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How would I find out how much taxes I will pay when I purchase this phone? I live in Missouri if that helps.
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How would I find out how much taxes I will pay when I purchase this phone? I live in Missouri if that helps.
Check your state's website (like the treasury site) to see precisely what sales tax is, if you have one.
Or you can always just Google "Missouri sales tax".
Or you can make a new thread and see if other people will Google it for you...
I'm not sure if they can make you pay tax... Unless a company has retail stores within your state, sales taxes are not being issued. They will ask you to pay shipping though.
It's 4.225 percent.:cool:
you said gone are the days where you don't pay taxes for online retailers on all states.
I am saying its not gone yet. Amazon dont charge me taxes. they charge tax only in few states. It will soon be gone but not yet.
Damn! Google has an office in Toronto Canada, guess I am paying taxes (this i was expected but i had my hopes up.) Bonus, maybe they will ship it from Toronto and I will receive my phone Wednesday or Tuesday afternoon :D If orders go live early morning and they can have it shipped out I may be lucky enough to catch the afternoon shipping.
EDIT: Whoa big bonus for canadians.
"Information about taxes
Google Canada Corp. is the merchant of record for items sold via devices on Google Play. All prices include GST. " Information about taxes - Google Play Help
Now I am wondering since I am in Ontario and we have HST.... is the 309$ price all tax included? or should factor in the 6/7%
Really this seems to good to be true.
EDIT: confirmed on another forum that this is indeed to good to be true.
Google operates in all states, therefore taxes apply in all 50. Amazon is different, they don't operate in all 50, taxes can only apply to states where a business operates.
Does Google offer two day or overnight shipping ?
Lol I am so glad to live in Oregon no sales tax expect for the towns that wants it
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We basically here just get Income tax, a few purchases likes car's & import for large amounts.
Yeah and we can go up there with our Oregon drivers license and get away with not paying but yea you do have best of both worlds what part wa you from I am in the Willamette Valley
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Urban Decay Primer Potion, especially in Sin. It never fails!
UDPP and Kat von D High Voltage primer!~
I'm in love with Shadow Insurance of Too Faced. I have oil eyes and it's the only one that the shadow stays in the eye for many hours. How many? 12 hours!
I second Too Faced Shadow Insurance. I have oily lids and have tried UD Primer potion in original and eden. They both crease whereas TFSI does not.
NARS. No doubt about it.
A lot of people I know complain about creasing, but the trick is to let it dry a little first.
Agreed! I love NARS and always let it dry for a bit before putting shadows on.
I'm with this one, I LOVE Nars primer. I let mine sit a little and it holds onto my color, never creases on my oily lids, and can really let my colors blend.
I like UD but I like the texture of Nars better and how it feels on my eyes.
Ditto! Exactly how I feel
the best primer in the world!
I second that
Yep. same ingredients as UDPP but no parabens.
I really like the Too Faced Shadow Insurances (both original and candlelight). I've had great success with them helping make my eyeshadow last all day. Also, the Candlelight adds a pretty gold sheen to your eyes, so I make sure I add it all the way to my brow for highlighting!
I also really like Candle Light!
Hands down, urban decay!
For me, it's MAC Paints. Paint pots and MUFE Aqua creams crease on me. The Paints have been the best on my oily lids.
I use Urban Decay. It's very long-lasting and powerful
I've been using Lime Crime Eyeshadow Helper since June and I really like it with my semi oily lids. Too Faced Shadow Insurance has been a good one to use for many years but I find the Lime Crime Eyeshadow Helper also intensifies the colour a bit more. *_*
My personal favorite is NYX jumbo eye pencils. I love how they create a slightly sticky surface to grip onto powder better, but they don't crease under the powder.
Urban Decay Primer Potion. Works great for me. I like the Eden too, but the original is so versatile that I have to say it's at the top. Eden's more matte, so depending on the look you're going for it may or may not work.
I hate to say it, because i reallyy hate the company, but I can't live without Lime Crime Candy Eyed shadow helper. It really brightens colors and keeps them on forever, I always have fading with UDPP. I feel bad every time I order candy eyed but I really do love it.
Curious, why do you really hate the company?
I was wondering why you hate Lime Crime?
Lime Crime is the most unprofessional, most fraudulent makeup company known to man. I second that I hate that company. I've also heard that the woman who owns it is known to just crush up brands like Coastal Scents and sells it as her own shadow/pigment. Definitely DO NOT like Doe or her company.
It's not THE worst make up brand out there. Heard of Glittersniffer?
UDPP!!! I prefer the color Eden because it evens out my eyelids while helping my eyeshadows go on more vibrant and last longer.
Urban Decay tops the list as best overall, but ironically I like Too Faced Glitter Glue shadow insurance with UrbanDecay glitter shadows such as midnight cowboy.
Urban Decay Primer Potion, the original one.
Sin is awful – the stuff gets everywhere and you end up having shiny places on your lids where you didn't want the shine!
Certain brands of shadows work better for me with different primers.
Chanel, Inglot, The Balm and any mineral shadows get Too Faced Shadow Insurance to bring out their full glory
Everything else gets Urban Decay Primer Potion.
For anchoring eyeshadow as liner or wetlining, Inglot Duraline kills it.
My favorite/HG is NARS primer. I've used several different ones and have always come back to NARS – no creasing, absorbs quickly and hands down the.best! =)
I used Urban Decay Primer Potion for a while and loved it, but I decided to try something new. I've been using MAC Painterly Paint Pot & it normally works very well. I've had a few times where it's creased, but I think I didn't use enough. (I have very oily skin)
Lately I've been loving Smashbox Photo Finish Lid primer.
Me too!
Top 3: UDPP or Too Faced Shadow Insurance for basic primers, Laura Mercier Eye Basics in Flax or Wheat(?) if I want to even out the color, too. UDPP or TFSI + Laura Mercier for SERIOUS staying power (but sometimes can be a bit drying if used to often).
UDPP, it was the first eye primer I bought and it works wonderfully. I haven't tried any others because if it ain't broke don't fix it.
I love UD primer potion and NYX eye shadow base.
I have a friend with oily lids and she said milk of magnisia (totally spelt that wrong) works wonders as a base for her
Urban Decay Primer Potion and Mac Soft Ochre Paint pot


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Dating A Divorced Guy: Proceed With Caution
Dating A Divorced Guy: Proceed With Caution
Dating A Divorced Guy: Proceed With Caution
First, be sure he's actually divorced or at least legally separated. There are those who will say they "are getting divorced" but are still living in the same house and maybe even sleeping in the same bed with their ex-to-be. The marriage may be over emotionally but not really over so there's a long bumpy road ahead for him.
It's important to clarify exactly where he is along the spectrum and end it quickly if he is not out of the marital home. Despite what he believes and says, he is not ready. If you choose to go ahead, you are choosing that bumpy long road for yourself as well.
Second, understand there are various, predictable emotional stages of separation and divorce. The longer the marriage, the longer the adjustment takes. The experience is even more intense when there are children involved.
Shock, disbelief, refusal to accept, anger, grief, begging for another chance, perhaps marital counseling or psychotherapy for one or both partners, finally giving up and the legal process — a disorienting time in itself — are all part of the emotional, financial, practical and parental adaptation.
Even after the legal process has been concluded, there is still processing and evaluation to be done by a newly divorced person. It takes at least a couple of years from the initial separation to go through the loss and pain and actually become truly open and available to another partner.
You will see a lot of emotional vacillation as he finds his way through the morass. You will need to be excessively patient and have few demands of your own.
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LCD Soundsystem :: 06.08.07 :: Mezzanine :: San Francisco, CA
LCD Soundsystem is the brainchild of James Murphy, co-founder of DFA (or Death From Above) Records. In the studio, LCD Soundsystem is just Murphy, a "tragically hip producer, who has been described as the Pharrell Williams of post-funk." Live, LCD Soundsystem is a quintet of friends and power-punk, art-rock musicians with a stalwart command of their instruments. Featuring Pat Mahoney (drums), Nancy Whang (keyboards, vocals), bassist Tyler Pope (also of !!! and Out Hud) and ex-Sabres of Paradise member Phil Mossman (guitar, percussion, keys, bass). Their influences - Talking Heads, Brian Eno, ESG – are conspicuous, but it's always homage, never plagiarism. Murphy has described the band as "a laboratory for experiments on what a band should be." At Mezzanine, their chemistry proved flammable and addictive, laden with sarcasm, self-deprecating snark and a serious beat. Clearly, I want more.
"Us v Them" opened the set and came out like a charging mob, proving that there is indeed a time for more cowbell. "Time to Get Away" is the smug anthem for every schmuck who has ever let you down – "To think I used to pity you/ To think I used to talk to you/ It's true." Nancy Wang was an edifice of cool behind her keyboards until "Yeah" – a cut from their self-titled double album that has earned a crass version and a pretentious version – when all of her vocal and keyboard powers came to the wailing zenith of the chorus. "Daft Punk Is Playing at My House" is one of their battle anthems, and this performance was no exception, infectious and fiery. Their final encore, "New York, I Love You" was a beautifully layered and disillusioned ballad for New York City. Murphy's stage presence, graying hair and love-hate relationship with New York was largely reminiscent of David Byrne, in a very comforting way. Clearly, they're on the same team.
Live LCD Soundsystem is art-rock, post-funk, dance-punk at its finest. If you can find another band this skilled at this many genres at once, I'd love to hear about them.
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"If you can find another band this skilled at this many genres at once, I'd love to hear about them."Great line. I would like to know too!
bdaughert, this was this kid in my neighborhood way back in the day named bobby crapper. seriously.
thats nothing , i went to school with a girl named lisa manhole - no lie!did daft punk really play at his house?
i had a biology teacher in highschool named richard (dick) head.i also knew a kid named mike rak.and i knew a kid whose last name was crotchtangle.all true stories, this game is fun.


text: US Embassy in Cairo Scrubs Daily Show Tweet Link to Stewart monologue prompted feud with Egypt By Matt Cantor, Newser User Posted Apr 3, 2013 12:55 PM CDT | Updated Apr 3, 2013 5:51 PM CDT STORY COMMENTS (28) (Newser) – Egyptian officials weren't happy with a recent tweet from the US embassy in Cairo—so the embassy pulled its Twitter feed, at least initially. The tweet in question: A link to Jon Stewart's recent monologue defending Bassem Youssef, the so-called "Jon Stewart of Egypt," in which he also blasted Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi, the AP reports. Morsi's office called the tweet "inappropriate," prompting the US ambassador there to pull the account without input from Washington, the New York Times reports. The State Department wasn't pleased with either the initial tweet or the decision to take down the account. (As Foreign Policy reported, it didn't want to give the appearance that "the United States is caving to the online pressure.") The account was later restored minus the Stewart tweet. But all may not end there. As the AP observes, the imbroglio over the tweet comes at a time of rising tensions between Cairo and Washington, which has expressed deep concerns that Morsi's government is backsliding on human rights protections. Popular Egyptian television satirist Bassem Youssef. (AP Photo/Amr Nabil) In this Oct. 18, 2012 file photo, Jon Stewart speaks during a taping of "The Daily Show with John Stewart." (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster, file) ADVERTISEMENT(Click Prev or Next to continue viewing images.) « Prev« Prev | Next »Next » Slideshow Associated Press (Source Grid ») New York Times (Source Grid ») Foreign Policy (Source Grid ») Media • Politics Cairo • Jon Stewart • The Daily Show • US Embassy • Twitter • Bassem Youssef CLICK BELOW TO VOTE 38% 5% 12% 7% 5% 33% RETURN TO THE STORY To report an error on this story, notify our editors.


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This being Holy Week I got to thinking about being on retreat at Assumption Abbey just before Easter in 2005; specifically, Holy Thursday.
This being Holy Week I got to thinking about being on retreat at Assumption Abbey just before Easter in 2005; specifically, Holy Thursday.
Mass that day was quite an experience. Abbot Mark Scott gave a homily on the sacrament of the last supper and the significance of the washing of the apostles' feet. Then, with the assistance of Father Cyprian, he bathed the feet of all the monks as we sang a hymn of praise and redemption. This was followed by the celebration of the Mass and the distribution of Holy Communion.
Midway through the service, a thunderstorm rolled in. Not a big blow but a deep rumbler that washed the monastery and surrounding hills with a burst of heavy rain before moving off to the east.
After Mass, as is the tradition in the Catholic faith on Holy Thursday, the Blessed Sacrament was transferred by holy processional from the chapel altar to a repository located in the cloister.
The holy processional was all the more spiritual because of its missteps. Abbot Mark knelt down to start it before Father Paul had a chance to share the final reading. This sent the monks scurrying to get the processional vestment, incense, and carved processional crucifix, only to be told — when the abbot was informed of his mistake — they would have to put them back until the reading was completed.
When the processional did finally commence, Boniface came out holding the crucifix backwards … and the postulant candle bearers got separated. The abbot did his best to communicate by nods and exaggerated eye gestures — to the monks, postulates, and faithful in the pews — when and where to join in, but to no avail.
It was quite a holy happening, made all the more healing and poignant by the child-like sweetness of the stops and starts, our a capella singing that wandered on and off key, and the fact that no one appeared to be the least bit concerned about its organizational lapses, instead focusing on Jesus and the substance of the ancient ritual.
Afterward, I went to browse in the abbey gift shop where I found a collection of poems by Rumi, a 13th century Islamic poet and mystic from Afghanistan.
It was not surprising to find a work by Rumi at the monastery as he was revered and respected by those of all communities and all faiths. "We are like a flute," Rumi once said, "which with a single note is tuned to two hundred religions." At his funeral, his coffin was followed by Christians, Jews, Greeks, Arabs and Turks, the representatives of each community walking in front holding their holy books and reading aloud.
Truth be told, Muslims and Christians have much in common, not only because both Christianity and Islam originated in the Middle East and trace their ancestry back to Abraham, but also because Jesus Christ is a holy figure in Islam. This is rarely known to the Western public and is often overlooked by the mass media.
Page 2 of 2 - Looking through the Rumi collection at the monastery that Holy Thursday, I discovered several poems he'd written about Christ. One of them, which is said to be carved in stone over the door of a Christian church in Iran, spoke directly to the character of Assumption Abbey and something all Christians can aspire to: "Where Jesus lives, the great-hearted gather. We are a door that's never locked. If you are suffering any kind of pain, stay near this door. Open it."
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That covers some types of "bad press," but consider this scenario: A diaper company pays for a set of billboard advertisements along a highway that has no history of negative events (low accident rate, etc.). Somebody driving along that highway goes on a road rage rampage, shooting other drivers, killing several and wounding more. A photographer captures this in a way that makes it impossible to crop out the diaper billboard and retain proper framing, and publishes the photo, which gets picked up and is published in all the major newspapers, appears on TV, etc. The diaper company then objects, since their brand is now affiliated with this mass murder. It really isn't their fault that somebody went on a killing spree in front of their billboard, and of course the lack of history of accidents and killing sprees in this area means that they had no reason to avoid putting their ad up in that space. Their product has nothing to do with guns, violence, or cars. In some sense, the diaper company is another victim of this event.Originally Posted by SchwinnParamount
Note that I'm not saying the diaper company should have a legal basis for suing the photographer or anybody who publishes the photo; IMHO, the possibility of such "collateral damage" does not warrant muzzling freedom of expression. What I am saying is that unintentional damage to uninvolved third parties is possible whenever photos (or video footage or audio recordings) of newsworthy events are distributed. The possibility of such damage is real and should be acknowledged -- it's just not justification for censorship, IMHO. Perhaps a reasonable middle ground would be to blur out the details on the billboard, but I'd be reluctant to require such actions. Consider if, instead of a diaper ad, the billboard had an ad for the NRA. Publishing such a photo then becomes, at least potentially, political speech. Whether or not you agree with the statement in this hypothetical photo, it'd be a powerful image and very important, from a freedom of speech perspective.


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Firestone High School senior David Krichbaum shows off his candy machine March 26 at A Wok Chinese Restaurant in Fairlawn. The machine is one of six Krichbaum has at area businesses. Krichbaum doubled his sales after adding a sign referencing his college fund to the gum dispensers.
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For Firestone High School senior David Krichbaum, that means handfuls of peanut M&Ms and shiny quarters, a ton of sales pitches and more than 200 rejections.
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Film: Star Trek: Generations
aka: Star Trek The Next Generation
Kirk: Captain of the Enterprise?Star Trek Generations is the seventh movie in the Star Trek film series, released in 1994.This is the first movie featuring the cast of Star Trek: The Next Generation. Billed as a Cross Over (Cross Through?) with Star Trek: The Original Series, although the main TOS representative, apart from the last adventure, is given The Cameo for this one.It's shortly after the end of the Next Generation TV series, which ended its run just before this film was released. Our baddie is Dr. Soran (Malcolm McDowell), a Mad Scientist with a malicious agenda reaching back seventy-eight years to when he was "saved" from the Nexus by Kirk, who then disappeared into it himself and was presumed dead. Soran now plans to blow up a couple suns to get back into the Nexus, but Picard gets Kirk to leave the Nexus and join him for a bridge-dropping climax.Perhaps the best that could be said for Generations is that it's not too badly paced considering how thin the storyline is. Still, the plot is mostly just a vehicle to bring Kirk and Picard together realizing Fan Fic writers wet dreams. Their meeting only occurs at the end and the final battle is over too quickly and extremely predictable. Despite this, the ending is fairly moving. While not considered the greatest start for the TNG crew, the sequel was quick to fix that.
Picard: That's right.
Kirk: Close to retirement?
Picard: Not planning on it.
Kirk: Let me tell you something. Don't. Don't let them promote you. Don't let them transfer you, don't let them do anything that takes you off the bridge of that ship, because while you're there, you can make a difference.
Picard: That's right.
Kirk: Close to retirement?
Picard: Not planning on it.
Kirk: Let me tell you something. Don't. Don't let them promote you. Don't let them transfer you, don't let them do anything that takes you off the bridge of that ship, because while you're there, you can make a difference.
Tropes seen in Generations include:
- Abandon Ship
- In the prologue, the Enterprise-B is beaming aboard the passengers of two refugee ships caught in a Negative Space Wedgie. Subverted in that many of them don't want to leave.
- The Enterprise-D in the film's climax. Played With, in that they simply evacuated everybody into the part of the ship that wasn't about to explode and separated it.
- Absentee Actor
- They couldn't get Leonard Nimoy or DeForest Kelley to return as Spock and Bones for the opening scene, so Kirk is instead accompanied by Scotty and Chekov. As a result, Chekov seems to be acting in the capacity of a doctor when they pick up the refugees and Scotty calls Kirk "Jim".
- In the alternate opening scene, Kirk boasts about his precision skydiving. Scotty 'helpfully' announces that Kirk was off by a few meters. Definitely a Spock line.
- Absolute Cleavage: Lursa and B'etor, as always.
- Action Film, Quiet Drama Scene: The entire sequence in the Nexus.
- A Glitch in the Matrix: A variant. Kirk knows that the Nexus isn't real, but he's content to stick with it because it offers a chance for him to live the life he missed out on. However, when he jumps his horse over a ravine and feels nothing for it, he realizes that he can never appreciate the Nexus because it lacks a defining element of fear.
- Armor-Piercing Question: El-Aurians are "a race of listeners". Well, Dr. Soran shows what happens when they use their powers of observation for evil, as he expertly manipulates Picard in a quietly malicious manner.
- Anyone Can Die: This was supposed to be the overarching theme of the movie ("Time is the fire in which we burn").
- Apocalypse How: Soran causes Stellar Physical Annihilation in the Amargosa system and the Veridian system...but the Veridian system gets reversed thanks to Picard and Kirk.
- Arc Number: Scotty manages to save 47 people. 47 is an arc number in all the modern Star Trek series.
- Artistic License Physics: Soren's plan to divert the Nexus makes sense at first, but promptly falls apart later. In order to actually get inside, he has to destroy the Veridian star so the Nexus hits the planet instead of a near-miss. Problem is, the timing of this is such that there would be no appreciable change in gravity since the sun is still largely intact and thus a massive gravitational body. The Nexus suddenly altering course to hit the planet would never happen. It would have made more sense to destroy the star then have the Nexus hit a planet in another solar system.
- Avoid the Dreaded G Rating: Data says "Oh shit" to avoid a G rating.
- Back for the Dead: Kirk, sort of.
- Big Damn Movie: Captain Kirk dies, entire star systems are in danger of being destroyed, the Enterprise-D is destroyed and crashes, Picard loses his family and Data gets emotions. YMMV over the movie's quality, but events are certainly a step up from the average episode.
- Big Lipped Alligator Moment: In-universe, even. Data scanning for lifeforms. And singing. With the controls providing instrumentation. The crew is visibly thrown by this.
- Bond One-Liner: An intended one. Soren remarking that Geordi's "heart wasn't in" telling him the information they needed was a reference to a torture technique used in a deleted scene. Since the scene wasn't in the movie, the remark sounds out of place.
- Break Them by Talking: If you ever wondered what would happen if an El-Aurian used their keen insight against someone instead of counseling them - look out.Soran: They say time is the fire in which we burn. Right now, Captain, my time is running out. We leave so many things unfinished in our lives... I know you understand.note
- Broken Aesop: In the end, Picard tells Riker "time is a companion that goes with us on a journey and reminds us to cherish every moment... because it will never come again." Except that Picard saved the day because he was able to revisit particular moments in time. However one could interpret his speech as a reflection on Soren's obsession with the past, and not being able to move on had he done so, the events of the film would never have happened.
- Call Back
- While exploring the Amargosa Observatory, Data reminds Geordi of a joke Geordi told Riker at Farpoint Station. As noted in Late to the Punchline, Farpoint Station was the setting for the pilot episode of TNG.
- Shortly after the D12 is destroyed, the movie cuts to Geordi in engineering examining an open panel and in the middle of a conversation about the damage the ship's taken. He turns around and communicates with the bridge, only to be cut off as the panel he's just walked away from explodes and engineering rapidly degenerates from being a mess to being an outright hazardous environment. As he's ushering everyone out, Geordi tells the bridge that they're a few minutes away from a warp-core breach he can't stop. This scene mirrors one from the episode "Yesterday's Enterprise", where the ship was fatally damaged fighting Klingons in an alternate timeline. It helped that David Carson directed both "Yesterday's Enterprise" and Generations''. It's even the same panel which blows out. The only difference is the time to breach is increased from two minutes to five (to make the subsequent evacuation more believable).
- Furthermore, he escapes from Engineering by doing the Epic Geordi Maneuver, previously seen in "The Best of Both Worlds" - this time it's a lot more justified as the door was actually at waist-height when he started his roll.
- Back in "Descent", Data reasons against trying to install the emotion chip because in part he hates having placed his friend Geordi in danger while under it's influence. In this movie, he elects to install the chip, only for it to malfunction and for him to find himself paralysed by fear while Geordi gets beaten up and kidnapped by Soren on the observatory, proving his initial fears correct and leaving him feeling guilty.
- Call to Agriculture: In the Nexus, Kirk was found chopping wood and frying eggs at his old house in the mountains.
- Changing Clothes Is a Free Action: One of the most subtle examples on record. At the beginning of the film, the main cast is wearing their ST:TNG-era uniforms, with the black shoulders and colored torso. Then a few Red Shirts in the background are seen with the updated ST:DS9 color scheme with the black torso and colored shoulders. Then Data starts wearing it. And then Riker, and Geordi, and finally Picard. In at least one case with Riker his uniform literally changes between two scenes where he couldn't possibly have had time to do so in real life. See the entry under Show Accuracy/Toy Accuracy below for a possible explanation for all this uniform madness.
- Troi, Worf, and Crusher meanwhile wear the TNG TV uniforms for the entire film.
- *Click* Hello: Soran does this to Admiral Kirk during the battle on Veridian III.
- Closest Thing We Got: "You and you, you've just become nurses. Let's go."
- Comedic Sociopathy: Lampshaded then deconstructed. While Worf was getting dropped into the ocean (in the holodeck...) as "reward" for promotion to Lieutenant Commander...Data: I am uncertain as to why someone falling into freezing water is amusing.
Beverly: It's all in good fun, Data. You've got to live in the moment, get into the spirit of things. Get it?
Data: Got it.(Cue Data pushing Beverly overboard, then wondering why no one is laughing)
- Comic Book Adaptation: By DC Comics.
- Coming In Hot: The saucer section of the Enterprise after the stardrive section explodes.
- Compliment Backfire
- Continuity Nod:
- Though possibly unintentional, Kirk remarked in Star Trek V that he knew he would die alone. Specifically, after taking a near-fatal fall off a mountain in Yosemite during a camping trip with McCoy and Spock, he tells McCoy that he felt confident he would survive because both of them were with him. He adds, darkly, "I've always known... I'll die alone." When he "dies" on the Enterprise-B, he's the only guy in the room. His actual death could be argued the same, since Picard was the only other person around and he was too late to actually prevent it. The novelization of the movie actually mentions the callback at Yosemite. This could even be argued to bookend a "Kirk trilogy" of V, VI, and Generations, in which Kirk plays Peter Pan at the end of VI, receives unending exploration within the Nexus, but finally accepts his fate as a man.
- While aboard the observatory, Data mentions the Farpoint mission - which was the subject of the TNG series premiere.
- Continuity Overlap: This one's an interesting case. The film was released during the third season of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine and while there are no mentions of the station, characters are wearing the jumpsuit uniforms created for DS9. However, as detailed under Show Accuracy/Toy Accuracy , the usage of the jumpsuits was a last-minute decision, making this an unintentional overlap.
- The Constant: Guinan and Soran.
- Critical Staffing Shortage: The Enterprise-B is launched with a skeleton crew for a press run, so when the call comes in for them to yank some ships out of a Negative Space Wedgie, they wind up with no medical personnel and so few engineering personnel that Kirk has to make a Heroic Sacrifice to save them from certain doom.
- Crusading Widower: Dr. Soran.
- Damage Control: During the battle, Geordi LaForge is seen ordering his repair teams around, although it ultimately turns out to be futile.
- Dangerously Genre Savvy
Soran: I know why you're here. You're not entirely confident you can shoot down my probe, so you've come to dissuade me from my horrific plan. Good luck.
- Soran is quite savvy about villainy in general and mocks Picard's attempts at talking him down.
- Notably, Picard almost succeeds in talking down Soran from blowing up the star by bringing up Soran's dead wife and child... only for Soran to realize what Picard is doing and countering with "nice try".
- The Dark Side Will Make You Forget: Soran. "Nice try."
- Deadpan Snarker: Scotty and Chekhov good-naturedly rag on Kirk after Harriman insisted that Kirk give the order to take the ship out, amid patronizing applause.Chekhov: Very good, sir.
Scotty: Brought a tear to me eye.
Kirk: (mildly annoyed) Oh, be quiet.
- Demoted to Extra: Deanna Troi and Beverly Crusher. More so in Crusher's case, as she barely did anything in the movie, while Troi's role was proportionately about as large as she got in most TNG episodes.
- Dropped a Bridge on Him: The Trope Namer itself. In fact, it doesn't just literally apply to James T. Kirk; in the way we've defined this trope, the deaths of Robert and Rene Picard are examples too. Ironically, Kirk's death was a reshoot from one that was poorly received by test groups where he just takes a blast to the back and dies.
- Dude, Not Funny!:
- In-universe. At the beginning of the film, the officers are having a promotion party for Worf on the holodeck, where they're on an 18th-century naval ship. They make Worf walk to the end of the plank and jump for his new rank insignia, then Riker orders the computer to "remove the plank." The plank disappears, dropping Worf into the sea, and Riker jokes that he meant to say, "retract". After Crusher attempts to explain the humor to Data, he pushes her overboard.LaForge: Data!
Data: (smirking) That was...
LaForge: ...not funny!
- This serves as the catalyst for Data to have Geordi install his emotion chip, as if he cannot grasp a concept like humor, he will never be human. Though ironically, a good deal of viewers find it very funny, so that Geordi comes off as a humorless priss.
- In-universe. At the beginning of the film, the officers are having a promotion party for Worf on the holodeck, where they're on an 18th-century naval ship. They make Worf walk to the end of the plank and jump for his new rank insignia, then Riker orders the computer to "remove the plank." The plank disappears, dropping Worf into the sea, and Riker jokes that he meant to say, "retract". After Crusher attempts to explain the humor to Data, he pushes her overboard.
- Enhance Button: While looking through Geordi's visor, the Klingon sisters use one to see the Enterprise's shield frequency.
- Eureka Moment: Shatner shows some subtle acting in the film, when he wears an astonished look on his face after leaping over a stream with his horse.note
- Evil Brit: Soran (although technically not British, as he was an alien), played by Malcolm McDowell.
- Exact Time to Failure: While the Enterprise-B is in the energy ribbon, there's "45 seconds to structural collapse." After the Enterprise-D takes damage, it's "five minutes from a warp core breach" (though it's implied that the warp core actually explodes in substantially less time that the five minutes that Geordi initially predicted).
- Exact Words: The holodeck computer parses Riker's "Computer, remove the plank" order as "remove plank from simulation". Picard calls him out on that.
- Executive Meddling: Happens in-universe to the Enterprise-B: the ship is deployed incomplete, missing key systems and crew for its shakedown cruise, and without other ships around to assist, so that Starfleet can show it off to the press. Meddling confirmed in an comic that takes place after the movie.
- Failure Hero: Picard. As SF Debris put it, the story is less the team-up of two legendary captains like we were promised, than Picard putzing around for an hour until the real hero finally shows up.
- Face Death with Dignity: Having been obsessed with death, and with escaping it for so long, when Soran is finally confronted with it he elects to close his eyes and stand his ground rather than do any more futile running or protesting.
- Fake-Out Opening: Not exactly the opening, but the scene following the 23rd-century prologue shows an 18th-century sailing ship with the caption "78 years later". It turns out to be a holodeck simulation.
- The Final Temptation: Both Kirk and Picard are given their fondest desires being fulfilled in the Nexus, only to not work when Picard realizes that millions were sacrificed in the process of his being in the Nexus, and Kirk realizes that it doesn't give him the same thrill of danger that he normally gets in the real world.
- First Time Feeling: When Data's emotion chip is first installed, he experiences emotions more strongly than the humans around him. Eventually the chip overloads and his emotions become so intense that he collapses, switching rapidly from one to the next, wide-eyed the entire time.
- Fist Pump:
- After the Klingon Bird-of-Prey is destroyed, Data (who is under the influence of the emotion chip) does this gesture and gives a Big "YES!".
- There's an extra in the background who also does a fist pump just before Data does it, then (out of universe) tries to hide the fact that he did it in order to not ruin Data's moment.
- Five Second Foreshadowing: When Dr. Soran checks on his sun-killer missile after Picard messes with it, the viewscreen says that the missile's locking clamps are still engaged. Soran gets an Oh Crap! look on his face as he and the audience realize that something bad is going to happen when the missile tries to launch. He has just enough time to close his eyes and Face Death with Dignity before the whole thing explodes, killing him.
- Focus Group Ending: A positive version (kinda): the reason that Kirk has a bridge dropped on him instead of being shot in the back is because it wasn't received well. The eventual death scene still isn't considered the best, but it's definitely a step up.
- Foil: Doctor Soran and Captain Picard: Both characters had lost loved ones to certain circumstances (Soran to the Borg, and Picard to a fire), and both were also devastated by the deaths. The difference is that while Soran is perfectly willing to destroy entire worlds so he'd at least be reunited with his family in some fashion (by the Nexus), Picard isn't.
- Force Field Cage: Inverted. Instead of restraining Picard, Soran has actually sequestered himself inside a giant forcefield dome. Picard beats it by slipping under a rock arch that the forcefield was resting on.
- For the Funnyz: Data spontaneously decides to shove Doctor Crusher into the holodeck ocean when she unintentionally implies to him that it would be funny. None of the Enterprise crew are amused.
- Forgotten Fallen Child: Kirk expresses shock that Sulu has a grown daughter, wondering when he had time what with his career. This is meant to emphasize Kirk's own angst about getting older. But it neglects the fact that Kirk himself had a son who was old enough to have gotten a doctorate, became a research scientist and was killed by Klingons years earlier.
- The Future Is Noir: Very noticeably so, compared to the way the exact same USS Enterprise sets appeared on the TNG television series. The set designer on this movie knew that the sets had been built for the considerably lower resolution of television, and that they'd never stand up to the scrutiny of a cinema screen. The solution? Turn off all the lights, so the audience can't see the joins.
- This is a rather common technique, and is one big reason why a lot of Sci-Fi shows have dark sets. And in this case, they only had to do it for a single movie, since the sequel traded up to the 1701-E with movie quality sets.
- Gangsta Style: Soran's gun tilts its shooty-part on the side, and he likes to twist his hand to the side to compensate?
- Gilligan Cut: A deleted opening scene had Kirk skydiving, echoing his mid-life crisis in Star Trek V. Chekov reminds him that they're scheduled to look over the new Enterprise. Kirk states emphatically, "I'm not going," and of course this would have led to the bottle smashing on the ship and Kirk arriving.
- Gravity Is a Harsh Mistress: Worf has a Gravitational Cognizance moment after Riker says, "Computer, remove the plank."
- Hand Signals: Lursa signals her Klingon crew not to attack Soren when he starts shoving them around.
- Heaven: The Nexus. It's not explicitly Heaven... but it is functionally. It's essentially a Happy Place in physical space that can give you your hearts deepest desire, free of any Aesoptinum fees.
- Heroic BSOD: Done as only Patrick Stewart can deliver.
- Hero of Another Story: Captain Harriman, though this doesn't begin to become apparent until he overcomes his nervousness at having Captain Kirk aboard and steps up as The Captain.
- Humans Are Ugly: "Human females are so repulsive!"
- Idiot Ball: Multiple examples.
- I Like Those Odds: Discussed by Kirk.Kirk: I take it the odds are against us and the situation is grim.
Picard: You could say that.
Kirk: If Spock were here he would call me an illogical, irrational human being for taking on a mission like that... Sounds like fun.
- Infant Immortality: Spot. Can't have the cat die after all.
- Irony: Soren, a Long Lived El Aurien, rambling about aging and the passage of time to Picard, a human that Soren could easily expect to outlive by centuries under normal circumstances.
- Kicked Upstairs: Kirk is perturbed at having to order the Enterprise-B to move. Everyone on the bridge applauds patronizingly. He later warns Picard not to accept any promotions.
- Killed Mid-Sentence: According to Bill Shatner, the "Oh my..." is the sound of Kirk glimpsing the ultimate unknown. But he dies before he can describe what he's seeing.
- Killed Off for Real: Captain James T. Kirk. Let's just say they... Dropped a Bridge on Him.
- And then revived in a Star Trek novel written by... William Shatner!
- Late to the Punchline: Thanks to his new emotion chip, Data finally gets a joke from the Farpoint mission, which was in the Pilot, seven years ago. This particular joke is never heard in the actual pilot, incidentally.
- Laughing Mad/Heroic BSOD: When Data's emotion chip overloads. It's unsettling.Data: (teary-eyed laughing) I cannot help myself. I think something is wrong!
- Legacy Character: The Enterprise.Picard: Plenty of letters left in the alphabet.
- Like Father Like Daughter: Demora Sulu is helmsman on the Enterprise-B.Kirk: It wouldn't be the Enterprise without a Sulu at the helm.
- Living Memory: The echo of Guinan in the Nexus.
- Lotus-Eater Machine: The Nexus.
- Mad Scientist: Soran.
- Made of Explodium: This film has the biggest exploding console plague in Star Trek history; firstly the Enterprise-B navigation officer gets nailed early on in the film, then in the film's big battle scene the entire rear row of consoles on the Enterprise-D's bridge blows up, killing at least half a dozen officers.
- Manipulative Bastard: Doctor Soran, who plays everyone for his own ends.
- Mood Whiplash: Worf's lighthearted promotional ceremony is broken up by Picard being visibly devastated by receiving news that his nephew and brother were killed in a fire..
- Data acting up and telling jokes (much to Geordi's increasing irritation), until things get dangerous.
- Multiple Endings: The videogame adaptation provides two endings: one which follows that which is seen in the film, and another where you track down Soran before he gets to Veridian III and defeat his starship in battle, circumventing both the destruction of the Enterprise D and also the death of Captain Kirk, who under this scenario does not appear in the plot at all and presumably remains entirely at peace within the Nexus. Needless to say, if you complete the game and get the second ending, then you've created an Alternate Continuity.
- The Movie: Of Star Trek: The Next Generation. Except that Executive Meddling demanded a crossover with TOS because they didn't want to risk giving TNG its own entire movie right away.
- Mythology Gag:
- The Next Gen portion of the movie takes place 78 years after the launching of the Enterprise B — there were 78 original aired episodes of Star Trek: The Original Series (counting its sole two part story as one episode).
- Picard throwing a lavish party on a holographic 19th century naval ship. As you'll remember, Roddenberry pitched the original as Horatio Hornblower in space (way back in 1965).
- Negative Space Wedgie: The "ribbon" of "temporal energy" that takes its victims to "the Nexus".
- Never Trust a Trailer: Kirk and Picard do not save the universe, nor anything close.
- Nightmare Face: When Data's emotion chip overloads, they went so far as to stretch his eyeballs.
- Nietzsche Wannabe: Soran explains to Picard: "You know, there was a time when I wouldn't hurt a fly. Then the Borg came, and they showed me that if there is one constant in this whole universe, it's death. Afterwards, I began to realize that it didn't really matter. We're all going to die sometime. It's just a question of how and when." Soran saw the Nexus as the way to escape death forever.
- No Challenge Equals No Satisfaction: While in the Nexus, Kirk jumps a horse across a chasm in a reconstruction of his old homestead. Then he turns around and does it again. When Picard catches up with him, he admits that every time he did that before, he was terrified of falling in. But here in the Nexus, there's no risk, no fear...
- Noodle Incident: Data finally understands the joke he heard during the "Farpoint mission" seven years ago, but it was told off-screen, and the joke is never explained to the viewer.
- No OSHA Compliance: Played with. In the deflector room of the Enterprise-B when Kirk is climbing down the ladder we can see what appears to be some kind of deep shaft. It hasn't got any guard rails around it to stop people from falling in... but what it does have is a hilariously small "Caution" sticker on the wall right next to it.
- Oh Crap!
- Actually, more precisely, it's "Ohhh, shit!"
- Klingon equivalent: "WE ARE CLOAKING! OUR SHIELDS ARE DOWN!"
- Soran, when he realizes what Picard's done with the missile controls.
- Geordi: "Coolant leak!"
- Open Mouth, Insert Foot: Harriman gushes over the TOS crew, remarking how he read about them in grade school. Kirk is unamused.
- Orphaned Punchline: We don't hear the rest of the joke that Data finally "got". A Ferengi in a gorilla suit would be quite a sight, though.
- Outrun the Fireball: An unusual instance, in that it's the Enterprise-D's saucer that's trying to outrun the stardrive section before it explodes. Also subverted in that the saucer doesn't outrun the fireball — the explosion's shockwave destroys the saucer's impulse engines and knocks it sharply out of orbit, causing it to crash onto the planet below.
- Personality Chip: The B plot of the movie is Data having an emotion chip implanted in his computer brain.
- Plot Hole: After Geordi is abducted and subsequently rescued, Dr. Crusher mentions removing a nanoprobe from him, which is literally the first and last time this has ever been mentioned. It's an inexplicably-retained artifact of Soren torturing Geordi for information, the nanoprobe being used to stop his heart (hence the "his heart just wasn't in it" line from Soren).
- Precision F-Strike: "Oh, shit!" If any character other than Data (previously the Emotionless Guy) had delivered this line, it wouldn't have been as profound.
- Real Award, Fictional Character: Apparently one of Picard's ancestors won a Nobel Prize for Chemistry.
- Rebuilt Set: The Enterprise-D bridge now has noticeably more workstations than it (usually) did on television. And by the end of the movie, most of them have blown up.
- Refusing Paradise: Picard and Kirk decide to leave the Nexus together in order to stop Soran. Although Kirk is reluctant at first, he soon realizes the ability to make a difference is more important to him than anything the Nexus could offer. He also finds the Nexus lacks one critical element: for all its realism, there's no risk.
- Remember the New Guy: Kirk's ultimate fantasy world in the Nexus involves the one true love of his life... who we've naturally never heard of before despite Yeoman Rand, Carol Marcus, or even Edith Keeler now being quite viable options for that role. In fairness, the original series made it plain that Kirk had plenty of old girlfriends, and he made quite a few new ones along the way (this is Kirk, after all). The real surprise is that David Marcus was his ONLY child.
- Reset Button: The Nexus can act as one, which allows the film to show the failure of Picard to save the day.
- Reverse Polarity: When Data needs to open a magnetically sealed door, he reverses its polarity by attenuating his axial servo.
- Ribbon-Cutting Ceremony: The bottle-breaking version is used with the Enterprise-B, except the bottle is thrown at the ship instead of just smashed against it. This leads to the hilarious mental image of a dude in a spacesuit trying to pitch the bottle at the ship without missing.
- The Roast: It wouldn't be TNG without a scene where Worf gets emasculated again. His 'promotion' ceremony is carried out in the style of a condemned sailor being forced to walk the plank, with Riker reading off a scroll of charges.
- Rocketless Reentry: The film opens with Kirk, Scotty, and Chekov space diving just because they're bored.
- Running Gag: Quite a bit of the Enterprise-B's equipment and essential crew will not be available until next Tuesday, much to Captain Harriman's compounding frustration and embarrassment when a crisis breaks out.
- Rushed Into Service: Near the beginning the Enterprise-B is forced to undertake a rescue mission despite being on a shakedown cruise and not having most of her main systems installed, which was supposed to happen on Tuesday.
- Schrödinger's Butterfly: Captain Picard and Dr. Soran, the villain, enter the Nexus, a dimension of eternal pleasure that shapes itself to your desires. Picard is told by a mental projection of Guinan that he can use it to travel anywhere in time, and so he goes back right before Soran blew up the sun that destroyed the planet they were on and the Enterprise. It's entirely plausible that Picard never did leave the Nexus, and that he still exists there to continue his voyages in his own perfect reality. And if he did really travel through time and stopped Soran, whether the Soran that entered the Nexus in the alternate timeline is actually still there. In fact, see the Star Trek Wild Mass Guessing page for more interpretation of this.
- Sci-Fi Writers Have No Sense of Scale
- Worf states that Soran's rocket will take eleven seconds to hit the sun. Considering that he shoots it from an M Class planet, which are more-or-less the same as Earth, it would have to be traveling faster than light to make that kind of time. However, it's been established well before this film that there are probes the size of Soran's missile with warp drives, which he could have acquired. On the subject of distance, the probe might have traveled faster than light, but it still would have taken eight or however many light minutes away the planet was before you could actually see the change in light.
- The Nexus moves through space at the speed of plot. It clearly moves slower than light, given the Enterprise-B's ability to keep pace with it while using their transporters. Yet it somehow gets from one solar system to another in a matter of hours (it would have to pass near the Amargosa system to be affected by the missing star, then reaches the Veridian system shortly after the Enterprise-D does), instead of taking longer than the lifespans of everyone save Soran and Guinan.
- The Enterprise-B is (once again) the only ship in range to rescue the ships trapped in the Nexus, despite being inside the Sol system, one of the most densely populated and traveled systems of the Federation and the headquarters of Starfleet. This is particularly ridiculous because this is her shakedown cruise, which means Earth is at the moment defended by a ship which isn't even carrying torpedoes.
- Series Continuity Error: Scotty witnesses Kirk's death, despite an earlier TNG episode showing him as a Human Popsicle who immediately assumes Kirk is the one who woke him up. Moore and Braga said that they were well aware of the continuity issue, but just couldn't resist seeing Scotty in action one last time. Becomes Fridge Brilliance if you figure that Scotty made that assumption in "Relics" because he doesn't believe Kirk died that day.
- Shout-Out
- The "present day" is 78 years after the start of the film with Kirk, Scotty and Chekhov — the same number as TOS episodes (counting the two-part "The Menagerie" as one episode).
- Data at one point mentions "reversing the polarity" amongst a sea of Techno Babble.
- Shut Up, Kirk!: When Picard tries to convince Soran not to destroy Veridian 3, Soran replies "Nice try."
- Spinoff Sendoff: The movie can be thought of as one for the TNG movies.
- Star Killing: Soran's trilithium-armed probes.
- Stealth Pun: The commanders of a Klingon vessel give the order of "Fire at will." There is an immediate cut to the bridge of their target, the Enterprise, currently commanded by Commander Riker. Will Riker.
- Stock Footage
- Some shots of the Klingon Bird-Of-Prey are recycled from Star Trek VI, including the one where it explodes.
- The Enterprise-B at warp is actually the Excelsior coming to save the ''Enterprise''-A.
- At least three shots of the Enterprise-D are taken from the TV series.
- Stopped Numbering Sequels: This is the first movie in the series since Star Trek The Motion Picture that doesn't feature a number in the title. Justified because this is the first Next Generation movie (even though there was some crossover with TOS) and none of the rest that followed had numbers either. New DVDs, however, now list the Next Generation films by number, ie. Star Trek VII: Generations.
- Sudden Sequel Death Syndrome: Kirk.
- Trailers Always Spoil: The 2nd theatrical trailer shows the destruction of the Enterprise-D.
- Trash the Set: The Enterprise being destroyed. A lot of the sequences showing the ship breaking up as it crash lands were given added realism by production crew actually taking a sledgehammer to the sets which had served the television show so well for seven years. In the final scene the bridge set is only barely recognizable.
- Before you get too angry about this, bear in mind that the sets would have been trashed regardless, in order to make way for the sets of Star Trek: Voyager. At least this way we got to see the sets destroyed in action, rather than them just being dumped in some Los Angeles scrapyard.
- Aside from the need for space for the sets of Voyager, the TNG television sets were not built for the higher definition found on film. This was why the film was shot with darkened lighting over its television episodes because the set's flaws would be too apparent in the movie.
- Unwanted Rescue: Soran's rescue from the Nexus. The others are like this, too, but Soran is the most vocal."No, I have to go... I have to get back. You don't understand! Let me go!"
- Villainous Breakdown:Soran: PICAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARD! Step away from that launcher!
- Visual Pun: Perhaps as a Take That to all the fans on the wrong side of the "who's the better captain" debate, Kirk literally rides a circle around Picard, who has been established as no slouch of a rider himself.
- Wham Line: "Robert... and Rene... were... burned to death in the fire."
- Wham Shot: Seeing the massive gouge through mountains and a forest that the Enterprise caused during its crash in wide shot.
- While You Were in Diapers: Kirk to Picard, although not quite about him.Kirk: I was out saving the galaxy when your grandfather was in diapers.
- This line is extra funny if you know Picard was born only a couple years after Kirk's "death" on the Ent-B.
- Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds: Soran. His all-consuming desire is to return to the Nexus, where the family he lost will exist (and so will he) for all eternity. To get there, he'll kill entire solar systems, inhabited or not, to shift the Nexus' course in such a way that entering it is nothing less than a sure thing.
- Worth It: "It was... fun."
- Ye Goode Olde Days: Picard, in his stuffy Naval uniform, gets wistfully sentimental about life on the bounding main. Riker begs to differ: "Bad food, brutal discipline, no women." (And you know which one is the deal-breaker for Number One.)
- Year Outside, Hour Inside: The Nexus is Exactly What It Says on the Tin - a nexus for all points in time, thus time is meaningless. So, no matter how much "time" is spent within the Nexus, no time actually passes, so anyone exiting the Nexus hasn't acted a femtosecond.


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One of 4 Williams families, head of household from KY, in Fannin Co. T E Williams only one in JP 1, 1880. Nancy A Conn married Thomas Williams in McLennan Co TX in 1871. Some of her siblings wound up in OK.
T. E. Williams 1849 KY "crippled by spinal fever " said parents KY
wife Nancy C. Williams 1849 MS said parents born MS
son John Henry Williams 1874 AR - was he in JP 3, Fannin Co 1900 ? said he was born Dec 1872 said father b. KY and mother AR living with a Richardson family ? ended up in Hill Co TX
son W. E. Williams 1876 AR
son D. S. Williams 1878 TX - Dock Say Williams ended up in Kerr Co TX
son R. T. Williams April 1880 TX
Arkansas marriages 1837 - 1957, Alabama, marriages 1816-1957, Texas marriages 1837-1973
1850 Tippah Co MS
Isaac Conn M 32 Georgia married 25 Nov 1838 Calhoun Co AL
Dotia/Dosha/Docia "COALMAN" Conn F 32 Georgia
William Conn M 11 Alabama
James Conn M 9 Alabama
Lucy Ann Conn F 7 Alabama
Sarah C Conn F 5 Mississippi
Nancy Conn F 1 Mississippi
William Conn M 68 Georgia
Mary Conn F 46 Georgia
William Conn M 23 Georgia
Catharine Conn F 21 Georgia
Mary Ann Conn F 18 Georgia
John S Conn M 15 Alabama
1860 Franklin, Sevier Co AR
# 190
F A Conn 43 GA male 1817
Frances Conn 25 SC
M I Conn 03 AR female
Ivey ? C Conn 02 AR
# 191
Isaac Conn 42 GA
Docia Conn 42 GA
W H Conn 21 AL male
James Conn 18 AL male J M Conn married N E Pierce 20 June 1869 McLennan Co TX
Lucy Ann Conn AL March 1844 - L E A Conn married Wm M Calk 08 Dec 1868 McLennan Co TX lived township 12 N, range 20 E, Grittstown, Cherokee Nation, IT 1900 had 5 children 3 surviving as of June 1900. Wm M Calk/Caulk born Oct 1846 AL and son William Calk b. IT Dec 1885. Lucy E Calk & Wm M Calk living with son in law and dtr 1910 Pottawatomie Co OK.
Sarah/Sally C Conn 14 MS
Nancy A Conn 12 MS
Pinkney Conn 10 MS
Frances Paralee Conn 4 AR
Jno D Conn 2 AR
1870 West of Brazos River, McLennan TX
# 747
William Conn 30y AL married Martha A Lippard 23 Nov 1865 Sevier Co AR
Martha Conn 23y MS 1847
Isaac D Conn 01y TX widower in Avoca, Pottawatomie Co OK 1930 census
# 748
Isaac Conn 52y Georgia
Doria Conn 52y Georgia
Nancy A Conn 21y Mississippi
Pinkney Alonzo Conn 18y Mississippi - groom P O Conn married T F Snelling 05 Oct 1874 McLennan Co TX remarried around 1887 to Mollie M b. TX Oct 1866 lived in Avoca, Pottawatomie Co OK 1900 with their children b. IT and single aunt Mary N Conn b. GA June 1835
Paralie Conn 16y Arkansas
John D Conn 12y Arkansas 1868 lived Pottawatomie Co OK 1910 wife Sarah b . TX children b. OK
groom's name: Tom Williams - not found in Texas 1870 census by me
groom's birth date:
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bride's name: Nancy A. Conn
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marriage date: 24 Dec 1871
marriage place: Mclennan, Texas
indexing project (batch) number: M59007-4
system origin: Texas-EASy
source film number: 987554
reference number:
citing this Record
"Texas, Marriages, 1837-1973," index, FamilySearch
Isaac Sterling Conn
Sarah Docia Coleman
1900 event place: ED 41 Township 12 N. Range 20 E. Gritts town, Cherokee Nation, Indian Territory, United States
head Thomas Lowden M 34 Texas Aug 1866 married 11 yrs
wife Ettie J Lowden F 28 Texas Jan 1872
daughter Minneola Lowden F 10 Indian Territory Apr 1890
daughter Pearl P Lowden F 9 Indian Territory Oct 1891
daughter Jessie Velma Lowden F 5 Indian Territory Jul 1895
son William Jefferson Lowden M 4 Indian Territory 06 Apr 1896
son Carlton N Lowden M 2 Indian Territory 20 Jul 1898 - 06 Jul 1956 Yuba Co CA. . .lived Pottawatomie Co 1935-1940
1910 Pottawatomie Co OK
self Thomas J Lawden M 43y Texas 1867
wife Ettie Trudie Lawden F 36y Texas 1874
dau Pearl F Lawden F 17y Oklahoma
dau Velma J Lawden F 15y Oklahoma
son William J Lawden M 14y Oklahoma
son Carl Lawden M 11y Oklahoma
son Earl R Lawden M 7y Oklahoma
son Joseph A Lawden M 5y Oklahoma
son Burnard Hascal Lawden M 2y Oklahoma
William M Calk M 64y Alabama living with grandson Wm J Lowdon and his wife and children in Pottawatomie Co 1920 census.
Lucy E Calk F 65y Alabama died before 1920
14 Sept 1870 West of Brazos River, McLennan TX
William Calk M 23y Alabama
Lucia Calk F 25y Alabama
. . . living next to Isaac Conn
1910 Chickasaw Ward 3, Grady, OK
John H Williams 36 AR "gas fitter"
Lillie A Williams 24 TX married 4 yrs bore 3 children 1 living
Curtis Williams 1 OK
Doc S Williams 33 TX widowed brother "brickman"
Thrum Williams 4 TX nephew
name: J H Williams
titles & terms: Mr
event: Marriage
event date: 22 Jul 1906
event place: Carter, Oklahoma, United States
age: 32
birth date:
estimated birth year: 1874
marriage license or bond date:
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spouse: Lillie A Mcmanus
spouse's titles & terms:
spouse's age: 21
spouse's estimated birth year: 1885
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spouse's mother's titles & terms:
reference number:
film number: 1313673
digital folder number: 004533023
image number: 00272
Citing this Record
"Oklahoma, County Marriages, 1891-1959," index and images, FamilySearch (
Dock Williams age 26 and Rachel Burton age 19 married 21 Nov 1901 Carter Co OK. Dock Williams age 25 and Miss Mattie Alexander age 18 married 10 Aug 1903 Cleveland Co OK.
Name: Doc Williams
Age: 22
Birth Date: Dec 1877
Birthplace: Texas
Home in 1900: Justice Precinct 3, Fannin, Texas
Race: White
Relation to Head of House: Boarder
Marital Status: Single
Father's Birthplace: Missouri
Mother's Birthplace: Arkansas
Ola or Eula or Ila ? Williams Feb 1882 TX
both residing with a William B Chaney b. KY 1861 and wife Sallie "Melugin" b. TX 1869 married 1885 Fannin Co
William Burton Chaney was son of Daniel Chaney & Martha S Williamson according to his death record in Bandera Co in 1924. Found in Taylor Co KY in 1870 census.
1920 - 1940 Hillsboro, Hill Co TX
self John H Williams M 45y Arkansas lived at 556 Lee Street in 1940
wife Lilly/Lillie A Williams F 33y Texas
son Curtis Williams M 10y Oklahoma 20 Mar 1909 enlisted at Ft Sam Houston 14 Jan 1943 died in Hillsboro, Hill Co 04 Sept 1967, heart attack, son of John Henry Williams and Lillie Ann McManus, divorced, resident of county 40 yrs, lived at 102 Lee Street where he died, auto salesman, Barbara Williams informant, buried Ridge Park Cemetery.
Barbara Ann Williams born Hill Co 01 Sept 1948 father Curtis Williams mother Dorothy Maddox. Barbara Ann did not marry in Hill County.
name: John Henry Williams electrician
event: Death
event date: 28 Aug 1946
event place: 1, Hill, Texas, United States
gender: Male
marital status: Married
birth date: 24 Dec 1874
birthplace: Hope, Arkansas Hempstead County
father's name: no record
mother's name: no record
informant: Mrs. John H Williams, Rt 3 Hillsboro
burial: Ridge Park Cemetery
certificate number: 37228
film number: 2218422
digital folder number: 005145004
image number: 01179
Citing this Record
"Texas, Deaths (New Index, New Images), 1890-1976," index and images, FamilySearch (
Name: John Henry Williams
County: Grady
State: Oklahoma
Birth Date: 24 Dec 1875
Race: White tall slender brown eyes & hair
Draft Board: 1 WW I Sept 1918, 527 Washington Ave, Chickasha, OK pipe fitter for Dyzant ? Eng Co, Jacksonville, Davidson Co TN, Lillie nearest relative.
Name: Dock S Williams
Gender: Male
Birth Year: abt 1879
Birthplace: Texas
Race: White
Home in 1930: Kerrville, Kerr, Texas
Marital Status: Married
Relation to Head of House: Head
Spouse's Name: Jennie Brown Williams 04 Dec 1885 (of Kerr Co 1900) - 05 Jan 1967 Kerrville dtr of George Robert Hollomon & Delilah Ann Gibbens. Jennie's 1st marriage to E D Franklin 07 Oct 1906 Kerr Co then D S Williams 06 Sept 1911 Kerr Co.
Dock's Father's Birthplace: Kentucky
Dock's Mother's Birthplace: Arkansas
Occupation: finisher/carpenter work
Military Service: NO
Rent/home value:
Age at first marriage: 25
Jennie B Williams 44 first married at age 16
Melba L Williams 15 TX 1915 married Harry William Crate
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James Theron Williams 24 TX married at 21 died 19 Jan 1992 Kerr Co born 15 Dec 1905
Clara May WALKER Williams 26 Medina TX 14 Feb 1904 - 03 Nov 1937 San Antonio buried Kerrville father J T Walker mother Mertie Yoast
James Earl Williams 06 Apr 1928 Kerrville mother listed as Annie Murphy & Clara May Walker
Theron Marvin Williams 09 Oct 1930 mother Annie Murphy
Carol Eugene Williams 14 Nov 1935 Kerrville mother listed as Annie Murphy and Clara May Walker
1920 Kerr Co
self Jock Williams M 41y Texas father KY mother AR
wife Jennie Williams F 32y Texas
son James Williams M 14y Texas
dau Melba Lee Williams F 5y Texas
Name: Dock Say Williams
County: Fannin
State: Texas
Birth Date: 10 Dec 1877
Race: White med height/build
WW I 12 Sept 1918 farming in Ector, Fannin Co Mrs. Jennie Williams wife
name: Dock Say Williams
event: Draft Registration
event date: 1942
event place: Kerrville, Kerr, Texas
gender: Male
birth date: 10 Dec 1877 Fannin Co TX
nara publication title: World War II Draft Cards (4th Registration) for the State of Texas
nara publication number:
arc identifier: 576252
film number: 4119749
digital folder number: 004119749
image number: 00089
Citing this Record
"United States, World War II Draft Registration Cards, 1942," index and images, FamilySearch (
name: Dock Say Williams
event: Death
event date: 13 Feb 1965
event place: Kerrville, Kerr, Texas, United States
gender: Male
marital status: Married
birth date: 10 Dec 1877
birthplace: Randolph, Texas Fannin Co
father's name: no data
mother's name: no data
informant: Jennie Williams
cemetery: Nichols Kerr Co
certificate number: 10439
film number: 2117700
digital folder number: 005164780
image number: 01548
Harry William Crate - Melba Lee Williams
Searle Madoc Crate 19 May 43 & Jenny Lou Crate 11 Sept 45 Kerr Co
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- Luke Cummo drinks his own urine, fights in the dark matches, and *still* makes 10 thousand dollars more than Kenny Florian, who headlined the show.
- Din Thomas was the highest paid loser on the show, making 16 grand. No word yet on how much it'll cost to put his knee back together.
- Nate Diaz made 30k in his win over Junior Assuncao, proving yet again that TUF's 'six figure contract' sounds better than it really is.
- Kuniyoshi Hironaka has a 10k to fight / 10k to win contract, proving that while no one cares about these random japanese fighters, they're still getting paid more than random noth american fighters like Leonard Garcia and Jonathan Goulet who only make 6k / 6k.
Normally I hate TUF Fighter diaries … most of them have the same level of insight as a random 12 year old who just watched the episode on Spike. However, I'm all about Mac Danzig's awesome breakdown because it goes past just a regurgitation of what happened in the episode. For example, he reveals that he was the one who tooled Roman's elbow (thinning out the competition, huh Mac?). As well, he had this funny insight into Matt Serra's annoying corner style:
Puzzling to me, was how Serra would yell "good Joey!" during times where Joey was definitly in trouble. It was like he was trying to change the fight through some sort of audible osmosis. Maybe next time I get in a car accident, I'll just yell "Good!- This is good- great!" and the cars will magically fix themselves- I don't know what he was thinking.
But wait, it gets better. The above horrible picture was taken by the very not horrible Esther Lin, who seems to be EliteXC's general photographer / graphic design chick. And if you want to see more of her work, you can check out her massive Flikr page containing over 1500 pics. It's definately worth spending a few hours on.
UFC 76 took place at the Honda Center in Anaheim, Calif. on Saturday, Sept. 22, and featured Keith Jardine's upset split-decision victory over Chuck Liddell. Jardine earned $14,000 for the victory, and Liddell earned $500,000 in defeat.
In case you were wondering, Liddell earned over 35 times the amount of money Keith Jardine made. Of course, Chuck Liddell is like the Michael Jordan (or Wilt Chamberlain) of the UFC so it makes sense that he gets payed that much. Plus under the table bonuses. Plus UFC-brokered sponsorship money. Plus Dana's first born child.
On the other hand, Keith Jardine making 14k for his win is simply hilarious. Jardine was an Ultimate Fighter 2 contestant, and he got the same shitty contract the rest of the TUF losers got: 7000 to fight and 7000 to win. That was two years and 7 fights ago. Looking at his record you can balance his salary out at $42,000 a year. For you kiddies still in school, here's a nice point of reference: Plumbers make $54,000 a year on the low end of the scale.
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As Indonesia's forest fires ravage Singapore, bringing the Pollutant Standards Index to a recording-breaking 401 at one point, residents have been scrambling to obtain the elusive N95-certified face mask. Promising to keep out dust particles from the lungs, the hot item was sold out at most pharmacies in Singapore.
With such an unexpected and massive surge in demand, many have turned to e-commerce sites to order the masks. They would be disappointed.
These are indeed exceptional circumstances, not dissimilar to the 0.01 percent of downtime faced by web servers. Here's why:
1) Anti-pollutant face masks, traditionally niche items, have suddenly become mass market
A month ago, no one — save for the most paranoid ones — would have given a thought about buying these items off-the-shelf. Once the preserve of car workshops and technicians, these masks are now in demand by families and companies every where, resulting in a supply crunch that even the government couldn't handle, despite promising that there's enough local supply.
2) I want these masks, and I want them NOW
Rarely has so much been demanded by so many from so few. Not only are these face masks wanted by a large swath of residents, they want the items as soon as possible, since inhaling the air without a filter for extended periods of time could cause health problems.
3) The face masks are at best seasonal items
Companies don't have a real economic incentive to stockpile face masks for extended periods of time. While the haze has been occurring almost every year, it's so serious as to require people to wear masks outdoors. Call it a Black Swan event.
Unless there's an indication that we can expect such serious conditions to occur regularly, retailers won't be prepared to meet another future surge in demand without intervention from the government.
Given these reasons, residents have been limited in their options when sourcing for face masks online. But while e-commerce offers the promise of a global inventory in the hands of shoppers, several constraints are still present:
1) Credibility
When it comes to health, credibility plays an outsized role. While many residents are content with using surgical masks to protect themselves (which doesn't work), a sizable group would vouch for a well-known brand and the assurance that these items are not counterfeit or significantly overpriced.
As such, the branding of the online retailer matters a lot more, which means shoppers may prefer to source direct from 3M on Amazon, or visiting the Guardian pharmacy stores, than go to Qoo10 to buy from some small-time merchant. Large, established players have the advantage on this one.
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While e-commerce promises to bring convenience to the end user, implementation is far more difficult. Sites like AllDealsAsia and Qoo10 are currently selling the masks, but they require shoppers to pick them up at self-collection points.
Timing is also an issue. Both of these sites will only have their stocks ready in a week, which means shoppers will have to find other ways to obtain these masks. Even Amazon, which can tap into a large supply of these items (which has apparently also sold out), can only bring the items to the user's doorstep in a few day's time, and at great cost. Same-day delivery, while a great promise, is still far-fetched here in Singapore.
Unless there are significant improvements in logistics, it would seem that e-commerce sites could at best help to supplement pockets of demand during emergencies. We truly need to rely on the government.
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|Autumn Sweetheart
|Additional cultivar information:
|(PP16249; Encore™ series, aka Robleja)
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36-48 in. (90-120 cm)
36-48 in. (90-120 cm)
USDA Zone 7a: to -17.7 °C (0 °F)
USDA Zone 7b: to -14.9 °C (5 °F)
USDA Zone 8a: to -12.2 °C (10 °F)
USDA Zone 8b: to -9.4 °C (15 °F)
USDA Zone 9a: to -6.6 °C (20 °F)
USDA Zone 9b: to -3.8 °C (25 °F)
USDA Zone 10a: to -1.1 °C (30 °F)
USDA Zone 10b: to 1.7 °C (35 °F)
USDA Zone 11: above 4.5 °C (40 °F)
Light Shade
All parts of plant are poisonous if ingested
Pale Pink
Late Winter/Early Spring
Mid Spring
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Mid Summer
Late Summer/Early Fall
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Late Fall/Early Winter
Blooms repeatedly
Good Fall Color
This plant is attractive to bees, butterflies and/or birds
Average Water Needs; Water regularly; do not overwater
This plant has been said to grow in the following regions:
Greenville, North Carolina
Leesburg, Virginia
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Thanks very much for your replies and your suggestions, they are much appreciated. I am sorry it's taken so long to write back; we've recently had a baby and so I don't rule my time as I used to be able to...
Duncan, thanks for mentioning split reels. That seems a very convenient way to keep the film organised while spooling. I've found this one on the US Ebay but I haven't found any sellers of such reels here in Europe.
I guess I should try to find a few film cans as well to hold, say, 1/4 each of the 400' roll. Then I could more easily load film into a 100' bulk loader, which I've seen are quite readily available.
As for changing bags - I've seen a Calumet pop-up changing "tent" which offers vertical room. And over at the Project Double-X website there's a reference to cotton changing bags sold on Ebay by Roger Luo. Does anyone have experience with either of these items?
Lastly, what about film cassettes? I've seen that people use old empty film canisters. Is that preferable to other cassettes? I actually have two IXMOO for my Leica II but for my M6TTL I'll need to use something else.
Cheers and thanks for your help


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Tinker Del Village Apartments3017 Del View Dr., Del City, OK 73115
- $490 - $725
- 1 - 3 Beds
Note : Prices & Availability Subject To Change
Note : Prices & Availability Subject To Change
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Community Features
- New Day Care
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- Cable Ready
- Courtesy Patrol
- Brand New Insulated Windows*
- New Carpet *
- Swimming Pool w/deck
Floor Plan Amenities
- Carport
- Ceiling Fans
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- Dishwasher
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- Refrigerator
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