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In brash Perth, the prevailing wisdom for the city's millionaires when they build their dream homes is to demolish and start from scratch. Sydney's wealthy do it differently. Despite the broader housing market slowdown, they are spending multiple millions on upgrades to their sumptuous homes.
In April alone, Woollahra Council in Sydney's wealthy eastern suburbs received two applications for renovations estimated at $6 million and $7.8 million. Soon it will decide whether to approve
When one in-demand interior designer was asked how anyone could spend that much on a renovation, he answered, only half-jokingly, "That's easy; they hire me".
Another applicant to the Woollahra Council is Singapore millionaire Ow Chio Kiat, chairman of the Stamford Land luxury hotel chain and valued last year by Forbes magazine at $US465 million. His $7.9 million upgrade of his home Albemere in Vaucluse includes extensive food storage and preparation areas adjacent to his pool, a new lower ground entertainment room with cellar and a conservatory (they're called sunrooms in cheaper houses).
Sydney architect Alec Tzannes has built and renovated a few mansions in his time; he has mortgage entrepreneur John Symond and media mogul James Packer among his clients. As opposed to dealing with regular clients, whose aspirations are limited by their budgets, he says the biggest challenge with the mega-rich is to avoid going overboard.
"When you've got someone who can do anything it's a bit like 'what can we do?'," he says.
"The questions are more intellectually demanding, and the temptation to overdo the design is great. For me, I tend to prefer things more subtle and refined."
While Bellevue Hill residents are stirring up a kerfuffle around the Murdoch proposal, which includes plans for an extra 1050 square metres of floor space incorporating a 520 sq m basement, new pool, plant room, gym and underground walkway,
So what do you get with a $10 million renovation?
Fashion trends can be gauged by anyone who can afford a coffee in a posh neighbourhood; trends in home design take place away from the curious public.
Melbourne interior designer Stuart Rattle says a formal entertainment room has become redundant.
"They will have it because they think they should, but they don't use it or understand it," he says.
Family rooms have become so sumptuous that the children aren't allowed to play in them any more. That's led to an explosion in popularity of the "cinema room" to where the kids are banished.
And kitchens are mostly for show, with a "butler's pantry", essentially a second kitchen, built out the back for the dirty work.
"De rigueur [for] a luxury house is a butler's pantry or kitchen; you need a cinema room, you need huge walk-in robes, preferably one each," Rattle says.
"If you've got enough space, his and hers bathrooms are nice. And you've got to have a lift. Even if they only have one floor. Everybody is panicking that they won't be able to walk at some stage."
Some changes are immediately apparent to the lay person, like the vented cupola that Lachlan and Sarah Murdoch plan to build above their 150 sq m garage.
Other expensive additions aren't so apparent.
"They have whole rooms devoted to the smart electrics to run the house," Rattle says.
"And with the power going into these houses, there's substations that have got to go in."
Tzannes says little things can add up. While most of us would buy and hang a door for about $300, the doors he works with are perfectly flush with the wall, soundproof and extend all the way to the ceiling so there's no apparent frame.
"You could take a door from $300 to $2000 very comfortably," Tzannes says. Installing them throughout a large house "could take a development from $100,000 to $700,000 overnight".
Employing an architect or interior designer can add a small fortune to a job. French architect Savin Couelle, known for his spontaneous working method that often involves thinking up designs on-site, was flown in with a team of artisans to work on Ros Oatley's Hopetoun Avenue waterfront in Mosman.
And the wealthy set in Melbourne were chattering several years ago about an American designer, rumoured to be Los Angeles designer to the stars Rose Tarlow, who was brought in to work on a house near Camberwell for one member of the wealthy Gandel family.
If a council and residents don't like a proposal, there are still ways to get it through. One is to go to court, and a more subtle move is to win incremental increases in the size of an approved development, using a planning instrument known as a section 96 modification.
"People at this level don't play to the same rules as everyone else," says a designer who declines to be named.
"If you can put a section 96 application in within the next few days [of approval] and pay the fees, you can do anything you like, within reason."
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Passing this unworkable, ramshackle bill is counterproductive or irrelevant to that task.
I hear from readers of my blog who want to see Israel and Palestine amalgamated into some kind of unworkable binational mush.
What exists now is unworkable, untenable, and damn near unendurable.
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On every side of us lay vast blocks of granite of all hues and grades, all absolutely unworked, but surely not unworkable.
The Palmer diggings are now deserted, as they are said to be unworkable.
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My site has four webforms. I want to create a view that can display the results of all submissions. Any help please.
What have you
What have you tried?
Structure : Views : "Add new view" : "Show : webform submissions"
.dan. is the New Zealand Drupal Developer working on Government Web Standards
Any luck?
I need to do the same exact thing and was very surprised it was not straight forward...
I know it might be a bit late now but maybe this will help others as well...
The module Webform views submitted was a good starting point for me (http://drupal.org/project/webform_views_submitted - D6)
theres a D7 port available at http://drupal.org/node/1219954
webform 7x 4.0 branch supports views without other modules
with the 4.x branch, i was able use native view module to add webform values into a view table. This was great because the webform mysql view, data, and schema modules all together were causing errors and was quite complicated.
Create a new view, and add a Relationship: Content: Webform submission.
Then, in the Fields section, you can add the field: (Webform Submission) Webform submission data: Value
You will then be able choose the field inside the webform that you want to display in your view. You can't sort by these values in a table, but close enough!
Stuck at Webform submission data: Value
tlash, your answer was just what i was looking for, but i can't seem to get to the last piece. i create a relationship "Content: Webform submission" but then i don't seem to get any new fields, specifically none that show me webform submission data. any thoughts?
In the configure field window
In the configure field window fill out the Webform node field, once you do a Component data selection field will enable you to select any fields in the webform.
Does anyone know how to add filters or sorting to the webform data inside the view?
++ I am VERY interested to
++ I am VERY interested to find an answer to this also!
-Kelly Bell
twitter: @kelly, @gothamdrupal
Entityforms ?
Another bug(?)
Also, although it's possible to reference the form markup as a component, when you try to use it,
the value doesn't show - not sure if this is a bug or a misunderstanding on my part... either way,
I need to be able to insert some of the form markup. Any suggestions?
I managed to get this exposed
I managed to get this exposed filtering on specific submission data fields to work using part of this guidance :
Instead of using contextual filters you can use field filters referring to the created field relation from the webform submission data.
See screenshot
Very promising, but there's a bug...
This approach seems to work well - however, for multipage forms with 'page break'
components, the select list for
Configure Relationship: Webform submissions: Data
doesn't show form components except for those on the first and last page.
If the 'page break' components are removed, the select list is complete.
Using webform 7.x-4.0-rc3.
Paul N.
I don't get it...
I'm very sorry - but could you please explain it again? How do I add a relationship? In the relationship menu I see a mask with a dropdown "Kategory" and a field showing "Search". Whatever I do the window closes after pressing "add and configure" (or similar, I just saw it in german language). Could you help me? Best regards, Stephan
webform drupal 8
perhaps this can be of any help ? https://othermachines.com/blog/filter-form-submission-data-field-value-v...
I am facing the same problem .If I manage to fix my problem I ' ll let you know how I did it .
Question: Do the forms need
Question: Do the forms need to be created with Webforms 4 in order to work with this method? I have some forms created with the latest stable release of Webforms but I updated the 4 beta in order to make a view containing submission data and when I'm asked to specify the webform node, I'm told that that "The specified node is not valid".
I can't think of any other reason why this would happen.
Did you find an answer to this? I would very much like to know if there's a workaround that enables updating of a WF3->4 node!
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You will indeed need Webform
You will indeed need Webform 4.0 for this to work.
God bless the people who take
God bless the people who take the time to make such great tutorials.
I've done it before but I forgot how to sort by. The link above gives an excellent demonstration!
Well, this is very long
Well, this is very long process. But if you are running latest Views and Webform module on Drupal 7 you can do it in just 4 to 5 steps and that too very easily without even installing any extra module.
Just create a new view by selecting webform submissions data and rendered submissions instead of fields under Display format.
Or follow the process from this : - how-display-webform-submissions-views-drupal-7
but you can't control which values
If you use tlash's method you can control the values you want from your webform and the labels. By just using rendered submissions you are a bit more restricted. Some help can also be found here: https://www.drupal.org/node/2453023
Try Webform Report
A very simple way to show the results of Webform is using Webform Report module. You also can try Webform Reports if you need graphical information about the results.


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Tried out my new charcoal furnace this last weekend, and it seems to work okay.
I've been disappointed with the old technique for making charcoal for a long time. Seems like I went thru tons of fuel and made too much nasty, billowing clouds of smoke for the couple of cubic feet of charcoal I got. I felt I could do better than that.
I started with a 24" by 40" tank that had already been converted into a wood stove. I punched some more holes in that to accommodate a 48" by 14" propane cylinder. I cut the bottom off the propane cylinder and fitted it up with a mate collar and a gasket (made from welder's drop cloth). Effectively gasketing that joint is the only tricky part of this assembly. I also replaced the valve with some ¾" black iron piping that I routed back around underneath the smaller tank within the fire box, and drilled some holes in that. The idea was that the gasses evolving off the wood in the smaller tank would contribute to the fuel heating it.
Here is a CAD sketch of the basic structure.
Separating the wood to be converted into charcoal from the heating fire also would mean that I could burn household trash, yard waste and other wood unsuitable for charcoal and still end up with clean charcoal.
As I said, it worked okay. It still took a handful of hours and it still smoked rather a lot, though now it was more from the dried resinous scotch broom and rhododendron bush trimmings I was using as fuel. I wasn't sure how well the feedback line was working during the bulk of the run but as you can see in this picture taken late in the process, it seemed to be working fine.
As an unexpected side benefit I noticed black goo dripping from the seal on the inner tank. I collected about ½ cup of wood tar from that. I haven't decided what to do with it yet, but I've got it, and I know it should be useful for some stuff. I happened to choose to make this batch of charcoal from splintered Indonesian hardwood pallet boards. It will be interesting to see if I get different tars from different feed stocks. Or different performance from the charcoal, for that matter.
Here is one more picture taken at the same time as the last, but showing more of the furnace.


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He is the co-author of the legal Practice guide, Social Media as Evidence: cases, Practice Pointers and Techniques, published by the American Bar Association. Mr. Briones is a member of DLA Piper's Electronic Discovery Readiness and Response group. He is also co-chair of DLA Piper's Social Media practice. Since 2011, Mr. Briones has been named a Southern California Rising Star. No more than 2.5 percent of the lawyers in the state of California are named to the list.
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Dubbed The Homework Series, the beers will be developed by brewers operating the aforementioned pilot system. The first batch of those brews is an India Red Ale—a hoppy 7% ABV beer given additional character and nice balance by substantial caramel malts—which Chandler pulled from his personal homebrew archives.
A Hybrid-Style Ale with a rich, Oktoberfest inspired malt base and a slamming hop profile, very similar to an India Pale Ale. CTZ (Columbus/Tomahawk/Zeus) hops are added to the boil for bitterness, and copious amounts of Centennial hops are added during the late kettle hop addition and dry hopping post fermentation. In the Great American Beer Festival Style Guidelines there is a gap between the American-Style Amber/Red Ale and Imperial Red Ale. This beer fills this gap, whether you call it a Hoppy Red Ale or an India Red Ale, one thing is for sure…you will call it good.
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Josephine Reed: Welcome to The Big Read, a program created by the National Endowment for the Arts in partnership with the Institute of Museum and Library Services. The largest reading program in American history, The Big Read is designed to unite communities through great literature. Here's your host, poet and former chair of the National Endowment for the Arts, Dana Gioia.
Dana Gioia: Today, we will discuss Ernest Hemingway's harrowing World War I love story, A Farewell to Arms.
Stephen Lang reads from A Farewell to Arms...
In the late summer of that year we lived in a house in a village that looked across the river and the plain to the mountains. In the bed of the river there were pebbles and boulders, dry and white in the sun, and the water was clear and swiftly moving and blue in the channels. Troops went by the house and down the road and the dust they raised powdered the leaves of the trees. The trunks of the trees too were dusty and the leaves fell early that year and we saw the troops marching along the road and the dust rising and leaves, stirred by the breeze, falling and the soldiers marching and afterward the road bare and white except for the leaves.
There was fighting in the mountains and at night we could see the flashes from the artillery. In the dark it was like summer lightning, but the nights were cool and there was not the feeling of a storm coming.
Matthew Bruccoli: A Farewell to Arms is the key American World War I novel.
Tobias Wolff: When you begin this novel, really, you can't stop reading it. The rhythms of the language, the almost visionary actuality of what he is describing there just pulls you in.
Bobbie Ann Mason: This novel is one of the great romances. It is such a beautiful book. There's a kind of intensity in a war romance that doesn't fit more ordinary romances. There's this desperation.
Alice McDermott: A Farewell to Arms, for me, is about the human condition. We face death, all of us at some point and still we continue to love each other, to be hopeful, to love life, moments of peace even though we know we are up against the fact of our own mortality.
Gioia: Ernest Hemingway's 1929 novel A Farewell to Arms is set in Italy and Switzerland during World War I. A war in which Hemingway himself participated as an ambulance driver. World War I was one of the turning points in modern history. It destroyed the myth of progress by proving that technology could be used for mass violence. Writer and editor, Andrew Carroll.
Andrew Carroll: This book takes place in a backdrop of the worst catastrophe the world has seen. At the turn of this century, humanity saw the advancement of technology, of machines. And they thought the machine would serve humanity. And what was so devastating to an entire generation of people was the use of machines slaughtering individuals in a way that was never possible before. And these weapons had been used but none of the scales in World War I. You have the introduction of the machine gun, of tanks, of gas, of submarines, of planes. And the overwhelming massacre where you have tens of thousands of casualties in a single day—we had never seen anything like this before in the history of humanity.
Gioia: The main character of A Farewell to Arms is Lieutenant Frederic Henry, a young American who joins the ambulance service for the Italian Army well before the United States enters the war. Editor of the Hemingway Review, Susan Beegel.
Susan Beegel: Frederic Henry's a pretty interesting character. He hasn't really thought about what war means or why he's there. He was studying architecture in Italy and it sort of seemed like something to do.
Gioia: Hemingway provides very few details about Frederic Henry's life before the war. The author's own experience in World War I bears some obvious similarities to the situation in the novel. But despite these parallels, A Farewell to Arms is not overtly autobiographical.
Beegel: Hemingway, unlike Frederick Henry, was not in the Italian Army. He joined the American Red Cross as a very young man and went out to the war when he was 18 years old to drive an ambulance in Italy. He was badly wounded and he was taken by train to an American Red Cross hospital in Milan. That is where he met his nurse and the first great love of his life, Agnes von Kurowsky.
Ken Panda: The relationship that Hemingway has with Agnes von Kurowsky never advances beyond a social relationship.
Gioia: Ken Panda teaches literature at the University of Delaware.
Panda: They were never married. Hemingway probably read more into relationship than Agnes did, who was several years his senior. What Hemingway did was use that brief experience of his wounding to become the seed of a novel that he worked on either through reading or research or interviews for ten years before he ever wrote it.
Gioia: Andrew Carroll.
Carroll: War of course is the backdrop, but I don't think it's the central story. The love story to me is what's probably the greater focus. But in some ways it is not even a love story. And not to sound cliché but it's about life. And, it's about how we get through these experiences in the context of these historic moments such as a war, any kind of catastrophic event. What is it that we cling to during that journey?
Gioia: After Frederic Henry is wounded by a mortar shell, he's sent to an Allied Hospital in Milan. There through his long convalescence, he falls in love with an English nurse named Catherine Barkley. Novelist Bobbie Ann Mason.
Mason: This novel sets up extremes. It's an almost simplistic black and white division: love and war, the dust and the rain. When the rain comes, it's extreme, it's unending. When they are in love and together, it's total complete happiness. And when they are not together, it's total complete despair.
Beegel: When he meets Catherine, she already knows what war is about and what love is about. She has already lost her fiancé in war. She is a little bit crazy at the beginning of the novel. She wants to pretend that Frederic is her love come back to her.
Wolff: And there's something a little maternal initially about her. She's in charge of this relationship.
Gioia: Writer, Tobias Wolff.
Wolff: She is more sophisticated than he is. She's also lost someone already, so she knows better than they get in deep. So, there's this sense of control that Catherine has at the beginning that she gradually surrenders.
Gioia: Playwright, David Ives.
David Ives: He does not realize her value until he goes off to war and he comes back and that's the moment. That feeling of the world turned upside-down, when you realize you're in love with someone, is so much stronger in this book because it doesn't happen on the spur of the moment. It doesn't happen the first time he sees her.
Mason: It's a kind of romance that can only come out of war. You have such a contrast between the insanity of war and the irrationality of love. I guess that's a similarity in a way. But people are caught up in a thing that's larger than themselves and so they had to find some anchor. And so Frederic Henry and Catherine Barkley are drawn together just desperately. But at the same time this is an absolutely real love.
Gioia: Henry and Catherine carry on a secret romance while the rest of the hospital is asleep. Their affair offers them a much needed refuge from the horrors of the war outside. As Henry recovers from his wounds, he and Catherine explore the town, drink wine in cafés, go to horse races and make plans for a future together. Initially a flirtation, the relationship slowly develops into a bond that is unexpectedly passionate and tender.
Lang reads from A Farewell to Arms...
Afterward I went to bed and when they were all asleep and she was sure they would not call she came in. I loved to take her hair down and she sat on the bed and kept very still, except suddenly she would dip down to kiss me while I was doing it, and I would take out the pins and lay them on the sheet and it would be loose and I would watch her while she kept very still and then take out the last two pins and it would all come down and she would drop her head and we would both be inside of it, and it was the feeling of inside a tent or behind a falls.
She had wonderfully beautiful hair and I would lie sometimes and watch her twisting it up in the light that came in the open door, and it shone even in the night as water shines sometimes just before it is really daylight.
It was lovely in the nights and if we could only touch each other, we were happy.
Gioia: You are listening to The Big Read from the National Endowment for the Arts. Today we're discussing A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway.
Gioia: Susan Beegel and scholar Matthew Bruccoli on Hemingway's Midwestern roots.
Beegel: He was born in Oak Park, Illinois—a little village that was about 9 miles from downtown Chicago.
Matthew Bruccoli: He grew up in an exceedingly devout household with a good deal of praying, strictly moralistic. Hemingway was in revolt against that all of his life, even after he left Oak Park. The story was Oak Park was where the saloons ended and the churches started. He grew up in what was maybe the squarest community in America.
Beegel: He had an excellent high school education. He didn't go to college. After he graduated, he went to be a cub reporter on the Kansas City Star newspaper and was not there very long before signing up for the Red Cross and going off to war.
Gioia: After the war, Hemingway worked in Paris as a foreign correspondent for the Toronto Star. These early journalistic experiences had a profound effect on developing his enormously influential prose style.
Beegel: Journalism taught him several things. It taught him to write with objectivity, not to take a side. It taught him to write using very simple language, declarative sentences, short paragraphs. And it taught him to write for a mass audience.
When he was in Europe and sending back dispatches, these were always sent by telegram and so he would have to distill into just a very few nouns and verbs an entire story.
Bruccoli: The foreign correspondents developed something called "cablese" in which you omitted all of the nonessential words. Hemingway sometimes said that sending cables sharpened his writing and taught him lessons in economy.
Beegel: His great achievement is his style. He changed the way Americans write forever. He threw out all the ornate Victorian prose, all the adjectives and adverbs that tell us what to think. He wanted us to see it and to understand it viscerally and to decide for ourselves.
Wolff: It really isn't as simple as people generally are led to believe—just this declarative sentence laid upon declarative sentence like a wall of bricks. It really isn't like that—it's very poetically patterned.
Gioia: Tobias Wolff.
Wolff: There's great variation in the cadences of the sentences. He uses the sounds of words in adjoining sentences to create an effect, much as a poet does. But it always feels as if these are the words that men do use. This is within the human voice. The hardest thing in the world is to sound natural as a writer.
Gioia: Matthew Bruccoli.
Bruccoli: Hemingway managed to convince his readers that everything he wrote about was real, had happened to him. This is one of his great strengths: the credibility of his work, the accuracy. The places, the names, the dates, the smell, the taste. Very few writers can trigger all of the senses. Hemingway can.
Gioia: David Ives.
Ives: The piling up of items, the piling up of physical effects is so extraordinary. There's that line of Elizabeth Bishop at the end of a poem where she talks about a child's vision and she says that as child, everything is connected by "and" and "and." That's what Hemingway is like for me. That contrast of the simplicity of the style with the complexity of the emotions is what I go to him for and for the amazing sudden effects that he gets.
Lang reads from A Farewell to Arms...
To the north we could look across a valley and see a forest of chestnut trees and behind it another mountain on this side of the river. There were mists over the river and clouds on the mountain and the trucks splashed mud on the road and the troops were muddy and wet in their capes; their rifles were wet and under their capes the two leather cartridge-boxes on the front of the belts, gray leather boxes heavy with the packs of clips of thin, long 6.5 mm. cartridges, bulged forward under the capes so that the men, passing on the road marched as though they were six months gone with child. At the start of the winter came the permanent rain and with the rain came the cholera. But it was checked and, in the end, only seven thousand died of it in the army.
Ives: One thing that I love about Hemingway is that he seemed to know how to do things in the world. When I read Hemingway, I know that he knew those bullets and those cartridges and those guns and those things that he handles—those fishing rods. We don't handle things in the physical world the way those objects come clear in his prose.
Gioia: Andrew Carroll.
Carroll: In re-reading this book, I was able to focus more on what I think is actually a very American trait with artists. You see it in Hopper's paintings, in Copland's music, in Robert Frost's poetry. It's a kind of deceptive simplicity. When you first look at it or first read it or first hear it, it seems very basic. What is so striking about it is that the more you go back to it, you realize that there is so much more at work and that there's a kind of maturity and wisdom to restraining oneself.
McDermott: People think because the language is simple, then the sentiments are also simple.
Gioia: Novelist, Alice McDermott.
McDermott: But Hemingway's characters speak very deeply about their emotions and their spiritual lives. Here you find a great spirituality, a gentleness, a weakness on the part, I think, of all his male characters. And it's internal. Sure they look good in their uniforms and they drink with the best of them and seem to cut a fine figure and yet at night, alone, they pray, they wonder, they're vulnerable.
Lang reads from A Farewell to Arms...
If people bring so much courage to this world, the world has to kill them to break them, so of course it kills them. The world breaks everyone and afterward many are strong at the broken places. But those that will not break, it kills. It kills the very good and the very gentle and the very brave impartially. If you are none of these you can be sure it will kill you too, but there will be no special hurry.
Gioia: Matthew Bruccoli.
Bruccoli: Fitzgerald told Hemingway that that was one of the most beautiful passages in all of American literature. He's 29 years old and wrote it and he was 30 years when it was published. He was a kid. And here's this 30-year-old kid telling his readers the meaning of life, the value of life, how to live, expressing brilliantly that sense of doom that runs through this novel and runs through much of Hemingway.
Gioia: Almost from the moment he published his first major novel, The Sun Also Rises, in 1926, Hemingway became arguably the most imitated and admired American writer of the century. In 1954, his accomplishments were recognized with the Nobel Prize for Literature. This historic recording is from Hemingway's acceptance speech.
Ernest Hemingway (historic recording)...
Writing at its best is a lonely life. Organizations for writers palliate the writer's loneliness. But, I doubt if they improve his writing. For he does his work alone and if he is a good enough writer, he must face eternity, or the lack of it, each day.
Gioia: That writer's loneliness ultimately proved inescapable for Hemingway. In July 1961, in his home in Idaho, Hemingway took his own life. He was 61 years old.
The central turning point in A Farewell to Arms comes as Frederic Henry leads his men through the chaos of the retreating Italian army. Faced with a moment of irrational and unjust violence, Henry is forced to weigh his military duty against his personal desires and promises.
Alice McDermott.
McDermott: The thing that I admire most is that beautiful transition when we follow him through the retreat. And as things slowly breakdown and finally get to the point where he's finished with the war—its just the slow wearing away of all the things that he believed he could do as a single person in the war.
Gioia: Ken Panda.
Panda: When you get to the point where he's at the bridge at the Tagliamento and the battle police are shooting officers over a certain rank who they believe have deserted even though supposedly they're in structured retreat, it becomes literally an absurdity. "Do I die at the hands of people who I've been saving as an ambulance driver for the last two years or do I try to escape and get back to Catherine?" He makes a separate peace is what he does. He says, "I am through with it. I am done with it."
Lang reads from A Farewell to Arms...
We stood in the rain and were taken out one at a time to be questioned and shot. So far they had shot everyone they had questioned. The questioners have that beautiful detachment in devotion to stern justice of men dealing in death without being in any danger of it.
I looked at the carabinieri. They were looking at the newcomers. The others were looking at the Colonel. I ducked down, pushed between two men and ran for the river, my head down. I tripped at the edge and went in with the splash. The water was very cold and I stayed under as long as I could. I could feel the current swirl me and I stayed under until I thought I could never come up. The minute I came up I took a breath and went down again. It was easy to stay under with so much clothing and my boots. When I came up the second time I saw a piece of timber ahead of me and reached it and held on with one hand.
We passed the brush of an island above the water. I held onto the timber with both hands and let it take me along. The shore was out of sight now.
Gioia: Tobias Wolff.
Wolff: He calls into question the reality of these grand causes when we see that even those who are supposed to be on Lieutenant Henry's side are trying to shoot him and, in fact, murder him.
Gioia: David Ives.
Ives: These soldiers, including himself, are being run by men who really don't know what they're doing or don't care what happens. So, in a funny way, it is an absurdist novel about the war, because he's not concentrating on the war scenes, the battle scenes, he's concentrating on the feelings of a man who's caught up in something horrific and yet is trying to remain human.
Wolff: And there's that kind of rebirth that he goes through there. He evades being shot by diving into the river. It's an image of baptism. And when he comes out, he's a different man. He has seen the face of war, he has seen the face of political reality and, from then on, he is interested in personal reality. That's what his quest is: this long journey he goes on to neutrality, to meet his love and to take her to a safe place.
Ives: What struck me in his desertion too was that he hides in this train amongst some guns. And so he goes under that tarpaulin and he's seating amongst guns and so it's as if he can't get away from the war.
Lang reads from A Farewell to Arms...
Anger war washed away in the river along with any obligation. Although that ceased when the carabinieri put his hands on my collar. I would like to have had the uniform off, although I did not care much about the outward forms. I had taken off the stars, but that was for convenience; it was no point of honor. I was not against them. I was through and I wished them all the luck. They were the good ones, and the brave ones, and the calm ones and the sensible ones and they deserved it. But it was not my show anymore. And I wish this bloody train would get to Mestre and I would eat and stop thinking. I would have to stop.
McDermott: Hemingway's great gift to us is to be able to show us both at the same time that there is suffering, that there is craziness and war and absurdity, and you could easily say, "I wish I'd never been born." And yet, ah, there are moments—life is so fine.
Ives: I suppose you to have been in love to, to love this book in a certain way. The war is the horrible background to the beauty that's in the foreground which is what happens to him with Catherine.
Panda: It is an enduring story of sacrifice, isolation, loss, all these things are ubiquitous human emotions and experiences.
Beegel: The book is incredibly important because it bears witness to the tragedy of war. It's written by someone who was there, who was wounded, who felt it, who saw it.
Wolff: One of the things that this novel achieves for me and makes me feel again and again is the first importance of the connections of one person to another. The insufficiency of the grand phrases and platitudes that lead us into one catastrophe after another. What Hemingway asserts in this novel is that what matters is what goes on between one person and another. It's the bonds of real affection and not abstract loyalty to this or that cause, or to this or that country, but to another human being. That that is the beginning of real loyalty, of real love.
Lang reads from A Farewell to Arms...
I was always embarrassed by the words sacred, glorious, and sacrifice and the expression in vain. We had heard them, sometimes standing in the rain almost out of earshot, so that only the shouted words came through and had read them, on proclamations that were slapped up by billposters over other proclamations, now for a long time, and I had seen nothing sacred, and the things that were glorious had no glory and the sacrifices were like the stockyards at Chicago if nothing was done with the meat except to bury it. There were many words that you could not stand to hear and finally only the names of places had dignity. Certain numbers were the same way and certain dates and these with the names of the places were all you could say and have them mean anything. Abstract words such as glory, honor, courage or hallow were obscene beside the concrete names of villages, the numbers of roads, the name of rivers, the numbers of regiments and the dates.
Gioia: Thanks for joining The Big Read. This program was created by the National Endowment for the Arts in partnership with the Institute of Museum and Library Services. It was written and produced by Dan Stone. Assistant Producer: Adam Kampe. Readings from A Farewell to Arms were by Stephen Lang. The excerpt from Ernest Hemmingway's Nobel Prize acceptance speech was used with permission of the Nobel Foundation. Original music is by Lee Blasky. The Intermezzo from Cavalleria Rusticana, composed by Pietro Mascagni, was used with the permission of Naxos. World War I battle sounds, Succession 970, courtesy of the Imperial War Museum. Special thanks to Philip Brunelle, Ted Libbey, Erika Koss and Kate Kaiser.
For the National Endowment for the Arts, I'm Dana Gioia.
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Stories 2001
Stories 2002
After winning the competition on home soil in 1999, this was to be a test of our depth as we attempted to defend the title away from home. The competition was keenly contested and in the end just 5 points separated the top three teams Barbados, Trinidad and Jamaica. Despite a wonderful display of team spirit and many excellent performances, the Jamaicans who lead the point standings going into the final event, just failed to retain the trophy.
Special credit goes to Janelle Atkinson displayed world-class swimming, winning seven (7) Gold and one (1) Silver medals. Raine Paulson-Andrews also medalled in every event that she competed in winning one (1) Gold, two (2) Silver and two (2) Bronze. In a highly competitive male division, Ramon James was the top Jamaican as he won one (1) Gold, two (2) Silver and a Bonze.
While the team did not retain the trophy, the team should be congratulated for the way they represented Jamaica. In a time when there is so negativism about our youth, their team spirit and overall behavior was heartwarming. I was proud of every member of the team.
CISC (July 19 - 26, 2000 )
Jamaica?s team to the Caribbean Island Swimming Championships was one of the largest National swim teams travel overseas. The advent of the National Squad had a positive impact on this team as a number of seniors were encouraged to remain or return to the water. These seniors not only played a significant leadership role, but added depth to the team. I believe that the example set by the seniors, helped to improve the professional approach by our swimmers to National representation, a factor that helped to produce thirty two (32) medal performances, the most ever by a Jamaican team at this competition. It should be noted that this was achieved even though Janelle Atkinson was not on the team, a deliberate decision to allow her personal coach to focus on her preparation for the Olympic Games.
For the first time, Jamaica was represented in International Synchronized Swimming Competition when six swimmers put on the Jamaican colors. Despite the tensions of competing at that level for the first time, the swimmers, Coached by Katherine LimSang did a credible job and won their Jamaica?s first Synchronized Swimming medal when Michela Lee and Rochelle Foster placed second to take the Silver in the 16-18 years duet competition.
The most notable performance was Angela Chuck?s Olympic Qualifying time of 27.20 in 50 M Freestyle. The swim capped a good meet for an elated Chuck who won Gold in the 50, 100 and 200 M 18-21 Freestyle events. Another Olympic hopeful, Ramon James swan his best time in the first hundred of the 200 M Backstroke but just failed to make the qualifying time. Alison Bardowell swimming in the 13-14 age group, had her best meet the National level when she medalled in all six of her events (3 Gold, 1 Silver and 2 Bronze). The attached results will show a number of other excellent individual and team performances.
The difficulties experienced in raising the JA$1.3 million to fund the team happily did not affect the performance of the swimmers. I would like to express my gratitude to the Team Management, Parents, Clubs and other persons who helped to meet our obligations. The team management did a marvelous job to keep the swimmers focused well done.
Judging Michele Lee, Helen Eyre and Rose Foster gained valuable experience as judges in the Synchronized Swimming Competition. Although they no previous experience at that level competition Mrs. Sandy Roberts, Secretary of FINA?s Synchronized Swimming Committee, was very happy with their performance. John Eyre acted as stroke judge in the Swimming Competition.
OLYMPIC GAMES 2000 Sydney, Australia (September 15 October 2, 2000)
Competing in the Olympic Games is the dream of most serious athletes and captures the imagination of almost everyone else. The 2000 Olympics Games was held in Sydney Australia and was, in the words of the IOC President Mr. Juan Antonia Samaranch ?the best games ever?. Jamaica?s Janelle Atkinson and Angela Chuck competed in the swimming competition where 15 World and 38 Olympic records were broken, which made the competition one of the fastest ever.
Jamaica?s swim team consisted of five (5) members: Janelle Atkinson and Angela Chuck (swimmers), Coach Jackie Walter (Head Coach), Coach Larry Shofe and myself as Team Manager. The inclusion of Coach Shofe, Janelle?s personal coach, added depth and experience to the team management, neither of whom had been involved at that level before. I believe that the lessons learnt and experiences of the competition will help the ASAJ to raise the level of competitive swimming in Jamaica.
The Jamaican swimmers swam all of the events entered. Janelle Atkinson swam the 400 M and 800 M Freestyle and Angela Chuck the 50 M Freestyle.
Janelle Atkinson
400 M Heats Swimming in her first Olympics Games Janelle was very nervous, but despite this, she went out strong and maintained even splits for the entire race. She finished third in her heat, establishing a new personal best and Jamaica National Record time with a time of 4:09.61 Her nervous tension prior to the race paid its toll and she was extremely sore at the end of the race. The Jamaican medical team responded very well to this and dealt with the symptoms quickly. Janelle had the third fastest time going into the final.
400 M Final Janelle was clearly more relaxed at the start and once again swam a strong race and seemed well placed in third place with 100 M to go. She was unable to hold off a strong challenge from America?s Diana Munz and finished forth in another personal best and National Record time of 4:08.79. Despite not medalling, Janelle?s performance seems to have made a significant impact on many Jamaicans.
800 M Heats Most feel that this event should be Janelle?s best event, however recent experience has shown that this has not been the case at the end of the swim season (possible due to subtle changes in training sets more sprints). Once again, Janelle swam a good race although she did not have her usual strong finish. She finished ninth overall with a time of 8:34.51, another personal best and Jamaica National Record.
Angela Chuck
50 M Heats This was Angela?s only event for the Games. While she had no realistic chance of moving to the next round she had set a goal of establishing a new National Record for the event. Seeded 6th in her heat Angela placed 2nd in a time of 27.48 just missing the record.
Performance summary Both swimmers were well prepared coming into the games but it is clear that there one area that must be addressed if Jamaica?s swimmers are to win and this is ?confidence?. The winners and challengers had the attitude of ?I am going to win? where our swimmers seem more to think ?I don?t want to fail?. This is more a systemic problem as Jamaica has not been able to expose our top swimmers to competition at the highest level often enough. Funding is a clear issue, but the ASAJ must work to address this shortcoming.
I would like to thank the Jamaica Olympic Association for including Coach Shofe on the Jamaican delegation. His presence added depth and experience to the management team and was I believe a just reward for what he has done for Jamaican swimming.
Jamaicans of all walks of life were captivated by the performances in Sydney. In 2001, the members of the ASAJ must find ways to capitalize on this and if the entries in the Mayberry Prep Schools Meet held December 1-2 is an indication, the interest is definitely there.
Competitions (Local)
Despite experiencing facility related problems for most of the year, most competitions were held on schedule. The Walter Lowi Sprint Meet was originally
cancelled as the National Stadium Pool was closed for repairs. The meet was later reinstated on short notice after the FFA Swim Meet, being an international competition, was
cancelled due to concerns about the pool availability.
Schools swimming, particularly at the preparatory and primary schools level continues to grow in popularity. Despite imposing additional entry restrictions for the Mayberry Investments School Championships the number of entries, particularly in the Prep/Primary section, continued to grow. The net result was having sessions longer than desirable.
Synchronized Swimming
History was created in July 2000 when Michela Lee and Rochelle Foster won Jamaica?s first ever medal in an international synchronized swimming competition. Coached by Katherine Lymsang, six swimmers were selected after council consulted with Mrs. Rose Cody, a member of the FINA Synchronized Swimming Technical Committee. Entered in three age groups, the Jamaicans were competitive and showed great potential although it was clear that a lot of work remains if they are to be contenders at the CCCAN or higher level.
Development Programs
National Team
In the first quarter of 2000 the National Squad Program was introduced. Coach Jackie Walter was appointed as National Coach, however the position of Assistant Coach was not filled. Over 30 swimmers, local and overseas were selected to the Senior and Junior Squads. The program has focused primarily on the Senior Squad swimmers who have trained together three sessions a week and attended a number of local and overseas swim camps. The Junior Squad swimmers have been invited to a number of local camps and training sessions. One of the goals of the program was to encourage our senior swimmers to either remain in or return to serious training. The program meet this objective and these swimmers played an important role in our success at the CISC.
Judges Development
Mr. John Lopez and Miss. Kristina Chuck completed the first draft of a Judges training and certification program.
Through the efforts of Mr. Lopez and Mrs. Sarah Newland-Martin (YMCA), there has been a significant increase in interest in judging and officiating. As a result, there has been training of one sort or another at every meet held in the last nine months.
Coaches Development
The coaches workshops introduced in 2000 proved to be an effective environment for training, discussion and communication. As the coaches feedback was positive, the program will continue in 2001 and all clubs and schools are encouraged to ensure that their coaches attend. One aspect that has encouraged me was the positive interaction I witnessed at the workshops I attended this must be encouraged, as this is one of the best ways to transfer knowledge.
In July, Mr. Nigel Bair resigned as treasurer due to other commitment. Nigel has indicated that he will continue to work for swimming and indeed is key player in Mayberry Investments School Championship sponsorship. Mrs. Pat Prescod filled the position of Treasurer.
National Stadium Pool
Through the UDC and with San Jose Accord funding, the spectator stands at the National Stadium pool were replaced by aluminum bleachers. The work was completed by a Venezuelan contractor. In September the National Stadium Pool was closed to repair leaking pipes under the pool deck, primarily around the diving well. The rate of leakage made it difficult to maintain an acceptable level of water quality.
The Colorado Timing Pads purchased through the San Jose accord in 1994 became unreliable. In July the ASAJ ordered 10 new timing pads from Daktronics but was unable, due to funding problems, to complete payment when the year ended.
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On a day that belonged the Julien Leparoux, it was Rajiv Maragh that was able to narrowly outduel his fellow rider in the Keeneland feature, as Pachattack defeated Kathmanblu by a neck in the $100,000 Hilliard Lyons Doubledogdare (gr. III) (VIDEO) on April 20.
Leparoux, the perennial leading rider at Keeneland, won six races from eight mounts on the afternoon to tie a 22-year-old record at the Lexington track. He was trying to put his name all alone in the books aboard Kathmanblu in the feature. The 4-year-old filly set the pace in the 1 1/16-mile Polytrack event before being taken on by 7-10 favorite Pachattack under Maragh. Those two dueled for the length of the short stretch before Pachattack inched away on the outside in the final yards.
Pachattack is owned by Flaxman Holdings and is trained by Graham Motion. The 6-year-old daughter of Pulpit, making her first start of the season, was bred in Kentucky by Dapple Broodmares and is out of the Red Ransom mare El Laoob. This was her sixth victory from 27 lifetime starts.
Kathmanblu and Leparoux took the early lead into the short first turn and were able to control the pace unpressured while running splits of :24.18, :48.37, and 1:12.91. Pachattack raced alongside Lunar Mist in the early stages but never let Kathmanblu get too far away. She was right on her heels when they reached the quarter pole and finally poked a head in front at the top of the stretch.
The final time was 1:43.75. La Gran Bailadora, rallying from last on the far turn, was another 2 1/2 lengths back in third in a field of six. Sea Level Drive was fourth, followed by My Pal Chrisy, and Lunar Mist. Two of the favorites, Joyful Victory and Principal Role, were scratched.
Pachattack was making her first start since finishing third in the Breeders' Cup Ladies Classic (gr. I) in November. She was grade I placed in two other races prior to that and recorded her lone victory in 2011 in the Arlington Matron (gr. IIIT) in May.
With her Doubledogdare win, Pachattack upped her earnings to $786,893.
"To be honest, she makes me look good," Motion said. "She's so straightforward in the morning. It's exciting to have a filly like this."
Leparoux was disappointed at not being to break the record, but was still thrilled to have such a big day. The other two riders to win six races on a single Keeneland card were Randy Romero and Craig Perret, who both accomplished the feat during the 1990 spring meet.
"I was really thinking I could get (the record) Leparoux said. "She (Kathmanblu) was relaxed. When I could see who was outside of me I knew it was Rajiv so I knew it was going to be a fight to the finish."
Leparoux's winners came aboard Rhonin Victoria ($5.80) in the first, Love Reigns ($7.20) in the second, Rally Point ($7.40) in the fourth, Sum of the Parts ($4.60) in the fifth, Julie's Love ($4) in the seventh, and Into the Fray ($8) in the eighth.
"I was feeling pretty good. Everything I was on was the favorite pretty much so I was hoping to have a good day," Leparoux said right after he won aboard Into the Fray in a maiden race. "But they still have to win. It was just one of those days when they all ran good for me. The meet started out slow for me but it's been okay since the first couple days.
"I love Keeneland and I love Kentucky. It's my last full year in Kentucky but I'll be back here so hopefully I can keep winning."
Pachattack paid $3.40, $2.40, and $2.10. The exacta (5-2) returned $14.20 and the trifecta (5-2-1) was worth $23.80.


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STARKVILLE, Miss. - Sometimes, past performances don't count for much.
The book on Mississippi State's defense coming into Thursday's game with LSU was that its sieve-like rush defense was a piece of raw meat waived in front of the Tigers. If Auburn carved up the Bulldogs on the ground last week, LSU would mash State as flat as a cornfield.
You have to say this for State: rumors about its lack of defense after last Saturday's 41-34 loss to Auburn proved false.
The Bulldogs were tough and physical and often outnumbered LSU's running game by stacking the box with seven, eight, even nine defenders.
State got what it wanted: it made Jarrett Lee beat it by throwing the ball.
Dare given, dare accepted.
It was more than a decent gamble. The memory of his seven "pick sixes" as a redshirt freshman in 2008 still haunt his legacy as Tiger quarterback and still permeate LSU's offensive thinking when he's in the game. It is, most certainly, part of the reason why Lee wasn't able to permanently unseat Jordan Jefferson as the Tigers' starter until Jefferson was forcibly removed from the picture.
It was a tough situation in which to ask Lee to succeed. Coming off that Auburn loss, the Bulldogs were backed into a desperate corner as they tried to avoid starting Southeastern Conference play 0-2. State's defense was physical. The volume in little Davis Wade Stadium, amped up by the den of tens of thousands of cowbells, went to 11. It was the kind of atmosphere that has put so many higher-ranked teams like No. 3 LSU on upset alert on Thursday nights like this.
And, oh yes, did we tell you that LSU needed to depend on Lee for its very offensive life?
Into this maelstrom, this pit, Lee ventured and not just survived, but flourished. He took the passing opportunities that State's boxed-set defense gave the Tigers, nipping with a pass in the flat here to Odell Beckham, a toss there to another freshman Jarvis Landry. All the while, Lee had an eye deep for Rueben Randle, who he found with several big passes to tilt field position to LSU's favor and finally, in the fourth quarter, for a 19-yard pass that was the only time either team found the end zone.
Sure, Lee followed up that possession with an interception, his first since last year's Tennessee game, but that is a small blemish on a chrome-plated cowbell of a performance: 21 of 27 for 213 yards.
It may not have been the best you've ever seen, but it is certainly the best Calen Jarrett Lee has ever done in an LSU uniform.
Now at 3-0 with their SEC opener behind them and Lee as their field general, the Tigers move forward to another tough road test Sept. 24 at West Virginia.
The Mountaineers will likely again dare Lee to beat them with his arm.
Dare already accepted.


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Job Conger's
Conger Family of North America Home Page
This page was most recently updated Tuesday, September 30, 2008
Please direct correspondence regarding this and other
Conger web pages here to webmaster Job Conger -- firstname.lastname@example.com
I am s l o w l y relocating my Conger web pages from the former site to this one. Many links indicated here will not connect you as they should, but they will as soon as my relocating is complete. Thanks for your interest and your patience.
Conger Family Gallery
I've launched a new page of Conger portraits. The start of this addition was inspired by the donation of some late 19th century/early 20th century card-size portraits purchased at an Iowa estate sale and given to me by a friend. There are Congrs to identify here and some folks which are likely not Congers. Which is which? You tell me. Visit the site if you have the time, the parsley, the sage and the rosemary, and tell me what you think; aye? Visit the page by clicking here
Unhappy news:
Maxine Leonard, the dedicated, selfless, tireless dynamo who launched Conger Confab and was a guiding light for many Congers, myself included, died Sunday, October 2, 2005. Services are slated for October 6. A neighbor sent me an e-mail with the news. I will try to post a more detailed obituary in the next few days and will add a page of pictures and memories from my visits to her home.
Her death should inspire all Congers and Conger kin reading this to renew our focus on sustaining Conger Confab the family newsletter which I published for some years after she turned the genealogical files and other family heirlooms over to me.
If you have memories of Maxine you would like to share with others via this website, please e-mail me, address below.
I have posted the funeral home obituary and the transcript of the graveside eulogy shared by good people who were there. Visit that page by clicking here
NEW at my Conger web pages
A gentleman born Dan Conger in Milwaukee, WI November 28, 1945 and given up for adoption seeks information about his birth parents. For the complete story, vitis the Conger Research page by clicking here
How Job C. Conger, IV Became Connected to Conger Confab
When I was a child growing up in Springfield, Illinois, I was told Congers are all related, and that the first of us took a slow boat to the new world before the Revolutionary War.
In 198something, I received a newsletter entitled Conger Confab from Maxine Leonard in Janesville, Iowa. It was newsy, friendly and answered a lot of questions. I subscribed on the spot.
Over time, I let my subscription expire. But when I met an elderly couple exiting a car with "E CONGER" license plates, I asked him if he was a Conger -- yes, from Easton, Illinois. Maxwell C. and Ruth E. Conger were the first Congers I ever met beyond a grandmother and cousins in Macon, GA. I asked if he knew "that lady who put out the Conger newsletter -- yes, again. He gave me her address and I wrote Maxine and enclosed a subscription check. In 2003, I read Max's obituary, and have met a local rural Illinoisan who had the greatest respect for the man.
After a few years of subscribing, Maxine said she needed a person to take over the Confab, and she figured I was the one meant to do it. I had all the right attributes for a Conger: I knew how to spell KAT without a spellchecker and I was unemployed. Was I going to argue with DESTINY?
Shucks, NO!!....Conger Confab is a quarterly newsletter about Congers. It has pictures, many historical pictures from earlier generations of Congers, news of what Congers are doing, and many postings of enquiries from Conger family researchers. Any Conger or Conger kin is invited to send pictures of the family, news of the family, news of genealogical meetings, research questions, obituaries, birth notices, marriage notices, pictures and descriptions of anything with the Conger name on it (items Congers have written, drawn, painted or manufactured) to the mailing address which I will send you if you email me first. I TEMPORARILY stopped publishing Conger Confab because of personal financial reversals, and I'm not "out of the woods" yet.
|Pictured right is Maxine Crowell Leonard, the patron saint of Conger Confab, whose diligent research, devotion to the Conger family and love of humanity benefits all Congers and Conger kin. This picture was taken during a September 1999 visit with her at her home in Waverly, Iowa. The plate she holds is now part of the Conger Family Collection entrusted to yours truly, Job Conger.
A limited number of Maxine's Conger Family of America, Volume 1 are for sale for $100 plus $5 shipping. If you come to Springfield, Illinois and visit the Conger memorabilia collection and take me to lunch or dinner, you can forget about the $5 postage cost.
I have no copies of Conger Family of America Volume 2 for sale.
I am still seeking a Conger family member to continue the mission of publishing Conger Confab, to take all the Conger family materials passed onto me by Maxine Leonard. I don't care whether you live in the USA, Canada or Myanmar. IF you can transport yourself to my home and promise to carry on the Conger family genealogy mission, I will GIVE you all materials on hand, except for the remaining copies of CFA Volume 1, the back issued of Confab which I have published and the beverage cups.
Please contact me of you want to know more about taking over the Conger material. If there are no offers to take over, and if I continue to lack the financial capacity to re-launch Conger Confab -- I don't have a full-time job right now and yes, I'm looking -- I will transport all Conger materials to the site of the Sangamon County Genealogical Society in Springfield, Illinois, sometime in 2005. But in the meantime, I'm going to make a serious effort to demonstrate my faith that things will improve, in part because I am, after all, a Conger, and because I am sincerely grateful to Maxine Leonard and the many supporters who have shown their faith in me. I have created several new pages, listed below.
Conger Family Directory Status
A suggestion by Confab subscriber Cheryl Davidson-Ramsey has led to the launch of Conger Family Directory #1, originally planned for publication and distribution in 2001. This will be a directory, a paginated tapestry, a time capsule, that shares what we know about Congers and Conger kin who subscribe to Conger Confab. It will include genealogical lines, occupations, hobbies... in short, what people want to share. If I know nothing but a subscriber but a name and address, that's all I'll include. Bare minimum I hope to share is name, address, phone number, email address, web site address. Bare acceptable is the subscriber's name and city, state. If subscribers wish not to be mentioned at all, I will respect those wishes. I hope to include the kind of information described under Recommended Sources below. The CFDOne will be offered exclusively to Confab subscribers in 2001 for the cost of producing it. I'm donating my time and equipment and expect that Cheryl will donate hers also. There will be printing and postage costs to recoup.
We will publish a Conger Family Directory AFTER we have produced six more issues of Conger Confab and recouped some of the credibility lost to the wind since September 2001. Look for updates here after we publish those issues.
The Genealogical Dilemmas I've Kept Under my Hat Until Now
As noted earlier, I grew up cozy and happy believing all Congers in the US decend from one fellow who came over to the colonies before this land was our land. Didn't know his name until my propitious encounter with Maxine Leonard, and as I will say always, I am a much richer man, spiritually, as a result of that confluence of fates.
From the start of my correspondence and phone conversations with Maxine, I expressed doubts regarding my qualifications to take over the task of producing Conger Confab. She always assured me that I didn't have to be a genealogist to produce the newsletter.
As I settled in, and in the main, enjoyed the hours I spent producing Confab, two dilemmas began gnawing into my heart. One was that the genealogy book and computer program writers LOUDLY proclaimed COPYRIGHT ownership of the data they shared. Hence the problem of how to share what I read with fellow Confab supporters. I have always stated that information in Confab is for everyone's use so if someone wanted to share the info provided with others, be my guest. So the minor impasse I had with sharing data, simply stated, was How do I tell you something I read - and, something someone else read and told me - without being sued by a copyright holder? THAT was my secondary concern -- about which I welcome your opinion -- and it doesn't hold a candle to my first concern: what I will call The Genesis Myth.
While I respect religion which holds to the principle "Love thy neighbor as thyself." I regard the story of Adam and Eve as apocryphal, "of doubtful authenticity" as the Tenth Edition of Merriam Webster's Collegiate Dictionary explains. As I learned more -- THANKS TO YOU AND MAXINE -- about Conger history, the raging debate over whether Congers are of French -- not English -- descent, I came to question what appears to be equivalent of Old Testament "lore" that states all American Congers are descended from John Belconger. The problem I have with my uncertainty is that I do not know how to resolve it. I do not know how to find the truth.
Several outstanding genealogists, who supported me early in my efforts, have drifted away from me as I have drifted away from focusing on my major dilemma. He can I pretend to be an "authority" on Congers when what I "know" is a thimble of Cognac in an ocean of rot-gut beer?
Over the years, I've purchased a few books that are intended to teach readers about genealogy, and I've barely read past the introductions. We recall how the disciples of Christ watched in fear as they saw him approaching them, walking on the Sea of Galilee and he spoke in essence, "Oh ye of little faith. . ." I am of little faith in resolving my dilemmas.
What is your understanding?
Family of America, Volume II
A few years ago, I purchased Maxine Leonard's remaining copies of Conger Family of America, Volume II. There weren't many left, and they didn't last long here. Subsequently, Maxine gave me permission to reprint the volume, but I didn't for two reasons. First, I was aware, through correspondence with other genealogists, of errors in Volume II that should be corrected before producing a second edition. Second, I had no dollars.
At this time, considering my circumstances, further consideration of revising and reprinting CFAII is not an option. If you have investment capital and are willing to finance such an enterprise, I will be happy to work with YOU toward getting the job done. Write me if you'd like to know what I have in mind.
The Future of Confab
I still have the subscription records from my earlier production of Confab; even Maxine's original pink address note cards. Every line that has been sent to me by respected genealogists is here. I have thrown nothing away.
One of the nifty things about Maxine's Confab was that it functioned exceptionally well as a "grapevine" for coordinating Conger Family reunions. During the time I published Confab, I planned three reunions and generated a grand total attendance of two people. Thank God, other Congers and Conger kin have visited over the years, and I say again, the coffee and boiling hot water for tea are always at the ready for good people who contact me before arriving in Springfield. I have had some wonderful visits from terrific people.
IF I CAN RESTORE MY FINANCES to the point where I can afford some kind of health insurance and house insurance and regular meals after purchasing a car I can drive on the highway in comparative safety, I will resume publication of Conger Confab. As soon as I am confident that I can deliver more than a random issue every year or even two a year, I will send an advisory out to all past subscribers. I am seeking NO SUBSCRIPTION ORDERS NOW. And I know, even this effort at improving my earlier web pages is not enough to merit a request for fiancial help. My goal is to produce a newsletter every three months as I did earlier.
In the Meantime
I am going to much more diligently than before, share on this web site, exactly what I would be sharing via Confab with the additional benefits that we can afford to publish in COLOR here, and it's free to you if you support this bombastic revue and even if you don't. Please direct your news about your life, questions about our family's genealogy, pictures . . . full explanations at the pages listed below.
Other Conger Web Sites Here
to the newest addition - Conger Family Gallery here
to Conger Obituary page here
to Conger Genealogical Data page here
to Conger Family of North America Research page here
to Conger Confab INDEX from June 2001 back to March 1997. To view this project click here
to Conger Merchandise page here
to Brotherhood of Jobs Page, dedicated to anyone with a first or last name of Job or Jobs here
to Richard Henthorn's list of Jobs in the Conger family here -- WONDERFUL RESEARCH!
What additional web sites of value to Conger family researchers, and just folks like me who like to read about other Congers, should I list here? Direct your answers to me -- firstname.lastname@example.com
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The first vote on the Mills-Vanik Amendment regarding Soviet emigration policy is expected to take place next week in the House Ways and Means Committee, the Jewish Telegraphic Agency learned today. The Mills-Vanik measure is the equivalent of the Jackson Amendment in the Senate which would deny the Soviet Union credits and other commercial benefits unless it eases its restrictions on emigration of Soviet citizens including Jews.
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When looking online for wooden letters for Creed's nursery, I found that wooden wall letters are super duper expensive out there. In fact, for the style and size I was looking for, $50.00 was the cheapest price I could find. Since his name is five letters long, each letter cost right around $10.00 each. Ummmm, I'm way too cheap-o for that. So, my lucky husband helped me cut some out of MDF. I don't know why it hadn't occurred to be before to make my own, but I'll blame that on my pregnancy brain at the time.
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The timing could have been better for tennis star Caroline Wozniacki, since she's already been eliminated from the French Open.
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