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Mr. TONKO. This evening we are going to address for the coming hour with a couple of our colleagues the issues of affordable health care and the fact that we see a pattern here that's established by the House that seems to walk away from the needs of a middle class, a working class in this society. Our country depends upon a thriving middle class, one that is given the respect and the dignity it so much deserves. And with the attacks on Social Security with its 76-year old history and the efforts to privatize Social Security, we understand that that would put at risk a number of people.
Not a single cent of Social Security was lost to its recipients during the very painful recession. And likewise, in the mid-sixties we saw the emergence of Medicare, which allowed for, again, the dignity factor to be presented and found in the midst of our senior households where, at that point in time, prior to Medicare, those who would retire would anticipate a decline in their income and their economic security simply because of the impact that their health care costs would have on their retirement years. Since then, not only have we seen a stronger sense of security and stability in those senior households, but we have seen a strengthening of the response to the health care needs of our seniors because of the stability that Medicare produced and the quality of the care that has been part and parcel to the Medicare history.
And so now, in its infancy, the Affordable Care Act is under threats with the repeal measure that was just taken on this House floor to undo the progress that was achieved for, again, America's health care consumers. It is a troubling notion, at best. This hour of discussion will be dedicated to the concerns that we have for the economic ripple effects that befall the middle class, which needs to be a thriving middle class, and the impact of several of these attacks that seem to undermine the very foundations upon which security is provided to America's great populations.
So we're concerned. We're concerned about that repeal and what it means, what is removed from the equation of success that was brought about a couple of years ago as we worked in a bipartisan, bicameral way with the White House to make certain that a growing need out there that found this country as the only industrialized nation to not have a universal health care program, when that is put at risk again because of the efforts to repeal.
We are joined by my colleague from California, Representative John Garamendi.
JOHN, you witnessed this vote just now to repeal health care. The Affordable Care Act was providing hope and opportunity and promise to all generations in this American mosaic. It is a tragic moment.
Mr. TONKO. Absolutely. We, I know, are joined by some of our colleagues. But if you want to go through your chart.
Mr. TONKO. And interestingly, Representative Garamendi, we've been reminded I think by the general public that the legislature, the legislative body here, Congress, took up the bill. They passed it. It went over to the President. He signed it. The highest court in the land, a conservative-leaning court, reviewed it, made their decision and rendered a decision that said it met with constitutionality.
People are saying go forward. Move on. Get to the issues that now have got to be resolved, and that is the economy, creating the jobs, producing the post-recession responsiveness that people so much require and deserve, and that's where they're at.
We've been joined by Representative Eleanor Holmes Norton who has joined us.
Representative, thank you for joining us in the Special Order.
Mr. TONKO. Thank you, Representative HOLMES NORTON.
You know, you talk about the struggle and the move to repeal. It obviously didn't place consumers first and foremost in that thought process. It was probably listening to those deep pockets of interest that did not want to be pulled to the table to provide better outcomes for our consumers.
Look at the benefits of the health care law for our seniors: 5.1 million seniors receiving savings on their prescription drugs. Actually, I've seen this number as high as 5.3 million, and probably climbing in the short order of time. What an important, significant savings. I hear it all the time from seniors in my district who are always reaching into their pockets after that doughnut hole is hit, and they get the benefit for a while until they hit a certain threshold. As we all know, many, in a short order of months, are digging into their own pockets. These are medications that are required to stay well, and in many cases to stay alive.
There are 32.5 million seniors receiving free preventative services--health care screenings, the annual checkup, flu shots--items that are brought to their benefit in order to, again, underscore the value added of wellness. Strengthening consumer protections for seniors in the part D program, something I heard a lot of favorable review about, and 85 percent of Medicare Advantage plan revenues going toward senior medical care rather than profits for the insurance industry.
So these are big changes. These are changes that were welcomed by the senior community. I can tell you, if you close that doughnut hole by the year 2020, as the Affordable Care Act is to do, you're providing a major benefit for seniors, with the advancement of pharmaceuticals that speak to all sorts of illnesses. This is a wonderful opportunity for them to understand the attachment that is essential.
I heard of far too many people adjusting their dosages of medications to balance their family's budgets. That is not the best outcome for health care. This advances sound decisionmaking, efficiencies, the best use, the wisest use of resources and, again, speaking to the dignity factor of our country's senior citizens.
Representative Marcy Kaptur from Ohio, a great Representative, a strong voice for consumers in this House, thank you for joining Representative Garamendi and me. It's great to have you here. I know that you're hearing a lot in the State of Ohio.
Mr. TONKO. Thank you, Representative Kaptur. Please feel free to share more information with us. The anecdotal evidence that you provide from your region alone speaks to the empowerment that is part of this transition, this progressive policy.
And to now attempt to repeal, just as you've given people the sense of hope that there will be a doable outcome, that they won't have to cut medication in half so that they could have enough money to do all the other items that are required of them, to pay utility bills, or to afford to eat for that given month--the fact that they would cut their medication in half is not a sound thing. They're spending money, and it's probably ineffective.
And so tethering people to a system that is sound and secure. You know, when people say, well, I don't want to pay for someone's insurance, I don't want to pay for this health care program. You're paying today through premiums and through taxes. You're paying for the worst sort of outcome by putting people into emergency rooms and having them visit with a different doctor each time they visit and not having the stability and the standardized outcome that is predictable and effective and efficient.
These are the dynamics that are driven by the soundness of a policy like this, that, yes, will take investment, but will get far greater bang for the buck than what we're getting today with a haphazard sort of response that does not provide continuity or direction or
standardization or predictability and certainty. We will be far better off and a much more compassionate response is rendered.
From a taxpayer perspective, from a consumer perspective, it's a far greater, stronger, more intelligent outcome; and it speaks to, I think, the core fabric of this wonderful country that we do truly care. And this is a way to show it and still be economically sounder in our attempts.
Thank you for sharing the anecdotal evidence.
Representative Garamendi, you and I have done a number of these Special Orders on this House floor, and I find it fascinating to see what the response is out there from the public, who always call to engage and get more information. And so the fact that we can provide more information on what is included in the Affordable Care Act, I think, is a good opportunity here.
And I know you always have a lot to say and a lot to share, and your walk in your professional life as insurance commissioner was an important bit of strength for all of us in the caucus.
Mr. TONKO. The gentleman from California speaks of the Medicare Advantage programs. Obviously, they came about because there were those who suggested they could do it cheaper. Give us a special model out there and launch it as a pilot, and we'll show you how we can do this special programming and give us a return.
After reviewing now what is the history of all of that, it was deemed that there were overpayments of anywhere from 10 to 14 percent. So the dollars were slid over to programs like filling the doughnut hole and providing for screenings for our seniors, not taking it away from a category of health care consumers--in this case, an age demographic of seniors--but taking those savings, as we sweep those savings, and then reinvesting them in a way that provides balance and more sensitivity for the consumer rather than having record profits developed for an industry. To me, that was progressive policy. And for people to then take those savings and use them in their own budget presentations for other purposes was disingenuous.
Now, when you talk about the efforts today of the Affordable Care Act to include an exchange, what I think is oftentimes lost, Representative Garamendi, is people see this as some sort of public exchange that is going to be run by the government. In fact, when we set up an exchange and when private sector sources come to the table, if they're willing to abide by the rules, if they're going to govern themselves by the parameters that have been established in the legislation, they can then offer services through the exchange. So it's a private sector solution but with new caveats of parameters that are established so as to provide benefit for the consumer.
When you think of it, if there are firms that hire 10 people and one of those 10 becomes catastrophically ill, the actuarial impact of that one individual circumstance can drive premiums up for that small business in very high order. That kind of impact is unacceptable for the small business community that today pays some 18 percent more for its insurance and oftentimes gets weaker coverage.
With the benefits of an exchange that is private sector-driven, you now have the opportunities that people can have that actuarial measurement made in a pool of perhaps millions so that the unsteady and unpredictable kind of outcome for small business is now rendered more efficient and more sensitive by shaving the peaks that may occur in a universe as small as 10 people.
So there is a science to this. There is thoughtfulness that has been pumped into the discussion; and by inserting that thoughtfulness, we have come up with reforms that really speak to a wiser use of this country's health care dollars. It was a folding in of progress over the course of several years that was initiated with its passage a couple of years ago that needed time to work. To then move to repeal before a
number of these programs are even implemented and for people to just play politics with the lives of individuals, with the health care quality of individuals, is regrettable, and then for us to be asked to visit for the 31st time a repeal exercise in some 19 consecutive months.
We used this week of session in Congress to debate for hours, to message for hours, to come to the floor for votes. These were session days that were used up for the repeat of an exercise that time and time and time again has been conducted just to politically posture when, in fact, the American public is saying, Look, you voted on this. Look, the President signed it into law. Look, the Supreme Court--the highest law in the land, the conservative-leaning Court--has ruled constitutionality.
They want us to move forward with job creation, with responding to the cures this economy needs. We started with a terrible pit of a recession: 8.2 million jobs lost and 800,000 jobs being lost per month as this administration started and, ironically, when I started my service in the House of Representatives. We were in a dark, deep hole. To come out of that with 29 consecutive months of private sector job growth and to come out of that with over 4 million jobs created in the private sector and to go forward with an effort to reform our health care system in a way that extends greater opportunity and beacons of hope to families, individuals, those who are catastrophically ill, those denied because of preexisting conditions, pharmaceuticals unaffordable for many seniors, to have all that turned around and to have all of this progress of the comeback trail from the recessionary period that was far too long and far too deep and far too painful than anyone ever forecasted--to strike that kind of progress and then have it met with 31 consecutive efforts to repeal the situation is regrettable. It's regrettable.
Representative Garamendi, you've been here for those 31 efforts. Has anything changed? It's the same old, same old that is being expressed out there that does not, I think, meet the concerns of individuals out there from coast to coast.
Mr. TONKO. Representative Garamendi, I couldn't agree more with the need to exchange statistics here, the real stats on what is happening. We only have a short history, but already it's a powerful statement.
When you look at healthy pregnancies, that front-end life investment which this embraces, what a soundness to the rationale for progressive policy.
When you think of the dignity factor for those senior years so that people aren't chopping a pill in half so as to meet their family budget and take care of half of their medical needs, this is an exercise of foolishness to repeal at a time when we've just started the engine of recovery and transformation and transition and reform.
We also know that--and I hear it from my constituents all the time--repeal. What's the replacement? There is no hint of a replacement because you took it halfway and said, We're just going to repeal this. That's the political posturing that is so painful, because you have now delivered to society a new opportunity to better steward our resources, to better provide for the dignity in the equation so that people can have that comfort zone, knowing that if they get impacted by some sort of catastrophic illness--and we've seen it in our communities, in our neighborhoods, in our families where peoples' lives are turned around in an instant. To those who you suggested might not buy the insurance, who then bears the burden if there is a catastrophic outcome?
They're saying, Oh, you're asking them to pay a tax if they don't want insurance.
If they don't have insurance and they get a catastrophic illness, they fall into some sort of huge accident, who's going to pay? You're right, Representative Garamendi, there are those that get in charity situations where premiums cover it, taxpayers cover it.
This has been thought out in a very meaningful way. We talk about a global competitiveness. We talk about our industries going to the marketplace, international marketplace, wind contracts, produce in America, and grow jobs. Part of the price that they have to calculate is the cost of health care. If we're providing a benefit to our business community, if we're having a smarter approach taken to the health care dollars being utilized in best fashion, there's a corresponding benefit that befalls the economic recovery opportunities because our businesses will be able to have the benefit of the soundness of that universal health care system to more effectively compete in the international marketplace, to secure those contracts that then translate into jobs.
There is an interconnectedness here that goes well beyond health care policy. It falls into the realm of economic recovery and business creation and all sorts of quality-of-life issues that market our neighborhoods, our States, and our Nation for jobs.
We know what's happening in other Nations. They have taken the bull by the horns, and they have put together a good, sound system, and we were comfortable to have status quo be our rule, our guiding light. It was the boldness of those leaders that came forward and said: There is a better way to use those dollars out there. There are better ways to reach people. There is a need for preventive and wellness programs, for screenings and for those annual checkups, making certain that pharmaceutical needs are something that are within the grasp of our senior community and our middle-income community and our middle-aged community.
To cite scenarios like that of your staffer and his child, to provide that hope in the middle of despair where people have abandoned the hope for a better tomorrow for their children because of lack of affordability, to cover those health care situations, that's what this is about.
This is the old American spirit coming forward. It's about speaking as a community, not as individuals disconnected from one another. It's about thinking as a society, of a greatness of America at her best: compassionate, resolved to make a difference, determined to use our resources in a way that is most effective, most efficient, most smart. It is America at a great, shining moment. And to denounce all of that progress and to move for repeal speaks volumes about greed and about injustice and the desire to turn progress around.
Representative Garamendi, we close in the next minute or two. Any closing thoughts from you? I thank you for joining us this evening.
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BUTLER, Roderick Randum, (grandfather of Robert Reyburn Butler), a Representative from Tennessee; born in Wytheville, Va., April 9, 1827; bound as an apprentice and learned the tailor's trade; moved to Taylorsville (now Mountain City), Tenn.; attended night school; studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1853 and commenced practice in Taylorsville; lawyer, private practice; appointed postmaster of Taylorsville by President Fillmore; major of the First Battalion of Tennessee Militia; member of the Tennessee state senate, 1859-1863 and 1893-1901; during the Civil War served in the Union Army as lieutenant colonel of the Thirteenth Regiment, Tennessee Volunteer Cavalry, November 5, 1863-April 25, 1864; delegate to the Republican National Conventions, 1864, 1872 and 1876; delegate to the Tennessee state constitutional convention, 1865; county judge and judge of the first judicial circuit of Tennessee, 1865; chairman of the first state Republican executive committee of Tennessee; delegate to the Baltimore Border State Convention; elected as a Republican to the Fortieth and to the three succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1867-March 3, 1875); chairman, Committee on the Militia (Forty-third Congress); censured by the House of Representatives on March 17, 1870, for corruption in regard to an appointment to West Point; unsuccessful candidate for reelection to the Forty-fourth Congress in 1874; president of the Republican State conventions, 1869 and 1882; member of the Tennessee state house of representatives, 1879-1885; elected to the Fiftieth Congress (March 4, 1887-March 3, 1889); was not a candidate for renomination in 1888; resumed the practice of law; died in Mountain City, Johnson County, Tenn., August 18, 1902; interment in Mountain View Cemetery.
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Coffey Family
GENERAL JOHN COFFEE: born in Virginia, on June 2, 1772, and died on July 7, 1833
In April, 1798 he and his mother settled along the Cumberland River. He married Mary Donelson in 1809, who was a niece of Andrew Jackson's wife. He and Andrew Jackson were in the mercantile business together for awhile but this was not financially successful and Coffee then withdrew and devoted himself to surveying.
John was with Natchez Expedition of General Jackson in 1812 where he commanded the cavalry of six hundred and seventy men.
Captain John Donelson had given Mary a farm on Stone's River in Rutherford county where they lived . They went to Alabama, near Florence, in 1819.
Andrew Jackson wrote the epitaph for Coffee's tombstone.
Who departed this life
7th day of July, 1833,
Aged 61 years.
"As a husband, parent and friend, he was affectionate, tender, and sincere. He was a brave, prompt, and skillful general; a distinguished and sagacious patriot; an unpretending, just and honest man. To complete his character, religion mingled with these virtues her serene and gentle influence, and gave him that solid distinction among men which detraction cannot sully, nor the grave conceal. Death could not do more than to remove so excellent a being from the theater he so much adorned in this world, to the bosom of God who created him, and who alone has the power to reward the immortal spirit with exhaustless bliss."
By the Tennessee State Library and Archives:
DESIGNATION: 2nd Regiment of Volunteer Mounted Riflemen
DATES: September 1813 – December 1813
MEN MOSTLY FROM: Davidson, Rutherford, Sumner, and Wilson Counties (Winston's company from Madison
County, Alabama)
CAPTAINS: John Baskerville, Richard Boyd, Thomas Bradley, John Byrne, Robert Jetton, William Locke, Alexander
McKeen, Frederick Stump, Daniel Ross, John Winston
Colonel John Coffee commanded this regiment until the end of October 1813, when Coffee was promoted to Brigadier General. John Alcorn took over as colonel and the unit was incorporated with Colonel Newton Cannon's Mounted Riflemen to form the Second Regiment of Volunteer Mounted Riflemen. The Second Regiment, along with Colonel Robert Dyer's First Regiment of Volunteer Mounted Gunmen, formed the brigade under John Coffee. Muster rolls reveal that the regiment went by various designations besides volunteer mounted riflemen: volunteer cavalry; mounted militia; or mounted gunmen.
Many of the men from this unit were with Andrew Jackson on the expedition to Natchez (December 1812 – April 1813) and, consequently, felt their one-year's enlistment expired in December 1813. Jackson insisted that the time not spent in the field did not apply to the terms of enlistment. Hence, a dispute broke out between the troops and Jackson late in 1813. Most of thetroops did leave by the end of that year, despite Jackson's strenuous efforts to keep them.
The regiment participated in the battles at Tallushatchee and Talladega (3 November and 9 November 1813) and muster rolls show that practically all of the companies sustained casualties, the most being in Captain John Byrne's company. The regiment's line of march took them from Fayetteville (where the regiment was mustered in), through Huntsville, Fort Deposit, Fort Strother, to the battles, and back the reverse way.
Davis – Family of William Parker Davis
Contributed by Rowena King, relationship to me is Great Aunt maternal side
HUSBAND: William Park DAVIS
date and place of birth: 12 January 1896, Pandora, Johnson Co., Tennessee
date and place of death: 26 January 1967, Payette, Idaho , 543-32-2225 Oregon
burial: Canyon City, Grant, Oregon,
miltary service:
father: William Hamilton Davis b.10 June 1865, Pandora, Johnson Co.,Tennessee d.26 Feb.1943,Johnson Co.,Tennessee
mother: Winona Safronia Shoun b. 4 August 1868, Pandora, Johnson Co., Tennessee d.19 June 1940, Mountain City, Johnson, TN
other spouses: Faye Hinton b.1900 m.11 Aug.1949
date and place of marriage: 04 Jun 1917, Grant County, Oregon
ssn: 543-32-2225 Oregon
WIFE: Elizabeth Emma MCCAFFRY
date and place of birth: 27 March 1898,Queen Bee Precinct, Red Fern, Pennington, SD
date and place of death: 28 May 1933 John Day, Grant, Oregon
burial: John Day Cemetery, John Day, Grant, Oregon
father: Frank MCCAFFREY
mother: Elizabeth Sarah JAY
other spouses:
date and place of marriage: 04 Jun 1917, Grant County, Oregon
CHILD 1: Carl E. DAVIS
date and place of birth: 21 February 1918, John Day, Grant, Oregon
married: Peggy BELL
date and place of marriage:
other marriages:
date and place of death: 17 December 1982, Pendleton, Umatilla, Oregon, SSN 231-22-3592 Virginia
SOURCES: 1870 Card Dist. No. 6, Johnson, Tennessee, Pandora P.O. Pg5 shows Dwell #31, Fam.#31, Davis Hannah M, 2, F, W, Keeping House, born in Tennessee, Samuel B. 8, M, W, born in Tennessee, William H.,5, M, W, born in Tennessee. Census taken 28 July 1870 by H. C. Northington. 1880 Card Dist. No. 6, 7 givie, Johnson, Tennessee, pg 18, shows Dwell #148, Fam.#157, Wright Robert E., M, W, 29, Farmer, born in VA, father born in VA, mother born in VA, Matilda, W, F, 36, Wife, Keeping house, born in Tennessee, father born in Tennessee, mother born in Tennessee, Davis William H., W, M, 14, Step-Son, born in Tennessee, father born in VA, mother born in Tennessee, Samuel B.,M, W, 18, Step-son, born in Tennessee, father born in VA, mother born in Tennessee, Census taken 15+16 June 1880.
1870 Card Dist. No. 6, Johnson, Tennessee, Pandora P.O. Pg6 shows Dwell #40, Fam.#40, Shoun, Peter P., 36, M, W, Farmer, 4000, 1800, born Tennessee, Louisa, 30, F, W, Keeping House, born in N.Carolina, George J., 7, M, W, born in Tennessee, John J., 6, M, W,born in Tennessee, Winnie S., 1, F, W, born in Tennessee, census taken 1 July 1870. 1920 Census Rosebud, Grant, Oregon Dist. 60, Pg1, shows Dwell #18, Fam. #18, Davis, William P, Head, M, W, 23, M, born in Tennessee, father born in Tennessee, mother born in Tennessee, Elizabeth E., Wife, F, W, 21, M, born in So.Dak, father born in Canada, mother born in Iowa, Carl E., Son, M, W, 1-10/12, S, born in Oregon, father born in Tennessee, mother born in So. Dak, Census taken 6 February 1920 by BB Harburger. 1930 Census Middle Precinct 15, Grant, Oregon, Pg10, Dist. 21, shows Dwell #121, Fam.#121, Davis William P, Head, R, M, W, 33, M, married at age 20, born in Tennessee, father born in Tennessee, mother born in Tennessee, Elizabeth M, Wife, F, W, 32, M, married at age 19, born in So.Dak, father born in Canada, mother born in Iowa, Carl E., Son, M, W, 12, S, born in Oregon, father born in Tennessee, mother born in So. Dak, Census taken 23 April 1930 by John E. Chamberlain.
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Waggoner — Descendants of John Waggoner /Wagner
Contributed by Don Owens
Generation No. 1
1. JOHN WAGGONER1 WAGNER was born 1691 in Rhineland, Prussia, and died May 02, 1775 in Rowan County, North Carolina. He married MARY Abt. 1716 in Rheinland, Prussia. She was born Bef. 1700 in Rhineland, Prussia.
Children of JOHN WAGNER and MARY are:
2. i. JACOB2 WAGGONER, b. August 24, 1717, Rheinland, Prussia; d. November 01, 1799, Lexington, Old Rowan Co., North Carolina.
ii. HANS WAGNER, b. 1720.
iii. JOHN WAGNER, b. Abt. 1722.
Generation No. 2
2. JACOB2 WAGGONER (JOHN WAGGONER1 WAGNER) was born August 24, 1717 in Rheinland, Prussia, and died November 01, 1799 in Lexington, Old Rowan Co., North Carolina. He married MRS JACOB WAGGONER 1744 in Philadelphia Co., Pennsylvania. She was born 1719 in Pennsylvania, and died in Pennsylvania.
Children of JACOB WAGGONER and MRS. WAGGONER are:
i. JOSEPH3 WAGGONER, b. 1724.
3. ii. DANIEL WAGGONER, b. October 13, 1746, North Annville TWP., Lancaster, Pennsylvania; d. October 12, 1827, Lexington, Old Rowan Co., North Carolina.
iii. JOHN WAGGONER, b. 1748.
iv. JACOB WAGGONER, b. August 04, 1751.
v. MARY MAGDALENA WAGGONER, b. March 09, 1753.
vi. ELIZABETH WAGGONER, b. September 14, 1753, North Annville TWP., Lancaster, Pennsylvania; d. October 09, 1820, Johnson, TN.
vii. JOSEPH WAGGONER, b. 1755.
viii. JOSEPH E WAGGONER, b. 1756, Lexington, Old Rowan Co., North Carolina; d. November 27, 1790, Lexington, Old Rowan Co., North Carolina.
ix. DAVID WAGGONER, b. 1759, Lexington, Old Rowan Co., North Carolina; d. September 01, 1858, Johnson, TN.
4. x. DAVID WAGNER, b. April 10, 1759, North Annville TWP., Lancaster, Pennsylvania; d. March 29, 1845, Shoun, Johnson, Tennessee.
Generation No. 3
3. DANIEL3 WAGGONER (JACOB2, JOHN WAGGONER1 WAGNER) was born October 13, 1746 in North Annville TWP., Lancaster, Pennsylvania, and died October 12, 1827 in Lexington, Old Rowan Co., North Carolina. He married ELIZABETH HARMON March 28, 1767 in Philadelphia Co., Pennsylvania, daughter of GEORGE HARMON and MARY WILEY. She was born September 14, 1753 in Lexington, Old Rowan Co., North Carolina, and died October 09, 1820 in Lexington, Old Rowan Co., North Carolina.
Child of DANIEL WAGGONER and ELIZABETH HARMON is:
5. i. MATTHIAS OR MATTHEW4 WAGGONER, b. February 10, 1765, Lexington, Old Rowan Co., North Carolina; d. August 19, 1836, Lexington, Old Rowan Co., North Carolina.
4. DAVID3 WAGNER (JACOB2 WAGGONER, JOHN WAGGONER1 WAGNER) was born April 10, 1759 in North Annville TWP., Lancaster, Pennsylvania, and died March 29, 1845 in Shoun, Johnson, Tennessee. He married (1) MARGARET WEITZEL in Rowan, North Carolina. She was born May 02, 1790 in Rockbridge, Virginia, and died September 13, 1883 in Johnson, TN. He married (2) MARY CATHERINE HAGEY. She was born Abt. 1762 in North Annville TWP., Lancaster, Pennsylvania.
Children of DAVID WAGNER and MARGARET WEITZEL are:
6. i. NANCY4 WAGNER, b. September 17, 1810, Shoun, Carter, Tennessee; d. June 14, 1887, Johnson, Tennessee.
ii. NATHANIEL TAYLOR WAGNER, b. February 22, 1822, Shoun, Carter, Tennessee; d. March 18, 1900, Shoun, Johnson, Tennessee.
iii. ELIZABETH WAGNER, b. 1813.
iv. ADAM WAGNER, b. 1827.
v. LORINDA WAGNER, b. July 14, 1815.
vi. ANDREW W. WAGNER, b. May 25, 1819.
vii. RACHEL WAGNER, b. 1826.
7. viii. DANIEL WAGNER, b. 1831, Shoun, Carter, Tennessee.
Child of DAVID WAGNER and MARY HAGEY is:
8. ix. JACOB JAKE4 WAGNER, b. 1790, Lexington, Old Rowan Co., North Carolina.
Generation No. 4
5. MATTHIAS OR MATTHEW4 WAGGONER (DANIEL3, JACOB2, JOHN WAGGONER1 WAGNER) was born February 10, 1765 in Lexington, Old Rowan Co., North Carolina, and died August 19, 1836 in Lexington, Old Rowan Co., North Carolina. He married SUSANNAH MILLER March 02, 1795 in Lexington, Old Rowan, NC. She was born July 16, 1773 in Lexington, Old Rowan Co., North Carolina, and died January 11, 1850 in Lexington, Old Rowan Co., North Carolina.
Children of MATTHIAS WAGGONER and SUSANNAH MILLER are:
9. i. MATTHIAS MILLER5 WAGGONER, b. June 30, 1801, Carter Co., Tennessee; d. June 30, 1867, Carter Co., Tennessee.
10. ii. FREDERICK WAGNER, b. May 12, 1795, Carter Co., Tennessee; d. August 23, 1866, Lincoln Co., Tennessee.
11. iii. JOSEPH WAGNER, b. December 05, 1799, Carter Co., Tennessee; d. December 05, 1889, Johnson, Tennessee.
6. NANCY4 WAGNER (DAVID3, JACOB2 WAGGONER, JOHN WAGGONER1 WAGNER) was born September 17, 1810 in Shoun, Carter, Tennessee, and died June 14, 1887 in Johnson, Tennessee. She married JOSEPH WAGNER, son of MATTHIAS WAGGONER and SUSANNAH MILLER. He was born December 05, 1799 in Carter Co., Tennessee, and died December 05, 1889 in Johnson, Tennessee.
Children of NANCY WAGNER and JOSEPH WAGNER are:
12. i. ANDREW C.5 WAGNER, b. March 11, 1828, Johnson, Tennessee; d. 1885, Johnson, Tennessee.
13. ii. ALEXANDER B. WAGNER, b. 1831, Carter Co., Tennessee; d. 1863, Carter Co., Tennessee.
14. iii. JACOB S. WAGNER, b. 1847, Johnson, Tennessee.
7. DANIEL4 WAGNER (DAVID3, JACOB2 WAGGONER, JOHN WAGGONER1 WAGNER) was born 1831 in Shoun, Carter, Tennessee. He married (1) MARY SNYDER. He married (2) MARY NANCY HARDIN December 12, 1852 in Johnson, Tennessee.
Child of DANIEL WAGNER and MARY HARDIN is:
15. i. DAVID MCCELLAN5 WAGNER, b. March 09, 1854, Johnson, Tennessee; d. March 24, 1911, Johnson, Tennessee.
8. JACOB JAKE4 WAGNER (DAVID3, JACOB2 WAGGONER, JOHN WAGGONER1 WAGNER) was born 1790 in Lexington, Old Rowan Co., North Carolina.
Child of JACOB JAKE WAGNER is:
i. ANNIE5 WAGNER, b. 1830, Carter Co., Tennessee.
Generation No. 5
9. MATTHIAS MILLER5 WAGGONER (MATTHIAS OR MATTHEW4, DANIEL3, JACOB2, JOHN WAGGONER1 WAGNER) was born June 30, 1801 in Carter Co., Tennessee, and died June 30, 1867 in Carter Co., Tennessee. He married MARY S. TYFFE 1829 in Carter County, Tennessee. She was born February 16, 1804 in Lexington, Old Rowan Co., North Carolina, and died January 11, 1850 in Carter Co., Tennessee.
Child of MATTHIAS WAGGONER and MARY TYFFE is:
16. i. JOSEPH H6 WAGGONER, b. January 14, 1841, Johnson, TN; d. June 11, 1910, Johnson, TN.
10. FREDERICK5 WAGNER (MATTHIAS OR MATTHEW4 WAGGONER, DANIEL3, JACOB2, JOHN WAGGONER1 WAGNER) was born May 12, 1795 in Carter Co., Tennessee, and died August 23, 1866 in Lincoln Co., Tennessee. He married MARY WAGGONER June 02, 1817 in Carter County, Tennessee. She was born June 20, 1797 in Carter Co., Tennessee, and died July 07, 1863 in Lincoln Co., Tennessee.
More About MARY WAGGONER:
Burial: July 1863, Lynchburg, Tennessee
Children of FREDERICK WAGNER and MARY WAGGONER are:
i. WAGNER6, b. 1818.
ii. WAGNER, b. 1821.
iii. MARGARET ANN WAGGONER, b. 1822, Tennessee; d. Abt. 1858, Lincoln Co., Tennessee.
More About MARGARET ANN WAGGONER:
Burial: Abt. 1858, Lincoln Co., Tennessee
iv. ANDREW WAGNER, b. 1827, Lincoln Co., Tennessee; d. 1863, Tennessee; m. EMELY; b. 1842, TN; d. Abt. 1863, TN.
v. JACOB WAGNER, b. 1828.
vi. SARAH WAGNER, b. 1831.
vii. ELIZABETH WAGNER, b. 1833.
viii. CATHERINE WAGNER, b. 1835.
ix. GEORGE WAGNER, b. 1837.
x. MARY WAGNER, b. 1838.
xi. MALINDA WAGNER, b. 1840.
xii. WILSON WAGNER, b. 1842.
xiii. JAMES A WAGNER, b. 1846.
11. JOSEPH5 WAGNER (MATTHIAS OR MATTHEW4 WAGGONER, DANIEL3, JACOB2, JOHN WAGGONER1 WAGNER) was born December 05, 1799 in Carter Co., Tennessee, and died December 05, 1889 in Johnson, Tennessee. He married NANCY WAGNER, daughter of DAVID WAGNER and MARGARET WEITZEL. She was born September 17, 1810 in Shoun, Carter, Tennessee, and died June 14, 1887 in Johnson, Tennessee.
Children are listed above under (6) Nancy Wagner.
12. ANDREW C.5 WAGNER (JOSEPH4, MATTHIAS OR MATTHEW3 WAGGONER, DANIEL2, JACOB1) was born March 11, 1828 in Johnson, Tennessee, and died 1885 in Johnson, Tennessee. He married HILEY BAKER November 27, 1851 in Johnson, Tennessee. She was born 1824 in Tennessee.
Children of ANDREW WAGNER and HILEY BAKER are:
i. ANDREW C. STACY6 WAGNER, b. 1865, Johnson, Tennessee; d. 1925; m. WAGNER, February 10, 1901.
ii. WILLIAM EKANEH WAGNER, b. 1855, Johnson, Tennessee.
iii. EMMA H. WAGNER, b. 1859, Johnson, Tennessee.
iv NANCY J. A. WAGNER, b. 1864, Johnson, Tennessee.
13. ALEXANDER B.5 WAGNER (JOSEPH4, MATTHIAS OR MATTHEW3 WAGGONER, DANIEL2, JACOB1) was born 1831 in Carter Co., Tennessee, and died 1863 in Carter Co., Tennessee. He married NANCY CATHERINE BAKER November 29, 1849 in Johnson, Tennessee. She was born September 29, 1834 in Johnson, Tennessee, and died September 16, 1912 in Johnson, Tennessee.
Child of ALEXANDER WAGNER and NANCY BAKER is:
i. ANDREW J.6 WAGNER, b. 1851, Carter Co., Tennessee.
14. JACOB S.5 WAGNER (JOSEPH4, MATTHIAS OR MATTHEW3 WAGGONER, DANIEL2, JACOB1) was born 1847 in Johnson, Tennessee. He married MARY REECE October 27, 1870 in Johnson, Tennessee. She was born 1846 in North Carolina.
Children of JACOB WAGNER and MARY REECE are:
i. NANCY E. (BETTY)6 WAGNER, b. 1872.
ii. SUSAN E. WAGNER, b. 1874.
iii. ISAAC VALENTINE WAGNER, b. 1875.
iv. HUGH WAGNER, b. Abt. 1877.
v. HARRY WAGNER, b. Abt. 1879.
15. DAVID MCCELLAN5 WAGNER (DANIEL4, DAVID3, JACOB2 WAGGONER, JOHN WAGGONER1 WAGNER) was born March 09, 1854 in Johnson, Tennessee, and died March 24, 1911 in Johnson, Tennessee. He married ELIZABETH VICTORY JOHNSON October 17, 1878 in Johnson, Tennessee. She was born June 06, 1861 in Johnson, Tennessee, and died July 26, 1921 in Johnson, Tennessee.
Children of DAVID WAGNER and ELIZABETH JOHNSON are:
i. ETHEL ANNE6 WAGNER, b. July 25, 1879.
ii. DANIEL EUGENE WAGNER, b. November 27, 1881.
iii. BESSIE B. WAGNER, b. February 19, 1882.
iv. NORA WAGNER, b. 1884.
v. MAUDE WAGNER, b. 1885.
vi. ROY MILIGAN WAGNER, b. March 13, 1887.
vii. NELLIE MAY WAGNER, b. 1889.
viii. VENIA WAGNER, b. 1891.
17. ix. MARTIN ROSS WAGNER, b. February 08, 1893, Mountain City, Johnson, Tennessee; d. July 14, 1968, Blowing Rock, Watauga, North Carolina.
x. ELSIE WAGNER, b. February 03, 1895.
xi. VIRGINIA WAGNER, b. February 12, 1899.
Generation No. 6
16. JOSEPH H6 WAGGONER (MATTHIAS MILLER5, MATTHIAS OR MATTHEW4, DANIEL3, JACOB2, JOHN WAGGONER1 WAGNER) was born January 14, 1841 in Johnson, TN, and died June 11, 1910 in Johnson, TN. He married SARAH K. WHITE June 18, 1874. She was born 1852 in TN, and died in TN.
Child of JOSEPH WAGGONER and SARAH WHITE is:
i. MATTHIAS M7 WAGGONER, b. 1878, Johnson, TN.
17. MARTIN ROSS6 WAGNER (DAVID MCCELLAN5, DANIEL4, DAVID3, JACOB2 WAGGONER, JOHN WAGGONER1 WAGNER) was born February 08, 1893 in Mountain City, Johnson, Tennessee, and died July 14, 1968 in Blowing Rock, Watauga, North Carolina. He married MERLE GUSTA BROWNE January 04, 1917 in Bristol, Washington, Virginia. She was born November 14, 1899 in Newport, Cocke Co., Tennessee.
CARRIGER, Jackson D.
Jackson D. Carriger, son of Godfrey Carriger, Jr., was born March 8, 1821, and at the age of five years was left an orphan. He supplemented his public school education by study in the Duffield Academy and at the age of seventeen years took charge of the property which he inherited and afterward managed his own affairs in a very successful manner. He was sworn into a company in the secret service of the United States known as the East Tennessee Bridge Burners during the Civil war, under the order of Colonel Dan Stover, and assisted in burning the bridge at Bluff City, Tennessee, November 8, 1861. He was suspicioned as a bridge burner and had to seek refuge in the mountains, there suffering many hardships and exposure, from which he never fully recovered. He was finally captured and taken to Taylorsville, now Mountain City, Tennessee, for trial and would have been hanged but for the fact that one of the men before whom he was tried was a brother Mason [p.422] who interceded and saved his life. He was a trustee of the county, was gauger under federal appointment, justice of the peace for ten years and a member of the school board for many years. He took an active interest in public affairs, especially everything relating to the advancement of education and Christianity. He married Edna G. Dugger, who was born in Carter county, near the present site of Butler, April 8, 1838. She was a member of the Baptist church and her Christian spirit found frequent expression in her aid of those in distress. Her favorite passage of scripture was: "Open thy mouth, judge righteously, and plead the cause of the poor and needy." Edna G. Dugger was a daughter of Samuel Dugger, who was born January 16, 1806, and died June 12, 1890. He married Hannah Potter, a descendant of John Potter, who was born and reared on the Catawba river in Mecklenburg county, North Carolina, and by grant received hundreds of acres of land in both Tennessee and North Carolina. He was a soldier of the Revolutionary war and according to the records the land came to him in recognition of his services. The ancestry in the Dugger line can be traced back to Julius Dugger, who was of Scotch-Irish descent, and there is a strongly supported tradition that the first American ancestor of the family was Hackney McDuggen. The prefix "Mc" was dropped and the final "n" was changed to "r." Julius Dugger had a brother Ben and one of his descendants, William Dugger, had in his possession a book printed in the Scottish dialect, upon the fly leaf of which appeared the name of the owner, Hackney McDuggen. The Dugger family was established near Petersburg, Virginia, and Julius Dugger emigrated to Tennessee with four brothers, and possibly others, and one sister who became Mrs. Mary Smith. Julius Dugger settled near what was later known as Dugger's Bridge and afterward removed to Wilkes county, North Carolina, but later returned to Tennessee. His brother Ben settled in western North Carolina, while Daniel went on to Kentucky and William took up his abode below Dugger's Bridge. Julius Dugger arrived about 1766 in company with Andrew Greer and they are believed to be the first white men who settled south of what was afterward the Virginia line. Family tradition has it that he served in the Revolutionary war and he was also in the War of 1812, serving two different times. He married Mary Hall of Rockbridge county, Virginia, believed to be an only daughter, but she had a brother Sam who left descendants (the Daugherty family) and a brother George, who was killed by the Indians. Julius Dugger owned slaves and land at the foot of Dugger's mountain, in Caldwell county, North Carolina, the mountain and creek there being named for him and his kindred because they hunted in that locality. He seems to have been alone loyal to the country in the midst of a Tory neighborhood and to avoid trouble he returned with his family to Tennessee and helped to clear the land where Elizabethton now stands. He and his descendants are spoken of as men of intelligence and of notable foresight.
Transcribed from: Tennessee, The Volunteer State, 1796-1923 by John Trotwood Moore and Austin P. Foster published by S.J Clarke Publishing Co., 1923.
CARRIGER Jr., Godfrey
Godfrey Carriger, Jr., a son of Gotfried Kercher, was born May 13, 1767 or 1769. (The old German record is very dim and it is difficult to tell whether it is 67 or 69.) He was about thirteen years of age when the family home was established in Carter county, Tennessee. A soldier of the Revolution, he received a grant of land issued on a military warrant. He held the rank of major and was always known as Major Carriger. He acted as register of his county from July 4, 1796, to May 6, 1827, the date of his death, a period of thirty-one years, having the distinction of serving his county in this capacity longer than any other man. He was justice of the peace and member of the school board and took great interest in educational affairs. He and his brother Christian built the first schoolhouse east of Elizabethton in the territory including Johnson county and extending to the Virginia and North Carolina lines. This was built for school purposes and as a meeting house, according to the deed conveying the land which was donated by Godfrey Carriger, Jr. Five generations of his descendants have attended school here. The original building of brick was torn down in the year 1912 to give place to a new and larger building, but some of the material of the first building was used in the foundation of the new. Godfrey Carriger, Jr., married Mrs. Elizabeth Lovelace Crawley on the 27th of October, 1803, and they had seven sons and three daughters, all reaching adult age and marrying, save one daughter who died when young. The two-story log house which Godfrey Carriger, Jr., built in 1796 and in which he reared his family is still in good state of preservation. It was considered a mansion in that day, being the best residence in the Watauga settlement. His wife departed this life February 27, 1826.
Transcribed from: Tennessee, The Volunteer State, 1796-1923 by John Trotwood Moore and Austin P. Foster published by S.J Clarke Publishing Co., 1923.
MAST, Joseph C.
Joseph C. Mast, son of Adam and Elizabeth (Cable) Mast, was born May 10, 1808, devoted his life to farming and was a devout Christian man of the Baptist faith. He married Celia Campbell, a granddaughter of Zachariah Campbell, of Scotch-Irish ancestry, who emigrated from County Tipperary, near Cork, Ireland, settling first in Virginia, where he married before removing to Carter county, Tennessee, where he was very prominent in early days, being a member of the county court when the county was organized July 4, 1796. He was one of the commissioners appointed to locate the county seat of justice. He was present and participated in the organization of the court of pleas and quarter sessions, July 4, 1796. Previous to his removal to Carter county he had served in the Revolutionary war. Two of his sons, Isaac and Jeremiah Campbell, were also soldiers of the Revolution and Isaac likewise participated in the War of 1812. Isaac Campbell enjoyed the well merited reputation of being a good citizen and just man. He married Susie Smith, daughter of Edward and Catherine Smith and they settled on the Watauga in Carter county, Tennessee. It was his daughter Celia who became the wife of Joseph C. Mast and the latter's daughter, Louise Mast, became the wife of Joseph L. Vaught. They had a family of thirteen children, William McDonald being the seventh in order of birth. Those who reached adult age were Jacob S., Sarah C., Cordelia A., Celia Ella, William M., Nannie I., John M. and Edward J. Mrs. Louise (Mast) Vaught united with the Pleasant Grove Baptist church, January 2, 1854, and [p.420] has lived a consistent Christian life. She had one sister and six brothers and two of the latter were Confederate soldiers of the Civil war. While her husband was giving the best years of his young manhood to the Federal cause Mrs. Vaught underwent many hardships. She had three small children to protect, feed and clothe. She personally carried on the farm work and she raised flax and wool, from which were made the garments that clothed her little family. She still lives on a part of the original tract of land secured in 1792 by John Vaught, the pioneer of Johnson county. The post office of Vaughtsville was named in honor of the family and her husband was postmaster from the time of the establishment of the post office in 1886 until his death, which occurred May 16, 1897, since which time the daughter Ella has acted as postmistress. One son, Jacob S., is a prominent farmer and stockman, interested in sheep and cattle. He is also active in religious affairs, serving as treasurer of the church to which his father and grandfather belonged. John M. was also a successful farmer and business man, but met an untimely death June 16, 1912, having been kicked by a horse. His funeral was conducted on the day he would have been forty years of age. Another son, Edward J., attended the public schools of Johnson county, also Holly Springs College and Carson and Newman College, graduating from the last named with honors in May, 1897. After completing a course in the Lebanon Law School he began practice in Johnson City, Tennessee, and has a large clientele. He is also United States commissioner and he was presidential elector in 1916, supporting Charles E. Hughes for the presidency.
Transcribed from: Tennessee, The Volunteer State, 1796-1923 by John Trotwood Moore and Austin P. Foster published by S.J Clarke Publishing Co., 1923.
MAST, Adam
Adam Mast, son of Joseph and Eve (Bowers) Mast, was born in Randolph county, North Carolina, March 6, 1784, and in 1807 married Elizabeth Cable, who was born March 15, 1785, a daughter of Casper Cable, who was a Hessian soldier and was captured by Washington's forces at Trenton, New Jersey, on Christmas day of 1776. On taking the oath of allegiance he was released and went to Pennsylvania, where he married a Miss Baker, and with his wife and her brother, John Baker, he emigrated to North Carolina, making a settlement on the Blue Ridge. Later they removed to the present site of Boone, where a number of their children were born, and in 1800 they took up their abode on a tract of land in what is now Johnson county, Tennessee. Cable was a leading citizen.
Transcribed from: Tennessee, The Volunteer State, 1796-1923 by John Trotwood Moore and Austin P. Foster published by S.J Clarke Publishing Co., 1923.
VAUGHT, Joseph L.
Joseph L. Vaught, son of John S. and Rebecca (Shoun) Vaught, was born in Johnson county, Tennessee, March 4, 1838. At the outbreak of the Civil war he joined the Federal army, serving as sergeant in Company M, Thirteenth Tennessee Cavalry, and when victory had crowned the Union arms he resumed his agricultural pursuits in Johnson county. He also manufactured wagons, farming tools and implements, supplying the people of his community and surrounding districts. He served as justice of the peace and was on the school board for a number of years. He belonged to the Masonic and Odd Fellows fraternities and he took an active interest in the welfare and upbuilding of the community, while of the Pleasant Grove Baptist church he was a faithful and devoted member from December 24, 1853, until his death. He is survived by his widow, who is living, at the age of eighty-five years, in Vaughtsville, Tennessee, a place named in his honor. It was on the 29th of December, 1855, that he wedded Louise Mast, who was born in Johnson county, January 20, 1838, a daughter of Joseph C. and Celia (Campbell) Mast. She traces her ancestry in direct line back to John and Barbara Mast. The former was born in Switzerland in 1740 and came to America with his uncle, four sisters and his elder brother, Jacob Mast, who later became a bishop in the Amish Mennonite church. The party sailed from Rotterdam in the ship "Brotherhood," John Thompson, captain, and landed at Philadelphia, March 3, 1750. Soon after reaching the age of twenty John Mast left his brother Jacob, then married and living near Elverson, Pennsylvania, and started out to find a suitable location. He wandered as a pedestrian through lonely forests and at length settled in Randolph county, North Carolina, in 1764. Tradition says that he never communicated with his relatives and it was not until 1898 that the relationship between the Masts of Pennsylvania and North Carolina was established. The North Carolina branch constitutes a large, substantial and progressive citizenship in that state and this is equally true of the Pennsylvania and Ohio branches.
Transcribed from: Tennessee, The Volunteer State, 1796-1923 by John Trotwood Moore and Austin P. Foster published by S.J Clarke Publishing Co., 1923.
VAUGHT, John S.
John S. Vaught, son of Joseph and Nancy (Goodwin) Vaught, was born in Johnson county, June 16, 1810, and became a large landowner and slave owner, while he and his son, Joseph L., operated a forge, manufacturing "hammered" iron. A public-spirited man, he donated the land for the Pleasant Grove Baptist church, organized January 20, 1845, in Vaught's schoolhouse. He was a prominent member of the church and provided most of the funds for the erection of a new brick church in 1853. This building was torn down in 1912 to clear the site for a larger and more modern building which was erected that year, the material in the old building being used in the new. While he owned many slaves, John S. Vaught believed in emancipation and used his influence in that direction. He married Rebecca Shoun, who was born June 4, 1813, a daughter of Leonard and Barbara (Schlemp) Shoun, the former born November 10, 1773, in Loudoun county, Virginia, and the latter in Washington county, Virginia, May 3, 1775. The descendants of Leonard Shoun have erected a monument to his memory at Shouns, Tennessee, which town was named in his honor. John S. and Rebecca Vaught had three sons and five daughters, all of [p.419] whom married and reared families save a daughter who died at the age of twelve. John S. Vaught passed away May 18, 1885.
Transcribed from: Tennessee, The Volunteer State, 1796-1923 by John Trotwood Moore and Austin P. Foster published by S.J Clarke Publishing Co., 1923.

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Counterstrike question
Is there actually a CS port for Linux, or do I have to install the windoze version and run it under wine?
Hi fernandoo!!!
Nope, there's no port for Linux of CS and if you would ask me, I don't think it will ever be. It took already too long for the buggiest game ever made (Half-Life) to be ported to Linux. Sooner or later, when they release a port Half-Life Counter-Strike engine will be too old and boring (it started to be already since the infinity cheats made for it and graphics are not nice anymore).
In fact, you won't be able to play CS on Linux for the moment. Thanks to the brilliantly of Valve and CS Team, the only way to update Valve games is through a program called Steam, still not supported by WineX team. The game was working perfectly till last month, when CS 1.6 patch came out. One more reason because I don't like Half-Life or CS is because of the lack of respect from Valve and Counter-Strike team in 1-not making a Linux port 2-not fixing the numerous bugs the HL-Single Player has as getting stucked at walls, elevators or lost of sound, releasing patches with "fix" mplayer only(and by the way, huge patches) 3-for keep pushing Linux and Linux user to run Linux as a server only. Give a chance Unreal Tournament with Tactical Ops or even Quake 3 with Urban Terror. You can make both games run natively on Linux without a problem and they are great underrated modifications... Boycott Valve for a while ;) It's also time for us to support a Linux games... Neverwinter Nights, Unreal T2003, Quake3, Return to the Castle Wolfestein and many other that runs natively :)
YEAH Megaman X could not have said it more.
There is no excuse for them to port a linux version in the HL2 series as they'll have to redo CS2 anyway. No excuse if they don't.
Im using UT2003 and Quake3 natively and they run lovely.
Im going to install Urban Terror mod for Quake3 soon and i'll stick to that for my LAN parties until CS snaps out of it.
Sign the Petitions for Linux CS:
Thanks mossy :)
Hmmm, cool links for the petitions. I've signed up for all that I could find so far :) gheh
Linux-gamers.net has a howto on Steam/cs1.6 - haven't tried it myself...
Emulated: How to install Steam and Counter-Strike 1.6
Hi Genesee!!!
Thanks a lot for the link matey :). I've bookmarked it and I will give it a try later. It's necessary to install IE6 to run Steam and I bet that won't be easy, but I will surely learn a lot doing so :)
Here's (yet) another petition site for Valve to release HL 2 natively for linux. (Ignore it if you've already signed it.)
Back to playing NWN for a bit :D
wow that's a very good informative site - thanks!
makes me more pissed at Valve after knowing how they are just ignoring us like that. They're abit stupit if you think about it.
Nice :) I've signed that one too Slebine :). I dunno how accurate or how efficiently those petitions will actually work, but it's always good to help the little penguin.
mossy is damn right. For me it's irrelevant if HL2 will or not be ported to Linux. Based on Valve attitudes, I won't ever support them again. HL is not a great game either. Perhaps for being the first game on it's genre with a somewhat "story line" made it "different". But for a game built over Quake and Quake 2 engines it has way too many bugs and apparently the game is too hard coded for them to release the source or port. DeuEX, RTCW, Ghost Recon are way cooler games. CS is pretty cool though. Perhaps we should start a petition for CS to be ported to a newer, better, faster, no bugged engine as Quake 3 or Unreal Tournament... that would be the tricky part and I bet Valve should change their attitudes as well. Come on, if it was not for good mods, half-life should be at the bottom of the bottom of the bottom of the barrel... But I doubt it would ever happen, CS team loves its crappy, bugged, dated HL engine ... and they are also doing profits with it.... unfortunately :(
yeah it make you wonder...I think tho - that if they do go ahead and release the source or port it to linux then I would support them and purchase. Gaming companies need to be encouraged.
What ever happened to Tribes2 - did they fall thru?
I wanted to say that DeusEX is way cooler then HL, but I messed it up there, sorry :)
The link dose not work can someone help me with what to do?
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text: Hi Andy Well I was fortunate in that someone gave me a Colortest 2000, which is how I come to own one in addition to the Colorino. I find the Colortest 2000 quite good on light colours, and it is good at telling me which is the lavender or light blue of the two jumpers I referred to in an earlier message. It tells you if something is white too rather than grey or beige that Colorino often says. The Cobolt colour detector isn't that great. The Colorino is a lovely little detector and the one I would take with me if I went away and needed assistance with colours. But the Colortest also gives you saturation info. For example, I am wearing a purple top today, and the Colortest just announced it is pale purple, followed by misty lilac blue. I presume this latter info is the saturation level. It has other stuff on it that I've never played with, but the trouble is that it is more expensive, though I don't know by how much. The voice on the Colortest 2000 is the same as the voice on the Colorino, and I like it. I love colour detectors, they fascinate me for some reason. I hope that gives you some idea. Kind Regards, Jackie Cairns J&M Work-Ability jandm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx www.work-ability.co.uk -----Original Message----- From: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of ANDY COLLINS Sent: 21 June 2011 10:58 To: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [access-uk] Colour detectors Hi Jackie and all Jackie, is the Colortest more expensive than the colorino? I find the latter quite useful, but it can be very far out with some of it's results. For example, it really struggles to see white shirts as white, often thinking they are light gray or green! And it often can't tell navy from black. Is the Colortest more accurate than the Colorino would you say? - Andy ** To leave the list, click on the immediately-following link:- ** [mailto:access-uk-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe] ** If this link doesn't work then send a message to: ** access-uk-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx ** and in the Subject line type ** unsubscribe ** For other list commands such as vacation mode, click on the ** immediately-following link:- ** [mailto:access-uk-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx?subject=faq] ** or send a message, to ** access-uk-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with the Subject:- faq


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Hometown papers
Who died in your hometown over the weekend?
Who scored the winning touchdown in your local high school team's big game?
Where can you get a flu shot?
Why are your school taxes going up again?
Does the state have a budget yet?
What's new with the string of burglaries that have been plaguing your neighborhood recently?
As we celebrate National Newspaper Week, these are questions that might go unanswered if you didn't have your local newspaper to rely on every day. Your daily routine would be lacking a significant amount of information, news that is important to you. A lot of daily decisions you make come directly from what you read in your daily newspaper.
These have been trying times for the newspaper industry in recent years. Changing trends in how people gather news, a recession that has greatly affected advertising and circulation figures, have dealt the newspaper industry a serious blow. Some major papers have been forced to close, or at least downsize their staffs to deal with the economy.
The TIMES NEWS hasn't been immune to the trend, although not as seriously as is the case with some of the metropolitan newspapers. We're still publishing, six days a week, 52 weeks a year. And we expect to continue doing so for many more years.
There are self-proclaimed critics who think newspapers are a dying breed. We beg to differ. We answer those critics with two words - local news.
Where else would you get it? We're not referring to the headline grabbing big stories? Those are reported on in many venues. We're talking about the births, the deaths, the local police logs, the local sports scores, the updates on who from our hometowns is serving in the military, those who are graduating and making the dean's list.
The list is endless. And we're banking on the fact that many readers would be lost were this information not made available to them in the attractive format of a newspaper every day.
According to an opinion piece in Editor and Publisher, the newspaper industry's trade magazine: "Fortunately, the economy eventually will improve, and businesses will start spending more, even on newspaper ads. The price of newsprint will come down. New print and online revenue models will emerge.
Organizational efficiencies will help the bottom line. And well-run newspaper companies will succeed by fighting hard, experimenting and evolving while tuning out those armchair critics who revel in the thought of a society without newspapers or news."
We expect to be among those who will be fighting hard to prove the doomsayers wrong.
The Editor and Publisher article also states: "In short, quality content is still king, and newspapers own the best news-gathering operations in their individual markets. Nearly all local news originates from newspaper journalists, which remains a huge competitive advantage if utilized the right way."
We feel we have an advantage. Those who gather and report the news for us live in the communities in which they cover. They know what effect news stories have on their readers, because those same stories have a similar effect on them.
And while we strive to keep up with the latest technology, one thing will remain - good old fashioned reporting will remain our strongpoint. There's no substitute for reporting the facts.
And you, our readers, can be rest assured, that we will continue in this direction.
Bob Urban


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Common Core State Standard
SL.CCS.1/2/3/4 Grades 6-12: An essay of a current news event is provided for discussion to encourage participation, but also inspire the use of evidence to support logical claims using the main ideas of the article. Students must analyze background information provided about a current event within the news, draw out the main ideas and key details, and review different opinions on the issue. Then, students should present their own claims using facts and analysis for support.
Kid Nation TV show provokes ethical and quality criticisms
Entertainment and lifestyle sections help newspaper readers pick shows, films, music, books and live events of interest. Invite students to tell how they use the paper to learn about pop culture, and to talk about a review or article they like.
Articles about "Kid Nation" are by adults. Assign students who see the Wednesday night show to write what they think about it for a class "newspaper" or bulletin board display.
Audience members don't always agree with professional critics, and some papers welcome viewer comments at the end of reviews or in website forums. Let students look for interactive exchanges about "Kid Nation" on the paper's site, where they can join the discussion with supervision or through teacher-posted comments.
A reality series about children supposedly left to fend for themselves in a made-for-TV "ghost town" called Bonanza began last week amid legal and ethical outcries. The groundbreaking CBS show -- "Kid Nation" -- focuses on 40 theoretically unsupervised children aged 8-15 who try to build a functioning society without adults on a ranch near Santa Fe, New Mexico. Participants receive $5,000 each, with one earning a weekly gold star worth $20,000.
Interest -- or curiosity, at least -- was fueled by state efforts to look into claims that children had been required to work 14-hour days during taping. Entertainment industry unions charged during the summer that kids were exploited and that unsafe conditions endangered cast and crew. CBS rebuffed an attempt to investigate compliance with child labor laws, saying the youngsters were in "an environment similar to that of a sleep-away camp" and that a producer acted "much like a summer camp counselor."
Most reviewers disliked the first episode intensely. An entertainment industry daily newspaper, Variety, called it "a mess," "creepy" and "a crime against television." To the Washington Post, it was "an appalling monstrosity." USA Today's critic sniped: "It was like watching some other family's incredibly dull home movies -- assuming in your home movies, the kids make speeches." The show continues on Wednesdays at 8 p.m. for 12 more weeks.
Writer says: "Would the creators of 'Kid Nation' please go to their room for a time-out and come up with something more original" -- Julie Hinds, Detroit Free Press pop culture writer
Network says: "These kids were in good hands and were under good care, with procedures and safety structures that arguably rival or surpass any school or camp in the country." -- Tom Forman, executive producer
Admirer says: "Its cast of teenagers and pre-teens were sometimes mean, frustrating or annoying, but they also proved themselves to be remarkably self-sufficient, smart, articulate, and funny. In short, they were real, and rather entertaining. . . . It's heartbreaking and inspiring at the same time." -- Andy Dehnart, MSNBC commentator
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Dad came, Dad saw, Dad had a great time
Father and son on the Great Wall. As we walked along, my dad's expressions changed from one of amazement to one of somewhat grief. A ring of sweat had grown around his neck and down both sides of his T-shirt as we walked up and down the wall as it rolled over the hilltops.
He was grumbling as he walked out into Beijing International Airport's arrival terminal. Something about the 13-hour flight, and maybe the airplane food. But I wasn't paying attention - I was more focused on the fact that he, my dad, had finally arrived in China for a weeklong visit. And I was also trying to predict how he'd react to the vastly different Chinese culture compared to our quiet Coal Region lifestyle.
The itinerary for his trip was a near carbon copy of my mom's trip the previous April: Tiananmen Square, Mao, Forbidden City, Great Wall, Summer Palace, Xi'an and my office at Beijing Review. The only difference would be the weather - Mom had visited in April, when temperatures were cool, while Dad would have to put up with the summer heat.
Dad was traveling with his friend and former student, Joe Krushinsky. Joe works for Maryland Public Broadcasting and is also chairman of the Carbon-Tamaqua unit of the American Cancer Society annual telethon. I had been a host on the telethon for five years, Like my dad, Joe had never been to China before and was in for a few surprises.
I had insisted Dad bring a friend since being a tourist is no fun unless you have someone else to share the experience, and complaints, with, especially if it's a first time visit for everyone involved.
On our first day, we visited Tiananmen Square, where Dad and Joe made the keen observation that they'd "never seen so many Chinese people before" in their lives. I had the same thought the first time I visited the square the year before.
For our trip to the Great Wall, I hired the same driver, John Ping, I had used when Mom visited. And he drove just as crazily as before, passing in no passing zones or on the shoulder of the road and choosing to ignore a few red lights. He also parked in a spot that was "his spot" but was definitely a through way for getting out of the parking lot.
Once on the wall, Dad and Joe's reactions were predictable - they just stared, and stared, and stared. This was my third visit, so I was basically unfazed, but still glad to be showing them one of the wonders of the world. Being on the wall was so much different than looking at all the photos I'd sent home during my two visits, Dad said. Looking off in one direction and seeing the wall snaking off over the mountains and then looking in the opposite direction and seeing the same thing, for miles and miles, really put the Great Wall into perspective, he said.
As we walked along, my dad's expressions changed from one of amazement to one of somewhat grief. A ring of sweat had grown around his neck and down both sides of his T-shirt as we walked up and down the wall as it rolled over the hilltops. The end of the Mutianyu section could be seen in the distance, taunting us, but we made it with lots of photos as proof of the journey.
The tourist destinations in Beijing were only complimented by the next best part about a trip to China: the food. Just as I'd taken Mom and brother Mike to all my favorite restaurants with a few of my Beijing friends, so, too, did I show Dad and Joe around the many eating venues of Beijing. Every night followed almost the same pattern: arrive at restaurant, eat and drink good Chinese food and beer, and wait for Dad to put down the chopsticks while exhaling and saying "Oooofff. That was good."
Traversing the Great Wall, showing him the nightlife and dining venues and introducing him to my friends in Beijing was great, but the highpoint of the visit was when I showed Dad around the Beijing Review compound, where I work. As far back as I can remember, I'd spend time with Dad at work when I was a little kid. I liked his office, and I liked the attention his co-workers gave me even more.
Now, years later, I was showing him around my office (actually, I just have a cubicle, but it's all relative) and introducing him to my colleagues. And he got the same type of attention as I did when I was young. My Chinese colleagues were so impressed to meet another foreigner, especially an editor of an American newspaper.
And just like Mom's visit, Dad's came to an end way too quickly.
"You've really done well for yourself here, Brandon," Dad said while we were waiting for his flight to leave. "We're very proud of you."
"Thanks, Dad," I said.
Before he arrived, I wasn't sure how he'd handle China. It can be a pretty intimidating place for some people, but Dad had a great time. (Check out his trip blog at grt-triptochina.blogspot.com.) And he only complained once because we had to wait more than an hour to get into a special Yunnan restaurant, only to admit later that it was the best restaurant we'd been to and well worth the wait.
"Oooofff. That was good."
Brandon Taylor is a language consultant/foreign expert for the Beijing Review, an English language weekly newsmagazine in Beijing, China. He is a former correspondent for the TIMES NEWS. Read Brandon's blog at http://www.btay200.blogspot.com/. He can be reached at email@example.com.


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NCTAF Highlights Learning Studios at Maryland Summit
On November 15th, 2012, NCTAF brought a variety of stakeholders together for a lively discussion about improving STEM education in order to meet the needs of the future workforce. "Learning Studios: Collaborating in Today's Schools to Build Tomorrow's Workforce" featured Maryland state education leaders, industry representatives, and teachers. The event highlighted NCTAF's STEM Learning Studios initiative as a program that improves education through innovative partnerships and a focus on cross-disciplinary collaboration between teachers and industry partners.
"Partnerships are the spark that makes things happen in education," said Tom Carroll, president of NCTAF. His opening remarks calling for collaboration resonated throughout several panelists' talks that highlighted the importance of partnerships in their work towards supporting teachers and engaging students in STEM fields. It was exciting to hear the creative ways that the state of Maryland and its districts are approaching STEM efforts to engage students.
A dynamic panel of Learning Studios practitioners invigorated the Summit agenda, sharing the impact of the partnership between teachers and industry that NCTAF's Learning Studios have fostered. Alan Kostrick, a computer science teacher at Hammond High School in Howard County, began by quoting fellow Learning Studios teachers. "STEM professionals can bring authentic work experiences and activities to our students, making their lessons more meaningful," one teacher noted. "We are teaching the same things, just in a different way," said Alan, focusing on how Learning Studios offer a process, rather than a packaged curriculum. As a teacher-focused organization, NCTAF was delighted that current and former teachers comprised the majority of the audience!
Mike Doellefeld, the Director of Aviation and Regulatory Affairs for The Boeing Company (a STEM Learning Studios partner organization), discussed the importance of mentoring for encouraging students to pursue STEM fields. As an integral part of a Learning Studios team in Anne Arundel, Mike has had the opportunity to bring the perspective of an engineer to the classroom, serving as a content expert to students and teachers. Hearing about Mike's experience working and learning alongside teachers was an encouraging reminder of the power of collaboration.
Duane Arbogast, the Chief Academic Officer of Prince George's County Public Schools, talked about the role of the district as a Learning Studios partner: creating the space for innovation to happen. He noted that Learning Studios provide the space for "thinking moves" from a content expert such as Mr. Doellefeld to become "teaching moves" in schools. "It's about asking the right question at the right moment to the right kid. It's among teachers, with teachers, and that's the beauty of this program."
At the close of the program, Ted Imes, Director of Corporate Citizenship for Northrop Grumman's Electronic Systems Sector, led a passionate call to action. "We can't find today's engineer. That's why we support this. It is real for us," Ted said. He emphasized that all constituencies must work together to create a culture change in our schools, so that the work towards student engagement in STEM fields can be self-sustaining. We all have a role to play in creating this change!
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IRA accused has T-shirt of slain brother on in court
A BROTHER of murdered dissident republican Alan Ryan has appeared in court wearing a T-shirt emblazoned with a photograph of his slain sibling.
The Special Criminal Court heard yesterday that a book of evidence may be served early next month on Vincent Ryan and two other men who are charged with membership of the IRA.
Last month, Vincent Ryan (22), with an address at Grange Abbey Drive, Donaghmede in Dublin, was charged with membership of an unlawful organisation styling itself the Irish Republican Army, otherwise Oglaigh na hEireann, otherwise the IRA on September 13.
His co-accused, Darragh Evans (23), of Grange Park Rise, Raheny, Dublin; and Nathan Kinsella (33), of Matt Talbot Court in Dublin city centre, were also charged with the same offence on the same date.
Both Vincent Ryan and Darragh Evans were subsequently charged with firearms offensives as part of a garda investigation into the murder of Michael Kelly (30), who was shot dead on Marsfield Avenue, Clongriffin, Dublin on September 15, 2011.
On September 21, the two men were charged with the possession of an AKM assault rifle and Webley revolver MkV1 at Clonshaugh Walk, Coolock, Dublin on September 15, 2011.
Counsel for the State, Tara Burns, asked that the case be adjourned until November 7, when she said the book of evidence would either be served or a date for the service of the book would be set.
With regard to an upcoming bail application on behalf of Mr Kinsella, Ms Burns asked that the hearing be adjourned until Friday, as information regarding the proposed terms of bail had come to gardai at "quite a late stage" and they wished to investigate further.
Ms Burns asked that bail applications for Vincent Ryan and Darragh Evans be adjourned until October 10, adding that gardai had yet to receive any information on proposed bail terms for Mr Ryan.
Mr Justice Garrett Sheehan remanded both Vincent Ryan and Darragh Evans in custody until October 10, while Nathan Kinsella was remanded in custody to appear before the court on Friday.
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The first realization has been made by Le Coarer et al. [1]. Since the use of detectors that have small enough dimension (a sixth of the wavelength, approximately 100 nm in our case) was impossible, for the first realization a solution based on light scattering has been developed. The idea was to use nanometric scattering centres deposited on the waveguide surface to extract the stationary wave from the waveguide and thus make far field detection possible thanks to an optic system. Because of diffraction limit of the far field detection system used the minimum distance between two scattering centers was 2.7 μm. Thus the Shannon's sampling criterion could not be satisfied. However, if the spectral range is relatively small, the restoration of the spectrum still remains possible. In this experimentation, we also use a solution based on light scattering, but unlike Le Coarer et al. [1] we have been able to fully sample the interferogram. In order to achieve that we scanned the interferogram by moving the position of the zero OPD (optical path difference) (see: 3.1). The component used for the following experimentation is a SWIFTS on glass substrate. It is composed of a single mode waveguide with nanowires of gold on top of it. The wave-guide has been produced by the ion K+ exchange technique. It is a 6 μm of diameter waveguide which is single mode at around 750 nm. With the nanowires of gold of 50 nm, it forms an
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[1] Le Coarer, E., Blaize, S., Benech, P., Stefanon, I., Morand, A., Lerondel, G., Leblond, G., Kern, P., F´ed´eli, J.-M., and Royer, P., "Stationary waves integrated fourier transform spectrometry (SWIFTS): towards an ultimate wavelength scalespectrometer," Nature Photonics 8, 473–478 (2007).


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Hush precious child, be very still
Stay very quiet and if you will
I'll tell you a beautiful fantasy
But you must listen very carefully
There's much more to this story than first meets the eye,
The tale of the Lion and the Firefly:
In a dark dingy cave, cowered a lowly lion
All alone with no-one to rely on
This once mighty King
Now a pitiful thing
He cried the lonely nights away
He wanted to make this his very last day.
Then into the cave came a brilliant light
That shined through the darkness, incredibly bright
The light was a beautiful Firefly
Who asked the poor lion "Please tell me why
You cower alone in this dark dingy cave
When once you were proud and incredibly brave?"
He said "I'm now just a shade of my once mighty self,
I've grown old and weak and I've lost my good health,
I can no longer cope with my trouble and strife
I no longer value my miserable life
Please leave me alone, my dear firefly,
Please leave me here in this dark cave, to die."
She said "It breaks my heart to see such distress
Please come with me to the Pool of Happiness
Where the Angels gaily dance and play
When you swim in the water, you'll be happy all day
You'll be blissfully happy, eternally
Now what do you say Lion? Will you come with me?"
The Lion wearily opened an eye
And turned to face the Firefly
The very moment that he saw the light
He was released from the chains that had held him so tight
That had weighed down his body, his heart and his brain,
He felt like a cub, as though he'd been born again!
Refreshed with new spirit, he said that he would
Follow the firefly through the Dark Gloomy Wood
Along a straight and narrow path
They progressed for over a month and a half
When all at once they were given a start
By the appearance of a beautiful pure white Hart.
The Hart he took flight
At the speed of white light
The Firefly followed
And reassuringly hollered
"Do not have fear!
You are safe while I'm near!"
"That Lion is as gentle as a lamb,
You would not fear him, if you knew who I am!
I'll keep you safe from this magnificent beast
Fear not, upon you, he'll never feast
My tender Hart, I'll take good care of you
Don't be afraid, it's the least I can do!
And in return, my dear Hart, you can help me"
"Oh!" said the Hart "but what good will I be?"
"You'll be my ears,
Your sharp senses can hear
Danger coming from far, far away
We might be in need of your help one day!"
So The Lion and The Firefly were joined by the Hart
And once again they made a fresh start
On their long and arduous Quest
To find the Pool of Happiness
Until a thousand miles on the Hart did declare
"I think that I can hear a Bear!"
So The Firefly went over and yes, true enough
A Big Black Bear! Fierce, mean and gruff!
When he tried to swot the Firefly
She exclaimed with a delicate little sigh
"That was not a nice thing to do
Especially since I have come to save you!
There's a ferocious Lion coming your way
And without my protection, you're easy prey!
I'll make you an offer you should not refuse,
If you disagree, then it's you who will lose!
I'll tell The Lion that he shouldn't eat you
And if you agree, he'll come over to meet you."
So The Big Black Bear met with The Lion
And The Firefly said "you can always rely on
Us to protect you
We won't neglect you
And you can join us in our noble Quest
To find the Pool of Happiness!"
So The Firefly, The Lion, The Hart and The Bear
Took the trail that would lead them to… Goodness knows where?
When the Hart saw an Eagle way up in the sky
Who swooped down to capture Firefly
But he couldn't catch her, oh no, that is right
Because The Bear struck The Eagle down in mid-flight!
"Please do not kill me" The Eagle did cry,
"I wasn't going to hurt The Firefly!
I've been watching you four and I wanted to know
Where it is you are trying to go?
I know every inch of this land,
And I just wondered if I could lend you a hand.
The Bear was very tempted to know
If the Eagle could show him the right way to go,
And so he asked the Eagle "can help us to find,
In these dense woods where we're no better than blind,
The mystical Pool of Happiness?
Can you lead us in our Quest?"
The Eagle exultantly did declare
"Yes, my dear friend! I do know where
To find this Pool of which you speak,
Don't worry, you no longer need to seek
For one single second more!
I've been there many times before.
Follow me and I will show
You four pilgrims where to go!"
The Eagle answered The Bear's request
By leading them to the Pool of Happiness
Where four Nymphs gaily played in the waters
So beautiful they could've been Athena's Daughters!
They beckoned all our Heroes near
And declared "What handsome fellows are here!"
The Eagle, Bear and Hart dived straight in
And over to the Nymphs those three did swim
Each one was swimming as fast as they can
And as they were swimming they changed into a Man
But The Lion remained stead-fast on the bank
And he shook his head and he said "no thank-you
You are not my type!"
And the Fourth Water Nymph sadly did wipe
Away a sorrowful tear
As she dived into the Pool and she disappeared.
The three men exclaimed "You could be happy!
Come on now Lion, what could it be,
After we've travelled so far to get here
You let your chance of joy disappear!
What's stopping you diving into the Pool?"
Dear Lion, are you a complete, utter Fool?
Those 3 new-born men were conceived by the seed
Of Lust, Envy and Pride, Wrath, Sloth, Jealousy, and Greed,
They indulged in every human desire
Until the end of the day, when they were consumed by a fire!
They had abandoned the safety of Firefly
And without her protection, were condemned to die!
The Lion knew the right thing to do,
His love for the firefly was faithful and true
He told her "Nymphs could not bring me happiness
If I ever thought of you in distress
I could not let that happen to you
I only want you to be happy too!
"But I am happy!" said The Firefly
As she wiped a tear away from her eye
"Then if you're happy, my love, then I'm happy too
And I will always be just as happy as you"
And the Lion grew wings and they flew into the sky
For now he too was a firefly!
The Eagle had claimed that his way was right
But the Firefly was the Way and the Truth and the Light
When the Lion stayed true to the Firefly
He received the Light that will never die
And they ascended to the Heavens above
Flying on the wings of love!
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Very impressive, Daniel. A wonderful read!
I wish I could give you a ten, I love this adorable little story and I fully intend to read it to my children,
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Merger Rejected, 'Disappointed' Louisiana's Jefferson Financial CU Looks at Second Try
The president/CEO of Louisiana's Jefferson Financial Credit Union, a suitor in a failed merger bid this week, said "the messaging could have been better" in trying to sway members of the targeted Main Street Financial FCU of Baton Rouge.
Still, despite "the disappointment and the hard work we've put in," the $260 million Metairie CU will explore another merger try after consulting with regulators, said Mark Rosa, the Jefferson head.
"We'd like to get another shot," Rosa said after Wednesday's 1,000-vote member rejection of Jefferson's offer to consolidate the $96 million Baton Rouge CU and form the state's fifth-largest CU.
The Jefferson/Main Street combination "was really a great fit and would have vastly improved" online services to the Baton Rouge market, Rosa said, adding that it comes at a time when Main Street Financial like many other financial institutions has undergone "a credit crisis" resulting from the recession.
The messaging about the merger "became confused," Rosa acknowledged. He said Jefferson Financial might have explained to members more clearly "how this kind of credit crisis had weakened" Main Street over the past three years and that a merger would work out well.
The Baton Rouge CU had lost $2 million in 2010 after absorbing large hits on corporate investments but had shown a small profit through the first three quarters of 2011.
Main Street Financial has 5,300 members and in December saw its president, Cary Anderson, step down.
"We are a healthy, well-capitalized credit union, knock on wood, but a partnership with Main Street would have created an important statewide credit union," said Rosa, whose CU serves a suburban New Orleans market.
Somehow, there was a breakdown in communication as the two boards tried to put forward the merger, Rosa said, defending a move by Main Street Financial, criticized by some members, to close a Lake Charles branch.
That decision, said Rosa, was made to cut costs and Main Street retains nearby facilities to serve that market.
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South Carolina's past is on trial as photo ID case goes to federal courtFriday, August 31st, 2012
(Kansas City Star) A federal trial opening Monday will examine the legality of South Carolina's new voter ID law and also put on display the state's history of racial discrimination.
The question: Has that history of racially charged politics faded into irrelevance? Or is the state still stacking the deck against African-Americans?
Dozens of S.C. legislators, officials, professors and interest group leaders will testify for five days under questioning by attorneys from a Washington law firm representing South Carolina and by civil rights lawyers with the Justice Department.


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Today we are testing the Arctic Cooling Accelero XTREME Plus VGA cooler, which has a huge heatsink with five heatpipes and three 92 mm fans. Check it out!
In Figure 1, you can see the XTREME Plus packaging. It is actually a plastic blister, as most products from this manufacturer.
In Figure 2, you can see the contents of the package: besides the cooler itself, only a manual, a power adapter, a slot cover, a case sticker, and a set of screws and washers.
In Figure 3, you can check the Accelero XTREME Plus VGA cooler.
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- 8. Conclusions


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FENTON Rosalene SIGNED D Barbour PINK Rose BOWL~VASE
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FENTON Rosalene SIGNED D Barbour PINK Rose BOWL~VASE
Quite Pretty!I offer this ARTIST-SIGNED Fenton art glass piece done in, what I believe to be, the Rosalene design~pattern. It features pink and white milk glass, with a lustre(shiny) finish. The rose bowl displays hand painted flowers, created by Fenton artist, Diana Barbour(Fouse). The upper rim has a crimped effect with a darker pink trim. The pink splotches~spots, throughout , make this a unique Fenton piece. This fairly small, round and scalloped vase measures approximately 4 1/4" in diameter and sits 3 1/4" high. Signed on the bottom~underside, "handpainted by D Barbour," along with the original silver and black foil paper label reading, "Fenton Handmade in USA." This particular sticker was used by Fenton from 1985 to present. T are NO Cracks or Chips. A FABULOUS addition to your Fenton collection! **Please ask any/all questions prior to placing a bid.** PETITE PEA CONTRACT AND PAYMENT TERMS: If YOU are the winning bidder, I will automatically receive your name and mailing(ship to) address at end of the auction. If the address that YOU supplied to eBay is NOT w you would like the item shipped, please email me immediately. Please do not use the eBay "CHECKOUT" feature until I have invoiced you for your item! Payment MUST be received NO LATER THAN TEN( ... read more


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From High Point Inn here in Door County it is just a short drive south to Fish Creek. Fish Creek offers a little more hustle and bustle, which provides a great atmosphere for walking, shopping and people watching.
On a warm evening it is nice to park the car on the north side of town and walk to the restaurants and shops of downtown Fish Creek. (The sidewalks are even lined with orange and yellow marigolds.) The shops are conveniently open later and there is also a great variety to choose from.
Fish Creek also has some great places to sit out and have a nice relaxing beverage or dinner. The other evening I visited The Cookery, which has a great wine bar upstairs and full restaurant downstairs. The wine bar offers appetizers and a beautiful birds eye view of the water and the sidewalks.
If you get tired of walking there is also a pedicab service in Fish Creek. Peninsula Pedicabs is just a phone call away for a nice ride through town or back to your car.
An evening in Fish Creek makes for an eventful night, especially at this time of year. Come join us while the evenings are still warm!


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That baby hooked me up on Davids' Tea. It's the second tea I bought in Vancouver and I do not regret it! I took a 5k walk to get a refill for this one! My spicy-tooth is gone down so I kind of forgot about it. However, tea conserved in a can is good for 2 years. It's just like the description renders it. It's strong, spicy, but delicious. A Latte with this one is God on earth. For those who don't like coconut, don't buy it. The taste is quite something.
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