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Fairbanks Daily News Miner (Newspaper) - November 12, 1963, Fairbanks, Alaska CITY NEWS BRIEF Daily News Americas Farthest North Daily Newspaper Member of The Associated Press LATE HOiWl XII Per Copy NOVEMBER 1963 Ten Pages 265 Walker Funeral Service Members of the Golden North Rebekah Lodge are reminded to attend the funeral service Wednesday for Sister Elizabeth The service will be held at 1 in the Fairbanks Memorial Mar garet Hawk asked members to note the time Original ly the service was set for anoth er Also conducting the last rite will be members of the Eagles Auxiliary and the Pio neers of Auxiliary Slides Shown There will be a meeting of the Arctic Anthropological So ciety 8 Wednesday in Room Eielson Uni versity A showing of slides and a discussion of recent fieldwork will be followed by refreshments and a brief busi ness Members and those interested are urged to Alumni Band The Fairbanks High School Alumni Band will meet at 7 Wednesday in the Lathrop High band room to organize a pep band to root for the alumni team in the annual Alumni Malemute basketball game All graduates who can make racket on a band in MAYOR ASKS SALES TAX HIKE Borough Candidate Relief Seen HI II w wwii Negro Farmer Has Shorfage Some Headsl Aiken of Firemen By BRANDLEY Newsinner Stall Writer LowerCost Cadet Program Defended Pete a 43yearold Negro farmer who has As Effective System A man whose candidacy has been considered a joke I by the professionals could become borough chairman for Old Election District strument are urged to turn out thg victor jn and support the jNTQrth star I He won a nonexistent job when Soroptimisfs Meet the exercising what proven that he is not a political is giving Rej publican and Democratic borough leaders Their heads are he says with a the nonparti san 3 borough chairman race shaped up to be between a well known Democrat with considerable experience and voter Dick and a proven Republican voteget Jack who owns a market on the Steese The Soroptimist club mem bers will at che Travelers Wednesday in the Yukon Members are unwrapped materials and dec to bring wrapping some said was horse said nay to the North Star Bor As the deadline for candidates to file neared for the the slate became a lit tle less clear cut along partisan lines with the entrance of Final plans for the dance Cosgrove of Delta Junction 23 will be jand Pete a Republican who calls College Womens Club J himself was a po The November meeting of thejlitical Republicans said orating This is an important meeting for all mem PETE AIKEN hes in College Womens Club will be S Wednesday at Norman Hoogerwerfs Jan home exten sion will be guest speak The American Home de the Democrats induced him to enter the race in order to the Republican vote of urban Democrats said the Republi cans talked him into it in order partment of the club will detract from Dick Greuels play All women in who has a College area are Scout Roundtable good civil rights was expected to pick up Negro vote Jin south Fairbanks partly be The monthly ScoutLeaders cause of Kennedys popularity Roundtable meeting will be held Tuesday in thej Aiken says neither stury basement of the First He decided to run because terian The Roundtable j he was a little disgusted with meeting will be divided into the way things are The three parts One for people who talked to him Cub commitj about running were his wife teemen and Cubmasters one and a few of his rura neighbors for Scouters troop com1 on Chena Hot Springs mitteemen and his campaign is begin and one for Explorer Leaders ining to pick up a little Explorer committeemen and j He has the solid bloc of Negro Explorer Fourth Precinct Demos Fourth precinct Democrats will meet 8 at the home of Leon 1439 Nobel Weavers Guild Fairbanks Weavers Guild meets at Wednesday at the home of Clyde Ger 210 Rob ert Wright will be the speak Anyone interested in attend ing the whether she is a member or can contact Geraghty at Democrats Meet There will be a meeting of all Democrats in the 6th pre cinct 8 today at Jefferson 21st and to elect officers for the precinct and delegates to the district conven scheduled for 30 and voles in south He also has a strong bloc of are calling the pro j These are the people who dont want a borough at They dont particularly cure for the choice of Aiken be lieves they will voe for him because his views are closest to Well show is the at titude that some will take in pushing him to Aiken He also has sup port from some of the farmers in the area who know and like A box social spDnsored by Aikens live wire campaign committee had to be moved Physical Education Fairbanks Chapter of the American Association of Physical Education and Recrea tion will meet Wednes in Room 120 of the Patty All professional physi cal educators in the area are American Legion Dorman Baker Post the American will hold a regular meeting 8 tonight in the Birch Park Rec on lower Second 1 7 Reds Hold American On Spying9 MOSCOW AP The Rus sians announced today the rest of Fred Bargwould be required to be on hoorn of Yale University on a call during their sleeping charge of first such I further increasing avail case involving an American able manpower in emergencies Sy MIKE SRADNER NewsMiner Writer The Fairbanks Fire De partment is presently un derstaffed to handle fire and ambulance calls at the same A fire while two firemen are out on an ambulance would find only two men im mediately available and a third handling the communications But the situation will begin to improve later this week as three new men take up jobs as cadet freeing profes sional firefighters from com munications and clerical and eventually ambulance The City Council discussed the dangerous fire protection situation briefly at a special session on the city budget Frit day and directed Cityj Manager Gerald McMahon to move as quickly as possible in letting up the cadet The council approved the cadet program late last Cadets on Call When the cadet program is Mly installed the manpower of the Fire Department will be increased directly by But this does not reflect the total according to who pointed out to the council Friday night that the cadets 4 Per Cent Increase Seen as Alternative Brewington Also Proposes Tax Covering Mail Order New Merchandise Brought Into City In a message to the City Council Monday Mayor Darrell Brewington requested that the city lawmakers consider raising the city sales tax to 4 per cent as an alternative to raising the mill levy on real Brewington explained the increase of 1 per cent would also ease the burden if the incorporation of the borough takes part of the sales tax Under the borough law the borough may take up to 2 per cent in taxes throughout the borough The mayor pointed out that TJZn the administration was asking i HJILLHJIllo for an increase in the mill i well as an increase in inj Here are the of jlieu payments from the utilij Monday nights Fairbanks jties and the enactment City Council meeting a sewer service in I order to reduce the present I half million dollar budget defi ALMOST WENT DOWNPresident Kennedys John almost gets some help from daddy and from Tazewell Shepard the Presidents naval at Arlington The boy almost sits on the last of several stone steps leading from the amphitheatre where Veterans Day ceremonies were Press Use Tax Brewington also asked the council to consider a use tax which could cover pur chases made through mail or der houses and on new mer chandise purchased elsewhere and brought into the In other a former councilman the city managers plan to protested what he called hid1 raise revenue by sewer iden Greuel said that Darrell Brew ington urged the city go to a 4 per cent sales tax rather than increase real property Councilmen met with library board and authorized the board to seek means of financing a Councilmen will hold a budget ftudy session Thurs day Dick Greuel protested since the recent cold war The Embassy got the news from the Foreign which refused to give any in formation on where he is being The embassy was press ing for details of the charge against The author of several books on the Soviet the 52year The relief of professional fire fighters from the communica tions board and ambulance calls would insure that profes sional firemen would be availa ble at a McMahon pointed The staff of the Fire Depart ment was reduced gradually during the past year due to the citys austerity The old professor formerly was on firemen will be the staff of the Embassy in He arrived in the Soviet Union about 1 on a months tourist The For eign Ministry said he was ar rested several days replaced by plus room and The plan is not to have the inexperienced cadets fighting but to utilize them in sup port The result should be In Washington the State De to field an effective professional partment said it had no reportforce backed up by the cadets on Barghoorn from the embasjin auxiliary sy in j The cadet program will keep There was no formal comlthe Fire Department at an avail ment immediately but one offi cial expressed some surprise Barghoorn had obtained a Soviet visa in view of his criti cal assessments of that coun from Jefferson Hall o Travelers I Barghoorn went to Alma Inn due to a surprising interest I capital of the Central Asian re in the public of Kazakhstan at the Scheduled for Friday night time of an exhibition of Ameri tickets for the affair have been graphic arts there early in selling for They are be ing sold by the Fairbanks Vot ers League for Pete Candidate for Borough Chair man and taking no has Continuca on Page 7 An embassy official said he last saw Barghoorn 12 at Tbilisi capital of the Georgian That is the last time he was reported seen by any able manpower basis similar to past and will also keep Fairbanks above the 1 fire men per population ratio which is considered good by most cities of similar popula Hydrants Lower Premiums McMahon has also gone on record as stating the cadet pro gram will not affect the Fair banks fire insurance rating and that rates will continue to go downward in many areas this year due to the installation of 168 fire The cadet system has been Continued on page 4 City Wants MUS Increase Proposed Police Nab Suspect In 3 Local Robberies Another armed robbery early mous person tipped off police j this morning this time a i that Barnes was at the nearby downtown service station I Questions suited in the arrest of an un employed young man who po lice say admits robbing the 26th Street Market two nights in Jack Bernard of 7 Berrys Trailer told police he was the parka ban dit described by his victim as having a young offi cers i At today police rej ceived a report that the Courte1 sy Corner Service Station at 101 Noble had just been held up j an armed City police and state troopers Police said Barnes girlfriend I tives tolQl Fairbanks Cham entered the trailer briefly andlber of Commerce today what told him she wanted to tell Mm I the legislature does about the She asked him to borough situation will certain instead of sewer service charges and the he prefers a taxi increase out in the open where he could see Greuel said he would rather j jsee the council stick to the I existing tax schedule rather ithan follow the revenue raising proposals of the city Following Mondays regular i Bruce speaker of the council meeting the council Alaska House of Representajwent into executive session to review the delinquent sales tax The information is not Councilmen held an exec utive session to review delin quent sales tax come jly affect the commerce and in When he stepped out the dustries in the rural police nabbed He had hid ConJInued an Page 4 Military Starts Probe on July 1 Slaying of Three An official military investiga ioined in a search for the man I tion got under way this morning who took at I probing the fatal shooting July 1 A witness said he had a navy of three persons near bke stocking cap pulled down 5 Kenneth Schlo around his He was dejmann 24 nas been accused b scribed as wearing a GI jackj dvilian authorities of three counts of first degree Minnie Street and the Steese near Piggly police encountered aj He They chased am ost I and his civilian state William Police fired six shots at the relinquished leeing Four city ani in the case to the State Police cars and six men were involved in the i The military investigation is A phone call from an anony preliminary to any action which the Army may North Pole Election Accepted But how the legislature will handle this is the big Kendall points out that the House is heavily weighted in favor of urban areas while the Senate is more favorably weighted to the rural Is it conceivable that these urban representatives are go ing to tax their constituents to provide the services needed in the rura areas Should the in habitants of the one unorgan ized borough new consider themselves in a position to coast open to the The council j Defeated writein candidate is seeking to ensure that Jack Jenkins appear rolls are kept up to andjed at Monday nights North that the city obtains all funds Pole City Council meeting to due j protest last weeks city elec It was previously pointed out Ke cited several incidents that the businessman collects the money from the customer for the funds during the election that he dis and only holds the but he failed to form in trust for the contest the cipal The result of the 5 city election was two new council Terrance Terry Mil lier and John They nar rowly beat writein Jenkins by one vote With no formal contest pre sented at Monday nights meet GVEAs Plans For MineMouth Setup Praised Golden Valley Electrics planingtne we left sealed a mine along tax free with boroughs power plant was de who will be contributing most of the revenues to the state treasury apart from oil and gas and other state land reve I think the answer to the foregoing is an obvious Kendall Wont the taxpayers of the organized boroughs bring court actions against the state to en join it from providing those services in the one unorganized borough which the unorganized Continued on Page Col 9 The Fairbanks City Council vyili meet jointly with the Pub WEATHER Fair tonight and Low tonight 0 high Wednesday 10 low last night 1 high yesterday 17 temperature 11 Sun rise tomorrow end sunset operation in increasing pay ments made in lieu of taxes to the city by the public The parent city government hopes to secure approximately in additional revenues by this As a public util ity MUS pays certain prescrib ed amounts to the parent gov ernment in lieu of the taxes a private utility would have City Manager Gerald and must also have the hon has also tallied in the in i consent of the utilities consult iieu payments an amount equal j ing engineers in raising the pay to the fee a private utility The consulting engineers might have paid for its right act in behalf of the bond trus jtees in this The council will have a buag et study session Thursday at in the MUS board What agreement the coun cil is able to reach tonight with the utilities board may affect the approach the council to the general city of The proposition will probably have rough going with the util ity Two members of that board have already come out against such an increase in the in lieu It has been previously brought out that the council must ad here to bonding Ordinance Reds Invading Best Fish Says Gruening scribed Monday as a big mile post for the development of this Chamber of Cqmmerce direc and were not The results were accepted and ap proved by the four incumbent council members Among other Jenkins ciiarged the election board did tor the ber board for his views on GVEAs not have the right to challenge on LU VULC in uic North i wnen asKed eiection last week He said iwas a matter to be settled by sion favoring a minemouth opthe miiitary personnel and the eration rather than a nuclear military legal counsel not i Waugaman predicted that in two years homes could be heat ed with electricity at a cost no North Pole election The election board had not allowed certain military voters to cast their ballots since they MIAMI AP Russia is in vading choice fishing spots around the world with effec determination and ruthlessness that threatens our fisheries and the livelihood of our Ernest said Mon cosponsor of a bill that would create a 12mile limit I in place of this countrys present threemile addressed jthe opening session of the Gulf United States in annual fish Seven years the is in fifth behind Red China and the senator This is not a position of which we should be nor is it a trend that we can or should con tinue to Gruening Gruening said Russias fishing accompanied by mod higher than with conventional were not considered legal resi dents of the He said the real savings will come as power output is stepj ped He estimated that with to the cost at be fore might range between 7 and 8 It also provides employ said and you cant develop the country without i and Caribbean Fisheries Instiern new processing oper JACK BARNES robbery ate close off New Eng Quoke in Italy Italy AP Aj slight earthquake rolled through a section of the Calabrian area of southern Italy It dam aged some created panic but caused no Thousands of persons ran into the streets when the twosecond i The Alaska senator said that Florida and in the Gulf of tremor occurred shortly after I in only Japan surpassed the i Talkin bout raitin the mill levy sounds to me like puttin the taxpay ers on a
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There's no point in pointing fingers
Jason Witten's injury is just one of those things, so quit looking for a scapegoat
No one is to blame for the lacerated spleen tight end Jason Witten suffered Monday night in the Dallas Cowboys' first preseason game.
Not offensive tackle Doug Free. Not quarterback Tony Romo. And certainly not head coach Jason Garrett. So can we please stop searching for a scapegoat? One doesn't exist.
Witten is the recipient of some awful luck. No more, no less.
By the way, there wasn't a single tweet or Facebook post at the time Witten was hurt that blamed Free, Romo or Garrett after the play or all day Tuesday.
If you didn't blame any of the play's key participants at the time, there's no need to cast aspersions now.
The best you can hope is that after being idle for 7-10 days, doctors will see that Witten's injury is healing properly, and he won't need any surgery.
The best case scenario says Witten will return in 3-4 weeks.
Just so you know, Witten, DeMarcus Ware and Brandon Carr are the most indispensable players on the roster because no one on the team comes close to duplicating their skill sets.
Witten, as tough as they come, has missed only one game in his NFL career, the result of breaking his jaw as a rookie, so you know the 10-year veteran will do everything humanly possible to be on the field for the opener against the New York Giants on Sept 5.
But Witten isn't dealing with a broken bone or some other injury that will only test his pain threshold. This is a serious internal injury. The training staff won't allow Witten to put himself in jeopardy.
In the meantime, maybe owner Jerry Jones can appease the Cowboys' Nation by petitioning the NFL to forfeit the team's last three preseason games because it has an injury-ravaged offensive line and fans don't want to see any more key players hurt.
There's no sympathy in Cincinnati, which lost four starters in its first preseason game.
Trying to assign blame for a random play is a waste of time.
Seriously, you should have read some of the absurdities on my Twitter timeline Wednesday.
Some folks want to blame Free because he missed the block that resulted in heavy pressure from defensive end Lamarr Houston. The pressure screwed up the play's timing and that's how linebacker Rolando McClain positioned himself to deliver a big hit on Witten for a two-yard loss.
This isn't former fullback Chris Gronkowski making a mental mistake and failing to pick up a blitzing inside linebacker that resulted in Romo's broken collarbone in 2010.
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If you want to criticize Free for his overall lackluster play since signing a four-year, $32 million deal before last season, then please do so. One, however, has nothing to do with the other.
Then there's the faction that wants to blame Romo for throwing the ball to Witten. Romo should've thrown the ball away, they proclaim.
Only in Dallas-Fort Worth can a quarterback make a tremendously athletic play to avoid a sack and complete a pass, yet get criticized.
Romo had less than a split second to make a decision to throw Witten the ball. If he knew the completion was going to result in Witten getting hurt, obviously he would've made a different decision.
Then again, Nostradamus died in 1566, though you can still pick up a copy of his book, Les Propheties, on Amazon for less than $20. Perhaps, there's a mention of Monday's play in the book?
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And no, you can't blame Garrett for Witten's injury either.
Garrett wanted his starters to play 8-12 plays, and Witten was injured on the sixth play. He left the game immediately, but returned for the offense's third series because he probably figured he was just in pain -- not injured.
We're talking about a dude who once ran nearly 50 yards without a helmet after making a catch against Philadelphia in 2007.
On the next possession, Witten capably blocked a defensive end on first down, was the intended receiver on a second-down incompletion and caught an eight-yard pass on third down.
The NFL is a tough, physical game in which mangled digits and broken bones are accepted parts of the game. You can't place the best players in bubble wrap. Or glue styrofoam peanuts to their bodies.
There's no blame to be assigned. Fans should simply be thankful Witten won't be lost for the season.
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Yorkshire Museum
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|York, England
|Janet Barnes, York Museums Trust
The Yorkshire Museum is a museum in York, England. It is the home of the Cawood sword, and has four permanent collections, covering biology, geology, archaeology and astronomy.
The Museum was founded by the Yorkshire Philosophical Society to accommodate their geological and archaeological collections, and was originally housed in Ousegate, York, until the site became too small. In 1828 the society received by royal grant, ten acres (0.040 km²) of land formerly belonging to St Mary's Abbey for the purposes of building a new museum. The main building of the museum is called the Yorkshire Museum; it was designed by William Wilkins in a Greek Revival style and is a Grade I listed building. It was officially opened in February 1830, which makes it one of the longest established museums in England. A condition of the royal grant was that the land surrounding the museum building should be a botanic gardens and one was created in the 1830s. The botanic gardens are now known as the Museum Gardens. On 26 September 1831 the inaugural meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Science was held at the Yorkshire Museum.[1]
The Tempest Anderson Hall was built in 1912 as an annex to the museum, and is an early example of a reinforced concrete building. It is used as a conference venue and lecture theatre.
In 1960, the Museum and Museum Gardens were given in trust to York City Council, the successor of which, the City of York Council, set up the York Museums Trust in 2002 to manage the York Castle Museum, York Art Gallery, the Yorkshire Museum and the Museum Gardens.[2][3]
The museum closed in November 2009 for a major refurbishment and reopened on Yorkshire Day on 1 August 2010. The £2 million scheme was largely carried out by the museum's own staff, who restructured and redecorated the interior of the building. The result is three major sections: "Eboracum: Face to Face with the Romans", "York: The Power and the Glory" (Anglian, Viking and Medieval York), and "Extinct: A way of life" a "fun, family-oriented gallery" featuring fossils, skeletons and animal specimens. There will also be a "History of York" section and "Enquiry - The Learning Level".[4]
The four permanent collections at the museum all have English designated collection status, which means they are "pre-eminent collections of national and international importance".[5] The collection began in the 1820s with the collection of animal bones and fossils from Kirkdale Cave.[6]
The biology collection contains 200,000 specimens, including both fauna and flora, with the majority of the collection made up of insects. There are two stuffed specimens of the extinct great auk, an almost complete skeleton of an extinct moa and a large collection of specimens from the Yorkshire region including the remains of elephants, cave bears and hyena from Kirkdale Cave dated to the Quaternary period, around 125,000 years.
The geology collection contains over 112,500 specimens of rocks, minerals and fossils. Fossils make up the majority of the collection numbering over 100,000 samples, and include important specimens from the Carboniferous, Mesozoic and Tertiary periods.
The astronomy collection is mainly kept in the Observatory in Museum Gardens with some telescopes kept at the Castle Museum in York.[7]
The Observatory is staffed by volunteers.[8]
The archaeology collection has close to a million objects that date from around 500,000 BC to the 20th century.
Most of the objects from the Roman, Anglo Scandinavian and Medieval periods are from the York and Yorkshire area. Following the 2010 refit of the Museum, the first gallery displays parts of the Roman collection focusing on objects from Eboracum (Roman York). A statue of the Roman God Mars is prominently displayed, and there is an interactive display describing the lives of some of the Romans whose remain have been found in York.[9] The final record of the famous lost Roman legion, the ninth legion is on display as part of the Roman gallery. The stone inscription, which has been dated to Trajan's twelfth year as emperor, between 10 December 107 and 9 December 108, commemorates the legion's rebuilding in stone of the south-eastern wall of Eboracum's legionary fortress.[10] The BBC reports that "Experts have described it the finest example of Romano British inscription in existence.".[10]
The museum houses some collections of forged prehistoric tools by the Yorkshire forger Flint Jack.
The museum also has a collection of studio pottery consisting of over 3,500 pieces that represent more than 500 potters. These were bequeathed to the Yorkshire Museum by Wakefield librarian Bill Ismay in 2001. The collection can be seen in York Art Gallery.[11]
Notable Collections[edit]
- The Coppergate Helmet, discovered in York in 1982
- The Ormside Bowl, found in Cumbria; an intricate example of work by an Anglian silversmith.
- The Middleham Jewel, discovered in 1992 by Ted Seaton using a metal detector at Middleham, North Yorkshire.[12] The jewel is a gold, diamond-shaped pendant with a blue sapphire at the top. The pendant, dating from c. 1460, is engraved with a picture of the Christian Trinity on the front, and one of the Nativity of Jesus on the back.[13][14]
- The Cawood sword
- The Medieval Shrine of Saint William of York
The front of the Middleham Jewel showing the Crucifixion of Jesus
The museum has Finds Days in the main Yorkshire Museum building where members of the national British Portable Antiquities Scheme and museum staff will identify objects brought to them by members of the public. The information is also recorded to help build up a more complete archaeological picture of the past.[15]
Vale of York Viking hoard[edit]
A Viking 10th century niello silver-gilt pot full of coins was found near Harrogate in 2007. It was valued at £1,082,000 and acquired jointly by the British Museum and the York Museums Trust. After being cleaned by the conservation department of the British Museum it was displayed at the Yorkshire Museum from 17 September 2009 for a period of six weeks before moving to the British Museum.[16][17] It is planned that the hoard will be displayed in the museum again when it reopens after refurbishment on 1 August 2010.
- ^ Willis, Ronald (1988), The illustrated portrait of York, Robert Hale Limited, 4th Edition, ISBN 0-7090-3468-7, Page 176.
- ^ Yorkshire Philosophical Society history, Yorkshire Philosophical Society (2007), retrieved on 24 June 2007
- ^ Yorkshire Museum & Gardens, York Museums Trust (2007), retrieved on 24 June 2007
- ^ "Massive £2m Refurbishment for Museum". Yorkshire Museum. 2 March 2009. Retrieved 2009-09-21.
- ^ MLA Programmes designation, The Museums, Libraries and Archives Council (2007), retrieved on 4 September 2007
- ^ Pearce, Susan M. (1996). Exploring science in museums. Continuum International Publishing Group. pp. 35–39. ISBN 978-0-485-90006-4.
- ^ Biology, Geology and Astronomy, York Museums Trust (2006), retrieved on 8 September 2007.
- ^ Ashworth, Ian. "Observatory volunteers". Retrieved 3 November 2014.
- ^ Morrison, Andrew (25 October 2010). "The Yorkshire Museum Refit: Did it "Let the Light In"?". The University of York. Retrieved 2 March 2012.
- ^ a b "Yorkshire Museum marks 'lost' Roman legion". BBC. 29 March 2011. Retrieved 2 March 2012.
- ^ Celebrating Ceramics – a trio of exhibitions for Yorkshire York Tourism Bureau (2005) retrieved 14 October 2007
- ^ The Middleham Jewel, The Art Fund, retrieved on 13 October 2007.
- ^ Archaeology, York Museums Trust (2006), retrieved on 24 June 2007.
- ^ Cherry, John (1994), The Middleham Jewel and Ring, The Yorkshire Museum, ISBN 0-905807-12-X Pages 4 and 24 to 26.
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If you have visited the Public Market in downtown Milwaukee recently, you may have discovered a lively place. Tables filled with customers eating or drinking and others standing in line to purchase items. The Market was not always crowded; in fact at one point it was on the brink of closing. As WUWM's Marti Mikkelson reports, the trend is a growing one across the country.
Walk into the Milwaukee Public Market any day and it's bustling. Merchants behind their counters sell everything from burritos to baked potatoes. Arthur Ircink just purchased a bowl of soup. He says he's been coming here nearly every day for the past few years and now notices he has plenty of company.
"It's getting busier, there's more business moving into the Third Ward. There's a great selection here. I think they did a good job on constructing the layout of this place and bringing it back," Ircink says.
…bringing it back from the edge of failure. The place was about a month shy of closing, with vendor after vendor leaving. Tim Collins says he was plenty nervous. He owns the St. Paul Fish Company, one of the original tenants when the Milwaukee Public Market opened in October of 2005. Public markets sell fresh, local food, but Collins says when Milwaukee's opened, it was set up simply as a grocery store.
"They thought it would be fresh, local foods, but more of a retail market, less cooked, less ready foods but that's not what the market demanded," Collins says.
What patrons were demanding, according to Collins, was fresh, local food they could either take home or sit down and eat at the market. When new management took over in 2007, it gave vendors the green light to begin serving prepared foods and beverages. Collins says sales soared when he put in tables, a lunch counter and the company's signature feature – an oyster bar.
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Why it is like that????????
The waves of sun were smiling on Earth. The earth was burning like red fire as a result of receiving the smile. On one corner of Pakistan, some citizens were getting ready to depart for the ceremony, the distribution of trophies among the students who secured positions in matriculation annual examination 2009 in Board of intermediate and secondary education Lahore, on Saturday 2 Aug 2009. For this special occasion, people wore dresses of different styles, different shades, and different textiles. Some women preferred to put on long silk skirts and shirts of contrast colors such as black skirt and white shirt etc. Furthermore, some women preferred to put on cotton shalwar kameez of a variety of colors. On the other hand, men also struggled a lot to become visible in the ceremony by wearing different outfits i.e. jeans, formal dresses of variety of color etc. Children were also mounting the colors of the ceremony with their attractive laughter and dresses resembling fairies and princes.
The ceremony room was as big as Pakistani parliament. The organizers decorated the ceremony room with disco lights, shining papers with unusual designs hanging along the wall; red, white, blue, pink balloons were wandering on the ground, chairs covered with cloth of red white silk, the yellow color, glittery writing on the banner hanging along the backside wall demonstrating the purpose of the ceremony, and the green velvet carpet leaning on the stairway hitting the wall of the stage boosted the gorgeousness of the ceremony.
The people were giggling wiggling with the people from different areas or the same area. They were blissful to be the part of this occasion. The champions of that year ceremony, sitting in the front row of chairs, were a little mystified, a little nervous, and a little proud. Some were looking back again and again toward their parents, relatives and friends sitting at the back to reduce their mystery that how it would look when they would be on stage.
Their mystery got an end when Shamir Ali, a PTV anchor, says with his loud voice "Starting with the name of ALLAH, the most beneficent, the most merciful. Today we all gather here to celebrate the success of those talented students who worked as hard as one farmer, who work on land entire year to get excellent outcome. These prizes are the outcome for the students for their hard work throughout the year. We are honor to have Chief Minister of Punjab among us. Without delaying and making distance between the champions and prizes ……a laugh, a big clap…., I would call the Chief Minster on the stage to present the medals to the champions. Please give a big hand to Mian Muhammad Shahbaz Sharif."
Then prize distribution ceremony started and announcer called the name of the first position holders Hafiz Muhammad Akmal and Ali Murtaza. The two tall boys, one wearing spectacles, made their way toward the stage with smile on their faces and arrogance in their walk. When they reached on the stage, both of them shake hands with Chief Minister and took their medals in the shade of applause.
Following the first position holders, there was a turn of second position holder who belonged to a village Nahranwali near Okara named Naveed Asif. The announcer called "the second prize goes to Naveed Asif" and with the applause, people welcomed a boy of age almost 17 year in little ragged brown shalwar Kameez and foam slippers with two stripes. Boy had a smile on his face and humbleness in his walk during his way to the stage. He scored 919 marks and got second position in BISE Lahore. His school was 7km away from his home and he used to walk 7km everyday to go to his school. He said:
"I and my mother were really terrified when BISE Lahore team reached our home late at night before announcement of the result. You may think it's ridiculous but I always said to my mother that I wanted to be like Quaid-e-Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah," he further said. "Quaid-e-Azam is a role model for me."
His working hard fetched him to this stage. But this achievement did not make him overconfident. His humbleness showed that he is thankful to God and his family members. His dressing gives you an idea that he is not money-oriented person. Similar to other people, he did not wear new clothes to boast, he was successful so he came in the same dress he used to wear in his everyday life.
After receiving silver medal, he made his way towards his seat. After reaching near to the seat, he realizes that someone else had already occupied the seat. Like other people, he did not start fighting for that seat. His eyes starting to look for another seat in the room but they could not notice any and came back to him lacking hope. He decided to sit on stair and he sat on stairs with medal in his neck and cash prize in a folder. Because of his ragged clothes and foam slippers, no one gave him a seat to sit.
Sitting on the stairs did not decrease his importance; he is still more admirable than numerous others who were sitting on chairs. Until when we have to face this kind of mentality where people always think about money and give respect to wealthy person. What sort of nation we are????? Can't we give him the respect that he deserves after such hard work???? People like him are the blessings of Allah for our homeland and future, and slap on the people who said Pakistan is a fail state. We are proud on Naveed Asif. May ALLAH Almighty bless him with more successes and give him all the happiness.
We Solute this boy for his endless hopes and spirit.
In Pakistani society, people always suppress the poor and villagers. People with high class don't want the people who belong to remote area to compete with them, no matter how much they are intelligent, dedicated and hard working. This sort of mentality is a big hurdle in the progress of Pakistan.
People always try to make difference between rich and poor, rural and urban, black and white, high cast and low cast. They never think that we are all human being. They just consider materialistic world. Most of them never try to promote the people on the base of their intelligence. Being a citizen of Pakistan, it is our responsibility to encourage everyone who can take part in the development of Pakistan. It is our country, our mother land, and our faith a so, we have the responsibility to think about its progress and heave the name of Pakistan. Don't we?
I am moved by this compelling portrait of Naveed Asif and the challenges he overcame to become second in his class. Your questions speak to the disparity not only in Pakistan but here in Cambodia and around the world. There is still so much that needs to be done to bring equality to everyone, and to unite people around a love of their country and their fellow citizens. We cannot choose the country or circumstances in which we are born. But we can, and should, recognize that we are all part of one human family. It begins with us.
Thank you for sharing this inspirational story. Best wishes,
"Sometimes it falls upon a generation to be great. You can be that generation."
Nelson Mandela