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Chris Young Talks George Jones, Brad Paisley & His New Album 'A.M.'
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Baseball | Tuesday, March 4, 2008
Stalker Earns NWC Player of the Week Honors
SALEM, ORE. -- Willamette University junior first baseman Kyle Stalker (Bellevue, WA/Sammamish HS) has been chosen Northwest Conference Baseball Player of the Week for the week ending March 2, 2008. Stalker blasted seven home runs and hit .467 during the week, including .667 (6 of 9) in NWC games. He helped Willamette go 4-1 during the week, 3-1 in a four-game series against NWC opponent Lewis & Clark College.
In WU's five games, Stalker drove in 16 runs. He had at least one homer in four of the five games. In the first game of the Lewis & Clark series on Saturday, March 1, he smacked three homers, including a grand slam.
Stalker was walked a total of 10 times and was hit by one pitch during the week. All four walks against L&C in the final game of the weekend series were intentional. Stalker was 7 of 15 at the plate overall, with all seven hits launched out of the park.
For the season, Stalker has belted a total of 10 home runs in 10 games, and needs three more to equal the Willamette record of 13, set by Tony Barron in 1987. Stalker is now Willamette's career home run leader with 24 (old record, 21 by Grant Trenbeath, 1990-93).
Stalker also played great defense last week, as he scooped up numerous low throws at first base, while earning 39 putouts and 3 assists with no errors. For the season, he is batting .359 with 26 RBIs and a 1.154 slugging percentage.
Willamette opened last week with an 18-9 win over Hanover College (Ind.) in a game played at Sanford Memorial Stadium in Sanford, Fla. on Monday, Feb. 25. The Bearcats returned to Salem, Ore., and defeated L&C 15-13 and 8-4 in the first two games of their weekend series. WU also won the third game of the series, 9-1, before falling to the Pioneers, 10-8, in the final game. Willamette ended the week with a 6-4 overall record.
The Bearcats will host California State University-East Bay in a three-game non-conference series this weekend. Willamette and CSU-East Bay will play a doubleheader on Saturday, March 8, starting at 11 a.m. (PST) and will conclude the series with a single game on Sunday, March 9 at 12 p.m. (PDT).


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Craft Beer now stocked in nearly 1/4 of on trade outlets
New research from food & drink consultants CGA Strategy has generated the first total market view of Craft Beer performance in the GB on trade, quantifying sales now worth £225m with growth of 79% in the last 12 months.
Using an exhaustive product coding and category segmentation model, CGA have audited all 5,000 beer brands within the GB market to create definitive breakdown of the craft category, based on empirical data and consumer research.
The category now equates to 1.9% of total beer volumes with sales increasing 84% for draught and 40% for packaged, compared to last year. Although still representing a relatively small proportion of the total beer market in GB, craft sales now amount to a not insignificant 74 million pints being sold to British consumers per annum.
CGA Chief Operating Officer Phil Tate comments, "With the modern day discerning yet fickle consumer it is vital that outlets look at their range, offer choice and the invitation to experiment. Craft can play that role and rotating them can keep the offer fresh. Craft has been a source of much debate over recent months, illustrating the interest the category holds. Consumers are drawn to the modern branding that appeals to a younger and broader demographic. Consumer affinity to the category stems a thirst for discovery and an experience that they can introduce to their friends"
CGA wanted to be first to define this complex and much debated category and this was done using 9 separate criteria which allowed us to breakdown the Total Beer category and define Craft Beer through our detailed analysis;
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Open Roads: New Italian Cinema. Preview.Following a terrific Rendez-vous with French Cinema, James van Maanen prepares for an 8-day week of Italian cinema by getting a few words with FSoLC program director Richard Peňa. With the advent this Wednesday of Open Roads, the Film Society of Lincoln Center's annual festival of new Italian cinema - it's a good time to consider the role of Italy in world cinema today. As did many of us older movie fans, I came of age when, playing in our favorite big-city cinemas at any given month might be a new film from De Sica, Rossellini, Visconti, Fellini, Germi, Bolognini, Lattuada, Zurlini, Antonioni, Bertolucci or Bellocchio. Ask an American moviegoer today - even one who frequents art houses and is unafraid to tackle subtitles - about a current Italian director, and you'll be lucky to hear Scorsese mentioned. (Talented as he may be, as an Italian-American, Marty doesn't fill the bill). So few Italian films open theatrically here in the US, is it any wonder most of us might have trouble identifying the filmmakers? (The one Italian film currently playing in "selected" US cities is Emanuele Crialese's Golden Door.) 2007 marks the 7th edition of Open Roads and, as usual, there are a few directors/writers making a return engagement, along with some first-timers and one - Mario Monicelli (remember Big Deal on Madonna Street?), who, at 92 years of age, will introduce his wonderful new film, Desert Roses. Certainly one of the grand old men of cinema (I believe that only Antonioni at 94 and Portugal's Manoel de Oliveira at 98 best him as working directors), Monicelli proves he can still make an old-fashioned, mainstream movie full of humor, pathos, humanity, irony and art. "One of the great things about finding Italy's new directors, which we do try to showcase," explains Open Roads program director Richard Peňa, "is watching them move into new and different areas, discussing things overlooked or not talked about in the past. It's the sense of their trying to use cinema to discover or rediscover their own country." For many Americans, notes Peňa, the image of Italians as gregarious, loud, fun and sensual is perhaps the major impression, but it is only one impression and does not apply to the entire country. "Italy is a varied place of many different regions. Regionalism has always been important to our festival, and it will be again this year, too." For this viewer, one of the joys of experiencing the entire festival is the sense one can perceive - vaguely perhaps, but it's there - of what Italy has been thinking, feeling and experiencing over the past year. Having thus far seen 10 of the 13 programs in this series, I can attest to this yet again. There may be less overt politics/economics/sociology on view this time (which was also the case with the recent Rendez-vous with French Cinema series), but, as Peňa explains, "While it's true that there is nothing here like last year's Crime Novel - a classic Italian political film showing the inter-workings between mafia, police and the left - other films do touch on aspects of contemporary politics." The program director cites the documentary See Naples and Die as one example. "It looks at the city of Naples, which had a remarkable renaissance in the late 1980s and 90s, but has since slipped back a bit into certain traits, habits that don't easily disappear: Mafia and family structure, along with new problems like immigration." Immigration (which figures prominently these days in every western country's politics and economics) also appears as a motif in films as disparate as Paolo Sorrentino's The Family Friend, Laura Muscardin's Billo, Davide Ferrario's Primo Levi's Journey and perhaps most strongly in Giuseppe Tornatore's The Unknown Woman. (I say "perhaps" because the latter is one of the three films not available for advance screening.) Tornatore's movie has just swept this year's David di Donatello nominations (Italy's "Oscars"), so it looks to be a very hot ticket at the festival. Other nearly sold-out films are Desert Roses and Caravaggio, with Roberto Andò's Secret Journey also selling briskly (nudity, sex, Sicily and Alessio Boni? Well, of course!). None of the films - not even Tornatore's (Cinema Paradiso, Legend of 1900, Maléna... hello, distributors? Mainstream art here!) - has as yet garnered a US release, which makes it all the more imperative, if one is an Italian film buff, to see them here at Lincoln Center. When prompted for a theme or idea that might characterize this year's festival, Peňa points to "the sense of spirituality that certain of the films offer - of characters finding their place in terms of faith - even if this faith does not follow the manner of prominent religions." Past years have seen such disparately "spiritual" films as Ferzan Ozpetek's Sacred Heart (from last year's festival) and Riccardo Milani's Il Posto dell'anima (from 2004). While one man's spirituality may be another man's poison (I'll place my faith in the human over the divine, thank you), I did indeed perceive a strong sense of faith (or its noticeable absence) expressed in films as different as Monicelli's Desert Roses, Eugenio Cappuccio's One Out of Two, Laura Muscardin's Billo, Roberta Torre's Dark Sea and Davide Maderna's Schopenhauer. More on each of the films on or near the day it makes its Open Roads debut.
Posted by dwhudson at June 4, 2007 12:06 AM
Terrific film alert: In memoria di me, which was one of the highlights of the Berlinale competition, is part of the programme. Since -- at least on the surface -- it deals with a Jesuit novitiate in Venice, perhaps James will skip this, though for my money it is one of the most evocative films on trying to find one's bearings in a long, long time...Posted by: Boyd at June 4, 2007 3:26 AM
Oh, I'm sure James won't be skipping it.
As you know, though, I'm not nearly as enthusiastic about this one as you are (or for that matter, as Dennis Lim is as well). Marvelous cinematography, of course, but in a way, Rivette's Don't Touch the Axe, struck me in part as a coincidental reply to In Memory of Myself by addressing the consequences of hying oneself away from the world. That's a superficial connection between the two films, I know, but one I couldn't help making at the time.Posted by: David Hudson at June 4, 2007 4:00 AM
I hope that Open Roads: New Italian Cinema will be a riposte to those, like me, who wonder what happened to Italian cinema since the days of 'De Sica, Rossellini, Visconti, Fellini, Germi, Bolognini, Lattuada, Zurlini, Antonioni, Bertolucci or Bellocchio', and (I add) Pasolini, Olmi, the Tavianis and Risi. Italy, which was once the glory of world cinema, only produces one or two decent films a year among the morass of syrupy pictures in the line of Cinema Paradiso and Life is Beautiful. The Tavianis have greatly disappointed in the last few years and so has Moretti. Ironic that the Italian revival might be in the hands of a nonagenerian.
You're reminding me, Ronald, of an amusing moment in a press conference with Sophia Loren that Movie City News is pointing to:
Finally, there was a glimpse of fire in Loren when reminded of director Quentin Tarantino's recent claim at the Cannes Film Festival that Italian cinema was dead.
"It's not true, it's not true at all. There's so many things going on in Italian cinema, so beautiful, also new actors, new actresses," she said.
"How dare he, how dare he talk about Italian cinema when he doesn't know anything about American cinema."
Spoken like an ambassador.Posted by: David Hudson at June 4, 2007 4:12 AM
David, I'm not sure if I care to be lumped together with Tarantino's views. I remain an agnostic on Italian cinema. I actually await a Fourth Coming (after the three great eras.)Posted by: ronald bergan at June 4, 2007 5:03 AM
No lumping intended! Let's keep hoping for that 4th Wave...Posted by: David Hudson at June 4, 2007 5:29 AM
Boyd, Boyd! Of course I won't skip In Memory of Me. It just was not screened in advance. I loved Costanzo's PRIVATE and look forward to this one. I am still often fascinated (as well as repelled: sort of like some people react to snakes) by others' religious faith, even if I have none myself.
And Ronald-- thanks for the addition of all those other fine Italian filmmaker's (can't believe I left out Olmi!) As to Second, Third and Fourth "Coming" or "Wave," I am not so sure about all this. What seemed like paradise back then was so only because we had the opportunity to see the work of these filmmakers. Not nearly all of their work was great. But it was there to sample. Nowadays, we aren't able to catch most new work from international filmmakers, even on DVD.Posted by: James van Maanen at June 4, 2007 9:43 AM
Don't Touch the Axe is one of the big underestimated titles of Berlin, but in a way I feel that this year it was all about underestimated titles. The only one that got some positive buzz from everyone (except Variety) was Irina Palm, but that is hardly the film that will advance the 7th art. Instead, films such as the Téchiné, the Rivette and, yes, the Costanzo are at least still trying to push the envelope and go somewhere unexpected -- with exhilarating results.Posted by: at June 4, 2007 10:23 AM
I wrote that previous comment...
and James - I don't know if loving Private is what is needed to love (or even like) In memoria di me. I was, shall we say, rather underwhelmed by his debut, but the weird thing is that what I found lacking in that film -- namely a separate identity for each of the characters -- actually works in his favour here because Memoria is about lost souls who seek consolation and a sense of validation for their existence in a congregation with strict rules that places the group above the individual.
I think that is what I like so much about this particular set-up: lost souls arrive at a destination that is bent on making them even less individual thinkers and more herd animals that follow dogmatic rules and traditions, and through that, they are still able to find themselves, for better or for worse.
Can't wait to read your thoughts on the film... bring 'em on!Posted by: Boyd at June 4, 2007 1:18 PM
Mark me down for another basket of respect for In Memoria de Me. I found it absolutely compelling at Berlin this year. Despite continual traffic of people leaving (I can understand that), and arriving (this I could not figure at all) during the screening.
The usage of the monastery, and the Venice the viewer sees behind its windows, to underscore narrative was sublime.Posted by: via collins at June 4, 2007 5:11 PM
I can't wait to see another movie with Alessio Boni! And now I'm lucky since I get to see two this time at the festival. Carravaggio and Secret Voyage.
A Presto!Posted by: Elizabeth at June 4, 2007 11:22 PM
"Italian film industry rebukes Tarantino" - an update from the Hollywood Reporter. Snippets:
"Tarantino is a brute," said Marco Bellocchio, a five-time Palme d'Or nominee in Cannes and a member of this year's Cannes jury.
Even editorial writers got in on the counterattack, with the left-wing daily L'Unita saying Tarantino was himself "mentally impaired."
The center-left daily La Repubblica, Italy's second-largest newspaper, said that if Italian film isn't what it used to be, neither was Tarantino.


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Drunk man set door on fire trying to kill spider with makeshift flamethrower
Posted: April 20, 2011|
A DRUNKEN man accidentally set fire to his partner's front door while trying to kill a large spider with a makeshift flamethrower, a court heard.
Tony Kendrick spotted the creature when he went downstairs to get a glass of water after going to bed feeling ill.
Wearing only boxer shorts, Kendrick, who is afraid of spiders, decided to get rid of it by spraying it with deodorant.
This had no effect, so he sprayed the deodorant through a flame from his lighter, – and set fire to the door and some cardboard boxes, Southern Derbyshire Magistrates' Court heard. Christopher Reynolds, prosecuting, said Kendrick was drunk at the time and called the fire service after fleeing the house.
Kendrick, 29, of Stanley Avenue, Ripley admitted damaging by fire a letterbox and door at the house in Outram Street, Ripley, on March 6.
He was put on probation for a year and must pay £500 for the damage and £85 prosecution costs.
The drama happened at the home of his partner, who was out. The property is owned by Amber Valley Housing.
Deputy District Judge Jim Tindal told him: "You were drunkenly trying to kill a spider in an absolutely stupid and ridiculous way. As a consequence, you caused a lot of damage. I have concerns about your judgement.
"You need support and help to address your thinking skills to prevent you behaving so stupidly in the future."
Andrew Coley, in mitigation, said Kendrick had voluntarily started treatment for his drink problems.
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The classroom teacher and teacher librarian will collaborate to identify skills, activities, and resources of the character traits in the Head, Heart, and Hands Character Education Program. The librarian will assemble resources for the unit consisting of fiction books for read-alouds, and materials for research including nonfiction books, 6th grade experts to interview, and biographical videos to analyze. The classroom focus will be on using the materials for writers workshop and for creating a class book of the 8 great traits. The library focus will be on generating motivating questions for young students to research, and formulating their results first in a page for their classroom book, then in a presentation slide show.
Ruus School is an underperforming school that is under considerable pressure to raise test scores. Improving student focus on achievement is the goal of the character education program. However, since so much of the day is devoted at this time to mandated programs, the content must be incorporated into the existing structure. Third grade students have a rudimentary understanding at best of the character education vocabulary and concepts. Before the unit lesson begins, students have had a period of immersion in read-alouds, analysis of character in class discussion, brainstorming for writing prompts, and written responses to the stories. The written work begun in the library has been refined in the classroom in the newly adopted Writers' Workshop program.
3.4 Determine the underlying theme or author's message in fiction and nonfiction text.
1.4 Revise drafts to improve the coherence and logical progression of ideas by using an established rubric
1.2 Connect and relate prior experiences, insights, and ideas to those of a speaker
Goals:Activate prior student knowledge about character traits, and generate student questions for investigation, give students an overview of the project with a rubric and discussion.
Objectives: Students and teacher will brainstorm what we know of the 8 great traits. Students will generate a list of questions about the traits. (To keep student involvement high, we will probably do 2 to 4 traits per class.)
Materials: character education books, chart paper and markers, worksheets with a list of the 8 great traits, pencils, video(s) on character, slides with images to analyze about the traits.
Procedures: The teacher will provide information from a different type of source each week for 5-10 minutes: fiction and nonfiction books, video, website, magazine, and interview. Students and teacher will summarize what we learned on the whiteboard.
Direct instruction: Students will be divided into table groups. During the first two classes, students will read chorally the H3 descriptions of the traits. Each table will get a chance to read one of the traits aloud to the class. The whole class will discuss the traits to establish a basic understanding of the ideas involved. Students can give personal examples and ask questions.
Guided practice:The teacher will model generating questions about the traits on an overhead of a worksheet. The teacher will introduce a rubric generated with the classroom teacher.
Independent practice: Students will generate their own questions on a worksheet/journal. There will be space for students to write and illustrate their own experiences each week during checkout time.
Self-assessment: allow 5 minutes at the end of class to assess their work using the rubric.
Over the course of the next few lessons, students will have the opportunity to gather information and answer their questions through a variety of formats. Books will be available each week The library has a few books on character, which they can locate on the shelves. The Hayward Public Library is preparing a box of books as well, which will be available on a trolley. They will see one or more short videos on character. They will interview an "expert" 6th grader one week.
At the end of each class, they will have the opportunity to review what they have learned and see if they have the answers to their questions. They will have packets of worksheets for making a page for the class book on each trait. They will have time to work on their pages each week as they get their answers. pages
The teacher will model a think-aloud of going through the rubric and self-assessment. Since students will be making 8 pages for the class book, they will be encouraged to self-assess each week.
|Learning Outcome
|Lesson 1
|Read chorally the H3 definition of 4 traits. Go over chart of feeling words. Review several read-alouds and score them for the presence/absence of traits and feelings. Whole group discussion of different opinions. Students will work in small groups during the scoring activity. Write questions. (Plan)
|Students will connect the traits to their own experience, and will experience differences of opinion as potentially positive. Transition from teacher- to student-directed inquiry.
|The classroom teacher conducts lessons in H3 such as Active Listening.
|Lesson 2
|Introduce Super 3 Model and rubric. Review and refine questions on KWL chart. Pick a trait to become an expert on. View short biography video and score for traits. Check questions and see if they have been answered. Determine which questions have been answered, and what we need to learn. (Plan, Do, Review)
|Students will become familiar with unit process and begin their planning process.
|The classroom teacher continues with H3 read-alouds selected in conjunction with the librarian that support the 4 traits being investigated. Differences of opinion and experience are supported.
|Lesson 3
|Use books to answer questions. Use toc and index. Determine which questions have not been answered. Compare experience with video to use of books. (Do, Review)
|Learn about parts of a book, implement research method, self-evaluate, learn about different information sources.
Time allowing, CT will show and help students score another biographical video.
|Lesson 4
|Review questions, and prepare questions for character experts. Interview 6th grade panel, write notes. Determine if questions are answered. (Plan, Do, Review)
|Recursion and self-evaluation. Conduct research with an expert.
|CT and TL prepare template for class book.
|Lesson 5
Create pages for class book. Students will include an explanation of their trait, give an example from their personal experience, connect the trait to feeling words, and illustrate their ideas. Review rubric. (Do, Review)
|Students will create product to convey what they have learned.
|CT guides students to refining and finishing their class pages.
|Lesson 6
|Create slide show. Students will create recordings of the text of their page. Review rubric. (Do, Review)
|Students will learn about different presentation options for learning.
|CT and TL explore a suitable setting and audience for presentation.
|Lesson 7
|Present slide show. Review rubric. (Do, Review)


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Video:Top Cheat Codes for Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim on PCwith Nick Flegg
Stuck in Skyrim? In this About.com video, find out how to take down dragons with ease with these seven, helpful, cheat codes.See Transcript
Transcript:Top Cheat Codes for Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim on PC
Hi, I'm Nick and today for About.com, I'm going to teach you some of the best cheat codes for Skyrim on PC.
What is Skyrim?
Skyrim is the fifth title in Bethesda's Elder Scrolls series. Players are able to explore and interact with the world in any way they wish, although using cheats is just as effective.
How to Enter a Skyrim Cheat Code
To enter a cheat, you'll need to press the tilde key while in game. This will pause the action and bring up the 'console' – the hub for all of your cheating needs. To activate a cheat, simply enter the code into the console and hit enter. There are hundreds of cheat codes in Skyrim, here are some of the best!
Skyrim 'God Mode' Code
A wealth of foes inhabit the world of Skyrim, making your life a valuable commodity. Enabling the 'God Mode' cheat gives you infinite health, magika, stamina and endurance. To enable God mode, simply enter the code 'tgm'. You turn this cheat off again by re-entering the code.
Skyrim 'PSB' Code
What good is magicka without the spells to use it? Gain access to all spells in the game by entering the code 'psb'. A career as a master sorcerer awaits!
Skyrim 'Advskill' Code
Learn the skills you haven't yet been able to master by entering the code 'advskill' to increase your skills. Be sure to enter the skill you want to enhance and the amount you want to level it by. Skills level at different speeds, so be sure to experiment until you get the level you want!
Skyrim 'Unlock' Code
You can unlock any chest or door you happen to find by entering the code 'unlock'. If you prefer to pick your way through and you run out of lockpicks, enter the code 'player.additem 0000000a' and then enter the quantity of the item you wish to add. This also works for gold! Enter the code 'player.additem 0000000f' to gift yourself some coins.
Skyrim 'Player.Setav Speedmult' Code
If things are moving too slowly for you, enter the code 'player.setav speedmult' followed by speed you wish to travel at. 100 is the default speed, so aim for a figure of around 150-200 when applying this cheat.
You'll move even slower if you're over-encumbered. Increase your carry limit by entering the code 'player.setav carryweight' and then adding the new figure. Now, you'll never be burdened again!
Skyrim 'Coc' Code
If you prefer to avoid walking altogether, use the fast travel cheat to instantly teleport to a new location. Enter the code 'coc' and the name of the location you wish to travel to. You can enter the code 'qasmoke' in order to travel to the secret developers room, where you'll be able to find all the items in the game.
Skyrim 'Showclassmenu' Code
Finally, if you've had a change of heart, you can change your character's attributes by entering the code 'showclassmenu'.
Remember, using cheats can wreck havok with your game. Some cheats can't be turned off and some can cause unfixable glitches. Just be sure to backup your save file before you try any of these.
Now you know how to cheat your way through Skyrim. For more video game tips and tricks, be sure to visit About.com.


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GLENN COUNTY, Calif., April 10 (UPI) -- A tour bus carrying Los Angeles-area high school students collided with a FedEx truck on I-5 about 100 miles north of Sacramento, killing at least nine people and injuring dozens.
California Highway Patrol confirmed the fatalities on Thursday evening. Officials also said that the students were on their way to Humboldt State University for a college tour.
CHP confirms 9 dead in fiery crash of tour bus carrying students from L.A. area http://t.co/wgT63T4PeA pic.twitter.com/XSg2klOcd9— KTLA (@KTLA) April 11, 2014
There were 46 passengers on the bus.
Family members have also told NBC Los Angeles that the students were from different schools in the Los Angeles Unified School District.


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Professor Yamashita Goes to Washington
by Joseph R. Svinth
Aikido Journal #114 (1998)
A slightly different version of this article appeared in Aikido Journal, 25:2 (1998).
What if we made our judo known abroad? Wouldn't it be a great thing which would allow us to get people to know Japan better? …What do hardships matter? For any pioneer, it is not a matter of harvesting, but of sowing.
— Yoshiaki (Yoshitsugu) Yamashita, circa 1887
In 1902, a wealthy Seattle businessman named Sam Hill was routinely working ten hours a day, six days a week. This prolonged absence caused his nine-year old son to turn "sickly," as being spoiled and selfish was then known. Rather than spend more time with the boy, Hill decided that judo, which he had seen demonstrated during a recent business trip to Japan, would be just the thing to imbue young James Nathan Hill "with the ideals of the Samurai class, for that class of men is a noble, high-minded class. They look beyond the modern commercial spirit."
Hill therefore asked I. Shibata, a Japanese friend living in New Haven, Connecticut, to find him a good judo teacher. In February 1903, Shibata told Hill of a Professor Yoshiaki (Yoshitsugu) Yamashita of Tokyo. [EN1]
Yoshiaki Yamashita, early 1930s. Photo
courtesy of the Joseph R. Svinth collection
Yamashita was born in Kanazawa City, in Ishikawa Prefecture, on February 16, 1865. The son of a minor samurai, he received some martial art training as a youth. In August 1884 he became the nineteenth member of Jigoro Kano's Kodokan Dojo, where he began studying the jujutsu style that later became known as judo.
Despite all the stories about how it took years to get rank in the old days, Yamashita earned his 1-dan ranking after just three months at Kano's school. Subsequent promotions continued apace, and he received his 4-dan after just two years. He was further promoted to 6-dan in 1898, and, upon his death in October 1935, he became the first person to receive posthumous promotion to 10-dan. Highly educated and urbane – he spoke good English and wrote beautiful Japanese – Yamashita quickly became a top-notch instructor. His postings included the Imperial Japanese Naval Academy and Tokyo Imperial University.
Yamashita's skill was not solely theoretical, either. He was a member of the Kodokan teams that wrestled the Tokyo police jujutsu club in 1883 and 1884, and in 1946, the British judo pioneer E.J. Harrison, who studied judo at the Kodokan around 1905, told the following stories of Professor Yamashita's practical fighting skills in the Budokwai Quarterly Bulletin:
It chanced that some years before I joined the Kodokwan Yamashita and a friend were assaulted by seventeen coolies in a Tokyo meat-shop – a sort of popular restaurant. Although some of the coolies were armed with knives the gang were dispersed in a twinkling, three of them with broken arms and all with bruised and battered faces. [EN2] As fast as one of the two experts artistically 'downed' his man the other would pick the victim up like an empty sack and dump him unceremoniously in the street. The only evidence of the conflict on the side of the two experts took the form of skinned knuckles where the latter had come in contact with the coolies' teeth. On another occasion Yamashita fell foul of a coolie in the upper room of a restaurant and promptly threw him downstairs. The coolie returned to the fray with fourteen comrades, but Yamashita calmly sat at the head of the stairs and as fast as the coolies came up in single file, owing to the narrowness of the passage, he simple choked them in detail and hurled them back down again. In the excitement of the moment he was rather rougher than was strictly necessary, and so broke one man's neck. The rest fled in terror, carrying off their dead and wounded. Yamashita was arrested, but as he was easily able to prove that he had been one man against fifteen he was, of course, acquitted. Nevertheless, the Kodokwan temporarily suspended him for his conduct, which was deemed unduly violent.
Hill knew none of this, however. All he knew was that his friend in Connecticut said that Yamashita was a good judo teacher, that judo was supposed to build character in boys, and that his son James Nathan was badly in need of stronger character. So Hill wrote Yamashita on July 21, 1903, saying:
My dear sir: — Referring to the correspondence between Mr. I. Shibata and myself regarding your coming to America, I beg to state that I am now ready to carry out my proposition to you as made in February last. My son will be next year in the city of Washington, D.C., from the first of October on. I have arranged so that if you will call at the office of the Nippon Yusen Kaisha [Japan Mail Lines] [EN3] in Tokyo they will furnish you transportation for yourself and your wife from Yokohama and Seattle, and I will pay for same. The steamship 'Shinano Maru' leaves Yokohama on the 22nd of September. If possible, I should like you to sail at that time. I shall, of course, furnish you with a railroad ticket from Seattle to Washington, D.C. for yourself and wife as well. I am greatly interested in this matter and believe that you will do well, and I am very anxious that my boy should learn the art. Trusting that you will be able to come to America and that I may hear from you at earliest moment to that effect.
To which Yamashita responded on August 26, 1903:
Your letter dated 21st July is duly at hand and I greatly appreciate your kindness in furnishing transportation for myself and my wife.
In reply to your favor I am very glad to inform you that we are ready to start for America on the 22nd of September on board 'Shinano Maru' as you so kindly arranged for us.
I had been much bothered about how to show you the true art of our 'jujutsu' before accepting your proposition because I was afraid that there is no Japanese resident there who is able to show you the art as my opponent, but fortunately I have got a young Japanese gentleman, one of my pupils who is very clever and whose father is a judge of the Tokyo Supreme Court, who voluntarily applied to go to America with us at his own expense which I have gladly consented to.
Asking you to give our kindest regards to Mrs. Samuel Hill and your son.
Letters reprinted courtesy of Maryhill Museum of Art. Images copyright Maryhill Museum of Art.
So, on September 23, 1903 the 38-year old Yamashita, his 25-year old wife Fude, and his 19-year old assistant Saburo Kawaguchi boarded the SS Shinano Maru in Yokohama. Since Hill was paying his fare, Yamashita traveled first-class. On the other hand, Kawaguchi traveled second-class, doubtless because his father was paying his way. Still, neither man traveled steerage. So when they arrived in Seattle fifteen days later Yamashita proudly told immigrations officials that he was a professor hired to teach "jujitsu" to Mr. Hill's children. Kawaguchi just as proudly proclaimed himself Professor Yamashita's assistant.
On Saturday, October 17, 1903 Yamashita and Kawaguchi gave a judo exhibition at the Seattle Theatre. This was a private show, not a public one; the theater was between shows, and Hill hired it for the evening. Guests included Sam Hill's mother-in-law Mary Hill (wife of railroader J.J. Hill, the man of whom it was said, "In the West there are many mountains, but only one Hill,"), Senator Russell Alger (a Republican from Michigan, and a former Secretary of War), and several Seattle sports writers. So far as I know, this was the first time Kodokan judo was shown to a non-Japanese audience in North America. (Since journalist H. Irving Hancock had begun studying jujutsu in New York City as early as 1896, this statement refers solely to Kodokan judo.)
During his show, Yamashita told the audience that judo was a word meaning "victory by pliancy or yielding." What this meant, he was quoted in the Post-Intelligencer as saying, was that:
When the opponent in a hand-to-hand conflict exerts the greatest muscular power he is easiest to overcome, for the expert in judo, by a subtle trick of yielding, converts the antagonist's momentum into his own destruction. The unfortunate leans too far, loses his balance, and swift as lightning the adept exerts one of his peculiar holds on the neck or arm…
Furthermore, judo was an exercise in Social Darwinism:
Only the fittest survive, and the life of each master is a long struggle for supremacy. The devotees of the science and the art say that the same stern principles exhibited in the physical practice are carried into the moral precepts… Only a few reach that stage, the majority stopping at physical development and the lessons of honesty and sobriety.
Speeches done, Yamashita and Kawaguchi demonstrated various throws and holds for the crowd. People seeing such demonstrations for the first time invariably thought that they were prearranged gymnastics rather than real wrestling. Sportswriter Ed Hughes of the Seattle Times, for example, wrote in January 1912 that:
Sam Hill years ago brought over some jiu-jitsu experts from Japan and showed them at the Seattle Theatre… The Japanese Mr. Hill brought over here used to give clever exhibitions, but it was exhibition stuff purely. It was not the real thing.
Doubtless thinking the same thing, Hill quietly arranged for Yamashita to meet someone who was not part of his personal troupe. After all, he wanted a jujutsu teacher, not an acrobat. Toward this end, Hill arranged a bout with some professional wrestlers in Seattle. When the wrestlers failed to appear, he substituted a guest named C.E. Radclyffe, a 210-pound Englishman who was a properly trained amateur boxer. According to the British wrestling writer Percy Longhurst, writing in Superman Magazine in May 1936, "Here is what the boxer has to say about the encounter:"
'I confess I have never been up against such a slippery customer as the little Jap. To land him fairly on the head or body was impossible. He avoided punishment by falling backwards or forwards, and once even passed between my legs, almost throwing me as he did so, and recovering his feet behind me in time to avoid a vicious back-hand swing. I tried everything, from straight punches to 'windmill' swings, but he was too good for me. Once he had come to close quarters a certain fall for me was the result. After taking three or four heavy tosses, I had had enough of it, having due regard to the fact that I had an hour or so before just got through a long and good dinner.'
His worries about the Professor's abilities gone, Hill then took his Japanese to the District of Columbia to meet James Nathan Hill. What James Nathan thought of the Professor and his judo is unknown, but as James Nathan was notoriously lazy, what he had to say about it is probably better imagined than repeated.
This photo from the Isamu Takeshita collection
was probably taken in Washington, DC circa 1905;
the woman on the right is likely Fude Yamashita.
Photograph reproduced courtesy of Stanley Pranin
and Aikido Journal
For Yamashita, the trip east was hardly wasted. For one thing, he got to see a lot of railroads along the way, which after all may have been one reason for the trip in the first place. (Yamashita's sponsors included several leading Japanese industrialists.) For another, he had no trouble finding a job teaching judo to the children of the Washington elite. While his regular students were mostly rich men's daughters — Irving Hancock's Physical Training for Women by Japanese Methods (1904) was then quite fashionable — he didn't mind, as according to an article in the New York World, Yamashita's only requirement in his judo classes was "an absolute good temper." His wife was equally fortunate, and her students included the daughters of the Democratic vice-presidential candidate and a former governor of Mississippi. [EN4]
This photo from the Isamu Takeshita collection was probably taken in Washington, DC circa 1905; the woman on the right is likely Fude Yamashita. Photograph reproduced courtesy of Stanley Pranin and Aikido Journal.
While in the District of Columbia, Professor Yamashita gave some lessons at the Japanese Legation. The Japanese naval attach�, Lieutenant Commander Isamu Takeshita, was from a samurai family and knew a good thing when he saw it – in 1926, he persuaded aikido founder Morihei Ueshiba to move to Tokyo, and in 1935 he introduced aiki budo, as aikido was then known, into the United States. [EN5] So it is hardly surprising that in March 1904, he also arranged for Professor Yamashita to meet with President Theodore Roosevelt in the White House.
As Roosevelt put it in a letter to his sons, he believed in "rough, manly sports" so long as they did not "degenerate into the sole end of one's existence… character counts for a great deal more than either intellect or body in winning success in life." And he thought he knew all about jujutsu. After all, in 1902, his wrestling instructor, a Philadelphia policeman named James J. O'Brien, had shown him some tricks he had learned in Japan. (O'Brien had been a constable at Nagasaki's Umegasaki Station from 1895 to 1899, so the instruction was legitimate.)
According to an article published in Literary Digest in August 1927, O'Brien began his demonstration by showing Roosevelt some technical illustrations. Suddenly Roosevelt stopped at a photo of a woman sticking her stiffened fingers into a man's eyes.
A little worried lest this maneuver should make an unfavorable impression, the Captain [O'Brien] stammered: 'Mr. President, a dangerous situation requires a desperate defense. That was invented to give a woman protection against a thug who suddenly attacked her.' Colonel Roosevelt's response, according to a writer in the Philadelphia Public Ledger, was reassuring. 'I think, Captain,' he is reported to have said, 'that this is the best thing in your repertory.'
No matter. What Yamashita showed was a complete system rather than a few simple tricks. And, despite what everyone thought, his acts were not prearranged: they were that good. Therefore, in the words of the New York World, Yamashita and his partner "caused Mr. Roosevelt to quit winking and gasp. They showed him what jiu-jitsu really is and they were engaged on the spot."
President Roosevelt practicing judo; illustration by Robert Edgren.
Although The World reported that there were seven degrees in jiu-jitsu, and Roosevelt intended to have at least five of them, Roosevelt's primary goal in all this was not rank, but weight reduction. Since becoming President, his weight had soared to over 220 pounds, and he hoped to be down to 200 by the elections. So, during March and April 1904, Roosevelt practiced judo three afternoons a week, using a ground floor office in the White House as his workout space. Then, for the rest of the summer, he practiced occasionally. He stopped training during the elections, and there is no record showing that he resumed his studies afterward.
The President's training partners included his sons, his private secretary, the Japanese naval attach�, Secretary of War William Howard Taft, and Secretary of the Interior Gifford Pinchot. When these people were unavailable, then Roosevelt tried his tricks on husky young visitors. The latter included Robert Johnstone Mooney, who with his brother visited the White House on the afternoon of Thursday, August 18, 1904. According to an article published in The Outlook in October 1923, Mooney's brother was a noted amateur boxer. So, after doing a little sparring with the two young men, Roosevelt:
sprang to his feet and excitedly asked: 'By the way, do you boys understand jiu-jitsu?' We replied in the negative, and he continued, pounding the air with his arms, 'You must promise me to learn that without delay. You are so good in other athletics that you must add jiu-jitsu to your other accomplishments. Every American athlete ought to understand the Japanese system thoroughly. You know' – and he smiled reminiscently – 'I practically introduced it to the Americans. I had a young Japanese – now at Harvard [A. Kitagaki] – here for six months, and I tried jiu-jitsu with him day after day. But he always defeated me. It was not easy to learn. However, one day I got him – I got him – good and plenty! I threw him clear over my head on his belly, and I had it. I had it.'Then, to prove his point, Roosevelt demonstrated his techniques on the Mooneys using considerably more enthusiasm than control. Professor Yamashita remarked the same problem, of course. According to an American journalist named Joseph Clarke, Yamashita later said that while Roosevelt was his best pupil, he was also "very heavy and very impetuous, and it had cost the poor professor many bruisings, much worry and infinite pains during Theodore's rushes to avoid laming the President of the United States."
The president probably agreed with these statements. For example, on March 5, 1904 he wrote his son Kermit:
My throat is a little sore, because once when one of them had a stranglehold I also got hold of his windpipe and thought I could perhaps choke him off before he could choke me. However, he got ahead.A month later, he wrote his son Theodore Jr.:
I am very glad I have been doing this Japanese wrestling, but when I am through with it this time I am not at all sure I shall ever try it again… I find the wrestling a trifle too vehement for mere rest. My right ankle and left wrist and one thumb and both great toes are swollen sufficiently to more or less impair their usefulness, and I am well mottled with bruises elsewhere. Still I have made good progress, and since you have left they have taught me three new throws that are perfect corkers.Yamashita left Washington around May 1904. Apparently someone – probably Hill or Roosevelt — had suggested that he teach judo to Harvard football players, thereby reducing their risk of death or serious injury. But this never occurred, as at the insistence of President Roosevelt, Yamashita instead took a position teaching judo at the US Naval Academy.
Yamashita started at the Naval Academy in January 1905. Training took place Monday, Wednesday, and Friday afternoons. He earned $1,666 for the semester, but had to pay his own assistants. The class had about 25 students.
Theodore Roosevelt strolling with Lieutenant Commander
Isamu Takeshita (left) during the negotiations that
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While teaching these classes Yamashita constantly stressed that what he taught was a gentlemanly art rather than something done by ruffians or professional wrestlers. Opinions regarding the quality of his instruction varied widely. According to the Army and Navy Journal for February 18, 1905 some believed "it was the best possible means of physical training, while others regard it of little value, indeed, of positive harm as inculcating unfair and unsportsmanlike ideas of physical contests." /p>
Such debates occurred throughout North America during 1905. Much of the debate was engendered by the Russo-Japanese War, in which Japanese propagandists routinely attributed their successes to military judo training. And Irving Hancock and Robert Edgren, a pair of journalists who were touting the wrestling skills of a jujutsu man named Katsukuma Higashi, engendered more. [EN6] While the latter grossly exaggerated Higashi's actual ability – he lost in three straight falls to an American wrestler named George Bothner in April 1905, and in minutes to a British judoka named Yukio Tani in November 1905 – the hype generated much controversy. Wanting to know the answer for himself, on Thursday, February 23, 1905 the President arranged a private match between Professor Yamashita and a middleweight catch-as-catch-can wrestler named Joseph Grant. In a letter to his son Kermit, Roosevelt described the outcome:
Grant did not know what to do except to put Yamashita on his back, and Yamashita was perfectly content to be on his back. Inside of a minute Yamashita had choked Grant, and inside of two minutes more he had got an elbow hold on him… [Still,] Grant in the actual wrestling and throwing was about as good as the Japanese, and he was so much stronger that he evidently hurt and wore out the little Japanese.
Meanwhile the US Army also expressed interested in learning if judo had as much merit in military training as the Japanese propagandists claimed. Toward answering this question, Brigadier General Albert L. Mills and Captain Frank W. Coe of the Military Academy and Captain Peyton C. March of the Army's Bayonet and Sword Committee visited Annapolis on Saturday, March 4, 1905. [EN7] After meeting with Commander William F. Halsey, Sr. and Surgeon Edward S. Bogert, Jr. of the Naval Academy, the officers observed a demonstration given by Yamashita and his midshipmen. Afterward their official report said that:
jiu-jitsu is not of great value as a means of physical development, but that the possession of a knowledge of this system would inspire the individual with a degree of self-confidence; hence it is recommended that jiu-jitsu be incorporated in the [physical training] course with boxing and wrestling.As it turned out, the Military Academy hired a retired world champion wrestler named Tom Jenkins instead, and never once regretted the decision.
Tom Jenkins, US Military Academy wrestling instructor, 1906-1942. Photo courtesy of the United States Military Academy Archives. For details of Jenkins' professional wrestling career, see Mark Hewitt, "Tough as Barbed Wire," http://www.teal.org/wht/history/mh1.htm
Three weeks later Yamashita, Kitagaki, and Midshipmen McConnell, Piersol, Ghormley, and Heim gave their first public judo demonstration. [EN8] While the crowd watched politely, it greatly preferred the boxing and wrestling shows that followed. A second show given in May 1905 met an equally cool response. Said the Army and Navy Journal afterward:
While some of the holds were undoubtedly serviceable if procured, the contestants worked together in such a way as to give no indication that the Americans had learned anything that would be of real use to them in a tight place. Exhibitions were given of how to stop an opponent who hit, kicked, or rushed, but it was noticeable that the man on the defense… [had an] understanding of the particular attack he had to meet and received his opponent as prearranged.
Although disappointed by this response, Yamashita left Annapolis in June fully expecting to be rehired in the fall, and the only judo he did publicly during the summer of 1905 was for a Russo-Japanese War benefit held at the Lafayette Theatre in Washington, DC on June 30. His partner in this demonstration was Saburo Koshiba of Tokyo. Then, come October, the Naval Academy told Yamashita that it had no money for a judo program and that his services were no longer required.
Understandably upset, Yamashita complained to friends at the Japanese Legation that he had turned down several jobs during the summer, thinking that the Navy would be rehiring him in the fall. And, as this left him with insufficient funds for another year in America, he began making plans to return to Japan.
About the same time that Yamashita was packing his bags, President Roosevelt happened to ask the Japanese ambassador how his former judo teacher was doing. Upon hearing the answer, the President asked the Secretary of the Navy if there was some reason that Yamashita should not be rehired for at least one more year. As Secretary Charles J. Bonaparte could not think of a reason he cared to tell the President, he immediately sent a letter to the new Superintendent of the Naval Academy, Rear Admiral James H. Sands, asking him to "please take the necessary steps to comply with the wishes of the President." As one would expect, Admiral Sands in turn wasted no time telling his staff to find a way of funding the President's judo program.
Within two weeks the Naval Academy staff had designed a curriculum and moved $1,700 into the appropriate budget. Admiral Sands then asked Yamashita to please come by his office in Annapolis "to arrange for the course of instruction in Judo." On December 4, 1905, Admiral Sands signed a contract with Yamashita in which the latter was to give fifty one-hour lessons at $33.33 per lesson. The class was taught during the first half of 1906. On May 6, 1906 Admiral Sands wrote the Navy Department to say that the course had been completed, but suggested that it not be repeated in 1907, as it was the opinion of both himself and his staff that "a knowledge of Jiu-jitsu is not of great value to those who are being prepared for a life on shipboard." President Roosevelt once again begged to differ, and so money was allocated for the purpose of bringing Yamashita back for a third year. But following the end of the 1906 academic year Yamashita left the United States for Japan, and on July 24 he attended an important judo conference held in Kyoto. His absence was hardly remarked by the US Navy, which did nothing more with judo until 1943. [EN9]
Meanwhile, back in Seattle, Sam Hill was annoyed. He had brought Yamashita to America to teach judo to his son, and then the Professor had deserted James Nathan for that damned cowboy in the White House. So, for the rest of his life, Hill would complain to anyone who would listen that Roosevelt had "taken away from Harvard my judo man without my permission or even asking."
And with that proclamation, Kodokan judo quit being of much interest to Seattle's elite, and instead became something done almost entirely by the sons of Japanese immigrants.
Financial support from the Japanese American National Museum and King County Landmarks and Heritage Commission contributed to the completion of this article.
The assistance of Richard Bowen, Alice S. Creighton (US Naval Academy, Nimitz Library, Special Collections), Wallace Dailey (Harvard College Library, Theodore Roosevelt Collection), Shinji Kozu, William J. Long, Judith Sibley (US Military Academy Archives, Special Collections), Robert W. Smith, and David Waterhouse is also gratefully acknowledged.
EN1. The ideogram used to write Yamashita's first name could be transliterated as Yoshitsugu, Yoshiaki, or Yoshikazu. In Kodokan documents it is usually transliterated Yoshiaki, but his passport in 1903 read Yoshitsugu.
EN2. The assault was probably politically motivated. In Revue Judo Kodokan, II (September 1952), 125, Kainan Shimomura wrote, "Yokoyama and Yamashita, the pioneers of Judo, were appointed Professors to the State Police Force, following on a Gala of Budo (martial arts) during which different Schools of Jujutsu opposed one another, but the numerous Societies of the ancient Jujutsu, which continued to exist, despised the 'Judo of Kodokan' at the bottom of their hearts. Encounters between Professors of the State were the exception. However public opinion got so worked up that in January 1891 an inter-group combat took place…"
EN3. On August 31, 1896, the steamer SS Miike Maru became the first NYK ship to enter Puget Sound. The ship carried 186 tons of cargo and one steerage passenger to Seattle and on its return to Japan carried six first-class and 33 steerage passengers. Thus the arrival of the NYK initially reduced Seattle's Japanese population by 9%! For further details, see http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/centennial/january/partners.html.
EN4. For details, see "Jiu-Jitsu for Women: Sandow's Magazine," http://ejmas.com/jalt/jaltframe.htm.
EN5. See Stanley Pranin's article at http://omlc.ogi.edu/aikido/talk/osensei/bio/mori4.html and Joseph Svinth, "Aikido Comes to America, September 1935," at Volume I of Journal of Combative Sport at http://ejmas.com/jcs/jcsframe.htm.
EN6. See, for example, "The Fearful Art of Jiu-Jitsu" by Robert Edgren at http://ejmas.com/jcs/jcsframe.htm.
EN7. In March 1918, Peyton C. March became Chief of Staff, US Army, a position he held until retirement in January 1921. Frank W. Coe became the Chief of Coast Artillery in May 1918, a position he held until retirement in March 1926. For a biographical sketch and portrait of General March, see http://www.army.mil/cmh-pg/books/cg&csa/March-PC.htm.
EN8. Between 1881 and 1906, sixteen Japanese attended the US Naval Academy. A. Kitagaki, however, failed to gain admission because in 1906 Congress passed laws that prohibited the Academy from accepting foreign students. Robert L. Ghormley of Moscow, Idaho played three years of varsity football at the Academy. He was supreme commander of Allied naval forces during the Guadalcanal campaign of 1943 and retired as a vice admiral in 1946. Philadelphia's William Burton Piersol was injured while playing football at the Academy and resigned immediately following graduation. He then got a job designing propellers for various marine firms and served as a commander during World War II. Riley Franklin McConnell of Gate City, Virginia was the heaviest man in his class at the Academy. His sports included football, track, and what the school yearbook, the Lucky Bag, called "jui jitsu." He retired as a commander in 1924. Finally, Schuyler Franklin Heim of Plymouth, Indiana was the Academy lightweight wrestling champion. Lucky Bag 1907 said that Heim looked "like a Jap, and can beat all comers at the art of Judo, which he asserts is more refined than Jiu Jitsi [sic], because it is sure death." He retired as a commodore in 1946, and is commemorated by the Terminal Island Bridge in Long Island, California that carries his name.
EN9. The Department of the Navy's subsequent interest in judo dates to February 1943, and a contest in which a 143-pound judoka choked a 200-pound professional wrestler unconscious in 1 minute, 20 seconds. For a description of that contest, see Joseph R. Svinth, "Judo Battles Wrestling: Masato Tamura and Karl Pojello," Furyu, The Budo Journal, 3:2 (Summer/Autumn 1999), 30-36, 72.


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Dublin-Laurens County Historical Society and John Laurens Chapter of DAR have partnered to bring the Vietnam Memorial Traveling Wall to the Carl Vinson VA Medical Center from August 14-17th. Open 24 hours a day, the Wall That Heals exhibition features a half-scale replica of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, D.C. As on The Wall, the names on The Wall That Heals are listed by day of casualty.
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Beard refused to discuss any individuals but admits the club are working hard on the transfer front to bring in some new faces and also to offload some players as they prepare for life in the Championship.
"We are trying to make one or two changes, it is important for us for some players to leave and we are working on that as hard as we are in bringing in one or two players in," Beard told Sky Sports News on 92 Live.
"Harry [Redknapp] has a great history in bringing the right type of player to his clubs and we need players who are going to give 100 per cent for every second of every game and that is what we are focused on and I hope over the next couple of days one or two players will be announced.
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SANFORD — Rudolph Mullis of Sanford died Thursday (8/14/14) at Sanford Health and Rehab. Arrangements are incomplete at this time but will be announced by Bridges-Cameron Funeral Home.
Condolences may be made at www.bridgescameronfuneralhome.com.
CAMERON — Jesse Lee Knox Sr., 76, of Cameron died Wednesday (8/13/14) at his home.
He was born in Martin County on June 19, 1938 to the late Grover Lee Knox Sr. and Gladys Mae Stalls Knox. In addition to his parents, he was also preceded in death by sisters, Jeanette Warren and Brenda Ann Ruffin; and brothers, Elmer Lee Knox and James Randolph Knox. He was a radiator mechanic.
He is survived by his wife, Janie Marie Knox; three sons, Jesse Joseph Knox and wife Wendy of Burgaw, Jesse Lee Knox Jr. and wife Kim of Willard, and David Lee Knox and fiancé Kayla Lewis of Currie; three daughters, Rosa Lee Talbert and fiancé Rodney Garner of Cameron, Peggy Lee Knox of Wilmington, and Linda Kay Scott and husband Ray of Greenville; brother, Grover Lee Knox Jr. and wife Janice of Tarboro; sister, Reather Mae Bryant of Tarboro; 15 grandchildren and 10 great-grandchildren; and several nieces and nephews.
A memorial service will be held Saturday at 4 p.m. in the chapel of Bridges-Cameron Funeral Home with Pastor Jay Young and Pastor Wayne Lamb officiating. The family will receive friends immediately following the memorial service at the funeral home.
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SANFORD — Darlene Blackwell, 58, of 614 Oakwood Ave., Sanford, died Wednesday (8/13/14) at Central Carolina Hospital. Arrangements are incomplete and will be announced by Knotts Funeral Home.
SANFORD — Dan H. Wooten, 82, of Sanford, died Thursday (8/14/14) at Liberty Commons. Arrangements are incomplete and will be announced by Knotts Funeral Home.
DUBLIN, Va. — Rev. Howard Grayson McNeill of Dublin, Va., died Wednesday (8/13/14) in Dublin.
Born in Moore County on Aug. 25, 1938, he graduated from Cameron High School in 1956. He attended Washington Bible College in Washington, D.C., and graduated in 1960 with a B.A. in Biblical Education. He then attended Grace Theological Seminary in Winona Lake, Ind. He pastored churches in Indiana, Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina and Florida. He was a member of Auburn Baptist Church in Riner, Va. He was preceded in death by his parents, Johnny David McNeill and Rosie Dinkins McNeill; and two brothers, Johnny Allen McNeill and Samuel Eugene McNeill.
He is survived by his wife of 55 years, Laura Dawson McNeill; three children, Rev. David Grayson McNeill and wife Kristi of Roanoke, Va., Robin Dunavant and husband Doug of Dublin, Va., and Daniel Hugh McNeill and wife Paula of Covington, Ky.; six grandchildren; six great grandchildren; and siblings, Ozell McNeill Sharp and husband Joseph of Sanford, Melvin McNeill and wife Marcia of Bakersville, and Nevie T. McNeill and wife Charlene of Sanford.
Arrangements are by Lotz Funeral Home in Vinton, Va.
BROADWAY — David Joseph "Rabbit" Heron, 55, of Broadway, died Thursday (8/14/14) at First Health Hospice Center in Pinehurst. Arrangements are incomplete at this time and will be announced by Smith Funeral Home of Broadway.
SANFORD — Funeral service for Shelby Jean McLeod, 75, of Sanford, who died Monday (8/11/14), was conducted at 2 p.m. Wednesday at Jonesboro United Methodist Church with the Rev. Hunter Preston and the Rev. Doug Houston officiating. Burial followed at the Mount Pisgah Presbyterian Church Cemetery.
During the service, Dr. Daniel Hester was the organist. The congregation and the church choir sang.
Pallbearers were Craig McKeithan, Jimmy Harrington, Wayne Morgan, Greg Kelly, Chris Rhodes and Rex McArthur.
Honorary pallbearers were Tillman Howard and Reid Craig.
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Every time that I read those words on a pattern—I cringe. I especially cringe when this is not stated up front prior to purchase but is proclaimed LOUDLY via email when the PDF that I've just paid for is delivered. It's like a giant "ZING" "I've got your money and you've been had." Seriously, why people release patterns and attempt to put restrictions on them is beyond my comprehension. Ignorance maybe or Selfishness.
I really don't get it. Don't they make enough selling the patterns to make it worth their while? I've never cared if somebody made 1 or 1001 finished items from one of my patterns and sold them.
This practice is even more bizarre when the item is a trademarked character. While I don't have a legal degree; I'm still fairly sure that is a trademark violation which is a BIG–no no. Some companies take a VERY dim view of having their licensed characters reproduced. The wrath of the avian may descend upon those . . .
So, does copyright really cover items made from patterns? Have a read at the link below. It states it much better that I could. http://www.tabberone.com/Trademarks/CopyrightLaw/Patterns.shtml
Now, do I want to make and sell items from the pattern? No, I do not but probably others do want to have this option. It's the principle of placing restrictions on reselling items made from a pattern that I object to. Mostly, if I want a particular item–I design it myself but sometimes I'm lazy or in a hurry and it's just easier to buy a pattern and make the item. It's also nice to support other artists and see how they present their work.
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South Portland residents OK school budget
SOUTH PORTLAND — Turnout was light, but residents on Thursday, May 6, approved a $41.6 million school budget for the fiscal year that begins July 1.
The budget, which eliminates 25 jobs, was approved 844-497 and is expected to increase the school share of the local tax rate by 11 cents, or 1.1 percent. The $506,000 in additional tax revenue will be used to fund a reserve account for future high school renovations.
Voters also voted overwhelming in support of the school budget validation process, which allows residents to have the final say on school spending. The 887-449 vote renews the budget referendum process for another three years.
Only 1,341 of the city's 18,549 registered voters cast ballots, a 7 percent turnout.
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Remnants of Superstorm Sandy were still pelting the region Tuesday morning with more snow expected to fall mainly in the higher elevations, according to the National Weather Service in Morristown.
NWS snowfall totals released this morning showed Mountain City receiving four inches of snow, Erwin receiving six inches and Unicoi with three inches.
The Associated Press was reporting NWS predicts continuing snow showers over the higher elevations through Wednesday morning. Snow accumulations of 6 to 24 inches are possible, mainly above 2,500 feet. Localized areas above 5,000 feet could accumulate as much as 35 inches.
Some valley locations could also receive light snowfall as well, but accumulations of only an inch or less are expected in most areas below 2,000 feet.
The weight of the snow could bring down some trees and limbs, causing power outages. The roads are expected to be slick and hazardous.
For Johnson City/Washington County, NWS was predicting snow was possible before 11 a.m. today, with rain thereafter. The chance of precipitation was 90 percent. Rain was expected to continue into tonight.
Snow showers were forecast for today in the counties of Carter, Unicoi and Johnson. Significant snowfall has already been reported in those counties.
Temperatures were not expected to get out of the 30s today, though 50s were forecast by the weekend.
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Bill Baker was inducted as a Kentucky Colonel Saturday, June 29 by Brandon Smith, senator and Majority Whip of the Kentucky Senate.
Mr. Baker and his lovely wife, Charlene Napier Baker, were also bestowed the titles of Duke and Duchess of Hazard for their years of charity work and participation in feeding the homeless and helping those less fortunate.
Bill and his family reside in Bristol, Connecticut. He was under the impression that he was traveling to his beloved mountain home of Hazard for a family reunion. Little did he know that the gathering was a surprise 85th birthday party that his wife and daughters had been planning for months. Bill was truly surprised by the multitude of family and friends that gathered to show their love and respect to this kind-hearted fellow that does for others before himself.
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Saturday, November 24, 2007
A Thanksgiving Story: Undocumented Immigrant Saves Young Boy's Life
In Arizona, federal agents arrested an border crosser who cared for a 9-year-old boy found wandering alone after his mother died in a canyon crash in southern Arizona. The boy was looking for help after his mother crashed her van off a cliff on Thanksgiving Day. Sheriff Tony Estrada told reporters that the mother had been in an accident and that her son, who was unhurt but disoriented, crawled out to get help and was found about two hours later by Jesus Manuel Cordova, 26. Unable to pull the mother out, Cordova comforted the boy while they waited for help. The woman unfortunately died a short time later. "He stayed with [the boy], told him that everything was going to be all right," Estrada said. As temperatures dropped, he gave him a jacket, built a bonfire and stayed with him until about 8 a.m. Friday, when a group of hunters passed by and called authorities, Estrada said.
Cordova, meanwhile, was taken into custody by Border Patrol agents. He had been trying to walk into the U.S. when he came across the boy. Sheriff Estrada said Cordova likely saved the boy and his actions should remind people not to quickly characterize all illegal immigrants as criminals. "They do get demonized for a lot of reasons and they do a lot of good. Obviously this is one example of what an individual can do," he said.