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I think an ounce should cost around $100. Right now, in WA, it costs around $200-$250 for an ounce of the best (White Widow, Northern Lights, Blue Dream, G-13).
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It's great to hear from another Kellow! You have introduced a whole new Kellow line I believe, and I doubt that I'll be of much help. All my thoughts on Kellow history have taken quite a few twists during this year. I had previously taken the somewhat more widely accepted idea that Kellows were off-shoots and variances of the Killough ('kil'- meaning church and 'lough'- meaning lake, or "church by the lake") line. I'm sure there is some fact to that theory in some lines. I know there is evidence that some Killoughs (pronounced "KILL-lo") became Kelloughs, and some later even became Kellows and Kellos and Killows. There is a widely accepted book on the Killoughs that lays some of this out and even includes some of the variations in some of the "down-lines". By the way, I checked the book just to make sure and didn't see any Moses's at all, and only one George who I can actually account for down in Tennessee.
The Killough book traces the story of two Killough brothers who came to America late 1600's and settled in Massachusetts and later Pennsylvania. By the late 1700's, their ancestors had spread through the Atlantic states and settled in MD, VA, GA, NC, etc. There is a group of "Kello's" that appears in southcentral VA in the mid to late 1700's including a Richard and Isaac. Richard was quite well-known and became a colonel of some sort. The book attributes these Kellos to a line of the Killoughs from PA mid 1700's. Though I haven't proved it yet, I feel pretty good that my Kellow line (which I can document to the late 1700's in northcentral NC) may be related to these Kellos. My ancestors show up in censuses of 1800 and 1810 as "Kellow" when that was actually a very rare variant in the Killough family.
Recently I came across some research of a man in VA who is a "collateral" relative of those Kello's by marriage. He wrote a small outline on them which I have somewhere. He mentions some letters of the family documenting "Kello" siblings in England at that time (late 1700's). Since none of this really fit the family of Killoughs that come to America a hundred years earlier and resided in PA so long, I started digging more.
The book had generally led me to believe (and this was probably my fault for not thinking "bigger") that "Kellow" was merely some variant of the Scotch-Irish Killough (which arose from the Scttish "Kelloch", also 'chuch by the lake' -or 'loch') name of the 1500-1600's and nothing more. However, in the last few months I was contacted by someone researching the "Kelloggs" who had found several early mentions of Kellows and Kellowes in England (not Scot-Irish). The Kelloggs were trying to figure if they were connected to the Kellowes, but I think they backed off that a bit.
Anyway, they led me to some very early Kellow references in England that made me re-think the whole Sctch-Irish Killough tale (even though as late as 1880, one of my ancestors shows up on a census as Killough). And now that you have given us further proof that Kellows were in England and not just American variants of Killough, I feel better about the thought that my Kellows (and obviously yours) came to America in a different wave. Mine probably came to VA/NC mid 1700's and yours to PA early 1800's.
A few intersting VERY EARLY references to our Kellows include:
"Kellow" - Cornish (English dialect) - habitation name originating from the Cornish Kellow, plural of 'kelli' meaning wood or groove. There is/was a village in Durham called "Kellowe".
Year 1378: Close Rolls. To Gilbert de Culwen, escheator in Nothumberland and Cumberland concerning the advowson of Jesmond Chapel in Newcastle-upon-Tyne by gift of William Kellowe.
1386: Close Rolls. mentions a William Kalowe.
1398: Close Rolls. To Archbishop of York, nomination of Thomas Kellowe, clerk, to receive a pension.
1403: Patent Rolls. Grant to William Kellowe of Newcastle upon Tyne, esquire, of the office of controller of the customs and subsidies in the port of Newcastle upon Tyne.
1420: from an old "Kellogg" book: "There has been found in the Old Records Office in London, a deed, 9 July 1420, of the Manor of Wygepet in Elmedon, Arkesdes and Wygepet, in which Richard Kellowe, clerk, is mentioned as one of the grantees (Ancient Deeds C. 2222). Wygepet is about 5 miles from Debden, which is close enough to raise the question whether Kellowe may not have been an early form of the family name (Kellogg)."
1420: Patent Rolls. Presentation of Richard Kellowe, chaplain, to the church of Tyllebrook (Beds) in the diocese of Lincoln.
1420: Presentation of John Caton, chaplain, to the church of St. John the Baptist, Norwich, vacant by the resignation of Robert (Richard?) Kellowe.
1422: Patent Rolls. Commission to Thomas Kellowe and others to take stone cutters, carpenters, laborers, etc. for the works of the king's house of Jesus of Bethlehem, Sheen, Middlesex.
1428: The chamberlain (offcer in a royal household responsible for budget related items, maybe including collecting revenues and paying expenses) of the English town of Lynn (in County Norfolk or Norfolkshire) was William Kellowe.
1434: Patent Rolls. Mentions William Kellowe of Norfolk.
1438: Presentation of Thomas Hoton to the vicarage of the parish church of Norton in the diocese of Durham after the resignation of Thomas Kellowe.
1441: Patent Rolls. Grant for life to the King's sargeant John Kellow of the office of messenger of the Exchequer, wages 4.5 pence a day.
1441: P. Rolls. William Kellowe, warden of the merchant gild of the Trinity of Bishop's Lynn, Norfolk.
1442: William Kellowe, burgess and beer brewer of Bishop's Lynn, Norfolk.
1442: Fine Rolls. Mentions Thomas Kelowe of Broad Blunsden, Wiltshire, gentleman, collector of taxes.
1445: Patent Rolls. John Goldsmyth of Newbury, Berkshire, the younger, butcher, for not appearing before the justices of the bench to answer Thomas Kellowe touching a debt of 4 pounds, Wiltshire.
1446: Pardon to Thomas May of Crekdale, Wiltshire, husbandman, for stealing 12 silver spoons and other goods woth 20 shillings from Thomas Kellowe of Broad Blunsden, Wiltshire.
1451: Patent Rolls. Commission to arrest and bring before the king and council (among others) Henry Kellowe of Feylo (or Filey, Yorkshire).
Well, now I've gone on a bit, but I've been anting to post those notes for a while and today seemed as good a time as any. Maybe someone can make a run with them. Overall, I'm sorry I can't answer anyting more directly, but your proof of more American Kellows with definite English origins is helpful. I hope you find all this interesting - it looks to me like the Kellows have a long and deep English presence, often in positions of importance as economic advisers. Them Kellows is smart folks!
Thanks for your note,
1461: Patent Rolls. Mentions Thomas Kelowe of Bishop's Lynn (King's Lynn, Norfolk).
1470: Patent Rolls. General pardon to William Kellowe, late of Ravenswath, Yorkshire, yeoman.
Overall, there seems to be quite a few Kellows in Norfolkshire around Lynn and some in Durham at the town of Kellowe. It could well be that the Scotch "Kelloch" became both Kellough/Kellowe and Kellogg (there were also "Kelhog's" by the 1380's) in England and Killough in Ireland.
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The exchange proposed creating supplemental liquidity providers that would operate as registered market makers and get more lenient treatment for short sales, according to a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission. Such a category would fall between the two tiers of traders that now provide prices to buy and sell on the exchange: designated market makers, whose duties are most stringent, and the current supplemental liquidity providers, who face fewer obligations.
Exchanges are experimenting with ways of inducing market makers to quote more aggressively to attract volume. Nasdaq Stock Market proposed a pilot test in less-active exchange- traded funds that would allow issuers to pay for bids and offers. Bats Global Markets Inc. started a program this year that encourages market makers by giving $200 a day to the firm with the best quotation performance for ETFs listed on Bats and $50 to the firm in second place.
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Mecane said he expects a "handful" of firms, either current SLPs or other brokers, to become SLMMs, as the new category will be called. The program will be introduced in June or July, pending SEC approval, he said. The SEC must approve the program before New York-based NYSE Euronext can implement it.
NYSE's four designated market-making companies, which include Goldman Sachs Group Inc. (GS:US) and Knight Capital Group Inc., have more onerous quoting and trading requirements than current SLPs and those who may join the new category. They get higher rebates than SLPs and other firms when they provide bids and offers for customers to trade with.
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Brokers in the new category must provide continuous bids and offers in the stocks in which they're registered, just as they do on Nasdaq Stock Market and other exchanges. They must also meet the requirement for NYSE's SLPs that they furnish bids or offers at the best available prices at least 10 percent of the day each month and trade 10 million shares daily across their securities. Current SLPs include Barclays, Citadel LLC, Tradebot Systems Inc. and Virtu Financial LLC.
NYSE Amex proposed a similar market-making program for its stocks. That exchange's SLP program began in January 2010.
NYSE, the world's largest exchange by the value of its listed companies, hasn't had competing market makers since at least 1967, although only 33 corporations were represented by more than one specialist earlier that decade, according to "A Financial History of the United States" by Jerry W. Markham. Designated market makers replaced specialists in the mid-2000s as the SEC imposed new trading rules on exchanges and brokers.
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Each NYSE stock will continue to have a single designated market maker obligated to maintain fair and orderly trading and run the auctions at the start and end of each trading day. NYSE rivals have multiple registered market makers competing against one another on their venues.
Mecane said NYSE created competition within its market when it introduced the SLP program in 2008. Since then the exchange has "effectively had multiple market-maker-like liquidity providers with obligations," he said. That program was started to provide more quotes at better prices in NYSE-listed stocks after SEC rules boosted competition from rivals including Nasdaq OMX Group Inc. (NDAQ:US) in New York, Bats in Lenexa, Kansas, and Jersey City, New Jersey-based Direct Edge.
NYSE accounted for 20.8 percent of volume in stocks listed on its exchange this year through yesterday, according to data compiled by Bloomberg. Including NYSE Arca, the parent company's share of trading was 30.3 percent, the data show. NYSE traded four-fifths of the volume in its companies a decade ago before the SEC's regulatory overhaul.
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Current SLPs can choose to remain as they are or become market makers. The former will be known as SLP-Prop firms. A broker can be both an SLP-Prop and SLMM as long as the trading comes from separate business units and their activity isn't coordinated, NYSE said in the filing. Not all securities may have market makers from the new category.
SLMMs will be considered bona fide market makers and will qualify for more lenient requirements related to short sales, NYSE said in its filing. The firms must also meet net capital requirements specific to market makers, NYSE said.
"The exchange believes that the proposed rule change would expand the number of member organizations eligible to participate in the SLP program," NYSE said in the filing. "In particular, it would enable member organizations that are registered as market makers on other exchanges that are not interested in joining the existing proprietary-only SLP program to join the SLP program."
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A peach prom dress based on Vogue 8150. This customer had seen some dresses she liked and wanted to use elements in each to create her own dress. We decided on a peachy pink crepe which flowed beautifully. I adapted V8150 to make the bodice finish at the waist instead of the hip and altered the straps to be straighter. I also added some boning to the bodice and changed the skirt. Oh – and I added covered buttons and a waist band. Now I think about it, there were quite a lot of changes!
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I have two pronunciations in mind, one which I prefer, but have an idea that most would pronounce it the other way. Mi (short i) kye uh OR My kay uh. I like the second pronunciation, for a girl (even though I know the name is a man's name in the Bible). I like it with the idea of Caiah (kay uh) as a nickname.
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I would say Mi-kye-uh - it definitely feels like a girl's name to me, but that's probably because the main character of one of my favourite video games is called Micaiah and she's a girl.Mimi
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The Americans with Disabilities Act and Amendments Act
The Americans with Disabilities Act Amendments Act (ADAAA) was signed into law on September 25, 2008, and became effective Jan 1, 2009 with significant changes that broadened the definition of "disability" and made it easier for an individual seeking protection under The Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) to establish that he or she has a disability.
Title I of the ADA covers employment by private employers with 15 or more employees as well as state and local government employers. The Rehabilitation Act provides similar protections related to federal employment. In addition, most states have their own laws prohibiting employment discrimination on the basis of disability. Some of these state laws may apply to smaller employers and provide protections in addition to those available under the ADA.
When is diabetes a disability under the ADA?
Diabetes is a disability when it substantially limits one or more of a person's major life activities. Major life activities are basic activities that an average person can perform with little or no difficulty. Under the amendments act, major life activities include, but are not limited to, caring for oneself, performing manual tasks, seeing, hearing, eating, sleeping, walking, standing, lifting, bending, speaking, breathing, learning, reading, concentrating, thinking, communicating, and working. Major life activities also include major bodily functions which include, but are not limited to, functions of the immune system, normal cell growth, digestive, bowel, bladder, neurological, brain, respiratory, circulatory, endocrine, and reproductive functions. (2)
Diabetes also is a disability when it causes side effects or complications that substantially limit a major life activity. Even if diabetes is not currently substantially limiting because it is controlled by diet, exercise, oral medication, and/or insulin, and there are no serious side effects, the condition may be a disability because it was substantially limiting in the past (i.e., before it was diagnosed and adequately treated).
Finally, diabetes is a disability when it does not significantly affect a person's everyday activities, but the employer treats the individual as if it does. For example, an employer may assume that a person is totally unable to work because he has diabetes. Under the ADA, the determination of whether an individual has a disability is made on a case-by-case basis.
1 - The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. Notice Concerning the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) Amendments Act of 2008. http://www.eeoc.gov/ada/amendments_notice.html (Accessed 03/13).
2 - United States Department of Labor. The ADA Amendments Act of 2008: Frequently Asked Questions. http://www.dol.gov/esa/ofccp/regs/compliance/faqs/ADAfaqs.htm (Accessed 03/13).
3 - U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. EEOC Fact Sheet: The Americans with Disabilities Act and Diabetes. http://www.eeoc.gov/diabetes.html (Accessed 03/13).
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[Report by David Gordon Smith: "The World from Berlin: Without Iraq
'Arab Spring May Have Broken out Earlier'"]
The US has officially declared the war in Iraq to be over with a
flag-casing ceremony in Baghdad. President Barack Obama said that
America was leaving behind a "sovereign, stable and self-reliant Iraq."
German commentators ask if the conflict, which lasted almost nine years,
was worth the toll.
In May 2003, then-US President George W. Bush stood on the deck of an
aircraft carrier in front of a banner reading "Mission Accomplished" and
announced that major combat operations in Iraq had ended. At the time,
few would have imagined that it would take another eight years before
the US officially declared the conflict over.
On Thursday [15 December], the US military formally marked the end of
the Iraq war with a no-frills ceremony in a fortified compound at
Baghdad International Airport. The flag used by American forces in Iraq
was lowered and symbolically cased to be taken back to the US. The
around 4,000 American soldiers who remain in Iraq are due to leave by
the end of the year.
"To be sure the cost was high - in blood and treasure of the United
States and also the Iraqi people," Defence Secretary Leon Panetta said
at the ceremony. "Those lives have not been lost in vain. They gave
birth to an independent, free and sovereign Iraq."
At a speech at Fort Bragg in North Carolina on Wednesday, President
Barack Obama welcomed returning American soldiers home and spoke about
the end of the conflict. "The war in Iraq will soon belong to history,"
he said. "Your service belongs to the ages."
Obama admitted that Iraq was "not a perfect place" and that it faced
many challenges. "But we're leaving behind a sovereign, stable and
self-reliant Iraq, with a representative government that was elected by
its people," he said. "Because you sacrificed so much for a people that
you had never met, Iraqis have a chance to forge their own destiny. ...
There can be no fuller expression of America's support for
self-determination than our leaving Iraq to its people."
Many in America and elsewhere will continue to ask, however, if freeing
Iraq from the dictatorship of Saddam Hussein was worth the high cost of
the war. The conflict, which began in March 2003 with a "shock and awe"
assault on Baghdad, left almost 4,500 Americans and over 100,000 Iraqis
dead. Around 30,000 American soldiers were wounded, many of them
permanently maimed as a result of the notorious improvised explosive
devices (IEDs) which were used against coalition forces.
Today, the country is still racked by religious conflict, and there are
fears that sectarian violence could flare up again. The country's
political structures are weak and Iran continues to exert influence.
On Friday, German commentators take a look at the end of the Iraq war.
The centre-right Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung writes:
"During his election campaign, Obama would probably never in his wildest
dreams have imagined that in December 2011, he as President would be
praising Iraq as a beacon of democracy that shows the way for the
troubled Arab world. Neither would he have imagined that he would see
Iraq as a model for the peoples of the region who are seeking the right
to democratic participation - a model that justifies the costs of war
and thus the American invasion. Barack Obama used to consider Bush's
Iraq policies to be wrong and he rejected the war."
"At the end of this month, the last American soldiers are to leave
Iraq... They leave behind a country whose institutions are still weak,
whose leaders are not exactly shining examples of integrity and which is
not immune to the risk of disintegration. It is a country where the
infrastructure does not work reliably, where Iran is seeking to expand
its influence and which - last but not least - has security forces that
are lacking in professionalism and which have dubious loyalties. But it
is also a country that is no longer in the grip of a despot, whose rule
cost hundreds of thousands of people, perhaps even millions, their
The centre-left Suddeutsche Zeitung writes:
"Even nearly nine years after the events, it is hard to contain the
outrage that boils up when one remembers the fabricated justification
for the war and the way the conflict proceeded. On the contrary, the
distance to the events makes it even clearer how George W. Bush
vacillated in his justification for the war and how he combined weapons
of mass destruction, al-Qaida terror and the dictatorship into a single
threatening brew. The politically twisted logic behind the invasion was
coupled with a botched military strategy that laid the ground for an
orgy of violence and hatred."
"At the time, al-Qaida wanted to take advantage of America's strength
and make itself seem more important through a murderous crusade which it
could stylize as resistance. The breathtaking provocation of 9/11 had
the desired effect. Bush fell into the terrorists' trap, satisfying a
national need for revenge by extending the war beyond Afghanistan and
fighting injustice with injustice. America went to war in Iraq because
it could - because it was angry and incredibly powerful."
"America's current decline is the logical consequence of the
over-extension that was visible everywhere in the early 2000s, including
its military strength, bloated budgets and promises of growth, its
foreign policy ambitions and the verbal radicalism which ultimately
promised to forcefully create democracy at gunpoint. With this form of
extremism, America betrayed its own best ideals. And in the process the
country lost its natural attraction, which historically had repeatedly
given hope to freedom-seekers and those fleeing persecution."
The left-leaning Berliner Zeitung writes:
"Every American schoolchild knows today that George W. Bush's mission
has not been accomplished. Iraq has not become the democracy that the
neo-cons dreamed of, the overthrow of Saddam Hussein did not lead to
democratization in the region and the regime in Tehran has not been
weakened. On the contrary, Iran has more influence than ever in Iraq."
"And what about the people who were liberated? For them, life eight
years after the start of the war is still dangerous. Everyday life,
characterized by shortages of water and electricity, abuses of power by
the police and the threat of attacks, is unspeakably difficult. There is
one fewer dictator in the world, and that's a good thing. And the US has
been able to contain the civil war that they unleashed. But the country
that American troops are now leaving is not the 'sovereign and stable'
nation that Obama spoke of in his speech at Fort Bragg. The US troops
may indeed have conquered Baghdad in three weeks, but after eight years
of occupation, they have still not won in Iraq."
The left-leaning Die Tageszeitung writes:
"The last nine years of the American presence in Iraq is further proof
that the political balance of power within a country can not be changed
by an external military intervention. What the US experienced in Iraq,
Israel also experienced in the war against Hezbollah in Lebanon. One can
only hope that both have learned their lesson before they start planning
military operations against Iran."
"If anything, the Iraq war did not accelerate the greatest shift of
political forces of all time in the Arab world, but delayed it. With its
interference in Iraq, the US did lasting damage to the concept of
democratization. Afterwards, Arab dictators were able to curb the
democratic aspirations of their own populations by asking if they really
wanted an Iraqi-style democracy. If it hadn't been for the Americans'
intervention, the Arab Spring might have broken out years earlier."
Source: Spiegel Online website, Hamburg, in English 16 Dec 11
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