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(Based on the Writings and Poetry of James Whitcomb Riley)
Primary Illustrations by STEVEN CARROLL
Copyright, 1998, Thomas Earl Quitman Williams
Annie was left off at the Riley house by her uncle,
a thin, round-shouldered man with deep eyes and cheeks and a
weedy looking beard. He pulled up at the Riley home seated
on a board laid over a
country wagon pulled by
a horse with steaming
flanks. The uncle
whistled a cheery
tune. Soon he wouldn't
have to be responsible
for his wild-eyed niece
dressed in black. Annie
wore black because she
was an orphan and had to go to
work for her own board and
keep. Annie stuck close beside the
uncle on the wagon seat when Bud first saw her. She was chewing a straw
and nodding her head in talk to herself. She was really talking to her
mother. Annie liked to keep in contact with her mother "in the Good
World" to tell her how things were going. Annie's mother died
when Annie was a baby and her father died when Annie was ten.
It was a raw, bleak day in early winter when Annie came.
The ice got chopped up and turned into mud on the road. The
uncle carried the blue-lipped and red-nosed teenaged girl
over the muddy wagon-wheel tracks to the porch of the Riley
home in his arms like she was country produce. That's how
Annie came to live with the Rileys.
Greenfield, Indiana, was the town where all this
happened. It lay astride a boggy migration route called "The
National Road." This was a road traveled by homesteaders
going out to the newly opened lands of the American West or
California. Fast to the east of Greenfield was a marshy creek
area and to the west was an infamous Black Swamp where
robbers were said to await the stagecoaches that passed
through town.
The Hoosier frontier itself was a land of neighborly
love and hard work. Lately, the effort paid off and the
countryside around Greenfield was filled with crop lands
where the "cradlings" or harvestings were rich.
The town itself was a bustling road stop with sugar trees
and sweet-smelling locusts. There were also many giant trees
left standing when the settlement was cut from the ancient
forests of the American mid-continent.
It didn't matter that Annie came to the Riley's semi-
wild. No one much stood on manners on the frontier. Customs
weren't settled. The pioneer Hoosier people were a blend of
many stocks and homeplaces. There was a neighbor from the
Carolinas next to another from Pennsylvania. What was
important was that people were friendly, robust and active.
When Annie came into the house, Bud as1ed her name.
Folding the slender arms tightly across her chest and tilting
her face back and forth proudly, she exclaimed, "Why, Annie
is my name - that's who Annie is! And another thing, Annie is
promised to David - Mason- Jeffries. He is my Dave all
right." She spoke with
a thin, mysterious voice
and accented every word
with a sweet and eery
solemn earnestness.
Bud and the children
shrank back. "Who's
Dave?" Bud
The elfish girl
straightened haughtily.
"Who's Dave?" she asked
incredulously. "Why, Dave's a
great big boy! Dave works on
Barnes's place. He can pretty nearly make a full hand, too. Dave's
as tall as your pap! He's grown up - Dave is! And his name is - David -
Mason-Jeffries," she continued, jauntily teetering her head from
left to right, and modulating her sounds whenever she said the magic
name, David - Mason- Jeffries.
Later at night near bedtime Bud took Annie up the winding stairway
in the front hall to her sleeping place at the head of the back stairs.
The curving hand-built front
stairs made Annie laugh and laugh.
When it was bedtime, Annie
wouldn't go to sleep back in her
alcove for anything! She
kept returning to the front
hall and going up and down those
front stairsteps a hundred
times - must have - talking
and whispering to herself.
Once in a while she stopped and
nestled down on a step and placed
her face close against one of the steps and then went to another and
patted each softly with her slender hand.
Bud couldn't go to sleep with hearing this strange girl's doings so
he got out of bed to go see. "Hey!" he said. "What are you doing."
Annie replied, "Did you know there's a fairy lives under each one
of the steps?"
"What?" Bud wanted to know. "No such thing," Bud said.
"Yes there is!" Annie said. "How do you think I know about them if there weren't any such thing?" "What do they do?" Bud wanted to know. "Well, you like to dream when you go to sleep don't you?" "Yes," "Well, fairies are the ones that bring you dreams... good ones that is. That's their main job." Then Annie put her ear close to the step. "This one's named Clarabell. She says to me she's glad she ain't an orphan like I am so she don't have to wash the cups and saucers up and brush the crumbs away." Bud objected. "She didn't say that!" "Oh yes she did," Annie said softly going to the next step. "Is there a fairy under that step too?" Bud wanted to know. "Yes," Annie said, "Her name is Annabell. She says to leave her alone for she's thinking of the green leaves of the summer and wants to nod off." "What about the next one?" Bud asked. "Her name is Florabell and she wants me to tell you a secret." "What is it?" "She says you got another name you never heard of. She says your real name is Nibsey." "No, I'm Bud!!!" "Not to the fairies you're not," Annie insisted. "They say that Bud's an awful funny name. But your real name is Nibsey! They're spunky to tell you that. Why you thought your name was Bud I bet." Then Annie laughed that squeaky laugh of hers sounding rather like a rusty gate hinge. "Now they're saying we got to go to bed or they'll kick us hard as they can. Oh, wait a minute," she added. "Glorybell and Betsybell are saying we better never try to catch them in our hands because the last ones that did squeezed `em too hard and got their wings all crumpled and most turned them into sqeezics's for sure. Squeezics's are fairies that can't fly anymore you know." "Can't we talk to `em some more?" Bud wanted to know. "No, they got to get up real early to peel off snowflakes for the cloud people so it can snow tomorry," Annie said. "You ever look at the snowflakes?" she added. "They're real hard to whittle and it takes the fairies ever so long to get them lookin' right." And she led Bud off to his bed before going to her back upstairs landing where the straw mat was laid out on the floor for her to sleep on.
Bud had another friend as a young man. His name was Wes Gray but everyone called him the raggedy man. He didn't care because he knew no one called him that to be mean. The name described him you know. The raggedy man's clothes were raggedy because no one took care of him anymore since he was grown up. He was an old boy now - about eighteen - and he lived wherever he wanted to. He was so old now that he had a man's beard on him come recently that framed his nice gentle face that never knew a frown. He was thin but had muscles from tossing hay bales around. He had merry brown eyes and never wore a hat but instead had long brown hair down to the nape of his neck to keep his head warm. The raggedy man was really hardly come off being a boy, but he was a man too because he had to take on chores men do. He didn't live with the Rileys. He just came to work there. He milked the cows and cleaned out stalls. Another one of his daily jobs was to split the kindling and chop the wood. He also watered the horses and fed them hay and lots of other chores that boys can't do. Every now and then he did stay overnight. One time was not long after Annie came when Bud's father had to go away to Indianapolis. The raggedy man stayed to make sure the Riley's were safe from tramps and vagabonds. Bud's father, Reuben Riley, was a lawyer and an important man of the town. This time he was away he was acting as an Elector for Abraham Lincoln and had to go to Indianapolis in December, 1860. He voted Hoosier votes of his part of Indiana for Abraham Lincoln for President. Times looked ominous because of that presidential election all over the United States and what had to be done to make sure America got rid of slavery. This was the first time Bud learned about the squidgicum-squeezes that swallow themselves at night. The raggedy man told him all about them while Annie was in the room too and the children were all fidgety about going to sleep without their father there. The raggedy man said if they went to bed the squidgicum squeezes wouldn't get them. The problem with the squidgicum and little boys is when the little boys are too close around when the squidgicum "swallers" at night - who knows where -sometimes it "swallers little boys up with itself." Then he laughed and patted Bud's head with his firm calloused hand. His laugh was deep and manly. He and Annie had a lot in common those two did. They both made up things. The raggedy man sure seemed restless around Annie too. The raggedy man seemed to like to be in Annie's company an awful lot. He said he felt thunder and lightning close by when he was with Annie.
Bud went out to help the raggedy man do his choppin' and sorting the next morning. After awhile out came Annie with a pair of Bud's father's old pants. Next thing you know Annie had the raggedy man measure Bud. Next thing the raggedy man chopped off the legs of those pants with his ax until the "legs" were the size of Bud. Bud didn't know the raggedy man was a tailor too! Then Annie took up sewing. A few stitches later, and Bud had church pants better'n half the boys in the settlement.
When Annie fed the chickens, she was a queen, she said, throwing gold to the peasants. Bud followed her out in the yard to watch the queen at work one day. "I'm mighty glad to come live here in this house," Annie said. Bud asked her why. "Oh, cause, Uncle John nor Aunt Cora don't live here mainly. Also when they ever come here to get their dinners, like they will if you don't watch out, why, then I can slip out - that's why!" Bud asked her where her home was and what it was like, and why she didn't like her Uncle John and Aunt Cora. Wouldn't she even like to visit them? "Oh, yes," she answered to the last question. "I'll want to go back there lots o' times. But not to see them! I'll only go back there to see David - Mason - Jeffries. He's the boy for me!" And then she clapped her hands again and laughed in that half-hysterical musical way of hers. "But remember one thing," Annie said. "After I've been in this house a long, long time, and you all gets so you like me awful, awful, awful well, then some day you'll go in this room there, and that room there, and in the kitchen, and out on the porch, and down the cellar, and out in the smoke- house, and the wood-house, and the loft, and all around - oh! every place! - and in here and up the stairs, and all the rooms up there. And you'll look behind all the doors, and in all the cupboards, and under all the beds, and then you'll look sorry-like, and holler out, kind o' scared, and you'll say, `Where is Annie?' And then you'll wait and listen and hold your breath, and then something'll holler back, away far off, and say, `Oh, she has gone home!' And then everything'll be all still again, and you'll be afraid to holler any more, and you won't play, and you can't laugh, and your throat'll just hurt and hurt, like you been eating too much calamus- root or something." What she meant by this strange prophesy Bud didn't know. But it sounded like a disaster awaiting around some shadowy corner of the future.
Sister Elva May didn't have good health that winter. It seemed like she was always down with something. Once when mother went to relatives and left Elva May at home, Annie dressed the little girl in mother's finest clothes - her black grow-grain silk and sealskin-sack. Then they flounced around the house inviting this chair and that for tea until someone knocked at the door and it turned out to be the Queen of Tentoleena Land. The way Annie knew it was from her parasol. Elva May had to get over being sick to meet the Queen. After the Queen waltzed in, she took her seat. Or else in everyone thought she did cause she was the Queen of Invisibility for a kingdom. None of her subjects could see her to know if they were being watched or not. If she saw you doing bad, watch out. She would take your heart out and patch it with rags sewn tight in thistle-thread. Even the raggedy man came in for some of Annie's tea. The truth is the raggedy man liked to be around Annie an awful lot. Then Elva May wanted to wear Annie's hat she brought with her to the Riley's. After Elva May brought it back from Annie's alcove, Annie grabbed it violently. "Don't you have that. Dave gimme that!" she said "Mustn't get it mussed up, NO SIR! or you'll have Dave in your wool." Then the Queen excused herself and so did Elva May and Bud. The raggedy man winked at us when everyone left. He kinda liked to be with Annie without us or the Queen of Tentoleena there.
When Annie did her chores, she loved to talk to herself and when she did numberless characters of her imagination would creep in and join the discussion until the dishes clashed and clanged in the washing and glistening cups and saucers emerged. Taking the dishes into the kitchen pantry to put them away Annie was leading a band in an imaginary procession whistling a fife-tune fit to stir every patriot's blood. Returning from the pantry she was a locomotive railroad engine choo chooing and shuffling her feet or playing with her fingers on the keys of an imaginary portable piano. One day after dinner when it got dark out early like it does in the Hoosier winter and the skies looked troubled, Bud stayed closer to her than usual. "What will I do when I'm grown up?" Bud asked Annie. "How about being a lawyer like your pa?" Annie said. "Maybe," Bud said. "Or how about being a raggedy man?" "I'd like that most of all!" Bud answered. "Whatever it is going to be will be," Annie said. "What folks are comes out from how God writes their life up to be in the life storybook. But it's not for us to worry about." Then she said, "Bud, did you know that moon up there is a real big custard pie?" Then she giggled. "How can you worry about what you'll be when the sky has a custard pie in it. You betcha," she added. "I'll tell you lots of stuff you never heard tell of." "Like what?" Bud asked. "Well, let's see." Then she sat with him and looked out the windows some more. "See those clouds up there hiding the moon. They are cream poured over the moon and the stars... They're its powdered sugar." Bud's imagination was picking up speed being with this Elf Child. Annie seemed to know it and patted the eleven-year old boy's blond head. Then she bore her finger circling on his skull and played like she was going to stick something inside his brain. "Some day you will be a great poet, too!"
Annie was just one of the visitors at the Riley house in the coming months. Grandma Marine made her New Year's Eve visit to see the New Year in. She didn't like to be happy and jokes couldn't be told around her. All you could talk about was the weather and the frost or the snow that would soon be piling up dangerously. This was said only between her coughs and reminders that she would soon be dropping off. Annie warned Bud not to say anything or laugh or grin at her and if he did have bad manners the goblins would get him for sure. After dinner, when Grandma Marine went to bed, Annie told one of her riddles to Bud and the kids. She loved riddles. Annie even liked to out-riddle herself. She would think of the most intricate riddles-some ridiculous -and then laugh like a ding dong bell when she acted like she couldn't figure the answers. Here was one of Annie's riddles she told that night. Riddle-cum, riddle-cum right! Where was I last Saturday night? The winds blow - the boughs did shake - I saw the hole a fox did make!" None of the children guessed it so Annie said, "You can't guess anything!" She went on to explain a man named Fox killed his wife and chopped her head off. A man named Wright came across the scene where the man was at work burying the dead woman with a pickax and spade. So this fellow Wright went and told the sheriff the riddle and after the law figured it out they arrested the man and hung him from the same tree he buried his wife under." Other visitors came. Annie was right about her Uncle John and Aunt Cora's visits. Many times they "jest dropped in" about dinner time "to see how the Rileys was a-gittin' on with Annie." And once in "court week" Uncle John came to stay so he could "clear his name" about something or other.
The Spring of 1861 came fast on the winter. Green grass started sprouting and daffodils stirred out of the ground. Bud loved the time of year when green took over the color of the Hoosier settlement after the brown lull of the winter. With the coming of Spring came the time for the raggedy man to spade up the garden. Annie liked to be outside too and had the Riley children lean down to listen to hear the lilies-of-the-valley chime. She could hear them. They were musical and sounded like baby silver bells. But this Spring was different. The folk of the log cabins in the frontier Hoosier settlement of Greenfield, Indiana churned with excitement. War was breaking out! The South of the United States wanted to split off from the North to keep slavery legal. Even the home of the boy named Bud was caught up in the fever. Then very bad news came from the South. Soldiers from South Carolina attacked the United States Fort Sumter on April 12th out in the harbor of Charleston. By the next afternoon thousands of rounds of artillery blew apart the defenses of the fort. The United States soldiers were forced to surrender to the soldiers of a slave state government. Thus began the bloody American Civil War to restore the Union and save the United States.
At the very outbreak of war, the newspaper in Bud's hometown of Greenfield printed this article. "Attention Fellow Citizens! Reuben A. Riley, Esq., is making an effort, with the assurance of success, to recruit a company to represent old Hancock in the struggle for the maintenance of law. We hope that he will be as successful in the field as in the forum." Now Bud's father went around the county with a fife-and- drum corps to enroll the frontier boys to join the Indiana militia. Soon Bud learned his father got a Captain's commission from his friend, Governor Oliver P. Morton. When Reuben went recruiting, the barefooted boys scooted up the street or scurried under sheltering sheds. Somehow, now, Bud had an uneasy feeling and didn't enjoy playing so much under the catawba leaves watching the caterpillars clinging on or curling up.
Then came the day Reuben returned home with another young man riding alongside. Annie came out when summoned. Riding alongside Reuben Riley was a broad shouldered and handsome fellow mounted on a great high-stepping horse that neighed and pranced excitedly as Annie scurried toward him. It was David - Mason - Jeffries. He had just enlisted in Reuben Riley's company. "Whoo-ee!" Annie squealed in perfect ecstasy as David - Mason - Jeffries scooped her up into his arms and sat her behind him on his beautiful horse. "We'll be back afterwhile, Cap'n," said David - Mason - Jeffries. "I'm going to show this Annie off around town!" As they left in a great cloud of dust, Annie yelled out, "Clear the tracks. There, old folks, young folks! For Annie and David - Mason - Jeffries are coming to town!" And what a day they had. Annie was in hysterical delight all of the day. Her heart was too full to beat! And the rest of us saw them in their reunion so glad to see each other and be together that day. Instantly, all of us came to love the great, strong, round-faced simple natured David - Mason - Jeffries almost as much as she did. All the long delicious day Bud was with him and Annie. He were permitted to go downtown among the tumult and patriotic music of the streets. Boys were coming in from the farms and homesteads all over the county getting ready to go to war. And happy little Annie. How proud she was of David - Mason - Jeffries. How closely and how tenderly through all that golden day did the strong brown hand of David - Mason - Jeffries clasp hers. All day Annie told Bud in that mysterious way of hers that David - Mason - Jeffries and she had a secret between them that no one could guess!" It wasn't until she returned to tuck the children in that night that Bud learned her secret. When David - Mason- Jeffries came off of his ninety-day service, she was "a-goin' to marry him for sure!"
There was no accounting for how the news about Annie to marry David - Mason - Jeffries hit the raggedy man. Why he turned white until he looked like a lump of ice. Then he started acting crazy and got on his horse. The mare took to snorting as he mounted and the two took off at a whizz down the road and then off through a gate in a stake and ridered fence about a mile away- as everyone heard later - and then scared up wheat sheaves until they were dancing in the air. What got into him no one knew and he didn't know much how to explain. That's what he said. He told us that all he knew was "he felt like screamin' `Murder' and a-running off who knows where." Anyway he ended up thrown in a wagon on the Sipe place with the wagon upside down most on top of him. And all the time when he was coming to, he kept saying he "wished he was goin' to die instead of ever wake up." We took the raggedy man home with us and Annie did a thousand little acts of kindness and respect that helped the raggedy man come around and soon he was "fit as a fiddle" with her caring for him like she did. But what use it was for him to live he recollected to Bud privately he wasn't sure.
Upon leaving Greenfield, the women of the town presented Captain Reuben Riley with a battle flag for his Hancock County company. They were to carry it before them into battle to remember the home folks. Now Elizabeth Riley waved good-bye to her husband as the procession of local boys - now soldiers for Abraham Lincoln - moved out of town. Life settled down a little after the Hoosier men of the county went off to Camp Morton in Indianapolis - at the old state fairgrounds - to learn to be soldiers. Then the ninety-day troops left for Virginia by flatcar train. While father was gone, the raggedy man put himself a hammock down from the apple tree to sleep on most nights. As the days followed each other, the summer days heated up and the airy clouds scooted higher in the sky to keep cool. The hollyhocks were busy with bumble-bee visits. But things were changed for Bud with his father gone off to war. The boy was so sad and worried. Bud was sometimes unwilling and unable to go to sleep. His mother said he was starting to grow pale and ill. Annie found him frowning out by the board fence one day after his father left for the fighting. "Your daddy and my David - Mason - Jeffries will soon be comin' home," she said. "Why it's just like they were on the other side of that highboard fence," she added. Bud went over to sit under an ash tree nearby and Annie joined him. Bud was so tired from worry about his father that Annie felt bad herself. She was worried about David - Mason - Jeffries just as much. "Hey, look on top of that fence," Annie said. Bud did and shook his head. "Nothin' there." "Close your eyes real fast and then open them and you'll see them!" Bud tried but no luck. "Close your eyes and I'll tell you what I see," Annie insisted. After Bud closed his eyes, Annie reported. "There they are. Let me count `em." Then she counted to nine. "Yes, there they are - nine little goblins with green glass eyes and red hair like flames." "Huh!" Bud said. "Keep your eyes closed," Annie insisted. Then she yelled over at the fence. "Hey! What you staring at?" "Are they staring at us Annie?" Bud wanted to know. "Yes, child. Now keep your eyes closed while I get to the bottom of this." Annie called out, "Whatcha doin' over there?" Then she reported, "The first one is scratchin' his head with a queer little arm reachin' out of his ear and he told me `This is what my arm is for!'" "What about the second one?" Bud wanted to know. "He wants to know how on earth you scratch your head?" "Tell him with my hand on my arm," Bud said. "He doesn't think anyone with sense would do so," Annie interpreted. "And now they're all laughin' at you for saying that til their faces have turned black...Now the one's thumpin' himself on the back with a fist from his tail to catch his breath," Annie said. "What about the third one?" Bud asked. "I don't like lookin' at him," Annie replied. "Why?" Bud said thinking about peeking out to find out for himself. "Why he doesn't have lids on his eyes," Annie said disgustedly. "He's impudent too," she added. "He just clucked his eye and asked me what is the style of socks this fall." Then she covered my eyes with her hands. "His hands are where his feet should be!" Bud slipped into Annie's arms. He seemed so tired of worrying. Maybe Bud wouldn't be thinking such bad thoughts about his father being away so far or getting shot at by rebels or such. "What else? Annie," Bud wanted to know feeling more tired all the time. "One just took off his eyebrows and pasted them over his lips for a mustache. Yes, he did. And now he's cryin', `Would - Ah, would I'd me brows again!'" "Tell him to put them back," Bud said yawning. "I can't," Annie said. "Now they aren't talkin' like us at all. Now they're talkin' in their goo-goo language." But by this time, when Annie looked down at the boy, Bud had just kept his eyes closed for too long. Annie noticed he was asleep in her arms and let him go on sleeping there in the tall grass beneath the ash tree. Annie was the bravest one of all. She never forgot her dreams and fancies, peopling the woods and streams with fairies and goblins and living a life of unworldly rustic simplicity. When she told her stories the pulses of the Riley family lept and their hearts danced. Even neighbor children came to love her stories seeing them as well as listening to her tell of them. But often Annie added, "When David - Mason -Jeffries comes home, you will look for Annie in all the rooms. You will call for her out in the yard, out in the street, and you will ask, `Where is Annie?' Then will come the answer from the twilight. Oh, she has gone home."
The whole Riley family - except Annie taking care of the baby and Elva May - gathered when the Postmaster came by and gave Bud's mother a letter out of his hat for her from Reuben Riley. It was in late June. Most of it was about the progress of the war. Father wrote that an Ohio officer, George McClellan, was given personal command of the "three months" federal troops, mainly Ohio and Indiana militia. Then he divided them and sent his main troops including the Greenfield men to attack Rich Mountain in Virginia. Reuben reported his men had to climb a steep slope under fire but that after a brief engagement the Confederates retreated down the mountain. Then came the bad news. David - Mason - Jeffries was a casualty. He would not be coming home. Elizabeth shared the news with the older children of the family but told them they must not tell Annie about David - Mason - Jeffries until the time was right. Bud was one of the older children that got the news. He talked a lot to the raggedy man. While the raggedy man was hard at work mending a fence, Bud told him the bad news about Annie's beaux and then told him not to tell. The raggedy man dropped what he was doing. It was like he was shot himself! He dropped his rail on his foot with a thump and didn't even yell about it. Bud went on about something else. "Raggedy man, that neighbor girl, `Elthy' told me I was `thweet'," "Did you say David - Mason - Jeffries was dead?" the raggedy man insisted on hearing repeated. His eyes were bright and curious. "Yes," Bud said, "and mother says we mustn't tell her. Now about `Elthy,' isn't it funny how she didn't get mad at me when I talk to her with a `lithp.' She just thinks that's how people are supposed to talk." But the raggedy man wasn't listening to Bud anymore. His heart took a leap across the moon and sun and up somewhere into the stars. He was flying off into a dream of happiness he never thought possible. What could he be thinking of?
Who would have ever dreamed the raggedy man was going to build a log cabin out toward the settlement of Philadelphia on the other side of the Black Swamp? Where did he find time with all the chores he had to do? But he was going to build this log cabin or bust! Raggedy man didn't have money to stock nails so he did his own timbering and cut the logs with notches so they lay close together. A boy grown into a man with a dream to fuel him can evidently do most anything. Every once in a while the raggedy man took Bud with him to the building site for help. When Bud went there the first time, crickets were leaping across the path back to the raggedy man's log cabin. Bud helped him that day to make slabs. Raggedy man cut out openings in the logs for windows and a door. Now slabs needed to be pinned into the openings to hold the greased paper for windows until the raggedy man could buy expensive glass. Every time Bud was out there it seemed like singing- birds filled the air with music. The raggedy man kept saying, "Now don't you tell a soul about this or I will eat you alive!" Then he laughed and winked. Bud went out to help several days later again. They started on the roof. Topping out the building was the most tedious work and the raggedy man enjoyed Bud's company. Four foot clapboards were laid down in courses on eavesbearer logs. The last thing to do was to make a great open fireplace in the space left open in the end wall. Now raggedy man had himself a home all right. But what did he have in mind? All he would say was he was "speculatin' and hopin' something would come his way" and he felt like "he was gainin' on it if only he could get someone to take a hankerin' to him."
Finally father was coming home. Reuben Riley was mustered out of ninety-day service at Indianapolis in August with pay of forty two cents to get home. All the militia veterans not injured or casualties came home too at the same time. Bud heard the news of his father's return while he was wading in the Branch Crick. Bud enjoyed splashing down at the Branch with his trousers rolled up above his knees. The ripples had the sweet softness of laughter. Holding his pants as he could with his hands he liked to kick the water and look for the deep places. Bud didn't get to be alone with his father at first. The whole county gave the soldiers a glorious reception at a picnic at Pierson's Grove. Father gave a great speech and told how the Western men saved West Virginia for the North. Bud was very proud of his father. How closely he listened when his heroic father spoke about standing up for Abraham Lincoln against slaveowners.
When Annie got to the grove with the rest, there wasn't any more use trying to keep from her the bad news about David - Mason - Jeffries. He wasn't coming back. When she was told, the orphan girl took off running. All the town dogs set to barking and began racing after her. She was trying to hide from the sunlight and hunting for the darkest shadows. She went out into the deepest woods where no one could find her. Annie didn't return until long after midnight that night. Then she went straight to her straw mat but her cries couldn't be hidden. There's never shame in crying when bad things happen. Now there was no David - Mason - Jeffries to take Annie home. Maybe all her life now she would have to stay a hired girl streaked with soot, come to help mother, poor and with hands used to pans and kettles... and without a dream.
Annie didn't feel like telling stories? The world didn't seem the same. There was nothing Bud could do...or so he thought until the raggedy man asked him for a favor. He was mysterious. He said he was going to see if Annie would give him a chance. The favor he asked for came from his heart. All this happened a little later on in the Fall when things got settled down and there was frost on the pumpkins out in the fields and fodder was bunched in shocks. So then after Bud and the raggedy man conspired, events took off. It was Bud that went up to Annie and told her how a bear had the raggedy man up a tree and was closing fast. Bud was breathing heavy and snorting out the words quick and scared. Annie dropped everything. "A bear has the raggedy man?" Annie yelped out worried to death. "Yes, out in the woods," Bud went on with his lies. Annie was taken up in fright. "We got to go save him," Bud said. "I got father's shotgun and we'll go get on Hoss and ride out to where the raggedy man is stavin' off the bear with all his might." When they were on the road, Annie demanded more details. "Well," Bud said. "I escaped... but here is how it happened. The raggedy man and I were goin' along and goin' along, you know, and pretty soon we heard somethin' go `Wooh!'- Just thataway - `Woo-ooh!' And we were both scared. So we ran and climbed a tree - A great big tree, we did,-a sycamore tree. And then we heard it again. And we looked around. It was a bear - a great big sure enough bear!-No. It was two bears, it was -two great big bears- One of them was- the first one was a great big bear. -But they just both went`Wooh!'-And here they came to climb the tree and get me and the raggedy man to eat us up!" The horse that Annie and Bud were on was heading west of Greenfield toward Philadelphia and a certain log cabin. This was all a big surprise for Annie that the raggedy man and Bud worked out. Of course Annie didn't know about it. "So how far away is the raggedy man?" Annie said. "He's past the Black Swamp." Then he went on with his lies. "Here came the great big bear climbing the tree to get the raggedy man when I ran away and came to get you and pa's gun." Annie was taking all this in. "Did I tell you the raggedy man had a gun when he climbed the tree- So here the bear come climbin' the tree - and climbin' the tree! Then when he got right close, the raggedy man just pulled up his gun and shot the bear, he did, and killed him dead! And then the bear - he fell clean on down out of the tree - away clean to the ground, he did - Spling-splung! he fell plum down, and killed him, too!" Annie said, "Well, if the raggedy man killed the bear what's the problem. Raggedy man isn't in danger." "Well that left the old bear. The one shot was the younger one you know. Now the big bear's awful mad, you bet! And so here came the great big bear, he did, - a'climbin' up - and up the tree, to get the raggedy man and eat him up! And so the raggedy man climbed on higher, and higher, And higher up the tree - and higher - and higher - And higher'n our house. And that's where the raggedy man is waiting for us to come get him out of that mess." "Well, why didn't the big bear eat him up?" Annie asked. "They are both waiting for us to get there with more load for the raggedy man's gun I spect. The raggedy man didn't have any more in the gun!" But when Bud and Annie got to where Bud was taking her it wasn't to any perilous spot at all. Pretty soon Hoss pulled into the clearing where the raggedy man was at his log cabin waiting. He was sitting on a little porch he built onto his log cabin petting a fawn that started coming around. The little fawn's ears got stood up and pointy and her tail flipped up to ninety degrees when Bud and Annie arrived. Annie couldn't believe her eyes. She never saw the raggedy man at his own house before! There wasn't any bear business at all! Annie came to have her doubts about the truth of Bud's story anyway. Raggedy man came over and helped Annie off Hoss and looked his Annie straight in the eye. He looked so lonely and wanting her to know he was serious. Raggedy man told her, "I know its strange. You loved someone else. I know that you might never love me. But look what I've done. I've built you a home." Annie couldn't hardly believe the raggedy man had done it! Over the door was a sign. It said "ANNIE'S HOME." Annie held her hand to her mouth when she saw it. "Oh, raggedy man," Annie said. The raggedy man said, "Deep in my heart, I've been so lonesome, Annie. I never ever wanted to search for anyone else." "Oh, raggedy man," Annie said. "I know I'm not your first choice," raggedy man said. "But I will love you forever. I can make my love for you last forever." "Oh, raggedy man," Annie said. "Well? Annie, will you try to find a way to make it to love the raggedy man and live here with me and have a family with me all our own?" "Oh, raggedy man," Annie said. "Do you really want me for a wife?" "You bet, Annie," the raggedy man said. "I've loved you ever so long." "Oh, raggedy man," Annie said. "Say! Some hollyhawks would look good over by the door. And how about some roses - old fashioned ones - around that porch." "Sure, Annie," the raggedy man said. "Anything for you." The raggedy man was taking all this as good prospects. So the raggedy man pulled from his pocket a marryin' license. "I was hopin you might marry me, Annie," he said and showed Annie her name on the license to marry the raggedy man. "Will you have me?" the raggedy man asked Annie. "Will you stay?" "I guess I got to to see the insides," Annie said with a happy laugh. Then with a whoop and hollers, the happy fellow carried Annie over the threshold of the log cabin and into Annie's new home. Annie bid Bud farewell with a kiss. "Annie has found a home now." Bud rode his horse back to Greenfield. Then he went upstairs. After a long and breathless pause Bud still could hear Annie's faint and quavering voice with a great tenderness like a belated echo, "Where is Annie?" And the reply, "Oh, she has gone home!"
Now when Bud grew up, he really did become a poet and one of America's greatest poets at that. One of his poems was about Annie.
INSCRIBED WITH ALL FAITH AND AFFECTION To all the little children: - The happy ones; and sad ones; The sober and the silent ones; the boisterous and glad ones; The good ones - Yes, the good ones, too; and all the lovely bad ones.
Little Orphant Annie's come to our house to stay, An' wash the cups an' saucers up, an' brush the crumbs away, An' shoo the chickens off the porch, an' dust the hearth, an' sweep, An' make the fire, an' bake the bread, an' earn her board-an- keep; An' all us other childern, when the supper-things is done, We set around the kitchen fire an' has the mostest fun, A-listenin' to the witch-tales 'at Annie tells about, An' the Gobble-uns 'at gits you Ef you Don't Watch Out!
Wunst they wuz a little boy wouldn't say his prayers, - An' when he went to bed at night, away up-stairs, His Mammy heerd him holler, an' his Daddy heerd him bawl, An' when they turn't the kivvers down, he wuzn't there at all! An' they seeked him in the rafter-room, an' cubby-hole, an' press, An seeked him up the chimbly-flue, an' ever'-wheres, I guess; But all they ever found wuz thist his pants an' roundabout: - An' the Gobble-uns 'll git you Ef you Don't Watch Out!
An' one time a little girl 'ud allus laugh an' grin, An' make fun of ever' one, an' all her blood-an'-kin; An' wunst, when they was "company," an' ole folks wuz there, She mocked 'em an' shocked 'em, an' said she didn't care! An' thist as she kicked her heels, an' turn't to run an' hide, They wuz two great big Black Things a-standin' by her side, An' they snatched her through the ceilin' 'for she knowed what she's about! An' the Gobble-uns 'll git you Ef you Don't Watch Out!
An' little Orphant Annie says, when the blaze is blue, An' the lamp-wick sputters, an' the wind goes woo-oo! An' you hear the crickets quit, an' the moon is gray, An' the lightnin'bugs in dew is all squenched away, - You better mind yer parunts, an' yer teachurs fond an' dear, An' cherish them 'at loves you, an' dry the orphant's tear, An' he'p the pore an' needy ones 'at clusters all about, Er the Gobble-uns 'll git you Ef you Don't Watch Out!
The account of this story comes primarily from original source materials written by James Whitcomb Riley himself and draws upon Riley's great body of children's poetry and prose. To James Whitcomb Riley, Annie wasn't just some ordinary hired orphan girl who worked for "board and keep." Annie was an elf child. History reveals that Annie's mother died when she was very young and her father when she was ten. After that Annie was on her own until her uncle, John Rittenhouse, found her in the hills around Liberty, Indiana and took her to his home near Greenfield. Then he put her out to work dressed in black the way orphans dressed. And that's how she came to live with the Riley family in town. The mother in the Riley family needed PHOTOGRAPH OF THE REAL the help. She had four living children "LITTLE ORPHANT ANNIE" and memories of the baby, Celeste, who died so very young. Frontier American life was very hard. The new baby, Alex, they called "Hum," was a little chunk of shavers and sick so much and the tiny six year old girl, Elva May, clung close to her mother day in and day out. People couldn't believe how cheerful Elizabeth, the mother, always was. The older boy, John, was in his teen-aged years and was a printer's devil for the newspaper where Uncle Mart worked too. Bud, at eleven, was left to himself a lot. He usually wore a little blue roundabout and a soft white felt hat with no banding or lining. His hair was very light and cut short. His eyes were big and blue and his face freckled. He was small in size and found it hard to compete with the other boys in athletic contests and games. When Annie came, the Rileys called her their "guest" and came to love her as a member of the family. Bud and Annie became fast friends. They shared mischievous ways and bright laughter. Annie wasn't like a nanny but more like an older sister and friend. She was older than Bud all right but not so bossy. She didn't give a fig if Bud crowded down his food too fast or sipped his soup so awful loud. She never complained about being an orphan girl nor crawfished back into her past. Her world was peopled by fairies, giants and wunks, dwarfs, squidgicums and goblins. Annie's life was different because she had her work to do. Her chores were done mainly in the kitchen and her place was to be near the hearth. All the cooking for frontier Hoosier families before the Civil War was done in a large open fireplace. As Annie sat in a corner of the room by the fire she was often covered with ashes. You could sometimes hardly tell she was a slender little wan-cheeked teenaged girl dressed in black. She wasn't just a teenaged girl though. Her elf spirit shone just as light gleams even on a cloudy day. She always spoke kindly if mysteriously and she always promised both Bud and herself, "Someday, I will go home." For many years nothing was known about Mary Alice (Smith) Gray who was the "hired girl." This was Annie's real name. The name itself is a source of confusion. The girl was not married and named Mary Alice Smith when she worked for "board and keep" at the Riley home. The family called her "Allie." The name was shortened from Alice. In fact the original name of the orphan of the famous poem was "Little Orphant Allie" as published in the INDIANAPOLIS (IN) JOURNAL newspaper of November 15, 1885 under the title, "The Elf Child." Subsequenly Riley changed the name of the poem to "Little Orphant Annie," and it was under that name that the poem became the most popular American children's poem of all time and helped establish for Riley the title of "Children's Poet" for the United States as Riley's friend Rudyard Kipling was the "Children's Poet" for the British Empire. Riley himself fueled the interest in locating Mary Alice Smith. He published a famous article in the INDIANAPOLIS (IN) JOURNAL of September 30, 1882 entitled "Where is Mary Alice Smith?" Apparently her married name escaped him if he had any memory of it at all due to his young age when the marriage of "Annie" to Wesley Gray took place. When found, Mary Alice (Smith) Gray simply did not realize that she was the famous subject of the poem. She did, however, become a popular character in the American national scene after Riley brught her to the stage of the Grand Opera House in Indianapolis (IN) in January 1888 during one of Riley's famous readings. On that occasion, Riley repeated the whole story of the little slender orphan girl dressed in black who was dropped off at the Riley Home and told the children so many stories of goblins, wunks and elves. The audience welcomed "Little Orphant Annie" to the stage with great applause. The recognition of "Little Orphant Annie" did not change her lifestyle in the least. Although she was in great demand as a visitor to schools, she did so merely to inform the enthralled children about her work at the Riley home and tell stories about the famous poet. She recalled Riley as a "tease" and said he drew ugly pictures of his playmates to annoy them. No amount of publicity affected her and she always returned to the log cabin built by her husband, Wesley Gray, where she lived and raised her many children. The tale of "Annie" was adopted by many other artists and writers after Riley's death. Among the "Annies" is the Raggedy Ann doll, America's most popular children's doll during much of the Twentieth Century. The name derived from a combination of the names of two of Riley's most popular children's poems, "Little Orphant Annie" and "The Raggedy Man." The originator of the doll, Johnny Gruelle, whose artist father had been a friend of James Whitcomb Riley, also turned "Annie" into a comic strip character. The comic strip artist Harold Gray, however, used "Annie" in a much longer running nationally syndicated comic strip of the same name. "Annie" has appeared on Broadway in New York City several times commencing in the play, "Homefolks" (1918), "Little Orphant Annie" (1935), and the more recent "Annie" (1977). The movie version of "Annie," a Columbia Pictures release, continues to enjoy wide audiences. Based upon this cycle, I would expect "Annie" to reappear any time. The poem "Little Orphant Annie" remains in print in many, many publications. I must include a note of apology. In my heart I wished so to footnote this text. A "sugar" tree to Hoosier pioneers was the sugar maple tree. The farmers of frontier days "cradled" grain to harvest it. Few readers will have tried to climb a sycamore tree as Bud proposes in his tale about the bear. Pioneer children would have known how slick such a tree would be to climb. As to James Whitcomb Riley, his life was one of great homelessness, loneliness, and poverty until roughly his late middle-aged years when his fame resulted in greater wealth from book sales than that of any poet before or since. I have outlined this life on the basis of Riley's own cryptic autobiographical poem, "The Flying Islands of the Night," in the book JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY: THE POET AS FLYING ISLANDS OF THE NIGHT in most libraries nationwide. Riley's friend Rudyard Kipling knew where his American friend's heart rested. The noted poet of the British CHILD'S GARDEN OF VERSES, wrote of Riley: TO J.W.R. "Your trail runs to the westward, And mine to my own place; There is water between our lodges, And you cannot see my face. And it is well - for crying Should neither be written nor seen, But if I call you Smoke-in-the-Eyes, I know you will know what I mean." Riley ached for the lost child in himself and expressed to his audience the great lessons of living and loving humbly and presenting oneself to the world and the God of that world in innocent lifestyle as a child.


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Faculty Artist Series Celebrating Chopin Monday the 15th at 7:30
Pianist Richard Ratliff celebrates the bicentennial of the birth of Frederic Chopin. This concert will feature classics by Chopin as well as modern pieces inspired by the composer. Pieces by UIndy's John Berners and a piece written for the show by Richard Pressly will also be performed.
Guest Music Lecturer Richard Pressley Wednesday the 17th at4:00
Composer and scholar Richard Pressley will be discussing the music of the great Frederic Chopin for the bicentennial of the composer's birth. He will also be drawing parallels to modern pop and folk music. The former UIndy student will be returning to share his imaginative presentation with all of the campus.
Jazz Artist Series Mike Davis Wednesday the 17th at 7:30
Trombonist Mike Davis has performed with the Rolling Stones, Frank Sinatra, Nelly, Harry Connick Jr., and Bon Jovi. He has recorded five solo CDs and currently runs Hip-Bone Music, which is dedicated to popularizing brass instruments. His concert is sure to please all fans of jazz music.
Orchestra and Symphonic Wind Ensemble feature composer Ching-chu Hu Thursday the 18th at 7:30
The University of Indianapolis Orchestra and Symphonic Wind Ensembles will be performing works by composer Ching-chu Hu. Hu's influences range from rave music to American Avant-garde to Chinese folk songs. The instrumental ensembles will be performing a great range of his works throughout the night.
Guest composer Ching-chu Hu residency Friday the 19th at 7:30
Ching-chu Hu's eclectic influences will be on display again tonight as his chamber compositions will be performed. These enchanting works are sure to entertain and amuse all audiences. Fans of new music should definitely be sure to attend this show.
Piano Ensemble Festival Concert Sunday the 21st at 6:00
Co-sponsored by the Indianapolis Piano teachers Association and the UIndy Community Music Center, The UIndy Piano Ensemble Festival Concert features performances by pre-collegiate pianists from around the Indianapolis area. Pieces will be performed as duets, trios, solos and quartets. This evening will showcase the best young pianists in the area.


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by Ronald Steriti, NMD, PhD
Some people are very sensitive. Such people often have to take care to make certain that their environment is calm. Unpleasant circumstances can often have a disruptive effect that lasts for hours or days. Other people often do not understand the extent of their sensitivity. In this article we will discuss many of the different types of sensitive people and their characteristics from the perspective of classical homeopathy and naturopathic medicine.
Physically, HSP's may have low tolerance to noise, glaring lights, strong odors, clutter and/or chaos. They tend to have more body awareness of themselves and know intuitively when the environment they are in is not working for them. Work and career is particularly challenging for HSP's. They are often overlooked for promotions even though they are usually the most conscientious employees. They are excellent project oriented employees because they are responsible and thorough in their work.
Emotionally, Highly Sensitive People are seen as shy, introverted and socially inhibited. Sensitive people learn early in life to mask their wonderful attributes of sensitivity, intuition and creativity. Psychologically, HSP's compensate either by protecting themselves by being alone too much, or, by over-stimulating themselves into stress by trying to be 'normal'. Socially, they may feel like misfits. Actually they enjoy their own company. They are totally comfortable being alone. Spiritually, sensitive people have more capacity for inner searching. This is one of their greatest blessings.
Relationships can be difficult. They are confronted in relationships with their unresolved personal issues. They can however provide the other person with the benefits of their intuitive insights. Culturally, HSP's do not fit the tough, stoic and outgoing ideals of modern society and the entertainment media. Childhood wounds have a more devastating effect on HSP's. It is important for them to heal from any past situation because they cannot just forget it and go on in denial.
Nutritionally, HSP's may need more simplicity in their diet. They are vitally aware of the effects of food on their body health and their emotional stability.
A Homeopathic Repertory is an organized list of symptoms and the homeopathic remedies which have been found to be helpful for people experiencing these symptoms. During a homeopathic interview a homeopath asks the patient a variety of questions to determine the specific homeopathic remedy that matches the entire picture of the patient including both the mental and physical symptoms present. The following is a list of a few of the more common homeopathic remedies which have some of the traits of highly sensitive people.
There is a great deal of information on treating highly sensitive people with homeopathy. A brief look in Kent's Repertory of the Homeopathic Materia Medica (written in 1897 and still used today) shows an entire section on sensitivity with over twenty entries including many for the characteristics of highly sensitive people. For instance, highly sensitive people often have low tolerance to noise, glaring lights, and strong odors. The following are some of the entries from Kent's Repertory:
Mind; SENSITIVE; noise; to the slightest; to voices; to water splashing
Mind; SENSITIVE; light
Mind; WILDNESS; bright light, odors, etc.
Head Pain; GENERAL; odors, from strong
Nose; SMELL; acute; sensitive to the odor of; strong odors
Stomach; AVERSION to; eggs; to the odor of
Stomach; NAUSEA; from odors; oranges; tobacco
Stomach; VOMITING; General; odor of food
Generalities; CONVULSIONS; odors, from strong
Generalities; FAINTNESS; odors, from
The causticum patient is serious, intense and sensitive. Often they will cry from hearing bad news or from seeing unfortunate people or animals. Causticum children may burst into tears from the slightest provocation. Causticum adults often become social activists with a distinct intolerance for injustice.
Nux vomica
The typical nux vomica patient is well described by the "type A personality". They are impatient, competitive and ambitious. They are irritable and impatient and particularly hate waiting in lines or in traffic. They also tend to be highly sensitive to light, noise, odors and other stimulants.
Phosphorous people are very open and bright people. They love company, and sometimes get anxious when alone. Phosphorous children tend to be very gullible due to their trusting nature. Often they are easily taken advantage of due to their lack of boundaries.
The homeopathic use of coffee is for the type of state that occurs when people drink excessive amounts of it. They are nervous, restless, and over-sensitive. Homeopathic coffee is useful for people with insomnia from racing thoughts.
What is Homeopathy?
Homeopathy was founded in 1796 by Samuel Hahnemann, a German medical doctor. After taking a dose of Cinchona bark (which is used to make quinine) he experienced chills and fevers similar to the ones characteristic of malaria. Hahnemann concludes that the reason this herb was beneficial was because it caused symptoms similar to those of the disease it was treating.
Homeopathic remedies are made by successively diluting and vigorously shaking the original substance. These dilute remedies are then given to healthy volunteers who record their reactions (a proving). These reactions are recorded and used to choose the appropriate remedy during a homeopathic interview. As such, homeopathy is a form of medicine that bases it's therapeutics on direct human observation and personal experience. Because the remedies are highly diluted the homeopathics work on an energetic level and are not known to cause side effects common with drugs.
Chemical Sensitivity
Commonly when people say that they are sensitive people tend to think about chemical sensitivity. There are many people that are sensitive to a variety of environmental chemicals such as perfumes, gasoline fumes, food additives, tobacco smoke, automobile exhaust, glue, soap, dyes, etc. Clinically these people often have a history of chemical exposures that have overloaded their Phase I and II detoxification pathways. This type of sensitivity is due to a physical agent and responds to nutritional support of the detoxification pathways with the appropriate vitamins, minerals, amino acids and herbs.
The next step, after you have been diagnosed with a disease, is to find out what is the specific cause, and then choose supplements that address it. Phone consults are my specialty. Please call my at (239) 659-2684 to schedule a consultation.
I recommend that you make an informed choice, and the goal of this web site is to provide you with the information to make a wise choice when it comes to your health and wellness.
As you can see, I don't sell any vitamins on this web site. There are thousands of vitamin stores that will sell you whatever vitamin you want, and many of them offer discounts.
If you are interested in some high-quality basic nutritional supplements, I recommend visiting the Store You will find my recommendations for a multiple, tasty chewable fiber wafers, high-potency probiotics, and fish oils.
Good luck in your journey towards health and wellness!!
Unfortunately, that would be a clear violation of FDA regulations. Also, one of the most important aspect of naturopathy is: "Treat the person, not the disease". This is a profound statement, and many people have spent thousands of dollars on vitamins listed in books or web sites for a specific disease. This is what I call "vending machine medicine". It rarely works! The solution is to find a naturopathic physician, such as myself, to assist you.
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I think this is what you are looking for (I'd explain the code be I think it's self-explanatory; let me know if not):
You could also use CSS to select the last widget using :last-child (although IE would not like this), or use jQuery to select it. But the PHP code above is probably the better way to do it.
I wrote a patch that does this for core code, the related ticket is #12615 - Add "first" and "last" CSS-class-names to each Widget in sidebars (Frontend)
The patch is a working solution, there are some widget internals that make using end() on the sidebar array as mike suggests it with his code not properly working (Yeah, that would have been too simple, right :P ).
Let me know if the patch does not apply clean any longer. I have this running very well on 2.9.2 sites.


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A drop goal from centre Simon Giles saved Clayton from a Queens whitewash in a rare 30-1 scoreline in the Pennine League at Lidget Green.
The Villagers were trailing 24-0 with five minutes of their Premier Division clash to go when Giles struck the belligerent blow that enabled them to escape a nil return against the BARLA National Cup holders.
Queensbury were never in the hunt at Slaithwaite Saracens, falling to a hefty 32-4 defeat.
Coach Andy Senior had some measure of consolation following a brilliant display from 17-year-old full back Billy Naylor in a disappointing afternoon that saw a solitary touchdown from Lewis Symonds.
Birkenshaw lost 42-20 at Division One champions elect Moorends Thorne Marauders. Birky second-row pairing Craig Morley and Benoit Rogers both reached the whitewash, with Damian Smith and Matt Honeysett joining them.
Honyesett kicked two conversions, with the man of the match award going to prop forward Trevor West, who was a former winger at the start of his career with Wyke.
Undercliffe Wildboars guaranteed promotion from Division Six with a comprehensive 34-6 win against Sherburn Bears at Rawdon Meadows.
They went behind early to a converted try which stung them into action and quickly restored parity with a flowing move which saw full back Aidan Scully cross out wide.
He converted his own try to bring the scores level before scrum half Liam Jarvis made the chalk for another converted effort.
They continued the momentum with further touchdowns from leading try scorer Kaz Ahmed and a 60-yard interception try from winger Gavin Jarvis, which, together with another conversion from Scully, brought the half to a close at 22-6.
The second half degenerated into an arm wrestle as Sherburn saw their promotion chances slipping away which resulted in three home players and two from the visitors sent to the sin bin as tempers frayed.
In between the nonsense, hooker Isaac Brown scored two brilliant individual touchdowns.
On both occasions he ran from dummy half, evading desperate tacklers for 40 metres to plant the ball under the sticks.
Liam Jarvis added both the extras to start the Wildboars' celebrations which will be repeated further if they win their remaining game against Hanging Heaton to claim the title.


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I'm absolutely loving this OS and wouldn't mind laying down 150$ for the license once it releases fully.
My only problem lies in the installation.
I really don't want to re-format my laptop again, and copy my data, etc.
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Record: 11-5-0, Finished 1st in NFC East Division
NFL Season Summary
Scored 429 points (26.8/g), 5th of 32 in the NFL.
Allowed 337 points (21.1/g), 19th.
Differential of 92 points (5.8/g), 10th.
Expected W-L: 10.2-5.8.
Takeaway/Giveaway Differential +15 (0.9/g), 2nd.
Simple Rating System: Total 6.0, Offense: 5.8, Defense: 0.2, SoS: 0.2, versus averages of 0.0.
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(6:15 p.m.) -- Celebrity Summit passengers injured in Monday's vehicular crash in Dominica, which occurred during a Celebrity Cruises shore excursion, are still recovering at Miami's Jackson Memorial Hospital.
Hospital spokesperson Lorraine Nelson tells us that three of the 14 passengers that were brought to the facility have now been discharged. Two remain in critical condition. Of the others, one is in serious condition, six are good, and two are fair.
The accident occurred when the driver, Gerard James, reportedly lost control of the vehicle, an open-air truck built specifically for tourists, and drove into a ditch. James told Dominica News Online that the vehicle's brakes gave out.
Cruise Critic members on the Celebrity forum have been expressing concern for the victims throughout the week. Host Anne posts, "Medical evacuation is a primary reason we secure trip insurance for every cruise. We hope everyone recovers from this accident quickly."
Celebrity Cruises issued its final official statement on the incident yesterday, in which Celebrity President and CEO Dan Hanrahan was quoted as saying, "We remain focused on the well-being of our guests and assisting their families, as all of them recover from this accident. We deeply appreciate the outstanding treatment our guests are receiving from the exceptional staff at Jackson Memorial Hospital. We also thank the government of Dominica and the staff of Princess Margaret Hospital for the extraordinary support, assistance and treatment they provided our guests."
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Labor force participation of mothers with infants in 2003
April 22, 2004
The labor force participation rate for mothers of infants fell by 2.4 percentage points to 53.7 percent in 2003. This rate has fallen almost every year since 1998, when it was 57.9 percent.
For married mothers with infants, the participation rate continued its downward trend, falling by 1.8 percentage points in 2003 to 52.9 percent. The participation rate for unmarried mothers with infants fell by 4.7 percentage points to 56.2 percent.
These data on the labor force participation of mothers are produced by the Current Population Survey. "Infants" refers to children under 1 year. "Unmarried mothers" include never-married, divorced, separated, and widowed mothers. More information can be found in "Employment Characteristics of Families in 2003" (PDF) (TXT), news release USDL 04-719.
Bureau of Labor Statistics, U.S. Department of Labor, The Economics Daily, Labor force participation of mothers with infants in 2003 on the Internet at http://www.bls.gov/opub/ted/2004/apr/wk3/art04.htm (visited June 25, 2016).
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ChelanCity Council will meet this evening for a regularly scheduled council meeting- and among other items on their agenda; they will be discussing another change order for the Johnson Ave Pedestrian Safety Project.
City Administrator, Jim Reinbold told KOZI in an interview last Friday, that it is not unusual for projects to require change orders, and in fact, this particular project hasn't required very many.
Tonight's council meeting will start at 6PM in the council chambers on Johnson Ave. Be sure to tune into KOZI tomorrow meeting when we invite city officials into the studio to talk about how that council meeting went, but of course you, the public, as always, is invited and encouraged to attend those meetings.
We have also asked the Mayor to bring along with him the City Finance Director, to explain the authorization for bond counsel services, budget amendment, and bond issuance for shoreline restoration project as well as the library expansion project, all of which are also on tonight's agenda. "CLICK HERE" for Audio


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On article HDR used properly is appropriate for photojournalism, says Unified Color's Omvik (252 comments in total)
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klopus: It's beyond me how blending together several shots of the same scene taken milliseconds apart can be considered as some kind of cardinal sin against photojournalist dogma. In fact when done right HDR actually reveals more detail present in "reality" and closer to how the human eye sees it in a high contrast scene.
Anybody can explain?
It sounded to me like the news article used one image to make the HDR photo; what I call a single HDR. My spouse shots in JPEG. Every now and then she comes up with a nice shot and I enhance it for her by giving it my single HDR treatment. The nice thing about the single HDR process is there are no ghosts in a single HDR image!
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Microsoft adds Venues to its Bing Maps service
Allowing retail stores and nearby facilities to be located
SOFTWARE HOUSE Microsoft's Bing service has added "Venues" such as shopping malls to its European mapping package today so that retail stores and nearby facilities can be located and directed to.
Offered through Microsoft's partnership with Nokia, the service adds venue coverage for locations such as airports, convention centres, museums, parks, racecourses, racetracks and stadiums.
The feature will also find the closest services and facilities like toilets, food outlets and cash machines in these venues, and users will be able to browse their directories if they wish.
The new Venues feature is available through Bing Maps from today and can be viewed by zooming into and hovering over a venue on a map, which will then enter you into the "experience". The image above presents an example of what the Westfield shopping centre in London looks like.
On Tuesday, Microsoftt added a massive 165TB of new imagery to its Bing Maps service, which it said was "the largest satellite release to date" for Bing, Microsoft said in a blog post.
The release was larger than all of its past aerial photography releases combined and featured nearly 38 million square kilometres of imagery across North America, South America, Africa, Australia, Europe and Asia. µ
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Anne Curtis Movies and Career Information
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Anne Ojales Curtis-Smith, also known as Anne Curtis-Smith or simply Anne Curtis, is a Filipino-Australian actress, television host, recording artist, and VJ in the Philippines. Curtis had starred in several television series, which include Hiram, Kampanerang Kuba, Maging Sino Ka Man and Dyosa, and has hosted the noontime show It's Showtime. As of 2014, she portrays the iconic Komiks character Dyesebel in Mars Ravelo's Dyesebel. She also starred in several films like No Other Woman, which grossed Php 278 Million at the box office and her role in the film earned her a FAMAS Award for Best Actress. Her other box-office hit films include Babe, I Love You and A Secret Affair. Her other critically lauded roles were in the films Baler and In Your Eyes. Throughout her career, she has received a Metro Manila Film Festival Award, three FAMAS Award nominations, three PMPC Star Award for Movies nominations, two Luna Award nominations, and six PMPC Star Award for TV nominations.
- Anne Curtis Movies before 2015
- No Other Woman 2011
- Who's That Girl? 2011
- Babe, I Love You 2010
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Thanks for the tips on the hair. I'm lucky that my local management said that "unnatural" hair colors would not be an issue since I am not dealing with customers Sony did not allow unnatural hair colors, unlike Apple! Also they don't care about tattoos here, which is good because I'm going for a consultation for one on Saturday!!! So excited. I just hope that we can put the actual tattooing off until next month so I have more $$ to spare, otherwise I'm going to have to dip even MORE into my savings account in Maine (which is kind of emergency only).
I got some nice comments from parents trick-or-treating with their kids, especially those who had little superheroes. They didn't know who I was, but I guess it was obvious that it was some kind of super-outfit (though more like super-villain! even though she is a minor character). I hate "sexy-whatever" outfits and strive to make my own outfits every year, no matter how simple. I hope to do the same with my future hypothetical children!


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Via press release from the Sportscar Vintage Racing Association (SVRA) on Wednesday, May 28, it was announced that 1992 Indy 500 Rookie of the Year Lyn St. James will not only race in the "Indy Legends" Pro-Am during the upcoming Brickyard Invitational vintage race meet at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway (IMS) as previously revealed, but she will also compete in the weekend's open wheel Group 9 race.
St. James will race a 1977 Chevron B39 Formula Atlantic in the Group 9 competition during the weekend of June 6-8. SVRA describes its Group 9 as "wings and slicks complying with SVRA post-1973 formula car regulations." Examples of race cars in this group, according to SVRA, include: Formula 1 and Indy Lights, Formula 5000, Formula 2, Formula Atlantic & Formula B (1600cc); Formula Super Vee (1600cc, air & water cooled); Formula Continental and Formula 3 (1100cc).
According to SVRA, the Chevron Formula Atlantic St. James will drive was constructed in 1977 and is one of 11 built by Chevron. Others were driven in the 1977 Formula Atlantic series by 1986 Indianapolis 500 winner Bobby Rahal and 1982 Formula One World Champion Keke Rosberg. The fully restored racer has passed through a number of hands and is currently owned by Chris Locke who races it throughout the United States and Canada. The car is maintained by John Anderson Racing of Sonoma, California and is occasionally driven by St. James in historic events.
In the "Indy Legends" Pro-Am, she will drive, with amateur Curt Vogt, a 1970 Boss 302 Mustang. In that race, St. James will join 25 other Indianapolis 500 veterans paired with SVRA amateur regulars in a 40-minute contest on the 2.43-mile IMS Grand Prix road course. The featured competition will run on Sunday afternoon.
About her participation in the SVRA weekend at IMS, St. James commented, "Vintage racing at IMS is going to be a special treat for race fans, many who might be too young to have seen some of these cars put through their paces in the heat of competition years ago."
She added, "I've recently become active in vintage racing and can tell you it is both fun and a serious sport. At the same time it is a marvelous way to get in touch with the history of racing. This is the kind of event I think both the Indianapolis race fan and car lover will really appreciate and find exciting."
A seven-time starter in the Indianapolis 500, St. James raced in 15 Indy car races in her career. In 1994, she out-qualified Formula One World Champions Nigel Mansell and Mario Andretti – who also won the 1969 Indianapolis 500 - to earn a second row starting spot in that year's Indianapolis 500. The following year she established the world closed-circuit speed record for women with a 225.722 MPH qualification run.
While many fans know St. James best for her Indianapolis 500 achievements, she has earned numerous laurels at the wheel of a variety of race cars. She is a two-time competitor in the 24 Hours of Le Mans (1989 and '91) and raced in the 12 Hours of Sebring nine times, winning the GTO class in 1990, and was a two-time winner in the GTO Class at the 24 Hours of Daytona.
St. James competed in 53 Trans-Am races with seven top-five finishes. From her 62 IMSA GT events, she posted a record of six wins, 17 top-five and 37 top-ten finishes. Her 1985 GT victory at Watkins Glen remains the only time a woman has scored a win in that series driving solo. She has held 31 international and national closed circuit speed records.
"Coming off a great Indianapolis 500 I know a lot of race fans are saying they can't wait to get back to the Speedway," said SVRA President and CEO Tony Parella. "Well they don't have to wait long at all to get another taste of Indy 500 history and more when we have great drivers and cars they loved in action again at IMS."
The SVRA Brickyard Invitational at Indianapolis Motor Speedway takes place June 6-8. Tickets and camping are available.
Suggested Links
- Historics: SVRA announces Pro-Am pairings, cars for Brickyard Invitational
- Historics: Indy 500 veteran Scott Goodyear joins SVRA Pro-Am at IMS
- Historics: SVRA posts 2014 Road America Spring Vintage Festival results
- Historics: Indy 500 veterans Pro-Am grid full for SVRA Brickyard Invitational
- Historics: A. J. Watson tribute part of Indy, SVRA Brickyard Invitational


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Soak up the sunshine as much as you can, most of the work week looks cloudy, rainy, and snowy for Central Indiana.
Today will be filled with sunshine, but temps won't warm up much. Highs will reach the mid to upper 30s with a light wind out of the west.
Tonight we remain dry with temps falling to 20 degrees. Skies will stay mostly clear.
Monday clouds will be on the increase, but not before temps reach the low 40s. That's pretty seasonal for this time of year.
After midnight Monday… into early Tuesday morning rain will move into the state. In our extreme northern viewing area, some freezing rain may mix in, we'll have to watch the forecast very closely. By Tuesday night up to one inch of rain is possible.
Cooler air moves in Wednesday, and light snow is possible. As of right now, up to a couple of inches of snow is in the forecast, we'll keep watching totals closely.
Light snow sticks around Thursday, then flurries are possible through the weekend.


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June 25, 2014
IOWA CITY, Iowa -- University of Iowa softball program will play four of its eight Big Ten series at Bob Pearl Field in Iowa City in 2015. Five of the team's conference opponents -- Michigan, Wisconsin, Nebraska, Minnesota and Northwestern -- competed in the postseason in 2014.
The Hawkeyes kick off their conference slate with a home series against conference newcomer Maryland before heading to Michigan for their week two set.
Iowa welcomes Illinois in week three before hitting the road for the next two series at Wisconsin and Purdue. After a midweek doubleheader with Nebraska at Pearl Field, the Hawkeyes take on Minnesota in Minneapolis.
The team returns to Iowa City to close out the Big Ten regular season with a series against Northwestern.
Official dates, times and television schedules have yet to be determined for each contest. Stay tuned to hawkeyesports.com for future updates.
Big Ten Softball Schedule - Iowa
Week 1: vs. Maryland
Week 2: at Michigan
Week 3: vs. Illinois
Week 4: at Wisconsin
Week 5: at Purdue
Midweek: vs. Nebraska
Week 6: at Minnesota
Week 7: vs. Northwestern


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Marian Anderson (1897-1993) was a world-famous contralto singer in 1939 when the Daughters of the American Revolution (D.A.R.) told her manager, the impresario Sol Hurok (1888-1974), no dates were available for her to perform at the group's Constitution Hall in Washington, D.C. When Hurok made this public knowledge, First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt (1884-1962) and other prominent women resigned from the D.A.R. in protest.
Franklin Delano Roosevelt (1882-1945), President of the United States (1933-1945), persuaded Harold LeClair Ickes (1874-1952), U.S. Secretary of the Interior (1933-1946), to arrange for Ms. Anderson to sing on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial on Easter Sunday (April 9, 1939). About 75,000 people attended the concert and millions of people heard her performance via radio. Her dignity in the face of racism was an inspiration to people around the U.S.
In "The Concert that Shook the Establishment," singer Ollie Watts Davis will perform the same stirring songs that Ms. Anderson performed at the Lincoln Memorial. The concert in the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Museum Plaza at 212 North Sixth Street in Springfield will begin at 7:30 p.m. on Saturday, April 26, 2014.
"The event promises today's audiences a look back at a legendary concert," the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum stated. The music Ms. Anderson performed that day, including "My Country 'Tis of Thee," will be sung again by Ollie Watts Davis, Professor of Voice at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Davis is the author of two books, founding director of the university's biennial Black Sacred Music Symposium, and a University Scholar, one of the highest honors the University of Illinois bestows on its faculty.
Steinway Piano Gallery is a co-sponsor of the recital, which is being held in conjunction with the Annie Leibovitz exhibit, Pilgrimage, which will be open for viewing beginning at 6:30 p.m. Inside the exhibit one will be able to view Annie Leibovitz's photo collage of one of Marian Anderson's concert dresses from the 1940s. Pilgrimage will also be open a half hour after the concert which, will begin at 7:30 p.m.
Tickets for this unique event are $12 for adults ($10 for museum members). Admission for children under twelve is free. Tickets may be ordered by following this link: http://bit.ly/Davis-Tix.
Suggested Links
- Power of Music in the Civil War at Lincoln Presidential Museum
- From Illinois State Historical Library to Lincoln Presidential Library, Part I
- From Illinois State Historical Library to Lincoln Presidential Library, Part II
- From Illinois State Historical Library to Lincoln Presidential Library, Part III
- Steven Spielberg Wins 2014 Lincoln Leadership Award


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"Watch therefore, for you do not know what hour your Lord is coming. But know this, that if the master of the house had known what hour the thief would come, he would have watched and not allowed his house to be broken into. Therefore you also, be ready, for the Son of Man is coming when you do not expect Him." Matthew 24:42-44
As I considered what to write today, my thoughts kept turning towards Israel and the events there. My heart breaks for the innocents who are caught in the conflict. Tragically, they were foretold long ago in Scripture. I pray those involved on both sides of the conflict will soften their hearts and hear the message of peace Jesus offers, but fear many will continue to refuse to hear truth.
It is the very thing that caused Jesus to lament "Oh Jerusalem, Jerusalem, the one who kills the prophets and stones those who are sent to her! How often I wanted to gather your children together, as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, but you were not willing! See! Your house is left desolate; for say I to you, you shall see me no more till you say, "Blessed is He who comes in the name of the LORD!" Matthew 23:37-39 He had been speaking to a crowd warning them of hypocrisy, specifically charging the scribes and Pharisees of not being as righteous as they tried to present themselves as being, and not knowing Him or the Father.
I feel it is something imperative for each of us consider carefully in these present times.
When we claim to know Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior, are our thoughts and actions centered on following Him and doing the Father's will? Is our purpose looking diligently to fulfilling the great commission (see Matthew 28:19&20) or seeking to do our own thing? Are our eyes fixed on the horizon waiting for the Lord's return, excitedly anticipating spending eternity with Him, or have we lost our focus and zeal?
He is returning for His bride. The question to be asked; will you be ready?


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Mar 21, 2011 9:47 AM
If you're going to keep parlor games around, it might be time to make a step up from the Jenga you've been toting around since college. (You know the one - with mild to moderately obscene dares written on the pieces.) The Buck Stacking Game ($34) adds a bit of flair to a bookshelf or mantle, but it's also a balancing act game. Get 30 additional antlers on top of this stately buck without sending the pile crashing back down and you've won! As the hostess, you get the pleasure of determining the winner's prize!
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Watch: IAF Eliminates Terror Targets in Gaza
IAF airstrikes on Hamas continue as Operation Protective Edge begins its forty-sixth day.
By Tova Dvorin, Uzi Baruch
First Publish: 8/22/2014, 9:07 AM
The IDF released video footage of an IAF airstrike in Gaza overnight Thursday/Friday, after announcing that it attacked a total of 50 terror targets in 24 hours.
Targets included rocket launch sites, weapons storage sites and buried rocket launchers. Five terrorists were also wounded in the airstrikes.
The Israel Security Agency (ISA or Shin Bet) also made several arrests in the Jenin area of Samaria overnight. Three men were detained and interrogated by security forces.


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A Brief History of Southern Wine & Spirits of Nevada
Southern Wine & Spirits of Nevada is the state's leading wine, spirits, beer and beverage distribution company.
Southern Wine & Spirits of Nevada was formed in 1972 out of the successor company to Wynn Distributing, which was founded by Mr. Steve Wynn with then partner Mr. Larry Ruvo in 1970. Two years later, Mr. Ruvo subsequently joined forces with, and sold the distribution company to his friend Mr. Harvey Chaplin, Chairman and CEO of Southern Wine & Spirits of America, Inc.
Since its founding in 1968, Southern Wine and Spirits of America, Inc. (Southern), is the leading nationally recognized wine and spirits distributor in the United States known for its historic commitment to delivering the highest standards of customer service, creative marketing programs and partnerships. The Company is also known for its best-in-industry professional and well-trained sales, operational and support staff, its ongoing investments in and contributions to hospitality and beverage education for its staff, its customers and to many national educational institutions. In addition, Southern is justly respected for its deeply held belief in the importance of giving back, for being a socially responsible corporate citizen and for making generous contributions to national, state and local charitable organizations.
Today, Southern operates in 35 states, including its original Florida market, where its corporate headquarters is located in Miami. Over the past 40 years, pursuing a determined strategy to expand through internal growth as well as through the acquisition of established wholesalers, Southern Wine and Spirits of America expanded its Florida operations into California in 1969, Nevada in 1976, Arizona in 1992, South Carolina in 1993, Pennsylvania in 1995, Hawaii in 1996, Kentucky in 1998, New Mexico in 2000, Colorado in 2001, Illinois in 2002, New York in 2004, Maine, Mississippi, New Hampshire, New Jersey, North Carolina, Vermont, Virginia and West Virginia in 2005. In 2006, the Company began operations in Alabama; and, in a partnership arrangement, now operates in Idaho, Montana, Oregon, Utah, Washington, and Wyoming as well. In 2007, the Company entered Ohio, the country's third largest Control jurisdiction. In early 2008, Southern began operations in Delaware, and also entered the state of Texas, making Southern the only major wine and spirits distributor licensed in each of the top five wine and spirits markets in the United States. On a national basis, the Company employs more than 10,000 team members.
With approximately 400 sales and support staff now working statewide, operating chiefly from two key distribution hubs in Las Vegas and Reno, Southern Wine & Spirits of Nevada is able to field a comprehensive distribution network made up of various executive, warehouse, educational, transportation and training facilities. Taken together, these facilities are geared to providing excellence in customer service for on- and off-premise accounts as well as for brand owners and suppliers. With a state-of-the-art operation, Southern Wine & Spirits of Nevada offers delivery to all of the state's hotels and casinos, as well as chain and independent retailers.
It is not an understatement to say that Nevada, with its Las Vegas and Reno markets in particular, qualifies as one of the most remarkable beverage markets anywhere on earth. "The Las Vegas market, with 35 million tourists, is one of the most exciting markets in the wine and spirits world," says Larry Ruvo, Senior Managing Director of Southern Wine & Spirits of Nevada. "With its legendary shows and its high rollers, the city's outstanding 70 percent on-premise, 30 percent off-premise ratio of sales is most unique," Mr. Ruvo said.
In fact, in a recent survey of the Las Vegas hospitality market, Market Watch magazine, a sister publication to Impact Newsletter, calculated that more than 100 million wine, spirits and beer drinks are consumed annually by home-town residents in combination with the millions of tourists traveling to a town that is open for business, gaming and hospitality 24/7/365. Overall, the Las Vegas market is home to nine of the world's ten largest hotels and now boasts more than 150,000 guest rooms in total, the largest such hotel room count in the world, according to the Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority.
To keep pace with the phenomenal growth of the Las Vegas metropolitan region in particular and the overall Nevada market in general over the last 30 years, Southern Wine & Spirits of Nevada embarked on an ambitious program of steady expansion.
Beginning in 1984, Southern Wine & Spirits of Nevada opened a new sales division called Comstock Wine & Spirits in Las Vegas. The company soon expanded into a statewide presence, when, in the same year, it acquired a small distributorship in Reno in Northern Nevada.
Then, in 1997, in order to properly manage the growing number of premium and super-premium fine wines brands in the company's portfolio, Southern Wine & Spirits inaugurated Battle Born Distributing. By July of 2001, Battle Born Distributing expanded to statewide distribution capability.
In 2002 Southern Wine & Spirits of Nevada moved their Las Vegas facility to a new state-of-the-art 425,000 square foot warehouse, training, educational and entertainment facility.
The new operation, conveniently located near a major interstate interchange just a few miles from the Strip, will serve as home to Southern Wine & Spirit of Nevada's Academy of Spirits & Fine Service - headed by Francesco LaFranconi and its School Fine Wine & Beverage Service - headed up by Jay James, a Master Sommelier who is General Sales Manager of the company's Battle Born division.
These two sophisticated in-house educational institutions - which collectively offer complete beverage training for Southern Wine & Spirits of Nevada sales staff as well as for hotel, resort, casino and off-premise sales and hospitality management executives in Las Vegas and the entire state - represent Southern Wine & Spirits of Nevada's deep and passionate commitment to furthering the hospitality business through increased product knowledge and service skills.
In another sign of how seriously Southern Wine & Spirits of Nevada looks to education as powerful sales tool for the drinks and hospitality industries, the company employs three Master Sommeliers, one of whom, Jay James, is the General Manager of our fine wine division, as noted above.
In addition, The Southern Wine & Spirits of Nevada Academy of Spirits and Fine Service and its School of School of Fine Wine and Beverage Service both work in conjunction with the University of Nevada Las Vegas (UNLV) William F. Harrah College of Hotel Administration. Members of Southern Wine & Spirits of Nevada's sales staff, including Mr. Ruvo himself, have been teaching classes at UNLV since the early 1970s. Indeed, led by Mr. Ruvo, Southern Wine & Spirits of Nevada's commitment to UNLV is deep, with the company having raised millions of dollars in gifts and academic scholarships for students in the University's hospitality program.
Summing up, Mr. Larry Ruvo, says, "Southern Wine & Spirits of Nevada has experienced the growth that it has because of our people, team spirit and dedication to our state." For Southern Wine & Spirits of Nevada, that dedication and team spirit is brighter than ever.


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as far as ranges having 'annoying' rules (from my perspective as a former RO):
There are a lot of stupid and ignorant people that come to ranges as I am sure you know. As an RO, its IMPOSSIBLE to be watching everyone at once. It is unfortunate, but necessary to make rules that limit the safe smart shooters from doing things they want to do, and can safely do, in order to help prevent the stupid people from doing stupid things.
Having said that, I can't stand going to normal indoor ranges with such rules. That's why I go to a more private range with much less people, outdoors, when we can do more or less what we want to as long as its safe.
What I had at my range (it was a university range, so a bit different then your normal ranges):
- a few nights a week was the 'normal' pistol club: there were rules. you may not have gun in holster. may not have gun out of case unless at the line pointing down range, etc.
- also a few nights a week we had 'practical pistol club': combo of IDPA shooting and normal shooting for more advanced shooters. still no having loaded gun in holster unless at the line, but unloaded is fine (ei, normal idpa style rules). note: this was on school property- in a "classroom" in michigan- so CC was legally not allowed anyways
- if the more advance people wanted to do some drawing from holsters, etc during the other days, we would often let them after the normal time was up and the 'noobs' had left
- having said that, this kind of setup is less of an option at normal ranges. people want to come at any point in time and do what they want to do. If I ran a normal range, I would most likely have 2 sections to the range, seperated by wall. one for shooters which have proven to me to be compitent (ei, taken a coarse with me, etc), and one for noobs, each side having different rules.