boy. I read that book until pa caught me a-readin' it sad lambasted the devil out of me for readin' trash. Well, just to get even, I tried some of them tricks that Peck used. Pa just lambasted me all the harder. I learned mighty quick it tweren't no use a buckin' the old man. When he had his say it was up to me to say, 'Yes, sir', quick like, and be a-doin' what he wanted.
You've heard of bull doggin', ain't ya? Well, us kids [rompin?'] around on the farm used to get hard up for somethin' to do. You know there ain't much for a kid to do on a farm. When time was a-hangin' heavy we'd round up all of them bloody dumb oxen in a corner of the field. Ever one of us kids would jackknife off a switch to tickle their flanks with, and then we would back up quite a ways so we could get a run, to jump on the critter's backs. We would run up behind the bloody devils and leap from the ground to their backs. Always us kids would spraddle our legs in mid-air and one hand would slap their rears to help boost us on.
Well, soon's we'd hit their backs, them ignorant critters would let a rip-snortin' beller out of 'em, and run like a scairt rabbit for the barn. You take several kids, put 'em on oxen, and have the oxen and kids a-yellin' and holler'n, beller'n, you really got some noise.
There wuz a little hill near the barn them dumb critters allus went down. Sure as they went a-buckin' and beller'n down that hill they'd pile us up. Kids can figger out ways to keep on if they figger they're havin' some fun. We figgered if we held onto their tails whilst we wuz a-goin' down that hill they wouldn't pile us. I'll be dingblasted if it didn't work-- er-well for a while.
How them old oxen used to beller a-runnin' like hell for the barn. Sure funny. This idea worked for a while but them dumb ignorant (I allus thought them the dumbest animals God ever made) creatures got to runnin' to a small clump of trees and scrapin' us kids off. You'd never think them dumb critters could a-thought of that.
Sometimes we'd ride mules. They're almost as ornery a critter as an oxen. One thing about the stubborn little devils which distinguished them from the oxen wuz the way they could figger out, how to avoid movin'. A mule can figger a 101 ways on how not to move. When you least expect it they will start out and go like hell.
So, you want to know somethin' about loggin? I don't know much about it. The first bit of loggin' done around my parts-- Kalama (Washington)--was done by hand. A crew of fellers; buckers, swampers, knotters, barkers, snipers--the usual bunch of guys needed to got the round stuff out, with axes, saws, jackscrews, and grab hooks would go out in the woods and go to work. Allus they worked close to the river so's we could chute them logs down without no trouble of no kind.
Not much to tell about those loggin' days, just bullin' her through with plenty of sweatin' and swearin'. The first real loggin' operations started when they begin using oxen to drag the logs out from the woods, to the chutes. That way we could work further in from the river, makin' the operations larger.
Those dingblasted ornery, ignorant, oxen would make top cussers out of all bull punchers. The bull punchers would've quit if the foreman had tried to stop 'em from cussing.
We'd get three, four, maybe six or eight oxen, dog them together to haul the round stuff to the river. Slow? Jesus Christ! Those goddam, ignorant critters would take an hour to move a mile. They were good pullers through. You know, them ornery, bloody critters would take their own time to get started. Cuss 'em, beat 'em, but by God, they wouldn't move until they had wiggled around under their yoke and got it to fittin' their shoulders.
Then, those devils would start pullin'. I mean pullin' too, a horse a-long side of oxen would look like a cream puff in a pullin' match. The bloody devils in bad weather would get mired down and we would have one hell of a time to make 'em move. Bad weather allus made loggin' lots harder. It rains so much in these here parts that the ground gets soggy and won't take much of a load. Logs are purty heavy stuff to be a-pullin' over soggy ground. To make it easier for the oxen we would put little poles underneath the logs so they would roll along over the ground. In bad weather, the weight of the logs would sink the poles and the logs would got stuck in the mire. Then the bull puncher could really fill the woods with some first-class cussin'. Only miners and loggers know how to swear!
A difficulty in using oxen was the fact you always had to clear the windfall trees, and such, for the trail to the chute. You wasted a lot of good loggin' time just for a-shapin' things up to log. Them dumb critters couldn't pull a log over a stump or tree like the donkeys we used later in the game. All this hardship in gettin' the logs out, and the expense of keepin' all them animals and people kinda put a few crimps into loggin'. Soon as the donkey came in loggin' business really picked up a bit.
Old Joe Gill was the first loggin' man to put a steam donkey in our neck of the woods. I remember there was only one mill around where I wuz on the Kowemen river. Soon's the donkey came in I counted 19 loggin' camps in the radius of 21 miles.
The steam donkey sure made a difference in loggin'. Shucks! A day's haulin' with them oxen amounted to nothin' after we got used to workin' the donkeys. We could high lead it - m-h-m - I'd say, 2100 feet in the woods with the donkey. Quite a difference.
The donkey could sure pull 'em out. We could dog several logs together, run our drag line up in a tree and start a-goin. Windfalls made no difference to the donkey. She made her own trail as she drug the dogged logs a-long. Sometimes the drag line would lift those logs way up in the air. It would always top a number of trees. When we was runnin' the ground straight the donkey and drag line would lift those logs just a little ways off the ground. When I was a young feller, I used to go out on log and shingle bolt runs in the early spring and fall after puttin' my time in a-loggin'.
Know anything about a shingle bolt drive? Well, I didn't think you would. Not many people do.
Along the river banks after the heavy log drivers have been made you find logs about 4 feet long. However, there ain't no restriction on the size. Those logs have been broken up by hittin' rocks in the river, and the log jams have squeezed them up in the river banks. Come the high water and 'tis boltin' time. With high water it wuz easy to roll the logs into the river.
To push the bolts into the river we would use peavy's, jack-screws, and sometimes we'd just pack 'em. It took a lot of nerve on a cold morning to walk into the icy water and get those bolts to runnin'. If a feller didn't get all wet right away, why, it was a disgrace. He'd either jump in or somebody would trip him and he'd fall in. Funny, I'm the only one left out of my bolt runnin' crew. Husky, big fellers, you know, but that workin' in cold, wet clothes all day got 'em all but me. Lucky, I guess.
You know I went out of a loggin' camp onto a street car and I ain't been worth a penny since.
Yee-up---I used to drive a stage-coach. The owner of the stagecoach I had to drive had a contract calling for the run from North Yamhill to Tillamook. My run was from Perkins Mill, which me and the old lady run, to Trask. Perkins Mill was kinda like a hotel. The old lady would do the work around there, and I'd drive the coach. Course, I'd help her quite a-bit, particularly if I wasn't busy.
My drive was 16 miles. Took us about two and half hours in good weather. The first ten miles was on level ground and we could hoop-er-up. The next six miles were straight up the hill. I mean straight up, too. You know, in the olden days we allus followed the Indian trails. They built their trail on the highest ground they could find. Allus the trail would lead to a point where you could see the whole country. Their idea behind this wuz on high points they could smoke signal the news of the day to other Indians. Nowadays, the people build their roads up the draw. Easier goin', make better time. Heh! Heh! We can get our news now so fast it'd make a smoke signaler bow his head in shame.
When those old Indian trails got too tough to travel we'd make our own roads. The feller that had the contract bought the toll road we traveled from a feller. His contract for runnin' the mail was about up, so's he wouldn't put no work in on the road. Sure made it lots tougher on us coachmen.
There were three of us coachmen that did the runnin'. Shucks! We could skin them horses through in no time atall. Of course, that wuz providin' there wuz good weather.
A feller called Billy, somethin'-er-other, was the best stagecoach driver I ever did see. By gum, he could turn a four or six horse team around as easy as pie, on a sawdust ring. The sawdust rings was where we fellers used to exercise the horses and practice fancy driving. Old Billy woulda made a good tallyho driver. That feller could take a six horse team and drive a stake with his rear wheel. That's really placin' the horses where you want 'em to go.
The coach we used was a tharough brace coach - the hardest ridin' coach man ever made. Most coaches were springed up and they would rock sort of from side to side. The tharough brace's motion wuz a forward and backward one. It made it awful hard ridin'. Too, when you hit a good bump like as not you'd bite a kidney. Sometimes you'd slip and fall into the boot. Damme, but that would hurt!
The tharough- brace stage-coach was a much harder drivin' coach. Many times we would have to strap the passengers and ourselves in good and tight to stick with the durn wagons.
When the roads started getting bad, wuz when our real trouble started. The tharough- brace coach would give way to a democrat and four horses. A democrat is a skeleton wagon that has a bottom bed and wire rack for a side. A feller could easily lift one end of a democrat with one hand. Even so, the snow and slush would got too much for the horses to pull a light wagon like a democrat. Then the democrat would go into the barn and we'd have to pack the mail through. Passengers would ride a horse.
About thirty or forty years ago - I don't recollect dates well - there wuz a terrible snowstorm. I seen somethin' then I ain't seen since. It's a God's fact too, but most people won't believe it. The snow was so high when we packed the horses through we blazed a trail on trees. Come spring and that there trail we blazed was 20 or 30 feet off the ground. Snow sure got deep.
The following summer people comin' through on the stage-coach would look an see them marks high on the trees. They'd allus ask us what they were. When we told them they'd say, "You damn liars," but 'twas a God's fact.
The mail had to get through despite the weather. Durin' this bad storm we were havin' one hell of a time. The old postmaster was a cantankerous soul and even if he could see us comin', if we were overdue, he'd lock up and wouldn't take the mail. Everytime this happened the boss would get fined $100, for not fulfillin' his contract.
The snow kept pilin' up until we couldn't got through atall. The inspector, from the Portland office came out to see what wuz the matter. He said they figgered in the office we were shirkin' our duty. Well, that feller was kind of fat which made it bad for him when he told us he would show we fellers how to bulldog her through. No snow could stop him. We started out from the office with a loaded pack train. Up that mountain we tried to go.
That poor inspector cussed, drove, pounded them horses and yelled at us until we wuz well nigh exhausted. He finally quit when he fell off of his horse into a large snowbank. He durn near strangled to death in that drift. My boss pulled him out. The inspector said then we might as well go back, nobody could get through. We'd figgered that all along but them city fellers didn't understand and we kinda thought "well, maybe he can got us through, we ain't too old to learn a few new tricks." It was sure comical watchin' that inspector flounderin' in the snowdrift. After rasselin' around in the snow drifts all day he was mighty glad to get back to the mill.
Old man Shillings used to ride our stages. He was quite a character in them days. A good old scout but he had peculiar ideas. He allus called ahead to the old lady to tell her what he wanted for dinner. The same menu every time. Hot biscuits, mashed potatoes, milk gravy, meat, and lemon pie.
One time when he come through we had a young boy hangin' around whose hair was fixed in long curls. Old man Shillings was a sittin' at a special table. (bein' a little out of the ordinary he allus got the special table), and when he saw this kid come through the room, thinkin' he was a girl, he called, "Hey, little girl come here."
Well, that boy did mind a lot a bein' called a girl. I'll be dingbusted if he didn't up and wham the old man a good one. It tickled the old man so much he apologized and gave the kid a dollar. Allus he paid the old lady $2.50 for his meal, which was a lot of money for one dinner.
A lady ridin' through on the stages one time got scairt at the hairpin curves. Finally, she said she wanted to sit up with the driver so's she could jump if the wagon went over the grade. To pacify her they let her sit up with the driver. We were shufflin' along pretty lively when all of a sudden the lady got scairt and grabbed the lines away from the driver. I swear to goodness if the driver hadn't been a humdinger stage hand he would have piled the coach up. Those horses jack-knifed and nearly threw the coach over.
During the excitement the lady slipped off the seat and fell into the boot. After everybody cooled off they decided to strap the lady in the wagon. They strapped her in, all right, with her a hollerin' and screamin' bloody murder. She screamed that she was a-goin' to sue the company; then I'll be dingblasted if she didn't tear off a string of cuss words that would make a bull puncher blush with shame. Women are funny, sometimes.
Say young feller, I just happened to think that at the time of the big & now which held us blocked for 28 days, my pardner and me ski-ed supplies into bar-bound Tillamock. We heard the town was out of supplies. You see, they were not only bar-bound but snow-bound too. Don't happen very often.
It took us three days to pack the stuff into them. Those poor horses we were packin' were played out when we got to Tillamock. The people were mighty glad to see the pack train get over the mountains into the town. It wuz worth all the sweatin' and swearin' we had to go through to get the food to them.
There mere many trapper's cabins scattered through the hills we used to drive over. Trappers in that district built shacks near creeks. They would look around and find a place where the windfall was right and start building.
The shacks, not much more than lean-tos, were made from small poles, rigged together just like a log cabin. The sides were banked high with evergreen boughs to keep the wind from howlin' through. Furniture was all made by hand. The trappers would rig up a bench, a table, and build a bunk. The tables and benches were built without nails. To make the legs stay on they would carve a hole in the top, flat part and then run the leg up through this hole. It made the benches a little uncomfortable if they didn't take the end off of the legs that were stickin' through.
Allus they would leave blankets, utensils, food stuff, and most often a gun. This was done so's if anybody was lost they could use the cabin. The guns were left there, with stuff to clean them with, and bullets, for the wanderer to get his meat. Kinda funny, none of that stuff was ever taken. Sure would have been too bad for the guy that tried to take it. Nowadays, a set-up like that wouldn't last a week.
The ghost story I experienced didn't amount to very much. I'm tellin' ya' though, it sure kept the young folks home for a while.
I'd been hearin' about the ghost in the cemetery behind the Methodist Church for sometime. Pa had allus told us kids there wasn't no such thing as a ghost. But mighty reputable people whose words wuz good as gold had seen this ghost. There wuz some kind of a doin's in town that I attended one night, and on the way home I decided to see about this here ghost everybody was a-doin' so much jawin' about.
Just before I got to the church I let my horse walk real slow. I figgered I might need him to travel fast and I wanted to be ready to go if that ghost came after me. It wuz a nice moonlight night, I guess that is what gave me the courage to go and find the ghost. I stopped my horse down the hill aways from the cemetery, so's I could see this ghost. I figgered I'd be safe there, the ghost had never come down as far as I wuz. Well, by golly, I saw it! It seemed like he would raise up from the tombstones and then go down. Just up and down. I tell ya, I ain't braggin' when I say I finally screwed up enough courage to go up and see the ghost, I wuz plain scairt all the time.
It seemed like to me it took that old horse of mine forever to walk the distance to the graveyard. What do you think I saw when I got there? Well, I'll be dingblasted if it wuzn't a neighbor's ornery old gray horse.
Ya' see, this graveyard was on kinda of a ledge and all's we could see of that horse was his head, goin' up and down; down to grab some grass and up to chew it. There weren't no more ghost stories around them parts after that.
Are ya' religious? If you are I won't tell the story. All right. I ain't got nothin' against Catholics, I don't figger you can blame 'em for bein' Catholics. I don't understand much about what they're aimin' for, and I don't like much the way they aim for whatever they're aimin' for. This old man Donovan I'm goin' to tell ya about was a Catholic. Because he wuz a Catholic it resulted in makin' most of his life mighty miserable, aside from makin' him awful dingblasted mad.
Old man Donovan had two kids, Harry and Joe. Joe and me would fight every day I went to school; mainly, what I went to school for, I reckon. One day I went to school and Joe wasn't there. Right away, I figgered somethin' pretty important musta happened or else Joe'd be there.
Sure 'nuff! Later in the day we heard old man Donovan had died. Soon's the teacher heard that the old feller was gone she dismissed school.
Seems like they sort of needed some people to help around up at Donovan's, so the teacher asked my side-kick Bill, and me to go up there. Seein' as how my old man loaned the widow the money to send for the priest to come and pray Donovan out of Purgatory, I guess the teacher thought I'd be a good one to send.
The priest did his job all right. They laid Donovan out on a board that was supported by two chairs, threw a sheet over him and put the candles at his head and feet. After the priest left Bill and me were delegated to sit in the kitchen and watch the corpse, which wuz in an adjoining room. In the other room the widow and every Irishman and German within forty miles was a-holdin' the wake. Plenty of good liquor they were drinkin'. I remember of seein' two demijohns sittin' on the table when somebody opened the door. The house wuz on a hill and built out of shakes. The wind could sure make a howl when it tore into those shakes. The mind, coupled with the wailing of the wakers, made it sort of eerie settin' in the kitchen.
Bill wuz plenty scairt anyhow. This wuz the first time he'd ever been around a corpse. All of a sudden Bill and me heard the doggondest sound I'd ever heard. I decided the cat must have got into the corpse someway. God! I thought that wuz terrible. Here those people wuz dependin' on Bill and me to guard the corpse, and we'd let the cat into the body. I told Bill to pick up the metal-plated lamp and follow me.
We went in there and could see the sheet goin' up and down, up and down, with the most peculiar noise I ever heard a-comin' out of that corpse. Bill was a shakin' so that lamp sounded like a rattle. Bill takes a good look and says, "By God, I'm gettin' out of here." He shoves the lamp in my hand and runs like a scairt nigger for home.
I goes over and lifts up the sheet. By that time some of the wakers heard the noise and come in to see what it wuz all about. By golly, old Donovan was alive! They picked him up, put warm blankets, and hot water bottles around him. He got well and lived for 17 years.
Funny part about it wuz the fact that the priest wouldn't let him or his family go to church no more. The priest said he was a sinner and God had refused to take him, so he had to come back to earth. Anyway, he'd been prayed our of purgatory and there wuzn't anything could be done about it. Old man Donovan was the maddest man you ever saw. Poor bugger, he wuzn't no more of a sinner than anybody else. He died when he stepped in front of a freight train 17 years after this all happened.
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One time when I was working in a lumber camp a young swede came to work. Bein' purty young and not knowin' very much he was plenty cocky. The bull puncher got a little tired of the young 'uns blowin' so he figgered he'd fix him up.
Ya' know a lot of people don't know the difference between a cant hook and a peavy. The bull puncher figgerin' this young swede bein' a little dumb about things around the camp wouldn't know the difference. So the bull puncher sent the young 'un after the cant hook.
Sure nuff! The swede brought back a peavy. By ding! That bull puncher gave that young feller the finest piece of cussin' I ever heard one man give another. He started in on his ancestors and ended up with a Jim dandy of a finish. I reckon I'd better not tell ya' what he said you couldn't print it. (The interviewer agrees it couldn't be printed)
The young feller took it all in, never said a word. When the bull puncher finished he just said, "Well, I'll get one if it takes all day."
He kinda took the sting and fun outa the cussin' by bein' so nice about it. It tweren't a case of bein' yellow-- leastwise he didn't look scared a bit. I guess he was bound and determined to make good and no cussin' was gonna stop him.
Long toward evenin' I begin to get a little worried about the kid. I'd felt kinda sorry for him, and it was a cinch he was gonna be fired a-spendin' a whole day lookin' fer a damn cant hook.
Just before quittin' time the feller wanders in with a damn old mewly lookin' caw. "Fer God sakes," yelled the bull puncher, "whatcha doin' with that old cow?"
The young fellow with a real sober look said, "you wanted a cant hook, and this is the only thing I can find that can't hook."
After that the feller got along fine.
Story of a Presentiment
My brother Al, had this presentiment. He knowed the truth of this here murder afore he got a confession--I reckon why the story left such a heavy impression on me, because Al was district attorney. He allus dabbled a little in politics. Too, Al was in some danger, but the main thing was he had a presentiment and when Al had a presentiment ya' could purty near figger it bein' right.
There was an old man, his name is not clear in my mind that had a timber claim near home. I knowed the old duffer well. He was purty sociable and mighty well liked by everybody in the community.
After timber started gettin' to be a little scarce, people from the outside started comin' in and takin' up claims. There was a young feller and his wife that came into the country and took up a claim next to the old duffer. I ain't sure whether their claims joined or there was a forty between, anyway they were purty close together.
This here young feller didn't know nothin' much. He was kinda up against it to get started buildin' a place to live, buildin' fences, and all the other stuff you have to do. The old feller, first, felt kinda sorry for the young kids and started helpin' 'em.
The three of them got to be real pals. This old duffer'd come over every day and help the kids do their work. The young fellers wife'd cook 'em up a big feed and all was goin' well. This situation went on for a year. Pleasant, sociable, three-some.
Lots of times after the day's work, the men folks'd go out and hunt. One day the meat was a-runnin' low, so they decided to go out and get some. The old duffer brought a shot gun over from his place and told the young feller he could use the shot gun and kill some birds, and the old fellow could use the other gun and get a deer.
A couple of hours later the old man came back out of breath, and real excited. He tells the girl that her husband has accidentally shot himself. My brother bein' district attorney went out with the coroner to look into the case. Al got there, and although everythin' tallied up as far as the story went he figgered somethin' was funny about the situation. This is where Al had his presentiment. And as I told you when he got one it was always purty good.
The old duffer's story was that he had been walking in the lead. There was a vine maple layin' across the trail they were travelin' and as the young man climbed over this vine the gun got hung up on it some way and was discharged. When the old man heard the shot he turned around and saw the young fellow lying on the ground. By the time he got to him he was dead.
My brother Al took the old duffer into town and locked him up on suspicion. Jesus! The old man sure went on the warpath. He allowed he was goin' to get Al soon's he got out of the can.
Finally, the old fellow confessed. He'd shot the young fellow as he had climbed over the vine. The reason the old fellow shot the young 'un was because the old fool was infatuated with the wife.
By ding, the ornery old cuss, just afore they hanged him decided he was plenty sorry for what he done to those kids. To try and make amends he turns over everythin' he had to the widow. In the stuff he had was a heavy gold watch. The widow wouldn't take none of it. She said she wanted to have nothin' more to do with the old man.
Al figgers the lady needs money so's she can get back home to Kansas so he raffles the old man's watch off. This here raffle brought in quite a bit of money, which the lady took.
Funny part about the whole thing is that when the girl was a-comin' out from her place on horseback, the horse slipped and fell, throwin' her off. She bein' pregnant this made her awful sick. In fact, she died in just a couple of days.
Odd all three were dead in quick order. Nobody gained nothin' by what they did. That's what you get for covetin', I guess. Murder Solved by Flour.
There was an old couple about a half mile from me that was a whittlin' out a livin' on a turkey farm. It was just before Thanksgiving and they took a load of turkeys into town to sell them.
When they sold all of the turkeys they went around town a payin' their bills and buyin' their winter's grub. After they finished doin' all their buyin' all they had left was two dollars, which they took home with them to save.
Several days later some neighbors found them murdered. The bodies were sittin' in chairs by a table, in between two windows, kinda in the corner. On the table was the remains of a dinner. They had both been shot through the head. A bullet had been shot from outside one window, it entered the old man's head then passed through to the old lady's and went on out the other window. (This is not supposed to be a tall tale).
Detectives from all over the country worked on the case. They couldn't figger out who done it or why. Outside of maybe, somebody thought they had money on hand. All the detectives could find that had been taken was a clock and the two dollars.
The local sheriff had always fancied himself as sorta of a detective. He messed around the place and couldn't find much of a clue. Wanderin' around he found down by the river at the boat landin' a lot of flour. He went into town and found out the old folks had bought up a supply for the winter, but there wasn't any flour at the house.
He figger'd then the murderer had stolen the flour. Followin' this lead he went down the river till he come to a boat landin' where a number of fishermen docked. Sure 'nuff! He found traces of flour at one of the fisherman's docks. He arrested the feller all right. Didn't have no trouble atall a gettin' the goods on him. They found the flour and the clock in the feller's house. The trial was quite excitin'. I never will forget old Judge McCready, the baseball magnate, was presidin'. When he sentenced the feller he stood up straight and unconcerned like. I never heard a voice sound so loud and heavy as the old Judge said, "You will hang by the neck until dead --- dead --- dead." God 'twas awful.
They hung the guy all right. 'Twas when the counties did their own hangin'. Seems like the hangman's knot slipped someway and instead of breakin' his neck it just tore the neck about half off. Blood spurted out of him like a chicken with his head cut off.
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Extra Comment :
The informant in
this interview was cooperative to the
fullest extent of his ability.


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SpiderForest Comic of the Week:
Chirault by Varethane.
Chirault is a charming, lighthearted fantasy romp about a girl named Teeko and Kiran, a demon hunter. Teeko is accidentally shrunk by a magic spell to the size of a mouse, and she ends up riding on Kiran's shoulder as they look for a way to undo the spell as well as save a city or two from imploding. That's the gist of it, though my summary doesn't do the comic justice at all… Chirault balances its humor and small character moments with a larger plot (the imploding cities bit) rather well. And I must say, the frog demon that Kiran fights at the beginning of the story is one of the creepiest (yet cool-looking) things I've seen in visual fiction in awhile…


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Brennan a step closer to landing a state berth
Published 11:15 pm, Friday, February 22, 2013
A year ago, this was all new for the Brennan girls basketball team.
The pressure. The expectations. The adulation. The Bears, senior Ashlynn Graham said, weren't quite ready for the situation. They lost after opening the season with 36 straight wins.
Afforded a second opportunity on the same stage, Brennan this time came up big – literally and figuratively.
Capitalizing on their decisive height advantage, the Bears toppled Corpus Christi Ray 55-26 on Friday in a Region IV-4A semifinal contest at Littleton Gym.
Brennan (29-8) will play Cedar Park Vista Ridge at 2 p.m. today in the regional final. The winner advances to UIL state tournament next week in Austin.
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"I think we're more prepared this year, just because we know what to expect," said Graham, who had eight points.
The experience showed as the Bears, winners of 22 straight, scored the game's first nine points and never looked back. They led by 33 points at one juncture in the second half.
"I think that we all, in some way, worked together and helped each other throughout the game," said center Deja Mason, who had 14 points.
Tanaeya Boclair tallied a game-high 15 points, and Kiara Etheridge chipped in 10 as Brennan dominated in the paint with its size.
The Bears have eight players that stand 5-foot-11 or taller, with the 6-3 Mason being the tallest.
Shanell Stewart is the tallest player for Ray (29-9) at 5-11.
"I don't know how many rebounds we got, but we were trying," Ray coach Roy De La Pena said. "We haven't seen that much height."
Leading 32-27 at halftime, Cedar Park (33-3) outscored Floresville 15-6 in the third stanza to seize control.
Japreece Dean and Rachel Purl each tallied 12 for the Rangers. Nneoma Duru had 10.
De Havalan Watts totaled a game-high 24 points, including 19 in the first half to pace Floresville, which advanced to regionals in Jaguars coach Terri Twilligear's first season, despite being hit hard by graduation.


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Kitchen and bath manufacturer American Standard Canada has hired Toronto-based Maverick as its PR and social media agency of record.
Under general manager Yves Dalcourt, who joined American Standard Canada earlier this year, the company is aiming to revitalize the brand in Canada.
"We need to reintroduce the brand because unfortunately it's known as a plumbers' brand and an institutional brand—it's in schools and commercial buildings," said Julie Rusciolelli, president of Maverick. "That's a big part of their business, but consumers have forgotten what a beautiful brand they are."
Maverick will work with the company on elevating its Canadian media presence and increasing its online presence through social media networks, and will also be working with American Standard's DXV luxury line. Plus, the firm will play a big role in the organization and promotion of American Standard's involvement at the Interior Design Show 2015, which takes place in January.
"We're creating new digital properties for them and we'll be creating the narrative and voice for American Standard online," said Rusciolelli. First, the agency is targeting do-it-yourself men and women. Down the road, interior designers will be part of the outreach program.
"We are going to talk to a lot of consumers and not just your average Joe plumber," said Rusciolelli. "The plumber knows who we are and we want to make sure he stays with us, but there are a lot of people renovating bathrooms who have no idea how beautiful American Standard's merchandise is."


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Title: Johnnie Come Lately
Author: Kathleen M.Rodgers
Price/Formats: $4.95 ebook, $9.75 paperback
Genre: Military Family, Women's Fiction, Literary Fiction
Pages: 292
Publisher: Camel Press
Release: February 1, 2015
Buy Links: Amazon/Barnes & Noble/BAM
Would life have been different for Johnnie if she'd been named after a woman rather than her dead uncle? Or if her mama hadn't been quite so beautiful or flighty? The grandparents who raised her were loving, but they didn't understand the turmoil roiling within her. And they had so many, many secrets.
Why did her mama leave? Would she ever return? How did her Uncle Johnny really die? Who was her father? Now Johnnie Kitchen is a 43-year-old woman with three beautiful children, two of them grown. She has a handsome, hardworking husband who adores her, and they live in the historic North Texas town of Portion in a charming bungalow. But she never finished college and her only creative outlet is a journal of letters addressed to both the living and the dead. Although she has conquered the bulimia that almost killed her, Johnnie can never let down her guard, lest the old demons return. Or perhaps they never went away to begin with. For Johnnie has secrets of her own, and her worst fear is that the life she's always wanted–the one where she gets to pursue her own dreams–will never begin.
Not until her ghosts reveal themselves.
My Review:
I received this book in exchange for a fair and honest review. All opinions in this review are 100% my own.
This is a book that really pulls at your heartstrings. Johnnie is an adult that was raised by her grandparents. Her mom was in and out of her life as a small child. Once she married, her mom was gone for over 20 yrs.
Johnnie was named after her uncle Johnny that died before she was born. There have been family secrets about her uncle's death and why her mom disappeared so much and for so long.
Johnnie is now married with 3 children. Johnnie has her own secrets and when they come out her family is torn apart.
I really felt bad for Johnnie. She has a lot of things to deal with from her past and they always work their way into your present and future if you don't deal with them.
I really enjoyed this book and can't wait to read the next one in the series.
Award-winning author Kathleen M. Rodgers is a former frequent contributor to Family Circle magazine and Military Times. Her work has also appeared in anthologies published by McGraw-Hill, University of Nebraska Press/Potomac Books, Health Communications, Inc., AMG Publishers, and Press 53. She is the author of the award-winning novel, The Final Salute, featured in USA Today, The Associated Press, and Military Times. Deer Hawk Publications reissued the novel in e-book and paperback September of 2014.
Her second novel, Johnnie Come Lately, released from Camel Press February 1, 2015. Barnes & Noble in Southlake, TX hosted the official launch on February 7, and Kathleen signed copies of both novels for three hours straight. In 2014, she was named a Distinguished Alumna from Tarrant County College/NE Campus.
She is the mother of two grown sons, Thomas, a graduate of University of North Texas and a working artist in Denton, TX, and J.P., a graduate of Texas Tech University and a former Army officer who earned a Bronze Star in 2014 in Afghanistan. Kathleen's husband, Tom, is a retired fighter pilot/commercial airline pilot, and they reside in Colleyville, TX with their rescue dog, Denton. Kathleen is working on a new novel titled Seven Wings to Glory and is represented by Loiacono Literary Agency.
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Back in April I talked about an ambitious vision to create a green corridor from Yellowstone to the Yukon in a bid to ensure that wildlife populations along the route aren't isolated by development. It's a noble cause, one that some day I hope becomes reality.
Well, today I'm happy to tell you that a group of Montanans has successfully banded together to, in a small way, help that cause by backing not only tough new regulations that will pertain to coalbed-methane development but also to prevent urban sprawl on the doorstep of Yellowstone National Park.
While the land-zoning regulations adopted today by the Gallatin County Commission don't create an outright ban on coalbed-methane on 23,000 acres of Bozeman Pass, they are seen as a significant step to protecting the pass, its water, and the wildlife that rely upon it to move in and out of Yellowstone.
"The Bozeman Pass is potentially sort of a bottleneck that, if developed, could easily severe the greater Yellowstone area from wild lands to the north, so strategically (the new regulations) are really important," Dennis Glick of the Sonoran Institute told me.
Protecting wildlife corridors is an immensely huge necessity if we as a society are to ensure that the animals within our national parks don't someday find themselves on an island, isolated from other wildlife that can help guarantee genetic diversity.
Already, according to the National Parks Conservation Association, steady population growth and inadequate funding have combined to hamstring many parks and their wildlife. Growth not only is generating pollution, but is impinging on the wild lands necessary for survival of animals such as wolves, bears, bison and migratory species.
As the NPCA's Laura Loomis once told me: "Many of our parks are becoming strangled, the noose being local development. When you do have development encircle a park, it has a huge impact on the natural processes that keep a park a living organism."
In the case of Bozeman Pass, it's critical to free movement of elk, deer, black bears, mountain lions and other wildlife in and out of Yellowstone.
The top map, perhaps a bit hard to decipher due to the size of this blog page, shows where the pass is in relation to Yellowstone. The second map is a closeup, showing how vital the corridor is to wildlife. The legend explains that the best wildlife habitat has been colored dark green, with the worst in purple. The varying shades in between depict varying degrees of habitat.
Today's achievement wasn't an overnight success. For four years private landowners on the pass met to discuss how they could prevent coalbed-methane development on 17,000 acres on the pass. While the pass's residents owned the surface rights, they didn't own the mineral rights. Rather, those rights belonged to an out-of-state energy corporation that was eying the rolling landscape to the east of Bozeman for its possible energy resources.
Rather than wait to see what might happen, the pass's residents came together to see if they couldn't preserve not just the landscape but their way of life.
"Instead of paralyzing our community, the threat of coalbed-methane drilling galvanized us," says Gray Davidson, one of the landowners. "We came together, neighbor-to-neighbor, and stuck with it for four years. We didn't agree on everything, but we forged a compromise that will protect our rural way of life and the wildlife that depend on this migration corridor."
The achievement was made possible by a Montana law that allows communities to develop citizen-initiated zoning districts. Under the law, if 60 percent of the residents within a proposed zoning district vote in favor of it, the respective county commission must consider it.
Well, today, the Gallatin County Commission not only considered it, but adopted it immediately.
"The county commissioners made this citizen effort possible and they deserve enormous credit," says Barb Cestero, director of community outreach for the Greater Yellowstone Coalition. "They turned a crisis and a profound feeling of helplessness into a constructive community discussion. They made it possible for citizens to shape their future instead of allowing industrial development to be forced on the community by an out-of-state corporation."
So, what exactly do the newly enacted regulations do? They require that any energy company study water supplies and other sensitive resources and submit operational plans for local review and approval before they drill for coalbed methane. Additionally, if the drilling project is approved, the regs require the companies involved to use best-available technology and to post a bond to pay for any needed cleanup.
Beyond energy development, the regulations also restrict future subdivision development within the new district to an average density of one home per 80 acres in some areas and one per 40 acres in other areas.
This dispersion has been praised by Montana's Department of Fish, Wildlife and Parks and some independent wildlife biologists as an effective tool to protect wildlife.
As Glick, whose organization works with communities throughout the West to development sound management plans, noted above, protecting Bozeman Pass from unbridled development is crucial to keeping Yellowstone's wildlife healthy.
"This happens to be a place that is ecologically very important," he told me.