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This may sound like a silly question, but let's say you want to rock a red lip look to a dinner event.
How do you eat and keep your lipstick intact at the same time? Constant trips to the ladies' to reapply? Lipcote? Or eat really carefully?
I suppose it's best to not even attempt a red lip to begin with, but what if it suits the occasion?
Feb 19, 2011
Get something like the Loreal Infallible Lip Color or the Pro Longwear ones from Mac.. Those go on as a liquid and dry and are completely dry on your lips.. Don't budge or anything. Or if you could find a vibrant red stain, that would work too. I think an actual lipstick wouldn't do well at a dinner event, however. Too risky :P These are awesome alternatives though, I'd say
Feb 19, 2011
This works too: If you lick the part of the cup / wine glass you're sipping from, it will create a barrier so your lipstick stays on your mouth. The tricky part is being discreet while trying to lick a clear wine glass. lol. xoxo
Feb 20, 2011
1. line your lips with a matching lipliner and fill in your lips with it too
2. apply 1 coat of lipstick; blot; then apply another one (it also helps if the formula is long wearing)
3. place 1ply of tissue over your lips and light dust powder over the kleenex; the powders will set the lipcolor and lock it in place
4. you can apply another coat of lipstick if you want
these steps should help it stay! :)
Sep 30, 2013
Maybellines 24 hour stay definitely stays on!! :) its meant to not rub off. works great. literally a hassle to take off!
Oct 18, 2013
Put the lipstick on then get a tissue or toilet paper thats two ply and seperate so its one thin sheet then lightly set that on lips then put translucent powder on the still with the tissue in between.
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G D Adventure time, come on, grab your friends. C D We'll go to very distant lands. G D With Jake the dog, and Finn the human, C D the fun will never end. It's ADVENTURE G TIME!
thank you for this i got it down in a day
Same thanks I played this so fast it was super easy!
Oh my gosh thanks this was so easy to understand I got it in a matter of half an hour with some practice I just started the Uke litterally 2 days ago so this helped a lot!
i played it instantly. Awwwwwwwwwsome!
best cartoon on telly today!! learned this in a few seconds and now I annoy the kids by playing it and they think that I'm just about to put it on telly!! Thanks for the hours of free entertainment!!
This is great thanks, just need to perfect the strumming pattern and I'm done :p
i got it down in 1 minute. o.O
Got this down pat in 3 minutes no sweat!!
I got it the first time I played it, I love the show. This is awesome!
Instant success! ^_^
Lol love it, my friend suggested i should learn it since it was played on the uke, and so its cool!
So easy and sounds so good got it in seconds
Super easy, got it in seconds!
This is an awesome site, I love how they give you the actual lyrics instead of x-ing them out! Very helpful<3
well you guise, I got it down in literally 42 milliseconds. My mum timed it
easiest song to play that is really fun. got it down on the first try
I love this show and I promised my little brother as soon as I get my ukulele this is the first song I will learn!
ahhhhhh this is the bet and sooooooooooooooooo easy
Thank you! I gpt with in 45mins!!!!!
Great tab, only started learning Uke yesterday and got this down in about an hour. Thanking you very much :)
This song is so easy, I got it down the second I played it.
learnt it like this(click) so easy and fun this website rocks
peace out. =)
Awesome song, really easy to play!! :D
More like: D (Adventure Time), A7 (come on and grab your friends), G (We'll g to very), A7 (Distant lands).. etc etc.. play along with the actual song and see..
I started Uke today and learned this SUPER fast. Thanks so much!
The last part of the song (TIME!) sounds too low. Is this right?
Wait…. nvm i got it i just read the notes wrong :3 well great tutorial! Thx :D
Easy! Got this done in -2 seconds!
Well guys I got it yesterday
well i got your mum yesterday she was mining like a little girl she cumed on my willy
I prefer transposing it to +5 I don't know why but either way is simple and awesome
thank you! i got a ukulele for my birthday today and this was the first song i learned
Success! Got it down in 2 min pat!
you suck willy
i learned to play it and sing it in 20 min
its C F G…dont know where you heard that d note..
its C F G…dont know where you heard that d note
I like this song
MATHEMATICAL! So easy to learn!
this is reallllllllly poopy
where in the hell did u hear a D chord
Thnx so much! In my school, there was a ukelele test and because of the help of this website, I got 100 percent! THANK YOU SOOOO MUCH! I LOVE ADVENTURE TIME!
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JACKSON, MI – One spring day in 1985, I walked into the Citizen Patriot building for the first time. I was wowed.
"This is what a newspaper office is supposed to look like," I thought.
Now 85 years old, the Cit Pat building was designed by some of the best architects in Michigan as a showpiece for a proud and vibrant newspaper business. The words written in stone on the front of the building are ample proof of that intent.
Who would have guessed then that the Cit Pat would move out 27 years later?
The company, reorganized in February as a "hub" of MLive Media Group, will move in a few months to the One Jackson Square office building.
Moving is a change of initial plans.
Company leaders announced in November that the first floor of the Cit Pat building would be "remodeled to create state-of-the-art digital workspaces."
Designers started drawing up renovation plans – I saw them with my own eyes – but the remodeling project was dropped.
Corporate honchos do not consult with me, but I believe the problem was simple: No matter what they did, MLive Media Group could not create the work environment it wants in the Cit Pat building. Not without being cost-prohibitive, anyway.
What they want is more like Google world headquarters than a newspaper office. Try doing that at 214 S. Jackson St.
"Are you sad to see them leave the old building?" someone asked last week.
"Not really," I said. And here's why.
Anyone who worked as long as I did in that grand old Cit Pat building regrets seeing it outlive its era. But that's what happened, and it cannot be changed.
Printing presses hummed around the clock when I first stepped into the building. Far too many people worked there for me to remember them all. Customers and employees bustled around, and the jangling of ringing telephones was constant.
Times, technology and industry struggles changed all that.
My career as an everyday employee ended in May, but I still work inside the Citizen Patriot office enough to see what's what.
The Cit Pat building is far too big for current operations and staff. To me, it's depressing to find so much quiet and empty space. The place feels full of ghosts.
MLive Media Group really is a new company. The organization will be better off moving somewhere that reflects what it intends to do in the future instead of what it did in the past.
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Pretty much the same story for me... No weight gain for me either.
Hello All,
I started out the holiday strong. I ran a 5k at 11:30pm on Wednesday night along with my normal workout that day. Then I fasted until Thanksgiving dinner at 3:00pm on Thursday. I started with a huge plate of salad and once that was down I was only able to eat one smallish plate of food which was probably 50% Primal. We then went on a nice walk afterwards.
Starting on Friday thru Sunday I pretty much fell of the bandwagon and ate whatever I wanted. I still walked, did push ups, etc.. but ate just about whatever I wanted (stuffing, pie, etc)
The result Monday morning is the scale was the same but I had heartburn both Saturday and Sunday night and I was gassy like a dying dog all weekend.
Today I am back strictly Primal and currently fasting until Dinner. Going to the gym at lunch time. Looking forward to feeling better and getting my gut back to normal.
I consider this a success because I ate everything I even halfway have missed for the past 10 months and as a result felt like crap. To me this strongly demonstrates that the Primal diet (and I mean diet as type of foods) really is how we were meant to eat.
Maybe I will just pretend it was a 72 hour carb refeed and move on from there :-)
Pretty much the same story for me... No weight gain for me either.
I stayed mostly primal, had dessert on Thanksgiving ( a cream puff and a cookie) and didn't enjoy it at all.I was nauseated and gassy after it.My mother in law kept trying to push dinner rolls, candied yams and desserts at me..I stuck to my guns though..It was back to buisness as usual Friday.I learned alot this week..I learned I don't miss the sugar or the grains like I thought I did.I learned that the emotional ties to the food were not worth the GI upset and nausea afterwards.


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Ilwaco once was a crazy bustling maze of boats and (mostly) men in waders coming and going. Alas, those heady fishing days are gone.
This small Long Beach Peninsula town has revived somewhat, taking advantage of the waterfront with marina condos, restaurants and art galleries. It's worth a visit to the Columbia Pacific Heritage Museum featuring Chinook tribal artifacts, the 1805-06 Corps of Discovery expedition, logging, railroad, fishing and "summer people" exhibits and photos.
You're near two lighthouses and the Lewis & Clark Interpretive Center at Fort Canby State Park, besides that famous stretch of beach. You can follow in the footsteps of Lewis & Clark on the 8.5-mile Discovery Trail wending from Ilwaco to north Long Beach through forest groves to cliffside viewpoints and along the beach.
You won't go hungry with the excellent Mediterranean-inspired Pelicano and Raven & Finch Wine Bar Cafe, both on the waterfront. For more things to do: funbeach.com
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Ilwaco, WA 98624
Details: One cottage. Rate: $295 (check for packages). Upstairs bedroom and bath w/jetted tub. TV/DVD/VCR; wireless. Microwave, small fridge, small deck. No children or pets. Sumptuous breakfast included, served at the Shelburne Inn in Seaview.
Tucked in a cove between the Port of Ilwaco and Fort Canby State Park, this charming hideaway shares a Columbia River estuary full of wildlife and birds with its sister lodging, the China Beach Retreat. Waterfowl, deer and forest critters find an idyllic haven here, as will guests. The cottage is rife with bird prints, paintings, glass etchings, custom decorative tiles and, remarkably, there's still room for a large flat-screen TV. Relax on your deck and look out on a scene that is both dramatic and tender — from Oregon's jagged mountain silhouettes and the vast expanse of the Columbia to those nearby rushes and busy wildfowl. You're blessedly on your own here.
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Don't you just hate it when you pull those carrots or celery out of the fridge and they are all rubbery? Then you have to chuck them into the trash. Annoying! Well the good news is, you can stop that from happening with a few simple little tips.[typography font="Covered By Your Grace" size="28″ size_format="px"]Tips:[/typography]
Chop the Top: For all vegetables that come with stems and leaves, chop those off. Anytime you leave the tops on carrots, beets, turnips etc you will pull the moisture out of the vegetable leaving you with a rubbery mess. So make sure to chop off the tops leaving 1 inch of the green stem, and then you can juice those leaves.
Don't Wash: Washing your veggies before they go in the fridge is a big no-no. Using water just helps to aid in the decay process. The last thing you want is for your veggies to begin to go bad before you can get to them. Wait to wash them until right before you use them.
Place in Plastic Bag: One of the best tips I can give you is to always wrap your veggies in a plastic bag. I save all my bags when I go shopping so I can use them for my veggies later. Whether it is lettuce or carrots, keep those in a plastic bag and then place them in the crisper drawer.
If you forgot to follow steps #1-#3 and you pull out a limp carrot or celery stalk there is still hope.
- Place the carrots or celery into a bowl of ice water and let sit until crisp. Or add cold water to a bowl and sit in fridge with carrots or celery until crisp.
- If you don't have ice – Celery: Cut off a bit from the bottom and stick bottom down in a glass of room temperature water. Wait 2-3 hours until crisp. Carrots: Cut a bit off of the skinny end and place chopped end down into a glass of room temperature water. Wait 2-3 hours until crisp.
- Keep similar items together: Store your root vegetables together, and then store your lettuces together. Keep the things that expire on the same time line together.
- Keep potatoes, tomatoes, pears, apples and other fruits that produce ethylene gas away from other vegetables so they won't make the others bitter.


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A group called Miracles of Modern Science has created Bonjoviver, a mash up of Bon Jovi and Bon Iver.
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Kathleen currently oversees hospital, physician and ancillary contracting with both commercial and managed government payers as well as payment integrity and contract compliance auditing, network development and payer analytics for the five hospital University of Colorado Health system. She's responsible for developing and implementing the organization's overall contracting and network development strategy and partners closely with health plan market leadership.
Kathleen holds a Master's Degree in Public Administration with an emphasis in Health Care Administration from the University of San Francisco and is a Fellow of the American College of Healthcare Executives (FACHE). Prior to moving to Colorado Kathleen was Executive Director of a 650 member independent physicians association (IPA) in San Francisco.
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"That's what really made my decision to come here," Cody said.
"The competition between those two teams really made me excited."
Cody said he personally knows just one player on this year's Auburn team. He and linebacker Eltoro Freeman played together at Mississippi Gulf Coast Community College in 2007. That team went 11-0.
"He's a real good player," Cody said.
Will they talk trash on the phone this week before the game?
"I'm counting on him calling me," Cody said. "Before the season started, he called me talking trash, saying they were going to beat us. I was like, 'Nah. I don't see it happening.' "
Ingram looking forward to Auburn game
Mark Ingram grew up in Flint, Mich. He didn't know much about the Alabama-Auburn rivalry until he experienced it first hand as a freshman last season. He's excited about Friday's game at Jordan-Hare Stadium.
"Everybody knows what a big game it is," he said.
As a Heisman Trophy candidate, Ingram is being touted as the best running back in the nation, but Auburn's Ben Tate (109.9 yards per game) said recently that he's the best back in the state.
"Everybody's entitled to their opinion," Ingram said. "I'm just going to let the way I play talk for me."
Reamer enjoys his first career INT
Cory Reamer waited until his final home game in Bryant-Denny Stadium to get the first interception of his Alabama career.
"It's too long to not have one," the fifth-year senior linebacker said. "I enjoyed that first one."
The pick came on a trick play by the Mocs, a reverse pass.
"Just playing like a free safety back in the old days like in high school, man," the Hoover High grad said. "Felt good just free-lancing out there. The guy just kind of threw it to me. Unfortunately, I didn't get too many return yards."
Reamer ran the interception back 8 yards to set up an Alabama touchdown.
Too many penalties upsets Saban
Although Alabama recorded a rather pedestrian five penalties for 61 yards in Saturday's victory, coach Nick Saban said those mistakes were one of the few areas where the Tide could have done better.
"I think the penalties were real disappointing," he said. "I think there were some undisciplined penalties today that we need to do without that would affect field position."
Twice, Alabama forced Chattanooga into a punting situation before committing a penalty that kept a Mocs drive alive. One was a roughing the passer on Marcell Dareus; the other a rare roughing the snapper call on a punt.
"We certainly gave them some first downs in some critical situations after we already had the stop," Saban said. "So, that's not the kind of thing that we want to make a habit."
Tide prepares for short week
Saban said building an early lead against the Mocs, allowing the Tide to replace its starters, could play a key role in Alabama's short week ahead before playing Friday at Auburn.
"We didn't get a lot of guys beatup today by playing a lot of plays," he said. "So hopefully their recovery and their rest will get us energized earlier in the week so that we can have quality practices as you get ready for the game."
Saban said he prefers to move everything back a day during a shortened week rather than shave recuperation time off at the end.
"You have to get stuff done earlier in the week and try to leave the back end the same so the players can recover and have the same routine at the end of the week."
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THE FEMALE DROVER 2 (MOOROODUC, VIC., AUST.) (Pages 11-21.)
The Firth grants in Moorooduc parish can be seen on the maps I have included. The Balnarring grants are as follow, with Melway co-ordinates indicating location.
J.Firth 10A, 112.3.3, 162 D 8-9
Wm. Firth, 10B, 13B, 235.3.28, 162E 8-11
James Firth, 5, 319.1.23, 162 E-f 5-7 and fronting Balnarring Rd.
James married Ellen Benton, John married Kate Gilligan and William married Ann Scott.
(Ellen Benton was probably living on J.G.Bentons 207 acres (193 A2-4, fronting three roads) about a mile south from James Firths Balnarring land. Kate Gilligan would almost certainly been the daughter of Thomas Gilligans widow Catherine who had 60 acres on the south west corner of Jones and Bungower Rds. Ann Scott was probably the daughter of Alexander Scott, whose allotment 62A, of 90 acres, was adjacent to that of the Gilligans, on the Webbs Lane corner.)
Leila Shaw has kindly provided me with a summary of a letter written by E.Firth following the drowning of a large proportion of the Mornington Football Club that is commemorated by the monument at the bottom of Main St. It follows in italics. Leila said that her address was given as Mornington but as I have found in googling on TROVE, most references to Tuerong and Moorooduc were usually followed by Mornington, so Leilas belief that they were living in Stumpy Gully Rd could be correct. The letter was presumably written to her brother and sister in the Orkney Islands, Scotland.
A LETTER BY E.FIRTH, JUNE 9TH, 1892 by Leila Shaw.
June 9th, 1892.
In a letter to her mother and brother in the Orkney Islands, E.Firth tells of local footballers who went in a boat to play a football game at Mordialloc. On their return journey, the boat capsized and all fifteen men were drowned. She writes that her brother Johns two sons were amongst them. The second son, James, had been getting on very well for nearly three years in his trade with John Jenkins. (She doesnt say which trade.)
The accident happened on 21 May, 1892. It was reported in many newspapers. They were a fine bunch of men.
John was out at sea every day searching for the bodies. All that he found were a coat belonging to one of the lads, at Sorrento, and not so far west he found a singlet, and a cornet that young Coles had been playing.
Further on in the letter, she writes that three bodies were found, one being Johns son and the other two were John Kenna and Mrs Batmans son. The body of James was fully clothed but without boots. A military funeral took place the next day and The Dead March (sic) was played.
Miss Firths information is not quite accurate. Four bodies were found although my source does not specify their names. One of Johns sons must have traveled on the train. James Firth was 17 and John Kemp 18. Leila says that the handwriting was hard to understand and guessed Batman; it may have been Allchin. Victorian Historical Morn. Pen. P.4.
Mrs James Firth died in tragic circumstances in February 1923. Until sixty year later, the train used to cross Moorooduc Rd where the tourist trains are stored when not running to the Watts Rd platform. Middle aged Mrs Firth was driving across Moorooduc Crossing at a moderate speed when she saw a train coming. Moderate was probably a kind way of saying painfully slow; she probably thought the car would bolt if given too much rein! Certain that the car would be hit, she clambered into the back seat (according to a witness) and then jumped out of the car in blind terror. Ironically the car rolled out of harms way while Mrs Firth jumped right in front of the train.
Trove shows that the incident was reported in the Argus as well as in newspapers in Brisbane, Rockhampton, Hobart and Perth.
The Argus of 29-7-1916 reported the death of Sarah Renouf, the widow of Amise Renouf of Frankston, who died on 15-7-1916 at her daughters residence in Dromana. She was 95 and a colonist of 68 years. Strangely all of her children had the surname Sawyer, indicating an earlier marriage. Two of her sons had moved to the vicinity of Neerim but another two were pioneers of the locality known as Moorooduc and a daughter married into a prominent Dromana pioneering family. Her children were: L. and H.Sawyer (at and near Neerim), J.Sawyer(Moorooduc), F.Sawyer (Bittern), Mrs John Hopcraft and Mrs Jonah Griffith.
As my original area of research was between Safety Beach and Tootgarook, I think I can be forgiven for having a hazy recollection of information that I have noticed about places outside this area. I am sure a Renouf was a director of the Frankston Fish Company and it may have been Amise. David Renouf, who bought a block (which had seen many Floods since it was granted) from John Scott and named it Island View, might have been a son or nephew of Amise.
The same depth of knowledge exists in relation to Henry Prosser. I know that Henry was a fisherman and I think he owned farmland as well. Having deliberately ignored the Westernport area (so I wouldnt get side-tracked), Im not even sure whether he was at Hastings or Flinders. The fact that he stood against Alfred Jones in the East Riding of Mornington Shire in 1881 indicates that it could have been the former. He seems to have become a councilor. When some Government big-wigs came to Frankston, Cr Prosser drove them around the district.
It is possible that descendants of Henry later moved to Red Hill. Keith Holmes is adamant that the surname of the Red Hill family was Prossor but Hector Hanson recalls neighbours Norm and May Prosser near Tucks Rd. But what do the Prossers have to do with the Renoufs and Sawyers?
I googled Sawyer-Prosser on Trove in the hope of finding some details of the marriage. There I found information posted by somebody who must be researching the Hodgkinson family. It so happened that Sarah Renouf had been born Sarah Prosser and had married Isaac Sawyer. Jessie Sawyer, her son, who had a farm called Summerlands (Annals 26-2-1921) had a daughter that married John Hodgkinson (born 1898 Daylesford). In the following, all deaths occurred in Victoria where no details appear.
Jesse was born in 1854 and died on 21-11-1925 at Mornington. (So his retirement, at 67, lasted only four years.) He married Mary Ann Coxshall at Frankton on 6-2-1878. She had been born at Moorooduc on 29-4-1858 and died at Schnapper Point in 1909. It is strange that the old name for Mornington appeared in records so long after the name change. A search of Summerlands on trove revealed that Jesse was living in View St, Mornington, at the time of his death (Argus 26-11-1925.) Mary Ann died at Summerlands on 3rd October (Argus 5-10-1909.) Their son, James William died at Mornington on 24-5-1948 (Argus 29-5-1948.)
Ive heard of short pregnancies but this takes the cake (unless Sarahs father was equipped for a bit of rabbiting after the wedding service!) It seems that Jesse was a frisky devil and that Mary Ann was not the type to develop a headache at bedtime. Or perhaps, she had developed a method to make all her pregnancies last only three months and nineteen days! With SP standing for Schnapper Point, here are the details of their fifteen children.
5. JESSIE B. 2-10-1883 Bittern D.14-8-1950 CHATHAM, VIC.
Jessie married James Alexander Johnstone (and other spouses.)
14. GRACE B. 11-2-1895 D.1973 MENTONE. M. John Hodgkinson.
It is likely that Isaac Sawyer had died and his widow had remarried by 1887 when John Renouf Sawyer was born and named.
Mrs John Hopcraft- See the Sawyer land in Wannaeue.
Mrs Jonah Griffith.
I quote from page 69 of Colin McLears A Dreamtime of Dromana.
Jonah Griffith died on July 12, 1933, aged 83. He was married to Sarah Sawyer and had seven children.
1. Maud Alice 1871; 2. Edith Annie 15/11/1873-1953; 3.Delia Sarah 5/3/1874-1951
4. Gertrude18/8/1876; 5. Sylvester Frederick George 1872 (1882?);
6. Harry Lewis Theobald 23/1/1885-27-3-1954; 7. Grace Dora 26/10/1889-1977.
Jonah, known as Doan, was a builder and a professional fisherman working closely with Harry Copp. He lived in Seaview Parade off Jetty Rd (Melway 159 H8).
Colin has plenty of information about the Griffith family. Doans father came from Philadelphia with his wife Sarah and (probably) Watson and Bernard Eaton. Bernard was the gold miner and father of Maud Eaton. Hollinshed lazily called him Mr Eaton because Colin did not know his Christian name.
In 1879 Frederick Sawyer was leasing 142 acres in the parish of Wannaeue from the Crown. There were only three Crown allotments of this size and Professor Hearn already had two of them. This left only 21B of 142 acres 3 roods and 1 perch, granted to Alex. Shand Jun. on 1-6-1909. This land is fairly well indicated by Melway 190 D9 and C-D10.
And guess who had the land north of his. John Hopcraft. Guess who had 178 acres (70 A and B, Balnarring) to the north and east of the start of Tucks Rd. William Hopcraft! Directly across the road (69A Balnarring) was Robert Henry Adams, whose gentlewoman wife, a Hopcraft girl, refused to live at Hopetoun House with the ungentlemanly old sea salt, Captain Henry Everest Adams. Both Frederick and Robert did not extend their licences and their land was granted, respectively, to Shand and M.Byrne. The Hopcrafts moved further south later and the Hansons occupied Williams beautiful house and called it Alpine Chalet. (Sources: parish maps, rates, marriage certificate of Adams-Hopcraft, Adams family legend, Adams Corner Ray Gibb, Memoirs of a Larrikin Hec Hanson.)
In the FAMILY CONNECTIONS entry of my PENINSULA DISTRICT HISTORY, I demonstrate how the bride and groom met each other. In most cases the two families were at some stage very close neighbours. Fred Sawyer was in 1879 the neighbor of John Hopcraft, the man that his sister married.
The grants in this parish are described in the 26-2-1921 entry in the Annals of Moorooduc.
There is a chance that Summerlands was in the locality of Moorooduc rather than the parish of Moorooduc. The former included the parish of Bittern. After careful measurement in Melway, I have concluded that the location of Summerlands as given in the advertisement of 26-2-1921 is nonsense. There is no way it could have been 8 miles from Somerville and still be near Moorooduc. Perhaps the distances were written in figures and a typesetter misread a 3 as 8. The corner of Coolart and Tyabb Rds would be about 5 miles from Mornington and 3 miles from Somerville.
GOMIN Henry, Somerville. (HENRY GOMM!)
This is how the surname Gomm is rendered on the Kingston Heritage website (where his fathers surname is given as Gunn) and in Victoria and its Metropolis: Past and Present, published in 1888. In the latter, Henry stated that he had been born in
Oxford in 1839, had come to Victoria in the same year and had spent his whole life in farming pursuits. There was a Henry Gomm, born in 1835, who came to Australia in early 1838 but no mention of one who was born in 1839 and came to Australia in 1839.
My interest in Somerville Henry Gomm was aroused when I read Leila Shaws The Way We Were because the seaside block now housing Jettys Caf near the Rosebud jetty was granted to W.Gomm in late 1872 and Harry Gomm paid the rates on it in 1900 and 1910, although the directory for Rosebud in 1895 did not list him as a resident.
I thought Henrys 1888 biography was suspiciously brief and that the lack of detail was an attempt to hide something. When I made contact with Henrys great grandson, Murray Gomm, he told me something that increased my suspicion that Somerville Henry was the lad born in 1835. (This Henry was the third child of Henry Gomm who married Hannah Neal and was transported to Hobart in 1836!) The snippet that caused my suspicion to increase was that the family legend had it that that Henry had come to Australia on the same ship as Tommy Bent. The future Premier of Victoria was actually born in Penrith, N.S.W. Was Henry manufacturing a new past?
Thus began an investigation of The Mysterious Henry Gomm that eventually proved that Henry was not related to Convict Henry and that William Gomm (who died at Hastings) and Thomas Gomm (who died at Dromana) were Convict Henrys sons. My book, The Mysterious Henry Gomm, which is virtually a diary of discoveries, starts with information about Rosebud, adds information from Leilas book and then traces the unraveling of the mystery. As it involves much information about Somerville Henry and Convict Henrys families, and St Kilda-Cheltenham as well as Somerville, it will be made available to the Somerville-Tyabb Historical Society, Parkdale Library (Kingston Citys Historian) and the Prahran Mechanics Institute. It includes many photos of Henry Gomms Glenhoya provided by Murray Gomm. As my poem on the back cover relates many events relevant to the Annals of Moorooduc, I will include it here, but there is not enough room for the other 33 pages.
Paddy Gomms two sons were Somerville Football Club legends but were also enterprising in their working careers. Billy rose to a high position in the Lands Department but was also Melbounes biggest S.P, bookmaker. He dressed like a real yobbo on the farm and once drank with Reg Ansett at the Mornington races wearing a shoe and a gumboot! George ran a prize-winning dairy farm in Queensland, gave Colin Hayes his start in racing, and saved a ghost town in N.S.W. and the Somerville Hotel.
The Gomms were related by marriage to two other pioneering families, the Shepherds and the Firths. George Gomm married a Wilson girl from Red Hill.
Convict Henry Gomms son, William, who died at Hastings, left his elderly, first wife and started siring children with a 20 year old.
Henry Gomm was granted land in the parishes of Tyabb and Frankston ( Gomms Rd area) but his Glenhoya where he settled at the north east corner of the parish of Moorooduc was not bought from the Crown.
THE LIFE AND TIMES OF PADDY GOMM Argus issue
When little sis Beatrice went to Graf at Ascot Vale
Paddy gave help so their marriage wouldnt fail;
Her rejection by Henry was a sorry tale
So hed take her food when he went to a Newmarket sale.
Big sis Minnie Ann witnessed three deaths by suicide:
Stan Clarke and Janet Ross when their love expired, 5-11-1921.
And hubby, George Shepherd, when his pain grew too great,
Made use of a shotgun to seal his fate. 28-6-1932.
H.T.Dicker, a bookie of Highfield Estate, took his life,
Mainly due to grief over the death of his wife; 4-9-1901.
And near-blind Herb Murray chose to expire
With the aid of knife and shotgun and fire. 13-9-1946.
Tommy Bent, Paddys dads old mate
By 1906, was Premier of the State
And opening the Annual Fruitgrowers Show
Told why his Brighton cabbages did abundantly grow.
A field day at J.Byrnes Binnak led to orcharding finer, 19-8-1933.
Caldwells St Johns sent the first fruit trees to China, 9-10-1936.
In early Fruit Shows J.Docwras exhibits were beaut
And in 44, fire destroyed the hall for displaying fruit. 9-3-1944.
Of her milk production, J.Hutchins kept tabs;
Best Jersey in the Empire was Somerville Babs. 16-2-1925.
Webb had found great clay on his land;
Construction of his Pottery Works was in hand. 24-3-1902.
Mornington-Somerville played footy in 1937, a depression-caused merge.
If William Coleman had settled here, what a goalkicking splurge!
But his 33 acres were further back 22-7-1925.
And Hastings got the kid known as Deadshot Jack. (Coleman google.)
After 40 years, to replace the school came a push:
In poor condition and now in the bush! 3-10-1912.
Grasshoppers, thrip, black spot kept orchardists hands full
Did I mention J.Firth was gored by a bull? 3-2-1936.
LESLIE M. MOORHEAD wrote centenary books for several schools in the area, and while brief, they present the history of each community very well. The old church that was responsible for the Quinns becoming Presbyterians was built by public subscription but most of the money came from Richard Grice, James Butchart and Mrs Balcombe. Dick Smith berates the lack of generosity from the haves in todays society but a walk through Mornington shows that the Balcombes did much for the community. No doubt Grice and Butchart were just as public spirited.
The church served as the first school. In 1865 an application was sent for aid, the payment of a masters salary and for the school to be brought under the Common Schools Act. It was signed by members of the Blake, Benton, McKay, Matthie, Absolom, Norman, Wilson, Connell, White, Quinn, Andrews, Ricketts, Smith, Flood and Dunkerly families. It was pointed out that there were 64 children living within a two mile radius of the school. An inspector was sent out to assess the situation and reported that most of the inhabitants were woodcutters and labourers rather than farmers but were likely to stay in the area, ensuring a stable population.
Thirty two children attended when the school commenced, so the area had obviously been populated quickly and probably by the offspring of pioneers in areas closer to Melbourne. Ricketts parents had obviously been early settlers near Beaumaris (fine sea). Many of Somervilles pioneers, such as the Gomms and Docwras had come from the same area. Henry Gomm was about 26 at this time and it is likely that many of the settlers were of about the same age.
Blake was a captain, presumably a sailor. Benjamin Benton received the grant for 26A of 32 acres across Moorooduc Rd from Tuerong Rd and much land in the parishes of Bittern and Balnarring. He supplied timber for the Mornington pier.
J.H.Ricketts received the grant for 18a Bittern on 4-6-1884. He might have been leasing this land from the Crown at the time he signed the petition for a school, and being one of the many poor woodcutters on the area that the Inspector described, he probably took about 20 years to pay it off (the value of improvements deducted from the purchase price.)
S.Absolom received the grant for 11A and 11B Bittern, 100 acres, on the north east corner of Stumpy Gully and Graydens Rds. W.S.Absolom was granted 34 A Bittern, of 69 acres, on the south west corner of Coolart and Graydens Rds.
The parish of Bittern was south of Tyabb Rd and East of Derril Rd, which was parallel to Stumpy Gully Rd. Today, Derril Rd curves around the Devil Bend Reservoir whose waters cover the grants of George Dimmock, James Connell, F.P.Wagner, J.Ferguson and R.Turner in the parish of Bittern and part of Rennisons grant in the parish of Moorooduc, where the Schnapper Point Handicap was conducted in 1868.
The following maps show the portions of the parish of Moorooduc that became, along with parts of the parish of Bittern, the locality of Moorooduc.(PAGES 18 AND 19)
Andrew McKay received the grant (title from the Crown) for allotment 5 in section A, 266 acres south of Tyabb Rd between Moorooduc and Derril Rds. Wilson was possibly J.B.Wilson of Tuerong Station or E.M.Wilson, granted 10D adjoining the east side of the Tuerong pre-emptive right. It could also have been Henry William Wilson who lived where Three Chain Road meets the highway before changing his occupation from bullocky to butcher. In view of the fact that the Wilson signature is followed by that of Connell, I believe that it was the founder of the butchering empire who signed.
James Connell received the grant for allotment 12 near the boundary with Kangerong and Bittern parishes. It was probably James whose rates on 50 acres and a hut in Dromana (probably 27C Kangerong at Melway 161 A7) were paid for him by Wilson at the deathknock on 20-1-1865. The rate collector didnt know much. As well as not knowing the given names of Connell and Wilson, he didnt realize that the name Dromana only applied to land west of McCulloch St.
Colin McLear tells us the following. The Connells were tenants on Jamiesons Special Survey in 1851 or shortly thereafter. (Anthony Connells block was probably near the one later occupied by Henry Wilson.) A descendant of Anthonys was a silent partner of Jack Rudduck in Mornington Station in the Kimberleys in the 1950s. Mornington Station was near Fitzroy Crossing 300 miles inland from Derby.
The Connell and White children were among the pupils of a school that operated near the Hickinbotham Winery site in the early 1850s. This school may have closed when the teachers wife died or because two private schools had been opened in Dromana by Quinan and Nicholson. Its closure was probably the impetus for the establishment of a school in Moorooduc.
Anthony Connell was obviously the forerunner of the Connell family in the area. He received the grants for allotments 27 and 29, totaling 337 acres, all or part of which became the rifle range.
In 1910, James Connell, a farmer of Mornington, was leasing 238 acres (lots 3-6 of Bruces) and James Connell, a farmer of Tuerong, was leasing 230 acres (lots 1,2 of Bruces.) This land was just south of Ellerina Rd in the parish of Kangerong. I presume that would be James senior and James junior. Bruces was the northern section of the Survey fronting the Sea Lane, which is now called Bruce Rd, and is the boundary between Kangerong and Moorooduc parishes.
The White and Quinn families have already been mentioned and it was probably a descendant of the next signatory, Smith, who bought Peter Whites farm on Three Chain Rd. I wonder if Matthie should be Mathieson. Margaret Matheson (sic?) was the grantee of 57 acres right across the road from the old church. James Flood had lot 75 of 178 acres on the north west corner of Stumpy Gully and Tyabb Rds and much land south of Tyabb Rd in the parish of Bittern.
Quinn, Norman, Smith and Dunkerly were not grantees, They probably bought part of a pre-emptive right or a Crown Allotment that had been granted to a speculator. Quinns farm was part of Sumners P.R.
Francis A.Gillett received the grant for 11C of 320 acres on 14-4-1874. Gillett Rd and the Woods Bushland Reserve are now on the allotment. Like James Purves, pioneer of Tootgarook Run, Francis Gillett must have been an architect. He designed Manyung at Mt Eliza and then built Sunnyside nearby. (Shire of Mornington Heritage Study P.16.)
He or his son must have married a Van Suylen girl from near Hastings. He was appointed a magistrate of the central bailiwick in 1885, his residence given as Sunnyside..
South of Gilletts grant was 11B of just under 240 acres where a race meeting was probably held in 1868.It was granted to Thomas Rennison, owner of the Schnapper Point Hotel in Mornington, which is now the Royal. When advertised for sale in the Argus of 9-12-1950, it was called Tuerong Valley and the quarry was bringing in four pounds a week.
It has been nearly 20 years since I read Richard Broomes Between Two Creeks but I believe that he mentioned Robert Mailer as a pioneer of Coburg.
I believe that the forerunner of the Sherwood and Counsel families were master nurserymen who obtained their expertise on the estates of the rich and aristocratic in England. The Counsels tended the vineyard of William Grace on Gracefield (Melway 159 H11) and later owned the property. As well as the 520 acres shown here in Moorooduc, the family had a grant of 121 acres in Kangerong and grants in Balnarring and Bittern parishes.
I believe that Isaacs and Benjamin were two money lenders who signed on as joint grantees and were then bought out (with interest) by their co-grantees. Isaacs and Bensilum were granted a block in Fingal and Benjamin and Marks were granted a block on the west corner of Boneo and Pt Nepean Rd at Rosebud. Whitakers descendants may have owned a bus company that did tourist runs to the Peninsula from Melbourne, dropping off and picking up from Dromana, Rosebud, Birkdale* and Rye.(*Tootgarook.)
John Campbell left Dromana with William Cottier (who established the Rye Hotel in Dromana in 1859) soon after they had signed a letter supporting an application for Quinans school to be made a Common School in 1861. They built a hotel east of Lyons St in Tootgarook and gave it the same name, which led to Tootgarook being renamed Rye. Whether this grantee was the Rye pioneer is unclear because he was still involved in this area in about 1889.
It is possible that some of the Bulla family had moved south. Bulla had a high concentration of Irish pioneers, as did Keilor. The Bulla Catholics, such as the Crottys who worked for Brannigan at St Johns (at the end of St Johns Lane), attended St Augustines in Keilor where Hannah ONeil (who married John Sullivan) may have been in the congregation if she was the daughter of William ONeil of Horseshoe Bend. How strange that the names of GILLIGAN, ONEIL and SULLIVAN are among those of Somerville pioneers!
See details under Dalkeith.
Visit The Briars and find out all about this public spirited man who was always ready to support the little mans interests, as the Mornington Shire Heritage Study shows. The monument just off Main St shows the communitys love of this benefactor. His farms name comes from the familys estate in the Channel Isles.
McLENNAN, McKAY, FIRTH, TAIT, JONES, ALLAN, SCOTT.
See the annals of Moorooduc.
on 2012-03-10 13:51:38
Itellya is researching local history on the Mornington Peninsula and is willing to help family historians with information about the area between Somerville and Blairgowrie. He has extensive information about Henry Gomm of Somerville, Joseph Porta (Victoria's first bellows manufacturer) and Captain Adams of Rosebud.


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Tulane opened up Wednesday night, it looked like the Green Wave might get bounced out of the Devlin Fieldhouse gym.
But the difference maker was how it began the second half. After making just seven shots from the field in the opening period, Tulane connected on 50 percent of its looks from the field after halftime and sustained the momentum for a 72-64 victory in front of 1,350. The win secured Tulane a bye in the opening round of the Conference USA Tournament two weeks from now in El Paso.
It's a gratifying moment for the Olive and Blue program.
Less than a year removed from losing the most productive part of its team to six spring transfers, Tulane coach Ed Conroy said he was thrilled to see his team not only comeback from a 16-point deficit to win Wednesday, but also to see the program assured of a finish in the top half of the 16-team league.
"I'm excited. ... I'm excited to come to practice and watch Jay Hook, and Lou Dabney and Jonathan Stark and Tre Drye compete again because they really are into getting better and to see it pay off like it is, obviously like tonight I'm really proud and happy for them. .. For all those guys who stuck with it and either stayed with their commitment or joined on, yeah, I'm really happy for them. I'm really happy," Conroy said.
On Wednesday, the gut check moment began with the 13-4 Tulane run to open the second period.
Jay Hook's 3-pointer with 17:08 remaining sealed the pivotal run and gave Tulane (16-13, 8-6 in Conference USA) its first lead of the night in a doubleheader with women's basketball. Hook's shot pushed Tulane to a 36-35 advantage – something that was short-lived at the time thanks to FAU (10-19, 5-9 in C-USA) playing Tulane tight for the next few minutes – but it vaulted Tulane into a contest it didn't look like it was conscious for in the first half.
Hook's teammate Lou Dabney, however, nearly single-handedly spearheaded the turnaround.
Dabney scored the eight Green Wave points in the run to open the second half, hitting a jumper, a 3-pointer, and then converting a three-point play with a shot and foul shot with 17:37 to go. That sequence shaved the Owls lead down to 35-33.
Florida Atlantic led by as much as 16 points in the first half – accomplishing that at the 8:07 mark of the opening period.
But Tulane's trio of super-shooting guards – Hook, Dabney and Jonathan Stark – finished strong with 17, 18, and 21 points respectively.
"Best backcourt in America," Hook said after the game.
It didn't look quite that way in the first half when Stark and Dabney headed to the locker room with just six points and Hook had just three. Hook missed the first six shots he took from the field. He finished the night with 6-of-14 shooting.
"I would say shooters have bad memories," Hook said of the turnaround.
Pablo Bertone ruled the opening half scoring 16 on 7-of-9 shooting from the floor and finished with a game-high 28 points but was on the bench for key moments in the second half.
He grazed on mid-range jump shots and drives to the basket, getting to that first half total of 16 with the aid of only one 3-pointer.
That helped FAU open the game on a 15-2 run and went to halftime with a 31-23 lead.
"The fact that we never looked at the scoreboard and got down," Hook said. "We always knew we were gong to come back. We had another level to our game."
The Green Wave shot 22.6 percent from the floor in the opening period, connecting on only seven shots from the floor.
The Owls, on the other hand, could not have been hotter. They hit on 59.1 percent of its shots from the field, making 13-of-22 field goals. Tulane forward Tre Drye helped his team close some of the gap before halftime, however. Drye pulled down 10 rebounds in the first half and played with a ton of energy in the final 10 minutes.
"A lot of things were going wrong ... other teams have played hard when they were in a position like that against (FAU) but I don't know if I've seen a team fight like ours did in the final 10 minutes and that was led by Tre Drye," Conroy said. "I thought he was fantastic the last 10 minutes of the first half, just on his will to win, his fight, his aggressiveness, his leadership. All the guys started jumping on and we felt really good at halftime that we had kept it to a manageable number."
Tulane took its cue from Drye and carried it over to the second half. It warmed and hit 14-of-28 shots in the second half and held the Owls to 37.9 percent shooting in the second half.
Bertone scored 12 points in the second half against a revived Green Wave defense. From there "the best backcourt in America" – as Hook coined himself, Dabney, and Stark, rose to the occasion and pressed to the win Wednesday.
"There has been games where we haven't had two of (the guard trio) going and most of the time, we lost those," Conroy said. "(Tonight) I know all three of them were going but they weren't all three going early and our team, even though we scored 23 points in the first half and were in a little bit of a drought, I thought we showed we gained some maturity and some mental toughness and then we found a way to work out of it."
Note: Tulane achieved a milestone in the second half of the game when Jay Hook and Jonathan Stark joined the 400-point club for the season. The duo joined Lou Dabney, who entered the game with 458 points to give the Green Wave its first trio of 400-point season scorers since the 1995-96 season when Jerald Honeycutt, LeVeldro Simmons, Rayshard Allen accomplished the feat.


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The 28-year-old Ypsilanti Township man accused of stealing and crashing a police patrol vehicle last month is scheduled to appear in court Monday.
Two of the numerous charges against Robert James Lewis were dismissed at his preliminary examination May 13 when he was bound over to trial, court records show.
Judge Joseph Burke dismissed a count of first-degree home invasion and a count of third-degree attempted home invasion.
However, Lewis was bound over to circuit court on unlawful driving away in a vehicle, third-degree fleeing and eluding, malicious destruction of police property, failing to register as a sex offender, two counts of resisting arrest and two counts of failing to report an accident.
He is set to appear before Judge David Swartz for a pretrial hearing in the Washtenaw County Trial Court.
Lewis attempted to break into a house with a crowbar in the 800 block of George Place in Ypsilanti Township around 9:13 a.m. April 29 with the intent to assault a man there, police said during the arraignment May 1.
Since Lewis wasn't bound over on home invasion charges, the district court judge didn't believe there was probable cause that it was indeed a break-in.
Lewis reportedly fled in a vehicle before police arrived. A deputy arriving in the neighborhood pulled Lewis over because his vehicle matched the description broadcast on the police radio.
Lewis was put in the back of the patrol car while the deputy was investigating. Lewis is accused of somehow kicking through the partition dividing the backseat from the front seat and took off with lights flashing and sirens wailing, Saydak said.
Lewis then crashed the car into a utility pole less than a mile away, along Glenwood Avenue between Hawthorne and Parkwood avenues, according to police. He fled on foot to the nearby Anderson Villas apartment complex.
Police said a citizen followed Lewis and called police from the apartments. Lewis was soon arrested there without incident.
At his arraignment, Lewis confessed to not remembering anything about that morning because he had been drinking too much.
"I woke up in (jail) with no understanding of what happened the night before," Lewis said. "I was not in my right mind. I would never in my right mind steal a police car. I was totally intoxicated. I was completely intoxicated to the point I blacked out."
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DETROIT, MI - More evidence of the hot market for downtown Detroit apartments came out Wednesday when Motown Construction Partners said they accepted their 100th apartment reservation for Broderick Tower.
Reservations are now at 80 percent for the project. Twenty-four apartments are still available for leasing, according to a statement from Motown Construction.
The grand opening event for Broderick Tower is anticipated to be in October; exact time and date still to be determined.
The developers opened the Broderick Tower doors in November to the public for the first time since the groundbreaking ceremony in April 2011. After guided tours up to the 34th floor and back down to ground level, prospective tenants were able to make reservations for the unfinished apartments in person or via the newly launched website.
They also offered public tours once a month and private tours by reservation on the weekends. The results? Reservations hit 50 percent in March, according to Motown Construction.
"Beal Properties, LLC's brilliant marketing campaign led by Stewart Beal, starting with late fall 2011 tours of the then half-finished project garnered substantial early tenant interest that has translated into very strong leasing," said Fred Beal, managing partner of Motown Construction Partners.
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At this point, it appears as if the Tigers are bidding against themselves.
Less than an hour after ESPN's Jayson Stark reported Detroit's alleged one-year, $7 million offer to Johnny Damon, Fox Sports reports Tigers owner Mike Ilitch authorized a two-year, $14 million offer to the All-Star free-agent outfielder, according to major-league sources.
Damon's agent, Scott Boras, has been seeking a two-year deal ever since Damon reportedly turned down a similar deal the Yankees offered the free-agent outfielder in December.
Detroit's reported offer comes less than a day after the Braves offered him a one-year contract, too. Atlanta's offered contract's total value was less than $4 million, which included deferred money, a Major League source told MLB.com.
If Damon agrees to a deal with the Tigers, it will essentially solidify speculation that Boras reached out to Ilitch, who previously signed several of the agent's other high-profile clients, including catcher Ivan Rodriguez, right fielder Magglio Ordonez and pitcher Kenny Rogers.
Boras' relationship with Ilitch has been documented in many, many, many reports.
Fox Sports, February 11: If Damon agrees to a deal with the Tigers, it will mark the third time in recent years that Boras has coaxed a multi-year offer from Detroit when it appeared that the market had dried up for a star player. Similar scenarios unfolded with Rodriguez in 2004 and Ordonez in 2005."The thing I like to say," Boras told MLB.com of Tigers owner Mike Ilitch, "is that Mike knows his investments. His businesses are successful."


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NEW YORK (TheStreet) -- Martin E. Franklin, chairman of Jarden
On Thursday, Franklin brought the new deal, Platform Specialty Products, to the New York Stock Exchange after acquiring specialty chemical manufacturer MacDermid for $1.8 billion in October of 2013. The structure of Platform Specialty Products' listing on the NYSE is similar to a deal that three struck in April 2012, which returned Burger King Worldwide
In Burger King's listing, Justice Holdings, a London-listed Ackman and Berggruen-backed acquisition vehicle bought a large stake in the hamburger chain from private equity fund 3G Capital for $1.4 billion and used the deal return it to the NYSE. Justice Holdings was dissolved and Ackman's Pershing Square and Berggruen became large minority investors in Burger King, to go with 3G Capital's majority stake.
While 3G Capital moved onto an even larger burger-related acquisition, a $28 billion takeover of ketchup-maker Heinz with financing from Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway
Platform was incorporated in April of 2013 and listed on the London Stock Exchange with the intent to buy companies with an enterprise value of between $750 million and $2.5 billion. The acquisition vehicle found its first deal in a $1.8 billion acquisition of MacDermid, a specialty chemicals manufacturer that had been considering an initial public offering, but instead saw an opportunity to take Franklin & Platform on as a partner.
On Thursday, Platform Specialty Products pulled their shares from the London Stock Exchange and listed them on the NYSE under ticker "PAH." The cast of characters in Platform and their strategy is slightly different to Justice Holdings' whopper Burger King deal.
MacDermid's CEO Daniel H. Leever will run Platform Specialty Products and the company's strategy will hinge on both making acquisitions in the specialty chemicals space and re-investing in MacDermid's core business. Martin E. Franklin of Jarden Corp. is chairman of the company and expects to help Leever, a longtime executive at MacDermid whose family ties to the company stretch back to the 1930s, on strategy and future acquisitions.
Leever said in an interview with TheStreet on Thursday that he chose to sell MacDermid to Platform over an initial public offering because he believed Franklin would be a strong partner in identifying growth opportunities and brokering acquisitions.
In contrast to the Burger King deal, Franklin said he will have a "hands on" role with Platform, especially in making acquisitions, a skill he's demonstrated at Jarden.
Ackman, who was a board member of Justice Holdings and pitched his Burger King deal at investor conferences, won't have any direct ties to Platform. Pershing Square, however, will hold roughly 28% of Platform's outstanding shares, an over $400 million investment, according to Bloomberg data.
Franklin said in an interview with TheStreet he offered Ackman a director role on Platform's board. Ackman declined, however, he recommended Ryan Israel a young partner at Pershing Square as a candidate.
Before joining Pershing, Ryan Israel, 28, was an investment banking analyst in the technology, media and telecom group at Goldman Sachs
Other Platform board members have longer histories on Wall Street.
E. Stanley O'Neal, the oft-criticized former chief executive of Merrill Lynch, will be a Platform board director and will chair the firm's compensation committee. For O'Neal, it will be one of his biggest roles since being unceremoniously fired from Merrill and accused by heirs of the firm's founders of setting the investment bank on a path toward ruin.
O'Neal, however, has built strong ties to the industrials sector since leaving Wall Street. He's been a board member of Alcoa
"He will be a great director," Franklin said.
In November, O'Neal and another board member, Michael Goss, each purchased over 190,000 shares in Platform at $10.50 a share. Platform's founders Franklin and Berggreun also acquired shares in November.
According to filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission, Berggreun will own 4.5% of Platform's outstanding shares, while a vehicle controlled by Franklin will own about 5% of the company's outstanding stock. Pershing Square will own about 28% of Platform's outstanding shares.


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The final college baseball pre-season poll rolled out Monday and LSU had a prominent place, as it had with the four others that came out earlier. The Tigers are ranked No. 3 by the National Collegiate Baseball Writers Association, which is the equivalent of the Associated Press poll in football and basketball.
LSU was behind Arkansas and North Carolina in the writers' poll, and seven other SEC teams joined the Razorbacks and Tigers: Vanderbilt (4), South Carolina (6), Kentucky (12), Florida (15), Mississippi State (16), Texas A&M (24) and Ole Miss (25).
One of LSU's non-conference opponents, Southern Miss, is 32nd in the NCBWA polls.
In previous pre-season rankings, the Tigers were slotted No. 3 by USA Today, No. 4 by Collegiate Baseball, No. 5 by PerfectGame.org and 10th by Baseball America.
The Tigers open the season on Feb. 15 in the first game of a three-game series against Maryland at Alex Box Stadium.


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Dolly Parton's Dollywood bans 'gay marriage' t-shirt
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Perhaps the park staff thought the message ('marriage is so gay') on her T-shirt was homophobic.
The term 'so gay' is a bit ambiguous in today's society, as unfortunately it's generally employed as a term of abuse.
Dolly Parton supports gay marriage equality
Good point Dave. I doubt our Dolly has anything to do with homophobia. Once the complaint has been dealt with, I'd expect a couple of freebies in the post!
well, family sure as hell doesn't have anything to do with being 'gay'.
I come from a family and have a family of my own, yet I'm 100% Gay, Rob…care to explain yourself?
I'm with Jock here, would you care to explain yourself? There are gay and lesbian couples that have children and that falls under the catagory of "family" unless there is a defination of the word family that I don't know about.
I hope Dolly weighs in and fires that employee.
Trouble is Miguel we need to know how the employee saw "So Gay".
As said it is a term used in a negative way so would it be right to sack someone who was actually seeing it as that.
We do need to be careful with this one, wait for the facts before making judgement.
I agree with the couple's motives, but they could have chosen a better slogan for their t shirt. "So gay" is something that I associate with stupid insults and however ironically/cleverly/differently it's used, I don't think that slogan was very good at all.
It'd have been interesting to see if they'd have been asked to hide the slogan if, for example, it had said something simpler and clearer without the reference to an insult.
I thought that too. Uniquely they seem to have found a slogan that has the potential to offend people on both sides of the gay marriage debate.
Whether I'd go as far as blocking their entry to a theme park for such an ambiguous message is another matter,
Reminds me of my nihilist friend's t-shirt back at college which read "Nothing is cool"… can be interpreted one of two ways .
Dollywood didn't block their entry to the park, just asked to turn inside out, whick they did.
Yes, that's a point, specially as it's a real surprise otherwise that anything associated with Dolly Parton would be overtly homophobic.
I can't imagine Dollywood is homophobic it was probably just the one staff member who was homophobic.
It could be argued that the t-shirt was more of an anti gay t-shirt, than a pro gay t-shirt.
The way that the word 'gay' is used in that particular sentence ('Marriage is so gay') has demeaning connotations, and I dont think we should be promoting that word as a negative. We should be promoting it as a positive.
So the park may have been asking the lady to turn the t-shirt inside out because gay people themselves may find it offensive.
The fact that she was a gay woman herself only confuses the issue. Why is she walking around with a t-shirt that could be classed as mildly homophobic?
I'm pretty sure the shirt was intended as sarcasm, probably meaning that hetero marriage is a bad thing (i.e. "gay" in today's small-minded lingo). This same story was on Yahoo news this morning and they included a picture of the lesbian couple, with one of them wearing the shirt in question. The woman wearing it looked just like a young man to me, so I'm surprised the park officials could even tell they were lesbians at all! I suppose it could be that just one person working at the park is offended by the word "gay" no matter how it's used. This park is located deep within the southern bible belt, you know.
I have one comment. If someone else would have worn an anti gay t-shirt, would that have been just as offensive as this one. My point there is a place and time for every thing, maybe this was not the place for this view. Dolly is one of the most giving people so I hope this is not used against her.
I'm not quite sure why the lesbian couple felt the need to politicize their visit to Dollywood. I'm wondering how they would have felt if a Christian organization had been wearing t-shirts that said "It's Adam & Eve, not Adam & Steve". It's basically the same thing, from the other side of the coin. Whether the park would let those people in is another story. No doubt, the park wouldn't let someone wear a shirt that said, "Abortions kill innocent babies."
The park has every right to make sure that their patrons aren't confronted with messages that some might take offense to. Whether it's on a t-shirt, tattoo, hat, etc.
When my partner and I go to Disney World, the last thing I'm thinking about is confronting everyone else with my personal viewpoint. It just isn't the proper venue to be doing that.
David very well stated.
Not true. One aims at granting civil rights at people who have been arbitrarily denied them. The other aims at denying civil rights of arbitraty people.
Dollywood should refuse to get caught up in the argument as to whether "Gay Marriage" is right or wrong. They are in the family entertainment business.
The message on this shirt is clearly intended to be controversial, to elicit a response in a viewers mind, consciously or sub-consciously, with regards to the issue of gay marriage – an inherently "controversial" subject. It may also be construed to be a gay "slur" as in "He is Gay." Either way, the saying "Marriage is Gay" could be seen by some visitors in the park to be offensive and therefore the park employee was correct in asking that the patron to remedy the situation.
Plain and simple!
It was once controversial to suggest that interracial couples should be allowed to marry. I hope you wouldn't condone banning "Marriage is so coloured." because of your racism.
I think the employee acted correctly. I have a 5 year old who reads every shirt and every sign and I don't thnk Dollywood is the place or time I would care to get into some detailed explanation of what that shirt meant and what is gay? Having to explain when it is ok or not to say the word gay. So, gay or not it was tasteless to wear the shirt in my opinion.
I am not sure what you would tell your kid about "gay". "Gay" in this case refers to couples where there are two men or two women. Marriage is denied to gay couples, so this woman, herself a gay woman in a relationship with her partner, is wearing a T-Shirt to tell people her freedom family life is being violated.
I sincerely hope you don't take away your 5year old child's innocence by telling him about the gross details of penetrative vaginal sexual relations when he asks what "marriage" means.
Agreed CT,
Rae would obviously feel impelled to explain into the full sticky details of penile-vaginamy with a 5 yr old… if only a bigot was wearing a slogan tee-shirt reading "marriage is between one man and one woman"
I have a husband, two kids and a grand daughter and we are a family. Anyone saying differently…I pity the fool.
why did you come on this site to tell us this?
I have a mother, a father, a brother, a sister, aunts, uncles, grandparents as well as a son…All indictate a family.
Oops forgot to mention a partner…. That'll get me in the doghouse!
That shirt could be taken both ways, for sure. But if it had been my son's shirt that says "Legalize Gay," I would be so pissed at Dolly. But I suspect Dolly would have said the same thing, too bad-Dolly seems so dear.
Dolly Parton, you have Many lesbian/gay fans, please check into actions of those in your employ. I am a fan of yours, country music in general.
And what if the employee saw this comment as a negative, rather than a positive?
Homophobia is like, soooooo gay!
Ban Dollywood, the Rednecks DizzyLand. Shame on Dolly, now we have to add her to the haters list.
A queer is a queer is a queer and no legislation can change that. Buncha freaks. If you freaks are so proud of s___kin d___ks and doing all other kinds of unnatural things to each other, why don't you just move to San Francisco. Minorities should learn to keep their freakin mouths shut and stop trying to stuff their abominable crap down decent peoples throats.
Well done Dolly, you should be able to speak up for yourself. BTW cracking tits.
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The event featured a spaghetti and meatballs and then pork dinner, more than 150 basket giveaways, silent auctions and other giveaways, including a giveaway that included two piglets. There will also be an upcoming giveaway for a horse.
Proceeds from this event will be placed in an endowment through the Chautauqua Region Community Foundation toward a goal of $2 million that will provide the financial viability of the 4-H program throughout the future, regardless of county and state support. The program has seen its county funding cut in recent years. 4-H has more than 500 youth members and 150 volunteers, one full-time staff member and one part-time staff member.
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In his letter, "Tea Party madness," Timothy J. MacMurdo gets an "A" for his knowledge of the original "Boston Tea Party,"
but is sadly lacking in his knowledge of today's "Tea Party".
This modern "Tea Party" does not have enough strength and votes to pass any legislation through Congress. They need
support from the Republicans and conservatives, but both groups have not made up their respective minds to give that
support - yet!
MacMurdo worries about tax loopholes for the big corporations, but apparently is not worried about this administration's
reckless spending which has created the largest deficit in the history of our nation.
He seems to think that the "Tea Party" is responsible for the demise of government by the people, of the people, for the
people, but the credit for this sad fact belongs to the current Democratic administration.
Never in the history of this nation has a president and members of his party strangled the legislative process for their own
If I were a betting man, I'd bet that MacMurdo screamed loud and long about the Bush deficit, but hasn't raised a whisper of criticism about the administration's (Obama's) sea of red ink - now that's irony!
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I am writing because I think there are too many days of school. At the end of the school year, we don't really do anything. We just have to come, because they say we have to, but we don't really have anything to do. We don't need the extra five days to learn. We just need to use the days we have. Summer should be longer.
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Embattled British publisher Eidos Interactive saw shares drop to a disastrous low of 89 pence yesterday, amid widespread speculation that the crucial continuation of the Championship Manager series could slip into 2005. October is however still the date being mooted, though it is more than plausible that the title - the first from the newly formed Beautiful Game Studios - could require more time to perfect. Eidos are refusing to comment, though retailers are stating November - whilst industry insiders point to a delay until March 2005, which would be bad news for the Wimbledon based PLC.
Beautiful Game Studios are creating a CM game for the first time since Eidos and Sports Interactive fell-out, leaving the publisher with the CM brand but no developer. SI meanwhile have created Football Manager 2005, which is being published by Sega. It will certainly be good news for this title (a November release) if CM does slip, meaning that SI aren't competing against their own former franchise this Yuletide. More as we get it.
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A 60 minute interactive walk conducted by Worn Gundidj at Tower Hill Wildlife Reserve's experienced guides provides an exclusive opportunity to explore the wildlife at the Tower Hill Wildlife Reserve and discover the natural habitat of some of Australia's most iconic native animals. Visitors will engage with guides and nature alike to gain an understanding of traditional aboriginal lifestyles, as well as learning to identify native plants that can be used for food or medicinal purposes.
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THOMPSON, CT. The NASCAR Whelen Modified Tour championship will once again be decided at the Sunoco World Series of Speedway Racing presented by XTRA MART. With very few exceptions, the WMT championship is determined each year at Thompson in the Tour's final race of the season. The October 15th-17th race weekend thus becomes the most important race of the season for the drivers in contention for the crown.
Going into the Sunoco World Series of Speedway Racing, Bobby Santos holds a slim 37 points advantage over seven-time Tour champion Mike Stefanik. Ronnie Silk is only 99 points out and defending champion, Ted Christopher finds himself with a 113 points deficit. All four drivers have visited victory lane at Thompson this season so the competition could not be better.
Santos kicked off his season with a win at Thompson's Icebreaker in April and had another great run, finishing 3rd, in the WMT Bud 150 in August. Stefanik claimed a 3rd Place finish at the Icebreaker and 5th in the August outing. Silk was a bit off his normal pace back in April when he scored an 8th place finish but roared back in August to finish 2nd. Christopher ran to a 4th place finish in the season opener but came back with win a win the August race.
Performances like these bode well for all four title contenders. But, what might be even more telling is how these drivers did in other 2010 Thompson races. Christopher had a brilliant season in the track's Sunoco Modified Division claiming ten wins. Silk, in the same division, also visited victory lane and Stefanik drove his Super Late Model to a win.
All four drivers also competed in the Tour-Type Modified races held at Thompson and Stefanik won two of the four. Silk scored a win, two second place finishes and a disappointing 19th place. Christopher competed in two of the four and secured a 2nd and a 15th position in those outings. Santos ran only one of the four and managed a 7th place finish in the September 2nd event.
When looked at in total, the performances of these drives were impressive and clearly display just how open the run for the WMT championship will be. The pressure will be on when the field assembles for their 150-lap finale at roughly 3 PM on Sunday, October 17th.
For more information on the Sunoco World Series of Speedway Racing, fans are urged to visit the Thompson web site. www.thompsonspeedway.com . Fifteen different divisions of race cars and trucks will compete over the three days of the World Series with the final race of the year being the NASCAR Whelen Modified Tour. Tickets are available by calling the track office at 860-923-2280.


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U.S. stocks rose, sending the Standard & Poor's 500 Index higher for a third day, as earnings from Travelers Cos. to Netflix Inc. beat estimates and new-home sales rose in March.
Netflix jumped 21 percent after acquiring more new subscribers than analysts forecast. Travelers rose 3.6 percent. Coach Inc. surged 12 percent as fiscal third-quarter profit beat estimates and the company raised its dividend. Apple Inc. gained 0.6 percent as investors await its results after markets close.
The S&P 500 rose 0.8 percent to 1,574.83 at 10:02 a.m. in New York. The Dow Jones Industrial Average added 126.10 points, or 0.9 percent, to 14,693.27. Trading in S&P 500 stocks was 13 percent above the 30-day average at this time of day.
"So far so good on the earnings season, which has been fair, but we still need to see a lot of company reports," Mark Kravietz, a Melville, N.Y.-based partner and managing director at HighTower Advisors LLC, said in a phone interview. "We're still in a bull market but in a pause to refresh after the first quarter rally."
The benchmark U.S. equity gauge added 0.5 percent yesterday, rebounding from the biggest weekly drop in five months. The S&P 500 has surged 133 percent from a 12-year low in 2009 as corporate earnings beat estimates and the Federal Reserve embarked on three rounds of bond purchases to stimulate the economy.
Of the 131 S&P 500 companies that have reported their quarterly results so far, 73 percent have exceeded analysts' predictions for earnings, data compiled by Bloomberg show. Profit at S&P 500 companies dropped 1.1 percent in the first three months of the year, according to forecasts compiled by Bloomberg. That would mark the first year-over-year decrease since 2009.
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Dating site OkCupid has discovered a correlation between the amount a man is on Twitter and the length of his relationships
If I was a shrink, I'd be having one of those moments where I'd lace my fingers under my chin and mutter, "Verrrrrry interesting." That reaction would be of the "huh — that's so true but I've never thought of it" variety. After polling millions of their readers, OkCupid has ascertained that guys who tweet tend to have shorter relationships than those who don't. I mean, duh squared. A guy who can't get off his Blackberry long enough to stop sharing his thoughts with the world would be single.
The free online dating site charts the relationship longevity of those who tweet and those who don't. Although the difference is mild, those who don't spend all of their free time on their iPhone, Android or computer tend to last one-to-two months longer than those who do.
"Frequent tweeters have shorter real-life relationships than everyone else, probably via some bit.ly hack," the site says of the 800,00+ people polled, adding, "Unfortunately, we have no way to tell who's dumping who here; whether the twitterati are more annoying or just more flighty than everyone else."
I couldn't possibly weigh in as to whether or not this is fact, but I do know that if I'm out on a date and a guy is paying more attention to his phone than to me — whether it be tweeting or checking emails or texting — there will not be an encore evening out.
True that, ladies, sometimes dates are awful and you're bored enough to whip out your phone…or wish for a lobotomy. But unless he's in the bathroom and you can quickly (and covertly) check your messages, put your phone away. FYI guys, that goes for you, too. What could be more important than living in the present and enjoying where you are?
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Preity Zinta in Surily Goel: Yay or Nay?
April 10, 2013 Chic-Story 180069 reads 52 comments
The pretty Preity Zinta made an appearance recently wearing a Surily Goel suit. The soft colors with a dash of pink were refreshing and perfect for summer as well. She wore her hair loose and topped it off with some diamond and emerald jewelry. While the embroidery is little matronly, she does look good.
Yay or Nay?