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Evidence has accumulated suggesting that essential hypertension begins early in life and is potentially preventable. One possible pathogenetic mechanism implicated is a sympathetic nervous system abnormality which is manifested by increased sympathetic drive to the heart. An elevated sympathetic nervous system tone and decreased vagal inhibition is responsible for the hyperkinetic circulation seen in a significant proportion of persons with borderline essential hypertension. Exaggerated blood pressure and heart rate responses to mental stressors have been documented in normotensive children of hypertensive parents. These changes appear to involve sympathetic over-responding to fight-flight stimuli.
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This isn't really a fair poll right now people will say Manning because its NFL, he brought a title, and football matters around here and he still currently plays.
Reggie made Indianapolis relevant to begin with in professional sports way before Manning and unlike Manning spent his entire career here.
So for now Manning but that could change if he ends up retiring as a Bronco or something and wins a title there or something to that effect.
I'd give it a few years and we'll see whether the results change.
Come on, it's obviously Peyton. Sollozzo and everyone have made all the points that need to be made.
The only thing you can do is ask people who they loved more, and record the response.
As for Basketball Fan, I don't think Manning would have had a problem "making Indianapolis relevant" even if Reggie hadn't done it. And you can't count him not playing his whole career here because he did not sign with another team in free agency and most Colts fans still want Manning to win when he's not playing the Colts. The love didn't/won't stop just because he moved.
Or you know, maybe be one the 6 best players at your position more than 3 seasons?
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I know what you meant but don't ever compare the Pacers to the never-been-out-of-the-2nd-round Atlanta Hawks!
the fact that you instantly knew what I meant without me explicitly saying it proves my point
If people comapare the Pacers of the 90s and 2000 to the Hawks, then they don't know anything about the NBA history. And you know nothing about them if you think they have a point.
Indiana has not lost touch with its roots.....you are just misconceiving Indiana as a mega basketball state meaning that it is a mega Pacer state. Indiana got its reputation as a huge basketball state because of its love and dedication to High School basketball and College basketball.....both of these things remain unchanged....I still have groups of people at my work that talk routinely about High School basketball and Indiana still routinely produces some of the best High School basketball talent year in and year out.....and college basketball and the likes of Indiana even through some awful seasons still sold tickets like crazy.....Indiana's love for basketball has not changed, it just doesn't have the same dedication to pro basketball as either HS or College.
Peyton. If there was ever a question before, this answered it:
If you want to say part of the reason you don't have a love affair is because of a lot of disappointments and you feel we should have won more Super Bowls with him fine. However, I think it is highly offensive and unfair to Peyton to use the word UNDERACHIEVER.....He's ACHIEVED everything there is to achieve in pro football and is known as one of if not the hardest worker in the NFL......he has always been a first in last out guy and HIGHLY devoted to his craft......please make your argument a different way than calling the guy an UNDERACHIEVER.
So Peyton did not underachieve in Indy? You feel like he was one-championship type of player? There are people here saying he is the MJ of the NFL, which is ridiculous. I get that it's a lot harder for one player to make that impact in the NFL, and sorry if you don't like to hear it, but Manning underachieved in the playoffs when it mattered most. There is a reason Tom Brady is in the same conversation when you talk about greatest of all time, rings. Peyton doesn't have them, and with his talent, he should. It left a bad taste in a lot of people mouths. Call me bitter if you want, I just care more about playoff accomplishments than regular season accomplishments. Reggie was known to propel his game in the playoffs, Manning was known to choke.
Please calm down. I wasnt referring to those teams, I was talking about the impact of their players' respective legacies on the current era franchises.
Peyton's one ring might hurt him in a GOAT debate against Tom Brady or Joe Montana, but it's not going to hurt him in a debate against a guy like Reggie who has zero rings. Peyton won a ring and helped the city get it's only modern day sports championship. That puts him above everyone else. Sure the running game and defense were huge in that playoff run, but Peyton's arm won the second half of that AFCCG against New England, which was one of the most epic playoff games in NFL history.
Did that generation of Colts underachieve perhaps but to me underachieve and underachievers are two different things. The word underachiever has a distinct undertone to it, not of a person that didn't meet expectations, but more of a person that is a failure. You don't call the runner-up to the valedictorian an underachiever even if it was possible for them to have won the award. You call a person that wasted their talents an underachiever. Somebody like a Ryan Leaf, JaMarcus Russel, a high school pot head drop out. To me hearing somebody call a top 5 QB of-all-time an underachiever when the guy did NOTHING to waste his talents only worked as hard as he could every year to MAXIMIZE his talents is an absolute terrible title to bestow on him. Did the Indianapolis Colts of the 2000s underachieve? That is a matter of opinion and I'm fine if you want to voice yours as yes I won't argue with you. What I do have a problem with though is calling Peyton an UNDERACHIEVER just simply not a word I think should be associated to him.
Peyton should've even had 2 Superbowls if not for Hank Baskett and Garcon's stone hands, but don't get me started.
Larry Bird had a HUGE following due to his college ball and what he did for ISU on the court. I'm sure statewide Bird has a bigger reach. ...But some of that is because the Pacers' marketing dwindles considerably the further you get from I465.
Nuntius was right for a while. I was wrong for a while. But ultimately I was right and Frank Vogel has been let go.
"A player who makes a team great is more valuable than a great player. Losing yourself in the group, for the good of the group, thats teamwork."
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The way its going, in another few years Peyton wont even be the most loved quarterback to play in Indy...
For me, its not even close...its Reggie by a landslide...
And as for quarterbacks, what I was saying is at the rate Andrew Luck is going Peyton wont even be the most loved quarterback to ever play in Indy, let alone the most loved athlete....Andrew is definitely ahead of the Manning curve so far...
If lebron only won a single championsip, he would be viewed as an underachiever. So why does Manning get a pass? Because you have an emotional tie to him?


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The cherry topping on my pearl light blue steel frame road bike rebuild. New wheelset, new Athena 11 drivetrain, new Thompson seatpost, new V.O. headset, Ritchie drop bars in chrome and new chrome fork from Nashbar. Thank you!
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I installed this on a steel SS Retro-cruiser (circa 1898). It's a nice match for the black frame and Brooks brown leather. The rake and trail on a frame with fairly steep angles (74deg ST angle, 74.5deg HT angle) makes for quick handling, but also some toe overlap.It's a little on the heavy side, but pretty rigid, making steering precise.
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Bought this chrome beauty to pair with the Nekkid aluminum frame. The bright shiny chrome with the deep blue frame, decked out with lots of chrome and silver components made for an inexpensive, comfortable, solid and quite attractive build. you're not going to win any races with this heavy fork but for a nice singlespeed build it has been first rate. Gets tons of compliments. The ride is smooth, stable and solid. Easy to assemble. This product is a great value. Finished out the build with Campy CX1 crankset (removed small ring to leave single 46-tooth ring) and CX Power tourque bottom bracket to keep out the muck, plus a set of Wabi wheels for my winter/nasty weather singlespeed. Great on club rides all winter long, for training, working on those pedal circles etc.
Nashbar Steel Road Bike Fork
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I like this fork and am glad I purchased it with the nashbar black chromo frame. I was not sure what it would look like on a black frame but was pleased of final build. I used black and chrome or silver in wheelset, levers, pedals, brakes, bottle cages and frame pump. Bike rides good.
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A pretty ordinary white powder-coated Nashbar aluminum frame, with components off a hit-by-truck bike, becomes a really lovely bicycle with this neat chrome fork. It has class, retro appeal, and is more supple than a carbon fork.
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Nice fork, beautiful chrome, a tad heavy
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Beautiful chrome finish. It comes with star nut, and 2 threaded eyelets on the back of dropouts for your fender stays. The center hole for rim brake was a little rough, and needed quick cleanup with my rattail file to remove burrs on the inside. Not a big problem. It is well made, and seems very sturdy, but a tad heavy 2.6lb on my plastic scale (uncut.) I bought it to go with Nashbar's Schwinn 2010 LeTour (white) frame and it fits very well on that (steel) frame. I agree with other reviewer that says it has clearance for 700C x 28mm tires. My roads are very bad, and I can only ride wider tires. It does not come with a rubber or cork plug for bottom of steerer tube, but I should be able to find one at Ace Hdwr to keep slosh out. Appears to be polished chrome on the fork blades, but the steerer tube appears to be not as polished smooth. Stamped Nashbar Cr-Mo on the steerer tube. Overall, a very nice steel road fork! Not for disc brakes.
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This fork was the find of my single speed build. I used it with the Nashbar nekkid single speed frame and it works and looks like it was meant for it, it's also pretty light for a steel fork only weighing about a pound more than a carbon/alloy instead of the usual 2 plus of a cro-mo one. The steerer cut easily what a standard pipe cutter and the lower race went on ok, but only after i heated it up a little. I bought it on a 20% off sale but it's still a bargain at the regular price, and it gives a nice old-school feel to the front end.
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CINCINNATI -- Sunday's 7-4 Reds victory over the Cubs marked career win No. 1,599 for manager Dusty Baker. It tied Baker for 18th on the all-time list with his former Dodgers manager and Hall of Famer Tommy Lasorda.
As he approached the round number of 1,600 wins, Baker wasn't overly nostalgic.
"I don't even look at it. [Clubhouse manager] Rick Stowe is the one who tells me," Baker said on Monday. "If you're there, you might as well do it. Do it as soon as possible and move on to the next one.
"I never dreamed I'd be in this position. I never dreamed I'd be managing. It shows you what life's turns gives you sometimes."
Baker, 63, recalled advice he had gotten as a player from Japanese baseball legend Sadaharu Oh, a nine-time Most Valuable Player for the Tokyo Giants.
"I was told a long time ago to not start looking at your accolades at what you've done. You don't look until you're through," Baker said. "[Oh] said you get to 10, to 11 [MVPs] and not look at what you've done until you retire."
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The Division of Fluid Dynamics exists for the advancement and diffusion of knowledge of the physics of fluids with special emphasis on the dynamical theories of the liquid, plastic and gaseous states of matter under all conditions of temperature and pressure.
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NEW YORK ( TheStreet) -- The other day I noted one of my most disciplined trades of late was selling Verizon ( VZ) when I thought it had topped.When I took an 8% gain in VZ, I left some money on the table. It has taken time for me to learn the lesson fellow TheStreet contributor Robert Weinstein taught me: If you're not leaving money on the table, you're not making money. Plus, prior to getting into the stock in May, I swing traded some profits in VZ here and there via call options. Back in the day, I would have let the stock position ride, seeking a double-digit gain into earnings. Given the negative impact of Verizon's more-than-serviceable second-quarter earnings report on the stock, I'm glad I bailed. Revenue at Verizon grew 3.7% year-over-year. EPS popped by more than 12%. Smartphone adoption continues at an impressive clip, driving data usage. Wireless margins look good and the company expects them to continue to improve in the second half of the year. FIOS continues to gain traction. However, revenue in Verizon's enterprise business did not meet expectations. Analysts chalked up the nearly 3% drop in the stock on Thursday to that. I'm not buying it. Other, bigger picture reasons should trigger caution in relation to not only Verizon, but AT&T ( T). VZ data by YCharts
First, allow me to disclaim. As a relatively "safe" core holding, I have no problem with VZ or T. Both pay nice dividends that will not go anywhere anytime soon, if ever. And they run solid businesses with exciting growth prospects. It's just that relative to other dividend payers, particularly in the media and telecommunications space, growth at these two companies could lag. Simply put, I would not undertake a long-term, buy-and-hold position in either stock in search of growth and significant returns going forward. I would entertain core long positions in VZ and T, however, on the basis of relative stability in the two names that makes them more attractive places to park cash than an online savings account yielding 0.80%. With that in mind, regulatory issues in the U.S. will not allow Verizon or AT&T -- at least for the foreseeable future -- to reach the pinnacle of their growth potential. I use a broad definition of potential -- classifying it as what is possible, all else held constant.


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POMPANO BEACH, Fla. - Surveillance video captured an armed robber dragging a bag full of cellphones and other stolen goods out of a T-Mobile store in Pompano Beach because it was too heavy for him to carry.
The robbery happened at 295 S. Pompano Parkway on Nov. 3.
According to the Broward Sheriff's Office, two robbers walked into the store. One then pulled out a handgun and demanded cash.
The robbers forced the employees into a back room to open the store's safe. They then put the money, cellphones, one employee's purse, and another employee's debit card and cellphone into a clear garage bag.
Video showed one of the robbers dragging the bag out of the back room and through the store as they left.
Anyone who recognizes these two robbers can call BSO at 954-321-4270 or Crime Stoppers of Broward County at 954-493-TIPS (8477).
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Salad days for recyclables
Habitat for Humanity ReStore's 12th anniversary, artists and craftsmen offer their creations at the Habitat ReStore at 301 Piedmont Road. Proceeds from the booth fees benefit Habitat for Humanity.The idea for "Mixed Greens" came from Lesa Smith. She and her husband, Chuck, refinish furniture and create decorative pieces from recycled materials. They sell the items at their booth at the Somewhere in Time antiques mall in Nitro.During their travels to antiques shows, the Smiths noticed some displays showcased creations made from recycled and repurposed items."I had an idea that we should do that here as well. I sent off the idea to [ReStore director] Amy [McLaughlin]. We brainstormed about it, and here it is," Smith said.Smith will display chalkboards and message boards she makes from salvaged doors."I find a lot of my treasures at ReStore," said Smith, whose favorite salvaged items are chairs and chandeliers. "I've been turning trash into treasure for years."The nearly 20 vendors who will participate in "Mixed Greens" were charged simply to bring items they made that contained an element of recycled and repurposed things."This is a great way for us to celebrate all that ReStore does, by showcasing how people use the items we have here. It's not just for contractors. People can see creative uses for items from ReStore," McLaughlin said.Like Smith, Anna Copenhaver has long created new items from recycled materials. Copenhaver, an operating-room nurse at Saint Francis Hospital, said she's been crafting and sewing all her life. She honed her skills during her years as a Girl Scout leader for her three daughters. She still makes the birdhouses her Scouts built as a fundraiser.She makes sturdy rag rugs from discarded, durable polyester clothing. She sews potholders and eyeglass and silverware holders from colorful scraps of fabric and makes aprons and reusable shopping bags from clothing she saved from her mother's home when she settled her estate. "I have lots of ideas. Some are in my head and I see others in magazines," Copenhaver said. "I just hate to throw things away."She separates salvaged dishes of differing sizes with a clear glass to make tiered dessert trays."I find lots of stuff at ReStore. These tiles are from here," she said about some tiles with ribbons attached as hangers. "My daughter will paint little sayings on them."Her daughter, Caroline Copenhaver, will display the earrings she makes from beer bottle caps and buttons.Other vendors such as Beth Carenbauer just recently began to give their creative sides free rein. Carenbauer creates wearable art from vintage jewelry and hardware.She files the backs off vintage brooches and pairs them with bold, chunky chains into necklaces or into bracelets made with salvaged men's watchbands. One necklace features a belt buckle that frames three rows of repurposed beads. In another necklace, a vintage gold belt buckle frames a deconstructed brooch. "I try to bring something modern to contrast with the vintage," said Carenbauer, who is the director of business services for a state government agency. "The vintage pieces have a new life and are reinvented with artistic appeal."Carenbauer finds materials at flea markets and antiques malls. She talked excitedly about the possible uses for a jar of cut glass beads, most likely from an old chandelier that she recently picked up.The elaborate pattern of a black necklace was fashioned from rings of inner tubes, held together with washers. She's used dominoes and checkers in other designs.A pair of cufflinks becomes a set of earrings when Carenbauer files the posts off the back of them."You've heard of boyfriend shirts, but how cool is it to have earrings made from your father's cufflinks?" she said.Instead of flea markets, Jennifer Workman scours riverbanks and beaches for materials, such as driftwood, to use in her primitive-inspired woodcrafts. She also uses pallets, wooden boxes and scraps of wood that a contractor friend provides her.From the large, more gnarled pieces of driftwood, she makes votive candleholders. Spindly sticks and rough wooden strips form a sunburst pattern around circular mirrors, her best-selling item.Her daughters, one who lives in Virginia Beach, Va., and another in North Carolina's Outer Banks, comb the nearby beaches to supply her. The rough wooden strips that break off from slat and wire beach fencing serve Workman's purpose, as does driftwood."About half of what I make is beach-inspired. I love the beach," she said. Workman plans to bring a large mirror, which she's rimmed with a large collection of seashells to "Mixed Greens."Workman's been making wooden items since 1992 when she lived in Ohio. When she first started, she purchased the wood for her crafts."I noticed that there was a lot of wasted wood. What I do now is eco-friendly. I'm not hurting the environment with anything I create," said Workman, who works at Heritage Trucks in Cross Lanes."Mixed Greens" is the first show featuring recycled goods in which Workman has participated; she has signed up for others that were canceled due to lack of participation.Part of the challenge of using recycled materials is the time required for gathering. A trip to the hardware store requires much less effort than walking a beach or picking up cast-off materials."Dealing with recycled material is very time-consuming. Our society wants everything to be easy. They don't want to do anything that takes time," Workman said.Despite the demands of their day jobs, these women make time for their creations. "When you really enjoy something, you just get lost in it," Carenbauer said.Their commitment to giving new purpose to items that might have been discarded shows in their creations as well as their words."Mixed Greens" will be open from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. April 20 and from noon to 5 p.m. April 21 at the ReStore. The ReStore will remain open during show hours.Reach Julie Robinson at email@example.com or 304-348-1230.


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At an early age Fab was bewitched by music. At age 6 he was attracted by the sounds of soul, funk and disco playing from his parents jukebox. Rocked to the sounds of Tamla Motown, James Brown, Barry White, KC & The Sunshine Band and later Kraftwerk. All this built up in him to a music culture dominated by rhythm and groove.
In the early 80s he began his DJ career (as DJ Fab) and became resident in a trendy club in Brussels called -Disco Steve-. Residencies and bookings would follow one another until 1988, playing in many local clubs, always quality venues, such as Le Veaudeville, Le Garage, Le Variete, La Pergola, Le Disque Rouge (Fuse), Las Vegas, and many others. The musical styles he spins with finesse and technique are funk, disco and new wave, the hype music for this era.
After hanging up his DJ gloves to explore new musical fields, music production, we see him reappear in 1989 with the release of his debut single -Warbeat- under the pseudonym Bassline Boys. The success was immediate following the mini scandal triggered by this title when it was broadcasted in Chistophe Dechavanne's -ciel mon mardi- (TF1 – French TV), and the musical response entitled -On se calme (Mr. Dechavanne)- turned into a massive hit in France, selling over 400,000 copies and awarded with a gold record. New Beat, Acid House, Techno and Hardcore releases will succeed during the following years under various monickers, such as Fax Yourself, BSR, Defcon, DSK, Hydrowave, Speed Limit, etc.
In 1994 he decided to return to the turntables, and when he met Claude El Divino (City Parade) he joined the -Underground Energy- team, which allowed him play in one of the most prestigious clubs of Belgium, the Extreme. After a series of bookings with Energy Underground he became a resident at Extreme. Other residencies and bookings followed, including La Raza, Planet Hardcore, Cocoon, Illusion, Zenith, Pavarotti and so on.
After a break from both the deejaying and studio work during the early 2000s, he comes back in 2006 with a new challenge, creating and running his own DJ Bar, which will be called -bar©ode-. The project took its flight, the parties became famous throughout Belgium and abroad, and renowned DJs lined up behind bar©odes decks. Pole Folder (Bedrock Records), Filterheadz (I Love Techno), CP (Pulse Factory) Ecco (KMB records), Rudy (Fuse), Xian (Cafe dAnvers), Milo (You), Dave Kane, Trap House, to name a few.
Inspired by the name of his latest project -bar©ode- DJ Fab became Fab Code, and after the bar closed late 2007, he resumed the hunt for bookings. He joined the team of DJ Ecco called -United Elektro- and also played at -Dance Machine- and -Acid Or Not- parties until the end of 2009, then Fab decided to move and settle in the United Kingdom.
Freshly landed in Manchester, his new home, he went back to work and returned to the recording studio to relaunch his career as a producer and composer. He released his first tracks in 2010 on Belgian label Kiss My Beat Records (KMB), on the label Bonzai Progressive and on the label Mint & Mustard.
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Braintree Town's play-off hopes are now out of their hands.
The Iron secured a 1-1 Skrill Premier draw at Barnet thanks to skipper Kenny Davies second-half penalty.
The Iron now have to beat Grimbsy on Saturday but they also need Halifax and Gateshead to lose.
Braintree manager Alan Devonshire said: "We need a bit of a miracle but you never know miracles happen.
"For us to be in this position is a miracle, so let's go to the last day and have a go.
"I was disappointed with the first half.
"I just felt we were flat, a few boys weren't at it and they've been at it with all these big games and I was disappointed with them.
"But second half it was more like us, we did a lot better and created a few chances, so we move on."
Early pressure came from Barnet with Jake Hyde going close after two minutes.
The home side were a whisker away from taking the lead on four minutes when Curtis Weston's shot just went wide of the upright.
On 19 minutes, Braintree survived when a cross from Elliot Johnson hit the inside of the post and rebounded straight back into the hands of Hamann.
On 30 minutes, Dean Wells brought out a save from Barnet keeper Graham Stack with a looping header.
But it was the home side that took the lead on 40 minutes.
Keanu Marsh-Brown hit a screaming shot from outside the box into the top left corner of the goal.
After the break, the Iron came back into the game.
Barnet's David Stephens fouled Kenny Davies in the area and the referee pointed to the spot.
Davies got up and fired the penalty into the back of the net on 57 minutes.
Braintree substitute Jordan Cox fired a fierce shot just wide on 65 minutes.
And James Mulley had a great chance on 90 minutes but Stack spread himself well to stop the effort.


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Single Girl's Guide: Choose Your Own Adventure!
We like to cuddle. Cuddling is all about moodand ambience. It's peaceful to lie in someone's arms in the dark with great music or even the low buzz of the TV (although that tends to distract me) in the background. It's nice to hear nothing but your lover's breath against the backdrop of the evening or early morning. Holding someone close in bed also makes you feel very secure with one another and the relationship.
We think we are good in bed. Men are taught that confidence solves just about anything. You can be making a total mistake, but as long as you're confident, it will turn out okay. This may explain why we are so clueless at what we are doing in bed, but we act like we know.
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Reverend George Brown Pacific Islands Photographs
Over 900 glass plate negatives taken by George Brown during his work for the Methodist Mission in the Pacific between 1875 and 1905.
Sieni and young people, Satupa'itea, Savai'i, Samoa
Photographer: Reverend George Brown © Courtesy of the Australian Museum
Most of the photographs date from George Brown's visits as General Secretary of Missions to Samoa, Tonga, Fiji, Solomon Islands, New Caledonia and Papua New Guinea from 1888 to 1905, with the exception of an earlier set of New Britain images taken between 1876 and 1880.
The images include portraits, landscapes, mission life, indigenous activities and scenes, and are some of the earliest photos taken in these areas of the Pacific.
Reverend George Brown
George Brown (1835-1917) was born in Durham, England and migrated to New Zealand in 1855 where he joined the Methodist Society and married Sarah Lydia Wallis. In 1860 he was ordained in Sydney and for the next 14 years worked for the Methodist Mission in Samoa. There he was involved in supervising fellow missionaries and teachers, and in 1874-5 he lobbied for new missions to be set up in New Britain and New Ireland.
With teachers from Fiji and Samoa, he and his family settled in Duke of York Islands, New Britain. In the following years Brown helped to establish 29 mission stations and churches in New Britain and New Ireland.
Brown returned to Sydney in 1881 and in 1888 he was appointed General Secretary of the Australian Methodist Mission, an office he held until 1908. His duties included seeking out new locations for missions and visiting the established Methodist groups across the Pacific. In this capacity he set up a Methodist Mission on Dobu Island, British New Guinea in 1891, and he also conducted the first mission party to Roviana, Solomon Islands in May 1902.
Brown actively participated in scientific and religious discourse throughout his life, and after retiring in 1908 he published his autobiography and Melanesians and Polynesians in 1910. He also distributed his photographs to missionary colleagues, academics and anthropologists across Europe.
For a detailed listing of the collection, contact Archives.
Artefacts donated to the Australian Museum by George Brown on several occasions are held in our Cultural Collections.
Further Reading:
George Brown, George Brown D.D. Pioneer Missionary and Exploreer: an autobiography London,1908
Helen Gardner and Jude Philp, "Photography and Christian Mission, George Brown's Images of the New Britain Mission 1875-80" in Journal of Pacific History, Vol.41, No.2, September 2006.
Helen Bethea Gardner, Gathering for God: George Brown in Oceania, Otago University Press, 2006.
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Coach Calhoun at UConn is retiring tomorrow.
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Coach Calhoun at UConn is retiring tomorrow.
Nah, I'm okay..when Auriemma retires, that'll be an issue though.
I pretty much learned the game of basketball from Calhoun and Auriemma. He's a great coach. He's done a ton of good for the state of Connecticut. But it was time. I wish he had retired after Uconn won the championship though, (and I think he wanted to, but didn't want to force those violations on the new coach.) I hate to see him leave the program after what's been going on.
I think Ollie will be pretty good. Although I'm all in favor of trying to steal Brad Stevens away from Butler. :P
I honestly think Stevens wouldn't have a lot of success at a top tier school with yearly astronomical aspirations. OK I worded that wrong, he'd have success, but not enough. It'd be like Tubby Smith at UK. I just don't think he'd be able to handle the rigors of that sort of recruiting.


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April 16, 1:32 p.m., South Avalon Drive: An unidentified suspect gained entry to a residence by forcing open a side door into the laundry room. The suspect stole jewelry from the master bedroom.
April 17, 12:24 p.m., 1000 block of Campbell Avenue: A resident spotted an unknown individual in his backyard. According to police, the resident heard a loud crash and later discovered the side door to his garage had been kicked open. The suspect left the scene without stealing any items from the home.
April 18, 10:48 a.m., 1900 block of Deodara Drive: A 17-year-old female was home alone when she heard two unknown persons having a conversation in another part of the house. The female juvenile contacted her mother, who then contacted police. The suspects fled before police arrived.
Commercial burglary
April 19, 1:48 p.m., 800 block of Altos Oaks Drive: An unknown suspect cut the lock on a construction trailer and stole approximately $20,000 in tools.
April 19, 3:45 p.m., 300 block of Distel Circle: Police reported a homeless female was verbally abusive toward Palo Alto Medical Foundation patients entering and exiting the medical offices. The female left the scene before police arrived.
Restraining order violation
April 19, 10:52 p.m., 600 block of Hollingsworth Drive: Police arrested a 48-year-old male for violating a restraining order filed by a female acquaintance living at the residence. The male suspect was booked into Santa Clara County Main Jail.
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Distribution of California fresh produce is expected to have a new rail option to the Midwest when the TransCold Express – offered by McKay TransCold through an agreement with BNSF Railway – launches in late April or early May.
For pickup and delivery, the refrigerated service will be available to cities within 400 to 500 miles of the hubs on either end — Selma, Calif., and Wilmington, Ill.
"We can bring something from Green Bay, Wis., to Los Angeles for less than a truck would cost," said Jason Spafford, vice president of business development at Edina, Minn.-based McKay TransCold. "On the California end, we can cover the entire Central Valley and even Los Angeles or San Francisco, and ship that to Green Bay or Indianapolis."
Carrots, citrus and stone fruit are among the California crops McKay plans to haul. Butter, cheese and even wine may be on board as well. Product shipping from the Midwest will include frozen foods, eggs and other consumer products. Shippers won't be required to fill a boxcar; truckload and less-than-truckload amounts will be accepted.
"Generally we're going to stay with the more durable commodities," Spafford said. "Strawberries and leaf lettuce probably won't work. But iceberg lettuce is more solid and may work with foodservice companies."
The plan is to start the express train with 30 boxcars and ramp up to 50 — the equivalent of 200 truck loads — over six months.
"Our goal is to get to two 50-car trains in a year, going each direction," Spafford said. "Each will leave Wednesday and land 96 hours later on Sunday evening."
"Handling freight at this velocity and volume is something new," he said.
McKay TransCold, which will staff the rail hubs, is luring potential customers with the prospect of savings over truck transport.
"We understood going in that people aren't going to switch what they're doing now for no good reason," Spafford said. "So we've been saying 8% to 15% less, dependent upon lane and commodity. They could see more savings if they are able to use our freight forwarding location or distribution center. A produce company could put up their own line and do packaging on site."
The TransCold Express will use a patent pending in-car racking system that can double stack pallets.
"There's no shifting over the long haul to the Midwest," Spafford said.
McKay TransCold will rely on existing cold storage in Selma. The company has vendor relationships in both California and Illinois.


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Rami Hammad has seen his stock shoot through the roof in recent weeks. The offensive lineman from Irving, who had been committed to Baylor, has received a slew of new scholarship offers in the past couple weeks, with close to 20 new teams jumping into the mix.
Hammad committed to Baylor in November, but with the new attention he's receiving, he's decided to evaluate some other options. He officially decommitted on Sunday afternoon, and he now faces a tough final decision.
Hammad took an unofficial visit to Texas this weekend, and the Longhorns gave him plenty to think about.
"I loved it. The opportunity for playing time is there. The education is good," Hammad said. "I loved everything about it."
Hammad has not yet had a chance to talk to his high school coaches or the Baylor coaches about his Texas visit. He plans to do that on Sunday, and he's looking to announce a final decision on Wednesday of this week.
"I need to talk to my coach, set something up. But that's what's probably going to happen," Hammad said.
During the Texas visit, Hammad spent time talking to Texas head coach Mack Brown and offensive line coach Stacy Searels. Both indicated to Hammad that they'd love have him as part of the UT program.
"Mack Brown, he telling us about future plans, where the program is heading," Hammad said. "It was all very informal. He told us everything about the school. Coach Searels, we just talked about expectations and things like that."
What does Hammad think of Searels, a coach that's known to be very demanding of his offensive linemen?
"I think it's a perfect match," Hammad said of his style of play and Serels' coaching style.
Hammad continues to list four schools under consideration for his final commitment - Baylor, Texas, TCU and Oklahoma. Everyone should know his final decision later this week.
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Surprise in Connecticut
Some of the world's best cigars use Connecticut wrapper leaves.
Mention cigar and tobacco growing regions the next time you're on the golf course or after lunch at your club and see what associations come up: Cuba, Dominican Republic, Honduras, Mexico and maybe Cameroon. Mention them to your favorite cigar dealer though, and you're just as likely to get an unexpected reply: Connecticut .... Connecticut?
That tobacco is grown in Connecticut is certainly a surprise to the uninitiated. That tobacco leaf grown in the Constitution State has become the cigar industry's most sought-after outer wrapper leaf for premium, hand-rolled cigars, however, can come as something of a shock, even to those natives who for generations have seen the weedlike plant grown profusely in the wide, level fields of the Connecticut River Valley.
In fact, production of Connecticut "shade" tobacco, so called because it is grown under large, tentlike awnings that protect the tender leaves from the sun, has declined steadily in recent years, to a fraction of its former levels. But no matter. The handful of farmers and two major companies still involved in its cultivation and processing enjoy a rather unique situation: as production has declined, demand has increased, making shade-grown Connecticut wrapper leaf one of the world's most expensive agricultural commodities.
Yet as any true cigar aficionado knows, a sexy wrapper alone does not a premium cigar make. The best cigars are made from the best tobaccos, and those at the top of the line, your Macanudos and Davidoffs, are filled with the finest Piloto (a Cuban seed plant), Jamaican and Mexican tobaccos available. But it is the wrapper, like a mink coat on Sophia Loren, that adds that touch of class and extra flavor.
As Daniel Nuñez points out, the best wrappers are those that contribute most to the overall experience of smoking a cigar. "The three basic elements that concern us," says Nuñez, director of Culbro Tobacco's Connecticut and Dominican Republic operations, "are flavor, aroma and burn. With flavor we don't want anything disagreeable, no metallic or foreign tastes; we want the aroma to be sweet, not bitter; and the burn should he consistent, a long ash as white as possible that doesn't fall. That is what we strive for with our Connecticut shade tobacco and that is why Connecticut shade is the best wrapper leaf on the market today."
Few dispute Nuñez's claims. Many of the top producers of cigars, especially from the Dominican Republic, fight to get the best quality Connecticut wrappers for their products. Listen to Robert Levin, owner of Holt's Cigar Company in Philadelphia and the maker of the premium Ashton cigar: Connecticut wrapper is "definitely one of the best wrapper leaves you can buy. I like it because it holds up and it enhances the blend of tobacco. It also looks great on a cigar."
Or hear the maker of the Dominican Republic's H. Upmann and Dom Diego, Richard DiMeola, executive vice president and chief operating officer at Consolidated Cigar Corporation: "Connecticut shade is one of the best looking tobaccos in the world. It tastes good too, but taste is subjective. It's the wrapper that people see, and people smoke with their eyes, just like they eat and drink with their eyes."
Davidoff cigars, once made in Cuba, now also use the best available Connecticut wrapper on its Dominican-produced cigars. Christoph Kull, president of Davidoff of Geneva's U.S. operations, takes his praise for Connecticut shade one step further. "A nice Connecticut wrapper," insists Kull, "is like the skin on a baby's bottom, very silky, very fine. From a marketing point of view, it is considered at the moment to be one of the best tasting and looking wrappers available."
Edgar Cullman Jr., president of Culbro Corporation, has been around the company's tobacco fields all his life. His grandfather started the shade operation, an endeavor that was always close to his heart despite his "other job": holding a seat on the New York Stock Exchange and running a cigar factory. For the younger Cullman, there's been a special attraction to the tobacco. "We've always prided ourselves on producing the best tobacco in the valley," says Cullman Jr. "We've always taken extra steps to do it. There are so many steps that have always been time-honored, from when you fumigate the land in the fall, preparing it for the following spring, to finally putting it into a bale of tobacco. There is no `right' step, but you do it when it feels right for the tobacco."
Connecticut wrapper averages $24 a pound, with the premium quality selling for as much as $40. The high price is partly a reflection of the high labor, land and other costs of running a U.S.-based operation, and partly due to the growing demand for premium wrapper in the U.S., Canadian, European and Japanese markets. Production costs in Connecticut can run as much as $20,000 an acre, or roughly $13 per pound. This high cost of production translates directly into higher prices at the consumer end of the scale.
With approximately 90 leaves per pound, and only two cigars per leaf, the average cost of just the wrapper on a single premium cigar can be as much as 50 cents, after damaged leaves are discarded. For certain premium brands, such as Macanudo, additional handling and processing boosts the per-cigar cost of the wrapper to over $1.00.
"Connecticut wrapper is very expensive," agrees Carlos Fuente Jr., president of Tabacalera A. Fuente y Compania, a Dominican Republic-based producer of handmade premium cigars. "But the producers of Connecticut wrapper run first-class operations, and traditionally, the sorting has been very good. You can always count on high quality, and aside from being expensive, it sells."
Quality is a word frequently associated with Connecticut shade. Grading standards for wrapper tobacco are stiff, with a leaf torn or bruised on one side worth as little as one-fourth that of an entirely good leaf. Wrapper leaf tobacco is judged according to its "priming," the point at which a leaf is taken from the plant. Every priming represents one picking of a field, with just two or three leaves taken from each plant at a time, starting with the bottom and working up. Normally, there are six primings in every harvest, and for each priming there are at least 18 different grades of tobacco, based on size, color, texture, elasticity and other factors.
"There is a tremendous amount of grades," notes Lawrence Palombo, general manager of General Cigar Company, a sister company of Culbro Tobacco and maker of Macanudo and other premium cigars. "You've got green, light and brown, and within those grades you have different degrees. You can have a brown leaf that is very clean, which would be a one. A leaf with a little blemish is a two; one that has more color variation or larger veins would be a three, an so forth. The best tobacco goes for $35 to $40 a pound, but if it's broken or bruised, the price drops to $10 to $15 a pound, which really doesn't even cover production costs."
The Connecticut Valley is to quality tobacco what the Médoc region of Bordeaux is to fine wine. A combination of good soil, adequate rainfall and abundant sunshine has made it one of the world's premium tobacco growing regions. Though wrapper leaf tobacco seed varieties developed in the valley has been planted in Costa Rica, the Dominican Republic, Honduras, Mexico, Panama and other places, no one has yet been able to duplicate the color, flavor and texture of the Connecticut Valley leaf.
Tobacco cultivation in the valley follows the Connecticut River from just above Springfield, Massachusetts, to a point just below Middletown, Connecticut, with the highest concentration of fields slightly north of Hartford. Tobacco growing was once the principal farming activity in the area, but today only a handful of tobacco farms remain. Culbro Tobacco (a subsidiary of Culbro Corporation), which grows, processes and markets wrapper leaf, is a leading producer of Connecticut wrapper leaf. A decade ago, the company was operating seven farms on 1,300 acres of land. Today, production has been scaled back to just four farms on 400 acres, with only 200 acres planted in tobacco in 1992. According to Nuñez, the company, which still maintains extensive landholdings in the valley, cut production by half in 1992 (from 1991's 600,000 pounds of leaf) in order to bring supply and demand into balance.
"We want to achieve the highest quality standards possible," says Nuñez, "and then we'll see. If the market demand is there, we've the option to increase production back to our 1991 levels or even greater."
Cullman adds: "We are growing a lot less tobacco than we used to grow, but these things tend to go in waves. The valley as a whole is growing about 1,200 acres. In 1970, there were nine billion cigars being consumed; now there are just over two billion. That's a huge change that occurred in the cigar business, and it has to be reflected in the growing of wrappers in Connecticut."
The other remaining wrapper leaf processor in the valley is the Windsor Shade Tobacco Company, a cooperative of twelve farmers, working about 1,000 acres of land between them. Windsor Shade, which was founded in the mid-1930s, processes an average of one million pounds of wrapper leaf each year, though in some years production reaches nearly two million pounds. Andres Sepulveda, general manager at Windsor Shade, is reluctant to talk about the company's operations, because, he says, "We are a member-owned and-directed cooperative. I really don't want to speak for our members."
Tobacco farming in Connecticut has a long and illustrious history. When the first settlers came to the valley in 1635, tobacco was already being grown by the native Indian population. By 1700, tobacco was being exported via the Connecticut River to England, Ireland, Gibraltar and other Mediterranean ports; and by 1800, cigar manufacturing had found its way to the Hartford area, with the ancestors of today's hand-rolled premiums going for $1 to $2 a thousand. The use of Connecticut tobacco as a wrapper leaf began in the 1820s, and by 1830 several farmers was experimenting with different seeds and processing techniques.
The emphasis on quality began in the 1850s. As a farm manual published at that time notes, "the tobacco grown in Connecticut is used for making cigars, but chiefly for the outside, or wrappers for cigars made of imported tobacco. For this purpose only the best leaves are used, and it is in order to obtain these best leaves (the prime wrappers) that the tobacco is cultivated." By 1870, more than eight million pounds of tobacco were being produced by local farmers, and there were 235 factories in Connecticut making hand-rolled cigars with imported filler tobaccos and Connecticut wrapper leaf, which was then selling for 40 cents a pound. The growing of wrapper leaf in "shaded" fields was introduced in the valley around 1900, and by 1904, Connecticut shade tobacco was winning awards in international competitions. By 1924, there were 15,000 acres of tobacco being cultivated under shade in the Connecticut River Valley.
The technique of growing shade tobacco has changed little in the past 92 years. From a distance, the covered fields seem like tents of some nomadic tribe, billowing in the soft breezes that sweep the valley, and gleaming white in the bright summer sun. To form the tents, a tobacco field is set with posts nine feet high and about 33 feet apart. Heavy wires are stretched from post to post, and a light, durable fabric (once cotton but now synthetic) is tied across them and draped along the sides. Under the tents at midday on a bright, sunny afternoon, the light is soft and diffused the air moist and slightly warmer than outside. "If this tobacco were grown in direct sunlight," explains Palombo, "it would be coarse and tough. By filtering the sun, you can produce a thinner, more elastic leaf, that cures to a lighter, even color."
The growing cycle begins in late March, when the tobacco is seeded in special beds covered with clear plastic stretched over hoops. The seedlings are grown in trays of 96 plants each, with about 125 trays required per acre of planting. By mid-May, when they are four to six inches tall, the seedlings are ready for transplanting, and are set in the fields, 14 inches apart in rows alternately 36 and 44 inches wide, with the wider rows used as access ways for farm workers. During the early stages of development, the fields are weeded and dusted with insecticide and fungicide to guard against aphids and mold.
In late June, the three bottom leaves, too small for cigar wrappers, are removed along with any "sucker" leaves that would otherwise grow from the joint of leaf and stalk. After suckering, support strings are tied and then wrapped around the growing plants and attached to the ceiling wires of the tents. This helps the stalks grow straight and is an added prevention against breakage in bad weather.
A quiet reverence pervades the tents during the growing season, as if even the sound of a human voice might disturb the delicate leaves. A full-grown Connecticut wrapper leaf plant will stand as high as ten feet, its giant leaves, some nearly a half-yard across and twice again as long, brushing its neighbors on all sides, so that beneath the tent the field is a near solid mass of greenery. By the time the plants are ready for their first priming in late July, any untrained movement through the field could spell disaster for the crop.
"Shade tobacco is incredibly delicate in the field," says Nuñez, who, after 20 years in the tobacco raising and processing business, insists he still has much to learn. "If you walk into the field, no matter how careful you try to be, you break leaves. At all stages it is a delicate process. If you do something wrong in the seed beds or in the field, you will have to live with it until the tobacco is on the cigar. The tobacco will never forgive you, it will keep telling you that you made a mistake."
A mid-August morning dawns hot, a hazy, muggy day much like the Tropics. Unusually rainy weather has slowed the tobacco harvest and many plants, stretching their tops toward the billowing fabric of a nine-foot-high tent, are reaching their ripest point. By the end of the month, weather permitting, the crop will be in.
Today, the pickers are on their third "priming," deftly snapping the seventh, eighth and ninth leaves from the bottom of the thick, almost iridescent green stalk and gingerly placing them on long, apparently stationary mats stretched between the wider rows of the field. The men work in teams, with one picking while another sits waiting at the end of the row on a wheelbarrowlike contraption with a bicycle attached to its front where the bucket should be.
Once the row is picked, the man on the bicycle begins to peddle, and the long mat stretched between the rows, now covered with the fresh tobacco leaves, begins to move, winding slowly around a spool that has replaced the front tire of the bike. The picker stands at the end of the row, lifting the leaves off the mat as it passes and carefully placing them in wide plastic containers, which, when filled, are slid onto low wagons for the short ride to the drying shed. There are a dozen such teams working side-by-side, and another dozen or so men driving tractors, loading and unloading tobacco containers, moving the leaves out of the sun. It will take them nearly five hours to complete one picking of this particular five-acre field.
Chris Rivera, field manager on one of the four, 50-acre farms that Culbro Tobacco is operating in 1992, and a company veteran of 28 years, stoops and picks up one of the many discarded fresh leaves that litter the lane between the tobacco fields. "Blossom rot," he says, pointing to a large, dark spot staining one side of the leaf. "It's been a bad year for it. When we see them like that, we pull them out; it doesn't make sense to process a leaf that's already spoiled."
"If you can't get to the tobacco on time," explains Palombo on a tour of the fields, "it starts flowering, the blossoms drop off onto the leaves below and rot, damaging the leaf. Ideally, you try to keep breakage and damage down below 15 percent; in a bad year it can run as high as 35 percent, and there goes your profit margin for that year. In the field, in the shed, at the sorting table, it's a very, very delicate process."
A tractor, pulling a wagonload of fresh tobacco leaves, passes on its way to a drying shed. Tobacco sheds, in groups of four or more, dot the landscape for miles. Like much of Connecticut's tobacco heritage, they seem remnants of a time gone by. Tall, awkward wooden structures, 30 to 40 feet wide and 120 or more feet long, the sheds are at once the most valuable and the most ephemeral link in the tobacco processing chain. A fully loaded shed will hold over 5,000 pounds of tobacco, worth as much as $125,000; but even empty, the sheds themselves are worth more than they can he insured for. "A couple of kids got into a shed last winter and torched it," says Palombo, "burned it to the ground. The replacement cost on one of these babies is unbelievable ... once they're gone, they're gone."
It is in the shed that the first and most important stage of the leaf-curing process takes place. Here, the tobacco is hung and dried, using a combination of natural and artificial heating. First, once the shed is fully loaded, the leaves are allowed to rest for two or three days, until they begin to yellow at the edges and wilt. Then the shed is "fired," using squat, mushroom shaped burners spread on the floor beneath the hanging racks.
The initial firing takes five days, with the shed temperature gradually being increased to just over 100 degrees. After the first firing, the tobacco is allowed to rest again for 24 hours, and then is refired for an eight-hour period. Depending on weather conditions, as many as 11 subsequent firings take place. Ideally, the tobacco is brought to a brittle dryness, allowed to reabsorb moisture and redried several times, the entire process taking as long as six weeks.
Standing in one fully loaded shed, Palombo shines a light up through the densely packed racks of drying tobacco leaves. The air is close and hot, punctuated by the sweet, sugary smell of drying leaves and the quiet hiss of the gas burners. "This tobacco is curing down beautifully," says Palombo. "We let it dry, turn off the heat, let it take up moisture and then dry it again. We call that 'going in and out of case.' It's what gives the leaves that nice, golden-brown color."
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Three good causes have been given a boost thanks to the dedication and generosity of South Craven School sixth-formers.
Representatives from the trio of organisations visited the school during an assembly to collect the fundraising proceeds.
In October, South Craven's headteacher, Dr Andrew Cummings, had distributed £10 to each tutor group, and challenged the students to increase this sum within two weeks.
A school spokesman said: "A frenzy of cake and bun sales, an auction of promises, a marathon run, triathlon, bush tucker trial and bucket collection, to name but a few of the activities, saw an amazing £3,066 being collected.
"The three charities chosen by the students were the Army Benevolent Fund, Sue Ryder Manorlands and Leeds Children's Hospital.
"The Army Benevolent Fund was chosen because Ben Wood, a former student here, had raised cash for this same organisation by completing the 850-mile Ultra 6 cycling and running challenge last year.
"Sue Ryder Manorlands was selected by the parents of a former student who has recently died, and the Leeds Children's Hospital was the students' own choice."


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FITNESS fanatics gathered at the MECA yesterday afternoon to raise money for charity at a special Zumbathon.
More than 50 people joined in the four-hour Zumba session, which organisers hope will raise more than £1,500 for Helen and Douglas House.
Those taking part included people who just enjoy fitness as well as some who have needed to use the services of the children's hospice in Oxfordshire.
Melanie Richards, who is an area fundraiser for the charity, said she was delighted with the turnout.
She said: "It's been a really fun day and it's great to see so many people turning up and taking part. We asked people to sign up beforehand but lots of people just turned up on the door, which was absolutely fantastic.
"I want to thank everyone for coming along but also to the five instructors who have given up their time for free, not only today, but also in letting people know about the day.
"I'm very happy with the turnout and if there is this demand then we will certainly be looking to run more in the future."
Although Helen and Douglas House is based in Oxfordshire it helps many families in Swindon and Melanie's mission is to get everyone in the town aware of the work they do.
"I think a lot of people now know we cover Swindon as we are getting recognised more and more but there are still those that don't," she said.
"We currently help about 22 families in Swindon and are the town's only children's hospice. We need to raise £5m every year in funding, which is about 85 per cent of our budget, so the more people who are aware of what we do and can come to events such as this the easier it is to raise that cash."
Among those at the Zumbathon was Marie McVicker, 30, of Rodbourne Cheney, with her son, six-year-old Ollie Samways. Ollie was born with brain damage and has needed the hospice his entire life.
Marie said: "It's good to see so many people coming down. Fair play to them for giving up their afternoon. I've had a little go myself as well.
"The work that Helen and Douglas House do is absolutely brilliant and they have made such a difference. They provide so much support for people in Swindon which I don't think many people know about."
To find out more about Helen and Douglas House or to donate visit www.helenanddouglas.org.uk.


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I've moved my website to wheelerwinstondixon.com – follow me there!
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At the top left, there's an "about" tab, where you can also download my complete cv as a pdf; next to that there are two tabs covering the 32 books that I've written, with the covers on display as clickable links that go directly to information on each title; next to that is a tab that goes to some 30 online articles of mine that are available out of the nearly 100 that I have written over the years; then comes a link to the Frame by Frame videos that I've made, with a clickable link to a carousel playlist that starts automatically and takes you through more than 70 titles; then a tab for this blog; then a tab for my film work — I have a show coming up in New York this Spring, 2014 — and finally a contact page, where you can e-mail me if you wish to.
This is where you will find me from now on; the old website is dead, so let's move on into the future.
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Historic Photogaphs taken by Alexander Gardner just after the Battle.
Confederate dead at Bloody Lane, looking northeast from the south bank. The group of Union soldiers looking on were likely members of the 130th Pennsylvania, who were assigned burial detail on the 19th.Download 2.5 MB
Confederate dead at Bloody Lane, looking east from the north bank.Download 2.8 MB
Gardner's title for this image is "Confederate soldiers as they fell near the Burnside bridge."Download 1.9 MB
Confederate dead gathered for burial. Photo taken September 19, 1862.Download 2.9 MB
Burial crew of Union soldiers.Download 3.1 MB
Taken at the Burnside Bridge, with the photographer's horse and photo-studio wagon parked near the east end of the bridge. This would be the same view as many of the attacking soldiers in Burnside's command.Download 2.6 MB
Gardner's title for this evocative image is "A lone grave on battlefield of Antietam."Download 2.6 MB
A Union burial crew amongst the litter of battle.Download 2.1 MB
Confederate dead on the east side of the Hagerstown Pike near the hill where the Visitor Center is located today, with the photographer looking toward the Dunker Church.Download 2.5 MB
Looking upstream at Burnside Bridge.Download 2.4 MB
Gardner captured an incredibly sad image with this view of the twisted body of single dead Confederate soldier.Download 3.4 MB
Grave of Lt. John A. Clark with a dead Confederate soldier looking as if his body was just tossed aside.Download 2.7 MB
Confederate dead along the west side of Hagerstown Pike. Photo taken about 500 yards north of Dunker Church, looking north, on September 19, 1862. The dirt lane on the left is not Hagerstown Pike, but a path on Miller's Farm. Hagerstown Pike is on the right side of the post-and-rail fence.Download 3.0 MB
President Lincoln visits General McClellan at his headquarters on October 4, 1862. Visible on the ground at the lower left is a captured Confederate battle flag.Download 1.8 MB
Confederate dead at Bloody Lane, looking southeast from the nouth bank. Notice the torn up Piper cornfield and destroyed fence on the right or south side of the photo.Download 2.9 MB
Looking north along the east bank of Antietam Creek. It was up this road that many of the Union attacks toward the bridge were made.Download 3.0 MB
Burnside Bridge taken from the Confederate viewpoint on the west side of Antietam Creek looking east.Download 2.8 MB
Photo taken September 21, 1862, at Burnside Bridge, showing graves of Union soldiers who were killed while taking the bridge. The graves are marked with crude wooden markers.Download 4.2 MB
Independent Battery E, Pennsylvania Light Artillery commanded by Captain Joseph M. KnapDownload 2.7 MB
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Ramos feels good after taking batting practice
WASHINGTON -- Nationals catcher Wilson Ramos, who is on the 15-day disabled list with a left hamate bone fracture, took batting practice Friday for the first time since suffering the injury on Opening Day against the Mets.
Ramos was able to hit grounders and line drives, but he didn't display any power. That's to be expected, as Ramos is still trying to strengthen his hand and wrist. He also had some soreness in the left hand, but he expects that to go away soon. Ramos should be involved in defensive drills sometime this weekend.
"I feel better," Ramos said. "I'm trying to get confidence. My swing feels a lot better. I want to make my wrist stronger. I'm working hard in my rehab."
Ramos doesn't know when he will play in a Major League game. Once he is healthy, he will play in extended spring games in Florida before going on a rehab assignment.
Besides providing power for the Nationals, Ramos is a steady influence behind the plate. He is not afraid to voice his opinion on certain things such as pitch selection.
"Wilson has been around this team and this pitching staff long enough to have a good feel for what we like to do on the mound," reliever Tyler Clippard said. "I think he has helped Lobby [Jose Lobaton] out a lot, Sandy Leon and the younger guys. The comfort level that we had in Wilson is very important. That's tough to be without him for this amount of time."
Bill Ladson is a reporter for MLB.com and writes an MLBlog, All Nats All the time. He also could be found on Twitter @WashingNats. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.


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