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The show follows 50 Cent to South Carolina, where his family lived before migrating to New York City in the 1950s. He visits relatives, investigates his roots at the Edgefield County Archives and meets the descendants of slave owners.
From the press release: "50 also learns that in the years following the Civil War, his ancestors faced the infamous 'Redshirts,' the precursors to the KKK, giving him a new perspective on the violence he encountered as a young man in Queens."
VH1 promises to show a different side of the hard-edged rapper, whose albums include Get Rich or Die Tryin' (2003) and Before I Self-Destruct (2009).
Born Curtis James Jackson III in the South Jamaica neighborhood of Queens, New York City, he was 12 when his mother was murdered, he served prison time for drug-related charges and he survived being shot nine times at close range.
Read more about the show and 50 Cent on VH1's blog.
My husband's ggg grandfather Conrad Tschummi—and his son, same name, served in a CT unit in the Civil War. The father made it home safely, but his son died of disease. I did research at our CT State Library and found they had the original handwritten records of the entire tour of duty listing injuries, deaths, pay, punishments for not following the rules—I could follow the entire tour by these original records. They are incredible and a find I never dreamed ever existed. Due to the fragile condition of the large, rolled sheets of paper and the fact that they probably won't be safe to unroll many more times, I paid to have them copied by the library and now they are safely in a roll in a large mailing tube.
My husband's ggg grandfather Conrad Tschummi—and his son, same name, served in a CT unit in the Civil War. The father made it home safely, but his son died of disease. I did research at our CT State Library and found they had the original handwritten records of the entire tour of duty listing injuries, deaths, pay, punishments for not following the rules—I could follow the entire tour by these original records. They are incredible and a find I never dreamed ever existed.
Due to the fragile condition of the large, rolled sheets of paper and the fact that they probably won't be safe to unroll many more times, I paid to have them copied by the library and now they are safely in a roll in a large mailing tube.
Anyone looking for Civil War documents, ask at the facility if they have any records kept off site like they do in CT. These were brought to me to read in an enclosed and guarded area and I actually had tears in my eyes as I read them.
To enter, like Family Tree Magazine on Facebook and share on our wall a few details about a Civil War ancestor, or a tidbit from our Life in Civil War America webinar or Life in Civil War America book. You can also enter by posting a comment on any Genealogy Insider blog post about Life in Civil War America (like this one).
Each Friday in April, a winner will be chosen from that week's comments and wall posts. The winners will each receive a copy of the Life in Civil War America book.
The sweepstakes started April 6, and runs through April 29.
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Modern life presents us with different opportunities to be green. Here are a few ways you can incorporate environmentally friendly measures into your genealogy research:
I take reusable shopping bags with me to the grocery store. If I forget them, the plastic bags live a second life as garbage can liners or doggy pick-up bags.
I try to be Earth-friendly in my own life, so this Earth Day, I was glad when I found out Family Tree Magazine is helping you do the same by offering digital subscriptions.
We'll send you an e-mail when each issue is ready, then you can download it to view as a PDF in Adobe Reader. It works for PC and Mac systems. Added bonus: The e-mail goes out when we start mailing subscriber print copies, so you'll be among the first to see each issue.
Use these links to get started:
You'll also have the digital subscription option when you renew online.
Family Village lets you create a pedigree chart (or input data from the FamilyLink Facebook app) and "immigrate" ancestors from the chart into your Family Village. You can outfit them in historical attire, assign them jobs, and build out the village with houses, landscaping and more (including heritage-related items like international flags and the Eiffel Tower).
The game also searches several websites for free genealogy records related to the information in your pedigree chart, and let you import those records into a family library. You can invite Facebook friends into your village to check out the library.
Partnerships with additional providers of genealogy records and other content are in the works, says Jeff Wells, CEO of Family Village developer Funium. He cautions, though, that the game is "not a research tool."
You can play Family Village for free, with the option to spend actual cash (in the form of "game dollars") on some of your ancestors' purchases. For example, every ancestor gets a newspaper printed on the day he or she was born. You'll view the headlines, and you can buy a copy of the whole thing.
The game adheres to Facebook privacy standards, wells says, with privacy settings you can adjust.
Wells got the idea for Family Village when his family didn't share his excitement over his genealogical finds. "We wanted to do something that would end up being a segue way for people who don't have the interest to get involved in family history," he says.
According to Wells, 300 million people play social games each month, and 3 to 4 percent of those players spend money on the games. He's hoping genealogists' spouses and teenagers will get interested in Family Village and learn more about their heritage.
Will you play Family Village? Do you think it'll appeal to those already into genealogy, or will other people get hooked on it, too?
Mocavo.com crawls websites similar to the way Google does, except it focuses on free genealogy content—making it easier for you to find relevant family history information on the web. You can read genealogy-technology blogger Dick Eastman's enthusiastic comments about Mocavo.com here.
Click here if you'd like to suggest a site to Mocavo's developers, who plan to update the site more frequently.
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I kept up with my Google blog reader (sometimes at 3 a.m.) while on maternity leave, so I noticed the regular record updates at FamilySearch.org. That's how I got a surprise hit on my grandfather while casually searching collections from states my ancestors lived in.
The match, from the collection Texas Births and Christenings, 1840-1981, has indexed information (so, no image of the record itself) from a church baptismal register in Gonzales, Texas:
The information was close to a baptismal certificate I already had from our family papers. In 1960, my grandma wrote the church where my grandfather was baptized to request the baptismal record. Apparently she needed it so my grandfather, who didn't have a birth certificate, could participate in his company pension program. Here's what the priest sent her:
I was never 100 percent confident in the birth information on this certificate, since it was created when he was almost 60 and my research gives two birthdates and places for my grandfather. So I was excited when I saw on FamilySearch.org the microfilm number for the original baptismal register (circled in red above).
I ran a Family History Library online catalog search for the film number and found this catalog record:
It's hard to read here, but the baptismal register is from Sacred Heart Church, formerly called St. Joseph, in Gonzales, Texas, part of Archdiocese of San Antonio. (Note the 1960 baptismal certificate says St. James Church at the top.)
I printed this catalog page and took it to the FamilySearch Center to rent microfilm no. 25152.
When the film came in, I quickly found my grandfather's record (thanks to the page number provided in my FamilySearch.org search result). Here's the first page, with my grandfather at the bottom:
My great-grandfather Mike Haddad appears in a few records as "Fadlo" (probably short for his pre-immigration name)—I believe that's why he's recorded as "Daddlod" here.
And the second page, with columns for the sponsors, the minister who performed the ceremony, details on the person's Confirmation (another Catholic sacrament, usually received around age 13), and "remarks."
See the note on the far right in the Remarks column? That reports my grandfather's marriage t0 my grandma in 1942 in Cincinnati.
The handwriting was uniform throughout the entire book. From the title and publisher pages,
it looks like this was a blank register book printed in 1944, which someone later filled in with information from diocesan church records going back to 1883.
My guess is that the (?) in the sponsor column next to Saida's name—a symbol also appearing by several other names on the page—means the person who copied the original records into this book couldn't quite make out the handwriting.
In 1960, when my grandma sent her request to St. Joseph, she must've provided her marriage information. Then the priest who answered her letter would've looked at this book in order to fill out the baptismal certificate, and added the marriage details to the notes column.
So this still isn't the actual record that was created in 1902 when my grandfather was baptized, but I have more confidence in that 1960 baptismal certificate (and the birth date it provides) now that I've seen where that information came from.
One question: Why does the baptism certificate sent to my grandma in 1960 say "St. James" at the top, when the church register is from St. Joseph (later changed to Sacred Heart)? Perhaps the diocese routed all records requests like my grandma's to St. James? What do you think?
It's DNA Day! Today only (Friday, April 15), genetic genealogy company
FamilyTreeDNA is offering a promotional code you can use to get a
discount on several types of DNA tests. See FamilyTreeDNA's Facebook page
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Family Tree University professor Tim Pinnick sent us a note that he's moderating the new African-American-American Newspapers forum on the Afrigeneas website. Stop by to ask questions and share your finds from Black newspapers.
FamilySearch announced this week that it's released 500,000 new US county marriage records, as well as records from Costa Rica, England, India, Mexico, Nicaragua, Peru and Spain, in the Historical Records Search. Click here to see the list of the updated collections. (Look for our guide to the new FamilySearch.org website in the September 2011 Family Tree Magazine.)
Subscription genealogy site Archives just announced the addition of 3.5 million new US vital records to the website, including the obituary index from the Rutherford B. Hayes Presidential Center in Ohio (also searchable here). Other updated collections come from Texas, Kentucky, Maine, South Carolina, Arizona, South Carolina and Colorado.
iArchives, the records digitization arm of subscription site Footnote, announced plans to collaborate with the Federation of Genealogical Societies to digitize 180,000 War of 1812 pension applications. They'll eventually be available on Footnote. Read more details on the FGS Voice blog.


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With some of Hawaii's most magnificent courses to choose from, some crafted by the biggest names in course design, Hawaii Island is known as the "Golf Capital of Hawaii." Discover courses along the Kohala Coast, such as the Jack Nicklaus designed Hualalai Golf Course, the championship Francis H. Ii Brown courses of the Mauna Lani Resort and the Robert Trent Jones Sr. designed courses at Mauna Kea Resort. Not to be outdone, play the two courses of the Waikoloa Beach Resort designed by Robert Trent Jones, Jr. Discover a variety of other hidden gems throughout Hawaii Island and play amongst the striking contrasts of lush green fairways, pure white bunkers, jet-black lava flows and turquoise Pacific waters. Hit a bad shot and you can always blame it on Hawaii Island. Views like this justify a mulligan.
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Hi, could anyone inform me what is the normal healthy sperm count to achieve pregnancy?
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I believe it is 15 million sperm per millimeter, per ejaculation.
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Hi Noemi,
When determining the quality of sperm, you need to take into consideration not only how many sperm are in each ejaculate, but the quality of those sperm and the quality and quantity of the semen that the sperm swims in.
You will want to have your husband's sperm morphology (how it is formed), motility (how well it moves in the right direction) and sperm count tested. If your husband has a good sperm count, but the sperm are not formed well and can't swim in the right direction then it is highly unlikely that enough sperm will be able to reach the egg to fertilize it.


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Sir John Eric Sidney Thompson (1898 - 1975) held the position of Curator of Mexican and South American Ethnology at The Field Museum from 1926 to 1935. During that time, he led five expeditions to British Honduras (now Belize) to collect pre-Classic and Classic Maya archaeological as well as modern Mayan ethnographic materials. He led four separate Captain Marshall Field Expeditions, in 1927, 1928, 1929, and 1931 (Field Museum Anthropology Accession numbers 1741, 1773, 1820, and 1935 respectively) that together yielded nearly one thousand objects from excavations at sites such as San Jose, Tzimin Cax (Mountain Cow), San Antonio, Cahal Cumil, and others.
He returned to British Honduras in 1934, leading a joint Carnegie Institution and Field Museum expedition to continue excavations at San Jose (FM Accession 2065), where he collected an additional 400 objects. Curated by Dr. Gary Feinman, Thompson's collection of over 1400 objects, including the ethnographic items collected in Guatemala, comprises over 99% of the Belizean artifacts curated by the Department of Anthropology. The Thompson Collection continues to play a prominent role in our Maya cases on permanent exhibit.
In a significant departure from archaeological practices of the time, which tended to focus on temples at large sites such as Uaxactun and Chichen Itza, Thompson chose to excavate smaller, less-glamorous sites, where he could study the daily life of the average people and not just that of the ruling elite. The nearly 1,400 pieces in the Thompson Collection include a wide range of glorious and unique examples of prehistoric Central American technology and artistic capabilities in a variety of media, including elaborate ceramic effigy figure whistles and tripod bowls, fiber gourd carriers, carved shell pendants, decorative jade ear plugs, oddly shaped "eccentric" flint objects, as well as more mundane obsidian projectile points, potsherds, and stone objects. The whole ceramic vessels in the Thompson Collection offer an unparalleled sequence of pottery types from the Late Formative (200 B.C. - A.D. 200) through Late Classic (A.D. 600 - 800) Period. Thompson's ethnographic collection from neighboring Guatemala includes wonderfully woven huipils (cotton shirts or blouses), belts and baskets.


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Look for new PSAs to support the U.S. Department of Homeland Security's Ready Campaign and Get Ready
The PSAs unveiled today include television, radio, print, internet and outdoor versions that feature real families as well as a television ad featuring First Lady Laura Bush. All of the new PSAs highlight the fact that many families have not yet taken the steps needed to prepare for emergencie. These steps include: getting an emergency supply kit, making a family emergency plan and learning more about different emergencies and their appropriate responses.
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With billions and billions of dollars being poured into the financial system every month, should you be surprised that fewer people are able to afford to buy houses?
On one hand, you might think that the Fed's quantitative easing should have kept mortgage rates down, as intended. On the other hand, that money has to go somewhere -- so why wouldn't it contribute to a rise in house prices?
In this week's podcast, Bankrate's Washington bureau chief, Mark Hamrick, talks about this conundrum with:
- Walter Molony, spokesman for the National Association of Realtors.
- David Smick, global strategist for Johnson Smick International.
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Is the end of the Fed's easing already hurting housing?
A look at the Federal Reserve after the Bernanke era. How and where are rising interest rates affecting the housing market?
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Mark Hamrick: From Bankrate.com, this is Your Money This Week. I am Mark Hamrick, reporting from Washington.
Whether you're looking at home sales or home prices, we've seen double-digit gains from a year ago. The housing market has dug itself out of the hole, otherwise known as the Great Recession, but slower growth appears to be in the offing, with mortgage rates edging up. We will check in with the National Association of Realtors and spokesman, Walter Molony. Also, David Smick, global strategist with Johnson Smick International. With a change due at the helm of the Federal Reserve, who might the next captain be? And, what are the dangers, now that the Fed is about to make an abrupt turn when it comes to monetary policy. We'll have all that and more for you on Your Money This Week.
In our first segment, home sweet home. We're talking about the housing market. It is, of course, of interest to anyone who owns a home, aspires to buy one, as well as anyone who wants to sell one. We checked in with Walter Molony. He is spokesman for the industry's main trade group, the National Association of Realtors. I asked with the interest rate associated with the 30-year fixed mortgage up a full percentage point over the past few months, how are sales holding up?
Walter Molony: They've been holding up and higher mortgage interest rates are now causing home sales to level out. The tight supply conditions look to be with us for the balance of the year in most of the country, but we are seeing sales beginning to flatten. So, it looks like most of the growth in sales has already taken place this year. Total activity for 2013 should be up in the range of 8 (percent) to 8.5 percent over 2012.
Mark: So, when you say total activity, are we talking about sales of previously owned homes there?
Walter: Yes, closed, existing home sales should be coming in right around 5 (million) to 5.1 million, which would be in the low end of the historic norm of what you would consider to be a normal market.
Mark: OK. So, we had seen, you know, essentially, as we said at the outset, a pretty significant increase in sales on a year-over-year basis. So, is this taking some of the wind out of the market, if you say they're flattening?
Walter: Yeah, it is, and I think that you've got the twin frictions that have been holding the market back for some time, mainly the unnecessarily tight mortgage underwriting standards and the limited supply. So, the limited supply is limiting opportunities and putting pressure on prices as well.
Mark: Is this hitting one end of the market more than another? Let's say from moderately priced homes up to the more luxury homes?
Walter: Well, the rising interest rates we think are going to have an impact noticeable first in the highest-cost markets, where you're talking coastal California, New York, other very high-cost markets in the country, where even though median incomes in those areas are much higher, the rising interest rates will begin to pinch affordability. In most of the mid-section of the country, when you look at the fact that prices are still quite affordable in historic terms, you're looking at the market being driven by demand and wherewithal, and not so much by rising interest rates.
Mark: So, what kind of a dampening impact does this have, let's say on your outlook for sales in the coming year? I know you said, let's say for all of 2013, but how does that affect, let's say, 2014?
Walter: We're looking for a more gradual rise in sales right now. It's looking like sales will be up only 2 (percent) to 3 percent in 2014, getting up to the 5.1 (million) to 5.2 million range, getting a little bit more into normal, and at the same time, we're looking for housing construction to continue to trend up, and that, hopefully, will help to moderate the growth rate in home prices. So, prices are likely to still rise above normal rates in 2014, but dialing back from this year, we're looking at about an 11 percent overall increase this year. Next year, maybe 5.5 (percent) to 6 percent, much closer to normal.
Mark: So, you know, to the extent that, obviously, the recession really hammered the housing market and we've been in a recovery mode over these past several years, you did use the word "normal" just now. Do you really think that 2014 gets us to something that we'll begin to think of the housing market as normal again?
Walter: Yeah, barring the unforeseen, we've still got this pent-up demand that results from five years of a slowdown in household formation during the economic downturn. Population was still growing, about 3 million a year, but people were now going out and renting apartments or buying homes. And so, we still have that pent-up demand -- and with job creation, and that really is the long-term key -- that gives people the wherewithal to get into the market. So, even with rising rates and higher prices, you are still looking at a 30-year fixed rate in 2014 averaging somewhere around 5 percent, which really is pretty good in historic terms.
Mark: Yeah, let's talk about that historic kind of perspective, because those of us who are of a certain age can remember taking out a mortgage that literally had a double-digit percentage interest rate, and we thought, while that wasn't a wonderful situation, we still got into a home back then. But, those were different economic times, and obviously, I know you wouldn't wish that upon the economy anytime soon, but do you think the housing market can fare OK in a rising-interest-rate environment?
Walter: It can, as long as it doesn't go up too fast. We still have these excellent affordability conditions, primarily because of interest rates being historically low, but more so because prices overcorrected on the downside. We had prices fall below replacement construction costs in the U.S., which is what made it so attractive to investors. Investors just came out of the woodwork over the past two years, and buying properties was pretty much a no-brainer, because they could pretty well turn these properties around and quickly turn them into profitable rentals. Now that is changing. We've seen the investment activity edging down, instead of it being a no-brainer, that people have to think about it, they have to look at what is going on in the neighborhood, what is the rental demand, what's it going to cost me to get this home up to market standards. So, they have to do a little bit more homework.
So, investors are still a major factor, but one of the reasons that the investment activity is attenuating somewhat is that the inventory that was most attractive to them, low-end properties, foreclosures, that is drying up. When you look at sales of homes priced under $100,000, the volume of sales in the low price range is 25 percent below a year ago. And, if you look at a half million and higher, it's up 25 percent. So, the low-end inventories pretty much disappeared and that is one of the reasons why first-time buyers are really not in the market like they should be. They've been around 29 percent of the market, and should be really closer to 40 percent. So, that, I think that with the investors stepping back, maybe there will be a little less competition for first-time buyers, in the more affordable markets at any rate.
Mark: Well, if nothing else, the experience of the last several years, Walter, has demonstrated the importance of the housing market, not only for individuals, but also for the broader economy, and we appreciate your time in helping us to know where things stand today. Walter, thanks so much.
Walter: You're welcome, Mark.
Mark: Walter Molony, spokesman for the National Association of Realtors. He spoke with us from his office in Washington.
Next up, David Smick. He's an expert on the subject of the global economy, as well as the people who try to manage it, namely, central-bankers around the world, including the Federal Reserve here in the U.S. He is global strategist for Johnson Smick International, and author of the best-selling book, "The World is Curved," which in many ways, foresaw the economic crisis of 2007 and 2008. I asked David just where the economy stands all these years after the crisis.
David Smick: Globally speaking, we've bet the bank, we've had stimulus and bailouts and guarantees and all the rest, equivalent to about one quarter of global (gross domestic product), and we've got an ocean of newly created money floating around, and what was the result? Global growth is actually declining. It has been declining every year. So, it's not necessarily an encouraging thing. In the U.S., the situation is mixed. You know, we've got some good data, but the employment situation is a disaster. Sometimes the data is up, down, but I think the biggest worry is that we kind of have a stock market, which has been heavily driven by liquidity from the Fed's policies, and it's kind of like a Ferrari-style stock market. But, we have a Mini Cooper-style economy backing it up. So, I think there is a mismatch and going into this fall, it makes me nervous even though these measurements of volatility, you know, are at historic lows. It still is disconcerting.
Mark: So, to back away from that a little bit, what you are alluding to there, a little bit, is among some of the extraordinary measures the Fed's taken to try to build momentum in the economy, a so-called quantitative easing or QE3, the $85 billion of monthly asset purchases. Many are trying to figure out when the Fed is going to scale back or taper. You would expect that they will be doing that before long?
David: Yeah, my prediction is that sometime this Fall, (Chairman Ben) Bernanke will do what I call a dovish taper. He'll taper this kind of fire hose of liquidity that is pumping $85 billion of new money into the economy. And, you know, but not down to zero. He might drop it to $70 or $65 billion a month, but it'll be a taper. And, but I think on top of that, he'll try to sound very, very dovish on actual levels, interest rates, perhaps suggesting he'll keep rates longer at near zero, that is, short-term rates sitting near zero percent, than markets anticipate. So, the idea is to try to kind of present a dovish tapering. You know, I mean, in May, the chairman hinted that he might do some tapering of quantitative easing, you know, at some vague time in the future and all hell broke loose. I mean, we saw the short-term interest rates jump from 1.5 (percent) to 2.7 (percent) and stock markets all over the world took a big hit.
And, you know, the chairman is in a very, very difficult, no-win situation. I mean, he's going to require extraordinary skill to get out of this, because on the one hand, if he tapers, he knows what has happened in May, and it's going to be very, very dicey for him to pull this off, without some kind of a miscommunication, the markets, well, the markets spook. On the other hand, and, you know, if he doesn't taper, then, you know, potentially he has the equity bubble even larger. And, it's not just the domestic issue, because to a certain extent, quantitative easing has created liquidity for the rest of the world. Traders call it the "dollar-carry trade," but, you know, you saw just a hint in May of pulling back on the liquidity, and what happened? Well, you saw capital pour out of places like India. I think it could happen in China, to put a lot of pressure in China on the so-called shadow banks, which are the shadow financial system, which is propping up their real estate market there, and it's rather fragile.
But, just look at what's happened to India in the last few months since the Fed has been kind of murmuring about tightening or pulling back on quantitative easing just a little bit. What's happened? You saw, you know, the Indian currency drop by 40 percent and their economy start to reverse. And so, there is a lot of capital that had gone into emerging markets they were going to pull out. And so, it's going to be very, very difficult, because, you know, to a certain extent, you know, Ben Bernanke's not just, you know, U.S. central-banker, he's kind of like central-banker to the world.
Mark: Yeah, it gives new meaning to the notion of falling like a brick, doesn't it?
David: Exactly.
Mark: David, and when we're talking about the Federal Reserve, there is the personnel issue. Mr. Bernanke's term ends in late January of next year. And, through this year, the widely seen successor to him has been Vice Chair Janet Yellen. Apparently, she still is seen as the front-runner, but Larry Summers has been poking his nose in there a little bit, and so it seems like it's a little bit more of a horse race than what had been seen before. What's your take on all that?
David: Well, I think it was kind of like five years ago when the Obama administration came to Washington. I think Summers expected to be Treasury secretary, and when he wasn't, he was coaxed into coming into the White House as economic adviser. I think, not, without a promise of being Treasury secretary, but kind of with the understanding he would be considered.
And so, you know, I think there are clearly two candidates. Janet Yellen, who is very capable, and then Summers. Janet Yellen is capable and kind of a get-along personality. My guess is the Fed would be kind of run by committee, whereas Summers is brilliant, but prickly and so, you know, Summers would run the Fed. And, this is not based on anyone I've talked to, but my gut instinct is that the supporters for Summers and Yellen will attack the other person's candidate for the rest of the summer and into September, at which point that'll probably open up the opportunity for a third candidate to emerge. Probably, you know, maybe somebody like former vice chairman Don Kohn, who has had 40 years of experience. He's 69, but, you know, he probably would just do one term.
But, he would be kind of the compromise, if in fact it got so nasty between the two leading candidates that, you know, the president was afraid that if he didn't pick Janet Yellen, she might resign. But if on the other hand, if he picked Yellen, Yellen is, you know, is pretty adamant and clear in her statements, you know. She was, she is probably more dovish than Bernanke. And, probably Summers is slightly less dovish. So, you know, I don't know what, if Yellen produces, what effect she has on the dollar of having a Yellen appointment. But, it would definitely be a sign. The doves at the Fed clearly have the majority, and then if they had the chairmanship, that would be very clear which direction the Fed and perhaps the dollar. The dollar, of course, depends on what's going on in the rest of the world, and I think you and I have always discussed how the U.S. is winning the global contest of ugly people, where America is the least ugly contestant, as bizarre as that sounds.
Mark: Yeah, very well put, David. Well, it's always great to catch up with you, David Smick. We really appreciate your time.
David: Absolutely.
Mark: David Smick, global strategist with Johnson Smick International and founding editor of the quarterly magazine, International Economy. He spoke with us from Nantucket.
Finally, our look at this week in business history. On Aug. 19, 1871, Orville Wright was born in Dayton, Ohio. He and his brother, Wilbur, are credited for inventing and building the world's first successful airplane. Orville Wright was also a printer and publisher, and a bicycle seller and manufacturer. Wright was quoted as saying, "If we worked on the assumption that what is accepted as true really is true, then there would be little hope for advance." But, even Orville Wright didn't see all the potential of his own invention, also having said, "No flying machine will ever fly from New York to Paris, because no known motor can run at the requisite speed for four days without stopping." He outlived his brother, dying in 1948 at the age of 76, having witnessed the era of the horse and buggy, as well as the debut of commercial air travel.
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text: So all week i've been reading post after post, article after article on Garrett being stripped of playcalling duties, and how poor of a GM Jerry is. And how he undressed Garrett and made him his puppet. And it made me think of the 2011 Dallas Mavericks. For anyone who watches the Mavs, you'll remember that in the 2011 year, we had just gone 12 straight seasons of winning 50 or more games only to lose in the playoffs. Dirk was labeled a choker, soft, weak,etc. But it was agreed that the team wouldn't be a 50 win team if not for him. (before you say it, i know Romo is no Dirk but stay with me) Cuban was the biggest loud mouth owner in the league, he meddled and meddled and was always involved in basketball decisions. The year prior to this, he, Donnie Nelson, Rick Carlisle and even Dirk got together and made the decision to take a chance on an injury prone underachieving center who was entering free agency with limited interest. The center was Tyson Chandler. Everyone knows what happened after that, but the point is that this wasn't the first time that Cuban was involved in the free agent acquisition process. He was always very vocal about his part of the decision making process. Sure he has Donnie Nelson as a GM but Donnie doesn't make the final call, Cuban does. These guys got together and did what they thought was best for the team, and they put together a roster with guys like JJ Barea, Deshawn Stevenson, Brian Cardinal and after years and years and years of the media bad mouthing every decision the Mavericks made they won the dang championship. After years of the media bad mouthing Dirk, after sweeping the LA Lakers, and after beating the OKC Thunder the media still never gave us a chance to beat Miami in the championship. Even after winning two against Miami they still had us losing the series and it all stopped when Dirk made a few big shots and shut everyone the hell up. Maybe, just maybe, i could be wrong but maybe Jerry and Garrett made some of these decisions together and maybe they're on to something. My point is, the media will NEVER be on our side. And the local media is even worse. I'm not reading into all of this talk about Garrett losing power and being a puppet and yadda yadda yadda, because if it works and the Cowboys start winning again, all of that talk seizes. Then we're talking about how great Garrett was for accepting the change and figuring out a way to work with this staff and in this system. Some of these media guys are getting way too comfortable acting like they're so certain that they know whats best for the Cowboys. They're so certain that Jerry is wrong on every move he makes, and everything they say is negative. There's no hope with Jerry as GM... bullcrap. It's possible. It might not be the most ideal situation but its possible. Remember how great Philly's front office was supposed to be? how frugal they were, and how great they were at assembling talent. How strong their coach was, how despite never winning jack spit, they were so far ahead of the Cowboys. Remember that? Remember the media echoing these sentiments? I'm a die hard fan, and i'm rolling with the changes Jerry's making. I'm hoping it works out, I don't give a crap what Gruden is doing these days because our staff is in place. Let's see what happens. But why not stop worrying so much about egos and who's feelings are hurt about being "demoted" or whatever. Maybe Garret's a big boy and he and Jerry have reached an agreement on where this thing is headed. It will be interesting.


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So I get sent, as I'm sure most of you other types did to, this press release from Warrior Island. It's, as they all are, so full of fail I can hardly bring myself to read it.
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Top 8 Heavyweights as of Last Day of Feb.
Warrior Island Cut-off Date is March 15th.
1. James McSweeney UK
2.John Shaddock USA
3.Patrick Schmid Switzerland
4.Neil Goliath Grove UK
5.Jarrell Big Baby Miller USA
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7.David Tkeshelshvilii Georgia
8.Shawn Obasi
Alt.Shamir Garcia USA
Alt.Tomasz Stawarz Poland
Close: Brian Imes
Close: Shawn Knobelock
Close: Giorgi Seturidze
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1) Julez Loftus Scotland
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3.Jimmy Justice UK
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5.Mike Roberts USA
6.Aaron Cook USA
7.Whitney Jean-francois
8.Michael Napoli
Alt.Luke Sines UK
Alt.Dakota Hower USA
Close: Rustam Chsiev Russia
Close: Brandon Foss USA
The Fighters Below are still in the Running KEEP VOTING......
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Jeff Lentz USA
Marcel Berreira Brazil
Christian Defiris
Jim Riddux UK
Michael Miesch USA
Wes Hanson USA
Andres Torres USA
Chris Acero
Aaron Carr
Murat Keshtov
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David Juliano
Michael Curry
Sandro Vieira
Andy Pratel
Andrew Lemley
Anthony Brown
Cody Groves
David Carr
Andrew Sanchez
Kevin Morris
Ryan Antle
Sean Huffman
Thomas Jones
Fighters you can still upload a video to YouTube The contest is running until March 15th. Video's roll over to Season 2 after we pick the Top 16 and 4 Alternates. Fans watch the video's on the YouTube channel and Fghters upload yours to YouTube then send us the link. If your favorite fighter is not one of the top 16, they will not go to Warrior Island. You the Fans Decide. Go to YouTube page and subscribe then watch all the video's and click "LIKE" for the 16 fighters you want to go to "Warrior Island"
You can register a video for season 1 up until March 15th 2013 then we pick the 16 fighters for Season 1 then all of the remaining videos remain in the system for Season 2 and keep their Votes.
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Is this even still a real thing?
Season 2?
How many people have signed up for this thing?
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I've seen regional newspapers covering this stuff with fighters interviewed talking about winning on some desert island combat.
How is this even still a thing?


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Socialism and syndicalism have not robbed them of life's joys.
Perhaps it seems preposterous to discuss baseball and syndicalism in the same paragraph.
In syndicalism in some form Russell sees the most promise for reform of government.
We are being threatened by more quack remedies—revolutionary socialism, syndicalism, and Bolshevism.
Some such impulse as that is what marks off syndicalism from the other revolts of labor.
Anarchism appeals only to the individual; syndicalism appeals also to a class.
In another connection I pointed to autonomy as the hope of syndicalism.
Anarchism is a doctrine of individualism; syndicalism is a doctrine of working-class action.
The literature of syndicalism teems with attacks on democracy.
1907, from French syndicalisme "movement to transfer ownership of means of production and distribution to industrial workers," from syndical "of a labor union," from syndic "chief representative" (see syndic).


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reptile7383 wrote:
ummm. no. Time for an English lesson:
— suffix forming nouns
1. indicating state, condition, or quality: enjoyment
2. indicating the result or product of an action: embankment
3. indicating process or action: management
It has nothing to do with "mental". I'm assuming you thought that it sounded nice and gullible people would just accept it as fact
No, just no. Did you even read all my other post? Why would I make it up? You have not an idea how information is manipulated on the internet.
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You're just wrong.
The etymology of government means to control the mind. From Latinised Greek gubernatio "management, government", from Ancient Greek κυβερνισμός, κυβέρνησις (kybernismos, kybernesis) "steering, pilotage, guiding", from κυβερνάω (kybernao) "to steer, to drive, to guide, to act as a pilot" plus Latin mente "mind".
All the mainstream dictionaries have omitted the true meaning of "ment or mente". Go get an older dictionary or ask a legitimate linguist.
Or, indeed, the dictionary, ancient texts, and all credible source of etymology.
Mental- L. Mentalis- L. Mens (Mind)- PIE men- (to think), cognate include Skt मति (matí) (Thought/Mind), Goth gamunds- OE gamunds (Memory)- E. Mind.
Government- O.Fr. governement- from governer (to govern, to rule) + -ment (suffix used to form nouns from verbs), from L. -mentum (used to form nouns from verb)- Gk. kybernan (to steer, pilot, etc.)- hence Government-- the act of governing-- applied latter to the instrument of governing in its totality.
--Judgement, by your ingenious system, would mean 'The Judging and appraisal of one's mind', rather than the act of judging.
--Abridgement- to abridge one's mind.
--Lodgement- to lodge one's mind.
--Enjoyment- to enjoy the ownership of one's mind
--dismemberment- to cut and divide into pieces one's mind.
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Are you trying to be ironic?
What do you mean? NWO owns everything. Everything from "official sources" are lies or half truths.
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reptile7383 wrote:
Are you trying to be ironic?
What do you mean? NWO owns everything. Everything from "official sources" are lies or half truths.
You are manipulating info on the internet while at the same time talking about conspiracy theories. I'm giving you the benefit of the doubt by asking if you are trying to be ironic on purpose to prove some point, though I wouldn't be surprises if you were just a conspiracy nut who doesn't realize their own hypocrisy
i see but want to know something i been to Iraq and and Egypt so don't tell me they have it bad and we have it better. that's all B.S. People i met in Iraq and Egypt think Americans have it bad not in religion point of view but in a government view. your such a fool keep watching T.V and eating what the media feeds you. Why is it that a children that died in Iraq not meaningful huh why do we allow children to be killed by our own military saying it was a miss fire or some other bull shit how the heck are we different from those who died in 9-11 huh. the media dose not show the family's MOTHER'S FATHER'S DAUGHTER'S BROTHER'S being killed or when innocent children get bombed by mistake, WHAT DID THE KID DO TO DIE LIKE THAT HUH. even know Israel is bombing the Palestinians and innocent children are being killed not even knowing what life is not even living it. Israel can stop almost 90% percent of the Palestinians rocket assaults yet they still over bomb the Palestinians killing innocent HUMAN BEINGS, OVER LOOK THE RACE COLOR COULTER THERE JUST HUMANS LIKE USE DOSE NOT HAVE TO BE THIS WAY. why the hell can few people make there country's pay the ultimate price by declaring war changing people life forever. you don't no nothing tell you go to the middle east and find the truth. and that just one of the many Fucked up shit the Gov, does overlook it all you want keep hating one everyone that not white or American. keep thinking you are superior to ALL other RACES. and believe me more fucked up shit is happening here in out homeland USA that a lot don't even take notice simple minded people like you who yet have to understand once you do you will know what i mean by the shit that's going on in the USA.
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There was a lot of anticipation for the Feb. 2 boys basketball game between Poly High and St. John Bosco, which was contested at Mater Dei in the Nike Extravaganza.
But some of the starch was taken out of it because the Braves' best player, senior guard/forward Isaac Hamilton, did not play because of a one-game suspension for undisclosed disciplinary reasons.
The Jackrabbits emerged with a 60-54 victory, but it left one wondering what would have happened had Hamilton played. The 6-foot-5 Hamilton, who next season will play at UTEP, is averaging a team-high 22.1 points, 5.7 rebounds and 4.5 assists.
He will be on the court today when St. John Bosco takes on Poly in the first round of the Open Division Southern California Regionals. Tip-off is 7 p.m. at Cerritos College.
The Jackrabbits are seeded No. 3 and the Braves are No. 6, but it's St. John Bosco's home game. It was forced by the state CIF office to move it to a larger venue to accommodate what figures to be a big crowd.
Braves coach Derrick Taylor said Hamilton's presence in today's game gives his team a "much better chance" at victory.
"First of all, he's our leading scorer," Taylor said. "He scores in a variety of ways, he rebounds, he defends. And his level of maturity on the court, he keeps our payers cool all the time."
St. John Bosco (24-6), which won the CIF-SS III-A title this past Saturday, has a lot more than Isaac Hamilton. The Braves also feature his younger brother, junior Daniel Hamilton, a 6-7 forward averaging 14.6 points, 7.2 rebounds and 7.1 assists. They also have sophomore guard Tyler Dorsey, who's averaging 17.1 points, 6.2 rebounds and 4.6 assists.
"With the talent they have and the offensive firepower power they have, we have to be able to at least limit them and not have Isaac Hamilton and Dorsey and Daniel Hamilton have big nights on the offensive end," Poly coach Sharrief Metoyer said. "Just trying to contain their scorers and limit their touches and do a good job on the defensive glass."
Metoyer is well aware the Braves having the elder Hamilton for this rematch is a big deal.
"I think that makes them really potent, obviously," Metoyer said. "They have four or five guys who can really play. At the end of the day only one person can shoot at a time."
Another player for Poly to keep an eye on is Darien Williams, a 6-8 senior post averaging 8.2 points and 5.9 rebounds. He scored 14 points and grabbed 10 rebounds in St. John Bosco's 80-56 victory over Chaminade in the III-A title game.
Another, senior forward Brian Nebo, had 12 rebounds against Chaminade.
The Braves figure to have their hands full, too. Poly has been led all year by senior forward Roschon Prince and senior post Jordan Bell, who will be at USC and Oregon, respectively, next season. The 6-6 Prince is averaging 20 points and seven rebounds. Bell, who is 6-8, is averaging 13.7 points, 9.3 rebounds and five blocks.
Their supporting cast is sound, too. Brandon Staton, Kameron Murrell and Chris Sullivan are averaging 8.1, 8.1 and 7.2 points, respectively.
Taylor has nothing but praise for Poly (27-3), which lost to Etiwanda 59-55 in the semifinals of the Division I-AA Southern Section playoffs.
"Long Beach Poly is the team in this area and has been for some time," Taylor said. "We are the upstarts in this area and we are basically the heir to their throne.
"I'm excited to play them, to get back that loss from earlier this year. They are the standard bearers in this town and we're saying we want to challenge that."
Poly was expected to at least play for the I-AA Southern Section title.
Metoyer said losing in the semifinals has made his players eager to respond to that setback.
"They want some redemption and they want to win a state championship," he said. "This is a step in that direction."


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A serious criminal trial has been postponed and dozens more may be affected because of funding shortfalls that have left Victoria Legal Aid unable to provide a full-time solicitor during trials.
Victorian Supreme Court Justice Lex Lasry says an accused man was placed at risk of wrongful conviction because Victoria Legal Aid (VLA) did not provide him with an instructing solicitor for his trial.
Postponing the case on Friday, Justice Lasry said a new VLA policy, which is to only provide an instructing solicitor for two half days of a trial, "demonstrates a lack of understanding of the solicitor's role".
It is expected the decision will lead to many applications to stay trials on similar grounds.
On Monday a judge in a Supreme Court murder trial will decide if the case should be stayed or if VLA should be forced to pay for a solicitor.
Law Institute of Victoria president Reynah Tang said the argument would likely be run in many other cases, including in Victoria's busiest trial court - the County Court.
"We believe this is just the first of many cases in which this argument will run," Mr Tang told AAP.
"My understanding is that there hasn't been a case in the County Court as yet, but it is only a matter of time."
He called on the state and federal governments to better fund legal aid.
Outside court VLA spokeswoman Nicole Rich said there were "concerns" with funding and said the Commonwealth government's share of Victorian legal aid funding has dropped from a half to a third in the past 15 years.
She denied long-running cases such as that of drug lord Tony Mokbel were responsible for the funding shortfall.
"In the case of Mr Mokbel his assets were confiscated so he was eligible for legal aid funding under our guidelines that we apply to everybody in the same manner and that's why Mr Mokbel was funded," she said.
"But no funding one case out of many, many thousands every year is not the reason for this current situation."
Ms Rich said VLA had no plans to change its policy of only allowing a solicitor for two half days during a trial.
She said in other Australian states, including South Australia, Western Australia and Tasmania, barristers ran trials on their own.
In a statement the federal Attorney-General's Department said the government was "committed to adequately resourcing legal assistance" and VLA would receive $182.4 million over the four years to 2015-16.
In Victoria the Commonwealth's contribution for all legal assistance is 44 per cent, with 32 per cent going directly to VLA, the statement said.
A spokesman for Victorian Attorney-General Robert Clark said it was providing record levels of taxpayer funding to VLA.
He said it supported the measures by VLA to spend the money wisely.
In his decision Justice Lasry, a 34-year legal veteran and one of Australia's most respected legal figures, said without an instructing solicitor there was a risk that errors would be made and that the accused may be improperly convicted.
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Brownsboro High School implemented its Shelter-In-Place response plan Monday morning as a result of a threat made against one of its students.
Information was given to school administrators Monday morning that a Smith County resident had made threats against a Brownsboro High School student, specific and credible enough that school officials responded with Shelter-In-Place.
"Shelter-in-Place", according to the superintendent, is usually used during severe weather. The students were in class, but no one was allowed in the halls. The front door was the only door accessible to visitors, and the campus was closely monitored by law enforcement personnel.
"Our school district Chief of Police and campus administration did an exceptional job of using common sense to preserve the integrity of the school day, while at the same time, responding quickly and effectively to the threat," Brownsboro ISD superintendent Dr. Chris Moran said.
The Brownsboro Police Department, Henderson County Sheriff, and BISD Police force coordinated an effort to arrest the suspect in Smith County shortly after the threat was reported.
"Parents, students, and staff in Brownsboro ISD, which includes the City of Chandler, should feel confident to know that school safety and the safety of our students is the most important thing," Moran said.
The Shelter-In-Place ended at 9:55 AM, only an hour after the information was reported, and Moran said students at Brownsboro High School did not miss any instructional time.
The suspect was charged with Terroristic Threat, a 3rd degree felony and transported to Henderson County Jail where he is being held on $10,000 dollars bond. So far, no word on the suspect's identity.
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LOS ANGELES — James Gandolfini, whose portrayal of a brutal, emotionally delicate mob boss in HBO's "The Sopranos" was the brilliant core of one of TV's greatest drama series, died Wednesday in Rome. He was 51.
Gandolfini died while on holiday, the cable channel and Gandolfini's managers Mark Armstrong and Nancy Sanders said in a statement. No cause of death was given.
"He was a genius," said "Sopranos" creator David Chase. "Anyone who saw him even in the smallest of his performances knows that. He is one of the greatest actors of this or any time. A great deal of that genius resided in those sad eyes."
Gandolfini, who won three Emmy Awards for his role as Tony Soprano, worked steadily in film and on stage after the series ended. He earned a 2009 Tony Award nomination for his role in the celebrated production of "God of Carnage."
Gandolfini and his wife, Deborah, who were married in 2008, have a daughter, Liliana, born last year, HBO said. The actor and his former wife, Marcy, have a teenage son, Michael.
Gandolfini's performance in "The Sopranos" was indelible and career-making, but he refused to be stereotyped as the bulky mobster who was a therapy patient, family man and effortless killer.
In a December 2012 interview, he was upbeat about a slew of smaller roles following the breathtaking blackout ending in 2007 of "The Sopranos."
"I'm much more comfortable doing smaller things," Gandolfini said. "I like them. I like the way they're shot; they're shot quickly. It's all about the scripts — that's what it is — and I'm getting some interesting little scripts."
He played Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta in Kathryn Bigelow's Osama bin Laden hunt docudrama "Zero Dark Thirty." He worked for the '60s period drama "Not Fade Away," in which he played the old-school father of a wannabe rocker. And in Andrew Dominick's crime flick "Killing Them Softly," he played an aged, washed-up hit man.
There were comedies such as the political satire "In the Loop," and the heartwarming drama "Welcome to the Rileys.". He voiced the Wild Thing Carol in "Where the Wild Things Are" and made a rare return to the TV screen with the HBO film "Cinemate Verite."
Deploying his unsought clout as a star, Gandolfini produced (though only sparingly appeared in) a pair documentaries for HBO focused on a cause he held dear: veterans affairs.
"Alive Day Memories: Home from Iraq" (2007) profiled 10 soldiers and Marines who had cheated death but continued to wage personal battles long after their military service had ended. Four years later, "Wartorn: 1861-2010" charted victims of post-traumatic stress disorder from the U.S. invasion of Iraq all the way back to the Civil War.


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Annual trustees' meeting minutes, 1848-1892
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Contents: The meeting for the incorporation of the Baptist church and society vas held on November 20, 1848, presided over by Elder Sheardown. In this meeting the trustees were elected and it vas decided that they would meet on the first Monday in December of each year to discuss church business and finance. In many of the early years the minutes were merely a few scribbled words almost illegible on film. The church appeared in debt during certain periods of its history and applied and received loans mortgaged on the church property. Often the Seneca Association gave money for the maintenance of the pastor thereby supplementing the church money. In 1869 a Reverend Ford vas called to remain in the pastorate of the church, but because he put forth certain conditions for accepting which the church vas unable to meet ($500 salary and church building repairs) they subsequently voted to let him go.
In 1876 New York State passed a new law for the incorporation of Baptist churches and the election of their trustees and this law vas discussed in the Watkins Glen trustees' meetings. Again in 1860 there vas a vote which indicated the loss of a pastor due to the church's inability to pay a salary. In 1882 the State Convention donated money for a pastor. Ten years after that the same body gave them $1000 for church repairs.
At the end of this volume are several inserted papers: a note about the 1892 loan; what appears to be a recently written note entitled: "First Baptist Church Village of Jefferson, Organized Oct 2 1846;" and a newspaper book review concerning Elder Sheardovn and his ministry entitled: "Memoirs of a Pioneer Preacher," (the book vas written by a man from Elmira).
Covenant meeting minute book, 1845-1859
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Contents: The minutes of these monthly covenant meetings begin on October 2, 1845 with a series of articles of faith entitled "A compendium of Gospel truths believed in by the first Baptist Church in the Village of Jefferson." It includes about 10 articles of Protestant doctrine and is followed by a Church covenant with the usual commitments "to live together in brotherly love," etc. The covenant meetings that followed seem to have been concerned primarily with the admission, dismission, exclusion, and discipline of members, the religious testimonies prior to admission, several complaints, and the appointment of committees to "labour with" deliquent members, as veil as the election of delegates to conventions. The regular covenant meetings were held on the Saturday before the third Sunday of every month.
In March of 1853 the congregation seems to have experienced a revival expressed in the following way in the minutes: "the spirit of the Lord has been manifested in our midst in the conviction and conversion of sinners." A great deal of loss of membership was recorded vaguely in the minutes as due to "neglect of the church" or "unchristian behavior."
In 1857 there was a large drive to clear up the status of the members who had not participated or attended in several years. Many members were thereby expelled from the church fellowship. In 1858 there was a controversy with one member who had been preaching in the church for some time and who had been secretly married for 6 months, and eventually left the church and the denomination. The last entry for this volume is September 8, 1859.
At the end of the volume are several miscellaneous entries: a few pages of trustees' minutes from June l847 to September 1848 and another entry entitled "Brethren received in constitution Oct 9, 1846" which is a list of names and comments (dismissed, excluded, etc.). This is followed by several other lists of the same nature up to 1853. Also included is a bill from a house and sign painter with a date "l89_," a paper dated November 16, 1905, and a business meeting notation dated July 5, 1907.
Covenant meeting minute book (Volume II), 1859-1891
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Contents: There is a sheet in the beginning which seems to be instructions for recording minutes. This volume is then entitled "The Articles of Faith, Covenant and Records of Baptist Church of Watkins" and begins with a lengthy "Declaration of Faith" which discusses the scriptures, salvation, justification, the sacraments, etc., and is followed by a church covenant and dated 1859 with names and notes on when and how each one was received or dismissed, excluded, or died. The actual covenant meeting minutes begin on December 8, 1859.
In 1862 the church appointed a committee to visit delinquent members, something that occurs as a general "drive" several times in the course of this volume. This declaration was followed by several years of exclusion and punishments when the church appeared to lose a great deal of members. In April 1874 there was a note on temperance and in that same year the Seneca Association held its annual meeting in Watkins Glen. There followed several years or more of spotty minutes and reports of "few members present." In 1860 it is recorded that an evangelist visited the church for several days yet no revival was noted in the minutes. The last recorded meeting in this volume is February 19, 1891. Then there are two "church rolls," one dated January 1, 1879 and the other April 1, 1915 with names and remarks (dismissed, etc.).


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Please pray for us and for our first grandchild who is heading this way in September. Joe knew before he passed away which makes a good memory.
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I am so so sorry for your loss. One of my closest friends, Kim, lost her precious husband after 30 years of marriage. He passed away a week after their anniversary. She misses him so much that I ache for her; he loved her more than life. I pray that like Kim, the love and the memories you shared will see you through.
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May the Lord comfort you and heal your broken heart.
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'In the NHL playoffs, you only have to be good to win. You don't always need to be spectacular and you don't always need to be dazzling to win the important games on the road to the Stanley Cup. Sometimes, ordinary is good enough. Sometimes, all you need to do is play solid, do what you're supposed to do and things will work out.
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