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ELIZA M. INGE, the second child of John M. and Frances (Dance) Inge, was born 22 November 1798. Since her parents owned land in Lunenburg and Mecklenburg Counties, VA, and these farms were adjacent to each other, Eliza M. was born in one of these counties, most likely Mecklenburg.
Children born to John M. Inge and Frances Dance were: Sarah Hill, born 22 March 1795; Eliza M./Elizabeth, born 22 November 1798; Rebekah D., born 1 February 1798; John M., born 1802; James Milton, born 1807; and Edward H., born about 1792.
By October 1801, Eliza's father had bought an additional 530 acres of farmland in Lunenburg County, VA, for L605, and acquired a gristmill. He was quite successful in his farming and milling operations in Lunenburg Co., but he later sold and moved to Pittsylvania Co., VA, to continue in the same businesses.
Eliza M. Inge married Joshua Pritchett, Jr., 8 November 1817, in
Pittsylvania Co., VA. Joshua, a farmer, was the son of Joshua Pritchett, Sr., and Elizabeth Cousins. The Pritchetts had moved to Pittsylvania Co. from Brunswick County, VA, earlier in 1817. In Pittsylvania County, Eliza and Joshua Pritchett, Jr. became the parents of fourteen children: Frances, Rebekah J., Julia Etta, William W., Robert H., Sarah B., Harriet E., Martha, Edward, Elvina/Ellen, Joshua Daniel III, James J., Joseph Anderson, and Anna. Joshua owned a large farm and number of slaves.
Joshua Pritchett, Jr., died by 18 January 1847 in Pittsylvania Co.
This was the date that a son and a son-in-law-posted bond as executors of his estate. Eliza and her children remained on the farm in Virginia for the next ten years. But in 1857, Eliza and her family decided to join others on a wagon train for Texas. Several of her children were married by this time, and her youngest child, Anna, was about twelve. Almost all the Pritchett children accompanied Eliza to Texas. But we know Robert H. Pritchett, a son, was married and remained in Virginia.
Two married daughters, Julia Spotts and Sarah Fitzgerald and their husbands and young children were among the families making this journey. Most of this group was members of the same church, the Methodist Episcopal, south. Blood or marriage related many. Mollie Inge Fitzgerald, daughter of George and Sarah (Pritchett) Fitzgerald, was about four years old when she came to Texas on this wagon train. She recalled that her father said it took more than three months to reach their new home.
Among the Virginia families coming to Texas on this wagon train or soon thereafter were the following families: Pritchett, Spotts, Fitzgerald, Blairs, Paynes, Trotter, Inge, Haley, Hunter, Holland, Burton, Keen, Williams, Turner, Witchers, Ramsey, Brooks, and others.
After arriving in north Texas, most of these families settled in the Bells/Savoy/Ambrose, Grayson Co., TX, area, where the Dugan and Youree families had settled earlier. They merged their church with the striving Methodist Church already in the community. With the Rev. Spotts as a new spiritual leader, the church thrived. Soon it was known as the Virginia Point Methodist Episcopal Church, South, and a church building was erected.
Eliza leased land, which she later bought, near Dugan Chapel and continued farming with the help of her children that were still at home. The Pritchett family had a big well in the front yard, and the water from that well was reputed to be the best in the entire area. Eliza Pritchett's unmarried daughters were known to be pretty, gracious, and well educated for that period. This made the Pritchett home popular among the young men seeking wives. These eager young lads stopped regularly to partake of the good well water. William Youree admitted in later in life that the Pritchett well water wasn't that much better than anyone else?s, but it was a good excuse to stop often and get in extra courting time with Anna Pritchett.
Frances Dance Pritchett, called Fannie, born 10 Nov. 1818 and the eldest Pritchett child, was thirty-nine years of age when she arrived in Texas with her mother. But when forty-three, she became the second wife of George Fitzgerald, husband of her deceased sister, Sarah, who died in 1859. Fannie, who was a good mother to Sarah's five young children, is buried next to George and Sarah in the VA Point Methodist Church Cemetery.
On 24 October 1851,when about forty years old, Rebekah Pritchett became the second wife of Dr. Hugh Henry. Before her marriage to Dr. Henry, Becky taught in the Bonham schools for a number of years. Her letters back to Virginia give us a good insight into how they managed the wagon train trip from Virginia to Texas. Rebekah had no children, but her husband, Dr. Henry, had two children by his first wife, Texanna Bell. The Henry home was just a few miles east of Virginia Point Church. Dr. Henry, Texanna, and Rebekah are buried along the side other family members in the Bell Cemetery. This cemetery is also known as the Youree Cemetery. Many Youree family members are buried nearby.
Julia E. Pritchett, the third Pritchett child, married Rev. Samuel J. Spotts, in Pittsylvania County, VA, on 7 December 1842. She, her husband, and their young children were among the Virginians headed for Texas in 1857. Her husband was the pastor of their Danville, Virginia, Methodist Church and continued as the religious leader for the families in Texas. Julia died 27 June 1889, Samuel in 1876. Both are buried at Inglish Cemetery, Bonham, Fannin County, TX, as are some of their descendants.
Family tradition says that William W. Pritchett, the eldest son, never married, and remained with his mother throughout his life. He served in the Confederate Army enrolling 1 March 1862 at Bonham, TX, for a period of three
years as a private in the 34th TX Cavalry, Co. E, Alexander's Regiment. He is buried at Virginia Point.
Robert H. Pritchett, who was called Robson, was the second Pritchett son. He was born in 1827 and married Martha Ann Thompson 9 July 1852 in Pittsylvania County, Virginia. Robson, a farmer, joined Company G of the Sixth Regiment of the Virginia Cavalry, 19 August 1861 to serve for one year in the Confederate Army. At his induction into the Cavalry, Robert was described as five feet, ten inches tall, dark complexion, black eyes, and black hair. He served as a corporal for several months before he entered the Chimborazo Hospital, #three, at Richmond, VA, on 20 March 1862, with typhoid fever. He died there 26 March 1862. Martha, his widow, was left with three young children, and she remained in Virginia.
Sarah B. Pritchett, the sixth child, was born 7 February 1829 and married George S. Fitzgerald, a farmer, carpenter and furniture maker, on 12 December 1849. Rev. Samuel Spotts in Danville, VA conducted the marriage ceremony. The Fitzgeralds had four children before they set out on the wagon train for Texas. This family settled near Ambrose and remained there for several years. Their last child, Sallie, was born in this home. Sarah (Pritchett) Fitzgerald died, 10 December 1859, a few months later, of typhoid fever. Fannie Pritchett, Sarah's sister, married George Fitzgerald and became the stepmother of her nieces and nephew.
One morning George Fitzgerald awoke, put his feet to the floor, and was shocked to discover his feet covered by several inches of water. Immediately he began to cut lumber and make plans to move his family to higher ground. His new home, which received the Texas State Historical Building Medallion in 1970, was built at a point about four miles north of Bells and just west of Virginia Point Church. (The Jesse Youree family later lived in this home for many years). George Fitzgerald served in the Confederate Army as a private in Company E Texas Infantry, Hubbard's TX Infantry. Sarah is buried at Virginia Point Cemetery next to her husband, George, her sister, Fannie, and several children and grandchildren.
Harriett E. Pritchett, one of the younger Pritchett daughters, was born in 1831 and married Thomas Trotter in Pittsylvania Co., VA, by 1854. Trotters are found in Grayson county records.
Martha J. Pritchett, who was born in 1832, married George H. Montgomery 23 Nov. 1858 in Grayson County, Texas. George, a farmer and stock raiser, and
Martha/Pattie, were parents of five children, all born in the same room of
their home near Savoy, Fannin County, Texas. Pattie died in 1915.
Edward Pritchett, born in 1835, was listed among the children of Eliza A.
Pritchett on the 1850 Pittsylvania County, VA, census records, as age fifteen. He did come to Texas because in the War Between the States, he was a member of the Texas Cavalry and was killed in Yazoo City, Mississippi, on 3 August 1863.
Elvina Pritchett, called Ellen, born in 1837, married Robert A. Hunter
27 September 1860 in Grayson County, Texas. She and her husband had several
children and lived on a farm near the Fitzgerald family, just west of Virginia Point Church. A headstone at Virginia Point Cemetery reads: R.A. Hunter, 1833-1898, and this would have to be Robert A. Hunter, husband of Ellen, because of the place and dates. There is no gravestone for Ellen Hunter, his wife; so she may have been buried elsewhere or perhaps her grave was unmarked.
Joshua Daniel Pritchett, III, was born 28 July 1838 in Pittsylvania Co. He married Elizabeth E. Morton 8 July 1869 at VA Point Church with Rev. Samuel J. Spotts officiating. The license was issued 5 July 1869 in Lamar County, TX. He and Elizabeth were parents of nine children. Joshua became a member of the Texas Cavalry, Moore's Regiment, Co. G17 and rose from private to sergeant. On 9 April 1865, his company became Co. G, Granbury's Consolidated Texas Brigade. Joshua Daniel Pritchett died 24 February 1902 at Bells. Both Joshua and Elizabeth are buried at the Greenwood Cemetery, located about two miles southwest of Savoy on Cedar Hill Farm, Collin County, now owned by Col. Bill Langner.
James John Pritchett, another son of Eliza, is found on the 1860 Grayson County, TX, census records as age nineteen, so he came on the wagon train to Texas with his family. He served in the Confederate Army. He was born 20 October 1840 and died 30 December 1861. His tombstone stood in the Pritchett pasture for years but read John James instead of James John.
Joseph Anderson Pritchett, called Ad, was the youngest Pritchett son. He was born in 1843 in Pittsylvania County, VA. He is listed as 28 years of age as a member of the Infantry in the Confederate Army, 45th Brigade, Shelby Co., TX, 23 May 1861. He married Elizabeth Ann Mallory 6 February 1868 in Fannin County, Texas, and they became the parents of nine children. He died 18 Sept. 1928, and both he and his wife are buried in the Oak Hill Cemetery, located about one-mile east of Whitewright, TX.
Anna E. Pritchett, the youngest of the fourteen Pritchett children, was born 13 September 1845, and was about two years old when her father, Joshua, died. Anna, who married William Newton Youree 8 July 1869 at Virginia Point, was the mother of five children. William Youree served in the Confederate Army as a private. Anna and William are buried in the Savoy Cemetery.
When Eliza Pritchett sold the family farm and left Virginia, she retained ownership of the land occupied by the family burying ground. No doubt, this was where Joshua Pritchett, Jr., Eliza's husband, was buried. But as years went by, taxes were not paid; so the family lost ownership. It is thought that the cemetery has all but disappeared from neglect.
Eliza M. (Inge) Pritchett died in Grayson County on 23 August 1876 and her gravestone stands in the Virginia Point Methodist Church Cemetery next to her son's, William W. Pritchett.
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Lora B. Tindall
RESEARCH LOG: T. L. Dance Family in VA from Genealogies of VA Families 1982 from William and Mary Quarterly, Vol. III PP 652-263 & same in William & Mary Quarterly, Vol. 26, Series 1 p 54; Travels in Search of the Past by Luther C. Inge 1991 PP 8-9; Marriages of Pittsylvania Co., VA, 1806-1830 by Kathleen Booth Williams 1980 p 126; Virginia Point Methodist Church Records and gravestone readings; Fitzgerald/Pritchett Bible Records; Pritchetts in America, Doris Horlacher 1987 PP 203-204, 223-225, 233-248; Brief History of the Pritchett Family by Carr W. Pritchett PP 5-6; 1850 Pittsylvania Co., VA, census records & 1860 Grayson Co., TX census records, both list Eliza M. Pritchett as head of household; Pittsylvania Co., VA, Deed Bk. 1846-49, Vol. 50, LDS #33284, p 304a & Deed Book 1856059, Vol. 57-58, LDS #33261 & Probate Book 1844-48, Vol. 37-40, p 177 & p 70A-B, LDS #33320 & Probate Book 1843-49, Vol. 14-16, LDS #33297 PP 177 & 388A, Probate Book 1849-52, Vol. 17-18, LDS #33298; Pittsylvania Co. Court records: Executors Joshua?s Estate post bond, 18 Jan. 1847 & Inventory & appraisal of husband's estate completed & recorded 2 Feb. 1847; Grayson Co., TX, Deeds 1866-70, Vol. S & LDS #1290293. P 26, Eliza M. Pritchett buys land from Barton & Catherine (Dugan) Taylor; Grayson Co., Deeds 1871-73, Vol. V & LDS #1290295, p 493, Eliza sells land to W. S. McHaffuy; Biographical Souvenir of Texas 1889, PP 294, 607, 690, 784; Robert H. Pritchett's Will, Pittslyvania Co. VA., dated 17 August 1871 & proved 16 June 1862, Will Book 2, PP 387-389; Robert H. Pritchett's Confederate records, National Archives: Confederate Archives, Chap. 6, File #64, p 32 and Confederate Archives, Chap. 6, File #21, p 31, Confederate Archives, Chap. 10, File #22; old letters written by Rebecca Pritchett, Dr. James M. Pritchett and others


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'Virginia Maksymowicz: Accumulated Intention' at Peeler Art Center Through March 9
January 20, 2003
Also on Display: "Watercolor: In the Abstract" and "Award-Winning Paintings from the Watercolor Society of Indiana"
January 20, 2003, Greencastle, Ind. - "Virginia Maksymowicz: Accumulated Intention," a retrospective exhibition of mixed media works and installations by Philadelphia artist Virginia Maksymowicz, will be on view at the Richard E. Peeler Art Center, Visual Arts Gallery, at DePauw University January 29 through March 9, 2003. The exhibit is free and open to the public. (at left: "Lily of the Mohawks" (installation view), 1995; paper, clay, acrylic, Tyvek, silk flowers and petals and perfume)
For nearly 25 years, Virginia Maksymowicz has developed a form of imagery that addresses cultural and political issues in a nontraditional, yet understandable, form, through the conflation of figures, objects and narrative text. Frequently employing humor as a "hook," her work contains aesthetic and historical references that are readable on multiple levels.
The primary medium of Maksymowicz's mixed media works is handmade paper, which she uses not only for its lightness in weight and capacity for mimicry but also because of its association with fragility, one that complements the conceptuality of the work. Maksymowicz has a particular interest in feminist issues and often focuses on the particular circumstances of a range of women, from both the past and current times. Her figures are almost always cast from her body, and the stories she tells have their foundation in aspects of the artist's personal experience. (at right: "What is it that we refuse to see?" (detail), 1997-99; cast paper, acrylic, Glass Wax, blue fluoresent lights, wood and metal)
Maksymowicz has exhibited her work at the Franklin Furnace and The Alternative Museum New York; ARC and N.A.M.E. galleries in Chicago; Museum of Contemporary Art in Sao Paolo, Brazil; as well as numerous galleries, museums, and art institutions throughout the United States and abroad. In 1984 she received a National Endowment for the Arts fellowship in sculpture, and she has been honored with numerous other grants and awards. Her work has been reviewed in the New York Times, Newsday, the New Art Examiner, and the Philadelphia Inquirer. Her series, "The History of Art," appears on the cover of The Female Body, published by the University of Michigan Press in 1991.
Virginia Maksymowicz, who resides in Philadelphia, earned her B.A. in Fine Arts from Brooklyn College of the City University of New York in 1973, where she studied with Lucas Samaras. In 1977, she earned a B.F.A. in Visual Arts from the University of California, San Diego, where she worked with Allan Kaprow, Eleanor Antin, and Newton and Helen Harrison. Maksymowicz has been a visiting professor of art at several U.S. colleges and universities, including Oberlin College, Minneapolis College of Art and Design, and the Moore College of Art and Design in Philadelphia. Currently, she is an assistant professor of art at Franklin & Marshall College in Lancaster, Pennsylvania.
The galleries at the Richard E. Peeler Art Center are open Monday-Friday 9 a.m. to 4 p.m.; Saturday 10 a.m. - 4 p.m.; and Sunday 1 - 5 p.m.Back

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This week in art class at The Bridge Academy, Ms. Phiri's seventh-grade students finished their clay pottery and began painting. Students worked on their pottery using the coil pot technique for a few weeks. Each student began their work with a base shape of their choice. Each student created something unique using the same techniques.
Students learned how to properly use clay tools and how thick to roll a base. Next the students created a design plan for their vessel. The students learned to roll coils, score and blend. They also learned to control the direction of the coils thus making the vessel form wide, straight up or in towards the center. Students learned how to add on small sculptural pieces and carve into the surface of their vessel to further make it their own.
This week students will now be able to add paint to the surface of their air-dry clay vessels. Students are very excited to begin painting, and resulting pictures will be posted for viewing on the MSG Varsity website.


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In a setback to Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi, the Supreme Court has upheld the appointment of a Lok Ayukta, the ombudsman for citizen complaints against public servants, by the governor, Kamla Beniwal.
The appointment, of R A Mehta, a retired high court judge, had become an issue of contention between the government and the governor. Modi's Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) had demanded the latter's removal.
However, on the day of the judgment, Mehta said the state government's attitude wouldn't be a hurdle. "I don't think (the) government's attitude will be a challenge," he told journalists. He declined to comment on when he would join the office, while welcoming the SC decision, Mehta said the appointment was made in consultation with the chief justice of the Gujarat High Court, whose recommendations were non-political.
Soon after the appointment in August last year, made without consulting the Modi government, the chief minister had challenged the governor's decision in the HC. And, national BJP leaders such as L K Advani, Sushma Swaraj and Arun Jaitley had met the country's then president, Pratibha Patil, to demand reversal of the decision.
Meanwhile, in Gandhinagar, the state government said it would implement the direction soon, after studying the order. "We will soon implement the Supreme Court judgment. The (court) has accepted the Gujarat government's contention that the governor has to act as per the advice of the council of ministers," said Bhupendrasinh Chudasama, law minister.
An SC bench of judges B S Chauhan and F M Ibrahim Kalifulla dismissed the Gujarat government's plea that the appointment was illegal as it was done without consulting the council of ministers. The bench held the governor was bound to act under the advice of the council but the appointment of Mehta was right as it was done in consultation with the chief justice of the high court. The SC also directed the removal of harsh remarks and language used against Modi in the final HC order on the issue.
The post of a Lok Ayukta had been vacant for eight years, with the government not moving on the matter. Finally, on August 25, 2011, the governor issued an order on Mehta's appointment.
The state government challenged it in the HC the same day, saying it was unilateral and unconstitutional. A two-judge bench gave a split verdict and the matter was referred to a third judge, V M Sahai. He had upheld the appointment and also criticised Chief Minister
Narendra Modi for having created a constitutional crisis. His order had said the governor had the discretionary power to make the appointment.
"This shows the double face of the BJP. They want a Lok Pal at the centre but oppose a Lok Ayukta in their party-ruled Gujarat. Their doublespeak on corruption is for all to see," said Rashid Alvi, spokesperson for the Congress party.
BJP leaders said their party would go through the SC judgement and it then issue a detailed response.
Gujarat Congress to push for Karnataka-like Lok Ayukta Act
Hailing the Supreme Court verdict on the appointment of the Gujarat Lok Ayukta, the Congress is now planning to propose amendments to the Lok Ayukta Act in the state. This move is aimed at strengthening the powers of the Lok Ayukta on the lines of the the one in Karnataka.
"We welcome the decision of the Supreme Court. We wish that the Lok Ayukta in Gujarat will be as powerful as that in Karnataka. We will make efforts to prove acts of corruption in Gujarat by the BJP ministers and hope that Lok Ayukta will punish them as we've seen in Karnataka," said Shankarsinh Vaghela, Congress MLA, at a media briefing in Ahmedabad on Wednesday.
He alleged the state government had deliberately delayed the appointment of Lok Ayukta in the state so as to avoid investigation in corruption related cases.
As per the Gujarat Lokayukta Act, the Lokayukta can investigate complaints not older than past five years.
"We will demand for an amendment in the existing Gujarat Lokayukta Act to make it stronger and equal to the one in Karnataka," said Shaktisinh Gohil, Congress leader and former leader of Opposition in state assembly.


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Editor's Note: This is the second installment in a partnership between the Athens Banner-Herald and the Seed and Plate, a Web-only publication started in 2013 covering food and farming and the vibrant community around it. In its own words: "From breath to bread, from seed to plate, we attempt to draw attention to the tangible, to the people, products and processes that sustain us and keep us."
"Everybody's looking for the Garden of Eden," says Lee Epting. "You're not gonna find it. But if you're lucky you'll get little glimpses of it."
For Epting, a master party-thrower and the founder of Epting Events, it's all about creating a memory and a feeling that his clients can keep for the rest of their lives. And this mentality, paired with a keen attention to aesthetics and genuine hospitality, is reflected from his business to his own kitchen table.
Epting has been catering unofficially since his time managing fraternity house kitchens in college. When people came into town, he would arrange a party.
"I didn't know it was called catering then," he chuckles as he checks on cornbread and country ham warming in the fireplace. "I started not cooking but giving parties, entertaining people. The whole essence of what we do now is making people happy. That's the business I went into."
These days, Epting Events throws at least one wedding every week and up to seven over a weekend in the spring. Many of these celebrations take place on Epting's own land, The Hill.
The Hill is only 4 miles outside of downtown Athens, but driving up the gravel path to what Epting calls his "orphanage for old homes" feels like another world.
For more than 40 years, Epting has cultivated and curated his property to pay homage to an era that has long since passed. The property was originally divided into the Phinizy and Gillian Plantations. When Epting's grandparents lost their Prince Avenue home after the Depression, they purchased the Gillian Plantation and moved out to the country.
"Thank goodness," Epting says, reflecting on his ancestors' move. To this day he feels a deep sense of relief to be coming home when he pulls onto the land.
The yellow house that Epting calls his home was hauled to The Hill from Williamston, S.C. It was a family home built in 1785. As he pieced the transported home together room by room, he saved the heart of the home, the kitchen, from an 1830's home from Athens. A small rock house out front was built in the 1920s by a grandson of the slave who originally inherited the Phinizy plantation, the half of the land that Epting first acquired. Everyone in the family has lived in that small house.
Epting is a man of full intention in every endeavor, a set designer and historian in many ways. At The Hill, he has crafted a space that honors the abundance of the South — from the region's handmade furniture and art that fill the houses to native fruit trees and a seasonal garden that dot the land. Even the structures themselves were collected from different Southern states and restored. The people who move out to The Hill appreciate dirt roads, and Epting is very protective of that.
He's creating a living museum, although he wouldn't want you to call it that. Nothing lingers on a shelf collecting dust. Each room has a sense of place, both in history and in the present. He uses the collection of artifacts and antiques that decorate his historical home to preserve an old way of life and to share it with a modern age.
As lunchtime approaches, Epting heats a cast iron pan on the stove, grinds a few pepper pods with a pestle and gingerly turns a piece of battered steak with a hand-carved wood-handled fork and knife.
"It gives me great pleasure to turn the meat with that fork. It's got a little style to it. It's got a story to it," he says. "I don't know if it tastes any better, but it just feels good."
Polished sterling silver and fine china are for everyday use in this home. This breathes new life into them. So do the people who come to share in Epting's own personal Eden.
"When [these homes were] built, it was a lonely time. We weren't industrialized, we weren't up north, we weren't cities," Epting says as he removes his worn gardener's hat. "You know, in the South we were rural. Plantation to plantation or just farm to farm was a long ways away, so when people came, you had to feed them."
Epting treasures the opportunity to bring people into his realm whom he would otherwise never meet. He never holds back when given the chance to share his life and resources with a passerby rumbling up the drive or with a bride and her groom on the day that means the most. He indulges in the chance for conversation and the ability to feed.
"No one wants to live exactly how I live," Epting says. "It's cold in [this house], and the smoke does get in, and the wind does blow through the place. No one wants to live that way all the time, but they love to experience that for just a little while."
A version of this story originally appeared at www.theseedandplate.com. The author can be reached at firstname.lastname@example.com.


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The extraordinary new novel in the number-one New York Times best-selling series.
A Japanese cargo ship cruises the eastern Atlantic near the Azores- when it bursts into flames. A gang of pirates speeds to take advantage of the disaster - when their boat explodes. What is happening in that part of the world? As Kurt Austin, Joe Zavala, and the rest of the NUMA(r) Special Assignments Team rush to investigate, they find themselves drawn into the extraordinary ambitions of an African dictator, the creation of a weapon of almost mythical power, and an unimaginably audacious plan to extort the world's major nations. Their penalty for refusal? The destruction of their greatest cities.
Filled with the high-stakes suspense and boundless invention unique to Cussler, Devil's Gate is one of the most thrilling novels yet from the grand master of adventure.
Check out more of the NUMA Files.
©2011 Clive Cussler (P)2011 Penguin
"Another five star!"
Definitely Yes. Story had many characters, much action, good plot development. Much back and forth between scenes / characters. Found myself "rewinding" to make sure I hadn't missed anything. Would eagerly listen to this book again now that I better understand the twists and turns in the plot. Could now listen continuously without having to occasionally "rewind."
Almost all of CC's books utilize a similar type of flash from one scene to another. Several characters appear in CC's books. Each set of characters has a small subplot related to the major plot.
Scott Brick is phenomenal in his portrayal of male, female, and foreign dialect voices. No problem ever identifying what role he is playing at any given moment.
The dramatic escape from the minisub and the utilization of the robot Rapunzel in this escape.
I NEVER hesitate to burn a credit for a CC book narrated by Scott Brick. I've NEVER been disappointed. Five star in all categories!!
Scott has a voice that has been tuned to the same frequency as Cussler... he has read a number of them, and now when I hear one he did not read, it takes me a while to start enjoying it..... Cussler and Brick, a number one combo!
"Frequent Listener"
I have to say that I have read or listened to over 12 of Clive Cusslers books, next to the Will Lee book "Chiefs", this is my second favorite book. Suspensful, well read and entertaining. No it isn't great literature, but it kept me interested and engaged. I was a little disappointed in "The Jungle", but this one made up for it.
"My style of story"
This book was exactly for my taste. Fast paced with lot of adventures. Strong characters. Cool mass destruction weapon, which was destructed by the end, of course. I don't know why I haven't read Cussler novels before, but I definitely will.
"good book clive classic"
clive gave this one a bit of everything danger romance intrigue comedy in true form
"Really Enjoyable"
I really enjoyed the presence of Dirk Pitt as Numa's director, and Sandecker. It makes sense. He SHOULD make appearances as director but is usually absent in the Kurt Austin books. I disliked how Kurt's hair was suddenly referred to as silver or gray where in all previous books they made it sound more sun-bleached white. There is a minor editing miss in the epilogue where it is stated twice that Gamay (SP) is sitting in a chaise longer, but overall the story flows really well.
"loved it"
a great novel. quick read with several unexpected turns in the story. couldn't wait to finish
"Typical Cussler."
Like his books so yes.
No surprised.
Always does an excellent job with Cussler's characters
There is always another one on the way.
Typical Cussler book, but some are getting far fetched.
"Another great Cussler book"
Great adventure, pretty clean book save some language. Love how his stories are combined with history !
"Clive at his best"
This one if the best books I have read in a while. Non stop action with humour and romance.easy to read and lives up tithe dirk Pitt starts.
"devils gate part 1"
Not one of Cusslers best, but still an interesting story. I have picked it up and put it down a few times. Not as gripping as some of his stories
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- Category: Administration and Budget, Board
- Topic: Authorization of ICANN meetings
- Board meeting date: 5 December 2004
- Resolution number: 04.98
- URL for Board minutes/resolution: http://www.icann.org/en/minutes/capetown-resolutions-1-05dec04.htm
- Status: Completed
Board authorizes President to make arrangements for the meetings in Vancouver, Canada, Wellington, New Zealand, and Marrakesh, Morocco.
Whereas, ICANN has received several proposals for hosting ICANN meetings to be held in North America in November-December 2005, in Asia Pacific in March 2006, and in Africa in June 2006.
Whereas, the proposals have been reviewed by ICANN staff and the Meetings Committee, which review has resulted in the following recommendation from the Committee:
Resolved (04.98) that the President is authorized to make arrangements for meetings in Vancouver, Canada (30 November to 4 December 2005), Wellington, New Zealand (27-31 March 2006), and Marrakesh, Morocco (26-30 June 2006).
Implementation Actions
- Make arrangements for specified meetings
- Responsible entity: ICANN Staff
- Due date: None specified
- Completion Date: 2006
Other Related Resolutions
Additional Information
- ICANN 2005 North America Meeting information can be found at: http://www.icann.org/en/meetings/vancouver/.
- ICANN 2006 Asia Pacific Meeting information can be found at: http://www.icann.org/en/meetings/wellington/.
- ICANN 2006 Africa Meeting information can be found at: http://www.icann.org/en/meetings/marrakech/.
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text: It's the quietest story in environmentalism. In less than a year, China went from a polluting megapower to an up-and-coming clean-tech contender that promises to outpace America. Both countries responded to the recession by authorizing big stimulus plans with significant green components: 34% of China's stimulus money was green, compared with just 12% of funds in the U.S. That's good for the world as the low-cost-manufacturing champion, China might be able to churn out enough solar panels and wind turbines at a price the rest of us will happily pay. And the green stimulus is a sign that China, after staying mostly silent on global warming for years, realizes that its old model of pollute then clean up simply isn't sustainable. For the U.S., however, China's gains may mean losses at home. A recent report by the Breakthrough Institute warned that the U.S. could be lapped by Asia in the clean-tech race.


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All quotes by Countee Cullen
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"The key to all strange things is in thy heart..../ My spirit has come home, that sailed the doubtful seas."
"The play is done, the crowds depart; and see / That twisted tortured thing hung from a tree, / Swart victim of a newer Calvary."
"[W]e have always resented the natural inclination of most white people to demand spirituals the moment it is known that a Negro is about to sing. So often the request has seemed to savor of the feeling that we could do this and this alone."
"There is no secret to success except hard work and getting something indefinable which we call the "breaks." In order for a writer to succeed, I suggest three things -- read and write -- and wait."
"For we must be one thing or the other, an asset or a liability, the sinew in your wing to help you soar, or the chain to bind you to earth."


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There were 94,184,000 Americans not participating in the labor force in September, a decline of 201,000 people from the previous month, according to data released by the Bureau of Labor Statistics on Friday.
The bureau counts those not in the labor force as people who do not have a job and did not actively seek one in the past four weeks.
The labor force participation rate, which is the percentage of the population that has a job or actively looked for one in the past month, increased from 62.8 percent in August to 62.9 percent in September.
The unemployment rate for all Americans increased to 5.0 percent after remaining steady at 4.9 percent in August. This measure does not account for those individuals who have dropped out of the labor force and simply measures the percent of those who did not have a job but actively sought one over the month.


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New pastor named for Dakota Wesleyan
Dakota Wesleyan University welcomes a new campus pastor this summer, the Rev. Eric Van Meter.
Van Meter comes to DWU from Arkansas State University, Paragould, Ark., where he served as campus pastor since 2007.
Van Meter is a graduate of Arkansas Tech University with a bachelor of arts degree in English, and Asbury Theological Seminary with a master of divinity.
At Arkansas State University, Van Meter served as campus pastor and helped grow and stabilize its campus ministry to a group that regularly trains and guides 50 to 70 young adults each year.
Prior to ASU, Van Meter served as the executive pastor at St. James United Methodist Church in Little Rock, Ark.
He will begin at DWU on July 1, succeeding former campus pastor Brandon Vetter, who will assume fulltime duties for Fusion on July 1.
— Source: DWU


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...negative colloidal ions in solution.Cationic detergents, which produce electrically positive ions in solution.Nonionic detergents, which produce electrically neutral colloidal particles in solution.Ampholytic, or amphoteric, detergents, which are capable of acting either as anionic or cationic detergents in solution depending on the pH (acidity or alkalinity) of the solution.
Ampholytic detergents are used for special purposes in shampoos, cosmetics, and in the electroplating industry. They are not consumed in large quantities at present.


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BT has launched a new service that can recommend restaurants, shops or things to do for Londoners using the BT Openzone Wi-Fi service.
Once users have registered their favourite foods, shops or activities with BT MyPlace, they can log onto the service for free from any BT Openzone Wi-Fi connection in Central London and the West End. BT MyPlace, which is being run in partnership with io global, will then recommend places to eat and visit based on their preferences and location.
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Dubbed a 'pocket concierge' by BT, the MyPlace service has content from TimeOut, Love Theatre, Kodak and even Westminster City Council. The service will be running for a trial period of six months, which will allow BT to gauge how popular it is with Londoners.
"This service will not only help people find their way around our city but also direct them towards local businesses that they otherwise would not have known about," said Leader of Westminster Council, Colin Barrow.
"Unlike a classic city guide, BT MyPlace is personalised to your interests and location," added Chris Bruce, general manager, BT Openzone.
See also: BT slashes business broadband prices


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By DEBORAH YETTER
Seeking to give his wife a break from their fussy newborn on that fateful night in 2010, Sam Hanke took their 3-week-old son, Charlie, and cuddled him on his chest while lying on the couch watching television.
Hanke and the infant fell asleep, but Charlie never woke up.
"When I woke up, he was gone," said Hanke, a pediatric cardiologist who lives in Northern Kentucky and works at Cincinnati Children's Hospital.
By MOLLY HAINES
Landmark News Service
Melvin Greene and his family have spent years building their business at craft shows across Kentucky and surrounding states. Now the family hopes to see others gain exposure through a local festival that's expected to draw hundreds of visitors to Owen County.
Greene's family business, Greene's Country Crafts, began as a small shop behind his residence about 18 years ago.
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Kentucky's male veterans should not miss the opportunity to get free prostate cancer screening at the Kentucky State Fair, which opens Thursday.
Heather French Henry, commissioner of the Kentucky Department of Veterans Affairs, has long been a strong advocate of prostate cancer screening for all men, and particularly veterans, a news release said.
By Cheyene Miller
University of Kentucky School of Journalism and Telecommunications
FANCY FARM, Ky. – The political speaking at this year's annual Fancy Farm Picnic featured the usual barbs traded between Kentucky politicians with the notable exception of the Republican candidate for governor.
Instead, Matt Bevin bemoaned the combative nature of the events and called for unity to solve the state's problems.
By Karla Ward
Lexington Herald-Leader
AT&T mobile customers and some customers of other wireless carriers were without cellphone service for hours Tuesday during an outage that affected Kentucky, Tennessee and parts of surrounding states.
Buddy Rogers, spokesman for the Kentucky Division of Emergency Management, said it was his understanding that the outage began when a fiber-optic cable was cut in Western Kentucky, near the Tennessee line.
The Obama administration on Monday announced a plan to further curb heat-trapping gases from the nation's power plants.
Already, supporters and opponents of the plan have been vocal.
Kentucky's Mitch McConnell, the Senate majority leader, has vowed to continue fighting the president on the plan saying it will have a huge negative impact on Kentucky's coal industry.
FRANKFORT – An innovative, joint project by Kentucky and Indiana to replace a deteriorating Ohio River bridge with minimal disruption of river navigation and cross-river traffic has been singled out for a prestigious transportation award.
By Terry DeMio
The Kentucky Enquirer
Needle-exchange programs could be set up in Boone, Campbell, Kenton and Grant counties – if city and county officials approve them.
The Population Health and Clinical Services committees of the Northern Kentucky District Board of Health are scheduled to meet Thursday to talk about protocols for syringe-exchange programs at its regional health centers.
Gov. Steve Beshear announced Tuesday that Kentucky will receive up to $3 million in federal grants over three years to provide expanded substance abuse treatment for opiate-dependent pregnant and postpartum women from the Bluegrass and Cumberland regions of the state.
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MANLY is set to become the Silicon Valley of Australia, if a group of local entrepreneurs have their way.
Darren Younger is the brains behind TechBeach, an initiative intended to cultivate information technology entrepreneurs on the northern beaches.
The initiative brings together a group of IT entrepreneurs, businesspeople with relevant expertise and investors to provide funds for new ideas.
The aim of the project is to encourage innovation and collaboration between top technical minds on the peninsula.
Mr Younger said he was aiming high with the project. He wanted the TechBeach project to put Manly, or Sydney as a whole, among the top five "start-up hot spots" in the world.
"We want to make a Silicon Valley. The ambition level is high," he said.
"I definitely think it's achievable. We definitely want Manly to be a major player."
Manly's business and tourist community would offer opportunities for new products to be tested, he said.
"Manly is an incredibly popular holiday spot which means new businesses will be able to test their ideas here, find out what works, what doesn't work," he said.
"They will be able to use the entire area and the people here, from holiday makers to business owners, as guinea pigs."
TechBeach is based at the new Manly Emporium co-working space, which is also an initiative of Mr Younger.
Manly's TechBeach initiative is looking for the next big thing in IT. AFP PHOTO / Kimihiro HOSHINO.
The initiative will be launched on Friday by NSW treasurer and Manly MP Mike Baird, who said the project could have a major impact on IT in the state and the country.
"If you combine Silicon Valley with the best place to live in the world, you get TechBeach," he said.
"It's a concept that I think could shape the tech future of NSW and Australia."
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Two of Miami-Dade County's top high school football teams -- Northwestern and Jackson -- are stocked with ineligible players who employ dubious addresses in order to attend and play for their schools. Numerous student athletes on both teams, which are among the best in the nation, claim to live within their schools' attendance boundaries, yet driver licenses and other public records indicate they actually live outside those boundaries and should be attending different schools. At least one player lives in Broward County. Another claims to live in a house that has been abandoned for more than two years. More than six players say they live at the same address, in a private home that functions as an elite football-training facility.
These improprieties and others documented in a New Times investigation will surprise absolutely no one who is familiar with high school sports in Miami-Dade's public schools. Despite tough talk in the wake of a recruiting scandal at Miami High School two years ago, district superintendent Roger Cuevas has failed to enforce state and local regulations that prohibit recruiting and unauthorized student transfers. The result: a form of institutionalized corruption that taints high school athletics throughout the system.
There is little doubt that many of the best teams in virtually every sport played at Miami-area high schools feature questionable recruits. Name the game and you'll find at least one school to which talented players are drawn like nails to a magnet, be it volleyball, wrestling, soccer, or even badminton (Jackson High's shuttlecock team hasn't lost a match in eight years). The recruitment of star athletes, traditionally a clandestine practice, became a public issue earlier this year, when former football coach Dennis Lavelle filed a lawsuit against Christopher Columbus High, claiming his principal ordered him to recruit student players. (Though Columbus is private, it competes against Miami-Dade's public schools and must abide by all their rules and regulations.)
An examination of any championship team would likely reveal violations of local and state rules. Jackson and Northwestern just happen to be in the spotlight. In football-crazy Florida, and in a county where local high schools have won the past three state titles and five championships since 1991, Jackson and Northwestern finished the regular season ranked numbers one and two in Miami-Dade. Northwestern is the defending state champ. Most visibly, Jackson and Northwestern play each year in the Soul Bowl, a regular-season game that draws more than 40,000 fans to the Orange Bowl and is celebrated for the sense of community it fosters in Miami's predominately black inner city, where both schools are located. The Miami Herald calls the Soul Bowl "the jewel of high school sports in Miami-Dade." Herald sports columnist Linda Robertson raved about the contest: "The Soul Bowl illustrates all that's right about the forgotten value of neighborhood, all that is wondrous about tradition, all that is inspiring about school spirit."
She might have added: It also illustrates just how pervasive cheating has become.
At this year's Soul Bowl, held in early November, a man named Fleurant "Frank" Gachelin stood on the Orange Bowl sidelines. He wore khaki pants, a green-and-yellow Jackson Generals pullover, and a green hat emblazoned with the General's team logo. He counseled players as they rested on the bench, spoke into the ears of coaches on the Jackson staff, and stood next to Jackson athletic director Jake Caldwell as they both watched the action on the field. At halftime he jogged into the locker room, part of the team.
Gachelin runs what he refers to as a "boarding school" for as many as fifteen of Jackson's finest athletes. In a sprawling compound located within the attendance boundaries of Northwestern High (in fact only a long field goal from the Northwestern campus), Gachelin drills the entire Jackson defensive line in weight training and aerobic exercises. He feeds them protein powder and muscle-building supplements. In a specially equipped TV room, he reviews with them endless hours of videotaped game footage as he tries to turn them into the best football players in the nation. The "operation" (as Gachelin calls it) has been great for Jackson and for the boys, but it violates a host of state and local regulations concerning recruiting, residency, and eligibility. Miami-Dade school officials have known about it for years, have even documented transgressions arising from it, and yet they have continued to allow Gachelin's operation
to churn out accomplished football players, all of whom attend Jackson.
Changing schools in order to play sports is so common in Miami that even devoted fans struggle to keep up with mutating team rosters. For example, Ronnie Jones, this year's starting quarterback at Jackson, is a transfer student from Northwestern. Northwestern's own starting quarterback is a transfer student from Miami Springs. Miami Central High's quarterback was the starter last year at Northwestern. A young fellow named Pierre Devoe is listed on Northwestern's varsity roster, provided by the school in response to a public-records request. Yet according to school district records, he actually attends Central.
Prior to the start of this year's season, the top three offensive stars at Miami Springs High moved to either Northwestern or Central. "If they would have stayed, we would be undefeated," grumbles Buddy Goins, Miami Springs's head coach. Instead the team finished the season 2-8.
Jumping from school to school is not supposed to be easy. All local public schools draw their students from a specific geographic area known as the school's attendance boundary. With few exceptions an athlete is allowed to change schools only when his parents or guardian move from an address inside one school's attendance boundary to an address inside another school's boundary. The rules, which were created to prevent teams from developing an unfair advantage by stockpiling athletic talent, are enforced at the state level by the Florida High School Activities Association (FHSAA), the 80-year-old, nonprofit organization that governs high school sports in Florida. Miami-Dade County Public Schools also has an enforcement arm, known as the Greater Miami Athletic Conference (GMAC).
According to records on file with the school district and obtained by New Times, ten Jackson High players claim to live within that school's attendance boundary, though their driver licenses or state identification cards indicate they reside outside the boundary. Sophomore Garrod Palmer is one example. According to school-district records, his home is a small house on NW 42nd Street, inside the Jackson attendance boundary. When New Times called in search of Palmer, the phone was handed to one Steve Johnson, who identified himself as Palmer's uncle. "He's not here right now," said Johnson. "He's down the street, probably chasing girls. I'll have him call you when he gets back." Palmer didn't call back, though the next day Steve Johnson did. He said Palmer has lived with him at the house near Jackson since the boy was eight years old. But Palmer's state ID card has him living with his father, mother, and grandmother in North Miami Beach, outside the Jackson attendance boundary. "He stays with his father [in North Miami Beach] on the weekends," Johnson explained. "He stays with me during the week." Johnson, however, is not registered with the school district as Palmer's guardian. Garrod's father, Vincent Palmer, further confused matters by insisting he lives full-time at the house near Jackson, not at the North Miami Beach address. "I only get my mail there," he said.
An additional twelve Jackson players provided the school district with home addresses that lie outside Jackson's attendance boundaries. According to those records, for example, Jackson quarterback Ronnie Jones lives within the attendance boundaries of rival Northwestern, and wide receiver Luther Huggins should be attending Carol City High in North Miami-Dade. District records also show that none of the dozen players received administrative transfers or participate in magnet programs, the most common ways to transfer without physically moving to a new address. New Times submitted the names of these players to Jackson athletic director Jake Caldwell and asked for an explanation. He declined to provide one.
A similar situation exists at Northwestern. Tramyne Chappelle is a Northwestern football player whose address in school-district records matches a house located within eyesight of Carol City High. Thanks to an administrative transfer from Carol City, Chappelle now attends Northwestern. But his driver license, issued earlier this year, has him living in Miramar, in Broward County, at a lakefront house where his mother and father claim a homestead exemption, registering it as their full-time residence. "He lives here," said his mother, Esther Chappelle, when reached by phone at the Miramar house. "He's my son." The house near Carol City High is owned by Chappelle's grandfather.
The driver license of Northwestern senior defensive back Tyrone Collins indicates that he lives in Opa-locka, outside the school's attendance boundary. According to school-district records, though, he lives inside Northwestern's boundaries but in an abandoned house with broken and boarded-up windows. A faded sign advertises "rooms for rent" and lists a phone number. "Somebody told you they live there?" asked property owner Amos Larkins when reached by phone. "Unh uh, baby. Nobody's lived there for years. Somebody's pulling your leg."
Northwestern sophomore Quintell Williams lives with his guardian, Louise Watkins, and her husband in a house on NW 42nd Street, outside the Bulls' attendance boundaries -- at least according to his Florida driver license, which was issued only three months ago. School-district records, however, have him living inside the Northwestern attendance boundary at a dreary public-housing unit located on Martin Luther King Boulevard in Liberty City. "Who?" asked the elderly woman who lives in the unit. "Quintell Williams? I've never heard of anyone by that name."
Across MLK Boulevard a few doors east of the housing project is the home of senior nose guard Issa Gary, according to school records. The building is a small shack covered by a tarpaper roof and decorated with peeling blue paint. Next door is an empty lot littered with twenty abandoned automobiles. Hardly the place one would expect to find the son of Howard Gary, former Miami city manager, prosperous bond dealer, and a key figure in recent corruption scandals at the city and county. Yet this house, owned by Issa's aunt, Rosalie Simms, is where he claims to reside. He wasn't there when New Times paid a recent visit, though Simms was and said Issa would call when he returned. He didn't, but his mother did the next morning. Antonia Williams-Gary, divorced from Howard Gary and living in Belle Meade, insists her son lives with Simms, even though the boy's driver license indicates he lives with his father on the fifth floor of the Charter Club, a waterfront condominium north of downtown Miami.
Ten different Northwestern players provided the school district with addresses that differ from those on their driver licenses. An additional eleven provided addresses outside Northwestern's boundaries. Athletic director Gregory Killings did not respond to queries seeking an explanation as to how those eleven football players could be enrolled at Northwestern.
"Look at that penetration! Isn't that beautiful? I tell you, that is football!" shouts Frank Gachelin as he leads his Jackson players through a film session the morning of the Soul Bowl, in early November. He is in the living room of his home on NW Tenth Avenue and 75th Street, watching videos on a big-screen television. "That is what football is all about. We control the line of scrimmage, we win the game."
He is speaking to seven very large young men, all of whom say they live at this address. Although the house is located close enough to Northwestern that the rival school can be seen from the front yard, all the students attend and play for Jackson. "It's all about heart, about how bad you want it," Gachelin chants. "We have size, speed, and strength over Northwestern. That's how we'll beat them tonight."
The video is an old NFL propaganda film called Magnificent Elevens, a "crunch course" in great defensive teams of the past. Gachelin's big screen showcases Art Donovan, Gino Marchetti, and other former Baltimore Colts. "See how you play the run?" he asks, pointing at Jackson senior defensive end Quincy Brown. "If you know it's a run, you cannot go upfield." Brown, resting his stockinged feet on a coffee table, nods silently. Gachelin rewinds to show the play again. "Now watch this again," he says. "Wait to watch what the man does. This is going to happen to you tonight. I guarantee you'll see that play at least three times tonight. I guarantee."
Three players squeeze onto a green-leather couch. Sophomore linebacker Elvis Dumervil swivels in an old office chair. Dave Bernard, known as Little Sapp for his resemblance to former University of Miami linebacker Warren Sapp, lounges behind the coffee table, which is littered with football recruiting brochures from the University of Maryland and Boston College. All stare silently at the screen. No one talks. No one smiles.
"Look at that sack!" roars Gachelin as Art Donovan throws down a quarterback. Gachelin hits the rewind button. "Watch it again, Quincy, watch it again. He tilted like he was going to go inside but he goes outside. Did you see that, Quincy? I want to see that play tonight. That exact play."
Gachelin is a 39-year-old former Marine whose family hails from Haiti. He is compact and athletic looking in green shorts and a gray T-shirt featuring the Jackson Generals logo. He describes himself as a volunteer coach of the school's football team. And though he says he isn't paid a penny by the school, since 1997 the training of Jackson's best athletes has been his full-time occupation.
A rush by Gino Marchetti catches his eyes. He rewinds the tape so defensive tackle Tirolia Brechenair can study the play again. "I want to see that tonight, Tirolia," he says excitedly. "Hey, you get $50 if I see that play. You do that play for me one, no two times, and you get $50. I promise you."
Gachelin delivers this comment in the presence of a New Times reporter he has invited into the house to witness the film session. If he is aware that FHSAA rules prohibit giving a student athlete anything of value, much less cash, he acts unconcerned. Maybe that's because a cash handout would be among the least of his violations.
"I think of this as a boarding school," he says when the tape ends and his players scurry into the kitchen for a breakfast of oatmeal and bananas. "The whole defensive line lives here in a [guest cottage]. I've also got a couple of rooms in the main house, so there are five rooms altogether arranged for the guys. This is a place where we can train them, keep them out of trouble, and coach them away from school [after regular team practices have concluded]."
A tour of his operation commences at a large outdoor gymnasium located beside the main house, covered by an aluminum awning. His hand glides over a metal bar, part of a jungle of weight benches, pulldown machines, Smith squat machines, and rows of dumbbells in seriously high poundage. Beyond the benches red lights blink on a StairMaster machine. A chart taped to an outdoor wall lists some of the players who worked out here over the summer: James, Kool, Nappo, and Dave, and three Jackson players who graduated last year: his son Louis Gachelin, Curry Burns, and Carl Pierre. (All three are attending Division I colleges on football scholarships.) Each player's goals are posted. Louis Gachelin, for example, aimed to bench-press 405 pounds ten times and squat 500 pounds fifteen times -- extraordinarily ambitious targets. A nearby calendar breaks down the workout schedule by date: 28: Legs, Pool; 29: Back; 30: Chest; 1: Legs, Biceps and Stairs; 2: Basketball. "We mix it up," Gachelin explains. "There is no point in getting big and strong if you can't run."
The gym equipment spills out onto a large lawn, where senior linebacker James Dumervil has parked the used Mercedes he drives. The shell of what Gachelin hopes will soon be a working hot tub waits nearby. Gachelin considers the yard one of the best features of his compound. According to state and local rules that govern athletics, "you can only practice a certain number of months a year," he notes. "With a yard this big, we can run plays year-round."
Looming over the yard is the "Backhouse," a boxy guest cottage that acts as a kind of cabana for the young football players, who call themselves the Backhouse Boys. The cottage features a common room with two leather couches, a telephone, and a TV connected to a Nintendo 64 game. Partially empty plastic bottles of soda rest on an end table in front of a San Francisco 49ers Jerry Rice growth chart. Two half-eaten boxes of Entenmann's chocolate cake mold on the TV console, near an introductory French textbook. On a door to a back room, someone has sketched eight of the Backhouse Boys, penciled depictions of Julius, James, Curry, and others, all in uniform. Although Gachelin's facility caters primarily to football players, two of the Backhouse Boys are not on the football team; one plays chess, and the other is a member of Jackson's track team.
James Dumervil, the best football player of the bunch, has his own room in the Backhouse, just off the common area, which is fully furnished and personalized with posters. Another bedroom, which doesn't belong to anyone in particular, contains two bunk beds with clothes strewn on all four mattresses. An old comforter covers a doorway connecting the room to an unused and dirty shower, toilet, and kitchen area.
FHSAA rules prohibit anyone from providing room and board to a student athlete. It's also illegal to promise to help students obtain college scholarships, which Gachelin says is his fundamental aim. When asked about the rules he appears to be violating, Gachelin acts unconcerned: "I don't see how they can say I'm doing anything wrong when I have a license to be doing this."
License is an inaccurate term. Gachelin has no license, though he does serve as president of the African-American Student Association, a nonprofit corporation he registered with the state in 1994. The association has not been approved by the state or the county or anyone else to operate a boarding school or anything remotely resembling one. "African-American is a nonprofit organization working with kids at risk," he says. "We work with them physically, mentally, and academically. My wife is a schoolteacher who tutors them for the SAT. That's the reason why I'm on the sidelines. I'm a coach yet I'm not a coach. I don't get a salary from Jackson, so I'm not a coach. What I do here is I'm coaching these guys for life."
By choice Gachelin does not receive money from and is not affiliated with any state or local social-service agencies. If he were associated with a formal organization, he'd likely have to meet minimum standards for safety and health, among other requirements. "If I was working for [the state Department of Children and Families], or if DCF was paying me," he says, "they'd have their right to come here and tell me, 'I want you to do this, I want you to do that.'"
Gachelin says he did explore the possibility of setting himself up as a foster-care home, but abandoned the idea after he learned he could not pick and choose the youths with whom he worked. He also discovered he couldn't become a foster parent to his current players, most of whom have at least one parent with a home and a full-time job. "If I got foster kids, then I'd have to send these kids here home," he shrugs, "and I don't want to do that."
So he continues to run an unlicensed, unregulated, informal operation that seems to be designed for talented young football players. He says he's training the kids for life, and arguably he is doing just that. But the training consists primarily of football workouts, weightlifting, and film reviews. His boarders refer to him as a coach. "Absolutely," declares James Dumervil, one of the top high school defensive line prospects in America. "That's exactly what he is."
Gachelin claims to have no income besides that provided by his wife, a public school teacher. On that income he says he can support his two grade-school children, his wife, himself, and as many as fifteen big, growing, teenage boys. He manages by scrimping and saving here and there. His mother, Bernadette Desrosier, confirms his claim. "I needed a battery for my car," she relates. "He said he couldn't help me because we want [to buy] some vitamins for the kids. I was mad at him. Afterward I realized that [the vitamins] were needed, and I went to my other son and he give me that battery. [Frank has] got the love of God."
Nearly two years ago, New Times published an exposé about the Miami Senior High School boys basketball program ("Dream Team," March 5, 1998). Players on the nationally ranked Stingarees squad used fake addresses supplied by Miami High employees and team boosters to enroll at the historic school, located on Flagler Street in Little Havana. One star player really lived in suburban comfort in Miami Lakes. Another lived in Broward County.
The article prompted a major FHSAA investigation that ultimately resulted in the team being stripped of its 1998 state championship. More violations were uncovered on the school's excellent baseball and boys soccer teams. Several players were permanently banned from playing for Miami High, and the school was assessed more than $7000 in fines and expenses. The FHSAA's president at the time was Ron Davis, who observed, "This is one of the most, if not the most, blatant violations of FHSAA rules against recruiting I have encountered."
Chagrined local school officials promised a crackdown on enrollment skullduggery. "We are going to clean up Dade public-school athletics, and notice has been served," said deputy superintendent Henry Fraind. "Any coach, assistant, or athletic director found to have a part in recruiting or any other such violation will be immediately terminated from their supplementary position in athletics. We will win championships in a rightful manner, or we won't win them at all. Coaches must again learn to coach with their own athletes."
Today, however, those sanctimonious vows ring empty. Recruiting and attracting transfer students remain essential ingredients in the formula for success in high school athletics. "It didn't even slow down," says Buddy Goins, head football coach at Miami Springs High. "In fact it looks like it's picked up." Investigations by the Greater Miami Athletic Conference are far from proactive; they are usually instigated only after embarrassing publicity, such as the Miami High exposé or the lawsuit filed against Columbus High. And the punishments assessed, if any, are often less onerous than a delay of game penalty. As one local high school athletic director puts it: "The disincentive to cheat is very, very small."
Superintendent Roger Cuevas turned down requests to be interviewed for this article. School district deputy superintendent Henry Fraind refused to allow interviews with GMAC head Fred Rodgers or with Wayne Story, the GMAC's executive secretary. (Following the publication of "Dream Team," Story acknowledged that Fraind had forbidden him from ever speaking to New Times.) That leaves only Fraind to comment, and as usual, it's tough talk. "This is the one thing that brings out the ire in our superintendent," Fraind says earnestly. "This whole thing, reading about it, he cannot stand it. He can't stand to hear the word even, recruiting. There is a standing directive from this office that anyone found violating the premise of 'Just let the young person participate by the rules' -- anything other than that, he will take swift, hard action. We don't want to tolerate this nonsense. And frankly we're tired of hearing about it."
Veteran school board member Holmes Braddock cuts Cuevas some slack. He says it isn't possible for the GMAC to verify the home address of every player on every sports team. It's not even reasonable for a school principal to do that much, he contends. Even though cheating in local high school athletic programs is pervasive and blatant, Cuevas and the GMAC can only act when they are informed of a specific violation. "The question is, if it's reported, is anything really done about it?" Braddock says. "That is the key question: When it is being brought to the attention of the powers that be, is something really being done?"
Not in the case of Frank Gachelin and Jackson High School.
The big house on the Gachelin compound maintains the clubby feel of the Backhouse. In the garage are arranged crates of bananas, peanut butter, mayonnaise, oatmeal, and other foods, including cases of Zone Force energy drink. White buckets in the kitchen hold enormous supplies of whey protein, creatine, and other supplements. "That's what's great about this place," Gachelin boasts. "In school you can't give a kid an aspirin, but here we give them vitamins, protein, creatine. We know how to make them healthy. They get better food over here. We watch a lot of game films on the TV over here. It gives us an edge, and that's why they like it here."
The dominant piece of furniture is a pool table, located in the main room. A giant stereo system is fed a regular supply of rap-music CDs. Several of the electric guitars Gachelin plays sit near a trophy case that houses game balls won by Louis Gachelin and James Dumervil. There's also a plaque awarded to Frank Gachelin in 1997: "In appreciation for your significant contribution to the Miami Jackson Senior High football program."
All the players Gachelin works with attend Jackson. "If I tell my kids this is the school you are going to, [then] this is the school you are going to," he says of his decision to turn down offers to transfer his kids to Northwestern or Miami Central. He claims he has been promised more than $25,000 by alumni to steer his athletes to one of these schools. "I could probably get more if I wanted to," he adds. "But when a guy gives me money, he owns me. You got to go by his rules, and I'm not going to do that. The best way to fight the devil is to stay away from the devil, you know what I'm saying? You keep your money to yourself, and I'll keep my players to me."
Just three years ago, none of his players attended Jackson. Gachelin and his mother owned a house in Opa-locka, within the attendance boundaries of Hialeah-Miami Lakes Senior High. Trophies in a case at the current compound recognize both James Dumervil and Louis Gachelin as the most outstanding male athletes in their respective classes at that school. But prior to the start of the 1997-1998 school year, the entire operation moved from Hialeah-Miami Lakes to Jackson. "I left Miami Lakes because I didn't get along with the coach," Gachelin recounts. "He didn't do what I wanted him to do. He didn't have the kids' best interests at heart."
The mass transfer prompted an investigation by both the FHSAA and the Greater Miami Athletic Conference. The investigation centered on Gachelin and Alex Armenteros, who in June 1997 quit his job as head track coach at Hialeah-Miami Lakes to become head track coach at Jackson. Soon after he quit, Hialeah-Miami Lakes staff members began complaining that Armenteros was attempting to recruit their athletes to his new school. Seven students made the switch. Five of them were members of Gachelin's crew, and they now form the core of Jackson's outstanding football team.
Shifting his allegiance wasn't easy for Gachelin. Athletes hoping to change schools sometimes enroll in a magnet program offered by the school they want to attend, for example the education magnet at Miami High or the computer science and technology magnet at Central. (Using an academic magnet as a subterfuge for athletic recruiting is expressly forbidden, though it's rarely, if ever, enforced.) Gachelin first attempted to transfer some of his players into Jackson's Reserve Officers' Training Corps (ROTC) magnet, but the effort was rebuffed by the Hialeah-Miami Lakes principal because his school has its own ROTC program. Eventually Gachelin rented from a friend a second home inside the Jackson attendance boundary, and all his players claimed to move there from Opa-locka. In a final report closing out his investigation of the transfer, the FHSAA's Ron Allen expressed doubts about whether Gachelin and the players ever fully moved to the new Jackson-area home. Among his findings:
Before the transfer to Jackson, Gachelin sought to become a Hialeah-Miami Lakes assistant football coach but was not given the job. Soon after the transfer, Gachelin was listed in the county coaches directory as a Jackson coach.
Hialeah-Miami Lakes student Keith Cowin, when interviewed, stated that "Mr. Gachelin told him that Miami Jackson Senior High School would have a good team, possibly a championship team, and that was the place to be. Mr. Gachelin also stated, allegedly, that Miami Jackson Senior High School had a special magnet program in which he [Cowin] could be placed."
Two other Hialeah-Miami Lakes students who lived near Gachelin's Opa-locka house insisted Gachelin's players continued to live in Opa-locka.
A social worker paying a Sunday-evening visit found Frank Gachelin at the Opa-locka house. He said he only lives there on weekends and that during the week he lives in the Jackson district. Gachelin's youngest son continued to attend a grade school located two blocks from the Opa-locka house.
"It is interesting to note," Allen wrote, "that student Curry Burns's guardian is listed as a Ms. Esperanta Burns, but the address of record [with the school district] is" Gachelin's new address inside the Jackson attendance boundary.
Despite all this documentation, Allen did not find overwhelming evidence of recruiting violations. Or more precisely, none that he could enforce. He specifically cited a loophole that existed in FHSAA rules at the time: "A student shall be eligible in the school in which he/she first enrolls each school year...." Because the transfer students were enrolled in Jackson, they were allowed to attend and play for Jackson.
And so the onus shifted to Cuevas and his subordinates at the GMAC, who now faced several troubling questions: How were these student athletes allowed to enroll at Jackson? Is the Jackson ROTC magnet being abused for athletic purposes? How can one man and his young children live at two addresses? How can student Curry Burns claim to live at the Gachelin compound when his legal guardian lives elsewhere? And isn't it curious that several of the best athletes in the county all claim to live with a person described by Ron Allen as "a 'want-to-be' coach?"
Not one of those questions has been answered. Following the investigations the GMAC merely placed Jackson's athletic program on probation for one year, and reprimanded track coach Alex Armenteros. The school also was fined $500.
With the infusion of Gachelin-trained football players, the Jackson Generals improved their record from 2-7 in 1996 to 8-3 in 1997-1998. The Soul Bowl blossomed from a small rivalry that couldn't fill a 12,000-seat community stadium into an Orange Bowl showdown that has generated for Jackson more than $500,000 in profits from ticket sales since the Gachelin transfer.
Jackson principal Louis Allen did not return phone calls seeking comment. Neither did Northwestern athletic director Gregory Killings. In a written response, Northwestern principal Steve Gallon directed all questions to Henry Fraind. Only Jackson athletic director Jake Caldwell defended his school's football program. At least initially. "All my kids are eligible at Jackson," he said during a brief telephone interview. "I don't know why you're looking at our program." But when asked about Frank Gachelin's relationship to the Jackson football team, Caldwell suddenly clammed up. "I have no comment," he said. "I have no comment on anything you're working on."
There is little question that Gachelin's training program is good for the kids lucky enough to part of it. "He's the best thing that ever happened to me," James Dumervil says of Gachelin. The star player and his brother have been involved with Gachelin since they were toddlers. "I owe him everything. Without him I would be nothing."
"He's like a, how do you say it, like a mentor," adds Rosalie Thanis of the relationship between Gachelin and her son Napoleon. "He has been very positive in my son's life. He's raised his self-esteem quite a bit. And his grades have improved a lot, from a 1.3 to a 2.3."
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Thanis says she and Gachelin attend Tabernacle Church on 76th Street and NE Second Avenue, and that Gachelin has known Napoleon for most of the boy's life. "Frank is a charmer," she says. "He told me he wanted Napoleon to be with other boys. [Napoleon] lives over there during the week, and he lives with me on the weekends." Thanis owns a house outside the attendance boundaries of both Jackson and Northwestern, and she remains her son's legal guardian.
According to school-district records, Napoleon lives full-time at the Gachelin compound near Northwestern High School. Gachelin bought the property a year ago. "I moved from Opa-locka because [the principal and athletic director at Hialeah-Miami Lakes] were giving me heat about still living in the Hialeah-Miami Lakes district," he says. Parents in his Northwestern neighborhood call him a traitor for feeding his players to Jackson. Little kids walk by the compound with their pinkies and index fingers extended in the sign of the Northwestern Bulls.
"If the school system says, 'You know, Mr. Gachelin, you have to send your kids to Northwestern,' I will move," he asserts emphatically. "I will find another place by Jackson. I will take my whole operation somewhere else, into the inner city. Because I have to. I refuse to go to Northwestern."
Both Jackson and Northwestern lost in the first round of this year's state championship playoffs, falling last week in major upsets to Columbus and Miami Southridge High respectively. Almost as soon as the Generals lost, Gachelin began preparing for next season. At a public auction he purchased yet more weightlifting equipment, including four additional expensive StairMaster machines. And with James Dumervil and the other seniors about to graduate to the college game, he's keeping his eyes peeled for a few new lucky recruits. "Once we get a player into college, we replace them in the operation," Gachelin says. "As their bed is empty, believe me, it's filled as soon as he is gone. Last year we had a different crop of players. Next year we'll have a whole other different crop. They are all going to be big stars."


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Even though his scoreless run ended rather abruptly, it could've been much worse for the 25-year-old rookie. Luetge allowed the first three batters of the sixth inning to reach base before inducing a double play and a strikeout to get out of the frame, only allowing one run to score.
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Allen West, a Tea Party congressman from Florida who supported "don't ask, don't tell" but opposes antidiscrimination laws, conceded defeat Tuesday to his Democratic challenger, Patrick Murphy.
West announced that he would not take further actions to contest the outcome of the closely watched election after nearly two weeks of battle. The incumbent acknolwedged that "he couldn't surmount his 1,904-vote, or 0.58 percent, deficit," according to Politico. The difference put West just outside the 0.5 percent threshold that automatically triggers a recount of all votes.
"For two weeks since Election Day, we have been working to ensure every vote is counted accurately and fairly," said West, Politico reported. "We have made progress towards that goal, thanks to the dedication of our supporters and their unrelenting efforts to protect the integrity of the democratic process. While many questions remain unanswered, today I am announcing that I will take no further action to contest the outcome of this election."
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- On Thu, 02 Jul 2009 08:04:46 +0900, panovrx <panovrx@...> wrote:
> --- In firstname.lastname@example.com, "panovrx" <panovrx@...> wrote:Wow! Very impressive demonstration of concept. Beautiful spot for panoramas
>> > I have made a two handed camera grip for use with my laser plum bob
>> (and general overhead handheld use)
>> > http://www.mediavr.com/lasergrip.jpg
>> >
>> > The idea is you stand a little behind the laser pointer (so your
>> stomach doesnt obstruct the beam -- motivation to not get fat) and hold
>> the camera overhead so that the beam goes between your arms and hits
>> the underneath of the lens. It is easy to find the beam because you are
>> holding the camera symmetrically. It is possible to hold the beam on
>> the required spot without too much effort to within a few mm. But you
>> have to keep looking at it really to keep it there. So not ideal but
>> pretty good for very accurate stitching with just a handheld grip and a
>> laser gadget. You can take sharp shots with it down to about 1/50th.
>> >
> I did some tests yesterday (at a local Chinese Garden) with the laser
> plumbbob (Dewalt)and two handed camera grip. You can see from my shadow
> in a couple of them what's going on. There were a couple of issues but
> generally the stitchability was very good for handheld panoramas. First
> issue, hard to see the laser dot on the underneath of the lens when
> looking into the sun. Second issue, I had put the laser in a camera bag
> (so it didnt look conspicuous), and as the breeze blew it made the bag
> move and the laser swing. Indoors, with no wind, if you concentrate hard
> you can keep the dot right where it should be and get almost perfect
> stitching but outdoors it is harder to do that. Here are the panoramas
> straight as they came out of PTGui without retouching or nadir shot
> incorporation.
> http://www.mediavr.com/flash/chinagarden2.htm
> http://www.mediavr.com/flash/chinagarden4.htm
> http://www.mediavr.com/flash/chinagarden5.htm
and amazing results without either retouching or nadir fixing.
I was letting alll this "laser this and that" go past me, thinking all
the while "not for me..." but now I think I'll have to check it out.
Especially as I prefer handheld to monopod and monopod to tripod. I
guess it would be more difficult for panoramas that require more shots
to square the circle--like the 10.5mm Nikor on my Fujifilm S5 Pro,
which requires six around plus up and/or down...
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IT is the TV show that has seen celebrities take the plunge.
Splash!, which stars Olympic bronze medallist Tom Daley, has seen well known faces dive their way into the hearts of the nation.
Dom Joly, Hampshire-born Sky Sports News presenter Charlotte Jackson and model Caprice have starred in the diving show, which has seen more than five million viewers tune in on Saturday nights.
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She said: "Diving is red hot at the moment, we have had more enquiries and adults are inspired by the show to come along and try a taster session.
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"The problem is that if you put people in the pool that have no knowledge or background of the sport then it can be dangerous, we don't want people to copy extravagant dives they are not ready for," she said.
More than 500 people dive at The Quays in clubs, ranging from six-year-olds to the oldest aged 69, and thanks to the success of Splash! there is a waiting list of people hoping to take up classes.
They dive and perform somersaults and tricks from springboard to platforms up to 10m high – the equivalent height of two giraffes.
One diver who tried a taster session in Southampton is now on the cusp of international success.
Max Brick, 20, tried a taster session when he was ten years old. Since then he has gone on to Commonwealth Games glory in 2009 and missed out on the 2012 Olympics only because of an injury.
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