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Pack overnighters are events involving more than one family from a single pack, focused on age-appropriate Cub Scout activities and conducted at council-approved locations. If siblings participate, the event must be structured accordingly to accommodate them. Adults giving leadership to a pack overnighter must complete Basic Adult Leader Outdoor Orientation (BALOO, No. 34162) and be present during the campout. BALOO trains participants to properly understand the importance of program intent, Youth Protection policies, health and safety, site selection, and sufficient adult participation. The council's list of BALOO approved camp sites is available here.
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Webelos Scout overnighters introduce a boy and his parent to the basics of the Boy Scout camping program. These campouts are conducted under the leadership of a trained Webelos den leader and include two to six nights of camping.
Webelos dens are encouraged to have several overnight campouts each year. These campouts should be parent-son events, under the direction of the Webelos den leader. At the den overnight campouts, the Webelos den leader may be assisted by the assistant Webelos den leader and the Webelos den chief. Webelos den leaders should have completed Outdoor Leader Skills for Webelos Leaders prior to leading an overnight campout.
Webelos Scout dens are encouraged to visit Boy Scout camporees. The purpose of this visit should be for the boys to look ahead with anticipation to their future as Boy Scouts. Webelos dens should not compete in activities designed for Boy Scouts and should not spend the night at events that are Boy Scout-based.


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We communicated for about 3 weeks.
The emails seem to repeat themselves and seemed canned so I got suspicious.
Fortunately no money was sent.
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As an independent law costs draftsman, my view of the fast-track experiment which runs from 1 October 1997 for one year is that these arrangements seem to be more for the benefit of the administration of the process and for the profit of the Taxing Office than for the benefit of the other parties involved.
Mark the words of Mr Justice Colman that this new procedure necessarily involves a "broad-brush" approach to the taxation of costs, and all parties' solicitors should advise their clients accordingly.
The procedure requires consent to the process no later than at the hearing of the Summons for Directions, and an assessment of the advantages and disadvantages will be made early and before the likely result.
Time for taxation will be limited to a maximum of half a day except in exceptional circumstances.
The procedure has to be strictly adhered to and the taxation will be determined on the basis of material lodged. Any oral submissions will be confined to points raised within 21 days and the decision will be final.
The result, it would seem, is that officers of the court will be required to do less, spend less time on a matter, and revenue for taxing fees will be increased as the turnover accelerates. The taxing fee is chargeable on solicitors' costs and all disbursements and VAT at 7.5 per cent.
If the likely receiving party's solicitor's records are first rate it would not seem to be an advantage to their client to accept a broad-brush approach.
The party likely to have a weaker case may benefit because the broad-brush approach militates against a successful party obtaining a recovery of all reasonable costs which might have been recovered on a more detailed examination which could not be given within the limited time period.
On the basis that the provisions of Order 62 will apply, the procedure would seem to offer the worst of both worlds. Winners shy from it, losers go for it.


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Hi! My name is Cédric Bozzi, I make websites and iOS apps, and this is my blog about technology (mostly a Twitter archive, really).
iTunes Giveaway.
Probably not applicable to iTunes Europe.
Preview the Dashboard widgets in your browser. (Probably won't stay online for long.) Doesn't seem to work without Safari. You can still download the PNGs.
So it would appear that Dashboard relies on a modified WebCore that allows HTML+JS widgets to access the computer's data and programs, so that for instance they can control iTunes or display the calendar and address book contents.
I know that Apple's programmers aren't too stupid, but, still… isn't that precisely the kind of added functionality that caused Microsoft to make Internet Explorer the worst collection of security holes ever released?
P.S. I don't know whether there'll be security holes at the implementation level, but at any rate they did consider security seriously.
Watch out for the technical point. It's not even about the web, but Windows programming, so you can just skip it. Besides, considering my current sleeping cycles, I'm dead now, so this post will be particularly bad. And what I'm writing about isn't even new anymore. That's how interesting it is.
So, if you're nosy, you can still click the icon and download the program, which isn't of much use — it's just a technical demo — but, well, I like to brag with my software. (Hoping it'll work on other computers than mine. And, of course, since that's the post's topic, you need the .NET runtime.)
LaCie DataBank. Sexy.
And now is the time to release the first useful program since I got into the .NET SDK: GarooSync 0.1.
I have been wanting an FTP utility like this one for a long time, and it was becoming an emergency now that I'm working on a eZ publish project, involving lots of subdirectories everywhere.
Here's the idea: I have on my hard drive local copies of my websites, corresponding to FTP-accessible distant directories — I'd expect any serious webmaster to have this setup, as I don't see any other reasonable way to work. With a normal FTP client, when I edit a file I have to launch the FTP client, browse the local view to the directory my file is in, browse the distant view to the corresponding directory, and launch the upload. And that's completely stupid, because any given file on my local setup will systematically go to the same distant spot, so it's a huge waste of time and energy to have to wander around filesystems every time.
Hence GarooSync: once you've configured the correspondence between local and distant directories (for now you have to manually edit XML files, but there'll be a configuration interface someday), all you have to do is launch "syncupload index.php" and the file is uploaded (caution: there's no confirmation request; a future version will check last modification times).
I haven't looked into adding options to the Windows explorer context menu yet, so you'll have to manage this on your own: first you can add SyncUpload and/or SyncDownload to your "Send to" menu by creating shortcuts in the SendTo subdirectory in Documents and Settings; second, you can add them to your text editor's tools menu. In Code-Genie (which I won't link to because the latest version isn't free anymore), after adding a line to the configuration file, I can now upload a file I just modified simply by pressing Ctrl+1. Editing code, pressing a shortcut, the file is up. I hope that, if you're a webmaster, you realize how handy this is.
Thanks to Jaimon Mathew for the FTP library (this one seems to work: I updated everything on garoo.net/software with it).
Google acquires Picasa. Logical yet surprising evolution of the Hello/Blogger partnership. Now what? Could Hello become Google's full-fledged IM solution?
Nokia Lifeblog beta. Testing will be quick: it's perfectly usable without a phone, but it only works in full-screen mode. It's not only slightly annoying when you have a triple-head display, but also prevents from drag-and-dropping pictures onto the timeline, which would obviously be the most natural way of using it. I sent a bug report, but I don't know whether they'll get it: their form doesn't work.
Conclusion: I'll add a Lifeblog clone to the list of software I want to make. Timeline, drag-and-drop support for pictures (or any other file) à la Hello, one-click HTML page publishing, and you're done.
Digital Scrolling Name Tag Badge. Excellent.
Blinkx. Let's see.
Wow: Google has just bought Picasa, it becomes free. "
Picasa will not delete or move the location of pictures saved on your PC": maybe I'll try it then.
V-Animator (direct download, osx-e doesn't do permalinks), to make your buttons pulse, as in OS X. So useless it's vital. (But not very spectacular with the graphite color scheme.)
The Kodak Camera
phone starts a craze. Damn that devilish technology thingy!
Your iPod mini has a sticky residue on it after removing the protective shipping materials. Where in this do they apologize for not changing their packaging even though they know it's defective?
Expire (one of those Exposé clones) beta 2 (via Aqua-Soft). It's certainly good, but it doesn't work here.
Thoughts on displaying times in blogs. Two very good ideas I'll be sure to copy when my mind is into tweaking my templates.
Upcoming features in Thunderbird 0.8 (via Paul Thurrot): RSS aggregation and global POP inbox, it's really beginning to interest me.
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Your face is the most prominent feature. While having a conversation, eye contact is a sign of confidence and high self-esteem. As such, eyelashes are quite important. Not only do they add to beauty to our eyes, they also have functional benefits to the eye. They protect our eyes from damage and contamination by insects and other harmful particles in the atmosphere. It is therefore very important to care for and protect our eyelashes.
Causes For Eyelashes Falling Out
Just as all other body hairs fall out at one time or another, our eyelashes are no different. There are varieties of reasons why our eyelashes may fall out. Some are avoidable. However, others are beyond our own control.
Eyelid Infection
This may be because of an infected eye of insect related causes such as the mites. Lack of proper facial hygiene may also lead to eyelid infections. These infections affect the natural remedies for eyelash growth and leads to the falling out of already existing lashes.
Thyroid Condition
An individual may have relatively inactive or overactive thyroid glands. This condition leads to the loss of eyelashes and other body hairs.
Allergies to Mascara
Mascara may contain some ingredients that your body is allergic to. These ingredients may affect your eyelids and lashes. This may weaken them and even lead to them falling off.
This is a treatment for cancer patients. It leads to the loss of hair on the body including the eyelashes.
Alopecia Areata
This is a condition that leads to general body hair loss including the get thicker eyelashes. It is caused by the action of the immune system on hair follicles, which are viewed as an infection to the body. This leads to the prevention of eyelashes from growing.
This is an eye infection. As a result, the eyelashes are affected and they begin to fall off.
Natural Eyelash Loss
Eyelashes may fall off naturally due to ageing
How to Prevent Loss Of Eyelashes?
Hope for the people. There are ways to prevent the longer and luscious eyelashes before the problem occurs. As it is said, prevention is always better than the cure. Below are some of the basic ways in which eyelash loss may be avoided.
By Removing Eye Make-up Regularly
A daily cleansing of the face with emphasis on the eyes is essential to remove all facial and eye make-up. This will open up the skin pores allowing the eyelashes to grow healthily.
Stop Using Eyelash Curlers
Eyelash curlers apply heat on the eyelashes in order to curl them. By doing so, the eyelashes become dehydrated and dry, leading them to breaking off. By avoiding lash curlers, we maintain the moisture in our lashes.
By Avoiding Over Exposing Your Eyelashes To Sunlight
Overexposure to sunlight may damage the eyelids and further lead to dehydration of the eyelashes. It also leads to the weakening of the eyelashes. Keep your eyes moisturized and maintain the moisture by avoiding over exposure to sunlight.
By Avoiding Pulling Out Or Tugging On Your Lashes
Pulling on your eyelashes leads to their breakage and in some instances plucking them from the eyelid. This leads to thinner and fewer eyelashes. By avoiding this action, the eyelashes are allowed to grow long.
Natural Remedies For Preventing Eyelashes From Falling Out
You can prevent your eyelashes from falling out right in the comfort of your home. This is better done using natural remedies instead of medications and other chemical solutions. Home natural remedies may include:
Petroleum Jelly
Various petroleum jellies such as Vaseline are useful in growing and maintaining long lashes. A daily application of petroleum jelly to the eyelids is required before going to sleep. This is done using a clean mascara brush or an eyelash brush. Application of the jelly should be done as closely as possible to the root of the eyelashes. The applicant later washes this off the next morning as she cleanses the face.
Green Tea
Green tea acts as a stimulant to stimulate the growth of hair. The tea used should be cold and unsweetened. The tea is applied on to the lashes with a clean cotton ball. The flavonoids and caffeine present in the tea stimulate and maintain healthy growth of eyelashes.
Olive Oil
Olive oil is a natural oil rich in vitamins and minerals. Applying it to the eyelashes assists them to grow long and thick. The presence of vitamins and minerals make eyelashes healthy and strong. Olive oil moisturizes the eyelashes thus preventing them from being brittle and breaking off.
Eyelash Enhancers
These are substances containing lipids thus enhancing the growth of hair. When applied to eyelashes, they stimulate the growth of the eyelashes.
Using the remedies stated above and others known to have the same effect, we can avoid damaging and losing our eyelashes. However, some causes are regrettably unavoidable. Having said so, it is important to note that general care for the eyelashes is necessary for the growth and maintenance of long lashes even in difficult times.


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Best Practice Office Environmental Maintenance- What Your Commercial Cleaners Can Do for You
Getting expert advice about office maintenance
Sometimes commercial cleaning issues can reveal major problems. You may be surprised to learn that you have expert flooring advice on tap when you need it from your office cleaning services. Contract cleaners are experts on these issues, because they have to manage all sorts of different types of commercial situations and environments.
Their cleaning work is directly related to the actual condition of the office environment. They're responsible for maintaining these areas, and they'll know what the problems are. This sort of information is invaluable for helping make decisions about office conditions, because it identifies specific problems that can cost big money.
Commercial spaces issues
The truth is that unless you keep your office maintenance on a firm leash, costs can run away. There are a range of health issues which need to be addressed in terms of OHS as well as maintaining a good working space in your office for your staff and clients.
The issues are:
- Health- Some office environments can become unhealthy simply because the carpet is old and contains a lot of grit, pollen and dust which can set off respiratory and allergic reactions. One of the least known, and most dangerous, of all office issues are fungal spores. These tiny spores are universal in the global environment, and can be toxic, even for healthy people. They can grow and destroy carpet and even timber.
- Hygiene- One of the most common issues in older commercial premises is that lack of maintenance and buildup of grime over the years can create a very unhealthy working environment. All it takes is one sloppy occupant to create a lot of problems.
- Flooring- Flooring is the largest single surface in use in any building. It's also where most of the environmental problems originate. Old carpets, deteriorating or damaged floor surfaces are potentially dangerous hazards in public or work spaces which can all add up to possible major costs for commercial building owners and managers. Risks include public and OHS liabilities.
How your cleaners can help solve your office issues
Modern industrial cleaning is more of a science than ever before. Professional cleaners can provide a very large range of solutions to these problems, including:
- Full maintenance cleaning- This is a real "top to bottom" process using modern chemicals and advanced equipment which is extremely effective in dealing with the various health and environmental issues described above.
- Flooring restoration- Carpet restoration involves resealing and deep cleaning carpets to remove grit, allergens and grime. These treatments also reduce the effects of grit on the carpet fibers and make the carpet easier to keep clean. Surface restoration may require special treatments to resurface hard floor surfaces, and has the advantage of preventing further wear and tear.
Advisory services- For many office environmental issues, your cleaners can be a virtual one stop shop for advice. These people are tradespeople, and there's not much they don't know about commercial environments and their problems. Whether it's a smell, a stain or a major issue with office hygiene, they can help and provide guidance and solutions. They're also experts on environmental health issues.
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MOVIE SYNOPSIS [ General Audiences ] The Princess Bluerose part of a community of gnomes is responsible for controlling the passage from night to day thanks to the magic silver that only they possess. But one day, a group of men stealing gnomes and silver, thus condemning the world to live in darkness forever. The Princess Bluerose have to overcome ordeals to recover the magic silver. You can watch Julenatt i Blåfjell online on TV cable or theaters with original audio in Norwegian at different dates. This film premiered in theaters in 2009.
Rating: 5 by 274 users./
Runtime: 82 minutes
Ane Viola Semb, Johan Tinus Lindgren, Finn Schau, Lillian Lydersen, Knut Walle, Martin Slaatto, Kyrre Hellum, Simen Bakken, Aurora Claes Digerud, Nikoline Ursin Erichsen, Rolf Kristian Larsen and Hedda Austad Lindgren.
Fantasy, Family, Adventure.
82-minute film (full movie) directed by Katarina Launing and Roar Uthaug.
The original audio of Julenatt i Blåfjell has dialogues in or Norwegian, it was produced in Norway.
It premiered in cinemas or television in 2009.
Screenplay written by Gudny Hagen and Thomas Moldestad.
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Michigan leads nation in football attendance again
INDIANAPOLIS -- Michigan was the national leader in college football attendance for the 15th straight year, and the Southeastern Conference went over 7 million in total attendance for the first time after expanding from 12 to 14 teams.
The NCAA said Thursday that almost 49 million fans attended games in all divisions in 2012-13. More than 37 million fans attended Football Bowl Subdivision games, where the average was 45,440 a game.
Michigan averaged a record 112,252 fans for six home games. The Wolverines broke the record of 112,179 they set over eight home games in 2011.
Three other teams averaged in six figures -- Ohio State (105,330), Alabama (101,722) and Texas (100,884).
The SEC was the top-drawing conference for the 15th year in a row, with the addition of Missouri and Texas A&M helping the league total 7.48 million fans and average 75,538 a game.
The Big Ten (70,040), Big 12 (59,004), Pac-12 (53,679) and Atlantic Coast (49,910) rounded out the top five in conference average attendance.
Attendance of 48.96 million for all divisions was the third-highest total in history and included home games, neutral-site games and postseason contests. The record of 49.70 million was set in 2011.
The Football Bowl Subdivision postseason featured 35 bowl games that averaged 49,224. Appalachian State led FCS attendance for the fifth time in six years with an average of 26,358 fans.
Grand Valley State led Division II for the second straight year, with 12,034 fans, and St. John's (Minn.) led Division III with 7,948.
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The May 31, 2011 South Carolina Supreme Court opinion in Miles v. Miles, 393 S.C. 111, 711 S.E.2d 880 (2011), remedies what many South Carolina family law practitioners, including myself, considered a misguided decision in the case of Floyd v. Morgan, 383 S.C. 469 , 681 S.E.2d 570 (2009) to increase the burden of modifying support when support was previously set based upon an agreement. The Miles opinion was written by Justice Hearn, who replaced Justice Waller since Floyd was decided. Her opinion notes:
Prior case law has indicated that a party faces a heightened burden when seeking to prove a substantial change in circumstances from a court order approving an agreement. This principle has had the effect of chilling the litigants' desire to resolve their disputes by agreement, which is contrary to this Court's longstanding preference in favor of settlement. Accordingly, we take this opportunity to expressly disavow the line of cases that articulate an even higher burden on the party seeking modification when an agreement is involved. Today, we clarify that while the burden to prove entitlement to a modification of spousal or child support is a substantial one, the same burden applies whether the family court order in question emanated from an order following a contested hearing or a hearing to approve an agreement.
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The primary issue on appeal in Miles was whether the family court had authority to modify a provision of the parties' divorce agreement in which Husband agreed:
[T]o maintain health and dental insurance on [Wife] through his place of employment until such time as [Wife] remarries or until [Wife] attains employment which provides health insurance to employees as part of its fringe benefits package; both [Husband] and [Wife] waive alimony.
Wife had not remarried or obtained employment in which she was provided health insurance. She argued that because both parties had waived alimony, this health insurance requirement was in the nature of property division and not subject to modification. While the family court and the Court of Appeals agreed with Wife's position, the Supreme Court disagreed, finding this provision was in the nature of spousal support and was therefore modifiable:
As to whether Husband's obligation is an incident of support, the maintenance of health insurance has the hallmark of spousal support: it provides the receiving spouse a benefit which is normally incident to the marital relationship. Additionally, our courts have previously awarded health insurance as a form of support. Awards of spousal support do not become property divisions, and therefore non-modifiable, absent something more.
Here, the agreement simply states Husband will provide health and dental insurance for Wife. It does not indicate Wife surrendered property rights in exchange for it, nor does the agreement provide any indication that Husband's obligation is anything other than support. Additionally, this requirement terminates automatically upon Wife's remarriage or her obtaining employment that provides similar coverage, both instances in which she would be able to obtain this benefit through means other than Husband. The language creating Husband's obligation in the agreement even appears in the same paragraph as the language pertaining to alimony. In fact, it is in the same sentence. Looking squarely at the face of the agreement, we cannot find it is unclear or susceptible to more than one interpretation. Therefore, although we agree with the family court and the court of appeals that the agreement is unambiguous, we hold that it unambiguously creates a support obligation.
Wife argues that her decision to waive alimony unambiguously demonstrates the insurance obligation is not an incident of support. However, alimony is not the only form of support available in a divorce. See S.C. Code Ann. § 20-3-130 (Supp. 2009) (discussing the different forms of alimony and "[s]uch other form of spousal support . . . as appropriate under the circumstances"). Wife and the family court have placed too much emphasis on the language that the parties "waive[d] alimony." Such semantic distinctions have been abolished in family law. As we said in Moseley v. Mosier, 279 S.C. 348, 306 S.E.2d 624 (1983)],
[t]he parties' intent is rarely revealed from the agreement's words of art. Generally, those terms are used without intending or implying any particular legal consequences. Later, courts impose the consequences upon the unsuspecting parties. Today, we overrule those cases which hold that words of art make a major distinction in the operation of divorce law.
The mere fact the parties waived alimony—i.e., permanent and periodic, lump sum, rehabilitative, and reimbursement alimony—does not lead to the inescapable conclusion they accordingly waived all other forms of support. Such a result is contrary to the common sense approach to extrajudicial agreements advocated in Moseley.
Therefore, we hold the agreement unambiguously provides a modifiable incident of support in the form of health and dental insurance as a matter of law. Thus, the family court committed an error of law in denying Husband a modification
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Finding Husband's significantly deteriorated earning capacity and health problems and Wife's increased income were a substantial change of circumstances, the Supreme Court remanded the matter back to family court for an adjustment of Husband's support obligation.
In his partial concurrence, partial dissent, Justice Pleicones continued to express his view, first noted earlier this month in Lewis v. Lewis, 392 S.C. 381, 709 S.E.2d 650 (2011), that the Supreme Court, when reviewing orders on certiorari from the Court of Appeals, only corrects errors of law and does not have jurisdiction to make its own findings of fact. He would have remanded the matter back to the family court without making a determination that Husband had proven a substantial change of circumstances.


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Lie Low and Exalt Christ
Dr. Ray PritchardDr. Ray Pritchard is the president of Keep Believing Ministries, an Internet-based ministry serving Christians in 225 countries. He is the author of 29 books, including Stealth Attack, Fire and Rain, Credo, The ABCs of Christmas, The Healing Power of Forgiveness, An Anchor for the Soul and Why Did This Happen to Me? Ray and Marlene, his wife of 39 years, have three sons - Josh, Mark and Nick, two daughters-in-law- Leah and Vanessa, and four grandchildren - Knox, Eli, Penny and Violet. His hobbies include biking, surfing the Internet, and anything related to the Civil War.
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"Lie low and exalt Christ."
That sentence stands as a powerful admonition for every pastor and every Christian leader. It is great advice because it describes two choices. You can exalt yourself or you can exalt Christ, but you can't do both. When we decide to lie low and exalt Christ, there is no limit to what the Lord may choose to do through us.
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Kerry Washington Teases Met Gala Appearance On "GMA" – WATCH VIDEO!
Kerry Washington teased her appearance at the 2016 Met Gala on Monday's "Good Morning America." Watch below!
Appearing on "GMA" just hours before the exclusive Costume Institute Gala kicks off at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Washington took a look back at her Met Ball looks from years past, calling it "a cool walk through time." But will she top last year's pink gown? "We're gonna try," she hinted.
Washington went on to say, "For me, this night is really strictly about fashion. A lot of other events — the Oscars are about filmmaking, the Emmys are about excellence in television — but this night is really about fashion as art and celebrating the Met and celebrating, you know, the history of great fashion and how it fits into our context of American art, international art."
And though she wouldn't give any more details about her outfit, Washington did have some advice: "You have to be able to touch your own lipstick and wear a dress you can eat in." The actress' sit-down coincided with "Melanoma Monday," and she used the interview to also discuss her skin cancer awareness work with Neutrogena.
"There's a lot of benefits to melanin. It's very, very pretty. Brown girls rock, black girl rock," Washington said. "But we still are at risk for skin cancer, so it's really important to protect ourselves." The star also gave some teases about this week's "Scandal." Check out the video below!


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Hi Bruce,
The important thing about tracking military careers is not so much where they were 'from' but what organization they were in.
In the case of the Revolutionary War: Militia? State Troops?Continental Army?What Regiment/Battalion?Then one canWhat unit was he in?Are you talking about the MD Captain by thfigure out what activity they might have been involved in and where records might be.
According to Heitman's /Historical Register of Officers of the Continental Army . . . ./ a Capt. James Williams started out in the 10th VA Reg't. (Continental) which was consolidated and renamed the 6th VA Reg't. in May 1779.The entire regiment was captured at Charleston.
I did not find a listing for a VA Capt. (or other VA officer) named Charles Bruce.
You can look at Heitman's book here:
I am sure there must be some specific lists of Charleston captives in the British military records, Colonial Office manuscripts, British Archives, Kew, England -- but to the best of my knowledge they have not been published.
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6 comments:
- Alrischa said...
Sometimes I wonder what my hubby is going to say when he discovers I've got twice as much yarn as he thinks. I'll probably say, "but I have plans for it all..."
- June 11, 2009 at 12:43 AM
- birana said...
Many nice options in that list! Love ishbel pattern! I would make a new one in a more winter yarn for sure!
- June 11, 2009 at 10:09 AM
- Sinéad said...
Wow, that's a lot of projects. You're going to have to learn how to knit while you run!
- June 11, 2009 at 12:37 PM
- Sereknitty said...
Don't forget to add the Garter Stitch Cardigan to that list -- I still really love mine!
I've been have dreams about 'dream in colour classy', so when I saw some online, conned my mom and sister into going in on it with me for my birthday in July -- doesn't count as a purchase, when it's a gift, right??
- June 11, 2009 at 9:55 PM
- Sam said...
Funny how we like the same things..I have bought the Ondule pattern the moment it went out. Still looking for the perfect yarn... I am trying to find a nice ombre / subtle mix of colours - a dark plum - Blue Moon Fibers ???? ideas ??
- June 12, 2009 at 9:12 PM
- Knit and Purl Mama said...
I would love a sweater's worth of Tanis Aran for a sweater. I hear you!
Glad you'll be joining our KAL!
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by Lily Iona MacKenzie
I attended my first author/agent symposium not long ago, an event sponsored by the American Society of Journalists and Authors. The location was gracious—the officer's club at Fort Mason in San Francisco, a building with windows along one side, overlooking the bay. The view takes in Alcatraz and parts of Aquatic Park, the waves sweeping along the shore, swimmers tackling them without wet suits.
An opening address on what agents do and don't do, panels covering what's happening in publishing today (and how it affects authors and agents), what agents are looking for, and how to get an agent competed with the view. Some of us found our attention drawn to the bay and the boats gliding in and out of the Golden Gate.
Perhaps like me others noticed that these protected waters opening up into the ocean suggested unlimited possibilities. By contrast, what we were hearing inside this room conveyed the opposite: a contraction in the publishing area, an unwillingness to take risks, publishers' marketing departments having the strongest voice.
In the past, agents and publishers were responsible for the marketing process. According to one agent, not only must the writer create an elegant, sexy, gripping overview of a non-fiction work, she also must find a well-known authority who will write the introduction; do research on all the books in the field and explain how hers is unique; present a marketing list of thousands; identify the subsidiary rights and spin-offs; explain what she will do to promote the book ("potentially the most important part of the proposal. Make this list as long and strong as you can"); include a list of major cities around the country that she will get herself to ("the number of events you will continue to do for a year, and the number of copies you will sell a year at these events"); and provide an 8 x 10 photograph along with a bio that makes you look like a successful author, one who can handle herself on television interview spots (How to Write a Book Proposal, Michael Larsen).
There's more.
If you want to publish a book, you must sell your soul to corporate publishing and jump through their hoops. If you don't write what's currently considered profitable, forget it. Agents have trouble selling adult fiction, especially by an unknown, and many won't go near it. A children's agent who has been in the business for over twenty years said that publishers have decided that kids, even very young ones, want darker stories dealing with divorce, eating disorders, and other difficulties facing today's youth. Children's writers have to compete with television and computers where almost anything goes.
Of course, many people in publishing still care about finding and presenting good literature. They know that the human spirit needs it. Those people were at the symposium I attended. But they have very little power in this era of conglomerates.
No longer does the writer have a privileged place in the publishing world, granted because she has learned her craft well and developed the necessary creative capacities through perseverance and hard work. A prostitute at best, a beggar at worst, she stands at these conferences, holding her sign that says, "Hungry and homeless. Please represent me at any cost." (My husband pointed out later that when I was a cocktail waitress at the Fairmont, I was granted more dignity.)
At this conference, I prostrated myself, taking careful notes, gathering all the free literature that was offered. But I hated every minute of it. I hated the groveling, the indignities, the humiliation of being reduced to this level just to see my name on the cover of a book jacket.
Still, I paid my $10.00 (in addition to the $150.00 symposium fee) to meet for ten minutes with an agent. During the no-host bar "schmoozing" period, I searched the room for people I'd seen on panels whom I felt some rapport with and dutifully chatted about the possibilities of a future relationship, feeling as if I was at a singles' dance.
My desire to publish is not just for recognition or fame, though of course I would like some of both. I write because it gives me immense pleasure to make a work that illuminates my own inner processes and could give others enjoyment. I've never expected a large audience, but I want to publish because—naively perhaps—I think it matters, that the word still has some power to transform minds and change perceptions.
At the end of the day, I looked around the room at those gathered there, some young, mostly older, both genders equally represented. They looked eager, having given up a beautiful autumn Saturday, hoping to find an agent who would recognize their value and represent them. I shared their hopefulness. I stayed until the last possible moment, wanting to be sure I didn't miss anything, my briefcase stuffed with names and numbers.
Once in my car, I headed for the Golden Gate Bridge. At a stoplight, I noticed a woman standing there, wearing tattered jeans and a war surplus jacket several sizes too big. Straight as a sentry, witnessing for the homeless, she held her sign in front of her: "Will work for food." I opened my window, handed her my last $5.00 bill, and asked "Could I have your sign?"
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What an excellent commentary on the state of publishing. I enjoyed the last line immensely and only wished that if it wouldn't have been for creating a littering offense, you'd have tossed all the agent and publisher contact information out the window in response to a confident feeling that the "old" publishing world is dead, and that the "new" one that's coming will recognize your talent and give you the print you deserve.
Of course, that may be grounds for believing in fairy tales, but at least it's hopeful. And, hope is what all of us–writers and readers alike–need now! I hope to read more of your work very soon.
Elizabeth Madden-Zibman
This is a marvelous piece exposing the painful, untenable position of the unpublished author in today's world. And the situation authors face is summed up succinctly:
"a contraction in the publishing area, an unwillingness to take risks, publishers' marketing departments having the strongest voice."
Bravo Lily Iona Mackenzie!
This is a wonderful piece. At one writer conference here in Boston I paid 75 bucks for an agent conference. I ?write memoir. Anyway, this woman told me she found my characters unlikeable! Also told this older woman who had flown in from Europe that Holocaust stories were a glut on the market! Once I even flew to New York and felt sorry for the agent with so many practically attacking for attention. And as for marketing? How am I supposed to do that at age 69? I can hardly get out of bed in the mornings, but I'm stubborn and refuse to give up.
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The exposure draft Bill for the taxation of 'attribution managed investment trusts' has been received with much hand-wringing and plaintive cries of 'what does it all mean?'. A threshold question is whether your MIT will fall within the regime. The text of the Bill makes that question difficult to answer.
A MIT can only be an AMIT if the beneficiaries have 'clearly defined interests' in the trust. They can only have clearly defined interests if two conditions are satisfied. Neither of them is very clear – in fact one of them is very obscure.
Condition 1: no streaming
The first condition appears to be a 'no-streaming' rule. The EM says there must be 'an objective benchmark for the attribution of tax consequences of the activities of the trust to its members'. It also says the trustee must not have any discretion 'to determine the character of income distributed to each member'.
So far so good. However, the proposed terms of the condition itself will require that, 'assuming that the trust is an AMIT … , the amount of each member component for the income year of each member of the trust can be worked out on a fair and reasonable basis ...'.
The link between what the EM says and the draft law is obscure. First, the Bill requires you to assume that your MIT is an AMIT as part of determining whether your MIT is an AMIT – which is not easy to get your head around. Secondly, if you are game enough to work through the relevant provisions, you will encounter the notion of a 'member's member component of an AMIT character' – which does not exactly illuminate matters. Thirdly, the Bill contains a clear 'no streaming' rule in another subdivision, which begs the question – why wasn't that provision used here? The answer is not obvious.
Condition 2: fixed trust
The second condition is a 'fixed trust' rule. The EM says 'only trusts which are sufficiently non-discretionary receive the benefits available to attribution MITs – such as deemed fixed trust treatment'. It also says the trustee must not have any discretion 'to determine the entitlement to the income and capital of the trust of each member of the trust'.
Again, so far so good but, again, the proposed terms of the condition itself are unclear: they require that 'the right of each member of the trust to the income and capital of the trust cannot be materially diminished through the exercise of a power or right'.
The main difficulty with this drafting is that the rights of a beneficiary of a trust are, to a very large extent, defined, negatively, by the rights of the trustee. If the trustee has the right to do something with respect to the trust's income or capital, it follows that the beneficiary does not have the right to prevent the trustee doing that thing.
In my view, the drafting is misconceived because it assumes that a beneficiary's right can be materially diminished by the trustee doing something when the outer limit of the beneficiary's right is, ordinarily, defined by the trustee's very ability to do that thing. If that is right, then most trusts, including a conventional discretionary trust, would satisfy the 'fixed trust' rule. Plainly, that is not the intention – but if it is even possible that that is the result of applying the drafting, its appropriateness must be questioned.
An objection to my criticism might be that the proposed terms of the condition are very similar to the restriction imposed by the Corporations Act on the power of a responsible entity of a registered scheme to make unilateral amendments to the scheme's constitution. The problem with that objection, as every funds lawyer knows, is that the Corporations Act restriction on unilateral amendments has been the subject of intense judicial disagreement as to its meaning. That controversy was described in 360 Capital Re Ltd v Watts [2012] VSCA 234. Why use a concept which has been shown to be so unclear?
The other problem with the drafting is that it does not confine the powers and rights that may be exercised so as to cause material diminishment, to the powers and rights of the trustee. Specifically, the drafting does not exclude the possibility of an exercise of a power or right by the beneficiaries causing material diminishment – for example, by the beneficiaries passing a special resolution at a meeting. The EM and the surrounding provisions in the Bill suggest that it is only the trustee's actions that are meant to be relevant – but the drafting does not say that. If the beneficiaries' actions could be relevant to the question of material diminishment then, subject to my earlier point, very few trusts would satisfy the 'fixed trust' rule.
There has to be a better way.
A better test for a fixed trust?
Unsurprisingly, this is not the first time the income tax law has had to grapple with the concept of a fixed trust.
The concept appears in the rules governing CGT rollover relief, when there is a transfer between two trusts. In that context, a trust is considered to be fixed if 'the manner or extent to which each beneficiary … can benefit from the trust is not capable of being significantly affected by the exercise, or non-exercise, of a power'.
In this provision, we already have drafting which clearly conveys what most people would understand to be a fixed trust.
A plea to Treasury: Please don't try to fix something that wasn't broken – why not use this test instead?


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Coach Todd McLellan may not expect flawless play, but the San Jose Sharks haven't won back-to-back road games for nearly two months.
Facing the last-place Nashville Predators could provide an ideal chance to make that happen, though San Jose won't have center Logan Couture available to help.
The Sharks attempt to conclude this three-game trip with another victory while trying to avoid a fourth straight loss at Nashville on Tuesday night.
San Jose (27-10-6) is second in the Pacific Division, but it's dropped eight of 12 as the visitor since winning three straight from Nov. 12-15.
The Sharks are hoping Sunday's 3-2 shootout win over Chicago helps them end their recent road woes. That impressive performance came a night after they opened the trip by giving up the first four goals in a 4-3 loss to Colorado.
"It's hard to demand perfection, but you have to demand as close as you can get to that," McLellan said. "The players gave us that (Sunday). It still was a tough task. To score only two and win a game against Chicago, you've done something pretty well."
San Jose hasn't done much well at Nashville, losing three straight visits while being outscored 10-4. They lost the most recent matchup there 3-2 on Dec. 14 despite outshooting the Predators 38-23 and 20-7 in the third period.
Joe Thornton had an assist in that meeting, giving him 42 with 61 points in 50 career matchups, including the playoffs. That also includes 30 points in 26 visits to Nashville (18-19-6).
Thornton's 43 assists on the season lead the NHL, and he's accumulated 12 of them during an eight-game point streak.
Unlike Thornton, Brent Burns is rarely a factor against the Predators, getting six points in 23 career meetings and none for the last nine.
The winger, however, may be poised to end that drought since he has five goals and four assists over the past seven games after finding the net Sunday. Burns' 14 goals on the season are three shy of his career high, set with Minnesota in 2010-11.
Couture also has 14 goals along with 35 points, but he won't be adding to those totals due to an upper-body injury that will require surgery. General manager Doug Wilson said that Couture has been playing with the injury for several weeks and decided to have surgery when it did not respond as hoped.
Wilson said the team will have a better idea after the operation of how much time Couture will miss. The center had a four-game goal streak snapped Sunday, but he recorded an assist and the shootout winner against the Blackhawks.
The Predators are opening a five-game homestand after an 0-1-2 trip ended with a 2-1 road loss to Carolina on Sunday.
"We should have had five or six points out of this trip," coach Barry Trotz said. "We came away with two, and that's discouraging. We put ourselves in the position to get points, so we just need a save."
Goaltenders Carter Hutton and Marek Mazanec continue to struggle to replace Pekka Rinne, who is out indefinitely with a hip infection.
Hutton is 0-4-1 with a 3.64 goals-against average in his last six games, getting pulled twice. He drew Trotz's ire Sunday when he gave up the decisive goal to Jeff Skinner with 3:31 left in the third period.
"I thought we really held them down to no chances," Trotz said. "We got zero saves. (Skinner's goal) wasn't much of a shot at all."
Mazanec, though, has given up seven goals while losing his last two games.
Shea Weber has one goal and four assists in his last three games. He has 15 points in 18 career meetings - including the postseason - with San Jose after getting an assist in last month's matchup.


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Good information! Thank You Susan! And then it happened…I went down the Rabbit Hole of Susan's Blog and have been happily reading your blog for an hour. I love you honesty. Makes me feel less alone on my horse adventures and gave me many belly laughs. I had to claw my way out of the Rabbit Hole to go pick up my truck. But I will surely retun to reading them very soon. Love to read your quirky writing! PS: Now don't get a big head over this post. As you know I tend not to be this kind. Sarcasm is more my speed.
Music is Emotional- Just Ask the Beatles!
It was announced that Rain- a Tribute to the Beatles, would be playing at The Kauffman Center for Performing Arts. Dang I missed this when signing up for the usher shifts. Of course, the usher spots were filled now. Hmmmm, thought I. I would like to hear the Beatles music again, so I vowed to get a ticket. Oooops forgot until the day before when attending usher training at The Kauffman Center. Life was good as the box office was open. I asked when the Beatles would be appearing and my answer was tomorrow. Ok! I'd like a balcony seat on the aisle and I could afford the $45 fee.
I got to the Kauffman Center early and got my favorite parking spot in the garage. I was dressed in my favorite leopard outfit and I was in the building! I went up to the sixth floor to get a cocktail and order another one to be ready for me at intermission. Hey! This is a rock concert and drinking is mandatory. I asked for something with a cherry and I got something with three cherries and vodka. Oh yum, it was good. It so happens that the balcony level has a few tables and chairs to sit on while waiting so I had chatted with my usher friend until she had to go and work her door. I was sitting there enjoying my cocktail when someone walked up to my table.
She walked up to me and started talking to me. I assumed she was going to ask to sit at an empty chair at my table, but she said something about upgrade a ticket. Huh! She told me that she had two tickets, but the other person didn't come and would I be interested in watching the concert in an upgraded seat. I managed to understand those words. She then showed me the ticket and the seat was in the section just behind the orchestra seats. This was a seat in the second best seat section on the theater! Oh Wow! I was thrilled to take the ticket. Fifteen minutes before show time! I ran down to the box office and donated my balcony ticket back to the Kauffmam Center.
I ran up a flight of stairs to find my seat. Door 4 row CC was my destination. The couple behind me were chatting and said row CC. I turned and told them that was where I was going too and they followed me. My goodness. The seat was in the middle of the theater right behind the sound engineers. Here was my gifted and turns out the couple had seats on the other side of me. Oh we were a happy row of people.
It is time! We had the announcement about turning off our phones and suddenly, we had the curtain pulled.
1. Words came across the screen. "Beatles came to the United States in 1964″. My brain barely had time to register that I was a senior in high school when the world changed. I marveled.
A bunch of fake TV sets were on the stage.
2. I heard and saw Ed Sullivan announce the Beatles. Video clips of that night were show. On stage. Everyone in America watched the Ed Sullivan show that night and the world changed. We all met the Beatle for the first time, at the same time. We saw and heard the audience of girls start screaming. I became emotional.
3. Lights came on the stage and Beatles started their music. An invisible knife came out of nowhere and went into my body. The knife stabbed my soul. My body suddenly wanted to SOB out loud. My body wanted to throw its self out of the seat and writh on the ground. Tears started. The knife continued to stab my souls throughout the first song. I was in agony. I did moan out loud. The woman my age sitting next to me made a few hand gestures to her face. I figured she was crying too.
4. Song ended, I tried to breath and recover from the knife wound. Much Appluae and screaming from the audience. The knife withdrew from my soul. Suddenly, without warning, they played song #2. Once again the knife returned and stabbed my heart again. I wondered if my body could physically throw its self on the floor and writh. No. My body will not fit on the floor. Seats in front of me are too close. My throats closed again. Tears started and I was wrecked as the song continued. I moaned in agony.
5. Song ended. Applause. The knife receded again. I clapped and manage to cheer in agony. Song number three started. The knife stabbed again. I remembered how to open my mouth and put my tongue on the roof of my mouth to stop the verbal crying. I wondered if I could live through the concert. I can't take two hours of this knife stabbing my soul.
6. We moved to 1965 to the Beatles concert on Shea Stadium. The performers on the stage played the songs as we watched the videos of people at that concert. Oh my! However, the knife did not return to stab my soul.
Beatles at Shea Stadium.
All those young people were my age in 1965.
7. Our performers took an off stage break while the audience was treated to commercials of the time. Remember Dippity Do? We saw the commercial. Remember the Flinstones? We watched Fred and Barney lazing around while Wilma was mowing the lawn using a small dinosaur. Fred and Barney were saying it was difficult to watch Wilma working so hard. So they got up and moved around the back of the house so they wouldn't have to watch Wilma. Then they lit up Winston cigarettes. Oh my! We saw the ad for cornflakes. Someone was eating cornflakes. How plain they were and the box said, "mixed with rice". We saw a woman with long hair having her hair ironed. Every commercial was amazing glimpse of our past life!
Our performers came back and played more Beatles songs. Now I started to not recognize some of the songs. By this time in my life, I hadgone to college. I had to study in college. I bet I didn't listen to the radio near as much. I remember that I had a record player and used it. But my emotionalism hell had gone.
I enjoyed the richness of the music.
At intermission I learned that my seat benefactor had watched the Ed Sullivan show for the Beatles show when she was ten! Oh my, the Beatles crossed all ages!
After the intermission, we enjoyed Sgt Pepper's Lonely Heart era songs. We watched video clips of beatnicks and soldiers in Vietnam Nam. I was still in college and remembered only the top songs.
Sgt Pepper's Lonely Heart Club.
The concert ended with Hey Jude. Cameras were mounted in the concert hall to record the audience! So while we all were standing and singing Hey Jude, the stage was scanning us, the audience! We saw the entire 4th floor and fifth floor with some of the sixth and possibly the 7th floor seats. The video was tinged like a Kodak imatagram color. We saw ourselves in the 60′s singing with The Beatles.
When the emotional experience ended, I profusely thanked my seat benefactor. She said it was meant to be. She searched for a lone attendee with worse seats than she had for a long while. She finally figured that coming up to the 7th floor to find me would work.
I managed to drive home. The next morning I awoke so tired, I felt like I had worked a hard day's night. I barely made it through lunch. Coffee let me make it through the aftermath of a gigantic emotional experience!
If you discover that this concert is coming anywhere within 200 miles of you, get tickets!
Opera will Cure It
I ushered the opera Marriage of Figaro the day after the Trump / Clinton presidential election. Facebook was burning up. I felt horrible on that morning as I was planning on celebrating our first woman president…not! I decided that I couldn't even ride Cisco as I might take my sadness and grumpiness out on him. But I did go to Cisco and was lucky enough to have multi world champion trainer, Erin Patterson, ride him. When I went to the pasture to get Cisco, I forgot about the election. After I watched Erin ride Cisco she gave me a few pointers on more finesse.
After Cisco was done, I watched an old friend take a lesson with Erin. You could feel her happiness to be back involved with horses pouring out of her pores. It has been a long long time since she got to ride because life got in the way.
I went home and watched bits of Ellen and Steve Harvey while part of me tried to nap.
It wasn't long before it was time to get cleaned up and get my usher outfit on.
The Marriage of Figaro is a long opera. The first act is an hour and a half. Then there is a thirty minute intermission. The second act is over an hour. At intermission I was asking the patrons if they loved this opera. One woman stopped and exclaimed, "This opera is great and just what we need on a day like today!" I have to confess. It took me a full thirty seconds or so to remember the nation's anger, my anger and sadness and fear of facing a brand new scary world.
So, if you are feeling hatred, sadness, anger etc, The Marriage of Figaro is in it's last week. I recommend that you get tickets and soak up the magic of the amazing opera voices, the clever and tricky plot and laugh at all the humor included in the opera. Also, since it is a long opera, you probably won't get home till the next day, so that takes nearly an entire day of not being sad, scared or mad at the USA political system. Go to the Opera!
Remember the Lessons Velvet Taught You, Susan
Why did Velvet canter every time I asked her to leg yield at a lesser gait. We were walking, I asked her to leg yield and she tried to canter. We were in the next gait up, I asked her to leg yield and she tried to canter. Then I realized I was asking her to leg yield with force in my legs. I remembered that I thought about the difference between a cue and asking for a faster gait.
I've been thinking the same thing about Cisco lately. How am I cueing him to leg yield and how do I cue him to canter. It seems to me that I'm doing the same thing for both of those tasks and we are having a problem with it.
Today, I remembered that Velvet had already taught me the answer. The answer is heels. Velvet taught me that I should touch her with my heel to leg yield. She tried to teach me to squeeze with both legs with my left or right heal in the correct position to ask for the left or right lead.
I also figured out today that when I am asking Cisco to keep fox trotting instead of slowing down, I should bend both knees and ask him to keep going with a gentle squeeze. My goodness, it worked today. We stopped breaking gait when I started bending my knees. and squeezing.
There are a few people that will understand this mumbo jumbo.
One in Six Saddles Might Have Broken Trees – AKA Death of a Saddle
I love Circle Y Flex tree saddles so much that I have three of them. A couple years ago I managed to let go of the ones I don't use to get them checked and cleaned. However. I couldn't let the one that I use daily leave to get cleaned and checked. I had bought this saddle a long long time ago and it was checked out before I bought it.
This summer was a horrid hot and humid one. I stopped riding plus I was going on a week long trip. I decided to let Donna of Yellow Boot Saddlery take my beloved saddle, along with a few broken and filthy bridles to be checked, cleaned and oiled.
The unthinkable happened. Donna called me and I was somewhere in the middle of Kansas on my way to Colorado.
"Susan, I hate to give you this news. Your saddle tree is cracked. It is cracked on both sides."
My world spun to a stop. My beloved saddle was dead. MY BELOVED SADDLE IS DEAD! Donna managed to get a few more sentences in. She mentioned that they had seen a lot more cracked trees than they ever thought. She said many people are riding on saddles with cracked trees. My brain registered these words, but i heard the unsaid words, your saddle is dead. I was gruff with Donna. I think I was mean. She had called and gave me horrible news. Poor Donna was the bearer of bad news. Forgive me Donna. I have apologized since and Donna understands.
I came home from my week of wonderful travel and it was time to visit Yellow Boot Saddelry. Donna showed me my dead beloved saddle. I saw the cracks. Donna told me that the flex lite tree is not the best tree In the tree world for a daily, hard riding rider. My riding is all speeds with slide stops, roll backs. turns, spins, etc.. If I were an easy going recreational rider, the tree wouldn't be so stressed. I had certainly never thought of myself as a "hard rider".
More bad news was coming. My favorite "on the rail dressy bridle was made out of underbelly leather. My bridle had started stretching. It was too long in Cisco's mouth and it was the smallest it could go. This spring I was astride Cisco at a horse show with my class coming up next when the bit fell out of Cisco's mouth. That was exciting. Donna told me the sides of my bridle were made out of the cheapest worst leather part of the cow. It should be against the law to make a bridle out of this cheap leather. What! I have been "taken"! Buying a new bridle is cheaper than fixing this one. Sniffle
I brought my other two Circle Y Flex Lite saddles for Donna to check. They had been cleaned and checked 3 years ago. Both trees passed inspection, but I got to see again how cheaply it was made. My favorite of the two had a piece of leather and when Donna tugged on it, the stitching broke. The stitching material is cheap. Donna kept the saddle and sent me pictures a couple days later showing screws in the wrong place. The screws were ready to come lose and come thru the place where I sit. They were already loose and the saddle seat had bumps where they were about to erupt into my tender places. Good Lordy! Donna said this was an after market deal. Where did these misplaced screws come from. I bought this saddle used also.
Yellow Boot Sadlery just got started this year. Donna told me that they have found one in six saddles have broken or cracked trees. Those are bad odds. I'm keeping my broken saddle in my trailer and will show everyone what a broken tree looks like.
I'll Come for a Visit, Susan and Ride Your Horse
I was like this!! I was just like this. I rode other people's horses in my young adult formative years. Long long ago when I was in the middle of buying a piece of land in Walsenburg, Colorado, I paid a cowboy money so I could ride his horse. I got his horse and rode out into the dessert. Just me and the horse. I came back and rode around his property, because it was just a little boring out there. The cowboy seemed very very nervous. He said something about his wife being nervous about my riding the horse. I couldn't understand why. I can ride. I had horses in my age 6 to age 18 youth years. I did not develop fear about riding horses until I tried to ride Sage the third time and she spun me to the ground.
I remember one other time and it might have been during the same time span, I rode someone's horse in an arena pretending I was going to chase and cow and rope it. We backed up in the shute and burst out, pretending to chase the cow. Oh that was fun.
When I moved to the country, I rode a horse friend's quarter horse. I cantered around and had a good time on their property. Yee Haw
Turn the clock forward and I started with horses again at the age of 48, When I traveled somewhere, I would find fox trotter people or Parelli students and visit them. I rode their horses. Turns out, the people who profess to being Parelli people really didn't know the rules. I visited a friend in Phoenix. We rode her fox trotters in Phoenix. I was riding a horse that didn't understand the signal for stop, whoa, slow down, scream-we-are going to cross and six lane road and you have not yet stopped. The horse was great with kids, cars on the road, bushes, everything, but never learned to stop. People just pulled back on her mouth without teaching her what that meant. I used the snaffle bit on the bridle provided me. The bridle was missing the chin strap. So when my "bend the horse to a stop" reaction occurred, I pulled the bit out of the horse's mouth. I was riding a horse that did not know how to stop with no bit. Luckily this horse stopped when the other horse stopped. That is the only reason I am alive today. The second day, I used my bridle. I had brought my own bridle with me just in case. At least I could bend the horse's head around. I rode that horse for three days around Phoenix. About the 3rd day, she had learned to read my body signals and was learning what stop was. On the fourth day, I left Arizona and came home. I no longer ride other people's horses unless I know them well and they use the same signals to the horse that I use. Consequently, I have not rode many horses other than my own for about 20 years!
I rode Jenny's highly developed horse once. I was good enough that he did not take off in a gallop. But when I asked him to slow down, my lower legs did not relax. It took me a good long time of trotting around and sometimes cantering around before I could relax my legs enough that he slowed down. My lower legs kept telling him to go forward. I had to fight my legs to relax.
But I digress. I was going to tell you why you can't ride my horse unless you understand the same things I do.
My horse goes forward when I lightly tense my core muscles. We call this "life up". I am trying to teach Cisco to go forward when I squeeze my toes. Sadly, I forget to give this signal most of the time.
My horses know to go faster when I lightly press my calves against their side and tense my core muscles.
I do use the portion of my legs from my hips down to my knees for stabalizing my body if it starts to fall out of the saddle to the side.
Here is what we do not do. We do not use our legs from the knee down to hang on. We sit in the saddle on our back "pockets". That is how we keep balanced up there in the saddle or bareback. You look at those bucking horse/bull riders, they are sitting so far back on their "pockets" for balance that they look like they are laying down on top of the horse/bull.
So here comes someone who has watched TV cowboy shows or rode horses on a dude ranch. The someone tells my horse to go by pressing their lower legs quite firmly against my horse's sides. My horse thinks that is a signal to GO FAST! My horse takes off. The rider squeezes their legs really really hard against my horse's sides as a reflex to hold on. The rider's body tilts forward as a life saving measure. Squeezing the legs even harder against my horse's sides makes my horse go way faster! As long as those legs are locked against my horse, Cisco will be going fast. I did this once myself when first learning how to ride Velvet bareback. My legs tensed and locked. I knew my legs had locked and Velvet was not going to stop. Sadly, my brain thought it was going to die and it would not let my legs unlock. I had to ride that out and thank goodness Velvet was not a horse that approved of going fast for very long because of some leg pressure!
Thankfully, Lucky Star gets dominate quickly and slides to a stop. No one is going to tell him to canter very far. That isn't in his nature. So the human is way off balance trying to hunch down into a life saving bend. When Lucky slides to a stop, the human is off balance and will just tumble off…much like what you see when those jumping horses refuse a jump, but the human body is tossed forward.
I've seen Velet bolt with a beginning rider and thankfully it ended well.
It has taken me years to figure out what these riders do to cause my horses to bolt.
No, you cannot come out and ride my horses. You must take lessons from me first. I do not have a beginning rider horse.
The Mind of a Horse
You will be surprised to learn about Cisco's mind. Cisco is a left brain introvert. That means he thinks through things and isn't a big fan moving. He likes to move. He likes to stop. But what Cisco really is…is a worrier. He worries about things. It can take him a long time to get comfortable in a new place. His worry is very low key as he is thinking while he is worrying. During his worrying phase, he likes to move. That keeps him relaxed. When he moves, I'm usually talking about a walk, a nice comfortable walk. Depending on how much he is worrying, his stopping and standing still can go from fidgeting to hopping up and down with his front legs. Little rears, I call them.
A lot of people probably wouldn't even realize that he is worrying when he fidgets and hops. People might yell at him and in a large commanding emotional voice, might tell him to WHOA…WHOA while pulling back on the reins. What would that do to you if you were worried and then someone tried to force you to stand still and yell at you..with a bit of nervous energy. Usually, that doesn't work so well and when it does work, the human is lucky, very lucky that the horse didn't engage in something called "whoops, my human just fell off and I'm out of here!"
At the April 2015 Spring Show, we went into the arena really well and moved fine. Except for the rope gate held up in the middle of the arena. We couldn't go near the rope gate.
At he 2015 June Spring show in Ava, Cisco got a coughing problem which I now think was caused by a moldy stall. He had several shots from the vet to treat any infection that might be lurking in his lungs. And when we walked around the show grounds, he was fine…until I had him stop and stand still. That just didn't work. He started prancing and dancing. I told him to walk on and he seemed calm and relaxed. We rode in the arena and tried to practice our opening and closing the gate. Oh that did not work at all. He hopped and pranced all over the place when I tried to stop at the panel gate.
At he 2015 September Celebration, we were just a little worried about everything, but we lived through it. The panel gate was a problem. He was nervous and prancy at the gate. It was a left handed gate, but he did finally let me open it up with my right arm and back through the gate. I don't think I even let go of the gate, but he was nervous about it.
Now we come to the April 2016 show. I'm the show manager and have to wait until the show starts before I can go to my horse. Cisco and I can only do a brief session of ground play. Again we were on the obstacle course, ready to open the gate. Once again, he became nervous and prancy. Again I was forced to open the left handed rope gate with my right arm. You would think we had never practiced the gate opening. I've had a year to practice gate opening. Yes, he does appear just a little nervous at the gate, even when he is used to his environment. But another session of hopping and prancing around the gate during a horse show…nope. I never expected that.
We were in the fox trot obstacle course and then the open obstacle course. He was worse about the gate the second time.
I'm back in our home arena now and there is a round pen gate Cisco and I can go through. He is not exactly relaxed as we go through our gate entry. He doesn't like to stand still during our gate opening and closing. So that is what we will work on. We will be opening and shutting a gate with a lot of stopping during our gate activity.
Target Game with Cisco – Level 4 Journey
On the ground I have two barrels and an upside down bucket placed around the round pen. There are treats on top of these buckets. Horse Treats. Motivational behavior treats.
I stand with Cisco facing me, about 15 feet away from the horse treat object. I raise my arm and point at the barrel. I make various arm movements with both arms to get Cisco to travel to the object. Eventually, he gets there through a combination of backing, going forward, moving his forequarters and hindquarters (not at the same time). Finally, he stands with his head over the barrel. The treat is right under his nose. He has no concept of touch the target game yet. I come over and rattle the treat on the barrel. Cisco lowers his head and discovers the treat. We stand and marvel over how a treat could appear on top of a barrel.
We played the game with the two barrels and bucket about five more times. He got the idea of following my arm directions. Arm directions could mean a reward!
Cisco and I ended the session with me trying to run – nope – my pulled muscle objected to that. We ended our session with Cisco running around and transitioning from trot to canter, trot, walk and stop. Yee Haw today.
I told Cisco he was my best horse friend. Lucky Star was waiting by the round pen gate. He got a treat just for being alive with his bright chipmunk eyes.
Day 2 in Round Pen – Body Language is Loud and Clear
I took all three horses into the round pen today. We (they) got to run around the round pen according to the rules-of-round-pen. Of course Lucky Star knows the rule of round pen, so when he asked to come into the middle with me three times, I let him. The girls ran around for a while. I stopped them and they were about 30′ away from me. I made the round-pen body language "sign" saying, "Come to me".
One of these horses is a retired mare. Her life from her training start was not a good one. She was "driven over the edge" and became a crazy horse. Her distrust of humans was well developed because of her harsh "start".
Her new-to-horses-beginner bought her after an amazing weekend with the mare. The couple visited the sellers for a weekend. They did everything with the horses. The new to horses other part of the couple fell in love with an amazing two year old. The two year old rode like an experienced horse. They went on trail rides. Both horses were fabulous and obviously well trained.. Both horses were purchased. When the mare arrived at her new home, the drug had disappeared and her new owner had a crazy mare. The other horse became a young green horse that fulfilled the "green on green makes black and blue" saying that us horse people are fond of regaling beginning riders with after they buy the wrong horse.
Thankfully, her new owners had just discovered Parelli and struck up an acquaintance with me. And what that means is Jenny and Tony Vaught became their helpers. The new green mare owner studied everything Parelli. The relationship of the crazy mare and the beginning rider was a rocky start. The couple lived twenty three hours away from the Vaughts.
Three years went by and the mare developed a deep trust and bond with her owner. They became an amazing team with a great relationship. But the owner told me that there were still some things that the mare had done that glorious weekend at the sellers that the mare still couldn't tolerate.
Life was good and then the bug problem started. The mare became allergic to the bugs of her home state. She returned to Missouri and started her new life as a retired mare and also got to have a foal.
I took her before the last winter was started as my pastures had grass and she needed grass and my winter supply of hay. She blossomed with the grass and good hay. Her personality towards humans still was "You are human. I don't trust you. I'm ignoring you unless you want to feed me." One day when I was out with the horses, the mare came over to me and stood very close. Her body touched me. I looked at the mare and her liquid eyes made this statement, "You are a good human and I love you for taking care of me." That was an awesome moment!
So, I have a new round pen, it is late summer and the story resumes. I had the horses stopped in the round pen after trotting and cantering around. When the mare ran around the round pen, her head was pointed to the outside. She was not interested in anything my body had to say.
Of course she knows the body language that the natural horsemanship people use. I made the body movement which translates into, "come to me".
She was startled that I used the signal. I could see her thinking, "Susan knows how to talk to me! She talks to me like my beloved former owner! Her ears pricked forward and she trotted to me.
Fall on the ground and cry now!
Crazy America
Soccer with 19000 fans. My son sang the National Anthem at Sporting KC and I get to be an honored guest at the game against St Louis. I get to be at field level before the game. Drums are drumming. Gigagiant screen is broadcasting. It is intense here and intensity builds up to fever level as we get nearer to the start of the game. I'm standing where the visiting team is seated. They come into the stadiumas I try to stay out of their way. They are young and very fit…and all good looking!
Color guard marched out into field. Fans are screaming and emotions are high. Nathan and Ben take the field and get ready to sing.
I'm in a totally different world….think Tomorrowlamd combined with Gladiators in The Roman Colosium about to take to the field with Charlton Heston. It is that intense.
I had a blinding flash of the obvious. This must be what a horse goes through when being taken from peaceful pasture and deposited from trailer into the intensity of a big horse show. Aha!
After the fabulous anthem with the entire crowd screaming with anthem happiness, we are escorted to our seats in the stadium. We are seated in the next section from the opposing St. Louis fans. Never, except during the half, did the St Louis fans have a moment of quiet. The three or four drummers and several hundred screaming people kept it up the entire game. One chant was S……T……..L. I believe that stands for ST. Louis
The other chants were too complicated for me to remember. Nathan chanted along with St Louis fans in a slightly negative manner. He changed the words. Near the end, Nathan made a certain number of fans in our section chant the I Believe chant. Things get exciting at soccer games!
I got caught up in the talented Sporting KC players as they made the body moves and feet dribbling skills to keep the ball away from the opposing player. I watched for a while and thought,my goodness, this is just like the tricky cow moves when trying to get back to the herd, past the cutting horse, during cutting.
And then I knew that I have gone over the hill in horse crazyiness. Tony and Jenny Vaught must have made a deep impression on my brain in all the cow clinics and cow herding lessons for me to compare soccor with cow work.
I occasionally glanced at the big clock as time went on. I swear the clock said 60 minutes a while ago and now it sez 68 minutes. Oh wait, I remember that we count up to 90 minutes in a soccer game. I remember that penalties add to the time, but the penalty added times are not reflected anywhere. They are a secret.
We were at 90 minutes and the game went on. I must have been looking at the poor exhausted St Louis drummers when I realized that all the fans were cheering at something. Movement wasn't happening on the field. I was trying to figure out what happened when I saw the teams shaking hands with one another. Oh, the game must have ended. The game ending must be a secret to new fans to the game. Everyone else seemed to be aware that the game ended. I stood up and cheered too, so everyone would know that I knew that the game was over and we won. YAY!
What crazy person invented such a game that ends and the new fans have no idea…and the clock is still at 90 minutes.
Soccer is weird…and so are horse events for those that don't know the rules.


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Over the past few years, the talent on the Bishop O'Dowd High girls basketball team has caught the attention of college coaches from all over the country.
Now four seniors from the defending Division III state champions are officially headed to NCAA Division I programs.
Oderah Chidom, K.C. Waters, Breanna Brown and Ariell Bostick will go in separate directions next year, but signed their letters of intent together in a ceremony at the school Wednesday, the first day of the early signing period for all sports except football, soccer, track and field, cross country and men's water polo.
Chidom, a 6-foot-4 forward who is ranked a top-10 recruit by three rating services, is headed to Duke. Brown, also a 6-4 forward, will join her in the Atlantic Coast Conference after she signed with Virginia Tech.
Waters elected to play at Cal, and Bostick will join San Diego State.
"It feels real, now I can actually see myself at the next level," said Chidom, who played for the U.S. under-17 national team over the summer. "It just feels like it's the real deal now. I'm trying to enjoy every moment."
Chidom is part of a recruiting class at Duke that was ranked No. 2 in the nation by Blue Star Report.
Waters, who's 6-2, turned down offers from schools such as Tennessee and Florida to play for Lindsay Gottlieb at Cal. She said ex-Dragons teammate Mikayla Lyles, now at Cal, helped convince her to go to Berkeley.
"I know I made the right decision and to make it official feels great," said Waters, the 2012 East Bay Player of the Year.
In boys basketball, Salesian's Jabari Bird, Deer Valley's Marcus Lee and De La Salle's Elliott Pitts all made their college choices official, with Bird headed to Cal, Lee to Kentucky and Pitts to Arizona.
Lee, ranked the No. 30 overall prospect in the nation by ESPN, announced his oral commitment to Kentucky on Oct. 17, choosing the Wildcats over Cal. He joins a Kentucky recruiting class that ESPN has ranked No. 1.
Pitts, a 6-5 shooting guard, is the No. 91-ranked prospect in the nation by ESPN. He's part of a recruiting class that ESPN ranks No. 18.
"I'm really excited just to finally know I'm definitely going to Arizona and get this thing going," Pitts said.
It was also signing day for baseball, boys and girls lacrosse, boys and girls swimming and girls volleyball, among others.
Three members of Campolindo's baseball team — Trent Shelton (Oregon State), Brett Stephens (UCLA) and Robbie Tenerowicz (Cal) — signed Wednesday. Also headed to Cal is De La Salle's Andrew Buckley. Joining Stephens at UCLA is Steven Farinaro of Head-Royce and O'Dowd's Dominic Miroglio.
In lacrosse, seven members of two-time defending North Coast Section Division I champion Carondelet will play at the Division I level — Erin Jeffery (Hofstra), Morgan Castelein (Ohio State), Katie Merritt (San Diego State), Danielle Sanchez (Fresno State), Kerianne Hunt (Brown), Cali Castagnola (Colorado) and Molly Kuptz (Saint Mary's).
Campolindo's Sven Campbell, the 2012 East Bay Boys Swimmer of the Year, signed with Cal, and teammate Steven Stumph signed with USC. Other boys swimmers headed to Division I schools are San Ramon Valley's Cody Tanabe (Cal Poly) and Clayton Young (UC Santa Barbara), Miramonte's Charlie Wiser — who'll swim and play water polo at Stanford — and Heritage's Ryan Barsanti (Wisconsin).
Carondelet's Madison White (UCLA) and Chelsea Chenault (USC) and Foothill's Celina Li (Cal) highlight an impressive list of girls swimmers who'll compete at the Division I.


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