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JOHNSON COUNTY BUSINESS DIRECTORIES 1881 Knob Noster
Gleaned from:
The History of Johnson Co., Mo. 1881
Kansas City Historical Co.
Baker, J. R., Dealer in Dry Goods
Baker, Mrs. S. A., Milliner
Brnton & Collins, Livery & Feed Stables
Carr, Richard, Printer
Carr, Will D., Editor, Gem
Case & Larkin, Dealers in Hardware
Cobb, C., Postmaster & Hardware Dealer
Collins & Wells, Dealers in Hardware
Cornelius, E. A., Grocer
Dawson, Charles, Dealer in Drugs
DeArman & Wells, Dealers in Dry Goods
Dennison, J. N. & Sons, Knob Noster Mills
Elbert & Carr, Grocers
Elliott, C. M., Central House
Elliott, Mrs. M. H., Proprietor Central House
Furguson, Wm. A., Dealer in Notions
Gardon, Mrs. M. E., Proprietor, City Hotel
Gem, A Weekly Paper issued on Fridays
Gilbert, L. W., Agent for McCormack Binders
Gordon, Mrs. M. E., City Hotel
Hardy, Gordon, Dealer in Dry Goods
Harris, H., Dealer in Saddles and Harness
Harris, Pres., Saloonist
Harrison, G. P., Saloonist
Huff, Dr. C. V., Dentist
Hughes, V., Blacksmith
Hull, Dr. L. D., Physician
Hutchinson, Alice, Dressmaker
Irwin, W. W., Painter
Jackson, Mrs. Mary, Toys & Notions
Johnson, Thomas, Tailor
Kelly, S. G., Attorney at Law
Kerby & McFarland, Barbers
Kinzey & Talpey, Druggists
Lewis, E. G., Photographer
Littlefield, C. B., Cashier, Bank of Knob Noster
Littlefield, C. B., Editor, Review
Lutz, Geo. W., Dealer in Furniture
Maddex, J. P., Saloonist
Maddex, Wm., Printer
Maupin, Charles, Boot & Shoe Maker
McCabe, Guy, House & Sign Painter
McCabe, Mrs. Guy, Boarding House
Mercer & Gladfelter, (Misses), Milliners
Miller, Dr. L. C., Physician
Miller, J. C., Wagon Maker
Pennington, A. O. T., R. R. Ticket Agent
Pennington, Chas., Baggage Master
Perkins, G. H., Dealer in Lumber
Pragheimer, M., Dealer in Clothing
Rhodes, W. W., Boot & Shoe Maker
Rigg, T. E., Carpenter & Builder
Rust & McVeigh, Lumber Dealers
Shockley, J. L., Blacksmith
Shultz & Wooding, Barbers
Spake, A. C., Shoemaker
Thornton, D. E. L., Dealer in Harness
Tussey & Sons, Druggists
Ward, M. D., Wagon Maker
Warren, Dr. J. H., Physician
Wells, Mrs. Sarah, Milliner
Wilson, Mrs. M. M., Milliner
Zink, T. E., Livery Stable
1918 History (Knob Noster)
Source: "History of Johnson County, Missouri" by Ewing Cockrell, 1918
Transcribed by Karen Hammer -2009
Washington was one of the first four townships of the county and originally comprised approximately the northeast quarter of the county. It was organized May 4, 1835. It was named for George Washington.
Washington Township, Johnson County, MO
Knob Noster.-One of the unusual physical features of the township is what is known as the Knobs, two prominent knolls located just north of the town of Knob Noster, from which the town derived its name. They both rise a considerable height above the surrounding country. Much conjecture and a great deal of unreliable tradition envelop the history of these mounds. The early settlers for many years regarded these knobs as prominent land marks. An Indian tradition is that a great battle was fought here at one time. Human bones have been exhumed from these mounds but the mystery of how they came there is still unsolved. There is also an Indian tradition that these mounds are the hiding place of valuable treasure which was buried here some time in the past. Concerning the curiosity with which these mounds were viewed as late as 1879, the following article appeared in the "Knob Noster Gem," under date of November 28, 1879: "Just north of Knob Noster are two hills known as the Knobs. For some time there has been talk of the possible contents of these Knobs but almost everybody laughed at the idea of them containing anything more than the surrounding land. However, there were a few who still thought there was a bonanza in the hill if it could only be gotten out.
Knobs of Knob Noster, Missouri
Washington Township, Johnson County, MO
Last Saturday, W. L. Shockley and R. H. Carr shouldered a pick and struck out for the Knobs. After a few hours' digging they found the skeletons of several human beings, together with other curiosities, which were buried with the Indians, Mound Builders or whoever they were."
Early Settlements.-The first settler of the original Washington township of whom we have any record is said to have been John Leeper, who settled in what is now Grover township. Col. John Robinson states in the Johnson County History of 1881: "In about 1828, John Leeper. son-in-law of Peter Fisher, of Pettis county, settled in the woods in section 22, township 47 and range 25, and improved five or six acres. Just northeast of him in section 16 William Cheek settled about the same time and in 1831 built the old Gallaher mill in section 6, on Clear Fork." The first land entry by Cheek was November 30. 1832, in Montserrat township.
Joseph Lapsley came from Russell county, Kentucky, in 1837 and died in 1854. John Coy settled here in 1833 and died in 1850. He was also a Kentuckian. Spencer Adams, a native of North Carolina, is said to have settled in this township in 1835. (He made land entry in 1832.) He died in 1867. Ambrose Brockman. from Russell county, Kentucky. settled here in 1837 and died in 1848. James A. Gallaher was also a very early settler. Vally Hall, a Kentuckian, came here in 1835 and died in 1868. John Stewart, also a Kentuckian, came in 1834 and died in 1843. Samuel Graham from Kentucky, made his home here in 1834 and died six years later. Thomas M. Ramsey settled on section 14 in 1859. Jonathan Butler, Alexander and William Gregg. James Ray. and George Gallaher were also pioneers who settled here in the thirties. A German named Strickland settled on section 12 in 1836 but a few years later, when the settlers began to locate within two or three miles of each other, he began to feel crowded and went farther south. Among others who settled here prior to 1840, were W. A. Williams, Jacob Knaus, Samuel Workman, W. H. DeArman, James Brown, Richard McCombs, Henry Hayes, Fred Houck, John Reed, Andrew Thompson, George Thornton, Samuel McCormack, Benjamin Howard, William Box, W. R. McCart.
At a general election held in Knob Noster on the first Monday in August, 1858, appear the names of A. Hargraves, Samuel McKeen and Jacob Knaus as judges, and J. C. Corum as clerk. All were sworn in August 2, 1858, by J. B. Mayes, justice of the peace.
(At this election two hundred and fifty votes were cast.)
Among the first to enter government land in this township were Richard Marshall, October 4, 1833; James Ray, March 1. 1834, and Henry Edwards, June 13, 1834.
Early Churches.-The earliest church in what is now Washington township was Pleasant Grove church, a union building owned by the Cumberland Presbyterians and Southern Methodists in the south part of the township.
It was organized in 1853-54 by Rev. John B. Morrow. The building was erected since the Civil War and dedicated by Revs. J. H. Hint and Mr. Young.
Early pastors of this church were W. Gilliam, W. Compton, B. W. Pierce, E. Morgan, J. B. Morrow, J. Whitsett. B. F. Thomas, J. T. A. Henderson and L. H. Davis.
Old members were William Geery and wife, Daniel Adams, Susan Adams, Isaiah Kimzey and wife and C. P. Phillips.
The next churches organized were in Knob Noster town, and are included in the history of that town.
Early Schools.-The first log school house erected in the township was a crude structure. 10 by 16 feet, located in the northeastern quarter of section 10. One log was cut out to admit light. The clapboard roof was held on by weight poles, the door swung on wooden hinges and was fastened by a latch made of wood. In 1837, another log school house was built along the same general line of architecture on the southeast quarter of section 11. Here Jesse Trapp and James Ford taught school for a time. In 1838. a log school house was built on section 23. This building was along the same general lines as the others with one log left out for a window. The seats were made of puncheons and the heating system consisted of a fire-place. James Cochran was the first teacher here. The next school house was erected in the old town of Knob Noster. This was built in 1856 and was of the frame type of building. In 1866, it was moved two miles northeast of the old town on the south half of section 12 in Oak Grove District No. 10.
Among the early teachers at Oak Grove school were D. D. Duncan, Miss Sophia Welsh, J. R. Rainwater, J. M. Bigley. Mrs. Anna Dunn, Reuben Reaves, W. R. DeLaney, Reuben Wade, Thomas Prather, William O'Bannon, W. H. Hatton, H. C. Sparrowhawk, J. P. Walker, H. T. Williams, J. E. Gatewood, J. H. Allen, and Everett Miller. Prairie Home school, in District No. S, succeeded an old school called Quail Trapp, built in 1866. The following were early teachers in this district: Miss M. Brown, B. C. Stephens, Thomas H. Jones, Miss Nellie Zimmerman, Charles B. Littlefield. Miss Laura Lutz, Miss Alice Wharton, Frank P. Langston, Davidson Grover, Peter Lynch, Miss Sallie Zoll, Miss Bettie Duffield, Miss Myra Houts and Miss Mollie Guihen, John McKeehan, Mrs. D. A. McCormick, J. P. Wallace, A. J. Sparks and John Byrne.
Justices.-The following are the justices of the peace of the township as far back as the county court records show, with dates of their election: 1842, Richard C. Wariner, Samuel Workman, William H. Collins; 1844, Jacob Knaus. Jacob Raper, Henry S. Pease; 1846, William Kirkpatrick; 1850, Hiram C. Key, Robert M. Maxwell, Squire Williams; 1852, Zachariah Clark, John Bobbitt; 1856, William P. Mayes, John Bobbitt; 1860, N. Fisher, John Bobbitt; 1862, Samuel Workman; 1870, A. E. Weidman, William Fisher; 1878, W. H. Anderson, B. R. Tompkins; 1882, J. W. Denison, H. J. Adams; 1886, P. D. Fitch, John S. Mayes; 1888, W. H. Anderson; 1890, L. B. Thomas, J. W. Mitchell, Taylor Kirkpatrick; 1896, John M. Kelly; 1898, A. M. Craig, A. W. Wheatley; 1900, J. M. Mitchell; 1902,.A. M. Craig, B. F. Summers; 1906, George L. Taylor, B. F. Summers; 1908, S. P. Caldwell, F. S. Denton; 1910, J. C. Metts, John T. Lay; 1914, Jacob H. Knaus, J. C. Metz.
County Officers.-The following are the county officers who have been elected from the township since 1882, with the dates of their election:
1892-George N. Hocker (Democrat), representative.
1894-96-George T. Gallaher (Democrat), surveyor.
1894-96-L. B. Thomas (Democrat), assessor.
1900-1904-T. J. Summers (Democrat), assessor.
1902-C. D. Thompson (Democrat), superintendent of schools.
1904-08-12-A. M. Craig (Democrat), public administrator.
1908-B. F. Summers (Democrat), county judge.
1912-14-Ed. S. Harte (Democrat), county judge.
County Road Improvements.-County road improvements made by Washington township since this system was established in 1911, were up to January 1, 1918, nineteen in number, and aggregated $1,224 furnished by the citizens of the township, and $1,025 by the county. In this particular Washington township ranks seventh among the townships of the county.
Organizations.-The following is a complete list of all organizations of every kind in Washington township. Full details of each organization are in separate chapters on the different organizations.
Churches-Baptist, Knob Noster; Catholic, Knob Noster; Christian, Knob Noster; Cumberland Presbyterian, Pleasant Grove; Cumberland Presbyterian, New Church: Latter Day Saints, Knob Noster; Methodist, Knob Noster; Methodist, South, Knob Noster; Presbyterian, Knob Noster.
1917 War Organizations-Red Cross, Knob Noster Branch.
Fraternal Organizations-Masons, Odd Fellows, Knights of Pythias, Modern Woodmen, Mystic Workers, Royal Neighbors.
Miscellaneous Organiations-Swastikas.
Business Organiations-Bank of Knob Noster, Peoples State Bank.
Total number of organizations in township is nineteen.
Knob Noster, one of the progressive towns of the county, is on the main line of the Missouri Pacific railroad about three miles from the Pettis county line.
The town is situated in sections 15. 16, 21 and 22. The old town of Knob Noster was located about a mile north of where the depot now stands and still contains a number of houses on its one broad street.
The present town came into existence when the Pacific railroad was built. William Wortham was perhaps the pioneer merchant in the old town of Knob Noster.
The first post office was established here in 1850 before any town or village was laid out. It was located at the residence of Andrew Thompson, who became the first postmaster. Other early postmasters here were James Morrow, John Satoris, Charles Vantillman, Robert Dawson, William Mayes, John A. Pigg, William Chester, Miss Jennie Chester and C. Cobb.
The "Knob Noster Gem" is one of the old newspapers in the county. Its first issue was printed May 31, 1878, with Harris & McFarland as editors and proprietors. It is now unusually well edited by E. T. Hodges.
Other newspapers published at Knob Noster from time to time were the "Farmer," 1872, the "Register," "Local," "Herald" and "Review."
The following are the churches of the town with dates of organization: Cumberland Presbyterian; Baptist, 1856; Catholic, soon after Civil War; Latter Day Saints, 1889; Methodist. 1865; Christian, 1866; Presbyterian, 1867; Baptist Negro; Methodist Negro.
The town has electric light service, two banks, high school, good oiled streets, a large well established brick plant and all lines of ordinary business.
The population, 1910, was 670.
The following is a list of city officers:
Chairmen.-1877, H. C. Coffman; 1878, P. O. Sullivan; 1879-80. B. R. Tompkins; 1881, J. H. Knaus.
Mayors.-1901-04, B. F. Summers; 1905-06, C. V. Huff, Jr.; 1907-12, A. M. Craig; 1913-14, J. H. Rothwell; 1915-18, A. M. Craig.
Aldermen.-1877, V. Hughes, C. Cobb, P. O. Sullivan, G. Hardey; 1878, V. Hughes, C. Cobb, H. C. Coffman, G. Hardey; 1879, V. Hughes, C. Cobb, P. O. Sullivan, G. Hardey; 1880, J. C. Winkler, J. Carr, G. O. Talpey, W. J. Workman; 1881, J. L. Winkler, C. B. Littlefield, A. D. Wilson, J. C. Miller; 1901, J. V. Campbell, L. P. Shafer, E. A. Shepherd, A. G. Hunter; 1902, J. M. Kendrick, J. C. Foster; 1903, C. B. Littlefield. G. C. Miller; 1904, J. N. Kendrick, G. N. Hocker; 1905. E. E. Thompson, W. W. Spiess; 1906, J. M. Kendrick, W. B. Daw, D. N. Saults; 1907, J. C. Metts, W. B. Daw; 1908, Wm. Shoemaker, D. N. Saults; 1909, J. T. Lay, J. C. Metts. J. C. Foster; 1910, J. T. Lay, J. W. Mclntosh; 1911. S. A. Spiess, Hill Hunter; 1912, S. J. Dudley, Jehu Hull; 1913, S. A. Spiess, Frank Jenks; 1914, C. W. Weidman, C. L. Saults; 1915, S. A. Spiess. Frank Jenks; 1916, C. W. Wiedman, C. L. Saults; 1917, J. M. Kendrick, Wm. Ragner; 1918, C. W. Weidman, C. L. Saults.
Clerks.-1901-06, George J. Taylor; 1907-09, Charles Y. Taylor; 1910-13, C. L. Saults; 1914-18.W. J. Carr.
Police Judges.--1901-04. J. C. Winkler; 1905-06, W. C. Knaus; 1907-08, J. M. Kinman; 1908-10, Mark Kidney; 1910-14, W. C. Knaus; 1915-18, J. C. Foster.
Marshals.-1881. T. E. Rigg; 1901-03. J. H. Brendel; 1904-06, J. W. Bailey: 1907-08, William Covey; 1909-10, George Kinman; 1910, W. C. Knaus; 1911-14, W. B. Arbogast; 1915-16, R. F. Clark; 1916, George Kinman; 1917, H. T. Hite, Hill Hunter; 1918, Hill Hunter, L. W. Scott.
Collectors.-1901-02, A. M. Craig; 1903, C. C. Hayes; 1904-06, J. W. Bailey; 1907-14. William Covey; 1915-16, R. F. Clark; 1916, George Kinman: 1917,
H. T. Hite; 1917-18. Hill Hunter.
Street Commissioners.-1901, A. M. Craig; 1903-06, B. P. Michael; 1907-15, R. F. Clark: 1916-18, George Kinman.
Treasurers.-1901-04, Ed S. Harte; 1905-08, W. T. Zuber; 1909-12, S. L. Doggett; 1913-18, A. S. Adcock.
Attorneys.-1901-08, S. G. Kelly; 1909-12, E. C. Littlefield; 1913-16. J. H. Knaus; 1917-18, E. C. Littlefield.


text: Media 25 April 2018 Express freaks out at Jeremy Corbyn's THREE HOURS of "silence" on royal baby news A shocking delay. Getty Sign UpGet the New Statesman's Morning Call email. Sign-up In perhaps the most comic iteration of the exciting new genre of journalism known as Jeremy Corbyn Patriotism Watch, the Express is absolutely fuming at the fact that it took the Labour leader – who has a full-time job, y'know, leading the opposition – THREE WHOLE HOURS to respond to the news that Kate Middleton gave birth to her third child. "Jeremy Corbyn SILENT for HOURS after Kate and William welcome royal baby," it screamed in the purist pearl-clutch in headline form. Screenshot from express.co.uk Apparently the Labour leader was a few hours behind the Prime Minister – who responded in half an hour – in congratulating the Cambridges on their new baby. Who knew the fifth in line to the throne would provoke this level of royal baby hysteria? Surely the Express has other priorities – a topical defence of Theresa May's "hostile environment" policy towards immigrants, maybe? It was St George's Day, after all. Pull your finger out, Express. › Why Amber Rudd won't suggest real solutions to the worsening Windrush scandal I'm a mole, innit. Subscribe For more great writing from our award-winning journalists subscribe for just £1 per month!

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As retail sales remain strong, traffic at the nation's container ports continues to grow as well, according to the Global Port Tracker report from the National Retail Federation and Hackett Associates.
Ports covered by the monthly report handled 1.9 million Twenty-Foot Equivalent Units (TEU) in July, up 2.8% from June and up 5.6% year-over-year. A TEU is one 20-foot-long cargo container or its equivalent.
"More tariffs could come any day, and retailers have been bringing in record amounts of merchandise ahead of that in order to mitigate the impact on their customers," said Jonathan Gold, NRF vp/supply chain and customs policy. "Retail sales are growing stronger than expected this year thanks to tax cuts and job creation, but tariffs are the wild card that threatens to throw away a significant portion of those benefits."
August was estimated at 1.92 million TEU, up 4.8% year-over-year. September is forecast at 1.83 million TEU, up 2.4%; October at 1.88 million, up 5%; November at 1.79 million TEU, up 1.7%, and December also at 1.79 million TEU, up 3.6%. January 2019 is forecast at 1.77 million TEU, up 0.4% over January 2018.
August was the third month in a row to set a new record for the number of containers imported during a single month, following July's 1.9 million TEU and June's 1.85 million TEU. The previous record of 1.83 million TEU was set in August 2017.
The first half of 2018 totaled 10.3 million TEU, an increase of 5.1% over the first half of 2017. The total for 2018 is expected to reach 21.4 million TEU, an increase of 4.4% over last year's record 20.5 million TEU.


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It's National Bike To Work Month, the perfect time to dust off the old ten speed and give bicycle commuting a try. The Weather Channel posted a video of Al Roker describing the pleasure he gets from seeing New York while the "city is still asleep" when he bikes to work. Plus, it's a great way to get some exercise. But bicycle commuting offers other benefits than exercise and the opportunity to slow down and enjoy the scenery. Bike to work, and you'll reap great health and monetary rewards.
Bicycle commuting saves money — a LOT of money.
Just look at the numbers from AAA and the Sierra Club: your car costs you about $8,900 a year, thanks to fuel, maintenance and insurance costs. Traffic jams alone cost commuters more than $700 in wasted fuel burned while idling. Compare that to a bike, which only costs $310 a year to maintain:
"If American drivers were to make just one four-mile round trip each week with a bicycle instead of a car, they would save nearly 2 billion gallons of gas. At $4 per gallon, total savings would be $7.3 billion a year."
The bicycle commuting tax credit: get paid for taking your bike to work.
You not only save money with bicycle commuting, you can earn some too, thanks to the bicycle commuting tax credit. Uncle Sam will reimburse you up to $20 a month for expenses just for regularly taking your bike to work instead of your car. Get the details at the National Center for Transit Research.
You inhale less exhaust when you bike to work than when you drive.
File this bicycle commuting fact under "who knew?" It's counter-intuitive but it turns out that you inhale more harmful fuel emissions driving than biking. According to environmental news blog The Grist, the reason is location, location, location: drivers are "very close to sucking on the tailpipe of the MES just ahead of them… bikers and pedestrians are on the outskirts."
Do you bike to work? Have some tips for newbies looking to get started? Share your advice on bicycle commuting in the comments.
Sources: Business Insider, The Weather Channel, Grist, National Center for Transit Research.


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My Monday tradition, including a look back and a look ahead — what I read last week, what new books came my way, and what books are keeping me busy right now. Plus a smattering of other stuff too.
In real life:
Another crazy, busy week! I feel like I did nothing but work and sleep, and barely had time to read. Frustrating!
Elsewhere on the blog:
I pondered whether reading the book before watching the TV or movie version is always the best approach. I'd love to hear what you think! Check out my post, here.
What did I read last week?
The Steep & Thorny Way by Cat Winters: Another outstanding book from an author who has quickly moved onto my list of favorites! My review is here.
I finished the audiobook of The Hundred-Foot Journey by Richard C. Morais, my book group's pick for March. My thoughts are here.
And although I was in the midst of something else, I gave into a sudden urge to read the 2nd book in Lois Lowry's The Giver quartet, Gathering Blue. It was a quick but powerful read. Now I need #3!
Outlander update!
I'm continuing with my Outlander rewatch. This week's posts included:
Episode 109 – The Reckoning
Episode 110 – By The Pricking Of My Thumbs
I just haven't had enough time! Six more episodes to go… and season two starts in 2 weeks!!!
Fresh Catch:
No new books this week!
What will I be reading during the coming week?
Currently in my hands:
I'm about 20% of the way into The Summer Before the War by Helen Simonson. I would have gotten further, except for my detour to read Gathering Blue. But now I'm back on track!
Now playing via audiobook:
I'm about to start the audiobook of Miss Peregrine's Home For Peculiar Children. I read it when it first came out, but I've been wanting to do a re-read before reading the other two books in this series. We'll see how it goes, and whether the audiobook is satisfying without being able to see all the bizarre photos that go with.
Ongoing reads:
My book group is reading and discussing two chapter per week of both Written in My Own Heart's Blood by Diana Gabaldon and Emma by Jane Austen. This is an online group, and anyone is welcome to join us — so if you're interested, just ask me how!
So many books, so little time…


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"And yet there was but one woman to him, and that woman was the late Irene Adler, of dubious and questionable memory." —"A Scandal in Bohemia," Arthur Conan Doyle
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When reading The Mortal Word—the fifth book in Genevieve Cogman's Invisible Library series, which follows the adventures of Irene Winters, librarian for the titular magical, multi-dimensional library—it's impossible not to think of another literary Irene who shaped the mold for her: Doyle's Irene Adler.
After all, Cogman's time-and-dimension-hopping librarian lives in a "vaguely Victorian England with a tendency towards steam power, zeppelins, libertines, and Great Detectives."
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But, even more than that, The Mortal Word in particular begins with a mystery worthy of Holmes himself, and naturally, solving it requires the services of Peregrine Vale, the Great Detective of Irene's world.
A murder has occurred in a Paris similar to the 1920s City of Lights we knew, and its reverberations may well destroy worlds—not to mention Irene's parents. A peace conference between the Dragons (the forces of order) and the Fae (the forces of chaos) is underway in this version of Paris (seen as neutral territory) . These two communities of magical beings have been waging a covert war across worlds for as long as anyone can remember. The Librarians are tasked with keeping the universes stabile, removing dangerous books from the various worlds of the multi-verse and storing them in the inter-dimensional library.
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The Librarians are, theoretically, a neutral third party, and were brought in as mediators for the peace conference's secrets talks. Despite their best efforts, the talks have broken down due to the aforementioned murder of a member of the Dragon party. Naturally, the Fae are suspect, the Dragons are angry, and the Librarians are caught in the middle. Irene and Vale must solve the crime, and fast. Angry dragons are difficult in human form. Angry dragons in dragon form are to be avoided at all costs.
No big stakes, then. Just Ireen's own life, the lives of the Librarians being held hostage (including her parents) to ensure the Library remains neutral in the peace talks, and maybe the safety of all the known worlds.
All Irene has on her side is her wits, her disregard of the proper rules, and her supernatural ability to use the "Word" of the Library to cause things to happen. Think Zatanna, except Irene doesn't have to speak backward.
With Irene are her allies: Vale and the Dragon Prince Kai, once Irene's apprentice and now her potential love interest. (Now that she's no longer his mentor… Irene's scruples no longer apply ow that Kai no longer works for her.)The investigative party also includes representatives of the Dragons and the Fae, in the human forms that they wear in this Paris. Neither proves to be particularly helpful, nor particularly trustworthy. Solving the crime isn't going to be so easy, even with the help of the great detective.
The Mortal Word is a fast-paced romp. Irene is accosted by the various representatives of the Dragons, who exude an ice-cold charisma, and the Fae, who are more unpredictable. The chief Fae representative at the peace talks is an enchanted princess, who embodies all the myths surrounding such fairy tale creations. That means, by turns, she is by turns both perfectly helpless and irresistibly rescuable, and irredeemably cruel (as princesses are wont to be in dark fairy tales). One never knows with myths.
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Toss in a Fae version of Elizabeth Bathory, poisoned soup, and an attack by the feral animals of Paris, and Irene has not a free moment to spare. Well, except for Kai, who is caught between supporting his family and his love for Irene. Will this be the book where they consummate their passion?
Read it and see.
But mostly, read it for the sheer thrill of it. Like all the Invisible Library books, this one is crazy fun.


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Is it 'St. Paul' or 'Saint Paul'? Ask this U.S. Navy ship.
Not a lot of good government to be found these days.
In some areas, normal bureaucratic doings have ground to a halt owing to bitter partisanship, neglect, or deliberate malfeasance; in others, a powerful few go barreling brake-free through the dark, ever-toward ruin.
This in mind, let's celebrate a small success story about a big ship.
As announced in 2015, the USS Minneapolis/St. Paul -- which, unlike you, has a Wikipedia page -- was christened to "honor the citizens of Minnesota's Twin Cities who have a long and proud history of naval service." A littoral combat ship (LCS for short, for you dry-landers out there), she'll be 388 feet long, with a top speed in excess of 40 knots (nautical miles an hour).
According to a Defense Department press release, the USS Minneapolis/St. Paul will have the "required war fighting capabilities and operational flexibility to execute a variety of missions" -- much like the people of the Twin Cities themselves. A contract for the ship's construction was awarded to a Lockheed Martin outfit in Wisconsin, where it continues today.
But, wait! Iceberg, right ahead!--in the form of retired sailors and, eventually, the government of Minnesota's capital city.
After hearing from "retired Naval officers," St. Paul Mayor Chris Coleman contacted U.S. Navy leadership to request the following change: The city's official name is "Saint Paul," not "St. Paul," and this badass (and expensive) ship should bear the proper title.
As Coleman observed, the spelling change would be in keeping with U.S. Navy tradition, including a submarine commissioned in 1984. As noted on that sub's Wikipedia page (every decent boat's got one), it was the first naval vessel to bear the name of both Twin Cities, each of which had two previous ship titles to its name.
According to a spokesperson for Coleman, the Navy was "very responsive to the request and granted the change." In a letter issued December 20, Coleman thanked U.S. Navy Secretary Richard Spencer, noting that the "retired Naval officers who live in Saint Paul... are deeply committed to maintaining traditions associated with vessels named in the city's honor."
Should we all be writing out Saint Paul instead of St. Paul? Your call, but you might want to think twice if the guy on the barstool next to you has a Navy tattoo on his bicep.
Below, watch this dramatically soundtracked video about these LCS ships, one of which will soon be spanning the globe in honor of the Twin Cities.
- St. Paul man's hanging death ruled a suicide amid claims of 'lynching'
- There's nothing sexy about running St. Paul's last porn video store
- A candidate, a crime, and a big, ugly mess in St. Paul
- Statistics: Minneapolis-St. Paul literally pot of gold at end of rainbow
- Union: St. Paul's low pay means hiring under-qualified summer teachers
- Watch Bill Murray's charming visit to the St. Paul Saints [VIDEO]


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Testing Javascript
May 21, 2015
Protect yourself from yourself. Write unit tests.
Topics covered:
- Why you should write tests?
- TDD and BDD
- Frameworks
- Getting started with Jasmine
Why you should write tests?
Every programer had that awkward moment when something went terribly wrong after a new release. Then you have to run through code, find a bug, fix it, patch it, etc… The worst part is that thing previously was working nice. So what probably happened is that when someone changed a thing, it messed up another thing. It's not so rare to happen. Speaking of this we come to first reason why you should write unit tests, to prevent regressions. Second reason is that it may influence readability and organisation of your code. For example, you maybe wrote some code which is not so easy to test. Then you have to refactor it a bit, maybe divide it into smaller chunks and then test each of them.
TDD and BDD
The most common approach to testing is TDD. In TDD, you test "unit of implementation" in this specific order: 1. write falling test; 2. implement functionality and make the test pass; 3. refactor code; BDD is derived from TDD and process is the same, but instead of writing test for functionality, you write a test for specific behaviour.
There is literally a bunch of JS testing frameworks today, but I'll go through most common one, QUnit, Mocha and Jasmine.
QUnit is the oldest of these three.You need just div in your html and you are ready to go. It has simple API. It has stop()/start() functions to handle asynchronous code testing.
QUnit.test('simple test increment',function(){
var testingObject = {id: 5, count: 10};
//asume this function returns n+1 and we want to test it
testingObject.count = count(testingObject.count);
assert.equal(testingObject.count, 11, 'OK');
testingObject.count = count(testingObject.count);
assert.equal(testingObject.count, 12, 'OK');
Mocha is another popular testing framework. It doesn't have assertion library but you can choose one of many. It has a bunch of features and its built on top of Node.js.
var assert = require("assert"); // node.js core module
describe('increment function', function(){
it('should return +1 count when function is called', function(){
var testingObject = {id: 5, count: 10};
//function takes whole object and change its count by 1
assert.equal(testingObject.count, 11);
Jasmine is, according to GitHub stars, most popular testing framework. It has great asertion library and also (as Mocha) great tools to test asynchronous code. Code style is same as above for Mocha (BDD), but it has it's own assert library. From here on I'll give a basic example how to start with Jasmine and how we use it with AngularJS/Grunt/Karma.
Getting started with Jasmine
First thing you'll need to do is to download latest Jasmine library from here.
In this purposes I created a simple 'program' which takes a string from an input and encrypt it with Caesar cipher.
So first, here is our index.html file:
<input type="text" name="normalText">
<button onclick="caesar()">Caesar cipher</button>
<script src="Caesar.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
And here is our Caesar.js file:
var caesar = function(){
//get value from input
var value = document.getElementsByName('normalText')[0].value;
var encryptedText = "";
for(var i=0;i<normal.length;i++){
encryptedText += String.fromCharCode(normal.charCodeAt(i)+3);
We need to understand that our code is not always testable and you have to make an effort to make it that way. Another important thing is that we need to put a focus on testing our business logic. So if you want to test DOM manipulation you better take a look at end-to-end testing. Having these things in mind we can notice that all of our code is within one function and it's much harder to test it. What we're going to do is to move text manipulation part into another function so it looks like this:
var encrypt = function(normal){
var encryptedText = "";
for(var i=0;i<normal.length;i++){
encryptedText += String.fromCharCode(normal.charCodeAt(i)+3);
return encryptedText;
var caesar = function(){
//get value from input
var value = document.getElementsByName('normalText')[0].value;
var encrypted = encrypt(value);
So after we separated out 'business' logic into encrypt function we made it easier for testing. Now we are going to crate another file called CaesarTest.js and put it into test folder.
describe('CaesarTest', function(){
it('should transform all letters in given number of times to be three positions above in ascii order',
expect(encrypt('123')).toEqual('456'); //matcher
Now, lets add a check in encrypt function. If value entered is not a string or is undefined return string 'ERROR'. Add the following code at the beginning of encrypt function
if(!normal || typeof normal != 'string'){
return "ERROR";
We don't want to leave this code untested, so lets add another test. We just need to add new it function, describe it and provide test function.
it('shoud return ERROR if text is not string or is undefined',function(){
You can also add checks for null or object but I'll leave that to you.
Ok, so now that we wrote our two tests we need to somehow run it. Stand-alone library comes with SpecRunner.html file and an example how to run tests. So we will just modify file and run it in browser to check the test results.
<link rel="shortcut icon" type="image/png" href="lib/jasmine-2.3.4/jasmine_favicon.png">
<link rel="stylesheet" href="lib/jasmine-2.3.4/jasmine.css">
<script src="lib/jasmine-2.3.4/jasmine.js"></script>
<script src="lib/jasmine-2.3.4/jasmine-html.js"></script>
<script src="lib/jasmine-2.3.4/boot.js"></script>
<!-- include source files here... -->
<script src="Caesar.js"></script>
<!-- include test files here... -->
<script src="tests/CaesarTest.js"></script>
We should end up with this in our browser
I guess that this is enough for you to understand how to write proper unit tests, so I'll now show you how we use Jasmine for testing AngularJS.
In next post I'll try to put closer to you how to test your AngularJS code with Jasmine.


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A Little Slice of Heaven Hidden in a Summer Reading List
A good reading list should be as balanced as our diet: filled with nutritious niblets of several genres, with some servings of pure alcohol, caffeine and chocolate in good measure (or mainlined, whatever.) Biographies, sagas, mysteries, and classics are the food groups of literature, with romance at the top of the pyramid to provide those sugar highs we occasionally crave. A little of everything for any diet is on this list. What these books have in common is they are all beautifully written, with characters so real you expect to look up and find them in your bedroom (or car, or kitchen, wherever you happen to be reading). For the most part, they're not even new books; but books that I happened to love this year.
What is not on this list is Fifty Shades of Grey (or Fifty Shades of Awful, by my estimation.) Don't get me started on that trilogy of tragedy.
Middlesex, by Jeffrey Eugenides
This book takes you into the mind and struggles of a hermaphrodite, Callie. When was the last time you were there? Ya huh. It's a family saga that spans three generations, beginning in Smyma in the early 1900's, and their harrowing emigration to Detroit. It's filled with colourful characters and poignant moments, and made me ponder the strong relationship between sexuality and identity. It kept me reading into the wee hours; Eugenides deserves his reputation for being a master storyteller.
When God Was a Rabbit, by Sarah Winman
Life rarely makes sense. And so it goes for Elly, the heroine of this book. A traumatic event shapes her early years, and as the book unfolds its repercussions are felt, again and again. The book is as quirky as Elly herself. It's beautifully written, charming and funny in spite of itself.
State of Wonder, by Ann Patchett
She's best known for her award winning Bel Canto, but my personal favorite of Patchett's is still The Magician's Assistant, by the by. A hint of mystery kept me turning the pages of her latest novel, set in the jungle of the Amazon, as the protagonist, Marina, discovers the wonders of the Lakashi people deep in the heart of the rain forest.
The Age of Innocence, by Edith Wharton
A story before its time, Wharton depicts societal norm as the joke that it really is. Ellen, the protagonist, challenges standards by leaving her loveless marriage. When she meets Newland Archer, who is newly engaged, Ellen and Newland begin a lifelong game of cat and mouse, and a love for all time. If you read one classic this summer, or ever, choose this.
Your Voice in My Head, by Emma Forrest
This memoir by Forrest reminds us that life is filled with ups and downs, and that no relationships are easy. As she spirals into sadness, Forrest finds a light in her therapist; when he dies from cancer she is left wandering in the dark once again. Her hostile and lonely world make for beautiful passages, and a wonderful memoir leaking with truth and life.
Here are the books that are burning a hole in my bedside table, and I'm excited to devour them this July, come sun or what may:
The Sisters Brothers, by Patrick deWitt (Back to my tomboy days with some country and western. And the author happens to be too chilled for words, great non-vibe from this guy.)
Half Blood Blues, by Esi Edugyan (Oooh so excited for this one.)
A Moveable Feast, by Ernest Hemingway (Why have I not read this book?!)
The Dovekeepers, by Alice Hoffman (When my tenth friend told me to read this, I put my hands up in surrender. I surrender!)
I'm hungry just looking at them. Read 'em and weep. Or read 'em and eat. Whatever you do, fold yourself into the pages of a delicious dessert this summer. Happy summer reading.
Those Nude Photographs Will Always Come Back to Haunt You
By my third pregnancy, my back protested. No more of this baby business, it told me by way of searing pain.
Instead of being a vessel that sent signals to my limbs and brain, my spinal cord became a rod of fire that roared whenever I was on my feet. And since my other children were four and two, that was a lot. No sympathy from the toddler corner.
I tried to grin and bear it, but that usually manifested as swearing like a truck driver and screaming at my kids.
Since I'm a sucker for punishment but not pain, this would be my last baby; the last kick at the can, the last time my stomach would bump into corners and catch my breakfast crumbs. This caused me the tiniest bit of melancholy, I did like feeling those knees ripple across my stomach and that whole creating life concept.
So I decided, against my better judgment, to have pregnancy photos taken. You know, the black and white classy ones with your private parts artfully shadowed.Then I stumbled across one of those promotions where the photographer would practically pay you to have your photos done: the proofs were free, the 8 x 10's were free, you just gave her your email address so she could harass you for the rest of your life. Surely this was serendipity.
It seemed like a good idea at the time. (In case you are now gripped with fear that you will scroll down and scream, I haven't posted any of these photos below.)
I hasten to remind you that Demi Moore had these same photos done and she looked pretty damn good. After that, pregnant women were waddling into photography studios in droves, so this is not an isolated incident of vanity.
As the date for my debut shoot approached, the temperatures skyrocketed. A hot summer day when you are eight months pregnant is akin to a day in hell. So I spent the weekend submerged in a glacial lake while my husband and children frolicked on the beach.
Monday morning I woke up with what looked like large mosquito bites all over my body. By noon the size of these bites rivaled ping pong balls, and by dinner they were seething with pus. I looked like an overstuffed egg roll with leprosy.
And those little beauty marks weren't just innocently and quietly oozing away, they were also itching to high heaven. I was so busy trying not to scratch the little buggers that I even forgot about my back pain.
My doctor told me I had swimmer's itch, but she consipicuously leaned away from me in horror the entire appointment.
I called the photographer to explain my case, hoping we could delay the shoot, but she could only put it off for a day, and then she was going on holiday. I wouldn't be pregnant by the time she returned, so I was stuck with Wednesday.
On a positive note, my welts had stopped oozing by this point but remained scattered over my torso in an angry, scabbed-over state. It only looked like I had misplaced acne.
The photographer recoiled in horror when I dropped my robe. I laughed nervously and said something about the powers of PhotoShop, but she explained that while it was a useful tool, it couldn't work miracles.
I have those photos in a shoebox somewhere. To give credit where credit is due, the photographer came up with the idea of draping a white sheet over my belly, thereby disguising my pockmarked skin whilst leaving its bulging outline. (I'm pretty sure she incinerated the sheet and disinfected her studio after I left.)
I stumbled across them the other day while chasing an agile spider. Whereas Demi Moore had looked beautiful, victorious, and a bit defiant in her Vanity Fair pictures, the look in my tired eyes only said please take the damn picture so I can return to my itching.
What have you done that causes you endless embarrassment in retrospect?
It Only Took Me Twenty Years
To be totally upfront, as writing careers go mine has been far from stellar.
One month after graduating from university with a degree in Journalism, my father, a local journalist and my inspiration, died; and so did my aspirations for a writing career. I wrote about this here, in my inaugural post for this blog, in case anyone besides Mom cares to read it.
Instead I got a job that delivered decent money if not bylines, and the rest is yesterday's news.
But since everyone loves it when old dogs learn new tricks, I have a modicum of success to report. It is really little – like a freckle on Diana Swain's face. But it's the most success I've had since putting the perfect ratio of peanut butter to jam on my sandwich last week, or ever, so I'm rather excited.
As the rain fell and the wind blew one day, I submitted an essay to the Globe and Mail. Granted, my topic was pretty lame; it's far from Nietzsche in scope and as always short of Austen in form. It's about the mall.
Yet incredibly, today they replied they were using it (slow essay month, I guess). They would be publishing it this Friday, October 14th.
It took me a minute before I realized that just happens to be my dear father's birthday, of all days. So happy birthday to my father, who was more profound and witty than I will ever be, and who never lost his enthusiasm for life.
When I Grow Up, I Want To Be Just Like My Daughter
Sometimes the people who motivate me are at a great distance. They are on television or in history books, and I will never meet them.
But other people who motivate me are right under my nose. In fact, today's case only comes up to my armpit, and I feed her and take care of her everyday. She's nine. She's my daughter.
She has a tendency to throw herself into everything she does with gusto, full throttle and heart first.
This daughter of mine has a tenacious grip on what she plans to be when she grows up. Since she was a wee thing, she has wanted to be a writer. And to this end she writes volumes of articles, stories and blogs. Her imaginary play revolves around her role as a reporter, and she walks around the house with a notepad and pen tucked into her shirt. When I clean up, I come across scraps of paper she has written on, and other evidences of her pretend articles.
How can I be a better writer, she would ask me, and I would reply, keep writing. And so she does. Day after day.
I was not as single minded as a child, wanting to be a veterinarian, a teacher, a doctor, a magician, depending on which way the wind blew. I keep expecting her whim to change, but she remains fixated on her goal.
Inevitably, the day came when she asked me, Mommy, weren't you a writer? And I so eloquently stammered, ah, well, sort of but not really, um, a long time ago. She wouldn't let me off the hook. Well, why don't you write?
Why indeed.
I had always thought it would be my job as a parent to cheer my children on in whatever they pursued. It would be my job to instill in them a desire to persevere and work hard to achieve their goals. But quite the opposite has transpired. It is my child who motivates and teaches me.
Watching her diligently go about her work and play, I realized I needed to step it up. I needed to at least try to write. As Lyle Lovett once asked us, "What would you be if you didn't even try? You have to try." Taking a good hard look at myself as a role model, there wasn't much to go on. I didn't see in myself anything that could inspire her.
So now, everyday, I try hard to be like my daughter. In manageable chunks, I try to emulate her enthusiasm and dedication for writing. Her unfailing cheerfulness, generosity and kindness are other things to strive for, but I will attempt these another day. First things first.
When I grow up, I want to be just like my daughter.
Red Carpet Glamour At Oscars
Forget who won what. They're all talented, some more so than others, and they're all earning bucket loads of cash to dress up and play pretend, so you can't feel too badly for those who didn't bring home a golden statue last night.
Let's talk fashion: how these artists choose to express themselves when the most famous couture houses in the world are knocking on their doors is the subject of many a fashion critic and blogger alike. It's easy to throw stones at those who live in glass houses, especially when they are beautiful and making millions. If I sound jealous it's because I am.
The Oscars are a time for starlets to either strut like a peacock down the red carpet or choose understated elegance, wear up-dos or shaggy tresses, Jimmy Choos or Prada shoes. It is a night for couture houses to shine alongside Academy members, the night People and InStyle magazines salivate over as they pick their best and worst dressed.
The men will all look suspiciously like waiters. The real question is what will Hollywood's hottest women wear?
Will Helena Bonham Carter actually brush her hair and find matching shoes? Will Sandra Bullock still look crest fallen? Will Nicole Kidman keep with her classic elegance? Will Scarlett Johansson improve on her Golden Globe windswept look?
I was on pins and needles all day.
The verdict: classic glamour – often vintage, in fact – prevailed. In fact, it's hard to find fault with most of the beautiful choices that graced the red carpet on Sunday night; there were no January Jones missteps to dwell on.
Marisa Tomei proved that understated can still shine – she sparkled in a midnight blue 1950 James Charles dress, with gorgeous sunburst inspired earrings. A classic look that reminds you to hold on to those oldie but goodies in your closet.
The youngest person to ever to host the Academy Awards, Anne Hathaway, started the evening by repealing to old Hollywood in a red archival Valentino gown. A diamond necklace from Tiffany's was also fittingly elegant. Her low chignon was the perfect hairstyle to complement the look, her way of saying I'm still hip.
There were a proliferation of Japanese-inspired high-neck, cap-sleeve, straight bodied gowns. Scarlett Johansson wore an amethyst lace styled number, Amy Adams a blue sequined one, and Annette Bening a sparkling black gown. Best Supporting Actress Melissa Leo – who will forever be remembered by her f-bomb slip – also wore a variation of this theme.
Reese Witherspoon channelled Betty and Veronica with a high ponytail containing lots of extensions. Although her hairdo was puzzling, her black Armani dress with white trim was a great figure flattering choice.
Jennifer Hudson was a walking advertisement for Weight Watchers in a skin tight tangerine Versace gown. She was stunning, despite overdoing the cleavage.
Best Actress Natalie Portman looked every bit a champion in an eggplant coloured gown. She proved that fashion and baby bumps can, in fact, coexist.
My runaway favorite of the night was Mila Kunis, wearing a lavender chiffon Elie Saab gown with a low neckline. Gracefully draping her body with a short train, it was the perfect modern choice for a storied evening. If they come out with a Best Ordinary Person award, I might sell my car and buy it. I assure you my acceptance speech will be classier than Melissa's.
Poems, Sonnets, Words, Gifts
It is getting harder to impress my daughter who is eleven going on twenty-one. She has already discarded me as an obstacle to her coolness, and refuses to walk home with me when I show up at her school in a sweat suit.
But on Valentine's Day, she told me about "…some poem about marriage and true minds" that they had talked about in school. When I recited the whole of Shakespeare's Sonnet 116 while fixing her after-school snack, she stopped pecking at her keyboard and listened; dare I say, impressed. And by that I mean she said, "Hmf."
I have always loved poetry. What I love about writing the most is simply words, after all, and how they can be delicately woven to evoke images and meaning. Poetry is the best of writing, skimming away the fluff and keeping the most important, beautiful words. Yet I haven't cracked a poetry book other than my Norton's Anthology of Literature since university. That was for pressing flowers.
Poetry has been seeking me out despite the fact I have inexplicably shunned it, like a friend I had meant to keep in touch with but didn't.
A blogger I follow sometimes posts poems when she is at a loss for words. She apologizes to her readers while I thank her silently for her weighted words. Syllables roll around on my tongue and linger like a sweet thai curry. Her name, by the way, is Kathy, and her blog is reinventing the event horizon.
And then another gift. An entrepreneur I interview mentions her blog. She is writing a poem everyday this year on her blog bentlily. Her words stop me in my tracks, each poem a short story in its own right, deeply personal but also universal – how can that be? The paradox of poetry, or the human condition. Either way, I am hoping she finishes out the year and then begins anew in 2012. Her name is Samantha, and she tells me writing poetry is her way of staying present.
I haven't written any poetry, but reading it lately has been like smelling the aroma of a lemon grove.
Tomorrow I will share one of bentlily's gifts, so you, too, can smell the lemons.
Conquering the bucket list: photography
When my brilliant friend turned forty, she proclaimed her new attitude on life: "I'm no longer going to ask why; I'm going to say why not!", and we all applauded wildly. The concept is a sound one. Practicing it, however, can be a different story altogether. Who has time for bungee jumping?
But it did make me take a hard look at my bucket list. It continues to grow, but I have checked very few things off of the list. I stalled out after "have kids". What, exactly, am I waiting for? I hit the forty marker yesterday, so decided there is no time like the present to tackle the things I want to do before I die.
Photography ranks high on this list. A long time ago, back when neon was in and I had the ski suit to prove it, my parents bought me a 35 mm Minolta camera for Christmas. Note this was back in the days when cameras used film, so experimenting with apertures and shutter speeds was a costly process, and unless you had access to a dark room, your results took a week to receive. I happened to be perennially short of time and money, not to mention patience, so photography and I didn't get very far.
I have been wielding point and shoot cameras ever since, replacing them every few years for a model with higher pixels when the camera inevitably dies after throwing around one too many times. They are handy contraptions, and every now and then even produce a great picture. One day I would revisit photography, but until then my cheap and cheerful models would suffice.
I thought my day of reckoning came last year. On Christmas, to be precise. Santa heeded my many hints, and I received a Nikon D-5000 digital SLR. These have come down in price substantially in an effort to be competitive in the massive camera market, which now includes smartphones. I noticed the automatic setting, and not wanting to argue with the camera's own trusty computer, switched the dial to this setting and began shooting. What did I know that the camera didn't?
I have used this setting for a year now; and have the questionable pictures to prove it. They are certainly no better than my point and shoot camera produced, with the added burden of carrying a cumbersome, weighty piece of equipment that doesn't fit in my purse. The automatic setting was not cutting the mustard, and my photography was getting nowhere. Inspired by my friends' new "why not?" motto, I enrolled in a course. Twenty years late but better than never.
In three hours I learned enough to feel like I can conquer the world; Annie Leibovitz look out. My instructor taught me his "Big 6" – the main concepts he uses when composing a photograph. He blew the dust off of terms like aperture and f-stops, reacquainted me with shutter speeds, and explained how metering modes effect your pictures. He discussed the concepts of white balance and exposure compensation, and readily expressed his views on available software for putting the finishing touches on your photos.
My homework is to practice using the various settings (but never, under any circumstances, am I to touch automatic mode), and then return my findings next week. Now that I can speak this camera's language, of course I cannot wait to play with the different settings and see how that translates to my pictures.
The total course length is six hours, its cost $150. If only my other bucket list items – learning Spanish, reading the complete works of Shakespeare, owning something Prada – could be accomplished so easily.
Advanced Digital Training is on Welch Street in North Vancouver, http://www.ADTschool.com


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They are the rarest of gems in Thoroughbred breeding, a pair of glistening rubies born just a year apart and visually so similar with their bold blazes and sculpted shoulders that they might be mistaken for sisters.
As the only active producers of Triple Crown winners in the Northern Hemisphere, Littleprincessemma, dam of the beloved American Pharoah, and Stage Magic, who foaled unbeaten hero Justify, are without equal among broodmares.
Living only about 25 miles apart in Central Kentucky, both 'Emma', as she is fondly known at Jane Lyon's Summer Wind Farm, and Stage Magic, the queen of John Gunther's Glennwood Farm, are poised on the threshold of opportunity, each with a chance to create a dynasty that could influence the sport for decades.
As the stud careers of their history-making sons are launched by Coolmore at nearby Ashford Stud, both dams are still youthful and robustly healthy.
They each have an exciting yearling colt, with Justify's half-brother by American Pharoah's sire, Pioneerof The Nile, set to enter the Keeneland sale ring tomorrow (September 9) as Hip 106 and Littleprincessemma's Tapit colt due to race in Lyon's colors.
Each mare also has a juvenile colt preparing to race for the breeders and each mare is in foal for 2020, thus they seem to harbor unbounded potential for years to come.
Both Lyon and Tanya Gunther, who oversees the Glennwood mares for her father, are awaiting the future with keen anticipation and, as foaling draws nearer month by month, a few more nerves because of what these mares have come to mean as premier producers and as individuals.
"The sense of worry was big before, but it becomes bigger," Gunther said. "Just taking care of them, and hoping for foaling to go right, and taking care of the siblings to a Triple Crown winner — you feel like you're dodging landmines all the time. We're worrying about them from the time of making the right mating decision throughout the 11 months of pregnancy, hoping everything goes right and watching for signs that it might not and trying to catch any problem early — and that's just the pregnancy."
Stage Magic and her accomplishments as a broodmare, which include her Graded stakes-winning son The Lieutenant, are particularly meaningful to Glennwood as the 12-year-old by Ghostzapper is a homebred who gained multiple stakes placings while racing.
The Gunthers planned Stage Magic's mating to Justify's sire, the late Scat Daddy, and then raised the strapping chestnut colt who grew into a near 17-hand phenom. He proved to be the ultimate kind of validation of their program and a primary factor in John Gunther receiving the Eclipse Award as outstanding breeder of 2018.
"Sometimes I still just think, 'Wow.' It's still not really sunk in yet, because the Triple Crown is such a big thing you can't really get your hands around it," Tanya Gunther said.
Lyon speaks of Littleprincessemma much as she would a family member and said any pressure she may feel about managing the career of American Pharoah's dam revolves around "how spectacular and special she is and how much she means to me".
A now 13-year-old by Yankee Gentleman, Littleprincessemma has not only made her own chapter of racing history through her son, she also has given Lyon two incomparable life experiences.
Lyon fell in love with the mare virtually at first sight at Fasig-Tipton in November 2014 and bought her for $2.1 million from Zayat Stables six months before American Pharoah began his Triple Crown sweep.
Through that run, which closed a 37-year gap since Affirmed had reigned as the last Triple Crown winner, Lyon shared the victories with her husband, Frank Lyon, as they traveled to the races to cheer the colt on while Frank battled cancer prior; he passed away in November 2015.
"That whole year with American Pharoah — I know he meant the world to so many people and the equine world had been waiting a long time for him, but what he meant to me and to Frank and to us in our last time together was probably one of the greatest blessings I will ever experience," Lyon said.
Lyon named Littleprincessemma's second foal at Summer Wind, a Tapit filly, Chasing Yesterday in memory of her husband. The filly in turn provided Lyon with her first elite victory as an owner.
"A filly like that, with all the history with Frank, was just the greatest gift. She was the very first Grade 1 winner that I ever owned, and it could not have been a better experience or a better horse for it to happen with than Chasing Yesterday," Lyon said.
The broodmare careers of Littleprincessemma and Stage Magic always will be extraordinary for what each already has accomplished. But there also have been moments of disappointment and heartbreak, which are inevitable for breeders.
As their stories continue to unfold, what could still be on the road ahead in the form of their foals still to race and still to be born are the very dreams that have drawn breeders and owners into the sport since the first horse races were conducted centuries ago.
At Summer Wind, Littleprincessemma was facing separation from her 2019 filly by Tapit, a striking chestnut with a white stripe and three stockings who was to be weaned a few days before the Keeneland September sale would begin.
That filly, who Lyon said may just be the finest foal, physically, that Littleprincessemma has produced to date for her farm, is the fifth that Lyon has bred and raised from the mare and the third by Tapit.
Littleprincessemma was bred back to Tapit this spring and has been determined to be carrying another filly, and Lyon said she plans to keep both the 2019 filly, who has been named Lasting Tribute, and the expected 2020 filly, as well as Chasing Yesterday. Her long-range plan is to add the trio of half-sisters to American Pharoah to her already blue-chip broodmare band.
Lyon also has retained a pair of colts produced by Littleprincessemma, a now 2-year-old full brother to American Pharoah named Theprinceofthebes and a yearling by Tapit named Triple Tap. Both are part of her new strategy to race a few select colts with hopes of developing top stallion prospects.
Theprinceofthebes, however, did not have a flawless beginning to life. In fact, Lyon said she had reconciled herself to the fact that he might only ever be a "lawn ornament".
"When he was a young colt, he was a little crooked in front. We tried some correction that worked a little bit, but somehow he crushed a growth plate in his ankle. When that happened, I decided that he was going to be a nice lawn ornament and that he wouldn't go to a sale," Lyon recalled.
"But he always had a gorgeous body type, a great attitude and a good nature. He just glided around the field. And with a little work and correction, he straightened up a good bit," she said. "Dr [Bob] Hunt [of Hagyard Equine Medical Institute] felt like he should be given a chance to see if he could hold up to training, so I sent him to Eddie Woods, with the request that he go very, very slowly and at the first sign of anything going the wrong way, put him on a van and send him home."
In a storybook chapter of his life so far, Theprinceofthebes drew upbeat assessments from Woods, and from his training center in Ocala, the colt was sent to Bob Baffert, who developed both American Pharoah and Justify.
Through early September, Theprinceofthebes had recorded two timed workouts at Los Alamitos Race Course under the supervision of Baffert's assistant Mike Marlow. When he is ready, he will join Baffert at Santa Anita Park.
"So far, apparently there has not been a single issue," Lyon said. "Visually, he really looks very, very much like Pharoah. He's got a body like Adonis. And he apparently is a phenomenal mover, like his brother."
The first foal Lyon bred from Littleprincessemma also was a full brother to American Pharoah and also a bay, but he was born flashy, with a blaze like his dam's and four white feet. Lyon sold the colt privately to Coolmore and, subsequently named St Patrick's Day, he was a winner and Group-placed.
Chasing Yesterday followed St Patrick's Day. The blaze-faced chestnut, a lovely feminine type, was trained by Baffert to four stakes wins, including the G1 Starlet at Los Alamitos, and she finished third in the Santa Anita Oaks in April, even though she incurred an entrapped epiglottis.
Lyon brought Chasing Yesterday home to Summer Wind after that race and the filly will not race again.
"Yesterday did everything she needed to do for me. She tried her heart out; she gave everything she had," Lyon said. "When she entrapped her epiglottis, I knew she was out of the Kentucky Oaks, which she had qualified for, so I brought her home, and the more I looked at her, the more I realized that she didn't owe me anything. She needed to have a chance to be a horse, and she is growing and maturing and filling out and she seems extremely happy."
Chasing Yesterday spent her summer with, as Lyon describes it, her "foal-hood friend" and fellow Summer Wind-bred Shadow Play, the Galileo half-sister to Breeders' Cup Juvenile Turf winner Hootenanny.
"They picked up like the day they left off more than two years before. They get along beautifully, they're great playmates in the field. They are just happy to be back together. So, I'm happy seeing Yesterday living a good life," she said.
Lyon plans to breed Chasing Yesterday in 2020, although "who we are going to breed her to is still a little bit up for discussion", she said. "We'll definitely go to a proven stallion."
Meanwhile, Littleprincessemma's yearling colt Triple Tap, who earned his name because he shares his February 27 birthday with both his sire Tapit and dam Littleprincessemma, has not only been difficult to fault since birth, he also has an extremely appealing personality. Like American Pharoah, he seems to enjoy interacting with people and is unfailingly confident.
While Lyon has received persuasive interest in the colt, she elected not to offer Triple Tap at a yearling sales. Initially, she thought she might take a partner in racing him, but she has decided to campaign the colt herself, with hopes he could become a significant stallion prospect.
"This horse has always acted like he owned the world. He knows he is special," Lyon said. "There's just that air about him.
"It is not generally my policy to keep colts. But I thought maybe I'll hang onto him and I'll sell half of him. But, as time went on, and the more I thought about it, the more I thought, 'No. I'm just going to go for it.' And, if he doesn't run, you know it will have been a bad decision. But if he does, then we'll talk about who wants him [to stand at stud]," she said.
Credit to Tapit
Looking back over Littleprincessemma's foals, which also include the Zayat-bred G1-placed American Cleopatra — who produced a 2018 Uncle Mo filly named Mo Emma and a 2019 Tapit colt for Hill 'n' Dale Equine Holdings and Stretch Run Ventures before being bred to Justify this spring — Lyon said they seem to share some key characteristics.
"I remember being told years ago that the really great ones do everything right and that would describe Emma. The way is she is to be around in the stall, she is very, very intelligent, she's very kind, and she's kind to the other horses, she's kind to the other foals. She imparts to her babies that same intelligence and kind attitude, at least in all of them that we have foaled here.
"I've never seen Emma put her ears back, certainly not to me. She has never been aggressive with anybody in the stall with her, whether she had a foal or not. She's just a dream to be around," Lyon said.
Gainesway's Tapit also gets plenty of credit for the foals he has sired out of Littleprincessemma.
"I don't know what the magic ingredient is with these foals, but it's sort of like Emma with a little more. She is very, very prepotent — her foals' bodies look like her, but these last foals are a little bit longer, a little bit taller, a little bit more elegant. Whatever that is, I can thank Mr Tapit for it," Lyon said.
'Can it be any better than this?"
Lasting Tribute, she added, is very impressive at this stage, being "a little longer, stretchier, and perfectly balanced".
"She has got a tremendous shoulder, a tremendous hip and long, beautiful legs; I think she'll be taller than either Yesterday or Triple Tap, maybe even a touch scopier. I look at her and I know Emma is carrying another foal, a filly, by Tapit, and I just wonder can it be any better than this? And Lasting Tribute has a fabulous attitude too. She is as sweet or sweeter than any of them.
"They all know they're special, they know they are royalty. And they are as royal as I will ever come close to."
Meanwhile, over at Glennwood, Tanya Gunther also feels that she has been in the presence of something special as she has watched over Stage Magic's yearling colt prepare for his moment in the Keeneland sale ring spotlight.
"He's a very classy horse," she said. "You try to look at them in comparison to other yearlings rather than as a sibling [to a Triple Crown winner] and you try to be objective about it. He's perhaps not your typical Pioneer—I always think of the Pioneers as kind of big, gangly types, and he's not that. He's very well balanced, well put together, and a classy horse to be around. I quite like him. I hope that other people will as well.
"If I compare him to Justify, I would say Justify was a bigger yearling. The Pioneer is a nice size but he is not a huge horse. What they do have in common is that both are very well balanced."
Easier to be around than Justify
The Pioneerof The Nile colt, a rich bay with a narrow stripe down his face, is not as aggressive as Justify was and thus has been easier to handle than his famous half-brother, who was sold at Keeneland for $500,000 to China Horse Club and WinStar Farm's Maverick Racing.
"Justify was always like an in-your-face kind of colt. I wouldn't say this horse is a pushover by any sense, but he's a little bit easier to be around, for sure. And that's a welcome difference. He's very intelligent. I've always thought Justify is a very intelligent horse and this horse is as well, which is nice. A classy horse is usually one who is intelligent and moves well and acts well," Gunther said.
The colt's life so far has been relatively straightforward, except for a rare reaction to his mother's milk that he developed shortly after he was born on April 19 last year.
"There's a condition called thrombocytopenia. It's a long word for a blood-related problem," Gunther said. "You need to restrict the foal from nursing from the mare. We had never had an issue with the mare before in terms of the foals nursing. There was no way of knowing until we saw certain signs that things weren't going right. If we hadn't caught it early enough and if he hadn't responded to antibiotics and so forth, we might have had to do a blood transfusion. He spent a few days at the clinic right around the time Justify was going for the Derby. That was a pretty sweaty moment.
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"Scary, painful," she added, underlining the worry endured while the colt was being treated. Happily, however, the colt rebounded quickly and has not had any other problems.
While breeding and raising horses can be a roller coaster of highs and lows, Gunther noted that sales can be particularly grueling in so many aspects, including emotionally testing. Breeders work so long and with so much dedication to raise good horses, and parting with them, even at excellent prices, can be bittersweet.
"I wish he wasn't going to the sale," she said of Justify's half-brother before adding with a smile: "But maybe he won't meet his reserve."
Last year, the Gunthers elected to take home Justify's now-juvenile half-brother they named One More City, a son of Will Take Charge who did not meet his reserve price on a bid of $1.75 million at Keeneland. One More City now is learning his lessons at a pre-training center.
"He's a big boy, so we're just taking our time with him. He's developed well — he's added muscles to his big frame, so we're just taking our time. We never expected him to be an early horse and we didn't want to push him," Gunther said. "He's a nice horse so far but we haven't sent him to a trainer yet and that decision still remains to be made, but he's coming along."
Stage Magic — who also was an RNA when she was not sold at $70,000 at the 2008 Keeneland September sale in what now seems to be a highly fortuitous turn of events — has produced six foals to date. Her first, produced in 2013, was The Lieutenant, a Street Sense colt who was sold as a yearling for $50,000.
The Lieutenant wound up earning $345,882, and he stood his first season at stud this year at Sequel Stallions New York.
Holiday Music, a filly by Harlan's Holiday, was Stage Magic's next foal, and she was sold as a yearling for $60,000. She wound up winning two races and placing four times in nine starts before being claimed, brilliantly as it turns out, by trainer Neil Pessin for $30,000 at Fair Grounds in January 2018.
As Justify was rising to prominence, Holiday Music was sold privately to Summer Wind, where she now resides with Littleprincessemma. In an intriguing melding of Triple Crown bloodlines, Lyon bred Holiday Music first to Pioneerof The Nile, to whose cover she produced a filly this March, and then to American Pharoah.
Stage Magic's only other foal prior to One More City was Egyptian Storm, a 2016 filly by Pioneerof The Nile who was sold as a yearling at Keeneland in 2017 for $230,000 to R. S. Evans and West Point Thoroughbreds. Unplaced in one start, Egyptian Storm was bred to Quality Road this spring.
The Gunthers also had chosen Quality Road for Stage Magic's mating in 2018. In a cruel twist of fate, they lost the foal, which was a filly, this spring.
"That was just was a heartbreaker," Tanya Gunther said. "To lose one like that, it's hard to mentally recover. Emotionally, it just drains you to have those things happen. I suppose every year something can happen, but it was just really sad when it happened to be her.
"I don't think we would have sold her — we were very keen on getting a filly. You almost wish you didn't know [what the gender of the lost foal was]. This was just heartbreaking," she said.
Personality trait
Stage Magic is back in foal to Curlin now, and since he has become such a strong influence in American classic races as well as the current leading sire of sale yearlings, the resulting foal will have so much potential.
Of the foals that Stage Magic has produced so far, Gunther said the mare — just as with Littleprincessemma — seems to pass along her nature.
"There's definitely a personality trait with them. I'm not saying they're all the same, but there's a little bit of toughness in them, in a good way," Gunther said.
"I would say Justify was mentally quite tough. There are not many horses that would be able to handle the Triple Crown, having such little experience as he did, but he was just kind of tough that way and he was able to handle it. There's an element of that in her foals. She's got that toughness herself and it will come out in varying degrees in the different foals, but I do see a common personality trait there, which I think is a good one.
"In order to be a top racehorse, they need to be able to handle a lot, and I think they need a little bit of toughness and resilience and desire. They need to be able to handle the stress and they need to focus and they need to be able to want it, so hopefully Justify is not the only one she imparts that to. The Lieutenant was a good horse and it shows she's put something into her other foals as well. So, fingers crossed for the future."
Both Stage Magic and Littleprincessemma also have left their stamp on many of their foals physically. Lyon said each of the Tapits produced by Littleprincessemma look like their dam, and Gunther noted that Justify very much resembles his dam.
Incredible athletes
"If you see Stage Magic, you will see the resemblance that Justify has to her. There is no doubt in my mind that she played a significant role in him. I did love Scat Daddy and it was a powerful combination, but she definitely left her imprint on him. You can see it in how they look and in certain mannerisms and personality.
"Genetics is a wonderful thing; you just never know how it's going to play out," Gunther added. "For me, it's so fascinating to think about the pedigree and matings and so forth and then what the result will be. It's just an incredible thing to be trying to do.
"I do think people will look back on horses like American Pharoah and Justify and then appreciate them even more. That's always the way, I guess — you look back and go, 'Oh wow, that was something special.' With Justify being so close after American Pharoah, it was maybe easier for the odd critics to come out, but what [Justify] did was unbelievable.
"You don't win the Triple Crown without being an incredible athlete. And he did it so incredibly — bouncing back in the Preakness after having that foot issue after the Kentucky Derby — most horses don't go on and succeed in the next race when they have a little blip. And he had a blip at a very critical moment when there is very little recovery time."
Raising more champions is the aim of both Gunther, who plays a major role in arranging Glennwood's matings, which also have produced the likes of G1 winners Vino Rosso and Without Parole, and Lyon, who bred 2018 juvenile male champion Game Winner and current championship contender McKinzie.
Both have sent mares to the Triple Crown winners that their own best producers delivered and there would be a degree of enhanced satisfaction from success of those matings.
Yet nothing might top another high-caliber runner, or an eventual stallion or prolific broodmare, from Littleprincessemma, the 2015 Broodmare of the Year in America, or Stage Magic, the 2018 Broodmare of the Year.
But, even if such success is not what destiny has ordained, both mares already have done what so few others ever have and ever will, and having the chance to breed more foals from them is the most exclusive kind of privilege.
As Lyon said of Littleprincessemma, "She has certainly been everything — and more — that anyone could ever dream for."


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We are looking forward to visiting La Victoria again and continuing our relationship with the community.
Our trips may look different. Representatives of the community of La Victoria are working with us to select projects that can sustain the whole community. We will be...
March 12, 2016
Partners with La Victoria, Inc., was created in 2015 to build and nurture relationships as partners in Christ by empowering people through education, faith, social and economic development.
In October of 2015, Partners with La Victoria, Inc., dedicated a trip to bring...
September 11, 2015
La Victoria board is working diligently to transform into a new ministry that will empower our communities to support and learn from each other. We are blessed to have strong ties with the community of La Victoria in the Dominican Republic, and will look forward to ha...
We are transforming!
Father Lara You will always be our inspiration
La Victoria Summer 2018
La Victoria Men's Emmaus Trip
La Victoria Fall Trip
Peace be with you Bob
Update on Trips to La Victoria!
We have worked diligently to transform into a new organization!
February 2019 (1)
September 2018 (2)
August 2018 (1)
May 2016 (1)
April 2016 (1)
March 2016 (1)
September 2015 (1)
I'm busy working on my blog posts. Watch this space!


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Rubber mats & relief mats 10 products
In this category you will find our relief mats.
Relief mats are for you and your employees at work, very much in the same place. The relief mats reduce back injuries and sore feet so that you and your employees can have a good working environment. Rubber mats can be used both indoors and outdoors.