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I called my friend Tammy in Texas to tell her the exciting news – that Lindsay Lohan had been arrested in Santa Monica, Calif., on a DUI charge.
"Are you out of your mind?" she asked. "My entire county's under 10 feet of water, I haven't had power for three weeks, everything is a total loss, the house smells like Tony Soprano's car trunk, and you think I care about some minor-league movie actress? Who is Linseed Lowhand?"
"A flood," I said. "That's horrible. When did that happen? Is Lindsey Lohan's house OK? She doesn't have a second or third home down there, does she?"
"Don't ever call me again," Tammy said, and her line went dead. Water damage is a terrible thing, but I'm pretty sure if Lohan's house were damaged in a flood, we'd have heard about it. Still, I worry about her. I don't know why Tammy thinks she's in the same league with Lohan. A little conceited if you ask me.
I called my old buddy Charlie in California.
"Pretty shocking, isn't it," I said.
"You're not kidding. I've never seen fires like this. They've closed roads from the smoke, and there are emergency vehicles everywhere. Two hundred houses have been destroyed already, and they think it may get worse."
"I don't know what fires you're talking about. I meant the news about that Beckham guy and his wife."
"What are you talking about?"
"The soccer player. David Beckman. Or is it Beecham? Or Breckman? Or is it Peter Breakstone? Something like that. Anyway, he's married to one of the Space Girls or the Spice Cadets or someone. Trust me, even though they've been saying every year for 30 years that soccer's gonna be huge, this time you can bet the farm on it. It's all over the news. Don't you watch the news?"
"I must have missed it. Probably out hosing down my roof or something. Or maybe planning my evacuation route. Gee, really good talking to you. Please lose my number." The line went dead. Maybe fire burned his telephone pole. I sure hope David Beckworth and Space Woman's home is all right, or I'd have seen it on the news. I wouldn't want them to move back to Europe, or whatever country they're from, and disappoint the hundreds of American soccer fans.
I called Al in Atlanta to chat about Britney Spears' meltdown at a photography session for some magazine. He hadn't even heard about it. Am I the only one left who watches the nightly news? What is wrong with people? Should people even be allowed to vote if they don't keep up with current events? I mean, it's not like Al's stupid or anything, but how could he not have heard about this?
"To tell you the truth, I've been worried about the drought and trying to obey all the water-restriction ordinances. It's tough trying to take a shower in 1 gallon of water."
"What drought? That's the first I've heard about it. Do you think it's lack of water that's making Britney act so strange? Maybe the government can get some water to her. Wouldn't that be the right thing to do, Al? Al? Al, are you there?"
The phones are really acting funny today. I called Bob in Boston.
"Wasn't that the most moving thing you ever saw, Eva Longoria's wedding?"
"To tell you the truth, I've never heard of her. I'm following the stories on Colony Collapse Disorder. Seems half the honeybees in the whole country have disappeared almost over night. We need the bees to grow a lot of the crops we need to stay alive."
"Sure, but she married some guy in Paris. Paris! If that's not news, I don't know what is."
"I really couldn't care less who is getting married to whom. Especially people I've never met. Please, turn off the TV and get some help." He hung up.
Turn it off? I think I'm not watching enough television. Because I must have missed all the stories about the effect floods, fires, droughts and the lack of bees will have on Britney, Lindsay, the Blockmans and Eva. When are they going to start reporting on that?
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CHERRY TREE — The Lighthouse Morning Star Ministries, 4886 Route 240, Cherry Tree, held its annual Kids Kamp July 22 to 26 with the theme "Breaking Free."
Kids Kamp was directed by Renea Duke and Pastor Wilda Brown. There were 127 children and 45 adult teachers and workers in attendance. There were Bible lessons on breaking free from fear, lying and bullying other children.
There were many sports including volleyball, basketball, football, cheerleading and kickball.
On the final day, Tom and Toby Dishong brought a petting farm with many different animals including a puppy and cat kennel.
Pastor Ken Brown took each individual class on a hayride. During the Sunday evening program, there were songs and Scripture by each class. Children were awarded medals for the week and the adult teachers and workers received gifts from Duke. The teachers also presented gifts to Duke and Pastor Wilda Brown.
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Layton Dornn opened the Victoria Inn High School Hockey Tournament in style Thursday night.
Dornn scored a pair of goals, with Ty Dornn and Taylor Maloney added singles as the Crocus Plainsmen won their tournament opener 4-2 over the Selkirk Royals at Kinsmen Arena. Michael Smiley and Mac Playford replied for Selkirk.
In Thursday's other games, it was:
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Kyle McDonald, Bryson Kaye, Garett Rempel and Jesse Adams all found the back of the net for the Tigers. Austin Wiebe replied for the Zodiacs.
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Brandon's Vincent Massey Vikings couldn't find a way to score in their opener. Colby Hennan, Mark Klassen and Jack Lotscher all netted goals for the Cougars.
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Today SunGard, Tomorrow HP?Justin Hibbard
I had a pow-wow today with Terry Garnett of tech buyout shop to mull over the $10.8 billion mega-buyout of SunGard Data Systems. The upshot: this is the first of many king-sized buyouts in techland. I'll get to the whys and wherefores in a minute. First, which company do you think is next? I said Computer Associates, to which Terry replied, "Would you rule out HP?"
No I would not. On the day HP announced it was , I mentioned to a colleague that if I were a private equity investor, I would be pouncing on HP. But I was thinking of spinning out the PC business a la IBM or even bidding for the crown jewels: the printer business. Terry was talking about the whole enchilada. HP's current market cap is $57 billion. Assuming a buyout consortium paid the same whopping 40% premium that Silver Lake et al paid for SunGard (a generous assumption for any company), that would put HP's price tag at about $80 billion -- almost eight times the size of the SunGard deal.
Here's why that's not such an insane notion. First, consider the giant cash hordes that many private equity shops are sitting on. Then imagine those hordes growing even bigger. (This amp goes to 11!) This year, The Blackstone Group, Warburg Pincus, and Goldman Sachs Group are each expected to raise a fund in the neighborhood of $8 billion. The Carlyle Group just closed a $7.85 billion U.S. fund.
Now, consider that the debt-to-equity ratio of the SunGard deal was about 3:1. Banks like Citigroup and JP Morgan Chase like to take care of their best customers (i.e. KKR, Blackstone, et al). Plus, for the first time in history, the tech industry has reached a stage of maturity where companies like Sungard have predictable revenues that go cha-ching like clockwork every quarter. Banks like that. With 3:1 leverage, any cash the PE firms can put up from their funds gets quadrupled. If you get a dozen of these firms around a table, pretty soon HP doesn't look so big.
Garnett & Helfrich estimates there are 175 tech companies around the world with $5 billion or more in annual revenues. These are mostly SunGard-like companies--mature, stable, predictable. Just five years ago, many of them looked like growth companies. Now they look like buyout targets. "We're in uncharted water here," Garnett says. "This has been an area that's been taboo -- you don't do big tech acquisitions in private equity." Goodbye, taboo.


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Audiobahn 34 Inch Subwoofer - Anyone ever build a box for one?
I am getting closer to finally putting my Audiobahn 34 Inch subwoofer into a car. It is a DVC, and 2 ohms per coil. I have a US Amps VLX-400 to run for power. I am currently looking for a small donor car to put it in. Figure I will make the back half of the car the enclosure. Thinking of a Honda 2dr Hatchback or turning my 2000 VW Beatle into the donor. Just curious if anyone on here has had any experience with putting one in a car. If so, have you tried a vented box, or sealed? A lot of work in building the box is required, so I figured I better get it right the first time.
What kind of cubes are you looking at for sealed/vented? Must be a sizable box.:eek:
I am guessing 10-15 for sealed. I have approx 10 cubes on a 32" Clarion for my shop speaker. Sounds great. But the Audiobahn requires 5000W per coil, and more airspace. So I would say somewhere 10 to 15 cubic feet. Here is a pic of the speaker. The small blue thing is a CD, and the small sub is a 10-inch RF. It is a monster sub, and very difficult to move around. I took the sub out of the crate to weigh it, and it was 211 LBS. The box will for sure have to have lots of bracing. I did not get a manual for the sub, and the specs on the internet so far are not much.
Wow, impressive photo there! Certainly bracing will be a challenge with that. I wonder if you could make the box some other way, I mean that is something where wood might not be the best for but other materials have their issues as well. That would make the biggest sonotube ever:cool: If I did it right a 36" tube would be 2.122' long plus driver volume for 15 cubes. Providing you could fit that tube in a car and wanted to.
You could/should make steel support, then build normal box. It is sad that you didn't get any spec, btw how much was it?
I am sure it will take some steel bracing. Don't want to hit the brakes and it fly out of the box and decapitate me. That would suck. New, they were something like $5k. I bought it from an audio shop that was using it as a coffee table. They had a piece of glass over it, and that was the table top, with the speaker as the base. Since it was used (as a coffee table) , I got a deal on it. I have had it for about 2 years sitting in the crate in my shop. Just been wanting to put it to use.
goodlord thats a monster !
how big is the coil on that beast? and the width of the spider?
that sub has a surface area of around 907.46 sqin, thats the equivalent of 5.138 fifteen inch subs.
theoretically if youd want to hit around 40-45 hz, id go with 17.98 cuft...with 251.75 sqin of port area...around 18-22 inches long.
only problem i see is that since the surface area is so large , your gonna need extra room for the wave to propagate and develop...
you might want to tilt the mounting angle around 45-30 degrees and load it.
look into PA boxes with an echo chamber.
The coil is 5" if I remember. Model is AWT-34. Measures 36" across. It is crated, and difficult to move, so I can't get you the specs on the spider. I would like to mount the sub vertical. Thinking I might only be able to do so firing backwards because of the wave. I was hoping someone on here had one, or played with one. I have seen 3 pics of them in cars, and the rest of the pics are of them as coffee tables, or in plexiglass boxes in displays.
Reminds me of the speaker from Back To The Future that Marty blows when he strikes his guitar!!! :D :p :rofl:
this box has alot of punch,you may want to make the opening a bit bigger, the slot port is in the back....also, the position of the opening can be placed on the face/corner immediately to the right of the original location, for better spl response.
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Montana Newspaper Decides To Just Delete Old Comments After People Get Upset About Plans To Reveal Their Names
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Now, after there was a public outcry over all of this, the newspaper has come up with what it considers to be a compromise: It will just delete all its old comments, rather than reveal who posted them (thanks to Paul Levy for making me aware of this). Then, going forward, comments will be under the new rules.
Because of certain limitations in our web site's content management system, The Standard initially announced that unless we received requests from individual commenters for previous comments to be removed, earlier comments would as of Jan. 1 be displayed with real names.I like how they claim that they are concerned about it, when the truth is that they seemed ready to push forward with those changes until they suddenly started getting called out for them. Either way, this response seems better than revealing everyone's names, but still seems fairly ridiculous. It also means that a whole bunch of old comments -- some of which may have been valuable -- will now disappear from the newspaper's site. Would it really have been that hard to fix their content management system instead?
We are concerned that such a change would not be fair to those who are either unaware of the pending change or have not contacted us.
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PITTSFIELD, Mass. — Pam Malumphy, an independent candidate for state representative for the 3rd Berkshire District, said her campaign will focus on fice key issues.
Eager to hear from other candidates, Malumphy said she is first to put forth a platform focusing on key issues affecting the district, which covers the city of Pittsfield, as well as the commonwealth:
1) Jobs
2) Education
3) Affordable health care for families, elders and veterans
4) Ethics reform
5) Lifetime appointments and rerm limits
Malumphy said her background has afforded her skills no other candidate possesses in this upcoming special election. As the recent regional director for the Massachusetts Office of Business Development, Malumphy networked with local, regional, state and federal agencies to assist businesses. But she also recognized the state's programs could fall short when it came to assisting small business.
"Most of my dealings were with smaller businesses and I would love to find a way to match state dollars with the local GE Economic Development Fund to create a small loan and grant system for small business," said Malumphy. "It's that kind of thinking that will help support the family and small businesses we want to see grow."
A former teacher with an undergraduate and graduate degree in education, Malumphy served for five years, until 2010, on the local School Building Needs Commission that is looking at city's high schools.
"I understand the growing confusion as to the relationship between the SBNC and the state [School] Building Authority and how residents need more information. The 3rd Berkshire state rep can and should be a strong advocate and positive intermediary with getting the process back on track."
A third issue for Malumphy's campaign is affordable and accessible health care. "Health care is mandated in Massachusetts and the state has taken far too large a role in becoming an insurer rather than advocate for making certain we have affordable and accessible health care."
Lastly, with the last two Democratic state representatives vacating their seats prior to completing their terms and forcing expensive special elections, Malumphy is determined to demonstrate that partisan politics and back-room deals are not acceptable in Pittsfield or on Beacon Hill.
"I can't tell you how disappointed I am to watch what's happened in our district with another vacated state rep seat, the recent lifetime appointment for clerk magistrate, a local administration under continuous ethics scrutiny, and candidates who are vacating their own public responsibilities to run for this seat," said Malumphy. "We need an advocate for jobs, affordable health care particularly for families, our elders and veterans, education, and strong reform when it comes to ethics, lifetime appointments and term limits. It is critical that we have an independent voice on Beacon Hill representing this community's concerns and not pandering to partisan politics and patronage."
Visit VoteMalumphy.com for more detailed information about her platform.
PITTSFIELD, Mass. — The public is invited to attend a pasta dinner fundraiser to benefit the Committee to Elect Peter Marchetti Mayor on Friday, Aug. 26, from 5 to 8 at the Polish Falcon Club, 32 Belair Ave.
Cost is a $15 donation. Tickets may be purchased at the door, or reserved by calling 413-443-1411.
Peter Marchetti is a candidate for mayor. He is currently in his eighth year as on the Pittsfield City Council and as its vice president. He is chairman the council's Finance Subcommittee, serves on Public Health and Safety Subcommittee and is vice chairman of the Community and Economic Development Subcommittee. In addition he serves as the council representative on the Conservation Commission.
Marchetti is very active in the community, serving with the Morningside Initiative, on the board of directors of Pittsfield TV, state Youth and Adult Bowling leagues, the Helen Berube Teen Parent Program, Pittsfield Parade Committee, and many others.
Just this month, the Marchetti Campaign headquarters was opened at 766 Tyler St. Office hours have been expanded to Tuesday through Saturday from 10 to 1 and Tuesday through Thursday evenings from 6 to 8. The office can be reached at 413-443-1411 and 413-443-1220.
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PITTSFIELD, Mass. — In an early demonstration of unity, the three Democratic candidates for state representative for the 3rd Berkshire District, Peter White, Ryan Scago and Tricia Farley-Bouvier, on Tuesday joined striking Verizon workers on the picket line and issued the following statement:
We support without reservation the members of the Communications Workers of America and the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers who are now on strike at Verizon Communications in Pittsfield and throughout the vommonwealth.
We are troubled by the attack on middle-class workers as exemplified by Verizon's demands for a pension freeze, fewer sick days, and far higher employee health contributions. Meanwhile, Verizon is making unprecedented profits with its CEO Ivan Seidenberg earning more than $18 million in total compensation in 2010 – roughly $49,000 every day. Sound economic policy requires us to stabilize our economy and one factor in that is greater pay equity between workers and executives.
The Verizon workers have not asked for increases in their wages and benefits in their contract negotiations, they simply do not want their benefits slashed and their job security put in jeopardy. We appreciate that the company returned to the table and we request that the corporate executives bargain in good faith for a fair contract for working families.
It is our hope that a united front based on the values of the democratic party will bring much needed awareness from the community to the struggle of these workers for a fair contract.
Tricia Farley-Bouvier, Ryan Scago and Peter White
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PITTSFIELD, Mass. — Five are vying for the corner office and 19 are for 11 seats on the City Council.
Daniel L. Bianchi is making another run after being edged out by James Ruberto last election; he will be up against Peter Marchetti, Joseph Nichols, Steve Fillio and Donna Walto in a preliminary election on Sept. 27. Ruberto has declined to run after serving three terms.
Bianchi was a five-term councilor in Ward 6 before the 2009 election. Marchetti is considered to be an extension of the Ruberto tenure and is a four-term councilor at large. Nichols is a newcomer to the City Council, after being elected to Ward 7 in 2009, but has proved to be outspoken on city matters — and often voting in the minority. Walto, a local entrepreneur, took a run for the corner office in 2007 but was defeated by Ruberto, and Fillio has ran in the last two elections but failed to move past the preliminary.
Eight are vying for the four council at-large seats. Incumbents Melissa Mazzeo and Kevin Sherman will face Nicholas Caccamo, Barry Clairmont, Churchill Cotton, Anthony Maffuccio, Thomas Sakshaug and Richard Scapin.
Caccamo threw his hat in for mayor in the last election and Maffuccio was soundly defeated in the preliminary for the Ward 7 seat. Sakshaug is a member of the city's Animal Control and Conservation commissions. Clairmont is a member of the School Building Needs Commission. Richard Scapin is a former city council president and Cotton is a longtime member of the School Committee
In Ward 3, Jeffrey Ferrin is taking on incumbent Paul Capitanio. Ferrin has worked in the city's highway department and is involved with multiple public safety organizations.
Ward 4 will need a preliminary election to trim the pool down to two. James Bronson, Christopher Connell and Ozias "Chuck" Vincelette are all pursuing the seat that is currently filled by Michael L. Ward, who is not running for re-election. Bronson is the current president of the Berkshire County Republican Association. Vincelette sat in the Ward 4 seat until 2005 when he was beaten by Ward.
Incumbent Jonathan Lothrop will face a challenge in Joe Breault for Ward 5. Incumbent Christine Yon is uncontested in Ward 1, incumbent John Krol is uncontested in Ward 6 and newcomer Anthony Simonelli will be uncontested for Ward 7, which is being vacated by Nichols for a run for mayor.
Seven people have entered the race for School committee. Kathy Amuso, Alf Barbalunga, Daniel Elias, Jonathan King, Terry Kinnas, Kathy Yon and James Conant will all be after six seats. Linda Tyler is uncontested for city clerk.
As of Tuesday, all of the nomination signatures have been certified accept for Walto. The election schedule is available below.
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PITTSFIELD, Mass. — Mark Miller, Green-Rainbow candidate for the 3rd Berkshire District, has filed his nomination papers with the state Elections Office in Springfield.
This is Miller's second bid for the House seat; he lost last fall to incumbent Christopher N. Speranzo, who has since quit to become clerk-magistrate of the Central Berkshire District Court.
A left, Miller, former editor of The Berkshire Eagle, signs his paperwork in Springfield in this submitted photo.
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For 100 years, Casa Loma has sat just a short, steep ridge away from the intersection of Spadina and Davenport roads, and gazed out over downtown Toronto. But, at one time, the view looking south from what is now the castle grounds would have been all water as far as the eye could see; in the very late Pleistocene epoch, Davenport was the beach above vast Lake Iroquois.
"I think a lot of people go up and down that ridge every day and don't even give much thought to it," says Rob MacDonald of heritage conservation consultants Archaeological Services Inc. "But that was [a] shoreline 12,500 years ago."
Some 8,000 years before that, a massive glacier called the Laurentide Ice Sheet covered most of Canada, and had managed to extend as far as present-day Ohio at the tail end of its slow creep south. Then it began to melt and retreat, and, eventually, huge basins in the Great Lakes region, formed by previous glaciers and further gouged out under the movement of the Laurentide, would fill with meltwater.
An early version of Lake Erie appeared. Further west, the lakes we now call Michigan and Huron made up the bulk of glacial Lake Algonquin. Lake Iroquois formed in the basin of today's Lake Ontario; it was bounded by ice to the northeast and drained through New York state's Mohawk River.
The glacier continued to recede.
By about 12,000 years ago, the ice over the St. Lawrence River had disappeared. Lake Iroquois, finding this new, lower outlet, drained quickly and dramatically to as much as 85 metres below present-day water levels; an ancient shoreline now found at the bottom of Lake Ontario is evidence of this.
This smaller lake would not last long, either. After millennia beneath a heavy glacier more than a kilometre thick, Toronto was going through a process called isostatic rebound.
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Heritage Open Days in Wirral
The Heritage Open Days 2-10th September 2017, are an opportunity to acknowledge and celebrate the local buildings that we often pass everyday with out a second glance. It is an opportunity for the doors of history to be opened and the heritage inside tobe revealed and celebrated.
Every year, in September, the Heritage Open Days offer an opportunity to visit the buildings either not normally open to the general public or free access to properties that usually charge for admission. This is a fabulous opportunity for the public to discover the heritage that shapes where we live now, and the lives of our forefathers. Whether it is lighthouses, places of worship or iconic buildings, they all reveal the footprints of the past.
The 2017 calendar and brochure will be out in due course but for now please view the 2016 calendar of events and click here for the full brochure.
For more information: www.wirralhistoryandheritage.org.uk
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Historical records matching Guiseppe Giosue Rossetti Sangiovanni
Immediate Family
half brother
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About Guiseppe Giosue Rossetti Sangiovanni
Biographical Summary and Notes on Painted Portrait:
"...ca 1847, oil on canvas, unsigned. A charming portrait of two children—the boy is seated on a bench beside a trellis covered with grapevines, peeling a piece of fruit, and the girl is kneeling beside him, holding a small bunch of grapes, her left hand outstretched to accept a piece of the peeled fruit. In the background is a river landscape with a wagon train, an allegorical element commonly found in contemporary and historic Mormon art. In its original, gilt frame; 38" x 31" (w/o frame), 44.5" x 37.5" (w/frame).
An old paper label tacked to the back of the frame reads GGR Sangiovanni Deadwood So Dak, and the lot is accompanied by an 1821 Italian bible that is inscribed Susanna M. Sangiovanni A Present From Mrs. Rossetti March 1890 along with two manuscript letters: one providing the history of the bible's ownership; another, a brief statement concerning GGR Sangiovanni's birth and ancestry. The letter specific to the bible bears an additional ink signature by Sangiovanni, notarized by a Deadwood notary in 1908. That signature and the label attached to the painting appear to be by the same hand and from about the same period.
Genealogical research in conjunction with information gathered from LDS Church archives suggest that the two subject children are Guglielmo Giosue Rossetti Sangiovanni and Agnes C. Smith, painted in St. Louis, Missouri, ca 1847.
Guglielmo Giosue Rossetti (Sanjo) Sangiovanni (1835-1916), the only child from the marriage of Benedetto Sangiovanni and Susanna Mehitable Rogers, was born in London. Susanna was the oldest of eleven children born to David White Rogers and Martha Collins, both early Mormon converts. Martha was running a rooming house in the Battery section of New York when Susanna met Benedetto in 1833. Benedetto, an Italian Revolutionary in exile, sought accommodations at the rooming house where he became attracted to Susanna, persuaded her to marry him and took her to London in search of a better life. There they had a son, nicknamed Sanjo.
Susanna was happy enough early in her marriage, but she grew to fear her husband because he was jealous of the attention she paid to their son. She also believed that he had not abandoned his revolutionary activities. About this time, she and Sanjo were secretly baptized by Mormon missionaries, and shortly thereafter, with the help of these missionaries, she and her son fled England, leaving Benedetto behind. The missionaries had instructed her to take a train to Liverpool, where she could then get passage to New Orleans. Susanna and Sanjo arrived in Louisiana in 1846, and they then made the journey up the Mississippi River to Saint Louis.
While in Saint Louis, Susanna became a plural wife of William Pickett, who has been described as a "lukewarm" Mormon. When Pickett had learned that Susanna was pregnant, he left them, moving to California with his other wife, Agnes Coolbridge Smith, their twins, and Agnes' children from her first marriage. Pickett later became an alcoholic and abandoned his family in 1870. Susanna's son, Horatio, was born in 1848. She and her two sons then moved west, to Utah, in 1852, to be near her family.
Agnes C. Smith (1836-1873), eldest child from the marriage of Don Carlos Smith and Agnes Coolbrith, was born in Kirtland, Ohio. Don Carlos was a brother of Joseph Smith, founder of the LDS Church. She and Don Carlos had three children (Agnes in 1836, Sophronia in 1838, and Josephine in 1841), two of whom lived to adulthood. After Don Carlos' death in Nauvoo, Illinois in 1841, Agnes Coolbrith married Joseph Smith, a marriage that was kept secret. After his assassination in 1844, she married to George A. Smith, a cousin of Joseph and Don Carlos. She did not, however, follow Smith west to Utah, and in the spring of 1847, she became the plural wife of William Pickett, and they moved to Saint Louis. About 1848, shortly after the birth of twins, Pickett, his wife and all of the children left the Mormon Church (and Susanna and Sanjo) and migrated to California.
Based on this information, for a relatively short period in Saint Louis in 1847-1848, during the period of the plural marriage between Pickett, Agnes Coolbrith and Susanna Sangiovanni, the children born of Agnes Coolbrith and Don Carlos Smith were living in the same household with Susanna's son, Sanjo. Also during this time period, Agnes and William's twins were born, and just after this household broke up, Susannah gave birth to Horatio. Within this polygamous household, the two oldest children were Sanjo and Agnes, who were both between eleven and thirteen years of age. Although the children in the portraits look to be slightly younger, these two are the most likely subjects of the portrait offered here.
Sangiovanni was a very active young man and faithful to his church. According to manuscripts located in the University of Utah Marriott Library, specifically the Eleanor C.W. Jarvis Diary and Autobiography, he taught school at the Dixie Cotton Mission at St. George, Utah in the winter of 1868 and 1869. He moved to Salt Lake City around 1870, married to Mary Ann Brown, and fathered two daughters. It is recorded in The History of Museums in Utah that he became the first caretaker of the Deseret Museum located in Salt Lake City, which is currently known as the LDS Museum of Church History and Art. Apparently, sometime after 1873, Sanjo had lost the faith and moved his family to Deadwood, South Dakota (then the Dakota Territory), where he became a saloonkeeper. Mary Ann died in Deadwood in 1886. According to the notarized letter included with this lot, Sanjo remained in Deadwood until at least 1908, but sometime before his death in 1916, he returned to Utah. He is buried at Mount Olivet Cemetery in Salt Lake City.
Since the tag on the frame indicates that Sanjo owned this portrait late in life (having taken it from Utah to Deadwood), and since, stylistically, the portrait dates to the 1840s, it is almost certain that Sanjo is the boy portrayed, and thus the girl is very likely little Agnes, the niece, and step-daughter of LDS founder, Joseph Smith.
Extensive genealogical and historical research accompanies the painting which supports the identification of the children..."
SOURCE: http://www.cowanauctions.com/auctions/item.aspx?ItemId=33665
- "Pony Express Rider" 1860-1861 employed by Russell, Majors and Waddell. His run was five stations in Utah.
- Publisher of the newspaper "The Mineral cactus" St. George, Utah (1868-1868).
- Company Unknown (1852), Age 16
- Feramorz Little Company (1859), Age 24
- Joseph W. Young/Ansil P. Harmon/Heber P. Kimball Company (1861), Age 26
- Daniel D. McArthur Company (1863), Age 28
- Leonard G. Rice Company (1867), Age 32
Birth: Apr. 27, 1835, England Death: Dec. 23, 1916 Salt Lake City Salt Lake County Utah, USA
Son of Beneditto Sangiovanni of England and Susanna Rogers of Canada
Family links:
- Susannah Mehetable Rogers Keate (1813 - 1905)
- Mamie Sangiovainni Forbes (1871 - 1924)*
- Annie Sangiovanni Butler (1874 - 1922)*
- Nellie Sangiovanni (1875 - 1875)*
- Guiseppe Giosue Rossetti Sangiovanni (1835 - 1916)
- Horatio Pickett (1848 - 1918)*
- Cora Keate Hartman (1861 - 1898)*
- Calculated relationship
Burial: Mount Olivet Cemetery Salt Lake City Salt Lake County Utah, USA Plot: R_298_10
Imported from: UT State Historical Society Record added: Feb 02, 2000 Find A Grave Memorial# 164169
Guiseppe Giosue Rossetti Sangiovanni's Timeline
April 27, 1835
England, United Kingdom
Age 24
November 6, 1871
Age 36
Salt Lake City, Salt Lake County, Utah Territory, United States
April 21, 1874
Age 38
Salt Lake City, Salt Lake County, Utah Territory, United States
January 12, 1875
Age 39
Salt Lake City, Salt Lake County, Utah Territory, United States
December 23, 1916
Age 81
Salt Lake City, Salt Lake County, Utah, United States
Salt Lake City, Salt Lake County, Utah, United States


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DurhamAppliance posted a topic in Other Appliance Repair TopicsIt's been a while since I relayed my experience in The Craven. http://appliantology.org/topic/34555-the-craven-an-appliance-related-tale-of-horror/ Since that time, many things have happened. I married my sweetheart, we did not get a high end fridge and I've been on many scary repairs. Most of them too frightful to share. However, I will tell you this tale. The memory of it still keeps me awake at nights . I must now be forever vigilant. One day I received a call for a repair. Sort of strange call but, hey, there's money to be made. The customer, a sort of monotoned fellow said he was building a wine chiller out of some fridge parts but his compressor just clicks. At least that's what I thought he was saying. No biggie, I'll replace the start relay. I arrived at his house.. Man, what a dump and the customer's appearance was, well, shocking....had a large slot-like gash on his head and all he did was stare. When I asked him if he was okay..he said "downstairs." He stared at me and without looking away, pointed at a creaky dark stairway. I was relieved he stayed at the top. He's not the type of fellow I want behind me. As I descended, I came upon a door. But then I heard the staring man say..."no.. more down ...you go more". So I go down. I came to another door and looked up at stare-man. I could barely see him except for those glowing staring eyes...and he said.."no... go more...more down...all way." I finally get to the smelly dank bottom floor. I see a few wine bottles, fridge pieces and what looks like a GE profile fridge that had the double doors replaced by a large single door. I opened the door and it had only one large compartment but the nastiness inside cannot be described by words meant for man. Roaches, worms, slugs and maggots seemed quite at home inside and they were all feasting on some sort of putrid gelatinous carcass. I turned around to yell upstairs , but the staring man was r beside me. Startled, I said "hey......" He chanted "master say fix, master say die," pushed me inside the cooler, smashing my head against the back wall......and now....... The Chiller ( The Craven , pt II) ie if Vincent Price was an appliantologist when he recited the poem from Thriller Darkness fall as hard I land Unconsciousness is close at hand Creatures crawl in search of blood To Terrorize or implant their brood And if I ever shall be found A half eaten corpse, soul hell-bound Can I stand and fight these denizens of hell? Or rot inside this foul fridge shell? The stench of hate is in the air Unholy bred hate of forty thousand years. Sending forth maggots to infest my wounds Torturing me, sealing my doom And though I fight to stay alive My body starts to shiver Can one mere mortal resist The evil of this chiller? I cry out in vain, I can't be heard And less fresh air with every word. Must think through pain, through foul bites and blister Then one thought comes, the thought "thermistor." What does it mean, why come to me Being sent to hell and think Appliantology? I find one wire, yank it clean the earth shakes....... a recognizable scream... "I know you foul board, I remember you well!" Did I not send you screaming to the pits of hell?" "I turned half-dead as you threw me away The man you saw found me one day He made a fridge to keep his wine cool He needed a board, I needed a fool. I've come for you, your soul is mine You sent me to hell, I'll repay in kind" "I care not for what you seek But I know now, what makes you weak I'll snatch another sensor, you Satan-spawned board Remove this infestation, recall your horde" The maggots receded from my open wounds The door sprang open not a moment too soon I fall into the room, the life giving fresh air And standing there laughing was the man with the stare.


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The foramen magnum is one of several holes in the base of the skull. Normally the spinal cord is attached to it. The Foramen Magnum is the largest aperture in the primate body. This hole is located in the base of the human skull as part of the occipital bone, back of the monkey skull and in between those locations for apes. It is directly correlated with locomotion ( Humans are bipedal, monkeys quadrupedal and apes are knuckle walkers. )


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In an interview to CNBC-TV18, V Srinivasan of Angel Broking gives his views on ITC's Q3 numbers. Srinivasan says the company has out-performed their expectations.
"We estimated Rs 7200 crore and it has come in at about Rs 7600 crore. Same is the case with the net profit numbers. It has come ahead of our estimates. It has come in at Rs 2052 crore and we were estimating it at around Rs 1800 crore," he adds.
Q: What have you made of the numbers of ITC? It is much better than our poll atleast.
A: The numbers on the topline front is certainly better than what we had estimated. We estimated Rs 7200 crore and it has come in at about Rs 7600 crore. Same is the case with the net profit numbers it has come ahead of our estimates. It has come in at Rs 2052 crore and we were estimating it at around Rs 1800 crore.
Q: Cigarette net sales has come in at Rs 3657 crore versus Rs 3232 crore. Anything to say in terms of the cigarette net sales, has that bettered?
A: I don't have the internal numbers, but the cigarette sales growth has been healthy for this quarter.
Q: The other FMCG business losses have come down to Rs 24 crore versus Rs 46 crore and that is an improvement on a sequential basis as well. So the losses have reduced 50 percent on a year on year basis. What would your view be on that?
A: The company has consistently been reducing the losses on the other FMCG business so it is a positive step in this direction because the management has been guiding for a breakeven some time later in the year or early next year. So this is certainly positive for the company. The price hikes is the other thing which they have carried out has acted well for the company.
Q: So if you had to highlight two-three key points in terms of the key positives for ITC because it has come above your estimates, what would those three key points be?
A: The topline performance alone looks very good for this quarter. So, we need to see what divisions are done. Seeing the last quarter, the agriculture business has done really well in the second quarter. Hence those internals needs to be seen. As of now that what has contributed to this because top line of Rs 7627 crore is a real surprise.


text: Picked these up from a guy who said he bought them from a guy in Virginia Beach. Not much of a lead unfortunately. They are foam with plastic heads. Are these Herter heads? The decoys are stamped in the lead "JOHN COFFEL". Couldn't find anything on Google. I'm assuming they are a homemade garage project. What do you guys think?