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- WC retired teacher host next meeting Jan. 9 in Wharton.
// East Bernard Express (TX); 11/22/2007, Vol. 64 Issue 47, p3
The article reports on the meetings in the Fellowship Hall of First United Methodist Church that will be hosted by retired teachers in Wharton County in Texas.
- HCRSP celebrate holidays.
// Lakelander (Whitney, TX); 1/10/2007, Vol. 21 Issue 2, p5
The article presents a photo of Hill County Retired School Personnel members in Texas.
- State Journal.
Blair, Julie // Education Week; 11/14/2001, Vol. 21 Issue 11, p18
Reports the suspension of annual bonus checks for teachers in Ohio. Cause for the changes; Impact of the changes on daily living of retired educators; Forecast on issuance of checks the following year.
- Knox County Retired School Personnel to meet.
Blair, Julie // Munday Courier (TX); 4/22/2010, Vol. 37 Issue 20, p3
The article offers information on the meeting of Knox County Retired school personnel to be held in Benjamin, Texas on April 27, 2010.
- Retired teachers to receive check increases.
Blair, Julie // Lakelander (Whitney, TX); 10/24/2007, Vol. 21 Issue 43, p6
The article reports on the plan of the Texas Teachers Retirement System (TRS) Board to take action to provide retired teachers an increase to their retirement benefits.
- Old Glory News.
Blair, Julie // Stonewall County Courier (Aspermont, TX); 2/ 2/2012, Vol. 25 Issue 6, p4
The article offers information on various events in Old Glory, Texas in February 2012 including the Multi County Retired Teachers and School Personnel meeting at the Homemaking Cottage in Stamford on February 8 and monthly musical at the Old Glory Community Center on February 25.
- Monthly Meeting in Knox County.
Blair, Julie // Twin Cities News (Munday, TX); 1/18/2007, Vol. 24 Issue 50, p3
The article reports that the Knox County Retired School Personnel will have their monthly meeting on January 23, 2007 at the Knox City Baptist Church Fellowship Hall.
- Joint Luncheon Planned Feb 15th.
Blair, Julie // Edgewood Enterprise (TX); 2/10/2011, Vol. 104 Issue 6, p3
Information about the joint luncheon meeting of the Van Zandt County Retired Teachers Association (VZCRTA) on February 15, 2011 at the Papadale's Restaurant.
- Retired teachers to meet next Monday.
Blair, Julie // Clarendon Enterprise (TX); 3/26/2009, Vol. 20 Issue 13, p5
The article offers information on the meeting by the Donley County Retired School Personnel Association to be held at the Church of Christ Family Life Center in Texas on March 30, 2009.
Dozier, Anita // Stonewall County Courier (Aspermont, TX); 5/26/2011, Vol. 25 Issue 23, p4
The article offers the author's insights on various issues in Stonewall County, Texas which include the meeting of District Texas Retired Teachers Association (TRTA) held at Region Service Center on May 24, 2011, playing dominos at the house of Delma Davis, and the Bar B Que Fund Raiser held at...
- Van Zandt County Retired Teacher Association Sets Scheduled Meeting.
Dozier, Anita // Edgewood Enterprise (TX); 4/8/2010, Vol. 103 Issue 14, p2
The article offers information on the Van Zandt County Retired Teachers meeting to be held at the American Bank in Canton, Texas on April 20, 2010.
- WC Retired Teacher meet, select new officers.
Dozier, Anita // East Bernard Express (TX); 1/15/2009, Vol. 66 Issue 3, p6
The article focuses on the announcement of Henriette Jalowy, president of Wharton County Retired Teachers Association on the state convention of the Texas Retired Teachers in Dallas, Texas on March 29-31, 2009.
- Hill Co. Retired Teachers set March meeting.
Dozier, Anita // Lakelander (Whitney, TX); 3/14/2012, Vol. 25 Issue 11, p7
The article offers information on the regular meeting of Hill County Retired Teachers which will be held in Bob Bullock Room of Hill College in Hillsboro, Texas on March 20, 2012.
- Retired teacher says budget needs to pass.
Collier, Jessica // Adirondack Daily Enterprise; 4/26/2010, Vol. 117 Issue 98, p1
The article reports on the call of retired teacher Darlene Donnelly for the public to vote in favor of the school budget to be passed in New York.
- Storytime.
Collier, Jessica // Clarendon Enterprise (TX); 10/29/2009, Vol. 20 Issue 44, p1
A photograph of retired teacher Gayle Hankins telling a story to a Clarendon, Texas kindergarten class is presented.
- Pension plan changes: substituting after pension.
Marcellus, Sandra // ATA News; 9/13/2011, Vol. 46 Issue 2, p4
The article states that the 60 percent cap on substitute service was removed from the rules of the Teachers' Pension Plan signifying that retired teachers receiving pensions from the Alberta Teachers' Retirement Fund (ATRF) can substitute teach with no restriction from the plan.
- Tools for Northern Ghana.
Pottage, Marilyn // ATA News; 11/6/2012, Vol. 47 Issue 6, p7
The article features the Tools for Schools Africa Foundation consisting mostly of retired Alberta teachers, which works to improve the quality of life in northern region of Ghana by enhancing educational opportunities and improving access to education for the underpriviledged children.
- Retired Teachers To Meet.
Pottage, Marilyn // Munday Courier (TX); 10/17/2012, Vol. 35 Issue 42, p4
The article offers information on the meeting organized by the organization Knox County Retired Teachers to be held in Knox City, Texas on October 23, 2012.
- New Books on the Market.
Pottage, Marilyn // PSA Journal; Mar2011, Vol. 77 Issue 3, p9
The article announces that retired schoolteacher Marie Altenburg will be the new reviewer of books for the "Photographic Society of America (PSA) Journal" in 2011.
- Hill Co. Retired Teachers to meet Feb. 21.
Pottage, Marilyn // Lakelander (Whitney, TX); 2/15/2012, Vol. 25 Issue 7, p4
The article offers information on the meeting of the Hill County Retired Teachers to be held in the Bob Bullock Room at the Hill College in Hillsboro, Texas on February 21, 2012.
- Retired teachers hear Hospice speaker.
Pottage, Marilyn // East Bernard Express (TX); 1/13/2011, Vol. 68 Issue 2, p5
Information about several topics discussed at a meeting of the Wharton County Unit of Texas Retired Teachers Association in Wharton County, Texas is presented.
- Provincial Election 2012.
Pottage, Marilyn // ATA News; 3/27/2012, Vol. 46 Issue 14, p3
The article invites teachers and retired teachers running for the 2012 general election in Alberta to submit manuscripts for the upcoming issue of the newspaper "ATA News."
- WC Retired Teachers set dates.
Pottage, Marilyn // East Bernard Express (TX); 6/21/2007, Vol. 64 Issue 25, p8
The article offers information on the series of meetings of the Wharton County Retired Teachers for 2007.
- EB retired teachers attend meeting.
Pottage, Marilyn // East Bernard Express (TX); 11/4/2010, Vol. 67 Issue 44, pA6
Information on the District III Fall Conference that was attended by several Wharton County Texas Retired Teachers Association members at Brackenridge Park in Edna, Texas on October 27, 2010 is presented.
- 'Tiger Woods Teachers'
Raymond, Allen // Teaching Pre K-8; Jan2001, Vol. 31 Issue 4, p6
Profiles Lillian Marsh, a retired teacher in Rochester, Vermont. Comparison with golfer Tiger Woods; Description as a teacher; Recognition and awards.
- Retirement can be rewarding.
Johnson, Chris // ATA News; 6/11/2013, Vol. 47 Issue 19, p11
The author talks about the rewards of being a retired teacher and discusses the struggles of newly graduated teachers in Canada.
- Retired teachers meet, elect and install new officers.
Johnson, Chris // East Bernard Express (TX); 6/20/2013, Vol. 70 Issue 25, p6
The article discusses a meeting of the Wharton County Unit of Texas Retired Teachers Association that was held at Wharton County Historical Museum in Texas on June 5, 2013.
- Retired teachers host banquet.
Johnson, Chris // Graham Leader; 5/16/2012, Vol. 136 Issue 79, p7A
The article offers information on the annual banquet of the Graham Retired Teachers Association held at the Horizon Bay in Graham, Young County, Texas.
Johnson, Chris // East Bernard Express (TX); 8/8/2013, Vol. 70 Issue 32, p3
A calendar of nonprofit events and fundraisers in East Bernard, Texas in 2013 is presented, including the 33rd annual Awards Banquet to be hosted by the 100 Club of Wharton County, Inc. on August 16, the Share Open House event on August 12, and a retired teachers meeting on September 4 in...
- Retired Teachers Group Hosts Superintendents.
Johnson, Chris // Burnet Bulletin (Texas);
A photograph of the Highland Lakes retired teachers who were the hosts to the three area superintendents in Texas is presented.
- Elected Officers of the Metropolitan Nashville Retired Teachers Association for 2011-2012.
Johnson, Chris // Tennessee Tribune; 8/11/2011, Vol. 22 Issue 32, p5A
A photogaph depicting the elected offiers of the Metropolitan Nashville, Tennessee Retired Teachers Association for the 2011-2012 is presented.
Johnson, Chris // Graham Leader; 11/13/2013, Vol. 138 Issue 26, p4A
A calendar of events for November 2013 in Graham, Texas, including the OPOMAC Fundraiser, the Retired Teachers Meeting, and the NCTC Donor/Scholar Luncheon RSVP is presented.
- Retired Teachers' Scholarships.
Johnson, Chris // Lakelander (Whitney, TX); 5/21/2008, Vol. 22 Issue 21, p7
The article announces that retired teachers Nina York, Maria Carmona, and Billie Gray received $500 scholarship from Hill County Retired School Personnel (HCRSP) in Hill County, Texas.
- The Kilgore Quartet sings for retired teachers.
Johnson, Chris // Malakoff News (TX); 11/08/2013, Vol. 104 Issue 45, p4
An image of the Kilgore Quartet taken as they entertained retired teachers at their meeting in October 2013 is presented.
- MARTA meetings set.
Johnson, Chris // Hudson Valley Business Journal; 12/2/2002, Vol. 13 Issue 24, p29
Highlights the Middletown Area Retired Teachers Association meetings in Middletown, New York.
- VZ County Retired Teachers Association Plans Meeting.
Johnson, Chris // Grand Saline Sun (TX); 1/14/2010, Vol. 114 Issue 2, p2
The article offers information on the Van Zandt County Retired Teachers Association meet to be held at American National Bank in Canton, Texas on January 19, 2010.
- Retirees host legislative forum.
Johnson, Chris // New York Teacher; 5/6/2010, Vol. 51 Issue 15, p22
A photograph of several participants of the legislative forum in Long Island, New York in April 2010 is presented.
- Historical program presented to Hill County Retired Teachers.
Johnson, Chris // Lakelander (Whitney, TX); 11/14/2012, Vol. 25 Issue 46, p9
The article informs that Phyllis Olson, a resident of Whitney, Texas, presented a historical program to the retired teachers of the Hill County, Texas.
SINDRIC, RON // American Iron Magazine; Aug2013, Issue 299, p188
A letter to the editor is presented in response to an article written by Marjorie Kleiman in "Thunder Press."
- Retired Teachers board Meets.
SINDRIC, RON // Burnet Bulletin (Texas); 8/28/2013, Vol. 140 Issue 35, p9A
The article offers information on the meeting of the board members of the Highland Lake Retired Teachers held at the First Church of Christ in Marble Falls, Texas on September 3, 2013.
SINDRIC, RON // Graham Leader; 2/12/2014, Vol. 138 Issue 52, p5
A calendar of events in Texas area from February to March 2014 is presented which includes the meeting by the Dance Planning, meeting Young County Democratic Association, and meeting of the Graham Area Retired Teachers Association.
- Bake Sale to benefit Retired Teachers Organization.
SINDRIC, RON // Munday Courier (TX); 11/14/2007, Vol. 34 Issue 50, p4
The article announces the holding of a bake sale at Lawrence Brothers to benefit the Knox County Retired Teachers Organization on November 17, 2007.
- Retired Teachers hold meeting - plan Bake Sale.
SINDRIC, RON // Munday Courier (TX); 11/14/2007, Vol. 34 Issue 50, p2
The article reports on the meeting of the Knox County Retired School Personnel to be held at the Fellowship Hall of First Baptist Church of Knox City on November 27, 2007.
- Retired teachers to meet next Monday.
SINDRIC, RON // Clarendon Enterprise (TX); 1/24/2008, Vol. 19 Issue 4, p4
The article offers information on the meeting of the Donley County Retired School Personnel Association at the Family Life Center of the Church of Christ on January 28, 2008.
- WCRSP members attend District 20 spring training.
SINDRIC, RON // Wilson County News; 6/11/2014, Vol. 41 Issue 24, p11A
The article offers information on the Texas Retired Teachers Association's Spring Training that was held on June 5, 2014 in the Floresville Event Center in Texas, which is participated by members of the Wilson County Retired School Personnel
- Jalowy attends 55th annual Retired Teachers conference.
SINDRIC, RON // East Bernard Express (TX); 5/8/2008, Vol. 65 Issue 19, p2
Information about the 55th annual conference of the Texas Retired Teachers Association (TRTA), which was held on April 15-17, 2008 in El Paso, Texas, is presented.
- Retired teachers attend district meeting.
SINDRIC, RON // East Bernard Express (TX); 5/8/2008, Vol. 65 Issue 19, p7
The article provides information on the District III Texas Retired Teachers Association meeting, which was held on April 30, 2008 at the Bay City Service Center.
- Hill County Retired Teachers plan luncheon, auction.
SINDRIC, RON // Lakelander (Whitney, TX); 11/16/2011, Vol. 24 Issue 46, p2
The article informs that retired teachers will have Christmas luncheon, and Silent auction benefiting the Scholarship Fund, on December 6, 2011.
- Fighting for Peace.
SINDRIC, RON // NEA Today; May 2001, Vol. 19 Issue 8, p36
Features Esther Mohler Ho, a retired speech and language specialist from Dublin, California. Her reasons for traveling to Chiapas, Mexico.
- Even on your worst day….
SINDRIC, RON // NEA Today; May2008, Vol. 26 Issue 8, p14
This article reports on a 2007 incident in Scotland where a retired teacher was trapped in the restroom of a sports clubhouse for four days. The teacher became locked in when the door jammed and its knob fell off. The article also discusses how the teacher kept warm and his attitude towards the...


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Newly Appointed Cardinals Pay Courtesy Visit at Regia and Ducale Halls
Diocesans of the newly appointed cardinal John Olorunfemi Onaiyekan... ニュース写真 156902555バチカン市国,ヴァチカン市国,上半身,出席する,国際的な観光地,大司教,宗教,新しい,枢機卿,横長,法王,法王ベネディクト16世,社会的マナー,精神性,訪問Photographer Franco OrigliaCollection: Getty Images News 2012 Franco OrigliaVATICAN CITY, VATICAN - NOVEMBER 24: Diocesans of the newly appointed cardinal John Olorunfemi Onaiyekan, archbishop of Abuja Nigeria, attend the courtesy visits at the Sala Regia Hall at the end of the concistory held by Pope Benedict XVI on November 24, 2012 in Vatican City, Vatican. The Pontiff installed 6 new cardinals during the ceremony, who will be responsible for choosing his successor. (Photo by Franco Origlia/Getty Images)


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Joel Diaz Jr headlines Shobox May 16th at Foxwoods
On Friday May 16, DiBella Entertainment will return to the Foxwoods Resort Casino in Mashantucket, Conn., with an exciting ShoBox: The New Generation doubleheader. Headlining the card in the 10-round main event will be highly regarded undefeated super featherweight prospect Joel Diaz Jr. (15-0, 12KO's) taking on once-beaten Tyler Asselstine (14-1, 7KO's). Returning to ShoBox...
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Julio Diaz says he will most likely retire after loss to Keith Thurman
Julio Diaz will most likely retire from the sport of boxing after being stopped by Keith Thurman in between rounds due to a body shot last night at The Stub Hub Center. The veteran who compiled a record of 40-10 with twenty-nine knockouts feels that it is time to let the new blood of boxing take their place. In speaking with him last night post fight, Diaz had this to say about his...
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Thurman Wins Over Diaz, Matthysse vs Molina A WAR
CARSON, CA - With action being stopped in round three due to injury, Keith 'One Time' Thurman defeated Julio Diaz to retain the WBA interim welterweight championship belt. Faster and stronger, Thurman took control early connecting with left hooks and straight lefts early in round one. Continuing into round two, Thurman took the fight to the body and displayed his superior hand...
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Keith Thurman ready to face Julio Diaz and eager to prove he can be boxing's next big star
Carson, Calif. -- Floyd Mayweather, Manny Pacquiao, and Miguel Cotto have been the three biggest pay-per-view boxing stars for the past few years, but now, with retirement on the horizon for all three, an obvious question looms over the sport: Who will replace them and carry the torch for the next generation?Undoubtedly, there are many candidates waiting in the wings, all of whom...
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Thurman vs. Diaz Weigh-In 1PM PT
LOS ANGELES, CA - Today Keith Thurman, Julio Diaz and the other participants of Saturday night's triple header on Showtime take to the scales ahead of their match-ups. The weigh-in begins at 1PM PT and you can watch it here LIVE. # # # Thurman vs. Diaz, a 12-round fight for Thurman's Interim WBA Welterweight World Championship onSaturday, April 26, is promoted by Golden Boy Promotions...
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Showtime tripleheader fight previews: Thurman vs. Diaz, Matthysse vs. Molina, Figueroa vs. Belmontes
On Saturday night, three of boxing's hardest hitters and most exciting fighters take center stage in Carson, California, as Showtime airs a tripleheader with Keith Thurman, Lucas Matthysse and Omar Figueroa. Right here, you'll find the fight previews for the entire card, along with a special preview video of the action as well. Keith Thurman vs. Julio Diaz Preview & Prediction...
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LOS ANGELES (April 24, 2014) – Photo credit: Esther Lin/Showtime With Oscar De La Hoya presiding over the festivities, Golden Boy Promotions hosted the final press conference for their exciting, stacked fight card this Saturday, April 26 headlining Keith Thurman vs. Julio Diaz at the StubHub Center in Carson, Calif., live on SHOWTIME® (9 p.m. ET/6 p.m. PT, following...
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Thurman/Matthysse Workout Before Triple Header
LOS ANGELES, CA – Today at the Westside Boxing Gym in Los Angeles, fighters from Showtime's Triple Header, taking place at the Stub Hub Arena in Carson, California, held a light workout for the media on hand and answered questions about their respective upcoming bouts. On hand today: Yamaguchi Falcao, Joseph Diaz, Jermall Charlo, Jerry Belmontes, John Molina, Julio Diaz, Omar...
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Heather Hardy, Lamar Russ, Joel Diaz Jr highlight March 21 Broadway Boxing in Brooklyn
Next Friday, DiBella Entertainment's popular Broadway Boxing series returns to the Aviator Sports and Events Center in Brooklyn, NY, for an exciting eight-bout card. Headlining the card in separate eight-round bouts will be undefeated Brooklyn-native and popular female attraction Heather "The Heat" Hardy (8-0, 2KO's), "The First Lady" of DBE, and middleweight...
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Diaz vs. McCloskey? It's news to Diaz's promoter, who says not so fast
Thompson Boxing Sets Record Straight In an effort to clarify the false news that is circulating in the boxing world as it relates to the May 5 match up between junior welterweights, former two-time world champion Julio "The Kidd" Diaz and WBA #8 ranked Paul McCloskey, Thompson Boxing Promotions has issued the following official statement: "As far as we are concerned...
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Winds of change kick up in Central Florida
Published On: Dec 24 2013 08:38:58 AM EST
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After days of rain, Central Florida will see pleasant weather conditions into the weekend.
"A stalled front in northern Florida will push south and drier air with breezy, west-northwest winds will move in," said Local 6 meteorologist Troy Bridges.
Rain chances will be at 30 percent Thursday and drop to 20 percent Friday through Sunday.
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Google had a lot to announce and a lot to show at this year's I/O. Here's a quick summary of all the new stuff announced at Google's annual developer conference.Read More
Microsoft announced several updates to OneDrive for Business including storage bump to 1TB per user. It is a serious contender for businesses of any size.Read More
Google has formally announced Android 4.3, which introduces minor new features including support for restricted profiles and Bluetooth 4.0 Low Energy mode.Read More
Google has officially announced the new Nexus 7, which offers significantly better hardware for a minor price increase.Read More
it will be wrong to accuse the judge Susan Illston of passing a biased verdict in this case. Her argument in this case was that Google went after the premises of issuing an NSL; instead of preparing a defense against the 19 NSL that were the real problem.Read More
Following the footsteps of Samsung, HTC went ahead and announced the HTC One Google Edition. This handset will be shipped with the stock version of the most recent build of Android OS.Read More
Google is launching a new Gmail Inbox with tab support. Tabs will automatically group mails based upon their source, and make it easier for you to find the mail that you want to read.Read More
Samsung might be making more money from Android than Google itself. The Korean manufacturer collected 95% of the total Android smartphone profit in Q1 2013.Read More
LG finally launched the much-awaited Nexus 4 smartphone in India. This handset comes with a price tag of Rs.25,999 (approx. $475).Read More
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Photos and Description of this 2 bedroom holiday apartment in Covent Garden - 2 Bedroom Luxurious Apartment
2 bedroom apartment to sleep 4 bedroom btw Covent Garden & Leceister Square
This Luxurious 2 Bedroom is a recently refurbished apartment on Shaftesbury Avenue very close to the Covent Garden and Leicester square Underground station, about 5mins mins walk to Tesco, Sainsbury or Marks and Spencer. And it is very close to several London Attractions and in heart of London theatre land.
This new luxury accommodation consists of: - 2 Bedrooms - a large double bedroom with a TV and 2nd bedroom with a single bed and a sofa bed. Ironing board and iron - lovely lounge, Wireless Internet, DVD, and FREEVIEW TV with surround sound.
Beautifully decorated with black granite in kitchen and wooden flooring everywhere else.
Bathroom has a separate powerful shower and a full sized bath.
Kitchen fully fitted with a fridge freezer, new cooker, dishwasher, gas hob, with a dining for 6. Fully equipped with all cooking utensils. - Washing Machine.
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Cacher of the Month - May 2014
Beware the Jabbywockyz, my son! The jaws that bite, the claws that catch! Beware the Jubjub bird, and shun the frumious Bandersnatch!
(Holy Dinah! I just scared myself!)
I haven't cached in the Dauphin area since 2007. Back then there were 3 (yes, three) whole caches in town. All of which were hidden by the Dragonfreys who lived an hour south in Onanole. This surprised me to no end as Dauphin is the largest town in the area, and Swan River (the next largest town) had dozens of caches! Well, it seems that things have changed and the cache hides are coming fast and furious! And now there's GeoArt in the province! Well done!!
"'Twas brillig, and the slithy toves did gyre and gimble in the wabe; All mimsy were the borogoves, and the mome raths outgrabe." What Lewis Carroll is trying to say here is: Congratulations and read on to learn more about the MBGA Geocachers of the Month, Jabbywockyz!
Fifth Annual Canada Day Geocaching Event - Selkirk
GC56BP4 - City of Selkirk
This event will consist of a geocaching scavenger hunt! All are welcome to participate in this free event which will begin at the Selkirk waterfront at noon on Canada Day. The time of the event is 12:00pm to 4:00pm. Teams will hunt for the caches hidden across Selkirk. This years theme is the historical buildings and sites around Selkirk.
Milestones achieved in May 2014
Congratulations to the following MBGA members who achieved milestones in May 2014!
MBGA Geocache Hiding - Basic and Advanced II
Join us for a seminar on hiding Geocaches!
Location: Cabelas seminar room, 580 Sterling Lyon Parkway (Winnipeg)
Date: Saturday, June 14, 2014
Time: 9:00 am - 12:00pm
Speaker: glacier_ice
Part 1 - Basic Hiding
In Part 1 of our 2 part seminar, we will be discussing the basics of hiding. Great for first time hiders. We will discuss:
- Why hide?
World Wide Flash Mob XI
On Saturday, June 7, 2014, take part in a global event of random coming togetherness! Geocachers in Winnipeg and Brandon will be hosting events at exactly 12:00 noon as part of the 11th annual World Wide Flash Mob. Participants will receive a unique souvenir for their Geocaching.com profile!
The Winnipeg event will take place in Assiniboine Park at Nature's Playground. The Brandon event will take place outside the Target store at 18th and Richmond. See GC54A9Y (Winnipeg) and GC54ZYA (Brandon) for more information!


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Winning ZinsOctober 22nd, 2014 by Alan A. Barone
SharePrimarily grown in California, although grown sparsely in other areas of the world with limited success, the Zinfandel grape is an original that linked closely to America's wine heritage. Indeed, Zinfandel does love the sun. It tends to do best in cool-to-moderate regions with long hours of sunshine. There are several parts of California that [...]Read more


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Added Sep 2, 2013
by Craftine
Castlerock, France
This summer, I attended a great medieval fair in Auvergne (Souvigny).
For the occasion, I sewed a complete outfit for me and my boyfriend…
because I was super motivated, we had two outfits: I present you the first, a red linen cotte and a surcot decorated with fur. To this was added a hood, a coif called crespinette and black velvet purse hanging from my belt
You can see the rest of this project in my studio..
That was a HUGE project but it was worth it because we had a lot of fun !
fur, wool, linen, cotton, velvet
Sep 4, 2013, 06.53 PMby evilrooster
That is fantastic!
Sep 4, 2013, 12.09 AMby buddingnaturalist
This is excellent, I especially love the attitude in the pose!
Sep 4, 2013, 07.45 PMby Craftine
Thank you!
once I put on my Costume, I am transported to another era! :D
Sep 3, 2013, 12.22 AMby colleen-margaret
As an aspiring costumer, I admire this very much. It looks wonderful!
Sep 3, 2013, 11.27 AMby Craftine
Thank you Colleen!
Sep 2, 2013, 09.30 PMby martinK
Very nice! Did you use the burda patter? I made one for my sister and she is very happy with it. You can see it in my studio. I had a lot of fun to make it.
Sep 4, 2013, 07.42 PMby Craftine
Thank you Martin, no I drew myself the patterns for the complete outfits. :)
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Search Results for The Exorcist
It's Friday the 13th! Which of these horror movies gives you the goose bumps?
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Milla Jovovich & Her Musketeers: Sour Grapes or Legit Point?
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The Exorcist (1973) music Tubelar Bells by Mike Oldfield, you favorite cast member?
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The Geffen Playhouse in LA will debut a stage version of "The Exorcist " next summer. Who is your favorite performer in the classic 1973 film?
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What is your favorite of these older scary movies that feature creepy children?
Village of the Damned (1960) Creepy twins in The Shining (1980) The Bad Seed (1956) The Exorcist (1973) The Omen (1976)
What do you think was the most controversial film of the '70's?
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Ellen Burstyn will make her West End debut in a London revival of A Children's Hour , co-starring Keira Knightley and Elisabeth Moss. Which of the iconic actress' films is your favorite?
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It's almost Halloween! Which of the following top 5 horror flicks from EW's 20 Scariest Movies of All Time is your favorite?
The Shining (1980) The Exorcist (1973) The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1974) The Silence of the Lambs (1991) Jaws (1975)
Which scary movie you can't watch alone?
The Exorcist Halloween(1978 film) The Strangers Friday The 13th I can't watch________________________
What famous scary film charcter make you have nightmares?
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Floydiana is a serial book, not a blog. Chapter by chapter it explores life in Floyd, a town and county in Southern Virginia. The area's mixture of people is as unlikely as its scenery is "Look at That!"
Floydiana: An Introductionadmin : August 10, 2013 8:38 pm : Floydiana Posts
Floydiana does not refer to a place–unlike Michiana, a seven-county region of southwest Michigan and northern Indiana. And unlike Floydada, a place in Texas. Instead it is a collection–like Shakespeariana, which is an accumulation of items by and about the playwright. It is pronounced Floydee-Anna rather than Floy-Diana. It records events, people, words, animals, places, scenes, and ways that characterize the improbable Land of Floyd County, Virginia.
It does not (as a friend pretended to think) capture the adventures of Indiana Jones in this part of the Blue Ridge Plateau, although the author does wear a hat to protect his generous scalp. Another friend mis-remembered the title as Floydorama but therefore caught the idea. Floydlandia? No such debt to Sibelius. Nor does this enterprise have anything to do with Floy Diane, who grew up in the Low Country of South Carolina. And it has no connection with Floydioli, a hand-made vegetarian stuffed pasta that uses local and organic ingredients. The book probably reflects the author's earlier inclination to write about local South Carolina, where he directed the Horry County Oral History Project (please see hcohp.net). But more immediately Floydiana grows out of a column that the author wrote for The Floyd Press, and it salvages a few of those pieces. You are reading an electronic book like the author's Angel in Goggles (please see tab), yet it has no predetermined length or conclusion, and in fact no ending in sight. [Floydiana will conclude on or by December 21, 2014, so the author can go on to other projects.]
The author will probably correct, augment, re-order, or otherwise play with the manuscript. Unlike a blog, Floydiana progresses not by brief chronological entries but instead chapter by chapter in an order and pace determined by the author. The writing, moreover, is partly communal.
Like the wagons that hauled grain to its now-defunct watermills, Floyd County offers an axle-busting load of grist to a writer. The place is a fascinating mixture of the congenial, beautiful, diverse, disturbing, and even dangerous. Located on the Blue Ridge Plateau in the southwest part of the state, it points its northeastern corner toward Roanoke, or "Ro'noke." (Map of Virginia counties.)
The Blue Ridge Parkway pretty much defines its ragged northeast-to-southwest border. The county has 15,000-16,000 residents and one proper town of about 450 people, also called Floyd, which boasts the county's single traffic light at the nexus of Rts. 8 and 221. Its tricolor progression can be perceived in winter from the deck of the Wells retirement house, a log dwelling that is technically a lodge in square footage but that we call "the Cabin" in rustic indulgence.
Although most of the residents are white, the county is a mixture of Appalachian-stock families, folks of hippy heritage that goes back to the 1970s, other residents who are countercultural to one degree or another, artisans, people who moved here for the landscape and atmosphere, and some who returned after pursuing opportunity or serving Uncle Sam.
As for employment, many citizens who would have worked on the farm or at the factory and mill now commute to larger towns. Also as partial compensation for the loss of former jobs, many work via the Internet—for example a veterinarian from Kentucky who fabricates and sells horse-rescue harnesses.
How did one tourist learn about the area? "I Googled 'pottery and bed & breakfasts.'"
Now about your septuagenarian author. Almost four decades ago he wrote a column for a South Carolina newspaper that became the nucleus for a book, Along the Waccamaw: A Yankee Discovers a Home by the River (Algonquin 1990). He was raised as a white Midwestern suburbanite Christian Republican, but of all these defining features has retained only the complexion. Before retiring to Virginia he lived in Wyoming and Connecticut as well as other Southern states: Tennessee, North Carolina, Mississippi, and South Carolina, this last where he and Marjory spent most of their careers near the ocean.
He has also literally traveled around the world, with a friend. Word has it that he uses a performance-enhancing drug grown in Colombia, Costa Rica, Ethiopia, perhaps on his own acreage.
He gratefully recognizes two predecessors. Ms. Morgan Cain Grim wrote "Familiar Faces," a series on Floydians home-grown and transplanted. She recorded more than sixty interviews, each with a photograph, before graduating from Floyd High School in 2005. Mr. Fred First wrote "The Road Less Traveled," which ran biweekly from 2004 until 2011.
This column fervently appreciated the county's natural resources and, backed by abundant research, cast a chilly eye on threats to the health of Mother Earth. Fred has written two books on the area, Slow Road Home and What We Hold in Our Hands, takes ace photographs, and keeps a well-read blog.
For this project Randall is heavily and happily indebted to his wife and friends, especially Fred First with his technical expertise (also vital to Angel in Goggles). The author dedicates Floydiana to his late brother, Greg Wells, who introduced Randall and Marjory to Floyd County. Although they are here without him, without him they would not be here.
Floyd and Ned: Two Mountain Charactersadmin : September 10, 2013 2:08 pm : Floydiana Posts
Original version printed serially in 2008 by The Floyd Press and The Mountain-Ear (Nederland, CO).
A place is a comparison. Its identity can be appreciated only by reference. "Bland County," declared one native, "is Floyd without the stoplight." Like him, anybody who moves to this geographical-cultural area known as "Floyd" will bring a geographical overlay of memory. The author, for example, regards the corner at The Stoplight as the town's noisy industrial area—much like the two railroads that divided the genteel Glen Ellyn, Illinois.
In Nederland, Colorado, you won't hear a train whistle, although I am writing in a Colorado & Southern coach built in 1906 and hauled up from Boulder. Now a coffee shop in 2008, it is Lego'd to a caboose full of ski merchandise and to Buffalo Bill's circus car, another import. A few segments of narrow-gauge rails do exist here and there in town, but they hold rusty mine-carts that have been detached from their original concatenation and turned into floral planters.
When Marjory and I arrived here to visit our daughter, we immediately felt a kinship between "Ned," as it's often called, and Floyd, our retirement home in Virginia. In fact we keep calling Nederland "Floyd." Both towns mark the junction of two highways. Although Ned has about 1400 inhabitants—three times as many as Floyd—it has no stoplight but instead a roundabout shared by five roads. more »
Downtown Floyd at its Bestadmin : September 7, 2013 11:17 am : Floydiana Posts
Original version printed in the Floyd Press, 2012 On a bright, cool autumn morning we parked in front of an old house on E. Main Street (Rt. 221). Our five-year old grandson Sidney had to explore the half-hidden driveway with its cement statue of an angel. Then he walked up the hill toward The Stoplight with two-year-old brother Julien as various extended hands rushed to catch up with them. Baby Alice watched it all as our daughter Andrea held her in a front-loaded BabyBjörn. "Exit only," read Sidney aloud at a parking lot, surprised at his new ability.
We turned at the county's Sole Stoplight corner, seen in this video:
Passing Farmers' Supply Corp., 101 E. Main St., I asked the boy to look up at the foreshortened white letters, adding: "We can read those from the cabin with binoculars." Now four of us climbed, and one rode, up the twenty-five steps and two switchbacks to Black Water Loft. (This name confused us a little, for in the Lowcountry because blackwater rivers are tea-colored infusions of biomass rather than fluxes of brown mud.) Julien was already snuggled in the lap of his father, who, visiting from Charlotte, was working there in his "Floyd office" composed of table, computer, earphones, and decaf.
Although able to name at least three of the McCutchan sisters, I confused the decaf latte with the cappuccino when I toted them to the Country Store to supplement our lunch. Over sandwiches we watched a gallery of citizens pass by the window. The boys explored the aisles and found that they needed Sky Streaks–balsa airplanes with a red propellor and blue rubber band.
Come Backs 1: "I Just Wasn't Born to Be One"admin : August 15, 2013 4:33 pm : Floydiana Posts
Born in 1929, Margie was able to escape the drudgery of farm work in 1946 and retired back to Floyd County in 2000. She lives near the author on the edge of Rt. 221: "I can't wait till FloydFest is over," she declared as vehicle after vehicle charged up the hill. Her house and former used-book store occupies a remodeled building formerly used by the Floyd Church of God. "It was fun to say 'I recycled a church.'" In 2013 the once-sturdy farm girl is fragile and white-haired, but she still has a sparkle of both mien and mind that was no doubt appreciated by her employers. A smart dresser, politically liberal, Margie speaks quietly with a non-Appalachian Southern accent. Along with her two cats she listens to classical music on WVTF Public Radio. Her collaborator on this autobiography, Randall A. Wells, along with his wife Marjory, occasionally drive down the hill to take her a little supper ("I don't cook"), and she sometimes bestows on them a thoughtfully-chosen volume. Margie notes that while she sent Wells to the dictionary for the word "slopping," he sent her there for "deracinate"—a verb that is fundamental to her memoir.
I preferred straight roads and flat fields. But I was born and raised in Floyd County in the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia.
I was born in a house, still standing, across the road from the present Willis Elementary School. I was the first of five daughters born to Jabe and Hattie Hylton Keith. When I was still a small child, we moved to the Cundiff farm in the Topeco Community, where we lived during the Great Depression of the Thirties. The house had no electricity. Light was from kerosene lamps. Wood stoves were used for cooking and heating. Water for drinking, cooking, laundry and bathing was carried up the hill from a spring in the woods. The toilet was down the path.
We had a Philco battery radio. Before she married, my mother bought a Victrola and some records. (She had been a teacher in one-room schools in the Burks Fork area, around the Buffalo.) When electricity came, we got a refrigerator and made strawberry ice cream with wild berries. more »
"Floyd Time" Ticks Quicker on Roadsadmin : September 7, 2013 11:07 am : Floydiana Posts
Original version printed serially in the Floyd Press, 2012-13.
"My watch starts tickin' slower as I cross that county line" from "Floyd Time," by Rusty May. Floyd Time, Windfall/Windfall Studios, 2010. By permission.
Traffic comes to a halt on South Locust (Rt. 8). The door of a car ahead flings open as a woman leaves it ajar to run across the street to the sidewalk by the Country Store, where she lovingly and loudly plucks a cat from someone's arms. Nobody honks. A treasured example of what's appreciatively called Floyd Time.
A vehicle with a flat tire sits in front of Black Water Loft. Next day, it's still there. The first week I am indignant at this eyesore, this suggestion of the old guard's tendency toward political and cultural inertia. Including an Old Time religion still drowsy from the Great Awakening. Our friend declared that one member of the Board of Supervisors "won't do anything that's not in the Bible." A former commissioner (a native and a friend of ours), said that his epitaph should read "Died for lack of a second." Perhaps the airless, squashed tread was even a symbol of absent inspiration—like the old priest's flat bicycle tire in "Araby," a story by James Joyce. Did it not also seem to represent and aggravate the town's annual commercial hibernation?
The second week I inclined toward something like tolerance, even as a snow-patch now covered the tread. The third week I started to feel—what was it? "Randall," I told myself, "stop and smell the Goodyears. Enjoy this culture. Nobody asked you to come here. What if everybody was like you, always Doing, exploring, afraid of wasted time, uncomfortable with stasis. You won't even use a drive-in window but have to get out walk in. You don't have to 'pedal faster' like the cross-trainer machine tells you to do when you stop for water. You are not a waitress at Cracker Barrel, so you don't have to demonstrate 'urgency with a purpose.' This is Floyd Time." more »
Footsteps in Floyd 1: Put the Book Down!admin : September 10, 2013 1:30 pm : Floydiana Posts
Original version printed in the Floyd Press, 2013
One of the pleasures of living in Floyd County can be walking through its photo-every-hundred-feet landscape.
Marge and I turned off Rt. 221 South a mile or so from town, then parked on the shoulder next to a raspberry bush, worked to close the Subaru door against downhill gravity, and started hiking. We noticed a few huffs after a winter month spent on the coast and in Florida. Reaching the crest, we gazed to the right at the February sun as it just managed to beam over the hills. The cheerful blue sky was getting serious.
Barking dogs, a breed familiar to walkers, got pulled inside by an accommodating owner. Now on the left, a pair of ears–prominent black ones making a V. A few of the animals regarded us from a pen. Mules? Donkeys? But one pair had a sort of beige spotted coat. "Llama!" exclaimed Marge. "No, alpaca," she amended. Now as we passed the statue of an angel reading, I felt kinda sorry for it: why not put the book down and join us?! Near the end of a long slope, we drew opposite a sort of barn that framed two black rectangles, one of which in turn framed a long black nose with a white streak down the middle. "Hi, horsie." No motion. We remembered feeding it grass over the fence in summer. more »
Glimpses 1: Kids, Animals, Artifacts, Placesadmin : September 6, 2013 10:38 pm : Floydiana Posts
The seen defines the seer. Seer–O word felicitous because your author is able to apprehend the Bald Truth! And for the reader, what luck! "Where there is no vision, the people perish" (Proverbs 29:18).
And yet…. In truth, the people all see a different Floyd County. A farmer watching from his John Deere as it turns noise and grass to hay. A tourist descending from the Parkway on Rt. 8 and passing a sample yurt, then the ugly-rusty relic of a water tower. An employee crossing one branch or the other of the Little River to work in an adjacent county. A family drifting or paddling down the same river and encountering a party of back-to-the-birthday-suiters. A crowd of Gay Pride folks standing near The Stoplight while chatting, laughing, and holding placards while a very conservative couple walks to the car from their business across the street. A Mennonite in an ankle-length skirt shopping near a woman with tight jeans and tattooed arms. A trim child swimming in a hidden-away pond, another with a potbelly watching his friends play video games. One old-timer pulling turnips at dusk before they freeze. Another sweeping an arm of contempt at the changes in downtown Floyd and calling "All this" a "mess." A visitor exclaiming, "You have a paradise here!" more »
Stoney Realityadmin : September 13, 2013 8:11 pm : Floydiana Posts
"The meadow of dream has little to do with stoney reality and its harrows and reapers."
Quotation by Samuel Pickering, Jr., from May Days © The University of Iowa Press, 1988. Used with permission.
So declares Samuel F. Pickering, Jr., on p. 3 of a volume given to me by Margie Keith, owner of a former used-book store. Although the writer was sympathizing with farmers, his observation pertained to Randall, who dreamed of eliminating rocks from a quarter-acre of Blue Ridge to make way for clover and then for bees.
My story began with an exhortation. Jane Cundiff urged readers of the Floyd Press (April 11, 2013) to mow less grass, and instead plant clover and wildflowers to help feed bees and butterflies, insects that seem threatened on several fronts. Half a year earlier I had saved one honeybee (Apis mellifera) in Paris by plucking its scrambling bottom out of an expresso cup with a spoon, so why not make a wholesale rescue?
The Wellses agreed to an environmental compromise. Marge would once again plant wildflowers in the uninviting soil of one hillside of weeds, blackberry bushes, and volunteer trees. Across Annie Lane to the west I would plant clover in bare clay spots that spread erratically over a semi-grassy field. Our friend Bill Conk—of accent Brooklyn, Buddhist of outlook—had scraped it flat with tractor and blade. Yet only partly level because it slopes to both north and west toward the invisible curving Highway 221. In local fashion, Bill accepted a small amount of money but all the hemlock from our dismantled deck, planks that he would repurpose as a shed. Afterward we had planted the area in grass—a "monoculture" to Jane–in order to make a rough yard for grandchildren and to accentuate a clearing between house and up-growing forest. more »
FloydFest: Memoirs of a "Bootlegger"admin : September 17, 2013 9:32 pm : Floydiana Posts
by Laurel Brooke
FloydFest is a world-renowned socio-musical extravaganza held at the end of July on what was once pasture-land. Long hillsides near the Blue Ridge Parkway bear permanent structures for bands and dancers, and the edges of the midway sprout annual tents and booths. July 25-28, 2013, saw the twelfth installment of this "roots and progressive" music festival, which attracted more people than Floyd County has residents. It also brought rain on one or two days, and only ark was one of the many shuttle-buses. Among the vendors was Laurel Brooke, sixteen years old. How many FloydFesters would realize that someone making their barbecue sandwich plays the violin in the Roanoke Symphony Youth Orchestra? As a home-schooler, she was tutored by Randall, who commissioned this story as an assignment. more »
Footsteps in Floyd 2: "Who or What will We See?"admin : September 17, 2013 9:34 pm : Floydiana Posts
Why do Americans rank so low as to longevity compared to other industrialized countries? The National Institute of Health found that one reason was our dependence on cars—which in turn helps to create neighborhoods that discourage walking. (AARP Bulletin, March 2013). It can be a challenge to find walkable places in Floyd County neighborhoods, where houses tend to be situated off narrow, busy roads, but residents can sometimes find them. One retired couple has done so. Sarah generously presents a colorful first-hand report on the four-mile walk that she and Peter have enjoyed for six years. Passing through a scenic area, it starts at the junction of Moles Road and Thistle Hill Road in the vicinity of Daddy Rabbit's Campground. The road is paved but has challenging hills.
We walk early in the morning. Weather does not usually deter us. There is not much traffic and we are a familiar sight to most who travel it. We are always greeted with a wave or a honk, and sometimes there may be a brief chat by the road. more »
Came Heres 1: Solstice in the Sticksadmin : September 27, 2013 7:30 pm : Floydiana Posts
On June 21, the icy peaks of the Southern Alps jut from New Zealand as the sun hangs on to the northern horizon by its fingernails. But at the same time, rays flood the Blue Ridge Mountains in the United States. This phenomenon is best appreciated in a group, for it blends celestial mysticism with a touch of–well, think of cows eating fermented apples.
In 2013 a ceremony was held on the abundant acreage of Fred and Ann First. You get there from The Stoplight by taking Highway 221 north, then turning left at King's Store–monarchical of name but historical of inventory–then some miles later by making a dogleg at a business named Clyde S. Angle, vacant as well. Then you go down a hill so long that it would wear the tires off a Boxcar Derby racer. Finally you scrutinize the oncoming curve before darting left down to a narrow bridge. It might carry you onto a gravel road–made of dirt, holes, and curves, maybe puddles or snow-patches, all decorated by downed branches–that probably keeps you from tumbling into Goose Creek as it passes an occasional abandoned house, various tucked-away homesteads, and an antique fire engine. When your hopes flag, and you definition of "close friends" threatens to become geographical, you are halfway to the First farmhouse which, even after being rebuilt, hints of the previous dwellers' tokes. more »
Randahl and the Night Visitorsadmin : September 27, 2013 7:16 pm : Floydiana Posts
We came home from a party at dusk, which in late May seemed unhurried, even reluctant to disappear over the western horizon. Climbing out of the passenger's seat, I decided to work off some alco-calories by raking up more stones from the field to be sown with clover for bees. Having donned work clothes and boots, I grabbed the handles of the wheelbarrow, which carried the familiar rake, shovel, and rubber basket, and turned it around toward the front of the carport. Above and behind the Subaru–was that a shape? It resolved into something elongated and animated—like the snout of a horse. Was it not bobbing along with several other horse-heads, mainly dark-colored, one of the animals a brown and white paint? This phantasmagoria shuffled and breathed. The beasts made a side-view tableau as if having migrated from the stampeded in the Roper shirt I had bought at the Floyd Country Store. Already a bit dizzy, I feared that I was hallucinating and skeptically remembered a wine called "La Linda." To make things worse—was that fourth creature an amalgamation of long-haired bison, black sheep, and mastiff? more »
Footsteps in Floyd 3: Ursus With Usadmin : October 1, 2013 12:45 pm : Floydiana Posts
by Becky Pomponio
Davy Crockett claimed to have killed more than one hundred black bears (Ursus americanus) in one year. While Crockett's boast can not be confirmed, he was not alone in his determination to conquer these majestic animals. By 1900, the population of black bears which only live in North America, had fallen from an estimated two million to 200,000, because of hunting and habitat destruction. In the area now designated as Shenandoah National Park, bears nearly disappeared. Fortunately, for the diversity of our ecosystem, black bear populations persisted west of the Allegheny Mountains, and those that migrated eastward may have been the great-great-grandparents of our Floyd County bears. Hunting restrictions have helped a lot. The North American black bear population now numbers about 900,000. Many of these bears are in Alaska and Canada. About 6000 of them live in Virginia and I've personally met one or two on our land. more »
Came Heres 2: Betty "Sunny" Bernardineadmin : October 24, 2013 9:17 pm : Floydiana Posts
Betty "Sunny" McAtic Bernardine: Back to the Land, 1930-42 in Illinois
In the 1970s, a wave of people moved to Floyd County in search of a simpler, natural, and often communal life. They followed the horse-tracks of the original European settlers, who came for for land, however hilly and remote. Since acreage was cheaper than in the Christiansburg area, these immigrants rolled and clopped southward, somehow crossing the New River. This back-to-the land movement was anticipated during the Great Depression by one of Floyd County's retirees, Betty McAtic Bernardine, born in 1926.
In 1930 she and her family moved from Chicago to a hamlet west of the city for an economic reason: to grow their own food. Almost seventy years later she settled atop a ridge on Cannady School Rd. where she privately and passionately maintained a dog shelter for the Floyd County Humane Society.
It is ironic that Sunny's childhood venture from city to country began with her mother's escape from rural Giles County in far southwestern Virginia. Huldah Salome Medley was born in Kire, "Up Stony Creek." Sunny's grandfather ran a lumber camp and made a little moonshine. Her mother used to cook for the camp at about seventeen. Her older sister was nineteen or twenty and married; when the couple was about to move to Kansas, Huldah decided she'd go with them, unbeknownst to her parents. So she ran away from home. She went down to the train station, where somebody saw her. "Oh, I'm just seeing off my sister"–she made an excuse. In Kansas, Huldah got a job in a hotel but it was too much like housework. Then she saw an ad for telephone operator in Chicago and traveled there in 1917. Although that was the job for young women, the employers were very strict with their girls, who had to be in by a certain time, pronounce everything just so. "The minute she saw those wide streets…." Soon afterward, about 1922, she married William Reynold McAtic, who was trying to escape from the coal mines in northeastern Ohio. Sunny's memoir: more »
Footsteps in Floyd 4: Earth Classadmin : October 31, 2013 7:33 pm : Floydiana Posts
Despite and because of its rural and mountainous character, Floyd County offers a mixed backpack to walkers, runners, and hikers.
"Every piece of property around here is owned," declared Beth Cherrix:
"So if you take a step in either direction you're on somebody else's property. If you run, you trespass. So you have to find somebody else's property that's runnable. You may have what seems a perfectly good road but a lot of times they're too curvy, so I'm afraid I'll be hit. Usually you have to go into town and use the sidewalks, or go on a back road that has little traffic, or go on trails [usually along the Blue Ridge Parkway]. They're nice, but you have to have transportation. For some people that's kind of hard to do, depending also on where they live." more »
Bats: "You Alone…will be Able to Fly"admin : October 31, 2013 7:19 pm : Floydiana Posts
Whoever builds a two-story dwelling on a Floyd County ridge can expect to shelter mammals from the order Chiroptera, Greek for "hand-wing."
Someone explained to us that bats need a high place from which to take off so they can fall a bit while getting enough lift. Over our bedroom came a scuffling that unnerved us, as did the one-at-a-time forays at dusk. We felt like guests in a Bat & Breakfast. So even though the animals consume insect pests—and indeed, we had never seen a mosquito–we hired exterminators to ameliorate the situation. Workers attached a slack net to a crevice under a window; when the bats crawled down, they couldn't return—like the proverbial umbrella that can go up the chimney down but not down the chimney up. The company also tested the batbugs that lay near our bathroom window, mainly dead but a few dying. This species ignores people but plague bats–one of nature's ironies, insects preying on insect-gobblers. more »
Places 1: Board the "Floydiana" Busadmin : November 6, 2013 8:49 pm : Floydiana Posts
A region, country, satrap, province, county or town is never a single place but a collection of them.
To all this variety of locales add the multiplicity of people. The tall, bearded nun, the bejeweled Cleopatra of a CPA–no, I should leave aside costumed folks at the Halloween Dance, Pine Tavern Pavilion. But there are many unpredictable, paradoxical, and diverse personages in Floyd County. Examples?
One woman clerks at a "dollar" store, speaks with a Long Island accent, and lives in Hillsville. At the other "dollar" on the opposite side of town, one woman parked a truck displaying a sticker "I am the Gun Lobby." A little bumptious, she wore cowgirl boots, jeans, and a shirt that didn't mind moving up and down a little at the bare midriff. Another wore a net-like cap, a print dress, gray stockings, sensible shoes and spectacles, and the expression "I am invisible." At Floyd Pharmacy one customer reported that the child accompanying her had woken up before dawn to buy a tractor with Daddy; another told the clerk, in a New York accent, that she still owned property in Brooklyn.
One resident works for two weeks a month in Alaska. And the retiree who raises goats–how much help does he get from that M.D. degree? One resident displays large signs in his yard on behalf of conservative political candidates (and plays a loud conservative radio station), but he comes from Minnesota and drives a Prius. A fairly cosmopolitan Came-Here might have a country background. Ralph Roe, for example, worked as an engineer in California but grew up on a farm in New York:
We had about forty cows, one bull, two horses, one dog, and fourteen cats. They all had names except for the chickens and pigs. Mabel might get three scoops of grain, whereas Bertha would only deserve two. The grain looked and tasted like granola and had some drops of molasses in it (like honey in a granola bar). Of course, being vegetarians, their main courses were dried hay and whole cornstalks chopped up, which included the ears. (For a photograph of the lad in the early 1940s, please see "Footsteps in Floyd 6.")
A literally graphic example: the two people in Portrait of Floyd (see "Downtown Floyd at its Best") whose photographs were displayed most prominently are most dissimilar. Both live in the Check area, but the bearded Arthur Conner (pictured opposite, 2012, by permission) crossed the Himalayas twice in the military, and he seems as authentic and complex as the bass fiddle grasped by the hands that fashioned it. In her portrait (not shown), River Roberts, almost eighty years younger, seems to be resting momentarily like a sprite who has been running around in many-laced high-tops. Contributing to the modest ethnic variety, a number of hard-working people maintain a low profile and keep their nacionalidad to themselves.
As for the county's ethos, residents show a lot of kindness. When I asked someone to give an example, she thought for several moments. "Gannon," she replied. "People regularly give him rides." (This fellow took one-too-many rides in high school and walks with no cooperation from one leg.) As everywhere, however, there are conflicts, grudges, ex-es. A few people give "neighbor" a bad name–for example by operating heavy equipment at 5 a.m. on a Sunday. Politically there is dyspepsia: for instance, at a TEDx conference sponsored by Blue Mountain School, a speaker mentioned an elected official and brought a loud, collective groan from one pocket of the audience.
In Floyd County, residents vary greatly as to what they eat. At one extreme, people demand organic foods such as raw pepital, local beets, calendula flower, Medjool dates, and Nori sesame seeds, as well as sometimes-exotic grub like Sharwood's Indian poppodums. (Non-edibles might include Waleda Sea Buckthorn body lotion and even Total Kidney Cleanse.) The white-breaders, by contrast, may keep a garden like the health-foodie, but at the grocery store they follow the recipe of the sociology textbook: whole milk, lots of meat, fatty and salty snacks, soda pop, not to forget cookies. One rotund person wheeled out a shopping cart crammed with about sixty bottles of soda pop. One parent bought a bottle of Pepsi the same size as her young daughter's belly. For one customer in line, a balanced diet was Schlitz & cigs. White bread includes a fried bologna and Velveeta biscuit at Hardees.
All these physical and social variations are complicated by the passage of time. As Heraclitus said about a river: Nobody ever steps into the same one twice, for neither the river nor the person is the same. A song asks, "Who will watch the home place?" (As performed by the acoustic quartet Windfall, it barely avoids sounding waltzy-schmaltzy.) The answer for many derelict farmhouses in Floyd County is "raccoons." More positively, El Tenador, a roller skating rink on Rt. 221 that operated in the 1940s and '50s, was reincarnated as Phoenix Hardwoods. An estate sale in the Floyd Press lists obsolete items to be auctioned off such as a horse-drawn wagon-frame, milk cans, and an apple-butter kettle & stirrer–not much there to repurpose. But after forty years, a former Christmas-tree farm declines into a motley woods and then becomes slated for restoration–a culling process powered by horses in a return to an ancient, salutary technique.
If a writer tries to impose too much order on all the lavishly heterogeneous, inconsistent, and sometimes mysterious details of a place, the groceries will start to fall out of the bag or rip it. How daunting to sense the whole from the parts! An ancient fable tells of three blind Hindus that tried to identify an animal. The first sat on a stool, clasped a heavy sac on the creature's belly, and squeezed its several downward-protuberances; the second moved his hand over its long, rigid beak; the third petted its shaggy—wait a minute, something's wrong here. Ah, maybe these guys were Chinese. Anyway, it is futile to apprehend a place from any one perspective. And yet, in pursuit of the Bald Truth, your author takes the dare.
Tech, Boy, "Astrnot"admin : December 6, 2013 6:42 pm : Floydiana Posts
One paradox of Floyd County: however isolated and bucolic, it feels the strong influence of a large university, Virginia Tech. The school's main concession to Appalachia is a wild turkey, the basis of its maroon and orange mascot, the "hokie." Located in Blacksburg, in the next county north, it has 31,000 students—twice the number of Floyd County residents. With its 8 colleges, 65 bachelor's degree programs, 125 buildings, 2600 acres, and an airport, it exerts even more of an influence than Radford University in Radford, home of almost 10,000 students.
Impacts of the large research institution are multiple. A number of Floydians commute to the school for employment, or perhaps to businesses started by the Tech-connected. Others retired from teaching or otherwise working there and moved to Floyd County, sometimes to start businesses. Many studied at Tech, for example Morgan Cain Grim, mentioned in the introduction to Floydiana. Some couples even met there—for example, Chris Prokosch (from Connecticut) and Shannon Green (from Louisiana), who studied architecture and now live in their self-designed house on Little River. Lydeana Martin earned both her graduate degrees from Tech; as the county's Community and Economic Development Director, she affirms that both students and faculty "have helped businesses and non-profits as well as public entities." The economic life of this area quickens when visitors, especially football fans, sojourn in the county, or when students drive down for the Friday Night Jamboree–perhaps to win the From Farthest Away cap and wear it back in China or Australia. more »
Glimpses 2: Weather, Drivers, Litter, Doomsday, the Ro' & Willieadmin : December 19, 2013 5:30 pm : Floydiana Posts
The Glimpsed depends on the Glimpser. Randall, for example, won't have much to report about working on a farm because he already put in his four hours. The Wellses' membership in a Community Supported Agriculture required them do tasks like checking the fence to discover where the deer got in, cutting lettuce-leaves off at the ground, swishing lettuce heads in a tank to get the sand off, and cutting weeds from rows so long that they followed the curvature of the earth. He little resembles the native who wakes up at 5:30, feeds sixty-five cows on his parents' farm, then lays bricks in another county, then returns to feed more cows.
Like all observers, this newcomer can be unreliable. Only after describing Webbs Mill as a three-dimensional pen-and-ink sketch did he perceive that its boards are umber, same color as the surrounding winter-hardwoods. And how could the Jacksonville Center grow a second silo? When he spotted a hint of Annie Lane from Storkers Knob, across the valley, what should loom up some miles past the hill behind the ridge but the bluish hump of Buffalo Mountain. more »
Left Heres 1: The Strong-Phillips Familyadmin : August 11, 2014 6:48 am : Floydiana Posts
By the Rev. Harry L. Strong
Floyd County has exported many a chestnut tree, many a shirt and piece of furniture, many a gallon of moonshine–and many a person. To give but one example: Charles Winn Surber, valedictorian of Floyd High School's Class of 1971, is a management consultant of international stature.I myself learned that two of my pre-Floyd friends have one or more ancestors who emigrated from the county.
When Marjory and I moved to South Carolina, one of her clients (as a Certified Nurse-Midwife) was Beth West. Her husband Steve and I taught at the same college, where ultimately I had the pleasure of teaching their first two babies. Thirty years later Beth was amazed to learn that we had bought property in Floyd County, where she remembered visiting Topeka Church as a girl. She explained that the family of her great-great uncle, Jacob Orrin Boone, b. 1888, had probably left the area to find work in the woolen mills of Spray, North Carolina—now Eden, where she was raised. Although unsure of the details, she knew that the family had started the Brethren Church after they moved. Her great grandmother (Jake's sister) was Mary Frances Boone Miles; her great-great grandmother was Sarah Ellen Ballinger Boone, who married Isaac Monroe Boone. Coincidently, Steve's great uncle was George Beverley West of Floyd (1897-1975); although not a Left-Here, he does exemplify the many connections between people of this county and those across the Little River. Both he and Jake served in World War I, during which Jake was killed.
In a suburb of Chicago, 1958-60, Randall walked to high school with Harry Lee Strong and two other friends. Almost fifty years after that Harry, too, was amazed to learn that his former sidewalk-companion had retired to Floyd County; for his ancestors had grown up there and departed in 1905. He vividly remembered a pilgrimage that he and family members had taken to the old home-grounds in 1957. Then in 2011 Harry and his wife Anna visited the same area while spending a few days with the Wellses. In 2014 he generously recorded these elegaic memories of the 1957 and 2011 visits.
My grandparents, William Clifton Strong and Delphia Frances Phillips, were married July 25, 1895. To my knowledge, I do have one surviving first cousin, my Aunt Ola's daughter, who is named Frances and who clearly was named after the mother of Ola's and my dad's mother. Eighty-seven years old, she has lived all her life in Carthage—a town in Hancock County, Illinois, where the family moved from Floyd County in 1905. Apparently, following their emigration, my grandparents (and family, including my dad, who was one-and-a-half at the time of the move) farmed near Denver, Illinois, in Hancock County.
At the age of fourteen, I traveled to Virginia from Glen Ellyn with my father (R. Lee Strong), my mother (Helen Gerard Strong), my aunt (Ola May James Strong), and my uncle (David Kenneth Strong). We stayed three or four nights at the Willis farm home of Everett and Mary "Effie" Strong Mangus.
Effie was the sister of my grandfather, William. Also staying at the farm at the time was their granddaughter, Martha Dulaney (from North Carolina, another Left-here).
Martha's mother was Virginia, the daughter of Everett and Effie. [Dulaney Rd. runs off of White Rock Rd. in the northwest part of Floyd County. RW]
We also spent several nights over in Radford with the Phillips family: William (father), Eula (mother), Larry (son), and Becky (daughter). To this day, I am not positive of my exact relationship with Becky and Larry or their parents, Bill and Eula. However, these are the three possibilities I've calculated: their father, or Bill's mother, or his father was from the Phillips clan and therefore a sister (or brother) of Delphia Phillips Strong, my grandmother. I think that would make Bill (or Eula) my dad's first cousin. You genealogists can compute what that makes Larry and Becky to me.
The five of us also spent an afternoon in Christiansburg at the home of (the senior) "Aunt Ola." We also enjoyed a Sunday afternoon picnic at the farm of A.O. and Ethel Salmons near Riner. Since A.O.'s last name was Salmons, I can only conclude that Ethel (his wife) may have been the one to have a genealogical connection to the Strongs or the Phillips. I'm doing considerable inferring here (because I have no older relatives who can confirm or refute this, other than my first cousin, Frances–but I have to believe my "Aunt Ola" (Dad's sister) was named after this older "Aunt Ola." That would have made the "senior Ola" the sister of my grandfather William.
It's been difficult being an only child of parents (and a family) that never talked much about their roots and lineage. However, during one week of the summer of 1957, when I was fourteen, through a foggy window, I had a brief glimpse of my father's Floyd County roots and his relatives whom I would never see again.
Looking back on that trip (and, especially, my return trip to Floyd County in July of 2011), I am surprised to discover that apparently the Strong and Phillips families were very well-known at the turn of the last century (1899-1900). The Strong Mill, for example! How I wish I knew whether or not the Henry Duncan Mill and the E. F. ("Ed") Strong Mill played any part in my ancestors' move from Virginia to Illinois. (The Water-Powered Mills of Floyd County, Virginia, by Franklin F. Webb and Ricky L. Cox; McFarland & Company, Inc., 2012). But the answer to that question may be lost forever. What I can say, definitively, is that is that E. F. ("Ed") Strong (b. November, 1873) and my grandfather, William Clifton Strong (b. May, 1875), were brothers! Was there a family dispute? Did my grandfather buy out his share of the mill from Ed? Perhaps you, a reader of this book, hold the answer.
In July 2011, I basked in three fulfilling, enriching, sometimes haunting days in Floyd County tracing steps I had last taken fifty-four years before. I got gooseflesh as I found the remnants of Willis, VA, and the site of the Mangus farm, where I had stayed and slept. I had brought with me two sets of photographs from that 1957 trek to Virginia. The dramatically remodeled home was almost unrecognizable and unoccupied–but I left behind one set of photos in the mailbox. I attached a note to tell the owners (or renters) who I was (mentioning the Mangus name), where I was from (Divide, Colorado, at the time, including my contact information), and told them the photos dated back to 1957. I never heard back from them. But, for me, revisiting that site was a sacred moment!
What was even more moving was discovering the Strong Cemetery a half-mile up the hill, where, back in 1957, I had visited with my distant cousin Martha. My ancestors were everywhere! I wanted to sit down at the grave of every Strong who had staked out a plot, and wait, and listen, and say "Thank you"–thank you for whatever part you played in the fact that I am here today. "Are you responsible for my follically-challenged scalp?" "Did cucumbers give you gas like they do me?" "Did I get my neatnik tendencies from you? Even though you grew up on a farm, did you hate getting dirt under your fingernails? Me too!"
In 2011, I also visited my grandmother's family at the Phillips Cemetery. I was not surprised to find William and Eula's tombstones (for back in '57 they were older than my parents). I was shocked and saddened, however, to find Larry and Becky's tombstones as well! We were teens in 1957; Larry was was a little older than I, Becky a little younger, and I had a crush on her. When I saw her tombstone in 2011, it was as if someone had dropped an anvil on my chest. The inscription read: "Rebecca Ann Phillips: December 27, 1945 – March 24, 2006." I'm guessing she never married. I hope she had a good life and was happy. Maybe once in a great while she thought of me and our three days in 1957. I still think of her.


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Chile and Britain move forward to develop arts and culture
Last Friday, Nov. 11, the British Ambassador Jon Benjamin, the Minister of Culture, Luciano Cruz-Coke, and the Country Manager of the British Council, Andrew Chadwick, met in order to sign an agreement confirming the desire to work together in areas of art and culture.
One of the areas that has been targeted is the development of theater in Chile. Along with the FITAM (Festival Internacional Teatro a Mil), the British Council and the Consejo Nacional de la Cultura y las Artes (CNCA) are going to develop a three-year program for emerging Chilean dramatists in
partnership with Royal Court Theatre in London.
After a welcoming speech by the ambassador, the agreement was signed.
During Andrew Chadwick's speech, Luciano Cruz-Coke was presented with a Spanish version of the book, "T-Shirts and Suits: A Guide to the Business of Creativity" by David Parish. The minister had also expressed an interest in the entrepreneurial side of culture as well as culture and arts in general.
"We've got a very good relationship with the government all round but particularly with the Minister of Culture, as a former actor, he's got a great platform to put this across in itself," Jon Benjamin said.
He continued, "In the wider sense, it is a UK-Chilean agreement, but it's not between the governments as such, it's more between the British Council. It is an autonomous organization, but nevertheless represents Britain in the Cultural field. Our role is to bring Britain to Chile, and though we help the inverse, Chile has a very active cultural wing in the embassy in London, it's more about bringing experts together."
Andrew Chadwick affirmed, "The event is great because it's a chance for us to give the institutional seal on a
relationship that we have been working on for years. We've been working with the Consejo for a while, but this is the first time we have put it in writing… I think a lot of people in Chile look to the UK and appreciate it's strength in the arts, and the UK on its behalf is very internationally focused and are keen to engage on that level. This is about developing ways in which Chile and UK can share ideas and develop cultural opportunities together."


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November 26, 2014
A prosecutor has filed an amended charge against a 16-year-old accused of killing a Scotts Bluff County jailer.
Dylan Cardeilhac, of Torrington, Wyoming, had been charged with first-degree murder for the fatal, Feb. 14 attack on 24-year-old Amanda Baker. On Monday state prosecutor Doug Warner filed an amended charge of first-degree murder during the commission of a robbery. Cardeilhac is accused of strangling Baker while stealing her keys so he could try to escape.
His trial is scheduled to begin Nov. 17. Another inmate, 17-year-old Guy Eagle Elk, of Lisco, is scheduled to go on trial Sept. 15. He's accused of helping Cardeilhac plan the attack on Baker.
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The more movies Marvel studios releases, the more charming this movie becomes.
Love this film. Escapism, adventure, Chris Hemsworth, a strong female character, fighting, humour...what more could one want in film? Oh and the sequel is even better.
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Best fish-out-of-water-comedy ever, the first damn-near perfect Marvel film - the way SHIELD, Norse Gods, magic and science all boils together on the back of a sibling rivalry is just... great - and just the funnest one.
They really nail everything here, from small moments to big ones, without just being "lead up to The Avengers". I'd never casually put on Iron Man 2 or The Incredible Hulk, but I could see myself watching this one many, many times.
Thor is my favorite Marvel super hero. When I originally saw the movie I thought is was amazing and I still do. Personally I think Thor was the most important movie leading up to The Avengers movie because in the Avengers the main villain is Thor's brother Loki.
i love this movie to bits. there is probably nothing anyone can say that will deter my unconditional love for this film.
One of my fvt superheroes and superhero movies ever !!!
Shakespearean family drama is combined with a fish-out-of-water comedy to bring fantasy to the Marvel Cinematic Universe.
This was maybe my third or fourth watch and I think I've enjoyed it more with each viewing - it feels completely different from most 'superhero' origin films and I couldn't fault it.
Plot/Summary, he epic adventure THOR spans the Marvel Universe from present day Earth to the mystical realm of Asgard. At the center of the story is The Mighty Thor, a powerful but arrogant warrior whose reckless actions reignite an ancient war. As a result, Thor is banished to Earth where he is forced to live among humans. When the most dangerous villain of his world sends its darkest forces to invade Earth, Thor learns what it takes to be a…
I know this film came out a couple weeks ago but I still have to talk about it. This has by far been the best superhero movie I have ever seen, the concept was so captivating. Chris Hemsworth who plays Thor has really made the character his own and I hope to see many sequels :) another great thing about this film is that after the credits it shows a little snipit of the long awaited film THE AVENGERS coming…


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Dave is the CEO/founder of Avado, a Patient Portal & Relationship Management system. Avado was founded on the premise that it will be virtually impossible to succeed in the new healthcare reimbursement models without recognizing that for 3/4 of healthcare spend (chronic disease), it's the individual who controls decisions that drive outcomes. Avado gives the individual (aka "patient") a seat at the care team table rather than being an afterthought as outlined in a TechCrunch piece entitled "Patients are More Than a Vessel for Billing Codes."
During Dave's time as an Accenture management consultant and leading Microsoft's Health business, he reviewed or implemented over 100 healthIT systems at providers ranging from small rural settings to large, inner-city hospitals. Prior to co-founding Avado, Dave spent several years working in a variety of startups in acting executive/founder roles for market-leading digital media & SaaS companies. During that time, Dave honed his digital marketing skills while developing low cost customer acquisition models.
Dave's entrepreneurial roots go back to building up a lawn mowing business in junior high to helping pay his way through college leading ski trips to Whistler. During college, Dave was a PAC-10 800 meter competitor. After college, he's competed in multi-sport events including running, biking, Nordic skiing, Alpine skiing, canoeing and portages. Juggling multiple sports during multi-sport endurance events and the half sprint/marathon nature of the 800 are strikingly similar to the challenge of being a startup leader.
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A small rural newsagency in the West Australian wheatbelt town of Miling.
posted by: WanderingAus
location: Western Australia, Australia
date approved: 6/20/2012
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Glenrowan Licensed Post Office & Newsagency, Glenrowan, Victoria, Australia
A Post Office and Newsagency in a small shopping centre in the main street of the historic town of Glenrowan, the 'Keeping Place of the Kelly Legend'.
location: Victoria, Australia
date approved: 4/27/2012
Newsagent Pontardulais Gorseinon, Wales.
Good News - Newsagent, General Store, & off Licence, located at Penllegaer, Gorseinon road, Gorseinon, Wales.
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location: South Wales, United Kingdom
date approved: 4/16/2012
last visited: 10/10/2013
Yackandandah Newsagency - Yackandandah, Victoria, Australia
A Newsagency in a historical building in Main Street, in the picturesque rural and former gold-mining town of Yackandandah.
last visited: 11/1/2014
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date approved: 2/27/2012
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A newsstand on Av Morumbi in Sao Paulo.
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date approved: 2/11/2012
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A newsstand on Rua Prof. Thomaz Galhardo in Ubatuba.
date approved: 2/8/2012
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A newsstand on Rua Conceicao in Ubatuba, Brazil.
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A newstand on Rua Oscar Freire by Av Sumare.
Rondokubistický kiosek ve Vrchlického sadech / Rondocubistic Newstand in Vrchlického sady, Praha - Nové Mesto, Czech republic
Wooden, heritage protected, kiosk (newsagent) from twenties of 20 century, in rondocubistic style designed probably by architect Pavel Janak. It is probably the only surviving kiosk of this type.
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Banca Sumare is located near Praca Rotary in northern Sao Paulo.
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Beloit College plans to overhaul a defunct power plant into a recreational space for students over the next four years.
Beloit College said Wednesday in a news release that it's working with Studio Gang Architects to reimagine the former Blackhawk Generating Station between the college campus and the Rock River.
Plans for the future Powerhouse include a coffee shop, lounges, a conference center, lecture hall, fitness center and theater. An eight-lane competition pool will have space for 250 spectators. There will also be a 10,000-square-foot fitness center and a 17,000-square-foot recreational gym.
The design will keep the building's original architectural features and incorporate new sustainable practices, such as using the river to help maintain the ambient temperature in the building.
A three-lane suspended running track will weave throughout the building, according to the release.
Car enthusiast Tom Skinner owns a 1937 Chevrolet made at the old General Motors plant in Janesville. Over the years he has seen the city change, but he said there is one thing that should remain the same.
"This is a car town. General Motors has been here and Samson Tractor before that. We want to highlight and showcase this history of transportation in this city," Skinner said.
Skinner, along with other city residents, has formed the group Friends of Franklin Street Service Station to save a former 1930s gas station from being torn down. They are asking the city to allow them to restore the building and turn it into a classic car museum.
"I think this has a real good chance of bringing people to the downtown area. We've lost so many historic buildings, and this is one of the few remaining historic gas stations in the city. It would be a shame to see it disappear," he said.
A bioscience company broke ground on a new planned 50,000-square-foot facility in Beloit Thursday.
The building at 1800 Gateway Blvd., planned to be finished later this year, will serve as the NorthStar Medical Radioisotopes headquarters, the company said. The facility will develop a radioisotope used in medical diagnostic imaging.
NorthStar said in a news release that the facility is the first part of a planned 32-acre corporate campus. A second and third phase of expansion could double the building's size and build up to two additional facilities on the site by 2018.
The company said 20 full-time employees will work at the Gateway Boulevard building. According to the Rock County Development Alliance, NorthStar expects to have approximately 165 employees working at its Beloit campus within the next four years. NorthStar is currently headquartered in Madison at 5249 Femrite Drive.
Realtors are hoping spring-like temperatures heat up home sales since they've been down for the last two cold-winter months.
Existing home sales in February dropped 10.1 percent compared with last year. In Dane County, sales fell 5.7 percent.
No real change was recorded in Rock County home sales, but sales fell 35 percent in Sauk County. Sales did go up 12.1 percent in Columbia County.
There is some good news for sellers, the median home price in February was $130,000 statewide, which is 7 percent higher compared with last year.
Wisconsin home sales are up more than 11 percent for the first half of 2013 and what sellers are asking is also increasing.
The current median home price is about $140,000 and 12 percent more homes were sold in Dane County in June compared to the same time last year.
Iowa County saw one of the largest increases in prices and sales and Dodge County didn't see any change in home sales. Jefferson County spiked 9 percent for sales and 10 percent for the asking price.
It was a bit of a mixed bag in Columbia County, where residents were asking more but actual sales dropped about 7.2 percent. There was a similar situation in Rock County, where prices went up 10 percent but sales dropped 11 percent.
Realtors say the housing market in Rock County is making a comeback and that's good news for people looking to sell their home.
Residents were watching closely in Janesville on Tuesday morning when the Case Feed building on Rockport Road was torn down by the city of Janesville.
The group Hand-in-Hand Historic Fourth had recently signed an offer to purchase the property, which is among the oldest buildings remaining in the city, but the city went ahead with plans to tear the building.
They issued a raze-and-repair order in October of 2009, according to the Janesville Gazette.
Check out some of the pictures from the demolition, taken by WISC-TV's Margo Spann.
Crystal Grand Music Theatre
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