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John Hiett, I
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|"John Hiatt", "Hiett"
|Butleigh, Somerset, England
|Died in Bucks County, Province of Pennsylvania
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1a2B) John Hiett [Chr. 27 Apr 1676 Street, s.o. Richard Hiett] d.c. 1727 America
Married: c. 1695 Mary Smith [Chr. 22 Apr 1673 Butleigh] d.o. William and Grace Smith #, d. 1745 Bucks County, Pennsylvania
1) John b. 1696 [probably Butleigh]
2) George b. 1698 [probably Butleigh]
3) William b. 1700 Bucks County, Pennsylvania
John Hiett, arrived in Bucks County, Pennsylvania in the autumn of 1699. On 11 April 1700 he purchased 300 acres of land (Bucks Co. Pennsylvania DB 3, page 27) from John Rowland for 350 p. (The foregoing deed is also mentioned in the 'Inventory of Church Archives, Pennsylvania - Friends' . ( In 1700, John Hiett bought 300 a. of John Rowland, a Quaker, who had given the land for the Watson Graveyard out of his tract previous to 1700. The land had been granted to John Rowland by William Penn in 1673. In 1702, John Hiett sold this 300 a. to Thomas Watson, tanner, for 400 p. (DB 3, p. 88) Deed book 4, p. 15, Bucks County: On April 22, 1706, John Hiett of the County of Bucks in ye province of Pensilvania Yeom'n - bought land granted and confirmed unto Andrew Ellet by patent under the hand of William Penn ". John's wife was Mary Smith, the daughter of William and Grace Smith. William lived in Cecil County, Maryland, where on the 20th of May 1710 his will was proven. Some 50 miles SW of Philadelphia in the north east corner of the State of Maryland, lies the county of Cecil. It was here, in Cecil Co., MD that William Smith wrote this will on the 20th of September 1708, it was proved the 20th of May 1710. He leaves to 2nd son John and heirs 1000 acres, dwelling plantation, to daughter Mary, wife of John Hayet, and granddaughter Hannah, daughter of son William personalty (Personal property) . Executors wife Grace, and son John. Teste: David Evans, William Smith 13:113. The name Hayet becomes Hiett in further court proceedings regarding this will. Both, Hietts and Smiths families were members of the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers) in Somersetshire, England. William Smith, the Quaker, bought a certificate to Philadelphia for himself and wife and family, dated 1699, from Glastonbury Monthly Meeting in Somersetshire, England. It is quite possible, that our John Hiett, immigrant, came to America with his wife's family. William and John Smith, brothers of Mary Smith Hiett, are probably the ancestors of the Smiths show settled in Virginia in the same community and at about the same time as did John Hiatt Jr. and his brother William Hiatt, sons of John and Mary Smith Hiett. Mary Hyot was noted in the Falls Monthly Meeting in Bucks Co. PA, she was received on certificate the 7th of the 6th month in 1706. The History of Bucks Co. Pennsylvania mentioned that the families of Roberts, Foulke, Gilbert, Nixon, Edwards and Hyatt were prominent among those who formed the early community, his was in early 1700's. John Hiett is called a yeoman, in the early deeds of Bucks Co. A yeoman is a freeborn common man of the most respectable class, a freeholder. John is known to have resided in the town of Makefield in Bucks Co. at one time, it is possible that he was a merchant, by which means he acquired the 350 p. (over $1500) to make his first purchase of land in 1700. Andrew Ellet, from whom John Hiett purchased land, was a merchant. He is most probably identical with the John Hyatt who was a witness to the will of Thomas Masters of Philadelphia, Merchant, dated 4 Dec. 1723. Also he was a witness to a will of Abraham Bickley, a Quaker merchant from Burlington, New Jersey and Philadelphia, PA. ( Hiatt - Hiett, Genealogy and Family History, compiled and edited by William Petty Johnson, Payson , Utah )
DD/S/BT/5/7/4 1] John Hiett of Butleigh, yeoman and wife Mary 2] William Hopkins of Butleigh yeoman Assignment of Casway Close (2a) in Butleigh.. [Somerset Archive and Records, BUTLEIGHCOURT PAPERS] Date: 1698
DD/S/BT/6/8/3 1] John Hiett late of Butleigh but now of Pennsylvania, America and wife Mary 2] Henry Coate of Kingsbury, yeoman Mortgage of Hiett's messuage, 6a in the moor, Darksome (1/4a), 4a at East end by Barton river, 2a at Whitewell, 6a at Shilfehedge, 6a at Brownswell Date: 1700.
[Transcribed by Marty Hiatt, CG, August 2012. Obsolete letter forms such as the tailed s, and double f, were converted to modern usage. The tilde was not reproduced over the "con" ending which today would be "tion."]
This Indenture, made the Thirtieth Day of April in the Twelfth Year of the Raign of King William the Third over England etc. Anoq Dm 1700 Between John Hiett late of Butleigh in the County of Somerset in the Kingdome of England But now of the Province of Pensilvania in America Yoman and Mary his wife of the one part and Henry Coate of Kingsbury in the Said County of Somerset Yoman of the Other part Witnesseth That the said John Hiett As well for and in Consideracon of Two hundred pounds of Lawfull mony of England To him in hand payd Before the Ensealing and Delivery hereof By the Said Henry Coate The Receipt whereof Hee the Said John Hiett Doth hereby Acknowledge: And thereof and of every part thereof Doth Acquitt and forever Discharge the Said Henry Coate his heirs Executors and Administrators by these presents As also for and in Consideracon of the Summ of Two hundred and Eleven pounds more of Like mony By the Said Henry Coate Secured To be payd to the Said John Hiett his Executors Administrators or Assigns within the Space of one month Next After the Said Henry Coates first and Next Arrivall in England. In manner following To witt one hundred and Sixty pounds thereof to Daniel Yeates his Executors or Assigns in Discharge of the Mortgage which he hath Upon the hereby granted premises and the Residue thereof to the Said John Hiets order And for Diverse other Good Causes and Consideracons him the Said John Hiet thereunto moveing Hath granted bargained Sold Aliened released and Confirmed And by these presents Doth grant Bargain Sell Alien release and Confirme unto the Said Henry Coates (in his Actuall Possession now being By Vertue of a bargain and Sale To him thereof made for one whole Year By Indenture bearing Date the Day before the Date hereof and by force of the Statue for Transferring Uses into Possession And to his heirs and Assigns All that messuage or Tenement where the Said John Hiet lately Dwelt And all outhouses Barns Stables Buildings yards Backsides orchards Gardens Curtilages and Appurtenances whatsoever there unto belonging Scituate and Being in the Parish of Butleigh Aforesaid And all and Singular those Several Closes or parcels of Land Commons meadow Pasture and Arrable hereafter Particularly menconed That is to Say Two Commons In the Moor Containing Six Acres Lying on the North Side of John Chefes Common one Acre and one Quarter of an Acre Called Darksome Joyning to Alishord four acres at the east end Joyning to Barton river Two acres at whitewell Joyning To Charles Strodes Land Six acres at Shilfehedge Joyning to Henry Popes land Six Acres at Brownswell Joyning to John Chefes Land one pasture Called Ragg Containing Two Acres Joyning to Widow Hilliars Land a Padick Containing Three Quarters of Acre Joyning to William Comers Orchard Forty Acres of Arrable land in the west field And thirty Seven Acres and one Quarter of an Acre of Arrable Land in the East Field Together with all the Said John Hiets Right in all the Commons Adjoyning or in any wise Belonging to the Hereby bargained premises All which Said Closes or parcels of Land being in all by Estimation one hundred and Eight Acres and one Quarter of and [sic] Acre Be the Same more or Less belong to or have been Usually occupyd with the Said Messuage or Tenement and are Situate lying and being in the Parish of Butleigh Aforesaid And now are or late were in the Tenure or Occupation of John Browning or his Assigns or under tenants And all and Singular ways waters Easements water Courses Fishings Fowlings Commons Comodities Priviledges and Advantages whatsoever to the Said Messuage or Tenement land and premises Belonging or in any wise Appertaining or therewith used occupied or Enjoyd reputed or taken as part parcel or member thereof And the Revercons and Remainders Rents and Profits of the Same And all Deeds Evidences and writeing Concerning the premises To have and to hold the said Messuage Lands Tenement And all other the Premisses herein mentioned or Intended to be hereby bargained and sold with their and every of their Appurtenances Unto the Said Henry Coate and his heirs To the Use of him the Said Henry Coate his Heirs and Assigns forever And the Said John Hiett for himself his heirs Executors and Administrators Doth Covenant and grant To and with the Said Henry Coate his heirs and Assigns by these presents in manner following To witt That he the Said John Hiett now is and Standeth Lawfully and Rightfully Seized of and in the Said Messuage or Tenement And all and Singular the Said Severall Closes or parcels of land and other the premises with their Appurtenances of a good Sure Perfect Absolute and Indefeaz[s]ible Estate in Fee Simple And now hath good Right full Power and Lawfull Authority to grant and Convey the Said Messuage Lands and premises with their appurtenances unto the Said Henry Coate his heirs and Assigns forever According to the Purport true Intent and meaning of these presents (the Above said Mortgage to the said Daniel Yeates onely Excepted) And that it shall and may be Lawfull To and for the Said Henry Coate his heirs Executors or Assigns To pay the Said Daniel Yeates his Executors Administrators or Assigns the Said one hundred and Sixty pounds in Discharge of the Said Mortgage And the Same shall be Allowed and Deducted out of the Last Payment of the Consideracon mony above mentioned And That from and after the Payment or Lawfull Tender of the Said one hundred Sixty pounds is made by the Said Henry Coate his heirs Executors or Assigns To the Said Daniel Yeats his Executors Administrators or Assigns According to the True meaning hereof and of the Parties hereunto. It also shall and may be Lawfull to and for the said Henry Coate his heirs & Assigns from tyme to tyme And at all tymes from thenceforth forever peaceably and Quietly To have Hold Possesse [sic] and Enjoy the Said Messuage Lands and premises herein before mentioned and Intended to be hereby granted with their Appurtenances without any Lawfull Lett Suite Trouble or Interuption of him the Said John Hiett his heirs or Assigns or any other person or persons whatsoever Freely Acquitted and Discharged of an from all manner of Incumbrances whatsoever Saveing the Rents and Services from henceforth To grow Due and Payable to the Lord or Lords of the Fee of the Premisses And that the Said John Hiett and the Said Mary his wife and their heirs shall and will at any tyme or Tymes hereafter Dureing the Space of Twenty Years Next Ensueing the Date hereof upon the request and at the Cost and Charges in the Law of the Said Henry Coate his heirs or Assigns make Doe Execute Acknowledge and suffer or Cause to be Done Executed Acknowledged Suffered All and Every Such further and other Act and Acts Conveyances and Assureances in the Law whatsoever for the further and better Conveying and Absolute Confirming and Assureing of the Said Messuage lands and premises hereby granted with their Appurtenances Unto the Said Henry Coate his heirs and Assigns forever Be itt by fine or Fines ^or otherwise Howsoever As by the Councill Learned in the Law of the Said Henry Coate his heirs or Assigns Shall be Reasonably Devised or required So as Such further Assureance Containe no further warranty than is herein Contained And so as the parties To make the Same Be not Compellable To travell Above Twenty Miles from the place or places of their usuall Abode for Doeing thereof And the Said John Hiett for him and his heirs The Said Messuage Lands And other the premises hereby granted with their Appurtenances unto the Said Henry Coate his heirs and assigns Against him the Said John Hiett and his heirs And Against all persons whatsoever Lawfully Claiming or to Claime By from or under him them or any of them Shall and will warrant and forever Defend by these presents In Witness whereof the Said parties to these presents Have Interchangeably Set their hands and Seals hereunto the Day and Year first
Above written
[Signed] John hiett M The mark of Mary Hiett
From: http://genforum.genealogy.com/hiatt/messages/1503.html
This is a major area where any and all researchers on this family should work together, sort and bring all info together. There has been some activity with this news, a professional researcher is onto it too. It would be really great if we could do some tracking forwad also on the siblings of John Hiatt and see how his siblings line go. Also with his uncles and aunts, etc. eventually could bring together the world of Hiatt/Hiett/Hiott/Hyatt, etc.
Read material following, in short: John Hiatt, Quaker immigrant, son of Richard Hiatt, son of John Hiatt, son of Thomas Hiatt, son of John Hiatt, son of Robert Hiatt, everyone should look up the Butleigh site and enjoy. Let's all thanks Bob Senior who has discovered contacted myself and shared this information. Sincerely, Larry Anderson
From Marty email@example.com
The document I ordered from the Somerset Heritage Center just a few days ago, arrived in today's mail. I was so surprised. Mail within the US doesn't move that fast.
The copy is clear, and the penmanship outstanding.
Thank you Mr. Senior for finding our Hiatt/etc. origins in England. And thank you to the Heritage Center for such a prompt, quality response.
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Dear Marty, Larry,
As you can see from my website I am trying to research hundreds of Butleigh people at the same time, from all periods. It is only now and again that I give one surname a bit more deserved attention and that happened with the Hietts a few weeks ago. The surname spelling was entirely a matter of whim according to the scribe or clerk - based on the phonetical pronunciation - there were no dictionaries of surnames, hence the very wide variety of spellings of this surname and also there are misread transcriptions. There wasn't a RIGHT spelling at that time. The John of Butleigh was the son of Richard, grandson of John and great-grandson of Thomas. I still haven't found the link between the Thomas having children in Street [3 miles from Butleigh] from circa 1600 and the Thomas Hiett son of Robert Hiet who was alive in the late 1500's. It shouldn't be impossible but the problem is always time - there will be clues in some of the documents that I have listed but not yet read. I found the older Thomas acting as a witness in a will in Butleigh in the 1560's just today. I live in Butleigh, England and most of the documents are in Taunton [27 miles away] but at the moment I do not have the time to go and look at them - I am also pre-occupied with transcribing many other Butleigh wills, a sons marriage and visiting relatives in Germany! The other John Hiett in Street seems to have disappeared and I haven't tried to follow that line up. Only a limited numer of forenames seem to be used by any one family and John is one of the commonest. He was obviously a cousin of John son of Richard who was in Butleigh. As soon as I can, probably in October, I must transcribe the document 'DD/S/BT/6/8/3 1] John Hiett late of Butleigh but now of Pennsylvania, America and wife Mary' and its contents to see if there are any additional clues there and also 'DD/S/BT/5/7/4 1] John Hiett of Butleigh, yeoman and wife Mary'. Hope this is of some help.
Best wishes,
Bob Senior
On 29/07/2012 12:57, Marty Hiatt wrote:
Dear Larry, Thank you ever so much for sharing the details about Hiatts in Butleigh, England. I've read it all, but just once. Bob Senior has made a wonderful contribution to our cause. Does he live in England?
At the end of your email I found the following summary, but now I'm confused.
Who was the father of our John Hiett, the man who married Mary Smith and immigrated to Pennsylvania? Was it Richard, or Thomas? Was Richard really a Hiatt, or a Hewitt/Huett?
1a2) Richard Hiett [Chr. 10 Jan 1640 Street s.o. John and Alice Hiet?], d. Butleigh 1686? Married: ? ______ unk. [probably died. Before 1688 for children to be taken in by other people – or re-married]
Children: 1) Richard (1a2A) [a Richard Huett Chr. 1 Dec 1667 Street s.o. Richard Huett seems likely] 2) John [Chr. 27 Apr 1676 Street] (1a2B) 3) George [probably Chr.Butleigh post 1677]…
1a2B) John Hiett [Chr. 27 Apr 1676 Street, s.o. Richard Hiett] d.c. 1727 America
Married: c. 1695 Mary Smith [Chr. 22 Apr 1673 Butleigh] d.o. William and Grace Smith #, d. 1745 Bucks County, Pennsylvania
Children: 1) John b. 1696 [probably Butleigh] 2) George b. 1698 [probably Butleigh] 3) William b. 1700 Bucks County, Pennsylvania
Another John Hiett was also Chr. 22 May 1677 Street, s.o. Thomas Hiett.
DD/S/BT/6/8/3 1] John Hiett late of Butleigh but now of Pennsylvania, America and wife Mary 2]
What else should we order and read? I will be very interested in other land records (e.g. How did John Hiett take possession of the land he sold after moving to Pennsylvania?)
Ms. Marty Hiatt, CG Certified Genealogist is a service mark of the Board for Certification of Genealogists, used under license by Certified Genealogists after periodic evaluation by the Board.
- http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/a2a/records.aspx?cat=168-ddsbt_1&cid=-1#-1 [search "Hiett"]
- http://wsom-opc.org.uk/
- http://genforum.genealogy.com/hiatt/messages/1503.html
John came from England with William Penn's second voyage in the fall of 1699. He was a member of the Quaker sect. John's occupation was that of a farmer and a merchant. He was a member of the religious organization, "Society of Friends" in England *** from Marie Ballen- Moulton, Iowa: The Heitts/ Haitts were Quakers in England fleeing from persecution to Holland and Normandy, France. Many family members died before coming to the United States. The Hiatt England History was complied by William Perry Johnson via Marie Ballen. The following is what is known of the life of John Hiatt (name sometimes) spelled Hiett) John Hiatt was born about 1674 in England and was a Quaker before the death of George Fox, the founder of the Society of Friends. When John Hiatt was about twenty one years of age, he married Mary Smith, the daughter of William and Grace Smith. What happened to them after their marriage in England if not clear, but there was a John Hiatt that was taken prisoner in Somerset-shore in 1683 (this date should probably be 1693) at the time the Quakers were persecuted. The record says that he lived in the village of Shipton Mallet. It may be the same John Hiatt, (then again it may not). At any rate, he turned up in Pennsylvania in 1699 and bought 300 acres of land in Bucks Co. for 350 Pounds. His deed is in the Courthouse at Doylestown, the seat of Bucks Co. John was about 26 years of age at this time, (his wife was 22). They had three small sons, the youngest a little baby.-There is another deed on record there, dated 1706 when John Hiatt bought some more land in Bucks Co. on the Delaware River that had originally belonged to William Penn. Further records show that John Hiatt was alive in 1726, but do not show how much longer he lived. His wife, Mary was alive in 1745 at the age of 78, but her death date is not known.-Each of the three sons became ancestors of large relationships. spouse: Smith, Mary Lois (1677 - 1745) - M. 1695 in England
Date: 1699 Place: Shipton-Mallett brought from England to Pennsylvania with William Penn.
Date: 1700 Place: Bucks Co., Pa. 300 Acres for 350 Pounds silver - DB 3, Pg 27, Doylestown, PA
from Hiatt - Hiett Genealogy and Family History by William Perry Johnson, published 1951.
John Hiett, Immigrant Ancestor, was born c 1674 and died after 1726 in Bucks County, PA. He married Mary Smith c 1695. The family belonged to the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers) in England. In the latter part of the 17th century, before coming to the colonies, they possibly fled, as did many of the sect, to Holland or France to escape persecution.
From the book, Hiatt * Hiett Genealogy and Family History 1699-1949 by William Perry Johnson: "Some fifty miles southwest of Philadelphia, in the northeast of the state of Maryland, lies the county of Cecil. It was here, in Cecil Co, MD, that William Smith wrote his will on 20th of September 1708; it was proved the 20th of May 1710. He leaves to "2nd son John and hrs., 1000 A., dwelling plantation --- to dau. Mary, wife of John Hayet and granddau. Hannah, dau of son William, personalty (i.e. personal property --editor). It is quite significant that the John "Hayet" named in the will becomes John "Hiett" in further court proceedings regarding this will. From this evidence, both traditional and documentary, it is reasonably certain that the wife of our John Hiett, immigrant, was Mary Smith, daughter. Further reading of the Quaker William Smith, who brought a certificate to Philadelphia, for himself and wife and family, dated 1699, from Glastonbury MM in Somerset-shire, England. It is possible that immigrant John Hiett came to America with his wife's family.
John and Mary Smith Hiett had 3 sons: John Jr. (c1696-1764), George (c1698-1793 ), and William (c1700-1767).
Early in the 1730's John, Jr., had moved to Lancaster Co, PA, newly created Chester Co, one of the three original counties of PA in 1682 (the other two were Bucks and Philadelphia), but by 1733/34 had removed to VA. George Hiatt remained a few years in Bucks Co, later removing to MD, VA and finally settled in NC. William Hiatt also settled in Lancaster Co, but soon followed his brother John to Virginia."
It appears that our John Hiett probably came to America with William Penn on his second trip to America. Penn's second voyage to PA was in the fall of 1699, and our John Hiett seems to have arrived at about the same time, for it was early that following year that he purchased three hundred acres of land in Bucks County, PA for three hundred and fifty pounds "current silver money." This can be found in Deed Book 3 p 27, Doylestown, the county seat of Bucks County PA 11d 4m 1700. No record is found of John Hiett in Quaker records of PA but Fall MM in Bucks County PA makes one brief reference to a "Mary Hyot" who was "received on certificate" the 7th of 6m 1706". Of John and Mary little is known. He is called "yeoman" A yeoman is a free born common man of the most respectable class, a freeholder. He was probably a farmer, and possibly a merchant. He may have also lived in Maryland.
VIA: http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~jeanlee/Hiatt.html
John Hiett, I's Timeline
April 27, 1676
Butleigh, Somerset, England
April 27, 1676
Street, Somerset, England
Age 19
Bucks, Pennsylvania, USA
February 28, 1698
Age 21
Bucks County, Pennsylvania, Colonial America
Age 21
Doylestown, Bucks County, Province of Pennsylvania
Age 23
Doylestown, Bucks County, Pennsylvania
Age 25
Orange, Virginia, United States
Age 25
Age 27
Orange County, Virginia


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Fantasy Spin: Martin has a good chance to open the season as the starter but will need to perform well to keep his job.
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New MVVM Tutorial
With the increased importance of XAML in Windows 8, I have decided to update my tutorial on the Model View View-Model pattern. As I said in my original MVVM tutorial, I finally understand the pattern well enough to make some intelligent comments about its use.
The tutorial begins by contrasting the traditional "code behind" approach with the MVVM approach and provides motivation for using the MVVM pattern. The tutorial uses a Silverlight client as the demonstration application. We start by building a simple view model that downloads data from a RIA Data Service and exposes the collection of data to the UI. We then add CRUD (minus the update) functionality to the application and show how our view model handles these requirements.
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Occasionally when I was younger I would see shadows of people pass by out of the corner of my eye. At times I would even see the shadow of a person walking by under the crack of my door. When I went to investigate it, no one was there. At one point I saw a naked figure walk around the corner of my hall in a very distorted manner. My question is, were these sightings just trickery of the mind or was something more at play here. Thank you for taking the time to read this, I always wondered exactly what this was.
Greetings: Both should be considered here. We have a tendency to discount what we actually see based upon our surroundings and environmental personage even as children. At the same time we must not just assume that something is there because the curtains moved a certain way. I think however, that in this case you actually saw an entity as you said that it was naked. Contrary to popular belief, a spirit would not appear fully clothed as clothing has nothing to do with the spiritual. Long white gowns or fully dressed apparitions only happen in cases of ghost activity. Yes you did see something. Peace.


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On this episode of The Young and the Restless, Sharon wears a blue and white floral printed dress. Remember that scene in The Nutcracker when Clara watches about twelve little children run out from underneath a woman's enormous hoop skirt? Well with Sharon being a kleptomaniac and all, one has to wonder what she has hiding under hers. Her "misplaced" prenuptial agreement papers, perhaps? Maybe Chelsea's disappearing lip-gloss? It wouldn't even be that surprising if Victor, Jill, Murphy, Phillip, and even Daisy all came scurrying out from under there. After all, they haven't exactly been seen around town these days. And that is why you gotta love a vintage inspired frock. Pretty and so very handy.
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Digital comics: Nemesis or sidekick to comic book culture? Do digital comics spell the end of the traditional comic books? Or, as in eBooks versus physical books and online news media versus magazines and newspapers, is it just another way to consume information and stories? No-one's making me get rid of my CD's and book collection…!
Mirah brings Ruby niceties to Java – currently for writing simple applications in what looks like Ruby but is actually Java, Mirah is still in its infancy with release 1.0 planned for later this year
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Timed to coincide with the long-awaited mass market publication of the #1 national bestselling diet book Fit for Life, this is an ideal companion volume that shows how everyone can devise a Fit for Life diet and overall health plan. Illustrated.
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General David Petraeus, senior U.S. commander of forces in Iraq, claimed the involvement of Iranians is "absolutely nefarious. It is hugely damaging to Iraq. It is fuelling the Shi'a militia side of things and causing enormous problems for Iraq."
According to General Petraeus, Iran has trained "dozens" of fighters in Iran, and provided guns, ammunition and bombs. The general has evidence of secret agents and insists the religious leader of Iran, Khamenei, knows what is going on and supports the effort. In a confusing statement, General Petraeus argues that Iran "can't want a failed state" and wants Iraq to succeed since that would lead to the first Arab Shiite led state in the Middle East.
Let's see if we can get things clear:
- Iran hated Saddam, who had invaded their country. There were no Iranians in Iraq under Saddam, who would have killed them right away.
- Bush ordered an invasion to topple Saddam, the enemy of Iran.
- The United States, led by generals like Petraeus, wiped out the Iraq army which had invaded Iran, and in so doing, destroyed the only army in the Middle East, aside from Israel, which could contain Iran.
- Saddam hated al-Qaeda and there were no al-Qaeda groups during his watch.
- Now, according to General Petraeus, there are Iranians and they are supplying Shiite Iraq leaders in their campaign to wipe out Sunnis.
Based on the above, the only logical conclusions one can deduce are;
- Bush actions directly led to Iranians entering Iraq and becoming involved in terrorist activities.
- Shiite leaders – they control the Iraq government, want Iranians in their nation because they need their help in fighting the Shiites.
- Logic would conclude that General Petraeus should be welcoming the Iranian presence since they support the government of Iraq, which he is trying to maintain in power.
- The Iranians and the Shiites and the Americans all oppose al-Qaeda. Therefore, General Petraeus has another reason to welcome Iranians.
I trust everyone now understands that General Petraeus is confused. Based on Bush actions and logic, the good general should work with Iranians.


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Jean Genet 1910-1986
French playwright, novelist, and poet.
The following entry provides criticism on Genet's works from 1983 through 1998. See also Jean Genet Drama Criticism, Jean Genet Literary Criticism (Volume 1), and Volumes 2, 5, 10.
Genet was a member of the controversial and innovative generation of French writers that included Jean-Paul Sartre, Albert Camus, and Jean Cocteau. The author of several highly acclaimed novels, Genet remains best known for plays in which he utilized the stage as a communal arena for enacting personal fantasies involving sex and death. Genet, whom Cocteau dubbed France's "Black Prince of letters," is linked to such literary figures as the Marquis de Sade and Charles Baudelaire for his use of rich, baroque imagery, his deliberate inversion of traditional Western moral values, and his belief that spiritual salvation may be attained through the pursuit of evil.
Biographical Information
Born in Paris December 19, 1910, Genet was abandoned at birth by his mother, a prostitute, to a state orphanage run by the French Assistance Publique. At an early age Genet was sent to a boys' reformatory for stealing. There he embraced the role of convict and devoted himself to crime, subsequently spending much of his youth and young adult life in European prisons for such offenses as theft, smuggling, and male prostitution. While in prison, Genet began to write novels and produced what critics often regard as his finest work in that genre, most prominently Notre-dame-des-fleurs (1943; Our Lady of the Flowers). In 1948 he was deemed unreformable and threatened with life imprisonment by the French judicial system. Sartre and Cocteau, who discovered Genet's novels earlier in the 1940s, interceded, however, and with the aid of other prominent literary figures obtained a pardon for Genet from French president Vincent Auriol. Genet never again returned to prison. Indeed, he began to enjoy a degree of celebrity that led to the reissuing of his complete works thus far by the prestigious French publisher Gallimard. It was also at this time that Genet's first plays, Les bonnes (1947; The Maids) and Haute surveillance (1949; Deathwatch), were produced, earning Genet acclaim as a playwright. For approximately the next decade, Genet produced a series of dramatic works that were as daring and controversial as his novels had been. After that, however, Genet produced no further major works, devoting himself instead to various political causes, the most enduring being his association with the Palestinian Liberation Organization. He moved to Jordan in 1970 and lived with the Palestinians for the next fourteen years. According to critic Mary Ann Frese Witt, Genet had a "desire to abandon stasis for action, poetics for politics." Genet died in 1986.
Major Works
Genet's novels, which are filled with exotic imagery and metaphors, French street argot, and scatological language, all take the form of non-chronological, semi-autobiographical narratives that alternate between the first and third person. By rejecting the morality of what he perceived to be a repressive, hypocritical society that punishes its least-powerful social castes for crimes universal to all classes of humanity, Genet sought to create in his works what Sartre termed "a black ethic, with precepts and rules, pitiless constraints, a Jansenism of evil." In Our Lady of the Flowers, Genet inverted traditional Western values to replace ideals of goodness with those of evil, courage with cowardice, and love with betrayal. In Genet's universe, to transgress against the bourgeois social order through theft, rape, or murder is to bring moral censure upon oneself; through a socially imposed sentence of death or imprisonment, the criminal is martyred by society and may thus attain the rank of sainthood. This proposition is explored in Genet's second novel, Miracle de la Rose (1946; Miracle of the Rose). Written in La Sante and La Tourelle prisons in 1943, the book describes in lyrical terms Genet's conversion from a submissively feminine "chicken" at the boys reformatory of the Colonie de Mettray to a dominant, masculine homosexual at the prison at Fontrevault, where he was later imprisoned for theft. In contrast with these early works, Genet's later novels do not use prison settings or themes. Querelle de Brest (1947; Querelle of Brest) is a light nouveau roman ("new novel") belonging to a trend of the 1940s and 1950s in which French fiction writers pursued a highly formalistic style of writing. Journal du voleur (1949; The Thief's Journal) describes Genet's experiences in the criminal underworld of Spain, Belgium, and other European countries during the 1930s. In his last novel, Pompes funèbres (1947; Funeral Rites), Genet addresses the moral question of how he may mourn for his dead lover, a French Resistance fighter killed in 1944 by a Nazi collaborator, without violating his opposition to traditional ethics.
For Genet, the theater offered the most effective form for the incantatory expression of dream and ritual. His early plays, while true to the inverted universe detailed in his novels, reflect the influence of Sartre's drama No Exit and his dictum that "hell is other people" in their stylized portrayals of inescapable personal rivalries. Genet's first produced play, The Maids, is based on the actual murder of an upper-class mistress by her female servants. In Deathwatch, Genet blended naturalism and fantasy to relate the efforts of a petty criminal, trapped in a cell with two killers, to achieve the "saintly" designation of murderer. Because, unlike his cellmates, he has not killed without reason or motive, he is ridiculed as morally inferior. Contrasting with these works, Genet's later plays focus increasingly on the illusory nature of social roles as well as the rituals of the theater and their relationship to reality. These works, which are generally regarded as Genet's masterpieces, reveal the influence of Antonin Artaud's Theater of Cruelty in their emphasis on violence and sadism, making use of such theatrical devices as mirrors, masks, extravagant costumes, and choreographed gestures to carry their message. The main character of Le balcon (1957; The Balcony) is Madame Irma, the opportunistic proprietress of a brothel known as the Grand Balcony, where clients act out their fantasies of authority, sex, and power. As a revolution occurs offstage, Irma's clients assume the roles of bishop, judge, general, and police chief, and are persuaded by government officials to assume their fantasy roles in public to restore order among the populace. As the old regime retains its power through these new leaders, Madame Irma's establishment comes to represent a microcosm of society in which her client's fantasies emerge as realities. Uncertain and changing identities are again central to Les nègres: Clownerie (1959; The Blacks: A Clown Show). In this drama fantasies of racial revenge are enacted by black actors, half of whom, painted in whiteface and occupying the stage's highest point, represent white society as blacks view them—pompous, hypocritical, and repressive. Genet's last play, Les paravents (1961; The Screens), which is his longest and most ambitious work for the theater, uses colonialism in North Africa as a metaphor for humanity's worst traits. Although Genet indirectly condemned France's involvement in the Algerian War, the work is not revolutionary in intent. The major contribution of The Screens to contemporary drama lies in its innovative stage technique. As the scenes progress, settings are suggested by camera projections onto a series of folding screens or are sketched on canvases by actors.
Critical Reception
Critical controversy was ever-present throughout Genet's career as a novelist and playwright. Even after he became a well-known figure on the French literary scene, he was threatened with imprisonment and condemned in the press. On the other hand, in 1975 the French Ministry of Culture awarded him a prize, which Genet refused, for a screenplay he had written. In 1983 he received the Grand Prix National des Lettres, and two years later The Balcony, which had been notoriously rejected by several producers when it was initially offered for stage production, was included among the repertory of works performed by the Comédie Francaise, a bastion of French cultural respectability. Thus Genet, a one-time social pariah, had gained recognition and respect as a perverse cultural icon in France and as a major contributor to modern theater throughout the world.
Principal Works
Le condamné à mort [The Man Sentenced to Death] (novel) 1942
Notre-dame-des-fleurs [Our Lady of the Flowers] (novel) 1943
Miracle de la rose [Miracle of the Rose] (novel) 1946
Les bonnes [The Maids] (play) 1947
Pompes funèbres [Funeral Rites] (novel) 1947
Querelle de Brest [Querelle of Brest] (novel) 1947
Poèmes [Treasures of the Night: Collected Poems] (poetry) 1948
Haute surveillance [Deathwatch] (play) 1949
Journal du voleur [The Thief's Journal] (autobiography) 1949
Oeuvres complètes 5 vols. (novels, plays, and poetry) 1951-1979
Le balcon [The Balcony] (play) 1957
Les nègres: Clownerie [The Blacks: A Clown Show] (play) 1959
Les paravents [The Screens] (play) 1961
Reflections on the Theater, and Other Writings (criticism and essays) 1972
The Complete Poems of Jean Genet (poetry) 1981
Treasure of the Night: The Collected Poems of Jean Genet (poetry) 1981
Un captif amoreux [Prisoner of Love] (novel) 1986
The Selected Writings of Jean Genet (collected works) 1993
Splendid's: pièce en 2 actes (play) 1993
Keith Q. Warner (essay date June 1983)
SOURCE: Warner, Keith Q. "Les Nègres: A Look at Genet's Excursion into Black Consciousness." College Language Association Journal 26, no. 4 (June 1983): 397-414.
[In the following essay, Warner compares the characters in Les Nègres with black writers who sought to celebrate their ethnicity.]
It is clear as one reads Les Nègres, published in English as The Blacks, that Jean Genêt has dealt extensively with the problem of black consciousness as it relates to the search for black identity as well as to the psychological expunging by blacks the world over of the imposition of usually Euro-centered values and the attendant problems posed...
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Jerry Aline Flieger (essay date January 1984)
SOURCE: Flieger, Jerry Aline. "Dream, Humor and Power in Genet's Notre-Dame-des-Fleurs." French Forum 9, no. 1 (January 1984): 69-83.
[In the following essay, Flieger examines the sense of "criminal gaiety" in Notre-Dame-des-Fleurs.]
En un clin d'œil je vis un enfant isolé, porté par son oiseau de fer, semant la mort en riant.
—Jean Genet, Notre-Dame-des-Fleurs1
In Saint Genet, comédien et martyr, Sartre reads Genet's first novel [Notre-Dame-des-Fleurs] as a dream that contains its own awakening.2 For Sartre,...
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Rufus Cook (essay date 1985)
SOURCE: Cook, Rufus. "Quest for Immobility: The Identification of Being and Non-Being in Jean Genet's The Balcony." In Myths and Realities of Contemporary French Theater: Comparative Views, edited by Patricia M. Hopkins and Wendell M. Aycock, pp. 115-27. Lubbock, Tex.: Texas Tech Press, 1985.
[In the following essay, Cook explores the connection between the form of The Balcony and the philosophical assumptions that underlie it.]
In the seventh scene of Jean Genet's The Balcony, the Court Envoy, speaking of Arthur who is now dead ("the way one dies here"), says: "He was, like us, haunted by a quest of immobility. By what we call the...
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Mary Ann Frese Witt (essay date May 1989)
SOURCE: Witt, Mary Ann Frese. "Mothers and Stories: Female Presence/Power in Genet." French Forum 14, no. 2 (May 1989): 173-86.
[In the following essay, Witt argues that Genet's works have a subtextual female presence, which serves as a source of destruction for the male-ordered world he presents.]
A feminist writer? It is not a label that interested Genet; it is not one that comes readily to mind in identifying the great poète maudit of our century, yet feminist theorists of the stature of Kate Millett and Hélène Cixous have so argued. Written in the heady early days of the women's movement, Millett's Sexual Politics presented Genet's work as an...
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Sidney Homan (essay date 1989)
SOURCE: Homan, Sidney. "Genet, The Balcony: 'You Must Now Go Home, Where Everything … Will Be Falser Than Here.'" In The Audience as Actor and Character: The Modern Theater of Beckett, Brecht, Genet, Ionesco, Pinter, Stoppard, and Williams, pp. 57-77. London: Bucknell University Press, 1989.
[In the following essay, Homan examines the notions of truth and falsity and the audience's roll in creating meaning in The Balcony.]
In The Balcony, … Genet's inquiry into what role can mean both onstage and in the world offstage confronts us from the very start. To the side of a "Bishop," who is theatrically arrayed in a cleric's cope and the...
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Mark Pizzato (essay date fall 1990)
SOURCE: Pizzato, Mark. "Genet's Violent, Subjective Split into the Theatre of Lacan's Three Orders." Journal of Dramatic Theory and Criticism 5, no. 1 (fall 1990): 115-30.
[In the following essay, Pizzato provides a Lacanian psychoanalytic reading of Genet's works, focusing on Genet's creation of a self in both his life and works.]
In his brief book on Proust, Samuel Beckett states:
The laws of memory are subject to the more general laws of habit. Habit is a compromise effected between the individual and his environment, or between the individual and his own organic eccentricities, the guarantee of a dull inviolability, the...
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Gene A. Plunka (essay date spring 1992)
SOURCE: Plunka, Gene A. "Jules Lefranc: Jean Genet's Eternal Galley Slave and Patron Saint." University of Dayton Review 21, no. 3 (spring 1992): 17-30.
[In the following essay, Plunka observes the connection between sainthood and criminality in Genet's works.]
Jean Genet's life has been a constant immersion in solitude. He described the Mettray reformatory as a time "… que j'étais las de ma solitude d'enfant perdu et que mon âme appelait une mère."1 In Querelle de Brest, Genet, speaking through the diary of Lieutenant Seblon, explained his homoerotic love life in terms of solitude: "Ce regard sévère parfois presque soupçon neux, de...
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Gene A. Plunka (essay date 1992)
SOURCE: Plunka, Gene A. "Victor Turner and Jean Genet—Rites of Passage in Les Nègres." Theatre Annual 45 (1992): 65-88.
[In the following essay, Plunka describes Genet's use of ethnological rites of passage in Les Nègres.]
In Jean Genet's oeuvre, the single element that unites all of his works and provides identity for his risk-taking outcasts is the rite of passage from one mode of living to another. In particular, Genet presents metamorphosis, an apotheosis for his outcasts, who move form [sic] game playing (the world of illusion) to a renewed sense of Being. Genet's protagonists, willfully degraded, begin their self-imposed exile by imitating,...
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Scott Durham (essay date spring 1995)
SOURCE: Durham, Scott. "Genet's Shadow Theatre: Memory and Utopian Phantasy in Un captif amoureux." L'Esprit Createur 35, no. 1 (spring 1995): 50-60.
[In the following essay, Durham explores the role of utopia and collective memory in the political rebellion described by Genet in Un captif amoureux.]
In Un Captif Amoureux, Genet describes the encounter of two conflicting figures of collective memory. Its site, a place once called Maaloul, is to be found in some olive groves near Nazareth. Every year, Israelis return there with their children to see the forest they have sown. Each tree, a memorial to those who made the desert bloom, bears the name of...
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Christopher Lane (essay date winter 1997)
SOURCE: Lane, Christopher. "The Voided Role: On Genet." Modern Language Notes 112, no. 5 (winter 1997): 876-908.
[In the following essay, Lane examines Genet's conception of his play The Maids as a failure in light of his belief that modern theater was too "reassuring" to audiences.]
Que je me vide!
—Genet, Les Bonnes 38
It wasn't easy, or any fun, being obliged to live up to one's image.
—Genet, Splendid's 41
Genet criticism seems increasingly concerned with identifying the transgressive potential of Jean Genet's life and works. We now hear regularly that Genet critiqued...
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Sharon Cornford (essay date 1997)
SOURCE: Cornford, Sharon. "Death, Murder and Narrative Form in Pompes funèbres." In Flowers and Revolution: A Collection of Writings on Jean Genet, edited by Barbara Read and Ian Buchnell, pp. 94-105. London: Middlesex University Press, 1997.
[In the following essay, Cornford explores the connection between the narrator's expressions of his own grief and the construction of his narrated world in Pompes funèbres.]
The themes of death and murder recur like an obsession throughout Genet's texts, but it is in Pompes funèbres that the narrator's preoccupation with mortality is the most graphic and sustained. It is also in Pompes funèbres that...
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Mairéad Hanrahan (essay date 1997)
SOURCE: Hanrahan, Mairéad. "An Erotics of Diversity: The Unsuspected Sex of Genet's Heroes." In Flowers and Revolution: A Collection of Writings on Jean Genet, edited by Barbara Read with Ian Birchall, pp. 63-72. London: Middlesex University Press, 1997.
[In the following essay, Hanrahan argues that Genet's sexual symbolism serves to subvert the traditional phallic cult of desire.]
Genet's second novel, Miracle de la Rose, constitutes a paean of praise to male beauty. The text recounts the narrator's relationship with a series of men whose charm on a preliminary reading seems in direct proportion to their masculinity; the more virile and phallic their...
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Michael Lucey (essay date 1997)
SOURCE: Lucey, Michael. "Genet's Notre-Dame-des Fleurs: Fantasy and Sexual Identity." Yale French Studies, no. 91 (1997): 80-102.
[In the following essay, Lucey examines Genet's approach to fantasy in his perception of sexual identity as it appears in his literary works, particulary Notre-Dame-des-Fleurs.]
Le fantasme est le soutien du désir, ce n'est pas l'objet qui est le soutien du désir.
Fantasy is the support of desire; it is not the object that is the support of desire.
—Jacques Lacan
Le problème n'est...
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SOURCE: Gourgouris, Stathis. "A Lucid Drunkenness (Genet's Poetics of Revolution)." South Atlantic Quarterly, 97, no. 2 (spring 1998): 413-56.
[In the following essay, Gourgouris examines Genet's poetics through his widely known and embraced identity as a criminal and his later association with revolutionary groups.]
It has already become customary to infuse the end of the twentieth century with a forward-looking gaze to some abyssal, unknown, but nonetheless impending end (of "history," of "ideology"). Repressed in the allure of this abyssal gaze is the knowledge that the end is measured by a precisely delineated historical past which shadows it...
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Further Reading
Webb, Richard C., and Suzanne A. Webb. Jean Genet and His Critics: An Annotated Bibliography, 1943-1980. Metuchen, N.J.: The Scarecrow Press, 1982, 600 p.
Secondary bibliography divided into five sections: "General Studies," "The Poems," "The Novels and Autobiography," "The Plays," and "Studies of Genet's Articles, Essays, and Prefaces."
Kennelly, Brian Gordon. "Dissolving the Divine: The Tragedy of Identity in Genet's 'Elle'." Symposium 49, no. 4 (winter 1996): 274-97.
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It is always amusing to see how aspirants to political power change their views of the political system according to the perceived advantage of the moment. Thus the Greens have thrived over recent years because of the existence of the system of proportional representation in the Senate, in the Legislative Council in NSW and in local government.
Now that they have achieved surprisingly good results in some inner urban councils they seem to have been converted to support for a first-past-the-post, winner takes all, system. Their principles are being tailored to fit the occasion - which, of course, is another way of saying that they have no real principles.
Both systems of voting have their merits and defects. Proportional representation ensures that parties (and sometimes individuals) other than the major parties who have significant support in the electorate will be represented and will have some say in the deliberations of the body to which they are elected.
Often they can have the balance of power, as in the Senate, and can exercise considerable leverage by throwing their weight behind whichever of the major parties they think to be in the right on a particular issue. Or they can obtain special privileges for those they represent by in effect selling their votes to the highest bidder (as the Tasmanian Senator Brian Harradine often does).
Sometimes they become partially captive of one of the major parties, and in exchange for influence over that party's policy they become reliable allies. This is what the Greens (and the remaining Democrats) have done in the Senate, where they regularly act as a kind of left-wing appendix to Labor in opposing Government legislation. This produces a leftist bias in the Labor Party beyond what is justified by the internal party balance.
In recent years the Greens have become the stalking horse for the extremists on the Labor left, who share power by staying in the Labor Party but exact obeisance to the Greens as their price.
By contrast, what the Greens now seem to want in local government is a different approach. Because they achieved a remarkably high vote in the inner-city areas they want to operate as if the system were first-past-the-post. Thus in Leichhardt because they scored 35 per cent and four out of 12 seats, they thought they were entitled to mayor and deputy mayor; in Marrickville, where they got five out of 12 they thought they were entitled to mayor.
But the other parties and the independents still had the majority - so they had the right to make the decisions. This is a perfectly proper outcome of the proportional representation system.
What has outraged the Greens and their supporters is that the Labor Party has refused to allow itself to be manipulated by them. The Greens demanded for no good reason loyalty from the party which they regularly abuse and exploit through their allies within it, winning votes by pretending that everything which goes wrong in local government from their point of view is the fault of Labor in state government, and doing their best to inflict harm on Labor candidates at state and federal levels.
This they have been able to do partly because Labor needs their preferences in the much more logical system by which lower house members are elected, preferential voting. Preferential voting has the virtue of giving minorities a say but making a more stable outcome possible.
What has happened in Leichhardt in particular was that at last the Labor and Liberal parties have realised that their political differences are of no great moment in local government matters, and that it makes sense occasionally to vote together or at least make deals on specific issues.
When I was an independent councillor in Leichhardt (for 4 years until last month) I often argued to Labor and Liberals that they should not be bound by partisan antagonism, but at least occasionally do what was best for Leichhardt.
This they have now done. Jamie Parker, the Greens' deputy mayor in the last council and presumed to become mayor in the new council, has been told by Labor and Liberals, along with the minor party, the Community Independents, that grandstanding is not necessarily the best approach to local government.
Power will be shared by the representatives of 65 per cent of the electorate. The Greens will have to rely on persuasion. An eminently sensible and rational result.


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With a stay at Heaven-7 Hilltop & Ocean View in Krabi (Ao Nam Mao), you'll be close to Gastropo Fossils The World Museum and Ao Nang Beach. This condo is within close proximity of Shell Fossil Beach and West Railay Beach.
Make yourself at home in one of the 10 air-conditioned rooms featuring kitchenettes with full-sized refrigerators/freezers and microwaves. Rooms have private balconies. 32-inch LED televisions with cable programming provide entertainment, while complimentary wireless Internet access keeps you connected. Conveniences include desks and separate sitting areas, and housekeeping is provided once per stay.
Take in the views from a terrace and a garden and make use of amenities such as complimentary wireless Internet access. Additional amenities at this condo include concierge services and a picnic area.
Breakfast is available for a fee.
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Guests may use a roundtrip airport shuttle for a surcharge, and free self parking is available onsite.
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- Free WiFi
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- Free self parking
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- Breakfast available (surcharge)
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- Total number of rooms - 10
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One of the many freelance hats I wear is as an editor for Baristanet, a cool local news/magazine website. Local in this case geographically means coverage is centered on Montclair, New Jersey (a neighboring community to mine). Sometimes people refer to Montclair as "writerville" (and sometimes "Brooklyn West," but that's another story). If you tried to count how many writers, editors, journalists, poets, broadcasters, reporters, publishing executives, and other media and literary types live in Montclair, you'd quit long before you even got through those who've made it onto the New York Times bestseller list.
Which brings me to how lucky I am to occasionally assign myself an interview with a local resident who is making literary news. This week, I sat down for a lunchtime chat with D.T. Max, a staff writer for The New Yorker and author of the biography, Every Love Story is a Ghost Story: A Life of David Foster Wallace, a current NYT bestseller.
First, of course, I read Max's book, a thoroughly researched, compassionate and deeply thoughtful account of Wallace's literary and personal life. Wow.
I had previously been more familiar with Wallace's nonfiction, his long magazine essays, and had been too intimidated to plunge into his most significant novel, Infinite Jest. Now, I think I must tackle those 1200 pages.
You can read my Q&A with Daniel Max over at Baristanet.
If you are anywhere near writerville (that is, in Northern NJ), think about stopping in at the Montclair Library cafe tonight to hear Max read and discuss the book and DFW.
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Miners from the West Coast and Huntly who are set to lose their jobs, will converge on parliament today.
More than 400 workers are facing the axe at the Spring Creek and Huntly East mines.
They'll head to the steps of the Beehive today, insisting the fight to save their livelihoods isn't over.
Labour leader David Shearer says he'll be there to greet them, saying the workers and unions have worked hard to come up with a plan.
"They have done some good work in trying to put together some figures, looking at some issues that could make this profitable. They've identified a million tonnes of coal for example that's very easily accessible that they could take out tomorrow.''
Company looks abroad
Solid Energy is looking overseas for an investor for potential new development at its loss-making Spring Creek mine as it moves to cut its workforce by 25 per cent amid a worsening financial position.
New chairman Mark Ford said the state-owned enterprise would know more about talks with possible overseas partners for the underground mine on the West Coast within the next "several" months.
"I think we're talking to many companies both in Australia and in Asia but how real that is I can't tell you at the moment."
Solid Energy has also approached banks to have covenants relaxed as it heads for a $200 million revenue shortfall in the current financial year.
Up to 440 jobs could go on the Coast, at the company's Huntly East mine and among corporate staff, mainly in Christchurch. Restructuring costs will be between $15 million and $20 million.
Spring Creek has lost more than $100 million since it was set up in 2007 and in the past nine months minimal coal production has cost $50 million.
It is estimated it could cost $70 million to return the mine to full production.
Solid plans to keep the mine in "care and maintenance" until its long-term future is determined. This could include restarting the mine, selling or closing it.
Spring Creek's semisoft coking coal is used in steel production, mainly in Asia, and Ford said the international price would need to be $180 to $200 a tonne to deliver a profit. Prices have plummeted since mid-year as demand for steel dropped and he said it was now about $120 a tonne.
The company will concentrate on less costly open-cast operations and underground coal gasification for deep coal and lignite conversion.
Its debt-gearing ratio had been set at 50 per cent but about mid-year it negotiated a relaxation of this to 60 per cent as it battles through financial difficulties.
Yesterday's announcement comes despite reporting better underlying earnings for the past year at its annual results late last month.
Since then global prices have remained low while the New Zealand dollar remained stubbornly high.
Underlying earnings - excluding writedowns - were $100 million, up 16 per cent on the year before, but the writedowns dragged Solid Energy's net profit after tax down to a $40 million loss.
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Date of Stay: July, 2014
One of the nicest KOA campgrounds. The staff are very friendly and always helpful. A great destination campground in the heart of Myrtle Beach but secluded enough to feel like your in a park. Follow GPS directions if coming from the North (Hwy 17) or West (Hwy 501). From the south, turn left at the 6th St light, then right on Oak st at the stop sign, then left on 5th. Otherwise you will never get turned left on 5th (no light) during the summer. We arrived just before closing and were escorted to our campsite. We had made our reservations on-line but called and had our site changed. The web site has somewhat brief/confusing site descriptions, so I would recommend calling the CG office prior to arrival. Easy to back in with some assistance. The sites are adequately spaced, and there's ample shade. We had a gravel back-in site (most others are pine needles) which we like given we park for the week and don't require the pull-through convenience. Each gravel site has a grill, picnic table, and fire-pit ring (they NO longer require a deposit to get a ring). All connections were on the back left within easy reach. Water pressure is good. We didn't use our satellite dish since there was cable. They have not upgraded to HD yet and reception is somewhat poor on several channels. The CG was full all weekend, most of the following week and then again the 2nd weekend. However, they could have planned better for the crowds and had the restrooms serviced more frequently (soap dispensers empty, trash bins running over, no TP). Since we rarely use the CG restrooms it wasn't an issue but worth noting if you were using a tent or cabin. They have nice laundry facilities (10 washers/dryers) but not sized appropriate for the 500 site campground, especially when full. Add to this almost half were "out of order" the ENTIRE week. (Called the office, they said "parts are on order"). The CG is an easy walk or bike ride to the beach. The also offer a shuttle to/from the beach. We rented a golf cart for the week. (Recommend Best Golf carts or Graham). Pool and splash park are really nice, especially if you have young kids. We used the pool and it was not overly crowded and the right temperature. Who knew pirates had so much fun? On Saturday afternoon the staff decorated the wagon and went throughout the park "looking for pirates" with as many kids as would fit on the wagon. Other staff member appeared to be stationed around the park with water guns and would try to soak the kids on the wagon who, of course, also had water guns. When this was over they had a staff member in a dunk tank that the kids could throw a ball (age-distance-appropriate) to try and dunk the staff member. He was fantastic with the kids and made it a hilarious show as a spectator. KUDOS to whomever thought of this event. Overall we give this campground very high ratings.
Date of Stay: July, 2014
Stayed in KOA section over the 4th. Nice campground with lots to do. We had planned on going to Brookville Lake but decided instead to stay at the campground. There's a 3 mile bike / running path also. One negative is that while they do advertise they sell propane, they do so only between 8:30-9:30 AM. Quite odd.
Date of Stay: February, 2014
We considered this KOA when staying in Florida for a month. However, this is not a great location nor a resort atmosphere. The roads into the park take you through an industrial area that is not visually appealing. The entrance to the park is nice but then many of the camp sites back up to the back lots of the industrial park. The sites are very close together. There are several cabins towards the back. On the positive side, there are several spots along the river/bay side. A few did have cement pads and patios. We wouldn't stay here.
Date of Stay: January, 2014
This was an overnight stop on our way to Florida . We typically would stay at the KOA in Valdosta, but it has closed. We quickly found a spot and were able to pull through and not unhook. The office staff was quite friendly and helpful. The park is an easy on/off from I-75.
Date of Stay: January, 2014
This is a nice park. We had a "super" site which is cement pad with patio. The campground is really 3 campgrounds in one. Most sites are grass but it appears all have full hook ups. The workout room is nice. If you are interested in the work out room, I recommend staying in the Oaks park. The highway is close so we did notice some noise but not a significant concern. Lots of activities if you're interested.
Date of Stay: November, 2013
This is a very nice park. Appears to be mostly frequented by purchasers from Lazydays. However, there are other campers here also. The park is well maintained with all paved sites. We had no issues with setting up our satellite, awnings, or slides-outs. We did have difficulty connecting to WiFi. The rate includes breakfast and lunch. The CG has security at night. The only drawback of this campground is they do not have a workout facility.
Date of Stay: July, 2013
7/29/2013 Disney Fort Wilderness Campgrounds. Stayed at the campground for 5 nights while touring Disney. Originally, had planned on staying at another area CG, but changed our plans to be in-park. A great decision. There's many benefits to being in park including Disney Transportation and early park hours -- we took advantage of both. Disney provides transportation within the campground to the Depot, then park transportation from there. There are also ferry boats that run between the campgrounds and Magic Kingdom, The Contemporary, and Wilderness Lodge. Park busses run about every 20 minutes, ferry boats vary from 10 mins to 30 (the ferry to Magic Kingdom is the quickest way to the park). The campground busses will pick you up at the entrance to your section and drop you off at the Depot for the ferry boats. Note there are three Depots on the campground property -- Outpost( Bus Transportation), Settlement (Store and Ferry Transportation, and Meadow Store & Restaurants). We were in section 300 which is walkable to the ferry boats. Due to the heavy rains, there was significant standing water which lead to Mosquitos. (Reason for the 9 rating). Next time we will request a site not in the 300-400 range. However, our site -- "preferred" -- was fine with lots of shade and backing up to the creek. The utilities are located in the center of the site which may require a bit of maneuvering if you have slide outs. We decided we would upgrade to a premium site next time with the extra cement pad to avoid tacking in the sand to our RV. The facilities are what you would expect from a Disney park. They have a large pool, but we didn't use it on this trip. Rate includes $5/day pet fee.
Date of Stay: July, 2013
Stayed here as an overnight stop returning from Florida. Our GPS took us right to the campground. We didn't have reservations and were somewhat skeptical based on some online reviews. However, it was perfect for our overnight needs, close to the interstate, pull through sites (long enough we didn't have to unhook), and very friendly staff. We arrived well after the office closed, but as I was looking at the map, the office light comes on and the manager opens the door and asks if we are needing a site. The office is new and has a well stocked camp store also. We found our site easily and was hooked up in short-order with no adjustments to level needed. There are shaded and open sites. The roads are paved and the sites gravel. There's no grass between the pull thru sites, but that didn't matter to us given the short overnight stop. There are comments relating to the noise from the highway, we did notice it, but, from inside a modern RV, is not an issue. Our rate includes VKR discount.
Date of Stay: July, 2013
This is a nice campground and well maintained. It's close to Disney theme parks and other attractions. The campground is more "urban" than most KOA campgrounds and sits just off 192. The pool and hot tub are well maintained and the park, overall, is well kept. We stayed here for 3 nights prior to moving to Disney Worlds Campground. I didn't see any shuttle buses from the park, but I didn't ask as we wanted to be "on-property".
Date of Stay: July, 2013
This is one of the nicest KOA kampgrounds you'll find. The sites (we had full hook-up, pull through) are adequately spaced and most are shaded. Our site was level and easy to pull into without any problems. The pool and adjacent splash pad are very nice and sized appropriately for the campground. There's 24/7 security at the entrance for added safety. While golf carts are permitted, we didn't see any reckless driving or issues. The CG is about 4 blocks from the beach, the shuttle takes you within approximately 2 blocks. It's an easy walk or bike ride. I didn't rate the cg a 10 because of the internet service. They use Tengointernet which is notoriously bad and this campground is not different. The band width is woefully under-powered to handle the modern day demand. As a result, most online responses drop to a dreadful crawl after 8 am and almost stop in the evenings. If this wasn't bad enough, even our ATT 4G (no LTE service in Myrtle Beach yet) service was disappointingly slow anywhere around downtown (assume due to the seasonal high traffic?). Finally, I have no idea what the MB rules are for Golf cart parking at the public access sites. Even after calling and being transferred 3 times then going to the police station and asking, I never got a definitive answer. We would definitely return.
Date of Stay: July, 2013
We stayed here as a late stop-over enroute to Myrtle Beach. The campground is easy to get to from the I-40. It's definitely a stopover but appears adequate for a couple of nights or to stay if visiting attractions on the west side of Asheville. The sites are fairly close together and, we found some difficultly getting a site that we fit (front to back) so we didn't have to unhitch. The night security man assisted us to locate a more suitable site. The roads are gravel and, due to the sandy soil, I can see where rain would turn it into a soggy site. We were in a full pull through,and the back in sites appeared fine. There was only one site that appeared to be a worker camper with excessive clutter. They have a camp breakfast for $3 on Saturday which was nice.
Date of Stay: July, 2013
Park is a mixture of permanent sites and overnight sites. However, DO NOT let that taint your view of this campground. The permanent sites are very very, well maintained as weekend resort cottages and are well kept. The overnight section is nicely kept and was easy enough for us to maneuver into our site. The sites aren't too close together, but the road is narrow in front so the issue would be if someone was parked on the adjacent spot in front of their camper it could make maneuvering into your spot more challenging. The campground is a short walk or bike ride (they also rent bikes) away. The only negative is the overnight "premium" sites do not have fire rings. They have "public" fire rings (3-4) for these sites. We had a wonderful time including swimming, fishing, golfing, getting ice cream, and just enjoying the Holland weather.
Date of Stay: June, 2013
Absolutely the nicest state park campground. We had a full hookup site. It was easy to maneuver into and a quick hook up. There a plenty of trees in the campground section even though the park is a grassland park. We had bikes and took advantage of the miles of paths to ride. There are various club houses (I assume for rent, but didn't inquire). Getting to the park can be a bit tricky but just follow the website directions or signs off I-65 and its no problem. The staff was extremely friendly. Only issue is, since its a state park, there's no "late" check out. They have a standard Sunday late checkout, but nothing Mon-Sat. We absolutely would stay here again.
Date of Stay: October, 2012
Cereland was formerly a private park that is now open to the public. The campground is very well maintained and is adjacent to the Softball Park and Fitness Center. The park is south/southeast of Columbus in a wooded setting. The sites are wide and easily accessible. While they do not offer WI-FI, we found both 3G (Verizon) and 3G & 4G (AT&T) service was good in the park. The park is beautiful in the fall complimenting the south Indiana countryside. They do not accept reservations, everything is first come – first serve, but we had no problem getting a site in October. Limited laundry facility (2 Washers and 4 Dryers) but was adequate for a quick uniform wash/dry. We couldn't find a place in the park to purchase wood, but was referred to Lowe's about 9 minutes away which we picked up on a trip into Columbus. We highly recommend this park. One note, the water & electric box is at the back of the site, so an extension may be necessary.
Date of Stay: August, 2012
Very nice park about 2 blocks from the beach. It's an easy walk /bike ride or the campground offers a shuttle. The campground rents golf carts but are only allowed inside the park. We rented from Best Golf Carts so we could take it outside the park. The park is located near the heart of Myrtle Beach but you will never know it when you're in the campground. We looked at 5 parks last summer and this was far and away the best in distance between sites, facilities, and beach access (although there are some CG's with direct beach access the sites are packed together. No thanks!!). The main bath house appears new (<2 years) and was very clean with lots of room. Notables: fire rings are available for a $25 refundable deposit. Pool and splash pad are outstanding. Highly recommend you bring ant killer and spray around tires, jacks, stabilizers, hoses, anything that touches the ground. This will keep ants out of your RV. There a two sections. The upper section is nice and has cabins, back-in, pull through, and tent sites. This section is very shaded, although if you have a satellite you can request a site with no trees to obstruct your view. There are a few "park models" for overnight rental in this area, but they appear to be well maintained. The lower section (sites in the 300's) appears older and other than the few sites along the creek appear to be mostly semi-permanent. There are also several "stored" RV's in this section, many appears they've been stored for a long long time. It's too bad they've allowed the storage to detract from an otherwise outstanding park. I rated this park lower because of the Wi-Fi and their lack of restrictions on the types of dogs (pits bulls & Rottweiler's). For the first two days we had persistent Wi-Fi issues. Despite calls to the TengoInternet help desk, emails to their support, the problems continued. It appeared to clear up by the end of day 2 then resurfaced on day 4. The turn-around time noted on Tengo's website is 24 hours, clearly unacceptable for broadband help desk. To be fair, TengoInternet manages the in-park network but the data service is through Horry County Telephone. Either one, or both: could have been source of the problem.