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For some time, cousin Robert and I have been reporting his descent from George F. and Elizabeth (Sanor) Carle, by their son John S. Carle (aka John Sanor Carle), born Missouri in 1841, and by John's son, George Herbert Carle, born Washington (state), 1887. We also report George F. Carle had maternal grandfather, Mathias Firestone, separately proven to have been a soldier in the American Revolution.
Robert wanted to join the Sons of the American Revolution (SAR) based on his claim of descent from Mathias Firestone, but he couldn't locate obvious proof his George F. Carle was the same man as Mathias' grandson by that name.
Tell a family historian there's no proof, and watch her go to work!
Mathias Firestone (1744-?1829) had a well-proved daughter, Mary Ann "Mary" Firestone (1789-1869), who married Columbiana County, Ohio, 1807, to Richard L. Carle (c1777-c1837). [i] [ii] Richard and Mary (Firestone) Carle lived and farmed at Columbiana County from the time they were married until their deaths. [iii]
You be the judge! Using mostly indirect evidence, have we not proven the two men named George F. Carle are the same person? (Pssst, surprises at the end.)
STEP 1: Evidence that Richard and Mary (Firestone) Carle had son George, aka George F. Carle.
1. I am not a descendant of George F. Carle, but of Richard and Mary (Firestone) Carle's eldest child, Rebecca Firestone Carle (1809-1892), married Columbiana County, Ohio, 1832 to John Miller. John and Rebecca (Carle) Miller lived most of their married lives at Williams County, Ohio. In researching Rebecca's family, we find a biographical sketch of her son, William Carl Miller; the sketch includes a short clip about the Carle family reporting Rebecca had a brother named George.
Commemorative Biographical Record of Northwestern Ohio (Chicago: J. H. Beers & Co., 1899), pp. 385-386; biographical sketch of William C. Miller, "Rebecca (Carl) [Miller] ... a daughter of Richard Carl, and of German descent … was the eldest of nine children, the others being Mary A.; Lydia; Harriet; George; Richard; John; Daniel; and Joseph." [iv]
2. Rebecca (Carle) Miller's father, Richard L. Carle, died c1837. The only record located about his death is a probate file. We presume the man who was Rebecca's brother, George F. Carle, was an heir to the estate and also served as an administrator.
(a) Columbiana County Probate Court, Ohio, Estate of Richard Carle, dec'd Case #1919 (1837), 20 extant pages, for administrator's bond dated 15 July 1837; reports sureties George Burns, George F. Carle (signed Georg F. Carle), Joseph F. Carle and Michael Sainer; administrators were George Burns and George F. Carle; annotated image follows:
(b) Columbiana County Probate Court, Ohio, Estate of Richard Carle, dec'd Case #1919 (1837), for "George Burns, administrator, account of money paid to heirs" dated 30 Aug 1844, including entries for payments to "J & R Miller" and George F. Carle; annotated image follows, in relevant part:
"J & R Miller," highlighted above, most assuredly refers to my Rebecca and her husband, John Miller.
3. There is little question that Richard's widow, Mary, was Mary (Firestone) Carle and the mother of all his children. Rebecca's youngest siblings, Harriet and Lydia Ann, were minors at the time of their father's death. Daniel Firestone (1797-1864), the brother of Mary (Firestone) Carle, acted as the guardian for Richard Carle's minor heirs. A John Sanor was one of the sureties for the guardian's bond.
Columbiana County Probate Court, Ohio, Guardianship of Lydia Carle, et. al., Daniel Firestone, guardian, Case #2133, five extant pages as of 1997; for guardianship bond, 3 May 1841; sureties were Daniel Firestone, George Lower and John Sanor; guardian was Daniel Firestone, minors were Lydia Ann and Henrietta Carle [elsewhere therein as Harrietta/Harriet Carle; surname sometimes "Snider"], separately, file calls the children "minor heirs of Richard Carle, dec'd," the guardian's bond was witnessed by Jacob Lower, Sr.
Separate research shows the two minor daughters later married. Harriet Carle married 1853 to Capt. Robert M. Reid, and Lydia Ann Carle married 1850 to Joseph Jackson. [v]
4. Columbiana County Probate Court, Ohio, Estate of Mary Carle, dec'd 1869, Case #6806, 11 extant pages in 1997, Joseph F. Carle, administrator. From the administrator's accounting as well as Mary's obituary and gravestone, we know this estate was that of Mary (Firestone) Carle. [vi]
Nowhere in the file does the name George Carle or George F. Carle appear.
STEP 2: Evidence of George F. Carle at Ray County, Missouri.
5. 1850 U.S. Census, Ray County, Missouri, population schedule, no city listed (District 75), sheet 618 (penned), page 310 (printed), dwelling 294, family 284, George F. Carle household, as of 27 Aug 1850; digital image, Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com : accessed 18 Mar 2007), cites National Archives micropublication M432, roll 412. George is ae 39, born Ohio; his apparent wife is Elizabeth Carle, ae 32, also born Ohio. Apparent children are Richard, ae 13, Harriet, ae 10, John, ae 9, Lydia Ann, ae 2; and Elizabeth, ae 2/12, all children born Missouri except the eldest, Richard, said born Ohio. Relevant entry, annotated, follows.
6. Howard L. Conard, Encyclopedia of the History of Missouri, v. 5 [select pages for Ray County, Missouri] (1901), digital images from microfilm, McGuire Home (http://mcguirehome.tripod.com/Images/marriagesandwills_h3.jpg : accessed 2010), entry for Nancy J. Helton and spouse, James Tanner, married 15 Aug 1848, comments, "Nancy by consent of George F. Carle and wife with whom she was living"; cites a reference 134.
7. Although Robert must prove the link from John S. Carle to his father, George F. Carle, for the purpose of his SAR application, that is not the charge of this blog entry. Robert has separate evidence about John's parentage placing his ancestor, George F. Carle, at Missouri; we have some insight into Robert's separate evidence.
- "Civil War Declaration of Pension - John S. Carle," abstract by Robert Yates (address private); Robert Yates to GJ, E-mail of 16 May 2007, "...[John] is 66 years of age, having been born on the 9th day of August 1841..."
- "John Sainor Carle's Volunteer Enlistment," 17 August 1864, abstract by Robert Yates (address private); Robert Yates to GJ, E-mail of 17 Nov 2010, "I, John Carle born in Camden in the State of Missouri, aged 23 years, and by occupation a miner…."
- Robert R Yates, John S. Carle in "CARLE," Carle-L listserve , 26 Feb 1999 (archive online, Rootsweb.com), compiler writes, "My g-grandfather John Sainor CARLE was b. in Camden, Washington County, Missouri on August 9, 1841. John's father's name was George CARLE and possibly came from the 'Old Country' (Holland) ... John S. CARLE was a miner by trade and also was a surveyor. He helped survey Anacortes and Bellingham, WA. ... John S. Carle died September 26, 1912. He was buried on the family farm on Lopez Island, WA"; without further citation.
STEP 3: Prove George F. Carle, son of Richard and Mary (Firestone) Carle, is the same man who resided Missouri and was enumerated at Ray County in 1850.
For this work, we examine yet other evidence and then look more closely at some of the documents previously mentioned.
8. The Ohio death certificate for Harriet (Carle) Cobourn, born Missouri, died Columbiana County, Ohio, reports she was the daughter of George and Elizabeth (Sanor) Carle.
Harriet J. Cobourn, dec'd 17 Oct 1915, Certificate of Death, v. 1748, file 53217 (19 Oct 1915), Ohio Historical Society, Columbus Ohio; informant is K. L. Cobourn of Salem, O. Harriet's date of birth given as 18 Sept 1839, at Missouri, to parents George Carle and Elizabeth Sanor, both b. Ohio; informant separately identified as Harriet's son, Kertis L. ("Curtis L.") Cobourn (1871-1939). This is aka Harriet J. (Carle) Cobourn, wife of Nathan Cobourn, see Hinshaw, The Encyclopedia of American Quaker Genealogy, Vol. IV - Ohio, p. 671 "[COBOURN], Nathan, m. Harriet J. Carle, dt/ Geo. & Elizabeth, b. 1839, 9, 18 (G)."
9. The obituary of above Harriet J. Cobourn, deceased 1915, called her siblings, then all deceased, as Richard, John, Lydia (Carle) Whinery and Elizabeth Carle. The information compares favorably with the 1850 George F. Carle census record at Ray County, Missouri (herein, see Step 2, item 7); indicates the parents died shortly after moving from Missouri to Ohio, when Harriet was about 15 (so, c1854).
Obituary of Harriet J. Cobourn, deceased Sunday afternoon, "Deaths," The Salem (Ohio) News, edition of Monday, October 18, 1915; viewed as annotated copy from microfilm "original" by Peggy Cobourn Brobeck (address private), included in correspondence to GJ, 28 April 2007. Represented in part below.
From the obituary, "[Harriet] was born in Missouri and lived with her parents at a small boat landing on the banks of the Missouri river until she was about 14 years old when she came with her parents by boat to East Liverpool and drove from there to Salem, locating about four miles southwest of Salem, near New Middleton ... Her father's name was George Carle and her mother's maiden name was Elizabeth Sanor. She was the oldest of a family of five children, Harriett J. Carle, Richard Carle, John Carle, Lydia (Carle) Whinery, and Elizabeth Carle, all of whom preceded her in death. Mrs. Cobourn's mother died when the decedent was about 15 years of age, and her father passed away a few months later ... She was married to Nathan Cobourn December 25, 1869 ... [he] died in 1887..." [vii]
10. From the death and obituary records about Harriet (Carle) Cobourn, we attribute the trace of a separately identified Columbiana County marriage record to her parents. See "Ohio Marriages, 1800-1958," database, FamilySearch.org (http://beta.familysearch.org : extracted 17 November 2010), for George F. Carol and Elizabeth Sanor, married 16 March 1837, Columbiana County, cites Family History Center film #927766.
11. Okay, we're almost there. When considered with the evidence already presented, we believe the next few items prove Harriet (Carle) Cobourn and her siblings were descendants of Mary (Firestone) Carle, so that their father, George F. Carle, is also a descendant and surely Mary's son by that name.
(a) Columbiana County Probate Court, Ohio, Estate of Mary Carle, dec'd 1869, Case #6806, in particular for "Final account of Joseph Carle - Administrator of Mary Carle Deceased," dated ?13 December 1872, 4 pp., opening with the language, "Amt on hands on last Settlement Jun 17th, 1871." [viii] Of the some 32 entries (transactions) recorded in the accounting, compiler attributes two payments from the estate to George's children, one each to Harriet [(Carle)] Coburn and Lydia Carle. (Image follows.) None of the entries in the extant accounting for Case #6808 can be associated with George's sons, John and Richard, or his daughter, Elizabeth.
There is little doubt that this is the estate of Mary (Firestone) Carle. At the time of Mary's death, her nephew, Solomon Jefferson Firestone (1833-1912, son of Daniel F. Firestone) was the Columbiana County Probate Judge. Mary's son, Joseph F. Carle, administered Mary's estate; bonded first by additional sureties Nathan Cobourn (would appear Harriet Cobourn's spouse) and George Burns. Later, it appears, sureties for the bond were named S. J. Firestone (would appear the judge himself) and another nephew, Daniel W. Firestone (1837-1896, son of Daniel F. Firestone). The change in sureties likely related to a letter in the estate file, Nathan Cobourn to the court (undated); he asks to be removed as a surety on the bond.
(b) George F. Carle's daughters, Harriet and Lydia, are the only two of his children we find named in the accounting records for estate of Mary (Firestone) Carle (Mary Carle, Case #6806). Harriet and Lydia are also the only two of George's children we find in the 1870 census residing at Columbiana County—and they were living together at the time the distributions were made by Mary's administrator. (Note the date of the census!)
1870 U.S. census, Columbiana Co., Ohio, population schedule, Perry Twp. (P.O. Salem), page 256, sheet 16, dwelling 116, family 119, Nathan Coburn household, 28 Jun 1870; digital images, Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com : accessed 24 Mar 2007), National Archives microfilm publication M593, roll 1184; relevant entry, annotated, follows:
We find Lydia Carl, ae 22, born Missouri, without occupation, living with Harriet Coburn, ae 30, b. Missouri; Harriet is apparent wife of Nathan Coburn.
You might think we've got this circled—but wait, there's more!
(c) At Columbiana County, yet another estate. This time for Richard L. Carle, dec'd (1876). The estate contains only one asset--a distribution from Joseph F. Carle, administrator of the estate of Mary Carle, "which amount Richard L. Carle would have been entitled to as an heir at Law of said Mary Carle, Deceased."
By separate research, we know this 1876 estate does not belong to Richard L. Carle, the son of Mary (Firestone) Carle, as her son didn't die until 1880. [ix] The 1876 estate reports heirs at law Mrs. Harriet Cobourn, Mrs. Lydia Whinery and John S. Carle. Given the evidence examined, we attribute this estate to Richard L. Carle, the son of George and Elizabeth (Sanor) Carle, with the heirs being Richard's siblings.
Columbiana County Probate Court, Ohio, Estate of Richard Carle dec'd 1876, Case #8661 (docket no. 5, page 425), six extant pages as of 1997, for Final Accounting, 24 Mar 1877, John E. Rogers, administrator. (Image follows)
PSST ... Little Surprises
In the course of compiling the material for this blog, we scanned a few Internet genealogical sites--just to make sure we hadn't missed evidence that might contribute or contradict this proof.
Lookie, lookie--see what we found. At Ancestry.com, there were two patent deeds related to land in Williams County, Ohio; both records were indexed as "George F. Carle." When we looked at the deed images, we found the actual purchaser's name had been George Firestone Carle--one reporting his residence as Columbiana County, Ohio; the other as Ray County, Missouri.
Issued 18 April 1849, certificate 4867, for George Firestone Carle of Columbiana County, Ohio
Issued 1 July 1850, certificate 16169, for George Firestone Carle of Ray County, Missouri
George Firestone Carle (Columbiana County, Ohio), cash entry certificate 4867, Lima (Defiance), Ohio, Land Office; digital image, "U.S. General Land Office Records," Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com : accessed 14 November 2010), cites "United States. Bureau of Land Management, General Land Office Records, Automated Records Project; Federal Land Patents, State Volumes, http://www.glorecords.blm.gov/, Springfield, Virginia: Bureau of Land Management, Eastern States, 2007"; subject land described as 80 acres--the "east half of the south east quarter of Section eleven in Township seven, North, of Range three, East"; relevant part of this image follows:
George Firestone Carle (Ray County, Missouri), cash entry certificate 16169, Defiance [formerly Lima], Ohio, Land office digital image, "U.S. General Land Office Records," Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com : accessed 14 November 2010), cites "United States. Bureau of Land Management, General Land Office Records, Automated Records Project; Federal Land Patents, State Volumes, http://www.glorecords.blm.gov/, Springfield, Virginia: Bureau of Land Management, Eastern States, 2007"; subject land described as 40 ares--the "South West quarter of the South East quarter, of Section eleven, in Township Seven North, of Range Three East"; relevant part of this image follow:
This "find" is ever so sweet. Unrelated to this proof, we know that Mary (Firestone) Carle's brother, George Firestone, married a woman, Rebecca Carle, who we report as the younger sister of Richard L. Carle. Since my ancestor had been named Rebecca Firestone Carle, I suspected the son was George F[irestone] Carle. Wonderful to see that full name in print.
i. For the marriage and Mary (Firestone) Carle's ancestry, see George Ely Russell, C.G., FASG, FNGS, "Firestone Family of Frederick County, Maryland," Western Maryland Genealogy, Vol. 9, No. 1 (Jan 1993), and Vol. 9, No. 2 (April 1993), pages 62-72, for #7-Mathias^2 Firestone, vol. 9, No. 2, page 63-64, for the children of Mathias and Anna Maria (Bieber) Firestone, including "42 vi. Anna 'Mary'^3 Firestone, b. 9 Oct. 1789; bp. Frederick Town E-L Church 18 Oct. 1789; sponsors: John and Louisa Lieblich: m. Columbiana Co., Ohio, 17 Dec. 1807 Richard Karl/Carle," citing "Pastor Krug's Marriage Register," Maryland Magazine of Genealogy 4:27 and Columbiana County, Ohio, Marriage Records, 1804-1835 (E. Liverpool, Ohio: Griscom DAR Chapter, 1938).
ii. Dirck Lowe "Richard L." Carle, baptized "Dirick Lou Cerel," see A. Van Doren Honeyman, "Neshanic Reformed Church Baptismal Records, Early Records, 1762-1796," Somerset County Historical Quarterly, ongoing series beginning Volume I, No. 2 (April 1912) (Somerville, New Jersey : Somerset County Historical Society, April 1912); online transcribed digital edition, GenealogyLibrary.com (http://www.genealogylibrary.com : extracted 15 Jun 2007); entry at page 135, entry for Josif and Maria Cerel, baptism of "Dirick Lou," June 8, 1777. Church baptism records were made in Dutch through the Revolutionary War, and were arranged earlier by date, the Quarterly editor (Honeyman) alphabetized the entries;" the Low/Lowe baptisms were recorded under the surname Lou, even though Dirck Lowe's name appears elsewhere in the church records as Low and/or Lowe.
iii. Separate research/evidence show that Richard and Mary (Firestone) Carle lived their married lives at Columbiana County, Ohio. This evidence includes but is not limited to estate records, land records, plat maps and census records.
iv. As an aside, at least as far as we have been able to learn in our separate research, it was Rebecca's mother, Mary (Firestone) Carle, who was of German descent, not the father, Richard, whose family name is more commonly spelled "Carle." Richard was born in New Jersey; we know much about Richard's maternal ancestry; it was Dutch. We have yet to discover German ancestry on Richard's father's side.
v. Robert M. Reed and Harriet J. Carles, Columbiana County, married 1 Sept 1853, "by Rev. H.H. Moore, a Methodist Minister," for bride, groom, date and location, see Jordan Dodd (Liahona Research), compiler, "Ohio Marriages 1803-1900"; database, Ancestry.com (www.ancestry.com : accessed 2000-200X), cites Columbiana County, Ohio Marriages, 1851-70 FHC film # (0927767 - 0927768) which in turn cites country marriage books; for Jackson-Carl marriage see Family Tree Maker Marriage Index: Ohio; 1789-1850; CD-ROM (Novato, California: Broderbund Software, 1996), Joseph Jackson to Lydia Ann Carl, Columbiana County, 17 Dec 1850.
vi. "Paulding County, Ohio - Death Records 1867-1872," Gateway to the West, 2 vols (Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co.: 1989), II: 334, for record, "Carle, Mary - d 9-15-1869; a 80-11-6; w; pd Emerald twp.; pb Maryland.", originally published by Ruth Bowers and Anita Short, Gateway to the West , (42 mostly quarterly issues vols. 1A-11, 1967-1978), Vol 11 (1978); viewed as digital images, Genealogy.com (http://www.genealogy.com : accessed 31 Mar 2007); preface reports that these records are from "Death Record 1" located in the Probate Court at the court house in Paulding. Continuing, "Page on which the record may be found in the original book is given in parenthesis. Only Persons over 40 years of age have been included in this record. Abbreviatons: d=died; m=married; w=widow or widower; s=single, pd=place of death; pb=place of birth; res=residence. Residence is the same as the place of death unless stated otherwise."
vii. Obituary reports Harriet was the eldest of the five children, but she was probably not the eldest. See 1850 U.S. Census, Ray County, Missouri, population schedule, for George F. Carle household, as of 27 Aug 1850, discussed herein.
viii. The extant Mary Carle estate accounting records do not reconcile and contain debit entries are dated from 22 June 1871 to 12 December 1872; credits, from 2 June 1870 to 6 Dec 1872).
ix."Carle," Richard L. Carle obituary, publication unknown, annotated July 1880; Paulding County (Ohio) genealogical files; digital images from photocopies by Kevin Arvin (address private) to GJ, E-mail c30 July 1999; reports Richard's only relatives as a brother from Columbiana County and sister, Mrs. Harriet Reid, of Emerald township. Compiler notes Richard's sister Rebecca (Carle) Miller also survived; she passed away in 1892.
Update notice: As of early July 2012, I have begun updating the templates I use in Blogger.com and working to correct font and line break issues. As part of this work, the original 18 Nov 2010 article was updated and republished on 11 July 2012. There were no intentional changes made to the text in the process of this update. --GeneJ
Update notice: As of early July 2012, I have begun updating the templates I use in Blogger.com and working to correct font and line break issues. As part of this work, the original 18 Nov 2010 article was updated and republished on 11 July 2012. There were no intentional changes made to the text in the process of this update. --GeneJ

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I n an effort to accommodate changes that have occurred in our professional environments, in family structures, and in personal commitments, the RI Board of Directors tests new ideas, methods, and organizational frameworks for clubs by conducting pilot projects. These projects are aimed at securing Rotary's future as a premier humanitarian service organization. Pilot clubs that participate in these experiments are fully functioning Rotary clubs that are exempt from some requirements in the Standard Rotary Club Constitution.
Currently, the Board is running the Meeting Frequency pilot (started 1 July 2007 and ending 30 June 2013), which allows participating clubs to meet on any schedule other than a weekly meeting. In November 2010, the Board approved four new pilots to run concurrently from 1 July 2011 to 30 June 2014. Note: E-clubs are no longer considered pilot clubs. Read more about e-clubs.
Four pilot programs will begin 1 July 2011 and run through 30 June 2014, as detailed in the implementation plan. Applications are due to RI by 15 April 2011. Read the terms and conditions and download the application.
Associate Member Pilot This pilot will allow an individual to become associated and acquainted with a Rotary club, its members, its programs and projects, and the expectations of club membership with the intent of becoming an active member within a designated period of time. Download the fact sheet
Corporate Member Pilot This pilot will allow a corporation or company in the club's area to become a member of the Rotary club, through an established membership approval process, and to appoint up to four designees as the individuals attending club meetings, serving on projects, voting on club matters, serving as club officers and on club committees, and so on. Download the fact sheet
Innovative and Flexible Rotary Club Pilot This pilot will focus on letting clubs self-determine their operations to fit better with the needs of their members and community. Clubs would be authorized to make changes to the Standard Rotary Club Constitution and to their Rotary Club Bylaws in any area other than RI membership dues requirements. Download the fact sheet
Satellite Club Pilot This pilot will assess the impact of allowing a Rotary club to conduct multiple club meetings during a week, each taking place at a different location, on a different day, and/or at a different time. Satellite clubs can be organized to assist in chartering a new club, to accommodate rural and remote areas or communities with small populations, to accommodate large metropolitan areas in allowing one club to provide several meeting times and locations, and in other situations. Download the fact sheet


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Uhuru activists want St. Pete Police out of their neighborhoods for good listen
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Tags: Uhuru, African rights, African-Americans, St. Petersburg, civil rights, human rights, St. Pete Police
Activists from the Uhuru are demanding that St. Pete Police officers remove themselves from black communities. During a protest in front of the police station today, nine people spoke out against the agency for what they call terrorizing black neighborhoods.
"The street crimes unit is a special unit of the police department that act as armed thugs in the African community."
That's Chimerenga Waller with the International People's Democratic Uhuru Movement. Waller led the group in ch...
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Tags: Rick Kriseman, St. Petersburg, Bill Foster, mayor's race, election, Kathleen Ford, NAACP, early voting
The City of St. Petersburg will hold an election for Mayor and City Council this year.
The primary is in August, but unlike the 2012 presidential election, there aren't plans to allow early voting.
That's gotten groups, like the NAACP, and candidates, like Mayoral hopeful Rick Kriseman, hoping to change the policy.
Be the first to comment"First off, my office only recently became aware that the city didn't have early voting for this coming municipal election. I mean, I think that in general the public, ...
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On Thursday, residents of St. Petersburg will meet to discuss what they think the city's budget priorities should be. It's year 2 of what's called the People's Budget Review.
The proposed budget will reflect what the residents want their city to look like and what is most important to the community. Aaron Dietrich is an organizer for People's Budget Review.
Be the first to comment"We've seen in past years that the city was holding public budgets from us and we were not getting a lot of resident participation...
Arrested activist claims St. Pete Police harass people without homes in Williams Park listen
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Tags: Bruce Wright, poverty, St. Pete Police, homeless, homelessness, Bill Foster, St. Petersburg, Williams Park
A longtime homeless activist in St. Petersburg is claiming that police officers hurt him while he was trying to defend a homeless man in Williams Park Wednesday. Bruce Wright was arrested and charged with obstruction after another man being arrested got away. According to the St. Petersburg Police Department, officers had an arrest warrant for a man in the park. That report quoted Wright as saying "stop harassing that man" and then asking what he had done wrong.
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Problems in Africa kick off two day conference on international affairs listen
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Tags: Africa, USF, St. Pete, militarization, Nigeria, St. Petersburg, oil, South Africa
Many countries in Africa are facing famine, poverty and civil war. A panel of experts dove into the issues facing African nations during the first day of USF St. Petersburg's Conference on International Affairs.
Countries like Mali and Libya face fierce fighting between groups in power and opposition forces. The issue has left a divide among people who think the U.S. should provide military intervention and those who think the militarization of nations should be avoided. Bill Felice, is...
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An architect working on the new St. Pete pier design dispelled what she calls myths about the $50 million project. More than 100 people crowded a Suncoast Tiger Bay meeting Tuesday to ask Lisa Wannemacher questions about the Lens.
"It is not a sidewalk to nowhere. The pier is a promenade to a place."
But critics have continued to lambaste city officials and architects over the project. After the design was chosen in 2011, a group called [Concerned Citizens of St. Petersburg](http://s...
1 commentsSt. Pete for Peace celebrates "10 years of resistance" listen
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Tags: St. Pete for Peace, peace, St. Petersburg, war, Iraq War
One of the most active anti-war groups in the Tampa Bay area is celebrating ten years of resistance Saturday.
We spoke with Chris Ernesto, a co-founder of St. Pete for Peace, about what they've done since 2003 and what's to come for the anti-war and social justice group.
At the anniversary celebration hey will debut a film about their ten years of activism.
It's at 7 p.m. Saturday March 9 at L-Train, 900 Central Ave. in St. Pete.
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Florida Senate committee puts domestic partner registry bill on hold listen
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Tags: Florida Senate, domestic partners, domestic partnership registry, LGBT, marriage equality, Steve Kornell, Tampa, St. Petersburg
A bill to extend some rights to domestic partners was put on hold Tuesday in the Florida Senate Children and Families Committee.
During public comment, St. Petersburg City Council member Steve Kornell asked senators to support it.
Some of the Republicans who oppose the domestic partnership registry bill said they support expanding rights, but this bill goes too far and is too similar to marriage.
The bill's sponsor Senator Elanor Sobel, a Democrat from Hollywood, said she would brin...
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They snap pictures of cars who may be running a light with a tell tale flash. They're red light cameras.
The idea was to eliminate potentially fatal intersection collisions, but the issue has sparked debate across party lines. Some argue it is a violation of privacy – others that the tickets issued aren't accurate.
As legislation to overturn a state law that allows the cameras to be used is making its way through Tallahassee, St. Petersburg officials are facing their own backlash over ...
1 commentsRick Kriseman talks about why wants to be the next Mayor of St. Petersburg
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Rick Kriseman has served on the St. Pete City Council and in Tallahassee as a state Representative. On Monday, February 11, he announced he would be a candidate for mayor in St. Petersburg. On our show, he talked about why he's the better choice for the city than incumbent Bill Foster moving forward.
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Music Studio brings teamwork to the 'Magic of Christmas'
ALBANY — It's been a busy week at The Music Studio, a private music school primarily for youngsters. They've been shoehorned into a suite of seven rooms in a former South Colonie school district building at 1237 Central Ave., roughly halfway between Westgate Shopping Plaza and Colonie Center, as they prepare to appear in "The Magic of Christmas" this weekend at the Palace Theatre.
Actually, activities have spilled over into a cramped hallway, where about 40 kids, ages 8 to 17, and their adult coaches have been rehearsing for the past two months. This week they were joined by Albany Symphony Orchestra conductor David Alan Miller.
"I love working with David Alan Miller. He's so brilliant," said Abby Bemis, a Guilderland ninth-grader. "It's kind of stressful when he comes. We all want to please David Alan Miller, and so everyone puts out their best effort."
For "Magic," Miller also enlists the Capital District Youth Chorale, some 100 members strong; kids from the Green Island-based Boland School of Irish Dance and Albany's own World of Dance; and the Quintessence Bell Choir. That's to say nothing of various adult soloists, as well as Santa and Mrs. Claus, who help ring in the holiday season.
"I think it's wonderful the way the orchestra has been so wonderful with the kids of the Capital District," Music Studio Director Noelle Liberty said. The 36-year-old school has seen more than 12,000 students come through its doors.
The Music Studio offers mostly piano-centered training programs, beginning with general music appreciation for groups of kids as young as 2 and progressing up to private lessons, but the core is an immersive introduction to all things musical.
"It took me awhile to figure out what we'd be able to contribute to the program," Liberty said, but she found her answer in Orff instruments. As part of the very hands-on training at The Music Studio, Liberty often employs an Orff set, an array of tuned xylophone-like percussive devices, from high-pitched glockenspiels to bass met allophones. A full set of them can be "like having a whole orchestra of xylophones," Bemis said.
Liberty sought holiday arrangements written for Orff instruments, but when she found none, she secured Minnesota-based composer Paul Gorecki, who annually contributes arrangements exclusively penned for Albany Symphony Orchestra and The Music Studio.
Though they are all principally piano students, the Studio kids also participate in a sing-along segment of the holiday program, along with the chorale, and they put together a medley of Christmas tunes choreographed by former Studio student Abby Todd.
This year's medley runs the gamut from "Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer" to the jazz holiday standard "Christmastime is Here," to the up-tempo "Polar Express" tune "Hot Chocolate." Continued...
Putting all this together begins in October, when students in the Studio program audition and commit to what can be as many as 80 hours of rehearsal leading up to the big weekend.
Rehearsing for the concert and its attendant obligations comes on top of students' regular musical studies and activities at home, school and elsewhere.
"I do a lot," Bemis said, speaking for many of her counterparts, as well. "Music isn't the only thing I do in my life. I play sports, I sing with my school chorus and I do other things. But music is a big part of my life and not something I'll ever give up."
And as for her labors for "The Magic of Christmas"?
"It's definitely something I'll do until I can't do it anymore," she said.
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We're delighted to have been shortlisted for nine CIPD awards in five separate categories! Congratulations to Barclays UKRBB, whose jobs.barclays.co.uk has been shortlisted for Best Site, Best Mobile and Recruitment Effectiveness. The Barclays pre-joiner site has also been shortlisted for Best Internal Comms and Best Mobile. Enterprise Rent-A-Car continues its recent string of successes with shortlistings for Best Recruitment Site, Best Social Media and Recruitment Effectiveness. Staples global careers portal has been shortlisted for Recruitment Effectiveness.
Last Thursday at OnRec 2013, our clients Barclays UKRBB picked up the Best Corporate Use of Online Recruitment award in the Multi-National category. The win was for career site jobs.barclays.co.uk which features a 360 degree tour, online tools and mobile optimisation. Congratulations to everyone involved.
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Not a guitar amp expert but let me suggest the following. Generally it's pretty abusive to plug an instrument into a powered amplifier. I believe it has to do with the retaliation characteristics of the input stage but someone more expert regarding input stages of these amplifiers might know better. You might consider simply installing your cable into your guitar followed by installing the plug into the amplifier followed by powering up your amplifier.
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What made you decide to write fiction?
Although I spent my childhood reading both fiction and non-fiction/science books, and grew up wanting to write both, I feel the medium of fiction gives me more freedom to state my opinion and thoughts on real life, politics, history. I can meditate on what could have been and make them 'real' in my stories.
Your first novel is set in Europe. Tell us why you chose this setting.
I've been trying to build a completely new world that got separated from our own world after a twist in a historical event. This historical event happened to be better told when seen through the European lens, because it influenced the continent and the turn of history there more than it did in the other continents. The second book continues to explore this twist, and the story of the new world (or if you like, universe) gets its full kick off in the third book, which I am writing right now.
What is your biggest challenge in writing this alternate universe?
In the first and second books, I had to check and re-check the historical facts before I decided to put them in and blend them together. I had to check maps, historical accounts, read so many books. I had to think carefully: did they do this or have that in the Middle Ages? Fortunately we had libraries (and the internet!) that I could rely on. (There's still at least one spatial/temporal discrepancy in the first book, though; the first one who can tell what it is correctly will get a gift from me! I'm serious! Here's a hint: food.) In the third book, now this is my universe, I feel more relaxed, and allow myself to alter historical elements, or incorporate new ones that are not faithful to our history.
Your third book is set in 19th-century Singapore. How does the twist in the historical event in the first two books influence this part of the world?
It's actually set in both Singapore and The East Indies (the future Indonesia). In the 19th century, this region (and many other regions in the world) was still under the colonial grasp of some European countries, so any shift of power in Europe will automatically affect these regions too. (Perhaps the readers still remember that Thomas Stamford Raffles, of the Singapore fame, was once the governor-general of The East Indies?) And since this region was rich with the things that the Western powers wanted, inevitably they flocked to and fought for dominance over the archipelago. This is very inspirational for stories – and an alternate history.
What do you enjoy most about writing? And what is your advice for aspiring writers out there?
It's therapeutic for me. It helps me let off steam – although it doesn't mean when I'm angry or depressed in the real life, my stories will be all about angst or frustration. Writing just gives me a way of channelling the energy that I could have used brooding or getting angry at the world… or damaging things.
But most of all, I like reading and writing stories. Writing lets me share the stories or the worlds I have inside my head with other people – and sharing always feels good.
I don't think I am experienced enough to give advice about writing, but I think I can say just be patient when dealing with publishers. Oftentimes it is a long process to get your books published – even finding a publisher interested in your book can be a painstaking job! And don't think that after you sign a contract, then everything will be sugar and spice and all that's nice. It does not stop there, you've just entered another stage that still requires your hard work and patience. So fight, faito, hwaiting, berjuang!
Tyas Palar is a writer, teacher, and translator. Her debut novel is The Death to Come, the first book in The Search for Merlin trilogy. The second book, The Grey Labyrinth, is due around June/July 2011. You can find her online at Mata Kelabu.


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