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Ted Kennedy's Freudian inability to say "proliferation" out-funnied by the head usher at the theater of the absurd, Barbara Boxer
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Laura Ingraham played a clip the other day of Ted Kennedy trying to speak, and fumbling like a Detroit Lion after eating a bucket of KFC. As usual, when you see any Ted Kennedy speech on C-Span, you find yourself pushing the "SAP" button on your remote and hope it's able to translate, but this slip-up is particularly curious.
The text of Ted's attempt is on Laura's website. Here's what Ted said:
This action contradicts the spirit of our obligations under the
nonproliferation….nonprorifelat…..er, Nuclear Non-Prolifablah!
Speaking of sadly hilarious pro-abortionists, get this one. The senate has voted to ban EPA pesticide tests on humans. Hold on to your gag reflex, folks… here's why:
Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.), who proposed the measure as part of the spending bill that funded the EPA, said it would protect children and pregnant women from being exposed to toxins without adequate controls or review.
Unfortunately, the babies will still be exposed to Barbara Boxer and her pro abortionist alleged do-gooder buddies– all of whom are greater fetal toxins than have ever been put out by all the chemical companies combined.
Ripping the arms and legs off a fetus with an iron hook is a "very personal choice that every woman must make", but spray Roundup anywhere near that woman and you'll go to jail, you inhumane bastard!
What a joke.
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A new study claims that state pension funds are being used to advance political agendas, not provide secure retirements for state workers.
Experts at the American Legislative Exchange Council want pension fund managers to set politics aside and get back to focusing on people's retirements.
Their study, "Keeping the Promise: Getting Politics Out of Pensions," identifies three forms of pension fund cronyism: Economically Targeted Investments (ETIs), political kickbacks and political crusades.
"Pension fund cronyism is pretty rampant if you look through public pensions funds across the country at the state and municipal levels," Theodore Lafferty, one of the study's authors, said during a Wednesday conference call with media.
Vermont is no stranger to pension fund politics. Gov. Peter Shumlin spent the early part of the year trying to get the Vermont Pension Investment Committee to divest the state's pension fund of Exxon Mobil and 200 other energy stocks. The effort was opposed by both the state treasurer and the chair of VPIC.
The financial consequences of politicizing state investment portfolios can be substantial. The study cites research by University of Chicago Law School professor Daniel Fischel, who found that, over a 50-year period, investment portfolios that included energy-related stocks outperformed portfolios divested from energy investments by 23 percent.
"When you translate that to the kinds of pensions that we are talking about here, that's billions upon billions of dollars that states and municipalities will have to make up," Lafferty said.
Lost gains are not the only costs associated with divestment, according to Lafferty. Managing funds for political ends requires extra broker fees, as well as extra time and effort on the part of managers.
Some pension fund politics involve the targeting of individuals. The report cites an example in which the American Federation of Teachers promoted a divestment campaign targeting hedge-fund managers who held opposing views on school choice and defined-contribution public pension systems. AFT created "a blacklist" and then had union pension funds divest from hedge-funds managed by those individuals.
"A pension should be run in an unbiased way to get the best return," Lafferty said. He added it should not be run to target "certain individuals who you have political disagreements with while hurting your own workers' retirement in the process."
Kati Siconolfi, another author of the study, explained that economically targeted investments are ones that aim to support home-state businesses even when the financial returns are worse than investing in non-local alternatives.
"ETIs are cronyist in nature because they seek to serve government-defined economic and social goals at the expense of pension fund performance," she said.
The study's look at Alabama's pension fund system showed that the state's ETIs returned 1.21 percent gains for fiscal year 2013 even though its non-ETIs returned 3.24 percent.
Political kickbacks are yet another way pension funds can be manipulated and mismanaged. Elliot Young, a research analyst for ALEC's Center for State Fiscal Reform, said these usually come in the form of pension investments that go to politically connected businesses and individuals.
Young cited a situation with the California Public Employees Retirement System (CalPERS) that resulted in the state suing its former state pension fund managers.
"Billions of dollars of the pension fund were steered into politically connected businesses," he said.
Young said low or even negative returns from kickback-driven investments can compound over time and snowball into the huge losses.
Lafferty said that when you hurt pension fund returns you are basically "compromising the promise that you've made to employees for a secure retirement."
He added that investment decisions need to be "based on sound financial reasoning and who's going to get the best returns for our workers' retirement funds."
Read the full study online.

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In 1990 Gerry Andrews was the recipient of the Order of British Columbia for his work as a teacher, an engineer, a forester, a land surveyor and a writer.
He was the first school master of Big Bar Creek and Kelly Lake, B.C. This lead to the publication of his memoir Métis Outpost: Memoirs of the First Schoolmaster at the Métis Settlement of Kelly Lake, B.C. Kelly Lake, until very recently, has been extremely isolated and from 1923 to the summer of 1925 Gerry Andrews was the school master of Kelly Lake School. The village was mostly comprised of Métis and the women and children only spoke Cree, which lead to Andrews teaching them the "Three R's" and by the end the children earned themselves the reputation of speaking the best English compared to their counterparts in surrounding settlements.
A keen historian of British Columbia, Gerry Andrews is the author of some 50 publications, and continues to write articles for the B.C. Historical Society.
Métis Outpost: Memoirs of the First Schoolmaster at the Métis Settlement of Kelly Lake, B.C. (Victoria: G. Andrews, 1985)
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Commenting on suggestions in public sector journal UKAuthorITy that staff – rather than the taxpayer – should be held liable for data breach penalties from the Information Commissioner's Office, Cryptzone says that the move, whilst superficially attractive, could have negative results in the medium-to-longer term.
According to Grant Taylor, UK VP of the European IT threat mitigation specialist, if the suggestion were applied to the staff of all government agencies, then – aside from a change in contracts being required – we could end up reducing employees to being 'scared rabbits in the headlights' as far as IT security is concerned, seeking 110 per cent levels of data security at the expense of operating efficiency.
"And if the penalties are applied to nominated senior managers in the relevant NHS trust, council or other government agency – as is the case with corporate responsibility, for example within transportation authorities – then the public sector could be forced into building liability insurance remuneration into management salaries, as has been required by medical professionals for some time," he said.
"The irony here is that, as well as simply moving the cost of data breach penalties across the government spreadsheet - with the taxpayer continuing to foot the bill - operational efficiencies are likely to suffer as well," he said.
The Cryptzone VP went on to say that, despite this, there are some aspects of the public sector editorial that are potentially positive - since the mere discussion of this employee liability issue will make at least some of the staff more security conscious and responsible.
With the real possibility of disciplinary action being taken against employees who do not follow security policies and procedure, there is a strong likelihood that staff understanding – and therefore operational remediation – of security issues will be enhanced.
There is, he explained, nothing like a faint whiff of disciplinary-related fear – regardless of its rationale – for making the less diligent members of the workforce smarten up their act.
Irrational fear, however, should never be part of employee relations, he says, as the carrot-and-stick mentality should have disappeared at least a half a century ago. Fair and consistent communications, which inform and help people to understand and accept the corporate IT security posture is what brings about behavioural change. The reality in 2012, he adds, is that teamwork and working towards a common good – especially in the public sector – should be the order of the day.
"This is why we welcome the prospect of open discussion along the lines of better understanding of responsibilities via-a-vis IT security matters. There needs to be a full and frank debate on both sides of the management/employee divide on this subject," he said.
"But to reduce the argument to individual ICO penalties within the workforce would only result in the departure of the most talented member of staff – who will be streamed off into the private sector – with predictable results. This is what makes this argument something of a non-starter in our opinion," he added.
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Shankara Eye Foundation has been doing an excellent work providing free eye care to millions of people who otherwise would have gone without sight. A small donation of $30 can give a huge gift of eye sight to an unfortunate soul. Please donate as often as you can.
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Sankara eye foundation is one of the renowned and well known eye care hospital in India. They provide excellent service and very good treatment to patients with advanced technology. The infrastructure of the hospital is good. The hospital is well maintained and hygienic.
Wonderful job by Sankara eye foundation which provides the help for the poor and needy people in India. I wish you keep doing the good work.
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Give generously, knowing that all funds are stretched to the max.
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I have been tracking Sankara Eye Foundation for quite sometime now because I first felt they were trying to imitate SankaraNethrayala and get some mileage out ot it. But I realised this was a highly motivated and dedicated team out to eradicate blindness all over India. I was there at their Bangalore Hospital inaguration and they have a concrete plan to open new hospitals almost every six months and make it self sustaining in a few years and at the same time serving the poorest of the poor with international quality eye care.Hats off to the team.
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Greetings, fellow fans!So, here it goes. My first blog post. As you well know, in the U.S. it is that wonderful time known as Halloween, when people, children and adults alike, dress up in ridiculous costumes and have a good time. Some even go door-to-door begging. This year, my wonderful mother agreed to help me make an Azula costume, and when I say help, I mean she does all the work and I'm useless. The entire costume is basically cleverly camoflagued cardboard (covered in fabric), fabric, and ribbon.
Now, I realize that the show is over and maybe not as popular in every-day life as it once was, but I am a relatively new Avatar fan, so I want to flaunt my fandom. I carved a pumpkin using the image to the left, and on a smaller pumpkin I carved the Fire Nation symbol, topped with the word "Fire". I'm not sure if I or either of my pumpkins will be recognized, but I enjoyed the creation process. Maybe eventually I will blur out my face in a photo and post a picture of the costume. It is amazing. I notice, looking at Azula's pictures, that some of the colors are slightly different, but what does it matter? Any Avatar fan should know immediately that I am Azula.
So what about you? Are you dressing up? Is it Avatar related? Let others know in the comments, and thanks for reading this blog!


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text: Selling opportunity in the savings and loans! S&Ls are textbook plays. They always perform to the textbook. That means you buy them when the Fed is about to ease and you sell them when the Fed is done easing, because, when it is done easing, you are close to tightening. You short them when you are on the verge of a tightening. The savings and loans were rocked for losses last week, and it was a clarion call that the move is done, over, kaput in this best-performing group. Yesterday we had a countertrend rally back to higher levels, something that I think will continue with the futures ramping today. I would use the strength to sell this group. I feel strongly that you have to anticipate that last Fed ease and start scaling out now. If I owned Golden West ( GDW) or Golden State ( GSB) or Staten Island Bank ( SIB), I would let some stock go, right now, and keep selling until the position vanishes on the next Fed ease. I own none of these stocks. I can't short. I am just calling them as I see them, and as I would have called them if I owned this group. Random musings: Now you are talking. We are getting some terrific calls, and I need more of them! 1-800-862-8686, and I don't wear pom-poms on the show!


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Here are the no's of blocks I have completed, with the links to their photos, for the Kilmore Quilters Honour Quilt organised by Maree.
I am doing mine in scrappy blues.
It will be a project done over a year with 4 blocks handed out each month.
Maree has chosen 49 blocks, paired them up with people that have passed away in the war.
All the people are from our local area. Kilmore, Pyalong, Broadford, Wallan etc....
Maree has also included a short story of the persons life & death. It is a sad thing to read about. There are about 31 members who are going to sew a long with Maree.
Let's hope we all complete them.
We hope to have all the blocks made by Christmas 2014 and the quilts completed by ANZAC day in April 2015. There is going to be a special display in Kilmore and we hope to have all our quilts on display too.
And POPPIES for the back.
I have added all the stories of each persons life... Please read and remember these are tragedies.
1b.. James Joseph Freyne. James worked as a farmhand at the time of his enlistment on 22 May 1916. He embarked on the Shropshire on 25 September 1916.
James was reported as missing in action 3 May 1917. A Court of Enquiry held on 24 November 1917 determined that James was Killed in Action. They believed that he was killed by a shell in the trenches at Warlencourt. His is officially deemed as having died on 3 May 1917. He was 21.
1c.. THOMAS De Courcy Meade Thomas worked as a draper in Kilmore before he enlisted on 19 August 1914, two weeks after war was declared. He embarked on 21 October 1914 on the Orvieto.
Thomas served on Gallipoli where he suffered a gunshot wound to the groin. He was taken back to
England for convalescence. Later that year he returned to his unit in Egypt. Thomas was promoted to Corporal on 25 February 1916 and then to Sergeant on 18 May 1916. He was then sent to France with the rest of his unit where he participated in the battle at Pozieres on 25 July 1916. He was listed as wounded but that was revised on 14 October 1916 when he was listed as wounded and missing.
A Court of Enquiry was held on 26 November 1917 declared that Thomas was Killed in Action on 25 July 1916
1d.. MICHAEL FRANCIS RYAN . Also known as Joseph McKinley.
Michael enlisted in New South Wales at the age of 34 on 21 December 1914. He embarked from Brisbane of 13 February 1915 on the "Seang Choon". He enlisted under the name of Joseph McKinley and gave his next of kin as his father James McKinley of Seymour. This was untrue and is not known why he did this.
After his death it was discovered that he had used an assumed name and a search was made to find his true identity. His had then to prove that he was indeed her son and show his correct name so that she may then receive his personal effects and his was pension.
Michael was killed on 8 August 1915 in Gallipoli and is commemorated on the Kilmore War
1e.. ERNEST BROWN Ernest was born in Pyalong on 2 September 1893 as one of 11 children. He spent most of his time though in Broadford area.
He enlisted on 17 November 1914 and embarked on the HMAT Runic on 19 February 1915. Two of Ernest's brothers also enlisted in the war - William & Frank.
Ernest was 22 years and 10 months old at the time of his death on 26 July 1915. He died of gunshot wounds to the head aboard the hospital ship "Somali". He is buried at the Beach Cemetery Gallipoli at ANZAC Cove.
He is commemorated on the Broadford War Memorial.
1f.. Richard Thomas Randall. Richard was born in 1898 and was one of 9 children, four of whom died in infancy.
When Richard enlisted on 19 July 1915 he was employed as a printer and by my calculations was under 18. He embarked on 13 November 1915 on the Clan MacCorquodale.
Richard was a trooper with the 3rd Light Horse Machine Gun Squadron in Egypt at the time of his death on 23 April 1917.
Richard is commemorated on the Wallan War Memorial.
2b.. WILLIAM HALLET STOCKDALE WILLIAM was born in 1887 in Kilmore the eldest son of WILLIAM and Agnes and the 2nd of their 14 children. After Britain declared war on Germany on 4 August 1914, WILLIAM gave up his life as a farmer in Wallan and enlisted 2 weeks lantern 18th August. He embarked for the Aaron 19 October 1914 on the Hororata. His younger brotherPeregrine (Perri), aged 21, who had enlisted 6 days later than WILLIAM, embarked the day after him on the ship Shropshire.
William was a member of the 6th Battalion. He was killed instantly on 8th May 1914 while disembarking at Cape Helles, Gallipoli. H is buried at the Helles Cemetery and commemorated on the Wallan War Memorial.
2c.. FRANCIS O'DWYER ..FRANCIS was 21 and a student at Chateau Tabilk when he enlisted on
28 April 1916. He embarked on the Euripides on 11 September 1916.
After some time spent in France, Francis was then sent to Belgium where he was killed in action on 4
October 1917.
He is commemorated on the Kilmore War Memorial.
2e.. Herbert Valentine Shaw .. Herbert was originally from England and emigrated to Australia at some time prior to his enlistment on 19 February 1916.
He embarked on the Runic on 20 June 1916.
Herbert died of wounds sustained on 14 March 1917 in France.
Contained in his service record is a copy of the message from the King to his next of kin.
2f.. John Clifford Bowers .. John was born to Sylvester George Bowers and Martha MacKinley as the second youngest of 12 children. Having been born in Kilmore he stayed in the area and worked as a labourer. On the 18th August 1915, John enlisted and then embarked on the ship Themistocles on 28 January 1916. John was a gunner in the 22nd Field Artillery Brigade and was at Posieres, France on 3 August 1916 when he was killed.
Several years after the war there was an agreement between the French, Belgium and British Governments that all scattered graves and certain cemeteries were to be removed and all bodies found therein were to be exhumed. A letter was sent to his brother in 1930 advising that during the course of this exhumation in the Posieres area they were successful in recovering the remains Memorial. When exhumed his effects are listed as an Australian Cap Badge and Green Legging stamped J C Bowers. John is also commemorated on the Kilmore Memorial.
2g.. Frank Chalmers .. Frank CHALMERS enlisted on 29 December 1915 and embarked on the Suffolk on 1 April 1916. He disembarked at Suez on 12 May 1916 where he remained until early June when he sailed to Marseilles. From there he was marched out to join the 7th Battalion on 28 July.
Frank was killed in action on 22 August 1916 in France and is commemorated on the Tooborac Memorial. He was 31.
3b.. COLIN HENRY CAMERON. Colin was a member of the Scotch College Cadets from 1902-1906 and then was a Corporal in the 15th Light Horse from 1912-1914. He enlisted on 12 September 1914 and was promoted to Sergeant on 28 October 1914. He embarked on the Star of Victoria on 25 February 1915 in the 8th Regular Light Horse. He was promoted again to Squadron Sergeant Major on 26 July 1915.
On 7 August 1915 Colin was killed on Walkers Ridge at Gallipoli at the age of 23. His father wrote that he was a ' young man of great promise, possessed of physical, moral and mental strength above the average'. Colin was the eldest of five boys, of which four served in WW1. His younger brother Neil was awarded the military medal.
3c.. WILLIAM LAUGHLIN LOONEY. William was from Bylands and enlisted on 14 September 1915 at the age of 18 and 6 months. He worked as a linesman prior to his enlistment. He embarked on the Euripides on 4 April 1916.
William went missing several times during the course of his time in the army. The last time was on 30 December 1916 when he was reported missing. Three days later his company left the area. On 4 January 1917 WILLIAM was found on the side of the road with a fractured skull. He was taken to the NZ Stationery Hospital where he later died. It is believed that he fell from his horse.
WILLIAM is commemorated on the Kilmore War Memorial.
3d.. Charles Wyndham Thomas . Charles was born in Bylands and was a farmer when he enlisted on 16 August 1915. He embarked for the war on 27 November 1915 on the Commonwealth
Charles died on 26 July 1916 at Pozieres France at the age of 27.
3f.. WILLIAM Foster CHEESWRIGHT WILLIAM came from Tooborac and worked as a wood carter. He was the sole support for his widowed mother when at the age of 28 years and 5 months he enlisted in May 1916. WILLIAM embarked on 16 December 1916 on either the Medic or the Nestor.
William is listed on the AIF Embakation Roll as "Cheesewright", as he is also on the Kilmore Memorial Hall Roll of Honour. He enlisted as "CHEESWRIGHT" and is noted as that on the Tooborac Memorial. On his mothers tombstone he is noted as " Cheswright". The different spelling made it difficult to find him.
William was killed in action on 26 September 1917 in Belgium and is commemorated on the Tooborac War Memorial.
4a.. William Brown.. William's two younger brothers Frank and Ernest enlisted on 17 November 1914. WILLIAM enlisted on 25 February 1915, 6 days after his brother Ernest had embarked for the Front. Frank and WILLIAM then followed on 10 May 1915 on the Euripides. As WILLIAM was the older brother, it was highly likely that he went to war to keep an eye on his younger brothers.
On 26 August 1916 he was Mentioned for good and gallant conduct in connection with the recent hard fighting at Poziers. He was then Killed in Action on 4 August 1916. There is no known location of his burial site so is named on the Memorial at Villers Bretenneux, France.
WILLIAM is commemorated on the Broadford War Memorial.
4b.. JOSEPH Crowley .. Although born in Lilliput near Rutherglen, JOSEPH spent most of his life in Kilmore East. At the time of his enlistment on 12 October 1915 he was a labourer and 22 years old. He embarked on the Katuna on 9 March 1916. I like to think that he was a bit of a lad as in June 1917 he was charged with being drunk on active service and breaking away from his escort.he was awarded 14 days Field Punishment No 2 - he forfeited 14 days pay. Then in December 1918 whilst on leave in UK he went AWL and a court of enquiry held 13 January 1919 declared that he was still missing. There is no record of any punishment meted out or when he reappeared, we just know that on 31 January 1919 he was admitted to hospital with influenza where he later died on 12 February 1919 from Bronco Pneumonia.
4c.. James Joseph Cantweel James was born at Glenaroua/Pyalong. He enlisted on 10 July 1915 at Seymour as James Joseph CANTWELL and was attached to the 10th Battalion 5th Reinforcements on 2 August 1915. He then was AWL from 7 October 1915, his movements were lost sight of and his papers were marked 'unknown' on 18 April 1916.
James reappears when he re-enlisted as James CANTWELL on 14 February 1917 at Royal Park Camp when he had turned 21. When it was discovered that James had enlisted earlier and was never discharged from the army it was decided that his original enlistment would stand and he would serve on those papers.
The reason James went AWL in 1915 was that his parents did not consent to him enlisting and they refused to let him to return to camp at Seymour.
James then embarked for the war aboard the Ascanius on 11 May 1917. He was killed at Monte Brehain in France on 5 October 1918.
4e.. REGINALD STANLEY MARSH ...Reginald grew up in Pyalong and spent time as a mail coach driver and also a groom before his enlistment on 18 February 1915 at the age of 24.
He embarked on the Ulysses on 10 May 1915 and proceeded to Gallipoli. On 18 September 1915, Reginald was badly wounded by a shell in the trenches at Wire Gully below Lone Pine. He was moved to the hospital ship Mahena where he died from his wounds and was subsequently buried at sea
4f.. William Charles James Stute .. WILLIAM enlisted on17 APRIL 1916 and embarked on 7 September 1916 on the Port Sydney. He died of wounds sustained on 11 April 1917 in France at the age of 27.
William is remembered on both the Kilmore and the Wallan War Memorials.
William was my fathers uncle.
5a.. ALFRED FRANK TEAKLE. ALFRED enlisted on 22 June 1915 and embarked on the Star of Victoria on 10 September 1915.
ALFRED died in Egypt on 30 December 1915 from pneumonia.
5b.. Herbert THOMAS SKEHAN Herbert was a clerk in the tobacco trade in Melbourne before he enlisted on 28 July 1915. He embarked on 18 a February 1916 on the Ballarat.
Herbert was killed in Polygon Wood Belgium on 26 September 1917. He was killed by a shell and then buried in a shell hole nearby by men from his own battalion.
5c.. RICHARD THOMAS COOKE. Richard was born in Pyalong and was employed as a bank clerk in Kilmore when he enlisted on 17 June 1915. He embarked on the Anchises on 26 August 1915.
In April 1916 Richard was absent from Roll Call and awarded 24 hours F.P. No 2. In May he was absent from Tattoo Roll Call and awarded 15 days F.P. No 2. Field Punishment No 2 is where a prisoner is placed in fetters and handcuffs but not attached to a fixed object so they are still able to march with unit. They are also subject to hard labour and loss of pay. Usually during the war a soldier only suffered loss of pay, which is what happened in Richards case.
On 28 July 1916 Richard was wounded in action and taken to a field hospital. He was released back to base in early August.
Richard died in the field at Flers in France on 9 November 1916 at the age of 20 years and 9 months. He is commemorated on the Kilmore Memorial.
5d.. FRANCIS Patrick Anderson FRANCIS was born in Kilmore in 1893, the youngest of 4 children and was working as a labourer when he enlisted on 19 February 1916. He left Melbourne on 27 May on the ship Ascanius and arrived in Decenport 18 July 1916.
In November of that year he was admitted to Fargo Military Hospital suffering severe Pneumonia. He was then transferred to Bulford Manor to convalesce where he remained for 4 weeks. After being discharged from there in January 1917 he proceeded overseas to France aboard the "Princess Clementina" and was marked from Etaples to this unit the 3rd A.D.B.D. On 2 February 1917 he was taken from there to the 39th Battalion where he remained until his earth at Messiness, Belgium on 8 June 1917 at age 23 years and 8 months. He was killed by a direct hit from a shell and was buried in the field. Those buried in the field at Messines were buried in definite localities properly marked, although places had no names. FRANCIS is commemorated on the Kilmore Memorial.
5f.. William Bernard Bierne . Barbara Pease married WILLIAM Timothy Higgins Beirne with whom she had four children, the eldest of which was WILLIAM who was born in January 1898.
Whilst living in Wandong with his grandmother and employed by the Government as a Hall Porter WILLIAM enlisted on 31 May 1915, stating he was 18 and also had a letter from his guardian B McGuinness of Bairnsdale to state that he was over 18 when in fact he was only 17. He listed his sister Lillian (16) as his next of kin on his official paperwork.
WILLIAM embarked on the ship Anchises on 26 August 1915. He was killed on 25 JULY 1916 at Posieres at the age of 18. His effects were sent to his sister Lillian as next of kin but after the war his war medals were sent to his father as he had first claim before siblings. WILLIAM is commemorated on the Broadford War Memorial.
5g.. DAVID CRAWFORD David was born in 1874 in Pyalong and was one of 10 children plus 4 half siblings. At some point he moved to Traralgon where he married Hannah Mabel Little and had a son Frank Seymour Crawford. David served in the Boer War in the Bethunes Mounted Infantry. He was promoted to the rank of Lieutenant on 4 Marxh 1901 and was Mentioned in Despatches on 23 June 1902.
He enlisted on 21 September 1914 at the age of 40 in the 8th Australian Light Horses and then embarked on the ship Star of Victoria on 25 February 1915. He had attained the rank of Sergeant when he was killed in action at Walkers Ridge, Gallipoli on 23 June 1915. David is commemorated on the Traralgon War Memorial.
6b.. James Noble Robinson.. James was employed as a bookkeeper when he enlisted on 12 July 1915. He embarked on 26 November 1915 on the Commonwealth.
James was killed on 5 August 1916 at Pozieres in France.
In the circular filled in by his brother in the early 1920's it was noted that at the time of his death he was 33/35 years old.
6c.. Edward John Rule Edward enlisted on 9 August 1915 and embarked on the Ceramic on 23 November 1915. He proceeded to France where he was killed on 25 July 1916 at Pozieres.
6d.. DOMINICK JOHN BURGESS. DOMINICK was born in Woolongong NSW in 1871. He married Margaret Emily Darwell in 1892 in Albury NSW. At the time of his enlistment in 1916 he was living in Wandong and his occupation was a farmer/grazier.
He embarked on the ship Medic on 16 December 1916 as part of the14th Battalion. He contracted measles and died at sea on 19 January 1917 at the age of 44. He was buried at sea.
6f.. Albert JOSEPH Pattinson Albert was a farmer from Lancefield. He and his younger brother Arthur both enlisted in WW1.
Albert enlisted on 16 May 1916 and embarked for the war on the Shropshire on 25 September 1916.
He was wounded at Paschendaele in Belgium and died of wounds on 19 September 1917.
Albert is commemorated on the Lancefield War Memorial.
7a.. WILLIAM STOWELL ANDERSON. William was born in Glenarous but at the time of enlisting was living in Yea and listed his occupation as farmer. Prior to the war WILLIAM had been a member of the 15th Light Horse for over 2 years.
WILLIAM enlisted on 3 November 1914 and embarked for the war on the ship Runic on 25 February 1915. He was a trooper in the 8th Australian Light Horse and was killed in action at Gallipoli on 7 August 1915 at the age of 25. He is remembered at the Lone Pine Memorial Gallipoli.
7c.. Albert Edward Knight. Albert was one of three brothers who enlisted. Freserick age 21 enlisted on 19 November 1915 to be followed by both Albert age 23 and Ralph age 18 on 8 December 1915. Sometimes it happened that when one boy in the family enlisted, the parents sent the others to war so that they could look after each other.
Albert embarked on the Orontes on 29 March 1916.
Albert suffered a gunshot wound to the right knee on 13 January 1917 while in France. He died of wounds on 19 February 1917.
7d.. George Weir George enlisted on 4 August 1916 in Cootamundra. He deserted two weeks later but must have been found as he embarked on the Nestor on 2 October 1916.
He was originally from Pyalong and was a farmer. He was married to Elizabeth and had a son WILLIAM Harold Weir.
George was killed in Belgium on 20 September 1917.
7g.. WILLIAM Arthur Munro .... WILLIAM was from Wallan and enlisted on 3 August 1915 at the age of 28. At the time of his enlistment he was a farmer but had earlier trained as an engineer. He embarked for the war on the Ulysses on 27 October 1915.
William was wounded in action on 26 March 1917 near Lagnicourt, France and died from those wounds on 3 April 1917. He was buried at Rouen and commemorated on the Wallan War Memorial.


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Under the early Tudor kings magnificent royal palaces were constructed in northern Surrey, in convenient proximity to London. At Richmond an existing royal residence was rebuilt on a grander scale under King Henry VII, who also founded a Franciscan friary nearby in 1499. The still more spectacular palace of Nonsuch was later built for Henry VIII near Ewell. The palace at Guildford Castle had fallen out of use long before, but a royal hunting lodge existed just outside the town. All these have since been demolished. Surrey's cloth industry declined in the sixteenth century, and effectively collapsed in the early seventeenth. However, this period also saw the emergence of important new industries, centred on the valley of the Tillingbourne. The manufacture of copper and brass goods in this area in the sixteenth century proved short-lived, but in the seventeenth more durable industries were established, producing paper and gunpowder. The Wey Navigation, begun in 1635, was one of England's first canal systems.
Surrey almost entirely escaped the direct impact of fighting during the main phase of the English Civil War. The local Parliamentarian gentry led by Sir Richard Onslow were able to secure the county without difficulty on the outbreak of war. Farnham Castle was briefly occupied by the advancing Royalists in late 1642, but was easily stormed by the Parliamentarians under Sir William Waller. During a political crisis in summer 1647 Sir Thomas Fairfax's army passed through Surrey on its way to occupy London, and subsequent billeting of troops in Surrey caused considerable discontent. In the brief Second Civil War of 1648 the Earl of Holland entered Surrey in July hoping to raise a Royalist revolt but found little support. After confused manoeuvres between Reigate and Dorking as Parliamentary troops closed in, his force of 500 men fled northwards and was overtaken and routed at Kingston.
Surrey had a prominent role in the development of the radical political movements unleashed by the civil war. In October 1647 the first manifesto of what became known as the Leveller movement, The Case of the Army Truly Stated, was drafted at Guildford by the elected representatives of New Model Army regiments and civilian radicals from London. In 1649 the Diggers led by Gerrard Winstanley established a communal settlement at St. George's Hill to implement their egalitarian ideals of common ownership, but were eventually driven out by the local landowners through violence and litigation. A smaller Digger commune was then established near Cobham, but suffered the same fate in 1650.
The sixteenth century is the earliest from which a sizeable amount of non-military secular architecture survives in Surrey. Important examples include the grand mid-century country houses of Loseley Park and Sutton Place and the old building of the Royal Grammar School, Guildford, founded in 1509. A considerable number of more ordinary houses and commercial buildings of the sixteenth century are also still standing, and with the seventeenth century the number of surviving buildings proliferates further. Abbot's Hospital, founded in 1619, is a grand edifice built in the Tudor style, despite its date. More characteristic examples of major seventeenth century building include West Horsley Place, Slyfield Manor and the guildhall in Guildford, as well as Ham House and Kew Palace, formerly in Surrey but now in Greater London.


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A steady wave of orders rolling in to your shop: is there anything sweeter? We know how important it is to keep this process smooth and simple, so we've organized all of your order info into one helpful tab in your admin, along with a few tools that'll help you pack up, ship out, and get back to creating.
Feature Highlights
A lot of thought and care went into our new orders features, and we've written in-depth about some of our favorite highlights in our blog. Check out our announcement post »
Order List
Here you'll see a handy visual list of your latest orders, sorted by shipping status (shipped or unshipped). When viewing unshipped orders, you'll have the option to mark individual orders as shipped, or use the icon on the right to mark the whole batch as shipped in one click.
The other icons in the row can be used to search for an order by customer name, e-mail address, or order number, or you can download a .csv file of your orders. Click on any order to view the full details.
Order Details
This is where you'll see more info on who placed an order in your store, what they bought, and where to send it. The icons at the top right can be used to print a shipping label or mark the order as shipped. You can also read any special instructions or love letters the customer added in the notes section at checkout.
If a customer reaches out to you about a mistake they made when entering their shipping details, we've got you covered. Click Edit contact information to make adjustments and hit Save. A summary of the changes will appear in the Activity section at the bottom.
The Activity area also shows up-to-the-minute alerts about the order, including when it was placed, when it was marked shipped, and private notes.
Add Notes
Need to add more details to an order for your own record keeping? We've made it easy to stay on top of things with the Add private note feature. Enter any helpful info you'd like - if the order was refunded or exchanged, the customer picked up their goods in person, or any other requests or reminders you want to keep track of.
Packing Slip
Packing slips can really help simplify your order fulfillment process. Click the printer icon on your order detail page to print a packing slip that will include the customer's info, shipping destination, and what they ordered.
Packing slips are currently read-only, so the file can't be edited. But once it's printed, we'd recommend jotting down a quick note to your customer or a custom stamp–a little handmade flourish goes a long way!
Download Order Data
Need to export your order data to use in Excel, Numbers, or wherever? No problem! Simply click the Download CSV icon at the top of the order list view to get a CSV file of all of your order data. You can also filter specific orders and export them using the search field, or export a list of only shipped or unshipped orders based on which tab you choose before downloading the file.
One column a little unlike the others is Items. Since orders can contain any number of products and quantities, we combine all of the item information into a format like so:
How exactly do I get paid when stuff sells in my store?
That all depends on if you're using PayPal or Stripe to collect payments in your shop.
With PayPal Express checkout or PayPal Standard checkout enabled, money is deposited instantly and automatically into the PayPal account you've set in the Settings > Checkout area of your store's admin.
Once the money is in your PayPal account, you can spend it right from there, request a withdrawal to your bank account, put it on a PayPal debit card, or receive it via check.
If you're using the Stripe option for collecting card payments, Stripe makes transfers to your bank account in 2-7 days (depending on your account), with your first deposit always taking the full 7 days.
If 7 days is too long, and you're in the US, you can request expedited transfers. »
If it's been longer than 7 days, then something is up–maybe because a banking holiday fell in that timeframe. To get the full details you'll need to contact Stripe. »
Can I edit or delete orders from my admin?
While there isn't a way to totally delete an order from the admin, you can edit the order contact information or add an internal note to the order if you're using the new admin. It's easy: from the Orders tab in your admin, click Switch to the new admin and choose the order you want to edit.
How do I refund an order?
Refunds are no bueno, right? But we've made it easy to reverse a charge, to help ease the sting of losing that money. From the Order Details page, click the 'View in Stripe' or 'View in PayPal' link. That will take you directly to the transaction details in your payment processor's account, where you can click 'refund' to issue a partial or full refund.
Can you email my customer when an item is shipped?
Not right now. The shipping status in the admin isn't tied to our email system, so marking items as shipped won't notify your customer. It's just there to keep you organized–we wouldn't want you to ship the same order twice!
If you use PayPal for printing postage, though, you can automatically notify the customer when their order is on its way. PayPal shipping tools »
Why are my payments pending?
When a payment is marked as Pending in the Big Cartel admin, it could be a variety of issues associated with your PayPal account.
The most common reason for a large amount of orders marked as Pending in the admin is because you don't have a verified Business or Premier PayPal account, or your email address isn't confirmed with PayPal. Check your account in PayPal »
You can confirm the email address for your PayPal account from the Profile > Edit Email link in PayPal's admin.
And sometimes we find that store owners will accidentally misspell their PayPal email when signing up for Big Cartel, and not realize it until they received a few orders. You can double-check this from your Big Cartel admin in Settings > Checkout > PayPal email.
If that's the case, and you happen to have access to the email address where orders are being received, you should just be able to add that address to your PayPal account and confirm it, and the payments will clear.
Otherwise if payments were sent to a non-existent email address, the person who placed the order will have to cancel the payment and place the order again, or you will need to reach out to PayPal directly for help getting that order into your account. Contact PayPal »
What is the billing zip discrepancy warning all about?
If your customer enters a different postal code for their shipping address than they do in their billing details section, you'll see this billing zip discrepancy status on the order instead of a paid status. This discrepancy on its own isn't always cause for concern necessarily, since the customer may be purchasing a gift and having it shipped directly to the recipient, for example.
But, if that discrepancy is found with other red flags, say, a super large order or multiple orders from the same name with different credit cards, then that's when fraud may be suspected. Proceed with caution if anything about the order seems suspicious. You can learn more about avoiding fraud payments here.
Why are orders invalid?
This is because our system found a discrepancy between the actual amount paid and the order total. Check out the Order History section at the bottom of the order for more info.
OR, it's possible your customer's payment failed shortly after the order was placed–contact your customer and ask them to try the order again.
Can I see how many of a product I've sold?
You bet! If you've got Inventory Tracking enabled in your settings, you can see the sold count for each product and option in the Products area of the desktop admin. Just click the little arrow to the left of your product's name, or the detailed view icon in the top right, and the amount sold will display in the column on the right.
Why are orders missing from my dashboard?
No need to panic! If you use PayPal checkout, your IPN (Instant Payment Notification) might be disabled in your PayPal account, which prevents PayPal from notifying us about new orders. Here's how you can fix that:
- Go to your PayPal account's IPN settings ».
- Click the Choose IPN Settings button at the bottom.
- Click the Receive IPN messages button, and enter http://bigcartel.com/ipn in the Notification URL field.
- Click Save.
After that, PayPal should be able to get us all the info we need about your new orders to display them in your Big Cartel admin automatically.
Why do some orders have an order number instead of a customer name?
That means you took that order in-person with your handy Big Cartel for iPhone app. Since collecting the customer's name is optional on in-person sales, an order number is used in its place.
Why did emailing my customer open the wrong email application?
When you click to email the customer of an order, Big Cartel will automatically use the default email application for your computer or device. If it opened something you don't want, you can simply change your default email application:


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The answer to the question, 'do I need a health plan?' lies very much in a second question – 'do you need to be healthy?' For example, are you needed at work or at home in a way that leaves little time for illness? Is there anyone who could cover your duties if you were absent for a long period? Is there anyone who could take care of your children, or care for your elderly relatives if you were not up to it?
For most of us, the answer to the above questions are no. We are all vital in our own way, fulfilling crucial roles that require us to be fit and healthy, reliable, and responsible. Prolonged illness, while we wait for treatment on the NHS, is simply not an option.
Even if you do not have an important role to play at home or work, you don't want to be sidelined by illness for any longer than you absolutely have to be. You may not need to be healthy, but you would much prefer to be. Moreover, in times of recession or financial hardship it's more important than ever to stay healthy and stay working.
That's why, for most people, the answer to the very first question is yes: you do need a health plan.
This article on private medical / health insurance UK is written by Jackie Griffiths, a freelance journalist who writes health, medical, biological, and pharmaceutical articles for national and international journals, newsletters and web sites.
Different types of health plan
Of course, no one plans to be ill but you can plan to have the support in place when it happens to help minimise the effects and inconvenience. What's more, you can tailor those plans to match your own medical history, your family history, and your personal concerns.
It is perhaps not a question of whether you need a private medical insurance health plan but of what kind of health plan you need. We each have our own concerns about our health and the treatment we might receive, and there is a range of health plans available to cover these concerns.
For example, if you're worried about cancer or heart disease – the two biggest killers in the Western World – some providers allow you to take out affordable cover for just these conditions. If you have a family history of bowel cancer, for example, your premium may be higher, but this is a small price to pay for the reassurance that you will be treated swiftly should you follow the trend.
If you're concerned about seeing a specialist quickly then you can choose a private health insurance plan that covers this, putting your mind at ease before continuing your treatment on the NHS. Alternatively, if you're concerned about infection rates in NHS hospitals and want to remain in private hands throughout your treatment, you can take out a health plan that provides comprehensive cover from initial consultation to recovery and rehabilitation.
Is private healthcare a luxury or a necessity?
Strictly speaking, with a National Health Service that's free at the point of access for whatever is wrong with you, you have no actual need for a private health plan in the UK. But equally, you could argue that since we have trains and buses and other forms of public transport you have no actual need for a car. Yet many people have one because it makes life so much easier: it's more dependable and reliable and it's part of the higher standard of living that you work hard to maintain.
You don't strictly need a health plan, but then you don't need the stress of worrying and waiting either. You need the reassurance that you will receive prompt treatment, in quality facilities, at a time and place of your choosing. You need the confidence that your health is in good hands.
Good health is certainly not a luxury, nor is high-quality care when you're ill. And since the over-stretched and under-funded NHS cannot be relied upon to provide this, a private health plan is often the only option to bridge the gap.
There are few things in life more important than our health so there are few better investments than a good private medical insurance health plan that's designed to maintain it.